On Tuesday night I held a launch party; you should have been there, we had loads of fun! One of the make and takes used watercolor pencils and I enjoyed playing with them so much, I decided to pull out other stamp sets to colour. This time, it’s Mediterranean Moments.

I stamped the image using the archival basic black and then walked away for a short time to be sure that the black was really dry. Next I took a number of the pencils – real red, old olive, pacific point, daffodil delight, early espresso and a little calypso coral and roughly laid down some colour. You don’t have to be at all precise at this point. Then I used a blender pen to move the colour where I wanted it. I left about half of the image uncoloured so as to keep the sketch look rather than trying to make a painting. All that remained was to choose a card base – I often use a skinny basic black mat around watercolouring and this time I decided to use the black for the card base. I really like how it left all of the attention on the image.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz