 Hi there, I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and today I'm going to be watercoloring Photo Lady, a new stamp from Ilnotsen, in her photo studio. And this is the stamp set. Isn't she cute for all of you photography buffs? She's got great sentiments to go with her, and lots of different cameras. So I thought I'm going to use all the cameras, and I stamped the front ones first and then I stamped her in the background behind it. Now I'm going to use my new micron pen set. These are waterproof pens, don't mind my white pens that I put in there, to fill in the extra holes. They have all different sizes. This one came with nine, and I added a few more pens to it. So there are more holes to add more pens in if you want a little pen case. This one is pretty cool. So I'm using my rolling ruler. This is my sailing ruler. I've showed this a time or two before. You can see it's very yellow, which means it's really old. I had this thing from my sailing days when I lived in San Francisco, ages and ages and ages ago. So I'm going to make a cabinet that she's going to be standing in front of. This is really easy to do. You could make it just a plain old cabinet like this and not add the detail that I'm going to. But I'm going to draw in some doors on the cabinet. You can make drawers. You can get as elaborate or not elaborate as you want to, and you could also pencil them in first. I did not do that. I decided to just go for it and see if I could all-part guess where I'm going to put my drawers and my doors and my door knobs and things. Yeah. You know, sometimes I just start working and I don't feel like stopping to find a pencil. But nonetheless, on something like this, I decided I was going to make it look like my studio. I have really, really dark wood on the cabinets in the studio, which means it's going to cover up a whole lot of this. So it doesn't really matter if I mess up on how I'm drawing all of these different cabinet doors. So no big deal, right? And one more over here on the left side just looks like it needed it. And then the rest of it, I'm actually going to freehand. I know, I know. People would be like, Sandy, how can you freehand? And the rest of us can't. You can freehand. Trust me. On something like this, it doesn't matter a whole lot. This is just a background element. Whoever's looking at this card is not going to be diving deep into how your cabinet was constructed. But I also realized I needed a top for the cabinet. So I just hand sketched that one in there as well. And now I'm ready to watercolor. Got out, of course, my Daniel Smith watercolor palette. And I'm going to mix up some colors for a skin tone. Starting with a little sepia and quinacridone gold, just to see what that looks like. And she comes out looking kind of sick-colored, right? That doesn't look so good. And nobody else ever has that happen, right? I am the only one, I'm sure, who ever has their skin tone come out weird. So I'm just going to add a little quinacridone burnt orange to that. And look, it just suddenly becomes skin tone. Dab off a little bit so I have a highlight and a shadow area. And then I realized I had not drawn in her camera strap. So I added that in with my micron pen, which for this one I used the 0.5 size. But I recommend testing it out and seeing what size is going to match your stamp lines the best because you want the edges of the stamp lines to look like they match when you're doing your drawing portions. So a little closer, probably could have gone with a 0.8 for this one. But, you know, there we have it. So I'm going to use a little bit of the same color in order to make that camera bag up on the top there, which if you wanted, you could use it for a purse for her instead of a camera bag. But I think it works well as a camera bag, probably intended to be that. And then I'm going to mix up a color that's going to look like the wood in my studio, which is black and sepia because I wanted a really rich, dark color. And I'm always amazed by how much color lightens in watercolor. It's just absolutely amazing to me that, you know, here it looks like a nice dark color. By the time I'm done, I need to put another layer on it if I want it to be really that nice, rich, dark, black, blackish brown color that I have in my studio. So paint it all around there. I'm using the number eight brush from the Silver Black Velvet line. Very common brush size for me nowadays. I use that one and the number 12, quite a bit. And notice I put more black in at this time. It's really hard to mix up multiple quantities in different batches of the same color. So know that that's not just you, that that's an issue for. She's got darker color in between her legs and then the rest, but I am going to add another layer on there so I will catch it on the flip side when I start doing that portion. Decided to use the same color for her hair. And then, of course, skipping around the image so I'm not painting next to anything that's already wet. I decided to do a little bit on the floor. I decided not to add a pattern in the floor. I originally was thinking about doing some tiles or something, but I thought, let me just do very, very pale, pale gray down here. Just to add an anchor on the bottom of the card, that's going to make everything else in the top section. Since this is going to be a clean and simple kind of design without any scene above it, it's going to make that top section look even whiter if I add just a little bit of color in the ground down below. To do the cameras, which that one is stamped upside down, I know that. If anybody's going to be complaining about it, I know I got that one upside down. Didn't realize it until after it was already stamped. But that's the way life goes. Cameras, to paint them black, you need to paint with thicker paint than I did for the floor. So just so you know that, you can get both gray and black out of the same paint. And her shirt now is going to have pink in between the purple. And since her hair has now gone pink because I didn't wait long enough, I darkened her hair up as well. Adding in a little bit more of that blackish brown color. And then I'm mixing up a color for her jeans using some Indian throne, which you can mix very thinly to get a light denim blue. And you can paint it a little bit heavier if you want a dark denim blue. It really depends on what you're looking for in your image. That's one of the things I think I love about watercolor is that with the same color you can get a lot of effects with it. Whereas with a Copic marker, when you put the marker down, it's that color all the time, which I often like because it's good and consistent, but it's also, you know, a drawback. I guess when you're comparing it to watercolor where you can get multiple shades out of one particular color. But look how nice and rich the color comes out on the second pass. It's also going to even out more than it did on the first pass, especially if you're careful with how you paint and try to make sure you keep the amount of pigment and water ratio the same across the whole thing. As soon as you start getting more water in one area and more pigments in another area, or you use two different thicknesses of paint you've mixed up, that's when you end up in trouble and have all kinds of areas around. So now here I'm having to mix up another color and guess at how thick the paint should be. So I'm just going to spread it across the whole thing and try to even out the amount of moisture versus pigment across the whole section because that tends to be a problem in general. So for her pants I'm going to make them a little darker. So again I could add another layer of that indent throne and give her some nice jeans. Add some darker black for the extra detail on the cameras and the phone she's holding. There are a couple phones by the way, so those who are not iPhone users you can also color any different phone. And you can do great cards too with this stamp set with just the cameras and the sentiments. You don't even have to color the photo lady because the cameras are really fun. I'm going to do some some Copic work with these in the future so stay tuned to Instagram and I will show you some other ideas for using this stamp set. And there we go! I glued it onto a card base, tied a little bit of twine around the top, adhered it down with some glossy accents, and I also put some glossy accents over all the glass. Hard to see there but it's on each one of the camera lenses as well as the phone lens or the phone front so that I get some shine on there as well. Thanks so much for spending some time with me here on YouTube. I will see you next time. I hope you go out and create something beautiful and share a card with someone who needs some encouragement. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye!