It's save the date time, and this fall we've been creating a few for our custom wedding invitation clients to help set the tone for their 2015 weddings. I loved the process of creating these sweet watercolors for our clients who are getting married in Charleston this spring. Each panel of the accordion fold is dedicated to an event of the wedding weekend. The watercolors didn't all start out like this though. Thought you'd enjoy seeing some of the paintings that weren't so cute at first! Maybe I should call them watercolor warmups? Here's the process! The first few rose attempts. I ended up using the rose on the bottom left, paired with two leaves:
Teacups were a bit challenging to get the shape and proportion right:
I could paint leaves all day, but I couldn't get the cross right at first. Then the color had to be adjusted on screen so they all worked together:
The printed result:
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