I'm in the midst of Liz Steel's new online sketching class, Edges, which is (no surprise) very thorough and very challenging. So it's probably not in my best interest to have enrolled in a second, concurrent, course. But since my biggest challenge in the sketching class is watercolor, this has applications for both cards and sketching.
Today was the first lesson in the Online Card Class, and it focused on watercolor markers. I loved Jennifer McGuire's first card, and after watching the first few videos (there are five today), I took some time to try out the techniques she demonstrated.
I used some new watercolor markers, the Zig Clean Color markers, and like most of the reviewers, I like them very much. After embossing the flowers in gold, I used just three markers to watercolor the flowers and leaves.
The flowers seemed appropriate for a simple sympathy card, and I never seem to have one on hand when I need it.
I used some new Fluid hot press watercolor paper which I love. It's a lovely, very pale cream color and very smooth. I matted it with some gold card stock by Paper Source and mounted it on a top-folded Vintage Cream card. The floral design is from Clearly Besotted's "Fresh Flowers," and the sentiment from Papertrey Ink's "Round and Round."
