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Watercolor Zen Class
I stayed home today and worked and worked...
First, the sampler book I made using pieces of the techniques pages. It's 5" x5", 90 lb watercolor paper, stitched with craft thread (about the same as size 5 Perle cotton) and decorated with a few miracle beads:
The cover - 7-stroke flowers (I think mine have more than seven strokes, but close enough)
The pages:
Paint puddled and dripped onto the paper, plus some rings printed with the rim of a glass, and some splattering
Puddled and blown with a straw
Printed with a sponge and the rim of a glass, and splattered
An attempt at contour drawing
A stencil
Flocked, wherein you make a puddle of paint and dilute it so that the pigments separate, then sprinkled with coarse salt and let dry
Printed with bubble wrap and one of my hand-carved rubberstamps
And the watercolor fantasy map. I've done one of these before, in Sondra's Map as Art class - there's a tag over there if you want a look.
This one's a 9x12" piece of 140lb watercolor paper painted in blue, turquoise and purple, cut, stitched and embellished with assorted vintage images, pieces of maps, a loteria ticket, three postage stamps, some needlelace* and a starfish charm backed by a little mulberry paper. It's actually lighter than the photo but this was the best I could do. :
So that's done. What's next? /Bartlett
*I got the idea from a blog post about medieval manuscripts - the scribes got quite creative with holes in their parchments. Check it out here.
First, the sampler book I made using pieces of the techniques pages. It's 5" x5", 90 lb watercolor paper, stitched with craft thread (about the same as size 5 Perle cotton) and decorated with a few miracle beads:
The cover - 7-stroke flowers (I think mine have more than seven strokes, but close enough)
The pages:
Paint puddled and dripped onto the paper, plus some rings printed with the rim of a glass, and some splattering
Puddled and blown with a straw
Printed with a sponge and the rim of a glass, and splattered
An attempt at contour drawing
A stencil
Flocked, wherein you make a puddle of paint and dilute it so that the pigments separate, then sprinkled with coarse salt and let dry
Printed with bubble wrap and one of my hand-carved rubberstamps
And the watercolor fantasy map. I've done one of these before, in Sondra's Map as Art class - there's a tag over there if you want a look.
This one's a 9x12" piece of 140lb watercolor paper painted in blue, turquoise and purple, cut, stitched and embellished with assorted vintage images, pieces of maps, a loteria ticket, three postage stamps, some needlelace* and a starfish charm backed by a little mulberry paper. It's actually lighter than the photo but this was the best I could do. :
So that's done. What's next? /Bartlett
*I got the idea from a blog post about medieval manuscripts - the scribes got quite creative with holes in their parchments. Check it out here.