1 00:00:00,780 --> 00:00:03,440 - Embellishing is a last way to clean it all up, 2 00:00:03,439 --> 00:00:04,679 and finish it off. 3 00:00:04,679 --> 00:00:06,879 I'm going to use these paint pens, 4 00:00:06,879 --> 00:00:09,429 and going to come in here, 5 00:00:09,429 --> 00:00:14,339 and just add some little random dots and details. 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,609 Some of it might be looking a little messy, 7 00:00:17,609 --> 00:00:21,772 or a little too much pen, or a little barren. 8 00:00:23,699 --> 00:00:26,600 Dry with wood, it doesn't have to make sense, 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,179 remember we are abstracting these. 10 00:00:29,179 --> 00:00:30,823 We are stylizing. 11 00:00:31,719 --> 00:00:35,770 I do like to fill in, like an area, so if I was doing dots, 12 00:00:35,770 --> 00:00:39,100 I might fill in a whole little segment here. 13 00:00:39,100 --> 00:00:40,450 Then I'm gonna switch over. 14 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:43,393 But you can also color in. 15 00:00:48,780 --> 00:00:53,323 It has a really nice way of finishing it all off. 16 00:00:56,619 --> 00:00:59,049 I'm going around the whole piece with this one color, 17 00:00:59,049 --> 00:01:01,049 and then I will switch to another color. 18 00:01:04,150 --> 00:01:08,569 A lot of dots, or a lot of fill in the lines. 19 00:01:08,569 --> 00:01:10,769 You could do stripes, you could do anything. 20 00:01:18,629 --> 00:01:20,280 So much control with these, it's great. 21 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,893 And they will write over anything. 22 00:01:25,079 --> 00:01:29,049 Dry paint, and show up very well. 23 00:01:29,049 --> 00:01:30,772 Let's see, might be fun to have. 24 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,390 Here, where it's just kind of neutral, and disappearing, 25 00:01:40,390 --> 00:01:42,060 I'm just gonna add a pop, 26 00:01:42,060 --> 00:01:44,683 or here, where I didn't have a cleanly defined line. 27 00:01:46,739 --> 00:01:49,793 I'll do that, that cleans that right up. 28 00:01:51,469 --> 00:01:53,192 Okay, now I'm gonna switch colors. 29 00:01:54,099 --> 00:01:56,492 I'm going to switch to orange. 30 00:01:58,689 --> 00:02:00,530 Sometimes, I've got space here, 31 00:02:00,530 --> 00:02:03,140 and you might've seen me take the pen, 32 00:02:03,140 --> 00:02:05,090 and kind of fill in between 33 00:02:05,090 --> 00:02:08,020 where the paint color and the pen was, 34 00:02:08,020 --> 00:02:12,319 I'm also gonna do that with the paint pen. 35 00:02:12,319 --> 00:02:14,073 Clean up some of those edges. 36 00:02:15,460 --> 00:02:19,122 And again, just make some marks, like dots. 37 00:02:22,009 --> 00:02:22,943 Or stripes. 38 00:02:25,810 --> 00:02:28,340 It doesn't have to be really thought out, or anything. 39 00:02:28,340 --> 00:02:29,360 This is embellishing, 40 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,317 which just naturally has a more playful aspect to it. 41 00:02:36,229 --> 00:02:37,240 I can even go in and fill in 42 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,763 some of these tiny, tiny detail marks. 43 00:02:41,259 --> 00:02:43,169 Something else that I use to embellish, 44 00:02:43,169 --> 00:02:44,639 besides the paint pens, 45 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:49,639 are these Neocolor II Caran d'Ache water-soluble crayons. 46 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:52,870 And I like to pick something 47 00:02:52,870 --> 00:02:56,419 that definitely will pop or contrast, 48 00:02:56,419 --> 00:02:58,830 so sometimes you have to try a few, to see. 49 00:02:58,830 --> 00:03:01,659 I've got the same color tones, let's see. 50 00:03:01,659 --> 00:03:03,323 Yep, this shows up nicely. 51 00:03:08,490 --> 00:03:13,449 Just gonna move around, and highlight some areas, add this. 52 00:03:13,449 --> 00:03:17,090 Again, we could be doing it, adding it in dots, or stripes, 53 00:03:17,090 --> 00:03:20,062 or just putting down marks. 54 00:03:26,180 --> 00:03:28,163 And I think I'll switch up colors here. 55 00:03:32,169 --> 00:03:35,110 Maybe, some of this darker, 56 00:03:35,110 --> 00:03:37,770 and I'm actually gonna put some of this 57 00:03:37,770 --> 00:03:40,680 on this background, 'cause it's very subtle. 58 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,263 Right where the pencil was, or pen mark. 59 00:03:46,659 --> 00:03:48,860 Even over some of my stripes. 60 00:03:48,860 --> 00:03:52,782 Just kind of taking away that flatness. 61 00:03:59,598 --> 00:04:00,431 And I just do it 62 00:04:00,431 --> 00:04:03,312 until I don't feel inspired to do it anymore. 63 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:08,819 Even though it's really subtle, it's almost, you know, 64 00:04:08,819 --> 00:04:12,009 tone on tone, of the same color. 65 00:04:12,009 --> 00:04:14,889 I feel that it really makes an impact, 66 00:04:14,889 --> 00:04:16,550 and ties it together. 67 00:04:16,550 --> 00:04:20,459 It's subtle, but you can, your mind registers it. 68 00:04:20,459 --> 00:04:25,459 I'll see if this gray pops, it's okay. 69 00:04:25,610 --> 00:04:27,273 I'll do some with that. 70 00:04:28,699 --> 00:04:31,502 Kind of emulates this blue here. 71 00:04:41,029 --> 00:04:42,029 That's a really fine nib, 72 00:04:42,029 --> 00:04:45,392 so I'm gonna go ahead and add some more pink. 73 00:04:46,370 --> 00:04:49,990 So we've got all three of the fine, the crayon, 74 00:04:49,990 --> 00:04:53,552 and the medium nib marks on here. 75 00:04:54,910 --> 00:04:57,240 And now I'm gonna step back, 76 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,043 and see if I've embellished enough, if it feels cohesive, 77 00:05:03,639 --> 00:05:06,579 if it feels like I wanna add any paint, 78 00:05:06,579 --> 00:05:10,139 or any pen mark to define it. 79 00:05:10,139 --> 00:05:12,769 And I think, looking at it, 80 00:05:12,769 --> 00:05:13,939 I do tend to blur my eyes, 81 00:05:13,939 --> 00:05:17,660 I wanna add a little bit here, tone those down. 82 00:05:17,660 --> 00:05:20,273 And maybe a little bit of that crayon again, here. 83 00:05:21,879 --> 00:05:23,079 I think it was this one. 84 00:05:29,810 --> 00:05:34,810 And then, it feels balanced, 85 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:36,920 and it feels fun, and playful. 86 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,589 Looking at this, I'm pleased, it feels balanced to me. 87 00:05:39,589 --> 00:05:41,810 So, I'm going to call it finished. 88 00:05:41,810 --> 00:05:43,660 I want to show you another example here, 89 00:05:43,660 --> 00:05:45,600 done similarly, with the same steps. 90 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,730 And I hope that now, that you know all the steps, 91 00:05:47,730 --> 00:05:49,850 you will share in the gallery, 92 00:05:49,850 --> 00:05:52,632 some of your abstracted stylized flowers.