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1. Welcome: Hi. Well, hi, everyone. Come on into my studio. My name is Carrie Sanders,
and I'm an artist, a teacher, and a creative
here in Farmington, Utah. And today for you, I have
this fun doodle piece, the doodle floral
butterfly wreath is what I'm calling it in
watercolor and ink. And we're going to
learn some techniques like washing, inking techniques. We'll be splattering.
We'll even be doing some stencil work
in the background. And really we'll be doing a lot of free handing
with these flowers. But I do provide a
pattern for you. And also, I now provide my videos in real time.
So you're in control. You can speed them up, slow them down, start and stop them, do whatever you need to
do to make it the best experience possible for you. That's really
important. You know, I have been teaching for many, many years, literally thousands of students at this point. And I was fortunate to have my pattern book picked up by a Big Box store and
sold across the nation, along with pattern packets, and I've taught workshops
through Utah to Connecticut. And what I'm saying is I just love to work with
students and provide you with tools and
tips and tricks and techniques so that you can learn to do these
things on your own. If you would like to take
some of my other classes, then all you need to do is
go to the top of this page, search bar, and type in
my name Carrie Sanders. And all the classes I have here on Skillshare will populate. And maybe something there
would be of interest to you and I would love to
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be interesting to you. And lastly, if you'd like to take a peek into the world
with Carrie Sanders, then you're welcome to join
me on my Instagram page, which is at Carrie Seb's art. Alright, guys, let's get started on this fun
piece. I'm excited. I hope you are, too. I'll
see you in the next video. We'll talk about
the class projects.
2. Class Project: Okay, my friends
and fellow artists, your class project
today is to complete one doodle floral
butterfly wreath. And all you need to do is
follow my video step by step. I have everything in real time, so you can speed it
up, slow it down, stop it, start it, do whatever you
need to do to make it the best experience for you. When you have finished, if you could take a quick
picture and upload that into our class gallery by looking for this button on
this cage of Skillshare. They make it really easy
for you to do that. But what it does is a great
place for us to communicate. We can top back and forth. I get pinged when you do that, and so I can go in
and take a look at your project
and make comments. Nothing but love,
no judgment here. I am so happy when you complete
a project and share it. It's so fun to share your
creativity with others, and in our artist community, we really should support
one another more. So please take a moment to upload your class project
into our class gallery, and I will see you there.
3. Supplies & Pattern Application: Before we start our
inking and painting, let's do a quick
review of our supplies so we have everything ready to go and we can dive right in. Today, I'm going to be using
a variety of paint colors, and I almost hesitate
to tell you what I'm using because
this is your piece, and you can make whatever colour flowers you want to make, but I will tell you
what I'm using. And, of course, I always provide for you a
PDF showing all of the supplies that I use today and use
on a regular basis. So let's dive right in
with the colors I'm using. I'll be using Hookers
green Terra verte, turquoise, Cerlean blue, violet, quinacrian coral, permanent
rose, potters pink, orange, new gamboge, lemon yellow, I'm not going to use
buff, I don't think, but I put it out here as
something that you can use. I'm going to use white gouache, and this will be used
to mix with some of these colors to soften
them down for my flowers. If you want kind of a pastel
color, I would use white. If you want more of a Bohemian
Victorian type color, use a buff titanium. It's more of that
grayish, creamish color. So that's one of
those two options I will definitely be using. And then today I'm only going
to use one paint brush, and it's going to be my
handy dandy number four. You know, that's
my favorite brush. That's all I'm going
to be needing, as well as a stencil brush. This is for using our stencil
to do the background. And this is the stencil
that I have chosen. You can use whatever
stencil you have at home. And then we will definitely
be using a pencil today, and I recommend a
soft kneaded eraser so you don't damage
your watercolor. And I will be using
two different pens. I'll be using both of these. So I will be using a Nibal. This is a fine tip Nibal and I'll be using
a Mu Gi and JI. This is also a fine tip. But even though
they're fine tip, they aren't the same in width, and so I'll be
using both of them. The important thing, guys, is to make sure whatever pen you use, make sure it is waterproof, test it out. Make sure. And remember when
you're testing pins, you test them on paper, let them dry completely. You have to give
them a minute or two to dry before you put water on top before you have a true test of whether
it is waterproof. And then of course,
you'll be needing some handy dandy tissues. We'll be definitely
using those for our splattering today
and our stenciling. You need a good container
of clean water, either a sponge or
a cloth for drying, and I think we'll be good to go. So go ahead and
gather your supplies, and we'll talk about paper next. Okay, let's talk
about paper, guys. I've done this piece
a number of times. I've done it in my sketchbook. I've done it on a ten
by ten, a 12 by 12. And today, I'm going to be
doing it on a full size paper. And the important
thing is to use 140 pound watercolor paper. I'm going to be using
a hot press because I like to have a smooth
surface whenever I'm inking. A cold press paper has a
little more tooth to it, which is great for a lot
of watercolor projects, but it makes it a little
more tricky, I think, when you're doing inking
with a fine tip pen. So I'm using hot press, 140 pound, 100% cotton. Guys, even my sketchbooks, I always make sure they
are 140 pound paper. It's something I hope that
you can treat yourself to because you put so much time and effort into your sketches, your paintings, your
drawings, everything. And having the right paper
makes all the difference in your outcome versus a brush or paint that you
might be purchasing. It's not as important
as the paper. So this is what I'll be using for our
demonstration today. It will also help you if you
have some tracing paper, as well as a little
sheet of graphite paper. And on this page of Skillshare, I've provided for you a
color photo for reference. I'll also have it on screen. Also, I've provided
a pattern for you. Everything that you
need is right here. Skillshare ready for you to go. So go ahead and gather everything together,
and let's get started. For those of you that have
never applied a pattern, I'm going to show you
quickly how to do that. So I've provided a PDF for you on this
page of Skillshare. You just need to print that out, and you can see that
we're going to do a very simplified application because this is a free
hand doodle class. I don't want to pin you
down to a pattern too much. So just print that
out and then take some tracing paper and trace that pattern onto tracing paper so that it's
nice and see through. And once you have
that tracing paper, then you're able to apply it to your watercolor paper directly. And you'll just want to be
careful of the placement. Now, you can see this would
be straight up and down. I prefer to have
my butterfly kind of on an angle like this. So once you've decided the
placement of your butterfly, then you're going to take
a piece of graphite paper. You can see there's
two different sides. This kind of a shiny side. I guess it's more of a mat side, and this is a shiny side. So the mat side goes down. Slide this underneath
your pattern, and then you can trace as much or as little of
this as you need. I am not going to trace
every bit that you see here. I'll show you what
I end up doing. But also, I'm going
to use a stylus. It has a round tip
on either end. You could also use a pencil,
a pen, whatever you want. I just like using a stylus, so it doesn't ruin my pattern, and I can use it over and over. Some people like
using the pencil because then they can see
where they have been. So I'm going to go
ahead and speed up the camera and apply my pattern, and I'll see you
in just a moment. As you can see, I mostly
did dotted or dashed lines. This is just to give
me an indication of where my lines should be. And I did that because the nature of the way we're going to ink things is we don't want those lines to show
through our flowers. And when we do a light wash, we aren't going to
be able to cover up the lines of the graphite. So I am going to come in
with a pencil now and just lightly indicate where I'm
going to do the inking. And, of course, you don't
even need to do this part. You can just free
hand your inking. And normally I would, but
because I'm teaching a class, I want you to be
able to see where I'm going to be doing my inking. So you can see I've just given myself a really good guideline with those dashes in graphite. Now, there is certain types of graphite that's water soluble. I just don't happen to have
any on hand right now. Alright, so now
I'm just going to do a light indicator
for these wings. K. And then same for the body. And you can do the thickness of the body however
thick you want. I like to have really
thin butterfly and dragon fly bodies. So that's what I'm doing. And then here, we're
going to do our flour, and we're actually
going to do it in ink, but I'm just going
to do the center one just to get us
off to a good start. We're gonna put
five petals on it. And then we'll
build around that. So that's as far as
I'm going to go. Go ahead and make sure
you've reached this point, and I'll see you
in the next video. We're gonna start
inking right away.
4. Inking the Wreath: We are going to doodle
just a portion right now, and then we will stop
and add the background, and then we'll doodle
the rest of it. And so I'm going to be
using this is my Nibal. It is the thicker. It's labeled as a fine tip, but it is a little bit thicker
than my Muji fine tip, as you can see the
difference right there. I will be doing the
butterfly with my Muji. But this outside wreath, I'm going to be using my Nibal. I just want it to be a
little bit more substantial. So that's just an FYI. You can do whatever you
want. It doesn't matter. Whatever makes you
happy makes me happy. And so let's go ahead
and get started, and we can just go right
over our lines here. I have found the best success with these wavy lines is
to just make sure you're comfortable and turn
your paper each time so that you're doing a smooth
movement with your arm. And once you start, don't stop. Otherwise you'll get a
little jerky motion. And you can see this isn't exactly the same width.
Who cares, right? This is a doodle piece, which means don't get
caught up in rules and perfection and, you
know, all those things. This is a really fun, relaxing piece that we're just going
to enjoy the process. Okay, now that we
have our wreath, we're going to go
ahead and add some of these cute little leaves, and they are made by just doing one side and another side. Now, if you don't want
them to be pointy, you can just do them
round like that. So again, whatever
floats your boat, I want you to be happy.
This is your piece. I'm going to do mine pointy and I'm going to
do them everywhere that it's down low. And up high. Now, I think if you've
taken any of my classes, you already know this that I paint my pieces,
you know, three, four times before I teach a class on it to make sure I've covered everything
that I'd like to. And I did this once with adding a whole bunch of leaves instead of just a few like this, and it was overwhelming
to me because there's so much going on with our butterfly
that we're gonna do. So that's my personal preference to just have kind of simple, a few, not too
many overwhelming. And you do what makes you happy. No, don't go onto
your butterfly. Trust me, your butterfly is
gonna have lots going on. All right. How did you do there. Mm hmm.
5. Paint & Splatter the Background: Alright, I have taken my
soft needed eraser and erased any lines that we're still showing
underneath my vines. And I just daubed it
straight up and down over my pencil lines just
to lighten those up because once we paint on
top of our pencil lines, you can't erase them, so it's
better to do it now before. And I have prepared on my
palette serle and blue. And I'm going to be using
just a large brush. A large brush will do. And then I'm going to be using
a number four to splatter. So we're going to be
doing the background. And you'll notice
we're not going to do anything behind the butterfly. So we're going to take it in quadrants. I'll walk
you through it. Then after it's totally dry, we will add our stenciling. Let's go that far. Go ahead
and mix up some water down. Now, as I did different samples, getting ready for this class, I did serelim blue, I did violet, I did
pinks, I did greens. I did light oranges, and blue is always
my favorite color. I'm sticking with serilimblue and you guys do whatever
color you want to do. You don't have to
do serlem blue. I would just say,
if you're not sure, then use a piece of sample
paper and right out, see what you like,
because the beauty of this butterfly is gonna have
all different colors in it. And so it's going to go with anything that you
want it to go with. Now, we're going to
go in quadrants, just quarters because we
don't want it to totally dry. We're going to splatter it with both paint and with water. And so we're going
to watch carefully how dry our paper gets. You notice I'm using
a lot of water. This is probably 99%
water and 1% paint. And I'm gonna be
telling you ratios. Throughout the
class, just so you have an idea of what I'm doing. And here on these bare edges where we're gonna meet up
later with another bare edge, soften that with water
so it's not a hard edge. Okay, so that's about as
dark as I want it to be. I want it to be quite light. And I'm going to soften this
edge along the butterfly. When you want to soften an edge, you just want water
on your brush, no paint and just
kind of go along. That edge and it'll
soften up with the water. That's just so you don't
have this hard stark edge, which is fine for some things, but for this project, we want a nice soft edge. All right. Let's let that start
to dry just a tad. We still want our paper to
have a little sheen to it, but not a big shine. We don't want big cauliflowers
of water anywhere. And while that's
soaking into our paper, I'm taking my number four, and I'm going to pick
up paint and water. This is still going
to be quite thin, but it's gonna be more like, Oh, 95% water. Maybe 97% water. And we're going to splatter. And I want it to hit
the paper and poof out. So I don't want it to be as
dry as I would if I wanted, like, specific little dots. So I'm gonna go ahead and start. I always tap the first
one on my palette just to get a little excess off my brush. Oh,
yeah, that's great. You can see how it hits
because the paper is wet, it's gonna automatically
poof out a little bit. That's a technical
term poof out. Poof out. Alright. And I always keep a
tissue in my hand. I'm just gonna keep my butterfly a little
bit free from that. And I don't want a whole bunch. Now, over here where
it was more dry, you can either leave it
like that where it's a specific dot or come back and just touch it with
a little bit of water, and it's gonna let that soften
out and it'll blend out. So whatever you like to do, I don't want any hard dots. I don't want any specific dots. And just a little bit
more. In that corner. Great. All right. How to
do. That's fun, right? This my fun. This
is the fun part. I love this splatter. Okay, I've turned the
board upside down. I'm coming in with my big brush
full of water, 99% water. Gonna come up to the edge
of that butterfly again. Just working quickly
fill in the space. This is a total no stress part. Like, this whole thing
is a no stress project. That's the beauty. Handful. Now, that should you can't even tell where I
met up with my last edge. Just perfect. This can add
a little more pas edge. And you can see breast
strokes. I don't care. Totally fine. We're
going to come in. We're doing this splattering. Okay, now, while
we're waiting for this side to dry a little bit, we're going to
come in over here, just picking up water on that number four
and splatter water. What that's going to do is
actually lift off paint. It's just going to add
another form of texture. Just go to let that sit
and see it just starts to lift off little droplets can see how it's
starting to work. Lifts off little droplets of
paint, which is super fun. Now let's come in
on this side and do some splattering, 95% water. Great. Just protecting my butterfly a little bit while I get in that little curvy areas
kind of tight. Great. Okay, see if there's
any spots that you want to hit I just a
little bit right here. Yep. On right there. Great. Now, these are that
hit my butterfly, I can either touch them with
a water brush like that. Or I can leave them.
Honestly, they're not gonna show cause we're gonna do a lot of stuff on our butterfly. But I'll just clean
them up a little bit. Alright. Now I think we're okay to go ahead and
splatter on some water. Just to be my number
four in water. Splatter that on.
Awesome. Oh, then you can see how it just starts
to lift off immediately. Perfect. Alright, guys,
this needs to dry 100% before we can come in with our stencil and finish
up our background. So I'll see you
in just a moment.
6. Stencil Background: It's time for us to go
ahead and add our stencil. You can use any stencil
that you want or have at home or you don't even have to stencil if you don't want to. I just find it a nice effect, and I have a lot
of fun doing it. And I'll tell you,
I'm just going to use serleim blue on
top of sereliublue, but I did a lot
of experimenting, and my next favorite is white. I really enjoyed putting white on top of
the serelim blue, the lavender, the pink, whatever I was testing.
White was kind of pretty. So if you have white wash and you want to try
that, too, again, I would just test it out and see what floats your boat and
see what you like the best. I'm using a stencil brush. Stencil brushes are
very, very super stiff. So that you can go straight up and down,
and they're flat. They're completely
flat on one side, and they come in all
different sizes. So see what you've got handy. I tried using regular
paint brushes and didn't have a great result. Because I just wanted to
test it and see if it would work for you guys.
So I'm picking up. This is probably 98% water, and I'm going to tap
a lot of it off. Because we're using watercolor
instead of acrylic paint, it's gonna go hop underneath your stencil onto your
watercolor paper. Super easily. So
make sure you're tapping a good amount
of the moisture off. And also, you don't want to
damage your watercolor paper. So, I really encourage you to test this out a
couple of times several times till you get a
feel for it because you really don't have to touch your watercolor
paper hardly at all. I'm barely touching the surface, and it's gonna show up
just fine because we did such a light light
coating and also, you noticed that
I taped it down. I tried I thought, Oh, I can just hold that myself. No, not so much.
Alright, so there it is. Now, it has a couple of light spots or dark spots
that I don't personally want, so I'm just gonna touch it with some water and some tissue. And it will lighten up. So don't be afraid to do that. Again, this is a great
reason why you're gonna want to test this
out a time or two. There, can you see how
much lighter that is now? And for me, personally, that's I don't want this to take away or detract
from the butterfly. I want it to just
be a nice form of texture in the background
and not take over the scene. Alright, so and also, you know, it's got this whole circle. I'm just doing a partial there. I'll probably do a whole one. Almost a whole one, maybe there. So I'll just decide
on your placement and put them where
you'd like them to be. Even though I have the
table, I'm still holding this stencil tightly
with my fingers. This will help keep that paint and water from
going under your stencil. I had Take it from one
who learned the hard way. I had some water go shop right
underneath that stencil. Oh, that's pretty.
