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1. Welcome: Well, hey, everyone.
Welcome on into my studio. My name is Carrie Sanders, and I'm an artist, a teacher, and a creative here in
beautiful Farmington Utah in the Northern Mountains. And yes, we are expecting like 19 " of snow tonight
in the mountains. Here we go. It's holiday season. And so I have
created for us today this beautiful little
snowy scene that is so fun to paint with the bright vivid
Christmas colors. And then we go ahead and do the inking afterwards,
which is so fun. It's relaxing, like doodle work. And this is a class that is for people that have had a little
bit of painting experience. So if you've never
painted before, I would recommend
that you take one of my other classes first and
then come back to this one. But if you choose to take
this class, that's great. I am with you every
step of the way, and I post my classes in
real time now so that you can just paint along with
me. You're in control. You can speed up, slow down, stop and start the videos to make it the best possible
experience for you. You know, I have been
painting for many, many years, teaching lots
of students along the way, and I really have
a love of sharing painting with others and instilling that love
of art with others. I have had the opportunity to be picked up by a big box store and had my book published
and went across the country along
with pattern packets. I've also been in many
art contests over the years and won awards for
my art in my personal life. And I only share that with you so that you understand
that art has been a huge part
of my entire life, and I just get such a thrill about sharing it with others. If you would like to
take a peek at some of the other classes that I have available here on Skillshare, all you need to do
is go to the top of the page and type in my
name, Carrie Sanders, and all the classes
I have available, we'll populate for
you and you can see if something is of
interest for you there. Here's a sneak peek and some of my holiday classes
right here behind me. Also, if you would like to click that little
follow button, then you'll just
get a little ping whenever I pop out a new class, and you can see if that would
be fun for you as well. I'd sure love to have
you join me more. Also, if you'd like to take
a peek at my private world, you are welcome to come to my
website carsanders art.com. You'll see some of the things
that are happening with my personal art and some of the things that I do
professionally as well. I'd love to have
you take a peek. Okay, guys, if you are interested in joining me
for this piece today, then let's go ahead
and move into the next video where we talk
about the class project, and then we'll talk
about supplies and get started painting.
2. Class Project: Okay, my friends and artists, your class project is to complete one holiday
Christmas house. All you need to do is follow my video step by step,
beginning to end. You can stop and start
them, speed them up, slow them down, do
whatever you need to do to make it the best
experience possible for you. And once you have finished, if you could just snap
a pick and upload that into our class gallery by
looking for this button. Then that will allow me to get a little notification saying
you've completed the class, and I get to go in and make
comments on your piece and nothing but love
guys. No judgment here. I just absolutely love seeing
what you've accomplished. Each of you is unique and
special and talented. You know, it's kind
of like giving everyone a recipe
for a casserole, and they all come out just
a little bit differently. It's because each
of us is different, and I truly do enjoy seeing
how each piece turns out. So please share it in
our class gallery. Alright, I will see you in the next video where we
get started painting.
3. Supplies & Pattern: Welcome on In, everybody. I'm so excited to
share this piece with you and anxious to
get started as you are, I'm sure. So let's dive in. We are going to just have a quick discussion on the
supplies that you will need. You can print out the
pattern that I have provided for you on this page
of Skill Share. So print that out, and you will need
some tracing paper to trace the pattern onto, and I'll show you how to apply the pattern later in this video. You'll need a piece
of graphite paper or a light box to
apply your pattern. Today, I'm going to be
using hot crest paper. It's 100% cotton, and the
most important thing is, it's 140 pound watercolor paper. I always recommend that you use 140 pound paper or
better so that it can absorb and expand and contract with the water and the paint that
we apply to it. And I'm using hot
press because it has a smoother surface
than cold press. And since we're going to
be doing some inking, I like to have a little
bit smoother surface. So again, I'm using 100% cotton, 140 pound paper
that is hot press, and feel free to use what
you're comfortable with. Now, one of the tools
that I'll be using today is my handy dandy helix. It does a lot of
different size circles, and you can actually create
circles sizes that you want. It's one of my
favorite tools Um, I just picked this up at
Hobby Lobby it's under $5, so I don't get anything
for saying that. I just like to share
what I like to use. But you will need something to make a lot of these
smaller size circles. We want them to be
nice and round for our ornaments and our gumballs and our candy
sticks, everything. So you'll need to make
a lot of circles. I'll be using a stylus
to apply the pattern. I'll talk more about that later. As far as brushes go, I'll be using two kind of unique brushes that
I don't always use. One is a number ten mop. This is a squirrel hair mop. And you don't have to use this. You could just use, you know, a larger size brush
around something that will hold a lot of
water for our background. But I'm going to be
using a mop today. And for our large pine tree, I'm going to be using a rake. It has bristles that are separated and some are
longer and shorter. But anyway, we'll be using
it on our pine tree. It's going to give
us a lovely texture. So I'm using a three
eighth inch rake and then for our
other brushes today, I'll be using a couple of flats. This is a number six
and a number two. So I would just say have a
medium size and a small size. We'll be using both
of those quite a bit. And then just have a
variety of rounds. So always you know me. My handy dandy four
is my favorite, a four and a six and eight, you know, and a ten, whatever. Just whatever you
like to work with, have a variety available. And then you need a couple of
good detail liner brushes. So this is the number one. It's a long haired liner. And then this is I think it's
a t. Yep, it's my 20 at. It's shorter haired, but it's very fine. It's
great for detail. We're gonna be putting a lot of Christmas lights on this piece, so you're gonna want
something that you're comfortable with detail work. Then, of course,
my favorite tool ever handy dandy tissue, you're going to
need some of this. And a container for your
water and a shop towel, of course, and
then your palette. And as far as inking tools go, I will be using my Muji pen. You could also use a Nibal. You could use a stdler, a micron, whatever you like
to use, you can use that. And my favorite pencil ever
is my black wing palomino, but you will need a pencil because you may have noticed
that the pattern does not have everything on
it because we need to apply some things after
we have started painting. So go ahead and
gather your supplies. I'm going to talk about
our palette next, and then we'll apply our pattern and dive right into painting. Let's go ahead and
review our palette, and then you go ahead
and get that set up. And after that,
we'll take care of applying the pattern and
get started painting. We're almost there.
First of all, we will be using
following yellows. We'll be doing cad
yellow medium, gamboge and naples yellow. And then we'll be using
transparent orange, inoquidin burnt scarlet. It's similar to burnt sienna, but it has a little
more red in it, but you could substitute those. A cad red light, a
zar and crimson, Hookers green, cobalt blue,
indigo, serleim blue. And guys, I have a PDF
for you on this page of Skillshare that you
can print out or take a look at it has all
of these listed. We'll also be using
a metallic gold, and if you have a
variety to choose from, I chose my lightest
gold for this one. And that's because
we're going to apply it on top of our cad yellow medium, and I didn't want it to cover. I just wanted to give this nice sparkle it's pretty sheen. So I chose a very light gold. And then we will be using quite a bit of
bleedproof white today. You can use white wash, but it won't give
you the opacity that you'll be getting
from bleedproof white. I highly recommend that
you treat yourself to some bleedproof white
and use that with me today. So go ahead and
gather your palette, put that together, and then we will put our pattern on
and get started painting. We are ready to go ahead
and apply our pattern. And so the first thing
you're going to want to do is go to this
page of Skill Share and download the PDF that I have provided for
you and print that out. Once you have done
that, you're going to trace it onto a piece
of tracing paper. And then we're going to position that onto
our watercolor paper. Secure it with some
tape, of course. And then you're gonna
slide your graphite. Now, there's two sides
of graphite, obviously, and make sure you have the
right side down that's going to apply our
pattern. Slide that under. Make sure it's just
how you want it. And I'm going to be using a
stylus to apply my pattern. Of course, you can use a pencil. I like to use a stylus, though, because it preserves the
integrity of my pattern. I can use it over and over. So I'm going to go ahead
and speed up the tape for this portion because it's really boring to watch
somebody apply a pattern. So you apply your pattern, I'll apply mine, and I'll
see you in just a moment. Alright, you may have noticed and if not, I'm
pointing it out now. I did not put the
circles on, rather, I put a.in the center of
where they are positioned. And now we're going
to go ahead and use our stencil to apply those
circles using a pencil. So I'm going to go
ahead and speed up the camera again because it's really boring
to watch, right? But I wanted to make sure you understood what I was doing. So let me just do
one slowly here. You can use this as a
pattern to see what size. So, okay, I'm going
to use this size. And I'm going to apply
it to this circle, and I just put that little dot right in the
middle of my stencil. And Walla I have an
ornament hanging down. So I'm going to go ahead and
do that for all of these, and we'll be ready
to paint afterwards. Okay, I would just say double check your
pattern and make sure that you have everything applied to your
watercolor paper, and if so, let's move
on to the next video, and we'll start
painting together. Oh.
4. Background: We're going to dive right in.
Are you ready? Here we go. I'm going to start with my
number ten squirrel mop brush, and I'm going to
pick up some water. Now, this brush holds
a lot of water. You can also use one of your large rounds,
which is totally fine. We're going to do wet on wet, starting with the background
around the house. And we're literally going to wet the paper you don't
want puddles of water, but we do want to get the
water to activate the paper. And remember, as you do this, to be really careful going
around your house and around the candy cane and such because
wherever you put water, your paint is going to flow. So paint flows where
the water goes, and we want to be
really careful. And we're going to
take it in sections. Let's just focus on kind of
this section right here. We're going to be careful
going around my candy cane. And I'm going to
stop when I reach the ground just take
it level across there. Actually, don't even worry
about that sucker stick. Just kind of take it over Don't worry about those little
crevices around the candy cane. We'll get those. Right
now we're being general. All right. And let's take
it up a little bit higher. Let's do about one fourth
of the paper over here. Careful around our roof line. I like these mop brushes. They not only hold
a lot of water, but they go to a nice fine tip. Great. While that's still wet, you need to depending
on what paper and what climate you're in,
all kinds of things, if you need to re wet
your paper a little bit, at this point, do so. We're going to start by picking up some of our Cerlean blue, which is the lightest blue
we'll be working with. This is what's going to
come closest to the house. Okay. And now we're gonna
pick up some of our indigo. I'm gonna start on
the outer edge this time and come
towards that serlem. And we'll just kind
of nudge it towards that serleim blue rinsing out a little bit,
water on my brush. Now I'm going to encourage
these two to interact. And maybe yours
already did naturally. I kept mine pretty far apart. Oh, so pretty. I'm going to go right
over that sucker stick. It's okay. I got a little on the candy cane.
Touch it with your tissue. It's not the end of the
world. Great. All right. Now, let's keep on moving. Just picking up clean water. I'm gonna bring this
down now to the rooftop. Right into what
we've already done. Go ahead and soften that edge while you're there, rinse out. And clean water. Let's
go all the way across. Great. And let's
go ahead and put some Cerlean blue
close to the house. Let that water start
working with it. Because we're putting
light around the house, it's gonna make the
house look like it's glowing a little bit,
which is pretty cool. Okay. And we want it to look like it's glowing a little bit around this star. So we're gonna keep that a
little bit light, as well. Picking up indigo and starting away from the cerleon
out on this outer edge. Just water on my
brush at this point. Softening. Great. And now rinsing out and
bringing it down. We're gonna go right
over this tree. It's okay. We're gonna
come all the way down to the bottom edge
of this house. Just water on our
brush. Being careful. Great. Clean blue. This will be under the tree, but it'll give us
a nice backdrop to put that white pine on. It's gonna be so pretty. Great. And let's pick up some of our
indigo. Throw it on there. And I'm going to pull that over. I don't mind to see it's
darker here than there, but that's because
we've got this white pine tree that's
going to go here. And because it's going
to be white on top, remember that if you want to highlight or white
to stand out more, the only way you're
going to have that happen because it's already white and light is to put
something dark behind it. So that's why I'm encouraging this indigo blue to go ahead and blend over. I don't
want it to pull. You notice I put tape
around the edge of my paper because I like to have a nice crisp edge when I
frame something. Great. Okay. Now, if it's about
how you want it, I wouldn't mind a little
more dark over here. Yeah, a little more. You
notice I put water down first. So if you decide to add more
indigo blue or serlean, make sure you're putting
some water first so that it has a nice blend. Now I'm softening
that blend with just some water. I
like that better. Okay. Okay. Maybe just
a tiny more here. You do you and decide how
you want yours to look. All right. I'm feeling pretty happy with that. So rinse out. And we're gonna pick
up some of our white. I'm going to splatter
using my number four. It's my favorite splatter brush. Oh, let's face it. It's my
favorite brush for everything. Now, I like to put my white on a spare piece of paper just so
that it's handy. So I just use scraps
of watercolor paper that I've pre used, and
I use the other side. It's easier than just going
back and forth a lot. So I'm going to put
a good amount here. That I can easily access. And when we splatter, you're going to want to
thin it down a little bit. This is probably going
to be about a 50 50 mix. So you know as I'm scooting
it over, that's 100% paint. This is a 50 50 water
and paint. All right. And we're going to splatter
while it's still wet, and that's going to
make it look like snowflakes instead of just white dots because
it's going to blend. So we're going to
go ahead and just splatter it on there
and it's going to grow. It's going to blossom. And
it's gonna look awesome. You see it growing,
and it looks like each one is different,
just like snowflakes are. So I love doing this on
wet paper that is dark. This just makes the
most beautiful snow. And you decide how much
snow you want, guys. Now, this is going to be tree, so you don't really need
to do any over there. No sense wasting your paint. I am going to put a
little more over here. We're gonna have
the big star there, so you don't really need
a lot there either. I want more up here. So quite a bit. Oh, I love it. I love it. I love it. A little bit more
over here. There we go. Alright. Now, I'm going to use my tissue while
it's still wet and just pick up where it has touched because when you when
you get bleed proof white, wet, it becomes pliable again, and it will mix. It's kind of like
guash in that it will mix with whatever paint
you put on top of it. So I'm pretty much
gonna just pick up those dots on the candy cane so they don't mix with the red. And same with my roof. If you've got some dots on your roof, let me
just pick those up. It won't hurt anything
if you don't, but it'll make your
life easier if you do. And this is one
more reason to have 140 pound paper that can hold up to you lifting
off when you need to. Good. All right. Oh,
that looks beautiful. How'd you do? Wasn't that fun?
5. Roof & Chimney: Mm. Once your background is completely dry, then
we can move on. If it's wet, go use a heat
tool or hair dryer or weight. If you're dry, let's go ahead. I have pulled out my number six flat and some hookers green, and I'm taking this to a 955. You'll hear me use ratios
throughout this class, and it will be water
to paint ratios, which will help you understand how much paint I'm using and
how much water I'm using. 95% water, 5% paint. This is a heavily
pigmented paint, and I want to have a pretty
light coat because we're going to use this same
paint for our shading, don't come in too dark. And if you need to, just pick up some water to lighten it up. We're just washing in the
background on the roof. A wash is when you
use all one value, it's going to be
all the same color, all one value of this 955. Again, I'm doing one
section at a time. I'm just lightening this up. I came in a little dark on the top, bringing in some water. This is water brush and
they are bringing it down. I want a nice light value
so that I can come in with the same color and do our
shading a little bit later. All right, so be careful going around your bricks, your stones. Oh, you notice that I am
working fairly quickly when you're trying to do a large
area all one value as a wash, you kind of have to work fast. Oh. Notice I'm coming up on the
chiseled edge sideways. A flat brush is very
versatile, guys. I know a lot of people like their rounds, and
I'm first to say, number four round is
my favorite brush, but a flat brush, you can use the flat edge,
chiseled edge, corner. They're very, very
versatile brushes, and I highly recommend that you become friends with
your flat brushes. Notice I keep picking
up a lot of water. Again, that's to keep
it all in value. Keep my paint flowing. Great. I'm just going to smooth a little
bit there. Mm hmm. Beautiful. Okay. Now, this
Eve is actually green, but it's still a good idea
to paint it separately. I just find that you
kind of if you just get in that mindset of
this is a separate piece, and you might get a little bit of an edge, and that's okay. We don't need to blend this one in with the rest of the roof. It can be a separate
edge because it is. H. Great. All right. This is completely dry now, and I've taken a
pencil and added in my lines for the shingles
along the top of the roof. And if you ever need to erase
on top of your painting, use a kneaded eraser
because it's very gentle. It's not going to lift
off or mar your paper. So I highly recommend that
you have a kneaded eraser. Now, I've switched to
my tiny little flat, my number two, and I'm going
to pick up some more of our Booker's green, and
I'm just going to come in and start adding a little bit of
shading underneath those shingles on the top edge. I'm just going to go ahead
and float some in here. Adding a little bit
of a curve like that. I'm going to pick up some water. I'm going to soften that edge. Soft that soft blend. And then it looks like
just a shadow. See that? And then I'm going
to come up on that chiseled edge like
we talk about, go straight up and down. And I'm going to I'm gonna do a little curve side view so that my hand doesn't
cover the camera. But anyway, I'm
just going to tap in between the shingles. If I were home alone, I would
be doing it more like this. And now I'm going to rinse out. And same thing I'm going
to just kind of soften. This is just water on my brush. See how it just softens. And if you go down
the middle like that, then it just looks like it's going on both directions,
which is great. And let's pick up some more
now and do this other side. Just gonna do this whole area right here, that
little triangle. And around our chimney. Soften those edges. Number two doesn't hold very
much paint or water, so you have to dip
in frequently. Soften that now. Great. All righty. Now, I'm not gonna worry
about that top edge because we're going to add
some snow and it won't matter. But we are going to add some
more now around the windows. Since we have our tiny
little brush in our hands, let's stick with our number two. And let's start by
going underneath. So Okay, now, our big window. Really, our holly is
gonna come up this high, so don't worry about making
that too dark there. Good. Okay. And our last area is going to be right up
underneath this Eve. I'd like to start
right in the center. It's gonna be our darkest point. I want that to look
nicely tucked in. And then we can bring it down. We're just going to
smooth that a little bit. Great. Good. How'd you do? Now, I'm going to darken
mine up even more. I'm going to pick up more of this is probably
more like an 80 20. And I'm just going to pat it. I'm not gonna stroke. I'm just gonna pat
some dark in here. Yep. I like that. Now, I'm gonna pick
up some water on my brush, and same thing. I'm just going to kind
of up and down motion, just kind of gently
blend that down. Just an up and down motion. Great. Coming to my larger flat, which is really a medium size. It's number six. And coming
back to this 955 mixture. M I'm just going to
add a little bit of shading on the eve here. Taking up water. Good. All right. Let's let that dry. Once your roof has
completely dried, then I'm coming
into cad red light. I'm using a 955 Mix, 95% water, and we're just
going to wash this in. It's going right over all of
our pencil lines. It's fine. I want it to be really
light at this point. That's why we're doing a 955. Great. Okay. We're gonna let that dry before
we come back to it.
6. Windows: So let's come into
our cadilla medium, and this will be a 9010, 90% water, 10% paint, and we're going to just do I'm not even being very careful. We're just doing the
center of those windows. I'm going to come
up here as well. Be careful to not
go on your stones. But you don't have to worry
about the window itself. This doesn't have to
be perfect because we are going to have a
white rim on the window. But it doesn't hurt
to be tidy, right? Okay. Now, my red is dry. I'm going to switch to my
small flat back to my cad red, more of a 9010. And I'm going to just come up to that chiseled edge
and start by putting in just a few brick indicators. See that? Just a nice
fine chiseled edge line. Okay, then I'm going to
float down the side. I'm going to make
them a little bit curved coinciding with the
lines we just made, right? A little bit of the top here. Good. Okay, now I'm
going to pick up water. And you got it. We're going to soften
that edge a little bit. I'm gonna get a little
darker along the bottom. And darker around this
whole edge over here. That whole side of the chimney. Good. How'd you do? Oh, I'm
going to do the top two. Well, it'll probably be under
snow, but I'm going to do. Great. Using my number six flat, I'm gonna pick up a little bit of this transparent orange. And I'm just going to dab
on some around that yellow. Pick up some water
and soften it up. Pushing it out.
I'm being careful not to go onto my bricks. G more water. Now I'm
going to soften it on that inner edge with
the cad yellow. Almost bouncing my brush on that corner up and down just
to get those two to blend. Now, while it's still wet, I'm going to pick up some
of this quin Burnsiena. You can see how it has
a lot of red in it. Burnsienas a little more brown, but the quinocri Burnsiena has a little bit of that red
in it. I just love it. I use this for
canyons, mountains, rocks, and apparently windows.
Oh, isn't that beautiful? These windows are
going to be glowing. I'm using the corner of my flat. Here's where I'm trying to
get kind of a jagged edge as we start to recognize the
roughness of the rocks, the bricks, whatever
you want to call them. And the bottom edge doesn't
matter quite as much. We're gonna put snow there. Rinsed out, and you guessed it. We're gonna soften
that up a little bit, water on our brush. Blend that with our
transparent orange. Beautiful. All right.
Ready for the next one. Let's leave the big one.
Let's do another little one. It feels our confidence,
right? All right. Transparent orange.
I love this color. There's quite a
difference between this and regular orange. If you're used to
using Windsor Newton orange or some of the
others that are orange, transparent orange, you
can see has a lot of red in it and it just really pops. I love using this to
actually shade orange with, if I'm doing a pumpkin
piece or something. I just I think there's room
for both in your palette. It's just beautiful.
Okay. Picking up our quinacridin burnt sienna. Gonna tap tap that in. While it's still wet.
Great. Now let's lend it. Just water on my brush. Using the corner of my
brush, up and down motion. The outer edge. Now we'll
come to the yellow. Alright, the orange. Wherever
it needs it, I guess. I just want a soft lend. Oh. Nice, nice, glowy windows. Alright, here we go. Pick up our orange. Now, this one's so big. Let's soften that edge
while we're while it's still wet 'cause if we wait,
it'll be a little hard. Right. Okay. Coming to our Quinn Trying to maintain the shape
of brick here. It will help us later. Good. Can always come back and make them
darker if we need to. I'm still applying paint. I want mine a little
darker up here. Up there. Okay, now
I'm gonna rinse out. Just apply water. Yep. Just tapping this up straight up and down if you're
watching my motion, letting the brush and the
water do the work for me. Gorgeous. Okay. These
are itty bitty guys. This has a lot of white
trim we're gonna put on it. Order to not lose that center, I'm pushing out as I
blend. It's a tricky one. You can add a little bit of yellow in there after it's dry, but it won't be the same
as the true yellow. Okay. I'm going to put
just the tiniest rim. I don't want this
quinn to go very far. Great. I'm switching
to my smaller flat for this next window just
because it's so tiny. So I just took that all
the way to the outer edge. I'm not going to do
the quinn on this one. And again, I'm pushing out from the yellow
out as I blend. There we go. Okay. And next. Same thing with this window,
taking it all the way out. No. Great. I'm gonna add just the tiniest
amount of quin. Temi, tiny. Just water on my brush. Good. Let's let those dry.
7. Bricks: Okay, I'm coming in
with my number four, and I've picked up
some naples yellow, and this is probably, oh, 955. By watered down, and
we're just going to do a light wash on our bricks. And I did come in with my pencil and just lightly realign. So if you need to
realign yours, go ahead. Do that as well. We keep
this very, very thin. It's going to be a
wash all one value. Gonna be a nice base coat
for all of our bricks. It's a little thick
there. It nice and light. Go ahead and do the
stairs as well. I'm just lifting
some off here and there so they aren't exactly the same down around the house. Sticking with my number four and sticking with
the naples yellow, but we're doing a
stronger mix now. This is probably an 80 20,
so it's a lot thicker. We're going to add some
texture to our rocks. And the way we do that is
just literally to touch. Now, you're going to want
to leave a lot of space. Don't add too much. Does
it look funny? Yeah. Trust the process. It's going to make
sense. I promise. I'm just going to lightly
over the upper edge. Yeah. Thing. Okay. Great. Now
we're gonna pick up the slightest amount
of burnt number. This is gonna be a
955 Super light. Wouldn't even hurt to mix it in a little bit with
some of our naples. Yep, I like that. And now
we're gonna come back, and we're gonna add
a few splotches. Right. And let's reinforce
our steps here. Just going on the lines, except this bottom step going
all the way across. Okay. Now, the lightest
amount of indigo, this is probably 99% water. And again, Okay. I use my 20 ought picking up this
mixture of Indigo. Maybe more 955. Yeah, we're gonna
come in between if we can find our pencil lines, I'm gonna start a
weird so I can see it. And I'm going to
start with a line. Great. Now we can add a
little shape to it. So we want our bricks to
have a little indentation. So you've got these
bricks, right? I'll do three of
them here. We want to come in and give them
a hint of a shadow, just the tiniest little
triangle in those corners. It's a little thing, but it's going to make a big difference. And then when we
go in and ink it, it's going to look
really beautiful, too. So that's what we're
gonna do now is add shape to our bricks using this 955 indigo and
a very fine brush. And don't worry that
it's perfect or not. Remember, we're gonna
come in and ink this, ink is very forgiving. All right, can you see that?
Can you see how that right there starts to
shape our bricks. And then when we come in
with our ink, Wala Alright. Let's keep going, but don't feel like you have to
spend a ton of time. All right. Now, the
other thing I'm going to do is if it needs to be, if you have white spots, like, I've got a
lot of white here. I'm just going to a touch
of this blue there. Okay. Isn't this relaxing where you
just don't have to think, enjoy the music and
enjoy your bricks. Isn't that fun how they're just really coming together there? Great. How to do there.
Let's finish out up here. Great. Okay, let's just add a little bit along
that upper edge. Good. No need to here. We're gonna be putting a
lot of holly leaves there. Okay, let's finish out
our beautiful bricks. I like to start at the top because then I can
shape them coming down. I don't have to
worry about spacing 'cause your focal point
is at the top, right? Hey, let's do a little shadow on this deep in that along there. Step and a little bit more here. Great. All right. While we have our
little liner brush, let's come into
this add red light and just work on our
chimney a little bit more. We're going to come in
and highlight this, but I just want to add a
little bit more lining here. There. I like it to stang out. Mt. I'm gonna pick up
my little round just define them a little bit. Okay. I like a little darker
on the side again. Good. I like that better.
8. Scrollwork & Foreground: Oh Okay. I'm switching to my number one. This is my longer line brush and picking up indigo blue
super, super light. This is 955, maybe
even like a 98% water. And we're going to
do our scroll work on this cute white house. But just to start, let's just outline our windows. It'll give us a feel, kind
of warm up our hands, get used to our scroll brush. I like to do this to just
kind of get warmed up. I helps It helps me. Hopefully it will
help you as well. Let's just outline this
round window as well. Oh Great. And let's just gently go around our door,
our brooks here. What this is going to do is end up looking like a
little bit of a shadow, and that's good we want that. Even though we'll
come in and ink it. When I'm doing tight
line work like this, you notice I'm actually
holding the brush like a pencil and down very
close to the tip. So I have really good control. Alright, now we're
warmed up, yes? Again, this is like a 98% water. And with this scroll work, just look at the example
that I've given you. Let's start in a small area
that's kind of obscure. There's no pattern for it. I just want you to go
where it takes you. So I usually just start
with a little half round, put a little dot where
it begins and ends, and then I just start
building on it. Now, come out here. So
just start building. There's no right and no wrong. You can make them connect.
You can have them disconnected. It doesn't matter. If it goes on a little
dark like that one, I'm gonna touch it
with my tissue. We want these to just really fade into the background
and just be beautiful, soft additions to our house just to give it
some fun character. Remember, it's going to
dry one value lighter. Alright, I'm gonna move to
a different section now. I'm gonna avoid where our
ornaments are hanging. But it's okay to come up into this shadow area that
we have under the Eve. And you don't totally have
to avoid your ornaments. I mean, it is gonna cover. I'm gonna come out
this way, I think. Yeah, it would matter. It's fun in these larger areas to do some of these
bigger movements. Not quite so constricted. Okay. I start way over here on the other side,
just so I don't smear it. I'm gonna do a little
edge here along the house just to help
define that a little bit. It's up to you how much
you want to fill this in. It's really going to be soft and gentle
in the background. But I would suggest that
you step back at this point and take a look and
see how much more you want to add or if you missed any spots that you feel need
to add some scroll work in Alright, I'm going to step
back now and take a look. Once you have finished
with your scroll work, then I'm going to switch
to a number six flat, and I'm going to stick with this really light mix, this 955. We're gonna come over
to our candy cane. Yeah, I want this one to be red. These two to be red because
they're kind of dominant. Those kind of where
your eye is drawn. But we're going to
come over and just do both outer edges on
the white pieces. This bottom one, we can do
pretty much the whole thing. It's gonna be shaded. Bring that down into the plant. Okay, now just pick up
a clean water brush, and we're just going
to soften that inner edge a little bit. Great. All right. And this
should be completely dry. So we're going to
pick up some of the same mixture
using the same brush. And let's give our shadow. This is the shadow under
the Eve one more go over. Unless yours is already
dark enough to your taste. Wanted that to be fairly
prominent and see if there's any other shadowing
that you want to strengthen like around your
window, around the door. I think I'm pretty comfortable with where mine
is, so I'm going to leave it. Alright, I have picked
up a large round. This is a number eight. Or
you could use your moth. That would be fine, something that just
holds a lot of water. We're going to go ahead and wash in a little bit of
our foreground now, and I've picked up
some serleu blue and some of our cobalt blue. This is a 955 mix. We're just going to
This is our tree here, but we can go around
a little bit. And I'm not really
going to go over the gumballs too much,
not intentionally. But just a little here a
little there a little. You can see how much white I'm leaving with the erleiu blue. That's so that we can add some other colors to it
without being overbearing. Don't worry. We're
going to come in. We're going to shade this. We're going to add snow to it, don't worry about some
of your marks showing, but still leave some white. Now while that's still
wet, I'm going to put some of this cobalt blue and just lay that on
top and let those two blend a little
wet on wet here. To bring some right
up to the edge. We're close together there. Okay, now I'm just going
to use a water brush and see where I want it
to blend a little bit. I like it streaky, because
when you're working with snow, you're gonna have weird shadows. They'll be here and
there, lumpy, bumpy. And so it's okay to
not have it smooth. Great. Okay, I'm going
to let this dry. I'm not gonna come in with
indigo until later on, so don't worry about that now. Now that the candy cane is dry, I'm just going to intensify
the shading a little bit. I'm back in the indigo blue. This bottom one's gonna
be really shaded. And then I'm going to intensify a little bit
here on the outer edges. The soften it with water. And that leaves a nice highlight down the middle of
the candy cane. Okay, got a little
bit more here. You know, I might look
like it's standing out like a sore thumb right
now, and that's okay, but that's because we
don't have our dark red in there. So don't worry about it. Good. M
9. Gumballs: So while we have our blues out, let's go ahead and
use this robot Blue. Yeah. If your snow is dry, we can put our cobalt
glue down there as well. Sorry, this is
probably an 80 20 mix, guys. I said that earlier. And this is not wet on wet. We're just doing dry. We're just washing
it in all one value. I like to use my flat. I get a nice clean edge. Although on the smaller circles, sometimes it's easier
to use around, I think. Don't be afraid to
turn your paper. Good. And then we've got a
couple on the other side. We might as well
add those in now. You notice with my circles, I always start in the
middle and then I push paint out towards the
mark, or pencil line. I find that to be easier, slow and go, take it easy. Slowly push that paint out. Who? Let's do this little guy. Sorry, I have to keep
turning my board, but I hope that
you are, as well. It's really the best way
to get an even roundness. And we're not expecting
perfection here, guys. Oh, it's okay. Remember the inking is
going to be very forgiving. And we're not perfect people. We're artists, and we're not architects trying to
get this perfect perfect. So it's going to be
fine. Alright, let's let those dry really well. Make sure that your brush
is rinsed out really, really well, and let's
move to our yellow. If you haven't cleaned
out your water yet, I would suggest that
you do that as well. I've cleaned out my water
once or twice already. But your water can
transfer over. When we're doing a lot
of wet on wet like this, you can transfer color
through your water. And we've got several down low. Now, if your blues are not dry, you might want to
wait, or if you're comfortable painting around
them, then go for it. Our yellow is probably going
to take a couple of coats. And if that.in the center
that we put in bothers you, you can erase that before
you paint on top of it. It doesn't bother me. We're
going to do some shading. We're gonna do some
high lighting. We're gonna put
some snow on top. We're gonna ink. Lots of
things that are going to take away from that little dot. So the less we can erase
the better for our paper. Okay. And one more And we're sticking with
this 80 20 mixture. This is what we're
using for all of our ornaments and
gumballs, 80 20. It's coming up on the
corner of my brush. All right. Alright. Then we got this little guy back here, and that's why I pulled
out my number four. He's still gonna
start in the middle, in the center of the
circle and just push out. Wonderful. I've picked up my number four round and some of this beautiful cobalt blue. And this is an 80 20 mix
that we were using before. So if you choose to, you can see how light mine has dried. So if you would like
it darker, which I do, you can come in and
do your second coat, which goes much faster
than the first coat. And I'm using my number four, just because it's
my comfort zone, I can work faster with
it than the flat, and we already have
the shape in place, so I'm just dropping in color. And same with all of these.
I'm going to just come in. Dropping the color. You don't want to overwork
these because you'll lift off. I just dropping in more pigment, just lightly touching the paper. Great. And while
those are still wet, I'm gonna pick up
some of this indigo. And this is going
to be a 9010 mix. I'm gonna stick with
my number four round. And I'm just going to lightly
touch the bottom portion, and you can see that bloom
up while it's still wet, there's water on my brush. It's going to soften. I just want this little
shading on the bottom edge of this ornament. Beautiful. I think I'm okay, so let's
go ahead and add some more. Just touching water. There we go. Yep, there we go. Just touching along the bottom, lifting up and
down, just tapping. But you can see it bloom
and start to grow. I'm gonna do all three, and then I'll come in with
water on my brush. Awesome. Beautiful. All right. And we're going to lift
that shade, those gumballs. Now, this is a
clean water brush, and I'm just going to
control where it's going, keeping it down on
that bottom edge. Great. Same here. This one's doing a
pretty good job. All by itself of staying
where I want it to go. I'll just soften
that a little bit. My guys don't stress over
this too much because we're gonna have snow,
highlight, inking. It's gonna be fine. Alright, so the next one we're going
to do is our yellow. Make sure that your brush
is really, really clean. No indigo blue on our yellow. Thank you very much.
Always test it, make sure. Make sure you also
have a clean tissue because that can
transfer over as well. We're going to start by adding
another coat of yellow, and that will make it nice and wet for our wet
on wet technique. So, again, we're going
to do this time, it'll be a 9010 mixture. It's a nice second coat. Stat in the middle. Pushing out. Alright, now we're coming in
with our gamboge at a 9010. Same thing we did with
the indigo on the blue. And we're going to
touch the bottom. Just lightly tap in a little bit and let that
start working with the water. Okay, let's get a clean brush. And yet, you can see how that's grown and bloomed
just beautifully. I'm just gonna control
it a little bit, keep it where I want it to go. And this one, I'm
gonna bring it up a little bit on the sides. Great. How's yours looking? You know, so many people are worried and nervous
about doing wet on wet. They feel like they
don't have control. But really, the more you do it, it's not that you have I don't know if controls
the right word, but you learn how to
anticipate what it's going to do and how you
can interact with it. And so it's not a worry. It's fun. It's exciting. Now, see, this one
didn't bloom right there because my
paint was too dry, so I'm just going to activate that with a little
bit of water on my brush and I'm tapping,
I'm just bringing it up. And it's fine. So it acted differently than all of
the other yellow balls did. But it's nothing to
be worried about. It's nothing to be upset about, because we
know what to do. And that just comes
from a lot of practice. Gorgeous. Love it. Alright, this one I'm gonna
add just to touch more. I like it to come up
the sides a little bit. And then I like the middle
to be highlighted still. Great. Alright, keep an
eye on yours and see how they're doing. Thank you.
10. Holly: Picking up my number four and coming into
our hookers green, and this is a 9010 mixture. Just going to intensify a little shadow
underneath the window. And then I'm going
to turn my board. Sorry. Makes you dizzy. But now that we have our
rocks or bricks in place, we just want to intensify
the shadow a little bit, following the proper shape. So I'm just using the tip
of my number four brush. And I'm starting
with an outline, yes, but I'm going to
come in with water. Went want to brush and just
soften that a little bit, so it looks more like a shadow. It's gonna make those
bricks pop nicely. And I didn't want to
use my big wide flat. I wanted to have a lot of
control just around the edge. Go while I'm over here,
I'm gonna come over. This is going to
help us when we ink. We'll have the proper shape
already outlined for us. It also, like I said,
makes them really pop. It makes them sit out. And we're setting the stage for our holly that's gonna
go in pretty quick here. Pay this clean water. Here. Anywhere that you feel needs just a little
more intensity, this is the time to do it. Because once we put our holly leaves on, you won't be able to. So it's wherever you want to. Almost done. Just feel safe. Clean water. A little more shake here. More shading there. Good. All right. I think we're ready to start
with some holly. H. Just make sure this shadow is as dark
as you want it to be. Don't bring it too far down because we want to be able
to see our holly leaves, but that's looking great. Sticking with our
Hooker's green, my number four and a 9010. I just want to make
a running mark down here down this outer
edge of the front roof. I'm not going to do it on the back. I'm not
worried about that. And then I'm going to we
had this little ridge. Let me show it to you. Oh,
you can't really see it. You'll have to refer
to your pattern, but there's just this
little ridge line and you can do it
with a small flap. You can do it with
your number four. It's going to be covered
mostly with Holly. But it's kind of
like a rain gutter, or I don't know what. Great. Down a little too far. Good. And it does go
out to the side here. Okay. All right. So we are going to
start adding our holly, and the best place to look is the finished picture
that I gave you. I'm going to use my 20 out. I go to start adding
in our holly, make sure that it's dry first. And we're just going
to wing it, guys. We're just going to
start adding some in. Okay. And I would say, put them where you
want them to go. And if you need a guide, look at the photo I provided for you on
this page of Skill Share. Or just look on screen. It's right here on the corner of this screen right now and
start laying them in. I'll make sure that you're
leaving room for your berries. And I'm just washing
those in A one value. Don't worry if it's not perfectly matched
to the other side, it doesn't matter. Great. How'd you do? Now, I'm going to connect these. It's just kind of a curved line. We are going to do white
and inking on top of this. So it's actually not necessary, but again, it's a guideline. It's setting us up for success. Because it's green on green, it's just going to kind of
fall into the background. Now our windows are
gonna have icicles. So let's come down to
our holly down here, and I'm just going to start from one side and move to the next. And we're just going to put
them facing every which way, guys. There's no right or wrong. And it's okay to come down
off of the off the balcony, off that ledge there
if you want to. Notice I am leaving space because we're going
to do berries. We're also going
to do some pine. You can see that I am coming up to this bottom edge
of the window. And in this center area, I made them a little bit bigger, a little closer together, and now I'm going to spread them out more like
I did over here. Gonna leave that.
Alright, step back and take a look and see
how you feel about that. I've switched to my number one, which is my long
haired liner brush, and sticking with the 9010. We're just going to add a
little bit of pine now, and it's just going to be
kind of here and there, and it's not gonna show up much, to be honest until
we put white on it. We're going to put white
pine needles on top of it. But this is a great filler
between our ply leaves. I'm going to start
with the bottom ones, and then I'm going to turn
my paper upside down. We've got the tree here, so it won't do any good
to go off the house. I'm gonna turn this upside down. Bring some up. And Now, down here where we're trying
to make it nice and full, there's not really room for an actual pine leaf sometimes. And so just make some little needles in
there, and it'll be fine. And then when we get back out,
you can go ahead and make that center vein and
pull out the needles, and it's funny that your brain just makes up for what you don't
do with a paintbrush. All right. Let's put those dry. Let's come down while we
have this out while we have our number one
liner and our 9010. And let's put some pine bows. And again, we're gonna go
over those with some white. Let's bring some pop. Sorry, I am gonna have to turn my board. I want to do a good
job. But we're gonna fill this with
lots of baries. So don't be too worried about having a lot of blank spaces. We do want to leave
room for that. That's about all
we're gonna do there.
11. White Holly & Star: Alright, I've pulled
out a little bit of bleed proof white onto some watercolor paper
and my number six. And we're gonna keep using
our hooker screen at a 9010. And we're going to
put in this bush. So we're just going to we
just want some pointy edges, so you see them coming
up on my chiseled edge. And then I'm coming
on to the flat side, and I'm just being random, guys. There's no right or
wrong for this bush. And that's why I didn't give you a specific strict
pattern for it, just a little, you know, I only put in little triangles here so I can keep the size so I don't get an overgrown
bush, so to speak. Alright, now, you notice
I've left some white. So here's where I'm going
to come pick up some white, and I'm just gonna throw it
on there while it's wet. It's gonna be snow and I didn't clean out my brush
because I wanted it to blend. And we'll come in
with more snow, but this will get us started. This will be like a medium value because it'll have
this green mixed in. Now I'm going to rinse out. And I'm going to
pick up I'm going to cover to the white, pure white. This is not thin down. It's just 100% white. And now I'm going to
just daub some in. And because it's still wet, it's going to blend out a little bit, but
it's still strong. And it's just snow.
So it's just, you know, here and there, it's gonna catch
on some branches. We will come in and splatter in some more
snowflakes at the end. Great. Alright. This
rents out really good. While we have our white out, let's use our number
one liner and outline our holly leaves and
add our white pine, please make sure
that you are using clean water because everything
transfers to white. It's very touchy. It doesn't
matter if you're using white wash or if you're
using this bleedproof white. If your water's dirty
or there's something on your brush, it's gonna show. So be very careful. Now, I
am going to thin this down. This is going to be
80% paint, 20% water. So just the opposite of what
we've been doing with paint. This is 80% paint, 20% water, but that will
thin this down quite a bit. I'm going to roll this
between watch my fingers. I roll this as I pull and lift, and it brings it to a
nice, beautiful, fine tip. And that's going to allow
us to go ahead and outline these delicate
little holly leaves. Beautiful. And then let's put a little vein down the
middle, just like that. We're going to do
that for all of these. It goes pretty fast. And you can be kind of sneaky
if you need to clean up. If you need to clean up
some of your holly leaves, this is a great place to do it. I'm gonna turn my
board a little bit. This the concept really fast. So don't be afraid to add
water to it as needed. Wow, this is a lot,
isn't it, guys? If you need to take a break, if it's like making
you cross eyed, go ahead, take a break. There we go. All right. Now, same technique rolling
to a nice fine point. And we're just
going to add a few of these white pine needles. Oh, see how much that
adds right there. Let me do a couple more.
Beautiful. Just going right on top of the
green ones that we did. This just adds some
depth and dimension. Looks like kind of frosty. Right. Okay. I'm going to turn my board for this top portion. Down here in the middle.
Putting them here and there. Maybe some up on
the window here. Remember this is our filler. Oh, be generous with it. Good. Thanks. Let's
see now we get. Okay, guys, we're going to start with some more of
our detailed work, and we're going to kind of
work our way down for a bit. And what I've done
is taken my pencil and I've reinforced my
five marks for the star. I've added a little mark
where I want all of my lights to be
because we're going to do those in white before
we do them in yellow. So go ahead and take
it to that point. Alright, you should
have made your marks for the star and
your little lights. And now I'm picking up a
mixture of white that is 9010, 90% paint, 10% water. I'm rolling the brush between my fingers and pulling
it to a nice, fine tip. And we're going to
start with our star. And these are just
guidelines where it's a star that you can see on the screen, but
I'll show it to you here. This is where as if it were tied together because
they're twigs, that's where our five marks are. So it's going to help us
kind of stay in line, but we do want our
lines to protrude about a quarter of
an inch beyond that. I like to start with just one
line going each direction, and then we'll make
it more twiggy. But this helps us kind of stay in line where
we're supposed to be. I like to bend that just a
little bit. Same with these. Start up about a
quarter of an inch, bring it down. Great. All right. And this is the time to adjust. Make sure it's about the distance that you want
it to be from your mark. Because that will be our guide. Alright. And if
you're happy with it, then let's go ahead and add
in more little white twigs. This is going to make up our
star. It's gonna be so cute. And then if you want, you
can add gold on top of it, but we'll do gold
at the very end. So I'm just going to
start by adding a few M And after it's dry, if it's too light because it does dry a little bit lighter, you can go in and add more or you can use
pure paint, 100% paint. The difficult thing with that
is it's a little bit thick, and so it's hard to get
the movement you need. So I like to thin it down just a little bit
to make it workable. I just keep going
around the star until it's about where I want it to be Okay, and I'm going to
leave that for now. And then if you plan on doing
the shine around the star, let's go ahead and play with
that a little bit, as well. I think it'd be easier if we just tip our board upside down. And like everything else, I'm going to start gingerly. I'm just going to add a few
little lines here and there. This helps me with placement
as far as how far away from the star I want it to be
when I start and when I end, And then I just start
throwing some in there. I'm still using
this 9010 mixture, 90% paint, 10% water,
and my number one. And I can just start. I'm going to leave space between them because I'll come back in just like we
did the star itself. I'll come back in and add more. But at this point, if I needed to lift something
off, I still could. It's kind of a safety kit. I'm trying to make
them, you know, a little bit different lengths. Okay. And then I like
it to be a little bit more dense right
around the star. For that, sorry, I'm going to turn my
board one more time, but I need a different
perspective. I need to look at it from afar. So I'm going to add
some shorter ones, but they're different lengths. So it doesn't look like
I just did all the same. But these are the ones that
are closest to the star. So cute. Oh, you can see the difference between
this side and that side. And maybe you like it that way. Less, you know, less
is more for you. And that's fine. So you
choose. It's your piece. I want you to be really,
really happy with it. I find that putting my pinky
down to kind of anchor my hand helps me stay
consistent with my lines. And also don't be afraid to turn your board, as we've
done throughout. Alright, I'm going to
leave that for now. I may come back and add more.
12. Snow & Window Trim: Okay, I have switched
brushes to my 20 out, so this is still
very fine brush, but it's a shorter brush, and I've picked up
some more paint. This is straight from the jar. Now, my jar is fairly
thin because it's new. If yours is thicker, go ahead and add a little
bit of water to it. What we're going to do
is undercoat our lights. And so we're just going
to put a little dot. I start with a little dot
where my pencil marks are, and that's like the
cap of the light. But also, what I'm really
doing is kind of gauging, is that really where I want
it to be 'cause it's easy to lift off if I don't, and
I'm happy with that. And then we're just
going to go ahead and paint in our light. And that's the shape
and painted in. And you can make
it as pointy or as long or as fat as you want.
These are your lights. And don't worry that they're
not all exactly the same. 'cause we're not perfect
people, and that's okay. This is a fun doodle piece
where you're just kind of doodling and the ink
is very forgiving. You can do a lot of
touch up with it. So go easy on yourself, and please don't mark them
with pencil first. Promise me. The sign my little cap. We're giving a nice base for our yellow lights that's really gonna make them pop and
look bright yellow. And then we're gonna put a little gold on
top of them, too. Alrighty. Now, same
thing over here. You notice I have
some that are on the roof and some
that are in the sky. That's 'cause they're gonna
go different directions. I'm gonna go ahead
and turn my board. Alright, so just being aware of which direction
you've decided to have your lights, there's
no right or wrong. I just wanted to make sure
they went every which way. And I didn't want it
to be too crowded. Good. All right. Let's
do the other side. Now, remember, we're doing these on the front roof, not the back. You don't want to go
too far off the house because we've got a big tree
we're gonna put right there. All right. I picked up
my number four round, and this is 100%
paint. No water. And I'm just gonna bring this to a fine tip,
so I'm rolling this. And we're going to bring
down some snow on the roof. This is just going to
be kind of lumpy bumpy. We don't want it to look smooth. We want it to look
like it's just kind of piled up
from a snowstorm. M. Take that all the way
across. Isn't this fun? It's really getting
its personality, guys. And then up on the chimney, I'm going to have a
pile of snow up there. And we're gonna have it
kind of drizzle down. Yeah. And now I'm going to have this kind of
drip down a little bit. And you can do as many
icicles or not as you want. But I figure it tends to run down a little bit,
you know, from the top. I'm going to have some
fun with a few of those. Okay. And then the
same thing here. So we're gonna have some
snow along the window ledge. Both sides. And then we'll
have some icicles. Maybe a couple together in here. Kind of hanging off the
side. Great. All righty. And let's come up and do some snow on top
of the house here. I'm gonna have a
little pile up here on the top, have it
come down a bit. Oh, yeah, like that. Now, mine paint's
getting really thick. I'm gonna just add a
little bit of water. And I'm gonna have this just
drizzle down a little bit. Okay. I'm going to put a little
snow as if it were kind of hanging down right here
on the side of the house, maybe a little bit over here. And then I'm going
to add a few icicles coming down under our holly. Do not come into your ornaments, especially the ones that
are not painted yet. I go the one right there. I've purposely not painted those red ornaments or gumballs or candy canes,
anything red yet. Red is unforgiving if it gets smeared or if
water drips on it, or you come up against it, so there's no need to put it
in until we're ready for it, and we can postpone that. All right. Okay, guys, the next thing that
we're going to do is the white trim on the windows. You'll be amazed at
what a difference it makes. I'm so
excited for this. But I just took my
little tiny ruler hair and made sure that I
had straight lines. This is one area.
We're not architects. We're not trying
to be architects, but you still want a fairly
straight line as a guide, and then we're going to free
hand it with our paint. So go ahead and
put your lines in, use the pattern that I provided
for you and put those in. And then I also did
the window down here, as well as this window here. And I did make sure that my circle was
still nice and round, and you can see I'm
off just a little bit, and that's okay because we're going to outline it with white. But we want a really
nice circle here. So put all of your marks in. So picking up my 20
out and white paint. And we want this to
go on fairly white. So I'm only going to
thin it down enough to be workable, enough to flow. And when I'm doing
straight lines, I found that if you pull down towards yourself,
oftentimes you'll get, thin thick because
the pressure of your finger makes your brush fan out versus if you go side and watch my
whole arm is going. That way I can maintain
a steady pressure and I seem to get a nice thin
line that maintains itself. That's what I'm going to do. That's what I would
recommend you try if you haven't done that. At least give it a try and
see if it works for you. I'm rolling this to
a nice fine point. And I'm just going
to pull that across. Okay? So I do all of
my lines one way, and then I turn my board, and I do them all the other way. I'm just going to go halfway. I think that makes it easier. Great. Awesome. How are you doing? Doing okay. Right. Now, let's leave it there.
Let's print it out, start with a clean
brush. Here we go. Great. Now, you need
to do this top window? Whoo. Deep breath. Were you holding your breath? I know I was. Okay,
now the fun part. So, let's send this down just a tiny bit mine's really thick, and we're going
to add the detail in the corner of the windows. So we're just going
to make a little almost like a little triangle. Maybe a little diamond? I don't know. And then
while we're down here, just make sure that your
snow is the way you want it. Because then we're about
done with that, guys. So let's do our little diamond. Great. Okay. Now,
looking at the top, is there anything
that needs to be strengthened with your white? So this looks a
little weak to me. I'm gonna go over that.
It's quite easy to go over a second time
versus the first time. We're not going to
ink this white area, so you want it to show Great.
13. Lights & Windows: Okay, let's just fine tune
our lower windows now. So I'm going to just make
these a little bit stronger. This round window really
needs to pack a punch. When I first designed this, I'd actually put a wreath here. But then I felt like it just distracted from the green
roof and all the holly. And so I put this
fun round window. It's gonna have a lot
of detail work on it. Ooh. See, I didn't
follow my own rule. I went thin and thick. How did that work
for you? I hope it worked well for
you. All right. Take a look one last time at your icicles and see if
you're happy with them. There's anything that
needs to be touched up. Now, we're going to do a ring
around the circular window. I'm gonna stick
with this 20 ought, and I'm gonna be turning
my board frequently. Now, I personally don't
care how thick or thin you do your border as
long as it's consistent, that's what we're striving for. Now, we're gonna bring it down. I don't know what
this shape is called. I guess, a scallop.
That. Bring it down in the corners and
then make it round. Isn't that cute? I had planned
on making these hearts, but there's not
really enough room. There we go. All right. We're going to put our
yellow onto our lights now. And so I've switched
to my 20 ought, and I've picked up
cad yellow medium, and this is going to be 70 30, 70% water, 30% paint. And we're just gonna go
on top of our white. And the reason I'm putting
it on so thick is you don't want to spend a lot
of time on the white, or it will lift, and you'll get this creamy yellow,
which is okay. But I want this strong
cad yellow medium look. And I'm doing right up
over the cap, as well. This is a good time to correct any shape errors
that you need to. You could do these
in multiple colors. You could do red,
yellow, green, blue. I just didn't want
to complicate things too much with everything
we have going on. So I went with the yellow,
which is gonna look like gold. We're gonna put metallic gold on top. That was my thinking. Okay. Let's let those dry. While we still have some white, I'm pulling out my
number two flat. I'm going to do
some dry brushing. So dry brushing, if
you haven't done it before is when you
stick with a dry brush, I did not dip it
in water first and pick up some paint and
then wipe most of it off, and then you apply it, and it's going to
look really dry. It's going to look like
a I'll highlight it, but it's gonna look like, oh, the side of a barn door
or a weathered fence. So it gives us just a
hint of a highlight. And we're going to
do that on each of these tiles on the
top of the roof. Just like that. I'm just
picking up, tapping off. I'm just putting it in
the tile right there. Good. Now let's do
some on the chimney. These, I'm going to slightly curve because we've
slightly curved the edges, meaning that that's the shape. Always follow the contour of
whatever shape you're doing. Great. Okay. And then
right in the center, just a little bit right on that yellow portion where
the light is the brightest. I see how dry my brush is. And you decide how strong
of a highlight you want. I like it pretty strong 'cause I like the contrast between
our darks and our lights. I think it makes a much
more interesting piece. But you do you and be
happy with what you do. Yeah, just a little more. Mm hm. Here. It's an itty bitty window,
so it doesn't take much. Okay, good. I've switched to my
number four round, and I'm sticking with
dry brushing and white. I'm gonna wipe it
off. And this time, I'm going to add just
a few highlights just here and there
on the bricks. That adds just a little
bit of a highlight there. Same thing here. Just kind of here and there,
just brushing it on. It looks rough.
It looks textury. But it's like picking up
the light from the house. I still want more. I felt better. Okay. All right. And let's add some
down on the bottom. Okay, good. Step back
and look at that. See if you want to
add it anywhere else before we take
our next steps. It dries a little bit lighter, so make sure it's
how you want it. Now, while we're here, I'm going to add just a little
extra snow here and there. Now that this is dry, it will
stand out as lumps of snow. Just a little bit like that here and there on our little bush. That's all right there. Great.
14. Pine Tree: Okay, guys, we are
going to paint in our beautiful Christmas tree over here on the
side of the house. If you've lost
your little marks, just maybe put a little
dot from your pencil. It kind of helps you keep a
guide of how tall you want your tree and how how soon
you want to branch outward. If you don't need
it, that's fine. Don't worry about it,
but it tends to help me. I've pulled out my rake brush, and if you don't have one, you can just use a flat. It's okay. Don't worry about it. I'm picking up some white paint, and this is 100% paint. But I did dip my rake
into water first. And if you haven't
used this before, you're going to pick up paint, and then I'm going to wipe most of it off
because what we want, what we're going for is that
look of individual pieces. So I'm going to I'm going to start down here so
you can see what I'm doing. So you can see how this
paint brush works. And you can see how
this would be great for grass and fields and, you know, individual flowers
and stuff like that. But that's the look that
we're going to go for because it looks like snow on pine leaves,
and it looks great. So we're just going to build
a little bit of a base, and then we will turn
to a round brush to do some more
detail work with it. So we're just going
to add little layers upon layer and move up artery, and I'm not going to
go all the way to the outer edges because we'll come in and do our
detail work with that. I'm sticking with
100% paint here. But again, it depends on
how thick your paint is. And as I come up to the top, I made it thinner and thinner. And now I'm gonna come
back in and make well, I didn't come down
to the bottom. So first I'm gonna do that. Yeah, I mean, I just do a
few places here and there. I turned my brush sideways,
much like a flat, and I want to look like some of these branches have a bit
of snow sitting on them. So I'm just kind of
laying on that white. Isn't this fun? Being mindful towards
the top here. It gets very, very tiny. Now, at the very top, I'm
actually going to push up, and this is where I just
want some little spikes, those new little
buds of my needles. Okay. I'm going to rinse out my brush 'cause it's
gotten pretty thick. If yours did, give
it a good rinse. Now, I'm just going
to come in to some of these bare areas and add some of these tender
little strokes. I bring them out a little bit. These will be kind
of fillers as we come in with our round
brush in just a second. I'm gonna rinse out again. Because we're using
100% paint on this, thickens up fast on your brush. I just want to keep
those nice and thin. Isn't that pretty
nice and delicate? Now, if you don't
have a hake brush, you could be using your liner brush to add
these thin little lines, just like we did with
all of our pine needles. Gorgeous. Nice and
feathery. Beautiful. What's the top. I'm
curling them up. I'm using an upward stroke. Great. Okay. I bring it out a little
more on the bottom. Bring it all the
way to the house. Not coming onto my
sugar canes here. Not coming onto my
gumballs either, so be a little bit careful. Alright, great. Picking
up my number four, my handy dandy number four.
What would I do without it? And sticking with
this 100% paint. Oh, this is the fun part. I love doing this part. We're going to add these
delicate tips to branches, and it just brings
this tree to life. I like to start at the top. And then I slowly add so I
usually add a main stem, and then I'll just
add an indicator of a few branches
or pine needles, and maybe they're
covered with snow, so they're kind of
like a flocked tree. So I have these top ones
kind of pointing upwards. And then as we slowly move down, they'll start
pointing downwards, so I like to start
with the outside ones. And then we'll move to
some in the center. But first, I'm just
more concerned with getting a good
shape to the tree. Okay, you're getting the idea. I got another one here. And now I'm going
mid range here, kind of in between some of them. As you come to the
center of the tree, they're pretty much
gonna come straight down because you have to
remember perspective, so they're gonna be
coming towards you. Would it be straight down? And If you don't do your
paint thick here, then you have to
do a second coat, and we don't want to do that. W just go on nice and
thick the first time. I'm going to turn my board. I notice I'm keeping
these dark areas. It gives us a nice depth
and dimension and, you know, dark and
light, the contrast. Are take a look. Great. Let's let that dry. Once your tree is
completely dry, then I'm picking up my 20 out and some of
this cobalt blue. This is an 80 20 mix, so it's pretty strong. We're just going to
add a few little Christmas lights to our tree. And again, you could do yellow, red, green, whatever
lights you want to do. But I like the blue kind
of glows with the white. I thought that was
really pretty. So that's what I'm gonna do. And I'm just going
to put these in. Now, for these, I didn't
really put the cap on because I'm not
going to do a wire. These are just
kind of tucked in. Going every which way. You
don't need to undercoat them, obviously, 'cause we've
got lots of white here. And you can see
I'm making them a lot smaller than the
ones on the house. I just don't want it
to overpower the tree. The trees so beautiful,
delicate, you know. Alrighty. I think
that's good for me. Now, I'm going to
really thin this down. This cobalt blue. This
is gonna be a 955, maybe even 98% water. I'm gonna add just a tiny glow. I would start light, and if you want to darken it,
you can darken it. So just a little bit of a glow. Whenever it's gonna dry lighter. All right. I'm using
my number four, and I've picked up
some indigo blue. This is a 955, so
it's very thin, and we're going to just drop in a little bit of
shadow here and there just to deepen some of
the dimension on our tree. And I'm sticking to
the trunk area mostly. And I'm not going
on my big tufts of snow kind of leaving that alone. But just kind of here and
there, you can see how that just adds
dimension to the tree. Everybody's going to be a little bit different where
you lay it in, just kind of eyeball it
and see where it needs. That little added
dimension now down here, where we did snow
on top of snow. Just follow the contour
of your tree, guys. Against the house there. That's the stick to
our candy piece. That's the bottom
of the house there. So I'm doing a shadow right
there for that definition. I'm gonna add a
little more here. And then I'm just gonna add a little around the
base of the tree. See how it makes that pop? Awesome. Okay. We're
done with our tree. H.
15. Red Ornamants Candy & Door: I've picked up my number six flat and cad red light
at a 9010 mixture. And it's time, folks. We're finally going
to put in our red. Yes, I know I made you
wait a really long time. But you're gonna
thank me for that. Red is touchy, and
I didn't want to have a risk of
smearing it anywhere. So go ahead and fill this in. Awesome. Let's do
this one while we're at it. Wow, okay. If you're holding your
breath, take a deep breath. Alrighty. And let's go ahead
and do this little guy here. Dear. Now, remember we're going
to be shading these. We're gonna put highlights.
We're gonna put snow. So don't worry about
having a perfect circle. All right. I'm gonna clean that one up with a fineer brush. These tiny ones are kind
of hard with my big flat, but I don't want to clean
out my brush just yet, so I'll come back to it. I'm switching to my
number four round. And the first thing I'm gonna do is just clean up
this little cutie here. Oh, I realized I just missed a little one right there, too. So let's do that. Maybe you
guys saw yours and did it. All right. Okay. Make it there. All right. Okay, those are feeling better. Now we're going to do our
candy and our candy cane. And obviously, they're
going to be every other. So when you drew in your candy, make sure you had six sections. Otherwise, when you
do every other, you're gonna get kitty Wampas. So, um, just go ahead and do
every other with your red. Slow and go on these guys. Take your time, make sure you have them placed
where you want them. Okay. I'm actually gonna start up here on the Candy king so
I don't risk smearing this. We are going to shade
and highlight these. So this is just a
wash all one color. Alright. Let's let
those dry really good. Once all of your red is dry, and come into your flat, again, this is my number six
flat and cad red light. This is a 955 mix, and we're going to
wash in our door. We want kind of a lighter mix. That's why we're doing the 955. I'm going to be pretty careful
coming around everything. This will give us a
good base for our door. Oh Again, the trick to getting
a dark color all one value is the water. And you saw me dip
into water just now just to get
movement on my paper. We're gonna go right up to
the edge of our windows. Make sure your window is the shape and the placement
that you want it. There's no turning back now. There we go. Alright,
let's let that dry. Alright, all of
your red should be completely dry before
we take this next step. And I've picked up
some Alizarin crimson, and this is a 9010 split. We're going to I'm
going to turn my board. Sorry. I'm going to add some on the bottom
edge of our ornament, and I'm just touching it in
with the corner of my flat. I'm not stroking it 'cause
I don't want to lift up. I'm going to add some here
on this one, as well. And just a teeny bit on this
cute little guy right here. And then let's come
in with just water on our brush and just touch that and just soften
that edge a little bit. Great. Okay. And let's do the same on our
gum balls down here, touching it with the
corner of the brush. And let me pick up
a little bit more. I didn't have very much
there. Just touching that in. Because we're doing wet on dry. That's why I'm being really
careful to not stroke. I'm being really ginger
which is touching it. And then I'll come
in with a little bit of that soft water brush. Okay. This is just
a water brush. Great. Oh, I got one more. Good. I'm going to turn. We're not going to shade
these guys just yet. We're going to come
in now with this lycerin crimson and we're going to fill in. Got some
water right there. We're going to fill
in this bottom edge. Make sure your fingers clean. This red, I'll tell
you what. It can get you when you're not looking. And so we want to
be really careful. I'm still using my number six so that I can get a
nice straight edge. Just putting in this panel
on the bottom of the door. Okay, now I am choosing to
keep mine all one value. If you wanted to, you could use a waterbrush and lift out little highlight in the
middle of the door there.
16. Shading Door & Candy: And I'm gonna come in
now with my number four. I'm going to add a little
bit around the bricks, being careful to maintain
the shape that we put in. Good. Now I have
water on my brush, and we're just going to soften
that edge before it dries. Don't press hard.
We're not lifting off the red. Lightly
blending that in. Good. I'm going to go ahead
and put some underneath the frame of that window. Great. Okie doke. Now I'm going to come in and
just put some carefully. You could use your
flat for this. But since I have my number four already, I'm just
going to use that. Just gently going to put in a little bit of a shadow
here on either side. I want it to kind of match the width of the shadow
that you did on the white. And I'm gonna just use
a soft water brush. Just soften that a little bit. And, keep going. We are going to come
in with a highlight and some snow and inking, so don't stress over this. It's I'm gonna go across
the bottom a little bit. Great. Make sure your
brush is cleaned out, really, really
good. No red in it. And then we are picking
up some indigo, and this is going to be a 955, maybe even a 982. So really, really light. We're going to add the
shading to our candy sticks, which is really
going to make a huge difference in making
them look round. So I'm going to start with
this one in the back, and we're just
going to go around the outer edge and super light. And when you go across the
red, Be extra cautious. See how it picks up the red. So I'm going to come over
and make sure I don't have any red on my brush before I
move into the white again. And if a little bit trails over, it's not the end of
the world, right? We're going to ink it. I'm going to come
up to the white here while I have a clean brush. Good. And now I'm going to
come back into that red. And you can see,
Isn't that fun how it just makes it look
dimensional instantly. Okay. Great. I'm gonna broaden this
out just a little. Look, isn't that red over there. Okay. This is just a water brush.
I just want to soften my edge a little bit.
It was a little harsh. Yeah. All right. And last one. Hey, I got some red. I'm gonna lift it off
bit. I'm gonna dry it. Good. This is just a water brush here. Softening that edge. Okay. Now, while we're here, if there's anything
you need to do on your white candy cane
edge, this is a good time. Strengthening. And now
I'm gonna pull that down. It's just water on my brush. Look, I picked up a little
bit of red. That's okay. I mean, red is going to
reflect on the white, so a little bit of red is fine. Alrighty. Alright. I think
I'm going to add just a touch more of this crimson on
my ornament up here. I with this guy. That one's okay. Water brush. All right. Now, your
candy cane should be dry. If you want to add
any more shading to that, this will be the time. And I think I just want
to bring it to the edge. Just to emphasize a clean edge. Good. Hey, is there anywhere else that you need to touch
up with red while we're here? Look at your door
and see if you're happy with the shading that
you have in place there. But the next step that we will be doing on the door
will be the white trim, so we won't want to
come back in with any red after that point. I think I'm going
to add just a touch around the outer
edge one more time, just right next to the bricks, just to sink those bricks in. And then a tiny bit around where that white
trim is going in. Good. Okay. And I think I'll
just do a little bit right in the outer
edge of this panel. Alright. Last thing I want
to do is just kind of put a little center, just a dot. Great. We're almost
ready to ink, guys. We're almost there. Let's
let that dry thoroughly. Actually, before we
start our white, we need to come in
and put the sticks on our candy using Indigo blue. I'm using my small flat. And I've turned my board
sideways so again, I can just pull my arm sideways and have a nice
even candy stick. So I'm just going to start at the bottom
edge of my candy. You want your front stick to be longer than the one in the back. That will help with your
perspective, of course. Great. All right. I love putting in all these
little fine details. This makes it so fun. Now, I'm going to
deepen the shadow on the bottom edge of
this big candy cane. We wanted a deep
shadow like that, but we still want to
make it look contoured, which it doesn't right now.
At least mine doesn't. So if you already
did this, good job. I'm just going to hurry
and put it in right now. Alright. And we are going to
come in and highlight still, so that's good enough for now. I'm picking up my 20
out and cad red light, and we're gonna come
in and do our berries and make sure everything
is completely dry. We just did our
sticks, make sure they're dry so you
don't smear them. And you can just add
these wherever you want. Just gonna drop in
a little circle. Fun. Doesn't that add a lot? That's so fun. I love it. Okay, so down here
on the window. Oh, sorry. Let's do these first. Let's move on from top to
bottom so we don't smear. And same thing here. You can do them
in groups of one, two, three, whatever
you want to do. I like to start a little bit sparse and then step back
and see where to add, you can always add more, but
you can't take these off, so be careful. Alright. I wanted a few more in
the middle area because that's where we added
extra holly leaves. Make these a little bit bigger.
They're a little small. Okay. Now, down here, I'm going to do them
small and plentiful. It's just a small window. We just did a few pine bows. So I want red berries
to be the main focus. We won't be inking these
little berries right here, so you can pile them on top
of each other. It'll be fine. Cute, cute, cute, cute. Alright. H
17. Highlighting Ornaments & Gumballs: Okay, guys, we are going to use some white and
kind of start at the top and work our way down again and put in
more fine details. I highly recommend that
you switch out your water. If yours looked like mine,
it was very pinkish red, and that will transfer into your white,
which we don't want. This is mostly pure paint. I'm just thinning it down
enough to make it workable. So I would say 100% white, and then just add
enough water on your brush to make
it work for you. And we're going to add just
a little dot on our berries. Just the tiniest
little highlight. Great. And I'm just
going from the top down looking to see if anything needs to be done, I
think we're good. So let's move to our
next set of berries. You can skip a few
or do all of them. I'm gonna do all of
them just 'cause I want this whole piece sparkly
and Christmasy and fun. So moving on down, let's see, anywhere else
that I need to make. I'm not going to do any highlighting on
these berries here. Well, I guess we could
do a couple here and there, but teeny, tiny. Just probably right here under
the window as if some of that light were coming out and glimmering off those berries. I like that. Alright, now, let's do some dry brushing
on our ornaments. So I'm gonna pick
up my number four. I'm just picking up
paint, wiping it off. Now, let's start on a little
guy here just to get a feel. Make sure that I'm
using the corner of the brush basically
because it's so small. So we're just going
to add a little highlight because that was red, I do have to rinse out because white
will pick up the red. So I'm going to dry
off really well. Pick up more paint and wipe
that off, wipe it off. Okay. Gonna come
to the yellow one. Make sure you're
following the contour of your piece. So make it rounded. Wins out because it
was red. Good all red. Hey, Lou. Gorgeous. You know me. I go in and then I make sure
I have the proper placement, and then I can come
back and strengthen. But I'm not gonna strengthen
the entire highlight. I'm gonna come back up
here where it would be strongest and just
kind of pat pat. And I'm going to come over to the other red ones before I
clean out my brush this time. So this is still a dry brush. I'm just kind of padding turning my brush on the tip just
to use the corner there. And I'm just getting it to
the strength I want it to be. It's pretty strong. Just right in the top center. Yeah, I like that.
Okay, let's rinse out. Dry off really well.
Let's do our yellow. Okay, and the blue. A little more. Oh,
it looks so good. Okay, moving over to our
large candy cane now. I've got my number six, and I'm picking up
I have a dry brush, picking up some white
and wiping it off. I'm going to start on
just the white sections. Dry brush that in in the
center, right down the center. And I'm going to
put some even on our shadowed area
just a little bit. Yep. Alright, now I'm going
to put some on the red. And I'm watching to see if red is being
picked up on my brush. So be a little careful. I'm gonna skip that curve for just a minute because I'll
have to turn my paper. Yep. Alright, so I
got to rinse out. It's okay to rinse out make sure that you're drying
your brush off again. And then once that's
dry, we'll go over it one more time
with pure white. Oh, that's so cool. Alright. And I'm going to turn my board so that I
can do a nice curve. All right. Now, I want to
just have a nice curve Yep. Beautiful. Alright. So now we're going to do the same thing
where we're just going to strengthen wherever you
want to strengthen it. So using a nice dry brush, be careful because your
red is going to lift off. It's going to make
it pretty strong. This is where we have
some fun with it. Man, I'm gonna do that
center part right there. Great. While we have
our larger flat out, let's go ahead and do
these larger gumballs down here, and then
we'll come back. I'm gonna do the
medium and large. La start with the yellow 'cause it doesn't
transfer, really. I mean, it could a little
bit, so be watching, but not so much. And we are gonna pile
snow on top of these. Just keep that in mind. This is your chance to kind of
cover your pencil mark. Great. Let's move
on to the blue. And our friend the red. Let's start with the little one. If that little red spot has been bothering you, I'm sorry. I've left it because I'm gonna cover it with snow so
I really don't care. Great. Now, let's switch
to our smaller flat. I'm gonna come back up here now. Now that this is dry, I'm just gonna add a little
extra sheen here. Love it. Anywhere that you
want to emphasize the white? This is
where you do it. That's shine. This is where I kind of blend
my line between the red and the white because
the shine just continues. Good. Okay. Alright, continuing
on with my small flat, 100% paint, dry brush. And if there's anywhere you
want to emphasize here, I'm not worried about
the top, again, on these gumballs because we
are going to add some snow. Great. Okay. Now, let's add our highlight to
our candy sticks. Cute. So putting that right up next to our
indigo makes it look even more contoured. Love it. Okay. We're done with our
highlighting, I think. It's time to line our door. So let's grab our liner brush. I'm going to use 20 ot, which is more of a detail
brush than a liner brush, but I want a little
thicker line. My liner brush goes really thin. And we're gonna put a
little This is trim. This is actually
trim on the door. So I want it to be a
little bit thicker. I'm just thinning my paint down enough to make it workable, so maybe 10% water, 90% paint. And assuming everything is dry, guys, I'm going to go ahead
and outline this lower panel. And the upper panel, as well. I'm doing all my horizontal
lines before I turn my board. Okay. I'm going
to turn my board. And now let's do
more horizontal. Great. All right. And then for the arch, I like to start
in the middle and come down in the
middle and come down. Yeah. I'm gonna overlap
it just to touch. Just to have that
smooth line. Very nice. We have one more arch to do. Awesome. Hey.
18. Gold & Splatter: Okay. I was putting a light
second coat here and there. Now, I don't plan
you know how we did the fancy little
window in the corners. I don't plan to do that here. They're so small,
I'm not going to. Actually, I might hear on these. Okay. Okay, guys, let's
switch to our number four. And again, this is 100% paint. I'm gonna add just
enough water to make it workable 'cause it's kind of
thick and it's snow time. I gonna feel like there's a
song or something for that. Anyway, we're gonna just
add a little pile of snow. Not gonna get too
carried away here. If you want, you can have it, you know, kind of come down. And a little bit maybe here on our candy stick. Our gumbos. Okay. Good. Gonna add a little snow. Look, I'm finally going to
get rid of that red dot. Sorry if that was bothering
anyone. Oh, dear. I've just learned to
not stress out over little things like that.
Can always fix them. So I'm just piling a little snow on some of the steps here. And I'm gonna bring some down. Just kind of re in there. Be here.'s back over here. It shows up nicely.
Anywhere that you have a darker place to
put it up against? That's a great idea. I'm
alright, let's come back here. Okay. You can put as much or as
little snow as you like. We're still going to come
in and do some splattering of snowflakes down here
on this bottom portion, but that's different than
these cute piles of snow. We just had a big storm
rolling overnight. We're expecting 19 " of snow in the mountains tonight. Oh, boy. Here comes winter. Okay, I think I'm gonna
leave it at that. Yeah. Step back six feet and see if you're happy
with where your snow is. If there's anywhere else
that you want to add some. You need to come in and add our door handle before
we can do our inking. Okay. I've picked up my 20 out, and I've activated
my metallic gold. So use whatever
gold that you have. I'm sure it will be fine.
Oh, it's so pretty. You can see that
beautiful shine. If you wanted to, you could put this on the ornament, as well. Great. Okay. Now,
let's come into our cad yellow medium
and put a little shine, a little glow around. It's not going to show up really strongly because we have
this dark background, but it's still going
to make a difference. Just like we put the glow
around our blue lights. Just touch that in. I'm not
touching the actual gold. This can go right
on top of anything around it because it's just
a reflection of light. So I put it right over the snow, Holly, icicles,
everything. Okay. Wonderful. Now, let's switch to. I'm gonna turn my
board upside down. Sorry. Here we go. We're gonna put gold
on our beautiful star. I'm gonna switch
to my liner brush, my number one, while our
metallic is still activated. I'm gonna add just a
little more water to it. Alright, I'm switching
to my number one liner and coming back to
the metallic gold while the paint is
still activated. And let's add some shine
to our beautiful star. Here we go. Oh, yeah. Love it. Can you see how pretty that is? Wow. Yeah. You decide how much you
want to put on there? I'm kind of going for a lot. Mm. I like the gold. Now, I'm not going to add any gold to the shine,
although you could. For me, that's a
little over the top. Got enough going on.
Last thing, guys, we're going to
splatter some white, and then we can start
inking our last stage. Let's let everything dry. Actually, there's one
little thing we have to do before we can splatter, and that's put a
little highlight on our candy sticks so
they don't look flat. Right now, they
look pretty flat. So I'm just going to
use my number four, and I'm going to
just put a little highlight line right down the side. That's all. Just that little line
makes a big difference. Remember, we're going to ink
it, so it's gonna be fine. Alright, I'm picking
up some white. I'm going to thin it down
far enough to splatter. So I can give you a ratio. It's just that everybody's
paint is going to be a different consistency,
depending on how old it is. For me, this is probably
a 70% paint, 30% water. And I don't want to do a ton of splattering because I don't want to diminish what
we've done here. But we do need a little bit
of snow on our candy canes. A tiny bit kind of in
front of the house. Not much. All right. Let's let that dry
completely and rake out our pens. Final stage. Oh.
19. Inking: M I'm going to be
using a ballpoint pen, a Muji, fine tip, and I always have a piece of paper handy because
sometimes you have to help that tip along when you're doing it
on a painted surface. Just a side note. I went I added this one little line attaching
our star to the house. I'm not going to ink
the star at all. So, guys, I want you
to love your piece. I want you to be
really happy with it. So if I don't ink something
that you want to ink, do it. Be happy with it and do
what you feel is best. I am not going to be inking
very much of the snow. To me, it's beautiful by itself, and it
doesn't need my help. So just go where
your pen takes you. This is where you're
going to want to be aware of all your contour lines, all the things that
we've taken care of, should guide you easily,
but always be aware. Oftentimes, I don't stay
right on my painted line, but something like this chimney, I'm going to stay pretty
true to my painted lines. I like to do broken lines instead of a long straight line. It just makes it
more interesting. You know, I don't want
to cover up my white. I'm going to add a
little depth behind them by just putting that
little black line behind it. And then I am going
to do a little circle Cute. Now I'm going I don't
want to lose my white line, but on the vine, I'm just going to do
a line underneath it. Just to give it a little az. Okay, so I'm going to
do these little lights. These are the little caps, and then just around it. And they're not gonna be exact. And we don't want it to be. This is art, and we're art
is not an exact thing. That's what architecture is for. So don't be hard on
yourself and just enjoy the process.
Have fun with it. Relax. Got to figure out which way my
guys are going here. Okay. Now I'm going to
put my little wires on. And I'm just making them wiggly. Oh, I need to do my roof line, too while I'm here,
so let's do that. Alright. How to do
there? That was fun. Right. All right. Yeah. I'm still gonna make the
wire kind of crookey here, even though they're
on a straight line. Straight lines are boring. Okay. All right. All right. Here's where we want to
make sure that we're following the contour
of our rocks. Great. Now, I'm going to add
just a little extra shadow, almost a little triangle. You see the difference there. It's just a tiny
little emphasis. You don't even have to do
it if you don't want to, but I think it makes a little
difference that I like. Yep. Okay, I'm gonna do
it on the inside as well. Good. And I'm not going to
do anything on the windows. If I were to do anything,
it would be like one line, but I feel like it would
darken our windows, and we've got this beautiful
light that we worked on. For now, I'm gonna leave it always come back
to it, I guess. Great. You could
have put snow on top there if you want to. I just didn't feel
like it needed it. Great. I might just put a touch underneath
between the icicles. Okay. And we're onto
our next set of Polly. The inking is so fun
and it goes too fast. Ooh. I'm not doing the center vein. I'm just sticking to that
shadow on the outside edge. Okay. Now I'm going
to do a little berry. Notice I'm not being, like, super careful with the berries. I'm going wide
around them. Great. Okay. Yeah, let's come down
the side of the house. Again, I'm gonna
use a broken line. Okay. That's shadow. We need
to attach our ornaments, and I'm just gonna
do it with my ink. Okay. And then with circles, I always do like
a double circle. I'll do one that's
tied to the line, and then I'll do one that's
kind of away from the line. You know, I'm gonna
do partial on all of them because then
I'm gonna turn my board. Great. Now, this one, I'm gonna stay fairly tight. Okay, and then I'm going
to bring out a second one. It's just a little bit loose. And I'm not gonna
ink the center. Okay, well, let's
just add our little It's just amazing what
that little triangle does. If you're not inking
and you're just painting, you can do
it with your paint. I love painting
bricks and rocks. If you've ever been to Dublin, Ireland and seen that row, I don't know what it's
called, but seen that row of homes that have
beautiful doors, and I took so many
pictures of it. I've wanted to do
a class of doors just based on that beautiful
street in Ireland. Maybe I'll throw a picture of a couple of them
up here so you can see them. Doors are so fun. Okay, I'm going along
the outside edge of the white really carefully, you don't want to lose
your beautiful white trim. I'm going halfway
and then halfway. Okay. Outside edge,
and outside edge. That door's looking good, guys. Now I'm going to go ahead
and along the bottom. Step, step, step. And I think it's okay to kind of go through
the snow there. Good. All right. And
then we might put a little snow here and there
on it to calm it down.
20. Final Inking & Snow Shadows: Okay, let's do our window. Being fairly careful here. And I'm not gonna do the
inside of that window. I'm not going to outline
those berries, either. So, let's move on to the
outside of the house here. Broken line. You could do a full line across your
stripes, if you want. I don't want to disrupt
this beautiful highlight, so I'm not going to. Yeah, I think
that's good enough. Now, I'm gonna come back and add just a second little line
just to make it loose. Yep, I like that. Even though I'm
being loose with it, I'm being careful with it. I'm not going too crazy. And
this is in front of that, so I didn't go on top of
my little candy stick. Yeah, I like that. All right. Again, my first line is
right on my painted edge, and then my second line is out. And I'm not going to
outline the snow. While I'm here, I'm going
to pull down straight edge. Great. Okay. Well, while
we're this way, we might as well do
the others, yeah. Okay. All right. This little cutie, I'm just gonna do, like, these outer little pokey edges. All right. We're going to come
and add a shadow and some snow along the bottom
edge of each of these, so don't be too worried
about how it looks. Great. Okay, guys. Oh, no, got two more little guys here. All right. Step back six feet and see if there's
anything else that you want to add ink to before we do our finishing touches with
snow and indigo blue shading. Alright, guys, I have picked up my number four round and
just a tiny bit of white, and this is 100% paint with just enough water on my
brush to make it pliable. And I just want to soften my steps here now that we
added some of that inking. And then if you want, you could add some like
this it's a little flat. So you could add a little
snow that if you want to. Like I said before,
when you're inking, you know, it's very forgiving. So you could just add a
little here and there. Or even if you didn't
cover the whole thing, you just add a little
like that. Alright. Uh there. Alright, I think, really, that's all the snow I wanted to add. So the last thing I
want to do is add a little bit of a shadow
just to enhance our depth, and that's gonna be
on the snow around our gumblls which we
couldn't do until last. So we are good to go now. This is gonna be a
955 with our indigo. I'm sticking with
my number four. And I'm going to start gonna
start in the back here, just coming out straight
from the stick. When you're doing a
shadow, it should actually touch what you're shading. I was gonna pull that out.
And we'll add a little round. Here. So, they don't have to
be perfect, obviously. But you can see
how that just adds a little dimension to
what we're doing here. And I don't think I'm gonna worry about it back
there too much. I'm just gonna add
a little darkness back there in general,
'cause it's tucked away. Softening that a little bit. I'm gonna add a little Great. And then if it needs
it anywhere else, if you want to deepen
any of the shadow, like, under the tree,
this is your last chance. I think I'm going to add a
little bit around this bush. Just a tad. Like that better? Good. All right. Just taking a last
glance. Oh, you didn't add a shadow
where these sticks are. All right. So we're gonna
start at the base, pull out. Good. That feels pretty
good. Alright, let's step back six feet, take one last look, and if we're ready, we
will sign our name. Well, guys, I think we
finished our piece. If I were to do
anything more to it, it would maybe be to add some emphasis along
the sidewalk, but I think it would detract from the beautiful
snow that we have. And that's why I didn't
do any of the snow. But it's up to you if you
would like to do that. Now, one side note, I did deepen my shadow right here along between the
house and the tree. I just put a little bit
of the indigo right there just to make the tree
stend out a little bit more. But that's all I've done
since I worked with you. So I think we're good to go. Thank you so much for
taking this class with me and working with me
on this. I had a blast. I hope it was fun for
you and that perhaps you sharpened your skills or learned something
new along the way. I think it's time for us
to claim our artwork. Always claim your work. You have a special talent,
a wonderful skill, and I hope that you're proud of your work and that you will
sign your name and claim it. I'm very proud of you, and let's go ahead and sign
our name together, guys. Awesome. All right.
I will see you in the next video where
we will wrap up.
21. Congratulations & Bloopers: Well, congratulations,
friends. You did it. I'm so proud of you, and I'm so happy that you completed
your holiday house. I hope that it was fun and interesting and that
you learn something new or you sharpen some
skills that you already had and that you
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this class beneficial and fun and you know someone else
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sending that link to them, and both you and your friend will benefit financially
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just go to the top of this page to the search
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Absolutely enjoy seeing what you've
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this class with me. And until next time I guess
it's time for bloopers. Wait. Me, have bloopers? No. Happy holidays, everyone. Take care. New class, and maybe that would be of
interest to you, as well. I'd love to I'm sure
full of love today. I'd love. I'd love. I'd love. I got love. Nothing but love. And if you would
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Where are you going? Snow in our mountains tonight. It's gonna be that time of year. Let's start over.
Oh. Let it snow let. It's now, et. It's now. F
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