Intuitive Painting: Creating Abstracts with Peerless Watercolors

1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Today I'm experimenting some more. This is some of my favorite ways to create art. I'm Denise Love and I'm an artist and photographer. Today I want you to come and experiment with me. I want you to get into the habit of practice and play in your art room for the sake of building skills and discovering new materials and how they work, and figuring out what you love because sometimes the longer we do art, the less we give ourselves permission to play, we don't give ourselves permission to experiment, and these are the ways that we learn and grow and push outside the box that maybe we've gotten ourselves locked into. So today we're going to experiment with some peerless watercolors. You can substitute whatever watercolors you have on hand to do these projects, I don't want you to go out and buy a ton of new supplies. But I wanted to experiment with something in my art room that I haven't pulled out in a while and just see what can we create today. So we're going to take four pieces of paper together and work on the project like it's a big painting, and then peel those apart and reveal what we've created. Then today, there's two that I loved and two that I was like, yeah, so we're going to cut up the ones that we don't love and create a junk art collage out of those, which is one of my very favorite ways to repurpose the art into something that magically turns into something super cool, something about the stripes in different orders and the white lines in-between that suddenly makes the piece really super interesting, you want to come in close and look at the details, whereas the piece originally, as you painted, may not have been as interesting to you. So today we're going to do a couple of projects, we're going to paint the big project and then cut up some to create a junk art collage. I can't wait to see what you're creating. So come back and share those with me. I love logging in and seeing some art and seeing what colors you picked and the marks you made, and seeing how you interpreted what we did in class today. So come back and share those with me, and I'll see you in class. [MUSIC] 2. Class Project: [MUSIC] Your class project is to come back and share some of the abstracts that you created in class. Did you try the peerless watercolors? How super cool are they? Did you go with something else? What color palettes did you pick? Did you love the pieces once you peel the tape or did you decide to cut a couple up like I did? I can't wait to see what decisions you made, what colors you used, what marks you made, what did you end up loving, what did you end up cutting up? I want to see all your projects. So come back and share those with me and let's get started. [MUSIC] 3. Supplies: [MUSIC] Let's take a look at the supplies I was using in class today. Today's intuitive painting session, I actually was using another product that I don't pull out very often, but I truly love. That is my peerless watercolors. You can do these projects with anything you have on hand, any watercolors you want to. But what I liked about these peerless watercolors is they are very vibrant pigment, brushed on this paper basically, and you wet the paper to get the color off of it, which is unusual. But they're super fun, and there's so much color on there that these things just keep on going. I've had these peerless colors now for well over a year, and randomly, sporadically, I'll pull them out to do something and they just keep on going. I really love that they do go for a long time. I was playing in the bonus pack today because I just wanted to pull out lots of oranges and reds and pinks and see what could we create. I'm playing in the bonus pack. They're fun because there are so many colors in there for you to experiment with along the color wheel. I want you to just see what do you think of these? Would you use them again? Do you love the colors? Do you love the vibrancy? I love how really pigmented these are. That's what I'm applying in. I have the complete edition, the face tones, and the bonus pack, and I'm applying in the bonus pack. Those are fun. But use any watercolor that you want. I also have a paper cutter up here because I ended up intuitively painting and then going ahead and doing an additional project with two of the paintings because I love to cut stuff up, and today I did that. I did some cutup art and we'll take a look at that. Pair of scissors or a paper cutter is super convenient for cutting stuff up. I was working on the Canson XL watercolor paper, 140 pound cold press. These are 9 by 12 sheets and I just cut them in half to work on half sheets today. Then I was experimenting with some different brushes to paint with. I started off with an angle brush, which was my half-inch Princeton angle shader. Then I was applying with my Raphael SoftAqua zero, a little moppy-looking brush. Then my fan brush, which is Utrecht 208 fan. I like this because it's the stiffer fan brush rather than a watercolor fan brush. The watercolor fan brush I have is way too soft. This one is a little bit stiffer like it was made for