 Well, hi guys, it's Sandy and I am back with another of my Rush to Christmas Colorings and this time I'm gonna paint a colorful night sky Got this really cute set from penny black and if you turn it sideways you can see there's a little girl and a little dog It looks like me and Jialo and we are just you know throwing snowballs in the air or something I thought it would be fun to create a really pretty sky for them Like they're throwing something up in the air and it's just creating a magical rainbow in a night sky That was my vision for it. So let's see if I can accomplish that I'm gonna start with yellow of course because there's yellow involved in everything in my life. That's pretty so I'm throwing in some Yellow into an area where I just painted a lot of water and then I'm dropping in a bunch of color and Then I'm gonna go red right next to it Now it doesn't matter what shades I'm using you can use whatever shades of colors that you want to Just watch the pigment the trick for these is making sure that you're using About the same amount of pigment versus water in each one of the mixtures So you don't want one to be really watery and one to be really thick because the The blending is gonna happen The the most nice ways when they're both about the same they're gonna look the most even So here I'm gonna throw in some purple and this one got a little bit on the watery side So I'm tapping in more pigment and the whole time. I'm watching what's happening I'm trying not to let any areas any of the leading edges those outside edges I'm trying not to let them dry too much because then the blending is not gonna happen So I'm gonna keep them wet. I got to work fast enough That they stay wet And I'm gonna do it on both sides You could start at one edge and then start working your whole way across and you only have one edge to deal with But since I wanted this to kind of radiate out from the middle I ended up doing two edges at once And I'm also fighting trying to paint around the image too. So that's another pain in the butt thing But if you did this just on a panel without the images stamped on it And then die-cut your images to put on top it might be easier if you're new to this and wanted to try it So I'm gonna go with a dark blue on the very very outside edge And I'm trying to upside down figure out what my horizon line is going to be That may you know may need to change as we go. So if I don't draw it in then I can Adjust it or I could have just taken a pen and drawn it in with a waterproof pen like a Sharpie So now I want to add strength to my colors I wanted this to be really rich dark pigment if I had started out with rich dark pigment I wouldn't have as many options to kind of fuss around with it a little bit So that's why I'm going back in to add more color And it's also helping me to keep all of this pigment wet because I'm just gonna continue to drop more color in So the color Colors that I have going on is indan thrown out at the outside edge phthalo blue Then it goes into I think that was Carbazole violet and then coral Quinacron coral and then the center one What was that yellow? Oh new gambos only the best yellow out there. There you go So those are the colors that I was using But I'm trying to narrow that area in the middle where they're kind of splashing that color up into the sky So I'm bringing those colors in closer and closer While reserving it of course enough area for that yellow to really sing But now I'm going to throw in a sort of watery new gambos Little less. I mean it's got plenty of pigment, but it's got a lot of water in it So it's a little less thick which means it's gonna push out some of those colors this kind of background thing is just fun to play with because you can Mess around with how much water is in one and how much is in another so that you can almost force those colors to Do things to each other. I'm watching the yellow while I'm painting more of that dark blue because I wanted to make sure I don't end up with any I've got some blotchy areas there and I'm trying to eliminate them if I can but I'm watching the yellow in the middle and watching how that red is starting to feather into the blue and Seeing do I want more? Do I want to add more water in that center area? Do I want to add more pigment in it? If you want it to stop then add more pigment So say I wanted that red to carry to stop that yellow from coming in then I could add more Like really heavy red pigment But what I decided is I wanted that yellow to burst out a little bit more so I added some water just now So that I can start creating almost some controlled blends in that yellow and start letting it push out But then it was getting too white in there So I had to go back in with a little pigment. So now I've got a lot of pigment and water Pushing out through there. It's starting to collect at the bottom And that's because this whole board is tipped a little bit toward me so the area where the sentiment is is The part that's away from us and that's the top of the screen that's raised up just a little bit I think it's just a roll of tape that I had under there So it was not a whole lot, but it's pushing all this pigment down and it's starting to collect at the top I will just trim that off that whole top edge. So if it gets a little bit uneven, it's okay But I'm adding more thick pigment of that that phthalo blue So that it kind of pushes all that red and yellow color back toward the center because the Stuff in the center has more water in it and stuff on the outside has more pigment So it's this kind of a background is almost a science experiment to try to just play with it See where you can force pigment to move and where you can force it to stop And you I could sit here and play with this kind of thing forever I did two tests on this beforehand and just played with them for I don't know a half hour each Which was a little excessive But once I kind of got the hang of how much color I wanted and the fact that I really did want this rich color. I Thought yeah, let's give it a shot here on video and see how it goes So then I filled in that little area between the scarf and the dress and Then it's time to let it dry and I did let it air dry Because that's the kind of person. I am I'd like to air dry I don't like to heat set the heat setting. I don't know it it causes the pigment to do funny things in this particular case The blue didn't dry as smooth as I was hoping But I'm not going to abandon it And I hope you don't either when things like that happen Because all you have to do is put some snow or some stars over it in an image like this on a card front like this Anybody who gets it is going to be so lost in looking at that beautiful Yellow and red swoosh of color and all that those beautiful feathered edges That if they don't see perfect blending in the blue sky, no one is going to care and I always am of the theory that if you put your emphasis put your time and your energies into The most important part in the image so on this one the background was the thing that I wanted to sing I of course wanted the little girl and her little doggy to be having fun But I wanted the background to be the most important thing So I spent the most of my time on it And I'm going to put just a little bit of color into the rest of the image using my same reds and yellows And be able to make those coordinate with the colors in the sky But I'm not going to worry about putting Blending and shading and all kinds of crazy things in it Now I am doing something here. You can see there's like a little spout of yellow moving into her her red outfit and Yeah, that happens because people like me can't wait for something to dry That's how life goes in my world. I have that problem often, but it's not hard to fix Sometimes you'll just have to wait to fix it once it's all dried But for the most part I just try to pull out a little bit of the color if I can with a dry brush And then save it to repaint later And then you can also just repaint another layer of the color on top afterward and call it done for the most part So here I'm just gonna add a little more color to her outfit to compensate for Having thrown water in there to try to fix that yellow Just add a little more strength of color to that And of course to the little doggy who looks just like my Jell-O my Jell-O is starting to get a little pudgy belly Like like the little golden retriever that he is He's not fat yet, but he likes his treats and he does like to steal his sister's food She is my fussy eater who I have to actually sit with her and watch her eat Or she will not eat her food And if I leave the two of them with a bowl of food The one who eats it is my boy Jell-O So I gotta watch him and not give him too many treats So here we go the card with the beautiful stars in the sky No one's going to be looking at the blending or not blending of that background Because it's just so much fun So I hope you'll try something crazy and wild like this on one of your watercolor backgrounds If you're watching this at a non-Christmas time of the year non-winter Feel free to try it on a summer card too because you could do the same kind of thing all year round Thank you so much for watching click that like button if you have not yet You can subscribe to get more videos from me watch another video Whatever you'd like to do and I will see you next time