Getting Gnarly

ZenART Supplies is taking on World Watercolor Month and it is my turn to get gnarly with it! Hahahaha! Yep! It is!

World Watercolor Month is an annual event founded by Artist and creator of Doodlewash® Charlie O'Shields. We celebrate all month long in July by painting, stretching, learning and helping. This year's charity is International Child Art Foundation. 

Each day there is a prompt to get you inspired. The ZenART Supplies Artist Luminaries have each taken a day to share with you and today it is my day. My day to get gnarly! Actually the prompt is gnarled, so gnarly is real close. Let me show you what I did! 

Of course the first thing I did was turn to Mr. Google. And I found this awesome tree/plant that I believe ties into a video game??? Hahaha! It is called a Gnarled Ash Flower and it is perfect for today's prompt. I began with a piece of Van Gogh Watercolour paper and a Sharpie Ultra Fine and sketched out the loose tree shape. 

For paint I brought out my Pearl Colors set of FINETEC watercolor paints. Awesome paints - handmade in Germany. Using my #8 round ZenART brush I swished colors side to side to mimic ground and sky. Several layers actually until I liked it. 

Next came my tree. My gnarled tree. The part of meeting today's prompt. That moon was easy to do just swishing my paint brush around in circles to remove color. 

Switching to the #2 round ZenART brush I added the ash flowers to my gnarly tree. Hahahaha! Easy peasy. 

Before removing the painters tape I used a stencil brush and my black Archival ink to darken the edges. A ghostly gnarly in the moonlight kind of tree. 

And it was time to remove the tape. I love removing the tape! Just look at those edges! And that gnarly Gnarled Ash Flower. Cool!

Worldwide Watercolor Month. It is time for you to join in. Just grab a brush and some paint and get to work. Some days I paint circles, some days I paint lines and some days I try to paint other things. Like flowers and now like gnarly trees. And it is all good. 

ZenART Supplies paint brushes can be purchased here.