August 14 Stampfest at Lynette's

Lynette and I had a wonderful time visiting, stamping, drawing and painting yesterday.  We experimented with my new distress oxide ink pads: broken china, faded jeans, fossilized amber and worn lipstick. We were inspired by Jennifer McGuire's blog post and video demonstrating distress oxide ink on kraft and other dark papers. It was fun to see the "oxide" effect, a whitening of the stamped image after it is sprayed with water. We added accent marks with a white gelly roll pen after the stamping was dry. We also used a green ink pad. I think it was a Tsukineko Opalite Interference. 

Update Aug. 17, 2017: Versa Magic Tea Leaves, a chalk ink pad.

Most of the images are just card fronts, 4 x 5.25 inches in size.

Card front created by Lynette

Card front created by Lynette

Card front created by Lynette

Card front created by Lynette

Card created by Laura

Card created by Laura

Card front created by Laura

Card front created by Laura

Stamps:

Hero Arts CG303 Luscious Bold flowers
 Stampin' Up! Tropical Blossoms
Punch Box Designer labels Stamp Set and matching punch
Rubber Stampede

Lynette and I both drew a lady face and then added watercolors to it.
Here are the unfinished pieces.

Lynette used a piece of  Canson 140 lb watercolor paper.

I worked on the watercolor paper inside my Jane Davenport Butterfly Book. It's also known as a travelers notebook. I have not had the nerve to paint it this till now. 
We ran out of time. Hope to do more work on these lady paintings.

Materials:
Jane Davenport watercolors, neutrals and brights
Aqua brushes

For  our dinner, Doc grilled Coho salmon that his friend caught in Lake Michigan. Yum!

Lynette made fresh green beans and a yummy seafood pasta salad!

My husband, Don and I had always have a wonderful time with Lynette and Doc. 

Thanks for visiting!

August 11 Watercolor Fest with Grace

Grace and I had our second Watercolor Fest yesterday.

She treated me to lunch at Portillo's. Later we had a blast playing with watercolors.

She created this gift tag for a watercolor gift set she's giving to a friend.

Grace gave me this 18 pan set of Superior brand watercolors.

We had fun trying them out.

Grace made this lovely landscape with the Superior watercolors. I love the fence in it!

Grace also painted this scene. Aren't the colors dreamy!

I think Grace added some accent lines with a Sakura black marker in both paintings.

I made this lady sketching it first with pencil, then used watercolors. 

When dry, added accent lines with a Faber-Castell PITT black fine marker pen.

Was inspired to make these flowers after seeing this PIN

which goes to this  YouTube

After painting, I splattered paint with the paintbrust

and added accent lines with the Pitt marker.

Also added white accents with the Jane Davenport white paint pen.

I'm not good at adding the accent lines. 

Added white with the Jane Davenport white paint pen here also.

Grace and I were inspired by images found online via google searches and Pinterest.

Thanks for visiting!