so hello and welcome to cheap joe's art stuff my name is julie and i'm here to impart knowledge
to you today via a two-minute art tip and today's tip is actually kind of a weird little thing um if
any of you have been watching regularly you have probably heard me talk about the band greta van
fleet i'm a big fan and i have been for a long time years ago when i got to see them live the
first thing that me and my family my daughter my husband and all of our friends said was oh
my gosh that was so great let's go do that again so we immediately went home and bought
tickets to the next show that was anywhere in our proximity still six hours away but we we tried so
you know the the winds of fate were not uh in our favor and so the band postponed that second
that next date and then um with the postponed tickets we had 10 of us that had all decided
to go together and the kids had exams and that was a mess and then seven out of the ten of us
all got sick um and didn't get to go um probably one of the longest days and most expensive days
of my life because i was upset but then coveted swept in and you know blah blah blah so it gave
me plenty of time to think about man when i finally get to go to another show i'm gonna
have the biggest bestest time and i'm gonna paint myself a jacket to wear to the show and so that's
what today's video is actually about it's sort of about this jacket if you've been watching you've
heard me talk about painting denim jackets before i've done more than a handful my hair lately and
so i thought yeah cake no problem i got this this is no big deal you know so i got myself a
discount jacket and sat down and i thought i knew exactly where i was going with this the band has
an album inset artwork that was just fabulous and they actually published it online so that's where
this artwork came from you can see it here and i started with um posca pens just on the raw jacket
and it was not going that great like i could just say honestly the jacket was just too absorbent
and stuff like this and in the past i've never done anything kind of this big and broad um
you know it was all like smaller thingies so i never really had to gesso one before but this one
was not going well i i was going over it you know multiple times and the color was getting pretty
dull and washed out from just absorbing into the fabric so it was time to it was time to give it up
and back up and put honestly and so what i did was took some of our own uh cheap joe's really
good black gesso and you can see the edges of it here along the bottom and just primed this whole
panel with black gesso to give it a nice even coat cover up the the botches that i already had there
and then just start over but the cool part was that i was able to take my pasta pens my paint
pens also some molotow ones and did all of the the sketching sketched all the big features in and
stuff like that and they were perfect because it sat right on top of the gesso it was easy to see
and all this kind of stuff but the rest of this was done with american journey acrylics and also
golden fluid acrylic i used a really great cheap joe's stubby brush to do the sky details and it
went in fast the stubby brush is perfect for that and also doing a lot of the preliminary blending i
just had a blast i had so much fun i even found an artist on etsy who was able to make me these
little gold anks that are part of the artwork that's online so check out doing some artwork
for yourself like this you know granite i don't know if jackets are your thing but if something
inspires you and makes you happy and it gives you a lot of energy you should definitely pursue that
like do more of that whatever gives you a little burst of happy then that's what you should try out
i know i had fun creating it i had fun wearing it i had fun sharing you know the artwork and
the experience with other people and now i'm here sharing it with you it's a lot of fun ways to play
with you know media that we have available here if you've got something that you want to do that
makes you happy the way that this makes me happy and music makes me happy you should definitely
pursue that with all the gusto that you have so we hope that this was helpful and hope that you enjoy
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