 Hey guys, I had to go close the doors because nobody wants to hear the laundry. I'm sure I put a little makeup on for y'all Does it look better? So we're here this year with a tutorial for my creative year if you're new to my channel welcome and My creative year is a Facebook group that I and some of my creative friends Run and manage That is a safe creative spot with tutorials free content. We do a daily creative word over there We do occasional broadcasts to the group that are only in the group And we try to inspire people to follow their dream of being creative and give them ideas of how we can do that So if you'd like to join my creative year the link is in the description below so check it out Each one of the teachers brings a video a month Along with other content, but we bring a video a month. We do air here on YouTube and Put the link over in the Facebook group where you can access us with questions comments concerns Inspiration hopefully any of that This month our topic of the month is passion passion Yep passion we also have a challenge word and the challenge word for the month is boundaries those two words go really well together, I think and They really make you think hard not just with art but Philosophically speaking in the grand scheme of things it really think about those two words. So of course we will bring you challenges every month For instance one of our past daily creative words was goat So, okay, if you're gonna do an art page on a goat, you could collage a goat. You could draw a goat Sometimes our words are more Philosophical in thinking and we really want to inspire you to think and to really break out of your boundaries and out of your box And be more creative this month is especially going to be that with a word like passions. You of course could take it the Obvious way What inspires passion who inspires passion in your life? Romantic passion Protective passion as in with your children love friendship Your Philosophical and face-based based beliefs that you're passionate about For instance, I'm passionate about just being kind to humanity. I don't understand why we need to be assholes all the time Pardon my French Anyway, and yeah, that's really me. That's just really how I talk there's no Pretending for the camera. This is just this is me eye bags no chin baggy fat neck and all so anyway So this month, I really wanted to encourage you all to follow your passions and do what you Feel is right for you. Stand up for yourself and what you're passionate about and at the same time if you feel like Intentionally or not boundaries have been put up on what you really want to do and what you're really passionate about I'd love to see you break those boundaries Whatever it is it doesn't matter what matters is life is short and you need to do what's going to make you happy Whatever whatever that is for me, that's living life loving my family Experiencing the world and doing art while I'm doing it all I Love exploring my new neighborhood if you don't know if you haven't seen my channel before I moved in September of last year To across a difference to a different state. I now live in the state of Oregon I'm loving exploring my new neighborhood and seeing the new sites and Meeting the new people there is not too far for me a place called the twalatin Wildlife refuge. I believe is the name of it and there's a lot of little Refuges and walk walking nature walks and things like that around me There is a million of them, but the twalatin wildlife refuge is really a fun place to go walking and go on a hike It's beautiful. I'll try to insert some pictures here for you all There's also some places that you wouldn't think of as being interesting and exciting like we went to Hughes water They sell pond supplies Hughes water pond water features Something like that. I'll link them in the description below If you're from the area, you know what I'm talking about Hughes Hughes water features, maybe It's a store if we have a water feature in our backyard It really needed cleaning and maintenance and so we were doing that and we didn't know where to buy supplies somebody recommended Hughes So we went over there and to our supply surprise. It's not only a store. It's sort of a mini mini Botanical garden mostly with water features. It's gorgeous Again, I'll insert some pictures here all of these things inspire me definitely for my art and work The Lily pond feature they had at Hughes really is inspiring me And I think we're gonna do something loosely based on that in our journal page today So I'm gonna take you to the table. We're gonna speed forward. Okay, so the first thing we're gonna do is I've got my phone here Yes, I know it's cracked. I've dropped it a couple too many times, but it still works I'm going to oh first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set it to not go to sleep Because that wouldn't be good So we're gonna make it never go to sleep, which is gonna eat up the battery, but I got a charging phone case. That's not charged Well, we'll get as far as we can get right Okay, then we're gonna open the camera roll I'm gonna put a copy of the picture over in the Facebook group So if you would like a copy of the picture, you got to be part of the group But anyway, you can also screenshot it. Whoops. There we go screenshot it right here and You can use any water lily pond photo or a Photo of something that's really you're really passionate about that you really love that you really are inspired by for this You don't have to you do this one. All right, so I'm gonna put that there We've got this here. I'm gonna get out my good old trusty big pin and I'm going to Draw a rectangle. I'm gonna get out some gesso and some paint and I'll be right back All right, this is the Dean and weekly media journal and I am not super hot on the paper and it especially doesn't like Taking a lot of paint or water media Necessarily the acrylic paint is probably gonna be fine But I'm gonna give the pages or the at least the square where we're gonna do a painting by the way We're gonna do a painting A coat of gesso before we get started This is clear gesso But that doesn't really matter just give it the coat of gesso and this is bleep through from the page Before this but it's fine give that a dry Got a bunch of little tubes of acrylic gouache and sample sizes of Liquitex basics and some Amsterdam paints. We're gonna use these That just sounds interesting to use them I'm gonna start with now when I paint with watercolor I start with my lighter value colors my lightest colors that are gonna be in the piece and I work my way slowly Darker until I'm satisfied with acrylic paint. I tend to do the opposite. I start darker and work my way lighter Sometimes at the end I go back and add little touches of super super bright like a neon or a super super dark Like a pain's gray or a black to just make things pop, but that's generally how I work. So we're gonna start with I've got deep violet Navy blue and then this is a gray a neutral gray So I'm gonna just some blobs That's probably too much of that we'll make it work. I'm gonna get out I think I'm gonna use this Transfer something out over there My brush is peeling I think my friend Mike Deacon was just talking about that in one of his videos He had had some brushes. He's not caught on because they paint peels on them And sometimes brushes that don't have a good finish on it will do that this particular brush. That's not the case It's poor owner maintenance Meaning a K. I you know abuse the brush In case you didn't get my reference I Leave him I tend to leave him in the water too long Because that will do it to some brushes not all but some and I tend to have brushes that seem to do that more often than not Okay, we're not necessarily gonna let that dry And now we're gonna go in with some greens Greens greens greens This is kind of fun. I can't remember the last time I did a live on-camera painting You know what I mean, I mean it's recorded Without speeding up anything so this these are I know two of these are not green but bear with me maybe Okay, I'm gonna get out another one of these scrubby tools and this is a silicone like paint pusher and Now we're gonna put some paint on my palette. I have here on the side We could mix green if one of these is not exactly the right color green Now I'm an abstract impressionist style of painter. I tend to not do realism So as I'm working on this painting you need to keep that in mind So I'm looking to give you the impression of what I'm seeing Not necessarily exactly what I'm seeing My my personal teacher Pauline Agnew would say that you're painting the emotions of the piece She's not wrong and I'm not I didn't dry the background colors because I'm all right with it if they blend a little bit that won't be so True a little farther on but it is at the moment More of this color. I am just looking at the picture and putting color and marks Where I think in the painting needs it and Comparison to the picture and you notice I'm just dabbing. I'm just dabbing We're gonna go into the blue. I think switch brushes and mark making tools and Grab something different This is literally just a dowel every time I'd start a painting. I think I'm Not going to get my fingers involved. I'm gonna try to keep my hands clean If you're like me and just FYI that never works I always get my hands dirty Every every single time So I don't paint Normally without baby wipes nearby If you're painting with watercolor and you put something in the wrong place, you can't do this But if you're paying with acrylic You definitely can So I'm just layering the greens I like to work and get my background to where I'm satisfied before I add in my focal point I always paint that way whether I'm working with any medium Doesn't it doesn't matter if it's a watercolor or acrylic. It doesn't matter. Okay, so now we're gonna bring in some pink Let's see we need yellow you need a bright yellow maybe this one It's this one. Oh, it might be good. You don't need too much of it. I don't think okay, and I need Might be time for an actual paintbrush. Let's say It's a round one. I can't tell you what what size because it's all like yeah All right, so we're gonna take our Round brush right about here. I need a separate one for the yellow This is knitting needle those of you who knit will recognize it It's a double pointed needle Which I don't use for knitting anymore just FYI now remember I said we were taking inspiration from the photo that I took right Something I'm passionate about is finding inspiration in the world around me finding Inspiration for life and creativity. I think it's there if you just only look if you're In chronic pain or mobility challenged and you're saying I can't get out there and I can't look and if you can't find a way then Go and look on the internet for Pictures or you know what don't even go anywhere go into your backyard your own backyard Probably can provide you with lots of inspiration. I need one more because I like threes I think I want it over here Maybe just open a window if you're agoraphobic and you're like I can't go outside open a window Look at the sky. Look at the sunset. I'm constantly taking pictures of the sunset sky out our back patio I don't go anywhere To do that. I just do it here. I don't need to go anywhere Okay, so We're gonna do one more thing I Love to add neons. It gives it a really bright pop of color. I do it in my journals. I do it in canvases These are Americana neons. I have pink orange green and yellow So we're gonna add some neon to the flowers Just wipe the brush off like that. I'm not gonna clean it too much Go in with some of the green I'm I'm using a very light touch to the canvas and I am twirling the brush as I'm Making marks There's no need to there's also no need to try to exactly copy the photo If you want a perfect copy of an image take a picture if you want an artistic impression of an image paint a paint a painting Try to draw what you see not what you think you're I'm sorry paint what you see as far as color and Emotion and not what you think you see might be a little too much. We might need to add some of the dark green back So this is the part where I usually look at the painting and decide What I need to add back As far as the darks There's always something every time and instead of stopping to go get a Color, I'm gonna just mix from what I have Sorry if you hear all that noise in the background that is the washing machine Yeah, like that because I forgot to close the doors again. That looks pretty good. I think I do think we need We lost a little bit of this violet. Let's see my finger works Sometimes I will not only switch to a non-painting tool but I will Switch hands and use my non-dominant hand to make more interesting marks on the journal page or the painting Yeah, that works for me. All right, let's get our pen back So I want to add a quote around the page and I'm gonna find one and I will be right back Okay, so to finish off this page this month. I Found the perfect quote, but we'll get to that in a minute. I could wipe out these Stains from the prior page with some gesso if I chose to But passion like life are not perfect and it's going to be filled with your journey To whatever you're passionate about or whatever you're going to be passionate about whatever is going to make you happy Is going to be fraught with potholes and obstacles Like most things are those of you who you know For instance who are married and have been for a while and are happily married. No, and even those that Were you know didn't make it know that it's not easy and It's filled with Upset and craziness, but the outcome is just so worth it whether it's art or a Relationship or it doesn't matter. It's worth the journey to get to where you want to go So I'm going to leave the stains and I found a Claude Monet quote quote It's going to be perfect for this one and it reads Water lilies is an extension of my life without the water the lilies cannot survive Survive as I am without our Claude Monet So we're going to write that around the perimeter here of the painting in the middle of the page and call it done So I'm going to get that done and I'll be right back There you have it I didn't quite go all the way around so I just added some dots to make it visually balanced And that works for me and of course it got paint on my elbow, but you know, it's alright So I love that page. It was quick and simple and to the point it makes the statement I needed to make and I will today say to you It may be the inspiration for future work because I really do like the way this turned out What are you passionate about and how can you express that in your work this week this month? I would love to see you do that and I would love to have you comment below If you would like to see more of what all Myself and all the other teachers are up to we would love to have you join us over in the Facebook group If you would like to follow me on social media to see what I'm up to every day Because they do do some kind of art or something almost every day Or you want to support the free content here on YouTube or over on Facebook There's a bunch of different kind of links where you can do any and all of that stuff on the link tree list of links Which is in the description below. So check it out My happy mail address is also down there if you would so choose to send me happy mail. I love happy mail And what else? don't forget to like share and subscribe and You know, I'd love it this month if you all found a small youtuber and you went and showed them some love Maybe shared them if you are part of the my creative year Facebook group Well, no not over there, but you could I take that back don't share it in my creative year But share it over in my other group a life of art and self-expression Why don't we try to share some of these small youtuber groups? Maybe you guys want to leave a name of somebody who's a small youtuber a small art youtuber or Life youtuber In the comments below and let's share their names and let's show them some love too That's it for today, and that's it for right now. I will see you all later Don't forget to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys