We’re painting a creepy old vintage car LIVE today at 12:30pm ET!
Edited to add the photo of the finished painting! Have a wonderful weekend!
Hi friends! I am really excited to paint today’s project with you live at 12:30pm ET on YouTube today!
But first I want to announce the winners of the Jane Davenport book Giveaway! The following 3 people will win a copy of Fabulous Figures and Whimsical Girls!
*Winners, I have also contacted you via email (check your spam folder if you don’t see it) please respond to that email for claiming your prize.
Today I thought it would be fun to play with color and texture so I chose this photo of an old rusty car by Kevin Clark on Unsplash. It kinda reminds my of Christine for the Stephen King Book although hubby tells me it was a Plymouth Fury, still, it is a bit creepy and fun for this time of year!
I love the contrast of the faded rusty paint job and shiny chrome as well as the texture of the asphalt in the background. It will be a fun project to do in watercolor. Please feel free to use what you have but I will be trying out my new Mungyo watercolors.
I have had dozens of requests to review these over the past year as Mungyo makes a lot of the art supplies for other popular brands on the market so it will be fun to compare swatches and see how they do! We are going to work in a limited palette today of Rose Madder (or Alizarin Crimson), Yellow Ochre (or raw sienna) and Pression Blue (or indigo or indanthrone blue.) Here you can see the beautiful array of muted shades we can get. BTW check out yesterday’s blog post if you want more info on making a watercolor mixing chart with your paints.
You can watch the live broadcast or replay in the player below but if you want to chat with fellow painters live or ask me questions during the show please tune in at 12:30pm ET today on YouTube.
I have been getting requests to review these paints for a year and I finally purchased a set to try! We can learn about them together!
Strathmore Ready Cut 8″x10″ watercolor paper ($7.35 for 10 sheets 100% cotton!) Also comes in a 6 sheet pack of 11″x 14″, and 25 sheet pack of 5″x7″ for about the same price.
Here are the Waffle Flower swatching stamps I use.
I hope you will join me LIVE 12:30pm ET for this fun painting tutorial, til then happy crafting!
Edited to add!!! I just got an email that Consumer Crafts is having another 20% off Sitewide sale this weekend, use coupon code SAVE20 through Sunday. They have a ton of fine art supplies now (maybe because the company that owns them bought Aaron Brothers?) and the prices are great. If you need any art or craft supplies now is the time to stock up. They are selling top brands like Arches, Daniel Smith, M Graham, Wisor & Newton and more. I replishined some supplies the last time they had a 20% off sale and got some great deals!
Hi friends! Today’s video lesson will take care of two topics that you requested. A couple of weeks ago for Sketchbook Sunday I posted a time-lapse of a trio of indigo bunting birds and I have dozens of requests for a slower version so if you skip ahead 30 minutes in today’s video you can see that real-time tutorial.
But first in the video I will show you how to make a mixing chart using whatever watercolor you have and tell you why it is a useful tool when you are beginning painting. I had several people ask about mixing charts when I painted the Monstera leaf on a live Friday a few weeks ago. I used the chart to figure out what colors would best suit my subject.
If you would like to learn more about color theory and the techniques to get you started in watercolor please check out my beginner course Essential Tools and Techniques for Watercolor Painting. In this course I walk you through all of the basic techniques you will need to be a successful watercolor painter from mixing luminous colors to techniques for perfect smooth washes as well as how to hold a brush for the greatest brush stroke variety. In the second part of the course I will walk you through 4 paintings step by step and apply all of the techniques we learned in the first part of the course.
If you would like more instruction on painting birds try Texture Toolbox: Feather’s and Fowl with four exclusive step by step painting lessons and a newly added alphabetized archive of dozens of previous bird painting tutorials.
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Here are the waffle flower swatching and color wheel stamps and dies: *You can also stamp the 24 grid a couple of times and use that for your mixing card if you didn’t want to draw or tape.
I hope today’s lesson helps you get the most variety of whatever paint you have. Have you made a mixing cart before? What did you think of the experience and was it helpful? Thanks for stopping by and til next time happy crafting!
…that is as long as the powder stuck where you wanted to. In today’s video I’ll show you how to fix embossing mistakes and make 4 inky fun Halloween cards!
2. Cut white cardstock down to 3 3/4″x5″ and ink up with various shades of distress ink, heat set and flick water on all but one panel. Dry. *Heat-setting before flicking water makes the oxidization more pronounced. Heat-setting between layers prevents muddy colors.
3. On the panel with no water flicks stamp the large owl scene and heat emboss with black powder. Then take a clean brush and paint water over the own and castle to “bleach” it. Let dry. Stamp the other images on the other backgrounds, heat emboss and trim if needed.
4. Ink edges of panels and paper scraps with black soot ink if desired. Add brads and ribbon to background panels and adhere them to your cardbases.
Always use a anti static pouch (or baby powder) on your cardstock before stamping to heat emboss. It will wick away moisture and reduce static so your powder will only stick to your pigment ink.
If you do get stray powder use a small clean paint brush to brush it off.
Stamp with a slow drying pigment ink so you have time for the powder to be applied.
Heat up the heat tool for a few seconds before heating your powder. Move the tool to a new area after you see the powder starting to melt. Over heating will flatten the embossing powder and can scorch the paper.
If you missed a spot stamping fill it in with an embossing marker then re sprinkle powder and reheat. There no shame in that game!
So, before you toss a less than perfect embossed card in the trash try one of the above tips to spruce it up. Remember, handmade is not supposed to be perfect (what is perfect anyway?) a homemade birthday cake that is less than perfect in appearance is still as delicious (probably more so) than the expertly frosted one from the store. And your handmade birthday card will be more beautiful and meaningful than a perfectly mass printed one from the store. Your work is beautiful, share it with the ones you care about, and til next time happy crafting!
Hi friends, today I am going to share some paints I was sent from Xanadu Art Studio. The shop is owned by a woman named Margaret who makes handmade watercolors in small batches. These lovely colors have a subtle shimmer and the soft muted colors are very pretty.
I don’t feel qualified to review these paints because I haven’t ever used any small handmade artisan watercolor before. The Renesans semi handmade paints from Poland were the closest thing I’d tried and they are more like commercially made paint so I didn’t feel it was an apples to apples comparison. So in this video I will give you an overview of the paints and pigments so you can learn about them. Below the video I will link up to other YouTubers who use handmade watercolors more regularly and are more knowledgeable than I am about this kind of paint. Also I’ll show you how to paint my “testing watercolors” vintage rose:) If you would like to learn more about painting loose roses in various arrangements and from different angles as well as a myriad of other flowers please check out my Watercolor Flower Workshop.
Xanadu Art Studio YouTube channel where you can learn much more about them than I can tell you.
These were fun to use, I will use them with brighter colors as the palette is too muted on its own for my linking. Do you use handmade watercolors? If so I’d love to hear your tips and suggestions for getting the most from them. Thank for stopping by and til next time happy crafting!