Hey guys it's Hailie welcome back or welcome to my channel! So in today's video i'm going to be
doing a little painting with Harry, so i've done this kind of painting technique with um my past
mice before; i actually have one right here or two anyways these were done by my mouse Louie,
but basically we're going to be doing this today and you can follow along and you can let your
hamster paint a picture! So i'm just going to explain what you need and then we're going to
um cut to me um doing the painting later at night i'm doing the intro now so i don't have to do that
later tonight because i'm gonna have to stay up until like 2 a.m to film this video because he
wakes up so late so yeah that's what we're gonna do i'm gonna explain what you need now and i also
wanted to say if you didn't notice it's kind of hard to see but look do you see here let me go
my shaky hands isn't that adorable!? it's a little hamster! Anyways i got this from
ontario hamster club i'm pretty sure. oh why am i so white? there we go! Anyways i got this on
ontario hamster club off of etsy um i'm thinking that's the name of the etsy shop i'm not for sure
but i'll link it down below but isn't this so cute you can get a personalized one too like
with your name if you want or even your hamster's name but they have a lot of animal kind of things
there so definitely check them out if you want a hamster necklace! but yeah we're just gonna go
through what you need for this diy so the first thing and most obvious thing you're going to need
is some paint so my recommendation is to use the paint that isn't like from the dollar store or
some cheap craft paint the reason is because when you put it on a canvas and it dries it will crack
and look very dull so i definitely go and get some just cheap acrylic i think together this was like
15 bucks for all these so i would definitely look into a higher quality acrylic obviously
this isn't the best but i definitely wouldn't do like just your normal acrylic that you can
get pretty much anywhere and then of course the other thing you're gonna need is some canvases
so you can get canvases like this they're just the flat ones or you can get ones that are like this
and they have the little um canvas on a wood frame so either or works but these ones i decided to use
and then lastly i'm pretty sure yeah you're gonna need a bag so it's kind of confusing but actually
no it's pretty simple but basically all you're going to do is take your canvas you're going to
put little splotches of paint on it all over then you're going to put it in your bag trying not to
smush it too much and then i'm going to put it in harry's playpen and put him on top of it and to
keep him on top of it to walk around a little bit i'm just going to put some treats on there so you
can kind of smush it around and you can obviously help your hamster out too if it's like a robo
it's going to be quite hard to smoosh it down so i definitely helped them out but with a syrian
hamster i'm hoping it won't um be too hard for him because at least with my mouse um it was a little
bit hard because there's quite a few white spots but i love this one doesn't it look like a flower
love it he's an artist but yeah so we're gonna get right into the video and i hope you enjoy
i also just wanted to pop in and say that i'm going to be doing a q a for my 200 sub special
obviously this will be in a little while but i decided to just mention it now because i
want you guys to submit questions so you can submit any questions you want don't be afraid
to ask a question if i don't feel comfortable asking it i won't even mention it in the video
but definitely ask me any questions i'm open to a lot yeah so that's going to be my 200 sub
special and definitely submit this uh questions in the comments down below hey guys it's um me so
i am going to do the painting now it is currently 1am and he is still not up so
i'm currently just waiting for him to wake up but i decided to do the kind of pre-steps um
prior to him walking on the painting so i'm just gonna show you how to do that and sorry for the
weird angle i'm currently sitting in the playpen because why not i just set everything up so i'm
just gonna tilt you down so you can see what i'm actually doing but the first thing you're gonna
do is pick up your paint so i recommend doing like maybe three four colors i wouldn't really do
five or more because it tends to just look a bit messy but you do whatever you want because i'm
sure it will look great i definitely include white because i find it really helps out with balancing
the colors so i'm going to do white i decided on these colors so i just have violet magenta
portrait pink and of course white so what you want to do is take your canvas i'm going to
put it right here um and you're going to put a bunch of paint so i'm going to use quite a bit
i don't think these i hate these because when you pop them like this it literally starts going
everywhere so be careful of that if you have these and then you have to clean this out so
do what you want but yeah so i'm just gonna put some on let me get a close-up
i mean there's no rhyme or reason on how to put this on there you kind of just put enough so that
uh your hamster can smoosh it around um because if you don't put enough you're gonna have a bunch of
um blank canvas on your canvas i don't know why i said it like that oh this one's pretty
you can see it there this one's really pretty
i honestly love the smell of paint like it's just a good smell you know
oh this is already messy anyways i wanted to tell you guys about a dream i had
so this was um last night obviously not last night when i post the video but you get the
idea but basically it was about harry and in the dream i fell asleep waiting for him to wake up
and i apparently left the lid open on the cage and then he supposedly escaped um i wasn't too sure
and i woke up and closed the cage this was still part of the dream so then when i actually woke
up this morning i was thinking oh my god did i actually leave the cage open and not even check
if he was in there because if you haven't seen my videos the bedding on the right side of his cage
is very tall so he can get out if he wants and when he wants out and i have the lid open he
will climb out and if i don't stop him he would definitely fall um not the smartest but
that was my dream so i woke up this morning and i was like did i actually leave it open
but yeah so he's awake so obviously he's here but i hate those dreams so let me know if you've had
a dream like that because they're not fun okay i think i've got enough paint i don't really know
honestly more the better because it will look beautiful so i think i'm done i'm just gonna
i think i might just use the rest of this white um i'm gonna add a bit more purple oops okay it
might look like a lot of paint but you really want enough so that they can smush it around
um and you'll have these paintings forever so i really don't want to be shy on the paint because
i want to have a beautiful painting from a very cute little artist! i think that's good
so now you just want to take your canvas and carefully place it in the bag
now you have this and obviously this is completely safe because your hamster
cannot get to the paint um but i'm just going to get a few hides in here i'm going to put a
few treats and then i'll get harry so i'll be right back i'm just going to grab harry
and i got his favorite treat which is oats so i'll be right back and i'll grab him
i'm just gonna get in here but i'm gonna put him down
there you go see if he wants to walk on there there you go can you make a painting
he's so cute it's funny because his coat coloring's actually been changing
um he used to have a lot more white on the top of him
but he's recently been changing to brown please don't go over there
okay well he's gone i'll try and get him back on here let's see if he comes back where'd you
go oh oh my god did you guys see that look at him oh my god that's adorable and you can't
take it the easy way out you gotta get it oh my god he is a his pouch is full of them he's silly
and please don't mind my voice i always go high pitch when i'm talking to him you're doing so well
he's actually a lot more active tonight usually he just climbs up the walls and
wants out but he's actually doing a really great job you're doing so good he's so big now
like when i got him he was so tiny he does not let me pick him up at all so i
literally don't even try because it scares him oh oh no you can't have that many
oh no that's a lot of oats well this is a treat so obviously i won't be giving him a bunch of oats
for the next week um he's definitely had his fair share well that was a lot it's okay
they're not that unhealthy this video is probably gonna be long i'm rambling a lot but i hope you
enjoy listening to me because yeah and obviously when you take this out of the bag the bag is gonna
change the painting which is completely fine your hamster still walked on it and is still an
artist so i wouldn't really worry about that do you actually want to climb on me
oh wow look at that speed runner
and that's not how you get out but the opening's like right here
you're so cute here let me get him a different treat let's do a pumpkin seed
hopefully he won't just poach it
yeah he pouched it i swear every time i give him a treat he just pouches it
so i put him back um let me get these tubes out okay i'm excited okay
he had way too many oh i just want to say that he definitely won't be getting
many oats this week but um that was definitely an accident so we're just going to open this
so you kind of just want to pull up
oh it's kind of hard to see what do you think
um doesn't really resemble anything maybe you could say petals of flowers or
um something so it definitely doesn't resemble anything but it's very abstract you know um but
if you see how thick the paint is it's kind of hard to see but you can kind of see there um
the reason why i recommended this paint over kind of like just any safe craft paint is because when
it dries thick it doesn't crack but if you used like crayola washable paint it definitely does
crack because i've done one in the past and it definitely does not look good at all so yeah i'm
obviously not gonna let this takes forever to dry um because of course it has to dry all the
way through so it probably takes like quite a few days so i'm not going to show the final product
but of course you can pretty much see what the final product will be so here let me move this up
okay so here's the finished product obviously this is going to take a couple days to dry
but um yeah i hope you enjoyed today's video and don't forget to like comment and subscribe and
don't forget to leave your questions for the q a down below and yeah i'll see you in the next one!