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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] I love it when
an art supply captures my imagination and it gets me excited to come up
here and create. I'm Denise Love and I'm an
artist and photographer. Currently, I'm obsessed
with watercolor powders. They're super cool,
they're unpredictable, they're fun to play in, they are fun to mix and combine and just see
what would this create. I love to see the way the
colors separated when you splash them with water and
they do a little splatter. These are fun. Today in class, we're going to create some little abstracts, a couple of different
projects that I have for you and just see what the limits or how we
can push it or what these look like when we
squirt water on them, when we mark make on them, and when we just make some
beautiful little abstracts. These colors are vibrant
and they're fun, and I can't wait to see what
you come up with in class. Be sure to come back and share some of your
projects with me. I want to know the
colors you picked. I want to know what
techniques you used. I want to see the mark makin- that you chose to do on top. These were some of
the most exciting little abstracts
that I've done in a while and I had a lot of fun creating and with
you in class today. I can't wait to see
what you're creating. Come back and share
that with me. I'll see you in class. [MUSIC]
2. Class Project: [MUSIC] Your class project is to play and experiment today and come back and show
me what abstracts you created with the
watercolor powder. This dove is so cool. I love it when I
find the supply that I'm obsessed with this now. Let's go play because then I find many reasons
to come up here to my art table and play and film and have a good
time with you guys. Currently, that's the
watercolor powder. Every time you see
a whole series of classes and you're like, "What's up with the
watercolor powder? What's up with this?
What's up with that?" It's because that's the thing that's newly obsessive to me. I'm like, this is so exciting. Let's create with this today. Currently, I'm obsessed with these powders and I want
to see what you do with it and the color combinations that you come up with and the abstracts that you
create to come back and share those
projects with me. I'll see you in class. [MUSIC]
3. Supplies: Let's take a look at
the supplies that I'll be using in class today. I wanted to experiment some more with the
watercolor powders, and see how I could push them
in different ways than I did in the other class where
we used watercolor powders. Today, I ended up with
some amazing stuff. This one right here, love, love, love. This one right here, perfect if you like that really, suck them in your face colors
so vibrant and beautiful. Then I did a couple of other little smaller abstract projects with you in class just
to get you thinking, how can I use this? What could we do with it? We are using watercolor
powders. You can Google that. There are several different
brands that come up. I happen to have some from
the crafter's workshop. I'm using some of these
color burst powders, I'm using this orange
from my sketch box, I love this orange and the
fuchsia and the tangerine. It's what I'm using mostly
in class because that's the colors I've decided
to play with today. I love orange and pink. But these come in
all kinds of colors. You've got purple, you've got turquoises, we've got greens. All kinds of things
that you could be experimenting with the
watercolor powders. Pick a set of your favorite
colors and try these out. I have ordered some new ones, from the crafter's
workshop that are ocher and olive green and I
think I like a burnt orange, cannot wait to get those. Hopefully, in a couple
of days, we'll see. Get some watercolor powders. These projects are pretty specific to playing
in the powders. I would recommend at
least one little set of something to play with. I'm also using my
Kuretake Gold Mica ink because it's my
favorite art to supply. It's not necessary
in your projects. I'm just showing
you the things that I love and I'm drawn to. I want you in these
intuitive paintings to pull things that you're
drawn to and you love. Some of these things
you'll be like, you use that in every
piece of art you do. That's what happens
when you discover your own favorite
supplies and you're like, oh yeah, I love this,
let's grab that. It gets into your signature, things that you
like to do and get into defining the styles
that you'd like to create. I know I like to
create abstract, I like to use this gold. [LAUGHTER] It's
the direction I've headed in my art practice and I'm bringing
you along with me. With that gold, I like
to use my ruling pen or my dip pen or my
Kuretake brass nib. Any of those would work fantastic with your ink
and you don't have to have one or the other just
any dip pens great with ink. I also like a water-soluble
graphite pencil. In one project I am using my
SoftAqua zero Raphael brush. Some of these I like
to mark make on. I thought what if we got out a different colored posca
pen than we normally use, I'm always using
white or black so that it comes in other
colors, surprise, surprise. [LAUGHTER] Today I
pulled out red and pink because it's all in here. While you can't see obvious sections where
I've gone pink or red. It's some yummy little
decoration within my piece that I've used
those and I love them. The other thing that I just intuitively pulled out
while I was working, because that's what these
pieces are all about. Pull out what feels
good if you think, wonder what pastel would
look like on this? Pull out the pastels and try it. I'm using some of my pastels. These are the
Sennelier half-sticks. I don't know the colors anymore because I took them
out of the box. They came in and I put them in my little antique drawer here. But these are the Sennelier
half sticks that I'm using. Just pick what feels
good as you're creating. Like this yummy, lavender, grayish color that
is on the top, totally makes the piece
for me. I love that. The other thing I'm using today is my Canson XL
watercolor paper. This is my experimenting
paper that I like to use. That's what I'm cutting in
half and then cutting in half and that's how I
got these sized pieces. I just have these tape down
with some artist's tape and I'm using a spray bottle
with some water in class. Also like this little
kneading eraser. Because if you're using
the pastels and you peel your tape and you get any powder on the edge of your paper, this is the perfect tool for cleaning the edge
where it's still oh, nice, pretty white edge. I think that's most
of the stuff that I'm using in class today. I can't wait to intuitively
paint with you. When you get these watercolor papers and you happen to think, what if I did this or
what if I did that? Go with that thought
and just see what can your piece end
up with. Tape them down. Because then when
you peel the tape, it just turns into a
finished piece of art. It's amazing. [LAUGHTER] I hope you have fun
creating with me today. These were fun. I enjoyed playing in the
watercolor powders again, I can't wait to get
the new colors I've ordered and then you
may see them again. [LAUGHTER] All right, I'll
see you in class. [MUSIC]
4. Abstract Powder Testing: [MUSIC] I thought it
would be fun to play in these watercolor powders again. I want to push the powders this week and see what
could these powders do. I've pulled out all of
my watercolor powders, and I've got a few from the Crafter's Workshop
and stencils.com. I've got a few from
the color burst, and I've got a few from
my sketch box colors. I've got them just
lined up here on my table to see what
do I want to create? I'm feeling like, what if we do something with maybe the oranges
and the purples? I've got several different like orange, fuchsia, and purple. What if we put some
powder on the papers? Because remember in the
last project that we did, we wet the paper and then
put the powders down. But what if we put
the powders down, you can manipulate them
a little bit here with a paintbrush or something just to spread them
out if you wanted. Just thinking on the fly here, we can just squirt them out if we want to just see
what that would do. This I think needs to be
spread out a little bit. Maybe take a brush and
spread some out if they really pile up in a little pile. Then let's just start
layering some color in here. One of these is
lighter, heavier. Because I like to see
what are we going to get if we do this? What are we going to
get if we do that? Just spread those around. This is the tangerine fuchsia. There's orange, this
is bougainvillea. Then two, I want to see if
I had enough water on here, maybe if we make these run. Here we go, four colors. We've got bougainvillea,
orange, tangerine, and fuchsia. I got a spray bottle. Look at these colors. [NOISE] Oh, my goodness. That
was really light squirt. Wow, do you see that
really heavy squirt? [LAUGHTER] That was fun. If I do a heavy squirt. Quite different look
there if we did it on this side with the heavy
squirt than this side. The really light powder
look super-duper cool. If I wanted, I could
even see what this would do if I ran some of these
off and we got some runs, which I was hoping for. Let's see if we can get
some runs the other way, and that helped us to get some of this water off that paper. [LAUGHTER] Look at that one [LAUGHTER] Just have
some fun with me here. Girls just go with me and gods. This is my six be
water-soluble graphite. You can use any pencils. You can use some gold. What about the gold? We could get out a ruling pen, or a dip pen, or a kakimori brass nib. I do like my little ruling
pins and my gold ink. Let's just see what. Let's just start playing. [NOISE] Look at that. I just stuck my
finger in it, oops. [LAUGHTER] That's really cool
how this runs in that war. That's super fun. Not doing any
specific mark here, just getting some
marks and movement. All super fun, I like that. What if we pick a different one? You can keep working with
that one if you want feeling. Let's try this one
and this other one the kakimori dip pen. [NOISE] I'm just
mark-making and having fun, just like with the other intuitive collections
that I've done. It's more about experimenting
with your supplies, seeing what they do, pushing them in ways
that you're like, wow, never expected that, which [LAUGHTER] right now we're having some
of those moments. What if we added a little
extra powder on top of this? Like, what if I came back with a little extra,
say, fuchsia? I don't know what
this pretty pink is, but I feel like that pretty
pink is the fuchsia. I don't see that over here. I'm not going to get
it tapping this in, but what if we added some
extra powder on one of these? Will it soak in
and do its thing? We're just going to
let it sit and soak. Pick a different
color if you want. We could also let this dry, do some extra mark-making
on top with a POSCA pen, and see what that looks like. These are pretty exciting. I do want to let these
dry a little bit. I've got a heat gun here and
I'm going to help it along, which I don't normally do, but I'm going to do it anyway. Be real careful doing that
with watercolor though, because when you hit the
heat gun on its tape, it releases the tape and the watercolor goes
up under the tape. I want some crisp edges here
so that when we peel this, it looks like a really pretty
piece of finished artwork. Wondering if by tap off
this watercolor edges. There we go. Let's just
tap some of that off. Really get it where it
will be easy to dry. I'm going to be a little further away just helping it along, trying not to hit
my tape too much. Glad I did that because
before I get too far, I actually want to
take and see if we can move some of this around a little bit, some
of this powder. We could use our ruling pen. I was going to say the
end of my brush here. We could just do this and look at the
mark-making that we can create with that powder
I added, look at that. I can mush that around into some different
interesting somethings. [NOISE] I'm going to move it back side.
Let's just go ahead. Wow, so much fun going on here, I'm almost feeling these
are intuitive paintings. I want you to do what feels good when you're
looking at that and you think what would happen if I added some pastels
on top of that? When you get that feeling, I want you to ride that wave. That's what it's all about
with some intuitive painting. What feels good? What can I do? That's going to feel good today. I'm feeling like I want to
get out my little pastel box. These are Sennelier half-stick
soft chalk pastels. For some reason on this one, I'm feeling like
some pastel marks. Don't ask me why. But check out this pink
for some reason I'm loving the pink that
shining through in here. I can come through and
make circles or dots or lines or go through
here with some scribble, so much stuff we could do. I love this or acrylic pen. We can start doing
Posca pen dots, feeling good about that too. I wonder if I got
a pink Posca pen. Does that even come in pink? Surely there would be, I
just saw a pink. Oh my gosh. Look at that, I just
found a pink [LAUGHTER] even before we do
this. Let's just look. Look how cute the pink would be. You know what I could do? I could do some feeling
pink Posca pen. What are the colors
of the Posca pen? Do I got hide and back here, because I'm feeling Posca. Let's see what we got
in here. We got white. We know we like white because I got white
shining in there. I got green and blue, so they're like
primary colors almost. I got red back here. Read might be a fun
color to play in here. I never, ever use [NOISE]
the Posca pens in colors. I think there's a
yellow back there, but I don't feel like yellow. I never use the Posca pens
in these pretty colors. I always use white and black. But what if we do that? [LAUGHTER] What if we mark
make in colored Posca pens? It makes me want to get
more colored Posca pens. I'm just filling in
a lighter area here around that gold that
I switched around. I may add more gold on top tube. Check out on that,
is been a little different using something
that we don't normally do. We normally do the white dots. Let's do the pink dots. I'm feeling the pink dots [LAUGHTER] I'm doing the pink
dots before I get back to my pastels because
I'm still filling the pastels because the
chalky things will move around in ways that
maybe I don't want [NOISE] before I smear my hand
across them accidentally. That was super fun there. You look at this
red. Let's just try the red because I've
never tried the red. See that's really fun. These would be
perfect too if you'd like to draw botanicals, you see some pretty botanicals
drawn on top of this. I'm going back to the pastels. I'm still feeling pastels. Almost wondering, I
could do some big shape, feeling like some
scribble in here because I love to scribble. What if orange, oh see orange. [LAUGHTER] Look. Seeing some of these, I'm not looking
for it to jump off the page and scream at me. Sometimes I'm just thinking, what if it were a light detail and something that may be from
far away you wouldn't see? But maybe as you got in close, you then see the detail
that you're like, oh, check out this movement here
that I didn't even see from far back [LAUGHTER]
Then of course, you could do really bright
contrasty stuff too, just depends on what are you feeling as you're
creating what feels good. I'm filling the
orange over here, check out that, top of that red. Just go in with the moment. What feels good as I'm doing it and something comes
to my mind, you know what? Follow that, follow
whatever that is. If you think, what about
this? Grab it and do it. Just give yourself
permission to experiment. I love that right there. [LAUGHTER] What if we came back in with
something totally not in my color palette because as I'm looking
at these pastels, this really light
lavendery purple, just said, maybe me. [LAUGHTER] Did you
hear it saying? [LAUGHTER] Just
kidding. Look at that. Crazy color. Let's go with it. Oh my goodness. Look
at that, I felt round. [LAUGHTER] You might try
something and think, that did not work. You might try something, think, completely unexpected. Sometimes those unexpected
moments are the best. Actually, I feel like I'm
doing that over here too, because I do feel like it's a good little segue
over here in color. Look at that. [LAUGHTER] I love
playing with you guys. Come and have fun with me. Look at this yummy. Don't even ask me what all
these colors are, I have no idea. They might have been marked
in their box when I got them. But who can leave these
in the box when they're so beautiful in this
antique drawer? [LAUGHTER] If I get down to a little nub and
I'm like, what was this? I can take it to the
art store and just compare it and see
what we can get. She know I don't
want to go all the way over with that.
Look at those. Really like that. Just having some fun here, guys. I am filling white Posca pen. You need some of these
microfiber cloths. These are microfiber cleaning
cloths that you can get in the cleaning section
at the hardware store. They are the best for
cleaning your fingers off without having to
go wash your hands. Because especially if
you're working in pastels, this will get all
the extra powder off your fingers so that you can keep going without
making a gigantic mess. For some reason, I'm really
loving this one here. We've got some white, so let's come back in
here with, something fun. [MUSIC]
5. Finishing & Mark Making: [MUSIC] Just doing
some fun dots here. Let me get that
posca pen started. Super fun. I don't know which one of these that you're really going
to love the best, maybe the vibrant pop them, suck them in the face
color, or this lighter, beautiful, mellow pastely look. But can you see, if I
took this and we decided, let's cut this up
after I peel stuff, because you know I
love to cut things up, can you see that right there? Gorgeous. [LAUGHTER] Feeling like
this is pretty cool, and we could keep going. You can keep mark-making
and moving stuff and adding stuff to
your heart's desire. I feel like I want to see
what these look like. Let me wash my fingers. Let me make sure my
fingers are not covered. Let's just peel some tape. Just because you peel the tape, doesn't mean you
have to be finished. Just means that maybe you're evaluating and
seeing where we at? What else do I need to do? That right there,
already in love. [LAUGHTER] Oh my goodness.
I love this one. [LAUGHTER] Peeling the
tape is my favorite. It's like we're at Christmas
and we're getting to see what our present was. [LAUGHTER] I just
had these taped down to a piece of cardboard, because I wanted it smaller
than the big board I normally work on so that I could
tap water off of it. Look at that, oh my gosh. Peeling the tape makes
everything look amazing. You can just scribble
on something, peel the tape off and
somebody is going to love it. [NOISE] Feeling this one, somebody is going to love
it as a piece of art. Sometimes I'll go to
my favorite framer. She has a little art gallery, and she's like, look at this. Sometimes she wants me to
bring in these pieces that I've made from class and do
a collection out of them, but I like to keep these
ones that I make class, because I use them to take photographs of and pull
them back out later, and I'm like, ''Oh
yeah, I made this in that class or
something like that.'' I need to maybe market with the things that I create
in these classes. I'm like, no, but she'll show me some stuff and I'm like, wow, that's a couple of
things that I threw away. [LAUGHTER] Crazy what some
people take to the gallery, put a big price tag on, and say, check out my amazing art
and other people buy it. Look at this, oh my gosh. See, these are gallery worthy. Let's just tap off powder. If you're working with powder, especially pastels,
don't blow them, because you're likely
to blow powder all over your art stuff and then suck some powder back
into your lungs. [NOISE] If you will just tap those pieces on
something like this, then you can tap that into your trash can without
making a big mess. Now, I've got powder and
I'm going to move it. If you get powder on the
edges of your pieces, because you're working
with something like this, which I always do, then have one of these
needed art erasers handy because you can very lightly get any of
that powder off your edge. That's going to be important. You don't want to try to use a regular eraser
or your fingers, you'll get it wet. Take one of these
needed art erasers. They're the ones
that squish up and you just keep squishing things into it and revealing
a clean edge. [LAUGHTER] That's how you get any powder off your pieces
where you didn't want it. But check out these
amazing pieces. I got one thing, let me show you, hang on. When you're doing something with a powder on top of it like that, you might think, how do I
stop that powder from moving? What we do is take
this outside and very lightly spray a couple of
coats of a fixative on it. You can use this workable
fixative and that will at least adhere the powdery
surfaces a little better, so they're less likely to smear, and then you can add
some stuff on top. I also have Sennelier fixative, which is for soft pastels, and that will protect
that powder quite a bit. Nothing is going to
permanently adhere powders to your piece
because it's a powder, and you're just laying a
thin coat of something on top trying to get
it to stay there. But if I were to come
through and smush it with my finger accidentally, if I put enough pressure on it, I can smush it and
ruin that piece. Generally when you
make stuff with pastels or any powder, like we'd been working
with watercolor powder, maybe there's a little piece of powder still sitting out there, you frame these under
glass generally. This one is so beautiful that
I almost can't stand it. The colors are amazing. I love this weird little wisp of lavendery gray that
I stuck in there. [LAUGHTER] Gorgeous. This one speaks to my suck them in your face
color. Look at that. In these we used the
same powders and created two drastically
different looks. Really even I used
the same pastels, but look how different that is. Here we added a lot more powder, here we added a lot less powder, super interesting to
give this a try out. Do your mark making on top
and see what you end up with, because these are
crazy beautiful. [LAUGHTER] Can't wait to
see what you do with these. If you haven't tried the
watercolor powders yet, definitely grab a variety. These one is from the
crafters workshop. I looked recently on there and ordered some new
colors for myself. I have a one with a white label, but now they have
colored labels. I ordered a package that's got an ocher and olive green in it. I can't wait to get that
because these are super fun. These color burst ones come
in little sets of like six, and I think there's a
couple of different sets. Those are super fun. The sketch box ones are my original watercolor
powders that I was introduced to the
watercolor powders from. That's why I love getting
these other boxes. They'll send me stuff
I've never even heard of or thought to use, and I'm like, what is this? Now I've had this stuff for at least a year because
