Watercolor Flowers

Hi crafters! Today I have a no-line watercolor tutorial to share, using a gorgeous flower stamp.

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I used the Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Bouquet flower stamp, which is a large stamp. I need some gifts for the summer and decided to frame it. But you can also make a card or use it in an art journal. The watercoloring is loose and without aiming for perfection, but letting the watercolor paint do its magic. I used Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors.

Start by stamping the Beautiful Bouquet with Antique Linen ink on watercolor paper. Lightly mist the inked stamp with water before stamping.

This Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 24 set is inspired by Art Nouveau and the colors are gorgeous. I mixed the paints on a palette, but at times also took the color directly from the pans. You can also use their 48 color set, which has different colors.

Continue painting the flowers until you are happy with the look. Let darker shades or different colors drop into wet paint to get wet-in-wet effects.

When the paint is dry, add highlights and details with a white gel pen.

Stamp sentiments with Potting Soil ink. The sentiments come from Simon Says Stamp Anna's Flowers and Forest Scenery.

Splatter paint on the background. Avoid getting too many splatters on the sentiments. 

The smaller flowers are colored very loosely. 

I usually stamp sentiments before splattering paint, to make sure that there are areas which are clean enough for the sentiment to stand out. 

The stamp had stamen around this flower center, but after I dropped in the yellow paint, I liked how it blended with the pink paint and decided to skip the stamen. 

Don't worry if some of the Antique Linen lines show. They can form slight shadows or outlines, or might even give a hint of flowers further in the background.

When I do no-line coloring I find that it helps to keep the stamp's plastic backing next to me, where I can see the outlines of the stamp in black, since it is sometimes a little hard to see the details in the soft Antique Linen stamping. 

I added thin veins to the leaves, both with paint and with the white gel pen.

I hope this project inspired you to try some no-line watercoloring with your stamps. For more examples check out my Watercolor Peonies and Watercolor Floral Garden.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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