Paint Party Friday: Frog Tape and Color Fields

So, there is again a lot of art to share on this Paint Party Friday! Drawing and palying with my art materials keeps me sane these days. :)

When I watched water color painting videos on Youtube I see a lot of artists using masking tape to create a kind of clean frame around their work or block certain areas from color. I had some Frog Tape in my stash, so I gave it a try. Worked great! I painted some watercolor paper with color fields and added my linoprints of a bumblebee and a ladybug.

 

Love how they turned out! I think I need to get some frames and hang them on my wall.

I also created more woodland animals for my series of woodland animal linocuts. You already know the little fox from last week and I explored, what else can be made out of a simple pencil sketch.

Watercolor pencils as a test, before I use the expensive watercolor paper.

And then "real" watercolors. I think I'm finally gaining some confidence in my watercolor painting skills. Love this cutie! I painted him on a watercolor paper postcard. Turned out nice I think.

Then I finally did, what the fox was intended for: a linocut. Again I used some Frog Tape for the background and then printed the fox on it. Really like the effect of the colored background with the black prints.

I did another test with watercolor pencils and will paint this deer on a postcard next, like I did with the fox.

The second woodland animals was a wild boar. This is no 6 in the woodland animals series. I really struggled with the wild boar. The first one went into the bin and the second one almost too. But here it is. Will show you, what I did with the deer and the boar next week.

Have a great day and enjoy all the beautiful pieces of art for Paint Party Friday!