Today we're going to be making art with the contents of the August ArtSnacks Plus box!
let's open it up and find out what's inside!
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Inside this bag...
these are eight paint tips
They look like this
they remind me of when you decorate a
cake or a little like chess pieces
all eight of them are a completely different
shape we've got flat,
wider flat,
detailed flat,
noodle,
bigger noodle,
fine point noodle,
double noodle,
and the king piece
if we actually look at the packaging it looks like they all connect to some kind of
bag of paint like an apple juice bag of paint -- oh there's another one so we
have one in the color primary blue and one in the color primary red
of squishy squishy paint
you can disconnect this lid and attach
one of these and you can like squirt them out
here we have the literature
this menu lists all the art supplies in the regular ArtSnacks box and then this
menu includes all of the items that are exclusive to the ArtSnacks Plus box a
dum dum pop
and the last thing in our bubble bag is this green tissue paper oh
they put the sticker in there that's kind of dumb
it's all squashed
it's really pretty I wish they included pastel art supplies
I've not worked with an oval wash brush before I'm used to seeing rounds and
flats and then finally there is a water resistant non fading pigment
ink in this 0.3 fineliner by Windsor Newton
and then......
final thing in the Box
is this mixed-media paint board it's made out of vegetables and recycled components
alright so it feels a lot like a stretched canvas but it's
obviously [bonk, bonk, bonk] stiffer I wonder if it's just canvas wrapped around wood..?
I'm a genius I don't know
so it's a 3/4 inch 8 inch by 10 inch mixed-media paint board Oh
whew I'm so glad it has the Fredrix seal of quality, now we know it's good
who the heck is Fredrix?
oh it's the brand ok...
three four eight
candy
paint!! --
so this is everything included in this month's ArtSnacks plus box the
items that are exclusive to the ArtSnacks plus are this 8 set of paint tips
and the Fredrix mixed-media paint board
I do want to thank ArtSnacks for
sponsoring today's video if you're interested in getting your own ArtSnacks
box I have a 10% discount code [WAFFLES] that you can use for your very first box
on either the ArtSnacks or the ArtSnacks plus box; if neither of those are
in your budget right now I will be forwarding this exact box to one of you
so if you're interested in entering that giveaway I will have a link in the
description
thanks again to ArtSnacks for sponsoring the video!
we have the two
colors we have the blue and the red and then we can obviously mix them and get
purple! so let's just try that out so that I can use for like the paintbrush
if I need - next let's try a little fine point actually I don't want to go
to detail let's grab this
I'm using my noodle nib
let's see what that does
try to figure out how to hold it so that I can get like an even --[gets distracted]
okay little
wobbly I kind of wish there was a way to put the lid on with the nibs - let's swatch out
the red paint
with the flat tip
interesting.
kind of wish there was a white so that I could get more pastel colors
cuz you see how dark these are
I did notice that one of these had a prompt
word on them:
[reading:] "have you ever made a collage using magazines or newspaper
cutouts? find a few of your favorite clippings glue them onto your
mixed-media board and add texture with the acrylic paint tips"
[no longer reading:] do a little bit
of a collage which I've never done before so it'd be kind of fun if we
could include maybe some people on here - right now I'm very nervous about
trying to get details with this very wide oval brush and obviously the
squeezy tip things/the frosting you know
I actually just got in the mail
recently so maybe we can like cut some stuff out - I was kind of hoping there would be more
people in here - We got Bob Buschbaum but that's way too small
that's a little bust
maybe have some like models we can use -yep I'm finding some people!
hehehe
gonna fold these put these off to the side
like where's one of those like
full-page like just in your face, faces? you know I feel like whenever I'm in a
waiting room and I open it up it's always just someone gorgeous just staring at
me and I feel very intimidated but not today apparently
I'm gonna leave a little
bit of a white border because we can paint over it so we don't cut off
anything we might want - OOHOOOH! we can also include this title oh yeah "pops of purple"
hey
it's a brush cleaner stuff I really like that
gotcha!
markers!!!!
[sound of a dieing weasel]
now we have a nice mess perfect so
I think step one would be to kind of glue things on I don't actually do I
have glue?
have these two washi tapes
I have an Elmer's gluestick
thinking about centering it around her with elements kind of encircling
her and then I kind of wanted to use this little noodle nib here and create
like shapes going around her and like a circular motion that like draws your
attention towards her even though there's gonna be so many more crazy
things going on
oh we also have this but the problem of this is it doesn't really
fit so if I like paste this up in this
corner and this one down like this then we have those art supplies kind of
pointing towards the center of the collage
and then glue these edges
think I'm gonna go around with paint and create like a cool border around the
outside so it'll definitely hide all of these like words that I don't want
just stick
that on right where we want it
oh shoot I should have cut this guy out wait wait
maybe it's not too late
fineliners move them over to an edge
hey okay so now we don't have any random edges
I changed my mind I want to move these
so what I want to do is go over this but let's do purple because it is
so dark - we got some blue in there some red together
even if we like keep it
kind of like separated that might be fun I really want to add white to this
though what we'll see what happens
let's try and just hide the edges of the
collage and remove some of that gray background
don't have to get too close
cause I can always come in with like a thinner brush and fix some mistakes so
maybe it will focus more blue on this corner red on this corner and I want to
create like a gradient between those two Oh a nice white or pink Posca pen is
gonna look so good for adding like pops maybe around some of these art
supplies and things like that
I'm not worrying about the sides of them yet cuz
I think I'm gonna go around with like one flat color for that this is kind of
turning into a collage of all the things I like
purple
pretty nails
art supplies
maybe like here?
whatever these things are
just
laying some things out trying to visualize it a little bit better see
where I want everything before I start gluing
that feels kind of right
then I need something to cover this white space and this is covering up our
little nail polish but it's for the greater good--oh wait! I didn't cut it out! I'm
gonna have glue all over my scissors
get off me!
all right that'll have to do
my fingers are too sticky
I think I wanted it like right here
I really like the way these glitter
I grab like some triangles just kind of stick them here and there
I still
want to take red - let's try the one that looks like royalty got like
three little prongs let's hope this doesn't look like blood and I'm gonna
add like some fun squiggles
okay that actually looks really really cool I
don't understand the shape of the bags like how are you supposed to hold them
and like squeeze them
alright now I'm gonna switch over to the blue one just a
fine point just kind of want to start adding some like interesting dots
follow the hair
okay the red definitely stands out more than the blues
just add some
blobs for texture
I take this white gel pen
should have done this earlier and
try to paint like stars in the background so it looks more like a
galaxy
oh pretty
I'm gonna have some go right behind her too now when this all
dries I really want to take like some Posca pens and add outlines to things
like fun pops of color there
it's kind of loaded up with so many distracting things it's kind of the plan
some more triangles I really like the triangles
I'm like trying to like
calculate where to put everything and put it someplace where I feel like it
makes sense but at the same time I'm kind of just making a mess
I wonder if I
could like draw a new eyeball on her forehead or something really weird
something I used to do when I was younger actually I kind of still do it
is just take a pen and trace people in magazines and things like that I think
it really helps give you that hand-eye coordination kind of figure out what
different things look like that you've never drawn before and like trace the
wrinkles and figure out how wrinkles work - Ten out of ten would recommend
so after letting it dry and I also I also did the first layer coat of my border I
can't believe how much I like that like how much more finished it looks
grabed a couple of Posca pens- I got white red and blue just like the colors that are
already in our picture and I just feel like pink would look really really nice
so I grabbed this guy too
and also I'm going to be using that Windsor Newton
pen I thought it'd be fun to just draw on top of ..um..whats her name? Morgan
and not really
distort her as much as make it look like it's an illustration so I want to make
sure I still capture the look but then like make it look like it was kind of
drawn in my style so maybe elongate the eyeliner there add that big deep pop
eyeline and just a little bit down here - gonna just draw on top of it as if I was
doing the lineart
thick eyebrows
just add those little flares that I always
add to all of my art kind of thing
gonna use the red and blue Posca to add more
shapes here and there fill in the area
this is kind of fun because making a
mess is inevitable so you can't really fight it
she's wearing ..what is this?
looks like it might be Leopard I don't know it's like a weird mix of animal
prints what if we include some of those in the background - does that look like it?
- I don't really know
there's like oops there's two colors in it
kind of difficult with one marker huh
let's try replicate the ones on her jacket there for down here a little
easier cuz they're just small little spots
paint her lips this pink color -
I said messy was inevitable
this isn't the most visually pleasing thing I've
ever created
[nervous laugh]
I don't know what I'm doing. part of me wants to just paint over top
reuse this paint board basically and just draw something
I just need to draw
something real quick as fun as it was to make like an absolute mess and not worry
about anything for a little while now that I've done that it feels like it's
kind of like cleared my mind of like worrying about making bad art it took
away like my favorite part of art which is sketching and by taking a break from
that in a way it's really just made me want to draw something mm-hmm I'm very
inspired by I think it was Morgan's outfit here
we're just gonna quickly
sketch something just to kind of prove that I can - I don't know
maybe throw in
some paint here and then red up at the top
I do want to thank you guys for watching I hope you
enjoyed watching me unbox the ArtSnacks plus box for the month of August and
make this fun............ collage [laughs]
I hada lot of fun with it even if the results aren't
anything that I would hang up on my wall
it was kind of fun playing with these
paints I'm not sure how you're supposed to use them in like any other sort of
sense they do say abstract on them which
makes me think this is kind of the stuff they're supposed to make with them just
like making a mess, going for the best, seeing what happens and just enjoying
the process
if you're interested in getting your own ArtSnacks box I will
have a link in the description
my favorite thing about art subscription
boxes is that they kind of push you down a path you wouldn't choose necessarily
for yourself and making a collage it's definitely one of those paths that I
have never ventured down
if you're interesting in your own arts next box I
will a link in the description as always [i think I said that already...*facepalm] and
don't forget I'm also giving away these art supplies that I used today from this
month's box so check the link in the description for that giveaway again
thank you guys for watching I'll see you guys all next week and I hope you have a
delicious evening full of waffles!!!
bye!
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