Water-coloring, oh how I love water-coloring. It reminds me of when I was a kid in grade school. It was so simple back then. We grabbed a piece of paper, a brush and our crayola watercolors. The teacher instructions were create a picture and do not make a mess. How simple!!
Today as adults, water-coloring is about making a creation that looks perfect. The colors must match and everything needs to look uniform. Why aren’t things simple anymore?
Since we are adults now and things aren’t simple, I’m taking my next Online Card Class on Water-coloring. I’m so excited about this class. I will learn to play and create projects that are perfect, lol.
This class starts May 5 but to get all of the participants ready we were given an assignment to help prepare us for whats to come. The assignment is to play with our watercolors so that we can feel comfortable with our supplies.
For my first assignment from Jennifer McGuire, I took my Pelikan Watercolor Opaque Paint Box and Big Hugs die cut and created a die cut of my mixed colors. My watercolor set is from Germany. They are made with highest quality pigments of the finest grain size.
This set includes hollowed paint tablets in the following colors: Black, Blue Green, Burnt Sienna, Carmine Red, Cobalt Blue, Cyan Blue, Flesh, French Green, Indian Yellow, Lemon, Magenta Red, Olive Green, Orange, Paynes Gray, Prussian Blue, Turquoise, Ultramarine, Umber Natural, Vermilion Dark, Violet, Yellow, Yellow Brown, Yellow Green, and Yellow Ochre. The color pans are interchangeable. A tube of Chinese White is also included.
Take a look:
I love these colors. I used ultramarine, violet, and magenta red. They look so pretty together. The Hugs die cut looks great. It will look good on a card. The negative space looks great too. I will have to use that too.
My watercolors are opaque so it will take a lot of water to tune them down. I run these colors over a black strip and you couldn’t see the black underneath. I also embossed a sentiment with white embossing powder and applied these colors over it and you couldn’t see the sentiment, so be mindful of that.
My next assignment is to create a swatch for my watercolors. I’ll post it as soon as I complete it.
I can’t wait to learn more about adult water-coloring!!!
Supplies used:
Please leave a comment, letting me know what you think. I would love to hear from you.
-Kymona
Kreative Kymona 
Those colors are beautiful, Kymona! I *need* those opaque watercolors now lol!! I’m with you–cannot wait for this class to start–looking forward to seeing your creations!
Thanks Karen! I bought them at Blicks. They have a 40% coupon right now for items not on sale bought in the store. Now is the time to get them. I can’t wait to create. Your cards are always pretty!
Ordered them! Love your work, too! And I LOVE that you have a daughter who crafts with you. I have a 7 year-old as well and she has entered some challenges with me recently LOL! She’s been around stamping and papercrafting her whole life so I guess it makes sense. Too bad we don’t live closer 🙂
Thanks Karen!! You will love them. Please share when you create with them! That would be so cool if we lived closer. The girls would have so much fun. We stamp and create together because non of my friends are interested. The funny thing is, I saw your daughters link on your blog, I thought she was older so I didn’t click on it. I just check and I totally love it. I would have never thought to start a blog for my daughter but I will now! I’m going to follow both blogs, your and your daughters. I have to show my daughter. She will love it!! I was just in Chicago the other day for a class.