 Hey guys, welcome to another month of my creative year. So this month for July we are Working with pick your own palette. So I Want you this month to start the month With I want you to find a palette of colors that interests you and excites you and I want you to share said palette in the Facebook group we are going to create a photo album for you to do that in and I want everybody to post their pictures in that photo album and create sort of each of you create sort of a mood board or go find a Paint palette inspiration photo on Pinterest or something and I want you to post it in the photo album. I created these last year and I think I posted some of them on Facebook, but I don't I mean on YouTube, but I don't remember I know I posted them on social media. So for years. I've been collecting different photos For inspiration and I used to keep them in well, hang on. I can show you what I Because I still have one because it was just easier to keep this one in here than to create the new book with it So this is my people book and I say photos from Can you see that I say photos from magazines and my family? these two people right here, these are my parents and I use them as inspiration. That's my dad from high school I use them as inspiration for face shapes and features and shading and lighting and contour and When I'm painting and so I have a whole book of those So I had like one for people one for landscape one for animals And so the people one is really the only one I need like that and again This is just a simple notebook from the the You know office supply store and they're just taped in with scotch tape But I wanted to go a little further with some of the pictures and creates sort of custom color palettes so I took photos and I Took them out of the book they weren't in and then I took the photo and taped it in and then Colors inspired by that photo and created a palette and I wrote down what the colors of paint were that I used exactly and then put a swatch and Sometimes like in this page. There's three photos. I thought worked well together Not only composition only this is a word composition only But with the colors and I also blended the colors on a piece of spare packaging material and made a You know a stamp with it to see what the colors would look like sort of next to each other and blend semi-blended and I have Let's see. This is animals and insects and I have This is just color inspiration. So photos here like this one and I But single photos or groups of photos. I thought the colors were just very inspirational So I want you to find something like this. I want you to take a picture of it And I want you to share it in the Facebook group if you have books like this I want you to flip through them and I want you to pick a photo That you're gonna be inspired by the colors in it this month And I want you to share that picture And let's see where we go from there initially. I want you to just figure out. I want you to select some colors I don't want you to feel like you're limiting yourself But I want you to select some colors to be inspired by maybe you're going to like last time Last month select a muted palette or a neutral palette like maybe some just basic like grays whites maybe a little bit of muted purple and You're going to use that as a base for colors during the month But you can add other colors to it You can just use it as something to be inspired by but whatever it is I want you to paste something and it can be more than one. It doesn't have to be one. I want you to create a album or add photos to the album we're going to create and I want you to Inspire yourselves and other people maybe you're going to post a photo And that you think you're going to be inspired by it, but then you see somebody else's maybe it works Is what you originally posted maybe it doesn't and you're just going to completely go off and use theirs That's okay And I want you to share in the group what you're creating with this inspiration and what kind of materials you're pulling together from this inspiration, whether it's paint or collage or fabric or Um anything it could be anything. Let's not limit ourselves to paint and drawing Um, as you all know, I've been hold on and it's up close up my eye my gray heros Um, I've been working on slow stitching. This is the fabric book. I am still working on That I started with and Brooke from and Brooke textile artist youtube channel And um, this was um initially inspired the colors by our muted palette from last month But you can see i'm adding pops of you know, uh pretty teally turquoisey blue colors in there. So While you're inspired by the muted palette, you know, that doesn't mean you can't add other things in So I want to see where you go with this this month. Of course like last month. I'll bring one or two more videos to you Um sometime during the month, but I want to see what you're doing and don't be afraid to ask questions in the group We would love to see what you're thinking and start a conversation. That's it for right now If you're finding this on youtube and you don't know what the heck i'm talking about my creative years facebook group um for artists and creatives and we encourage daily um practice and creativity and encourage asking questions and learning It's a safe place to create art and learn more about the practice of art and um if you'd like to join the Link is in the video description Um, I would I and the other teachers in the group would appreciate supporting the free content We provide not only on youtube but in the facebook group For me, I have an etsy shop and an amazon affiliate link and a paypal tip jar and patreon and all that stuff So pick one um and the other teachers have like um things so they're um if you can't figure out how to support them ask We're happy to answer your questions and most of your favorite creatives on youtube and in the facebook art groups I'll have ways to support so I know they'd appreciate it especially right now Um, so don't forget the most important thing stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay creative Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys