Step by Step by Eva Marjolein Timmer.
Hello everyone, here’s my picture tutorial for ‘Playing in the Snow’. Let’s get started! 🌨️⛄
Step 1.
Cut some Multifarious card into a 14.5 cm by 10.5 cm rectangle.
Step 2.
Use a piece of scrap paper. Tear it up and cover the bottom of your card with it. This will later become the snow mountain.
Step 3.
Use brush size 7 and Elements Ink Blue Lagoon for the sky, with a smooth but uneven covering.
Step 4.
Use brush size 7 and violet chalk and create a few clouds here and there.
Step 5.
Use watercolour brush wet it thoroughly. Now go over your sky with short strokes to activate the ink and form cloud patterns.
Step 6.
Use a Stencil brush series 7 and Elements Ink Della Blue to darken the top corners a little.
Step 7.
Use the Red Pine (Large) Stamp LAV591 to stamp some forest trees. I did this with Versafine Clair Shady Lane, using secondary stamping for the more distant trees. Stamp the acorn from Acorn Nest LAV982 in Versafine Clair Nocturne, masking half of it with spare paper to make it look like a sled buried in the snow. Then stamp the mice Tilly and Tango LAV726 as pictured, masking off the legs of Tango so he sits inside the acorn sled.
Step 8.
Draw a line along the top of the acorn sled with a black pen and color it in, I used the Elements Ink colours Henna and Russet Orange.
Step 9.
Use a piece of torn paper and brush 3 and Elements Inks Della Blue to create the little snow mountains.
Step 10.
Using Versafine Clair Spruce, stamp a few extra trees with the Large Red Pine Stamps again, to create depth in the forest.
In the same darker colour stamp some of the plants from LAV1022 Winter Foliage at the bottom of the card.
Step 11.
To tie everything together, use a white pen or pencil and add some shading to the mice.
Then splatter some snow with a white Posca marker.
Step 13.
To frame our playful winter scene, we double-mount the artwork on blue and white card, and there it is complete!
Thank you for following along with this step-by-step, I hope you enjoyed. 🧚
