Watercolor Tropical Christmas

1. Introduction: Hello. I'm Kansas and I'm a watercolor illustrator and a calligrapher. I started my journey off as a graphic designer and I slowly made my way into watercolor illustrations and calligraphy by practicing hand lettering first and then jumping into watercolor hand lettering. The very first time that I tried watercolor painting, I instantly loved it. It's such a fun medium. As I love to jump back and forth between watercolor illustrations and calligraphy. My purpose for this class and for any class that I create, is to show you how to use watercolor as a medium while painting a fun illustration. In this class, I'll show you how to draw two illustrations, as well as use watercolor paints to paint your illustrations. This theme is based around a tropical Christmas. So we will be painting a flamingo and a palm tree. I hope you'll enjoy this class, and I also hope that you will pick up some tips and tricks on how to draw and also how to use watercolors to paint a fun Christmas themed illustration. Thank you so much for taking the time to check out my class. I hope you enjoy it. 2. Materials: Alright, so let's talk a little bit about the materials that we will be using for this class. First we will obviously be using some watercolors, and I have here my primer watercolors, they are 12 different palette is, but I put them all together in a 48 pallet. The only colors that we'll be using is the pinks and a little bit of red and also some orange for the Flamingo, and then we'll also be using some greens for the palm tree and a little bit of brown and gray for the tree bark. We'll get to that when we get to discuss the colors once we get into those classes. The next thing is obviously watercolor paper, and I have here my arches watercolor paper. It's 100 percent cotton and it's 300 gm, 140 pound. For this paper, I don't have pictured here tape, but you can tape it down so that it doesn't warp. What I do usually, I don't usually use tape for this paper since it is so thick and high-quality. What I like to do is I just place the paper down add paint on it, and then once I'm all finished painting I'll wet the back of it and lay some books if it warps, I put some books on top of it. That's the watercolor paper that we'll be using. Then for the sketch, I usually like to sketch on just regular old copy paper, printer paper, and then we'll be using a pencil, and an eraser to do the sketch. Once you're done with your sketch, you can transfer it using a tracing table if you have one. If not, you can use a window. I'll be using a window, and also you'll need some water. I use two glasses so that I don't have to fetch water. Then obviously a paintbrush and a paper or towel. Then getting into the details, we'll be using some masking fluid and just a brush that you don't really care about because when you use masking fluid, it tends to mess up your brush. We'll be using the masking fluid on the palm tree just to hide the fortune mask the light bulbs on the palm tree so that you can pay over top of it. Lastly, we have some colored pencils and a jelly roll for detail. You don't have to use colored pencils. You can just to add the details to it or you can just go on with a really fine paintbrush or even the tip of your paint brush and get those details. Those are the materials and now we are ready to get started. 3. Palm Tree: The Sketch: Now, that we've discussed the materials, let's jump right in and start with the Palm tree drawing. The first thing you're going to want to do is draw a line curved like a squiggly line, and then you're going to want to bring it in like I said, like a squiggly line, almost in an S-shape, and then bring it down all the way to towards the bottom of your page and then at the bottom create another curved shape, and bring the end of that shape up to the top, and here I'm just marking where I want the middle of the trunk to be just to help me. These are the guidelines and then you want to just curve it all the way back to the top and bring it in together, it's pointed at the top, and here I'm just darkening my lines and fixing that curve at the bottom and darkening the sides of the tree trunk. Now, I'm just marking a circle in the middle where the point of the tree trunk meets, this is just my guidelines for the palm leaves and from that circle, I'll draw curved lines going every which way, and then you'll want to curve some and then have some go to a point and then curved again so that it looks like the leaves are bending about. Here I'm just thinking about how I want the lights to be placed on the tree trunk, and when you sketch, you want to think of everything in either shapes or letters or even numbers sometimes, as you'll see with the Flamingo. But for the lights, I'm thinking of this in another shape, just like the tree trunk, and you want to start from one side and curve it along the trunk and end of the other side. As you can see here, it looks like an A-shaped or even a banner, almost, and then once you have your curved lines for