 Okay guys, can't see my own chat. Let's see. Hold on. All right. Hello. Yay. I'm back Hopefully the connections better this time stream yard when I turn around to look at the desktop, which is where we broadcast from Had an error message that said that YouTube's connection wasn't very good So it wasn't me. It was YouTube. There was an error message. I'd never seen on stream yard before Anyway, now I forget what we were talking about I don't know Somebody's gonna have to remind me. Hello Lisa. Hello Linda. Hello Petra. Hopefully everybody can migrate over here. I Will say that I know From watching Yeah, we're back. I know I will say I know from watching other broadcasters lives lately That high high Lisa Hubbard, how are you? That I am not the only one that's had a problem with YouTube live lately So I don't know what's going on. I've seen a couple other broadcasters that have had issues And they've had to like restart live broadcasts because there's been connection issues or buffering or something So it's not just me. Oh I'm getting messages from a friend of mine who lives in Alabama I think That she's having bad weather She just posted no tornadoes. I hope or something like that. Let's hope not So we are going to continue making these little canvases just abstract patterned canvases that will later turn into Journal covers and I may You know add more to them at some point, but I may not I mean, okay, for instance this one I kind of like where this one is going and it may be when it's done I just like it the way it is and I don't want to add too much Moon Tigers path. Hello. Good morning. I'm gonna take my big crystal pen Should put my reading glasses back on as long as we don't have any buffering issues or anything now when you're doing these like sort of Mixed media canvas pieces and you know, it's you know, not anything that's ever intended to be washed Whether you have a primed, you know canvas like this one is or not You know, you can use anything on it water is never going to hit it You don't intend on ever washing it so it doesn't matter And that being said if you want to protect it if it is going to be a journal cover You can always hit it with a light coat of some kind of clear finish coating You're all Matt migrating back over here to the new broadcast. Yay And this one does seem to be more stable than the other one. So whoo Try to keep my hand moving so y'all don't think I've frozen again So I'm just using my big crystal to add just some kind of I don't know random marks little X's little Yeah, X is just gonna I'm just gonna do that much for now because I'm I like that where that went Put it on the drying rack with the other one And let's grab another piece Because my goal is to not only use up some of this paint but to use up these canvases again like I said in the other broadcast I have these pads of primed canvas Like artists canvas and I think I bought them like years ago to experiment with and then you know, just they just sat in my Our closet and so I think what I want to do is use them up and make Journal covers with them. So let's do This one This is a tip again a Tim Holtz stencil Yeah, I like the nice, you know, you don't have to fill up the whole thing to get a nice design on your piece of fabric You can you know, just do a few marks. It doesn't have to be super busy and complicated It can be if that's what you want, but it doesn't have to be so again I got a little bit of paint on my brush It's probably still too much and I have a tendency to be heavy-handed So I'm just kind of tapping it off on this stencil Until I'm getting almost no marks and then I'll very lightly go in and do a swirly motion That usually gets me a Decent impression with the stencil not always I'll be honest. Sometimes I still mess it up, but you know Well, that's not bad And right now I'm using sky blue light yellow ochre and yellow green I don't know why they're just the colors that appealed to me this morning. And you know when you have If you're like me you have all these like different art parts in your room and you're they're just sitting in a closet somewhere and You're not using them You know, we can't really go anywhere still And it's going to be a while despite the vaccine when we can go somewhere So, you know get those pieces and parts out of the closet use them up Make some journal covers out of it if it's fabric like this make You know some little gifted items out of it I mean, I know a lot of people who I could make a handmade journal for them and send them You know like a nice fountain pen and they would love that for Christmas or for their birthday or something And I'm sure you know people like that too make them a homemade gift. I appreciate those so much more 99% of the time than the Store-bought ones. Hey, how are you Shana? And and you know, there's the whole Let's use it up thing, you know, we have again all these parts in our closet Let's use them. They're just sitting there. You don't have to save them for some day because maybe someday never comes Hate to say that but and again as I said in the other Broadcast I'm using some of my own stencils like this is one of mine some of Tim Holt stencils I grabbed this morning off of my rack and some of Mike Deacon stencils homemade gifts are great. I love homemade gifts and You know again, we've all got if you're like me, you've got paper sitting in your art room in you know piles You've got fabric Maybe you don't have this art canvas fabric. Okay, that's great. You don't have to just get out some cotton fabric that you have That you're not using for a sewing project. It could be plain or patterned. It doesn't have to be one or the other