 Hey, Eve, how are you? I'm just getting everything set up here So when we do the live broadcast the first thing you want to do if you're on a tablet or Smartphone, I don't know how to do it on the desktop. I'm sure there's a way but I Always watch my broadcasts on the tablet Because my back is to my desktop. So anyway, first thing we're gonna do is We're gonna tap the screen and these three dots are gonna come up and then this gear where it says quality Then instead of auto. I'm gonna select 720p and That just gives me a nice steady Clear image barring any unforeseen circumstances with the internet connection I'm good There's a lot going on today So another thing we're gonna start doing every time we do live broadcast before we get started I'm gonna take out my art guard, which is a barrier cream You guys might be using something different like Invisible glove or something like that Make sure you put some on some of the pigments in your paint whether it's acrylic or watercolor or toxic So you want to protect yourself? by using a barrier cream if you have it and We're wearing gloves making sure you wash your hands, of course before you touch your face or eat food So we're gonna put on our art guard. I've got a big jar of it. I should use it So I'm good Ian. How are you? So we've got our barrier cream on Okay, so last week if you watched watercolor Wednesday, you know that we did nudes Inspired by and in support of Mike de kin Aaron from imperfect impulses and Paul Browning doing their YouTube hop where they all did nudes on our journal pages and they got a lot of flak for it So and I was appalled by that because I thought they were all done very well and we should all put our Big boy big girl panties on and suck it up. It was just body parts people anyway that being said I did some watercolor nudes and These are the ones that we did last week So I thought that we would do at least one of these on canvas this week for Monday with decor So if you want to see the video for these it's last week's watercolor Wednesday, and it does have the warning nudes in the Title so you can't really miss which one it is Hey Miko. Hey All right, so I've got two more old canvases that need to be repainted and So I was gonna originally do this one and worst where I'm gonna do something on this one at some point But I think the painting that I want to do is better suited to a rectangular canvas rather than a square So we're gonna set this one aside for the minute a minute So we have this one. This is from 2000 Oh This has already been painted a couple of times guys. So the originally 2010 and Then 2012 so now we're gonna do it again I Used to use command strips when I have things for sale in a in a arts and craft shop I still use them around the house in my art room when I want to Move paintings around there, you know, it's easier to use these than To have holes in your wall So but we're gonna take them off. We don't need them on here So yeah, so we have this one So we're gonna we're gonna repaint this she's cute and all she was a good learning experience, but So Miko you had to take it down. I don't understand. All right, so we have I Think I have everything I need. I don't know if I do. I'm gonna move the baby wipes. Oh I'm sorry. You had to take it down and if you did it if you did a nude we've been doing a lot of drawing Tutorials in journaling crazy island style Claudia Rossi's journaling program and if you're in that class, then you should be part of this special Facebook group just for that class and if you're not you should be and You are free to post your new drawings and painting experiments over there You're also free to post them in my group as long as they're you know art and they're not, you know gratuitous nudity. It's fine. Oh Journal 52 I'm sorry about that. Some people just, you know can't handle it. Hey Cindy All right, so we have our canvas here that for to do art our nude and I you know I've done a lot of female nudes in my art experiments and so I think today. We're gonna do the male nude You could do female nude, but we know whatever strikes your fancy. I have some non-traditional painting Tools here a sea sponge These are clay tools, but I use them for acrylic paint I now almost never use them for clay and now that's probably a good thing because they're all nerfed up with acrylic paint blobs and gel medium This is just some kind of stick thing. That's got this angled bit on one end and a pointy bit on the other end I have this like double-sided brush thing again. It's a clay tool. I don't remember What you're supposed to do with it, but it doesn't matter Because I use it for paint Although it does say low Cornell, so maybe it's a painting tool. I don't know. I got it at Michaels I have a palette knife and a bunch of brushes, which I'm gonna stick in the water Yeah, see some people just can't handle it, but in my opinion and This this broadcast is probably not for children or those of you who are sensitive about body parts and words I'm gonna just put that out there right now before we get started It's gonna be a suggestive painting, but That being said It might not still be for everybody so I'm gonna put that out there So if this isn't broadcast for you, I take no offense with that Just go ahead and click off now if you're watching the recording and if you're here live And this isn't that this kind of thing is not for you. Just go it. It's okay to leave. It's fine But that being said, they're just body parts. We all have them. We were all born naked. We all leave you all leave naked We all have genitalia. We all have you know, all of us females have breasts and you know I don't see the big deal and in my mind It's a interesting artistic fun challenge to paint a Suggestive interesting art piece that represents a nude body without actually getting too realistic. I love that So I think it's Fabulous Yeah, I think that conversation at my house last night when we were discussing this was In regards to Mike's page, and I think he's the one that got the most flack because he Did a full frontal male nude was that it was just a penis people You know, I didn't get that so I'm gonna try I Don't know I might have to I might have to paint out The basic proportions because the contact paper might not show up. I mean the tracing paper might not show up on here There is a bunch of links in the video description for places you can get Photo inspiration to do your nude figures including my Pinterest board And this is one of the images from my Pinterest board That I want to do and he's perfectly sized for this canvas But one thing you want to do when you're doing this kind of thing on campus and you're going to trace Your basic proportions on the canvas Um, you know, it's canvas, right? So it's there's nothing no support in the middle Um, so If you push on it, it just goes Um through gail. I'm not sure I understand your question So you want to put something under there to support the underneath of the canvas I'm going to grab one of my books I'm just going to quick grab a reference book off of my shelf One that fits in I should make sure it fits. Yeah, it's too big When it fits in the hole There we go So that even if it pushes down a little bit, it only goes so far Although that still pushes down too much There we go There now it doesn't go anywhere You have some really fabulous um Artwork out there both ancient and modern That of nudes and they did and they're fabulous So we're going to put our tracing paper on there And I'm going to line up. I'm going to just feel the edges of my canvas And line them up there we go I'm going to grab a pencil And just like with the Watercolor we're going to just trace His basic shape because just so that we can get the proportions in And this is a great tip for those of you who are, you know, just starting out with the figure drawing I know from personal experience That when you're just starting out one of the things I struggled with with was proportion It's something I still sometimes have trouble with Because I don't do lots of um Figure work and you get you know, if you don't use it you lose it kind of thing, right? Oh, yeah, I don't think you guys are going to be able to see that but there is a faint outline So that's perfect. That's what I wanted So now I'm going to take my picture and put it back on my clipboard and Lean it up against The cabinet back here by the ipad So I still have it for reference for color and light. I think that's a yeah gail. I I think that's fabulous I don't understand the big deal Like I said, they're just potty parts people. I don't get it Okay, so I'm going to the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to mix up A dark color. I could just use black But I want something more interesting than just black So I'm going to take some black And these are deco art traditions paints And like I said, I do have some americana paints there to my right And I'm going to take the black and I'm going to mix in I'm going to mix in some purple I've got this thing for purple right now and I don't know why that is But we're going to make a dark Like black purple This that was carbon black and this is what is this dioxazine purple Okay, lisa And I'm going to take Sort of the larger Round brush I have this is like a medium brush And I don't I can't even tell you guys what it is. Let's see Yeah, I have no idea. It's all covered with paint. I have no idea Just kind of a medium round brush And yes, I'm a brush mixer Okay, so and I just am like twirling my brush in the paint so I can have Kind of a more together point on the brush The my this brush is a little old so it tends to want to go so I'm going to just outline my figure And you like the sound effects I'm going to outline my figure And I have no idea how this is going to turn out. It might look like crap. I don't know We'll find out though Trying to make sure I can see the So then then I'm going to take a baby wipe You know, I don't know men seem to have more of a problem than women Some of the time but um, I won't say it's all the time because I think lately the ones that are giving People flak on the internet in our you know, internet art community are actually female I don't understand So one of the tricks that I use if you are painting a figure um, and you um Aren't sure of the proportions or you want to disguise the fact that maybe they're off a little bit is paint the edges of your figure In the same or similar color as your background. So it's Um blended into each other and so it kind of disguises any bits that might be kind of off Yeah, well, you know, some people might look on it that way. I don't There goes my phone again because you know the fact that it's turned off doesn't stop the salesman to We do have I should say shouldn't say that we do have an answering machine hooked up That's how I know people are calling the house phone. It's only salespeople And it says not to leave a message they do anyway Okay I'm already messy. We must be having fun So I'm going to go to aquamarine Oops. Hey goobers And with acrylic paint you can start with your shadow of cool colors and work your way lighter That's one of the great things about um acrylic paint Is you can really you know and if you get all your layers on there and you don't like the way it turned out You can just go back and go add more of um, you know a different color Right on top of it and it just because it's opaque It's not a big deal All right, so we're gonna um go in with the aquamarine And I'm going to start mapping out the Kind of shadows on where they are on his figure And I'm just referring back to the photo that I have here And you will frequently see me And remember this says expressive nude. So I don't do realism rarely. Do I even attempt it? Um, so if you're expecting that and you're new to my channel You should probably go somewhere else because that's not me Oops wrong color Yeah, lisa, you know what just I don't know what to tell you. I'm sorry that you got that. It's not right I loved what you did And they all just need to get a life get a clue As far as I'm concerned, it's just the human form people Now at some point when you're doing any painting, I don't care if it's watercolor or acrylic Um, it is going to look like poop on a stick. It's kind of look really bad Um, they all have an ugly duckling stage and I would tell you just keep working with it and adding layers And if you get too frustrated by one section then Move to a different section for a little bit. I'm gonna pull out some white Cindy that's pretty funny. It's not me Just fyi. It's not me I'm gonna go ahead and add white which is not a color. I use a lot. It's gonna blend with um, the purples and the blues and The colors on here, which is cool Paint what you see not what you think you see And don't be afraid to like get your fingers involved and blend the edges And I'm still using a fairly large brush um Sometimes I will switch hands and use my non-dominant hand Purposefully because I have less control It's a pretty good start. All right. I'm gonna switch to a filbert for a minute here And we're gonna go back into our black purply color And I'm going to Put some of it here That's better Hey, Sharon. All right. That's a pretty good start. You can already see the suggestion of a fig a male figure And I only we only have been doing this what five or ten minutes um, all right, so I want to Stay with this for the moment. I want to stay with this color selection I am going to get a color wheel out So if I was going to do um Blue and purple And I wanted to do a triad of complementary colors than a complement to that would be yellow and yellow or yellow orange So that's interesting to know because we might want that at the end and I'm thinking looking at the paint colors I have that the indian yellow might be the one So we're gonna actually put that over here and set it aside And I like the fact that we have that similar color poking through from the original painting I like that. So we're gonna we're gonna let that go for now. I am going to though take Qued awkward on violet, which is more of a red purple, but it's in that family sort of I do think I'm going to add some of the doxazine purple to it and let's go with another blue so let's go with Prussian blue and I also have If I can remember to do it, I will put the colors in the description after but I don't always remember to do that Yeah, so I just did a piece this morning for youtube that won't air for a while yet and I used it turned out super cute Cindy and Lisa have both seen it and It's for a challenge coming up and it's super cute and I did it with my non dominant hand the The initial drawing at least was with my non dominant hand Yeah, pink might be nice in here and I do have some americana pinks Like this carousel pink that might be really nice on here and I love the idea of kind of juxtaposing A masculine figure with a feminine color Ian so you and I were thinking the same thing along those lines But first let's get the shading down to a place that we're happy and I'm going to switch to a small flat brush for the moment and I have no idea what this is. I don't think it's an expensive brush. I think it's a cheap little flat brush God knows where I picked it up from I have no idea and we've got this Um warmer purple Because it's got the the other purple in it, which is more red So we're going to still use it in the um You know shadow parts and I generally speaking I don't Go this is too big a brush. I want something smaller Okay, sorry. I don't generally when I do painting like this. I'm not the baby wipes are not too far I will put a little paint on and while it's wet I will move it around if I decide I don't like it You can wipe it right off because acrylic paint if the base is dry. It's not going to hurt anything And this is a little like I said, this is a little warmer than the background But at the same time it blends in with the background so not to It's a little weenie I mean, we do want it to sort of look like a new male nude. So we want to Not leave his genitalia off I shouldn't make jokes. I should use proper terms if I want people to take me seriously Yes, I know this You guys don't have to tell me and don't leave a comment about that like seriously Okay, so I'm either going to use my finger and the baby wipe and what did I say before this is acrylic paint So we can do layers. So if you get too much of this color in the wrong place And you don't get it wiped off in time That's not a big deal Just let it dry and go in and add another color. Okay, let's see Just suggest enough nipples here The other brush that's fun to do this kind of thing with is a little scrubby brush I have a couple of them. They're from folk art I think they're called scruffy brushes I also have some from Woe Cornell. It's called a stippler brush Oh, thank you so much Well, I just figured this morning, you know, everybody does female nudes myself included and it's nice to do a male nude Just for a change So again, you know, if you want your edges to kind of blend into the background On purpose because you like the look or Because you're not so sure about your proportions Then make sure the edges of your figure or of a similar color To the background of your painting and then you'll sort of start to get like over here this suggestion Of his arm being up without actually drawing it and I'll look at that. I see a question. I'll look at it in a minute I'll see You can in but I would add gel medium to it or Airbrush medium to it They do have their fluid acrylics, which I almost grabbed Which are very much like golden fluid acrylics and they actually glaze a lot easier than these because you really don't have to add anything to them You know see he's like dripping up this way Oh, I'm so glad Sharon. So, you know my I was just having this discussion with someone this morning And it was in regards to my secret project that I'm working on but also In regards to the prompt that the jolt that went up in my facebook group yesterday. My goal is always to Encourage you all to Have fun with art and create things that you enjoy making is not about You know Doing perfect art. It's just about having fun and expressing yourself and I will never give you guys prompts in the facebook group that are like draw flower That's just not going to happen because that's not what my goal is and there's plenty of other groups that do that My goal is to get you all to Express yourselves and your artwork and have fun with it and and own it and that's it. So If that's what's coming across and I'm doing my job So this is a like I said, this is a Lowell Cornell stippler brush I also have someone called a scruffy brush that's by folk art And they're just really short stiff bristled brushes and they're perfect for this Ian did I say your name wrong again? Holy cow. I mean no disrespect at all But my hair color should be blonde sometimes. I got to tell you And if there are blondes out there that don't appreciate that reference, I'm sorry So I'm going to I was going to switch brushes But I think I'm going to stay with the two that I'm using for the moment And we're going to switch back and forth from the cooler to the you know a little bit warmer And we're really have all cool tones here. There is no real warm tones on here, but that'll come So this is a blue What blue is this? Ultramarine blue. Oh good. I'm so glad lisa And I want you guys when you're doing this kind of thing, of course to look at the reference photo Because isn't that what we have it for but at some point you need to do what's best for your painting And stop looking at the reference photo. Oh, yeah, I love doing the expressive color work Anybody who's been following me for a while knows that I'm not A huge fan of doing things in realistic colors and to be honest that came about out of frustration um I was just not I was frustrated with not getting the look that I was wanted and then I realized it was because I was trying to do it too realistically So remember with acrylic paints for the most part if you're using artist quality paints, you have usually a decent amount of work time before It starts to really dry and you can't move it around and blend it or you know really just shove it around on the painting so Don't be afraid to lay a good amount of it down and then get in here with the blending brush and one of your mark making tools Now that being said if it does dry a little bit more than you're happy with you can always get a little bit of alcohol In here and um Move the paint around with alcohol Oh, thanks gail. Yeah