So I’m moving through my classes at Altenew Academy. The class I’m currently doing is Beautiful Details. It’s an older course. I don’t when it was released but anyone can take any of them at anytime. In this first lesson she had us randomly stamp […]
This is the last lesson, creating a galaxy background. This can be a fun process.
In lesson 5 we watercolored over a solid stamp, rather than coloring in an outline stamp. I’m not happy with my first attempt, mostly because I didn’t use watercolor paper. I used Bristol paper and it just doesn’t react the same way as watercolor paper. […]
This lesson is called no-line watercolor. We stamp the image, like the previous lesson, but we use a light colored, water based ink. In this way when we’re done, hopefully, the outline stamping doesn’t show. I think I did a good job, except for my […]
In this lesson we heat embossed an image before we watercolored it. The embossing helps keep the water contained, making it slightly easier to paint. I’ve used this technique many times. The first image is the one I did for class. The other ones I […]
I’m having difficulty linking my homework to Altenew’s student gallery. But the company is awesome and they are working with me to fix it. So I’ll continue showing you all my homework here on my website and when the Inlinkz finally works I can post […]
I’ve been working on this class for several weeks. Shouldn’t have taken me so long but the holidays got in the way, and I realized that I hadn’t up loaded any of my homework. Here’s my first day’s homework.
2021 is finally here! With luck, hope and dedication 2021 will be the best year yet, at least better than 2020. I’m going to be working toward Altenew Educator Certification Program and I’m so excited about that. I’m going to need to be more active […]
This was the last class and we learned tricks to paint a white flower. Because the flower is white you have to define the flower but just shadows. Tricky. This was my first attempt but I stamped the flower with a water soluble ink and […]
This class was all about no line watercoloring. This is where you stamp your image with a light or water based ink so that when you’re finished you can’t see where the outline of the stamps were. I love the look of the ombré background […]
