Winter Watercolors for Beginners: Paint Christmas Galaxy Bauble Card

1. Intro Watercolor Galaxy Bauble: Hello, I'm Nina, also known as sicart. I'm watercolor artist specializing in loose style, which means painting without pencil sketch. And also, I'm art therapist. Welcome to my new winter Watecala class, where we are going to paint some very special Christmas card. We are going to paint Christmas Galaxy bubble. So grab your materials, and let's dive into painting. 2. Materials: We come to the class. Just prepare the materials which you will need. That is watercolor paper. My one is 100 cotton paper, and the size is 14 by 19. Watercolor paints is the colors which you like. You will need pink, bluish violet and indigo. Watercolor palette, brushes, round ones, the ones which you usually use for watercolors. So it could be size six, eight, and maybe number four for tiny details. We will need an old toothbrush. And if you have metallic veins, also, that would be great. I will use as well, white guash and water, two jars of water and salt for creating beautiful effects. So prepare your materials and let's dive into painting. 3. Watercolor Galaxy: Are you ready to start our space trip? So let's start. Prepare your paper. And with the help of masking tape, I past have created a circle, have nearby salt that we will need it. Prepare your colors. We will need some kind of bluish, beautiful bluish, pinkish colors, as well as some kind of bluish, dark ones. No, and twilet. So I'm just dabbing with water. Different places that we are going to use wet on wet technique, which means that our paper is going to be wet, and we will be adding quite diluted paint. Yep. Okay. So let's start. I will start with some kind of beautiful pinkish colors. I can add a bit of yellow in some areas. Different shade of pink and as well, different blues. Violet. And a bit more of pink. And probably I will add a bit of a mint colour. Also, if you have some olive green, it could be beautiful. Also some kind of green shades. And here a bit of olive green in some areas. And now let's switch to darker shades that are going to be different blues and violets. It could be also some indigo on these kind of colors. And we are going to place them closer to the border. Ly. Just choose those colors which you like, which inspire you. And also, you need to quick quite quickly because in these areas, we haven't placed water, so we need to connect quite smoothly that part where we have edded water and with the one which is dry. So it's this one. And we can add a bit of darker shade. That is Pain's gray, for example. In my case, now I'm adding. And also, it could be indigo. For example, for here, I will add a bit of oh. Depends on your paper. If you see that, your paper get dry quite quickly. Then make it wet till the border. I haven't made it wet till the border because I like this, if it's dry that area, you can control better so that it won't go out out of this outline. But yeah, feel free to make it wet first. If you see that your paper gets dry quite quickly. So probably I will add some more indigo, maybe for here so that to connect and to make it a bit looks like space to add this kind of space effect. And for here because it's all violet. So let's add a bit of indigo to make it darker. And then it would be also beautiful contrast between these really light areas and really dark. And by the way, also, you can get this really beautiful watercolor bleeds. So just play and have fun. I'm sure that your galaxy bubbles also are going to be so different, you know, like people that for me, it's like, each person is like a galaxy. And so this is also the way how you can represent that the person is a galaxy. And each galaxy has its own the amount of stars, colors, character. No. Protection bleeds. Yeah, so I think that while you are going to make to paint this Christmas card, maybe keep in mind a person for whom you are creating it. I sense so that it would be that person is a galaxy, so that you are creating a galaxy of that person. That could be really beautiful. And I think that also to show to another person that how you see from outside that like his or her universe. And now we will need salt. So have it prepared. And we are going to add. That would be really nice to get some salty effect, and we are going to add it just in those areas where there is dark colors. So then salt will remove some parts of pigment. And I really hope that we will get some really beautiful like this kind of dreamy, foggy effects. But let's see. Then there are also two options that you can leave or salt at least for a while the way it is. Or you can use a hair dryer in order to speed up a bizza process. But I would ask you just several minutes, leave it the way it is. No. And also, you see that some salt, it may be absorbed quite quickly. So maybe you need also to know the moment when you need to place it. It could be already paper too dry. Like here, you can see that my paper is already too dry. Okay, no, because I wanted to add something over here a bit darker. But no, I think that I will leave it or maybe I will add a bit of let. Yeah, that just check your work because your one could be different than my one. But I think that, yeah, I would like to add a bit of let so that it's here, it's really gray, blue, and here With violet, it could be really, really nice. And even here, I have dry paper. I can make it like this to bleed make it smooth and wet This border where one part interacts with another. And maybe over there, I can place a bit of blue. Yeah. I think that is a good idea. So like this bit by bit dabbing and do not get over excited. So here because this is really relaxing and very interesting to observe how the paints interact. So just know when the right moment when you need to stop and just let it get dry. So see in the moment once my work will get dry, and we'll see which effects salt has created. 