Pile of Watercolour Possibilities
Posted: February 27, 2025 Filed under: Classes, Hand painted, sennelier watercolours, Watercolour | Tags: Canson watercolour paper, Classes, Fabriano Watercolour Paper, Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour paints, sennelier watercolours 7 Comments
After teaching a couple of watercolour classes lately I have amassed quite the pile of panels. They are full of potential for card making. As well as painting separate panels I’ve also been creating abstract or background watercolours in a couple of art journals.
The purpose of the exercise has been two-fold. The main plan was to revisit a range of watercolour techniques in order to share them with others in classes. Additionally I chose to work small so we could complete quite a few practice pieces during class leaving us with ‘card sized’ panels to turn into cards later if we wished.
I have enjoyed the preparation and the classes so much that I have almost 100 panels on hand! My next in person class is going back to basics in regard to card making. I will cover assembly tips and tricks as well as design principles in order to create balanced and beautiful card layouts. It is exciting to have all these panels around just waiting to be transformed into cards.
As you can imagine I also have piles of gel prints, alcohol ink panels, collages and patterned papers that could be turned into cards. It’s rather nice to have all these options…
Heather Telford 
Fabulous – what a lot of inspiration! It will be fun to see the cards you create with your panels.
i made this week a lot of labels out of my pile. Very happy with my reserves.
Sounds like you now have a bunch of pretty labels. It is fun to have panels on hand for when we get inspired.
I have these, but there they all sit in a pile! I would love to see what card ideas you can share with these. I did use some with a heart punch on Valentine’s day and embossed some but find they are lacking something.
I will be sharing some of the cards her on the blog. I also cut hearts from watercolour panels and lined them up on a card base.
Wow Heather, that’s a lot of wonderful colourful pieces to use on cards. Looking forward to seeing what you do with some of them. x
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