 Hey guys, I am just trying to figure out why to me The picture looks blurry Is it blurry to the rest of you guys? Let me know. There's a little bit of a delay in the video feed. So sure I Did have a blast. Yes. I did have a blast. Oh there. That's better. It's just me No, it's just me So we're gonna work on repainting another one of these ugly canvases to me to me today I told you guys I'm not back from vacation yet. I'm still working on my morning coffee but first I wanted to talk about this morning's recorded decor art video, which is the little concert bag and I Got the little bag at Hobby Lobby It already had the gray pattern on it Yeah, it's trying to focus Okay, and I just thought that was okay, but it wasn't interesting enough for me So I painted it as you saw in today's video if you watch it I did embellish it a little bit with the glass paint pens from decor. Hey Gwen So I did add a few things to it after the video was done But so I just wanted to show you guys that the video already got a thumbs down I don't understand but anyway, it doesn't matter. I don't care But it's a cute little just basic bag that you definitely could use You know if you're going to a concert or a sporting event, you don't want to take your whole purse You just want to take your ID some money and your cell phone, you know, I don't know about you guys I don't want to drag my handbag around with me anywhere. Hey Patty. Oh No worries So I created this little concert bag and the video is up on YouTube today and this works perfect for me So just FYI I did use the glass paint pens on here. It's holding up just fine Alaska was a blast. Now you guys are gonna ask me about that We're gonna work on These inspiration photos today. So these were taken on the vacation Just random pots of flowers everywhere you go into Alaska I don't know any of you who've been there before may know this already. I certainly didn't but the It's so rainy there. It's a rainforest area and there are just these giant flowers That you can't get to grow in California. We just don't have enough water including these huge red poppies and so I took this photo and I Think this was taken in I took a number of poppy photos in Alaska and I also took some at Bouchart Gardens in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada So I don't remember this one might be from Bouchart Gardens, but I took plenty in Alaska, too So we're gonna use this one for inspiration. I did alter it in Dynamic Auto Painter this morning and I used the Application called Benson. I don't know what artist Benson was. I don't someday. I'm gonna have to research that but anyway I just gave the photo a painterly effect and then I printed both the original and the painterly one this morning So we're gonna use these as inspiration Before we get started we're gonna put on some art guard for those of you who don't know some of your art supply materials have nasty chemicals in them and You probably should if you end up getting your fingers involved put on some kind of protective barrier like art guard invisible glove I am constantly forgetting Um, but it and it's right here in front of me and I still forget The art guard helps prevent it from absorbing through your skin and it makes it easier to clean your hands and it's non-greasy so All right, so we have this ugly canvas. I did back in when did I do this 2013? It's not pretty I'm gonna fix it And we are first we're gonna take a graphite pencil Or crayon. This is a graph graphite crayon This is the only other than my brush is the only non-deco art product We're gonna use this morning and this is by Lira and they make these graphic crayons, which I love so We're gonna use our photo as inspiration. We're not looking to copy it because that's what we have cameras for My daughter's a photographer if I want a proper copy. I will have her take a photo But I'm going to map out some shapes with the crayon just to give myself a A guide that doesn't mean I'm gonna stick to it. Y'all should know better than that And I hope everybody had a great weekend and If you are personal friends with me on Facebook You may or may not know my daughter told us Before we even got home. Hey mom Polly is who's the boyfriend and I are getting our own apartment When next week So she's moving out this weekend. So can you help? I guess so Sure, of course you can so I'm just sketching out my poppy shapes With my crayon, I think that's pretty good It's I know I you know what she already kind of moved out temporarily once already so I've already had the experience of going through Empty nest syndrome. So this time. I'm just like I was just surprised at the short notice That's all I thought hmm, okay So as per usual, we're gonna do our background first I always tell you guys do the background first and when you put the focal point in you don't have to mess with the background hopefully We set the plan anyway, so we're gonna That one not even open might not be so I have a mixture of deco art traditions acrylic and Americana acrylic all made by decor. Yeah, that's not even open. So I got a variety of greens I've got the traditions in what is this chrome green hue? Yellow green light an Americana in foliage green. I'm gonna grab Little bit of brown. I know I put a brown now here somewhere. There we go raw ember I know right My husband sort of looking out forward to me maybe not filling it up. I don't know how that's gonna work out Good thinking that that's a great idea. You mean if he does they don't want to move you move I like that idea. I've got to go get her some things for her new place This week. I'm gonna go do I told her I'd go do it tomorrow And of course, she's running around the house mom Can I have one of these mom? Can I have one of these and like since I have way too much stuff? Yeah Yes, you can It's one way to do a purge have your kid move out and take some of your stuff with them. Okay Do I want I don't think I want any pains grand this I'm gonna start with the brown I have an angle brush. Why just because it feels right And just like with the other paintings we're done we've done where we've covered up these ugly canvases I'm not necessarily looking to completely cover up the background That's already on here Probably mostly if it works with the painting the way it is I'll leave it if it doesn't we won't and because I'm an expressive Almost abstract impressionist painter. I'm not you know looking to an either photo copy the exact shape of the leaves necessarily Especially in the background. I just want to get the colors kind of mapped in Now depending on the paint you're using If it's not very well pigmented you might need to do a couple of coats For certain colors or use a base coat of white. I'm gonna see if I can wrap this one flower around the side I think that would be interesting Don't forget to paint your edges then you don't have to worry about framing your painting and yes I'm going to put a coat of the darkest color on here first acrylic painting is different than watercolor in that you can Layer your colors on top of each other So you can start with dark colors and then let it dry and then add a bunch of light colors on top with watercolor you can't really do that because you They're all translucent. They don't necessarily layer. Well Acrylic you have a lot more freedom Those of you who've never been to Alaska or Bouchart Gardens. I highly recommend it fabulous trip If you're not somebody who you know does lots of outdoorsy stuff or hiking Never fear. There's plenty of stuff for you to do up there I don't do tons of heavy hiking anymore. I can't with my asthma There's plenty of stuff to do and Bouchart Gardens is just gorgeous if you have a chance to go there It was funny. They were talking about how expensive it was to live in British Columbia and My husband and I for those of you who don't know live in the San Francisco Bay Area So other than the price of gas It was it was it was pretty comparable if not a little cheaper than living in around here in California It's pretty expensive where we live Hey Carson cats life. Hey, how are you? We are painting some poppies this morning inspired by some flowers I saw on my recent vacation which was fabulous And for those of you who don't know my parents live in Washington State Very near where we left to go on our trip and I begged and pleaded with them and my husband Please before we leave Seattle, which is where we docked. Can we go to Daniel Smith? Which they let me go to when I am so happy. I Met one of the executives in the parking lot was so cool If you have a chance to go there, I recommend it most of the time when you go to these art supply stores that we all are familiar with because we Shop on their websites the store usually doesn't carry as much stuff as the website So it's a little usually a little disappointing. I Can honestly tell you that is not the case with the Daniel Smith store They have way more stuff in stock in the store Then you would ever think they would have from their website. That's not bad for the background You'll notice with these deco art paints one of the things I love about them. They dry really fast. I love that I'm just dabbing on paint. I'm not doing a particular brush stroke. I'm not Necessarily being super careful treating anything too preciously I am going to start To try and remember where this one is coming from Yeah road trip there you go. I do recommend the Daniel Smith store. I've been to a lot of the other ones that have Websites with the exception of the one I haven't been to yet Jerry's Arturama So I've got to go there yet But I've been to a lot like a lot of the Dick Blick stores and they're not the same as their website Their website has way more stuff than their stores do Okay, so one of the things I want to do is Make sure we have some suggestion of sunlight on here before we move to our flowers. Oh See but in the UK you have Jackson's I like Jackson's art supply I don't know what their store is like, but I like their website Okay, we're gonna switch to a filbert and I'm going to grab some reds This is alizarin crimson and This and that was Americana Try to keep them straight here. This is napal red, which is a tradition to echo our traditions You don't have to spend tons of money on fancy paint Look it up now because it is really fabulous. I'm gonna start with a lighter red that not fall red Yeah, I already forgot I just opened it Okay, and I'm going to just map in my flowers Loosely You notice I'm leaving little bits of blue show through. I like the way that looks at least for right now I'm happy with the way that looks so They might leave that this is the one I said I wanted to wrap around the side so I did get seasick while I was gone We had a day where we hit a storm and there were 15 to 20 foot swells and Let's just say that I wasn't the only one on the ship that got sick not by any stretch I'm gonna take One of my little tiny brushes And That same red still worth the napal red and I think I want to just just like that Put three little dots here. Let me zoom in just a little bit. So you guys can get a better look at that You know, I'm just playing I get I Get that a lot. I'm just playing. I've never taken a formal painting class ever in person I've only taken online classes like the rest of you Not even for watercolors. I'm just playing So I'm taking the darker of the two reds and I'm going to use it as my shadow of color and using my photos as inspiration Where the darker parts of the petals are? I'm gonna I'm gonna just tap in this color. Remember we're being expressive and We're not looking to copy it exactly. We're just suggesting the poppy shape By putting the right color in the right place and I'm gonna kind of fake it on the side Let's do this one up here. I remember what I said acrylic paints all about layers. It really is so Well, this looks interesting, it's by no stretch done And because this red is kind of sheer it's gonna take a couple of layers a couple of coats To get things looking the way we want Reg Okay, see I cleaned everything up before I left. Okay, we're gonna let that dry a little bit. Let's work on some of our greens I'm gonna switch to a smaller filbert. This is one of the new ones. I brush I bought this is before I left This is by Princeton. It's a Princeton snap They're one of their affordable brush lines. I I'm really liking them for acrylic painting more coffee. Okay Let's work on some of our greens I'm gonna start with a light green the lightest green which is the foliage green. I'm barely barely touching the brush to the canvas It's okay if the lines not even it's okay if it's bumpy. This is nature nature's not even in straight and You'll suggest a better picture if you don't even try to get it even in straight I did shoot some video while we were gone So I'm gonna try to edit it into something that is interesting and makes sense for you all Okay, let's suggest a few leaves Just play and experiment and just try you don't know what you can do until you try now I'm just I'm just Twisting and turning my filbert brush and I'm tapping it to the canvas. I'm barely touching it. I'm letting the brush The shape of the brush helped me suggest the leaves It's similar to how I do pine trees Okay, it's similar to how I do a pine tree So first I take the tip of the brush and you just paint a line Exactly All right, and then I take my filbert brush and the filbert brush is rounded on the end right so you take it Kind of I guess at a 30 degree 45 degree angle to the paper and just tap You get these interesting half-round marks and if you're doing a pine tree and you do it with a few different colors and Purposefully try not to go over the same place you went the first time Maybe give it a little bit of a twist As you get up to the top right come back With your light color either start dark and work light and then come back and add the dark or start light and Go to dark and come back and add the light either way Use two or three colors and if you don't want it to be Christmas tree ish Then try not to have it be symmetrical because remember what I said about nature not being even right and then you can go in at the end With a little bit of your warm colors that suggest some warmth and sunlight Normally, I use yellow for that. There's a piece of my hair stuck in the paint. Lovely. All right And I just tap in a little bit of the yellow and you get a pine tree now depending on how close together you do these marks and You know which direction you do them you can get this interesting leaf shape too by doing basically the same stroke or Pine tree Okay, let's do one more leaf. Let's see. Where do I want it? Looking at the photo. Hmm So you see I'm just basically I just have my strokes a lot closer together Then I do for the pine tree. Oh, I did I did I had a wonderful vacation It is funny and kind of ironic that the day we both got seasick was our anniversary We were both so sick So this is the medium green Yeah, thankfully we both started to feel better just in time enough to go to our dinner reservations Which was great But yeah, you know, we would hit a storm with huge swells on our anniversary But I did discover that one of there's a benefit to menopause My seat my motion sickness is not nearly as bad as it used to be when I was younger And the only thing for me that's changed is menopause. So yay So we're just layering on our greens. I almost got my coffee in that my brush in my coffee You know if Some of it wasn't fabulous, but I don't miss having a monthly and I'm glad that my motion sickness is better I still have hot flashes. I could live without that Okay, we're gonna go into the darkest color now Which is the color that we've already used In our background See, this is why I put the art guard on it doesn't take me long to get my fingers involved I am not a neat painter It's so much fun to sit and paint in the mornings or lunchtime with you guys and instead of like I'm usually by myself So it's like having friends over for a painting party my mom says that And I shouldn't probably tell you guys this because it'll upset you she says the hot flashes never really go away They get milder, but they don't really ever go away. I said, oh fabulous That wasn't what I really wanted to hear I'm gonna take this brush and I just can't help myself. We're gonna put some Aquamarine in here because you know It's aquamarine people Now you notice in the picture. There's some pink flowers in the background I don't think I want to put them on there. I'm gonna choose to just pretend they're not there I'm glad you find the painting party fun. Yeah, no menopause is not fun Not necessarily So this is aquamarine Yeah aquamarine and normally I would tell you all this color because it's a blue is you know a cooler color But when you compare it to the greens in the background, it's warm So it's gonna help me suggest sunlight and make the background interesting Less flat You know, yeah, um, I you know every time I go to the doctor now I know it's just a standard question for them, but you know when you're over 50 They ask you when was your last period for most of us. I Can't remember one Could you be pregnant? Well, I really hope not at my age So last thing I would want to have happen don't forget your edges And they don't like when I they asked me that question and I go I don't remember They really don't like that, but that's the truth. I don't remember It was a long time ago not to mention the fact I have anxiety disorder. I don't remember. Oh Good, that's good. Yeah, they're they're better for me since I'm doing the same thing I didn't go to the gym this morning, but there's just kind of a lot to do. I'm gonna go tomorrow, though I need to after the cruise. Holy cow So I'm just working a little more in the background and letting the base coat on the flowers dry Yeah, everybody's different. Some people have a big a hard time with the cold and they don't get hot That's never been the case for me back to a field dirt. Yeah, I go to the gym Three to five days a week. It does really help a lot I really didn't change the way I ate at all but normally unless I'm on vacation. I have a I'm pretty good about what I eat But just you know, most of us were artists and you know, that means we sit on our butts most of the day So We don't get lots of exercise And that's usually the problem is you just need to move more. I've joined Gold which is you know a big nationwide brand and I don't think there's gonna be any chance of them closing But if they did close like the local one, I could go to a different one So I'm dabbing on some more red adding this lighter red in the lighter parts of the poppy Right. I lost my little dots over here Okay, so you got to tell us what all which all one you Join so that we don't join that one since you're the angel of death with Jim's and back That's pretty funny. So this is the darker one Now right now. I know you're thinking probably that that's interesting, but it's a little flat wait a minute Give me a second I'm gonna make it pop in a minute and again, we're letting the stems dry a little bit We need our pains gray. I often choose pains gray as my dark dark y'all know that It's more interesting than just flat black and I often don't choose white for my light light I use a light yellow or a neon I'm not sure yet what we're gonna do here I've got a couple choices Kind of keep all my paint straight. I will add the paint colors to the Video description after we're done with the broadcast broadcast. Okay So that these are poppies, right? So they have dark centers So dabbing and smearing and I'm going to add a little bit of this dark color into the background To give us some dark shadows. I'm gonna blend it in a little bit with my finger So it's not quite as dark as on the flower centers Now with acrylic paint. Thank you and with acrylic paint if you Catch it before it's completely dry. You can wipe it off with a baby white FYI Now even with our flower centers, I'm going to add Another color to make them less flat and more interesting and I'm gonna use the dark the brown that we have what brown is this Raw umber. Thank you Painting is my first love. I like mixed medium collage, but I love painting whether I'm doing it in acrylic or watercolor painting is my first love In case you didn't already know that, you know, hello I do think I'm gonna make some pink So I'm gonna take some white and a little bit of the alizarin crimson Yeah, I like the aquamarine in there a Lot okay, so I'm gonna go using again my pictures as my guide. I'm just dabbing I'm lifting and and but barely between sticking it in there and barely touching the brush to the background to Get an interesting mark and you can go in here and you can just Wipe some of it with your finger to make it just more interesting Just make sure that you wipe it towards the flower and not towards your background And then you can come in with some of the red like right here. I think that's a little too much pink And it's gonna mix with the pink the pink sweat, but I'm okay with that These little paintings are great practice because they don't take long. I'll see you later Gwen Okay, let's do this one up here So the dark darks and the light lights are what makes your paintings really start to pop No matter what you're doing whether you're doing something abstract like patty parishes Abstracts which I love by the way, and I they never quite turn out the same when I do them as when she does them That's okay. I'm not her. So I'm just Adjusting my colors. I do think right here. We need to do this oops Just took my hand and something of course I did I think we need to do this So I'm just I have some of the paints gray. I'm barely touching the flowers the flower center barely barely barely And that that worked that I like I have the same trouble with abstracts. I can do them This particular style is more natural to me to do and I can do it without Struggling too much. I think there's always one part of every painting that I struggle with getting correct Looking the way I want. I think here. It's this flower up here. That's better. I love this kind of painting. This is my favorite Kind of impressionistic and expressive Not perfect. I Struggled for a long time to do other kinds of paintings that I thought I should be doing and it's just not me This is me I'm gonna take our little small red dots just because a painting is more balanced if you have Objects or colors in groups of three whether you're doing this kind of painting or an abstract painting Think of doing things in groups of three. It looks more balanced So because of that I want to do some work down here, too Okay, I am not just totally not into doing anything realistic My daughter's a photographer if I want that I'll just have her take a picture My husband on the other hand has talked about getting into art more recently and he actually when he was Younger did a lot of drawing. He wanted to be an architect and I could very well see him doing that, but he would be a realist painter. He wouldn't do anything like what I do by any stretch Okay, so we're gonna take now we need to work on our stems and leaves. I love the way our flowers look I want to first use my palette knife And I'm gonna take some of my pain's gray. I Think and we're gonna mix it with some of this green. Let's see what we get So I'm using the flat part and the edge of the palette knife To help me with some more shapes. Yeah, that's good. I like that. We'll wipe this off Let's go back to our small filbert And we're gonna mix up an even lighter green by putting some yellow over here I got a little bit of red in there, but that's okay. Just dabbing of paint on Don't feel like you have to dig any holes to China You know you get a different mark with your brush if you just touch it lightly than if you do this But that might be what you want sometimes like you could do an interesting flower with a filbert brush by using the shape of the brush and pushing it down hard into your paper and You know give yourself an interesting five petal flower So practice with you know letting your brush do the work No, normally between layers. I let things dry Unless we're doing one of these broadcasts I Usually try to let things dry in between Well, sometimes I'm not you know my middle name is neither grace patients or grace So sometimes I'm just impatient, but just like what you've done with the rest of the flower Part keep working your colors Till you get something Get some of that green off of there. It's a little gray for me. I think it's too gray So let's go back in with some of this color green. What is this? This is the yellow green light. It's still not exactly right hmm Let's keep working on it. Shall we I mix some of the pain's gray in with the dark Darkest green that we had which was the phthalo green Chrome green sorry it goes my clock now just because your Flower painting or whatever you're using for inspiration is a particular color doesn't mean you have to do your painting in that color in All are in part and you can print it in black and white and then that takes the distraction away of the original colors and that'll help you not be distracted by Be able to create the painting in other colors. I'm gonna do something fun here I think it's gonna be fun. This is the aquamarine color and this is just a small round brush I'm just tapping it in. I'm not even Making all my brushstrokes even I'm just putting dabs of literally just little tiny dabs of color Much better. I like that already a lot better. I do have this Hands a yellow Don't limit yourself to how many colors either if you end up using 50 colors in a painting. So be it Don't listen to other people Unless of course you're doing An experiment where you're trying to do a painting with you know, just like two colors. That's a different story So I'm gonna use this yellow because it's very light and bright very warm Same thing. I just did but I'm not trying to cover up the any of the other colors I'm just accenting the parts that I Want to be lighter and brighter and in the Sun there Maybe getting hit by the Sun this way Now the aquamarine was much warmer than some of the other greens on here, but this yellow is the warmest color So it'll suggest the most sunlight and again, I'm just dabbing on colors Just little dabs little dots. I'm not trying to paint a straight line or anything One thing I've had way too much coffee for that. That's just not gonna happen So this little bulb of a flower is round, right? So the part of it getting hit by the Sun would be bright But also the part closest to the viewer would be so like that's why I put that little dab right there. I like that That's a cute painting I Used a lot of colors, but that's a cute painting. I think it's done. What do you all think? So of course as per usual, we don't waste the leftover paint, right? We don't ever do that Sometimes I put it on paper. Sometimes I put it on another canvas and I happen to have I'll set this aside for just a minute this canvas, which has been in my closet for a while That won't even like fit on camera completely easy amount maybe it will no it won't Let's see wait a minute. Let me put some these two away Let's move these So this is a big canvas. I don't even know what size it is. It's huge. Well, it's not huge, but it's pretty big It's been in my closet as you can see I it's not the first time I've done painting layers on it So this is another reason to make sure you put art guard on if you're gonna you're gonna do something like this And just dab your leftover paint on the canvas and it gives you an interesting starting point It doesn't have to be pretty. It can it can end up being ugly like the one we just did It's just a starting point and it gets you away from You know white canvas or white page syndrome Sometimes you accidentally end up with interesting shapes that you don't expect This one has to be turned into something soon because it's got a lot of paint on it now already There we go. Uh, I Have no room in my room in my office Just have some fun with your paint and play So at some point we'll be doing this one on Monday with decor Does anybody have any questions now that my hands are all goopy. So here's the one that we did The inspiration photos at least the one photo not the altered one This one is available this morning on the inspiration photos page of my website You can download it for free and play with it Use it in your collage work do a painting from it It's free for you guys to use I'm I got asked recently what I take my inspiration photos with My iPhone It's always been my iPhone. It's been my iPhone since I first got an iPhone when I had iPhone 4 I do think this is done. I'm gonna let it dry completely and I'll be covering it with deco page Probably in antique and I'll let that dry completely and then I'll put a layer of deco arts cream wax I'm air counted to core cream wax over the deco page this The deco page can dry and like stay a little bit sticky a little tacky This takes that all out and gives it an extra layer of protection and both the deco page and the wax will protect the paint from fading shipping cracking all of that stuff and I finished all the paintings that way and yet again I did this one with the intention of maybe selling it I think I'm gonna have to keep it Just so bad. I do think I'm gonna scan it though and put it up on my website this week So if you want a copy of it, it'll be up there Alright any more questions I think I got almost all the paint off my hands So I leave it to dry a couple of hours if not overnight I really want all of the acrylic paint to be completely dry Before I go at it with the deco page Um, and I happen to have the deco page matte out because I need to do my I did a painting for my daughter quite a while ago and We never put sealer on it Because it's not in the sun or anything. Well, she didn't want me to do but anyway now She's moving and she's not sure where it's gonna end up. She wants me to seal it So she wants me to seal it with Matt. She doesn't want it shiny at all So I'm gonna do the deco page matte on that painting and then I'll put some cream wax on it Normally, I do the antique which gives it a slight amber a little bit of an amber tint This is the antique and It's a little bit of a satin finish. It's not matte But I put this on let it dry overnight I'm sorry. I let this dry a couple hours if not overnight put this on let this dry a couple hours Put this on let the whole thing dry overnight, then you can hang it on the wall And you could also you could use other kinds of wax, but the Americana decor cream wax is easy to get it's inexpensive and easy to use And it dries hard it doesn't reactivate because it's not I love daddy vans It's great in my journals for this kind of application You don't want it to reactivate and the daddy vans is a beeswax and if it got too warm it could reactivate Any other questions? I did as I said go to Daniel Smith when I was in Seattle and I will be sharing that in a different video. I Did some other shopping We will some of it most of its watercolor and it's not deco art So we will be sharing that in probably watercolor Wednesday All right, I've added a bunch of photos to the inspiration page this morning In on that website. I also added a bunch of photos in the Facebook group in the shared inspiration album I also put almost every single photo. I took on my personal Facebook page. So the photos are accessible anywhere. You guys want to you know Download one and use it to create some artwork with you're welcome to do that. Hello, Lisa But practice using your brushes to make interesting brushstrokes and let them help you Create interesting marks on your paintings. I Love the way this one turned out it is gonna be we're gonna try doing this on watercolor Wednesday the same Image we've been doing that doing these images a couple different ways. So I think we're gonna do this again. I Yeah, what I can tell you is Alaska is a beautiful place. There is a lot of inspiration there, but Inspiration is everywhere some of the shots that I took were pots of flowers outside of little shops So the next time you're out at the store, even if it's the grocery store Take your smartphone out shoot some fix pictures of the floral department the flowers in the floral department The pots outside the shop the flower pots at the mall the interesting texture in the Wall of the store things like that inspirations everywhere the best shots I took were just some ordinary things that happened to be there where I was Yes, of course, I got that, you know pictures of glaciers and things like that too, which you can't get if you're not up there, but you know Lots of places have gorgeous flowers. So All right, that's it for this morning everybody. I hope you all enjoy that and I will be back on Wednesday for watercolor Wednesday We will be back, of course next Monday for more Monday with Deku art I will I already have put the link for Deku art in the video description. I will be updating the colors And paint types as soon as the video is done loading See it's right outside your front door. You don't have to go far Paint what you see around you If you want to support my YouTube channel, there's a lot of different ways you can do that. There is All kinds of links in the description including to my Etsy shop if you want to you can go to The support button on my YouTube channel's main page There's a bunch of ways you can do that You can join the Facebook group. That's free We have weekly prompts all kinds of photos, you know all of that stuff All right, I will see you all next week and Have fun painting and playing. I'd love to see what you paint and share. I would love that. That would be great All right, see you all later. Don't forget the most important thing You know what that is, right? Have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it Yes, they do. I like the antique but they do make one that's clear I like the antique and it dries it has hardly any color in it. Just FYI But they do make it. It's clear and you could use other products. I really like deco page That's it Regina. You got it All right See you guys later No, I would always seal it with something seal it with a varnish or Decco page something that dries clear Because that's going to give you the most protective layer the wax is just to make sure that Especially if you're shipping it or gifting it to a friend, maybe you're wrapping it in paper The wax will prevent things from sticking to this Lots of clear coats whether you're talking about a varnish or a deco polish product they can be a little sticky and Things can get stuck to them whether it's dust lint hair paper So you should put a layer of wax on there because that's going to prevent things from sticking to this and it's also the wax is a Little bit extra protection, but you want to wax it dries clear and hard And doesn't reactivate so you want to use a cream wax or an artist wax. I like the cream wax There are other brands that are more expensive and way more toxic and stinky Does that answer your question hopefully at some point I should probably save a couple of these up and we should actually Do the coating on on camera? But you know the paint should have a protective layer of something on it Especially if you're using, you know different kinds of paint craft paint art paint even fine artists paints you know over time with age they can crack and they can flake appeal off and You really want to protect them from the elements from fading from the cracking So you want to cover them them with a clear coat of something whether using a deco page or a varnish But then always finish that with a coating of wax Especially if you're using a deco polish product to cover your painting with Did that I hope that answered your question. All right guys, I will see you later. I Have laundry to do tons and tons of laundry And a big giant painting to varnish All right, I will talk to you later. Have a great week if I don't see you on Wednesday I will see you next Monday Monday with deco art at noon All right. Bye guys. Oh Wait, we're not done yet fabric question. Okay, Lisa shoot. I'll put my brushes away while you're typing your question, Lisa Those of you don't know I in a former one of my many former professions. I was a seamstress FYI Do you know where I can find antique quilting fabric? eBay is the best place for that you can buy lots of antique quilting fabric sometimes pre-cut squares on eBay Probably these days Etsy too. It's been a while since I bought things like that But I would go to eBay or Etsy first It's hit or miss at the antique stores and a lot of antique dealers You know the it depends on the dealer some of them just throw that's kind of stuff away So I would definitely trade definitely try eBay or Etsy in the past when I've wanted pieces of old quilts or Old fabric for a project. I have always gone to eBay or Etsy Yeah, I would go to eBay or Etsy for that Lisa or I would pick an antique reproduction new fabric To pair up with her old fabric There are a lot of reproductions of antique patterns These days if you go to a local quilt shop They can help you pick out ones that will work with the antique fabrics that she picked And a lot of times these days in the antique shops They have these giant quilting machines and they'll actually put all the layers together for you and do they'll do the quilting for you And then all you have to do is do the edging FYI It does cost a fee, but when you have a project like that that's special And we're going to do more sewing videos. I've got some coming up that are on the playlist Yeah, so you can get flower sacks antique flower sacks Lots on Etsy and probably eBay So I would look there first and Bit on one or two lots and see how far that gets you and then go back and bit on one or two more lots until you get the Quilt finished All right, that's it for today guys have some fun do some painting Do some crafting do some creating do something that makes you happy whatever it is Life's too short not to Alright, I'll see you all later. I really gotta go now. Okay. Bye guys