It's December!! my favorite month of the year is upon us
so in today's tutorial we're going to be illustrating some winter greenery I'll
show you how I design and paint a lovely winter wreath in watercolor and I have
some free coloring pages to share with you
so today's video is kind of special
because you can follow along with the tutorial and illustrate and paint your
own wreath or you can head over to my blog the links in the description and
you can grab these coloring pages they're free you can download and print
them and you can paint along with me using my designs
I've also released my Christmas card design from this year as a coloring page
so you can color your own Christmas cards and send them out I hope you'll
enjoy these printables now let's get started so part of what we're gonna do
in today's tutorial is also talked about illustrating some different types of
winter greenery because we are doing this wreath so we're gonna change it up
we're gonna start with the illustration on the calendar page so you can see I've
got mine there on tracing paper and then I have some watercolor paper as well
that I'll transfer these images on to and then of course I've done my calendar
number grid on graph paper transferred that onto some tracing paper and
everything is sort of ready to be transferred on to my large piece of
watercolor paper so let's talk about the illustration itself I've got my graph
paper here and I'm gonna sort of show you how I do it I always start by just
doing a big circle on the paper and sort of getting the wreath to be the size
that I want. With that done I often start by just drawing a few little pairs of
leaves maybe a couple buds along the length of the circle but pretty soon I
need to start thinking about what type of greenery do I actually want to draw
and since this is a winter wreath I'm thinking well what types of greenery are
around right now so let's talk about a few first of all we've got Holly very
Christmasy I always start with the shape of a leaf and then you do sort of these
scalloped pieces coming out of the sides and that's what gives you that Holly
shape leap so start with your oval leaf and then do the little scalloped bits
couple berries and it really looks like Holly you can watch me as I sort of integrate
it into the wreath here and just put a few leaves and berries along the shape
of that circle next let's try illustrating some eucalyptus we see a
lot of eucalyptus in the winter around here so it's I draw these big round
leaves that sort of come to a point at the end and they each have their own
little stem that comes off the main stem pretty simple and straightforward to
illustrate and I'll just integrate a little sprig of eucalyptus into my
wreath here as well next I want to try illustrating some cedar so I always
start with just a branch shape so one line with a couple little lines coming
off it and then every line just gets all these little fingers all these little
evergreen sprigs I guess you could say the evergreen or cedar it's really fun
to draw it might look sort of complicated but it's really just all
these little lines and it integrates into a wreath really nicely
once my wreath design is illustrated with some recognizable wintery greenery like cedar
and Holly, snow berries, eucalyptus I'll do two things
I'll draw just some plain little leaves and berries for filler and I'll also
start to repeat so I want to have a couple sprigs of Holly and a couple
sprigs of eucalyptus for this particular design I am leaving a little section of
the wreath open as though it were just some branches there in the top right and
so at this point I'm ready to start tracing my initial design as I've said
in many tutorials I always trace over my first drawing because it allows me to
extract what I do like about the illustration and change or get rid of
what I don't so if there's one sprig of eucalyptus that sort of looks a little
too big or a cedar piece has gone wonky it's sticking out the wrong way those
are little things I can change and I can really perfect the shape of each leaf so
I just love working through an illustration with the help of some
tracing paper and that's what you see me doing here just extracting what I like
about the design perfecting it and at this point it's also a good idea
to hold your design up to a mirror and make sure it looks balanced seeing it in
reverse can really help with that
and with that already let's talk about the
word December this is a little bit of a tricky one to write I don't really like
upper case D's or cursive so we'll just skip that and then I really meet
this when one sort of curvy little letter goes to another curvy little
letter like ECE is really tricky for me so I'm just sort of working through it
whenever I write out a word to do some fauxligraphy I'll just write it out a
bunch of times and what I can say is try to get a little bounce in your letters
and make sure to give each letter lots of space and make sure to give them
equal spacing then you're just gonna thicken those down strokes for that
fauxligraphy look and once we're all ready we're gonna transfer our entire design
onto the watercolor paper using a bit of graphite transfer paper so it just goes
dark side down go over the entire design with a nice sharp pencil and that's that
this is what it looks like when the transfer paper comes up and I just go
around with the pencil and fill in any little gaps or areas that I might have
missed and then at that point you're pretty much ready to paint and today I'm
going to be using Dr. Martins liquid watercolors and these are a lot like
watercolors that come out of a tube so you just place a few drops of each
concentrated color onto your palate and then you can start mixing them up so mix
in lots of water and I'm doing a green palette of greens today obviously for
the wreath and so I'm gonna start with a very cool green so I've mixed lots of
blue and brown and sort of purple into this green and I've got this very dark
emeraldy green and with a piece like this what I'll often do is I'll work
with one color at a time so I'll start by painting a few of those leaves in
this dark emerald green and then I might lighten that
up a bit and do a few lighter green leaves and I'll just go on like that the
idea for the color palette today is sort of blues and greens I'm gonna be using
some very cool greens and then some bright lime greens and some icy blues
and that's just sort of a pretty and wintery color palette that I think is
going to turn out really beautifully and for this first layer of watercolor I'm
just laying down some color making sure to sort of fill in all of these leaves
maybe adding a little bit of detail but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna finish
the first initial painting and then I'm gonna let it dry completely so there
I've left it to dry and then once it is completely dry I'll come back in with
some more watercolor and it's at this point that I will add a lot of the
detail to the piece so you can see me adding some faming to the leaves maybe a
shadow across the bottom of the berries just lots of little darker areas really
brings the piece to life and gives it all that detail this style would be
called wet on dry as I'm adding more wet paint to the layer of paint that's
already dried and it gives me a lot of control to add all of the details and
tiny elements that I really want to see in this piece and I'll finish my
painting today by adding some little details anywhere there looks to be an
empty spot I might add some little sprigs leaves berries and just fill in
until I think the wreath looks balanced and finished to finish the calendar I'm
just going over those numbers with my pigma micron from Sakura I'm using the
0.5 nib to do this so a bit of a larger nib and I'm gonna also go over the
December title just carefully I just do this slowly and I find it works out just
fine and I'm using the 0.5 nib again for this part as well but then when I go to
do the fauxligraphy when I'm thickening those down strokes it's at
this point that I'll switch to a smaller nib and that just gives me a little more
control as I'm filling in those down strokes and that concludes our winter
wreath and the December calendar page I hope you enjoyed illustrating botanicals
I know I just love that at the subject and I hope that you'll head over to the
blog and download these coloring pages I had a lot of fun making them and I'm
excited to release the holiday card as coloring page if you go to
Shaydaampbellblog.com you'll see in the links here and if you
click on them this is what they look like and these are free printables you
get two greeting cards on one 8 by 11 page so you can print those out and
color them yourself or have your kids color them or you could even print these
on watercolor paper so that you can paint along with me thank you so much
for watching if you enjoyed the video please subscribe like and comment and
I'll see you next week
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