Make Your Own Watercolor Collage Terrarium

1. Make Your Own Watercolor Collage Terrarium: I'm Jessica from brown paper money. And today I'm going to show you how to make these cute watercolor collage term barium. 2. Supplies: Here are the supplies that you're going to need. You'll want some watercolor paper. And I'm just using a fairly inexpensive Canson XL watercolor paper. It's 140 pounds and it says it's cold pressed, but honestly, I feel like it's in-between hot and cold press. And what that means is that cold press is very rough and hot hot press is very smooth. And I feel like this is actually in-between. It's got a little bit of texture to it, but it's still fairly smooth, which I like. And I'm using some Daniel Smith watercolor paints. I've got my Pigeon Letters, studio round brush in size number ten. And I've also got a pinch pot water vessel with a nice little brush holder that Peggy made as well. You'll need some scissors and you might want a pencil, it's up to you. And then you'll need some glue of some sort. I'm probably just going to use a glue stick. Let's get started. What we're going to do first is just paint areas of color on our paper. And then once it's dry, we're going to cut out the shapes that we want to use. So you don't need to be too precise. In this stage. It's just about filling the page with different colors effectively. 3. Paint Your Collage Papers: And what we're going to do first is just paint areas of color on our paper. And then once it's dry, we're going to cut out the shapes that we want to use. So you don't need to be too precise. In this stage. It's just about filling the page with different colors effectively. Okay? Now we're just going to let this dry before we move on to the next step. 4. Sketch Your Terrarium: My watercolor is drying. I'm going to sketch out the basic shape of my temporary them onto a separate piece of card. You could also just use another spare piece of watercolor paper. And I'm going to do it fairly loose because I'll erase these pencil lines at the end. I'm going to stop with a round base. So drawing an oval at the base. And then sort of a geometric shape for the top half of mine. Maybe a line out here, maybe a shorter line on this side. And I want it all to be going up into a point at the top. Okay? So it's kind of a wonky geometric shape, which is what I'm going for. Now this will give us a rough idea of the space we're working in. So that when we start cutting out our shapes to collage them on, we'll sort of know how many pieces we made. 5. Cut Out Your Plants: Hey, now my paper is completely dry. We can go ahead and start cutting out our shapes that we're going to want for the plants, for our terrorism. While this one was drawing, I also painted just a few grays and browns and neutrals so that I had something to use, a soil and maybe some filtering rocks at the bottom. Let's start cutting out some of these first. And I'm not going to draw the shapes ahead of time. I'm just going to stop cutting them. And they can be pretty organic and it can be all different sizes and that's fine. Okay, So I've cut out a little gray pieces for some stones and I also cut out some of the brown pieces just to act as dirt in the bottom of my tour area. And you can see I've cut them so they fit together, but not 100% precisely. And I'm not going to stick anything down yet. I'm just going to cut all the pieces out. And that way I can play around with them until I get a layout that I'm really happy with. So I'll probably have some of these Stearns over the top. Mix up some of the colors a little bit weaker. Okay, that's enough stones. And now I'm going to start by cutting out some of the plants from these colors. And for the plants I might actually draw some leaf shapes just so I have a rough guide to cut from. E.g. I think I'm going to use this pretty bluish gray color to be a little succulent. I'm going to stop by just drawing some kind of rough here. Dre tier can talk to tear shaped petals or leaves. I'm going to show what you call them on a succulent. And then I'll, um, cut all of these out and assemble them together. Let's cut those out. K, cut out all of those little pieces. And so I'm thinking the succulent will probably be somewhere down the front here because it's smaller and lower to the ground. I'm just going to a rough layout of what that might look like. The little petals in the middle. It's a bit hard to stop them from all moving when they're not glued down yet. But hopefully you get the general idea. So it'll be a little succulent pair. And then I'm going to create some taller flowers and leaves to give it a little bit of height and dimension. And there'll be behind the succulent at the back here. So let's grab our paper again and draw some shapes. So my use this green here. I'm just going to draw some longer leaves. Couple of different heights and sort of leaning couple of different directions. One more in the middle. Okay, and then we'll cut these ones out. I'm going to switch to some smallest scissors, which might just be easier for some of these curves and Mike fine details. Okay, So curl our toll leads and you'll just have to use your imagination, but there'll be poking down sort of behind the succulent. They don't want to stay put until they're glued. Even though I've got the frame of the term barium here, I kept thought it'd be fun to have some of the plants extending out over those lines. So next we need something in the middle here. Let's have a look. I think I want a little bit more greenery at the back and then I might put a flower or something in front of it. So let's do something a little bit larger for the back first. And I think I'll use a combination of these grains through here. How big do we want it? Hey, that size. Trust him a little bit thicker or else it'll be very hard to cut out. I'm just going to draw some leaves coming straight off of here. Now we'll cut this little hair. Okay, here's my little leaf. And I'm actually going to add a few details with just with pencil. I'm going to put some little lines. And this is totally optional. You don't have to do this. You might even want to erase some of the pencil sketches that you made, but I'm just going to leave them. I kinda like it. This one's going to go somewhere at the back there. Okay. Now I feel like I've got a lot of leaves, so we need some sort of other contrasting colors and shapes. Mike is this purple here to do. I don't know if this is actually a real plant, but something kind of wiggly. You'll see what I mean. They might go in here somewhere. Then I want some sort of flour or something at the front here, I think. Okay, so our flower will go somewhere in here. Just roughly lay it out so we can see the colors are all being taught for the center. I still feel like it needs something else, maybe on these sides or something at the back. Let's say my two summer larger lanes. So I might draw some lines and maybe also some little dots down here. I still feel like it needs something in the background. Might just do some larger shapes. I've got this lighter purple here. Just some kind of blocks of color. Slide that in. Yeah, that's better. I like that. Give him just a little bit of depth. Try one on the other side as well. Okay. And these little guys, I really like the height of them and the shape, but they're looking a little bit flat. So I'm actually just going to go along with the tips of my scissors and cut some lines in. And I'll show you what I mean. Now what it's going to be easier if I drew a line on the back so I don't go all the way across because I don't want to cut through all the way. Now if you just bend those slightly, see, you've got this nice sort of fan. Look. Just gives it a little bit more texture than the flat one. 6. Glue Everything Down: Okay, The second to last step is to actually stick everything down onto your card or watercolor paper. And because we use watercolor paper for all of our pieces, it's fairly thick, so you could use a liquid glue. I'm just going to use a permanent glue stick. And I'm going to start with the items at the back and layer two, the items at the front. Let's do it. Sometimes it's easier if you just have a scrap piece of paper and that way you can just apply the glue liberally without worrying about getting everywhere. Decided to use an extra little circle pace to put my succulent together because I'm having trouble keeping their the petals in the right spots. So this way I can glue them onto here and then glue the whole thing on exactly where I want it. So hopefully that'll make things. Little bit easier for me. Okay. So now I've got my little succulent and I can turn it over, put glue on the back, and then put it exactly where I wanted. Actually, I might put it on lost because I want to put some of these little stones across the bottom here and it'd be nice to have the succulent overlapping. I think. You know what? I feel like I need one more little leaf or something in here. Maybe this darker green. Now it's time to put the little succulent on. Yeah, I think I want him about there sticking down really well. Okay. So now we've pretty much got our Cerium and the only thing left to do is actually draw these outlines back in. But in black ink this time, to really contrasts. 7. Outline Your Terrarium: I want quite a nice thick line. So I'm going to use the Tombow Mono Twin pen and I'll show you how thick that is. So this is the bullet tip side because it also has a ballpoint on the other side. That's a really nice strong line. And that's what the ballpoint looks like on the other side. So I'm just going to freehand. However, these pencil lines that I drew. And I'm going to go across the top of some of these leaves, but others I might leave poking out. And they got a little terrorism. And you could frame this and hang it on the wall. It will make it cute gift for somebody, a plant lover paths. But thanks for watching and please subscribe to my channel and stay tuned for the next tutorial.