I PAINTED On PAINT Palettes (again)

Hey, it's me. Wasn't this something they did in The Little Rascals? So I'm filming my intro here today because of reasons. Today I'm going to be adding to my collection of painted paint palettes. Yeah, somehow this has become a thing. Paint palette, painting, paint, paint, paint, paint, paint, paint, paint. I did a video painting paint palettes a little while ago and you guys really liked it and wanted to see a part two. Here's what I have left from that video. It's actually less than I remembered. I think I've been using these. I'm actually going to be decorating these to turn them into wall decor for my art room. It's very on theme. Paint palette, art, tool, decor. It makes sense. I'm actually going to be focusing on these. I really liked the ones that I did last time on these flat palettes because you can do more detailed designs than trying to paint in... Not to say that I will never paint any of these, but for today... Let's get to it. First thing to do with these palettes is remove the protective plastic. I feel the need to acknowledge that this is something I have failed to do on more than one occasion and it's embarrassing. But the saga continues because I actually made a new discovery this time. There's freaking plastic on both sides of the palette. What the... These palettes are actually crystal clear. So like this is some footage from last time I painted palettes. There's still plastic on that. Is it on the back side or am I just painting right on it? I have no clue. I'm an idiot. Okay, I'm sorry. Bringing out the white paint. Pop that open. Nice and easy. And now just look at this nice, delectable white paint. I want to touch it. All right, here we go. I'm painting over the whole palette with a base of white paint. Normally, I use gesso for this step, but I'm becoming more and more convinced that they are the exact same thing. And back for a second coat. Give my paintbrush a nice bath. Okay, on to the color. These are my custom mixed acrylics. I have to have my colors just so. Grabbing my palette knife. I'm gonna be playing with knives today. And I'm just scooping out some paint. Spreading it over the palette like butter. This was supposed to be satisfying, but it's kind of not. Oh, it's chunky. I quite enjoyed my abstract palette knife painting that I did in one of my recent videos, so I wanted to do that again. You know how I said I wanted to use the flat palettes today because I wanted to do more detailed designs. More detailed designs. This is just that super refined detail that I was talking about. No. You see here, I have a very difficult and proprietary techniques. I call this the rap-a-tap-tap. See that? Tap-tap-tap. Let's watch that again. Oh, did you get it? Slow it down. Wow! Years to perfect that. This is basically like the adult version of finger painting. You just get to mush around color messily without a care in the world, and it's great. I always feel like my descriptions of abstract painting would just be highly offensive to an actual abstract painter. I just picture them raging at me. I thought that this would be a kind of cool way to decorate a paint palette since sometimes my paint palettes end up looking somewhat like this when I actually use them, you know, for their intended purpose. It's like an actual used paint palette with a glow up. I do feel like at some point I started going a little too far. Let's rewind. That was my best rewind sound effect. This, I think, is where I should have left it, but then this is actually how it ended up. Either way, it's a bunch of smeared paint. I do think it looks pretty cool. I love the texture of the paint and the colors. Ooh! I was just very excited to add this to my current collection of painted palettes and see how they all look together, which I will at the very end of the video. But for now, I'm gonna move on to the next one. And I'm starting to sketch out my design here several years later. Here it is! You may see some familiar faces here already. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna be using Posca paint pens. Here we go. Cousin Derp gets the first touch of color. What I've done here is I've created like a massive collage of various characters of mine that I've created in past videos. This is not even close to everyone that I've made. I wonder how long it would take me to create a design using every single character that I've ever done on my channel. I would definitely need a bigger paint palette. That's a video idea. I would probably die though. Using paint pens, you know, I only have so many colors to choose from so I had to use colors that were close enough to my original character design. I have complained in the past that Poscas don't come in pastel colors and so you guys keep sending me pictures of the pastel pen set. Look, you moron. They do come in pastel colors, okay? Please shut up, stop complaining. I do actually have those. I guess they are pastel but in my mind, they're still quite bright colors. What I'm talking about is real, real pastels. So after one round of coloring, you can see it pretty much looks like crap. Yucky. So round two, let's go. Doing this reminded me a lot of my hydroflask design. It just felt like, oh my gosh, why did I decide to do this? This is never going to end. I'm going crazy. But I just had to do it for the love of all these little sweeties. It's funny, this painting on paint palette idea has become kind of a thing. Several of you guys have tagged me on Instagram with your painted paint palettes so I'm really glad that you guys, you know, like this idea and have been having fun with it. Finally, boom, we're looking pretty good. I'm gonna slap on some details in white gel pen just so it's a little bit easier to go over top of. And now for the fun part, which is adding all the features. Right in the center, we got Pickle and Cousin Derp. It looks like the cheeseburger belongs to the little pink fluff monster, but we all know who that belongs to. Speaking of Pickle, I was talking about Derp actually, but I just added a Pickle themed fanny pack to my store. If you're interested, the link is in the description. Anyway, getting to see all my favorite characters come to life. Ooh, it's Georgie. Georgie! Hi, Georgie. Oh, Georgie! Oh, and not Georgie. He's here too. Also, the face of failure, except she looks a lot cuter in drawing form than she actually is. I had some trouble with the PB&J hamsters. I couldn't