 along with a few other YouTubers was issued a challenge by none other than Miss Cindy Utter, and the challenge is in this envelope. I haven't obviously, as you can see, haven't opened it yet, so let's get it open. I'm trying to save the envelope because if I don't use it in the challenge I might want to use it in a future project that's interesting paper. So anyway, is a photo interesting. She told me there were instructions taped to the back, which there are. Kind of sticky dot taped. Alright, so here's the photo on the front side. Really interesting, and I don't think it says who the artist is. I don't see it anywhere. If somebody knows, if you recognize the image, let me know. Welcome to the art team diverse video hop. Okay, let me read this. I'll be right back. Okay, so we are here in iMovie and I just wanted to show you really quick something I really like about iMovie, which is easy way to create a video thumbnail if you're on YouTube. So I'm going to move my video that I've created here. This is a video I just edited a few minutes ago for YouTube, and you just want to move the bar here across until you have up here in the upper right preview screen an image that you want to save maybe as your thumbnail on YouTube. So say I want to save here this background where it says welcome to my adventures in art. Then I am going to stop the preview screen right there. I'm going to come up here to the top where it says file and then share and then image. I'm going to call it something this is I'm gonna call it something else because I already have one with that name so I'm gonna call it welcome and you can pick here a folder that you want it to go to. I have a folder for thumbnails but you can pick any folder on your hard drive and then you just hit save. That's it and when okay guys so here's our finished piece. Now when I pulled the picture out of the envelope and in all fairness I got a glimpse of the picture before I got it in the mail. I was really attracted to not only the texture of the background but this sort of abstracted nature of the face and the figure that really intrigued me more than anything else. So I thought right away that I want to do something like that on a journal page or a canvas and as you saw in the speed through video initially I picked a different canvas but as soon as I had my little face pieces done I kind of knew that one wasn't going to work but I thought I might have one out in my stash of older canvases that kind of need more love if you will out in the garage and I did and so I used one of those. So I created my little pieces of face my abstracted face features out of scraps of watercolor paper. I used just a plain color pencil and my Daniel Smith and Emgram muted palette watercolor palette and I used acrylic craft and paint and Amsterdam acrylics for the background on top of the old canvas that was already there and I love that you can still see little bits of the old canvas through what is on there now. I used some golden extra heavy gel medium to attach the watercolor pieces once the background was mostly dry. I also sprayed the background before I put the pieces on and did the final painting and texturing with some tattered angels mists. I used one called stone which I used up that one little bottle. I have actually another one so don't panic because I do like that color and then I used this one which is color merlot gold and I love the way it turned out. So this is really cool I'm gonna it's not quite dry yet but it is so cool. I really love it. Alright so that's one thing that you can do with something like this when you have an inspiration photo. Another thing that you can try that I don't know if it would work sometimes these pictures are sticky laminated and sometimes they're heat laminated. If they're heat laminated you can actually pull the laminating pieces apart and get the print out of there. I think this is sticky laminated so I think it's stuck in there for eternity. Let's pull a corner out and find out. Yep sticky laminated see but it would be a really cool like planner cover or journal cover and it's it's laminated so you could do that with it. Alright so who knows I might do something else with it at some point for this blah blah blah but for this challenge we're done. I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do. I'm gonna link all the other videos in the description below so I hope you have some time and you go check them all out and you get inspired to create some art maybe from this picture. Alright that's it for today. If you would like to please give me a thumbs up like share and subscribe. 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