Looking For Patterns: A Watercolor & Salt Bookmark Tutorial Everyone Can Do!
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Links to all supplies used in this video found below!
Looking for patterns and recognizable shapes out in the world is such a fun, relaxing, and creative thing to do; I could spend hours looking at clouds and letting my imagination find all sorts of things! This sort of creative play is also really easy to do with watercolor also, especially when you add a little art science to your process by sprinkling simple table salt into your wet paint! In this tutorial I walk you through, step-by-step, how to make beautiful one-of-a-kind watercolor art pattern bookmarks-a process everyone can do, especially with my helpful tips & tricks! Additionally I show you the technique using artist grade AND grade school paint and paper to show that you don’t need fancy art supplies to create lovely gifts that everyone will love receiving! This process does require a little bit of patience (waiting for paint to dry can be SO hard) and creativity (no two bookmarks can look alike-this is a crazy process!), but I so hope you will join me in finding patterns and beauty in your watercolor paint explorations today! Thanks for watching!💚
🔗Supplies I used in this video:
Arches 140lb cold press watercolor paper: amzn.to/4argKIO
Canson XL 140lb cold press watercolor paper: amzn.to/485irdl
Frog Tape: amzn.to/3TwFGsj
Ceramic circle watercolor palette: amzn.to/41sB2NY
Ceramic rectangle watercolor palette: amzn.to/4arhnlE
Princeton Neptune size 4 quill paintbrush: amzn.to/4atRIsQ
Princeton Neptune 1 1/2 in. mottler paintbrush: amzn.to/4apXWtz
Creative Mark Rhapsody size 0/3 paintbrush: amzn.to/48pAAm8
Princeton Velvet Touch 1/4 blender-scrubber paintbrush: amzn.to/3v2R4lH
Crayola watercolor 8 pan set: amzn.to/4apxtMO
Holbein Artist Watercolor Shadow Green: amzn.to/48fY0KC
Sennelier Artist Watercolor Payne’s Grey: amzn.to/3RvXktL
Van gogh Watercolor indigo: amzn.to/4av6OOs
Van gogh Watercolor carmine: amzn.to/3RLSM3I
Turner Acryl gouache: amzn.to/3tofCVJ
Permanent White watercolor gouache: amzn.to/475v2Mv
Table salt: amzn.to/41x3vSM
Scott shop towels: amzn.to/4atrk23
Re-sealable acid free/lignin free bookmark sleeves: search Clear Bags website
Rotring Isograph pen: amzn.to/484lbYq
Fiskars paper cutter (not mine as it’s no longer made, but this has great reviews:): amzn.to/47YU4y2
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Definitely saving this tutorial to play with later. I loved watching the pattern take form. It's a beautiful process.
Awesome! So glad you enjoyed it-I always hope folks will be inspired to make creations of their own from my videos:) Thanks for watching!!💚
❤❤❤ I love my bookmark🥰🤗
That makes me so happy to know! Glad you enjoyed watching the process!💚
Definitely going have a go at this. I have tried it before, but I think I didn't leave the salt on long enough - too impatient, as usual! I like the way you did a little bit, then left it and came back to it. These bookmarks looked really special in the end. The moral of this story for me? Take your time!
Patience is SO hard in life, but even more so with art! When one sits down to be creative the last thing we want to do is wait!🙃 I’m notoriously impatient with watercolor, so how I plan for my impatience is to prep multiples of what I’m trying to do-notice how many bookmark patterns I had in the end? Six! While one was drying I got to keep painting by getting started on the next one:) Still, all needed to dry for a full day to really have the effect, BUT since I had done six instead of one my inner child (that’s always where I feel my impatience comes from) felt satisfied at pausing at the appropriate time. Thanks for watching, and I hope you have fun looking for your own patterns in watercolor!💚
@@HaveColorWillTravel Cool tip! Looking forward to doing this.😃
Love that spacey looking one! Why does the salt do that to the colors?
It’s super interesting, right?! Salt drags the water towards it, absorbing it (just how salty food makes one thirsty, salt sucks up the water on wet watercolor paper), which is one reason why adding salt to wet watercolor paper & pigment makes patterns. The other thing is that salt interacts with different pigments uniquely, so some colors have very dramatic effects while other colors have minimal effects. What type and quality of paper you use also affects the patterning of this technique. The possibilities with this technique are truly infinite and fascinating, I think!🤓