the string of the lights, you'll want to go in and add an almond shaped or almost like you're drawing an eye for the face, and then you'll go in and just add that on the string and draw as many as you would like or sketch out as many as you like and just keep going until you have as many likes as you want on the string, and don't worry about if the light bulbs, if they cross over the tree trunk like I have here, you can always erase that and then what we're going to do later is take the tree trunk and trace it onto watercolor paper, you can either leave that little bit out that's inside of the light or you can use masking fluid, which I'm going to use to cover that so that you can have a clean light bulb to work with. The sketch is that easy, once you're all finished with your sketch, you'll want to transfer that over to your watercolor paper using either a window or a tracing table. 4. Palm Tree: Preparation: Now that we have our tree placed onto the watercolor paper, I am going to take some masking fluid and put that all on the bulbs, and what the masking fluid is going to do is that it's going to mask all the areas that you don't want paint to get on. You want to use a brush that you don't really care about because the masking fluid will ruin your brush. I'm using this brush and I'm going to just go in and put them all over the bulbs, and I also want to mention, I know mentioned it in the materials, but for the tracing part of this, you can use a window which that's what I use. You can just place your watercolor paper on top of the paper that you put your sketch on and then you just take the watercolor paper and the sketch, you tape that onto a window and use the light from the window to trace the image onto the watercolor paper. You can do that or you can just use a light table. But if you don't have a tracing table, the window is a very effective way to get the job done. Here I am still just going in and filling in the masking fluid onto those light bulbs and you'll want to just continue this process until you have all of your light bulbs filled in with the masking fluid. Once you have gone ahead and put the masking fluid on the light bulbs that is within the tree trunk, you don't have to put them on the ones outside, just the ones that are in the tree trunk so that when you lay your paint down, it doesn't touch the light bulbs. Once you finish with the masking fluid, you'll want to set your painting aside or your watercolor paper aside to let the masking fluid dry and you'll know it's dry when it turns yellow and it doesn't stick to your finger when you touch it. While we wait for that to dry, we can go ahead and prep our colors, and I'm using some different shades of brown, here I'm using a yellow ocher and again, I'm just using my prima watercolor paints. You can use whatever paints you have on hand, just choose colors that are close or similar to the colors that I have. I'm adding in white to this yellow ocher shade, and I'll also be adding a little bit of gray to tone down this color. A tip that I have for mixing when you mix your paint colors is to take just a scrap piece of paper that is preferably the same paper that you're going to be painting your image on, and just swatch your colors out so you can see what they look like on the paper and also to see what it will look like when it dries. I've added in a bit of gray to the yellow ocher and white mixture, and now I'm just swatching it to see what that will look like for the tree trunk. Once you mix up your different shades for the tree trunk, I added in a little bit more gray for that last darker shade that you see on my watercolor paper for the third one. Now I'm just going in and mixing up my greens. This first green in the prima watercolor palette, it's from the classics set and it's just called green, but if you don't have this particular shade of green, you can just use a spring green or a permanent green light. The next color green that I'll be using is the palms color in the tropicals palette and that one is like a permanent green. You're going to want to just keep mixing up your different green shades until you get a nice tropical set of greens and you'll want to have a couple of different greens here I'm even adding in some green. You just want to have a couple of different shades to give your palm leaves variation, and again go ahead and swatch those colors onto your watercolor paper just to see what they will look like. 5. Palm Tree: Trunk: All right, so now our massing fluid is dry and we have our paint colors ready to go. Now we're ready to start. The first thing you're going to do when you're painting is to keep in mind that you should paint from light to dark when working with watercolors because watercolor paints are transparent and you can get those lighter shades back once you've already gone too dark. We are going in and we're just adding in water to the paint make sure that we have and just apply that light shade of your watercolor paint all over the tree trunk. Just go in and add that paint all over the tree trunk. I'm using a Princeton round brush in the number four. You can use any paint brush that you have on hand, but I'm just using a smaller round brush because it's helpful when you want to get into those smaller areas. While my paint is still wet I'm going in and I'm adding in some of the more darker pigment to the painting just to let that disperse across the trunk. This is called a wet-on-wet technique. Here I notice that I didn't add some mass influence to one of the light bulbs on the the lights. I'm just going in and adding that masking fluid to this light bulb. You don't have to do that, you can just paint around it. But I just wanted to go in and add that for the sake of the video. We're going to let the first layer of the tree trunk dry and we'll start working on the first layer of the palm leaves. I started off using a smaller brush, but you'll see later on that I switch to my larger brush just for more coverage. The first thing you'll do is just go in and place the paint on to the lines that you've created and then just go around the whole palm tree and put the paint on those lines that you created. As you can see here, this is where I switch to the larger brush because it's just a little bit easier to work with. The smaller, fine line brush will come in handy when we add in the details later on. We have the outline of the palm leaves painted and now we'll just go in and add more paint to the tree trunk. I'm mixing in a little bit more gray because I wanted to lean more towards the gray than the yellow ocher. Now I'm just a wetting the tree trunk with water because I'm going to add in some of the wet paint. I'm going to do a little bit of the wet on wet technique and I like using the wet on wet technique because it makes it easy to create depth to whatever it is that you're painting because it does the work for you when you wet your paper and then place the paint down, it just spreads all over the wet area and it creates texture in that way. I like to use the wet on dry technique when I'm going in with detail. Just take that new shade of gray that you just mix and just bring that all along be, one side of the tree trunk. We're going to leave the other side a bit wider and then just make this side darker to make it look like it's curving. If you've added in too much paint or even too much water, you can just go in with a napkin or a rag and just dab up the excess. Now just keep blending the paint down along the line of the tree trunk. Then once you have enough paint along the side of the tree trunk, go ahead and add a few lines across the trunk and just stop in the middle. Now once you've done that, we'll be all finished with the first layer, and then we'll jump into the palm leaves. 6. Palm Tree: Leaves: Okay, so the palm leaves are very easy once you have your outline in place. I'm taking the fine brush to do this, but again, I'm going to switch to my larger brush just to cover more area. But for the leaves, you'll just want to use the wet on dry technique to go in and place that wet paint on your dry paper. When you're painting the palm leaves, you want to just follow along the outline that you already have in place for yourself, and just paint those smaller lines on both sides of your guideline. I like to think this is a fun part to paint because you can just go in and just add those line every which way while also adding in different colors just to give it interesting variation and just to add a little bit more depth to it. Just switch out your brushes if you need to, and just keep painting in those leaves, keep alternating your green shades, and once you do that, you'll be done with the palm leaves, and then we will go into painting the final touches and the details. 7. Palm Tree: Final Touches: Now that you've gone ahead and finished up your palm leaves, the last thing we're going to do is just add in some detail and paint our light bulbs. Here I'm just going in and adding in a little bit of the gray and yellow ocher mixture that I had just to darken up this side a little bit more, because it's best to work in layers when you're working with watercolor. Painting in layers and letting your layers to dry completely, just gives you a chance to add more paint on top of the previous layer without all the colors mixing together, so you have a little bit more control. Now I'm just going in and adding a little bit of line to the middle of the tree trunk, and I'm stopping just before I hit the other edge, and this is just going to add some more detail to the trunk of the tree. Then just with a touch of water, I'm going in and blending that line that meets the middle lines and the side line on the tree trunk, I'm going in and I'm just blending that out so that the line isn't that harsh and it looks blended together or a little more seamless. If you need to, you can go in and add some more layers on top of your palm leaves as you did before, just add a line on either side of the curved lines that you had. When you know that you're all done with the tree trunk, you can go ahead and remove that masking fluid by either using your finger to rub it off or using an eraser. Now we're just going to speed it up a little bit because we are now in the part where we will be painting the light bulbs. For the light bulbs, you can paint them whatever colors you like. I'm using hot pink. I'll also be using orange and yellow just to go with the tropical color pallet, and you can use a fine brush for this. I'm just going in with my small detail brush and adding in these colors, but I'm also leaving a bit of wide space. I'm just going all around and adding in these different colors, making sure to bounce around and not have the same color right next to each other. You can add the same color right next to each other if you like. You can even do one color for the light bulbs. It's all up to your preference. But the point is to just fill those light bulbs in as you go around the string. Once you've painted all of your little light bulbs, the next thing we're going to do, is take our fine brush and paint in the string. For the string, I'm using a blue shade. It's on the cooler side, and I should have used a more warmer blue, but that's fine, you can just go in with any shade of blue that you like. I don't want to use black. You can even use gray if you like, but I'm just using blue here. Go in with your blue and just go all around and trace the line work that you lay down. If you need to go in and clean it up, you can do that by using a colored pencil. I have my prismacolor, very thin pencil and it's in the color indigo. I'm just going in and cleaning up my lines just to make it look a little bit better than it did when it was just watercolor paint. To add even more detail, you can take your colored pencils and go in for the light bulbs and just give a little bit of shade to the tops and the bottom of the light bulb just to make it look like it has some definition. The next thing that we'll do for detail is to take a white gelly roll pen, and go over the light bulbs just to give it a little bit of light so that it looks like my bulbs are twinkling. Cynically, you're supposed to let the white of your watercolor paper shine through, but I love to use a white gelly roll, just to add that little speckle of white. Finally, I'm just going in with another colored pencil and adding in just a little bit more detail to the tree trunk, and cleaning up some of those lines that I did with the string for the light bulbs. You can add as much or as little detail as you like to the tree, just stop when you think it looks good for you. Here is what my tree looks like in the end. I hope you enjoyed painting this tree with me and I can't wait for you to share your finished illustration with me. All right. We're done painting the palm tree and the next class that we have is the flamingo painting, and I can't wait to do that. I will see you guys in the next video. 8. Flamingo: The Sketch: All right guys, so here we are in the Watercolor Flamingo Christmas painting. The first thing that we're going do is sketch out our flamingo, just like we did with the palm tree. First we're going to draw an S shape, like you see here. Then once you have that S shape drawn out, at the very tip of the S shape or the beginning, you're going to want to start and just make a outline of the shape you drew and then stop once you get towards the belly of the S, I will call it and then bring another curved line outwards and towards the opposite side. This is going to be the tail of the flamingo. Then we'll go back to the top of the S and draw a curved line on the bottom and a curved line on the top for the head of the flamingo. Here I'm just erasing what I have just so that I can go back in and make that a little cleaner. When you're sketching, it's okay to be messy and even to have harsher lines and erase what do you need to and go back in and add more lines where you need to, because you're going to trace this over to your watercolor paper anyway. I have just gone back in and I've added the head and the beak and now I'm just adding in a second line in the beak and a little dot for where the eye will be. Now you're going to want to just add a half circle to the bottom of the flamingo and draw a line going down, but have it go somewhat diagonal and then bring that line back across the page going the opposite way, and then you'll add another line going straight down, so it almost looks like the number four. Here I'm just showing you how you can break the overall shape of the flamingo down into different shapes, numbers, and even letters. It's great to break the whole figure in sections or portions rather than looking at it as a whole and being overwhelmed with the whole thing. In this part, I'm just going in and I'm outlining those lines that I drew for the legs of the flamingo and I'm also going in and adding in the feet that looks sort of like a W. Once you have the initial sketch of the flamingo, you can go in and add the Christmas details, here I'm adding the candy cane. The candy came basically looks like an upside down J, in a bubble letter style. I'm just taking the other foot of the flamingo and I'm wrapping it around the candy cane. When you're doing your sketch, fill free to draw cross lines or cross contour. That just makes it easier for you to know where you're putting your lines exactly and then you can always go back in and erase the lines that you don't need. Here I'm just adding those curves, diagonal lines for the candy cane and I'm also noticing that it looks like the candy cane is sitting on top of his foot, so I go in and I just erase that and start over. When you're sketching, it's okay to be very loose so that you don't get so hung up in trying to make everything perfect. You just want to lay down some lines so that you know where you're going to place everything and then once you have those quick loose lines plan out, then you can go in and kind of refine the rest of your lines so that your sketch looks good enough to transfer over to watercolor paper. But just be very loose in the beginning and then go in and clean up those lines later. Now we're going to draw his little hat, this Christmas hat, and the first thing you want to do is just go in and draw a kind of cloud shape and then from the right-hand side, you want to take a line and curve towards the other side and add a V-shape and at the very tip you'll add a circle. This gives the illusion of the hat kind of folding through the back instead of just having the hat sitting straight up, it just gives a little more interest. Here I'm just erasing that line because as you can see, I drew directly over his head and there was a cross contour there. Here I just erase a little bit of that line and I went back in to fix his head. Now I'm just going in and erasing some of those extra lines that I have to go in and clean it up, like I said. Now that I have my initial sketch laid out how I want it to be, I am just going in and cleaning up those extra lines and you don't have to clean up every single line. You just want it to look good, to transfer over to be watercolor paper, like I said it earlier. The point of getting it down, just how you wanted to look is that when you go in with your watercolor paint, you want your sketch to look right the first time, because if it doesn't, watercolor is a transparent medium, so your lines will show through underneath. I would like to add that if you don't like the pencil showing through or the graphite showing through your watercolor paint, you can always use a watercolor pencil or you can just use a regular colored pencil when you transfer your sketch onto your watercolor paper. That means that the watercolor pencil or the colored pencil will be on your watercolor paper. I like to do that sometimes when I don't want the graphite to show beneath the painting. It can be helpful especially when you use a color that's similar to the different sections that you'll be painting, for instance, if I were to use the color pencil to sketch out the flamingo, on my watercolor paper, I would use pink for the body, basically of the flamingo, and red for the hat and so on and so forth. But today we're just going to keep it simple and use something that's very convenient, which is this pencil and do our sketch and then just transfer over to the watercolor paper. As you can see, I'm still just going in and refining my lines while cleaning whatever lines I don't want to be seen so that I don't confuse myself once I'm transferring this sketch over to my watercolor paper. Just keep cleaning up those lines and make them as dark as you can so that it's easy for you to see. Once you please show sketch on either a window or tracing table. 9. Flamingo: Painting [Part 1]: Now we are going to begin painting this flamingo. Now that we've had it traced onto our watercolor paper. To prepare, we are going to use different shades of pink. I'm using this hot pink color here. I'm just taking my brush and wetting it while transferring some of that paint over to my palette, which I didn't mention before is a ceramic palette. Well, it's actually a ceramic plate that I'm using as a pallet. Again, once you have a color that you think you like, you want to take a paper, a piece of watercolor paper, the same paper that you're going to be painting on and just watch that on that watercolor paper. Just so you know what it looks like as it's wet and as it dries so you know that is the color bet you're looking for. But here I'm taking a pastel pink and I'm mixing it in with the hot pink, just to tone it down a little bit. Just keep going in with your different shades of pink and mix those together until you get a nice pink that is reminiscent of a flamingo pink. Now I'm adding in a bit of orange. This is a bit of yellow, orange. Here again, just a little more hot pink. Just play around with it. Now I'm going to swatch it and see if it is a match for the kind of pink that I'm looking for. Now that we have our shade of pink, I'm just taking a bit of water and I'm diluting that paint so that I have a really light wash. You'll want