Hope you are all getting some crafty time.
In yesterday's post I said that I would show you some artwork that I have managed to complete. This was squeezed in, in between revision and course work. All the artwork below has been hand drawn by myself and water-coloured.
This one is not finished yet.
This one is not finished yet either.
Tonight I have created some tiny artworks with new stamps that I have received. The stamps are made by Art Impressions and they are part of their Watercolour selection. I found these via a Youtube video and I loved the technique. You will see from all the pictures below that I am not very good at it at the moment but it was fun. I also realised that the technique could be done with any stamp.
I will show you the selection of stamps I purchased. In total I purchased four sets. These are: foliage, flowers, water containers and the Arbour.
The technique is to use watercolour markers to stamp the images and then using a brush with water to blend out the colours and create a brighter and softer watercolour image. Their idea was to create stamps that could help people create watercolour images.
You can see from my marker collection below that I had plenty of different brands. However, I do feel that either the Stampin Up pens or the Marvy pens work better for this technique.
I used Langton Prestige Watercolour paper cut in to a selection of sizes. I cannot tell you the exact size because I just randomly cut up a square of paper into different sizes.
Using the two pictures below I tried to demonstrate that you use a pen to stamp the picture. The container stamp was stamped in this pen ink. I used the side of the brush tip to ink the stamp. If you use the tip of the brush nib it can ruin the nib.
In the picture above you can see that the lines of the container are still crisp. That is because I had not blended them using clean water and a small brush. In the picture below you can see that the container is filled in and that is just using a clean brush and going around the outlines of the stamps to blend out the colour.
I then used a pink pen to stamp the pink flowers in the same way.
I wanted to show you that I inked this flower stamp up with two colours. Sorry it is difficult to make out.
This is the result of the two colour flowers, the yellow ones at the top of the container. I also added some green leaves to the bottom.
This is the artwork all stamped out. None of the flowers are blended at this point.
I blended all the flowers with clean water and I liked the effect. I just did not like that the leaves came out a little bit pale. To fix this I took a deep green pen and scribbled some leave shapes in. I then blended those out with water and I created the effect below.
This is the artwork in the My Museum book, which I am still using for little artworks. Overall, I like this artwork for my first attempt.
I did create several others. I used the exact same technique.
This one looked a little bare at the beginning. This is it stamped out without any blending out.
I then blended the colours with clean water and created the look below. I used a green pen to add a bit extra colour to certain areas to make it look fuller.
This is the small artwork in the My Museum book.
I did this one third so I was getting the hang of the technique by now. I left the top of the vase with no ink on because the flowers need to be strong colours to cover it.
The process for the above artwork is the same. This is one of my favourites of the night.
The one below is done again using the same technique. I made the flowers softer in this painting.
Finally, I made one without any containers.
I really like the colour selection in this one.
There is is in the book with another mini artwork.
I hope you enjoyed my artwork and give the technique a try. It was hard to explain the technique using pictures. I may make a video on the technique to ensure that you can follow along with me.
SJ
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