 Hey guys, so I'm here with you to bring you another little watercolor postcard We are doing hashtag love summer art I hope you're enjoying all the different videos that you're watching and you're having a lot of fun If you don't know about hashtag love summer art go up to your YouTube search box Type hashtag love summer art in there and a whole bunch of videos are going to show up So we did a floral last time this time. I thought we would do one more and we would do a little seascape I do lots of seascapes if you haven't seen my channel before and you're new I do lots of little watercolor seascapes. I thought we would do another one. I Actually have an inspiration photo that my daughter took in here somewhere Find it Okay, she's taken a couple of them these these two and they're both from La Selva Beach, California Which is near Santa Cruz for those of you don't know So I'm going to prop this up over here and I'm going to use these two photos as inspiration I think I'm going to try to do the one with the peace sign written in the sand Which I think would be cute So and which is really just water and sand so let's give that a shot It's gonna be a little bit challenging and if I can do it. I think it would make a cute postcard. All right What am I gonna start with I think I'm gonna start with as always the water I am going to use I like my water to be a little bit more turquoise-y. Although it's kind of a cool color in these photos I'm going to start. I think with the cerulean blue Yeah, I think I'm gonna start with cerulean blue Maybe a little bit of ultramarine thrown in there. That was a lot of ultramarine It's okay. We'll make it work So I'm gonna start up here at the top with my Watercolor, which is a little dark, but that's okay I'm intentionally skipping over some parts of the paper and Because I want to leave them white There's a lot of seafoam in the picture and with watercolor You you could go back over it and paint in the white with some white acrylic or the Chinese white but it's a little more challenging to try to leave the white space and Have that sort of work for you and indicate the The seafoam it's hard to paint and talk at the same time. Do you guys have that problem? All right, I'm gonna darken up a few that because it paints wet When I add this other this darker shade of the blue It's going to go ahead and bloom and blend in with what's already on there It's gonna take the easier road and it's going not gonna spread necessarily to the dry paper But it's going to follow the water and bloom and blend with what's already there Okay, I kind of like that. So I'm gonna let's give it a quick drive before I do anything else So I want to add some really dark colors into the ocean It looks like there's some dark sandy gray tones where sort of I think the sand is washing up into the water in the photo I'm going to rewet some of these dark tones. I have on my blending palette this color in particular I think will work well So I'm gonna follow along these areas Where there's already sort of a dark line and that will Work for me and I can change that into that spot like in the photo where there's that darkness And I can sort of follow along That goes my phone again. What's with my phone when I turn turned a watercolor with you guys? Now keep in mind we can go back and add some Chinese white, but we want to be able to do that at a minimum, right? I like that Okay, so now we're gonna take some of that same color or close to that same color and We are going to start with our sand We're going to run it across the edge around the edge of where we have this blue watery color But we're not gonna quite meet the the blue color We're gonna leave a white space again because we're trying to indicate some of that seafoam Come in here with some water right behind So that that paint hopefully will start to bloom and blend try to add more color down here I'm going to try to mix more of a similar color I'm going to take some Pains gray a little burnt umber. It's pretty good Remember when you're watercoloring that you are paint will always dry Lighter than it shows. I'm sorry you guys about the telephone. I'm gonna take this dark paint I'm going to put first. I'm gonna dry this I was gonna do something else, but let's put some more of this on here. Let's make our sand a little darker So now we are gonna try to put our peace sign in here I didn't want it to bloom and spread too much into this surrounding color Perspective that I see it in in the photo Again, it doesn't have to be exact and I'm gonna go in with just some water Next to the paint. I just put on I like that. Let's try again. We are gonna go in with some Chinese white in a minute First I want to go in with something a little darker there, and I have got this color on here Pallet, so I'm gonna use what I have on here a few spots on the peace sign It's nice. I like that. I Want to Bring some turquoise color back into my ocean a little bit So this is cerulean blue Heat to dry it here with some white Some water colorists will tell you that it's cheating to go in with white I don't feel that way and this is gonna really help you don't alternate between pushing down hard on your brush and Lifting it up and just painting with the tip so that you get an uneven line Because your seafoam as you if you can see in the picture Is not even It's got some thin bits and some thick bits That's the way you want it to be and I've got my watercolor rinse water I've got a dark side and a light side, so when I'm going in here with the white I'm trying to keep the brush in the white side So it's mostly clean water that's touching the Chinese white So I get as white a color as possible And like I said if you feel like it's not white now if you could definitely you know go in here with White acrylic paint you could even go in here with a white gel pen a white paint pen You're just on vacation. You're playing you're just creating some little postcards Whether you're actually on vacation in or out of the house, or you're just on summer vacation from school You're just having fun and enjoying the process. There you have it. I actually like that. I'm gonna leave it. I think Normally I add green grass or something to my Seascapes, but I don't think I want to I like the way that looks so I'm gonna leave it I am going to pop it off the block And you'll notice because I got it I was heating it with the heat tool that it loosened the glue up here in the corner if you use a heat tool or a Hair dryer on these watercolor blocks. That's that can happen. So there you have it There's another watercolor postcard. I hope it gives you some idea of what you can do With your summer art creates a little postcard so you can definitely this is on watercolor paper So you can just write a message right on the back and put their name and address on there Put a stamp on there and stick it in the mail. It's a little four by six postcard It's really cute, and I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do play with your Supplies play with your mediums. Just explore and have some fun Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later