 Hey guys, so has anybody seen secret sodos? YouTube videos where she's painting feathers If you haven't I'll link her At least the first video to the description below. I'll try to see if there's a playlist for all of them Or I'll create one But what I did and watching her videos gave me idea So we're here on Monday with a Monday and deck of art and we're gonna paint a feather I have this feather here that was in my stash of stuff that I gessoed and I've got some deco art media fluid acrylics. I've got phthalo turquoise Titan buff titanium white cobalt teal Ultramarine blue primary cyan I've got pyrrole red cadmium orange primary yellow Hanse yellow medium cobalt turquoise Pains gray, although I don't know that we need it and sap green. I'm not sure I'm gonna use all these colors But those are the ones I pulled out. All right, I'm gonna get out a little a little plate We're gonna do a little seascape on the feather. What do you think? I think it'll be interesting. Let's do that I already gessoed my feather front and back And it you know made it a little bit smaller and squishier and you know That's okay, and then it's got the brakes in it, but I think it's gonna be interesting. All right I'm gonna zoom in just a little bit. There we go. So you can see what I'm doing I'm gonna have to hold it down like this while I'm painting which means I think that what I should do first Let's put a little bit of all of my paint colors on my on my plate So that I have this all ready to go. I don't think it's gonna take much paint. It's not that big a feather It would be really surprised so it took very much paint So I'm just gonna put a little drop of each one of these colors and whatever I don't use. I'll put in my year of my life journal or Rub it on my drop paper Which I can later use for collage something like that Okay, that had separated. So let's give that a shake. Let's grab a paper towel So I'm gonna just absorb that extra liquid that came out that's better So I was thinking we might do a sunset like seascape on the feather Which is why I have the yellows and oranges out and I told this is totally inspired by secrets channel I do recommend you go over and give her a watch She has some interesting Ideas about things and I love her Way that she kind of goes about stuff Put some paint gray on here. I don't know that I need it, but you never know. I might decide to put a bird on there All right, so we've got our palette Jumping to push this way. I've got three brushes I've got a filbert a flat and then I've got this one. I don't know what this is called No idea, but it's shaped like this Oops, why are you there? I like it because it's got this little point on it. So We're gonna start with the filbert And I'm gonna flatten my feather and make sure I make sure I'm in frame and we're gonna start with the Turquoise and I'm gonna put in my ocean Where I think I want it to be I'm gonna add some other cobalt teal. This is really dark Turquoise but a little bit of white I'm gonna put some white in there on them all right on the feather I'm gonna go back to the dark turquoise and I'm gonna just I'm gonna actually switch brushes Switch brushes. Let's switch to that one with a pointy end. I'm gonna put some little touches of dark Oceans not one flat color There's dark spots and light spots In it ocean this ocean nests. That's the new term ocean nests over here. We need some ocean nests That's pretty good. Let's Brush I need a rag Every time I've sat down to paint today. I haven't had a rag. What's with that? Alright, I Don't care if we get paint on the back. I only just sewed it for stability of the feather Hairs bristles whatever you want to call them. I don't know what you call them So I'm rinsing my brush off now Holding my feather down some more This time we're gonna do the sky and I think No, I'm gonna have to hold it this way. Normally I would turn it around but I need to hold it down and I'm right-handed so I'm going to start with This cyan color occasionally drop in some White a little bit of the darker blue The sky would be a little darker the further away. It was from the earth or the ocean And we want this to be Sort of realistic okay Let me go back to our angled brush and the dark turquoise color and I want to just clean up this line here Where the ocean meets the sky, which would normally be a pretty flat line Okay, let's give that a dry. Shall we but that's already looking interesting, isn't it? Now I don't know that you want to dry it too much or get it too hot Because I don't know what the heat will do to the bristle the hairs in the feather I just want to dry it enough that I can add other colors to this without making green or mud That's pretty dry. I think it's dry enough So let's put it back on our table and squish it flat I'm going to go back to our filbert brush. I'm going to try to rinse it pretty well I want to get all the blue off And I'm going to go into one of our yellows and I'm going to put in a sun hopefully Just a half moon shape Now whatever is above the water would be reflected in the water so Let's put a little bit of a distorted reflection of That shape In the water I'm not going to clean the brush off. I'm going to grab some orange I'm just going