 Hey guys, welcome to another video. This is for my year 2017 for teaching my week in August. The prompt is hot and cold and this is what we've done already. We set up the actually my traveler's notebook with August and September sections in it and we went ahead in the August section and did some decorating with stickers and washi tape and things like that and then we made our mood temperature gauge and stuck it in here right in the front. I really do think it's interesting to maybe print a whole sheet of these temperature gauge little illustrations or doodles. Have a bunch of them cut out and maybe as the month goes along maybe do another one and show the difference in temperature of your mood or your spirit or how you're feeling. Are you feeling colder or less inspired or are you feeling hotter and more inspired? Are you happier with your life or less satisfied with your life? That sort of thing. So or maybe you just want to do it for the weather and is it blasting hot where you are or is it freezing cold? So maybe you want to adjust it that way. I think that would be interesting to do a couple of different mood gauges in your section as the month goes along. All right where I am in California in August it's hot. August is my birthday month and my birthday month generally my birthday day. It's not even a month I can't even say that. My birthday day is generally one of the hottest days of the year. So we are going to pick a spot in here somewhere and I think we're going to do it over here and we're going to do a sun doodle something really quick and easy without any complicated tools. This is a bic crystal pen. Your basic bic ballpoint pen. Just basic yeah. You know what I should turn some lights on. Hold on. That's better. Let's zoom in just a little bit. So we're going to just do a simple illustration of a sun. We're going to do a couple different ones. We're going to start off actually doing the one in my journal and I could do it here but now I'm getting the idea maybe I should do it here. I need to have this flat so we're going to do that. So we're going to do it up here and you could do this in pencil first and then go over it with black pen if you're unsure of your drawing abilities but you all need to trust me. This is going to be really really simple. All right I'm going to start over here. Now you can do doodles like this and as the month goes along if you end up having a lot of things that you do and you end up having to paste a picture over or do journaling right over it that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that. Just see where it goes as the month goes along. If you've been watching any of my doodles, stamps, stencils or anything else developed over the last year from my product line to my Etsy shop, this little crazy mark making thing between the doodle lines. I don't know what it is with that but I just can't help myself. It doesn't have to be neat. It doesn't have to be straight and it can be messy. Just let it be a messy illustration. All right so then I generally go see this little space here. This doesn't take fabulous drawing abilities. If you can draw stick figures you can do this. Trust me. A yearly journal can be about a mixture of things drawing doodles, journaling, painting, collage, scrapbooking. It can be what you want it to be. I'm always telling you guys there's no right way. There's no wrong way. There's only your way. We as the teachers of the My Year 2017 program just want to bring you all some ideas for different ways you can go about doing your journal. I like that. It's a basic doodle. That's great. Now you could take and write different events in the rays of the sun and maybe a picture here or something like that. That would be cool. I'm going to do a little bit more doodling. I'm going to take a white pen and this is a gold Krylon gold leafing pen, 18 karat gold leafing pen. No, I don't think it's actual gold. It's just nice gold paint. I have to prime the pen. I'm using the gold because it is August and for me where I live, August is a really warm month. It's not about being perfect. It's a messy sketch. Look at that. How much that's shining. Wow. That's the, you know where you get these two? You can find them at the hardware store by the spray paint. It's Krylon. It's by Krylon. It's by their spray paint company. But you can also find them, I think, at Michael's. I think I'm going to take my other pen. Now, once the paint dries, which doesn't take long to dry, you can go over it with your big pen or whatever you're going to journal with or keep drawing with or keep doodling with. Now the gel pen, Uniball Signo gel pen is less likely to want to write smoothly over the gold paint, but that's what I want. I don't want a smooth solid line. I'm not trying to cover up the black sketch. I'm just trying to highlight it with the gold, making it look warmer, brighter between the gold and the white, adding more interest to my doodle. Now, if you do create something doing this that you really love, I want to encourage you to scan it or take a photograph of it. Add it to your collection of digital art that you've made, that you can use in future works. This would be a really cool sticker. I love that, actually. I'm not going to touch that anymore. So there you have it, just a quick little doodle decoration. If you're doing this inspired by the weather where you are at and it's cold, you could do a snowflake. How fun would that be? Instead of using gold, which is in the yellow family, and I think of it as a warm color, you could do silver. That would be pretty. You could also do shades of blue, which are cold, or suggest cold temperatures. If you're doing this in a maybe area of the world, but it's just very springtime. Maybe it's not too hot or too cold. What if you did some flowers? So for me, it's a sun yes, which indicates warmth, and it's because it's warm where I am. I also am feeling like my inspiration is on an upswing that I'm headed into warm temperatures, very inspired, not cold and flat. My mood is also becoming warmer. We're nearing the end of the bathroom remodel, so that might be the reason for that. So there's a lot of reasons. The sun has a lot of symbolism behind it, besides for me, just the obvious of it being hot and bright and sunny. So think about creating some doodles in your section of your journal, whatever you're working in for the month of August that are appropriate to your mood or your temperature for the month, hot and cold. Have some fun with it, and I would love to see what you do. If you're not a part of the My Year Journaling Program on Facebook or my other Facebook group, A Life of Art and Self Expression, you want to maybe leave a tip in my tip jar to support the free content here on YouTube. Maybe you want to shop in my Etsy shop, go visit my websites, send me happy mail. Any of those things? The information is in the description, so check it out. And think about just using basic things, Krylon paint pen and a big pen. These are not expensive tools, they're fairly readily available, at least here in the U.S. Nothing fancy, and you look what you could do. Now the white gel pen, this is Uniball Signo. This is not necessarily readily available, but any white gel pen will work. This happens to be the one I have. All right, that's it for today, everybody. The most important thing, go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it, and I'll see you later. Bye, guys.