Name: ホリデーカードシリーズ2016～18日目 (Holiday Card Series 2016 - Day 18)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:38:33.000Z
Duration: 8 min 20 s
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Welcome to Day 18 of the Holiday Card series for 2016.

Today I'm going to be making a card completely from scratch.

You see my sketch up there on the top corner.

I had a little idea for what I wanted my card to look like.

So I'm sketching it out onto some Arches watercolor paper,

Now, I'm taking some Drawing Gum, or masking fluid,

and I'm going to mask off the two mittens

And I'm doing this because I want those areas to be white

The words in particular, I'm going to keep white completely.

I want them to be nice and bright compared to the outside color that I'll be adding later.

So, I needed to make sure that I masked that on.

and then use a white acrylic paint, or gouache,

something opaque to paint on the lettering afterward

instead of having to mask off the lettering.

I taped my watercolor piece down to a board,

and I also tested out some different colors of watercolors

just to get the colors of watercolors exactly where I wanted them.

After it was dry, all of the masking fluid,

I started to go in with my background color.

And I'm using sort of like a muted aqua teal.

It's kind of a really, kind of dusty kind of color once it's dry.

I want to have this as the background color.

It's going to be creating kind of a shape around the entire picture around the mittens and also the words.

I didn't want it to have just a plain white background.

I wanted it to have a little bit of color

I'm just using this shade all over the entire area.

I'm watering down some areas using a little bit less paint,

dropping in some darker areas of that paint.

and I get a little bit of variation in color.

So I'm not gonna get a huge difference in color,

and you'll be able to see that once I have it dry.

You can see there are a couple dry patches,

but it's not really a big difference in color.

So, I decided to go over it with a second coat of paint.

and in others I'll be adding a little bit of a darker paint color.

This is going to give it a little bit of interest.

I also wanted to soften those edges around the shape a little bit,

I'm gonna go ahead and remove the masking fluid.

The thing with masking fluid that you have to remember is

you never go on to the next step unless everything is dry.

So after you apply it, you have to let it completely dry.

And then you can remove the masking fluid.

to help me remove all that masking fluid.

So now I'm going to start painting on the red areas on the mittens.

I'm going to do this in a variety of different ways.

as well as adding some more masking fluid,

So I've dropped in some plain colors of red.

Now, I'm going to do kind of a little zigzag shape.

And I'm going to have the zigzag be white.

So I'm going to start by painting the top of the zigzag,

and then I'll go ahead and paint the bottom.

I don't think this design is particularly difficult,

could probably create a card similar to this.

and giving yourself plenty of time to work on this card.

especially if you simplify the mitten even more.

So I'm adding some masking fluid details,

some snowflakes, or stars, and then also some dots.

And I'm going to add in a very light wash of red,

And this one on the left was dry before the one on the right.

So I'm going to move on to adding some darker details on the wristbands of the mittens.

I wanted to give these a little bit more character,

make them look like they're standing up off of that page.

So, just adding a little bit of a darker area.