 hey guys how are you today so I have a project coming up that I can't really talk too much about but it involves me being in a photo shoot I need a half finished canvas and I am unsure about the subject matter I want said canvas to be so normally I would just wing it but this is a photo shoot and I don't feel like winging it is the proper thing to do so I really want to paint both of these subjects but I for this photo shoot can only pick one at some point I'm gonna do both of them on a big canvas that being said I have this face which is the cover of Vanity Fair for March 2018 I'm gonna cut away here to the footage of me doing the page of the face and I want to use the cover image as inspiration for my painting I don't want to copy it exactly that's not who I am I want an expressive abstract or semi-abstract image and that's what I'm shooting for so I decide to first do it in a journal and I then will do a small canvas and then we will pick one and I will pick one and do it on the big canvas so we're gonna start first with the face and I have the image next to me you can see we're gonna cut away here to the footage of me speeding through the painting process and I start out with putting some neon colors down on the page and then working through my color palette which includes Payne's gray titanium white brilliant violet phthalo turquoise permanent blue violet neon rose neon yellow azo orange and yeah and white I already said white I wrote them down and I start layering my colors down I'm also using a stabilo pencil and a regular number two pencil to start with to sketch the face and give me an interesting outline and then I start adding my color I use the pencil very sparingly because I really like I said want it abstract and expressive I don't want it be too literal with it and I'm making sure to use my warm and neon colors to suggest the light and my cool and dark colors to suggest the shadow I really am have for a journal page I'm happy with how she turned out I did not wait for colors to dry during the process which you're gonna see here I should have and things did get a little bit muddy and a couple of different points so if you're gonna do this I would recommend doing a layer letting the paint dry come back to another layer what I'm doing a big canvas that's usually what I do so that being said here's the footage we're gonna speed through the process if you have any questions about this one leave it in the comments below and but don't go anywhere because we've got another one to do all right I'll be back it's how did you like that all right so this is my second image which is an abstract abstracted picture of sunflowers that I myself took here at my house in a blue glass jar that I have laying around so and then I abstracted it in an app which doesn't work anymore with the current iOS so you can't get the app anymore but anyway I abstracted the image and then it's saved in my inspiration book and I have always intended to paint it on a canvas so it is my second choice for images and I'm really kind of leaning towards a floral to be really honest with you at least for this canvas I think it lends itself very well to the shape of the canvas I'm going to be working on which is a long tall narrow canvas like a rectangle does that make sense anyway so here's good we're gonna speed forward through the process of me painting I start out by putting down some background colors that coordinate with the photo some whites some grays a little bit of red some blue and let it dry walk away I don't want to have a repeat of too much mud right I did while the paint background paint was wet come in with a stabilo pencil and sketch out like rough circle or half-circly shapes where I knew I wanted the flowers to be so I could kind of get a rough layout once that was dry I came in with paints gray titanium white burnt umber boop boop boop boop manganese blue al your al I hate this one al you're a mind yellow that's not how you pronounce that carmine sap green aqua and azo orange I'm gonna have a list of all the colors for both pages in the description below never fear so I start with painting the sunflower centers and with the paints gray and some of the blues and then I start roughly mapping out the petals of the sunflowers with the yellow in its pure form I do eventually mix it with orange and then also to get a lighter tone mix it with some titanium white and then I do a layer of that then I put some of the green in then I go back and add some more highlights and low lights to the petals and then I go back and add some more to the green and I keep going back and forth that way not being afraid to get the baby wipe involved or my hair dye brush or some of my other tools in order to achieve the suggested rough abstracted image that I want you also see me pulling one of my stencils in which is four square one I believe for my Etsy shop I'll put a link to it in the description below to put some suggested textures in the background most of it ends up being covered up but you know it just gave me a place to get started I may do more of that on the canvas I'm not sure yet so I'm gonna speed forward here through the process and yeah enjoy it let me know what you think what's your opinion and when we come back in episode 2 I am going to do both images on a small canvas one each on each canvas so we'll see what happens it so that's it for right now I hope that this gives you something to think about let me know what you think and don't forget to have fun do some painting express yourself don't feel like you have to have realistic images there's nothing wrong with a good expressive abstract and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later okay bye guys