I finally sat down to concentrate on Wednesdays Water Color Challenge - Linda is the hostess and she directed us to this video to learn about Autumn Watercoloring:
I did not have any good large leaf stamps to use for this - so I die cut a large oak leaf out of acetate and used the negative space to trace the leaf onto watercolor paper with a Micron 01 fine tip brown marker. Then I colored the whole leaf with a watery Yellow Ochre - then added some Crimson Red and Burnt Umber.
I dried the panel with my heat tool and then colored around the leaf with more watery Yellow Ochre and finally splattering the panel with Bronze water color paint.
I'm pretty happy with how this came out! No where near Debby Hughes' lovely leaves on the video - but very good for me! I'm slowly learning little bits of water coloring techniques.
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Sat, Oct 17, 2020 @ 3:08 PM
You are a great student. You follow directions to a tee. Yes, we all wish we could paint like Debbie. This is fantastic, and yes you should be very happy with it. Beautiful sketching of the leaf and love the vibrant colors you achieved with your layers. Cool bg and shading. So glad you played this week and gave us this beauty. TFS
Registered: July 9, 2008 Location: Stars Fell on Alabama Posts: 74893
Sat, Oct 17, 2020 @ 4:15 PM
Just beautiful! I love how you traced your leaf...no stamps but there is always a way. You colored your leaf beautfully. I love your complete card.
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Sat, Oct 17, 2020 @ 7:00 PM
So beautiful. TFS. Happy day
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Sat, Oct 17, 2020 @ 7:31 PM
Julie, this is BEAUTIFUL!!! HOW CREATIVE for you to use a die & make a STENCIL! You water colored this WONDERFULLY!!! I LOVE the colors you used, & the way you gave your leaf a shadow & it seems to just flow out from there! WHAT A SUPER JOB & BIG INKY HUGS for YOUR SWEET VISIT! ;)<3