to go in and apply that light wash as your first layers so that it gives you the chance to build up on your colors instead of going way too dark in the beginning and having a hard time getting your lights back. Because again, watercolor is a transparent medium. Once you lay a dark color down, is very difficult to get that color back to being light. Next, I'm just picking up some red paint, and this is going to be for the hat. You can mix a couple different reds if you like. Once you have a shade of red that you're satisfied with it you can go ahead and lay that down on your watercolor paper. Again, just make sure that you are using a light wash so you can build up on your pain colors. Once if I can add is so be sure to leave some white areas. I tend to do this, but just try to remember to add a bit of white area because it gives your painting interests, especially when you're using watercolors. It makes it look luminescent anyway. Here I just went ahead and added just a dub of red paint onto the watercolor paper just for a little bit of wet on wet technique for the Christmas hat. Another tip that I can add is to don't be afraid to just bounce around your painting. This gives your sections time to dry in-between painting so that when you come back to it, it doesn't blend in with each other because the paint is still wet. You'll want to let your layers to dry. That's why I like to bounce around and paint different sections while I'm waiting for another section to dry so that one doesn't bleed in to the other. Before, I had to learn to like this because I like to work sometimes from top to bottom or from left to right, which I'm doing here with the flamingo. But you'll see that we're going to go back into work on the head and the bead and different things like that. But at the same time, I think that with watercolors, this teaches you patients anyway. This is like the first layer and the layer 1.5 because we're not going fully in to add a second layer, which is going in a little bit and adding in some darker areas for the shadow. Now right here in this area, I'm just going around the eye and the top of the beak for that lighter area that flamingos have in that section, and just continuing to go around and add in just a little bit shadowy area to the flamingo's body. On this first layer after your wash has completely dry, you can also add a layer of feathers, you can begin to lay down the groundwork for the feathers. When you're painting the feathers on the flamingo, you want to go in and paint a curved shape. There some You Tube to painting a rainbow. That's a simple way to put it. Usually I like to turn my papers so that I can start from one side, curve my line, and then pull it towards me. That just helps out when you are trying to paint lines of any kind. But for the sake of the video, I have Mr. flamingos standing upright. Just keep painting those curved lines for the feather and just follow the sketch that you already have placed for yourself. Also you remember to leave some whitespace or some lighter area. Finally, for the first layer, we are going in to add a bit of gray to the head and the white part of the hat and white. When you're working with white parts of an illustration, it's a bit tricky because you want to use the white of the paper, but at the same time, you don't want it to look like there's mapping there. The trick is to add a bit of shadow and you can do that by using a very light wash of gray. Here I'm just going in and putting in a little bit of red for the candy cane. Finally I'd just add a little bit of gray to beak for the first layer. After this, we will jump into the second layer. 10. Flamingo: Painting [Part 2]: Okay, so now we're going in with our second layer, and this will be the layer right before we add the final touches and the details. So for this one, we're going to want to go in and just dark in those areas that need to be darkened and leaving the lighter areas. So I'm just going back and forth between my fine brush and my bigger brush. And I'm just using the fine brush to get those little nooks and crannies and make sure I get a nice line that I can blend out. So this is where I'm taking my bigger brush, and I'm just blending out that darker line so that it flows, even leave. So you want to just keep using this wet on dry like meat and placing the wet paint onto your dry paper and just keep adding in those little strokes for the feathers and also the darker color for your shadows or your darker areas. - So one tip about watercolor paints is that there are some paints that have a lift to them so you can take your paper and lift the paint away these days. Do not. This is the prima or the color set its four different sets and these don't have lifted them . Well, some colors do some college don't. But if you want lived, if you think that will be easier to work with and there are some pain saying you can research, I believe and Graham has a lift to them. You just have to do your research to see which ones do and go from there. Because when you have paints that do lift up, it is hopeful when you make a mistake, you can just wet their area and take a piece of paper and dab it up. But some paints do have lived to them, whereas some colors or pigments in that line may not because they have heavy staying power . In this case, I'm using pink and it doesn't look that much. So it has heavy stating power. Okay, so now I'm just using my fine detail brush, and I'm just going in and adding little hairline strokes so that it just adds more definition to the feathers. - So just keep going in and working that paint all around the body of the Flamingo. Remember to alternate your brushes if you need to and use a larger brush to cover a larger area and use a finer brush to get your details going. So I'm just adding more paint to the head of the Flamingo, and now I'm going in to work on the legs and the fine brushes. Very. It's perfect for this area because the legs are so skinny and long, so it allows you to just get in there and make those clean lines. - Now I'm just making sure to add a darker line on the bottom of the hand where the flamingo is grabbing the candy cave or the bottom of the foot of the flamingo so that it looks like a darker area or a shadowy area right where he is grasping the candy cane. - No , go into paint the went fee. And be sure to add some shadow area into this as well, so that you can see the Web portion of it not at some more pigment to the candy cane, making sure to leave a ladder area in the middle when you leave a little bit of light area in the middle and makes it look like it is thehyperfix of the candy cane. Um if you so happen to paint over it as I'm going back in and painting it in because for some reason it didn't look right to me. You can go back and later on with a white Julie rope in and just at those highlights in. - So now we're going to add a little bit more red paint through the hat so that it doesn't look so dull. And it has more on vibrancy at some darker area to the curved line on the bottom, so that it makes the hat look a little bit slouchy and then just go in around the edges and add some more paint somewhere red paint and then take a your brush and blend that out. So for this next part, I didn't go in, and I added a little bit too much gray to the white areas for the shadow. If you do that, you can try to blend it out. But if it doesn't blend out again, you can take a white jelly roll once everything is dry and go back in and fix that. But here I'm just adding in the gray for the shadowy areas to make the white stand out more so for the beak. I'm adding just a little bit of brown. Makes what some think, because I don't want it to be stark black. So you can do that. You can a hint of color to your black so that it's dark enough to appear as it's black. But it's not jet black, so go in and paint that beat, and then the last thing we will do will be to act in the details. 11. Flamingo: Final Touches: So now we're on the final touches of the Flamingo. Here I am just adding in that gray again for the candy cane to give it shadow and to make the white area purple. Now you can see here we're adding in a little bit too much gray. I'm just going back in with my Jelly Roll pin and I am cleaning some of that up so that I can bring some of the white area back. A little tip about Jelly Roll pins, you can actually take them and apply them to the paper and then take a wet paint brush and blend it out. This is because Jelly Roll pins are a water-soluble medium. I'm just going to keep adding that white Jelly Roll pin to the head and the areas that I want to bring the white back and then I'll go in and add a little bit on the beak to create a highlight. I'll also go in around the eyes to bring some of the white back for the area where I got some of that pink on. Again, I'm just blending it out with a wet paint brush. Now I'm going to do the same thing to the candy cane. So for this very last portion, I'm going to go in and just clean up some of those lines were the Flamingo and also add in some more pigment to the areas that I think be more YO, also blending those colors together. All right guys, there is the end of this class, join me in the next segment, to talk about a project and my final thoughts. 12. Project + Final Thoughts: Okay. We're finished with our watercolor tropical painting for Christmas and the last thing that I want to add is to feel free to use whatever colors you have or whatever watercolor paints you have. Also, if you want to do a project, you can create some Christmas cards. What I did was, I just took some white card stock paper and I cut it down to five by seven and then I just add here the paper to the card. Also you can add some wording on the card. I just put have a beachy Christmas on this one and warm wishes on this one. Just play around with it, have fun. The point of watercolors and painting in general, is just to have fun and relax and create. I hope you enjoyed this class and please give me feedback and just let me know what you thought about it. Thank you guys so much for watching.