 Hey guys. All right, so this is going to be a new video Maybe a series if you all want to see more of it. You'll have to let me know junk in art Lots of us in the mixed media community are used to saving weird strange and unusual things for using an art I thought I'd just show a few things other than junk mail I Safe as do many of you I'm sure everything from bottle caps and fortunes out of fortune cookies to these little things These are from car air fresheners and glued to a car to tag or a paperclip. It would make a good shaker window. I Save all kinds of stuff like that. So I Have this idea for using some junk in art Prompted by a post I saw to one of my Facebook art groups by someone in the group the post wasn't from her it was from someone else, but it was very inspiring and I Was so inspired by it too. I'm gonna put the picture here and you'll see exactly why I was inspired So I thought we'd do something Similarly inspired so I have this little junk journal here. I don't remember who made it I do try to generally when someone sends me a little junk journal. I try to put a note in They usually send a note with it I try to tuck the note in the journal so I can remember who sent it I didn't evidently do that with this one So if you're watching and you're the one who made this let me know It has just a few pages which is great And so we are going to work on adding artwork to this journal making it our own. I Printed out 25. I don't know if that's enough for the journal or too many or no I don't know. I just picked a random number 25 random words from a random word app It is a random word out app intended for Using with Pictionary the game Pictionary I will include a link for it From the description below in case you want to create your own random word list. I will also include a Copy of this list Let's take a picture right now. So I'll include a copy of this list A Link to it where you guys can download it in the description When I do little sketchbooks little art books with prompted words I like to put the list of words in the cover even if I don't use all the words I still like to put the words in the cover. So we're going to do that actually I'm going to just use good old Elmer's glue Now for the paper that we're going to use to create our artwork, which we're going to glue onto these pages we're going to use Receipt paper now receipt paper isn't the most archival of things on the planet The ink tends to fade over time. It's not the best paper, but we're just making junk in art. We're having some fun I don't expect this to last for 50 years. If it does great if it doesn't okay So I've got a bunch of random receipt papers here. I also have these like subscription cards out of magazines. I've got some grocery lists I have a variety of black pens a Waterbrush because this one is water soluble. I've got some highlighter markers These which are my favorite thing. These are my favorite set of highlighter markers. I have a couple sets I also have some acrylic paints that way right off camera on it cart So we are going to fast forward through this. I am going to pick a few words at random I'm going to make the little drawings And then I'm going to paste them in what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the receipt I'm going to tear the edges top and bottom edges So that it fits Like that and then whatever is left is what I'm going to do the artwork on I'm going to fast forward through the process I'm going to turn my Radio on and I will be right back Okay, I'm not sure I caught all of that on camera Hopefully I caught enough for you guys to get the idea So I did find as I was going along that there were some repeat words You're going to get it copy of the image just like that with my handwriting on it and words are written in and So I took I think the only word I didn't draw was robot. Oh Robot and kite and tail so three words So there's only 22 pages in this book, but there's 25 words on here for you all to do something So these are the little drawings. I did I ended up just using my ballpoint bit crystal pen a sharpie and the highlighter markers Some mostly simple drawings The only one I had to look up a reference photo for the shape for sure was the airplane I've done a lot of these daily drawings now So for most of them I didn't have to keep and keeping it simple helps but for most of them I didn't have to look up any reference photos So this is cute. I can see doing more of this on just again. It's just receipt paper. It's junk It's stuff you would normally throw away So I want you to think about what you have around your house your art room In your life that you're normally going to throw away. What can can you use it to make art now that being said? I have a bin system. So I have certain bins for for objects and when that bin is full I can't save any more whether it's receipts or bottle caps or Vintage papers scrapbook and paper. It doesn't matter. Everything's on a bin system. So when the bin is full I have to use it up throw it out Before I can get more right. So make sure you do this with caution. Don't fill your whole house with trash That's not the point, right? So this is really cute. I'm really happy with this. All right That's it for today. If you have any questions comments or concerns, please let me know again. I am going to Leave the word list and that a link to it in the description You've already seen the original post that inspired this if they have a website. 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