Watermelon Watercolor Fruit Tutorial (2019 Summer Series)

Watercolour Flowers

I've been playing with my watercolour paints.
I'm not too sure if I actually like these flowers but I think they may grow on me. 

Not bad for a bit of fun  this afternoon.

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I love Mako's videos. She explains things nicely.

Gifts From My Boys

Angus cooked the most amazing roast pork dinner for us last night. It was absolutely delicious. He also made the most scrumptious ice cream made from frozen banana, peanut butter, cocoa powder and milk.
I was also fortunate enough to receive season seven of Call the Midwife. 

Brodie bought me some watercolour paints & paper. These paints are much nicer than the palette paint that I already had. In fact I must give the palette ones away.

I played around with the paints on Sunday afternoon.

I was practising my galaxy painting. I love how these turned out.

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I think I need to try out some of these techniques.

I have so many ideas for my watercolours that I had better start writing them down so I don't forget them!

New Art Supplies

I have some more washi tape. 

I ordered this one from ebay.

I quite like the banner/pennants 

I got the paint brushes from Wish.

I got all my art supplies out on Wednesday so I could have a bit of a play with the watercolour paints but I checked something on ancestry.com and ended up losing tack of time. I guess I did a bit of time travelling. I lost around 5 hours searching for info on my parents and grandparents.

Oh well, there's always the weekend to have a play with my watercolours .. hopefully.

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These flowers look amazing! 

They also look a lot better than the ones I created for my January title page in my bullet journal. I guess I need a lot more practise!

Finished Watercolour - Hibiscus Flower

Here's the completed flower that I had been painting. I am very happy with how it turned out. I added some coloured pencil to bring out some of the colour a bit more. Then added a dark green border, mainly so I knew where to cut it out before sticking it in my bullet journal.

After gluing the painting into my book I added some green washi tape. All I need to do now is work out how to add some writing to it without messing it up. I am leaning towards a pencil transfer as it seems like the easiest way to do it.

WIP - Watercolour - Hibiscus Flower

I thought I would have a go at doing some water colour painting. I hadn't really drawn or painted in years. I was inspired by makoccino on youtube. Her work looks wonderful so I thought I would give it a try. 

It would have been nice if the colours and the names matched up .. oh well. 

I bought a set of watercolour paints on Ebay. They looked okay and had a wide range of colours although I am not sure that the quality is all that good but I guess it's okay for starting out. They arrived in the post on Wednesday. 

Not bad for my first go! I am planning on using this as my January cover page. Mainly because it's a hibiscus and they remind me of summer.

I'll be adding some more colour to it. Possibly with coloured pencils just to finish it off and add some more details. I'll post another picture when I'm done. Hopefully the colours might pop and make it look even better.

A New Thing to Try - Bullet Journalling

I've always been one to write things down. Over the last couple of years I have used what I call my "Book of Everything". It was where I wrote notes, appointments and messages of things that I didn't want to forget.  I keep it in my handbag to use instead of writing things on a heap of little pages only to lose them when I needed them. 

 When I saw a video on youtube on bullet journalling I thought that it seemed like the next logical step to what I was actually doing. The bonus to this was it would be organised instead of all over the place which is what my notebook looks like at the moment.

I bought myself a Moleskin dot point journal on Amazon via the Australian website which went live in December and I thought why not make use of the new way to shop. It's not all that different to ebay and I am used to shopping on that.

I'm not that good at calligraphy (yet) but I am sure with practise I shall be.

I've only done a few set up pages so far but I like how I can be creative if I want to be.

The left page looks like a book shelf, right?

I am using water coloured pencils for the colouring and a Monte marte water brush that I bought at my local discount store.

I've had some fun setting things up so far. I also like how I can add things about me. It's like a diary but it's more than that. And I really dislike just writing pages and pages of journal stuff about me. That's not what I am about.

VIDEO: Van Gogh's Starry Night painted on dark water by Garip Ay

This is amazing. I am totally blown away with this guys talent.
It also helps that I absolutely love Van Gogh's art ♥