Your work is progressing well! I’m not sure but at this point it might do you a favor to have a very nice water color pad. Now these you get the metal box it comes in and you buy the individual squares. They snap in. Go slow adding your color boxes. This watercolor mixes with each other on a separate piece of glass or the top of the tin let it dry and you can always put a drop of water on it to reactivate it. You can come up with amazing colors mixing just the primary colors. Now you can get the primary colors on the cool side and another set on the warm side with white and black. Invest in one watercolor brush at a time. Starting out you just need a medium round real fiber like horse hair or anything that will retain a lot of water and that is what synthetic brushes don’t do. One you get the movement of that brush you can buy a liner or whatever you want go slow. With a medium round you should be able to draw lines make several shapes etc. never take your good brushes and scratch them in your good paint. Get a spray bottle, spray and wet the pallet the dip your brush in. Just trying to help you are coming along great. You know to look for where the light would be. From your right or left whatever the the opposite side was a little darker and you could have left or lifted off some color with a paper napkin to show places of no pigment definitely toward the light side.
Thank you so much Dawn for your helpful tips. I’m just playing at the moment but you have given some very good advice which I will most definitely accept 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
Both pages are lovely - I actually really love the big watercolour one, not that the JJJ one isn't great too! Also - great idea for how to use watered down acrylic, definitely going to try that out because I have a little bottle that I wasn't sure what to do with. Thanks! (I'm going to check what you did for 'bright' next because I'm still playing around...)
Having rewatched the ending, I've changed my mind! I prefer the JJJ one- you refined the technique for sure. Btw, here's a question I've been wanting to ask for a while but felt a bit stupid doing so - do you know why Tim Holtz stuff is so popular with junk journalling people? It's nice, sure, but I don't quite understand the obsession- you make nicer stuff yourself! Anyway, I've been too embarrassed to ask anyone and I'm just curious for your thoughts! Ta again x
Hi there, I try not to buy too much branded materials because they are so expensive. A lot of Tim Holtz's products are high quality and very handy, especially for daily challenges. But I'm not sure what the obsession is, I guess he's got a huge following and a lot of publicity to drive his products.
A scratch I wanted to itch 😆
Loving the colour palette of your pages.
Thank you so much!
Love both pages turned out great
Thanks so much! 😊
Both are beautiful tbh but I really love the green one in your January jj. Love your artistic style😍❤
Thank you so much!!
Love your circle of circles. 😊
bubbles lol Thanks so much! 😊
Ah so that’s where the name comes from! It’s the view atop a hill of journalling supplies!
Yes that’s right. I live on top of a hill in the country so I have lovely views for my journaling
You’re braver than me using watercolor with the stamp. I wouldn’t have thought to try lol.
Thanks so much! 😊
❤😊
Thanks so much! 😊
Your work is progressing well! I’m not sure but at this point it might do you a favor to have a very nice water color pad. Now these you get the metal box it comes in and you buy the individual squares. They snap in. Go slow adding your color boxes. This watercolor mixes with each other on a separate piece of glass or the top of the tin let it dry and you can always put a drop of water on it to reactivate it. You can come up with amazing colors mixing just the primary colors. Now you can get the primary colors on the cool side and another set on the warm side with white and black.
Invest in one watercolor brush at a time. Starting out you just need a medium round real fiber like horse hair or anything that will retain a lot of water and that is what synthetic brushes don’t do.
One you get the movement of that brush you can buy a liner or whatever you want go slow.
With a medium round you should be able to draw lines make several shapes etc.
never take your good brushes and scratch them in your good paint. Get a spray bottle, spray and wet the pallet the dip your brush in.
Just trying to help you are coming along great. You know to look for where the light would be. From your right or left whatever the the opposite side was a little darker and you could have left or lifted off some color with a paper napkin to show places of no pigment definitely toward the light side.
Thank you so much Dawn for your helpful tips. I’m just playing at the moment but you have given some very good advice which I will most definitely accept 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
Lovely work as always - my mind immediately went to bubble wrap - l would have found a way to use that somehow if l were doing such a prompt lol
I agree, and if I'd had more time I would have persevered.
Both pages are lovely - I actually really love the big watercolour one, not that the JJJ one isn't great too! Also - great idea for how to use watered down acrylic, definitely going to try that out because I have a little bottle that I wasn't sure what to do with. Thanks! (I'm going to check what you did for 'bright' next because I'm still playing around...)
Having rewatched the ending, I've changed my mind! I prefer the JJJ one- you refined the technique for sure. Btw, here's a question I've been wanting to ask for a while but felt a bit stupid doing so - do you know why Tim Holtz stuff is so popular with junk journalling people? It's nice, sure, but I don't quite understand the obsession- you make nicer stuff yourself! Anyway, I've been too embarrassed to ask anyone and I'm just curious for your thoughts! Ta again x
Thanks so much! 😊 hope you have fun!!
Hi there, I try not to buy too much branded materials because they are so expensive. A lot of Tim Holtz's products are high quality and very handy, especially for daily challenges. But I'm not sure what the obsession is, I guess he's got a huge following and a lot of publicity to drive his products.
I dont have the courage to water color in a bound journal
nor me, and it can seep through to the back pages. But we gotta try things don't we?