 Okay, good morning everybody. Please let me know if you can hear me. Hi, Lisa. Can you hear me? Hopefully as you know, I'm still fine tuning the settings on my Computer. Oh, yeah, you can. Yeah, I don't have to write a note. Can you hear me because you can't hear me? Of course my display I can see the chat I can't see what's going on in the display because mine is just I have the wheel of death. Hang on This is why we started a few minutes early I always anticipate something going wrong. Oh, yeah, there I am So you can hear me all right the picture looks good. Yay Two thumbs up Okay, so before we get started while we're looking at this beautiful image of my book that I wrote We're gonna do our general Reminders Why did it stop? Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna have to go out and back in again like all the time This is what happened last time too. I don't know why that is Okay, we are going to start by Going to if you're on a tablet or a smartphone click on your picture And The three dots in the upper right hand corner and then the little gear that says quality and click on the highest one That it'll let let you and that will give you the best picture possible Okay and then Any time we're working with art supplies, right? We're going to try to remember to put on some kind of barrier cream At whatever one you have is fine. I happen to have Windsor Newton's art guard But if you have invisible glove or another one, whatever you have is fine So we're gonna put some of that on before we get started So those of you who don't know I wrote a book It's for sale at my Etsy shop The link should be in the description below It is a journaling workbook. It's about um You know how to have a more creative self expressive life and how to work that into your life How to be happy with what you do how to find inspiration in the world around you It's not a book where you're going to find a prompt draw flower It's not that kind of book If you're analytical, you're probably not going to get the book My husband and daughter are both very analytical. They kind of like they like it, but they don't quite get it um, it's full of Different kind of prompts for me like thinking prompts like what can you do to let go of stress The stress of what you can't control. It's that kind of a book It's filled with all the artworks for me. Some of it's black and white. So you can color it in. Hi Miko um Some of it is just backgrounds that you can add on to you can use it to create little mini vision boards Something like that. Hey eve anyway, I have a few copies left of the first batch of printing and I just ordered a new batch today. So they'll be in in a couple of days and That might have something to do with the speakers I might need to turn the bluetooth speaker off. Let me try that in a minute So anyway, um the another batch of it's coming in in a couple of days if you want a copy of the book They are available at my Etsy shop Um, so while you're looking at the book cover Hang on Okay, how is that is the echo gone? Can you still hear me? Oh, you can't see that. So I turned off the Bluetooth speaker So how is that is that better at all? This is why we came on a few minutes early because I knew there was going to be something We were going to have to work on the sound about Okay, how about this? Can you hear me now? It's the same We might have to just live with it. Okay. I don't know. I don't know It sounds the same. I don't know. I have no idea the picture is good But the sound sucks. I don't know. I don't know what to do about that. Oh wait. I think I figured it out. Hold on Is that better? This is why this is why we are here. Yes. I figured it out So I was I didn't have the microphone for the webcam turned on which is a different setting than the webcam app Because why would it be in the webcam app? I told you this is why we came on a few minutes early So, okay, so, you know evidently according to some people who commented recently on facebook I chat too much. So I babble. So that's right So I don't think talking's going to be a problem. So yay, at least we figured it out So if you have a mac and you're doing this with a mac and you're using a webcam to broadcast Go into the sound Settings for the mac and make sure you're using the microphone in your webcam and not the microphone on your desktop That's I didn't have that turned on. So yay. We figured it out. Learned something new. Woohoo um Hey petka. How are you e? Wendy lisa Miko everybody. Hello. Good morning So we got on a few minutes early to work out some of these bugs Don't forget to change your settings in your Display screen so you get the best resolution possible this morning. Hey, atvex creations Um, don't forget to use your invisible glove or art guard if you're going to paint along with me, which I did already This is my book if you haven't heard about it yet or bought a copy. It's available in etsy. The link is in the description below We're not going to go into it anymore because I already did that why we were talking about the sound And it's just full of Goodness the first initial batch that went out as editorial copies and Pre-orders should be hitting their new homes this week. So hopefully some reviews will come in This week and hopefully they'll be good reviews. So And we'll see. Um, so anyway, that's that I also have stickers and they're big large vinyl label type stickers Of some of the watercolor feathers and other paintings. I've done and that are going to be great too. Those are in