Easy Watercolor Bookmarks

1. Introduction : My name isn a whole I'm a vertical artist and designer. I enjoy doing floral and board illustrations. Welcome to my glass on Create easy watercolor bookmark State by state, you don't need to have any prior experience with particles. This'll class will help you to create your own book mouse from scratch. I will be sharing with you how to paint, please, how to paint roses and how to make compositions off roses and leaves to create actual book months. I have also included a bonus video. How can you give back using the same technique at the end of the class? You will able to paint beautiful months for yourself or to give it as a kid. Let's get started. 2. Gathering Art Supplies: these are they are large supplies were going to use to make articulable marks. It's a six by nine inches. Be vertical paper. We will use scale to make strips out off it. We will never pencil for markings. I will be using their idea of pressures like small or medium number 23 and four. All these air synthetic fibre pressures. We will need dis punching tool to punch your bookmarks. If you're in us, you Bill is delegated in Michael's or any stationery store, then Caesar to cut the paper strips even like paper double to clean and take out extra water from the brush. I am using Spool of Jude String, but you can use Repin as well. It's a clean water container. These are Mirdjalal machine gold professional watercolor pains. I use the same palette to mix my colors. It's really convenient for me can use any other watercolor pants. It's like this In next radio, I will show you how to make paper strips to make watercolor bookmarks 3. Making Paper Strips: This one is six by nine inches people. So let's make four strips out off it that men's. Each one will be to find 25 inches wide. I'm marking on paper. Accordingly, my bookmarks eyes will be 2.5 by six inches, but you are free to change measurements. Let's connect these dog bottom points so we will get vertical strips. Let's cut this into four pieces. I will be showing you three different bookmark designs, so we will need three pepper strips for bookmark. I have also included a bonus medio making gift so you can use force trip to make a gift. That of a paper strips. Already in next radio, you will learn about brush control and explore various leaf shapes. 4. Brush Exercises: just to keep it nice. I have divided my patient or two sections. I will be using left part for the brush exercises, and on the right side, I will show you how to use those brushstrokes to create leave ships. I'm going to use various greens to show you different different brush strokes, but you can use any color as per your choice. Let's start with things lines. This is a number to brush. I'm using. Lower your brush with color and draw a line with Louis pressure on Rushdie. Just try these lines for soldier times. Okay, now let's use the same technique and paint Gove lines. Start from the bottom and move it to the right. Try to keep your hand lose so that you can move it freely. Let's do it in a positive direction. This time, start from top left and in that bottom right. They will be using this lines later as a branch on appropriately forms. Now, combine both the strokes went from left, another from right. This will create a clean and nicely shaped Let's start using over medium bridge. Now I'm using different green just to make variations. You can practice using the same color as well. I will show you a couple of brushstrokes, which we've been use. Why painting leaves matchstick Tip off your brush. People on immediately press on. Uplift the chill brush on paper. Raise uplift. It's okay if you miss a point on top. In that case, you can always revisit it and fix it later. Now practice the same strokes with Children. Angle with several times until you understand that stroke. Let's try it in a positive direction. Hold your brush vertically. Street Touch the tip on paper, press and drag. See the variations using the same brush with different techniques. Speaker brush on the same technique. Hold your brush, particularly street. Don't keep one people, but it is and drag. Why practicing? Make sure your brushes fully loaded everything so that you can easily let's create leave. Using this form. Now, we will use the same technique again, holding the brush vertically, touching the tape on paper, But this time, find dressing the brush. Christie gently and drag it until you get a point. Do the same with the other side. What, as I mentioned before, it's okay if you miss the point on top You can always fix it like this. We are done with our brush. It's the senses. I hope you have done it. This along with me I would love to see your brush control samples. Don't forget to Up noted in the project section. Next we will explore areas, leave shapes, using the brush strokes we just loan. 5. Exploring Leaf Shapes: at the end of this lesson, you belong all these legal forms using the brush rocks we just learned in last lesson. I'm going to start with smaller brush. Let's use this lines rooks and arrange them in a way to create a Brach. It will look like this. Paint a cough line and then are smaller lines here under so it will look like brunch. You can live with them and make your own variations. I am using civilian do for the dots, but you can use any other color. Make small circles on the drop off each line. - Now we will use this cross arranged them in a way so it will create a leave for Beeville uses design elements while making our bookmarks. Now I'm going back to my medium British, that is number four. Let's using stroke to create beautiful No, your brush with enough color touch the tip of the brush, but it's it gently on uplift. Do it side by side. Once you start adding pictures, you can increase their sides respectively. Now our A team lying in between here is a first beautiful lease. Now let's do it one more time, - Okay , Next I'm going to use bigger brush and use the same technique. But the result with different because off brush sizes I started with sap green and now I'm adding a jackal green just to create visual interest. I'm loading my brush with sacked ring. Now we will use this form to create more leaves. Start with because troops and make a big loose No. Now add to small leaves to each side. - Just play around and try different different shapes. Here are your leaves Now. Next I will show you how to paint roses in watercolor. 6. How to paint roses: In this lesson, you will learn how to control Sister Pastie. Let's continue using bigger brush. I personally feel that bigger pressure helps blending colors very smartly. I'm using firms 100. You start car color in the center. Once you go out, words make it lighter. Make a small sea ship with the tape off your brush. Follow center prickly and move your brush in direction. Off alphabet. See ship so it will look like better. Now Rienzi A brush in Clearwater. Take out extra water until next. The reckless with their clear bridge. Now start fading out to a lighter shade. Yeah, no, I'm using the tria DACA color in the center. Let's spend one more joules. - The painter tends to roses, but single gonna the next one, I will show you how drag another couldn't. I'm going to use games 100 in the sector and follow the same technical on for Betsy. She clean your brush and try to connect the witness. Now I'm using your Thibodeau ardent on adding on the site. But Crude's while the patrons have still gone, I am marrying more concentrator pigment off the same color next to it. You learn how to make compositions off roses and leaves 7. Making Compositions: In this lesson, we really learned composition. Let's combine these leads with roses. I will be painting two different size roses and then we'll be adding leaves. Today that is the 1st 1 2nd 1 will be the smaller than a beard. Now we will bearing leaves, so replace your water container with plain water. I will be using various creams to create regional interest. One important thing to keep in mind is don't make all design elements similar. You can play with size and color valuations, victory or brushes in between an ad design element accordingly so that you can make variations in leaves way. There are over a cruises and lose compositions, which we will be using while making our bookmarks. You can live with them and feel free to make your own compositions like this. I have done this compositions, which you can use as an inspiration, saying they play around with leaves and see what you come up with. - Way have learned how to paint leaves and roses. Now let's use their into making actual bookmarks 8. Leafy Bookmark: Let's create this leafy bookmark. First, let's hughesmen off before paper strips, loading my brush with sap. Bring for the very first live on, then gradually going toe. Are other greens on the leverage to do? Follow the same technique. A loan on make a beautiful leave. Increase the leaf sizes gradually Insua brush and start using blue. Gradually, I have loaded my brush with blue but adding clean at the bow. This will create smooth color transition. See, now it's looking blue green. It's not completely blue. Okay, I am adding a teen stroke in between. What now? Let's are those daughter design elements. You can add them as but their validity off the space on your Leo. It's not necessary that you have to pull out the same load. Feel free to explore more and make your own variations. - Let's make another leave with blue color. - I will be leaving some white space on the job so that we can bunch over there extra. Be real clear. Your second book mop 9. Flowery Bookmark: in this lesson. Let's create this Flory bookmark. I'm going to paint roses first and then we'll be adding lived through them. - I think some dark builds in the centre. Now I will be painting second rose on top right side so that we can fix the told Rose position and between first and second. - Next , I will bearing orange color rose, so it really creates visual interest. - Now we're done with our roses, so let's are leaves before starting with green color. Replace your boat with fresh water by larding leaves. You need to consider your other level white space and add them accordingly. You can do color variations in the leaves. Yeah, - what and our second bookmark is was already. Now let's spend our last bookmark. 10. Rosy Bookmark: Let's spend roses leitess. Now I'm going to paint small roses so he can have enough space for other design elements. Uh, no. - Yeah . Oh, we have very small white spaces available. So get back to our smallest brush on our remaining designer livers. Our last bookmark is ready. Next, I will show you how to punch bookmarks. 11. Punch Bookmarks: a bunch of our bookmarks. We relate bunching toe Caesar and string. Now lets tempt bunch one by one Just punch them in the sander, leaving some space from the top and string ribbon through hole. Do the same pick next. Your bookmarks. Yeah, that, uh, our bookmarks are completely ready to use now. Next will be a bonus video off gift bag. 12. Bonus Video Gift Tag: Now you know how to paint leaves and roses so you can follow the same picnics at hand, lettering as provocation and use it as a beautiful gift there. I have got the top corners. You can make them around or any other ship. 13. Thank You: Congratulations. You have completed this class and learn how to make bookmarks state by state. Here are some more bookmarks for your inspiration. Now you can make your own variations I really hope that you enjoyed my class. I'm looking forward to see your bookmarks and give That's please don't forget to upload it in the pressure exception on you can also tag me on instagram at art by sneakers. If you really night this class, then please comes up and share with your friends. Thank you. See you in the next close.