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>> Hi, I'm Erin.
>> Hi, I'm Lisa.
>> And you might recognize us from the inpatient child life oncology team.
>> We've also done some of the outings as well.
>> And some special events here on the inpatient unit.
Today we're gonna be doing a "Do It Yourself" project of a galaxy painting on a canvas.
>> And each week we're hoping to create a video of a "Do It Yourself" project with items
that you may already have at home just so you have some fun things to do while you're
stuck at home.
>> We're gonna do two different versions so that you can find some supplies at home.
Lisa's gonna use a canvas and I'm gonna use some paper and we're gonna use a
few different objects so that you can create the Galaxy painting in a few different ways.
Ready?
>> Ready
>> Today we use some acrylic paints, but if you have washable paints, they will work as well.
>> We're gonna start off with paint brush and you're going to want to paint your canvas
or your paper with black paint and cover the entire thing.
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Now that your canvas is planted all black, you're gonna take a sponge or a rag or
you could even use a napkin, and you're gonna dip it in either pink, purple or blue acrylic
paint and you're going to dab it in little small circles to make little swirls.
>> You can start with whatever color you prefer.
So Lisa's starting with pink, and I'm gonna start with blue.
You can see how my blue's coming out.
>> And the pink, I started off really dark but you can always add black afterwards and
make it a little bit darker or spread it out.
And you're gonna add colors to it, so don't worry about it; you can keep adding.
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>> I think I'm gonna start adding some more of another color. So I've added blue on mine.
>> And I am about to switch on to purple.
>> So I'll switch to pink.
>> And there's no right or wrong.
Like you can see her blue is a little bit darker and my pink is a little bit more faded in.
Either way, it's gonna come out looking great.
>> I think that's what I love about this project.
>> Same.
And I'm using the sponge and I just keep rotating it around so that you can keep using this
one sponge and you don't have to even rinse it off.
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And what I really like about this project too, is you don't have to wait for it to dry.
Erin found out that it's actually better if it's still a little bit wet where a lot of
projects you have wait for it to dry and it takes hours.
This one ,it works really nicely if it's still wet.
So lift this up and show you my progress that I'm making so far.
>> Mine too.
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We would love to hear some of the crafts you might be doing at home or ways that your
staying busy.
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>> I actually now feel like mine looks a little dark and pink's my favorite color so I'm gonna
go back though and add a little bit more pink which is another thing I really like
about this project is you can keep adding and layering until you really like the way
it looks.
This darker colors can sometimes over power.
>> So this is what mine looks like so far without the gold.
I'm gonna see how it looks once I add the gold and then possibly go through and add
some lighter colors again.
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So here's what mine looks like after adding my gold and adding a few more colors and this
is on paper; a little bit thicker paper where like a watercolor can hold a little bit better.
>> And mine is looking like this so far.
>> Let me see. Oh it's beautiful.
>> Yours is beautiful. I love the colors.
And like I said, this one, all three of them, really look different.
So each one comes out different and comes out unique but you can see the colors just
go so nicely together that any way that you do it, comes out beautiful and you can keep
adding and layering and make it the that you like.
>> Yep. So our last step in this project is to add some stars and again there's different
ways that you can do this.
If you access to a new, clean toothbrush, that is how Lisa is gonna add her stars
and I am going to use a q-tip to add my stars onto mine.
>> Careful with the toothbrush, it does go a little bit everywhere.
>> So Lisa's gonna go first.
It's a pretty cool technique.
>> First you're gonna dip it in the white paint first and then you're going to fling it on to your
canvas with your finger.
And that just give you some dots of various sizes.
So you can see it on canvas.
>> I love that look.
And then I am just going to dot my q-tip and go around to make
all different dots, all over.
You can do like Orion's Belt, the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper.
I wish I thought of that before putting my dots on but -
>> Things to think about.
>> Yes, absolutely, that would look really cool.
>> I think this looks great.
>> Awesome.
>> So these are some different end products.
Please let us know if you have questions, you can email us back on the link that we
emailed these directions out on.
And please feel free to email us questions and any suggestions as well.
>> Yeah we would love to hear your ideas.
>> We look forward to hearing from all of you.
>> Bye guys. >> Bye.