etsy also So this morning I found this canvas in my stash of old canvases that was done in 2008 This is a really old one um This round canvas I'm going to have to make sure that I know I'm going to need to put a piece of tape there And I'll tell you why I need to put a piece of tape there in a minute. Although some of you might guess I'm just going to stick a piece of masking tape back here And I'm going to wrap it around the little sawtooth hanger thing Because I want to make sure what I paint here. It's not necessarily going to be an abstract. So I want to make sure I don't paint it inside out. That would be bad So now I know which end is supposed to be up But it is around canvas. I thought it would be interesting I was thinking to do sort of kind of an abstract still life kind of a thing on here A little bit abstracted but something that you could kind of tell that it was you know, some kind of piece of fruit or something um But this is a really old canvas that I had when I back in the craft shop days. I was I um It never sold. I really liked the um Shape of it and I like the I still like the saying be strong be calm be strong be grateful. I still like that um, I printed out some photos on paint my photo um This morning and as you can see like I was having I you know among other things I was having issues with the printer this morning. I guess it couldn't decide what type of paper to use Um, I don't know. I'm really attracted to this one. I like the Uh image of the fruit on the windowsill But I also like the really strong shadows and contrast between the light and the shadows in this this picture So I think we're going to go for this one So I'm going to stand it up here by the ipad. I'm going to put these all to the side And we need something to put paint on Oh my plate Arranging my table a little bit. Here we go So that we can see everything All right, I've got some crazy unusual tools I do want to keep this a little bit abstracted So at least a little bit if not more than a little bit So I really want to use tools that Don't allow me a whole bunch of control um, I Like a lot of you. I'm sure you know start to paint something and really get Um crazy obsessed with Trying to make it perfect and make it look like the picture and like it's still It's something I struggle with less than I used to but I still struggle with that But and I don't want to do that. I really want this to be free and So I got you know, like a large paint brush and scrappy tools a palette I do have a couple of smaller brushes, but I may even use those with my left hand I'm so glad we figured out the sound Um, okay So we are going to start with of course the background because that's what I usually start with I'm going to start with And I have the decor it sent me more paint and so now my paint is in a couple of different places Okay, so we're going to start with the white wash And we're going to start with I've got some, um zinc which is a gray And where's my paints gray? Paints gray Okay, and maybe a little bit of whispering turquoise because he can't resist whispering turquoise I just can't resist whispering turquoise Okay, that just sounds so attractive. I hope you guys can't hear the plopping pooping noises The white paint is making the whole leak out. Okay, you can probably hear clear as day, right? Why did my screen freeze again? Yeah paint splat All right, and then we're going to take out some of these are brand new so I have to open them If you have problems with your, um broadcast freezing Um, which happens even to me sometimes while I'm broadcasting because I'm watching myself on the ipad Then you just need to like go out and come back in really quick I'll try not to do anything too fast Hey paula So I'm going to put out our different colors we're going to use Oh, I should have shook that one up shook it shake it Separated a little bit All righty, so let's start we're going to start with a big like gift card. This is actually From when my husband and I went to the habit grill and I asked the girl Can I just have a blank gift card with no money on it? She said oh sure You know and my husband doesn't say anything anymore because He's barely used to me asking questions like that anymore He doesn't say anything So I'm looking at the inspiration photo and I'm looking at the windowsill And I'm just sort of mimicking the lines that I see on the windowsill I haven't planned this more than Printing out the pictures so for all I know this is going to turn out looking like poop I don't know so we'll find out You know it's an experiment. I want you guys to not be afraid to just you know try new things Let's see grab some of this light Use support sieve. I'm not sure you mean the old canvases You know, I've got them they never sold And so they might as well become something new so maybe they can sell This is a round canvas You can get canvases in shapes. They don't all just come in You know rectangles and squares usually though you have to go to An art supply store To get the shapes shaped canvases normally I'm there are usually some kind of like a special order Your craft stores don't generally have the shaped ones I'm working on the background right now like always. I'm always telling you guys work on the background first And then you know you get that to where you like it and then you can put the foreground in and you don't have to worry about Going back later and touching up something in the background unless you've gotten a blob of paint somewhere where you didn't want it I don't wait that happens to the best of us. Oh, see look at that We'll work it in of a shaped canvas. Just be aware. They're you generally really expensive Um, but I love them. I I absolutely love them now. I want to really like I said when I started I want to do kind of an abstract Uh abstracted still life on here and that means I don't want to get too precious with them The details I just want I really just want the flavor or feeling Of the still life and in this case, it's a pear and an orange on a windowsill. It's got really strong lighting Now it's from paint my photo Um, that's a really great website um for inspiration photos And this is i'm jeko art americana's craft paint. I love their craft paints I think they're fabulous When I first started my journey in mixed media it was with craft paint these craft paints americana And I think they're just wonderful And they're inexpensive very budget friendly, you know, you can um You don't have to like break the bank. I and yeah, and I um also love their um Fluorescent paints. Oh as per usual. I'm not necessarily looking to copy um Picture exactly and or I'm not looking to cover up the background completely. We'll just see what happens Hi, heather. How are you? Those of you who won the diy watercolor palettes. I haven't sent them out yet today is a um holiday here in the states. It's columbus day and there's no mail service. So You should when you're trying to do something like this, you should really use tools that Don't allow you a lot of control if you're like me and you have trouble giving up control Hey crafty de grassy. Hey, um Then you want to use tools that don't allow you a lot of control because Otherwise, um, you'll just if you're like me, you're just gonna get stuck in, you know It should be this way or it should be that way No, this is actually a round canvas heather. This is actually a stretched canvas It's a round one This is an old one that I'm painting over that I had in my stash Back way back from my craft store days. It never sold So we're painting over it today. I'd maybe some brown to this That's one that's open. Let's use the open one He sent me a bunch of colors ahead already. Hey april and also don't you know, um Throw away any leftover paint on here if it's not dried up, you know, spread it on, you know, an art journal page or You know, something like that. Oh, thanks paula. I am really just looking at where the colors are In the inspiration photo where the different colors are And putting that color there. I'm just making a mark. I'm really not doing more than that Because you know, again, we I wanted to be abstracted. I don't want it to be Perfect by any stretch And because the canvas is round and you know a little bigger than inspiration photo, you have to of course extrapolate a little bit and Make up some of the background, but yeah, I have to tell you I love this is already suggesting a to me a window sill And I love that And you know, this is this is water. I mean not watercolor. Hello You know, I started to get ready for watercolor Wednesday this morning It's not it's not Wednesday Holy moly. Um This is acrylic paint. So, you know, you can just if you get something in the wrong place You can just let it dry and go over it with another color you can You can wipe it off with a baby wipe if the background's dry You know what I used to do that too, April. There's nothing wrong with that But you know, once you start doing lots of mixed media, you're probably going to want to Just take the leftover paint instead of fussing with it trying to get it back into the jar Especially if you get things contaminated like I normally do Then just use it to start another background or in our journal page or something like that Just save yourself the headache When I tell you guys not to do something it's probably because I've already done it wrong I'm not lecturing you. I'm just telling hopefully having you learn from my mistakes Now I am going to dry this a little bit But I have to tell you guys what is this like five minutes in and I love the background Who doesn't love the background here? While I'm drying this I'm going to get out some other colors Okay, I don't think that's completely dry, but I think it's drier. It's not at least not sobbing wet So when you're using a heat to any kind of heat tool on acrylic paint You want to be really mindful of and I've seen a few artists say this on youtube recently and they're not wrong They're right You want to be really mindful of not getting the paint too hot too quickly Really moving your heat tool around and having it kind of far away because Think of your acrylic paint is basically plastic and if you get it too hot too quickly It's going to start bubbling and that may not be what you want Um, so just be my kind of mindful of that. Um All right, so I'm going to Put in a few details into the background. I think Well suggestions of details we want to get to detail you guys got to remind me I said that And I love paintings that I really basically use no brush on and that I just use Only, you know, like scrappy tools and fingers um, it really Makes me, um, you know, really Be really free with my marks and suggestive about the marks. I love that Hey Sharon, how are you and yeah bobbles you get little bubbly bits Sometimes, you know, you want bubbly bits in the paint like if you're doing something really textured and maybe you're going to um You know do an atc card or something like that. Um, that's too bright white Maybe you're going to um Do some tech you want some texture in the paint So then um, you want to get it hot and have a bubble I would definitely experiment so that um, you know what to expect And don't don't be afraid to you know, take paint away or you know blend it with your baby wiper They're just another painting tool as far as I'm concerned and make sure on this one because we are trying to be abstract, but we're trying to um You know suggest a shape that means that we want to we want to keep our little piece of tape up here That's the top of the canvas since the canvas is round I want to try to So there's some lines in the because this is a window And the window is showing another building and there's some um lines. I just don't want them to be bright white I don't mind if they suggest the architecture, but I don't want it to be bright white You hear my computer going off in the background Because I don't know how to turn that off So we're going to have to just deal with the ding I'm going to turn that off. I'm not going to fuss with it right now. I'm sure I could um figure it out But we're not going to fuss with it right now It's not that important we can deal with it, right? Oh, thanks paula. Yeah, though, you know as usual the recording will be on youtube later. So Yes, I can show the reference picture muted. Yeah, let me hang on. So here's the reference photo It's from paint my photo. So if you type in still life um, you're going to get a lot of Reference photos. This was like on page four or something. Yeah, hold on. Let me that's gotta we got it. Hold on Okay, I think I got it now. It's it's yeah the ding, you know, it's morning and my You know, my computer's gonna just ding. It's either people asking questions from etsy about the book or it's admins needing help with something um for myself or other admins and normally my computer's ding a lot morning, so It's not unusual I just usually turn it off. But you know, you've got the new computer. So I don't necessarily know I'm loving the abstracted suggestion of this background and I'm going to stop fussing with it There's little bits of the old canvas showing through but I again, I'm loving that so we're going to leave it alone Um, we are going to start working on our fruit now I'm going to put out. I'm going to save all the paint colors. Um, I'm going to leave them out and when the broadcast is done I'll go in and I'll edit the description with the colors that I've used for you guys in case you want to know This is primary yellow, which in my opinion is kind of an orangey color. It used to be shigner and then we have Lemon yellow bright orange, which is closed I'm going to throw in a little bit of pink This is melon Just because I think it might give the camera something interesting the inspiration photos should be your inspiration We're not looking to copy it. Especially if you're doing kind of an abstracted still life You're definitely not looking to copy the photo. You're just looking to get the feeling of the photo Um, and this is georgia clay, which is kind of a reddish Um, orangey color. All right We're going to put out some more of the burnt umber And we're going to try to get some more white out of this bottle There we go with the pooping noises again Because you know Leave only All right So we are going to go I think I want to go with the palette knife I'm going to grab a couple of my favorite tools I like this one. I think it's a clay tool. All right, so we're going to start with The pear which is farther back from the um Orange it's farther in the back I'm going to start with mixing some of the um yellow Into some white You know when you're doing this kind of canvas your your color is probably not going to be Exactly right the first shot out of the gate This is not exactly the right color, but I can make it work I'm okay with it Add some of the a little bit darker color And you know, I want to keep it kind of pear shaped But you know, I'm not looking to necessarily fill the whole thing in I'm not looking to do more than really to suggest the shape I am looking at the shadows and light On the inspiration photo and where the the colors in the pear are getting darker And you know, don't don't be afraid to you know mix up your marks start with the palette knife and get your fingers in there and Not some of this red in Thanks, April And I'm wiping my fingers on my canvas drop cloth because at some point that's Going to be good and nicely marked up and we'll use that for um A journal cover or something Or some more spirit dolls or something like that I do think a little bit of green mixed into this might be interesting So let's make take this yellowy white mixture that we have here Let's just toss a little bit of turquoise into it and it's gonna I got some red on there. That's all right We'll make it work Anybody else a project runway fan As a former seamstress and dressmaker. I find that show fascinating This is deco art americana craft paint. This is not Fancy paint This is just americana craft paint They do have a traditions artist acrylic and they also have a Fluid acrylic, but these craft paints are on the they're not heavy body. They are on the More fluid side things I'm mixing my two yellows together. I'm loving the way the pear looks. I don't know about you guys So we're gonna work on the stem now. So I'm gonna take some of my brown on my scraping tool I'm going to Oh, thanks for the hearts. I'm going to put a little bit of the yellow On the stem where the sun is hitting it in the inspiration photo that so we're gonna we're gonna let that sit I am going to do something about the shadow right here It's not quite right So let's go in with just our fingers The shadow touches The pear in the inspiration photo. So let's make it do that in a baby way One thing about doing these live broadcasts is it's really nice because I get an interesting view of the painting as it's going on By looking at it on the ipad and I don't know about you guys, but when I paint Um, I frequently find that stopping and taking a picture of it and looking at it through a different lens So to speak really helps me get some perspective on what's going on with painting Um, and I really like doing that. Um, so something about doing the live broadcast is Um, that I automatically get that A favorite paint and or type of paint like watercolor Of watercolor, um, I like acrylic paint and it is one of my favorites But if you have made me pick one on my way out of the house um, it would be um, my watercolor In our we just had I'm gonna mix some of the brown and some of the yellows together to get a dark shadow color for over here on the parent, um, we just did the perfect palette Uh, challenge um thing here on youtube, uh me and a bunch of other people and Um, that was actually one of the questions, you know, if the house was on fire, what would you grab watercolor paint brown? What am I thinking about it? That's funny brown. I do think I need to I just want to be careful about doing Too many perfect marks with this paint brush because that's not what we're after Don't call yourself boring. I saw that I'm gonna mix some of the gray into this too. I'm gonna just use what I have To create a dark color See, it's getting too precious here. So we're back to the palette painting with palette knife So I'm just looking literally looking at the inspiration photo and just and just marking Out the dark paint in the shadows of the inspiration photo where it is in the shadows of the photo You know, that doesn't mean you don't like other art supplies It just means that that's your favorite thing and that you know, when you're stuck For inspiration or something you're gonna just probably go to that and there's something wrong with that Be wet things here on my table All right, so now the only problem is the orange touches the pear So before we do anything else we have to dry some of the pear So doesn't get all shmeary Can you tell I'm married to a new yorker shmeary? Oh wait, I'm noticing something So try to have it be, you know, exactly the way you want it before you do the you know, any drawing It doesn't have to be perfect. This is acrylic paint. Acrylic paint is all about layers and marks, right? So If it's a little off you can just go back and add some more paint. Oh, you know what I'm missing I know what I'm missing Ah Some of the pink now we're gonna dry it. Thanks lisa. Alrighty It's a circular canvas Isn't it cool? I have um an ovals around here somewhere too But I painted a painting on it that my cousin who I'm very close to she's like my big sister But anyway, she loves that painting. She's made me promise. I'll never paint over it And because I always tell people how I get asked a lot How do you know when your canvas is done? And I tell them the truth when it goes to it's forever home because if it's at my house There's always the chance if I haven't sealed the painting with a clear coat. There's always the chance. I'm gonna paint over it at some point So yeah, she made me promise on that one don't I want to paint over it. All right, so let's do the little orange Let's make some of our orange into some of our yellow And have that be kind of our highlight color. I almost did almost the whole painting with a palette knife Sorry, I see that I'm using I'm not using many paint brushes because I want it to Be very kind of abstracted and suggested. I don't want it to be perfect So I have used a palette knife for a good portion of the painting The inspiration photo again is from paint my photo Here it is right here. I loved the um Yeah, the thing and finger too. I haven't I haven't I haven't the one brush. I used it once a little bit, but um, yeah, not too much um Now I forgot what I was going to say Oh, I know So I loved this particular still life picture because of the strong lighting And I don't really was attracted to the strong lighting Now if you know as you do a canvas like this as you you know add your different layers to your canvas You know if you make sure the previous one is dry Then when as you're doing it if you make a mistake You know if the previous layer is dry you can get in here with a baby wipe and you can just wipe wipe the paint away Without disturbing your background Here's the here's the inspiration photo Thanks, Cory. Oh, sorry You know what how how about if we do this? Because you know, I'm painting while I'm holding the photo. So I'm not paying any attention I'm just gonna wait. Oh, hey, Heidi There we go. So that's the inspiration photo. It's from paint my photo If you're wondering anybody who didn't hear me say that before because you're late joining or whatever Um, it's from paint my photo love the strong lighting in this picture. I'm really Attracted to the strong writing. I've painted most of it with my palette knife and my scrappy tool my scrappy tool, um Let's see We need to get some more of this light yellow. I will give you the list of color names Um, like I said earlier, um after the broadcast is over. I will put the color names in the Um description box that I've used. These are all americana craft paints. I haven't used any proper art paints if Um, somebody asked me earlier, you know, what my favorite medium paint medium was and I said watercolor and that's true If you asked me what my favorite acrylic paint brands were um, probably To be in all honesty my two favorites would be americana, which is not an artist's paint, but I like their paint and also um Probably amsterdam, which is probably not Either too that you kind of expected me to say I don't probably think this is a scrappy tool This is by the company art c The word art and a letter c and it's some kind of scrappy tool somebody sent it to me in happy mail So um, and they I think bought it at tuesday morning. I haven't seen another one. So I don't know Where you could get one You know, I can't do a painting without neon on it, right? So this is the neon yellow And i'm gonna mix it with the neon orange. I don't want a ton of this. I just want a little bit lost track of where I put my photo Guys I lost track But this neon color is going to give the painting a pop And really make it look like the light's really hitting it. Um, you want to remember when you use an all um Oh, thanks, Heidi So folk arts are a nice paints too. I have a friend who does she's a folk art painter And she um loves them She does incredible work Um, I was saying if you're going to use neons in your painting, there's nothing wrong with that I do them all you guys know I do it all the time But know that um, it's not going to photograph well Or I'm sorry scan well So if you're going to make a copy of your painting, you're probably going to need to photograph it because Neon colors generally in my experience don't reproduce easily When you're trying to reproduce the painting Unless you're doing it by um the kinds of brands But if you make me pick some that were my favorite those would probably be probably be it Okay, I do think we need to um Get up some shadows here You want to make sure when you're doing something like this even though you're trying to do an abstracted impression Of whatever it is you're painting that you get the shadows and light in the right place so that you're it really pops That's like really important to get the right color in the right place She doesn't she doesn't do youtube. She doesn't do facebook. She doesn't do any social media at all Like if she did she'd be very popular. She's she's fabulous But she doesn't do any of that So now I'm just adding more interesting layers More pops of color in places where I think it needs it Adjusting the shape maybe a little bit where I think it needs it and mostly I'm working on the foreground I'm not really working on the background Yeah, she doesn't she doesn't even do facebook like her boyfriend does so when I've posted something that's gone on in my life um, she'll call me And she'll say hey Danny just said, you know that you've posted this on facebook because everything okay um She doesn't do facebook or anything And yeah, that's probably a smart thing on her part that she doesn't do it. That's pretty good I'm kind of liking this painting. I don't know about you guys I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out when I started this So we're going to just kind of adjust our shadows here a little bit Again, this is a clay tool And sometimes as I was saying when I first started this morning Sometimes when I want to really do something that's you know abstracted and you know really Shows that I really let go of control which any of you who have anxiety disorder know that that's really hard to do um I'll even paint left-handed and that's how the left-handed girls started Because I'm right-handed I have no control with the left hand and painting with unusual tools like this weird clay brush thing They also Really for me they help me really let go of control Now it's just about fine-tuning the picture This is a canvas. It's a round canvas um You know when you have you know some extra funds and or things are on sale, you know at your local Store, you know, it's fun to you know Go out of your way to get something unusual like a round canvas Um and challenge yourself to create something on their round canvas It's a lot of fun And just kind of see what you can do Fresh fruit in the house. That's really good-looking. I will actually um Before anybody eats it. I'll stop and take photographs of it to use later for something like this. So you know and still lives are um A lot less intimidating to try than like a face Because it's just fruit and for some reason I don't know about it you guys but for me Um, it's kind of less scary to mess up an orange than it is somebody's face necessarily great at it, but I also have a loss of use of My left hand and arm since surgery the surgery for my rotator cuff, of course Did a great job eliminating the pain Um, and I don't have pain anymore and I I got back some range of motion but I have some partial numbness in that hand and um for me it kind of started out as kind of therapy Um to see um, there's a blob of orange paint where I don't want it So let's get rid of that before it dries completely. So for me it sort of became sort of a kind of a self therapy um to um, you know try to Improve things with that hand. I don't know that I've had any success, but You know except in my own mind So if you don't have one of these scrappy tools you could definitely just use, you know a gift card Kind of gift card up Dollar tree always has like frosting scrapers. They have big red ones And um You could get a couple of those and cut one of them up. Um, it does look like a spoolie, doesn't it? It's a double-ended brush. This is by Lowell Cornell. I'm pretty sure That it is a clay tool, but it might be from the fine art aisle It came in a pack with a couple of other things And I bought it because of this thing Which I love and at some point I'm going to just get this so gnarly. I'm going to have to go buy another one, but It's fabulous. I love it So now at this point, we're just fine-tuning the painting And I'm just looking at the way it looks on camera. This is not right over here Now I'm just looking at the shapes. We're just looking at the shapes Where they should be how they look in the inspiration photo What is it? I'm always telling my students draw what you see or paint what you see not what you think you see Just look at the shapes Don't paint something that's not really there And if you're trying to do abstract you really don't want to paint it Even if you can see that it's there just put the right color in the right place It is very stiff and it does remind me of a large oversized mascara wand. You're not wrong That's exactly what it seems like It's very stiff and bristly I'm just again. I'm just looking at where the light and dark shapes are in the inspiration photo Adjusting things as I need to Yeah, I do think it's a clay tool I do I do think it's a clay tool and I don't remember if it was in the craft paint aisle or if it was in the fine art aisle But I do think it's a great clay tool I used to do stuff with polymer clay and I do think it was from those days Oh, see well, then you should a real trick to this is knowing when to stop when you you know before you put too many details in Tomorrow is Tuesday Heather first of all, you're a day ahead of yourself Um, and we will be doing another still life. I don't know if we're going to be doing these pairs in watercolor Or if we're going to do something else. I printed out a few um Still life paintings, but we will do a still life. I want to use the muted Daniel Smith palette I just created so we will be doing using that and we'll be we'll be creating some kind of still life with that You're so funny Heather though tomorrow is Tuesday though, honey It's all right, you know, I'm the queen of screwing up. So no worries I think it's done I'm not wanting to add anything else to it. I think it's done What do you all think? I love the way it turned out. I have to tell you I love this thing I don't know if it was Cory who sent it to me or if it was my friend Cindy udder I don't remember which one of you sent it to me, but this is the little thing is fabulous Oh, hi me today is Monday Um, yeah, I do too. I love it. So I'll put the colors up in the description as soon as I can and um Just go out and you know paint and have some fun I do think what we're going to do here is we're going to take the baby wipe And let's put some of these colors on the edges that we have out here And use up some of this wet paint You don't have to like try to necessarily like match what's going on on the front of the canvas, but It's nice if you use the same colors Like just I just usually take my baby wipe or a sponge brush And whatever leftover paint colors I have on the palette From creating the painting or what I use on the edge Before I do anything else with the leftover paint. I usually do do this And in the case of something like this, I try to just dab them on And mostly I'm just sticking with the the whites and the blues and the paints gray Because see the fruits in the middle of the canvas since those colors aren't out here at the edge So it must it might have been Cindy Um, because I got a package from Cindy udder recently too But I love that little thing All right. See you later Eve. I'm glad all um that today were stream worked out I'm glad we figured out the microphone thing because holy cow. That was annoying for you guys. I'm sure I didn't hear it I've got the sound turned off an iPad, but Now I know we're now I know to turn the microphone on Of the camera All right, that's it for today That uh, I think it's p a y n e s, but I love it too. It's my favorite dark shadow color I love it. It's interesting. It's you know more interesting than just dark than black Um, so I love it for that. Um, I also like to mix my dark shadow colors from You know colors opposite each other on the color wheel. You'll get something more interesting than just black Um, that's something I learned from Pauline Agnews All right, and that's it for today. Don't forget the most important thing It's down Um go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and you know if you want to buy copies of any of my work original artwork my book or anything else go shop over in the Etsy shop I have lots of canvases that need to get listed. They haven't been listed yet because we you know We're having switching out equipment so See I'm and this made me hungry. I need to I need to eat some lunch now This is made me hungry. I'm gonna have I'm gonna be good though. I'm gonna have a vegetable noodle bowl thing All right, that's it. I will talk to you all later I will be back live on Wednesday With watercolor Wednesday, we'll be doing another still life And I don't know if we're gonna do the parent orange again or if we're gonna do something else We will be using the muted palette that I just put together though All right, that's it. Have a great day. I'll talk to you all later. Bye guys