Rainbow Alphabet Notecard Sets

As promised in previous posts, my rainbow alphabet watercolors are now available as notecard prints! I scanned in all twenty-six 5"x7" watercolor paintings (one for each letter) at 600 dpi (high quality) so they'd be ready to print as notecards on demand. They're listed in my Etsy shop for $10 for a pack of four, $14 for a pack of six, or $22 for a pack of ten (with free shipping)! They're also available to be purchased individually at the Paint Creek Art Market in downtown Rochester, MI.

Here are some photos of the notecards:

As with all of my notecards, these are 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" and come with matching white A2 envelopes (4 3/8" x 5 3/4"). The insides are blank, and the back of the cards list the artwork information and a digital artist signature. Each card is inkjet printed in my home on smooth, matte cardstock.

These make fantastic gifts (for yourself, or others!) - use the first letter of your first or last name to create a custom stationery set of blank cards with your initial on the front.

You can also select different letters to spell out words, names, or phrases (e.g. "FAMILY" "ANDREA" "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" or "WILL YOU MARRY ME"). For instant wall decor, simply cut the cards in half and display the fronts of the cards in small frames, or use a hole punch and some ribbon to hang the art prints from a wall or ceiling hook.

Find these cards listed on Etsy here.

Want more pictures of the original watercolors? Check out these previous blog posts:
- Planning for Alphabet Watercolors
- Watercolors in Progress A-H
- Watercolors in Progress I-P
- Watercolors in Progress Q-Z
- All 26 Finished Watercolors
- Close-Ups of All 26 Watercolors

All 26 Finished Rainbow Alphabet Watercolors (Close-Ups)

As promised, here are some close-up shots of my recently completed 26 5"x7" rainbow alphabet watercolor paintings. (You really need close-ups to best see the green and orange thin Sharpie line details I added!)

I am making these paintings into notecards, which will be available in my Etsy store for purchase soon!

All 26 Finished Rainbow Alphabet Watercolors

My last few blog posts have been all about the process of painting my recent 5"x7" rainbow alphabet watercolors. Today I want to show off what the entire set of 26 looks like altogether!

I just love the colors of these paintings! They're so bright and cheerful. I painted all of these in April (often when it was raining outside) and the rainbow backgrounds reminded me of spring and brought some much needed color to some gloomy, gray days.

I also took lots of photos of some close-ups of each letter, which I'll post in another blog coming soon!

And look for the notecard/art print versions of these paintings coming soon to my Etsy store for purchase, as well.

Rainbow Alphabet Watercolors In Progress: Q-Z

It's time to look at the last 10 letters of this 5"x7" rainbow alphabet watercolor series!

As always, I started by taping down the paintings to keep them flat while I painted.

I mixed it up this time, since the grid was 5 across, and that fifth painting was a long way from my watercolor palette on the left side of the table - instead of going alphabetically, I did "Q" and "R" and then skipped down to the second row to do "V" and "W". Then I moved my palette and water dish closer to the right side of the table to tackle "S" and "T".

You can tell which paintings I did more recently before taking this picture, because the pigments are still darkest on the most recently painted, because it's still wet. It also looks shiny when you try to take a picture of it, whereas the paintings that are drier are also matter.

I went through and did the backgrounds for all 10 letters first, before moving on to the "paint splatter" stage. Each rainbow background was made with a wet-on-wet technique, carefully but quickly painting around the pencil outlines I drew of each letter. I used six tubes of paint: red, yellow, light green, dark green, blue, and violet.

Once the rainbow backgrounds were dry enough, I started going through and adding paint splatter. I get the brush very wet with just a little pigment, and then flick the brush quickly and over a wide area to get the little paint specks everywhere. For the larger drips, I grab more pigment and more water, and then hold the brush vertically and give it a little shake, hoping a larger drop will fall in a good spot. It's not easy to control where exactly the paint splatter goes - but that's kind of the fun of it. Let the drips fall where they may!

Here are the finished paintings, still taped down. Like the other letters, I also added some thin orange and green Sharpie marker lines around certain parts of the letters, to give a bit more visual interest and dimension, as well as to clean up some of the shakier lines where some of the background seemed into the white negative space letters a bit too much.

Finally, here are the last ten letters untaped from the table.

After all 26 of these paintings were completed, I brought them upstairs, signed each one, and photographed them as a group (which is the subject of my next post!). My end goal is to scan these and turn them into notecards (like I did with my floral alphabet series). Look for these as notecards in my Etsy shop soon!