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1. Introduction: Beginner Watercolor Textures & Techniques: Hi everyone, So great
to have you for beginner watercolor
techniques and textures. In this class, I'm gonna
be showing you how to use a variety of different
items from your kitchen, from your art supply
store to make your watercolors extra special. I'm Tammy king, a mixed media and digital artists
out of San Antonio. I love color and I use a lot
of color in my projects. In this course,
you're going to learn at least ten
techniques for making your watercolors
beautiful and magical. To create beautiful
and magical textures, you're gonna be using some non typical items in this class, like plastic wrap and salt. All of these items
are easily available. Say here's your house or
your art supply store. And I'll go over
all those items in one of the lessons
called supplies. These bottles are going to be
something that you create. You get to decide, is
it a potion bottle? Is it a perfume bottle? Is it a health bottle? Maybe it's even superpowers. You get to decide all
of that for yourself. I'm just going to show you multiple different techniques on how you can create your bottles and give them that extra special to make them
magical and Different. Your class project
is going to be to take the different things
that you've learned in this class and use
at least three of them to create your
own personal bottle. You get to decide
what type of bottle, what shape, what different
colors you want to use. But once you're done creating
your own personal bottle, I do want you to share it with the class that we could
see how you've used the different things
that you've learned in the class and added your own special
personality to that. Your next lesson, I'm going
to tell you a little bit about your class project.
I'll see you there.
2. Class Project: For your class project, I want you to create
your own special bottle. You can decide if you want to go rectangle, square, round, or whatever natural or unnatural
shape you wanna go with. Maybe you want to go
organic and maybe you wanted to go with one of
the traditional shapes. It's all up to you. You're going to choose
your own colors. You're going to decide
what type of bottle it is. Maybe it's a superpower bottle, maybe it's a health bottle, or it can just be
a perfume bottle. That's all up to you. I want you to use
at least three of the different items that you're going to learn in this class. Maybe you're gonna go
assault or plastic wrap. Maybe you're just going to
go wet on wet or wet on dry. That's all up to you, but do use at least three
different things you're going to learn in this class
to create your bottle. Once you're done
creating your bottle, you're going to upload it to the class so we can all see it. I'll show you how to
upload the bottle once you're done in a future lesson, you're next lesson
is going to be about the supplies you'll be using in this course. So
obviously you there.
3. Supplies: Let's talk art supplies. I love art supplies and I have a nice variety of
different things. I'll say right now, you don't need everything here. Just get what you have
at home and then add to your collection as you learn
the different techniques. So let's come down
here and I'll show you all the different
things that I'll be using throughout the course. First off, I'm gonna be
using some watercolor paper. Arches. It's a very nice brand, is fairly expensive, but there are other brands
that you can get. So I'll show you what are the main things that you'll
want to be looking for? If you're getting
watercolor paper, you'll want to get
this 100% cotton. And it needs to be 300
a G M, 140 pound paper. So that's really important
and that type of paper is going to
take a lot of water. And when you're making
watercolor bottles, you're gonna be using
a lot of water. Another brand that I use is
called Stonehenge right here. Stonehenge, Aqua cold press, and you can use cold
pressed or hot pressed. The difference is, is cold
press has a lot more texture. It's really important
that you come to this class with either
a Payne's gray, a Davies gray, or a black, or just a general gray color. So you can make
your glass bottles with one of these colors. You can mix up a very light gray and you'll be able
to go around your bottle, giving it that look of
having a glass thickness. So do make sure that you
have at least one of these colors to mix
up your grays width. Next up, you'll need
some watercolor brushes. Here's where you that I have. I think these are really good. They're round, they've got
really good points on them. There's a variety
of different sizes. You don't need a
very expensive brand of watercolor brushes if
you're just starting out, that's something you
don't want to get as you do more watercolor just to
upgrade as you go along. I'll make a list here for you and it will be in
the resources area. You'll also want to
make sure that you have some paper towels when you're
working with watercolor. And I actually go through and I cut mine up so they're
in little pieces. You also want to
have just some of the basic art supplies. A sharpener, a pencil, and your eraser, as
well as some tape. When it comes to paints, you don't need anything
very expensive. I have this Prima marketing
classics collection. So really great collection
for making bottles because it comes with both a gray and
black for making glass. You can also decide
that you want to go with watercolors
that come in tubes. And they look like this. And then you're
just going to fill up with those colors
into some pans. Or you can use the watercolors
directly out of the tubes. But those are your choices. You'll need a glass where
you can put water in it. It can just be a regular table glass that you're going to be able to add water to your
watercolors and mix things up. You'll also want to get some
pens that are waterproof. You can get just one, like a big block one. This is a fabric Estelle Pitt Artist Pen, and it's waterproof. And then I've also
got a micron 05. I've also got a variety
of Zig writers, but this is really
just an extra item. If you happen to
have them on hand, you can collect them
as you have time if you want to go beyond
in watercolors. Another item I encourage you to get is either a drawing gum or it's also known as liquid
brisket or a masking fluid. And then it comes
in different forms. This is just a little pen. And then this is a liquid. Encourage you not to
use your brushes with these because you can destroy
your watercolor brushes. And as you get better
watercolor brushes, you want to make them
last a long time. So I've actually got what
is called a color shaper. And it's just a plastic
piece here that you dip in. And they come in a
few different sizes. Along with that, you
can also get a item to take off the drawing gum
once it's nice and dry. And that item is
used for preserving sections of your paper so that the paint does
not go through. So it's like a
resistance mechanism. You'll also want to have at
least one of these items. This is a white gouache. You can also use
a unit boss sick, no opaque white pen, or a Posca marker. All of these work
great for creating highlights and using it in different ways to create excellent different
textures in your artwork. You'll also want to
have a mixing palette. I've just got a
piece of ceramic. You can use a plate. And you're just
going to use this to put your pants on and
mix them with water. The next two items that you'll need are from your kitchen. His needs some basic table salt. You can also use
some larger grains of salt if you happen
to have them on hand. And I'll show you
how that turns out and what types of textures
you can get out of that. You also need some
just basic Saran wrap for plastic wrap just
from your kitchen. And I'm going to show you a
very cool technique using that last stuff in
your bonus lesson, I'm gonna be showing you how to use some watercolor paints. This is a metallic section, but there's a variety of different metallic paints
and glitter paints. This is a collection I have
and it's not too expensive. But you can also buy little different glitters and gold through ETC,
and other places. But it's just fun to collect some different watercolors
from small businesses. I've also got a couple
gold metallic pens that I'm going to
show you how to use. All of these are just fun
little extras that you can add. I'm a little glitter pieces
and accents to your bottles. Those are the basic supplies
you'll need for this course. You don't have to have them all, but I will show you all
the different techniques and you can decide
if you want to invest in the different items
to create these techniques. Some of them will
be very simple. You already have the
items at home like salt and plastic
wrap and others. You'll want to take the time and decide if you want
to invest in them. But you will need
some basic brushes and your watercolors
to get started. In your next lesson, I'm
going to show you how to create glass with
that Payne's gray, that Davies gray or that black. I'm going to show
you how to mix those up to get the perfect gray. So your glass looks like glass. So I'll see you there.
4. Painting Glass Outlines: It's so great to have
you here learning about making your
own potion bottles. In this step, you're going
to find out how to make that glass look where glass has that little
glistening on the side. But when you're working
with watercolor paper, you're working on
a white surface. So in this step, you're going
to be using a very light gray or watering down a
black till it's very, very light in gray. So I'm going to
show you how to mix that paint up and then apply it to the watercolor paper so that you get
that glass. Look. Let's get started. I'll show you how to do that. I've created, use some
different bottles and shapes. Just see you can have an idea of what type of
bottle you can make. You can choose your
own bottle style. These are just some options
for you to get some ideas. So I've got this
like healing potion, but you can use this
bottle if you'd like, and do say an invisibility
potion or a quickness potion. I've done a little
invisibility potion over here, and I've just written
that up there, but you can use
anything that you like. I've also created some
little bottles that remind me of perfume bottles
that I have at home. Then I've created this
little bottle here. That's a time potion. You can transfer these to your watercolor
paper if you like, hand draw them or
just sketch them out. All of these things are
fairly simple shapes. There's like a triangle up here. You've got just these
little curvatures here, but nothing too hard to draw. So first off, let's discuss a little bit about the colors. I've got a Davies gray
here by Winsor and Newton, as well as a Payne's gray. And then I've got a gray
here and a black here from the classics by
Prima Marketing, inc. And this company is
fairly inexpensive where the Winsor Newton
is definitely more expensive because it's a
professional grade watercolor. So first off, I've got a
little bit of the Payne's gray here and the
Davies gray over here. And to make glass, you want to get a
very light gray. So I'm going to bring you
down here just a little bit, and we're going to add quite a bit of water
to the palette. You're going to
need more water for the Payne's gray or the black, then you will for the gray. So let's start off with a
little bit of the Davies gray. And I'm just putting
it right in here. You can almost hardly see it. Then I'm going to do
a little test strip. When you're making this glass. You'll want to test, test, test. You want to make sure that
your grade isn't too dark. And you'll also want to make
sure that you let it dry and test at that level. Because you want
to know what it's gonna look like when it's dry, when it's wet, it's going to
look a little bit lighter. Typically. Said, Let's add in a little bit of this Payne's gray to
the water over here. And you can see it just a
tiny little bit and it's darker than the Davies gray. And the Davies gray is a little
more like a French gray. And this is definitely more
on the darker side here. So let's give it a test. I come in here. It can sometimes be
hard to see it on camera because it is so light. But I'm going to give that a whirl and make sure
that I like my color. So you're going to use
either of those colors, whatever works for you. If you're using
the black, you're gonna do the same thing. You're going to bring
it over to the water. And you're gonna
get different tones based on the different brands. But the whole concept is to
water it down and give it enough water that
you're just getting a slight little strip where you're getting
color on the white. But it's not like a deep
black or any other color. Years wanting it
to be very light. And you're going to create
your own little test strip until you get your color
to where you want. After you've done that and
you have your paint ready. We're going to move
on to actually making your exterior bottle. Okay, so I got a little piece
of watercolor paper here. And I've got my mixes
of my grays over here. And I'm really
liking the gray that I mixed up right over here. I'm going to be
taking that and I want you to get your paints
out and do the same. I've marked a little bit of
lines on here just to give me an idea of where
my center is and where I want to bring
my bottle up to. You're going to make
whatever bottle you like. Right now. We're just testing out. I'm going to take this
and we're going to be painting by the
seat of our pants. No real sketching here. I'm using that gray and
I'm just coming around. And I want my
bottle to be round. So we're getting this
little outline over here. You are not gonna
be able to see it very easily on the cameras. Let's come down
just closer here. You can see where I'm working. I'm coming in and
I'm just making a little green line
on the outside here. Then I'm gonna do the
same on the other side, keeping it as
symmetrical as I can, and keeping my
lines fairly thin. You don't want everything
to be exactly the same. You just want to give
it an organic look. I'm coming in here and I'm going to make sure
they don't come too close to the center because
I want my bottle to go up. So we're just making
little lines going up, creating that little opening. And then I'm going to create
a little oval up here. And there you have your
basic outline of your glass. Now that you've learned how
to make your glass bottle, the exterior of it. We're going to be moving on
to the wet on wet technique. And that's where you're using
water, your watercolors, and dropping either other
water into it or colors and having it all blend together
because water gets water. So you're gonna be putting watered down and everything
is just going to combine together and create
a really cool effect. So let's get started on doing
the wet on wet technique.
5. Wet On Wet: In this lesson we're going to do the wet on wet technique. And that's where you're going
to put down some water and some color and everything
is going to blend together. This is one of my favorite
techniques because you get so many different combinations and you don't know exactly
what you're gonna get. But it's watercolor and
it's going to be beautiful. So let me show you how to
do this simple technique. Okay, so you're gonna get
out your watercolor paints and we're going
to do some tests. So wet on wet
technique is when you put down a layer of water, it can be colored water with some paint or just
water, plain water. Wherever you put the water, your paint is going to move around in that
section and blend. If you have more than one color, the colors will blend together. So I want you to do this little process with me
where you're going to put down a layer of
water in this case, and you're going to then drop in some
different color paints. Then I'm coming back into the water and I'm
cleaning my brush. And you're gonna be able
to do some exploration, not going to come in
and I'm inducement other combinations before I get into actually creating my
first watercolor bottle, I want to do some tests. I want to see what colors
work well together. This is just a fun
exploration exercise that you can do to learn
about your colors, how they blend together. And you just trial and error, see what you like. You can write down what colors
you're using if you like. And that way you'll have a reference to come
back to later on. So just to explore
your own palettes, see what you get
and what you like, and then decide how to use
that in your class project. You don't have to go wet on
wet for your class project. But I think it's one of the most beautiful ways
to create your bottle. So now we're going to take
practice into reality. So I'm going to be putting down a layer of water
here on my bottle. Being careful, just
come up to the edge. Now I'm going to drop
in that cobalt blue. I want to keep that more
down to the bottom. And I want my bottom to be a little bit darker
than the top area. So I'm just going
around the edge. I'm going to add in
that opera pink. And as we should
be low or before, the opera pink and
the blue are going to make a really pretty
light purple color, depending on how much
of each color you have, you'll get a bit different
color or purple. I'm really liking that. And then I'm going to put it
in just a few other areas. We're getting a variety
of tones and then I'm dabbing them out
a little bit too, just so they can spread. Depending on your paints, you'll have a different
amount of spread. And sometimes you have to
help it along by giving it a little bit more
color, more water. Just play around, see what
works for your paints. Now that the bottle
is fully dry, you can see how beautiful it is. You can see how all the
different colors blended and just two colors
made multiple colors. You get the pink and the
purple is the blues. And then all those tones
and shades in between. You can also see how I
left those white spots. A little bit of color,
got in there and just gave it a shade. But you can see that it makes it look like it's almost class. I really loved the
wet on wet technique and I enjoyed showing it to you. In our next lesson,
we're going to be exploring the wet
on dry technique. And that's where we're
going to be having a full layer of dry watercolor. And then we're going
to be adding in some wet paint on top
and then blending out. I'm going to show
you how to do that. So join me in the next lesson.
6. Wet On Dry: In this lesson, we're gonna
do the wet on dry technique, where you're going to put
down a layer of paint, let it dry, and then we're
going to put in more color. We're gonna do the wet paint
on top of the dry paint. And then we're going
to do some blending and make them all look nice. So half my potion bottle here, and I've done two sections of
green and they're all dry. So I'm going to come in here
with some more watercolor. And this time I'm mixing up the same green but
a little darker. You can use the same color
or different colors. And I'm just coming in and
putting down a layer here, trying to be as
precise as I can. I'm just doing this layer of green on top
of the dry layer. Then I'm going to wash out my brush and dry it
off just a little bit. I'm gonna come in here with
that water, that clean water. And I'm just going to
blend out the edge. So now you can see we've
got this darker green right on top of
that lighter one. And I'm going to come
in and I'm going to do the same thing on
the other side. Then you can wet your
brush, dab it out, and then go from the center
blending everything together. Because this is a round bottle. You want that center
part to be a little bit lighter than the outsides. Now let's try a different
color up at the top. Say we want to add in some
yellow to that green. I'm going to add in some
yellow right up here. We're going to glaze that and blending it out. So be a good time to also
add in another color. I'm known for loving color
and adding in loads. So I'm just bringing that blue. Now, this is dry. You can see how the
green is darker here on the edges but
blended into the center. And the same for the yellow. It's really pretty, I think this yellow makes it
look more mystical. And the lower area looks
more like a traditional. I'm really loving both of those. And I'm excited to
show you how to make more bottles and give
them different looks. In the next section,
I'm going to show you what I call good neighbors. That's where you
have colors that are right next to each other. But they're not going to blend because we're gonna
be doing them in the right order and bringing the colors right
up next to each other. So let's get over there
and I'll show you in the next lesson how to do
the good neighbor technique.
7. Good Neighbor Technique: In this lesson, I'm
going to show you what I call my good
neighbour technique. And that's where you're getting multiple colors right
next to each other, but they're not blending. They're staying separate,
like their oil and water. So I have my potion bottle here, and I've mixed up a
few different colors. I've got a red and orange
and use some yellow. And to do the good
neighbor technique, you're going to start with
your first color and you're going to go right
onto the paper. And you're going to create whatever shape you
want in your bottle. You're gonna do this layer. You can do this save like as a wet and wet
technique or you can just do straight one color. And for this little exercise, I'm just going to keep it here
with this straight on red. For this good neighbor
technique to work, you got to have
your patient pants. That means you need to put down your color and you're going to let that section dry before you touch
anything near it. You want it to be
completely dry. You can go in with your
second color further on top, but do not touch
your bottom layer. Say I'm going to
come up here with some yellow and I'm gonna give it a little squiggle line. Maybe I want to give them
down just a little bit. But I'm leaving
this center section completely dry with
nothing there. And that's where
we're going to put my orange or whatever color you decide you want to go with. Okay, so we've got our
layer of yellow and red and now we put on our patient pants and
we let everything dry. Now that both the yellow and
the red are completely dry, we can come in with
our orange and we can have our good neighbors where
they're not mixing there, just nice and right next to each other, minding the boundary. That's our little fence line. We're just coming really
close and that's where a sharp brush comes in handy. Then I'm just coming up and I'm going to come
up to the yellow. I'm gonna do the same thing, going really close,
but not over the line. Adding some water and
moving that around. I'm seeing where I've got
just a tiny little section that's still white and careful that come
right up to the edge. If you'd like. You can use that wet
on wet technique and drop in other colors. You want to add in
some yellow in there. Sort of play with your potion bottle and
add some more color. I add in a little
bit of red if you want there to be a little
shadow between the colors. But there you have it. The
Good Neighbor technique, keeping everyone
within their own yard. So let's let this
dry and I'll show you how beautiful it is. Udl is all dry it and I
just love this technique. You can also use it
for doing mountains or lots of other cool
different watercolor projects. But good neighbors
comes in handy for watercolor bottles as
well as some much more. So I hope this
technique takes you far in your watercolor journey. It was great showing you how to do that Good
Neighbor technique. And in our next
lesson we're gonna be moving on to using salt, just your regular table salt. It can also be that
chunky like pink salt. I'm gonna be using a variety of different salts to show
you the different, different ways the texture
turns out with different salt. So your big chunks
are gonna give you one texture where you're fine. Like table salt is going to give you something
very different, but both are very cool. So let's move on to learning
about salt and watercolor.
8. Salt Textures: I'm so excited to show you how to use assault with
your watercolors. It creates a phenomenal effect. And it's just perfect for watercolor bottles
or potion bottles. I think you're gonna
really like this. I'm actually gonna
be using salt from different places
around the world, including your regular table
salt, you can use that. I'm also using a pink salt
that I got from Costco as well as some salt that's
from, let's see here. The Philippines sea salt. So this is really cool. It says it's mild,
mineral rich, natural. Cecil, I've got some different
salts that I've collected over the years and
we're going to use them in this project. But you can use your
regular table salt or whatever you have on
hand to trial this. And if you like it a lot, you can branch out into
other versions of salt. So I have my art bottle here, my love potion
number nine bottle. And I'm going to come in with some water and
I'm gonna put down a red salt works best I believe on the deeper colors
can do them on light, but the red is going to give us a nice deep tone and you're going to see
the effect easier. So I'm coming down
and I'm giving all of this a nice
variety of tones. I want to be darker here at
the base and on the edges, giving a variety of
different textures. I'm going to blend
all those out. Leaving some of that whitespace. This is like a pinky
red. It's really cool. It's perfect for a love potion. So let's get into the salt. I've got the Philippines
salt right here. It's a medium grind. I'd say it's not that
big chunky salt. So I'm just going to drop
that around in here. This is another patient
pants type thing. You've got to let this
all dry really good. So maybe even overnight. So I'm just putting down this big chunky salt
now over in here. This is the stuff
I got from Costco. Think it's like a
Himalayan pink salt. I'm letting that go in there and then I'm gonna
do some regular like table salt around in the center section here,
sprinkling it around. Now let's let this
dry really good. Once it's dry, then we can take the salt off and you'll get to see that very cool texture
that this is going to create. The potion bottle is fully dry
and now we get to take off the salt and see the
really cool textures that it has created underneath. So I'm going to just use
a trash can and take all this off and then you
can see how it looks. So as you take off, make sure that
you're careful not to get it anywhere else
outside the bottle. I'm just being
careful going around, letting it come off naturally. This is crazy. This has
created a really cool texture. Let me bring it down closer. You can see how around here
that regular table salt created these interesting
little indentions. Over here. The more, a little bit
more coarse salt from the Philippines didn't do as much damage to
creating a texture. And then over here
you can see where that larger Himalayan
salt created almost like some darker
spots around the white. All of these are
really cool textures. D is in a potion bottle and
it sort of gives you that. I'm a see-through type
color depending on how dark you go in certain sections and what
type of salt you use. In our next lesson,
I'm going to show you another kitchen staple
that's your plastic wrap. It's going to
create a very cool, almost like wave-like texture, depending on how
you crinkle it up. So join me in the
next lesson and I'll show you how to use
plastic wrap and watercolor to create
another cool texture that you can use in multiple different types of
landscapes or your bottles. So let's get over there to
learn about plastic wrap.
9. Plastic Wrap Textures: In this lesson, I'm
going to show you how to use plastic wrap, your irregular kitchen
plastic wrap in with your watercolor to create
very cool textures including waves and just different like crinkles and that type
thing that are gonna make your watercolor bottle
look like water. This is a very fun technique. I like using it with
multiple different colors. And blue just makes really
cool type ocean fields. So let's get started
with this plastic wrap. So we're gonna be doing
the plastic wrap method. And I'm going to put
down some blues and greens right here
on this bottle. And I'm going to
go in fairly dark. And I'm just going to create
multiple different tones. Going to use loads of blues. Remember, pick whatever
colors you want to trial. And you can do this
multiple different times to find out how
it works for you. I'm just using a regular
plastic wrap from Costco. They're pretty
much all the same. Long as you don't get
that wrap that has the plastic adhesive on it. So this is just your
regular plastic wrap. I'll speed this up for you. Now I'm going to take
my plastic wrap, being careful not to
get the paint all over. So I'm gonna go slowly
and then I'm going to just tighten with it. And each of these little
sections is going to create a cool
technique or texture. And then I want to push it
down just a little bit, making sure I'm not going
outside of any of the lines. Mostly pulling in. Okay. So that's going to create
a very cool texture. I can already see
these little areas that are going to turn
more white or lighter. Not exactly white, white, but more of that lighter blue because the plastic
wrap is going to take up a bit of the color
in different sections. So let this dry and make
sure it's extremely dry before you take anything up. Okay, I'm so excited
to be able to take this off and show you how cool this plastic wrap
has turned our bottle. So I've checked and made sure by just pulling up a little bit
and you can do that too. Just make sure your
stuff is ready. Once it is, then you
can do the unveiling, just going really slow. Pull up your paper and there you see you have
this really cool like different shapes from where your paper was,
your plastic wraps. So you can see where
it's lighter here, you've got your darker colors. And that's just
an overall almost like fractured look
for your bottle. So I'm loving this technique. In the next lesson, you're
going to use a paper towel to create a really cool,
interesting texture. I really love using
paper towels to create little white spots, and I'm going to show you how to use it in the next lesson. So let's get over
there and get started.
10. Paper Towel Textures: In this lesson,
we're going to use a paper towel in a
really cool way. You're going to put
down some paint, use your paper towel
in different ways to mop up that little
paint in water. And you're going to get
a very cool texture that you're gonna be able to use in multiple different projects. So let's get started on
using your paper towels. In this section. I'm just going to put down a
nice thick layer of color. And we're gonna be
using that paper towel, Some coming in here. And I'm going to do some wet on wet mixing up some
different colors. Soft speed this up here. Will I get the paint
down on the paper? And remember, you should
be doing the same as I am. You don't have to
use the bottle, but just use a piece of paper to test all these
different ideas out. For this, you want to
make sure your paint is still nice and wet when you
go in with the paper towel. Keep everything nice and juicy. Yeah. Okay. Now for the magic, we're gonna be using
the paper towel and we're going to try it
in a few different ways. It's the first one
is to scrunch it up and then just start touching. You're gonna get a
texture by doing that. The second idea is just taking a little piece of paper
towel and going straight down and then touching it in different areas and
then pulling it up. And you're gonna get a whole
different type texture that is taking up
quite a bit more. And then you can just trial
and error where you want to just do little
tiny dots like that. And you're gonna get a
whole different texture. You can do bigger
spots, little spots. You trial and error as you
want on your own bottle. So now that this watercolor
is already in its dry, you'll see how the little dots I created with the paper
towel really come out. You can also see how
I've got a texture here from just putting down
the paper towel directly. And depending on
your paper towel, you're gonna get a
different texture. You can see how the different
colors just came out and blended altogether because they used that what
on what technique? And I think this
really cool for a say, a potion bottle of perfume
bottle or anything like that. You can also use it in other
varieties of watercolor art. So I hope this particular idea, it gives you different
ideas on what to use it for and how to use it in your
art differently than I am. That was fun showing you
how to use a paper towel to create texture in
many different ways. In our next lesson, we're going to be moving on
to using waterproof pens. They come in black and
many other colors, and I'll show you how to use those with your
watercolor paints.
11. Waterproof Pens: This next section, I'm
gonna be showing you how to use pens with
your watercolors. If you're doing watercolor
on top of your pens, you are going to need
a waterproof pen. These pens come in black as well as multiple
different colors. Now let's test some pens out. If you're not sure
about your pens, you can do a little test. I've put down the different
pens I have here. I've got this Tombow. I've got a Posca pen. I've got the zig writers, the Pitt Artist
Pen, that micron. And we're going to try
each of those to make sure that they're waterproof and
some of them are not here. So I wanted you to see how
they're going to react. So here's the Pigma. You play some water on there and you're saying no movement. You're going to do the same
thing for your next pen. And then I'm going to do the zig writer and
there's no movement. So let's move on
to the Posca pen. You can see right now that
this is not waterproof. See that just bleed all over. You're not going to use that
underneath any watercolors. The same here with this Tombow. These can work for watercolors if used
in a different way, but if you're just wanting to go underneath and make lines, it's gonna go all over. Now let's try out some different pens here
on this time bottle. I'm going to show you
can make your lines. You're just going to come down and outline the bottle inside. I'll speed this up for you. I'm going to be adding in
some watercolor right on top. You'll want to give a
bit of time in-between doing your pen and putting
the watercolor down. Just to give it a
bit of time to dry. Each pen's a little different, so you'll want to test that out. Depending on your
different colors, you can create
different themes and feels. This particular bottle. I'm going with something that's
really like more grunge. Maybe time travel
is interesting. Maybe it's unsafe. You can give a different
field to your story about this bottle based on the
colors and tones you use. The watercolors are dry. Let's come back in with
some pens and trial this fun type of watercolor
enhancement with pens. I'm just going to do
some different lines. And I'm giving this
bottle some fun. Explore what you have. At home. I'm sure you have some
waterproof pens around. If you've got any art supply is. But always test to make sure. I'm just having fun with a
little bit of decoration. That's what watercolors
are there for me, there are a lot of fun. You're next lesson,
we're gonna be moving on to using white gouache. And I'm going to
show you how to use this in a couple
of different ways. One way is we're going to make white accents and speculators. And the other way is
we're actually going to put it into water, have it disperse, giving you
a very different texture. So this is a really cool
product that you can use in your watercolors to create
multiple different effects. So let's get over to the next lesson and
I'll see you there.
12. Gouache Multiple Ways: In this lesson, I'm
going to show you this white gouache and how to use it in multiple
different ways. First off, I'm going
to show you how to use it on a dry piece of art. And you're gonna be able to make speculators and nice
white crisp lines, and then even be able
to blend out it into different tones so
you'll be able to get it more opaque or more transparent. Next up, I'm going to
show you how to use it in a wet process where
you've already got your water and your paint down and then you're
going to add this. And it's going to create
this nice white color on top that just
sort of blends in. So let me show you
those in this lesson. I have some white gouache
here in this little pan. And it's the same thing as in this Winsor and Newton gouache. I've just put it
here into the pan, some getting it wet and
I'm getting it fairly what you can see how
it's coating the brush. I'm gonna come down
here and I'm just gonna do it right on top
of my drawing. And now you can see that
there's a nice white line. So you're able to add
in some white lines and speculators giving
that sense of light. You can also clean up
some edges with this. So it's a fun little addition to watercolors,
just this gouache. Next step, I'm gonna
put down a layer of paint and then I'm going to
add in that white gouache. And I think you're
gonna be really interested to see this effect. You can create northern
lights in your bottle. You can create a
sense of like a glow. So let's get started on
adding that gouache in on the wet paint. Here. I'm going to add in a variety
of different colors because we're gonna be making
this like space. So I'm gonna do some greens
and blues and purples to really give that feeling of
being outside the Earth. So this is all nice and juicy. I've got the white gouache here. So I'm going to start
down here at the bottom. Let me bring you down closer so you can see
what's happening. And I'm going to move that
gouache around a bit. I'm just coming up
through the center, creating that little difference. Once everything is dry, you will be able to
see this even more. Now that everything is dry, I'm going to add in some of those little stars
coming in here. And adding in that sense that
this is a little galaxy. Next step kept me going
to show you how to use tape for masking off
different sections. So your tape is going
to get in the way of the water in your
water and it's not gonna get into those sections, it creates a
resistance technique. In the next lesson, I'll be showing you
how to do that. So I'll see you there.
13. Tape Resist: This next section, I'm going
to show you how to use tape in different ways. You're gonna be
doing watercolor, where the tape is a resistance mechanism and you're going to be
painting on each side. And in one area you're going to have no watercolor on the paper, and in other areas
you're going to have watercolor already down. And I'm going to show you how
to use this tape as part of your process no matter which
way you want to use it. Let's get started on adding some tape into your
watercolor projects. Okay, so I have one of
the bottles we worked on earlier just as my
practice piece. And I'm going to
show you how to use the tape as a
resistance mechanism. I've got some regular tape here. I've also got some washi tapes. And you'll want to be careful with some
of the washy tapes. They're not very sticky and
it won't work very well. So you want to make sure you
have a nice and sticky tape. So I'm going to take
this and I'm going to cut it down
just a little bit. And I'm going to mask off a
section right across here. Wherever I put the tape, the paint should not go to make sure that
it's nice and down. I've got little ruler here
just to press it out. Sure, it's nice and fit. And then using the washi tapes can be fun because
there's different sizes. So you can really just
get in there and make some different
quick little pieces of tape to get
different subsections. So now I'm gonna take my
brush and I'm going to add in some paint and create more
techniques for you to explore. I'm going to put in some yellow. And depending on your pants and the transparency or opacity
of different areas, you're gonna get a
different effect. I can see the colors underneath just a little bit of
this yellow because this yellow is very transparent. Let's go a little bit
darker here at the bottom, I've got like a purple. Once this all dries, you'll want to make sure it's very dry before you
take off your tape. Everything is dry, so
let's take up the tape. You can see how certain areas have been preserved underneath. And you have your
new paint as well. There we go. That's a really cool way to use tape and watercolor
and come up with some pretty cool designs
where you've got your transparency
coming through and you come in with lots of depth. You can also see how I
made the topper here. And I used a really cool color
and left some speculators creating a sense of a jewel tones and marking
off that section.
14. Masking Fluid: This next section,
you're going to learn about masking fluid. It comes in a few
different varieties. This is just a bottle
and it's liquid. And here's a pen and
you just take it out and it's got a pen tip. So I'm going to show you
how to use masking fluid to create a resistance method. Where have you picked
the masking fluid, the paint will not go. So let's get started on learning about masking fluid and
using it in your work. First off, I'm
going to start with this masking fluid pen. It's also called drawing gum. And it's from PEBO, I think I'm not
sure exactly how to pronounce it, but it works. So I'm just going to
create some little dots and wherever I put a little dot, the paint will not go. I'm just creating cute
little dots in there. And that's going to be our
area of no go down here. I'm going to use the same thing, but just in a different form. This is a liquid in a bottle and I'm going
to use one of these. It's called a color shaper, and they come in
different sizes. I've got a big one here
and a little one here. And you can see the liquid here. You're just going to drop
here a little wand inside. And then you're going to create different sections where you
don't want the paint to go. Maybe you want to make
speculators in these area. Maybe you want it just to be lighter or you wanna
do little dots. Just create your
own little thing. Okay, it's all dry and I'm ready to add in some
watercolor on top. I'm gonna go with a blue because the blue will look really
nice with the green. Once you're done painting, make sure everything
is extremely dry and then you can move on. So you'll need to use
your patient pants as this all dries. And then you can
take this off and see the really
coolness underneath. Once everything is dry, you can start taking it off. And I've got this little
device to help me. But you can also use
your fingernail. Be really careful. The pull lightly and let
it come up on its own. So now you can see how there's those little sections
that have been preserved. So now you've seen how
to use masking fluid to preserve certain
areas of your art work. In the next step, I'm going
to show you how to use water, both colored water as well as your pristine white water to create more effects
in your watercolors.
15. Droplets of Water and Paint: In this lesson, I'm
going to show you how to use water droplets, be at pristine whitewater
or colored water. You're going to see how this
makes your drawings and paintings just come to life
with a totally different, almost like rain technique. It's gonna be really cool. So let's get started. So coming back to
a bottle that I used earlier to show you how to use the Good Neighbor
technique as well as the gouache and creating
a little universe. So this technique though, is going to be about
using water droplets. This method works mostly
when you're doing darker colors because
you're going to have more color dispersing. It's not going to show
you what happens when you add in some water. And I'm just going
to do some drops. What it's gonna do is it's
going to disperse the paint. It's going to push
it out of the way. Depending on where
you do your dots. Now let's come in
with a darker color and drop that in there. So I've got a darker
green and I'm going to drop those in there. So we're getting the opposite. We're having the paint
disburse the water below. I'm super excited to
do your next lesson. It's actually going to
be a bonus lesson on metallics and glitter,
watercolor paints. I'm going to show you how to use those paints in your
watercolor bottles to create that extra little
light paint flakes that you have some glitter in the bottom of your jar or
floating in the liquid. So let's get on to your bonus lesson and
I'll see you there.
