 Hey Ian, hopefully you're still here. It says you're here Yeah, there's a bunch of people hello. Good morning our afternoon. It's lunchtime where I am. Ah If I seem like I'm a little bit out of breath, there's a reason for that. I'll explain it in just a minute I need to go grab my tea hang on one second. All right got my tea green tea. Hello Lisa. Hello Ian Went to the gym this morning, and then I found out I had an unexpected meeting today Right as soon as we finish with this broadcast. I need to leave So I was furiously trying to get some more cleaning and purging done in this room when I couldn't find stuff And I found the gesso that I thought I didn't have I realized I'm not done purging in my art room So I was furiously running around trying to purge things that you know, I got almost empty bottles of stuff They're just going in the trash. I'm not that broke I don't need to save like You know a penny size little bit of glue it can just go in the trash so it did So I'm out of breath because I was running around trying to put things away and put things out in the front room So I can take them to my car and purge them at the thrift shop on my way out of town anyway, huh Okay, and I've got a full face makeup on because I've got a business feeding afterwards anyway It's gonna be a busy day But we're gonna take a little paint break Before we get started we are going to get out our art guard And we are gonna put some art guard on our hands now I have Updated my iPad to Windows 10 and I don't know I'm getting used to it. I'm gonna put it on Turn off the auto lock. I think that would be the wisest decision. Okay So it's significant, you know most of the time the changes they do to the iOS software is just you know a little change You don't notice anything this time. It's a big change. So anyway, all right art guard We're gonna protect our hands from any Hazardous chemicals or pigments that might be in that paints or supplies we're using today And although I think we're using the Americana paints today, which are a non-toxic craft paint I think for the most part I believe they're all non-toxic It's a good habit to get into using it every day anyway regardless Whether you're melting CDs or you're playing with paints if you're in your art room You should have invisible glove on or art guard or something. I Guess that was commented about my melted CDs video and I will tell you I had art guard on and I was very careful And I yeah, so anyway, you have to be really careful with stuff All right next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna look at our iPads if you're on an iPad or smart device Click on the display Click on the three dots click on quality click on the highest one you can get and that will give you the best resolution All right Hey, Frankie. Hey Heather Janna Sister Ella Art guard is By Windsor and Newton and it's a barrier cream like invisible glove and There's a lot of different brand kinds of bearer. I should say brands of barrier cream Some of them like invisible glove you used to be able to find out like the drugstore I don't know if you still can but you can get these in a lot of different places Most of your fine art supply stores are gonna have some kind of barrier cream and It's always a good idea to put some in your art room somewhere Right in front of you so that you remember every day before you sit down to start working with any of your products Just put on some barrier cream, you know, even if you're using You know a pen and ink or watercolor. I would still put this on some of the Pigments they used to make paints and colors are Toxic so it's a good idea to put this on I'm not sure how I got mine at Dick Blick to be really honest with you I'm not sure what I what I found with Hobby Lobby is If you go to their website and they have art guard on their website, they probably have it in the store So I would do that and I would check Gloves in a bottle works. Yeah, if you guys have a brand that you have found near where you are like I know Beth is in Canada That is an invisible glove or barrier cream type product that's been easy for you to find an inexpensive Let's post it in the thread right now This is something that we're gonna be doing at the beginning of every live broadcast whether we're doing Acrylic painting or watercolor Wednesday It's always a good idea to use this and my kind tends to get gunky not because it's getting moldy because I get you know I start painting and forget to put it on to be honest So then the next thing I know it's got, you know blobs of stuff in it. It looks gross So I take a baby white and I just do this Clean off the top of my barrier cream I'm not worried about being wasteful because this little jar of barrier cream is gonna last me a long time You don't need very much So I do that every time I See that it's getting gross inside All right, so gloves in a bottle. I know there's one called invisible glove And used to be able to find it at Walgreens here in the United States and I don't know if they still have or not It's been a long time since I've been in a Walgreens Alrighty, let's get started shall we Those of you just joined me hey Amy I was furiously trying to get some purging and cleaning done right before we went live because as soon as we're done I've got to run out of the house to a business meeting. So It has to do with the completion of the secret project and hopefully announcements for that We'll be coming out very shortly along with the announcements of the new design team members, so Anyway, a lot of stuff going on So we are going to do something inspired by my friend and fellow artist extraordinaire, I love her style Donna Mulholland if you don't know who she is I linked her video her video Her website in the description below this broadcast so you can go over there and look her up She has a fabulous fun free abstract style that I just love and I've kind of been wanting to try it for a while So I thought this morning would be a good opportunity and I have this little square canvas that I originally painted in 2012 That never sold so we're gonna paint over it. Oh, yeah, Amy So that's so do let's let's post the different ones that we know that we've come across in the Conversation thread and then people can look them up based on where they live So I'm gonna pick some fun colors. I really want to do a fun happy abstract So I'm gonna pick some fun colors that speak to me today and I'll tell you about my Adventures with working with products that are toxic So way back when like a million years ago, I was a licensed dispensing optician stated nationally licensed and During my training process, I was never told that some of the chemicals I was working with for toxic ever Come to find out after some health concerns that Some of them were not only toxic. They were carcinogens. We didn't wear gloves. We didn't wear any kind of barrier cream or anything and I was working with dyes and You know Manufacturing eyeglasses and adjusting glasses for customers and constantly poking myself with dirty screwdrivers and all of that sort of thing so I learned a big lesson from that and that is to always take precautions and Paint is no exception and although these are craft paints and I'm pretty sure that they're all non-toxic It's just a good habit to get into just always use a barrier cream. I Don't like gloves so barrier creams work for me Alright, so I've got some fun colors here that I think I'm gonna like working with I might want to add a green But we'll see I'm gonna use some pink. I've got deco art Americana colors, and this is carousel pink Yeah, your DIY shops may have there. No, they didn't tell me until honestly now, you know, I Share what I'm pretty open person. I share with everybody. I don't have too many things that keep away from you guys but I had a number of miscarriages and and After I lost my third baby It was discovered that it might have at least and been in part due to the chemicals I was being exposed to and it's funny that as soon as I got I Should say third Yeah, third baby as soon as I stopped doing that job. I got pregnant with my daughter so I Don't believe in coincidence. So All right, so I'm gonna put all my colors out here on my plate. Doesn't that already look just so happy I'm gonna kind of put them in order of colors that will blend well together. I Do have paints great because you know you want to have a pop of something dark with all these bright colors and I'm gonna use white Which I think I need more because I think I'm almost out. Oh No, I've got another one. This is a white wash Right. It's a very springtime Easterish palette, you know, it's California. It's hotter than blazes again here. So You know, it doesn't feel like fall So especially painting Donna's way if you look at her paintings She's got obvious like fingerprints and stuff in them, right? So that's another reason to put barrier cream on and I'm actually gonna take my bracelet off and my thumb ring because I Do have a meeting later and I don't want paint all over everything. It's best to not be completely paint covered I'm gonna start with the turquoise color Right, that's what that's what we thought. It was a long time ago. That's all I can say about that Those I don't know these days. I don't think you could get away with it these days Doing these kind of fun abstracts. This is not about painting anything that looks like anything This is about just having fun with the marks and putting down colors Until you get something you like now. I may want to leave some of the old painting showing. I don't know yet. Oh Thank you It was a long time ago It's not really something you ever get over but it was a long time ago Already that looks fun. Doesn't that already look fun? This is one of the brushes. I'm gonna have to glue soon I think I left it in the water too long So I am just making marks while I'm talking and I'm honestly I'm barely paid paying attention to what I'm doing What I am doing though is I am making sure that all of these colors I'm putting on here right now blend well together. So none of them are gonna make brown, which I don't want. I Don't want any brown on here at least not right now Probably won't do this any justice because there's just nobody like Donna Mulholland She does a fabulous job and I have a cough drop in my mouth because I've also been wheezy and grossed. I Didn't figure you guys wanted to hear me Coughing through the whole broadcast Glad Lisa I'm glad I'm calming to somebody because I think I make myself more anxious. I Get myself all wound up. Ask one of my admins or friends online like Cindy Utter She's a good friend of mine. I get myself all wound up All right, I'm gonna get out the heat tool I'm gonna drag this a little bit Now generally speaking I would come in and I would put this layer of paint and then I would just Set it aside and let it dry and and you know do something else while it was drying We're live. So we can't really do that I'm gonna I'm gonna get in here with some yellow Yeah, who who else is excited that Claudia is starting back up with putting videos on on YouTube me me I Think that's great that she's finally putting some videos up. You notice. I'm using my hands I am just using my fingertips one of my favorite painting tools again, though That's why we use the art guard, right? Because we're gonna get messy Claudia Rossi the Artist behind Crazy Island Studios So this is a really small thin liner brush. It's a simply Simmons liner brush I don't know what size it is because it's the handles covered in paint and I'm gonna put a few painting doodles Again, I'm not I'm not thinking if you're if you're thinking and analyzing what you're doing too much stop and go do something else I'm also holding my hand up under the wrist. So I don't accidentally stick my hand in wet paint Now again, normally I would let this dry and then I would come in with like a paint marker We don't have time for that It wouldn't impact your art stuff yet Well, I always you know, whether I'm you know, just going somewhere the night for the night or you know Someday when I move and I am planning on moving out of this house. So at some point I'll have at least my travel art bag with me. So I'll never be completely art-supply less Okay, I like that. Let's get back in here with the turquoise Now the turquoise is gonna mix with the yellow and we'll get green, but we're okay with that The purple is pretty much dry if you get brown on your canvas and you don't want it on there Just paint just wait and let it dry and then paint over it. No, no problem. I am loving it Yeah, a travel art bag is really handy to and I just keep mine Packed all the time. So, you know, if we have a last-minute thing and we end up, you know I don't know going out of town or you know, something comes up I can just take it with me and that's especially handy if you know You're like me and you have anxiety disorder and you don't handle stressful situations well And emergency situations well necessarily all the time then it's good to have something like that just packed So that you know at the last minute on the go you can just bring it with you. I Got this little scraper thing and some happy mail recently Let's break it out. Isn't it cute? It's by before somebody asks me Artsy it's a pick supposed to be a paste applicator It was 99 cents at Tuesday morning. Somebody gifted it to me though and happy mail recently Is everybody else's live feed frozen? There we go. My feed froze on me if it's if it happens to you guys that you're not the only ones Okay, mine wasn't working I don't know why it just wasn't working There's something about the center field of purple that I'm liking at least for the minute This is one of deco arts little what do they call them little pouncer tools. What is it? Yeah, it's called the pouncer They're double-ended They're really fabulous and look at this. I'm almost out of turquoise. Why am I not surprised? To be out of turquoise Good Lisa. I'm glad. Oh cage fish cage fish. Hello We're just playing with abstract today. It might turn out like poop, but We're just having fun making marks trying to remember to keep some sort of a balance of color I'm not necessarily looking to Create a shape here. I might end up doing that. I'm kind of seeing a shape that wants to come out Like that at abstract, but you know, sometimes it's fun to just play with your supplies and not you know Not worry about it too much lost track of my brushes My dog does that he snores. Oh my god, our dog is so loud Well, mine's not barking which surprises me his his run is right outside my studio window and usually when he hears me You know broadcasting. I think he knows I'm online I'm live online and he starts barking, but he's being quiet today This kind of down here kind of looks like poop a little bit. So Remember what I said about acrylic paint? You can let it dry or you can just wipe it back and I love that now You can see some of the original painting showing through right there, and I like the movement that's coming out now Um Sometimes when I'm not You know doing this I usually have somebody playing in the background that I'm listening to more than watching But generally yeah, or music sometimes I just have music in the background I turn up Pandora really loudly and then I just listen to music and Paint and create what I'm feeling listening to the music Although lately I haven't done a lot of that because I've been working on my secret project. So, you know, it's been hit or miss with me. Oh Hello Poppy Hey pet pet cat. Hello. How are you welcome this morning? We're just playing with abstract this morning, and I don't really know what I'm doing. So, you know Usually I have a focal point an image, you know something I'm working towards today. That's not the case I was inspired to play with abstract though I keep seeing Donna Mulholland's Pieces show up on her Facebook feed and they're so beautiful and I can't you know do it justice the way she does but Go and show her some love and and you know check her out if you want some great inspiration for doing abstract painting She's fabulous Hi Patricia So I'm gonna grab some white and yellow at the same time Above all you should be making art and doing something creative that makes you happy Don't listen to anybody else and even if you think well, I've never done abstract. I'm probably not great at it But let me try anyway. Just try anyway What's it gonna hurt? Give it a shot. Oh, thank you Julia and welcome Yeah, Amy. I was running around. That's why I was Very short of breath when I first went on I was running around trying to get stuff done Because I have a business meeting like literally as soon as we're done here. I've got to wash my hands and then leave the house So I've got to be to the other side of town Shortly they're out shortly after Okay, see I don't like that. We don't like that. So we're gonna just wipe it off and then keep going and Going and going and going So one of the things too that I do when I'm doing paintings like this is I don't mix my colors necessarily all the way When I'm mixing them like I just put some white in that purple And then you get, you know a couple different tones on the paintbrush and I like that one of my first classes I took online was with Flora Boley and Oh my gosh, if you don't know who she is where where have you been and go take a class with her because she's fabulous She really is just fabulous Donna Mulholland is teaching in lifebook next year and if you guys haven't taken a lifebook class yet And or you're so inspired to take 2017 or you're you're kind of on the fence thinking about it Donna Mulholland is a fabulous teacher Just FYI An artist. Oh, thanks. Yeah It'll be fine. I will be clueing you guys in About the secret project. What exactly it is for those of you who haven't you know, aren't sure Aren't in the know Some of you might have a guest or if you're on my Mailchimp list you I actually said one day what it was But shh keep it quiet You'll be I'm gonna announce the design team members first and then Then I will be announcing you the secret project and what it is and all of that stuff and release dates and All of that I am working on designs for 2017 for their stamp line So those are in process and I use the design team members new ones and old ones as sort of a sounding board Lifebook is a year-long art journaling course It's given by Tamara LaPorte. She's the owner and you can find information on it about about it on her website Willowing which is willowing. I don't think it's willowing comm. I think it's something else But if you just type in Lifebook 2017 it should pop up in your Google search There probably is a link over in my Facebook group So what I'm doing is just trying to make sure that there's a balance of color on the painting and the kind of abstract shapes I have going on here that not everything is dark that we have pops of light And that I don't just have like yellow in the middle that the yellow is balanced But that there's some kind of flow and movement with the painting Yeah, see who doesn't who doesn't love lifebook. I mean lifebook is just fab It's my word today. I don't know where it came from. I don't know how come it's in my brain I don't know if you can see that on camera, but I've got some of that purple and white on my brush along with the turquoise And it's all coming out together. I kind of like that. So we're gonna just go with it We're getting this like swirly pattern on here. I don't know where that's coming from, but I love I Love the way it's coming out We do need to like a pop of like dark I think in a minute This of course is my favorite brush, which is a filbert and this is by snap and it's a number eight Which is I think a Princeton brand snap. I think is made by Princeton I've taken lifebook for a few years in a row now. I really am enjoying Wunderlust the few That I've done this year I've been trying to make sure I download it because I'm woefully behind in both lifebook and Wunderlust I am going to cut back next year and only take one of them instead of both. I haven't yet completely decided which one although I think it may be There's anything wrong with lifebook Just because I can't do it all I just can't and downloading the classes and then never watching them is just not helpful That doesn't serve any purpose and I already have stuff like that on my computer. So I don't need to Do It's a good word. I agree. I like the word Obviously because I've been using it today. I don't again. I don't know where it came from exactly in my vocabulary, but today Okay, we're gonna go back to the little tiny brush. I'm breaking up again So this is the liner brush. I don't think it's anything on my end if the the feet is breaking up because I am I Don't have anything else on my will I have plenty of bandwidth and checking the desktop behind me it looks all right, so I Don't know though, you know yesterday Hey, but yesterday we lots of lots of group owners had a problem pinning posts to the top of their group pages Facebook had a big glitch and I don't know if it's still going on or not, but that was a big deal I gotta tell you guys. I kind of like where this is going. I Didn't think that would happen The pain's great makes it pop you could use black of course. I like pains great because I just think it's more interesting I forgot how much fun abstract pieces are I missed Carla Carla? I think I missed you coming on board We're just playing with abstract here and My palette consists of thank you Deep these are all of Maricana craft paints. These are these are nothing special deep turquoise White wash pains gray purple pizzazz. This is one cadmium yellow and carousel pink You want to be careful with the yellow and the purple that you don't mix them too much because you'll get brown And that's probably not what you want and I just this movement on the canvas just kind of happened And now I'm emphasizing it with the pain's gray paint and I'm barely touching the brush the canvas And I'm just I'm letting it leave kind of a broken dotted line. I kind of like where that's going And we'll go back to the filbert brush maybe He's like pick it up. Thank you so much Patricia I do have another color of turquoise that I think I might want to pull out. Let's see I mean you're all rolling your eyes. I know because I have lots of turquoise This is Indian turquoise and it's a little brighter We might want to put a pop of something fluorescent on here because you know, I can't really just get away with Not adding neon It wouldn't it make a good fabric print. I think I'm gonna have to scan this one because I don't disagree with you So once you get a basic, you know, once you figure out where your abstract is going then it's time to You know start saving the parts that you like and covering up the parts that you don't Traditions is their artist acrylic. It is not non-toxic Not all the colors that I'm aware of and welcome Corkay Americana paint craft paint is non-toxic. I believe all of the colors are non-toxic there's also a different in the difference in the way the colors are pigmented and The traditions are a little thicker and a little bit more heavy-body than the Americana are more softer and like runnier But I frequently use them together and honestly, I have to tell you guys the only reason we're using the Americana paints today It's because I was running around like a crazy person right before the broadcast and they were easy to get to There is no literally. There's no other reason. I like them equally I don't have a preference for either one. I I like them both The craft Americana paints were just easier to get to this morning Um, when I realized holy crap, I only have 15 minutes. I need to stop cleaning now so So that's why we're using them. Otherwise, there would be no other reason Neons do we have it might work? I have this one, which is pink. I have blue blue I don't think I want to put more pink on here But I could use the blue or or orange might be I think I might want to do orange Just a little bit They also have the media fluid acrylics. Don't forget, which are similar to golden fluid acrylics, but they're not as transparent And they don't have nearly as many colors, but they're very nice paints Doesn't that just give it a pretty pop? I'm gonna zoom in for you guys in just a second You were too slow Heather. I picked the orange. I Do have the neon green. I have all the neons. I've said this before and I'll say it again when I started painting and As a mixed media artist, I went right with right away. I chose craft paints to play with because I wasn't really sure what I was doing when I first got started and I chose the Americana neons because they were easy to get They're still my favorite they're inexpensive they're easy to find They're fun to play with I have golden neons I almost I mean I have I have big containers of golden neons Because I had to have them. I still grab for the Americana. So I like that. Hey, Ampex creations. Hello I have this color called sea aqua. That's kind of a green. It reminds me of sea glass Might be fun to scrape on here. So I'm gonna use the scraper thing Watercolor Wednesday, I'm going to share this fabulous new print paintbrush I got in Happy Mail. I can't wait to try it. We're gonna try it on Wednesday So I like to always add whether it's marks or a color in at least three places I don't there's not really a lot of logic behind it except that I think that that's a nice balance to have on there To have it in three places Now, you know, you're not the only one the only thing is now I'm realizing that that was foolish and now I'm purging. Oh cool Well as if you've seen cinnamon coonies Some of the videos she's done in the past Not all glow-in-the-dark paints are created equally. I don't know about that. Oh, thank you You know, I said last week that I thought my painting was probably gonna turn out like poop because I wasn't feeling it And today I was kind of feeling it But I wasn't sure how it was gonna turn out because it honestly I don't think of myself as being that great with abstract and I'm always I have too many control issues to be honest with You And Donna Mulholland although she's very inspiring is so much better at it than I am and But I thought what let's give it a try anyway I guess I should just paint when I'm feeling like that because they they tend to turn out interestingly Probably because I just let go, you know, I just that's the time where I know, you know what just let go Whatever is gonna happen is gonna happen and just be okay with it So I'm just and adding random marks and colors To our little center section here Not treating anything too preciously But we've got some like movement going on here and I want to I want to emphasize that if you get to the point when you're doing this where you Know, you're not sure where to go then just stop and let it go and then come back to it later But like anything else, you'll know when it's done when you when you're thinking yourself. Wow, I really love that It's probably done. So you need to let it go Lisa that's sweet. I Don't think you've missed too much. I'm trying to decide if I want to do anything else with that So this is the yellow This might be a big mistake, but we're gonna I have to be careful because I've got purple on there So I don't want to drag it through the purple too much because I don't want brown So I'm literally just dabbing it on and we start off these things saying to you guys that we're gonna see if maybe leave Some of the original painting and I never do Okay, I I never do it's so funny. It's alright. I know it's down there somewhere It does look like a drop. That's dripping off of something It's pretty cool though. I kind of like it. I don't know where this Image came from in the back of my subconscious, but so one of the things one of my teachers told me Actually a couple things now that I turn this around Was just try to not paint an object when you're doing like an abstract try to just paint a feeling Which is an interesting concept also though For a bully will be the first one to tell you Turn your canvas around Turn it upside down Turn it in different directions stand up walk away from it If you've taken a class from her you see her like telescoping in and out a lot I think it's just about done which kind of surprises me. You got to be honest I'm just looking for color balance here and Keeping with the move the idea of movement because it seems to be where this painting wants to go is with the movement This is also the time when you know You're doing this that you can get out that box of mark making tools that you think are only for jelly printing Get them out use them on your canvas paint something abstract. What's the worst that could happen? You create something you can't stand and you have to paint over it. Okay, I Actually like that and I'm gonna stop now which surprises me I'm going to put the colors in the description below the video if I can do it before I leave for my meeting I will I'm all look at all this paint All my hands they're all dirty And you know when you have leftover paint don't waste it Let's see if I can find my Little book here should be close There we go. So I always have old book blocks laying around Yeah, I really like I like the movement in this painting. So one of the two things I do is first I'm going to You know what? We're mixed media artists. And what does that mean? You all should know by now Mixed media artists. That means we get to break the rules So it can be whatever you want it to be now if I wasn't doing this live on camera, I would probably let this dry and Do a mixed media piece with it by adding some writing or something. It's to be low pencil with a gel pen maybe I Would I don't know what the technical I don't technically I don't know maybe not But I don't see this is a great piece to like put words along the you know flowing bits of the other painting So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take a baby wipe. Am I gonna take the baby wipe? No I take that back. I'm gonna take one of my brushes I've all this leftover paint here, right now I could leave the edges the way they are because they wouldn't be too bad, but but I'm gonna take some of these leftover colors kind of just at random and I'm going to use them on the edge of the canvas Very abstractly like we've done the front of the canvas Hopefully not make too much mud as I'm doing it I'm not necessarily looking to cover up all the blacks on here, but I just want the edges to blend in more with the Front of the canvas and so that wherever home this ends up in they don't necessarily have to feel like They have to frame it, you know, you can just let it go the way it is and I see some comments flying I'll check them in just a second. I almost dropped it Almost dropped it Holy cow Okay, so now that I've got some paint on all the edges and like paint on my hands First thing I'm gonna do is take this old book block from a journal that I made Why I took the pages out my stick my fingers on there And I'm gonna take a baby wipe or two to want to come out. So we'll take two and The first thing I'm gonna do is make sure I didn't get any of that on the front of the canvas Which I didn't and then I'm just gonna kind of Blend it just around just a little bit with the baby white Again be careful with the yellow. Okay, so that looks pretty good So now the edges are painted and this one is good to go. So now we can take the I got to make space So now we can take the book block and we can take our leftover paint with the baby white and Just paint some pages and these can be used later in your like in your journals or you can put them in the On the background of a painting abstract or any other painting these if you collage these down to your canvas before you get started painting It can give you a really interesting service to get painted on painting to get painting on and Also, if you are the kind of person that has Problem with the blank page the white page then I do suggest that you have Collage on there or if you had a blank canvas you could just wipe some of this paint on there and then It's not white anymore and just for some reason it's easier to be more open and creative if you're not starting out with a blank page Yeah, see Ian's are you know resident research guru because I have not the patience for research And he finds out all these things and the answers all of our questions. So we you know, thank you Ian Because I don't have the patience for it you guys I have a book that my therapist told me to read that's regarding my anxiety disorder and she basically said to read this if you have any questions call me and You know, I just having so much trouble getting through the book and I don't know if it's because I'm in like denial or It's just like to text bookie that makes me want to go to sleep all of the above. I don't know I Need to read it though. It's on my list Now that I'm done with a secret project. I don't have any more excuses either So I just keep going like this until all my paint is used up and it gets kind of muddy at some point, but that's okay You could and you could totally do this in a blank journal and then you have like ready-made backgrounds And it doesn't matter what they look like because you're going to put some over them anyway So now I've got all these pages and they're going to stick a little bit, but I'm all right with that Usually I stick like paint tubes or paint brushes or something in between now This book paper is a really really old and it's super fragile anyways So that's fine. So what I usually do is take Like whatever's whatever's handy Literally literally whatever's handy. These are just palette knives and I'm going to grab them because they're like right here. So And I just stick one in every between every page And you'll get some that are peely if you don't do this You wait like I did but that's all right This is just collage paper this paper and this book block is not good for anything else except collage paper because this paper Is too old and too fragile Do anything else with so it's good to just you know playing experiment with like this It's not a huge deal And these are different kind of palette knives and as you can see there's different shapes. They make make different kind of marks They're pretty fun You can get them in um dick flick There we go. So we'll just let that dry Yes, you can tear the pages out and you can hang them up I could do that. I'm just lazy right now And and you could totally do that But yeah, use up your extra paint. Don't just throw it away And then we have our jar full of brushes that I Need to clean some time this afternoon because they've been sitting here for like too long So that's it. Does anybody have any questions? Yeah, the paint makes the paper stronger. I'm just lazy. I may tear tear these out and hang them up Once I turn the camera off. I just don't want to take time right the second to do it Too many Heather. Oh That's not a good question I have a lot of them part. I have to be honest part of the reason I have so many of them and I have a lot of just plain ones I have both metal and Plastic is because I am really Hard on them and I have a habit I don't buy the plastic ones anymore unless it's for my travel kit because I'm so hard on them And I have a habit of really pushing down Like when I'm really trying to get texture on there or something or do some scraping and I have broken so many palette So now when I see a say I haven't done it in a long time But when I see a sale then I get Some new ones and I've been just getting the metal ones because they really last a lot longer And I break them less than these these are nice and they're affordable, but I break them a lot so metal and I have a big collection of ones that are different shapes So these all make different kind of marks in your paint and these are fun Especially when you're doing something like abstract work or something where you want a lot of texture These are fun. And those are some of what you saw me pull out And they come in a set of like I think six or eight. So I have a whole set of these Yeah, this this picture will be for sale and or prints it has to be for sale I've got to tell you I have too many paintings if you've seen my video that went up on Facebook recently I have too many canvases. I can't keep them all. There's just no way I will be scanning it first and I will be Selling digital copies, but also the original will go up for sale. I will when it's dry clear-coat it and wax it and I will also sign the back again it's already got one signature on there, but I'm going to put repaint it in the date and Yeah, it'll be definitely for sale So look for it if you want to message me about that privately before it goes up for sale on Etsy, let me know But I have all of my canvases that you see me paint or everything is always available for sale Nothing is nailed down in my house. They weren't can't be sold So yeah, I break them and I'm so bad about it. I break them You should have seen me the first couple times I broke one in half one hit me in the face It was just not good See it's a good thing I took my jewelry off because I'm very messy so I Want you guys to give this a try and all Seriousness give it a try just grab some of your favorite colors like I did Grab a canvas or a piece of paper and just start making marks and playing Definitely you could make it more of a mixed media piece Do a layer of paint let it dry and then do a layer Maybe of pens and markers or rubber stamping and then and then do another layer of paint and keep doing that until you get Something that you like don't shoot for any particular image Just do what feels right and have some fun with it Right arc be very dangerous. Somebody wants me to show them how to use my Dremel drill press Um Yeah, so we're gonna have to have a whole little safety thing before we do that because that suckers can be that sucker can Be dangerous if you're not careful. All right Thank you. I love it. I have to say I was not feeling it when we got started I didn't want to try something abstract, but yeah, I love the way it turned out So yeah, so go check out Donna Mulholland if you want some inspiration. She does teach classes she is gonna be in lifebook and Yeah, cherry trees Wednesday, we're doing cherry trees. Yeah, Ian. Don't forget to remind me Because I'll forget I can guarantee you it's part of the anxiety disorder thing and or asthma medicine thing My brain is not what it used to be Thank you. All right, that's it for Today, I'm gonna clean up and then go to my meeting. Oh, I wanted to tell you guys too If you can't afford fancy textured palette knives deco art does sell these Texture plates these little acrylic texture sheets It's part. I believe they're part of their Americana line But you can go to the deco art website in the description below and these are great and each one of them is a little different Got a different pattern on it and they're fabulous and I just have them on a binder ring Which I'm getting rid of all the binder rings like this by the way my studio. I hate these these are Drive me crazy. I'm donating a huge big box of them Anyway, these are a lot more affordable than the palette knives and they take up less space So maybe you want to Get these instead or you could cut the edge of like a gift card and use that and Yeah, safety goggles. I have them. They're in my old tool kit out the top of my garage safety goggles That's it for today Don't forget to go out have some fun with your supplies break some rules break them hard because we're Mix media artists. So that means we don't you know, you should know what the rules are But that doesn't mean you can't break them So if you want to put do an abstract and stick a little face in there or put a word in there Just do that do what makes you happy and have fun while you're doing it. That's the most important thing Go out and have a great day. Everyone do something nice for yourself because you deserve it Maybe think about doing something nice for somebody else while you're out and about Alright, and cherry trees on Wednesday. We'll be back for watercolor Wednesday, and we are going to work on cherry trees I don't know that I've ever done a watercolor cherry tree. So again You know what we're gonna see what happens. It might turn out like poop, but we'll find out All right, talk to you later everybody. Bye