Color Blocks and Doodles

COLOR BLOCKS AND DOODLES

It is the 4th of July!  I hope everyone is having a safe and happy holiday!  It is a beautiful day in North Carolina! 

Yesterday I started a color block art project using sage green, gray, and a gray/blue.  I loved the way the colors complimented each other.  I used a wet technique so that I wet the square, dropped the color into the top and then spread into the wet so that the box gets lighter towards the bottom.  

Today, when the watercolor was dry, I doodled into the squares.  I tried not to make the same doodle in any of the squares.  I used a micron 05 black fine liner to make the doodles.  Then I used a silver paint to paint either dots on the stems or fill in the leaves.  This is a beautiful, sparkly silver that is so much better in person than on the photo.  I also used a white, bleed proof paint to fill in some of the other leaves. 

I love how this turned out.  Even though this isn’t a 4th of July watercolor, it is National Watercolor month so I think this was a fun project to do for the month.  I hope you enjoy it!

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Hugs, Meg

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