 Hey guys, all right, so in this little series, you're going to see me Hopefully trying to finish up some journals. These are going to be little short videos. I'm going to speed through pages. I Don't know if I'm going to exactly get one done a day. I'm going to try for that. We'll see I don't think that's actually going to be super manageable all the time, but I'm going to do pages pretty frequently I've got a number of journals that I started either last year in 2016 or a couple of them in 2015 They really just need to be finished now So we're going to start with this one and then we're going to continue if you're watching this in a later video. I Am going to link all of these videos in a playlist. So I will put the playlist link in the description below So check it out So here we go. We're going to do some journal pages. We're going to do some quick speed-throughs We're going to try to finish up some old journals and fill them up so I can get them out of my space, right? Are you with me? All right, let's go So I know I've been doing these pages and just doing speed-throughs with text boxes But this time I wanted to come on camera and tell you about a few things about this page so I Did this page and with mostly pastels and then sprayed it with matte finish spray Which changes the color by the way of the Image a bit when you do that a lot of pastel and chalk artists choose not to spray their pieces At all are very lightly For that reason. I don't mind it. So I did I went ahead and sprayed it and Then I went back over it with some of these color pencils, which aren't going to move and go anywhere unlike the chalk one of the things that happened about this piece by accident that I love is This background so when I painted this background if you'd noticed I used two colors of Americana paint and two colors of Add a rondack acrylic paint dobbers To three colors three of the paints were brown one was one of the acrylic dober paints was black And I mixed them all together on the page and then painted the center square The accidental result of which is this has got like a chalkboard like finish I did not know those paints combined that way it would do that, but it did It's a really interesting painted background to work on with your pencils or your pastels. I Love the way it draws FYI and I could just keep playing with this image honestly all day And just adding more layers to it and the more layers you add to it the more Interesting it's going to be just you know, like I said, I could just keep going It's a fun flower to draw it is one of the Images inspiration images over from my year 2017 and I will put a link to that Facebook group in the description below You need to be a member of the group to get that link so if you're not a member yet go over there and join and That's it for today. I am going to use this Ending instead of the normal one. I've been putting on these Wrap it up videos Give it a try. This was a lot of fun. I haven't broken out the pencils or or chocks in a long time in I forgot how much I like them and I just you saw me I just used my fingers and I didn't use anything any special tools or anything So anyway, if you want to be a part of the Facebook group my other Facebook group a life of art and self expression Or support my channel either by shopping in my Etsy shop or sending a tip to my tip jar Sending me happy mail anything like that all the links for all of that are in the description below Don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day Maybe draw a flower do a doodle do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Okay. Bye guys