turrets and watercolors

I was finally able to do Jamies class on watercolor and castles,

I had, yes had to,order a watercolor set, 

so I opted for this beautiful Kuretake box,

it took a few weeks to get to me, 

but, o boy, it was totally worth while the wait

just look how gorgous they are

I've never ever attempted any watercolor paintings

but I am very pleased with how my castle turned out.

I wanted to create a fairy castle

and the dreamy effect the watercolors create are a perfect fit.

My Path

I finished my first spread in my first Dylusions journal 

which I bought especially for Wanderlust 2018.

This is out of my comfort zone, 

not my usual style,

but a style I like and wish to explore more.

Trusting the path mandala part 2

Hello,

Part 2 of the lesson was to create a windrose using maps.





I started with a watercolorwash background. I had these cheap tubes already for years which of course meant that most of them were as hard as rock. 
I am just wondering wether you can use them as pans instead? 
Maybe I need to retrieve them out of the garbage? 
Or is that a bridge to far?
I did order a replacement Kuretake set after seeing Jamie's lesson last week.

Next came cutting the shapes out of maps,

the heart was a happy little cutting accident, that coincidentally fits perfect with the theme

Trusting the path,

Following your path,

Following your heart.

After the heart accident many more accidents followed, 

the one more happier then the other.

Didn't like the doodling on my compass, so covered them up again

The lines are not all oriented in the same way,tried to fix that but failed hence the 2 darker lines, not so happy accident

Didn't like the doodling in my 2nd circle either so pulled it back off and glued it back down, like the color that came of from underneath, yet another happy accident.

Here is the double spread with both mandalas

2 lessons out of the 5 completed.

Trusting the path mandala part 1

Hello,

I've finished part 1 from Jennifer Lee's Wanderlust class.





This included a whole bunch of circles

which I played around with 

until the arrangement was pleasing to me

I think I liked it better without the outlining though

On to part 2 now.

dreamscape

Hello and welcome,

In 2016 I didn't complete a lot of my Wanderlust lessons, hence the reason why I didn't sign up last year, but I did sign up for the 2018 class and am determined to do better. 

With the advise from Kasia in the back of my head to be open and explore I started my project for Michelle Turbide's class, which was a class on intuitive painting.

my stepstones for this project were: 

1. layers
2. water/lake
3. pinks and purples

Here you can see the progress of my canvas:

Here I created my lake, but as you can see in the next picture it turned into a meandering river (ok, this is still water)

But the river felt more like a path (ok, no water anymore) towards a sunset

Layers and layers of acrylic paint and inks later it was ready for the final touch,
my butterfly tree.

I LOVE IT!!!