Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work. I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since. While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad. No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies. This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation. I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate. My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process. The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was. There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table. The other bonus ...
Watercolor is a technique I love, but it's a challenging technique that I'm always learning. The only thing I know for sure is no matter how many times you work with watercolor you will never get the exact same results twice.
I used the same technique for this Floral Fantasy card that I did when creating the peonies in the Technique Tried - Watercoloring Floral Focal Point post. What I learned while watercoloring this image was that adding shading was a bit more challenging. This image has a lot of details drawn in by the illustrator. By heat embossing the image, I created a lot more nooks and crannies to paint. I feel like this image will lend itself to coloring more easily without the heat embossing.
The end result made for a pretty card, but I wouldn't use this technique with this image again. In the future, I would stamp and color with watercolor or Copics, or I would heat emboss it in a metallic for a clean and simple elegant effect. The takeaway I wanted to share with this post is that not all things come out the way we see them in our heads, but we should always try the idea and learn from it.
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