Flowers and Tiles

Posted: April 22, 2026 | Author: | Filed under: Classes, cricut, Darkroom Door, Rockwell art, Watercolour, wildflowers | Tags: , , | 2 Comments

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.

Some New Paint

Posted: May 19, 2025 | Author: | Filed under: Effulgence, Penny Black, Rockwell art, Tim Holtz | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments

Recently a friend introduced me to some new watercolour paints. It was during a class and she introduced us all to the new paints both by using them in her projects and by saying how much she loved them. Now it just so happened that my birthday fell soon after that class and suprise, surprise I received some new paints for my birthday! (And by ‘received’ I mean I asked my husband if he would like me to order myself some new paints as a gift from him. Of course he did!)

The new paints are from Rockwell Art, a Canadian company. They have a range of watercolour paints including a line they call ‘self evolving’ mineral pigments. The pigments granulate and break into different colours as you add water and the water moves the paint. Both cards featured today were painted with just one paint colour, ‘deep soul’. As I added water the paint separated into blues and burgandy-browns.

I applied the paint in curved stripes and sprinkled salt here and there while the paint was still wet to get the speckled effect.

Because I had worked from dark to light it seemed appropriate to add flowers looking towards the light. The die-cut flowers are from Tim Holtz ‘wildflower’ set and the stamped flowers below are the Penny Black ‘effulgence‘ cling stamps.