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1. Introduction: In the previous module, we've created some
beautiful artworks to show your friends,
family, and so on. But how about creating something you can
give to your family? No, that would be
nice, wouldn't it? We're going to work with
watercolor pencils. In this module, we're
going to create some beautiful greeting
cards together. Now, contrary to
colored pencils, watercolor pencils are
really quick medium. You can create something
really quick with them. Once you have the
techniques down, it's fun to use, and you can create something
really quick. So you'll really
be quick coloring. What am I going to
show you? Well, let me show you the cards. Alright. Here's one of them. Pretty nice little
greeting card. We're gonna work on that. Here's another one.
Really quick card. Just if you need something
quick, don't spend hours. Just have a few minutes
you create something. You can do that. And
there's another one. A little bit larger.
Really pretty too. So we're going to work on that. Now, we're not going to
start, of course, with that. Now, we're gonna
work towards this. And for that, I need to get my watercolor pad and
on my watercolor pad. Here's the start. We're just
going to start. Very simple. Some colors. So
swatches, some blending. And once we've done
that, we're going to talk about how to
do light and shadow with the watercolor pencils and then create already
a nice flower with it. And once we've got
those techniques, we're going to create
those pretty cards. I've just shown you. Okay, well, that's it for
this module. Now, that's it. We got to start with
this module. That's it. For the introduction
of this module, let's start working with
watercolor pencils.
2. First steps with the Materials: Welcome to this lesson. We're going to work with
watercolor pencils. Watercolor pencils are one of my favorite medium to work
with. They're so much fun. Quick, easy to use. Great, lovely results.
That's what we want to get, of course. Lovely results. We're going to create
some really nice cards. But before we can do so, we
got to practice a little bit. Get used to these
watercolor pencils, get used to the
materials, and also know, of course, which materials
we're going to use. I'm going to use that
student quality paper. Now, as you can see, I've
drawn some things already. I'm not going to use them, but that is mainly how you
start with watercolor pencils. You need to design something
to draw something. You can do that
with your pencil, or you can do it with the
watercolor pencil right away. But then if you're
going to start drawing with the watercolor pencils and start using water, of course, whatever
you have, disappears. Okay? Well, let's
start out easy. What I'm going to do is, I'm
just going to draw this box, and I'm going to do
a couple of boxes. So I would say, go
with me on this. Just draw a couple of boxes.
I've got three boxes. Let's do a fourth one here, too. This boxes, I'm
going to work with putting my pencil away.
I'm gonna need some water. I'm gonna need that gonna
use that big brush. Alright, I got to
get some grass. I want to get some dark
colors and some light colors. And I'm going to
go for some red. I got two reds now, a light red and a dark red. And what I want some greens, too, since we're going
to work with flowers, I want a light green, and I want a dark green, a dark green is
hiding somewhere. Light green and let's
go for this color. So I got a light green and a
dark green, too. That's it. We're gonna need for this clap. Let me put away the rest. Alright, so I've got my colors light and a dark
colors of two sets. And we're gonna work with
that. We need the brush. I got the water set up, and I'm going to demonstrate
how to work with these. Alright, now, there's
a couple of ways you can work with
watercolor pencils. And I'm going to show
you the first way. I'm going to go for that bread. Now, the main way, what
we're going to use is, I'm going to pick this color, and what you're
going to do is I'm not holding it like a pen. I'm just again, using it
with the relaxed grip. And I'm just going
to color this in, like if I would be
coloring. One layer. It's good if you press hard. If you press lightly,
just put on a few layers. And I want to do the whole box, but I'm going to stop here. Let's say about one third, so I got to go a
little bit further. Of the box I'm not
going to use because the watercolor will start flowing around and
we'll do that. Now, let's start really easy. And just do that one
color and let's go. Now. Good. That's it. Easy isn't it. Now the
next thing you need is the brush. Put
the brush in water. Make sure it's clean,
and I pick up water, but I don't want too much, so I'm on the side. I'm just letting
go of some water. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to start at the end. And as soon as I hit
this with water, you can see what happens. This is going to flow, and I've all as well. I can drag it. I need some more water
all the way there. And there you go. Now, that is the first step with
watercolor pencils. And that is really easy. So if you have one color
only, you color it, don't color the end and you
can drag it all the way, and you get right away a
little bit from dark to light. And that's the nice thing
about watercolor pencils. You can get some light
and dark tones with even one pencil right away.
Let's do two of them. Now, if I would use two of them, I can do that in
two different ways. Now, the first way
is I'm going to put down that light color again. And as you can see,
I'm doing it a bit lighter now and
just do two layers. There you go. And the second
color, what I'm going to do? I'm going to put that at the
end over that light color, and I'm doing about a third now. And now let's go for that cleaning my
brush while it's red, so it's not a problem
with switch camera. If there is a
different color on it, you want to really
clean that brush, but since I use red, no problem. Pick up some water, and now
I'm going to do the same, and now you can see it goes from that dark tone to that light
tone, and there we go. Now, that's for now. It's great. See? So you can mix two
tones right away, go from dark to light, and that makes watercolor
pencil so easy. Now, there is a third way
and what you can do too. Let's say, we're
going to start with the light on this side now. There you go, a little bit
more at the beginning, and go for the dark on this
side, a little bit further. And now you probably already can figure out what's
going to happen. I'm going to start
with that light color. I'm going to drag it, and then we're going to start
with that dark color, and I'm going to drag it
into the light color. And there you go,
and you get a nice, blend, a nice mix in the middle. That is basically all you
need for watercolor pencils. Okay, there are some
more techniques, but this is the main
technique with color. You just put down your color. You decide whether
to use one color, two colors, even three
colors you can mix. I'll do that in
this demonstration with the other pencils. Alright, so let me get the
other pencils with it, then. And then you will
see there isn't much difference between them. And I got to open
that box. Let's see. Alright, and I'm
going to do the same. I'm going to use now, I'm going to use an orange, a really dark red and middle red that is
sliding out already. Right. So I've got three colors now. I'm going to start
with that orange here. Until about here. That's good. Now I'm going to start with that dark
red on this side. I want that to meet the orange. And I could go with
that dark red. Mix that in a little bit there. And now let's get the brush. The brushes here.
And we're going to start on this side here that
mixes in really nicely. Pick up this color and let them blend in the middle.
There you go. Now, the other way you could do this is let me demonstrate
that down here. So I'm going to do
the same again. No boxes. I'm just
going to draw that he. Put that light that color on it. Go with the dark There you go, get some water and
pick up that color, drag it all to the other side, and mix it in now. That's the way you
could do it, too. Alright, see? You've got
some nice blends, too, see? Nice. Alright, so that is the basics. What
we're going to do. Now we're going to
mix free colors and from really dark
to really light, that's the last thing
we're going to do. And I'm going to
demonstrate that down here. We're gonna start
with the light color. Now, the reason I put down
the light color first is because with watercolor
pencils and with watercolor, light, dark doesn't work, but dark over light works great. You always start with
your lighter colors and work too with
your darker colors. Then we're going to do
second color over it. And why I'm putting them over each other is
because you just get a nicer mix than if you would put three colors separately next to each other. Now we can do that too of
course as a demonstration. And the last color go to
put there a little bit. And let me do that demonstration
too, the dark color. Go for the light color, and now go for the
very light color. There you go. You could do it
like that. Then you would. But what I would if
you would do this, what I would do is I start
with the light color, drag it into the second color, drag that into the dark color. Then you don't lose your light color because I'll demonstrate what happens if you do it the
other way around. Do that again. Clean the brush a little bit. And I'm going for the dark, mixing that with that color and see that contaminates this. You get a nice blend though, but see, now you get
a very dark color. So that is the two
choices you have. Go from the light side into the dark or work the
other way around. Now, I have to still
demonstrate this one. Let's go with this one. Also from this side
then. There you go. See, you get a nice blend, a nice color variation. While here you get free
colors like here too. You can still see the
original color here, and here it just
blended in nicely, and that is why I start with my light color,
put it down first, put a little bit of
the darker color, and then put the
darkest color so that you can get a nice,
lovely blend. Alright. Good. Okay.
Well, that's it. For this lesson, very easy
simple steps to start with. Just practice this a little bit. If you never picked up
watercolor pencils, play a little with them on either the mixed media paper
or on the watercolor paper, create some boxes and
just start experimenting. Mix certain colors too. Now, I won't mix more
than free colors because if you mix a
fourth and a fifth in it, the chances are that
you get muddy colors, not nice bright colors, but you lose their brightness, and you get ugly mixes. Yeah. So I would go free at the
max depending on the brand. Some brands will do four,
but I wouldn't do it. Two free colors mix them, and then you keep these
nice and bright colors. Now one thing to
keep in mind with watercolor pencils
is time to dry. It needs time to dryer. If you want to speed
up the drying, there's a trick for
that, use a hair dryer. Just dry it with a hair dryer. Don't put it on his
fullest and hottest. Just slowly dry it. Not too well, hot is
okay, but not too hot. And don't let the air blow on his max go somewhere
in the medium, and then use a hair
dryer to blow it, and that will save
you some time. Alright, that's it. Probably
in one of these lessons, you will see me use maybe
had dry, maybe not. We'll see her, how
quickly it dried. Because let me look at. If I look at this, you can still see if I move
it a little bit, you still see some water on it, and that means it
just isn't dry. Okay, this is the first
step into watercolor. In the next lessons, of course, we're going to expand on
it, add something to it. So if you have practiced this, then you can move
to the next lesson, and we're going to build on this technique
a little bit more. All right. See you
in that next lesson.
3. Highlights and Shadows: Welcome to this lesson. Let me first go
through what you need. You're gonna need this flower? For it. And I've picked
a poppy two, I think. So you might need a puppy
two and this one up to you. Whether work with one flower, the really easy flour. You might want to work
with a puppy two. I'll show you that. Pencil to transfer
that to your paper, and you're going to need
your watercolor pencils, whatever brand you have. Water, a brush, and
paper, of course. I'm still using this
student brand of paper. The previous work
pretty much dried up, so we can go use that paper, and I'm going to work
on these flowers. Alright, well, let's
start the lesson. Alright. Okay, so
you see free flowers because I want to demonstrate
a few things here. We're going to work with
some light and shadow, and we're going
to just work from the previous lesson and
just create some flowers. I'm going to start on this side, because if I start on this
side and this can dry, I can work on this
side and so on, and then I don't smear
whatever I'm working on. Alright, I'm going
to need some colors. For this one, I'm going
tone two yellows. Alright, let's open that box. I'm going to pick a dark
yellow and a light yellow, and they are cold here. Lemon yellow. That's
just a regular yellow, and I'm going to use
Tuscan sun for that. And for the next colors, I want to use some pink, and that is called
pink macaron here. And then I want a darker pink. I might go for what is
called a fruit punch. These two I'm going
to pick up too. And then I'll have
enough for this one, but there's one
color I need with that still, and I
got to find that. We need a dark blue color, and a dark blue color is
called Indigo. There we are. Indigo, or here, you could
use a midnight blue, too. Now, most of the
watercolor sets will either have an indigo.
Is this an indigo? Yeah, an indigo or
a midnight blue, something called midnight blue. They're dark blue colors. You don't need both.
Just only one of them. A really dark blue color, and indigo or midnight
blue works great for that. Most sets do have that. Okay, we've got our colors now. We're going to work with
a range of two colors. So pinks I've got here, dark and light, yellows,
dark and light. And later on, we're
going to use these. Not free colors for this one, just two colors to demonstrate. Let's go for the first one. Let's start with
the heart for this. I got two colors. Now,
why do I have two colors? Because I want to bring
in light into my drawing. And what I'm going to
say is I'm going to say light comes from this side, so the sun would shine here. And if the sun shines
here in this corner, that means everything that
is closest to the sun, these petals here,
this part here, and even some of that
will be in light. Now, we're going to make
it ourselves very easy and we're not going to
do complicated theories. We're just going to say,
Okay, for this middle, the heart of the flower, this
part will be full light, and it means I'm not going
to draw that full part. I'm going to let the paint flow into that part
to get a light side, but I want this to be dark. So I'm going to color this in About two layers. That's good. Then I'm going to go in with
that dark color, and I'm only going to go on the bottom a
little bit there. All right. And we're going to
pick up the brush. I got to clean my brush, pick up a little bit of
water, not too much. And what I want to do
first is I want to push this yellow right in there so that it gets
nice and bright. And the rest of the yellow, I want to mix with this orange. And as you can see, right away, I got free tones. Mix this in a little bit more. Of yellow. And there you go. Simple as that. Now, I've got a
dark tongue there, a mid tone there, and I
got a highlight there. I'm going to clean the
brush, that's all. Now, now this is wet now. If I start painting here, what will happen is this color will slowly move
into that color. So I have to wait
until this is dry. Now, this part is already
pretty dry, quick. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to work
with that petal. And I'm going to
do the same there. Starting at the heart,
I want it dark, and up at the end,
I want it light. So I would say I would
go around there. I'm going to color this in. Now, if you take a
look at my tips, these are reasonably
not even sharp, but it's a good nice tip
on it, and you need that. A nice tip. But you don't need a sharp tip because then
they will break easily. Now, even with blunt
colo watercolor pans, you can still work pretty much because you're not going
to work really detailed. Anyway. Alright, so we've
got the light color. Second one. Putting down here around the
edge a little bit. The dark color. Now, if I use too much pressure
like I've done here, you see those stripes there. Probably it's not going to
mix nice. You want to try. That's why I put it on the
side to do it lightly, rather use a couple of more
layers than really press hard because then the pigment will be hard to move around. If you have some layers
put on top of each other, that works way better. All right, I'm going
to give this a try. Now that is not going to move. So let's work with this first. There you go. And now I
push it in there. Right. So I've learned something
from this color right away. This is a brand new pencil, and that means most
likely on top of it, there's a little bit of wax
on it to protect the pencil. I can even feel it.
To get rid of that. You need a sharpener? I'm going to use this sharpener. And if all is well, this pencil now should be Oh, yes, that feels a lot
different right away. Should be working a lot better. That's a little thing
to keep in mind some factories put some
protection upon their pencils, colored pencils,
watercolor pencils so that they won't break in
shipping. That's gone now. So we're going to do this again. And let's pick this petal here. And now it puts down
the color much nicer. I'm still gonna go there. I should have done
there a little bit less since the sun
is coming from here, so let's add some color there. Now the thing with
color pencils, I could pick up an eraser. And get rid of it where I don't want it before
I start painting. How afterwards, this
is not going to work. But before I start
painting, that works great. All right, pay attention. The light part is there. So I've learned from this pencil that it gives off a little bit of color. So I want just an extra
layer. There you go. And I'll put the
second one on it, and there we go. Okay. And now, as you can see, I've put down some more pigment. I'm going to move the light
color up there first again. And now I'm going to mix in the darker color.
And there we go. Push it in a little bit there
and there and let this dry. Now we're going to get
an interesting petal. Okay. There you go.
Now, that's that. Now you may wonder why I'm not putting down
one color first, putting another one
on it, putting on it. I need to demonstrate that
because this is going to depend on the
watercolor pencil you use because with some
watercolor pencils, if you do that, it's going
to go horribly wrong. Let's see if I can get
it horribly wrong, huh? So let's do the light
color first on this one. Oh, no. I'm going it room
again. Pay attention. Got to get rid of
the light color again because the light
color is not there. The light color is
here. Let me do that. Okay. I'm putting
down the light color. And I'm going to paint
the light color. All right. Now I
need to wait for this to dry because if I go in with a pencil right away,
I'll show you that. There you go. Then what happens, my pencil is slowly but surely
crumbling and it's drawing in the water into the core and that might
if I use it now again, it might break right away. And let's get some water. And then you move into this
problem, moving this around. There you go. Now, that could. Now, as you can see, that
works, but not like here, where you get a nice tone, where you get a nice
texture, it's not here. This color doesn't
want to move really. I want to stay there. Even though I put quite
some color on it. So what we've just done is
what is called wet on wet. Your paper is wet and you
put in your color later, and that doesn't work great. And the chances are that you're gonna destroy
your pencil. Won't recommend it. Your paint
doesn't move right away. Like here, you don't get
these nice textures. You can only get a
faint line. Okay. But what if I want to
add another color later? Is there a way to do this? Yes, of course,
there is a way to do that. Let me
demonstrate that. Now, let's say, I want
to add this color. What I'm going to
do, you need a piece of scrap piece of
paper for this, but I'm going to
demonstrate it right here. I'm going to put this
color down here. Now, in this petal here,
this is not dry yet. I wanted to do it on that
petal, which is dry. I want to add this
darker color more. What I'm going to do is
wet my brush a little bit, mix this paint and
pick it up and move it into this petal, see? Move it all the way to
get a nice extra tone. And that works, as
you can see, great. Not like what I've tried here, which didn't work, but now
you get a nice even blend. Although, again, you lose your texture a little
bit by doing that, yeah. But this is the way
to pick up colour. You just mix your pencil, sorry, your brush in it,
and you can paint as if you were painting with
watercolor. See that? Works great. Now this petal is
fine like this. So that is a way
to use watercolor, if you want to add
another color later on. Now, if I want to draw
a subtle line only, I could just use the
pencil for that. I don't need to pick
that up as I've done, or, I can use the
pencil right away. Let me demonstrate it. Now,
let's say on this petal, I want to have a bit of shadow. I'm just going to color
that in right away. Now the problem is this pencil is probably still
wet a little bit. Let's say I want
this middle line. And there you go. There's the middle line, see? And then I just
use my pencil dry. Now, this might be
slightly still wet because I used it to demonstrate something,
but there you go. You could do that,
too. That works great. Alright, we've got these
extra two colors steel. What do you want
to do with that? I want to bring in some
shadow. Let's go for that. Now, we've got these petals, and I think I've
demonstrated quite enough. Let's see, this should
be pretty much dry. This is still dry. Now
what I'm doing testing it. Don't do that on your real work because if it's still wet,
you're gonna ruin it. Okay, I'm going to
take that indigo. I want to have some shadow, and it needs to be dry for that. So I'm just going to
whiff this pencil, color, my shadow in. That would be one
way to add shadow. And now I get a nice, shadowy line here.
And that's it. Now I've got a nice
subtle shadow. I got my highlights here. I got a nice mid tone,
deep color there, and I got a shadow line there. I'm not going to use water with this. I'm going to let that go. But the other way to
do this would be, of course, the same way,
pick up your color. Now I'm going to switch
to a smaller brush. And what I could do
is with this one, I could add some shadow
with a small brush. Mix that in. I'll do
that line right there, too, with some shadow. And you can see quite a
difference, isn't it? Alright now, you could
do it on here, too. What I've done here, I could pick this up and spread this, but there's a use but with that. This depends on your watercolor. Some watercolors
don't do this well. The artizas do it pretty well. Some watercolors, now
instead of painting it in, we'll lift away your paint, and then you don't
get this nice thing. So this is an experiment
for your watercolors. See if it works with that if your brand works
like this or not. So spreading out. So there are ways you could use. You could either leave it, so pick up that pencil, draw in that shadow. And don't touch it anymore. Or you could just
pick up the brush, push it if your watercolors
work like that or otherwise, pick it up with the
brush and add it. So now we've got great
shadows and highlights, see? This is looking great. And that is nice, isn't it? So what if there's
only one color? You only got one color, one red, and I want to
do something with that. I'm going to demonstrate
that on the poppy. If you have only
one color of a set, you just have only one red. You might have a blue with
it, so you can use that too, but only the red for now, Alright, so let me do this side. So what I would do is
if I only have one red, and I would say the
light comes from here, so this side is not painted in, I'm going to put down
the layer there, and that one is on
purpose, a bit faint. Now around the edges here, I'm going to press a bit harder, and I want this to be darker. Now, I could mix in
my blue right away, but the chances are
that it's gonna affect this and turn this into a
completely different color. In this case, red and blue makes purple, so
I don't want that. So I've got something
really faint there. I got it strong there, and
now I can make use of this, and I got to find the
right brush. There it is. Clean my brush,
pick up that color, start with the dark color. Move that up there.
And there we go. All right. If I've painted this, and
this is now too strong, what you can do, you
can take a paper towel, just a kitchen towel and carefully lift some of
the paint off again. And there you go. Now I want to make it slightly
nice and smooth again. All right. And let that dry. So if you got too
much picked up, you put paint too
much down for your liking carefully
with kitchen towel, kitchen paper, lift it up, let it dry, and you get this
nice smooth transition. Alright, I wanted
the work of the red. I did pink instead works too. But I want a stronger
color there. It's still wet. That's okay. I just pick up this color and
just add some down there. Good. Now you also right
away see here what happens if I would go in with my brush and water
only too often. So it's only going
to lift that color. Instead of mixing it nice, it's going to take
this color away. Now I'm making use of that by adding some
color, and that's it. Okay, so if you only have
one color, you can still. We got one, two, three, at least three tones, and if I would take
away a little bit more there, let me
get the brushes. Lastly, gonna only
take a wet brush. And I'm going to mix in
only some water there. Taking away some of the paint, put it on my paper. Now, it's a dry brush. Pick up even some more. If it's still dry, you
can wet, you can do that. And now I got even another tone. So that is the way to work with these watercolors and
you get some nice tones. So even with one color, we can get really far. You don't need all the colors. You could actually go with a set of 12 colors and
create something beautiful. Now, I recommend more colors. I would go with at
least 48 colors. Now don't go below that, because then you get
a nice selection, nice choice can mix
a lot of colors. But if you can't get a set, or if you're traveling
with a small set, you can still do pretty things. Alright, that's it
for this lesson. I've demonstrated how
to paint a little bit, how to add your light and shadow and how to
bring in that other color. The next lesson, we're
just going to practice. We're going to do a
nice practice piece.
4. A little Practice: Well, welcome to
the next lesson. We're gonna do a little
bit of practice. Now, with my sheet
of the last time, and I'll show it to
you, there you go. There's in the middle is one. Flower left, and I'm just
gonna paint that flower. Alright, let's go
right into that, huh. Let's not talk too
long about that. I'm going to paint that flower. I'm going to show you
how to paint the flower, how I would do the flower. And then you can practice
with that a little bit, and then we go in
the next lesson, make some pretty cards
with watercolor pencils. All right, but let's do
that practice first. Okay, so I've drawn my flower. It's a bit faint. Yeah, so
you can't see it really well. So I might as well add
some things right here. And there is the middle. Okay, now, it's a simple flour. I'm going to practice
a simple flour, and I'm going to use the
same colors as before. I'm going to start
with the heart again. And I'm going to pretend
the light is from the same. Yeah, I'm going to just
use the same light. So I want to color
this in right there. I want to have some
nice strong colors. So the more pigment I put down, so the more layers I draw, the stronger my color will get. And I'm going to put
in that dark color. And put a bit more even down. Contrary to what I've done here where I stop, do, stop, go. I'm gonna draw this in one
go. Then I'm gonna paint. So I need that Fuxier color
and that really light color. And what I said was, these guys the light hits up there. They go. The light hits there, so this
part wouldn't be lighted. And if the light
comes from here, then this side
wouldn't be lighted, so there it turns
around more or less. And the same counts
for this one, too. I'm going to turn the
light around a little bit. Now let's put in another layer, and as you can see, with
watercolor pencils. I'm not even going to be worried if I work neat and nicely. This is a quick exercise. So I'm just adding
some yellow there, and I want to have
that color there too. Alright, and now I'm
going to switch to that fugia color.
Got to find that. There it is. No, the
foot punch, sorry. And I'm going to the
light comes there, so what I'm going to do is gonna put on the bottom here too. This petal, too, and
this is the big petal, so the big petal only get that nice color there.
And there you go. And that would be the
base of my flower. Let's see. I want some
of this light color. Bit strong. At the bottom. We could do free
colors for this one, and I definitely want a
little bit more there. All right. Good.
Now we can paint. We're going to go
with the petals first. So the heart later on. And I'm going to go
from the bottom, push that all the way around
and paint that in nicely. Same here. Going to
go from the bottom. Push the paint all around. Net some more water. Same here. Pick up that
color, move it around. Feel the edge. I'm going to do this one first. They go. And the last one. All right. All right, that would be
very quickly the first step. I need to work on that a
little bit more, of course. We'll do that now. All right, so I'm going to get
that dark color. Put it down here. I'm
going to switch brushes. I'm gonna get that little brush. Pick up that color, and I want it around the edges. Definitely a bit
stronger there too. But make sure I'm not going
to touch that Um, yellow yet. On the edge a little bit more here too. There too. So I'm creating those shapes
back again that I want. All right, my brush
is wet enough. See if I can still pick up
some of that. Yes, I can. Add some more around
this hatch. There we go. Bit there. M I'm
gonna let that dry. Okay. And there we
go for that step. Now, I'm switching brushes. Make sure it's clean.
Pick up the yellow. Oh, move that away. And now I'm gonna pick up that. Nice, dark yellow. Careful around the edge that I'm not mixing
in the colors. Now, what you could
do, you could let this dry first, too. And then do the yellow. But in this way, I'm
getting a bit of a blend on the edge, which makes it interesting. There you go. Now I could
wait for this to dry and just cut the video here
and then let it dry. But I found the hair dryer.
So that makes it easier. This will make some noise, but it's worth it. So I'm taking the head dry now. Not on the top speed,
but the regular speak, putting the heat at the
middle and we're gonna dry. And just as if we
were drying our hair, we're gonna dry our work. Now, what you see, it is
buckling a little bit. See, I can press it. That's okay. Later on, that will just
stretch out again. Won't be a big problem. Well, Well, I think
you get the idea. I'll keep on hair drying, paint drying, in this case. And then once I'm done, we'll continue this video. Alright, that's a lot better, and now it's quiet again. Okay, we can continue
with this work. It's dry. I mean, sure it's totally dry, and now I can do the last step, adding some of that shadow. I'm gonna take this No, not the midnight blue.
I like the indigo. And what I'm going
to do with this, I'm gonna add a bit of
a shadow edge there. But and I'm going to
add some shadow where these petals overlap each
other here, under here. That should get some shadow
and the same round there, a little bit of
shadow under there. And on each petal, just a little bit of
shadow, and that's it. Alright. Now we're going
to get that little brush. This time, I'm going
to start at the heart. Push that shadow
inwards a little bit. And now I'm just going
to do these petals. Picking up the paint,
pushing it in a little bit. Creating a bit of a subtle shadow pushing
it where I want. A little bit more
water, not too much. With this one here where
I'm working on now, see, I didn't clean my brush. You get the wrong color. I'm going to correct
that picking up some of the blue there. I need some water. There you go. While I'm at it, might just
as well in those spots there, add a little bit. All right. I want some more here. One last thing I want to do, I want to add this middle
line a little bit. There you go. I want some
shadow around this edge too. There you go. Bit more
there and slightly there. Okay, now I'm going to
leave it like this. Alright, that would
be my practice piece. Okay. That's that. Now we're going to
do one more thing. I'm going to bring back one of that strong color again
while it's still a bit wet. So let's, let's do that. So I'm going to bring a
bit of this strong colour, this fruit punch I had. It's too soft for me. With that small brush, we're going to mix
that in the blue. Pick up that color. I'm going to start
with this one. M there we go. Create a bit of a
stronger tone and create also a little bit
of texture in it. So I'm showing it on this one. Bringing in the color
and then pushing it, see, lines out and let that dry. See now, I've more or less corrected this bit
which was wrong too. Mixing in that
color a little bit. To get a bit more natural
flow in it. There you go. Casting this column
might almost be done. I'm just gonna not in it, but next to it, add a new one. And normally, you of course will use scrap ach piece of paper. Picking up there and
now I'm picking up some of this color
which is too strong, adding a little bit more there. Let's blend this out
away a little bit. Gonna use some
water. There you go. That's better. And
now around the edge. Make it a bit. Stronger
again. There you go. All right. And now I like
that flower much better. So correcting it with
some extra colors afterwards makes a whole
lot of difference. Now, we could keep
on going what we want for a practice piece. There you go. This is
pretty nice already. Okay, now I'm going to stop. I've done enough on
this practice flower. Looks pretty nice, doesn't it? Oh, let's get it in
the camera, then. There's the practice piece. What we're going to do
next? We're gonna create some beautiful cards
using these techniques. Now, with the cards, I'm going to use different kind of papers so that you get an idea what different kind of
papers look like. We now know what this
practice paper looks like. We're going to use
the cheap paper and also the bit more expensive
paper and play with that. But that's for the next lesson. I would say practice this. Just have fun with these
colors mix some colors, some light colors,
some dark colors, add some shadows later on. And then once you've
added the shadows, even go back in with your color to create a stronger
blend of colors. Have fun with it. You can experiment with this
a lot. All right. Well, I'll see you in
the next lesson once you've got a nice
practice piece done.
5. Project 3 - Pretty greeting cards Part 1: Welcome to this next lesson. We're going to create
some pretty cards. Now, what we're going to do? I'm going to demonstrate one of them completely
walk you through, what I'm going to
do with the paint, even a little bit of
a subti background with it, and the rest, I'm just going to demonstrate, but speed that up, so I won't talk you through, but one of them, I'm going to talk you
through completely. Alright, what do you
need for this lesson? You're going to need pencil and perhaps a pen eraser
and like that, you're going to
need your brushes, what are called
pencils, paper, water. Perhaps paper towel just in case something goes
wrong as I demonstrated. Oh, that's about it, I
guess. Did I miss anything? I think that's it. Yep. Sounds good to me. Oh, no, you need something else. You need, of course,
the designs I made. Okay. We're gonna
work with these free. Poppy, simple flower and a
nice scene with flowers. You need to transfer these too. Paper. I'll show you that later on I'm not gonna show
you how to do that, but show you what
I've done with them. Yeah. And then you're
gonna need this paper. That has the shaded versions I made so that we know
where the light and shadow is
coming from and how that translates into our work, but I'll walk you
through that, too. Okay, so these two you need. Once you've got that, you're ready to go. Alright,
let's begin. The free designs are here. So I've got a hot pressed one. Now, I got to get
the right paper. That is on this hamller
harmony paper, hot press. This is really smooth. You will see that
works quite different. And what I've done
with this one, I'll put this paper away. I've done this with a pen. So and I've done this sketching, which I demonstrated before, a little bit sketching. The second one is this one. That is on hand andmer and that is cold pressed, fine grain. This is fine grain, but you
see quite some texture. With this, I traced the flour,
and it looks like this. Now, the third one is done on the cheap dollar store
paper, and as you can see, it has a bit of a
texture, looks nice, that texture, and it's not
as strong as it looks. It's good to work on. So
that's the free I have. So I'm not going to I said, I'm not going to
demonstrate all of them. I'm not going to do this
one now. We put that away. I'm not going to
do this one, too. I'm going to put I'm going
to work on this one now. This is far away. So what I'm going to do,
I'm just going to adjust my camera so that it is a
lot closer than it is now. What I'm going to do with this, I'm going to need some colors. I'm going to use the indigo. I'm going to use a dark red, and I'm going to
use a light red. I'm going to use a dark green
and a light green, too. And for my backgrounds, I'm going to use some yellows, a dark yellow, a light yellow, same colors I've been
using all along. I'm just going to stick
with those colors, but add some green to it. I'm going to use the big brush and the small brush for this. We're gonna start
with the puppies. I'm gonna start with
that light red. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to say the sun comes. Let's keep it from there
because that is the nicest. So I'm going to give
this guy some color. Now, this is a different
kind of paper, so I'll probably need
less pigment on it. So I'm going to say,
since it's smaller, too, now it's dark
in the middle. It's light on the edges. There you go. This one, too. Co light on the edges. This one basically
is dark all the way. This flower would have
some dark colors there. This one. Mostly around
there. Definitely. In here. And there you go. I think I'll be fine
with these colors. Now I'm going to
go with the dark. Now, let's start with this piece around the edge. And
there it's dark. This only do some on the bottom. Here too, only on the
bottom a little bit. Now, this one would be dark
around that edge and then do the bottoms only at the
bottom, away from the light. There you go. This
around there too. This one would be dark. This one would be dark here too. That one a
little bit there? No, just one inside
where the heart is and this one, only
a little bit there. Then I'm going back with that
light color I want to add. A little bit there. Around here, too. Ah, that's good. All right. That's it. Alright, I've set up my red. I've got my water now changed
to things a bit around. The red is there, so I'm just
gonna paint that in now. Have some fun with
this. Alright, let me start with this one here. Go to move from the bottom, pick it up a little
bit on the top. And there you go. Now,
what I'm going to do? I'm going to let that dry now. I'm going to go to
the next petal. And I'm going to
go not this one, I'm going to go paint
this one under here. I got to move this around
slightly because it's in my way now of painting.
Okay, that's better. Right. I'm gonna
pick up this one. Pick up that color
around the edge first. And now I'm going to do
the bottom strong color in it. There you go. I'm going to let that dry too. I can do this one, too. Clean my brush a little bit because the dark color is in it. Pick up the light color
first, move it around. And now add the darker color to it and let it flow
into each other. There you go. Carefully.
Do a little bit up there, stay inside the lines. Alright, let's see. I can
do this one easily, too. Pick up that light color. Now I've gone outside.
Don't want that. Clean that a little bit. A worked slightly. And now let me do the
dark color. There you go. Alright. Now I just
got to basically wait. And while I'm waiting, I
might just as well work, I could do the head dry, but I don't want to do
that with this one. Since it's so small, I might
just push everything out. I could just start
coloring again. Now, the poppy pods, I'm going to do light
green all the way. I'm not going to worry about light and dark too much on the and I'm going to give it a little bit of
dark around there. All right. The leaf
I could do too. Same thing here. I'm
coloring the whole leaf. All right, that's the leaves. Add some shadow below it, and definitely, this one
is all the way in shadow. And this one, I want to add some shadow
around there, right? Now I'm going to switch
to that small brush, make sure it's clean. Start with the light green and move it into the dark green. Now I need to clean the brush. Same again here. Start with that light green, move into the dark green. Since this is a very small area, I definitely don't want to do
this the other way around. Since I'm working on
a very small area, I want to work from the light to the dark and not the
other way around because I don't have so much room to
push around these colors, so I need to keep them
concentrated where I want. So the best thing is to go
from light to the dark. And if you have a bigger piece, like we've done the other piece, which is larger,
you could push it from dark to the light
because there's room. Now, there isn't that's why I'm working the other
way around a little bit. Alright, let's go with this
so the same here, light. And now I'm pushing in
some of that dark green. Now on the here, it's
dark green all the way. And there light green slightly. Here's some light green. And let's push in
the dark green. Now, that looks
great, doesn't it? Add a lituid on
these edges there. Good. Now, I'm
looking at my flour. Is it dry by now? I think it's close to being dry. We can do it. Alright. Clean the brush. I'm going to start with this one
now in the middle. Pick up that light color, push it all around. And now it's time to
go for the dark color and let it flow in there. And begin the other one. Pick up the light color. Now, you probably
notice something that this paper is working a bit better than the
previous practice paper, keeping those colors
where I want them. That's the easy
thing about going with a little bit
more expensive paper. All right, I'm starting with
these light colors again, and now I'm moving
in the dark colors. Bit around there, too. I'm cleaning my
brush a little bit, and I want to move
that light color up. If I don't clean my brush, then I'm going to get
that dark color instead. Or I might do this
one, too. All right. And now I need to let
this dry a little bit before I can do
these last ones. Okay, we're going
to do some green. Again, light green. Now, this is going to be tricky. You can decide, and that's what I'm going
to do with this. I'm not going to color this.
Yeah, I'm gonna color this. Obviously, I am coloring this, but I mean, I'm not
going to paint this. This is such close work such on a small area that
I'm going to go to leave it, and I'm just going to color
in, put these colors in. And that's the decision
you can always make color instead of paint. Well, you always need
to color, of course, but don't use water on it. Such a small area that I'm
going to leave it like this. But I do want some dark. Of course, let's see this
one would be darker. So I'm just carefully
adding some dark. Up there, it would be darker. I'm adding some dark. Up there it would be darker. Around there definitely
would be a bit darker. There you go. Now I'm
going to go back. To this one. I can blend it in a little bit like I'm working with colored pencils or
want some dark here too. Blend that in a little bit. There we go. Now,
that would be it. Now, I'm confident
enough that this is dry so that I can start
working on this one. So that is the last thing I'm
picking up the light color. Put in the dark color. Cleaning my brush, picking
up the light color, adding some of this
dark color now. Cleaning my brush
and I only want to move the light
color around there. Alright. Now we got to
let that dry. Let's see. Some dark there. Okay, I'm basically now correcting
some of the little mistakes. Alright, the last
little things put to it almost with a dry brush, a little bit of a damp brush. A little bit there, too.
Alright, I'm happy with this. Alright, I'm happy with this. I just want to add a little
bit of shadow to this, but I need to get it dry, so I'm going to pick up the
hair dryer and dry it now. Okay, it's dry. Now I can continue
working on it. Gonna add some blue there, the dark blue, and then I'm going to do a little
bit of a background. Alright. Let's go. I'm going
to add some blue there, but I don't want to do
it right on the paper. I want to pick it
up, so I'm going to have to use a scrap
piece of paper, which I'm sure I
got. There you go. Here's square piece of paper. Putting that next to it, I'm
going to get that indigo. So I'm making a little
bit of that indigo. I'm going to go with
the small brush. Right, nice, picking
up that color, and now I'm going
to add some shadow, moving that away a little bit. This one I'm going
to put off camera so that I won't
put my hand in it. Alright, now carefully. I'm going to add
some dark color. Around some of the edges
where it would be darker. A nice strong blue like this. Add some right there too. Some there. Now, the
blue is fading out, which is perfect for me so that I can add
some of it there. Now, this I want to be spread out a little
bit and I want. Just a bit there.
Let's add some here. Create a bit of a darker
sight there. All right. Good. I might as well move this slightly up to There you go. Now, the brush is almost dry but it still
picks up that paint. Now I'm picking up a little
bit of that pigment because I want dish to be a bit dark too. That too, the tint
darker. There you go. Now that is nice.
Put them there too. Okay. No. Do slightly
a little bit. On that green, I'm picking
up just a little bit. And on the leaf, too. Picking up a little bit more. There we go. With there. And there we go. Alright, let me look at it. We'll pick up a bit of water. Spread this a little
bit more too strong. Plant it a bit more
in here the collar. Now it looks nice. We
do that here, too? Blend it slightly more. Walk away a little bit
of that edge here, too. We need to do that. Just a little bit of
water. I'm darkening that. But not around the edge that
needs to be staying light. Okay, now it looks good. Now I'm not going to
touch it anymore. Some nice shadows, dark shadows
going on. So nice colors. Alright, now, basically, I
could be done like this. I could give this away. Nice card. But I want to have a little bit of
a background, too. So we're going to play
with that, too, right? Let's do that. My overhead
camera stopped filming, so we're missing a
couple of minutes. So I've got to correct that and show you what I've been doing. So let me do that right now. Okay, as you can see, I've
got quite some here already, but the camera
didn't film it all. So what I've done, I've
taken the darker yellow, and I'm not sure
where it cut out, so I'm just going to show
you that a little bit. I've put that on here,
taken some water. Taking that color and
along the edges here, put it in that nice
dark color and then dragging it out as
far as it lets me go and feathering it away a bit like that to
create something interesting. That's what I've been doing
at the edges all around here. And I just got to keep on going. And I basically want to
do the same here, too. I want to blend this
in then a bit better. And I'm okay with it
being lighter right here. I just want to make
a bit more color. I don't want to color
the whole background. I just want to do just around the parts where it needs
to go close to the edges. Picking up now some
of this color. So that's not that
strong anymore. Okay. I think I might want
just a bit more here further away
from the subject. Okay. And that's what I've
been doing all along. So sorry for my camera
suddenly disappearing. So missing a piece, but I
think we solved it like that. Okay, so that's what
I've been doing. Looks pretty good, doesn't it? So now we can continue
and see if we want that light yellow
still on the rest. Alright, good. So
we got this now. We're just going
to use the light yellow to do the rest
around it a little bit. So I've got that
light yellow here. I'm just doing the same. On
my scrap piece of paper. There we go and clean the brush, picking up that
yellow and going. I need a wetter brush than this. I'm blending this in to the. I'm not going all the way, blending it in a
little bit like that. Okay, push this
aside a little bit. And I'm going to do that
all around the edge. Blending in that second color, creating a lighter tone on the bottom a little bit. All right. And there we go. Let's do the edge to. Then we have done the
whole thing, huh. All right. No, that's it. Good. Some rubbish there. A little bit here. And there you go from a nice darker
yellow to a light, some nuances in it. I'm picking up some of that. Dark. I want some dark,
especially also there. A little bit. All right. The first card is ready. Now, I just need to let it dry. And while it's drying, I can
work on the other two cards. Well, as said, I'm not
going to talk you through, but it will be speeding this up. You see the demonstration, be painting it, and at the
end, I'll be back to you. Alright. Let me have fun and create those
other two cards.
6. Project 3 - Pretty greeting cards Part 2: Okay. Well, that is my card. I'm not going to do the
background with this one or leave it white. Okay, like this. And I'm going to just
show you the colors, which I used for this one. You've seen how I painted it, but the colors. Let's
go through that. Let me pick them up.
The greens I used. Wow, Basil green
is the dark green and Mia green is
the light green, so a light and a dark green. Then for the hearts, I used watermelon pink as the dark color and salmon
pink as the light color. And for the petals, I used peoni pink as light and plum purple
for the dark color. Now, here's the real flower, as you can see, it has
more white on the edge, but mine is a bit darker because I left
the background white, and if I'm going to
do the edges white, you won't see the edges anymore. So I played a little
bit with that. Now, and the dark
color was the indigo, as with all the others,
and I mixed that in. Alright. Pretty card. Now, there's one more to go on the really inexpensive
paper, so I'll do that now. H another pretty card done. Bit different than
the previous one. Let me get it with it.
The ones I did like this. This is quite different. And now the other
one, that one is. Really different because of
the colors and the setup. But I got three
pretty cards now. I got to fold them, huh?
Let me do that since I already made sure I
have a folding line. And here I go. And now I've got
three folded cards. Let me hold them, see
if I can get them. That be able to get. Three nice cards. There we go. Three pretty cards created
with what colour pencils. Now, about that last
card, this one, I did different because
of the background, and I used a bit of a
contrasting color that will make this come out more. We're going to talk about
that in later lessons, creating backgrounds, how to make your flowers pop off the
page even more like this. But this is already
quite pretty result for our first steps into
what you call pencils. Ah, now, for the colors, sunflower yellow
for the dark one, Yasmin yellow for the light
yellow for the heart. These two colors.
Then let's see. The flower petals, the
petals. I got to read that. Peacock blue is the dark one and sky blue is the light one. Now, on purpose, I didn't
use a darker blue here because it already
has these nice edges, so I wouldn't touch that
anymore. That looked great. Alright, now, the background,
what did I do there? Closest to the flower, I
used this color, violet. Then to the outside,
it was up pub purple. And in the middle, I use D. So that's the
three colors I use there. That's the colors? Now I
got three pretty cards. Now, you probably see different. On the smooth paper,
the hot press paper, you indeed see really subtle smooth blends
and nice colors. On the more expensive paper, you see that the
colors pop a lot more, and on the cheap paper,
everything works great, but the colors do not come out as strong but still
really pretty. I'll leave it up
to you which paper you want to pick and work on. But I would say, create free pretty cards just as
I have done. Pick colors. Use the flowers. You don't have to use the same colors as I do. If you want a root,
strong red puppies. Yeah, do that. Mine are
a bit purplish red. You can do some
other great colors. But whatever you do with this, just make sure you
have a lot of fun. Create something
pretty. Enjoy it, and I will see you
in the next module.
Benjamin A, Art Teacher, illustrator Art by Benjamin
