Now I know what you're thinking.

You're thinking Frantz Why are you holding this whole case?

Believe it or not, all kids like these can be great subject for art.

That's for sure.

I'll grab your supplies because in a few, I see you are your best self and can make diesel cans.

I work a lot.

Hello, friends, and welcome back to our studio.

Second season of painting of pastel.

Are you excited?

Well, I'd like to try a new project with you.

Have you ever tried painting something that does not really mean anything to anybody else?

Well, it doesn't have to be something substantial when you're painting.

In fact, there is an artist who painted actually a whole collection of shoes and boots, and he made a collection out of that.

But let's find something around a house that we can just paint, something that we can frame up afterwards.

But it's not your idea of art.

If we step up to the board here.

As you can see, I'm using the grey Hansen paper, and it's very rough on the surface, and it can take the pastel.

What we can do today, we could do some paint buckets.

Okay.

We could do something by cats and a brush there.

And then we can see how that will turn out.

And again, this is not everybody's idea of what would go on a wall.

But once you're done, you'll see that it is something that is of value to you because of the beautiful color arrangement for first.

I'd like to start just by marking out where I will puts my paint bucket if I have one here and you remember what we talked about when you're doing something like that is cylindrical.

You do not do a flat line.

See, I go up first and then down afterwards.

So that gives me this nice opening.

And again, I'll have to do the same thing with the bottom so that you can get the idea that this is not a flat or square object.

It has shape to it.

So I can put another bucket right here.

Same size.

I'm just doing the outline in black.

And now the reason why I'm with you in just a little bit, I can put this here and in after that, in between, I could have a smaller paint of paint right here that can go right here.

Now, after I'm done with the top part, I can use the side of the pastel and bring it down, make sure that it matches the side there so you do not have a crooked bucket for this right here.

And again, if they're the same size, the two that are almost side by side, this one is more closer to the front.

So I will put the end of it right here.

And this is further back, this much.

So I'm taking this much away from it right here.

Okay.

And this can come to the front just like so.

Now, that seems simple enough, right?

Well, it's what we're going to add to it that is going to add the beauty to our painting today.

First, we're going to need the background.

Okay, So, again, since I'm using the black here, I could fade out the sides.

I will make it look more like a serious painting instead of just playing light pastels.

So also this here.

But black is not going to be the background here.

And again, if it's sitting on something, I could have the table right there.

Again, if you're in doubt, if you have any doubt just to remember, you can always get a ruler and go straight across there until you get the shape that the nice straight line that you are looking for.

Okay, so now that I have this here, I'd like a nice little brown touch to it because remember, these are going to be open cans of paint.

So they're going to have some nice, vibrant colors and maybe you drop some paint on the table there and you have some there.

And again, we have our choices of what we want to put on the table or what we can put on the table.

None of them have the dark brown, a nice yellow ocher here.

And from there, just add that over right here so that I have a nice background, a nice backdrop for my painting.

And again, to find is in the blending.

But we're not there yet.

So we will blend afterwards.

We can do it all together and we have time because this is simple enough.

Now, here we have the paint.

We could we could actually add a brush right here.

Another suggestion for you.

When you painting something, you, for example, you have the brush that's coming here and you might be thinking a straight line.

But if it's a paint brush and you have the thing that is holding the bristle there, the handle, you notice how I have that?

It's the same thing that we learned about coming from this angle here.

If it was to continue all the way here, you'll have that vanishing point here.

But coming here, you notice from smaller to wider here.

So that gives you a nice idea of the perspective There.

This is going to be silver.

So what I'll do, I'm just going to put a dark background to it.

And again, my cans are going to be mostly silver.

I'll just leave this section here for the label, and then I'm following the same curve that is suggested at the top right here at the bottom, right here.

And on the sticker for the paint, you can right here.

They all have to follow that same pattern.

And that suggests in your mind automatically that, okay, this is a cylindrical shape right here.

I'll do a sticker right here.

You see, the top is curved this way.

The sticker is curved this way.

The bottom part of the sticker is carried this way.

And the bottom part of the can is curve, just like so.

So they all follow that same pattern.

And once you do that at a glance, you could already tell that this is not a flat object.

Okay.

Now, the tricky part, if this is a can silver for aluminum, how do you make that color?

Is it just plain gray?

Well, we'll see how we can do that.

I'm just putting black for now, and we'll get to play with that just a little bit.

Now, you notice I just have the handle here.

Well, remember, the bristles are white, and then, of course, they'll have paint on them.

So we'll decide whichever color of the paint that we want.

But I just want to get the blending for the background out of the way.

So starting right here, where I have my lightest color, I'm just going to blend it in with some texture so it's not just nice and smooth and flat, but I'm giving it a bounce, just like I would do with the clouds, starting with the center section, because that by itself is already pure and does not have too many colors mixed in it.

I get that out of the way first and I'm blending and circular motions and as I take in the green, the brown and the black, see how it blends in into the texture that we already have here.

And feel free if you want to leave the color of the pastel paper as your backdrop.

That is up to you too.

But you'll have to be very detailed in your composition that way it does not look messy.

Okay.

There you go.

Okay, so now that we have this one more time, I'm just going back over where I have the black area here accentuating it and making it more pronounced.

Okay.

And then a little bit more inside right here.

Just a little bit in here.

Also on this side here and on the bottom.

And once we have that all set and then we add or shadows to it, it's going to look really nice.

And a little bit here, just like I've done with the other.

Great.

Now, since we've mentioned that this is a silver can we going to use the white over and blend that together here?

But I'm not going to cover everything with the white I have.

I'm just making some lines here.

See, I'm using the white pastel stick here and I'm pushing it really hard down on the paper.

I have one line here.

I'm going to make another line right here like that.

Remember that it's going to reflect whatever colors around using the side of the pastel.

I can do this.

Okay.

And this side here.

And then one stroke right here.

Same thing here.

Okay, Now what I'll do is just softly touch the sections that are in between.

Notice I'm not overpowering it with the whites.

I'm just touching over it.

There we go.

And now, just like that, over my lady as well.

Great.

Now that I have placed that here, I can go ahead again with a little bit of the yellow just because if you have some yellow in the room that's going to come over from the can as well.

Now, what I need to do.

I'm going back over everything that I've done and I'm going to push real hard on it so that the colors make sense together.

So I place my index finger at the rim right here, and I'm pushing as hard as I can, and I'm doing the same thing here.

But before you do that, make sure your lines are fine.

Circle that you have is just the way you want it.

And I'm doing this right here as well.

And from here on this side, pushing my finger down straight on it.

Same here.

Down here as well.

Okay.

From here.

Also on this side, here, all the way down and all the way down.

Now that I have this, I can do the bottom part as well.

And right here.

Great.

Now that I have all this here, I'm going to blend it down.

Words, all the mixtures that we have here.

Layers by layers of the black over the white, over the gray.

Same thing here.

See, Seeing the yellow, the white, the black, the gray, the white, black, the gray.

And I'm doing this here.

Now, softly, I'm going over just like this with my finger for a small blend.

Great.

Okay.

Now I can add some paint, and I'd like some bright colors because this is basically what's going to make my painting.

I want some bright colors inside those canes so I can put this color in here.

I have a small window to put that in.

That little opening that I did.

Of course, you can tell the paint, the paint, the cans, the whichever way you want.

If you want to see more of it, you'll have to do a wider circle.

But the bottom will have to follow.

So it's whatever angle that should like.

I like this color here because it's nice and bright, but just because it's my painting, I could get a little messy here.

I could have some drafting right here on the table here.

Okay.

And the next one, I think.

Oh, yes.

Very nice color.

Not for my rooms, of course, but it's a nice color.

Anyway, right here, a little splatter here.

You can do that.

And the one at the bottom, I think this bright yellow would do just fine.

Remember, you only have that little section in the opening to put your paint.

Okay.

Now, I'd like a wooden handle.

I'll just put this here, and I'm going to touch it up with brown.

And I'm just going to blend this together.

Great.

Same thing I did for the can.

Now I'm going to do for the brush because we have some black.

We just going to add some white to it just to give us this appearance of metal here.

But again, once you put the color, you have to make sure that you push it down really hard so that they blend in together.

Remember, the paper is gray and you might think gray is gray, but no does one that could give you a certain metallic look to it.

Now, if this was my brush, this would look like so.

And you can go ahead and I'm using the smallest black pastel stick that I have just to put some lines in between just like that.

I just want to clean my finger.

And you can do that anywhere in the paper, make it look like art.

You have that option.

I'm pushing down forward one street, right?

The brush would not be clean if you started to paint already.

So what I'll do, I'll just put this color in it using the smallest black pastel stick that I have.

I could give it a little bit more detail because when you have time, you can add detail to your work, and the more detail you add, the closer to perfection it gets.

Of course, we know that as imperfect beings we do not have that concept of perfection.

We cannot achieve it.

But we could come to us when we're painting.

Great.

Now that I have this here, I still need my shadow.

So this section right here will be the darkest part of my painting.

And I just want to preserve that here.

And what I'll do.

I think I'll use this corner here for my shadows and all I have to do is add a bit of black to it.

I always make sure that your shadow does not blend in with the actual work because there has to be a division and I challenge you to go around the house and find things that normally you would not think of.

Ladies, if you have a collection of shoes, 250 of them, you land on my face.

You make a painting out of it.

Guys, find all your remote controls and make it work great.

Now I can just add my labels.

The labels follow the same shape as the can.

Just like that.

And I could put the name of the company.

You can just suggest if you want.

Perfect place now to write my name right here.

Perfect.

Stepping back and looking at it.

Yes, I like.

And I hope that you like it as well.

So did you see how you could just take anything and just make a painting a composition out of it?

Well, we hope you follow that practice and you can find things around your house if you want more challenge.

Don't forget.

Tune in next time.

Painting with pastel will keep you up.

Take care.

See you soon.

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