The bookshelf card

Last year I taught a workshop called ‘Watercolour & Whimsy’ where we experimented with colour mixing in art journals and on watercolour panels, some of which we turned into cards later. This panel began very simply as I mixed three or four paints to make a range of different colours. Because I stuck with a few paints I knew they would all look cohesive on the panel.

I used a half inch flat brush to paint rough rectangles in lines. I was inspired by schlemmer.art but where she turned her rectangles into houses, I turned mine into books!

I used a black fine tip pen and a white gel pen to decorate the book spines and turned three paint strokes into vases instead of books. A simple idea to paint, a relaxing theme to doodle and something I will definitely try again.