 am just setting up everything so give me a minute. I'm always okay in the view screen on my phone and sideways on the iPad. See and I'm hearing myself. Good morning. How is everybody today? So we're gonna work on some more little mini canvases. Yeah I don't understand that. The view on the phone is fine. It's just sideways on the iPad. It's got to be something with the app I don't know. They can't keep up with the iOS updates I think. Good afternoon. Hey Brandy. Yeah I try that. It doesn't work. Let's see. No it flips right back. So but I can see your comments on the iPad. I know you guys can't see it but I always have the iPad. I get asked this a lot. How do I see the comments? So because my phone is up there broadcasting and I have myself on the iPad off to the side so I can see your comments because I can't paint and stand on the stool and look at my phone all at the same time. I'm not that talented. So before we got started making any new paintings I wanted to talk to you guys about yeah see a lot of people do. So all of these little canvases still need to be sealed. I haven't done that yet but I wanted to talk to you a little bit about this. Yeah these are the ones that I've been doing and I may give some of them as gifts. I may sell them in my Etsy shop. I haven't decided yet. This top one I can tell you for sure is staying here with me. I am just in love with her as are all of you. Hey and I do not have the heart to get rid of her. I will be making a proper high res scan of her though and offering her for sale in my Etsy shop. She is my favorite image I've done in a while on a canvas. Just the way the collage came out in the colors and everything. She's so cute. Yeah I agree. So but what she needs to have done I need to scan her first. So when you create any of your paintings whether it's watercolor or acrylic you should seal it to protect the artwork. If you think it's something you want to scan to either put up for sale or to use and reproduce to reprint and use in other artworks then you probably want to scan it before you put any finished coating on it in a sealer. The sealers even the matte sealer are still a little bit glossy and they're just enough to screw up the scan and make it difficult to scan. It's not impossible but it's hard. So I'll be scanning her first before I do anything. Now when I do seal her and protect her because she's got some Stabilo pencil on here I will be spraying her first with a fixative spray like Krylon's matte finish spray or spectra fix so that that pencil doesn't run or move anywhere and then I'll let that dry completely and probably do it a couple coats. Then I will be taking something like and this is Monday with Deco Arts. So we'll begin talking about Deco Art products. There's other things out there you could use but I do like Deco Page, Americana Deco Page. This is the antique which has a little bit of a color to it so it's just slightly off-white. It's this like amber-y color it does dry clear it doesn't of course doesn't stay milky but it's it has this slightly off amber-y color to it that gives your painting a little bit of an old worn look which I really like. I'll let this dry completely and then anybody who's used Deco Page glue in your journals before knows that if you don't put wax on top of it something like this then it's going to stick to itself or stick to the acrylic paint on the other page right. So the way to solve that is wax. Now in your art journals you could use Daddy Van's Bees Wax. I use that a lot. You could use Dorlan's which is an art wax. Let's see I've got to move my water hang on. So this is Daddy Van's and then I'll answer that question in just a minute and this is Dorlan's which is more of an art wax. Now Daddy Van's is all natural bees wax you can put it on with your bare hands it's not going to hurt anything but it's bees wax. So if your piece ever gets warm it's going to reactivate the bees wax and it's going to remelt yeah. In your journals that's probably fine it probably doesn't matter. On a canvas that you might be sticking in the mail that might matter. So you want to use a wax that's going to when it's dry it's going to dry and stay hard and not reactivate with the heat. Dorlan's doesn't reactivate when it's dry but it's a chemical. So use gloves. Brandy use gloves. And the cream wax by DecoArt is also not a natural product. So when it dries it stays hard. So you want to use something more like these over your sealer. Now you can of course use varnish. I love Liquitex Gloss Medium in varnish but you still want to put a little bit of wax on them because they can still get a little sticky if they're up against say another painting or something with acrylic paint on it they can get stuck together. So it's probably a good practice that after your varnish or deco page whatever you've used to seal your canvas dries put some wax on it. So I wanted to make sure we talked about that a little bit while everybody was joining us this morning. I use water-based varnish sometimes from the hardware store for my paintings. I also use Liquitex Gloss Medium and varnish. All of those are perfectly acceptable. You're welcome. So now we're going to do some more little paintings and I have this one I found when I was going cleaning some stuff this weekend. I forgot I had this little painting. And yeah I have the Liquitex. I like the Liquitex one. I found this little canvas. I think I got it in a pocket letter. It might have been a happy mail but I think it was in a pocket letter. It is like one in seven eights inch square. It's so little. We're actually going to try painting on this this morning. It's so small. I thought that might be an interesting challenge. And then of course I have some more of these four inch by four inch square little mini stretch canvases. You can find these at most of your arts and craft stores in the Fine Art Department. They all seem to be about the same price everywhere whether it's Hobby Lobby or Michaels or wherever. They're about $5 for two and of course you could use a coupon. They're great little gifts and they're good little practice. And as we've discussed before you know as I started painting these it started dawning on me that you know if you group them together a bunch of you know random you know images they're not even like images that associate with each other at all. They make an interesting composition. Can't you see like a wall just covered in these? We've discussed this I think every time we broadcast. I can totally see a wall covered in these and like little canvases from different artists friends of mine. I think that would be fun here in the studio. So yeah the two by twos are little I haven't done one this little in quite a while so we're going to try that this morning. We're gonna I've got a bunch of small brushes out here because you know we are working on little canvases so and I need my palette plate which is around somewhere. Been doing lots of collage work in case you guys haven't noticed on social media. Trying to get my collage journal done. Yeah right see I think it would be a lot of fun. So we've got some DecoArt artist traditions paints. They're really nice quality affordable paints. They have this sample set of 12 bottles that come with what 10 colors and two mediums glazing medium and extender and blending medium. So this is a good a good little sample pack. I have some extra colors off to the side because you know y'all know I love my neons. So of course I've got the Americana Neons which is also by DecoArt. And I've got some extra colors that don't come in the sample pack but I have them in the larger bottles. This is the Aquamarine. I mean you know it's Aquamarine people. So I had to pull that out and I've got some more white and stuff like that because I wasn't sure. So on this little teeny tiny one I thought we would try actually some kind of a winter scene. I thought that would be fun. So I'm going to take my plate here and I'm going to put some white. Take the dried paint booger off. Let's see two seconds into it. I've already got paint on my hands. I went to walk up to my husband if he hands and go oh hug me and he goes ew. Okay so I'm going to take some white and then I'm going to just make it slightly off white. I want to make it like a blue. I'm going to use a little bit of Prussian blue. I know right? Some of the fun things we do to tease our husbands or partners or partner. Alright so I'm going to use some Prussian blue and a flat brush and I'm just going to mix this. I just want something that's kind of off white. That's actually too dark so we're going to lighten it up with some more white. Whether you're working with acrylics. I know paint right? Whether you're working with acrylics or watercolor the most important thing to remember. Just have fun. Don't let it stress you out. Okay that's a pretty good color. That's still a little dark but I'm going to go with that and I'm going to use some white white and then we're going to grab a little bit of neon pink because you know I just can't help myself. Okay so those are our three colors we're going to use to start. So here's our little canvas and we're going to take and I'm going to basically just do the background and we're going to lay on some of this blue color that we made. Don't forget to paint your edges. I'm going to just wipe my brush off. This is canvas drop cloth so I'm going to wipe my brush off here. I'm going to grab some white. I'm going to put that on and I'm going to leave it. See how it's streaky right there? I want to leave it like that. I don't want it to be too blended. I want to let the paint marks and streaks help me suggest something interesting in my background. Now down here at the bottom I want to put just a little bit of pink so I'm going to take a little bit of my neon pink and some white and I'm going to just lighten it up a bit. Welcome everybody. We don't have to worry too much about making mud because we've got pink and blue which together make purple. This is just a background. I'm going to have a hard time not sticking my fingers in something. This canvas is really little. It's a challenge though. Now I'm going to rinse my brush off and I'm going to just use the damp brush while the paint is still wet to blend the blue into the pink and the pink into the blue just a bit. That's good. We're going to let that one dry. I'm going to push it up here and let it dry. I'm going to take a bigger one and this time we're going to make a dark blue, blue, black color. Let's take some ultramarine blue and let's put a little bit of black in it. You don't have to get too complicated. Brushes do have. We're going to use a little bit bigger brush. This is called a sword. It's like an angled flat brush. We're going to mix these together. I just want to darken the blue and get something that's more of a pain's gray. I don't have that in the traditions paint but you definitely could mix something similar by mixing ultramarine and a little bit of black. We get something that's a nice dark blue. On this one we just want to cover the whole thing with this dark blue paint that we created. Don't be afraid to get your fingers in there. Don't forget about the edges. These little canvases make great gifts if you're giving gifts for the holidays, whatever holiday that you celebrate. Think about taking your acrylic paints and painting on other unusual surfaces like you could get some of those ceramic ornaments at the craft store and paint a little landscape on the round surface. Wouldn't that be a challenge but that would be a fun challenge. Now this is how I normally paint when you guys aren't around. I generally do not do one painting at a time. I usually am always working on multiple projects at the same time. It's a question I got asked recently. Now I'm putting some more paint on there but I'm also kind of leaving it. You see that it's kind of streaky. I want to leave those streaks because it's going to aid us in the picture we're going to create later. More paint on my hands. Now we're going to grab the little one that we did first and we're going to push this one to the side. Now I don't have thick coats of paint on here so it should get dry enough fairly quickly. Now we're back to this little teeny guy. One color we're going to need to add onto our palette for this one is I think I might want to put some brown so I'm going to use raw umber. I think I want some green so we have phthalo green blue. I think that'll work. Alright let's go with a small brush. Let's see. Okay so this is a small filbert brush and it is a number four filbert comb by Simply Simmons. A filbert brush is just a flat brush but the bristles instead of straight across are rounded at the end and it's one of my favorite brushes to do landscapes with so we're going to use that. Now in watercolor remember it's all of I mean in watercolor holy cow I'm thinking about watercolor Wednesday. In acrylic paint it's all about layers of mark making and you can start out with really dark colors like we have up here and then add your lighter colors on top of it so go ahead and do your background whatever you want the sky to be and then work on the foreground and that's almost always how I work. Hey how are you? So we are going to start with white. Oops I'm going to just put in some like snowy foreground first with white then I'm gonna take some of my same blue I used for the sky and I'm gonna use it for my my color in the snow for the shadows and to help me define some of my shapes. Remember if you're gonna do like mountainy shapes that you know they're not generally straight they're you know bumpy and uneven and that's okay. Now I'm gonna I want to put a tree so I'm going to take some of my raw umber on the end of my filbert brush. I'm gonna turn my canvas I think it'll be a little easier for me and I'm going to just barely touch it to the canvas and I'm gonna run it straight up here. It's gonna mix a little bit with the white paint and give me a tree trunk that is looks like it has snow on it and that's okay because that's kind of what we want. Do it again and then I'm gonna do one more. Then I'm going to take a little bit of the brown and I'm gonna dip part of my brush in some of the white so they're both kind of on the color on the brush at the same time and they're not blended. I'm gonna take the tip of my filbert brush here and I'm gonna tap it into the canvas to move things around too much. It is a little canvas. Holy cow. Hold on I need my reading glasses because it's really tiny. Oh that's better. So I'm just letting the colors mix on the canvas and I'm just tapping the round edge of the bristles of the filbert brush across and doing a zigzag across that straight line I made and letting it suggest pine tree branches. Now you could take a little bit of just the brown, no white, but you don't need a lot so go easy. Hey and we're gonna tap a little bit of this darker brown color in and you can always go back and add more so or you can go back and lighten it. So don't worry you know too much about getting the wrong color in the wrong place. Just keep working your layers until you get something that you like that you're happy with and you notice I thought I was gonna need green. I have not added any green yet. We'll see. Pine trees are generally kind of green in the winter too so we might add tap in a little bit of that. Now let's grab a little bit of that green we were talking about and I'm gonna brown it up just a little bit with a little bit of the raw ember because it's really bright green and I think it's too bright for a winter scene. Let's put a little bit of this in here I think it'll make it pop. So if you all started going to your holiday parties yet with your families and friends just that little bit of green. There's not a lot of green on there just a little bit that is cute. I started going to holiday parties this weekend with my daughter's boyfriend's parents who are from Lithuania and that was a lot of fun. I'm going to take a little bit of that dark blue we made for the other canvas and I'm going to mix it with a little bit of white and we're going to give our trees some shadow. Now we have this pink here in the background and we're going to pretend that that's the like setting sun so that means the lights coming from this way so the shadows will be falling that way. Just a little bit a little touch. I'm going to put a little bit of white the white down here cover up some of this pink. I'm going to go back in now that that's all done and I'm going to put in a bit of just the white. How cute is that? And of course you can just keep adding layers until you get you know the look that you want for your little mini canvas. This one is really really teeny. Oh my God! So anyway yeah we were over at their house this weekend had some really great food and really nice visit. There we go. So how cute is that? I would probably stop there. I am going to stop there. So how cute is that for a little present? Yeah okay so we're gonna let set that one aside to dry. We're gonna work on this one. So we're gonna do something a little different and we're gonna need some more bright colors. I'm gonna grab the neon yellow and I'm gonna grab some aqua marine and we're gonna need some black. I know snow scenes are fun. Okay so we're gonna do a little bit of a different one and I think I need a bigger filbert brush. It's too big. We'll use this one. This is the same brand simply Simmons. This is the number eight. Alrighty so of course first we're gonna finish with our background. So this one's gonna be more of a night sky. So let's start with some of the neon pink. I've got to decide see we're gonna just tap it on here. I'm gonna move it around with my fingers which are a little dirty to be honest but that's alright. Add some of the yellow. I'm not cleaning my brush. Again I'm not cleaning my brush. Think galaxy or nebula or what do they call it in the northern hemisphere. Aurora borealis northern lights right? I don't know what they look like in real life because I've never seen them but you know what pictures look like. This is the aquamarine. We still have some of our dark color here so you know if you need to work some of this in if you get colors in the wrong place you don't like the edges they're not plenty enough for you. You know remember that acrylic paint is all about layers of mark making and the more layers you put on there the more interesting it's going to be and the more marks. And my favorite painting tools are not the brushes they're my fingers so any of you that have seen me paint know that already. If you've seen me in journaling crazy island style or on YouTube or on Udemy I almost always get my fingers involved. I can't help myself. Another great painting tool is baby wipes so you can get in here with the baby wipe and you can move your paint around or you can take it off. Sorry Brandy yeah you know I had problems with my printer not long ago and my husband and I just decided that we were gonna go ahead and buy a new one because it just was not worth the headache to fix it to be perfectly honest. It was just a pain in the neck. Oh yeah see worst-case scenario go to your local office supply store and have them scan it and save it to a flash drive for you. I'm real near a staples so I can always go there and have them do it. Now I'm gonna take where is it oh here this is just a little cup any little cup will do. This is happens to be one from some gelato that I got when I was in Las Vegas last my family cracks up because I always they give it in these plastic cups and of course I take the cup back to the hotel room wash it out and bring it back to California with me because you know that's what we do right we're mixed media artists. I'm gonna take one of my round brushes I have here and some white paint and then I'm gonna put some water in it water it down a bit yeah I also saved the cups from the single serving yogurts because I like to eat yogurt that works too so now I'm gonna just now if your splatters come out too big don't worry about it so you can always get in there with the right and I'm always getting laughed at or you know my family when we leave a restaurant my family just keeps walking because they know I'm gonna stop and ask somebody for a business card or you know deli paper or they're kind of getting used to it a little bit yeah see and then just add some white splatters for stars you can blend some of them into the background if you've gotten too many or you know you want to alter the shape of them a bit don't just leave and feel like you have to just splatter and just leave it that way play and have fun okay I'm gonna take some of my white paint undiluted and I'm gonna just I'm barely barely barely touching it to the canvas and of course do this if yay do this if you know those of you out there who are like okay I cannot just splatter on there and just be okay with where they go I feel you so then sit here with the brush and paint your splatters on you know just paint them stars on instead of splattering anywhere this is the same kind of similar way you would do kind of a galaxy painting in acrylic paint and you could totally turn this into a galaxy painting because you could just not do anything else to it except this kind of thing and it would be fun especially right now if you have like maybe a Star Wars fan on your Christmas list you could do this and maybe you could decoupage a picture of what is that big round is it the Death Star I don't know tons about Star Wars alright so now I'm gonna actually do something I don't normally do and I'm gonna bust out my heat tool I don't usually use this with acrylic paint but we need to dry these splatters before we can do anything else I remember seeing the first Star Wars when it was brand new and I've seen all I've seen all of the old ones but I haven't seen any of the newer ones but I love science fiction so we're gonna have to correct that so you just want to kind of take the shine off especially if you really love where your stars are because you don't want to move them around now that by itself is an interesting painting without doing anything else to it I'm not gonna leave it at that you know why would we do that what did I do with that bigger filbert brush I just had it just to put it away there it is so we're gonna take that filbert brush and now we're gonna make this look like something like it's a night landscape so I'm gonna use black which is why we wanted the sky to be a dark blue instead of black because now the black is gonna really show up you could use a black that has a little bit of iridescent medium in it and I'm really liking that idea so hang on this is I know this is Monday with Decowart but they don't make this that I'm aware of this is by Liquitex it's iridescent medium it's already pearlized and you can mix it with any acrylic paint and here's a iridescent blob so it looks like that so fun stuff to have around in your studio I'm gonna mix a little bit of it with the black and it's gonna make it a little bit pearlized without changing the color of the black so that when it dries it'll have a little bit of a pearly finish so now we're gonna do some more trees so I'm gonna turn again because I'm right-handed I'm gonna turn the canvas a bit yes they do in the fine art department if you only are gonna buy one medium to experiment with my favorite one on the planet is iridescent medium FYI you know of all the like texturey mediums or ones that altered the finish you know you have your gel mediums and they're great glues I never use them for anything but glue but your other fun mediums to add to paint iridescent mediums my favorite alright so I'm gonna take my filbert brush and again I'm gonna draw a straight line up for my tree trunk you always do things in groups of three is more interesting than one or four and you don't want to really stop them in the smack in the center of the canvas because that's not that's kind of boring it's not interesting try to remember your rules of three so you want your focal points to be in the horizontal or vertical thirds of the canvas to be interesting so we've got three here a big one and then two smaller ones now we're gonna take our filbert brush we're to do just like we did before I'm sticky I just have black and I'm going to tap the end of the brush and I'm gonna go back and forth and I'm not gonna be even about it so my my strokes are gonna some are gonna be short some are gonna be longer and that gives it a more natural look we're gonna do the same thing to the other two trees my favorite brush for doing trees is the filbert brush we lost some viewers thank you for the hearts I appreciate all the hearts I like that so now if this was really a winter scene there'd be some snow on the branches because it's a night winter scene I don't want the snow to be white white so I'm gonna take some of my white that's on my palette and mix it with the black that we have that's pearly and make a gray something that's light not too light just using up the extra colors that are on my palette we're gonna now do the same thing and it's gonna still be have some pearly sheen to it because I mixed it with the black that had the iridescent medium in it so now we're gonna I'm gonna wipe my brush off I'm gonna grab just some straight black I'm gonna try to make the right side of the tree a little darker than the left side and that will give it the illusion of where the light is coming from that's hitting the tree there you go now let's do the other ones now the trees that are farther away from the viewer shorter smaller they would be darker so you want to when you're done have them be darker and if you get too much paint on it like I think I kind of did on that one then I want to make sure I take black and I make it darker than I even I did on this one I want a little bit of this gray showing but I want it not as much as the other tree and I do think I'm gonna put a little bit of white on here and really make it pop I'm gonna take a really I have a really small brush here this is a liner brush it's really teeny that's kind of splayed a little bit but it's okay and I'm gonna take some of the white paint maybe even the watered down white because the watered down white it's gonna dry a little bit translucent and I'm gonna take just a little bit I'm gonna just and I'm tapping again I'm tapping I'm not drawing lines with the paintbrush I'm tapping and it's because everything is wet it's blending with what's already on here which is okay and when you're doing this you want to make sure that you you know if you want your light source coming from the left that you remember that and if you're like me and you forget sometimes whoops when you're painting then it's not a bad idea to like put a post-it note on your easel or your table I do do that whoops I go again with too much water it's alright just work with it most important thing is to remember again just play and have fun because what's the worst thing that could happen you don't like your painting and you hate the way it turns out all right well use it as a layer of marks to continue on or worst-case scenario put gesso over it just play and I'm just out again I'm just tapping I'm not drawing a line I'm just tapping and using the marks that come up to help me give them some shape to my tree that is a cute tree all right we need some more white though these two trees need to be darker so they don't we don't want them so light you know all this leftover paint that you have on your palette if it's still wet when you're done then use it to color some new journal pages or something that's way too much paint you come in here with some black just paint and night trees so I either if my background is a dry then I wipe it off with a baby wiper or egg if my background is wet then I just add more darker paint over it like right there I'll do it on purpose so the question was what do you do if you put too much paint for those of you who didn't see or if you're watching this on YouTube you don't see the questions so like this paint is wet so I could damp it with a rag and I could work with it that way or I could just go in here with some more paint and just add more layers and more marks to my tree until I get the look that I want I want some white on there but I don't want tons because this tree should be a bit darker and I just keep working at adding marks and adding layers until I get the finished look that I want and with these little canvases sometimes you have to just not be too precious about the marks and you have to just experiment and play and add you know more layers it's more about adding more layers than it is about taking paint off and being perfect so look so that's true I like the way that tree turned out so let's do one more this is our smallest and most far away tree and I can tell you right now that's way too much paint so let's get in here with the black and when you put the darker color on here of course if you move it around a lot it's gonna blend with the light one you're gonna get a lot of blending and maybe that's what you want maybe it's not what you want but maybe it's a happy accident isn't it Bob Ross that used to talk about happy accidents all the time they're not a bad thing I'm just tapping away I go back with some black you guys notice we didn't get any trolls today yay so sometimes you know you add too much dark and then you add too much light and you just but just keep going back and forth until you're real happy with the results keep a light touch in your paintbrush yeah I have to go back and look it's been a couple of days and I try to remember to check every couple of days so keep a light touch on your paintbrush no digging any holes to China there you go isn't that cute water bottle oops I sell them give them away a night time snowscene yeah see I thought that would be fun I have an Etsy shop and that I sell things in and I also give them away as Christmas gifts they make great Christmas gifts you can go to Gina be errands.com if you google my name here on Periscope you will find me all over the internet including Etsy and I have a website Gina be errands.com and if you go there there's links to all my social media and stores and all that stuff but see the problem is I paint these things and they're so cute and then I have problems giving them away but I will you know scan them first if you're especially if you're gonna give them away if it's something you really love scan it first and that way you have a copy of it you can use another artwork does anybody have any questions so try the deco art traditions acrylic artist paints they are a really good quality a good value oh yeah yeah you know you can take your artworks and reprint them and you don't have to just reprint them on the paper you can reprint them onto stickers you can reprint them on any you know anything you can get to fit in your printer without damaging your printer fabric you know canvas sheets all kinds of stuff and you can have them reprinted on different things like cell phone cases mouse pads you know tote bags and stuff like that at Redbubble and Vista print and Shutterfly I haven't used it in a long time I do have a canvas pad that I use and that's a lot of fun but I haven't had the adhesive canvas in a long time but that would be a lot of fun to use I'm gonna spritz these while we're sitting here chatting sure go for it takes a minute there's a minute delay between wanting to ask a question and me seeing it on the screen so this video will be on YouTube within a day or two as soon as I can get it to talk nice to my computer and download it they would make a greatly great you could do you know one of these for each season they make great gifts in the past when I've done arts and craft shows these little canvases sell really well these are affordable art people can find a place for anywhere big canvases are harder to sell because everybody you know most people have no room on their walls but everybody has room for these little canvases so this is a great you know arts art and craft show thing so if you're gonna be doing any shows think about doing a few of these little canvases and boy this little teeny tiny one was a lot of fun I gotta say the next time I met the store don't be surprised if I'm telling you all that I got some more of these because that was a lot of fun and it's only like I said it's like an inch and seven eights square it's just under two inches square on this particular one on the back says Reeves mini canvas countertop this was gifted to me I think in a pocket letter it has this sticker on the back so probably if you just go like to Amazon Reeves mini canvas I bet this comes up this week on Wednesday with watercolor Wednesday we will be doing more Christmas themed paintings gift themed paintings I will be starting to work in my watercolor journal because although I'm not going to try to get it done for new years I do want to get it done by the end of January so we'll be doing some of our paintings in there and I will be working on PDFs as I can I didn't do one for last week's Faces class because we already had a PDF document on faces that covered pretty much everything that we covered already I may add to it the existing document and then I will email all of you who have bought that document a new copy but I may start doing the PDFs from the Periscope video and so they won't be out before broadcast but they will be out when the video goes live to YouTube that was that little piece of iridescent medium and I've been saving all my little paint boogers I don't know what I'm going to do with them but these are just dried pieces of paint and I know some artists like Donna Downey take them and they put them on their art journal pages and I'm collecting quite a few colors here so I don't know so if you search for my name same name here on Periscope Gina B. Arons if you search for that on YouTube if you put that in Google I have been on the internet for a long time so my name will show up everywhere here oops here you go hold on hold on there we go so my name will show up a lot of places because I've been on the internet for so long this is my website and on the website is links our links to go to contact us and on the contact us page is not only my email address but all my social media links all of my shops there is a shops page where you can see the best selling current works I have to update it but and that has links of course to the shops there's a class page with all the online classes free and paid for there's a blog page which I try to update regularly I have to do that also today that you can find me here and you can you know again the YouTube link is on there but you can also hi you can also just put Gina B. Arons in YouTube and I should come right up and I do post these Periscope videos on YouTube I also am putting some of them over on you to me not the deco art ones some of the watercolor ones and they're in a class over there so that they can be downloaded so you have a copy for free without having to go to YouTube well not for free you have to pay for the class but you get a copy of that it just takes forever to download because these videos are like an hour long but yeah these are a lot of fun think about experimenting with these and definitely like this one we did this is already these are already up on YouTube these are some other ones that we've done these are mixed media so there's collage underneath here you can see on this one there's music notes and in the background here by her neck there's deco art collage papers on here so you don't have to strictly do them with just painting you can do them in mixed media fashion but these little canvases are a lot of fun they make really great gifts deco art has some really great products to do these with so think about going to deco art calm and seek look take a look around and see what they have these traditions paints like I said are really great ones Americana paints are too when I first started getting back into painting I used Americana paints I still use them I love the neons and without being on the deco art helping artists program I already had the neons on my paint stash because they're my favorite I wouldn't back I wouldn't back a product if I didn't believe in it just so you guys know alright I think that's it for today we're right at about an hour and try to have some fun with this and if you have any questions or anything go here look for some of my links I have a Facebook group you can join the group and you can ask me questions in the group I will answer them and have some fun and remember the most important thing which is to play just play and have fun you're welcome you guys have a great Monday to and I will see you around the internet let me know if you have any questions or you get stuck on anything and go out and do something nice for yourself today because you deserve it thank you very much yeah I hope so Brandi you've got to let me know I hope they come today all right bye guys