3 Baby Chicks in 3 Different Styles- Experience The Excitement of Watercolor, Ink, and Color Play

1. Welcome: Well, hi, everyone. My name is Carrie Sanders. Welcome on into my studio. Happy to have you. Today, I have for you a series of three adorable chicks. And it's the same pattern but done three different ways. So there's a little something here for everyone. We are going to be doing some watercolor and ink, or if you're a purist and want to do pure watercolor, here it is for you there. And if you're adventuresome, and you want to learn how to do some color mixing and see what different colors mixed together do. I have it here for you in color. This is actually a third set in my series of color play. First, we did colorful sheep, and then we did colorful birds and now colorful chicks. And you can find these other two classes on Skillshare. Hey, I have been teaching for years and years, and I just have such a love for sharing art with people. I was fortunate enough to have my art picked up by a big Bog store, and we published a book that went out over 10,000 copies sold along with some pattern packets that went with that. And I've also had art that's won awards and contests. I've just been really fortunate to have an ability to share art with people. And that's what I'm here today to do with you. And I hope that you will join me as we work on some washing and glazing, highlighting, shadowing, splattering. We'll be doing color mixes, as I mentioned earlier. There's something here for everyone, whether you're a beginner or you're more advanced, and you want to relax and take something and sharpen your skills a little bit. I hope you'll join me today. I hope you'll take a moment to follow me. Just click that little button. And then you'll get notices when I have a new class coming out, if you would like to take more of my classes or see what I have available, all you need to do is type my name in the search bar, Carrie Sanders and all my classes will populate here on Skillshare. All right, go grab your supplies, and let's go ahead and get started on these cute chicks together. 2. Projects: Okay, my friends and fellow artists, your class project is to complete one, two, or all three of these adorable chicks. But I especially hope that you will do the color play challenge. It's so good to learn how to make color mixes on our palette, and that will help you in your future projects along your art path. Once you have finished, if you could please just take a moment and snap a pick and upload that into our class gallery. All you need to do is look for this button, and it's easy to upload that. It'll only take a moment. But that allows me to get a notification. It allows me to chat with you there. And I would love so much to be able to take a look at what you've done and tell you great things about it. Nothing but love, nothing but love. And also, it allows us to see what each other has accomplished. I always say it's a bit like baking a cake. We give everyone the same recipe and they all turn out a little bit differently. That's the beauty of art. You have a special gift. You have a special talent. You are unique. I would love to see how each piece turns out differently. Please take a moment and upload that into our gallery and let's support one another there. 3. Supplies & Pattern For All 3 Projects: Welcome on in. It's time for us to review our supplies for these cute little baby chicks that we're going to be doing. We're going to do some great color exploration and mixing for our colorful ones, and we're going to learn some inking methods with these and we'll do some plain watercolor techniques with these. So we have a lot in store for you today and you can do one or all three of. So first of all, let's review what you're going to need. If you can go to the main page of skill share, you can print out the PDF of the pattern. It's super simple if you want to just go ahead and sketch your own, it's a matter of doing two circles and adding some feet. So that would be great as well. You'll need some tracing paper to take your pattern and trace that onto tracing paper. That's what you're choosing to do. And once you have your tracing paper piece, you'll need a piece of graphite paper so that you can apply that to your watercolor paper and for beginners, I'll show you how to do that step by step. Today, I'm going to be using 140 pound hot press paper. You can also use cold press. But the important thing is to be using 140 pound, always always guys. If you can just use a higher quality paper that's 140 pound or better. You'll have a better outcome. To me, that's more important than buying good brushes or top quality professional grade paints. Your paper is going to make the biggest difference for you, and so that's a great place to do that. I'm using hot press so that I have a little smoother surface. You can use cold press. It will have a little bit more tooth to it, and that's fine as well. So you're always going to need my favorite tool, always, of course, is the handy dandy tissue. We'll be using some of this. And you'll need two bowls of water, one to keep one really clean because whenever we're using yellows and whites, you're going to need clean, clean water to work with. So clean and dirty water dishes and of course, some towels to use. For our brushes today, super simple We're going to be using some rounds all rounds. I have a number four, which if you've taken my classes, you know, that's my very favorite brush always. This is a number six. You can see it's been well loved as well, a six and eight ten. All of those are great. This is a 12. We're going to be doing a little bit of background wash. You want something on the larger side. Then we'll be doing some fine detail work around the little chicken eyes, so this is a 20. Um, so just to have something that has a really fine tip that you can work with. And then if you're going to be applying your pattern, you can use a stylus or a pencil to apply that. My favorite pencil always is the black wing. And then for our inking, there are two patterns that need ink, and I'm going to be using a Muji ME JI, fine point pen today. Just make sure whatever you use is waterproof. Make sure you actually test it out and know for a fact that it's waterproof. That will be really important for you. All right. Let's review our palette quickly. This is the palette that will be used for all three birds, and then for the colorful birds, we'll add some of these and not use it on the first two sets. We'll be using lemon yellow, yellow medium, yellow ochre, ambos, permanent rose, buff titanium. It's an off white sandy color, Serian blue, violet, Windsor violet, burnt umber, raw umber and just the tiniest touch of pains gray for covering the eyes a little bit and mixing. So for those of you that want to do the color play chicks, and I hope you will because it's going to be so cute and so fun. But also, it's a great exercise to learn how to start color mixing. If you haven't done it much, it's so amazing how mixing two colors together can give you such a variety on your palette and make it so much more interesting and fun. So we're going to be using this titanium buff. And mixing up cerilian blue and this is what you get. We'll also mix it with the violet and this is what you get. It just gives it a nice soft almost romantic Victorian feel just softens it down. We'll also be using yellow ocher as a base. We'll be adding that to some permanent rows. Depending on how much permanent rows you add, you get totally different colors. That's what all of these mixtures are, is just yellow ocher with permanent rows. If you add a little more rose, you get this pinker version, obviously. If you add more yellow ocher, you get more of a peachy color. And this last one, if you add just the tiniest hint of pains gray, then look at this awesome shaded color you get, and it is a beautiful addition to the mix that you've made. So I challenge you to go ahead and make these mixes with me. We'll do that as we get to that third set of chickens, and we do that color play series there. Okay. And lastly, I'm going to be using bleed proof white. This is doctor P H Martins. You could use white guash, if you would like to. I like to use this bled proof white because it's more opaque. And so I get a better result when I want to really cover something up with white. This is what I'm going to be using, for those of you that haven't used a stylist before, this is what I'll be using to apply my pattern next, and it just has a round tip. And this way, it preserves the integrity of my pattern versus a pencil where I'm actually drawing on it. But you can use a pencil or you can use a pen, whatever you want. It's not a problem. So I'm going to speed up the camera now and show you how to apply the pattern. If you already know how, just skip this little part, and I'll see you right after we're finished here. Okay. Now, I just want to point out that I did not make every mark when I was applying my pattern that shows on the PDF that I provided for you. I did that so that you could see it closely and kind of get a feel for where we're going to be painting. But you want to be able to have some latitude when you're painting, and so you don't want to put every single mark. I did dotted lines, as you can see. So go ahead and apply your pattern and I'll see you in the next video. We'll start painting. 