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Watercolor Painting

By April Staker
Off Road Inksters
Intermediate Scramping Team Designer

Supplies

• Light the Path (TAC)
• Jersey Alphabet Stamps (Making Memories)
• Noir Palette Hybrid Ink Pad (TAC)
• Fabrico Cool Gray Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
• Zebra Flames Font (Downloaded off internet)
• Splendid 66 Font (Downloaded off internet)
• Gray 12" x 12" Cardstock (Leaving Prints)
• Light Blue 12" x 12" Cardstock (Bazzill)
• Mint 12" x 12" Cardstock (SEI)
• Speckled Gray 12” x 12” Cardstock (unknown)
• Textured Brown Cardstock 12” x 12” (unknown)
• Small Sitting Plaid 12" x 12" Paper (Chatterbox)
• Cold Press 140 lb Watercolor Paper (Strathmore)
• Watercolor Paints (Canson)
• #2 Flat Paintbrush (Loew-Cornell)
• #00 Round Paintbrush (Loew-Cornell)
• Aluminum Stick Pins (Making Memories)
• Silver Rivets (Leaving Prints)
• Eyelet Setter (TAC)
• Silent Setter (Provo Craft)
• Paper Trimmer (Fiskars)
• Scrapbook Mounting Squares (3L)
• 3-D Mounting Squares (Making Memories)
• Heat Gun (Marvy)
• Hammer

Instructions

1.  Cut your cardstock, photos and paper to the following dimensions

        Light Blue Cardstock:
                1½" x 12"= Accent Strip

Mint Cardstock Cardstock:
                3¾” x 4¾” = Journal Block
                (2) 1” x 1” = Tile Blocks

        Speckled Gray Cardstock:
                (2) ½" x 12” = Accent Strips
                5½” x 4” = Top Left Photo Mat
                4” x 5” = Journal Mat

        Textured Brown Cardstock:
                5¾” x 4¼”= Top Left Photo Mat
                (5) 1” x 1”= Tile Blocks
                5¼” x 3½”= Bottom Right Photo Mat

        Small Sitting Plaid Paper:
                4½” x 12” = Color Block
                (2) 1” x 1” = Tile Blocks

        Photos:
                3½” x 5”= Top Left
                3¼” x 5”= Bottom Right

2.  Using the Noir ink, stamp the lighthouse onto the Cold Press paper.  Be sure to apply good pressure since the Cold Press paper has some texture to it.  Allow the ink to dry completely. 

3.  Dip the #2 Flat brush into clean water and apply water to the sky areas around the lighthouse. 

4.  Dip the paint brush back into clean water and then put it into the light blue paint.  After picking up some of the paint onto your brush, put the paint onto a paint tray or Styrofoam plate so that it can be mixed.  Dip the brush back into the water and then into the gray paint.  Mix the gray and light blue paint together to form a cloudy sky gray.  Apply this mixture onto the wet areas of the picture.  Start in the areas along the shoreline and along the lighthouse.  Spread the paint outward into the sky.  This gives you a darker color along the areas where you first apply the paint.  Allow the paint to dry completely.  You can speed the drying process up with a heat gun.  

5.  Repeat step 3 applying water to the lower portion of the sky. 

6.  Dip the paint brush back into clean water and put it into the cobalt blue paint.  After picking up some of the paint onto your brush, apply this sparingly onto the wet areas of the picture.  Start in the areas along the shoreline and along the lighthouse.  Spread the paint outward into the sky.  Use random curvy strokes to achieve a more cloud-like appearance.  Allow this to dry somewhat, but not all of the way.  Using a facial tissue blot the paint.  This will lift some of the paint off and create a more cloud-like appearance.  Allow the paint to dry completely. 

7.  Repeat step 3 keeping the water along the shoreline and just a little ways up the lighthouse (mostly at the edges of these spots and not out into the sky much at all). 

8.  Dip the paint brush back into clean water and then put it into the marine blue paint.  After picking up some of the paint onto your brush put the paint onto the paint tray.  Dip the brush back into the water and then into the gray paint.  Mix the gray and marine blue paint together as the gray will tone the marine blue down just slightly.  Dip the brush into clean water and then into the burnt umber.  Mix a small amount of the burnt umber into the blue/gray mix.  This will darken it somewhat.  Apply this mixture onto the wet areas of the picture.  Use the brush to run along those shoreline edges and the lower portions of the lighthouse.  Allow the paint to merge into the cobalt blue to blend.  Use a little more water if necessary to create the blended effect.  If the color is too dark, use a tissue to lightly blot until you like the color.  Allow the paint to dry completely. 

9.  Apply clean water to the grassy areas and the shaded areas on the lighthouse. 

10.  Dip the paint brush back into clean water and then put it into the raw umber paint.  After picking up some of the paint onto your brush, apply this to the wet areas of the picture.  Follow the curves of the hills on the grass.  On the lighthouse, begin with the paint in the shadows and blend downward.  Apply just a bit to the bottom steps of the lighthouse.  Allow the paint to dry completely. 

11.  Apply clean water to the grassy areas.  Pick up some lime green paint onto your brush.  Apply this paint to the grass going right over the raw umber.  Blot with a tissue randomly and very lightly. 

12.  Using a #00 Round Brush, apply clean water to the birds in the shaded areas.  Pick up a small amount of gray paint and apply to those areas.  Repeat this with a touch of yellow ochre to add highlighted areas around the gray. 

13.  Using the round brush, re-wet the marine blue mixture if you have some left (if not just get more!).  Very lightly run the brush along the two center lines on the lighthouse and under the railing in the shadows to create a little shading and depth.  If it is too dark, add more water to thin it and blot with a tissue if necessary. 

14.  Apply water to the shaded sides of the lighthouse using the flat brush.  Apply yellow ochre paint to those areas.  

15.  Apply a touch of navy paint to the rooftop, left side of the lighthouse and under the railing in the shadows. 

16.  Rewet the upper sky.  Mix gray, white and light blue together and apply the mixture to the wet areas of the sky.  Blot with a tissue randomly to create cloud shapes if desired. 

17.  Using the round brush and a touch of black paint (very diluted with water), apply black paint to the shadowed and shaded areas of the image (under the railing, the left side of the lighthouse and the rooftop). 

18.   Tear around the image. 

19.  Ink the letter stamps with the Fabrico Gray ink and stamp onto the Journal Block. 

20.  Use the Silent Setter to punch holes into the Tile Blocks for the rivets.  Set the rivets. 

21.  Print your journaling. 

22.  Assemble your page.  I used 3-D dots behind the tiles and one at the top of the lighthouse image.  That allowed me to poke the pin through without any trouble.
 

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