You might want to prime it with some gesso if you have gesso or some white paint and then once you get that done Then you can make some of these journal covers with it Maybe it already is just a plain colored fabric and maybe it's like an off-white color like what the natural color of this canvas is But you still want to prime it white Just use up what you have Now in paranoid to keep checking the iPad, which is where I'm watching The broadcast from and I'm looking at your comments from because I'm worried that It's going to start buffering again anyway, use what you have I was chatting with somebody yesterday and Via text message and she's really trying to Go through her stash of crap creative stuff. It's become overwhelming and You know, she's having trouble Finding things. She's trying to make sense of her room. I don't remember if she said she was moving rooms or not She might have been Anyway, she was asking me my advice because she knows I've done a lot of purging in the last, you know year or so More than that actually, you know just You buy things in your part of your art journey because you want to try them You think they're interesting and then you try them and sometimes you fall in love But sometimes you're like, well, I have it now I should use it, but I don't really like it and you almost have to force yourself to get it out and use it when you are creating Stop forcing yourself if you really don't like it and it's really just not appealing to you And it's not something that you feel you can use up Then just let it go Just let it go. I Wasn't gonna do this, but I want to do one more row of those in the middle Petra. I think that sounds wonderful That's a beautiful idea for a gift. I mean to be honest at this point in this stage in my life. I Don't need more stuff and When I do need something I just go buy it So I would rather have a handmade gift even if it's a note You know a kind word goes a long way And yeah, so the other thing with making homemade gifts if you're Even if you're right are writing a note You're using up if you're like me you're using up old stationery you're using up You know some of that fabric stash if you're making bags like Petra did or like I'm doing these, you know journal covers And any of these that don't turn out that I don't think will work for a journal cover We'll get cut up and made into some of these small Mix media embellishments where I you know, maybe so I'm on the machine with some Other fabric and trims or paper and I may even do some sewing on these later. I mean, this is just the first stage I just kind of wanted to show you guys, you know the first stage in this process and have a little talk with you all about Just you know again using up what you have and not going out to buy something Unless you really need it one of the things that You know, I've really learned by trial and error is I really like my Handmade I'm going to try to line that up kind of okay. I like my Manual tools My paper punches my rulers my Xacto blades. I'm not a huge fan of the silhouettes or the crickets So fun fact I used to have a cricket back in the day with the cartridges Figured out pretty quickly. I didn't like that. I gave it to my cousin I don't even know if she still has it anymore and You all know if you've been watching me for a while my kind of saga and journey with the silhouette I ended up giving that away and actually donated that to charity because I just Found it the most inefficient thing on the planet. It just wasted more supplies than it saved me time and I would rather have paper punches to cut things out any day of the week then Then just waste my time with fancy tools. I'd rather have basic tools. So I have basic circle cutters now I have basic paper punches when I want to do something like that I get out my basic tools They save me time they save me headaches And they don't take up lots of room. I Like the way that looks I do want to add some green to it But I like the way that looks and I like Laura's comment Petra. Can I be your friend? That's funny I don't know why these colors are appealing to me except that although I do love winter because my asthma does great in winter I am with the rest of you at this point and I would like spring to come So maybe that's why Now I am working on my table which is covered part of it is covered in a big piece of canvas So at some point this big piece of prime canvas Which I got from a friend years ago Is going to have enough marks on it that it too will get made into journal covers or Little small mixed media embellishments or something No problem Michael and I mean, you know, it's the decade of Mondays So why I'm not surprised that you know things are weird, you know Nothing surprises me anymore Expect the worst hope for the best Of course, I'm like that on a regular time. So, you know, I I like that Do I want to add pencil marks to that maybe Maybe just my big pen See, there's just something about this You don't necessarily have to do more than this But how cute of a journal cover would this be with some nice mixed media or a 70 pound drawing paper in it and You know, if it was one that I either I used or I sold in the Etsy shop You know, this is the kind of cover that has enough on it that you could leave it as it is and have a cute little Journal or you could add, you know, more bits and pieces and customize it on your own, but you've got a good starting point Hey Barbara Yeah, decade of Mondays. It's a decade of Mondays If you think about it, I mean, it's just the decade of Mondays. It's just yeah Even in my Annual checkup yesterday, although everything, you know, I'm doing really well health-wise and the doctor thinks I'm on the right track We're waiting for the blood labs to come back, but she's not really expecting anything She did put on there that, you know, I'm experiencing like COVID fatigue I don't know what she I don't think she worded it that way, but there was something in there about that I wasn't surprised she put that. I mean, you know, it's the decade of Mondays probably turn my Phone off because I'm filming some of this for the vlog next week All right Do I want to start with now? I think I want to start with this one I know it's a spider web, but I think it's cool But do I want to put something like solid and big in the background first? I might I might not Well, we're gonna just go for it. What the hell? Yes, please thumbs up like share and subscribe Geez 13 watching is that not more than we normally have I normally don't get a ton of people in the broadcast Maybe I should do Wednesdays more often. So if you are a subscriber A viewer a follower a supporter I do try to do a broadcast every week But due to COVID and the fact that it's that time of year when I normally get, you know Medical checkups and we're having contracting work done at the house and all of those things Sometimes I'm not able to do the normal day So I Have to switch the days. I usually announce it over in a Facebook group chat that I've got to switch a day. I Will try to schedule the broadcast, but we were on this is my second time on today because The first one didn't go well buffering a lot of buffering issues Yeah, this is another Tim Holtz stencil and it's called shattered. I think it's just called shattered. It says THS 014 It's one of my favorite ones of his stencils. I've had it for a while. I do think it's probably still available somewhere I mean Amazon is the obvious place to look for things like that, but it's one of my favorite one of his stencils Isn't that cool? I mean, yeah Wednesday seems to be going well Might be a better day than Tuesday You know, I got to be honest with you all this yellow ochre color is not one I usually gravitate towards a lot unless I'm needing it to highlight something or accent something But I'm liking it today. I think it's just because it's reminding me of sand Hey, Donna So if there's a particular day of the week like maybe Wednesday's work better for you all than Tuesday's Let me know. We you know, I'm up to changing the day. I mean, but the days do fluctuate a little bit Depending on my schedule and like I said, what's you know going on, you know, due to COVID I when I have to get Checkups and you know have lab work done. I have to do it when they have time Which seems to usually be Tuesday I'm okay with Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday works for me. Okay Next I'm enjoying using these stencils on here, you know, I haven't just done some like stencil stenciling and like free painting In a while I have a lot of stencils. I love my collection of stencils. It's one thing I don't purge often that being said I used to have a lot of like 12 by 12s I do still have some but I don't use them I like the littler ones Acrylic April now do tell us what acrylic April is because I haven't heard of that. I have no idea what that is So tap and swirl tap and swirl by the time you do the swirl you just want just a little bit of paint on your brush Again, this is one of my decon stencils Okay, Donna. Thanks. And okay, Michael Anne I always try to let you guys know in a Facebook message if we're connected on Facebook I have a friends chat a couple of friends chats and I try to let you guys know over there When I need to change a day if you're a patron or supporter. I try to let you guys know Either on YouTube membership or over in patreon. I Try to you know hit all the bases and let everybody know Who's running acrylic April now? I haven't heard of it. This is the first I've heard I do want to tell you all if you haven't heard yet. I am going to be doing a class I think early bird pricing is out already with Bea grob Chelsea Peg Robinson Petra Fuchs and Marie Linder the class starts June 1st and I think again, I think that early bird pricing is out already for that It's called a colorful art journey and I think I brought something new and different to it that you all might enjoy Hopefully I'm not sure the link is in the video description, but I'll add it after the broadcast if it's not You can probably find it by googling Bea grob a couple of colorful art journey Be a is our first name and grob gr. OB is our last name. Oh, that's a it's a good idea for a challenge I like the way that one looks holy cow. That's cute. I like all of them. What is with me today? All right, let's see what other remarks can we add to this or do we want to add to this? Do I want to do Maybe a few of those maybe Need some more green paint. Oh like inktober. Okay. Do we want to do stencils? I want to just do I don't think I do actually I'm fighting with myself and I shouldn't do that So I never have a plan when I do these never never never. I'm just going for it You don't need to have a plan and again if you don't have any fabric and you want to try something like this You know wait for like a joe and fabrics coupon 40% off go to the back section Where they have their duck cloth and they have plain colors of duck cloth and you can get Canvas or duck cloth. It's the same color. That's nice and thick Okay, wait now you got injured. What did I miss? I? Miss something Are you okay now? How did I miss that? How cute would a journal cover that be like a cute travelers notebook? No, if you're like me you have plenty of fabric. Yeah, I don't I Rarely I have to be working on something really specific that I seriously do not have fabric for for me to even think about it because yeah, I Have so much. I Still have so much and I've gotten rid of so much Now when you're doing these kind of fabric pieces and you're not really waiting for the paint to dry like I'm not I'm Definitely don't use an expensive pen and even if the acrylic paint is dry it can clog up your pens so Be pretty careful about drying over the paint This is just a cheap bit crystal. So if it gets clogged up at some point, it's not a big deal I wait until Like back to school and then I buy him like 10 for a dollar. Oh now I am so sorry Yeah, so that's a good tip Barbara. Yeah, if you have a thin a thinner fabric You can always put something fusible on the backside to make it thinner I mean thicker and give it some more weight You can also cover it with a couple coats of like gesso or something to like give it some more weight The clips help. Oh good Yeah, I'm so sorry Okay, so I like the way that one looks I'm gonna stop putting marks on that because that one looks good Next another piece All right, we're gonna go back to this stencil because this stencil is really cool And this is can I read the book on this on the bottom? Let's see. It says THS 07 9 It doesn't have a name on it like that shattered one does and stencils are something that when I am buying a new one and adding to my collection I really kind of look at it and See is it a design? I can use more than once it is is it a design? That's very different from things that I already own because at some point your collection gets to be so big and The designs no matter how you knew new and unique the designer may think they are are not that different than what's already out there and so I really just kind of do a double-check and think and I Usually I move that just a little bit put things like in my Amazon shopping cart I'll just leave them there for a while until I can go through my like say stamp or stencil collection and just really make sure that I Don't already own something that's similar Yeah, this is a good one. So this is again Tim Holtz THS 0 it says 07 9 It doesn't have a name on it anywhere like the other one did and when you are working on like projects like journal pages or something You could have a piece of this fabric either underneath your work surface like I do right now or Just off to the side and maybe instead of wiping your brush off on a piece of paper Maybe you brought wipe it off on a piece of fabric at some point It's going to make a composition that's interesting and that you might be able to turn into a journal cover or something Yeah, I like the size of the Tim Holtz stencils again. I like the smaller stencils I do still own some large 12 by 12 or bigger stencils I don't use them often And there are designs that I just can't find anywhere else normally but My preference is to grab these smaller ones almost always I need more blue paint I was trying to make that stretch, but it wasn't just not going to go Just not gonna not gonna happen and this of course is one of my stencils I don't remember the name of it. Is it etched in the side? I Don't know so again your idea your idea for these is just to make a pattern and it doesn't even Have to end up being a pretty pattern to be honest Maybe it's something that you don't end up liking as a whole as a journal cover and when you kind of fold it in half You're like you that's ugly But maybe when you do this and you look at this little piece. You're like, oh, that's interesting I could do something with that so then maybe you cut it up and do with some kind of embellishment with it Yeah, so Barb, they're just too big for me and I'm you know like mine are like right over there with my other They're with my other stencils. They're just they're really big and bulky and most of the time I'm Working on small projects, you know as I was purging and doing art and learning mixed media Some truths about myself. I discovered were one I Just I detest charcoal and pastel To I just like working on gigantic journals when I first started working on mixed media and our journaling I For some reason thought your journals had to be big and my first couple journals Which are mostly like from the lifebook classes are huge like 11 By 20 or something. They're gigantic I Just like working on huge gigantic journals. It just really is not my thing and I'm glad the clips worked now I'm Anyway, so, you know, there's some truths about my thing. I just like working with pastels I kept a couple that I know their colors I would enjoy adding to projects at some point so I kept them But most of them went away because I just realized when I discovered my own truth So they're just not my bag. What if I break out a new color? I have a Gray it's neutral gray value five Yeah, so my the big journals are just not my thing. They're just not and that's okay So I have some of the big journals with the paper in them, but I ended up cutting them up to make these smaller ones Which is fine. I'm gonna do that just because I can see all my brushes are like The paint is coming off the handles the ferrules are loose like I'm terrible with brushes That's another truth about myself Don't give me an expensive brush because I'm gonna mess it up I'll leave it sitting in water too long I'm gonna get paint all over it and then I'll feel bad because it costs a lot of money Like so I just don't buy expensive brushes and some people love the big journals But they can't do the small journals and that's totally okay I just know for me the big ones are not my thing and when I work big I work on a canvas at the easel and maybe that's why Yep, I like that put some numbers over here see so for instance like a Lot of my brushes are like that and I ended up gluing the ferrule back in a couple times which I'll have to do with this one Yeah, I'm just terrible with my brushes So that is Donna. It's Liquitex basics neutral gray value number five It's a nice light warm gray I would classify it as a warm gray not a cool gray That's the other thing. I love my acrylic paints and my watercolor paints, but I like working with Matte finish or gouache paints in my art journals and I like working with the regular standard artist acrylics on my easel But I have too much of both and so trying to use up Some of those has been another thing that I've been doing. I get rid of some sometimes if there's a brand or type or finish of paint I don't enjoy working with But for the most part, I'm just trying to use up what I have and I'm not buying anything And if I for instance run out of this gray, I will just mix some Which I've been doing I Do know how to mix paint. I just get lazy Late I'm the lazy messy crafter. I'm not the frugal crafter. That's Lindsay why we're So you can take these once they're dry and of course add more marks to them You can decoupage tissue paper napkins dictionary paper to them You know, there's a lot you can do to them. You can sew around the edge or not. You can add trim to it. I Just like doing this. I don't usually finish the edges if like some of the strings come out. I just pull them off Yeah, Lisa. So I prefer like Princeton Neptune watercolor brushes. I like a synthetic brush and But even with those I don't usually spend too much money on them because I'm just I'm really hard on my brushes next But you can take a loose brush like this as long as the bristles aren't falling out if the handles come out Take this shove a bunch of e6000 down there and stick the handle back in and let it dry and it'll be fine It'll work for I have one. I did that like five years ago. It's still working and this is a Stibbler brush Lowell Cornell. I think stibbler brush But see yeah, the handles they get it's left in the water too long and that paint peels off the handle And then the handle gets loose and yeah, it's just a crazy nightmare all right We're next let's do this one. We haven't done this one yet This is called. This is one of my stencils. What did I call this one? single-cell Look like an amoeba to me need more yellow ochre tap tap tap get some of that paint off the brush Do some light swirls. That was probably a little bit too hard at tapping, but we'll find out in a minute. That's all right Not too bad. So yeah, I you know, I just want to encourage you all, you know, we're Kind of all stuck in anyways, right still So, you know go into those dark recesses of your craft space. What are some of those? Pieces and parts and products that you haven't gotten out in like forever Can you create with them? Can you make something interesting with them to keep to use to gift? Or does it maybe just need to go on to somebody who's going to love it more than you are? Lord knows I'm still finding stashes of all of that and if you need, you know thoughtful encouragement When comes time to purge your space well, we as a art community are here for you and as I said earlier, I have had somebody just Yesterday That was messaging me because they need to do their space and they were asking for tips the biggest thing is When you're going through your art supplies Do one category at a time don't overwhelm yourself trying to do the whole room believe me. I've done that before and it doesn't work Because then you just get overwhelmed and you don't get rid of anything So do one category whether it's paint or paper or canvas and guarantee you right there. That's too much paint Whether pens maybe mark making tools Punches and stamps whatever it is do one category at a time and Really go through that category and pull out the things You know you love that you use every single time you create you grab for that thing. That's the thing you keep No Look at what's left. Okay. I really just like these. I hate using them. They make me crazy every time I want to just toss them in the trash can or throw them at somebody's brain. They just make me nuts those go away The ones that you're not sure about in my opinion Hang on to them a little bit Maybe set them aside in a box or a space and when you are creating if you go back to any of it Then those you keep and then after a while the rest of them you get rid of Yeah, so I don't disagree with you. So at some point they turn into a glue brush and Then after that if they get really bad like this one's probably right about there They become sort of a art salvage piece that you use for something like a brush person or we did a Art sort of paintbrush exchange a couple of years ago Which was a lot of fun to do this one again It's really great when you have to buy new tools because you've you know used up something or you know, you've Got in the last bit of life out of your paint brushes. They don't last forever You know if you can of course wait for a sailor or coupon. I used to love it when Michael's and Aaron brothers who is owned by Michaels Had there buy one get one free sale because that's when I would go Replace some of my messed up brushes. I don't even know if they do those anymore. I like folk art paint brushes I like Princeton paint brushes and I like low Cornell paint brushes I do own a couple of these simply Simmons brushes and they're okay. I Have them so I'm gonna use them But I do like a synthetic brush, I'm not I'm not a Natural brush girl. I think because when I learned to watercolor I learned with a synthetic brush and So now for me when I'm watercoloring