Ginkgo Swap for Oriental Stamp Arts - water color markers

I had a swap due today for orients stamp arts this week. For this swap you make four and send to hostess and received 4 different cards back!  Pretty straightforward.  The Hostess "Rli" always amazes us with the goodies she sends back with the swapped card!

I used a ancient Ginkgo stamp, I am not sure who makes it as I took it off its wood mount a few years ago, its and oldie and goodie!

I stamped the image in Ranger Archival - you need waterproof for watercolor pens!  Sketched in a little brick red t give it some subtle undertones.

I only used two of the green tones  for these leaves!

I layed down the darker of the greens

 Filled behind with a lighter green

With a tiny bit of water and a fine paint brush I mixed the two colors.

The pigment leave the pens from a felt brush like nib, the color just flows on to the paper!!

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I added back some of the leaf veins with the fine tip on the darker green pen

Washed it till I felt like it was "right"

Because I was using cheap watercolor paper, I did get pilling, but once the paper was dry , It brushed of very easily!

Here the finished cards:

This was the first and Steve thought it lacked pop so he suggested I try it on an angle.  Good thing I did!!  

here are the other 4!

The card base is 5x7 Premium  white felt, it has a nice heavy body weight. Spectrum Aqua pens are much easier to use than I had thought they would be. 

Thank you for stopping by!

Ginny