Fall Swing | Watercolor Weekend | Art Impressions Stamps

It’s that wonderful time of year again, FALL!!  It is my next favorite time of the year, Winter being first LOL.  I decided to make a really sweet fall scene.  I put one of the little sitting boys on the tire swing, I call it my Fall Swing!

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To start I masked off around my picture using Post-It tape.  This gave me a nice clean border around my picture.  I inked the tire, from the NEW Swing Set, up with 569 and 969 and stamped it slanted in the middle of the paper.  I wanted it to look like it was swinging in the air.  Using my #4 paintbrush, I pulled the color from the lines making sure to leave some white space in the middle of the tire.

I masked off the tire with some Post-It tape and, using my positioner, stamped the sitting boy from the Little Boys set.  I stamped him off once and placed him on the tire. I pulled color out of the lines to just the shadowed areas.  I didn’t pull any color into the face.  I added some 47 to my palette and added it to the face, neck, arm and foot.  I added 526 to my palette and added it to his overalls.

I stamped the small leaves from the Foliage Set 4 set in yellow, red and orange randomly around the top of the picture.  I added some water to them to create a feeling of trees with their leaves changing into Autumn colors.  I added some 569 between the trees and the boy as a sky.  I added some 249 to my palette and painted in the field and mountain.  I used it to also ink up the pine tree from the Trees set.  I stamped these randomly to the left and right of the boy to create some depth.  I added water to them.

I inked the branch from the Desert set in 969 and stamped it along the bottom of the painting.  I again used my small leaves stamp inked in 757, 925 and 025.  I added water to the leaves.  I added some additional color between the trees to extend the grass.

Using a small ruler and my black marker, I darkened a line from the trees to the tire swing.  Finally, I signed and dated the picture.

I cut the painting out using my stitched rectangle die and mounted it on a piece of Gina K Designs Red Hot cardstock.  I added that to a white card base.

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I hope you get to do some water coloring this weekend!  Be sure to tag us on Instagram with #AIWatercolor so we can see what you are working on.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend!

Tricia

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