Even More Easy Abstracts You Can Do in A Few Hours

1. Introduction to the course: Welcome back. We're going to do even more easy abstracts. Abstracts if you can do in a few hours. Some will take minutes, some will take a few evenings. Just as a review, my name is Doris Day and I love teaching art and sharing my love of art with people I haven't met and our vegetation and all my artwork is original work that was created just for my students. And I'm sharing it online with you. Let's have a look at what we're going to do in this course. We're going to use a brush to make circles and circles that overlap. And then the M, You have a wonderful painting of layered circles that just look awesome. We're going to create an S composition that looks like a wave. And the end product just looks like it's moving. It's just so exciting. We're going to create a wave where the paint just flows one into the other. We're going to create a painting that looks like the wind is blowing really hard and just pushing all that color and pushing all that color. It's a painting you do in minutes, but look spectacular. This painting is just the bold, bold barks and bold brushstrokes. And look how it just looks great. Everything's exploding from the center. We're also going to use torn paper to create an abstract. The end product is awesome. It just creates so much movement and action and variation, but I can't show you everything. So join me for even more easy abstracts that you can do in a few hours. Sometimes even just minutes 2. Materials you will need: The materials that you will need for this course are acrylic paints. If you have watercolor paints, you can do just about the same thing. So you can use them if you don't want to buy acrylic paints, three brushes, small, medium and large. A container for water or plastic cover for your table because your shirt and make a mess. We're going to do some splattering and that's messy. Or garbage. A small piece of cardboard, toilet roll, a piece of paper the size of your painting, and a cork masking tape in different widths. So just gather all this up and we'll see you in the next lesson. 3. Creating an abstract with circles made with a brush : Circles with a brush. So the theme is circles here and I've started, and instead of just showing you right from the beginning, I start and then add to it. So here we go. All I'm doing is twirling the brush. You can see it better because it's a dark color. On the first layer that I had put on. You could barely see when I was doing, my hand was too much in front. So I've decided to just start at this stage where you can see better. And it's not rocket science. You take your brush and you twirl it and you make a circle. That's all you're doing. So choose a color palette that you like. If you don't like my color palette, don't use it. The idea is to repeat that circle and odd number of times. So whatever color you pick, it doesn't matter. Just pick a color that you like and add it. Now, I can see what the yellow that the black kinda blends with it. So if you are working with light colors, near dark colors, you might want to just wait until that circle layer is dry. So I'm adding a variety of colors here. I'm using orange, I'm using red, I'm using yellow and different pages for neutral colors. And I'm using a dark. Whenever dark you use, you don't have to use the same one. I do. Just pick something that's way darker than the rest. You can see here that the black is seeping into the yellow if you don't want, that makes sure that your layers are dry in between. So I'm going to add some light, light areas. See how light that is. That's what was happening in that first video and that's why I chose to just leave it. I'm not showing you that step because it was just one more way to make you bored with the whole process. So it's very light. Be careful when you're working with light colors. Are very watered down colors. They tend to blend together really well. But this effect is fantastic. It's a very easy way to create an abstract you, if you're working on a larger surface than this, just use a bigger brush. When you think there are enough circles, just take off the tape and I still having issues with my tape. Just very carefully as much as possible. Just go slowly. If there are edges that are kind of ripped because the tape just held onto the paint too much. Just save your paint before you throw it away and, or wash it off. And just use that, those same colors. Remember what colors you use. For this project. Make sure you use colors that are close to each other on the color wheel. That really helps to, for the look of the painting. Also makes sure that you have a variety of colors that really helped make sure you have light, medium and dark colors. You can also work with complimentary colors that works very well. If you have a variety between transparent and opaque colors, That's really neat too, That's pretty well. What happened here is I have a variety of transparent and opaque. So now I'm going to just very carefully try to fix that edge just by adding a touch of paint and then smearing it so it looks like it belongs. I think I'll do this off camera. Here's the piece tidied up, lovely. And look at all the flowing circles overlapping each other. It looking like they're all floating together. Have fun with this project and we'll see you in the next video. 4. Wet paint flow to create waves: I call this painting waves because it made me think of, it makes me think of waves. I spent some time in Italy and being a land lumber. I just was impressed by the motion of the waves and also the different colors depending on the time of day and the light shining on it. And even though the colors I've picked this time are not really wave colors. It just reminds me of waves. Also. This is a great painting for letting paint flow in one into the other and watching what kind of effects you can get. So this is wet on wet paint, so add a lot of water while some water to your paint so that it can flow together as you're painting it, I am picking gold colors, purple colors. So we're going to fill our grainy black, which is really the black they've gotten mixed in with the gold color. This gold color is called quinacridone. Gold. You don't have to use these colors. You can use any color you want. Notice I'm adding really wet paint in-between those marks so that when I add another color, it will just flow together. You have to work fast with this painting. You can't daily, daily because otherwise the paint doesn't flow together. Now we're going to add a really dark, dark can make it really contrasting. Watch how the black paint, and this case it's really black. Kind of blends in with the gold color and the greenish color and the purple color and create effects that you couldn't do without the paint. I'm doing it for you. You can't paint these kind of effects. They just happen. And that's the wonderful part of this painting. Now we're going to add whites. One thing to experiment with is what happens if you put thicker paint next to really wet paint? And what happens? This is an experimental piece and it's meant for you to practice the technique of letting the paint do what it does best. Because in this painting, that's what it does best. And then you can move it around, have some of the paint, kind of just float. Look at those marks and how awesome they are. And you're really can't paint that. You have to let the paint do it for you. Now let's try the masking tape issue. This whole series. I've had so much trouble with my masking tape. So let's see what it does this time. It's being good. I'm happy. So we take off the masking tape and that way we can see what the painting really looks like. Sometimes the paint will actually go under the tape and that's what makes it sticky when you're putting on the masking tape. I didn't show you this but just rub the edge of the masking tape really well. So that's really seal down. I do this every time, but in this case, somehow this paper and the masking tape or are not friends. Here's the work now. I like it. I like that flow of the paint, one into the other. Now it's your turn to give it a try. Have fun with this painting. Just really enjoy the whole process and watch what the paint does. Really compare the thick paint, the thin paint. It's just awesome. It's a great painting. We'll see you in the next video. 5. Wet paint using light colours: It was in blue. Now, I'm I thought that other painting got really dark, so I thought I would do it again in lighter colors. So this time I've picked a light purple. I've picked blues and a little bit of Brown's. So I take it very slowly and I add paint. I keep my paint relatively wet so that it'll flow one into the other. So the yellow, orange that I have is a complement to the purple. So on the color wheel, they're opposites. And that's a great way to create contrast. And it's a great way to kinda make your painting pop and make it look interesting. Now if you don't like these colors, keep in mind you use the colors that you like. So when you're choosing your colors, look at the color wheel, pick your color, and then look on the opposite side and trying to incorporate a little bit of that other color on the opposite side. So what it does, it helps your painting pop and be very interesting. Actually, the colors are brighter, bolder when they're next to each other. And now I'm adding just a light blue and filling in. And notice the paint is quite wet. So when I wash my brush and come back in, I can wet it down even more and add more water because I really want the paint to flow from one to the next. Now I have a dark, which is a light, a dark gray. I'm mixing some blue in it. So it gives me like a dark blue, gray, grayish color. And I put it in, watch how the colors blend into each other and create these very interesting textures. You get one color on one side, the other color on the other side. And when the water brings them together, they create a third color and it's really, really neat. And I'm adding white as a highlight. So to this kind of waves, I wanted the white highlights. If you want to create a pattern that's not a wave, then don't worry about using white. You could use another color. My theme this time, because when I created this, I was in Italy and near the ocean. And it just reminded me of the water coming into the bay. And those waves on the windy days and creates these little white edges of waves. Now let's dry. So I'll take the green tape off and we'll see what we have. These are the colors of a great day in Italy. I had the paint sneak under there, under the tape in one spot. What you can do there if you want to keep the edges white is just pick some gesso and paint over it. But if you're going to frame it, Don't worry about it because the mat board will cover it. Because the mat board will be right next to that edge and you won't see where the paint had slipped under the tape. The white edge is simply to have a something for the two you can attach to the mat board. I think I like these colors, so give it a try. Use your own colors and have fun. We'll see you in the next painting. 6. The wind blown look -abstract: Blown away. This is a very windy painting and it's just marks that just move like crazy. Again, my table is moving because I pushed so hard when I paint. So I'm sorry about that. Here we go. We're going to create a background to start. So one very simple background. And it's really good that the paint blends with each other. So if I have wet paint on the surface, it's going to make these marks happen that much faster. So I started with white and yellow. Now I'm adding pinks. And I want it to be looking like the wind blew it away. That's exactly what I'm going to do. So see how I put on the marks. You go quickly, you go fast and you don't stop. I'm going to scratch in with my pencil and a few darks, kind of create that diagonal composition. Little bit of a T on the diagonal. And then I'm going to add more marks. Or you have a little bit of a guideline where I want my focal point to be. It's going to be in the bottom left. And the rest of the marks I'm going to add and try and get the eyes to lead them towards that bottom left. And here I'm painting some more and adding more. Just keep painting until you're happy with the paintings. So that's exactly what I'm doing. Now. I'm adding a dark so I had like colors. I have white, yellow, pale pink, pale orange. And now I'm adding a dark. See when you add a dark, it's instant contrast, instant focal point, instant drama. And that's really what you want in the painting quite often is a lot of drama. It makes it interesting and makes people want to look at it. So when I'm done, I think I'm done. I take the masking tape off just like that. And this masking tape is way better than the other. And then you see what you have. Now in minutes, not hours. You can create this painting. Just make sure your background has wet paint on it. And then you just keep adding paint till you're happy. Thought for fun. See you in the next painting. 7. Diagonal lines abstract : Diagonal lines. Now this is a project I hesitated showing you, but I'm saying they will anyways, because it was quite popular when I taught it. And some people loved it and some people hated it. So step one is creating a background. So I chose blue and I'm going to work on a blue background. This is sort of a blue purple. So I'm adding a little purple on one side and my brush had a little yellow in it. So it's gonna get a little tinge of yellow. But do a background first and let it dry. And that's what I'm going to do now. Here it's dry. And what I do is I take a piece of cardboard and I just picked a piece of part of packaging and then I paint the edges and they stamp it. And we're going to stamp different colors very much all over the place. We're going to create a pattern. So your goal is to spread out the color. And at one point, what you will do is have one area that's a little more white or a little more black. A little more variety in the color contrast and the tonal values so that it's different. So this part is really just meditative more than anything. You just paint the edges of your cardboard and stamp and you can choose whatever colors you like. Because I had a purplish blue background, I chose to add some orange. And now one of my mottos is also to use the opposite side of the color wheel, but also variations on the same color I used in the background. So now I'm using orange, but I'm also going to add a little bit of purple, a little bit of light, blue, a little bit of dark. And just create an overall pattern. And it'll be very neat. It's very easy to just dab stamps there. But when you're stamping, think about it a little bit. You want to create an area that is a little more interesting and harassed and all the other lines guide your eye towards the certain area and see if you can do it. Now, just keep stamping. You don't have to follow me here. I let it dry and now I'm adding a little more. And I didn't have enough in the corners. My corners were blank. And you want each corner to be a little bit different. That's one of the painting guidelines. I wouldn't say rules, but if it really helps, if you try and make your corners different, it makes your painting more interesting overall. So I've added darks. I have to think about the next color that I want to add. I don't think I want to add red, but I want to add some other colors. So when you're choosing your colors, think about the main color you will have. Then look at the opposite side of the color wheel, then pick a dark color. I here I have black but doesn't have to be black. It could be just a dark blue or dark purple, any dark color. And then you want light colors. You can have white, but it doesn't have to be white. It could be a very light other color. It could be a base. It could be a light yellow. It could be a very pale pink. It doesn't have to be pure white. Now what I'm going to add is purple, light purple. Just to repeat some of the background color. I don't want it the same. I want it to be very similar, but not the same. I just wanted to echo the colors. I want the colors to repeat themselves. This painting is not very hard, but it also takes a lot of time and some thoughtfulness. So take your time when you're doing this. You could do this in one evening or you could do this over several evenings. It's up to you. Now. Again, if you're working on a larger surface than what I'm working on here. Your job is to pick a bigger cardboard. Don't try to make little tiny marks unless you really like that. And that's part of your goal. Use a bigger Cardboard. Now the goal of this series of paintings is to create an abstract in a very short amount of time. So if you're working on a larger surface, pick a bigger cardboard. If you really like these small marks and you would like a big surface with tiny marks on them like this. Go ahead. Really, you're the artist. So the choice is up to you. Now. I have one area that has a whole bunch of lines closer together. So that kind of creates a focal point right there. And I want my other lines to lead towards it. Now I've taken off the masking tape and save you the pain of listening to me complain about the