Inktober 2024 - 05 Hot Air Balloon

 Inktober 2024 Challenge

05 Hot Air Balloon

I drew a hot air balloon for piece #5.  The outline is black permanent marker. 

I washed the top third of the painting with blue watercolor then pull out the clouds with a tissue. 

I painted the silk part of the balloon in purple and yellow with a green stripe across in watercolor. I did a bit of shading with a very fine black marker. 

I painted the hills below in a couple of shades of green.

I know it would help to have people in the composition but I was too afraid to ruin it by adding them. 

Challenge - Card with clock

The Home Card challenge at CST is a card with a clock on it.  I searched the web for some pretty clock faces and selected four. I placed them on a quarter sheet and added a greeting and printed them on vellum.

The one on the left here has roman numerals and some hints of blue on the background.  I selected a turquoise card and added a warm yellow green designer paper with a pattern that was not too busy.  I cut the designer paper to leave a good border of the blue and then trimmed the vellum to be smaller than the DP. I placed a tiny black brad in the center of the clock and some vellum adhesive under the greeting and the top of the clock.