Easy Leaf Printing on Black Paper

1. Easy Leaf Printing: Introduction: Hello and welcome to easy leave printing on black paper. I've been wanting to develop this class for you for a while now, as I am in love with leaves, I love flowers almost as much, but there's just something about the texture and shape of leaves and of trees, which I'm a bit dotty about. I wanted this class to be accessible to most as I'm really interested in easy but effective techniques. There's a degree of frustration, one starting out painting, and I wanted this to be a lovely genital breather for you. I also know what it's like to get a little stuck in a rut, so as an artist, So I'm hoping this will appeal to you. More experienced artists, too. I'm going to be asking you to gather some leaves. I appreciate some of you won't have access to a garden or the countryside, but maybe you could treat yourself to a bunch of flowers with lots of greenery. But you assess for the greenery itself, or check out any house punch might have. We're going to be hand printing with gouache and or watercolor, but this will work with acrylic, too. I have not tried it myself. But my nephews and nieces have used poster paint and even paint sticks to good effect. You could choose a variety of leaves. Some will have more prominent things, some more delicate, and it may be effective to have a mixture of the two. It's a very tactile experience. I should be running your fingers over the whole leaf, down the mid rib and out to the edges of the leaves. So you really get to know the leaves there, different shapes and character, which is Colonel Lovely. So try to go back to hunger. Pain to this child. No thinking just feeling and turn off your critical voice and connect with your own flow time. 2. Easy Leaf Printing: Materials: okay, before we get started, I just wanted to take you through the materials that will be using today. Seriously paper, Mrs. Stonehenge. Cold press, Political paper. If you wanted to go in at the end on adult relative detail in the extra tutorial put up for you since in my favor because the water will, we'll leave in its absorbent. Really nice soft pavement if you don't have waterfall paper than you might have a black card in the house. And I just bought this book, which was nice. God, it's kind of like a notebook, so I'll be showing you start comparing with the water. If you don't have either of those, you might some sugar paper. I was really amazed at the results of the got with this. It's very cheap, but it's really nice. So that's paper hurts. Move onto brushes. Okay, you really are going to need one brush for the main class that if you want to carry on that , you just need a little no watercolor brush. This is the cheap brush that I use quite a lot. It covers the the least very quickly. It's really practical, so that's a great bush And then, if you wanted to drop a little bit of water color into your work. The end. This is a cheap pointed round brush common dash got with a set over if they had soared. Brush. That's quite nice here. Is that on? This is my favorite bushes. Escada size 10. So that's delicious. Let's move over to paint. Well, actually, only be using one call up. I didn't call the color, Uh, not his white. So I says Windsor and Newton Goulash. What? Don't be using that for printing. If you then wanted to go on later on, add a little bit of water quality. Tell tea leaves. Any color will do. Doesn't have to be watercolor either. It can be Go wash. Just walked it down. I love the undersea green sap green in the Daniel Smith Range. Again, any paint will do so anything you have in House Rose murderers one of my other favorites even try that. So that's paint last practical side. When you actually laying the news down on paper, you'll need something to keep it from getting very messy, because if you use any fingers, it becomes a little tricky. So I look, this could conceivably from you could see all the veiling on really works. Well, if you don't have any daily paper, then kitchen all this will be good. You can't see the leaf, but you can feel the pains into I've got two parts of water trying to keep her good practice here. Keeping water clean. Most artists use a warm color, cool color plot. But as we're only going to be using White, the mainstay of the class, you really only need one part. I just put this here just to prove what a good artist I am on how clean my brush on then I did by Russia to Christie and clean water before going into color. And but one park is good deed. Really? So last thing really is I just use a micro cough to double the excess of water. Works really well, you think of them really cheaply. We don't have that back to the good old kitchen. Roll on. And you probably will use this the sleazy already. Just what I would go through them again. So I think I have covered everything that, as you can see, I have a must Too many leaves. Um, and I'll be talking more about those in the next post with class 3. Easy Leaf Printing: Techniques: Okay, so let's get started. Test out off all these papers and different values of paint. So I've got very risky takes. Here's I described in the materials I've got the Windsor and Newton quash. I've got a very find goulash, which is, uh, current Dash and I managed to find don't swift titanium white watercolor. But this is an expensive way to do it because just a little too is going Teoh close to you . Just what I thought we were just trying to help. It's time. So I'm going to start out with the sugar paper. Well, let's see what kind of results we get. Could not. Would you use this brush, which is, uh, 3/4 inch oil? Soft grip. Let's get started. Really, really want to start with one of these, which is a Beachley copper beech. It's got really nice daily. It's quite gentle. Project me, but beautiful detail. Stop it into what I tend to do is have a little area here where I could work, and it's nice to have the leaf placed on something that could be just a bit of clothes for kitchen. Now what we're going to do is practice with different thickness of paint, so this is probably like a medium stop. Don't forget the little step, and this is the mid rib veins and blades of leaves, so it doesn't look much now at this point. Brushed down. Get to daily paper, Get your he come, used to eases. Tend to just do this and my fingers now. But you can use tweezers to pick it up if you like. So let's have a look. See that ticket here? Place Lee. Smooth it over with fingers. Remember, stalk about two objects, that's what Let's see. That's a pretty amazing results. Say we should paper entirely basically left on it. So let's try that situation to go. No thicker. Maybe I'm still using the Windsor Newton here. So now I'm going to go in, and I'm going to get quite a lot of paint. Hardly any water on my brush. Let's do the same leaf and see what happens. This is super thick, creamy down to the stock. It looks so beautiful like that. I talked to the chase, get back to doing a project just the these take crabs in arranging women to design, so get feel, he can use the same piece of tell you, Piper, just to save faith proponents and what's ideas? I just kind of took over until it's time to draw a little inside. So let's see what this one looks like. Get that paper down quickly said leave doesn't move. This is my favorite thing. I should really get to know me. Stuns bled a little family just doesn't matter. No, that's so little bit more. You tell that you do sometimes get this. It's like bleeding around the edges when you must put door paint on there because a lot of the this is about and driving process, so gets you most of the paint off again. Now, I'm just gonna go in with very delicate kind of wash to see what happens. Being brave and just going out there trying new things is, uh, it's how you live you techniques as well. They could actually event techniques yourself. So just what I did there just double he paint that was there already. Now just pulled Proteus. Uh, very, very watered down. I don't think there's gonna be too much of a difference between us and most probably dead. Well, let's see right. It's big blob of paint now, so I know I've got to do this this way. This so I picked up some pain there. Slightly messy Holly. Like Messi. I have a mind if you have difficulty, we've got a little You could always put some kitchen over the top and use, um, a burnishing tools. Now that depends on the delicacy belief. Of course, if it's very delicate, you risk. But there is a difference. Well, that's quite nice. I like that I call this filigree. That's kind of a filigree pattern and actually has picked up some lovely detail in the midst end in mid rib. That's really lovely. So we tried at least polish of the paper. Yeah, let's go for it. Let's try something very different from how about thanks? That was Tous. That would be quite difficult, though I have printed with multi stem leaves booked. Let's just take one. I'm not actually sure what this is. You will notice that just got it from my guard and beautiful. So let's try that a little bit. So I think what I might do is his go for that's It's kind of like the fact that you use a little bit common dash instead, see what makes the difference. Yes, that's quite water. So what I think I might do is just have a little bit off brush before go in now, just getting there on. Don't worry about getting the whole of the leaf. Just enjoy process because there isn't a really neat way to do this illness. It's kind of very tactile. Onda almost childlike. It's enjoying my probably love this. So no right or wrong, that's just because it wouldn't have a look. I'm going to use fresh, bitter rap. See, there's a nest of the lost book. That's a look, so I could feel it using rough. Tell you what? Conceivably. Okay, follow beach smoke actually got pulled over. No problem. That's really sweet, isn't it? So the idea here is that we're going to build up different leaves. We'll find out which leaves you like if you have a variety of launch kind of thickness of paint you like, um, I'm just going to move on now, do some black card and show you the results of matter. Okay, so I just wanted to have a look at this which I showed you in materials in my room. No way. This is recycled paper and it's the polite card. So trouble looks you have this a little bit more paint down. I don't need to worry about your water too much because we just using the Alexa moment. So that's going to news some of these leaves again. We'll try mixing that kind of middle texture. Paint bliss. Hopefully, you can hear the bullets outside. It's quietly windy day today. Okay, that looks good. So get your daddy paper ready. Does have a shining side on more mark side, but to be honest, it doesn't make too much difference. If you want to be. The purists associate use it much like a little bit more absorbent. So my word better. Just so. I tend to just use my phone from limited stand two images of each tiny little bit leaking right? Well, that's Christ, you penned assistant. I think it's because you've got the depth of color with Karl. Did not kind of gives a nice background to the white that's trying different shape. Believe let's go back to Beachley. See what happened to that. What I'll do here ISS could use the done Your Smith titanium white. See what happens to me that there's not much difference between using a nice, thick watercolor on water down God. Let's have a look. Probably only price. So that's a tiny bit more to see if I can pick up more paint. Yeah, it's better. We'll get a feel for it to you, don't you? You know what? You want to go for what you want, not filigree Patton, Or what do you want to, you know, quite a prominent white. And so it'll get this one that's putting down here my exact and having looked at trees on my life, I loved him. This is like a step up because you really get to know character Beachley. That's pretty special, isn't it? It's really lovely and just sure she how simple these things are. I like simple, effective. So this is, uh, definitely my kind of thing that's trying ivy now and you have to decide here. If you've got stuck sticking up, what do you want to just pinch that all? Well, whether you want to kind of try and flood that down, I might try and keep still come see what happens. I'm going to go back into this mixture of cautious I have now. So just for my juices winds renewed, it is the better quality is no doubt about two. Um and this is the current dash light. Just gonna get stuck. This is where it might be handy. To have some to ease is if you should wish. That's quite a bit coverage, but I'm just gonna go with it, okay? I don't get it. Get that still kin straightaway. He decided to leave. Hold it so it doesn't leave too much. All right, That's a look at this one. Did I? That's lovely, isn't it? It could be starting to think at this stage, which which leaves are working for you, which you really like. Andi, you know, the different thicknesses a paint so that we can do in all overall project together later. But at the moment, let's just stick with trying out differently scientific papers. So just miss which over now to Stonehenge. I could cold press book details of This is one where I said because it's such good quality . What color paint. If you wanted to go ahead and do that towards the end. This is a nice paper. This is advantages. But I found using disadvantage the street paper. This is great, because if you wanted to do some detail and just kind of do some wet in wet, it'll it'll dry then. This is a great paper for that. It's slightly textured. So in some ways, if you want more contact with paper than possibly, the card is going to be better for you. So how about you try? See what you've got in the house as well? Could also use obviously different colored card. I'm just come a bit addicted to this. I want to call a paper at the moment. So what I'm gonna do is go straight back, kid. Andi, that's do this. I again and good thing about ideas. Expect too much paint on there. Um, you could find in the garden hopefully Oran Park. But you can also maybe did in your house if you already have houseplants. So have a look. See how it behaves on this take. I'm going for that stalk. Just get that stock hoping outwards. Trying to get the tips of branches. That's really nice. Do you like that very, very different. You see, there's a little bit more texture. So, yeah, let's try differently when I'm gonna go out there. It's all of these big leaves again. I'm not sure they are, but look at the detail in the baby. That's gorgeous, isn't it? Let's try that. I walked us down just a touch. So we're still in a kind of what I would say a middle, Um, like a 50 50 if you like, 50% paint 50 water. This is quite delicately. So if you were using a burnish your or something, too, push down on to be very careful with this. Connolly. It's not gonna take too much punishment. Absolutely gorgeous. Partner, Look a just hopeless. Get money from outside of the daily paper. This is far easier, obviously, to Prince because it's a largely and stocks lying flat, very satisfying. I think this is gonna be Estonia, and it is that is just beautiful. But I think I've seen mainly like this before. If you wanted to, then go in and do the little drop in paint tutorial. I do. It's even got its own little cells so you could go in and just drop a little bit watercolor , leaving these the vein shapes in place se see, we're learning all along. Hopefully you'll be getting an idea of what you would want to focus on the project. Just gonna do one more for you on this watercolor paper. It's a beautiful literally. It's gonna be tricky to do this one, but I great to try a tent to just kind of wrestle it into submission. That's the way to go, just going for it. Mix a little bit of paint. These are now mixed up, and I'm not carrying because it's white Blush way Don't need particularly, you know, expensive painting here printing. Um, so what have being about this? Just go for it. And actually, if this happens and you get a little overlap off relief over there, leave it because actually looks really, really effective. So let's see if I can keep that as it is. Nature isn't perfect that, as we've heard of just using nature here to guide others, some kind of embraced the perfect beefed. It has nature got one that's coming. Not doing this happened. Just press it down any old town. So this has gone down a little bit. Phone Keith, Do you like No. Oh, Oh, that is so beautiful. Isn't that gorgeous? So look out for leaves that have, you know, like, 68 whatever. Leave stems because they do the full beautifully. And I really like Wouldn't these things like what happened? Let me just show you a little. It's not stunning. So let's move on now to main project. We've looked at different values of pain, so we've got kind of filigree. Fact got stronger effect. We got very delicate kind of flowing on a very nature effect here with paint. 4. Easy Leaf Printing: Project: Okay, so here we have what we did earlier this on the watercolor paper. Very beautiful detail. Then you do get that kind of mixing great to white. And then we did try, took a break from, So I guess just a case of trying out what you have in the house I found when I did this on the show paper that photographing it was quite interesting. It's a looked ethereal on almost ghost, like, because all the little light and shade, But I wasn't really photographing the top equipment, just using my phone. It showed up, but actually, it gave a really interesting fact. Um, I tried to oddness card, which is locally as well on has its merit. It leaves tend to stand out a little bit. They they sit on rather than sink down into the water cooler. But I'm actually really pleased without nothing. Can be using this book for practice runs or even finished pieces. So let's get started. Oh, no finished piece. So that's just the Stonehenge cold pressed for your travel. Don't leave details at the end of the class molding Thiel's. So I'm just going to use the winter Newton might put a little bit of that. I want to call it down. But you know, I think even poster paints would work with this. And if you have Children in the house, it's a real child friendly thing to do. My two year old great nephew have a go at least on white paper because they didn't have any but pregnant house. Andi hey, made up a birthday card. Bruce. Grandma, my mom. So it's really very simple, but very relaxing to do. That's where Really was very excited about doing this class for you. So I think I will start with some large leaves in that kind of filigree effects that we heard going on. So it was these leaves. If I take a big one back from propped sheet, come what? Start with this one. So I just used the cloth to place the leaf on, too, But you can use kitchen whatever you have to hand. Okay, so lucky, but split at the end. But it doesn't matter, because nature isn't perfect on his beautiful possibility. Also, we so was good guy Woodward a little bit more water. This is quite running, but I want that kind of filigree. Very delicate style because happening cleared. It might work well in terms of layering. So, uh, see, I don't way Uh huh. I'll let you know if my idea I have in my head, which is a very loose one because I didn't want to command with know exactly what it wants to do wanted us to do this together. So what happened with this one? It happens. I didn't start top left. Don't ask me why. Don't know. But I love starting here. When I'm doing the signs, I actually do it this way. Place it. Deli paid on top finger down. That made very out to the edges. See if I put enough water on this. That's very beautiful, isn't it? Not even sure what this is from? Because I got it. I always have leaves and flowers in various little pots around the house. I remember I got this room, but if anybody knows, please let me know. Meantime, I shall try. Sometimes there's an app. Isn't there that you can use to identify leaves? You will come to me, right? I think I'll help going up into corner the right quarterback. So what? I'm doing here? I really just don't have a big plan. Um, I like to stop kind of the foundation if you like, so that I feel something is there. And then I can cut about two. So that's very pretty as well. Too much pain for my liking on this one. Booked, you'll see. As it dries, it turns to these will stay white here. But also this will turn to a grey. You could see this already happening here. Very, very beautiful. So let me try adding a little bit more mortar start in the middle of the leaf. This is a something I found out because if you've got very wet paint on the edges, it tends to bleed out a little bit. I'm so trying to pull it the hardest. You ve just locks. I feel things that you could go in, take up a little of the paint if you like. So I'm sticking with the idea that up numbers are really good for our brains. So to let's go here, no good. Doesn't matter. Which way around you have daily paper? No, really. There's a shiny side, and that's a more I guess the one advantage, I've just realised, is on the shiny side that it might just go out the edges a little bit more. It's on your side. It might circuit, but that's not going to bothered about the little details, because it's the overall effect that going for here on the process, really rather finished article so you could see already leased to a turning that beautiful gray. The advantage off the watercolor paper is this, because what's happening is that that what very washy white paint is being absorbed into the paper, sinking down If you like layering, I personally like this paper because off that it kind of pushes the leaves into the background a little bit more, and then you can layer, we think, a paint on top, different kind of styles leaves just don't even think about it. Just feel. I think that's the main kind of image here is feeling and not worrying too much about whether something is right or wrong. It's all right. It's all right. So mm, I might try because they're saying any about access to leaves. Um, I might try some house plants. I don't know the name of this one. It's very pretty again. Probably find light out some point. These tiny little pairs on the enders were really gorgeous, and you can do an easier version of this and plunk it down that way, which would definitely make it easier. You could even put pinch that little stem or I'm going to try and light this way and dangerously that's let's have a go. I just want to kind of get things down or not worry about this, not worry about what's going on at my place. Things completely. Should that be bigger? Asks more. Whatever. That's just really sinking to enjoying. It might overlay this little bit here. This is quite different towards abdomen past because normally start with larger leaves. But I just want to see what these little houseplant leaves do. Very, very pretty. Well, that's my various. Nice, because what we've got here and you'll find this with leaves some leaves a slightly works here than others. And when you put the pain tonic beads up like this and I think that's just gorgeous, absolutely beautiful. So I'm just going to put through these down again in different places. Just go with field. I mean, some of you. Artists will be pretty for a lot longer. Me and we'll have more ideas about how to use this technique, I'm sure. And I would love Teoh to hear about what those are. You used it. Um, let's go course here. It's obvious, but we are using the underside, just things to count. Don't move. Really nice contact with paper. That's very sweet. A swell. So going to just put another down, I would say here. So it's probably like coconut milk cuts. Well, looks like that kind of consistency. It's the color as well. So and actually I was I was separating out, out, But it's really nice when you get a little over overlay a belief like that. So I'm going to see if I can put it down like that, because it could. It really looks more organic and happy. So let's see how that turns out. It's looking. Stands in the mid rib each Absolutely. Have a look at that. Okay. This obviously already just can't Yes. Look, that gonna do Maybe something between those maybe go back to this one that we used earlier ? Just put some kind. I don't know, something like that. Let's have a look a night actually make the painted slightly thicker now because I'm just wondering how much it will work in terms of layering. I would be really interesting. Got with filigree ones in the background, more opaque ones in the foreground. That would work really well, it certainly works well, if you then go on to form it into a surface Parton design or you just want to photograph it and process it. Uh, if you do that, you'll find out this watercolor paper in particular photographs. Really? Well, once you got my light situations or to go because that is quite difficult, like paper. But you find that the black becomes very deep and and it really brings out each night, I guess, like you're looking into the forest seeing trees distance the ones closer to this is going off the page. And I like that because I don't like it being too confined. It's not hard to choose, So let's have a look. That Oh, that's really pretty. Yeah, like that. Look happy with that. So I think I'm with place, maybe three of those. And yes, it pains me to top up, get stone. It's You don't have to be to precisely that. You could see how. Just slap it on the baby. It is so, so simple. Andi, I'm going to be showing the photographs from my great nephew at the end of the class. What? He did so pretty. Um, okay, Change open Mike shaped here. So I don't get any splotches of paint. I'm also going to try. How do you float? Well, I devised this way of blocking the leaves down. Certainly, Kablan. What? Safety works. Okay, so you can try that. Let me know how you get some hopes. Got a little bit of slippage there. Let's see what happens with that. It really doesn't matter, does it? Because today is all about feeling not thinking, not see the thinking about the next leave told just going with intuition. Actually, that looks That looks really nice that I quite like the fact that this is very opaque on the edges. I feel wanted to you see, here it's just a little bit short. Understand? Get your, uh, wash brush. Thing is cool. Wash Bush's and just straight, straight down like this. Just start a little bit of pain like that. You could do that for all. It's entirely up to you. My hands sent to shake till they actually make contact. Paper. Actually, that's got good. So carry on like this Lee from going to journal. And I'm going to keep it very opaque like that because it's adding texture. And I really like that variety is the spice of life. And so we can get a variety of Lee shape a variety of the fitness of paint and how they how they reacted paper itself. But I think it really adds to the effectiveness of the whole piece. Try Holly began from a different angle now, so I'm not sure it will work. Well, that's it. No, that's nice, because I like that again full. So it doesn't matter because it makes it look really realistic. Which it is, because it was really That's what we're going for. Did you stay? What about my stem again? With that mind just going on touch, Not a little bit gentle. Go do. Okay. So I don't to do too much more because you know, you can do anything with yours. Anything goes. You could have tiny little leaves, a Looper. You could start with quite thick over late leaves and then kind of go out into just symbol leaves. If you've seen patterns, Wallpapers like that, um, I my try beachy, because I really like these kind of, um, bead office. Well, I really like that. Just gonna add a little bit. The winds, Aaron. You, too. And, Miko, So again for me at that, you know, yours is gonna be totally different. You'll be using what leads you have. And I want to keep this now a little bit more. You've been more than that. Maybe just to come about a bit of interest. Yeah, I wanted to show you, actually, just for people who have fine motor skill difficulties on sometimes I do myself. And there was a way of doing this. You're not using your fingers so much. I'm gonna plant this in the middle and show you what me. So see, a late I laid out there, I put that over. Then I get some kitchen will. Okay, musical finishes with that. It says Woody hunger. How you the details. And then this is much easier because you're not using those muscles in your fingers. so much you just got to gently grip it or even just put your hand down like this. And if you guess you tired, he could do this as well. I think it's going to be effective. Tried it in the past. Let's have a look. Looks the leaf off anyway. Yeah, I worked really well. So have a go at that. Might save your fingers. Kids, I think tend to just like to be hands on, I guess in that. But if you have kids motor difficulty, um, this might help Famous. Well, just kind of press down on it and it's all done for. So let's look down here. Look there, Copper Beech. It's such a delicately We're all decided to be lifted up in one fell sweeper, which is quite handy. I really tried another houseplant now, which is one of my favorites on Mrs Tanaka. I'm Scott. Selected name as well. Remember on. Do you know if you're feeling adventurous, you could actually do the whole thing. Just press it down. Do you want to try that? I'm I'm a teeming adventures. Do I want to risk on? The answer to that is always always That's half ago. Clean dairy today on, you know, there are no mistakes. I truly, truly I truly believe it. And I love making mistakes because I love experimenting. So, yes, it can be frustrating if you've done like an hour piece. It's not turned out quite the way he wanted. But what did you learn? It's like and I think also because I have not had any art training since I was 17 and I'm a little bit older than that now. So my memory is, uh, a little hazy. Um, but I've always looked out, and I've always been involved in it in some way throughout my life. I'm a musician. First of foremost, that's kind of take note most my tension time. Everything is so art is an absolute gift. I cannot tell you how much it means to me, too. Rediscover art. It's brought so much daily joy to me. I know you feel, said my because it's just something extremely relaxing about an extremely, um, and you to guess. It kind of allows us just to sink down. Just forget what's going on. It's totally absorb Andi. I love that about it now. I'm not sure if I covered this well enough, what we're about, Andi, I'm not going to worry too much about how it lands. I open to cape around. This is really going in that direction, not bullet about that. But I would like to turn it around just to see see it from a different perspective. So I want to just plonk this down over here. What happens might need to pieces just going for it. Media time, like leaves around my table wanting to know yet this is not going to be perfect by any means. But well, that's interesting. Yeah, like that. I think because the leaves, the stems are quite fury. It's not gonna picked up a lot of the paint. So which let go now? It's a very hot Poje. Um, peace. It's not very coherent. I don't care, because I just wanted to share with you the technique. You will have plenty of ideas yourself on how to use this. This is tend to be about trying this. I'm picking leaves here. They're not really picking upon paint. So rather than have to go in and try and solve that problem, want to choose it differently? I know this one works and it's very pretty. A civil used test room. Just a couple of leaves there. So let's try this. Yeah, that's better. And you'll find that some leaves just don't want to be missed. Which separates out. Could get stuck in my home. Right. I would go for the edges because it'll too get those. This one's going this way going to here to here, So I just want to have it running in opposite directions. Maybe So my here not going to mess with hisley or any of this was going to put palm down to make it stick to the paper. Going for the fingers? No, but to really right, you see, Yeah, I like that. So I'm just going to place a few more down. Um, I don't want to risk boring too much by a really lengthy did you? Because I could do this like Okay, Like a little bit of overkill if I did not. So I'm kind of trying to speed up just a little bit. Get so these down to put this here a little sloppy and a bit harder to deal with. Very so stop Think for a short time. I want to do that too. It looks a bit too echoey. See what you have here. This is actually a coffee, Lee. Now, this I know will be very simple because the little vein will be picked up. That's how to go to have not tried this before. So But I have tried similar leaves. Very simple. Just command with a main stone and the large ones going out. Let's have a look. See what it looks like. Why not? Got nothing to lose? That's good. A little bit of thick paint on this on a fake. All right. Have just went in there because I was afraid it was good to me. I think my that's not bad. It's interesting it out. Just a bit of texture. I do want to. Yeah, I think it actually works. Well, if you get in there with the paint, they all got around little characters. And the only way, really to know is to just do it. Keep practicing. Don't leave its form, right. How to work this one gruffly into submission? All right. Actually, that was come out really nicely. I really do like that. It starts that little bit of texture. The other thing you can do is what it's still got a little bit on. I'm not sure it will work with that, but say we use This is we've already printed with this and it's a tiny little left on. You can always just go in and my static feel likely agree. And if you do it so it's like a page. It just brings the whole thing in. But also it allows it to breathe. I guess that's what it feels like to me. It's all in here, but it also expands out beyond the cold finds of the paper. No, I just put another little one up in the top there. I'm just now finishing off. Like I said, I could carry all day doing this absolutely very tactile. There. Be relaxing, very simple, but effective. And I really love that in our I'm really interested in things like that. I'm interested in using a brush you see here. Now when I do the extra tutorial tutorial at the end, I'll show you can actually just feel that I have got the right brush, but you could you could actually pay in the rest of this in if you wanted and haven't done this before. I just, uh, totally redoing it. I'm just saying, if that works, Yeah, kinda. So anything like this, it needs touching up. That's not really well done. But I'm not gonna go into it. Now. I'm going to show you briefly to show you this girl. I want to show you how to do this in the extra tutorial. Okay, So don't want too much about you. Could over print it, actually, when it's dry as well. So maybe do another one up running out of paint, which the sign that perhaps outstayed my welcome time to wrap it up. So just know, going around the edges. There is so much more you could do to this. You carry on for a while, Andi. If you go to the extra tutorials that will show you a few tips and techniques that you couldn't go on Teoh use on this project. So if you wanted to go a little bit further and bring out some detail, check that out. Okay. Well, you put one almost finished. Really glad that I didn't have. I'm not sure projects in mind that this really wanted it just to be about so experiencing it together and just finding out as you go along each characteristic of actually, I'm just going to, you know, very kind of simple. Make fruits in the tiny bits of a black Just have a bit of texture. That's good. Until it happened. I am really just like a child in this moment. Just know worry at all about you come because each time you do this is going to be very different. All right. I wanted to show you how you could do this. Them does not leave. Yeah, So you can just go in again. No. Into the the last little tiny bits of their pain here. Global L. Smith. So we just go over this league. What would hurt a slight using lost of paint on here? Okay, so place this down and roughly the same area. Holy. We should be able to pull over print and slightly wanted destroyed books. We don't want it to be perfect. Nature isn't perfect. We're not perfect. And that's the beauty of it. And us. So there. Okay, just going Teoh, do some little tiny fishing touches. You obviously would carry on. But I'm going to stop. I'm really happy with that and I'll be showing you how to do more in the extra tutorial at the end. But I hope you had fun. You've really relaxed into this. 5. Easy Leaf Printing: Extra Tutorial: if I was just going to show you a very simple technique. So I'm using the Escada 10 here, but any kind of round brush will do just fine. Just begin. Bitter Waters is just clear water, and I just wanted to show you first off what happens when you re awaken goulash underneath . So that's just a very simple way off. Adding a little bit more detail, texture. It's a bit she didn't like that and felt it was too much. Paint off. What is going on? Move a little bit. It's a texture. Diving is finalized. This well, so that's very quick. Just to reawakening. Uh, let me try. It's driving belief next to it. So what I'm doing here Clearwater, just following the shape of early using the tip of the bush and the body of the bush in the main, gets here just drawing out from the center. So that's already go. It's a nice texture. And then I'm going to pick up a little bit off Daniel Smith, Rose murder, and, um, this is a bit bright than I would normally use it. But I just wanted to show you hell effective, be just dropping in paint and letting it do its thing. See how here I'm just reawakening little blobs of of the white and all. That's a bit of texture to very, very pretty. So let's try. I'm just looking Here, try one of beech leaves here. This is the one that kind of be diddle. But remember, it was really I'm saying to you remember, if you're watching, this will be like a second Tigger. Oh, but, um, I just want to show you what you can do if you kind of just highlight certain parts of the leaf. A big kind of split chewable toe alone might switch over at this point to on a smaller brushes. Someone to use the current dash one here. So I'm going to try not to, Although it doesn't matter. I guess if they do believe him. But I'm going to should have washed my brush better. Honey. Yes, I should have. And because that's good foot pain coming. But never mind. So what? Four cells off four blades believes there to go in and just drop some of this beautiful on to see green. See it moving is in that gorgeous just really, really beautiful. You can tell to paper a little on. Be patient. It's difficult sometimes. Um, just let it kind of dripped down. Very delicate. I'm just gonna take that pink up. But I might just drop in a tiny bit of pink at the end just to show you how effective just very simply drops The pain can work. So I won't go into loads of detail because you will have your own ideas about this. But we've got here. We've got very delicates kind of touch where you're leaving the spines of beach. Why not waking it? I got the kind of overall effect Where you just working with a brush and drop him? What ethically would like with top. So let's see how the purple the light purple wins re Newton paint works on this. And this is just Clearwater again. It's going in waking up, uh, white clashing with me. I'll do this one more time. I'm not desk one. I'm just not really worrying about getting in between the spines on. Let's pick up a little of that. I went to Newton Purple. You can almost see the paint pushing at White Wash the way. Let me show you just very quickly. How If you wanted to add the little stems, you can do that easily by there picking up a flat brush. This is the one that I showed you earlier. Probably better with smaller, long for this particular maneuver. But let's give it a go. So what's it doing here? Just picking up a little bit of the no need. I'm just I've been a little bit of water to it. Andi can see that. And I'm just going Teoh Mike, it's in the way of the camera here, but I'm just going to bring that stand up to that one. And you might be happy just to leave these details, but just wanted to show you how. If you're not happy, listen, you can just touch it up. It's a very shaky today. They're under. I didn't use the whole of the brush noticed, so that's up to you. But there are these little kind of there additions that you can add to brighten the pace lap. Um, you would probably want to carry on when she started out line. Just I also want to show you well, you see, let's use this leaf here. I'm going to do an overall. Well, she can. It looks nice. Actually, when you went the black and as I think I mentioned earlier, if you photograph these works, they look fantastic. And just very simple processing. Are you snap seed? Quite a lot. Just for preliminary ideas can make them so d because the black becomes very black and that pushes forward the leaves on top also helps with the layering I said earlier. So there we are, kind of an overall. That's just a white Clearwater wash. And then I want to just see with this purple. This is light purple Windsor Newton. I just want to see how this actually works with. I got quite a lox. I want to show you how it responds. See these bits here? This is a beautiful effect. This is something I'm really I'm enjoying about rush, Um, the way that it's kind of merges together, especially. We have white with another color on top. It's, uh, it's It's different from what color, although goulash is really just a more a peak form of water. But, um, it's something I would really want to experiment a little bit more that kind of those elements that go wash have when they mix together. Especially these white bits. There's not also white in this one that can pick up and show you mean. But the technique sees you could just drop in water soon. Aptos, you can? No. So if you're not happy with your full backs, go in and just left a little bit Coder. So let me just choose one with a little bit more color on it, and I'll show you Me come. But why? I could probably do it here. This is not going to look for. Is the leaf here? Don't you see that? A lot of white here And I just want to show you How about lifting that white and how these things are never, ever an accident? Um, this is the shape of belief here, coming down to the base, going up to the tip here. Just kind of We're waking the shape of that. Miss Wells. The white gosh. The birds were out in force today. Very busy preparing the nests. So again, I know I'm not going toe perfection here. This is clear water. Just reawakening that white. How pretty is that and you could just leave it like that. And believe me, when you photograph is just very simply on your phone, this will look stunning, Stunning as it is, you know, Tell me so let's see how that respond. How much we're going to use a little bit more purple again, have chosen Cool. Is that kind of do stand down a little bit? This might water down a little bit. Let's see what happens. Really stunning. And you can go in this gently or us boldly she would like. But I do really love the way that the white makes this the color on top. So I think of giving you some variations there. We've got the world just waking up what's already there. I got this delicate green just with blades here. I'm not really not really placing too much in there, but just enough to add texture and color. Um, we've got their vocal a bear I dropped in. I think that's pretty much it. I don't want Thio going to this too much. It's just another little tip. But I thought you'd enjoy on might want to add the other thing that you do here. It's always one more thing of May Village. No, no, I'm not finished. No, you could always had some little details of off white wash as well. Very dark hair, just the just the edges of the brush. Um, so see how you feel, But I'm bringing out just a tiny little bit of color. Well, our to your overall design on a lot to the texture that we already have their I hope you've enjoyed that little demo. And do let me know if you come up with anything yourself on bond In learning all about these leaves, will you please let me know? Because a lot learning new things and you know by now Hey, you love experimenting. So if you have experiments of your own and you're really pleased with them, please let me know. But I think this quite a little collection they're taking You can use 6. Easy Leaf Printing: Ta Ta for Now: Well, we've had quite a experience together. They're creating our own distinctive prints and adding little details. By now, you will have finished a print or too. Although I warn you, it is a little addictive. So you may find yourself doing more. The primary aim was to have fun and to enjoy the process. So whether this is your first ever attempt at printing or you have extensive art experience , please share your project photos they upset. We're looking forward to this bit. I'll be preparing more classes for you, so please click with follow button so we can keep in touch. You can get more info in the different tabs underneath the class. Also, if you'd like to join me on Instagram my pages Hi, Thomas. Underscore Sky sale out there. Huge. Thank you, Tata for now. 7. Leaf Printing Sit back and relax: - okay ? 8. A Few More Ideas For You! :O): O. 9. Bonus Lesson: "Tess" - Watercolour On Black Paper : Is.