Monday, 15 April 2019

Painting with Brusho's

Hello.  Gail here today.  When I first started using Brusho powders I did the spritz, sprinkle, spritz method of application.  Recently I have begun to investigate using them as watercolours, which was the original intent of their design.  I love the range and intensity of the colours, and also that adding more water dilutes the colour making them even more versatile.  Here's what I made today.


I used a Blue Knight stamp called Lovable Panda and Brusho's.


Stamping on grey woodgrain card and I lined up the tree in the image with the woodgrain pattern.  Then when I straightened the paper I thought it was quite cool with the diamond shape and the panda sliding down the tree.  I added a sprinkle of Black Brusho powder to a bit of water and coloured the panda.


I added a sprinkle of Leaf Green  and Light Brown Brusho to water, not together obviously, and coloured the leaves and tree.


I added more water to the Leaf Green mix and diluted it so I could do a pale background wash.  I like how this can stretch the colour palette simply by altering how much water you use.  


I masked off the image and wet the corners with water, sprinkled Emerald Green Brusho and spritzed with water.


My sprinkle spritzing had got a bit excessive making the back of the card a bit messy so I cut off the front panel, added a dark green mat and mounted on a silver base card.  

Hope you have enjoyed my project today.  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

2 comments:

  1. Such an adorable image, and how clever to have changed the angle of the branch to make him climbing up the trunk, rather out onto the branch (took me a bit to figure that out!). Great brusho-ing, too!

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  2. This is really cute. I like how you turned the stamp differently. Very creative.

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