My teabag art for today is of the beautiful and gentle giraffe

My teabag art for today is this beautiful gentle giant.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor.  Details added with prisma watercolor pencils. 

Amazing Adventure - Africa Art Journal Page

This Art Journal page is one of my favorites!  I used various stencils and stamps to create the background using Tim Holtz distress inks and distress oxides.

I then took a used tea bag and opened it up, primed it with one coat of gesso as I still wanted the tea stain to peek through.  After drawing my giraffe with pencil on the tea bag.  I used my gouache paints to color the giraffe and added permanent ink details.

After the giraffe was dry, I stitched the tea bag to a used baby wipe to give it more stability and then layered pieces of muslin behind it and at bottom left of layout that I had painted some gesso on and then stamped to mimic the markings on a zebra and leopard.   I used a Tim Holtz Die for the alphabet in my title and also a Tim Holtz mixed media die for the diamond pattern cardstock piece at the bottom left.

Thank you for looking!

"Gentle Giant" 5X7 original Watercolor Painting

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This is an original watercolor painting of a Giraffe titled "Gentle Giant".  It has been painted on premium watercolor paper with Winsor and Newton watercolor paints.  This painting is 5X7 and will fit in a standard 8X10 frame with a mat.  It does not come with the frame and mat.  It will be shipped in a cardboard mailer.  Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing.