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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] The other day, I was
at the art store. I love going to
the art store and just looking around and seeing things that I've never seen before and thinking,
what is that? Maybe I need it. [LAUGHTER] I'm Denise Love and I'm an artist
and photographer, and that's exactly when I
discovered mineral paper. I know I've never heard
of mineral paper before, so if you have, kudos to you. But mineral paper is
this really cool, thin, almost plasticky-feeling
paper similar to yupo. But it's not as
plasticky as yupo, but it's not absorbent as
regular watercolor paper. It's a paper that's made
of crushed up stones, and it's super cool
and it's very thin. What I like about it is
you can pile on the water and it will not warp
like watercolor paper. So it's really cool, and whatever you put on
it, ends up ultra matte. I decided to experiment with a couple of
different mediums on it. I know a lot of people
use this for watercolor. I'll show you my little
experiment with the watercolor, can't say I'm a fan of that. But I did particularly love how it looked with acrylic ink. I'm sure that this
would be beautiful with alcohol inks and any of the other inks that
you may have and want to play with
like India ink. I love to put a
little bit of water on it and watch the ink flow, which is so magical, just letting it do its thing. In this class, that's
what we're going to do. We're going to use
mineral paper, we're going to put
water and ink on paper, and create different types
of little abstracts, and then we're going
to do some fun mark-making on the top to give a little extra finishing touch and just see what we can create. I created a ton in this class, so I'd recommend you get at
least two pads of this paper. What I love about
the mineral paper too is it's not expensive. It was around $11 for a
pad of paper of 20 sheets, and I cut those sheets into smaller pieces to
create more art with, and I had the entire floor of my office full of paintings. I had so much fun. I can't wait to see what
you're creating in this class. We're going to start
off by creating some smaller pieces that we can experiment with
different colorways. Then we'll move into
some larger pieces that we can finish off
in different ways. I've got a few fun techniques
to show you to get different looks and just see what we can
come up with today. I'm super glad to
have you in class, and I can't wait to see
what you're creating. Let's get started. [MUSIC]
2. Class Project: Your class project today is to experiment on mineral paper, whether you choose to use the same supplies that
I'm using or not, and just see how cool
this paper is to work on. I like it because
it's not expensive and it takes a lot of
water without warping, and it takes a lot of different
mediums and gives you some different effects
than you're going to get on other kinds of paper. I want you to create some
type of lovely abstract, whether that be with the
inks or something else, and come back and
share that with us. Cannot wait to see
what you create.
3. Supplies: Let's take a look
at the supplies that we'll be using in class. I'm going to be playing
on a new paper, which is one of my
favorite things to do. This is called mineral paper. It's a multimedia type paper. It's made from rocks,
not wood pulp. It's good for water-based
or dry medium. It's a white vellum type
surface and it's acid-free. It is rather thin, but it's very, very strong. What I like about mineral
paper is it takes water really well and does not buckle like
watercolor paper. It is not as plasticky
as a YUPO paper. If you're trying to compare
to what is the surface like, it's very similar to YUPO, but it's not as plasticky and it's not as absorbent
as watercolor papers. It is a tiny bit absorbent
but not very absorbent. It's a nice mix in those. I thought it would be
really fun to play with my acrylic inks on this paper and create some super
cool abstracts. Because the way that
the ink dries on here gives some really neat effects that I think you're
going to love. That's what I'm going
to be working on today. I've got some acrylic inks, just a variety out that
I want to play with. I've got my whole box of
inks sitting beside me. I'll just try to tell you what color I might be pulling
out as I'm using them. I've got a couple of
different brands. I've got some Liquitex. I've got some Daler-Rowney, FW. I've got some Amsterdam. I'm not picky there on the ink. I'm going to be just
mixing and matching. I also have some
gold Mica paste, which this is the Kuretake,
Brilliant Gold Ink.. It's really nice. It's very similar to the
paste that I love so much that you see in a
lot of my classes. Same company, gives that same really
brilliant gold that does, but it's in an ink format. What I'm going to use it
for is some mark-making. Love some type of ink. You don't have to use this one. You can use any ink you want, but I'm going to
be using that for some yummy shimmery bits and some extra mark-making
possibly at the end. I also have a Posca
Pen in white. You can use these in any color
that you happen to like, black and white being my two
favorite mark-making pens, but I'm probably going
to go with white. I do have some other colors available if the
mood strikes me. Posca Pen for mark-making tool. I also have just a
couple of paint brushes to put water on the
paper basically because we're going to
let the ink do its work and I'm going to be using the
ink droppers for each color, but I'm going to be
putting water on the paper with some watercolor brushes, and I've just got two of my
Soft Aqua Raphael brushes out. This is a zero and
this is a four. So your choice. You don't have to, no special brush there. I'm going to be using
my dip pen to dip into the ink for
some mark-making. Got a couple of dip pen
choices that I could use or I could use a gold
acrylic pen either way or anything really that you
want to use for mark-making. I'm just showing you what I
chose to use here in class. Then painter's tape, if you
want to tape your piece off. We'll be doing some splatter
bits and you can decide, do you want a clean edge to it or do you like the splatter
going off the page? In general, most of the
stuff that I'm doing, it'll be like in the
center of my papers so the tape is not so necessary, but I do have it
available just in case. I also have plenty of water. We'll be using water and a spray bottle
with some water in it because I did discover
a cool effect that happens when you
squirt water on it. It really just throws the ink. While you may be doubting
it when it's wet, when it's dry, it's amazing. That is in general, what I'm going to be
playing with today. I do have a couple of rags and some towels over here
just to wipe things on and then I am ready to go. Let's get started.
4. Paper Experiments: I want to show you a couple
of experiments that I did on this paper before
I get too far along, just in case you're like,
what if I did this, and I can show you some of the results that I
had when I did that. This paper, a lot of people
use this for watercolor. I thought, okay, let's try
some watercolor on this. I did, I tried my favorite graphite watercolors because any chance I get to use those I'm going
to whip those out. [LAUGHTER] When I was
painting it on I'm like, I don't know about this
because it looked like it didn't have any coverage
at all, basically. But then when it dried, I could see the coverage
and I'm like, okay, well, that's fairly interesting, I don't know that I like
it for this project. It's got a very unique
look to it though. In this paper, everything
dries ultra matte. But I just thought for
what I wanted to create, it just wasn't dynamic enough. That's when I decided that the inks was definitely
the way to go. But people do watercolor
on this paper if you want to give you some of your
favorite watercolors a try. I also did a couple
of experiments with water-soluble
graphite pencil, which we know I love that, just to see what
does that look like. It actually smushes, it does take water quite well. But at the same time, it was just not enough. I'm like, okay, so that's very vivid mark-making a little bit of water pushing it around
and I'm like, okay. I also tried my pastel crayon and a neo color
crayon just to see, how did that push
the color around? What did that do? Did I like it? I
didn't really like it. That wasn't my thing. I like doing these
little tests to begin with the supplies that
I'm planning on using, just to see what is
it going to do for me before I get to making pieces that I think
I'm going to love. Then I just played
with a little bit of acrylic ink just to see like, okay, this is more vivid. I do like how vibrant
the color is. I love how matte it is, and so I was doing a few little color tests
with a piece of this paper. Something else I did, I said this was the crayon
pencil, but it wasn't. It was actually a
watercolor stick that I dipped in water to
see what it would do. Test whatever supplies you
plan on using on this paper. Take up half a sheet and say, let's see what this
is even going to do. Then I did one of these as
a test on mineral paper. I just put water on the paper, did a couple of ink drops, let it do its thing on the
floor and just dry and see, what did we get and
how was it different? I did this on mineral
paper and I did this on YUPO paper
because I wanted to see, is it the same as YUPO? Does it act the same? Does it look the same? What is the difference? You can see it's drastically
different actually. The YUPO is more plasticky. It does still dry matte on YUPO, so that is very similar. It did not separate and granulate the pigment quite
like the mineral paper. The mineral paper, this stuff just went everywhere. It pigmented, it got fun variations there in the color that we
don't see on the YUPO, the YUPO is a lot smoother. Completely different
look and feel. Then that granulation
of that color is what I love so much in watercolor,
getting it to do that. When I saw that do that
on this paper I was like, how cool is that? [LAUGHTER] Every
color is going to react a little bit differently. I think this was
the antelope brown and Payne's gray that
I was playing with. But that was a really cool look. Now this is not the most
beautiful abstract. I don't know that I would
do anything with it other than testing
the paper out, but super cool to
see what it did. Then it led me to further experiments
on the mineral paper. Just I wanted to show you a
few of the experiments that I did on this paper as I
was getting started, so that you could
see what you might expect if you were playing
in these yourself. I'll see you back
in class. [MUSIC]
5. Small Study Variety: I've put out a bunch
of little pieces of the multimedia paper,
the mineral paper. Basically all I did was
cut the paper in half and then cut it in half again, and that gave me a whole
lot more pieces to play on. You get 20 sheets in this pad and it's usually
like around $11, it's not very expensive at all. But when you have 20
sheets, you're like, how can I do as
many experiments as possible without
wasting my paper, we're all want to get the most out of our paper that we try. I like that, that's cheap paper basically compared to say, some watercolor papers, and then I just cut it
into smaller pieces. I always like to start off
with smaller samplers to see like what is this going
to do when I do XYZ? I'm basically going to take
one of my watercolor brushes and put water on the paper. Totally did not mean to
do that on that piece so let's just swap that out
for one that's not wet. Because I want to
start from fresh. I want to put water
on the paper in several different
configurations, so I can try several
different types of projects. One that I'm thinking I
want to do some circles, and so that's really cool. We can do a circle. We can have the
color go all around the circle and let that dry. We can also do a circle, have different colors
around the circle, and then let that dry. We can also do some stripes, so it might have a couple
of different stripy ones, and then I'm thinking maybe
a couple of abstracts and then maybe a couple
that we squirt water on, so lots of different
little projects here. I'm just going to take
some water on my brush and just start and think, what do I want to play with? I really happened to
like Payne's gray. I know I'm going to be
opening the Payne's gray. I do tend to knock
the inks over more so when they're on the left
side for some reasons, have all the links on the right. Also like this
transparent burnt sienna, also like this red oxide, so shake these up, then open them and
have them ready. You don't know how many
times I have hit the ink and dumped it over those, so definitely be careful. I want to play in this
purple, this is purple lake, but they look around, and then I've also got this
fun light lavender color, which is Amsterdam,
ultramarine violet. Also see, I knock
everything over, I'm very clumsy. You don't know how many times I've had to clean up a spill. We've got daily
rally, olive green. Usually when I'm playing, I actually try to screw the
lids back on as I'm going. I also have
transparent raw umber. Some Amsterdam, I liked this
permanent red violet light. I like the little pop
of color of that one, also pulled out. This is a green, this is
dark green, dealer brownie. I've got lots of other
colors over here I don't know if I'll
be trying them or but they are available. Just because why not? We've got some white I got
some titanium white here. I don't know that I
need new white in this, but you never know
let's pull a white out. I do have gold inks and stuff, but I think I'm going to let
the gold be my Mica Gold and I do ink part of
it at this stage, and then add extra
marks on top because I liked the way the mica
ink blends and flows and shimmers through the
piece after the fact. Let's just put our circles, I'm going to do them
separate I don't want to do the circles at the same time. I don't necessarily want
them to be even either. Remember if this
was my favorite, but we're just going to go
ahead and see what we can get. I like it when they
are in a place that I can see where
the water is at, so I'm just going
to move it down. Maybe mix a few colors in here. I like the blue, so let's
try maybe the blue. I had less water on that sheet
than I actually intended so that's very interesting, so I'm actually going
to let it do its thing. Even though I said, two circles, two stripes two whatever it is, doesn't mean that
it's necessarily what you end up having to do. I just think I'm going to
do this on this lower one so I can see where
that water goes, there we go, and
then go really fast. Be quick about it. Look at that one, that just
did some super fun staff. These are going to be
a little brighter than some of the other ones I've
created I feel it now. I like that. Before these dry, you
do want to work fast, I actually want to
take my dip pen. I'm going to start just doing
some mark-making right now. Thinking super hard about it, I'm going to let a little bit
of serendipity work in there. But those are super fun, way different than I was even thinking I
was going to get. Cool. Let's do some stripes
so the stripes, we're going to work fast. I'm going to do a stripe
and put some ink in and then do another
little stripe of water, doing water here, and then puts another stripe
of water and put some ink in. I'm doing ink every other stripe because I know the
ink is going to run. The thing about these papers
is they don't dry fast, so you're going to have
to exhibit some patients and let them do their thing. But let's just go ahead
let's play a stripe. Let's do some little
bit of colors. Then see, I can
already see it moving. I definitely want another
stripe right here, and then see watch
these inks move, oh my goodness, that's the most fun part. Then another stripe right here. We'll come back in with
some of these same colors. You start to really
get a feel for how they're going to move, what they're going to do. Super fun, and then
maybe a last stripe here at the bottom. Look at that. They're going to move, this
is not your final look, but I'm loving that one already. Let's do another stripe let's
try some different colors. This has some water
up here already, let me dry that
off a little bit. Let's do a stripe here, and I want this brown, which is that raw umber. I'm going too back with
some of the yummy red, not red, I tell
you what that is. That is the permanent
red, violet. It is red, and then we're
going to put a stripe and watch those move around. Then maybe another stripe. I'm going to see
a move some more, but we're going to add
some more color in here. You just pick and choose. You can choose to continue
adding color in every stripe, you can do like me and
put the stripes in and think, now do your thing. The thing about these
two is eventually you're going to want to move
them off of your table. If you started on a board that
you can very easily move, that might be easier than
just the table itself, because these are going
to have to dry overnight. They're not going
to be dry anytime soon for us to do anything with. I'm not sure what it would do if you use the heat gun on it because I haven't played with
a heat gun on these really. Now, we've got circles,
we've got stripes. Let's do some blobs. You know what, in the stripes, let's do the blob real quick. I want to do gold
on those stripes, and I do have some time. But I'm going to go
ahead and throw in and do my random blob abstract, and I'm just dropping
the color in. I want a little bit
of dark in here, and then we're just going
to let them do their thing. What I like about some of
doing this on some of these is I can come back and mark
make on top when we're done. We've got some choices. It's not going to be
completely all we do. Let's go ahead and add
some mark-making in here. Your choice, you could do dots, you can do lines, you could do a shape,
circles, be creative there. I like little scribbly lines
and this stripy thing, it's going to blend in. I'm not worried about that. I want to see the shiny bits as they blend in
and do their thing. Then after the fact, like after we dry, then I like to add dots or
other mark-making things, so this is not the end. This just going to add
some interest with this gold moving around
in these colors. Then also want to
do that here in my little blob abstracts and just see like what
we're going to end up with. Totally didn't mean
to dip that again, I want to do one more blob. I want it to be a little
lighter and brighter, so let's just see. I got plenty of water on here. Let's just see. The water occasionally repels
off of pieces of this. Oh, look at that. Oh, my gosh. Watching stuff run
around the page. It's like the joy of my day. Let's put some white in
there because why not? It looks like I
need to shake it. Watching the inks
and things run. That's where that's
my favorite part of doing abstracting things. If you've watched
my other classes, I like to cut things up. I like the very organic
feel of things. Let's do white instead
of dark on this one. Just really speaks to me when they start doing
these fun things. What would happen
if we just came in, maybe just dipped a surprise of color in here like a
drop, drop, drop, drop. I don't know. Look at that white. It's doing some amazing
stuff right there, and we can still come
back in with the dip pen and maybe some gold, because that moves these
things around to it. It really starts,
oh, my goodness. Might be a new
favorite right here. I hate to love
something at this stage and it completely change, so we're holding
opinions to the end, but I don't know how
it's looking pretty fun. Now, let's do some squirty ones, but we're going to
be dangerous here. Basically, this stuff is
going to be in the way. Cut those off the table, and let me tell you what made it really easy to move
it off the table without making any
ink run anywhere. Wants to slide it off the table onto this pad of
paper on the edge, and then they just
slipped off onto the floor so they could dry and I didn't ruin any of them. I still got to try
not to step on them. But anyway, thought it would be fun to try a couple of
different things here. Got just this round thing because I want to draw
a circle on it to give myself just a visual. It's not going to be
part of the artwork. I think we're going to
have it covered up, but I just want a visual. What I'm going to do
on this first one, and I've just been using
the big brush on these and that's worked out good. But I think what I want to do is put some splashes
of color around, let them do their
thing for a moment while I do the next
little splotch. You can do it different colors. You can have like a little
bright blue click bouquet of flowers or
something like that. But it had a little
thing in my mind. Let's just see if we
get anything like I want super cool right there. Now let's take some gold. We could do some gold
first if we wanted. The gold also is going to
help it move a little bit. Super fun. If you're using a dip pen, I am washing the dip
pen off in-between each application of ink because I don't want the
ink to dry in there. Then I'm thinking, what
if we do some fun marks here with one of the
colors I'm using. Paint gray. Then, here we go. I'm going to move this
one for a second. We're going to make a
little bit of a mess, but what if I squish
those with some water? You see why I say that circle
probably won't be showing up because we just totally covered
all of it with some ink. Now, we're going
to let that dry. I'm going to put this
on the floor before I'm tempted to do
anything else with it, I could dip more color
and do some other things, but we can do that
at the end also. Let's let that dry. I'm going to sit
that in the floor. Having these on this little
pad made that easier just to slip it right off and
now just don't touch it, just wait and let
that thing dry. Now, I want to do a blob one. I'm just going to do a
blob here in the center. Maybe I want to do
this with the brown, the Payne's gray, and that
yummy lavender that I like. I'm not really a purple person but I'm loving the lavender. Also going to do
some golden here. Already loving what
this is looking like. But wait until you see
what it looks like when we squirt this
with some water. Hope you look at that. Once you get some ink and
I'm working pretty fast, you can see these are
going pretty quickly. Now, we've got our water bottle. Look at that. That's doing some fun stuff, and before you're tempted
to continue adding water, a couple of squirts and
just let it do its thing. I'm going to set this down
there to dry and I'll be back. I'm going to let
these dry overnight. Actually, let me talk about this and let these dry overnight, and then we will come back and do some interesting
mark-making with these pieces. Once you get it to a point where you've got all the colors, you've done whatever
you're going to do, you need to stop and let
those dry overnight. You know what, we could do
before I close this down, could do another thing, a mark making right on top if I wanted, if I feel like some of
these colors are needing a little extra shimmer,
that would be fun. But then just don't be
tempted to keep going. Just let it do its thing and
then let that dry overnight. I'm going to set these down here and we'll come back tomorrow after these have had
time to really dry, and if you're tempted
to use a heat gun, I would say just experiment
on a small piece first. I have not played with a
heat gun on this paper, but it's not plastic. It is made of rock, but it also solvents in it. I don't know if you heat it up, if you're going
to expose some of those solvents or not,
so just be careful. I'm going to set these
down in the floor to dry and I'll be back
tomorrow with these. Guys, you're going
to be loving this. I'm actually insanely surprised at how gorgeous all
of these came out. I even thought as
I was making them, I probably won't like
this one tomorrow or, as I was looking at
them all on the floor, I was thinking some of these
I think I'm going to love and some of these I don't know. Now that they're
don oh my goodness, I love them all. Look how beautiful this is. If I had to say I
don't love one, that could possibly be it. But I feel like we could go
in and fill in with marks and dots and lines and
make it beautiful, but this one insanely gorgeous. This is one of those
random abstract pieces, I do like out of those two. I like the one with the very gorgeous red
permanent violet light with the white. I believe that also had the transparent raw
umber and the gold. Look how beautiful that is. This is one that we did
that paint splatter. Look at that super-duper cool. This one we did the
paint splatter, and what I really love here is all these outlaying
layers of color that almost look like
we're at the beach, and that's the white foam
coming in on the ocean. Look at all that pretty pattern. It's just beautiful, and my two stripy ones gorgeous. We can turn it the other way and see if we like it
that way or that way. These turned out
really super fun, so I'm very happy with those. The next step on these is to do some fun mark-making and dots and just see what
we can turn these into the final piece of art. I'll see you back in class.
6. Medium Studies: In this project, let's g
o a little bit larger. This is a piece of that mineral
paper just cut in half. I've just got a few pieces here, and I thought that it would
be fun to do the circle, stripe abstract splatter. We can still do
those same pieces that we were doing
there in that smaller, but I love going bigger and then I love going bigger
still even after that. Because you run into
different challenges when you do little projects
versus large projects. I like seeing what
those challenges are. It may be adding more
water to the paper. It could be working faster. It could be just that
it dries differently and you're like, wow super
cool the way that did that. I'm just going to, let's just start off with
a bigger blobby circle, and we'll just see
what we can get. I want to see where
the circle is, I'm looking from the side. What if we tried some of
these orangey colors? What would that do? Then we came in with
some Payne's gray, what would that do? I don't know if we add
more water into that, if we're going to be
adding it or adding to it. But we can certainly
try to move color with our brush if we want. I'm really more
inclined to move brush, move the color with my dip pen, and so you could actually
mark-make with a pencil. You could mark-make
with a dip pen or do my favorite and drag
a color of ink through this and see what that adds to
the piece when we're done. Because it does move more
around, add some sparkle, it gives us some
interesting pieces as we're going, so like that. We're going to let that one
do it's little thing and dry. Some of the pieces
when I was doing them, I was like, I don't like that. But then the next day I'm like, whatever I love that. I want to see some
dark on this side too. If we just run that, and just see what that can do. Because I want it
to even out there. I didn't happen to
think what would happen if we just put our
dip pen in water. Will the water, do anything? Would that help
move stuff around? That would be an interesting
take if you came back with just a grout
pen dipped in water, how are you moving
stuff with that? Just experiment. That's the purpose of doing
some of these classes. I want you to be brave,
try new applies, try a new technique, try something different, and say what's going to
happen if I do this? You don't have to just not trying to get some
perfect piece of art. I'm trying to get you to find new supplies that
you love to see, how things react
with each other. What makes them interesting, techniques that you can
take with you later. That's what we're looking for. All that fun stuff. I love that stripe. Now I'm just going to
do a straight piece. Watch these inks do their thing. Let's put another stripe in here so I can see this
very easily too, being something where you have, maybe egg shapes and different, be creative here,
think outside the box. I love the way that purple
makes everything run. That purple really is fun. Think outside the box, so I want you to experiment
and discover new things. Take your art into new places. I can't wait to play
on some of these, what that's doing. Now that I see that
the purple is the one that really runs
everything around, let's put the purple
one last, look at that. I hope this is pretty
when it's done because I'm loving
that right there. I love, even though it
started as a stripe, you have a lot of little
movement going on there. You've got some color
repelling a little bit, two super fun pieces. I'm going to put
these in the floor. Then we'll do a splatter piece. I got a piece ready for. I really liked that circle
that we did I'm thinking. I liked the circle, I also liked the abstract piece with the white added to it. What if we did another circle? I want you to step
outside the box, even though I'm showing you
some different projects here, I want you to be
brave and be like, what if I did this or
what if I did that and take some of
these techniques and combine them with
some other techniques and just see what you get. Let's just start here. What if we did? I like the brown, the
brown gives a good base, and I love that red
and I love the white. Let's just do this in
these set of colors for this little set
around the circle and just see what we get. Get some extra water down there. Just wipe that off. I hope watching me
experimenting and have failures and successes makes you feel
braver to do this yourself. What if, okay, I want
to do Payne's gray, but I like that white, but I want to do Payne's gray. I'm going to do
some of these fun, drag it through, marquee things with the gray, and then squirt this
with some water and see what'll
get look at that. Then we're going to put this
on the floor and let it dry. It's doing some crazy stuff, but I'm loving it. Let's set this to the side and let this dry and
do the next piece. I'm thinking larger
abstract blob. Let me tell you, putting this on this little thing then slip
them off on the floor. All the difference. Let's just do like
a little blob, but I'm doing like a rectangle, but then I'm thinking, do I want rectangle? Then added some shape in there. Get creative with how you're
putting that in there. I know that the purple runs
the other color around, so fill in light. Let's do that purple last. Because I want Payne's gray and that sienna color. Look at that. Super fun. I like the spots
where it's repelling. I'm already thinking that's
doing some super fun stuff. We could squirt water
on there if we wanted. We could just let it dry and do its thing and
mark-make after the fact. I'm feeling like
that's what I want to do is maybe mark-make
after the fact. Want to add some water up here. I do see that it's wet up here. I want a tiny bit of darkness. Maybe I'll move that a
little bit with this purple. I also want mark-making, so let's go ahead and do that. I did not mark-make
in that piece that we splattered,
but that's okay. If you forget, you can always, later as we're doing
stuff, you can add to it. Now let's just go ahead and do some fun gold and then we'll let
the gold do itself. Again, you can do scribbles
and lines and circles. You could do some
little hash marks and little tick marks. You could do all fun
mark-making on your pieces. They're going to spread and
do something else anyway, but it is fun to at least get
started with some fun marks and then see what
we end up with. We can go ahead and
put some dots in here. I like that because it might suspend
the dots in a cool way. I'm feeling this one. Sometimes it's when you
start adding in the very interesting after
marks that things start to really shape
up and you're like, now I'm loving this. Look at that. I like to do a bunch
at the same time, too. I do that because if you
just do one and you hate it, you're not going
to do another one. But if you do eight at a time, half of them turn out amazing, then you're really
glad that you did it. Let's set this one
down and let it dry. Then let's do a
couple of big pieces. I want to do all the different
projects in the same day so that I can let
everything dry overnight and I'm not in a rush
between each size. Tomorrow, we can come back and make these
really spectacular. I will see you with these
tomorrow when they are dry. Let's see how these dried. This one, super gorgeous. This one, I got so obsessed
with these four colors. That was that mix
of this red oxide and this transparent
burnt sienna. Think there was some of
this transparent raw umber and Payne's gray
and then the gold. But look at this right here. This is so beautiful. I actually do really
love this one because it just has
some great movement and we could turn
it different ways. Oh, that'll be
pretty that way too. Just is really a beautiful
color combination that I wasn't expecting. I went back after I
turned the camera off and I thought I'm
going to paint a few more and play in these colors. I did actually play
in these colors more because I had so much fun creating these that I
just kept on creating. I made this one after
the fact, I think. But look how gorgeous that is. This one actually turned out. My stripes were shorter
as I got further down. I came back and added
some water along the edges and it
created a neat effect. It surrounded it with a
little lake of water, so that it was very
interesting actually. I did this one. I don't remember if
I did this in class. I think I did this one in class, but look how cool
that turned out. Doesn't even bother me that we have some stripes and some merging of some
color and water there because we can come
back with marks and make it super cool. My purple one that I did. Now this one, I did not
go through with the gold. I don't know why I didn't, but it's still super
cool and we can go with the gold on top
or white on top. We can mix that up if we want. I love this area right here. I think it was maybe this way because this area right
here is super gorgeous and this area right
here, super gorgeous. I'm not sure how did I even
did that and it can never, ever be replicated again. But how gorgeous is
those particular areas? I love it. Then I went into
some circle ones and I really love
the circle ones. This one almost feels like
it needs to go like this. A few of these I did off-camera and some of them I
did with you guys. But again, I got
really obsessed with these oranges and
the Payne's gray. It was just so beautiful. Then I've got this
gorgeous piece and I love that this
is an uneven circle. It's so you can tell
it got skinnier and then, I will laid
some more water here. I love that look as a piece. This one, look at that. I went through and I did the little water
squirty after I did that. One of my favorites, look how gorgeous that is where the water started splashing out. Super beautiful. Then I had some fun with
the water splashy out, doing some circles. This one was really pretty. Wait till you see the last one. This one, it flamed out
and got really beautiful. I'm so happy with that. Look at this one. Super gorgeous. Those were really fun. So I actually loved
the splattery ones even more than I thought
because as they were wet, the Payne's gray was
so overwhelmingly dark that I thought I'm not
going to see anything but a dark blob. But when it dried, look at that, we can see layers. I can see movement. I can see this beautiful, whatever this is doing
right here, super gorgeous. That would be beautiful. Maybe some dots or
marks in there. I didn't put any
gold in that one. I did put gold in this one and this little splash
of this bright pink, the permanent red violet. I dipped one of those, look how pretty that is. With the splatter
bits in a circle and then going around
with some Payne's gray and then with that water, these made the
coolest abstracts. These are just so gorgeous. I'm just in love with
that one right there. Now, it is time to
do some mark-making and just see what
can you change these into as if to finish them up. I'll see you back in class.
7. Creating Large Pieces: [MUSIC] In this
project, let's go big. Now, you can see
I've had this piece of tablet underneath here. Each size, we got a
little bigger now, the size of the tablet. Again, I like to go from small to large
because you just have different challenges and
it's fun to see what will you do to solve some
of these challenges. I'm thinking circle,
but what if we do some circles that
don't quite overlap? We'll leave some space and
then we'll see how that does. I want plenty of water. Now, I just need to look where the light
is and start filling the color and where the light
is shining on the water. Just to see, what
are we going to get? How are they going to run? I need to have the definition of these so I can see
where they're at. So there we go. That's
where we're at. I like it. [LAUGHTER] I already
like the way it's moving. We're just going to
call this purple Payne's gray day [LAUGHTER] because that is what we are having some good
experimenting with. You can drop color on. You can move the color
around like I am. I'm just trying to
see like how's that going to be versus some of the other things that
we've already done. Maybe we'll come
back on this one. Feel like I want to do
a couple of big ones, different things with this. Because I like this but I
like the other circle too. Put some golden here, just let that do its thing. I do like that, but I do like the
single circle tool. I want to do one of those. Let's grab another
piece of paper. I'm going to set this right here on this other pad that I've got right bias for a moment, then I can set both of these in the floor at the same time. See how thin this is. It's
so thin but it's so strong. Now, I want to do just
like a great big, maybe a lot of water on one end. Let's just see what
we can get there. Maybe we can go back with this. Man, that's a crazy fun color. Maybe we can make this a little bit lighter, one with the white. Let's just see what the
light does in here. Super fun, super
fun. Look at that. That was fun. Come
back with some gold. At this point, I don't
want you to think super hard about it unless you've done 100 of these
and you're like, "Okay, I've got my technique. I'm looking for a specific
thing that I want to do." Other than that I
just want you to go just as fast as I am, get excited to watch
the colors merge. Don't worry about what
this is looking like today because tomorrow
it's going to look completely
different when it's dry. It's just weird the way
this stuff works out. That was fun. Just
work super fast. Don't worry and see. Just trust the process and then tomorrow just, see do I love it? It's just for me because
that's what I did. I did a bunch of
these and I'm like, [LAUGHTER] funniest stuff ever
and decided it was for me. You may do this and think, "Okay, not for me." That's okay. That's what experimenting with different supplies
and materials. You could substitute
stuff and see, did you get different results?
Did you like it better? That's how we tweak
things so that they become our own thing, can love in that right there. Eventually, you'll
get to where you have your own favorites. You're like, "Okay,
let's go with this stuff, see what I can get." You end up with something completely different
than anything we've ever created here because you're just right in your groove
doing your own thing. Let's set this to the side. Now that I've put this
over here, I don't know, I'm not feeling these
little thin circles, I'm loving the big one though. [LAUGHTER] What would
happen if we just came through here
with some more water? What would that do? We're probably ruining
the whole piece now, but it's very
interesting experiment. Probably could have come along the edge and let it spread out. Should have thought that out
for a second, shouldn't I? Just touch the edge and let those spread.
Could've done that. Now, we've got a great big blob. [LAUGHTER] It's going to be
interesting to see if this even did anything tomorrow, or maybe we hate it. Let's just see. If it's all
about we do enough pieces, then we're not scared
to mess up one with our super crazy idea, and when it didn't work
out, we're like "Okay." Do several so that you can come back and mess
up the one that you're like, "Okay, I'm not loving that. Let's just see what
we can get if." It's fun to see what these
dots are going to do tomorrow. I want to just throw these
in in fun intervals, then we'll draw on
top when we're done, but thinking while it's wet, it'd be interesting
to see what they do. So that's different. Now, I want to set these in
the floor and I want to do a big abstract-y one,
so I'll be right back. Got our next one ready. I'm trying not to do
a big just square. Let's see what I got here. It's fun to go ahead and do some thick areas of ink and some thin areas
of ink because of thin areas really do some interesting movement here that the thick areas
don't quite do. Let's see. What do
we want to do here? I really loved the
purplishest. I picked up this. So this is. [LAUGHTER] I
did that with the white. Let's do some of that
with the Payne's gray. Because I like them
to have either light to medium or light
to a whole range. That's pretty cool. We are going to go ahead
with some gold and this one or we
could splatter it. I'm not feeling like this
is the splatter piece, so I'm going to go ahead and
throw the gold in. [MUSIC] I've decided that the little
gold like trails and runways here in the ink in the Payne's
gray look really cool. I think they're
going to blend them but I think they're going
to look cool when they dry, so I did do several of
those and lots of dots. This piece is
looking pretty cool. I'm going to go ahead
and set this one in the floor, and we'll come
back and do our next piece. Let's go ahead and make a
bigger stripe [NOISE] on this. I don't even mind that the water is a little bit
dirty. I'm okay with that. [NOISE] Let's see,
let's do a stripe with this yummy dailer
roundy Verdi olive, which is olive green. I like that raw umber
for some reason. [NOISE] I still like
gardening that Payne's gray. Just going to go
with what I like. [LAUGHTER] Let's go ahead
and stripe this on down. Look at that. Another
stripe under that. [NOISE] We can go ahead and add in few things there
in this stripe. I do love the way
that green moves. [NOISE] Another
stripe under that, plenty of water in my brush. I am leaving a little tiny
bit of the paper bears. Let's do another stripe
and then we'll put the ink so that we do get some areas in there where the paint isn't going
to be on there. I think that'll just look neat. [NOISE] Don't knock
the ink over. You-all see that green? My goodness. I wonder why it's just certain
colors that do that. It's amazing. Stripe all the way
to the bottom. We'll let that do
its [NOISE] thing. I want it to be even. Let's come back with some
yummy mark-making. [NOISE] Definitely see a lot of area in some of these that we
can come back with different mark-making
after the fact that we can make
super-duper cool. Even though our stripes start to combine, it doesn't matter, it's going to just
look cool the way that it dries and we
can add some fun, marks and other
things then later. In the areas where it's real dry, careful not to stick
your hand in it. The gold will spread. In the areas where it's
already towards real wet, the gold will spread, but these areas that have semi
like set up a little bit, we'll still see a nice
defined little dot later. [LAUGHTER] If you have
like a big dot up here, you go big dot and then let
it go little as it goes out because for some reason
like that first dip, It's just really strong. I think I'm going
to let this [NOISE] do its thing and dry, and we'll come back and
mark make when it's dry. [NOISE] Let's do that and then
we'll do a splatter piece. I'll be right back. Let's
do our splatter piece. Let's just do a little blob and splatter it out
and see what we get. I liked the little circle one. I really do like the
circlely one too. Let's just do a
circle and we can come back into a
bigger blob too. There's nothing saying
we can't make a million of these
because I get really excited when the ideas just
keep going and I'm like, this is super fun. I can just make a million pieces art two in hours basically. Could've made that a little
bigger, but that's okay. I'm feeling the purple, so let's just do the purple.
I'm feeling the purple. Maybe just a tiny
bit of the darker. You can do these in
any way you want. I'm just playing with a circle. Just why not? [LAUGHTER] Got some. I'm obsessed with the little
bit of umber in there. Just fun to go with the flow. What if we go ahead and that might have been an extra mark
to many there. Maybe we can go ahead
with some gold in here because I wanted the ink around the circle. Might've did too much there, but we can always
make another one. [NOISE] Then just squirt each
center and see what we get. We're going to let that dry. I'm hoping once it's dry, we just get some yummy
variations of color in here. What if we dip some other shades in
here just for giggles? [NOISE] We're going
to let that dry. Let me set that on the floor. We do one more abstract, but I happen to think as I
was squirting water on there. What if we did the water
squirt a little less dramatic, would we get water speckles in our piece when we were done? Now I'm just doing some
more experimenting to see. [NOISE] I'm going to
just paint some water on and do one of these colors, I'm trying to see
where the water is. I'm hoping that with we just
lightly squirt the water. Well, we see some
interesting speckling things go on here. Don't ask me why I
love this Payne's gray added in so much, I just do. [LAUGHTER] [NOISE] Let's
not overdo it though. Maybe some gold in
there. Then let's see. [NOISE] When I was supporting the water
on some other pieces I saw there is some
separation in there. Don't do it when
it's its wettest but if we wait a moment, can we get a splatter with
the water sprinkled on there? I just want to see. I'm going to go ahead
and just do some fun, mark-making now that I've
got the colors on there. I like this olive green with
the blue and the brown. It's really pretty on the other pieces that
I've tried it on. I like that color way. You do enough of
those smaller pieces, you start to see color
ways that you're like, I love this and I didn't
even think I would, or oh, I don't love
that kind of thing. Now that we've done
that, we've got some areas that are drawing. I feel like in these
lighter areas, if we very lightly
speckled the water, we can get some drops. [NOISE] I can see him there. I don't know if we're
going to be able to keep them know when it's done. I want to just see what will
these add into our piece? Will we get the
speckled water look? Before I get it too
wet and ruin it, let's just go ahead now and set this to the side and
let it do its thing. Then we will come back tomorrow and let all these
pieces dry overnight. I will be back tomorrow to
start looking at what we got, did we like it, did something work or not work better
than we thought, or worse than we thought. We can mark making a few of these pieces to make
them super cool. I can't wait to do that. Do a whole bunch of these, put them on your pad so you can slip them
right off on the floor without moving any of it and let them dry overnight and
I'll see you tomorrow. [MUSIC]
8. Large Finished Pieces: [MUSIC] Let's check
out our big pieces. A couple of these I did after I turned the camera
off because I got so enamored with the orange and red like we were talking about
in the other videos. I believe this one
I did off-camera. But look at how
gorgeous the oranges and the Payne's gray. It's that orange and
blue combination. Look how gorgeous
that turns out. Beautiful. This is
that pretty green. I liked that blue-green combination because
Payne's gray, it's like a bluish gray. Just look how beautiful that
turns out as a stripy one. Gorgeous. I did really
love my larger circle. I think it was completely
different in look using the white paint versus the
really dark Payne's gray. How super cool did
that turn out? Then I will admit out
of everything I did, I actually liked 99 percent of everything that I did
yesterday, surprising myself. But I did not like the
purple one, and it's okay. We could do some mark-making and we could call it finished, but I just did not
like it. I don't know. I think it was all the
different. I don't know. For some reason that
one doesn't grab me. Going on to the random
blob abstracts. Look at this one. This is the one where we did the little tiny bit of
water spritz to see if that would make any
difference or if we would see any water drops
in our piece. I don't see any specific little circle
drops that it left, but I do see some variations where it may be pushed
the color around, that's really super cool. That piece actually turned
out quite beautiful. Then this piece, I like
it, but I don't love it. But it is rather beautiful. I don't know why that's
not grabbing me. It's really beautiful,
but it's not grabbing me. It's not my favorite.
Look at this one. This is that splatter one again. Even though I did end
up with a space over here that was probably darker than I might
have wanted it, it's still super beautiful
as a gigantic piece. What if we came back
and put a pattern in here with a Posca
pen or something. We can lighten that back up. Then that would be
really beautiful. These splatter
pieces are some of my favorite on these things
that I created yesterday. I definitely want you to
get a good spray bottle that will give you some
good splatter because these turned out
just super cool. Next on this one, just like the smaller ones
would be to mark-make and do any additional art on
top of it that you want. Then I will see you
back in class. [MUSIC]
9. Adding Interesting Marks: Let's talk about doing some mark-making on top
of our pieces. What I want you to do is to not start off with
your favorite piece. The pieces that you think
these are my favorites, set those to the side
and come back to them. I want you to pick the piece that is your very
least favorite, and we're going to mark make and play with different
materials on top of it just to see what can we mark
make on top of this with. I've got just a lot
of different things that I can mark make
here in my studio. I've got some
Neocolor II crayons, I've got Posca Pens, I've got gold Mica ink, we can come back with more Acrylic ink on
top if we wanted, I also have pastels, I've got different
types of pencils, so I want you to pull together all the different
things that you think, I wonder if I could use this and just see how does
it work on here. For instance, with
the Neocolor crayons, I can pick a color that
I think is going to go pretty well in here, and then I can just
start making lines, dots, patterns,
anything like that. This actually looks
a bit like the gold, so that works
really well on top. So the Neocolor
crayon, that's a go. It's not as vivid or vibrant
as the gold or the white, but it is a good choice. The Posca Pen, that's always
a fun one to play with, so we just going to test
that on the top of here. Now is the time to experiment
with lines and patterns and just what different marks do you think you might
like in your pieces, so we could do something
like those dots. See, we can do lines like that, we could do any little
pad or anything. We've got the gold, which I know I'm going to
love because I love gold. Let's shake this up. I did the dumbest
thing yesterday and I didn't have
the lid fully on it when I shook it like this
and I got gold everywhere. When you're shaking these, make sure your lids are on. You going to make a
mess, I made a mess. I was like, oops. All right, so the gold, got a big blob of
color, let's just see. I'll see man that gold, I just love the gold. It does different than it
did when the paint was wet. Because remember when
the paint was wet, that gold just spread
out into that wet paint. Now I'm getting
very decisive dots, very clearly defined, they're not varying
in shape or size. Super cool. We could also do
some type of lines. You could do diamonds, you could do little crosses, you could do all interesting mark-making on top
of these pieces. We could use different
color variations as our guide of where
to stop and start. Super cool. Yes, for the gold ink. Clean my little pen out there, and then we could start looking
around at other things. Can we use graphite? Maybe we've got some.
See now this stuff, any little pencil,
definitely check that out. That is a super nice line. Feels good to write on it. It's nice and smooth. That's definitely a yes. I also have the marks a lot. I'm drawing a blank here,
these Staedtler pencils. I also have Staedtler pencils. Let's just see if I got a
white Staedtler pencil, can we even see it? See it's a very light. If we do a brown
Staedtler pencil. Let's just see. Then get it started. Got some paint on the end of it. There we go. Let's see if I got
it started now. Yes. Staedtler
pencil, that's a yes, but it's not as vibrant as
the Posca or the ink either. It's a little bit more like the Neocolor crayon in vibrance, and if I'm drawing over a color, see that works great. Then let's see, we also have some
pastels over here, so let me just
randomly grab one. These are soft pastels, my Sennelier
collection up there. See that is good
mark-making right there. Now, the only drawback to the soft pastels as now
we have something on here that is going to
smear if we touch it and you could use the
finishing spray on it, I haven't tried that, so you'll just want
to experiment. That was a nice variety of stuff that we could draw and
write on top of this with, we can also paint
on top of this. We could use any of
our colored pencils. Colored pencils definitely
seem to work really well, if you've got pastel pencils, that's a good choice. I'm going to start playing
now on pieces I like and just see if we can make it just a tiny bit
more spectacular. This piece right here, one of my favorite on
the little pieces, and I want some gold in there, so I'm going to do
maybe some gold dots. I mean, there's gold in there, but I want like a
little tiny bit more. I think dots just make it
a little more whimsical, a little more just beautiful. You can use gold Posca Pen, you could use silver Posca Pen. I've got one of those
hiding somewhere. Some of my pens have
like hide for myself. I think they're in a box on my table under a
bunch of other stuff, so I've never opened the box. Look what that
does, my goodness. Look what just adding that little bit of a
dot to that edge does, it just made it a tiny
bit more exciting. It's a case of, I don't
want to overdo it, but I do want to just add a
little surprise in there, and I think that little
bit of dots right there and right there did it. I'm really loving that
one, so that's cool. See I love this
little girl here. This might be something
where we come back and we could put
some dots in here. That will really change the look of all this super dark for us. Look at that. That completely changed
the look of this piece. How amazing did that just get? I love that it's so super shiny, and I could continue in
the super dark areas as if it's like that's
what's coming up with the, I just got a very
big blob there. It's okay. See these are so pretty
in that dark, dark space. Look at that. That is gorgeous now. Look how doing those marks
just totally transformed that from that super
dark to, isn't that fun? I just love this little
area right here. I just want to zoom in and
that'd be it right there. That's gorgeous, so super fun. I'm loving that. Let's just set that
up there to the side, and let's see with
our other pieces. Check this out. Let me rinse the
gold out of my pen. Check this one out. Let's go with our Posca Pen. I could come back and
add more gold lines if I wanted to but what if we
took the little Posca Pen? Fun white dots? For some reason, I'm
just a dot person. I just love a
little row of dots. Super fun. That's fun. You can pick a color
out of your piece and say, this color
is the color. I'm going to put white like
I did with that last piece where I covered up the
very darkest color that I thought was almost
overwhelming the piece, and we softened it. Look how pretty that is. It's just so sweet. Look at that Loving
that right there too. My goal here is not to overly
mark making and stuff, but just to add a little touch, a little bit more to look at. A little more interest
as you get closer to your piece I love that one. I like lines and
dots to do that. Let's look at one of
our stripy ones here. Look at that. These are pretty. I want to go with
the purple one here, and see this, we could
get a little more creative with our mark making. I could go back with my pen. If you're using a dip pen, a regular dip pen is fine also, I just like this one
because more ink, the ink goes further. That's what I like about it. Because you'll
notice like I just kept on going and going with those little dots on
that other piece that's why the ink really
gets up in there, and it just goes so much further than the
regular dip pen. But the regular
dip pen is a whole lot cheaper than this nib, and it does the same thing. What if we do a line, and we use this little section
of color as our guide. Where to start and stop. How fun that is with the lines. A little bit of practice and your lines will
be all the same size, but I'm not even caring if
they're all the same size because I could just come
right back in there with, say, a dot every
once in a while. Then it looks like
it's on purpose. Don't look at some of
your things as, oh no, I made a mistake or oh
no I didn't quite do what I wanted to look at it as. Now I have this to work with
how can I make that fit in? Look at the three dots. Look at that. Another thing that I
think is really pretty. There's some lines with
some little beads on it. I don't know that I'll
do that in this one, but it is a fun technique. I don't know I hate
to do anything else. I'm loving it right there now. Maybe a few dots at the top. Like right here in this. See Then it just
shimmer and the white. Look at that. We're going to call
that one good. I love it. See how fun these are you
just go with the flow. Let's move a few of
these over to the side. Look at this one. I want to do this one. I love this one. This one I don't
see any gold in it. Let me see if I
can scoot a few of these out of my way here, so we can scoot up. There we go. I don't
see any gold in it. What I could do is do the gold. I don't know, it's so
pretty like it is. Don't want to do the gold. Let's do it on this one
instead for a moment. Because I don't know, I'm so in love with
the other one. I almost hate to put
anything else on it. Some of these if you're like, oh my gosh, I love
it just like that. I don't want any
other marks on to, you know what, go for it. Sometimes you have to sit
and look at the piece and live with the
piece and think, okay, do I want to do this
or do I want to do that? It's okay if you're like, I don't think I do I
think I want to do. Look how that is with
just not overdoing it, just a little bit of
dots in the dark area and spreading it around so it's not super
heavy on one spot. Look how whimsical that
just made that look. Super fun. See now this one needed that. Look at that. Now we turn to really dark
spaces into something beautifully wimzy, look at that, that just made that
one so much prettier, just that little bit because
it's got the gold shining in the light already and then a
little dots pull on it too. I'm loving that. This one I love so
much just like it is but doing that one first
actually made me think that if we did a little on this one
just in those darker spots, I would like that If you've
got one that's really, really your favorite
and you're on the fence and you're thinking,
I don't know, do the one that's next
to your favorite, it's getting close
and you're like, look how good that made that. Now I feel like I can
dive into this one, that did just make it easier. Do keep your very favorite and if you're on
the fence about, I don't want to add something
to it and ruin it go ahead and do a different
piece that's similar. If you've got two that are
real similar and just see. Did you make it look amazing or you're like, okay,
my thought was right It's all about experimenting, and then I'm always surprised, I'm like look what I made today. Totally makes my day
when things work out. If I do a whole bunch of them, when you have three or
four that you're like. But you have 10
that you're like, my God, these are gorgeous. Totally makes the whole day. Gets me excited to
come up here again. Look at that. Right on that side offset
this side, oh my goodness. Super pretty with those
little dots in there. Oh my goodness. I'm filling that right there. Look at that. It's pretty little
dots shimmering That one just got
way more beautiful, and because I did the
other piece first, I can see how I could do it
without overwhelming it. Now that I'm back on this one, you can go back and forth too this little piece right here, I'm feeling it needs just
a little bit of some gold. Like maybe just
one little bitty. See so pretty. These are so pretty. Now I want to go and just
do a whole bunch more, and you see how many
I painted yesterday, but they're super fun. This one is now so beautiful and now that I'm looking at it, I don't know if you see this
or not either cuts abstract Did I just get gold? No. Already had gold on that, I can cut this one into a shape. But doesn't that look
like maybe a girl with her 1950s little
haircut in that, funny, it's very abstract. I can see sticking my
grandmother's face right in the middle of
that and it looking good. These are gorgeous. I'm loving those now. How I got that gold right there. But we can cut these, so I'm okay with that. Now, set this one to the side and trying to find
somewhere to sit it that I won't get it dirty,
won't smear anything. Let's look at what we
got left over here. These dry pretty fast. Once you've got the ink on top. See I could do that one
and I would love it. Let's do this one, I can't really think of mine. It's going to be gold
dots everywhere. Still sticking with the
darkest brown areas. See now this is why I like
using that number in there because it a gave me a feel like this is now a whole collection
with a feel that's similar.
10. Finishing Mark Making: That is so pretty. Look at that. It's like we filled in the
cracks with some gold, but we've got plenty
of gold in here also. That's super pretty. I'm loving that one. Loving that one. I could even add
a dot or two here in the light area if we wanted, it will just pick
up in the shine. She is pretty. It looks like a she to me. Let's see. What else? See, we got this
piece right here. This piece, I think
she's beautiful too and definitely, I can see
some extra gold in here. There we go. Super beautiful. Look at that. Softened the
darkness, brought out some little more
patterns in throughout. Wow, look how beautiful that is. Gorgeous. Look at this. Oh my goodness, look
at these together. Such a beautiful
like little pair. These are super fun. Let's just set these over here. Let's just look. I want to do a big one. I'm going to come back. Let's see. Look at that one right there. I'm trying to move
a few of these where I don't ruin them. I love that one. I love this one,
very contemporary. Don't you think that's
very contemporary? I'm loving that one. Put that over there. These little ones,
I'm sure they're dry. Put these over here. Now let's just see. I love this one. See that big stripe? I'm filling a little
bit for the moment. Oh my goodness. I just have little
papers everywhere. Check out, I do love this. I want to show you another mark that I think would
be really pretty. If we did some lines with
some dots in the lines, I think that would be pretty. What if we just took
that right here? I want the lines to weave
in and out of each other. If they start and stop, it's not a huge deal, but it would be nice
if they didn't stop. There we go. Look how pretty that line is. Then just come back. Do some little pearls in there. If you're doing the white, it's like pretty little
white dots in there. I just think it's so pretty. It's just delicate. It's a pretty line. We don't have to have too
many things going on, just subtle and pretty. That's a real pretty
line making thing. I've already done some dots
in here, so that's fun. But we can come back
and add some more. We could come back
with a different color if you wanted to
add black accents, if we wanted to add Posca Pen. Lots of different things
that we can do in here. Because I had one of these dropped down as a solid circle. This is again,
another thing that we can turn a mistake or a thing that you
weren't intending into something that
looks like on purpose, just go back and fill
in some other spots of the pattern that
you are creating and then it looks like
it was on purpose. Don't be afraid of spots that weren't doing quite
what you had intended. Another thing too, don't
get so close looking at it that you see all
the mistakes up close. People are going to be looking
at this from a distance. Hold it back, don't get hung
up on any small weird spots. It's too fun. On the bigger ones,
perfect example of how to take something from
smaller and going larger. You're going to have
more going on with these bigger projects than
you did the smaller ones. You can work on these
for quite a long time. You can keep adding
patterns and stripes and designs until you're
like, I love this. I want to keep working on
that stripe one personally, but I want to move on to say, this one here and we can
actually very easily finish it off with just a
few little patterns in say, the darker area here. That's what I want to do. Let's just go ahead. Some of these,
you're going to have really obvious spots
that you're like, something would be
really cool right here and let's just add that, not overdo it and call
that one beautiful. See that's beautiful. I really think the
very darkest spots lend themselves to
something like this. That's what I've
chosen to focus on. You might think something completely different and think, oh these areas here in
this specific color would be perfect or
these areas here, they're very light
would be great. Especially if you're
doing a dark mark, like using a black pen, or black Posca Pen
or Micron Pen, or using really any of those
little Neocolor crayons. If you pick the color
and you're like, this is what would
be perfect here. You really preference there. That's pretty cool right there. Check it out. That pretty dots right
in there shimmering along with the other things
that are shimmering. We're going to call
this one done. It's beautiful. Let's look at this
last one here. I really feel like we
did the little one and we filled in all the dark and made it
spectacularly amazing. I think that we can do
that with this larger one, which is why I love having a big piece similar
to my smaller pieces, because now I can see how to finish this where I'm
like, that really worked. Look at that. That turned out beautiful. Especially this little section, it looks like a nebula. It's a picture from out of space and we got a picture
of a nebula out there, but look at that
with the gold in it. That turned out
really beautiful. Now that we have done all
of these gorgeous pieces, how much more beautiful
did they turn out as we added mark-making on top with something as simple
as maybe some dots, possibly some lines, different mark-making things that you're thinking
you might love, some Posca Pen? Look how beautiful the little
Posca Pen One turned out. These are super fun. Now I'm just like gaga over how gorgeous some
of these turnout. I want you to take
your favorite pieces, take your least favorite piece, and practice all the
different things that you have to which
you like the best, then take your
favorite little pieces and finish off with some marks and just see how cool
do they turn out. I can't wait to see what your pieces look like
after you embellish them, and I'll see you back in class.
11. Final Thoughts: How fun is mineral paper? Right now like the
coolest discovery. I love discovering new things that get added to my
favorites list and this is definitely one of those things that's going to
be a favorite going forward. I love how thin it is. I love that it's not as
plasticky as a Yupo. I love that. It
doesn't warp when I put a whole lot of water on it. I love the way that
the inks move, and blend, and change on
the paper as it dries. I love some of the
fun techniques that we did with the paper, finishing it off with
some mark-making. I truly enjoyed
hanging out with you at my art table creating some
of these projects today. I hope that you're loving this paper and you can't wait to get started and
make some of your own. Come back and show me some
of those projects that you've created and I'll
see you next time.
DENISE LOVE, Artist & Photographer
