I had this Inkadinkado fawn (we love our deer in Texas) and one of their dye ink stacks with these beautiful browns in it so it was perfect for this assignment.
Since my desk is a VSN tsunami, I grabbed one of my acrylic blocks and pressed the brown dye inks directly onto the block to create a pallette for watercoloring - worked like a charm!
First, I stamped this very detailed stamp and then painted over it with various browns to soften the detail and "muddy" it a bit. I went back over the watercoloring with a white gel pen in some spots that got too dark.
I used my blender pen for the whole thing.
The background is the Presto Patterns paper, with the brown ink rubbed into it, and gold smooch spray spritzed and rubbed on top.
It's sideways because I'm covering up some words on there that I really didn't like - so I thought I'd use it as a pattern instead of text!
Date: Saturday, May 29, 2010 GMT Views: 1461
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Sat, May 29, 2010 @ 3:04 PM
So pretty! Love your technique on both the watercoloring with added gel pen and with that gorgeous background paper. I'm definitely storing away that hint about using an acrylic block as a makeshift palette!