The Blue Butterfly Postcard

 This painting of "Blue Butterfly" is from a tutorial by Sarah Cray for Let's Make Art.

I used my light box to transfer a line drawing to the watercolor paper. The painting is on a 4 x 6" Winsor Newton Watercolor cold press postcard. It was painted using Winsor Newton Cotman tube colors. I used Dr. Ph. Martin's Bleed Proof White for the bit of details and the many dots. I placed the dots using an embossing stylist.

I enjoyed playing with the limited color palette and the out of focus background. It was an enjoyable challenge!

I got a new set of postcards to paint as a gift and since I like this butterfly design, I painted it again.

 

Challenges: 

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2022/04/202204-april-2022-anything-goes.html

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2022/04/challenge-042022-april-2022.html 

https://mirtillamente-challenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/mirtillamente-challenge-8-april-2022.html

http://pearlysparkleschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/challenge-72-no-cards-allowed-anything.html 

http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/challenge-75-include-animal.html