Date: 2009-11-09 22:05 Subject: Watercolor on Crane Paper II Public Mood: creative Tags: art, homemade stationary, watercolor

Here are more of the stationary decorations I've done using Winsor & Newton Cotman Water Colours and a Sakura Brush Pen on Crane & Co. Ecruwhite Letter Sheets (reviewed here):



The blue night sky on top is darker IRL (and actually looks like a night sky, heh), and has gold glittery dots that are supposed to be stars, which the camera failed to pick up. Alas.
Detail shot of the peacock on bottom; the spots on the feathers were embellished with a yellow-gold glitter gel pen so that they would shimmer and stand out--




I also did....betta fish!

Betta fish, I've found, lend themselves wonderfully to watercolor. They really do have vivd coloring that softly blends together, and it's a lot of fun to put different combinations of colors together and see how it ends up looking. No glitter here though:



And a close-up of the fishies:





My sister was making fun of these; she said the fish had really vapid looks on their faces. My response to that is, Well duh -- they're fish! What, you expect them to start quoting Shakespeare at you?

And, finally we have a panda bear rounding out the set. He is happily munching on some bamboo:



I did have two other ones I did -- an owl (which I really like) and another peacock, but my digital camera is currently elsewhere; I will photograph and post them later.

What other animals should I do? Any suggestions?