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Christmas Ornaments with Filigree & Scrollwork - Watercolor with Option to Ink

teacher avatar Kerrie Sanders, Artist, Teacher, Creator.

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome

      2:35

    • 2.

      Class Project

      1:28

    • 3.

      Supplies & Pattern

      7:15

    • 4.

      Holly

      21:57

    • 5.

      Pine & Filler

      15:53

    • 6.

      Pine Part 2

      15:02

    • 7.

      Gold & Green Background

      8:59

    • 8.

      Ornaments Base Coat

      24:43

    • 9.

      Highlight Ornaments

      8:26

    • 10.

      Blue & Red Design

      20:10

    • 11.

      Yellow Ornament Detail

      11:28

    • 12.

      Gold Filigree Scrollwork

      11:52

    • 13.

      Details with Dots and Signature

      15:00

    • 14.

      Congratulations & Bloopers

      1:57

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About This Class

Grab your brushes and join me as we paint a charming and elegant set of holiday Christmas ornaments, beautifully adorned with gold filigree and scrolling designs. We’ll work in watercolor, with the option to add ink if you love that extra detail. It’s the perfect project to slip into the festive spirit!  Paint one ornament for Christmas Cards or all three for holiday decor.

This class is designed for all skill levels—whether you’re a newer painter with a bit of experience or a seasoned artist with a well-loved palette, you’ll create something you can feel proud of. Let your creativity roam free, enjoy the process, and pick up fresh tips and skills to expand and sharpen your knowledge along the way.

While I do provide a color photo for reference, along with a full pattern and a traceable version, this piece is really about sparking your creativity. I want you to paint freely — no stress, no second-guessing where your brush lands. There’s truly no wrong way to add scrollwork and filigree to attain a beautiful piece.  It’s all about tapping into your right brain, letting your imagination lead the way, and watching your creativity flow straight from your mind to the brush.

As we paint together, I’ll walk you through each step with clear explanations and real-time close-up videos so you don’t miss a thing. And here’s the best part, you’re in control! You can pause, rewind, or change the speed to make the lessons fit your pace. The techniques you pick up and skills you sharpen won’t just help with this project,  they’ll spill over into your future artwork, helping you paint with more skill, confidence, and creative flair.

WHAT YOU’LL GET OUT OF THIS CLASS

In this project, you’ll pick up a variety of valuable watercolor skills and techniques to level up your painting. To make your learning even easier, I’ll share helpful pro-tips right on screen as we go. You’ll also have access to a reference image of the finished piece and a handy supplies guide to download.  Onscreen, I post the paint colors and exact water ratios I’m using, so you can better understand color values and achieve the just-right balance in your own work.

Here are some highlights of the techniques we cover:

  • Learn to use Brusho Powder
  • Wet on wet techniques 
  • Highlighting and Shading
  • Glazing
  • Splattering
  • Freehand Scroll Work

WHAT LEVEL OF CREATIVE IS THIS CLASS FOR?

Everyone:  The videos are crisp, close-up, and super easy to follow, with clear explanations and handy pro-tips popping up along the way. No matter your skill level, you’ll have everything you need to create a piece you’ll be excited to show off!  

Note:  If you’ve never painted before, please take one of my other classes first to become familiar with basic watercolor use.  If you’re a beginner, you’ll be fine following my help.

Meet Your Teacher

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Kerrie Sanders

Artist, Teacher, Creator.

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Hi, I'm Kerrie.

I remember at age 5 standing in front of an easel, picking up a paint brush, and I don't think I ever set it down. I have a passion for building others skills and confidence in art.

I've published pattern kits, a painting book, and I've taught workshops, classes, and many students over the years. I'm self taught but have traveled the world learning from talented teachers.

I teach my classes in real time which let's you be in control of your learning pace. You can speed up, slow down, stop and start the videos as needed to make sure you have the best experience possible.

I'd be tickled to be part of your self-discovery in the art world. Join me and let's have some relaxed fun learning together.

Kerrie

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1. Welcome: Well, hi, friends. Thanks for stopping by. Welcome on into my studio. My name is Kerrie Sanders, and I'm an artist and teacher here in Utah. And today, I have for you this adorable set of ornaments that are covered in lacey scroll work that's so fun to do. And this is a great class for people of all abilities. I'm with you every step of the way, and I post my classes in real time, which means you're in control. You can speed them up, slow them down, stop and start as needed to make sure it's the most comfortable experience for you personally. You know, I've been teaching for many, many years. I have published an art book that went across the nation and pattern packets that were sold in a big box store. And I have learned over the years that really, as a teacher, the most important thing I can do for you is to make sure that I teach you something valuable, and I help you sharpen your skills and have a wonderful experience in the process. And so I truly try to make that my goal as a teacher in every class that I teach. If you would like to see some of the classes that I have for you here on Skillshare, well, here's a few that I have posted here, some of the holiday classes that'll be fun for the season. But you can simply go to the top of this page and type in my name, Carrie Sanders, and all the classes that I already have here on Skillshare will populate, and maybe something would be interesting and we could spend more time together. That would be awesome. Also, if you would like to give me a follow, then you'll just get a little ping whenever I put out a new class, and you can see if that is of interest to you as well. If you'd like to take a look at my website to see what's happening in the world of Carrie Sanders, well, I would love to see you there, and it is Sanders art.com and Insta at Carr Sanders art. I sure hope you'd like to join me for this class, though. If you do, we'll be doing some fun things like washing in, highlighting, shading, glazing. And, of course, we'll be doing splattering, my favorite thing. And like I mentioned earlier, we'll be using Brusho. If you haven't used that before, it's really fun to use. And, of course, we're doing all this lacework with our liner brush. And if you're not comfortable free handing, that's okay. I provide for you a full pattern so that you can use that if you would prefer to do that. Alright, guys, if you'd like to take this class, then come join me. Let's go to the next video and get started together. 2. Class Project: Okay, my fellow friends and artists, your class project today is to complete one set of ornaments, and you can do this by following my video step by step. I'm with you all the way, beginning to end, every little detail. And you have the ability to speed up videos, slow them down, stop and start them, do whatever it takes to make it the best experience for you individually. When you have finished, if you could take just a moment to snap a pick and upload that into our class gallery, look for this button on this page of Skillshare, and they make it real easy for you to upload that. Don't be shy. It's so fun for us to see what each other has accomplished and give each other some praise and some love, nothing but love, no judgments here. You know, we as artists just don't get appreciated enough for our artwork, and you are all talented and creative. And I sincerely would love to see what you have done and have the ability to go in and communicate with you there. That gives me a little notification, and then I can go in and make comments on your piece. And also, that's also a great platform for you to ask me questions or make comments to me, as well. So please take a moment to do that. It would be so fun to see what you've done. All right, thank you for doing your class project and uploading it into our class gallery. 3. Supplies & Pattern: M let's let's do a quick review of supplies. And first thing I want to talk about is graphite paper that I'm going to be using. I'll be using some trace down, but I noticed that the price really went up, and so if you can't find it or don't want to use it, that's fine. Use whatever you have. I did find this brand Serrel, which is also wax free, and so I'll be using this, and I bought some in white. So I'll be using the white on our blue ornament, and I'll be using this trace down on the others. But use whatever you have, that's totally fine. I like to share what I'm using in case you want to try it. I have provided for you on this page of Skillshare a PDF of our pattern, as well as a color copy of the finished product. I'll also post it on screen so you have to refer to, but you need to print out a copy of the pattern and then get some tracing paper, and you will trace the pattern onto a sheet of tracing paper, and that's what we'll use to apply the pattern to our watercolor paper using the graphite. And I'll go through that with you later on. Today, I'm going to be using a watercolor block. A block is just when your watercolor paper is glued on all four sides. That way, I don't have to tape it down to a board and take up extra space in my filming area. But I am going to be using 100% cotton paper, which I love because it expands and contracts and absorbs the water and the paint and does a lot of the work for you, which is great. And also, I'm using a hot press versus a cold press. Hot Press is just a smoother surface than the cold press, and either one's going to be fine, guys. It doesn't matter. So that's just what I'm going to be using today. And then as far as let me make this white for you. There we go. As far as brushes go, this way, you can see the tips a little bit easier. I'm going to be using a variety of flats, so I would say you would probably need something small and something in between and definitely something on the larger side, a half inch or three quarter inch. So use what you have. And then same with some rounds. This is a number six and a number four, and I'll be using both of those. And then you'll definitely want a liner brush. This is a number one. And some type of detail brush, you can see, it's also thin, but it's just shorter, so you can do fine details. So you can do fine details, and that is a five ought. And then we'll be doing lots of dots today. So I will be using a stylus. I have two different ones, and so it gives me four different sizes to work with. And you might need a pencil to do some scroll work with. And if you do any erasing, make sure you have a needed eraser or a soft rubber eraser. I like to use a black wing if you haven't treated yourself to a nice pencil. This is my favorite. I don't get paid for saying that. I just like to share what I like using. All right, you're going to need a couple of things of water to make sure you have to make sure you have a fresh water and a dirty water. So clean your brush really well. And my favorite tool ever and always is tissue. We're going to need lots of this because we're doing lots of splattering and wet on wet technique today. So gather your supplies, and let's talk about the palette. All right. Let's do a review of our palette. I do have this on a supplies PDF form for you that you can download. And it tells you the brand of each type of paint I use in case you want to follow that. But use what you have. Guys, don't go out and buy a ton of paint. So one brand that I am going to make a special note of is this first one TraverteOly because Traverte is lighter or darker, depending on what brand you use. And I'm going to be using Windsor Newton. So you can see it's a light color green. So just use a light colour green or you can use this Windsor Newton. And hookers green, cobalt blue, indigo, cad red medium, they're all about the same. A lizard crimson, cad yellow medium, they're all about the same as well. Quinacrinin gold, and then for all the gold scrolling that I'm going to be doing, I'll be using this kind of a medium shade. There's all different golds, as you can see, and I want it to show up. So I'm using kind a medium, not the darkest, but the medium. And then of course, you know, I love to use doctor Martin bleed proof white because it's very opaque. You can use white gouache, but it's not quite as opaque. So I prefer this bleapof white. It's very versatile. Then if you choose to do the background the same as I do, I'm going to be using this Brusho It's BRSHO Brusho sprinkle. Kind of it's a powder, and it's a really fun technique. It gives you a total different look than