 Hey guys, how are you today? So we are here with another video for our joy of sharing for August and This month we're gonna do sort of a technique video. I guess I'm going to try Doing a little watercolor piece which involves One of my stencils. We're gonna I don't know if it's gonna work. We're gonna give it a try. I guess Need to move my I Need to move my water closer though. That's gonna be a problem Okay, so I don't have fancy watercolors. You don't need to to watercolor you can use what you have I started out with one of those cheap like five dollar watercolor set 12-pound sets kids sets This is a koi set which I love and I do have them. They're a bit on the chalky side, but they're not bad I like them and there's some of what I bring bring with me when I'm on vacation So the first thing I'm going to do is I've got some water here That has a little bit of ox skull liquid in it to it aids in reactivating no watercolors And sometimes it makes them a little more shiny too, which is okay So I'm gonna just give these a spray and give them what? While those are sitting there getting wet. I have some scraps here of watercolor paper I'm gonna grab one of them at random and This is force one of my stencils for square number. What is this? Hold on let me get my glasses helps if I have the glasses on people Okay for square number something Seven It's one of the stencils inspired by the black paper doodle series of digital images. I did Okay, so I'm going to lay this part of the stencil over my paper I'm going to take one of my colored pilot you know pencils and I think I'm going to use purple Stencils aren't just for paint, you know So I'm going to trace around The nice thing about the four square stencils is you get four different images on them and With these ones based on the black paper doodles. They're intended to be able to be layered on top of one another So I'm just going to trace around the image and you'll get that Now this is just a regular colored pencil. It is not a water-soluble pencil It's not it's not going to move much or anything As we're going along so now we're going to Get our paints here and I'm going to start with a turquoise blue And I'm going to put it over here With some water to water it down and make it lighter. Remember with your paints They're going to go where the water is right wash off the brush And I'm going to just get just plain water I don't want to perfectly blend everything because that's not what I'm about. I like things unblended and Puddley kind of my jam. Okay, I'm going to take some more of that same turquoise blue Unwatered and I'm going to do this. I'm going to get out my heat gun and I'm going to give that a dry Okay, so I dried it and we added some more splatters You could leave it at that. That's cute and you don't have to tell me you can't make an embellishment like that Because you don't know how to draw because I didn't draw that I traced it with a stencil You could leave it like that. That's really cute and I actually think I'm going to leave that one like that But let me show you something else you can do. We've got more paper over here So let's grab another one and let's do it again same purple pen and Same stencil purple pen purple pencil. I happen to like this sort of organic sort of leaf shape It's one of my favorites So if you have stencils You can do this. You don't have to like be able to draw anything Use what you have and let go of the idea that your stencils need to only be used with paint So there we go again Same color pencil same image. We're going to do the same thing again With the same color blue and some water And these would be quick and easy to make and you could use them on their own They would make actually really great gift tags, but you could Use them as an embellishment or you know, I love to make homemade embellishments and have a bank of homemade things and found objects that I can add to my work and to my journal pages and This could just be one of those and you could have a tour of these sketched Water-colored little embellishments that would be a great starting point for a completed journal page or a mixed media while hanging or composition So then let's give that a dry okay Then Continue on and let's grab a green and let's just go ahead and mix it with the blues that were here and Then maybe on that that was permanent green pale and that was mixed with the turquoise blue And then I'm going to add a little bit of lemon yellow and we're going to put that in the middle Then we're going to take some more of the permanent green Make a little bit of darker shade The idea is not to get a perfect blended image Get messy with it and be okay with that right So I'm going to dry that again By the way tip don't point the heat gun at your fingers point it away from your fingers. You'll burn your fingers and You can make an embellishment like that How cute are those cute little paintings? They're quick. They're easy Give it a try and see what you think and see what you come up with The piece of paper doesn't have to be very big. These certainly aren't I'm going to do a few even probably on these Little tiny scraps of paper and I like to make paper clips and tags and things out of you know Bits and pieces and have them hanging around to do journal pages with and things So this is going to be a great addition to my small bits bank and handmade embellishment bank What can you do with this? 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