Hey there watercolor fans, it’s watercolor weekend time again over on the Art Impressions Blog. Is everyone ready for Fall? I am, so I decided to create an Autumn Vintage Car card with all of those beautiful fall colors.
The Painting
I started off by inking up the Vintage car from the Vintage Car set with my 969. To make sure it stays really light, I stamped it off twice onto watercolor paper. I added water and pulled color out of the lines where the darkest shadows would be. I also added some additional color to the car using 526 on my palette. For the wheels, I added some 969 and 569.
I masked off the truck using some Post-it tape, and inked the rocks up with my 969. Again to make sure it was really light, I stamped it off once, stamped it to the right of the Vintage Car and then stamped it again to the left without reinking. While it was still masked I inked the medium tree from the Lg Tree set with 969 and stamped it between the car and the rocks. I pulled the color out of the lines of the tree.
Next, I inked up the small grass with 177 and stamped it around the tires and the base of the rocks. Using my palette, I added some additional color to the rocks making sure to keep a highlight. I pulled the color up and out of the lines pulling some color out and to the left for a shadow. Using 969, I added some color below the grass from my palette.
Using the tree line stamp, I inked it up with green and yellow and stamped it to the right of the tree to create a hill. I added water and some additional color from my palette (make sure to curve the lines to make it appear to be a hill).
To create the bushes behind the car, I masked off around the windows of the Vintage Car and stamped the foliage from the Lg Tree set in yellow and orange . I also added this around the top of the trees. I added water to all the foliage. For the sky, I added some 565 in between the tree trunks and here and there between the leaves. I dragged it out into the background. Lastly, I signed and dated.
The Card
Once the painting was complete, I cut it down to 5 x 3 3/4 and mounted it to a piece of Gina K Design Peach Bellini card stock cut to 5.25 x 4. Using connect glue, I adhered that to my card base.
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