Beneath The Waves
[Image ID] An art piece with a mixture of watercolour and stamping. It is an underwater scene. In the bottom left corner is a mermaid holding a bubble. A green sea-shelf runs across the middle of the picture, and a mystical house with a round door is built on the right side of the shelf. The water below the shelf is darker than that above. The upper layer of water reflects a blue sky studded with white clouds. Several shafts of light stretch down from the top to the shelf below. [description end]
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Another art piece using stamps from Lavinia Stamps. This piece was inspired by the wonderful work of Lisa Taggart (@Inkybliss/Inkybliss Creations)
I really wanted to use Bayleaf Cottage (the house) and considered various more ‘traditional’ scenes before eventually settling on this underwater one. The project was created in a number of layers over several days.
The background began with a layer of blue watercolour. I tried to add some tone variance in the layer with a gentle gradient effect from light at the top to darker tones at the bottom. I also sprinkled table salt over the wet paint to create a ‘bubbly’ effect, some of which remains visible towards the top left.
After this first layer, I blended on some Distress Oxide (Tumbled Glass and Prize Ribbon) to further enhance the tones in the watercolour. Once that was dry I added the mermaid and house stamps.
The house was mainly coloured with Faber-Castell Pitt Artist brush pens, although I may have used further paint over the top in places. I didn’t colour the mermaid at all, instead opting to highlight her details in white gel pen.
The coral-esque shapes were created by stamping sections of the ‘Tree Of Courage’, and the shafts of light were done by re-wetting the watercolour background and blotting off the paint.
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Tree of Courage, Bayleaf Cottage, & Althea (Lavinia Stamps)
Distress Oxide inks in Prize Ribbon and Tumbled Glass
Versafine Clair inks in Nocturne & Acorn
Cotman watercolours (Windsor & newton)
Pitt Artist pens in various colours (Faber-Castell)
White gel pen (Sakura Gelly Roll)
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