Blooms according to rrch162

 There are several challenges going on at the moment that coincide and complement each other nicely.  It's almost like playing tic-tac-toe or bingo. The row reads: blooms - watercolor- pastel, all done according to a sketch. How fun is that!

I needed a greeting card. I started by stamping the background. This is one of my few background stamps, Baroque Blooms by Chocolate Baroque. I must have purchased it 2016 or 2017, and now it was time to put it to use.

I stamped with Rangers translucent permanent ink, I thought green would stay in the background. Then I colored it with watercolors, trying to keep it pastel-ly.

For the focal point I used a stamp that I purchased at the last fall 2019 trade show before the COVID closedown madness the following spring. It is a printing process stamp, it has separate stamps for all CMYK colors. 

 

 Stamp them on one another and the result is wonderfully achronistic. I have seen late 1800's picture books done with similar dotted color fields. You'll see the close-up at the end.

 

Of course there is no need to go the yellow-blue-red-black route if you crave something else- The left were started with the colors in the upper row: pale blue, pink, plum and purple (but then I added yellow and grey, too). The ones on the left were done with yellow, red, turquoise and flannel grey, as I didn't want a very contrasty flower.

 Then it was time to put it all together according to the sketch rrch162:

Here's the promised close-up:

Entering in:

We Love Chocolate Baroque: Beautiful Blooms

613 Avenue Create: Anything goes / optional Watercolor

More Mixed Media: Anything goes / optional Pastel

Retro Rubber Challenge: #162 Sketches!