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and then we’ll get to the show on the road sounds good all right

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all right and we have five people joining us that’s so exciting i might just wait for another 30 seconds here

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thank you so much to the people that have already started to join us that’s very exciting

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all right now we’ve got nine people this is great [Music]

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all right hello everyone and welcome and thank you for joining us for this rendition of aga

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live um emily is actually in the borealis room in the art gallery and i’m in one of the uh offices

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on the fourth floor so we’re still in the same place we’re just a little bit of a distance away um so this live is going to be quite a

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treat uh we described it on our social media as a whimsical wonder and i think that sort of um is a testament to emily’s amazing and

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wonderful craft and art that she produces um i first want to mention that this

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uh these aj lives are now newly presented by epcor i’m just gonna throw up a little video

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here

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there we go so we are very elated to announce that uh epcor is sponsoring our

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all of our virtual programming so that includes all of our aga lives and all of our school programming um

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it’s a new partnership that we definitely look forward to uh we have so many aj lives we are not losing momentum

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we have so many planned for the near and upcoming future uh so do make sure that you check those

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out on our socials and stay updated with what we have upcoming and most of the the next ones have a lot

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to do with our current exhibitions um yeah so my name is sophia i work in

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the education department uh and i’ve been facilitating these aga lives sort of behind the screen

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but i’m thrilled to be on camera today uh welcoming a dear friend of the aga and talented local artist

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emily storkold but first i want to acknowledge that the art gallery of alberta

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is situated on treaty six territory a traditional meeting and living ground for many

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diverse indigenous people including cree blackfoot nakota sioux metis

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inuit ojibwe satsu and nishnabe and many others as facilitators of arts

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and culture we recognize the vast history of these people and continued influence on our vibrant communities

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so i sir i first want to mention a few housekeeping notes uh if you are with us live today

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welcome hello if you notice that things are getting a little laggy or things start to get a bit fuzzy there’s

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a reconnect button at the top of your screen and that’ll just reload you right back into the room and you can pick up

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where you left off we also do have a chat function i’ll be moderating it today

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so feel free to ask questions and if i don’t have the answer to those questions no worries we can get in contact with

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you after uh when we download the chat and uh and make sure we get that answer to you

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um i also want to mention this is going to be if you’re watching this later you already know this is gonna be uploaded

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to our youtube channel all of our previous lives are on our youtube channel so make sure you do

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check those out um if you have to take off or for whatever reason

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we’ve got them all uploaded there um i do want to mention though that we have

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our our gallery is open thursdays to sundays so it’s open from 11am

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until 5pm and then on thursdays it’s open till 7pm and now that it’s getting a little

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darker out earlier uh thursday nights is a really nice time to come just because then you get to see

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all the beautiful borealis lights that we have here at the art gallery um and the exhibitions are pretty amazing emily is going to speak to some

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of the exhibitions we have on but uh they’re pretty phenomenal right now um and because i work for the

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education department i can’t leave this without highlighting a few of our initiatives

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so we do have four in-person classes uh that we are holding in november uh so make sure

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you check out those those links on our website uh just because we we’ve been working hard for months to

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develop safe programming and we’re so excited to welcome people back we also have school programming

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happening we have virtual a virtual option an off-site option and an on-site option

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so make sure you go to your aga.ca education to check those out um but more importantly emily is our

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wonderful guest today so i’m going to speak a little bit about her um she is a based in treaty 6 territory in

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minton alberta and she is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer whose work deals with anxiety

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biology and space she received a ba in english from mcewan university in 2016

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and graduated from the mucun fine arts diploma program in 2019.

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storvold is interested in how humans relate to the world she aims to make art that not only

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reveals the connections and disconnections that we encounter so important but reimagines those paths

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that we travel in an abstract language emily for those of you that don’t know is also a gallery attendant here at the

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aga and she does love chatting with guests about the exhibitions and also her work

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so if you do come by make sure you say a friendly hello to emily so hi emily how are you oh i’m great so

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excited to to be here and be a guest here and excited to paint yes we are very much looking forward to

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painting together um i do have one quick question for you before you get going

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um so you’re taking us through a watercolor exercise today um and i’m gonna be popping in and out

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uh if we have some moments to sort of pick your brain because we’re also fascinated with the work that you do and

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create and uh and your practice um so do you typically work in watercolor

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and uh what other mediums do you enjoy working in and then do you mind sorry it’s a three-part question

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do you mind telling us a little bit about your practice for sure um so i guess watercolor would

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be more of a recent thing for me or something i kind of uh keep returning to um but i also

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really enjoy working with um like paint markers especially posca which i brought today

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um and then i do some animating with uh uh plasticine and also digital animation

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as well um yeah i’m definitely a dabbler i like working with uh i don’t know paper to um

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like soft sculpture and nylon so um yeah i’m i’m excited i’m always excited to discover a new

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new medium um and yes i do a lot of abstract work um earlier on i was doing a bit more

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figurative work and in school we had to do you know figurative training in that and that kind of thing but um yeah i definitely enjoy

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abstraction and i don’t know i think i enjoy it because people always see something different and it’s more it’s based on the emotions

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uh of viewers which i think is really important and i love when people can interact with my work

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so that’s like you know a highlight if people can interact well your work and i can speak

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to this your work is really um colorful and sort of fun and there’s a lot of um you can see the the

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reference to biology within some of your work um at least with at least i can see sort of cell work or

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um it reminds me of it’s sort of a nod to some of the stuff you learn early in your in elementary years which is really

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wonderful and it’s sort of it brings a such a positive light but you can tell that there’s a lot of substance that goes behind it

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um is there anything that you’re working on currently that we can be sure to check out um well i’m

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actually getting ready for uh royal bison’s online market which uh takes place at the end of november november 27th to

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december 9th so definitely check that out but um yeah i’m really excited to

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um it’ll be my first time doing royal bison so i’m really excited to bring some work there that’s so great okay well maybe we’ll

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just we’ll just dive right in to this uh i’m sure people are at home are anxious to get started um so maybe we’ll

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just dive right in and take it away sounds good all right um so yeah i don’t know if everyone has

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some watercolor paper but um i usually tape kind a section off some of the

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watercolor paper and i know um i used to do it right on the edge but just so you have some extra room on

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the side i like to do um

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so you leave about two inches from the border um yeah

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and before i start i usually like to plan out what i’m going to paint but i

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try not to plan out too much because i find it just i get bored with it because i’ll know

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exactly what to expect

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yeah so as you can see it’s not really scientific i just gotta you know put the tape down

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and that’s okay if your tape goes kind of off a bit just to keep your paper down and i know some people

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use uh gummed tape as well for watercolor um i haven’t had so much success with it

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but you know i think i’ll still i mean i still have some at home so i’ll probably still return to it all right um

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so colors if i’m going to use yellow at all i try to use yellow first just because it’s so light and easily muddied i love yellow

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so i have quite a few shades so go ahead and use whatever shade of yellow uh you know it feels right

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and as you can see i’m not actually drawing i don’t draw ahead of time on the watercolor paper just because i don’t

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like the hassle of going back and erasing

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and i also like playing with the texture of watercolor so i’ll kind of go and go in there and dab to get

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kind of a different effect and because i’m also a little impatient and i want it to dry

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so while that’s drying you can go and kind of build up another section of your paper

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um so let’s pick a blue or whatever shade or color feels right

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go over top there and depending on the effect you want

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like you can go ahead and wet your entire paper um it’ll just really make the watercolor

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behave differently and i find with watercolor it’s really

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intuitive like i’m i didn’t take a lot of watercolor classes like i’m i’m trained in acrylic mostly um so this is just kind

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of been exploring to see what works and and what doesn’t and sometimes you know a painting just won’t uh won’t

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turn out and that’s okay and sometimes i find that the work i dislike

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other people will really enjoy um so i found that it’s just worth it to put it out there anyways

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so now that’s kind of drying um i like to layer watercolor a lot uh so

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to layer with yellow i’m gonna do some red

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and it should be dry enough at this point that it doesn’t bleed which sometimes happens um and then i usually just i’ll just dab

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it to kind of control that

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bleeding

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um i also play a lot with the depth in my paintings so by dabbing certain parts it makes it

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look like it’s receding into the distance a bit more so if you want say these these two to

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really pop out and the other two to kind of you know fade you can um add another layer something else to

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to make that happen [Music] so let that dry a little bit um and like

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i said i i didn’t plan a piece out so much so um

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if this doesn’t work out then you know like i said that’s okay too

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i’m gonna do some gold i um i don’t know i’m in love with gold i try to add it into

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almost everything i do

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but this one i find is quite light so you can definitely definitely add layers

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[Music]

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it’s coming out quite light i think that’s okay let that dry

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i find painting is a lot like a puzzle i feel like you’re trying to i don’t know

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start at one point and bring it together

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somehow

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and it’s always good to work with different brush sizes too just so you can get different lines and

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add some visual interest i would say

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so again with the shape i’m not going to add as much color up top here because i want that to feel like it’s um coming forward

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so again i’ll kind of blot that a little bit

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and if you find that um your reg is imprinting um a pattern you can either leave it or

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you can add some water to just get rid of that mark

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all right at this point i normally let it dry for

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a bit and sometimes i’ll work on a few different pieces at once um just so i’m not

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uh so there isn’t a lull in the painting but um i can continue on with this one if

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i try it a little bit hi emily hey how’s it going good good

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good i think this is a really good time now that we’re sort of waiting for stuff to dry um i was wondering if you could

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highlight maybe some of the current exhibitions we have on at the gallery and if you could speak to any

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pieces in those exhibitions that sort of inspire or inform you at all totally um well uh

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i really enjoy being in the governor general’s um award exhibition um i find

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all the colors and the sounds are really um energizing and then if i could pick a specific

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artist it’d be anatoma i’m in love with her tapestries and i love her use of fantasy and graffiti

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and kind of the abstracted body which um i don’t know i really find inspiring and

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then the thought that she spent all that time with these um you know fiber materials and um

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i don’t know it’s really uh energizing i find yeah definitely there’s lots to be seen

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um within those definitely um yeah and then if you venture down to the first floor

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you’ve spent a lot of time i bet by now in the group of seven are there any pieces in the group of seven that sort

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of remind you of your own work or um you’d like to maybe explore a little bit

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more yeah i find the group of seven quite interesting because i i grew up

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having to reproduce them um so they’re definitely kind of existing in my lab but um i love uh

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lauren harris’s work uh especially you can see the evolution when he first started painting landscape

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to um you know those really um almost surrealistic

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lines so um yeah i quite enjoy his work and then a wonderful part about that um

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of that exhibit is that it’s a group of seven and other voices are there any other voices that

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are inspiring to you um yeah of course um yeah i love emily carr for sure it’s

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such a like i don’t know a pleasure to see her work in real life um and yeah and the concept as a whole

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of having other voices represented with the group of seven i think really important um yeah because i think when people

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think of canadian art they do think of group of seven so it’s really nice to see that oh yeah other people were

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making work at the same time too right definitely which i didn’t know about

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are there any unusual are there is there anything unusual that you’ve worked with

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in installation arts um i mean i use plasticine a lot

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um i’ll even use it with the drawings and paintings and that kind of thing just with my fingers um so that might be

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uh might be a bit unusual um like nylons would be kind of unusual

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perhaps yeah well in the education department we’re no stranger to plasticine

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i love plasticine awesome okay well maybe that’s maybe it’s starting to dry now i’ll pop

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in a little bit later all right so i can jump back in here um

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so sometimes i’ll also speaking of kind of strange material combinations um i also use sometimes um

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markers so they’re water soluble so you can um this will do this and as you can see

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it’s uh bleeding a little bit but i think i like that so we’re just gonna help it out a bit

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perhaps wrecking the the paint marker but they seem to recover

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um put in another spot as well just to make sure the eye kind of travels around the work evenly

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unless i’m purposely trying to you know make the eye focus on one thing which is

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good too

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sometimes

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over here i can kind of bring that red up into the pink

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okay so we have quite a lot of blank space still so for that i like to either use watercolor or i

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find this creates quite an interesting effect

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if you kind of wet the paper first and then use the

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marker to add color

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all right i’m just gonna add that blue in there

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so you can see i’ve used some blue over here and then again over here so your eye goes along diagonally

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and i find even when i’m not planning to body shapes will come out in my work as we were saying um

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it’ll be like a biological element

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yeah so there’s some running here but i think that’s okay we can just

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that a little bit

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all right and because i used um some of the gold over here i think i’ll

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use it again up here in this corner and i would normally use um

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oh there we go um a gold uh posca marker as well for the gold but i didn’t bring it today so we’re just

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gonna use more color

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so all right so now you can really use

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whatever whatever colors in your palette that you’ve been working with uh to fill in more of the space um so

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i’m gonna use more of this blue

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i find it interesting that when the watercolor is layered in certain ways other colors will come through too

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[Music] which is usually a nice unexpected surprise

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now because i have this pink over here and it kind of looks awkward just on its own i’m going to

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repeat that color over here

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i’ll blot that a little bit

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and so everything’s quite light so far so um i’d like to add something a little

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bit darker to some definition

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more blue i guess blue is a calming color so maybe

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it’s good for today

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and i really yeah i don’t mind one thing when colors overlap i think when things always dry a little

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bit differently too is kind of nice

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so i’ve left this kind of um solid white that might change

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so i think for this we could use a different color here hi emily

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hey how’s it going pretty good so i noticed that you have quite a lot

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of natural light coming in within that borealis room um when you are working at a home is it

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your preference to have natural light or what do you suggest for a lighting setup um

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i tend to work fast at night so i usually use like a couple of different lamps um

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yeah i’m pretty picky with like lots of good light um and i my studio is also in my

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apartment so i have like my kitchen light on my desk light on and then another light on so

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all the lights are on right so generally a lot of illumination

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that makes sense that makes sense well i love how it’s coming along i love the colors that you’re using thank you um is there any uh is there

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any suggestion uh for beginners for instance somebody who’s never uh used watercolor before

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um is there any uh suggestion of sort of where to start supply-wise is there any palette colors that you

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would suggest starting out yeah for sure um i mean

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watercolor is pretty simple to mix too but i mean i’d start with your primaries so yeah

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just go with like red yellow blue green and go from there um

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yeah and then i’m using these stone ground paint palettes which i really enjoy

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because they come in like little single um slabs and yeah they’re they’re really

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pigmented and lovely and i know some people also prefer tubes because they’re even more pigmented

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but you can get as much pigmentation with these guys too do they come in that cute little altoids

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tin case or is that your addition i know if you if you order enough they uh they come in the

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tan that’s very sweet yeah i work in in gouache which is also another form of

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watercolor which is um a little bit more pigmented but i like that that you’re able to sort of layer

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depending on the the sort of transparency of what you’re creating which is really lovely

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um for uh your art practice where do you see sort of um do you see yourself

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continuing within watercolor do you see yourself sort of venturing out what do you think is next for emily storwalt

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um i mean i think watercolor will probably be a part of my practice for quite some time now like i really enjoy

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it i think if anything i’ll combine it with more things i’ve been thinking a lot about um combining watercolor with pastel or

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uh charcoal which i think would be really interesting yeah definitely getting new new textures in there would

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be really lovely totally yeah and gouache i’d love to work with wash more i have tubes of it at home but i’ve just i

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don’t know sometimes new materials intimidate me it’s definitely fair but if you worked

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with watercolor before then but it’ll be an easy transition to gouache um we typically in theater we typically

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use it for um costume design renderings um which is why i’m

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i work with it but it’s yeah it’s very similar to everything else that you’ve sort of worked in so i’m sure you’ll master it

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very quickly well i’ll try it out and keep you posted okay i’ll beam out and let you

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continue

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um all right let’s work on this corner over here and and speaking of brushes i usually work

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with three different sizes um yeah so my favorites are these guys and they’re just meant

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for um watercolor and like filbert

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yeah i love a filbert this is another filbert too

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okay so we’re working on that

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pink i’ve also been working a little bit with uh fabric paint

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um which i find more more like uh acrylic but depending on

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the fabric it can be quite resistant i’m finding but um

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i’ll keep at it okay but i don’t know if i like that really

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um clear line between the blue and the pink so again i’m just gonna do that really

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lightly and again over here

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so leave that for a second i’m gonna use this kind of peach marker

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over here so it seems like we’re really doing some diagonal ones so i think i’m gonna

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continue with that

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and i i love doing things in threes i feel like if you look at a lot of my work you’ll see things in threes which

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is you know common for for people but um it also feels like a little secret

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message or gift to people that are viewing my work

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i’ll just blend that i really like that peach color with the pink

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okay i feel like here would be a good spot to move next

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perhaps more yellow let’s always use more yellow

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and i am quite messy when i paint so sometimes just paint droplets land which i think is okay

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hi emily we do have a really wonderful question from janet online um she asks

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do you work at all with watercolor pencils and do you have any recommend recommendations about them or which ones

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to choose um i haven’t worked with watercolor pencils in

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a long time um so i’m definitely not an expert in that area um but if you’re

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i’d say go with that if you’re wanting more like fine lines and that kind of thing and like more

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detail um oriented work um but yeah i usually just do like yeah larger strokes

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and that kind of thing and then i use the um paint markers to do that kind of detail detail work and what are the paint

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markers called again oh yeah they’re uh pasta um markers

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oh they’re cool yeah i know staedtler has a an affordable

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uh affordable watercolor pencil i’ve used them a little bit um and so if

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you’re just looking to sort of start out with that detail work maybe at more of a a generic brand name would be

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good oh yeah settler is like i i love their pencils too like they have they have great stuff too yeah well

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thank you janet for that question that was really interesting

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um and i do find that if you go to um most art stores people who work there are really happy

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to help you find things and you know finish your project

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all right so we have these yellow globes i like how that green is kind of

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coming through too all right perhaps we’ll put something up

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here i don’t know how i like that purple but

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we’re going to keep with it um and speaking of supplies i i usually

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get my supplies from gillette rabbit and i also do framing and

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are really great i love going in there

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right so i don’t like when lines between things are really clear so i’m going to bring that purple down a little bit

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blend that a bit

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so i did that i made those lines with um the marker but you can also do that with watercolor and

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then a smaller brush and really go over it again and again

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okay so we kind of have an odd spot here so

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i’m going to fill that in with something

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and sometimes when i feel like things aren’t quite connecting i’ll do um a really light wash over parts of it

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just to make it more cohesive and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t

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um since we’ve used some purple i’m gonna

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bring that down

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i find even when i don’t plan to i’ll still make something [Music] really colorful

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[Music]

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[Music] um and so we have kind of like big splotches of color

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so at this point i’d usually um kind of go in and add more detail marks

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so this would be a great time to use the watercolor

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pencils as well

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i’m definitely a fan of repeated shapes

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i like mark making so again you’re bringing um certain

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parts of the work uh you’re adding detail which brings it more to the forefront

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which i find interesting rather than things existing on the same plane

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so for here i think we should add maybe some dark blue

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i tend to use a lot of uh crowns in my work which i’ve turned

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into kind of like abstract wormy crowns but um

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i went through a phase of really enjoying john michelle basquiat’s work which i still do but um i don’t know

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i like to include those little things for him

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so that you can still see the um blue marker but it’s definitely um behaves more like

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a watercolor

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now for the yellow i really enjoy yellow and pink

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so i think i’m going to do that

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and so for blending watercolor sometimes you’ll just want to um test it out a little bit so you can

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either test it out on the same paper or another paper but i’m just gonna

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go right in and not test it

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i also really enjoy working with fluorescence so uh you can include touches of fluorescent

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color into your work i think that’s even better

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all right right i said i was gonna steal

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okay

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so again i’ll dab one side of it to make it look like it’s um

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coming closer to you

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it feels pretty dry so here for detail i’ll use um

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a smaller brush this one’s quite small

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i’ve also enjoyed using um some ink with watercolor but i find um i don’t think i’d start

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if you’re just starting a watercolor i don’t think i’d start with watercolor and ink just because ink is so um once you add it there’s really no

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going back

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but it definitely creates some interesting effects

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and really uh makes your watercolors pop as well because bright colors

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usually are better with darker colors around

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them

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i also find that when you’re doing like smaller detail things it’s best to hold the brush

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farther to the to the end so you have more control

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which seems counterintuitive but um it works

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all right so i won’t dab that i’ll leave it um have it vibrant

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and i’m also going to add some more detail over here

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with the dark blue again this is kind of an electric blue

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and um usually when i make work i’m listening to music as well so i find

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whatever i’m listening to will kind of impact um the pace i’m working at as well as

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even the work itself when i’m having a lot of trouble getting into work i’ll uh

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listen to classical um or just instrumental or things i’m really

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familiar with so i’ve made a lot of work to the

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beatles emily we do have a comment that i wanted

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to share ivana says your work is looking beautiful so far

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um i do have a question about scale is there a particular scale that you like working in is it

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do you like working in a larger scale or a smaller scale um yeah it depends with watercolor it’s

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definitely easier to work on a smaller scale um so we’ve been doing like a five by five

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uh piece this is a nice medium medium size because i find if you go

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really big it gets kind of overwhelming um but i have been trying to challenge myself to

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to do more of like the 24 by uh i don’t know 24 by 24 even

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we do actually have an exhibition right now in the gallery um called building your aga that works

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in larger scale it’s basically um it’s the 10th anniversary of the gallery and it has um

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they’ve taken uh photos from the builds of the gallery and sort of exploded them which is really lovely to see

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um but they also have maquettes uh the original maquettes that were built for the um competition that

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was the art gallery have you ever worked in uh maquette or models at all

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um i i’ve had had to a little bit for school um because i’ve taken some sculpture and

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3d classes so we usually had to make maquettes for that um but usually

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in my own work not so much but sometimes i have used plasticine to kind of spread out things

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spatially just because i’m such a visual person i just needed that extra

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kind of planning yeah the layer yeah for sure well i really like i’ve checked out some

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of your work with the um the animations that you’ve made um which are wonderful and even though

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they’re 2d they have so much dimension and depth to them so if you want to check out emily’s work um

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she has a wonderful instagram um that can show some of her

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some of her animation work which is also really fun and whimsical well it’s looking really good emily

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is there anywhere we’re gonna be able to see this particular piece oh yeah i will definitely post it uh

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yeah my instagram is just my name at emily storbold so i’ll post it there when it’s done

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um yeah and when i finish it i i let it dry and then remove the tape but i don’t let the tape sit too long

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because then paper will um tear right okay good to know we do have a question

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what is a maquette a maquette is a small version of so for architecture or set design

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it’s a small version or for even um for uh stop-motion animation um it’s a

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small version of a set basically or a building so it can be in um any any kind of scale but it’s just a

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smaller version of what that building is going to look like so often times in large

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large buildings you’ll see the the architect set maquette um yeah okay

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is there anything you wanted to add we are almost at time here which is crazy because it’s been

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it’s flown by um was there anything you last minute adjustments to that

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piece um or oh this is a good question actually um how do you know when a piece is done

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oh that’s a tough one um i usually end up um i’ll leave it for

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a little bit like i’ll leave it for a couple of days and kind of just stand there and look at it um until

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it feels i don’t know something will click um it’ll it’ll just i don’t know feel

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right um and then sometimes i’ll have to ask someone else to look at it and be like is this done yeah that’s a

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good idea yeah just blank eyes yeah fresh eyes

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for sure okay well maybe i’ll leave you for one last session and then we’ll pop off here sounds good okay

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thanks okay so i’ll just finish

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doing that blue here

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[Music] so next i think i would probably work on this area because it’s so

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central to the piece but i want to make sure that enough activity was going on there

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so to do that let’s use this peach

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so just kind of build in another shape perhaps and again if you’re a planner um

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definitely draw these out beforehand but yeah again i find it’s just so much more fun if you don’t know

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exactly what’s going to happen

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but there’s also more room for error if you do it that way

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that’s quite light i’m just going to add

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let’s do more blue since we already have a lot of blue going on

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[Music] so sometimes i find i’m repeating the shapes

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too much so i’ll just find if you lighten them it kind of changes the effect

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we have red there

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so again we’re kind of working on that diagonal line

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right and then sometimes the paint will come off on the uh on the rag and you can create more textures sometimes

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it’s uh it’s kind of cool

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let’s get that almost airbrushed

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and uh if you paint a lot there’s a chance that you’ll probably try to drink out of your uh paint water um i’ve

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definitely almost done it so be careful

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all right so at this point i’d probably let it sit and uh maybe even let it sit for a

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couple of days very good oh my gosh it looks so good and i can definitely see what you mean

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about drinking out of your especially if you have a tea right

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beside your water then yeah yeah it’s good to keep some space most definitely

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or get used to maybe always having your water in one place well i just wanted to pop on and say

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thank you to our wonderful guest and gallery attendant emily storefolds um make sure you do check out her work

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and do come to the gallery and say hello to us there’s plenty of space to physical distance and you have to pre-book all of your

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tickets online um and the children’s gallery is also open we’re open to one cohort

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per day uh you just have to pre-book that as well um we we hope that you come by and we do

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we do miss you um there’s lots of aga lives coming up as well so make sure you stay uh updated on our social media

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um and we also wanna again thank our new presenters epcor we look forward to sort of working

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with them and for them giving us the resources we need in order to uh

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to make art a little bit more accessible with um all of these virtual lives and all of our online school programming

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as well um i think i think that’s everything i feel like i’ve been talking too much

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um thank you yeah thank you again emily um that piece looks amazing and i’m looking forward to seeing more of your

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work um and i hope everyone has a really lovely day

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all right bye bye thanks for having me

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