 Hey guys, hey Eve. How are you? Alrighty, so we're gonna work in this journal today that I've been doing the art challenges from Cindy Utter's challenge and channel in You saw this one posted last night Which was the no paint challenge, so we're gonna do Monday with deco art in this journal. I'm gonna See if I can turn it back on itself I'm good. Hey Sylvia, you know, it's Monday. I'm as good as I can be for it being Monday I mean, you know, I look forward to Mondays a little more than I used to because you know I just stay home now and do art and chat with you guys, but you know It's Monday All right, so I have this here that I actually deco poshed a little while ago because I wanted it to be kind of on The dry side. It's a little bit cold still which means it's still a little damp But while we're chatting Hopefully it'll dry some more so Hey, never hopeless. Hey And Sylvia. Hello everybody. So okay Last week on watercolor Wednesday, I got asked to do giraffes and I thought okay So why don't we do a giraffe here on Monday in mix media and then Wednesday? We'll do one in watercolor. So I found two images on paint my photo and after The broadcast is over. I will not only update the video description to include the list of materials and supplies that we use today But I will also include the links to the two photographers to own these photos paint my photos is a royalty-free site where you can get inspiration photos I Found this one which I really loved and you can see I spilled a drop of water on it oops and So we're going to actually do that one today And then I found this one which is just a close-up of his face that I think we're going to do in watercolor on Wednesday so today we're going to do this one and what I really wanted to do was I wanted to take and Use some of the deco art collage papers I'll show you in a minute and do something sort of abstract with the background and You know colors and patterns kind of inspired by this photo, which I'm going to stick up Against the cabinets back here so I can see it My desk is already a mess we didn't even get started yet. Okay Make sure I'm like in camera. All right Um So I already did that and I what I used were I used these Deco page papers. They're collage papers. They're sort of a cross between like wrapping paper And tissue paper There's something, you know like in between so that the ones that I used were Um This set which is old world. I used the text one from this one Gold trends and from that one I used this particular paper, which this is a little scrap. I'm going to stuff back in here I cat stag and And Victorian romance and I use a little bits of those particular Papers from those particular sets to do something sort of ramp Abstract and random in the background that gave me the feeling of the sort of you know African desert plain. I don't know where this picture was taken You know sort of background that you see in the inspiration photo So we did that and to glue them down you can I know aren't the papers great I really love their papers because they Are I really love to collage with thin papers like tissue paper tissue paper is my favorite collage paper Or old book paper and these are Like tissue paper, but they're a little thicker sort of like the Tim Holtz To tissue paper and I really really love them. I glued them down with a mat product so you can use deco page mat Or some other kind of mat medium. I like deco page mat And I just put it on thinly on the background just enough to get the pages down And then really use some sort of a scraping tool to really push them down into the glue And make sure you have all the edges stuck down really well And don't worry about if it's hanging over the edges I had it hanging over the edges, and then I just cut it off when it was dry dry enough And my scraper tool that I use when I collage is actually this red thing Which you can find at the Dollar Tree. This is a Betty Crocker frosting scraper And it was a dollar and I love this thing and because it's like a silicone You know product despite the fact that I don't really clean it very well ever The stuff doesn't really stick to it. It just peels off. So But it's a great collage tool So I think this is kind of dry enough and I've got a putty knife putty knife Palette knife I Swear I'm awake. I've got a palette knife and a few different brushes and I've got pencil a Charcoal pencil and a couple of pens So I think we're going to get started and the first thing I want to do is kind of put our giraffe on here and Kind of see where he's going to be I pulled out a couple pencils because I wasn't sure initially which one I want to use and The charcoal pencil I've recently used with like paint paint or something. So there we go So I think I'm going to use the charcoal pencil at least to start and I'm going to just Kind of sketch out the shape here and one of the reasons I'm choosing the charcoal pencil is because You guys are going to hopefully be able to see it to be honest So I'm just trying to draw what I see in the photo And you know as usual I probably I'm going to want to keep it kind of on the abstract side because you know That's what I do. So But you know, I want the shape to sort of resemble a giraffe would be nice Now the charcoal pencil when I start putting paint on here is going to blend with the paint I'm okay with that if you're not okay with that then I would suggest you using something else This is a charcoal, this is a charcoal pencil and like I said, it's going to blend with you know, the paint It's not a permanent situation So, you know, if you're not okay with that and you want something that's not going to blend with the paint and move around then you probably want to go with a A regular pencil or maybe a sharpie pen now I'm just kind of going over, you know my shapes and you know kind of Adjusting them where needed now one of the things you can do because it is a charcoal pen So pencil charcoal pencil Hey Muriel is I this is a baby wipe and I can get in here at the baby wipe and if I Have too many lines and on here in the wrong place and they're confusing me I can just wipe them off my background is dry and the charcoal pencil You know charcoal pencil if you've worked with charcoal. It doesn't stick. It's not a China marker That's a different and a China marker is more waxy. This is actually a charcoal pencil It looks the same and I actually have a China marker somewhere Do I have one in yeah Uh, okay, so this is a China marker and this is by generals For those that don't know I Need a piece of paper. Oh, I have paper all over the table Okay, so this is a this is a China marker now a China marker is more like a crayon a waxy oily crayon and this is The charcoal pencil now the charcoal pencil see it's gonna move Well, you guys can't see that Hang on So in the upper part of the screen now You'll be able to see that the charcoal pencil will move around you don't have to do anything and my finger is dry Right with the China marker. I'm gonna clean and dry off my finger With the China marker See It'll move a little bit, but it doesn't move nearly as much as the charcoal So if you have a China marker you could do that use that Hey Ian, but they're very they look the same, but they're very different Me mediums these two things they behave very differently. I Do think that being said it's worth having both of them in your stash of stuff Sure, I love charcoal, but the easy way to work with charcoal in my opinion is to get a charcoal pencil The these are the easy way All right, so now we've got our outline of our giraffe on here and we've got our background. So now we get to get to painting Alrighty So we're gonna pull out some whitewash The charcoal pencil I think is just a general's brand. I know it's not a Particular I think I have another one up here somewhere, but I don't know where it is. I think it's just generals It's not any particular, you know, fancy brand Yeah, so the the China markers are an old like sign writing like layout tool back a million years ago When I was still working as a licensed dispensing optician and I was a lab tech So that means I made your eyeglasses. We use the China markers for marking the lenses So I've been using these for a long time for lots of different things They're really great for marking on glass because they stay and it doesn't come off until you want it to come off It will come off but you have to you know clean it and in those days we use Water machines with chemicals in them. So we needed that the marks to stay So there's a little bit of trivia I don't know how they do it now because I haven't worked in that field in a long time Okay, I'm going to get out some green. This is desert cactus Yeah, see you press so if your mom does that you probably did recognize those and let's see. We are going to Get out some Buttermilk Yeah, they work great on glass. Oh today. I'm gonna try not to like do use goofy colors You know, we're going to be kind of suggestive about our marks, but I'm not necessarily going to use goofy colors. Oh Cape Town. Oh drought. I live in California. So yeah, we know about drought It may be raining here now, but we need a few years of rain to get over the drought that we've had Black plum, you know the black plum might be interesting So let's put a little bit of that on our palette It's a dark purple We're using a marijuana acrylic paints today, nothing fancy just craft paints Americana craft paints are a really good one. Um, this is a burnt umber. I know isn't the green pretty it's like a sagey green It's called cat cactus desert cactus. Yeah I Want to get out a little bit of I think cadmium yellow. Let's see. We use the cadmium and You know, I'm gonna sneak some turquoise something in there somewhere. So we're gonna get out some turquoise paint desert turquoise Hey D. How are you? snow You know, we I live in California. We really only have two seasons Really spring and summer we don't you know, our fall is really like everybody else's spring Our winter and our winter is not normally that cold and rainy not in the part of California. I live in anyways I'm just still picking colors true blue Okay, I think that's enough colors right now for us to get started So we're gonna start with our palette knife it is the giraffe, okay, so we're gonna get started with the palette knife and of course we're gonna Work on our background first And then we'll work on our giraffe so I'm going to I'm gonna dip in this sandy color first I Need a clip These are just clips from the dollar store I use these sometimes when my journals start to get too curly and the pages don't want to stay flat enough. Oh That's not good in Now nothing at this stage on the paint on the page is too precious You know if I go over parts of the giraffe with paint We're not gonna sweat it. We can always bring it back. Ooh pretty trying to remember to Look at my inspiration note photo and not go off and just do my own thing Although I will do that eventually it's not quite the time yet So we're just using the palette knife because I want to you know, give our background some more shape and form I don't necessarily want to cover up all the collage. We put on there That's gonna help me with my background Yeah, you know the kids meaning my daughter and almost son-in-law want keeps saying that they want to move to Canada and I just you know My daughter's from California and her boyfriend's from Lithuania But he's been here since he was like seven like the kids have no idea like we don't have that kind of cold weather They don't know what they're in for These are the two blues the turquoise and the true blue I'm gonna use them up here in the sky and I'm dipping my palette knife in both colors at the same time Spirt of like you would do when you're like folk art painting Yeah, it doesn't really get cold here in California where I'm at in Central, California you know, maybe Every few years we get a winter that gets down to like 20 and Everybody's scrambling to wrap their pipes, but it that is really kind of rare to be honest So this is just a little bit of the yellow. Yeah, we have like wet and dry. That's like here Maureen, ah, sorry never hopeless. That's like here. We have like wet and dry It doesn't really if you go up into the California mountains you have more of a season, but so you can see that just with you know a few marks and Some simple tools you really can make an interesting, you know background In your on your canvas or on a journal you guys have seen me do this on canvas a lot of times It doesn't have to be complicated The most important thing is to just have fun. I feel like I tell you guys that all the time. Oh Thank you Maureen. Oh if you would be so kind as to Leave some feedback either on Etsy or Amazon or both that would be fabulous and it was intended to be thought-provoking I don't want to give you exact instructions. I want to provoke you to think really about what do you want out of life? What do you want about out of your creative life and how can you go about getting that? I? Don't want to give you exact instructions because for everybody It's going to be different and I want you to figure it out for yourself. So I'm glad that That's what you got out of it. It is kind of you could you could do this part with a credit card. It definitely you could do it with a credit card You know I wear flip flops here around you know unless it's there's actually snow and ice on the ground I've got flip flops on Right crafty grandma. So yeah, so I'm I don't know it's that your thing says crafty grandma 56 I don't know if that's your age or or what but yeah I mean I'm 53 years old and I remember China markers being around for a long time They're still around these are by generals and I've bought them both at Michaels and at my fancy art supply store. So Okay, so I like what's going on with the background, but we need to brighten it up a little bit So and we I'm going to mix. I'm going to use the colors. We have And I'm going to mix a different green and I'm going to use a brush And I'm just dabbing. I'm dabbing and dabbing Being suggestive of what's in the background of the inspiration photo. I Should probably put the inspiration photo like over here. So you guys can see it. Yeah, that works Yeah, they're great. I love China markers So I'm not really cleaning my brush. I'm just kind of wiping it off on my baby white Yeah, I like the charcoal pencils Also because they're easy to sharpen There's other kind of charcoal pencils out there, but with the ones that you can peel It's much easier to get a sharper tip the other kind that you actually use a sharpener no matter how careful you are They tend to break See I had art teachers that we used pen and ink. I had an art teacher that was a cartoonist so So yeah, I don't know I Like where this is going. I don't want to cover up too much of our paper And I don't want to at this stage at least leave too many definite marks I'm going to break out a neon. You knew that was gonna happen at some stage This is just kind of early for the neon, but I do want to break out a neon Question is what color of neon tempted to do red You're 36 I remember 36, you know what I want to do orange. I like orange I love using my dip pens and in fact, I just ordered some new ones and the Face I posted yesterday Last night I should say of Cindy udders challenge Her October yeah October challenge, which was no paint. I did with ink sumi ink So I'm gonna take some of this orange and Use some of it on our giraffe You know other than picking the photo. I don't plan these things Those of you who are new to the broadcast I don't plan these things other than you know picking the photo I Never quite know where they're gonna end up and I always say they might turn out like poop most of time they turn out decent You never know And I'm not the I'm not one if you're new to this to my channel I am not one generally to paint with you know traditional colors or do anything that's too blendy I usually do something that's more abstract. I know right the orange just made that pop Didn't it I'm gonna switch to a different brush now. I'm gonna use this round one I Think and I am going to take our purple. I think you know, I have this thing for purple And we're gonna add some purple to him now like I said before about the charcoal pencil. It's blending with some of the Paint and that's okay I love adding a little bit just a little bit of neon and whether you're doing an abstract piece or a realistic piece or An expressive piece the addition of a pop of a color pop like the neon orange Is not a bad thing and you know, this is a giraffe and you can tell by the shape of it It's a giraffe, but so far I'm using orange and purple. Hey Cindy. Hey Lisa and Yeah, orange and purple aren't necessarily giraffe colors Just you know in case you didn't know that You know, but we're here to paint, you know an art piece of a giraffe. We're not here to know that was too much paint Good thing I still have a baby wipe my hand. Oh, I'm sorry, honey. I missed something. What gets better every year, right? Yeah, oh, I saw I just went back and saw what you were guys were talking about You know, I think you just get past the an age where you know, you really care so much about pleasing other people And you just are going to do what makes you happy It's too bad. We don't learn that lesson a little earlier in life There is a difference with Sumi inks and Indian inks There's a little bit difference in the color even if they're both black There's a little bit difference in the dot dry time and Sumi ink is not necessarily permanent after it's dry It's can be reactivated with water and I'm not so sure. I think Indian inks are permanent But Sumi ink is really cheap I can get it at the Japanese dollar store for a dollar fifty For a big bottle and I actually have two bottles of it and I'll probably die and still have a whole bottle of Sumi ink Yeah, I'm glad that if you guys are having a bad day that this is helping you You know do some art or you know sit back With a cool rag on your head or something Daiso, yeah So this is my journal that I've been doing left-handed art in and Like Cindy Cindy's challenges from her channel. She's here right now I've been doing those in this book And it's just it's one of those journals that I kind of need to you know fill up So I decided this morning I would do that and I kind of have a lot of painted canvas right now You guys need to buy some of it because I don't know what I'm gonna do with it you you guys I'm going to Let's see You have flower child scrapper you'll get there the point you just you know You do you do get to a point where you're more concerned with what you want out of life and less concerned about people think Generally it happens when you're getting older because you you're realizing you know that none of us get out of here alive And you have a limited time on this planet You know yeah, I Mean I don't I don't try on purpose to agree people but You know Do you guys want me to zoom in on what I'm doing right now on the giraffe So there's always you know stages in your painting and like right here There's actually two legs here, but the way I've painted it and drawn it. It looks like one So he's cute. I know and he's I barely got started so right now we're going to the background is dry And I remember I said I got started on this background Earlier a little while ago so that it would be dry so that I could get in here With baby wipe if I needed to in scrub. I'm not always right flower child scrapper, but you know sometimes I have moments of clarity Yeah, just enjoy, you know, enjoy the moment and you know live more in the moment and It lasts about what other people think just live in the moment It's probably the best advice you're gonna get I say that fully realizing that When I was young I had you know trouble with all of those things. Oh, I had that a few years back It was the best thing I ever did I have to tell you I Was legally blind without corrective lenses until I had my lasik done I Do I do need reading glasses occasionally, but for the most part I can go without anything Which is fabulous just fabulous Yeah, we just need to fix this the back legs are not quite right So just because these are craft paints doesn't mean you can't mix them to make unique colors They're acrylic paint and now you're not going to get the same colors. Pigments aren't the same. That's a good idea Ian As soon as I get the shadows to a place that I like So I like having that pop of the you know unexpected color the neon Showing through and I'm I'm just I'm barely touching this brush To the canvas, I'm barely barely barely and you notice I'm not you know, I'm not trying to be Perfect about it by any stretch It does I just always feel like if you're going to paint and you're gonna do the art whole art thing then Do it in a way that expresses some emotion and some feeling and have fun with it And a perfect picture of a giraffe. I would just print this and and frame it But that's not what we're shooting for we're shooting for an art piece And if you want to learn how to do this kind of painting really well and do it with human beings I Do recommend Pauline Agnew as a teacher. She has a number of online and in-person courses and This is the kind of stuff she teaches Different colors in a spectral way. I have to paint the spots now Oh Yeah, so laser treatment was expensive, but we were spending thousands of dollars a year between me me my husband and my daughter on glasses I'm looking back at some of the old comments And it was worth it to get the laser treatment in the long run saved a lot of money And we had a insurance that the time that covered it Okay D. Hopefully nobody else is getting feedback noises because I have the new microphone We shouldn't be getting any of that with the snowball mic Should be fine Yeah, I've been where I I was at the point when I did this which was a few years ago in my early 40s Where I was going to need my vocals and as a former optician and longtime contact lens where I? Did not want to go there so I opted to do the laser treatment Yeah, I'm going to and I think we're gonna do like you said we're gonna do shade maybe I'm gonna put some of this orange on tell first wait because we lost some of our orange I have just a teeny bit of paint on the brush Not too much of the neon Okay Don't be terrified of it. Listen if I can do it and I made the mistake of watching my husband's surgery He had it done first and then I did mine. That was a mistake. Don't do that Don't do that, but if I can do that and make it through it's fine All you see is the bright light. You don't see anything Yeah, you don't have to wear glasses after him I didn't quite have my full distance correction done because if I did that then I wouldn't be able to Read it all without glasses. I would have to have full-time reading glasses And I didn't want to do that so I have not quite 2020 for distance, but that means I can wear Don't have to wear reading glasses all the time Well, no surgeries a hundred percent guarantee, but you know if you I would Shop around for a doctor that that has experience in doing it number one get a good reputable doctor to do it don't go to some hack and Really have him Really go through all those the steps with you But I my husband and I both had it and my dad had it first He was in his mid-60s when he had it done and it corrected him to 2020 if my dad can do it and he's a big giant baby to be honest with you if he can do it Anybody can do it and he has fab to this day. He's 77 and to this day he has great vision He has to wear readers, but that's he doesn't but he was like me. We were both blind without correct corrective lenses I'm not sure what the exact odds odds are anymore. I know when they first started coming out with this kind of surgery I wouldn't have done it if you had a paid me There's just no way in the planet I would have done it you couldn't have paid me enough money It would not there's no way But they have done come a long way in perfecting it and I saw a doctor out here in California that is very well known for his Surgeries I don't think this is exactly what Ian meant, but it just feels right. So it's what I'm gonna do I have the purple on here and some of the cream and I'm going to just work on Making some of his spots and also Covering up some of the black lines just a little bit or disguising them. Thanks. It's pretty routinely done now Yes, Lisa the surgery is pretty routine and there I don't think the chances of Something going wrong are as much as they used to be so I would I would check into it If it's something you really think you might want to do check into it I know that it I'm very happy with it now There's lots of cosmetic surgeries you could have that I would never in a million years do That have a higher risk of having something go wrong then Lace it does I mean, you know, if I was gonna take risk I would have a full body lift can they just start at the eyebrows and just pull the whole thing up Like just keep pulling it till you pull everything up Maybe make me a few inches taller while you're at it Yeah, there you go, there's my clock So the other way to keep your marks kind of abstract and suggestive is to use your non-dominant hand Yeah, there you go. I don't know I worried more about that stuff when I was younger than I do now. So we're gonna I think add some blue blue Blue to him because why not I know he's a giraffe But why not now the purple is warmer than the blue And if you just keep kind of going until your palette knife runs out of paint, you'll get different levels of marks And you know what happens? So if you get some in the wrong place, just go back and you can always take your baby wipe Yeah, you know, if you're okay with glasses, I would just stay with that I was to the point where I wasn't okay with it anymore and I'd been wearing contacts for so long and Sometimes because of work had them in for so many hours that they were actually starting to affect the health of my eye And I was having vascular growth into the cornea, which is bad just FYI and so I had to do something and So yeah Now when if I put more this orange on here, I have to be careful because all these other paints are wet and they could cause Colors you don't want so just be careful He's not bad for something that I didn't really plan very well. Yeah It's it does have I think the chime is called Westminster. That's probably why and that's I know probably not how you pronounce it, but You know, I mispronounce a lot of things Go up here and do some safe sort of suggestions of spots that actual spots Which is kind of nice. Again, I know that's probably not what Ian meant when he was suggesting how to do the spots earlier, but oh, hey, Cody. Thanks. We're going to be moving our TV room and front of the house around. I think over the Christmas holiday getting rid of some furniture. That's just all wrong. So we're gonna have to just wipe some of this off. So this is a general's layout pencil, which is a dark soft black Graphite pencil, which is another one of my favorite pencils I'll just give you a different kind of line It's a very soft graphite pencil. Okay, Maureen. See you later. Oh See you later, Cindy. Have a good dinner. Yeah, so that's the chime that's in that clock. That's probably why it sounds that way. The clock was a engagement No, I'm sorry wedding present from my mother and father-in-law when we got married My father-in-law has since passed His like head is giving me fits just so you guys know it's made me mess up his neck I'm probably too stuck in with kind of being literal with him Because I do that and I forget that I'm trying to be expressive Okay, see you later, Muriel So remember this this charcoal pencil is water soluble. So You can also mix it with like matte medium instead of water on you on your artwork And when you do that and you activate it with like matte medium, then it's not going to move around after it dries I kind of want to let's see. Let's get a small Those small scraper tools That I made these are just cut up gift cards. This is a piece of a cut up gift card and this is what I kind of want to do. Okay, so Using the photo as inspiration for light and shadow I'm going to use the colors that are on the palette and start on his face and try to get his face Somewhere that I can live with it. And yeah, I know we're using yellow, which you know Drafts are no, but and I'm using I'm using the colors that are just on the palette. Whoops. That was too much yellow So this is why we have the baby wipe in our hand Okay, so one way to get unique shaped or sized scraping tools is to make them yourself and cut them out of Things like an old gift card. This actually is an old insurance card triple insurance card So I'm just looking at the giraffe in the photo the places where he's in the light Or that the parts of him are lighter and brighter and not recessed and I'm going to go in with a Cooler color on that is one that I have on my palette. Let's do the aquamarine or turquoise Now compared to the other colors on my palette. This is still on the warm side Because it's in the green The cooler colors would be the purple and the blue the darker blue and one nice thing about doing, you know, these kind of expressive kind of unrealistic Paintings even sort of primitive style paintings in a journal is that you can just try different things and you don't have to worry about You know how they turn out or you know, you don't have to show it to anybody and you can just kind of be more free to play Okay, and then we're going to go with The green this green is more of a gray blue. It's what unless on the yellow side. So In my opinion, it looks a little bit cooler. Oh, yeah, so you can use anything Coca-Cola, you know cans soda pop cans Gift cards you can use a lot of things You don't have to go out and spend a ton of money on stuff to get, you know Interesting supplies to play with Or for the paint for that matter is this is a deco arts Americana paint. It's not expensive I know here in the States at least, you know, it's on sale quite a bit and The the regular price isn't expensive anyway, so I'm going to skip the dark blue and go in with the purple There's the clock again. So right here. There's too much purple. So let's get rid of some of that Right. Oh, that's a good random question so you mean Because we'll just eat it or because we're allergic to it or or either or both or Like a trigger food. I know isn't he cute and You know, normally I would think I have to brighten it up him up I add what adding white or something to make him pop from the background But you know, I don't have to because that every time I bring back the neon orange that does it for me Candy corn candy corn. Ah, yeah, yeah, I I like candy corn, but it's I need to not have it in the house Because I just have no control Candy corn. Well, um You can find you can find it You know other than Halloween. That's just a seasonal food for me. It's mostly seasonal foods another one that I Really like Stalin which is a German like Christmas cake Which we always have in the house at Christmas time. It's hard not to just eat the whole cake In one sitting Year-round foods that I just don't buy because I eat them if I buy them probably just like any like good chocolate Like I love dark chocolate Like dark chocolate M&Ms. I like dark C's chocolate So I just don't buy candy because I eat it That's really not good for me So I would you know, like wait until they go on sale unless that you know, I mean unless you don't paint mine paying that but Stock up on them when they're on sale if they if your store's near you have ever have them on sale And go buy your colors when they're on sale He is awfully cute for something I didn't plan That the orange just makes him pop and the suggestion of the just the spots It's just all about that Wow, I kind of want to stop now because I think he's do it looking good So I do I do cook and I do bake and one of the things I cook But when I cook it I make my husband take it right to work because I'll eat the whole batch by myself is biscotti and I make a peach white chocolate biscotti and I make a lemon blueberry biscotti and And Yeah, they're really good, but yeah, we need to not we need to have him take them to work that being said his co-workers are like, you know begging him to have me make cookies because They love them I Love him the you know neon really makes him pop and then the blue helps with the shadows. I am gonna bring back This black wine right here Just like that. There we go That's not bad So that's our giraffe for today And you know, it doesn't have to be generally speaking my pages have words on them It doesn't have to have any words on it. It can just be about practicing an art technique There's nothing wrong with that But yeah chocolate. I like dark chocolate and I love Cookies and so those are things that we don't have in the house very often because yeah It's just not a good idea To a silhouette of one in the background. Oh, you mean like over here like just a suggestion of one in the background We could do that. Let's see I'm gonna use Paintbrush for that We'll use the filbert and we are gonna just mix a bunch of colors together So see this is what happens you mix the colors on your palette together that you have I'm avoiding the light colors, but the blue the brown and the purple they're gonna mix together that you're gonna get this gray It's like if you mix your three primaries to color colors together from like kindergarten that you remember from kindergarten You'll get some shade of black or gray Depending on you know, how much of each color that you have in there. No, no, don't use black Yeah, I love the Scotty and we have a family recipe That we've that I've since added, you know taken in and changed around but we have the basic recipe Which is a favorite, but then I have the lemon blueberry and the peach white chocolate That are also a favorite. I gotcha Ian. I chose the paintbrush and I don't think that was the right tool because I'm getting something I'm trying too hard So the background is dry, so we're gonna wipe it off and we're gonna go with something else The scraper tool I would suggest to you rather than eating is something that you aren't supposed to and We all do that occasionally. So if you do do that, don't beat yourself up about it Try going for a walk outside You know as trite as it may seem and you know You hear people say it and you're like, oh seriously Actually going to the gym and like on a treadmill like really does help If you aren't want to get out to a gym, maybe just go walk around the block go to a local park Get out of your own space If you have to you know have sugar to get your energy How about some natural sugar like a piece of fruit rather than chocolate? I know chocolate's good because I love chocolate, but and I agree Ian this fits more fits in with the painting more And who doesn't love just you know painting with a scraper Let me look at all the fun things you can do and the only way you could be like more suggestive with this is if you Like I said painted with your non-dominant hand. I Kind of like the idea of like it being like part of a herd that's You know, there's just the one that you can really see and the rest of them are kind of in the background So I am all for you know Understanding that you know, you can't always get out of the house for lots of different reasons physical reasons mental health reasons Go in the backyard you have a backyard, I'm sure that's probably part of your safe place so do that go in the backyard and just get some fresh air maybe take some painting supplies out into the backyard with you and You know just have a good time in the backyard for a while and just get get yourself out of that You know space that you've been in it's kind of you know, you've gotten yourself into that funky space That's nice because it looks like he's like part of a herd. That's you know wandering the Open space Yeah, so I mean if you're trying to watch what you're eating and drinking then You know chocolate and wine are probably not good choices and I'm the first one to tell you that I break those rules But because we're all only human and a glass of wine now and then it's not gonna hurt you unless you have a problem with alcohol but don't use it as a crush to boost yourself up by any means and try doing something else first like getting some exercise and You know go watch your favorite TV show turn up some music and just You know sit and listen to some good music But definitely for me I hate exercise but getting out on the Treadmill really does help Boost my energy more than chocolate does and I know I say that and like somebody I'm going to hell somewhere for that Yeah, no, he's not lonely anymore. I love this. I'm gonna stop now because I love the way it looks and I Yeah, we're gonna stop So there is our painting for today now Wednesday We're gonna do a suggestive watercolor of a giraffe and we're gonna use the other picture of the close-up of the giraffe head my photo I will link both photos and Put all the materials in the video description Does anybody else have any more questions? Yeah burning a candle wash your face with cold water that'll wake you up right up You know if you have to have sugar try substituting natural sugars fruit have a piece of fruit But yeah, definitely, you know get out and go take a walk that would be my best advice If you don't have a gym membership and we don't all and you don't have a treadmill Get just get out and get some fresh air Walk around a mall go mall walking with the senior citizens. They're safe people They're seniors and you know, it's fun to go out in the mall early in the morning when You know, it's all closed and you're just you're there with the senior citizens in your own mall walking That's actually fun And yeah having some protein making sure you're having enough protein I have this thing for peanut butter, which is high in protein, but it's also high in fat That's probably a something I ought not to have in the house. I love peanut butter All right, I Still have one but you know, if and when we move that might not be happening, so we'll see All right, so there's our giraffe for today. He's a cute journal page So yeah, this is a journal that we've been doing the challenges in Cindy Utter's Channel and also I've done some left-handed art in here and some timed art This is a journal that I made So it's got this cover here And I've made it and I've actually filled it with old I'll take these clips off and show you so old This is watercolor paper and some of it is like thick watercolor paper like maybe Even 300 pound paper, but it's all like stained. It was already stained and marked up before I put it in this journal it was like Somebody gave it to me So I just and it's different kinds of like watercolor paper and poster board and I just cut them all up and put them in this journal And I made this random journal I try to remember to sign and date all of my pages and I don't always remember to do that But I do try something I'm gonna pass on and my daughter's gonna be mad at me because she's gonna have all these journals with pages that are not signed I Try though But you should wait until it's dry and then sign it and then date it if you want feel like you need to date it You're welcome Ian. Thanks for the suggestion for the other drafts in the background I think they turn I think he turned out really cute So we will do another giraffe on Wednesday and don't be afraid to give me some Suggestions of what you'd like to see going forward as we get into the holiday season be aware that in the states We have Thanksgiving coming up this month and that week I May do a Monday broadcast, but I may not have a Wednesday broadcast because of the holiday I will let you guys know when I know and Christmas week, I probably won't have any broadcasts. I Know I won't probably for two weeks at Christmas time. There won't be any live broadcasts We are going to be moving the TV room around and getting rid of furniture and doing some stuff in the front of the house so There'll be two weeks where I'm not gonna do any live broadcast Thank you so much Yeah, even just the date is so important Don't go to the convenience store or crafty grandma go to the library go out to a local park Go mall walking but stay away from where there's candy. Oh Thank you. I do paint on the backs of the journal so on the backs of the pages I always do and Like these you can see this here's the tag that I put in here and I did the back This is the back of a another page And I've gotten paint on the spine so it's like kind of sticky, but you can see that I paint on both sides generally, but that's why their pages get a little warped, but that's fine. It's mixed media So take a walk over to the library. I get my mail delivered to a postal Place that's local to me. I can go for a walk over there We'll do a flip of this journal when I get it done. I don't know when that's going to be but I don't know. I'm trying. That's why we're working in here. I'm trying to get it done All right, that's it. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna have some lunch and then I've got to go get my mail and I have more stuff to film. I have I have to cross some things off on my list and I have video to edit All right, I will see you guys later and um And welcome paula even if you're late No problem, and you know eve that's eve if you're in any one of my either my facebook group Or um the one of the sister groups Your question about what to do when you need an energy boost and you're trying to stay away from chocolate and alcohol and all that stuff Um healthy things to do is probably a good question to ask over in the groups and see what kind of answers we get Because we all have been there and we all probably need new ideas Oh Good i'm glad so just give it a try and challenge yourself to paint something new whether it's a giraffe or something Don't feel like you have to do an exact representation. Do something artistic and fun Do it in your journal nobody has to see it but you and if you screwed up especially you don't have to be crazy Like me and show it on to the world All right, I will see you guys later. 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