The Faerie Pool

Thought I would share the best I could of how I created this scene. I originally followed a tutorial for another scene that I will add next. So I sprayed some inks onto some card I used 300 gsm card for the scenes, spritz with some water or mist and place another piece of card on top and press together. Then pull apart to see what card has come out the best. I thought I would keep the other card and cut it up to make more scenes.

The above photo is that other bit of card cut up to the bits I thought I could use. To set the sun or you might want it to be a moon, I used just a brush and water to remove the ink leave for a few seconds then gently place paper towel over, you can do this as many times as you wish or until you are happy with it.

This is the piece of card I wanted to use. I wanted to do a waterfall in the scene so using the same technique I used a wet brush to shape and remove ink. If you do it wrong or brush in the wrong area just go over again with that colour ink. Sometimes it leaves a sort of stain but you can always cover that as the scene progresses. You are actually removing and replacing your inks to begin with. Once happy with a vision of how or where my waterfall will be placed I continue to build the scene.

Sorry about the quality of the above photo I used my webcam to take a quick snap of it for reference. As you can see I am starting to build my waterfall and added some rocks in the water, I added some ivy hanging down from the ravine as well. This would be slightly changed in the finished scene.
I used watercolour paints to fill in the rocks using grey and black as well as olive green.

I continued to build and build using layers of paints to create the foliage falling over the ravine and waterfall. Using ultramarine in the water then watering it down to get the misty look. Using my white pen drawing lines to give the effect of it falling, just to say before that paint pen dries I wipe my finger over it to blend it in. For the rocks in the water I used dark grey light grey and olive green, to highlight I used my white paint pen and blended. The hardest part was getting the faerie to show, she was quite dark as I stamped her in a deep purple colour, so I used white gel pen to highlight her. Using the pen in the water too and added shade to the rocks in the water. The tree and leaves represent over grown foliage. Using different colours of inks to stamp will give depth. To finish I love to add some colour so using acrylic paint pens I dotted around the waterfall and in the foliage. I really loved her wings but they just did not show so I have to colour them in sad to say as I love this Faerie called Oona. I have given details below of where you can purchase these beautiful stamps.

Happy Crafting

Holly

Various stamps are available from Lavinia Stamps https://laviniastamps.com/
Including Versafine inks for stamping and various water based inks.

Visual Storytelling

Today I am going to try and explain how I created the following scene. First of all I found my Shanty stamp and path stamp you can find the links and where to purchase from at the end of this post.

Social Distancing

To begin with I created this totally a different way round. Rather than creating a background then adding effects and images I stamped the Shanty and path straight onto the watercolour paper. 

I began to colour in the shanty house with hints of brown watercolour paint to give it a wooded effect the path too. Then I added some water to the top of the paper and added some ultramarine paint and let it flow to the side then removing some with tissue paper so the effect of clouds appeared.

Using some very pale ultramarine and light green I created the effect of distant trees and shrubs once dry I built up these to create more depth.

Same technique with the grass area starting with yellow then building with ultramarine to get a darker shade of the yellow. Continuing to build the colours so the grass had an olive green colour as shadows. I then stamped the little mice and created shadows using the olive green and a hint of brown. 

Stamping now, I have been using Versa-fine Clair inks for all my stamping, this ink is waterproof so I can go over anything that I feel needed to be highlighted or darkened with my paints.

Using my favourite twig branch I stamped at the top of the page to push the shanty house further back by creating light and dark shaded leaves on the twigs. Same with the foreground stamping and double stamping to give the effect of distance. 

The final part was to add some speckles of white pink green blue etc for the effect of flowers on the ground and hanging down from the shanty house, the roof of the house I painted with a mix of ultramarine and yellow to get a nice vibrant green that sort of resembles moss.

Thanks for reading and I will post more images as soon as I can.

Stay safe keep well

Holly

Stamps are available from Lavinia Stamps  https://laviniastamps.com/shop

https://laviniastamps.com/product/shanty                 Shanty house

https://laviniastamps.com/product/three-field-mice  Little mice

https://laviniastamps.com/product/large-path            Large path 

https://laviniastamps.com/product/foxglove              Foxgloves

https://laviniastamps.com/product/falling-ivy           Falling Ivy (used upside down)

https://laviniastamps.com/product/dandelions           Dandelions (used just one)

All versa fine inks are available on the website too.

The odd stamps are from the pound range that is sold on their website easy to use and very good customer service

After the Rain

After the recent nice weather I had been able to go in my garden and get some fresh air in between being isolated and social distancing it was great to sit in the sun and enjoy the garden what was now turning from winter to spring. The blue bells have sprung and the lily of the valley it was so pretty.
Then rain came I understand we need the rain but it meant being locked inside again. Grey skies made the lockdown feel even more unbearable. But there was hope for the next day the Sun came up and the sky was so blue it had a magical feel to it. So I got to creating something in the memory.

After the Rain

Maybe brighter days were going to appear, alas a few hours later the rain returned but I had captured the happy moment and I felt better for it. We all have good and bad days but everytime I look at this picture I get the happy feeling again.

Stay Safe Keep Well

Holly Molly