to use some water on the brush To aid me in some blending A little bit I'm going to grab a baby white Because I think that's a little bit too much orange And I think the baby might white might blend a little bit better. Yeah, it does Okay, let's grab some red We just want to hint it in the water I'm going to go back to my angled brush and add some turquoise back in over The paint we just put on here for the reflection I feel like I can stop holding it down so much. So I'm going to do that And it's acrylic paint. So this deco art media Fluid it's fluid acrylic. So you can just keep layering your colors on Right over the top of each other Until you get the look that you want and interesting marks It's just a little more challenging because we're working on a feather We're not working on something that's flat I'm going to see if I can mix up a little bit of purple. I'm going to take some of one of my blues And some of their red that's on here and I'm going to White and see what happens. It's a little bit gray for my taste So let's And it's probably just the shades of colors that I have here. It's actually probably the red Um, that's making it look kind of gray We'll work with it. We'll just keep mixing. I'm going to add my you just saw me add the Titan buffin I'm I actually know I'm kind of liking that color So it um looks like this It's kind of a grayish purple, but I'm kind of liking that so we're going to go with it I'm going to add some of that in here Just a little bit need some more white The sky got a little dark. I have this tendency to do dark stormy skies. Have I told you guys I am? I don't know why I just think I think I like them because there's just so many colors In a dark stormy sky that are it's more interesting than a bright sunny sky. I don't know That's what I try to tell myself anyway So long kind of streaks of white Can hint at clouds Or waves in the ocean. You're just being suggestive. You're not trying to be literal here We don't have enough space for one thing to be literal not to mention the fact that I don't really paint that way to begin with but We need a small detail brush Um, let's use this one. This is a really teeny small I don't even know what size it's just a little Um, and we're going to use that I'm going to I'm going to put some birds in the sky. Let's do that. That's nice and with the white titanium white caps Ones that aren't that messy. Holy moly I think my brush was a little bit too wet So that's all right. We're going to go in with it. We have the dark. Whoops Just try a brush off really well So we'll go in and we'll fix it again with my white draw my brush off better this time I'm going to find the light spots and the color we put down here for the ocean I'm going to just kind of tap in some White because we're working on a feather You don't want it to be too watery because what I'm noticing is the little hairs in the feather They wick the water the paint right up Like it would if it was watercolor Sticking with my detail brush. I'm going to go into my other yellow color Again, we're just we're putting in details little Small details. This is what's going to really make this painting pop On this feather I have some sap green here. I'm going to See if I could put some grass and Which is challenging over all the breaks in the feather. I gotta tell you I'm going to add some yellow to the sap green and lighten it up just a bit Add just some of the I think straight yellow Let's do it on the other side. Okay, and then lighter color and then some of the yellow I really like it. Holy cow Oh secret. This is all your fault. I think I want to put a little boat Let's put a little boat. We've got this paint gray on here Brushes too wet again There again, there would be a reflection in the water So pull some of that paint down And then I'm going to use Um one of my warmer blues Right into the wet paint's gray To give it the hint of where the you know sun is Landing on the boat and you've got all these blues Which generally speaking blue is a cool color But when you have these teally yellowy blues next to these cool these other blue blues or purpley blues That makes the teally blue a warm blue. Well, it's really nice There you go Monday with deco art paint a feather Thanks secret I hope you guys all enjoyed that and I hope you give it a try. It was a lot of fun The hardest part honestly was jessing the feather Give it a try and see what you think Um all of my contact information is in the description below if you have any questions comments or concerns, please let me know My Post office box is also down there if you'd like to Um Send me happy mail or you have a product. Uh, you're a company with a product You'd like me to try and review My contact information and links to my facebook group my amazon store The classes I teach everything is in the description below. Give it a good read if you will Um, if you have any comments, you can leave them right on the video. I do reply to all my comments Eventually, but I usually do them pretty quickly Um, I think that's it. Don't forget the most important thing Go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself like paint a feather because you deserve it. All right. I'll see you later. Bye