Showing posts with label Clover and Pansies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clover and Pansies. Show all posts

Monday

Inspire Me Monday - Slow Down, Enjoy the Process


Hey everyone, welcome back to another Inspire Me Monday! Today I have some photos of my process painting up the new Clover and Pansies Digital Stamps!


I love Marcella's Digital images, they are always so detailed large and over the top, As most of you know I like to blow them up and crop them a little bit then paint them up with my watercolours. 

My biggest tip with this images is to take it slow, break it apart into smaller pieces, I did the darker leaves first. Then I went in and worked on the clovers. Enjoy the process of colouring these images up, not only is that good advice for getting these images to turn out the way you want. It is great for the mind to slow down and get lost in the painting process!


I was slowly working on different sections, allowing the layers to dry before adding more. Watercolours are great for making me take it slow, they thrive when you leave them alone and allow them to dry naturally. Layer up those pinks on the pansies, let the purple dry and dab in the yellow on those little flowers and watch it flow out into the white as it dries. Remember, as long as that watercolor paper is cool, it is wet, and as long as it is wet, the watercolor is still moving in the paper. 


Once the previous layer is dry, we go in with more colours, slowly adding and building it up. Like I said keep saying, take it slow, enjoy the process!

It all starts to come together and begins to work. breaking it down into smaller sections keeps it all from looking and feeling so overwhelming!


And once you get near the end you get to see all those parts together, and not looking like a million black lines of scariness! It is always so amazing to see it all come together, and look like one pretty little piece!

Thank you so much for stopping by and seeing what I created this week!

Hugz,
Jessie

Friday

Instant Garden Release: Clover and Pansies


Hello friends. We’re combining Good Vibe Friday with an Instant Garden digital release — as I know it gives me good vibes to share fresh illustrations and our designers’ wonderful cards! Today you’ll find the latest cards by the Instant Gardeners, plus a few ladies from the Bloom Brigade are showing off our other new digi set. 

Win-win!

Introducing: Clover and Pansies


Cowabunga — this one has a whole bunch of fun in a single image. The newest in my a series of vintage cafĂ© au lait bowls filled with garden goodies, Clover and Pansies is a rich and layered bouquet. 

You’ll find so many different ways to color this one. Pansies, with their sunny, funny faces, offer velvety petals in shades of the richest dark purple to delicate apricot and everything in between. Some pansies are straightforward and single-toned. Other varieties they have dramatic veins, ruffles, and contrasting petals. Go big and bold or create a soft statement — it’s all up to you.


Pansies are a flower imbued with so much meaning... love, longing, remembrance. They are charming and painterly — as this vintage Burpee catalog says, “painted from nature”.



Combinations for this set are pretty much endless. I’ve drawn two larger pansies and three smaller ones (also known as Viola, and commonly as Johnny-jump-ups); then several four-leaf clovers for good luck. Clover’s botanical name is Trifolium, and there are a number of species offering exciting color combinations. Just for fun, I’ve also included Forget-Me-Nots (Myosotis) which have a sweet trailing quality and wonderful symbolism.


Always remember that you can enlarge the image or crop in if it seems too daunting. That’s part of the fun of digital stamps. 

Take a little tour of today’s new cards featuring this delightful bouquet — everyone came up with something unique, fresh, and full of spring zing!



Cindy Lawrence
Stacy Morgan

Thank you for coming by today, sweet ones. xoxoxo