Growing In Unity Day four

 Welcome to day four of my week as the Growing in Unity Artist!  Today I'm going to share with you a project I created using that tried and true favorite stamp set of mine....Succ-y without you!

Today we are going to explore another of my favorite mediums to create with.....watercolors!  I love that watercoloring is so forgiving when you are creating.  Something seems a little too dark...add a little water to it...a little to light...put some more color on it...make a mistake, just dab it with a paper towel and poof better.  Even better than that is to keep a magic eraser on your art table while you watercolor and buff away an stray spots to return your base to like new!

For my project I used paints from four different pan sets from Prima:  Woodlands, Essence, Currents, and Terrain.  I love the way these particular paints blend together and the fact that they are pans means I can carry them around and create anywhere....so this card was painted while watching tv.  I then came back into my art room and stamped the sentiment using brown pigment ink.  I also used that same ink to edge the entire card to better define the space.

When you watercolor you want to use a permanent ink.  So this image was stamped using a Stazon black ink pad onto watercolor paper that I had trimmed down to card size.  I then mixed and transferred the colors onto my image using mainly a round 2 paintbrush.

I love the look of the watercolors.  Here's a closeup of the card that shows the slight blue wash I put behind the entire stamped area to ground the image a bit.

Watercoloring allows you to be purposefully not so careful while you create and allow the paint to just flow across the paper.

Well...tomorrow if my last day... hope you will come back...and leave a comment for a chance to win an amazing Unity prize!

Happy crafting....Lynda