HAY everybody! :) In today's video I am going to do a no
line masked watercolor using some add-ons from the July Hero Arts kit.
To begin with, I am using some Inkon3 fade-out ink - you know this is my
favorite for no-line watercoloring, and I'm stamping this little goat onto some
Fabriano cold press watercolor paper, also my favorite. I am super predictable
like that! I'm using my Daniel Smith
watercolors. I have two splits from my watercolor
split group set up in a single palette. What I do when I get these palettes is I
remove the insert and I use museum putty to hold the half pans into the pallet.
Museum putty is that sticky stuff that doesn't hurt your walls when you put it
behind a picture to keep it straight, and that way I can get two of the splits
into one palette. Each of my watercolor splits has between 20 and 30 colors in
it. I have one split that's really large - the
iridescent split! If you want more information on
splitting watercolors to save money, you can search
Daniel Smith watercolor split group on Facebook, and you can join our group!
Please answer the questions that I asked that are required for group membership -
that seems to be something people feel like is optional but it's not. :)
Now on this goat I've put down a base color and then I'm going back with sepia,
which is kind of my favorite neutral dark brown,
and I'm doing little flicking strokes to give him sort of a fur look
on his back and a little bit on his head, and then I'm also shading him with the
sepia. It's funny - the sepia Daniel Smith to me
isn't what I think of as sepia, I think of sepia as a warm, vintage brown and
this is really quite a neutral brown to me but whatever! I love Daniel Smith - he
can he can call sky-blue sepia and I would believe him, so
there's that!
My brush is the Escoda versatil travel brush, which I love. It's the number 2,
which is kind of my favorite,
because I can get this little detail like here. It holds a point really
well, and I tend to paint very small anyway
when I'm not doing my watercolor challenge which actually started
yesterday - and I'm working in my sketchbook there so I tend to use bigger
brushes there for larger images, which intimidate me, I'm not going to lie!
Now I've already stamped and cut out masks for each of the animals in the set,
and I'm going to mask off the goat and you're going to see a series of disasters
unfold here and that's okay, that's what can happen with masking! Masking forces
you to think backwards, and that's something I'm not really good at so
you'll see what happens as this goes on. But I'm stamping the hay-bale image over
the masked goat so that it looks like he's standing on the hay bale, and so far
it works, right? So far you're with me, but just wait!
So what I love about this ink is when you're using a classic watercolor
pigment the pigment actually grabs the ink lines and makes them more prominent
while you're painting which is magical and perfect for no-line watercolor. It
allows me to retain the detail on the hay-bale and kind of see where the
little bands that hold the hay-bale together are. While I put in some of this
detail of the actual hay with Aussie red gold one of my fave colors so I have
burnt sienna light or sorry - raw sienna light
on the hay bale, and then Aussie red gold for the
little pieces of hay that are sticking out,
and then sepia for the little bands, and I soften those lines out to just make
them look like they're set back a little bit. Now the first disaster that happened
was I thought that I hit record when I was masking and stamping the pig, the
bunny and the goose, and I didn't so imagine my surprise when
I've already painted the whole dang pig and I look up and there's no red button
on my phone! Imagine my surprise!
So I said some unladylike words and then I hit record
and sorry you can see my headphones here because I'm listening to a podcast while
I paint - that's what I do! Anyway, I masked the hay-bale and
stamped the pig, I masked the hay bale and stamped the bunny, and then I masked
the bunny and stamped the goose, so that's what you missed.
However what you also missed while I stamped the hay bale and the goat is that
suddenly physics has stopped working with this little scene and
some things are kind of floating over on the right hand side, and I'm going to have
to fix that! So I'm starting to fix it on the left hand side
where the bunny is sort of falling off the face of the earth, and the pig is
floating, so magically gravity isn't working on one side and it's working on
the other side. I don't know - it's stamping, I'm not going to get too
wound up about it, but it is bothering me so I am going to have to fix it a little
bit later. I'm using sepia again as the grounding
element for these images just sort of going around the bottom of the images
and then fading it out a little bit towards the bottom of the page.
No need to paint in a bunch of detail there, I mean I've already spent
an hour on this, which you couldn't see, but it is what it
is, so just a little bit of something to anchor the parts of this where gravity is
working, and then I'm going to work on the pig. And that's where I'm like "ooh this
doesn't make any sense - the bottom of the hay bale is like floating up around the
pigs belly!" How does that kind of a thing even happen if we're not in some sort of
Harry Potter book? I don't know but you can do all things with
watercolor so never fear I'm ignoring it for now and I'm working on the bunny's
ear, and I'm like "whoa
I see what's happening!" So I'll add a little shadow, I mean it's clear that the
goose is behind the bunny but you do need to add shading just to really
indicate their position in regard to each other, so here's where I fix the
gravity. The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to make the hay a little
bit darker because I now see that I have to cover up like half of this pig and in
order to do that I have to overcome that pink and his little hoof, so I'm
extending the wrapping of the bale down a little bit and then I'm actually
adding some sepia shading to the hay bale to extend that back side of it down
in front of the pigs leg, and actually make it look like it's connected to the
earth and not some sort of magic carpet made out of hay! So you can fix anything
with watercolor - don't believe anybody who tells you you can't.
Plus - it's just a card, party animals! So here are some other cards from the release that
accompanies the awesome Country Fair Hero Arts July kit. These are all right
up my alley, and I have details on all of these
adorable cards on my blog, but they're all themed
to be things that you would see at a state or county fair and so they're
super fun and you can use them all year. So I hope you come over to my blog and
check it out, and I hope you have a great week! Thanks so much for watching!
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