Love of Watercolors

I have been a little obsessed with watercolor for the past year or so - it started to intensify with Online Card Classes' Watercolors for Card Makers last May.  That's when I started to collect some watercolor supplies with a Koi set, the Peerless Watercolor papers, Inktense Pencils and the Akashiya Sai Watercolor Brush Pens.  But, I rarely played with them - I guess I was feeling a little intimidated by them.  Of course, when everyone started buying the Kuretake Gansai Tambi and the Zig Kuretake Clean Color Real Brush Pens, I refrained because I needed to use what I had first.

So, when I saw the announcement for the Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Blog Hop, I knew that now was my chance to play with my supplies!

I just received the beautiful Peony Scrolls set by Altenew, so I knew I would use this set, but what watercolor set do I use??  Well, I decided to use 3 of them - Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Akashiya Sai Watercolor Brush Pens and the Peerless Watercolor papers.

Here is my first creation:

On this card, I used the distress inks - I was relatively happy with it, but it seemed a little tedious compared to the result.

Here is my second creation:

I used the Akashiya Sai Watercolor Brush Pens on this card - at first I felt a little awkward because I didn't like when I laid down water and then tried to add the pigment.  I found that it worked better for me when I colored the bottoms of the petals and then added water.  I really love the way there are those dark bottoms - I think it added a lot of dimension.

And here is my third creation:

On this card, I used two different Peerless Watercolor papers - Arbutis Pink and Chrome Orange.  I really liked how these colors blended together!  This card seemed to take longer, maybe because I got the paper really wet and it just took longer to dry.  I didn't really want to use my heat tool to dry the water faster because once I got the blend just right, I didn't want to move the pigment around.

Now that I've dived into my watercolor supplies, I wonder how long it will take me to buy those other 2 sets?  :)

I hope you liked my cards!

Cheers!

Lin :)