 Hi guys, I wasn't going to do this today, but I realized what I want to do for this month's Artie Trio video Needs to dry overnight so I can finish it tomorrow. So yes, let's get started This is this month's vision board that we're doing for the month of December This vision board was created by me and you will notice Couple of themes It's all about for me the small things I love taking pictures with my phone when I'm out for my nightly walks or out at events or Everywhere to be honest and it is mostly pictures of nature and frequently things that are rainbow or multi-colored I love that kids in our neighborhood do lots with sidewalk chalk in the spring and summer And I'm constantly taking pictures of what they do. They're doing along with flowers and floral things And there's a house in the neighborhood that always is posting things like I don't know if you guys can see that it says kindness matters You can get a copy of this vision board over in the Artie Trio's Facebook group And I would love to see what you do with it this month Please tag me in your posts over in that said Facebook group and or if you do a video I'd love to see you're doing anyway I'm really all about rainbows this month and I really wanted to experiment with doing some sort of art rainbow-based and And nature inspired. I really wanted it to look like an Oil slick sort of a I'd thing now. I did have a picture of an oil Rainbow oil slick thing. We didn't include it in the vision board I maybe I should have because it's really stuck in my brain I will put a picture of it here and I will include a picture over in the Artie Trio Facebook group You know, it's one of those rainbow oil slicks that you see on the road After its rain where a car was parked that probably has an oil leak and you see just the rainbow of colors in the puddle of water I love that look and I was just thinking how can we get sort of an interesting rainbow oil slick kind of thing? On an art journal page Can we do that? Is it possible? Maybe so I started experimenting and I am going to include The vision board on the journal page, of course as I always do. I am also going to put a clear pocket This is a clear plastic adhesive pocket So I can even stick it right on top of the vision board which it'll still show through and I am going to put in the pocket in my experiments, so I Experimented with a few different things to see which one I thought would work better I used sort of a tone tan color paper because the page I want to do this on in my journal Is a tan page Somewhere hold on Somewhere Here we go So it's a page that's this color So first I tried alcohol ink over matte medium that medium Yeah, and I was really nicely brightly colored But not exactly what I was looking for and I had to figure out where I put my alcohol in because I haven't used them in so long and I really need to like use them because some of them are Just I didn't save one of the colors out where it's just so messy like you can't even see the label But I have some I don't I don't even know what the color is anyway, so that was that one. This one was Acrylic inks over matte medium This one was distress inks over matte medium And this one I just decided to do alcohol inks with blending solution This is the winner and I I think I put so much blending solution that it rubbed I it wore off the pen I had on the back even though the pen was water resistant It was an alcohol resistant, but anyway, this is what we're gonna the kind of blend we're gonna shoot for so The first thing I'm gonna do is put these on here so that I know I want to just do my piece of artwork Over here in times past in this journal I do these artistic experiments, and then I make notes in this case the notes are the cards So first let's glue this down Stick if I can get the lid off holy cow. There we go And smooth it out with a gift card It's not exactly straight, but that's okay and we're gonna put our clear pocket on here and That side of the page will look like that Now the artwork is gonna be done on the other side To get ready for that. We have to do some prep work Because if we don't do the prep work prep work, the ink is gonna go everywhere So I need to go grab a couple things and I'll be right back If you've caught any of my episodes of the messy journal or you've seen this box before if you haven't caught any of Those episodes I'll link the playlist down below But anyway, I have this kind of box I can do messy stuff in and not have it go Everywhere. I also have a dollar store shower curtain Which is just a big giant piece of plastic So anyway, we've got our plastic wrapped around our journal to try to protect What we're gonna do from going everywhere Got my colors lined up In sort of rainbow ish order. I have to decide which one I want to do. I'm gonna do some I'm not going to do lines So I have to decide what color I want in the middle and what color I want in the outside Do I want to start with the darkest in the inside or the lightest in the inside? It's a dilemma. We need our blending solution Hopefully I have enough alcohol does work by the way if you Don't have blending solution, but you have some alcohol inks rubbing alcohol actually will work. All right, so This is what I'm gonna do So I'm gonna just do One of the reasons I'm protecting The journal is because this would just go straight through to the other pages and as it is I probably Won't be able to easily do anything on the back side That's okay. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, right? And see this right here. This is why we Covered the journal. Otherwise it would just go all over the place But it's still gonna go all over the place, but you know what I mean, okay? Now one thing you can do Is take a scrap piece of paper. I always have scrap pieces of paper around So if you have a spot that you think you got it too dark You just kind of blot it up and then if you do that and you see it like I don't want to see these lines So I'm just gonna keep adding ink and or blotting and Adding blotting solution until I get the look I want Pretend you're doing an acrylic pour Only instead of with paint or use an ink That's what it reminds me of very much When you're satisfied Then just let it dry Now if you're like me and you use lots of alcohol ink it might take a little bit to dry alcohol ink dries pretty fast But not if you use 20 tons of it like I do But as you can see I just have a lot of trouble trouble a lot of fun playing with the ink and Just adding colors until I just am really Loving what I'm seeing and these can be like collage papers for your next project. So don't throw those away All right, I kind of like the where that's going So we're gonna let it dry and we'll be back with the next part. Okay guys, so this is nice and dry I let it dry overnight The plastic did a great job protecting the rest of the journal. It does did bleed through I expected that if I do anything on the back up here I'll either work with the marks on the back or I will just out of the back But I may just use it for making notes on and then do something here. Anyway, I digress Okay, so now inspired by the vision board here, we'll take these out for now and The oil slick rainbow that didn't get included in the vision board and Want to add some highlights and shadows I want to work with the shape that organically came out and I want to make some highlights and shadows I've got a variety of White gray and black pencils here. I've got a blending stump I'm reading glasses because I'm going to need those These are very varying shades of opaqueness and Sheerness we're going to just try to experiment. I'm going to do the shadows first. I'm going to start with some grays I have a I'm not a pencil snob. I like crayola just as much as Stadler or Holbein Although I have recently discovered this Holbein colored pencil and this is soft white and this is color number OP 501. I have another one that's sharpened. That's downstairs in my Drawing bag that I use when I lose track of saving any white space in my work and my drawings and watercolors and this works Really well for adding a little bit of that white back gel pen works well too But I get completely frustrated with gel pen because they just clog all the time So I prefer a pencil and this one works really well So I would definitely recommend it if you're looking for something like that And we will probably use it at some point. So you'll get to see it. Anyway, I digress again. Okay. Let's start with our grays We've got three grays here Let's see where we get with them. We have a crayola one. The color is timber wolf two Derwent pencils graph tint one is warm gray one is mountain gray and We're gonna start with crayola. Oops, and I'm going to Add some Shadows I'm gonna start off subtly. You can always add more But it's hard to take it away so start off carefully and subtly and add your shadows and Your marks I'm gonna speed forward through my process and I'll be back I like the way that looks now. I'm going to add You know our vision board has a lot of flowers on here has three images of flowers on here I do often when I'm out and about take pictures of things in nature I'm going to add some of these little they're not daisies. I don't know what they are. But anyway I'm gonna add some type shapes. I'm using a paint pen. They're not my favorite thing. They clogged constantly, but I Have it so I'm gonna use it. I'm just making a series of dots I did last night when I was letting this dry think of Something I want this to say now. I will preface that by saying This is a journal where I practice with different techniques and color combinations and mixing colors and materials And this is not generally a journal where I put words or phrases On the finished page. This is all about experimentation and making notes But something did come to me last night that I think I need to type up and put on here So we are going to do that as soon as I'm done with the main image and I will show you how I'm going to do that too So again, we're just making a series of dots and I could keep going But I think I'm going to stop there and then I have a yellow gel pen That I think I'm going to use For the centers Again just a dot nothing complicated And The nice thing about an image like this is break out all those pencils you have That you probably don't use if you're like me you don't use them nearly enough and See which ones Will do what? That's cute. I like that Do I want to add any more? Yeah, I'm kind of wanting this is just a basic 6h prism a color graphite pencil. This is nothing special. It's just a graphite pencil I Don't think it's going to leave Much of anything that you're going to be able to see it's going to be very subtle Maybe too subtle I have a black Crayola Maybe we'll do that one instead It's Crayola, so it's slightly darker, but I mean it's not It's not whole vine or anything Just sort of drawing some vines connecting our flowers Don't think about it too much Just draw and have fun and experiment play Okay, that's cute zoom out just a little bit So if you're not going to see it a ton you see that yeah, it's just very subtle, but I am okay with that I kind of like it All right, we're going to type our phrase now. Hang on. This is my vintage underwood typewriter Yes, I said typewriter sometimes, you know just Getting away from Computers and Yeah, anyway, so let's and it has a piece of note paper from my late grandmother's Stash of stationery that we found when she passed away. I have a bunch of her blank notepads of paper I use them for my art journaling. Anyway, let's type up our phrase and I'll be right back. Okay, we're going to glue it right there and While I'm doing that I'm going to talk about What I typed so life isn't always about rainbows and flowers, but we can find beauty anywhere So for me the vision board this month and and the inspiration behind it is just the small things You don't have to find a beauty and inspiration, you know in some a random Fancy Caribbean beach sometimes beauty and inspiration can be found right in your own backyard and You only have to just look and open your eyes to see it I Find constant inspiration in the world around me in my own neighborhood in my own yard and In the simple things and if we've learned nothing in this past couple of years Then maybe we've learned that that it's just sometimes About the simple things. I would love to see what you do with this month's vision board small things and the idea of lots of color and rainbows experimenting with the materials that you have in your collection if you're like me things that you don't use too much and I will put the bonus oil slick picture over in the Facebook group I Would love to see what you do this month Love love love. So please tag me in the post and I will make sure to Like and comment if I can't and yeah, that's it for this month the other two Collaborators lit videos are listed in the video description. I Would encourage you to go over to their channels like share and subscribe to all three channels if you can and Please support the free content on the channels All of us have something in the video description. So check it out Don't forget to stay safe stay healthy stay creative and above all go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I'll see you later. Bye guys