Intuitive Watercolor Painting | Beginner Mixed Media Play

Hello everyone, welcome to Denae's Art Room. I'm Denae. I decided to do a couple of little paintings with my watercolor paints. So these are paints that I'm still learning to use. I'm brand new to this medium and while I've had a lot of fun, I'm definitely still a beginner. So today I decided to film. I haven't always filmed my practice sessions with my watercolors, but I decided to film it today. And there are actually two videos included in this one video. So make sure you stick around for the whole thing. So I started with these blues. I just pulled the blues out of the set. These are the Kuretake Art Nouveau watercolor set. So I pulled these blues out. I started with some mark making. The crayons I used, one was a Stabilo Woody and one was a Neocolor 2 crayon. Those are both water soluble. So you can see that as I add the paint on top, it kind of gets smeared and washed away in places. And I love that about them. You can also buy Neocolor 1 crayons, which are not water soluble, if you want your marks to really stand out. So this is just me playing and experimenting. I've never taken a class on watercolor. I'm sure that would help me a lot in my education. And that might be something that I do in the future, but right now I'm just playing and having fun. And I really enjoy the process of learning how the watercolors work together and how, you know, if you use a lot of water versus a little water and the colors run together. Anyway, it's just been a fun process for me. So I drew these little lines in and then I didn't like that last line. So I've just taken this blue-gray color and painted it out, which is a technique I would use with acrylic paints. So I'm not sure if all of the things I've learned with acrylics transfer over correctly into watercolor. So if you are a watercolor enthusiast and I'm doing things wrong, I hope that you will be kind and be patient and give me the opportunity to learn and grow. So I decided once this was dry that I wanted to put some script in. And originally I thought I would use a stencil, but then I just thought it would be fun to write it in myself. And because I did a blue painting, I'm just writing the word blue three times in three different colors. And I didn't really love it at this point when I wrote them in. I didn't think, especially that dark blue at the bottom, it's kind of a bright royal blue, didn't really fit the vibe. And so I was a little disappointed. I fiddle with it off screen and I kind of make the letters chunkier and I end up liking it in the end. I'm adding the white just for contrast. Who doesn't love some white dots? And this is a metallic pen. I've written that very first smallest little blue is in this metallic. It's a really fun color. It's very muted and subtle, so it works really well with this color. And that's it. It was just a quick little practice. I had a couple of these little squares that are just sitting on my desk that are perfect for this. And this is just white artist tape. So this is my cute little blue, blue, blue experimental watercolor painting. I like a lot of the things that happened here. I'm not a huge fan of that bottom blue color. So ta-da, here are the colors I used. And I decided right away to do a pink version as well. And I'm not going to do the same composition. I want to do something different. So I'm starting here with circles. And I've pulled out the pink colors from the set now. And again, I started with my Neocolor 2 crayons, which are water-soluble. And those colors I will mix first as I add layers. And I decided to do circles just because I wanted to try and get the paints to interact with each other a little bit more. Like I said, I'm still learning and experimenting. And then what happened was I got way too enthusiastic, and I mixed them all together. And so I lost all of the variation of colors. So I let it dry, and I'm starting here again with the palest pink. And I've decided to try and go light to dark and see if I can do a better job of keeping those colors separate. As I'm working, I decide I don't really like the circles. And eventually, I'm going to change them into wonky squares. And I like the wonky squares much better. So here it is. I'm going to flatten out the circle a little bit more and move to the square. And something about the square shape just speaks to me more. So I'm just going to keep adding my layers. And in some cases, I'm using the watercolor a little bit more. It's a little bit thicker, and it feels more like a soft body paint. And that's just something I'm more comfortable with because I need to appeal it. So I'm still learning. And here I'm using, this is a heat gun, but it has a setting where it will just draw air. So the air it's blowing is just the air temperature around me. So it's a cool air. And I'm trying with a little bit more water. But at the same time, I want it to hold its shape. So I'm trying out drying it quickly as I put it on. Which, in this case, worked really well for me. And you can see now that I've gone to the more rounded square shape. And that this is making me much more comfortable. So I just keep adding color until I'm satisfied, and then I let it dry completely. And now I'm coming in with some mark making. So it was just fun to look through the supplies I have sitting around near me, the markers I have, and the crayons I have, and just pull out a very specific color palette. So in this case, this is a metallic pink by DecoColor. It's a chisel tip, so I can make those really flat lines that I put around the edge, and then I can come in and, oh no, I'm using a popsicle stick. Now I've switched. Okay, so this is now a metallic popsicle stick, and it's making little dots. But what I was saying about the chisel tip was I could make the wider dash marks using the whole chisel, and then I put in some smaller little dots in the center using just the tip. This is a pasta with an extra fine tip, so it makes really, really small little dots. I like them a lot. I'm just adding dots. If you've watched any of my other videos, I'm not a great doodler, and in other videos I've tried to expand my doodle vocabulary, as it were. And yeah, I've just fallen back. Dots are easy for me, lines and dots. I'm really happy doodling with those, so that's all I'm doing here. Keeping it simple, and it's fun. But I'm using a variety of colors, and so that creates a really fun finish. And here's another color of dot. I mean, who doesn't love dots, right? Polka dots are great. Then I'm coming in with my extra fine tip again and just making these kind of squarish spirals, which I really like, and I like them so much that I'm going to do it now with my paint color, the watercolor, the pale pink, and that just creates a really nice finish. I'm very happy with that. And that's it. I'm done with this one now. I'm going to take the tape off. This is just white artist tape, and I can reuse it, but you have to be careful, because once it sticks to itself, it's nearly impossible to get it to not stick to itself. And here's my second little piece. There's some famous artwork called Blue Boy and Pinky. Anyway, the blue and pink are very famous pieces, and so this is my little rendition of Blue Boy and Pinky. So thanks for joining me today. I hope you enjoyed it. Please give me a like if you did, and consider subscribing. You can watch some more videos here, and I'll see you next time. Let's create some art together. Bye.