hello everyone, it's Lavennz here and welcome to today's video.
And today I'm going to talk about this painting that I have completed and vanished the week
before I go to Pasadena and Los Angeles so if you remember a film partially of my last video,
the Sketchbook Tour, in the hotel room I stay in Pasadena
so right now I'm back to Maine since Tuesday and
I'm kind of miss those wonderful moments I have in Southern California
I love the food there, the scenery, the weather, the unique houses I saw around Pasadena
which I never saw this kind of building somewhere else but maybe in Mexico or
Southern America which I haven't visited yet and I also did some
watercolor landscape sketches in my travelers notebook and some travel diary
so this is the mountain view I saw from the windows of my hotel room
based on the map this mountains is supposed to be call as
Angeles National Forest
and I was really inspired by the view to
use the cold earth tone the paint the rock and the mountains and the skies
and I'm definitely going to use these color scheme in my next video
so the second sketch is a sunset sky view.
I'm not very good in watercolor landscape painting so
it looks rather like ocean or something abstract not cloud and sky
so that's just two sketches I did there
and I also spent a day in Universal Studio Hollywood which is so much fun
and I love the studio tour around Hollywood and also the 3D rides yeah
that's amazing and I love the feeling they create in their Harry Potter world.
I don't have a good picture because I didn't bring my
cameras to the park I just want to enjoy have fun there
but well, this is what it looks like based on the plastic bag from the souvenir I bought.
I only bought two souvenir there for myself so the one this one is what I'm wearing, the Gryffindor scarf.
Well, it looked like a typical scarf if you're not the Harry Potter fan
but I am so, I know this is Gryffindor scarf and I also yep here's the bag
I also bought a magic one from Ollivanders
The wand I choose is the great wizard, Professor Dumbledore
it comes in the box. It's a collectible artifact
And this is what Dumbledore's wand look like
I'm not going to play with it or maybe I will when there's no one around
yeah but this is something I'm interested to collect and I keep it in my studio with me
I was thinking that maybe I would do a painting with a witch or wizard and a wand in the hand
so this would be the perfect props for the painting reference photo.
so let's get back to today's topic which is this painting
I call her 'Her Little Paradise'
and this is the first ever painting I do on darker
skin tone and I already show you the portrait study of the painting in September video
so I take a new approach in painting this piece which I'm going
to show you in the painting time-lapse later in these video
basically I do a lot of wet on wet technique in the painting background and I have two
important secret ingredient, magic ingredient, that make the background
shine and sparkly and reactive with light you can see I hope you can
see it I see the purple here is more vivid when there's a light shining on it
and when you turn, err, it's not so easy to see but in in real life you will notice the difference and
special ingredient is I already show you in my previous videos which is the interference powder pigment
the one I Jacquard Pearl Ex Pigment Powder and I'm using the green and violet
The pigment powder itself is very pale that you can
hardly see the colors on it but when you apply this on the darker background
the colors will come out vividly very saturated especially when they
reflecting the light
so I really love the sparkly starry background this the
sparkly starry background of the painting is very fantasy which is
actually the purpose of this background in the painting
is to represent the unrealistic the the fantasies of this lady which
mean is something she dream of
and to bring the painting balance in between fantasy and reality
I also add some laundry earring, the hanging laundry earrings from her ears
well I know it's weird but I don't know I just have this idea like
something just hanging on our head to remind us, hanging around ears to remind us
what's the reality needs and how to do to survive and to me
laundry is one of the best thing to represent reality because this is
something that we don't, nobody love to do laundry and I know
even my mother who is very clean and tidy but I don't think she enjoyed laundry as well
so and me myself don't, but we have to do it right otherwise we'll ran out of clothes to wear
unless you're very rich, you just buy one and throw it away after you wore which is a waste
add a house on top of the lady, is
represent something that she dream and could be a reality if she approaching it
so basically this painting is about dream
so to me, dream is something's come up from our fantasy and we try our best effort to bring it to reality which
mean making the dream comes true thus
without actions, it's not a dream. It's daydreaming
and so as we must always that
I feel that we must always remember
what we truly want, our honest desire the rooted deeply in our heart and we
have to like take one step at a time in approaching this dream to bring is the reality
and when it happened we are living in
our own little paradise that built with our own hands so
well that's the basic ideas, the basic concepts of this painting I have
but if I'm going to go into the detail, each of my ideas of this painting
this videos were going like last, I don't know, maybe hours if I can talk too much
Yeah I'm not usually can talk so fluently and honestly I actually have to write up
some what I want to talk before I actually firming it because I always, my mind
always go blank so I guess I have to like train on public speaking right
so I wish you have a beautiful day and I will chat to you very soon in the next video
and so let's wrap up this video with a painting time-lapse of
Her Little Paradise
Enjoy and bye!
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