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1. Welcome!: Welcome to my studio everyone. My name is Carrie Sanders
and I'm an artist, a teacher, and a creative
here in St. George, Utah, located just outside of Zion National Park where
it is so beautiful, you can't help but want
to go outside and paint. In RStudio, we do plein air
painting, urban sketching. We paint in studio for
unique different types of pieces and we use all
different types of mediums. If you're ever visiting
our neck of the woods for golfing or
outdoor activities. Please give us a look at
Kerry Sanders, art.com. See what we have going. We'd love to have you
come and visit us. I have done teaching and had many students
for many years. I've also published
patterns across the nation, published a painting book
that went across the nation. And I enjoy sharing the love
of painting with people. And that is why I'm sharing
with you today this piece, this is a piece for
people of all abilities. If you are looking for something that is easy, it's a no-brainer. You can just relax and get in the zone and enjoy painting
something with no stress. This is the one for you. Now I chose to do it
inside of a book, but you could do it
on watercolor paper or just in your sketchbook. Even it would be fine. We're going to do
some techniques like washing wet on wet. I'll show you how to drop
colors into other colors so that they blend and let
the water do its thing. It's really fun.
When that's dry, we will do some splatter. And when that's dry, we'll pull out our gel
pens and we'll design some beautiful flowers that
are kind of a fantasy flower. They're not real, but
that's the beauty. There's no way to do it wrong. There's only a way to do it, right the way you want to do it. Now, I'm showing you the
motif that seemed coral. But if you scroll down the page, I've also done one in blues. It's just gorgeous and they're totally different
flowers than this one. So you have to choose from. I demonstrate both of them
in this bit in these videos. You could just do both. Why not? If this looks like
it's something fun and you would like
to join me today, then grab your supplies
and let's get started.
2. Supplies Review: Welcome back. Before we
can dive into painting, I wanted to review
supplies real quick. And I do have a
list of paints in the PDF provided on
this page for you. And of course, you're welcome to swap out any colors
that you need to wear. This is a watercolor sketch book that I'm using for this one. And this I just picked
up at the local store. It's just a journal, a notebook, and the sticker in the
middle that I have used came from Parkland
and the Happy Planner. Of course, you're welcome to just write something
in yourself, do some calligraphy there
and enjoy that process. Paints that we're going to
use for these projects today. For our choral piece
will be Naples yellow, organic vermilion, burnt, umber, undersea green,
and civilian blue. And you're, of course, welcome to switch out anything that you have at
home that you would like to. For our blue piece will
be using civilian blue, Prussian blue, Payne's gray, violet, terre verte,
Naples, yellow, yellow, ocher, quinacridone, gold, white gouache, and
gold metallic. And I've done some swatches
here so you can see what they look like when they're mixed
with the white gouache, which we will be doing. And the Naples yellow, I took down and mixed it with the yellow ocher and
with the Quin gold, which we will be doing as well. So I wanted you to
see those here. So those are the paints
that we plan to use. And then as far as
brushes go very minimal, I'm only going to be using as small round to be splattering with all of the circles that I'm going to
be painting today. We'll be done with a number
ten Squirrel quill brush. I like to use this
because it holds a lot of water and it allows you to do a circle y just by
pressing down and twirling and it doesn't
damage the brush at all. And then I'll be inking today
with the micron size three, uh, three or five
would be great. And then I'll be doing
the white ink with the signal gel pen, a fine tip. And I will be using a
pencil to sketch in the design a little bit before
I ink on the choral piece. Then of course, you'll need
your watercolor supplies such as your palate, your water, and my
handy-dandy tissue is always my favorite thing. You will be using this today. So why don't you
gather your supplies together and let's get started.
3. Blue Layout: Before we start painting, I just wanted to explain
what I've done here. This is the journal that I
showed you in the last video. But I want to have a
nice clean sharp edge. I don't want to paint all the way to the
edge of the book. So I just use some
blue painters tape and tape in about a
quarter to a half inch. And as I did so on
this inside edge, I included just this shop towel because I don't want pink
to get on this front page. Now, you can paint this
front page if you want. So it's up to you. But because this isn't a
very heavyweight paper, it's not going to
take the paint well, and so I'm just
going to avoid it altogether and cover that
up with that shop towel. And just focus on painting here and I'll have a nice,
beautiful clean edge. And I recommend
before you use tape, that's not artist's tape. And an artist tape is
the white artists tape that's meant for artists
to remove off of paper. It comes out very nicely, but it's a little
more expensive. And so when I can, I will just use the
blue painters tape. Just makes sure that
you test it and know that it's going to come off without ruining your paper. I like to start with
just a light color. So I'm gonna go ahead and
just start with my Naples yellow and pick up some of
that with my squirrel brush. These squirrel brushes, if you haven't worked with them much, they really absorb
a ton of water, sometimes too much
for a small circle. And so in that case, I will touch just the upper edge on there to absorb
some of that water. And I'm just going to start
out with a couple to see how the water takes here on this cover because it's
not watercolor paper. I want to make sure that
it absorbs well or or see if the water if the
paint just sits on top how that looks. Just getting a feel for things. So I'm just gonna go ahead
and add a few circles. You can make them different
sizes, different shapes. They don't even have
to be circles per se. They could be oblong. While this is wet, I'm going to add some of the yellow ocher. I'm just going to touch
it a little wet on wet. And let's move in
and move to well, in this paper, this is the area where you
have to be flexible because it's not
watercolor paper. Quite know what to expect. It's going to react.
And that's okay. Now, I'm going to take
some of this when offered in this color. If you don't have this color, you can probably
use a burnt sienna. And big one, 10-minute.
Bottom edge. Don't overwork. It doesn't
have to be perfect. And leave some of them light. Now, I'm going to mix a
little bit of Payne's gray. Payne's gray is a blue-gray
as you can see here. Sorry about this shift
in screen there, I realized you couldn't actually
see all my palette and I want you to be able
to see it because we're going to be
mixing some colors. Now, I'm picking up some
white gouache on my palette. And some Payne's gray. With this grams paint, sometimes it separates, they put a different binder in there. If that happens, just
stir it up a little bit. It's still good. Nothing's happened to it. Alright, so now I'm going to
pick up that Payne's gray. Add a touch of white. Isn't that pretty? Just turns a light
beautiful gray. And I'm just going to
work that to a fine tip. Let me just test it out here. Basically that's
what I'm gonna do, is it's a circular
stroke like that. I might want it just
a touch lighter. I want this to really
fade into the background. That's all. Okay. Now I'm going
to pick up some of this terre verte, this green. That, and I'm going to
keep this very light. Alright, let's pick
up a little lavender. This is violet. It's not quite
lavender. Yeah, we're gonna make it some lavender. This is violet, but I don't
want it to be that dark. I'm going to pick up some white. We've got our lavender. And I'm actually going to add a little bit
of Payne's gray to it just to dim down some
of that brightness. There we go. That's a better color for us. Beautiful. Alright. This one, I'm going to do more
of the edge, so to speak. A zigzag. It's gonna be here. I'll get
this circle shape in there, but then I'm gonna go back and kind of bumped
up that outer edge. Okay, while that's still wet, I'm going to come back with
the violet without white. So straight violet. And just drop some
in the middle. Love it. Okay, now I'm going to come over
to civilian blue. And I'm going to pick
up some of this blue. And we need to gray this down
so it matches our scale. Let's add a little pins gray. That was too much. Here we go. Oh, that's beautiful. Okay. And we're going to add in, I'm going to add just
a touch of white. If you look at my
palette, I go from dark to medium to light. And that's great. We have all these
colors to choose from. We don't want them
all to be the same. Now, while that's still wet, I'm going to pick up some
of this Prussian blue. Oh, it's a gorgeous color. And I'm going to wipe them off. It's really strong. And we're just going to touch touched a little on
that outer edge, maybe a little in the middle. All right. Now, I'm feeling like it needs
a little more yellow. This is a good time guys
to stop and step back. Take a look and see what
speaks to you, what's missing. I have a lot of whitespace, which I don't mind
some whitespace, but I have a lot and try to figure out what color you
would like to add more of. For me, it's, I need some
more yellow for you. It might be violet or maybe you want some more green.