especially and I'm trying to use a natural bristle brush They just they work differently and I know for some people they prefer it because they hold more water and all that But I just I'm not used to it. I'm sure I could get used to it, but I just have like the patience of an ant so So that might be stress and I get it believe me I Think all of our muses are taking occasional or frequent sabbaticals or vacations Sometimes you just need to not you know necessarily be inspired. You just need to create something and these sort of abstract Just little pieces of fabric That works, you don't need to have your muse be inspired by anything a particular just get up some paint and some stencils and just start creating I know and I talk about this in my vlog, but you know sometimes The painting is not enough. I use my painting and art as a release for my anxiety but things are such that sometimes that is not enough and And It's one of the reasons I started going for walks around the neighborhood. We have the duck pond nearby and We are near a Community park with a river and We live in a really nice neighborhood friendly family neighborhood and so I just go walking around the neighborhood and Just get some fresh air. I have my phone with me and I do vlog while I'm walking, but I Don't have the radio on I don't Unless it's somebody calling like family lately has been sick or injured and so then I if it's one of them calling then I will answer the phone because it might be an emergency but I just for the most part I'm just in silence and It just lets me sort of recharge It's playing in the dirt outside that works Michaels is stopping the coupons. Yeah, Hobby Lobby already did Joann's I think is still doing them, but yeah, I'm a big fan of Princeton brushes So whether it's their acrylic brushes or there it's their watercolor brushes My two favorite brands are Princeton and folk art now folk art used to be way more popular And so you could go into the display and just buy one or two brushes now I think the only way to get them is in a pack But those are my two favorites neither is expensive even if you have to pay full retail I'm gonna hold this down by the feral because it's so loose And yeah, sometimes your muse goes on vacation And so then you need to do like what Kathy's doing and go work in the garden or you know Go for a walk or or something like that. I mean Don't beat yourself up about it. We've all been there and or are there currently It's okay, and that happens during regular times much less the decade of Mondays My mother is calling and it's probably just to tell me like good morning or something and I'll call her back when we're done She doesn't know how to use her new phone So that's a thing let's see Next week it could be Princeton Lisa Hubbard. That's you're so funny Yeah, I just I stopped trying new brushes unless Something that's a favorite of mine is like not being made anymore Then I'll of course then I would have to investigate trying some new brushes to see Which one I like and to be honest I would probably just purchase like a half inch flat in a couple of different brands To try them and see which one I like working with and that which one kind of holds up over the long haul before I buy a Whole bunch of brushes that I've also learned don't buy a whole bunch of something that you might not like I'm always you know open to new ones But for the moment, I'm just really kind of not looking because I do have a particular couple favorites that I like I have plenty of brushes at the moment. I don't really need to buy new ones like has been said earlier in the chat I'm really hard on my acrylic brushes. They get really nerfed up really quickly to borrow a phrase from Shannon Green and So they really just have to be literally falling apart For me to just have to go replace one the ones that I always have trouble finding are the stippler brushes Those are like usually kind of challenging to find This and this one is my favorite. This is a folk art. It's called a scruffy brush and They are a kind of a stiffer stiffer brush in that they have very short very stiff dense bristles And they're great for stenciling and scrubbing and blending your paint, but the Princeton the folk art brushes are Something you almost have to just mail order because they're just almost folk art sort of out of their brushes at least are kind of out of favor, I think and They're hard to find at the stores because there's just not that many places that carry them and When they do they have them in only packs. So you have to buy like a whole pack of brushes So I try to just buy a whole pack of stippling brushes There's lots of brushes out there. You have to like with paint or anything else decide what your budget is Pick an amount and then try to find something that fits in that budget Don't feel like to create and be a wonderful creative That means you have to have you know paint brushes that are like a hundred dollars each. You don't trust me I've had those and you know what I just liked working with them They are not my favorite. I am a cheap brush girl. Oh, yeah, I like that that look that's a cute one That is a really cute one. I Could see this bound and up the center maybe use like this if I have some thread. That's this green color That would be cute. Yeah, I'm gonna stop there because I like the way that turned out Walmart has them Lisa Swank. Thank you very much because I'm always looking for them the stippler brushes. I use a lot. That's like Princeton Neptune half inch flat and the Folk art stippling brushes my two favorites Wow has almost an hour and a half gone by already wow Yeah, I just I prefer the you know, there's some really good Synthetic brushes out there and you know, you don't need to spend a lot of money I do have some other mark making tools. I've just been stenciling, but I did pull out like this wine cork. This is good for making dots I Should say champagne cork Okay, it is good for making dots if you don't slide it around and have too much paint on it That's okay. I mean, you know, it doesn't have to be perfect, right? Yeah, time really does fly when you're having fun. Do I wanna? Let's see. I think I want to do this. This is just cardboard. I have enough paint on it So I'm trying to be delicate. Why am I trying to be delicate people? There we go Delicate my fanny So that's just cardboard. Oops. That's not the color I wanted I have a piece of a silicone pot holder My phone is just going crazy this morning all of a sudden You can use anything as a mark making tool Mark I you know I can't keep track of the date 99% of the time and that was before covid So This is a wooden stamp I got from somewhere and to be honest, I don't remember where I might have picked it up At the craft store. I don't know Oh, it does have a mark on the side. It says mini wood block I don't know. It was five dollars Somebody could have sent it to me. I don't honestly remember. Let's see. Let's try This one This I think will be our last one today. I'm gonna use up the paint that's here on the Palette And I have out Probably a good thing. This is our last one because my phone is going insane Just using up like all of the paint that's like on the side of the paintbrush I hate to waste paint yet now I will check I will check it. Yeah, it's Probably not important because I know my family and there's just some what can I say there's some family drama going on this morning And my opinion isn't going to change anything So that's all I can say about that And one of them is my daughter and I think she's coming over to look through my horde slash stash Of storage bins because she said she needs a couple of bins or something at her house And before she goes to buy some she knows her mom has a horde of storage bins Mom can do you have anything that would work for this and can I come look through your stash tomorrow? And I think that was probably just a message from her saying she's coming over Thank you, Michael and I wasn't you know necessarily intending on using these colors But I have to agree with you. I kind of like them And where they went today Very much. I'm kind of I have to admit I'm a little surprised It might be that I'm channeling, you know wanting to go to the beach Because although I love you know winter and I love the cold it's great like I said great for my asthma I don't like it super hot, but I do love the beach and so it could be that I'm channeling wanting to go to the beach and spring all right So I think that's it for today. I want to encourage you all to You know get out Those pieces and parts in your art room that you haven't used in a while get them out Take a fresh eye to them You don't have to have any intention with the fabric if you have fabric like this Just paint on it. Just get it painted. It's not doing you any good stuck in the closet But maybe when you do get it painted like even this one you might look at it and go I don't know if I like that one as much but then if you take it and fold it in half and do this That's a cute journal cover You could also like do this and that's a cute embellishment, right? Um, you could also make them into a journal that's full of fabric pages Um, and you can add words. I might add, you know collage words and stuff to them later But anyway, I want you to get all those little bits and pieces out of the corners of your art room that you have Use them use it or lose it. It's not doing you any good. Just just sitting there in our room never getting used I have these visions of when at someday hopefully a long long long time from now when I pass away My daughter wanting to dig me up and yell at me because I have like this horde of art supplies And she's like wants to say w t f mom like Yeah, so I don't want to be that person So, you know, I want to encourage you all to use what you have and you know, just be we all myself included Needed me more conscientious about what we do buy and why we're buying it And I'm not saying that to lecture you all I'm lecturing myself because I'm just as guilty as anybody else um Really think about whether you really really need it or not And if you are trying to destash you're trying to lighten your load in your art room You're trying to figure out ways to use new things Well, you know First of all follow me on social media and if you're friends with me on facebook Then you can always, you know message me over on facebook We do have a couple of creative friends chats over on facebook one of them's for patrons only And so if you're a patron and you're not in that chat and you're on facebook, let me know um Support the free content On here on facebook or youtube and over in the facebook art groups not just for me Any of your favorite creatives? They probably all have a way to support them whether it's merch or an etsy shop or something And so think about ways to support them. They probably like me have ways in their video description So check that out. Um, the not the least of which is my etsy store and my art foemies Hey, and you're joining us. I'm leaving. I'm sorry um I want you all to be kind to each other and remember again to support each other If you can times are tough right now for all of us and please stay safe stay healthy stay creative Please go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And i'll see you later Bye guys