Fewer images to show you today because each one took more time. These go beyond the workshop I am taking. I decided to go with some mixed media techniques. In addition to watercolor, I used markers and gel pens to add tiny details to these. I have to say, I’m kind of in love with this technique! The credit for the inspiration for these are: Artist Harriet Osborne, Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine, Japanese sashiko techniques.
For this lesson from Daisy Yellow’s Tiny Museum Workshop, we are using pictures as prompts. In some cases, I did a fairly literal copy and in others I copied just the feeling or shapes or colors. This was a lot harder than what I had been doing, but it was still fun!
Another set of tiny, abstract backgrounds. I have to let these dry over night so that I can add more to the pieces without the base layer moving all around when it gets wet. This time, I’ve used a combination of the Winsor Newton and Daniel Smith watercolors. They are working very well together. I find that the Winsor Newton box works just fine for most of the colors. It contains a larger selection of colors, there are 27 different ones in the box.
As I mentioned last Friday, I am taking the Tiny Museum Workshop from Daisy Yellow . One of the short videos illustrates how to blend colors together. In the process, these curvy images are created. These reminded me of banded agate stones. I did mine, again, on individual, tiny art journal sized pieces of watercolor paper, rather than on a large sheet. I didn’t blend these as much as the video showed.
I decided to take the Tiny Museum Workshop from Daisy Yellow ! It’s a lot of fun, and I can recommend it to anyone who isn’t sure how to work with gouache and/or watercolor. You’ll get plenty of practice using either (or both!) in this series. I decided to take it because it looked like fun, and I wanted to learn more about working with watercolors to create tiny, abstract art journaling pages.