Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: No Line Watercolor Featuring Hero Arts
Hello everyone, welcome back to a new Studio Monday video! Since I have been enjoying working with florals lately, I thought it would be a perfect time to feature Hero Art’s Marianne’s Flowers stamp set! This set has some really gorgeous floral illustrations in it, and I paired this with Hero Arts’ new Thank You Messages set.
No line watercolor is a fun technique that can be done with any medium, including markers and colored pencils. I will be using Zig Clean Color markers today as my medium of choice.
When doing no line watercolor, you need to use a very light ink for your stamping so that the coloring does not show the outlines of the stamped image. The ink I like to use for no line coloring is Simon’s Barely Beige ink. This was designed especially for no line coloring. And because Simon’s inks are both alcohol ink friendly and waterproof, the ink can be used with any medium!
In the video, I will be walking you through how I created the variation in color and shading with my Zig markers. The technique is really easy and creates such beautiful, realistic results. I used just a few colors for each card, which I have listed for you here:
Rose: Geranium Red 029, Pink 025, May Green 047, Olive Green 043
Lily: Yellow 050, Bright Yellow 052, Pink Flamingo 222, Pale Green 045, Emerald Green 048, Brown 060
The sutble patterns on the card bases are created with Hero Arts stencils and dye inks. For the lily I used the Rain Dance stencil with Sunshine ink. The rose has a background created with the Crossing Waves stencil and Cosmic Berry ink. Because I used inks that were close in color to the card bases, it created a pretty tone-on-tone effect. I think it adds just the right amount of interest without being too distracting.
I hope you will be checking out the video to see the techniques used in these cards and that it inspires you to try some no line watercoloring of your own! Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting me today… I will see you again very soon with a brand new Studio Monday video!
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YOWZA! These are stunning! I am not very good with this technique, but yet I persist! ;)
Wow! Excellent painting
Great coloring!!!
Cristina
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I am in awe of Nina-Marie’s talent … WOW !!
Such beautiful colouring. Cheers.
Enjoyed watching you create these beauties. I am new to water coloring as well as Zigs. Your video was very helpful. More please.
Superb watercoloring. Love these.
Oh my, these colors are just amazing! And your coloring is always superb. Magnificent!!
Lovely cards! :)
I love that you used the zig clean color markers here! I love the zig products!
These are beautiful.
Gorgeous cards, especially with the complementary bold cardstock bases!
Beautiful work!
Awesome cards and coloring. Would LOVE to win a ZIG Marker to give one a try. I’m thinking they are expensive. Thanks for sharing with us!
All of the elements and colors used in these cards are so striking!
I haven’t like what I have made using this technique in the past. I will give it another try after seeing your video. Thank you.
The flowers look very real!
Wow! Stunning painting and great technique. I may have to try that sometime!
Gorgeous!! Love the tone on tone effect & the Zig colors ar so vibrant
Beautiful cards and coloring. Thanks for the great tutorial!
So pretty, I love the vivid colors.I look at these cards and think of summer!
These are so beautiful cards. It´s a great technique and really super amazing colored.
The shading is fantastic.
So much depth to the flowers.
thanks for sharing
Just Beautiful!
Stunning cards! I haven’t tried this technique yet! It looks hard to me!
What beautiful cards!
Holy cow! Those are gorgeous!
Beautiful card and coloring. Also enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Your rose is so realistic
So bright and cheerful! I love the soft background too!
Fantastic coloring!
Love the no-line water color technique. Thank you for sharing.
Wow, these flowers are so beautifully painted. Love your no-line water coloring technique:)
Love the watercoloring!!! Gorgeous cards!!!
These are both beautiful Nina, I love the glow you put around the flowers as well, looked amazing!
These are just gorgeous!!!
Absolutely gorgeous cards with this technique!
Wow! That rose is stunning! Very realistic.
Beautiful cards and I love this technique. Still working on it, trying for a little more perfection! :)
Beautiful cards! You made this look so easy, so I will give it a try!! Thanks for the video!
Wow Nina! I’ve never seen no-line colouring so vibrant! How fabulous!
WOWsers! So bright and beautiful! Love the no line look!
Stunning cards with such realistic looking flowers! Appreciate your detailed video on how to do it, Nina.
Gorgeous bright and vibrant colors!!
Gorgeous coloring Nina-Marie, thanks for the inspiration!
Beautiful card and great watercoloring tips–thank you!
Love your card design and how you worked with the Zig Markers.
These are beautiful! Gorgeous coloring ♥
WOW! Beautiful! Simply beautiful!
Beautiful cards! I love the bright colors.