Hi guys my name is Shayda Campbell and in today's video I'm gonna be showing you
how to paint some really simple fun watercolor greeting cards that are great
for any occasion but since Mother's Day is right around the corner I'm gonna be
making mine for Mother's Day alright let's get started
so whenever you're painting with watercolor paints it's important it's
very important to use actual watercolor paper so what I do is I buy these
greeting card packs blank greeting cards at the dollar store and then I just cut
little pieces of watercolor paper out to fit the card that way I can paint on the
proper paper paper that's able to absorb lots of liquid without buckling too much
and after I'm done my little painting I'll just glue it onto the cards so I've
got a whole bunch of little pieces of watercolor paper here they're cut to
size I've ripped them along one edge along the bottom edge because it kind of
looks nice and yeah and I'm just gonna get started painting and the first
design we're gonna do is just these really fun splotches of color so I've
mixed up a nice rosy cool pink with lots and lots of water in it and I'm just
making a sort of splotch of color right in the center of the piece of paper or
the card and what I want to do here is I want to use the water and the paint and
my brush to make a splotch of color that looks really natural like it was
splashed on the page but of course getting the perfect splash isn't easy to
do sort of at random so I'm gonna try to paint the perfect splash of color and
that's what I'm doing here and I've just you know made the shape sort of here and
then you can see I'm adding a little water to it so it gets a little crazy
I've added some little dots of color around the puddle and then I'm taking a
dry brush and I'm absorbing a little bit of that paint and then I'll
come back and add some more color so I'm sort of working it adding some water
soaking up some color adding a little more color basically what I want is a
center that's a little bit faded and then some of that darker color around
the edges once I've got it looking good I'll just let that dry and we'll do
another one here so you can see so this one I've added a little more peach to my
paint color I'm starting out by just putting this big splotch of color in the
very center of the page maybe a little more towards the top so a
little top aligned but otherwise Center and just want it to look like a nice
blob of color and then I'll add a little bit of darker pink around the edges put
some water in there let it flow around try to give it a really natural look
maybe use the dry brush to pick up a little bit of that color so I do get
some nice negative space within the blotch of color and that'll be really
nice too right on top of so that one's all done so this is super simple don't
overwork it don't overthink it if you can help it
we're gonna set those aside let them dry and we'll come back to them later and
the next thing we're gonna do is this card with the pretty spring hydrangeas
so to begin this piece I'm mixing up a palette of blues purples maybe some
purpley pinks and a little bit of yellow and I'm adding a lot of water to my
paint so that it's very translucent now I'm gonna start by painting these little
four petal flowers I'm keeping them small with a very tiny Center but just
four petals that all meet in the center what I'm thinking about when I'm
painting is trying to make them quite light with a dark Center so keeping
those petals quite translucent and then just adding a little bit more color
right in the center of each flower and you can see here I'm overlapping them
they can sort of join together and bleed into one another and then as I create
more and more of the four petal flowers I'm just switching up the color of paint
so one flower will be very blue the next will be a little more purple and a
little more purple I might add some yellow to the next one maybe a little
pink you don't want to go very different just keep it all in the same color
family it sort of flows from blue into purple and then just a touch of yellow
so keep it all in the same family keep it very translucent keep the petals and
the flowers themselves small let them bleed into one another and I think
you'll find you're very successful this is a different card I finished the first
one moved on to a second one this one I'm
going more for blues so almost getting into just like a slightly teal and
that's what they look like when they're done
I've left sort of the top right hand corner blank one because a little
negative space always looks nice and two because I want to have a place to write
a message for my greeting card I'm gonna let all of these cards dry and then when
they are dry we'll go in with our marker and write some greetings
so for these ones with the big splotches of color what I do is I just write my
message in pencil make sure I've got it in the right spot and I'm happy with it
and then I'm going over it with my pigma micron so for this peachy splotchy I've
just written Mom across there right in the center and I'm going over it with
my pigma micron in the 02 nib and they just are simple and easy and that's what
it looks like when it's all done you can write any message across there I think
it's fine for any occasion now for the hydrangea card for this first one I'm
writing mom sort of in a larger fauxligraphy where I'm writing it in my
cursive handwriting and then I'm just thickening each down stroke just a
little bit to give that nice look of calligraphy now this one I thought was
lacking something so I went back in and I just added a little bit more pigment
to the center of each flower just to give it a little more a little bit of
dark purple and yellow and it just sort of brought it to life and that's what it
looked like when it was all done with the mom in the top corner and then for
the second one I ended up giving it a little hand-drawn border wrote mom in
the bottom right-hand corner and decided to go around each flower with that black
artist pen and just make it a little more graphic so I think they turned out
equally pretty I was quite happy with both of those and they were so simple
and easy to do and you might find that the paper is a little warped from the
painting I just glued them on to the greeting cards the blank cards and then
I stuck them in a book and just let them lay flat and sort of flatten out and
they looked great and yeah I'm super happy I'll be sending
one of these to my mom' shh don't tell her well thanks for watching today guys for
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