 Well, hi there, I'm Sandy, I'll knock artist and paper crafter here with another video for World Watercolor Month strip coloring I'm calling this strip coloring because it's shark week and I wanted to have a second shark week card since I have another shark stamp set it's called oceans of love I believe by heffy doodle and The the reason I'm calling it strip coloring is that when I'm coloring in colored pencil And I know this says water coloring in the title of it, but I am coloring water Sometimes this month. Hopefully that's okay because I'm not doing watercolor all month long here on youtube But I'm calling it strip coloring because I've drawn a strip I've drawn a rectangle the one image that's popping out of the rectangle Is the shark because the some I've got something to say sentiment kind of plays off of him But the rest of them are masked into that rectangle and I did that just with post-it notes around the edges of the The rectangle that I drew before stamping all the other creatures in there As for the coloring what I'm doing is using my polychromos pencils and I'm doing a couple layers here on my shark I put a gray all over underneath and now I'm adding Those water reflections on top of them and I'll do that onto each of the other images as well Because that gives you a real underwater kind of look If there's somebody who's taken the copic Underwater class. There's underwater scenes. I talk in that quite a bit about how to create more of that underwater look But it's just on the top of an image that you put those kind of little water Water ripple type things and then underneath there wouldn't be any of that because the Those water reflections from the sky don't shine down onto the bottom of an image or a fish just onto the top of it So I've got my shark in there and I'm going to move on to doing all my other critters Each one of them will have the same kind of lines across them And these little guys I was looking up the colors for rays And they kind of have a bluish tint to them So I put some blue down first and then some brown and then I'll do some gray to get the The little ripply look on top of them And so I thought that would be a fun color combination to play with for these guys And that's one thing I do recommend when you're doing any of your coloring that you want to Make it look realistic Then go look up something on the webbies because internet has Just tons and tons and tons of resources if you don't know what color something is You can make it a playful color and have them all be super bright happy colors But if you want to make them realistic colors, just go to the web And sometimes take a piece of scratch paper and practice what different colors layered together will look like And will they make it look like a The kind of thing that you're looking for Now jellies are a little weird because they're mostly white With just a tint of blue a little bit of that and I'm adding just a little bit of shading underneath each one And down that middle piece Whatever thingy that the fat part that hangs down from their body Just to make sure that that looks like it's underneath each of the jellies There's also a cute jelly sentiment in the stamp set as well And then I thought I'd add some of this kind of brighter blue greenish kind of color over top of The colors that I already had down there. I want to put it over top of that Black that I put on the shaded parts. It just brightens that up just a little bit And helps to make it not look like it's all super black or anything like that So I've got all of those little guys and all I have left is my two turtles From the two turtles. I'm going to do in two colors Again putting some of that shading with the darker color To create those little ripples on top of him I did that a little bit with the jellies. You can just barely see it, but the jellies are so white It's hard to show any of that kind of detail on them But it works really well when you've got contrasting colors And I like to put the main color of the object down there You don't usually end up getting absolute whites when you're looking at something underwater because absolute whites Would be like way out in the sunshine. So even a white object has a definite tint of color So now for the reason why I did that strip coloring bit And even called it strip coloring Because it takes a long time to do a background like this the images themselves take a while But the background just seems to take forever and especially with My technique of using lots of soft layers of color And I want to have some color that's going to blend from the bottom all the way up to the top It just takes a while so this whole card took maybe an hour and a half to color So that's why it is sped up like mad because We'd be here all day long But I'm using a series of blues and the the very bottom blue here is almost completely blackish But it's got a bunch of blue content in it. It's a dark indigo kind of color And then I just let it get lighter as it went up And now I'm going in with my next blue And I'm going over the areas where I was lightening up that darkest color And then as I move up in the gradation It's going to get darker and darker With this color until then in the next section It's going to get lighter and I'll let it get pale and fade out Into the next color and I just keep going You could do a full rainbow of something this way as well But it also works to make a gradation of these colors going all the way up the entire strip panel of the card But the reason for just doing a strip of it and Containing your stamping to one section Is because you could be here for like five hours trying to do the entire card in a full background kind of way But when you do something like this and you let the shark pop out or whatever the main image is So if you want to use this stamp set and use the jellyfish Then let the jellyfish is one of the jellyfish's heads pop out and put the sentiment next to the jellyfish So That makes it seem like there's a reason for just having the strip of color without Kind of having to color the whole thing if that makes sense So Gonna work my way up toward now a more medium blue and Just each time i'm layering over top of the lighter Color below it the the one previous to it So that I get a couple layers of color in the areas where they're blending with each other And now i'm going to go in with that same light blue-green kind of color And start filling in the rest of the part at the top So all the colors for this are listed over on My uh my blog if you're looking for the color names and that sort of thing Because I know lots of people like that but since I was going back and forth with the colors enough I did not put them on the screen So here's the finished card. I ended up putting it on a Popped panel and popped it and then I used the powder technique from the color pencil jump start class To do that panel on the right On the card base as well as the card base surrounding the insert So I put a little panel on the inside with the thank you for all your kelp words So there you go if you want to know what the powdered pencil technique is then head over to the color pencil jump start class And you too can learn how that works And I will see you guys later. Have a really awesome world watercolor month. Bye. Bye