Here's the bonus class, I want to show a sped up version from start to finish of how I created the seed packet. So this took me 20 minutes and Here I'm showing it to you in just a little over three minutes. I started with the template, and I traced my image just like I demonstrated in class. And because there were a lot of fine lines, straight lines and angles, I used a ruler to just make that happen. Then I went over with my pencil to make my letters. I don't really like writing letters by hand, I prefer to trace them.

I don't think my penmanship is what I want it to be for a piece of art. Then I went in and I started with the background just like in class, I mixed up my color, and then I just started putting it around my focal point, which in this case was the carats and I wanted the color to kind of gradually fade out towards the end very subtly though, so I just used a wet brush to put the latest version of that close to the edge. From there, I added the first layer of my carrots and they will And trying not to touch the blue background because everything was wet at this point, I didn't let it layer and dry. I just tried to work around spots that were wet wasn't the greatest plan, I had to go in there and dry up some patches and pick up some color.

But overall, I was happy with the results. Because it's a painterly image, it's a little more forgiving than if I wanted to make a precise image. Here I just worked around the letters, doing a negative painting. And this technique I always think is fun because when the end result is unveiled, it's very surprising and it looks really nice. Instead of painting the letters I painted the space around the letters. So that's the negative painting aspect of this.

Because I use such a dark color. It really contrasted with what you'll see with the carrots when they're all done in the background and it gave a nice variation. I started painting my carrots and then this time I went with just variations on the orange and yellow themes. They're easily traditional carrots recognizable Unlike the heirloom carrots that come in the purples and the blacks and the very pale yellows so here I just altered my original orange with yellows, reds and cepheus. It gave me variations on the orange so that every orange wasn't the same, some were a little brighter, some were dustier. And I liked the way that looked at the end.

Then I started adding my greens and I added lots of variation in that color. I started with a light green and then I went in and added a loose, darker green, a shorter, smaller layer on top. From here, I just went around the border using a nice deep blue, it's also my favorite color and I thought it would pick up the blue from the background. Black would have been effective and even red in this case. Here I was just adding some little details here and there tidying up the title as well as going in and making my lines on my carrots just to make them a little more realistic, showing some imperfections in some areas where the soil was trapped. At the very end, I took a marker and just wrote down the Latin name as well as the little price for the seed packet.

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