Valentine Watercolour
I’ve been painting this week; a Valentine’s card for Mr L and an actual picture! There are some wonderful YouTube tutorials available for beginner painters and I’m a big fan of Karen Rice’s paintings, style and teaching. My card was a line and wash using another Anita Jeram stamp. Those rabbits are so cute! I lifted out the paint in the sky to create the heart shaped clouds. When I die cut the panel, I had to use the partial die cutting technique and the die marked the panel so I had to add the ribbon, which unfortunately hides most of the cloud. I decorated the envelope using a white gel pen. My painting was done following Karen Rice’s Silver Birch Trees Step By Step video. I was first drawn to this particular tutorial because there’s no drawing involved. The trees are masked using strips of tape (I used framing tape) and then the first stage of painting is done over the top. There are some fun techniques to try duri...