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Watercolor Techniques: Paint Romantic Valentines Day Cards Easily (Confetti Technique)

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Hello - Intro to the Class

      0:46

    • 2.

      Confetti Hearts: Materials

      2:55

    • 3.

      Confetti Hearts: Stamping The Heart Shapes

      2:57

    • 4.

      Confetti Hearts: Background

      4:40

    • 5.

      Confetti Hearts: Q-Tips Confetti First Layer

      3:52

    • 6.

      Confetti Hearts: Gold Confetti

      3:13

    • 7.

      Confetti Hearts: Lettering Phrase and Reveal

      3:43

    • 8.

      Your Class Project

      0:48

    • 9.

      Thank You - Next Class sneak peek

      1:23

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About This Class

Watercolor Techniques: Paint Romantic Valentine's Day Cards Easily with Heidi Seidl, in this fun and easy Skillshare class we will learn how to Paint Romantic Valentine's Day Cards Easily with little supplies and Beginners Friendly.

This class is designed for any level although it doesn't matter if you are a complete beginner or a seasoned artist this class has interesting facts that may interest you, and you are welcome to join.

In this class, I will walk you through the creative process to paint  beautiful Watercolor Romantic Valentine's Day Cards Easily, and you will learn:

  • Fun and easy watercolour Techniques.
  • Creating your Unique Color Palette.
  • Inspiration for your Valentine's cards.
  • Best practices to become a better Artist. 
  • I will share examples so you can better understand how to create your own Cards. 

For The Class You Will Need This Supplies:

  • Watercolors.
  • Watercolor Paper.
  • Brushes (Round and Flat).
  • Clean Towel.
  • Jar With Water to Clean Your Brushes.
  • White paint or White Pen.
  • Gold watercolor or ink.
  • Q-tips.
  • Cooky Cutter heart shape (optional)
  • Black Fineliner or brush pen.
  • Washi Tape or Masking Tape.
  • Mixing Pan (to Mix Your Watercolors).
  • Your Willingness To Create Something Beautiful :-)

You can put a smile on your loved one's faces with your creations, what are you waiting for? let's start and have a creative time together :D

Get in touch with me, and learn more in my Bio.

Check My other classes: 

CREATE YOUR WATERCOLOR CHART 

Ocean Life Watercolor Illustration: Swimming Whale in a Dreamy Ocean with Bokeh Effect

Watercolor Basics: Handlettering using Wet on Wet Blending Technique 

Easy Letters: 3 Styles Watercolor Floral & Botanicals Lettering

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1. Hello - Intro to the Class: Hello and welcome to this class. My name is Heidi, and I will guide you through the whole process of creating these beautiful Valentine's cards using watercolors. In this class, I am sharing with you the whole process from the blank canvas to the final piece. For this class, I choose to use the technique, the confetti, and I think you will love this fun and pretty technique to apply to your cards. You will need very simple supplies and I will explain them to you in the next video. You can follow me here on the skill chair, so you don't miss any new update or classes that I am sharing with you. Let's begin. I will see you in the next video. 2. Confetti Hearts: Materials: These are the materials for this motif. I have the mixing pan, clean water, a towel. I have two cookie cutters, hair shape that I will show you how to use it. This is optional, two brushes, one verified and one flat brush. I have two colors, you can use any shape you like. I am using violets and lilac because I want to use these two color. But you can use any color you want, like pink and blue, yellow and red, whatever satisfy your creativity. A piece of paper to make the color, I have already my paper fix with washing tape on a surface to protect the table. Now we can start. I will start by placing the water colors on my mixing pan so I can easily take them to start to paint. Placing them a little bit separate so they don't mix yet. I will start by making the color chart, starting with the darker color, in this case, the violet. Then I will add just water and see how the color react as I apply water to dilute the pigment. I really like these two colors together. I wanted to go a little bit for my usual colors, pink and blue. I wanted to try this with you. Now let's try the lilac. This is a more pastern color and it is a very beautiful contrast. This is the first part of the material step we are going to be using. During this motive, I suggested you have beforehand some Q tips and a color it water color and gold. Or it can be in or a creer or paint that you can use to make some contrasts. But later on or painting and also a fine liner brush paint To write a code, I will let this try, but it is looking very beautiful. I will see you in the next video. 3. Confetti Hearts: Stamping The Heart Shapes: Okay, let's do this fun transferring with cookie cutters, the watercolor under the paper. You can, if you have this, of course, if you have a hair shape cookie cutter, then you said, if you don't have, don't worry, you can do it by hand or you can cut this shape in a cart paper or you can trace it with your pencil And then go through brush and water color. I will start by the watercolor and then going with my brush around, the silhouette of my Coke cutter mining that the water color is not to runny water but more on the paste paste side so it can stamp the shape onto the paper. But if it doesn't stamp it perfectly, don't worry about it. You can go afterwards with your brush and make it a silhouette as you want. In this case, we want this to be in her shapes. I want this to be two hair shapes. Because we are creating this Valentine's motive. It is best if it's analyze two herds together, just one. I think it is good enough and I will try to stamp it onto the center of my watercolor paper and see how it goes. Remember, it doesn't need to be perfect for me. It is not stamping itself perfectly, But I have the lines and I can go now with my brush and complete the silhouette. It is even more fun because I can practice my hand painting. As you can see, it is going super, super easy. I will do this with the two colors, the violet and now the lilac, my two hairs on my watercolor paper. I will see you in the next video. 4. Confetti Hearts: Background: When you finish transferring the shapes onto your paper, now it's time to start dragging those water color with your brush. You can use your round brush. I prefer to use my flat brush because if you give me more mobility onto the paper as I want to drag the color away from the to paint the background of my painting, you can make it more dramatic and leave the back of the hers. But I want to paint the whole a background of the paper, the white background. Because later we are going to apply a very fun technique that you will be loving. I think for that I want to make a contrast between the center of the hearth and the background itself. Go slowly and very carefully to all the lines, including the lines of the smaller her going inside the other because I want to make this like the heirs are functioning themselves into one or completing themselves. That is the message to speak, to make this more romantic, go around dragging the color away from the shapes. You can leave it here if you want completely fine or do you want this dramatic look. But as I want to express another feeling here, I want the whole background to have a little bit of pigment. Not too dark, but I want, I want the color to run around my paper. I am covering all the corners and adding a little bit more of pigment if I think I want them and you can do the same. Maintaining the paper, the color blends easily. Start to give me some darker spots. Then I will go with my brush and move the color, maintaining my silhouette. The lines doesn't shade away too much, fade away too much. I keep the two shapes and it is visible for the viewer or the recipient, for this car, that it is two herds hugging each other, so to speak, Smooth those hard lines around the hears, the two colors blend together. When I am satisfied with the background at it is still a little bit wet, not dry. I will go with my brush, my run brush, and toss the paper different points to make some spots while the paper is a little bit wet. Afterwards, I will soften those points, but I want this to show up a little bit. You can do the same, or you can let it as it is right now. You will see when we apply the fan technique adding confit it to this beautiful painting, you will have another effect on the card. Go around and let those colors mix with the background at a little bit of water above those points and soften them as you go. I will see you in the next video. 