Spill the paint: Fixing a watercolour boo-boo

Watercolour is a tricky medium... Unforgiving. Sometimes utterly unyielding. But sometimes, it's possible to use its unique properties to fix something that went wrong.⁠

That's exactly what I managed to do while working on this adorable SA-inspired name illustration for Elliot. The branches around the giraffes head were just not right...

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Contact me to find out more about commissions like this one. Also, go take a look at my South African Animal Alphabet gift range -- although these products are prints, they were created with the same detail, whimsy and love as all my original work.