Showing posts with label watercolour brushes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watercolour brushes. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 May 2011

altered book 2 "Samples"

I'm doing a series of altered books for an
upcoming summer class and am posting
them as I get them done.  This one was
prepared by brushing a very thin coat of
white gesso over each page. I then used
water colour washes in cool colours
over parts of each page. The gesso and
paint took well in  this children's hard cover
book. 





I added light bits of leaves to some pages as well.  When dry I
glued on sampler muslin swatches of paint application
techniques (spattering, sponging, crumpling, wiping)



The cloth cover already had a funky cat blowing bubbles so I just added
the title.   I'll use a fun font to add children's song lyrics later 
 I see the letters flowing over the pages..............

Sunday, 15 May 2011

new brushes

I joined a great little group in my new home town.  It's held at the old train
station and is a full day of watercolour painting every Friday.  The teacher
is wonderful and full of ideas and fabulous techniques.... 90 years young!


I obviously need a few new brushes to continue with the group!