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!
WATCH THE VIDEO
SUPPLIES
Blog Candy Alert!! Follow our blog via email and comment on this post for a chance to win grab bags and blog candy! Remember to tag your awesome projects with #simonsaysstamp on social media so we can see what you are creating!
Thank you so very Much! Very inspiring.
I love the bright & pretty colors! The flowers are stunning! Such beautiful cards!!
Love the bright colors, lovely cards.
Beautiful cards!
Thanks, I always enjoy your videos and I just received a set of Zig markers last weeks, so I am excited to use them!!!
Beautiful cards. Love the no line coloring.
Very pretty cards!!
Very Beautiful, I have never tried the no line coloring.
these are just beautiful! i love the no-line look but i need a lot of practice with my zig markers! thanks for an awesome video!
WOW! These are gorgeous! Thanks for the video!
It’s ironic that this is the blog post for today…I just made a few no-line floral card panels this weekend. It was the first time trying no-line with my Zig brush markers. I don’t use the Zig markers very often because I haven’t quite gotten the hang of them and my colors always look way too bright. I was pleased with how my florals came out (although not as pretty as Nina’s) and will try this technique again.
Ooooh beautiful! Your colouring on the rose is especially fabulous :)
Beutiful cards. I love no-line coloring and I adore zig for this techique. Thanks for sharing!
Amazing coloring on your cards.
Beautiful! I’ve done no-line watercolor but they haven’t been as beautiful as yours (I definitely need to practice!). I really like how you created the halo background.
I love how easy you made this technique look!! The cards are absolutely beautiful. That duster brush is a must on my list, as well as the Zig watercolor markers. TFS
Gorgeous coloring
and stamping!
Carla from Utah
Thanks for the great video showing your ideas with the no line watercoloring! You’ve made really beautiful cards!!
Very Beautiful……you make it look so easy!
Beautiful cards!
Your cards are so pretty!! Love the bright colors!!!
I’ve never tried no-line watercoloring, but I love the look! I was delighted to know that my SSS inks will work with either kind of marker. Thank you for sharing that tip!
<3 J
jwoolbright at gmail dot com
HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com
What gorgeous cards!!!
Thanks for this video. I just purchased the Zig markers and this is a great tutorial. I have been using them and I like the results so far.
Thank you for sharing. What an amazing technique. Liked the idea of stamping with a light color.
Love the card and the video is so helpful to someone relatively new to card making. I wondered what type of paper you used to stamp/color the flowers… so many kinds and not sure what to use. Thanks!
oooh, these are GORGEOUS!
Gorgeous cards!
wow–gorgeous colors!
Wow, the flowers are just gorgeous and those bright colors are so cheerful
Really beautiful! Will have to try this one day!
I can’t tell you how inspired I am now to try this. I haven’t tried no line water colouring yet but I am inspired to do so now. TFS!
Love these cards!
Very beautiful! Such vibrant colours! Fabulous inspiration for colouring with Zig markers – thank you!
These are lovely–and love your willingness to use these wonderfully vibrant zig colors.
Wow!!!! Really Beautiful coloring!!! Love these flowers!!!
Such beautiful cards – your colouring is always amazing!
Your cards are stunning! I love the techniques you used! thank you for sharing!
Love the detail you added to the card bases
Just beautiful and I never tried Zig watercolor markers before – But I will now. Such wonderful inspiration on your blog!! Thank you for sharing.
So beautiful
Gorgeous cards!
WOW – totally stunning!
The cards are lovely and the video was helpful and inviting. Thank you!
These are really pretty! Great job!
awesome coloring! super beautiful card!
I see many a bee-utiful flower at the plant nursery I work at but these floral creations are wonderful & bee-utiful as well.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
beautiful cards. . .you make the no-line coloring look so easy.
These are both are so beautiful! I am partial to the gorgeous rose as it’s my favorite color but both are awesome! I need that ink!
Your no line coloring is simply perfect. Thanks for sharing!
WOW such gorgeous cards and coloring!!!