I’ve watched so many people mixing watercolor and embroidery that I have been wanting to give
I’ve watched so many people mixing watercolor and embroidery that I have been wanting to give it a try. I’ve been doing mixed media embroidery with acrylics for a while now, but never with watercolor. Clearly, I like heavily saturated paints, because my watercolor looks more like acrylic. Plus these stunning colors from @artisticisle.watercolor are just so luminous and shimmery. The first image, evil eye ward, I’m painted freehand (go me) and then I’ll embroider over that for some detail. This will probably be the first amulet giveaway on @patreon — which is one of the new rewards with my restructured support/reward levels. See profile link to get in on that. The second image, the keyhole, is something I embroidered ages ago to try painting over. The design is from @urbanthreadsemb. The fabric had been treated with this awesome stabilizer stuff that makes fabric stiff. So the paint reacted to the fabric super differently. This time it just acted like acrylic without me having to layer it on too much. And - I got wild here — and used the @topochicousa i had sitting next to me to clean my brushes and it also made for a little different experience. I think I might have to paint with mineral/seltzer from now on. The next image is also freehand — my signature sigil on the watercolor paper that came with the paints, and then the white is just me playing around - but seriously - how gorgeous does the shimmery paint look. Last image is the pallet for the curious. Yes. That is a @harrypotterfilm themed set of colors that I’m painting amulets with… Needless to say - I’m hooked. I should use cheap paints because this is all new, but went and ordered two more sets from @artisticisle.watercolor. And I’m going to pre-treat a bunch of fabric with the stabilizer today. Now I just need some ½ decent brushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Northeast Washington, Washington, District of Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Brxl75mHcjo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14hv60zmhk7e -- source link