Transcripts
1. Introduction: The holiday season
is here and I'm sure you want to prepare something special
for your loved ones. What can be better than a hand
painted Christmas card or a gift tag that carry the worth and magic
of your creativity? My name is Alexandrina. I can't wait to share the magic of painting Christmas
illustrations with you. Don't worry if you
are a beginner. We're here to enjoy the process, learn, and most
importantly, have fun. In this class, we'll be exploring the beauty
of watercolor, turning white paper inter
personalized masterpieces. Imagine the joy your loved
ones will feel receiving a hand painted Christmas card or a beautifully
crafted gift tag, I'm ready to unwrap
your creativity and make this holiday
season truly special. Join the class. Grab
your watercolor set and let's paint the
magic of Christmas together. I can't wait to meet
you in the class. Until then, keep your brushes ready and your
holiday spirit high.
2. Let's Prepare the Gift Tags: Let's start by preparing
our gift text. For this, you will need a
ruler and a stationary cutter. I also use a 300 GSM
watercolor paper and a back of a watercolor
pad to cut on it. You can use board or some solid surface
that is more suitable. You can choose any size you
like for the Christmas tax, but I'm six 8 centimeters or 6.5 10.5 centimeters or in inches
it would be 2.5 and 3.5 ". Now when I have
these cards done, I need to cut the top
edges of these cards. I mark an equal size, around one centimetre
from both edges. Then you will need a hole punch. I have a heart shaped hole
punch from Alex press. It's simple one, but you
can use ordinary round one. Yeah. When I'm making postcards, I also like to use corner round, a punch that I also
ordered from Ali Express. It makes nice round corners and I think that we can use
it with gift tags as well. Our gift tags are ready. Let's start painting.
3. Gift Tag Branch: Let's start with a
very simple painting of a branch with red berries. For this painting I'm using
smallest brush number one to remove excess water from the. I'm using paper towel
when painting berries. I'm trying to leave a small white space that represents
highlight on the berry. Make painting more artistic. And I want to add
some small dots. The painting, you can use
red color or green color. It doesn't matter because
it will look nice. Anyway, we are done with our first gift tag. Let's move to the next video.
5. Gift Tag with a Christmas Pattern: Before we start painting, next gift tag, let's practice on painting
some simple leaves. Start with a very
light pressure, so the tip of your brush is
in contact with the paper. Apply more pressure
to your brush, allowing the belly to press into the paper and create
more flat line. Then begin lifting that
pressure off your brush, creating thin line again
at the end of the leaf. Practice on the scrub paper until you feel confident
in painting leaves. For this gift tag, I want to paint an ice
pattern all over the surface. I'm using a scrap paper under the gift tag so I won't ruin
my beautiful white table. I'm just painting this
simple leaves all over the. Just make sure that
you use enough water. Your leaves would
look very nice. Try to use different shades of the green for
different leaves, the painting will look
very alive and natural. Also, it's nice to use
different density of the color. I want to add some
pine needles on the edges so the gift tag
would look more Christmas. This is just an
idea for a pattern and you can paint
different shapes. You can paint only leaves or only pine needles or other
things that you create, and some small, final touches that you already
may have guessed. We add some small red dots
all over the painting. You may leave it as it
is just green pattern. But I like this
contrasting details, and I think it looks nice. We're done with this gift tag. Let's move to the next video.
6. Gift Tag Leaves: In this lesson, we will paint the simple gift tag
for this painting. You will need to color
green and cadmium red deep. Also liner Unipinzo 0.3
millimeters and two brushes, number one and number four, round brushes using
round brush number four. Let's start by painting simple leaves from
one edge to another. Once sleeves are down, I take brush number one
to make a small red dots. Now the gift tag looks
very minimalistic and I want to add
some nice lettering. I wrote down, Merry
Christmas with pencil. And now I'm ready to
repeat it with liner. But first, let's remove the pencil lines with
needable eraser. One more gift tag is ready. Let's move to the next lesson.
7. Mistletoe Gift Tag: In this video, I
will show you how to paint this missile toe gift tag. And as always, let's start
by preparing a sketch. Prepare your color mixes
for this painting. I'm using moss, green,
cadmium red dep. I also can add a little bit
of green to make the color. If you don't have it, you can use the mix of
green and cadmium red deep. We start by painting a mistletoe leaves with a very
light green color. I use different density of the color to make
leaves look different once we've painted the lives. Let's move to the ribbon
for the whole painting. I'm using brush number
one as it helps me to make my lines very thin. As a final touch, you may add a nice handwriting at the
bottom of the gift tag. I'm using a liner unipin
0.3 millimeters for the handwriting to get inspired on the nice font, you may use fonts on Canva, or you may also search for
lettering ideas on interest. I also decided to add some small red dots
around our mistletoe. I think it looks very nice. I hope that you like
this simple tutorial with the mistletoe. And I'll see you
in the next video.
8. Gift Tag with a House: In this video, I will
show you how to paint this small gift tag with
a cute little house. Let's start by preparing a
simple sketch of the house. For this painting, we will use
two colors, red and green. And we will start by painting a house with the
lightest red color. This, I will mix red with water. Now, I will let this layer dry, and then we will move to the
darkest part of the house. For the second part, I'm
using more dense color, so it means that in
mixture of red and water, I add more color than water. Also, I add a little bit of green to make
this color dark. I cover the back
side of the house. Don't forget that the
roof will remain white. We don't cover it with
any color at all. Also, I will keep the
small rectangles white, not covered by color to represent the windows
in the house. To make it more eye catching, I want to add some darker
line under the roof. It will represent the
shadow under the roof. Now we're moving to the
last part of our painting. We want to add some dark
forest on the background. For this purpose, I'm using green color with a
little bit of a red. You can also use just green
color and to make it, and we are just painting the
surroundings of the house. As a final touch, you can add some
nice handwriting at the bottom of the gift tag. One more gift tag is ready and I'll see you
in the next video.
