 we are here for another video for my creative year. Now I'll be really honest and tell you that I had no idea up until a little while ago what I was going to do with this month's challenges for my creative year. Absolutely no idea. While I'm talking I'm going to get out a couple of things. Let me try to use up some stuff. Anyway um the theme for the month is fun and by the time you see this the challenge word, the challenge will already be out too and our challenge is... I forgot it already. Hold on. Forward. So I went forward. I found those really interesting but again like I said I had no idea where I was going to go with them. At the same time right now my landing pad area where stuff sort of gets dumped until I can put it away has just gotten out of control again as it does and I have a sort of limited space where these things go on purpose because if I have a bigger space it just gets to be ridiculous and I can't function that way and I need to clean it and put sort and put things away but I need to work on this prompt and I thought okay wait a minute hold the phone. I find it fun to just randomly sort and put things away by pasting things into my journal. I think that's fun and you know I wipe off brushes in here when I'm working on other pieces I will randomly collage a piece of like this here paper into the journal because it's got to be gotten off the desk and for whatever reason I've decided I don't want to put it down in the bin so I don't and I think that what we're going to do is I'm going to show you my process for that and I'm going to collage some of the papers into my book. I'm going to have some fun with it. I'm going to turn up the music. I've got some gel mediums and some matte medium. I need to use up these gel mediums so we're going to use them first and also the gel mediums by the way these if you don't know already gel mediums work better for heavier thicker papers and the matte mediums better for thinner papers in general. You can stick down thicker papers with the matte medium. I like Liquitex fluid medium but it's pretty thin and it takes a lot of it. It's tough to stick down. It's easier if you use one of these gel mediums. This is Indigo Blue Super Thick Slap It On and this is a golden sample size of their regular semi-gloss gel medium which is a paint additive to thicken paint but it works great as a glue. I have another one over here. It's their Soft Gel Gloss so anyway these are old. I need to use them up. So we're going to do that. I'm going to have a lot of fun while I'm doing it. No rhyme or reason making art and having fun with your art is not always about making a completed piece. Sometimes it's just about having fun and enjoying the process and this month I am not going to show you how to do a journal page or a piece of art. I'm just going to show you my process for having fun well and cleaning up this at the meantime and no that's not all of it. I also have these over here. Cleaning up this and having fun with the bits and pieces that I find in there at the same time. I'm not looking to finish journal pages and make a completed piece. I'm just looking to have fun to slap some papers onto one of these backgrounds and have some fun while I'm doing it and sometimes that's all it's about. You can go back to it later and turn that into a completed piece but for right now I just want you to have fun with your art. I want you to slap some paint or some paper onto a page. Don't worry about what the final result is because we're not looking for that. I'll be right back with my speed forward of my process and then lately I always have let's see oops wrong way let's see zoom out I guess I'll back up. Lately I always have a big jumbo piece of art paper here on my easel and it is covered with originally ink and sprays that I was trying to use up before I moved so I did this in California last year. I have a number of these sheets and then what I do is I take one of them and I put it on the easel and it just lives there and when I'm painting I wipe my brushes off on it. If I'm mark making I come over here with a pen. I put collage papers on it like I did now. I had this watercolor eye that was from a YouTube video from last month. I cut it out and glued it on the page and at some point it'll become something. I don't know what yet so I want you to go out this month and I want you to just have fun with the process fun making marks it's not about completing anything or making a perfect work of art it's just about enjoying the journey and I want you to remember that and I want you to focus on that part of it this month. I love to say that ugly art is better than no art so I want you to intentionally go out make some ugly art make some backgrounds collage stuff down don't think about it put put painting brush marks on it if you're painting just scribble on a piece of paper if that's what you're doing that's what this is by the way this is just I was testing paint pens and I want you to just have fun with the process this month if you're not part of my creative year and you'd like to be the link for the Facebook group is in the description below all the ways to support my channel and the free content here on YouTube and also on Facebook are in my link tree which is also in the description below along with all of my social media links are over in link tree my Etsy store my Amazon store the tip jar patreon all of that so go have a look and and peruse around and surf around and have some fun and enjoy your process that's it for today don't forget the most important thing besides like share and subscribe and that is to go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys