 Good morning. How are you all this fine Monday morning? I don't know about how you guys are seeing this, but on my iPad were sideways despite the fact that it's oriented correctly on my phone, which is what we're broadcasting with. It seems like I'm always having issues. Nope, it goes sideways. It doesn't like the iPad. I don't know. They need to fix the app on the iPad. Alrighty. I hope you guys are all having a good day. Good morning, Ruth. I had to make a third cup of coffee because, you know, some days are just like that, right? You need an extra cup of coffee. Good morning. Hi. How are you? Okay. And I'm going to clip this wire out of my way because like I said, I'm having one of those mornings in this hanging wire, which you can't see unless I do this. Yeah, that's going to drive me crazy. Life is good. You know what? I'm on the right side of the dirt, so it's all good. Cold brew. Yeah, I love, you know, God bless my parents. It's all their fault. I love coffee, cold, hot, sweetened, unsweetened. It doesn't matter. If you let me, I would drink it all day. That's really bad for you, but yeah, I do try to limit how many cups I have. All right, so we're going to do some Monday with decor this morning and I pulled this actually off of my studio wall. I actually did 10 of these little paintings last year. I know, right? And I gave all of them except this one away as gifts. They were gifts. And this is one way to do faces. These are faceless girls. And they're easy way to do a face, an interesting face, and to do it without a lot of pressure. And to learn about shading and get something that is suggestively realistic and interesting without getting too fussy. So we're going to work on this this morning. So you brew it cold and you drink it hot. You know, I love coffee. Any old way. I guess I shouldn't do that. My whole table shakes a little bit. It's like we're on an earthquake. We're not really. All right, so I've got some more little four by four canvases. And before we get started, and we're going to like do flesh tones today, mix flesh tones and acrylic. We did it in watercolor on Wednesday. But while we're doing that, this first layer on here can dry. Now when I did these, these are all paint and then some Stabilo pencil or that might be charcoal. I don't remember now. Hello, Lisa. I didn't do any collage first that I remember, but on these, I thought since I have these really great papers. My screen is sideways on my iPad on the camera on the phone. It's fine. I will reorient the picture when I load it to YouTube. I don't know. Deco art has these deco paid Americana deco page papers. They have lots of different patterns. I pulled this one out of the things that they sent me. This is the Victorian romance set. I was attracted to these colors. Auto correct is not our friend, Jerry. It auto correct. So I ripped off a few pieces and I thought we would put these on here first and let them dry while we mix some flesh tones. Also, while we're doing this, you guys don't be afraid to ask me questions. Yes, we're doing kind of a free mini art lesson here when we're live on Periscope. But also I want you guys to start using this as an opportunity to ask me questions as a Q&A session. I will always do a little bit of a demo for you while we're on here. But I do want you to feel free to ask me questions about art or artistically that you're having a problem with or anything like that. So I'm just using this is fluid matte medium. I normally would use deco page, which is by deco art because I really like their deco posh medium, but the matte medium dries a little faster. And in this case, because we're live and you guys don't want to wait eternity for things to dry, I figured it might be more advantageous to use the fluid matte medium. But definitely if you're not nuts like me and live on camera, I would use the deco arts deco page because I think it works really well. I'm not worrying too much about, you know, how these are going on or which way they're oriented. This is just to give which way they're oriented or anything. I do have to learn to finish my sentences. Don't I? All right, I'm just getting some pattern and texture on the canvas. I will try to do my standard warning here. Anybody who's on here who's going to post anything nasty or be troll like, don't even bother because if I don't block you, one of my art friends here will because that's not what the rest of us are on here for. And I get tired of you all asking to see my boobs because honestly, I'm 52. They're not that cute anymore. I had a fence. Some of you are people. I'm sorry. I just realized that might be offensive. Oh, well, see, I got lots of lots of hearts there. All right, so I like that. I also, for some reason, I like this like old fashioned flower print. I don't know what's up with that this morning, but we're going to put that I know, right? It's talking to my husband about that. And I'm like, you know, honestly, I'm 52. I don't know. Nobody wants to see that. They keep asking, but yeah, they were. You know, that was a long time ago. All right, so I really like there's something about this paper collection this morning that's just really caught my eye. So I'm going to put some of this on here. I want to put and I was thinking I would just use one or the other of the prints, but I'm really getting the urge as we're sitting here to put all of these on here. I know, right? These people are funny. I try to look on it like Shannon Green does and she kind of makes fun of all the trolls on her YouTube channel. So and I think she's on live right now. Dang it all. So I might be losing some viewers to Shannon being on. I know I'm not sure if she's here on Periscope if she's on YouTube. I did get a notification right as I was going live, but I wasn't paying any attention because I was trying to get ready for you all. Yeah. I don't think on purpose she does. Yeah, exactly. Some, you know, some people have sad, lonely lives and I'd feel sorry for them if they weren't so aggravating. Right. So we're going to put that matte medium out of the way because that's the last little bit I'm going to need to put a piece on here. These little tiny canvases make great Christmas gifts and you can do, you know, little landscapes on them. You can do little mixed media pieces on them, faces. You can do lots of stuff with them. You know, almost everybody. That's a little bit of a big piece of paper. Let me just instead of trying to wrap that around, I can do happy. You can do happy trees. Definitely. You can do happy trees. I did a happy tree. So I'll show you. I did the periscope hop thing where we were celebrating Bob Ross. Okay. So now we've got these and they're all covered with our decoupage papers and the matte medium. And it's going to just sit here and dry. I'm going to put them to the side in the last couple of live Mondays with decor. We did our sunflower. And this is the one I did on the periscope of hop with the happy trees. And today we'll do some faces. First, we've got to mix some flesh tones. Any questions you have about me, where to email me, how to get a hold of me, where my online shops are, my Facebook group, my newsletter email list, all that stuff. Go to GinaBairns.com, it's all there. All right. So the other only thing I have that's not deco art this morning is my Stabilo pencil because I do think we're going to want to use that. But we're going to need a palette knife. This is one made by Decowart. I love the green color, don't you? And I've had a lot of plastic palette knives. Oh, yes, please. I love the hearts. Oh, and I love brown. I love the plastic palette knives. And this one, I've broken a lot of these in my day, but I love these green ones. They seem to hold up pretty well. Need a rag. All right. So we're going to start by mixing some orange. I have the Decowart Artist Traditions Sampler set here. You can get these. I think they have 12 little bottles in them, including some paints and a couple of mediums. And we want a red and a yellow. Now I'm going to show you a couple things. So there's a couple of reds here, but one of the reds is a lot more purple than the other one. This is red violet and this is Nape's all red. So it's really best when you're starting to practice mixing skin tones. Use the sample that you're shooting for as your own skin tone. That just makes it really easy. And since I'm pale and pasty, we'll use that color. Pale pasty, is that a color? Then I'm going to add a little bit of Hansa Yellow to both of them. And we're shooting for an orangey color. And when I mix flesh tones, normally I mix a lot of it. And then I will put it in a small separate container and just have it around. Now, because this violet one already has some blue in it because it's violet, you're going to already get this interesting color. Yeah, this is actually, no, this isn't a palette plate. This is a white ceramic plate from the dollar store. Don't go spend 20 bucks on a palette plate. Go to your dollar store, no matter what part of the country you're in, whether you're in, you know, the East Coast, the South, you have some kind of Dollar Tree, Dollar King, Dollar General. Go there and buy a white plate. Good morning, Cindy. So this was already kind of a nice, purpley flesh tone already, a dark color because it already had blue in it. This one is not, it's very, I don't know, anybody who's really that color. So we need to brown it up a little bit by putting some blue and I'm going to use ultramarine blue. Now, any of you that know me, especially my friends on here, hey, any of my friends on here who know me, Cindy, Jerry, I hate mixing colors and if I can help it, I just buy the color because I know how, but it's not my favorite thing. So you're shooting for a dark flesh tone color. Now, I have not ever done this and had it come out exactly right the first time, like ever. That's still too red because I don't know anybody who's really even a dark flesh tone is that color. So I'm going to add some more blue to that. Now, if you're worried about, yeah, if you're worried about getting, having the paint dry out before you're done, you can add some extender, that go where it makes an extender, which extends the drying time of the paint. And I'm going to add a bit to both. That's better. I'm liking that better. So now we're going to add some white to both of them. I did pull out a couple bottles of the big bottles that I have because there's a couple colors that I like that don't come in the kit that I might want to use. So now I'm going to take, and I'm going to add some white to half of that dark color I made. And if you only do half, then you have a darker shade of the same flesh tone that you can use for the shadows. This is a deco art. All of these items that are using this morning, you can get at decoart.com. They should also have them at your local arts and craft store, but I would, if you're like me and you have multiple issues with going outside, not only anxiety issues, but right now this time of year I can't go outside because of all of the holiday candles and pine cones, and I'm allergic to all of them. So I do lots of online ordering, and that's just easy. So looking at these two flesh tones, I actually like this one better than this one. I think this one's still a little, this is a little red. I might need to add some yellow to this one. So when I'm mixing flesh tones, if I get a color that I like, then I just mix a whole bunch of it up, and I save it in my little containers, and that way I don't have to worry about doing it again. That might be too much yellow, but we're going to find out here in a minute. So like we did in one of the first deco art Mondays where we mixed every color with every color to see what we would get, and we made kind of a color chart. This is why you should do this. Okay, see this is what happens. Then you add a color to fix it because it's too red, and then you make it too yellow, and that's not bad. Putting it next to my skin tone, it's not horrible. I mean, you know, I'm going to end up not using a lot of it, so it's okay, we're going to leave it, but you could keep mixing it and mixing it until you get something that's exactly right. When you do get something that's exactly right, what I do recommend that you do is make some notes. Put a little swatch of the color onto your piece of paper and make some notes. All right. My desk is a mess again. Why is it every Monday morning when we do this? My desk is a mess. All right, we're going to move this to the side here. Put my brushes in the water. I've got my rag. These are just about dry. So, let's do a faceless girl first, and then we'll do one with features. Wait, I need a coffee. So, decoart.com. DecoArt makes the American brand. DecoArt Media. DecoPage. They make a lot of different products, Andy Skinner stencils and products, and I really like their paints. I'm pretty impressed with them. All right, let's see. I'm going to start with a Filbert, my preferred paint brush, and this is number two. See, I know that I have a couple of Amish dolls, and I like that. Let's see. I don't have my glasses on. Number eight Filbert, sorry. All right, so we're going to start with the flesh tone, and I'm going to pick this one. I'm going to just follow my instincts. I'm going to put in an oval for the face and at least part of an oval. And the neck. Because you don't do a floating head, that's kind of art no no. A neck and a shoulder. Now, you could do two heads, like on this one I did two, like two friends. You definitely could do that. I'm going to put out on my palette some white, some aquamarine, Americana, Neon, and Tord Orange. Americana, Neon, and Sizzling Pink. These are all colors that I use when I do these paintings a lot. This is the same Americana, Neon, and Scorching Yellow. And then I'm going to use Phthalo Blue, and I've got some Raw Umber, which is a dark brown. And I think I want some Quedocratone Violet, which is this other big bottle that I pulled out. That's a nice color palette to do this with. So now going back to my Filbert brush, I am going to grab some of the Neon Orange. I'm going to decide where my light is coming from. And I think it's going to be coming from the right. So I'm going to start just dabbing in some of the orange. I'm not going to really clean my brush. I'm going to, at least for the moment, I'm going to keep it kind of dirty. It'll blend with the orange paint that's on here. I'm okay with that. Remember, we're doing a faceless girl. I'm going to clean it off a little bit now, and I'm going to go into the Aquamarine, and I'm going to use that on the other side of the face where the shadows would be, where it's not in the sun. Don't be afraid to like get your fingers in there. This is about suggesting a face and not, this is not a realistic face. Not by any stretch. And you can also take your brush when you're done with the face part and just wipe it off over here on the background to just sort of clean it and get some paint and marks over there. I'm going to take some white. I'm going to put the white in where the lighter parts of the face normally would be if I was going to paint features in. I'm going to sort of smudge it with my fingers and move the paint around. Remember, we're not painting features. We're suggesting features, but we're not painting features. Okay, while that dries a teeny bit, let's put some hair in. I'm going to take some of the dark blue that I have here. Suggesting some hair. No, don't do a suggestive face, but then paint lots of details in the hair because then you just kind of shot yourself in the foot. We want the whole thing to be real suggestive. I'm going to grab some of my brown and some white. Now, if you get a mark on there that you like, leave it, go with it. Work it in. Don't feel like you have to cover it up. And then I want to do something down here. I don't know what that means. Is that Russian? I have trouble with English. It's really terrible. My grandmother was born in Italy. Don't speak a word. My husband is first generation. His family was from Germany. Don't speak a word of that. I can say spoken to English, and they say nine and then I'm in really big trouble because yeah, that's as far as I can get yet. I'm going to suggest the cheeks. And you can use this neon pink. No, I'm sorry. My daughter's boyfriend is Lithuanian and she's learning to speak that, but you know, again, me, I have trouble. I'm going to lighten up my flesh tone a bit with some more white here. And this is not about covering up your brush strokes or anything like that. That's where we are right now. That's cute. I'm going to use the dark shade of my flesh tone now, and I'm going to come in here. Now you could use, leave the blue in there. The blue is a great indicator of shadows, but if you want to do something that's, you know, a similar idea, but with some more realistic flesh tones than the goofy ones, then use your dark flesh tone as your shadow color. Then the other thing I want to do is I want to kind of mute the background a little bit. It's a little bit too bright and competing with the face. I want the face to be the thing that focuses, that the viewer focuses on more. So I'm going to take some of our white and I'm going to take, let's see, some of the aquamarine and a little bit of the yellow makes something that's a little more greenish. I'm going to put it in around our figure to just kind of mute the background a bit. And then I'm going to come in here with my finger and I'm going to just soften those edges. And don't forget to put some paint on the sides of your canvas. Okay, you all must just love watercolor Wednesday way better than Monday with Decor, because there's only eight viewers. I'm glad to have eight of you. The die hard ones. I'm going to put some white in here a little bit too, just with my finger. Hey, Mark, good morning. Okay, now before you call this done, thank you so much. I'm glad to hear that. Okay, so before you call this done, you want to further define your girl by giving her a few lines. Now, if the paint was dry, which it's not, and I would not recommend doing this until it was dry, because we're doing this live. We don't have time for that. But if it was dry, I do really like these deco art glass paint markers. Now, I know they're intended for glass, but the black and the white are very opaque and they work really well on lots of different surfaces, including canvas and fabric. So I really love them. But you will ruin the tip of your marker if you use it on wet paint, and that's true with any paint marker. So we're going to come in here with a Stabilo pencil, which is a water soluble pencil, so it doesn't care if the paint is wet. We're going to come in here and we're going to give her some lines and we're going to define the shape of her top, the shape of her neck, the shape of her face. We'll give her hair some lines to define that too. And there you have it. Now, you could collage a little inspirational word or quote on there and that would be a really cute Christmas gift. Just a faceless girl. So let's put her up here and let her dry. She really is cute. I'm going to have trouble giving her away. All right, now let's do another one. You guys let me know if you have any questions. Wait, I need a sip of coffee. I don't know how to share the video while I'm broadcasting, maybe because some of you guys can do that. We are painting mini canvases, four by four canvases with decor art products, creating some little Christmas gifts. I just did this one. We're going to do another one. Alrighty, so let's go with a smaller brush. You know, I spent a lot of, that's such a loaded question for me. I spent a lot of years in retail decorating a lot of Christmas trees. Christmas is not my favorite holiday. I don't like decorating Christmas trees anymore. That being said, I love spending time with the family and we will probably be spending time with my daughter's boyfriend's family and also my mother-in-law, who's not getting any younger and we like to spend as much time as we can with her. So I'm going to start with a light flush tone. I'm mixing some white in it. I'm making a really light color. And you notice I'm using this one that we made with the violet red and I'm really liking this color a lot. It's a really great color. My husband is German, so a lot of our traditions are based in German traditions, but we usually celebrate on Christmas Eve. Spending time with the family, going to church, it's really not a fan of doing a lot of the other crazy stuff, all the shopping and all that stuff. Okay, so now I've just outlined my face like I did the other one. And you know what? Since we're doing a more detailed face, let me see if I can zoom in a little bit. There we go. Fixed my chair. All right. So we've outlined our face with the light color. Now I'm going to come in and I'm using the same brush and I'm going to just start painting in the highlight of the forehead, the bridge of the nose. There'd be a light spot under the chin, the cheeks, painting around things. Then I'm going to take the dark color, the shadows in. Put the dark color in the shadows, I should say. Now your face is going to look a little odd until we get all of those details in and until we get the whites of the eye in. So I'm just kind of blocking in the lips, the nose, the area around the eye. Maybe the suggestion of the eyebrows. I want something with a stiffer. Here we go. It's a really tiny little flat brush. I've had it so long I don't even know what it is, but it's a teeny tiny little flat. It's really great for these small canvases. It's good for blending. So I'm going to just blend some of this dark paint I put on here into the light paint. I'm not going to blend it completely. So then what happens is you get the dark shades, but then you also get kind of the light shades, but then you get also medium shade. And because we put the extender in the paint, we don't have to worry about it drying too quickly. Oh yeah, this brush is going to work much better. And this is just the first layer. Yeah, you need a detailed brush and I like a small, short, flat brush with like stiff bristles for doing this kind of blendy thing on this small canvas. Normally I would just use my fingers or something, but this canvas is too small for that and my fingers are too big. All right, so now we're going to go in with, I'm going to go in with some white and we're going to block in the eyes. Can you see her coming along? Maybe. So I'm using the light color again. I'm going to wipe my brush off on my rag to get the excess paint off and then I'm going to blend in some of this paint, the light color I just put on here. And it's really just about layers and blending and don't worry about, you know, losing any part of the painting and treating anything too preciously. You can always bring it back. One of the joys of acrylic paint is that it really is all about layers of mark making. I'm going to use my neon orange to represent, of course, I'm sorry, to suggest sunlight and brightness and warmth. So I'm going to put in a little bit of the neon here. I'm moving around the canvas and that's giving the eyes a little time to dry. I'm going to take some of the neon pink, dab it into the cheeks here a little bit and wipe my brush off and using a dabbing motion, just blend those like little blobs of paint in a bit. There we go. She's looking pretty good. Let's do something with her hair while we let her face dry a bit. Now, you notice I suggested her lips, the upper lips darker than the bottom lip. That would be normal. The bridge here for nose and the ball of her nose would be brighter. There would be a shadow underneath the nose and two shadows for the nostrils. I did suggest all those while I was doing the painting. Also, there would be some shadows around the eye. Now let's do the hair. I really like giving my girls blue hair. I do not know what's up with that, but let's do it again. We're going to use the dark blue that's on our palette. Welcome everybody who's just joining. We're doing some little paintings here on four by four canvases in preparation for Christmas. I've got to go buy some stolen. Either that or make some. I don't usually make it. I know how, but it's easier to buy it. It's my favorite Christmas cake. I know some of you are like, ooh, because it's like fruit cake, but I like stolen. I don't like American fruit cake, but I like stolen. Now I'm putting some brown. Similar colors to what I did on the other one. Hey LP Red Flower, how are you? I was trying to catch up on everybody's YouTube videos this morning that you all posted on YouTube this weekend. She's got a cute hairstyle, but it's really dark, right? We did with the other one. It's white. Now, although she's way more realistic than the other one in that we're going to paint and suggest some features. I don't do anything that's super realistic. So she'll still be pretty suggestive. And we will still be coming in with a pencil and doing some stuff there. Hey, thanks guys. I made her hair a little bit too light. So I'm going to come back in with some dark. So you want to make sure in any painting that's true whether you're working with watercolor or acrylic or any oils, whatever medium you're working in, crayons. You want to make sure your paintings have a good balance of light tones and dark tones to make it look interesting for the most part in my opinion. So this is some of the brown and I'm just adding layers of marks to her hair to make it look interesting. You see I goofed up her face there a little bit. Baby wipe. See if I can do this without making a big mess. So baby wipes are great for painting with acrylic. They will get a lot of stuff off. I might have to just work that in because that's not wanting to come off. I can do that. So sometimes what did Bob Ross call them happy accidents? This is the shadow side of the face anyway. So if I was going to get some blue on one side of the face, this was a good side to do it on. So I'm going to work it in as if it was part of the shadow color which I probably would have done eventually anyways. Let me know as we're going if you guys have any questions. I'm going to bring some of the blue down here just to make it look cohesive. That looks pretty good. Let's do a little bit here too. I knew I wanted to do faces this morning before somebody asked but no I didn't plan it beyond that. I know somebody is going to ask at some point. I didn't plan it. I know I almost never do. I just start painting. Oh thanks, Cheryl. These little canvases are fun to do. They're easy to practice on and they're great to give as gifts because everybody has room in their space for a small canvas. If you're like me and you've been on this planet a few years and you've lived in your house for a while you don't have room on the walls but you have room for us not for something big. See? But you have room for little ones. I always thought it would be cool and someday in my dream studio I'm going to do this so you guys should be prepared. I want to do like one whole wall that's covered in little mini 4x4 canvases from all of you guys. How cool would that be to get a bunch of your friends together paint some little 4x4 canvases and put them all on the wall smack up close next to each other just covering a whole wall. Wouldn't that be cool? Okay. While her hair is drying a bit I'm going to go back to her face. See I sometimes wish my walls were more bare than they are but I've lived here a long time and I'm an artist and they're just not they're just not bare. I know I have to work on it right Cheryl maybe it's something I need to add to my list for next year because I think it would be so cool. I have a little wall by my doorway that's got a few pieces on it from different friends and fans of you guys things you've sent me in Happy Mail but I don't have like I just think a bunch of little canvases all in the same size would be fun. I like that so I'm going to I still want to let her face dry a little bit before we do the eyes. I'm going to work on the background and I'm going to even do the background before we do anything with giving her like clothing which you don't have to do but I like the idea of doing that. I'm going to I'm going to put some yellow back here this is the neon yellow a museum of friends art. Yeah that's exactly what it would be. So yeah when you're working on faces one thing I struggled with in the beginning is you know really just getting anally compulsive and wound up about the shading being perfect and the thing I like about being an expressive painter is that it doesn't have to be perfect. In fact it's about it not being perfect and suggesting things with different marks and I love that and that's perfect for me. Otherwise it was just adding to my anxiety disorder level and that was just not a good thing. Not that any stretch of the imagination was that a good thing. So now I'm going to add some of the Aquamarine turquoisey green colors that we've got on our palette. I'm just laying them in over the background pretty randomly making sure to get some color on the edges and the only way to get better at it and to get oh thank you to thanks Jerry and to get something that you like and to start develop your own style is to just practice. There's just there's no shortcut unfortunately because you all know I love a good shortcut if there was one I would tell you but there's not. I also took a lot of classes with a lot of different artists and watched a lot of YouTube videos and tried a lot of different things and that's the other thing to do. Alright we're going to let that dry a little bit. I like that. As I say that I'm thinking oh wait wait wait so I'm just going to with my finger you know I can't do a canvas without getting my fingers involved that just never happens. Okay yeah now I can leave that to dry a bit. Let's do something with her eyes. I have a small detail brush here. Let's see did I grab a little one. I think this will work it's got a good one with a good point on it. This is again it's all worn off but I'm pretty sure this is a Donna Dewberry one stroke painting brush and it's just a really small little round brush with a decent tip and I am going to for this now before we get started I'm going to get some carbon black out because we will want it oh that's just plenty a little touch of that. You didn't see that off camera it just splattered on my plate so that works. I am going to start with mixing my blue and my brown that I have on my plate. I have raw umber and phthalo blue it's going to give me a dark brownish blue and I'm going to use this color and we're going to here on my brush sorry we're going to use this to suggest an eyebrow and I'm barely barely touching the brush to the canvas. Oh yeah I'm on here live every Wednesday and every other Monday and it's a great time to ask me questions and stuff so I look forward to seeing you back on here again. So that's just a suggestion of an eyebrow I made this one a little too long so let's just get a damp brush in here while the paint is wet and fix it. There we go. Now I'm going to use the same color that we mixed our brown and our blue together and I'm going to come in here to the top of the eye where the eyelashes would be and I'm not going to really paint all the eyelashes in but I'm going to just put a dark line there and that's going to suggest the eyelashes. Again I'm barely touching the canvas if you get a smudge use it to be your advantage and let it help you suggest another feature on the face or shadow. I'm going to just put a little bit of this dark color where the nostrils would be I'm going to put some of this color here in the lips between the two lips the upper and the lower lip and then I'm going to get my little flat brush out and tap it off on my rag so it's not too wet and I'm going to just blend that into the upper lip oh yeah that's perfect and then I'm going to put some underneath the lower lip there would be a shadow right there and then I need to decide what color her eyes should be let's do blue actually I'm going to mix a little white into the same dark color we've been using and I'm going to we're going to try something why not I'm going to put a little bit of that on there now it's like a greenish blue color which that's a good color then we're going to take some of our aquamarine if you look in the mirror at your own eyes there are not the iris which is the colored part of the eye is not all one color there's lots of colors in there okay that brush was really wet and I just got too much water on there so let's see if we can lift it a bit like I have brown eyes but if I look in the mirror there's lots of amber colors and some really dark black colors in my eye now I'm going to take some white I'm going to touch up the white part of the eye which is called the sclera I got too much on this one oops see one of the good things about doing these live shows is you guys see I make mistakes just like you all but what did I say about acrylic paint is about layers of marks so if you don't get it right the first time don't freak out just let it go let it dry and just keep going and make marks so now this is black so I'm going to put the black in the middle where the pupil would be I'm going to run a little bit of it on the upper lid well see you didn't see the mistakes so no big deal I do make them I make plenty of them so now to make her eyes have a little bit of life you want to add a little bit of white like a reflection now I like to put my fingertip over those white dots after I make them and that just smudges them and makes them a little less perfect I'm going to go back to our neon orange this will be on YouTube you know it takes me a little while to get them onto YouTube I try to format them with my fancy video software so that you get as big a picture as I can and I have to reorient it and then save it and it's kind of a huge deal but so it takes like a day to get all that done but it will be on YouTube I know what I did there but I did something that I don't like because now she's got a dark spot on her cheek now for the new year for 2016 we will be still doing the live periscopes at least once a week we will be still doing tutorials but I will be doing more detailed tutorials on you to me and I have paid paid classes on you to me that does not mean I don't want you guys to freak out which is why I'm telling you now it doesn't mean the free stuff stopping because of course it's not I wouldn't do that to you but I've got to make some money somewhere so we're going to be doing some in depth detailed stuff with proper close up HD photos you know and downloads and all that stuff it will be over on you to me there you go I like her she's cute I'm going to put a little bit of pink back in this one cheek here I'm also going to be updating my website and hopefully the Yahoo change over to the new company it went well this weekend and I'll be able to do that you to me is spelled U D M E Y and it's an online teaching website and I'll have there's a free well I don't know right now soon there will be the free Hannah Montana course will be back up on there live I don't know if you all remember when I did that with Claudia Rossi where we did the alteration of the Hannah Montana book U D as in dog M E Y dot com I'll have links on my website Gene to be Aaron's dot com as soon as I have everything ready I'm going to be adding a class page including yeah that's it including um University I've got a lot of classes over there I'm going to have some classes over it you to me um and um then there'll be another and there'll be links like for each class if I can do it like for each individual class will take you right to that class um and then also um I'll have a link um for merchandise for different listings for different merchandise and then at the bottom will be the different stores so um and yeah so the Hannah Montana book free you can see it of course on YouTube it's on YouTube but if you don't want to if you don't want it there it is also over on you to me and I'm going to see if I can even make it downloadable for you all but you can't do on YouTube so now I'm just going to neutralize the back a little bit of course not completely I like some of these colors that are going on but it's a little bit distracting with the face so we want to just kind of neutralize her a little bit I like that you can see some of the like music notes from the paper underneath through her neck and you can see some of the paper right here I love that I've got my baby wipe here handy so I can use that to spread the paint around and kind of smooth the lines out I just took my white and I mixed it with some of the brown and some of the other colors I had going on here on my palette I will still be teaching with crazy island university this next year we're getting ready to release journal in crazy island style 2016 there'll be some commercials coming out for that soon I'll let you all know I'll be posting that to YouTube when it's ready thank you I really encourage you all to go out there and try you know doing different kinds of artists faces and trying their techniques and giving a shot but then using what you've learned to come up with something that's uniquely your own that you can really say this your style no matter what class I take now my style of face shows through this is a pre-jessoed little four inch canvas these are coming in two pack for I think $5 hobby lobby and of course I use a coupon so I get them for you know 40% off so I'm going to give her a little bit of a tank top here she's cute now you can make her pop out even more with the stabilo pencil so you know just because you want to if you maybe you want to consider yourself primarily a painter doesn't mean that you can't you know use anything else on your canvases I want to put a little color on the edges of these other colors and this is a wrapped canvas around the side so it's got a little bit of an edge around the side which I kind of like there we go I like that so let's take our stabilo pencil let's actually sharpen it a bit so we have a nice point on it save your stabilo pencil shavings because you can soak them in water in a jar and you can create this kind of inky thing that is fun to paint with and if you think I'm kidding I'm not kidding see stabilo pencil shavings alright so now we've got our pencil all sharpened I'm going to outline her face I'm going to put some lines around her neck and shoulders not too many lines not too dark of lines have a light touch you want to just emphasize and help express her features there we go I like her she's cute does anybody have any questions there we go so whether you choose to do one with features or one without these are really cute fun practice to do they make really great Christmas gifts and wouldn't see even putting them together like that where's my other two wouldn't they be cute just hanging on the wall don't worry Cheryl this is going to be on YouTube and yeah this is acrylic I did the faceless one first and then I did the one with the features in the hour that we've been on and wouldn't I just can totally see a wall in my studio covered with these little paintings I might have to work on that I do have a wall that's about three feet wide by you know the full length of the room and I have the space over the door I you know might have to do some of that little four inch canvases I just you can see a whole wall covered in these I think that would be fabulous yeah like little painting tiles little tiles covering all I love the idea you guys see now I'm gonna have trouble giving these away because they look cute together that's the problem when you create art you know you want I need to make some money at it but then I paint stuff and I don't want to give it away or get or even sell it it's hard to let go of it which would be why I try to like do classes and stuff because that's easier yeah exactly like a quilt only for the wall out of paintings the Lord knows I could not make a real quilt and like ever get it done I started one years ago it's still in my closet I haven't finished it yet alright does anybody have any questions today so look for some changes coming up soon if you're not a member of my Facebook group yet we are about to hit 500 members soon when we hit 500 members and if you're a member of the Facebook group but only if you're a member of the Facebook group you're going to get a free coloring book download for me that's got how many pages does it have I don't even know they're all single-sided these are some never published doodles some that are digital downloads my Etsy shop some that you guys have not ever seen or haven't seen in a long time and I filled the whole book with them and this will be a free digital download when we hit 500 members but you have to be a member of my Facebook group so if you're not yet you should go over there and join tell your friends I may later sell them in my Etsy shop I haven't decided yet but I won't be doing that until after you all get your free copy and I wanted to do this instead of doing it like one giveaway to one person I wanted everybody to get something so this is going to be that something we have a couple minutes I'm going to sit here and you guys can look at the cute paintings if you have any questions let me know I know right it's a good idea thank you to my admin slash assistants and friends Jerry Bellini, Cindy, Utter and Michelle Mitchell because they have been a huge help with the group and with coming up with ideas for next year and encouraging me to get off my butt and get it done so and I can use them as a sounding board too so which is fabulous and they've helped a lot so there you go, life of art and self-expression I'm loving this you guys now I'm going to have trouble giving them away I've got two more, two more I'm going to have to we're going to have to work on that you guys I'm going to have to hang them up I have a fantastic crew in the group I actually do very much so and you guys haven't heard me say this yet I'm going to be doing my group groupies which it kind of happened by accident but I thought calling you all groupies was kind of funny and cute and sweet and all at the same time so you groupies are not too bad either we're all very supportive and I love that we have a lot of men participating in the group which is fabulous and you do not see that in other art groups not the way we've had it in our group a life of art and self-expression not only do I want to welcome all the men to this broadcast and to the group but I thank you all for being there and participating I think it's wonderful that you all feel safe enough to do that thanks I love you all back it's been just as good for me as it has been for you guys believe me alright it is 11 o'clock we have an awesome group of people so invite your friends when we hit 500 that's a good idea Mark we're going to have to post about this Mark in the group I think this is something that we should post about in the group because this is a really great idea alright I'm sorry I'm reading you guys posts oh Tara hey welcome so it's 11 o'clock we've been on for an hour we did these two little face canvases today last week we did a sunflower and before that we did the happy trees alababras we got two more of these little canvases so if we have time before Christmas hits we'll be doing distractions or those of us with anxiety disorder and maybe compulsive issues say ooh squirrel anyway I have two more of these little canvases so we will be trying to get two more of these little live demos of canvases in before Christmas I have more of these to do if I'm going to really do them for gifts so if I run out of time to do live episodes I may do some of them on YouTube so watch for that and I've got a bunch of stuff today to film for YouTube so you all have a great day the sunflower is on YouTube just Google my name go to YouTube and search my name Gina B. Arons or put it in Google I'll show up everywhere I've been on the internet too long now I'm everywhere I can't hide from anybody both of these are on YouTube so the original Periscope Hop that I did this on with Cinnamon Cooney and Susan Hiles where we celebrated Bob Ross's I did this one and then I did this sunflower one which is also on YouTube and these all say Periscope videos all the titles start out with saying recorded live from Periscope or something about Periscope in the title so that's a way to know which ones are which and I'm thinking today as I'm talking to you maybe I should put all the Periscope videos in their own playlist what do y'all think about that because that might be an easy way to find them these all should be under well these three not this one but these should be under Monday with DecoArt too yes see Mark says yes okay Mark you know sometimes it's good to get a guy's opinion and Mark somebody other than my husband who just looks at me like I'm crazy he loves me but he thinks I'm nuts I am nuts but you know alright I really love this okay you guys we're gonna have to do something with this I'm seeing this I might have to photograph these even for the group page I love you guys too have a great day join the Facebook group a life of art and self expression if you can find the link to it on my website jeanabearans.com there will be a free giveaway coming up soon thank you so much I try to make them interesting and um something you all want to see um I don't know how to be anything but me so this is just me I'm not putting on errors or anything else so it's just me I got asked about that recently I don't know how to pretend to be somebody else and I'm thinking about going back to you stream but I definitely need admin help because I can't see the chat ever so um but I'm thinking for the new year we need to do you string once a month because not everybody does periscope so um that's something else I'm working on and I better write it down because I'm gonna forget again alright you all have a great day have a great week and what's what do we say then do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later you stream is another live broadcasting site that you actually can see from um a desktop an ipad a phone anywhere and um it's just it's a little trickier periscopes easy so that's why I do periscope message me about it in the group tag me and I'll explain it to you bye guys talk to you later