Alright, this is an experiment. What I did was I took some parchment paper, which is easy to come by at any grocery store and I covered it with you know the screen Painter's tape and it doesn't really want to stick to the parchment paper. So it's gonna be a really good release paper and what I'm gonna do is just take this guy and You know this is kind of a one-time deal in terms of How many times I can use the tape? But it matters when surface quality matters and in this case The way I look at it, you know, I want the surface quality to be nice to know paint as far as painting around these circles But I can tell right now that when you're painting around something it's it's just kind of looks like you're painting around it You get all these marks brush marks. So I'm gonna try this and see if it works This is my original Bristol stencil that I cut out of just the Bristol board. It's Strathmore Bristol board to apply And I Use this a lot to make my own stencils and you can you know the good thing is you can use your stencils again and again You don't have to buy them So I'm just cutting I'm gonna cut around each one of these guys and then Place that on the painting and then Once I stick the tape onto my painting I'll be able to get a nice even coat around all these circles instead of trying to paint around them Which drives me crazy. I really don't like to paint around things too much if it's gonna be really stroky So we'll see if this works. I really don't know if it is I have to cut these out with a pair of scissors But this could also be a really great tip if it works. So Wish me luck on that Okay, so there's the circles and you can see them really well Now because the Parchment paper does not really like to have the Just see if this is dry yet. It doesn't like to have the tape in there like it's gonna be really happy when I peel it off I'm gonna just take a pair of scissors here and cut just Start with one see how that goes because if it doesn't work with one won't work with any of them obviously But the good thing is that I can I can cut and get a really nice edge on here Very easy to cut it out because the parchment paper has no sickness to it I just want to see if it's gonna release from Departure paper. Okay, so there's one Here's the painting and Here's the backside There it goes Yeah, it's pretty easy to peel it off even with my clunky gloves on Okay, so it's nice and sticky and I get to save my shape. So I put it on here and it should stick pretty Well because I don't think there's any Just want to really get those edges. I should have done this first, but I didn't think of it. So that's okay And then you've got like this negative shape, which could be very cool But I'm gonna save these for later because these could be handy later So now I just have to cut all these ways out See these scraps later There's a pile Now I take these guys And I think the paint's pretty dry since I used to hair dryer You take these gloves off because it's hard to peel the back off with gloves on But they just want to come right off. I think pretty much The cool thing is By doing this it gives me a lot more potential to Play with the best round the negative painting the negative area around the circles I couldn't really do that if I'm trying to focus on you know preserving each one of these shapes, but now Now that I have it blocked out I'll show you the difference Because you a lot more latitude When it comes to the negative space Yeah, that's a nice I like that. It's creamy. All right now Since I've got it on my brush now that I said I'm gonna use a sponge to let my I'll just use my brush You can just go over the whole thing without worrying about those circles anymore and It should be a lot nicer because it's it's more opaque It's a totally like if I just do half of this first Just start out with Plus I did tinty you can see the difference between this side and that side. It's definitely gone creamy It's like a pale buttery color I mean that's the freedom that this tape gives you as you don't have to worry about And look at how fast I can go so if I just put that tape on the first place I could have gone a lot faster So notice the difference in opacity between this surface and that this is all like it looks crazy And it's it's still very chaotic. So I like that and I'm gonna put this on the other side as well Okay, so we're gonna we're gonna fast forward here and I'm gonna Tell you what I'm doing. I have a very pointy piratwisers, which I love for this kind of thing. I'm peeling off that tape After I've painted over it, you know, and again the mask allowed me to paint freely Over the tape. I didn't have to paint around the grid You know trying to be so careful about all these little circles So that's the advantage of having the mask is that Once you mask out the shapes of areas you want to save in your painting whether there's circles Whatever it might be whatever shape it might be and whatever painting whatever medium So that's what I did. I made a grid out of the little tape circles painted over it Now I peel them off and now what I'm doing is I'm just kind of applying the final touches that I Want to feature so yes, I have a grid and yes, I have color in each one of the little circles and They're all different As you can see as I developed the painting, you know, some circles will stand up more than others and that's exactly what I wanted I didn't you know the whole point of this The under painting I did Whether you saw their not I laid down a lot of collage material. I didn't I didn't plan that was my playstage and You know part of this is just the the fun of when you peel the tape back What are you gonna get and then when you see what you have you want to keep it? Do you want to get rid of it? Do you want to change it and now I'm just adding little details? You know the foundation is there everything I'm doing right now Has to do with the fine details but as you can see the Structures there the foundations there the value pattern is already developed all I'm doing right now is working on Those final touches to give a little bit more interest to the quiet area There's a lot of quiet area in this painting because when I blocked out the circles I painted everything white