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1. Santa Gnome Cards Intro: Hey, I'm Jules and welcome
to my holiday bender, where we are going to make
simple festive holiday cards. In this class, I'm going
to show you how to create two watercolor cards featuring these adorable santa nomes. And we're going to
use a straightforward step by step process. So together, we're going
to transfer the design. We're going to paint a soft
and festive background. Then we can add watercolor
details along with some finishing touches like snowflakes and some
polished golden highlights. Whether you're me a watercolor
or looking for a fun, creative holiday
project, this class will help you make something special that you can share
with loved ones. So gather your supplies. Let's get comfortable and make some holiday
cards together.
2. Materials: We are ready to make these
holiday gnome cards. So what supplies do we
need? We need our printout. I just printed it out with regular computer paper
and printed it out six by six because our watercolor
cards are four by six. Okay? And then you
need scissors to cut it up and washi tape. To bind the edges, and then we have some painters tape to hold everything down. You'll see what I mean
in the next lesson. All right, these are
watercolor cards. So that's what they're going
to look like right there. You can do this way or this way. Today, we're going here, so six by four. It's easier if you don't
fold them up to begin with. And I like making two at a time. Two is easier than one. By the time you get through
with the first one, you've figured out all the
things to troubleshoot. And so the second one
is infinitely easier. Then you're going to
need some scrap paper to help tape it down and
protect the rest of the card. We also need some
graphite paper, and if you don't
have graphite paper, you can use a piece of printer paper and a
number two pencil. And all you'll do is scribble on the side until you fill the sheet and you'll use
it just like this paper. So the graphite is up on this side and just like
it's up on this side. When you're ready to use it, you'll flip it over and then put your image
on top of that. Okay. Moving on,
you're going to need an eraser and some
paint brushes. I've got number two, number three, zero, different
rounds happening here. And then I also have
several different pens. I've got a ballpoint pen, and I've got
different fine liners that have pigment ink in them. So the pigment ink
is really important because when you
use water colors. You don't want the ink to
bleed all over the place. So give this stuff a chance to dry and it will
stay in place for you. I have a choice. Today,
I'm going to use 0.3, but I think also
0.5 is appropriate. And then I have some gelpins. I have a silver one
and a gold one. And some water colors. Alright. So I've got my little
chart out because truly, you do not have to match
the colors that I have. I just really want you to
have a variety of greens, two or three greens, a
couple blues and a purple, and then a few reds. And when I mean a few by
the reds and the greens, I mean, a dark tone, a mid tone, and maybe a
lighter or brighter tone. So get those. You also need some
white watercolor paint, which is also essentially white watercolord wash. And then I use a neutral tint watercolor
also by Daniel Smith. If you don't have this,
you can use Pains gray or mix your complimentary colors
to get a really dark dark. Okay, what else do we need? I use a variety of rags. I just have some old
fabric that I've cut up. I use either old bed sheets or, like, this was an
old pair of scrubs. And then I have some water, and I usually keep two things of water because when
I go to my white, I want to make sure my paint
brush is really clean. So that's about it. Grab your supplies and
meet me back here, and we will start making these
wonderful holiday gnomes. So
3. Image transfer : Our design. So I am gonna do
these knowns to begin with, and I'm just going
to do four of them. I'm gonna do them
sitting on the snow with some snow in the background,
maybe, like, right there. So I'll do these
four guys there, and I'll do another
four over here. I'm gonna make two at
a time just because it's like a little
assembly line. I might as well
make two at a time. I could also make four
at a time and tape two more back here and do them
all at the same time. Okay, so we're
going to figure out replacement of the
gnomes right there. Okay. And then I'm going
to take my graphite paper, and I'm going to put
the dark side down the side with the graphite
I'm going to put down. And if you don't have
a piece of this, then you can just grab a number two pencil
and scribble on a piece of paper
with the side of the pencil lead and get
it to look like this, and then you'll flip that over and use it in
the very same way. Oops, my tape didn't stick. We're going to use it
in the very same way. That we're using
this graphite paper. So I'm gonna place it down,
and I'm simply going to trace over my top row of
Christmas gnomes. So as I go through this, y'all can do the same with me, pause the video and join along It doesn't have to be perfect,
also, don't sweat. This is just gonna give us
a little template to go by just structurally so we can begin placing paint
around these guys. Okay, before I move this sheet, I'm just gonna flip
it over with the tape still attached to
see what I have. And I'm gonna get close up in here for you. There they are. They look great. Okay,
and now we're going to do the same thing
on the other side. Okay, I'm gonna put this
rowan nomes though. I'll do them right here. And that means I need to
tape that right there. Okay, lift it up, put my sheet
underneath, and begun. Me. Okay, and before we move
this, I want to check it. There they are. As you can see, this image transfer
process is super simple. You can master it in just a time or two as
you make these cards. So I will see you
in the next lesson.
4. Background First Layer : Okay, so I'm going
to begin by just wetting the top of the page, and I'm not going to go down
all the way to the nomes. I'm gonna stop about half an
inch or an inch above them. And I'm gonna do red on one, and I'm gonna do
blue on the other. So I'm just going to
begin by choosing a mid tone of blue. So I'm just going to start
with this ultramarine color and just start dropping it in where we put some water down. And I'm making sure that
it's very liquidty. It's got a lot of water on it, so I have a lot of
movement on the page. I can still see the page underneath through
what I'm doing. Okay, and then I'm going
to rinse my brush. I'm gonna keep it fully
loaded with water. I'm gonna put it down
where it's white, and I'm gonna drag
it up into the blue. And I'm gonna dab 'cause
I don't want that blue on my brush anymore, and I'm gonna do the same thing. Putting blotter down,
and I'm dragging it up. What this is going to
do is allow for some of this to bleed
back down this way. But I'm keeping the
edges nice and slothy. See how it's kind of getting
a little bit of swirl and it's kind of coming down here
a little bit. I like that. Add some more water. Okay. All right, so let
that move around, and we're going to
go back to this one. I'm just gonna wet
it one more time, 'cause that water's kind of
soaked up into the paper. And we're gonna go for some red. This is like a deep.
Oh. It's very deep. Okay. I'm gonna get a
brighter shade of red. Yeah. I think between those
two, I like that. So that's a little bit brighter. Okay, the red's got a
lot of pigment in it, a lot more than this blue. So I've got clean water
loaded on my brush. I'm going into the white area, and I'm dragging it
up into the red. We'll see how that
just reversed itself. So as I do that, it reverses itself and goes back down
in the direction from which I just came
in a very soft way. Hey. Let's do another one. Okay. And I can
begin to blot now. I'm gonna scrunch up my
rag like that and just come back down and see how that just made those
sorely kind of shapes. I really like that. I'm gonna try it
again over here. Okay. So this is a bit
of a sharp edge. I'm going to try
to grab that and maybe feather it out
some more. There we go. Okay. So right now I'm liking this. I am going to let these dry, and then we'll do it again. Alright, now that this is dry, I'm just kind of re
putting down my tape. I don't want it to lift off. And I'm gonna add
another piece of this painter tape at the
bottom, too, I think. Great. And we're going to
go on to the second layer. Alright, I'm going to start with some opera pink because I think this needs
brightening up a little bit. So I'm getting some of my brush, and I'm just going to
start dropping it down. Now, I'm going to put it in
this upper left hand corner. I'm going to go
to the center and then off right
just a little bit, and I'm gonna put some here. And then I'm gonna
put a little bit more in this corner over here. Alright. I just want those three areas,
and that's about it. And now I'm getting
water on my brush. I'm loading up water
pretty good on my brush, and I'm coming I'm going
to do the same thing. I'm gonna go from an area
outside of where I just laid down and go into it and
see how it just did that. Lorenz my brush, come in
from the side over here, massage that edge so
it's not a rough edge. Okay, and I'm doing the
same thing. More water. I pulled down some of
this light colour through the gnome because
I want there to be a background that looks contiguous and not that we just painted around the gnomes. And this colors light enough down here that it's not going to bother the gnomes when
we go to paint them in. Okay, let me grab this
before it dries up here. It looks pretty good. We're
going to get our blotter, and blah, blah, blah. I'm doing all of it all the way down into the nomes and see how it's left just a pattern back behind them. I like that. And we're going to do it
one more time with more of, like, a cadmium red. So like a brighter red. The areas. One, two, three, right? That's it. We're going to do the same
pattern over here, too. So I'm rinsing my brush, and I'm going to
massage the edges, dropping water down
on top of the edges, rinsed my brush, lots of water, tap, tap, tap around. Then I'm going to come back
with my rag. And blot. Blot, blot blot. Okay, I took a lot
of the paint off. That's okay. I'm gonna
add a little more opera pink in those areas
that we talked about. And then I'm gonna drop
more water down or just repeating the same
process over and over, hitting the edges, and we're gonna let this one dry
in between this time. Now I've got some really
pretty patterns happening. Let me just tap on
this a little bit. Let's let that dry
and see what happens. Let's go over to the blue. Okay, so now I want more of a turquoise or aqua
blue happening here. Yeah, just a lighter blue. Okay, these blues have a
lot of pigment in them, so even though I've
loaded it up on my brush, I'm still gonna dip
in my water first and then come over here just
to see what I've got. Okay, so upper left, go into the middle off right, and then over here
in the corner. This tape is coming
up in the corner, and it does concern me
trying to squeeze that out. I might have to help
this corner out later, but I'm really trying to
get that tape to stick. Alright, I'm rinsing my brush, and I'm going to do the edges. So I'm going come down here, feather my edges, rinse my
brush, feather my edges. I'm going from out to in, clean area into the
not clean area, and then I'm going to blot. So I've got it kind
of rolled up on the end to get some
texture down here. And I'm turning my
wrist as I go so it doesn't make a recognizable
pattern in the background. A little bit more. I want
to deepen that corner. I'm just hitting
those three areas. I'm not really thinking much about putting pigment down on any of these other
areas because I know that the pigment
will bleed down, and I want to keep this card
kind of light and cheery, pulling it down back
behind the gnomes. Alright, so I like that, but
now I'm going to go back to that ultramarine blue
that we started with. I've got a lot of
pigment on my brush. I'm not going into the water this time, so it's kind of dry. And that way, where I'm
dropping the pigma, it's actually gonna stay a little bit tighter in that area. So I'm just kind of dab, dab, dab, and then I can blot. But I'm not gonna blot very
much because I actually want to keep a lot of what
I just put down there. Okay. So let's stop again. After I fix this, this looks like it's
floating out and never, never land to me, so I'm gonna
massage this a little bit. Okay. And then blot. That really picked
it. I picked it up. Okay. Dragging these lines
kind of diagonal now. And a little blot.
Kind of like that. Alright, let's let those dry.
5. Background Color Pop : It Okay, that level's dry, and I'm going to hit the background one more time
and just make it a little darker in some areas because I'm anticipating adding those
big snowflakes at the end, and I want to have some darkness behind them to really pop out. So I'm going back to my red. I'm going to grab, like, a cadmium red, a
really bright red. I have a lot of pigment
on my brush now. This is completely dry, so it's going to behave
a little differently. If I just plop this down, I'm going to get a really hard edge. So I'm going over to my water. I'm dipping it in the water. And it's really loaded,
see how it dripped out. So one, two, three, rinse my brush, and we're
gonna hit those edges. Edge, edge, edge, edge, edge, and I can blot edge edge, edge. Okay, now I'm going
back to my water, and I'm just going
to kind of smooth. And deepen. Go to, like, this brick red color that we started
with beginning. And I'm gonna put some darker
on top here as it falls off the page. Softening the edge. Do it. Springing down some of that color in between the nomes, keeping
it really light. And I think I'm gonna
add some more of that opera rose back into
the background, too. So, like, they're here, here. And again, I'm just working those three areas that we talked about and just bringing color
in other places as I like. Okay, I think I like that pink coming down here in
this corner a little bit more too. Okay. All right. Let's
see how that does. Alright, let's let
that move around, and we'll come back over here. Let's go back to this one. Okay, so I want
some darker blues. So I could even go to, like, an indigo color. I think we'll try that.
It's gonna be really dark. So I've loaded my brush up. I'm dipping in the water,
and then I'm going here. Yeah, that indigo is
going to be pretty. Okay, I'm going
back to the well, dropping in the
areas I just made, dancing around the edges, and then I'm going to
come back and blight. Okay, now I've got harsh edges back here behind the gnome, so I'm just going to
smooth that out some. And I'm going to go back
to my turquoise color. And drop some of that interest back in in the darkest areas. So I've got dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark. Now I'm going to get the edges. Okay, I've got it watted
up and I'm a blot. So I'm pressing a little
bit harder in the areas I want to be lighter.
Back to my brush. I'm getting that
ultramarine blue again. Okay, let's let that dry, and we're going to go on
to the snow at the bottom. This is going to
be really simple. I'm going to grab a little
bit of that indigo with a little bit of my neutral
gray, my neutral tint, maybe even a little
this purple here, load my brush up, dipping it in the water, coming over, and just
dotting a few areas. Same thing. Load my brush, dip in the water, a few areas. Okay, now I'm rinsing
all that off, and I just have
water on my brush, and I'm going to start
in the areas that are white and pull it over to
the areas I've already done. To it again, start in the white. Go around. Okay, and
then we will blot. Revisit. I'm just sort of picking one spot
and then kind of going from left to right,
leaving white areas. Now I'm going to go back and add more water to get the
stuff to move around, leaving it very light,
and then coming back. Alright, I'm dip my
brush one more time. Just pigment, no
water this time. And just with the
tip of my brush, add just a little bit of
interest, different areas. And we are gonna blot
the tiniest little bit, and then we're
gonna let this dry. We'll let all this dry. Alright, we are gonna
This is all dry. I'm gonna add another
layer of dark on this blue 'cause I don't feel
like it is dark enough. Got it loaded up, dipping
it into the water. And I'm gonna add a
little purple, I think. Yeah, that's more of
a blue that I want. That purply in. Okay, so now I've got
water on my brush. I'm gonna go around these edges. And I'm gonna block
a little bit. Trying to block more the
edge than the middle part, 'cause, like I said, I want some of this darker
area on there. That might be pretty good. A little more. Purple and blue. I think I want it coming
off of the page over here. I think I like that. Might bring it down the edge. Yes, I think so. And I think that should do. I think I like that. Okay.
I'm gonna let that dry. Do I want more over here? Why not? Lots of water. I think I like that
better. Lots of water. Getting that edge. A
little bit of this edge. Hey, let this dry. F.
6. Inking the Gnomes : Okay, my tape is
coming up anyway. It's not the best
tape, apparently. Let's just take this off. Hey. Those look pretty good. Okay, so now I'm gonna get
rid of this purple tape. And I'm just going to re
put down this blue tape. All. Okay. Alright, so now we've
got our two cards. This is looking really good. So we're going to
go ahead and ink in our gnomes because I am
set with the background. The background is the background is an important
piece of the puzzle. I think it looks really good. I'm sad about that and that, but we can try to take care of it later a little
bit up there. But overall, we
are looking good. And I want to show you
my dots back here. So all this stuff that would have been on the
back of the card had we not taped the stuff down. So I'm glad we have
all that there. Okay. So we're going to
begin inking these guys in. So you've got a couple choices
of whatever size you want. The more delicate the size, you know, the more
delicate it'll appear. It just depends on what kind
of look you're going for. So I think I'm
going to use a 0.3, and I'm just going to go around the lines that we have
transferred down here. I could have done
this to begin with, but I didn't want us so
concentrated on the gnomes. I wanted us to
actually ignore them. Okay. I think I could have even
gone thicker with this. I could have probably
used 0.5 as well. Alright, so there's
the first one. Isn't he cute? Now,
you should still be able to see
your lines because it's so light down here. If you can't see some
of them, by all means, go back to your printout and have it as a reference
as you make these. But I can see my
lines pretty well. Okay, I messed that one
up a little bit, but Oh, well, that's just how he is now. I could bring that off
that comes out underneath, but I might consider that later. Let me get the rest of
these guys drawn in here. They're not all even,
but that's okay. It kind of makes them
more quirky, right? I have learned to not
sweat the imperfections. It's a good way to live. Okay, there's those guys, and then we're gonna go
over here to these ones. There they are. Okay. So
now we can take our eraser. If you can still see
some of your lines now is a good time to
go in and erase. Okay, but just don't start with the last one I have
done that before. I've been over here, and
then I just smear the ink. So go back to the
ones that are dry. I'm even gonna make
myself do that. Alright. And then I usually
have a little dust tray.
7. Painting the Gnomes : Okay, we're just gonna drop some color in here
on these guys. I'm gonna get a smaller
brush. Oki doke. We're gonna stick with
traditional colors. So I'm gonna go for my reds. And I'm gonna go
ahead and fill in. Let's see. We're just going to do different
shades of red. I like that. Okay, so I've got a lot of pigment on this brush. I'm gonna hit this guy.
Dipping it into the water. I'm just gonna start
pulling this around. I'm gonna blot,
too. There we go. I picked up some of it. Okay.
And then we'll blot again. I like that. Alright. Let's do another one. I might get a little darker shade
of red on this guy. Okay, that's a lot of pigment, so I go and rinse my brush. Looks like I've colored outside of the lines
a little bit, but, you know, that's part of my
style. And I'm gonna blot. Boom. Now, where I've
gone out of the edges, I can always rinse my brush and try to come up and
scrub a little bit. Oh, that's gonna work,
and I can scrub there. Blot blots. It's got on those nose. Alright, so that looks better. Now let's do a light pinkin? Then we'll add the red to
it and see what happens. Yes, I'm just trying to get different hues of red on
each one of these guys. And now I'm gonna put in a little green
ball at the end of their hats and start to
fill in the dark portions. So right here, I've got a
neutral tint by Daniel Smith, which if you really load up the pigment,
it does look black. So that's my favorite go to. I'm just going to
fell in the feet of all these little dunes
and like I said, the belt of the first one, and take your time, go through it. And you'll notice,
too, as I'm going through this part of the
project, truthfully, if you didn't want to use paint, you could use markers for this. You could use a I
don't know that I would use alcohol markers because they probably
would soak through. And when you open the car, you'd be able to see it through. So I would stick with
some water based markers, and you could fill
them in that way. All right, so here's
the last two feet, and then I'm going to move on to let's see. Probably the hats. No, let's do the noses. Alright, so the noses, I'm going to do this
little purply color. I want it to be like a tone between the blue and the
red that we've been using. And that's what's
just on my palette. So it's making this nice
little pinky salmon color, and I'm just doing
it really light, and then I'm blotting off
the excess when I'm done. So you can choose whatever color you
want to for the noses. That's just what I chose. Alright, so Nan what's next? So I'm going to start filling in the clothing on these guys, and I'm just going
to make it red, and I'm going to make it all
about the same shade of red. And this is why I'm saying markers probably
would be good, too. But I already have
the paints out, and I really enjoy painting. So I find joy in this
little repetitive motion. So take your time,
choose your method, and fill out the rest of
these guys' clothing, and we're getting them dressed
for the holiday season. Alright, so we've got
the reds on the one, and I've got blues and I'm going to do greens
on this other one. So just like the other, I'm going to do just
different shades of green, just kind of play with
different tones and whatnot. And like I said, in
the materials section, it really doesn't matter
what colors you use here. This is where your artistic artistic choice comes into play. So I'm just using what
I have and what's available to me and
just going back and hitting some of
these colors and the edges a little
bit and one more hat. Make this one a
little bit limier, a little lighter.
Yeah, that looks good. Okay, and then I'm
going to come back and I'm gonna start to
do their clothing. So just like the other,
I did red and red. This one I'm gonna do green and green picking whatever
tone you want to. I think like a mid tone to a darker tone on the
clothing will look good. Then I'm going to take
just a little bit of red and pop it in the balls
to the hats on this one. And also a little
bit of red accent on the bottom of this guy's
jacket he's wearing. Alright. I like that. Okay, rinse my brush out. Right. And now I really
rinsed it out with the clean water because
it's time to do the white, and I'm going to
start filling in the white of the beards of these guys I know I've
got a little bit of paint that I painted
outside of the lines with. I know I've got a few little dots of color here and there. So I can use this opaque. It's essentially a
guache watercolor because it is opaque. So when it says white
in your watercolor box, it truly is a type of guashe. So I just make sure the pigment
is really, really thick, and I'm just going to
slowly go in and fill in the rest of the white of
their mustaches and whatnot. Now, as I do this, I might
color a little bit on top of the black
lines that we did, the outlines, but I'm really not worried about it too much
because I know at the end, I'm going to go back and
kind of shine up everything. So choose your weapon, whether you want just
regular watercolors or markers to fill in the
hats and the clothing, but then I would
definitely get back out my white watercolor to
shine up the beards. This really makes these guys pop forward from the
background that we made.
8. Let it Snow : Alright, so now we're gonna
go back to the background. I'm gonna hit a few
other little places with this indigo underneath a few of these guys.
And let's see. I want Okay, we've removed the tape, so we've got to be careful
of our edges, right? We're also going to be putting down more white for
the snow later. So now they've just got little
shadows underneath them. Let's blot them. Why do I like that? Okay. Alright, let's do the same thing with
this other guy, Indigo. And I'm just gonna roll the brush a little bit
underneath each one rinse, and then we'll just
kind of dance around. Hey blot. And then I'm gonna
bleed this edge. Okay, we'll let all of that dry, and then we're gonna
be on to a fun part. Okay, so now it's time to
put in some snowflake. So I'm going to get
a lot of pigment on my brush and not a lot of water. And when I come out of the
palette of my pigment, I want to roll the tip of my
brush to make a fine point. Okay. And then I'm just going
to begin by making spokes, lines intersecting each other. So I have three lines
intersecting to make six spokes. And if you're not good at
free handing this stuff, then I suggest just
taking the shape that I'm drawing and try it out on
a scrap sheet of paper. This way, you can practice just making building snowflakes, and it really doesn't
matter how you build them. You'll see the pattern
that I do in that I put these little arrows
down on the spokes. I might put an open circle
or just a dot on the top. Okay, so now I'm about to
do the second snowflake. And I've chosen this
spot right here because it's further to the right than the
one on the left. Meaning closer to the
edge of the card, and I'm going to make it bigger, and I'm going to put
more spokes in it. So I think I'm going
to do ten spokes, which means I'm doing
five intersecting lines and just taking the time to
keep reloading my brush, making sure I've got a lot of pigment on it, and
I'm pulling it out. So now you can really
appreciate that the snowflake on the right is closer to the
edge of the card. And this just kind of keeps
your eye moving around. And I'm going to
finish this one out. Just watch the pattern. Again, grab a scrap sheet of paper if you need to practice
before you put it down, and then I'll show you how
to place the third one. As I'm doing this, I'm
just making sure that I'm placing things
symmetrically on the snowflake. So if I do it on one side, I'm going to do it on the other, or I'm going to do
it on every other spoke of the snowflake. This is actually a
really fun process. So, that one looks pretty good. So now I want to place one more. And much like the three spots of darkness that we
did in the background, I want to do a third
snowflake just off center. So this time, I'm going center and just off to
the left a little bit, and I'm going to do
a snowflake that's smaller than the other
two that I just did. I'm going to do it six
spoke, so three lines, and then I'm just going
to put a few dots around the edges and some
arrows in the middle. Okay, we're moving on
to the second one. So I'm going to do the exact
same thing on this one. I've sped up the
video quite a bit. But again, it's just
a repetitive pattern. It's the same thing
over and over. I'm picking a area just center right for the
smallest snowflake. The other one I
chose center left. And then this last one
I'm going to put on this dark area on the
far right of the card, pulling ten spokes, five lines, lots of circles on the edges, and then a series of arrows. So again, just like everything
else that I've done, it's just a repeating
pattern over and over again, whether I'm using pigment, then lots of water and blotting, or if I'm pulling a line, darkening it, and then doing a repeating pattern
for the snowflakes. I find joy in repetition. So now I'm adding even
smaller snowflakes. So I've added a few
more on each side, and then I'm going to go back and just start putting
some dots down. So these dots a little large kind of represent the snowflakes way
in the distance, and then I can even put smaller dots if I want
to around as well. Now I'm going to repeat the
process on the other side, of course, with some larger
dots and some smaller ones. And then I'm just
going to begin to look around the two cards. And since there's
white on my brush, I'm going to see
if I need to add any other dots or
details on each one. No
9. Final Details : Mm. So now it's time to grab the gold gill pen, and I am just going to start
going around the inside or outside of any of the black fine liner marks
that we made earlier. So as far as the clothing goes, I'm going just a little bit on the inside and the
balls on the hats. I went a little bit
on the outside. And now I'm doing the same thing that I did with the white. I'm just going around the card, adding a few more little
snowflakes in the background. I now have my silver
fine liner out, and I'm just kind of going
over some of these white marks because I really like it when light plays off of an art piece, and you can see reflections
of different pigments, you know, the
idscens, the golds, the silvers, and you see
them at different angles, and they just create more
curiosity around the card. So that looks pretty good. We're getting close to
the end of the snow. I'm going to take the time
to now sharpen up some of the edges around the
mustache and noses. Where we put down the white, some of my edges bled over a little bit and kind of
grade out my fine liner. So I really feel like
it pays off to go back and sharpen up the
edges just a little bit. It really cleans it
up, tightens them, and makes the gnomes
pop out a lot. Es. Okay, a little
bit more white, and we're going to start
attacking the snow again at the bottom
underneath the gnomes. So I've got a lot of white on
a large larger round brush, and I'm just moving around that thick pigment just a
little bit underneath each one. And then what am I
going to do next? Yes, you guessed it. I'm going to blot
blot, blot, blot. And it will lift up some
of this thick pigment. Look at what it's
gonna do. And we can see some of that gray
up underneath it. It just gives it more depth. And now I'm going to go
back to my gray and put one last little sliver of a very light sheen
underneath each one, just to ground them,
just a little bit more. Look what that does. It
really sets them in the snow. I love it. Oh, it
makes me so happy. I know whoever receives these
cards that you have made, it is just gonna make their day. It's something they
will be proud to display in their home at
this time of the year. This is a project you can do. Do not underestimate yourself. It is easier than you think, especially if you follow
my step by step process, you will end up with
a beautiful piece of art to share. And
Jules Art Bender, Artist and Art Educator
