Hey gang, Diana here today. Welcome to the studio. I'm working with some gelatoes today. This is the Brightspack. I will link it below to make this painting. This was for the favorite Castell design memory team. Design memory craft design team. I'm scraping some Jesso onto a canvas board. You don't really have to, but I sort of was being a little fussy about wanting a slick surface or a slicker surface. So I scraped that on with a old credit card, a room card. Now I'm using one of those brush pens from Kate Faber Castell. Now my Jesso was a little damp and still it's so hot here and sticky. So when I was doing this, there was just an area that just make sure your your Jesso is dry if you are using extra. I love this big line. It's so bold and crisp. But if you do get paint on your one-up pen like this, just pretty quickly clean it off. This was the survived. It's meeting up with the Jesso. And I did start this. You can see I'm varying the sizes and the shapes of these roses. I'm calling these roses. And I started up at the upper left and I'm moving into the lower right. And now I'm doing some, I guess you would call it overlap, but I'm just drawing that through that little rose as if it were behind the other roses. That always convinces people that this is a bunch of flowers. I'm starting off with a dark green gelato just all around the roses. And again I did have a little trouble with the pit pens which are completely permanent. Just not quite drawing in the humid air in Philadelphia. So just be careful. It did smear a little bit. That's okay. No, no harm done. And pushing the gelato is around. I'm experimenting a lot in this piece and keeping the darker green close to the to the field of flowers and then spreading the lighter green out. Here I am mixing the darker green which I think is called lime. And this is blackberry to make a darker, the darker color. And I started up blending in the well with some water. I wanted to stick with this group of brights because I really like to see how far I can push a certain amount of materials without reaching. So that didn't work so well. I got that nice paper castell palette knife and mixed it to the mix those colors to the side with a little bit of water and that's on palette paper which is very handy to have in the studio. You could use freezer rep. Doesn't hold up as long. And I'm just going into those tiny little areas to push those back into the shadows. Upsay. My pen still wasn't dry. It is so humid here. It's almost like living in a cloud. But anyway here we go. I'm sure there's more humid places on the planet than Philadelphia in July. You can tell me in the comments. And here again I'm smashing. I'm using the dense piece of film that comes in packaged in with the gelatos. And I really liked this. If you don't like it in your fingers dirty painty. I don't mind that myself. But if you don't like to this is a nice tool. Just scrub it off before you go into another color. And here I've got a little stencil and I'm just removing some of that background You can if you wanted to you could really remove all that color, all that gelatos color. And with a damp cloth or a baby wipe but I just wanted to knock it back a little bit. Just so it doesn't really compete with the flowers as the focal point but just adds a little something to your background. So that was good enough for the background. You know I didn't go all the way to the edges because you'll see at the end of the video that I put some gold texture looks to sort of frame this painting. And now I'm going to go and went into with yellow that bright yellow in the pack and use that for all those flowers centers. And now I'm just playing with the reds and hot pink colors and filling in. And smushing that around too. There's kind of a nerthy color in that bright spacked which I experimented with. That's have a nice color. Yeah just remember to keep your fingers clean if you're using this or your tool clean. And then so I went ahead and filled in all of those roses next and come back with you'll see in a minute that I have a binders all any sharp object will do. And I'm just going to be scratching lines into that right into the gelatoes. It just brings it down to canvas and this was another reason I didn't want the gelatoes to stain the canvas. I wanted that barrier. Wiping off my fingers, wiping off the gelatoes. I think you can see here it would a nice detail that scraping back with the binders all or a sewing needle or what have you has it really gives it some it's a little more interest and I hope you enjoyed today's video. Don't forget to check the links below for supplies and blog posts and hit that like button while you're down there and don't forget to subscribe and most of all, best of all leave me a comment. See you soon!