Hi there, I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and today I'm going to be coloring some glass jars with my Copic markers. And I'm probably going to need a whole playlist just for Copic coloring jars. I can't seem to stop. And this Flora and Fauna set has a very cool antique looking jar and some fun ocean themed things to put in it. So I'm going to stamp a whole row of jars because one jar is not enough. When there's one, there could be two, there could be three. So why not? So I'm using my MISTI to stamp a whole row of them and get them lined up. So I'm going to leave the stamp where it is and move the paper off and we try to move the stamp. But when we have a MISTI, we can just slide it down, sort of hover over where we think we want to have it stamp at, put the magnets back down, ink our stamp back up, and then stamp again. And I'm using some Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink, which works for both watercolor and for Copic. So if you are interested in having one black ink that works for both, that's a good thing to get. I was very excited when I learned that that worked for both of them. And I'm using some Neenah cardstocks and so I'm going to be coloring with my Copics. So if you want to do stuff with Copic markers, you need Copic friendly supplies, paper and ink, same with watercolor. So I stamped a couple of the little objects inside the glass jars and now it's time to color. I'm first going to color the glass itself. And I'm starting with a very light B color. And you can do it with a darker color, but most people freak out about dark colors. So we're going to start with a light one and I'm just coloring in from the edge. I'm going to leave a white edge around the absolute outside and then fill in some spaces. I'm not really, there's no science to this. And every single one of these jars will be different. But I'm going to pick a few spots now to go in with a darker blue and I'm using a B4 one because it's a little bit on the duller side because it has a four, which means it's going to be less saturated. So it'll be a very different feeling blue, but it's a one which means it's very light. And I'm just going to color in some random, I don't know, I wish I could teach you how to color glass in a way that makes some logical sense. On a few of these, I'm going to put in a window reflection, but honestly, the window reflection should be in the same place on every single jar. Or at least it should be, it should look like the window is all in the same place. And I kind of just randomly placed it all over the place because for most people, if they see something that looks glassy, they're going to fill in the blanks themselves. And really on glass, it's a matter of leaving some highlights and then having some darker areas. That's a really simple process to think through. And for each one of these glass jars, I'm putting a different amount of liquid in there. So that's a fun way to indicate that some are more full than others. You can have a wavy top on the very top edge. You can have a flat top. I guess it would pretty much be flat because they're not moving around in there. I'm assuming these little jars are preserved critters. I don't know. I hate to think of them as dead objects in there, but more like they're just... I don't know how they got them in there, as a matter of fact, while I'm thinking about it. I guess it's the whole conundrum of how you've got a ship inside of a jar. I don't know how they do that. Maybe they build the jar around the ship or something. But they would have to do the same thing with all of these. And I don't know how the whale is the same size as them are made. But, you know, these are stamps so we can do whatever we want, right? So I'm just adding a darker blue to each one and I'm not going really dark. So be careful in how dark you go with it. Unless there's something dark behind it, then you wouldn't see any dark. If there is, like, put some glass jars out in front of various things, see what you see through them. And you'll notice that unless it's against a white background like these are, you're going to see things through the back. For right now, I'm pulling around the objects and I'll show you at the end how I'm going to handle the coloring of the objects themselves. Because once you convince people, convince their mind that they're seeing glass, then everything else will start to work. So people are going to glom onto one section or another on this that they're going to think is glass and it makes everything else believable. So you just need to rock one or two of them and the rest can sort of be just OK. They don't all have to be super perfect. So I decided I wanted to have some blue highlight on the top of my whale. So I colored a little bit of a bright blue on the very top. And then filled in from the bottom with the gray and then use the blue to blend it in. And I thought, since that looked really good on that one, I would do that on all of mine. So I'm using a blue for the highlight color on the very top. So you get the feeling that there's water over top of them. And then the blue fades into whatever the main color on the object is. So it's going to flow into a green here. And that way I don't have to do a whole lot of massive coloring and worry about light sources and all that sort of thing. So I'm just going to throw some color into these and not stress out about it too much because putting the work into the glass is where you want to put your time and effort. Now here's where the trick comes in.  So you need to take a really juicy colorless blender. This one I almost overfilled. I mean, just really fill it because you really want some of those streaks to go right over top of the image. And that's going to make it look like it's inside the glass. Look how that works just perfectly by just lightening those areas and going right over top. Now, if you were to do that and also mask out a few areas when you were doing your stamping, it would look even better because you normally wouldn't see that black line through it.  You could take a white pencil and cover over some of that. I am going to do a little bit of white pen work at the end here. But for now, my hand is going to be in front of the camera, I guess. Well, I put a little bit on top of the seahorse over here. I'm trying to make him look like he's inside by just taking a few of the streaks and go right over top. But you see the shape that that glupy, juicy marker, that juicy zero marker really gives it that glassy look because it's kind of a bloopy shape. And that's really what glass looks like. It's not always like really crisp, beautiful, perfect shapes. So on the bottom, I just added some brown color. And I'm going to use a Copic Multiliner to draw some wood. And when you're drawing wood, just make some wood grain in it. It's not anything you have to do fancy drawing for. Just color over it with different lines and make some knots in it and stuff. If you don't like what you colored, then make the brown darker. And then no one will really see the lines that you did. Now here's where I'm taking my white pen and I'm just going to pick a few areas over top of the image and carry that white line across the image so it breaks that black line. And it's just going to be enough, just a small amount on each one makes it believable. And that's really what you're going for when you're coloring something like this. Just make it believable enough and people will buy it. Their mind will fill in the blanks when they're trying to figure out what the picture is. And once you've convinced them in just a few areas, they're going to believe it in all the others. I hope this was helpful to you.  There's lots of fun things you can put in them. You can click on my face to subscribe to my channel. Go take a Copic class. Watch some more videos, whatever you'd like. And I will see you back here in a few days with another video. Thanks so much for stopping by. Bye-bye.


It's go time They come here they come all right ladies and gentlemen, I decided it was a wise move not to run today not to race today Bill Good to see you All right, Bill. Thank you for saying hello. That was amazing love bill. He's just like this legendary runner in Denver He's like it all the races love bill So all right guys Decided not to race today been sick all week and but it's still important as a runner to get out there Volunteer spectate cheer just be a support for all of these amazing runners out here crushing it today at the Santas Stampede It's amazing like look at these guys.  Ah, come on. All right. Here comes the 10k finisher 10k top finishers coming in right now mix Mixing door fins with Christmas cookies and you just get a lot of good joyful cheer out here, man Oh and shout out to Michael for just coming up and saying hello Michael took third today in the 10k crushing it Michael crushing it And actually Michael and I we raced each other in college small world small world Congrats to all the runners. That was so fun. Oh man I haven't like Spectated and just cheered at a race a while. So it's good to do that every now and then tough not to race You know, but I think I made the right decision made the right decision. Oh, man. Just a lot of joy and Cheering and smiling out there. So all right guys heading back to the house. Remember what I said yesterday Remember what I said yesterday everybody Do you guys want a little something from bed? Oh, you say thank you just one cookie Papa's only had one. Thank you Well, look who just pulled up Mama was at a tea this morning a ladies tea We're just eating. We're just eating Christmas cookies here Whoops Mail time mail time. I I ordered a couple items for the vlog to help with creating videos for you guys But then there's this third mystery package that we're gonna get to here in a second from Where is it from? Arizona from Arizona so very interesting and but first let's open up this package right here What do we got going on? I don't know which I just ordered a couple things to help make better videos for you guys Let's see. What is this first package here? Yeah, sir. It's a thermometer First two items the first a thermometer and the second is a Anomometer why did I oh first of all? What is an anomometer? This tracks the wind speed? So and it also tracks the wind chill So as I'm progressing through December and into January and I'm gonna give you guys my reviews about these different Clothing items that I am using for running out in the frigid temperatures, although it's not frigid yet in Denver But it's coming. I want to make sure I'm communicating to you the accurate temperatures the Humidity levels the wind speed and the wind chill so that you have a full picture in an accurate Yeah, an accurate picture of what the elements are outside as I'm giving as I'm communicating to you Okay, these gloves work in 15 to 30 degree temperatures, but they don't work below 15 degrees like your fingers will freeze off or this jacket my nice Yellow jacket that I was wearing earlier today It's like that jacket is gonna be good in humidity levels that are below 75% But over 75% maybe it won't work so well. Does that make sense? So I got these instruments to track as I'm up in the mountains, especially but even down here in Denver So I I'm just communicating clear Data to you as I'm reviewing gear for you and this a lie This could actually impact shoes to a certain extent as well If it's you know if it's below zero I'll be curious to see how that impacts the foam on different types of shoes anyway I digress. This is exciting. Stay tuned. It just got it needs to get a little colder here in Denver It's not quite cold enough yet, and this will be good for summertime. Okay package number three is from Jeff in Arizona Jeff in Arizona you remember Jeff I'll be neat to come out and take a run with them. So We're here. That's right. Jeff came to Denver. He's from Arizona and we did a run together He's a fan of the vlog. He watches from Arizona and he sent me this box. I have no idea what's in it Oh my gosh, Jeff. You're amazing. Let's see. What's let's see here What is in here Yes, yes, I see t-shirts.  Look at that. That's a small 2t t-shirt. Oh My gosh, Jeff and of course they've got we've got sizes Jeff. You're amazing This is blow in my mind. So this is probably for Joseph for Seth to love. Oh my gosh to love And then this is probably for me Jeff thank you so much. This is incredible. I'm putting it on right now I'm putting it on right this moment Oh my gosh, Jeff. Oh my goodness. Here we go. Here we go. Come on now I think we have our first merch everybody. I think we have our first merch Okay, if you've been watching for a little while now, you know, I've been talking about creating t-shirts and probably hats And who knows maybe like gloves for you guys for the fans and for the youtube family And so Jeff you crushed it This is amazing. And by the way, good design Jeff. You did a real good job I don't know who designed this but look at that. Can you see that there? So thank you again Jeff Thank you again and to you and your family in arizona and um just so everyone knows I am working toward the goal of having some merchandise. It's not it's not ready We're in the very early production stages of creating an entire lineup of butter my bread and seek beauty We're card love each other and all that good stuff. So Jeff you might just get this ball rolling though You might just get this ball rolling. Okay. I don't even know what else to say We're gonna surprise true love here in a minute. Hold on Open from jeff in arizona It gets better This is who I ran with at wash park a couple of weeks ago. You know how it goes seek beauty We're card Just watching my broncos watching my broncos play the browns play the browns and yes enjoying a little christmas cookie You better believe it. It's december folks. It's december. All right the question of the day But let me tee it up first How do you connect today's race footage? Which was so fun to go out there and cheer and film for you guys And what arrived today at our house this box from jeff in arizona these t-shirts amazing jeff seek beauty work card Love each other. How do you connect these two to formulate a good and solid question of the day?  I'm exaggerating a little bit most often you do receive a t-shirt, which is amazing Sometimes you receive socks, which is fine likes good, you know good pair of socks never, you know, that that's good But the question of the day For the rest of your life if there could be one item or maybe two Items in that race packet bag that you pick up that you would actually use So often I pick up these race packets and I'm so let down and disappointed I'm just going to throw this away and so this is critical Think about it What would be the one or two items that you would love to be in your race packets for the rest of your life? You know whether it's like and think outside the box, you know like great t-shirts great dry fit t-shirts great But like we have so many t-shirts as runners. We don't even know what to do with them It's like half the time we're like, okay We'll wear them for a month and then we have to get rid of them Donate them to goodwill because we we have too many so think stop. I have a couple ideas going in my mind I'm not going to mention them because I want I don't want to skew your answer I want to just hear from you. What are the one or two items you would love to receive in your race packet? Sound good. Oh, this is a this is critical And yes, I have dreams and aspirations to be a race director someday Perhaps when there's you know when I'm retired or something But I do and so it's like your insight and your input will impact Future race directors. I'll just put it that way. I'll just put it that way Seek beauty as jeff would say work hard And love each other. Thanks for being here. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. See you tomorrow And yes almost forgot keyword of the day Pack it. You know why you know why