Peaceful Winter
Posted: December 5, 2017 Filed under: peaceful winter | Tags: Penny Black stamps, Tsukineko Memento inks 6 CommentsThis week I am sharing some winter landscapes here and on the Penny Black blog. I created this wintry scene by combining two stamps from the ‘peaceful winter’ transparent set. I made use of my stamp positioning tool as I wanted to stamp in colour then over the top with versamark. (Jill has created several videos demonstrating this technique. You can find them on the Penny Black youtube channel)
I began by stamping the trees on the left hand side of a piece of watercolour paper in memento northern pine and London fog ink. I spritzed some water over the stamping which made the colours separate into brown, blue and green. I dried the stamping then stamped over the whole image in versamark before embossing it in clear powder to make it waterproof. Next I used the smaller landscape stamp from the same set to add the background trees and used the same technique and inks to stamp a coloured image then emboss it to make it waterproof.
With all the scenic stamping done and embossed I moved on to the watercolouring. I cut a circle of frisket film (clear adhesive film for masking) and stuck it firmly over the top of the left hand trees. I then painted water over the section of sky above the horizon. I pressed both my northern pine ink pad and a memento nautical blue ink pad onto an acrylic block to create a palette of two inks. I built up the sky colour by painting first with nautical blue then creating cloud effects with more blue or northern pine ink. Once the sky dried I removed the moon mask.
I used some diluted northern pine ink to give the foreground snow a bit of colour and shadow then dried the panel. I finished off the card with a sentiment from the ‘love & peace’ set stamped in versafine olympia green and a dark green mat before attaching the panel to a natural white card base.
Thanks for dropping by; I’ll be back tomorrow with another chilly scene.
Supplies
Stamps: love & peace, peaceful winter
Inks: memento northern pine & london fog, nautical blue inks, versamark
Paper: Neenah solar white cardstock, hot pressed watercolour paper
Also: stamping platform, frisket film, WOW clear gloss superfine embossing powder
What a beautiful, peaceful scene. What perfect colors.
This is fabulous Heather and so atmospheric and pretty and love the way you have built up the scene and your watercolouring is perfect as always. x
Gorgeous scene!
This is so beautiful. I hope you do a video.
Lovely scene – like the colours. Really good to read how you did it – thank you
Simply fabulous! So peaceful I want to go there.