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My latest project is dedicated to a set of watercolor illustrations themed around winter and festivities.
I called it "Make Winter Weird Again" as this year I finally got bored of standard xmas imagery
and decided to design something refreshingly weird and weirdly refreshing ☃️🎄🎁
Here are 9 original watercolor paintings each illustrating wintery concepts such as being cosy, keeping warm, spreading love, mulling wine and making hearty stews.
Each one of these paintings is 7.8cm x 12.5cm watercolor, glitter paint and
gold acrylic ink on 420gsm aquarelle paper.
I called it "Make Winter Weird Again" as this year I finally got bored of standard xmas imagery
and decided to design something refreshingly weird and weirdly refreshing ☃️🎄🎁
Here are 9 original watercolor paintings each illustrating wintery concepts such as being cosy, keeping warm, spreading love, mulling wine and making hearty stews.
Each one of these paintings is 7.8cm x 12.5cm watercolor, glitter paint and
gold acrylic ink on 420gsm aquarelle paper.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/8855804c-49f9-40b1-a821-7f30d22593c0/dd6d68d8-65ff-4d76-94d8-b8b438155683_rw_1920.jpg?h=6fd2e2a394bdf7860498bbc66a698091)
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The process starter with creating digital sketches then printing those out and transferring
them onto watercolor paper with a light pencil.
them onto watercolor paper with a light pencil.
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Ready to paint!
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I usually do my painting in three stages: colour outline first,
then filling in with colour and finally adding sharing and detail.
then filling in with colour and finally adding sharing and detail.
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After a lot of back and forth colour is finally done.
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Then I add some gold acrylic ink and glittery paint to some places on
the drawings to create that special texture.
I was lucky to find some of these mildly glimmering paints when
I was in Japan earlier this year, and gold ink is from Liquitex.
I was lucky to find some of these mildly glimmering paints when
I was in Japan earlier this year, and gold ink is from Liquitex.
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Finished and scanned in!
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I also ordered a few to be hand-cut into sets of fine giclee prints,
for those who would rather have a set of prints than an original watercolor.
for those who would rather have a set of prints than an original watercolor.
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These are printed on thick aquarelle rag paper that makes it look like the real thing!
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Each card from each set of prints is signed and numbered.
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If you'd like to buy a painting or a set of prints please go to my shop and
send me a message - first come first serve!
send me a message - first come first serve!
You can also follow me on Instagram where I post a lot about my art because I have no life.
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