Snowy Perch
Posted: November 8, 2017 Filed under: Snowy Perch | Tags: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer Watercolour pencils, Penny Black stamps, Ranger Distress inks 14 Comments
This little bird and its snowy perch are all part of one stamp. It took me a bit of playing to work out how I wanted to colour the stamped image. I have another card to share where I took a slightly different approach. I started by stamping the whole stamp with antique linen distress ink. Using a pale ink with a detailed stamp helps me see the whole image so I can add colours one by one using a stamp positioning tool. I coloured with both a mix of inks added to the stamp and watercolour pencils added to the stamped image. I inked the branch and twig sections of the stamp with several brown inks (listed below) and blended the stamping with water.
I used a wet paintbrush to pick up colour from watercolour pencils to apply colour to the bird, berries and leaves. By working wet into wet I was able to paint a lighter colour first then add either a darker colour or more of the same colour to darken a shadowed area. You can see I added a lot more water to the leaves on the right hand side so they appeared less prominent and more suitable as a background for the sentiment. Once all the colouring was finished I used a fine tip black pen to make sure the eye stood out. I trimmed the panel then popped it up on craft foam.
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Supplies
Stamps: snowy perch, sweetest moments
Inks: antique linen, vintage photo distress inks (Ranger), versafine vintage sepia, espresso truffle memento marker (Tsukineko), black micron pen (Pigma)
Paper: 100% cotton hot pressed watercolour paper (Fabriano)
Pencils: juniper green, sap green, dark carmine, light orange, black & cold greyIV Faber Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils
Heather Telford 
That’s very pretty!
Oh, my little birdie-loving heart just melted at the sight of this gorgeous painting, Heather! Thank you for this delight for my eyes!! Hugs, Darnell
HEATHER, this card is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. The Birdie looks so comfy, and relaxed. I love the way you put the pale pink color throughout. This card makes me feel good. TFS.
How talent you are. What a beautiful card you have made.
Oh wow Heather this is so beautiful. I have had a terrific afternoon wandering through all of YOUR cards in my Favourites gallery at SCS and trying to decide which one of your mini masterpieces I can choose for Best of 2017. It is frowned upon to put 20 from one artiste!!!
This is another beautiful card Heather. I love your sensitive treatment of the robin and indeed the whole stamped image which, just in black & white on the package, looked a bit confused to me. You have captured the whole beauty of winter in this one card. You’re so talented.
So very lovely, having a bit of trouble in understanding how you captured the background holly and berries for the right side under the sentiment. It is truly wonderful, thanks for the inspiration.
It’s really beautiful I love and I would like to be able to do the same because I have not taken for the moment watercolor classes.
Once again, congratulations.
This is just fabulous Heather and robins are my favourite winter image and your water colouring of him and the scene is magical. I love the way the leaves and berries to the right are just a blur so that your eyes go straight to the main part of the scene. x
Another stunner! I always love your work.
Stunning, stunning, stunning! xxxx
soft colors, a beautiful card !
Beautiful!!
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