Flowers and Tiles

The experiments with watercolour and stencils keep on happening as I prepare for the in-person workshops next week. This one ended up being very satisfying. I designed the stencil to look like Moroccan tiles and chose the paint colours to look aged and stained. I was happy to see those effects in the final panel.

Because the panel looked a bit like a tiled floor or wall I wanted to add flower silhouettes like shadows. I inked through the Darkroom Door small ‘Wildflowers‘ stencil with Gina K obsidian ink and added an AAll & Create ‘everyday sentiment with the same ink.

I used a combination of paints and distress oxide spray to get the unique mix of colours. Some of the paints were the Rockwell self evolving mineral watercolours which always give great multicolour effects.