 Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of the artsy trio. This month, I was going to say week, yes I was. This month the mood board is done by our dear Mike Deakin and I love a good color challenge and in my mind this is a one color challenge. When I do one color challenges, which I do occasionally on my channel, I don't consider black and white the color. The color is the other thing and the black and white I usually allow myself to use as additives to the main color. So I kind of think of this as a one color challenge. That's where my brain is at with this. I'm also fascinated by the geometric patterns in this and the fact that it's orange, which fun fact is not one of my favorite colors. So we're going to start off by gluing this down. I should have grabbed a glue stick and I forgot. And then we are going to take a variety of things. I tried to pick at least a few things I haven't used lately. I do have a bunch of distress crayons. I don't use them very often. To be honest, they're one of those things I probably should purge because I don't use them. But let's try them in this instance. I do have three orangey colors, although this rusty one might be more on the gold side. I found some black and white washi tape and some orange washi tape. We'll talk about what I have that and I found black, white and orange paint, journaling paint. I use a matte finish acrylic, either a matte acrylic or a acrylic gouache for journaling because it dries very matte and flat and it doesn't doesn't stick when you close your book. So we are going to use these items. I did also earlier I was doing some pulling of parts for my downstairs journaling kit and I ran across this collage image. And for some reason it needs to be on today's page. I can't explain to you why other than it has a little bit of terracotta-y orange color in the pot. Question mark? I don't know. So anyway, we're going to see where we can go in this. First I'm going to grab some glue and then we're going to get started. Okay, first thing let's glue the mood board down here on the opposite side of the page. I think we're going to work on the tan side this month. This is sort of an experiments journal. I started quite a long time ago now and for the most part we do our artsy trio videos in here. I've done a few other things in here but mostly I think it's artsy trio. I think after the first couple of experiment pages, yeah, so that's all right. Okay, now I think that I want to mask off a border. Now if like me you sometimes try this and then you can't to get the tape off cleanly and it rips your paper when you're done. Get it hot, use a heat tool or a hair dryer and get the tape warm and it'll loosen up the adhesive and then it should come off cleanly. You can also like put that tape on your shirt and get some of the sticky off. Okay, it's kind of straight maybe? I just bumped the camera didn't I? Okay, next thing I want to do is cut this down and make the image a little straighter because you can tell I just packed out it with some scissors to get it out of the magazine it was originally in. All right, I don't know why, again I don't know why that needs to be on there but it does. I thought we would start by doing a checker board and so I'm going to get a pencil which I happen to have right here because I've got a nightmare of abstract watercolor painting stuff to the left of me um but I do need a ruler this one is big enough yep okay I want to mask I'm mask off I want to yeah so we're going to do one inch increments four inches so that was a happy accident I didn't intend on that okay so then we're going to just draw some pencil lines it doesn't have to be perfect and Lord knows when I get to painting it's probably not going to be because you know even with the lines I'll probably still mess it up now if you have a checker board stencil use that hey Mike there's a stencil idea I don't want to make it but there you go okay now let's paint each square white or black alternating our colors and see where we go from there oh that's less than perfect but that's okay we're going to go back and touch up a few spots not perfect but I'm okay with that I got a stencil this is actually one of my stencils I don't make stencils anymore um but when I did this was called single cell and um I don't know maybe I'll think about making them again at some point if you're interested leave a comment down below all right I am going to pick my orange which is orange medium looks to me off camera as more of a salmon color um than orange but and I'm going to just pounce pout maybe pounce a scrub we'll see how that turns out it doesn't have to be perfect let's do one over here that works for me um let's dry it again I think it's time to add our plant and as I'm doing that I will tell you I never create with a plant anymore sometimes I'm inspired by a mood board like when we do our arty trio videos um or a color but I don't I don't plan I do a lot of things just by feel how it feels um or how I feel about looking at an image um I just follow my my artistic instincts whether they lead me in a good place or not sometimes not but you know that is what it is all right we want to get these out yet I think I think we want to do washi tape if I can find the end some of these washes I haven't used in so long washi doesn't last forever it starts to do that and you know it's funny I have a plant on here and Mike has two things in his mood board that are from nature they're not plants but one is a snake and one is a bird interesting so now we have these the question is what colors are they because I have no idea oh yeah yeah orange this one is a spice marmalade this one says rusty hinge I have a feeling this one's too gold oh no maybe not okay and this one is carved pumpkin wow that's orange okay where are we going to put these I have no idea I think that one was marmalade maybe I don't know I don't know I'm gonna move it around with a damp baby wipe I did forget how easy these were to use and how nice it is to add shadows with them and highlights and stuff on your journaling page see this is why I still have them because I think oh maybe I should purge them I never use them then I do use them and go oh yeah okay so anyway if you have that feel that way about some of your art supplies just know you're not alone okay now we have this really bright pumpkin colored one let's put the lids on these other ones because we used them already okay you know I know I said orange isn't my favorite color but I kind of like where this page is going plus it's always good to challenge yourself kind of artistically I am feeling the need for some green so hold on it's probably helpful if I do this with my reading glasses on so I can actually see what I'm doing you could of course do this with a paint pen just simple shapes simple leaf shapes simple curvy lines when you're painting nature it's not about being perfect because nature is not perfect nature doesn't have straight lines there's a piece of fuzz hanging off my brush take a little bit of the black why no idea I'm just following my instincts and I'd love to see you all do the same thing when you're working on your journal pages and in your artwork and if you have questions comments or concerns the RC Trio does have a facebook group that you can join to not only get a copy of the mood board and follow along with us but to get help and ask questions you can also find me all over social media there's links for all kinds of stuff down in the video description I really like that do I want any I don't think we need any more orange okay I do think it needs words because 99% of all my work well I shouldn't say that 99% of all my journaling work has words in it I have gotten to where my other work does not have words but anyway that's for a different video I think that I just picked that out right away okay that's it I guess I should make sure everything is dry first before I'm trying to get at that with the glue stick one little journal collage journaling tip I do always use a glue stick anymore and I use the lid to smooth it down the lid works great just like that there you go I like that I don't know why I like that but I do smeared the paint a little bit but that's okay I am going to make some notes on the other side and I'll be right back okay there you go I wasn't sure about this one when I started because as I said earlier orange is not my favorite color and this was a big experiment there's a couple of boo-boos on the page but it's not intended to be you know perfect I don't do perfect and I do love the way it turned out the addition of the green in my opinion just makes a pop what do you think anyway I'd love to see what you can do with this month's mood board and please go watch Bea and Mike's videos and give them a thumbs up like share and subscribe all three of our channels if you will we'd appreciate that check out ways to support the free content down in my video description they also have ways to support their content you can check out their video descriptions I even have Patreon and a private Facebook Facebook chat and my patrons have a private 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