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Christmas Painting: A Pattern with Watercolor and Colored Pencils

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Christmas Pattern

      1:53

    • 2.

      The Materials

      3:34

    • 3.

      The Background

      9:14

    • 4.

      The Secondary Elements

      8:31

    • 5.

      The Primary Elements

      11:29

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About This Class

Learn how to paint dried oranges, cinnamon sticks, star anise, and other holiday-inspired elements with watercolors and colored pencils to create a beautiful festive pattern.

During this project, you’ll learn specific techniques to help you fine-tune your painting skills and by the end of the class, you’ll be able to paint different elements that you can use in any composition you create!

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As we paint, you’ll learn:

  • Materials recommendations.
  • Wet-on-wet painting.
  • Wet-on-dry painting.
  • How to paint dried orange texture.
  • How to paint different types of leaves.
  • How to create volume on your elements.
  • How to give details with colored pencils.

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This class is best for:

With step-by-step instructions, this class is especially for artists with a beginner level, you’ll be able to follow along and paint each element.

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Who we are:

Hello! We are Adriana and Kathy, a Design Business Administrator, dedicated to illustration and helping other creatives turn their passion into a source of income, and an artist, and drawing teacher, recently turned 42 years old in this profession.

Together we created Muy Artístico to make people re-introduce drawing into their lives. Our work is oriented to feminine portraits mixed with natural elements, using different mediums and non-traditional techniques for a unique aesthetic that gives a magical touch.

