Bird in a cage | Watercolor Weekend | Art Impressions

Welcome Watercolor Fans to another Watercolor Weekend Roundup!  We are so excited to showcase the new Watercolor Line of stamps and dies.  I love this new release and I know you will too!  My Bird in a Cage painting was so much fun to create.

The Painting

First, I inked my bird with brown and stamped it off a couple of times and stamped it onto my watercolor paper.  I cut the bird cage out of a separate piece of watercolor paper.  Keeping the bird cage cutout together, I added some yellow and brown to it from my palette.  Once that was dry, I added some wink of stella for some bling.  Next, I marked with a pencil where the bird cage would be so I could add my bird and flowers inside the cage. I cut the middle bar from the cage to show the bird.

I inked the small vines (left & right) in green and stamped them on either side of the bird.  Next, I inked the middle flower in the three flower bunch from the mini flowers set with purple and stamped it several times on each side of the bird.  I added water to the blooms and foliage.

I added some brown below the bird’s feet and some blue to the sky.  To color the bird, I used two different blues and a dark blue.  I used my #1 paint brush to add color to the bird.  Once that was dry, I glued the bird cage over the painting, positioning the bird within the cut bars.  As an afterthought, I added another bird to the top of the cage using the same colors on my palette.

I drew in a string at the top, signed and dated my piece.

The Card

I put the painting in my big shot and ran it through with a circle stitched die.  I also cut a mat from a piece of watercolor paper that I created with some watercolor paints.  I glued them together using my Connect Glue from Gina K Designs.

Using the new snowflake dies, I put the entire die (snowflakes not cut apart) and die cut from a piece of Neenah Solar White 80lb card stock.  I glued them to my Neenah Solar White 110lb card base.  (I only put them around where they would show.  I added some wink of stella to each snowflake.  I attached the painting to my card base using some 3M dimensional tape.

That’s the whole card!  This one is so quick and easy, I really hope you will try this technique, I know you will enjoy it!  Make sure you tag us on Instagram and use #AIWatercolor so we can all admire your work.

Check out the inspirational projects from my fellow team members, I know you will love what they have done as always.

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