watercolour notecards

I got a large pad of watercolour paper for Christmas. I wanted to venture out of my comfort zone and work large with watercolours, something that is usually relegated to small doodles in my sketchbook.

I spent two nights working away as I was watching TV. I certainly liked parts of it but not as a whole. I think I should have stuck to a few colours rather than using every one in my pan of paints (it was new and I was excited).

Rather than continue working on something I wasn't 100% crazy about. I decided I would cut it up into smaller pieces in order to make note cards. I was completely terrified to cut it up even though I wasn't happy with how it looked. I used my rotary blade and ruler since the paper was too big to fit in my paper cutter.

I got nine cards out of the sheet of paper.

I used a black sharpie, micron pens and a white sharpie paint marker to create the borders and lettering. I also added some splatter painting for a bit more embellishment.

"don't lose hope"

"have a great day"

I am much happier with how the cards turned out. I think this was a much better solution than staying frustrated with something that wasn't working. Each of the elements I had created in the larger work ended up getting cut in interesting ways that created new focal points in the note cards.