Dear colleagues, dear guests, the members of the ITM, my name is Maria Ursin, I will be your moderator here today. Welcome to the Wednesday keynote on climate justice in Safi. After the keynote, there will be a short conversation between me and today's guest of honor, and there will also be a possibility to ask some questions. So be aware. It is, ladies and gentlemen, such a great honor to introduce today's speaker. Ayla Gesquitalo is the former president of the Sami Parliament of Norway. She was the president for three terms and for the predominant part of my grown-up life, actually. So I'm a little bit starstruck today. Looking so much forward to hearing you, Aylae. So welcome, and the floor is yours. Bori Edit, good morning. Bori Holomott, ladies and gentlemen, I bring greetings from Sami, the ancestral homeland of the Sami indigenous people. And as I stand here today, I am reminded of this beautiful day in April. Capture on this photo taken on the plains of Finmark, or as we say it, Duotar. Some might refer to it as Tundra. And did you know that the word Tundra actually is derived from the Kildin Sami language, describing the treeless mountain plains of the Arctic? It is a somewhat disconcerting thought that climate change is causing trees to grow where they should not. Will there be trees covering our Duotar, Tundra, one day? Perhaps the only memory of Duotar will be the word itself. And my daughter's daughters may not even remember what a Duotar should be like. Our indigenous knowledge is entrenched in the Sami language, our collective memory. What will we do if the world we know changes? Will our knowledge collected through generations of experiences still guide us to the future? Sápmi, the Sami homelands, are located in the northern part of Europe, encompassing Fenoskandia and the Kola peninsula. In Sápmi, we have cultural heritage sites that document more than 10,000 years of continuous habitation. And about 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, the first traces of our distinct culture began to emerge, seen through ornaments and through burial sites. We did not come from any other place. Sápmi is the cradle of Sami culture and people. As described by our great national poet and artist, Ayloharsh Nilsaslak Valkiope. He eloquently portrayed Sápmi both as a hard and cold rock cradle and a warm and soft embrace. And the yoyk, where he used these words, was chosen as our national yoyk during the last joint Sami conference in August. We are the people of Sápmi, but the states have drawn borders through our homelands and altered them many times.  And in some ways, they continue to assimilate us by encroaching upon our land bit by bit. The road is dalot. The iron trolls are drawing near. As the Sami rap artist Ayloh Valle says in his song, it's pushing our way of life closer to a total collapse into the abyss. This forced shrinking of Sápmi has been happening for centuries. However, in recent years, we have faced a new challenge in addition to assimilation policies, arbitrary borders, and the so-called modernization. It is a known fact that the Arctic climate is changing at a faster rate than in other parts of the world. And climate change is not occurring in isolation. It brings along with it a companion called climate mitigation. It is a harsh irony that climate change wrecks havoc on the sensitive ecosystems of Sápmi, while simultaneously making it more accessible for various forms of industrial development. And this irony is further heightened by climate mitigation efforts encroaching upon what remains of our land, such as renewable energy production and critical mineral extraction. I refer to this as green colonialism. We are familiar with colonialism. We have witnessed it before, and we share this experience with many other indigenous peoples. It is when our land and resources are stolen and exploited without our consent, with the profits being exported. The only difference from historical colonialism is that this new form of colonialism is adorned in green, supposedly benefiting the climate and the environment. However, it is devouring our land, the foundation of our culture, consuming the last remnants of what some may call wilderness, but is, in fact, our home. My heart mourns when I see the artificial lake of the hydroelectric dam that now covers my great grandmother's summer campsite. And it cries when I witness the pulse, the balsat, a traditional resting place where we used to gather for coffee breaks while picking cloudberries, when I see it collapsing into mud due to thawing permafrost. During summers, I ponder the presence of unfamiliar insects that I have never seen before. And what has become of the fish in the fjord where our cabin is located? They have vanished. It creates an unsettling feeling. I can with walking cautiously on thawing eyes in the spring, listening with your entire body for the sound of cracking. But enough about me and our people. Some might argue that our situation is not unique. We are all experiencing climate change. And we all have a responsibility to contribute to the solutions. To that, I would like to share the words of Pakistani poet Yusra Amjad. It was not said to me that when the world burns, it doesn't always cook evenly. Somebody always pay a higher price.  And who are the most vulnerable? Refugees, women, children, disabled people, and indigenous peoples. This is unjust. This is not climate justice. The ones paying the highest price are those who have contributed the least to the problem. Yet they are the same people expected to pay again, this time with false mitigation solutions. The double burden of climate change weighs heavily upon us. It's being paid in Papua in Indonesia, where climate funds support forestry projects that destroys the food systems of indigenous peoples. In the Amazon, where soy production for animal feed and mining drives deforestation. And in Sapmi, where the largest wind-powered land in northern Europe is destroying the winter-gracing lands of my friend Maya and her family. This is climate mitigation gone wrong, creating new problems while attempting to solve ongoing ones. Fortunately, indigenous peoples and minorities are protected by human rights and national legislation. Perhaps not effectively in Indonesia or the Amazon, but certainly in the Nordic countries. Or are we? In October 11th of 2021, the Supreme Court of Norway declared two out of six wind farms on the Fusen Peninsula illegal, breaching with the international covenant on civil and political rights, specifically Article 27. This convention is one of the core UN human rights conventions. And Article 27 protects minorities' rights to enjoy their culture. Therefore, the Supreme Court of Norway ruled that the license granted to the company Fusenvin by the authorities was not legitimate and did not grant the company access to the winter-gracing lands of the Sami reindeer herding community of Fusenjärk. And this photo is from the start of the construction work on Fusen. And this moment could have been a truly joyous ending for the six Sami families in Fusen. Just imagine. Try everything over a large state-owned energy company, StartKraft, and several major European investors from Switzerland and Germany. Imagine the highest court in Norway affirming that you were right after two decades of defending your grazing lands in and out of court. And I vividly remember listening to the court's ruling being read and conveying it to my friend and former colleague Maja through Snapchat because she couldn't get the live stream to work. I could hardly believe it. It seemed too good to be true. They had won against the state of Norway and big energy. You won, I wrote. I think you won. And then she called me and we cried together. But as I'm not a legal scholar, we had to double check to ensure that I understood it, studied it correctly. But of course, there was one major problem. Norway had already permitted the construction of these illegal wind farms. 151 colossal wind turbines were already casting shadows and clusters of ice and causing disruptions in the grazing lands of Maja's reindeer. And they continue to do so. More than 600 days after the Supreme Court ruling, nothing has changed. Access to the winter grazing lands remains blocked for the Sami families and their reindeer herds. The government of Norway drags its feet, blaming the ruling for its supposed lack of clarity. The company Fosenwin points to the government's illegal license and the German and Swiss investors are reassured that there will be new consultations with the Sami families and then everything will supposedly be fine. 611 days, broken promises and lack of political will. Young Sami human rights defenders have staged protests marking day 500 and day 600 with support from young environmentalists. There have been debates, petitions, calls for action and declarations of support. For a week in February, protesters closed the entrances to several ministries in Norway, shouting slogans like CSV and Bay-Var-I-De-Orrot, perhaps even reaching Hetu-Orhus. Artistic events and protests have also taken place. And finally, halfway through my keynote, I come to my main message. How art can be and indeed is a part of resistance, reflection, healing, and even comical relief. Allow me to explain how I perceive the role of artistic expression, fulfilling these functions through examples of Sami artists in recent years. This is the Pile of Sami Supreme by Marahane Sara. And this artwork consists of 400 reindeer skulls, cleaned and assembled together like a monumental hanging tapestry, like a carpet or a flag. The two different shades of the skull form a pattern that references to the Sami flag. Marahane Sara created this work in protest against Norwegian reindeer husbandry and land policy in Sami, against the robbery and devastation of our territories and the forced slaughter of our reindeer, as the artist herself says. Like many others, she believes that a new colonization is taking place with fatal consequences for Sami culture. Sara has worked with this installation while her younger brother, Jofse Hante Sara, has been in a legal battle against the state to protect their reindeer and their family's rights against forced calling of their reindeer herd. She displayed the artwork of reindeer skulls outside the district's courting tana, outside the courts of appeal in Tromsø, and outside the parliament building when the case went to Norwegian Supreme Court. And the artwork gained significant attention when it was exhibited at the International Art Exhibition Documenta in Germany in 2017. Pile of Sami Supreme is about a refined, almost unrecognizable colonization in the shadow of modern democracy and an apparently fair legal system, says Sara. And at the same time, the artwork is about the right to practice one's culture, the right to protect the land, animals, people, and the rights in Sami. The title refers to Pile of Bones, the slaughter of buffalo herds in North America, carried out by white colonialists as a political strategy to destroy food systems, displace indigenous peoples from their areas, and gain access to their land. And this is what the artist herself and the National Museum of Norway, where the installation is prominently exhibited in the entrance hall, what they say about the art piece. I would like to share with you my own small reflections. What a cultural insider might pick up when viewing the installation. I offer you a close-up of the installation. You might find it unpleasant to see the holes in the reindeer skulls, seemingly like bullet holes from a point blank shot. The holes are, in fact, the trace of a slaughtering bolt used in an industrialized slaughtering process. To me, this represents a harsh contrast to the traditional slaughtering process and how we would take care of the reindeers and the meat, the blood, the intestines, the bones, the sinews, the hides, and the antlers. Our traditional food system is not necessarily accepted by authorities. And this keeps us from utilizing all that the reindeer can give us. We lose important and culturally significant sources of nutrition. The blood of the reindeer and ingredients for traditional delicacies is being poured into the gutter in this industrialized slaughtering process. Sara, also through this installation and the other of her art pieces, manages to encompass core Sami values in her work. She uses the reindeer skulls, which are scraps and leftovers. After the hide of them has been harvested for footwear, after the meat, eyes, tongues, traditionally even the brain, on them have been eaten. In Sami tradition, frugal use of resources is a core value. Nothing should go to waste. And you should never take more than you need. The traditional Sami way of life is a way of careful resource management and circular economy. It is one of the great paradoxes of modernity that I struggle with getting a grip on. We are supposed to move towards a more sustainable society. But on our way there, we destroy what is already sustainable. We are striving for a circularity, but we insist on breaking the circuit that is already circulating. I cannot understand it. I cannot accept it. But Mara Hanesara and her work helps me reflect on it. This is a photo of the theater piece Etna Maddo by Siri Brock Johansen. And in Etna Maddo, which is a performance that addresses sexual abuse that the legal system fails to punish, they playwright Siri Brock Johansen has constructed a ward, the title itself, Etna Maddo, that carries strong connotations to well-known mythological figures. In Sami mythology, every animal has a maddo, a matriarch. And if you harm a small animal, the matriarch of that animal will seek gruesome revenge. And Etna Maddo is the matriarch of all mothers. She seeks revenge on behalf of all daughters and sons who have been mistreated. Violence and abuse are human rights breaches and global public health issues. And particularly high rates of these exist in indigenous communities, such as Sami communities. And these have serious negative consequences for Sami communities as a whole, and for individuals somatic and mental health. This includes sexual violence. In Norway, the police dismiss over eight out of 10 rape reports. And one of three rape cases result in acquittal in court. The high number of dismissals at every stage of the legal process is alarming. And we also know that a significant number of rapes go unreported. This is a grave problem for those experiencing sexual violence, but it also touches on their family and friends and also the supposed perpetrators closest ones. How are the small rural communities where many Sami lives supposed to handle the violence and the aftermath that the court system is supposed to bring to justice? Brock Johansson's theater piece brought me some solace. Perhaps this pain and trauma can be processed through art. Maybe artistic expressions can help us understand and provide us with peace where the police and the judicial system fail. The art shows the way to some kind of addressing the pain, the lack of closure towards some kind of healing. It is not perfect, but it is something. These were examples on how art becomes a powerful tool of communication, of resistance, of raising awareness. Artistic expressions can touch hearts and minds in ways that words alone often cannot. As I have advocated for indigenous rights and climate justice in petitions and in political meetings, I have realized that artistic expressions have the potential to reach people on a deeper level, creating empathy, creating understanding. Through art, we can convey the urgency of the issues we face, challenge the status quo, and inspire change. I'm happy to see that the conference program reflects on this today, and I hope that this keynote can be a source for further reflection and for discussion. In conclusion, cultural expressions can play a vital role in the fight for climate justice and the protection of indigenous rights. It can serve as a medium for resistance, reflection, healing, and even comical relief. And to me, this represents a huge, almost untapped and definitely renewable source of inspiration. I just hope that this source will be free-flowing now before climate change and nature loss makes irreversible harm to the world that we depend on. By supporting and amplifying the voices of all artists and especially the voices of the most vulnerable, we can continue to shed light on the injustices faced by indigenous peoples and advocate for a more just and sustainable future. Thank you. Please sit, Eili. Thank you so much for that powerful and important keynote. Before we start, I just wanted to acknowledge two things. First of all, since we're in this international arts conference, I just wanted to acknowledge this very rare that an indigenous moderator interviews an indigenous leader on stage. It was on time, good people, on time. And the other thing we have to acknowledge, as you have shown us and talked about, is the fact that it's 611 days since the Fusen verdict. And we just need to make everyone aware also internationally about this fact that for 611 days there's been a state-run, state-driven violation to human rights in Fusen. So, I think we have to start by going back to some kind of core of this big question. And I want to go back to some fundamental premises for understanding the indigenous cultures of the North and our battle for land rights. Can you try to explain to us the legal framework internationally for the indigenous rights? Well, I can try, at least.  But also, minorities' rights are protected by the core UN human rights conventions. And in fact, Norway was in breach of one of the core UN conventions as the Fusen verdict says. Indigenous peoples are often minorities. But what kind of separates national minorities from indigenous peoples is the relationships to our lands that we are connected to a specific traditional territory that we continue to inhabit and where we draw our resources. And that connection is protected in some international conventions. The ILO Convention 169, which is ratified of both Norway and in fact Denmark, protects indigenous land use to some extent. And we have an international declaration, the UN Declaration of Indigenous Peoples' Rights, the UN DRIP, it's called in short, and that is a declaration that is agreed upon, both by the UN member states and also representatives of indigenous peoples. So that's also a core document reflecting what is international customary law. And the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights, you said it's ratified by most member countries, but not all, right? There's been some debate about that. Well, I would like to say that it's a declaration and not a convention. So it's a declaration of political will. And most of the UN member states have supported it. Most of them already when it was decided on, and some of the states later on, so it's broadly supported by UN member states today. And it reflects what should be a minimum support and protection of indigenous rights in the distinct member states. And just tell us also just a little bit more about the ILO 169, because in Norway we refer to that a lot when we talk about indigenous rights. Well, Norway is quite proud of this international convention because Norway and the Nordic states had a central role in negotiating it, and Norway was in fact the first state to ratify it, so we're quite proud of it. And it says, among other things, that the state is obligated to identify indigenous lands. But I'm sorry to say this is still more than 30 years after the ratification, it's still an ongoing and very polarized process in Norway. And I kind of have to ask when we have this international legal framework, we have the ILO 169 that, as you say, Norway ratified first. And also in Norway, again, the Sami rights, in a way, is also part of the constitution. At least it says that the state is obligated to support the development of Sami culture, society, and language. So why is it so hard when it comes to real life decisions and policymaking in Norway? Why do they continue to violate our rights when the legal framework is so clear? Well, it's a good question. I wish I knew the answer. Maybe I could fix it. But I think even if Sami language rights and cultural rights have had a very positive development for the last 30 years, what is dragging behind is the hardcore land rights and resource rights. And this might be because so much of the mineral values, so much of the resources in Norway is in fact located on, outside of, or under SAPMI, the traditional Sami areas. So I think there's an underlying fear of giving the Sami people too much to say about how the land is going to be used and the resources is going to be used. So it must be something there. It's too valuable to leave to the Sami. And you mentioned also in your keynote the term or the notion of green colonialism. There is Fusen going on in Norway now, which is a very important battle for us. How do you see green colonialism kind of play its way in the Nordic countries today? Well, it's kind of... I sometimes laugh when I see the rhetoric regarding industrial development today because would you believe it? Every new industrial project is a green project. It's just not believable. So everything, every rock that we blow up or every fjord that we pollute, it's really green projects. The future will be amazing according to this rhetoric. So I find it very, very hard to deal with because it's the same experience as always. It's nothing new. We are just doing it with green closer. And I think that kind of exploitation of land is why we have troubles with the climate crisis today. So we are just continuing on the same path. And I don't believe it will be sustainable. But it creates kind of an apathy. And I think it kind of hinders us to engage forcefully in the climate movement because of this green colonialism. It kind of hinders us to take the place we should take in the movement for a better future. And speaking of which, how could it have been? Tell us a little bit more about the Sami culture. Our traditions, our knowledge and know-how, how could that have been used? How could that have played a role in a real, a true and non-false green shift? Well, let me start with saying that from the peoples of Europe, the cultures in the Arctic has often been considered primitive. And to that, I would say that there is no way you could survive in the Arctic with a primitive culture. To be, to survive through the Arctic winter, you have to have quite a sophisticated and innovative culture, advanced culture. Because the conditions can be so harsh and the winter can be so long. So you have to have technology and innovation and adaptation abilities only to be. And also to thrive with cultural expressions like the Arctic indigenous cultures have. You have to be really advanced.  And I think especially the adaptation skills, they are really handy, really handy in a world that is changing so fast. So that is one skill that I think might be of assistance to us and maybe to others when we are facing the climate change. My worry is that the climate change is too fast for our cultures to adapt to it. That is my single worry. And tell us a little bit about the Sami concept of Birgit. Birgit, it's such a beautiful word. And it carries with it so much information about Sami core values. It means to get by. And that is what we strive for. We don't strive for getting rich. We strive to get by. Because you should always save some resources for your children or your grandchildren if they are not renewable or for your grandmother or your neighbor or somebody passing by that needs them. Always leave something back so others can also Birgit. And this is a value of careful resource management and a value of not overeating, not overusing, not exploiting. And this core value, Birgit, it has helped us, I believe, survive in quite harsh conditions. Always being careful, always thinking twice, always using what you have and using everything. And now with our artwork, we even use what we didn't use before like the reindeer skulls. And how could these kind of elements from Birgit and from our traditional knowledge, how could that be put into tools that could be used internationally for actually managing a green shift? Well, I think the most important that we have to contribute with is the view of world, the circularity, the carefulness. And you probably know already that there is research that demonstrates that areas where Indigenous peoples are in control that are managed by Indigenous peoples, those are the areas that are most protected, best protected from outside encroachment where the biological diversity is the biggest. And that is amazing. It tells me that we know something about how to manage lands and manage ecosystems and manage food systems. But it's so frustrating that the Western world kind of tells us that, okay, they are going to invent circularity and careful resource management. And to do that, they have to take our lands and resources and even destroy everything to achieve what already is there. So I hope in some kind of way that artistic expressions can help in explaining what we already have. It doesn't have to be invented. It is there already and it might need some tweaking in the modern world, probably. But we have something valuable and we have something to offer. The knowledge is there. How do you see the art world? We're now in this big international performing arts conference. And with the international performing arts scene present, how do you see the arts field's role, both in Sapmi but also internationally, what role can we play in bringing justice into the green shift and to address these important questions? Well, I've been a political leader. I'm currently a human rights expert working in Amnesty, Norway. And I have tried through those careers to explain to Norwegian and international decision makers how things should be. Not always so successful. I can imagine. So I think that the art world could be kind of an additional platform, something to make us more visible, to make us better understood, to capture the eye, to force leaders to listen, to force experts to consider our arguments, what we would like to contribute with, because I think Indigenous peoples could contribute more, even to climate activism. But I think we are kind of... Well, we're supposed to be in the front line, but we are kind of sidelined because something is lost in translation. And maybe the art world could help with that kind of translation to offer reflections and offer insight and new perspectives. I'm quite optimistic about what the art world could contribute. I am too, and the Sami art world is thriving, and our artists are doing a fantastic job, both nationally and internationally. But I also wanted you to reflect on in this room, there's international performing arts professionals of different kinds. I think also listening to the conversations for the last few days here at the conference, I think many want to help, to play a role, but many will also be reluctant to kind of step into that discourse because one is afraid to kind of appropriate the discourse and take it away from those who own it, but also with the indigenous peoples. So I think for many in the international art world, it can sometimes feel difficult to find their space and place in such also an artistic discourse. Do you have any reflections on how one can be a good ally? I understand that kind of hesitancy. You might not want to do the wrong things or stepping on someone's toes. So I understand that this can be a bit of sensitive. But I think there are possibilities both to make space for indigenous arts and indigenous artists and to elevate their voices. And I think also both smaller and bigger institutions, both on the national level, regional level, can create those spaces and give voices to indigenous peoples through their arts. And I think this conference is a good example. You already commented on that in fact we are too indigenous Sami women having a conversation on a big stage in this conference. I think that's a good way of doing it. That would be interesting both to indigenous peoples and to hopefully also to others. So there are good examples to learn from. There are and let me also just add when we have the opportunity never about us without us. Collaboration, cooperation is very, very important. And I think also Sami artists are bolder about entering that kind of collaboration now because we have seen good examples of how that could work. Absolutely. Am I supposed to keep track of time? I think we have five minutes left and good people. You can prepare your questions. We will have some questions from the floor if there's anything you'd like to ask. And we have one question over there and you will have a microphone in a second. Thank you very much. I'm down here. Thank you very much for your keynote and to the programming for you being here, both of you. Thanks for that. I have something which is maybe more a request for a pondering from maybe both of you. As far as I know the work of Sara started by those 40 reindeer beheaded of her brother's herd being placed in a neat pile bloody full headed and outside various institutions. And of course there's a limit to how many pictures you have and how deep you can go in the story. And I'm just curious if you do not show us that first part of her process with the killing, with the slaughtering because you want to protect us a bit because these people here don't see blood and dead animals are often or if it's only for time or just this whole grey zone of her working as an activist. Here's 40 beheaded reindeer in front of whatever big institution in Norway it was or it was probably several places and they got nice and smelly along the way. And then the art institution acknowledged it as an art piece because it's now been more worked on and it's in a condition where we can have it indoor. There's just something interesting about that I would like you to talk a bit about. Well, if I may. Well, it was first and foremost