hey friends elizabeth here from plant based bride back again with another video and today
i'm excited to set up my husband's bullet journal for october with a raven theme today's video is
sponsored by harry's i'll talk about them in just a little bit but before that i wanted to start by
gluing in my tea stained paper if you're curious about how i created this vintagey old paper look
check out the link in the card and in the description box for my little tea staining
tutorial i specifically chose some of the sheets that had some of the coffee splatters on them
i just felt like those darker splotches really added to the subtly spooky vibes of this setup
once i have all of my tea stained paper glued in i'm flipping back to the first spread to get
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so getting back into the setup i'm starting with my quote page where i of course had to
quote edgar allan poe how could i not while doing a raven theme i mean come on and the
quote i chose was quoth the raven nevermoor a classic i'm using my stamps for this and as
always all of the supplies i'm using in this video will be linked in the description box down below
moving over to the cover page and i'm popping down some washi tape to act as a nice border
for the artwork i'm creating here so i'll have a nice clean edge this month's theme was inspired by
this album cover for a band jason recently worked with called over the moon the background music at
this part is actually an instrumental of one of craig and suzanne's tracks lonesome bluebird for
the cover page i'm doing my best to recreate this cover art which was originally created
by amazing canadian artist laura nelson whose website will be linked in the description box
i loved the texture and stylized quality of this piece so i tried my best to emulate that feeling
now i don't know what medium laura used to create this painting but i wouldn't be surprised if laura
used oil paints which i do not have so to try to get that similar sort of streaky textured look i'm
using my gouache and watercolor from winsor newton and i'm using the tubes of paint so that i can use
the least amount of water possible to get that thick textured quality that comes from a dryer
brush with lots of paint loaded on it it's also great for doing larger scale paintings in a bullet
journal obviously this notebook is an art journal of notebook with 160 gsm paper which handles
watercolor very well but it's still not watercolor paper so the least amount of water i can have on
my brush the better as you'll see when i flip the page there is essentially no warping and there's
definitely no ghosting or bleed through so tubes of paint for the win i'm starting with the sky and
mixing my own grayish blue using prusian blue payne's gray and zinc white and i'm trying to
create a subtle gradient from the outside coming in towards the moon so it comes from a darker
more grayish blue through a midtone blue and gets lighter and lighter as it gets towards the moon
in this center area just outside the moon i'm using pure zinc white so it's nice and bright
as for the moon itself i'm using a mix of yellow ochre cadmium yellow and zinc white to create
this golden yellow spooky harvest moon and i'm using a tiny bit of lamp black to do a nice old
black outline thanks for the great painting of my new favorite band's album cover
craig and suzanne are a power couple of musicians suzanne plays upright bass and guitar craig plays
guitar and banjo i would describe the way they harmonize together like the everly brothers
harmony is so tight that you can't decide which one's the melody you can hear the love and fun
that those two share in each song as they sing to each other face to face on the same microphone
this cover is from over the moon's up and coming album release called chinook waltz i can't wait
for the world to hear it thank you craig and suzanne for the beautiful music elizabeth
thanks for the great bullet journal as always back to you for the bottom of the painting i'm
creating a nice brown shade by mixing yellow ochre and sepia together getting that textured
dirt on the ground and also creating some little branches popping up around the raven
do
once all of those background layers are dry it's time to work on the raven itself and i decided
the easiest way to go about this would be to start by filling in the entire shape of the raven in a
slightly lighter grayish blueish shade and then going back in to add all of the darker shadowed
areas so starting with a mix of payne's gray and perusian blue and a tiny little bit of zinc white
to lighten it up i'm getting this really nice dark blueish gray shade to fill the entire raven
once this first layer was dry i decided to mix a darker shade that wasn't completely black i
do find that having your darkest colors not be pure black but actually be a very very dark color
that fits within your color scheme can add a lot of liveliness and depth and interest to a painting
so instead of using pure lamp black i am using the color that i mixed with prusion blue and payne's
gray and a tiny bit of zinc white and i'm adding the tiniest bit of lamp black into that shade
so i get the darkest possible version of that bluish gray color and as you can see when that
first layer was dry i did go in with my pencil to indicate all of the areas that i wanted to fill
in with the darker shade i definitely recommend doing this i just find it a lot easier to have
a little bit of a guide and any areas that you don't end up painting over you can always erase
i went back in with my lighter shade just to clean up a couple areas fix a couple things that i
wasn't a big fan of with the dark color and with that we are pretty much done with this painting so
i'm just going to put the cover art back up on the screen so you can see a comparison between
my version of this painting and the original of course check out laura nelson's work in
the description box and check out over the moon now i'm removing the washi tape from the edges
of my painting and this is just always the most satisfying thing i mean look at those clean lines
chef's kiss then i'm just using my stamp set to stamp october underneath the painting i was
initially going to write october within the moon to emulate the lettering within the moon on the
album cover but i just listen i was really proud of how the painting turned out and i didn't want
to write on it i was worried that if i didn't like how i did the lettering i'd have to try to repaint
the moon again and i was really happy with how the moon turned out so i just decided it would be
better for everyone and by everyone i mean me if i just stamped the lettering underneath the painting
so that's what i did flipping over to the next spread which is my husband's monthly
calendar i'm starting by painting yet another moon in the upper left-hand corner and while i do that
since i'm using the exact same technique to create this moon as i did the first one i'm going to take
this opportunity to share just a few facts about ravens the raven one of approximately 10 species
of heavy-build dark birds is often confused with the crow closely related both ravens and crows are
species of the genus corvus the raven is larger has a heavier bill and shaggier plumage than the
crow especially around the throat the raven's lustrous feathers also have a blue or purplish
iridescence ravens are highly intelligent with brains relatively large for their size
they've been known to craft and use tools plan for the future barter and even play games like
hide and seek they also use their intellect to put together cause and effect a study in
wyoming discovered that during hunting season the sound of a gunshot draws ravens in to investigate
a presumed carcass whereas the birds ignore other sounds that are just as loud but harmless such as
an air horn or a car door slamming the common raven is the largest of the perching birds it
reaches a length of up to 66 centimeters 26 inches and has a wingspan of more than 1.3 meters or 4
feet in the realm of creepy raven facts ravens can actually mimic human voices in fact they are often
even better at it than parrots i mean think about it can you prove that i'm not a raven imitating
elizabeth right now i thought not one common raven raised from birth was taught to mimic the word
nevermore i mean you'd have to these intelligent birds can also mimic animals and bird calls as
well as various man-made sounds such as a toilet flushing or a car starting long before the raven
was immortalized in edgar allan poe's poem ravens were a near universal symbol of dark prophecy
death pestilence and disease the captive ravens at the tower of london are beloved and perhaps
a little feared legend has it that if they ever leave the tower the british empire will crumble
the native people of the pacific northwest regard the raven as an incurable trickster bringing fire
to people by stealing it from the sun and stealing salmon only to drop them in rivers
all over the world swedish folklore has it that ravens are the spirits of murdered people who
weren't given christian burials and irish folklore sees ravens as symbols of warfare the hindu deity
shani is often visualized as mounted on the back of a giant raven the common raven is an acrobatic
flyer often doing roles and somersaults in the air one bird was seen flying upside down for
more than half a mile young ravens are fond of playing games with sticks repeatedly dropping
them and then diving to catch them in midair the oldest known wild common raven was at least
22 years and seven months old found in nova scotia for yet another spooky raven fact a group of
ravens is called an unkindness and if that's not spooky enough other collective nouns for
ravens include a treachery and a conspiracy and our last interesting fact about ravens for today
is that ravens can remember faces ravens have what is called episodic memory much like humans
this allows them to remember human faces and other characteristics particularly in association with
an emotion or an event and this is a big reason for why ravens are known to have friends and
enemies ravens have been known to hold grudges for up to one month after a sour experience
on the calendar page here as you can see i decided to create a silhouette of a bare tree that has
lost all its leaves with a large raven sitting on a branch just spookily watching quickly flipping
to the next spread to stamp the notes header this is for my husband's notes pages where he
jots down whatever he needs day-to-day to-do lists appointments meeting notes etc and that is it for
this raven-inspired over-the-moon album cover inspired theme in my husband's bullet journal
i hope you liked it if you did give this video a like and subscribe if you haven't already
and leave a comment down below letting me know which raven fact was your favorite if you made
it all the way to the end of this video be sure to leave either a bird emoji or a black emoji of your
choice in the comments so i know you're a real one thank you again to harry's for sponsoring this
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get going thank you so much for watching this video and i'll see you really soon in my next one
bye friends don't forget to check out the plan with me i just posted in my own bullet
journal for october i did a spooky and yet also kind of whimsical and cute snake theme
and if that sounds like an oxymoron check out the video you'll see what i mean
you