Watercolour butterflies

Hi and welcome to a reminder about this months challenge over at STAMPlorations. 

As well as the blog hop we still have our regular monthly challenge and/or sketch.

Here's my card.

This time I've not used the sketch, just the watercolours.

I used one of the large butterflies from the Flutterby stencil, drawing around the edge of it with a fine liner in a pale colour. Then I washed in the colour for it's wings, keeping inside the lines. When dry I added some background colour wash and some splatter to ground the butterfly on the page. I used a dark purple grey Copic to draw in the butterflies body then added details on the wings using the stencil and a white gel pen. The sentiment was stamped in Versafine onyx black is from the Noteworthy set.

I was in a watercolour mood last week and I had some time to kill waiting for a parcel to be delivered, so I had a play with a triptych  using a frame I picked up at the supermarket the other day.

This time I used the sketch and a couple of stencils, Bloom Silhouettes and Shower of Flutters.

Using the same technique as before I traced around the stencils with a pale w/c fine liner on w/c paper, then using some artists masking fluid I painted over the right hand butterflies then using the stencil as a mask over the left hand side I washed in some blue and green DIs to give me my background. Then keeping the stencils in place I over stamped with some Mown Lawn DI with a couple of grass stamps plus some free hand flicks with a paint brush. 

Removing the stencils and masking fluid, I painted in the flowers and butterflies. I used a reference book on butterflies to get somewhere near the actual butterflies that inspired this painting. Using DIs in a w/c technique and some Copic and white gel pen colour where necessary.

OK, now it's over to you.use the theme or sketch or as I did, both! 
You can now enter up to SIX times and as before STAMPloration stamps are not essential, but it would be nice :) . Although the format has changed the prizes are just the same.

Prizes

• Winner voted by the design team receives a $15 gift certificate or choice of two (2) standard-size (5x7) ARTplorations stencils if the project has STAMPlorations products; if the winning project doesn't have a STAMPlorations product, winner receives a $10 gift certificate or choice of one (1) standard-size (5x7) ARTplorations stencil.
• Top picks voted by the design team each receive a $5 gift certificate or choice 2 digis
• 1 winner randomly drawn from entries that have STAMPlorations products (stamps and/or stencils) receives a stamp & stencil pack or $10 gift certificate
• Winner and top picks invited to be guest designers in the October Challenge.

For more fabulous inspiration check out the rest of the DT and GDs.

Annie GD
Barbara Roe GD
KT Fit Kitty GD
Becca DT

Laura Jane DT

Sari DT

Tenia DT

Wei Wei DT

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Just the summer flowers!


Take a Technique
Pens and Pencils



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