4. Inked Chick One: All right. We're going to dive right in with our three chicks that have a little bit of inking and a little bit of the ground underneath them. I think this will be the best one to tackle first because it has a little bit of everything in it except the color play, and it'll get us nicely warmed up for our next two afterward. So I have applied my pattern and I've got some tissues handy. I always just kind of break them off in squares of two and kind of have those handy. We're going to go ahead and start with some very clean water on our number four, and just go ahead and get that head. We're just going to stick to the head right now. Go ahead and just get water there. I'm just going to go over everything, the beak, the eyes, doesn't matter. I just want to start getting some interplay with the water and the paper. Okay. And we're going to come in with some lemon yellow. This is probably a 9055 ratio. You'll see you refer to ratios frequently throughout the video because I think it helps you understand how much water and paint we're working with. Very little paint and we're just going to go over what we just did with our water. I'm just helping it along because it's not super important to let this spread by itself, like we typically do in wet on wet. It's kind of Okay. Now, I'm going to wipe off. I'm going to pick up off the beak. Pull that off, wipe it off, you can see it whitens there. I'm also going to use that same mixture, but I'm going to put it on a little bit darker on the outer edge. This is why I like the paper. Let us manipulate in this type of situation. Not always, but for this, we want to. Let's go ahead and pick up some of our cad yellow. Same thing, we're just going to put a little bit darker up towards the top there. And then that will do the blending for us because everything is wet. Just a teeny bit down here. I'm not going to touch the cheeks too much because we're going to come in with something else. Okay. I just have water on my brush, I'm going to pick up a little bit of this beautiful permanent rose and all the tiniest amount will do. This is probably 9082 on the ratio, 98% water. Now we're going to do a true wet on wet, where we just touch that on these little cheeks and let that start to spread. It's going to spread all by itself. That's great. What we're going to watch for is we don't really want it to come onto the beak. If it does use that wipe off technique that we did just now, let's give that a second to see where it goes. I'm going to move it down here a little bit. Just manipulate it a little bit. Okay. I can see I need a little more cad yellow down here, so kind of determine where you want your darker and lighter to remain Okay. But while it's wet, this is a great time to do those blending techniques. All right. We're going to let that just keep playing for a minute. Let's pick up a little bit of this yellow ochre. It's probably a 9055. And we're going to come down right between the eyes. We're going to emphasize. Notice I'm doing a dabbing motion, not a straight line because you know, little fuzzy feathers. Little on his forehead, a little above the eyes. Not necessarily eyebrows, but just a little here and there. Okay. Great. Okay. I'm going to take that pink off the beak again. Good. I'm going to pick up a little more stronger yellow ocher now, probably a 90 ten. And just put a little on that lower edge of the beak. Okay. Now, because we're going to be inking, we don't have to be super with some of these things right now. We'll come in and do a little more shading on that face. But see if you're happy with those cheeks. I'm going to add just a tiny bit more over here. I'm going to add a tiny bit of yellow to it. Yeah, I like that color better. Thing over here. Add a little lemon yellow. Cute. Remember that watercolor will dry one value lighter. Don't be super worried. I'm going to switch to my number six round. Same thing, we're going to add some water to the body. Stay that face for a minute. Let that dry a bit more. I'm not going into the legs, either. Just the body. Okay. Same thing. We're going to pick up a little lemon yellow, probably in 9055. And if you look at the reference photo, I'm going to leave the tummy lighter. To get clean water, clean water on my brush and just let just add a little extra water and see how that just blends. We have a nice blend and it makes a nice highlight on his tummy. Or maybe it's a. Now I'm going to pick up a little bit of this cad yellow. Same thing, I'm going to deepen here and there around the face. Again, I'm using this up and down motion rather than a smooth motion because I want to give that fuzzy. If you did my colorful sheep, it's kind of that same technique, kind of an up and down wiggly motion. That's a technical term. All right. Now, let's go into some of our yellow ocher while it's still it. All of these are about a 90 ten mix at this point. Now, this is tucked behind that chick, so it's going to be darker over here, and we will come in with some gambos in a minute. But we still want to underlay it with some of this poker. I'm going around the the legs on top, it's going to be lighter, I'm just going to come up, not all the way. I'm going to bring this up a little bit higher And underneath the head, there would be a little shadow. Oh, this is fun. No, I just have clean water on my brush. I'm just going to soften. Okay. Good. We're not going to come in with gambos just yet. We can pick up some of this yellow ocher and you can stick with the number six, you can go back to the number four, if you're more comfortable. And I'm just going to add in these little toes talons. I'm not great with chicken anatomy, okay. This foot is underneath its next door neighbor's foot, so it's a little bit tricky right there. We don't need to fully define it until we ink. All right. That's looking pretty cute. We're going to let that dry and move on to the next one. I'm going to go back to my number four. Let's get this head going. Now, because his is sideways, I'm going to avoid it. Great. You want our lemon yellow? It's going to help that along. We want the lemon yellow everywhere. And I want a around this power edge. Okay. Cad yellow medium. Add that to the forehead, ran around down here where the shadow would fall. Okay. You know what's next? Permanent rosy cheeks in there. Now, you decide how big you want your rosy cheek to be. You can go with the pattern line here or make it go all the way down to the bottom. I'm just touching it in and I'm going to see where the water takes it. I'm going to leave that be for just a minute. While that's doing its thing, I'm going to pick up some yellow ocher and just do the bottom half of this a little dry. Going to fill that in. Just wash it in one color right now. Okay. Well, my permanent rose didn't bloom out very much. I live in Utah and it's very dry here. Today is a beautiful day. Everything is drying pretty fast on my palette. So I just put some water on it. There we go. Okay. 5. Inked Chick Two: Number six. Picking up water. I'm going to try and not come up right against that little chicken next door there. And same thing with the head. Stay away from the head a little bit. Okay. You know the drill. Let's pick up some lemon yellow, 9055 mix. I lay it in. We can lay it in fairly quickly. Bring it down onto the top of that leg and bring it down on this hind leg as well. Now, even though this is right here, this edge is going to be our highlighted edge. We're using lemon yellow, which is our highest color, our lightest color value, but I'm still going to bring that all the way to the edge. I'll still look like a highlight. Great. I'm going up some yellow deep cute little belly. I just like saying that word belly. Puts some on the legs. Definitely over here on the shadow side, and under the neck. Remember there we have. Okay, let the water work its magic there. I'm going to bring a little of this cad yellow down to the beak. Down that forehead where we did there. We're going to bring some yellow ak I'm just going to put a little more base in there. Thing down here under the cheek. I want to cheek a little bit. I love that permanent rose and the yellow mixed together. That's so pretty. Let's pick up a little bit of yellow ochre. Let's bring my palette so dry. I definitely want to here. Up and under. And this hind leg will be definitely hitting this with some gamboge, so don't forget that we will be making it darker, so don't try to make its final value with the yellow ocher. It's not going to be that way. And a little on the forehead Yes. Great. Okay, we need to do our legs back to number four ands yellow ch. A. Again, we're just washing this in. A wash is a thin layer of paint that's all one value. You'll do this frequently in water color. Then once it dries, we'll add to it. We can glaze another color value on top of it, or we can add highlights or shadows for dimension. We just want to base it in first. We want to wash it in. Do that. I just wanted to add a little hint of feathers around this little cheek, a little marks. Yeah. I think I'll add a few on this one, too. I like that. Add a few over here. I couldn't do it before because it was too wet. Now I can just add a little indication. Great. Hey, let's go to our guy on the end. Hey, I'm going to avoid the beak since he's tuning sideways. We have the ability to do that. And some lemon yellow, 9055. This is, this is a nice relaxing piece. Okay, I'm going to add some depth of color around the outer edge. And I'm going to put a little off there. I have a little dimension. I can add some yellow up on top. This guy is on the end, kind further away from the sun and he's more in the shadow. I'm going to make him is what I'm getting at. Okay. Clean water on my brush, number six. Trying to avoid the head and the chicken next to me. Great. I got some lemon yellow. Again, you don't have to be super careful with this first layer because it just needs to go everywhere. And then you can make it stronger here and there. Definitely strengthen in the shadow right here. He and then picking up some yellow. Emphasize that area. Little under the neck. I flip. Great. And let's pick up some yellow curve. Again, these are all about a 90 ten mix at this point. I'm just going to definitely use an up and down motion. Put that in. Love it. Don't you love wet on wet technique? It's just so interesting and it's always a little surprise. You learn what to anticipate. But depending on the day, the weather, just like today, it's so dry, it comes out just a little bit different each time. I so fun. I'm going to put a little under the neck. Again, this is our more shadowed one. We're going to come in with gamboge. Put b on the head. If you live where it's more humid, you're going to have a different outcome than I've got here in the dry climate. Hey, guess what? We didn't do the cheek. Or some of you sitting there going, are, you didn't do the cheek. Are, can you hear me? You didn't do the cheek. That's okay. I'm going to add the cheek right now, and I might just add a little bit of water. Get some movement out of it. I'm actually going to pick up a little bit of yellow. Love it. There we go. Never fear we can fix anything. That's the beauty of watercolor. So many people are afraid of watercolor, and yet you really can't fix almost everything. What did Bob Ross say one of my favorite guys? Here's my Bob Ross. He sits with me every time I paint. Happy little accidents, guys. Don't let it get to you. All right. Okay. We need to come in and do this beak, but my cheek is too wet, so let's do the feet. Well, we wait for just a moment. This is just our wash all one value. Yellow ch, 90 ten. And I'm not being super careful. We're going to come in and in it, so I'm not stressing over any lines. Isn't this just relaxing a fun piece? Great. Now, if you're able, let's do just the bottom side of the beak. And I need to add a little between the eyes there. Feathers there. Okay. And I think I'd like to add just a few now that this is dry over here. Let's add a over here. And I think I'm going to add just a few on this outer edge. Here and there, not everywhere. Yep. Like that. Face head. I like that. Okay. I'm going to define a little bit more here. Good. I think we're on a roll. Let's keep going with this idea. Only if your paper is dry though. If it's still wet, it will lose the intention we're trying to put out. So I'm just trying to put little feathers. I can't do it on my third bird yet. It's too wet. We're going to come in and ink these little indicators. I don't like that one. You don't like something to touch it with your tissue and pull it off. I have a little bit here. All right. I'm going to switch to my finest liner. This is a 20 oh. You could use a one, a double, a five oh, whatever you have, something really fine. I'm going to pick up some of this gamboge, which is a very transparent color, it's great for washing or adding accent to something because it lets the color underneath that show. I'm just going to add basically some texture on these talons. Let's put some on the bottom side of the beak. So we're glazing it. We're putting a different color value on top of a color value that has been placed and dried. That is a nice Great. And now I'm still using this. I'm just going to add a little Okay. Glazing in the shadow area. I'm being lazy and using the same little brush. You can switch to a bigger one, but I'm doing such a small area and I don't want to get carried away. I'm just going to stay with this little brush. You see how that just deepens the shadow right there. I love this gamboge It has such a yellow gold tint to it. It's perfect for our little chicks. I might put just a tiny tiny amount underneath the chin here. Then a bit by. Okay, great. 6. Inked Chick Ground & Splatter: I'm sticking with this little brush because it's going to keep me in check. I'm not going to get carried away with this gamboge. I definitely want some on this hind leg. And back here. Good. This one. My bird's finally dry enough. I can work on it over here. This one is picking it up. Okay. Okay, let's just pick up. Maybe you already did this and I couldn't do it because mine was too wet, but I'm back to yellow cher. And I'm just adding fine with lions here and there. M. You know, on the legs. In the head. And then, I'm going to add just a few around the cheek. Now, I'm going to take a little bit of this cad yellow, super watered down, sticking with my tiny brush. And just a hint on the beak We don't want a white beak. I just wanted to highlighted. That's good. All right. Let's make sure our feet are completely dry, and then we're going to come in and do some ground work. I highly recommend that you take a moment and step back six feet and see if something needs to be tweaked before we move on, which is what I did. I have the studio lights that shine so brightly that I didn't realize how washed out my first chick looks. I'm going to go ahead and just make this a little bit deeper color value. If you need to do the same, go for it. But again, step back and see where you need to make any adjustments before we move forward with the ground. I am just washing in a little more color. Using the same colors that we already used. I just here and there. That's feeling better now. I still need to do this cheek too. I'm going to mix a little cad yellow with my permanent rose. Only because my paper is already dry, so it wouldn't mix very well by itself. I just want a little more color. I know chicks don't have, you know, blush on their cheeks, but I wanted a little color. That's feeling a little better to me. I'm going to start by picking up some yellow ocher, the 90 ten mix. I'm just going to use side by side motion, touching the paper here and there, going right over the legs, but super lightly so they don't just blend out. There, leave like that. Then we can pick up while it's still wet, we'll pick up some of this brut number. Thing, ten here and there. Okay. And then while it's still wet, I'm going to do just the tiniest amount of splattering with the number and it's going to spread because it's wet. I'm going to use my number four and I'm going to do a little bit of splattering while it's still wet so that it spread. I don't really at this point, I don't really want it to hit my chicken. I'm going to cover it a little bit. See how that will spread where it's wet and that's what I want. I want it to look like they've been scratching in the dirt and there's little d c and seeds and whatever. If there's a spot that you don't like, like on the feet there, let's touch. That's okay. Let's just go. Okay. All right. And then I'm going to put that dry a little bit more. And then we'll splatter some more. Just a second. And don't worry about these up here. We're going to add to those actually. Okay, I'm coming back to my large, and I'm going to pick up just the tiniest a bit of a raw umber. A little excess water there. Okay, and I'm just going to add a another layer. On top of our umber, on top of our ocher. And I'm going to let that dry and then we'll do some splattering. But this time, I'm going to let it dry because I think I have enough spots down there. While that is drying, I'm using my number four to pick up some yellow ocher and just put a little bit of shading in around the beak. So that when we in it, it looks nice and dimensional. I'm just going to put a wash 90 ten mix. Literally around the beak. Okay. And I think I'll put If you see places, this is a good time to emphasize any shaded areas that might need a little extra attention. Under the legs. Under the belly, where the legs met. I'm just using yellow ocher. Water on my brush to smooth here and there. I make the transition. I'm going to add a touch of lemon yellow here. Okay. All right. I think we're dry enough that we can splatter. Let's pick up water on our brush, using our number four, picking up raw umber. Bringing it up on the sides now. I'm going to bring more dimension by touching here and there, that makes some of them fade away. Leaving some of them. Let's dry completely, and we're going to come in with white and we'll also do the eyes. 7. Inked Chick Highlights & Eyes: Okay. Again, I would highly recommend that you step back six feet and take a close look, see if there's anything that you want to tweak. And I noticed that my feet are looking a little transparent from the washes. And so I'm going to come back in and I'm going to pick up a little bit of the burnt number using my number four and a 90 ten ratio, see how that's pre th at this point. I'm just going to add to some of that water. We are going to define this obviously when we do our inking, but that will just add a little more texture. It's not so see through here and there. If you need to do that. Go for it. We are going to add some highlight to it with our white in just a moment. But this needed to be done first. Also a little shadow underneath where it meets the top of the feathers. There much better. Very good. Let's pick up some of our white. Going to use this bleed proof white. I'm going to stick with my number four. I just like to put a little bit in the cap and then I wash the cap out frequently, so it doesn't get all goofy. I'm just going to put them in here and a little bit of clean water. Not much though. This is just the opposite of paint this is probably I don't know, 95% paint and 5% water. I want this quite opaque. I'm going to go ahead and you can see me I'm rolling this so that as I pull up and I'm just getting some of the paint off, but also bringing it up to a fine tip. We're just going to add some little highlighted feathers here and there. Cute? It just brings out some great highlights. Just where the sun would catch some of those by fuzzy feathers. Just here and there. Same on the forehead, eyebrows. A few on the cheeks. Anyway, you get the idea, so kind enjoy the moment and see where it takes you. I'm going to kind do half this beak. I did the other half in yellow ocher, the sun's catching it and go up. O. If it goes on too strong, just wipe it off. Yeah. Didn't like that. There, go. Good. Now, let's put some on the as well. Great. Okay, I've pulled out my Mogi pen. We're not going to start all of the inking just yet, but we do want to lay in the eye. And I think for this, it's fine to just go ahead and lay it in with the pen, and then we'll go over it with paint. Just kind of line it in just lines. And because there's yellow showing through, that's okay. Because we'll come in with our pans gray and cover it. Oh. Alrighty. Yeah, let's go ahead and come in with our paints gray. Okay. I just gave this a light. Let's get rid of the yellow. For me to see because the light is reflecting on it. Now, I always do this, and then I will turn it upside down and do it again. Because when you're trying to make a round circle, it's hard to do from just one angle. You almost need to look at it from the opposite side. So I'm going to go ahead and turn my board upside down. Sorry. That makes you dizzy for a second. And let's go ahead and just Just check the correctness of your circle. You can do some repair work with your pan, of course. After this is dry, I should say. Okay. Let's look that dry completely. 8. Inked Chick Feather Details & Sign: All right, we're going to start to land. Little feathers. And these are broken lines and some are taller than others. And for the feet. I try to avoid having a straight line, and I do pretty quickly and broken lines. I like that. Be careful here. Remember this is where we're going to be fine. This little guys flits on top of the other one, stepping on my feet. There we go. Refer back to the pattern if you need to Good. Notice, I'm just avoiding the eye area. My eyes aren't dry. I just want to make sure I don't smear. Of course, you can always use a heating tool or a hair dryer to dry those faster. Make sure you're paying attention to which bird is on top of the other one here. Great. Now. When you're doing the head and the cheek, just keep in mind, the the roundness. I always want to follow the contour of the piece that you are inking. Okay. Here we go on the beak. About the only place I actually do kind of a straight line. A. We're almost done, guys. And once we finish this part, then we can come in and add a white highlight to our eyes. Okay. All right. Let's break out our white one last time. Okay, I'm back to my 20, back to my bleed proof white, and probably 95% pain, 5% water. I'm rolling this and pulling it up to a fine tip. And we're just going to do a soft broken line around the outer edge of the b. We're also going to put a dot. And then we're going to put eyelashes, but little fuzzy feathers. It might feel like eyelashes for a second here, but just if you look at the actual photo of the chicks that I gave you that we used the reference photo, I have a white something or other around their eyes, so I'm going to go ahead and do that here as well. I'm thinking about it. Who? I think the trick to these is to just make sure they're all different lengths and make sure it's a broken line. Great. Okay. Let's step back one last time. Take a close look, see if there's anything else that you want to change your ad, and then we can sign our name to this one, and we'll be ready to move on to the next. All right, guys. I think we have finished up on our first set of cute little chicks. I hope you enjoyed this piece and maybe learned a few things or sharpened your skills along the way. I know I had fun doing this with you, and I always say, take a look in the mirror and tell yourself what a great artist you are. You have a talent and a gift that most people don't have, and I'm so proud of you for completing this piece and for taking the time to learn something and improve your skills and make yourself a better person. So, good job. I'm really happy that you spent this time with me. Thank you so much. Let's go ahead and sign our name together and claim our artwork. Okay. All right. I hope I see you in the next two classes. We will be doing the three chicks without any inky now that we're warmed up. In gives us a little forgiveness, right? So we're going to be doing a piece without any inky now that we know what we're doing. And we will be wrapping up with some color play and doing our own color mixing and really learning some fun things with this one. I'll see you in the next video. 9. Pure Watercolor Washing in Bodies: Welcome back. We are going to start our next set of chicks. This is going to be the set that's just pure water color, no inking, and we're going to go ahead and start with the body. Go ahead and pick up your medium size round. This is a number six and pick up just some clean water and let's put in some water on the paper going around the head and just do the body. We'll let that start to absorb in. Okay. And then we can pick up some of our lemon yellow. Yeah, we'll just wash this in. I'm going to pick up a little bit more and make it a little darker towards the outer edge. Because the paper is wet, it should do most of the blending for us. I'm going to go underneath the head as well, and in this dark corner over here. Nice. Now, while this is still wet, I'm going to pick up some of this cave medium and touch darker areas underneath the chin in this corner. And around the top of the leg under the belly. Notice I'm kind of padding it. I'm not stroking it because I want it to look kind of light and fluffy. And I'm going to leave that center area here light. It's got the yellow on it. It's nice and light. All right. We're going to leave that for now. We can go ahead to the next one. Same thing. Some of the lemon yellow. Just wash that in at this point. All one value is fine. Now I'm going to pick up a little bit more. Add emphasis on the outer edge here and there. And a little yellow. Okay. Now here at the bottom on that leg and this leg on the belly. Great. Let's come back to this one. We were just letting it soak in a little bit. And now we can pick up some of the yellow ocher. And we can put some down around the bottom edge. Bring it in more broadly in this dark corner. Underneath the chin. I just have clean water on my brush, and I'm just going to smooth that is a dead where it needs to blend. And let's pick up some of this yellow ocher, bring it over here on this little guy. Same thing, clean water. Just take some of the excess off. Just soften that a little bit. Great. Okay. Yeah, let's come over to this one. Lemon yellow. M. Cad yellow. Remember this bird. It's kind of more in the shadow. It's going to be a little bit darker than the other two. I'm going to still leave a lie little highlight here on his tummy. Great, let's pick up some of this yellow ocher. And some clean water. And I'm just going to soften this. Good. Let's let those absorb. Switching to my number four round. I'm picking up clean water out of our clean water. Go and do the head over here. Remember paint flows where the water goes, so we want to be a little bit careful here. Nice. Let's speak of our lemon yellow. Great. Now, let's lift off beak. Just touch and press and then touch your tissue, and it comes right off. And let's add some cad yellow to the shadow side. Down here between the eyes. On the bottom. Great. And for the cheek this time, I'm going to take some of this cad yellow, and I'm going to do a little mix here with the permanent rose. I'm going to have it. I'm going to start out slow slow and go. You can always add more. But I'm going to start out slow because we won't be doing any king I'm just going to do a slow buildup and make sure that it stays where I want it to stay and it's the right value that I want it to be. Keeping it off good bee. 10. Pure Watercolor Washing in Heads: Just have water on my brush. He's going to try and keep that chin a little bit light. I think I'm going to let this dry here now. Sorry. I'm going to add a little bit of yellow ocher above the beak and up that line there. Above the eye here. I just starting that settle in with the water. There. Okay. I can tell. I'm going to remember it dries one value lighter. I'm going to want another layer, but slow and go. I'm just going to let that dry a little bit. And while that's drying, I'm going to go ahead and wash in this first set of legs over here. A little more careful this time because we aren't inking. I just lifted off a little bit of highlight here and there. M. Okay, good start there. Okay, I'm going to let this one dry pretty good, and let's move on to the next one. I'm not going to put water on the beak. It's okay to go over the eye. Okay, lemon yellow. As and Cad Yellow. You guys know the drill by now. Okay. Okay. Just water on my brush now. Just smoothing it out a little bit. Just have yellow and a little bit of this rose. And touch that on. Yes. Mm. All right, this one's fairly dry now, and while we have this mixture already going here. Let's wash on. If you need it, look at your own piece and decide how rosy you want the cheeks. I'm going to rosy mine up a little bit more. But I like this yellowed down version with the C yellow medium. It just tempers it a bit. I said, since we're not doing the inking, I'm going to be a little bit more cautious. Blending that with water and softening little chin. Good. I like that. All right. This is still a little bit too wet for me to play with there. Let's go ahead to our next one. Picking up some clean water. This is lemon yellow. A. Ad. Good. Okay, a bit of k. Remember, this is our darker one. He's over here in the shadow. Okay. I'm just going to lift off a little bit right here. Before I put the cheek in. I like that better. Okay. Now I'm going to pick up some yellow and some permanent rows. Nice yellowy pink. And now I think I can put a second coat over there while I've got this going. It's almost a peach color on the palette. But it's just the right touch on this yellow background, this yellow base. Good. I can't redo this one yet. Okay. Let's go ahead and finish putting in our feet down here picking up some yellow ocher. Too much water. There we go. Hey, we're bore. Oh. 11. Pure Watercolor Glazing and Feathers: Number four and do the bottom half of the beak. And it's going to be a little bit thicker, probably in 80 20, x. And on this one, we do the top half. This one bottom half. Same over here. Now, let's pick up sticking with my number four. Let's pick up some of this gamboge, a 90 ten mix. And let's just wash in a little bit of a glaze in the shadow areas. Under the chin. And in the shaded area on the side here. A little bit on the belly. And to soften this edge with water. And I'm going to add just a tiny amount on the shaded side of his head. Okay. T with the next one. A little bit there. Hey, we'll soften that with water. A little bit. I'm going to add a little bit on his head, too. The water on my brush. There we go. And last but not at. Okay. And just clean water. Salt in those edges. I'm going to round this out a little bit more so it looks. Remember to follow the contour lines of your project, whatever you're doing. And let's put a little bit up here on his head. Good. Let's let that dry because we're going to come in and we're going to do lots of little tiny feathers with our smallest brush. And we're going to pick up some lemon yellow and just put a few little fur lines on the outer edge. I'm just taking off a little of that water. And because we're not inking it, we want to just add a little indication of feathers. I think I said fur before. I didn't mean. I meant feathers. I do a lot of pet portraits, and so I have fur on the mind at the moment. I'm going to do a few on the bottom here, but I'm not going to go into this yellow ocher. We'll do some yellow ocher there. Right now, we're working with our lemon yellow. Let's just add a few. I don't know if you can see them very well, but they're really short. They go in different directions so that it's not just all in one direction like a zipper or something. Just a little indicator. Let's do this on all three of our cute guys. I'm going to leave out for yellow ocher, but I will put some over here a few here and a few around the leg. That looks great. Let's pick up some yellow ocher and we're just back to our 90 ten ratio. All right. And just to start down at the bottom, we get a feel for things. That probably shows up a little better for you to see on camera. I'm leaving space between them up here. Now, while I'm still on this one, I'm going to put a little indicator around the tummy here and there, just like we did on the last ones. But again, we won't be inking them in. It's going to have a different feel. I'm going to add a few more down towards the bottom. Just to give that feel of fluffy feathers. Different lengths here and there. Okay, I'm going to bring it up the side here. I'm going to put some underneath his little head. You are going to come in and do some white as well. And we're going to put little line that goes up from their beak up to their forehead. Make sure you curve it a little bit. These aren't really eyebrows, but just a something above the eyes. Kind of up here towards the top. Cute. All right. And now, I'm just going to emphasize a little bit more on these feet because we're not doing any king. We just need to shape these a little bit. I'm just going to make them look texture. Just give them a little lumpy bumpy on that outer edge. I have made a few little curved strokes there. I couldn't help but do this other foot. They're overlapping, and it's kind of confusing if you know just got to keep going. The goal. Might as well do this one since we're down here. It. Yeah. Keep that in 90 ten so that it moves easily for you on your little line of brush. Sometimes you have to rinse out your brush and start fresh. What I'm going to do here. Looks like I forgot some little feathers over here. There we go. Yeah, I didn't finish. I must have got sidetracked somewhere. I didn't finish going up around his cheek either. Hey. 12. Pure Watercolor Feathers: All right. Over here, we're going to go to our lemon yellow. 90 ten. Same thing. I'm going to pick up some of the ocher. Around the eyes a little bit above the e on the top of the head. M. This starts to feel kind of tedious, your hands getting, you're holding it too tight. Set the brush down for a minute and take a deep breath, go get a drink or something, and come back refreshed because you don't want to put these on and regret the way that they were placed. Now we're going to put a lot of little feathers here. To strong. Just touch it With a tissue if it's too strong somewhere. Oh. I'm going to put just a few lemon yellows right in that section there, so I'm going to leave it. This one's in the shaded area, so he's going to get quite a few feathers here. Darkening underneath the beak there. Coming into lemon yellow. Little spot here on his forehead. All right. You need to do his feet with some of this yellow ocher. Okay, great. It's a good time to step back and assess and see if you want to do any more little yellow ocher feathers anywhere. If you're good to go and it's dry, then let's go ahead and pick up our number four. We're just going to add a bit of our watered down a bit. Is going to touch it here and there to add a little more shading. A. Maybe yours doesn't need it. I just need it a bit more. And I wanted to add a little bit over here, this was a light. I wanted to shape this round right here. Yeah. Soften this blend. Yep. Hey, and I wanted to pick up a little bit of this burn number and just add a little more texture to the feet to make it a little more interesting. Yeah. That's better, don't you think? Go slow and go on this and go easy. Tu on here. Have you ever touched a baby chick? They're just so soft. Oh, my gosh. Their little feathers just so gentle. My dad was raised on a farm. And so we always had chickens in our backyard, even though we lived in a town. And I just love the baby chicks so much when they were born. So adorable. Okay. Let's take a look and see what we need to add. I think I would like to add the tiniest amount. Like, this is a 9055 wash here? Just a little bit? Like this leg here is pretty shadowed. So I'm going to add a little bit of a wash there? Like that. Maybe a little bit here. Because we don't have the inking to do identification of certain things. We need to do that with paint. Great, like that better. I think you're going to add just a bit. This one is our darker one. He's in the shadow. I'm going to put a little bit under his neck. I'm not doing a straight line because we want to maintain that little feathery feel with water on my brush, I'm just bringing it down a little bit. Okay. I like that. The ever so lightly. Over here. It's the tiny. I get it. Okay. That's feeling better. Let that dry. We're going to come in and work on the eyes next. 13. Pure Watercolor Adding Eyes & Details: Okay. Okay, I've come to my smallest brush, my 20 out, and I'm actually going to start with the burnt umber watered down. This is called Carry's Safety Net. Because if I were to make a mistake, I could easily wash this brown into the yellow and start over. If I came right in with black, I'd have a tough time getting rid of black. But also, if I were a beginner and some of you are beginners out there. Then this is a great way to safely trust yourself, trust your painting skills and start out. Put the pen away and just go ahead and paint it in first try. And you can see that it's working out just fine. You gives you the confidence to do what you need to do. And it also gives you the ability to back it out and start over if you need to, there's nothing wrong with that. All right. So I'm pretty happy with the shape of those. I'm just going to go ahead and wash those in with the burnt number. And then I'm going to come over it with the pans gray. But because we're still shaping the eye, this is a great way to fill it in. Make sure you're completely happy with the shape of that eye. Okay. That's looking good. Now, while we have this out, let's just add the tiniest amount of shading on the bottom up the beak, and I'm just going to put that kind of right underneath that upper lip, upper whatever recall. Just like it was a shadow. Okay. All right. Let's pick up some of our pains gray now and only do this if your burnt umber eyes are dry. I'm going to go pretty darker on this, 70 30 split. As I did in some of the other birds, I'm going to go way down and I'm going to turn my board upside down and do the other half. It's hard to do a nice circle without turning your board, and there's nothing wrong with turning your board to go for it. Excuse me while I turn. Now it's shot. And you notice I always start in the center of the eye, and then I work my way down slowly. That just helps me so I don't know, get misshapen right off the back. Oh. Okay. All right. Since we're not inking, something that I like to do when I have tiny eyes like this is to just kind of a kind of wash out a smear. So we have our eye and I just have clean water on the brush, and I'm just going to Kind of a zigzagging motion, a little bit of that paint because I'm just using a clean water brush, it goes very faint. And so you can see how it works like that. It just sinks your eye in. Then we're going to come back with some white and define the eye. But that's what I would like to do next. If that makes you nervous, practice practice on a piece of paper there like I just did. And just slow and go, you don't have to press too far out. Just a little ways. We're not giving him eyelashes. We're just kind of setting that eye in. Then if we need to come back and add more paint in the center, we can do that. But see, there's an example. You can see the difference in the two, and that's what we're trying to accomplish. We'll clean out your brush for the next one. We want to start with clean water. It's just kind of a fun little technique. And one more. You can see why you have to let it dry first. If you tried to do this while it was wet, it would look like eyelashes, and that's not what we're intending. Great. Now, let's let those dry and then we'll come back and just put a little bit of extra paints gray right in the center of the eye. While that's drying, step back, take a good look and see if there's something else that you want to add to the little bit of feathering we've got going on. All right. When I step back, I realized I hadn't put any yellow ocher around the beak. We're going to be really careful. We don't want to mess with our eyes. This is going to be a 90 ten mixture. We're just going to add a little bit of a shadow underneath the beak. And a little above here. Of course, we're on the side view. So we'll just put a little on the side here and a little on the side there. And then I'm just going to add a bit I don't know. I just don't want that to be straight, so I'm just going to add a marking there. Here and same thing. Ok. Then also, these little guys have I don't know what it is a little bump above there. Be little round which we're going to highlight in white, but let's put it in. Hey. That's looking good. Let's go ahead and put our pains gray in to the center of that eye. Only if you need it. Make sure it doesn't drip. I want it to be nice and dark in the center. Great. Okay. Let's let that dry completely. Sorry, one more thing. If you want to and I'm going to add just a little bit of a triangle, like the corner of the eye indicator. You don't have to. I'm going to add also a little you haven't done it already. Just a little nostril. Good. Okay. Let's let all of that dry completely and pull out our white. I. 14. Pure Watercolor White of Eyes Highlights & Sign: Okay, I picked out my bleed proof white. This is probably 95% paint and 5% water. I just the opposite of what we do with our watercolor paint. I'm rolling this and lifting and bringing it to as fine a tip as I possibly can. And then I'm just going to do kind a broken line to indicate where the eye would go. It doesn't even need to go all the way around. It can, if you want it to. Okay. And then we're going to pick up a dot. Great. Now, we're going to add in some cute white feathers to highlight. Where the light picks up some light shining on those feathers. You need to clean up a one. This is a great way to do it. Go around that little white dot. It goes on stronger than you like. Touch it with your finger or your tissue, or you can even remove it with some water on your brush. And since we're not thinking, I'm going to be a little more liberal. A little more white. Before I forget. We need to put that little bit of white around the eyes feathers. Make sure they're going in different directions. They're different height. These are not eyelashes. I'm going to put too many over in the dark side or on the dark leg. I took the time to completely wash out my brush. I'll do that frequently when you're working with this white. Even if you're working with white guash, you don't want to build up. Okay. Not very many on this darker leg, either. I think we're about ready to step back, six feet, take a good look and see if there's anything that needs to be adjusted. With this one because it was just so clean. I didn't feel like doing any splattering or any ground beneath it. I'm going to leave it just the way it is with that simple, pure white background, and it makes our chicks stand forward by themselves. So I'm ready to sign, always sign your artwork, claim your art, and be really proud of it. And look at yourself and remind yourself how wonderful you are and how talented you are and what a great ability you have. And I'm so proud of you for taking this class, and I'm so proud of you for practicing and pursuing excellence. And let's go ahead and sign our name together, and then we'll move on to our final piece of colorful chicks. So you in the next video. 15. Color Chick Mixing & Washing In: Before we get started on these cute colorful chicks. I just want to review quickly a couple of the color mixes that we'll be doing ourselves. Yes, you can do it. I believe in you. First of all, let's try this buff. Let's go with this buff. This will be a good base for color mixing. You'll just pick up some of this buff and we're going to add in a little bit of the ciilian blue and it just tones it down nicely. Let me get a little more water here. And you can see how that just softens that color and tones it down nicely as such. Then we're going to do the same thing with violet. I'm using Windsor violet. You can use whatever violet you have. There you go. Some nice muted tones there. We just don't want to overpower. We want these baby chips to be nice and soft. Now here's the one that I really wanted to go over with you. We're going to use yellow ocher as our base mix here and we're going to pair that up with permanent rows. Depending on how much permanent rows you start with It will determine your color. Obviously, if you add more of the rows to it, you're going to have a stronger red color. We add even more. But let's go with more yellow ocher this time and just a little bit of the rows and you'll see how it goes almost we're going to be using both of these in our piece. Guys, you have the choice. You get to choose what color you like. How pink you want it to be, how peach you want it to be. If you look at this center one in the middle, I used a lot of peach on that one. You choose what color you like, but I recommend that you play with this a little bit on a scrap of paper and we'll mix these together as we go along. If I didn't do this one. If you want it a little more gray, let's do that one real quick. All you do is you take your yellow ocher, pick up that permanent rose, and a touch is the tiniest amount of your panes gray. And that will gray that down. Oh, isn't that beautiful? Love it. These are great for doing floral bouquets, any kind of flower or Victorian type of boho type of feel. This is a great color mix to use on your palette for a lot of different things. Play with that, and let's go ahead and get started on our piece. Let's start with clean water on our number four brush, and we're going to get our first chick head nice and wet. Let that start interacting with our paper. I'm going to go ahead and go right over the beak on this one, like we have on the other two. Hopefully, you painted the first two chicks. Nicely warmed up before we tackle this one. I'm going to pick up some lemon yellow. It's going to be a 90 ten mixture. Go ahead and wash that in. Remember a wash is just a thin down value, and we're going to keep that same value throughout. Great. Now I'm going to come in with some yellow medium, and I'm just going to add some strength along the top of the head and on the chin and down between the eyes where those little feathers will start poking out when we get to them. And for the cheeks, I'm going to go with tad yellow medium and some permanent rows mixed together. And let me get back. More water there. You see the color I'm trying to achieve here. It's a little more pink. I could have done the yellow ocher as we did with our color mixing, but I wanted it to be a little more pink, so I'm sticking with the yellow, and the permanent rows Keeping it off the beak. Just wipe that onto your tissue. Ill it settles down a little bit. Here we go. Okay. All right. Now, I'm going to pick up a little this yellow ocher. And at the eyes between the eyes towards the top. And because it's still wet, it's going to blend a little bit. Okay. This is looking good. It's going to soften this a bit was a little dry, so it didn't go out quite as far as I'd hope. I'm going to help it along. Great. Now we're going to start the body, and I'm going to go yellow, pinky and blue on this one just to give you a little heads up. I'm going to start with just a little water and about a third of the way. This is the fun part. I'm so excited to do this with you. Steering clear of those wet cheeks. Picking up some lemon yellow, floating that in. I'm keeping it darker on the outside if you can tell and lightening it up as we get towards the center, towards the roundness of his belly. Now this next section, let's go ahead and mix them up first over here. I'm going to take some yellow ocher and I'm going to mix in some permanent rows. Okay. I like that. Okay. Now, let's get this a little bit wet. It's okay. I've got a little pink tinge on there. I didn't clean my brush real great, but that's all right. About a third of the way over, it's okay to go down into the leg there. Let's pick up that mixture we just made. Drop that in. So pretty. A little dark underneath his chin. Great. Let's see how that blends by itself before we help it along. Coming next to it, I'm just coming in with water to get rid of some of that pink that went in there. Now, I am going to pick up some buff and some of our serian blue. Because it's in the shadow area, I'm going to make it a little bit stronger out there and come in right on top of that. Now, see how nicely that's blended by itself over here. And I've just got clean water on my brush. Just going to soften that edge a tiny bit and give it a minute and see how it does there. And while that's blending, I'm going to bring a little of this pink. Just a little further into the yellow. Get some clean water, soften that. There, I like that better. Okay. Check out your cheeks, see how your cheeks are doing. I think that's pretty good. I'm going to leave that. We can go ahead and take a little of the yellow ocher and wash in feet. We're pretty good at these feet by now, aren't we? At this stage, we can just do all one value. This is where we go underneath those toes from our next door neighbor there. Great. All right. And that feels pretty dry. My face is pretty dry. I'm going to pick up some pretty strong yellow ocher and just do the bottom portion of the beak. Only do this if it's if it's wet, it will just spread. If that happens, it's not the end of the world because we are going to put some shadow in there. Here we go. This seems to be doing pretty well there. We'll come in and add a little more shading to it, but we're going to let that dry first. Let's go ahead and move on to our next one. Let's clean out our brush really good because we're going to work with yellow, go to your clean water. Let's go ahead and get the head wet. Now, this time, we're going to stay away from the beak. Since it's in a better position, we can just go around it easily. Lemon yellow. Oh. Great. Let's pick up some cad yellow and add some darker color around the top, around the outer edge. And especially on this shaded side over here towards the bottom as well. Let's give the water a minute to work with that. 16. Color Chick Washing In Chicks: Okay. While that is blending, let's create the color that you want for your cheek. I'm picking up some yellow ocher. Last time we did CAD yellow. This time, I am going to do yellow ocher and some permanent rose. I'm going to go pretty rosy. I'm doing this because I'm going to do a lot of peach on his tummy, and so I want it to be in the same value, same family values. This in. Just have clean water on my brush. I'm just going to help it along a little bit here, a little dry on mine. I'm going to do that if you need to. Add a little more. Let's give that a minute and see how it does, and while it's spreading out, let's go ahead and add some from the from the beau around the eye. So up on the head and around a little bit. It's a little too strong. I'm going to lift that out just to Tad. If something goes on too strong, you just need a clean water brush and you touch it and touch your tissue and it'll come lift right off. Nice. Okay. I'm loving this color. This is great. I'm going to soften that a little bit. Good. All right. Let's check out our mixture for this body. I'm going to do yellow, and then more of a peachy color and lavender. Decide what colors you want to do and let's get them mixed up. Color. Let's come over to our yellow Coming rose. Now for the peachy color, you need more ochre than rose. Don't be afraid to test it out on your palette. Make sure it's what you like before you put it on your cute little bird. That works for me. And also going to pick up some buff and violet. That's too strong, more buff. That's better. All right. Then we're ready to put some water. Go ahead and rinse your brush out really well in your clean water and apply water to the body. I'm trying not to touch the blue in case that's still a little bit wet. But if it is and it bleeds over into your other one, it's not the end of the world. You could do this with a bigger brush, but I'm partial to my number four. I like to have the control of a smaller brush for smaller areas. I come down carefully into this leg because this is where some of our darker color will go. Great. All right. Here we go. Let's get our lemon yellow. I'm going to go a little stronger with this one because as we get further over, they're going to be more and more in the shadow. Now notice I'm curving this. Always stay with the contour of whatever you're painting. That looks beautiful. Hey, let's pick up our mixture over here. This peach color. I need a little bit more. Great. We'll let that see how it blends with the yellow. We can help it along in a minute if we need to. I'm just going to get this a little more wet. The air here must be extra dry today because things drying so fast. All right. Picking up some of this mixture we made with our buff and our violet. Oh, isn't that? Great. Put that on. We're also going to use this on the leg that's in the shadow. I'm going to put a touch over here on this leg right over that yellow. If you had yellow or whatever there, that's fine. Let's give it a second and see what it does, and then we'll help it along with some water. Rinse your brush out really well with clean water, and I have a strip here, so I've definitely got to help out. I'm going to add a le bit of yellow. In some of our mixture here and let those two blend a little bit better. Bring it up a little more. Great. That's looking better. Just using a very light light touch. Okay, and before I mix with the purple. Again, I'm rinsing out using a very clean water brush. Let's see what this does here. There we go. See how that water to soften that edge right up beautifully. All right. And we have our leg here. I'm going to add just a little more violet to our mix. Touch of water. And just create a little bit more of a shadow here. No. Soften that with some water. There we go. That looks better. A few feather lines here. Better