If Watercolor Painting and Quilting had a BABY - this would be it!

so when I received this subscription box from Mrs quilty I thought straight away that it would be fun to make a couple of the small projects and then to paint them in watercolor just to see what it would be like to copy printed fabric designs in a loose watercolor style so this is very Pink as you can see extremely pink and we're going to paint it and because of that we need to think about pinks so I have prepared here um I'm going to sit down and slow down right um yeah the Fabrics are all in different shades of pink so I thought I would first of all explore the whole idea of pink and in my box here what I like to do when I'm doing something like this and we're talking about color is I like to get everything together and put it in one place so that I can you know grab it when I want to actually do it um so looking at these Fabrics we need several different shades of pink and what you can do is either you can either go through your stash or if you use this is where this is where in a way using tubes is better than using tins of paint because if you use tin of paint you've got all the colors there all in front of you all at once and that can be a a little bit confusing but if you've got if you use tubes you can go to your drawer where you keep your tubes and you can pull out all the pinks and then you can say yes okay I'm going to use those so what I've got here is I have got chevening chevening and Rose that's an old Holland uh Rose deep any paint in a tube or any other way that's called something Rose is going to be basically pink right if it's not called Rose it might or might not be pink so for example azarin Crimson that will give you a pinkish kind of color if you dilute it down because Crimson is kind of a little bit pinkish but it has a bit of an undertone a kind of um a little bit brownish in a way so it's not a pretty pretty pink if you want a pretty pretty pink you need to go for something like permanent rows you can see them here swatched out um or Opera that's chevening and Rose that one that's permanent Rose that's a windsor and Newton one um this is Opera it's also Windsor and Newton um and then I've got uh kodone Rose which is in my hand here this is Michael Harding but it could be any brand that's very new isn't it new and big and then I've got um you see this is this is where I have I have some tin um tins of paints as well um this is purple Lake from scha and then we've got um shell pink from Hine and this is this is what I would call baby pink so those six pinks will give you a nice range if you're going to um uh paint something like this one way of doing it you can see how that's going to work right or if you don't have all of those colors if you haven't got six different p then you can um obviously take one of them and just alter it a little bit by adding a little tiny bit of blue a little tiny bit of yellow to give a slightly um different shade of pink and you can also add something like Jean brilliant or um uh what's it called buff Titanium or white gouache or as I've got here titanium white which you can add to Red in order to bring it back down to Pink so that's another way otherwise all you do is add water and the more water you add the lighter the color is going to be um and the other color that's in this material is green obviously and I chose two greens um here I have emerald green which is this one and sap Green Lake from actually old Holland this is wisor Newton um doesn't matter which brand somewhere along that spectrum of greens will be absolutely fine so there we are there's that that's the colors and what I'm going to do in order to be able to paint conveniently with these colors I'm going to use a ceramic palette like this one um or this one these are both similar uh not quite the same you can get these from Meen and I'll put a link in the uh I'll put links to everything I use in the description below so I'm going to use one of these for these oh and I should also mention as well at the same time as I've got my paints I've also got my markers my acrylic markers these ones and I've pulled out the colors that I think might be handy and I've got some um brush paints as well watercolor brush paints from poetique the ones I've always used and they might be useful for tiny details so I've got those at at ready okay so they're in a little tray just there so let's see let's get these paints on the road so I know that I'm going to want to use the shell pink and I'm only going to put a tiny bit of each one out because um I'm not going to use much I can guarantee see the thing is these paints are so strong um I might not use the purple lake so this is um chevening and Rose deep which is probably very similar to quinacridone Rose uh once you've got them in your palette you don't need to worry about which one's which you can just use them intuitively this is permanent Rose Opera Rose rather which is very bright that's this one it's a nice bright pink I think some people say it's not light fast but I'm not worried about that I'm going to fade away before the paint does so then this one that's permanent Rose I don't know how long I've had these tubes of paint 30 40 years definitely 30 because some of them went with me to uh Canada when we immigrated and that's a long time ago now and then I'm going to use for the green I'm going to pick the sa sap green here and I might want a bit of yellow so for the yellow I will use the Jean Brant which is this one now I'm not going to put it in there because that's where I might want to mix my colors but I will put it in a little dish I also will have another little dish in case I want to mix in there too so we'll put the Sean brilliant in there it's a handy color that one might need a bit more that's a whole Bine color okay so you can all go and live over there for a minute paints so the next thing um we need to choose our brushes and I'm going to probably use um my Princeton Aqua Elite it's a size eight round and I'm recommending that because it's the best one that I've found that's available on Amazon um for preference though I would always use my draw Wells which have a lot more spring I don't know if you can see that if I go like that I can sort of spay it out and bend it a bit you see how that bends whereas this one you can't do that and that's much better brush has to be said although I do quite like painting with that Des the fact that it is showing its age I think is probably the thing it's what tamson bought it for me last Christmas I think yeah it's definitely showing its age and brushes will they will wear out if you use them every day and I take care of my brushes I don't do anything wrong with them it still comes to a reasonable Point um but this one which isn't even damp this is uh from Japan handmade in Japan by Mr Miami I don't get any um commission from him at all I recommend him because um he always sends me a Christmas present and and um he seems like a nice man and it's a small very small company and he's very nice and a lot of people have bought rushes from him so have a look at the website that belongs to him it's it's really sweet and um maybe think about ordering brushes from him they're not expensive and they uh you have to pay obviously for the shipping but um it's worth it I think a lot of people have said that they don't mind and if you P up with somebody else to uh to get a whole bunch in one go then the shipping pales into insignificance cuz they're only a few dollars each anyway so that's that and I've got here a size8 both of those I mean they're not the same are they but anyway they're both called eight and this one is a three just in case I need it for some details so there's that and the next thing is um what was the next thing draw the design that's right that's what the next thing is so we need paper and I'm going to actually find on open I'm going to use a 12 by9 watercolor cold press from Meen 100% cotton I she use that I think and then what we need to do is arrange ourselves a little um still life so I'm going to uh do a sketch and I'm going to put my cup my um needle case and my um glasses case in an arrangement and then I'm going to do a little sketch on a piece of sketch paper and I have already done that because I have been trying it out so I I came up with this sketch having done that I realized that actually I don't want the glasses case to be in a straight line like that so I'm going to have to move it a little bit so I'm going to use that initial idea and I'm going to transfer it in some way onto here or redraw it I should say and then we're going to paint it so let us move these out of the way a little bit I'm I'm sorry you won't be able to see everything all at the same time but um so all I need is just an ordinary HB pencil and uh and I shall uh sit down and draw this so we'll start with the cup probably best to start by drawing the lips at the top and we're not going to too much about perspective and the reason I'm doing it on such a big piece of paper really is because um I want to be able to get some of the detail I'm not going to go crazy about the detail but a little bit so that's the glasses case and I'm not going to go crazy about the perspective either uh so hang on a second that is coming down there so I'm going to pretend that it is standing well it can stand actually do that yeah that will do and then my glasses just going to take them off and put them in there so I can draw them this requires a little bit of concentration that do okay now I haven't put anything in the way of detail on on these yet but we could probably just draw in our lines like that and this has got a a border at the top border at the bottom that and then the design kind of goes across like that and then this one has got the button here and then the Cozy goes around and the stripes go like that having done that we need to then lift off some of the um graphite because we don't want the lines to show through too much do we and I'm just wondering what on Earth I've done with my Eraser which I thought oh there it is it was so we just go this is a needed eraser um just go over everything lifting up a little bit so and that was that line no that was the one that was wrong so and we're just lighten it up a little bit when you use a needeed eraser you don't rub like that you just press and lift press and lift press and lift okay right so that's that and now the fun begins um need a piece of paper to test the colors on so I'll just find of [Music] paper there we go and this is just a bit of fun this is just a bit of fun so first thing we're going to paint the background color for the fabric sections and basically all I'm going to to do to achieve this I hope it's going to work just in case you've lost faith and you don't think it's going to work I have tried it out and it did work so we have these ones here which was my first um trial so just to remind myself what I did you know how it is sometimes when you do a painting the first time you do it is better than the subsequent times have you noticed that it's quite strange really so I'm going to pop those there and let's pick up some pinks let's start with can you see yes you can start with this one if you use plenty of water then you will get a nice pale pink and I'm not trying to match anything I'm just um just going to vary the colors and I'm going to go from one to another just kind of at random but I won't do two side by side initially because if I do that the colors will run so basically I'm waking them all up and uh let's do the shell pink one yep so we'll just remember that we can see through the glasses so I have to paint there like that and [Music] then as you go along you can sort of mix them up so no two of them are going to be exactly identical and that's it's going to make it kind of more interesting and we might leave one or two of them white because they were the white background for example um that one could have the roses on it and what have we got we've got the Roses well it's only the Roses really that's got white background okay and you could easily just use one color of pink for this you definitely don't need all these um different colors I just thought it would be interesting to see all the different ones and how similar they all are aren't they you know that one I've used a bit less water so it's a bit darker the only one that's really different is the shell pink which is a little bit more opaque and we'll go around the edge and maybe make the inside a little bit darker probably put another coat in there and then okay so we actually one color that I didn't get out we probably do need is a little bit of brown for the coffee so I'll just put that in the top and the Cup itself is sort of brown as well so we' got that there that's color of the cup and then my glasses are kind of dark brown I think or grayish actually so more gray I think I'll do them last do the glasses last [Music] okay so haven't got that far what we need to do now is let it dry or put the hair dryer on it okay I missed that so I put that edge there and so now I'm going to start painting the flowers so let's maybe maybe it would be a good idea to switch to a smaller brush I think that might be a thought so we go to the size three and um let's pick up some some nice pink and let's put some roses and I'm not going to try to completely duplicate the way the roses are on the fabric because that would be too difficult so we'll just do it like this and then we need some green for the little leaves okay so that's that one and I think we need some on here once you've done them once you can come in with a little bit darker just slightly slightly darker pink and just add a little bit of 3D to it and then we put the leaves on and then we need some here as well good way of practicing roses and just add a little bit darker slightly darker and then we'll pop on pop in the leaves pretty isn't it right so that's that and then the next one is going to have some little parts so we'll go to um this one here for example and we're just going to painting some using quite pale paint painting some I can correct that with a little bit of white it kind of ran a little bit okay and that's need some over here okay and we've got some tiny tiny little flowers with just whoops little dots and I'm going to use a cheaty thing here I'm going to go for the water color brush pin and put them in like this cuz it's just just too tricky to do with a paint brush so that works quite well and then we'll grab our green and do the little joining bits like that um I think you can choose here which one you want to do it in I think we'll do it here you can really lose yourself in something like this you just you forget all about whether or not you remember to pay the Milkman oh yesterday someone came to the door last night while we were eating dinner actually um and he'd been before we thought first of all that it was the gypsies come to ask if we had any you know any old iron or any Rag and Bone um but actually it was a chap who came a little a while ago selling us and sold us um uh potatoes and he'd come around last night with cauliflowers and onions and shots and um so we we took some of those that was lovely cuz they're really lovely and fresh just been cut that morning he said and I believe him um now I want to put some white on and I'm going to use I think this acrylic marker I'm going to use this one CU I want to put some acrylic some whites that's going to really show up like that and we'll put it here as [Music] well and um let's put it up on this one you can see that what I'm trying to do is is these white ones here and then the other design that we've got is on the cup is these ones here these nice big round orangy sort of shapes I'm not going to make them too orange but I will change the pink a little bit and we'll put them put them here don't want to make it too dark just keep them nice and pale which you make that happen by using plenty of water and then this one here has got just little tiny flow so I'm just going to put some white dots on that and now I need to do my glasses so I have to take them off again put them there so we had let's hope this works that'll do looks roughly like glasses that will do I think okay and then I need to put the little stems on this one so this has got I really like using these watercolor brushes because they have such fine point and they are so accurate when you're going to do something like that it's such fun really is okay and now uh the time is near for me to paint the final strokies we need a little bit of blue and because I'm always well prepared I do have a little bit of blue handy and we're going to put a little bit of blue around the top edge of the cup to indicate white and we'll make the coffee a little bit darker and we'll make this a little bit darker down here as well oh yes and I need to paint the Buton which is cream color so the Jean brilliant from Hine is thing to use for that and it's got this little attachment thing and the holes and a bit of Shadow around the outside and then I'm going to use the pink pen to do um there are lines on the edging which I couldn't possibly do with a brush and they go like this and I have on this side sort of this has got the floral design so we'll just do some dots and then we need to make the inside of of the needle case bit shadowy so we'll just add a little bit of blue to the pink so that's more shadowy and then we'll come around that's too dark so we'll lift that out and then I'm going to I want to go around the edge oh I needed a little bit more blue just to make the inside here a little bit darker little bit more shadowy and just emphasize the joins between the Fabrics a little bit I think this one wants to be a little bit darker too here and then we'll put kind of pink Center to these flowers and then I'm going to use the pen again to do some stitching cuz it is top stitched this and then another row of pink around the outside and we'll let that bleed a little bit okay well I think we're getting there you could uh if you wanted to emphasize some of the lines by using marker a fine liner or something like that if you wanted to for example the glasses um that wouldn't be a totally bad idea and um because the the way I've painted it the the outside edges are quite sort of undefined but another way to do it is just to come back with your paint and just go around the outside a little bit like that and I think we're pretty much finished now uh put some edging down there as well okay and maybe we need um something for it all to be standing on so if we take go back to the larger brush and maybe we'll just oh what color shall we use for it to be standing on thinks don't want it to be green maybe maybe that's perhaps where the liloy color might come in so we could pick up a bit of blue or maybe blue let's try what would blue look like it might be too much maybe a little bit of lycky blue that might work this is ultramarine with a bit of permanent Rose which is going to give us kind of lcky color so we'll just put in we just keep that very rough and not complete and take that up sort of halfway up the cup and that kind of defines the outside edge a little bit better too so there we are I think the glass is actually need a bit more work um hang on a second just a bit [Music] of that's a um was over the top that is a cow moving did you hear that okay well I'm going to call that today hope you enjoyed that that was a little bit of fun playing around and um I have never painted anything quite like that before not sure if I'll ever paint anything quite like that again but it was an experience so I'd like to introduce you to Mrs quilty which is a quilting subscription box which I have recently received um from Adam and um we are offering you an extra 20% discount if you sign up using the link in the description below um which will give you uh 20% off of an already very reasonable subscription of $31 a month and with Mrs quilty you are going to get every month a completely different selection of fabrics and a magazine with um projects in it as well as other gifts which are going to be useful for you in your quilting Journey um this month the package included um two packs is's usually 12 to 16 different um pieces of fabric these are all fat quarters and the very pretty one this one was last month and um I've used it and I have created some of the things that are in the book here um three three of the two of the designs and this is one I made up um so there's a a glasses case and a cup uh cozy and um there are other things as well which I'll show you in a second and I invented this one which is obviously a needle case and um I haven't done any quilting before um the only thing I've ever quilted was about 35 years a no 45 years ago when I made a baby quilt for my daughter who is now 45 um I've never done any since but using the instructions in this book here I was able to pick it up straight away and um I'm quite excited by this because it's got me started on something something completely new so inside this magazine you will find and and remember this is actually a physical magazine that you get not like some um subscription boxes which have gone over to giving you a digital magazine which I think is an exceptionally bad idea this is on paper and it is very very good you've got um all the description you need for each project and in this one I think there are um there's a cushion a throw blanket the eyeglasses case the mug cover um and a block of the month which is a block that you can use for a larger project um and they they all come complete with a QR code that you can scan if I can find one I'll show you um the QR code which is hang on a second we'll find it in a tick uh where are they okay oh here we are you can download the pattern by scanning the QR code it comes straight up on your um computer screen and no problems at all just print it and the way you go and then you can just um print it off these paper cut it out and then SW your uncle so it's all very good and in this particular one we got not only the fabric which has created these Lov things but also this was the free gift these are um bobin um cases uh to keep your bobbins nice and tidy and it also came with two of these nice buttons and a piece of elastic which we used to hold the cup cozy so that was the free gift on this one um I don't think there was anything else in it anyway it's a great thing and for $30 a month or thereabouts I think it's very reasonable the fabric I I should mention the fabric is good quality it's quite thin but for the kinds of things that you're making like this you don't want a heavyweight you don't want heavyweight cuz you've got double anyway plus you've got all the seams so you don't want it thicker than this and it's quite sturdy and it seems like good quality and it's 100% cotton and very pretty designs and I've looked at some of their other boxes too and um the patterns are really nice and they all go really well together [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] okay I will see you again soon don't forget to like And subscribe and turn on notifications and join us on patreon or on the YouTube membership please that would be wonderful so I'll say bye-bye for now everybody bye-bye from me and bye-bye from Andy bye everyone bye-bye for