 Hey guys, how are you? All right. Welcome to another video for my creative year. This month of June our topic is space. Last week I shared my creative space with you and at the beginning of the month I gave you some tips on space storage, one of my favorite tips and links. This week we're going to actually talk about literal space and the prompt is Galaxy. So I'm going to do a Galaxy journaling tutorial for you here. I've got a specific idea for this pair of pages and the first thing we're going to do is Grab a flat brush. I know it's a little past it, but it's my favorite brush And I'm going to grab some actually some black gesso because I have it and I need to use it Like what's the point of having this stuff if you don't use it, right? So let me grab that I'll be right back. Okay So the first thing that I want to do is move the garbage can out of my way, which you can't see Okay, is I want to do a page that sort of looks like there's a rip in the fabric and through the hole in the fabric You're seeing the galaxy. It's an interesting idea, right? So the first thing I'm going to do is use my bic crystal ballpoint pen. It's just a plain old bic crystal pen To sort of draw something that could be perceived as a crack or hole in the fabric of My page of time whatever you want to call it doesn't have to be perfect because remember This is just like the sketch. We're gonna be putting black gesso on here and doing other stuff So this is just the initial sketch Glass or ripped something ripped with a big hole and it looks like and that's what you want to draw Or at least that's what I want to draw. Okay, so now I'm gonna take my black gesso If it's not too thick and gross, which it might be. Oh, there we go. That's attractive And I'm going to paint this center part This brush is gonna be way too big It looks like a big blob right now, but you have to just trust me. Well, you don't have to be nice if you did So paint You know make a big blob on your page and let's go from there And we are going to paint a galaxy I'm going to take some of this leftover paint and put it on a scrap piece of paper and let this dry and I'll be right back Okay, the next thing I'm doing is I'm covering up Most of what's not painted with black gesso With some painter's tape now. I'm not being super careful to cover up all of it But I'm just covering up most of it. I just don't want to Have to be super super careful with what we're going to do next I put some painter's tape out on my table Which is covered in a fabric cutting mat And I'm just using an exacto knife to cut pieces off Okay, like that The painter's tape should stick well enough but not rip up the paper when we do the next part So we're going to need a Some kind of mixing dish I'm going to need a little brush Something not too big some water And some paint so I've got some neons here and I've got some white and I think I'm going to find some purple Um or turquoise or something. So let me do that and I'll be right back Sorry, I had to answer some questions from the design my design team So I'm going to I have my dina wakley paints out here on the table. So I'm going to use them. I'm going to use Ocean which is I love that color and Let's see Eggplant Aren't those pretty okay? So the first thing we're going to do is add some of these colors including the neon some of the neons So I'm going to add A little bit of ocean An eggplant to my dish. It's probably way too much eggplant, but that's okay I'm going to take a pink And the yellow maybe the orange That might be way too many colors, but let's give it a shot. Shall we? So these are little sample pots that were sent to me by my friend Cindy udder Of daravan um neons for she wanted me to try them Which I have been trying and they're Fine, they're good. I like them Um, there's lots of good neons out there. It doesn't really matter What brand you use or what? Kind of paint it is I I used uh craft ones for years So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take my colors and I'm going to just do sort of do this My brush is damp. I'm going to blot and move that color around And in sort of abstract pattern. We're trying to do like Oop like nebulas and things right just trust me if we've never got done a galaxy before just trust me Trust me Blend it out I rinse the brush And then I'm going to go in the orange I'm going specifically in a certain color order because if I'm not waiting for the paints to mix And the orange happens to mix with the yellow It's just going to make another color of orange, but I'm not going to get mud I think you get the idea. You hear my computer just going crazy to put the colors Like in threes Now your neons are pretty transparent. They're not opaque colors. Generally They're also generally not light fast And they're hard to photograph. So if you're doing a piece that you're going to want to replicate and Scan or photograph. I recommend using bright regular colors Rather than neon colors Just take it from my experience. All right, so now we're going to go with um these The teal and the um, what is it ocean and uh eggplant I did get my heat gun out because I was tired of waiting to be honest So it's out here on the table. You could do this without doing all that taping Um, but then you'd have to be a lot more careful honestly than I'm being because I'm I'm honestly not being very careful Because I'm not waiting anything for anything to dry I aim being careful like where I put this purple because if I put it with the orange, it's going to just make brown I don't want a brown galaxy But if I put it with the pink or the blue, I'll just get a different shade of purple. So that that's actually okay I'm all right with that do some blotting Okay, I'm going to take this is just white paint A few different brands and shades of white Where the tubes were almost empty And so I put them in this little container I'm gonna have to at some point find a different container So I'm going to just grab a little bit of it and put it on my dish I'm going to a little water and grab a clean brush Mix some watery white paint and do that This is why you want the tape really because you could do it without again. Like I said, but it would be very messy I'm going to take some of the blobs of white And I'm going to add more water to them. So they kind of look like Fog like a foggy nebula. That's what I always want to describe it as anyway. I don't that's I'm sure not an accurate Astrological term. I'm sure it's not But it's the one that seems right for me You get too much water just get in there like that. It's not dry completely, but I want to add some more stars. So I'm going to take my Long skinny brush and my white paint We're drying time pull the tape off Carefully I'm going to take a stabilo pencil in black On the edges And then a water brush Again a baby wipe. I'm going to grab a clean one. It's a little bit too much stabilo pencil. Oops That might be where our words need to go Let's see. Let's let's actually try Smearing the stabilo pencil with the baby wipe. Actually, I know that we did that the accident So for those of you don't know is water soluble. So that's why you can move it around With your baby wipe take some white paint because I love the way that looks I do think it's a little darker than I initially wanted to do. So let's Take some white of the white paint some choices here But I think I'm going to use these are uniball signal pens. I've got a gold one and a silver one we're going to use them to create some metallic Stars in our galaxy portion of our randomly You can put them anywhere that you want to the white is nice, but the pearl colors are better Try to vary the sizes Location and then the gold Uniball signal are great pens for your mixed media work and your art journaling Um, everybody really loves the white knows the white one, but they do make colors So you might want to check them out the next time you're buying pens They're not Super expensive, but they're not always easy to find I live in a pretty big city and I have trouble finding them. I like the way that is turning out Boy, howdy all right now I do think I want to add just because I have it And you know, it's taken up space in my craft room. I might as well use it right glitter glue So this is a stickles and diamond. Oh, yeah, it's not dried up I kind of wonder you can put these again put these everywhere It's just gonna it's gonna give your galaxy some sparkle and shine I'm kind of putting them on top of other dots that are already on here either from the splatter or from the gel pen You may not even be able to see that It definitely looks like somebody punched a hole in the wall and when they did that you could see the galaxy Which I love I found a quote online that I want to use on the page So we're going to do that, but I'm going to dry this first Okay, I'm going to use my favorite journaling pen my big crystal and the quote is stars can't shine without darkness. I love that I'm going to I need a clip because this curly page is going to drive me crazy. Okay, there we go much better okay So I start over here try not to get my hands into anything that still may be wet I may go over my letters a little bit make them darker with a black Paper mate ink joy pen Which is a gel pen like you're writing you could put your quote on By typing it on the computer and pasting it on Using a lettering stencil like from the office supply store Using stickers Stars can't shine without darkness That's my galaxy this week. What does yours look like? That's it for today. If you're not a member of my creative year and you'd like to be the links in the description below um, we would love if you share your Art and inspiration with us over in my creative year And I would love to see what your galaxies look like Don't forget though the most important thing besides like share and subscribe if you would to my youtube channel Which is go out and have a great day everybody Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys