Love your "egg plants" ( flowers❤)... and and the colors and patterns.

Love the borders, adds such depth and atmosphere to it.

I love these cute, quirky flowers.❤

This is lovely Nina. Your doodles and iced spruced adds so much depth and interest to the piece. I love this. Thanks for sharing.

I love what you did with the background! It’s perfect

These look just gorgeous .. I like the iced spruse, I think it makes it looks more atmospheric x

I love the finished picture. The border turned out lovely. 👍👏

This is lovely Nina , loved your doodling a round the flowers 🌷, and I love the grey too , perfect 👌🦋🌺🌸💕💕

Love the border. Flowers are gorgeous.

Love this! The border made all the difference.

I just re watched this, and it is so lovely, I think it is my favourite of all the things u have done

Absolutely I love what you did and that's what caught my eye! I love it!!!!!!

This is gorgeous Nina! I love the shading on the bottom of the flowers and the doodling adds so much interest to the piece. The iced spruce actually helps the white splatter stand out more and lends it self to the grunginess of the bottom of the flowers. ♥♥♥

I love the background. I think it makes all the other colours pop. Beautiful, as usual. Thanks for sharing.

I love this just exactly like it is!!! The Iced Spruce finishes it perfectly!!

I love the depth the Iced Spruce gave the picture, the doodling is fun and quirky! Beautiful piece xxx💕

This is lovely, Nina! The iced spruce addition is wonderful! It looks like your flowers are emerging from a soft, fluffy cloud! ❤️ Xx

Oooh I adore those flowers! Very whimsical 🤗💕

Love your quirky and whimsical flowers. Thanks for sharing and Inspiring. Have a beautiful day!

Lovely flowers, I love the doodling around them. You didn't go overboard at all with the grey, it gives your painting such a special atmosphere. Beautiful Nina, thank you!

Just love this piece. Thank you again for sharing.

I very much love the iced spruce and the whole piece actually. Beautiful.

I don’t think one can be “wrong” in artwork ideas as it is really all about preferences. I loved the crisp white background as the flowers to me popped out more. But as someone commented it is so Japanese to keep it white. To my eye maybe a lighter hand with the iced spruce or even a very pale pink, Victorian velvet somehow made dustier looking so the color values are similar. I do love the doodling idea here. Just so clever. No matter how we do a piece it’s all about experimenting and learning what we like. So fun to play.

I really love this and you showed how a few extra steps can make something look magical. I really want to try something like this. Thank you. Barb Pacific NW

So beautiful. Grey border is perfect. It gives more depth. I looove your doodles

These are lovely little flowers with a very attractive background. They would make a great greeting card too! Thank you!

The iced spruce really enhances the finished result. Your flowers and doodles are lovely. Thanks for sharing

Beautiful Nina .. both plain white and spruce are gorgeous in my opinion. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts as you work . Kay x

Beautiful artwork, love the iced spruce background too.

Rewatching many of your videos. I do love the chalky watercolors myself. I just love the grunge look they give. Thanks for all of your tips and tutorials. You have taught me sooooo much

I can’t wait to try your technique here - love your result!

I don’t think any of this had gone overboard, it’s just so pretty. I just love the way it turned out. Anxious to get started on mine. Off to look at flowers 🌸

Gostei demais ❤ Parabéns pelo seu trabalho. Gratidão por compartilhar.

Love it! Looks great!

You are a whizz a taking simple shaped flowers and turning them into beautiful and unique work of art. The doodling is so imaginative. Like many others I like the iced spruce background but it was good too with the smaller border. I love those make up brushes for blending like you did. So much easier on the hands.

I love these flowers with the pen work. It adds so much. Thanks -Marsha from Texas

I love it ... flowers, border, doodling .... the lot!

Beautiful painting. I loved the addition of the Iced Spruce.

Well I absolutely adore everything you did! Absolutely beautiful!! Thank you for sharing, you are very creative and talented.

I love whimsical and colorful watercolor paintings like this one. I also like how this project combines the fun techniques of doodling, splattering, and white gel ink...it all works together so beautifully :) Thanks for sharing!

This is so pretty. Love it

I love it the way it is! Gorgeous!!

So pretty!!thank you for the inspiration!

So pretty!

I really love these flowers. Absolutely gorgeous and I love the border, it makes the flowers pop and look alive. Stunning! x

Quite lovely! I like the spruce!

I really love the way it looks with the Iced spruce. I didn't think I would, but I think it anchors the whole piece. It is lovely. I love watercolors but have been hesitant to use them. Thanks for using them this month. 💕

Lovely flowers Nina, I hope you are enjoying your holiday.

I love the spruce border! Perfect to me!

I love this piece! I really like your doodles and the use of iced spruce!!

Love the flowers! The piece turned out great.

I love this just the way it is!!! Good job!

I think this is beautiful!! I love the spruce border and the card stock as well!!

Love this! Can’t wait to try myself. Thank you so much!

I love the Iced Spruce. I think it gives it oomf! Love it x

Very pretty Nina, something like this would make a lovely birthday card. I definitely liked the addition of the iced spruce. Need to get my water colours out now and have a play. X

I love what you did with this art work!

Another great video. Love it!! And the border looks fab to me.

Nina, that’s so stunning and whimsical... and the iced spruce finished it off beautifully. Everything about this is so awesome. I also really love 💖 the doodling around the flowers and stems, it’s very fine and perfectly fits in too. Thank you so much Nina your a star ⭐️ xxx Mags

Very pretty Nina! Thanks so much for sharing, it really helps to see someone using the watercolors who isn't an expert. I think you have done a lovely job with them. Hugs

These are lovely!

This is lovely and whimsical!

p.s. I loved the spruce background especially at the bottom because the flowers looked as if they were growing through a misty morning x

I am on the “love the iced spruce” team. I think it still works as white space and makes an ethereal misty effect. I also love how you doodled hearts to make the flower calyxes. Of course, if I was making this there would have to be glitter somewhere... I am really enjoying this month’s prompts.

This page is so beautiful, love it!!! 👏🏻👍🏻😍

Very lovely. Thank you for sharing your process.

Never used watercolors before, but think I could give something like these a try. Really like the vine-like doodles and like the border, as well. Thanks for practicing on video. Makes a newbie like me less nervous about trying new things.

Your page is so pretty and unique, love it. With respect to the Artist Loft paints, the cheaper the paints the more chalky they are (which comes about due to the amount of filler added to the pigment). The brand of paper also makes a difference, and the texture - cold pressed is the one most people use and is slightly ridged, whilst hot pressed is very smooth allowing the paint to flow, but makes it harder to control. The Gansai Kuretake ones you have are not pure watercolours, they are more like a gouache with great coverage and vibrancy. A good student grade of watercolour paints is the Windsor and Newton Cotman range and I just watched a video the other day about Sennelier student grade and they are slightly better than the W & N. So to be honest it's a mine field out there as far as watercolour is concerned. Hope this helps. Tfs xo

Have finally got to watch your video Nina and just love these flowers. I have a very small set of unbranded watercolour paints that I get from an online supplier here in Australia. Nothing fancy about them, but perfect for the beginner, and I have had them for a long time thinking I would never use them. I have really enjoyed the last couple of challenges and am thinking that they will become a more permanent part of my art. I do prefer using the drier process without wetting the paper as the colours are a little more manageable (probably because I mess up the wet on wet....!! However, it's a process that I will keep trying.). But I too tend to still get a lot of water on the paper. I think watercolours are teaching me patience.....something I am definately lacking. Thank you for helping us to push our boundaries and for taking us out of our comfort zone - I for one am really loving it. Oh by the way, I like both backgrounds - I love the vibrancy of the watercolours that the plain white background brings out, but also love the ethereal quality of the spruce border.

Thank you so much for sharing this video, Nina. Using watercolor paints are really pushing me out of my comfort zone. I don't have a lot of experience with watercolor, so this video is definitely helping me to do that. I have tried watercolor in tubes, watercolor pencils, and watercolor crayons. I don't have a favorite as of yet, but again, with use and lots of practice, I will be well on my way to working towards becoming more seasoned in using it. Your flowers are lovely and I look forward to this weeks watercolor prompt! Thank you again! :-)

I like how it turned out.👏

It’s beautiful. I wouldn’t change a thing. I enjoyed the white space, but your border definitely better. It adds depth and actually makes the flowers stand out.

Beautiful work always

I love this page! For someone who doesn’t know that much about watercolors you have made a great painting!! I hope that you will do more with watercolors after the new year and keep at it, partly because I think it will inspire me, a newbie also! They say your progress with watercolors happens when you spend more hours with your brush on the paper, and that real progress happens in years, so we must stay dedicated if we want to really learn! Great luck on your journey!!💕

Good morning nina, like the fact you say, this is not a tutorial, you take us along your learning to work with watercolours. Watercolours are harder to control i find, they just sometimes go their own way and you just learn to carefully watch what happens.I loved the moment you started the doodling, it made the flowers come alive, loved it..I agree that the border was a bit too much,BUT it still was a very nice piece, thumbs up and this is what it all about, you take decisions (??my english) and it is there and it is what it is, no use in being hard on yourself. Have a good week nina

That’s lovely!

Very pretty! Thanks for the review.

I love the flowers. They are gorgeous. Like the border :).

This is absolutely beautiful! I am totally inspired to drag out my water colors! TFS. I am also "Team Iced Spruce". I love the illusion of misty/foggy effect.

It came out beautiful!

Love the border!

Lovely picture, I have t seen much water colour with doodle in but it works amazing, I'll definitely take inspiration and try that. For me less border would pop the flowers more, but it's personal taste. I love watching everyone's interpretations appear on Facebook.

Love this and definitely going to try this. TFS!

I love it! Love the iced spruce very much although I really liked the white at the time 😊

I love it with the iced spruce.

When you started with the Iced Spruce I was thinking ' No don't do it, leave it alone'. However I was wrong and love the finished piece it makes it look more dreamy.

Really pretty and I love your background ...very nice!!🥰

I love it!!!

This is so pretty 😍

This turned out lovely Nina 🤗

Love it!!! thanks

Love it.

Oh good! This video is pretty new! I LOVE the addition of the Spruce you did at the end. The whole painting is very fairytale like. Mystical. It's just adorable and you've given me some good ideas. I'm new at watercolor so my skills are not that great yet. But I tend to just go for it so to speak. Thanks for sharing. I subscribed.❤❤❤

So very cute. Thank you for sharing.

Your flowers turned out beautiful!

Beautiful.

Beautiful painting, Nina x

I like your finished piece. It needed a border. I really like the doodling!

Pretty flowers!! I rarely watercolor but I did start out with the Artist Loft ones & found them too chalky so I gave them to the grandkids & bought some of the Jane Davenport.

Really like the border, it softened the page.