figure out who was in front of who, so the line between them, it's kind of awkward. So the final step is just to add a nice little black outline around everything, just to like organize things a little bit and make it a little easier to visually understand. So if you're new here, many of these characters are from Squishy Makeovers. A lot of them also come from my custom pins that I've made, create this book pages, or oh, oh, I don't think many of you will know Miss Cat. I don't know, she doesn't have a name. I created that years ago actually, and then later as a drawing, and this took so incredibly long, but it was definitely worth it. I'm really happy with how it looks. It's missing quite a few characters, yes, but I think it's a good representation of what I've created over a large amount of videos. It makes me really happy to see all of them together like this. I'm so excited to hang this up on my wall. But first, another paint palette. Starting with the base coat once again. Wait, there's still plastic on there, you fool. What is wrong with me? Okay, you know what? I'm, I'm gonna stop and go peel every last freaking piece of plastic off those palettes. Okay, just hold on. Okay, I'm back. So I'm throwing on a very loose sketch here, just very rough guidelines for what I want to do here. What, what is that? This is just so I have an idea of the basic layout and somehow I have brown paint all over my hand. Where did that come from? That is paint, right? Moving on, I'm squeezing out a variety of greens because I'm painting a landscape. Landscapes aren't really my thing, but you guys really seem to like the landscape palette that I did last time. Maybe it's just because I said I struggled with it. Maybe you're just trying to make me feel better, but this is for you. I'm trying to stretch myself here. This time I'm going for kind of like an English garden kind of scene. For some reason, I have a resistance to using references. I don't like copying from pictures. I just, I made it up. Oh boy. But doing that is a little not smart, especially considering I have no clue what I'm doing when it comes to painting landscapes. I'm completely lost here. What am I doing? So not using a reference when you already are out of your comfort zone is like not using a GPS in a foreign country. Okay, get, you know, it's not going to be pretty. You may not even get there. I'm also pretty sure that if I had just taken the time to like watch a tutorial, there are so many techniques that I could learn that would be real helpful for me. But do I do that? No. Doing things that I'm bad at is just one of the things that I do in my videos. I put myself out there completely ignorant of the right way to do something. I try my hardest and then everyone laughs at me when I inevitably fail. It's a very healthy situation. I'm sure everyone has had the experience where you see a landscape painting from far away and you're just like, whoa, it's amazing. And then you get up close to it and it just suddenly turns into a bunch of blobs of paint and it freaks me out because I'm very detail oriented. So when I'm painting this, I'm thinking like, okay, I am now painting 1,000 leaves. But obviously you can't paint every single leaf. It's hard for me to figure out how to make it look like 1,000 leaves without actually painting 1,000 leaves. And that's the art of landscape painting. So this was not going very well. I was honestly hating this. So I decided to hang this up and come back to it the next day. Here we are bright and early. All my paint has dried up. Let's just get some new paint out and get back to it. I decided that I was probably over complicating things. So I went back over some areas to try to like work things out. I also turned those flowers into a rainbow of flowers because I needed something in this painting to bring me joy. I tried filling in more of the background when things are further away. They look more desaturated. But for some reason, I ended up not only desaturating it, but making it very dark back there. It's like the spooky forest over there. Now I was trying to do some sort of like archway with climbing vines and such, but it ended up really blending into the background. So you can't really tell what's going on. It just kind of looks like a troubled mess. It's yeah, that's it's there. For the foreground, I decided to paint some more up close roses, kind of like you're looking through a rose bush or something. I didn't want these to be too neatly rendered because I feel like that would look kind of awkward right up next to the chaotic mess that is the rest of the painting. So I just kept these pretty loose and I mess with this thing a lot. Just adding tiny little adjustments like just a little detail is going to magically change this from a mess to a masterpiece just like that. Spoiler, that didn't happen. But, you know, it is still just a paint palette, so it could be looking a lot worse. Count your blessings. You could have looked like that. Here's the complete palette. I don't hate it, which may be a shock to hear because I've been ranting about it the whole time. It definitely doesn't look like what I was picturing in my head. It's a lot more worse, but surprisingly, I still don't hate it. This is just fine. So now my three paint palettes are painted and I'm covering them with a protective coating to preserve the paint. Here are the finished palettes. I believe I painted eight palettes last time, but it took me just as long to finish these three because two of these were just so much more detailed and intricate. Finally, it's time to add my new palettes to my collection, which meant I needed to do a little reorganizing. Fortunately, I did use command strips with the last batch. Oh, look at that. You go, girl. Do no harm. Unfortunately, I didn't have any command strips left, so I used just like regular old double-sided hanging tape. I will have to repaint these walls at some point. I tried to rebalance the arrangement with my new palettes without having to rearrange and reposition too many of the ones that I already had up, and this is how the new arrangement looks. It's slightly more of an awkward balance than it was before, but this was the best I could do. I think the new ones really do add a lot to the group. They're definitely all three in my top five favorites. I hope you guys enjoyed this video and liked what I've made. Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you next week. Bye.