I think I shared here that I recently started taking a watercolour painting class. Well, I’m 3 weeks in and I’m hooked! I love it! I’m loving it so much that I went straight down into my basement after class last weekend and did some more watercolour painting with Stampin’ Up! inks. This summer I’ll look into getting my own brushes and paints. But in the meantime the range of colours Stampin’ Up! has is pretty wide, so I don’t have to worry too much about mixing colours… as long as I have them.
This week we were sketching and painting birds and tree branches. (Check out my Facebook page to see my paintings) So when I got home I kind of kept going… at least with the branches anyway. I used Pecan Pie and a Water Painter to create a few branches on some watercolour paper. Then I added a few Lemon Lime Twist leaves. But instead of birds, I painted blossoms using Bubble Bath ink. At first I thought I’d add a bird. But my creativity didn’t want to flow that way.
To get the ink colours on your Water Painter there are a few different ways. The first is to put a drop of ink refill on an acrylic block or other flat surface. This is what I prefer to do whenever possible. Another way is to squish some ink onto the lid of your inkpad. And if you have a Stampin’ Spot, you can stamp the ink pad onto a block, etc.
I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do with this piece yet. Maybe I’ll turn it into a card. Who knows?! In the meantime though, I’m going to keep watercolour painting with Stampin’ Up! inks.
Check out a recent card I made using watercolouring here.