 Welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and this is a lesson in looseness. It's actually a lesson from my Patreon page and it's a technique that I shared with my patrons on how to loosen up and actually create a little bit of abstraction in your artwork. It was a lot of fun. So this was their homework lesson for over the weekend but I thought you guys might enjoy to see a speed version of this painting being created. I want to give photo credit to Maureen Rooney. She's actually a patron of mine in my Patreon group but in this video I go into, I was very casual obviously, that's the neat thing about my Patreon page. We kind of have a neat little intimate group but I go over what the lesson is all about. Some of the materials and if you would like to become a patron it's five dollars a month. You can cancel it anytime. It's patreon.com slash Susan Jenkins. We have a lot of fun but just know I will always keep bringing free videos here to Monet Cafe. So I want to share with you a little bit about this even though this is the speed version and we did a technique that is a lesson in looseness like the title and it is a method of creating a drawing or composition that is more loose and free and like I said a bit abstract and it really is just fun. I think often we need to break out of our tight artistic boxes that we place ourselves in and feel like we always have to create a masterpiece and you know we need to get back to that childlike fun that we used to have when we would draw or paint. So this was a neat homework lesson for my patrons and I just thought you guys in Monet Cafe might like to just see it and you know just have a little fun yourselves and loosening up. So I am so thankful to all of you in Monet Cafe. I don't want you guys to ever think that just because I have a Patreon page now that you guys don't mean as much to me because when I started I literally was just sharing what I was learning and you know now we've got in this group oh wow I think we're at 26,000 subscribers close to it now and that just blows my mind I never thought we would have this many you know subscribers in our channel so you guys are a blessing to me thank you. Now this is where I had put down just some a swatch of color just to again to play to get into that looseness that was acrylic ink and I did have to kind of reestablish my drawing on top it covered it up a bit. So but then I just start playing with some pastels and like you saw at the beginning this is watercolor paper and in a minute you'll see me apply a coat here it is of clear liquid gesso. If you put this stuff on top of watercolor paper you've basically just made your own homemade pastel surface and it creates a little bit of grit. Don't use the regular gesso by the way it will cover up your underpainting and it doesn't have the little sandiness to it. So enjoy this to music and blessings to everyone I pray you're safe. If you like this crazy loose painting or if you don't let me know in a comment or just give me some comments and feedback it really does help my YouTube channel when you do that and please subscribe hit the bell icon if you like to keep more of my videos coming your way and I really appreciate it. Alright I'll be back at the end. Well it's close to done at this point but I wanted to go back in the video where I had shown my patrons the Monet Cafe Earth Colors series bracelets. This one's called Gypsy Girl they're awesome because the little stones are lava rocks and you can literally put essential oils on them to smell wonderful all day long. I think I'm a kind of like friendship bracelets where we can all kind of be artist friends together. They're around $20 there is a little Monet Cafe charm on them which is so cute and I'll provide a link in the about section of this video where you can just click it if you want to get this bracelet or one in the artist series. By the way there's a 15% off coupon code if you click the link in the description section of this video use the code Monet Cafe and also that is good until Mother's Day. So here's the final bright crazy abstract loose paintings to help us just loosen up and have fun as artists. I hope you guys enjoyed that. Please like this video, comment, share and subscribe. Thanks guys. Happy painting!