 Hey guys, we are here with another video for arty trio this month the mood board was created by me myself and I So this is this month's mood board if you'd like a copy of it and You want to follow along using mood boards and color inspiration in your work once a month Join us in the arty trio Facebook group The link is down in the video description This is this month's mood board and very much inspired by nature as I almost always am especially right now I have been doing lots of abstract work and Again, we are going to try something that I normally do On watercolor paper with watercolor paints. In fact, I'll show you one right here that I did not long ago and It's a very simple Expressive technique. I really love the technique. I'm gonna see if we can do it Big if with water soluble crayons, I know not all of you have watercolor paints Theoretically this should be possible with any water soluble medium as Long as you work fairly quickly with watercolor paints, even if they dry you can still reactivate them with water Not all water soluble mediums are like that So especially these neo color crayons. So we are going to work with the crayons if you have water soluble inks Watercolor paints, of course a gouache. You could do this with gouache paints Although they're not as transparent as a watercolor. They should still work. You might get something very interesting And again, as I said, I'm usually inspired by nature. So I have taped off a frame on my page I'm hoping for some clean lines. I usually fail at that tremendously, but we're gonna see I'm gonna put my mood board over to the side over here, and we will later make notes on the side I am gonna work on the white sheet of paper because I really want the colors to show up And this is watercolor paper Okay, first thing I'm gonna do is make sure I have water and a large brush, which I do Again, we're gonna work fairly quickly. I have picked out some neo color crayons that go along with the mood board I don't have a lot of these anymore because honestly, they're not my favorite, but I have ochre Spring green Sahara yellow Jade green orange and Rosemary red So we are going to I'm right-handed. So I'm gonna turn this a little bit this way Really quickly. We're not going to try to draw anything specific We're gonna just try to go where the feelings or inspiration may take us You're not trying to draw a solid line Open space is fine when I do this with water watercolor paint. I don't even use a traditional paint brush I use some kind of a roller or a vegetable peeler or the edge of a credit card or something These are crayons. So we're gonna use what we have when we get the water on there I do have some unusual things like this makeup spoolie. I've got a q-tip So we're gonna we're gonna play. All right, let's get started. Shall we cuz I'm Boring myself. Okay. I'm gonna start with this one and I'm going to just And quickly because I don't want these to dry too much and then go with my brush Now again, these probably won't to blend and drip the way the watercolor paints were will because They're not watercolor paints there. I see I already got some You guys I'm not great at getting clean edges. Here we go. Okay And we'll do the top and let the paints blend and puddle If you get too much water or you feel like you haven't left enough white space and get in there with a paper towel Have one handy before you get started. You can go back in with one of the colors and You can actually with the crayons you can actually dip it in water. I'm trying to Create something that gives me an inspiration or feeling of An image or nature I'm not trying to create a specific item. It's not what I do I try to stick very abstract these days This works It doesn't work like the watercolor, but it works. Okay. I do have a Few of these these are I get think kind of I have barely use them. I do have this too. What is this? I have a gelato. I didn't even know I had it's called snow cone. I think I got it free from The vendor at a trade show What does that do? No, I do. Let's see. Let's try it and again Stop up some of that extra If you think you get too much Kind of like this color. All right, what do I have in here that will work with the Mood board I have an orange But it might be too orange and a yellow. Let's try them anyways These are what these are a hard watercolor sticks. These are Daniel Smith. These these are gonna pull and puddle in They're not the same as Regular watercolor paints, but they're closer than the neocolors that come in here with my spoolie kind of move some pigment around Scrub out it a little bit because you have these sort of black sea crayons On the surface of your paper you have to work at it a little harder In my opinion, okay, I think I want some more green on there and I think we have enough It's sort of a light green. Okay, we're gonna dry that and then I'll be right back Okay, now I have smallish paintbrush and I'm gonna go in with some navy blue Because I'm just not feeling going in with black So I'm gonna go in with a dark blue and this is acrylic gouache So this is not water not as water soluble as the crayons and stuff So with a very light touch don't dig any holes to China on your page. Just very lightly Flick the brush up. If you feel like you need to make that darker You can always add a little bit of black later with paint or pen. I have two shades of green I have a pale mint and a cobalt green Get them both open here. Maybe There we go I'm gonna see if there's actually enough paint in the lids to do what I want. I'm gonna take our little spoolie brush again I'm gonna dip it in the dark green and then in the light green So I have both colors on the end of the spoolie And again, this is just a makeup a makeup thing you can Get these of course on Amazon dollar tree. I can get them a lot of places Can tell you right now looking at this. We are gonna need to add some black to the Those stripes that we did Oops, I'm gonna need a lot of that Just keep tapping just keep tapping You can use the tip of this brush You can use the side of this brush as you can see and we'll see if we can zoom in right about here It leaves interesting marks on the page and one of the things about doing these abstracts that I'm having a lot of joy discovering is Using some of these unusual tools and finding out what kind of marks I can make with which tools I am gonna rinse it off Just a little bit Now when you do do these You want to Okay, we're at its abstract. You want to suggest a feeling a mood That's inspired by whatever image or A Real-life Scene that's inspiring you to create this in the first place But you also want to be aware of light and dark and shadow and contrast because that's gonna help you Make it look more interesting And in that vein, I think we need to go back to the What we need to go to the black I'm gonna use this is a cute obviously. This is a q-tip This is the navy blue There are some dark colors in the mood board, you know in the background of some of the flowers and stuff So this isn't totally out of left field to use these colors Go in with our little brush with just some water Before that acrylic paint dries again If you're using watercolor paint, you don't have to worry about moving so quickly because the paint just will reactivate and It's not a problem But once the acrylic paint is dry and even though this is a gouache, this is an acrylic gouache So once it's dry It's all she wrote. I don't understand So I didn't start out doing this but that doesn't look like Trees by a pond to me. What about you guys? I thought wasn't what I was shooting for But yeah So really simple really quick really easy All right, let's take that pen tape off See how well we did With our edges There you go. What do you think? I'd like it. All right, I'm gonna make some notes on the other side and I'll be back Okay, how cool is that? Of course, I make notes on the other side of the page because the page is black We used a white gel pen, but that way I can remember Maybe what I did, but it's a really easy technique that you get really good fun interesting results from I'd love to see you guys try it and I would love to see what you do with it in your journals or on a piece of watercolor paper Yeah, pretty happy with that one. Anyway, go watch my co-teachers videos Mike Deacon and Bea Grubb Their links are down in the video description. 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