 Hey guys, how are you today? We are here with another video for my creative year for week one of November 2018 our topic for the month is words and our prompt for this week is status and at first I'll be honest and admit that the Topic stump the prompt stumped me a little bit, but I do actually think I know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna take one of my Favorite journaling pens a bit crystal pen and We are going to do a little sketching now if you were going to do this you could Find an image and you could paste it print it and paste it in or copy it and paste it in Cut it out from a magazine. I'm going to sketch a garbage can At least I'm going to try to sketch a garbage can we'll see how it we'll see how it turns out So I'm just going to use light pen strokes Loosen sketchy not perfect. I Probably should have my reading glasses on for this, but I don't For reference images for your garbage can just go to Google Again as we've been doing in months past. We're going to be building on our page over the month So I'm not intending to fill the whole page For this week the idea of words and status Took me a bit to figure out what I want to do if you've been following me for a while on Yahoo Yahoo, holy cow on YouTube and social media, then you know that As part of my journey with mixed media. I seem to use words a lot in my work It's something that I seem to do quite a bit And this this is going to be no exception in my opinion status And we'll get into the reason why I'm putting a garbage can Your status in life or society Should be more about what's inside than what's outside The outside is trash. It's garbage it should not hold as much meaning as it does with some and Again, it should be about what's inside and not about what's outside And you notice I'm keeping this loose and sketchy. I'm not trying to do perfect lines I'm not actually all about that So adding a few like sketchy marks and shadows Will give your sketch some interest It's a basic Cylinder shape, so it's actually not that hard of a sketch to do And what's the worst that can come happen if it doesn't come out, right? I mean, I did make a mistake here. It doesn't matter. It's fine I'm going to take some distressed crayons. I think and a baby white I have a couple colors of gray and a blue When he's a darker gray here in the If you've ever seen or have a metal garbage can, you know, it's Like corrugated like it's got you know depressions all around it. So Where those shadows would be from those use your darker cooler colors and I'm going to Sort of blend them out a bit with a baby white. Okay, and then we have a lighter gray and I've got a bit of a blue Blue is a cool color. So it's going to do well added to the shadows That's kind of a cute garbage can if I do say so myself Now the distressed crayons are water soluble. So You not only can move them around a little bit But if you feel like you've gotten too much on there, you can wipe it back They do eventually dry down and then they're much less water soluble That is cute. I'm going to do something to disguise this line. I think we're going to just take Some of our white paint. This is a bunch of different kinds of brands of white or a or a buff That were the tube or bottle was almost empty So I just started cutting them open and putting them in this jar Try to get it open without getting it all over myself. That'd be a miracle Just put it in a couple places. So it looks like it's intentional and then again, we are going to blend it out with our baby Wipe it's not about Making it perfect. I don't mind if the words show through If you haven't seen me work in this journal before this is a moleskin What is it called a daily notebook? It's not intended for what I use it for a moleskin weekly notebook So the paper is pretty thin so you have to be kind of careful with it. Okay, so that works for me and Then what I want to do is I think I want to type Something on a piece of paper and then make it look like it's sticking out of the garbage can So let me get some typing done on my typewriter. Yes. I actually do own a typewriter. I'll be right back Okay This is what I typed Let's see if we can zoom in there Status in life and Society should be about what's inside and not what's outside. It should have nothing to do with how you look or how much money you have in the bank or Really or anybody else's opinion of yourself your status in life and society should Should have to do with how you feel about yourself and what's inside yourself At least that's how I feel so we're gonna we're gonna put this either on the garbage can or sticking out of the garbage can I'm gonna tear it first. I love the look of vintage Typing on just random paper In my art. I love that and maybe I'll write actually throw everything else in the trash or everything else's garbage Let's get that glued in. I kind of like it up there on top. So let's get it glued in Just using a you who glue stick. We're gonna use a bit crystal pen again, but this time we're gonna use the broad They do make a bold tipped crystal bit crystal Which is what this is Everything else is garbage. I love that you will notice right here That when you have these distressed crayons on here Unlike other crayons once they dry down You can very easily write over them a lot of other crayons art crayons on the market You cannot do that with including gelatoes, which are really hard to write over so In my opinion, I mean I really love these because you can write it You can add the color and then write over them even my very favorite Bible gel high gliders You have trouble writing over so Yeah I'm going to let's see do this So that's it for this week. I want you to think about using words in your art this week Let me zoom out because you can't totally can't see what I did there We go. I want you to think about using words this week and this month And what does status mean to you? What does that? Word prompt you to create in your journal this week for me. I took it sort of literally, but You don't have to it could be a lot of different things But think about what it is and create something interesting. I'd love to see what you do create Share it in my creative year if you're so inclined The link for the Facebook group and every place else I am on social media is in my link tree Which is in the description below so click on it and you'll find my Etsy shop my website All my Facebook groups and everything else Instagram and everything so check it out that being said We would love to see you over in the my creative year group and the most important thing of course is to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it like share and subscribe if you will Don't forget to hit the little bell icon if you want to know when my new videos come out Hit that little bell. That's it for right now. I'll see you all later. Bye guys