Grungy Monday 8 - Brushless Water Colour

The Tim technique that Linda at Studio L3 has chosen for us this week is Brushless Water Colour. Now I absolutely love playing around with water colours on water colour paper whether it be with brushes or with stamps. My knowledge of technique with brushes is still fairly limited, and the results I can achieve likewise. Results with stamps are always fairly mixed. However, when I clicked on to Tim's instructions, and saw these lovely Adirondack colours, and one of my all-time favourite stamps, the Hero Arts cow parsley, I was raring to go.

I did lots of pieces using that stamp and my other Hero Arts water colour style flower stamps. Tim said that practice makes perfect, and I certainly gave myself plenty of that, with varying results. I do find water colour fairly unforgiving, and am forever splodging where I didn't mean to splodge, or being too heavy with the colour. But it's such fun, and maybe one day I'll get to the stage where I'm more often happier with the results.

I also enjoyed using the Adirondacks again. I so love my distress inks that I tend to forget about the other inks I have.

The first one I've photographed uses Tim and Hero Arts stamps.

And in the other two, the same stamps plus a Rubber Stampede delphiniums one.

Thanks, Linda, for another great challenge.