 Hey guys Good morning We get you up on the iPad so I can see the questions. Let's see. There we go Hey, everybody. Good morning So as pro. Oh, I'm upside down. Why is why am I upside down? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Hello from Italy Good morning. I don't know why I'm upside down. You can see it. Okay, that is gonna be weird I don't know if it's gonna make a difference if I move the phone Let's try, you know, like the rest of you. I'm sure I updated my software Over the weekend. It doesn't make you notice. Nope. I'm still upside down That didn't help did it? Sorry, I don't know why that is. I guess we're gonna have to work with it just being upside down Hello, Lisa. How are you? So we're upside down this morning. I don't know why I'm gonna turn the finished canvas this way I don't know why we're it must have something to do with the iOS 9 update. That's all I can think of I wanted to get on this morning, which is the first time I had a chance and Answer some of the questions about painting this face Maybe do another one a little slower, which is gonna be challenging because I'm gonna have to turn it my canvas this way So you guys are going to be upside down. I'm sorry about that Um, I'll be able to flip it the video when it goes to youtube Yeah, but anyway Do you sell your artwork in ebay or through I sell my artwork on etsy And I have a website I can sell it through too. Although I haven't updated that yet. All right So good morning everybody. I'm still drinking my morning coffee. See First thing we're going to do before we get started, which I forgot Saturday is we're going to put on some art guard to bury your cream some of the artist paints I use have Nasty chemicals in them So we hey Mary. How are you? So we're going to try to do our best to prevent any of that getting absorbed through our skin By putting on some barrier cream. You can use art guard. There's another one called invisible glove You could wear gloves. I prefer to not wear gloves So this also makes it easier to get the paint off your skin painting reproductions. So First of all, if you're going to do reproductions of somebody else's art, you have to be careful of copyright issues and Um, selling artworks are really tricky business. I would look into it to somebody who knows with somebody who knows more about that than I do I really do art because I love art if I can sell a little bit than I do and I only sell original pieces of art not reproductions Or reprints of my own art if that's what you mean, then yes, you can you know selling reprints of your own art can be pretty profitable You still might somebody may still own the copyright on that. So you still have to be careful so anybody who saw me on Saturday With pasta brush, you saw me paint this face again. Sorry that it's upside down Uh in 10 minutes. I worked on a background like this one. This is just a small canvas I'm not even sure how big it is. Let's see Do I have a ruler? I have a ruler the canvas is Helps if I'm using the right end about five and a half by seven And I already had the day before just collaged a few bits of scraps of paper on it and put some painting marks And then let that dry and um as you know, sort of a mixed media background And that was what we got started on for the face One of the main questions when I saw the replay was what kind of paint I used So here you can see my pile of paint. I have lots of different brands of paint I really don't stick to any one brand of paint Um, I have everything from a student grade Um generic brand of artist acrylic This is by art district, which is an erin brothers art and framing brand Erin brothers is a subsidiary of michael's Um Liquitex basics I also have liquitex heavy body This is just titanium white. This is brilliant yellow green This is quodachro blue violet I do sell prints of my artwork. Uh again, you have to look on my etsy shop. Um, this is amsterdam acrylic turquoise green This is atelier brand Um, which is hey, yeah, yeah, is it an australian brand? Yeah, it's an australian brand I had I got this from utrecht and I have panes gray and alier Yeah, aliamide. I can never pronounce that. I don't know aliamide yellow light, I don't know ar y l a m i d e yellow light This is a schmink acrylic schmink the same people who make watercolor paint That's gonna kind of print. There's a print. There is and I have printed some glissé prints before um, I also print reprint on a number of different kinds of paper including um metallic paper which gives some of my artwork a really interesting finish when it's being reprinted I use a local photography Reprint studio called bay photo. Um, and um, they do reprints for me on demand of my artwork and then I sell those on etsy. I also have um Some artwork that is you know a uh jpeg upload And uh, I really don't keep a lot of it in stock. I do it on demand whatever the customer wants Okay, so this is a schmink and this is carmine And this is a sample tube. They sent me a sample and I got to say I've never tried the schmink acrylics before Um, yeah, I really love them. This really little bit of red is so highly pigmented And this is a joe, so joe, sonia print paint chroma's joe sonia This is made in the usa this again. I got I think at utrecht.com This is amethyst and these are the these are the colors I used on saturday um, I also said on saturday that I tend to use Faces from magazine images uh for magazine layouts for suggestion and inspiration for position and proportion and features Although I have by no stretch a realistic painter. This is just so that I can sort of get something that resembles a face Um, I am an expressive abstract painter So I don't generally do anything that's too realistic and that's off camera that way. Um, where I can see it Now we're going to set up our palette first The way I usually set my palette up. Good morning everybody Um, is I usually put my white in the center You know, I'm not sure I would definitely, um check into it though because you don't want to get started selling Reproductions of their paintings and then get in trouble. So I'm no by no stretch a copyright expert, but I would definitely if I was um in your position. I would check it learn Okay, so I usually put my sort of light colors together. I Do not put things in like color wheel order. This is like gina genus color wheel order All right, this is panes gray, which is I use a lot of panes gray instead of black Panes gray is more interesting If you guys have any Questions, let me know and if uh, gay lib is a troll He should know right now or she should know right now that I will if you keep that up, I'll block you So just fyi. We're not here to talk about big butts this morning. We're here to talk about art I think it was lisa If it pops up again, I'll block it unless one of you guys have done it already Yeah All right, so now we have our palette set up Here's go make a sound when someone comes on I don't know. Thank you. Miko. I appreciate that so much It's good to have peeps out there that can do that stuff for me. I'm gonna throw this paint tubes on the floor hang on So they're out of my way. All right Okie dokie okay, so Curious about my setup before we get started. That's a good question. So I have my iPad which you can see in the corner of the screen and I am logged in as you guys are um, and I'm watching the broadcast with the um With the Comments and Can you guys hear me? Okay Sorry, I bumped the camera Okay I have my phone hanging in a cradle above my work table pointing down at the work table so that That's what I'm filming with my iphone. I do have pictures of that And I can post them to my Um social media later. Um, if you're in my facebook group If you're in my face, we will in a minute if you're in my facebook group Um, I you can look in there and I will post pictures there But I have a cradle hanging off the shelf above my work table And my phone is um hanging in the cradle pointing down at the table and I film with that But I'm able to see you with the ipad All right, so looking at my inspiration photo. I'm going to start with pains gray And I'm going to start outlining my face and I'm going to actually put this one away And even though I use the same inspiration photo, I can guarantee you no two of these ever come out the same So I'm going to set that aside and we'll compare it later, but I can pretty much guarantee you It's not going to come out the same. This is a small filbert Before somebody asks You're welcome. Um And I don't know what size filbert this is, but it's just a little tiny filbert brush So I'm going to start with the forehead And you know what I'm going to put this down here so you guys can see What I'm doing So I'm I'm just looking at the lines here of the forehead Yeah, it looks like a little number four. It's a small one. Yeah So then I'm going to put the bridge of the nose here And I may not get the lines exactly in the right place the first time That's okay, and I'm taking a little more time with this so it's possible that this one even turns out better than the first one Did Putting in the lips And I'm right now. I'm just kind of Mapping things out. I'm going to close the mouth. The inspiration photo has an open mouth Because this is an inspiration photo. We're not looking to copy it exactly. All right, we're going to put in I've got an eye here my bro. I know you're thinking oh my god. What did she do? I just gave it some Interest there blurred my lines a little bit. We're suggesting the shapes rather than actually worrying This is not about drawing in exact shape. You're doing an expressive portrait So this is about suggesting shapes the viewers. I will put in details in that you don't even paint necessarily I like this is a clay tool one of my favorite tools Thank you, Mary. I saw that Comment appreciate that So i'm going to bring in some of the paint's gray here I think that was even less time than saturday getting my fingers involved in the painting process No, I like painting with my fingers I do have my baby wipes handy and my rag So now i'm going to go in with um Um I'm going to just go with this violet color, which again is a cool color This is a one of the darker purples. So it's going to help me with my shadows The warmer colors help with the light source I'm looking at all the places in the inspiration photo where there's shadow where things are darker And I am taking a little you know more time than I was on saturday So if you guys want to ask me questions as I'm painting It's one of the reasons we're doing this so you can definitely do that You may start to lose some of your features You bring and you'll bring them back Thanks for all the hearts guys Okay, so now that's pretty dark I'm going to clean my brush off a little bit and i'm going to pull in some of the lighter colors now And i'm going to start with the lighter violet violet watercolor question. Okay shoot, Mary You're welcome So now this is a warmer violet. These are both purple colors But this one is much warmer than the other one So this one i'm going to use to help me with my light parts Indicating sunlight warmth the brightness in the photo And you'll still see some of the background through the face and it just provides some interest which to the turquoisey blue color favorite colors to paint with again, uh, this is um A warmer color than the other ones that we're using And at some point you want to probably lose the No, the coin the kurataki because they're more of a student grade paint are more opaque than the daniel smith and windsor newton You're not imagining things You're welcome All right, so now i'm just Lightning up the spots Some spots we don't want to get her too dark here I'm going to now before we do too much else I need the colors are beautiful though, Mary. I'm going to add the white to her eyes The white part of the eyeball is known as the sclera for those of you who do not know I for years I'm going to mean years. I mean years was a licensed dispensing optician I used to know a lot more names of the parts of the eye, but I've forgotten a lot When do you know when to stop? Okay, so you know, I get asked that question a lot I have a hard time stopping usually I stop when it goes to its forever home I don't paint live people in the nude. You'll have to Go somewhere else for that. Okay. I'm going to go into my lime green Which is a much warmer color than we've used so far And don't be afraid to you know mess up and put the wrong color in the wrong place because This is all about playing and experimenting and especially if you're doing a timed exercise um One of the points of doing a timed exercise is to you know get loose and You know stop worrying about What color you're putting where and You know be more free and expressive about your mark making Thank you, Mary So we're going to just keep adding our warmer colors To our photo on top of the darker ones Until we get something that we really like Blending them a little bit adding more color when we need to I do want to grab my stabilo pencil Because I want to be using that at some point I'm going to go in now with the lemon yellow This eye is bothering me. It's not quite right, but we'll work on it There's always some part of the face that when you're doing this and especially when you're painting In these non-traditional non-life light colors that's going to give you like fits There's going to be some part of the face that you're going to have to like keep going back to and working on Because you're just It's just not quite right There's always one part um at some point too you want to leave the inspiration photo set aside because You need to work on the painting On its own And it takes on its own life separate from the inspiration photo And that's okay That eye is giving me fits so let's see if we can fix it Try this round brush That's better actually Let's go back to the filbert. Let that dry a little bit. I want to um Lighten up underneath her nose because right now it looks like she's got boogers hanging on her nose And don't forget, you know, you've got your baby wipe and if you get some paint in the totally in the wrong place You know my background my mixed media background is completely dry I could rub it with a baby wipe and all that paint is going to come right off That's my dog There's probably somebody out in the front yard So I had the idea this weekend if you guys want to We're going to do some sort of a weekly art lesson And I may even and I can't guarantee I'll do them every week But I was thinking maybe even we would do like watercolor Wednesday live Like some art basics That's pretty good. She's pretty good. I like that. You like that idea. Okay good Now so now you know what I'm really liking the way her face looks A lot here's a view for you guys right side up and at least for the moment I'm not wanting to touch her. Yay. Okay. So good. So we're going to start this wednesday With watercolor wednesday live I'm not sure of the time yet probably around the same time between 10 30 and 11 o'clock pacific standard time And um, we're going to just do basics. So you need a watercolor set It could be a student grade one like koi or Kurataki or a windsor newton student grade set. It doesn't have to be fancy. Whatever you have Um and some watercolor paper and some brushes and you'll need at least two Water containers one for dirty water one for clean water. Okay, and we're going to just work on some watercolor basics to start with Okay, so now I really like her. So now let's do something around for with the space around her Up the area above the little person on your the right lower right hand side of your screen and a bunch of hearts will pop up So now I'm going to just hint at some, you know hair around her face And I'm going to use the purple at least to start with The two purples I should say not just the one purple Now when you're painting a canvas where it's bigger small Don't forget your sides If you paint the sides out too while you're doing it then you don't have to worry so much about framing it And now that I'm going back at it. Let's see I like it, but it's not right It's not right exactly right there yet Let's see last time I added some red to her face, but this time I'm not wanting to do that So I don't know we'll see wet my brush off. It's too wet. All right Oh, yeah, that's good. That's good to tell them Thank you How do I decide on colors? um So I Have a set Of colors that I prefer Um having trouble painting and talking Because the eye is just giving me fits Yeah, I should have not touched it. See this happens So I have a standard kind of set of colors that I prefer Oh, that's actually nice Um, and I use usually use those I paints gray is usually my go-to color for shadows for the cool the cool colors for the shadows and um This is usually my standard palette when I'm doing faces So a paint to gray or something dark besides black turquoise one or two purples yellow lime um Sometimes a red. This is not a color. I always have on here and then white um And I don't use white the way you would standardly normally think of it using white I do use it to put a little bit in the white part of the eye Because you kind of need that to give your piece You know some life If you add just you know a little It doesn't have to be a lot. In fact, if you put too much Um You'll tell you'll be able to tell that they're you know, you'll know right away That's why you should have your have your thumb or baby wipe ready um You know when you're starting to put your final highlights on if you're using white Have have something ready to wipe it back and smudge it a bit because if you put too much you'll know right away um I wouldn't use any more colors than this than I have on this palette right now because that is going to be too hard for you And that's going to be too many colors. You want a couple of darks cool colors a couple of warm colors And then some white and that's all you need um Now you can have shades of the same color like this one is much cooler Than this one. This is warmer and you can do this kind of thing in shades of all of the same color But that's tougher. It's easier if you do it this way my usual. I usually also have um Some sort of not always but a lot of times I have some sort of neon Those are really great warm colors like neon orange or neon yellow Something like that right now. I'm just touching up some of the shadows I'm actually going to do some of it with a stabilo pencil We are mixed media artists after all so You can firm up some of your lines with your stabilo See, I really like that. She's turning out great. I love her. Okay, so now I don't want to mess with her face anymore Because I'm really liking the way she's looking Um, so what we're going to do now is we're going to do the edges. So I'm going to actually use my baby white And I'm going to grab some of my panes gray And I'm going to smudge it around the edge a little bit and you can use, you know, your finger or paintbrush and makeup sponge I think on saturday, I use the makeup sponge got to move that because it's totally in my way You guys can't see but I just threw it on the floor So I'm going to touch up my edges before I do too much with the hair around her face That way if I get some of this paint on there on the front side It's not as big a deal I haven't messed up anything too important This video lesson will be up on youtube Within a couple of days it takes me a couple days because it's not easy to get um The video footage off of my phone and um into the video editor and I have to put it in the video editor to Do some stuff with the um screen size All right Do some a little bit of blending just with my baby white So things sort of seamlessly blend One into the other I like that I'm going to take some of our purples again and Touch up just some of those lines that we lost And see I I ended up not using that red I like her without the red. I like red She doesn't really need it So there you go That's how I did the painting from saturday now I took obviously more minutes to do this one than I did the one on saturday But I did use the same inspiration photo And there's how different they both look. Let me move them a little bit. Let's see There we go. Yes, okay Do a few of them and um You know time yourself And you'll notice that the first one is okay But then when you get if you depending on how many of them you do when you get to that last one Um, that last one's going to be much different than that first one I'm noticing that I want to Get a little bit of the paint gray and the turquoise together on the same brush. It's a little bit Yep So also don't be afraid to you know, turn your paintings upside down even if it's a face That should be less bright right there and more in shadow You're welcome Does anybody have any questions And all this extra paint gets wiped off onto a journal page or something never fear. It doesn't ever go to waste In fact, I've got to paint on some of my fabric that's on my Table here today So I think wednesday we'll be back with a watercolor lesson Wednesday morning between 10 30 and 11. I'll try to announce it on facebook before I get on And um, I hope this gave you guys some idea of a quick sort of little painting exercise that you can do Um, give it a try and see what you think You need two or three cool colors on from the color wheel So look at your color wheel and look at the paints that you have Here's one of my color wheels and so for the most part Like you know, these are going to be your cooler colors that will help you indicate shadow and And coldness and darkness And then These colors will help indicate sunlight and warmth fluorescent orange and fluorescent Yeah, pink is a great one great two great colors to use but I would suggest Um, two or three cool colors and two or three warm colors And then just really start laying layering your marks on top of each other until you get something that you're really happy with And uh, that's it for today. I think unless any but somebody has any more questions Thank you for the hearts very much And I will talk to you all later. Don't forget to go out have some fun play with your paints And um, do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Thank you so much You're welcome And I'll see you all wednesday Bye