Cats On The Move - Three Mixed Media and Watercolor Projects

1. INTRO: Okay. Hi there. This is Terry Runyan, visual artist and creative encourager, cat lover, animal lover, people over. So I am going to spend some time here with you, and we're going to paint some cats on the move because you know, cats love to be on the move. It's not just about running around the house anymore. It's about scooters, it's about cars, it's about boats, a submarine. It could be anything. So I've been painting cats and all kinds of things for quite a while now. I worked at Hallmark for 30 years and have been running my own business since 2016. And I love to share what I do with all of you, and hopefully you get as much joy out of painting cats as I do, as well as other animals. I most likely will use all kinds of different media in this class, including watercolor, cut paper, colored pencils, pens, acrylic markers. You name it. And I know one thing for sure, we will have cat hair as well. I would love to see what you are creating. If you could share your work with all of us in the project section, that would be wonderful. And let's go ahead and get started with our first kitty on the go. 2. 1 SCOOTER PROJECT: Alright, the first project we're going to do is with scooters. This could be for you anything. If you don't like cats, you can do dogs, Mcepurds. Maybe they'll all show up here. I don't know. But we're going to go ahead and jump in. So here we have our paper. I use fluid 100, 100% cotton watercolor paper. And this is an eight by eight pad that has gluing on the top and bottom, which helps the paper not to buckle. I also use a lot of different watercolors. I use several from Daniel Smith and many from Windsor Newton. So you can find out all about these in the about section in this class. I will have a list of all my stuff I'm using. I like to begin my process with doing a little research about what I'm going to paint. So, yes, I usually break out Pintrist and right now I'm looking at scooter illustrations. Here's one of mine, and, you know, just look up scooter illustrations, and you'll find all kinds of different inspiration. I'm not doing this to copy any particular thing. There's another one of mine, but to actually be inspired and get an idea of the shape of a scooter. So, yeah, that's my first step whenever I start a new piece. I use a big old very messy palette, so I like to have a lot of paint on hand and a lot of room to mix my paints. Two brushes I'm going to be using during this class are a mimic round, size ten, and also a mimic Kolinski round, size 12. Both of these are synthetic. No animals were harmed, so it's all good. For this piece, I'm going to go ahead and paint in the actual shape of the scooter before I do anything else. I don't think I actually made a purple scooter before. I'll mix up the color over on my palette, and then I'll come in here. You can see all the cat hair. I'll come in here and just test it out to see if I like it or if I want to modify it at all before putting it to paper. But I'll go ahead and do that color because I kind of like it. Have this new craze for purple. I never used to use purple at all. Like kind of didn't like purple. Is that sacrilege? And at this time, I'm taking reference from my own artwork. So I love that I can reference my own artwork because, you know, I start with it. I don't stay with it. And it just gives me an idea of what I've done in the past. Oh, yeah. This is already very different. I know there's gonna be a lot of people riding, so I think I will actually give this one a very long wheel base to fit more friends on there. Cats and other friends. So, I think they kind of go straight across, but, you know, yours does not have to actually look like a real scooter. As long as people get the general idea of what the scooter is that it is a scooter, then you're already there. So I'd like to have this go out a little further. And with this big brush, this is the size 12 brush, it's got a good enough point I can get away with working with it for a while longer before switching over to a smaller brush. This, of course, needs to dry before I start adding any more details. This is a Daniel Smith carbazol violet, a very nice purple indeed. I might just come in here since it's still wet and fix my little boo boo. Now, I'm going to use Windsor Newton Pains gray with a little bit of black to do the ground. I think scooters run a little close to the ground. That doesn't mean yours needs to. So there. The ground. I'm going to take a moment. This will be the real time part where I'm going to dry this so I can keep going. I'm gonna start adding a few details now use my black, put some tires on this. Removing the cat here. This could actually be a little more saturated with black instead of gray. So I've added more pigment to the color. It is a very long wheel based scooter. Normally, they're not this long, but we can do whatever we want with our artist's license. Nothing perfect here. All mistakes, so to speak, or opportunities. I got my tires on there. This one needs to be a little bigger, maybe, maybe not. Small is fun, as well. I'm also going to put a black seat on this. You know what? I'm gonna put a pink seat on it just to be fun. This is also a Daniel Smith paint, and it is the I don't know how to pronounce this, but it is in my notes. Who doesn't want to ride a scooter with a pink seat? Certainly not me. It's a little bit of an oversized seat because we're gonna probably have a few friends riding. I go to grab up a little of this paint, I dry out my brush a little and come back in and just suck it up. While I'm waiting for that to dry. I'm gonna go ahead and start adding a few more details, maybe some more black. Y. Every time I do something that I've done before, it always looks different, which is what makes art so exciting. There, that's probably good. Maybe one more thing here. And some little marks here. Very technical these terms I'm using. I have some turquoise blue on my palette right now. I'm going to go ahead and use that to make a little bird friend they love to just ride along with their kitties and animal friends. It's always fun to add extra characters. We know we're going to do cats on here, but it's always nice to see little extra characters showing up within the scene. So I'm one for adding birds and mice and flowers. Well, the flower isn't a character, obviously, but it might as well be. And let's see if anything else shows up. I think it will just be cats, since it is really about kitties on the move. Not dogs on the move. And I'm going to bring in some paska now for a few more details. This is a molotaw one for all, and I use the 1 millimeter size. Posca pens, moloto pens, pretty much any kind of acrylic pen takes a bit of work to get it to be opaque. And I like to test it out after I've messed with it over on a separate piece of paper so that I'm not finding out I have too much of the acrylic in the tip before I start and it blobs. I'm just going to put some highlights on here. This pen is not quite opaque yet, but I'm okay with that because as long as the eyeballs are opaque on the characters, that's enough for me. Could be. I can start painting the kiddies now. Yes, I do believe I can. I will start with a ginger kitty, also known as an orange kitty. I'm going to make this kitty lean forward a little bit, because this kitty is on the go and doesn't want to fall off the back. And there's also going to be a side view of a kitty, which I don't do as often as front views, but I think it's the perfect thing for this particular kitty. Us kitty is gonna have to have some pretty long arms to be able to reach that steering. But we can have long arms. Or what I could do is make it halfway there and add a little bit more to this because that is a super long arm. Crazy long. And the tail, showing the movement. Okay, so these are too long for what I like. The way I'm going to mess with that is to extend my kitty. I'm going to extend my kitty, so it's a bigger kitty. Here's how we fix things in the midst of our paintings. I'm also going to make it front facing so that it's looking at the audience. So there you go. There's a fix, and I'm going to make these back legs a little longer. That'll work. I like that a little bit better for its proportions. It's very silly, and we all like it silly around here. Just trying to get these paints to even out a bit. I don't recommend working back in because it makes watermarks and stuff on your artwork. And some colors are way less forgiving than others. You can see the way this is separating in here, but we're going to make it work. Now I'm going to grab some very light Lackin pins gray to add another friend. I kind of like this one I've done before, which put the mouse, so it's laying down on the front of the bike. Very relaxed. I'll add more details to this so you can tell what it is. But we do know they have a tail, and I think I'm going to do the tail in a black posca pen, but I will indicate it with a little bit of a line. I'm gonna put another mouse in here. This one will be looking at us all. Looks like a bird shape. Could be cat shaped, bird shape, mouse shape. This mouse is a little larger than that other mouse. And the tale. Who else? I do find that it's really useful when I'm working on something. I mean, I have an idea about this one because I'm looking at something I've done in the past. But to really pay attention to the painting itself and see if there's anything that's coming that feels like the next step, I do have to wait for some things to dry. So I am limited in what I do here for a little while as far as adding to these characters that are still drying. Like, I don't know who's going to go here, and I'm sort of just being with the painting and seeing what might show up. I do believe it's going to be another cat, and this kitty will be a brown kitty, I want to make it different than the black of the outer. I'm using some red oxide Daniel Smith mixed with a little black or ultramarine. And this is a little tricky. I like the texture that you get from this combination, but the ultramarine and the red oxide, you really have to be careful not to work back into them, because they will make a mess. More ears. We know what's coming. Yeah. Kitty with a white chest. I don't really know where my tails are gonna go with these I've pretty tight in here, so I'm just gonna have to make something up. Like I didn't know where this was gonna go, but this is where it fits. I do have some inner critic coming up saying that this is smaller, this is larger, things are not in proportion. And when that happens with me, I just ignore it 'cause it doesn't matter. This is me creating something and being surprised as I go. So, yeah. I think I think that orange kitty is dry enough now I can add a black kitty. So many different colors you can do for cats. I was having a hard time getting a point on the brush. This kitties gonna be behind the tail of the other kitty, and, of course, it's going to hold on for dear life. Always good to hold on. See, that wasn't quite dry, but that's okay. So when you're painting your scooter, like I said, it doesn't have to be Cats. All these things all these elements could be your own ideas to mix it up from what you're seeing me do here. It's lovely to see what people come up with from a class. And please make sure again to share those in the project section. I got my black cat back here, and of course, it does have another arm. I also have to put an extension on the steering so kitty could get to it. So, yes, that's the way I cheat the system. Might need more birdie friends since we have a couple mousy friends. Maybe a red biird. Where does Redbird want to be? Maybe riding back here on the back tail. I was very thick paint. I'm gonna go ahead and suck a little up with a dry brush, or it'll take forever to dry. You can see this one's still trying to dry. This little mouse. Maybe hasten the process a little bit and do a little more hair drying. I'm actually going to add a sun in here because it's a nice sunny day for a ride. This isn't pure Windsor yellow. I've added a little bit of red and a little tiny bit of the yellow ochre. Another imperfect shape. And who else needs to join this group? Anyone? I feel like I want someone down here. There's a lot of road surface going on. But I also don't want any deby to get run over, so I know not put it necessarily on the horizon line here because that'd be too close to the tires, so I'll put it down here. Who wants to be down here, so you got to ask the painting, What's going on down here? Let me know. I do want to add another blue bird up here while I'm allowing the idea to come to me about what's going to be down below. Oops. My favorite word. I think I'm going to do another mouse down there. Some of this is dictated by the fact I've got a gray down there. Colors won't go over that very well, so my little mouse will be here, maybe wishing that it could be on the scooter, as well. Okay. Maybe waving to the scooter that's going by. Hey, wait for me. I want to go. That kind of just gives it a little something down here, which is nice. That ear needs to be just a little bigger. So good things don't have to be in proportion. I give this tail a little extra color. This, I'm going to have to come over with black or white to get it to show. While I have this color, I'm going to add a little darkerne so I can do the details on this little one. He's got his hands over his chest. Arms getting way too big. Little ear centers. I think I'm going to take away that arm and make it a little thinner. And what else do we need? We got this piece coming back around. Also too dark. And this little mouse needs legs in the centers of ears. This one's still wet, so I have to wait on that one. I can add some wings to the birds. I'm adding ultramarin mixed with some of that turquoise. Everything's pretty dry now, so I'm going to come in and add this wing. This is a mixture of this pink color I talked about that I can't pronounce and Scarlet Lake. Bird is dry enough, little wet still, but I think dry enough to add the wing. This little mouse is dry enough now to add some details. The centers of the ears had to pull some off. I think that's all that needs. Okay, now I'm gonna start adding some details to this red orange kitty going to be a tabby. This is my size ten brush. And since this kitty is turning, you wouldn't see the stripes on that side. I'm going to make them a little bit longer on this side. And, of course, on the tail and the legs. The very, very, very long arms and legs. This kitty could be as long as it wants to be. Who else needs some details? I think we may be good with the watercolor. I actually think I am going to put in a little bit of shadowing, and I'm going to do this with some Pains gray. Not super dark. I just think it helps with an illustration to have a little bit of shadowing. So there'd be a shadow underneath the seat and a shadow maybe here. Maybe not. Definitely one there. There. Let's see a little more here. Good to have a little here 'cause there's a bird staying there and a little here. And then I'm going to do a shadow underneath the scooter, which is a little tricky because we have our mouse there. So we'll have to kind of work around the mouse, and the mouse is gonna get lost a little with that shadow, but we'll make it work. There, we're grounding the vehicle. And this mouse also needs a shadow. Alright. I can't seem to get that dark enough there. As the paint dries, it dries lighter. So good to know. Since this little mouse is getting lost, I'm going to make it a little darker. Not a lot darker because it's still a mouse. Classes. My aim is just to get it darker than the shadow. And I'm definitely achieving that. Okay you know, if you get too dark on something, you can come in with a tissue and blot a little up. I also know this is going to dry lighter than it looks here. A little more color on these details. I'm actually going to extend this tail because I'm going to come in with posca and darken these up. Yes, I definitely want to lighten this mouse a little. So I'm just taking the tissue and very carefully, setting it on there. Clean tissue, and Walla it's lighter, and it's still standing up against the shadow. I put a little color inside the ears as I like to do. I'll have to use a colored pencil with the dark kitty to do this because you would not see a dark color on top of this. And while I'm here, I'm going to give it a few hairs as we like to do. I think it's time to add some other details. Bird has got to be holding on with something and definitely needs a beak. This is a statler permanent luma color pen, and it will not run. It is waterproof, so water will not affect it once it's dry. Little nose on this guy. This one. Are you dry? Yes. Little nose on you. Smile, little fingers. Sometimes referred to as toes. Because these are on black, they're going to have to be a different color finger. Who else needs fingers? You do? Maybe just a couple here on the steering. Whiskers. This bird will be chilling back here, definitely sleeping on the job here. Needs a little nose, little mouth, and maybe a mouth here too. I'm going to switch over to my white molotau again. Whipping the paper. I can't always tell what I'm doing with expressions when I flip paper like that. Sometimes the cat I don't quite get where I usually like to put them. This guy is going to be just plain old surprised. This one's relaxed, but still aware. Very happy here and here. Happy here. Here. Add some little details in on this, kitty. Nobody else needs a light color for details, except for that little kitty. And, oh my goodness, I almost forgot the toes on the hand. I will come back in and put another coat of white on those molotaucrylic white markers with these darker colors, oftentimes the paint will kind of come up through on the first coat. I'm grabbing a 0.3 unipin to do some fine line for the little whiskers on the mouses, Hey, mess. Some hair do on the birdies. This can also help with the motion. This is Pen is drying up a bit. I'm gonna have to treat myself to some new pens. Let's see. I was going to do this posca pen, black posca pen to give this mouse tail a little more oomph. That one, I think shows up enough. This one needs it. Since everybody else has it, I'm going to give it to this one, as well. I'm not quite sure that works. I could have used gray, which might have been a better choice, but it's on there, so there you go. More details. Whitening up these eyes. Birds are okay. Mice look okay. Add a few more details onto the old vespa. I might actually do a little bit more of those highlights 'cause they think they add something. So, yeah, let's see. Nobody is looking at anybody yet, I notice. This was definitely having a joy ride. This one is just there. Kind of grumpy, actually, with a very big nose. This one also needs to have a little something in its ears. This is just a dark umber color. And while I've got it, I'm gonna give the skitti a few furs. Don't forget the cheeks. It's just a rose colored PC 929 prisma color pencil. Alright, even this angry one Crouch one needs some cheeks. Everybody gets some cheeks. It won't show up on the red. I'm gonna come in with a darker color for the cheek here. I could have actually used a darker color here, but I'm not going to do that at this point. A little signature? While I'm here, when sharing your work, be sure to credit whoever you're copying, if you're copying to learn. If you mix it up enough or it becomes your own, then you don't have to credit the artist per se. You might want to just say you're influenced by. Dt Eyes. That bird is not too sure about what's happening back there. This one wishes it was with everybody on Scooter. Always feel like I want to do a little more here. A few furs, maybe a white thing over the nose. This one's too grouchy to get anything. Alright, we did get it done in this section, and I can't wait to keep moving along here with all kinds of other transport. So let's go on to the next section, which will be a car. See you over there. 3. 2 TRUCK PROJECT PART 1: Okay, Project two. And I talked about doing a car for this Kitty's on the go, but know that you could do any transportation item because we're wide open here. I actually been thinking about doing a truck because you could fit so many characters in the back of a truck, and I might not just do kiddies on this one, but we'll see what happens. I do plan on doing a color background. So with a color background, you won't be able to get back to your white when applying your characters and vehicles and all that stuff. So just know that that you're going to have to come in with cut paper if you want to get back to your whites. So with that said, let's see what happens. Okay. As mentioned, I'm going to do a colored background on this one. Since I'm doing a big wash, I'm going to use the 12 round brush. Not sure what color I want in the background. I think I'll do a cool color. So how about some ultramarine watered down? That looks about right. Using fairly light color for this background, and that'll make it easier to come on here with some watercolor animals because I'm not going so dark on this background. I'm actually thinking I'm going to switch over to a green at the bottom, because these cats might be driving on grass. Plus, I like the idea of doing a split fountain. So with these split fountain type watercolors, you want to keep moving, as always, keep the paper wet so things blend beautifully, and now I'm going to bring in my green. I'm doing a grade down green here. I had a lot of color on there, so I'm just coming in with clear water now to water it down a little bit. So there we go. We've got our split fountain, and because it's so much fun to watch paint dry, I'm going to go ahead and come in with my hair dryer and dry this up. I'll speed that up. I ended up with a little bit of a ditch on my ground. So I'll probably come in with another color down there just to define things a little bit more. So see, here's my ditch, and I'm going to grab basically the same green with a little black in it and define this a little bit better. And the cool thing about this is you still have the fuzzy edge up here, so it's not a really super hard edge. That kind of brings in. See, I love the way this blends a little bit there. So yeah, second layer. The first one was dry. Alright. No, I'm going to decide on what color vehicle I want. I'm going to be facing this way. I know I don't want to do purple since I just did purple. So I try to when I'm doing projects or things that I want to share with people to kind of mix it up from day to day, you know, not do all the same colors each day. So today, we're going to work on something other than purple as far as the vehicle goes. So now you know part of my logic. I always kind of like a red vehicle. So I'm going to do a red truck, yes. And I am going to draw with my scissors. So we know a truck. Kind of guestimate how long this truck's going to be. Set that aside. That's a good length. A nice long bed for many characters to show up. Whoever those characters are. I'm gonna do a tall cab with a rounded front and just a small small front end. So a small engine. Okay, that's nice and wonky. We also need some wheel wells. I'll add those because our truck can't get anywhere without wheels. Okay. The screen's still a little wet down here, so I'm being careful not to run my hand through it. We need to cut this out in order to be able to see out the window. I'm going to go ahead and use my exacto knife for that and just come around with the exacto knife. Gonna also use a cutting surface, which is what I usually do. But for this class, I'm just going to cut here. There we go. Now the driver can fit in. Goofy. Yes, very short end. I'm loving it. Gonna grab a piece of paper here to glue on. The backside of one of my splotchy paintings, and I am going to apply glue. I tend to use the Elmer's extra strength. These glue sticks are really nice because they're less messy than doing, you know, wet glue and painting it on and all that. Whenever I have a shape that's kind of outside the main shape, I usually work into it from the main shape. I seem to have less trouble when I do that with too much glue coming off the sides. Then I just work my way Oops out from the middle. I know it's hard to see this truck as I'm gluing. But when I flip it over, all will be apparent. So all glued up, moving that paper and placing it on the page. You get it fairly close to the ground and sticking her down. You take a clean piece of paper, and I'm going to burnish it down. This helps to get it to stick to the surface. So there's not so much fixing. You keep this gluey page over here in case we do some more cut paper, which I do believe we'll be doing. So, yes, the most critical thing, the shape of the truck. Well, we all know the most critical things the animals in there, particularly the cats. Truck complete details still to come. I will wait on the details on that and start giving my truck some friends. I know that I can paint on top of this blue with some colors because I don't need to have white. And one of those colors would be the color black as if that's a color or possibly a gray or bluish cat. When I start coming over this blue color with any kind of warm color, you're going to get a muddier look unless it's pretty dark. So let's go ahead and try this process. I'm moving to my size ten brush, and I'll start the kiddies off here. And as you can see, since this is so dark, it covers the blue very nicely. Not going to get back to the white with this paper because all the white's been covered. With blue and green. First passenger is in. And while I've got this black, I am going to paint the steering wheel. Let's do it this way. We don't know who's driving. All will be discovered as we go. I got the steering wheel, and now we can do the tires. The wonky or the better. It's a good thing because this is a very strange shape to put a tire in if you want to get anywhere close to circular. But ultimately, for me, it just doesn't matter because I mean, actually, I like it wonky, so this will be definitely hitting that category. A sausage shape. I mean, to act like it's sort of meant to be that way, I'm going to go ahead and make this one sort of the same shape. Kind of an egg shape, really. This one got a little rounder. Gave myself more room on this wheelwow. So I'm gonna come in with yet another friend that I don't have to cut paper yet. This one's going to be in Paine's gray. I'm going to vary my shapes. This one has got little ears. And a thin neck. That looks like black. It's so dark, doesn't it? I'm going to add a little water to my paint here because we don't want to have all black cats in this one. There's nothing wrong with having all black cats. I've been known to paint it like that quite often. I love the black kitties. They get a bad rap because they're black, but they're the best. Well, and I also like tabbies and pretty much every other kind of kitty. And this one will go ahead and have a tail coming out the back. We never know where these tails are going to go until they start being painted in. I didn't leave enough room for it to trail off the back here, so you can see my trucks coming up a little bit. I'm going to have to come in with some glue and fix that. But it's fixable. Alright. Got kitties done. I'm going to start working with some cut paper. We've got this piece of white paper. It's a little thicker because when it's thicker. You can't see the color through it as much from the background. If you use a thin piece of paper, you may not be able to tal this, but you can see how it grays down a lot with that darker background. Here's the difference. See, thicker or thinner. And I'm gonna cut some kitty shapes out to go in here that have some white on them. Oh, here we go. I know this kitty is gonna be about that big. I can go ahead and go. Maybe this is a fat kitty. This is a big kitty, right? So I could keep it that big F. I could cut it down to size, which I think I'm gonna do since I don't know who else is gonna show up in this picture. It's still a very large cat, isn't it? Let's just leave it. But I'm going to add some color to it so that it's maybe got a little of the old ginger look to it. I'm mixing up some Windsor yellow and scarlet lake. Cover my scene here. Actually, I'll just shove it off because it's still drying, and I've cut through my page down here. Oh, well, and I'm going to paint off the paper. I might want a little bit of the orange down here, too. So this one will just dry off to the side. Put that up there. And I think there might be room for one more cat. Again, I'm going to start with white paper, and this one's going to be a thinner cat because that's all that will fit in with a little different shape. Basically, kind of start with this shape and go from there. This is still a big kitty, so I'm gonna cut it down a little bit. 'cause we want it to fit, maybe this one has tinier ears. The funkier, the better. So yes, there's that shape. And it is definitely funky. I'm just gonna leave it. And back to painting this one, what color do we want? Let's see. Maybe this is a black and white kitty or know a black and white kitty is gonna work. I will do spots on this one. Here. Definitely needs to have some help with its body. Doesn't have to be even. Yeah, we got our second painted kitty head. Let's see here. I'm moving right along, waiting for those to dry. And I'm thinking about who's going to drive. And I personally think it'd be very funny for a dog or some other kind of animal to be driving here. So I am going to add a pepper. And for this pepper, I'm doing red oxide fairly dark with some black in it so that it'll cover the blue. I don't want it too dark. So PupperGa start with the nose. I do like painting dogs a lot, too. The kitties don't like it at all when I do this, but they'll get over it. The arm must strive. I will add the ear after that dries. Who else wants to be in this little vehicle? We could put in some birds. There's a nice amount of room pretty much everywhere, but you know what? I can't help myself. I'm going to do another cat. This cat is going to be more of a blue gray, more blue than the last blue cat. Go get enough paint on here. Be dark enough to go over that background color. This one's going to be lying down on top of this. And let's try to side view something I'm not as familiar with doing of this kitty. Kitty's noses are not as long as puppers Keep that in mind when you're painting. Of course, there's all kinds of kiddies. Some of those kitties have very long noses. And since this one's up here, I can give it a fun tale. In the breeze. See, when I'm doing this kind of stuff, I'm thinking about, Oh, that gives me lots of opportunity for adding more characters. Okay. There we go on that one. Are these ones dry yet? Let's see. Set these in here and see how they're fitting. Everybody fits. Oh goodness. The paint was wet. I messed it up, continuing to mess it up. I might try to fix that a little bit, but it might just mess it up more to do that, particularly since it's still wet. So I am going to wait on this and fix it other ways. This one is also still wet. So yes, I'm going to drag these off to the side. So this one's pretty dry, and this one is pretty dry. So I see, I made that mess. You can use it one of these stiffer brushes and come in with a clean brush, try to pick up a little bit with a tissue. And you can go over it. That could make more of a mess. But it picks up the main part of the paint, so it's not quite so thick. And then I might finish it off with this little brush. Most of the time when I make a little unquote mistake, I just work it into something else. So I'm taking this little brush and I'm scrubbing just very lightly because I don't want to completely wreck the paper. And this is not like a high quality paper, so it is wrecking it a little bit, but it's good enough. I got a lot of it off. It's time to glue these kitties on. Back to the glue stick. Let's see. I've got my piece of paper to glue with working from the main shape out into the ears. If you work this way, the glue can go underneath the ears. So it's the same for any corner. You got that glued up. Let's set it on here. Get this kitty riding. One more. Little black and white kitty. You do that little kitty over a little bit. I'm gonna come over here and nish these down. So you can see that I have some things going on, but none of that will matter as we go along, and I have run my hand through these paints. So just know these things happen. It's not a loss. It's all okay. Is this one dry? Dry enough. I'm going to add an ear to this pup. I'm gonna make it a little darker than the actual pup because I want it to not just be over the pup, which would darken it enough, but back here blowing in the wind a bit. Okay, who else wants to be on this ride? I know I like to add a little antenna for my vehicles in these vehicles. Most all, if not all the time, have a little bobble at the top that is a kitty. And as you know, this could be a kitty, it could be a bird. But since I'm so obsessed with cats, we'll just make it a kitty head. So at this point, I could go a lot of different directions, and I'm sort of being with the painting. I kind of treat it like a little story going on, and I'm letting the painting itself kind of inform me about where it wants to go next. So let's see what happens. I had mentioned doing some other animals in here, I can put another layer of cats in, or I could keep it simple, which I think I'm going to do so this class isn't 100 hours long. We've got our character dog doing the driving, which is always good. I think I'm going to add another arm to this pupper. Not near enough steering power with just one arm. I originally had thought, Well, maybe I'll put an elephant in there or I'll put a giraffe. But since this is really a cat focused thing, I will do that on another video coming soon. For now, I'm gonna keep a kitties, and, of course, we'll bring in our bird friends. And which bird friend do we want? Let's make a red bird friend. Just gonna grab a piece of this paper I've already used. A little bigger. Maybe it'll ride back here. So I think I'm going to do a little yellow bird, and I don't have any paper that's yellow, so I'm going to paint some right now. Then we'll have to wait for it to dry. I'm gonna paint enough of it, so I'll have some extra yellow for future reference. Leave this aside. Kind of fun to paint papers to cut out. You can put patterns in them, too, of course. No need to stop now a little bit more yellow there in case we need it, which we always do. I'm gonna dry it on the side here. Okay. I've got a chunk of yellow now. Just go to remove it from the white. So it's its own entity. Be independent, you yellow. Right. So a yellow bird, maybe think about doing a different shape than the one I've already done. Maybe this one's leaning forward a bit or maybe the tails up in the air. So I'll set it here for now. I'm soaking up a little bit of this color on this pop because I got it very wet and I don't want it to take too long to dry. So we got the two birds. We seem to always like to add a mouse, too. So why deviate? Since this mouse is going to be darker than the background, I can just paint that on. Where do I want it? Oh could be riding off the tail. Sure. It's kind of like a bird. This one is really like a bird. I think I will make it looking this direction since it was such a weird shape. Also quite large. But we can play with this tail, which is fun. As we're driving along here, shows a lot of motion to a very fat little critter. And we'll have one on. The hood, as well. Kind of enjoyed the one that was relaxing on my last one. I won't make it exactly the same. Lots of water in there. I'm using a soaked up a little to be able to use it for the ears. Maybe this mouse is holding on to the antenna. Who knew that was going to happen? I didn't. And we need a tail. If that doesn't dry dark enough, then I can always come in with a pen and add some more darkness to it. There, holding on for dear life. We never know what's gonna happen with this dog driving. Well, this stuff is sort of setting up and drying. Actually, what I'm gonna do first? I'm gonna get these little birds glued down. So working from the middle again, grabbing the little bird. Where do I have this? I think I had it here. Good enough, no matter where I had it before. You got cat hair. I run my little red biird, put some glue on it. And glue it down. Wait. Maybe this is gonna go on an ear to keep it from being too close to the edge. Right, everybody's glued down, things are drying. While this is all going on, I am going to start adding some details to this truck. I can add the truck details with white or black or colored pencils. There's so many opportunities to explore. I guess I'm going to do white. Like always. I want to test my posca pen, get it running on something other than my artwork. Probably more shaking required. So I'm going to put a little running board down here at the bottom. First, this has got a grill on it. So wheel wells. This is still wet, so I'm gonna have to come back in with the other details there with the door. But in the meantime, these cats are kind of dry, so I can start adding my features. This is dry? The dog this kitty. I'm gonna turn the paper sideways so that I can get a little angle on these eyes. I'm going to do the rest of this shoot on the next session because we don't like each session to be too long. So that's what I'm going to do now and we'll see you there. 4. 2 TRUCK PROJECT PART 2: Alright, we're back. Let's keep going on these details. A few more eyes to take care of. Big eyes. Little eyes. So while I'm here, I'm going to just use this white pen to glasses to get this a little cleaner. You know, preferably, you won't have to go over this because it is a little different quality. I could even, if I don't like this, come in and replace that kitty. So what I'm trying to show you here is that in a perfect world, you wouldn't have to come back in and work things like that. But when you do have a little mishap, which seems to happen a lot with me, I can fix it up a little bit with doing different things like this. Or better yet to replace this whole cat with another cat. What's this one doing? I think it's scared. Okay, let's see. Is this dry yet? Pretty dry. I think I will run a little line back to the back of the truck. We need to have a door. Actually, we don't absolutely have to have a door, but we are going to have a door. No other doors required in a door knob. And you can see that little blob there, but when I come in with my whiskers and stuff, that'll get covered up. Start adding a few more details insides of the ears on the mouse. So little feets. More insides. I'm looking around to see who else I can use this color on. I'm going to switch over to a brown color for the insides of this ear. It's a relatively dark brown, dark umber, it's a little too dark for this. I'm going to get a gray pencil to do the inside of the black kitty's ears. And I'm actually going to do it on this blue kitty too. I'm sort of jumping around here. More black. Oh, you could add black, too. So, yes, this is very rough right here where I did that work on this kitty. And see this, I can actually scrape it off. I don't like it. So you know what's gonna happen? I'm going to go ahead and remove this cat and start over. See, here's how easy this is. You just pull it up. I just got to make sure that the kitty I put in there covers that mess I just made. And one of the ways I can do that is to just cut from this, lay this on top of my paper and use it as a template to cut out my new shape. Doesn't have to be too precise. The ears can be whatever we want them to be. There. My new shape. That work? Okay. We got