Today I'm going to fix some paintings
That I hate.
[Gasp]
I'm fixing my own paintings.
I'm not--I'm not painting on anybody else's stuff.
This is just my stuff.
So here is one of the paintings that we're going to redo
or fix, whatever you want to say.
So, I think I painted this back in maybe...
2013, give or take.
(Chipmunk voice) Now, let me be real with y'all.
I don't completely hate this one.
I have some positive feelings, you know.
But there are some things that can be improved
and we have to improve the things that we don't like here.
Like this beach here.
I don't know what I was doing, but,
I just don't like it.
So I'm gonna try to fix this part
and then [Sighs]
I don't know.
I might...
Brighten some clouds and stuff, too.
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All right guys I made a painting back in 2018
on my channel, it is huge.
It is exactly behind my head
so you can't actually see it yet.
But I liked it at the time. I'm so proud of it.
But, now that it's been like hanging in my general living area.
I mean, this is my dining room.
I...[Sighs]
I think I'm ready to change it.
Like, have more color to it, you know.
It just needs a pop of color
and you'll see why in a second, you'll see why, okay.
(Low voice) Some of y'all will probably rail on me for this, but.
So I went through a phase where I liked white everything.
You know, it was just so minimal
and I did this hot glue painting
[Pats painting]
There's texture all over this
and then there's gold. Gold on the edges.
Probably can't tell because I barely can either!
Look at all the hot glue. [Laughs]
If you want to see some...
Uh, really not that great video quality on my channel,
um,
go watch this, the audio horrible, old camera.
Yeah, don't recommend.
I'll link it anyway.
Also what I mean by fix,
is I'm not gonna completely redo this entire thing.
Because the fun of it
is to try to preserve some of the artwork.
I think that will be cool
I actually took a purse strap
and like glued it around the edges for texture,
which,
I guess was a creative thing to do back in the day
with my art, I did it a lot.
I took like old things
and put them on the corners of my canvas.
All right, you guys already saw this bad boy.
Wow, you are huge!
Can you even fit in frame?
[Pats painting again]
Do you hear the ASMR?
[Hand rubbing over the hot glue]
(Whispers) I hate ASMR.
You want to see this thing to scale?
I'm telling you what, hopefully it all fits...
Here.
Oh my it doesn't even fit on camera there.
I can't raise my tripod any higher, so.
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With that being said we'll just...
(Whispers) Make do.
This is my favorite color.
As I said in my last video,
A lot of things in my house are this color.
We're gonna...
Use it here today.
I'm just gonna take some water and dilute this.
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Well, I lost some cool footage I had for you guys
at the beginning
but the painting is set up.
It barely fits on my desk.
So, welcome to the land of awkward footage angles.
[Spray bottle spritzing]
Kind of missed this thing
because I want to thin the paint out, do like a glaze,
you know?
Cheers!
I guess I'll start with this upper corner
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Oh my!
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See I said paintings I hate but you know what,
I'm a pretty positive person at heart,
you guys know me so I don't like, loathe my stuff here,
but these are the two least favorite things that I have
had in my house that I've made, so,
You don't have to spend time not liking your artwork.
You can go back and fix it and have a good time.
Oh!
The sponge is like falling apart here.
I guess I should be more gentle.
[Sponge rubbing on canvas]
So I'm gonna leave the border white
because the goal of this whole...
"Challenge" is to preserve some parts, you know
and I'm actually really proud of the border, so.
Here we go.
Boom!
Just lighten this up a little bit, you know.
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Updates on how this is going.
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Guys, this is pretty fun.
Kind of glad I took it off the wall
and decided to give it a little facelift today.
Okay, I think I want to do like, some areas that are...
a little...
Obnoxiously brighter than others just for some interest,
you know.
I don't want it to look completely uniform.
Let's brighten this guy up.
Okay, I'm pretty happy with the way things are going.
I think...
I lost - I found it.
I think we're gonna swoop in here with some more...
[Paint tube smacking on hand]
Gold paint.
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I think we're gonna be bold and do gold in the middle, too.
What do you think?
Let's just find out how it goes and then...
Hopefully we don't have to bring this painting back
on another "Fixing Paintings I Hate" series.
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All right, it's kind of hard to see in here
because all these studio lights are reflecting off of this,
but let's go hang this back up in my house
and
hopefully get a better look at it there.
So come with me.
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Hey guys it's day two
and now we're gonna fix this painting here
and as I said,
I really want to fix this particular area of the beach.
So let's see what we can do!
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I very clearly did not wash this palette.
No shame. Let me know if you don't wash yours either.
[Paint palette bangs]
See last time I did this I think I made things way too,
UH...
Yellow, so we're gonna tone it down this time.
All right not gonna lie,
I'm kind of scared i'm gonna ruin this
even though i'm "fixing" it.
This one just feels completely different.
So basically, I think it'll look better if it's a little less yellow.
I'm just not liking How yellow it is.
Okay, so one thing I have learned over the years
that I really think is pretty
is to make your backgrounds a little less like,
saturated in the distance
and do cooler colors like purples.
So
I'm gonna incorporate that into this.
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Now I'm gonna do a little like umbrella on the beach.
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All right, I definitely feel like this is turning out a lot better.
I think I might redo the water now too
just because [Laughs]
This color scheme just seems more inviting I guess.
More realistic.
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This is kind of fun because I get to mess with water.
Once again, you know me.
Ah, yeah, I love water, water paintings.
When you realize what you were filming
wasn't being captured by your camera.
Good times.
[Gasps loudly]
I just spilled paint water all over myself.
My - I'm...
I am soaked.
This is blue paint water, it got all over my chair.
Second time this has happened to me.
I'm....
[Sighs]
I'm annoyed.
Oh my goodness.
I have to turn this off. Hold on.
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Well who needs to sit...
When your chair is soaked and wet from...
Spilling paint water everywhere?
Sometimes you just gotta roll with
what life brings your way.
Laugh it off and move on.
So I'm gonna just be standing now to do this
Because my chair probably won't be dry until tomorrow.
But I'm just gonna say thank you to all you guys
who replied on Instagram.
And told me how to get acrylic paint out of my chair.
I love you. Thank you so much.
Okay, if you hear creaking,
it's because I'm moving everywhere and uh,
I have an old wooden floor. So.
I'm gonna keep the paint water away from me, too.
Oh, no, it's still - Hold it. Hold it.
Sometimes it's just one of those days. [Laughs]
For real though for real though.
By the way, if you're wondering how I spilled it,
it was that camera tripod that knocked it down.
I picked it up to move it
and it just nicked the lip of the cup
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This water is more along the lines of like surreal
than realistic and I'm kind of enjoying that.
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You guys know me I like to blend pretty smoothly
but with this painting, I'm trying to not blend
as much because my style back then...
You can tell it was a little more painterly.
I did this coming out of a painting class in college,
and this is kind of like the style
that my professor was like,
pushing us to work with at the time,
By the way, I do not have an art degree.
I just always took one class for fun every semester
to like, challenge myself.
I have a biology degree.
So I'm still not sure how I feel about this painting.
And to be honest,
it might just be because I made it years ago
and I've kind of harbored feelings of, uh,
just not really liking it super much lately.
So this might kind of be one of those things that like
no matter what I do to it,
I'm not gonna love it, you know
and that's okay, I'm fine with that.
I just think it's uh, more...
The feelings behind it that I, I don't like.
Oh, I think adding stuff back here really helped.
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Well guys,
I thought we were getting into an easy video this week.
Let me tell you we weren't, we weren't, we uh,
had some accidents.
okay, so this painting,
admittedly, I feel like I improved it.
Um, the beach just doesn't look as yellow now
and like kind of gross [Laughs]
I didn't like it before,
I didn't like that like, seaweed up on shore and stuff.
So I'm pretty happy to not have that.
I added some buildings back here, fixed the clouds.
And yeah, and then the water.
I didn't like this painting super much beforehand
because of some of these things I just said.
Um, but when I was painting this, I think I learned...
That most of the reason why
I don't think I like this painting,
is the period in my life that I painted it.
Um.
It just like reminds me of those feelings,
which is really weird.
So.
Fixing this painting, I can say,
I don't think I like it super much still because of...
It reminding me what I felt back then
when I was painting this, if that makes sense,
the feelings are stronger than what you see.
[Laughs]So.
That's what I learned from this.
That was actually a big lesson that I didn't expect to learn.
Anyway,
Thank you so much for hanging out,
doing some art with me.
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What were you doing?
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So that's cool.
Have a good day.
Bye.