5. Confetti Hearts: Q-Tips Confetti First Layer: Let's create some confetti or two head shapes. For that, we need to tips gold ink or gold water colors Whatever you have at hand, I forgot to show you here, but you need a brush pen. I will reactivate the water color I have on my palette. I will add my gold ink to the mix. We can start to make those beautiful confetti effects on our background of card is super, super easy. Make sure your background is completely dry and you need to tips because we have three colors, we need to use them for the colors. Okay, then it's super simple. We are going to make tips with the colors. And then going around the lines, at first around the silhouette of painting. I am doing some testing on my color chart to see if the color is enough reactivated. This was the whole night here before I was waiting for the painting to dry. That is why it is so dry. But this is good like that. It's okay. Now I am starting to go around on my silhouette with the Q tips. Using first the darker color I have on my palette, which is the violet, I will paint a dose little dots, simulating confetti, the whole lines. It is a very fun technique and when it is all done with all the colors, looks super fun and super cute. I will go around all the silhouette and then I will go away from, from the lines on the corners of my painting. You can imagine that the conft is coming from above and falling onto the heirs, but the hairs are hugging, the confetti doesn't stay on the shapes. But I will do this around the hole painting first with the darker color. Then I will switch to the next color, which is the lilac. This is more paste. It will not show so much up, but we need this to make the contrast. You can get creative, and you can use other colors to make this more vibrant and colorful. But I wanted to stay with two shapes first, and then adding and the gold in the next period. 6. Confetti Hearts: Gold Confetti: Time to add the cold to our confetti background. For that we're going to use or Q tips clean, fierce layers of confetti. With the violet and the Ac are dry, it doesn't mix with the cold. We are going around with our gold confetes, making those confetti background. As you can see, it is starting to look very fancy and luxurious and fun, and pretty and cute. And that is what we are going for here. Do as much as you want from the thoughts from the confettes around. When you are satisfied with the amount of gold confetti, you can then stop. I will show you what to do next with this gold color, as well as you know. When you are creating ideas are coming to your mind. And you can pay attention to them, use them, or you can save them for another painting, if that doesn't apply to your actual paint. Now my idea is I will go around with the goal around the silhouette of my hairs to make them pop up a little bit more before we add the text inside the white spaces. We are going to speak about that just in a minute. We are going to be around the silhouette with oral color to make those beautiful hair shapes pop up even more. Don't overdo these steps. Go very slow and keep it simple as you can. I think our painting is looking very beautiful. I will remove the tapes because my painting is completely dry. And we can then start to move on on the next steps, which is adding the text inside the white spaces. For that, I want the paper to be mobile so I can write easily onto them. But take a look, Look how it is looking. I think it is looking very beautiful and cute. I will see you in the next video. 7. Confetti Hearts: Lettering Phrase and Reveal : Okay, my painting is completely dry. In this part of our painting, we are going to add the text code or message that you want to convey to the person you are giving this card. And I choose the phrase, I adore you. And I trace it with my watercolor pencil. And I use watercolor pencils because they can be CD erase. Or if I use watercolors with my brush, then the watercolors dissolve itself. Here I am using a brush pen in color, black, too bright in lettering style, the phrase. You can use any type of lettering that you prefer or that you are used to do. Don't feel intimidated with this style if you are not a lettering artist, but you can try is always a good thing to learn, a good skill. You can also use another type of markers, like fine liners or paint markers that are easier to use for people that are not familiar with lettering, but don't feel that you can do it. Because anyone can learn and anyone can do these beautiful lettering styles. You can choose any other message, or phrase, or word that you want to convey to the person you are giving this cart. Now I will add some details inside the heirs to bring a little bit more of cuteness to this card, little gold hairs. Then we are done with this beautiful card and we are ready to give it to someone we love, we appreciate we all. I am sure they will be very pleased and happy to receive this beautiful card. I am super, super happy to have you in this part of the class. Thank you so much for being with me so far. I can wait to see. What color do you choose for your background, how you chose to make the confetti? What phrase if you didn't use the same as I did here. Please consider uploading your consider to final pieces or your project to the glass project section for this class. Because that makes me super, super happy and I always smile when I see your beautiful works uploaded. I will see you in the next video. 8. Your Class Project: For your class. Project is super, super simple. You just need to share with me in the class project sion for this class a picture of your whole process, your materials, your working progress, your final piece, and anything you want to share with me about this class on the class project section. And you can add your messages for your comments about the class or what you enjoy about the class. And I will love to review your project and share with you the happiness of creating. I hope to upload your class project section for the class, because when you do that, I just do a happy dance. I will see you in the next video. 9. Thank You - Next Class sneak peek: Congratulations, you completed the class. I thank you for taking this class and to have a creative moment with me, and this is always such a happiness to create together. I hope you enjoy the class. Let me know in the comment section for the class about what was the most fun part of the class. What did you learn If you learn something new or suggesting for new classes, I will love to read about that. And to bring you new classes with fun and exciting new subjects. I thank you again for taking the class, and I can wait to see what you created, what phrase do you use for your car, and what colors you decided to choose or use together for the whole composition. Remember that you can follow here on a skill chart so you don't miss any update or any class in the posts that I shared with you monthly. And I would love to have to always taking my classes and chairing with credible moments have nice, nice days. And I will see you in my next class. Bye bye.