 Hey guys, we are here for another episode of the Artsy Trio and I have a variety of things on my desk because of course I'm working on more than one project at once, but I will try to focus, I promise. This month, I created the mood board and although the mood board is for September, it airs at the end of August. August is my birth month. I was born in 1960s and so of course I just dept off that cliff and used that for inspiration. So I created this mood board with a 1960s inspired imagery and color palette. So we are going to go with that to create something I think fairly abstract. That's where I'm thinking I'm going to go with this. I've seen a number of different abstract art journaling techniques on Instagram lately by a few different artists, not anyone in particular that I can point out more than the other. I'm going to see where I can go with this. I've got some distressed crayons, some neocolor crayons, some pencils, some paints. As I have been doing in recently previous artsy trios, I am going to focus on using some of those supplies I don't use too much, i.e. the crayons. So we are going to see where we go with this. I have no idea how this is going to turn out but we're going to find out together. Let's get into the process. I'm going to speed through it. It's going to be pretty self-explanatory so I don't think I need to stop and talk you through it and leave you any instructions but I could change my mind. We'll see. I'll be back. Okay, I take it back. I am going to talk through it. So not unlike some other abstract techniques and art therapy techniques like what is it called? Neurographic Art? Yeah, when I did this one. So the first thing I did as you saw is I went with the pencil and I barely looked at the paper and just went with how I felt as far as marks. Now I'm going to go back and pick some of those marks and fill them in with paint colors appropriate to our color palette. So let me do that. I'm not really thinking about it too much. I'm just focusing on how things feel. My security doorbell camera thing. So sorry. So I'm going to keep doing that and I'll be right back. Before it's going I know what I wanted to say. Impulse to do something crazy like put a black circle straight. Let's see if I can manage this. I'm going to at least start with a black Stabilo pencil. And by the way that's what these pencils are that I am using are Stabilo All pencils. I know as mixed media artists we tend to use just the black one but they do come in colors. The colors can be challenging to find. It's not the world's most perfect circle by any stretch of anyone's imagination. The water soluble pencil so I can just go in with a little water. Paintbrush is kind of dirty so it's got some of the yellow and green. Stamp you saw me using that sort of brick pattern in the background is one of my new art foamy stamps. At the time of this filming it is not out yet but it will be shortly and I will put the art link to the art foamy's website down below. There are a lot of great designers over there including myself so check it out weekly videos on how to use their stamps over in their Facebook group and stuff on their YouTube channel. It's a great company to work for a little USA made mom and pop. Yeah I kind of like that so let's see where's the black paint because I think we need to we need to make that darker. I like it. Okay so let's use the flat brush at least to start. I generally don't do this. I'm the artist that likes to do my background first and then not have to retouch it later but sometimes you got to do what you got to do. So this is the time where I usually advise turn on some music. Go slow. Don't be in a hurry. It's only paint so if you mess it up you can always go over it and these are matte acrylics which is usually what I journal with so they will dry pretty quickly plus my heat tools never too far away. I didn't have a plan as I stated earlier. I just went with what I you know I was feeling by looking at the mood board. So for me that's how most of my art is. It's really about how I feel and you know if your art's not about that maybe you should give it a try. I do it not only for the love of art but for therapy. You can tell I'm concentrating because I've gotten quiet. Before anybody asks this is a Princeton select flat wash brush. It's a half inch flat and I haven't messed up the brush yet. The bristles in the brush yet which I'm pretty good at doing. I'm really tough on my brushes so this one's still in pretty good condition. Okay I'm going to switch to a smaller brush. By the way is anybody getting um ancient Egyptian boat vibes from this very abstract painting? I don't know that's why where my brain went when looking at this but that is definitely where my brain went. Yeah I like that. I don't know why I like that but I like that. Do I want to do another? Yeah I think I do. Let's see if I can do this without sticking my hand in something wet as I say that I stick my hand in something wet. I probably should have done this with one of the pens or pencils rather than paint would be easier. Okay yeah I like I like where that went. All right let's a couple touch up colors. We'll start with this olivey green. A couple places. Okay I think we need to do this also in a couple places. Which isn't too bad because I expected to like really mess this up. There we go. I don't know what there is about that that I like because it's kind of a hot mess but all right so we're going to glue our go with the flow. So I would love for you to try this month use the mood board for inspirations for shapes and color and design and just sort of go with the flow and don't have a plan. Maybe close your eyes when you make that first initial round of marks on your page and see what happens and experiment and play. I am going to make some notes over here and I'll be right back. There you go again I don't know why I like that but it's just abstracted marks and craziness but I love the way I love where it went so anyway I would love to see what your craziness looks like this month. If you want to download the mood board and or share what you've done inspired by the mood board, join our Facebook group the RT Trio Facebook group and the link is for that is in the video description. The link for my partners my partners in this project is also in the video description Mike Deacon and Bea Grob. I would love for you to go watch their videos like share and subscribe if you do join the Facebook group and you post something that you create make sure to tag one or all of us teachers in the post so that we don't miss it and I'd love to see what you do don't forget to just have fun make marks have some play time and experiment go out stay safe stay healthy stay creative do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you in the next video bye guys