Roly Poly Watercolour & Ink Pumpkins
Who loves pumpkins? This year we grew sugar pumpkins and a giant pumpkin. My little girls are stoked, and I’m excited too. Follow along to create your own simple watercolour and ink pumpkins. They make great collage elements for cards or journaling. Have fun and let go of perfect!
Tips:
🎃 use watery colours and let them blend wet into wet on the page
🎃 let your shapes be loose - try using both the side and the tip of your brush
🎃 splatter some paint droplets so you don’t get too uptight
🎃 your black lines don’t have to follow the paint blobs, let them wander, like a continuous line drawing
Supplies:
Paper:: Strathmore 300 series Mixed Media Paper (I like how smooth this paper is to draw on but note that it will show the wet into wet backwashes more than a watercolour paper).
Pumpkin watercolours:: Cadmium Yellow, Hansa Yellow, Scarlet Lake, Gamboge Nova, Cadmium Red, Spring Green
Brush:: #10 round synthetic brush
Pens:: Staedtler Pigment Liner, Faber-Castell Pitt Pen Soft Brush
Music:: Exhale by Jeremy Blake
