Purple Potted Pretties
Posted: August 15, 2023 Filed under: Karin brushmarkers, Penny Black, potted pretties | Tags: Karin brushmarkers, Penny Black stamps 13 Comments
The first time I coloured this sweet stamp, potted pretties I used pencils on kraft cardstock but I knew it had to also be watercoloured. I was very happy to be able to get such a range of depth on the petals with just one watercolour marker.
I worked on hot pressed watercolour paper and used four different markers from the Karin Brushmarker set of 26. For the petals I used one of the purples and had water and a brush handy to blend the ink. I put a few dots of ink from the purple marker at the narrow point of each petal then blended the ink to fill the petal. For a dark petal I laid down more ink initially, for the paler petals I sometimes used only the diluted ink left in the paintbrush.
You can probably see the leaves are a mix of a bright green and an olive green and I coloured the pot with blended grey ink. I added a sentiment in black from the PB ‘how sweet’ set and used a black gel pen to define the centres of the flowers.
Here are a few of the flowers I’ve been enjoying in my own garden. They get hit by rain then they bounce back up again. Mostly…
Heather Telford 
Beautiful! Love the colours!
Wonderful depths of this beautiful purple, Heather! Love, love, love this and your garden looks so vibrant! What a joy to see that every day!
Absolutely beautiful, Heather.
Such wonderful depth of colour on these beautiful flowers Heather especially as you only used one colour on the petals, and I love the inclusion of the olive green with the bright green which works brilliantly on the leaves. Absolutely fabulous flowers in your garden too. x
WOW….great shading and depth of color Heather! Your garden looks lovely…what a pleasure to be able to see that everyday. TFS
Paper Hugs,
Jan
WOW! Gorgeous watercolouring of this sweet image, Heather! xx
Wow – that’s so beautiful!
Wow I would keep this card forever… It is just beautiful.
How lovely this is Heather. Your watercolouring makes these flowers look so vibrant and perfect. Beautiful colour too.
Your watercoloring is perfect. I like that you did pencils then showed watercolor. Beautiful variety.
Thank you for the instructions.
Tish
Absolutely gorgeous! The shading and colors are amazing…your work is such a Joy to behold! (And always so Inspiring!) ♥
This is beautiful!
They are just beautiful!