Hello, it's Sarah and today I just wanted to share a couple of sand is that I've painted over the years I actually will maybe I'll do a part two to this because it kind of Occurs to me that when we bring up the Christmas stuff I'm gonna have I think I want to do a share of like all the ornaments that I've painted over the years. I think that would be really cute and for me to have it On file as a video type thing anyway This is a Santa piece by Maxine tumble I painted it but the original design is by Maxine Thomas and I've painted lots of hers I have these ornaments that I wish I had right now to show you Maybe I should go get them anyway But this is actually an award-winning this is a box. It's like an ornament box I guess you would call it I just keep I just bring it out at the holidays It has these little sponge Christmas trees around the bottom and then it's just the top that's why I figured I Just share it this way And I'm on the other side of my desk because Joe said it would take away some of the glare and it seems pretty good actually I think he's right he usually is But she this I just thought this was a good example of Stippling all of his fur is stippled and the teddy bear is stippled So those last couple of videos I did Kind of play into this and then the Santa face. I mean obviously you can see his beard Is very well. It's not like it's a technique. It's just stroked in But it's with the gray and the white so white over gray and the mouth. It's very similar to the mouth we did on the brush But I want a prize for this as well. This was the prize. I guess it's second place I brought him with me to convention Pretty sure I went to the it was in Indiana and you know You don't see much of the town when you're at convention because you're just at convention and you're in heaven but It was either it was Indianapolis something like that for the national convention They go to a different city every year and they had a little competition So I entered this in and I won this red ribbon. So Joe says I'm an award-winning artist and I just love it. I do I love this piece but honestly Maxine's pieces a lot of Maxine see I am attracted to her drawings her drawings are what attracts me like see Here's a different Santa and I don't actually remember the artist if I come across the pattern I will add that in the description box, but this one is I Friggin I can see the book in my mind, but I can't picture I can't picture who it is But you know another similar Design but just a different take on the face. It's a more country style. I would say And this is like on a tin. I used to paint For years with this a woman Vicki Schwartz and she wasn't an artist herself But she taught the classes of just this acrylic style of painting so she provided the Surfaces a lot of the time and She was very country so a lot of the pieces that you painted on would be ten or you know different things like that So this is another one and I painted this one in 2000 and I think I did paint this at Vicki's I did But it was an artist and I just can't remember the name of the artist so And then I showed these briefly as well. This is another version of a Santa and Again in that same kind of style with the rosy cheeks and the eyes, but real primitive and this has the snow tack again Around the furry areas and his cuffs So and it's just the one a piece of wood and I think I did these at Vicki's too Because what was great about paint and she she stopped painting, but she was painting for years. She took taught classes Was she provided you with the surface as well? So you could go there and she provided you with the wood So she got all that stuff you didn't have to worry about where you were gonna get the wood or anything And then you would just go hang out and paint and it was so much fun. I did that for a long time And then I think I started getting really good and I probably was You know, I could have taught and I did I taught in my basement for a few a couple a little while. I tried So then that brought us to these brushes and these are the ones that I Did the tutorial on for those of you who didn't watch the tutorial And I just I had painted these years ago and I had said in the tutorial that I thought I Did them at a monthly meeting that because I used to belong to this is the shore pines decorative artists and that was a group that met at the senior center in ocean city Once a month and we used to get in Artists like Maxine never came to our I painted a ton with oh god Why are their names not coming to me? Anyway, several of the pieces in my craft room or by Oh my god, I can totally picture her Anyway, she's Hungarian lovely woman and anyway So that's where I remember painting them so I don't and we didn't always paint with the artist herself But one of the one of the members would teach the class But I ended up finding the pattern for this and it's Arlene Newman who is a locally Lady and she does have some published books Lots of strokes she does and stuff so this was one of her more cutesy patterns because she didn't do very many of these a lot more realistic or strokes But yeah, here it is Arlene Newman a Newman 2003 she published this so I don't know I mean I'm pretty sure this is the same piece that I Took and we painted these but like I said I don't think Arlene painted it with us I think it was one of the members kind of taught it, you know So this is what I came up with I ended up doing it in the two inch version the two inch brush because and then I added plastic not plastic canvas. What do I think? Just sticky back canvas to the front of the brush and then on the ones that I just did I only put it on the front But I'll show you the back so you can see I didn't paint the back of him yet You can see like how you see the number two, you know And I didn't want to see that stuff or these ridges so I just covered it with Sticky back canvas to kind of make the surface Less bumpy, you know, so these came out really cute So I'm kind of mass producing these at the moment because I think I'll bring them to my craft show next year And then there's one more thing I wanted to show you um This is Rosemary West who is I actually went to Texas to paint with her And this is just a pattern by her doing this very similar Santa's again This time like she put it on a stocking a bell a tree a canny can a star a heart and then just the Santa himself But it's very similar face You know, he's just got that curly cube beer. She did a lot more strokes See her strokes because that's her style and So you can put it on any shape, you know and make it your own and there's the star I love the star with all this curly cues So and here's the patterns the when you get the packet the artist designs it They just sketch out the pattern for you and then you trace it onto the wood and then you apply the techniques so it's um That's why I love this style of painting when I found it because I didn't have to do a lot of thinking the colors were chosen for me, you know Everything was right there and then I just applied the techniques and once I got good at the techniques I was good to go so one more thing. I'm probably gonna do another painting Tutorial and it's gonna be this little snowman here, I think He's by My name Mullins and I'm pretty sure this is a free pattern it is it was free when I got it But it's from O6 so I want to make sure it's still available on her website and And I'm gonna paint this and so if those of you that may want to try it can paint along with me I have to kind of see if that's okay. I'm pretty sure it is I mean as long as I direct you back to her website. I think that's okay. So That's it. I just wanted to share some of my sand to and I think I'll do a part two of this Because I want to share all my other ornaments that I paint it I'm also working on these these little ornaments In the works. So all right you guys. Thanks for watching