 Hey guys, it's just taking me a couple minutes to get everything set up I'm sure you enjoyed that brief glimpse of my shelf. I didn't mean to show you that We are a simul casting on Ustream and Periscope at the same time this ought to be really interesting Hold on I got to get I can't hear you or see you or anything yet So hang on just a second hearing myself in like More than stereo. I don't know You might want to turn me down Michelle. I have help this morning everybody and I can hear myself I can hear myself over and over. It's kind of funny All right, let's put the microphone down make me laugh. It could be my desktop Yeah, so I may just have to hearing mice deal with hearing myself an echo. We're gonna paint some Okay, well we I'm muted on everything except the desktop, which is what I'm listening to you on Michelle I know I don't know hold on Is that I don't hear an echo now, but I don't hear myself at all, but I may not be able to hear you Michelle So say something I can yeah say it again Yes, I Can hear you. You're not very loud, but that'll work. I can still hear myself But it's less annoying it is a crack it No, no no talking to the floor. All right everybody, so we're gonna work on some more little canvases We're here with deco art products this morning Their acrylic paints and their collage papers. I'm not exactly sure what I'm gonna paint. I have a couple ideas Yeah, the echo effects are making Michelle and I crazy this morning. We're trying something new So it's partly our own fault and I haven't turned down, but you guys I can still hear myself an echo It is actually really funny. These are a deco art collage papers and this is paisley punch Which look at the colors that come in this one So we're gonna put some of these on here These are like a little bit thicker than tissue paper, but they're thin collage papers Which I like I prefer to work with thinner papers and I'm gonna grab a piece of this too. This is one. It's called gold trends Let me know if you guys have any questions and or want to see me paint anything in particular And if those of you who are on you stream if you have questions One of the reasons we have a funny setup this morning is so that I can get your questions because you know if you've watched me before I can't see any of this chat on you stream Just I keep hearing myself. It's funny. Sorry I'm gonna be cracking myself up all morning I don't even know if this one. Oh, yeah, it is Hope you everybody had a great Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you, Michelle so we have Michelle Mitchell from Lady Blue Studios is Over at you stream Watching the chat. So if you guys have any questions that she can't answer she is going to Let me know I Have my headset on which is why I can sort of hear myself in stereo, which is cracking me up I don't know if Michelle's hearing the same thing. I am but it's Just hilarious. Yeah, she's gonna try something here. It is crazy. We're hearing like might be like three four times It's really funny. Oh Suddenly, I don't hear myself. Oh wait. No, there I am. It's just a delay. I Got excited there for a minute. It's just a delay There it is. Holy crap Did you guys all go out this morning and get some fresh air do something for yourself get some exercise? I hope Take care of yourself. I know there's a lot of people that aren't are watching the CHA broadcast. Hello That are watching the CHA broadcast this morning and so they won't they're gonna be occupied by that Good morning. Yeah, I heard it's you guys are having some cold weather, you know, I'm in California. So We freak out when it gets to be below 60. Yes You know, it's funny. I was at the gym this morning and I don't know it was like 55 or so and I Was getting out of my car this morning and I see this lady She's all bundled up like she was you know at someplace that was like 13 below or something. I thought that was funny Good morning, everybody So say that again Michelle, okay, are there people watching on you stream? Okay, one of the reasons we're gonna try to do these you stream simulcasts Is because it is easier for me to download the video to YouTube from you stream It's quicker and the quality of the video picture is better for you guys So plus there are some people who don't have smartphones or tablets and It's hard for them to get on to periscope, but if you could see my studio the camera setup is pretty funny So I'm just starting with a layer of collage, which is I almost always start my paintings off With some kind of something on the background. I almost never start with just a plain White canvas Just sorry. I'm gonna be chuckling this whole broadcast hearing myself an echo is just hilarious My my guess Michelle is that it's because my desktop speakers are on and I'm hearing what we're saying plus I'm hearing the broadcast So I like that and evidently I'm the only one hearing it so it's just gonna crack me up You know, it's just you know people think I'm nuts anyway, so it's all right So we're gonna dry this just a little bit and I think this morning I need to paint some more Buddha faces because I'm actually been selling them all out So I think I think that's what we're gonna do on these You don't have to be completely dry, but I want them to be a little drier Then I'm just sort of gonna turn them around and see which way I think the Buddha face should be on there I think that way and we're gonna use Some neon colors. I have orange and pink. These are both deco art By Americana. Oh Lisa. You're so brave. You're watching both streams I'm listening to all the streams because I'm getting like a million echoes in my ears Every now and then I hear Michelle say something but otherwise I just hear myself echoing Okay, so that was deco art media fluid acrylic in paints gray now their paints gray is Less blue than other brands There's nothing wrong with that But because of that I want it to be a dark, but I want it to be a little more blue So I'm gonna add some Prussian blue to it and this is deco art traditions, which is a little thicker and I'm also gonna put out some Prussian blue and Then I'm gonna put out some aqua marine if you guys have any questions ask and then I have some Dahlia ride yellow. I don't think that's how you pronounce it, but that's you know Yeah, I have trouble with English most days and just for the heck of it. I don't think I'm gonna use a lot of it We're gonna put out white. All right, let's see and we're gonna go with a filbert Where's my rag so this is a simply Simmons brush and this is a number six filbert So it's a flat brush, but it's got a rounded tip and it's in my opinion These are really good acrylic painting and mixed media brushes this particular shape So we're gonna do two of them and even though I'm gonna do them side-by-side. I can pretty much guarantee you They're gonna come out looking completely different I'm gonna start with my darkest color Because this is acrylic paint remember so we can Bounce around with the colors We don't have to worry about starting light and working our way darker like you do with watercolor with acrylic Acrylic is all about layers of mark making so if you make something too dark You can just put white on top of it or a lighter color So we're gonna start with putting Our head shape. I almost always do my boot as as a half face Hey, how are you? Good morning? Here's a neck and and you don't have to think of it as a booted necessarily you could think of it as a just you know sort of meditating girl We're not using any flesh tone colors though her eyes are closed So that's her lit lower lid our upper lid Then I'm gonna put in a Nose. Oh, yeah, I'm gonna it's gonna be up for replay on Periscope for 24 hours. It's also gonna end up on YouTube Hopefully later today This is the eyebrow and I'm just I'm using the very tip of the filbert brush to do this line here and This is the side of the bridge of the nose I'm gonna put in the nostril here and you know, you might put in lines on your face that you don't like this is acrylic paint so You can always go back and put more paint there and keep working the shapes until you get them exactly the way you Want I'm painting on a little four by four canvas. This is something I picked up at Walmart. Ah, not Walmart Sorry, holy cow. I need more coffee this morning Hobby Lobby Walmart what the heck am I thinking I'm gonna put in an ear shape here and Something for at the top of the head the headdress the hair You know depend what it is exactly is gonna depend on whether you've decided to make this more of a Buddha or more of a girl Okay, that's a good start So I'm gonna I'm not gonna clean my brush off and I'm gonna grab some of my ultramarine, which is my next Lighter it's a lighter color. It's still a cool color. So it's still a good shadow color I still feel like I need coffee you guys and this here. This is just a piece of canvas on my table So I have a habit of just doing this and when it gets really messy. I'll make a journal cover out of it you'll want to get have a baby wipe or a damp rag candy and This will help you Blending some of your lines now when you're doing this on a bigger canvas or a journal page. It's much easier The smaller you go the harder these kind of things are to get especially to get the blending right Hello, Lilith and sweet lady over on you stream So I'm just putting this aqua marine color in the parts of The faces that would be darker that would be in shadow. I'm working my way Darker to lighter the opposite of what I do what I do water color And don't you know, like I said, don't be afraid to get in here with your baby wipe and just blend your lines out a little bit If you wipe too much off you can always put more Let's move this one out of the way and just focus on the one because that's I'm looking at the screen and that's confusing me So one of the tricks to doing these faces that is especially handy when you're doing them in non-traditional colors Say you didn't get your neck exactly right or you're not super great about painting ears or that sort of thing So one of the really great tricks to do is to have the darkest color of your face Be a same the same or similar color as the rest of the background or your painting So then when you do that your face tends to disappear Into the background or blend into the background. It's less Noticeable if the lines aren't exactly right But it gives you a nice effect because it also appears like it's popping out of the background Before we get too far. I'm gonna paint my edges We did a lot of these before Christmas. They make really great Christmas presents or birthday presents If you do craft shows They'd make little good little sale items at arts and craft shows Everybody has room for a small canvas. Not everybody has room for a big one We do in-depth lessons on painting Buddha faces over at journaling crazy island style I'm that I'm not saying that because I got on the air to advertise that I always advertise that because I teach over there, but It just dawned on me I think we've done this a couple times over there and my lessons are a lot more in-depth than I think what we're gonna get into today Don't forget to paint your edges It makes your painting look complete Oops, how many of you are following Peter Walsh's 30 days to get organized? 31 days to get organized on YouTube Anybody but me? So now I have the Prussian blue and I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna What's it about so he does quick short videos every day for the whole month of January and He Gives you some tips about cleaning and organizing and purging your house So this is the Prussian blue. I'm going to go in. I'm gonna mix. I think I want a green Hands a yellow. I have this other dye your eye yellow, but I think it might be too orange So I'm gonna mix this with some of the Prussian blue Because the blue though you green will be more of a blue green than an orangey green Yeah, I was right a good habit to get into with any paints that you have and it works Well with deco art paints, of course is to when you get a set of paints like these is to mix all your colors with each other Make a chart and see What colors you can get and practice your color blending? So this is a warmer color. It's We're going into the lighter the warmer shades to bring out the warmer tones in the face that Parts of the face that would be closer to the viewer. I just stuck my finger in some and yellow I'm not really cleaning my brush off I'm just using it dirty. I'm letting the colors blend together. I have colors That will blend well together without making mud So I don't have anything on here that's going to turn like purple if I put purple in here That would be a problem with all this wet paint Because that would just get really muddy This is the dye your eye yellow So when you're doing faces like this, especially if you're using non-traditional colors You want to make sure you don't use colors That don't blend well together Because you won't get the effect that you want and every painting I've ever done has an ugly duckling stage So if yours has one of those Just keep going We haven't gotten any trolls today. I'm kind of surprised. I don't miss them. Did you say something Michelle? I know right now. I did jinx it. Holy cow I don't know. I don't know is Anybody else who's on you stream having problems with the audio? That's the only thing I can think to ask because I don't I have I Hear myself She can maybe reboot her computer or check her speakers Cool. It'll yeah, it'll be on YouTube. I always I'm I can't Not put these on YouTube for you guys. It'll be on you stream for a while and periscope for a while But I'm also going to get it over to You too Okay, so I'm just defining the shapes of my face with the different colors the cool colors. I have I Paint with cool and warm colors. So my shadow colors are my cool colors, which would be my blues and And kind of my green because my green Okay, you if you really want to watch the art cool if you are not wanting to watch the art Then you need to stop and go away The green's kind of a cool color. It's a border color if you put it next to this yellow It's a cool color. If you're just being funny. That's funny These are really warm colors the fluorescent the neons and then of course we have some white Okay, so I'm just going to continue to find the shapes of my face. Oh, thank you and I'm you know not really when you're working on a canvas is small. You can't do tons of blending you have to just let your marks Speak for themselves and help them define your shape because you really can't there's only so much you could do the canvas is too Little and every time I do a Buddha. They're a little different. Sometimes I use white. Sometimes. I don't use any white Sometimes I do 12 of them at the same time Okay, we're gonna put bring in some neon pink and you can still see a little bit of the collage paper underneath there Which I love that Yeah, see so Put the pink where you really want it to appear like the light is really hitting Buddhist face Yeah, you can oh if you don't like it you can always just so over it So they make just so for No, just go for it. I made lots of crappy canvases in the past. You just have to experiment and play I've got a garage full of stuff that needs painting over or just so You just have to play Yeah, I when I first started I wouldn't buy new canvases I did what Michelle is just telling me in my ear to tell you guys which is go to Goodwill and get a canvas from the thrift store and Then paint over that and I've done that So I just got the question how long have I been doing this? That's a question. I get asked a lot. I Have two ants that were both fine art students in college They did a lot of babysitting and I was never a kid that could sit still well So I don't remember ever not doing arts and crafts and painting One of them was a pen and ink artist and one of them was a painter the gesso yeah, you may if you have a lot of Dark paint on here you might need a couple layers of gesso, but yeah, the gesso will cover it all up So now I'm just coming back in with my dark and making sure that I haven't lost too much of that Putting the lighter colors on there The texture will still show but I like that because I think it gives your painting some interest And you don't have to worry about adding texture in you can work around it a lot of times Yeah, I Used to live next to a savers and so I which was bad. That was very bad for my budget But I Used to buy a lot of stuff from there But goodwill is great. I live near a goodwill now So that I'm really liking where this is going. So I'm not wanting to touch this too much more. I do think I'm going to Make a darker green. I still have my Baby white handy Yeah, I Enjoy painting them and I sell a lot of these little faces Buddha faces Most of the time unless I'm doing it on camera for somebody I don't paint just one. I usually do like 12 of them have some neon orange here See if I can get some of this in here. I love the Americana Neons because they're handy. I Live in California in Saint Neen San Jose. It is About an hour away from the ocean Okay, I'm liking that. So I'm not gonna really oh wait Touch it anymore. You know, I always say that and then there's always something I got asked I get the other question I get asked a lot is how do you know when a painting is done? Well, my paintings are never really done until they're either varnished or they go to their forever home because I just keep messing with them Okay, that now we're gonna stop because I like that one. So now let's do the other one You can still see some of the collage paper in the background Maybe you want to do some journaling in the background underneath the Buddha face if you're covering up another painting I did one for my daughter actually a huge one. That's like six feet long by four feet high Behind one of his cheeks part of the underpainting shows which was a painting of hearts and flowers and When I put the Buddha face on there It just turned out to be that there was a little heart right underneath his cheek So I wiped the paint back so that you could see that Okay, I think I missed a question Michelle Yes, it is the one behind her bed in her videos Okay, so now we're gonna start another one and I'm gonna use the same palette, but you'll see It's gonna turn they always turn out different. So right away the face is a little bit different shape. Goodbye. Have a good day So again, I'm gonna start with the lower eyelid or upper eyelid the closed eye Confusing myself on a good day that might be in totally the wrong place, but that's okay And of course you could do this with a pencil. You don't have to do it with a paintbrush like I'm doing and if you get the You know face Features in there Kind of the wrong place. They're not even exactly the right place Just, you know, let the paint dry and go over it again with more paint I'm gonna put a shadow here under the chin If you guys are in the face in my Facebook group you can go over there and request Certain, you know acrylic painting tutorials for the Mondays of DecoArt or Watercolor tutorials for watercolor Wednesday If you're not a member of my Facebook group you can join it's called a life of art and self expression You can also leave a comment on the videos on YouTube and I will add That request to my list of requests just making sure I get some paint on my edges So already I'm noticing by the way I painted the face that it looks like Buddha's facing head down Because this chin is short, but the forehead is long. So it almost gives you the illusion that his head's tilted down So this is some Prussian blue mixed with a little bit of white and I'm going to Define the shadows of the face the parts farther away from the viewer With my cool colors and bring out the high parts of the face or the parts closer to the viewer With the warm colors I'm also gonna work on the shape of the face and Fixing it a little bit and Michelle's cutting paper. I can hear her. I can't see her but I can hear her I can hear it So I'm just working on the shape of the face and the shadows at the moment Now I'm gonna kind of wipe my brush off a little bit, but not not gonna really clean it too much I'm gonna go in with my super dark green In the nostrils between the lips a little bit the eyelid eyebrow Lisa you keep having to rejoin. Are you having a problem with the connection this morning? Sorry Okay, so now we're gonna go in with our lighter green I'm really wanting to use green on Buddha this morning, which is not a color. I normally use tons of on them I don't know why but I'll put a little bit in the hair or the headdress so I'm working my way towards my warmer colors my lighter brighter colors I'm gonna Use another one that's kind of on the border between the two which is the aqua marine It's a warmer blue, but it's not the coolest by the warmest color of my palette and you notice I'm using my paint to redefine and Adjust the shape of my face and Even painting this face side by side with the other one these two are complete turning out completely different That's what I was talking about So now I'm gonna go into the Dahlia ride yellow and this is what happens when I Paint Buddha's I get involved in the painting and I forget to answer questions. Sorry I'm sorry. You keep losing your connection Lisa, but know that this is going to be up on YouTube actually pretty quickly maybe reboot your Router Thing isn't that what it's called that does the Wi-Fi connections See, I can paint you pretty pictures, but I don't know I don't know that much about computers I know enough to get myself in trouble Michelle's laughing, but she knows me. She knows it's true Okay, I'm gonna come in with some white and it's gonna mix with the wet paint That's on here and it's gonna give me a lighter like secondary color That was a little too much white. So I just wiped my brush off on my baby white I need to work on the lower lip down here and define it and instead of drawing your lips Try to define the shape of them with your paint Colors by you know working around the lips to bring out the shape of your lips We don't have these Monday with deco arts all the time. I'm I only do them every other week We do do watercolor Wednesday every week and I won't be I won't be doing these Ustream broadcasts every week either. I Don't know how often we'll do the Ustream it'll depend on how many of you want to see it Ustreams an issue. So now I'm just defining the edges of my face with I'm going back in with the dark darkest color Defining the lines of the face that need redefining that I lost by adding my other colors And I'm barely touching my brush to the canvas. So I get this nice kind of thin line Darken this up a little bit over here going with some of my neons When I started out painting I used only Americana paints because I couldn't afford fancy artist paints And I actually still love the Americana neons are my favorite unless you guys have questions I just pop out little strange things like that because That's what's on my mind That's actually not bad. This right here is So, you know focus on painting suggestions of things rather than actually painting the shape The human eye and brain will put in The shapes that you just suggest without you having to paint them exactly and It's I think a lot more fun to paint without being stressed out about doing a perfectly photorealistic You know portrait of a face or Buddha or whoever you're trying to paint Okay, let's go back to this one for a minute Let's take a look at this one and see if there's anything we need to fix. I like them both Well, I like this one better But that's how that's why I usually do 12 of them They all turn out a little different and usually I'm a lot looser and more expressive in my mark making By the end then I am at the beginning See what we can do about this one and acrylic paint is all about layers of marks So the more layers of and so is mixed media so the more layers of stuff that you put on here the more Marks you put the more mediums you put the more interesting it's going to get And and really, you know put on your favorite music something you really enjoy Especially when you're doing little paintings like Buddha and Then just enjoy the process and have fun with it See that's already better and I just I barely did anything you hear my squeaky chair. I Got a new chair for Christmas Hey Hi karma kittens. Hello See I get involved in painting especially when I'm doing Buddha and I forget to look at the chat You guys got to do that like really grab my attention I'm good. How are you? My family cracks up because they try to have whole conversations that with me and I'm you know Doodling or painting and I totally not heard anything they said So I'm just going back to this first Buddha and I'm I'm adding a few Purposeful Suggestive marks the weather is not you know, it's over. It's a little gray It's not too bad, you know, it's a bit on the chilly side more than what they're used to but you know in California, you know, it's Not 70 so everybody's in their snow gear which cracks me up in San Jose I didn't like that blob of wipe there. So we're I took some of it off and we're gonna Yeah, one of my friends Cindy udder was telling me the other day she lives in New York State It was minus three only 40 minutes north. Where do you live, San Francisco? Oh, I love. Oh, you live where Dick Blick is Oh, you're so lucky. What did you say, Michelle? Yeah, maybe Keep an eye on that that would be nice so I'm just going in here and I'm just refining my shapes of my Buddha and Making the painting more interesting by making sure there's a good balance of warm colors and cool colors and Some interesting marks and already I love that I need to stop on that one because I love the way that looks and This one came out right the first time So I'm but I what I need to do though is I think do something over here and I'm gonna just use my fingers And that's already better Let's look at this one on this over here because I think if we mute this a bit then the face pops out more And we want the face to be standing out more than the background. We don't want the background to detract Thank You Lisa And I'm just as you see I'm just using my fingers. We need to do something right here That's too much. I like the aqua marine, but that was too much That's better. That's much better. Okay. Let's look at this one So when we get close to the face instead of using my fingers I'm gonna use my brush because I don't want to mess up the faces. Oh So not everybody can be here this morning because we're busy with other things and that's fine. The recording will be up on YouTube shortly It'll also be live for a while on You stream and you and a periscope But there we go. Those are a lot of fun. I like both of them, but you can see what I mean They're completely different So we're not gonna let this extra paint go to waste. I've got my small delusions journal here, which we're doing a new series in for YouTube, but What we're gonna do is oh Here we go. I'm gonna get my catalyst tool and I'm just going to Put the paint on some of my pages You'll see these pages show up. I'm sure on YouTube because This is a book that we're using for a new series on YouTube soon Okay, I missed you said you somebody asked something about YouTube and I missed it ask it again If you Google my name Which is the same name here on periscope and on you stream, which is Gina B is in boy a h ren s I'm literally all over the place Yeah, yeah and more ways than one Michelle's right. Yes, so you can also go to Gina be errands comm and find all my links there for social media stores and everything I don't know what quantum play is So I'm gonna stick a clip here and I've got two backgrounds started in this little journal that I can do something with Oh Russian bloggers, okay I had some excellent Russian vodka recently over the holidays boys was that stuff good? So there we go. Does any that's okay? No worries My grandmother wasn't an American native and she spoke half English half Italian so And her mother spoke no English I grew up with that in the house No, actually, but my daughter's Boyfriends parents are from Lithuania and they speak Lithuanian and Russian And I love it when they speak either Lithuanian or Russian. It sounds fabulous. I have no idea what they're saying. All right So there we go and we're Been on for about an hour and I hope that you guys Enjoyed that and if you have any questions You can ask me on the comments on the video on YouTube You can join the Facebook group a life of art and self expression and Ask the questions over there. If you do paint any little buddhas, I'd love to see them and Yeah, have fun with it. I hope you've had a happy holiday If you do want more detailed lessons on doing these kind of Buddha faces. There is a Lesson on this over at crazy island University But yeah, try these decor art paints, I think they're fabulous. All right, that's it this morning guys Have a good day. Go back. I know aren't the colors fabulous And it's a little bit of a challenge to do faces in these non-traditional colors, but it's a fun challenge You're welcome. And yeah, try not to get too wound up and watching all the CHA broadcasts I've got to stop looking at them It just makes me want to go buy stuff that I can't not only can't buy yet because it's not out yet, but You know, it's just not good for the budget. I don't really need any more stuff. All right I'll talk to you guys later. Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself. Go for a walk You know, whatever it is breathe in some fresh air get some exercise Take five minutes just to yourself do something just for you today And then try practicing some of these little Buddha faces and have fun with it All right, I will see you guys later