 Hey guys, welcome to July of my creative year this month our topic is Tips and our prompt this month is favorite go-tos. So Like last month. I really had a lot of fun Building on a page over the month over the three weeks. So we're gonna do that again, and I'm gonna start with a Background that I can draw and sketch on so I think that means I'm going to and and this paper is kind of thin Because it's a mull skin like planter diary thing So that means I don't want to use a watercolor because it doesn't really do well I don't want to use crayon because they're hard to write over So I think I'm gonna use like some watered-down smeary acrylic paint. So let me get some colors I'll be right back. So I've got a baby wipe, and I've got some paints and I've got the Dina weekly media paint I'm gonna start with my favorite color of course turquoise And I just put a little dot few little dots and then I'm gonna take my baby white and I'm going to just spread it out over the pages. I want to have it be have color, but I want it to be thin So I can still see the background And then I'm gonna take another color of blue because you know, I really love blue this one's called ocean and Also with it being thin like this. It should dry fairly quickly Okay, and then I'm gonna take one more color. What color will it be? Will it be a bright color or muted color? I? Kind of want to go with muted Let's mix one No, I don't I was gonna say unless I have one in another paint not readily at hand, but this is magenta and Then I'm gonna mix that with a little bit of buff To just kind of gray it down and mute it a bit. It's a little bright for me for what I want to do on the page At least for this first week So I'm gonna just get a clean spot of the baby white Still awfully bright Neighbor dogs are barking That's better. Okay, so I'm gonna take my baby white Wrapped fingertip You don't need fancy tools to do art journaling people. You really don't you can just use basic simple things This is a piece of window screening That I found in the garage when we were cleaning and the nice thing about baby wipes that you can just do this So I'm gonna let that dry for a minute and then we'll be right back and continue on with our page Okay, this first week the prompt is tips I could of course give it literally and like the review video give you some Art tips, but I'm not gonna take it that way instead. We're gonna do something else I'm gonna do a little sketch of some of my favorite tools I've got let's grab a pencil a couple different kinds of pen and We're gonna start with a pencil So think of that tips of your art tools, right? Loose sketchy marks and if you're worried about not being able to sketch on your journal Then there's nothing wrong with tracing or collaging the images down. That is fine There's nothing wrong with that. So do it however You feel works for you and don't make them all the same height either I think it's more interesting if they're sort of dancing up and down the page Think of you know movement in your page Of course one of my favorite tools a paint paint brush, okay, and then let's do a fountain pen. I Do love my fountain pens. I should probably have these actually on my face to do this and then the last one of course that I want to do is a ballpoint pen because That's my favorite one of my favorite tools I almost said favoritist Is that even a word? I Don't think that's a word So think of tips outside the box. Of course you could journal in your About your favorite art tips you could journal about your favorite places to get tips like Pinterest you could actually do like I'm doing and do the tips of Your favorite art tools think outside the box and of course if you have art tips that you want to share with the group We're all about that. So please by all means share your favorite tip. I would love to see you all doing that this week My favorite tip of course is practice practice practice I hope that you find some find this interesting and it gives you some ideas of what you can do What are the favorite tips of your go-to supplies? And if you have any tips that you want to share in the group art tips that you want to share in the group this month Maybe some favorite go-to supplies that you don't see other people using Let us know what they are. Let's start some discussion and let's share Especially if they're budget friendly because we're all you know trying to stay in some kind of a budget So I would love to see what you do. We're going to be building on our page this month and creating something new and unique and interesting I think and I hope you join us all on that journey If you're not a member of the Facebook group that you'd like to be You can join it in using the link in the description below Don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys