adventures in watercoloring, part 2

I’ve been dabbling a little more with watercoloring, and I’m hooked.  I’m realizing that the possibilities are endless.  Since I first shared my adventures in watercoloring, I’ve picked up this inexpensive set of watercolors.  There is a bit more mixing with water involved, but it makes for different saturations of color – love that.

This time around, I wanted to explore digitally with flowers so I painted a few abstract pieces – stems, leaves, and buds.

I dabbled a bit with triangles, but was not sure where I was going with that one!

After scanning my drawings and cleaning them up in Photoshop, I  chose my favorite elements to work with.  I settled on these below.

 

 

And here is where the possibilities are endless.  Using Illustrator, I converted the elements to vectors so that I could resize them and not loose any quality.  With just a few designs, I was able to come up with a couple of different floral arrangements.

 

 

 

I continue to love learning this new medium.  I enjoy creating something tangible and then being able to alter it digitally.  Of course, so many more ideas swirling in my head….

You can see my first post on watercoloring here.