 Hey everybody, how are you today? I should say every one person because there's two people. Oh three. There's two of you. Yay So We're gonna work on a canvas today a big canvas. I'm gonna open that chat so I can see it So this is the unexpected face that I did with leftover paint from one of our other live broadcasts. Hey, I I had some leftover paint after the broadcast. I basically slapped it on the canvas and then ended up creating this face out of it Which I love so we're gonna do another canvas because now of course now I did one now I'm itching to do some canvases So this is the unexpected face and she's all finished and I did some journaling around the edge Inspired by my friend Donna Mulholland who did some canvases with quotes on the edge Which I thought was a fabulous idea. So we're gonna do another one She's already and dry and ready for her clear coat, which I haven't done yet, but I love her We're gonna do another one and these pictures are inspiration when I did the unexpected face. I didn't have Any inspiration photos that was just something I made up out of my head in this case We have some inspiration photos. These are all my great aunt Marcella and I did a portrait a while back of her husband, Uncle Aldo and I gave it to their daughter my cousin sister friend Nancy And so now I decided I wanted to do aunt Marcella and these pictures are all taken in the late 1940s And while they're not, you know, perfectly crisp and clear. They're clear enough Yeah, some easel painting. We're probably not going to get this done today but we are going to work on it today and I want to show you the process I use for painting an acrylic especially faces because it's the opposite of the way I do it in watercolor and We're going to use these photos as inspiration. I'm not sure which Positioning of her head we're going to use. I think we might use this one I'm not sure there's something about this one though But I think we're going to use the straight on one. We'll see. I Always take my inspiration photos and I use some masking tape or painters tape and you know Make it into a wad and stick them on the side of my easel So they're right here next to the canvas and this is a painting failure That we're going to paint over and we're going to put aunt Marcella's face over this painting failure So I'm going to start with unlike water color Where I start with the lightest color and work my way darker with acrylic paint You can do whatever you want in whatever order you want because if you don't like it you can paint out let it dry Just paint over it. So I'm going to start with my darkest color. I'm actually This is one of the rare instances where I have the Impulse to start with black. I don't usually do that. I usually start with something dark But not black. Usually I start with like pains gray or something. We're going to start with black and I'm using the Deco art traditions artist acrylic paints this morning. I do have the Americana paints out and we will probably use some of those so First thing I have to do decide what photo I want to use she had very deep set eyes as you can tell on this photo and a very interesting face and Oh Thanks. Well, it's it's you know, I did this when I first got first was getting started and it's okay It's not one of my favorites. That's why we're going to paint over it. Um, anyway, she had very deep set eyes. So we're not going to We're going to use these other photos as inspiration to soften her face just a little bit because I don't think I want her face eyes that dark If you're wanting to do some kind of a face based on a real photo remember We're thinking for expressive artwork. We're not looking for realism. Don't don't stress yourself out trying to make it realistic and portrait perfect and Don't forget that you can Low your photos up the one you want to use to the same size as whatever you want to paint it on and use some transfer paper to Transfer the basic shape and outline to your canvas or your journal page or your board Deco art does make transfer paper in both black and white and there's nothing wrong with doing that I'm not going to do that But I do recommend that you do do that if you're not great about if you're doing a face, especially and you're not, you know Confident in your abilities Hey, Corky. Hey and Katie. Hello. Okay, so we're gonna get started here and I Still don't know I think I'm gonna shoot for the middle one So I'm gonna just and yeah, I've got this really big big brush, right? really big brush and lots of black paint and I'm going to just try to Get the shape get the shape in there, right? And you know, I'm not gonna there is no way on the planet I'll tell you right now. And yes, if you hear any crunching I have a cough drop in my mouth again There's no way in the planet. I'm gonna get the shape exactly right the first time That's just not gonna happen and I'm not gonna stress myself out expecting to do that And like I said, this is acrylic paint. So if I don't get it right the first time Well, it's not a big deal because I can just go over it and I can Refine lines like right here that probably goes in too much. I know what some of you were thinking. Oh my god. What is she doing? I Know Don't worry. I know crunch crunch crunch. That's probably annoying as hell Sorry, I'm gonna put that in the water We're gonna switch to a smaller brush and a different color and I did her husband my uncle's portrait and I you know I rarely use flesh tone colors when I do these portraits. Anyway, I use almost always use goofy colors Today's not gonna be any exception And her husband my uncle Aldo's portrait was done in reds and blues and yellows So hers will be done in Different colors. Also, I'm gonna go in with the Dekawar traditions color of aqua marine Just because I love aqua marine Get after I get the dried blobs off the top of the paint All right, and I've got a smaller the cranky crafter. Hello. So I've got a round brush it's still pretty big and the nice thing about that is I kind of have It forces you to kind of be expressive and Because you can't really you can't get You know perfect small precise line and I put my hair up because for some reason when I do canvas work I Don't know I always get my hair in the paint, you know I could be working at the table doing the same kind of thing and I don't have any problem with getting my hair in the paint But as soon as I am working on the canvas at the easel Suddenly it's an issue, so I don't know I'm reusing an old canvas. I didn't do anything to it It this canvas never got a clear coat So there was no need to prepare it because it never had its clear coat. It's time to break out a baby wipe the photo of my uncle should be on Facebook and I actually gave the painting to his daughter as a birthday present this year And it was painted of him as an older from an older a picture of him more recent picture. I should say I Like these pictures though of my aunt From the 1940s. I have some other pictures of her, but I just thought these were just These were perfect Now we're probably not going to finish this today But hopefully we're going to get it to a point where it actually looks less like a blue and black blob and more like an actual face But I think that this is going to be the project for the next couple of live sessions Until we can't amp Marcella done and if you guys like seeing the big campus work, then maybe we'll do another one Okay It's time to go with a lighter color So what the way I do this as I start dark and go light light light lightest and then go back to dark Light light light light lightest and then back again and sometimes in between the layers I'll do some stenciling maybe right on the middle of the face Mark making I have a couple of different tools on the table Okay, totally lost track of where I was going with that because you know That's what I do Okay, this is Indian yellow again. This is a deco art traditions paint. It's got another dried paint blob Let's see. Let's get rid of that and we'll go back to a flat brush. This is a smaller flat brush I can't see the iPad and I can't see the chat if you guys have any questions. Please let me know Yeah squirrel, right? Yeah Yeah, story of my life. There's a reason my husband calls me Dory There's a good reason for that. That's because I get distracted a lot So the beauty of working with acrylic paints is you know You can really just layer your paints on top of each other And if you put a color somewhere where you don't like it just let it dry and then go over it with some more color it's a lot more forgiving than a Watercolor paint and I love the idea of painting these pictures over some of these canvas failures because that you know The old painting doesn't necessarily ever go away Some of that old character shows through and there was something about this painting that I thought Aunt Marcella's picture just needed to be on top of should this really strong Widows peek up here on her forehead. So we want to make sure we get that in I might yeah I might keep this background around here. It reminds me of wallpaper and Her house had their prettiest wallpaper in it. So I actually yeah, I might keep it because I think it might It might lend itself very nicely to the finished painting. So I'm not gonna do lots of covering it up I'm gonna focus on her face and Getting that correct and her blouse Yeah, exactly. It looks like old time. It looks like old 1940s wallpaper and I think that's one of the things that drew me to Picking this canvas out of the failure pile to do this on Was that I thought it lended itself very well to the baby wipes and artists best tool baby wipes They're fabulous You can already see that's just a couple of colors in and a couple of brushstrokes. You can already see her face coming out Right if I can do this you guys can do this because believe me Believe me if I can do it. You can do it. Just believe me All right, I'm actually going to sneak under the table here and get another palette out another plate Okay, and I'm gonna spritz the couple colors I have here with water so they don't dry out all right Now we need to go with another color and I think I'm going to take some white We're not gonna use it straight We're gonna mix it because I don't like to use straight white on a canvas Except for like a couple of highlights. Sorry, Ian. You had a hard time finding me I had a hard time getting this broadcast started for this for some reason the network Here in my house was just not having it. I actually had to restart the computer I don't know what the heck was up with that Trying to decide on a color. Let's see. I think I'm gonna go with I don't know So this is the part I have trouble with we're gonna actually I'm gonna listen to my instincts, right? I'm supposed to be doing that We're telling you guys to do that So I'm gonna take a little bit of naphthal red and mix it with the white We're gonna pink color of that And the white will make it more opaque and we're gonna take a little bit of a brighter yellow. Handsy yellow and Mix it with some of the white We'll see how that looks the other thing about painting this way is with acrylic paint is if you put the wrong color on there You know, it's acrylic paint either get in there with a baby wipe right away and wipe it off or Let it dry and go over it. It's not a big deal Yeah, Ian, I might end up mixing these two together and making an orange Because that was where I was I almost reached for the pumpkin color But I think it's too. I think it's the wrong color So and this may not be the right color either, but we're gonna put a little bit of it on there and see Yeah, pink. Well pink There's always some pink that ends up in almost all my photos all my paintings after this one We're gonna have to go back in here with More dark because we're we're gonna we're gonna we're losing some of the The dark shadows So we're gonna have to come back in there with the dark shadows I don't want to go too far with my baby wipe. She had these large deep set eyes and We have a family trait of large under eye There's no nice way to say it bags. I have them so I can say it it comes from her side of the family Loved her dearly, but yes, it came from Aunt Marcella's side of the family. There's not enough puffy eye cream on the planet To Take care of them. We will have to at some point go in here with some white because that's gonna really help the face start to pop I see you guys commenting. I hang on Yes, I can't see right yet. No. Yeah, hang on. Oh good. Thank you it is at this point it is it's about getting the shadows and light in the right color then it is so much color harmony as you're Working on your portrait and you're adding layers because this is acrylic paint. You can do that Then when you start to get towards the finish layers where you've got all the features in the right place and you've got the shadows And about the right place then you want to start altering the colors Although as I'm going I try to not have my colors be too off And or too chalky, but this is definitely the stage where you can make a mistake And Sorry, hang on It's correctable. I'm already running right out of room. We just got started So I really need to go in here and put some white in her eyes I just threw a paintbrush just seeing the back of my head here. Sorry Yeah, the baggy eyes, you know Loved her dearly, but yeah, all right, let's Now in reality, you know whites of your eyes are not perfectly white So as you go along if you get a little bit of pink or something in here That's going to be fine as long as it's you know opaque This is just titanium white And I just I have very little of my brush So that I can really scrub it in and move it around and I I put it on the whites of her eyes and then I'm also Really trying to get the really high points of her facial features to pop And really kind of make the background go away So those features really show up really well And it's really more about prepping the background and erasing Erasing it so that her face will really show up in successive layers than it is about um having this white paint Be a part of the finished portrait Usually I don't do this on camera Usually I'm bouncing around the studio while I'm doing this with my hair up in a bun my apron on which I have and Music on really loud just K-shell we're wondering I've been known to be working on a portrait so long during the day that my husband comes home from work and Um, I still haven't cooked dinner yet because you know, I've been I forgot I've been in the studio. I forgot Okay, that works for me. Okay. I need some more Okay, now do I want black or panes gray? I actually think I want panes gray. So for that I'm going to go to um americana Panes gray because the traditions paint does not have a panes gray Panes gray is like a dark dark blue And I'm going to go to a small filbert brush What music so I have a number of different um channels on my pandora station uh Everything from aro smith and brian setzer to big band and monks chanting so So and I just play them at random. I don't um whatever comes on It helps me focus on what I'm doing Her eyebrows aren't as straight as I drew them the first time. So we're going to fix that I hopefully get her pupils in about the right place Okay, and then put a little bit of paint and then I'm going to get in here with the baby wipe and move it around to help me suggest My shapes rather than try to draw them exactly The nice thing about working from these older photos is You can just I mean, it's a black and white So you have a tonal photograph and you really can get in here and you can make her You know, whatever color that you want She doesn't have to be realistic at all I have a pandora Station it's called the goddess radio. So I don't know That much about how pandora works as far as staring sharing stations, but um, if you guys can find me There you have it I usually end up using quite a few I like having my plates be this big Um, because they're easy to hold on to So but that means I usually end up using four or five of them And I just use these plates from the dollar store don't you know the ones that you find at the art store are great and all But they're expensive and you can just get a white like ceramic plate from the dollar store and that works just fine Some days are like that In you just you're working on the same project all day until you get it right and it just takes forever Some projects are like that and you know some project all projects have an ugly duckling stage. You guys have heard me say that before um You just have to work through it And keep working at it Until you get something that you're happy with And there's always like when you're doing a portrait like right now her eyes are weird There's always a Something about it that's not perfect the first time you have to just keep working at it Until you get it right and see I just did that. I don't it's fine. Look Now i'm literally moving the paint around with my baby white I love to paint from old photos. I think for the most part Um for me at least they're more interesting than the newer ones Um Don't let my daughter hear me say that because you know she's a photographer Okay, so now we're gonna go back in with another extreme And i'm using this yellow that I mixed with um white At least for right now There's always a pop of something I always add usually it's a neon. It's frequently orange or pink Now you can get in here With of course with the baby wipes if you get some paint in the wrong place you can also get in here with um If the paint's kind of on the dry side if you get a little bit of rubbing alcohol on a paper towel It'll reactivate and remove the paint Yeah, that's one thing that you you can't That the depth of color the layers the marks you it's really you can do something similar with watercolor, but it's not the same It's just it's just not I love watercolor. Don't get me wrong. It's still my favorite But there's just some things that are easier and more effective to do um in acrylic paint This is one of them And if you really want to learn more about how to paint like this go take a class with pauline agnew She does online and in-person courses and she's a fabulous teacher I'm gonna come in back with some of our mid tones I also got my double chins from this side of the family I've done dearly, but yeah And she and uncle aldo are both passed away now So if you guys really like this, we'll keep working on this on the live Monday with deco arts And if you really like the process and you find it interesting enough We can work on these kind of things going forward on I got a cloth a garage full of canvas failures. So Yeah, exactly in It's something I really admire about the old photos So this is our aquamarine color, which is a cool color So it's going to be more of a shadow color like a mid-tone shadowy color And don't she and my uncle look so happy here So don't forget about the hair and you know Sometimes if I'm stuck on What to do next on the face Then I'll focus on the hair in the background for a little while and then it'll come to me. Okay. Good katie. All right. We'll keep doing it I've got a lot of canvas failures out in the garage. So I got plenty of work material to work with So as I'm pushing the paint around I'm constantly looking over to the reference photos Especially this middle one and looking to see where The shadows and highlights are so that I can push the paint in that direction I have to tell you guys. I really like where she's going Keeping your brushes kind of on the big side Forces you to let go of control If you're trying to be more expressive in your painting Yeah, well, we're yeah, that'll probably be one layer Maybe not today, but I will probably do some stenciling I may put some bible pages on the background. She was very catholic Very faithful catholic and It would be appropriate to a portrait of her to have bible verses in the background Because that was definitely part of who she was katie, I don't understand your question and I don't know what I said I do think we need to come back in here with some black But I'm really liking the way she's coming out already Oh say oh So if you really are trying to be more expressive and using a small brush, especially when using a small brush is really You know your first Tendency is to try to paint realistic. So go with a small brush a bigger brush And or use your non-dominant hand because that forces you to let go of control And be more expressive in your mark making Wow, that's only a few minutes of paint Um like 45 minutes and I love that already Let's see And I love the way this is looking, but I have to tell you guys The hands are yellow and whites looking a little chalky for me So we have to warm that up a little bit and as we As we go forward with this Over the next week or two, we will be adding layers to it and colors Um to do that now you'll see I just put this other yellow on here this indian yellow Look how much warmer that is You can still see the kind of the hints of the other brush strokes through it, but it just totally warmed it up a lot That was a little chalky for me Thank you so much I don't always wash my brushes off either when i'm doing portraits like this and I let You know the secondary colors that may happen. I just let them come And be part of the finished portrait Yeah, so if you're wanting to be more expressive in your paint katie and you're in your painting and you're having trouble with that You're really struggling, which is something that I do because I'm a perfectionist You know among other things You know if I can't get it perfect. It just drives me absolutely Pardon my french bat shit crazy And so then I drive myself nuts because I can't get it to look exactly like the photo and I'm totally just not even happy Even just with the whole process so letting go of all of that and Using a bigger brush using my left hand that really Makes me happier and I can give I can render a beautiful artistic interpretation of a picture of someone and That I just love like this You know, we're not looking to create an exact copy of her because my cousin has photos of her mom This is an artistic artistic interpretation of my aunt So i'm going to go back to the black And I need a little brush Put all these brushes in water so that they don't Dry out and get disgusting. I love filbert. So you'll find that I use filbert brushes in different sizes a lot The other thing too is to let go of control of the paint brush And let it just make marks on the canvas wherever they may come and let that Suggest the shapes that you want Helps if I have paint on brush And you know, you can um Use save these baby wipes if you're so inclined they do make decent collage material Um, especially because they're just by the time you're done. They're just completely covered in paint now remember if you get Some paint on here and you you know, don't like it again You can let it dry and go back and add more color. You can smudge it out with the baby wipe You can Do a lot of things Acrylic paint is really fabulous because you can just layer the colors on top of each other In a wonderful interesting way Sorry, I'm forgetting to talk aren't I oops except when the baby wipes start to get dirty you really Probably either want to get a clean one or make sure you do do this with a clean spot on the baby wipe Her nose is a little wide And don't treat any one part of the painting so precious So if you find like I am that you're kind of having to work at the nose a little bit to get the shadows Right because they're awful bit just go ahead and fix them and then you can come back and you can fix the highlights Oh, yeah, and I really I think you know for most of us that are doing art as almost a kind of therapy then Being expressive rather than realistic is really um What makes us happy I know I'm definitely that's definitely true for me So this is that pink color that we mixed I remember the upper lip would be darker and it is in the photo than the lower lip Her lower lip has this bright highlight on it And this is a warm color that would suggest sunlight, but it's not as warm as the yellow So it would sort of be a shadow color to the yellow And you know, don't be afraid to Be tentative with the paint and just put a little bit of it on And blend it around to see if you like it Oh, thanks Thanks, Lisa You're totally amazed the cranky crafter Painting like this and doing portraits like this almost remind me of like a Jackson Pollock You're giving the impression of the person and the feeling of the person Without using any realistic flush tones. That's why when students Ask me about doing flush tones. I kind of groan because yes, I know how but it's not my favorite thing I'd rather be this Just remember to keep your lines, you know soft and expressive Can tell it's almost time to stop because I'm running out of room on my baby wife Now I do have a habit of liking the unexpected portrait. Whatever colors I use in the face I end up putting in and around the eyes Um, I just think it makes it more interesting I do think we need like Not right. There's not right And I really do also have trouble stopping until um stopping Before I'm to a point. I'm comfortable with I should say So I have to be at a point that I'm comfortable stopping and letting it go Once I'm there. I'm good with stopping for a couple days a week even You know, I'm just now realizing as I'm painting this how much of a family resemblance there is between me and my great aunt I have to say We have the same shape head. I think So this kind of painting is less about being precise and more about putting the right color in the right place Yeah, there's nothing stereotypical about these colors at all So don't also don't forget, you know, we're mixed media artists, right? And this is definitely a mixed media painting. So what does that mean? You can get in here with a stabilo pencil Or a marker or a paint pen Make some suggestive expressive marks on your painting What's the worst that can happen, you know, you get in there and you make a mark you don't like like that one You just get the baby wipe in there and smudge it out or wipe it off Again, it helps if I use a clean corner There we go Okay, so now we're going to get in here with um We need a pop a pop a pop and we're going to use pink I don't know what there is about the neon pink lately, but it's my favorite color right now This is americana neon sizzling pink Okay, hold on in because I can't hold on Okay, this is neon pink Americana, this is going to be really bright and warm really give you give you a pop to your painting My my two favorite colors to use are the pink and the orange I do have all the american and conneons and I love them all but my favorite Are the Pink and the orange this is off over here, too It's turning a little bit purple because I had some blue on my brush, but that's okay Switch back to a bigger brush Um To pull the page together as a whole I think ian is what you're talking about So as you finish it as you get near nearer to where you think your Uh Shape and form is good and your color is good Then you want to start looking at your color wheel and making sure that you have um Like in the unexpected face I at some point did check the color wheel and I made sure That I had a nice tryout of colors going on that worked well together So I had some of that continuity going on in the in the painting It's very strongly pop art But so was the uncle aldo portrait and if you guys are members of my facebook group I will uh again. I don't have the original painting anymore. I gifted it to his daughter After he passed away, but I will post a picture a copy of the picture Of it in the facebook group for you all I'm really liking this indian yellow on this portrait today At least today And this yellowy orange color goes well with the turquoise and violet and Purple I haven't put any purple on here yet, but I could see me doing exactly that For some reason purple is just my color that I want to paint with right now And you notice as i'm doing this i'm not looking to cover up prior colors Or prior paint strokes. I'm just adding to them to create something more interesting And you know when I do these kind of portraits, I really just I kind of I put some paint out on my palette and I paint until that paint is done And then I let it sit for a while sometimes a couple days sometimes a week or more This right here is not right. So we're going to fix that before before we call it done So i'm going to um With a smaller brush put a little paint right here. This is the paint gray again And the other thing too is to you know Take a break definitely take a break from the painting when you feel like you're at that point where you can let it go for a while And um stand back from it take a picture of it let it sit for a while Don't rush it So if you rush it you're probably not going to be happy with the results And i'm literally painting with the baby wipe like that's And in some cases i'm pushing pretty hard on the canvas Now I still have a bunch of this black on here There's something about her portrait and this black which is again not a color I normally use when i'm doing any portraits Um at least not at this stage. Um, there's something about it. That's just She needs this black in here Maybe it's because of the color of the background I'll I'll see I'll look at the comments in a minute. I see comments comments flying Oh, yeah, okay. Let's see Yeah finger painting. Um, I I'm still thinking of warm and cool colors. I almost always am when I paint. Um I do try to get into the zone with the paintings. Um, this one's no exception. You know, each one's a little bit different and um some of them require different colors and and I'm totally distracted But for the most part part, yeah Um, I wouldn't recommend anything too small the bigger it is the easier your of a time You're gonna have So I wouldn't recommend anything too small 16 by 20 is a good size. This is a clay This is a clay tool. I don't know what it's called. It's a brush See, this is what happens. I said I was only gonna, you know I said to myself before we I turned the cameras on that I was only going to be on here for so long because I have Other stuff I should be doing But this is what happens. I start painting and I can't stop So something that'll really make the our eyes pop is to put You know a little bit of black in there And she had like most of my family dark brown eyes And then I'm going to take a little bit of white. I should probably grab a clean brush Be small Now especially if you're unsure of your colors You think it works, but you're unsure of it Get in there right away and just blend it out a little bit with the baby white Or maybe you just are like me and you like the way that looks I lost track of where my white was We're gonna probably stop there because I'm I'm actually pretty happy with that um Yeah, so when you're doing somebody who had naturally dark hair blue is a really great highlight color Any of the blues even if you stay with a dark blue, it's still a nice highlight to the black a little better I'm looking at her on the camera. She's looking pretty good You know now my my instinct is to fix this widow's peak, but in reality she had a pretty strong widow's peak So we kind of need to leave it alone And you know as we do the layers that might change but let's see let me catch up on that comments Yeah, thanks. Thanks Ian and everybody. Yeah, so this is really just the first layer now I do have stencils here And there is plenty of times where I take my portrait even though I love the way this looks And slap a stencil right on the middle of her face And put some stenciling there and then continue on with the layers and I did that with the unexpected face And you can see as I finish her That I left some of the stencil marks on her face and it just gave it something interesting And we're not going to do the stenciling today, but we may do it next week. We're going to keep working on this portrait For the next few weeks We're going to stop here because we've already been on for an hour and I don't like to make the Viewers sit who are watching the replay for two hours to watch me paint. Oh, yeah, it's not super clear It's pretty blurry because the original was only like a one inch square But here you go This is my cody doll. This is my great aunt marcella My grandfather's sister I did a portrait. Those of you who have been following me for a while Probably remember the portrait I did a while back of uncle aldo. It's been posted on facebook a couple of times And so now i'm going to paint his wife. This is his wife So the proportions are pretty good. I mean sure she's not done And she needs some more layers and she needs refinement, but it's a really good start And if I stopped here, I'd be happy with that. I'm not going to but But if I did stop here, I'd be happy with that so I mean looking at the the photo and looking at her You know, there's some refinement of the shapes that need to be done around her hair up here And around her chin down here, but that'll be done in successive layers But I've captured the flavor of the photo. I think very well So that's it for today. We will continue working on aunt marcella in future episodes next monday We'll continue working on her and we'll see how far we get then And in the meantime, don't be afraid to Paint and express the face have some fun with it. Um, what's the worst that can happen? You know, you mess it up. Okay. Well, it's just paint and it's acrylic paint. So that means you can paint over it Yeah, so next week. We'll probably add um Collogged paper and stenciling to it and then we'll continue with our layers Yeah, a lot of photos from the late 1940s Um are well any at any time in the 1940s are a bit fuzzy and blurry um Plus these were really small to begin with but um There is enough detail there for me to get an expressive portrait It'll be it'll work And in the meantime, I will make sure as I'm cleaning up that I post for you guys the picture of uncle aldo and um We will try to get this picture done In the over the next few weeks All right, that's it for today. Don't forget the most important thing. Y'all know what that is by now, right? Hopefully you all know what that is by now And see you can tell I was having fun because look at my hands They're all icky And yes, this paint will go to waste we will be slapping it on something All right, so we the most important thing is to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself and maybe someone else because you deserve it. They they probably do too All right, start a face Don't be afraid and don't be ashamed if you have if you're if you're not comfortable starting out without a sketch Then of course trace your blow your photo up to the size of your canvas and trace it on with the deco art has great tracing paper There's no shame in that And it saves you a lot of steps I find some joy in pushing the paint around and adjusting the shape of the face To match the photo more. I enjoy that process. Not everybody does So if you want to start with a sketch, there's no shame in that do that And just make up a face and just use the photo as a suggestion for where to put the highlights and shadows Um, okay, so overdry acrylic So brush and other water soluble mediums can be added over acrylic if you cover the acrylic with a clear Uh water color ground If you don't it's just going to beat up because the flat acrylic paint is just like plastic And so it would be like painting it on upo. It really would not stick I'll be here. Yeah, I'll be here on wednesday for watercolor wednesday. We will continue working on ant marcella next monday And um I am going to be out of town for a week starting on the 13th, but when I get back we will hopefully finish her All right, that's it for today everybody. I am hopefully going to be finding out about my cards in the shop again Soon and I will talk to you all later. Bye guys