You knew I had to make an Underwater Christmas Card with the new Lawn Fawn Christmas Fishes, right? Yep. Had to! I have been loving underwater scenes for a couple years now since the classes in Copic, Watercolor, and Colored Pencil – they’re just too much fun!
I did put a realtime version of this (with just music) in the Underwater Scenes Copic class, so if you’ve taken that and would like a realtime video to color along with, just log back in and go to the bonus lesson. (You may have to click “Mark Complete” on the lesson before it.)
Video
Watch the video below or click HERE to see it on YouTube.
In this video though, hopefully you caught my main tip here – if you want to do crazy scenes, sometimes you have to just not give up. Be bold and keep going even if it looks like a mess for a while! Think through the colors – what transitional colors will get you from a yellow ochre to navy blue? What’s on the color wheel between them, and how desaturated should they be? Then try something.
These are the colors I ended up with. Probably an easier way to get there but then, well…..I go round the block all the time! ha!
The extra bonus with crazy-colored cards, aside from being super fun? Flat in the mail! With mailing over 250 Christmas cards every year that means a lot. Especially since lots of mine go overseas; I send out cards to patrons throughout the year, but the most in one season are the Christmas ones, and lots of my amazing supporters live overseas. So yep I like flat cards, and I cannot lie!
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- Christmas Fishes, Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps
- Copic Markers: EH – Blick
- Jet Black Lawn Fawn Ink Pad
- Neenah Cardstock, Solar White: • 25pk – 250pk
This is such a darling card! LOVE it!
Ohh my Girl you made me laugh today! When I opent your mail and read Underwater Chirstmas, I thought instantly “only Sandy can do that”. What a great scene card and so adorable. Thank you so much for showing this.
Adorable. And, as always, fabulous artistry.
gorgeous! #GOALS
This is fantastic Sandy!!
Sandy, nobody does this better! I love your underwater scenes, and this one is fabulous! I appreciate seeing how you really worked at it to make the background perfect for this adorable scene. You are the best!!!!