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I have a Spring Fever too. I just finished my Spring Cleaning. Next week I put my garden in if the fairies are kind.
I am putting together a 1000 piece Josephine Wall puzzle. Colors are now starting to blur, lol. I am really enjoying putting the puzzle together. As each piece goes in I can study the way she paints. Josephine Wall works in acrylics. I love her work so much. She is one of my art inspirations.
I was a little frightened at the concept of tube watercolors at all - the intensity of the color is really amazing, sort of like painting with reinkers if you have done that before. Once they're out on the palette and dried again, it's just like using palette watercolors. I am working with only 6 colors, so I am limited a little, but really they're the the colors I typically work with so it's not uncomfortable for me. I tend toward a more muted palette, so I'm glad I was able to choose the colors I did instead of the typical "set" colors that are more primary/bright.
I think there's a package redesign in progress, so some of the online stores like Blick have these on sale.
Dini...I have some questions ..HA! ..What colors did you chose? ..and how do they interface with each other? Do they blend well..? Are the translucent or opaque??
Crimson Lake
Light Red (sort of a Terra Cotta)
Cadmium Yellow Deep
Greenish Yellow (a light olive)
Marine Blue (deep turquoisey)
Vandyke Brown
So I don't have a purple or any 'true' colors - I would like to fill in more colors but it's fun to mix new colors too. Here's a picture of my fancy styrofoam palette so you can see what a mess I made and what new colors I discovered...
The Blick description: Premium pigments sourced from around the world are combined with a highly refined medium to produce this superior professional quality watercolor. ShinHan features clear color tones, exceptional brightness and transparency, and superior light stability. These paints may be used with either transparent or opaque watercolor techniques. Colors remain true when intermixing, thus they are widely used in graphic and architectural illustrations as well as fine art.
I will try those when I need to order water color tubes again..I have W&N and grumbacher..thsoe are my favs as of late. I also like to use inks too..I love the vibrancy that you can get with water colors9 unless.. you muddy them up and wow that is easy to do!)
Dini..do you ever do any larger scale art works? Or just use stamps? I think you probably have some painting talent in there sister ;)
Besides typing this message right now I am watercoloring. I am making an Easter card. I am using my Cricut, chalks & watercolors.
The white textured cardstock from WalMart takes watercolors really well. You can get a tablet of it for only $5. I was pleasantly surprised. It's the ColorBox cardstock.
I've been painting! here is my latest watercolor:
I mixed some watercolor and metallic eyeshadow to make a glimmmer mist to spray on over a stencil for the background and I stencilied and stamped with w/c too. what do you think?
I took my pencils away when hubby went to hospital in the city (I added some more to my collection while I was there :grin and coloured some digi images to use later. Other than that, too busy, but every small thing is good.
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I've been painting! here is my latest watercolor:
I mixed some watercolor and metallic eyeshadow to make a glimmmer mist to spray on over a stencil for the background and I stencilied and stamped with w/c too. what do you think?
All I can say is......WOW!!! How beautiful! a real work of art......
Linsay that is BEAUTIMUS!!! I love it..do you have supplies listed on your blog or a tutorial by chance?? That is jsut fantastic!
Well, first you get out your paints while watching a "gossip Girl" marathon, wet the paper, splash on watercolor, spray on stencils, wet to wash some of it aay, wish you stopped before you did that, add more stenciling....
No happy accidents for me this week..heck, I have not really had purposful crafting days. I have been getting ready for my family to arrive tomorrow ( 9 people + the cutest 1yo ever ( my ONLY great nephew ) ..which everyone knows that visitors=cleaning LOL...I have a 3900sq. ft. house to clean too..My kids think I have gone mad LOL We have also done A LOT of yard work over the past couple of weeks..and quite frankly, I am exhausted. I cleaned furniture yesterday..with the upholstery cleaner..today it is deep cleaning bathrooms, 3 of them to be exact..and the utility room ( how the heck does that thing get so dirty??tomorrow..?? buying food and resting before they get here I hope..but I do have quite a bit of baking to do...ahhhhh...need.more.seep....
Dini..that card is just stunning..your work with water colors is so inspiring! Makes me want to get mine out and play..but that will have to wait until the kdis go back to school on Monday I think..LOL.I *THINK* you need to do a tutorial on using them ( wink~wink)
Lindsay I can't wait to watch your new video. I love your videos. I am still laughing it's thirty minutes long. Your blog post cracked me up. I am going to watch it later today.
Dini- Beautiful card!
I found a great tutorial for water colors and stencils. I have used stencils for years with watercolors. One of my favorite techniques. Here's the link to the tutorial: Grow Creative: Stenciled Watercolors Tutorial
She also has several watercoloring techniques on her blog. She used her hand to hold down the stencils as she painted. I have always used stencil tape.
I got the link from Craft Gossip. Some of you may have seen this tutorial already.
Dini, I left a comment on your blog. Your card is absolutely stunning!!! It makes me smile from ear to ear, but then I happen to love butterflies and keep buying so many butterfly stamps!! I just love what you did with it and the mix of colors, hard to take your eyes off of it. And the quote inside is perfect for it; just outstanding!!
Lindsay- I watched your video today. You did such a great job. I learned a lot. I have been watercoloring for a long time. You know how it is get into old habits and forget some of the basics.
Everyone if you haven't seen Lindsay's video try to carve some time out this week to watch it. I highly recommend it. Plus, Lindsay always does something funny in her videos.
Lindsay- I watched your video today. You did such a great job. I learned a lot. I have been watercoloring for a long time. You know how it is get into old habits and forget some of the basics.
Everyone if you haven't seen Lindsay's video try to carve some time out this week to watch it. I highly recommend it. Plus, Lindsay always does something funny in her videos.
I found a great tutorial for water colors and stencils. I have used stencils for years with watercolors. One of my favorite techniques. Here's the link to the tutorial: Grow Creative: Stenciled Watercolors Tutorial
I have invested a lot into my SU watercolor crayons and have almost never used them. Can you give me a jump start with ideas for using and tips on when to use them? I hate to see them just sitting there.
There are a few ways to use Watercolor crayons. I would suggest using watercolor paper. 1.You can color right onto the stamp, stamp the image and then spritz with water.
2.You can spritz the paper first, then color on the stamp and stamp.
3.You can color on the stamp, spritz the stamp and then stamp.
4. You can color backgrounds, then spritz with water.
5. You can color onto the watercolor paper and using a damp brush, move the color around. Think green for the tree top. Think blue for the sky.
I hope this gets you started. Have fun with it. Craft with a child. They will show you what to do with out restrictions. LOL
I have invested a lot into my SU watercolor crayons and have almost never used them. Can you give me a jump start with ideas for using and tips on when to use them? I hate to see them just sitting there.
They are great to use on colored paper too as they are opaque instead of transparent. I will color with them then use a firm nylon brush to move them around and use the brush to pull out details. They work well over a watercolor underpainting too. If you feel the need to shapen them do so over a small paletter with individual wells, sharpen the filings into a well and spritz with water to make a pan of color and you can use that to paint with later
How can you get the richest color with SU watercolor wonder crayons? Whatever I do seems so light. Can you give me some links to cards colored with SU watercolor wonder crayons? Thanks
I just learned a new water color technique that I thought everyone would want to know about. I have not had time to try this myself but it sounds like a great trick that I'll be using a lot.
If you want to lift/remove or lighten color, use a Mr Clean Magic Erase to do so. One lady even wrote to the company for a product listing to make sure it was archival safe and the company said it should be fine because it is a cellulose plant based product, aka all natural. Just be sure you are using the original one that does not have any cleaners added to it.
I just learned a new water color technique that I thought everyone would want to know about. I have not had time to try this myself but it sounds like a great trick that I'll be using a lot.
If you want to lift/remove or lighten color, use a Mr Clean Magic Erase to do so. One lady even wrote to the company for a product listing to make sure it was archival safe and the company said it should be fine because it is a cellulose plant based product, aka all natural. Just be sure you are using the original one that does not have any cleaners added to it.
Do you wet the Mr Clean Magic Erase first?
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