'Painted' Watercolor Cards

I'm a bit behind on my watercolor homework, so I gave myself permission to work on it out of sequence.

These cards use a technique that Sanketi taught.  I've been a huge fan of her watercolored cards, so I was excited to see that she would be teaching.

This technique kind of reminds of no-line Copic coloring where you stamp with a light ink, and it kind of blends in to look like a non-stamped image.  Similar here, but with watercolors - the trick is to use a water soluble dye ink when you stamp the image.

I was having so much fun with this that I couldn't stop at just one card.

Sanketi's example has a much more dynamic background....I'm still a little timid with my backgrounds, I need to work on making them bolder and brighter, but I think these were good first tries.



I should also admit that I don't have true watercolors right now.  These were both done with my Inktense pencils...which I love to bits, but it's a little easier to do the painted effect when you can immediately dab into a little watercolor pan/pile of color as opposed to pulling color off a pencil....I had a bit of trouble controlling the amount of water because I was wetting the brush more than I would have otherwise to pick the color up off the pencil.

I've got a couple other cards halfway done, and I need to watch today's videos, so I'm going to sign off.  Hope you are having a great weekend!

Supplies Used:
Paper/Cardstock:  Avery Elle - Fog and Sea Glass Cardstock; CTMH - White Daisy cardstock; Watercolor Paper from Target
Stamps:  Unity - Wishing You Joy and Countryside Blooms Itty Bitties; WPlus9 - Quite Like You
Ink:  Distress Inks - Antique Linen and Vintage Photo; Versafine
Other:  Derwent - Inktense Pencils; Tombow - Stamp Runner; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape