1st off I will occasionally post up things I have colored for the sheer joy of it – not to journal or mixed media it away but just the sheer joy of how something came out (I hope) 😀

I have always been fascinated with how light plays on items. Not so much in the light source manner but in the way it creates transparency, opaqueness, color shadows (think petal lying over another petal), layers etc.

So literally and figuratively I played in the bloom of each petal using the watercolor technique of blooms. I am not by a long shot a pro at watercolor but I tried to capture an idea I had to take a sunflower and see if I could get the petals to look like they were on fire. Now I will caveat it by saying it is not photo realism but the idea of how light plays in a flame and see if I could capture the mood thru media. How do you play in a bloom so tiny?  I used embossing to create the “well” that would hold my tiny drop of water as I added colors to create each flame petal.

TA DA I came up with this using Stampendous’ Sunflower Ladybug rubber stamp.

I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 Color Set Solid Watercolors. Let me tell you these watercolors are like butter and seriously, a litttttttle goes a long way. The manufacture take their time making this product. I have heard it takes days to make a color and they only make 3 colors at a time. This will become your new “precioussssss” 😀 You don’t have to be a pro to use em they are very forgiving in that I have blotted away a few boo boo’s.

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