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1. Christmas Pattern: Here to paint dry oranges, cinnamon sticks, estar en ese, along with other typical elements of the states to create a beautiful, festive Potter. Learning to paint them is very useful things. They are always present in any holiday piece. In addition, these type of composition can be used for an infinite of things, such as printing it on fabric, gift wrap, and as a cover for netbooks. Hello my friends. My name is Diana and I am an illustrator. Together with gut D and our teacher, we created the article, the best place to find inspiration and our tutorial that will help you bring out your most artistic side. We know that an excellent way to get us started and to improve your drawing and painting skills is to reproduce a reference as accurately as possible. When you do so, it means that you understand how to use the drawing materials to obtain the desired result. That is why we have created these series of three tutorials where we show our painting process so that you learn different techniques, become familiar with the materials. And we will work on elements within the same thing, but gradually increasing its level of complexity. The first level is a Christmas pattern, the second is a Christmas ground, and the third is a portrait of a Christmas morning. In all the tutorials, you will have the drawing pattern. In addition to having our support to answer any questions in the discussion tab, you can find below this video on your desktop computer. Hope you enroll so that we can get down to work. See you in the next video. 2. The Materials: Hey, I'm so happy to see that you want to take this class. Here are the materials you will need along with the first step you need to follow before starting painting. First, you will need the pattern of the drawing, which you will find below in the projects and resources tab on the right side, when you access it from your desktop computer. Carbon paper or a sheet of paper with graphite on it. You can use the highest B range penciled you have. We use six B and HB pencil or one from the H series since they don't leave too much graphite dust, water colors. In each lesson, we will tell you the colors and the brands that we use along with that reference so that you can look for a similar tone palette to mix the colors. Jars with water, it is recommended to use 21 with clean water and the other to clean the brushes. We use one because our cat loved to drink water from where she's shooting. And it is easier to control that she doesn't drink from a jar instead of two. But if you use one like us, take care to change the water constantly. Canson XL, watercolor paper of 300 grams. I support and masking tape to fix your sheet of paper so it doesn't bend when you paint with watercolors. Brushes, we use a brush 8, 6, and U2 to select them with. Think about this space that we are going to pain. What is the largest space? And based on that, we select the larger brush. Then we think about the smallest details we need to pain. And based on that, we choose this smaller brush for the medium brush, we simply use a number that is right in the middle of both brushes. We make this common because we paint in a half letter or a five. So if you make it smaller or larger, the size of the brushes may body color pencils. As with watercolor. In each lesson, we will tell you what colors and brands we use along with a reference. So you can look for a similar tone. Pencil sharpener, kneaded eraser. Now, follow these steps before it's time to pain. Secure that paper to the support with the masking tape. Transfer the drawing to your watercolor paper for these uses, sheet of paper with graphite or carbon paper. Then go over the drawing without applying pressure with an H pencil and enroll over the kneaded eraser to remove the excess of graphite and you will be ready to start painting. See you in the next video. 3. The Background: Welcome to the first video of the tutorial Christmas pattern from the Series, a traditional Christmas. Before starting out, I want to mention that we have divided this tutorial into three parts. The bad ground, the secondary elements, and the primary element. We suggest you watch all the videos before painting. And while you are painting, watch the videos related to the part you are painting to refresh what you have learned. Also, remember that if you have any doubts, you can leave us a question in the discussion tab that you will find below this video. In this video we are going to paint the background that covers the splash and the smallest elements of our composition, which are the varies, the stars. And the star. Underneath. Here is the list of the colors we use on our painting. You don't need to use exactly the same brands or tones. You just need to use a similar tone to the one we use. If you want to get a similar result, the water colors tones you will need are bright yellow, bright red, dark red, brown, dark brown, black, the color pencils, tones, you will need our wine, white. Let's begin as splashed. Start by splashing the background in brown. Prepare them, Make sure why concentrated, but still make sure it is water down so your splash is dark and the drops are medium. It also helps to use the large brush. The larger the brush, the more capable is handling a large load of pain. And to splash, dab the brush with the handle of another brush. The idea is to make it look like we sprinkled cinema before. It dries, wash the brush and use it moist to clean the areas. You don't want them to be a splat it like on the top of the candy canes and leave. We are cleaning the splashes because we want them to be in the background and not on top of the element. If we leave them and paint on top with a light color, they will be seen. Take into account that there will be times when you will have to pass the web brush several times to erase this platter. Well, berries, I start by painting the smallest element, which are the berries. Paint them in red and leave a little blank space for the line to know where to place the ally. We define it, that it comes from the opera left side before they dry with a dark red paint, the shadow on the opposite side of the light. When you are done with them, let them dry to shape them, outline them with a wine colored pencil. As we mentioned, we divided this tutorial in three steps. To do so we pain one part at a time. Now, we want to be transparent with our process. And in reality, we don't work like that. We like to paint everything with watercolor first. Let it dry for a day, and then we start with the color pencils. It makes more sense for us to follow this process, since most of the times I am the one that paints with water colors. So I want to focus on finish my part and then the paint, the rest with the color pencils. However, we noticed that it is easier to digest and to find the content when we present it, focusing on one part are at time. If you want to paint it as we did on this tutorial, make sure to protect the drawing when you are painting with color pencils. We then use a lot of color pencils for this tutorial, so there won't be much of a problem. A star's, the second element to pain is the star painted with bright yellow. Before it dries outline then with brown using the tip of the brush or a thin brush. This will allow both paint to blend things. We don't want the color to be uniform. To make it look less uniform, add a bit of a brown on the ends of the stars and drag it to the center carefully. Finally, once the star Dr. paint the lie with the white colored pencil. For that, draw a line very close to the edge on one of the side of each tip of the upper left side of the star. Star and nice, the third element you are going to paint is the star unease to not lose thigh of the shape. You drew a star, but our line it with Brown made one side of the point thicker than the opposite and paint a small triangle inside each peak. Van with the same brown but more diluted paint inside the star underneath, leaving the tips and the center lighter. Let it dry and outline it with a fine brush and dark brown, making one side thicker than the other, and paint a petal shape on the inside with both ends. Dark. Yeah. Once dry with the white colored pencil, highlight the light inside each petals shape. And here is the final result. Congratulations, you've finished the background when you are ready for you in the next video to paint more elements. 