I made-up project for marine aquarium, that was the first what came to my mind after seeing the texture ...

Wattercolor Texture - image 1 - student project

This is how it looks when you don't put a weight on your texture while scanning :-/... I re-scanned it several times ....

Wattercolor Texture - image 2 - student project

Texture after color correction (levels + really little bit contrast) and removing background....

Wattercolor Texture - image 3 - student project Wattercolor Texture - image 4 - student project

Creating pattern, I could paint higher blotch but nevermind ... I tried to fix it and filled the white space...

Wattercolor Texture - image 5 - student project

Test on random font...

Wattercolor Texture - image 6 - student project

I jumped into Illustrator and made this little buddy :-) with help of more reference pictures...

And here is the final use of watercolor texture:

Wattercolor Texture - image 7 - student project

Wattercolor Texture - image 8 - student project

Thanks a lot Teela for this lesson, this was really fun!

Marsch M.

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