Gum blossoms blue

When I received my new Bloom Away set from the Australian catalog, I stamped each image in black and then looked up the colours of the flowers to try watercolouring them as realistically as possible.  This is the first image I did after searching online for my colours and finding this painting.   I should have looked even closer to home as there was a beautiful picture that my dad had taken and included in a calendar he made and sent us last year.

After I had finished the colouring I wasn’t sure what I wanted in the background and tried several arrangements of blue blossoms before deciding to fill in the entire background.   On one hand it seems a bit busy, on the other I feel like I just made my own patterned paper.

Supplies:

Stamps: Bloom Away
Inks: Basic Black, Not quite Navy
Cardstock: Not quite Navy, Whisper White
Also:  Faber-Castell watercolour pencils