 Hey everybody, we are here with another episode of Monday with deco art and we are going to continue working on our five steps to a fabulous canvas. Yeah, so inspired by Shannon Green in her journaling by fives and mainly and also by a suggestion from one of my subscribers and fans Donna Handerham and a few other people who have requested that they love my watercolor videos, but can we do some acrylic too? So of course here we are So this is step two. Step two is about drawing so In this step you only need a few things and one of them is baby wipes, which I have right here or a soft wet rag I have a charcoal pencil. You could use a pastel. You could use a pen or a marker for that matter an acrylic pen or marker stay away from oil pastels or Gelatos or anything like that because you're going to have trouble getting other layers of stuff to stick to them. Yeah You're also going to need Some fluid paint now you could use any kind of fluid paint that you have or you could water or thin down some paint That you have. I really like the deco art media fluid acrylics I have a few colors here that I've chosen today. So I have to actually pick one And I don't think it's going to be the turquoise I've got this dark gray that I kind of want value three want to use But I have this pains gray to pains gray is kind of my go-to color. I think I'm going to use that Yeah, okay So we're going to put some into a fine line bottle. We're going to need our our BBs So I've got a fine line applicator tip bottle. This is a 20 gauge got a 20 gauge. It's got a needle tip on it Yeah, can you see that? All right, and the lid has a little pin in it so that it doesn't really ever get clogged up It takes a lot to get it clogged up. Okay, so for right now. We're going to put the lid back on We're going to put some BBs in These again, I have said before in past videos that I got these at Walmart. They came in this little tube just like you see them It's got originally had 350 BBs in them I got them in the sporting goods department and I think that the whole thing was like 97 cents or something So I'm going to dump some of those in the bottle and that'll help agitate the paint and the medium and keep Help me help you mix it when it starts to separate We're going to use airbrush medium You could use glazing fluid. You could use water if that's all you have You could use glazing fluid if you have some deco arts makes a really great glazing fluid We're going to put in some paint There's really no formula you probably want about I don't know three quarters fluid one quarter paint and just kind of play with Do have start with half and half and play with the mixture Until you get you know a color that you like basically And the reason you want to mix the paint with a medium is so it thins out the pain enough that it easily comes through the applicator tip and The medium rather than just using plain water where they use airbrush medium or glazing fluid using one of those Also extends the open time or drying time of the paint So you have time to work with it and push it around or if you put something on there that you hate wipe it off completely Now because we have let this dry It's been dry actually for a couple of days if I do put any of that paint on here, and I don't like it I can wipe it all off with a baby wipe without disturbing this because this is just this is completely dry So now before you do anything you want to figure out which way your canvas wants to be oriented and I think I'm gonna do it this way which means I have to move a bunch of stuff off my table So you guys can see what I'm doing the timer right there. Okay. There you there we go So you can't quite get the whole canvas, but just about You can get most of it. All right, so don't In this step think oh my god, I'm not gonna be able to do this next up. I can't draw so This isn't about being Picasso. This is about Just being free and making marks and expressing yourself Yes, it's on a canvas and it's gonna hang on the wall, but it doesn't have to be you could do this Definitely in a journal on a journal page Keep your shape shapes simple if you don't have experience drawing Of course if you want to put a face on there put a face on there Maybe you just want to do circles or squares or something like that. You want to do something abstract do that. That's fine Just have fun with it and do what feels right So I which is what I'm going to do. I'm gonna start with my obviously with my charcoal pencil and just make some lines Let's see. It wasn't so sure that was gonna be a floral shape, but I guess it's a floral shape Yep, I guess that's a floral shape I don't think I want anything else on there. I think I'm good with that So now I'm going to go in here and I'm gonna do some more outlining and Painting with our Paint I'll be right hang on a second. I got to get something. I'll be right back I wiped it off because I got started. I didn't set the timer Oops, so we've got the timer right here 15 minutes each step is only 15 minutes. Okay, so we're gonna hit start Okay, so now we're gonna go back with our charcoal pencil And you're gonna just draw a shape. Maybe you just want to do circles. Maybe you want to do flowers Whatever you want to do This is a floral shape. I've actually done before In one of my first journals I ever did now my canvas is very textured so It's gonna leave some interesting marks Because of the texture and there's some paper came up. I'm totally not gonna even worry about that That may happen to you. That's some of the collage paper So as you go if that happens, you can just grab some gel medium or some of your deco page Which would be easier to get open Oops grab a little brush And I'm gonna just fix that really quick I got 15 minutes, so I obviously missed a spot Make sure if you're using a point of your paintbrushes for glue like that you stick it right in the water right away Okay, so now we're gonna get a baby wipe And we're gonna get our paint in the fineliner bottle You find our shapes more Get my chair and sit down. All right, so I'm gonna take my baby wipe here And I'm gonna go into this paint a little bit And I'm gonna blend some of these lines and it's gonna mix a little bit with a charcoal I'm okay with that, but I do want to blend it out. I don't want to leave like this line like right here. I Want it to be more of a Shadow and I'm just turning it a little bit so I don't you know stick my hand in something Although I do have my painting clothes on that doesn't mean I want Paint stuck to my arm. Oh, we forgot our art guard, didn't we? oops Again You guys have got to remind me to put that art guard on So I'm just smudging those initial lines a bit and this is more about putting shapes on your canvas than it is Doing lots of painting. So try to be focused on using your paint to draw shapes and pull shapes out of your picture then actually doing tons of draw painting proper painting I'm gonna do some more drawing here and Put a few more of those sketchy lines back in Where I maybe like the shadows, but maybe I don't like that I took so much of the shape away Wanting to draw dots on here Not that they're gonna show up cuz you know, oh, there's a you know Dot, you know, I guess that dot needs to be there. I don't like that actually. Okay. What else can we do? This is just a praying charcoal pencil From I think it's from Michaels. It's a five-minute warning So you have 15 minutes so that's plenty of time to really just Relax and get into the drawing process without thinking about it too much You shouldn't feel like you're rushed. I Don't want you to feel like you're rushed, but at the same time I don't want you to agonize over what you're drawing for eternity. That's one of the things about doing a timed exercise like Shannon's Journaling by fives is You don't really have time when you do that to just agonize over You just need to draw just get into the process and just draw and doing it was something like this fine liner Where you just really don't have Tons of control over what happens. I mean you have a little bit, but you don't have a lot It's kind of fun because you have to work with the unexpected You know, I'm just I'm basically I'm just doodling on the canvas Now you could do this with a paintbrush and some thinned-out paint too if you don't have a fine liner bottle and all you have is You do have the paint and you have a water or a medium to thin it down You could do it and just get it thin enough so it's more like an inky Texture and then just do it with a small like a Size zero or a liner paintbrush I'm not a work So as you're as you're doing this and you're doodling on your canvas look for You know shapes that you want to call out or preserve that are in the background of what you painted Maybe there's something back Preserve stuck my finger in something Why am I not surprised didn't I say what's trying to avoid doing that? So that swirly bit is a textured bit. That's actually from the original painting that was on here today Actually don't like but I'm wanting to put some charcoal on there and then rub it around Create kind of a shadow. So I'm gonna do that so I want some of these circles I drew on here to have a shadow around the outside, but I don't want to Push the paint's gray paint into the inside. So I'm going to just Smudge the outside a bit and you know if I get some into some of these cracks of the texture And it highlights some of that texture all the better Totally okay with that. I like that. Oops stuck my finger. It's up now. See what happens. Can't take me anywhere Now that's shaping up very nicely. Okay, so I like that. So now I want to go back Like I did with the fairer Everywhere just in a few places Another five-minute warning. That's okay. We're doing good on time here like that, too when you mix your paint with Airbrush medium or glazing fluid the airbrush medium takes longer to dry Although the glazing fluid also takes a long time to dry it dries faster than the airbrush medium. So at just FYI Once you do this, you're gonna have to just let say things sit I'm really wanting to get some of that gray paint in here. So I think I'm gonna just take some of the Paint straight out of the bottle. I know I said this was a drawing exercise. I'm not grabbing a paintbrush I'm gonna use the baby wipe and I'm gonna stick it right on the baby wipe And I'm gonna curl the rest of the baby wipe up into my hand so I don't accidentally rub it on something I don't want it to be on Yeah, see I really want that on there. I Don't know why I want it on there, but it kind of quiets down the background So I can see how the doodling looks Maybe that's why I want it on there These media fluid acrylics are generally speaking more translucent than their more heavy-body paints like the traditions Artists paint, so you're gonna be able to tone things down a little bit, but you won't lose them completely Because you'll be able to see them through the paint and if you have enough fineliner bottles you could do that, you know Fill them with a couple of different colors, and then you'll have things to choose from Really liking the way that's looking people Makes me want to go on to step three already, but we're not ready for that So I think I need to quiet down this a little bit. Do I want to do it with a gray or do I want to just put some of this on here? I think I want to put some of this on here. I think I'm gonna just take the baby wipe No, just because you doodle shapes on here doesn't mean that you're stuck with that when you go on to the next steps You know after this dries if you decide you don't like something this painting is all about layers of interesting marks and texture And so just consider Anything that you've put on here that you're not happy with as adding more texture to your painting and just keep going and pushing forward But have fun doing the doodling process definitely and just you know just doodle With your paint and or your charcoal pencil You could put words on here. That would be fun And a nice thing about having the paint in this smart in this fineliner bottle as you can write With it, so that's fabulous Okay, that's it. I have about a minute left if or less and I want you to oh see I Had fun doing the doodling because you have 15 minutes You don't you know need to rush But I do want you to have some fun with the doodling get out your Fineliner bottle if you have one and mix yourself up with a deco art fluid paint fluid media fluid acrylics Which I love by the way mix yourself up a fineliner writing bottle and Or a charcoal pencil You could use chalk pastels you could use acrylic markers Paint pens stay away from anything oily or greasy or slick or creamy because you aren't gonna you're gonna have trouble putting other Layers of marks on top of it, but have fun doing your doodling think about adding a word and Just enjoy the process you can find some of my copyright notices appropriate disclaimers in all of the Descriptions below on all my videos now and as always I'm available for questions or comments If you add product reviews if you have a product if you're a company with a product You'd like me to review or you'd like to send me something to try on camera You can do that my contact information for whoever would like to send me stuff is in the description below Along with my email address Please like share and subscribe don't forget to have a great day week or weekend depending on when this is airing And don't forget to do something nice for yourself because you deserve it, and I'll see you later. Have fun with step 2. Bye