Tulips & more tulips
Posted: February 21, 2024 Filed under: Echidna Studios, sennelier watercolours, tulip background, tulip set, Watercolour | Tags: digital stamps, Echidna Studios, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer Watercolour pencils, Faber-Castell Polychromos Colour Pencil, Fabriano Watercolour Paper, sennelier watercolours 11 Comments
If there are tulips already blooming where you live you must let me know in the comments! It will be another two or three months before they bloom around here. All the more reason to have some blooming here on the blog. The group you see on the card above are part of a new digital stamp called ‘tulip background‘ from Echidna Studios. The whole image is a landscape oriented design and I printed it on hot pressed watercolour paper to be 8½” wide which gave me plenty of choice when deciding which part to use on a portrait oriented card.
I used Sennelier watercolours to paint the design using various mixes of four different reds and pinky red paints. I also used one of the reds to give the green paint a more muted realistic tone. Once I had painted all the tulips and stems I used polychromos pencils to add extra shading and shadow. This is a technique I learnt from Kathy Racoosin and it always adds to the finished panel. I ruled a narrow black line around the panel to frame it.
The flowers below are from a co-ordinating digital set simply called ‘tulip set‘ also from Echidna Studios. The set includes three individual tulips. I didn’t paint this one, my daughter did, using watercolour pencils. She also fussy cut each of the three tulips to create a pretty layered arrangement. This post includes an affiliate link to The Foiled Fox, if you use it I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you.
Heather Telford 
Lovely as usual.
No tulips here in Calgary Alberta Canada, will be atleast a couple of months before they bloom, we’re still getting snow in fact March is our snowiest month.
Red tulips are my favorite and these are breathtaking, Heather!
The tulips look beautiful and so bright in the red and pinky red tones Heather, and a great idea to add extra shading using your Polychromos pencils, and I love the soft look your daughter created using watercolour pencils, and with just the three tulip stems. x
I love the vibrancy of the red tulip panel Heather and I think the black line frame really sets the tulips off.
WOW absolutely stunning, I love your red tulips, fantastic art.
Red tulips blooming now in my London garden. My favourites.
Thank you for that lovely cheery card, on my birthday too!
I have Spring Fever so bad! In my yard, I have only one beautiful ‘lawn daisy’ bloom with pink edging around it’s little white petals! ♥☺
The tulips are just gorgeous, wonderful coloring!
WOW on your painting! Not sure I could ever accomplish painting so many flowers so perfectly. LOVE this!
Thank you Nancy, you leave such encouraging messages. So glad you like this.