a new cat in there. Oops, I didn't get high enough. Instead of redoing this, I am going to just paint a little bit in that space. That's white. Of course, you want to try to get very close to the same color. And as long as I give it a little bit of color, it doesn't have to be perfect. And that's obviously not perfect. And then I blot up a little bit just to sort of make it less obvious. So I'm going to paint this guy now with the black guy or gal. So this one I had just the eyeballs. Done. And I think I'll just do back here on this one. There. Now I have to wait for that to dry, of course, or go off to the side and dry it. So I can start adding a little bit more details while we're waiting for this to dry. I think I'm going to put some white in the center of these tires. I'm going to start working with a little bit of black posca for the details. Some noses, some beaks. This. I'm not going to do this thick pen for the mouse. It's a little too thick. But I do like how black a posca pen is. But it can get unruly it's so thick. This is happy bird. This bird, I think, is pretty neutral come in with my light gray to add the black kitty's features. And I'm going to grab my 0.3 unipin fine liner, which is running out of ink, but I will make do to add some of these details. We need the fingers, little whiskers. This cat would like to be standing with some legs, maybe a little feather blowing in the breeze. This one can also have a feather, legs, of course, whiskers on this one. This is a happy dog driving. This is not sure. Let's see. Who else needs to be showing some emotion? Much more subtle. And you sort of grouchy. I think my other kitty is dry now. Give it some glue. Set that in here, try to cover up our mess. And do a little burnishing. I do want to show you how I fix it when we have spots where the glue is coming up like here. This trick is from Lin Genta. If you don't know Lin Genta's work, check her out. She's on social media like I am. You grab a little piece of paper, and you're going to use this to apply the glue underneath the parts that are coming up. So you just put that glue under there, press it down. Is there any place else that needs it? Yeah, I think everything else is looking pretty good. Here's a little spot. Yes, tap it on down. Thank you, Lynn. Birdis need some wings. I could tape some wings on, but I'm going to just paint them on a darker red. A darker yellow. It's very soupy yellow. I'm going to grab a little bit of that pain out of there with my splayed brush. Okay, dry it out, splay it, and then you can suck up some of the color. These cats feel like they need just a little detail, as well as that dog, which, you know, a collar is essential. I'm going to use my black posca for the collar. You know, cats don't have to wear collars, but dogs do have to wear collars, because they are in service of the feline. This one wants to have sleepy dyes. But you could actually use white colored pencil for this, and it would show up a little bit better. I'm glad I switched out. The kitty, this one's much cleaner needs some ears inside of the ears. The whole replacement thing that you can do with cut paper is awesome. As Lin genta says, it's just like Command Z. Let me give a little fur to these cats. This one might want to have some white fur. What about you puppers? Nope. You don't get any. I feel like I do want something on this cat, so maybe I'll make it a tiger stripe, grabbing some of the color I already used with a little more oomph to it. It doesn't have to be a lot different because we're coming over with a second coat and that will automatically make it darker. Probably could be a little darker than this, but I'm going to go with what I've got. I've run my hand through over here. As always, I like to try to mix up my characters, their expressions and attitudes and shapes. That adds a little interest up there. I think we need a little shadow down here to ground this truck. But I think I'm going to keep it simple. I'm just going to add that shadow and no other shadows. Time to put in the kiddy expressions. And mouse expressions and bird expressions. This is definitely afraid. I think I'll have this dog watching the road. This paint's still wet, so I got to keep my hand out of it. Some of these cats are keeping an eye on what's happening in cockpit here. What else? You. We need more whiskers and such trying to vary those. Dogs usually have these little spots there on their nose. The infamous cheeks. There we go in one of those last minute editions of the Terry union style. Anybody who's red or dark orange is going to need a darker color of pink or red to do the cheek. So we'll grab a darker color. That's dark enough. I hope there. It doesn't really show up too much, but you get the picture. It's probably too dark for this, but it works. I think this one needs a little hair. Yeah. And maybe a little spot there. Always good to sign. We do need a few more nails. We get the 3.3 size. It's the details that matter. I'm feeling like this might need something else, but I'm not going to add it right now because this video is getting along enough. Okay, Project two in the C. This one was fun to do, like the last one. The cut paper edition is always fun. And I do like that another animal showed up in this one, the dog driver. So in the next video, I'm going to do some sort of water device, and I haven't decided quite what that is yet. I'm sort of thinking it might be a submarine. So we'll see what happens. I'll see you in the next lesson. 5. 3 SUBMARINE PROJECT: Remember back in the last project, where I said I was going to flip the image, so it wasn't going the same way as the vehicle before. And then I didn't do that. Anyway, so for sure this time, I'm going to do it as I work on my watery travel situation with the kiddies. And I am going to do a submarine, but you never know a boat may show up as well. So I'm just going to jump right in. I don't know if there'll be cut paper in this one. It may just all be watercolor. But as always, I do recommend that you take a look at Pintrist or whatever source of inspiration you like to look at and check out submarine illustration or different things like that, and that can help give you some ideas for what your submarine might look like. Remembering to pull your inspiration from a lot of different sources because we don't want to copy any one person. So with that said, let's go ahead and get started. Alright, here we are. Again, I'm going to start with my big number 12 mimic Kolinsky brush. Since I'm going to be doing a wash again this time underwater wash, and I am considering what color I want to use. I think this time, I'm going to use primarily turquoise for the water since we used a split fountain, ultramarine and turquoise and all that on the last one. And I'm going to start at the top of the water. And then this one I'm going to be painting the shape by painting around the shape. So the shape will stay white, and the water will define it. And that will become more clear as we go here. I got my top of my waves done. My little not pointy waves. Let's point them up a little bit. So it's not perfectly smooth out in this here water. I'm going to start defining my shape. I know they most often have this little top thing, and then they go around and come back and around again. Maybe yours will end up being yellow or maybe you'll do a different kind of water vehicle altogether. Keeping this edge wet so we don't get a mark where it started to dry moving quickly. And like always, nice and wonky. I'd like to be a little more circular with this one. I'm going to do a little modification of that shape while the paint is still wet. Very weird. All is well. I'm also intending maybe to show someone on top of the water and perhaps some fishy friends in the water. So I got my basic strange shape of a submarine here so I can keep moving along. I'm going to give it a little dry so far so good. I know I'm going to have windows in this. I'm going to actually start with these details with the statlerPermanent luma color pen that will do fine when I wet this image. This is our little top on our device. Not sure if I'm going to fill this in eventually, but I do know I want to have a window up here. And many windows with other friends back here. I wonder if I could fit three in. Why, yes, I can. Okay, good. And we know that submarines are all welded together so they don't fall apart, so I'm going to put in the little weld mark. And the reason I know this is because I'm looking at some research of submarines on Pintrs as I work on this. Your lines go all weird like mine, it's still perfect. It's an expression of your style. I will give this little edge to it. A little more definition in the windows. And you notice how perfect these circles are. So there we go so far so good. I think most of these have some sort of something coming out the bottom here. And they also normally have some sort of fin coming off the back, maybe in both directions. And in order to power this puppy, sorry, this kitty, will have a little lad in the back. So yeah, we're all ready to go. And things are moving right along. I'm just adding details directly on top of the watercolor because you don't have to have these be solid shapes. They could just be drawn in, like I'm doing now. So this is a little bit different style than the last two I did. And we know it's going to have something like this coming out. And here is where the story telling starts to occur. This has got to be looking at something, right? Definitely. Maybe it's looking at a boat. So I'm going to go ahead and continue the style of drawing in the shapes with the intent of possibly putting a bunch of watercolor characters in there. This one does have an outboard motor. With another propeller, which I've made a mess up there, but it still works. Let me go one more time. That's funny. I'll do a few more. Like a big flower back there. And these guys usually have some markings on them and something for someone to steer with. So there, maybe a little flag, getting pretty close to the top there. You can think about that and keep your image lower. I'm going to put a few more details on this. Maybe this has got a little anchor if we can remember what anchors look like. I think they're like this. If not, it's close enough. Right. We got all kinds of opportunities for characters in here. Before I get started with that, I'm going to put in some fish friends. Very simple. A different sizes to keep things interesting. This one's trying to look like the little submarine. Maybe it has fish lips. Yes, it does. Another one down here. Another angel fish looking thing. I'll come in later with some more stuff there. For now, we're going to move on to who's driving these buses. Let me see, where's my brush? I'm going to move on to my smaller creative mark mimic number ten, round brush, and start adding the featured characters. I can do any colour cats I want in here because I'm working on white. I'm going to start with a brown kitty. Maybe this one will be facing forward, like so many of my cats do. The white chest. These colors right here are the red oxide again, mixed with ultramarine. If you guys could see my palette, it has got so much hair on it from the cats. I just don't fight it anymore. I just pick it out as we go along. I usually pick it out after the paintings are dry because if I try to get it before that, I'm messing with wet paint, and that can be a big mess. So there's your cat tip big time. I'm gonna put a yellow kitty in there by doing Windsor yellow with a little yellow ochre to darken it up a bit. It's good to add the yellow ochre to the Windsor so that is dark enough to show up. Yellow can come out really light. And we want to be able to see our cats since they are so important. Maybe we have an orange, kitty or definitely more red than that yellow one because I'm trying to keep things from being all the same. Very orange. I think I'll have this kitty looking forward it's driving, not that that's a critical thing. But it's good practice for doing cats from the side. I've practiced a lot of cats from the side because they're not dogs or their nose is a lot shorter than a dog. I also look at my own cats a lot and think, What the heck does that cat look like from the side? So there's that little one who will be piloting this vessel. I'm going to bring a black one. We always like to have a black. You know what? I'm going to do a black dog instead. A black dog right here. Let's make it sideways. Turn the paper, this dog is really big in this tiny boat, which is, again, siliness, which is fun. Maybe this dog's ear is already there with another one up top. He's making his way around. And here we will do a gray kitty in Payne's gray, something a little lighter. Make this kitty taller and thinner than the others to vary the shape. I went over and took a little bit of the paint off my brush because it was starting to puddle. And this way, I can just move around what is there. And it makes it so it will dry before the end of the month. Okay. This little captain here doesn't want to be doing it alone, so just going to have a little mouse friend. Get in there, mouse friend. Maybe this mouse friend tail is coming out over this side. And you know a bird's got to show up here, so we'll save that for later. I'm thinking of doing a seagull or something like that. And seagulls are usually white. I'm gonna cheat this because white's the background, and I will do a seagull with a light. Paine's gray and hope it looks like a seagull. Oh, sure. That looks like a seagull. I am going to soak up some of that paint because I don't want it to be quite that dark. There. I'll look more like a seagull when I get the wing on it. So we got our basic characters in here. I could do a lot to put design and color in all these areas, but I think I'm going to keep it as simple as possible. I am going to add some more details to this submarine to keep it more interesting again. And all the kitties are drying right now, so I want to wait for that. Looking like we're on the ocean. Some little fish. I forgot what I was doing here. This looks like it might just be a school of fish here. I'm sort of staggering their positions. Need one more. How do I know I need one more? I guess I didn't want them all centered underneath, so that's why. I need a pufferfish. Particularly since puffer fish do have lips, and we love to do lips. I was checking out that boat up there to see what the heck's going on. That would be a submarine, not a boat. Who else is over here do another bigger fish? Another sleepy fish. I want that fish to be awake. There, it looks like a dog with that nose, doesn't it? And what else is going to be down here? Nothing for now. More small fish. These are secondary characters, so not that they have to be secondary, maybe these are the most important thing in your layout. What else? I could put a little porthole down here cause why not? And some rivets around this to hold these frames around these windows onto the vessel. I'm going to probably come in with a color back behind these cats to kind of show they're in something, some deep inside that vessel. I am going to use a little bit of green maybe with some gray. I'm going to add some black into this and then really water it down. So I've got a color sort of like this. Do I like that color? Not really. Rethinking. I think what I'll do is just use a black and pains gray to do this to be more neutral about my color choices. So this is light enough that I think it will keep the cats standing out. But it'll look like there's some space in there behind these cats, and they're not just sitting on flat white surface. Light enough to not get lost with this gray kitty here. It's pretty easy to handle watercolor in these smaller spaces when you're not trying to fill a whole big space at the same time. 'Cause it doesn't really have time to dry before you move on. There. Reloading my brush. I'm noticing a value similarity here, so hopefully this will dry a little lighter and we'll be able to see that yellow kitty back here. There is a little bit of a green tinge to that. Not intentional. It must have been left on my brush when I switched over. It's very subtle. And being very quiet because again, the concentration is happening. Right. There we are. Got some depth there. I think I'm going to keep it simple. I might throw a little shadow on a few things, same color as just using, we feel like there's some shadow under here. Maybe there's a little shadow under these. Again, we'll give it a little more depth. Three D effect. Almost time to get to switch this brush out for a new brush because the tip is getting a little not pointy. These are pretty subtle colors. Maybe there's a little color under here. And for sure, a little shadow under the tail, perhaps under this anchor down here. And where else we can do a little something on here. When I accidently paint over like that, I use my finger to rub back in, and sometimes that helps. Where else do I need a shadow? Maybe a little bit on these. A little definition on those blades. This is my favorite thing here, these fish lips. I love fish lips. I know that these seagulls have a dark wing, at least my seagulls do. So it looks a little bit more like a seagull. And what else do I want to do? I know I like a little more crowded scene in the water. So I'm gonna ad just maybe another bigger fish over here. Maybe it has lips so that I can be very joyful. Okay. Not making any sharks. Sharks would be funny, but there's no sharks in my picture. Sometimes there's some little extra doodads on the back of these submarines. And since this one is so realistic, I'll go ahead and put those there. Just adding things as it seems like I should. I have a lot to say in my head about that propeller, and I'm just going to laugh at it and keep going. Yes. Alright. Do we have enough fish people in this scene? Maybe one more larger one. No fish lips. Anybody else? Let's see. I think we're good right now. I am going to add a little bit of water like greenery down here in the water. Like, we have a few things coming up from the bottom, and this will be just little subtle bits that add a little interest. I don't want them to go through the fish, so I'm just going to hold that aside. Maybe a few over here. Seaweed, some sort of weed. And if you want to have a ground down here, you could have all kinds of other friends like little crabs and stuff, but I'm not doing that on this one. It just gives it a little something extra down there. I want this to be longer. I kind of helps to frame up what's happening. And now I'm going to go onto my infamous white pen, which we all know, is a challenge. We'll give it a little shake and a try. This is a relatively new pen, too. Seems to be working okay. So, getting these eyes on here. A different sizes. I'm not going to put white in the fish's eyes since they're underwater. Got to have at least one different eye in here because that's the way I work it. Now, fish and propellers have bubbles because they're moving through the water and that sets off some bubbly action. So that's what I'm working on now. White posca pen. Actually, this is a molotu but posca works great, too. And you're going to see a lot of this behind this propeller. You could even put in some motion marks on this propeller if you wanted. Let me go ahead and do it so you know what I'm talking about. So it gives it a little movement. We also have this propeller chugging along. And it definitely needs some movement. But you know who else needs some of these is the fish, 'cause they need to breathe, and if they don't have little bubbles, they are not breathing. I'm just mixing up the shapes a little bit. These guys don't need fat ones because they're so tiny. Mr. Pufferfish lips. Little angelfish lips. Very convincing when you get the little bubbles in there. I'm sorry, you almost got forgotten. Oh, we need another eyeball on this bird. I did notice I kept these fish a little too simple. I do want to add an eye on the smaller fish. You could really make this your own by doing a various numbers of fish, all sorts of different shapes on your submarine or boat or whatever it is. And all those differences are going to really make it your own, which is really the aim of these classes to inspire you to create your own look little insides of the years again. I'm kind of loving how this paint has kind of run into the cats a little bit and made it sort of wet on wet looking a wet on wet really does make sense with us. Actually, I used watercolors for these. Dog, good old dog. You can't do a black nose on this because the dog is black, so I'm doing a lighter gray color. And the dog has insides of ears as well. And you know, dogs have to have a collar. I think I'll just draw this collar and I'm pink with a pink pencil. As we'll start on these cheeks. The fish get to have cheeks, too, not the small ones because they won't fit, these bigger ones can have cheeks. And of course, the cats get to have cheeks. You need a darker color for that one. This one is Rouge Pavo or ppt. So good with my pronunciation. I'm gonna come back in with the pasta just to do the noses on these and go back to the staler to work on the mouths and whiskers and such. Could have made that orange, that beak, but I didn't. Back to the smaller pen, the Stler. Where am I? I'm over here. All different expressions. I went ahead and put something to steer with right here and I'm going to add some whiskers. All kinds of traveling on the move kitties with their friends. I'm gonna put a few details on these fishes here and there. Is that enough? Enough for now. You got to get your cheek. I'm gonna go back to the black Posca for the pupils. Very quiet. I don't know what this one's worried about, but it's worried. There, I think these stand out well against the blue. What else do I want in here? Anything? I could put a few bubbles around, as is the case in the water. Little indiscriminate bubbles, 'cause there's bubbles that come off of seaweed and such. It kind of ties it together not to just have the bubbles where the fish are for me. You may feel differently about that. Starting to look done to me. I did have a little something, something else I wanted to add to be ultra silly. I'm going to put on one of these sailor hats on this little guy. And I think I'm going to put one on this little guy, too. Or maybe it's a girl there. So they're sailing along. I do feel like I want more color in here, but I'm going to go ahead and keep it simple. We have one orange shape here, it feels like I want to have some orange somewhere else. Maybe I'll just go ahead and give in to my whim here and put some color on that flag. Oh, yeah, that made all the difference. Okay, good. Oh, I know what I wanted to do. I'm gonna give this a little bit of emphasis. Maybe one more line on this. Hmm. Okay. I think we're good to go here. Alright. That's Project three. Kitty's on the move. I hope you're having fun with this. We'll have one more little before it's over, and I'll see you there. 6. FINAL THOUGHTS: I hope you've enjoyed these projects. I know it was a lot, kind of a long class, but breaking down each one, I think will help you to keep up or you may want to do one on different days. I usually only create one piece of artwork a day, but sometimes when I'm doing a class, I go crazy. And sometimes I just like to make more than one. So you just got to do you. Do I like that saying? I don't know. But I've really had fun doing this. Cats on the move, traveling cats. You can't go wrong with cats in vehicles moving around. So I want to let you know I have a bunch of other classes here, and I hope you take a look at those. There are ones about finding your style, about doing character development and storytelling. What else do I have? Paper collage, lots of watercolor, and who knows what will be here next. So I hope you have a fantastic day and keep creating.