OCC Watercolor- Day 3 Negative Painting

I was in awe of this technicque that Dawn showed us. Her sample was beautiful.  I was soooo excited when she commented on how easy it was to do.  Boy, did I struggle with the amount of water and paint to use.  In the end, this was my best attempt.  I definetly improved with each attempt.  Will continue to practice, practice, practice...

Prior attempts (others went straight to the recycling bin).

OCC Watercolor - Day 2 Simple Round Brush Flowers

Here is my practice of this technicque:

Very simple, but I really needed to work on how much water I used.

OCC Watercolor - Day 1 Part 2

In the second video, was practice on expanding what we learned about the brush technicque.  I didn't have a good stamped image to practice, but realized how easy is was to lay down water in a pear shape.  Here is what I did:

On the first pear, I made the mistake of putting my thumb on it to check if it was dry - oops.

OCC Watercolor - Day One

The first class was all about brush technicque, here is my practice:

Doesn't look like much, but learned alot!

OCC Watercolor: Intermediate - Pre-Class Exercise

I'm excited to take the OCC Watercolor: Intermediate Technicque Class over at OCC.  One of the pre-class exercises is to create paint swatches.  Here is mine for my KOI Watercolors (sorry that it's side-ways):

Happy that they did this as I didn't think that having a reference sheet would help.  But also, the info on the transparancy or opaquesness helped too.

Off to finish more of the pre-class.  Looking forward to the rest of class.

Tammy

Watercolor-Black & White Remake

So, I decided to retry making a pre-class watercolor. I am much happier with the result.

The two changes I made were using black embossing powder and Koi Watercolor Pocket Field Sketch Box.

Here's the result, followed by the before picture.

BEFORE:

Pre-Class Watercolor

Just posting some pre-class watercolor pictures. Very happy I'm taking the Watercolor for Card Makers-Exploring Mediums class. You'll see what I mean after seeing the before and afters!

http://onlinecardclasses.com/watercolorEM/

Here, I made the mistake of using memento black for stamping the flowers. This is a watercolor soluble ink that bleed giving a purplish color. I was looking for black and white.

PRODUCTS:

Altenew Wild Hibiscus Stamp

Memento Black Ink

Generic watercolor pencils

Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper