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DIY painting brought to you by artist
Allison Raskin
(Super hip intro music)
This is the king of the sea snails.
You know what would be good if the snail
wasn't in it.
This one was a surprising fan favorite
when I showed it up to 5 people.
Ok so, am I going to paint something today?
Yes let me show one more
THIS LITTLE MONSTER
(Monster noises)
So when doing DIY Allison Raskin painting
make sure that you start small, ok?
So don't be like over ambitious and
buy a canvas that'll take up your whole wall.
Think of a small corner in your bathroom
that not that many people will see.
I like to think life is a canvas.
Alright.
Okay so now, i know you Gaby, ok?
And if there's one thing about you, you're impulsive.
But you can't jump right into your painting.
What do you have to do?
We have to draw it first.
Draw it where? on a separate piece of paper?
Yeah.
Now thing of what you want to draw.
Here's your pencil, don't do it on the canvas.
Do I just draw what I wanna paint?
Yeah, so that you know that you can do it.
You're a real novice. I'm an amateur.
What's the difference?
A novice is someone who's never done it
and an amateur hasn't done it that much.
Oh okay.
This is a flower I just invented that shoots fire from the top of it.
So, it would be like, in The Hunger Games,
or like in Harry Potter or something.
Like you grow the flower, you plant it.
And then it f-
and then it-
and then fire comes out of it!
And its like, useful, like to-
like if you don't ha-
I'm sorry i'm really into my painting.
Ok i'm sorry.
So you're saying you are an expert in what colors go together?
Yeah.
One time my mom told me i was wearing too much color,
and then for the next two years I only bought black.
Do you think it's hard being your mom?
Yeah.
If you're a beginning Allison Raskin painter
It's really good to get a set of paints.
Because then you get all these colors.
I have to say i don't like most of these colors
But it's good that I hAve them.
What's your favourite?
I don't like any of them.
I like this one!
Oh, I hate that color.
Now this is really important everybody.
Is you arbitrarily pick which brush you're going to use.
So like, how big a shape are you making?
I want this one.
Ok that's a big one.
Yeah I want a big one.
Okay, I wouldn't recommend that for a novice.
Oh no! It's too stiff.
No it's good, you want stiff.
No you don't.
When have you ever not wanted stiff?!
All of these are used!
You're used.
Ok I want this one
If I loose just one of these brushes
you owe me ten dollars.
This is kinda nice.
The stroking of the brush
against the canvas is calming.
Isn't this wonderful?
Oh! I fucked up!!!
Don't worry about messing up Allison,
do you thing Van Gogh ever worried
about messing up?
Yes, he killed himself.
You've painted that much already?!
I don't like this why are you better at this than me?
I'm a very creative colorful person,
as evidence by my wardrobe and hair.
The most important thing about painting
is that whatever you do is okay.
Okay what do you mean?
How do you know what's the most important
thing about painting you've never painted before.
I'm just saying I think one of the most important things
is probably, just like being okay
with whatever turns out.
Cause you're just sort of like a conduit
for the art. Y'know?
I mean you're right but
that was a lucky guess.
You're not gonna like, paint all the time now
are you?
I dunno.
Like look see, this is the grass.
This is grass??
It represents grass.
Oh my god, show them how little you've done.
Why would you squeeze out so much?!
I dunno..
You owe me ten dollars.
Okay, you can't just arbitrarily pick ten
as the price of everything.
no, you've never heard of like,
the lowest price?
Like minimum pricing.
what's that?
Whenever you mess something up
you have to pay minimum pricing.
What's minimum pricing?
That's ten dollars.
You know when it's like,
oh, you can get an Audi starting at 2.99.
My 2.99 is ten dollars.
So everything starts at ten dollars.
But what do you mean?
You can get an Audi for what?
Like you know,
have you ever watched a commercial?
Aha, no, but-
Like they'll be like,
you can lease this now starting at,
like, the starting at price.
The starting at isn't real?
It is! I'm just saying my personal
starting at is ten dollars.
In those commercials,
is that a trick?
What??
Yeah, like, is it a trick?
Like you can get it for- it's like
five payments of-
you know what I mean?
And then it's a trick
..
I do this because I'm so bored that
I have to do something
and if I paint too quick then I'll
be bored again. You know what I mean?
No.
Are you ever bored?
No.
How are you never bored?
How are your thoughts so interesting to
yourself?
I'm a narcissist.
I can't even visualize my painting.
What do you want that girl to look like?
It's not a girl.
You really fucked me on this.
I've lost my-
And like when I started painting
You were like
i'm just biding my time until everyone
realizes that I'm the real painter.
To what benefit would that be to me?
Just to drive me insane, I assume
that's why you do everything that you do.
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