 Hey guys, how are you today? I thought I'd come up on Periscope since I'm here playing with my spin art machine. I thought I'd just come in you know Chat a little bit. See if my hair is all it's really hot. Hey, Nadine. Let's see if we can Hey, Art Sherpa. How are you? So this is just your basic kids spin art machine. We all probably had them when we were kids Or teenagers, I guess 1970s I was in high school And of course when you decide you want one to play with in your art room Can you find a used one? No, of course not and after I bought it I saw a Mark Montana's video this morning where he actually made one out of a fan That was genius, but I saw it too late. Anyway What I did like that he did was he made a ring of cardboard to go around To catch the splash back which I like Because it comes with this one which is really small when you want to put a bigger piece of paper in here That doesn't work so well These are what I've been making They're so much fun and I could see them as embellishments on their own or collage background Or just you know pages in a in a little journal. Yeah, aren't they pretty? So let's make some why don't we? Hey, Cindy So I'm gonna experiment this time and now I'm going to get the paper wet first. I Don't know what that's gonna do, but we're gonna find out. I got this one at Michaels. I used a 40% off coupon and That made it not that expensive so All right, it's gonna give you a little bit loud. I am gonna also try and tilt it Maybe Because I want you guys to be able to see I need something to stick underneath there I think my watercolor box you kind of see right I Should probably put my apron on You know, I haven't gotten paint on my shirt yet, but what are the chances of that lasting all day? I know a very old school, right? But some sometimes old school is good. Nah Oh All right, now I'm covered So, you know practically my whole yeah and safety glasses. I know right? I did have the brilliant idea earlier to put some paint in here in a marble and to see what happened would happen and I didn't have a marble. I had a bead He went now, but I had a bead and Then I just let it spin around. It's a good thing. It wasn't actually a marble because it whacked me in the head. I Should have caught that on periscope because that would have been funny All right, let's see what happens Now I did find out that If you control I know right if you control the paint with your brush you get something that's Prettier like this and the black lines are done with a pen I know a hard hat right the black lines are done with a pen after the paint is dry I put the paper back in hey I put the paper back in and then I used a black pen while it was spinning to put the lines on Now if you just drop the paint in and you don't do it with a brush you get one that's more like that Yeah, see I might need one. I have safety glasses somewhere. All right, let's turn it on It's gonna be kind of loud. I'm sorry be just like that. It is loud. I know right? They're pretty just like that or you can You know let it dry and then put Black marker or colored marker on it. They're really it's really loud I put it's probably I don't think it's less loud if I put it down on the table flat I think it's just as loud It's really it's really loud. That's the only thing about doing it on camera is there's no way to muffle the sound This machine is a spin. It's a spin arm machine. It's by I Create ology you can get it at Michael's and that's how it looks Okay, so I know I knew somebody was gonna ask it. Okay, so the wheel Just fits right in. There's my bead that whacked me in the head. See there's the bead that whacked me in the head The wheel just fits right in over this piece here It just sits on top It has these little fingers to hold paper in But you know, of course Do I want to use paper that's that size? No So I put a little piece of double stick tape in the middle and Then I just take my this is just craft card stock And then I just stick it in the middle This is battery. I couldn't find an electric one like that you plug in that would be handy Not that it didn't cost a whole gob of money But you know, I did see the one mark Montano made out of a fan I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad idea, but it looked interesting and it spins faster because it's a fan. I Think it might be a little dangerous for me to try that though Not to mention the fact that it's like a hundred bajillion degrees in California again today And I think all the stores now are sold out of fans because we've had so many hot days this year Yeah, yeah, yeah So I'm doing the spin art for a reason I can't really talk about yet, but it's for a project coming up But I wanted to do it before the project came up anyways Because I thought it would be fun. They turn out so cute and I've just been playing with different colors Yeah, I know right I'm so dangerous to myself See this is some of the paper that it comes with But I like the way they look on the craft cardstock better and this one I didn't quite get it back on in the center when I did the pen, but I like the way that it turned out It's off a little bit So I know it's loud, but should we do another one? It's a really they're really cool looking It's it's a cute little, you know embellished addition to your art journals you can cut out the circles and use them in your journal you can Paste them in as is if you use interesting paper You could do it on tags see that's the thing about doing it this way The paper will go up the edge a little bit here like you can see and if you had the factory cover on splash guard on it that paper would catch and It just messes it up trust me because I tried it But if you do it this way with Mark's idea of making your own splash guard outside or Even putting the whole thing inside of a box Then you could use whatever size paper you want You could use it you could put the tag in here and do spin art on a tag. You could do an envelope Yeah, you could doodle on top of them There if you think about it, this is just a new way to do a background But then there's a million uses for it And it's quick and easy you could do a whole bunch of them so let's Let's try something now that I said that let's try something my my my whack my head marble Okay, let's do something else with that Now that I've said let's try something I have this box that it this is part of the packaging that it came in This might still splash me a lot See them together see what together. I don't know see what together So oh sew them together Yeah, definitely and you could put little pieces of fabric in here and you could do fabric paint That would be fun and you know you don't have to do paint you could you could do this and do Only marker that would be fun, too I'm gonna get it wet again just because I think things spread a little bit and When it's wet and if you were gonna do this you could put a little piece of watercolor paper in here and and yeah Watercolor paint or water soluble markers and let them bleed and spin that would be really interesting, too I have all these teeny tiny bottles of gold and fluid acrylics that I've had for like a million years. Oh Yeah, maybe I will let's let's do one more with acrylic paint And then maybe I'll get out a piece of watercolor paper because I can't do it on this. It's too dark It's gonna get loud again. Sorry. It looks like a yellow eyeball. Maybe a zombie eyeball And it did kind of splash me, but that's okay. I'm an artist. I always get messy This is cool All right, let's put a piece of watercolor paper in there because now now you guys have me intrigued What would it look like? Let's cap the let's cap the acrylics though, so they don't all dry out I need a piece of watercolor paper now. Let's see. Oh, I have an ATC card I don't even have to cut one. Look at that. Let's just use that Let's see. We've got our watercolor paint Let's get them all wet and juicy. Let's get our paper wet That way we have maximum Spreadage on the watercolor paint. This might be a new way to do watercolor backgrounds Let's see what happens They don't have any clean water either. All my water is gross and dirty. Let's see. All right. You ready? All right, let's go. I can see doing this as a background and then just doodling on top of it It would make the coolest ATC card. Look at that The only thing when you're doing this is you're gonna want to make sure you use colors that blend well together And don't make mud unless of course, that's what you're shooting for I didn't want to make mud. I know right? Spin art who to thunk it All right, now I want to do another one of those Now you got me hooked. See what happens? I have these zen tango cards. Do I have any blank ones? Maybe I've got all these little scraps up here you guys because you know God forbid I should throw anything away All right, let's try it again See now. I'm gonna be sorry. I don't go get clean water before I turn the cat periscope thing on It's a good thing. I'm not using an important watercolor brush Because it's in the acrylic paint water. All right One more time See, can you see doing this on like the fan thing that marked Montana Montana rigged up where it spins even faster? That could be dangerous, but that might be really fun ATC cards Look at that. Now. I'm gonna be sorry. I didn't participate in the Hawaii ATC card swap Because wouldn't that be cool to doodle something about Hawaii on top of? Watercolor spin art who to thunk it. I'm running out of clean table space It's a good thing. I have a whole bunch of these little pieces of watercolor paper So this is I Think this is double stick carpet tape I don't actually remember because I know somebody's gonna ask me at some point. Oh, you could do that. Yeah, I can show you So this is the double stick tape. I used I think it might be carpet tape, but I don't actually remember I think it's from the hardware store I'm also I also want to try it. Let's do that Jerry Wet and then let's do it Dry I want to do try dry without proof. Let's pre-wet it first And let's see about just dropping or flicking the paint on and see what happens All right, you ready? Okay in the spin art machine on to watercolor paper That's a watercolor paint and yes, you're gonna get different looks if you use a bigger brush Of course bigger pieces of paper I started out using acrylic paint Yeah, exactly. Let's try Sorry, it's really loud you guys. I'm sorry I'm gonna try on a dry paper. I'm not gonna get it wet first. Let's see what happens on a piece of watercolor paper. I Didn't get it wet first and you'd have to get The kind of salad spinner that doesn't I used to have when it actually broke But it had a center pole inside the bowl of the salad spinner you'd have to get one that doesn't have that I think But Mark Montano has a video out this morning Making a spin art machine out of an old fan that he found on the side of the road So I do recommend you guys go look at that and it might give you some ideas for options Let's do another one because now I can't stop These are available everywhere. You know target has them toys or us has them Michaels I got this one at Michaels. Some of them are ones where you push a button. I didn't want to have to be pushing a button So the batteries were fine and it is totally addictive. I I Agree with that. Let's try one more. This one's dryer. I'm gonna just use this black pen I don't know what kind of pen this is. This is something that I picked up at Diso, it's just a black Like brush tip. I don't even know if it's waterproof. It cost a dollar fifty I want to do one of these water color cards now. What happened now? You guys are all gonna want spin art machines Okay, this is the first watercolor one. We did look at that. Is that not pretty or what? It's almost too pretty to do anything else to and I liked it with the pop of black Without the coupon, I think it was around $20, but I had a 40% off coupon But I've seen him for as low as 12 if you go to like the toy store You're gonna pay more for it if you get it at Michaels and you will be if you go to the toy store and Of course, you might you know find one at the thrift shop I can't I've been looking and I've been looking for like a month and I can't find it at the thrift shop So I finally gave up and went and bought one new I want to see what it looks like with one of my distress markers Let's see where my brush tip markers. I've got these It says spin art on the box and I used part of the box to make this thing It says spin art machine and that's that picture is on the outside of the box Okay, so for this splatter Working without the guarded splatters a little bit if you're working like this I would recommend putting it in a box probably a one that's a little taller We have it like this because it shows better on camera right now Normally I cut this piece of Cardboard from the box it came in and I put this around here like that as a guard and that catches 99% of the splash back it comes with This but this is really tiny and unless you're using a really small piece of paper This is not going to work for you. You know if you're doing little pieces of paper like this, this would be fine or the ATC cards But if you're you doing these bigger squares like this They they go up the side just enough that they catch on this So I did I put the cardboard in there But you could get a box that's about this size and just build up the sides a little bit and that and have it inside The box when you're playing with it and that way it's going to catch all the splash and splatter This one's still a little bit wet in the middle, but See if I can get it stuck down Okay, I'm gonna try some of these you could just even just do it with markers look at that But markers with a little bit of paint and you know you could have a whole bunch of these These would be cute on card fronts and then you could just put either stamp it with a sentiment or add another little Maybe a tag that has a sentiment on it This one's dry. Let's do some color on this one. I've got some blues and some purples Happy mail you could also put do this on happy mail envelopes. Can you say can you see putting an envelope in here? Right, but I still like it because I just kept going Yeah, that's the only thing is I wish it was bigger But see without that little small guard on here you could get a really big piece of paper in here So these pieces of paper it came with these you're supposed to fold in the corners And then it fits inside, but without the guard on here and with the double stick tape It fits like that Let's do one. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see it. It's too big I Almost think yet, you know, I'm almost thinking I'm wondering if I should glue this inside of here I'm tempted to stick some e6000 down there So it doesn't ever come off, but then you couldn't ever clean it inside, but I don't know that I would care I Might care eventually All right, let's do another one of these. Let's do this one. I could just sit and do this all day Yeah, Jerry. I'm with you. I could just sit and do this all day No watercolor thing was genius So what else now I forgot what else I was gonna talk about. See I don't even know I have no idea because I'm too busy spin arty. Oh I know did you guys see my new? YouTube channel Trailer I created it over the weekend and it posted yesterday. I also added a list of Holy heck. What does it call it again? Featured channels to my YouTube list all of them have a thousand subscribers or less Most of them have less than 500 and I know at least one of them has less than 20 So go to my YouTube channel and look up the featured channels list and go show them all some love Most of them are Just people I had you know watch on YouTube some of them are friends one of them is my niece 12 who's 12 years old and Sarah and a Budding artist in her own right. She's got a cute little channel I'm gonna keep adding to the featured channels list and I'm gonna keep it going You need to get on there. So if you have channels that you recommend You want to recommend for my featured channels list? email me the Channel name so I can look it up and add them to my email artist at Gina be errands.com G I N a B is in boy a H R E NS.com and I will look them up and get them added. It could be your own channel. That's fine Don't tell me now All right, let's do another one No, it's not at all. My brush is fine This is my Van Gogh watercolor brush, which is It's it's an okay brush and honestly the paint's probably doing it more damage than the the spin art machine But it's still fine. You can see It's not hurting it at all. This is another this is one of my very well-loved acrylic brushes And it's not I've been using it and then I have this is a I Think this is a folk art one-stroke painting brush Not that I would be able to tell because that's what the handle looks like But I'm pretty sure that's what it is And I was using it and it looked fine And it comes with these two brushes that you could use that are just really cheap and kind of you know Not that great, but but they do a decent job on here Let's try using this one because this one was a lot of fun. Let's use let's go back to this Some of the acrylic paint and they're just dang fun And you know, I had this paper laying around, you know in my studio taking up space Might as well do something with it I want I want to see what will happen if we just use only markers. Let's try it. Shall we really fun to play with and Look at the fun marks that you get And you have absolutely no control But I think that's what I like about it. I have this one. It's mostly dry Not exactly back lean Luna. They're so cool And they they would make cool tags. You could make them little, you know make little notes out of them They'd be cute Holiday gift tags, you know, you could make a bunch of these in Christmas colors or whatever Winter holiday that you celebrate colors on the front and then you can use the back to right to and from And then you just you know punch a hole in it and stick the ribbon through it and put it on the gift See now do I want to do more ATC? I'm gonna do more of this paper because I need to do this paper Yeah, see and this is a quick easy fast way to do a bunch of custom cards And if you the friends you're giving a gift to our mixed media artists like all of us Then they're gonna save that little tag and they're gonna use it in our journal and they're totally fast to make They take no time at all I'm gonna put the bead that whacked me in the head away. Alright, let's try it comes with all of these little pots of just you know like kids crafts paint and then it comes with the prime these these colors primaries plus green of More more fluid kids crafts paint. I Haven't actually tried these yet. I guess I could See if you can get him to make one that's you know bigger and maybe Jerry spins faster That would be cool might be really dangerous, but it would be so cool One one that's flat here and then the base doesn't have to be any bigger But if it was just flat and then you could get whatever size piece of paper you want on there. I know right? This here measure It's about seven and a quarter inches From outside edge to outside edge But the inside edge to inside it edges only six and a quarter So if you had that seven and a quarter to like eight inches and it was a Flat spin and it didn't have this depression and you could get whatever size piece of paper that you want in there That would be cool. Plus if it wasn't battery operating was something you could plug in would be handy because batteries are expensive That's my wish list Jerry if you get him to build you one just tell him to make two My husband could do it, but he's not ever home Okay, let's try these other little pots of paint I haven't I'm sure it's just kids craft paint, but not that there's anything wrong with that It might work really well in here, so let's try it and we'll use one of the brushes that came with the machine Didn't have it stuck down very well be my tape is getting unsticky a little different I probably got something jammed up down inside there or it could be running out of battery juice. Yeah That'd be my guess because I've been using it a lot today My guess would be it's the batteries Which would be why I'm having one with a power with a cord you can plug in would be handy Or at least with batteries that are At least with batteries that are rechargeable, which I happen to not have in the house because I don't know why All right, let's do one more thing in here. Let's try a tag. I really want to try a tag I happen to have some tags great start to a happy man happy mail tag Which is next month's crazy island family swap by the way hint hint to everybody out there who didn't know already happy mail Yeah, so get ready. I want to do another one That that's just this is just a regular Manila tag from the office supply store and I had stamped this arrow pattern on it from one of my handmade stamps for this month's arrow swap with crazy island family So it was already like that. I did that in the video demo video and I did three of them I've got three of them and I I Always assumed I would add more paint and collage or something to them and do make them into happy mail tags for next month's swap Okay, for October, so let's just do that. Shall we the combination of the kids craft paints that came with it? This is you trucked few fluid acrylic from the you trucked calm I've got Tombow markers distress markers the Japanese dollar store marker And then Nadine's brilliant idea of doing watercolor on here, which is just brilliant I'm gonna be talking about that for a while Nadine. You're gonna do this to use up some of your paint It doesn't use that much paint. You only need a little teeny tiny bit to do that. I love it Close up all my paint pots before I spill something because that would be totally like me to do Well, that was just not stuck on well was it? I love that It's the coolest thing. It's totally addictive. I'll warn you right now if you're gonna go out and get one of these or make one It's totally addictive. I can't do any more of the pen part into it now until they dry So I just wanted to get on for a few minutes and share my love of Spin art with you guys So I hope you have fun with it. I do plan on doing a particular project share with a spin art Yeah, the blobby looking ones you mean Like this one and then I have another one late. So that one So I can show you how to do that So I'm gonna use this is the kind of paper it comes with and this paper actually fits in the little prongs on the plate how much you spin it It's you're gonna get more blobs and so then what I did with the other one was I stuck it back in here And you're welcome. I saw that post about thank you for showing this you're welcome. I just thought it was so much fun I should share So then what I did was I did this and then this is gonna splatter The runnier the paint is the more it's gonna splatter So like if you use the high flows on here They actually splatter really well or if you just thin down your paint With water or airbrush medium or glazing fluid, you know what I want to do some with that one way So anyway, I'm gonna keep playing with my new machine Check out my YouTube channel. Let me know what you think about the channel trailer check out the channels The featured channels show them some love. I have so many other things I'm supposed to be doing But I'm in here playing with paint, you know, all right, I'll see you guys all later. I'm gonna keep playing Let me know if If anybody finds an affordable one with the plug That would be handy Thank you. You're welcome. And don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself. Oh I'm glad it's a lot of fun. It's totally addictive. You could just sit here and do spin art all afternoon I keep and I'm supposed to be doing other stuff and I keep coming back to doing spin art. So, you know Bye, I'll see you later, everybody I am going to post this on YouTube for a couple of fans that couldn't make it today because they're on the other side of the World and they're in bed asleep So they asked if I would so I'm going to and look for some of the spin art to show up in a particular upcoming project on YouTube In October so all right, I will talk to you all later. Bye