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You are here: Home / Copic Intermediate / Stamped still life fruit in watercolor, & faux Copic watercolor

Stamped still life fruit in watercolor, & faux Copic watercolor

August 3, 2020 by Sandy Allnock 16 Comments Filed Under: Copic Intermediate, Watercolor

Hello friends! Welcome to a fruit-y kind of day around here! The new Colorado Craft Company release is TODAY – and they asked if I’d be their featured designer for this one….wheeee! Once I saw it was fruit, I most certainly said yes. Not only have I taught the painting of fruits – I just also love fruit!

Supplies for this project are linked at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links may be used at no cost to you.

One of several ideas I had was to make some dramatic, though simple designs – using high contrast of a rich background. I created first in watercolor, then did a similar look, though less “loose”, in Copic.

Check out the video below – then of course scroll through this photo-laden post…I tried a few of the fruits several times!

View on YouTube.

Lemons

I painted the lemon several times – not only to practice, but uhm, because filming always seems to have things go belly up! I decided I liked all three enough though that by the time I hit the third one, I included at least a comparison of all three.

The stamping technique is to stamp LIGHTLY first in a permanent ink like Versafine; then something water soluble like Oxides. Then if the lines disappear a bit from the oxides, you can still see a little of that black outline.

I like to connect the image too the background by letting the color flow from one into the other – a sharp line is what Copic provides, but the joy of watercolor is in the variance of beautiful edges. So I like to let ‘er flow! Even after painting the dark background, I’ll work the edges slightly to let them cross into each others’ turf.

Copic Lemon

Copic markers give a cleaner look – though you CAN do the soft blending to mimic watercolor! All four stamps are colored over on Ellen Hutson’s blog today, you can follow that tutorial for coloring the stamps, then add this cool dark backround to any of them.

Pears

The pears were actually the first one I tried this with – but stamping a clear black line as in this first one. It’ll make some folks feel more comfortable too have a clear outline to paint into – you can decide what look you like best for your art.

Getting looser also involves happy accidents – like the green dripping down like a reflection below the pear, and a floating bit of “smoke” off that leaf!

I tried staying a little tidier with this one…

The Copic pear….with a complementary color, purple, for the background!

Pineapple

This one was the hardest to do in watercolor – I’ll just warn you of that! I needed to call more on my painting skills than the other ones, as there are all sorts of little tiny bits and pieces to a pineapple.

Creating the roundness on a pineapple is covered in the video on the Ellen Huton blog – when working with a dark background, pull in dark colors for your pineapple.

Avocado

The Avocado stamp set includes the full avocado as well as the broken-open one….and “You Guac my world” just cracks me up! I used an analagous group of colors – blues and bluegreens – isn’t it a different look than the others with more contrast?

In several of these, I added strong light sources – indicated by strong shadows. Including a shadow of a wall or object you cannot see, but you know it’s there because of that little triangle on the bottom left!

The Copic version is much brighter – but is still lovely in an analagous color combo.

Another video!

Yes, I’m an overachiever! If you’d like to see each of the fruits colored in Copics, check out my post over on the Ellen Hutson blog too:

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  • Colorado Craft Company:
    • Lemon Zest Stamps
    • Hugs and Pears Stamps
    • Aloha Pineapple Stamps
    • Avocado Love Stamps
    • Small Italian Tiles
  • Embossing:
    • VersaMark Ink Pad
    • Powder Deactivator Tool, We R
    • White Embossing Powder, Hero Arts
    • Heat Tool, WOW
    • Versamark Pen
  • Scotch Foam Mounting Tape
  • MISTI Stamping Tool, My Sweet Petunia
  • Arches Cold Press Paper: EH – BLICK
  • Silver Brush Black Velvet Round #12: EH – BLICK – AMZ
  • Inks:
    • VersaFine Ink Pad, Onyx Black
    • Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Pads
      • Wild Honey
      • Peeled Paint
    • Jet Black Lawn Fawn Ink Pad
    • Fadeout No Line Ink, Ink On 3
  • Neenah Cardstock, Solar White:25pk – 250pk
  • Daniel Smith Watercolors: EH • BLICK
  • Copic Markers: EH – Blick 

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  1. Gab says

    August 4, 2020 at 12:59 am

    these are amazing Sandy!

    Reply
  2. Marisela Delgado says

    August 3, 2020 at 9:59 pm

    Re-read the blog post. Never mind. It says planned giveaways! haha Sorry.

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  3. Marisela Delgado says

    August 3, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    Wow, how fabulous are you, Sandy ! You are a rock star! You always amaze me!
    By the way, the Colorado Craft Company blog said that you have a giveaway, but I don’t see it anywhere. Did I miss something? Is it on their blog? I will check again.

    Reply
  4. Toni L says

    August 3, 2020 at 10:03 am

    Your work is absolutely amazing! I will need to practice a whole lot more and not be afraid to use (YIKES!) purple . Thanks for the inspiration.

    Reply
  5. Dalis says

    August 3, 2020 at 9:10 am

    For a second I thought “oh no, I don’t have much time to see the copic coloring over AGAIN” (I had just seen the Colorado Co. video. But girl, you mixed it up and dang it! I love it, you have such a color skill!

    Reply
  6. GiniK says

    August 3, 2020 at 8:39 am

    Bless Colorado Craft Co for NOT adding a sentiment about making lemonade!!! I’m pretty much over that one. They do such a nice job with BIG stuff – gonna have to get me some fruits! You do such a great job of making sense out of all the colors – just love watching you work and listening to you telling us not to be afraid – everything’s gonna work out great! I will be chuckling over that all day! Thank you, as always – for ALL you do!

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    • Sandy Allnock says

      August 3, 2020 at 9:06 am

      LOL! Yes the lemonade woulda been too much. Ha!

      Reply
  7. Dawn Adams says

    August 3, 2020 at 8:36 am

    Beautiful coloring. I’m bookmarking your blog. Thank you for being the overachiever you are—you have shared lots of variations and they are all beautiful!!

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    • Sandy Allnock says

      August 3, 2020 at 9:07 am

      Glad you found me! 🙂

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    • Rosy Newlun says

      August 3, 2020 at 10:12 am

      The best part for me was the relief I felt when you pulled out the Copics lol! The entire video was gorgeous to watch. I’m going to Ellen’s to see more of the eye candy. Thank you. You are helping me in endless ways that you don’t realize. Luv ya Sandy!

      Reply
  8. Traci Starkweather says

    August 3, 2020 at 7:46 am

    Magnificent! I love both versions of each piece. I absolutely love your paintings! Some how, you have the richness and depth of acrylics by using watercolors and copics. Fabulous! What a talent!

    The guacamole sentiment is so cute! I’m not usually one for puns, but I like all of these! I can’t wait to see the video, and try it out myself with my copics!

    Thank you so much!
    Traci Starkweather

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  9. Marilyn says

    August 3, 2020 at 7:40 am

    Sandy, as always your talent just blows my mind!

    FYI, the product links work from here on your blog but don’t work from YouTube.

    Reply
    • Sandy Allnock says

      August 3, 2020 at 9:07 am

      Thanks, we had some glitches in the system but they’re getting worked out 🙂

      Reply
  10. Gabriella Bell says

    August 3, 2020 at 7:09 am

    That Hugs and Pears Card is my favorite. This is so cool and different

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  11. Eleanor says

    August 3, 2020 at 6:27 am

    Love your coloring, I just started loving watercolors and am still in the process of the process of deciding what brand to get. I miss walking in to impress and getting inspiration from the store when I used to live in Seattle. Now I have to rely on the internet to discover new products out there.

    Reply
  12. Jade Stewart says

    August 3, 2020 at 6:24 am

    Absolutely gorgeous, all of them.

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