 Okay, hey guys We are going to take some bits and pieces today and experiment and play with them and try to create an interesting piece of art That the rest of my family and maybe some of you are going to go. I don't get it, but that's okay. You don't have to So canvas corp has this new line. They're going to be coming out with I don't think at the time of filming this Which is the beginning of February that it's out yet The designers name is Sandra and they're relics and architectures I will try to remember to link her page in the description below She was in the CHA booth when I was there in Phoenix and she gave us all some bits and pieces to play with This is one of the ones I got and These are kids building blocks and then seven gypsies Line in canvas corp. They own seven gypsies. They have this new line called architectures. This is one of their new pieces It's called a mix media paperboard. It's literally a board covered with mixed media paper, which is Strange and interesting I'll be honest. I'm not sure why you would cover board cover a board with paper and not just use jesso or something I don't know, but I haven't played with yet. Obviously. It's still in the plastic So we are going to I'm still sick. I'm sorry guys. There might be some coffee involved. I Haven't played with it yet. So we're gonna do that And see what we think of it I'm gonna try to save the label because the label most of your architecture Pieces most of the stuff in the line has interesting stuff on the labels as well as you know the product itself So I've you know most of us who have been playing with this stuff have been saving these because these are just as interesting So I'm gonna do that and put it in my little box over here, which is getting kind of full now This is covered with paper and can you all see that it seems like the paper is like only glued down on the edges That it's not glued down like right here Which I think if that's true that's something that we're gonna use to our advantage because I do have an idea so I'm gonna get out my Water bottle because I although I've been home for a while I've been sick as I said and like nothing has water in it. So This does Really really wet We just want to soak it and I want to try to rip it back from the board underneath Just totally. I'm not sure. I don't think that's probably what they intended for you to do with it when they made it I'm gonna put a little hole in the middle Hopefully need my so I just want to hold it's big enough That I can rip because I really want it to be ripped instead of Cut and I'm seeing now that the board underneath is a really super thick piece of chipboard I'll give you a close-up in just a second I'm gonna want to be able to put these under here So we're gonna leave that just sit for a minute. I'm gonna turn it this way Oh, I was gonna give you so if you look inside. It's just really thick like a super thick piece of chipboard All right, we're gonna cover that so I don't cut myself. I Have a box from my prescription delivery that just came I use an online pharmacy and I want to Use it. I'm just really weak and tired this cold flu thing that's going around you guys Don't get it if you can help it because it really just kicks your ass. All right, so I'm gonna cut Couple of decent-sized pieces This piece might work. We're gonna need a pencil just grab one of these I'm gonna draw a wing shape just a loose sketch of a wing shape and then We might need to get this wet might rip easier for one thing I really want things to be torn and distressed now. You might need to like Do this. I want there to be sort of feathery shapes and then Like tear and distress the edges so that you know, it doesn't it's not so obvious that you cut it Making a big mess. That's all right. This is one of those little Tim Holtz distressing tools And I want to really like I said get it wet. I want to crinkle it Wrinkle it Distress it. I Don't want it to be anywhere near perfect Okay, now the trick is going to be doing another one All right, so once you're happy with the one do another one. They don't have to be Identical twins, but maybe just sisters All right, so I'm gonna do that and I'll be right back Okay, so I'm gonna place my resin piece from relics and artifacts in my two blocks What I want to be in here I'm just I'm not gluing anything down not yet. All right, and then I'm going to another little hole up here Because I'm gonna want to layer that in like that I'm gonna do one over here Now this is mixed media paper, so It's not gonna if you're gonna do something like this it's not gonna rip super easy By the same token it seems to be fairly good quality paper. So if you're gonna paint on it or layer things on it it seems to Be a kind of paper that would hold it very well. Okay, so we're gonna get everything glued down and Then let it dry What kind of glue are we gonna use? Question I think I'm going to use I'm gonna use a gel medium. This is indigo blues super thick Slap it on and I think I'm gonna use this. I may put a little bit of E6000 under the piece of resin or goop glue the goop glue is closer and handier So I think that we'll do that first Because this be why because this piece is heavy Heavier than the other ones. So I just want to make sure it's gonna stay there. So I'm going to put a couple drops of this on the back and stick it back underneath here I'm gonna put some of the super thick slap it on You know Never find a tool the tool. I'm looking for when I need it There it is Found it this one So I can get in the cracks. All right So I'm gonna open up my paper here and just literally slap a bunch of this on here And then I'm gonna put my little wood piece get that off of the underneath of the nose so it doesn't look like he has a booger That wouldn't be attractive. Okay Baby wipe now one thing I don't want to do is glued to the paper to the face and the blocks too much Because I'm gonna want to get in here to paint and put gesso and that sort of thing. I don't mind the little globs of Super thick because We will be painting and adding texture and they'll just add to the piece But I do want to get these main elements glued down So I'm going and I'm gonna put these cardboard pieces in these little wing things in Now gel medium notoriously, you know, it takes a little while to dry. So I Just totally put that on the wrong. No, I didn't I Am still sick I get confused easy Okay, I'm gonna wrinkle these up a bit more. There we go All right, so I'm gonna leave it just like that and let it dry Again, I'm trying not too much to stick the paper down over the face Although I am gonna want it to stick there a little bit at some point, but we're gonna do that later For right now. I just want the main elements to be stuck down Then we're gonna gesso it then we'll adjust our ripped paper folds to be sculptural and probably do some more Gel medium gluing and then we'll do some painting. All right, so those are our steps We're gonna let everything dry right now and I'll be back. Okay. We've got some gesso It's not quite dry, but it's kind of dry kind is good, right? I'm gonna get the gesso open So the reason I'm gessoing it gesso is like a primer and I want all the different surfaces of this piece To take the paint or ink or sprays or whatever I end up doing to it in a similar fashion In in the same way. I want them to all be equally as absorbent or not And with all these different kinds of materials some of them are gonna react More in a more absorbent manner than others and so I want to put them more on an equal ground That being said, I'm not gonna get you know crazy with it and try to Make sure everything's you know Perfectly covered. I Also don't want that little kids playing blocks to be too blue or red their original I want to cover up most of their original color I'm also going to sort of messily brush it on some of the cardboard although on the cardboard. I'm not as Concerned About Having no none of that show I don't mind if some of the cardboard shows through and I'll probably have to do You know a couple of coats and that's fine And I'm not gonna like I said I'm not gonna be too concerned if like on the wings on the cardboard wings if you know It's just no more than that Or if some of the paper doesn't have it on there Mostly I want these pieces inside to have gesso. So that's where I'm gonna focus my energies So we're gonna get let this first layer dry and then we'll come back with a second layer or third or fourth