 Hi guys. Sorry about the confusion with the beginning of the live broadcast, but I'm an idiot this morning. I don't know what else to say. Oh, yeah, yeah. So we're going to paint these flowers that I took photographs of at a birthday party. I was at this weekend. Hey, Lisa. And I was at the party and there were these beautiful blooms sitting in a pot next to me where I was sitting at the table. And so I started snapping pictures of them. And so we're going to paint these this week. And we're going to do them today with Dekawart Americana paints. And I am just looking for my colors that I want. Oh, there's I want some white. I want some purples, but this is the wrong color. I want this color. I really love the colors that are in these flowers. Hey, toy. So we're going to get out some yellow, a couple yellows. I've got some white. So I've got lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, white wash, purple pizazz, which I think is going to be a great color for these flowers because again, I love the color that's in here. I want to get out some paint gray and some orange. I think I'm going to use the Spiced Pumpkin. I'm really taking inspiration from the colors of these blooms because they're so beautiful. Now, I did take, hey, the real Myrtle, hey, I did take one of the pictures of these pictures that I took. And it's already on my website, jeanabearans.com. The link to my website should be in the description of the video. And go to the inspiration photos page. You can download the photo and use it for inspiration for your own artwork. And if you do that, I would love to see what you do with it. And then what I want, I think I want to use some, a little bit of blue. We're going to use a little bit of primary blue, probably some asphaltum, which is a funny name for a really pretty brown color. These are all, again, these are all Americana, DecoArt Americana acrylic paints. You don't have to have fancy paint to make art and have fun with it. Use what you have, use what you can afford. Don't break the budget going to buy fancy art supplies. Lindsay, the Frugal Crafter, had a post about that this weekend on her YouTube channel. There was a video where she has, aren't they pretty? There's a video where she was talking about a new watercolor palette. She got really just for the palette box and she talks about just using inexpensive supplies and what you can afford. I love the video. I love her idea behind the watercolor palette, but also her message is really great and it's very clear. So I do recommend you go to her channel and go look at that. I might want to add a little bit of gold. So we'll see. I don't know. We have, that's a lot of colors, but you know, that's like nine colors, but I like color. All right, so we're going to use these as our inspiration and I've got another kind of, what do I call these? Canvas failures. This is from 2013 and this is a small five by seven canvas. I kind of lost my way on this one. A couple of times because there's a couple of different paintings on here, but we're going to turn it into something real pretty this morning with these blooms. So I'm going to take our photos and I'm going to prop them up. They'll be kind of, you'll probably be able to see the bottom half of them on camera. You probably won't see the top half of them and I need to get a plate because you didn't hear that clanging sound. I do use ceramic and porcelain plates for mixing because they're easier to clean. And then I can get them really clean and use them for either watercolor or acrylic. And I'll have to have separate palettes. All right, I should have this on this side because I'm right handed. All right, so let's start with the Pains Gray. We're going to arrange them on our palette. It's sort of a rainbow color wheel sort of thing. So I'm going to start with my dark colors. Work my way to the lighter colors. That was the blue. Here's the purple. And then we're going to go with the orange. You can arrange your color, your plate, you know, how whatever way makes sense for you. This way usually makes sense for me. Some gold. And then our two yellow colors. This one's not even open yet. I did just get some brand new colors from DecoArt, both in the Americana paints and in the Faber paints. And this Cadmium yellow one is a new one that I just got. It's a nice creamy yellow. And then our other yellow, which is more chalky and more lemony. You can see the difference between the two. And then we're going to put white in the middle. Now I love the colors of these blooms, but maybe you take an inspiration photo of something, some other flowers that you like the shape and composition of, but you're not crazy about the color. You can paint them in any color that you want. I would recommend printing the photo in black and white. So you get the tonal value of the inspiration photo without getting distracted by the colors of the original blooms. All right, I got my brushes all damp. Let's see. We're going to start with the background because you all know I like to paint the background in and get that done so that after I get the blooms painted, I don't have to go back and touch up the background. I'm going to use my photos as inspiration for the painting. I'm not looking to copy them exactly, but I definitely want to get the feeling of the blooms on the canvas. So we're going to see how far we get there. I'm going to start with my darkest color and I'm going to not only paint the background, but I'm going to remember to get my edges and I'm going to, without cleaning the brush, I'm going to pick up some of the brown. I'm just, I want something kind of abstract and dark in the background so that the light blooms really show up. I want them to be the focus, not the background. Now remember with acrylic paint is the fabulous thing about acrylic paint over watercolor is that you can really just layer your colors on top of each other. So if you get, you know, something too dark or too light in the wrong spot, just let it dry and you can go right over it with more paint. With watercolor, you can't do that. So you can really start out really dark and then make your canvas lighter with the acrylic paint. So I'm just making sure primarily to get the edges and then we'll focus on the background. Get that done and not mess it up. All right, so now I want to actually take, I'm still using the dark colors, but I want to, I want to map in some flower shapes or at least the centers kind of put where I want to have my flowers be and see. The centers are really, really dark so I'm going to use this paint gray. We'll see if I decide to put one up here or not. Right now we're going to just do two. We'll see. I don't know. There's maybe this one down here. There's one kind of hiding back here. I don't know what kind of flowers these are. I have no idea. I was asked that on Facebook. Somebody said they look like a cone flower. I think that's what they said. I don't know. I don't know. All right, now we do want to have a light source in the background. So I'm going to take some of our paint gray and put it on here and then right on the canvas I'm going to make some white and mix it in. Again, we're working on the background. We're not, I'm going to, you know, take some of this color. I want my background to be abstract. I want it to be expressive. I don't want it to be anything else. And if some of the original background shows, I'm okay with that. Probably when I'm done, not too much of it's going to show. They are a little bit like Black Eyed Susan and they do. I agree with Lisa. They look like they're in the Daisy family. I'm going to take a little bit of the lightest yellow. Just a little bit. Again, we're just working on our background. Having some fun. That was a little bit of the orange. Helpful Potato. Hello. Some of your names on YouTube are hilarious. The Helpful Potato. And that, you might have a great reason for that, but I do have to say it makes me smile and I like that. All right, that's pretty good. That's a pretty good start. We're going to put the large filbert brush away. And what am I going to start with now? I think we're going to dry it. I really want to dry this. I don't want to get the yellow too muddy. So let's give this a quick dry. Be careful when you're doing this with acrylic paints because it's basically plastic. So if you get it too hot too quickly, it's going to bubble up and melt like plastic wood and you're going to get a texture you might not want. Now we're going to go with a smaller filbert brush. And I love the filbert for flower petals. I'm going to use my darker yellow and hopefully do this without messing up. I'm going to start out at the end of the petal and pull it in towards that dark center. I paint it and lift it up as I do. Now really look at your inspiration photo because not all your petals are going to be facing the same way. Not all of them are going to be shaped the same. So you might need to turn your brush to get some interesting petals that resemble what's going on in your inspiration photo. But we just want to get it kind of mapped out now. And these will be longer down here than the ones back here in the photo or shorter. The yellows are pretty transparent so you generally have to put a few layers of paint down and some white. I'm doing the back flower first. Yes, he's actually fine. He is old. He needed to have this morning I took him to the vet to get some blood work and stuff done. He's going to be getting his teeth cleaned in that and because he's old and cranky they're going to anesthetize him. So that means that he has to have blood work to make sure that everything's okay before they put him under. So while these petals are still wet, I'm going to start from the flower center side with the white and I'm going to pull it up. Now it's going to blend a little bit with the yellow where the yellow has kind of dried. It won't so much. That's okay. This is just a first layer. We're not married to this layer. And thankfully our dog, back to the dog, he likes our vet so he doesn't mind going there until they like break out the needles. He's not too, he's never too happy about that but you know and I can't lift him up and get him into the back trunk area of the car anymore. He's too heavy for me so I had him in the back seat but he seemed to like that better I think anyways. So now I'm going to go into the tips with our yellow and again you know I'm not a realist painter so I'm not looking for an exact copy of the photo. I do want to get that impression of the photo and I'll know for myself when I've got something that's making me happy. I just want to give you guys some ideas of what you can do. Oops that was the wrong color. They are very important. He's a member of the family so they're going to clean his teeth and they're going to clip his toenails and all of that stuff. They're going to put him under. It's less stressful for him so this is the lighter yellow. Now remember as you're doing this that you know flower petals are not perfect and if you are working from my inspiration photo or yours if you look at the flower petals they are not perfectly round on the end so as you're adding your layers of colors to your petals you might want to think about making the edges less perfect and more suggestive. It'll give you a little bit more of hinting at that real flower and all these different colors are just going to add more interesting layers to your flower. Yeah safer way safer for the vet. He likes them but yeah way safer for the vet. He does not like having his toenails clipped. He is not one of these dogs like my mom's dogs that will just sit there and let you clip his toenails. That's never been banded. He's not okay with that and you know they're also going to clean his teeth so that's not going to go for very well. Okay so now I'm going to let that dry for a minute and I'm going to work on the flower center. This is a stippling brush. Low low Cornell stippling brush. Little short stiff bristles. This is a quarter inch stippler and I generally have to order these from somewhere because I don't usually see these at the art store. Somebody may carry them. I haven't figured out who it is yet but my places near me don't have them. I'm going to start with the blue and I'm going to just do this just tap tap tap tap and I'm going to wipe it off and this is canvas that I use to make journal covers and stuff with so I'm just going to wipe my brush off on here then I'm going to go in with the brown tap tap. The brown and blue will mix a little bit which is okay. I'm not going to hit it on all the same spot so it won't all mix. That's actually what I want. Hey Donna I'm going to come in with the purple that I have here and I'm going to go around the edges. I was almost late today. It was Donna's fault. We were chatting. Blame it on Donna. Okay so now I'm going to come in with my filbert brush. I better clean it a little better because the yellow and purple will make brown. I don't want brown. Okay so here's some of the more of the purple. Pull it up into the yellow petals. Don't forget to if you need to get the baby wipes out. Baby wipes are great for blending, removing paint, pushing it around on your canvas and that's I love that so you got the baby wipe out. Yeah use it later for a journal cover. I've made tote bags out of them. Pencil bags. All kinds of stuff. I do have a cutting mat on the table. A good one but okay hang on guys. We've got to text the husband because he doesn't know that I picked the dog up so hold on. Okay so we'll tell him he's fine and I'm live on YouTube. Talk to you later. All right so that's doing pretty good. I want to let that dry a little bit. Before I do though I want to take some of my orange. They're these little orange like I don't know they're like seed heads or something in these flowers. So we're going to take this little tiny brush and we're going to just tap some of the orange in here. Now this may not be completely done. I'm probably going to come back in here with some more colors before we're done but look at that pop you get in there and this is acrylic paint so it's all about layers of more interesting marks. Don't treat anything too preciously. That is so pretty. Okay let's do this one. Should we do this one? Wait I want to lost track of my brushes here. Let's use this one. This one yeah this one. I want to do this here let's see. So that's the white and some of the yellow. So when you have a painting like this when you have flowers layered over the top of each other it's really helpful to start with a flower that's farthest in the back and then work your way forward. You really want to get this late this flower almost perfect because parts of this flower are going to overlap that one. I think that's how I'm going to paint it. So if that's the case then this one needs to be perfect so that I don't have to go back and touch anything up. I will tell you guys that I appreciate all of you. There is somebody or a couple somebodies here on the channel that seems to not like any of my live broadcasts. I'm not sure what's up with that. There's a couple of somebodies that give all the live broadcasts a thumbs down and that's fine. As my channel grows I just have to get used to that. I'm here to share my love of art with you all so not but not everybody's going to like that and that's fine. But it is kind of funny. I just expect now all the live broadcasts to get one or two thumbs down because there's somebody out there on my channel that just does not like them and that vibrating was my husband texting me pack okay good. He had to make make himself a note this morning to not feed the dog because we couldn't feed him before he had to go get his test done. You know like the rest of us when you have blood work and stuff done you have to fast and look at the more layers we put on this flower. Look how much it's coming alive. Okay we're going to go with the darker yellow pulled it in too much. Yeah it's just these kind of paintings are don't take long and you get really start to get the idea and the impression of that flower that expressive picture of that flower that you want. It doesn't really take much. Hey Ian how are you? I am going to start paying attention in my photo to where the you know darker sections of the petals are and I think I'm going to take some of this darker yellow and I'm going to mix it with a little bit of the orange. I want a darker golden orangey kind of color. I'm going to use this for my shadow color the petals and to add some extra layer of petals in between that are darker. If I forget to talk you guys need to just start I don't know texting me. We need a buzzer on the YouTube live thing. I start painting and I'm here by myself. I don't I have anybody helping me with comments or anything. I invite Envy some people like Cinnamon Cooney who go live and you know her husband helps her in that because that would be handy. All right we're going to make some brown in here because I want to stick it in here. There is always some crazy people out there isn't there Lisa. So spoiled apples are like soiled apples. I like that. I'm going to do this because this is this part's bothering me. I probably should have put a bigger darker background on here. Yep you do see gold paint on there. I haven't gotten to the gold yet. We will be though. I like the Americana gold paint. Okay that's not bad. I'm going to take some of the yellow and some of the blue and make some green. Now we are using craft paints basically Americana acrylic paints or craft paints. They don't blend the same way artist paints do. That doesn't mean you can't use them. That doesn't mean that you can't make them work. So they they just blend differently. So it might be more challenging for you to get the color that you're looking for. It's probably one of the reasons they make so many colors so you don't have to do any blending. Soiled works too Lisa. So these are flowers and there was some greenery and inspiration photos and again for those of you just joining us these were taken at a birthday party I was at this weekend and the at least one of the copies of the photos that I took are available for you to download and use in your artwork from my website GinaBEArens.com and feel free to go over there and download any of the inspiration photos from the inspiration photos page and use them with my blessing. I would love to see what you do with them whether you paint with them or something else that would be fabulous. Okay I think we're gonna leave that for right now and we're gonna work on the other flower for a minute. I have to decide if I want this one to be under that one or above that one. If I want it to be under I should have done this one first. See nobody's perfect we all screw up but I could fix it. Let's do white first this time and really push down on the filbert and then as we bring it up towards the flower center lift and you get this interesting petal shape. It is isn't it? Okay I'm gonna go a little bit apart on them to start at least. It's all you know acrylic paint is all about layers and at some point your painting is going to you're gonna look at it and go holy crap that is really ugly. Every painting has an ugly duckling stage all of them do almost every artist that you talk to will admit that it does and you just have to keep working through it and adding your layers and marks until you get something that's really beautiful. All those other layers underneath are gonna give your picture some depth and character and create help you create something that's really interesting. I'm gonna wrap some of my petals around the edge of the canvas. I think I'm gonna do this I know I'm crazy and you're all cringing I can hear you. Exactly the real myrtle everything that you know in art has some kind of ugly duckling stage so now I'm going to go with my lightest yellow and I'm going to again start at the tip and I'm going to drag it towards the flower center but not all the way down. This time I started with the white because now we have an opaque background for our yellows. There's no neither way is wrong just work with whatever way you think is going to work for you. This is a filbert brush this is a snap number eight filbert. I got these at Aaron brothers art supply art and framing I should say which is a subsidiary of Michaels arts and crafts and I got them when they were I think they were either buy one get one free or buy two get one free. Hey Cody doll hey I'm gonna go into our darker yellow now and just like at the tips of the petals and pull it down just a bit. I like the filbert because I like a I prefer a flat brush most of the time when I'm painting with acrylic paint and the filbert has a nice rounded edge. It gives you a nice mark. Okay we're gonna dry that a little bit. Okay now we're gonna come in again we're gonna go in with the white in between the two. Now remember that in nature like I said before flower nothing is straight and even things are wonky. So you know you probably don't want your flower petal edges to be perfect because they'll look more real if they're not. I have and I actually have them in my watercolor collection of brushes. They are an interesting brush and Ian and I need more help with them or not help practice. I need more help with a lot of things but I need probably more practice with them but I do like them I was very intrigued by them so when I was buying some new watercolor brushes I bought them and I think I bought the Princeton Neptune ones. They're very interesting brushes so I'm just giving these in between petals a quick coat of white of course you know that's not our final layer now we're going to go in with a yellow from the edge and pull it down and as I'm putting the yellow in I'm trying on purpose to oops that was a wrong color to um have a little bit of a rounded edge but not have to be too perfect. I almost did it again wrong color. Don't be afraid to do this if you want to buy some Americana Decorat Americana paints or any of the other deco art products they're readily available at most of your big box craft stores and art stores and you can also go to decorat.com. When I started back to painting I started with craft paint that's what I could afford. I just save up to get my other paints. Well that's a good use for it. Ian, sign writing. Okay so now we're going to go in with our darker yellow and while we're doing this I may come into some of these in between petals and just add a little something. Decorat's pretty well known I think worldwide brand and they make decent supplies especially for those of us who really just want to make art and play and don't have you know a ton of money in the bank to spend on art supplies. So now I'm going to go in with my orange and again I think I'm going to take a blob of this and mix it with the yellow and just lighten it up a bit. Decorat this is Decorat Americana craft paint. Okay so now I'm going to try to figure out which petals I want to be in the forefront. I'm going to actually start here so I'm going to darken the petal. I should really be doing this with a smaller brush. Okay we're going to use this little tiny brush so I'm going to put some paint on there and I'm going to darken the petal that's in the back and I put some paint on there but that might be too much too much too much. So when we have a baby wipe there we go. So you can define your petal shapes a little bit. I mean depending do this you know do as much of this as you feel like you need to to suggest you know your painting and what you want your painting to say. I'm putting some paint on there. I'm giving it suggestive lines. I'm also smudging them with my fingers and I am going to make sure my baby wipe is handy and available. Should I get some in a place where I don't want it? Try to use the paint up that's on the filbert brush. Okay now this little brush that I have in my hand is from a set of small tiny brushes from the model department at Hobby Lobby. You know that department where they have the model cars and stuff. I was there getting some stuff for my husband who is my husband for him. He likes to do model cars and things and he needed some brushes and I saw these and was like ooh I wonder how those would work with acrylic paint and you know what they were great when they were super affordable. It is opaque. It's a craft paint Ian so you know they're not pigmented the same as your artist paints they're just they're just not. So yes it's opaque but like your colors that would naturally be more translucent like your yellows just because of that pigment are even more so in the craft paint and they don't always blend the same so this may be a little too dark in some places but that's okay. It's just another layer. I can still kind of see where my definitions are of my petals so before I lose them too much and some of this up here might get lost because I think I'm going to bring this flower back. That's okay. All right so now I'm going to go into the yellows and the darker of the yellow. We're going to go basically over some of the same places that we put the orange. Yeah really look outside the box for your brushes you know look in some of those other departments. I know what you're thinking oh my god you just made those all darker now you're going to make them lighter. Yes yes yes layers of color layers of color and one of the reasons I'm using this lighter brush is I'm not covering up all of the darkness that I put on there and I'm not even trying to blend it. I'm really just putting streaky lines in there suggestive of the flowers in the picture in nature turning the canvas turning the canvas gives me a different perspective and also makes insurers that I don't get my hand stuck in the wet paint. Yeah see I and these were really inexpensive. I think they were the set of them was like five dollars for five brushes or something. It was pretty good deal I thought. All right so now I'm going to go back to the filbert here and we're going to stick with that take some of the white and a little bit of the yellow just make it a little bit a little bit off white just make it so it's not quite so starkly white. I don't I don't paint models my husband uses enamels. I don't I don't I don't do that tedium and me do not get along so I'm going to just do this a little bit because there is some lightness to part of the flower center so I want to just add we're going to be working on this some more but that's starting to pop out very nicely. I love decor paint. All right so now we're going to before we do the center I want to take a little bit of our purple I don't want too much and I'm going to lightly lightly lightly touch my brush to the canvas very lightly and started the center and pull the purple up I love the combination in the real flowers and the inspiration photo of the yellow and the purple it was just such a pretty combination. My husband just recently got back in a model painting after taking a break from it for a long time so I need more questions than that you really have to ask him because I don't know I don't paint miniatures I don't have the patience for it to be honest with you so I'm just kind of using the edge of my brush to really pull a few pieces of the purple up into the petals and I'll set leaves you guys would have gotten the idea. All right I'm going to go to my stippling brush stippling. All right we are going to start with blue. The paint's gray a little bit of the asphalt tone with brown. I'm just tapping it onto the canvas with the stippling brush. I'm going to go in with that little tiny brush it's from the model painting department and I'm going to start with the orange. There's a few dots of orange in this flower center of in one of the inspirations of those. Exactly I love you know nature is a fabulous inspiration if you get you know stuck on you know what color to use on a on a project go outside and take a walk because nature is fabulous for that. Okay and then I'm going to come in with a gold there's too much gold right here it's too floppy so we're going to touch it up here by darkening it some of it up with a hands gray. It's a great thing about acrylic paint you can just layer it on top of each other so don't we um need to dry it again I think let's see I want to get that I want to get it pretty good. Let's see um let's take some of our brown yeah if any of you if I am having help with the miniatures painting and any of you guys can help him please do so I don't paint miniatures I have absolutely no patience for that um people who know me in real life just laugh at that because they know it's totally true so before we fix this mess here because we do need to fix that I do think I want to come in here now while I'm not going to treat any parts of my painting as more precious than the other um and if I get paint on something that's fine it's acrylic paint so like I said you can bring it back with um by just putting more layers but I do think I want to put um there's a hint of another flower here I like things in uh groups of three I think they're more interesting so I think that we're gonna like it's peeking out from behind no I haven't um I have done alcohol ink on ceramic tiles I've painted on rocks does that count with this paint and it it's it's fabulous on that I have a brother-in-law who does miniature painting too so I painted on rocks I in um with this paint and it was great it worked fabulously just same kind of layers and you know if you're doing this I would start with this flower and then this flower and then that flower I did it totally backwards so anyway live and learn we're going to be trying to paint the same um inspiration photo in watercolor on Wednesday I think so we'll see how it goes I enjoyed painting on rocks so I could see me painting on a piece of slate at some point because the rocks were pretty fun it would just depend on if I could get them for you know cheap or free to be honest so now I'm going to come back in with a little bit of the white from the other direction just a little bit and then um our orangy mixture here dried up so we're going to make some more and first I'm going to darken the edges of the petals the edges are pretty I've got some of the petals wrapping around the canvas that just makes it interesting so if you really want to learn how to do interesting expressive florals think about taking one of Pauline Agnew's classes but I think she has one that's just on florals I haven't taken it yet but it's on my bucket list back in with one of the yellows okay that's pretty good now we're going to um come in with the purple really have this in here we're going to start at the center again and pull it out now this one's really hiding behind the other flower so there's not a lot of the flower center showing that would be cool Donna thank you Donna has some really cool flowers that near her that she thought would be really interesting paintings too much paint right there that's better okay so where's our stippling brush let's do a little bit of stippling because if nothing else I think I want the texture in there and we're gonna just put a little bit out of here not too light because like I said this flower center is in the back it's pretty dark in the inspiration photo so I actually don't want to lighten it up too much oh cool thanks Ian you know that's one of the reasons I started the inspiration um photo page on my website was so we could all share inspiration photos because you know it's we all want to paint we all want to play we all want to experiment and maybe at some point we want to sell said piece of artwork and finding sites that will let you use the photo is really tough yeah it really made it pop start to pop off right okay so but we're not done we're not done I am going to although this is really dark in the picture there are a couple of um highlight spots and I'm going to add them with the orange and then I'm going to go with a little bit of the gold not too much I don't want to do too much okay so now I want to come back in before we do this again we're going to do this one last for it we've got to fix that um so we're going to come in here and we're going to let's dry this so acrylic paint uh craft paint usually drives pretty quickly so I just really want to take the shine off of it when I do that so I want to just come in here and redefine some of these pedals that we you might have lost or you might have started to you know mess up the edges when you did that back flower make them pop out again um by going in and touching them up a bit and I love really working with colors like yellow because they're very sheer and you can you can put them on here and still see all the other colors and layers in between I kind of like that so Ian you can either post them in the Facebook group and create an album for yourself in the Facebook group or if you want to send them to me with your permission and I can put them on my website either way the easiest way is to do it in the Facebook group I'm going to take a little bit of our brown and a little bit of our purple and mix them together and we're going to just put a little bit of a shadow here and then a little bit of paint and then I'm going to come in with my baby wipe very lightly and just rub it back there we go perfecto I've got to decide what I'm going to do with that one I want to do something over here first let's see first first I'm going to mix our blue and our purple together I think you are in the group Ian um and a life of art and self-expression again the link should be in the description below for those of you who aren't members and you can create a photo album for yourself and put a note on the photo album that these pictures are okay and for anybody to use for art um I think that's wonderful if we can share things like that see that's it's looking good all right I'm going to bring back some of our orange dots though that's so good okay sorry I'm getting distracted all right so now we have to I'm really happy with this I'm I'm pretty happy with this we need to do something about this flower um so let's work on that uh let's first do pedals so I think I do think that I'm going to get a lot of white I know what you're all like cringing over there I can I don't even have to look at the chat to hear the cringing I have to be right there I can hear it now when you have an inspiration photo you could do something completely abstract and you could really be inspired by the colors and feeling you get from the inspiration photo and create something completely abstract that looks nothing photo so that's another way to take some of these photos that would be a lot of fun and you really should look forward to me doing that at some point in the future because I don't do abstracts enough and I really enjoy doing them and this always makes me really happy this palette plate because that always when it starts to get messy like that I always think oh wow they having fun with their paint okay so now I'm going to go into the darker yellow oh not right there holy cow darker yellow did I say darker yellow going to make some of our lighter orangey color oh hey Karen I'm glad you're enjoying it I think live streaming is a lot of fun um I sometimes get caught up in what I'm painting and forget to talk too much but um I like to watch live streams and or listen to them if they're um you know ones were somebody's actually remembering to talk while they're arting which wouldn't be me because I forget a lot so I'm just adding our our layers of yellows uh whites and oranges to the petals to really make them pop being conscientious of the fact that I want this flower to look like it's behind that one so this one's either got to be darker or this one's got to be lighter um and I think we're going to darken up some of this one back here I think we're going to put a little bit of a shadow so your edges of your petals would be darker the petals that are um on top would be lighter the ones underneath would be darker so you know just go around your painting and make sure you get all your shadows and highlights kind of in the right place oh sorry the real Myrtle sorry I had a teenage girl I didn't have boys so good luck with it whatever it is and like I've said a million times acrylic paint is much more forgiving than watercolor you really can if you make a mistake and get the wrong color in the right wrong place just you know give it a minute let it dry and go back in there with another color it's not a big deal layer your colors on top of each other that was the wrong color and um just keep playing until you get a composition that you're really happy with that's actually not bad um okay so now we're gonna hopefully make it pop I'm gonna clean off the yellow and we are going to go into our purple and we're gonna pull it from the center out um I'm going to there's a little bit too much purple there that's all right okay we're gonna mix some of our blue and purple together again make sort of a darker purpleish blue color again I think this is purple pizzazz and primary blue for those that want to know I'm going to take this darker purple color and I'm going to put it in the center and again I'm going to pull it out I'm not looking to cover up all of that first purple I'm just looking to give it some depth you like this color on here so I think we're going to take a little bit of it and put it down here over here and that really made the centers here pop get a little bit in a place I don't want it so we're gonna rather than putting another layer paint I'm going to just take in the baby wipe all right wipe off the excess paint on my canvas here that's looking pretty good we're gonna get in here with the stippling brush and start with I think that paint's gray now this one because it's in the photo it's kind of lying farther tilted away from the camera is more of an oval than it is round so we want to make sure we kind of emphasize that I'm going to take some of my white and mix it with the paint's gray get a lighter color maybe drag in some of our dark purple and looking at the photo and just using just by tapping my stippling brush because I want that kind of texture in the paint color I'm going to give the flower center some highlights and kind of continue to try to emphasize that sort of oblong shape that we have that's looking pretty good so we're going to go into our little um small brush let's see what are the paints like for drying time they actually dry very quickly so if you're not okay with that then you might want to add some extender to the paint they do deco art does make an extender but they do drive pretty quickly okay that's the orange we're going to go in with some of the gold I'm going to go down here and fix this one a little bit just getting some paint on the brush and I'm just tapping it on the canvas making little dotted marks that I'm going in and I'm not cleaning it off super well more than wiping it on my drop cloth here and picking up the gold yeah they dry pretty quickly I wouldn't I think they dry a little bit faster than a normal acrylic um all the america americana paints in my opinion do you know you're having a body artist acrylics dry a little slower than these do but I kind of like that they dry fast if you don't like that then you could add like I said add the extender to it and that would really aid in the um extension of how the drying time for you because not everybody's going to like that they dry quickly when some of your heavy heavy body paints really take a long time to dry I'm gonna take a little bit of my yellow and pull it over here into the white and we're going to stick with this little small brush for a minute and I just want to kind of do this and look at how that makes those petals pop I'm not going to blend out those brush marks I'm going to let them be suggestive the way they are this is a great color because it's really light and almost white but not white so it's going to really give you something interesting if you lose sight of where your highlights should be or you know where your suggestions of petals you notice I'm suggesting I don't know maybe you guys can't notice I'll I'll zoom in in a minute here but um I'm suggesting edges of the petals that actually aren't even there and I'm not going to make them be there it's it's really um we can kind of see it right there oh dawn welcome well welcome and you know I'll be painting this a couple times um I really love if nothing else the color of these flowers and I was saying earlier in the broadcast since you just woke up that you know this is the kind of photo that you could totally take and use as inspiration just because of the colors of the petals you know you don't even have to actually try and paint the flowers use the photo as color inspiration because man aren't those colors just fabulous I went on Wednesday we're going to do it in watercolor I'm going to do it a few times I'm sure um just because this the picture intrigues me and the colors um do too so yeah I will probably definite most definitely be doing this a few times and this broadcast will be on YouTube it takes a few minutes for it to load but it will be on YouTube so um if you've missed all or part of it um just wait a little bit and it'll be on YouTube all the paints are from DecoArt of course it's muddy with DecoArt hey Josie um I Ian yes sometimes I do use paint my photo um when I want to paint something that there's no way on the planet that I can find a way to take a picture of it myself um such as I want to do a watercolor elephant um so I live in California uh you know I don't know where I'm going to find an elephant so I would go to paint my photo I do try to use my own photos wherever I can now I did pull some of the petals around to the edges of the canvas so I am you know putting these little highlights in and I want to make sure I do it on the edges of the flower petals as well as the foreground on the front of the canvas you know I want it to look like it's intentional I I saw a couple more questions there so hang on a second guys I'm going to come back in with um okay let's see um so yeah so it has to it must have something to do with the pigment most of your watercolors your better watercolors are made with natural pigments and not dyes and I bet you that a lot of your um especially the craft paints are probably dyes so the dyes are probably more transparent than the pigments um craft paints are really transparent but a lot of yellows are very transparent especially in acrylic paint even golden yellows so you really need to start with like a white base to get that to have the yellow really cover I am using Hangout Ian and and by the way core K welcome I'm not one that's really big on um chemistry and the chemistry of paint and when I try to learn it I fall asleep um just FYI uh so you know but um there are other artists out there that know a lot more about it than I do Cinnamon Cooney is one of them but it's got to have something to do with um whatever they've used to color the to color the paint and I would guess that it's probably something that's more dye based you're welcome I you know if I don't know the answer I'm going to tell you guys I don't know the answer I won't try and fake it I don't do that so um and there's lots of answers I don't know one of the reasons I started my channel was to share my adventures with art and also get ideas from all of you and those that are more experienced than me so I don't know everything and if I did know it I probably forgot it because you know that's what I do all right let's see I'm just I'm just adding these like suggestive lines to the flowers I'm really liking them so I'm so I'm doing them I'm really liking this painting it's almost done I does anybody have any other questions yes I'm taking some of the purple paint here very light touch and pulling out some lines from the center of the petals not everywhere just in a few spots these little touches make your painting pop so so if you guys have any inspiration photos that you would love to share with our little art family and let people paint from them be inspired by them create works they keep or for sale from them if you are okay with them using them royalty free then by all means create create yourself some photo albums over in my facebook group I think that's the easiest way to do it and you know put a note on the photo album that they're these are free for people to use and be inspired by so that they know that they have your permission that they're royalty free and you know let's do what we can to share paint my photo is fabulous if you don't want to do that and you or you have no pictures paint my photo which is what Ian said PMP is called paint my photo if you google it you'll find the website and it is the fabulous place to get royalty free photos um that you can paint from see what is this this is a 557 inch canvas in it's just a little one that I had had a painting failure on it you know we all have a stash if we've done art we have a stash of painting failures right we all have a stash somewhere I've got a larger stash probably than most because you know I you know had no problem with experimenting on big canvas is when I was first starting out and did not know what I was doing so now I have a stash of them that has to have something done with it at some point I thought I'd start with the little ones because they're less intimidating um to show on camera what do I mean by that I know somebody's gonna ask me so some of my big ones are really ugly so I you know at some point I'm gonna do those on camera and we're gonna do them live and we're gonna I'm gonna show them and we're gonna paint over them and some of those big ones maybe a two-session thing because they're really big but we'll be doing them on camera I have lots of painting failures I love this I'm gonna stop touching it because I love the way it looks I'm going to move the wet paint so this these are the photos that we were being inspired by this is as you guys know this is as realistic as I ever get and I love that you definitely could use the inspiration photo you know like I said if you just took the feeling and colors that you get when you look at this photo and did an abstract piece from it that would be fabulous and I will be trying that at some point um when I know this is completely dry I will probably stop go to my PO box have some lunch and all of that then I'll come back it'll be by then it'll be completely dry I'll be sure even the thickest parts will be dry and I'll be giving it a nice coat of um deco page and I will probably use the antique I like using the antique one because it has a little bit of a tint in it and let me find it for you let's see here we go this and then I give it a coat I let this dry this is slightly tinted just off it's got a little bit of a like antique color to it a little bit it's a little bit creamy colored it still dries very clear and translucent so I will um give it a coat of this let it dry completely and this is like any other deco page glue or sealant if it's in the right environment it will get sticky right we don't want that so after this is dry I will give the whole thing a nice coat of americana decor cream wax let this dry this dries really hard um and it um doesn't reactivate so it'll these two things will protect the finish on the canvas um I will also make sure to redate the back because it says 2013 and on um so I'm going to leave those out because I'm going to need them later on Wednesday for watercolor Wednesday we will be doing these in watercolor we'll be doing some more experimenting I'm really looking forward to that that's going to be a lot of fun I do want to going forward for Monday with deco art I want to break at some point we're going to break out one of my big canvases and we're going to actually do a face and we will probably do it in stages we'll be using americana decor paints and probably the deco art artist traditions paints and maybe some of their fluid acrylics all deco art paints on a big canvas and we will also be painting a piece of furniture at some point because I have to do that too and I've got some chalk some of their chalk paint to do that so all those fun things to look forward to I also have an elephant I want to do in watercolor I've got some on if you're in the watercolor world of world of watercolor facebook group you saw that somebody over the weekend posted some watercolor experiments of where they did water droplets in watercolor and I'd seen that before and then I forgot about it and you know we're going to we're going to work on that I think it would be a fun practice exercise we're going to do water droplets in watercolor and we may do them in acrylic paint too because they're different wash works all right I will see you all on Wednesday those of you who want to be here otherwise I'll see you next Monday thank you for joining me with Monday with deco art live I hope you have some fun paintings of flowers don't feel like you have to buy expensive paints Americana Acra paints by deco art work just fine and again these are purple pizzazz primary blue whitewash asphaltum which is a really pretty bluish brown color paints gray spiced pumpkin I can put them up this way then you guys can see the tops well except for this one that's all smudged up glorious gold cadmium yellow and lemon yellow these are the colors we use today all right I will see you all later have some fun create some art and don't forget the most important thing y'all know what that is right go out yourself and maybe somebody else because you deserve it and they probably do too all right make some art create some pretty things share in the facebook group I'd love to see it there feel free to leave a comment question or concern here or in the facebook group if it's in the facebook group tag me in the post because that way you can it be assured I'll see it otherwise it's possible it gets missed the group is growing so I do miss things all right I'll talk to you all later have a great afternoon if you're on the west coast if you're pretty much anywhere else in the world I have a good evening and I will see you on Wednesday bye guys