 Hello everybody and welcome back to my channel or welcome to my channel. In case you're new here, I'm Steph, I'm the average artist, and today we are painting over The Giver. Side note, I paint over book movie covers because I don't like book movie covers on books. It cheapens the book for me, but I do appreciate that some people won't like this, so if you don't like this then just leave because it's going to get worse from here. So The Giver is the book that I will be doing today. Probably a lot of you or a few of you have had to read this in school or in the past, and yeah, I read this and I quite enjoyed it, but we'll get into that as I paint. Today I will be using this jelly wash that I ordered and used some time ago. 48 pieces of paint in this box and I haven't used them in a long time and I'm going to see if they dried out or not. Ew, they're moldy. Ew. Okay, I'm going to be entirely honest with you guys. I haven't used these paints for a long time and they were kind of sat in the corner and the lid didn't quite fit on the side of them. So as you can see, some of these paints have gotten slightly moldy, which is pretty disgusting. I didn't really look at these paints so I didn't know that they were going bad, but to be honest there's only a few casualties, this one being the worst. So I'm going to throw away the moldy paint. There's a sentence I never thought I would say. And use the rest because the rest kind of look okay and we have lots of colours to be able to use. So in the end we have six casualties and they are looking pretty disgusting. But hey, let's use these other jelly paints and... Okay, there's another one here. And get on with it because I don't want to waste the rest. So let's see how we go. Absolutely rank. I didn't know. I didn't realise the lid was slightly off. I just want to assure you guys that that is only because I didn't shut the lid properly or the lid came a little bit broken because I remember in the video I said that the lid for these didn't quite fit on. So that's why they got a bit moldy, but the other jelly paints are fine. I've never seen that reaction before, so a bit of an odd one. So I got this really cool book of colour combinations for Christmas and I thought it'd be really interesting to try it out for this painting. And I flicked through the book and it just shows you lots of different colours that would work well together. And I came across this one which I think is totally out of my comfort zone so I really wanted to try that to just get better at doing different colours and tones and stuff. So I'm going to pick out those colours from this pack and try and mix them together as best I can to make the colours that I want. And we're going to paint, we're using those. So here is my colour palette. I've got black, Medici blue, dark Medici blue, yellow green, coral red, brick red and colour mine blue, sort of. I mean I tried to recreate the ones that I could and then I added a white in there and a yellow because I want to do the underpainting in yellow and then I sort of made what I could out of the colours that I had to match what was on the page. But yeah, I think this is a nice palette and there's no purple so I think hopefully it should be fine. I still cannot believe the state of those paints. Please don't at me in the comments. I'm so sorry. No one is madder or sadder about this situation than me so leave me alone please. You could tell I have the YouTube fear. I want to talk a little bit about the book The Giver to further explain why I've picked this composition and the overall design of the book cover and the subject matter that I've picked. So The Giver is a young adult dystopian novel by Louis Lowry. Louis Lowry? Not sure. And it first appears to be like a utopian but then it's kind of revealed slowly without the book that it is a dystopian. And it follows a young boy named Jonas who is living his life, you know, his loving life and it's kind of like they live in this society where everything like all your memories and emotional pain is just not non-existent. They live in like this bubble of happiness basically and sameness. Later on we find out that each person as they turn 13 they receive a job. So Jonas receives this job of becoming the receiver of memory. So he visits this old man who becomes the giver and he then gets memories from this old man and he realizes what pain is, what joy is, memories of snow, memories of war, like all these different things just come to him and he realizes that the society he lives in is wrong. But they don't know that it's wrong because they don't have the memories or the wisdom to see what's in front of their eyes. So they kind of live in this world of just pure state of being and then Jonas realizes that he wants to change it. This book is probably a really important book to a lot of people. I know a lot of people probably studied it in school. I never studied this. I've probably read of Mice and Men or something. And then yeah, I think it's a really good book. I like the ending as it is but actually it's a quartet and I think I might read the rest of them just to find out what happens. But as a standalone novel, it's a really good story and I think it really says a lot of things. I think it starts a good conversation about maybe looking into our own society and questioning whether it is morally right the way that we live and I think it kind of speaks to that a little bit. I thought it was a good story overall and I enjoyed reading it. I think it was interesting. Although I've read a few young adult dystopian fantasies by now so it wasn't anything groundbreaking for me but I think at the time it was a little bit it was very different to other things that had been written. In the book, Jonas and everybody in their community ride bikes so I thought what I would do is signify that with a bike that had been abandoned and at first it looks like it could be just laying there but as you look further it's kind of crumpled and abandoned and left to rot basically. This is also an indication of something that might happen in the books I'm not going to spoil it but if you've read it then maybe you know what I'm indicating here but yeah, I really think that this signifies the books the story for me in a way that doesn't spoil anything and maybe when people read it they can be like oh yeah I can see why the illustrator chose to paint a bike on the front of this cover. I wanted to keep the style of the illustration super loose and I think I achieved that. I did a lot of blocking out of colour and then I wanted to keep movement within it to kind of signify the panic or the rush of emotions that Jonas might suddenly feel and I think it works really nicely. I want people to look at it and then maybe look closer or just at first glance think it's just a bike in the forest and then as they look more they see that actually it's been abandoned and stuff. I think it was really fun to paint. I really enjoyed this process. I think this is probably one of the first times I haven't really included a person on my book paint over covers. I think so. Actually maybe the goosebumps one is the other one that I didn't include a person and I think it's just all the better for it. I really like the process of this and I think it looks really cool. I really am glad as well that I stuck to this colour palette and didn't try to add like purple which is within my comfort zone. I really went out of the box with this one and went with the oranges and really like greens which I would never touch usually I would hate to paint something with light green and orange and the yellow underpainting is just something that I wouldn't necessarily do so I'm really glad because I think it looks really cool. It's shown me that maybe I can do stuff without relying on the colours that I usually prefer to use and I know there's nothing wrong with having a certain colour scheme or using a colour scheme that you like a lot. I know that but it's just within my own development I want to branch out a bit and just do something a little bit different for once and I think that I achieved that. What do you guys think? I think this might be one of my favourite book covers that I've ever done and that's saying a lot because I do really tend to like what I accomplish with the book covers because I think that I really plan them out carefully because I know that I'm going to be painting on a book I want to be really careful with it. So yeah I'm really proud of this piece and it took ages to get all the details right. I do think I could have spent a little bit more time on the top part but I also like the way that it does look a little bit abstract and it could be up to interpretation. I really like that the bike is super detailed and then around it slowly gets more and more like abstract and not within a certain like strict style. I think that works a little bit but also maybe I could have spent longer on it. I'm getting this like feeling that I'm not really spending long time on each piece that I do because obviously I have to film it for YouTube so I'm getting into this state of doing things rather quicker than I should do maybe. So I'm starting to think about that and how I can improve upon that. I'm thinking maybe a future video of like a long form of painting maybe I'd spend a week on one painting or something as a YouTube video. I think that would be really good to see what I could create with a longer period of time because I think I did this in a few hours and if I can do this in a few hours then maybe I can do even better in more hours or would it be the opposite? Would it be like I've overworked something because I've had more time on it? I don't know I need to find out and I think that would be a cool video but we'll see. I don't know if I have the time yet. I'm definitely thinking about doing more vlogs and different things like that. It's been really interesting but it's kind of hard to make a vlog about lockdown. We are in another lockdown which is not great but you know we're safe at home so that's fine. Yeah we're coming to the end of this piece I'm just doing a lot of different final touches and details and that's it. Okay that is the final look of the book cover. I really like it in the end I'm glad that I went outside my comfort zone to try this colour scheme and I think it really works nicely for the style of book and everything that I said in my voiceover. I'm really pleased with this one I definitely think it looks better than the original cover in my opinion you know so this is my book so I'm pretty pleased with it. If you guys would like to join my book club we have a book club over on my Patreon we read a book a month and we discuss it and we try to make art from it in all different things. I also have a print and sticker option so go check that out the link is in the description. 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