Watercoloring with Matte Fluid Medium & Watercolor Pencils

I've been playing around with this Liquitex Matte Fluid Medium and it is so useful in so many ways! Yesterday I discovered you can use it to watercolor instead of using water!! WHAT???  Yes, and when you use it on your bible pages you won't get wrinkles or pages curls!  Here is how I did it! (I would have taken more pics if I'd have known this was gonna work so great!  But I'll do it again!)

Normally, if you want to do any "watercoloring" on your thin bible pages you need to lay down a full coat of something like gesso, matte gel medium or the fluid medium and then put your color on top of that!  Well, I may have found a way to lay down your color first and then use your medium last!

First of all I drew my image with my waterproof pen!  Then I colored my image with my Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils.  Any watercolor pencils will do! The inktense are just so vibrant!  A note on coloring with the pencils, color lightly where you want the color lighter and color heavy where you want it darker.

Next step is the fun part! I got a bottle cap and added 3 drops of Liquitex Fluid Matte Medium, then I added 2 squirts of water from my mini mister.  This stuff goes a looooong way and even 3 drops was more than enough for these small items to paint.  I got a small paintbrush and mixed the water in really good.  Then started painting.  When painting start in the the lighter areas and work your way into the darker areas.  If you start in the darker areas and go towards the lighter areas you will pull the dark in and cover up your lighter areas.  So be sure to start in the lighter areas first!!  After dry, the last step was using my white gel pen to make some dots in the middle of the flowers!  All done!!  Be sure it is completely dry before you close your bible!

I plan to do more experimenting with this technique with fuller coverage of color first then fluid medium last!  When I do I'll take more pics, or even do a video, if you don't mind my terrible southern accent. (I'm trying to get over that fear!)

If you are interested in the Documented Faith facebook group, everyone is welcome to join us!

Oh, and if you enjoy using Distress Ink in a more traditional style of watercoloring, then you've got to come over to my Facebook Group  Distress Ink for Watercolor! We'd love to have you join us!

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Psalms 103 Bless the Lord, O my Soul - Bible Journaling with colored pencils

"Bless the Lord, O my Soul... oooh oh oh my soul, worship His Holy name.... Sing like never before.... oh my soul"  I've had this song stuck in my head for days so I thought I would put it down on paper and give it some color!!  I used a variety of colored pencils and doodled out some flowers!

If you are interested in the Documented Faith facebook group, everyone is welcome to join us!

Oh, and if you enjoy using Distress Ink in a more traditional style of watercoloring, then you've got to come over to my Facebook Group  Distress Ink for Watercolor! We'd love to have you join us!

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Bible Journaling - Free download - Genesis 1:24 - Living Creatures

Genesis 1:24 And God said, let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds.

I found this adorable photo of these two sibling foxes in a 2015 Audubon calender.  So full credit for photo goes to them and their photographer Daniel M. Jones.
So often, for Genesis 1, we see the world shape.  I wanted to focus on a different verse and when I read verse 24 I knew I wanted to draw some cute animals! =)

To start I traced the basic outline of the foxes and the main lines such as the eyes, nose, mouth.  All the fur outlines I drew afterwards.  For this project I started with a sheet of graphite paper and my drawing (you will be using the PDF I've made for you)  Turn to your bible page and place your graphite sheet face down and make sure it stays in place.  After you have cut your image out from your PDF file then use some washi tape to tape your image to the back of your graphite paper.

Then begin to trace your image.  I find that a ball point pen works best.  You can also use a different color pen to see where you have already drawn.

Here is my finished drawing.  You can also trace the verse words in the same way at this time if you wish.

Here are a couple of the colored pencils that I used.  2 browns and a gray/black.

I used the photo as my guide for color!

I usually like to start with the eyes!

Then filled in some darks.

Then started in on some earthy browns.

I used a fine pen to swish on some wiskers!

I used some white acrylic paint and a tiny paintbrush to add some highlights in places.

This is where I drew on the verse words.

Then I went over it with my drawing pens.

Colored in some letters and used a metallic pen on the word GOD.

Close up of these two cuties!

Full page.

Here is the link to the free PDF I've made for you.  It's in my Doodles store where I have my other stamps, so you'll have to create an account.  If you don't want to, just email me (tiff . web at gmail . com) and I'll email it over to you!!  There are simple instructions on the PDF for transferring the images to your bible.

Genesis 1:24 Living Creatures
FREE PDF
FREE JPG

Check out my other Bible Journaling Freebies: Rubies, Wings

How to use a Digital Stamp in Word

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Watercolor Pencil Vintage Fawn!

To say I love Fawns is an understatement!  Here is one I sketched out and watercolored with a variety of watercolor pencils!

This is a scratch sheet where I was practicing my tree branches.  Get a liner brush and fill it with pigment them drag it across your paper while twisting it in your fingers!  Makes nice tree branches!

If you are interested in the Documented Faith facebook group, everyone is welcome to join us!

Oh, and if you enjoy using Distress Ink in a more traditional style of watercoloring, then you've got to come over to my Facebook Group  Distress Ink for Watercolor! We'd love to have you join us!

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