VP S6 Ep 343: CRUMPLED PAPER IDEAS!

Hey everybody, Pam with paper outpost here, just having some crazy wacky ideas with paper

and thought you might like to come along for the ride. Okay, so I thought we'd do, this is going

to be very odd and strange, but I'm just kind of got a crazy idea going here. I'm going to see

if I can turn a piece of paper into a paintbrush. Okay, so here's my idea. I'm just going to take

this random piece of paper and I'm going to crumple it. Okay, and now this, I'm thinking,

is going to be my paintbrush. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take some watercolor.

It's just Elpchipo watercolor, nothing fancy, wet it down. So I don't want the paint to be too

wet. I want it to be more more pigmented than watercolory and let's say find a pretty page.

Here's a nice page to do something on. I'm hoping, well, there here's the idea. I want to see

if I can make flowers using this as a paintbrush. Let's see, it's very committed.

Oh, that's kind of cool. All right, oh, oh, I think I'm liking this. Okay, and I'm just randomly

putting these, pressing these down on the paper. Yeah, I got some, I'm going to do some

halfers. It's always important to do the halfers. I don't know why it just is coming off the page.

It's like an artsy, artsy sort of thing. Just roll with it and brace it. Do some halfies on

and off. All right, look at that. Oh, you couldn't see any of that because that fell over.

Okay, because I use nothing but the highest quality equipment around here.

Okay, so we have that that that actually turned out pretty cool. I like that.

Maybe I could do another, like, same thing, but a different color. I think I would like to blend

some pink in here. All right, these are going to be different flowers, so they're not same.

Maybe they're going to meet somewhere beside them. They're actually making bigger flowers.

Okay, just a little wet, maybe it's too wet. No, let's go with the spray technique. I think it's

better. Yeah, you got instinct tells me stick with the spray technique, Sam.

But almost like an overlay of the base, so it's a little bit of red, a little bit of pink,

working along with the botanical design. I mean, this is really, you can't get any more

simple than a crumpled piece of paper as a paintbrush making flowers. That's where where that's

what that's what it's all come to. Yeah, that's where we're at. And it's strangely very satisfying.

I can't even describe. I feel like I really know maybe I want to use this for something else,

maybe I'm going to turn it into something we'll see. We'll just say it's okay. Now I could

could do. You could just leave it as is. Why does this keep doing that? Okay, did I not tighten the

thingy? Okay, maybe I'm tightening wrong thingy. Let me try this thingy. Tighten that thing.

We love thingies around here. Let me tighten that one. Okay, let's see. Now if I wanted to put some

stems, have a little pointy paintbrush, which I apparently didn't wash off. Bad painter. Okay,

dipping in the dirty water because that's what I have available. Maybe just going for a little

green here. Not too super silky wet. Just enough to make a nice little fine tip.

All right. Okay, this is of course in my way. Okay, let me.

Okay, here we go.

Wherever it goes, just kind of like as the wind blows, you know, these flowers are sort of a little

everywhere. It's almost like a pencil. They don't have to be perfect lines either. They don't

have to. It's okay if they skip. You miss a spot every once in a while. It's all good. It is.

I don't know why it is. It just is a little wild water. Okay, just a tad. This is some of the

most rewarding. I don't know how to describe it, but if you haven't, you haven't.

If you've convinced yourself, you're not an artist, you need to stop saying that and

get off the word. It doesn't matter what you call yourself. All you are is somebody having fun

with paper and paint. And that's okay. Okay, so that's pretty nice, right? We can do more to it,

but I don't know. I just leave Lucy Goosey. Okay, we'll do one more thing. I'll give the little

flowers a center. Maybe I was going to go for yellow, but I always go for yellow. I'm going to try

something else. Orange? See, I wouldn't think orange, but I'm going to do orange. See,

I wouldn't think to go there, but I'm going there. I'm just going to do dots. I'm going to see

the dots. They're very, they're barely their dots. They're like, nobody even can see them. They're

so barely there. Okay, so it doesn't really matter if the dot is perfect or not, because nobody

can see them. Who cares? Okay, but this is really fun. And you could try this on a separate piece,

paper, for sure. I'm sure how to do it with a regular. Why am I even using this? I could just

use the paper. I should just stick with the paper and use, okay, we're going to do it again.

We can do something a little different. You zoom in a little bit. Everything, everything,

other way. I know, I know, I haven't completely done my desk. All right, whatever. Okay,

here we go. It's just fun to be paper. Okay, so I've used this one. I'm going to get another one,

because I want to do a different shape. Okay, so this time, I want to do,

all right, and just going to crinkle. It's not really full, like, like, there's no perp,

like it's weird. Okay, I'm crinkling and rolling. And what I want to do this time is maybe make

some leaves. Maybe I can do some, I don't know what I'm going to do. Who am I kidding? We don't know

where this is going. We're just going to do it. Okay, spritzing again, yet again. Remember,

rewetting and rewetting your watercolor. We want to harm them because they're really, the ink,

the paint is not going anywhere. It's not even going on the paper that I'm creating here. We need more

water. Okay, is it fun? It's going to get them messy. It's all right. They're experimenting.

Okay, let's not much. We need more painties.

If this might be weird, we're going for it. We're going to see what can become of it.

Okay, so this shows that you never let lack of a craft supply stop you, because

if you have paper, you can do just about anything. Let me tell you. All right, so I'm going to twist

this a little bit more. I'm going to get some more design going here. And then I'm going to,

I'm going to multicolor it. That's what I'm going to do. Yeah. Okay, so I'm going to

get a redo a couple of these with a different color because it just sounded like fun. So that's what I'm

doing. Do this. Get some more color. This is like a tealy blue. It's kind of pretty. It's

accenting the color. So this is actually looking pretty, pretty cool. I don't know, but that

looks kind of cool. Or you could totally leave it just as that. Maybe we'll do it over here.

Like a smaller one. Okay, it might, my little piece of paper wants to come apart, but I'm not

going to let it give up on itself. Come on, you got more in here. You're still a paintbrush.

You're still a paintbrush. Wet. Okay, this is kind of fun. I mean, just think of all the

different things that you could make with a crumpled piece of paper while you have to pick up some paint

here. Oh, well, I lost a piece of it. That's okay. Well, you're going to use half of this. Hold on.

Okay. Okay, there's a little one over here. Nothing too fancy.

Mama, don't do fancy. We just do basic. Basin can keep it fine. Okay, so I'm going to do the

the other green over here. And this is very impressionistic. Oh, yes, this is totally the

style. I was going for it. And now we have to try the the smear drag technique, smear drag,

smear drag, smeared a bread, smeared a bread. Who was thinking that? Somebody out there was thinking

that. Okay, that's kind of cool. Two totally different little things. Okay, so now we have this

little tiny piece. I am covered in blue paint. Teal of paint. Okay, let me just roll that around in

there. Let's see. Green, green, green. Okay. It's even that the residue of this stuff that's on

your fingers somehow. Is this I'm just telling myself this is somehow is working into the design.

Okay, oh, look at that. Well, that was it. Okay, no, the bluer. Nobody will see over there and now we

can see that. There we go. Now we're talking. All right, so anything that is not nailed down

is a craft supply. We have apparently just proven that even this little piece of paper lint

is now a paintbrush. Okay, come here. Finish that off. Okay, okay, liking that. That's good.

Hands are messy. You need to do something about that. Grabbing a wet nap. That's my plan.

All right, there we go. Oh no, this is pretty. We could use that for something. I know it's just

never endless. I know, I know. That's okay though. It's always good to have more ideas than paper.

Oh boy, I hope this comes off the nails. Okay. Now I think maybe I'd like to do, can I do

hewing? I don't know. Maybe I'm going to need a new piece of paper. Let me try to do a little

hewing. It has to be a little fatter, I think, to get the real hue going. It's not looking unlike

the pink flower, but let's see what we got. Apparently we need more water. There we go.

All right, now we're going to hue with the best of them. I'm going to go for a double color hue.

Okay, it's not the traditional hue. Now we're not expecting that because we are using these

alternative devices here. These tools of, you know, we don't know what to expect.

Whoa, a whole bunch of stuff. Just fell off my desk. That's okay though. This could be grass.

I don't know what this is, but it's something. You can kind of co-mix the colors because

it's not going to damage your tool. And if it does, you just get another tool. Okay.

This is really, really highly fun. If you have not done this, and I have not done this,

if you have not done this before, I highly recommend it. It's very fun. Okay, so I don't know.

I just think that's a really pretty paint. And it didn't take much just sitting here with the

paints goofing off, having fun. Now you could amp it up, but I actually really like that.

I think I'm just going to leave it as is. I'm going to go into the next thing and do some kind of

weird abstract painting like this, but maybe do something different. Let's see. My little brain can

think of something different. Well, make it happen. Here we go. Here's a nice piece.

I know I think I want to keep that where it is. Let's see. Okay.

Oh, we got that there. That there. Oh, okay. We got a few pages stuck together. It happens.

You know what I mean? It happens. That would be here. Here's a good page. Okay. So let's get

another piece of paper. Apparently, I am plentiful in the land of paper. No, let me take that.

I should have done the whole thing. Let me do the whole thing. I would try for a bigger flower thing.

Yeah. When you don't know what to do, you make flowers. Because everything sort of looks like a

flower in the end at some point. I would say flatten it out a little bit. It might work better.

I'm just thinking is what I'm learning here as I go. Okay. That looks like a weird rose of some sort.

So maybe a color should make our rose. Well, let's do a red. It will do red and purple or something.

I don't know what we're going to do. But the whole thing is not too much water, but enough, because

you really want to get focus on more pigment. We've got a lot of plop of pigment on there.

Okay. Oh, that's pretty. Okay. Wait. I would be doing the same thing. Now, I might do something

different. So I'm going to actually make this as one petal. I declare that as one petal. There is

one petal. And there is one petal. Okay. So you can use it as a whole flower or as one petal.

I'm going to dig in the bread and also cross-pollinate in the pink, because it's my paints and I

can do it. I got something else in there too. I don't know what that is. One. Well, that's kind of

cool. Two. Oh, that's neat. Maybe just four. Maybe this one has four. Need more. Four. Okay.

Okay. Now, this is something different. Yeah, still don't know what it is, but we're going to have

bigger flowers on this page. Oh, yes. Come back here, my love. All right. We'll try again.

We're going in. Okay. Let's do. Oops. Excuse me. Part of me. My papers are falling apart,

but it's still fun. Pink. Throw a little orange in there this time. Why not?

Here. One. Oh, that's pretty. Two. Three. Four. Okay. Now, I know what you're saying. They don't

look like flowers, man. It looks like a whole heck of a hoot-nanny mask, but maybe there's a way

we can make them look like more flowers. And I have an idea. So we'll try. Okay. Just work.

Work with me. Okay. One. Oh, yep. Half the paper went down. That's okay. It's a casualty. We knew

there were going to be casualties. All right. There we go. There we go. Okay. Now you're saying like,

Pam, it looks like a like a makeup bloody mess here with like somebody through.

Just have a little faith for goodness sakes. Get all excited on me. We're next for no reason.

Settle down. I already settled down. We have some fun here. Okay. Okay. So I think what I'm

going to do is going to take my aqua rail, a bowl, a stabilo pencil, water soluble graphite,

and black 8046. And we're going to give some shape to the unusual things that are going on

here. So we're going to pull the eye, draw these first and see if that does it or do I need to

wet it, I think. We might wet it. Okay.

Okay. Oh, yeah. We're going to have some fun here. And we remember if it all goes south,

we can cover it up or tear it out. There's nothing major on the side that I can't handle. So we're

going to be okay. I have faith here. We are stretching the old imaginative envelope today,

going into strange locales. No, not what we're doing. We're just doing it. And this can be like

anything we want it to be. It's going to be like a big pansy flower or something at the bottom.

All right. And so that means we're going to need a Q tip. I will get a Q tip, which is right here.

I have the Q tip in hand. Ready to go. Rock in this. You have our water.

Now I have a cup of water here. Nice, good old dirty paint water. We'll work just fine.

So this is going to cause actually the watercolor and the pencil to dissolve and comb and go a bit.

We're just having fun introducing the two. It's like a first date.

Know each other, getting to know each other.

All right.

Okay, here we go.

All right. So now we have some defined flowerage. It's looking a little more flower like. Okay,

work with me here. Now let's maybe put some, you know, I think I'm just going to use a black to

make center and like do something like this. Almost poppy like. Yeah. Boy, this, I cannot tell you

what joy I'm experiencing right now. It's like on another level. It's like getting lost in the

process, just having fun. Letting go. Not thinking too seriously about anything and making weird

doodles with paint and paper. This is so weird, but it is fun. I think that's actually kind of pretty.

