It's time for a new color challenge and this week Jeanne is debuting as hostess! She has chosen the lovely combination of Bermuda Bay, Flirty Flamingo and So Saffron with a dessert option of balloons.
I'm also joining the current CAS challenge to use water or watercoloring on your creation and the current Free For All Just Over the Holler challenge, to create a card inspired by your neighboring state. I live in Oregon but have spent lots of time with my fly fishing husband on remote streams in Washington, so I made a card reminiscent of that.
I made two cards for this challenge, this card coming together just this afternoon. I'd stamped the image a few days ago and decided to try some blending of reinkers, challenging myself to develop a variety of greens and in the end, the rust color for the tree leaves.
I started by using a light wash of color for the sky, first pink, then yellow and finally the turquoise, blending with clear water on my paint brush. Next I began color mixing on a palette with a drop each of the yellow and turquoise, then kept adding yellow as I went along to get different green colors.
I waited to watercolor the leaves of the large deciduous tree until the last, first coloring with yellow, then mixing the pink and yellow to create the rust color. I had so much fun doing this! The only bit that I'm not fond of is the color of the stream, which is only Bermuda Bay ink, because mixing yellow would make it green and mixing pink would make, well, mud. However, my husband said he has been on streams nearly that color in some remote places in the Rockies, so I decided I was okay with it. A bit of white Gelly Roll pen was added to some of the ripples in the water after all was dry.
After drying the panel was trimmed down and mounted to the Flirty Flamingo card base inside the corrugated die cut frame. I didn't add any embellishments nor a sentiment, which can be added when I send the card.
Thanks for looking and taking in my lengthy comments! I hope you'll be able to join the Color Challenge this week!