This is the area. I'm going to have my
sticker and so I'm going to have a light color under it. So I'm going to add
some yellow here. And you saw that I
went into the blue. I love it. I'm going to add some more so that it
picks up that blue. Alright, at this point, we need this to dry before we can start doing
some splattering. So let's let this dry and
come back in just a moment. Okay, this is
completely dry now, so I'm going to take my
liner brush and pick up some violet, thin it down. And I'm just going to add some interests in the center
of these purple flowers. I'm going to hold
off on that one for now because like I said, this is my sticker area. I'm not sure if I
need that to remain light or what I'm gonna
do with that just yet.
4. Blue Details in Paint: Okay, I'm going to pick
up some fresh squash and using my scripter. And I'm going to thin
this down and add some detail work on
these blue flowers. We will be using our
gel pen as well. But I have found for
this little spot, it just works better
if you use paint, makes more of a statement. So I just like to start by
identifying a little thick, identifying the center, just kinda little
dots of the center. And then I loosely
make a half circle. And then it started the center and make another half circle. And that's the way I'm
going to go around. Yeah, because my blue
ones are so strong. I'm not going to do my violet ones really
stronger than they are. Just a touch. I'm going to go in
with some violet and just emphasize a couple
of areas on each one. E.g. here where it's
already darker. I'm just going to add a
little bit right there. But I'm not going to
go all the way around. Now. I'm going to take like
a little bit of Payne's gray that's watered down. I'm not going to
add white, but I'm just going to water
it down a bit. And I'm going to come
over to the green. I'm just gonna do
a little spiral. If you would rather do
something more tight, then use your marker. That's fine. I wanted this to be really loosened,
sketchy looking. Oh, I'm gonna go
ahead and add in some Prussian blue
around the center. See how light that isn't
going to leave it. I like it adds some
dark right here. Emphasize that more. And over here. Bring
that out. I guess. This is the fun of doodling
is you just kinda work with wherever your paint when you just kinda work with it, don't try to force it
to be free flowing. Open your mind and
just go with it. I'm going to pick up some white. And I'm going to add, Okay, we are going
to splatter this. Let's let it dry
for just a moment. Alright, I'm going to use my
number for around picking up lots of water and
some Payne's gray. And also this is where I like
to have some tissue handy. I want these to be quite subtle. So chances are after I splatter, I'm going to lightly touch with this tissue to soften splatter. I feel like you
have more control when you use your index finger versus tapping on another
brush or another finger. You can just lightly
guide it where you want it to be nice. Okay. Now, do not rub that. You can lay this down
and press you swipe. You'll have a
streak that you can see how that we'll
just turn this over. Press again. On the other side. Wonderful. Couple there. You see how that soften kind of flattens amount and softens it. Alright, we are going
to let this dry completely and then
we're going to do our inking and we will do some
splattering with our goal. At the very end.
Let's let this dry. I'll see you in the next video. Ready to ink.
5. Blue Inking: We are ready to
start our inking, which is so great,
we're almost finished. This piece went by so fast. But before I can
actually start inking, I need to make sure of where I'm going to place my sticker. And same for you wherever
you're going to do your calligraphy or your sticker or whatever you've
decided to do. Alright, so let's go
ahead and get started. I could just keep doodling. It's hard to stop, isn't it? Alright, let's get out
our gold or silver, and we're gonna do some
splattering and then apply our centerpiece
and will be finished. I have my gold
ready to splatter. It usually goes on quite thick, so I'm going to test it out. Make sure I'm okay. Okay, The gold is all trying. So here we go. This is the fun part, right? Is Tiki off the tape? What a beautiful cover. I'm excited. Alright, so I'm going
to peel my sticker. There we go. Enjoy the little
things. Adorable. Please take a moment
to sign your work. This is an original
piece of art. I want you to be really proud
of it and sign your work. Thank you for sharing
this piece with me. I can't wait to see yours.
6. Coral Layout: Welcome back. It's time for us to
get started with our I'm calling it
the coral project. For this one, I just wanted to quickly go over the colors. I'll be using Naples
yellow, organic vermilion. It's a cad red light if that's what you
want to substitute. Burnt umber, undersea
green, and civilian blue. That's what it is. I'll
also be using some goals. You could use some
silver if you want. So just so you know, I'll probably go ahead and just fast-forward the video
through the painting of this. And then I'll slow it down when we go to do
the fine details. Because I already
demonstrated this with the blue project. And it's basically
the same technique. So here we go. Well, I was so excited
to get started painting that I totally forgot to
blue tape my outer edge. So I'm going to let
this completely dry. And then I'm going to put this blue tape on
the outer edge. And then I'll resume
painting and finish that up.
7. Coral Inking: So the paint dried and
I removed the masking. I added my sticker and I'm
ready to start inking. And each of us is going to have circles in a
different spot. So I am going to
provide you with a PDF that shows the
pattern that I'm using. But we won't be able to
just literally place it on because your circles will be in a different
spot than mine. So I wanted to show you the
process I went through. I put a piece of vellum on
top, this piece of vellum, and I chose which circles I wanted to bring out as a flower. And so once I selected
those and you can see which ones I
chose here, I drew, I just trace those round circles and then I added the
vines to connect them. You can freehand this
which would be great. Or you can use my
pattern to kind of eyeball and apply
to yours and then the flowers will be
wherever your circles are. So I just wanted to let you know that was the process
I went through and let's get our markers
and let's get started. Before I start inking, I wanted to mention
two things real fast. One, you may notice that
my pages now nice and flat where it was bumpy
when I finished painting. What you can do is take
a brown craft paper or even a grocery bag and put
that over it and then iron your page on cotton
setting as long as there's no steam and that generally if you're using a good quality
paper or cotton paper, that should flatten
it out for you. It's a nice little
trick, and it works. So here we go. I have a nice flat paper, a nice surface to ink on. And then secondly, I
went ahead and took a pencil and just lightly in my pattern here because it's gonna be
important to know which direction your flower
is going to be tilting because of the pattern that we're going to be using. They're gonna be going
every which way. And so it was really helpful
to just take a moment and go lightly with the pencil
and put my pattern in there. So now I'm ready to go
ahead and ink this. I'm going to speed up the video so that you can
watch it quickly. And then you can
go ahead and get started on your piece as well. And let's get started.
8. Class Project: Hi friends. Your project today is
to complete one motif, either the coral or the blue that I have
provided for you. By following all of the
videos step-by-step and learning those techniques that
are provided in the class. And then take a moment to snap a picture and load that
into our class gallery by clicking on the green
button that looks like this and putting that in
the class gallery and that will allow me to make
comments on your piece. You and I can communicate
well there and all of the other students
can make comments on each other's pieces as well. Thank you so much for
taking this class. I will see you in the next
video for our wrap-up.
9. Congratulations and Bloopers: You did it. Congratulations, I am so happy for you and I hope
you enjoyed this class. If you could take just a
moment to snap a quick picture and upload that into our class gallery at the
bottom of this page, I would be so grateful. Just look for the green
button that says Create. Click on that and it's easy to upload that would allow
us to communicate. I would really love
to see what you're doing and give you
some comments there. Also, if you enjoyed
this class and you know, someone else that you
think would like it, all you have to do is
look for this button on the page and click share and that will
send it over to them. And did you know
that both you and your friend would benefit
financially from Skillshare? That's pretty cool. If you are on Instagram, I would love to share in
your art journey there. I am at Kerry Sanders art and we could communicate on that forum and that would be really fun. And also, if you would
like to take a look at my website, carry
Sanders art.com. You can see more of my portfolio there in all different mediums. There's portraits,
landscapes, oils, all different kinds
of things going on, as well as what's happening
here at this studio. I would love to have you take
a look and join me there. Alright, thank you so much
for taking this class. I love being with you
here on Skillshare, and I look forward to seeing
you in the next class. And I guess that
means it's time now for loop works by for now. We are going to do a couple
of beautiful covers. I have this upside down. Cassie, gorgeous. Now. So thank you again for
joining me with this class. And I will see you
in the final video. Tonight.
Kerrie Sanders, Artist, Teacher, Creator.
