 I've edited my very re-edited I should say my very first YouTube video and I'm bringing it to you here next I've cleaned it up just a little bit added an intro and an ending and I hope you enjoy it the channel was started by accident for those of you who don't know I was trying to show how to do a technique to a teacher of mine and the only place I could figure out how to load the video was YouTube so there you have it now I have a YouTube channel all right enjoy the video I'll be back so I do my monoprints so first of all I went to an art salvage company near me in San Francisco California and they had this sort of acrylic box I cut it apart thinking I was gonna make stencils out it out of it turns out it's great for monoprinting for especially what we're gonna do now you could go to the art supply office supply store and this is just an inexpensive binder it's clear enough to do what we're gonna do you could cut the covers off and use them I'm gonna use my acrylic sheet I used before one side of this has a texture and one side is smooth so I want the smooth side up that's where I want the paint and I have my picture it's a different one than the one we've been using in class I've put it in a clear sheet protector so that I tend to be a messy painter so I don't want to get paint on the original print in case I want to use it again so I have it in a sheet protector so I can wipe it off easily and I'm gonna lay my clear sheet on top of that you have an assortment of pallet knives and small brushes and of course our handy-dandy rollers I've picked a color of paint that I like in this case this green and then white and black I also am going to use a glaze acrylic glaze so when you're doing monoprints you want a thinner paint you want to slow down the drying time and glaze does that it also makes the paint a little bit translucent which I like so okay we're gonna mix make three little piles of paint we're gonna mix each one with a good amount of glaze we're gonna end up with a medium value a light value and a dark value so I want to add white to one pile and a little bit of black to the other pile not too much and we will mix it up with a pallet knife this is our medium we didn't do anything to the medium you can see that better this is gonna be our dark I want to mix it fairly well if it's you know not completely mixed not gonna hurt anything and it'll just add more interest to the painting the idea is to create a suggestion of the figure as Pauline's always saying happy accidents are okay okay so we're gonna start with our small roller and we're gonna take our medium value paint and we're gonna just sort of outlining suggest the basic figure with the medium value not too much paint if you get too much on there you can wipe it off and again our sheet of watercolor paper and we are gonna take this clear acrylic sheet and lay it over the top large roller and set that aside you don't have to wipe this off every time you do a print I would suggest maybe doing a couple of prints sometimes when I do these the first one comes out kind of dark and that first one here that looks a little dark to me it may end up turning out okay but we'll see but I'm gonna print it again yeah that one's I think that one's better so now we're gonna not wipe any paint off we're gonna go back over our figure and we are gonna use a brush and our light value of paint you can use a brush or one of the small palette knives depends on what I'm doing hold it down with one hand while you're doing your painting in your highlights that way if you need to you can lift it up a little bit I come in here with the palette knife just making suggestions see what happens let's take our one that we like just this one we left the darker green paint on there so we can sort of line those up and just eyeball it which is why we didn't wipe it off set it aside and we're gonna take our other one and we're gonna use up some of the excess paint don't ever waste your paint I started doing this with glazes because I didn't want to go to the art supply and buy ink every time I go to the art supply I spend way too much money okay so now we're gonna go in and we're going to do some of the dark shadows and the hair just make sure I like to use the palette knife but make sure you don't get too much on there hold it down good with one hand so now if you get some paint where you don't want it to be like I just did take a rag I believe in happy accidents but that would have been too big of a happy accident okay we're gonna suggest there everywhere you see some shadows in the picture it doesn't have to be perfect we're not going for perfection you're just suggesting the figure that's good let's see maybe a little more this is a tough one let's see what happens I think I want to do this one first because I think it might be a little bit dark see so again we're gonna line up sort of that paint that's in the background not bad I do think that's a little dark though so we're gonna go we're not gonna add any more paint over this one that's what we want I like that one okay now now we're gonna mix up one more color so I like to for the outline use a golden fluid acrylic it's easier to use I'll mix a little bit of it I'll mix a little bit of it on a spare acrylic sheet glaze to slow down the drying time so it doesn't dry before I get it all on there like a good nice long liner brush this one mix it up our picture back now is where we want to wipe off some of that extra paint so I just use a rag paper towel napkin it's not dry on there you'll be able to wipe it off if you wanted you could make a couple more prints there's probably enough paint on there to do a couple more now you're gonna just outline the figure holding down one corner make sure you get all the important parts make sure you also don't stick your hand in the one of the outlines I've done that I don't like this line right here it's kind of thick and going there a little less paint you know is add more take it away as harder all right here we go let's see what we get let's take our favorite one of the two first moment of truth see what we have shall we yep I knew I was gonna like that one so there we go there's our figure let's see if there's enough paint on it to do that one there is that one's not bad either if I grab my pad of paper I always have extra paper around like most of you I'm sure there's that paint on there to squeeze out one more it's faint so I don't ever waste my paint I always have extra paper around so I can just make some random marks and use it my paint later on this will become another painting a collage or something but I always have something to use up the extra paint like this did you enjoy that I hope you did that was a lot of fun wasn't it we were in my old studio space which used to be out in the garage which had its good points and its bad points it was really cold the winter and really hot in the summer and really dirty and dusty which wasn't good for my asthma but on the plus side I could make a mess I could be free I could be splattery nobody cared it was a lot of fun I missed that part of it all right that's it right now I hope you enjoyed this I'm gonna do one or two other old videos oldies but goodies and I hope you enjoy that and don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it don't forget that all right I'll see you later bye