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- Hi Mr. G here

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with another session of RAP
Sessions, Recycled Art Projects.

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Today, we are going to do,
what's called the Skewed View

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and we're going to take an
existing picture and change it.

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So, I have some images
that I picked right here.

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One of a gentleman sitting over a sink

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this made me say, hmm,

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what is that guy doing?

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Why is he doing it?

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And for what purpose?

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I also had another image that
was really appealing to me

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and really quite colorful
portraits of what looks like to be

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some indigenous people.

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But I love the color and the
vibrance of this piece too.

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And the third piece that I picked in gloss

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was just a design piece
with some nice tonalities

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and some flat colors.

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Also I picked a piece of
one of my favorite artists,

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Miss Aretha Franklin.

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And this one is in a matte.

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Now I wanna talk to you guys about

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the difference between Gloss,

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or something with the high
sheen that you might see

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in a magazine, and

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a Matte finish, or something that's duller

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that you might print off your printer

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or you might see in a newspaper

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or a publication like that.

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Okay.

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These are the only materials
that you're going to need

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is your image

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and paint markers,

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colored pencils.

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I'm gonna use some chalk.

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And so we're gonna get started.

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And I decided that I would start off

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with the matte image because
I haven't figured out

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what gloss image I wanna quite use yet,

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but I am gonna start
off with the matte image

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and I have some chalk here.

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So you might have chalk rock
lying around on your house.

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You might have pastels.

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Both of those would be deemed appropriate,

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but I'm going to start my
defacing or changing of my image

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by using the pastels.

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Now you'll see that I'm
using some techniques

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to mute out the color.

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So it's not so stark.

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You can do this throughout your piece.

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Now I'm adding places
where I want that accent

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to be that yellowish color.

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And then I'm blending it into piece.

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Now this can be done with paper towel

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if you don't wanna get
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although I suggest using your fingers.

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Your fingers have some natural oils

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that help enhance a piece.

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And that will soak into the paper.

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It works a little harder on gloss,

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and we probably wouldn't
use chalk on gloss,

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but I'll show you what we can use on gloss

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to make a picture pop.

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And again, whatever
colors you have available

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feel free to use,

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Remember that you're allowed
to move your paper around.

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It doesn't have to stay in the same spot.

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And you'll notice how

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the oils in my fingers
are starting to blend.

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The pastels are the chalk.

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Lets add another color to it.

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What would be addible but
a white for the highlights.

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And I'm applying this
color arbitrarily around.

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You can have a sequence

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or if you have a way that you think

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that you want it to
look, you can apply it.

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A lot of stuff with this type
of art is trial and error.

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So you're going to play around.

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You're gonna have some fun.

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You're gonna get what I would call muddy.

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And I think that muddy is really cool.

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It's fun just to dive into something.

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It doesn't always have to
be this glowing masterpiece.

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And sometimes if you develop the skills

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of using certain materials,

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this is what this could be useful for.

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So have fun, I can't stress that enough.

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And I'm just gonna add one more color,

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give it a little bit more
color coming through there

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and maybe a little color to her face.

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And then I might embellish
with a colored pencil

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a little bit too.

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Well, that's how far I've gotten so far,

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I might add some more touches to it.

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I might leave it like it is.

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Now, I think that

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I want to explore working on
a gloss piece with you guys.

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So again, I'm gonna give you the choices

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that I have to choose from.

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The gentleman in the sink,

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the vibrant color portraits
of indigenous people,

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and just the design shape.

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And I think...

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- [Woman] Heard of that
from ancient grudge,

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break to new mutiny.

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Ancient grudge.

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This is not your neighbor left
their garbage on your lawn

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the other day and so you're
kind of mad about that.

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Ancient grudge.

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This grudge goes back.

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Even the word, grudge.

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That tells you a lot
about how big this is.

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This isn't just a small squabble.

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This is a grudge.

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- When we worked with a matte finish,

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it comes up really flatter.

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The colors are vibrant,
but they come out flatter

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and they're not popping
as much as the other one.

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All right, I'm gonna start
to add some things to this,

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just to have some fun with that.

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Then I might decide that
I wanna use another color

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so I'm going to.

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Again, there is no right or wrong.

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See how the materials that you're using

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are working on the surface
that you're drawing on.

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Experiment.

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The only way that you
become a better artist

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is to go out and experiment.

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So don't be afraid.

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It's actually quite fun.

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And I also wanna talk to you guys

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about using maybe some techniques.

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I've added some line work here on this,

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and let's say that you
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Let's say that you liked this.

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You can look at weight of line.

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Here's a thick line.

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Here's the thinner line.

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Here's a line that's broken.

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Can also look at things
which is called pointillism,

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which is a series of dots
to represent shading.

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And then you can also look
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adding a swirl,

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whatever you might wanna add to that,

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you're more than welcome.

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I'm gonna do a little
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and again, don't rush yourself.

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Enjoy the process of working
with different materials

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and changing an image to fit

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your thought pattern.

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And things don't always have to look like

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they did in the original picture.

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This does not look very much like

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the original picture
anymore, and that's okay.

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And you don't have to disuse materials

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that you draw with with your hands.

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If you wanted to use paint,
you could use a sponge.

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There's lots of different
materials that you could use.

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So, please experiment, have fun.

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And thank you for your time today.

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I hope that you enjoyed changing the view

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of an existing picture by
using different mediums.

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Explore, have fun.

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And thanks again.

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