21 Secrets : Flower Power with Ro Bruhn

Ro Bruhn taught 3 techniques this year in 21 Secrets. I finally had a go at flowers on recycled envelopes. Bit disappointed with the lack of variety of colour on the insides of my stash of New Zealand business envelopes

but at least there is some variation in pattern. 
Here's how my first try at flowers went

Line drawings with Pitt Pen

Colour added (apologies for the blurry photo)

The magic happens once you add the extra black and white pen details in step 3.

Click on the photo to see the details better. I had so much fun I had to try another envelope

 

You'll be seeing some of these appear in my calendar journal I suspect.

I loved the different patterns showing through - the second envelope has the word SKY repeated over and over which I thought would detract from the flowers, but is quite fun. I painted some blue around some of the flowers to emphasise the idea of sky. 

I decided I'd like to see what book pages and sheet music looked like for this technique

More to explore with this idea. Have a lovely weekend