 My desk is a little bit messy today. Today's video is about an art hop I'm doing over with Peg Robinson. She has a YouTube channel that I will link in the description below. I'm doing an art hop with a number of ladies actually and all of their videos will be linked below. At least I think at this moment that's how it's going to work. The art hop as you notice in the title is the theme is primitive, a hashtag art hop primitive. And so I'm going to do a cute little piece I think of primitive art and I just wanted to come on camera first to explain what I was doing before I just I'll speed through the process but I have I guess by accident found myself creating memorial pieces of art in clay or resin mostly for friends and family whose pets have passed. I also do memorial watercolor pet portraits again this all happened sort of by happenstance and I was working on some samples for my sister whose dog is passing and when at some point she already knows she wants me to do some memorial pieces and I won't go into the long explanation of it but she has a collection of heart rocks that means something to her and her dog and she said can we make something like that out of his ashes with maybe resin or clay. I said of course we can. So this was the sample that I came up with actually oops and this had some things in it in the clay to simulate ashes also some glitter and a bunch of different kinds of polymer clay including some translucent clay it's coated with some gloss glaze it's all female I believe and so I have this sample piece now I'm thinking okay she loved it so we're going to make one for her and when the time is right in the meantime I think I want to do more to this sample and create a little piece of primitive art with it. I have a variety of things on my desk including some distressed copper some distressed cheese cloth string a piece of muslin various charms and beads and craziness some of my decorated sticks some of my painted feathers some of my dead canvas patches so I think we're going to create a little piece of art with this that could either be hung on the wall I have an all little altar table here in my art room I could put it there I do I want to do more of this little primitive piece unfinished raw just like it looks like it got pulled from nature yeah alright so let's do that I'm going to speed forward through my process and I'll be right back okay guys what do you think I love it I could picture it just it has to dry now I used e6000 which you really need to let set for 12 to 24 hours to dry completely I used this glue because there's lots of different layers of things non porous things heavy things on this piece of little piece of art and I really want it to stick so I used e6000 it's really the best glue for this kind of thing but how much do you love this I could totally see it on a little piece of distressed wood or I'm getting the you know I really want a knot or something right there on the front of the heart so let's do that while we're talking I could see it on a little piece of distressed wood or on the front I have a journal cover that's maybe made out of a really old distressed book boards front and back book boards my friend Jerry Bellini who has recycled parts for art Etsy shop sells that kind of thing I could see it just laying on a table like this because it's just the kind of piece that you want to look at and touch and pick up and that's another reason why you want to use a glue like e6000 because if people are going to be picking it up and touching it you don't want stuff to fall out so I'm going to just I want a little knot on the front of that string so I'm just going to take some more of this string that I had I tied it in a knot like a few times I'm going to unravel the ends so they're like unraveled yeah yeah I like that and so I'm going to just glue that on the front you definitely if you're going to do a memorial piece of clay with your pet's ashes or something in it dried flowers from a funeral this is definitely something that you could make and decorate it after the heart part is made with things that you remind you of them maybe a piece of cloth from if it's for a human a piece of cloth from one of their clothing or I'm going to shove some more glue down here or you could use if it's a pet you could use their dog collar their blanket a toy something like that just show some more glue down here so we can make sure it stays pokey tool now this does glue does dry clear so no worries in that regard so there we go I love it I love it I love it do where we still on camera let's see there we go I use some of the painted feathers I've been making the sticks wrapped in embroidery floss the faux jewel beetle wings which are made out of fake fingernails painted with black nail polish first and then you use some sort of iridescent nail polish on it that I got this one but it's called by born pretty I don't know what the color is but it's this metallic it looks just like the jewel beetle wings I make these kind of little embellishments if you've been following me on Instagram or Twitter or anything like that then you've seen these and kind of probably wondered okay that's cute and I'll what the heck she's going to do with it this is the kind of thing you do with it these cute little pieces of primitive art I just love them so that's it I hope this gives you some ideas of what you can do please check out the video description here for the other video links and channel links don't forget to also look at my link list that's down there if you click on the one link it'll take you to a list of all the places you can find me all over the Internet my Etsy store my website all that stuff my happy mail address is down there and everything else so check out the video description please like share and subscribe and above all don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys