 Hello there, I'm Sandy Allnach and today I'll be working in four different mediums to make the same Christmas card Showing you how to do that. This is actually the first lesson in a class that you'll be able to see More of at the end of this video. So if you enjoy this Stay tuned for the end so you can see everything that's in that class and by the way It's not at art-classes.com So keep your ears open when we get to that section. All righty To create these beautiful trees, it's very simple We're gonna make some stripes out of a pigment Going from a dark to a light and then do some line work on it really easy, right? So I'm gonna start with Canson XL and some water-based markers and after I finish that I'll show you some other mediums How you can create the same thing? You may want to draw a triangle first and that'll help you to stay within some bounds So it looks like a pine tree and Doesn't matter what size whatever size your card or your paper your project whatever it is is going to be and I'm using these markers by sketch marker. They're aqua markers and I chose a mid-tone color to start with and With water-based markers your water base that means you can use water with them So once I get all the lines in here, I'm gonna add my darks first before I start any blending And I just picked a dark blue to go with this color and it really helps if you use a color that's gonna be in In the region on the color wheel So you don't want to use try to try to use like a yellow to shade on a blue or blue like this But I'm using some water and putting the water down on the right-hand side of the stripe and then pulling it to the left so I'm like pushing all of that pigment over to the left side and You know depending on how much pigment you have in there you may need to keep rinsing your brush so you end up with a Dryer cleaner brush because you're gonna keep moving that pigment around Once you're satisfied with all of those colors going across and I kind of like it when they touch a little bit Almost looks like you've done a really nice swoosh back and forth with a pen and kept that really simple And then we're gonna add some line work to it very simple line work Don't worry. Don't think I can't draw. I can't do this We're gonna just go around the outside edges and don't worry if it's even or if it's not even The inspiration for this was a whole bunch of art that I was researching for something From like the 60s and there was a lot of stuff that didn't align quite perfectly and it was great so I just traced around my triangle and around the base of the container for the tree and Then draw just a bare minimum of branches coming out from it and you can even let those lines spill out if you want to don't have to stay within the tree and Put something on top and if you do an X with a line through it and then put dots on the ends of it You know connect them or leave them just floating out there. It kind of has that 1960s feel to it Just those those kind of atomic sorts of design elements that they added and I just used my handwriting For a sentiment, but you could use a rubber stamp for that. You could do all kinds of different things or just put your sentiment on the inside of the card So next I'm going to show you how you would do this with watercolor It's a little tough with watercolor because watercolor is harder to control But I've mixed up some green pigment. This is cobalt tea and blue And I'm I try to mix it pretty thin But you can see I didn't get it super even that doesn't matter a whole lot We'll have some opportunities to fix that and I tried pushing that pigment over to the left-hand side and then I mixed some dark blue some Indian thrown pigment and Dropped it in the left-hand side and then put in some thicker version of the cobalt tea or blue and dropped it in the center then all you have to do is Rinse your brush and kind of dry it off. So you're not adding more pigment and everything to it and just sort of blend those across the piece In order to do the same kind of thing with Copic markers Familiar with those and blending them. That's not too hard either. You just need three colors You're going to use so I'm going to begin with a mid tone Just like I did on the other one and just kind of making those lines Stop short of the right-hand side of the triangle because that's going to give me an opportunity To use a really light color. So I went from a BG13 to a BG00 And I'm just going to scribble on the right-hand side of it because it'll blend it out as well as get lighter We're on that side and that's going to give me that transition to the light color Moving off in one direction and then all I have to do is add the dark color going the other direction and This one is a BG57 you can use all different kinds of colors for these. They don't have to be blue greens That's just what I chose to do for these But you can see how it gives you that nice transition from the light colors on the right-hand side to the darks on the left and Then draw whatever kind of pot you want if you just want to make a straight rectangle you can do that and then add the line work There's my color color pencils a little tough for this particular kind of technique You'll just need to get some blending stump out in order to make the colors work And I picked a light blue to start with and what I decided to do was to eliminate that pencil line before I went Any further because if you drag any Color pencil around it's better to try to drag the light color if I started erasing after I got this dark color in there Be really hard not to make a mess with that So I'm going to put my dark color on the left which is going to be kind of a blue greenish color And then a green bluish color in the middle. And why am I doing that? I wanted to try to do some blending with a blending stump and some blending solution so I Dipped it into a little container that had some blending solution in it So it's it's just a liquid that will break down some of the pigment from the pencils themselves And just smush back and forth until they start to blend and you can see that I'm getting a transition from one side to the other And then with my red pencil You just make the pot for the bottom and use a blending stump for that as well and then add the line work So I took all four of these cards and use the same line work to create a group of cards these are so quick and simple to do and I got 24 cards done in one day and why is that because I created a clean and simple Christmas tree cards class Yesterday in my video. I talked about wanting to teach you how to play to take one idea and just start to do something different with it like try something different to try something new and so what I did was take this Christmas tree and Start thinking through things I had a sketchbook out and I just would make lines and make more lines and then throw some color in here and some color in there And what if I put this color on top of that color? Well, what happens if I do this and I just had a blast creating all of these different Christmas tree lessons And so you can join me over at art venture this class is only eight bucks Yes, eight bucks Really simple cards But I hope it's going to teach you to play and that we can talk about playing Over there in our adventure because it's just a place where I'm building community And I want more people to get involved in that Sharing their art and seeing the work of others and encouraging each other along the way So if you want to join in the link is in the doobly-do remember this is not at art dash classes I do have a winter wonderland in watercolor class that I am working on It's going to be coming up soon So I have regular classes coming but this one is a special little snack class with just these short videos And I hope it's going to help you get your Christmas cards going for the year I will see you again on Friday with some art similar to what I created here today Just a little crazier and I'll see you then. 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