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Hi everyone! Kellie here from Kellie Chasse Fine Art.
I am at my new lake house and I finally got my curtains up.
You can see the fresh coat paint on the wall, it's called Frappe!
What we are going to cover today is how to create these little mini paintings.
I've been really into painting lighthouses.
It is summer time, and I'm at the Portland International Jetport each week.
We have a lot of vacationers and folks are really interested in Portland Headlight.
It is probably one of the most photographed lighthouses in the world.
It's quite popular, so I've been doing these little mini paintings.
I have been turning them into little pendants and today I'm going to show you how I did that.
I am going to give you a peek of my process and how I create them.
Make sure you stick around at the end of the video I do cover where I get some of my products.
The pendants and the bezels and all that good stuff so I'll give that
information to you.
I do have full online classes. You can find them over there at
my website at KellieLynnArt.com where I have over 2,500 students in 85 different
countries and over 24 online classes that have lifetime access.
So if you have the chance, head over there to my website and check those out.
I do offer a free watercolor course when you sign up for my newsletter and you can do that right
here on my website. Let's get started,
This is what the finished
piece looks like. It is a watercolor a mini painting done a Portland head light.
I love these little things. It was a little bit of a process, because I have
not used a watercolor paper with a resin before. I will give you a
little rundown on how that turned out for me.
I did learn a few things along the way.
I am using watercolor arches 140-pound cold pressed paper.
I do have glass cabochons here.
These are 1" in diameter and they'll fit the bezels that I picked up perfectly.
They come in a little kit and I'll give you that information here as we move
along near the end of the video. You can see here in this 5x7" sheet,
that I can make quite a few of these little pendants on one piece of
paper. Obviously you can make as many of these as you want, and
in any size that you want.
I have these all filled out here and I do have
my watercolor paper taped down onto a foam board, just so I can move things around.
Here are the little bezels that I picked up. This one is in black now
these do come in like a little kit of 35 and you do have to order the necklaces separately.
As you can see here this is a perfect size and once we cut these out
they should fit perfectly in here. For this one I chose to use my artist
quality Windsor Newton watercolor paints, and this does come in a wonderful kit.
This is my most favorite kit in the world, it does have a little ring
that you can slip your thumb through and if you wanted to take this out and do
some plein air painting, you can do that with this one as well it's a little bit
larger it does have a lot of colors and you can see here that I've had some fun
with it, my paints keep popping out.
I have a room for a few other colors in here that I have not yet picked up, but it's my messy one
and this is the way it is.
I have a small 3/4 inch oval brush that I'm using.
We are just going to start with some blue skies here and I'm going to create
some clouds using a little tissue. I didn't wet the whole area just the
circle area and I did find that if you left the area white around the pendant
it didn't look quite as well once you place it in the bezel it just look like
you forgot to paint something. I would recommend covering most of your outer
edge a lot a few of my pieces I noticed that I had not done that.
We are going to pop in just a few more and I think since I'm doing these in
mass production basically.... I'm going to do all of the paintings first and then
I'm going to do all of the pen and ink to draw on there afterward.
Then I'll be doing all of the sealing on these.
It does take out it does take some time
from start to finish. Going to try just a few different colors in here so
some of these look like you know a nice beautiful blue day with no clouds... some
have clouds, maybe some purplish skies in here, maybe a little lavender.
I think about all the colors that that sky can be. It gives a little bit of variation for those
folks that have preferences to some colors more than others.
We're going to try a little sunset here as well.
So before this dries I'm going back and I'm just tapping in a few clouds using just a little tissue.
You can use paper towel you can use toilet paper...
pretty much anything you have on hand that will lift that paint out.
But again the key is to do that before it dries.
You want to make sure that if you want the clouds
they get that while that's still wet.
Just a little bit of tapping and you know right now it doesn't look like much
of anything but we're gonna build upon this. Let's do some yellow over here a
little red and some orange, again...not right or wrong just trying some different
colors out this is all an experiment to see you know how this works out this is the
first time that I've done the watercolor pendants. Now I've done many other
classes for jewelry and you probably have seen them or heard me talk about
them. I will put a link for you guys down below, but there are some with alcohol
ink pendants, I've done birch bark pendants, I have done resin pendants, so I
will list those for you in case you guys are interested in that. I go through
the whole process step by step on all of those for you. There's a number of
different ways to create, and this is a great way to either sell at your craft
stores.... or sell on Etsy, or you know some of the craft fairs during the the winter
time or even the summer. These are fun little projects and people really seem
to enjoy them. Let's do a little something a little darker here... this
looks like a night sky or very cloudy day. So I have a little done, and you can see
how fast. I had one of them that kind of bleed into them the bottom of
that first row there, but that's okay! Because sometimes those little mistakes
like that are some of the best art piecesI found. Don't panic... if something
doesn't go your way just go with the flow! So we're gonna let those dry
thoroughly. Then I'm going to add a little bit of water here so this is my
next step. If you remember seeing the photo of Portland head light it's right on the
rocks here and we do have a background of the ocean. I'm just gonna fill some
of these colors in, playing with a different variant variations of blues.
You can see where I skip some spots it looks like little highlights
natural highlights in there so you don't have to cover the entire thing.
You can switch out your blues you don't all be the same color either.
Now remember with watercolor wherever it's wet it's where your paints will go.
That's why it's important that that sky is dry before you add your water
line on here, or else it will bleed right into your sky area. You won't have
that nice defined line. I'm going to go ahead and fill the rest of these in
here and I will be letting this dry and then our next step is going to be to use
a sharpie for the lighthouse. I just find that really easy to do because you
have a very fine line. You obviously can always
use a very fine tip brush and and do it that way as well doesn't have to be a
marker. But the marker was pretty easy for me to do. I finished all those up
and I've let that dry and now I'm going to grab my little bezel here. I just want to
see where the glass cabochon will go, and just to see what it's going to look like. You can see
how it really magnifies the whole painting underneath. These are quite
light light airy. I chose to go lighter with this because I want that black
marker to show up. It also looks nice with some really bright vibrant colors
as well. I have my black sharpie here... I'm just touching that to make sure that
it's completely dry and we're just going to sketch in a little light house.
You can see they're not real detailed but it just gives you that illusion of
everything that you need. You've got the lighthouse and the rocks in
there, a little building... and maybe a little island off of the distance.
That's really all you need, so I'm going to finish up the rest of these here.
Doing something very similar and again each one is going to look a little
bit different. They're not going to all look just the same which is what's nice
about this... it makes each piece a little individual original. You can see here
how pretty it looks with the little glass cabochon on there just really pops
it out. I've gone ahead and finished those up and we'll get back to those
you'll see the rest of them. I just want to show you the little kit here
that I did get from Amazon. I'll put the link down below for you... it's also in my
Amazon shop with all my affiliate links from all the products that I use in most
of my video, as well as most of my favorites! You can see here that when you
receive it it comes in a little baggie here with a glass cabochon
separately just so they don't get all scratched up. There are 35 pieces in
this particular set. You get basically 35 of the glass cabochons, and 35 of the
bezels. They come in seven different colors as well now you can see here that
glass cabochon is about 1" and it fits in there perfectly. Here are
all of the colors that you get in this kit.... you can see there's a nice variety
for everyone. There's a little bit of the antique gold, and then we have silver.
Then we have... it's like I guess more of a nickel color, and this one is
gunmetal. You also have copper, and we have gold... and last is the black. Those
are all of the colors that come in this little kit. You do have to order
your necklaces separate. You can see here it's got a little bit
of a design on the back of it, which is pretty.... and then the inside has it as
well.... but that's what's covered. It gives a nice texture for your resin to
stick to. We're going to be placing the watercolour painting inside of here
and then we're going to layer that on top with some resin and then the glass
on top of that. Let me just show you here really quickly this is the
necklaces that you can order. It's a mixed pack as well it's a pack of 35 so
early works well with the pack of 35 that you get for the bezels and these
come in the same color and they are flat link necklace and they are 2 by 3
millimeters. The company that's coming from is clever delights. Let me
open that up for you here. These are 24 inches and they're considered a cable
chain necklace. You can see here... we've got all of the matching colors!
I'm going to pull out a part here. They all come together and they do have a
little lobster clasp on here. There's the gold... it matches the gold pendant. We
have the nickel, which is kind of hard to tell between nickel and the silver.
This is the gunmetal. It's got a little bit more of a gray tint to it. Then we
also have the copper, if can get it here..... the black. So the black
chain this looks really nice too... especially with the black in the sharpie
that I'm using. Then we have put the basic silver, and finally the antique
gold. If I could find that one....nope that's the copper one ...there it is!
Here's the antique gold as well. So....FUN, and you know of course you could always
order anything you like! Here is the finished piece.
I do have these fancy little boxes that I like to put them in and I was a new
link for those. They come in a box of 100. Don't forget if you
enjoyed this one you can check out my resin class, the alcohol ink class,
and maybe the birchbark class as well! I did use the resin and I do want to say
that it was a little bit of a process. It did seep into the watercolor paper the
first time that I did it. Because what I did was.... I put it directly the glass bead
directly on to my watercolor paper and then I let it dry but it did tend to
lift in it like I said it seeped in in some areas. It was recommended by art
resin that you actually seal it with a modge podge beforehand and then you can
use the resin. It depends on your paper and you may want to try your paper
to see what your paper is going to do. Because different papers will do
different things. You really have to test it and see what works best for you.
The final outcome came out beautiful! The second set I use the modge podge
on and it worked much better. The first batch I actually hand-cut all of those
lighthouses out with a pair of scissors the second time I got smart and I use an
ek tool hole punch. This is a medium one-inch hole punch and I'll put the
link for you guys as well for this it's in my Amazon affiliate link shop!
Don't forget to check out the other full online courses for jewelry making they
have lifetime access and they are only $30 currently on my website at www.kelliechassefineart.com
I hope to see you inside one of the courses - take care!