Winter Days

It doesn’t look quite like this yet but we have snow and it is staying on the ground… for now. I stamped this pretty scene from Penny Black’s ‘winter days’ transparent set in black versafine clair ink on hot pressed watercolour paper then coloured with watercolour pencils.

I limited my pencil choices to two dark blues, a black, a green, a red and a brown. There are dots of snow in the stamp so after painting the sky I dotted over the stamped snow with a white gel pen and added some over the rest of the scene also. I used Kathy Racoosin’s shadow trick of adding some black pen here and there where there would be shadows. (eg. the edges of the river, under the eaves on the buildings and the trees on the horizon). I am still enjoying colouring as often as possible for The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge.

My panel wasn’t a square nor was it my usual 4¼ “x 5½ ” size but I wanted the usual A2 size I matted it with a wide red mat which left room for some organza ribbon. I stamped a partial sentiment from the ‘hometown Christmas’ set and tucked in under the bow.

If you’d like to see a beautiful and quite different take on this stamp pop on over to Susie Lessard’s blog here.

Supplies

Stamps: winter days, hometown Christmas (PB)

Inks: nocturne, chianti versafine clair

Paper: hot pressed watercolour, deep red cardstock

Pencils: Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer watercolour pencils
Pens: white gel pen, black micron pen

Also: white organza ribbon with shimmery edges