 So the two classes, there's a beginner jump start class and that's going to be like all the other jump start classes where we talk about the supplies, all those basic techniques and everything. And then there's going to be also launched at the same time because I know a lot of people already know everything about the art impressions watercolor stamps and the intermediate one is going to be a mini class but it's going to be more in-depth with crazy scenes in it. And on YouTube when the class goes live there's going to be a video so you can see preview of the kinds of things you'll learn in each one. But I thought I'd do a little video now and give you a mini preview preview of what that's going to be. So I'll just give you a little bit on the supplies. One is the markers. And this is one of the things we've been waiting on because Ellen's putting together a set of markers because I know everybody wants to use exactly the pens that I have and I tried to limit myself. So I made a set of my favorite 20 colors and that is the ones I'm showing you right here and the ones that are on screen. And Ellen's going to put together a set of those so you can buy just those markers and not anything else. You can also use the colors that are just like these but they're in the conversion chart. So over on my teaching site there is a conversion chart you can get for free and you can use your distress markers or your zigs or all that sort of thing. But I know a lot of people want to use exactly what I've got so this set will be available. If it becomes available this week because as soon as they get them in and get them packaged up they're going to put it on the website. Don't buy it yet! Because when the class launches there's going to be a coupon code inside the classroom so that you can go get your supplies at a discount. So you might watch for them but please don't get over excited unless you don't want the discount you can be the first one to buy them without the discount. So there you go. These are the basic colors that I'm using and the reason I chose these even for the conversion chart is because it was the most apples to apples across the different lines of markers. So I thought that most people would have something to use for the class. So you do not have to have these markers to do either of the classes but I'm going to use these in all of the future classes on the topic as well as future videos. So when I do videos on blah blah blah YouTube. Yeah, that YouTube thing. I will also use these markers. So if you want to get them you certainly can. But if you also have them then that's fine too. You'll have the ones that are in the conversion chart. In the class I'm also going to be using Arches cold press paper and I'll show you in the pre-class lesson first lessons and stuff. A little bit of why I use this because you get more intense color but for some people using the Canson XL is better just because you have trouble moving the color and that's perfectly fine too. It'll look a little different but you can still use that as well. So I've got a little piece of Arches out here and I thought I would just do a quick demo and show you a little bit about art impressions watercolor because some people may not have any idea what it is. You're also going to need some blocks. You can use big blocks but there's a little set of blocks and this is not the full set. I think these might even be the really many ones. The art impressions set has like five blocks in it and they're around this size. There are some little teeny tiny ones that I've kept for probably a dozen years and these are super tiny and I use them just because I had all of my stamps at once on the blocks so I could do the class and not have to be putting stamps on and off so you will see these teeny tiny ones but if you remember there used to be these things called dollar stamps and when I first started stamping a lot of these dollar stamps and they came with these itty bitty blocks so if you have any of those they're really helpful but I haven't seen anybody else who makes them. So now as for the stamps in class Ellen's going to have, as I said, a discount on them. Some of the main ones are going to be the flowers. There's going to be some foliage and flower stamps that you're going to need. If you have different ones and you want to use different flowers and grasses perfectly fine but I'm going to use these in all of them so that again you don't have to buy a million of them if you want to take all the classes and that sort of thing so there's those. In the Jumpstart class we're going to do some stuff with containers we're going to do a wooden gate. I picked this barn set because it has not only the barn but it has a tree and a fence so you can buy some sets that just have a tree buy some sets that just have a barn or you can buy one that has a little bit and that's a smattering. In the Advanced class there's some other stamps and that might not even be all of them I don't remember at the very second in the Advanced class there's a bench that you're going to need for all of the cards because I do five different scenes with a bench and there are other stamps to go with it you know there's this one which I'm going to use today is some of these really pretty decorative jars and there's more stamps than that but you'll find out all about all of that later and Ellen's going to have a page where she's going to have all of them in one place. My stamps I keep in these CD cases and I keep them by what kind of stamp they are so I keep all of my grasses in one kind of my weird flowers in another I keep my dogs and cats together so I sort them I break them up by you know I break up the stamp sets and I keep them in a way they make sense so if I'm going to look for animals I'm going to just pull out my animals one this one has a bunch of different animals in it different variety of them and that sort of thing there's one card in the advanced class that uses the dogs it's a dog park picture but you can just do the park you don't have to do the dogs so if you want to limit your stamp purchases you can do that there's also cats available there's also bunnies and all sorts of other animals so you can use some of those as well but you can also do just the park because not everybody needs every stamp so let's pick out one of these guys maybe I'll use is this one of the ones from that set it's a little more of a straight up kind of stamp and with these you put them on the blocks and I want to dampen this a little bit the stamps don't stick really well just get it a little bit damp I just took a little baby wipe to it and stick it on and then I'm going to put some color on it what color shall we do let's do a mixed color one so I'll do one that looks like it is rustic so I'm going to put some of this sort of reddish medium brown on it just apply the ink straight to the stamp let's do a little bit of green and we'll make it a little bit distressing and rustic and I'm going to throw in a little bit of a lighter green too just for kicks just a few drops of it and then if your stamp has been sitting there for a while you can just huff on it that was not long enough to knead it but there you go did it anyway and then just stamp it then you can take your brush and get number eight round you can use a water brush an aqua brush for these but I tend to find that they they just put out too much water for me I'm not a big fan of that but all I'm going to do is add water around the edges because that water is going to carry the pigment from the markers and immediately I start getting a little bit of color mixing from the greens that I put down and that brownish color and I can put a bunch of water down and get a really soft look I'm going to leave some white parts in here too and I can also then take another block grab one that I'm not going to stamp with and you can add other colors to it and if I want this to continue to have more of a rustic feel I'm going to add a little bit of a blue just dropping some color in here and look how pretty that is with all those colors mixing because it's wet and wet so I'm just going to add a little bit of it and I'm not adding it evenly I'm just putting it in a few spots and I get this beautiful vase with a handle on it that is just cute as a button if I like it and then pick out some flowers to go in it and again in the class I'm going to show you I have little swatches of each one I can find the envelope in the class I'm going to have swatches that have each of the stamped images on them and I'll have a picture of all the stamps that I used because a lot of times when you're going to grab a stamp if I were to try to describe that it's kind of hard to describe if you know what I mean so when you're watching the videos you might want to have this pulled up and you're watching the video to figure out which stamps it is that I'm using and you'll be able to sort of figure that out I mean the grasses there's a small and a large grass you can verbally say that but it's hard to explain like what is that thing because I use this one for a lot of stuff so in the class there's going to be those plus there's going to be swatches of the marker colors that are used for that card so that you can find all that really easily because I want you to be able to find it there's one other piece I thought I had it out it has that very favorite flower in it I haven't seen it here yet what did it do with it? I thought it was in one of these packs drink drink drink oh well no that's not it it's similar to that this little guy is one of the most useful stamps it looks like it's just a dumb little leaf thing but I find it very helpful and you can see I have definitely mixed up all my sets I have so many little flowers to choose from a lot of people don't want to break up their stamp sets they want to store them together which is fine but what I do instead is keep all of these sheets and then if I ever need to go and find out what set it's in I can go to these and look at the images and figure out which ones go with what and I did a big resort of everything for this class so that I could have that kind of organize okay there's that little guy and how about we also use some of these little flowers and this little clump of flowers so I will pick out those guys and I'm going to get it a little bit damp I also have on mine little pieces of double stick tape and if you're going to be peeling things off and on regularly especially in class then you may want to put a little bit of that double stick tape on because it's going to hold everything in place because I found it was really helpful to have everything ready and on a block before I started the project because otherwise you would be constantly watching me change those and swap them around and that would be a ridiculous waste of your time and I am not into wasting your time so I'm going to take my light first I do this a little differently than Bonnie does Bonnie is the owner of Art Impression Stamps and the designer of these and the inventor of the whole line there are some videos by Bonnie in the class there are ones that she just has on YouTube I invited her to create if she would like a little video for the class but she declined just due to being super busy so she said I could put some of her videos in the classroom so you can get alternate ideas on how to do things I'm seeing a few comments online but I haven't seen anybody doing major talking so that's why I'm not addressing comments by the way so if you have questions as we go give a shout so I've stamped a couple of these leaves and then I'm going to start to work those leaves in so I get some overall water and it's going to make more of a cloud of the leaves and things that are in here and that's going to give me a base to start the whole thing from now Bonnie would not do it this way because it has a different approach to it but I like to just have that color so that those greens create that poofiness and then I insert the flowers into it that's what we're going to insert with these little guys I dabbed off the excess water because I put so much down I want some dampness there but if you want really hard edges then you just let the first color dry but if you want it to sort of blend in a little bit you can put it into paper that's a little bit wet this one is fairly dry now so it's not moving very much on its own but I can soften those up with just touching a little bit of the water to it and let's try a few other flowers let's try this one this flower is kind of cool it's a series of hearts basically it looks like a whole bunch of hearts in a circle but if you water it out the right way you can make it look like a daisy with all kinds of petals around it because all you do is join those little hearts and you end up with a flower with a hole in the middle now we have these little daisies in there too let's see we should probably add some more flowers in here because we can and I'm going to grab these little dots they don't tend to work on their own as a flower but they have enough little tiny detail in them that I like to just kind of put a little color on them and tap just the edge so that I get almost little peeking dots of color now that's not something you can't do with a brush so you could always do that just using a brush itself but it gives me that little extra bit of detail that's kind of fun then for my finishing touch I'm going to pick out a little bit of leaf and I'm going to use a dark green this time I'm going to lid back on that purple marker see now that is why these things don't always stick really great, especially when you've used them a bunch you can wash the stamps entirely let's see if I can press that down because it's already got ink on it I don't want to get too much ink all over my finger but I'm going to just tap the edge of it not the whole thing necessarily because I want just some of it to hang down out of the bottom it's moving around again where's that block that has the sticky on it because I want it to hold still apparently I need more so I'm going to grab a little bit of what I use on these is the double stick tape, the B creative tape that I like so much just a little tiny piece of it it'll eventually become unsticky but it stays good and sticky so I can keep resticking different stamps onto it and these I want to be a little sharper because they are in the front so anything in the front is going to be a little bit more detailed than things in the background so I'm just going to make a few more of those I feel like I need a little something right there in the center see if I can do that without covering up any of the other stamps and then I can soften some of them but not all of them because I want to leave that nice sharp detail that adds contrast because with watercolor one of the fun things is having the combination of soft edges and hard edges and a lot in the class is going to talk about that the different kinds of edges you can get whether you're doing wet in wet or wet on dry etc so that one has more hard edges in it this one I can go back in now even though I've already finished that little painting and I can add a couple of really sharp edges in this one you can rework these as much as you want to keep improving them and look at the difference that it makes to have just those little hard edges to add those very fine little lines and this one has more that's filled in this one is a little more open so every time you do one of these it's going to be different so hello to those of you who have joined in on the video I know I don't do many of these Facebook lives because I'm such a technical noodle head I don't really do very well at them but I thought I would do that in advance of the classes that are coming up so for those who are joining in late there are two classes the projected date for now is December 6th which will be on Friday and the supplies will be available in the Ellen Hudson shop they're also available other places but Ellen's going to have a discount for you because she's awesome so you may not want to buy your stuff too soon you may want to wait until the classroom is open and has the coupon code in it I don't even know myself the coupon code will be so I can't even give you a heads up about that there you go so what color should we make this one I'm doing fine thank you good because the beginning of this for those who watched from the very beginning was a little weird because I had my volume doing strange things maybe that was the problem when I tried calling my mom and we were trying to do Facebook and she said she couldn't hear me so glad it's clear yay maybe let's do a pink and purple vase this time so we'll do this little teapot and this is from one of the stamp sets that's in the intermediate class so there will be for those who missed the beginning an intermediate and a beginner class the jumpstart class is the beginner the mini class will be the advanced and it's going to have lots more different stamps in it and it's going to do crazy scenes and that kind of stuff for those who are ready for it I don't usually launch an intermediate at the same time as a beginner but I know a lot of people they do these art impressions things all the time and I wanted to give them something to enjoy oh you want it to look clear hmm I wonder if I can make it look clear let's see if we can do that make this look like it's a clear vase it'll have a little purple tint to it since we already have purple here so I'm going to just make a few shadows here that will create that part of the vase that's not got water in it the outside glass portion and then I'm going to grab a dull-ish blue and we'll add the water let's see some blueish blobs and then after we get the flowers in we can do some stems down there that go into the water about that now let's try doing something with the very same flowers as I did on that last sorry my fingers are like really dirty I was doing pastels this morning and with like blacks and browns and I can't seem to get my hands clean so I'm here with crazy dirty hands so let's instead of the other oh and there go the dogs instead of using that same color for the background greens this time I'm going to do more with the same green that I did with the detail and notice I'm doing first and second generation stamping possible to zoom in a bit let's see if I can zoom in a bit without ruining anything is that zoomed in now don't worry in the classroom you'll get to have lots of zoomed in stuff hopefully that's better now I've lost comments alright so now I've got my water on the brush and again I'm going to start by doing the water on the stamped portions first because I can keep some of those edges nice and detailed and soften them without losing them and I'm just kind of skipping the brush around a little bit just dancing it around the surface and then when I get to the stuff in the middle I'm just going to use my brush to spread that out so that I get that soft edge that I'll start to fill in my basic greens here and now I have something to stamp into and this time I'm not going to dry it like I did before and you know what I'm going to use my favorite little stamp I use this one a ton in the class because I like it a lot and we're going to use it for flowers this time in this one we used it for greens but I'm going to do these wet in wet so you can see how soft they get when you go wet in wet so you can wet it afterward to soften it or you can do it at the beginning like this and here I'm stamping part way on and part way off the water so I end up with both in it both the wet and the dry and even though this is a stamp that I often use for greens it works great for flowers too so now we need a little more sharp detail because we're getting mushy so I think I'm going to add a different green and this time and this is where you know you can use all of these stamps for anything I'm going to use these for more sharp green edges this time using it over here for that here I used it for flowers so I'm going to let more of these act instead like almost a baby's breath kind of little leaf sticking out the edges that's one of the fun things that makes all of these art impressions watercolors different because there's no way you could ever do the same thing twice like I could follow my own lessons and my own instructions and I'm going to do the same thing twice so if I can't do it don't expect that yours is going to come out exactly the same yours is going to come out the way yours comes out and it's going to be just as beautiful so I'm going to add some water to that but first I'm going to add my greens to come down here into the vase and I'm going to see how lightly I can touch on the surface of the paper so I get that skippy line so I don't like the lumpy paper the lumpy paper gives me a skippy line well here we actually want the skippy line because you don't want it you wouldn't see completely I'll see this is still wet so I'm getting a really nice kind of softer line in here because if you were just painting flowers in a jar you wouldn't get a solid line going through there you'd see a white line around that edge that you'd get some that are darker and some that are lighter just like I got here so that's perfect that it was done right on top of all of that mess so instead of whining about it I'm going to just be happy that it came out the way it did now I want to add some more contrast in this one than I did in the last one and I can do that by just taking that dark green more dark green I use too much water I'm also going to use a little different green sorry I put the pen in my mouth and you can't understand me and I can go in here with my darker green and fill in some of those blanks just by painting with the brush instead of stamping into it and put some extra color in now this these jars are used in the intermediate class you're going to learn how to make some of these bouquets but we're not necessarily putting them in big jars but if you like this big jar set go ahead and get it for the beginner class and you can make jars with bouquets of flowers instead of just doing the bouquet itself so I have in beginner class there's some that have the sorry my brain is not in gear with my mouth while I'm trying to paint they just have a little string tied around them as bouquets instead one of the funny things that I did do which I would love if some people would help me out here when I was sending out cards recently I got all excited because I now had all of these art impressions watercolor cards to send and I went and did that and now I don't have any of the samples left so that's in class and Ellen was asking me for a picture of some of it so that she could use