here. I'm just going to add a few feather lines. Good. And we'll come in and a touch a shading in a bit. Now, how do your cheeks? How does your cheek? I think I'm okay. Mint's not nice and round, but that's okay. I might just touch a bit here. The little feathers after all. It's not supposed to be smooth. There we go. That feels better. Okay, let's go ahead and wash in our feet and legs, keep it old yellow ocher, 90 ten mix. You know, the drill. We've done this lots of times by now. I am staying away from the purple. Great. Hey. Let's do our next one. Let's go ahead, have a very clean brush and the head wet. Avoid the beak. Since it's pointing in the other direction, that should be easy. Yes, I'm aware we didn't go in and paint that be. We're going to we'll get to it. Great. Let's do some yellow. A. This felt strong. I take a little off. Great. Now, let's mix up our cheek color. I'm going to do cad yellow and permanent rose. I got a lot of water on here, so I'm going to have to watch this. Okay. I'm going to keep it in control. Okay. Let's add some yellow towards the top. Cheeks are growing, so I got to pull them back down. If they keep going, I just have clean water on my brush and I'm just touching my tissue, and that just pulls it back down. Okay, let's pick up a little bit of our y from the not around the eye. Wonderful. And while we have this on our brush, let's do the beat. Let's do the bottom. Okay, can't do that one yet it's too wet. 17. Color Chick Background & Splattering: While that's blending, let's put some on these legs. This one's underneath everything. It's under this bird. It's under his tummy. In other words, it can be fairly dark. I don't want to do that. Okay, but it starts going up. I touched the tummy and it started going up into the peak. You just have to pull it down, touch your tissue. And that's okay. Now, on this side, I'm going to do it a bit because it's on the liner side of the bird. But it's still underneath, so I'm going to do blue. Pulling out some feathers. All right. Let's see how we're blending here. Pretty good. I don't want a straight down. I'm going to bring it up a little bit. I'm going to have a little again down here. This is just water on my brush. There. Yes. Hey, and I think the blue is going to be fine. I'm going to add a little more depth to the che. Take a look at your cheek and see how it's looking. I did yellow for this one. I'm going to mix up just a little bit more. Add just a touch more. Yep. I like that better. We know chicks don't really have rosy cheeks. But they're sure cute when they have them. It's up to you how rosy or not. Maybe you don't want them rosy at all. You can just keep them yellow. That's fine too. Like that. Hey, let's go ahead and put in the legs, yellow cher. Stay away from the blue. That's too dark. Ten it down a little bit. We just want to wash. We don't want it keep it in 90 ten. Okay. Now, I can't do the bottom of my beak yet because the cheek is still wet. But if you're able, you can put in the bottom half of your beak, or if not, you can wait for me. It'll be just a moment. All right, let's go ahead and put in the bottom of the beak that's not quite finished yet. Just a 90 ten mixture of our yellow. Okay. Okay. And actually, while we have this on our brush, let's go ahead and wash in just a little bit of a shadow around the top and the bottom of each of these. A bit. Great. Going to soften this a little. Bring that up just to touch. What I love about watercolor is you can really manipulate where you want the paint to go. It's so versatile. Great. All right. Let's go ahead and take our large I'm using a number 12. Any large brush that you have will work, but we're going to work on the background a little bit. This is going to be about a 9055 ratio. Quite watered down, and I'm just going to bring some out. If I'm using yellow on the background, it's going to come from a yellow portion of the chick. So, you know, and you want it to look not square, not straight. You know what I mean? You want it to be kind of natural looking, kind of a little explosion of color. Here as well. Okay, let's pick up a little of this pink here. Yellow. Maybe you still have some on your palette. That would be great. Okay to likely go right over the feet. We're going to come back into those feet anyway. I'm going to have a little right there, too. To add just the slightest amount of purple there. Cute. To add just a tiny bit of blue. Yeah. You be a touch. Be careful not to sat on the head on this. And I need to add a little more of that yellow over here. Have fun with this. Step back, take a look at it and add as much or keep it as small as you would like it to be. This is totally dry now. My background is completely dry, and I'm picking up my number four and coming into my Cerilian blue with lots of water. Is probably 9055 mixture. I'm going to do some splattering, but I don't want a lot to go onto my cute little chicks. I'm just going to hold a tissue over and splatter. I'll just move the tissue as I go along. Now, before that dries, I'm going to lift some of them off and leave some of them on. Just so I have a variety, and it looks like I have a couple get up there on the chick. That's okay. You can also, if you want to emphasize some of them, just touch them with water and they get bigger. And since this is the blue area, that's what I'm going to allow happen here. Okay. Ready for the next section. I'm tapping ones over here first to get the bulk of the paint off so it doesn't go on too big. I don't want to overpower our cute little chicks. They just have a gentle softness to them that I want to maintain. Great. Okay. Before those dry, I'm going to soften some of them. Just here and there, not everywhere. Good. Okay. How to do? We need to let that completely, and then we're going to come in and we're going to do a little added shading. 18. Color Chick Deepening Shading: I'm going to stick with my number four. So clean water. All right. I'd like to just start from here and move my way over, and this is where we're going to tweak it and make the final touches that we want. So I'm looking to see if I have the shading on the face. Are the cheeks the way I want them? Did I shade around the beak? Yes, to all of those, but I am going to emphasize just maybe a little bit more of a line there above the beak. Then we could put in just a few little individual feathers here and there. Remember we're going to come in and in some of this in, but you do want something underneath the ink in general. We'll just emphasize that. Then same around the legs. Shading in a little bit with some feathers. Cute. See they start to get their little personality. We need to add a little to the feet, add some texture lines, and little bumps. Add a bit of the go as well. Just to throw in some more color. Great. Okay. Now, I'm still not happy with around the leg. So I'm going to deepen that shadow picking up some of our mixture. I'm just going to touch in a little bit there. A bit more on the bottom. The clean water on my brush here as I soften that as it comes up the belly a little bit. There we go. There we go. Okay. Now, I am going to deepen the shadow in the corner there. I'm just going to pick up some cerlian no buff added, but I am watering it down. A teeny bit in that corner. And then soften the edge with water. There. Nice. See how that just makes a nice shadow under bringing it down where it touches the bird next to it, a little bit on the bottom. That adds some nice depth and dimension. Nice. And if you wanted to, let's just do it. Let's add a tiny bit of this yellow medium. P 9055. Just a smidge. Just to define the difference between the face and the body. There would be a little shadow cast on the body. You see how it makes the face stand out. If you want something to stand out or a highlight to be stronger, you have to put something darker behind it. That's what we just did right there, and that looks great. All right. Let's move over to our next one. Actually, before we move over, I just want to add the slightest amount. Sightest I mean, teeniest amount shadow on this part this half of his beak on the top. Okay. No. Just take a look at your own and see if it needs any more emphasis or if you're feeling good about it, then leave it the way it is. Remember, we're going to ink here. I'm going to darken the bottom of this beak. I'm going to darken the bottom of that beak too, actually. All right. Let's look at this yellow, and maybe add a touch. Same thing. Had yellow medium right under that beak on the body. That's better. Bring it right on over. I like that. In fact, I like it so much. I'm going to come back and put a little of this yellow right on top of that peak. Yep. That looks good. It's a little reflection of his yellow feathers from the face down onto the chest. All right. So let's look at what we need to do to add some shadowing down here. This is our yellow ocher one. It's kind of on the peachy side. And I just want to touch in around the leg a little bit, bring it up, Tad Bring it across the tummy a little bit. Now, this leg is tucked totally under the body, so we'll leave that alone. Now I'm going to use some water and soften that up. Love that color. It's beautiful. Okay. That's nice. Okay. And then on our Purple. I'm just going to. Just a few little feathers that are dark mixed amongst the lighter ones. And I know we darken this once. I'm going to do just a touch more soften a bit. Yeah. And same up towards the top. Just going to add some around underneath the head here. Down. He soften that with water. There. That's better. Okay. And then I am going to take a touch of yellow ocher. Very little. Okay, great. Now let's look at this one. I definitely need to strengthen somebody these feathers right here. Right from the beak. A few around the cheek. Softly over. Super light on the upper beak, super light, but we just don't want to leave it plain white. Okay. Now let's look at the blue. That looks good. I'm probably not going to add more to mine. But I will add some more to the pink down here and it's the pink Clean water, soften that. Carefully bringing it up. Red blue make purple, so it would be okay, because we've got purple right next to it, but I want to keep a definition if I can. And I'm going to add just a touch yellow. Good. Great. Now, let's just add a few strong feathers. And we'll be good. A little shadow there. Now, when you sleep to do those feet, let's pick up some yellow ocher. We want this to be a 90 ten. And pick up some of your gamboge. And I say this part for last so that we can clear up any of the splattering that might be too strong on the feet. This is a great time to just clear those out. This one too light. I'm going to darken it. Okay. I can't wait to ink this. It's turning out so cute. I hope you're loving yours. I hope you're having fun. Throw in some gambo That Gambo just darkens it up so nicely even though it's so transparent. Right. Okay, let's let this dry completely. 