 Well, hi guys, it's Sandy and I am here with a brush-o video on painting some brush-o flowers with a little stamped help I've done some videos on just basically painting them with no stamps at all and that intimidates some folks So I thought let me use this stamp set from Concord and 9th Because I had some ideas for how we can use them to guide a little bit of the brush-o on the paper So I've stamped some of these little Centers that they would normally be layered on that other stamp as a center of it We're going to use those as the center of flowers And I've painted a blob of water in the center of each one. You might want to do one at a time I'm going to do them all just so you can see the flower get formed over and over as I paint them But I've tapped in a little bit of my purple paint. You can do these in any kind of color that you want I'm using a nice big brush. I believe it's a number 10 12 gosh, I should write that down shouldn't I what size brush it is looks like a ten or a 12 to me, but Big brush full of soppy water is going to help to move that color around I'm laying it down with the point toward the center of the flower and The the area of the brush that has a water in it that clean water is toward my hand So I'm turning it so that I'm pointing toward the center and any paint that I pick up is Pointing back toward the middle and that way I get that really soft edge on the outside I'm not making sure that I have exactly even petals or anything just kind of letting them be blobby and letting that brush turn around and pull the color Any which way it's just kind of a fun to make fun way to make these really loose flowers and Having the center is already stamped. Sorry about my big hand in the way having the center stamped gives us a little bit of a Beginning to our flowers. You can do these of course without Any kind of stamps in them and not have to purchase a stamp in order to make these kind of flowers But it's just a fun way to give us a little bit of control. You can decide ahead of time where you want your flowers So you don't have to worry about Figuring that out as you go Just have your plan together before you get started So now I wanted to fill in a couple of those areas on the outside Just leave the area around the sentiment nice and empty So I'm just painting a few Edges of flowers just a little teeny tiny bit of a few of them around the edges of the car Just so I don't end up with big kind of gaping white areas there You can get as detailed as you want I just wanted a little bit more in there as I work toward the sentiment to leave myself a little bit of room and Then I set that aside to dry and started working on the other stamp. This one has I'm imagining I didn't stamp this out with the stamps that are in it because it's a layering stamp set But I'm imagining each one of these as a petal and I I'm just penciling them in You don't have to pencil them in if you can visualize it But I'm going to give myself these center petals and then a second row of petals for these outside ones So you can kind of see how these flowers are supposed to develop as we go Just sketch in that outline all the way around the outside and do it really lightly because you're probably not going to be able to erase much of it and There might be a few also areas around the outside edge where we might put some more petals than what is stamped there So I'm going to start by painting a circle around that center first With just clean water and then I'm going to tap my color into that clean circle That gives me the color to pull out from the center the same way as on the other flowers And I'm doing the same thing by pointing the brush toward the center and that is going to pick up pigment So if I start getting too much pigment on my brush I'm going to go rinse it and clean it off so that I can then go back in pick up more pigment and end up with that Light color on the outside of the petal. You can see I can get a really nice gradation doing this and You can fuss around with it and pull more color out But I wanted to kind of keep that that really soft look Now on the inside of each one of these outer petals. I want the same thing so I'm going to tap some color Into those as well And that's going to help me to create the same kind of depth on those By just pulling that color from the inside to the outside of that petal and notice that I'm not worried about getting Right to that pencil line and I want that to all be perfectly even I'm just going to let it be Loose and that's one reason why if you're able to visualize these without drawing those pencil lines You'll be a little bit freer to fix that as it goes and not have to worry about trying to follow it along exactly So now I can do the second flower and depending on how close you've painted them You may have some areas where you'll be spreading your color out and one petal will cross into another So you'll have to worry about where one might go under another But don't stress out about it too much because this is brush out brush Show is a very loose type of watercolor and It helps us I think in a lot of ways to loosen up so that when we go for regular watercolor That we can have the feeling you know what that feeling feels like when you've created something loose Because that's what I'm always trying to do with watercolor and I'm not really good at that at this point I'm usually trying to be a little bit too controlled with it So it's fun to play with a medium that forces me out of my little my little box I can also do the same thing now around the outside and You can either just do a little bit of the pigment and water around just around the flowers themselves You could paint leaves out there, but I'm just gonna do a whole blob of water and let that blue color go all the way to the edge I am gonna trim this back when I put it on a card because I've made my paper a little bit bigger than what I'm going to need When I I put this on the card itself. So some of this will be trimmed off But you can see you just paint a little bit of that my water is clearly Not been cleaned because I still have a lot of color in it or my brush still at least has some even if my water was cleaned But that's okay. So I'm gonna add that same blue color That turquoise blue to add a little bit of color that brightness all the way around my flowers on all the different sides and I love I love brush show as a medium to just have fun with It's something that I use on a regular basis. I don't share a whole lot of it Sometimes I just grab a little scrap of watercolor paper and just play and try to paint a flower paint a sun paint something fun Before I do my other watercolors because as I said, it just makes me feel In touch with watercolor in a different way so that I'm a little bit looser by the time I step out and do something Different with other kinds of watercolors This loosens up the artistic muscles a bit So isn't that pretty and wasn't that simple? So the next step For the centers I dropped in a little bit of new gambos And of course since it's mixing with a little bit of the blue and purple Since I had stuff on my brush it turned a little bit funky in the the puddle But as soon as I dabbed it off the color came right back to yellow now these nouveau drops are a form of in liquid Color so there's it's sort of like a fabric paint and it dries really nicely I do like that about them and you can also get a much tinier dot and more consistent dot than some other products I've used in the past. So I kind of like these new boat drops and Links for all of the supplies by the way are in the doobly-doo down below as well as over on the blog So you can always pick those up going that route And I'm just gonna put little dots on all of the dots on the stamp Now this stamp has the center of it being all black So I'm just going to basically be assuming that there are more dots coming straight out at you from that center So I'll put a lot more inside each one of these because I want to have a lot more detail in the middle of each one And the card came out really elegant it's just glued onto a card base with no layers of anything else and You get the real contrast between that tight detail in the center of the flowers and the loose outer edges really pretty For the other card, I've got it on a black card base, which you can't really see there very well You'll see that in a minute in the photo and I'm just adding a small cluster of The new boat drops in the center to give my flowers a little punch And the sentiment is stamped onto a strip of paper and I just tore one edge to keep that watercolor feel along with a sentiment So I hope you enjoyed this video. There's more here. You can click to watch You can also click on my face to get more information. There's also a watercolor class It does not cover brush. Oh, but I will eventually have one with brush Oh, so keep your ear out for that at some point someday. Maybe this year. Let's cross our fingers. Talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye