Day 2 - Watercolor for Cardmakers

It looks like I will have to pick and choose the ideas I 'm most drawn to in order to keep up! Today featured more watercolor backgrounds, the first being a watercolor pencil effect demonstrated by Agnieszka Malyszek. Her background is more muted than mine; I didn't have a lot of luck with the pencils so I ended up touching it up with pan colors. The central image of a pear was placed on top of some multicolored fibers.

The next technique was demonstrated by Jennifer McGuire. She masked a stamped image and then painted vibrant colors around it.  I should have paid more attention to the video because after masking my images with rubber cement, I painted over it instead of painting close to the edges. As a result, I had some of the paint bleed through.

The last technique, also from Jennifer McGuire, was painting over embossed backgrounds (similar to one of yesterday's exercises). I didn't remove the embossing after painting it though.

At least I'm finally caught up and ready for tomorrow's lessons :)