4. Adding Decoration: Wow. It's really impressive that my salt has got dry and you can see this kind of really, really gorgeous textures which I have got that it's unbelievable. I mean, that you can get such a beautiful textures with salt. I'm really excited with my treasure, with my galaxy. And next, what we are going to do that to add some decoration, some details, I will use metallic Watercolors, Golden ones. If you have, I also invite you to add this touch. If not, you can just with normal colors. I will use this one, which is the color called Arabic gold, I think. And I will add here a ribbon. So I will start it like this from the center to have it and So with brush strokes, it won't be perfect, but it will remind the most important thing so that for our mind, that this shape will remind us of something, and I think that, it reminds me, at least, I feel, that it reminds me of a ribbon and for here, another one. Mm hmm. So here we have. If you want you can add a bit more of this gold. Yeah. Oh, that is really exciting to paint with this. Like, to get this golden glowing. Yeah. I'm getting excited. Mm hmm. And here that it would be hanging up. I think a bit Mm hmm. So here we have. Now let's move to another exciting part. That is to add some stars. For this, I will use some white gouache so that it is the color would be more dense and opaque. So here I have. And let's see how we fall my stars. So here I have some bigger stars. Mm hmm. And now I will let also some smaller stars. Tiny ones. You know, that there are millions, millions of stars in the universe. So here is going to be my these tiny, tiny stars. So I use for this, you will need some kind of toothbrush. But if it's old one, so that it has hairs looking in different directions. And let's see. Okay, here. And mainly I will add them in those dark areas. Yeah, I think use is perfect. Yeah, we have tiny stars as well. Perfect. What we are missing is to add some constellations. For this, also, I will use white guash. And to add just several. Take some small size brush so that it would have tiny like this, for example, here to add some like this star. And over here, I can add some more. One more constellation. I think it could be really nice wish to write something like, let's like, wish to have one more year with you to explore this universe? No. So that our beloved ones would stay and we will stay with them for one more year. That would be nice. So here, and I think enough. Otherwise, it's going to be too many constellations. Okay, and I think it would be nice to add some pine tree branches to make this card brighter and to look more cheerful. I will use olive green. And then we let here behind several Oh, it's not enough water. So let's add a bit more water. And for here. So yeah, now I have enough water so that it flows and I can make this kind of Hm mm. So for here, just play and add this kind of festive feeling. Mm hmm. And for somewhere for here, maybe. And a bit I think, a bit darker shed. I will add also some bluish color in order to connect. That is I have two colors. I think it's cerulean and mint color. So if you mix them, you get really beautiful color. I really like it. So let's add also several. Mm hmm. So you see that it's really, really fresh color and it connects really well. Our space colors, which we have some blue and with this warm olive green. So here we have. And what I wanted also is to add some darker green and that could be green mixed with some kind of brown. So I to it would be warm green. And in my case, that is marsh brown over here to add some darker ones. So this will add a bit more of contrast. Mm hmm. Here. Maybe darker one. I think perfect. What else we can add is to add some kind of snow. What do you think? Let's add some snow. Just symbolically. That could be done by blue, and we can just add some splutters. So to show that it's snowing Here we have our Christmas card and our Christmas bubble. I think that it's great. And I hope that you have enjoyed painting it with me. For sure your galaxy will look really different from my one. So feel free to share it. I'm looking forward to see class creation. 5. Final Thoughts: Congratulations on finishing the project. I'm so glad that you have painted with me, and I do hope that you have enjoyed this creative process. I'm really glad to see your galaxy. Please share your creation in the class project, and I will be happy to leave you my feedback. If you're going to share your artwork on Instagram, please do not hesitate to tell me. If you have enjoyed this class, please leave me a class review because then I will know that you have enjoyed the short and quick classes, and I will create more. Meanwhile, have fun, explore more watercolors and enjoy this creative process. Tell my next class?