 It is a collaboration with myself and Shell C. I don't know what to tell you except it's corona brain. Okay, so like most of you, I am finding it occasionally challenging. Well, some of you are finding it very challenging in the current world situation to be creative. I am usually overflowing with ideas. It's just right now a matter of getting me to focus on one. That's mainly my problem. But I understand where some of you are having trouble concentrating and becoming creative at all. And if you're watching this in the future and you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, Google 2020 and you'll figure it out. So anyway, yes, we're filming this in the midst of all of that stuff you just Googled about. So we have a lot of really fun background exchange background digital backgrounds that we exchange. This is the one I did and I will put it up for you guys in a file. You can download it and for free and you can create something with it. And if you do, I'd love it if you're over on Facebook and you're in one of my art groups, if you share with me what you created with us. And then I got these from the other ladies. I don't remember who's this who's, but I think this is Bea's. I think this is Shell's and I think this is Ayala's. I think that's how that goes. And I have this little wood board with a quote on it. This is from Dollar Tree. I bought this a long time ago. The date on the back of it. Is that a date? It says January. Yeah, January, manufactured January 2019. I've had this in my closet of spare parts for a while. I don't think I've had it quite that long, but I do think I bought it before Christmas. So we're going to work on this. I also was printing these out and I found this on my computer. Now in the current climate that we're having right now, I think this is very appropriate. And it would definitely suit me to have something hanging up in my art room with this on it. It also probably would suit one of you very much. Am I going to hang this particular board up in my art room? I don't know. I might give it away. So stay tuned for that at the end of the video. I'll let you know. I might hang it up. I might keep it and hang it up. I certainly could use these reminders of how to stay calm and how to stay de-stressed. I don't know where I got this from. I just found it randomly on my computer. No idea. Okay, so we're going to use some extra heavy matte gel medium. I'm going to randomly attach these papers to the background. And my goal is to cover the top and the sides. So we'll see how far we get with it and I'll be back. Prints that you've made it probably on your inkjet or similar printer because you don't have a laser printer. I don't have a laser printer and you're worried about the ink running, which it will if you use something to adhere it to whatever you're working on that has too much water in it. And as it is, this did start to run a little bit, but I used a heavy gel medium. This happens to be golden, but you can use any brand. There are some great inexpensive store brands. In fact, Dick Blick has their own brand of extra heavy gel medium. It works just fine. I just happen to have this one and it's really old and I'm trying to use it up. But if you use this, it doesn't have as much water on it as say matte medium or glue or this has less water in it. So usually your paper will run less. I can put it on a little thicker and give the piece a little bit more texture and a sort of a clear coat when it's dry. So I'm going to let this dry overnight and for you, it'll just be a second, but I'm going to let this dry overnight and then we'll revisit it and see what happens in the morning. And the paper is wrinkling a little bit. I'm not too bothered by that necessarily, but I'm going to clean up the mess and we'll see where we go from there. I'll be back. Stabilo, pencil, some, but if you get in there really quick before they dry, you can move it around. So that was why I got a q-tip to highlight some of the different shapes I put in the background and to highlight the list of Zen things and also used a black hit pen to draw some viny shapes on here. I love the way it turned out. I didn't expect that. Now it is still shiny and wet and you can see a little bit of milky right here. I put another layer of the matte gel on here to just kind of seal everything in. You don't really need to do that. So it's not completely dry, but it will be more like midpoint when I turned on the camera where it was very matte finish. I really like the finish on it, so I'm not going to put a glossy coat on it. I'm going to just let it be matte. I will put a picture of it here somewhere in its dry state. Anyway, I love the way it turned out. My only problem with it is I put the list of Zen things on upside down. So I'll have to figure out to put another block in here to hang it. But I love the way it turned out. Am I going to keep it and hang it up in the art room or am I going to give it away? I don't know yet. So stay tuned to my YouTube channel for that because I'll have it in probably a vlog and I'll let you know. More than likely I'll put it up here somewhere, but we'll see. Anyway, I am going to include links for everyone else's videos in the description below, so please check it out. Don't forget to support the free content here on my YouTube channel by checking out the ways to do that, like shopping in my Etsy store or supporting me over on Patreon or in YouTube membership or something like that. All of the ways to do that are in my video description. Now all your other favorite creatives, including the ones here in this collab with me in this video hop, all have ways to support the free content both here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups. 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