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Watercolor and Reverse Coloring Book Doodling Technique for Mini Art

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Expressive Botanicals for Collage

      3:14

    • 2.

      My Favorite Supplies

      3:41

    • 3.

      Doodle practice

      7:12

    • 4.

      Watercolor Tips

      9:39

    • 5.

      Reverse Coloring-Book Ideas

      9:00

    • 6.

      Clippings Part 1

      7:47

    • 7.

      Clippings Part 2

      7:09

    • 8.

      Making the Cut

      7:04

    • 9.

      Bonus! Quick Collage Clusters

      4:44

    • 10.

      SK 18 Clip 10 Wrap Up

      1:24

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Simple and expressive botanicals can be yours with watercolor and pen!  Learn how quickly you can create mini art called Clippings to be used as embellishments or collage focal points for your journals, cards, tags, ATCs, APC, ATCoins, Inchies, Twinchies, Skinny, envelopes, or mixed-media collage.

Course includes

  • Simple doodle shapes instructions and resource page
  • Basic watercolor skills to be able to paint small botanical shapes
  • Complete supply list for watercolor, paper, brushes, and pens
  • Instructions to create florals and foliage in reverse coloring book style
  • Bonus lesson on making a collage cluster in minutes

Geared for beginners to watercolor, or collagists, or anyone wanting simple art ideas for embellishing crafts.  Skip the store bought die cuts and relax while engaging your creative side.  Watercolor painting and doodling both are meditative, calming, and helps focus and concentration.  

Plus, your clippings are original art that can be the beginning of many new art adventures!  

  • Clippings can be the starting point of larger pieces: full watercolor paintings, illustrations, or journal pages
  • The skill can be reversed. Doodle or draw black line first, then loosely watercolor especially outside the lines for an abstract effect
  • Consider sharing your extras with others who enjoy art swaps!

As a self-taught artist, I was a beginner just 5 years ago. I’m proof that anyone can learn given enough encouragement and time to practice!  Share your progress with me and I will be your biggest cheerleader!  And remember: It’s only paper. When you keep experimenting and playing with supplies, you learn the materials and broaden your abilities with them.  It’s only paper was a phrase that help me let go of having a perfect art piece while at the same time learning new things. 

I recently found about the smallest collage yet and it is called clusters!  In a bonus lesson, I will demonstrate cluster making and how easy it is to add your skills with clipping to the art piece! 

Come back and see my other classes on doodling: Doodling 101 and Whimsical Doodling

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Tammy Prara

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Hi Friends! My name is Tammy and I am an empty nester who discovered a love for modern calligraphy and watercolor painting after the kids left home. Today, I embrace mixed media collage and have become an avid paper collector! I have been crafting for many years and am a self taught artist, which is a good thing since I consider myself a life-long learner! I think we each have a desire to learn and to try new things whether it be through reading, or art, or a new recipe, or assembling a new outfit. Ideas come together with action and we create! Creating something means we have left our mark in the moment, or even generationally. I see art as a way to move from chaos to beauty.

Everyone is creative and I encourage experimenting, and like Edison, you will either ma... See full profile

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1. Expressive Botanicals for Collage: Hi friends. It's Tammy Pereira. And thank you for joining me today to learn some watercolor and doodling with pen techniques to create what my husband named, clippings, a clip, these are small pieces of art that are handmade and then they're just clipped out of the paper and used as a focal point for collage or an embellishment on crafts. Each clipping is many art. It is hand designed and it flows from the mind of the creator. I especially enjoy botanical themed clippings. So you will see ideas for flowers and leaves in this class I'm all about. That's sketchy, loose art style the watercolor and pen creates. First because it lets me create quickly. And secondly, because it helps hide imperfections. I show students how a few shapes can be combined to create various fantasy florals, which means no reference photo required, just your watercolor paper, paint, and a pen to get started, students will learn a few watercolor techniques as well as how I doodle over the paint in a reverse coloring book style. With these skills, students can apply this style to any of their favorite themes. I'm an artists on Instagram and I have a great affection for collage. I was a beginner just five-years ago and I've come to learn watercolor and doodle from many wonderful artists. I'm proof that anyone can learn given enough encouragement and time to practice. Creating is meditative and calming and helps with focus and concentration. When you keep experimenting with your art supplies, you learn the materials and that broadens your abilities with them. Go ahead and use my practice lessons to gain competence with your art supplies. And at the same time, come away with your own clippings. I recently found out about the smallest collage yet, and it's called clusters. And a bonus lesson, I will demonstrate cluster making and how easy it is to add your clipping to the art piece. I encourage you to pull out your paints and paper and let's get clipping. And your final project will be one of these great little pieces that you're going to make to share in the project section. And maybe you'll go on to make a cluster. And I hope you share that with me as well. 2. My Favorite Supplies: Supplies. Please use what you have. You don't have to have artists grade or fine quality are going to be experimenting. But as far as the collection goes, Here are my favorite supplies to make these clippings, which you can see require paint and pen and watercolor paper. First, we're going to need the watercolor paper. I have 140 pound watercolor paper. It's just a scrap I have, and it's cold press. So you're going to see that texture, that grainy feel to it. And this one happens to be cotton, but please use what you have, whatever you have on hand if it's scrap paper, as you can see, these are only a few inches. So you won't need a lot of paper for our practice. I really liked having a sheet that would hold as many as possible. So this is about 12 " or so. And you can tell I like the white pen and a black pen. So here are some of my favorite this signal, uni-ball pen. This is a one point size tip. And I really liked brush pens. I think brush pens make a great fine and thick line. But I also this pilot precise rolling ball, extra fine tip. It's a hard tip. Really excellent for these scratchy lines look. So those are my favorite pens. Now, watercolor brushes, plays, you'd really don't need anything very special. I'm using these today, a 6.1 and it's by Princeton. And I chose these because you can find them just about any craft store, and definitely on Amazon if you're looking for a synthetic brush, these are round tip brushes. And how do I prepped my palette? I use some water, I love squirting water in my watercolor palette. Or you could use a mystery too wet and activate your pans of paint. And copy paper. No special paper. Just copy paper so we can practice doodling together. My watercolor supply has grown over the years. I actually use this ten I found on Amazon to hold as many pans of paint as I could. And I've collected these. These are Winsor and Newton. Artist grade colors. Not a requirement for this project, but because this is what I have and preferred, that's what we're using today for my demonstration. If you are interested in collage, you probably have papers on hand, different fabrics on hand, maybe some thread and ribbon. And together for my bonus class, I will show you how to make a cluster. And this is a, you can see how tiny this little piece of art is. And it's just another piece of watercolor paper. And whatever scraps you have will make that together and stay with me as we continue practicing before we get into the final product. 