splattering with gold. But if you don't want to use this, that's fine. Just splatter with gold, and that'll look great. So go ahead and gather your palette together, and we'll go ahead and apply the pattern next. Okay, I've traced the pattern onto a piece of tracing paper, and I've just taxed that down with a little bit of tape. I'm making sure I put the correct side down against my watercolor paper. And just slide that underneath. Like so. I'm going to use a stylus. You can use a pencil or pen. It doesn't matter. A stylus just preserves my pattern, so I can use it over and over again. And actually, the first thing I'm going to do is now, you can just trace your circle. I'm going to use a stencil, just so I start off with a nice beautiful circle. If you don't have a stencil, that's okay. No, you can use the bottom end of a jar, or, like I said, you can just follow the pattern. That's right. Yeah, I'm just gonna check that and make sure that showed up. All right. That one, I'm just going partially on the sides. Great. Okay. Now, I am not going to trace any of the scrolls. So just do the outline of the ornament, do the outline of your holly leaves and an indicator where the pine bow is. I'm going to speed up the camera just for this portion because it's really boring to watch somebody who is tracing. 4. Holly: Four Okay, I have on my palette era verte, bookers green, and indigo, and I'm going to be using a medium flat, and my number four, we're going to go ahead and start with our holly. So let's go ahead and pick up some of this averte. This paint does not have very much pigment to it, so I'm going to actually use quite a bit of paint. I'll be using ratios throughout this class so that you can try to match what I'm doing with the paint. So this is probably going to be about, oh, 80 20, 80% water, 20% paint. And we're going to go ahead and go ahead and basically fill it in as a wash. Now, a wash is when you just fill something in all one color value. So we're not gonna try and do anything fancy schmancy right off the bat. It'd be a good way for us to get warmed up, right? And don't try to make it, like all even. I want those brush strokes to show. It's gonna add texture and some interest. The thing I want you to be careful of is do not get it on your ornament, please. If you need to leave a gap, leave a gap. But green is kind of hard to pull off, so we don't want to get it on our ornament. Okay, so now we have our era verte. Let's come into our Hooker's green. This is going to be This has a lot of pigment, as you can see, it's a lot darker. This is going to be more like a 982, 98% water, 2% paint. And we're gonna come in. When you see me touch my paper, I'm just pulling some extra liquid off. And let's go ahead. Come up on a chisel chiseled edge when you're straight up and down on just that very thin edge. And let's just kind of put it indicate where that vein is. And then just kind of pull down a little bit here and there. I know it's gonna look funny for a minute, so don't panic. It's okay. You're gonna be like, are, what are you doing to me? Trust me. It's gonna be fine. Now, let's go ahead and pick up our round. So more of that Hooker's green at a 982. And we had to kind of almost outline it. Now that we have that little bit of an outline, I'm just using water on my brush. I rinsed out my brush, water on my brush. And we're just gonna what I call noodle it. We're just gonna noodle it a little bit. I'm gonna leave parts of it with the light green, that tera verte. We've got one kind of a streaky veiny look. And rinse out your brush frequently, so you're just working with water. Now, guys, there's no right or wrong to this. I know you're gonna feel frustrated for a minute. You're gonna be pros by the time we finish our holly. But the first one, you're gonna be like, Oh, this looks weird. I'm frustrated. It's okay. Trust me, it's gonna be okay. We're gonna come in and we're going to add more highlighting and a little more detail, a little more shading, and you're gonna be, Oh, I get it now. I see it now. So don't worry. Now, I'm just taking water on my brush and I'm strengthening some of my highlight by lifting off, so I'm touching and pressing. Let me see how that lifts off. I'm only doing that where some of the tera verte was just to emphasize some little highlighted areas. Touch and press. There's no right or wrong. Wherever it works on your paper is just fine. I like the tips to be a little bit lighter. See how that water just lifts it off. But we left some dark areas. And that's perfect. That's beautiful. Good job. Okay, we're gonna leave our pine for now. Let's come in and do our next holly picking up Tera verte. I like doing these with my flat because I can see that nice point. You can get on those. Again, be careful. Be careful of your ornament. Let's just fill that in, keep it nice and textured looking pick up a little of this hooker's green, put in our veins so we know where we're going. Always like it dark down by the base. That would be more of a shadow area. Good. Over to our round. I'm going to emphasize this thing a little bit more. Just water on the brush. Streaky. Make it a little bit streaky. Keep your highlighted areas. I'm only going to remind you to talk you through a couple, and then you'll be a pro so Now, let's lift off some highlights. So just water on that brush. We'll come and press and lift. See how that highlight comes out. Beautiful. Just here a little there, a little. Great. How'd you do? Was that one easier? Hopefully, it was. All right, back to our Terra verte. Here we go. I love this color. I use this color for a lot of sagebrush and greenery. Hey, be real gentle up against your ornament there. I actually usually leave a little space and then come in after. Okay, and I'm just texturing it up a little bit, so it looks bumpy. Alright, Hooker's green. Just water on our brush, almost picked up more green there. Oh Right now, I am going to pick up just a tad of this hookers green, and I am going to do a very light outline. Then I'm just gonna have water on my brush. And I'm gonna come over to this outline and just pull that in a little bit. See how just tapping that a little bit. Putting water on your brush and then touching a hard edge will soften that. And I just want that to be a little softer, but it defines that outer edge. I'm going to just define this edge. I just really like a sharp point on the holly. Picking up water on my brush now, I'm just gonna soften that hard edge a little bit. That feels better. Okay. Onward. Now, down here, we have this holly is on top of the other one. And we're gonna curve our vein. Okay, do a little outline. I just water on my brush. How are we doing, guys? Doing okay. Getting the knack of it. You might still think it looks ugly, but trust me, it's gonna be great. We're not done yet. Okay, so we're gonna let that dry a little bit skip that one, come over to this big one. Just so the two don't blend. This is a big one, isn't it? There we go. Alright, let's put the vein in. And this one's gonna curve a little bit, too. I'm just touching it with that chiseled edge. Yeah, down it goes. Turn your paper if it's easier. I'm on a weird angle, but I don't want to turn my board if I don't have to cause of the camera. So Okay, let's switch to our round. Okay. And now just some water. All right. How you guys doing? Hey, this one's about done. Awesome. I'm going to make it a little whiter at the base. It's better. Okay. Hooker's green. Let's do vein. This one's gonna curve, as well. Okay. Just tap it in at the bottom. Okay, let's outline. And now just some water. Great. Strengthen some highlights. Wow, that was fun. Okay. One more. Last one. It hooker's green. I need more. Yeah, let's put in our vein. No, I'm going to put this a lot of shading underneath that other holly leaf. All right. Done with that stage. Now, that needs to dry completely before we play with it anymore. 