After finishing the watercolor and colored pencil painting of the three red ornaments, the next step is getting the artwork ready for printing as a holiday notecard. Here’s a look at how I photograph the piece, remove the background, and prepare the final image in Photoshop.

Holiday cards in the making 🎄✨
Started with three little red ornaments from the basement and turned them into a watercolor for this year’s notecards.

It all begins with an idea.

Defining the project