 Hi guys, I'm hearing all kinds of echoing. I'm turning all the sound off. Sorry How are you all this morning? All right, we're gonna do some little Monday with Echo Art paintings. I already took these are little mini two by two inch canvases you can get them in multi-packs at most of your major craft stores. And I already took them and I already put a base coat on them. These three I did paints gray and these three I did a couple of neon colors Yellow and orange. Sorry, I'm getting like text messages. Okay. Sorry Something for my daughter. All right, so we've taken these little canvases and put some colors on them as a base coat We're not starting from white These are dry. These ones have kind of more paint on them. So I'm just gonna give them a quick Wipe with a baby wipe get the thicker globs off We'll do the paints gray ones first. If you guys have any questions During the broadcast, let me know put something in the chat. Don't forget to give it a thumbs up if you like it All right, so we are going to use some different DecoArt products this morning. We've got Americana craft paints We have The Americana Accessor to essential brushes. These are from Americana accessories. I have the number one and the number eight I do think I have a couple more of these because they come in a set and I don't they're around here somewhere I put stuff away. I can't find it. Um, I have one of the pallet plastic palette knives and I have these texture tools from DecoArt they come loose and This is another thing. There's one more of these around here somewhere I put it away. I don't know where that way places But they come loose and I was constantly misplacing them losing them dropping them So I took them and I punched holes in them and I put them on this binder ring That's much better easier way to store them and not lose them So I have those things out. I don't know if I'm gonna want to use all of these or not But I've got them out just in case I also have some different kinds of paintbrushes So we have this first set and we're gonna make little triptychs out of these and Do a painting one painting on three canvases. So You know, they can be displayed separately or together, but together they make a complete picture So I think this one we're gonna paint this way vertically And I think I want some gold Indian turquoise, I know I want I Have purple pizzazz and these are all DecoArt paints white wash We'll grab a little bit of lemon yellow And We might want some green Maybe some Burnt Umber so this green is foliage green and then burnt umber So we're gonna put these colors on our palette here. Does everybody have a great weekend? I hope Well, that sounded attractive didn't it? green So you can create interesting little canvases with just Craft paints. You don't have to have fancy paint When the painting is dry, you should seal it with something. I like to use DecoArt's DecoPage And any of the finishes will work And then let that dry and then finish it off with some of their cream wax Alrighty, I Think that's a good amount of paint to start with. I'm not sure if it's going to we're gonna need more colors or not I don't know So I'm gonna use my little filbert here. This is a Simply Simmons brush It's a filbert. I think it's a number 10, but I can't really read it because it's all painting All right, so let's see separate these just a little bit I think I want to start here. I'm gonna mix some of my Burnt umber and my white together, but I'm not gonna mix them to completely So I want to bring out the shape by painting around it Don't forget to paint your edges Good. Hey Amy. How are you? Know it's a little later in the day that I normally do this, but I just thought it would be a nice change Okay. Wow, that was a little close For doing this without my reading glasses on oops, so we're just doing kind of an abstract floral here We've started with a dark paints gray colored background lots of your Fine art colors That you're used to seeing in your other artist brands. They have them or something very close in the craft paints Especially brand like deco art. They have a large Variety of colors. I'm good. I'm good. I got The majority of stuff I wanted to get done by this morning done actually yesterday As far as art business stuff is concerned, so I'm good I'm a little bit ahead of the game. So that makes me happy Now I can focus on other stuff Hey, Michelle No, you didn't miss the whole thing. I just barely got started and It's a little later in the day than normal. So people are I don't think are used to me being on it this time All right, so we're just doing a triptych. We're doing a little abstract floral piece And I'm going to take some of my purple here and again. I'm gonna mix it with white. This is white wash And after the broadcast I will edit the video Description and I'll put all of the Paint color names In the description along with the deco art link because I don't think I did that yet Because you know I'm I'm I'm doing good this morning. I'm not doing that good So like I said, this is like an abstract floral. So there's no like fine art Skills involved. It's just a matter of putting the right color in the right place so that it suggests for the viewer a Shape that you want. I'm gonna take a smaller brush And some of this purple I think I want to So I want a little bit of each color on each canvas because it is a triptych. Oh, no problem But if at some point they're displayed separately, I want it to look cohesive So I want each color on each canvas Okay, so I'm gonna take some of the darker purple. You're all late. That's all right. I was late, too I probably shouldn't tell you all of that. But yeah, I heard my clock chime in the other room And I was like, oh crap. It's 12 o'clock and then and then You know, I get on and then my daughter decides to you know Text message just is about something. She's got to have an answer for right now Well, I'm live So I'm just adding some shade shading to the abstract little flower shapes by putting the darker purple Yep, that's good. Trying to multitask. Yeah, I don't do that so well anymore multitasking I Used to be able to do it pretty well I do think we're gonna add one more color to our palette This is Dioxazine purple with my little brush go. There it is. Let's see. Let's actually switch brushes. This is another filbert I'm sorry. This is a comb brush It looks like a filbert. Oh I have to do that. I have a dog. There's like he shakes himself when he comes out of his Crate in the morning and there's like tufts of dog hair Everywhere So this is the Indian turquoise, which is a color. I just love and I'm gonna put some on there and just then run my palette knife and Kind of scrape it on It's one of my favorite Decor art colors Decor art Americana colors it is by Decor art, but you know y'all know what I meant, right? So I thought we would start with this one because I think it's probably the easier of the two And you can see when you put them together Right We are gonna need the paints gray again. So I don't know why I walked off with that color. Where's it? Here it is. I Love Americana when I first started painting and doing mixed media. I I had Americana paint And it's still one of my favorite craft brand paints if not the favorite they have a lot of colors They're well pigmented. They're not expensive and I'm not just saying that because I'm on the helping artist program That has actually nothing to do with it Okay, so now let's suggest some leaves some foliage with our flowers because they wouldn't just be Just purple right? Yeah, my daughter always wants to come home She comes home from school or work and you know love her dearly But she immediately wants to tell me a story about her day Which is I guess great because she's you know still talks to me, but Usually she does this when I'm right in the middle of something Okay, I'm gonna mix some of that green With some of the paints gray to get a darker green without opening up more paint I do have more paint and we're gonna Do the do like we did with the flowers and try to suggest some shadows And you know, this is acrylic paint craft paint or not. It's acrylic paint So acrylic paintings are all about layers of texture and marks So if you get a color in the wrong place, you can wipe it off with a baby wipe You can let it dry And you know what I've heard decent things about the target acrylic paints. So I think that's just great That if use what you have So I'm gonna come in here and I'm going to just firm up some of my lines a bit Don't be like I was when I first started and I felt like I had to go out and You know the craft paint wasn't good enough. I had to go out and buy tons of fancy paint. That's not true Stick within your budget and Use what you have by that same token though. I have some stuff I need to purge that hasn't sold on my arts and parts And if any of you are local, you need to private message me and let me know Shipping is way too expensive. So I probably ought not to go there I've already had a couple people ask about that. So we're gonna just Keep adding layers Yeah, exactly Michelle the inexpensive paints are Great for jelly prints simple Art journal backgrounds So this is the dark dioxazine purple and you'll notice I'm I'm blending and smudging some lines I'm not blending others I'm not shooting for perfect lines. In fact, if they're blobby. I want the blobby paint lines And I'm kind of pushing my Little paintings together. That's pretty good. So this is the dark brown The burnt umber without any whiteness So when you're doing these little kind of abstract or semi-abstract paintings You're suggesting the shape by just placing the color and an interesting mark in the right place And these little these little paintings don't take long. I'm I as far as I'm concerned This one's almost done And we have another one to do Okay, I have this yellow here now I want to be careful adding it because if it mixes with the purple It's gonna make more brown and that's not what I want but the yellow is a good suggestion of sunlight brightness and warmth and It should if I put it in the right place make things pop a bit if you do this and you decide Oh, what did I do? I liked it way before I put that on there You can always cover it up or if you go in there right away with a baby wipe you can take it off Gold I love my golden paints, and I won't diss them But that being said they're very expensive and I stopped buying them kind of a while ago That's not actually something I've said on camera before just now I have some and I'm using them up There are a couple colors they have that I really like and when I run out of them I will probably buy more but I it's gonna take me a long time to do that So there we go. I love that. That is so cute I'm gonna stop playing with it because I love the way that looks so you can display them together or separately And they make an interesting painting So let's do a different different kind We use these ones that I did here. So this was our vertical one See if we can move it out of the way without sticking my finger in something that I don't want My finger stuck in okay, let's see. I'm just gonna catch up here on the comments a little bit I like the deco art fluid acrylics a lot I wish they had more colors because I as far as I'm concerned They're very comparable to golden in it, but the price is a lot better And I love the golden art medium gold the deco art mediums that they have I love them. There are a couple of golden or liquid text mediums that I love extra heavy gel being one of them and There aren't any other only as far as I know only liquid text and deco and golden make extra heavy gel medium And when you're sticking down something really thick you need the extra heavy gel medium All right, so now we're gonna use the similar color You notice I didn't put any gold on there I was thinking I was going to and then we painted it and I don't think it needs it That doesn't mean that's gonna go to waste because I'll put it on something else But we do need one other color of blue for this. I think So this is True blue. All right, so we're gonna actually start with a palette knife And I'm gonna dip it in the true blue and then also the Indian turquoise Now for this one, I do have an inspiration photo. It's off camera right there. You can see the bottom of it it is a Sunset Beach seam done by a friend of my husband's he was a photographer Brent Frasier I need my my paper to wipe my stuff off on he owns Brent Frazier photography and This is the photo so we will be using that for inspiration for sort of an abstract mini Trip dick landscape. That's kind of a mouthful, isn't it? We need a fresh baby white Yeah, the extra heavy gel is my favorite gel medium If you only ever use deco posh glue for collage and then some kind of gel medium for the sticker stuff Get extra heavy gel because it will literally stick down anything Michelle. Remember when I said I used to put my smash pennies in my Journals to document my year extra heavy gel medium those suckers do not move once it's dry So I'm not going to erase Remove all of this paint that I just put on here But I'm gonna blend some of it and I'm gonna pull some of it down to the sides because remember I said don't forget your edges Whoops and you can also you like, you know, just dip your baby wipe in your paint and use it my little round brush and I'm going to Oops this line just a little bit So that horizon line where the sky meets the seas would be a fairly straight line so When you're doing these kind of things Even if it's kind of abstract you probably want that line to be straight Now there are some rocks in this picture, which I like, but I think I want to do the sky first I'm gonna turn these around And I have that gold now I'm thinking I think it's a good thing I have that gold All right, so let's take some of this gold and some of the yellow and Some of this fluorescent neon paint is going to show through and we're okay with that By we I mean me Hopefully you guys are okay with it. It'll give our Seen a little bit of a glow metallic glow and that's a good thing Now the gold is a little bit sheer, but so are lots of gold paints That's not something with deco art being not pigmented enough lots of gold paints or sheer So if you want it to be really gold Painted over a layer of flat Yellow acrylic paint now you notice I'm putting the gold paint on here And then I'm smoothing it out my with my fingers because I don't necessarily want lots of brush strokes These little canvases don't take long to do they make great little gifts for Christmas somebody's birthday. I do want to order deco arts Molding paste. I do know they have a great molding paste. Well, I've been hearing about it I only have golden Well, I have I shouldn't say that I have the Utrecht generic brand Which I've never opened honestly, I don't know what I was thinking when I bought it if the jar is way too big No idea what I was thinking So now I'm just going in with mostly just the lemon yellow and I'm not going for full coverage I'm leaving it kind of streaky Because again, we're not shooting for a lot of realism here. We're going for a suggestion of shapes something kind of Impressionistic or semi-abstract You guys will have to tell me later either in the comments below or on social media or in the Facebook group a few guys Want me to do more Monday with deco arts Thank you so much. Yeah, I love the flowers one. That was a quick and easy one, but I love it Okay, so we're gonna turn this back around That's what we have so far. Thank you Phoebe. I'm gonna go in with These deco art stencil brushes and we're gonna grab some of the brown and Actually, some of the yellow together. We're not gonna mix them completely and let's push our little canvases together Line them up. There we go Don't be afraid to just get in there with some paint and don't treat any particular spot on your painting More precious than the other one. You can always fix it by adding more paint One thing about acrylic paint that it's better at than watercolor is you can just add more layers and and Make your paint, you know Make a mistake work with what you've painted By just adding more layers and more colors and more interesting marks So don't ever be afraid to just get in there and just go for it. It's just paint. What's the worst that could happen? I think today I'm gonna actually be able to get start actually start. I shouldn't say get caught up on but start lifebook I've never started lifebook 2016 yet So I think today that's gonna change. Yay Try I always end up with a million brushes out. Why is that? Okay? You don't and okay, so then so then let's keep going with a deco art series and we have Monday videos coming out for the next few weeks and I'll do as many live broadcasts as I can I Am going on another vacation for those that don't know I'm going to Alaska this time But I'll do what we'll do as many as I can before I leave and then we'll do them when I get back If we can we'll do them every week Thanks So I'm just making this is the pain's gray. I haven't I haven't you know I'm just using the same colors basically that we had already The problem that I have with these is stopping myself from trying to put in too much detail And putting in just enough suggestion to have to to give the suggestion without putting too much in I kind of like that I don't think it's done yet, but I like it All right, let's Stick with that little brush, but let's get some of the um dark colors off of it We're gonna go in with white I'm gonna add a little bit of the indian blue to it just to make it a little off So it's not white white It's like a super light blue there are some um Some seafoam here some waves in the inspiration photo So okay, I'm very distracted this morning Phoebe. Don't worry about it. I put some down here I had two cups of coffee and I'm I'm still not feeling like I'm awake So I'm drinking some tea because I really should lay off the caffeine I had a lot of caffeine this weekend It's probably why I feel off today because I don't normally have lots of caffeine I drink a lot of tea, but it's decaf So this is just the whitewash See, I like that Caffeine is evil. Yeah, it's just it's not that good for you and You know, I like it and all but I need to cool. I need to cool it with the caffeine All right, I'm feeling like it's not done yet, but I'm not sure what it needs, but it needs something It is necessary I agree I'm feeling like I need some red I don't know where we're gonna put it on our plate, but Oh, that wasn't red. Well, it is red, but that was neon red all that'll work That wasn't the bottle of red I was trying to reach for That's all right. So we're gonna mix this with some of our brown We're gonna end up with a much brighter color than I intended Because I grabbed the wrong red, but that's all right. That might well have to call it a happy accident. All right, so let's Yeah, that's better. I needed it needed some red tones there. Let's see Yeah I try to stay away from both of those. I'm not always successful. I do like chocolate, but Yeah Not gel medium Modeling paste did I say gel medium? I don't think they have a gel medium. I wish they did because I would switch Sorry, Michelle I don't have the modeling paste. I don't think they have a gel medium if they do that would be fabulous, but I don't think they do Thanks, Phoebe It's not you Michelle. It's me not being clear I told you I was off today So this one's almost done too with these little paintings. Like I said, these don't take long The idea though is to line up your parts So they they smoothly flow from one You know canvas to the other I find it a challenge to paint so small But it's a fun challenge. I like that. I like that they're quick and easy But I yeah, Michelle they do have the uh modeling paste and I don't have their modeling paste yet I only have golden and I want to try it. I wish they had a gel medium Because I would totally be all for that So deco art if you're watching this either live or in the recording. We all would like some gel medium Extra heavy preferably in matte and gloss Not to like get specific or anything Yeah, so the trick is to make them so that they're interesting paintings Individually whoops on their own. Did you see what I almost did? I almost dropped that in the wet paint and messed everything up um So that they could stand on their own as an individually as an interesting painting But they're also interesting if you put them together So there you go. I love that I'm gonna stop touching that because I actually love the way that looks like with the flower All right, I almost got it right in there So those are those I have more of these little canvases This is one I started a while back. Why don't we work on that one? So we have a few more minutes This is got just wipe off paint on it This is one of the things when I'm in the craft store and I'm wanting to use up a coupon That I usually and I don't actually need anything I usually keep lots of these little canvases around because they make great little gifts And I put them in half email and stuff Thanks. Yeah, I was right. It was very close All right, so let's do something that's a little more traditional and this will give us a chance to use up the gold paint These are this will be one that you see me. I'll do before Let's see Let's do a Buddha and I think he's gonna be this way So we're gonna start with the panes gray And we're gonna just map in our buddhist face And I if you've watched me do these before, you know, I don't do the whole face. I usually do About three quarters And that's actually too big a brush. Let me go to that little brown one I have the golden and I like the golden because it's flexible like it seems like the deco art one is and I haven't had any problems Making the molds out of the cake molds with the with the golden But I haven't tried the deco art one yet. I heard people have problem with the liquitex one and I also heard they have problems with the Dick blick you tracked brand That I have that I haven't actually ever opened because Like I said before I'm not sure why I bought it. I didn't need it and it's a huge bottle huge Who's on vacation together? Michelle? I'm I'm I missed a comment because I'm painting I missed something there So I'm just taking the panes gray and I'm mapping in my shapes My face The basic part of my my buda face They're a little different every time I do them. They're not no to the same. I'm going to come in now with the Hey, hey, clary. How are you? Okay, so now I'm coming in with the indian turquoise the blues are cooler than the yellows, but they're slightly warmer than the Paints gray the paints gray is a very cool color. So it does shadows very well So we're going to come in to our Parts of our buda face here that would be in shadow And work our way towards the parts that would be in light By varying the colors that we're using and you know, again, this is acrylic paint if you don't get Something in the right spot, you know, don't freak out about it Let it dry and then you can go over it Our muses are on vacation. Oh, that's our muses are on vacation. Oh, okay I think mine might She's trying to come back for vacation, but I think she's having a hard time So like with any other painting when you do these little like buda faces You know, it takes the more layers you put the more interesting It's going to be and it's going to have an ugly duckling stage Everything does just keep working through it and keep keep going Now I do think I need to put the suggestion of another eye and eyebrow over here And the other side of the neck stuck my finger in something. I'm going to use some of my paint colors to Again, don't forget the edges And I always have canvases laying around that I throw extra paint on I don't always do it on painting papers In fact, I've got a big canvas that's in the closet that's I've been just randomly Sticking paint and papers on for a while It looks kind of like this one did when we got started. Don't forget your edges Especially if you know you're probably not going to frame it You want the edges to be interesting And also this is craft paint It's cheap. It's inexpensive. It's fun to use Don't be chintzy with it So Have fun with it and you can be generous because these little tubes of paint go a long way But they only cost like a dollar 29 not on sale Yeah, I always have a canvas here That I throw extra paint on I don't always throw it on paper And um, it's usually hanging around in the closet I am getting the itch to create some big canvases Um, so that will probably be happening soon because um, I have to wait until kind of I'm in the mood And I do have quite a few canvases that Are ugly that need to be painted over So I also use those as starting points. Okay, this is violet. This is still a cool color Not violet. This is the purple purple. What is it called? purple pizzazz I am thinking that usually my buddhas are Turquoise and green Teal and green. I'm really getting the impression that this one needs to be purple So we're going to go with that And we're still working with the shadows because these are cool colors If you look at a color wheel and you look at the Um Blue and violet side of the color wheel those are your cool colors Oh, that's a nice. That's a nice, um project. Amy I'm sure she's gonna love that Okay, so we're gonna come in and I haven't done anything with the Highlights yet, but we need to soon, but I'm gonna come in with this darker purple We're gonna try really hard Not to add any other colors to our palette That doesn't mean I won't But you know, I'm gonna try not to I'm probably not going to be successful at that just so you all know I'm probably going to end up adding color We're going to need a shock of neon Because that's the neon colors for the most part are nice and warm you know Don't give up. Just keep going those leftover paint pages that you do those can just be a starting point There are background for something else Keep going. I've made plenty of crap in my day as I'm sure many of us have You just have to keep moving forward with it And you can always just call it a background for something else um This is going to be tricky because I don't want to mix this too much with the purple because it's going to turn brown But I do think that we need to put some yellow in here Yellow is a very warm color You just don't want to blend it too much not with the purple because it's going to like I said you're it's going to turn brown And that might not be what you want If it is what you want never mind what I just said The green that we have on our palette is also a warm color Usually I wouldn't be doing this um This soon I would let the other colors dry, but we're live on camera on camera alive on youtube So that's not going to happen And yeah, just keep trying. There's plenty of us out there who have been in the same place. You are Just keep painting and keep trying Yep I almost never gesso over things. I just call them a learning experience and keep going So now can you see how our face is starting to come out now that we've added this bright color? But gesso is always an option Nice thing I like about craft paint is because they are more sheer A lot of the colors are more sheer than the artist paint I kind of like that Especially when you're doing mixed media work and you're doing lots of layering Because you can see all your other marks under there without having to do lots of wiping with a baby wipe And I like that Yeah, sometimes things are just Bad That's happened a few times to me There's a video out here on youtube called the good the bad and the ugly. It's a face video Yeah, you should probably watch that one It's on my channel. Yeah So i'm being really careful about not Um putting this color on and moving that yellow around too much Yeah, it is it you can see a progression of um When how it how it starts to take shape And they almost never turn out how I think they're going to most of the time They turn out better That I think occasionally that's not true, but Most of the time it is This one's turning out good. I do lots of Buddha faces when I'm kind of stuck for inspiration um or or I am having trouble dealing with something which is not the case today and I'm not stuck for inspiration But this is kind of budas are my have become my go-to Image that I create. I don't know how or why that happened Um, I just decided one day when I was taking a class from someone else that I wanted to try to paint a buda face And I did my first one and since then it has just kind of become my thing So I'm not sure There's something peaceful and serene about the process We all stunk at faces when we first got started. It's just a matter of practice. There's no shortcut Yeah, we are always our own worst critic. I I agree with that statement Wholehearted living I paint play is stuff that you all love and I'm like ooh really That happens a lot So you'll notice how I added some shading and then I brought back some Some features and then I'll add some more shading So I did these two here the flower triptych And then this um abstract sort of landscape I have a couple of flower. I mean flower face classes in my classroom page on my website And really to do a good face. You really need to practice your drawing. I hate I have to tell you guys There's no shortcut You have to practice There's no way around that So now I'm going to add back some of my turquoise that I kind of lost a little bit It is a little warmer than the violet. So it'll aid me in bringing some depth to the face I have to again. I have to make sure that I don't Mix it too much with the purple or the and the yellow together because I don't want brown on my face necessarily Whoops. Thank you. I don't do lots of blending. I like to make marks And I like to make them in different colors and let those marks suggest my my shape that I want That's pretty good. I knew what you meant christine And we've all felt that way Just keep practicing You know, stop thinking that you need to be ren brand to make art Does it make you happy if it makes you happy to play with paint then keep doing it Don't stop. Don't listen to anybody else. Just have fun. It should be fun. Now if it's not fun, then That's a whole probably other conversation But it should be fun So I always I add a little shading and then I lose a few features So then I come back And paint the features back in But you all have to stop beating yourselves up because you're not Rembrandt. I'm not Rembrandt either and he's dead. So, you know I like his art and all but Okay, I like this little buddha totally different colors than I usually use I've been neglecting the edges though. So let's do something about the edges Get a bigger brush So like I said, there are some face classes on my classroom page on my website They're basic classes. They're only five dollars. They're drawing classes and You graduate to sort of coloring the face, but you really need to know practice drawing them To get the proportions, right And just keep trying. I've created some ugly face. I'm telling you guys go back and watch On my channel. It's called the good the bad and the ugly It's a face video and I mostly did my own face and I did some really bad ones of my own face So this is the lighter purple And then I'm going to take the straight neon This is a neon pink I've been using AmeriCon and neons since I first started in mixed media. I love their neon paints I've always loved their neon paints. They are some of my favorite Thank you You'll notice another thing I want to tell you guys that I've done Half to three quarters of the face. I haven't done the whole face So it's easier to do a face where you're not worried about balancing the eyes Then it is to do a whole one where you have to worry about balancing the features focus more on Where they're placed vertically and getting those proportions, right? Then you can graduate to doing both halves of the face. So do half a face So now we're just doing final touches and we're just adding a few touches of paint here and there Really like touches with my paintbrush. No digging any holes to china Let your paintbrush do the work Yeah, the idea is to create something that's interesting that you that you enjoy Get some interesting marks in there You can totally you know do these kind of faces You saw me I used a stencil brush on some of this on the rocks on the landscape. You don't have to just you know Get in there with a proper paintbrush For goodness sake, we're mixed media artists. So get in there with your bottle caps and your fingers and your baby wipes and Make some marks and have some fun. There is something kind of off about his nose So we're gonna see what we can do about that Thank you There's always one part of every face I've ever done that takes me a little longer to get right Usually it's the nose, but it's not always. So if you're working on a face and you're getting discouraged because you're having trouble Stop thinking that way. First of all, stop thinking that you're the only person that's ever happened to because that's not true happens to everybody And at some point you might need to walk away from that part and work on something else That's really normal That's better. I'm happier with that. I do think this should be blue instead of yellow. I'm almost done But you see how I just keep working it. I keep working it keep working it until I'm happy Yep, there we go. I'm gonna stop there. I like the way that looks so I'm gonna stop Oh, I try to be that's the whole point of being here on youtube is not to do anything else except be inspirational try to find my Canvas that's out here. So see here's one that I have this is just This is the one that's in the in the Closet So we're going to move some of these off off of here And here's our little buddha. I like a little buddha very much I'm going to try to be from now on here every Monday So here's our big canvas. I've been kind of adding marks to this for kind of a while And this is literally how I do it. Sometimes I do this I should probably zoom out so you guys can see this hold on Okay, so sometimes I do this Sometimes I wipe it with my baby wipe. That's where you can see the streaks on here And I just keep adding marks to it until It's pretty well marked up and then it needs to become something So now that I'm done with journaling crazy island style for 2016 everything's filmed and loaded and Created and in the can so to speak and it's all edited and everything I can focus on monday with deco art And explorations of me and youtube and All of that stuff. So that's what I usually do And then I just let it dry and then I just keep adding marks to it like I said until I think it's done That needs to become something. Oh, you're welcome. So every monday will come and I I mostly do painting videos for deco art So we did this buddha this morning. I should say this afternoon We did this little we did two triptychs this little sunset landscape And then we did this floral It does look kind of it does kind of doesn't it? Yeah, so I'm not sure what it's supposed to be yet, but I'll find out So just have fun with your paints I'm going to post the list of specific colors that I used I'll put it in the video description after it gets loaded to youtube um These small canvases are easy They're quick and they're inexpensive so Just have fun with it whether you're working in your journals And or you want to do some mini canvases And just have fun. Okay. I'll zoom back in a little bit Now we're off camera a little bit. Hang on There we go. Have a good evening beck Becky have a good evening have some good have a good dinner Um, this is monday for me. So mondays. I don't have to I we usually have leftovers And i'm usually everybody's out of the house for a long time on monday So monday. Yes monday is going to be now that i'm done with journaling crazy island style I'm going to try to be back every monday And it may be at noon if that works for everybody It may be earlier if you guys want me to do 10 o'clock in the morning my time pacific stand daylight time Then I can do earlier today Just noon worked better for me, but you guys let me know what you want. You can leave a comment you can post something in the facebook group if you're in the facebook group But yeah, just have fun with it just play Um and practice I do have three face classes in in the classroom And there's a lot of other people out there that teach faces But don't focus on trying to do a perfect whole face One of the reasons I teach budas in a lot of different places is um You're only doing half a face. You're not stressing yourself out trying to do a whole face And you only have to worry about getting the proportions right this way for that half of a face once you do that Then you can add the other half in And remember though too that no face is perfectly symmetrical Human faces are not symmetrical. So the fears off is off a little bit It's not, you know, don't worry about it. Okay, so noon we can do noon I am going to be gone again for another week in may To alaska um, so, um, we won't I won't be here that week, but um I leave on the 12th and i'm back the following sunday All right, that's it for right now. I am going to go get my mail And run some errands I think now that my friend michelle michael has been to tuesday morning this morning. I might have to go to tuesday morning Dang her anyways Okay, so that works. I don't I didn't want to do it at 10 a.m. Also because I know not everybody can do 10 a.m. So I thought if we did um, if we did um, yeah If we did one that was like at 10 a.m. For watercolor wednesday But then monday's was at noon that that you know, we would have some people who could catch one But not the others that that might work for more people Um, can I squeeze you in my luggage? I wish I could take all of you with me But my husband might be upset about that because it is an anniversary trip We'll be have been married 25 years next month Together 33 Or something. I don't know we got together in 1984. Um So It's an anniversary trip. So it might be upset upsetting for him if I bring all my art friends with me And no face is perfect. There's an old Art and photography trick that I did like in middle school Where they have you take a picture of your face and cut it in half vertically Then you take a copy of one that one half You you uh flip it And put those two same halves together Then you take the right half of your face Thank you and you copy it Flip it put those two halves together put them side by side You're gonna have two completely different faces because your face is not symmetrical Thank you Yeah, we and we were got set up on a blind date. So the fact that We lasted this long. I don't think anybody expected But it's going to be fun. We are bringing the video camera I don't know if we're going to be shooting anything for you too But we are bringing the video camera and I am of course bringing some art supplies. So Yeah, all right three more little paintings So my only problem when I create paintings like this that I love is Not keeping them. I'm gonna have a problem not keeping them now. Remember what I said when these dry I always take all of my deco art um Painting all my acrylic paintings. I do this actually with all of my paintings and Okay, once the acrylic paint is completely dry Like completely dry. I Cover it with a layer of deco page um deco posh glue and sealer I usually use antique which is tinted just a little bit, but you can use the clear Let this dry completely And then put in a layer of the cream wax put some clean wax on there and rub it in so And then it'll be nice and sealed and it'll give it a little bit of a glossy Here's the deco art painting that um One of three that I did for the americana gallery Contest thing that deco art is having and you can see a little bit of a Little bit of a shine to it. That's not the craft paint because a craft craft paint is pretty matte That is the deco page and the wax And it also protects the painted surface Yeah, so if you take a picture of your face and it it would be good for you to do especially if you're having trouble Being frustrated about making faces and making them perfect. First of all, nobody's perfect But a good experiment to do would be take a picture of your face with your photo with your camera or your phone Print it cut it in half vertically Then take that one of those halves Photo copy it scan it into your computer and flip it. Oh, you know reverse it And then put those two halves together and do the same thing with the other one and do a page in your journal with those side by side This is going to look completely different and then make some notes around it Yeah, this is the one that's um the how to speed through video is on youtube right now. It posted this morning There's a blog post about it with all the colors that I used and um I used these canvas boards because it's what I had um A good tip if you're doing things for a project like that when I painted it After it dried, I wrote the paint colors on the back. I had to sign it anyway But I wrote the paint colors on the back that way when I went to go blog about it I knew exactly what colors I'd used and I didn't have to have jars of paint out everywhere So there you go tip quick tip All right, that's it right now everybody. Have a great day. Go do some painting practice your faces Don't be scared And if you need any help or you have questions comments or concerns Join my facebook group and make sure you tag me in the post You of course can leave a comment here on facebook and I will address it as soon as possible I promise promise promise. I'm really trying hard to be better about that On not wait a whole week before I answer comments I'm really trying All right, that's it for right now. I am going to You could do it if you don't have a printer you could do it with um At the local copy shop because you can download photos to Your usually your color copy machines or the black and white copy machines with a thumb drive So I would consider if you don't have a printer go do it at the at staples or wherever someplace like that All right, I will be back next monday. We'll do some more painting with the deco art paints And um, we will have fun with that All right I'll talk to you all later. Have a great day. Don't forget the most important thing which is you know, right Do something nice for yourself because yes, you do deserve it. I promise All right. Bye guys