hi so i think i'm just gonna start this video off by just straight up exposing my past self
but first welcome to my new house welcome to my new room welcome to my permanent studio
recently i bought a house moved into a new state and everything is still currently in the process
of getting set up now back to exposing my past self so all the way back in 2017 i
made a snapchat slash manifestation story and basically what it said is i hope that someday
my channel would grow enough and i could collaborate with jazza who i obviously was
a huge fan of and i am so happy to say four years later here we are today's video is in
collaboration with jazza g'day everyone i'm jazza and welcome to my youtube channel now for jazza's
video i sent him a giant box of dollar tree art supplies both good the bad and the ugly and he's
gonna create artwork with it and for me i'm gonna take on one of kind of like a little twist on one
of jazza's previous videos that he's done where he customized a thrift store painting and he totally
made it into his own thing and so i'm gonna do exactly that but instead of thrift store
make a dollar tree and at the end of this video i'm gonna hop on a call and show him my artwork
pressure is on
i heard that australia they don't have twinkies or honey buns so i'm gonna send
him some from america just like a little treat so also gonna add that to the cart
my dad is like texting me i know he's watching this he watches all my videos he texts me at
like the most random times uh right now it's almost midnight he's like hey what are you doing
now before i just jump straight in head first into the whole entire process of painting
first i want to do a whole entire evaluation of the art print i say i chose it but it was
actually literally the only print available and i'm sure a mass majority of you who enjoy
art history already recognize what this print is from and i'm going to butcher it but it is
a saturday afternoon on the isle of the grand ja by george serra
and this art print right here is basically the updated version of that original painting
first i just want to say that i really love the original painting and i'm so glad that i get to do
a parody of it i love the vibrant and in your face color palette i love the heavy contrast of all the
shadows i love the fact that this is an already done piece the subject matter is already there
the proportions the anatomy all of that's already there all i have to do is add on to it and lastly
i also really like the fact that it's an 11 by 14 which means there's ton of space for me to be
painting all over this bad boy now as far as the hurdles go for this drawing i mean this thing is
packed absolutely packed with details i mean the amount of details in this painting is absolutely
insane we're talking about people's clothes their hands heavily detailed backgrounds the little tiny
folds and highlights in people's faces i mean there's just so much detail packed into this
little tiny piece which i mean i don't have a lot of time to work on this bad boy i have maybe a
week tops and the second issue that i'm gonna have with this painting is that it's on the world's
cheapest paper alive the second that i get this art print wet the paint brush
is going to pull a thanos and it's going to completely dissolve out of the air
so yeah there's going to be a lot of steps to be able to get this thing to the final product
oh hey voiceover ray here now as much as i would love to be able to put this
on a special art paper i just don't have the time for that so instead
i'm gonna send it to walgreens and get it printed out in a one hour photo format
bam now that it's on better thicker paper it's still not ready to be directly painted on so i'm
going to go in with some acrylic gesso and this stuff is a lifesaver because it turns
my regular photograph paper into something i can paint on and it dries nice thick and clear
i'm so itchy just all the time i don't know why but i'm just itchy now as far as the design goes
there is absolutely so much that i could do with this space but at the same time i'm very limited
because i don't want to completely change it up from the original thing so right now my
dream vision for this is how cool would it be if i turned this sunny bright happy afternoon what if i
turned that into a fall theme where everything is orange and warm we're on a fall landscape
and instead of all the people being dressed up for summer vacation what if i had them all dressed up
for halloween i mean how cool of a scene would that be so now that i have this vision in my
head the first thing i'm gonna do is transition this summer landscape into a fall landscape
now to change up the whole entire landscape the
first thing that needs to be changed is i'm gonna kill off all the grass
basically taking the grass from like a vibrant green down to like a muted yellow
the next thing i'm gonna do is warm up all of those dark
basically black shadows they're very like blue blacky color i'm gonna turn
those into a more appropriate warm brown to show the warmth of fall
now i can't just kill off all the grass and leave the trees alive that just doesn't make sense
so i'm going to pull a little bob ross moment and convert all these trees from
a happy nice alive summertime to dying leaves in fall
oh and one last thing that i'm gonna have to fix or else it's just gonna bother me if i don't
i don't really like this white border of the painting or picture thing so i'm gonna have to
get creative and extend the background just a little bit more to cover it up
all right so here's where we're at so far i think already just changing up the landscape made a
huge huge huge difference i mean we went from a crazy bright summertime palette
all the way down to a warm muted brown fall tone which so far i'm really digging it now
this leads me to the fun part of the drawing which i have been anticipating all night to be able to
create this drawing the next step is to transform all of the people into their halloween costumes
okay so it's been a month or two since i finished
this painting i honestly forgot what it looked like
i like everything i did except for the scarecrow that is literally what my sleep paralysis demon
looks like but everything else i'm very happy with so now that the main artwork is done
all i have left to do is to sign it maybe add in some gesso to fix it up a little bit
and of course show jazza i'm so nervous
that was that was pretty insane like that was the best latency i've had in the call in a long time
well done rae we did it we finally managed to collab after all that after all my delays i should
say i'm so sorry did you use the paints with uh customizing this i'm really i'm
really curious to see it no for me personally um i was
ended up just using just regular acrylic paint but i think it came out really really good
so do you have halloween in australia i want there to be halloween in australia we sort of do i think
for the younger generation like my kids really get into it i think like especially with like a
but i turned it into a fall afternoon and i turned everybody into a halloween themed person
like they're all wearing costumes so oh that's so cool and it looks a part of the original painting
hey you recolored the ground and everything oh yeah i did a lot to it so we got the bride of
frankenstein we got some ghosts you painted over the whole thing so you did the horizon you even
like retextured the trees and stuff yeah yeah i did a lot of uh basically turned it from a very bright
like cool toned summer day into like a very warm warm uh fall day that is so cool i love it
well done yes did you do yeah you totally made it your own it's so cool but it's obviously it's
still like you know the original scene your artwork is like so complete like i i thought
maybe you might like put some pieces over it but you basically repainted the whole thing
thanks so much rae this was a long time waiting not just because i've been delaying but
we've been we've known each other for ages and we've wanted to collab for a while
so i'm so glad we were finally able to do this and it was a load of fun
yeah thank you so much for joining me on my dollar tree adventure thank you for bringing it to me
so anyway that is all i have for you guys today if you like the artwork that i did in this video
you guys should go check out the artwork that jazza did on his channel with the dollar tree
stuff it is absolutely chef kiss i'll link his video and his channel down below and while
you're watching this video go subscribe show off some support you know how we do it around here
and yeah with that being said i hope you guys have a good day and i will see you next video