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/large-path Large path
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
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