How to make Watercolor Paper Earrings by Ross Barbera
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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In this video I demonstrate my unique process on how to create Watercolor Paper Earrings. The process is based on the same method that I use to create "Watercolor Paper Pendants," and because they are very light weight you can freely experiment with their design and make them as large as you like. In my actual workshops, my students have lots of fun experimenting with designs and often make many different earring pairs during a three hour class.
Similar in structure to the watercolor paper pendant, the earrings employ the same paper layering process, and the main form of the earring is built from three layers of 140lb watercolor paper. After the initial form is created, a top layer is glued in place that has been painted with watercolors to create a tiny watercolor painting. I usually cover the back of the earrings with a decorative paper. I particularly like to use banana paper.
I can't begin to compliment you enough for your extreme details and superb explanations! I have spent the last two hours looking at a few of your watercolor tutorials and now these lovely earrings. I so admire your talent and excellence as a teacher. Your techniques and artistry are fabulous - thank you for caring so much to inform all of us!
12 years later and this video is EXACTLY what I needed! Thanks and fabulous!❤
There is no comparison between cheap dollar store earrings and pieces of art. These are pieces of art.
The designs you see me demonstrate are my own designs, are copyrighted and cannot be offered for sale, but you are free to use the techniques to create your own, unique designs! Thanks for watching!
Hope you enjoy making them. Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks for watching.
Sometimes only a little practice is needed. Email me if you have questions and I will try to help. Thanks for watching.
Thank you so much for your very kind comments! There are more videos on the way! I hope you will find them useful. Thanks for watching!
Enjoy painting with watercolors! That's the main thing - to enjoy the process. Your skill level will improve with practice. I do recommend 140 lb cold press Arches watercolor paper, as it gives me the best results. Let me know how it goes! Thanks for watching my video.
you rock. I love your videos. I love the way you take the care to explain what not to do and less, yes, is more. Consider yourself hugged by a mom/granny who is gonna share this with creative family folk. you're a great teacher, interesting, and choose excellent projects to share. thank you thank you thank you!
Sorry for the delay in response - Hurricane Sandy took down power here. That is a wonderful project! I will definitely be in touch to learn more! Thanks for watching!
You are welcome! You may want to join my Realisticart Facebook group, where we post photos of what we have made and discuss various aspects. I'd love to see what you create! Thanks for watching!
Thank you very much for your comments. I hope you enjoy the project! Have a wonderful holiday!
Glad you enjoy the project! Thanks for watching and for your comment!
Thank you very much for your comment! So glad that you find my video useful!!
That's great! Glad my video helped - thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for your very kind comments! So happy to provide some inspiration! Consider joining our Realisticart Facebook group, where we post photos of what we create and talk about tools and process.
I appreciate your comments! Thanks for watching my video!
Thank you for your kind comments!
Grazie per i vostri commenti gentili voi!
Ross, thank you for another wonder tutorial.. You have no doubt inspired many to create their own version of watercolor earrings and pendants. I have learned so much from you and greatly appreciate your sharing of your storehouse of knowledge. How fortunate your students are. Thanks again.
I'm glad that you find my videos helpful, and thanks for your kind words!! Thanks for watching!
You're welcome! So glad you enjoy the videos and find them useful. Thanks very much for your feedback!
Thank you so much for watching my video and for commenting!
I "bake" them at 150 degrees for 20 minutes, and I do recommend this step for all of these earring pairs. Thanks for watching!
Hi - if you are asking about each side of the piece, it is watercolor paper on the front, covered by banana paper on the back. Thank you for watching my video!
Hi - se ti stai chiedendo su ciascun lato del pezzo, è carta da acquerello sul fronte, coperta da carta banana sul retro. Grazie per guardare il mio video si!
Hello Ross, I certainly hope you are still creating beautiful things in 2016. Thank you for sharing your gift. Kathleen.
Great - I hope you enjoy making them! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I just spent my first day of 2016 watching the remarkable video. Never knew about this at all. I'm definitely going to try this!! Working at a craft store for the past 15 years I've seen this paper in the Fine Arts Dept. but never ever knew you can make this! Usually an Art student is looking for this paper for watercolor pictures that their Professor has instructed them to purchase. I'm a 59 year old woman and I just like making things from beginning to end, all the while watching the end piece evolve. This is absolutely Amazing!!! Thank you sir for taking the time to make this video. PS: found this video from watching your two videos about making the upside down heart earrings. Your teaching methods and the honest tutorial is why I'm watching several of your teachings. Gratefully, Martha
I am very happy that you have found this project useful! It is always great to see people become inspired to create their own unique objects. Thanks for watching!
Thank you very much for your feedback - I really appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
Thanks very much for watching and commenting! I appreciate it!
I hope you really enjoy the project! Thanks very much for your kind feedback!
Thanks so much! Love this! The best step by step instructions to make beautiful earrings!
I just watched how to make watercolor paper earrings. Those earrings are amazing! As a watercolorist myself I would love to make these! Your video was very easy to understand as was all your explanations. Thank you so much for making your video. I will definitely give these a try!
@drswirlycrocker Thank you so much for your kind comments! Please let me know how the earrings for your daughter turn out!
Glad you have enjoyed the project. Please let me know if you have any questions!
Muchas gracias por ver mi video!
Thank you very much for watching my video!
Excellent video! I found your video and instructions exciting, because I can't tell you how many pairs of earrings I have purchased that don't fall correctly!! YOU are aware of this and have addressed the problem. For that alone, I thank you many times over!! Beautiful work, Ross ... just excellent!
Thank you for sharing!!
Sorry for the delay in response - Hurricane Sandy took down power here. Thanks for watching my video!
I usually don't have the patience to watch long videos of any kind, but this was never boring. The project is beautiful and skillfully done. It also gives me ideas for related projects and variations. I wonder if it would work to apply gold leaf on the edges. Metallic leaf need not be expensive. Leafing glue could be applied to the edges and you'd remove the excess similarly to removal of excess banana paper. I'd never heard of banana paper before. I assume rice paper would work as well.
These earrings are awesome. I can't wait 'til my granddaughter sees them. She will be making them for all her friends.
Those are absolutely beautiful, I never would have known it was paper
I made a pair of these, thanks to your tutorial. Everyone loves them. They are so light too. You can wear big earnings without the 'ear drag' brilliant. Thank you!
Thank you for your response. You are the best at explaining tutorials. I really appreciate it.
@WannaBeCurlie2 More are coming up! I'll have videos that feature bracelets, hairpieces and pendants as well. Thanks very much for your comment!
I had bought a pair of watercolor papers earrings years ago and now thanks to you I know how to make them myself. Thanks!
Thank you so much Ross, Certainly I will keep in touch with you for your help and guidance. I am so sorry to know about the hurricane Sandy causing such major damage at your area, I feel very sad for all those people those who have lost house and properties. Certainly they all are in my prayers.
I have tried it and have found that you do not get the same, durable and beautiful results with thicker paper as you do with layers of 140lb paper glued together. It is also generally harder to work with thicker paper. Hope this answers your question. Thanks for watching!
Great! I hope you really enjoy the project! Thanks for watching!
A pair of chain link flat-nose pliers is a good choice here. Thank you for your comments! I appreciate them!
You are welcome! Thank you for watching and commenting.
Ross, you are the most extraordinary teacher I have ever come across on youtube! Thank you so much.
Thank you very much! Thanks for watching - I appreciate your comments!
I watched the Watercolor bracelet, and then the watercolor paper earrings... Thank you for posting these, and you have such patience and explain each step so as to explain the method. I enjoyed viewing and will try this with the water color paper I have!
Thanks for watching my video Mary! Hope you enjoy making them!
I have been thinking about that and might do so. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for commenting!
Hi - I use Arches 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper. Thanks for watching!
You're welcome and thank you for watching my video!
You're welcome and thanks very much for watching!
Thank you for watching and commetning!
I have used acrylic paint, and have thinned it out to get some very nice effects. Experiment with it and see how you like it. Let me know!
Thank you very much, and thank you for watching my video!
Thanks very much for watching my video!
Thanks a lot for your very kind comments!
Thanks very much for watching!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Found your videos this morning and have been watching several and inning them to my Pinterest site. Thank you!!!
You're welcome and thank you for watching!
Great! Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
Thank you for this great info! As a new jewelry artist (at age 62) I can't wait to try it. Really appreciate your teaching. Kathy
I just love this.great gifts for all the women in our family..thanks for shareing
Thanks for watching - hope you enjoy the project, +Tinka van den Boogaart
Nice work ;) thank you!
realisticart great work fun to do.
I’m watching your videos again and it’s still a pleasure and an honor to do it. Thank you so much!
I have done that and do get good results - it's a matter of preference. I also enjoy textured papers for the back and like to experiment. Thanks for your comment - I appreciate it!
I encourage experimentation! Marbelizing inks will be fine as long as you varnish the earrings. Consider joining my Realisticart Facebook group where we post photos of what we make and talk about tools and techniques. It would be interesting to see your application of marbelizing inks on these pieces. Thanks for watching my video!
Ross I’ve watched this over and over and I really love 💕 these beautiful earrings. Superb thank you so much 😊
Hi Mags, Glad you like the video. Hope it was helpful. Thanks for watching!
Hi - I use Lineco Neutral pH Adhesive and Winsor & Newton Watercolor paints. Thank you for watching!
I have learned so much from you I have even gone as far as using different textures of paper in my crafts thank you so much I only wish I could paint like you.
I hope you're selling this stuff and making boatloads of money from it, because it really is beautiful stuff (the bracelets and other stuff too) and you deserve to be compensated for such beautiful work!
Thanks! Glad that you think it's beautiful! It's nice to hear that!
Sorry for the delay in response - Hurricane Sandy took down power here. Yes you can apply watercolor paper to both sides. Just glue one at a time to make sure each layer is dry before you do the other side. Thanks for watching!
I absolutely love all your work, I'm going to have a go, after Christmas. So beautiful, delicate and very feminine, thank you for sharing it with us all
Thanks for watching my video.
I hope you enjoy making these! I try to include as much detail as possible so students can tackle the project with confidence. Thanks for watching!
your tutorial description and demonstration make me believe I could do this too. Great job, beautiful work.
I use Arches 140 lb coldpress watercolor paper. Thanks for watching!
Love this tutorial... Handmade and from the heart... the only gifts I truly treasure... better than any store bought item ever... I can see making things like this from my art journals/mixed media... Thank You for sharing this!!
Sounds great! Thanks for watching!
@ikologee So glad you enjoyed the video - thanks for watching!
Thank you for this! I had begun to make watercolour paper earrings myself, without knowing there was help out there, but yours are so much more robust, professional, and beautiful. I was using acrylic paint in solid colours and varnishing, but my edges were never right. Thanks again. You are really inspiring.
Thank you, storyteller3927! I appreciate your comments! -Ross
So glad you enjoy the videos! Have fun sharing the project with your granddaughter and thanks very much for watching!
I have been considering it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
That's great! Glad that this project has inspired you! I hope you really enjoy it!
You're very welcome! So glad you find my video useful! Thanks for watching and for your kind comments!
Thank you so much for your very kind words. I am happy to know that you have found my videos useful. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I really enjoyed this video and all the useful tips. It's obvious how much you love what you do and that's beautiful.
Great! Thanks for you feedback and for watching!
You are welcome! So glad you enjoy making handcrafted pieces. People really do appreciate the time and creative energy that goes into them. Thank you for watching!
Love your instructions on how to make these beautiful earrings. Thanks so much for sharing.
Glad you like the video Christine! Thanks for watching!
@Ninaliciousism I hope you give it a try - it is fun! Thanks for watching.
Beautiful work....you are very kind and generous to share your method. You're a good teacher too. Very good instructions...
Maaaan...I love what you do! You should have your own public television show. Thank you so much!
Thanks for watching.
You're welcome! Thank you for your comment!