 Hi there, I'm Sandy Alnok Artist and Paper Crafter here on YouTube and today I'm going to be making a little bit of a crazy Birds of a Feather watercolor card using the stamp set from Heffy Doodle called Wingman. It has a couple of birds in it, it has a few perches for them and some fun sentiments and it's a fun stamp set to work with in a bunch of different ways. I'm going to try to put all the stamps on one card, well most of the stamps on one card and all the birds are going to be trying to get onto one perch. And this first bird is the front most bird and so I stamped him first and then masked him out so stamping onto some masking paper and trimming it out. Then I added all the other birds because only one of them touched but there are two birds that are also going to be flying in front of or sitting in front of the trapeze. I don't know if it's called trapeze, you bird people can tell me what the name is for that thing but I'm going to call it a trapeze. So since they were all masked out now they look like they are in front of the trapeze that they're sitting on. So there you go for the masking then the watercoloring begins. I did add the Birds of a Feather stick together sentiment onto it and that is what inspired the coloring of this card. So the whole idea was these birds flying to try to gather onto one trapeze together which would be kind of hilarious to see if they all actually make it on there because somebody is going to bump somebody off but I was thinking about this whole card as me and my friends and just picturing it that way because there's some who arrive early and they're perched and ready to go then there's some of us who arrive later and sometimes we arrive in a state of disarray shall we say and when you see me arrive at my stamp group you usually know I'm one of the later ones that arrives and I'm often in a state of disarray so there you go but I did decide to paint them all so that they were the same ish colors some kind of doing a monochromatic card not completely but kind of monochromatic but I'm using a couple different yellows that are in my palette and I'll also be adding a couple other colors along the way you could do something like this making them monochromatic by just using say a new gamboge or a permanent yellow deep and the first layer you would put in very very watered down color because both of those go to a very very pale yellow and then they get to a creamier more orangey color as you get thicker paint or more layers of paint but I decided to just use all my yellows and that's the Hansa yellow light the permanent yellow deep and a little bit of new gamboge it's just using a bunch of those to color everything and the reason that all the birds are the same even though my friends and I aren't all the same is that they are birds of a feather and so they all needed to have the same color feathers but notice that the birds are not the same they are different some of them have eye patches one of them doesn't the eye patches are different on each bird and I thought that kind of is like me and my friends we are the same but we're different there's distinctiveness to all of us but we all share a lot of things in common and in this particular case the commonness is all of that beautiful yellow so I thought it would be a good representation of me and some of my friends and I did use that that brush to paint that little tiny string and that is a super tiny brush I think it was a number four and the rest of this I'm using a number eight four because there's just small areas and I wanted to make sure I get that in there I normally use a number eight or number twelve of the silver brush the black velvet line they point really really nicely and love how they do that so now we've got the birds painted and I'm going to add some richness of color to a lot of the areas now so I can add a little bit of a transparent pure orange to some of this because I wanted to add a little more difference for some of the birds give them a little bit of dimension and adding the color in the darkest areas and then just moving it around with a dryish brush and dryish means I've rinsed it so it's clean I'm not adding color but I can add just enough dampness to it that I can work with the edges and I can kind of blend them out just like that and that kind of helps to even out the edges and that sort of thing and with most watercolors you just want to keep an eye on it as it dries to make sure new hard edges appear that you weren't expecting so now that I'm getting all these birds done what I was what was running through my mind was that there is not enough feathers not enough chaos if I am that one at the top who's flying in to my stamp group at the very end of the day or not the end of the day but I'm the last one in there's usually more chaos than that so I thought I'm going to make a cloud of feathers and chaos behind so I put down a very light coat of a very pale yellow and then added some edges to it so it looks like more flat more feathers flying all over the place and this card may have been better without all this in the long run but when you know the story it kind of makes more sense me and my my last minute chaos and then add more little feathers here and there it started looking kind of like a yellow tree so this would be one way to make a tree so I started trying to add more yellow darker yellow feather shapes and more little bits and pieces flying all over the place then I started dabbing color off because I thought you know I think I went a little too far with that yeah so sometimes we go a little further than we ought maybe I should have stopped before I added that on there but it certainly makes it a much more distinctive bunch of stuff flying around doesn't it so I'm adding more color onto my little feathers and then I thought I'm just going to make it more visible that these are feathers by just adding motion lines around the birds as well as just a few general lines I could have stamped more feathers in there I didn't want to do that so just adding a few lines with a pen seemed to convey that for me so there we go my crazy yellow card for the day hope you've enjoyed this please follow along on instagram and facebook as I 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