Let's Paint a FUN Christmas Topiary!

Hey everyone, it is Christie Renee Hawkins with The Social Easel, and we are going to paint a fun little Christmas topiary tonight. So that's what you see in front of you here. So I'm going to give everyone a second to hop on, make sure we can see and hear everything okay. So as you guys are jumping on here, please let me know where you are watching from tonight. If you are new to The Social Easel, uh, new to me, my name is Christie. I'm the owner of The Social Easel, and, um, I am actually a guest on a few pages tonight. So if you are seeing me pop up on one of my friends' page, you're not in the wrong place. They are sweet enough to let me be a guest artist on their page and hang out with you guys for the evening, and we're gonna do a fun little project. So, um, this is— I don't know if you can see the sketch. This is a really rough sketch, just a little idea of what we're gonna do tonight. So I'm super excited to have you guys here. Hey, Michelle and Brenda and Liz and Stacy! We got you from all over. Yeah, let me know where you are watching from. Let me know if— because we're on several people's pages tonight— let me know if you like painting, if you have painted, if you want to learn how to paint, because that is what I do. I teach people from literally all over the world. We have a global membership now, and I teach them how to paint every month inside of my Tribe membership. So if you're wondering what that banner is, across the bottom of the screen. That is what that's all about, and why they're letting me be a guest artist on their page tonight, because we are opening doors to new members, and we only do that a couple times a year, and today is the last day to get early bird bonuses if you sign up and become a member. So I'm going to be talking about that throughout the paint class tonight, but we are going to do a full mini painting tonight as well. Hey Cheryl! Hey Pamela from Tennessee! We've got Sharon from Ontario— Ontario, not Ontario— Ontario. Denise from Virginia. And let me know if you are already a Tribe Sister. Comment in the feed, you can type in Tribe Sister. You might be a Painting of the Month Club member of mine, so let me know if you're one of my current members so I can welcome you and say hi. My team is going to be in the chat tonight as well, helping answer questions. So if you guys have questions for me, please feel free to ask them while I'm teaching. And if I don't, she's going to be there to help answer those questions for you. So again, we are going to do a cute little topiary tonight. Hey, Miss Tammy, tribe sister! Cheryl is Painting of the Month Club member. Welcome, welcome. So this is just a rough sketch I did, and if you're wondering what's on the other side, this is for something we're doing tomorrow. I'm going to make a cute little sign with some Christmas trees, farm fresh Christmas trees. So if you want to come back and paint with me again tomorrow, you can. But I'm going to go ahead and sketch this onto my canvas, and I'm going to go ahead and take my face off the screen because that way I can zoom in a little bit closer to the canvas so you guys have a better view. So I'm going to remove me. So I'll still be here, but I'm going to make this bigger for you. Get my buttons all right here. And I do want to quickly show you— so I'm talking about, this is the last night to sign up to become a tribe member, which is my VIP membership where you get to learn 3 new paintings every single month with me. In a private Facebook group. You get immediate access to over 135 tutorials in our library as soon as you become a member. And if you join tonight before midnight, you also lock in this early bird bonus, and you get these 6 bonus paintings. If you're new to me and new to the Social Easel, this kind of gives you an overview of my style. So I teach all different kinds of styles. We teach acrylic painting, palette knife, mixed media. If you can paint it, I probably paint it. So those are the bonuses that end tonight. And to become a Tribe Sister, the cost is either $47 a month or $470 for the year, and you get 2 months for free. So that is just a quick overview so you can see what that bonus is. And I'm going to take that back off the screen so we can get a full page here for you. So I'm excited to get to paint with you guys tonight. So I love topiaries. I think they're super cute. I'm going to sketch this on here. And if you guys are excited about this, go ahead and start sharing with your friends. Just hit the share button and let us know in the comments that you shared it, because Megan on my team is going to be picking a winner tomorrow morning. And someone's going to get some happy mail from me. So it could be an ornament, it could be a keychain, a little piece of art. You never know. So I'm making the bottom of the topiary kind of pot right now. And again, this is just a sketch. So if I feel like I'm kind of getting this out of whack here, I'm going to be able to go back and fix that. Kind of have our top circle there. Let's do our bottom one. Slightly bigger right about here. I think I may make this pot a little shorter. So yeah, let me know in the comments if you are a painter, if you have done any of this, or if you're more of a crafter or a wreath maker, which, by the way, those of you on Damon's page with Deco Exchange— Damon has several of my art pieces in his store that you can buy to put in your wreaths. But you can also learn how to paint your own little paintings to tuck in your wreaths that are really