Watercolor Book, First Version

 Hi everyone. 

Today I am sharing a lot of photos from one of my creations for Creative Jumpstart day 21 class.  Andrea Chebeleu was the instructor. 

Andrea asked us to to freehand paint designs with watercolor onto both the front and back of some watercolor paper. She recommended a limited palate so no one would end up with muddy colors.

I have only a small set of watercolors, so I chose the blues and greens in my set.  For me this activity started out with learning a lot about getting various shades and tones with those colors (since I am not  very practiced with watercolors).

After the pages were dry, Andrea  had us cut and then fold out papers. Along with some tape, she showed us how to create little booklets.  

I always want to add details, as you can see on the right front of my little book.

Here's a few of my undetailed pages and also some pages where Andrea asked us to use a pen and add some markings.

Back to this detail thing I previously mentioned. To me this was now a book ready and waiting to be turned into it's own project. As I made this last week, with Valentine's Day still ahead, I decided it needed a love letter theme. I also decided I would only add shades of red paint to contrast with the blue and green, just to keep a limited color palette.

I should also point out that this might be partially why I am not moving along with Creative Jumpstart as fast as I could be. Smile!

My cover is finished above. Here's the pages in my little book.

I went a little over board with daisies. Also please ignore by not so straight pages. It is hard to keep the book flat and photographic straight.

There you have it. I enjoyed pulling out some old stamps as well as drawing hearts.  I had so much fun with this project  I have made a second book. More about that one in another post.

Thanks for visiting.