Hey gang, Diana here today. Welcome to the studio. I'm going to be working with some stencils from Joggle. These are from the floral and bronze. I think that's what it's called. I'll link them down below. These are just fabulous stencils. They're all out, you know, foresty type images, which, you know, I love this sort of imagery. And these are especially cool because they have, they include the mask. So I'll be using both today. I'm just clipping away the little bits, the little burrs that are included, keeping those into the stencil, the mass in the stencil. And now I'm adding some, this is golden paint. Its color is green gold. And I did add some, you just let me squirt some glazing medium into that pile of paint because I don't want this paint to be opaque. I want to work in transparent layers. And that's the ticket. You could use, I think liquid text carries one. And I was also experimenting with the glaze from Faber Castell, which worked great as well. So there's lots of choices out there on the market. All this to you below, maybe you have some at home that you have. And I did the background. And now I'm sort of playing with some collage bits. Not sure what I'm going to do. Pretty sure it's going to be cottages, but I just going through my collage bits to decide. And what I do with these, maybe you have a better way, but what I've been doing is I just put them in mason jars and I dumped them out. That's my big solution to storing these bits and pieces. So I did give these a squirt with some inks just to give them some color. And some more little houses. That's a pretty inexpensive die I got through Amazon. And then the others are just little bits of paper and little circle cuts from a paper punch, whatever I have. And I do like to use a strong glue and then either a briar or a bone folder to make sure those are down well. Now I was really experimenting with a lot of things on this piece. And one of the things I wanted to check out and work with was the Adina Wacley media paints. And I'm pretty sure I'm still using the green and some grey. And that green gold and the grey is from Dick Blick. That's out right now. I just wanted to turn it down a little bit. So I'm going right around the houses with this stencil mask, the mask from the stencils. And so what's showing is the underpainting right now. So this is a pretty intensive project. I kind of got into it further than I thought I would. So I think there's, I don't have many hours of video where I wound up with on this. But I am editing it. Sorry for this little upside down bit. Okay, we're back to normal. And I've got out the turquoise, Deanna Wacley's turquoise, which I think I mixed with, I mixed it with cheddar, Deanna's cheddar. And that's a great color. But my basic strategy for mixing greens is to have a few greens. And I mean cool greens like blue greens, warm greens like green gold or yellow greens. And also adding to that, I usually like to use some just a tiny bit of black, just a tiny drop. And the yellows, I like the Quinn nickel azo. And I'm thinking the cheddar from Deanna behaves somewhat like that. Nickel azo from gold. And that's basically the strategy. There are about a million greens when you look out there. And that's kind of a fun game is to, when you're out and about, just, just look out beyond and see what kind of greens you can say. How many count them? How many greens? So here I am just piling layers of that fern mask over and over again. And oh, here comes the green and the cheddar mix, the turquoise cheddar mix, which was sort of a beautiful olive. And you can get that olive color from Deanna's palette. She has a very nice olive. I'll link all these below. I just had a really good time with this. These stencils are super fun to work with. I have to say I could just as easily have done a great big piece of paper just spritzing it over and over again, which I will do at some point. I think that would be wonderful for the background of a, or for the cover of a journal. And there's some darker green that I mixed. That is probably some, probably some golden turquoise or blue green. Like I said, use whatever you have in the green family. And just just play, just try mixing it. Here I'm just going into those areas that are where the stencil didn't quite cover that bit where the collage is just covering that up. And I wanted to make the bottom of all of this darker. So I'm using a rag to blend it out. And with that glazing medium extends the dry time of your paint. Any of them, the brands will do that. And that's kind of nice to be able to blend out if you don't want a lot of brush work. And I thought that would be a little distracting with this painting since I do have all of that stenciling in the background. Now that I'm looking at this, I really do want to make a big piece of paper and a journal cover from this. And now here is that the pot pink, I forget exactly the color. I'll link it really nice. And I did layer this up a couple of times. I put a layer down, let it dry, came back with the stencil again, put another layer. And you can see I'm using the little bit of yellow paint on a sponge, one of those mini blenders to add some extra color to that stencil. So it's not quite flat. I didn't, I like that flat look that you get from stencils. But I didn't want it here. I wanted a little bit of dimension. So now I'm zooming out a little bit and I'm doing a little fussy work here. I'm adding some bright yellow greens. And I'm pretty sure, yeah, this is just a flat brush and I'm just sort of flicking it and bouncing it gently so that I just get some texture just adding to that. So just to pull that, that front of that painting, the foreground forward. So those, you almost get the feeling that you are peeking through those flowers and finding this little village hidden in the woods. And so that's just a little flicky. Just, you can practice these things and you can learn to do them pretty easy. It just takes a certain amount of, oh, what's that called, memory in your hand. Oh, scrubby brush time. I love using a scrubby brush and I'm just blending some color out. I wanted to darken that whole area around the houses. So then you have this sort of cove like feeling. So I'm just adding some darker colors. Again, using that glazing medium so that extends the dry time. That's really my best friend when I'm using acrylic paints and I am super out of out of practice with acrylics. I haven't used them in a few years. So this was very fun. Little rusty, but really fun to play with acrylic paints again. That white blob on my palette and the lower left is the glazing liquid. You can add the glazing liquid straight ahead to your painting too. Just brush it on there. Scrubby scrubby. So that was super fun to use those juggles stencils and all of the different green paints. And I hope you enjoyed this and learned something new. And leave a comment below, like, subscribe for more videos. Thanks for visiting with me today. I appreciate your time. Talk to you soon.