 Get lost when you're creating to the point where you just zone everything else around you out. I Do that in this video. So stay tuned Okay, hey you guys welcome to another episode of the arty trio, this is mood board number 14 14 I can't believe it So if you want to get your own copy of the mood board, which is this one here Then you can do that by joining the arty trio Facebook group the link is in the video description If you look at the mood board, it's very Red roses hearts some nature some distressed books There was just something about it. I couldn't let go of the red color. I couldn't let go of the idea of I'm painting a certain image, which we'll get to in a minute and last night in the middle of the night I thought about what I wanted to say which is just totally bizarre anyway Bizarre yet not just bizarre. So first we're going to work on the background Of course, we're going to use this as an art experiment. Do I know exactly that it's going to turn out? Not really, but we're going to find out I'll make some notes on this side about what I did and let's just give it a shot I will be transparent and say that I experimented a little bit on a scrap Piece of paper before we got started. I do think it's going to turn out the way I want, but we'll see All right, let's get first We're going to do the background. Let's get started. I have my he me gouache palette here This is an old double-digit tray and the first thing we're going to do is background. So I want to do blue sky colors Muted I've got this like pretty Sort of turquoisey blue. I'm going to put some of it on here I'm going to add some water And just really sort of mute it maybe Do this I have a little bit of a darker blue, but I don't know that I want to add too much of that, but we'll See how far we get. I kind of want a bigger brush so let me grab one Should have done that before I took the camera on But you know hindsight's always 20-20 right? All right, I'll make her grab some clean water. This is a big flat brush It's great for washes like this That's better One of the reasons I put some of my he me gouache in this egg tray was so I could use like this big Flat brush and I could get it into the colors fairly easily Okay, so now let's give that a dry The next thing I want to do My friend Leslie McGrath was just here recently visiting while I'm talking him getting out some glue by the way, and she was working we were working her projects Here in the art room and she was using this doily Which she obviously you can see she used part of it and she left the rest I was going to throw it away and I thought you know, I don't think I'm going to do that I think I'm going to use it on this project It's one of those things I Just my mind you just couldn't let go of so now that we've done that wash on the background We're going to put this down to make sure all the edges are glued For those unaware most of the time I use glue stick to do the sort of thing collage and This if it's thicker paper, I'll use different glue, but most of the time I can get away with glue stick Okay, so that's exactly what I thought it was going to look like which is great while That's kind of drying not that it needs to dry a lot. We're going to set this aside somewhere and We're going to work on the focal image which is going to be a rose now fun fact I actually just like taking painting roses and I never feel like they turn out real well. This one's not horrible But we're gonna I'm determined to keep playing with it. This is the sample one that I did We're going to do it again. I will show you how I did this. It's very easy I know you guys are like, oh my god a painting tutorial. I can't do that. Yes, you can If I can do it you can do it because yeah, I'm not great at it. All right You're going to need a water-soluble paint It can be It can be water-soluble ink even but you're gonna need something that's water-soluble like watercolor or wash You probably can do this as acrylic, but you're gonna need to work faster because Once the acrylic dries, it's you can't move it. I'm gonna start with This this one I started with the dark red. I think this time I'm gonna start with pink and I'm going to mix my pink up here. Let's see And I have a very small brush. It's a number five round And I'm gonna get the end of the brush wet. Yep. Okay. Oh there now. I can see better Okay, so I'm going to start up towards the top of this little card. These are cut to like ATC size and I'm going to just do a swirl and I'm going to sort of shaky-handed swirl sometimes pressing down hard on the paper Sometimes lifting it up. So just the tip shows Okay Then I'm going to take a little bit bigger round brush where to go. There it is and I'm going to take Mostly just water, but with a little bit of the pink paint And I'm going to just do These sort of half moon shapes around the swirl that we just did Now you can always go darker But you can't generally go lighter, especially with a water-soluble paint like wash or watercolor At least not without much difficulty. So start out light And then you can go darker that actually was too much paint see And which one of these I end up using just really depends on how this one turns out to be honest with you So I'm going to just take the wet brush and go over this and some of that paint pigment will stick to the brush and See there it lifted some of that some of that up. So Let me see work kind of quickly and you work while it's wet Now the whole idea behind this is to work while it's wet But if I don't this is gouache, so it'll re-wet but anyway, so now I'm going to grab some of the red Just a little bit. I'm going back to the small brush and this is still wet so you can see the red just automatically Goes and mixes in with the pink because the water-soluble paint is going to take that past path of least resistance And it's going to follow the water. It's not going to go on to the parts of the paper that are still dry it's going to follow the water and Hopefully we come out with something that looks like an abstracted painting of a rose and you can Keep working with it and adding color to it until you get exactly what you want remember when you are doing this and you're touching This little tiny paintbrush to your paper. You're not digging any holes to the other side of the planet Very little very very light touch delicate touch. That's actually not bad. I'm surprised Okay, we're going to go back to some paint because I feel like it needs Something like right here Okay, now I'm going to add a little bit of green to it Got a couple shades of green Hopefully this is not where I mess it up, but we'll see so that was with the big brush and the lighter green Now I'm going to go in with a smaller brush and a darker green And that's it. Those are the two roses. I do think I did a better job on this one than I did this one But they're both nice So now we're going to push that paint aside and we are going to dry both of them because they're both still wet and I'll be right back Okay, before we do anything else. I kind of want to distress the edges on this because there is some like brown Beige weathered rusty colors on the mood board specifically with the the old books that are on the board But before I decide what colors I'm using we're going to just go on a scrap of paper here This is the twig. I'm going to take the frayed burlap And again, these are just make-up. These are makeup brushes. These are cheap I think these are from Wish, but I mean you could just get stuff at the dollar store they do make Distress brushes if you have those use those So that is actually really nice and that's how I wanted that to look So let me reset the table and let's get this page finished. Oh My god, you guys, I thought I had the camera on and it wasn't on Okay, you guys So camera issues because I've been off for like three weeks and haven't been filming Is it really camera issues or is it operator issues? I think it's operator shoes Anyway, after we got the distressing done it turned out like this Which you already saw in the clip. Don't you love the way this looks? I love it I Did as I said think about something in the middle of the night last night that I wanted to say on the page So I took a dark gray uniball unipin Fine liner and in it. It actually is dark gray. That's the color and I wrote this on a spare piece of note paper and Then I took the same pen and just did some Doodling around the rose image sort of blueprint inspired E straight lines. I don't know I love the way this turned out What do you guys think? Super easy. I know you guys could figure this out. So we're going to put do some notes now And Since I forgot to film this part all film and talking through this part So I always make notes in this journal. This is my sort of experiments journal And after I finish the page I write down some notes and thoughts about the page So first I always start out with what kind of paints and mediums I use So he me gouache We'll leave a set a little bit of room for the paint swatches and then Distressing and I put the ink away. I need to do swatches. What was I thinking? Let's grab the colors Stone and free burlap. So in this case because No, not pumice stone free burlap It was twig something twig it was the lighter one not the darker one see this is what happens you guys I'm just like oops salty ocean. Nope Nope gathered twigs Holy cow, okay, so what I'm gonna do in this case is I'm gonna just do this and then we will Write the name under it. Oh, so yeah, and then for the gouache paint. We're gonna grab a little brush here and they don't really have paint names, but We're gonna just do a swatch Of the colors. There's really only four colors. Well, no, I'll do the blues too So six colors Helps if the brush is all the way clean This way if I ever want to do something inspired by this again I know exactly what I did obviously as you can see I'm a bit forgetful and scatterbrained on a good day Believe it or not today is a good day So if I don't make myself notes Forget what the heck I did just got to drop a paint on that picture Which is okay, I guess but let's see if we can get some of that off Because you know, this is just turning out all kinds of Interesting yeah, that's what we're gonna call it interesting. We'll balance out one mistake with another There you go, because maybe that was meant to be right, okay And actually I like the little mistakes. What do you guys think? So I would love to see what you do if you are inspired by this month's mood board to create something In your journal. I'd love to see what you do. I'm sorry for the lack of Proper filming in this video because you know Anyway, but I hope you saw enough to give you an idea the most important thing I wanted to bring you was how to do this and that's what I did Assembling the page y'all can do that. I have confidence. Anyway, think about joining us over in the RT trio Facebook group I will link the others videos down below Check them out show them some love like share and subscribe and don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself Because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys