 This isn't Justice Stake. This is Applebee's USTA choice sirloin getting juicy over split American oak. So does this look like a microwave to you? Oops, there you go. Everybody, good morning. Good afternoon. It's Monday afternoon, isn't it? Alrighty, so if you can follow me on social media this morning then you know I filled up four more mystery boxes. The listing is already live on Etsy. The video will go up shortly. I'll load it after I'm done with this broadcast. I don't want to do both at the same time because it sometimes messes up the picture quality. But it's already live on Etsy. And when you see the video, I had a different shirt on than the one I have on right now and I looked at the video went, that is really not attractive. So I changed my shirt. Not that you can see it right now, makes a difference. But anyway, I feel better. All right, we're going to start off this morning by putting on some barrier cream on our hands. So if there's anything in the paint that we don't want to have absorbed through our skin or anything like that, that we are pretty safe. This also makes cleaning your hands afterwards easier. This is not made by DecoArt. There's lots of different barrier creams out there. Not super greasy. I got a little too much so blotted up on my rig. There we go. Got some brushes and a palette knife this morning and this is the picture we're going to work on. This is another close-up picture of a flower I took while I was on vacation in Alaska. And of course I ran it through my application dynamic auto painter and used the Benson version. Hey, Alisa, to alter it just a bit and take some of the details out. This is going to be a little bit of a challenging flower. I have no idea how this is going to turn out. But I really find this flower, not only its colors but its shape really interesting. So I thought we would give it a shot because what's the worst that could happen? All right, I've got the DecoArt traditions artist acrylic out. I've got a bunch of those and I've got some Americana out. I'm going to just move them to either side so that I can take my inspiration photo and prop it up in front of me off camera slightly. Now I do think this photo should be in the inspiration photo section of my website. If it's not, somebody let me know. I'll make sure it gets up there. And after the broadcasts over with, I will put a link to DecoArt where you can get their products, find out about their products and what paint and what paint colors I used in the description. I hope you all had a great weekend. Hey Kathy. All right, I only need one plate. I don't know why I had two out. This is a little painting I did in 2013. It's not very well done. It's just, that's sort of ugly. I mean, it's cute in a very primitive, I guess, kind of way. I was doing a lot of experimenting. I was just really getting back into painting. And I had it for sale for a while at some arts and craft shows and never sold. And there was a series of these that we've been painting over them. So yeah. We're going to get started actually a little differently this morning. And we're going to start with black. Again, this is the Traditions Artist Acrylic by DecoArts. And I have a fairly decent size filbert brush. I can't tell you what size it is because it is all painting. But it says a scota. I can see that much on the brush. It is a filbert. I have no idea what size. Yeah, there's no way I can tell you. We're still doing some purging around here and getting used to, you know, the daughter being all grown up and everything and not being home, being out in her own apartment, which is interesting. Hasn't been a super hard transition because she did move out temporarily not long ago into her sorority house at college. So it's just weird. All right. So I'm going to start with the edges. That's a little opposite of how I normally do. I know, but I just thought we'd try something new because why not? If you guys have any questions about DecoArt products or acrylic painting, painting on canvas while we're here this morning, let me know. I'll try and answer them. I'm no expert, but I'll give it a shot. Nobody can know everything. So I never claimed to know everything. All right. So now, I mean, if I get a little bit of our finished colors on the edge, that's cool. But if I don't, the edges are already painted. Hey, Cindy. Hey, Cindy. All right. So I'm actually going to start with the whole thing black. I know that's very different than how I normally do. Normally, I would tell you, you don't have to cover up the old painting. If some of it shows through, that's cool. I don't know. I'm just, I'm just in the mood to start with black. So that's what we're going to do. I'm rearranging my studio space again. Yeah, emptiness. Yeah, Becca and her boyfriend, Polly, has moved into an apartment together finally. We knew they were looking. What we didn't expect was that while we were in Alaska, we were going to get a call from them that said, Hey, when you guys get back, just to let you know, I'm moving out because while you were gone, we found an apartment and we signed a lease. We weren't expecting that. So we've been home a couple of weeks, but I don't know that I'm rested up from the trip because I haven't had a chance because we got home and landed and immediately started packing her up. So yeah, I don't know. It's been interesting. And now they're off to Canada, the two of them for vacation and I'm apartment sitting. So that's okay. I talked to Cindy. I mean, Bob, well, Cindy knows too. I talked to Bob this morning. And I think we're going to use the opportunity of them being gone to home. There's a few little bits and pieces here at the house of hers. So I think we're going to use her being gone to take all those things over to her apartment while she's gone and like leave them in a neat pile, like in the living room and with a note and say, since you didn't have time for you left, here's the rest of your stuff. Yeah, we it just, you know, I landed from we our ship dock in Seattle. We spent a couple days with my mom, dad, and then came home and, you know, landed and immediately got to work. And it's kind of been nonstop since then, which is I think why I've had some kind of blah days. Because I'm just my brain is just, you know, wanting like some downtime. And I haven't really had that. Alright, so that was Americana decor. What color was that royal fuchsia? I'm going to put out some white. And while we're doing this, we're just letting this dry a little bit. And I'm going to try to line up the bottles I am using. Let's see. Let's put in some aquamarine just because I like aquamarine. Who doesn't like aquamarine? And we're going to need purple. So oops, because this purple, this flower is purple and pink. And this is purple pizzazz. Again, Americana. And let's see, we're going to take out some paint gray. Oh, see you later, Cindy. Have fun. So paints gray is a dark blue black. And let's see, let's pull out some greens. That one's not even open yet. Let's do it this way. I don't want to fuss with the lid. Alright, and let's put this over here. No worries. We'll make it work. Alright, so let's see. Yeah, you know, I think that Rebecca moving out has been good for us. Not that we haven't been purging before she moved out because we have been, but we're getting pretty serious about not retiring in the house we're living in. We never intended for this to be our forever house. And the San Jose Bay Area is getting super expensive, more than it already was. And now that she's out on her own, we are thinking more along the lines of when we do move, what do we really want to take with us? So as we, every weekend for the next year or so, we are going to be purging as many, unless we're out of town or something, we'll be purging a certain area and going through it and really, what do we really love and what do we really want to hang on to and move with us and what do we not want to be bothered with? We've been here a long time, so we've got way too much stuff. I'm going to start with the darkest green because with acrylic, you can really start with the darker colors, right? And go lighter. I'm going to reorient my canvas. They're always both welcome. God forbid something should happen, and either one or, of course, my daughter needs a place to stay, but at the same time, you kind of hope that doesn't happen, right? So I'm, of course, working on the background first. I know how you know that, Kathy. I can only guess. I don't think that's going to take too many guesses to figure out how you know that. You and my mom could probably have some conversations. Not that I ever went back. I didn't do that to her, but yeah. So with anything, any painting that you're doing, I want you to remember to have some fun with it. Don't worry so much about having to look a certain way and do some experimenting and playing and, you know, what's the worst that could happen? It doesn't turn out. All right. Well, that's what they make Jessa for. So I'm not going to really clean my brush. That'll give me sort of secondary colors, which is okay. And you notice I'm just tapping it in. I'm not really blending it at all. I have no idea if this is going to turn out. It may not. I do really may not. We'll see. I'm having fun. Oh, they're always welcome. So when you start with a black canvas, you already have sort of some built-in shadows. So it's really more about putting in the highlights and the lighter colors and not so much about the shadows. I should probably have the picture over here so you guys can see what I'm thinking of and where I'm at and what I'm looking at. Shouldn't I? Hold on. You have to have fun with it. Otherwise, what's the point? So I'm just tapping color in. I'm really, that's all I'm doing. I'm looking at the picture. I'm tapping color in. This paint is staying pretty, some of it's still pretty wet, which is good. Some of it's going to be dry before I get back in there. I'm going to do a little bit of smudging with my finger, which again, that would be why I put the barrier cream on, because I almost never can paint without getting my fingers involved. That almost never happens. I'm going to grab a baby wipe. It's coming along. I'm going to go to, I have a round brush here and a smaller filbert. I think I'm going to use the smaller filbert. And I'm going to take my light, lightest green. Why is it every time I do a live broadcast, people start messaging me? Happens every time I see things happening in the background on my iPad. There's people message thing, notifications coming up. It's pretty funny. Everything is quiet until I live broadcast. So I'm suggesting some edges of foliage with these lines. You know, I don't know what kind of flower it is. I have no idea. I just know that it was pretty and I took a picture of it. I am by no means an expert with plants at all. Don't forget to go into your settings on your browser if you have trouble with the picture and adjust the quality of the picture. I can grow vegetables and do that sort of thing, but yeah, I'm not great with plants. It is very delicate. I thought it would be challenging, but I thought it would be a good challenge. So I'm just getting the background down first because I don't want to have to fuss with it when we start doing our flower. There's a light spot right here in the background. Now working on a dark background is really fun to do when you're playing with like metallics. Doing metallics on a dark background is fun and they really show up really well. I do have some gold Americana paint around here somewhere. We may add some of that to the flower. We'll see. I actually think that's pretty good. So we're going to leave it. Let's clean the brush off. My iPad can't decide what it's doing. Hang on guys. Now it's going to play the commercial again. You know, most of the time we start with white and just starting with black is just a fun alternative. All right. So we're going to give it a little bit of a dry so that we don't get too much of this green and any of the wet black into our flower where we don't want it. When you're drying acrylic paint like this, be very careful because acrylic paint has lots of like plastic polymers in it, especially the craft paints, and it'll bubble up and create a texture that in some cases you might want, but in other cases you might not want. So okay. So mostly I just took the shine off of it. That doesn't mean it's not still wet in parts, but most of the shine is gone. In real life, if I was not doing a broadcast, I would let this dry naturally and then come back and do the flower. All right. So I'm going to take, we're going to work, hopefully work from the center out of the flower. I'm kind of wanting to hang on. Here's my little texture tools. Let's see. This is a brush from the Japanese dollar store. I think it's for like cleaning your fingernails. I'm not sure. It's the handles in the shape of a coffee cup though, so I'm not sure what it's supposed to be for. I don't use it for that. So we're going to, I don't know if this is going to work, but we're going to try it. So I'm going to lay some pink on in the flower center. I'm going to put a little bit of purple in there, and then we're going to take this brush. Yeah, you know, I've had that old blue heat gun for a long time, and I love that heat gun. I have a round brush too, which I'm going to need. So I'm not cleaning the brush off and I'm grabbing some white pains gray. Again, we're using our photo as inspiration. We're not necessarily looking to copy it exactly. We just want that to be inspired by the flower from nature and to create something inspired by said flower that's interesting, and it evokes that feeling that you get when you look at that pretty flower. I also have, how many people have one of these? Speaking of old tools, this old black hot glue gun from Montgomery Wards. I had another one, and I actually dropped it a few years ago on the concrete when my studio was in the garage. I was so mad because I love this heat gun. And then I was helping a friend clean out his mother's estate, and she had a craft room, and he came across this heat gun. He said, hey, you want this? Like, yes, it works fabulously. It's one of my favorite tools. Okay, sorry, sidetracked by Art Supplies. I'm forgetting to talk again, aren't I? I have another violet, but I think I want to make a darker blue, I mean purple. I think what I want to do is just mix one, and I think I'm going to take some of my purple and mix it with some of my Payne's Gray. That's what I wanted. I'm mapping out the large, delicate sort of fern-like petals, and I'm doing it with a dark purple that I mixed. I just took what was on my palette, and see there was some green that was what, that's all right. We'll make it work. Okay, we're going to stay with the round brush for a while, and I'm going to add some pink to the dark purple, and I'm going to start down here at the bottom again. Put some highlights in, and we're going to go in with, excuse me, the Americana purple. And you notice I'm lighting my purples by, I'm not using any white to lighten them. I'm also not looking to cover up all of the old paint that I've already laid down, creating my highlights with warmer colors rather than white. So now we'll go into that, with that purple straight, which is warmer still. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry, Lisa. So I have my, yes, I put my brush away, I have my palette knife out, and I'm going to start with this one. Not only is it tough when a loved one dies, it's tough when you have to go through their stuff. That's really hard. I've had to do it too many times. So I feel, I feel for you, like really wanting to do this. So I'm going to, oh, that's a little too much purple pink. Hold on. I'm going to do that. I actually like that. So that's good. All right, let's see. Now you have no kind of, I shouldn't say no control, limited control over where the palette knife goes. But it makes interesting marks and makes you be more expressive about said marks because you have no control. It's just like doing an exercise like this left-handed and taking that control away from your dominant hand when you want to be more expressive and forcing yourself to use your non-dominant hand. Oh, if you have a treadle sewing machine, don't throw that out. Don't, don't, don't throw that out. As a former seamstress, I would tell you do not throw that. Don't throw that away. Not at all. We had a problem with this last week with the screens freezing. So if anybody has that issue, you probably need to go back out and come back in again. It actually happened to me. I watched my broadcasts on my iPad and it happened to me last week quite a few times. Okay, that white is just really white and I'm not wanting it to be that white. So we're going to take some white and we're going to just knock the, knock some of the white out of it by putting a little bit of the purple in because I think otherwise it's too much. There are these white hairs in this flower. So I'm just layering on my marks until I get an impression of this flower that I really like. And I really want me to do, it is not a color that's in the flower from nature. It's just not there, but I'm really wanting to take some of this aquamarine and I'm wanting to put some of it in. I'm barely, barely touching it to the canvas, the brush, and I'm, look at what's happening. Look how that's popping. I'm forgetting to talk again, aren't I? Oops. I like the aquamarine. Yeah, you know, there's nothing like a nice treadle sewing machine. Those machines really not only last forever, but they'll sew anything. I'm going to take some of my aquamarine and mix it with a little bit of the purple and just make something that's a little bit more purple and less blue. Just because in nature, your inspiration photo is a certain color, you guys know, I've said this before, it doesn't mean that you have to copy those colors when you do the painting. We're inspired by the photo. We're not looking necessarily looking to copy nature, at least I'm not. So that was a little too blue. And if the colors from the inspiration photo distract you, then print it in black and white. And I agree, that's a nice treasured memory to have. My grandmother liked to cook and she was always in the kitchen. So when she passed, I inherited quite a few of her cooking things, because I also like to cook. And I've passed a few of them on to Rebecca. Okay, I really like that, but I'm really wanting to have something that's a different color pink. This is Quedocrino Violet. This is Deco Art Traditions. And I'm going to mix it with the white paint that we already have on the palette. The current batch of mystery boxes have a few odds and ends of handmade lace, actually, from my grandmother's sewing box. I have so much of it, I decided to pass some of it along. Those kind of things, I love those kind of things, no matter who made some, who made them. I think they're just fabulous. So the more layers we get on here, the more interesting it looks. Try to keep your highlights and shadows in the same place with each layer and try to just refine set highlights and shadows. Hey Paper Jackie, how are you? We're experimenting on painting this flower on this dark black background that I painted, adding layers using our Deco Art paints for something other than your ordinary craft project, because just because they're not expensive artist paints doesn't mean you can't create interesting paintings with them. Yeah, I like the way it looks. The more layers I get on here, the more I like it. Needs with this color. Yeah, you just got to keep layering it. I'm going to do something else that's crazy. Oh, that's not the right color though. Neon. Who doesn't love neon? Like, seriously. I first started doing painting and mixed media. I used Americana Neons. I still use Americana Neons and that is not because I am a Deco Art helping artist. That is just because I like Americana Neons. Again, what is the worst that could happen? Have some fun with it. Don't treat anything that you've already done too preciously. If you cover up too much of something that you liked, you can always go back and put it back in again. But you notice how when I recolored the photo, it ended up with this kind of orange halo around the flower. I'm actually kind of liking that. This is a really warm color, so this is really going to make your highlights stand out. Yeah, it's going to give it a nice pop. So you notice I blended some of it with my finger and now I'm going to go back with the tip of the brush. Now this is craft paint. So it's not as pigmented as your artist colors and the names are usually goofy names. So you can't necessarily count on if you are doing something where you need, say, a lizard and crimson and you go because you can only afford craft paint. So you go buy a lizard and crimson craft paint. It's probably not going to be the exact same color. Can you make it work? Sure. Is it going to be a problem? Probably not. Is the artist paint better? Probably. Yeah, you can just go back. Watercolor, which I like, as you all know, I like it because it's more challenging. I don't want to put it on the plate. There's too much purple over there. But watercolor, you can't go back and just fix it the way you can with acrylic. And this flower is like so hairy in the center that I don't think there's, you know, there's probably not too much you could do to this to put too many of these little hair marks or suggestions of hairs on this flower. I don't think that's probably possible. The other thing you can do, what I like about these broadcasts is I look at what I'm painting on the display on the iPad, and it gives you a different perspective on what you're painting. And you can see kind of right away where you maybe need to make some changes or not. So that's probably another tip that I would give you is to take a step back, take a photo maybe of your work, look at it through the lens of a camera. You get a different, a very different perspective on what's going on sometimes with your painting that way. And there's been many times where I've been stuck and I did that and it helped me figure out right away what was going on, what was bothering me. I'm trying not to touch my face because my hands are pretty painy. The other day, my daughter came over with Polyas for dinner and she says, Mom, why is there, why is your eye orange? I don't know. I have no idea. So the problem with doing this too much is I'm starting to get a purpley gray color, which is fine, but it's a little chalky and a little bit too gray. So at some point, that's not going to work. You don't want to keep adding white. So I'm going to use more of that other purple and put Pains Gray over here where there's no white. And that's going to dull down my purple just enough, but keep me in the same color range that I want. Now when this is dry, I will be giving it a good coat of DecoPage. And then when that is dry, I will be rubbing in some Americana Cream Wax. That will help seal and protect the surface and also give it a little bit of a shine. I keep wanting to add more pink to that center. Now I really liked the addition of the Aquamarine, but we kind of lost a lot of it, so we're going to bring that back. I don't know that it's better than Daddy Vans, but the thing about the Americana Cream Wax is that when it gets hot, it doesn't reactivate. Daddy Vans is beeswax, so if it gets hot, it'll re-melt. So I am grabbing a teeny tiny brush because we're going to need this in a minute. And I'm going to go in with the Aquamarine first. And this is Monday with DecoArt. So we discussed DecoArt stuff. There are more expensive artist waxes out there that dry hard, but they're very much more chemically than the DecoArt one is, so I prefer the DecoArt. Okay, that's more what I wanted. So I'm going to go in with the white, which I've lost on my white. So that teeny tiny brush. This is a liner brush, low Cornell liner brush. So most of the little hairs in this flower center are white tipped. Somebody said they thought it might be a passion flower. I don't know. I'm not great with flowers. Too much white there. Let's see. So if you have a spot where you get too much white, we can just go into one of our other colors. Just work some of that other color in. There's no mistakes. Just make it work moments, right? I could have probably picked a smaller liner brush, but I didn't want to fuss with my brushes. I could also be a little lighter-handed with a brush this morning. I'm a little heavy-handed. I kind of like that. So there's our picture and there's our painting. What do you think? This orange spot right here is a little bit too much. Let's use this color. So that didn't cover it up completely, but I didn't necessarily want it to. That's better. I like it. That was fun. So this isn't even a gallery-wrapped canvas. This has staples on the side, but if you just paint them, it's not a big deal. And of course, we don't waste our paint, right? So we take our extra paints and some paper or an old book. I've got deli paper. And one of the tools that we've had out that we are already using, put all these paints up here. So remember which ones it wasn't used. And make some painting papers. Something you can use as a collage element on another piece of artwork. You can wrap Happy Mail in something like that. I love this brush because it makes a really cool texture. I got it at Daiso. It costs $1.50. That's $1.50 I ever spent. So there we go. And then we'll wash that off. Clean our brushes. Does anybody have any questions? Some painting papers out of that. All right, cool. I do have a deco art project coming up that I'm going to be doing, but I'm not going to be doing it live because it's going to take too long to do and it's going to be a multi-step project. I live in stretchy pants. Those of you who haven't seen me in real life, I live in stretchy pants. And I have a pair that got a hole in them. So I'm going to repair the hole and I'm going to film that clip and show it as part of the deco art process, but also have it be a sewing 101. I'm going to take that little clip out and have it be a sewing 101 thing by itself too. And then we are going to take said pants with the hole in them after we fix the hole. And we're going to bleach them and then paint them with deco art to fabric paints. Since they're already ruined anyway because they've got a hole, you know, if it doesn't work out, it's not a big deal. I have this feeling they're going to work out nice though. So we are going to try that and see if that's going to be coming up soon. Hopefully I can get that done later this week. Lisa, good luck going through your grandmother's stuff. I hope you make some progress soon so you can get back to creating and use some of her things in your creation. I know she would probably love that and if you have too many of something, like we did with some of my grandmother's things, they have been passed along to others, people who are going to love them and use them and that's what she would want. And that's probably what your grandmother would want too. So anyway, all right, that's it everybody. Don't forget the most important thing. You know what that is, right? And this didn't turn out too badly. I'm kind of liking this painting. So every time I do one of these and thinking I'll sell it on Etsy, it's never going to happen. I'll end up putting it on my wall again. You know I will. All right, have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Yeah? All right, I'll see you later. Bye guys.