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1. Welcome: [MUSIC] Hello, and welcome. I'm Laura Irrgang. I'm a writer and illustrator and artist living in
Lone Oak, Texas. I spend my days making things in my studio
near the woods. I split my time between painting
and illustrating books. I created the comic strips
Glitterville and Greg. I also sing, play harp, and paint murals. I absolutely love decorating, and it makes me so happy to arrange and rearrange
my art studio. Today, we're going to
do a DIY welcome mat with bright geometric colorful
triangles along the edge. It's important to me to change my space to reflect the
seasons and my mood. This rug is a great way
to get an instant jolt of personality without
a huge time investment. When people visit your home, one of the first things they see is usually your front porch. I want to help you
create a really bright and cheerful,
colorful welcome mat. You can go for a
summary nautical vibe or you can go with
botanicals and a leaf. Or roll out your welcome mat
with a full-on rainbow vibe. Support your favorite local team or personalize it with
your family's name. Go with modern house numbers or have fun with
a seasonal vibe. These rugs are
front door worthy, but you can really
put them anywhere, from your back
door to your sink, to your bathroom, to anywhere in your house you
want a bold pop of color. They're fun to do solo, but it's also a really fun
project to do with friends. These make a great gift for a hostess or housewarming
party or just to say, hi, I was thinking of you. In the next video, I'm going to give you a
quick project orientation. Let's get started.
2. Class Orientation : [MUSIC] Hi there. I'm going to give you a
quick project orientation, so you know what to expect. First, I'm going to
talk about supplies, and I'm guessing
you probably have most of these around
the house already. Then I'm going to talk to
you about choosing colors. I want you to choose
colors that make you really happy and just
make your heart sing. We'll talk about how to pick different color combinations
to make that happen. Then we'll talk about some
different techniques you can use from drawing on
the pattern around the edge to even using a
stencil or free handing a shape or a leaf or maybe your house numbers or
something like that. Then we'll move on
to the fun part, painting, painting
the actual rug. This is a quick, easy, satisfying project, and I think you're going to
have a really good time. It's front door worthy, but you can put
these rugs anywhere. I mean, any little
spot in your house from your kitchen to your
bathroom, to your backdoor. There's always a
place to squeeze in a fun rug with a
bright color palette. These are really fun
to gift as gifts for a house-warming gift or just a summer hello or a holiday party or a hostess
gift or something like that. Let's go on to supplies.
3. Supplies: [MUSIC] The first thing we'll
talk about is supplies and I'm guessing you probably already have most of these things around
your house anyway. You'll need to grab a
yard stick or a ruler, a container for water, any permanent marker, a palette, paint brushes, paper
towels, and acrylic paint. Flatter or coarse weaves of carpet will be easier to paint. Rope texture or coir mats will
provide a flatter surface. You can paint on regular carpet, but you want to avoid
a super thick pile. It will be tricky to
control the paint and hard to distribute
the paint evenly. This is not a project for
your super fancy paints. You can use leftover
house paint, or I'd suggest those
small tubes of craft paint that come in a million different colors
and they're easy to find. Next, we'll talk about
which colors will give you maximum
impact for your space.
4. Color: [MUSIC] Now we're going to talk about what palette
you're going to choose. I want you to choose colors
that really make you happy, that really fit your
personality and give you the feeling you
want for your atmosphere. Let's take a look at
choosing a palette. There are so many
colors to pick. As long as you choose
colors you love, you can't really go wrong. Is it spring time
where you live? Then you might consider
pulling colors from the plants in
your flower bed, or just your favorite flowers from a bouquet from
the grocery store. Is your front door a bold color, then use that color and several contrasting
colors in the rug. One of my favorite things
to do is a holiday rug. Is there a big
holiday coming up in your nearby months like
Halloween or Valentine's Day? It can be fun to
make a rug that uses those traditional holiday
colors and images. Another fun idea is to pull
colors from your interior. Look around and decide
what accent you have, like pillows and art, and use those
colors in your rug. Are you really into Neons? Then grab a few bottles that
are super, duper bright. You might even consider
glow in the dark paint. Here's one I made recently with some of my current
favorite colors. To get an idea of what
you'd like it to look like, you can sketch it out with crayons or markers.
Here's what I did. I took a picture of
an actual door mat and I drew on top
of it in Procreate. That way I could try
out different colors and shapes and see what I liked. Here's a tropical option with
lots of shades of green and a nice big tropical leaf with house numbers
in the middle. Are you having trouble narrowing
it down to a few colors? Then pick them all. Go with the rainbow vibe. I always like nautical
stuff in the summer. Get out your reds, and your whites, and your blues, and your navies, and go to town with some fun beachy stuff. I used a crab here, but you could try
a beach ball or a shell or something like that. If you're the type
of person who enjoys labeling things or monograms, you might want to go
with your last name, or if your house has a name, you could put that
on the mat as well. If you're a sports fan, you can always support
your local team. You could go a little more
minimal and modern with clean lines and house numbers in circles across the middle. Now that you've got ideas, go grab the perfect paint colors for you and meet me back here.
5. Sketch Your Pattern: [MUSIC] In this video, we're going to talk about
sketching the pattern. You can go with smaller
triangles or larger ones. Pick whatever effect
you like best. I'm going to make my border
three inches deep this time. You can experiment with
thicker or thinner marks, but this is what I'm choosing. I'm going to start
from the bottom and measure up three inches. Measure down three inches
or up three inches, and make a small dot and in a minute I'm going to
connect these altogether. [MUSIC] Connect these. Now, an important step is to draw a diagonal
line in each corner. We're about to start
making the triangles. I want to connect
to this corner. We've been a big rectangle, so I want to connect
this corner, with this corner like this, I'll just line them
up and make a line, diagonal line like this. The reason I'm doing
that is when we start making our triangles, it'll help the triangles
come out even on both the horizontal band and on the vertical
band of the border. Again, this corner
to this corner. [MUSIC] It's almost time to paint. Are you ready? You've
got your sketch ready, and we're about to go.
6. Paint: [MUSIC] Okay guys, it's
time for the fun stuff. The painting. You've
got your sketch ready and now I want you to get your painting supplies
out and let's get started. [MUSIC] Painting on carpet requires a lot of paint, so what I like to
do is to squeeze a big glob of paint
out on my palette. Then I use my paintbrush, kind of like a spoon to
scoop it up on one side. I get a pretty big portion
of paint on the one side of the brush and then I try to use that to push an outline
into the paint. I tried to use the edge of the paint brush to keep
the lines straight. Once I have a nice straight
edge on that triangle, then you could just go
crazy swishing that and smooshing that paint into
the rest of the triangle. If you're going to
keep your rug outside. It will stay fresh looking for a long time but might
eventually fade, it's getting heavy
use and sun exposure. [MUSIC] Paint in any text or image
at the end and that's it. You're done. That was
easy peasy lemon squeezy. Next, I would like you to go
onto the conclusion video to see how to share your project with other people in
the class gallery.
7. Conclusion: [MUSIC] Thank you so much for making
a geometric rug with me. I hope that every
time you see it, it makes you smile and it brightens your space
in your environment, and it welcomes
people to your house, or your studio, or your room in a way that
you want it to. I hope you had fun with
this. Please upload a photo of your rug
to the class gallery. I know I personally
would love to see it and I know other students really like to see what you
create in these classes too. If you post it on Instagram, please tag me at [inaudible],
so I can see it too. Feel free to follow
me on social media. If you liked this class, please consider
leaving reviews so it can help other
students find it too. You guys, I'll see you
next time. Happy painting.
Laura Irrgang, Artist, Author, Illustrator
