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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Giving myself
some parameters when I sit down to create, makes me push outside
the box and think, what can I do with this
limitation on myself in my art? I think that the limitations
make you more creative, they make you experiment more and you really
learn your supplies better than if you have 15,000 options and you think,
where do I start? What do I do? You really end
up a lot more frustrated. I'm Denise Love and I'm an
artist and photographer. Today was a good painting day. I want you to have
just as much fun at your art table as I
tend to have at mine. Doing these intuitive
painting sessions are right up my alley. I like to take things down. I like to peal the tape and
reveal the piece of art. I like to cut things up. These projects have
all these elements that I really love. I hope you have fun
painting with me today. We are going to do a
set of four paintings. I'm using the acrylic ink and some water and some Mica ink just to see what can I create with this color palette
that I've selected. I want you to pick a color palette for yourself
and do many of these. This is how you discover
new color palettes. I actually was questioning myself in the
middle of painting, am I going to like this? Are these going to work? I'm not sure this has started out good. By the end, I was
like, look at this. Amazing. I don't want you to get discouraged before you
get to that point. [LAUGHTER] Sometimes it's the mark-making on top that
completes the whole painting. Don't give up. Before you've even started
the mark-making part, I want you to paint and
water, let those dry. Doubt it all that you want to doubt it but then come back, do some interesting
mark-making on top, peel the tape and then
evaluate. Did you love it? What did you love? What did you not love? Do we need to cut this into a different composition
that's just better, pleasing to the eye? There was a piece on here I didn't think I was going
to cut any up and there was two that I loved and
there was two of those like, I like these but I'm not sure, do I need to cut it up? Does it need to stay one
piece? I'm not sure. On the pieces that you're not
sure that you're not like, yes, this is it, I want you then to
take a piece of paper and cover parts of the
painting up and say, does this make it better? Is this what it
needed to cut off an element that you were
just [NOISE] about? Because really, when I cut
the two that I was not sure I was going to
cut up when I cut them up, they became amazing. I want you to get that joy and
that feeling and that love to move things around
and cut things up if they need to be cut into
some other composition. I feel like this frees me up from being super
concerned about composition to begin
with and then I don't have all the worry and the stressors as
I'm painting it. Gives me that freedom to
just do what feels good, what feels authentically me. The marks I want to make. Let's just paint
and mark-make and peel it and if we need to trim it into a composition that
works better, then do that. That's the way I enjoy
making art more so than constraining myself to a box and then if it's not perfect, throw it away, which
is what I used to do. I didn't really
understand that it's okay to cut things up into something that works
better and I enjoy the process way more and not worrying about that
from the very get-go. I hope you love painting the intuitive set today
that we're creating. I had so much fun
painting today and I can't wait to see
what you're making. Let's get started. [MUSIC]
2. Class Project: [MUSIC] Your class project
is to come back and share the abstracts you painted
with me in class today. Whether you choose the
same elements that I'm choosing or different ones, I just want to see
what you ended up creating during your
intuitive painting session. Today, I chose to work with acrylic inks and some
of my gold mica ink, and, men, did these
come out amazing. Let me tell you, this
was a fun painting day. I can't wait to
see your projects. I hope he had just
as much fun as I did and I'll see you
in class. [MUSIC]
3. Supplies: [MUSIC] Let's check
out the supplies that I ended up using in class today. This is a great painting session
and I hope you're really going to love it and discover some fun new things
and techniques. I was using different colors
than I would normally use. I pulled out my acrylic
ink color swatches and I just randomly said, what if I use this, this, this, and let's just
see what we get. I ended up picking
Amsterdam's warm gray. I like that color,
it's pretty good. I've got some Payne's
gray by Daler Rowney. I've also got Liquitex
red oxide, yellow oxide, and a little bit of this
Daler Rowney antelope brown, which for some reason
I like that color. It's an unusual yellowish shade that shows up in your pieces
without being yellow. I just love that color. I keep it on my desk. I also pulled out my
Gold Mica ink and we explored using that
with a fan brush. [LAUGHTER] You love
what that does with a fan brush totally
transformed our pieces of art. I want you to get creative
with how you put some of your materials on with tools that you don't normally
pull out or think to use. I have just recently discovered the fan brush and I like this one that's
a little bit stiffer. If you've got a fan brush
and it's super-duper soft, like it's for
watercolor, it's okay. But I have discovered, I like this little
stiffer fan brush and I'm dragging
it through stuff. It's super cool in the lines and marks that
you get on your paper. It's not like painting solid, it's like you paint
it a little bit of a pattern this is going. I freaking love that. I also was using today a different paper because part of my intuitive
sessions where I'm exploring and playing with
my goods and just seeing what can we get if we pick
out these five items to use. I also want you to play and experiment on
different papers. Today I played on
the Canson Heritage, which reacts completely
different than my Canson XL pad of
watercolor paper. This is 100% cotton, and the other one is not. It's a wood pulp mixture and it reacts different
to your paints. This is definitely
the perfect moment to play and experiment. You're not wasting
your supplies, you're learning how to
use those supplies. Because if you get
really good at making something on one
particular type of paper, when you try to upgrade to, say, the good paper, the good paper works completely differently than
the cheap paper. You're going to
knock your results that are as good or what you expected or how you
thought it was going to work because this
paper works different. I'm going to encourage
you to work on the paper. That's your good paper
that you plan to use going forward by a bunch
of it when it's on sale. This is my secret to
buying expensive papers. I buy them when they're on sale. I put them in my art closet until I forget how
much I paid for them, [LAUGHTER] then I
pull them out and I'm no longer
scared to use them. If that paper sits there for six months until you're like, oh I've got this paper. Now you don't remember, like you spent double the amount on this paper than
the cheap paper. I want you to start playing on the papers that you plan to
use on your good pieces. That's how you figure out
how to use that paper. Just model FYI there. Painter's tape, I like painter's tape for taping them off. I love
to peel the tape. You don't have to use tape, you can bind all
your pages together, paint on each one
as if it's still a great big piece and
not tape it down. I loved the peel tape, so I tape mine down and I like the white edge that
I reveal at the end. I think anything that
you peel the tape off with a white edge
is a piece of art. [LAUGHTER] It elevates it. It elevates weird lines
and scribbles and colors to an amazing
piece of abstract art. I love to peel tape. I love that reveal, and I used the tape. You don't have to if
you don't want to. I also used a tiny piece of
bubble wrap to squish paint around my piece just to get
some interesting mark makes. I thought that was
super fun actually. I used a couple of paintbrushes to push
the paint around, any paintbrushes are fine. I use my rolling pin. Greatest little tool
for mark-making. It's not expensive at all. We got lots of great
results using that for dots and lines after
we were done painting. I love that little tool. That's basically all that
I'm using today in class. You can substitute any colors of ink that you think
you'd want to play with. You can substitute
any supplies really, you could play
with any of these. Every time I sit down to
do an intuitive session, I'm like, what do I want
to paint with today? Maybe it's charcoal,
maybe it's graphite, maybe it's liquid acrylic inks, maybe it's who knows. I'm just sitting down and I'm thinking what I
want to make today. Let's pick something and
explore it and see what we get. Definitely feel free
to experiment and change out anything
that we're using today. It's all about sitting,
practicing, playing, enjoying what you're painting, and going with the flow, what feels good that day. I hope you have fun
creating with me today and I'll see
you in class. [MUSIC]
4. Painting Big: [MUSIC] I thought it
would be fun to play in my acrylic inks for
this painting session. I've got all the inks on paper, a little sample swatches. Such a lifesaver,
let me tell you. I thought, what if we just
pick a few colors and play? I was looking at all
the colors and I really love this warm gray, which is a Amsterdam color, and I liked it so much that I've already used all the one I had. This is a new bottle. That's could be one of
the ones I randomly accidentally dumped
over on something. I'm really clumsy
on the art table. If I'm not thinking,
I just knocked stuff over that didn't have
the lid tight on it. I'm terrible about that. I'm thinking yummy, warm gray. Then I was looking here at
the liquitex sheet and I love this red oxide
and this yellow oxide. I'm thinking and I can feel that the red
oxide is almost empty, so I can tell I really like it. [LAUGHTER] But I'm picking
red oxide, yellow oxide, and then maybe look at this
Daler-Rowney Payne's gray. It's almost a black
but not quite a black, so I'm thinking maybe that. Then let's just see what
we can create with those. Then I also thought, what if I had my Gold
Mica ink by Kuretake, and we could do some
gold accents maybe. Feeling that. That's what I'm
going to do today. I may love it, I may hate it. It's not colors I would normally gravitate to, I don't think. If you have been around, I like blues and greens and
I like pinks and oranges. We're getting a little
more earthy with this. Another one of these
inks that I really particularly love is
the antelope brown. Always reserve
possibly using that. We'll throw that on the
mixed too. How about that? [LAUGHTER] I've got the inks, got some water over here, and I think what I'm
going to do is dip ink into something
that I've drawn. The paper I'm using today, I'm going to try a
different paper because intuitively painting and pulling
out things and thinking, let's just create today, I also want you to experiment
with your different papers. I have been using a lot, my Canson XL pad, but this time I'm using my
Canson Heritage pad which is all cotton and it
reacts completely different to putting water on
it than the other one does. The other one, the water
soaked in really quick. This one, we're just
going to play and see what the difference is. I've got a couple
of paint brushes. I could also have a little
bit of pallet paper, or I've got my little
ceramic palette here. It's still got some charcoal
on it, but that's okay. Then we can play with
different paint brushes, we could put water on
here and dip the ink in, we could drag things
through the ink, we could paint ink
on if we wanted. Lots of good stuff here. Actually, I have a
little palette pad here. Let's grab that instead because it's a little bigger
just in case I need it. Let's put that over
here just in case. Got a little selection of fun stuff and then let's just see what
we can create today. I think I've got them shaken up. Definitely squeeze
the ink out of the tip when you are using the ink because ink gets in the tip and it gets
really dry up there, and then when you go to squirt some ink out, it's like a blob. I can't tell you how many
times I've done that. A couple of times I've thought, totally right in the
middle of my piece. Definitely squeeze
the stopper and try to get some of
that water out. Let's just go ahead and I'm going to have
the warm gray ready. I'm going to start with
some water here on my paper and dipping some of this warm gray in
here and just seeing, does it even move around? Does it do anything? This one sat still, didn't it? That was not what I
wanted for it to do. I didn't really want
it to sit still. But [LAUGHTER] now we know. Lucky here, I could
come back with my fun brush and get it
to make some fun marks. I could also go ahead. Really, I could wipe the whole thing down
if I wanted to, and then start dipping
other colors in here. I just want to see, what are these going to do? Dipping some stuff in here, maybe we want some more water. Maybe I want to drag that. We've now seen how
that's pretty fun. Now I'm just going to do some
stuff on the other sheets. I've got a little bit
of ink on my fun. I could put some more out here. What if we just
dragged some color out here and just start
doing some other stuff? Because now I just want to test, what can the inks do? Anything? [LAUGHTER] I
know they do plenty, but on other papers, I've had it where they
blend in really beautiful. But this paper didn't sink in quiet and do what I
thought it was going to do. Now we know, I'm thinking. Let's do a watercolor brush. [NOISE] See now it does
work a little better. Putting it in there
with your brush and not with just the Dover. This is the time to
learn and experiment. Let's figure out how
to work with these and what they're going
to work best as. Going with a paintbrush, it's totally a different
way than I have worked with this ink before. That's interesting
because the way I thought I was going
to start and go ends up not being the way
that I'm continuing. We need to know these things. I'm just mark-making and
moving the ink around, I'm not doing anything specific. Almost on this one
doing something different on every single one, which I like that because
now we can judge, which one was successful? Which one wasn't? Did we pick colors
that we hated? Did we pick colors
that we loved? How are we going to use this
information going forward? I like all these discoveries. This is the time to do it. This is just discovery
here on a piece, it doesn't really
make any difference. At the same time, some of these pieces
have actually turned out to be completely my favorites in the
realm of my art stuff. We see more water, more smudgy, less water, leaves
paper showing through. It's a really cool
mark when we do that. All this paper's wet. You see those are
blending and smudging. I like this antelope. Let's just put some antelope
in there. [LAUGHTER] Maybe I shouldn't
have done that in the lope on that
one right there, I don't love that.
But look here. Let's take our fan brush and look at here we
can move these around. That's very
interesting how we can reactivate these a little bit. Once they're dry I'm not sure that we can do
any reactivating, but while they're still wet, we can smush that around
and do some other stuff. I like that aspect. Bacause you'll notice
the red one is completely dry,
not moving at all. [LAUGHTER] But the
ones that still have a little bit of wetness in it totally let me
move those around. Which by the way tells me
that as I let these dry, I can then add more
marks on top of them. That's a good thing to know. The acrylic ink is going to dry, it's not going to move around. Then we can mark make on top. Then just get experiment
here with your mark-making. Do things in circles, do things in lines, just see what can we create, fill some in some other areas. See now like that right there. [NOISE] Now see that was fun? Now that was fun
there on that one. Again, if you don't love
it, you can cut it up. [LAUGHTER] Always keep
that in your mind, forefront of your mind. These are all
slightly different. I actually really loving what's going on
on this one here. I'm not sure about
the other ones yet, but this one here is
doing some fun stuff. We're going to need to let
this dry a little bit. But what if we used
our gold mickey ink, we could come back
and I could even use the gold paste and do some really nice
with a palette knife, smoothies on top somehow. I've got that
kuretake paste also. Need to put this
paper further over while we're letting this dry
a little bit lucky here, we also could mark make, [NOISE] look what I did. Might not stay on there, but we can move that ink around. [LAUGHTER] Super fun discovery. I don't know that it's going
to really show up later. But you never know it could. Just some interesting I do like what it did
right there though. [LAUGHTER] I like doing that and then just
discovering like wow, look what I did. [LAUGHTER] That was super fun, you can do that with anything. You can use white posca pen
on this, that'd be cool, but I'm feeling like
maybe some gold. Maybe let's take this
gold with my dip pen. I'm just going to use my cheap dip pen here because it's out on my table from working
on an earlier piece. It's still wet here, so I'm not seeing
anything on top. Now we know [LAUGHTER] that
was not very successful, but if I could come back
in with a paintbrush, I couldn't get my
paintbrush into my ink. I could dip [LAUGHTER]
fan brush into that, would be super cool.
Let's just do it. [LAUGHTER] Fan
brush in the gold. Let's see, I'm
feeling like [NOISE], look at that. Oh my goodness. Now, when that dries, that is going to be super
shimmery, which I love. [LAUGHTER] That was fun. Should come come back
and make that even more dramatic because
the paper's wet, it's trying to soak
into the paper some. I don't care, that's
super cool there. I just made that super fun. Could come back with some
gold here on these others. Let's see if we just write
across this dry area. [LAUGHTER] Oh my goodness, [LAUGHTER] that's super fun. Let's do this one right
across this here. [LAUGHTER] That one's cool. That one is coolness. Feel future fan drags
in future projects now. Because you can't
say that didn't just make that super-duper cool. [LAUGHTER] Coolest
thing we ever did. Look at that. Super fun. I'm feeling my paste on the top. [LAUGHTER] I'm actually feeling
good about this one now. I'm also thinking we could use, I will try my other dip pen. Let's try ruling pen. We had that ruling pen class
playing with the ruling pen. Let's get that ruling pen
out and use it as a dip pen. I tested it on another
piece of paper, so I got like little
pieces of paper over here that I've
just got that I can test this on and make sure that I've got a line that
I like, there we go. Then I could come
back in now and do some strategic
marking with my gold. Feeling this. [NOISE] Then when these
dry, oh my goodness. On the areas where
it's still wet, that's going to really soak into the paper rather
than sit on top. That's very interesting
the difference, the way that looks too. Almost like it's spreading out over here, that's super cool. An interesting observation
to make for going forward, if that paper is wet, that ink is going to spread. If that paper's dry, that ink is going to sit
in a nice tight pattern , and I love it. I love the differences there. I love it so much
that I'm going to go ahead and fill this little
area up with those marks. I like that right there, doesn't have to be full, but I do like it to burrow
like that, well, yes. Let's do some mark making
on some of these others. [MUSIC]
5. Mark making: [MUSIC] I'm going to
continue on doing some dots and mark-making and just
seeing what can we create? If you get to the point
where you're like, oh, I can't get to something
or my hand is in the way so I feel like you need to
move stuff around don't, be afraid to move these around. Turn your board. You could peel the tape and do some more work
after the tape is peeled. I'm not doing that while I'm
filming because I would like for you to be able to see everything and it'd be
consistent for the filming, so I'm not moving it around. But normally I would
probably rotate this board and work on stuff. I might rotate it
in a minute when we get to this side
because now I'm feeling like I don't want
to put my arms down on this while I draw on that. But while I'm over here, I'm feeling like yummy dots around the circle that I made, so let's do that
before I turn it. [NOISE] You can really tell too, where the paper got really
dry versus where it didn't. I like this little section of
that difference [LAUGHTER] Don't fret if not all the
parts do the exact same thing. Appreciate the differences
for what they are. I love that. I do actually
really love that. [LAUGHTER] Look at
that. Filling these. Sometimes you get started
and you're like, oh no, this is not going to work
out, it's unintended, I don't know about this, these are weird colors. But when you come
back on top and you start mark-making
and adding stuff, you really turn it into something else and
then you're like, oh, that's pretty cool. Let me just throw out
a little shout-out to the little inexpensive
ruling pen. How amazing is that, it's a really nice, inexpensive alternative
to my Kakimori dip pen. It's not very cheap, [LAUGHTER] but it's a
super nice alternative for mark-making and doing
all the things that that one does and I'm really glad
that I've added that to my little arsenal
of fun art gadgets. This was used for drafting and engineering when they
still did that by hand, and you know I did the
interior design when I was in school and we drafted
on a drafting board. I'm that old.
[LAUGHTER] Just before all these really nifty
computer programs, CAD and stuff like that. I'm really glad that
I did not have to draft or mark make
or do anything with the drafting scenes with a ruling pen because I think I would have gotten very
frustrated with that. We drafted on vellum with Rapidograph pens
and I liked those. It held a lot of ink and it was a continuous ink flow
kind of pen versus this, where I have to dip it in
every time I want more ink. [LAUGHTER] Let me tell you. I mean just the
Rapidograph pen is like an advanced compared to
this little dip pen. But for my art making; love it. [LAUGHTER] I'm going to
turn the board around, so hang with me a
second because I want to work on these
other two pieces while those pieces dry without putting my hands
in all that gold. But I'm filling those now. That's completely
outside of my norm. Totally different
than anything I've ever created before and I love that and let's just mark make and do some yumminess
here on this side. You might be using your POSCA pen to do all
your fun mark-making, like the white POSCA pen or the black POSCA pen or
the gold or the silver. Those are my four
favorite colors, so if you've got POSCA
pens or something, use some of that for
your mark-making. I like the ruling
pen because it's a fun dip pen and I love this gold ink more than any
other art supply that I have, I think, [LAUGHTER] because
it's such a vibrant shine. When it's dry on your piece, the light hits it
and just shines like nothing else that I have. It's really similar
to a gold leaf. But let me tell you, way
more easier than gold leaf, because gold leaf you've got to put the glue on the paper, you got to stick the
leafy paper down on the glue then you got
to take a brush and slough all the extra off
and then you're left with whatever gold
stuck to your glue. Holy moly, way
easier just to use this mica ink rather
than that gold leaf, and this mica paste is the best for painting on areas too, like if you want to paint the edges of a
cradle board gold. A lot of people gold leaf that. You can just paint this
mica paste on there and it's just as shiny and
beautiful and way, way easier. Just my own two cents there. You might completely disagree, [LAUGHTER] but I have
decided that it truly is like the most magical
ink I've ever used. That's super fun. I think I'm going to do
that on the gray over here. I really should have
started on this one. I worked my way this
way because I'm right handed and
I'm going this way [LAUGHTER] I'm
intuitively starting with what felt good and this is the page that
I was looking at, and I should have really been thinking a little more like, oh my hand is coming this way. That's okay. [NOISE] Will just be careful not to
stick my hand right on it. How about that? That was really cool now with all
the gold on it. It's going to shine really
pretty in the light. Now I'm thinking, what do I want to do
on this last one? Can we do some mark-making? Do we do some dots? Let's do some mark-making. Look at that. Oh my gosh, yes. [NOISE] Because
it's a ruling pen, it's very specific in direction. You can go this way, but you can't go this way, so if you want to go
this way you have to actually turn the pen
the way you're going. Very interesting, the discoveries with the
different tools that you use. What's really going to work and how do you have
to maneuver that? [LAUGHTER] Loving that. Let's do a few dots. Then again, as I'm doing dots, I got to have this
open part facing down. That's the part that's
releasing the ink to the paper. Exactly what I told
myself not to do; don't touch this side. [LAUGHTER] We now have
gold on our hand, [LAUGHTER] but luckily it
doesn't look terrible. We can actually come back and if you do that accidentally, come back and just incorporate that into the design like that. Look at that. See.
Polly fixed it, made it part of the abstract. Think it even made it better. [LAUGHTER] I'm crazy
and I know it, and I don't even care. [LAUGHTER] I want you to be at your little art table having as much fun
as I'm having. These intuitive
things where you're just letting yourself play and experiment and learn
your materials have become some of my favorite. I mean they're right up
there with cutting up all my art and I
think it's because I give myself permission right at the front as
I'm starting this. If I don't love the finished
pieces I can cut them up, because it's guaranteed
I'm going to find something in every
piece that's gorgeous. Really when you're doing these, if you can make a
little notebook of the things that you love, then the discoveries
that you made, that would be
fantastic because then you'll know later
when you're like, wait a minute how did I
do this or wait a minute, what did I love about that? You can look back at your art diary and you'd
be able to see, oh, this is how I did this
and that's what I loved, and, oh, I forgot I
did that or whatever. You could make little notes, especially if you
have pieces like I cut these off of the graphite. Not the graphite, the charcoal one that we did in
one of the other classes. I could put this in with
the little diary and talk about a technique on it if
I had little pieces that I cut off that I liked
the little piece of. That could be a little part of the diary and how I did stuff. Look at that. [LAUGHTER]
Look at that. I'm loving where that's going. Let's start a little pen off and then I just
wipe the pen off, and then we're good
to go the next time. I'll put that over there. Maybe I'll pull that out so
I can remember I used that. Let's close up the ink. You don't know how
many times I have dumped this ink out on stuff. You wouldn't think you
would do that with it being a big flat container, but I've totally dumped it
over a couple of times, and man there's a
lot of ink in there. Can't even believe I still
got an ink left in here. I finally ordered me another
one because I was like, wow, I've dumped that
over so many times, at the time I need it, I'm
not going to have ink. I'm loving these.
We're going to need to let this dry a moment
and then we'll come back and pull
the tape off and evaluate what we did. [MUSIC]
6. Evaluating & Cutting Pieces: [MUSIC] We are about
98 percent dry. There's a few little
spots that I don't want to touch where it
was really thick. But for the most part, we're drying off to peel
the tape and check it out. Again, when I'm
peeling this tape, I'm peeling it at an angle
and I'm trying to be very steady about the
pressure that I'm pulling at. It doesn't have to
be super-duper slow, but it's more like
a consistent pull at an angle so that
I'm not tearing paper. If you have a lot of trouble with the tape
tearing your paper, take your heat gun, and heat the tape up a little bit and it should
release from the paper. That's a little trick
I've done before. But with this painter's tape, I'm having pretty
good luck as long as I come at an angle
pretty steady, I've had really
good luck with it, not tearing my paper
most of the time. Feeling pretty good about these, I can't wait to look at them. Not all attached, well I love to peel tape, I love to reveal what we got
when we peel the tape off. [LAUGHTER] Favorite part. It's like your unwrapping the gift and seeing
what your present is. It's like a present,
I love presents. They talked about those
love language things. If you ever read that book. I think gift-giving
and presence is my love language because I love to give things
and get things. I'm a present person. Look at this one. Turning it that way, just brought it out. What if we put that
stripe at the bottom? Look at that. Definitely a favorite
right there. I doubted on some of these I truly did. Let's go this way. Look at that and look as we
tilt that toward the light, we can really see that gold
shimmer come out of there. But I really liked the movement, I like the dots on the edges. I like whatever we have
going on right here with this piece that's
particularly beautiful. Love that one. Let's see what we got here. Came almost feeling
this way is it? I can see that gold
shimmer, so beautiful. Some of the paper is
still a tiny bit damp, so I think when it's
like 100 percent dry, it'll even show up better. But I love this. This is almost like if the
night sky were lots of color, that we've got the stars and then we've got
this big hole, sucks things in like
the black hole. [LAUGHTER] Only mine is a
rainbow-colored of all. Let's see. This way. [LAUGHTER] Look at that. See even when you stick your
hand in it and you come back and turn that magically
into something else. Favorite part right there. [LAUGHTER] I'm actually
digging these so much. Definitely, a happy
surprise there that I don't even feel the need
to cut anything up. I definitely have a yummy pair with these to check that out, that is a definite pair. With these two, that's
also a definite pair. Now, if I were going
to cut up anything, it would be these two. But I don't want to cut them up. But if I did look at this, let's just evaluate
this, check this out. If I wanted to cut this one up, that right there would be
really gorgeous as a piece, and then over here, even better. Oh my goodness,
that right there. Even though I just thought I don't even
feel like cutting it up. Look at that. It just went 100
percent better with the way that line comes
through the movement. I like that we have
dots up here and this little cross
hatch of lines. Oh my goodness. We could even trim it here so that that part at the top
doesn't make a circle. It makes something
coming in, so you have, your mind fills in
some of that shape. Check that out. Almost, now that I've done that now I feel like I
need to cut it up. [LAUGHTER] Because that
right there is amazing. I really love it right there. Let's just look at
this other one. Let's evaluate real
quick. Oh, my goodness. Check it out that made it yes. I'm filling that because now you have not the
whole complete picture. You have part of the picture and you're thinking,
what was that? What was it doing? Look at that. See, that's really cool. Coming in this way, this will come in that way. As a pair, I'm digging
that right there. Put that right there. Look at that. Let's just
mark off both these, let's give me another
piece of paper. See that right there. You're hiding what the
whole thing was but look at the interests
that we've created and those two right
there by doing that. I definitely want
you to evaluate your pieces and look at
different parts of it and say, is it better if I
cut off part of it? Because even if you like it, could you love it
cutting right there? Look at that. That one right there speaking
to me right there. Look at the pieces
left. That's gorgeous. That could be a gift card, that could be a
collage element and some other amazing piece of art that right there, bookmark. [NOISE] Gorgeous.
I'm loving that. I'm not going to
cut them up today. If you're on the fence
about whether you love it or you think
it needs to be cut up. If you're on the fence about it. Actually, you know
what, I'm not even on the fence anymore.
Let's cut this up. [LAUGHTER] But if you're on the fence and you're thinking, do I love it or do
I want to cut it? Look at it for a day or two. You don't have to do that today, you don't have to make
that decision right now. Well, but man, I am
feeling that right there, let's just do it because man, that right there
got so much better. Let's just cut that right there. Let's just do it. Get brave, look at that, I just love
that piece right there. Cut the white off. You've got a bookmark. You can now and I love bookmarks
because I love to read. [LAUGHTER] I've gotten
really in the habit lately, getting free books
from the library on my app or I listened to the books sought by
less books lately, but I got several that
would be a little present, a little gift every
time I opened the book. Look at this. Now you know, when you get excited with the reveal of the
tape, look at that. Now that is a gorgeous painting that just made it go from, I think I love it.
I think I like it. I don't think I
want to cut it up, look how amazing it is. I'm so glad I cut it up. These are so much better
than I even hoped. Did I want to cut this part? Was it that part or
was it that part? Which part do we want to make our little companion
piece? Let's see. Maybe I want it
to be this piece, is that the companion? Liking that because it's going
off the page up that way. It's completely different and
I can get it the same size. I think it was the
other way that I was when I was
looking at it first, but that's okay. Let's go ahead. I want these to
be the same size. Let's get that right
there on that cut line. Look at that. Another look at that. We are going to trim those out because those are gorgeous. Actually doubted
my color choices. When we started painting,
I thought, man, if I made a mistake, but look at that
when we're done. Don't get discouraged
and stop painting. Once you've started,
just pick it, be brave, and just
see what do we get. Maybe you don't like the
colors when you're done, but maybe you end up with
something insane like these. Look at that, that is gorgeous. Let's cut these up to
make these little, I got a little hole
punch over here. We could tie a pretty gold
ribbon off the top of it. These are so pretty. These would make
gorgeous gift cards. You know what you could do. This would be a gorgeous
little piece of art in a card that you send somebody for their
birthday or something. You could even put
a beautiful memory or quote at the backside. With ideas for what we
could do with this set. This is one of my favorite
intuitive painting sessions. Holy cow. Definitely more successful
than I even hoped. I love it when things turn out better than you
think. Look at that. This one I would totally frame
as a micro piece of art, little bitty piece of
art in the center. Great Big mat gold
frame. Can you see that? Holy cow. What a successful
painting day with really a little barrage of colors that I might not
have normally picked. Look at those, holy cow. Hope you have fun painting with some acrylic
ink and some gold. Even if you think
you love a piece, if you don't know for
certain that you love it, then look at other compositions and just see is there
something else in there that you can
pull out that's going to make it perfect or better than it was
because these were great. But I thought, but there's still something
missing but that right there. Gorgeous. Glad I went
ahead and cut it up. I have a pair now
out of the two, I do love this one best. If I were going to cut
up another one further, I'd cut up that one. But these two super
fun, I love those. Hope you have fun
with today's project. This was a great painting day, and I'll see you
next time. [MUSIC]
7. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Today's painting
session was so much fun. I had so much fun
today and a lot of times I sit down and do these
and I have a good time, but today I had a great time. I just kept going and
I added that goal, and it got more
exciting and I'm like, oh good painting day. I want you to have some of these great painting
days yourself. What did you think
about swishing around ink or whatever
it is that you decided to play in today and
then adding some gold or mark-making or Posca pen or whatever it is that you
selected to put on top. What did you love
about your pieces? What are you going
to carry forward in some art-making as
you move forward? The fan brush. Hello, I have a new love for the fan brush and I love
making these discoveries with you and then taking
those forward in my own artwork because we're always evolving and growing and our style changes
throughout time, and sometimes I would tell you, I don't have a style, but with my photography, especially people look
at that and they say, Oh, I knew that was
you immediately. Other people can recognize my style sometimes
when I'm like, oh I like everything,
I don't have a style. [LAUGHTER] Don't get stuck on
when do I get to my style? What is my style? I don't have my style yet. Don't get stuck there. Your style is an
ever evolving thing. It's just a series
of choices that you make at any given
time that says, here's what I'm loving right now and here's what I'm
loving going forward. Here's what I'm
going to keep doing. The people just begin to recognize your work
and your elements and it's okay to give yourself permission to then change that. Maybe you get a new art
supply and you're like, this is my new favorite, which you'll see me do over and over if you take enough
of these classes, it's going to be something,
the next shiny thing, it's going to be
like, I know this. That's okay because
we grow and evolve as people and our art should
grow and evolve also. I hope you have fun playing in these intuitive painting
sessions with me. They really are the best time I've had lately in my art room. They've been fantastic and I can't wait to see
your pieces that you create and what did you love and what are you going
to use going forward? Come back and share that with me and I'll see you
next time. [MUSIC]
DENISE LOVE, Artist & Creative Educator
