Sirens Song

Sirens Song Watercolor Embossing Powder Resist Painting

Hi there, Stephanie here to share this dreamy watercolor painting featuring the beautiful Cascadia Mermaid. Watercolors are definitely my favorite medium and what fun it is to create with such a gorgeous siren and watercolors! This is my first watercolor and embossing powder resist painting. Let's get started!

Blank Page Muse Products used:

Cascadia Mermaid Stamp designed by Rick St. Dennis

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Other Products used:

watercolor paper

Brea Reese watercolor glitter inks

painters tape

Vintage Beeswax Embossing Powder

embossing ink

heat gun

salt

Cover Cascadia stamp with embossing ink

Pour Vintage Beeswax embossing powder over Cascadia.

Before adding heat...

Starting the melt. I don't about y'all but I love watching the embossing powder melt! Look at the beautiful details in this stamp.

Tape down edges of the paper  

Paint over embossed Cascadia stamp with water.

Paint over entire surface with Brea Reese watercolor ink. 

Dab up some of the ink to create some texture

Paint the embossed mermaid with watercolor inks. I love how the watercolor pools and mixes inside the embossed image. 

I sprinkled salt in the pools of watercolor around the entire page to create the bubbly texture you see below. Just sprinkle, let dry and rub off the salt. 

To finish the painting I added a handwritten quote.

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My Story

Hello!  It's Robin Redd (a.k.a. RockinReddRobin!)

 

I found this video tutorial online and thought this journal page is perfect for my Sin City Stamps!

 

I'm, very much, into learning how to draw faces.  This one in particular is a 'whimsical' face.

 

After sketching out the face, shoulders and hair, I  went to my collage stash.  My collage stash are papers I painted myself at various times via various methods, i.e. Gelli Print, random painting, stencils.

 

I chose to use this one.  I found it fitting for this wonderful summer season we are in.

 

I tore up my collage paper into many, many quarter-size pieces.

 

Then, I collaged them onto the background of my girl.

 

I still can't get too far out of the box with my 'whimsical' look.  

Although, she's not completely realistic, she's not as whimsical as I'd like.

 

I used my Art Journaling with Terri Sproul 2 stamps.

 

After stamping with a coordinating color, I embossed with a sparkly, clear embossing powder.

Because the ink was going onto the paint and gel medium that I laid onto the page, 

first, the ink stayed wet a while.  

I sprinkled, liberally, onto the stamped images and shook the excess off, 

back into the embossing powder container.

 

I heat set the embossing powder slowly, to keep the collage papers and paint from bubbling up.

 

Look how pretty this lovely swirl looks after the heat embossing is complete. 

This is the great set I used for this art journal page.  Perfect!

 

I hope I have inspired you to create something today.

Until next time...

~Robin Redd