And you know, I can't please everybody. I've learned that and I've let go. Okay,

you don't even have to wear at least what you can if you want. And I guess I am to say I did.

Just mush them out a little bit. Okay, it's mush blend. It's mush blend. Very nice.

And maybe you want some sticks. You know, flower sticks.

Flower sticks. You know what I mean? The sticks on the flowers. Those sticky things they have,

they all have them. Unless they're ground flowers, I guess. But I need something dark here.

Okay. That's kind of cool.

I need a little more enhancement. I need to enhance it somewhere. I put a little bit of brown paint on this.

On that. Everybody got a stamp? Everybody's got a stamp. We're good. So that's kind of cool. You know what I mean?

So now we have these weird little entities. And so I'm going to go into the last section.

Let's see if we're going to make something with the little entities.

So we're kind of going out there. Who are we kidding? We are out there. We are totally out there.

I don't know if I can open them up. We'll see. See what they look like when they,

oh, they do tear. They do tear. Maybe we could do a little collage or something like that.

That might be pretty. Well, this could be like a little corner design. That has a corner design already.

It could put that there. That's kind of cool. Well, we could also make a design or something out of it.

What is this? Ooh, look at you. You're really pretty. But you're on the same paper. We can't do that.

Now maybe here. Well, that looks kind of cool. Okay. Maybe this is going to be the receiver of the

bits and pieces of this. Now am I going to glue this one here? Shall we try the glue stick?

Let's try the glue stick. I need to throw that out. Try the glue stick.

It's how you move. I don't think I didn't see him. I totally saw that. I'm on to you.

I spotted it a mile away. Let me see. Enough. Okay. Blue, blue,

any glue stick will probably work here pretty much. But, you know, I'll get yourself a good one.

Find your happy glue stick.

There we go. Okay. What are you? Can I have this green stuff?

Put it in the hair. Okay. Why not? I'm just sort of peace-mealing this together.

I don't know what it is. Calling it collage at this point.

But just making an artistic page. I mean, not everything has to have purpose, meaning, or

obvious usage. Things can just be little oddities in here. And that's a okay. Yeah, it is.

That's good. She declared. There's a little piece. It's tearing as we speak, because it's

wet paper. Well, let's see how far we get. Use the thumb maneuver. As we get lucky with that one.

Doesn't tear the paper as much. And this is wet paper and working with.

Okay. Very nice. There we go. We have that. It's very good. Oh, not sticking.

There we go. Okay. There we go. I'm going to have a little more glue down there,

but we'll just let it rest at the moment. Here's some of this. Boy, are we not wasting a thing?

Here's a nice little piece of red something. All right. So somebody was asking me, what can you do with

these little odd pieces of scraps that we get? You can make these little odd collages.

You can make them into a house. You can make them into a design if you want to do that.

If you're a master, you can just do a random collagey poo. There's nothing wrong with a random

collagey poo. And sometimes things that happen randomly in life are the prettiest. So,

you know, the way the paint splatters on the paper or on the way the paper tore something like that.

That was weird. Okay. I have to fix that there. It's much better now. Oh, yes.

World's a part. Millenia. Okay. All right. Co-mingling the colors here a little bit.

So I have a little green here. All right. Let's do that. It looks like a Christmas page,

doesn't it? All right. I'm not done yet. Okay. Just, you've got to work with me here. Give me a second.

I'm going to take it one step further after I end up gluing all these little crazy pieces of paper down.

All right.

Nope. I'm not sure if there's some of that.

Okay.

All right. I think we're going to call that densies. Now we're going to try and do something

floral on top of it because right now it looks like a bloody mess. Okay. So we're going to have

tune it down. How are we going to tune it down? Well, a couple of things we can do is we can

paint over it. I know. It's kind of crazy. But what I'm going to do is like a color that's going to

knock it down a bit because it seems a little bit. You know what, in your face, it's in my face

Christmas and it's not a Christmas journal. So I'm going to have to

like take the green and red down a little bit. So I'm going to take this big fat fluffy brush.

Okay. The wet in. Okay. I'm going to take some Elchipo paint. I pick a color. I think I'm going to take.

Oh, I don't know. Oh, oh, maybe the yellow. Let's try the yellow. I just want the yellow for some

reason. Yeah, like a yellow wash. Like it, like really wash you wetty, wetty wash. Okay.

You know, like, what is she doing? Oh my god, this is crazy. Like saturating the paper on here.

Knocking it down a little bit. If I don't get where I want,

we'll keep going. Yeah, until something becomes of this page. Will she take it to the bitter end?

Okay. That's not bad. It's not bad. Let's let it dry. But I think I'm going to come in with some

intense pink. That's what I'm going to do. That's going to soften it. Maybe I'm going to make some

flowers on this weird background. Um, more pink. Oh, it's got a little teal. It's all right. I don't

mind the tea. Oh, I'm not pink. Actually, you're finally using up these, these, well, I've had

these forever, forever in the day. It's a little wet out here. Okay, but that's okay. I don't know why,

but okay, maybe maybe I'm just going to do a wash with the pink. Oh, look at that. Oh, now we're talking.

I just knocked it down into spring. We have just left the Christmas zone. No, we are now into

spring. Look at that. Probably should have backed this with something. Did she? No, no, she didn't.

Hey, we're going to do it now. Look at that. That's cool. I'm that side. How pretty that is.

Oh, my God. That's so pretty. It should be like illegal. Pretty. Now I want to do some splatter.

Yeah. We're just, we're going off the map here. I don't know what's going on.

But try white. I don't think it's going to work with white, but we'll try it. Okay, trying the white,

trying like a lot of white, white, white, white. I feel like it's not going to be white enough.

And what I'm going to do is just going to blend into the background. See, softening, softening. This

is just a piece of like parchment paper, tissue paper, not super thick. I'm pushing its little envelope

here. Okay, giving it some splatters. Oh, that's really pretty. Look at that. I like that a lot.

Okay, maybe one more time. The white. Oh, not too much, not too much.

More pigment. More pigment.

And if you wanted to catch those little dots before they all blend together,

you got to blow dry it. Blow dry. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Okay, what now? What would happen if

I came in with this? This is not sharp at all. Nothing would happen because it's not sharp at all.

And if I do anything to this page, it's probably going to tear. So we're going to do something to

this page. Of course we are. This is my envelope and I'm pushing it. All right, so let's see. I feel like

I want this to be a little pot. I don't know what I'm doing here. I'm going to define it as a pot.

Mm-hmm.

A pot. And out of here.

Lovely. That one. I don't know if any of this stuff is going to stick, but we're going to try.

And then it's going to be the posey. Come up here. Oh yes, we see the poseys now coming out.

This very altered odd background. Okay, this is really mushy.

Mushy, mushy, this all has to dry. So I will have to show it to you tomorrow after

the dries or next time the video comes, which will be soon.

Okay. Okay, I got some flowers rocking there. I don't know. There's just like a broken piece

in the pot. It could be. I just just ran some grass-like stuff under here.

And this could be a small pot. This is like a little baby pot beside it.

Yeah, and then we have one little amazing flower going here with a big top.

So we have some continuity going through the pouch where I could see the symbols,

as a little dots in the middle of the flowers. And then we have some unified elements of the art

where that's like a crumpled mess there. But I think it's going to look cool when it all dries.

And then I might seal the page just to give it that last little, you know what I mean?

That little, little, little, little, you know, because this might not peel off.

I don't know. It's going to peel off. I'll deal with it. I will seal it right now.

There we go.

These little curly things. They always help the flowers look more flowery.

I don't know. I think that's pretty good.

And just decorate this up a little bit more. And that's going to be, I don't know, I think it's

going to be a really cool page. But we're going to take a look at it when it's dry and see if it

actually stays together. So there you go. Folks, I hope you had fun. We don't need a lot in life

just a couple pieces of paper, maybe some pigment, maybe a pencil, a brush.

Now we're going to be just fine. So take care, everybody. Oh, oh, hello. You want some,

yeah, he's right here. Yeah, Mr., you know, I am been held back in journalism school has something to

say. Hello, everybody, sunshine. Cup of reporter being held back here because of, you know, things

happened. But anyway, I would like to say that I remain unscathed. I am not pink and purple and

green and red and all those things because my they've been playing yet again in the paints.

And I can't get him her to put them down. She keeps playing and playing and playing in the paints.

And then she turns paper into paint brushes and we don't know what's going on at all. She's

lost her mind completely. We hope you had fun. We love you. And we'll see you next time. Happy

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