 Well, hi there. I'm Sandy Olnock artist and paper crafter on YouTube And I want to share with you some impressionistic pottery that I created in my Bible I did this with water-soluble oil pastels from Prima And these are one of my favorite products to use for this technique For a number of reasons one is they have a great color selection and they're really inexpensive for a full set like this And they go on really creamy much creamier than the other similar products Like gelatoes or distressed crayons, and they work particularly well with the technique that I'm going to share with you. I Can sketch with these they do have a point to them And if you color with them on a regular basis on the side of the crayon Then they sort of self sharpen not really but sort of self sharpen So you'll see that a lot of the coloring that I do throughout this I I color with the side of that point I'm sketching in my image first and these are very forgiving with the technique that I'm going to use So I can just scribble and that's one of the fun things about this you can scribble and When you get to the next step everything smooths out and looks gorgeous Even if you're not coloring an entire image like this I'm trying to detail in a bunch of clay pots and these are Not something you have to do with these you could just do Simple shapes you could do flowers you could just do color across the background and these are a great way to Get a lot of impact of color Without having to have a whole lot of product or take a lot of time to do it because they're very quick I am speeding this video up, but they are very quick to use this entire page By the time it's all said and done only took me a half an hour to complete so you can get a lot of a Lot of work done very quickly now I'm using Kirkland baby wipes. These are Costco brand baby wipes nothing special about them But my finger inside and spread the color very simply This gives you a soft watercolor look and you're applying the color without a ton of water You could do this with a brush as well But the brush ends up adding a lot of water to the page and wrinkles it even more than this well so it stays relatively flat compared to using water with them and The the baby wipe Is just something that's inexpensive and you can turn it and use it with a different color You want to definitely turn it before you change colors So if you're going to start using the blue you definitely want to use a different part of the baby wipe So you don't transfer color, but you can also blend the colors that way By using them together and create other colors in between these lots of different opportunities for For different effects that you might want to create I'm going over top of the image and I'm wiping out a lot of that detail that I put in a lot of it was just mentally for me to go okay, I'm going to want to put some cracks in this pot in the front and That's something I'll add more to later because I'll keep adding layers the more layers you add to this the more richness of color you get But you can see that you can leave it as a very soft background if you like really soft backgrounds And it looks just beautiful. I wanted to add more richness of detail And as you use some sort of linear strokes You still want to apply the baby wipe to it or go in with a brush on that because Otherwise it remains a little bit on the tacky side because you get the feel of that crayon Remaining and it might make your page kind of stick together a little bit or transfer color But as soon as you hit it with water or the baby wipe then it kind of melts into the page And it's more like watercolor and it won't be sticky when it's all said and done I'm going to use enough color on this that you might get scared I might not be able to read this through the color, but don't worry because I can The verse that I'm illustrating here is from Jeremiah 18 I went down to the potter's house and I saw him working at the wheel But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands So the potter formed it into another pot shaping it as seemed best to him and that phrase as seemed best to him Really stuck out to me Then the word of the Lord came to me He said can I not do with you Israel as this potter does declares the Lord like clay in the hand of the potter So are you in my hand and That that verse that that pair of verses is what really struck me That I am clay in the hands of the Lord and he can change me at the drop of a hat If if I ask him to he can do that. I can't change myself in my own flesh I'm a mess and there are so many things that need to be fixed in me And I tend to think of myself as a vessel that's already been baked I've already been through the kiln. I'm shaped into what I'm going to be But the potter can reshape us at any moment He does not have to be reliant on on anything else, but wanting to change us and he can do that We are not formed permanently into the shape that we are and into the the people that we are and he can transform and completely turn us into the person he meant for us to be and That's what I want him to do in my life and I Encourage you if you want him to do that in your life just ask him because he'll do it I'm adding more colors to this and more richness of color is developing as I do I'm adding the color and then just tapping on top of it actually instead of wiping it in order to get that richness because if I keep wiping I can keep lifting color off so I wanted that texture and To to get that you just sort of tap it with the baby wipe because that moisturizes it enough that it retains the texture But doesn't wipe it completely off The other thing I wanted to mention is that on my blog you may have seen I have a Bible journaling class It's just a couple of bucks if you're interested in mediums that both don't go through the paper and that you can paint on and not Not more of the words you can still read through them and even though this one There's a few spots where it may become a little bit difficult to read a few spots where this black line is that sort of thing I did check very carefully to make sure that I could read everything on here It's difficult to communicate in pictures, but I can actually read it for some people This is too much color totally understand that But for those who like this kind of a look these oil pastels are a lot of fun to play with And as I said, it's easy to do a really quick wash of a background if you want to these are also something that I take when I travel because I can get a lot of impact of color and a very large kind of background image without having to Carry around a whole lot of mediums and brushes and water and all sorts of things. I can just Take my baby wipes and get her done as you can see this does not go through the back of the page So that's an important thing to me as well And then I ironed it so I put a piece of paper on either side of it You can see how flat it makes it to iron this when you're all finished And it was just a quick quick hot iron for about 20 seconds And it's not sticky at all because I did all that wiping off of color The last thing to do was going to be to add some words to it And I took this pen at first I was like, oh, yeah I'll do white letters up in here and that didn't really work But it did allow me to sort of pencil in the words so that when I got my black pen out I was able to go right through and Trace over the the white letters that I had done in there that didn't exactly show up well and I left some space in the lower left-hand corner that I'm going to do some journaling and I will do that after All these photographs and everything so that that can remain private because that's my prayer to the Lord But here's the finished page If you'd like to see more of my work or if you want to go check out the Bible journaling class You can click on one of these videos in the screen in front of you You can hit the subscribe button if you'd like to get more videos from me and I will see you guys next time I hope you have a blessed day and a blessed week ahead. Thank you so much for joining me And I'll talk to you later. Bye