 Hi guys, we're here with another video for art joy of sharing and this month Our free our frame. What do you see at that? That's not even a word. Hello Hey everybody and welcome to another video for art joy of sharing this month Our theme was just sort of a freeform free for all we could pick what we wanted. I really want to encourage you all to sort of I don't know what to call it, but we're gonna just clean up my table by putting everything in a journal The epitome of sort of junk journaling I think this is a good example of a page in here This is a moleskin an old moleskin 2017 2018 weekly notebook. I love sort of doing our journaling in these um combination of gluing and drawing and painting and You know, they can't take a lot of media but What they do take usually comes out interesting as you can see I need to wax a couple pages, but anyway So this was just stuff on my table stuff from happy mail I punched a bunch of these words out with my new we are memory we are memory keepers word punch board And I had all these little letters left over of course I did so I would didn't want to throw them away So I glued them to the page then I thought I'll put the word on here and I had the washi tape on here already It's just stuff on the table. It's not done yet. Um, and it's just a background to start with and Whether I'm doing it in a collage format or like in this journal. I often Just go in let's see if I can find one And I just wipe off brushes um, this one I don't know if you've seen yet, but this is coming up in a video and this is kind of in that theme I guess I don't have any more in here That one started out by just as a page where I could just stick those little Watercolor labels to there we go just wiping off my brush on a page at some point that'll turn into something else But rather than waste the supplies I Wipe my brushes off on a page. I Glued bits and pieces on the page And get them down on something to start a new piece of artwork with rather than just chuck stuff in the trash or wash it down the drain I always have Varying sizes of journals on the desk or near the desk This is the dina wiggly media journal. This is my moleskin as I mentioned Here are two more smaller moleskins and then I have these two homemade junk journals one I made one my friend Uh, pig robinson if I'm not mistaken made one of my design team members. Let's see. There's a note in here Oh, sorry wendy Wendy made I think That's the note in here. Anyway, one of the design team members made for these meet this for me So I always have a few on the table and I have a couple of brushes I've got some matte medium Dry glue stick and some aly's tacky glue My desk has a lot of paper on it right now So I'm going to speed forward through my process of just grabbing things and putting them down and getting a background started I'll be right back Okay, so now you saw what I did and I just was really semi-randomly grabbing pieces that are on the table not going hunting around in my staff Sure new pieces trying to use up what's already out on the table What I've received in happy mail what I pulled out for another project and didn't end up using Use what you have don't waste your scraps slap them on another page And start a new background for a new piece of artwork if you don't have a journal to work in put them on a piece of um cardboard or chipboard or a canvas Use them up. I'm not saying you have to save every teeny tiny little scrap None of us would be able to walk around our art rooms if we did that And I'm also not saying you never have to put any of this away. I probably am going to semi Clean up now that I've done A couple of pages in each one of those journals And there are some things here on the table that can be put away and I have a couple other projects I need to work on Uh, one of them is for Shannon Green, but anyway um Use of what you have and um wipe your brushes off on a journal One of the things that I do Have been doing still do I have one of these So you're like Okay, what is that? This is some kind of annual stock Fund report thing. I don't know you could use a phone book too. I've had this one for this is from 2015. That's how long I've had it Honestly when I'm painting I open it up I just wipe my brushes off on the page and you can see that occasionally I'll pull the pages out and I'll use them as collage fodder On something new or in one of those journals. These are just wipe off pages It's thinner paper um Sort of reminiscent of phone book paper. It's actually a little bit different kind of paper um, maybe even a little bit thinner, but It makes great wipe off paper and great collage paper um, and I just When I'm painting I just go to the Last page I was working on and flip the page and then just keep painting So don't waste Your supplies use them up try to use them up in a creative manner Again, I'm not saying you have to save every teeny tiny little thing But think about using some of it up before you toss it in the trash That's it for today. Don't forget to check out the other links for everybody else over an art joy of sharing If you don't know what that is. I'm going to link. It's a facebook group I'm going to link it in the description below. They also have a youtube channel here on youtube a really great channel check them out and Don't forget to check out my link tree list of links for places. You can follow me on social media See what I'm up to. I try to have a daily creative practice You can also support the free content here on youtube and over in facebook um by Clicking on some of those links in that link tree list of links because you have my etsy shop and where to buy My book and my amazon affiliate store and all of that stuff Um, don't forget to like share subscribe and hit that little bell icon if you want notifications and new videos And the most important thing have some fun be creative Use up some of those scraps you think are useless just create something It doesn't have to be even pretty just put it on at some point. It'll become something Have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. 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