this came out last year, and I have not
experimented with them to this extent that I'm
playing with them right now. Sometimes I just collect art
supplies and put it into my cabinets and wait till
something inspires me, and then I'm like, this is
the moment for that supply. Love that. [LAUGHTER] All of a sudden I'm obsessed
with the powders. If you haven't tried
the watercolor powders, you can Google watercolor
powders and see lots of different ones come up. Super fun and completely different than working
with a regular watercolor. I'm sure that you could also
just put those in a palette, add some water and paint
with a paintbrush, but I'm all about a little
bit more serendipity. I like squirting that water
on it and being like, ''Oh look with that created.'' [LAUGHTER] However
you want to play, whatever feels good that day, the watercolor powders
are super fun. I hope you enjoyed this project and I'll see you back
in class. [MUSIC]
6. Small Organic Shape Abstract: [MUSIC] Let's do
another project. I actually loved the
fuchsia and the tangerine so much on those last
projects that we did, that I'm like, what
if we do this again? I liked the lighter
powder quantity. So very lightly, I want to mix these
a little bit. But I want to keep the
powder quantity very light compared to the great
big puddles of powder, and I could take a
paintbrush with water, but I'm a little bit obsessed with doing it with spray paint. Spray paint, my spray
bottle of water. [LAUGHTER] Oh my gosh. What if we just
created some type of fun splat right
here in the middle, and then let that dry, and we can do some
mark-making on this? I can either let it dry
completely and mark-make on top or I can add some mark-making right there
in the middle of that. But I'm almost feeling like I want to do a mark-making on top. Let's try this. If we did a little
mark-making underneath it, I'm sad that it blended so well. [NOISE] But if we did a little
mark-making underneath it, it blends really heavy in and
I wanted it to sit on top. That's my thought that
I was going there with. [NOISE] I'm being
a little impatient with method drawing of my piece today and I'm going to soak up a little
bit of this water. Normally, I like to
just set these on the floor and let them
do their thing and dry. But I don't know, I'm in the mood to
make several projects and I'm like thinking, come on piece, let's dry
and go ahead and make this. Normally, I would not do this. I would set it on the floor and let it do its
thing because I like the way the watercolor seeps
into the edges and gets really dark if you
let it sit there forever. So we're not going to get
that super darkness in there, but I want to see
what we can play in. [NOISE] Not completely
dry but dry enough. It looks completely different
than some of the others that I've done where I let
it dry and do its thing. Here's one I was playing
in earlier before I was doing this project and you can see
it's still not dry, you see it's still wet. But the colors really end
up very dark and matte, and you get a lot less of these areas where you
can see where the color overlapped and did its thing because I kept pushing
the water around. A completely different
look that you're going to get if you set this on the floor and just let that stuff
dry and get dark and have yummy dark edges versus pushing it around
with a heat gun. I would love for you to
experiment with that. Pick the same two
colors or three colors, do one where you let
it sit out and dry, do one where you take
a heat gun to it, and just see what do you get
with the two colors there. I'm feeling like maybe, this could use some marks. Maybe some go paste. This is my favorite
Qurataki go paste, which is a lot thicker
than the ink that I use. Or we could use the ink or we could go with
something dark. I'm just spit-balling here. What if we did a little
bit of mark-making? You can use your dip pen, your ruling pen, anything you want to do some mark-making. But what if we do some
mark-making here? I can come back with some
paste on top of that or I can just come back and
we can now do. Look at that dot. I love dots. Look at that, if we do dots in there. Look at those. We can fill in each
of these separately, like one little section can have dots and one little
section could have lines and one little
section could have little hash marks and dashes, and you could get really creative on how you
fill in some of these. See now that is gorgeous, I'm just glad I sat here, and I was thinking, and I'm looking, and I'm
thinking what wants to be there? Again, my favorite gold, you're going to get to
things that you're like, this is my favorite
and it's going to turn up in all your
pieces of art. That's going to be a signature
element of your style, and so you might think, why does this girl keep using this gold? Well, you know what? It's part of my signature
style [LAUGHTER] that I have added this element into the past year since I
got it because I'm like, oh my gosh, most amazing
art supply ever. You're going to make
these discoveries too, and then you don't care if somebody looks
at that and thinks, why do you keep using
that one element? What if I did some lines? Because it's going to be
part of your signature style and it doesn't matter if anybody else even understands why you
love what you love. You're going to be putting your mark on stuff
with the stuff, look at that, or
the stuff you love. Oh my goodness. A lot of art people
who do classes, especially in some of the
teacher groups I'm in, they do voiceovers and stuff. And I'm like, I hate
voice-over because you don't get the feel, the thoughts, the mistakes, the crazy things that happen. You'd like you don't
get to see those in real-time and see
what I think about it and see how I
feel about it and see what it is that I'm even
thinking as I'm making. They're like I can't create and talk at the same
time, but you know what? I don't say you're going
to have that problem. Some of the best stuff I do is creating with you guys
when I'm talking. Man, I'm just a chatty
creator [LAUGHTER]. I'm a chatty shooter too, when I'm out with my camera, I stay longer and I shoot more, and I enjoy chatting
while I'm doing it. If people are with me, I'll stay for hours. If I go by myself, I'll take a few
photos and then I'm like, I'm done [LAUGHTER]. You guys help me make better art because I feel
like you're with me. I feel like you're
sitting here at my table, I wish you could vote with
me sometimes and be like, no don't do that,
but that's okay. [LAUGHTER] Oh my goodness, look how pretty that is with all those gold marks in
there shining in the light. I'm feeling that right there, I'm not sure I want
to add any more. Try this, if you dry this with a heat gun and you get all those variations
in the watercolor, come through and fill those
in with different marks. Let those separations
in the watercolor be your determining
factor of where you might put dots and where you might put lines and where you might scribble and what you might
add on top of that piece. Even though I love the gold, because of the way that
it shimmers and shines, you could do that with white, you could do that with black. You could pick a color, I
could have done that with like red but thought I wanted to
do the red on top of that. I just like the little bit of bling-bling that I
get with the gold. This was fun. This was
a random abstract, you can even put it that way. It's pretty that way. A random abstract with
a couple of colors. Let that dry, mark-make on top, and just see what you get. Super fun, this would
even be really fun with some gold splatter just on top or some of this
red-like splatter, like I've got some
splatter here, sometimes splatter on top
makes things prettier. We're going to go with
this though, I love it. Hope you have fun
with this project. Just a random abstract blob and see what you
can do with that. I'll see you back
in class. [MUSIC]
7. Leaf Abstract: [MUSIC] Want to do
another project with you guys because I'm feeling it. I think that we can have some
fun with this and I want to do like one of my
minimalist leaf or flowers, like whichever you like
that leaf or flower feel. I'm thinking, I really want
to stick in my color palette today because I'm loving these
but maybe I'll do orange, tangerine and I got fuchsia. I can mix these in a little bit. I wish I could figure
out what the heck was so pretty on that one that I did. But I think that could have
been the fuchsia now that I'm seeing my other
little abstract dry, I can see that fuchsia in there, but let's do the orange. We could do a different color, but I'm feeling orange
and I'm wanting to create some minimalist leaves and did I get that
in the right place? [LAUGHTER] I don't know
that was. Let's work this way since I started, hold the boat [LAUGHTER]
Let's take a paintbrush. I just got this is just my Princeton angle share it's dry. Let this dry and I wanted to control what
that powder just did. I'm going to take this brush
and move this powder more in line like that and
I'm just wiping it off on a towel that
I have sitting over here to the side because
even though it's dry, you're going to have powder in your brush [LAUGHTER] Let's see. We could do like a leaf over
here maybe, close enough. Then I'm thinking that
this will have maybe with my water-soluble graphite, or you could do ink, or we could do gold
so many choices. You could do acrylic ink, you could do all stuff. But I'm going to make it like
three leaves so I'm going to want to control the
water a little bit. I don't want a real heavy
splat right out and I'm just thinking here.
Look at that. These are like on fire [LAUGHTER] Doesn't that
look like a flame? That looks like really flaming. That's okay so what I wanted to do and I want to get that
little bit of water off there [NOISE] and we can get
a new little pad of towels, but I want to get the water
off there, it's distracting. But these look like they're
on fire [LAUGHTER] Now, I'm wanting, let's do
the gold. You know what? Let's do the gold
because I'm just using a dip pen because now I can do some gold
up into our pieces. Look at that. See, we picked up a little bit
of that color I did that. Oh my gosh [LAUGHTER] Look at that and I could
dip this gold into these now and while
we're doing this, let's do this in a way that I said I didn't
want to do it. Let's put a little bit
of the powder into one of our palettes and just see how we can do
this a little different. I got a little palette here, let's do some of these. Let's just see like what one of these do I want
you to be practicing and playing and
experimenting so now we've got one of
these will get out my Number 0 SoftAqua Raphael brush you put that in the
water and I'm feeling like, let's try this fuchsia, little bit of powder
on my palette. I need to get one of those
little wells, that's okay. This is the one I
have sitting right next to me and we're
just going to add some water to this and
make it into a watercolor. You can do that too, if you think I really like to
paint these with my brush, you can do that too. I'm not sure I like
the shape I got there so let's just
do this again. I want this to be some of those I made where I
did really minimalist. Got something on that well, that's okay. Here we go. I want them to be a little more leaf-shaped
placed like I had that. See I like that. I should have gone
up a little bit. Then you can go up with these water-soluble
brushes, that's fun, like that right there. Just keep adding these
until it feels good to you. Don't have to be like what I
end up making and thinking, I love that you might
be looking at that, thinking what the heck
are you thinking? [LAUGHTER] These look
really good with the graphite watercolors I just wanted to see what
does it look like with these bright watercolors. Just something interesting
and fun to play. Now this one I'm feeling
like it's a crazy lady, feel my craziness come
out right there and that orange separated into several different
colors because, you know, we want to
put that one color down but look at
this we got yellow, we got dark maroon color, and we've got that orange in
there so it's really fun to see what colors
made up that color. All of that was in that one. How cool is that? Crazy. I do like they're the best. I want you to try just a fun leafy thing
with a little bit of a vine and we can come back in here with some graphite and just add a
little more to it. I just like to be
intuitive and you're drawing stuff on there and you're mark-making
and you're, what if I did this and maybe
it was the wrong choice, but maybe you're I love that. That was crazy, I don't know if that was the
right choice or not, but we'll let it dry and
then you can decide what it is that you're
thinking for yours and look how this
is drying on here. There's a yummy purple in
there with that yummy red. That's fun to see the differences that they've
made these powders with. I hope you have fun with just
this electric leaf project. Let's call it electric leaf and I'll see you back
in class [MUSIC]
8. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] I hope you
had fun creating with me in class today. I love getting obsessed
about an art supply and then coming up here and having a little jabber jaw with
you while I'm creating. I am definitely a social artist. I like to create
with other people, I like to see what
you're making, I like to see the
colors you pick, I like to see the
[inaudible] you make. I am a social artist. I'm a social shooter too, when I'm doing photography, I like going out in a group and I like seeing
what other people see and seeing what
they're taking photos of, and I stay longer and I
get excited with them and we have lunch after
and it's the best day out. I feel that appear
in my art room too. I create with you-all in the
morning and then I go eat some lunch and then I edit some videos in the
afternoon and I'm like, what a great day. [LAUGHTER] I hope you enjoy listening to my random ramblings
as we're doing some art. I had so much fun having
you in class today. I hope you enjoy this watercolor
powder as much as I do, it's super cool stuff. I can't wait to see
what you create, so come back and
share those with me. I'll see you next time. [MUSIC]
DENISE LOVE, Artist & Creative Educator
