 Well, hi everybody, it's Sandy and welcome to my YouTube channel where today I'm going to draw starry night This is a painting by Vincent van Gogh and I'm going to do a replica of it sort of these parts of it on a card I'm going to try to mimic this technique using ink tense pencils and I'll talk more about those as we get there the Paper that I'm using is Montval watercolor paper and I've taped it down with some delicate frog tape onto a board So it'll stay still and flat. I sketched out the general shapes of some of the swirls and circles in the painting and then I stamped my bears and I'm used a paper plate to make that big arc for the hillside and I first drew it in pencil and then I went over it with a sharpie because sharpie won't bleed with water. I Did the yellows first in the sky because I wanted those yellows to remain very very yellow And if I did the yellows and the blues at the same time There's a big chance that I'm going to have them bleed together and when they bleed together they're going to make a green if I Wait until later to do the blues and hopefully I'm going to be able to keep my blues from Contaminating that yellow any more than necessary So I'm going to have some places where they are transparent over each other But at least it's going to be less than doing them wet on wet So here I'm just adding water to the green and you can see how little pencil I had and look how much Color I get off of it. It spreads across that entire area from just having a few scribbles along that line And that's one of the really fun things about these is that that what little pigment there is in those pencils is really really powerful and you can do a lot with it and spread that color really far on Bears I colored them with black and I'm painting it so that I'm leaving some highlight on that side facing the moon So that the bears look like they're very well lit by the moon And I'm not wearing a whole lot about smoothing out the bears themselves because I'm going to add some fur texture to them Originally, I was thinking maybe they would be all smooth and all the texture would be in that background But I realized I think having the bears have the same kind of texture as the background would be really fun And it would make it look like a unified image So I started going over the wet paint with the pencil you can do that with these There are some watercolor pencils that you can't do that with but with these in particular The lines get a little fatter than they would be when you're drawing with With the pencils on dry paper But they also get softer the lines just get softer and softer I'm using I use black for the bottom part and now I switched over to a charcoal gray And I can't really tell the difference but in my mind it seemed to help because I'm trying to use a lighter color as I get into the lighter areas toward the top So I'm just filling in some of those spots and what I do when I'm coloring something like this is to squint at it And when you squint you can see if you've got enough shadows And if you've got some areas that need a little bit more smoothing if there's any Big things that sort of stick out and need a little tweaking So I'm just about finished with my little bears So that I can move on to the sky because the yellow is all dry by now And I wanted to have some dark blue sections and light blue sections because that's what van Gogh had on his painting He had like that top part is going to be Really deep blue and then there's a white swirl and I'm just going to put a few lines in there not very much and Then down below that it goes dark blue again So I'm just going to add more pencil in the sections that I want darker and Less in the ones that I want lighter and you'll also notice my lines are going in the direction that his did So I'm trying to mimic his strokes I actually have my phone out off to the side while I'm shooting this video so that I can see his painting and Visual representation of it digitally Sometimes I find that having a digital representation Works better than a printout of it just because I get more of the true color Although I guess it depends on whether the photographer that took the picture and posted it has true color And I don't know what the actual color is because I have never been blessed to see this one in real life And someday I'd like to I believe it's at the Museum of Modern Art in New York And I've been there before but I don't recall ever seeing this one and I'm pretty sure I would remember It if I had seen it So I'm really starting to pull out those swirly shapes now because as the other sides the top and the bottom get darker You can definitely see that white swoosh a whole lot better The colors that I'm using in this are going to be listed in the description down below and on my blog I didn't remember to write them all down. However, when I was all finished I had my stack of pencils So I did add them to the blog post so that you'll know which colors that I used in case you want to try this one Because it's actually not too hard of a technique Given that there's not any real drawing to be done you're just really putting lines and colors together to sort of fit a little little pattern and I'm trying to add enough dark colors I'm gonna hit this with water again so I can get a darker section But I really am just following what he did on his painting and casing casing one of the masters which is Really something that I think I might like to try more of if you guys have any ideas on great Paintings especially by the old masters because I'm a big fan of of those folks not as much modern art kind of things but a lot of the old masters I love and I think I'd like to start doing a little casing of a few more paintings So if there's a favorite you have or if there's something that you think a technique Would be really interesting to try with one of our card making or coloring mediums. I would love to give it a shot So leave me a comment in the description if there's something that you think I ought to give a shot at So these are the lines that I'm going to kind of start Leaving most of those intact. I'm gonna water down the ones that are right around that star But I'm gonna just spread out a few of them and soften them But I really want to leave a lot more of those lines So I get the same kind of texture that he got in his original painting. I Looked up a little bit about Vincent van Gogh. He lived in the late 1800s and He didn't live all that long. I think it was 1853 to 1890 That he lived and he painted this painting when he was only 36 Which when I hear things like that about these wonderful artists, I think what a loser I am I have not done anything like that and I am way older than that But you know, maybe someday I'll be like whistler's mother and I'll be doing something really fantastic when I'm at a ripe old age But I I am really amazed at these artists who accomplished so much in such short lives He did not live to be very old But he did an amazing job with the years that he had here on this earth And I hope to do the same with the years that I have I want to use everyone to its fullest and create as much as I can I Was in some classes recently and I'll just I'll tell stories while I finish coloring this because I'm gonna speed up the rest since it's basically the same coloring technique as I'd already done on this first part. Oh Except I'll talk about this little section here. I wanted a really intense dark blue there so I just painted clean water on it first before adding the color and I didn't have to really worry about having color in it I just needed to have moisture in order for that blue to get really dark in that that one little swoosh So, okay I was in a class this couple weeks ago and Talking with some of the students there about How I plan out my videos and how I come up with ideas because one of them did something on one of the cards in class That I thought was a really cool effect and I wrote it down and they wondered kind of what I was doing So I said well I case you guys I get inspiration from all different kinds of places sometimes from my students and This one of course is from an old master, but it doesn't have to be someone who's Experienced for me to get inspiration from them So I wrote down this students idea for the way that she had handled painting a certain particular thing and and drawing a certain kind of pattern And I thought that would be a really interesting thing to try But I added it to my list in my phone. I have a list and if you ever Keep a list like this. I would highly recommend it because when you end up with no ideas and you're like, I don't know what to do I don't know where to start. I don't know What stamp set to pull out or anything? I keep a list It's just in my phone and it probably has about 75 things on it right now. I know that's a ridiculous number I have enough ideas to do all all that stuff and that doesn't even touch What new inspiration comes to me every day? So I Would recommend having a list like that so that on those days when you don't have any inspiration You can just go to your list and potentially find something that's gonna rock your world You're like, I totally forgot I wanted to try that. I list them sometimes by what stamp set they're with That that I would picture it using or what medium I have a lot of stuff on my list that I added when I was in Europe in February this year Just a ton of different ideas and different ways to approach things All different kinds of crazy stuff. So yeah, this is this is one of them And I think I'm gonna add some more artists to my my list of things to do on cards because I think that would be really fun So I've sped it up as you can tell painting a little bit faster here And trying to get more of that texture in the sky And in some of those places right around where all those stars are I'm starting to get a little bit of green because that Transparent blue is going over top of the yellow but at least it's not bleeding out into the image further if I had done I'm wet on wet I would end up with a lot more green in that sky and there really isn't much green in Van Gogh's sky Now we get to the section with it in the painting the original painting It's like hillsides and then a city down below and I just sketched in some shapes You know just that that was that cliff that he has up there If you want to see the actual painting next to my picture, it'll be on my blog But I just added some really dark colors and they're looking over a city And I really hope they're not planning on going down there for dinner Because there would be people living in this city But maybe they're just looking and admiring mankind down below at least I hope so So spreading out the color and taking turns between adding water and adding pencil To these finishing areas where I'm going to finish my last details And as you can tell there's just a little bit of green that appears whenever I hit water over top of that yellow But still still working for me so far And I added the orange moon up in the top that he had in his painting And then I decided I needed more contrast In the shadows underneath of them so that it would really look like that moon is casting light on them directly So I added a lot more Little hash marks in there the same way as it did in the sky and the bears Which really pulled all that together I also wanted to add more color to the ground. It didn't want as much white So I added some yellow in there which worked perfectly And then I added a little bit more grass just along that hillside edge And I wanted to add my sentiment right in that area. So I decided to leave it blank Now here's one place I did mess up that little star I should have just left it But it bugged me that it was right in right in between their little heads And I tried to fix it and I didn't succeed And oh well, I have a big green star in my sky Hopefully that's still okay But I stamped the two-part sentiment from the stamp set In a couple of the mama bear or mama bear mama elephant ink colors And I just love how this came out. This is actually a card I'm going to give to my mom Because my mom is my mama bear. She's also an artist. So I thought she might appreciate A artist casing Here's a couple other ink tens pencil videos And I want to invite you to come to my blog today because I am giving away a little bit of ink tens pencils So if you're watching this in mid july, that'd be a good time to click on that link in the upper hand Right hand corner and go to the blog. We'll see you guys later. Bye. Bye You