it on her website and I was like oh man I don't have any of the cards left I have one card left from that and that's this one it's the only one that I saved the rest of them are all gone my mom got one and all kinds of people so if you got one of those cards do me a huge favor and post a picture of it in the comments section of this video so that then other people can see some of the cards from class I do have some pictures that are in class but I don't have like the physical card itself so if you got one then post a picture of it so there is that jar and to add more contrast just because I'm wacky that way because I look at that and it feels dark but it doesn't feel like as dark as it could so I'm going to take a couple other colors I'm going to take a little bit of blue sorry I should do this here you can see it and a little bit of purple and let's see we'll throw in a little bit of green just so I make sure I don't totally lose all the greenness but I want to put some really darks in here and so I'm just going to drop in this blueish purple greenish thing and look what happens when I suddenly put real contrast in here it suddenly starts having even more depth because now I've got just a couple areas where I've got some real darks and since they're already wet from everything else I already did then the color moves out into those other areas and looks like more detailed little flowery things I mean the difference in that just by adding the just that mix of mushy color recipe for that it's just adding something dark that makes a huge difference by the boom by the bang and I can pull some of that other color down in here now too I know this is getting like crazy advanced those of you who've taken my glass coloring class Copic markers we'll have a little easier time doing crazy things like this but I'm going to add that contrasting color right here as well just in a few spots maybe I'll put a link to this video in the classroom for those who didn't get to see this so you can get an idea of some other ways to do things but look at how much that added by just creating more contrast soften up that a little bit make sure that feels like the base color bringing a little more of it elsewhere too but anyway, you could fuss around with these kinds of things forever you could just keep going don't keep going too far because then you'll potentially do yourself in you don't want to do yourself in there are some lessons in the jumpstart class as well about creating shadows more on creating extreme shadows, this one if the lighting was straight up and down then you'd have the lighting straight under here but I'm just going to pull more over to one side because that's going to make it feel like the light's coming from this way shadows always look better when the viewer can tell even if they don't understand it they can tell that there's more light on one side than another gives it a place to live in space and let's see since we're talking about contrast then let's add a little bit more of that darker color out here too so there we go thank you very much for joining me for this again watch for notification on YouTube when the class goes live because as soon as it's ready there's going to be that going on it could be Thursday night because I tend to do things at weird hours because trying to do things before I go to bed or whatever like this morning I realized I hadn't turned off the coupon code from Black Friday so some people got an extra extended deal all kinds of things did I say that would be in the beginning class there's some things yes that will be in the beginner class there's nothing of it okay let me zoom back out there we go so you can see my three pretty bases the intermediate class has more scene based stuff so it will do a bunch of different stuff with benches there's one where I actually figured out how to do a winter forest which is really really cool I did not think it was possible to do that and I figured it out and it taught me a whole lot about how to paint now with my regular watercolors as well so that was kind of exciting that I could learn how from doing art impressions watercolors learn a technique to use for my regular watercolors because I'm teaching a class at Daniel Smith in January all about painting snow and it was really helpful to learn a new technique so there we go all my little stamps and everything set that up for a pretty cover picture for this video and if you have any other questions leave them in the comments and I will be answering comments of course as always I do answer the ones where there's actual questions as far as I know I haven't missed things but if I have I apologize and in general if it's not something that has a question so you know I saw what you said so I appreciate everything that you have to share and that is about it for today 45 minutes and we are done I'm going to go do some small business Saturday shopping I saved all my errands to go out in the neighborhood and visit with local peeps so there you go have a wonderful day go out and have dinner or lunch or something at some local place and put some money back into the economy and get my dog hairs off of my pictures here dog hairs everywhere alright thanks guys have a wonderful the rest of your weekend and I'll see you again soon oh one other thing before I go I totally forgot I'm going to be doing some flash sales over on my social media so you're going to want to follow me on Instagram and Facebook because it's going to be like for the next six hours a certain class is going to be 50% off or something so check in regularly and during the holidays we're going to do something crazy like that alright see you guys later bye