Watercolour Class

I've been taking a weekly watercolour class, and for a newbie painter, it's been a real challenge.
I've learned tons.

Many of the students have painted before, or were trained in college.
I've never done any art in school.
I took one sculpting class in high school, and for a nerd, I was totally intimidated.
The teacher worked with the talented students, us inexperienced students floundered on our own.
That was the last art class I took until now, MANY years later.

Our teacher, Sonya Ravet, has been fantastic.

She is so helpful, and patient with us newbies.

This is our second watercolour landscape.
It was  done just with one colour, Daniel Smith's Undersea Green.
I was pretty happy with how it turned out, and I think it will look better when framed.

I'm linking this to Daisy Yellow's Creativity Challenge Day 4

Just Do it!

Tammy Garcia from Daisy Yellow has been a great inspiration to me.
Just a little over a year ago, I rediscovered my artistic side.
I felt the drive to create, but didn't know where to start.
Her Art Journaling 101, really explained how to create an Art Journal, to someone who didn't know where to start.

When I saw Creativity Challenge,I thought I would jump in and be a Radar Love Challenge Host, along with the fabulous artist, Gem.
Recently I started a blog, as a way to connect with the artistic community and post what I've created.
I've been so busy creating, taking painting classes, and making new friends, that I haven't posted much.
So here is my chance to just do it!
To stop pinning on Pinterest, and create, instead of admiring what everyone else has created.

For months I've been collecting pins on creating my own stamps Stamp Making, but thought it would be difficult to carve stamps.Today I got out the materials I ordered, and got to work.
Funny how once you take the first step, the rest is easy!

I took out the Speedball Stamp making kit

and decided to carve a flower by tracing the one on the instruction sheet

I traced with a pencil, and placed the paper upside down on the rubber. I rubbed the image with my bone folder, and it transferred easily. No need to rub with pencil on the backside of the tracing paper, as some tutorials suggest.

I was surprised at how easy it was to use the carving tool!
By using a steady pressure and keeping it level, the rubber cut like butter.

You don't have to press hard or cut deep.
I used the smaller blade to cut around the lines, and the large blade to cut away the excess rubber.

Hurray, my first stamp!

There was no stopping me, I couldn't stop carving:) Photo corners, banners, chevrons and grass stamps.

Test your stamps by inking up, and seeing if any minor corrections are needed.

Have fun and keep creating! Check out the other fabulous challenge posts here Day 1 Challenge Queue.

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