Welcome to the first Spring Watercolor Weekend! I am ready and I bet all my friends in New England are saying the same thing. So in celebration of Spring, I decided to use my Foundations Potting Table along with the Little Girl front and back to create this cute little Spring Girl card.
I started out by inking up the back of the girl stamp with 569. I stamped it off twice to get a really light image. As with all of our first steps, I pulled the color out of the lines making sure to keep everything really light. If your brush has too much color, rinse it off and keep going. Once that was dry, not long at all, I added some 565 to my palette and added it to her dress. I kept the skirt part white and tried to layer darker paint into those really shadowed areas. For her hair, I added some 969 to my palette and painted in darker and lighter strokes until I achieved the look I was going for. Once she was complete, I created a mask and masked her off. I didn’t know I was going to pop her up until later. Stay tuned!
Once she was masked off, I took my Table stamp and inked it with 969. I did not stamp it off. Since it is a clear stamp, I positioned it to the upper right of her and stamped it where I wanted it. I tried to keep in mind where I wanted the flowers and foliage so I pulled the color out of the structure, pots and hat keeping it really light. I inked up the long vines and added them to the middle and bottom pots. I didn’t do the top because I knew it would be chopped off by the die. Using the daisy bunch and some other stamp that I couldn’t figure out which set it belonged to I stamped in various flowers. Stamping the flowers in a light yellow and then a pink will give you a peachy color when you add the water. I added additional colors to the pots and then added water to all the structure, flowers and foliage. I use my fine tip part of the marker to add darker color directly to some of the flowers to give them more depth. Also, adding a white center with a gel pen creates additional interest.
I layered color onto the hat with pink, it’s light so lots of layers to achieve a dark value. I used the small lilac and my stamp positioner to get it just right onto the hat. For the background, I added the 800 lightest pink color to give a stucco kinda look. I also added a window and hard wood floor to make it seem like a shed.
Once it was done I felt like it was missing something so I took out the Little Girl back die to pop her up. It was perfect, no white space, right up to the line!!! So I cut 3 more out of plain white watercolor paper and glued them behind her. I added clue to the back and popped it back into the hole that was left and she is exactly where she was but higher 😊 Lastly I signed and dated.
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Get out there and enjoy the Spring and paint something beautiful today! Thanks for joining us and see you next time!
SUPPLIES:
Beautiful! Nice idea to have her stand out from background. Wonderful shading, I always have trouble with where to put highlights.