maybe acrylic paint or oil paint, but it's fantastic and its mark making. Then I ended up pulling out this funky angled brush. This is the sketch box signature try wedge number 8. It was kind of cool, not my favorite, but I wanted to try it. I've never used it, and it was interesting, different marks. I think it would make a good pedal and stem if you were flower paintings, so that's pretty cool. Then I pulled out a Simply Simmons three-quarter inch wash brush because I thought let's just pull some other brushes out as we're working. I'm working intuitively. I'm just going with the flow. I'm like, what else could we try? Those are the brushes I ended up using in class. I also did some Gold Mica Ink because man, I do love the gold ink by Kuretake. I thought, let's try this glass pen that I've never tried before. It was kind of cool and you dip it in. It's very fine point, so it didn't give me as much ink on the paper as I wanted. Now that I'm having it out, it's glass. So I can see very easily breaking that tip [LAUGHTER] with like one extra jab too much. It actually feels broken now. I may have jabbed in the water and broke the tip. Even though this was inexpensive and super cool looking, I don't love it. So that one may never come out again. Then I try my Kakimori brass nib. But I thought, okay, I love that but I'm not getting the heavy lines like I was wanting, so let's use the ruling pen. I got out a ruling pen to do my dots and lines and that was the one that I loved. I also am using some Yes Paste and just a cheap plastic knife. That's what I did to do my junk art collage pieces in addition to the pieces that I painted and I loved. I hope you have fun with this project in class today. You can substitute any of your materials to do these projects, any watercolors are just fine. I want you to experiment with your brushes and your mark-making and just see what you can get. Then if you don't love your piece, don't be scared to cut it up and make something like a gorgeous stripe piece because these were kind of mere. But now they're like, wow. For some reason reorganizing and having the white lines in between, which really adds this dimension to the pieces that make them turn into something amazing. I hope you love doing today's projects. Let's get started. [MUSIC] 4. Painting Big: [MUSIC] I thought it would be fun to do an intuitive painting session today with my peerless watercolors. I hadn't had these out in a while, but I really love them, and I have several little sets here. I have a whole set of little half sheets, I've got the complete edition, I've got the expressive face tones. What these are, are watercolor on paper. It's a really saturated layer of watercolor on this paper, the colors are super vibrant, and I thought it would be fun to step outside the box and play in something I don't normally play in and experiment again with these peerless watercolors. What I'm going to do is have a little sample sheet here to the side. If I'm really doubting a color, I can dab it on the paper to see exactly what it is. I thought, hey, let's play with these. What's really neat about some of these is you can flip it to the back side of the paper and get an idea what that color might be. That's not an exact representation, but it will at least say, oh, look, this is a green, maybe this is close to the color, let's try that. So it will get us a little closer. I'm not sure what color palette we want to do today. Let's see. Let's just take a look at some of these. This is the bonus pack of extra colors. At the time when I get a new art supply, I just totally start obsessing. It's my very favorite new thing, it's the newest shiny thing. I absolutely love whatever is new and shiny, and I can't wait to play in it. That's exactly what happened with these watercolors. So I got one pack in my art box and I'm like, what are these amazing things? Then I immediately ordered several more packs because you can order these pretty easily online. I'm like, oh, yeah, coolest stuff ever. What if we go with shades of pink and orange? I like pink and orange, and maybe yellow. Look at that, that could be a fun color palette right there. You can also go with one of my color palette ideas where I pull a color palette from a book, that mountain green is really pretty, and try to match your colors up as close as you can to a color palette that you have found or come up with. But I'm feeling that ecru is pretty, that olive green is really pretty. What do we want to do today? Do we want to do pink and yellows? I can put this ecru over here. Here's a good chrome orange. Look at that. Let's just use these little half sheets because it's pretty easy to pick some colors out of that. Let's just go for it. [LAUGHTER] Got to have fun at your art table. The more I do these with you, the funner I get adjusting even my own mind. Look at that color right there, let's pull that one out. I just loosen up even more and more the more of these I do. Golden yellow, I don't know about that. What is this one? Marigold Yellow. I like more of the ecrus. Anyway, it just gets more fun every time I do these with you guys. I know I sound like a little crazy lady, but I'm an old lady, there's no shame here. [LAUGHTER] Sit and have some fun with me. [LAUGHTER] I started day at the art table going, what can I make today? I swear that's exactly what I said to the dogs. I get up, just checking all the extra colors here, scarlett is fun, I get up and feed the dogs, and I eat breakfast, and then I'm okay, girls, what can we make today? [LAUGHTER] I come upstairs and that's exactly what I think. What can I make? I've got all these extra colors but we're going to stick with whatever I've pulled out here. We'll just see what these are as we're going. I don't want to use 15 colors. You know what? Maybe I do. Maybe I do want to use 15 colors. Let's just see. I don't want to see these, they're more red, this one's more red. Maybe I just want a flower garden or maybe I want one of those where everything's moving. Now we'll say, here is the problem with these. As you're touching the papers, you're getting this watercolor powder or whatever that is they've coded on there, on your fingers. If you were to go with that with some water, it would be a vibrant color. But what I'm going to do is try my best not to touch my paper with all my fingertips, which apparently I've done that, or something touched it, and get little fingerprints everywhere. So be real careful when you're doing something like this with these little colored cards. [LAUGHTER] Let's try something crazy. What if we use this anonymously? Let's just pick a color and say, let's paint with this color, let's paint with that color, and let's paint with this color, and just see what we get totally anonymously not even thinking of the color. I'm feeling this. I've pulled some different paintbrushes to experiment with. I love this fan brush, I've mentioned it a couple of times now. Play with a fan brush. This is not the watercolor fan brush, those are too soft. I like this one with the stiff bristles, it gives me some good separation and some lines. I've got my favorite little mop brush here and my soft Aqua Raphael number 0. Then I thought, what if we used an angle brush today? Because we can get some fine lines and some different marks with that than we're getting with some other things that we tried. [LAUGHTER] I've got some water back here. I also reserve the right to use some ink and Posca pen on these when we're done, so let's just see. Let's just see what we can make today. [LAUGHTER] I'm just going to go crazy and say, let's just pull this one out. I don't know what this is, let's just go. Look at that. That's an orange. I can see it's an orange but it's like orange, orange look at that. Let's just paint. This is one big sheet of paper. Don't even pay attention to the tape. You see these are so cool, you just wet that down. Pull the water off. These, surprisingly enough, go quite a long way. Let's see what that was, that was chrome orange. I'm sad if you really truly loved it, could you get it again? Maybe not. So just be aware. Let's go with this one. This one is [inaudible] red. It looks like hot pink. Let's see what it is. Let's do it with the fan. [LAUGHTER] Look at that color. Just play in here. Look, we got a dot. We got a splat. Let's pull the splat out, I don't know that I want the splat. You know what? Again, as I'm painting, look at that, it combined with the orange, [LAUGHTER] what if we pick up a tiny bit of orange and come back and pick up some pink? What would that look like? See, it totally changed the color of that pink. You know what? We can mix these by dab here dab here [LAUGHTER] Coolness. [LAUGHTER] Let's see what else do we get. Now, another thing, when you're working with these, check it out. This stays wet so you can't stack them on top of each other because then they stick to each other. This is like a piece of paper that I need to set this to the side and dry, same thing with these little watercolors. You need to set them in a safe place where they're not stacking on top of each other, you're not running that ink off on everything, and let them dry. I'm feeling pretty crazy here. Let's just pick up this one. This is yellow ocher. Let's try our other brush. The goal here is to, look at that fun, look, we can make different marks. Check that out. [NOISE] This is like a greenish yellow. I don't really feel like that's like my favorite ocher color. We can come back with a line, see that's more like an olive green to me. But look how we can paint different shapes and lines. This is definitely outside my comfort zone. I'm looking at this color, did I make a bad choice? [LAUGHTER] But you know what? We're having fun, I'm still laughing with you, so check it out. We're still accomplishing good things. We're learning what these do, we learning about some brush things that we can do. We are figuring stuff out like that was not a ocher. Let's go back with whatever. Let's just pick this. I'm just blindly picking a color. This is scarlet lake. Let's go here with the brush. I'm going to start doing some who, well, what the heck? That was not what I expected. I thought I was going to get a red out of there, but we did not, we got an orange. There we go. Not what I expected at all, but we're going to go for it. We'll just go ahead and mark it on each one, and just set that to the side. Let's pick, what is this? This is blood red. That sounds promising. Let's try with the fan brush, it's got pink still in it [LAUGHTER]. Maybe I want a line right down here, so that could be a blood red. I agree with that. [LAUGHTER] I'm going over some other colors because now we'll get to see, is that going to change the color of what we've got going there, or these going to rewind what are we going to get from that? It's interesting just to see what would we get if we did this. What would we get if we did that feel and attitude? See now I'm feeling that right there. Yeah, see now that right there, but it took me four times to even get there [LAUGHTER]. See there we got a little bit of paint, you get the lines. I'm loving that. Let's do that right down there. I like blood red, blood red is good. Let's see what else we got here. Let's just randomly pick. What do we got here? We got tea rose pink. Let's check it out. Let's see what tea rose does. Let's do the angle brush, look at this, now some of these are blending right there. Holy cow, that's looking super cool. That's what I love about watercolor, is they start to blend and do some magical things that maybe we didn't expect, and if we just let them dry and do their thing, that's fun to see what do we get. What is this color? Let's see. [NOISE] Look at that color. Just go ahead and go right around that like that, that's fun. Just testing the waters here. There we go. Let's pick this one, e crew. What so far as you're painting has been your favorite brush? Like when you're doing these, what have you got? That's my favorite. I feel like my own favorite has been that fan brush right there. Just to remind you, we're doing these, I'm not thinking composition, I'm not thinking this going to work, not thinking on this one. Obviously, I picked a color palette, but it was a little bit of some serendipity as to what we're going to get. Let's see what is this color, this is Rose red. It's more about, let's do this right here. Learning your supplies and not getting hung up on trying to create an amazing masterpiece because that's not the purpose here, the purpose here is to have some fun with your supplies, which we don't let ourselves do enough of, and use your brushes and your paints in new ways that maybe we didn't think of, and it's this playing and this experimenting that gets you leveled up in your art. Look at that [NOISE]. This is how we figure out what do we like, what works, what doesn't work? Who we want to do here? Want to do hoover, [NOISE] look at that. That's super fun. But, weirdly enough, after I do like all these weirdo experiments with these, I always end up with some that I love, even though the whole time I'm painting, I'd totally doubt, [LAUGHTER] what we're getting. I always weirdly enough end up with something amazing that I'm like, okay, I didn't expect that. It always happens after I peel the tape. Not before. Not during this process of painting and adding and layering and mark-making and coloring, it's not this part that I find things I love, it's this part that I'm like, I don't know, did I make some wrong choices here? [LAUGHTER]. My goal is to use all these colors I pulled out. What do we got here? We have points that are red. You know what though I didn't use that color on this one. I'm trying to use all the colors on all the pages. I like the shape that this brush makes when we just dab it down. Look at that when we dab it into other colors, we can still see the shape and that changes a little [LAUGHTER], I like that. Let's try this. Let's see points that are red. I'm feeling like the fan brush. Let's use the fan brush a little differently. Before we dragged it through, what if this is now our mark-making element, like we just did with that other brush, what would we get doing that? [LAUGHTER] That's pretty cool. Check that out. Check it out. That's a super fun mark. I don't know if you're feeling it like I am, but [LAUGHTER]. Then look here, we can go down in a different row like this [LAUGHTER]. I'm well and that right there [LAUGHTER]. Let's just do that over here too. Because sometimes especially on these abstracts, the more layers and marks you get, the better they turn out, or we could just be totally running them all. But you know what, we cut it up into something different, this is Arbutus pink. [MUSIC] 5. Mark Making & Evaluating: [MUSIC] Into something different. This is Arbutus pink. Arbutus pink, let's see. Is there another brush that we want to try? Let's just look at this, I've got this funky brush right here that comes to a really tight point. I know I just introduced you to another brush on the fly, but that's okay. What is this? This is a sketch box brush. The try wedge Number 8, but it's a wedge brush basically, it's got this really tight point. But look what we could do with it. We got to get some more on there, let's really get that saturated. We could do some tiny line work, I'm not really getting some of that, I'm just getting some swoosh. [LAUGHTER] Look at that, we can get a different mark than we were getting on the round brush, like that. I didn't like that so much, I wanted more color. I wanted it to really saturate and give me a line there. I'll see, now, I can get a line a little bit. That's different. I could get a little bit bigger one that was fun. That's fun there, I did like it there. We did that, tried out that one. Any other brushes over here in my little stash? I'm sure there is, but just look over here, maybe we can go ahead and pull a wash brush out. This is going to be a stiffer brush, it's probably an acrylic brush, but it's like a wash. This is my Simply Simmons 3/4 brush. [LAUGHTER]. What is this color? I'll tell you in a second, we'll take a look. I actually like it, look at that. This is scarlet vermilion. It's a really super beautiful orangey red. Maybe we can just do some lines like that, I like these overlapping of the lines, that's fun. I like this red though, these is pretty red. Fun, let's put a little of this color over here. I'm not so worried about composition at this point, so I'm doubting if I even have a composition in any of these, but we'll see what we get. [LAUGHTER] Cadmium yellow, let's do some cadmium yellow. I'm filling the fan brush, I love my fan brush. I don't think I like that yellow though, check that out, that is a crazy color. Let's just add a little one there now that we've started it, brighter than I had expected. What about this Arbutus pink? Let's see what we got here. I'm going to stick with the fan brush. Just maybe mix some in to some spaces here. See now if we re-wet those that just reactivated and moved around a little bit, really good information to know as we're moving forward, are we going to reactivate these. But keep in mind, these are watercolor, they are going to be able to be reactivated, moved around, you can create interesting areas where the watercolor then blooms on itself and does some other things. Keep in mind that it is a watercolor, you're going to be doing some funky stuff. Now, you know what, I have used all the colors. [LAUGHTER] Man, is this thing looking crazy? I'm not feeling like we're going to have something that we love, but maybe we will. I have some gold-micah ink and my gold-micah paste, I do reserve the right on everything I do to make some ink choices. What if I've got this newish, sometimes I get things and I set them out of the way, [LAUGHTER] I might forget I have them till I remember them. This is a handmade glass pen, these are very cheap on Amazon. What if we use the glass pen? It's a dip pen, just like our other dip pens and man have I've been wanting to try it out so, what better thing than something like this. You basically dip the ink in and you draw with it and just see what can you get. It's a real fine line, it's real pretty in that color I used. I'm going to have to look on the video to see what that color was but this color where I dabbed the brush in, most beautiful color. What I really love when these dry, is how vibrant, but flat they are. Now I know dip pen, super fine line and doesn't really go very far, how interesting is that? But it is fun to say; well, I used a glass pen on this, this might be really good for writing. I think I'm going to set that in water and I'm going to go back to my kakimori dip pen because I know I'm going to get good lines and marks with it, I hope. [LAUGHTER] Because I want to do some nice lines and mark-making here with the ink. I might even get that paced out, why not? We'll see. I like what this corner is doing, that's really beautiful. I like this, some of this is still wet so it moves this around in there a little bit and you can do this with a regular dip pen, I'm just playing with what I happen to have and what I like using. These are the Kakimory nib is pricey but a regular dip pen does this just as well. The ink goes a little longer and you can go up and down with the size. You know what, I could have done this with the ruling pen looking here, let's get that ruling pen out because it actually does amazing jobs. Let's choose, so this is a dip pen and I can mark over here to change the size of that by just changing the knob there. The ruling pen might actually be the better choice for something like this because I can get much larger amounts of ink on the paper. Look at that. [NOISE] I really love, that the fan brush line that we did here and that orangey reddish color is gorgeous. Look at here. Let's see, I want maybe some dots. Oh, check it out, what a pretty dot. I love it with the oranges and the pinks because we've got gold, orange, pink, how amazing is that? I've done the same thing that I always do, I start in the corner where my hand is when I should start this way and work that way, more likely, of course, to get my hand in this nail. [LAUGHTER] [MUSIC]. I got a lot of the dipping done, I'm not sure that I want to do any more gold yet. Actually, I'm going to let some of this dry so that I'm not smearing all the gold and stuff that I just put on here before we look at it and decide if this is where we want to stop. I'm going to let this dry some and I'll be back. These are mostly dry, I'd say 99% dry, I did go ahead after I was sure that it was getting really close to being dry and hit it with a heat gun because I'm inpatient just like you. The only thing that may not be dry are a few of these larger gold dots, but everything else is basically dry and I want to see what we got because, all the time I've been painting, I thought, I'm I going to like any of these and I am ready with some extra projects in mind if I don't like them. So let's just peel the tape and evaluate it and we're still going to have a successful art day, tell yourself this, you're still going to have a good art day even if you don't like the straight painting because we can cut these up, I'm all about cutting art, that's almost my favorite part is getting to cut something up. [LAUGHTER] You need to get into that mindset. I'm like what can I cut this up into? [LAUGHTER] Then the longer I look at that, the more I thought I really am liking some of these. If it's a completely different style than you normally do and this is probably more in my little chaotic style, more is more, not less is more. [LAUGHTER] I have a real problem with white space for some reason, I feel the need to fill all the white space and sometimes that's not so good and sometimes more is more and sometimes more is not more but you just got to work with whatever the moment gives you and this is how we get past some of the challenges that we run into when we're painting and how we get past those. [NOISE] Let's check them out so, I want to see what they look like turned this way, I was really feeling like this one. Cool, I like how the gold shines, very interesting, definitely different than my normal style, I'm feeling it this way. [LAUGHTER] This one now in it's chaos, I love this bottom corner. I love the gold and the stripe going up. I love the gold that shines in the light and I love these crisscrossy lines at the top so that's super fun. If you're painting in a style that ends up being something way far from your norm, don't immediately say, I hate these and throw them away. I want you to live with these for a little while or maybe [NOISE] say no, I was excited about this right here. Maybe think, I'm going to live with these for a few days, but I definitely feel that I'm going to cut them up. This one I'm not feeling, this one is definitely a candidate for cut up, but the others if you're like, I'm not sure, live with those for a while because I'll be honest with you these two, I'm digging and I don't think I want to cut them up and as a pair, they really match as a pair. Look at this, if I put a frame around it, we've elevated that into a finished piece of art. While this is not my normal style that I create in, look how super cool that is, the color, the movement, the extra gold marks that we put in there, those two are pretty cool. These two, I love the colors, but for some reason I maybe dig this one, this one not at all. Some feeling like this one. We could cut this up and create something else with it and so I want to do that project with you on this one before we cut out today from our intuitive painting because I feel like this could be amazing. I love the colors, I like the movement. I didn't like it, but I don't know that I love it and I just want to see. This one, I'm still on the fence about, maybe I love it so we'll see. These two I do actually love. Look at them framed up. [LAUGHTER] I love that. Those two are definitely going to keep like they are. I want to do a cut up project with the ones that are iffy and I could cut both these up and make a little trio maybe. Let's just do that, let's make some junk art collage, let's keep these as our yummy pieces so let me get that together and I'll see you in the next video. [MUSIC] 6. Junk Art Collage Pieces: [MUSIC]. Today I was just painting on my Canson XL, 140 pound cold press watercolor paper. I just took one sheet out of this 9 by 12 pad to create two more half sheets like the sheets I was painting on. This will be the new base of a piece of art. What I'm going to do is chop these up and make some junk art collage stripes and I really love stripes so I'm going to use these stripes. Because I know that the paper I'm working on is very similar to the size here. I can decide how much I want to cut off because I want the stripes to be centered and I just want it striped all the way down the page. I can cut off the edges of my piece here and then whatever I end up with, that's the size of my stripes in the width. Now I know that this is how wide those stripes will be and I'll have a nice white edge around it. I'm going to just cut these into different sized stripes so I don't want them to be the same size, I don't want uniformity, I don't want things to be even. I want this to be a more modern collage stripe and let's do different sizes. I'm just moving that paper down, cutting out some stuff. You can do this with scissors, you don't have to do this on a little paper cutter like this, but look how much easier it is if you did have a little paper cutter like this. [LAUGHTER] If we could just move it down the line and cut those stripes. Put my nail back. [LAUGHTER] There we go. Let's take a look at this and I'll decide if I want to cut this other one up to be part of my stripes. I might, should cut that up. The goal is not to realign these back the way they came out, I want to realign them differently in different sections because I want this to look different, still be part of the collection, but give me a totally different feel. It's not my goal to have perfect stripes perfectly in line, we could do a little wonky stripes just like that. [LAUGHTER] Filling that right there and look at that. You know what? I'm just filling that right there. Look at that. That right there just totally changed the whole piece. Now these two are almost identical and so I might even just flip it to give me a little difference and I love this stripe here, it's got some gold run through it and align. Look at that, that is super cool. I'm filling a pair of these. Now, I love this so much. Let's go ahead and cut these other one into a stripe because that just got so much more interesting. The goal is to basically have these two match, so I'm going to take one of the stripes here that I just created and let that be my guide on where to cut this one. Let's just keep right up here at the top so I can actually see if that's the right spot. How about that? [LAUGHTER] Right there. There it is. Let's do that right there. You're off. Look how pretty that is. That section right there, gorgeous. Save that for a piece of collage. Let's cut the end off and just like I just did, I'm going for random stripes, different sizes. If you see a section that you think, wow I love that so much make it a fatter strike. You don't have to have skinny strikes. We can have fat stripes. If you're thinking there's a lot of amazing things going on in there, let's use it. Like really this last one here I'm feeling it's amazing so let's get that near the end and cut that now. Now because I have two art works worth of stripes, I can now come back in and pick and choose for both pieces. There we go. I did a really good job of getting them the same size so yay. [LAUGHTER] How funny are we? Let's see. This one right here, totally speaking to me. This one, I liked it a little fatter and now we can look at both pieces at the same time and say, well, do we want to trade that out and put this one over here and maybe this one over here. Color wise, I actually think that I don't like that, so we'll put that back. Maybe we will keep this over here. I don't know. Let's see. I do like these in particular, do we want to put something over here with that? Like right here, that might be fun. This one might be fun over here. I like all the little stripe, isn't this one quite a bit? Look at that. I do like this with the little darts in here. If I pull any of these a little tighter, I probably do have enough room for that to be in here. Let's just see. Because we can maybe set that right in there. That's interesting. Look at that one and look at these. I got some bigger ones here. Maybe what if we did that? That's fine. I do like the bigger at the bottom, that can be a nice anchor at the bottom. Different but similar. Maybe this one at the bottom there. Look at these. You could do this all day long. This is fun. [LAUGHTER] Look at this stripe. That's a gorgeous stripe, loving that stripe. This gets so much more fun when you cut them into other things and all the sudden you're seeing these little bits that you're like look at that, look at the little dots on the edge of that one. I feel like this pink stripe is running everywhere of the center, so I want to change that out. What if we did that that way? I'm filling this. What about the skinny stripe? What about this other standing straight? Let's do this one. Look how pretty that stripe is. See how much more fun these just got when we cut them up. Check that out, what do you think that that? Fill in that right there. I do like fat at the top, fat at the bottom, but we can do these a little different. We can say one has that and the other can be different. [LAUGHTER] Here's my goal too, my goal is not to be straight, my goal is not to get them all perfectly the same amount of space apart. I want them to be a little bit wonky, so if they don't line up perfect, that's okay. If they don't have the same amount of space in between them, that's perfect. I want them to be wonky art striped collage things. But I do want them to look good. I don't like that one on the top, let's see, what about that one? No, let's see what about this one? See there I like that one. Well, let's flip it and have those dots different because I got dots and I want to make those different. Let's do this one this way. I got way more stripes in this one than I do this one, but as long as we're taking up the same amount of space, it doesn't matter. But what if we come in here and throw in a stripe variation there, is actually the same, let's make it that way. Let's change one of this here. Put that up there, yeah, there we go. I don't want the exact stripes sitting next to it and there's this pink line that just looks like it continued. I'm trying to break that up a little bit. Yeah, let's do that right there. [LAUGHTER] Let's start gluing down. If I got to fit another stripe in, I can. I'm using Yes! paste because this is very thick paper and this Yes! paste is very thick paste. It's like a glue stick in a container [LAUGHTER] and I love it. I can just slap it on with a palette knife and keep on going. I'm going to start this at the bottom, making sure that maybe each of these has the same amount of space there at the bottom. I'll try to get that even at the top too, there we go, what do you think of that? I think that looks pretty good. I look it up into my little camera screen just to make sure if you want to get exact, feel free to measure that bottom piece, but I'm feeling pretty good about that there and then we'll just glue all these pieces down. The nice thing also about this glue is it's not going to attach permanently immediately, so you have a little bit of work time, which I feel like on pieces like this maybe we need that little tiny bit of time because then I can move it up, or down, or around if I need to. If you're using a glue that dries super-duper fast, you don't have that work time and I feel like on these stripes I need that little bit of work time just so that I can really get them right where I want them. I don't want so much glue on the back that I'm oozing lots of glue out, but I don't want it so thin that it doesn't stick, so just judge that. Look how pretty this is, now this glue does dry clear, so that is nice. [MUSIC] Check it out. Now check it out. Still are yummy, chaotic looking paintings, but separate it out and put together in a different way to make them so much more interesting. I can't tell you how much I love making junk art collage stripe things. They don't have to be perfect, just enlarge around it, and all of a sudden you've turned those pieces that you didn't love, love into something amazing. Take a look at that with the original paintings that we did not cut up and tell me which way actually looks a tiny bit more interesting, the stripes, right? I'm feeling the stripes. I do love these and I don't want to cut these two up. But now, the other two that I was, "Look how amazing these are, " and can you just see these framed up with a mat and a frame? How crazy gorgeous that would be. These are gorgeous, I would totally sell these. All right, so now I want you to experiment and play. You can play with whatever watercolors you have on hand, but if you have these peerless ones and you thought they looked interesting and you thought, "What is that? Maybe I need to try it." Just pull these back out. They're definitely really fun. The complete edition I was using, the bonus pack and then there's some face tones which are really pretty. These are super cool, they go a long way, I've painted a lot of different things with these and I'm still using the same packs that I originally had. I love that. You'd think that's not much watercolor, but that really is a ton of watercolor. I really, because these come out so vibrant, that's what I like about it. These colors are super vibrant, a little bit like an ink almost, they're gorgeous. I really love that they're matte, they're not shiny, and these areas where they combine, super exciting. It'd be really fun to do more overlay of some of these colors and watch these colors combine, this right here is gorgeous. I want you to experiment, play with some different brushes, and then see what do you think when you're done. If you don't love them, try some of these junk art collage where you cut the pieces up and stripe them into a new piece of art because I guarantee you if you didn't love the original, you're going to love the stripes, they're gorgeous. I'll see you next time. [MUSIC] 7. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Did you have as many doubts as we were painting today, as I did? Today, I was actually doubting the things and I was like, not my normal color palette. I have actually even pulled colors differently than I ever would before, where I was like; let's just have a pile and randomly pull colors out of it. I actually enjoy doing that. Now I'm going to have to go back and watch the video again for myself because there's a couple of colors in here that I'm like, greatest color ever, and now I'm thinking what was that? So now I'm glad I got it on video. Because I can go back and take a look and see what I used. These were super fun. I want you to get as much enjoyment at your art table as I did. So I want you to make it a regular practice to do some type of art like these intuitive painting sessions, to experiment and push your way out of whatever current art box you're in. I want you to push your way into new discoveries, new techniques, different supplies that you don't normally do, color palettes that don't normally speak to you or you didn't think of or maybe you pulled a color palette from your favorite resource and you're like, let's experiment with this color palette today. I've had the best discoveries just by sitting and playing and giving myself permission to relax, and it's okay if the piece is great or not great when I'm done because I can always cut it up. So I want you to start getting into the habit of giving yourself this permission to play, come and do some intuitive paintings with me and come back and share what discoveries you made and the pieces you created. I can't wait to see those, and I'll see you next time. [MUSIC]