Alright. I'm going to lighten it up a little bit. It's just water on my brush. Dabbing with the tissue. Yeah, I like that better. I want it to be super
soft, barely there. Oh, isn't that fun? I love
it. Okay, let's keep going. Also, I'm doing
circular motions. I don't know if I
mentioned that earlier. This little very light
circular motion. Beautiful. Super fun. Oh, that's gorgeous. See how that pairs nicely
with the splattering, the texturing we
did with our water? Beautiful. I can't wait to see what
colors you guys chose to do. Please post these in
our gallery so that we can see each other's
work. It's so fun. You're so creative. I'm always just amazed at how wonderfully creative you are. Great. I think I'm just gonna
do two on the top. Where my team pits though. I love these little stencils. I've got to tell you, guys, I bought a package like 50 something stencils
on TMU for five bucks. And I have used them
many, many times. It's been a great resource. Awesome. Alright. How'd you do? I think that I am
finished with my stencil. Let's let this has
to dry 100% before we can move forward
with any inking, so let's let this dry.
8. Inking the Lower Wings: Picking up my pencil. I'm going to start with my main line that
comes down to the tip, then fill out some more. Okay. Sorry, I have to turn it. It's easier for me
to go this way. You know your hand
makes a natural arch. And so it doesn't matter
if you're left or right. It's easiest to work with
your body than against it. Okay, let's do the
same on this side. Down here. Hey, that
one's got spot. That's better. Okay, now we are ready
to switch to our pen. And just like before,
we're gonna start with our long leaves. Great. Hey, let's add
some more leaves now. And some ones. Let's make sure they're heading
downwards. Follow your lines. Okay. Oh, that looks
so pretty. Ooh. We're gonna do some washes
with different greens. It's gonna be
gorgeous. All right. Let's come down to our tip because we want to make sure that we
have that placed just right. And I'm going to start up
about so here's let's put a dot where the edge
of that butterfly is so that we can we
don't lose track of it. I'm gonna come up
about, I don't know, half inch or so and just bring a line down about a half inch. And again, it's curved. It's following that curve. And I'm going to bring one
down right next to it, about a quarter inch
on either side. And this is where
we're going to do all these fun little berries. And when I paint them in, I do kind of an ombre effect with
some blues and purples. It's gonna be really pretty. But I want to do
little branches first. I'm not gonna bring
it down. Don't bring the little branches all
the way to the bottom. About halfway down, I'll
start making them smaller. So about where our main focal
dot was. Keep us in line. That's where I'll
stop and start making them smaller. All right. So now we want to just bad
smaller, smaller, smaller. So they're just almost
dots at the bottom. I might look a little looks
a little funny right now, but I promise it's gonna be
okay. Trust the process. All right. Great. Now we can go ahead and focus on our
flowers on this outer edge. Actually, first, let's start
by putting in these lines. Again, we're gonna leave. Don't bring them up past a
half inch of that outer edge. And give me, I'm
gonna turn my paper. Great. I'm gonna start by Yeah, let's do the other side. Okay, so while we're over here, let's just go ahead and
do this side of the wing. And we have lots of space, so let's go ahead and start
with a nice big flower. Now, that doesn't have a stem, so I'm going to
bring a stem over. Actually, that reminds me we need to add our
lines on the bottom. So let's go ahead and
do that real quick. And and All right. Now where were we? Let's get these beautiful
flowers put in over here. I guess I'm keeping the
shape of that wing. Now, here, we've got room
to do some big flowers. Wow. Yeah. Give us some
little leaves. Like that. Sometimes I just put
dots to remind me where I'm going. Great. We can fill in right here. Good. Yeah, I'm gonna turn this around so
I can take a look at it right side. See how we did. Yeah, I like it. How
did you do, guys? You ready to do the other side? Turn this upside down again. It's just easier for me to
see. And I'm going to start. Okay, we've already done this. Just a couple more little guys. And maybe I'll do a flower here. So, I don't want
to run into that. I want to do something maybe I'll do something down lower. I'm gonna put a really big one here. These are my favorites. You probably can tell
'cause I do them a lot. When you have your
fave, you got to do it. I think it's 'cause they
remind me of Hawaii. I don't know. And since we've got those vines, it's a good place to do, one
of those flat button ones. And then and then A little carried away there. That's right. Okay.
Um, let's see. Looks like I have just
enough room for my favorite. You do boom gonna add a few. This needs to come
up, and I'm gonna add some leaves here and there. Mm Hey. Add some dots over here. Okay, let your ink dry totally, clean it up with an eraser, and I think we're
ready to paint.
9. Adding Greenery: I'm gonna start out with a
verte and hooker screen. And again, I'm just using number four throughout
this whole piece, which makes it nice and easy. I'm going to pick up
some of this a verte, which is a very
transparent color. And then we're going to
add a lot of water to it to make it even
more transparent. So this is probably 95% water, 955 on the ratio
there, 5% paint. And I'm going to
start by just kind of bringing some
up on these lines. Then I'm gonna
soften those down. This is just water on my brush. It just went on a little
bit stronger than I wanted. I went really soft. And guys, I'm gonna try and
leave just so you know, I'm gonna try and leave
some areas of white here. Okay, let's ring in. I'm just gonna
soften a little bit. Just water on my brush. I want this really soft, so it just blends
in the background. I love Tera verte. It's such a beautiful color
with that bluish greenish. Great. Okay, now, I'm gonna pick up some a
little more concentrated now. Maybe a 9010 mixture. And I'm just gonna do here
and there on these leaves. Just kind of pick and choose. No pattern, couple together,
a couple far apart. And then same with leaves
around these center flowers. And we're not gonna try
and do any shading. This isn't, you know, like an arc piece. We're just trying to do
a wash with our inking. This is an ink and wash piece. It's not going to have a
lot of detail like shading. So just take a deep
breath and relax, enjoy. It's so fun to see
it come to life. Okay. Now, let's pick up
some of our hookers green. And you can see hookers green
is a much warmer color, so we have a warm tone and a cool tone next to each other. That doesn't bother
me. That's right. I wanted to have some added
depth. Some interest. M. Now, this is a dark enough
shade that if you're like, Oh, I wish I'd have done that leaf, you know, in the hookershcreen. Go ahead, just paint over
it like that one there. I think it should
be hookers green. So just paint over your
eraverte. It's okay. All right. Let's
see the other side. Okay. Now, I'm gonna
come in with araerte. And I'm just gonna wash him
carefully. That's too strong. This is gonna be a 955 gently around the
center flowers here. Wait a minute. I'll just kind of This is just
water on my brush. Pull that out a little bit. Beautiful. Okay, let's do it
on the other side. H Beautiful. Okay, while we have our green, let's just do these little
tiny leaves here and there and our leaves around. And again, I'm not
gonna do it with any rhyme or reason, no pattern. Just gonna see where the
wind blows me, so to speak. I love this tera verte, so I'll probably do most of it. What that. Hooker's Green. I love hooker's green, too, but it's just a little
bit strong for me. This HkersGreen is about 955. I'll use it on the little
stem where it attaches to the flower. In most cases. Oh, I got everything there. Now, let's go around
the outer edge, and I'm just gonna stick with Hooker screen since
it's on my brush. And sticking with that 955 A Okay. Let's do the others
with our era verte. That makes quite a difference
already, doesn't it? It's looking so pretty. Spring and summer. I love it.
10. Turquoise & Violet Flowers & Berries: Okay, I've pulled out some
turquoise and some violet. And I have all the brands listed in the supply
list, but honestly, I found with those two colors, they're pretty similar
among all of the brands. It doesn't matter. So I'm
going to do the body, and I'm going to use a
955 mixture, 95% water. While it's still wet, I'm gonna come in with
a touch of this purple. This is more like 99%
water and 1% paint. This is very pigmented color. I just want to do a
little wet on wet. I just want to touch it.
You can see how that grows. It goes. And I'm gonna do
this or the joints are. Now, this is a
personal preference. You can do whatever you want. You can do whatever
color you want. You don't have to do
these little stripes. And I'm going to leave it
to do its thing there. So again, this is
like 99% water. And I'm going to start with these berries
that are at the top. And yes, I'm keeping
white space between them, so they are kind of like
individual berries. Now, I'm gonna pick
up some turquois and do the bottom half. And they're so small
that it's almost just like touching the tip
of my brush, you know? Now, while it's still wet, while the purple's still wet, I'm gonna touch some of this
turquoise up on the purple, just kind of in the middle
till it blends a little bit. Oh, that's pretty. Just kind
of get that ombre effect. Okay, let's do the other
side picking up purple. Super thin down, 99% water. And speak to our turquoise. So pretty. Awesome. And let's see how our body did if there's any place
that you want to enhance. You can. Let me touch
a little bit here. Again, this is just
personal preference. We're not gonna do
a bunch of shading. Yeah, I like that.
Okay. So while we have these colors out, let's do some turquoise flowers. And you know what? You can just pick and choose
which ones you want to do. No, we are gonna
come back and do the center of these flowers. So try not to get
paint on the centers. Just makes them look a
little more dimensional. Oh, super fun. That is awesome. I'm pulling out
some white guash. Not quite sure where to put it. I'm gonna mix it with
a lot of things. So Alright. Here. Now, I'm gonna mix just
a soft lavender color. Oh, yeah. Isn't that pretty. I touch more. Just right for me. And I'm adding water to it. I'm gonna take this to
about a 9010 90% water. And this is what I'm
gonna use to put all these little petals in. So pretty. Pink would be pretty. Yellow would be
pretty. Orange mixed with white to get a little cream sickle color would be pretty. I'm just going to
turn this would be better position
for my brush tip. Let's do the other side. If there's some that you
didn't like the position of, you can just not do them, and they'll fade
into the background. Once you get all
the color going, any inking that you
don't like is really gonna fade in the background,
so don't worry about it. No big deal. Very forgiving. Just relax and enjoy. We're actually doodling
with our paint brush now. Oh, that looks great. Okay, I'm mixing up
just a little bit more. But I'm deepening
the hue, the value. And so less white, more violet. I want to do a couple
of these big flowers. And I'm going to turn my board. I want to do this one down here. Pretty and I think I pick one. Yep. I like that.
So the other side. Is big one. And do this round. Notice how I'm still
leaving the centers open. You can come in with
some color later. Great. You should
be standing back, six feet or so and looking
at it every once in a while to see if you're getting the balance of color
that you like.
11. Variety of Colorful Flowers: Okay, I picked up
some permanent rose, and I think I'm gonna
add some white to it and get some soft pink. Yes. I like that. Softer. Good. I like that. I should just keep
my board sideways. It's easier to paint
these flowers. Okay. Oh, yeah. I like that. Oh. This big one. Good. Okay. Let's pull
out another color. Pulling out Potter's pink. If you've used
this color before, you know that it's
very transparent. So I'm gonna be picking up
probably 80% paint, 20% water. And really, I'm just gonna do a little bit on
these wispy ones, doing some little
lines on them. Mm. Let's see, do any
speech over hip one. Then maybe I'll take
some of this permanent rose pretty straight from
the pallet. I do the dots. I like that. Straight from the tube. It's 100% paint. Oh,
yeah, I like that. You. Fun. I like that. Let's pull out some Quinn coral. This is a pretty deep hue. Using about a 9010 mix. It's such a strong color. I don't want to put a lot. It's so pretty. Okay. That's gonna lead us into our orange cat orange which I would like to mix with white that creamy cream sickle. Oh break out our lemon yellow. I'm actually going to tone
this down with white. Using water would not be enough. I want you can see the color
difference, adding white. But I am adding a lot
of water as well. This is going to be a 955 Good. Okay, I would suggest
you step back six feet at this
point and kind of assess what our final
flower colors should be. And then, of course, we
still need to do the center, but let's take a minute and
look at it from a distance. Okay, I'm going to add a
few more flowers that are the permanent rose for me. You do what you need to do. But I just need a little more bright pink in here
make me happy. Alright, and then
I'm going to use some serelm blue for just a couple. Literally,
just a couple. Pick up some lemon yellow. Mm. I'm gonna make this
a little bit brighter. Now, if you lose your lines
from the white squash, then after it's
dry, that's okay. After it's dry, we just come
in and add those petals. I'm just brightening them up. They went a little
too dark for me. The yellow. I keep finding little leaves
that I forgot to Pat. Oh, and there's a whole
flower I didn't do so. Oh, and there's some there, too. Alright, just keep looking. I'm gonna add a little
more turquoise. I think I'm gonna do purple more strong and stronger violet for these little guys up here. There's one more little leaf. Oh, dear. Okay, if you
get a glob of water, just touch it with your tissue. One more reason to have
tissue handy all the time. I have one more flower.
It's hiding back here. I make it pop out
with some yellow. Great. Now, let's add the
center to our flowers. I'm gonna use new gamboge
for my palette again. Mu see what I'm using. This colors very translucent, but it has a lot
of strength to it. And I just found two
more labs I didn't hit. Oh, oh, and a flower. I'm
just picking a flower. Oh, my goodness. Is this
happening to you two? Are they popping up everywhere? Oh Okay, let's put our
center flowers in. I did some experimenting. I've decided to
go with a yellow, pink and orange combination. You do some experimenting and see what appeals to you and, you know, do what
excites you you. Careful not to get it
on that center one. Again, 955 on this one. I'm gonna let those dry
before I do the yellow. While those are drying, I'm going to come in and add just a little tiny bit of color just in this
upper portion, and I'm still gonna
keep this white. So it's called a wash. I'm just gonna pop in a little bit of color too
much water on my brush. When you see me touch my tissue, I'm just getting some
water off of my brush. I'm not going to cover
the flowers per se. I just want to add a
pop of color up here. Bring it down part way and
move out to this area here. I'm gonna pick up just
water on my brush. And I'm just gonna smooth
some of that down. Kind of how we did with
our terra verte down here, but a little bit
more controlled. I like that. Just need a little m. I mean, plain white is beautiful. I can really appreciate it. I just have a hard
time sticking to it. I just like color so much. I can't help it. It's
on my vision board. If you took my
vision board class one of the quotes
that I have says, The world speaks to me in color. And it so true. You just need color. There, I like that so much more.
12. Washing Wings & Sign: Okay, we should be able to come down and have our yellow now. Very watered down. And I'm picking up just a
hint of that white. About a 955 mixture. Beautiful. Love it. Okay, I'm gonna come back
and I'm gonna even it out. I'm gonna add some turquoise
wash very carefully. Bring it down with some
water on my brush. Really careful to
leave that white. This is just a water brush now. Nice. Now, down here, I feel like I want to
do the same thing, but I want to do it
with some lavender. Yeah, I am not adding any
white squash to this. I'm just coming in
with this pallet. I'm just coming
in to the violet. Right away, I'm gonna
soften that with some water. Oh, that's pretty. I'm just noodling it a
little bit. Technical term. How are you doing? You
having fun with this? Hey, I'm gonna do this side too. When you get there. Don't
go into those berries. Just water on my brush now. Well, I'll put some around
this yellow flower. Make that yellow pop.
Turn it this way, so I go. I like that. That's fun. I'm just
gonna deep into the tab down here. All right. Step back, six feet, see if there's anything
else you need to do. I haven't done my little
antenna Dalios there. I'm gonna do those in turk boys. See if there's anything
else that you are missing? If you need to come
into your soft yellows and add any inkwork, just lightly do that real quick. Well, friends, I
think we are ready to go ahead and
wrap this one up. I hope you stood
back six feet and took a look and
see if there were any adjustments that
you need to make. And if you're really
happy with it, then we are good to go. Let's go ahead and sign
our name together. Always take the time
to claim your artwork. Even if it's in your sketchbook, sign your name to it
for whoever finds it, your friends, your family, your posterity, whoever,
sign and claim your work. Be excited about what
you've done and know how proud of you I am for
accomplishing this piece. We really covered a lot in a short amount of time with
all of the detailed work, all of our inking, and the special techniques we use today, especially you know, the background, all the
flattering and the stenciling, and we did a lot. The washing. I was quite a bit
thrown into one piece, and I think it turned
out beautifully, and I'm very proud of
you and I hope you had as much fun
with it as I did. So let's go ahead and sign
our name together. Let's see. I think I'll put my
name over here today. All right, thank you again for spending
your time with me. I'll see you in the next
video where we will wrap up.
13. Congratulations & Bloopers: Hey, guys, congratulations. You finished your project. I'm so proud of
you. I really am. And I hope that it was
something that was not only fun and
relaxing and enjoyable, but you really learned
something in the process. If you felt like this class was a benefit to
you and you know someone else that might enjoy it or find some benefit from it, all you need to do is
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classes from me, I would love to spend
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in the search bar, put my name Carrie Sanders, and all the classes
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will populate. You can take a peek there and see if something is of interest. I have some fun summer classes. These are just a
few of them, and something might tickle
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ping whenever I put out a new class and you can take a peek and see if that
looks fun and exciting. Again, if you could
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back and forth. And it's such a fun thing
to see what each other has accomplished and to support one another as
artists and friends. And I would love to see
what you have accomplished. Okay, guys, if you
would like to take a peek into the world
with Carrie Sanders, you can find me on Instagram
at Carrie Sanders Art. So I guess it's time for
us to say goodbye for now. I hope you're having a fabulous
springtime or summertime. And I guess it's
time for loopers. Okay. Take care,
everyone. Bye bye. Plate one wreath. One what's it called? I made this big long name. Hi, welcome on in,
friends and artists. It's good to see you.
Thank you for stopping by. Here's some cookies
and some punch. My gosh. It's a class. And just enjoy being
and just enjoy. What are we enjoying, Car? And just enjoy being outside and enjoying Boy, we're
having a lot of joy. Let's enjoy Joy to the world. Let's joy. Wow. God and
Kerrie Sanders, Artist, Teacher, Creator.