16. Bonus Lesson: Metallics and Glitter Paint: In this lesson, I get
to show you some bonus. We're gonna be using
this art philosophy palette of metallic watercolors. There we go. So there's a variety of
metallic colors in here. And I've also got a variety of small batch watercolors
that I got off Etsy. So you can see a variety of
different colors in there. And I'm going to
show you how to use them to make your bottles extra special and giving it little
glitter or gold accents. So let's get started
on adding that special little of tier
watercolor bottles. So let's work on whatever
you have in front of you. I'm gonna go with this bottle
that I've been working on. It's the closest to
being finished out of all the different ones
that I've been working on. And I'm gonna to show you
how to use some watercolor, glitter, or metallics to
add to your painting. I'm mixing up a little bit of metallic blue here
from Art Philosophy. And I'm just going to
come in and I'm going to leave some little glitter lines. Let's bring it down closer. And you can see these
little blue lines of glitter that I'm adding in. If you're making a bottle for a friend or
something like that, this can be a really
cool little addition for you to be able to show them that you added some
glitter to their bottle. I'm really loving this blue. Maybe go around some
of the letters inside. It's going to give it that
little metallic glow. Dispersing up the label. I found these Art Philosophy
sets really good. It's a little stinky
because they definitely have a smell to them. Or irregular watercolor
paints don't. These metallics? Definitely let you know
they're in the room. Then I also have some
little pens here. These aren't watercolors,
but they're like brush pens. I have one from Karen,
metallic permanent marker. And this one is another
zig metallic marker. I'll show you how to use those
to add onto your bottles. Seeing just come in and each one has a little
bit of a different tone, even though they're both at n on top of the
other watercolors. Extra little variety of
different lines and strokes. There's my finished
potion bottle. This one's my grow. And I'm excited to see
what bottle you come up with as your watercolor project. It's been exciting having you as a student in your next lesson, I'm going to discuss a bit
of homework where you're going to come up with
your own personal bottle. And you're going to take some
of the different techniques and stuff that you've learned in this class and apply
it to your own bottle. I want you to come up
with something unique. You can use the bottle
bases that I showed you, but I want you to
take one of those and make something that's
personally yours. It can be grow in visibility,
different superpowers. It can be health. But I want to see you grow and use these different
techniques in your own way. So I'll tell you all about
that in the homework lesson, which will come up next. I'll see you there.
17. Homework: So great having you
here for your homework. For your homework, I want
you to pick a bottle shape. It can be one of the
traditional shapes, square around, rectangle, or you can go
with an organic shape. Maybe it's something that's like a little curvatures on the
side or something like that. You get to choose
whatever bottle you want, whatever color palette you want. And I want you to use
at least three of the different
techniques that you've learned in this course. I'm going to show you how to upload your bottle once
you're fully done. And I'm going to show you right here on the
screen how to do that. Okay, So you're just going
to come over here to the projects and resources area. You're going to click the
Create Project button. Once you've clicked that button, it's going to bring
you to this screen. You're going to see a
Publish button up here. And you're going to
upload a cover image. So that's going to be
your magic bottle. You're gonna give it a
title and a description. And then if you have
any additional images, you're going to click the
image button here and then add those to your front image. So you're gonna have
your main image and then your additional images,
if you have any. Then you're going to
come up and you're going to click the
Publish button. And then we're going to all
be able to see it back there on the Projects and
Resources page. It's going to be shown right down in the bottom section here. Once you've done that,
I'll be able to see your project and give
you some feedback. Once you've uploaded your
own personal bottle, I do encourage you to take
a look through and see what other people have created and give them
comments and likes. Being able to support
each other is so important when
it comes to art. It encourages people
to reach out and try new things and create very
interesting pieces of art. Thanks so much, and I'll
see you in the next lesson.
18. Thanks - Review - Your Freebies: Thanks so much for taking my course with each new student, I feel very inspired
to do more art and explore art in my own way. And I want you to be able
to take this course and explore watercolor art and
doing it in your own way, creating your own
personal style. If you want to follow me online, you can follow me on
Instagram or Twitter. I'm also on YouTube
creating more videos dealing with art under Tammy
and creative on Twitter. I'm Tammy, a creative and on Instagram it's
Tammy and creative. You can find me at all
three of those places, interacting with
people and displaying my art outside of social media. I do have a website that's Tammy on creative.com where you can sign up and get
additional pieces of art, including tutorials,
brushes, palettes, and all that jazz. So do go to my website
Tammy and creative.com to get some extra little
freebies just for you guys. I hope from this course
you are able to gain some different ways
that you can add texture and create glass. And I hope to see you
displaying that online. If you decide to display
it, say on Instagram, do give me a
connection and tag me. I would love to see what you are displaying out there
and follow you back. I'm also a teaching more
courses here on Skillshare, so give me a follow and
when I put out new courses, you'll get an email from
Skillshare letting you know that I've
published a new class. I would love to have
you as a student for multiple classes and be
able to interact with you and just do more art that inspires all of us to
make joy in the world. Thanks so much and I'll
see you again real soon.
Tammie Ann Creative, Artist & Crafter
