MIXED MEDIA ABSTRACT 1/13/21 Part 1

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hi everyone um linda benta mccloskey and i have a studio here in harrisburg pennsylvania and i work out of my home studio where i am now and i also work out of the millworks which is an art gallery and a local restaurant here in harrisburg many of you know me from youtube and i have been getting so many comments lately on where are you we can't find you anymore we're used to you posting every week and you're no longer posting what's happened are you ill no i'm not ill and what i've been doing is i have been working on patreon.com that's p-a-t-r-e-o-n dot com and it's a platform for teaching artists and i have a page on patreon it's a membership and it's very very reasonable a lot i know a lot of people are afraid of subscribing monthly and i am one of them but i now subscribe to other artists on patreon as well what it is there's three different levels and you get different things for each level and it's very reasonable the first level is just three dollars a month that's not a week it's a month it's three dollars a month and i want to go over with you what you get for three dollars a month you get all of my patreon updates you are involved in the chat community i have a private group on facebook and it's very private very safe and you get early access to all of my videos and you also get one exclusive video every monday on instruction and we also have question answer live sessions this is all just for three dollars a month and then for six dollars a month you get everything that i just talked about plus you get two videos plus you get bonus videos as well so three dollars and six dollars a month it's not a week again it's a month is very very reasonable and then i do have a mentorship uh tier and that tier is 28 a month and you get the two videos a week you get bonus videos you get the chat community you get patreon updates and i talk to you via zoom once a month for a minimum of half an hour and i critique your paintings i answer your particular questions and um give you ideas on how to improve your work so it's very very reasonable so i do suggest that you check at least check it out go to um www patreon slash linda bento mccloskey and you'll see all of my tiers and you can cancel at any time you don't have to subscribe for a year subscribe for a month and if you're not happy within that month you can cancel it so there's really no down downside to this and our facebook group is a lot of fun we put our paintings up there we ask for comments we ask for critiques we put up what we're working on uh any new ideas any new supplies that we're trying out so the facebook group is uh fun too so think about going on to patreon and checking it out so what i'm gonna do today for you is i am gonna do a very very quick video on uh mixed media i'm going to start out with acrylic and it's going to be an abstract it's going to be fairly small i'm going to start out with acrylic on bfk reeves paper and then after uh the acrylic is totally dry i'm gonna put clear gesso on it for some tooth and then i'm gonna put pastel on top of that so it's going to be a mixed media piece so i hope you enjoy it and please comment and if you haven't subscribed to my youtube uh membership please do so here we go guys i'm going to first start starting it off with some mark making and what i'm using is this molotov empty pump marker it's made by m-o-l-o-t-o-w got it off amazon and i'm sure that many of the art stores carry as well it is it comes empty and you put whatever you want into it right now i have black ink in the ink in it and i i love the width of it as you can see so you can make many different size marks not gorgeous again it it's a molotov empty pump marker i just want this to be just a little bit more pronounced right in through here and i love what you can do with it so there i have thick and thin it's very important to have thick lines and thin lines and just with this one marker i can get that to happen now i'm going to use a standard marker and this is a artist loft marker it's a double tipped marker this is the thinner line and i want to bring it out at a different spot than i brought it in this is a different kind of line it's a busier line than what the other lines were and since i did that up there i want to do it elsewhere so we'll do it we'll do it starting here take it out there i want some straight lines and since i have some going this way i want some going in the opposite direction now let's turn it to the other end to see how thick it is it's a little bit thicker than the other end now i have two circles exactly across from one another so i'm gonna have to do something about that so maybe we'll make this circle seem to be a little bit larger that helped there's some smaller circles i'm also going to use a crink uh marker and this is crate k-r-i-n-k and you can get them at various uh art stores or i got mine off of amazon and it again offers me a different line than what i have this is an orange crank it has a different tip on it and i'm not thinking whatsoever i'm just putting down marks and i'm having fun maybe i'll join the two together and finally i have a liquitex paint marker and it's almost empty as you can see so it's not really giving me much of a line see if i can get more to come up maybe this will be better that's a little bit better but not much if you did offer me some drips i want something to go across that black line that's what i'm striving for so let's try this is a masters touch marker in white you can't see it going over that a little bit not not very well let me try one more thing which uh i have started doing and i absolutely love i have a very very soft brush you can see how soft it is i have no idea what kind of brush it is where i got it but i'm sure i probably got it at an art store or at a hardware store i have no idea had it a long time and what i'm going to do is i'm going to dip this brush into charcoal dry charcoal i have quite a bit in the brush and i'm going to spread some of it around and have enough on it there you go and i'm going to take another brush a flat brush and also put it on you can see i can even paint lines with it if i wanted to okay now that as much as i'm going to do for now and this is the generals charcoal so now what i'm going to do to set this charcoal because if i put matte medium or anything like that on it it's going to uh just i'll end up painting painting it off it'll it'll go away so what i'm going to do is i'm going to spray it with a fixative and this is blair low odor fixative i use it for my pastels but it's a fixative for just about any kind of drawing material if you don't want it to smear and it dries very quickly now i'm going to let that dry and then we're going to put paint on top of it acrylic paint just doing right now i'm putting a lot on in some areas to get some drips you can see the drips you you can get from it so and that is the charcoal dripping down so now i'm going to let this dry and i want to show and i want to show you these gorgeous drips i got they're transparent drips aren't they great and here's one that's darker but it's transparent at the top you can see all the charcoal and all of the undulation of the pigment sticking on the paper so that's what that looks like as as a close-up and i do like it a lot i love those transparent drips i'm going to put a little bit of alizarin into it and i want to dip my brush in water bring a little bit of that color over here where it's just transparent like it is right there dip it into water again now i'm going to dip my brush into cad red medium put a little bit of that cad red medium down here fit my brush into water now i'm going to dip my brush into some black i'm just putting it here and there not really composing yet but i'm looking to see what's pleasing to my eye now i'm looking at my shapes because if if you know anything about me you know that i'm a shape maker so this is a large red shape here see if i can get there this is a large red shape here and then this is a large black shape these are medium black shapes so what that tells me is that i need another small black sheen because i always put in big medium and small there's small that's medium that believe it or not this is it's over the tape so it it looks like it's uh as big as this one but it's not and then this is another shape and this is my large black shape now let's look at my reds i do have a big red i have two medium reds and i have a little bit of red right here so which tells me maybe i want to put a little i'm going to do this i'm going to put a little bit more red right there because i want a medium red shape as well or a small red shape so there i have some small red shapes there's a small red shoe now you can have more than one or two different size shapes if i want to have six small shapes i can as long as i have a big and a medium and that's that helps you with your composition later we'll definitely help you with your composition later you can see i'm i'm almost composing already okay now i'm just going to let maybe i want some white in this so let's put some white into it and i like how it skipped over this is actually i think this is the name can you see it bfk reeves so i'm kind of liking that so i'm going to leave that put some more white in here up in here and you can see i started this white further over than this white began put a couple drips in there i don't know if i'm gonna like that or not but we'll let it be for now don't know if that'll stay but i wanted to do a little bit of line work this is transparent a lot of water in it transparent and i like that i don't like the fact that this is almost in the middle this line here so how am i going to fix that well i could do this which i don't like and i could bring it down just a little bit further which i like that i think i want a very thin black line and that brought the red over the black which i like put another black line in and i was twisting my brush as i was painting some water into it do that these are pretty evenly spaced so that tells me this is not working so maybe i want to come up and then back down through and connect it there now that looks better and what i'm ultimately i'm dipping my brush into black and white get my brush into some white i want to break this up somehow i'm gonna paint that circle black at the top i don't like that at all maybe i'll take that out with pastel a little bit later don't like that that'll end up getting covered up so this is what it looks like now now i'm going to have to let this dry really really really good maybe i want a red line let's put a red line in it somewhere now you can see i've covered up that white line i didn't like that but i'm looking at it and saying to myself it probably needs to be continued so let's just do this now that that's better i don't like this i don't like those black lines i just put in there so let's see what we can do with it there i fixed that up there now we don't have any red line do we of any sort so why don't we make some red dashes right there and since they're going sideways these will go long ways can't see that i just did okay i'm going to give you a close-up of this piece we're going to let it dry completely and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to put clear gesso by liquitex um there's a lot of clear gessos out there but the liquitex clear gesso has more tooth than any of them and then i'll be able to put pastels on top of this so that's the plan the size by the way is 12x16 and it's on bfk reeves paper i'm going to give you a close-up now like straight on and this will give you a close-up of what's going on you can see as i drug my brush through this red paint and whatever it it picked up the wet paint that was underneath it so that's what it looks like right now right now i'm not liking the the uh white uh up and down stripes on the bottom right hand corner that's going to have to be pushed back a little bit uh so we'll see like i said i'm going to be putting clear gesso on this when it's finished and the next time i turn this on will be at my pastel station
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Channel: Linda Benton McCloskey
Views: 1,661
Rating: 4.8666668 out of 5
Keywords: Linda Benton McCloskey, Linda McCloskey, Mixed media, Contemporary, Pastel, Acrylic, Abstract
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Length: 29min 35sec (1775 seconds)
Published: Wed Jan 13 2021
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