19. Color Chick Feathers & Eyes: Okay, let's put some more of our little feathers in. Using our yellow ocher and our number four. Just little indicators. I don't I still got too much water. When you see me touch my tissue, I'm just pulling some of the water off my brush. Okay. Goodness. All right. A little darker. Great. Okay. I think we're ready to put in the eyes. So go ahead and grab your pen. Okay. Let's go and start with a circle. And I'd like to put just a little. Great. Now, I'm going to just put little lines, but we'll come in with some of our pans gray and go over it so that there's no yellow showing. And it also makes it so it's not shiny. You can see right now because the pen ink makes it shiny, but the bird is not shiny and so we want to have a nice mat finish. Say one more. Great. Okay. Let's go ahead and set our panicide pick up small liner brush, whatever you're using, -20 ought and pick up some of the pines pray. We're going to want that pretty dark, so I would say 50 50 or 60 40 and just come over what we just threw in. You don't even really need to take it all the way to the outer edge. We're mostly trying to fill in that center portion. Then we'll come in with some white and give it a soft broken line outline to define the eye a and give it a highlight. One more. But this will have to dry completely. Okay. Let's let that dry. Okay, I'm working with my 20 out and I have picked up bleed proof white. I put a little bit in my cap and work with it here because when you have this tiny breast, you have to reload so frequently that it's just easier to have it right here, and then I'll rinse out the cap frequently and make sure it's nice and clean. But what we're going to do is let's start with the eye And I notice I'm rolling this between my thumb and my finger and as I do, I'm pulling up and that gives me a nice fine tip on my brush. This works with most any round brush that you have. When we're doing fine work, you want as tiny a tip as you can get. With these eyes, what we're going to do is kind of a little broken line of white goes around the outer edge, like that. And then we're going to pick up a little dot. Not that big of it out and not in the center, so it'll be up towards the top and a little to the side. Just make sure you do it to the same side on both eyes. Okay. Then with these chicks, if you look at the reference photo of the live chicks that I gave you, they have this little white Not eyelashes. I don't know what it is. Little scaly things or something around the eye. Anyway, it's white, we're just going to do a little indicator of that and just make some horizontal, some vertical and different sizes. So you don't want to look like it has a ring of white eyelashes. Let's move R your brush out really good between with these because the white will build up and we want to keep it as fine as possible. When we go around the eye, it's so important to have a very fine tip. Y? Let's get a little white. One more to go. Right. Ooh. Hold. Were you holding your breath? I know I was. Take a deep breath. Now, I'm going to add a little bit of a highlight. On each of these beaks. Let's go ahead and add some highlighting feathers, little feathers. Just we're following the contour, see how we got our arch, but they're all different lengths, not in a row per se. The above the eyes. Turning out so cute. This is when I just love doing this. Now all of them have this no thing right above their. We're going to want to put that in white. Then we're going to make it really show up with the inking. I'm going to put a few feathers around these cheeks. And then I'm going to have just some random feathers. Keeping them tiny. Just a little pop of light catching these feathers. Now around the legs. I'm going to do a little more. Some texture on these talons. Okay. Let's move to our next guy. That will lump above his beak right there. And emphasize that highlight right there. Touch. There. All right. And then some random feathers. And on the legs. Nice. Okay. And let's come over to the sky. Now you see why we did that with the yellow ocher. It just makes our little white feathers pop up. And we're going to come in and ink it as well. All going to come together. All right, let's step back and take a look and see if there's anything else that we want to add with paint before we ink and we'll be finished. 20. Color Chick Inking & Sign: Okay. I'm pulling out my MG pen, MJ. It's just a ballpoint pen, but it's great for artwork because it's completely waterproof, and I encourage you to use whatever you're comfortable with. But I would make sure that it's waterproof and you might be saying, well, are, we're finished painting, so it shouldn't matter. Yes, that is correct. You're right. However, if you finish inking and then you're like, Oh, I wish I could go in and add this one little thing and you are unable to do that because you didn't use a waterproof pen, then you're going to wish that you had Trust me. That's the voice of experience here. So that's why I always say use a waterproof pen if you can. Just to be on the safe side. So no, you don't have to at this point. We don't intend to go in and paint anything. But never, never. All right, so these little feathers that go around the outside are little Vs, little broken lines. They're disconnected and unevenly spaced. Just to give it a little more natural look. It's up to you, how many you want? If you want a really heavily inked look, then put more in. I'm going to keep a more delicate look. You might want to keep a piece of paper handy just in case you need to revive the tip. We won't say those are eyebrows per se. But if you look at the actual photo, it does have some kind of I don't know, it was just a little bit darker there. I'm going to be really careful because you can't really do a line. There we go. I'm going to put a little nostril indication. Then I'm going to go around this little bump. I don't know if you look at the actual photo, I don't know what it is. I'm sorry. I'm not very good at chicken anatomy. All right, that's looking pretty cute. I'm going to put just a few here and there on the body. Just keeping in line with the yellow ocher that we did. That's why we wanted that kind of underneath our inking to give it some depth. Then when it comes to our feet and legs, notice I'm making a squiggly line. Not going over the top with it, but they are definitely textured feet, so I'm going to do this one while I'm down here because it always bothers me. Every time I've done this, this is probably the tenth one I've done now. It bothers me that they overlap. Let's keep on going. Now, we just want to make sure that we're following the contour Keeping in good shape. I can't wait to see your projects. Please snap a pick and put those into our class galleries so we can see each other's cute chicks. They're all going to turn out different and amazing. Notice I slow down to do the head when I'm doing the heads because they stand out more. It's kind of our focal point. The body you can go through the head, you need to be careful especially these beaks. Great. Hey, last buddy over here. Sir. How you doing? Looking pretty good. All right. Down to our last cute little face. Notice the curved lines there. Refer to your pattern if you've lost your guidelines. And notice that the head comes up beneath kind of a round and beneath the beak on this one. You. All right. Okay, let's step back, six speak. Take a close look, see if there's anything else we need to ink. All right. I think we are finished. I feel great about this. I hope you do too. I hope that you learned something and you had a great experience painting this, what was relaxing and enjoyable. Please take a moment to look in the mirror and tell yourself how talented you are. You truly have a gift and a talent that most people don't have. I'm so proud of you for taking this class and completing your project and taking the time to invest in yourself and making yourself a better artist, a better person, for learning something new and improving the talents that you already have. Thank you for spending your time with me. It truly is special to me to have you take this class. Thank you. All right. Let's go ahead and sign our name together and claim our artwork. Okay. All right. That's it for this class. I hope you took the time to take the other two chicks if you didn't. I hope you'll come back to it at some point. I will see you in the next video, and we will wrap up. Okay. 21. Congratulations & Bloopers: Well, congratulations, guys. You did it. You finished your project. If you found this class to be a benefit to you and you know someone else who would enjoy this class or benefit from it, could you just take a moment to find this link? It's on the main page of the class of this class, and just share this link with them, and both you and your friend will benefit financially from Skillshare, which is pretty cool. Also, if you could remember to just snap a pick and upload it. You look for this button on again, the main page of this class. That will put it in our class gallery, and I will have the opportunity to speak with you there, and we can see what each other has accomplished and support one another, and that would be really awesome. Also, if you would like to take another one of my classes, I would be thrilled to spend more time with you, and all you need to do is go up to the search button at the top of this page, type in my name, Carrie Sanders, and all the classes that I have here on skill share will populate and maybe something would be interesting for you to take there. Okay. Lastly, if you would like to follow me, just click the follow button and you'll get a little notification when my new classes come out, and maybe we can spend some more time together? That would be fun. Thank you so much for spending your valuable time with me. I really do appreciate that. Thank you. All right, guys, I think I have 1 million bloopers today. It's early in the morning here in Utah. I've had a hard time getting my lips going, so until the next time. Take care. Okay, my fellow artists and friends, your class Oh. Take 20. Here we go. You can upload it easily onto skill shares page. Wow. This is going to be a blooper day. I'm going to have a lot of bloopers today. Focus. Okay. I can do this. Breathe.