because of the time restrictions but you can all google Pile of Sapmi and you will find the whole story with photographs of the development of the artwork. But I wanted to focus on the holes in the skulls and the last artwork I think showed that the best and also that is the artwork that exists now and it's hanging in the National Museum of Norway in Oslo. But I can also just add a brief anecdote on that process because it was a long process. They first appeared in front of the courthouse in Tana in a big pile, as you said, with the hairs and everything on them and just going from that to the skulls they are smell-free and an art piece hanging in the National Museum that's been a long journey and on the way she has created different works as part of the Pile of Sapmi project so there's been many kinds of installations on the way and in the middle of the process here at some point at that time I was the director of the Arctic Arts Festival in Norway and we had this big concert with our greatest Sami artist and she had the installation on stage with these heads but at this time the smell was not gone because there's a long process with preparing them to be dry and ready for display. So we had this huge Sami celebration, a fantastic concert and also Anders Sunda, which is a great Sami artist was doing an art piece and she had this Pile of Sapmi and each and crew they protested they were like, we would not want to work on that stage because of the smell it was like a fantastic paradox with this Sami show and this extremely powerful Sami art piece that smelled so terrible so the Sami's were unpleasantly present extremely unpleasantly present so it was quite nice and it was a way of creating a problem for them not only for us Exactly, I was very happy with David Thank you, great question We have time for one more question over there Well it's not really a question My name is Kira Arnberg, living in Oslo I just want, you mentioned Birgit and the Sami choreographer Elisofo Zara made a piece for the contemporary dance company Kaj Blanche in Bergen and they present actually Birgit in Oslo this week and hopefully they will tour a lot I'm so happy you mentioned that and I wanted to say that regarding a fantastic Sami art being made right now the absolutely fantastic Sami choreographer Elisofo Zara created together with Jouarnango this performance called Birgit which is placed in Oslo now and I suppose it will also have a broad international tour at some point so you will be able to see it and it's actually on the core of the topics Yes, yes, and I'm so sorry to have missed it so far I'm so looking forward to seeing that and Elisofo is fantastic She's from my hometown like Mara and Zara is as well and it tells something about the possibilities to be an Sami artist today and Jouarnango is currently exhibiting at the Venice architectural Biennale in the Nordic pavilion and I'm hoping to see that exhibition Are you going? Absolutely, absolutely and we're looking forward to that and I think it will be kind of fair to speaking of this and this conversation with the words of Paulina Fedorov who was also one of the artists at the Venice Biennale Sami pavilion last year who said don't buy our lands by our art or tickets to our shows instead So we'll leave it Thank you so much for that


guys if anybody's watching I'm trying to do my posting of the live broadcaster really quick but I'll be there in just a second I've got two more hold on and more behind the normal this morning I'll explain to you why in just a second of course I'm broadcasting live so there goes my phone the house phone salesman I'm sure oh five people yay okay all right geez now let me find myself every time I say that it makes me laugh all right let's see otherwise I can't see the chat you guys may be already saying asking questions and I would have no idea so let's find out I've got to set it to not turn off so just FYI this is how I normally do this I set I watch the broadcast on my iPad because my back is to my desk so I can't see that and and I have to turn it so the auto lock does not shut the iPad off automatically otherwise it'll go to sleep every two minutes and I have to go to my YouTube and I have to find my channel in my subscriptions and this is the YouTube account that I watch from which is not the same as the one that I broadcast from but if I comment on your channel you would get that it was me because the name is the same like how did I miss myself wouldn't be the first time oops dang it oh there there I am hey oh see gotta turn the sound off oops wrong way okay hello the limelamb hello all right all right let's see if we can so then I prop it up on my tool caddy thing that's over here in the corner at least that's what I've been doing lately because I have like no room on my table it has been one of those mornings already I made a couple cup of tea so I have a special project here that's inspired by a few different people how are you guys I hope you all had a great weekend let's take a little break here and have a cup of tea green tea I ever have one of those mornings where unlike normal days when you go to the store and other than your grocery list you don't have anything specific that you're you know looking for you know you need a new tank top but you know if you go to the mall you're gonna find a tank top somewhere in the mall and you do but those times when you have a very specific list of certain items that you need and you go to the stores where you've purchased them before and they don't have it so then you go to the next place on your list to get the things they don't have it like not do that only do they not have one of the things they don't have any of them like that was my morning this morning like every place I went had nothing in stock that I was looking for they didn't even have a substitute and I don't know why I bothered I should have just ordered online from home which is what I normally do the only thing I did find was my hobby lobby still had some watercolors on clearance and thankfully I was doing a lot of mixing this weekend if you follow me on social media and I used up almost all of my Chinese white so they still had the Van Gogh watercolors on clearance so I got a tube of Chinese white for $1.75 it's normally $4.89 so yay it's a 10 mil tube so yay that was great but it and I'm glad I got it but it wasn't worth all the running around I did this morning and then almost being late for this because I literally just walked in the door and had time to make tea ordered the couple things I was trying to find in yeah hopefully they come in by this weekend because some of them are for a gift oh yeah my me my weekend was pretty good all right so I thought this morning I'm inspired by a couple of different things this morning so let me tell you who who I'm inspired by before we get started so there's a number of youtubers out there doing these little like scrap paper creatures and I think it might have been started by cat hand I'm not sure it might be somebody else if one of you guys knows who started that let me know I have been seeing the videos scroll through my feed but I haven't been watching any of them I just see the really cool thumbnails go through so it hasn't stuck in my head whose idea originally that that was hey Michelle and then this morning Mindy Murphy Lacefield fabulous artist posted a youtube video about some painted a new painted doll class that she has so if you haven't seen that video yet go back and look for that the combination of the two videos gave me an idea I'm not going to copy either one I'm good we're going to do our own thing but they both definitely gave me an idea of something I want to try so we're going to do that this morning as you can see I've got a couple of Andy Skinner stencils out and if you haven't seen the video yet I did take all of my Andy Skinner stencils and attached the packaging to them that had the brand and style name on the stencil because his stencils don't have that information on there and you know especially because I'm a youtuber I need to know that have that on there because you guys are frequently asking me and I have a memory with more holes in it than a pasta strainer so I can't remember my name some days so yeah I've got to have that labeled on there and then I also have some um deco art deco page papers Americana papers so and we're going to use that I've got a brush that's it's an old folk art flat brush it's a bit past it I don't know if you I don't know if you can see how crazy and saying the bristles are like they're sticking out but we're going to use it I've got this piece of scrap canvas from doing a lot of the canvas travelers notebook covers that I've been doing lately this is a scrap piece I could of course used it to you know cut other small parts out of that I decided to do this instead if you haven't seen the travelers notebook video yet it is already out I have a couple of more like themed videos on making that cover with different materials coming out soon within the next month or so so you can look for those now this is just natural canvas this is its natural color that I bought it I usually buy the canvas in this color unless I'm buying it for specific specific project because I know I can always cover it or color it with gesso or something which is what we did on this side so I took the deco art media gesso in white and I put a coat of gesso on it I wasn't super careful about the gesso it's kind of sloppy I'm okay with that if you want it perfect then you want to go all the way up to the edges then you need to take more time with it than I did before you get started you probably want this to dry completely all right you could also do this with the black gesso which I really like their their gessos the black and the white both they are really nice consistency their gessos and they're not too grainy the little bit of graininess that is on the fabric now is from the fabric not from the gesso so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to collage some papers on here now if you were doing this and you wanted this item to be washed whatever you make with this then you want to use fabric paints hey Cindy you want to use fabric paints don't use don't do what we're going to do the way we're going to do this this item cannot ever be washed if it gets wet I can't guarantee it's not going to the everything you do on it it's not going to come off if you want it to be washed then you've got to use fabric paint or add fabric painting medium to your paint but as mixed media artists we love to break the rules and I don't expect this to ever be painted hey angel dreamed crafts hey how are you all right so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take some of our papers we're going to just rip off some pieces aren't these happy pretty colors this set is paisley punch my desk is a disaster not only could i not find anything at the store i was looking for this morning my desk is just a freaking disaster this set is old world so these are the three patterns that come in oh old world obviously you can tell i really like this one and these are the three that come in paisley punch yeah so we're going to tear off some pieces and i think i'm going to use the typewriter key one here i'm going to tear up a few pieces so between the blob scrap paper creep people people people people that i've been seeing on youtube and i'm not yeah see i mean we're artists right so it's always a disaster um i have a photo shoot next week which is good it's next week because um it'll give me time to clean things before the photographer gets here um and i can't tell you why i'm having that done um not yet anyway but i will as soon as i can all right so anyway so we're going to tear up some pieces here but as i was saying earlier as soon as um i saw it started seeing the scrap paper blob people on youtube and i don't know who started the idea if one of you guys knows please you know type it in the chat for the rest of us because i don't remember i saw the thumbnail scroll through i didn't really watch any of the videos yet um i do want to go back and watch them but i don't know who it was and then so they already had me thinking and then this morning Mindy Murphy Lacefield posted a new class she has where she does painted dolls which i thought was really interesting um so i thought that we would use a combination of those ideas to create something fun so and we will be painting these today but we won't be finishing them today um we will be finishing them i think we're going to do a sewing 101 live fyi so first thing we're going to do is we are going to just tear these pieces of paper up into smaller pieces don't be afraid to do your mixed media on fabric like there's no rules remember so we could do whatever the heck we want we've got the air conditioner on because it's at seven at um eight a.m this morning it was already almost 80 degrees like yuck yuck yuck gotta get the glue open so we're using the deco page um americana deco page in math by deco art just gonna do that um and i don't remember what's on that brush it might be the gesso brush so we won't use that one we're gonna use my other one that's kind of like past it i was showing that earlier it's kind of you know it's it's all splayed out i could try to fix it but that's all right so no rhyme or reason we're gonna just stick these on here any old way we feel like it you don't even have to stay on the gessoed part the gesso will help keep the fabric from stretching and moving it's gonna stiffen the fabric a lot and because this piece is not intended to be washed and the materials we're putting on it would not do well with being washed or stretched or bent they might crack or something like that that's a good thing so um that's my daughter texting me about something she's having mailbox issues joys of living in an apartment with a community mailbox she's learning i forgot to turn my phone off can you all tell you heard the ticker tape sound so just make sure you've got um plenty of glue underneath there so my idea was to make a little sort of a totem doll inspired by both um other arts that i've seen recently on youtube Mindy Lacefield's painted doll and the little blob scrap art people and again i don't know who started that i know probably you guys have seen it on youtube i have no idea i just know they were really cool and they remind me sort of a vadoity doll which i've made in the past before so i thought why don't we do some mixed media little totem dolls you could do a sheet of like doll fronts and then just do plain fabric on the back you could use artist's canvas for this if you have artist's canvas um if you have maybe a canvas pad uh you could definitely use that i happen to have a bunches of this um natural canvas or you can also get denim in this color um there's another single space of desktop right now from the left side all the way around the corner to the right side to the my marker storage that's um empty all of it's full it's just covered i can't even show you some of it because it's for this a secret project the same thing the photo shoots for yeah art you definitely could do this with art canvas why can't you and we're going to do this sewing 101 live so i hope you all join me for that i think it's going to be a lot of fun we're going to put these little dolls together and um i'm going to give you some ideas about how you could do that how to how you could stuff them you know what you could put inside of them if you're somebody who um really believes in the power of crystals and stones then you could add some of those to the inside of the doll before you finish sewing it up so um you know if you have somebody you're giving it to that needs um healing energy you could put a rose quartz inside of it um a little clear quartz crystals always a good idea um that sort of thing um if you don't believe in that it could just that's fine you could just put a you know um just have it be a cute little plain doll or maybe you could write positive inspiration words on the doll's body um or you could put a little note inside hidden note inside of the doll um for the person that you're making it for and it's the one good thing that came out of my frustration this morning about trying to find the things i was looking for was this doll idea because um i don't know why i don't know why it inspired this doll idea maybe because i just saw all those videos and i yeah there's always room for art supplies and a cup there's always room for a cup of tea my daughter moved out recently for those that don't know and um she's in her apartment with her boyfriend hence the male frustrations and um uh when she left i gave her a bunch of stuff i rediscovered all these teacups i forgot i had because they were up in the top of the cabinet and not being used because i couldn't see them or reach them so when i gave her some other things i was able to move them and take them down and use them so i'm just really making sure that there's glue underneath and on top of this paper got one more of this turquoise color hey and how are you i hope everybody had a great father's day weekend okay we've got one more piece of paper this is just a base coat you know it's just i mean it's a mixed medium piece like i said so okay we're gonna put the glue back on the i mean hello the glue back on the lid how about the lid back on the glue all right and we are going to dry it a little bit get my telephone let's turn the sound off and let's chat with the daughter quick here that was paypal so she has to go to the her local post office so i just told her she has to go to her local post office and that we're on live and i'll talk to her later she had her postman deliver a package to one of the larger locked mail boxes and he should have left the key in her smaller box and she has confirmation from the post office that it was delivered but she never got the key to the box so the package is supposedly sitting in the box undelivered because she doesn't have the key and the leasing agent's not being helpful so i just told her she has to go to the post office and talk to them hate the post office as are idiots all right and no i don't mean that literally they're overworked and underpaid i'm sure i just wish sometimes that they took more care of things so as you're drawing this just make sure everything's you know really good and stuck down this glue dries pretty quickly we're going to just help it along because we're live here so now the only thing that we are going to use it um a couple things that are not decor is a stabilo pencil which is water soluble and a graphic crayon they can make these any shape literally if you look at the little paper scrap paper blob people um if you can find one of those videos and look at the people there they're literally any shape which i love i think that's good enough we're going to try it so i'm going to draw but i really want to just do an oval they don't want to do this way this way they draw an oval like a um shape of a giant pain pill i'm sorry cindy i just thought of that like a giant pain pill so we're going to work on that one i'm going to move everything up oops and i'm going to zoom in so you guys can see all right so the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to think just like with dodie dolls when i do and i actually do a dodie doll or used to that was this shape it kind of actually reminds me of eskimo shape that's probably because i just got back from alaska um and i actually have an eskimo carving similar shape made out of bone it's a moose antler so we're going to map out where we want our face when i do dodie dolls i usually do them in a peaceful resting closed-eyed um sort of buda-esque very simple shape face which you probably can't see too much right now but i'm going to just pencil it in and then we're going to get to painting yeah right for huge horse pills you know what as long as they work all right we need a plate and we're going to use the americana craft paints and i got some new colors in recently so we're going to use aqua sky don't you just love a color that's called aqua sky look at that color okay so we're going to use aqua sky at least to start i've got the bandy skinner burning rubber stencil now because at some point i'm going to end up doing this whole piece of fabric if i have leftover paint i'm going to just do this and if you're like me and you have um you use um canvas on your table your work table um and you just like paint and glue on top of it with the idea that you're going to sew it later um you definitely could just use that piece of fabric and my my table fabric always ends up with things glued on it and all kinds of fun craziness um i have a love hate relationship with these stencil brushes these are from hobby lobby i love the size the bristles are constantly falling out they drive me crazy i want to get a new set of really great thick big fat stencil brushes and i need to find one that's not ginormously expensive but that works well so if you guys all have any ideas let me know all right this is what is this peony pink a filbert brush i'll just put a little bit around with the faces and then just kind of blend it out i want some white too yeah i've used makeup sponges and i usually um i use a lot of makeup sponges when i'm stenciling i haven't planned this other than the fact that i know i want to create this just fyi i kiss you guys are wondering i haven't planned a damn thing and literally the idea for this came to me like i don't know 10 minutes before broadcast so which i think might be a good thing because you know it'll show you guys you know that you just can just be uh in the moment and just create and have fun um i do want to put some of the whites on the face and we want to let it dry so i'm going to grab a clean brush now this to be low pencil is going to mix with the paint because it's a water soluble i'm okay with that you got to just figure out how to work with it you're going to want a neon so i'm going to use orange we're going to want a brown and you know there's this really cool color that i just got let me find it it's like it's this really cool shade of brown in the americana paint it's called asfaltum which you know if you mispronounce that it could go really wrong really quickly i'll look it up and i like clarity stamps but they can be difficult to get here but i'll look them up um this is spiced pumpkin which i ended up with two of so and i don't think i ordered it twice but i do know i bought some americana paints because i couldn't wait for the order to come in so i guess as i ordered it i mean i bought it and then ordered one this is the air flush tone i guess i should have this like over here see you often oh you can't see it kind of well here let's put it here um just do i want i think that's all i want for right now i think that'll work for right now we're going to need a little brush because this is a little face let's use this little filbert okay all right so i've switched to a smaller filbert um so i'm going to grab some flesh tone so i'm going to use the teal blue for a shadow color in the face i'm going to add to the interest of the face with the pumpkin color now what i'm doing doti dolls i don't generally don't paint the faces i usually do a simpler embroidered face and you definitely could embroider a little face and then add this to your doll just paint a whole sheet of fabric and and sew the face on you definitely could do that that would work those my phone again i'm going to do the shadows first before i grab that neon color if you're doing this for a specific person you might want to just you know sort of keep them in mind and and why you're making it for them as you're making it for them um what favorite colors do they like what do they need in their life or their house right now what is the reason that you're making it that sort of thing or if you're just making it with none of those in mind and you want to just make them for friends you know just concentrate on making them look cute and if you're going to put like a maybe a word across their body of inspiration maybe you want to have their finished you know face have something to do with that word i'm going to use the neon orange to help with our highlights look at how that face starts pop popping when you pull that neon in there i love americana neons are my favorite they're inexpensive they're easy to use easy to find of course at the luck i was having this morning they're probably be horrible to find because you know that was what was happening for me this morning i'm going to take the pink and this brush may be way too big for this we're going to find out really quick i'm going to paint her lips in which for these kind of dolls i just do a heart shape and this pink might not be dark enough for what i want in fact i don't think it is so we're going to switch to a red i have a tomato red yeah let's go with a little brush it's good to be busy all day it makes the day fly by hum hum hum all right we're going to stick with the little brush for right now because i'm really feeling the little brush um and i'm really wanting to get my fingers into something i'm going to dip them in the neon orange and then the pink i have a bunch of little small mark making tools let's see out found objects just crazy found objects pieces of pot holders and all kinds of fun stuff right i know you guys all have stuff like that hanging around because that's what we do all right so i this is a piece of silicone pot holder i've traded these with friends you can find them at a lot of different places including walmart i think a lot of the ones that i've gotten are from walmart no room holy cow all right let's just plop that there i don't know there's just no room all right so we're going to go back to our pencil i did say we were going to use the crayon and we haven't yet have we okay so i'm going to re-outline the face a lot of stabilo pencil now if you really are concerned about the stabilo pencil at some point coming off then you might want to do this with a permanent marker but like i said i'm never planning on this being washed so i am not worried let's get out of makeup sponge because that breath is bugging me okay wait tea break all right i love this um code this is code breaker um by deco art or andy skinner um i want a different color blue this is calypso blue these are real quick real easy um you can do a whole sheet of them and then just let them dry and then i will show you don't even cut them out um although i will show you how to do that um but you don't even have to cut them out and then we will be back maybe later this week for a um sewing 101 live you could glue them you could definitely glue them if the you're like sewing are you kidding me you could glue it but try not to get too much on her face i'm guarantees oh i did good yay i did good woo all right let's take that little filbert brush again this is kind of dried a little bit yeah and i want to take some of the white pink you can use a neon pink but i we already have the orange on there i just want to put a little bit of a rosy glow to her cheeks that's my daughter call me when you're done she's annoyed at the mail man so she's pretty cute and i would probably stop and when you cut her out let's see if i can get scissors out missing on my eye okay so we'll do it we'll do a couple more because we've got time they don't take very long to do um so when you cut them out you want to leave a little bit of a extra fabric outside the line outline of your doll body and you would ideally want to wait for it to dry because this is not dry okay and then you're going to want a piece that's painted for the front and a piece of plain for the back now if you're worried about the fabric rattling like this then you might want to go ahead and give wait for this to dry and then give both the front this part and the back piece the outside of each a coat of clear gesso um before you do any sewing and let that dry completely and then uh when we come back for the sewing 101 i'll show you how to make it into a doll but basically what you would do is following near where we put the black stabilla line you would sew almost all the way around your doll you would leave either the top or the bottom open put a little bit of stuffing in there and then sew it shut um you could sew a ribbon to the top so that it can be hung up like on a bulletin board if you're really into crystals and that kind of positive energy um you could leave the section down here open put a little bit of stuffing in throw a cool clear crystal in maybe a piece of rose quartz or if there's something else going on in the person's life that you would like to um send them some good energy to resolve whatever the appropriate stone or crystal is that would help with that put that inside the doll you could always put a um note of encouragement hidden inside the doll sure why couldn't you um if you're not believing in crystals and all that kind of thing um of course you can that's a great idea you might want to do that in addition to the crystals you also could omit all of that just stuff it and seal it and then you could there's a hair stuck to the doll and then you could um write a word of you know inspiration or encouragement across the front in paint pen i would recommend doing the writing before you coat it with clear gesso and i think they're so cute and i have this big piece of fabric i can do plenty more of them so i'm going to so let's do another one and i would definitely not you know when i do these i don't waste any fabric so definitely i would use this piece and even when i was doing dodie dolls there's something about this pill shape that i like i also had and i you know if i had thought about this more i would have made a point of gotten getting my dodie doll patterns out let's see if i can find them really quick hang on i might know where they're at let's see i've got wads of patterns so they could kind of be anywhere but i have this giant i mean i did used to do a lot of sewing let's see so you definitely could do a gingerbread doll shape of course smaller well you could do whatever size you want you could do a big one i shouldn't say that because you could do whatever there's a fish shape in here hearts you could make if there's a shape that you want to make that you want to make it a lot then i would recommend making a hard pattern like these because it just aids um in the making of them and gives you see i don't know where they are right now they're not in here they're filed away somewhere else they don't know they're in another file drawer who knows but i had one that was sort of um oh well i'll just draw it and you can see uh it's d-o-t-t-e-e doll and they were little handmade dolls they weren't this big they were smaller this is a really big this would be a really big one all right so the other shape i used to do was sort of a take-off on hourglass shape let's see if we can squeeze one into this little piece over here that i'm kind of not wanting to lose and just for the ease of filming i'm going to actually cut this off okay talk to you later Cindy so the dodi doll pattern that i used to do was similar to this shape which is cute it's a cute shape too these were the two most common shapes that i did when i did dodi dolls and i had a wing pattern i used to put angel wings on the back which you could totally make a pair of wings as a separate piece and glue it to the back after you get the little doll made or sew it to the back piece before you sew the front to the back and we'll do a few variations of that when we do our dolls on the sewing one-on-one and i'll see if i can find my patterns for you guys and maybe if i can find my patterns i will um make digital copies of them and i'll put them in the facebook group today i'm gonna have to dig through some things because i don't know where they're at exactly so for this kind of a doll i would do the same thing sketch out the shape whatever shape that you want for the body it could be very abstract um and um put make sure you put the face in there and i'm gonna type into the chat if oh not dotted dang autocorrect okay so if you google that term um it should pop up all right so we are going to let's see i need to keep that blue out but i was using clips of blue as a fault term and neon orange i'm really liking those colors so we're gonna keep them out and the pumpkin all righty so we need some more of the what is it uh aqua sky because you know it's aqua sky all right i want you to be able to see the one that's done there we go all right so the first thing i'm going to do is clean off one of my brushes and i'm going to put some white on the face this one of course got less of the collage papers that's fine each one's going to be a little bit different i agree with you the lime lamb i totally agree with you so you know and i i usually when i'm watching somebody else live and working on something unrelated to what they're doing but i just love watching them and or listening to them i think it's fabulous all right we're gonna grab our stencils and let's put some chevrons on here it's called burning rubber i guess looks like chevrons to me a little brush and i just have that it's just damp so i'm going to take this little bit of blue that got into the face and i'm just going to spread it around a little bit so that it can we don't even have our face on there yet but it can create some shadows or start creating some shadows we're going to add our pink which is mixing with our stability pencil but that's cool oh i do want to say to you so and she has no idea i'm doing this she might even get mad at me for doing it but we are a small youtube and mixed media community and shannon green who we all know and love and if you don't know her what planet are you from you should look her up seriously she and her family are going through a hard time right now on the job front so if we can all send her some love and support and encouragement you know make sure to support her channel i know she's got a few ways that you can do that every little bit helps they're having a super hard time right now so if we can at the very least send her some love and encouragement that would be fabulous she has no idea i'm going to say that but i saw her post this morning and i feel so bad for her and her family so make sure you go over i do think she has some fund me options on her youtube channel so maybe you guys can help with that or something i think she's got an antsy store too maybe one of you knows has one on a job that would be great i'm really wanting to put green on this one i don't know why but we're going to go with that feeling so i've got foliage green oh yeah she needed to have green on her oh i like the green don't be afraid to get your fingers involved get your mark making tools involved all of that stuff okay let's work on the face a little bit hey josie so let's pencil our face in with this debilo pencil same kind of face i when i'm doing when i was doing dodie dolls i always did the same kind of face oh thank you so much grease is on my bucket list okay so heart a heart for the lips uh smile a small smiley face for the nose large smiley faces for the eyes and then just some little suggestions of eyelashes all right so let's do some shading in the face we're going to start with we already got a blue on there so we're going to start with the pumpkin color and i'm going to go around the eye where the bridge of the nose would be and the eyes are look at a little bit of paint this is a small face so don't go crazy with globs of paint a little bit will go a long way and you can always add more and color correct if you get like right there i just got too much shadow on the bridge of her nose i just lost her bridge of her nose but you can always bring it back but use loose watery applications of paint normally i don't use lots of white on my faces but this kind of small sort of primitive face i think you have to like use some white in there i don't think you really have a choice not when you're working with so many wet layers of paint i'm i'm just i'm working with my cool colors my shadow colors my blues my pumpkin i'm going to put some brown in there if i get it too dark i come in with the flesh toner the white this is asphaltum which is a beautiful almost a purpley brown in the americana paints these are all americana decor i'm sorry americana acrylic paints we're gonna come back on a live episode of sewing 101 maybe this week i'll let you guys know for sure when i decide exactly when and i'll show you how to put these little dolls together and maybe if you're doing these say for somebody who's very um religious maybe you want to put bible pages on there because we did do a layer of collage before we did anything on the fabric of paper collage so maybe you want to put bible pages down there that would be interesting so this is the neon orange which is our warm color our warmest color that we have on the palette and it's the one that's going to really suggest lots of sunlight and warmth thank you okay we're gonna um do her lips and i'm still thinking like with the other doll i still think her lips should be this red color which what color is this red i put it away so nope it's not that one tomato red and you could of course you could do this on paper but i think it's just more fun to do it on fabric now this one here she has like a dark spot on her lips so i'm gonna touch that up a little bit there we go that's better nice and bright yeah it leaves on my bucket list too it's like i don't have a place to stay there my family owns a house so i'm just touching up the face a little bit over there on the other one and let's see let's keep going whoo all right i'm gonna stick with the little tiny brush for the moment because i have more control about how much paint i get on here and where exactly it goes yeah we're doing the doll fronts we're painting on canvas mixed media fashion with the americana um acrylic paints from deco art and the deco page papers and we're doing sort of a little dodie doll inspired by of course dodie dolls which i used to make a lot of but also mini murphy's lace field lace fields new class announcement this morning and the little scrap paper dolls i've been seeing coming out on youtube yeah see we're in moriano so yeah i'm gonna have to come down and visit you jose it's on the bucket list and now that we're almost done paying with the kids college i think it's a little closer than it used to be so i'm just going to we're just adding layers thin sheer layers of of the craft paint here and to give our face some dimension alternating between the highlights and warmth and the shadows um and layering our marks and our paint on top of each other until we get something that we really like and that's pretty close i like her face there's something about the shadow right here that i really like so i'm going to leave it i'm going to take a little bit of the pink that's on my palette which is peony pink and just a little bit i'm going to put it on her cheeks and i'm going to wipe my brush off and i'm going to spread that around just to give her sort of a little bit of a rosy glow you can take whatever pencil that you're using this is a stabilo all pencil and bring back any lines that you've lost if you've lost too many of your lines i don't want to do more than that necessarily i do want to do this around her face she's pretty cute all right let's um i want i really want to do some of these i like this sponge it's not a sponge what is it this thing uh pot holder hey yeah yeah oh thanks cheddar i appreciate that all right so let's um please know when you have too many brushes out because you can't tell which one to pick i kind of want to do it in this color so we're gonna see i have enough on the palette this is calypso blue you know big it shouldn't be any big surprise that when i ordered um the deco art paints i ordered a lot of blues like those of you who know me are not going to be surprised because you know love me some blues i love that isn't she cute i'm gonna stop working on her let's cut her out a little bit so when you cut them out of course you want to leave an eighth of an inch or a quarter of an inch outside the pencil line and because these are painted um heavy canvas mixed media dolls you're not going to want to or be able to get a lot of stuffing in them they're not going to be super puffy um the fabric is just not going to stretch that way especially it wouldn't anyway because it's canvas but especially after we get all this layers of paint and stuff on it isn't she cute now if you have a big piece of fabric like i do that's left because this is what we kind of started with i just sewed the piece of um canvas and i collaged on it for those that came late so and you have some fabric left over i've only done two dolls so i'm going to go ahead and i'm gonna leave all these paints out so i can tell you guys what colors they are but i'm going to go ahead and take my stencils um so um i used to make dodie dolls d-o-t-t-e-e they were made out of fabric those of you who've been crafting and sewing for a while will go oh yeah i remember those um when i first started getting into mixed media the first two things i discovered were dodie dolls and atc cards um i'd never heard of either one of them before i was a complete noob so i'm just using the makeup sponge and i'm grabbing i'm trying to just grab colors i know i'm gonna make too much mud on here i don't really want mud on here so we're gonna be a little bit careful we're gonna just make marks on here and um well i'm just using up the paint on my palette you guys have any questions other questions let's see i well i get that i get that comment a lot you have to remember that because i got hurt at american greetings and i'm not able to go back to work again i'm basically forcibly some i retired so um you know i don't have anything else to do basically is i guess what i'm trying to tell you there's i don't have anything else to do or i shouldn't say that i could clean the house but you know i'd rather paint i mean you know who wants to clean yep so we're just making marks here and i'm gonna um take my uh holy cow people uh potholder piece of a potholder now of some friends of mine and i what we did is we bought the big potholder and then we cut the silicone potholder and like fourths and we shared because they come in a few different patterns um and again most of the time you find them at walmart so i'm just gonna make marks on the rest of this fabric and i'm gonna make more of these little dolls and when we um when we do the live session where we put them together um i'll have all my little doll faces done and cut out and ready i'll probably let this dry and go have some tea and then i will um then i'll finish painting them and i will post a picture of all the different ones that i make today yeah i'd rather do art than chores i mean you know so there you have it so it's just one idea of what you could do with your mixed media supplies and just it doesn't have to be expensive stuff just craft paint and some glue if you want to make your little dolls and stuff them with crystals you can use like natural crystals from like the craft store just make sure they're you know on the label that it says natural stone or natural crystal and that will work and they're really inexpensive yeah right and art every time hello um if of course if you have a shop in your area that sells crystals and stones you could do that they usually have a counter um or display with a huge display of a bunch of little teeny tiny stones and those are the little ones are what you need for this you don't want to have anything that's big let's see you know like i have this one but that's way too big for that's not going to work it's really big so you want to just have little pieces this is canvas this is natural colored canvas you could use natural colored duck cloth um denim comes in this color whatever your fabric store happens to have it's just thick it's like the weight of a denim it's not stretchy don't get stretched denim that's not what you want i gave it a coat of gesso before i did anything and let it dry then i tried to go out and run errands and nobody had anything that i was looking for so i ended up coming home and ordering it anyway so that's what i get for leaving the house um and then i collaged some of the deco page papers onto the um fabric after the gesso was dried we dried that and then i started drawing my shapes on and painting my faces and this is the same sort of face that i used to embroider on my dodie dolls when i did dodie dolls i actually have a sample wait i just realized that they are hanging on my bulletin board so hold on okay so these are the version of the doll that is these inspired so this is the heart shaped one and these all have charms at the bottom so when we sew these together you so totally could put a loop of ribbon at the top and another piece of ribbon at the bottom that's just dangling that you sew beads and stones to uh at the bottom later um this is a heart shaped one here's a star shaped one they literally could be any shape as you can see that this is the same kind of face yeah etsy's a great place to get stones and when i need um stones for a project or i need stones for somebody like when my daughter got her new apartment she wanted some protection stones i went to etsy that's where i usually go all right um this is a mermaid shape i need to move the plate now um this is a sort of a bell shaped one that and again when i find these patterns i'm going to make them into digital copies for you and i will put them in the facebook group and these shapes are great for doing these painted dolls with um this is um the bell shaped one and you can see here there are the wings this i have a separate pattern for the wings in fact i think there's a couple shapes of wings but i usually use this one so you definitely could make or paint a pair of wings and attach them to the back of your doll um these dolls are pretty puffy because they're they're sewn and made out of felt so i don't think that you probably want to stuff these as much as these but this is just to show you what kind of inspired these painted versions these are what i used to make so and here's the that sort of hour glass shape and i have a video somewhere on my youtube channel maybe making dodie dolls i don't remember i don't know where you'd have to google it google it you'd have to do the search for it and i'll find these patterns for you guys and we'll and we'll we'll get them into digital copies and then you can make some of these painted dolls now you could just i would just do like if you're going to do an angel one then i would just do plain fabric on the back and then i would do painted wings with the painting facing out forward i think they're a great idea for gifts for family and friends they'd make especially these little painted ones with your artwork on it where you've actually hand painted them i think they're a great idea for Christmas ornaments um the sewn ones are cute too but these are just think of these as a more modern version of a dodie doll this is you know very kind of 1990s right this is this is 2000s i want to thank midi lacefield for giving me the inspiration for this this morning and also whoever it was it came up with the scrap paper dolls um because the idea started brewing in my mind when i saw the scrap paper dolls and and then i saw midi's video this morning and i just went aha so i don't know who it was it did the scrap paper dolls but um i'll see if i can figure it out and post something yep they made great these little tiny ones um were done for a magazine um submission and they got denied but they did get the dolls back um but they're cute i'm glad i have them back um and um they're fun to make but um i and i know how to sew in a broader obviously but it's not my thing i'd rather do these these are more fun and since i'm the lazy crafter these are faster all right if you want to make sure you don't miss the live sewing 101 where we sew our dolls together make sure that you join my facebook group the link should be in the description below if you want to support my channel there's all kinds of links for that in the description below too um don't forget about shannon let's show her some love shannon green here on youtube and facebook her group on facebook is called by shannon and um if you have been in her inspiration conspiracy um you you know and you know her from there too let's show her some love her family's having a hard time right now financially and um you know send in some good thoughts and well wishes and you know boy i hope things turn around for them soon and uh in the meantime if we can all you know make sure we watch her commercials and don't skip through them and you know whatever little bit that you can do to help her out i'm sure it would be greatly appreciated so let's do that for her today all right don't forget to show each other some love let's be a little bit more tolerant than people have been recently and of everybody um and uh yeah don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself and maybe somebody else because you both deserve it you're welcome everybody i'm gonna go have some lunch now and some more tea i feel like i need a lot more tea paint some dolls and you know share the painted faces with me and show me what you do i'd love to see it that would be great and i'll i'll i'll take a picture of all the faces that i do at the end of the day and i'll make sure i've posted on social media love you right back chetta and everybody and michelle well line them i love all of you guys very much and you know we've got a small um loving mixed media community here let's keep it that way and um i know shannon could really use some well wishes if nothing else so let's do that for her talk to you all later have a good day evening morning whatever time of day it is in your part of the world i think in in those of you in europe i think it's towards the end of the day instead of beginning or mid of the day all right see you guys later bye guys