I am working on a new product and I thought I'd share a bit of the behind-the-scenes process that is involved. I want to make a set of watercolor leaves (similar to my watercolor flowers) so I started off with pencil sketches that I inked in using a Micron pen...
Once the leaves are inked in, I move to my light box, laying a piece of white printer paper over my original illustrations (I have two seperate layers that I scan in ~ my ink illustrations and my watercolors). I use my watercolor brush and watercolor crayons to color in the leaves...
Once the watercolors are dry I scan them in (and the ink illustrations) and work some magic in Photoshop and Illustrator, combining the layers to make this.....
And then I can play around making fun things, like this cute branch full of 'leaves'....
On the agenda tonight: printing out my new leaves and getting them cut out and packaged for sale in my shop! :-)
you amaze me patty!
sorry for the lack of comments and then the overflow. just know i love you and your blog. happy summer!!
Posted by: Nicole K. | July 16, 2011 at 10:13 PM
Oh, this is so pretty! Just found your blog somehow! I love it. Do you just scan your art into a photo editing program? I'm always doodling and wanting to put it on my blog or use it in my blog design, but I really don't know how to separate the images from paper to the computer. Could you point me in the right direction? Thank you so much!
Posted by: Elisa | July 30, 2011 at 09:13 AM
These are gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your process. I am just learning watercolor. I design digital scrapbook products. I've scanned a few of my inked, and painted pieces, but wasn't happy with them once they were scanned. I will try doing it in two stages as you have here and see if that works better for me. Love your blog!!
Posted by: Betty Jo | August 03, 2011 at 08:55 PM