one. I've been real happy with wonderlust. I'm taking it too and I'm gonna take it next year Okay, I'm going back to the white For the moment I lost some of my highlights. So we're going to put them back We're not going to leave them white constantly referring back to my um original inspiration photo for where to put all of these colors Now the original inspiration photo is a painting. So it's not realistic to begin with So on some of these um Colors and things I have to sort of guess Now I think it's time to start coming in here with our pops of color Maybe I'm going to get these blended where I want them and then we're going to take a look at it And I have to tell you guys I'm loving the way it's looking on looking at it on the ipad and I love the way it's looking product review videos, um There is an initial thought pair of videos coming out on the daniel smith Metallic palette that I just made and also some Italian watercolors. I just got and those are scheduled for october If there's a specific product review, you would like me to do Private message me or Send something through facebook and if it's a product I may already have the product and I can do a comparison or review for you um Yes, ian. I do. I yes, I don't think I don't think of it in those exact terms foeism But yes non-literal color expression Um, that's definitely who I am and as I was starting out my art journey. I didn't know what that was Um, but I knew that trying to paint figures with realistic colors Most of the time made me very unhappy and doing this more expressive style of watercoloring Made me extremely happy. Um, especially in the non-traditional Colors, I loved it. So I'm going to pull out some of that indian yellow and some of the pink And add them to my palette. We haven't used the darker repression blue yet I'm worried it might be a little too green. So we're going to actually try a little bit of it And I've got my baby wipe handy in case I hate it Maybe not there's this it might work. So Let's see. There's only one way to find out Oh So I'm going to put a little bit of it on here Stippler brush or Yeah, so I I agree with you, um gale. I really like the paintings of A traditional subject matter using non-traditional colors. That's like my favorite thing Um figure work is no different for me Of course, you know, if if you're An art journaler and you are not a painter and you just want to do collage There's nothing wrong with that just because you're an artist doesn't mean you have to be a painter So, you know, do what makes you happy Until everybody else to go to hell All the doubters telling to go down And I'm not ready to tell you all what the secret project is yet But I will tell you that that's what the secret project basically is about. Cindy has seen it. Um, she's um on my team for that project and Um, she can tell you that's what it's all about It's about owning who you are And being happy with it. I like the I like the use of this color Now you don't have to blend out all your marks. You can just blend out some of them And you can tell him enjoying what I'm doing because I'm forgetting to look at my reference photo That's when I'm really enjoying the process more than the outcome That's what I do No, I don't take it in a bad way gale at all I definitely lean towards the non-traditional that doesn't mean I don't admire people Who can do the traditional thing and do it? Well, deeding willingham is one of them. Holy cow Um And I take no offense to people who don't get my work because it's non-traditional Thank you. Cindy. Yes. She's Cindy's retaught referring to the secret project Which I'm hoping that we can announce like um, if things go well, we can announce the secret project The first of october or shortly thereafter so Along with a couple of other things you can still see little pieces of the Um original painting behind here and I kind of like that The artist does take over lisa And that's great. I think that's great Yeah, deeding willingham at inkwell. She's fabulous I would never try to compete with her. She's just she's fabulous and that you know I appreciate that style and others but that style doesn't make me happy So so i'm just using this stibler brush to push the paint around where I want it where I want the shadows to be He's looking pretty good. I have to say Oops, he's sliding up again All right, we're going to leave him for just a second and let's Um do something with the background. So one of the things I want to do is I'm going to take this I don't know what this is. I did get it at michael's. I'm pretty sure it was in a package of clay tools or something So look around at your craft store I'm going to dip it into First some of the purples that I have And you could do this directly on the figure too. It'll give him some interesting texture Yeah, well, you know the point the point is to get gale is to get your Excitement up about the project so that when it comes out, you know, y'all want one I will tell you that much. It's something that's going to be for sale There will probably be free lessons that go along with it, but um, yeah so And I will also tell you it is the hardest