hi there Lindsay here the frugal crafter today we are going to paint a blue poppy
and this is kind of a funny funny little project because I'm like I'm just gonna
do a very quick and easy watercolor card we haven't done one of those for a while
I just want to have something kind of fun and loose and I came up with this
and I was like I really don't like the way this looks
yeah try again so then I came up with this and I actually really liked
painting it had a good time I recorded it and then I went to playback and I had
it like off the frame like that for like a half the video so I was like oh well
third time's the charm we're gonna try it again and hopefully I
could take the things I like the best about these first two examples and put
it on third and I also really wanted to do this because I've had a lot of people
asking me about these Jane Davenport aqua pastels and the new watercolor
palette so it would just give me a chance to kind of show it in action so
first thing I'm going to do is just grab a water bottle and just I want to spritz
it I mean I'm doing that instead of instead of using just a brush to what
the background just so I get more of a random a random look and I'm gonna make
sure I don't stick that way up there I've moved my my camera holder so that I
have a little bit um a little bit so I don't have to reach so much when I'm
working but you haven't kind of gotten used to filming that way so I'm putting
some yellow in here onto this wet background and remember it's un-uniformly
wet so I'm just turning my palette around the way you usually use it just
so I can get some interesting blends I don't want everything to be really
smooth I want there to be kind of like chunks of color here and there
this color is kind of like a olive brownish green it's called water sprite
there are five greens in this palette which is quite a bit so I just want to
let you know that this is the sea glitz palette from Jane Davenport and a neat
thing about all of like the Jane Davenport palettes and also the Prima
palettes there's enough room to put about seven half pans down the center
and so what I do is like if I have a a like a watercolor set that like I don't
like the palette that the pans came in I'll take those and I'll like see what a
set needs to make it more versatile and that's what I will
in the middle of these pallets so that way if I'm going like to a friend's
house to paint or and go like on vacation I don't have to take a bunch of
house I'm just going to take one with a variety of colors I can mix all sorts of
other things from so I know that I want a blue flower so I'm kind of just adding
this blue in here the more water you have I'm use these paints granulated it
and it could be because they're more of a craft quality and they have fillers in
them but they do give you a beautiful granulation and I'm going to kind of
make the most of that that ability by really flooding the paper so the more
water you have if your paints want to granulate they're gonna granulate more
and I also like to get a little bit of earthiness in here so I think that's uh
this is kind of like a little bit of a bronze it's got a little metallic to it
not a ton but I kind of like it because it's just kind of warm and it just gives
me a nice bit of of character so in this area right here where it's a little bit
lighter what I'm gonna do is do my lighter color and I am going to lift out
a little bit of that blue these colors lift really well and I think that's
because they are they kind of are craft quality they're gonna be the granulate
granulating colors lift more I'm gonna go in there with just a little bit of
green just enough to kind of mark off that area and then I'm gonna go around
it with some yellow and one thing I really like about these crayons
they're very pigmented they work really well on wet paper and the thing I like
about these is sketching on wet paper so that would be the first thing I would
try if I were you and you are new to this and this product so I've got this a
blue this is called Botticelli and it's almost like a bottle blue actually and
what I'm going to do is just kind of sketch some roughly petals because I
want to have kind of like a really fun loose really expressive flower here so
I'm just kind of going around I'm twisting my crayon as I go cuz I think
that kind of helps me get that get that look that I'm after I can put some of
the veins in now things are going to smoosh out and get a little fuzzy
because I'm working on wet paper but that's part of what I really like about
this this process and this product and and
it's you know kind of so far my favorite way to use these now I haven't spent a
lot of time working on working with these but but this is I think my
favorite way to use them and I can go around and fill in every time I do this
these flowers I make them bigger I don't know if you do if you do that you like
it more comfortable it's like yeah it's bigger now and I can go in and add a
little bit of shading a little bit of veining and just keep in mind that we're
working with watercolor it's gonna do what it wants to do it's a rebel right
it's not gonna just do our bidding we're gonna we're gonna suggest where we would
like things to go and it's gonna do whatever darn well pleases and that's
why I love watercolor it's a rebel after my own heart and
we're gonna put a few little buds poppy buds it kind of like snakes and they got
that I kind of diamond like rounded diamond shape up here and I'm doing this
in such a light green that if I make an error and I don't like it
it can just turn into the background now if you do decide you want to sharpen
your crayons they're all pigment right so you just peel back your peel back
your wrapper and then save them like in a pill case or a empty water color
palette or something so that you don't waste that beautiful yummy pigment and
I'm gonna go in with a darker green and
a little bit more definition to the buds and stems now a lot of you guys are
probably wondering how do these compare to Caran D'ache. Caran D'ache is a more opaque and
they are softer and they're waxy err so like I like to use my Caran Dache - watercolor
crayons on colored matte board because they really show up if you use these on
colored matte board they really wouldn't show up that well but if you use these
as an under painting and one over with your Caran Dache you get a really nice you'd
get a really nice effect These are more like a watercolor
pencil with lists' watercolor pencil i would say more so than a watercolor
crayons after than a watercolor pencil so not exactly but they almost remind me
of the old Derwent aqua tones that are discontinued that I really loved so that
that's kind of nice I'm adding a little bit of this reddish brown in here this
color is called Gauguin
because I found the yellow on its own mix of blue just as missing something
and this will give it a little bit of an orange tint so I think it will really
make that blue pop a little bit more now weird about blooms and I'm gonna see if
I have any blooms on either of these because I'm gonna show you how to keep
them or how to avoid them now I did blot up most of my water puddles so I don't
really have a lot of blooms that a little bit of one there but so these
areas where we have puddles if I leave those alone I'm gonna have some really
interesting little ruffly edges if you don't like that what you can do is take
a brush and dry it off really well and just lay it in the color laid in that
puddle and blot it up and that's going to that's going to give that more of a
flat it's gonna dry a little more flat now I'll leave that one just so you can
see so when we when we go back after it's dry you're gonna see a jagged edge
so I'll leave that one there for your so you can see I'm going to keep on working
went into wet because I think that it's kind of fun and I think a lot of times
people are afraid to do it and I think you should at least try it once if it's
not your cup of tea that's fine but try it and see what happens because I think
you might be kind of surprised at the effects that you can get I can zoom in a
little bit more and then you can see a little bit more detail as I am working
and I'm just gonna blend out a little bit there with my soft brush another
thing I wanted to show you because I've had some people asking about it is this
brush here now there'll warning on this brush so this is the little travel brush
so to open it you just simply pull the two things apart and to close that you
push them together the thing I want to warn you about this is it will trap
water in the barrel it's hollow in there so that the the bristles kind of retract
and I kept wondering why I was getting why I was getting water dripping and
it's because it was in the barrel now my furnace just went on I'm gonna pause the
video and come back in a second and continue on the tutorial okay so it's
continued on so what I basically would say is that if you're gonna use this
brush don't dunk it too far deep into the water or water's gonna get into the
barrel and you're gonna have have drops of water on your picture I prefer to see
your brush anyway but this is really cute it does fit into the container so I
know it's gonna be popular I just want to make sure that you know you kind
are aware of that so you don't end up with with water dripping on your picture
you don't want it so what I'm going to do here is use some of the watercolors
to work in with our painting here and also I want to take that blue crayon
that I have that's right here it's in the wrong spot I'm going to scribble it
out onto my palette so I have a little bit of color to work with now the thing
that I did find out about these is that putting a wet brush to the tip of the
stick it doesn't want to release the pigment as well that way but it will
really sit really well that way I'm not sure why that is but but that's
just something that I found so for my darkest colors and I'd like to go in
with my darks fairly off the bat I'm using this color here called Neera
Danimal which is kind of like oppression blue I would swear it's Prussian blue
and I am gonna use a little bit of the scene in which is more of like a a
cobalt tone and I am gonna go in and kind of add it into my darker areas and
the paper is still quite wet so I am NOT like looking for really crisp details
here I mean if your paper dried on you while you were doing this it's what it
wouldn't look bad I'm just really just letting it do what it wants to do the
paper I'm working on is a Strathmore watercolor card they're very inexpensive
and what I do is I pick them up in a bulk pack of a hundred and I will link
that below in case you're looking for them
you also come in packs of like 30 or 50 I think I got my vein a little bit wrong
here so I'm just gonna smudge it out if they you want the the V needs to be
going towards the center and I kind of got confused with that edge there and I
had them headed a little off so I'm gonna let that water settle in I also
want to curve this a little bit more I think I feel like I had some pointy
edges and I want more fluid curvy edges there anytime you have a really big dip
like that you could actually make that an overturned pedal just kind of by
connecting the dots with a curve so if you have to like really curvy spikes you
can just kind of connect them I hope that makes sense
and I'm just kind of picking some of the petals apart figuring out what's going
to be a back petal gonna be a front petal if there's if
there's both sometimes there isn't because there's not room and I so funny
I've been closed captioning my videos and every time I say the word room like
do we have enough "room" for this or I'm gonna go into my you know I'm gonna put
a shelf in my room it comes up as rum like you know rum that you drink so that
was in one video it's closed captioning this morning it said I'm gonna need a
lot of room for this like I'm gonna need a lot of rum for this you know like oh
my gosh what everybody must think cuz I'm like always talking about rum and how much I need
for every project oh my goodness I thought that was very funny but uh I
know alcoholism is not a laughing matter I just thought the closed captioning was
funny so please don't don't jump down my throat on that I don't record this video
fourth time my goodness gracious four full times I recorded it I decided I
would let the furnace noise slide this one's gonna be demonetized oh boy
so yeah I'm just going in to throw in some of the veining and you can always
go in with like a kind of piece of credit card and scrape it in too because
the paper is really wet still because we really soaked it and that would give you
a crisp line that would not dissolve would not fade at all when you are you
know when you're working so there's lots of different ways to get these details
depending on what you prefer and I really like the tone from the crayon the
best so I'm gonna look at how pretty that is it's almost like it looks like a
bottle blue doesn't it it's just like that pretty it's such a pretty almost
like sooo glossy color and I'm gonna throw some of that in here and there and
you could kind of see stuff kind of like fading out where be from the water
because the paper is so wet so when you want detail to stain you won't really do
you want really bright like in crisp lines you want to let the the paper dry
underneath but I just think this is really kind of fun to get these
lost-and-found edges
and that I think I want that one I think I want I want to be lighter but I do
like that color from the stick there I'll try I'll show you what I mean about
trying to pick this up off the tip let's see if we can get that too I mean it
picks up a little bit that's not bad it's not quite as good as like putting
it on your pallet though I think does help though the more you use it because
you kind of wear down there like a any dried fill on it all right no we're
gonna let that could be a little bit and work on the work on the bottom here I
don't know if I want to put any leaves and it gets really maybe just some
sketchy leaves it can get really messy and really a little too loose very
quickly I want a little bit of yellow in there oh why you might not get a good
bloom there because my paint is still moving I think I'm gonna dry it in just
a second anyway just to get just so I can move on and do a little bit of
detail on the flower I don't want to do a ton but if you want a little bit okay
so I'm gonna dry this and pause the video and we'll come back when that's
dry and finish it up okay and so you can see a bloom there that's where I like a
water drop had landed on there and he sees kind of like spidery edges and that
one you can just see a little bit of a ruffle there I did end up blotting it
though it was taking a long time to dry so you know just so you know you can
play with how much water you leave for the blooms that you want so now I Ament
I'm actually going in a little bit with a crayon to kind of redefine some of
these lines because I do love that color it's on there and then I will refine it
with my brush
using a little bit of a little line work there so just also keep in mind when
you're heating if you're if you're heat drying your blooms won't be as strong
anyway and also careful of the heat tool around this because I can feel like it
got softer just because it was near where I was using the heat gun so I you
want to be aware of that so you don't end up melting here your crayons so you
know don't leave them in a hot car and that sort of thing
I actually think I will try this little brush but I'm going to be careful just
to dip the tip of that in the water because I don't want to get a bunch of
water up in the barrel and I tend to just like really you know dunk my
brushes in and you know whip around in there so it's kind of a hard habit for
me to break so even though the brush the bristles don't hold a lot of water the
barrel will if you if you dip it too too far in the water so you might want to
have like a little bottle cap or something just to to dip from if you're
taking this out with you traveling you generally don't travel as much water as
you'd use at home anyway but I just wanted to make you aware of that because
that could be a bummer if you almost done a painting and then you you end up
you know going in to put a final detail and and a big load of water comes out of
your brush
so it's really cute then it's useful if you're just doing a small area but I
definitely prefer to use to use a juicier brush myself that will carry a
little bit more paint and water in the bristles and I mean it's always a
challenge with a tackle on brush that hasn't been like you know designed to
act like a a fur brush like the mimics because the the water just wants to slip
right off of the bristles so it doesn't like hold the paint and water and
release it slowly like a like a animal hair brush or like a brush that's
designed to behave like an animal hair brush does so it's just you know just
kind of getting used to that for me anyway I mean maybe if you're not
already used to that type of brush it wouldn't even bother you and this kind
of you know puttering around ironically I think this one's taking me longer than
me all right and then maybe just a little bit of oh my goodness my brush I
just slide it on me grab some of that earthy I do like that earthy green
because it's still pretty transparent a lot of times you get an earthy the
earthy colors are really opaque and I don't like opaque there's a color that I
need I've talked about before there's a color I'm not very fond of it's called
chrome oxide of chromium green and it's just such a opaque babypoo color it's
awful and and I know other people like it so I don't want to I don't want to
you know poop on anyone's party but but it is like it is a really difficult
color to work with because it just makes everything muddy and and it's yucky this
was actually this color here is actually pretty transparent for an earthy green
so that's kind of nice but I do feel like it helps being mixed in with one of
its neighborly greens on the set on the in the paint set because then you get a
much you know much nicer more vivid more lively color so if you like green this
is a set for you because there's a lot of green in there
there I'm gonna throw a few extra pans down the center so that I can uh so that
I can make it a little bit more useful for the way I like to work what I'm
painting about I grab a little bit of this because it's got that little bit of
glitzy metallic in there can you look at that seven all our time things in focus
today I had this big long to-do list and I gotta tell you today I've got like
maybe you wouldn't have things it's awful I think this is pretty much gonna
do it I hear the school bus pulling up out front I'm gonna call this a day I'm
pretty happy for this this is how it looks when it's dry pretty much I hope
you enjoyed this if so give me a thumbs up if you have any questions on these
crayons or watercolors or whatever let me know in the comments below there is a
very in-depth review of her watercolors on my channel it's the first two sets
but they're the same paints just different colors so check that out if
you're interested thanks for watching until next time happy crafting
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