Watercolor daffodil

 

Hi! Yesterday I signed up to splitcoast stampers (again). I removed my old account years ago so I started fresh and oh my how I love that place. The challenges are awesome and participating in many of them gives you learning opportunities. Like the Watercolor Wednesday. In the WCW039 you are provided with a daffodil watercolor tutorial on Youtube and off you go. :)

I loosley sketched a daffodil and a bud (looove the bud) and tried to follow the instructions. Well, it didn´t work that well, I tried to fix things on the flower all the time and ended up with too heavy coats of colors. It´s my technique that needs to improve, and I need to stop painting to keep the watercolor look instead of adding more layers, but I also need some new watercolors and brushes. My 25 year old Windsor Newton cad Yellow is dry and not very happy loosing it's pigments... 

Anyway, I learnt a lot doing this, including using salt... Need more experimenting with that, but I think it gives a nice effect (can you see it?). Over all I'm happy about this card. It was FUN to do.

Thanks for stopping by!