thing I've ever done short of childbirth It's really really hard Painting this nude is way easier Yeah, I I do think it's some kind of effects sculpting tool I'm not sure But I love it for making these like drag marks in the paint and creating texture It's what's one of my favorite things Thank you, Cindy Okay I am really liking him. I think it's time to put a little bit of I'm liking the fact that he's in these non-traditional colors It's obviously a male figure. I don't think there's any mistaking that I don't think there's any looking at him and not knowing that he's a male figure Let's go in with a different brush so we can get a different kind of mark And let's go in With this flat brush That we were going to use before and let's go in with this indian yellow color And I'm just I'm barely Touching the canvas barely barely my baby wipe is right here. So if I get some somewhere I don't like I can get in there and push it around or just take it off And this is do you notice is everybody seeing? Um How the figure is popping now that we put this on here So I don't want you all to be afraid to stretch your artistic wings a little bit But most importantly to do what makes you happy If it's painting, you know expressive figures faux-vism, what do you even call it faux-vism? Or it's painting realism or it's just doing collage Whatever makes you happy do that Life is just too dang sure not to So one thing I'm doing is I'm putting a little bit on Just to make sure I'm really liking the color And I'm liking where it's going and then I'm coming back in And pushing it around The yellow is really making making it pop That's what I thought it would do Well I don't know what to say about that Cindy I could I could tell y'all that I'm not all sweet as sweetness and light in real life as you guys as I am on social media, but My daughter told me the other day if she and her boyfriend get married anytime in the in the future That I have to promise. I'm not going to start a fight at the wedding. I just looked at her and said really What do you think of your mother starting a fight at the she says mom? I know you get the promise Holy cow I wasn't sure what to think about that So switching up brushes so that you'll get different kinds of marks You know, that's that's one of the things using different tools using your non-dominant hand when you're trying to do expressive artwork It's really hard to let go of control and I know gail. Isn't that hilarious, right? She's like Worried about me starting a fight or something. I'm like seriously I know I'm a hot tempered Italian, but you know, there's a time and a place for everything There we go I think she would probably rather I start a fight So just keep adding your I'm running out of clean spots in my baby wipe Layering your colors and you know if you put too much of the yellow You could either wipe it off or you can let it dry and then go back and you know fix it by adding another color You could do a nude angel. Cindy for sure. You could Okay, here's the pink The pink is still a warm color It's not as warm as the yellow But it's still in the warm spectrum and again, I'm barely touching the canvas I do think we need some of this down here And as I'm putting it on I am You know checking the inspiration photo and looking at the painting To make sure I get my you know Colors in the right place to suggest lightness and shadow Yeah, outspoken is a good term for me People tell me, you know Certain it's happened in the past where people have told me things and then said can you not say anything and I'm like Yes, I'll try but you probably shouldn't have told me Because if they asked me, you know, if you like them or don't like them, I'm you know I'm better about it now that I was I'm older but when I was younger it was Difficult for me to keep my opinions to myself. I got in trouble a lot. I should say I got fired a lot For telling my opinion. I think so Cindy. I don't disagree with that Okay, so now I think I do think it's time to go back to the aquamarine color And I think for I think I might try doing palette knife. I'm gonna use a little small end Now just like with your other tools if you get too much of a color on there like that's too much right there Just get in there with the baby white Yeah, open very much an open book I mean, I was always the kid in in um sunday school that questioned the priest About certain parts of the bible You know, it's been an ongoing thing. My mom and dad probably could tell you stories Not all good ones. Hey yasna, how are you? Okay, I want to come in with um purple We're painting more naked men Just in case you didn't know, you know, because you can't tell that this is you know a naked man. I don't know Using non-traditional colors non-traditional tools So yeah, the the only trick to doing this is just keep layering your colors Until you get the look that you want and he's really popping forward Out of the background There was a little spot of turquoise there that I didn't like So we're gonna Get rid of it Just like that. I do want to let's see Take some of this dark color Now just because you use a mark making tool doesn't mean you have to leave all the marks Maybe you only like some of them that it makes and you don't like the others So then just go in and blend some of them with your finger or with a baby wipe Got too much on there. He's turning out pretty good. I like him My baby wipes I'm running out of Clean space Hi, Heather We're doing more naked people Just a warning So now that I've got him to a certain place It's just really about fine-tuning some of the proportions and making sure You know that some of the shadows are in the right place and That it looks all right I like him a lot I think he's just about done I think that was the quickest acrylic nude I've ever done. Did I get all the edges? Totally that's something you could do you could splatter with paint you could put blobs of paint There's a lot of different things you can do Um to really make this kind of stand out and pop The paint is very forgiving. So You know, if you hate a layer, that's okay. Just put another layer And you know, you guys all know I'm a big flat Flatter big fan of splatters and drips I don't know it looks fine, but I will tell you the ipad went kind of odd for a minute. It went like fuzzy But the desktop was fine. I didn't turn around and look at me and look at me I did look turn around and look at me turn around and look at the camera. Holy cow You know, I have had all my coffee this morning. My mind is just on other things He's I like him I like him. I like him So get out some of your non-traditional mark making tools get out an inspiration photo and Play with your paints and create something interesting. He's really cute I like him. I'm going to stop playing with him because I really like the way he looks and I don't want to screw him up Does anybody have any questions? Yes, Heather it does and One of the other ways you can do this is that I've done before Pauline Agnew actually teaches this in one of her classes um Is a lot of fun is where you have a brightly colored acrylic background And you cover the whole thing after it dries you cover the whole thing with charcoal And then you create your figure by erasing the charcoal to reveal the paint and that's a really fun technique too And this is sort of like an acrylic painting version of that You could totally add pencil to this you could add crayon to this um, remember the only rules in my mind in paint in art and mixed media um Fat over lean so you do want to remember that so um What does that mean and those of you who have studied art know what that means So if you have a painting with an acrylic base You definitely can go over the top of it with mediums that are oil based like oil pastels or oil paint Um, yeah, Kylie. It's going to be the whole recording will be on youtube. You just have to give it about 10 minutes to load and process um, so Fat over lean So you can put oil pastels and oil paint and those kind of mediums over acrylic paint and they will stick just fine But any of you art journalists know who have tried to write over oil pastel with anything No, it doesn't stick. So you can put oil over acrylic, but you can't put acrylic over oil Right, that's the only rule you need to remember is that um Oil anything that's oil like oil pastel, which you totally could put on this or oil paint that needs to be your last layer Because that otherwise nothing else is going to stick to it That's the only rule really too fast Well, he was a lot of fun and you guys can go back and watch the recording. He is going to be on youtube Um, we've been on for an hour But these little paintings don't necessarily take too long Brush up. So you could put um Watercolor or water based materials over the acrylic, but You're going to want to cover the painting first with an absorbent ground um because they Will just puddle up and not do I don't think what you want them to So watercolor is the leanest Because it's water or water any water base. They're the leanest So in order of lean to fat you have your water based supplies Your acrylic supplies and then your oil supplies So when you're layering products on top of each other You need to remember that if you have watercolor first the acrylic will stick And then if you have these two layers then the oil will stick if you have Water acrylic and you want to put watercolor on it. You need to put um Uh clear gesso or clear absorbent ground over the painting before you put the watercolor um and The oil pastel there's really no good That anything that's oil based should just be your last layer. Just think of it going forward. It should be your last layer Like we can do a woman next week We can give him a mate and do a pair Because I bet you in my supply of canvas canvases Um that need to be repainted. I bet you I have another one that's about the same size And now I've got a mess of brushes and things. You can see my thing. It's all messy I got to clean out. I already had a jar full of stuff to clean So remember when you're doing these kind of paintings, um It's funny. I just had my discussion with my daughter because she's been told by one of her professors She needs to learn how to do watercolor background jpegs the old-fashioned way. She says mom Do you know how to do that? I looked at her like she was insane. Of course I do So when you're looking at your color wheel That for the most part This side of the color wheel is your cool colors. These are your warm colors If you have colors across from each other on the color wheel, they're very complimentary, but If you mix them together, you're going to get mud and you probably don't want mud so um Let like if you start with the green let it dry before you put the red And that's true of any kind of medium that you're using Acrylic dries pretty quickly. So it's not necessarily an issue And I used for the most part with exception of the yellow colors that went well together I agree. Ian. I think that we should um Yeah, yeah, I'm frozen to me too Let's see Okay anybody who Had the screen freeze you just need to refresh Cindy I'll talk to you later So I agree in that we should do a lighter background and have her tonally Dark and so we will work on that next week Okay, Heather. So um, I like white and black gesso. Although I don't use black that much at all I like clear gesso When I have a background that I love Of That I don't want to completely cover up So I've started with a layer of painting or collage and I want to continue to add to it but frequently when I use clear gesso, it's because I want to use um Watercolor over the whatever the background is and I don't want to completely cover up the background But I want the watercolor to stick or um Hold on Okay. Um, so Also when I have a background I've started with in mixed media where I've put lots of different kinds of materials down like collage paper Or painting or I have in some cases the raw paper those different kinds of mediums are going to take the Lex layer like paint differently And if I don't want them to do that and I want them to all take it the same Then I would start out by putting a clear coat of uh Gesso clear gesso on there letting it dry and then continuing to build my layers So that those initial layers don't get hidden But they do react all the same to the paint So it's just a matter of choice most of the time when I use clear gesso or clear watercolor ground It's because I have a mixed media painting. I want to do watercolor on top of And the watercolor won't stick to your gel mediums or your acrylic paint or anything like that I don't see why you couldn't um i i don't see why you couldn't at all Tint white gesso black with adding charcoal to it or something else. You might get something really interesting I would try it do an experiment You're welcome Yeah, so especially if you're using glossy papers or something glossy in the background Then when you go to paint and do your next layer over it that glossy shit doesn't want to take the next mediums very well Pardon my french. It just doesn't so your best bet is to put clear gesso over it and then keep working And also the clear gesso will strengthen if you're working on like thinner paper as your background substrate It'll help strengthen the paper if you're using like really really wet stuff like watercolor paint All right. I am going to try to remember to put the paint colors I used in the description of the video once it gets loaded and um Next week we will do a female nude. Um, I don't have a problem with that. I think it's a great idea I do have this other inspiration photo that we used for the watercolor piece and Ian I don't think that's what you meant. I think you meant pastels But it's pretty funny that it came out pasties um You're welcome eve. So next week we're going to um be inspired by this painting that I found on pinterest And we're going to do a female. We'll do a female nude in the same kind of style suggestive style That's hilarious. Ian. I keep reading that. It's making me laugh. All right. That's it for today Don't forget the most important things, right? Just have fun and play and make art. Don't worry about anyone else's expectations except your own And do something nice for yourself because you deserve it All right, if you have any more questions for me things we didn't cover in the video things I forgot about Um message me through facebook tag me in a post in the facebook group Or you can private message me here on youtube You can leave a comment in the video after it loads and I will answer them And um, that's it for today. I am going to clean up my mess And move on to the next project. You're welcome Well, I still think pasties was funny, Ian All right, that's it for today. I love him. I think he's fabulous. I don't know how decor it's going to feel But I love him. So I will be posting pictures to social media later and um Give it a thumbs up, you know and go show mike and erin and paul Some love and if you haven't seen their videos yet, go watch them And give them a thumbs up leave them a nice comment And um, yes mike shows full frontal male nudity and all its glory and so just don't you know be shocked by that All right, that's it for today. Break out your you know non-traditional supplies and make some paintings It could be a flower, but if you do it this way, it's a really fun flower All right, that's it. Bye guys