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Painting Simple Bookmarks in Watercolor: Master Masking Fluid Technique

teacher avatar Trang Chibi ❤️, Watercolor and Gouache Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Class Introduction

      1:16

    • 2.

      Class Materials and Tools

      2:16

    • 3.

      Drawing Outlines

      7:51

    • 4.

      Applying Masking Fluid

      7:28

    • 5.

      Painting The First Layer

      11:00

    • 6.

      Painting The Second Layer

      8:14

    • 7.

      Removing Masking Fluid

      2:17

    • 8.

      Final Thoughts

      0:34

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About This Class

In this class, we will paint this set of 3 watercolor bookmarks together. This is a very short and simple project. You can finish everything within 1 hour or even faster if you use a dryer. 

This class is more suitable for beginner level, but higher-level watercolor painters can also participate as a way to relax and learn something new.

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Trang Chibi ❤️

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1. Class Introduction: Hello everyone. I am saying TB, what they're gonna address. And graphic designer based in good Now, I didn't go to an ACE, gone best study watercolor painting 100% online using different resources in glutenin Skillshare in this class, less pin. This says three watercolor bookmark together. It is overshot and simple project. You can finish everything within one hour and maybe even faster. If you use a dry up. In this class, even use a lot of masking fluid. So if you are not familiar with using masking fluid in color is very good. But this exercise, if you find this glass have phone, please follow me here on Skillshare and my Instagram, my YouTube channel for shorter tutorials, own for this class introduction, let's move to the next lesson to pin. 2. Class Materials and Tools: Now let's talk a little bit about materials. I have a lot of small. This is a paper which I cut into bookmarks. My size is 515 centimeter. For this project because we don't use a lot of layers. So you don't have a tool used to expensive labor. And some artists prefer to create borders for depending met my style is I charged to utilize every area on the paper. So I taught the paper down using some two psi sticky tip. I'm using a standard 24. What DO color bops by Winsor and Newton. And I think that's enough for this class. To Paris. I five at using two instead of one panelist is more convenient because you can clean one for two and using several brushes with difference sizes, mop brush and some travel brush by escort out. It is a synthetic brush. For this project. It's very important, unique masking fluid. It can use whatever brand you can find. In order to apply masking fluid. I am using watercolor brush, rolling pin. One important note, in order to not ruin your brush up to apply masking fluid. After two or three minutes using it, you should use a brush out. So far. This is eraser to remove masking fluid. I think that's all materials for this class. You can use whatever you have, just the mixture. Need masking fluid for this grass. 3. Drawing Outlines: Now let's draw the first bookmark. As you can see on the screen, I am painting. I am joining three marks at the same time. This way you can finish the three bookmarks faster because we can work on one bookmark by waiting for another book map towards y. And actually for this simple project, it is not necessary to draw it. If bet, if you are big and no jaw the ally before starting, maybe easier. So as you can see for this book map, we are drawing the white arrow. The Black Belt or here, the black metals here we've been a pen it later. So for now you just need to draw the white area in order to apply masking fluid later. You don't have to follow me exactly normally for botanical painting ********. I mean, Paul VI, black and white, our lie. But for this project, I don't think unique to us. Can your chest job I had whatever you like. My guidance it Chest guidelines. You don't have to follow me exactly because it is a very simple and low tech. For this bookmark, we need to draw the shape of those Chuck Berry's first. We don't have a 2D drawing. At this stage. He can just pin it using watercolor later. Again, this project, you don't have to follow me exactly. You just need to draw first chomp brace yourself. The shape is quite hot shape. Remember to leave. If some gaps. Moms chubby raise because we need to paint the leaves later. As you can see on this green I am on so because I posted this bookmark, sat on my Instagram, instagram D flat and I am looking at my Instagram page to know how did how I met eat, eat. I think charting this bookmark is quite simple. Now let's draw the Mach number three, compare with the two previous bookmarks. This bookmark is a little bit more complicated, enjoying it, but don't worry, it just a great opportunity for you to practice hand drawing. So basically, this composition has ascend, which I am using a ruler to Joey that it is, okay if you don't have that kind of ruler, you can check joy using your hand. Then we need to draw some mountains, then some cheese. Again, you don't have to follow me exactly even arrangement of the cheese mountains. You may use an eraser to lead more offensive max. Among these cheese and mountains. 4. Applying Masking Fluid: Now let us go ahead to apply masking fluid. And as you can see here, I'm using a brush to apply masking fluid. If you would like to learn about on the different toys up applying masking fluid, you can check out my first class here on Skillshare, where I have bonus lesson, where I review different tones of applying masking fluid. And you can use whatever brush, or if you don't have a water brush, you can use a normal brush. But one way you need to note. One thing you need to note is because it is very easy to ruin a brush by using it to apply masking fluid. I have a chai different methods and now I haven't won t repair brush, cleaning soap. And for each one or two minutes, using this brush to apply masking fluid, you'll need to use and with soap to clean the brush. And that way, you can protect your brush and you can use it to apply masking fluid again and again. As you can see on the screen, I am using this water brush to use masking fluid to cover the leaves we have already drawn in the lesson. Actually, if you think that you can apply masking fluid directly onto the paper without drawing is okay. Quite simple. I mean, stop talking now and maybe went to upset how I apply masking to vote for math. Let's keep going. This book map. What the brush? You can use, whatever you have, you can use a bottle, you can use ruling pen. But in my case, I'm using whatever brush to create the adults or the Chuck Berry's. And remember, up to finish applying masking fluid for the book. Mark on number one, if you are using a brush, let me make sure to clean it with soap before starting the check. Mark number two. That is quite simple process. So let's enjoy painting this bookmark. I'm moving to using a ruling pen to apply masking fluid because I think ruling pen is better for applying masking fluid, invest more and doors. And as you can see here, I am using this ruling pen to create some patterns near the mountain to make them more interesting. Father cheese. I am also putting some dot, some dots inside the cheese, similar to what we have or haven't done. The Chuck Berry's. The second mark. So as you can see, this ruling pen is very good at applying a small details. It is even better than using brush or whatever brush. But the problem with running pen is very difficult to cover a large area. That's why when I need to apply masking fluid for the whole list, for example, for a whole bed or I wouldn't use a brush, but for very small details and we use this ruling pen. But actually it is even for this monitors, I can just use a brush and I can still use this William Penn to apply whole nips in the mark number one. If you don't have all of their toys, you can use whatever you have that you have. Jet choose. The most convenient for you. It is personal preference. 5. Painting The First Layer: Finally, we can put them pins on paper. So in order to paint the book Mach number 1, first, I am wetting the background using a traditional mop brush. You can use whatever brush you have bad. Large brush is easier to cover the whole area. I'm mixing. This one is the Winsor. And Newton, you can use whatever colors you have. My scheme is input. Actually, I've been caught blue color on the paper first, and then violet and then permanent rose because you know, the mix blue color and rose color even have like the violet or purple color. Then I didn't list so the blue color near the a yellow color because if a mixing blue and yellow even create green mesure to not put the opposite color together. For example, we shouldn't put the violet and yellow color together because mixing violet and yellow when create kind of muddy and gray color. But again, for this project you don't have a follow me exactly that. Chest, an example of how to pin back Ralph for this bookmark. Now let's append the first layer, second map, and use a combination of the red color and the orange color to pin the shrubbery here. And you can mix between the red color and orange color, red color and yellow color. As I'm doing here, because it emits seeing red color and yellow color we will have with the orange color. Both are okay. Even use many that on dry technique. And I'm using quite thick pen because I want to make the shrubbery really red, really orange, and we'll need initials that you didn't have a to follow me sadly, for this project, you just need to pin for fun, do whatever you like. Now let's paint the first layer, the third bookmark. This bookmark when take us more time to pay, not because it is more difficult. Because when we pin the mountains, we have mountains which is near each other. And we may need to read for the pen to dry before I continue to pin mountain mist to eat. And you can put any colors you like. You don't have it to follow my color scheme here. That I just put a violet color onto the paper because later I will pin the Sun. Orange, yellow color and orange, and orange or yellow and violet opposite colors. So by putting violet near this, then the mic, the bookmark more spent how you see, because we cannot pin the second mountain near the first mountain immediately after the first mountain because the pain is still wet. So I jumped into the third mountain and I am using the red color here because I still have some red colors remain from painting this shop Rick. So actually I don't have any method here. I just put The whatever colors I like and few the right thing to do. But just to make sure because later even pin the cheese here in green. Green tone color. Farther mountain, just being whatever you like. Now, painting the sun. In the version I posted on my Instagram, I use metric color to paint the sun because, you know, them parenterally color metabolic and it look like the sun more. But right now I'm just using normal. I just want to show you guys that you can completely achieve this book map without using metric color. Because I know if you've just thought with watercolor painting normally you don't have a metric, a color in your palate. It, the process is quite simple. Just to make sure letter. We pin the cheese because it is inside the mountain and it is quite small. So you need to pay more attention and it may need to switch them on smaller brush. I will stop talking now about the whole painting booth said is on my videos. So if you want to check any particular point, just move to eat. Depending this bookmark. 6. Painting The Second Layer: Now the first layer of the first bookmark, his own red h y. So I will come back and pin some leaves using wet on dry technique. Right now I'm using indigo kind of Newton. But you can use whatever you have just to make sure it is a little bit darker than the background. Try to put new leaves into the space, which we didn't put masking fluid before. That. There is no there's not any significant blank space in the bookmark. The good way appending three book must at the same time is because you can, which you can utilize written for the first book map to try painting the second answer, marks. In Chinese painting poses tend to available map number to come back and pin the lips at the strawberries here. I'm using two type of green colors. One is Cygwin and the second is Hooker's green chest. In order to create the variation in the leaves. If you can just mixing any two green tone colors, and that should be okay. I didn't post the name of the colors I'm using for this project because this project we don't have to focus on accuracy. You just need to use whatever materials you have. I call it a second layer. Actually it is only the first layer. For this project. We only have one layer. We don't pin over the previous layer that I just mix. Sure. Now we read for the brain to dry before painting the leaves for the convenience. The second book, mark Ashley, you can pin everything in one go you paint and then you paint the leaves. But anyway, how did he I think you are I am using a smaller brush because, you know, that's it. It finish this painting together. Tom, to pin the cheese on the mass. Just use green. Actually, I am using both green and blue colors. Even depends on your preference. Even if you use orange, red color is to pin the chase here is also okay because the outcome, for example, cheese can be yellow and red. So just use whatever color scheme life for this kind of painting. 7. Removing Masking Fluid: We have done with the painting post-test. Now, the final step is to remove the masking fluid. I'm using a special eraser to remove masking fluid, but you can see me using your hand. You see because the masking fluid ideas has blue color. So after removing the masking fluid, it bookmarks look much, much Brett. I hope you enjoyed the whole process until now. 8. Final Thoughts: Thanks for watching If the glass. Until now, I hope that you enjoy the whole painting post-test. And again, if you find this lesson headphone, please upload your Porsche. Give me a review and follow me on Skillshare and my Instagram and YouTube channel. And I hope to see you in another glass.