 Hey guys, all right, so we're gonna work on Ian's weekly art challenge I'm a few days behind on the challenges But anyway the week I'm working on is the second week and it's this pretty rose picture that I printed on Just plain printer paper and I want to do it on black paper So what I did was I printed the photo a little bit smaller than my paper I held it up to the light and can you can y'all see the hint of the paper back there? I'm not sure if you can but I held it up to the light and I centered my paper Behind the image and then I washi taped it to the back of this printer paper and Then I'm going to use some white transfer paper. It's like carbon paper only white And we're going to cut a piece of this off It smells very chalky, which is these things do Okay, I just need a little piece Someday, I'll cut a piece off here. We go This is by deco art. There are a lot of companies I'm sure that make transfer paper if you have some old-fashioned carbon paper that would work too because my paper is black Though I need something that's white And I love this deco art transfer paper. It's fabulous. It's deco art Americana And I will try to remember to put the link to the deco art website in the description below where you can Buy their products, I believe directly from the website or find some place local to you where you can get them All right that being said now. We're going to flip this over and I may need to take one of my pieces of Washi tape up But I don't want to do both of them. I don't want to have to line my paper up again So I'm going to just put this down here Okay, now we're going to flip this back over. I'm going to grab a just plain Pencil something with a sharp point and actually I need something hard underneath there to get a good transfer So I have to find my clipboard Here it is. It's got a whole bunch of photos on it. So let's take those off So I want something hard because this fabric and stuff on my table is a little got a little bit of a cushion And I don't want that So now I'm going to trace around all the shapes here of The flower that I see all the different petal shapes and work my way from the outside To the inside I hear my computer dinging in the background ding ding Now you can do this when you're you know Working on any image, you know, maybe you're working on a face or you know some other Image and you just in my case, you know, I just I'm just not feeling the whole drawing thing right now Maybe you're unsure of your drawing skills. This is you know, there's nothing wrong with doing things this way So I want to See how we're doing. Oh, well, it helps if you have your tracing paper turned the right way because I did very well But it traced on the wrong side. Hello And you know what I'm not going to edit that out. I'm gonna leave it in We all make mistakes. Just keep going Let's try that again one more time Now the other thing I'm going to use here is I'm going to use I think my chalk pastels, which I don't use much and my oil pastels Maybe some colored pencil and I'm not being super precise about it. I just really want The basic shapes. I don't want to have to fuss with proportion Just I'm not feeling it that way right now. So again, this time that we have our carbon paper turned the right way Let's Make sure There we go. Yeah, I think that's good So now we have this and I'm going to take our photograph. We're going to use it for inspiration for color and tone and shadow and light so I'm going to Save it here Now you can use this little piece of carbon paper again and again And you can use it get a few uses out of it before you have to throw it away all right So I think we're going to start with chalk pastels Of which I have mine sorted in a box like this and this is actually a parts box from the hardware department and We're going to start with some white because I'm working on black paper. My pink is not going to show up Without putting some white underneath it Here there we go so I'm going to start by Going up near Where my carbon lines are all the devices are blinking now. That was my husband's computer I don't know if that's going to catch on camera or not. It's blinking now, too I'm following my lines around and I'm looking at the picture to make sure these lines are You know some of these Petal edges are like this one here is in shadow. There's no white there and I actually don't want to put some any white there Just keep going around To work with charcoal and chalk although I don't do it too much I love the way it blends and smears on the paper and gives you really nice suggestions of shapes without honestly having to do too much and Somewhere I have a blending stump Somewhere can't find it because I need it. So, you know, why would I be able to find it or anything? All right, let me see if I can find it. I'll be right turned to my computer to mute because that was driving me crazy All right So now I'm going to come in here and I'm going to blend some of this white down into where the flower petal is Going and I Want to leave that outer edge crisp Don't worry about all the little crumbs not right now So looking at the picture tells me which side of where I put the white Should be left crisp in which where which direction I can do the blending Every now and then you're going to need to tap it off into the garbage can and this is the bottom of the flower So all the blending should be going this way and at the top it should be going the other way I'm traditionally not Actually, it'll be interesting to see how this works out because generally speaking I'm not that good at making roses that look like roses. They tend to look like tulips Or just blobs So we'll see how well I do what I want to do in my mind may not be what how it turns out in real life All right, I'm going to grab a pink I'm going to use this one And I'm going to Just put a little bit of it on and then I'm going to blend it out my hand on the white one I should be able to blend my colors right on the paper and you can do this sort of thing over a You know Acrylic painted background. That's a lot of fun Adding the white in there is going to give me a lighter shade of pink than the charcoal pastel the chalk pastel that I have Nice thing about the chalks too is you don't have to rush Because they're chalk. There's no there's no drying time. So you have eternity to blend them That being said that you do smear easy So you may get to the point where you're either done Or you want to keep adding more layers on top of this and the chalk just keeps moving around So then you really want to spray it with a workable fixative To stop that I take a little bit of so this is like a pinky purple I just want to add I have a couple of different brands of chalk pastels. They're For the most part all inexpensive so don't you know if you want to play with them Don't go break the bank getting a expensive set of chalk pastels Add a little bit of dark. It's less blue I used to keep them in a can Like just all jumbled in a can which is not a great way to store your chalk pastels So this box is much better If you're watching this I'm already Either at CHA in Phoenix, Arizona, or I am on the way to or maybe I just got back from And I'm sure it had I had a lot of fun Um Meeting up with Shannon green and my dear friend Cindy udder Talking art for you know a whole weekend who wouldn't love that, right? So like with my watercolors when I generally when I watercolor, I don't want to go too far before I do some blending and Try not to lose my petaly shapes my hints of petals While I'm doing it That just because your original inspiration photo is a certain color Doesn't mean you have to stick with that We're doing an artistic interpretation of right so you're not necessarily looking to Duplicated exactly The two pinks are very similar, but one is much warmer than the other I'm gonna do some blending now before we add any white Mostly right now. I'm just trying to get my You know basic tones shadows In the right places Hopefully or at least get them close See, I just knew I'd get my fingers in there eventually. That's generally what happens when I Work with chalk. I can't help but get it all over my hands It's part of the fun So now I think I want to Grab some oil pastels. I have a few different brands I think I'm going to grab these ones from Maypet Helix that they sent me Which I haven't used yet And I really just want the white one and the pink one And I think we're going to give this a spray of Workable fixative So before I actually commit these to that paper I do want to see how It's going to blend if it does this Maypet Helix one Oops See they they're okay other ones I don't have anything as light of pink though. I saw and I really like this one so Let's turn our photo back around again See what we can do I'm Using it on its side So I get something that looks more blendy because I can't kind of can't blend it I want to use it to Uh help me suggest my shapes Go back And just keep layering your stuff Where you feel you need to know the chalk pastels not going to blend super well with the oil pastel. They don't generally blend Very well together They sort of resist each other, but that being said you will get some interesting marks Now the oil pastel will dry the chalk pastel won't So you don't want to go too far if you're going to try to blend the two together Before you do your blending because you won't You won't probably get the look that you want Also, remember roses generally don't have perfectly edged petals They're not perfectly round. They usually have a little Few little irregularities. So if you make them less perfect, they're probably going to look more natural Now these aren't super well pigmented. I will say they do work just fine, especially for a starter set Again, don't go out buying a bunch of expensive art supplies when you're not even sure if you're going to like the medium or not Buy a student grade Or craft grade and just check it out first and then see if you're going to like it There's the other computer again because you know Well, I Turned mine to silent just fyi It was sort of bothering me The white served me well for Helping me keep my shapes, but now I feel like it's too stark so I am Putting trying to blend I'm going to blend it in with some of this red the red shows up better on the black paper I'm looking for color This is a portfolio oil pastel This is the portfolio oil pastels not only are a little bit better pigmented, but they're water soluble Generally speaking oil pastels should be your last Layer On your page you aren't going to be able to write over them acrylic paints not going to stick to them Okay, we're not done yet Because I really want to get something neon on there neon neon and I don't have Let's see what I'm looking for I don't let's see. What do I have that'll work? I wonder how these would show up Maybe we should try them I really only need the pink one These are um these might not show up at all, but these are a bible high glider gel pens They kind of show up Now that I put some on there though needs to be in a few places This is not going to work. I'm pretty sure but I kind of want to put some paint pen on there Or Yes How about some High flow How about some high flow? I just got this in the art snacks box. Let's try it shall we? So you're probably gonna not gonna stick I just told you guys that that oil pastel really needs you to be your last line of defense, but You know We're gonna try it anyways. I'm pretty sure it's not gonna work Because I'm just having fun. I want you to use Ian's art challenges weekly art challenges over in the my year 2017 group As a way to experiment And play you don't have to show anybody if you don't want to what you've done Um put them in your journal count them off as a learning experience no matter how they turn out And just give them a shot and see what happens. Give it a shot What's the worst that could happen? I don't think I've put this many mediums on a piece in a while I think it's been a long time since I've done this. So this is really like neon shocking bright pink And I'm going to use this instead of Um using a paint pen because I'm more likely to be able to get this to Lay down over the oil pastel with a brush Then I am going to be By using a Paint pen paint pens totally not going to work this golden High flow you can also use airbrush paint by the way, I do have that too. It's cheaper than the golden high flow It's this is pretty transparent dries kind of quickly Shapes around You know, there's plenty of shadow in here What we don't have is something to make the edges pop and you know Don't get wrapped up in trying to match the color of your photo Yes, I stuck with pink tones because that was in the photo, but I'm not going to get wrapped up in My painting not being the exact same color as the inspiration photo And if you've seen me do um faces Um budas especially then you know That the use of neons is something I love to do to suggest The bright pops of color And rather than just bring in like white or something like that I'm barely using any paint and I'm barely touching the brush to the canvas At all And I'm you know, I'm also smudging some of it with my fingers or with the brush I want to be more suggestive rather than give you definite lines here I like the way that looks better And just building up the layers And make sure I've got everything where I want it to be And remember the most important thing that you know, the inspiration photo is supposed to be inspiration You know feel free to use it as inspiration for color shape form and copy it exactly if that's what you want to do It's not what you have to do. I tend to veer off into left field somewhere Generally speaking I like that. I am going to stop there because I really like that now I'm going to take this and put it back in the bottle because this is a little pricey Golden high flow is generally about eight dollars a bottle Um, and I can check on you The air paint brush paint for you right now. I I usually get my airbrush paint Which has a similar consistency and transparency um at hobby lobby And I have hot It is a very similar color This one's eight dollars and it's one ounce This one is four dollars and fifty nine cents and it is a lot more Let's see. Does it say Two ounces so double the price for less money So you can and if this is not transparent enough for you and too thick for you You can always add water or a glazing fluid to it or airbrush medium All right, that's it. That is my picture done inspired by ian's rose I'd love to see what you guys have done with his Inspiration photo and the ones he has coming out going forward. It's a lot of fun. I hope you guys are enjoying the program I know I am and uh, don't forget to support my channel if you can by shopping over at my antsy shop and Don't worry about if your artwork doesn't look like somebody else's or doesn't look like how you think it's supposed to Because there's no right way. There's no wrong way. There's only your way And most importantly go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it All right. I'll see you later. Bye guys