Muse Challenge #277

​Here's this week's inspiration card by Tristan Dawes:
(Click on her card for the Muse Challenge #277 link)

I love the anticipation of my first impression of an inspiration photo and this time I saw, of course, a pretty blue flower and then I saw the diecut window!

I've been painting what I call 'blob' flowers on 5x7 Strathmore Watercolor paper this summer.  It's a wonderful exercise in being loose and free without over thinking.  After choosing a paint color (Koi)  and a #10 brush, I started at the top and worked down making shapes happen with a wet brush on dry paper.  While the flowers were still wet, I dropped in a second color. For the stems and leaves, I changed to a #6 brush and dropped in green at the base of the blob in hopes it was still wet enough to spread on its own.  Once dry, I added paint splatters in the darker blue paint.

Here's my interpretation of Trinstan's diecut window.  I glued several diecut happy (Sizzix) words together in black cardstock (FSJ) and finished the top layer with a wash of blue (Cerulean I think) watercolor paper.

Thanks for stopping by!

xoxo

LYN