hello friends I'm Smitha Katti and
welcome to another smiling colors video
in today's video I'll be talking about
blended lettering with Tom bows
today I'm going to show you three
different methods so let's get started
the first method today is blending with
water I do this technique all the time
and this is something that gives great
results you don't have to be a water
colorist at all for this I've started
here by lettering the word happy with
the yellow color you want to choose two
contrasting colors for this method and
I'm choosing a yellow and a red with the
darker color color in just the bottom
maybe 1/6 of the letters once you have
the color there you want to start
blending everything with a paintbrush
dipped in water and I first paint over
the light color area there's the yellow
here and then you want to slowly paint
over the darker color and just let the
water from the yellow and the red kind
of meet and blend by themselves
try not to overwork it it'll just turn
into a muddy color if you go over it a
couple of times and just leave the water
do the blending softly this always gives
me great results I've shown really
contrasting colors here today but you
can do this with any type of colors like
a pink and a purple would look
absolutely beautiful but for the video
sake I chose something that's really
vibrant so you could see it in action
you just need a little bit of the darker
color if you add too much what happens
is when you blend the colors the darker
color will dominate and color everything
ok the second method is indirect
blending this time I'm using a ziploc
bag from a kitchen to blend my colors
what you want to do is scribble your
darker color onto the ziplock bag then
with the lighter color pen pick up that
color and letter your word you will
create a blended mix of colors very
easily now now you can also use the
colorless blender pen that's the n00 pen
which comes in each pack you can pick
color off the ziploc bag and this
creates softer versions of the bright
palette so basically this is hello and
the flowers I did the whole thing we're
using just two colors but you get so
many different hues and variation by
doing this method you can use the
blending palette for this too you can
also use acrylic stamp blocks for this
wax paper palette paper there are a lot
of things you can reach for this does
not harm your pens at all you want to
remember
that those tips will go right back to
the original color as long as you
scribble off the darker color onto a
scrap paper before putting the foam
marker away now on to the third method
this is the direct lending method I've
used two vibrant colors here again today
a yellow and a blue and I'm touching the
tips together to transfer the color and
now I'm gonna let her using the yellow
marker and you'll see that I get notes
of blue and yellow mixing to form green
but here is also a trick that you need
to know the blue pen also gets a bit of
the yellow color transferred onto it you
have a nice equity like shade instead of
just blue so the color transfer works
both ways and that is really fun so the
lettering I did here - doesn't look like
a simple blue and yellow instead we have
these greens and heels mixed in there
just make sure that you scribble off the
mixed new color onto a scrap piece of
paper every time you do this make sure
you scribble the marker before putting
it away and that way you won't be
surprised the next time you reach for
that pen so these are my three tips on
how to achieve a blended look with your
tombos all of the dual brush pens I'm
using today comes from this bright set
lettering with just one marker is
beautiful but when you mix and match
colors and do a lettering it just adds
so much more interest to it if you
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so I see you next time happy lettering
