Julie Nutting Watercolor Pencils Technique Duo Tag "Andara" & "Camille"

I was excited to be able to squeeze into a Julie Nutting technique class at the last minute taught by THE Julie Nutting herself.  Obviously, I've been bitten by the bug and just adore these doll stamps.  I love the ethereal artsy fartsy look of her coloring style, so wanted to get out of my box to learn something new.

Here's sweet Andara as we were just getting started. I learned that:

1. I had to let the watercolor pencils dry before going at it with the white sharpie pen to add the light highlighting details else the white shapie paint would muddle and get diluted by the dampness. 
2. I learned my preference to blend / add color by putting color down outside of my doll parts area (on the patterned paper) and picking up the color with my water barrel pen to apply a new color layer.
3. I learned my preference in controlling how wet the tip of my water barrel pen brush to affect color blending. 
4. I learned the difference of coloring paper directly with pencil strokes before and after applying water to blend. 
5. I learned to layer watercolor pencil applications while blending.   

Here's sweet Andara all dressed up with the lovely Belle Vie patterned papers, Prima flowers and exquisite Tonic umbrella die.   

And here's her companion Camille adorned with a Tonic butterfly die. Julie had some tiny pink sequins that were just the perfect accent to her full skirt.  

I couldn't help squealing in class "THIS IS SOO SOO PRETTY!!" every 5 seconds that I was working on these tags.  Both of the girls were edged with ink for dimension before they were pop dotted onto the embellished tags.  The only item that was paper pieced was their bonnet hats that came from the "Gina" doll set. 

This was my first time accenting with White Sharpie pen so my strokes are visibly tentative and sloppy. I'm eager to get better with practice. 

I think I'm hooked on these Julie Nutting dolls.  I bought a set of skin color watercolor pencils today to join my other 2-3 sets of watercoloring pencils I already have from SU and other manufacturers I don't remember.  If my lss had the other sets, I probably would have bought them too. I held off on purchasing new dolls....for now....because I already have 2 of the dolls in my stamp collection. 

I had so much fun today! 

  


"Camille & Andara"  Doll Tags
Paper: Julie Nutting Belle vie; Bazzil Black 
Stamps: Prima Julie Nutting "Andara," "Camille" & " Gina" Doll Stamps
Ink: Unknown Black Pigment Ink; Sakura Souffle Black Pen; Sharpie White Fine Tip Marker; Prima Chalk Edgers Dark Rust
Embellishments: Julie Nutting Hair & Skin Watercolor Pencils, Julie Nutting The Basics Watercolor Pencils; Tonic Butterfly and Umbrella Dies;  Prima flowers
Designed & Kitted By: Julie Nutting