3. Doodle practice: Here I have some sample doodles. I've been working out, practicing shapes and variations. Working out different funny, crazy doodle ideas. Because part of our clippings is to be imaginative. Just start with a circle. If it's not perfect. You know, just a few hundred more out of work for you to get that straight. But my sketchy ideas do not require perfect circles. Fact, we like to see some irregularities. The once you've got your circle, try giving it a slight variation. More of an oval. Elongated oval, maybe something with a tip to it, a teardrop shape. Practice doing it. Coming and going backwards and forwards, flip-flopped around so that you're comfortable making shapes and all the directions. But those slight variations is what makes these clippings. Just interesting. Maybe this wide pedal or leaf has a wide base. A square is one of the shapes we will be painting. Might want to practice a few hundred of those as well. What if that square had that flat top but slightly curved at the bottom? Practice starting on different sides. Going backwards and elongating that bottom. All of these variations will make your doodling the clippings, it will help make them more interesting. Practice some leaf shapes, maybe something very exaggerated, elongated, or both ends are pointy. Fact that's one of my favorite shapes. I could just draw those all day long, starting at the bottom curve and even just drawing over that tip as you come out the other side. What if we start layering these and coming out the side and touching the same point, coming out the other side and coming down to that same point. This will be really helpful with our botanicals. What about attaching them at the 0.4, a four petaled flower. We could make a five petaled flower. And this time I'm not going to be touching. I'm going to leave those points kind of free floating. And what's so sweet and meditative about this is it's a no stress, no worry type of drawing. Because I'm not going for realistic. I'm really not, I'm not going for realistic. I'm going for something abstract, something. I call them fantasy florals. And so these are all ideas that you can incorporate with our watercolor. Now you might say, well, what am I going to do with the squares are the circles. This is where that doodling section comes in. If we practice painting squares, then what if we add some extra elements? Abstract design patterns. We could poke a dot here and poke a dot there. Maybe little scratch marks over here. You could add a little base to it and a stem. I definitely like having a thicker stem. It definitely makes it easier for cutting. One. We're going to use our clippings. How about practicing some leaf shapes? I know we worked on this one, elongated tear shape. You know, a few hundred of those. But what if our leaves were rounded and doubled up? These are all different ideas that we can incorporate. Here's a few other leaf ideas. Now that might be a little difficult to cut out. But here's some great ideas I like coming up over myself making that like, like I've got the eye of the needle right there. And look, it's really the same shape. It's just a teardrop. Or adding circles to the tips of branches. Just go for it. Have some fun. Practice different shapes. Maybe a vase. This is one way to use your, your squares. And then you can attach these flowers to your vase. One of these ideas, this reminds me of a snake plant. Those long skinny leaves as part of the plant. Just go for it. Play around, enjoy your tools, and use as much copy paper as you need to come up with lots of ideas. 4. Watercolor Tips: I have my favorite supplies out. I have my favorite paintbrush tool out. I have around six. And I already have my sample of where we're going. We're doing different shapes or practicing using our paintbrush. And then we're doing those same shapes like we did doodling. Only this time with watercolor papers, pre-cut. I am ready. I have my water and let's dig in. I always kept my brush wet and my palette is already pre wet. First thing we did, as we did with our doodling, is making a circle. So one of the things about using your paintbrush is going over those edges, making that circle do what you want it to do. There you go. And as you consume more still I still have water and paint. I'm pushing that are around. This is just my preference. I'm always cleaning my brush. I don't like cross contaminating my colors. That's just me. That's my idiosyncrasy. Let's make our square. I want you to really experiment with your tool, your paintbrush. Or the fibers are the bristles. Splitting or dragging, holding a lot of water. What do you notice about your tools and your paper? And how the colors are reacting to each other. To the two. How much water to your brush? Let's just do this again, making another circle. No big special thing except just to take the tip of your brush and lay your brush down on its side a bit. Just like doodling. I am not concerned about imperfections. That is what my clippings will be. They will have imperfections. And that is awesome. I'm, I'm just not worried about it. So this whole practice time right here, this is about you. This is about you and your tools and getting comfortable with making shapes with the tip of your brush, the side of your brush. And please don't worry about imperfections. That is the last thing we're really focusing on. This next shape could be used as a pedal, could be used as a leaf. You just touched the tip, press down and lift. Touch the tip, press down and lift. Now you can see not a perfect shape. Got a little bit of drag mark in there. What if I just touch and press and lift in the body? I'm not. Wanting a pointed edge will fill that in. Practice using your paintbrush as a pen. That's totally fine. Imagine those shapes. This one has no strong tip, just a very light tip to it. And I hope you see it's okay to manipulate your brush and your paint to do those different shapes. Now I want you to take your paintbrush and just barely touch. You are practicing. How much pressure? How lightly can you go? And can you do it across and diagonal? And what will happen? What kind of brush do you have? Do you need to use a smaller brush? Then go for it. This exercise is really, really fun. We're making dots. We have a round tip paintbrush, and that means it's fine on the very tip. And I can make the tiniest dots. Or I can give it a bit more pressure. I can get larger. I'm filling that in just by practically just scratch and around, poking around with the tip and this color. See if you can do it with your color that you're choosing. We can lighten it up. Experiment with how many different values, different tones you can get from very deep to very light. Okay, Let's work out this. How about very smooth, tip? Smooth and to a point on the other end. Then I'm filling it in. I like to drag as much color to the tip and let it be lighter on one end. Can you work that out too? We can start at the bottom on the tip and lay your brush down and come down and then come back and fill it in if you'd like. That allows you to keep a bit of a highlight. I didn't have any paint right there where that green is. What about touching and pulling? Touching and pulling. Touching and pulling. Doesn't that look like the doodle we made with the round shaped leaves? Now let's try something with that bumpy top That's that came down a bit of a triangle, Don't you think? Maybe a heart-shaped top and a point here or an oval. No point. That this just takes practice. Learning control of your brush, your water, your paint, the paper. This is practice. We're playing, we're experimenting. We're seeing what does our paint do? That seemed really kinda chunky, not very wet. So I'm just putting here some on my palette. I dipped my brush into some water. To thin that out. I'm probably practice drawing four different directions. That would make a perfect sample flower. What about five petals? And they're all touching in the middle. While that paint is still wet on your paper, move it around. Round out your tops of if one got more pointy than the other, rounded up. Very simple. Just takes time, takes patients, and a whole lot of practice. But this is also very meditative and no concern about perfection. No, do not worry about perfection. We are just putting color on paper and making shapes. 5. Reverse Coloring-Book Ideas: Now if you've practiced over and over and over again, you probably have several cards worth of watercolor. And I have my samples around me that I've done before. I've got some mark making tools. I'm ready to go immediately. You're stumped, right? So that's how you have your practice doodles out in front of you. There's one of my ideas for square. Let's, let's start there then. So I'm drawing right on top and outside the lines. That's the look we're going for when you want a sketchy, scratchy look, what can I do with that? Well, a wavy line as always, one of my go-to this warm-up exercise is just to help you get your brain engaged and imagine and play. There's only so many doodle shapes. There really is. So from a dot to a circle to a filled-in circle, to a larger circle, the oval. Remember all those different variations of the same thing? That's what's very interesting to me. I might add in that third line. I'm going to leave it for now. I want to try out some white. I have a white pen and I thought I would try it on the dark color that I had painted. Now, obviously because I did watercolor, I'm not going to go so much on the outside. It's not going to give me that big difference that I'm looking for. Again with jots and small dogs and randomly placing them. What about Scratch lines from the side? That's another look. I wanted to show off a brush pen. And the thickness of that line might lead you to just wanting to do a single line, single outline and not that scratchy multiple times around. And just going to play with shapes with different directions. It's kinda looking a little bit like a rose bud. You've seen that technique about filling in pointed lines with a bit of a softening of the edges so that there are no hard edges. That might be a fun look for are very abstract looking piece. Now again, just a simple following the outline. I'm not worried about perfection. The one thing about this brush pen, as I can do a thin and a thicker line. Of course, you can always go back on your line and fill it in totally up to you. I like following the curve of the leaf instead of just a straight end-to-end. Let's see what else we can make with these. Definitely like the scratching us on very long, elongated, don't forget your circles. You can always outline each of them and give them very wonky shapes. Some are completely off the mark, some completely enclose it. If we round those edges, rounding it off, and following the different patterns you have of your watercolor. Do you see any watermarks of your watercolor? Doodle those shapes? This is very dark. So let's go back to our white and see about matching that line. Maybe adding patterns. One idea just flows and you get another idea and then that flows. And that's what's great about practice time. So I had a rounded leaf, but I went over it with a pointy tip. Alright, I'm rounding it even softer. I'm going to curve that enter. And could have lines on one side. Asymmetrical lines coming up with new and crazy things to do with your shapes will make a lot of fun with your, with your clippings. Okay, so here we have maybe two leaves and they're joined. You can draw whatever you want. Here. I grew, I drew straight into that middle. The night, tell you that was one of my favorite shapes. And then this one looks like it's overlapping because I didn't draw that edge. And this little flower, we could doodle in some middle parts of that flower and take this wavy edge. Right? There we go. It's just a touch. Drag, lift. Very quickly, lift that edge. Kinda scratch it out hashtag, hashtag. And add these looks like fold lines of your flower. You can come down and adding those little details. Don't forget your leaf. Here. I drew a line and then the leaf. So it looks like there's a stem to that. And that's whatever. Put it in a highlight of your leaf. Okay, we're back to our white. I'm really enjoying this white on the, on the petals. Gosh, that's kinda cool. Okay. That's what I'm looking for. That's the look for my clippings that will look so cool. In fact, I know this is practice, but I absolutely see me cutting these out to be used on my cards. Oh, isn't that fun? I love that. Okay. More ideas for you to experiment. 6. Clippings Part 1: Here we are. We're putting our ideas together. And one of the first things you're going to want to do is to give yourself more space. I'm going to put a flower here. I got some chunky paint on there. Fact I think I'm going to add a bit of water that's getting very dry. There we go. And the next flower I create, I want to space it out. This is what I'm referring to, is making sure I have space, one to cut and to doodle. But what if I wanted to add leaves next to my flowers? Now I have room to do that. So let's mix up some green here. And I'm gonna do my press and drag. Press and drag. Oh, isn't that cute? Um, maybe one on the other side. All right. Now to stem to it. Right, we practiced our lines, practice making very long, elongated. And I'm going to attach this just to the very tip. It's bleeding through to the red a little bit because it was mostly dry so it didn't take off and run all over the place too badly. This might look like I'm trying to draw the most perfect flower, but no, we are just still playing with shapes and different looks. In fact, I think I'm going to do a circle. I really liked making patterns on just the most basic shape. I'll make him a little bit bigger. Now this color is rather opaque, isn't it? That's not a very translucent color. I think I want to have maybe puddle up some color to one side. I'm going to come back and definitely put up a leaf around that one. Hop out. Um, uh, for petal. This is one of my favorite, favorite colors. I really want to lighten that up. So let's try something very pointy. I'm going to leave a bit of white. I'm not touching there in the middle. Okay, what? I'm going to leave that. And let's try a little bit of this. And it's still wet. I can still see how glossy it is. And I'm touching my tip. And it's touching right to the base of my purple. Pretty darn cool. How about my other violet? I'll just try that. Okay. Leaving lots of room to get those leaves between my flowers. Let's see. I get the paint to move a little bit. The app, you can tell it's how wet it is when your paint is still running around your paper. And in fact, I think I will, I'm going to take when to take some green and just make myself some leaves. There we go. Maybe I'll make two of those. Clean up those leaves a little bit. That time. What the leaf shape as that. I'm so grateful for imagination. I don t have to be that particular on my leaves. And they can be whatever I'm looking for. Or that's the thing with collage, right? You putting unusual things together to make something new. And these watercolor clippings are perfect for that. Don't you think? Just really broadens the opportunity of being experimental and creative and, and bringing out that part of you that is wanting something handmade, something, something to make your piece unique. Now, I guess it does look like I'm not being too sloppy. Because even sloppy flowers, sloppy leaves work with this. They really do because the pen can fill in what's missing for the eye. That's so cute. Okay. I'm thinking those purple might be dry. I don't know yet. I'm going to turn it this way to give it more space. Kind of a very gray. How about using the tip of your brush and getting curly with it? That's fine. Okay, Very fun. I'm going to wait for these to dry. Can't wait to doodle over these. 7. Clippings Part 2: My gold out to help, you know what? Maybe a touch of outline wouldn't hurt either. Can we add up here? Oh, yeah. There we go. And that pen is not I don't know. Yeah. It looks like it's bleeding with the gold, so that is not a pan for water. This is not indelibly good to know now that I'm almost done. Do some scratchy out here as well. I know I worked a lot with that thick pen on my practice. And I'm don't think that practice is going to go to waste. So I'm definitely be able to use those. I think I'm going because I have to I think I'm going to try both ways. So let's, let's give this a stem. Here we go. Okay, now I want to try the sketchy look. Let's see what we come up with. You know what this is reminding me of. I have seen some gorgeous work of people who, so they do free hand stitching. And that's what this is giving me that feel of a stitched look. And now you know, the two different looks we have here. I'm gonna go with the thick line here. And I'm going to give my top, not a point, but something rounded. I'm leaving my bottom open. And see how you can alter that. Look. Instead of circling the red, I'm just adding dots in there. This will have a more pointed leaf. Not the rounded look like the petals of the fantasy flower that I've got going on. I'm going to leave the highlights. I'm going to leave that one completely alone. And are funky. I don't know what that is. A golf ball on a t. That's okay because we can just play. This one is for fun. Member, I love my stripes. I'm gonna give that a definite up and down. Or some white pen would be great on there. You can alter, go ahead and not match your, your leaves. It all. Make it look like it's got ten leaves. By doing that. Man, this signal is a signal. Yeah, this pen, this white pen is amazing. Really impressed by. It's almost like a whiteout that is nice and vibrant. Wow, Very impressive. Let's see if I can dot. And even does something finer, That's great. And I think, should I fill it in? I'm going to fill it in. A scratchy fill in, a solid fill in. I'm going to leave it scratchy. And maybe some stripes down the stem. It is kinda skipping and I actually, I don't mind that look, I think that looks fine. Okay. Did we do them all? We got one more flower. And I definitely see black on that one. So let's do that. I think I may do some stripes on this. When we practice that on our practice. And remember I'm coming down. Even though that paint had joined, I can separate it with my pen. And I'm going to give it do all of them. A couple of them. One more. Okay. We'll come over here and see how he like it. I'm going to leave it. Put some black. These are all touching that. Oh, and don't forget the leaves. Okay. So I'm gonna put us down and come up. Gonna give it a stem and come up. This one, no stem because it's right end of the flower. Awesome. That came out great. 8. Making the Cut: Ink is dried, the gold is dried, and now the cut apart. Maybe not the most exciting part of my part three. Who doesn't know how to cut. But I do have a couple of tips for you. So one, keep your elbow in and turn your paper. And one of the things I strive for is leaving a white. The white of the eye. Watercolor paper still showing. This gives me a border. Kind of like framing the item. And if I want to trim that off because I don t need it or it's my pieces too big. I'm trying to fit it into something small. Then I have a place to trim. I can always trim it down. But the first, I'm giving it a border and I'm loosely following all those little dense and crevices. And to get to that pointy part right there in the middle, I come in on one side and I come even though I can't necessarily see what's going on on the other side. It helps me get right into there. The alternative is to come in and open up your scissors and just turn your paper, but that can bend. And I don't know, I found the other way works better for me. And like you see, I cut them apart, so I have something smaller to work with. And personally I really do like cutting deep into those crevasses. Because a lot of times my background looks kinda cool. I want it to show as much as possible. So instead of cutting a big fat circle around my flowers, I want to see around the petals. I want to see what was behind that flower. Here's a good example of why I'm going to come in and get deep in there. So these are just tips. One of the reasons of me making so many of them is because i've, I've found that, okay, I, I like that shape, but it's too big, or I really liked that flower, but the color is not what I was looking for. So just make as many as you possibly can just do a batch collection of all of these so that you'll have what you're looking for when you need it. And write really, we're having fun. We're, we had, had, gosh, 30 min of practice and that practice time was relaxing. I truly hope this was a no stress experience for you. It was just getting to know your materials. There's no reason to be anxious or upset or things didn't turn out, right. You just learned something. You just learned how that paint reacts, how that pen reacts, how your papers reacting. Maybe you have the exact same colors as I do. But your papers different and the look you are achieving as coming out differently. All of those lessons you're learning with your materials makes you more comfortable and it makes you want to come back to your desk and do it again and again. Wish I had made these closer together because I'm feel like I'm wasting so much good watercolor paper. Did you know you could even do this on card stock? The effect you're going to get with your watercolor is going to be different. But if you are concerned and worried about the expense of watercolor paper, go ahead and use different kinds of paper. Do you have gouache? Experiment with it? This is a style that you can achieve with many different materials. Alright, I might need that tiny scissors for these leaves. Will see how I, how I do with the with the large part. Leaves like this can be used in combination with other elements. So I sometimes I like making extra leaves, skinny, round, flat, whatever because I can tuck them behind. Maybe a flower that didn't have leaves. I have a couple here that would look well together. If you've got space on your paper, go ahead and put in some leaves because you never know when you might want that filler. Alright, I'm going to trim this around. Then. Let's go back in and see how close we can get. Boy, I don't know. That's tight, isn't it? And if I need to go more for the project I'm working on, we can always do that just a little bit. Okay? See what we can do here. Just a little indent. That's, that's good. And the tops got that curve. So we're okay there. I want curves around my rounded leaves and points around my pointed leaves. So I think that did it. That did it. Wow, that's our Does your collection. I hope you followed along and made some for yourself and please share that in the project section. I'd love to see your progress. 9. Bonus! Quick Collage Clusters: So with our elements, what can we use them for? I'm suggesting clusters. Clusters is tiny pieces of art that you can use to embellish a card or an ATC, artists playing card, your journal, what I recommend is something heavy. So this was an old piece of watercolor paper. Obviously, you need three or four things to combine. Maybe fabric may be some lace, different kinds of papers. And we're going to just clip them, tiny little things. And then this is our focal point. So pick one of your focal points and let's see. What are you feeling, kinda feeling this one today. And we're going to layer up a few things. Why this fabrics calling me so much blue, okay, and a touch of more pink. Touch more pink. And I'll take off that hard edge. You don't need much, you do not need much. Maybe that's too much. Let's cut a strip here. Right? The thing with clusters, I imagine it as the fastest work of art you will ever collage. And actually I think what I might want to try with this lace is bundling it up. Why do you think making it thicker? Is it a background? How do we That's a cluster. You're done. They do think I might want to make this a smudge and smart. Oh, I forgot the pink. How about a a touch of paint? Okay. Maybe. Ah, okay. Got it. Got it. Got it. Alright. Glue worked for me. Going to should I follow them? All right, forget it. It's gone on big. That's going on big, big and strong. Okay. And this down, maybe pinks peeking out. How about that? The pink can pick out and the velum can come down. And look at what a great match. Look at that is a mini work of art. I found the words, I feel so lucky. Why? Because it worked. Clusters are the most fun, fast piece of art you can ever play with. This feels so good. I love seeing the textures and the focal point just works really well. Isn't that sweet? All we did was experiment and tried our paints and we tried our pans out. It works. It's a great way to add to your art. I hope you make a cluster. I hope you put together little tiny pieces of art using your clippings. They look so cute, they look so fun. I can see them in journals and ATC cards. Maybe the feature of a card you're making for a friend. And I love this idea. I hope you utilize it and please share this in the project section. If you've made a piece of many art, share that with me. 10. SK 18 Clip 10 Wrap Up: Thank you for joining me today. I hope you came away, inspired and ready to make as many clippings as possible. Wasn't it's simple, right? Just a few shapes combined make these wonderful flowers and leaves. And doodling can just take off all on its own. It's, it's so meditative and calming to do. I hope if this was a class you really enjoy the Gillette. Me know. If it wasn't, please let me know as well, review my class. I'd love to hear from you. And especially I can't wait to see your projects. Please share them in the project section with me. I find so much joy in seeing what you can do. And I'm inspired, and I know other students feel the same way. They're inspired by seeing what other students are doing. So please share that with me. Please review my class and join me in my other classes to explore more collage techniques and watercolor and doodling. Thank you again for your time. Have a great day.