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1. Introduction: Today I've got something
really fun for you. By the end of class, I hope you're as slap-happy as I was because I got all giggly, and I was having
lots of fun when I was recognizing
faces in my scribbles. I'm Denise Love and
I'm an artist and photographer based out
of Atlanta, Georgia. We're going to create some
scribble abstracts today. Now that I've painted all
these fun scribbly abstracts, I'm going to call it
channeling my inner Picasso, because by the end, I ended up with a self-portrait. I'm calling it
self-portrait and pink because I recognized, I saw some eyes and my piece. I saw that nose. I saw what could
have been lips and I was strategically
filling in the color. I ended up with a face and then I got so tickled
because I was like, wow, I love how this turned out. I can't wait to frame
it hanging up somewhere because it's truly joyful. I hope you enjoy what
we're doing in this class. We're going to start off
with some little pieces. Single color, two color,
mixing some color. How to transition
where you don't have some scribble
transition part. Then we will turn that into a larger piece because I
like going a little larger. You see different challenges. You have different things
that you're trying to work out as the piece grows. I want you to experience
some of that. I chose on the
largest piece to do one color but intermittently so it wasn't solid color
all the way through. There was some color, some
whitespace, some scribble. Then I got so delighted at recognizing a face in it that it truly was the best project
for me in this class. I hope you enjoy doing
the different projects. This is really fine.
You might have done scribble art when
you were a kid. I'm calling this scribble
art for grownups. I can't wait to see
what you're creating. Let's get started.
2. Class Project: Your class project is to come back and share with me some of your scribble abstracts
that you created today. If you get to the big project and create a
self-portrait like I did, definitely come back
and show me that. I'm telling you that's my
favorite piece of the day. I did several projects
before getting to the big project and
that one was by far the one that
tickles me the most. I'm going to hang
that in my house. I love it so much. So I hope you enjoy creating
some of these today. Definitely come
back and share with me whether you did
the one color, the two color, the
mixing the colors, the two color with
different separations of color and just show me some of the fun that you had when you were doing some
of your scribble abstracts. If you play with some
other supplies, oh, I'd love to see that
too just to see what you changed and how you
stepped outside that box. So I'm looking forward to
seeing your projects today, so come back and
share those with me. I'll see you in class.
3. Supplies: Let's take a look
at our supplies. I've kept this pretty basic because I don't want these
to be over complicated. But you can
definitely substitute any supplies that you want
to do this fun project. I'm going to be using
acrylic ink for my dramatic dark lines
and mark-making. I'm going to use
the Payne's gray. It's not quite black, it's not quite blue, It's just really
dark and I love it. I'll be using the Payne's gray
and I'll be using the ink right out of the $
that's in the container. I've also got just a couple
of acrylic paint brushes, some inexpensive ones I
got from Michael's to be painting in between
my acrylic lines. Got disposable paper
here for my palette, and then I'll be using
some of my acrylic paints. I have a couple of favorites that I want to
personally play with. Light pink and ocher, I'm just obsessed with lately. I also like this light olive
green and this grayish blue. Then I also have
my little tub of the 48 Liquitex basics colors. Because once I make my way through any particular colors that I love and I use it up, then I'm going to
go buy a big one. That's the big ones that
I've ended up with. If I'm tempted, I could
come over and pull out, say a different green or
maybe an orange and a pink, which is another particular
favorite color combo of mine. I'm definitely feeling that, I also like aqua, turquoise, that family. We could do blue and orange,
something like that. I do have my little tub of paints over here just
in case I'm tempted. You can use any paper
really that you want. I'm going to be using 140-pound cold press
watercolor paper because I have these
big pads of Canson, which I buy these when they go
on sale at the craft store. It's really exciting and you need to start
keeping your eyes open for when Michael's does their
buy-one-get-one-free papers. Because that week I decided every day I might
have needed more papers. Then they kept sending me reward coupons and I'm like,
I need more papers. Now I have plenty of this paper. That's going to last
me for a while. It's great for
projects like this. I've got a 9 by 12
pad because I'm going to do some
larger 9 by 12 pieces. I also have a larger
pad that's 11 by 15, because when we cut
this up into fours, I liked this 5.5
by 7.5-ish size. I liked the bigger pad
to be able to cut it down into the size
that I wanted to do. The 9 by 12 pad, they were a tiny bit smaller. I just liked this
extra working room. You don't need two sizes of
paper if you don't want. I want to do some
small and some large, you can just do them
out of the one pad if that works for you. Then that's about it. I've got some water over
here just in case I need it. Other than that, I want to
keep this fairly simple dynamic and I don't want to over-complicate it with
all my extra supplies. That being said though,
you can substitute, if you don't have ink, you can substitute that for
neo-color crayons. You could use a
stability pencil, you could use acrylic markers, you could use a Posca pen. You could definitely substitute any of the supplies
that we're doing. You can substitute your
acrylic paint for watercolor. You could substitute
it for the high flow or the heavy flow versus this
medium flow that I've got. You could do it in pencil. You could do really anything
that your heart desires. I'm just keeping it simple. I'm going to use the ink,
I'm going to use the colors. I'm going to keep
them really vivid. But look around to
see what you got. I don't go buy lots
of supplies to do the type of art that
we're doing today. Let's get started.
4. Scribble With Ink: To get started,
I'm going to start our scribbling and I'm calling
these scribble art for a reason because I'm going to scribble on my different
pieces of paper, then we're going to
have to set those to the side and let them dry
and once they're dry, we can then come back
and start painting. Let's go ahead and
do our scribbling. I'm going to be doing this with my Payne's gray acrylic ink. You can do this with graphite, you can do this with
a Stabilo Pencil, you could do this with
a paintbrush and ink. If you'd rather paint it on, then do the way I'm doing it. You could do this with
Neocolor crayons, acrylic paint pens, Posca pen, get creative and just
see what you like. I like the ink because it's
very dark and dramatic and it's less controllable
the way I do it, I like the loss of that control. I'm not going to be able
to get every line perfect and I love that aspect about
it because sometimes in art, what makes it so amazing is when things are not so perfect. When you let go, you go with the flow. There's no mistakes here on
a piece of scribble art. When you're done,
you get fun pieces. Let's just go ahead
and scribble away. My goal here is to just
not get too tight in. I just want to create some
great big scribble shapes. Maybe I want circles
and squares, maybe I want to
come in here and do some line work and then
come back into some shapes. I can read dip my dauber. If I lose some ink here, you can get as intricate
or plane as you want, you could even try
with your left hand, which I haven't done that yet. Let's just go ahead do
non-dominant hand scribbling. Because now you can
see we're really not going to be able
to control the flow nearly as much because we're just not used to
working with the other hand. But look how cool that is, non-dominant hands, so large shapes, lines,
non-dominant hand. We can just get in
here and really be creative with our scribbling. This is a really nice way to figure out what scribble
lines do I like. They get a little
better the more you do and you can come back in with a little extra
mark-making if you're looking at anything
that needs more. Then once you've got
these scribbled on, you'll need to set these to
the side and let them dry. The ink is so thick, you're going to have to let
these dry for several hours. We're going to set
these to the side and to do our projects. I'm going to throw
these on the floor. I hope thing doesn't run, to do our projects, I've done a bunch of
these a few hours ago so that I can then continue, but these will be future scribble paint things. Let's go ahead and do one more scribble
with something big. I like going bigger because then we see different
challenges. It's a little harder to fill the page as the page
is a lot bigger. I can just do a few circles and fill the whole page
like I just did. Then we're going to look at
the bigger page and think, how can I then scale my scribbling larger?
What can we do? I'm going to have maybe all the different aspects
that I just went through, but more of it. Maybe I'm going to do some circles and maybe I'm
going to do some lines, maybe just some scribble work, maybe we have some paint
that flares off like that. That's fun, but the big pieces
are fun because they're just as dynamic and cool
as the small pieces. Then you get a great
idea of thinking, how do I go bigger? Fill this page. Now on some of this, I'm thinking a little bit, I need space to paint
in between these areas, I'm not trying to fill every
pocket with black ink. Once you do several of them, you may even get into
your own rhythm, you may think, this is my thing, this is what I'm
going to be doing, this is what I love. Let me just do several of
these and do a whole line. Your particular favorite marks that you end up with, we'll see. Now we've got our little
ones, we've got our big one. We're going to put these to
the side and let these dry. I have done a whole
bunch of these. In the next video, we're going to jump
into painting these.
5. One Color Scribble Art: [MUSIC] Here are a whole bunch of these that I did previously. I've had them
sitting over here on the floor to dry and
they're mostly dry. I hope they're dry. [LAUGHTER] I did this this
morning and decided to come on back this afternoon
and do some filming. I've got lots of fun scribble shapes and stuff so
what we're going to do is we're just going to
pick one and start painting. Then we'll have all these
other ones to pick from. We might do a couple
of these and you can decide which way do you
think you'd like these. I think I like it this way. I've got some paints over here. I'm obsessed with this pink. I love this ocher. What we could do is decide what parts of this are
we going to fill in with what color and we don't have to fill every section, you could do one color
to start with. For this one, I just
put out two colors, but let's start with
one color actually. I've got some little
paint brushes here. Let's just start with this. I'm going to start with the
pink and what we might do is fill in all around this
and not go to the edge. Maybe we have a white edge
that we're going to leave. That could be cool or we
could go straight up to the dark edge and just
start carefully painting. This brush might be bigger
than I wanted it for this. Let's pick a smaller brush here. That's why I like having choices because as I start going, I might think, oh, that's too
big or oh, that's too small. I'm just going to
start filling this in so nothing special. You get your own
little rhythm going. But these are fun because
they're cool when they're done and they're very dynamic. They stand out really cool. See I almost feel like
around these edges I need even a more
of a detail brush. I've got a smaller brush here. Let's just see. Sometimes you just got to
paint and figure it out. Yes, I like this size brush. This is 8 Simply
Simons Shader brush and it's just a little cheap
brush at the Michaels, I might have paid $3 for it. Maybe, it's their
really cheap line. Then it's just up
to you as you're painting how whimsical
do you want to go? Do you want to add other marks? Do you want to add other colors? Let's keep this one color
and just see what we get. Then on the next one, two color, see how that's
different. [MUSIC] I think what I've
decided is I want on this one to have a
little white edge. I'm going to tape this down
to paint this outside area. I like to be able
to move it around, but I want a fun edge on it. I don't want to go to
the edge with the pink. I feel like when you pull the
tape, you reveal the magic of the piece and even though
I don't want to paint, I should have put this
on a piece of cardboard. I could've kept flipping
around so keep that in mind. I don't want to stick my
hand in that yellow paint, so let's move that over. But I do like to
flip these around. The goal is not to be
completely perfect, but if this ends
up being something that you truly love
and you want to make beautiful pieces
to hang, then go slow and let all your
edges be beautiful. This is just for me, a warm up a lot of times. Let's get on our art table. Let's create something. Maybe I'm not quite ready to jump into a great big project, but I want to get started. This is such a low commit, low stress type of project
that I just love it. You may have done scribble abstract art when
you were a kid. I remember doing
something like this in art class where we
scribbled it with pencil and did different
shadings in for some type of shading
lesson that we were doing. Then the scribble part
has always stuck with me because I like to scribble
a lot in my mark making anyway, that's like favorite
of a lot of artists really. Take that thing and just scribble and make
some cool marks. This is very similar
to that only we're using our scribble as our guide for our piece of art. For the next piece I do, I'm definitely going to have
as a piece of cardboard, [LAUGHTER] I just cut the side of a box and then
I can twirl it around because I like to move these so I'm not sitting my hand down on something
unintentionally. [MUSIC] One color. Let's peel our tape
and check this out. [NOISE] The first one
you do, you might get sloppy and then
you're thinking, I think I got it and
then start getting a lot more exact with your
lines in you're creating, look how pretty that is. I love that, super fun. One color scribble art
abstract, I love that. Let's go and do a two
color one [MUSIC]
6. Two Color Scribble Art: [MUSIC] Let's do two colors. I'm thinking because I have the ocher on my paper
already out here, that maybe I will do some red oxide and
some ocher so that it's not exactly like [LAUGHTER] the piece
that we just did. I went ahead, taped our piece to a small piece of cardboard so I can now move it all around. Going to clean my brush
off over here in my water. I think I'm going to stick with the small brush because that
worked out really well. What I want to point
out on this one, we did some scribbles
and we have some open edges left over. If we're painting, we could
always go back and add in another edge or a line
if we felt like we wanted to have a separator
in between some colors. We could just go in and say, I don't want any
open lines here, so let's add one there. Then looking at it like it's a maze, where's that color then I'm going to maybe stop? Are we going to have all of
this possibly be one color, the outside be another color? Are we going to go back
and forth with the color? How are we going
to separate those? We could actually put
us a line in here. I could go ahead and
close this one off. Even though they're
wet, I'm still going to paint around them. Now I actually have a direct
outside that could be one color and something inside that could
be the other color. Let's just go for it. Let's
just see what we get. I think I want the outside
to be that red oxide. I'm going to start
painting with the ocher. I'm just going to fill in
some of these and I may have two red oxides next to
each other, but that's okay. On this one, I'm going to try to leave a better white edge around my piece of ink. Just think about these things. Paint one just to get your feel and how it's
going to go for you. Then on the next piece, think, here's what I'm going
to do different. I'm going to have
bigger whites paces. I'm going to have
smaller whites paces. What are you going to do there? I want the white
space to almost act like a third color for us. That's what I'm using that for. If you could manage to
paint from the top to the bottom and not
go back to the top, then you'd have better luck with your hand not laying
down into wet paint. [LAUGHTER] Then if you
put more ink on your page like I just did be
careful not to touch it because it's still wet. [MUSIC] Check it out. These remind me they look
very century modern. Got tape on my thing over there. These look very
mid-century modern to me. [NOISE] Just peel the tape. See what we got here. These aren't meant to
be super glamorous. These are more folk
art, mid-century. [LAUGHTER] Unpredictable,
fun colors, dynamic. I want them to stand
out for reasons other than what I
might normally do. Look at that, Super fun. [LAUGHTER] I really loved that. I like the ocher and the pink. I should do an ocher
and a pink one. That's really cool,
fun to color. [MUSIC]
7. Mixing Color Scribble Art: [MUSIC] Thought, what if
we do a multi-colored? Just fill these end to
however your heart desire with a range of colors that
maybe you think you'll like. I have pink and ocher and that red oxide and now
cadmium orange here. The orange is bright but
what if we multi-color it and then pick a color for the outside edge and
just see what we get? There's nothing saying that we can't do that any
way way want to do it. One-color or two-color,
multi-colors. You could do extra
mark-making on top of your pieces
if you wanted. I just wanted to
keep on painting before I got to the bigger one, so I thought, why not? Let's just fill these in with more than one
color or two color. [MUSIC] Feel free to mix colors. I thought that orange was
too much as it was but maybe the orange mixed
with the pink would be quite a bit better. Definitely don't feel
like you have to leave the colors as is. Look how pretty that is. [LAUGHTER] Or what
if you did all shades of one color
but different shades? You could put white out, you could put some
other colors out, and just mix and see
what you could get as different tones and shades and tints and whatever of one color. That would be super fun. Now that I've thought of it, I want to do that with this one. [LAUGHTER] Let's do that. Let's just keep mixing
stuff with the orange. [LAUGHTER] It's
multi-color but it's multi-color with
some color mixing, not just straight
out of the tube. What do you think about that? I'm thinking that sounds cool. Let's get some of this yellow
over here. Yellow ocher. [LAUGHTER] Mix it with the orange and just
see what we get. It's a weird color. But it's interesting,
painted on here. This would be really some excellent practice with
your colors, color mixing, finding color palettes because more than just painting
like a little swatch, you're painting a
little piece of art and when you're all done, you might end up with
something that you're like, I love that I'm
going to frame it. [LAUGHTER] I can't tell
you how many times I've done that myself. I got all kinds of
stuff framed from my classes hanging
up here in my house. That's why I like
to make classes. It gives me a goal, gives me a reason to sit
here and create new things and new projects and
hang out with you guys. Look at that. I love that. What if we did some of this red oxide with the
pink with the orange? This really is like the
greatest color mixing exercise. Look at how pretty
that color is. Color mixing exercise. Because now, look at
what we just discovered. Red oxide pink with
some orange mixed in. That's pretty and I wouldn't even have
white and black out. We could add white to
some of these and make lighter and we
could add black to some of these and
make them darker. [MUSIC] Now that we've got
that all colored in, I might just take
this darkest shade as the outside bits so that we've got one more extra
color out there. There's all kinds of colors
in my paintbrush and I didn't bother to clean the brush out, so I'm just going to go with
it and just make them all into this final darker
color and then see. Be careful getting too fast because that's where
you make mistakes. I make plenty of myself. I have decided that I like to edge it out
and then fill it in. Then I'm less likely to scrub paint over the
edge accidentally. Even though I still do that. [LAUGHTER] I want you to not be so precious
about your pieces. If you just let loose
and just say, okay, I'm going to get
whatever I get, you discover new stuff like we
discovered fun new color mixing pieces by deciding after we got started
changing our mind. It's just fine to start
painting and think, wait wait, let's
go this direction instead and see what we get. Because then you really get into some stuff that maybe you weren't thinking of and that you love and it'll take
you in new directions. [MUSIC] I'll see what we've got. On these, not all my
edges are perfect. The goal here is not perfection. Now, if I were doing
my 100th one of these, and I want to make this
my signature thing, then perfection
might be my goal. But today, perfection
is not my goal. My goal is to sit,
try new things, play with color, see
what we can get, scribbling on our paper. [LAUGHTER] Oh yeah look at that. Super fun. Now, we can even look at it different directions and see, do we like some different stuff? We could look at it and say, did we need more light
or do we need more dark? We can evaluate stuff that way. I really love this exercise, picking some colors and mixing, and seeing what you get. That's super fun. I love that. I'll see you in the
next project. [MUSIC]
8. Two Color Scribble Art Transitions: [MUSIC] Funny enough, I'm going to paint one more [LAUGHTER] because I want to paint one of these where it doesn't
have a clear cut off, and we don't take
the ink and make a clear cut off and just see how would we cut that color
off if we needed to. Like if we didn't want
the whole thing to be the same color like we
did on that original one, how could we transition
those so that they were maybe a little bit
better in their color wise. Let's just decide which
areas that are maybe going to be green and
which areas might be blue, and then see how
would we need to separate the colors on areas where it's not
a clear separation. My goal is not to have any of these colors really
touching each other. I've got green. Maybe here I want to be blue. This could be blue around here. Maybe this needs to be green and this needs
to be maybe green, and then maybe this
would be green. This could be green. Then we've got blue. Maybe we've got blue here
and we've got blue here, and then I've got
the blue coming around here and right here. Because I've got
this little area, See right here, it needs to be green and
it needs to be blue. Right here needs to be blue. I need some blue. I need blue there. Right here, I need
it to be green. We're going to have to have
a lack of transition spot. We've got green. Maybe we've got green
right up to here, but I'm somehow going to
need some blue right here. Now I feel like I've really got some direction in
what I want to paint. Let's go ahead and
start painting. What we know is for
sure easy closed. We don't have a lot of guesses here right in our
little squares. [MUSIC] I've already got some
area here where I know I'm going to have
to have a transition. Right here, I had an open place, so I decided to stop
the green inside the line and I'll come back
with the blue around it, but also right here I want green next to the
blue because it's my goal not to have any
two colors actually touching like I've had
in the other pieces. All I'm going to do
there is come and stop the color and then just
have a smooth edge, and with the blue,
I'll come and have a smooth edge of the
blue right next to it. That's how we are going to transition two colors
that don't have ink in-between it maybe
we didn't want to add any more
ink to our piece. Maybe it wasn't part
of our composition to have more in there. Maybe you just had
something very specific, I just want to give you another idea of how you
can keep that going. Then there are several spots where I got too close
to my black line. Just don't worry about
it when you do that, just smooth the edge out,
like right over here. Just smooth the edge
out and keep on going. It's not going to ruin
your whole piece. I don't want you to get
discouraged and say, oh, I got to throw this piece
away because you don't. Because once you do a bunch
of these and you have a whole collection,
now you're like, super cool, then you're not even going to
notice little spots like that. Right here, I'm also
going to stop with the transition line and I'll come back with
the blue on that but yeah, once you
do a bunch of these, those little spots that
you consider mistakes, they just don't matter anymore. I want you to just keep going
and see where you end up. We've got all the green. I think I got all green. Let me get some of the
green out of my brush. I had a bunch of blue
in my brush when I was painting that, but that's okay. Let's come back with the blue. [MUSIC] How cool was that? One thing I want
to point out too, if you have areas
of your ink that do this wobble as you're putting it on and you get to
where you're like, Oh, I don't know if I
like that or not, look how it's almost part of the composition
once you get it in there if you wobble the
paint around it purposely. I think that almost looks
like an eyeball and that's like little
eyelashes and here's the nose in a very
abstract way there. Picasso, here's
our Picasso piece. Yes, I'm definitely going to
call this my Picasso piece because I'm going to call
this one self portrait. [LAUGHTER] My self-portrait
in blue and green. That's the title, Self Portrait in Blue and Green. [LAUGHTER] Look at
that. Oh my goodness. I'm glad I did the extra ones. See, it's always want to
think I'm going to stop. I think of a new idea
and I'm thinking, wait, I need to do
one more thing. [LAUGHTER] The purpose
of this one was our transition bits where
we didn't have ink. You see how easy that was just to say leave a white
line in between them. I could have budded them
up next to each other, but I have white
lines all around the block and I wanted to
keep that same field going. Again, just separated a nice little
transition, no big deal. Don't worry about if your ink got a little wiggle
to it. That's fun. Don't get so hung up if you overlap on your black ink
where you didn't intend to. Just straighten the
edge and keep on going. It's not going to be
a piece in the end that is going to be real detrimental to
the overall piece. Like this one here got way
too close to that black edge, but it didn't ruin it, so I'm thinking,
well, I like it. I could've come back in here and come a little bit tighter
with the green and the blue or I can come back with a little more ink and make
that a little stronger. As I'm doing my last
little look around, I could definitely do that
because it's just too thin. Nice. Then I got a dot on there. Fun. It can be my beauty
mark, if I had one. [LAUGHTER] There we go, Self Portrait in Blue and
Green, my Picasso piece. I hope you have fun
with two colors. If you have open-ended scribble
that you now feel more comfortable with how
you would transition that edge if you didn't
want to add more ink, if you liked the scribble
pattern that you had. All right, I'll see
you back in class. [MUSIC]
9. Going Larger With Sparse Color: All right, let's look
at a bigger piece. Now, you have some skills. We've got one color. We've got two color. We've got mix all the colors. We've got two color. Here's how we
handle transitions. What are we going to do
on our bigger piece? Now, I'm actually thinking
for thy fifth idea. What if we do intermittent color and leave half of the
white a little bit like maybe it's unfinished
but still a cool idea? I'm thinking that
might be fun for this. I'm thinking it might
be white and color and not color everywhere
and just see how we go. What color are we thinking? I just got done with
the blue and the green. I have a solid pink, I have a yellow and I oxide. Also have a multi
pink orange oxide. I'm almost feeling like I
want to play in the pink. I'm going to put this blue and green away and get some pink out just because I'm
not even a pink person, but this year I'm obsessed
with pink and ocher. I was at the TJ Maxx and
I got some pink bedding. Some I've never had pink. I've never been a pink person
but every time I go in that room with a pretty pillows that I've found that match, it makes me smile
all over again. You never know, pink might
turn into your color. Let's just look at our
little design here. I've got several of
these that I did that I could pick from
because I was like, let's just scribble
on a bunch of them and see what we like. Actually, this one's cool
the way it does this little. I'm feeling this one now
that I looked at these. Here's the other one I got. I like doing a bunch of them because then I tried
different marks. I get some surprising results. I end up with things
I wasn't expecting and now I'm just
going to go through and randomly paint
different areas and see. I don't want all the pink
areas touching each other so if we paint in there. I'm just going to go ahead and plan it out like I'm doing. Then I'll go back in and get real nice and
fill the color in. We're going like this down here. Now, I like planning with
the actual color I'm using because if I'm doing
multiple colors, I don't mistakenly put a color
somewhere I didn't intend to when I've already filled
these in, in this way. Let's start with that and
then we can come back and continue to fill stuff in after we get an idea of
what we've got going here. It might go. I'm just give a transition edge, just a nice smooth edge if I
don't want to continue up. Let's just see what we can get. Then, of course, on
these big pieces, you could do any of these. You could do one color,
two color, 10 color. You can get as
creative as you want. I just wanted to throw
another idea out at you while I was thinking of it. It's easier to do
intermittent color like this on a big piece. Then a little piece because we have so many more spaces and choices to work with. Then we do on the little one. The little one that we
just have a few choices and on this I got a whole page. All right. Now we've got all
the edges that are marked so we just
have to decide, do we have enough spots done
or do we need a little more? I'm feeling like I've neglected this whole bottom part here. Let's just go ahead, add some down here at
the bottom and then see. Do we have enough filled in? Any enough left blank? Because it's personal choice there you have to
decide for yourself. Because the whole goal here
is to look half finished and at the same time
it'd be finished. Like this round piece here. I like that. I almost want this
section right in here. Look, I like it. We're going to come back to this at some point. That's the feel
the same time very abstract Picasso because now that I've thought of Picasso. I'm seeing two eyeballs, I'm seeing a nose and a mouth. I could call this self
portrait in pink. Let's just go ahead and
make this an eyeball. Maybe this class should
have been called Picasso, want to be is instead
of scribble abstracts. Because apparently today I'm
channeling some Picasso. Look at that. Now the more I think about
it, the more I like it. Let's color this
side right right. I want that line to be straight. I don't quite have it straight. Let's just even that
out right there. Oh my gosh, how funny is that? Can you see the face? No ****. Now I'm going to be
cracked up because this boring and be titled
Self-Portrait and Pink. Let's throw some pink up here. This might be like my new
social media profile picture. Look, it's like I got
an earring right here. Let's touch in our earring. Got it on the black
but that's okay. Call that an earring. Definitely want you to
paint one of these with some eyeballs on it and
give me a self portrait. That's fantastic. I think I love it. Here's our big piece. Picasso, ask portrait in pink and the reason I wanted
to do one of these is because we fill the whole page and before and here I
want you to strategically fill in the page and
leave whitespace and see what it is that
you can end up with. If you're as tickle as I
am with a self portrait, I would love to see that. I hope you have fun
with this project. I hope it gets fun or if
you find a face in it and I'll see you back in class.
10. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Tell me you didn't
get to that big project and start giggling like I was. Here I live in the
South and it's about 100 degrees,
it's the middle of summer when I'm
filming this workshop. My studio's upstairs, so it's like 98 up
here in this art room. I think by the time I got
to this last project, I was slap-happy, a
little bit giggly. [MUSIC] I was so tickled on
how good my self-portrait turned out [LAUGHTER]
that I just could not contain myself. Super cute, look how fun
the self-portrait in pink. I'll be hanging that
around my house somewhere. I'm going to put it in
a frame and enjoy that. Does it not look like
my own Picasso piece? I think in the end you're
going to find that I've named this class
Scribble Abstracts, Channeling My Inner Picasso or something fun
like that [LAUGHTER] because I think I was by
the end of this class, I could see a definite feel and gravitational pull towards a certain feeling
with these pieces. Sometimes I have an idea in
my mind and I think, okay, this is what I'm going to do, I'm going to scribble
with the ink and fill in with the color, like the little projects you
did when you were a kid, when you scribbled with crayon or you scribbled in
pencil and you filled in with crayon or colored pencil or some
fun thing like that. This is like the adult version. [LAUGHTER] I say it
is. You can have your kids do these too
they're super fun, and just see what
you come up with. It's a different kind
of contemporary, bold, fun, whimsical, I
love all those. Very mid-century modern
they feel to me like very 1960s on some of these depending on what you do
and the colors you pick. I love this style. I had a lot of fun
painting these. I got really tickled by the end, and I hope you find some of that joy in your
pieces today too. Come back and share those with me and I'll see you
next time. [MUSIC]
DENISE LOVE, Artist & Photographer
