 Hey guys! We are finally here with the painted feather video. I posted pictures of these onto social media. I did not very much expect the response that I got. I was very pleased that you all loved them. I did not expect to ever do a tutorial on them, but we're gonna do one. Alright so I will tell you first as we get started with the video that if you want to watch another couple of perspectives on painting feathers, the two videos that inspired me, one is by Jelly Arts and one is by Threadbanger. So I'm gonna link both videos in the description below, so go check them out. You will need, for the way I did this process, something to monoprint on. I have one of the small jelly plates, some feathers, these firm sort of white duck or goose feathers are the best. These are just craft store feathers in any size that you want, but you don't want anything too floppy like a peacock feather or something like that because that just won't work. It's too floppy, it won't take the paint. You can do ones, you can do black ones and I'll show you what I discovered about using dark feathers that I think is interesting. You're gonna need some paint, a brayer, some stencils, and some paint pens. Okay so let's get started. So the first thing we're gonna do is pick a couple colors to put out on our jelly plate and I'm gonna pick colors that go well together. At the moment I am really trying to use up some old distress paint and craft store paint, so I've been picking from there. These are Adirondack paints and distress paints, and pick colors that go together. So like this is yellow, green, and blue, yellow, orange, and red, pink, purple, and blue, something like that. Colors that normally would blend well together anyway don't go anything too crazy. You don't need much. This is a little jelly plate so I don't need much paint. I'm gonna put the yellow, then I'm gonna put the green, then I'm gonna put the blue. You're gonna need some drawing paper. Just plain drawing paper, scrap paper. I'm gonna brayer out my paints, mixing them just a little bit, trying to get my hair out of the paint. I always seem to have a piece of hair stuck in the paint. Okay then I'm gonna take some of my feathers, lay them front side down on the jelly plate. I'm gonna pull a couple of these little ones. I do try to get as many feathers as I can on there. You'll see in the jelly arts video they just do one or two, but I want to get as much as I can. Take a piece of drawing paper and then push. Now you can feel around the spine of the feather and really use your fingers to push down on that spine, push down on either side of it where the hairs of the feather would be. I still don't know what those are called. Are they called hairs? I don't know. And push down really well, give it a good rub. The bonus of this is that you also are creating mono prints while you're doing it. So here's the mono print from that. Here's the feather, right? So then just set that aside. Because you're not using very much paint and I'm also using, here's the little one, isn't it cute? Because I'm also using craft store paint, it dries pretty quickly. Okay so I'm gonna do the rest of my feathers and I'll be right back. So as you're doing this process and you pull your feathers up before you put more paint down, pull a secondary print. Put some more paper down and you get these interesting prints from your jelly plate. Look at that. Those are gonna be great to use in some mixed media pieces or some art journal pages. Just a little tip. I'll be right back. Okay to do the dark galaxy feathers, I recommend that you start with a black base. I know the feathers are already black or dark but this is the way I think works the best. So I have some black Adirondack paint, any black paint, and then I also have some black metallic. This is black flash color shift paint by Folk Art. Start with these two colors. What we're doing is just a base coat on all the feathers and for the galaxy feathers we happen to be doing a dark base coat. That's probably way too much paint but let's find out. I'm gonna roll off my brayer as much as I can. If I was really concerned about it I would clean the jelly plate but I'm not going to. Then put your dark feathers again face down. Put some of the little ones. Now these camel colored feathers you can do any color on the darker red ones. They're a little dark for the bright colors. Okay we're gonna again put the paper face down and press. Really get your fingers into all those nooks and crannies on the jelly plate that you can feel. You'll get an interesting secondary print. Well an interesting monoprint I should say. Then we're gonna pull the feathers off and you can see I don't know if you can see that on camera but you can see that there's some like shimmer to that. That's the metallic paint and then on these ones you can see that that's darkened them up a lot. We're gonna pull a secondary print. Interesting print. So now because our jelly plate is dark because of the black paint we're gonna go ahead and work on the galaxy feathers and I'm gonna grab a couple more colors of metallic paint. I think I'm gonna grab a red and a peacock pearl. This is another color shift paint. This is a Dekowart dazzling metallics paint and I'm going to just drop it in a few places. Again that's probably way too much paint but that's right. So instead of just braying back and forth what I'm gonna kind of do is do this. So we get this like splotchy thing on the jelly plate. You don't want it to be fully covered. You want it to look kind of like that. Then I'm gonna put my feathers down again. Another piece of hair there but it's gonna have to stay there. Press, press firmly. Now remember that you're painting on or printing on an organic object so you're not gonna get perfect prints. You're not gonna get perfect coverage of paint. You want it to still look like a feather so don't even try to get it perfect. So just throw that word out the window. Look at that monoprint from that. Isn't that cool? If nothing else, if you don't like the painted feathers the monoprints you get from doing this are really cool. Okay so now you start to see the beginnings of something that's sort of galaxy-esque right? There's that one. So cool. Okay now this first one I pulled has some color on it but not a lot. There is some more color on here so I'm gonna just take the feather and I'm gonna do this and then that's there you go. I'm gonna take what's left on here. Pull a print which I did just mess up by doing that but that's okay. I want the feathers to be good. At this point I have a giant stack of painted papers. Alright so now before we go back to the light colored ones we're gonna clean the jelly plate because I don't necessarily want all this black and metallic paint on there. I might get the piece of hair off. Now we're gonna go back to some of the original feathers that we did. I did find that for my feathers I really liked one of a couple stencils. I really liked just some plain old punchin'lla and this this piece is a little bit past it. If any of you all want to send me happy mail and send me a new piece that doesn't look like this, feel free. I could use a new piece because this one's like falling apart. Alright so I did find I liked the punchin'lla. This is also a stencil by Patty Tolly Parish and this is, what's the name of it? Does it say? It just says 8x10 Patty Tolly Parish Exclusive Stencil. So it might have been one that I got for free with placing an order. It doesn't say. If anybody knows put a comment but this one worked. I liked the little larger like diamond shapes around the outside. This one that I had worked okay. I had little success with it but I think it was because of the color I used so we may try that one again today. It's also a little big for the feathers. Also this chicken wire one actually kind of worked so use what you have but the punchin'lla was my favorite one. Alright so and see there's another piece it's just falling apart. Alright so we are going to go with the punchin'lla and I think I'm going to go with the blue. Don't want that blue or going a different blue. I'm going to want a different blue actually. You know what I'm going to use this one which is another Adirondack paint. This is Clover and I'm going to mix it with this Distress paint which is Broken China Brayer. Okay so for the first pass with the feathers I'm going to put the punchin'lla down and I'm going to put some feathers on top of that. Okay and we are going to get a piece of paper. We use this one and we're going to push. Now we have a stencil and the feathers on top of the paint so for this one you really want to make sure you push you get everything pushed down, pushed hard on the spine and the hairs of the feather. Right so we get that and you see the feather stuck to it but that's okay so you get this that's really cool and then lay them out to dry. Now the other thing is pull your stencil off put some more feathers down and some more paper down and you get that. So paint up your feathers with your mono printing system how whatever you're using if you have a jelly plate or a purchase I should say a store-bought jelly plate or a homemade jelly plate use what you have and then let your feathers dry and then when we come back we're going to do some doodling on the feathers so work on them whether you're making galaxy feathers or the brightly colored feathers work on that and we'll be right back. For the next step once your feathers are dry you're going to need some rubber stamps I'm using one of my stamp sets from my Etsy shop designed by me you can I'll put the link the link for my Etsy shops in the description so you can look it up and look at I have 11 I think different sets of stamps you may need some stencils and again I have some of my designed stencils from my Etsy shop you can find them over there I have used these on some of the feathers so we'll see what happens some makeup sponges if you're going to use the stencils some paint paint pens these you need to have black black ink I'm using archival and an acrylic block and then your dried feathers so then it's a matter of taking your feathers and really doodling on them creating something interesting and I'm going to show you how to do a couple of them I okay so when you do this you may find that are some that you just don't want to do anything to because you really like the way they look I do have to say I think these are some of those I love the way they look and I don't plan on doing anything to these so we're going to set these aside there's something about those colors I just love here's another one of those from that batch there are some of these that need some doodling you need some help to really just really pop and be pretty so we're going to do that let's start with these and let's take one of the stamps from the stamp set let's take these little circles and you'd be surprised at how easy it is to stamp on a feather so get your stamp really well and good and inky we're going to want to stick a white piece of paper under there pick a spot and push hard or maybe rock it just a little bit and that takes what was a kind of a boring feather and look look at that I mean look at that even if you do nothing else to it look at that all right so then I'm going to take one of my paint pens and I think I'm going to use yellow and for the paint pens just that tapping on don't try to actually draw on the feather that won't work this yellow is not showing up a lot but now that I got started I'll finish with it I think I'll add some white to it and I'm going inside those stamped circles and then grab a white pen I'm going to zoom in a little bit and I grab a white pen white paint pen again okay and that takes what was a boring feather and makes it really interesting look at that okay so we're gonna set that one aside let's work on another one and let's take this one and I'm going to this time I have this stamped from my set that's like little plus signs make sure I'm in frame then I'm gonna take I love these Krylon 18 gold leafing pens they have these leafing pens so there's a gold leaf silver leaf and copper leaf these are fabulous people a great addition to your craft stash and and affordable I think I'm going to take the silver one and what I usually do is try to find a spot on the feather to to add something to to add a doodle add a mark in this case a mark oops where are we there we are so I'm going to do all of these feathers and then I'll be back and I'll show you how to do the galaxy feathers and I'll share what I've done you do the initial printing on your feathers and you just aren't happy with the way the colors and marks came out then that's when I go in with the stencils and some like more paint in this case I'm taking some Bahama blue deco art Americana craft paint and my stencil called directions from my Etsy shop and I'm going to stencil some marks on that feather this one came out a little bit muddy shall we say so I want to brighten it up just a bit yeah that helped a lot so that took what was kind of an ugly feather and turned it into something much more interesting okay so now we're going to work on painting the craft the galaxy feathers and I'm going to show you how to do that so I'm taking some white craft paint and a brush with some small points on it you can use just use what you have some really it's not about what I'm using and add some stars quote-unquote stars right take some just plain water and take some of those stars and kind of blend them out or fuzz them up a little bit okay you also can just splatter it you can make a puddle of white paint and just take your brush and just do this and splatter on it I tend to like to do a little bit of both I'm going to just try to do it here on the white paper and just and just do that until you're happy with it and you get a galaxy feather right so let's do the other ones and this is a funny specialty brush especially effects brush that happens to have different kind of points on it but you don't have to have this just use a really tiny small round brush or a toothpick or something like that okay so make some white marks on your feather and then go back with some water with your brush fairly drippy and not on necessarily all of them but on some of them add some more water so that white paint gets a little bit runny right and then take and make your puddle of white paint it's best done on black feathers these little sort of dark amber-y ones will work they don't work as well but they do work if you really like the galaxy feathers and you want to make some I would recommend if you can afford it to go out and just buy some black feathers otherwise spend some time and whatever feathers you're using maybe jelly print on them a couple times letting the layers dry in between to really get them dark and black maybe even painting on both sides of the feather so you get something that's really dark and black okay and we're gonna get some watery paint here so galaxy feathers so I'm gonna dry everything and I am going to clean up my table and I'll be back to share with you all the feathers that I have and what they look like right so there we go painted feathers honestly those are all the steps I used I used just a craft paint my jelly plate some stamps and stencils some paint pens and some drawing paper nothing special all things I already had in stock except the feathers the feathers are inexpensive ones from the craft store so go out and paint your own colorful feathers use them in your mixed medium your artwork they'd be great attached to a journal cover maybe hanging from a dream catcher there there's just so many different things I could see them actually smaller ones made into earrings alright that's it for today don't forget to check out the video description for links to my Etsy shop my happy mail address a whole you know there's a link down there to a page where you can get all of my social media and website links to all my stores and places that you can find me so check out the video description don't forget to like share and subscribe and above all go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys