Hello Art Impressions watercolor fans, and welcome to another Watercolor Weekend! I am so excited to show you my project for this weekend, it’s a Gingerbread House. This is a great project to show you how you can stretch your stamps. I used one stamp only in the creation of this project, I used one of the Large Cabins to create this holiday treat.
Painting Details
In order to determine how I was going to stamp the cabin (meaning what I was going to leave off), I inked it up with brown and stamped it onto a sticky note. I then took a pencil and circled what I wanted to be left off (all of the window boxes). I then circled where I wanted the frosting icicles to be. I also wanted to do the door, so it looked like a chocolate bar and the door frame to look like a candy cane. This gave me a good template for when I started to paint. Sometimes if I don’t plan something like this, I forget to leave the white space I need for such things.
Once I was happy with the design, I inked up the stamp with the brown (after I cleaned it well), I carefully only inked the areas that weren’t circled and stamped it towards the bottom third of my watercolor paper. I added some Molotov to the areas where I wanted it to be frosting and let that dry. Once it was dry, I pulled the color out of the lines.
For the candy canes, I added some red stripes to the door frame and the window frames with my paintbrush, for smaller areas I used the bullet nib of my red marker. Next, I took a pencil and drew in the candies along the roof. I painted them using my color from my palette.
To achieve the gingerbread look, I added additional brown to the building and chimney, not being really careful as I thought the variation gave a more natural look. For the bushes (I saw them as gum drops…mmm) I painted them in using green. For the door, I added in some darker brown in blocks to replicate the look of a chocolate bar. I kept layering the brown until I got a look I liked. For the snow, I added some blue to the ground around the house for a snowy effect.
Once it was completely dry, I removed the Molotov and added some shadows using my blue. To finish the look of the icing, I used my white paint marker to draw in the icing between the candies on the roof and the windows. Lastly, I signed and dated my work.
This was so much fun to paint and it allows me to use my stamps in a creative way which I love!! I hope you give this a try and share what you create on Instagram or Facebook. I hope this gives you some ideas for your Christmas Cards! Happy crafting!
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Such a cute house!