Lauren: Hi everyone, welcome back to our channel.
Tara: Yeah, Lauren’s been taking over my channel.
So this is my sister Lauren, and today our sister Lindsay’s joining us, too.
And we are going to make retro Christmas cat paintings.
You might have seen I love to make cat paintings in mid-century style with retro stars.
I thought it would be fun for Christmas to dress them up with a Santa hat and a little
elf hat, so you could have some fun, festive decorations with cats.
So they’re each going to do their own, and we’ll walk you through all the steps.
You want to say hi? Lindsay: Hi.
Tara: The first thing you want to do is paint a background on your canvas.
You can make your painting more neutral or more colorful, you can have a fun, vibrant background.
Just pick a color that your snowflakes will show up against at the end.
For the next step, once your background is all painted, I like to use a pencil to kind
of sketch in the cats.
What I do is I do bowling pin bodies for the cats.
So about on the first third I start with the first bowling pin.
Make sure there’s room at the top for the football heads and Santa and elf hats.
Lindsay: I told you, Bob Ross.
Tara: Lindsay says she’s Bob Ross.
Lindsay: Well that’s after Lauren called me Jeff Ross.
Lauren: Because she was cracking jokes.
Tara: Once you like the placement of the bodies, then we can add the heads.
And the heads are just a simple little pointy football shape.
Lauren: Wait, Lindsay’s doing it backwards.
Lindsay: Bob Ross, Lauren. Tara: Yeah, she knows.
Lauren: She’s got black in the middle. Lindsay: That’s gray.
Tara: Yeah, because the black and the white makes the gray middle.
For the tails, I do basically a little “S.” It just comes around the left and the right,
the outsides of the cats, and you want it to be a little skinnier at the top.
And we were debating if you should do the ears first or the hats first, and I’m going
to try just doing the ears first and have them be slightly behind the hats.
You want to give plenty of room for your hats, so I’m going to put the ears toward the
outside of the cat heads, and they are just little triangles.
So you just need one color for the main cat body, another color for your second cat, and
then a shared color for their belly in the middle.
Charlie: Meow. Tara: Look who we found crying outside the door.
Charlie wanted to say hi to everybody.
Lauren: The inspiration for cat paintings.
Tara: Yeah, you like Lindsay’s painting?
Lindsay: It’s of Echo. Lauren: Oh my gosh!
Tara: Echo is our neighbor cat that’s been stressing Charlie out, because he’s been
coming around the yard and inspecting our property, and Charlie’s getting very upset.
But it’s OK. Lauren: Wow, we do have Jeff Ross over there.
Tara: Yeah I know, little bully.
Lindsay: Yeah for Halloween, your colors would look good for Halloween.
Lauren: We’re doing a Christmas theme. Lindsay: Oh, you can switch it.
Tara: It looks good for Christmas.
Cute. Are you switching to Halloween? Lauren: No.
Tara: OK, so I got my first cat body done, and now I’m just going to do the same thing
on the other side with my second cat.
Lauren’s got her second cat filling in.
Yep, Lindsay’s just about done with both cats, and then she can add the little ears.
Cute. Good job. We’ve got some real painters in the house.
Lauren: Been painting since 2-years-old, Tara.
Lindsay: The wall?
Tara: Yeah, exactly.
Tell everybody what you used to do to the wall.
Lauren: Well, I was such a wise child.
I wanted to write on the wall, but I would write my sister’s name instead so they would
think that it was her who did it.
Tara: MY name. She would write my name on the wall to try and frame me for her crimes.
Lauren: Evil genius over here.
Tara: That’s called middle child is what that is.
Just make sure if you’re mixing a color to mix up plenty for whatever you’re doing.
I’m mixing Apple Barrel Bright Magenta and White.
Oh no. Lauren: Cut.
Tara: I just splattered white all over my painting.
Lauren: Oh…snow!
Tara: Don’t mix your paint right next to your painting if you’re going to splatter
paint all over the canvas.
Hot tip.
This is why I like to keep a wet towel.
Lauren: Lindsay’s doing the hats already.
Tara: Wow, little Picasso.
Lauren: She’s moving on.
Lindsay: Told you I was making a heart.
Tara: Aww, how cute. Look at Lindsay’s idea.
She turned the 2 hats in to make a little heart.
OK, I was able to rub off or paint over most of the white splatter that I got on my painting,
so NOW I’m ready to move on to painting my pink cat.
Except this still feels too Pepto Bismol.
I’m going to try a little bit of red and more white.
And I’m going to mix it over here.
OK, I think I like this color.
Meanwhile, my sisters are almost done, but I’m going to get started on my second cat.
2 cat bodies done, so now I’m ready to do the white belly, white eyes and white fur around
their little hats.
And when you get to the eyes, what I do is 2 more football shapes just like the head,
but smaller.
So do 2 little white footballs, and then turn and do 2 black footballs as your pupils.
Lauren: I only got 1 good eyeball. The rest sucked.
Tara: Yeah, I think Halloween.
Lindsay: Told her. Tara: No, they look cute. They look very good.
Ugh, lopsided.
You get a lot of the cat’s personality with the eyes.
I guess I should have painted the red hat first and then the white.
OK, almost done.
I painted over the white fur on the hat with pink.
Now I’m going to go and touch that up, add some more white fur, and do the second kitty’s hat.
Lindsay’s working on her stars, and she’s got her hats all done.
And then Lauren’s all finished with her little orange cat and black Christmas kitties.
Very cute. Lauren: Thank you.
Tara: OK, I’m going to try mixing Parrot Blue and New Shamrock with some White to see
if we can make a kind of mint color.
Lauren: Nice. Lindsay: I made the stars 3D.
Tara: Oh cool, she added some texture to get some dimensional stars.
Lauren: They were supposed to be snowflakes. Tara: Snowflake stars.
Lindsay: Well yours was supposed to be Halloween.
Lauren: No it wasn’t.
Tara: Jeff Ross? Lauren: Bob Ross.
Lindsay: Bob Ross to you…Lauren.
Lauren: Lindsay.
You only put 1 ear??
Tara: You can also do little cat collars if you just do a simple little rectangle underneath
the head right there.
So that’s another spot to add some Christmas colors and detail.
I’m going to make mint green collars for each cat to tie in that color.
Are you going to add some collars, Lauren?
Lauren: Umm, no. I’ll just mess it up.
Lindsay: Lauren disowned her cats.
Tara: OK, I got my football shaped eyes, and my little mint green elf hat and pink Santa hat.
So now I’m going to add some little football shaped black pupils.
The eyes are in place, and now it just needs some snowflakes or stars.
So usually I do an asterisk shape for little retro stars.
I like to do 2 or 3 asterisks and some white dots, and that’ll be our snow.
OK, I’m going to start on my little snow dots.
So I just kind of push down and twist to make a little circle.
Lindsay: That would have been nice to know 30 minutes ago.
Tara: If you weren’t going so fast, skipping ahead! Lindsay: Just kidding.
Tara: You could add 1 now.
Lauren: She already added them. She just didn’t know the technique.
Tara: We’re almost done.
We’ve got all of our snowflakes and little snow dots in place.
But my sisters forgot the very last step, which is signing your name.
So you can sign somewhere on the front, or you can sign on the back if you don’t want
it showing up in your display.
So here are our final paintings, our little retro Christmas cats.
They’re really fun, and you can see you can do all different styles, if you want different
details, like Lindsay did her heart-shaped hats, how they meet in the shape of a heart.
And you can try different colors of cats like pink or orange, and customize it to what your
cats look like if you want.
And just add your cute little Santa and elf hats, and then once you get your snowflakes
on there it’s very festive.
Anything you want to add?
Lauren: We’ll be back to regular programming next week.
Tara: Well I don’t know about next week, but at some point.
Yeah, this is my sisters’ last day here, so it was fun having them on the show.
Lauren and Lindsay took over my channel.
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Tara: Thank you, thanks for watching!