5. Pine & Filler: So obviously, there's different types of pine. And when I'm doing these, you can do your pine needle. Say that to your vein. You can either do pine needles that come inward. Got a bendy board here. Such as this, which is the way I'm going to be doing these today, okay? Or if you prefer, let's say that's your vein, you can curve them the other direction, which is how I do palm leaves. It feels backwards to me, but Alright, so you choose. You decide what feels comfortable for you and what kind of pine you like. That's fine. Whatever. I'm gonna be giving you options throughout. That's how I teach because I feel like you're very creative, you're talented. You're an artist, and you should do what feels comfortable for you. So now, make sure you don't come up on your ornament. And they start whiter and they get shorter as you come up to the top. Okay? And I'm just doing kind of like a skeleton. I'm not filling in at this point. We'll do some later, but just now, we're looking for placement. This one. Now you've got two ornaments to be careful with giving you a little word of caution there. Alright. Again, we're just doing a little skeleton right there. Okay. This is all in Hookers Green, still with a 982. It's okay if it goes up on top of the holly, or if you want it tucked behind, then don't go on top of the holly, whatever you would like. We'll come back and add more layers. We'll do some down the center, so it doesn't look like it's just, you know, a palm tree. We want it to look like it's dimensional. This is just getting us going, right? Mm. This one's gonna be tricky. So be careful. You can do it. I believe in you. This one's just gonna have little I'm actually gonna put it underneath the holly and, of course, underneath the ornament. So just take your time, little strokes. We did it. We did it. Okay. Now, we're going to have some fun. You can take a deep breath. If you're holding your breath, take a deep breath. Now we're gonna have a little bit of fun. So let's switch to our number four. All right. We're going to start with Traverte. This will be a little more watery than before. So I would say this is going to be a 9010, 90% water, 10% paint. And I'm building up a little bit of a well or a puddle here, so I have some ready to go. And what we're gonna do is fill in some of our background between the ornaments. That's why I'm using my number four. And I'm just gonna start here starting in the middle between them. And then I'm gently going to push it out, being very aware of the ornament lines. And if you're not comfortable going up to the ornament line, I would say go almost up to the ornament line and leave a little space. Now, only do a small portion. We're gonna do small sections. We're not done with this just yet. Now, on top of your pine, we're only going to go about halfway about that. And we don't want to smear your needles per se. So just kind of bounce your brush up and down, and just let that fill in a little bit. Don't worry about going around the little hook, little round thing. That's okay. Kind of go around the cap there. Okay, now, while this is still wet, this little area. First, we're going to take just water on our brush and just kind of soften this edge into nothingness. If you just kind of put water on it, it will just kind of disappear. Just touch it with your tissue, see how it just disappears. And then while it's still wet, let's take the tiniest amount. This is a 991 on your hooker's green and touch it, and it will kind of fill in. Mine's a little dry. Well, it's filling in there. So over here where it's a little dry, I'm going to add just a touch of water, water brush. And just let it stay kind of modeled, kind of lumpy, bumpy looking. We want a texture because this is gonna look like something way, way in the background. Something indescribable, but there. And now let's pick up the tiniest amount of indigo. This is a 991 tiniest, tiniest amount and add a little bit of that blue. Oh, yeah. That's gonna fill in nicely for us. Okay, let's do this next little section. So come over to your eraerte. I'm gonna stop at that pine. I'm gonna bring it up. We can do a big area this time, right? You guys are with me. I'm not gonna go all the way to the top of that pine, about three fourths. Okay? Just water on my brush just to soften that outer edge that you want it to disappear. And a little bit of hooker's cream now. Just right down the middle. Because it's wet, it should start to blend, see it start to go. This is why wet on wet is so fun because it just does the work for you and people think they don't have control, but you have control because water paint flows where the water goes. And so where you have put that water with the tera verte is a boundary for the hooker's green. So you do have control, but we're all going to have a little different outcome, which is the beauty. I love it. Okay, I'm just bouncing a little bit of a water brush on Here in Utah, the air is very dry and so it dries quickly. So I have to help it along a little bit. Okay, now I'm going to add the tiniest amount of indigo. I like blue under the pine. Kind of almost a Is this water on my brush? Alrighty. Let's keep going. Tara verte. I'm just gonna put a teeny bit here. I'm gonna have that fade to nothing. I'll just water on my brush. One touch with the hooker's green. I don't think I'll even put any indigo on it. I just want it nice and light. And let's come over here. Bring it up a little bit. I'm not gonna come three quarters like we did the others just a little bit. Lakers green. Coming up I'm just coming up around the stem a little bit right there. Fine stem, whatever you call it. What's it call on a pine. Alright, this is water on my brush. I'm just bringing this out to nothing, letting that fade and back to TeraerteGa turn my Okay. And I'm gonna bring this out to nothing. This is water on my brush. And the little hooker's green. I'm gonna add just a touch Indigo, since it's on the pin. Remember Indigo. We want 99 and one, so just a teeny tiny. Thank you. Wow, I like that. Okay, that looks really cohesive. You need to go a little bit up there. Let's show him some love. Here we go. Okay. And then I'm gonna this is water. Gonna let that fade out. Add some hookers green on the bottom. Man, a touch with a blue. Great. Okay. Alright, how did we do? 6. Pine Part 2: It's really important to every once in a while, I'll have you step back and take a look from a distance you see things differently than when you're looking at it up close. I'm going to add a touch of blue. Yeah. Oh, I like that. Because that one's really tucked under everything under the holly, under the ornament. I like that depth. Okay. I'm gonna add a little more blue on this one for the same reason. Let's get a little more shadow. Yep. Picking up my liner brush. Coming into Hooker's green a little more strongly. It's probably 955. And we're going to emphasize our pine. Okay, you can see how that comes in darker now. It is gonna dry one value lighter. But this is gonna add another depth, another dimension to our pine. And it's up to you how full how thick you want to have your pine bows. Sometimes I do them really pushy. Sometimes I keep them pretty sparse. Don't forget to do some down the middle. I just do a little bit of a crisscrossi We're still gonna come in and do these with some white put some highlighted areas, highlighted needles. Goes much faster with the second layer, doesn't it? You don't have to be quite so careful. It's all there. Okay, these are our tight spots, these little ones in the middle. All right. Good job. Okay. Our holly should be dry now, and we're going to pick up our flat, and we're gonna lift out a highlight that goes down that vein down the middle. And I actually do it to the side of where we laid in the green. So I just stay up on that chiseled edge and I lift out a highlight. This is water on my brush, and I'm not pushing hard because I don't want it to be a thick line. But I'm just gently pulling out some paint. There, can you see how that? Now we have that dimension. We have the dark and the light side by side. If you have one that's being stubborn, then once you get it wet, touch it with your tissue. It will help lift it off. It's these little nuances that we're doing that really make a difference in giving your artwork that extra finish and dimension. So it's worth taking the time. That pretty? If you want, I haven't been doing it, but if you want, you can even just do a few streaks. We're going to come in with some white, so I'm not hugely concerned about this, but you can see how you can lift out a few white streaks. Okay. Last one. Okay, how'd you do with that? Okay, our center should be dry now, and we're just gonna pick up a little bit of Hooper's green about a 982, so very light. I'm back to my liner brush, and we're gonna put in just the lightest hint of some pine needles, just kind of every which way. See how I'm just kind of criss crossing and they're just kind of coming from way far away somewhere. Super. We're not going to put any down around here, in the middle there. Okay, now we're going to take some white. Now, if you haven't used this before, this bleed proof white it can get quite thick in your bottle, and that's okay. In fact, it can be really thick where you think, Oh, my gosh, it's ruined. But it's not. Just add a little bit of water or scoop some out and add water here in your palette. It'll be fine. I'm sticking with my liner brush, and I'm going to take this to this is going to be about 50% paint, 50% water, 50 50. Now, we're just going to add some highlighted pine. Yes. Look at that. So not many, but you can see the difference it makes, right? It's one more dimension. And we're almost done with our pine. You're like, Car, I'm sick of the pine. Can we get to the ornaments? Yes, we can. Just give me a minute. You're gonna thank me. Trust me. O It gets kind of globby on your brush fast. It dries fast. I like wash, so rinse out your brush. I'm not going to go down inside there because that would be a dark area anyway. That looks great. Now we're going to stick with our white, and we're just going to play a little bit with the holly. So I'm going to put a few highlights, just kind of a broken line down the center where we just put those highlights in. And you see, I'm just going to bounce the brush a little bit. I'm gonna add a little bit, highlight. And I'm going to add a few streaks. In some of the areas that we pulled off a highlight, maybe you're not there. That's our dark area, so I won't do that. Okay, so this is where you're gonna free hand a little bit, which is fun. And there's no right or wrong. So anywhere that you have kind of a natural highlight from where you'd pulled out some of that eraverteG for it. All right. It goes pretty fast. Okay, last one. Oh, it's too dark, touch it. You can even lift it off with water quite easily. All right. How'd you do, guys? B 7. Gold & Green Background: Alright, we are going to use our brusco. First, I'm going to use some tissue to just cover up the ornaments. We don't want to get it on our ornament. Now, this hook, I put this hook in here. A lot of people will put a thumb tack. You just need to puncture a hole in your lid. But I hang it up, so it's easy for me to put a thumb a hook in. But as you can see, if you haven't used this before, it's a powder, and we just need to be able to sprinkle it out. And with Brusho, you can either spray your paper and then sprinkle or sprinkle and then touch it with water. And I prefer to do the latter because that way I have more control. Are you getting the feeling that I'm a control freak? So I'm just lightly, very lightly sprinkling it, and then I'm going to take clean clean water. This is very clean water, no paint in it whatsoever on my number four brush, and I'm just going to touch. I'm going to start with an up and down motion to kind of see where it spreads. And what this does is it regenerates the gold powder, and then you can decide where you want to spread it to, basically. So now that it's regenerated, I'm going to manipulate it just a little bit. We're in there. And then it's going to dry with this beautiful gold sheen. I'm going to bring some up here. Now, we are going to splatter with green as well. There, I like that. So you can see the difference between this and splattering with gold. It's a total different effect because this is like this is basically giving you clouds of gold versus splattering with gold. Does that make sense? You'll understand more when it dries. It's basically gonna dry the way you see it, I guess, really. So you have these clouds, these billowing clouds of gold, which is just a really fun effect. They have Brecha in all different colors, even rainbow. So you could be doing this with, like, confetti colors, you know. Purples, pinks, reds, blues, everything. Now, this is a little too much for me right there. I'm gonna touch it with a tissue and just lift a little. It won't come all the way off. Once it's on there, it's kind of on there, but I can calm it down a little bit, per se. See that. There. I like that better. If it's on your ivy, you can lightly touch it with your water, but I'm not going to. I choose not to because I don't want to risk smearing all that beautiful work we just did. Okay. Okay. Here we go. Are you having fun? This is fun, isn't it? And here again, everybody's just gonna be a little bit different. No one's gonna be the same. I really hope you'll post your pictures. I would love to see her work. Awesome. Alright. All right. Um, Okay, kind of step back, see how that feels. I'm happy with that. Are you happy with yours? Let's let that dry, and then we're going to come in and do the same thing. Well, not the same thing. We're going to do some splattering with our green. Okay, this is completely dry, and so I have made a little puddle here of Hooker's green at a 982. So it's very watery. And I'm using my number four brush, and I'm going to do some splattering, so I'm just loading it up real good. And I'm going to come over. I like to tap a few times over here to get rid of the big splatters. And then I'm going to start up in the corner. Now, I'm going to just do little sections because I like to wipe some of it off. Now, when I say wipe, I mean, straight up and down, so I don't have smears. And I'll just do here and there. So what this does, if you look closely, it gives me some light and some dark green. And I like that variated shade. So if you want it all dark, do that. If you like that look and it's all dark, great. But I like to have a little variety, and I like it right on my leaves. So I'm gonna leave that. I'm gonna leave it dark right there on the pine. Okay, that's feeling pretty good. This is dangerous, but I want some more on this holly. And that's fine. There we go. Whew. Did it. All right. Let's look that dry completely. That's quite a transformation, guys. Good job. 8. Ornaments Base Coat: All right, guys. I have gotten out my large flat. This is a number 18, but it's like a half inch, three quarter inch, whatever. And this is a cobalt blue and indigo are the two colors that we're going to use. First, we're going to fill in with water. Remember, always that paint goes where the water flows. And so we're first going to put this water on our ornament and be very careful where you put it because wherever you put this is where your cobalt blue is going to follow. So I'm using a nice big flat. I'm going to be really careful to bring it out to my pencil line. I have to stop talking so I can hold my breath. Now, this is a circle, so just keep turning it. Taking our time with this. Your paper is gonna absorb that water for the most part, but it will be wet enough to give us a nice smooth, even coat when we put down our blue. And we're gonna get that wet on wet effect that we need when we put down here we go. So dip in the water, dip in your paint, load your brush. I always start in the middle. Boom. See how it moves out? It's my favorite part of Mou wet on wet. I love it. So I'm going to start in the middle, and I'm gonna it's gonna do its thing and push out. It won't go beyond where you put your water, so don't worry. However, because I live in Utah and it dries fast, I am gonna help it. I'm gonna push it out myself a little bit, so I'm just loading up with more cobalt. Good, good. Now I'm going to turn it sideways. And we're going to pick up some of our indigo blue. And I'm gonna pick it up on the bottom half of my brush. Not all the way to the top. If you go all the way to top, it's not the end of the world. I just work that into my brush a little bit. It's dry. And I'm going to start on a crescent crescent. We're gonna make a crescent moon. I'm going to start up on the chiseled edge about halfway. Okay, and bring it down. And then back up to a chiseled edge and notice how I didn't go all the way to the edge. I like to go almost to the edge, and then I'll push it out. I'm gonna bring it up a little bit higher first. I really want to be about three quarter. But again, I start low, push it up a tad. Now I'm going to go ahead and push it down. Great. Okay. Now, because it's wet, it's gonna blend. You can see it's got that nice fuzzy edge, but I'm gonna help it a little bit by just putting water on my brush, mostly dry. I'm just going to soften that edge a touch. And let's give that a minute. I'm gonna turn it the other way. Work it the other way. Now, if you overwork it like that, it's gonna come off instead of on. So that tells me it's dry enough that I need to just leave it alone, and I can come back in and put some more on top of that. No problem. So I'm gonna leave that alone, and I'm gonna let it dry. So pretty. Remember that we're gonna put, you know, lots of design on top of this. We're gonna put a highlight on top of it. So don't stress. Don't stress. Now, let's clean out our brush. Really, really good. This is why you've really got to have a clean water next to you or go to the sink before we start our next color. All right. Here we go. Start with water. In the middle, work our way out. Now, what happens if you goof with the water and you're like, Oh my gosh, I went out of the line. Okay, wait for it to dry and start over. Let your paper dry. I use a hair dryer. I'm just going right over that gold band. Just go right over it doesn't matter. All right. Ready? Here we go with our cad yellow. Same thing. We're gonna do a wash. This is probably 955. It's very strongly pigmentded. Now, if you need to go to a smaller brush down here, don't hesitate. Alright, I am picking up a smaller brush just to make sure I have the shape I want at the bottom. And also, where my circle comes down, I want to make sure they match. While that's still wet, let's pick up some of our quinocratm gold. Turn our board. We're gonna do the same thing, kind of a crescent. Okay, here we go. All right. Now, this is a smaller ornament, so I don't really want it to go up. As high as the blue and the red. I'm gonna keep an eye on it. It's wanting to creep up, which is great. But not too far. And I want kind of a smoother edge, so this is just water on my brush. Just gonna soften that. Yep, can you see how that just smoothed it right out. That one's still wet. Too wet. I'm definitely gonna put a second coat on that one. Just gonna smooth this out on the bottom here. There we go. Good. Okay. You ready to go for the red? Let's get our red out. Okay, cad red and lizard crimson. And we're actually going to use some of our indigo to give it a deeper shadow. And first, I've got to go get some clean water if you need clean water, as well. Let's take that opportunity. Alrighty. Clean water, clean brush. Here we go. Okay. Ready for some red. Here we go. It's gonna be about 955. Okay. Deep breath. Oh. Wow. We are done with the hardest part, guys. Okay. Putting those circles in is definitely the most challenging, I think. Okay, so let's rinse out and pick up some lizar crimson. And we're gonna make a little puddle to the side here. I pick up some indigo, mix with it. Makes a nice purply bluey red. Turn our board. And we're going to do like we did up here. We're gonna do a nice crescent moon the pat in a little more, bring it up a little higher. Now, as I've painted this a few times, sometimes I don't know why it just shows more on the red. So sometimes I've left that really cool look that you're seeing right now where it's growing up. You can even encourage it to grow by tilting your board. And that's a neat effect. And other times I've smoothed it out like I've done on these two. On this version, I'm going to go ahead and smooth it out. That's the version I like best for me. But you do you. I'm just offering ideas, I guess, for what you might like. So I'm just using water on my brush. I mean, that is pretty cool. If I were doing, like, a forest scene, you know, I would do moon and stars up there and use that for treetops, that would be really cool. But because the design we're putting on here, which is a really delicate gold filigree, I found it a little distracting when I left it on one of my versions. I was like, h, not my fave. Great. Now we're gonna let that blend and do its thing. While it's doing that, we can move back up to our blue, and it'll be much easier this time because we've already done the hard part. But it does need a little attention because remember how watercolor dries, one value lighter. And we want it to be solid, full color. And so it needs a little attention. We don't have to we don't want to get it wet first. We don't want to overwork it 'cause we don't want to lift off paint. So let's just come into our cobalt blue. And add. We're adding color to it. This is probably a 955 still. And I'm staying away from the edge. I don't want to have to be, like, Uber careful. All right. And I'm gonna bring that down into the indigo blue area a bit. Well, that looks nice. Now, I've got to pull out. Make sure your indigo is not mixed with the Elazar and crimson. Now let's pick up a little bit of the indigo. And again, I'm not going all the way to the edge. There's no need to. There's no need to be all careful like that. Again, we're okay. And I'm just gonna let that blend with the blue we just put down. I got to turn it so I can see it nicely. Oh, yeah. That looks good. Great. Did you feel better about yours? Did it need it? Okay, I am happy with my yellow, and I'll tell you why. Even though it's very light, I mean, the yellow is solid. So I'm happy with the yellow, yellow is solid. And the quin gold is very light. But because of what we're going to put on top of it, I don't want it to be dark. I don't want it to distract. And so I'm happy with this level of quin gold. You decide if you want a deeper shadow area. And if you do, great, go ahead and layer in another, you know, wash of the quin gold there. But I'm going to leave it. Okay, I've picked up a smaller flat, and I'm going to pick up some of this blue and fill in the cap. And I'm going to go all the way to the top, even though the top portion is going to be gold. Make sure my brush is really clean, do the same thing for the yellow. And the red. I've decided I'm going to leave my red now that it's pretty much dry, I'm happy with it. If you need to add another layer, go ahead. Add another layer. It's fine. Bokedki. Now, while we have some red that's still pliable, let's go ahead and add in some berries, and you can add as many berries as you want, really. But because there's so much going on with our ornaments and really they're the star of the show, I'm not going to add a ton of berries. I'm just going to add a few here. You there? Just put them wherever you feel like it. I think I'll probably put a few down here. And some people like big juicy berries. Others I like mine kind of medium to small. Just do whatever feels good to you. I'm gonna stop. 9. Highlight Ornaments: Okay, let's come back into our Lizard crimson and our indigo mixture and pretty pretty watered down, I'd say, 982. And I'm just going to put a little on the bottom of these berries. It's kind of awkward to do little berries like this, but even a little bit of shading, you know, goes a long way. It helps. Now, let's pick up a little bit of white. Make sure you cleaned out your brush really well with your clean water. Yeah, we're just gonna touch a little bit of a highlight. Mm. Cute. Cute. Alright, I've been waiting for these to get 100% dry. I feel like they are, so we can do our highlight on our ornaments before we decorate them. So do you still have some white mixed up, you'll need some white. And we're going to use a flat brush. I'm going to use my medium flat, my number ten, and working with our clean water, not our dirty water. Get your brush wet, pick up some white. And then we're going to dry brush. So if you haven't dry brush before, that's picking up paint, and then wiping most of it off to your brush is quite dry. And as you see, you go over something, it gives you almost like, Oh, picture an old barn door, an old weathered fence. And it just goes on really dry. And let's start with the yellow because that'll get us warmed up. And you're going to want kind of a curved. Always follow the contour of whatever you're painting. And you don't I guess if you want a hard, if you want, like, a shine, then you want just one stroke. But I'm going for more of a modeled, kind of a globe look. So I'm going to I've kind of bounced it up and down a little bit. You can see I've got almost a round shape. Like that. Hey. Now we've got our courage up. I'm gonna pick up more paint, wipe most of it off. Now, if you get too much on your piece, you can come in with water on your brush and soften it out. So don't out. It's kind of scary right here. Like, Oh, my gosh, it's really dark. What's happening? And the more you work it, you're gonna start lifting off your blue. So see you there. That's okay. I'm gonna clean off my brush so I'm not lifting off blue. And now I'm just going to bounce it a little. Just go to soften till I'm happy with it. There we go. Now, remember we're going to come in with a fabulous design on top of this. So you're not gonna be staring right at this shine. But trust me when I say it's gonna make it look really cool. Oh, yeah. That's great. Now, also, this white is going to dry one value lighter. See how it's almost faded away in the yellow. I almost feel like I need more. Alright, let's do the red. Make sure you cleaned out your brush really well. This red wants to lift off more so than the blue, even, I think. And, yep, see that. So I'm gonna pick up a little more white. Yeah, I like that. Alright, now I'm gonna soften it. Water on my brush. Alright, let's let that dry. I'm gonna put a little more on my yellow now. Wiping it off. And just mostly right in the middle. I'm just kind of bouncing the brush. This water. Yes. Alright. How are you feeling about the blue? Do you need to add more? I think I'm going to. I'm gonna go for it. Wiping most of it off. I just want a little spot that says, Yeah, look at me. I had a little too much water right there, and now it wants to lift off instead of go on. And red. Okay. Now, after it's dry, if you want it to look more smooth, wait till it's 100% dry, and then just put a little water on your brush and lightly smooth that white, and you can do that. Alright. I'm going to let this dry completely and then decide where to go from there as far as the white if I need more or less. But get ready 'cause we are about to do the final design work on the ornament, which will be awesome. 11. Yellow Ornament Detail: Alright, I've got my hookers green. This is about 955. And I'm back to my number one liner, boating it up and pulling it to a nice, fine tip. And I'm actually going to turn my board sideways while we put in our three main lines. And then the second one just branches off from that, and it's gonna go down and around. And then this one is going to branch off of that one. So from there, I'm going to add a few of our coma stroke or petal stroke, whatever you want to call it, where you touch and press, and then as you pull, you lift. So these can be angled. And if you want a really nice round tip, you can come back and add to it. Or you could use a thicker brush. I'm not going to use a thicker brush because I want to keep this tail end really fine, which I can't obtain with a big thick brush. So I prefer to, in this case, I prefer to come back and just add a little more to the top portion because it's going to meet our fine vine line. For example, let's just start with this top piece. And I'm actually going to bring it up a little bit. I'm gonna touch and press, and I'm going to meet up with the tip here. So touch and press. As I pull, I lift, lift, lift, lift. And then let me take a little off there. And then I'm just going to enhance the tip. And it didn't go on quite as smooth as I wanted to probably because I went too slow. This is where speed is really a good thing. So I'm going to just smooth that a little bit. That feels better. This is just water on my brush. Oh, much better. Okay. We're gonna leave lots of space between the dark ones to come in and add some with our lighter green. But while we're loaded up here, I'm going to add one that kind of comes this direction. Yeah, I'm gonna do another one. Sorry, I keep turning my board, but I hope you're turning yours as well. It's kind of easier to work with. I'm gonna do one right here. Okay, let's pull one down that comes from this direction. Follow that curve of your ornament. This is a strong curve, so I think I'm going to add quite a curvy one here. And I like that. And I'm going to turn this into one. Good. Alright. How'd you do, guys? That looks good. Let's switch over to our era durte. Okay, I want this kind of thing. It's gonna be about a 50 50 mix. Pretty heavy.'s 'cause it goes on so thin and we want it to make a statement here. Okay. Gonna start up topping in. I'm gonna make a pretty strong curve, I think. And I'm gonna pretend like one is coming in from the other side. And it's like it's wrapping around. So it's just going to kind of disappear. I like that. Alright. And Alright. Let's see if I want any more. I think I will add some down on this. Oh, sorry, I keep changing my board around, guys. I'm gonna add one here. Maybe h How you doing? Alright, I think that feels good. We're gonna have that gold band that goes here. I didn't really gold that goes down there. Yeah, I think I'm gonna leave it at that. We're gonna come in with some red berries. Okay, so let's let that dry. I'm gonna build up a little well of some red while that is drying. Alright. Actually, before we do our berries, let's put the gold caps on our ornaments because the berries will take a little while to dry. So before we do those, let's come back to our gold. I'm using my five ought, and it's still a little bit wet, so I better be careful. I just saw the shine. I went, Oh. Okay, so as far as the loop goes, You know, no big deal. Don't be, like, super cautious. We are going to put a touch of a string in a little bit later, but it's not, you know, B, this whole part, don't be, like, over strenuous, got it. So I'm going to bring this down just part of the way. And I am going to put a little loop on it. You can go straight across, if you want. And then I like to do little lines. I like that blue showing through. So that's what I'm choosing to do. You do you, do what you enjoy. Okay. Same with the red. And the yellow. Okay. And then the yellow also has this little gold band. It starts on the outer edge, comes across, and goes around. And then I'm going to put some little stripes But again, I'm following the contour, so there's slanting. All things point to the bottom here, okay? And I'm going to go across the bottom pretty heavily. I had a little bit of green. I'm covering that up. I want the ornament to be on top. The ornament is the focus, not the greenery. Okay, so let's let that dry. 12. Gold Filigree Scrollwork: No. Alright, friends, I've decided it's best to do the berries very last because they take forever to dry and we don't want to risk Smerium. So let's go ahead, while we have our gold. It's already generated. Let's go ahead and do our beautiful scroll work around our design. And so I've pulled out the pattern. I just want to make sure I do the same thing that you're going to be doing as far as if you decide to use the pattern. I'm not going to put in every detail of the scroll work that I've indicated here for you, but I am going to just lay in, like, my basic line 'cause I don't want to be too far off of what I provided for you. Perfect. Okay. So if you need to lay in those basic marks, you go ahead and do that as well and make sure your gold is generated, and we're going to use our number one liner brush. Oh, this is the fun part. I love, love, love doing this. Alright, make sure that your gold is nice and workable. And I'm rolling I'm pulling this to a fine tip. Awesome. I'm going to start right here up at the top. A and then I'm gonna bring out some scrolls. A couple of them. Okay, one more. What the heck? And I'm gonna touch and press over here. And let me start out with a little more paint for these. These are gonna be little. Now notice I planted my finger. I'm gonna make this one a little more hefty on the top. Like that better. And same for this. I'm gonna make this a little bigger. Again, you can just use a bigger brush if you don't want to come back in, but see, I like how refined and fine that detail line is there. And I'm gonna come back in and just touch a little dot of gold on the tip. Okay. And then sometimes I like to just add, like, a little couple lines and a few dots. Just have fun with it. Just make it. Wonderfully, beautifully. Okay. I like that. All right. Let's come over here. Oh, yeah. I like that. Gonna do some dots. Pretty. Here we go. Let's keep it going. We're on a roll with our scrolls. And I think I'll just do some dots here. Okay. I think I missed one up here. I mean I come up. I'm going to put some dots here where Oh, yeah. Okay. I'm here. Let me make it like that. I like that one a lot. I have to turn my board upside down to do these bottom ones. Okay, make sure this is dry and you don't smear if you're turning your board upside down with me. Maybe I should follow my own advice. Okay. Now, I think I just want to make these look like they're wide. And I think this time, I'm gonna bring some this way. Yes. Alright. I like that. You gonna maybe some lines. Alright. Yeah, I like that. Alrighty. Let's focus on this one in the corner here. You want to start so it looks like it goes out this way. Go put a little beat on the end of these. Okay, let's do these right here. I'm gonna do it kind of like this. Looks like we got a couple. So this one's kind of bigger. The I'm gonna leave that, I think, hey. Guys, I'm gonna turn my board. This kind of matches. I kind of want to do something a little more like that, I think. So I'm going to start at the bottom and pull up. And I ran out of paint. Okay. Alright. Just a little thick. That's why I ran out of paint. I think I'll do a little double here. Oh, yeah. I like that. Okay. Couple on the bottom. All right. Let's step back and take a good look, see if there's any more beautiful lacey scrolls you want to add. This would be the time to do that, but I think I'm pretty good. M 13. Details with Dots and Signature: Okay, I've taken my pencil and just a little ruler and indicated just a very short string for each ornament. I used a ruler so that I made sure it was straight up because ornaments don't hang sideways, right? Now, I'm going to turn my board sideways. This is so that I can have an evenly width line by just pulling my arm and not doing this with my hand. I'm pulling my arm. So I'm using my detail brush, my five ought so that I can get a little thicker line than using my liner brush. Notice how the hand moves, not the fingers. I think it's time for us to go ahead and mix up a little well of red, and we can do our berries. So let's get that mixed up. Alright, I've mixed up some cad red, and this is going to This is about a 50 50 mix with water. And I'm going to use my stylus. You can use anything that makes a nice round circle. And for those of you that are beginner beginners, just a note that circles become smaller as you descend using the same dip. If you want your circles to be the same size, you have to dip, dot, wipe, dip, dot, wipe. Okay? So it's good to utilize both depending on what project you're doing, but just note that. And then be very, very careful. I like to work from the top down basically because it's so easy to smear and make a mistake that's hard to recover from. So, here we go. Let's start with our blue, and let's have some fun. These, I don't feel compelled to have them be exactly the same size. And if it goes too small like that, you can just dip you can just dot right on top of it. It'll be fine. But have some tissue handy to even if you're not using a stylus, no matter what you're using, you're gonna wipe that tip off fairly frequently it gets all globby and then you don't have a nice round circle. There's no right or wrong to this, as you can tell. So just enjoy the process. Uh, Okay, I ran out of ends to do. I think I'm going to put so if I have kind of a blank area, just gonna group some berries together. Oh Yeah, that feels good. Alright, I'm going to leave that. Step back and look at it and see if you want to add any. Okay. So these are still wet. You can either wait for those to dry and then do this next step or we're going to continue I'm gonna continue on. I've switched to a bigger brush. It has a fairly flat end, but I wanted to have larger size berries. I'll do fewer berries, but bigger. All right. Let's see if there's anywhere else. I like the flow up. I think I'm good with that. You're gonna stop. Alright, guys, I have come back to my stylus and come to the gold paint. I've mixed up a puddle. I've got it on a slant, so it stays puddled. And we're going to add our berries to our gold ornaments here, our gold vines. Now, in one version that I painted of this, I did the berries in white. And so if you like that idea, you could do that. For me, the white just was overbearing, because the gold is so beautifully subtle and classy looking. And so I'm doing it in gold. That was my favorite. And I'm also dipping each time, because I liked it best for this when they were all the same size. Oh Oh, isn't it beautiful? It's just so classy and elegant. As you look at this, decide if you want to add more dots somewhere. If you do, you'll need to come in and add a little attachment, which is fine, of course. I'm just wondering if I need I feel like there's more dots on this side than this side. I may add another dot here, and I'll need to attach it and here. I'm there. So I am going to. Now, that feels more balanced. No, I lied. I need something over here. Okay, I'm sticking with my stylus, and I've made a puddle of white. It's about 50, 50 ratio. And I'm gonna come in and be intentional about adding just some dots on my holly and my pine. And I'm touching enough times to make it totally run out of paint. In other words, I want a variety of sizes. And so I'm just making the most out of each dip, I'm gonna have it go up the pin a bit. Alright, so now you can see the difference with it without it. And you choose what you'd like to do. Maybe you don't want it. That's okay. Do what? You do you. I'm staying off my red berries. This just frames our ornaments nicely and enhances our greenery, gives them one more point of interest, which we've been really good about. Now, that one's too big. I don't like it, so I'm gonna take it off. Okay. I'm going to add some. I'm using the smaller end now. I don't know if you noticed I flipped mine over, but I'm just going to add a few in here. But this is the back back background. Okay. I'm gonna add a few up there. And if you need to flip your board, do it because everything's wet. I think I'll be okay. Just gonna be really careful. Great. Okay, let's let everything dry. I've stood back six feet and taken a close look, and I think I feel like it's complete, like it's finished and I don't need to add anything to it. Now, I know a lot of you have taken some of my other classes where we add some inking, and this would be the point where you could go ahead and do that. I'm not going to do it for this class, but you are more than welcome to pull out your favorite pen and add some ink lines around those holly leaves a little bit on the pine, and, of course, around your ornaments, and it would look beautiful. So feel free to make it your own, add some inking if you would like to do that. For me, I feel like this piece is a little more on the elegant side with all the fine filigree and lace that we've added to it. And so I'm going to leave it without ink. I think it's time to sign our name. I want you to know I feel like you have risen to the challenge in taking this class, which takes talent and courage and strength and creativity, and I'm so proud of you for taking this class and completing your project. Good job, everyone. Always sign your artwork. Please claim your artwork. It's wonderful. It's unique to you. So always take the time to sign your name and do it proudly and say, Yes, I did this beautiful piece of art. And so let's go ahead and sign our name together. I'm going to sign down here, I think. Wonderful. Thank you so much for spending this time with me, and I will see you in the next video where we wrap up with congratulations and probably a few bloopers. 14. Congratulations & Bloopers: Well, congratulations. You did it. You have finished your ornaments, and I'm so proud of you. I'm so happy that you took this class. Thank you for your time and for spending it with me. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope it was a benefit to you. And, you know, if you found that it was a benefit and somebody else you know might enjoy it, all you need to do is look for this link on Skillshare on this page, and you can send that link to them, and both you and your friend will benefit from Skillshare. Also, if you'd like to get some future notifications now and then, whenever I pop out a new class, then all you need to do is click the follow button, and you'll just get a little pink whenever I send out a new class. And if you'd like to see what other classes I have here on Skillshare, here's some of my holiday classes, but there's more. Then all you need to do is go to the top of the page and type in my name, Carrie Sanders, and everything I have here available, we'll populate. You can take a peek and see if we can spend more time together. That would be awesome. Alright. If you'd like to take a peek into the world of Carrie Sanders, then all you need to do is head on over to my website. It's carsandersart.com, and you can take a peek at Insta at Carrie Sanders Art, and I'd love to see you there as well. Okay, folks, thank you so much for joining me today. I know your time is valuable, and there are some really talented teachers here, so I truly am grateful that you spent some time with me. I guess it's time for Bloopers. Who me? Bloopers? I'm saying the same thing over and over and over, and I'm not keeping track. Santa. Me and Santa were like this. Oh. Oh. Jingle tingle.