Hello, it's Sarah and I have a couple things I wanted to share. I had posted a video or I didn't post it. I made a video on Thursday of this art journal page and it was so long. It was a start to finish and I just couldn't bear it. I don't know why. I think I was just sick of myself. I don't know and then because of that because it was so long I decided to go over to Best Buy which is like a technology store and I wanted to look into new cameras and microphones. Getting a new setup because I need to shoot from overhead. I want to try and get my camera setup overhead in such a way that I can paint and do a tutorial without moving the camera all around because I use a little table tripod. So I figured some stuff out about that. It's going to just take a minute because I got to get a new camera I guess. I think I know I need a handicap or a cam quarter is what I need not a handicap. Anyhow, this is the page I did and I just wanted to share it. I had my cousin Fran was here last week and we did a canvas and I shared that. I shared the canvas, my cat canvas and it was so cute. So I recreated it in my art journal. I just felt like it. I love these little kitties and I wanted to show you. I'm going to show you at least how to draw them. And basically that's it but I was going on and on about how I'm so excited now because it was about a year ago that I did that canvas confusion video and it was basically me struggling with mixed media trying to figure out the process and I'm so happy that I figured it out. I get it. This was when Fran and I were playing she had a green and blue palette in mind. So I just was playing and trying to come up with something that would appeal to her. She's more of an earth tones girl. So and then this one I just showed over the background and this page I didn't just so I just put some book pages down anyway. I did do this page which was just all with my PASCA paint pens. Just playing around doing a little doodling and flowers and stuff and seeing what with that like. I need purple, orange. So I need a few colors. I think I'm going to order them this week. I'll order just a couple more. They're like five bucks per individual pen. But they're really awesome you guys if you haven't tried them. So then this was when I got my I got the where are they? The glazes by the jac... oh no wait what are here where these buy? Sulks. Here it is. Sulks acrylic glaze. Luminor. Anywho I got them I got a set of them and I was just playing with them. They're acrylic glaze paints and I just put them down over top of the Tim Holtz tissue paper. So that was just the background that I did and then I did another one kind of with my PASCA paint pens too. Like kind of I just kind of did a patchwork of color with them. And oopsie. And then I just put my paint pens on top. So I've been playing around. Yeah and then this is my cat. I put perfect together my kitty cats. So I just wanted to show you real quick. I got the idea for the cats out of one of those adult coloring books. Fran and I went to a bookstore and I got this one. I ended up getting this one because it was just you those of you watch me know I always say I'm a copycat right. So I mean I could always color these. I mean that would be fine too. But like I just liked the bubble letters and the way this sun is or whatever like that's just this is kind of a piece loved one. Oh I love these dragonflies. See the dragonflies so I thought I could draw the dragonflies on book pages because I've also figured out I like collage. I like to glue down paper. I don't know why and even like the background on this and you probably can't even tell. I mean you can tell by the texture like there's a I collage the background just with colorful papers like scrap of paper scraps. I just like it. It's fun. Like it's just fun for me to collage things. So when I got this like look at this ying yang right here. Oh that's the owl. Like I like the owl. I like the ying yang. I just liked a lot of the shapes in here. Oh I love the sun. See the sun. Like I would just love to play and draw it myself and then paint it in my art journal. Make art not war. That's so cute. So anyway so I was inspired the cat was actually in another book. Where's my little sketchbook right here. And I took a picture of it with my phone and then I came home and I practiced drawing it. So I wanted to show you that. It's a pretty simple technique to get this little cat. Those of you who like cats. So yeah here's like my little rendering that I did. But it basically starts out with a triangle. So I just started playing with it from the picture that was on my phone and there was a front facing cat and a side facing cat. So sorry seeing that's because I have a tripod on my desk. I don't want it there. So I just drew a bunch more but then this one was the one that I did in the video that I erased now. I made this video really long of this me making this whole page and I erased it because I just I can't stand. I was just it was way too long. Anyway. So here I'm going to do this again. So I did this little cat and I'm going to show you the version of the front sitting cat and the um gonna put this to the side of me. I think you'll be able to see just fine. So you start out with a triangle shape. I kind of make a neck and then you go to the side. Little triangle right. So for the front sitting cat you make his little side feet here like this is his back feet and then you make like a shoulder and come down for his front. That's what I do. I kind of go out and make a shoulder and then that's the front feet and you could put little paws there and then for the head it was a really simple for the boys I tend to make them have taller heads or that's totally bad and they had really big ears in the book that I saw but I make my boys with a taller head and it's just the classic cat eye shape and then like a little just the classic um cat face you know and then I put little hairs in his ears and whiskers. Today's my son's birthday. Anyway we had a bar I'm exhausted. I don't know if you can hear it in my voice then so that's the front facing cat and then for the side facing cat it's very similar. I start with the neck and then go down triangle and instead of so you're going to make them kind of give them a butt and that's his back leg so that's his and then you would make his tail come up like that and then I give him like you figure he has a chest and a belly right so as belly is going to go there and as little front paw will go in the front and the back paw is right there so you don't have to have this line and then for the girls I like them to have a little bit of a wider face I don't know why just make them look different and I make them like have a smaller nose and a little bit more sexier eyes so that's it and when you cut them out cut out all this and there you go and then I give them a little collar and I blinged out their collars for him I put um I'm going to run out of time all right I'm going to come back and show you some other stuff that I've been up to all right you guys so hopefully that helped I'm going to do another journal art journal page start to finish um but I'm not going to talk so much all right thanks for watching