going to help them stand out from your competition as well. So that's a fun little thing you can add to them. Thank, thank you, Patty, for sharing. Catherine says not a painter. Terry is. Well, hopefully by the end of this lesson tonight, you may have sparked your interest and maybe you want to try it out. So I think that's about the shape that I'm looking for. I might taper it in just a little bit more. Does anyone else love topiaries? I think they're so cute and festive. So we're gonna make this a Christmas version. But here's the thing, even if I don't like my sketch right now, or I feel like I want to change it, I can always come back and do that. Olga says, I am a crafter, aspiring painter. Awesome. Donna says, I do all the things. Debbie said, not a painter, wishful. Well, I hope I can inspire you guys tonight and you enjoy painting with me. I have— just to tell you a little bit about me for those of you that are new to watching me— hold on, I got a clog in my paint bottle here. I have been an artist my whole life. I have been teaching other people how to paint for about the last 9 years, and I've had my membership for the past 3 and a half years and been teaching online, and I absolutely love it. So I used to teach in-person paint classes here. I'm from Springfield, Missouri. Um, and now I get to teach online with you guys. So it's a ton of fun, even if you have no experience at all. That is, most of the people who have started out with me had never painted before, and now they are painting up a storm, and they have found that they have this little inner artist inside themselves that they didn't even know they had. And that is my hope for those of you that are new to it. So I'm doing something maybe a little different than you've seen before, but I'm gonna paint this whole background black right now. And this is just step 1. So you'll probably hear me say it a fair amount that you just got to trust the process because painting is a process. We were joking in my group the other day, it's gonna look ugly before it looks pretty. Pretty, right? You got to go through the stages. So something that I like to do on some of them, not all my paintings, I like to paint the background black first and then put another color over top of it and allow some of that black to show through and for it to be around the edges of our object. And hopefully you'll see why here in a minute when we get to that step. So I'm just going to do black all the way around here. I am just using just a nice size round brush right now. This one I think is like a number 9. Just going around our shapes, and again, I can change these all the time. I'm not stuck with anything that is on my canvas, and I'm just using regular black craft paint, nothing special. Awesome. Becky said she went to college in Bolivar, love the Springfield area. Yep, that's about 30 minutes away from us. Hey Damon, thanks for letting me hop on here tonight. Hope you're having fun at your mastermind. And y'all, I did get Damon to actually paint, and Parker. And they both did pretty dang good. Got them out of their comfort zone a little bit. Now I'm not worried about painting the sides right now. I'm probably going to come back and do that. I'm just getting all the way on around my edges. I may paint them solid black on the sides. I may do like a black and white check. I'm not really sure just yet. Lisa said, what size canvas are you using? This is just a little 8 by 10, and I love these little canvases because you can use them as shelf sitters. I love mixing my paintings into my home decor. You can tuck them in wreaths. You can frame them and hang them on the wall too, but they're just cute, fun little paintings. Thank you guys for sharing. If you just came on, if you want to get entered into the contest to get some happy mail from me, just share the video with your friends. Let them know we're going to hang out and make a little Christmas painting tonight. Okay, so I'm gonna let the black dry before I mess with the background. Okay, and I'm gonna grab some dark hunter green. Hey, Kate! And you guys could choose to make these colors whatever you want to. I'm going to go a little bit more traditional. We're going to do some greens. This is going to be like a boxwood topiary with some red berries on it, probably a little bow. And then I'm going to do black and white stripes on the pot that it's sitting in. So for this base coat of our topiary, I'm just gonna get what you see on my palette right now, the wet paint. I reuse palettes all the time. This is just like a dark hunter green and black, and I'm actually mixing them together a little bit more because I like my greens to be even darker. So I'm just going to go around in a circular shape. Again, I'm not too worried about making this perfect right now. This is a base coat. For those of you that are new to painting, when you're painting with acrylics, you want to do everything in thin coats if you know you're going to be putting a second coat on there. I may have to change— I think I need to line my circles up a little bit more. So we're going to put a nice thin coat of our green on here first. Maybe make that one a little bit bigger. And we're going to let that dry and then come back and put a second coat on, and that's where some of the color will come out. So I know it looks like it's all blending right now, but it will not. At the end. Is that about centered? I feel like it's still just not quite. All right, I think I'm going to leave it like that for now. Thank you for sprinkling, Sissy. Hey, Sharita, new tribe sister watching from Tulsa. Good morning, Colleen from Australia. Telling you, got people everywhere. So this is a little bit of like a burnt umber. I'm gonna get a smaller round here, wipe my excess water off. I'm gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna pull a little black into that brown. You guys are gonna be shocked when you can actually see this topiary, but right now I don't know if that helps for me to tilt it. You can see those colors a little bit more. And then I'm going to get some white. There it is. All right, so I'm going to get a little bit of white and a little bit of a metallic. I have this titanium gold. I love all metallics. You can't go wrong with metallics, so any brand, any metallic you want is good. Just a little dot of that. So we're going to fill this sucker in with white paint. Just a real thin coat of white, and I'm not going to worry too much about getting my lines perfect on here because I know I'm going to be coming back and adding to it and adding some detail lines at the end. So the most important thing to remember if you are just starting starting out painting is that mistakes are okay, and that means you're learning, and that if you mess up, it can be painted over. So no need to stress about it. I'm going to grab a little bit of that metallic and just streak it in here just a little bit. Nope, see, I went off the lines there a little bit, but that's okay. Yeah, if you guys missed it last night, we did a fun paint night last night where I did the Four Season Trees. You can go back and catch that on the Social Easel, um, Facebook page, or you can go to my YouTube channel. If you want to rewatch that live. Another fun painting for you. Okay, I'm going to do a quick blow dry. While I'm doing that, let me know if you guys have any questions in the comments so I can answer those. Cindy, The Social Easel is the name of my business, and I teach people how to paint with acrylics. And tonight is the last night we're talking a little bit about my membership called Tribe. It's my VIP membership where you can join and learn how to paint with me. You get 3 paintings per month with me, as well as a guest artist or speaker. Um, so that's what we're talking about tonight, and I'm just showing you guys some fun little paintings that you can try out. I'm looking for my big round here. Here, this is a good size one. Thank you, Kathy. I'm glad you enjoyed watching. Um, Amy said, when you become a Tribe Sister, do you also, um, have access to Texas Art and Soul? No. So Heidi, um, is the owner of Texas Art and Soul. I am the owner of The Social Easel. Heidi is just letting me be a guest artist on her page. Um, we partner up together, um, Every once in a while, because we both teach ladies how to paint. Heidi teaches more of the business side of things, and I teach more of the actual painting. So inside the membership, or any way that you paint with me, you can buy individual tutorials from me. You can be a member of the Painting of the Month Club, but we only open Tribe twice a year to the public. So inside Tribe, you do have permission to use my paintings for in-person paint parties only. So unlike Heidi, I don't allow online teaching, just in-person paint parties, no kits or anything like that. But if you do in-person paint parties, you have a plethora— you have a whole library of over 135 tutorials to choose from. And they really help with your paint night business, because back when I used to do paint nights and constantly having to come up with ideas every single month, it gets a little daunting. And so you can use my designs and paint them and then share what you've painted with your customers to see if they want to do that as a paint night as well. You also have permission to sell any of the paintings that you make inside Tribe. You can sell them at craft shows, you can sell them to friends and family on Etsy. So you have permission to do all of that with the designs as well. This color of tan that I'm using is called Burlap by DecoArt. Um, Tamara said, where do you get your brushes? These are from my Amazon shop. I've got an Amazon store with all my favorite art supplies. This is from my round brush set inside my store. They're called Nik Pro, but we'll have the team put my Amazon link in the comments if you guys want to check that out so you can see where I get my supplies and what some of my favorites are. So I'm just going in and kind of filling in the background around this right now. Welcome, Thelma, said she just joined Tribe Sisters. Connie said, whenever I've painted in the past, it was with acrylics because I was scared of oils. What's the difference? So there's a lot different about them. Oils take days or sometimes weeks to dry. They are not water-based, so you have to use turpentine and mineral spirits. It's just a completely different medium. Acrylics dry super fast, within minutes, depending on their thickness. Oils are— you work with blending a lot more because they don't dry fast. With acrylics, kind of like what I was telling you earlier, if you mess up with acrylics, you can just let it dry and paint over top of it again. Um, the Inner Tribe, uh, Laura was asking how much is it. The Inner Tribe is $47 a month or $470 for the year, and that gives you immediate access to over 135 tutorials in our membership library because we've been around a while. We've been around for 3 and a half years. We got a lot of tutorials in there, all the seasons, all the things. And then it also gives you immediate access to our Tribe Sister Facebook group where our community is, and inside the Facebook group is where I teach monthly. And I teach 3 brand new paintings per month inside the tribe, and then we also have a guest artist or speaker in there each month. Uh-oh, Sharita said she's got tornado sirens going off. Be safe. Hopefully it's just passing over. Awesome, Gail, it said she just joined Tribe this afternoon. Welcome, welcome. I hope I've got a little brush hair on here. Hang on, let me get this guy off. So I'm just mixing a little bit of Burlap and white. So I want there to kind of be a mixture in the background here, and I'm just going to put it on real messy. I want there to be a little bit of black showing through there. We may or may not put a table underneath this. I think I may just leave it kind of freestanding. Um, Nancy said, are you allowed to use the guest artist work? That depends on the guest artist. Some of them have different rules than others. Most of them will allow you to like sell your original work, work with it, um, possibly teach it at local paint nights. Nothing inside our group is allowed to be taught online though. Okay, so now I want to add just a fun little element to this, just to give it a little bit more interest. And with this paint still wet, we're going to add some scribbles in. So if you have painted— sorry, scooted the table. If you have painted with me before, you've probably seen me do the scribbles. If you haven't, this is something I sometimes like to do in some of my art. So Bobby said, why did you paint the background black and then cover it? This is why. Number one, you can see that black through there, gives a little bit of the grayish color. That's one reason. But here's the other. We're gonna make this a little funky and fun. We're going to add some scribble marks. In the background of it. And then we can decide to leave it like that, or we may scrape and add even more texture and paint on there once it dries, so it picks up a little bit of these dark areas but then leaves the light as well. If you haven't ever scribbled in paint before, it's really, really fun. And that color that you're seeing, because I always get this question whenever I do this, is not from the lead. You can see this is completely covered in paint because this is what I use it for. This is the black showing through. Pauline said, I was just afraid to scribble my first time, but now I love it. It is so fun. All right, so I'm gonna get a little bit lighter green now. I don't need much paint for this small painting. I keep having to remind myself that when I'm putting it on the palette. Has everyone here entered to win some happy mail? If you haven't and you would like to, all you have to do is share or sprinkle this video with your friends and then come back in the comments and let us know you shared it, and you're going to get entered to win some happy mail from me. And Megan is going to pick a winner tomorrow morning, and we will announce it on this post. Okay, so I'm going to go back with a little bit of just— this is just the Hunter Green straight out of the bottle. We're going to start kind of dabbing that around here. I'm not going to completely cover up that dark because I want a little bit showing through. I'm just dabbing it on. You don't need a ton of paint for this. I'm going to hold this up a little just so you can kind of see a little bit more of what I'm doing. You're really going to be able to see it when I add the lighter color in. Awesome. Patty said first time watching and she shared. Thank you. So I'm gonna grab some of this lighter green here and just dab that in. Oh, I already like it. Look at the difference just doing a little bit these little dabs of the lighter color in here. I kind of like to rotate my brush when I'm doing these dab marks too, so they don't all look like the same brush stroke. If you start seeing a pattern in there, you need to change it up. So you see the starting to look like little leaves in there. This, um, I switched to a filbert brush for this. A filbert is just a little bit of a curve. So we're going to let that dry, and then we may come back and add some even lighter green to it in some areas, and maybe even a little bit of darker. We'll have to wait and see what it looks like once it, once it dries, because the dark and the light kind of start mixing together. I want to try— I say we're going to wait, but sometimes I get impatient. I'm pulling a little bit of white into my green, my light green. Let's just add a little. Let's see what that does. Make sure your brush strokes are overlapping each other in some areas. Again, we don't really want a pattern. Kind of want a mottled look here. I'm liking the way that is coming together. Thank you, Leslie. I'm glad you're excited to be here. I'm digging it so far. I'm gonna grab my— put that in the water, grab my small round, and go back with a little bit of the just the brown straight out of the bottle, make that color stand out a little bit more. Thank you, Gina. We are glad to have you be a part of Tribe. I think it's already getting cute. Now I forgot to put my bow on there when I sketched it, so you know what I'm gonna do is just do kind of a little bit of a bow shape here. One, I'm doing it now so I don't forget about it because sometimes I just do. I'm only gonna do this part right now. Because we'll let the other part hang over— let the tails hang over this pot. The fun part comes in when we start adding all the details. What did you guys see that I'm missing? I saw someone say they saw there— there was a lady to the right. Is that what you guys are talking about? All right, so I'm going in with this smaller round. I'm going to go into black, and I want to add my stripes to my pot. Now the great thing about the black right now is we want black on the outline, so I don't have to worry about at all if I go outside of these lines a little bit. Oops, I just dropped some dried paint in there. Get off! So just using a small round, plenty of black in my brush so that it spreads. You're gonna have to reload So you'll get more used— the more you paint, you'll get more used to how much paint you should have on there. So my style is a little wonky. We're not trying to be super realistic, just making some fun paintings. So I do not go out of my way to make sure everything's spaced out and even. Can always come back and tweak it if we feel like we need to. If I want to add a little bit more white on this outside or touch that up, I can do that once the paint is dry. And my scribble. Okay, you guys were talking about— I have a scribble lady over here. I'm not seeing it, but I think it's because I'm too close. We've got some Picasso-style sketches in, in the background here. Yes, I am going to do a red bow. So whenever you're doing something like red especially, um, you want to have a base coat of white because it's just going to give it more, um, It's going to make it easier for it to show up, and you'll have to do less coats of the red. So around the outside of my topiary, I'm— I've got like a fine liner brush now, and we're just going to go back around, and I'm just kind of dragging around here. To put this black outline around it. That's going to kind of separate topiary from the background. See how it's already kind of separating the two? Angie said, you always leave brushes in the water? Definitely while I'm painting, yes. I don't like to dry them and lay them flat because they still have a little bit of residue of paint in them. So I don't lay mine flat to dry until I actually wash them with soap and water. I'm going to pull this out a little bit further here because I know I'm going to add a little bit more white over there. Hey Sherry, thanks for joining us, first time watcher. All right, so I feel like I like my black outlines. Again, we will be adding more, and we're going to add a tail to that bow, but I want to let the black dry first. It's already looking cute now. It just looks like a little bow tie. Hey, Sue from Australia! I'm gonna go back into my white anywhere I want to thicken my white lines up. I can I think I'm going to come back with that metallic gold that I had in the beginning and do that separate when it's not wet so it stands out a little bit more. And if you are worried you have too heavy of a hand, one, I really recommend getting little detail brushes. The other thing I'm recommending is that you get like a mixed media pad. It's in my Amazon shop if you're not sure what that is, but it's basically like a sketch pad for painting, so you can practice your brush strokes and you're not just going straight to a finished piece of art where you feel like it has to be perfect. I try to break people of that, but those perfectionist tendencies tend to linger a little bit. I want to get you to the point where you can just have fun learning new things, trying out new stuff with your painting, and seeing what you learn. Joni said, what do I do with all my art? A lot of it is in storage. I donate a fair amount of it as well. I'm probably gonna have to start selling my original pieces next year because I'm running out of room in our storage unit. Oh, hey, Angie said she just shared. She's from Springfield too, but she's in Tennessee right now. Awesome. Amy is now a tribe sister. Welcome, Amy. Okay, I think I want to do another quick blow dry so I can keep adding to it. What do you guys think of the process so far? It's getting cuter with each thing that we do. Thank you. All right, we're gonna go ahead and pull this tail out here. One, we have to have our little connecting piece in the middle for our bow, right? And this is going to be a red bow. I think I had a different idea for my gold too. I think I might use my favorite gold paint pen. Oh, I think it's going to turn out so cute. This is one of those— this is literally just an idea in my head, and this is the first time I'm creating it with you guys right now. And sometimes I do that inside of my tribe. I call those— I kind of give them the behind the scenes of, like, people ask me all the time how I come up with ideas. For all of my art. So some of my lessons inside Tribe, some are planned ahead, and I'll show you a few of those. And then some, I'll tell them, here's my idea, I'm gonna do— we're just gonna throw this out there because I might do it for December— a Christmas llama. And then sometimes I like to take them behind the scenes with me and literally do it from sketch to finished piece of art in the lesson. So there's a variety of different ways that I teach inside there. Yes, I am using a hair dryer. I don't have a cool setting on it, I just use just a regular cheap old hair dryer. Okay, while I'm letting that dry, I want to show you guys the two that are coming up this month in Tribe. I'm gonna zoom you out for a second because they're bigger. This is the first one. Can you guys see him? Our Winter Friends. Cute little snowman. I don't know if you can see the cute little birds at the top. So I love this one. You can see the scribbles in the background of this, and then we painted over them. Just adds some fun texture. And then my new— this is my Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, rustic kind of, um, vintage type of Santa Claus. So those are two of the new paintings that are going to be this month if you become a Tribe Sister. So that kind of gives you a little idea of some of the things we're doing in there. They just make me so happy. I love Christmas time. Um, Karen said, what's your favorite brand of canvas? I do not have a preference. They're all pretty much the same. Hobby Lobby, Michaels, Amazon, they're all pre-prepped um, so it doesn't really matter. Thank you, Desiree. All right, let's get some red. Oh, I forgot I have a red metallic too. Should we try that? I'm gonna do regular red first. I like to have a bunch of paints next to me. Sometimes I just look over and like, oh yeah, I want to do that. This red metallic has more of like a coral finish to it when it dries. Thank you, Camila. All right, let's go in with our red. I think this is instantly going to make this painting pop. What do you guys think? I'm digging the red. And again, I'm just using a liner brush right now from my set. I'm not pushing down very hard. So when I'm painting, like, this is how much the bristle is moving, and then I can get nice skinny lines. If you go heavy-handed and you just push down, you're going to get a big fat line. So you don't need a lot of pressure. If you need help, you know, if your hand's not quite so steady, If you hold your wrist while you're doing it, it'll help you have a little bit steadier of a hand. But one of the keys is making sure you have enough paint in your brush. You will struggle unnecessarily if you do not have enough paint in your brush. Good, I'm glad you guys like the red. Hey Nan, um, Nan said so cute. How do I sign up to be a Tribe Sister? I'm new to this and this is my first time watching as well. So, uh, Nan, my team has put the link in the comments. You can scroll down there or it's in the description of this, um, and you can sign up. If you sign up to be a Tribe Sister today, then you get all the bonus tutorials and our early bird bonus. And you'll see those on the page when you go to the page to sign up. You get 6 bonus tutorials that are valued at over $200, and you get that as a bonus for signing up on our first full day of accepting new members. So it's our little gift to you. Um, to become a Tribe Sister, you can do monthly, in which you can cancel at any time. You're not locked into any kind of commitment. It's $47 a month if you know you want to hang out with us for a while. And I tell people, know ahead of time, do not commit to the year if you're not 100% sure you want to paint with me for a whole year, because it is a 1-year contract. But you can do the 1 year for $470, and that gives you 2 months for free. And then at the end of that year, it will renew you for another year, or you can choose to switch it to monthly or cancel at that time after you've finished your year contract. All right, I am just loving the red bow on there. If you are already a Tribe Sister, all the bonuses that I am giving to new people joining us, you already have in your library. So of course you're not going to miss out on anything. Tribe Sisters always get the best. All right. What do you guys think? Okay, before I add red, and we're going to add some more detailing to this, I'm going to let that dry. I want to add red to my berries. I'm going to let that sit for just a little bit because I know it's not going to be very long. This is the fun thing about doing a small painting. Gina said, if I signed up to pay monthly, can I change it and go ahead and pay the annual? Yes, Gina, if you would like to switch To become an annual member, all you have to do is email customer service. It's Christie at thesocialeasel.com, and they can get you switched over. Let's add just a little bit more of the light. I'm using the filbert brush again. I just like all the contrast and all the different shades and tints of green that we're using here. What do you guys think of the little bit lighter green in there? Um, Lisa is asking, what is included in the monthly fee? Um, so you get immediate access to over 135 tutorials in our membership vault. So we have a membership website for all of our members. That's where they access all past tutorials. And then we also have a Facebook group. So it's hosted in two separate places. So you get access to those 135 tutorials, 16 live Q&As, technique lessons, bonus lessons are all in the library. And then inside the tribe on a monthly basis, you get 3 new paintings with me each month, start to finish. I showed you 2 that we're doing in November with the snowman and the Santa. The other one is the Funky Winter Flowers that I've already taught them. And, and then you also have a guest artist or speaker each month inside our Facebook group. And I think the best part is our Facebook community. We call ourselves Tribe Sisters, and you become a part of that community, and it's just a group of awesome women who are just going to lift you up and inspire you and encourage you in your painting journey. Susan said, what kind of paint are you using? I'm just using craft paint, so I have a couple different brands here, but any craft paint— DecoArt, Michaels, Anita's— any of those. The size of filbert, it's a really small one. I don't even— my paint is covering the number. I think, I think it says it's an 8, but here's the thing with paintbrushes and numbers, they're different depending on the brand. So I just say whatever brush works for the project you're