 Hello there, it's Sandy on Lock and today I'm going to be watercoloring hedgehogs. Aren't they cute? Today is a blog hop day celebrating the Pretty Pink Posh new release and Paulina just had a wonderful little baby and I sent her this card made with one of the new sets. I am so excited for her. Seeing little pictures of Zion on the Pretty Pink Posh Instagram profile is so much fun. Go check it out. See the baby and then you might need some baby stamps. This one I didn't have time to make samples with but I did with all the other stamp sets that you're going to see. This one has little squares. I had colored them all up and in looking for a sentiment I found this one from Ellen Hudson and I just thought it was so cute. It inspired me to put glitter onto my already colored bunnies and what I did was color each one of these twice and then I fussy cut a top layer so that I'd have a little dimension there. Isn't that a nice way to do a little tiny square image on a card? So it is the season for those sugar coated marshmallow bunnies. This little stamp set has ladybugs on it and what I did was create a card that has wax flower on it which is in my Wildflower Copic class that just launched recently and I just added a little bug to it and this little card is going to be on Instagram IGTV. So you can check that video out over there. I drew my own vase to put my tulips in and made a card out of it. So the link to that will be in the doobly-doo and let's get started on the card that I'm making with this set which is little cute hedgehogs. They're just adorable. Aren't they so cute? I'm using the ink on three and I don't really know what that name is all about but anyway ink on three makes a no-line coloring ink and I had only used it for Copic stuff before when I was doing some testing and I noticed it said you could also watercolor using it so that was kind of a cool idea so I thought I'd do some no-line watercoloring of the hedgehogs. I'm starting with the background and one of the reasons is because if my background overflows and my brush kind of puts the cobalt teal blue into the hedgehogs for some reason if I over paint a little bit then I can just paint over top of that background color. If I put the color down on the hedgehogs first I'm going to be really tight and careful about trying to stay around those outside edges but since the other color is going to go over it I can decide what color based on whether or not I went over. If I didn't go over I can use light colors and if I did then I can make them stronger colored hedgehogs so it's a real easy solution to trying to fussy paint around something. If you happen to hear crazy barking in the background by the way that is G. Aloe. I think the dogs are getting a little bit of cabin fever because they keep going outside and barking like mad. This whole social isolation thing for them is apparently difficult because they're very barky and it could just be that there's more birds and squirrels out there than usual. Anyway back to the painting I have yellow ochre that I'm using for my little hedges and I thought I'd show you how you can watercolor them both in a very pale soft way and then also you can intensify that. So if you end up painting it really light and you're like man I didn't like that it was just not enough then you can add more to it. So I'm giving them a shadow on the left hand side kind of smoothing the color out a little bit on the right hand side and even just kind of knocking out some of that white it makes the clouds look whiter to not have any of the white left in the hedgehogs and then once that was all completely dry I could go in and add my my little fur no it's not fur they have spikes so my spikes they don't look very spiky but they're they're sort of scallopy spikes on this because they're so cute and I'm adding my color to it some new gamboge and then after that dried I added a shadow using Aussie red gold did I say that right this time Aussie every time I say Aussie I get comments so there you go it's spelled with two s's why is that if you wanted it to be z's then it should be auzzie but there we go I heat set that a little bit so I could get busy painting the next section because I was a little worried that my pink might touch my yellow or something so I usually only heat set when I'm trying to kind of keep an area locked in normally if I possibly can I like to let it air dry so I'm just going to use the quinacridone rose for my other hedgehog I decided that they would be whimsical colors rather than trying to do them in browns and grays and things like I normally do with hedgies to make them just a little bit more cheerful because I have been in the mode of doing cheerful wacky colors you may have noticed the storybook coloring class that I just launched as well which is in all kinds of bright colors and in the class I kept two kind of standard looking colors in a very storybook style but in my practice stuff my my play time where I'm using those techniques on cards you can see some of those on Instagram I'm trying to do wacky colors so recently just this past week I did a whole castle scene with like pink trees and purple bushes and it was just a blast so you can make things any color you want because it's art and we can go wild with whatever we feel like so here I'm intensifying the color the ground was certainly fine if you want a pale card you could leave that that initial color I had used some serpentine with a little bit of sap green toward the bottom and here I'm adding sap green in a thicker concentration so it's got more pigment and less water in it I painted a straight line across it and then used my brush to just make little grasses along the top edge so that it would be broken up and not look like they're standing on a glass floor because they're hedgehogs and they're hanging out outside with cute little mushrooms I almost said marshmallows mushrooms I must have food on the brain that could be but now I'm going to add a darker color down at the bottom and then while that paint was nice and wet I added some of the green appetite down at the bottom just darken that and it really gives a nice rich pop to the whole thing you get a really strong contrast you know me I like my contrast so the next thing as I was doing all this I was thinking I really needed to do something more with the hedgehogs bodies because now they look kind of wussy before I did that though I went in with my Sharpie which is waterproof and put on the eyes and the nose and drew those back in and if you really wanted to you could draw in the arm and the little snout but I decided that was going to be too much that would be too much black on there and I wanted to keep the more whimsical looking rather than outlined and I'm adding another layer of the yellow ochre and just adding it in a thicker kind of a way but I also in addition to having that thicker paint I have the lighter color paint that I already put down so it gives me a range of those colors without having to do it all in one layer because it's really hard to get that whole gradation in one painting layer a lot of times so using a clean kind of dampish brush to just soften those edges and finish that off super sweet super easy and super fun to take the tape off the paper is that just the best part of watercolor or what I don't always tape it down but when I do just that moment of watching it become a nice clean crisp white edge it's just kind of fun so I wanted to finish off a little bit more on this and I used the heart that's in the set and added that up in the sky and also stamped your an awesome friend on the front so I could finish off my card look how cute they are this is by the way on rough paper so rough watercolor paper so you got all that nice texture stop on by the blog hop for more inspiration see what everybody else has created with these sets and of course there's pictures there you can add to your Pinterest and I will see you again very soon bye bye