Day Four – Pansy Fairy

Pansy Flower Fairy

I completed my second watercolor in my flower fairy series today, which I started yesterday. The image was rubber stamped with Ranger Archival Olive ink on watercolor paper. I've had difficulty with this particular stamp in getting all the details to stamp. So for this one, I had to fill in some of the illustration myself following the color image on the back of the stamp for guidance. The illustration is by Mary Cicely Barker licensed to Stamps Happen. The medium is Ranger Distress markers by Tim Holtz. I use the markers to watercolor by picking up the ink with a water brush after scribbling on a plastic palette, craft mat or directly drawing on the paper. 

Day One – Geranium Fairy

Flower Fairy

Today is the first day of my New Job— to create art. I am committing myself to creating something every day for the next year starting today, June 1, 2015.

My rule is simple:

1. Do something creative every day.

It can be complete or incomplete, an idea jotted down, a step towards a finished project, a new technique learned. I will document what I've done for that day here. Here is my first post. I finished hand coloring an image from a week or so ago. It is not an original drawing but a rubber stamped image by Mary Cicely Barker entitled Geranium Flower Fairy. I stamped the image on watercolor paper with a light distress ink. Then I used Ranger Distress brush markers with a watercolor technique learned from Tim Holtz. He has video tutorials and online classes if you want to learn more.