ShirleyE
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This is a simple floral picture, drawn with pens and coloured with watercolour paint, that can be framed or made into a greetings card. It's a lot easier than it looks.
Supplies:
- watercolour paper
- sticky gems
- coloured ball point pens
- small fine pointed brush
- large paint brush
- glue stick
- blank greetings card with envelope
Steps:
- It is important to use watercolour paper. Ordinary paper will not stand up well to being soaked. Tear a piece to the size you want your picture to be. I have made mine to fit my greetings card.
- You do not need professional water colour paints for this. Children's water colours will do fine. Wet the large brush and load it up with colour for the edging.
- Paint all around the edge.
- Paint the back side too so that the paint will soak into the torn edge.
- Practise on a scrap piece of paper first if you prefer.
- Draw lines with a green pen for the stalks.
- Draw an X with pink pen at the top.
- Then draw a + to make a star.
- Fill in with more lines.
- Do this on all the stalks. I added a couple more short ones to balance it out a bit.
- Flick some little lines on the stalks to represent leaves.
- Add some vertical lines to look like grass at the bottom.
- Clean the large brush. Load it with water and wet the picture.
- Use plenty of water. It will soak into the paper.
- Use a smaller brush for the flowers. Fill it with pink paint and touch the flower centres with the point of the brush. The paint should spread out a little in the water. I have also added some pink dots just for effect because as you can see, I splashed a little paint by mistake when I was painting the edge. That's what I call a happy accident because it turned out well.
- Add a line of green paint to the stalks.
- Keep wetting the paper as you go if it dries out a little, because you want the paint to be a bit blurry in the water. If it dries out this won't happen.
- Add a few green dashes at the bottom. Leave the picture to dry out. This could take a while. Be patient.
- The paper will probably be a bit buckled. If so, place it between sheets of parchment and iron it flat.
- Add sticky gems of your choice to the flower centres.
- Glue your picture to the front of the blank greetings card.
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15mhhm15
Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,298 Posts April 10, 20181 found this helpful
Love the way you made this card. I really like the flowers.
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