 Hey guys, we're here with another video for the digital Background swap. I'm doing with Begrob Peg Robinson and Shell C So this month and we are working on a fall themed background swap We all did digital backgrounds. The ones I did will be free and available to you in the link Dropbox link in the description below So go ahead and go over there and download them if you'd like to use the ones I did in some artwork and I'd love that you share that and let me know what you did And you can do that by joining my Facebook group a life of art and self-expression and share over there Make sure to tag me in the post. All right that being said The ones I did are that one and that one Yeah, these two and then the others and I don't remember who did who which I can guess that I think Peg did this one I think Peg did those and This one and then Shell C and Bea I don't know who did who I didn't know but they're all cool So we are going to use them today to create a piece of artwork now I've tried to think of different ways to use these digital backgrounds in the other videos that I've done for you already And I'll include those videos in the description And in the description of those are everyone else's videos So I would love to have you go show everyone some love and their fall themed videos are also going to be this Description so the short story there is make sure you check out the video description because there's a ton of stuff in there Okay, so this month. I thought I would really go back to my roots and grab a stretch canvas Which I did for some reason lately I am just all about painting on canvas right now And so I just can't seem to get away from that but I really thought maybe I would try doing some sort of a caught and caustic type or Transparent layered type artwork, which actually I've never really done before. I thought that would be fun this time So I have a canvas here that's already got a base layer of paint on it and all I did And it had to dry. So I already done that part already. So what I did is I took my color inspiration journal Which is something that's here on my YouTube channel again. I can put the link in the in the description And it has all these different Photos I found inspirational either because of their composition and or coloring and so then I made a two-page spread for each one or each set of drawings and What I've discovered since doing this is they inspire me constantly every day So I took one of them that I thought was fall themed in in color, which was this one and Using that particular Set of pages I chose my colors. I Literally put blobs of paint on the canvas and then used a straight edge to just do this All the way around I kept doing that until it was blended just enough not too much I also made sure to get some paint on the edges and then I've left it for a couple of days to dry So now we're gonna go on to the next step What is that gonna be exactly? I don't know I'm gonna speed forward through the process and if I need to I'll stop and explain what I'm doing I'll be right back. I'm gonna talk you through it We're gonna try to be as quick as possible edit out what I can So I'm gonna go through the fall backgrounds and I'm gonna pick ones whose colors I think will work best with the canvas and we're gonna start there Does that mean I'm not gonna include the others? Of course not, but I'm gonna start with these I Think they'll work the best I may include this red one of pegs But we're gonna put it aside for the minute the one I want to start with is actually this brown one again I don't exactly remember at the time of filming who this is, but if I can figure it out. I'll put their name like right here, okay? All right, so We're gonna just do this the easy way and We are going to use some what are you gonna use? I'm gonna use some gloss gel medium Actually just bought this one today. This is regular gloss gel medium It's not extra heavy or anything like that and these are just printed on my inkjet printer So the ink is not completely water-soluble. I mean waterproof. It is water-soluble and The composition I'm intending it to be fairly abstract So I'm going to tear pieces you could cut them. I don't know right now. I just want to tear them and I'm going to use the gel medium and something with a flat edge To glue the pieces of paper on my canvas In a way that accents the paint that's already out there. I don't want to cover it up I want this to be layered and accented. Yeah so I'm going to do that and I'm going to add some layers of paper to my canvas and Probably cover the whole thing up with a thin coat of the gel medium Dry that and then we'll be back. We're going to do some more Sorry shaky camera some more work on the canvas because we're not done yet by any stretch I'm going to use some distressed crayons and I'm going to activate them with matte medium instead of water to Distress crayons when they dry shouldn't move around too much anyway But just to ensure that they don't move around instead of activating with them with water I'm going to activate them with matte medium which should make them dry and Stay where I put them Keeping in mind the fall colors themes that we're working on I'm going to pick colors like this olivey green color called peeled paint and I'm going to accent some of the shapes and Colors on the canvas. It's going to be pretty abstract. I'm not really looking to do any particular scene or Design if you see something in the canvas, which I kind of do but I'm not going to say what it is that I see I Will give you a hint. I seem to be doing them a lot lately But whatever you see in the canvas is up to your interpretation, but I'm not yeah That's as much as you're going to get out of me. Anyway, let's fast forward through this process and I'll be back You'll see that I added in the from the previous clip. I added some of the crayon with the matte medium I also took this old Claudine Helmuth studio G. Gesso I think I got it Tuesday morning see it was dollar 25 either that or Hobby Lobby somewhere where it was on sale for this teeny tiny thing I added some of the matte medium to it to make it a little transparent This Gesso is already not very opaque and I just added a little little bit white white highlights We're going to do at least one more thing to this. I have a Gold and copper not foil holy cow This stuff leaf Leaf skin that I made and I got the idea and directions for doing it from the book acrylic Acoustic effects is that the name of it? Hang on painting for Acoustic effects Anyway, I'll link it in again one more thing in the description below So I got the idea for doing the skin from that book and I want to add a few pieces of it to this canvas Maybe one more thing, but let's do the gold first and let's see what happens Let's see how if we can dry some of that seal can see what it looks like And I can see what it looks like. I think it looks really good, but what I can see Let's see if we can dry some of it And here's a tip when you're drying things like gel medium or even acrylic paint and acrylic skin Don't get your heat tool too close or too hot because you'll make it bubble. You're basically drying plastic Think of it that way. It's a polymer. It's a plastic So what you're going to do is if you dry it too quickly and to get it too hot It's going to just bubble up and do things you probably don't want it to do So I'd recommend if you're new to using a heat tool on your work try a few scraps and see what happens and The best way to use your tool to heat your paint and get it to dry fast All right, let's get it dried and I'll be right back Okay, there you have it. It's not completely dry I'm going to insert a picture here of it completely dry As you saw, I did go over the whole thing with an uneven Purposefully textured coat of the gloss medium a gloss gel medium. This is Golden's regular gloss gel medium So that it would have that little bit of that shiny I Think you're picky. Yeah, there you go a Shiny finish and it also seals everything in I like the way this turned out I don't know about you, but I think it's an interesting piece of artwork Does that mean I'll leave it alone and not put anything else on it later? probably No guarantees. Hang on as I say that I'm thinking it needs something and you know what it needs it needs some calm it needs some solid It's very busy piece so let's get Something we can put some paint on Maybe that thing that have a little dish that had the um Not medium on it. Let's see how which is now all wet. I've got a flat brush I've got some Dina Wakeley media paint in gray and Olive And I'm gonna use further for some white. I'm gonna use the white gesso so generally I like in my paintings a balance of busy and calm flat space I just feel like this needs some of that. I should probably be waiting until the gel medium is Dry I'm not going to them and I'm not even gonna use a brush. I know I pulled this out just because it was handy, but Actually gonna use something else. I have a few options of weird unusual Tools including this anybody recognizes is a hair coloring brush. I like to use weird tools in my art Including Rubber tools. I actually have a number of flat-edged tools and squeegees. I Think my one squeegees in the other room Drying But we'll use Either this frosting spreader or that gift card that I had out before this actually might be a good size for this canvas Because it's not very big Usually I use a bigger squeegee So if you do this when the gel medium that you coated everything with is dry And you don't like it. You can wipe it off So there's a there's a painting tip for you and I almost never just leave it like that when I do that I usually come in because I can pretty much guarantee you every time I've done this ever I get some paint somewhere where I don't like it. What did we just say or there's just too many marks for me My gel mediums that all that being said my gel mediums not completely dry. So I Feel like I need to add a little bit of black So we're gonna stick some black in our dish and use that gift card to just mix it up Sort of not I'm not gonna blend it completely Baby wipe again, right? Always with the baby way, you know what I don't like it. Oh, but maybe I like that This is me in real time. I'm not fast-forwarding through this and this is how I really paint by the way when I paint on canvas Do I always start with a collage layer? Not always But it's about putting down and then taking away It's about making marks and Creating something interesting for me Now for me when I'm painting the dirty Baby wipes are good for spreading things around and if you want to take it off and grab a clean baby white Always do the edges. So this is another canvas painting trick Framing is expensive So I always just paint the edges and sometimes I write a blessing around the edges, but I usually just paint the edges I don't usually frame things unless the client asks Okay, I like that a whole lot. Holy cow. All right, let's grab some more baby wipes Try to clean up my mess Okay, so you can see some parts that are still wet like right here where this white is That's because the gel medium is still wet. I'm going to let this dry completely and I will Uncertain pictures here of what it looks like. I love the I love the black the black gave me what I thought it needed So anyway, I hope that you like this and it gives you some ideas of what you can do with digital downloads in your artwork Try something completely new for you and that's completely out of the box. Grab a little canvas They're not very expensive it use a Michaels coupon if they're not on sale You can get it 40% off with a coupon or Javi lobby coupon whatever's closer to you and Try it on a little canvas. It's really not that hard if you want to share what you've made I would love to see it over in my Facebook group a life of art and self-expression You can find that group and every other place you can find me on the internet in If you click on the link that says link tree and then my name in the description below clicking on that is gonna Send you to a list of links for my website my Facebook groups my Etsy shop Amazon affiliate store patreon and so so so so much more So check it out all the relevant links are in the description below and the other people That are contributing to this hop are also in the description below I'd love it if you go check them out go see what they did with their digital downloads and how they made them and Show them some love. 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