My Coloring Process

Hi all! It's a new week, meaning a new art video! (:

This week I'm sharing the final part of my "Process" trilogy, ending it with my coloring process! I REALLY love how this video turned out, and this trilogy in general, really. I never thought I'd be qualified or brave enough to make any sort of tutorial video, let alone three! Maybe in the future I'll do some on acrylic painting because that's my second strongest medium, by far. I'm really excited to see what else I can do with this!

My Coloring Process | "Twisty Tree" Series - Stripes

I have a lot more ideas coming up in the future, and I've written them all in my new Bullet Journal! :D I even made a new Instagram account strictly for bullet journaling, so if you'd like to follow it my username is: haleyjournals! I'm actually the most behind I've been on making videos in a while. And it's funny because I feel like I've been making a lot of videos but I only have 3 on backup now! I have one in the works, but this is still the least amount I've had on hand in a while!

If you want me to make a process/tutorial video on anything else, please comment here or on my video (preferably on my video) and let me know and I'll see what I can do!

Bullet Journaling!

Hi everyone! Another extra video for you peeps! :D

This week I started bullet journaling! I've always wanted to try it, but I never did much research on it until I spent half the day in bed being lazy and looking up stuff about it. Then that's where this video was made!

Starting My Bullet Journal

The notebook I used was a cheap $6 Greenroom Regular Journal from Target and I use a G2 Fine Black gel/ink pen. Links for those two things are in the description of the video! So far I really like my bullet journal! I'm always opening it through the day to see what's coming up next, and I really want to add more things to it but I'm really nervous, still haha! I've added a few more pages since the video was made (Tuesday). These are my pages so far:

• Index
• Year at a Glance
• Key/Legend
• June Calendar
• June Memories Page
• June 19-25 Weekly
• To-Do's by the end of June
• Inspirational Quotes

I'm also thinking of redoing my key because I forgot I needed to add colors for my different classes for this semester. But that can change whenever August rolls around (: That's the beauty of bullet journaling, you literally tailor it to JUST your needs. I LOVE IT! I get a lot of my inspiration for pages/layouts from Pinterest and watching flip-throughs of other peoples' bullet journals! My Planners and Agendas board on Pinterest is full of bullet journaling ideas, so if you'd like to take a look go ahead! (:

For a cleaner look on what I plan to add once July comes around, here's a list of my ideas!

• July Calendar
• Exercise Tracker/Habit Tracker
• Monthly Mood Tracker
• Redone Key?
• Quotes that go with every month
• Savings Goals
• Spending Log
• Yoga Habit Tracker
• Habit Tracker Page in general because I'm thinking of a lot more things haha
• Bills Tracker

I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to make this work for school in August, but the beauty of bullet journaling is that you can redo it whenever you want, and however you want, since it's the user who tailors it to themselves! Right now I sort of like how my weekly page looks, but I'm going to experiment with the upcoming weeks to see how I can get it to work for me even better!

I'm off to obsessively pin things about bullet journaling! Have a nice weekend! <3

MOO Erasers and Canvas Paper Reviews

Hi everyone!

My video this week was an experimental painting for me, but it was finally a painting in my style for once on my channel! Hahaha.. I incorporated two product reviews into it mainly because 3 separate videos would have been too much, in my opinion. I do go over the products in the video, but I'll also put my reviews here.

MOO Erasers

These erasers are now my new favorite! I LOVE not having a billion little shavings all over my desk after finishing a sketch. These MOO Erasers are VERY nicely priced (about $2.50 for two eraser pack at Hobby Lobby) and they work very well, especially for us artists who make a lot of mistakes/change our minds a lot on lines, haha. I highly recommend these erasers because the more I use them the more I love them! The only bad part is that they smell HEAVILY of crayons when you first open them. In the video I tell my funny story about when I first opened them, haha. If you erase lightly you will still get a lot of tiny and thin shavings, but if you erase with a normal/heavy hand it make a longer rope, which means easier clean up! :D

Strathmore Canvas Paper

Okay, I'm sort of hit-and-miss with the canvas paper. I didn't like how "plastic-y" it felt/acted, but once I got thicker paint on it it worked just fine. I was trying to experiment with layering watered-down acrylic paint on a paper I wasn't familiar with and it just didn't work out how I wanted, haha. Overall, I think it's a really good alternative to buying real stretched canvases, especially if you don't have a lot of space. I'm lucky enough to have an extra closet where I store all of my extra canvases. The pad I got was 12 x 16 inches and it's one of those sizes where it could feel small but also feel large at the same time. For me, anyway. I'm used to painting larger than I draw and this was a nice happy medium. I feel if I went in with just regular straight up acrylic instead of watering it down (which is not something I normally do)

Acrylic SPEEDPAINT | Abstract Lion + 2 Product Reviews

I hope these reviews helped out! (: It's also mentioned in the video (probably in a more entertaining way) so click the link above to watch it! <3

"In Real Life" Art Trade w/ Darby!

Did an "irl" (in real life) art trade with my friend, Darby! She's awesome! I asked her to do this video with me probably a month in advance and I was so happy to hear that she had been thinking about it a lot and was really into it! And didn't judge me when I wanted certain shots/clips in my video, haha!

I know I keep making series but I do have a lot of ideas for them, I just have trouble finding the time, haha! And most of them are all bigger project videos so they take longer to make. However, these videos only take some heads up planning and a whole day to film! So I should HOPEFULLY be able to find some takers for these videos c:

IRL Art Trade | Darby

"The Grandfather Tree" Details

The Grandfather Tree | Watercolor, Ink + Copic SPEEDPAINT

Twitter photo of my grandpa and his piece!

The video is just to some nice music, because I was getting emotional every time I tried to record it so here are the details for this picture!

I used my Van Gogh watercolors for a majority of this piece, which was what I wanted to challenge myself with. I'm so used to my normal media that I wanted to branch out. I'm REALLY happy with how it all turned out, too, so that's good. I was really trying to do most of the shading with watercolors since I'm so new to them and I'm trying to experiment more. And I wanted a softer look for this piece and watercolors are good for that. I originally was going to do a winter scene but I figured out that might be depressing looking and I wanted it to be happy! So I wanted to use a lot of warm colors with a few cool places BUT that ended up not working because I have no self control haha. And I never really planned the background so I was working with nothing and didn't really know what to do with it. I also tried to use all that color theory knowledge I've been learning in college and I really like how it worked out. I challenged myself to put at least one layer of watercolor all over the paper before jumping in with Copics, because I feel I'm becoming too comfortable with my markers. CHALLENGES! Also I tried to make it look like sunlight was coming through some leaves and it turned into some sort of impressionistic style. I promise I'm not an impressionist painter that's just what's kind of happened in my last two paintings, haha.

After the watercolor I went in with my Copic Markers and added some shading to the lighter parts of the buck and the background to give it more depth. Then, after I was happy with the Copic details, I went in with my Speedball India Ink and dip pen and outlined the Twisty Tree. I wasn't sure if I wanted to outline the deer or not, so I did the tree first and decided not to because it would look more realistic instead of cartoony. And I think it gave a nice interest to it. Then I went in and added line thickness to the tree with my Pentel Pocket Brush Pen that I recently bought (I might do a review soon) and added white details with my Sakura GellyRoll pen (:

I got it matted and framed at Hobby Lobby in just a simple light-colored wood frame and a "warm white" mat. That's all folks, hope you have a nice week! <3