 Hello everybody. Eve, Ayan, how are you? Is it just me or does the chat look different? Okay, so, you know, first thing we're going to do is we're going to get business out of the way. Alrighty. So, oh good. I'm glad. Hey, Cindy. So I want to tell everybody that not only do, you know, I still have my book for sale. You can get a signed Spiral Bound copy from me in my Etsy shop. The link is in the description below. You can also go to Amazon, type my name in, and a paperback version and a Kindle version will come up and you can pick one of those to buy. And so if you don't have my book yet, how come? And then guess what came in over the weekend? So these are the new stamp designs, cling mount sets, and this is how the cling mount sets come. This is why I wanted to do this first and show you guys first. So they come packaged just like this with the, you know, card, what do you call it, laminated card in the front. And then all of the stamps are already mounted to cling foam and they're die cut for you. So we have this one, which I think might be my favorite, this one, this one, which is the art doll one, and it has angel wings. This would be a cute one for Christmas ornaments or gift tags, this one. And again, this, this hamsa hand, this hand would be a good gift tag, and then this one. So they actually have numbers now instead of names. So if you go to the Etsy shop, they have all the listings have numbers, the pre-sale pre-order. This has been a weird morning, you guys. If I seem extra off more than normal, there's a reason for that. We won't get into on camera, but just trust me. Nothing bad, just weird. Okay, so they have numbers instead of names. The pre-order listings are already up. And I don't think I have, let me see. Maybe I do. Hang on. Maybe I'm about to lie to you, which I don't intentionally do, but let's see. Did number these. Okay, so we've numbered all the sets. They do have numbers and names. The Etsy listings only have the numbers, I'm pretty sure. I don't think I put the names. Okay, so this one is set number seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven. Yeah. Okay. So those are the numbers. And I have, when I got the initial shipment in, I got two sets, two complete sets of five in Kleemount. And one I'm keeping, and this other one is for sale. I didn't get any more extra inventory. Why? Because I chose to use the money funding I had to create the new sets for 2017 to create a variety of more sets rather than having a ton of inventory. Now that being said, if you want any of these, and I run out of stock, they are going to be drop shipped direct to you from the manufacturer. So if you order, say this one, in Kleemount, which is number seven, in Kleemount, then you would order it from me, pay me, and then I would call up the manufacturer, they'll produce it and send it directly to you from them. And I pay them. So, and all of the sets, new and old, are all available like this, or you can still get them in unmounted red rubber. Okay. And if you have any more questions, let me know. I'm going to go back and answer Ian's question. So, Ian, when I first started doing the stamps, I was doing them the old fashioned way. I was creating the designs with pen and ink on paper, scanning them in, sending them to the manufacturer. They would tweak them how they needed to in the computer, and then we would go from there. Now, because we have an Apple iPad Pro in the house, I'm able to use the Apple Pen to create these designs directly as a digital image. So then once they're created that way, then they can go directly to, well, they're in an app. This is all Apple products. So once I have them created and saved, it goes to all the devices and I can, on some of the cases, create stencils out of them and send them to the Silhouette software, or I can send them to the stamp manufacturer and put them in groups for them. But yeah, so the answer is now we're creating them on the Apple iPad Pro with an Apple Pen. But I have created them in the past with just plain black pen and ink and then scanned them in as a high res scan. My manufacturer is Rubber Moon Stamps. If you're interested in creating your own line of stamps, I would recommend that you email them. You can find them. If you Google Rubber Moon Stamps, you'll find their website and email the owner K.P. and she's really great to work with. And hello, Patricia. Hello, Lisa. Chris, hello from Greece. Hello. And MWB Arts. Is that Mark? Hello. Hello, hello. And the Shelly Studio. Hello. So, those are available right now. The listing state pre-order. I do have obviously a very limited supply in stock. But if you want to order them, they'll be shipped direct to you. You can spend a little less money if you have Kling Mount foam already in your art room and get an unmatted or if you don't want to be bothered now, you can get any of the sets like this cost a little bit more. But they're already pre-cut and dye and, you know, all that stuff. They're Kling Mounted already. Yeah, PNG would work. I also work with high res JPEGs. I'm not sure why you would be sending it to me, Ian. If you want to make it into a rubber stamp, then you need to send it to K.P. You should probably email me off the broadcast. But yeah, or if it's something to use in a broadcast, yeah, PNG will work or a JPEG will work too. But yeah, any of those. I have Adobe software and Photoshop and yeah. I'm learning how to use them. I'm not super great at them, but good enough to make my stamp sets. Okay, first thing we're going to do, protect our hands, right? So, hey, Ampex Creations, hello, good morning. Jazzy, good morning. So a lot of art products have things in them that are toxic, especially paints and certain pigments. First thing we're going to do is protect our hands. And I do this whether I'm working with watercolor or acrylic. So I've got some art guard here. And I swear this tub of art guard is going to go moldy and gross before I use it all up. One tub goes a long way. You can use invisible gloves. You can actually wear gloves if you prefer, but put something on your hands. I had to order the art guard because nobody around me had it. And I, at the time I needed it, I didn't want to drive all the way to Santa Cruz, California, which is like about an hour away. Great art supply store they have to get some. So I ordered it at Amazon and I have Amazon Prime, so it came in a couple of days. And one jar, don't order two more than one jar. I think I have a spare jar around here somewhere because I was stupid in order two of them. I've had this one jar for like three years. So don't order more than one. All right. The first thing we're going to do this morning is something not super fun. I don't know if you remember when we painted this really cute little still life here. But we are going to, I'm going to show you at least initially how I protect it. And you should protect your paintings. If it's a watercolor painting, do a light coat of a spray, something spray. Really light coat, maybe two or three really light quick coats. You don't want to get it too wet because it will reactivate the paint. This is acrylic, so. It's a varnish or some other kind of sealer. I like to use Americana's Deco Page in Antique, which is a little bit of a color to it. When it dries, it dries really clear, but with a little bit of a like a golden brownish tinge. It gives it a little bit of an antique look. Now with paintings like this that have lots of texture on them, it'll take a long time for the like nooks and crannies to dry. So you want to just, you know, put a coat of this on here and then let it dry. I just saw a blob of something come out of there. No blobs. Okay. So I'm just going to cover the whole thing and the edges. Another blob. I'm coming down to the bottom of this jar. So use Mod Podge. This is Deco Page. This is Deco Art. I mean, this is Monday with Deco Art, so. But yeah, Deco. I know Mod Podge has one too. And I like to use simple products. Now, of course, if you have something that, you know, you feel is really super special. And you spent a lot of time on it. And, you know, maybe you want to use something better. Podge or Deco Page. Then there's plenty of products out there. Deco Arts has a varnish. And you could use that as clear that will protect your paint. If you have on your painting, and don't forget the edges. If you've painted the edges. If you have a painting that has charcoal on it, or pastels, or something like that, you're going to want to use a spray fixative before you do this. Otherwise, you're going to just smear it all over the place. So I would do this just like what we just did. And I would let it dry for a couple of hours until it's good and dry and clear. And even in the depths of the nooks and crannies, it's not still milky. And then, once it was dry, I would take Americana Decor, another Deco Arts product. This is their Cream Wax. And I would kind of glossy this antique Deco Page. The Deco Art Americana Cream Wax will not only cut down some of the gloss and make it a little bit more of like a satin finish, but lots of different kinds of varnishes or deco polish products. If you get hot, those of you who have done letter journals know. They get hot, they stick, right? And especially if you're mailing a painting to somebody like I do sometimes, because my paintings are almost all of them are for sale. I don't want to, you know, get hot in shipment, in transit, and then stick to the paper they're wrapped in. So I give them a coat of wax. Now you could use Daddy Van's Bees Wax after this dries and give it a really nice coat of bees wax. This will reactivate in the heat though. This Cream Wax doesn't. So once this is dry, I give it a coat of Cream Wax and I let that dry and then I give it a buffing with a soft cloth and I get a really nice satiny finish. It's nice and sealed. It's not going to stick to anything. The paint's good and protected. And it gives it a beautiful, beautiful finish. So I would, you know, recommend giving that a try. And like, Antbex Creations is talking about experiment with more of their other products. These are two really good products. And this one in particular, I use, well, both of these, I use them a lot. And let's see. Hey Gwen, how are you? Narda, hello? All right. So now that this is all like wet, I got to find some place to stick it. It's kind of dry. Let's put it over here somewhere. Just prop it up on a shelf. All right. So now we're going to grab out my large journal because I'm still working on finishing this large journal. Oh, there's the page I did that's on the cover of my book. So when you're working in a journal like this, I use, instead of those other products, I use Daddy Van's Bees Wax. So these pages were actually just freshly waxed. Once everything is really, really good and dry, if it has, again, charcoal or pastel, I spray it with a fixative. I use Spectra Fix because I have asthma. And then once that's dry, then I give it a coat of Daddy Van's Bees Wax and I grab some with a paper towel right out of the can and then rub it into the page. I give it a good coating. And that prevents your pages from sticking together too much. All right. So let's do this one. We have some inspiration photos sent to us by Ian, our own fabulous Ian, and we are going to do one of them. I printed three of them out this morning and I think I really kind of want to do something with this one. So I think we're going to work with that one. I'm just looking at the chat, make sure I'm not missing anything. I'm going to move the iPad over a little bit so that I can take my photos and prop them up in front of me. It's going to be off camera or maybe, or maybe I'll put them on the table up here. Let's see. You'll kind of maybe see it a little bit. You'll see the bottom of it. I'll go the other way. Okay. Now I got to find some place to put the baby wipes. I don't want them to go too far. I might need them. Yeah. It looks like Scotland, which is on my bucket list of places to go. I can't wait. England and Scotland are on my bucket list. Okay. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take, oh, you're welcome. You know, one of the things about the show is, you know, giving you guys information and tips. And if we can do them, of course, using DecoArt products are going to, because it is Monday with DecoArt. I'm going to, I have just a pencil. This is a general's layout pencil with us, which is a soft black pencil. It just says extra black. I don't even think it has like a lead, you know, number on it. And then this is a charcoal pencil. I'm going to take the regular pencil first, and I'm going to just kind of pencil in some of the stuff I'm seeing. Roughly. I'm not going to, you know, again, you know, you guys should know better by now. I don't, we like, I like the sketchy look. So now, my husband and I have decided to do some kind of remodeling and rearranging around the house. And that means that there may be some broadcasts coming up that I can't do because there are painters here or glory people here, you know, or something. Yes, please like share and subscribe if you're new. Think about supporting the channel for, by shopping in the Etsy shop, or you can use the fan funding button that is on YouTube. No, Norway would be fun, Cody doll. Norway would be so fun. See, so I love the extra black has always been a favorite of mine. It's been a favorite of mine for a long time. I'm reading God need to get this closer. Let's see. Hey, Sam UK. Hello. Me bear creations. I'm not sure what, what you mean. I'm not, I'm not sure what you mean. Okay. So we're going to just have very basic shapes, right? We're not, it's nothing too complicated. I love my generals pencils. I have a lot of them. The layout pencils always been my favorite, but it kind of smears a little bit like charcoal. Okay. So I'm going to start with a kind of a big, a big flat brush. Well, angle brush. This is a one inch angle brush. This is an Americana decor brush. Now when you're doing paintings or you're, or you're doing journal pages, you don't have to just use art brushes. You can use, you can use any kind of brushes. This is a Americana decor brush. I use brushes from the hardware store. Use, you know, use what you have or what's in your budget. Oh, that sucks. There should be a, you know, forgot your password thing on there though. You should be able to use. I'm going to go in and we're going to, of course do the sky first. And I'm going to use ocean blue. And I know you're like, wow, she just pouring it right on the page. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We should get some deli paper out though. Hold on. Cause I tend to be sloppy. So let's put some deli paper in. So we hopefully don't get paint too crazy all over the place. No guarantees. Once I started pulling paintings off the wall and getting ready for the painters and all of that stuff. And we're getting some rewiring done. I realized, wow, I need to work in the journals more and stop painting on so many canvases. I don't have places to put them. Good afternoon flower child scrapper. Good afternoon. I won't tell you guys what temperature here it is in California. Cause most of you will get mad at me, but let's just say we wish it was colder and wetter because. Yeah. We could use the ring. That sounded attractive. Didn't it? So I just blobbed some white on there. And I'm going to just take a couple of fingers. Do this first because then if you have to, you know, when you go in to put like the mountains and stuff in, this is done already and you don't have to go in and touch up your background and take a chance of ruining something. I have tried the general pastel pencils and I, and I like them. I will tell you that pastel pencils in general are not my favorite. I like the pastel chocks. That being said, you know, general's pencils are very affordable and I don't think you can really go wrong with them, especially if you're on a budget. I'll catch up on the comments in just a second. Hang on. Give me a minute. So I do want to cover up all or most of the paper back here in the, in the sky. So that's what we're working on right here. And then we're going to go back in. So I love that pencil in hybrid with charcoal that figures. That's why I like it and why it smudges nicely does. So I'm kind of not surprised. Now there's a million different ways to do clouds. This is just my way, you know, if you have a way that you like to do them, do them that way. This is your, these are your journals, people. Don't listen to, you know, people out there that say, Oh, you have to do this or you have to do that. That's a bunch of crap. Just do it your way. And I do Eve. I do sometimes listen to music as I paint. Of course, when I'm not in front of the camera, usually I have the radio up very loud and I am listening to music while I'm painting. Okay. Now I do think I'm going to need the palette plate. Let's see. They move some stuff. So I'm going to, um, yeah, I have pastel chocks. I've tried a lot of different kinds of pastel pencils and I'm not a big fan. So I would probably listen to Ian. He probably knows more about it than I do. In fact, I had some, um, um, chalk pencils, pastel pencils. I sold them because I wasn't a big fan. So I'm just kind of making my own grayish blue. Okay. So I'm going to, um, I can, I put it into the Americana decor true blue. And then I'm going to take a little bit of it and I'm going to put some white in it. Not all of it. I do have more white somewhere. Okay. So the generally when you're working in any, with any inspiration photo, you'll notice that the mountains that are farther away are kind of lighter and the ones that are closer or darker. That's true here. And, you know, we're going to, this is just the beginning. I like, like I said, I like pastel chocks. I like charcoal. Um, I have a couple of paintings that I actually forgot I had, um, that weren't hanging on a wall. And when we started moving stuff, I found them like jammed in a corner. And, um, yeah, we may, we may hang them up when we get done with the room. I need some more white in the crayons. I prefer an oil crayon or a gel crayon, but that's just me. I do have a box of past soft pastels. I agree with you Eve. And sometimes I have these art tools around and while I decide I don't care for them, I don't, for whatever reason, can't get rid of them. And then, you know, I take a class or I meet somebody and, you know, they just re-inspire that spark for you to try, um, that product, whatever it may be. And I, I think that's very, very true. I'm going to try to keep the colors I'm using like out and where I can, um, like put them in the description for you guys after. This is, what color is this? This is yellow, transparent yellow iron oxide. Oh, that's not good. I do have to make sure that like I have the windows and stuff open when I have the, um, oil pastels out because, um, they can, um, aggravate my asthma. They don't always, but they can. Um, gelato is a, I think, I think it's classified as a crayon, but I, you know, they kind of remind me of lipsticks the way they're packaged to be honest. So you notice that I'm really working hard at just making marks and not, um, really trying to be realistic with this at all. I'm just trying to give, I like this part of the picture and, um, that's what we're working towards. And I'm just making, I'm just making marks. Yeah, they remind me, uh, Lisa, that's what they remind me of like chapstick or lipstick. They're waxy like that, but I do think they're classified as a crayon. I can't do a lot with oil paints or spray paints anymore. They bother my asthma. Not that I ever did a lot with them, but I have to be careful. So it's fun to just experiment sometimes with your paints and your colors and an inspiration photo and just try to give yourself a picture that suggests the mood in the painting or the feeling of the painting without actually like trying to duplicate the whole painting, like just to do something abstract. I love abstract. I'm reading the, um, um, comments. I would recommend using like a spray sealer couple, couple coats, uh, light coats of a spray sealer to, um, seal your paints, your, I'm sorry, your gelatoes. Most of your artwork should be sealed. And that's not something that's like readily talked about. I don't know why. When I first started delving back into art, it was something nobody like nobody talked about. You know, the fact that you should, um, seal your art and protect your artwork. And I, and it didn't occur to me. I don't know why it didn't occur to me, but it didn't occur to me. We're kind of at the hot mess stage, just FYI. I kind of like the hot mess stage, but we're at the hot mess stage. I'm really wanting to put purple in here again. So I'm pulling out some true blue. Is it true blue? Sorry, ultramarine blue, um, because I'm really wanting to make another shade of green, something that's bluer and cooler. That's better. And I'm still using the big brush. I have less control over it, but that's one of the things I like about it. Okay. Now I'm going to put my brush in the water. I'm going to go in. I have my charcoal pencil. Um, I use spectra fixed. There is a, um, you know, a couple of different products. Krylon makes a couple of sprays. Um, I don't use lots of aerosol sprays because of my asthma, but there are, they are out there. Now I'm kind of deliberately, um, being a little bit shaky with my lines here. I love the way that's looking already. Yep. I love that. And it's really about putting just a few lines in, not too many and, um, really, you know, the lines will help you draw out certain features and emphasize certain features. Your art shouldn't be archived. Gwen, that's so bad to say. Don't say that. I don't like that. Your art shouldn't be archived. Everyone's art should be archived. It's part of your journey. I'm going to, I can't resist. I'm going to take some of the purple here. Purple is a really cool, um, great shadow color. This is di, is it dioxazine purple? Yeah, it is dioxazine purple, which I have to say is my favorite purple color. And I'm using this with the charcoal pencil for the shadows. You guys are going too fast with the chat now, but you know what? I have to say I love it that you guys spend part of the chat helping each other out. That's what I hope my channel is about and my Facebook group. So I love that. Love it, love it. It's fabulous. Keep doing it. Time for a baby wipe. All, all your art is beautiful. Even, you know, some of my art from when I was first starting, you know, there's beauty in it. And so it's part of your journey. And someday, you know, somebody's going to want to see that journey. And you know, I don't, I don't think there's any part of it that should not be saved and archived if possible. But the very, you know, but this is the 21st century. If you feel like you really don't want to mess with spraying things and quote unquote fixing things, take a picture of it or a digital scan. It does make for a huge pot. Tell me, I'm the one who has to go pack all that stuff up. And I'm being clean up my language a lot. Most of the books in the front room are journals and art books. So yeah, I know all about that. So in case you all don't know, Cindy's got this huge journal. She's trying to give the name to. So if you all have an idea for a good name for her journal, you should go look at the video. She has where she talks about that. Cindy, if you have like a link, maybe you can put it in the description. It's time to watch the brush. Now that blue is strong. Maybe I should just get a clean brush. I'm sorry, not blue purple. I told you it's been a weird morning. Let's see. All right. So I've got my favorite color aqua marine. And I kind of know what you're thinking. She's covering up all those marks. What is she doing? And I just got a blob there, but we're going to just live with it. But I'm going to go in with the acrylic paint. And then I'm going to just come in with a baby wipe. And I'm going to spread it out and thin it out with the baby wipe. And those other marks and those other paint colors are going to show through. You don't always have to have tons of fancy products. Sometimes you just need painting a baby wipe. Everyone gets better with practice. And there's no easy way to get better except to practice. There's no, there's no shortcut. You guys, if there was a shortcut, I'd tell you, but there's no shortcut. So purple and green together will make sort of a gray color, which I'm going to use hopefully to my advantage. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. Now, the nice thing about acrylic paints, if you're painting with acrylic paints, is that you don't have to be so concerned about leaving white paper or, you know, not making something too dark because you can't really go over it with acrylic paints. That's not the case. You can just keep adding marks to your page until you get what you like. These pages were not gessoed first. This is the Large Delusions Journal. And I'm just working on raw paper. This is not, this is not gessoed first. And going back to the background comment that I saw, if you create a background that you love and you don't want to work on it anymore, then don't. It's your journal. If you create a background you love and you want to keep working on it before you do, scan it. Oh, thanks. I try to keep these things like in an hour because, you know, you guys don't want to sit and watch me. Well, paint afternoon. Well, maybe somebody do, but I have the painter guy coming over. I can't do that. All right. This is yellow. What color yellow is this? Hansa yellow. Yellow is a really warm color. So you can use it or a neon. A neon would be good too. The yellow is very, really a very transparent color unless you just blob it on like I just did. I think that was too much yellow. We'll fix it in a minute. I'm looking at the painting and I'm looking where, you know, the sun seems to be hitting the, like the bridge part that's going over the lock. Yeah. All of them have like an ugly stage. Everybody, you know, no matter how practiced you are, you know, you're working on your art and you're thinking, oh God, but if you keep, you know, just keep working at it, then you'll get, you'll get to that, you know, really great stage. Some paintings, it comes easier than others. The good stage, you know, sometimes it's not, you know, so easy to get there. You know, I have a lot of old backgrounds that I've never painted over and those are some of the ones that you're seeing come out now in stickers in the Etsy shop as digital downloads in the stickers backgrounds and I'm using reprints of them in collage papers and things like that. There's nothing wrong with that. I need something dark. I don't want black. Ooh, how about this color? I love this color. Black plum. My picture froze a while ago because, you know, we're on the Facebook app. So the Facebook app hates me. Exactly. Abstract art in a way. They're just backgrounds and they're great just on their own. They don't have to be anything else. Maybe later on, like I've been doing, you want to turn them into stickers or, you know, use them for collage paper and something else. There's nothing wrong with that. Do that. Yeah, this is black plum. I love this color. It is a great color. I'm loving where our painting is going. I'm getting a different perspective turning around and looking at the screen. Then I am up close to the page. And a lot of times when I do these, I actually, it's a good thing to get a different perspective. And I'm just, I'm kind of scrubbing this in. I'm using it as a shadow color and a reflection color. This is a, this black plum is a fabulous color. It's sort of on the reddish grayish purple spectrum. I don't know how to describe it. It's a great color. I'm kind of wanting to leave some of these little bits where you see the white paper still. I think they're fabulous actually. I want to cover up more of them on the water, but I think up here, I think I'm leaving them to make sure I kind of put the suggestion of shadows in the right place according to the inspiration photo, right? That would be a good idea. Now, the nice thing about acrylics is if, you know, if you do this in stages, you don't try to do the whole thing in an hour. Do it in stages and let the different layers dry in between. Then if you do this, you go to do this layer and you do something in the wrong place, then you can just wipe it off with a baby wipe. Okay, that's a good Ian because, you know, the app hates me. So like I'm frozen on the drawing stage now, but at least I can see the chat and the main thing about having the iPad open is not to see how the picture looks because I can look behind me for that. It's to see the chat. Now, if when you're doing something like this, you start to lose, you know, parts that you love like the charcoal pencil lines, you know, you can always put them back. It's not a big deal. And I think I need to bring some of them back here, but let's get this, let's get this in here the right way first. Yeah, I like that. All right, let's get the charcoal pencil back. Okay, let's see. Oh, you're welcome, Maureen. Have a great rest of your day. Now, sometimes if you're doing like I do and you're not waiting for things to dry before you're coming in with your charcoal pencil, you have to like do this every now and then because dried up paint gets on the end of your pencil. So when you guys see me doing that, it's because there's dried up paint on the end of the charcoal pencil. I'm kind of liking this a lot. I'm sure where it was going when we got started as usual. I don't think I'm ever sure where it's going when we get started, to be honest. Because other than printing the pictures, I don't plan anything. So this is one of the other blues. This one was the ocean blue that we started with, and we used it in the sky. We're going to put some of it here in the water because remember I just said that I liked leaving some of the white paper. I like the way that looks, but we are going to put some of it down here at the bottom. Putting it on like this with baby white means I get a thin layer of it which means not only does it dry faster because it's a thin layer of paint, which this would dry kind of fast anyway because it's craft paint. But you can also see the other layers and marks through the paint. Because we don't want to cover necessarily all of that up. We want those reflections to be in the water. So this is the suggestion of nature. Christmas is coming up. It's a good time to add those art supplies. My rubber stamps are my book. Into your shopping list. So yeah, cloud reflections too. I am looking at the inspiration photo and they're sort of reflected. So I have a paint. I don't know what these are called paint pusher tool. This is from Hobby Lobby. This is by Lowell Cornell. It's called the style sticks. They have sets of them with these flat ends and some with the round ends. And they're really cheap. So I'm going to put some of that on there in white. And then I'm going to come in again with a baby white. And I'm going to push it around. That's too much white. So I'm going to go ahead and add a little bit with some of the blue paint. Ian, I think that's a great idea. If you can put the reference images up on the group page, then other people, if they want to try the same kind of thing with them, they can. I think that's a fabulous idea. I missed why we hate Facebook. But some of the apps drive me crazy. I loved it the other day when I was a kid. Cindy is one of the admins. That's why there's a wrench next to her name. She's an admin here. She's one of my best friends. I would say yes to that. As far as Christmas is concerned, Dick, Blick, Amazon, Jerry's Artorama, most of them have wish lists. So if you're wanting to make an art wish list for your family to get you those things that you want, like artist paints or chalk pencils or anything, make a wish list and then just give them the link. This is the large delusions journal. I love this journal for art journaling and painting because it does lay flat unless you go crazy in it like I did last year and put too much collage in it because then it's like you have to fold it back on itself. It's like a file folder paper. I thought that was funny. I thought it was funny. If I missed anything you guys and Cindy didn't answer it for me, type it again because I was distracted by the painting. That's what I do. I get distracted. I'm going to add a little bit of an orangey color. I have a couple of, they actually say yellow. This one is Americana primary yellow which you could use. This one is the Decor Art Traditions acrylic artist paint which is fabulous by the way. It doesn't have as many colors as the Americana so I frequently use them together. These are both. This one is primary yellow. This was Indian yellow but if you look at them they're very orange. It doesn't handle wet media well. You're right. I'm going to add a little bit of orange in this journal. I wouldn't do watercolor in this journal. You really should get your brush wet first before you start. I almost didn't. I don't always but the orange is another real warm color. I'm barely touching it to the page. There are a couple of architectural things in the inspiration photo that I want to show you. We're doing something fairly abstract so we're not looking to copy it exactly. Because this is the I forgot what I was going to say. Oh my god you guys. That happens to you too right? It's not just me. Mid sentence. Holy cow. Mid sentence. I walk across the house and I get to the other side and I'm like, I'm going to go over here? Yeah. It happens a lot more than I would like to admit. When you go to the store to buy your baby wipes to make art with, don't be offended when they ask you how many grandchildren you have at home. Or children. I go oh god no I'm past that. I'm going to take some of this yellow and mix it with some of the green. See I'm glad it sounds familiar to everybody. Oh yeah yeah. My husband started mimicking me. So now I'm really just doing finishing touches on the piece. Putting in color where I think the painting might need more depth of color more lights and shadows kind of mixing what I have and using what I have. But I love the way it's turning out and I'm just about ready to stop because almost at the point where I think if I don't stop I'm going to mess up something and I love the way it looks. Okay so yeah so now I'm really happy with this so I'm going to stop with the painting because I don't want to mess it up. You definitely could keep going if you're not happy with it and really think about adding colors in it suggesting your shadows and highlights with colors other than the ones you actually see in the photograph. We talk about that all the time. Let's answer some questions though. So if I have done watercolor in this book I recommend if you're going to do watercolor in any of the delusions journals that you prep the paper with a ground first. So you can do it what Ian's saying and prep it with gelatin I think I don't know how to do that you'd have to google it but I use Daniel Smith's watercolor ground and I have the white the black and the clear they're all fabulous the only thing is you have to prep the pages with it and then let it sit for like 24 to 72 hours before you can paint on it. Golden does have absorbent ground which should also work and maybe easier for some of you to get it only comes in white. So you can do water media in this and I recommend prepping the paper because the paper will not hold up to getting really wet and that includes here in the crack in the spine because if the water goes in the spine your journal is going to start to fall apart guess how I know that. Thank you so much. I love how it turned out I think it's wonderful. I always surprise myself I always think it's going to turn out like poop again. She says that's cute Cindy I'm going back and reading the past comments. See I get asked I think it's hilarious when I get asked how old my baby is and I tell them 22 I hope she doesn't need baby wipes I think that's funny I guess I should be flattered but I think it's funny I'm not having any more kids and too old let's see so you know this was just simple and quick I wasn't trying to do exact I was using the photo for inspiration if you want an exact copy I recommend printing the photo but if you want to inspire to do art on your in your journal or on a canvas from a photo then let it inspire you for shape and form and color and highlight and shadow and don't try to recreate it exactly do something sort of semi-abstract and suggestive why not this is fun and get your fingers involved if your hands aren't messy did you really have a good time I know Donna Downey is using masking tape although I heard that's not great to use you could put tape but you could put tape down the center or you could collage a piece of paper with some gel medium down the center so that water doesn't get in the crack but you have to prep the pages and in my opinion it's easier to just have one watercolor journal and one like everything else journal so this is like my everything else journal and then I have a watercolor journal okay thanks so I buy Kirkland brand from Costco unscented plain baby wipes um I've bought Huggies before and I think my box might be a Huggies box I don't know though my box is old and really messed up it's very it's very well loved but I buy Kirkland I go to Costco and I just get a case of Kirkland unscented baby wipes and then I have them for a while and that's the cheapest for me but definitely if you don't have a Costco use a coupon get whatever is on special sign up for some of these you know coupon sites that maybe have you know baby coupons and stuff like that look for baby sales and you know go to like babies rs and you know they always have like some brand of um baby wipe on sale and get whatever the one is that's cheap that's on sale unscented though yeah I've used Huggies in the past I buy Kirkland they're cheaper and I don't have a problem with the Kirkland I've never had a problem with them leaving lint or anything behind I know isn't this one I love it too I love it so much more than I thought I was going to and I love that you know we've left some of the white paper and you know it looks it almost looks like I did it left handed but I didn't and that is the one of the ways to break up if you're feeling like your work is too tight and too restricted put your paint brushes and pencils in your non-dominant hand and do the art with that you can't be too tight when you do it that way and that's a great practice to switch back and forth I think I bought you know I bought some Huggies or something and one of them came with a box and I've just kept the box all along it's been the same box I just refill it the lid comes off I did cover the outside of it with duct tape a while back to sort of try to clean it up but you know that didn't last long now it's all paint covered but yeah right most of my stuff gets paint splattered at some point unscented otherwise it's not a good thing for me and I have to hold my breath sometimes to get the baby wipes off that aisle anyways alright that's it for today so I want you all to try Ian's going to put these pictures on the Facebook page if you're not a member of the group the Facebook group go over there and join we have files of free inspiration photos free downloads and all kinds of stuff we also have the year long art journaling program that's coming up starting actually next month the first prompt comes out mid December and there is a page under the files tab that has all the starter videos on it and we're going to be doing you know little art lessons on all stuff all year long but give it a try print out an inspiration photo and go to paint my photo or one of the royalty free sites to get an inspiration photo if you don't have one and try doing something sort of semi abstract in your journal a painting and you know most of my work has something to do with words it doesn't always this one doesn't you definitely could use parts of the waterway here to do some journaling or you could have done some journaling on the background before you did the painting or something like that and have little bits of it peek through but it doesn't have to be your art journal can just be about art experiments and experimental creations and trying things before you put them on canvas and that's what my delusions journal is generally for so don't forget to support each other I love that some of you are putting out positive messages and telling people to stop hating on each other I love that keep doing that support each other I love that if you all have Etsy shops and that sort of thing don't forget to go to the Facebook group and list them for us put links in fact I think there's a file where you're supposed to put that kind of stuff and definitely if you want to support my art and my work there's ways you can do that including shopping in my Etsy shop buying a book buying a set of stamps or if you want to just do fan funding if you go to my Facebook my YouTube page the main channel page there's a Facebook button alright that's it for today don't forget the most important thing besides yes give it a thumbs up please like share and subscribe go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it for me to me that's more important than the thumbs up and the like sharing and subscribing I want you all to have a great day and do something nice for yourself that's always been my most important message to you all alright that's it for today I will talk to you later it's time to clean my hands I try I really try there's enough hate in the world we want to have fun and we want to make art and we want to do all that stuff I will make sure that I list the paint colors in the description below I used a combination of Americana craft paint and the deco art traditions artist acrylics they're both really good paints if you're thinking about looking into some of the Americana paints they don't have as many colors in the traditions as they do in the decor of the craft Americana paints but they're both great paints especially for art journaling if you create something like this that you love though scan it or photograph it for posterity alright that's it I'll talk to you all later bye guys