 Hi there, I'm Sandy Olnach, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today I'm going to be creating some Copic Vacation backgrounds and doing that as speed art While I'm using some hex art class techniques But I'm going to start by showing you the Sunny Studio Stamps Happy Camperer First in real time so that you can see how to color that one Camperers are really fun to color. There's a friend of mine who's really into campers shout out to Sheila And I thought this was a really cute little stamp set a little teeny tiny one with some fun sentiments That could be good for your summertime cards, so I'm going to show you the coloring of that And I'm going to use some really basic colors for the reason that I want to do a couple of different backgrounds with this Because when I think of campers I think of going on trips and when you think of going on trips you think of all the places you'd like to go and see and I thought it would be fun to do some cards with some backgrounds of places that I either want to go to or places that I've been and That's what I'm going to talk about a little further in the video. I Decided my basic color scheme since this is going to be Americana type of scenes will be red white and blue for the camper and I'm going to create a little bit of dimension on it as well But I got my basic colors down just so I could make sure I kind of get them spread out evenly across the page that sort of thing the windows you can see you can create a little bit of Glassy look by making some stripes in them, and then I'll also soften that with some other color in a little bit but now I'm going to start adding some dimension to things and I'm putting my My darker gray color down so that I can smooth that out and make it look like metal By mixing it with a lighter gray. You can use any of the grays I'm using the C's here, but you can use any of the T's W's ends or C's to achieve the same kind of a look That's one of the things about the grays. They don't really need to Be used individually. You can use them together You can use them separately and if no one sees them next to each other you often you can't tell the difference between them So now I'm going to add some shading I added shading on to the front edge of the little awning that's coming out as well as now on the bottom of This shape here at the bottom of my camper Now I don't know whether campers should actually be silver all over But I decided mine was going to be red white and blue or shall we say red silver and blue Because it was fun But you could also make one that's all silver so that your background really stands out as the only color on this But what I decided to do is make my my little camper nice and bright and happy and cheery I'm going to use my favorite dark red On the top of the camper here and give that some shading as it comes up from the bottom Put a little tiny bit underneath of the flowers. So we have a little red flower box happening Blend that out with my favorite mid-tone red, which is my r3 7 If you don't own those two markers yet and you color anything red Go shopping right now and get them because they they work with all of the light red colors very very well So I colored a couple of these because I stamped several of them in the same layout And I'm going to make the same sign over here on the right hand side. So I'm taking the The sign Text the sentiment that I've stamped here and just made some scribbles across it to make a wooden board And then I'll give it a poll now I'm making my poll Go off the page at the bottom because I want it to look like that sign is way out in the front And that the camper is way in the back because if I were to just make that That signage kind of at the bottom of where the camper is it's not going to really look like it's in any kind of Normal proportion it's going to look like a giant giant billboard So I thought I'd make it look like it's in the front and then everything else is in the back And I'm using my Copic multiliner to go over the edges because I'm going to continue making scenes behind it If you're going to just add your black lines after you're done you can use any black pen But since I'm going to touch that with some Copic marker I'm using a black pen Now this is the speed coloring and here i'm doing Yosemite National Park I did go there last year And it would be nice to do places that you've been to and use some of your photographs To kind of create some scenes. These are not exact replicas of the mountains there But it's close enough that if you've been to Yosemite if you know anything about it This is going to give you the feeling of that big valley with those giant mountains at the back In all three of these speed backgrounds that i'm showing you there are some techniques that are shown in the hex art class The hex art class is over at art-classes.com and it is an advanced class And even though lots of people might be able to create some of the little hexes that are in there as Little teeny tiny techniques It takes a lot to get to this level But I wanted to be able to show you because a couple people have asked me well What do I do with this now? I have this beautiful hex art piece that I've created How do I turn that into a scene? So i'm doing three scenes using a bunch of the techniques in the the class And the real-time videos are in an added bonus lesson at the end of class So i've added another lesson over there if you've taken the class you automatically have access to that So you can see them in real time with the color names and everything There's no voiceovers in them But they do have the colors on the screen and I do label what the techniques are when it's pine trees I label the pine trees and uh, this one is Using these these rocks in the southwest But i'm using a technique for marble to create these rocks on the the two sides So I label things like that for you I didn't didn't have time to do voiceovers because it's a long long long video I just put on some music so you can Just go listen or you can turn on your own music and just watch Whatever you'd like to do But I thought I'd put those in there to tell you kind of what you can do with The class and with the techniques that you learn in the class all 42 of them This does these do not have all 42 techniques by the way But they just have a couple of them used in backgrounds so that you can see how to apply them If you haven't taken that class yet, I definitely recommend you take the copic jump start class first Because that one is your basics that's going to teach you the basics about markers and everything Something like this Could be really daunting if you are new to it So don't take the class just because you want to see these backgrounds go take the jump start class first But if you're ready to take this one then in just a few minutes I'm going to give you a coupon code so that you can go and take it if you've not been inspired to I know it's an expensive class because there's 42 whole techniques in there And yeah, it it can seem like a lot of money for For something like this if you don't know that you're going to use it But I thought if I show you some cards in which I'm actually using the techniques And using them, you know in in combination with each other to create different things Then maybe that would inspire you to start making some backgrounds for your cards So I don't want you to feel daunted by it But I also want you to feel inspired that you can use these techniques And also remember that you can join over on the new Facebook group. I guess it's not really new by now There's a Facebook group for students In my classes and it's for all students in one big Facebook group and every month At least for right now, I'm I'm giving away a 50% off the next class that you take prize Once a month to somebody who shares their artwork in that group It has to be artwork based on one of the classes So tell us what class and what you learned from it and that sort of thing But go join the group and join the conversation Comment on the work of others and add your own to it And we'd love to see what you're learning what you're trying and what's working for you. Okay So if you are interested in taking the hex art class The coupon code is happy camper Since there's a camper in this I thought that would be a really good name for the coupon code And you can type that in all as one word at checkout to get 10 off of this class. It's only good on this class All right, I will talk to you guys later. I hope you enjoyed this I hope it inspires you to go make some backgrounds on your cards because it's way fun to do You guys know I love to do it So I encourage you to try and I will see you guys again next time. Have a wonderful wonderful fabulous day Thanks. Bye