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bjbjLULU Hey remember me. It's Merrill. The guy who does the step-by-step videos on YouTube.
And crazy artwork uh... I am going to tell you what I've been up to over the past few
months and I'm going to repay an old debt to Terrence from TerrenceAnimation who has
waited so patiently for his portrait. You saw just a second ago he had his artwork listed
on KnicksNow.com. That was one-half of the prize. The other half of the prize is this
mixed media painting. That is what I'm doing in this video. So I said it's a mixed media
painting and I am using paint shop pro (a computer graphics program). I like to start
with a start out with a photo collage. Terrence seems like an interesting guy. You should
see his entry. You could go back and visit his channel to see the winning entry, but
I could tell that he is a really interesting person and i think that just a traditional
oil painting would really not fit his personality. so I am going to go little bit crazy making
art today. I'm going to put some of my old characters in to this work. I'm going to photo
collage some of these monks (old drawings). You'll see what i'm getting at a it's a little
crazy now but you'll see what I'm getting at. So he had this great look on his face
and I had to do something with it and again I didn't feel that an oil painting was it
was the right way to go about this. All of those months that you see were basically drawn
but not the traditional way. The robes were only drawn once. I scanned that drawing and
connected that with illustration marker and paint marker and what I did was: I scanned
it and I had each one of them in the same pose but I drew a different head for each
monk. And I'd just basically put it over the same bodies and that's one way computers can
really make artwork interesting. Computers give you a new level and new depth and more
possibilities for creating imagery. I didn't have to spend my time doing the same thing
over and over and over again for the bodies. Now, This is my big investment. Its a Hewlett
Packard Design Jet Print large format printer that prints onto canvas. I am putting the
photo collage that made of Terrance, it is a "bobble head". A few months ago the Monks
were part of the background to my channel. And of course I had to include the little
old man. He is my trademark. When you have a channel named kazanjianm you have to use
something memorable and that's the story behind the little old man. Let me also say uh...this
wasn't intended but he kind of looks like my grandfather. So some people ask who is
the little old man? I guess that it's my grandpa. So anyway its printing (on the printer) and
what you are going to see me do is some painting directly over the print. Keep in mind it is
on canvas. Canvas is not paper, it is linen so it is ok to put paint directly on to canvas.
You don't get the same exact resolution as paint but you get something that is similar
though. There is nothing in my opinion that's more beautiful than a painted surface... if
you go to a museum even if you look at the older colors or fugitive colors. Colors can
fade over time with exposure to light and certain pigments have faded. It is still more
beautiful that a photograph taken over the past twenty years... when you look at the
surface when you see the depth... photos are just one layer and painters create many opaque
and transparent layers in paintings. I think that's what makes the artwork really, really
interesting. So I am using paint to go over it now. without There is a link in the video
description for the supplies I used. I am also using paint markers because they are
accurate and create straight lines without running out of paint.... Paint brushes are
not always the most accurate things. They're great for mixing colors that you can't makes
lines as well as you can with paint markers. You cant mix paint as well with paint markers.
You can mix them a little bit but the tips get dirty. The only way to clean them is to
rub them on a piece of paper. With paint brushes you can't make the solid lines, you always
wind up running out of paint uh... paint markers it's the opposite. There's no perfect art
supply uh... but I kind of mix and match uh... and I really like the digital stuff as well.
The mixed media approach kind of helps make things interesting... but I'm doing that and
then I'm choosing the areas that I go over like I like some parts of that guy's face
tom I'd like some part of everybody's face uh... but the parts that I don't like that's
what I'm going at it with the paint the other thing that you can see me do is try to tie
everything together with the paint. Notice the difference between the illustrated part
and the photograph. So you see I'm going to fill in some of the background to make the
two parts a little bit more similar. I'm going to work the floor, or the clouds since they
are in heaven. When I make that similar to the background it helps me tie everything
together um...every part is going to have at least a little bit of paint with the exception
of the clouds in the background and that's okay because the eye actually focuses on only
one thing at a time and um...the eye is focusing on full of the figures and it's okay if you
don't have as much detail or much color in the background so that's why I'm not touching
that. This is that what I do to people who win my contests. I kill them! I guess he's
in heaven he's like......floating on a cloud... so yeah that's what I what I did...That's
the story that I made behind this I wanted to make it interesting for a very interesting
person who won uh... my contest and uh... Terrence once again thank you so much for
being patient all right now job some people might have been wondering where I have been.
Or if I have stopped posting videos... no i did not stop posting videos obviously I'm
a teacher for my day job and uh... I'm not an art teacher. I'm actually a special education
teacher... I've mentioned that in past videos that I worked as an art teacher for eight
years but um... budget cutbacks uh...you know and I have a son now and I wanted to keep
my job....it turned out that this job is amazing job. I had a totally loved it and my students
did really well on the Regents tests which are big in New York State. At the end of the
year and it was my responsibility to uh... do the best for my students that I could so
I kind of took a break four months to build a website to help my students. And they kicked
some serious butt on the Regents exams and I'm really proud of all of my students. That's
where I've been uh... it's summertime now you can see me post a lot of videos and as
long as I am not busy with my day job you know I'm going to be yet post and lots of
videos I've been reading your comments so thank you for that and uh...thank you to everybody
for the patient okay I will uh... I'll post some more very soon. Thanks! urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags
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