Transforming Watercolour Bloom to Lavender Fields

In my watercolour class, one of the early exercises we did was work on our watercolour washes, blending from one colour to another with a flat brush.  Despite being told that you can’t add more water into a wash than is already present, especially once it’s stopped being shiny,  I thought I could just rework my purple a “WEE" little bit more without dabbing my brush off of too much water....what happens is called a watercolour “bloom”, where the colouring seeps away and forms a line that should not be there :(  bummer.  Lesson learned.  But as I looked at it after it dried a few days later, I thought maybe it could look like a lavender field and I could rescue it.  So, I added in some more hills,mountains and soft flower definition and viola!  A very clean and simple watercolor card that I really like.  

You can see my “bloom” at the edge of the lavendar fields where it has a fuzzy line and then fades to the white of the first hill.  I tried to make the most of it!  Stamped with a lovely sentiment that seemed to fit, from Power Poppy’s Soothing Sympathy set.  The background is stencilled/sponged with a Tim Holtz Bubble Stencil, and some Soft Sky ink.  That smile bit of washi tape anchors the image.