4. The Secondary Elements: Welcome to this second video of the tutorial Christmas pattern from the series at traditional Christmas. In this video, we are going to paint the secondary elements of our composition. That are the cinnamon sticks, the candy canes, and the berries. Let's begin. The watercolor tones you will need are bright red, dark red, brown, dark brown, gray, and black. The color pencil tones you will need our phenyl, brick, medium brown, gray, light gray, white. Cinnamon sticks, estar paint in the cinema estate that is underneath, apply brown all over the state, then darken it from the bottom to the middle and from the middle to the top. So you start creating volume. We always like to plan the order in which we are going to paint the elements. We usually do it by relevance or by deploying in which they are. If you apply a lot of pain, use your brush a bit moist to pick up the excess paint and allow it to dry. You can also paint it in part, apply the vase only on 1.5 and before it dries, paint the shadow with dark brown. To rescue the light, use your brush a bit moist to remove some color. The other half. If you want a more vibrant look, once dry, repeat the steps with the paint more concentrated. If the caller has been extended where it shouldn't, you can press the area with a paper towel to clean it and avoid the color extended further. And finally, paint inside the cinema mistake week. I'm mixture of dark brown and black to give it depth. Now let's apply the color pencils use a brick color to shape the cinnamon sticks. Also use it to brighten some areas. Pain the live with white color. If the white looks to a strong, deem it with cinnamon, dark and the darkest shadows with medium brown. Apply a soft layer of cinnamon to unify everything. Berries, like we did previously, paint them in red, leaving a blank spot for the light at the top left. Then with dark red paint, the shadow on the opposite side. If the background is too dry or use your brush moist with a bit of Fred to blend the paint. Paint sticks in brown with a thin brush. With dark brown paint, some shadows at the base of the berries and the intersection of the sticks. As the details are very small, you don't need to apply color pencils. Candy canes. First painting the shadow with gray. Once dry paint, the red lines. Hello. Before it dries, paint the shadow with dark red. Once dry, continue with color pencils first, add more depth to the shadow with gray che, with a light gray on the opposite side of the shadow to give volume. Lie on the red part with white. And here is the final result. Congratulations, you've finished the secondary elements when you are ready, See you in the next video to pain, the primary elements. 5. The Primary Elements: Welcome to the third and final video of the tutorial Christmas partner from this series at traditional Christmas. In this video, we are going to paint the primary element of our composition that are the dry oranges, the holy, and the fur branches. Let's begin. The water color tones you will need are dark green, light greenish, yellow, mustard yellow, orange. By when the red, dark red, brown and dark brown, the colored pencils tones, you will need our light orange, cinnamon, brick, medium brown, olive green, apple green, and white. Dry oranges use a mixture of mustard yellow with a little bit of orange to pain the edge. With the wet brush blend that inner edge with the same mixture. Pain the segment before it dries up the same mixture, bug more concentrated and with more orange at both ends of the segment. And join both ends, drawing irregular lines. Apply the same mixture to the orange peel. Add more orange to them, make sure, and give a few touches of color to the segments. And the orange peel while you are adding the pain estar shaping the edges of the segments. Do the same with the rest of the oranges. Once dry and with orange paint, irregular lines inside this segment. Imagine you are painting roots, paying the appeal of the orange too. And brown to the mixture. And again, pain, irregular lines inside the settlements, but this time in less quantity and concentrate them towards the end. Add a bit of brown to the tips of a couple of segments with the brown mean sure. Pain, the appeal of the orange, dark and appeal with mustard, yellow and orange, leaving a light line between the pill and the segments. Also, be careful not to blend the brown edge too much for that. Avoid touching it. Most of the times, paint some dots on the pill with brown. Wait for them to dry. Abby to run a mixture of yellow, orange over it to blend them. While it is wet, add some brown spots to make it look burn, let it dry to continue with the color pencils, we find a segment with light orange. Use white to lighten the area between the segment and the peel. You see Naaman to brighten the tone in some areas of both ends of the segment and on the orange peel at lie to the segments with wide. Use brick to give more depth to some areas of the appeal. With medium brown enhances the burn area of the appeal. Use light orange to give more color inside of the segment. Holy. Start by painting the berries as we have done previously. Pain with greenish, yellow, all the leaf. We decided to use this color because we wanted to keep our warm color palette. Before it dries. Dark green to the base of the leaf and in some tips and spread it all the way around the edge. Finally, with a theme brush painting, these spirals in greenish, yellow. Ones dry continue with color pencils. Use olive green to draw the beans of all the leaves. Make the stroke a little thicker at the intersection of the veins. Use apple green to improve the shape of the spirals. For branch a star by painting with greenish yellow, short line from the center outwards. The way we located the drawing to film this tutorial makes it difficult for us to paint them that way, but it is easier and better to do them from the inside out so that the tip if thinner. Once you do both thighs pain, the steam. Once dry pain relief with dark green between belief you painted. So it looked lift here and pain over the theme. Let it dry to continue with the color pencils, what you are going to do is enhance the color. Use olive green to draw this team. Then draw shorter leaf, especially on the empty areas. So it looks leaf fear. And with apple green pin, longer leaf. And here is the final result. Congratulations you finish the tutorial. Remember that this does not end here. When you have your drawing ready, take a picture or a scan it and share it here as a project. For that, you need to go to the Projects and Resources tab and click on the button Create Project. This feature is only available right now for desktop computers. You then also share it with us on Instagram or Facebook by tagging of us when we add the stucco, sharing your work is the best way to receive constructive comments on your word. We are here to help you. Don't forget to watch the other tutorial from the series at traditional Christmas, where we paint a Christmas crown and a Christmas morning. Plus follow us on Skillshare to get notified it when we upload a new series of tutorials, if you like our paintings, I will like to invite you to see all we have to offer obesity in our profile on Skillshare from your desktop computer.