9. Card with a Wreath: In this lesson, I
will show you how to paint a simple wrath
for the Christmas card. Let's start by drawing a circle. To do that, take
a simple mug and a pencil and trace the
pencil around the mug. Before we start painting, let's remove the pencil
line with an edible eraser. For painting leaves, I
will use a round brush, number four and a
mix of two colors, green and most green. I'm painting leaves going
just around the circle. And also I will add some small red dots
on the green lines. Sometimes brush just
jumped out of my hands. And actually the thing with painting that you
can fix almost anything, so I will probably add some leaves just to the place
where my brush fell out. Since I had this accident with my brush and I have some
splashes on my card, I actually thought it
would be a good idea to add some more
splashes to the card. First, take a scrub paper
and put it under the card. Otherwise, your table will
be covered in splashes. To load your brush with paint, hold it above the paper and the brush handle against
your other hand. This creates controlled ropes that can result in
unique slater patterns. Now it's time to add some nice lettering in the center of the
card, and it's done. Now you can see that any
accidental mistake can be fixed, and let's move to the next lesson and paint
one more Christmas card.
10. Card with Simple Leaves: In this lesson, we will paint this simple card and we'll add some handwriting
with lettering. Use a simple mark
to create a circle. Remove a pencil lines
with need bale eraser. First, I want to make a
handwriting right in the center. And I'm using a ruler to make two lines to get some references on the
nice fonts you can use canva or interest to
find your inspiration. I will start painting
by using brush number four and color mixes
from most green, green, and cadmium red deep. I haven't prepared a pencil
sketch because I randomly place leaves coming from edges
of the card to the circle. I also paint some
green lines and later I will paint red dots
representing Barris one It. When painting leaves
from the edges, I use a draft paper to
put under the card. Now when the first layer
of the leaves is dry, I can add some darker
leaves on top of them. And now let's add some
red dots on the card, making a final touch. Our Christmas card
is almost done. The only thing left is to add a handwriting
using a black liner. Once your Christmas
card is done, don't forget to remove all the
pencil lines with a razor. The Christmas card looks
very nice already. But if you want to add
some magic to your card, I will show you some trick. I use bronze water color by van. Go to add some shiny dots, just like we did with red color. But with the bronze one, this bronze color looks
better on the dark surface. That's why I'm painting these small dots on
the green leaves. And now I think it
looks just amazing. And we're ready to move
to the next lesson.
11. Card with a Christmas ball: In this lesson, we will paint a Christmas card with a ball. First, let's draw a circle. To do this, you will need an
ordinary mug and a pencil. Prepare your color mixes on the palette and let's
start painting. The main idea of
this painting is to fill the whole circle
with nice green leaves. Once it's done, let's add some small red dots
representing the berries. As a final touch, let's paint the ornament cap. I'm using green color
for this purpose and you may use red color if you like. Our Christmas card is ready. Let's move to the next lesson.
12. Card with a Christmas Tree: In this lesson, I
will show you how to paint this minimalistic
Christmas tree. Let's get started. This painting, you will
need a paper tape. And we will start by placing
a paper tape on the card, making a triangle in the center. Then I use a flat brush
number 12 and a green color. Then I start by making a green horizontal lines and keeping some uncovered by
color space between them. Then I let this layer dry. When the layer is dry, I remove the tape
from the paper. I take a smaller flat brush. Number two, I'm using one of my favorite
Christmas colors. It's bronze bi van. It will help us to make
some magical effect with bright and shiny dots and
lines on the Christmas tree. And I'm just filling
the space between these green lines
with a bronze color. Now it's almost ready. It looks shiny and festive, and I also want to add some nice handwriting at
the bottom of the card. Sometimes I like to combine
two types of fonts, the straight one and
the calligraphy one, and you can search for
inspiration on Canva. Let's remove our pencil lines with a razor and
our card is done.
13. Card with a Magic Pine: Welcome to the last
lesson where I will show you how to paint
this Christmas card. Let's get started
for this painting, you will need more green
color, more brush. I'm using more brush number
zero by Pao and black liner, 0.3 millimeters, you can use different
color of the liner. For example, I have Pa 10.5 It's up to you
whatever you like. The I like this technique A as you can choose
any subject you like and any color you
like for background. As you can see on the examples, I painted a mistletoe
and pine needles and it looks very
stylish, I think. So we will start by covering the center of the card
with clean water, then we apply color to the wet surface Using
wet on wet technique. I let this layer get dry and I will come back to
it in 10 minutes. Now I prepare a simple
sketch with a pencil of a pine or any subject
that you want to paint. Just keep it minimalistic
and very simple. And once it's done, I take the liner and
start tracing the sketch. And now when the
drawing is done, it's time to add some
nice handwriting at the bottom of the card. You can make some personal
wish so the person who will get your card will understand that you
painted just for them. The caligraph of font
can be challenging, so I suggest you to try
on the draft paper, and once you feel confident, you can make it
on your own card. And as always, the last
thing to do is to remove the pencil lines with a
razor and your card is done.
14. Final word: I hope this was useful
for you and you've created an amazing Christmas
cards and gift text. Please don't forget to leave a review as it
helps me to improve my next class and
for other students to understand the value of
this class for themselves. I hope to see you in the next class and
have a happy holidays.
Aleksandryna Gromyko, Watercolor tutorials for everyone
