Over the last week, my children have been pestering me for paintings. One wants butterflies, one flowers and me, well I do like craft and I do like to paint. Imagine a montage of me running through the cottage collecting some paints, paper and a mood board of ideas and you are about ready to create some bookmarks.
Materials:
- Watercolourblock from Flying Tiger
- Watercolours by Mozart Supplies – Komorebi
- Sakura Micron pens size 005 and 05
- Inspiration mood board created by you on Pinterest.
Materials:
- Watercolourblock from Flying Tiger
- Watercolours by Mozart Supplies – Komerbi
- Sakura Micron pens size 005 and 05
- Inspiration mood board created by you on Pinterest.
I started by taking the watercolour block from Tiger (the only watercolour paper in the cottage at the time) and cut these into 5cm width strips. I left the length as it was perfect.
I then sketched the drawings or illustrations I wanted on to the paper lightly so that I could see where I wanted to pop the colour. The butterflies are made with the glitter paint from my Mozart set. I started by brushing the sketch outlines with water and dropped the paint into the butterfly wings. I used the gold, aqua and purple from the set.
The other two bookmarks I painted directly from the pots with a #1 paintbrush. These I allowed to dry and then inked with the sakura pens.
This little guy was for me and he needs a name. You will be seeing more of him as my September journal features him quite heavily..in fact, you could say he is the star of the show.
I hope this inspires you to make your own bookmarks.
Thank you for reading!
Much love,
