I have a whimsical scene for this week's Watercolour Weekend post on the Art Impressions blog:
I stamped my sleeping gnome from 5785 Gnomes Set onto my Canson XL Watercolour Paper, masked him off, and stamped the stump from 4871 WC Rustic Container Set behind him. I positioned the mushrooms from 5788 Whimsical Mushrooms on either side, and added the leaves from 5795 Berries in various spots. Three different flowers from 5794 Whimsical Flowers were tucked in behind, and finally my little bee from 5561 - Birds and Bugs Set. For all of my elements, I used Tombow Dual Brush Markers #969/565.
From my palette, I painted tones of brown (#947/969/899) onto the stump - the image shows you where the crevices are, so those areas are the darkest, while the more rounded areas catch more of the light, so they are the lightest. For the toadstools and his hat, I started with #856, layering it to get darker tones, leaving the upper areas as the lightest shades. The yellow toadstools and his shirt were painted with #991/993. I wanted the leaves to be bright, so I started with #126, then mixed #249/493 to get a teal green shade for the darker areas. #533/565 were painted on all the flowers - just as shadows on the white ones. #526 was painted on his trousers, and #N55 on his shoes. The bee was done with #N55/993 and a touch of blue on his wings. The small grass from 4051 - Foliage Set 1 was stamped in #177, and painted out as a wash. Finally a wash of #493 was painted in as the sky. I added the sentiment from the Gnomes Set in Versafine Onyx Black ink, and added a few dots to my scene with my navy Twintone marker. I cut out the scene with 5061 Square Double Stitched Dies, and mounted it onto my background paper.
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