masking tape. This whole series has been a masking tape problem. And I decided that I needed more white after I added not added, but after I took off the masking tape. So I'm adding more whites in there to make it a little lighter and create more of a varied surface. So just because you've stopped at one-point doesn't mean you have to stop forever. You can keep adding marks until you're happy with it. And that's basically what I'm doing. My new cardboard bands a little bit so my lines are a little different. I don't know if I like that, but it's working this time. I think in a different time. I would just make sure I had more than one piece of cardboard. So I'm just doing the same thing. I'm adding lights to lead my eye towards one focal point and just keep adding like this. The choice is yours when you want to stop. I think I'm done. I think I'm done. So here it is. Isn't better on the side. I don't know. I think I liked it up and down. So the choice is yours. Triumph. And we'll see you in the next painting. 8. Bold brush marks makes for a bold abstract: I call this technique bold brash. And what you're going to do is just take a big brush and one mark and then another mark and another month. And that's all there is to it. You pick the colors that you like. And we go from there. I really like quinacridone gold. So we're just going to start adding marks. Notice how I'm just adding them randomly, semi randomly. I want one focal point. I want that one spot where I started to be the focal point. So now I'm going to just layer colors. If you like greens and pinks or other colors, use those colors. I'm picking these colors just because I like the color quinacridone, gold. And notice you don't think a lot, you just add marks. Your goal is to fill in and have a focal point. So you add one brush mark and other benchmark if you're working on a bigger surface than what I'm working on, use a bigger brush. You want bold marks. So now I want a bit of white. Part of what I like in this technique is the fact that when you work wet on wet, the colors blend together and create a third color. So that's part of what I like about this style of abstract. I liked the colors to blend, even though they're just bold marks. So take your time, choose where you're going to put your marks. But notice how they blend really well, and it's just lovely the way the paint smooth shoes, for lack of a better way to say it, all, I get one against the other. So I have started with medium colors and then I added a white. Now I'm going to add a dark. I want too much dark. I don't want the dark to take over and just be more important than the colors that I, that I started out with. So I'm just moving some of the edges, blending a little more. I want it to look like there's an explosion almost from one spot. And I just tweak it until I'm happy with it. So all these marks, you could keep going maybe for 345 layers until you are happy with what it looks like. When you're happy, stop. If you think at any point you don't know what I should add? I don't know whether I should add. I can't think of where to add another mark that tells you that you're done. You don't have to add any more marks. So I've let it dry. And now I'm peeling off the tape so that I can see what I have with the green tape. I'm often just not sure of what's really there because the marks go beyond the green tape and then the green tape is quite distracting. But I liked the white edges, so I need the green tape to create my white edges. If you're working on Canvas, you don't have to worry about this step. Remember all these abstracts that I'm showing you, it can be done on Canvas just as well as on paper. I chose paper this time simply because my table in my camera, it just fit perfectly. But I use these paintings as a test run to a bigger painting. So if I liked the painting that I do on this size, then I redo it larger. On the very large canvas. Often I work 36 by 48 or larger. So I like this. I think it looks better this way than it did on the side. So these are fun projects, have fun with this one, and we'll see you in the next painting. 9. Bold marks on a dark background: Bold brush on dark. Now I'm redoing a similar composition to what I've done before, but I want to do it on a dark background so you can see the difference. Now, if you'd like darker tones, this is the project for you because it's going to end up quite a bit darker. So I just painted a dark background. I let it dry. And now I'm going to do the same bold brush movement I did in the other painting. So I like quinacridone, gold. I'm using very similar colors to before. So you can notice the difference. So I have orange as well as quinacridone, gold, yellow, red, white. And a dark is going to be the background. Now when you paint on dark, you'll end up with darker tones. And it ends up being quite a bit darker. So the acrylic always dries darker. So it's a natural thing for it to dry darker. And now it's going to dry even darker because you started on a darker background. Now with colors that are not transparent, what happens quite often is they get brighter. But if the paint is transparent at all, even a little bit, it ends up being quite a bit darker. Now for the red, notice I'm doing the same thing. I'm just adding marks. And I'm painting intuitively, so I'm putting these marks not too close together and I'm separating them and kind of creating a pattern in the way. But in the end, what I want is to have an abundance of marks and all the colors that blend together like they did in the other painting. And that's really what I love. If you can do it, you can, It's also good to go in a similar direction. So here I'm starting at one central spot and I'm exploding from there, so to speak. Now I'm adding white. So I'm going to add a lighter color. Now this white is a little bit transparent, and I will guess that it will come out a little paler than what you see at the moment when it dries, it'll be that much paler. Make sure that you check that you have light areas, dark areas, and a couple, two or three intermediate colors, like medium tones. So not neutrals necessarily. But there we go. And just adding marks, I'm on my eye to be guided towards that center spot. That's my main goal. Right now. My paint isn't quite dry enough and it's a little harder. You can test this. If you like wet and wet paint, like what this is, Go for it. But if you like, a little drier in-between the colors, you can do that too. It just means that the wet-in-wet technique will take you maybe a couple hours while the if you let it dry in between the colors, it might take you a couple of evenings. So it's just a matter of time. I've decided to add a little more orange to create a little more variety. The values are not varied enough for my taste. This could be your tastes, but I'm going to work according to what I like and try and add more variety in the values. The choice is up to you. If you do something and you like it a lot and it's a little different from mine. That's okay. Because it's sometimes paintings are gifts. You do something and It's done in 20 min. But other paintings are done in 20 h. So you, when something happens and it's really good, It's always good to say thank you and leave it. And just appreciate the fact that today was one of your good days and the creative activity and your hand. We're good team that they think creating a great painting really quickly. There are times when our creativity and our hand don't cooperate with each other. And there's quite a few of those. So we have to appreciate the times when it works really well. Now, I like the paint that's just blending a little bit. Different colors, blending together. It's making it a little smoother. And I, I kinda like that whole look. So let the paint dry again. And that's quite a bit darker now. So I didn't like it. I thought it was too dark. Everything dried quite a bit darker and not really my taste. So I'm going to add more varieties in the tonal values. Going to just add a little more light areas. Just like that. And already it looks a little brighter, a little nicer, a little bolder. It's nice, it's better. And just little marks that explode from that central area. And we'll more quinacridone gold. I just love that color. I don t know what it is about it, but it's just beautiful. It glows. I think that's probably what I like the most. So here's the end-product. It's still turned out quite a bit darker, but I liked it. So I tried it this way. Train on a dark background 10. The S Composition: S or the wave. So this is a really easy composition then it's really fun. Sorry about the table. Same problem. Now, brush1, main color all over the place. Add a little minor color. I picked yellow and pink. You can pick whatever colors you like. Just create a very soft background. Just like that. You want to have a little bit of brush movement. Notice how I moved my brush very fast, even though no cameras speed it up. It was really fast. Now I add marks. So I just take my brush and create that S. Just add marks. They don't have to be perfect, they just have to follow that S shape. So take your time. Take it easy. And if you have to just let everything dry in-between the colors. Now on this one, I let the background dry and now I'm adding this main color. If you let the layers dry, if you don't like e.g. if I didn't like this purple, I could just wash it off. Now I'm taking a bit of gold and I'm adding it. It's a very clear goal, so it hardly shows. And then I spatter, That's batters create, helped create that motion. So I want this pattern to show that that S shape is moving very fast. And if I rather a little bit, they look like pieces are falling off those shapes. And I want to create that real movement. Now I'm going to add a dark. So in that dark, I don't want to put it everywhere. I just want it to touch the purple a little bit and I want to create that S shape. I want to keep it going. I want to show movement. I want it to show like everything's moving really fast and that really shape. And notice how I'm not pressing hard on my brush. I'm just lightly touching just the tip of the brush to create that movement. If you're not sure if you can do that practice on a paper on the side. And then you try out. The good part here is I'm creating different kinds of corners. So that's another tip for abstracts. You want to keep every corner different. I'll take the tape off so you can see what it looks like. You'll find that it's a very easy composition. And it's really fast. And it's beautiful at the same time. Once you don t have that green edge, it looks a lot better. So we'll just keep peeling. And I had trouble with this tape, so it takes a little while. But as soon as you take the tape off, you see the beauty of this very simple abstract. And if you did this very large, it would look great. Remember, if you want to work larger, use a bigger brush. That's the only thing you have to do. You don't have to yet. Very complicated. Use a bigger brush and do the very same motions. This is a practice run. I think I would make this one bigger. I like it. So now it's your turn. You'll give it a try. I hear I'm tweaking. I forgot I had done that. So you can take a very tiny brush and fix the edges like that. And it's a very easy thing to do. And do I like it upside down? Or do I like it this way? I think I like it this way, the way I painted it. So have fun, and we'll see you in the next painting. 11. Flow through composition: Flows through an abstract composition. I call this painting flow-through. I really got the idea from watching a stream. Oh, I'm sorry, my camera moves like that simply because every time I press hard to paint, my table moves and my cameras attached to my table. So I'm going to work hard at not doing that. So step one, you take pink and white and just, just block it in. Basically. It's just as simple as that. Now I add a little purple. You need just easy colors here. You'll need pink, white, purple, and some blue, some dark colors. So you need a very light color, you need a very dark color, and you need colors in-between. And my dark colors are going to be in the middle this time though, you block in, all these colors go really quickly. Don't think too hard. Just keep painting. And we want to create like the water's flowing really fast and it's little bits that are flowing from it. So this is almost like an X composition. So you have a big part through the middle and then you have the edges with other colors. And it's flowing, it's moving fast. So we, we want the brushstrokes to really go fast. So I'm adding more pinks, more purples, and now I'm back into white. Remember to create a focal point, what you need to do is create contrast. I'm just using a pencil to scratch in and create texture. And it's a dark pencil. So it just adds a little more texture. So I want to create a flow. I want it to look like the water is moving really fast and there's debris in it. And it's a simplified abstract version. This tree is overflowing a little bit on the right hand edge. But at the same time, I think in terms of an artist, I wanted composition simple as that. I want an X composition. In this case, I'm taking the tape off so you can see it a little better and you'll see how it looks that much better. So there you go. Can you see the axe, a focal point, some darks, some lights, some mediums. That's all that you need. And you have a beautiful abstract. So have fun playing with this one. Use the colors that you like. 13. Conclusion: Conclusion. I hope you learned even more techniques in this second part. The idea is for you to learn lots of techniques and develop your own paintings. Have fun experimenting with all these new techniques. And again, keep in mind that the best results often happened by accident. So enjoy making art, enjoy making mistakes, enjoy the accidents, and look for my next course really soon. 14. Bonus- Surprise! Easy Abstract: Circle diptych, we're going to do a very small painting on paper. It doesn't have to be that small. You can use two canvases or you can use a bigger piece of paper. It's just for my camera. It was just easier to do this very small. I always like to do a painting where it's super easy and it's quick and it's satisfying, and it's still nice. So this is the painting, this is your bonus treat of super simple painting. That's easy to do, takes minutes. And there's lots of fun and ends up being great at the end too. And here we go. We just carefully put the paint on, put it on as evenly as you would like. I should've speed this up but I didn't. So just bear with me. This is a painting that's really kind of, the style is very popular right now. It's a painting that you will cut into, hence the masking tape in the middle. So all I did is masking tape my paper to the board, to my table. And then I put one right down the middle. So now I have my circle. I'm going to add a little bit around the edge of another circle. This style of super simple but pretty very organic is in right now. This will take you minutes to make. We're going to spatter a little bit of that same color. You don't have to use the same color. I do. You can use other colors. You could use darker. I'm trying to create here a light piece that we're, I add dark accents, but you could do it the reverse. You could do a dark piece with light axons. It depends on what you like. My table is still moving anytime I paint a lot. So sorry about that. So now we're going to do dark batters. I'm using a Payne's gray. My color that I used before was like a watered-down ocher. I'm using ocher and Payne's gray. Now these little dark axons are going to match one of these stamps that I'm going to use. These stamps just come from the dollar store. And it has hazards really. What you happen to see there at the time. It's there for one visit and it's not there the next. So if you happen to see a nice stamp like this one, and you can see that I've used it a lot. Just pick it up. It's just a few dollars. So it makes a really great plant impression. Now if you're working bigger, what you do is you put more of these plantains impressions. So if I use a canvas that's 16 by 20, instead of putting one plant, I would put three or four. Here I've started taking off the masking tape. You can see it looks way better without the green stripe in there. It gives you a clean edges. It gives you an idea of what the image really looks like. It's just way better when you take off the green masking tape. But the green masking tape gives you those nice tidy edges. And once this is off, I'll show you what to do next. Framing this one is just easy. What you do is you divide the pizza in half and you frame each side. Now if you're working on canvas, you just put the two canvases side-by-side. We take a ruler, we take an exacto knife and we cut it in half. You'll get to see what it really looks like. And what I mean by saying that it will look completely different and how you can frame it. Here we go. We can't take away the ruler and see how it's different once you separate the two pieces, It's just like two individual artworks. And then you frame them each separately and put them together on the same piece. And that's it. We'll see you in the next video.