Altenew August 2023 Inspiration Challenge.

 

For my first post for my new blog I am participating in the Altenew August 2023 Inspiration Challenge.  You can find the original challenge here: https://blog.altenew.com/august-2023-inspiration-challenge/  

I had a great time using a page from my new Altenew Watercolor Coloring Book - https://altenew.com/products/watercolor-coloring-book. This is one of my first times EVER using watercolor markers and it is such a joy to be able to create something so pretty!

I used watercolor markers and a few watercolor brushes (different sizes) and I added some gold splatters using kuretake gansai tambi watercolors - starry colors palette.

I used the image and colors for inspiration - I noted the green and a touch of light pink in the image and used those colors as well when water coloring my image.  I used a die to cut the frame out of gold shimmer cardstock and centered the frame over my image as well as mounting the water colored image on gold cardstock.  All of this was then mounted on a white card base.

Here I added a close up so you can see some of the shading I achieved with just a few water color markers.

I'd love to hear what you think about my first real water color project.

Thanks.