Watercolor Wednesday: Girona

Girona as seen from the stone bridge.

Watercolor on paper 17x24cm

Watercolor Wednesday: DIY Travel Watercolor Set

 

For travelling or just convenience it is nice to have a small watercolor set. A good travelling set is quiet expensive, so I decided to make my own. At the dollar store I bought a small compartment box.

The box has certain walls you can take out. That is nice, but also makes the compartments for the colors leaky. For now I decided to solve this by making tin foil trays for all colors (see below).

In the box I am going to fit

• 2B pencil
• eraser
• sharpener
• waterbrush
• watercolors

This is the basic equipment I use. Additional I need water, paper towels and (obviously) paper to draw on.

I cut off the pencil to fit into the case. Also I cut off a piece of the eraser. This is how the brush, pencil, sharpener and eraser fit:

Because I want to use 10 colors and I only have 5 trays in the box, I decided to make small recipients out of tin foil for each color.

I don’t know how well the tin foil trays will work when using a lot of water. My humble guess is that they should work well with the waterbrush I am using.

Done! Now I just have to try it out.

Watercolor Wednesday: Mini art album #5

This week I present to you the fifth mini album. They are 7.5 x 7.5 cm and are made from air mail envelopes. Check out the fake stamps on this one. I carved a cork and used it to make the postmarks with acrylic paint.

The album has an accordion fold with pockets.

Every pocket contains a card with a 5x5cm post-themed watercolor painting.

Here are the paintings in detail. Can you spot Postman Pat?

Watercolor Wednesday: Mini art exhibition album #4

 

It’s that time of the week again. Watercolor Wednesday brings to you another 7.5x7.5cm mini-album. This time it is fruits & vegetables themed. The cover has self-adhering felt flowers.

The back of the album has a slide-out card.