- [Voiceover] Hi everyone Kristina here,
welcome to another video at my YouTube channel and vlog.
Apologize if my voice is a little scratchy today.
I'm gonna use a sentiment from the Kitty Stacks
stamp set from The Greeting Farm today.
And I'm just using the words,
I'm not gonna be using those cute images,
although I do want to make a card with
those Kitty Stack images at some point.
I'm just gonna stamp this hello there
in some VersaFine onyx black ink.
I'm stamping this on some Strathmore cold press
water color paper.
And then I'm going to use a pencil
and roughly draw out a banner shape.
So today's video is part of a blog hop
for my friend Kathy Racoosin.
She has a really fun coloring challenge
on her blog and Instagram a few times per year.
And throughout the month of September,
it is her coloring challenge.
It's the latest one and it's a 30 day coloring challenge.
And I've done some videos for her challenge
before in the past.
If you're new to it, it's basically just challenging you
to do some coloring every single day.
And whether that's just you know five minutes here and there
or if you want to do something a little bit more involved.
So I was looking for something to color.
But I really wanted to just paint some flowers.
So I'm going to take the coloring challenge for myself
and sort of extend it to challenge myself
to do more water color painting and coloring that way,
because I don't do a whole lot of freehand
water color painting.
Also because I'm mostly coloring images,
stamped images, or things for cards.
So I don't really challenge myself
artistically like that all the time.
And so I thought it would be kind of fun
to do that this month and see where it takes me.
So I've started out with some pink colors
and then now I'm bringing in some purple.
And the paints I'm using today are from Prima.
This is the tropical set and I haven't used
their watercolors in a while.
And I've forgotten how wonderful they are.
They're really really great watercolors
and I really like the colors.
I didn't have to do a ton of mixing of colors
for this particular piece here, but it was really fun.
OK so that dark purple was really dark.
If you notice them I came and sopped
some of that up with my brush.
I basically dried off my brush
and then brought it over to those areas
that had a lot of paint and picked it up
with the dry brush and it kind of sops up
all that extra paint so I was able to soften that color.
So now I'm going to paint some flowers.
And these are, I don't know if you wanna call 'em peonies,
or maybe almost roses.
They're not a real flower.
It's just kind of one that I've seen people paint,
and it's kind of my own take on it.
But basically you do a lot of C shapes.
And you wanna use the darkest like kind of
full strength color in the very center of the flower.
And then as you add additional C shapes moving out
and radiating out from the center of that flower,
you want to clean off your brush,
and just get a little bit of water,
and let it kind of touch that area
that has the most paint.
And then it kind of wicks away that color from the center.
That'll make even more sense in this next flower.
So like I said before I'm gonna start in the center,
just little C shapes, and I'm gonna clean off my brush.
And I'm gonna come back, and it still has a little bit
of the paint on it, it's just more diluted with water.
You can see that it's really pale.
But when I touch it to that really dark area,
it pulls that really saturated paint.
So this is the way you can get flowers
that have a more saturated center,
and then kind of fade out to more pale colors
on the outer petals.
So I'm adding more of these C shapes
and kind of filling in these gaps.
I'm gonna do one more flower,
I am gonna speed up the video process here though
while I paint it.
And I'm using kind of like a yellow gold shade.
Actually I'm not gonna speed up the painting,
I'm gonna show you this one more time.
I'm using a kind of a palish gold shade.
I mixed the kind of muted ochre shade
that's on the top row in the palette.
I mixed that with just a tiny bit of the purple
just to dull it back just a tiny bit.
Or actually no I mixed it with the brown.
There's a brown in this palette,
and it just softened it up a little bit.
I then dropped in just a tiny bit
of that reddish coral shade just to give the center
of that flower a little bit of something different.
So now I'm going to bring in some leaves.
And I've mixed a couple of different
colors of green for this.
And I'm basically pressing the brush,
I'm letting the brush really make the leaf shapes.
So really watch as I paint the leaves.
You'll see that I really press the bristles
of the brush down and they fan out,
and it creates a nice leaf shape.
So I'm gonna do that a few more times,
and you can see how I do that.
Pressing the brush down,
and I'm using those brush strokes to create leaves.
And I'm dropping in some other shades of green
just to keep this interesting.
Gonna add in some more leaves.
I'm gonna add more of that green shade.
I mostly just wanna make sure I have green
in a few different spots around this banner.
I don't want all the leaves all in one area,
so I am gonna kinda move around and add more elements.
Gonna add some berries, I really like to add berries.
They're a great way to add little pops of color in areas.
And then I made sort of like a bud of a flower
instead of a full blown flower and I just did that
with kind of like three little C shapes.
I'm gonna do another one of those buds
over on the other side of the banner as well.
I'm tryna decide what I'm doing here.
Then I decided I'm going to do a,
kind of a few different,
kind of like four different leaf shapes all together,
and then it creates a flower.
So I'll add in some leaves over there on that one side.
And I'm pretty much done with this.
I'm just going to darken up that banner just a little bit.
It was looking a little bit pale for me.
So I thought I'd bring in a little bit more purple
at the very bottom of that banner,
just to add a little bit more shading.
So I'm gonna do ahead and dry this.
And I'm gonna move on with the rest of my card.
Trimming down that water color piece
so that it is five inches wide by three and 3/4 tall.
And then I'm taking some Neenah desert storm card stock
and I'm scoring that at five and a half
to create a side folding card.
I put some foam tape on the back of my watercolor panel.
And then I'll press that down onto the card front.
And I did wanna mention that the watercolor paper
I'm using today is a five by seven precut.
And I didn't know entirely what I was doing with this piece
when I painted it so it just worked out
that it was kind of centered in that area.
So now I'm gonna use the Starry Colors
Gansai Tambi palette from Zig.
And I've just mixed up that light gold color
and I'm going to drop in some little circles of color.
I'm being very minimalist with this,
or very sparse with these gold shades
because I don't want it to overtake all of those
really soft pale colors from the flowers.
I did switch to a really small paintbrush,
and add some stripes on that shaded area on the banner.
I think if I was to do this again,
I probably would've skipped that,
'cause it doesn't really add to the card,
but it was just kind of a fun element.
So that's the card for today.
Like I said before, this is for
The Daily Marker Coloring Challenge.
It's a blog hop so if you want even more inspiration,
head over to my blog and you'll see that there.
Thanks so much for watching and I'll catch
you guys in the next video.
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