I have been geeking out over the Watercolor Wednesday challenges since their inception, and have accumulated a list of challenges I'd like to go back to some day and try out. When I saw Lydia's challenge to kick of Falliday Fest this year, I knew right away I had to dive in to WCW073, "Fast Fall Trees," for the job. I wanted something quick yet beautiful, that I could execute in record time before moving on to other FF challenges... especially since I didn't have the opportunity to start this year until the very last days of the unbelievably fun annual event.
Multi-tasking on a trip to town with my husband last night, as he pumped gas in the car, I fired up the video tutorial for the challenge, boldly called "5 minute fall tree." Yes, I thought to myself, this is going to be perfect! Three minutes later I realized even the artist had sped up the video in places to get it to five minutes as advertised, and in my hands, well, we were looking at an hour-long painting, minimum. (Don't laugh! HA!)
Not to be deterred, I woke up at 5 this morning (yes, really), my head churning with ideas for the Falliday Fest challenges I'd seen posted the past two weeks, and after getting dressed and getting coffee, into the craft room I went. Looking at my brushes and my paints, however, a lightbulb went off. There was no way I could devote that much time to that darn tree if I wanted to even see myself start the other cards I had imagined for today. And my eyes fell on a stamp set that, well, my mind had immediately pictured last night as the tutorial artist painted his tree trunk and limbs. And I had an idea. :0)
Several colors of distress ink, a spray bottle of water, and some watercolor paper later, and I had myself a masterpiece. Was it a five minute one? HA! Me?! Snails would move faster in the craft room... but, it *was* pretty quick, and I impressed even myself in the speed of the execution, slowed only by taking my husband to lunch today as promised (which allowed just enough time for the Nuvo drops to set up a little before I backed the painting with foam and mounted it on the kraft-paper base).
I hope no one fires me for this, errrr, watercolor job, since brushes weren't even required.
Thanks so much for the great challenge and for viewing my card!
Blessings, C
Date: Friday, November 12, 2021 GMT Views: 1132
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