Paint this gorgeous koala, that was in my backyard, in Gouache and Coloured Pencils!

1. Koala Welcome: What animal comes to mind when you think of Australia? We've got the kangaroo, the oka bara, the magpie, the crocodile, the mu, and of coe, the Koala. The Koala is one of the most recognized animals for Australians. This is what we're going to be painting in this project. What makes it even more special is that the reference photo for the project, I took in my own backyard. I live in the Hinterland on the Gold Coast, and this little guy was just hanging around on the paddock fence, just minding his own business, and let me get quite close to him as well. We're going to be working quite small again, just like A five standard paper or sketchbook, and we're going to be using gas and colored pencil. And if I haven't met you before, my name is Jane from misses Red's art room. I am the multi million Ditto colored art teacher and illustrator. So let us get painting. 2. Koala Class Project: On our class project, we're going to be using gas paints and colored pencils. If you haven't used gua before, that's not a problem. It is different to watercolor, it is different to acrylic. There is a lot of similarities with them, but I do recommend that you actually have ga paints handy for this exercise because I'm using them and you will see how I use them. You will learn how to use the gua paints. Another thing that I need to just make clear is that my natural style is quite detailed. The end result of this project, has very, very fine detail to it. That is my thing. I would love to be a lot looser with my art, but it's just where it goes. It will always end down that detailed path. If your natural style is not the detail that I have got and you don't spend as much time on the project as I do, then please don't worry. We've all got a different style, and that is the great thing about doing these classes is that you actually start to learn what your natural style is. This is a great project to familiarize yourself with gas paint and the colored pencils. Fill another page in your sketchbook if that's what you're working in. A painting and drawing is relaxing. Finally, nobody needs to draw this Koala free hand because I show you in the video how to transfer your line drawing onto your sketchbook or your mixed media paper that you'll be using. All right. Video is not over yet. I actually forgot to mention the project and description tab in the skill share folder. This is where you will find your Koala template, and it is also where you will upload your project once you've finished, or if you've got a question, in regards to it or you want feedback halfway through, this is also where you post it. The project and description tab is between the about and the review tab. If you click on there, that's where you're going to find the Kuala template, but it's also where you can upload. When you do upload, other students who are doing the project are going to see it as well. But if you've got a question for me, someone else might have the same question but haven't actually asked. You're helping out by asking questions or putting your finished Koala project up there at the end. I want to see it. Absolutely, I do. But I will see it in any stage of the project as well for feedback. If there's a question that you've got, anything like that. The next video, we're going to be talking about materials, so I'll see you there. 3. Materials: Okay, we are onto the material list. So let's start with our sketch book. Now, if you don't have a sketchbook, paper has to be at least mixed media or watercolor paper, and you wanting it to be over 200 GSM. And the reason for that is because anything that's thinner than that is going to w bubble. It won't lay flat. If you're in a sketch book, this one is not a five, but it's very close to an A five. It is a Stillman and burn mixed media book. I love using this one, and the little slip is in the back here. Mixed media, 270 GSM. A, so that's what all my gas paintings are being done in currently in C, that one's still got the sticky on it because that one is being done at the moment. So Sketchbook, the printout is for an A five size. So if you wanted to do it larger than that and you wanted to trace your printout, you're going to have to print out your image photo a little bit bigger. In regards to the image, so do print it out. If you're going to do the tracing method, which I'll show you in the next video. Um because the back you do all the scribble on, and then you transfer it onto your page. So the only time you actually use this printout is for transferring your koala onto your page. You don't use it for color reference. As you can see, I have a general home printer. And the colors in that do not reflect the colors that are in the photo. Use your photo that is part of this project to actually look at color wise, but use your printout to do the tracing of the koala. Of course, you can also free hand draw. I did do that with the magpie, but I have just gone with the template for the Koala. All right. We've got that. Yes, you need to get a print out of that. Okay. So into what I've got in here, paper towel, always handy because it's cheap to buy, great to use, and you end up with beautiful delight works all over your paper towel. So definitely have a sheet of paper towel. In regards to the brushes we're using, I have started with a flat doesn't say a size on that, but it would be about a ten. I think, hang on. I've got another one here. Oh, that's a different funny size as well. So, sort of a largish brush size flat. That's to put color down to start with. Then we've got a fel bit six. You don't have to have the exact size and shapes of brushes, but this is just to let you know what size that we are working with because there's plenty of different size brushes. A fill six, A fb is just that it's got round edges on it. Then I've got two rounds in very small size, two and a zero. The zeros are hard to come by. They're not easy to find. If your smallest brush is a two or a one, that's perfect as well. Okay. That's the four brushes that I'm using through this. That's just to put color down to start with and these three used throughout. Then, of course, just a pencil, and this is the washi tape that I use that you'll see, it's the same as the one that I'm doing on here. Why tape is great to use. It's easy to to purchase. You can buy them from, I reckon you can probably even pick them up in supermarkets now. Um, but the one thing you want to do with your washer tape is when you peel off to put down so that you get these lovely crisp borders, you have to put it onto your clothes first and then pull it up. And then that just takes away a little bit of the tact and then you can put it down. It is still torn. I don't know if you can see that there. Oh, yeah. It has still torn a little bit there, but that's okay. It wasn't a big tear. Um, so that's the washer tape, not essential, but if you've got it, then perfect. And of course, a bucket for your water. So, this one's mine. Nice and big, solid. It's not going to be knocked over, and I'm definitely not going to confuse it for the glass that I'm drinking out of. And then we move on to our gage. So I will provide you with a list of the colors that I've used. You don't have to use exactly the same colors, but at least if you can get into the ballpark of it. This one here, the Linden green, that one's a color that can be made up quite easily. It's a bit of a golden yellow. Um color. So I've got Lyndon green, Sap green, Windsor green, Sepia, van **** brown, burnt umber, ultramarine, ivory black, sinc white, and neutral gray three. So that's the colors that I have used in this project. And if you don't have these colors, then something similar is going to work as well. If you're looking for that realistic color palette of the koala. Now, they are all Windsor and Newton. Windsor and Newton are not the only ones that make Gach. There are other companies as well. I feel that with Gach and watercolor, if you buy cheap, you will get cheap color. These tubes are not that expensive. They are in series. So you've got Series one. The Windsor green is a series three. And the rest are all series one. They will be roughly a let's say Let's say $12 a tube, depending on where you are and at what time you're watching this, but you get a lot out of these tubes. There are 14 mill and you will get a lot of life out of the tubes. Best not to go cheap on gas because your colors will fade. They won't blend properly, better to just buy the essentials of what you need. The other thing that's not in view. I'll just bring it into view is my colored pencils. Now, I have a large set of the polychromos, and I bought them 30 years ago. So the container that they came in, the plastic is all deteriorated. So I had to put them into a new folder, and that is fine because I really like this little pencil case. I haven't specified colors that I use because you use what you've got. And when it comes to pencils, again, the better the quality, the better the result, but you can get away with a student grade pencils as well. I'm not expecting anyone to go out there and buy the artist quality if you can't afford it. Just use what you've got. You really we just do the fine little details with the colored pencil. There's not a lot. All right, so that is the materials that we are using in this project, and let's get on to the next video. 4. Drawing Koala up: All right, so we are about to prepare our paper with our image. So we need to put some washi tape down. With the washi tape, I do tend to just stick it on my clothes first once. So peel it out. Stick it onto my whatever I'm wearing. It just helps take a little bit of the tack. Um, now, I do have to reveal a half painting already happening on that side. So that is there, but I didn't want to go to a blank page just for the purpose of doing this. So I've printed out the Koala image. This is the size that you will receive it as. So if you are going to go larger, you will have to blow your image up a little bit. Otherwise, it's suitable for around an A five sketch book that this one is in. All right. So let's start by preparing Okay, so now we are ready to apply our template to the page. Now, I would normally draw this up myself. But just time wise, I think it's easier just to do a transfer of this. So Any pencil doesn't have to be a proper drawing pencil, but as long as it's at least HB or two B. So you will just turn your image over. And then with the side of your pencil, do a nice, dark, messy transfer over the koala. You should be able to see the image roughly through the paper. All you need is the post that he's sitting on call him a he. I don't know if he's a he, but he is a big koala. He looks like a boy. And then bring back your paper. This is a mixed media paper as well. Stillman and Bourne book. This is a little bit harder for me to see where I'm going to place him I want him to be over the side. It's about there. I hope that it's fairly straight. I can just see down the bottom here. Straighten that up a bit there. I'm thinking it's about there and it ends just here. Then for this, you just go back over with that pencil again and do all your outlines. You could even just do how I've just done where the back leg meets with the front leg. These are a little bit hard to see their claws. There might have to be a little bit of guess work going on there. He's actually got one hand over the other hand. This koala was taken in my backyard, and I'll actually, if I haven't already showed you, I will show you where he was sitting. We've lived here for 19 years and it's the third koala I've seen. This was in the broad daylight. The other ones have been at nighttime. I just sitting on our back fence. Anyway, there we go. A trick to this, if you want to make sure that you have covered everything is to keep your less dominant hand staying flat and just being able to move it like that. I know it's hard for you to see that there is pencil there, but there so I could check it to make sure I put both eyes in, the nose, everything looks like it in position, which it is. Don't know if I'm going to keep this bit of metal in. Don't know. This along here is old wire that for the electric fence that the dog to keep the dog in got a beagle. That was before we had it under the ground to keep him in, which works so better. Maybe I will keep this bit of metal in. It's part of the fencing. Okay. See I haven't done that bit. That looks like that's all in there now. I haven't done the bottom bit here. I haven't colored it in, but it has left an impression on the paper, so I'll be able to do that. Let me see if I can show you there we go. So that's what you should get, and you don't really want to go over that in Well, you will have to actually go over it in a little bit darker because we're going to be putting a wash over it to start with. So yeah, once you have finished the transfer, then just go over it lightly. Don't press too hard. You can see that this has actually left a bit of an indent in the paper, which you won't see once we get the gah going. All right, so just do that, and then we'll get on with the next lesson. 5. Koala first layer: All right, everyone. We are about to start painting. So with this layer, it is going to be very thin. When I talk about Gach, I have three consistency levels. Consistency one is when it is just ga, no water added and a fairly dry brush. Consistency two is what I will generally use when I'm painting with Gach, which is a wet brush. And a little bit of water mixed into your gross paint. And then the third consistency is like a watercolor effect. So for the first layer, we want it to be a watercolor effect, which means you'll see all your brush marks. It will be Um, not true to the color that you're working. The other thing I want to say is that I actually created two videos, and they were stuffed up in the editing, and I don't know how, but I lost everything. So this is the second time I'm actually going through this video. And what happens in about two videos time or two project, you know, is that I will start actually talking to the camera as I'm painting. Um, so this voice over won't go on for too long. And the beauty behind that is that I talk about which color paint I'm using at the time. Was now, I'm I'm guessing a little bit. But if I just go back to my notes on this, this is most likely the Van **** brown. So Van **** brown is um, a warm chocolate brown. Exactly what you can see on what I'm painting here. So just get a warm brown. It is basically so that we just cover the white paper. That is all we're doing at the moment. Is just covering that white, fresh paper look and just getting first layer down. Okay. So, I don't think there's too much I have to say. I probably have to come back and say about the colors, the other colors that I'm going to do. So, I will just let a little bit of music play until I get onto the next color, and then I'll come back and do another voice over for it. Oh, Okay, so we're about to do the post that the Koala is sitting on. And this looks like I've put winds of green in, which is quite a deep green. You'll see pretty much what I'm doing with it here. I maybe adding it. Yes, I am. I'm adding a little bit of the van **** brown to it as well. I obviously don't want it to be a fresh green. I want it to be a bit of a brown green because the post would have naturally been that timber colored look, and there's a lot of moss that's grown on it in the years, very old post that this ala is sitting on. So again, very watered down and just painting this windsor green, which is just a deep green. So if you don't have the Windsor green, you can see there it's like a really deep tree green, and I've created it to be a little bit darker with the Van **** brown. O O. O. H. Okay, so I'm now going to add a bit of what is called linden green. It's a lime green. So a light, yellowy green, not going to add it just alone, it's going to have a bit of the windsor green into it. This is for sorry, not the trees, the grass that's under the post. So it's a little bit brighter, or I shouldn't say it's brighter. It's just that there's nothing behind it. So it really can be just put down as a brightish green. So if you don't have that linden green, something like a sap green should work just as well, sort of like a froggy green that I'm putting down here. Then I will do that little bit of metal that's on the post, and that will be done in neutral gray three, which just to any gray, you can even mix it with black and white, if you want. Still keeping it to this consistency of consistency three. So just nice washes, and you should be able to still see a lot of your paint, your marks that the brushes are making. You'll see that the post is bleeding into the background here. That doesn't matter at all. I don't know whether I'm going to mop it up or not, but it doesn't matter because it's just a base layer. Alright, so I'm going to start painting in A koala now. I've added a little bit more of the van **** brown and the neutral gray three, and I will mix these together to create that sort of browny gray coat of the koala. And you'll notice I've also moved to a size, what is it? Size six felt. So this is still a flat brush, but the corner is a round. So it's sort of like right in between a round brush and a flat brush, I guess. Yeah. And the consistency for this is sort of between that consistency two and three. So you can see it looks nice and watery, but it's not going to be like stupidly watery because it doesn't have to be because it's a smaller area. So we don't have to apply too many layers to this. You can see that straightaway, as I start painting it, I'm not too sure what I do in regards to different areas because you wouldn't be able to see a pencil line underneath. It's been too long since I actually did this. So just continue that. And and then I'll probably go to some black after this for eyes and nose. But, yeah, just continue on and if I change color or anything, I'll let you know. Oh. Ooh the O. All right. So it was more of a consistency three to the Koala, because I think I would still be able to see the pencil work underneath. So now I'm just going to put the sorry, the neutral gray three into the metal on the post. And then I have laid in there. I'm sure it's a bit of it could be it could be black or it could be CPA. We'll soon find out. I think it's black that I've just laid down there. See, this is what's going to make it so easy when I actually start talking rather than having to do this guess work with the voiceover. I've also gone to a very small brush. So this is a zero round for this and the eyes and nose is a zero round. So just grab a small brush similar to this one. Now, just put the the neutral gray into what appears to be the black, and I'm just making a darker gray to do the nose and possibly the eyes as well. Yeah, that wouldn't have been CPA, that would have been black. Consistency level for this is between the one and the two. So one is bruh, dry paint, and two is a damp brush, a little bit of water added to your mix. So I'd say that it's a consistency too, but it's such a small brush that it's not going to take a lot of water in that heather. All right. Cutting in for a second, just to let you know that my palette is, and this is where we're up to with the Koala. So it has been about a month since I've been working on this. The reason for that is because I've actually been over in Fiji. And then when I got back, I just had a lot of art stuff to get done. Back into it, but yes, I've got a clean palette, so it will just be starting again. I've put down my base colors apart from inside the koala here, which I'm just about to do now, and then we start really getting into the gas painting again. All right. We're just finishing up the last first layer of koala. I do have construction going on next door. They're extending on their house. And every time I go talk, I can hear the drops going. Apologies for that. It's something that I cannot do anything about. And hopefully, the actual recording of this is not too bad either, for some reason, it just seems a bit harder to hear today. So I'm using white. You can use titanium or zinc. It doesn't matter. With the neutral gray, putting a bit of water to it so that it gets that consistency two, possibly two or three. Consistency three is quite watered down. You should be able to see the pencil line where the legs meet the belly underneath this layer. It is a smaller area, so we don't have to worry too much about it being too thin. But yeah, just keep it still between that consistency two and three. We end all of this with colored pencil as well to get those fine little tones. All right, so this is the end of this video. And then we get back into doing the background again and really thickening up the paint so that consistency two to consistency one. All right, so I will see you in the next video. 6. Koala background trees P1: All right. So we are onto the background again. We are doing more of a consistency to now. I will be starting with the Van **** brown, not mixing anything in with it at this stage, and consistency too. So we're looking at a nice creamy texture to the paint. You can't really go wrong with your tree placement. Just have a look at where they are in the background. Remember they are about 4 meters at least from where the koala is sitting. And we will build up layers with finer little sticks. We'll change to a smaller brush, I think, maybe not. And we will mix a little bit of the sap green into the brown as well just to create some different color for these branches, tree trunks, and also we finish with a sort of a greeny brown background to it. Okay. So for the first or probably the first two thirds of this video, it is a voice over of me, and then towards the end is when I actually start talking while I'm painting. So it just gets a bit easier then. I'm actually telling you what color I'm using rather than guessing. The brush that I'm using at the moment is this number six felt. So the filbert is a flat brush, but with round corners. So you're not getting that straight edge off it. The other thing that I do is I go to a really light color at some stage. I think that might be towards the end, and you really can't see what I'm doing, but I'm talking by that stage, so you'll know what color I'm using. Just doesn't really show up in the video. Anyway, I'll switch to some music and jump back in if I need to. Okay, just jumping back in again. I'm painfully mixing very slowly here. I could edit it out, but you won't actually see the quantity of the brown that I'm using towards the green. So it is Vandy brown and sap green. So that chocolate brown and a froggy green is what you need to mix next. This is going to be behind all those branches that I've just painted in. So it's a bit of a archy army green kind of color that I'm mixing, and I'll just paint in the background. This is the last bit of the video where I need to do a voice over for. So once this bit's finished, it's gonna be a lot easier on all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank Oh. Oh. O The see Okay, so I have decided to just press the record button and just talk as I go, which I think is just going to work better cause in that way, I know exactly what paints I'm using, I've just put burn down because I want to get a little bit more warmth into some of the branches that I'm about to paint in now. Before I paint in some of the leaves. And all of this has got to be very done very roughly. There is green sap green in this CPR still, and that is okay. So I'm using a very small brush now, a number zero round, which I don't know. Don't know if it really needs to be so small. And I'm just putting in branches, sticks. Actually, that feels like it's still a bit too dark. I might Try and grab a bit of this white. Some of these paints are quite old, so they come out of the tube quite hard. The white being one of them. So really, it doesn't matter where you put these branches. We're just filling up our background. Gosh. 'Cause I'm using such a tiny, tiny brush. It really doesn't hold any paint on it at all. Don't worry if it doesn't make a complete line either. These are all wayward sticks. So we're going to be doing a few leaves next and then more sticks and just really build it up, so it looks like a bit of a jungle behind the koala, which is what is happening there. You can't really go wrong with this part of it. Down below, we've got just grass, so we don't have to really worry about it long grass. And you can keep changing the color of your sticks, too. I can go darker or lighter. It doesn't matter. Just don't put any over because he is sitting a good or I'm going to say about four metres in front of all these trees. Okay. I will now go to six rounds. So we're going to do a bit of greenery. I'm going to get more green. It's very runny. And might throw down a bit of winds green, although it might be No, I don't like that. The bright green is too bright. That's the greens I've got. So that means I want to grab a dark blue, which I have to run upstairs and grab. 7. Koala background trees 2: Okay. I've got ultramarine and also some Prusian blue. So when making a darker green, I might even mix it into there. To make it darker green if you haven't got a deep green. I had a bit of blue to it. And that will make it darker. I don't know where to put this one now up there. O Again, this is going to change as you go along. So what color you make here doesn't have to remain for very long. We're going to be dusing it for some leaves, and then we'll lighten, will darken. So with this, I just want to put down brush strokes that resemble leaves. They don't have to join up to any particular stick. They are fairly dark at the moment. And as we go along, I'm just going to get lighter leaves happening and add some more sticks again. We want it all to reflect a fairly dark background, though. So that our Koala really stands out. I don't want him to be the same value range as the background. Okay, so I'm going to start to lighten up a bit now. Just make sure that there's empty covering. I got to do Actually, probably should do the tree branch, get them a little bit lightened. And paint brush size is a favorite. Number two, two round on the use. So to do these branches, we're going to be adding a little bit of white. Oh sorry, not white. We're going to be lightening the background. So we do have a mix here of white. I might just encourage that. That was white that was down there, and then I added brown to it. I think it was the CPA, but I might add a bit of the very hard burn umber. Just make a nice light brown that I can just do a few streaks for bark. Again, doesn't have to be perfect. Actually. I won't I was about to go over the top of some of the sticks, but I'll just add more sticks. And that does not look like I've put anything down at all. Mm. I kind of does. Need to be going lighter, though. Touch more white. Can see how hard it is to get white. So I'm just adding texture to the larger trees and probably put in a few more sticks as well. Keeping it on the left side of the trees, too, because that's where the light seems to be coming from. Yeah, that's starting too good. Add in some more branches that are lighter in value. You can go down the sides of some of the darker ones just to give them a bit more tone. Don't worry about going over leaves, though. Just a few little light taps of the brush to give more in the tree trunks. And then we'll get back onto some more leaves. Okay. So I'll go back up to the number six round brush. And I might add I might go for a bit of this linden green just to add some s kind of green. It's just a real lime green that linden green. I love it. One of my favorite colors lime green. Okay, so that's clearly brighter than the other green that we had. So we'll just continue on and some more green leaves. Keep looking at your reference to see where those lighter leaves are. It's there's a big area down here, which is all light. It's actually grass. So you could actually I'm still using the what is it? Six. Yeah, six brush, but I'm not really putting much pressure on it to get some big strands of grass. Some bright ones down here. And then I'm going to add a bit of yellow. And then we'll go back to a few more steps, I think. Okay, bit of yellow. Let's see. Let's just go the primary yellow. Oh, geez. One of these really, really hardened up. Oh, boy. I don't remember it being that hard. Okay. For what is now hard, I'm just going to be putting the brush with the green on it, straight in with water, and this will help soften it. 't got to be careful that you don't go too watery because you'll be bringing the consistency down. Didn't realize how hard that primary yellow had gone. Goes to show. We can still use them even when they're old. It's feeling like it's a little bit wafer. So. Oh. Oh, Okay, so I'm going to go back and do some dark sticks again now. Rush, wash. Go back down to the zero rush. And we'll go back to darker mits. These sticks can just be dashes. Really, they don't have to be big strong sticks. Okay. I don't know why I wash my brush then. I need to put some lighter ones in as well. All right, so now I'll go back to doing the leaves again. And really, we're almost done on that ground. Brush fires, back to the six round. And Ling that light green. But might just do dark. And some more dark. I wouldn't mind actually putting the window for a different yellow. I'm going to go spectrum yellow, which really there's not a lot of difference between primary and spectrum. So that I can really throw a fly. And also, while I do that, where did I put my white? There I put white. I want to make it a real golden color. Don't worry about that little bit of brown that's in there. It's actually added a really nice darkness to the yellow. More of a natural. Now, I've got a lot on my brush, so I'm going to rinse my brush. There's too. Rinse brush. Give it a quickie. I don't want excess water in the brush, take that out. And now adding a new value to our little painting here. Be a bit more sparingly. We can always come back to this background. It's just a the ears where they're quite fluffy, and you can see the background poking through. Apart from yeah, the ears, it doesn't really matter about the body of the Koala. He's. And maybe we should just do the bottom bit before we go on to ale. Just going over a few of them because they are a little bit too pale and watery for what I wanted. Okay. All right. Now down to the bottom. I think I might go back to the zero brush. So a one, two, or zero. And I'll go back to I don't know where this green falls into mid tone. Maybe. We're going to be down here, we're going to be doing just what we did with the sticks, really, and just doing a whole heap of little brush strokes. And we need to paint over this. If you get some going over the top, don't worry about it. Because we haven't painted that yet. We're not doing that black pipe that's running. I don't even know what that black pipe is for. I might have been an old watering system we once had Oh. To a lighter green again. Be a little bit more gentle with the strikes. Hops. Okay. It has dipped it into the wrong color. That's right. The wiring that is on that fence, again, I think we can just use our artistic license for that and not worry about it. You can do it if you like. You do it after this green if you were to put it in. And do more dark ones again. O and go to some of the light yellow. Just a little hints. Okay. All right. So if anything, the bottom doesn't look like it's matching up too much with the top. Apart from that area there, where we've put some of those leaves in sorry, blades of grass. So we might just need to enhance that strong blades of grass there. Doesn't really need to happen over here. I feel like I want to put some switch to the number two. Want to put some dark fits in. I don't know where I'm mixed. Okay, so I just want to be really careful here. Give me a little bit of debt. Add a bit more of this up here, too. I've added a lot of blue. Go back into more of a stroke for leaves. That will really help add a little bit more depth to that background. So that is more blue than green that's been added there or mixed. Using the sides two rod Oh Okay. We'll do it. So much fun. Alright. We'll start focusing on the post that the Koala is sitting on and the itself. 8. Painting koala P1: All right, so we're going to start on our koala. We still do have stuff to do on the background. Add some more sticks. Deal with this branch here a little bit more. But we can move on because we can easily go back to any of it. I have cleaned my water bucket as well, so I got some nice clean water. I'm going to be using a combination for the koala of a six fiel bit and a four round because I don't want to get too delicate. We will be going back to maybe the two round to do the nose and the eyes, but hopefully won't be using that for a little while. We're going to be using the burnt umber and the neutral gray three. I'm going to actually put brown into the gray here because that's the color that I really want to achieve. He's not brown and he's not gray. He's a real smoky smoky color. But with a warmth to it as well. It's making a nice color. It's kind of lightening it, but like adding that gray, smoky color to it as well. I'll just add a bit of water to it. Okay. So I'm starting on the back and the back does have the sun coming down and creating that lighter color, but we can go over that afterwards. Kind of want to put in these areas I can still see my pencil work through it, so I don't want to lose that. I might just leave that area there and that there because that will actually be lighter anyway. Put in the dark. These little claws are black, so we can just paint down to them. Don't have to paint them though. That bit there is quite light and white, so I will let that I'll paint that in next. Okay. Go over to the other arm. And that area in there, painted, can be very dark, though. Okay. And up to these fluffy ears. Don't have to go right out to the sides on this because that's where the fluffiness will happen. Just keep looking at your reference, seeing where things sit and fall. Oh. Okay. Once you have put down the majority of this color we've made up, that's where we're going to go to a smaller brush and start adding those lights and darks. I too dry. Okay. I'll go to the two. I said I was going to use the four, but I didn't end up using it just the fiel, but Okay, so we now need to lighten this again. So I'm going to have to use this very, very heavy and go over to this side, I think, unless I use that one there. I probably use that one there. And the two. I'll need some of the gray as well. I'll need d d. I'll put that in there as well. Probably mixing a little bit too here for what we're going to be needing. I bet to just up my ubers. Okay. So bringing in a bit of that brown. Probably didn't need any of the white, actually. Oh, well, we got it as we use it. Total excess here. That's all right. Better to have more than not enough. If anything, I still need to add a little bit more white to it. I might start with this bit, The paint brush is not too wet. You can see the marks that it's making. I am adding a little bit of water to it. I don't want it to be too. A it's quite light, and I've just made it a little bit darker. That's okay. And still go over it again. It's only 12 layers now. Yeah, and I still want to add more to his back. Oh. I actually going to go over that again with a lighter color. But nice dry brush technique over the top to help create a bit of texture. Are we putting the darker brown back in again as well. And I'll go up and do bit in here. I don't like what I've done there. But that's okay. I can I've still got time to paint over it. There's going to be a of different tones of the brown coming th. I have to finish up here for now, and when I come back, these paints will have dried out a bit and that's okay. They're not going to take much to get nice and wet again. That's what happens to be able to just sit down and get a painting done in one sitting. Fortunately, life doesn't work that way. My daughter's got a medical appointment, but I've got to take her to But that's good because it means that when I come back to it, I'll have nice fresh eyes and be able to continue on and kind of look at it and see where I need to improve bits and pieces. He's looking very cute, though. I'll just finish this leg. Not to do. Okay. All right. I'll leave him just realize there is meant to be a little claw that comes out this way. I'll just paint that in there. It's not that light, but I just don't want to forget about it. I will leave it now, and I will be back probably tomorrow toe on and hopefully be able to finish it in another sitting. I didn't want to stop. Actually, I might just do a little bit on that other ear. Just get that fluffiness. I ears. Okay. Oh, very cute, little Koala. You're coming together. I don't want to leave you, but I have to. Okay. Can brushes down. Make sure, actually, make sure that you never leave your brushes in your water. So give them a good sir. Get rid of the water. So you can come back to having clean ice clean water and leave your brushes lying flat to dry. Never stand them upright. Container because all the paint sediment We'll gather in the barrel of where the bristles are. So nice clean wash. And then you just lying them straight down somewhere in their natural shape. And they'll just dry like that happily. And then you can put them into whatever container you use for your brushes. All right. See you in the next video. Okay. So it's been two days since I have been painting that. So the paints have all dried up. That's exactly what I was expecting them to do. If you know that you're not going to be able to paint for a couple of days, do your best to actually cover your palette so that you don't get little bits of dust and everything in there. So I'm just going to jump back into the koala, the actual koala itself, painting the fur. And yeah, continuing on. I've been really wanting to come back to doing this. Once you get started on a painting, it's very hard to stop. So I need to wet my paints down, and I was thinking I probably need to add a bit of actually I should do this with a larger brush. Just get them all nice and give them a little. So this is what you can do in advance. Give everything a nice good wet to you're working on. Now, I was also thinking as much as I don't like using black, I am going to have to add a little bit of black just for toning or shading, I shall say, shading areas. I got my paper towel. And the other color I need to add is a bit of white. I think that was white. Feel like I should be putting my little painting glove on now too. Painting glove is a glove that just covers these two fingers, and it's a silk, and I feel like I should get that out. I will do so soon. I just don't want to hit because of me to set back down. Starting on a new day is a little bit like when you are doing exercise, and you really should do a bit of warm up. Probably shouldn't be going straight back into the Koala, should have maybe started with a bit more of the background for a bit of a. But too late, I'm on to the Koala now. Now that I've blocked in the brown under painting of the koala. I'm now going over the top and just putting in highlights and I'll probably be using this size brush for the majority of this get that brush out of the way. I want to do a bit of the dark black. I there's a hair in there. I think a painting such as this one, it's really just building up those layers and the painting will just start to form. I do tend to get into detail pretty quickly, which is what's happening right now. So some of you might still be building up base layers. I'm just putting a little bit of black into my burnt umber. Okay. I'm continually looking up at my reference of the Koala. It's on my screen. I will have said it in the intro, but please don't go off a from a home printer unless it's a very good one because the colors will not be. Much better to go from an image that's on your screen. My home print is a good one, but when I print something out, I usually do it not very many dots per inch, usually around 300. If you wanted a really good quality print out, you got to be up there, 600 DPI easily, if not more, so that you get your colors. You need to have the right paper as well. It's not just normal old laser copy paper or ink jet paper. That will just absorb in and make your image very flat. I'm just basically jumping around and putting in some of those low light areas. Oh, I've got my hair down today, so it keeps falling in my face. Saturday afternoon here. And this morning, I went and did urban sketching with the Gold Coast Urban Sketch group. We were in the northern area of New South Wales. So G Coast is right on the border of the New South Wales and Queensland. We're in Queensland. And it's just beautiful down there. Lots of trees, the river I guess a lot of this can be done with the pencils, as well, colored pencils, which I always go to after I finished painting. So there will be a certain level I'll get to of detail with the 9. Painting koala P2: I'm probably going to get a little bit of the shadow start painting on the shadow underneath, as well. While, I've got the dark out. I feel like that is incredibly wide. O Okay. So I'm going to go back to probably a mid tone of the brown gray. After this, stay with the same brush. Probably put those crawls into. Very hard to see. So just make them up. It's what we do when we need to Artistic licenses. We can't really see them anyway. They're so dark. So they'll probably blend into bit of timber anyway. Okay. So going back to Oh, gosh, what color, was it? Maybe this one. I Mm. I feel like this here is quite flat, and this is the color that I'm using. D d d. I want to be a bit. So To see as it's drying. It's gonna dry a bit darker than water goes down. O Okay. I'm just gonna get into these ears, so I need to turn it around. Get the brush strokes going the same way, now I just got to see which year I'm doing. Oh. You just have to enjoy the process of this. Work slowly. What you using small brushes if you are working at A five size, same as me and just to enjoy it. I guess you do have to enjoy detail, ugh I you're going to do something like this, not for everyone. Oh The area there needs to be a lighter. I might move to a lighter. I got to get it too nice consistency. I don't want to d. Oh. Wait. M. Oh, M And I go back to this dark the brown umber. Not with the black in it. To go up to its face. It's quite dark. I feel like it should have a bit more gray in it, though. I had a bit of gray inside. Oh. It's going to end up making a tone of these two. When you get little crumbs of dried up gase like this, they are very hard to soften. You really just have to persist with them, leave them there. Every time you put your brush over them, they are going to soften a little bit, but they're never going to just dissolve back into a paste. Oh. Bear in mind that we are going to be using colored pencils over the top. So we don't have to get looking exactly like fur. I just don't like to rely on the colored pencils. I like to use them as a bit of a bonus. I need to address those cute lies, too. So I'm going to go down to my 0.3 for that. And I'm not going to go black. I'm going to go that. Tiny little eyes. An M. Where was I going with that? I think I was going in he Oh. I think I'm coming to a happy spot with the gas on the Koala, where I can do a lot more with colored pencils, finishing off, giving a bit of texture to the. I just wanted to address that area there. You just don't want to get too thick with the glass because then when you put the color pencil over the top it can chip the paint it gets a bit too thick. So that's another reason why I want to start to think that I can probably go to the color pencil. I'm not happy with that area down there either. Okay. 10. Koala post and background: All right, so it's actually been about two weeks since I've been working on this project. When you're working with gas or watercolor, taking two weeks in between is never a problem. If you look at my palette here, you can see that it is all dried up, and there's even little bits of paint that chip away. So in the white as well and some in the brown. Um, so that is not a problem because as soon as we put water to them, they're going to reactivate. They're not going to be as thick as when they come out of the tube. But if we want to have it nice and thick, which we don't at the moment, then you can just add some more color to it. So that's never a problem. And in regards to the painting, it's not a problem that we have taken two weeks off. So I've kept a note of the brushes that I've been using, so that's these three here. And we're going to start by doing the post that the koala is sitting on and then go back to a bit of the background. At the moment, the koala is where I want it in regards to gas. I want to go over it with colored pencil. And I have a couple of examples to show you here that have had colored pencil over the top. So this one right here, I've only used loops. That's just my little info sheet that I keep in the back of this fold. Let's say what sketch book is. I haven't used any colored pencil in the waves, the creek. But I have used colored pencil down here in the sand to get those indentse, because it was just easier to blend. You can actually I don't know If I show it like that, you can see where the colored pencil is being added, and you can see the shine of it Guash is Matt. But when it's actually sitting there, you can't tell what it is. Another one which I'm working on at the moment. This is just a personal one. This is just me painting for me, and this is the one that I'm also just doing for myself as well. So again, up here, there's been no colored pencil added, although I might, but I just need to work on that more. Here in the surf, there's a lot of color pencil over added. You can see the shine No. No, it's not going to show the shine. But a lot of colored paints are going down onto that now, and that will also have a big spray of the wave that I'll do in gas at the end. It's going to be all this here is just spray from the surf along here from the surfboard and here coming over the break of the where the wave breaks. All right. Let's get on with painting in this post and then doing a little bit more in the background. One thing I must note is you don't want to get too thick with your gas if you're going to go over it with colored pencil because what will happen and it's hard to see in here. You get little chips. So the paint will chip off. I mean, we can solve that problem by using watercolor pencils. Because then we can just put a little bit of paint back over it. But yeah, you tend to want to not go too far with Gach like thickness wise so that you can put pencil over the top. I'm going to be putting pencil over the koala, but I don't know about the background yet. I don't know whether I'll be happy with it once it's just Gach, most likely, All right, Let's get this started. So I need to just put some water in there so that it reactivates it. It won't be back to water color consistency will be still thicker than that. It doesn't really take much to reactivate. Although if you have little bits of paint that are in there, they're not going to just break up straight away. They'll take a bit of time. Okay, that's p good. For that consistency. I just don't know if I want to add a bit of darker color to it or not. Mm. No, I don't mind that. Okay, I might start with that because there's quite a bit going on in the post anyway. I may even I'll just get a bit of this green going as well. There's a real moss green to it. I haven't even written this blue down that I've got there, and I don't know which one it is. It looks like it could be ultramarine. I want to get a bit of that happening in here as well. Really just mix it up and not clean brush. Still thin, which is what we want. Washing tape has just got to be careful not to create a new I just did a new little white edge. That's all right. It was 0.1 of a millimeter, I reckon. And then it's a bit lighter for this stump of posts. I don't really know the technical terms of these. Although that looks like the color that I've mixed there. So I'm going to this color. I'm going to here. I need to p yellow. I have to get my little paint brush out to get into these corners. T. You don't have to do that. That's probably me being just the detailed person I am. If you want to use a larger brush up in these little tight areas, go for it. I just trying to create a little dark area there. So I just dipped my brush into the black paint. Remembering that all the paint that's in the palette at the moment has been sitting there for two weeks while I've been busy doing other things. I've had a lot of computer problems actually last week. So the editing software that I use for these videos all was crashing. So I had a week of talking with adobe and Apple and getting everything back on track, which it is now. Thank goodness. I hope so anyway. Okay, I'm just going to use a thicker brush. And just move this up while it's still wet. The paint is still quite watery, but because there's already a layer down, it just complements it. And we wanted that mottled look, and I think we're getting it there, so that's good. We've got a little bit of metal to go yet. And I think I was using the neutral gray for this one. And I think it was in there. So I might just add a bit to the side there because I think that may have gone a little bit brown and I'll use my two and it's a two to brush. Just a wet brush, straight into the fresh guash. It's got a bit of a blue tinge to it, too, so I might have to Get a little bit of blue happening in there. Cold blue metal. Okay, that's very watery. And going down on wet paint, it's just going to blend it. Again, that's just going to give a bit of texture to it rather than just sit on top of it because it is still wet paint. Middle of winter here on the Gold Coast. So drying times are a little bit later or a bit longer, I should say. Now, there's a nice dark line down there, which I might just paint straight in now. Go back to my zero brush, and go straight into that little bit of black and very softly. Put that in, and I'm going to put in a few of the little holes as well. We can go back over that with a bit of pencil as well just to make those holes not look so harsh and add little bits of white as well to it. But other than that, I'm happy with that. We're not adding the wire in down. We're just going to let it be what it is, and I think that that's actually okay. I don't mind that do and here. It's just this background here that I want to do a bit more on. All right. So I want to add a little bit more depth to the background. I will use I'll use the two size to brush round. And I want it to be fairly dark, so I'm going to get a little bit of black and go over to this. I think is burnt umber. I don't think this is the andy brown. It could be the burnt umber. I get a really dark color, and then just start adding it through all the trees, maybe a bit through the trunk as well. Give it a bit more. Just move that palette out of the way or I'll go this way a bit more. Just keep looking at your reference. Keep seeing like where little dark patches are. They're very mottled. A You just want to create a real contrast. You want the koala to definitely be the focus of the artwork and the background to be darker than the koala. At the moment I was thinking it was just looking a little bit to same value tones. I just wanted to bring in some darker dark areas into the background. So the man put my finger right on top of you. I shouldn't do that. Not to touch your artwork with your fingers because you've got natural oils in your fingers, and definitely when you're putting pencil down over the top, the pencil might not want to work as well. Some of those tree branches back in, and I'm just getting a bit more paint on my brush. I might go straight over to this area. I don't think you can really go wrong doing this. It is just building up layers and layers so you get depth and highlights. And we don't want to have too many highlights from the background because then it will take away from the being a main image. It's raining here today. It's been raining all night and just overcast, not that cold. I don't know the actual temperature, but probably around 20 Gulf coast. We don't get extremely cold weather here. But it is raining at the moment, and I tell you, there is nothing better than being snug in the tom painting while it's raining outside. What is it? What is it about that? I mean, I'm a water person. I love the water. Ocean swim every week. Is it just me? Let me know. That's why all the personal work I do is of the beaches of the Gold Coast. This book is actually I'm dedicating it to Gold Coast images. This Koala was in my backyard, and we've got them all over the Gold Coast. Gold Coast image. But, the water images, the beaches, the creeks, the seabirds. The what are going to dominate this book. I'm really changing the color up of this brown now. I now going back for it. I got a little bit of darkness down in the bottom here, give it a little bit D. Get so much mileage out of one brush. When it comes to gush. Especially when you layering Okay, that's looking a lot better. Painting over a bit of the highlights as well, being able to get some tone going through them. O know when to stop, though. Keep taking a look at it. See if you happy with it. With a background like this, we can keep coming back to it all the time. Okay. I think that's good enough for now. We'll return with doing a little bit of pencil on our ka. 11. Colouring Koala: Alright, so I'm going to start putting color pencil onto the koala because you will not have the same colored pencils and same brand as me, most likely. I'm just going to speed this up because there's no point in you seeing me do this. As long as you can see what I'm doing roughly, you will do with your colored pencils. So I'll put on some music and enjoy as we fill in our koala. Alright, so I'm just checking in again to see how you're going. Obviously, my video is very sped up. But if we're looking at the pencils that I'm using at the moment, you're looking at two different brown, so a darkish brown and a brown. I wouldn't say it's a light brown. I'd say it's a mi. And then the other pencil might look white, but it's actually a light gray. So if you've got a light gray, please use that. And if you don't, then yes, use the white. But perhaps if you've got a really light brown pencil, use it over the white if you can. All right? I know you've got to use the pencils that you've got. And really, when it comes to the actual quality of the pencils, of course, a professional brand like these ones, which is the Faber Castel polychromos. They are obviously the best to use. But if you don't have them, and you've only got cheaper brands, then please use what you've got. If you get a chance to buy any of these pencils, you don't have to buy them in a set. You can actually buy them individually. You will notice how creamy they are to use. They won't have any scratchiness to them at all. And that's with all good quality artist brand pencils. So another one would be the prisma color. And you've got Derwin. Derwin have got a lot of different colored pencils. So if the price is expensive, that's the artist quality. Then there's also jazz art. I don't know if that's an Australian one, and whether that's available in other areas of the world, but that's a really nice one to use as well. Dash is another great one. So, personally, I don't like the Karin dash too much. I find them too soft, but we're all different, and I know that the Carin dash are very popular pencils, the luminants pencils. Alright, so I will put it back over to music and let you keep coloring your koala in. Oh H Okay, I'm back again just to see how you're going. You got to see a little hand what is it a thumbs down a MG appear. I have no idea how that happened. Maybe I did it when I was recording, and it's the Zoom camera has picked it up. It's about there we go. Right now. I'm just going to leave it there and say, there's no reason for any thumbs down action on my video or your drawing. Only thumbs up is allowed in here. So, how is the drawing going? I have introduced two more colors into this now because I'm onto the face, so you can see in my hand, I'm carrying a mud set it's a darker to midtone gray pencil. Still got that very light gray pencil, but if you haven't got that, just use white, and I've also included a darker brown. So that was to get into those ears and just some real shadows. Around his nose. I go. I put white gash in the eyes, sorry, in the eyes. But I do that right at the end. So you'll see that in another video. But yeah, if your detail is not as broad as mine is, you may be actually getting this done a lot quicker than I was. I speed these drawings up 400%, so you can imagine how long it actually takes me. I don't think anyone's going to take as long as I have, unless you are, as well, a very detailed person with your drawing And we will just continue on until we finish the koala, and then we move on to the post that he's sitting on and the grass underneath. And then finally, we look at the background. And yeah, we use a little bit of gouache again, just to put some highlights in the koala's eyes. I guess the main thing that you really want to be achieving here is making a three D looking koala. So the tone that you use, that's why we need to use those dark values in the colors, and also some light ones so that he looks like he has depth to him. You can see where the forearm sort of sits with that back leg. It looks round. And it looks like the belly is receding away from the camera. And even on the face, I'm just putting in, like the darks in the ears around the nose, just to get that three D appearance. That's what you're looking for. Always check that, not at the beginning of a painting, but towards the end of it, you're looking for that three D painting. All right, so I'll finish up here. I'll throw on a bit more music, and then the next video will be starting on that post and grass. Ho 12. Koala coloured pencil on post and grass: Okay. So I'm pretty happy with how I have finished off the koala with the colored pencil. You can see the shine if I shine it like that as opposed to the gas which is Matt. So I'm now going to I've just got to his claws. So just his little feet needs claws, and then I'm going to work on the post, the stump holding the post, and then we'll go to the background. But I think we might be able to go to the background straightaway in pencil now as well. And so, again, I will just put some music on and fast forward a little bit because you've got the general idea of what I'm doing here. All right. Thanks. Oh. Oh. H. H. Alright, so I'm just checking in to see how you're going. As you can see, I have done the bottom half of the post. Want to just quickly mention again, just like in when we were coloring the Koala in, you're looking for the same effect with the post and with the background, in that you're creating something that's two D, which is flat. You're creating something that's going to look three D. So shadowing um, putting in like this dark line where there's a crack in the post, a little bit of shadowing where that the bottom of the post meets the one that is going horizontal. How to think about that then? That's your main aim with doing all of this is that you're creating a three D look. All right. So in seeing the reference picture there, little dark areas around the bottom of that post that he's sitting on, and where it connects to the post that's holding it up, gosh, you can tell I don't have the right words to say, and I'm married to a builder. So that is just terrible. Anyway, I will take it back over to the music and keep going with this. Your aim is to make sure that it looks three D, enjoy. Okay, so pretty happy with the post now. Because I've got studio lights on, it does add a bit of a shine to me, so that's why I was tilting it up to get rid of that shine. I do have to put highlights in the Koalas eyes, which I will do with gas. But apart from that, I think I'll start playing now with the background. Okay, so I think we are getting close to the end. Now, if you feel you're at this stage and you're happy with your background, then you are finished. If you are like me and know that I can keep going with it, and do a little bit more. Do so. I'm going to start down the bottom here and just improve these because to me, this just looks like brush strokes at the moment rather than blades of grass. So I'm going to put a bit of sorry, a bit of color pencil into there to make it look more like their grass. I hope it's going to work. And then I will probably go through and do the same thing up here as well. And then at the end, I'm going to do the eyes and possibly a few of the sticks with a bit of gase again. Uh, so, again, I'm going to just speed this up and put some music to it, and I will see you at the end of this video. Oh. All right, so just wanting to see how we're going again, we've moved onto the grass. So look at what color greens you've got. You want to have a dark green. If you haven't got a dark green, go a dark brown. And then a light green. And you can add some yellow in as well. If you don't have a creamy colored pencil, again, I'm using a creamy colored pencil here. If you don't have that, then go for a what did I say, a yellow. So yellow, a green, and a dark brown, if you're limited to your color range. Oh. Okay, so I've done down here, and I'm fairly happy with that now I mean, when I say fairly happy, I'm going to say about 70 80%. I am a stickler for detail. That is my natural go to. Is a lot of detail. So I need to know that this is just a painting. It's just in my sketchbook. It's not going on the wall. So that will be good enough. I am now going to go up here with more pencil. And then, as I said, at the end, just do some highlights in the eyes of the Koala and couple on the branches. So we'll start a new video for that one. Just found a little mark that I don't like there. And there we go. It's all gone. Looks like a bit of his fur now. Lovely. All right. Se in the next episode episode. In the next chapter. I don't know. Don't know what they're called. 13. Koala coloured pencil background trees: Okay. So if you are still with me, you have made it to the end. So, congratulations. We are now onto the very last video, and we are just finishing up with the background, just making it a little bit more defined. That's up to you. You might be happy with esa Gas. I, as I've explained before, am very detailed, and like to put a little bit of detail in where I can. Anyway, so it is just coloring in a bit of the background and then adding the gas to the eyes. And then we're done. So I'm really looking forward to being able to see all your finished koalas in the project and description. A tab or folder. Make sure you upload so that I can see it and give you feedback, as well as to where you might need to add a little bit more color or paint. And but no, really, just to congratulate you. And it's a buzz for me to see anyone who has followed along and produced a gorgeous artwork. Okay, so I will just flick it over to a little bit more music. I come back at the end and have a bit of a chat with you when I finish up on the background. So thank you again and finish your drawings off. Okay, so I am now going to just put the highlights in in the next video of the and then probably just wrap it up. These little highlights in the eye. This is white, buried under a bit of brown. So we're just going to reactivate that there, probably using a bit of a small brush to do the reactivating width. Don't want it to be too watery either because it's too watery I won't come up as a highlight. It will just fade into the black background. That's why I'm just working just to get a nice creamy consistency. That should be I just touched water. Here we go. Now these highlights are very tiny. And this one, it is really not there. But now I'm going to let that dry, actually, what I want to do. Wipe your brush. Then that second one, I'm going to go back in. And just remove a bit of the paint. I might try on that one as well. The reason I did that is because if you just let a little thick blob of any gas paint sit there when you go to blend it, because I just need to I need to do something with it, whether it's with brush or with pencil. Once it's dried, it will just chip off. So I've put the highlights in. I'm thinking. I want to just go for the black pen as pencil. And I'm just literally just touching around the white paint just so it blend in. It was such a small amount that I put on the brush that it will dry pretty quickly, especially because I mopped it up a bit. There we go. That looks a little bit more natural. Now, in regards to the background, get it to a stage where you're with. I'm not happy with this yet, but I'm not going to keep recording it. I will just do it off camera and then come back with the final video and take the sides off and we'll see what it looks like. See you then. I have done probably another 20 minutes in the background there and I could probably still keep going on it, but it's time to stop. Let us take off the washi tape now. I don't know if I filmed this at the beginning, but with washy tape, it's good to stick it to your clothes f and then put it down because you can see this one's wanting to lift as well. I'm just going to pull it from the other side for a sec. These washi tapes probably being down for about a month from when I started this project. It's torn it a bit there, but that's okay. I can stick that back down. Yeah. When you are using washi tape, because it's not designed to be masking tape. Stick it to your clothes first, just to your leg, and let it just pick up, let it lose a little bit of tack. It's not going to lose too much. Or that piece was good, but then I've got to put a grubby hand down on it and I don't have hem. Go. Is one starting to tear the paper as well. All right. So that one. Now this one has been on for a lot longer because it was for the artwork on the other side, which I can't remember when I finished. April, May, and it's July now. But it's coming off really nicely. Beautiful.