the documented life project: weekly challenge 6
Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 11:30AM Welcome to Week 6 of The Documented Life Project!
February 1 - Open Your/A Pinterest Board and Be Inspired!
At first I wasn't sure about this challenge. Pinterest is a tad bit overwhelming on a good day - to open a board and be inspired could easily lead to hours of surfing beautiful pages and boards. To simplify things and keep my "surfing time" to a minimum, I chose to open one of my own boards - Tutorials. This is what I found!
I loved sharing how to make this mini canvas and everything about the way it turned out- the colors, the texture and the interesting look the paint took on. I took the challenge one step further and only allowed myself to use watercolors. Watercolors are a fairly new medium for me and I am much more comfortable using acrylic paints. I thought this would push me to use the watercolors, experiment with them a little more...
I used a piece of watercolor paper that was already collaged on the reverse side for my tip-in page this week. I chose a pretty, bright palette and following the lines of my pinterest inspiration I began painting.
As it turned out, I taped my tip-in backwards (NOT the first time) and so I had to create my challenge on the back of my collaged paper. I could have removed the tape and started over, but I chose to leave it as is. Now I have TWO pretty pages this week.
I quickly and loosely applied a bright "frame" like border to my page, followed by several large circles of color. Next I added some swathes of color to the bottom edges of the page. I applied several colors of the paint to my hand-carved feather stamp and then stamped my page. I love it!
Once all the paint had been applied and dried, I added little pops of white using my favorite white pen of all time. You can see that I have a lot to learn about moving and thinning color, but overall I enjoyed the challenge. Watercolor paints leave such a beautiful fluid look to your page when applied correctly. I look forward to giving this technique some more practice!
I am looking forward to seeing your interpretations of this week's challenge and I can't wait to meet you back here next week!
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Reader Comments (8)
Oh Rae, I love how you use your own pin as an inspiration and use a totally different technique for your page!
Great!
Loving the bright happy colors and that feather stamp is so fabulous!
Your page is absolutely beautiful and I too love that the inspiration was done in acrylic and that you bravely tried watercolor in your new project. You did a wonderful job - I need to play with my watercolors more too.
This is so gorgeous. I love the colors you chose and it is so happy-making. Usually I think of watercolor as a little boring (aka washed out) but you rocked this and made me think about watercolor in a different way. :)
Thank you Anne! I love so many wonderful Artists on Pinterest I was afraid I couldn't pick just one! Happy Documenting!
Thank you Sandi! Those colors really do cheer me up too! I am addicted to feathers lately. You couldn't tell that though- could you?
Thanks Meg. Yes- watercolors were difficult for me. I LOVE them, and I see so many talented artists out there that have mastered this form of painting...it makes me want to keep trying!
Wow! thanks Kimberlee! I feel the same way about the softer palette that many water color painting take on- I LOVE them, but I tend to choose brighter colors, so I just chose not to water the paints down quite as much- probably NOT the proper technique but I liked it!