A Brush with Innovation The Fusion of Paint and Technology

Feel that creative spark igniting? I've caught the buzz here in Canton, Ohio, where the anticipation for the solar eclipse has sparked a whirlwind of community events, and I'm pouring my heart into every vibrant stroke. As we gear up for this celestial spectacle, I've been weaving together art installations and classes that echo the excitement in the air. Through this episode, I invite you to join me on this artistic journey, whether you're following from afar on social media or painting along with my new kits featuring local landmarks brought to life with a splash of augmented reality.

The canvas of Canton is bursting with color and innovation, and I'm eager to guide you through this transformative space where art meets technology. Starting in April, I'll be at the Canton Museum of Art, introducing the curious and the creatives to the wonders of Procreate, the magic of frame-by-frame animation, and the timeless satisfaction of traditional canvas painting. Prepare to see familiar sights in a new light and discover how augmented reality can cast a fresh gaze on the beauty around us. Let's leap into this episode and explore how art is evolving before our eyes, and how you can be a part of the movement that's redefining the landscape.

The doodle today is mailbox from the list provided by ElloLovey!

6-week adult class starting April 25!

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Art and Tech Fusion - Free Family Fun Day May 11

Event invite and info

Compass paint by number event

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:05

Hey, welcome back to Brutally Made Happy Friday. Happy Friday before the solar eclipse. We are in the path of totality here in Canton, ohio, and there is a lot of buzz going around. So big, big event and a lot going on for me personally, with community events and art installations and exhibits classes. I am thrilled, I am just over the moon excited about all the stuff I get to create and I hope you're following along on social media. If you like that kind of thing, love to have you get inspired by some of the stuff that I'm doing. Maybe you can do that in your area too. So that's mainly what this episode is about is just a little connection and encouragement and how it encourages me to hear somebody wants to know how I do something and I, you know, am asked to share it. Having the ability to share that in a classroom setting, be it virtual or in person, is just so rewarding and I love sharing and helping people do things to make their dreams come true and I happily have been doing that.

Speaker 1: 1:29

I shared, you know, my paint by numbers with some people in some of my paint community. Just, you know helpful hints on how I create them. I remember starting them by hand when I did one for a festival last year and they've just, you know, kind of evolved. And now I'm doing kits and I never thought there would be people wanting to buy my kits. And I'm getting requests and I'm just like what? Okay, I could do that. Thank you for being excited about them. I I'm just, I just had no idea Just sharing that idea to help really ignite it in somebody else. And then people were like but I want what your art looks like and I want to see your kit. And I was just like, you know, buy it once to just get an idea of how I do it. That's great, I don't know. It was just so sweet to hear people ask me to share that. So I will be putting those on my website as soon as I get things finalized and built. I will be selling them locally for local landmarks here in Stark County. So I'm very excited about those and they will be augmented reality too. So once you are done with your paint, you should be able to watch it come to life.

Speaker 1: 2:48

And there's just like this whole movement around that here, using traditional medium and just giving it another twist to get you immersed into it and get, maybe, youth more involved. I shared it to a popular art magazine, magazine, the idea of doing an augmented reality cover for her issue, and she wrote back she's like I don't, I don't support that and I'm like, but I'm not, ai, this is not generated by a computer, I'm drawing these, these and and she's like, no, I mean, she said she understood, I think she did, but she doesn't support any kind of tech. And you know, totally fine, still love her publication and, uh, still love following along. But I, I feel like it's missing an element that could give somebody a new idea to get their work seen by new people, a new audience. And I, you know, maybe there'll be another outlet, maybe there'll be another magazine or publication that would be interested in having a custom piece. You know, use that technology. I've done it for sculptors, I've done it for sculptors, I've done it for food, I've done it for clothing, posters, maps, my canvases, my murals, there's jewelry, I mean there's just been endless amounts of ways that I've been able to incorporate it and it's just been so much fun have the ability to share how I do that with our community, starting in April at the Canton Museum of Art.

Speaker 1: 4:27

I think I've mentioned this before that I get to teach Thursday evenings. We will have a six-week class, so you just need to have Procreate and your iPad and a cell phone, or you can just use your iPad too. You don't have to have a cell phone because your iPad will be able to download the Art of IVE app and I will be teaching basic Procreate and basic animation. We're going to do frame by frame animation and then we're also going to do traditional art, so you'll be painting a canvas. Leading up to that, there's little assignments every week to just get you used to some of the tools that you will have at your fingertips with procreate and, yeah, just trying to show different ways to use both so you can still work in your traditional mediums but look at new ways to incorporate technology and do more with it.

Speaker 1: 5:26

You know I want people to feel like they can create products if they want with their items, use it for gifts and there's just a whole, I think, stream of financial success with your art that a lot of artists don't realize when they're going through traditional school. So I think that there's a big gap between fine art and graphic design, and here I'm learning these things, applying them to a business sensibility of. I'm going to work in a marketing department or I'm going to work for a graphic design firm and this is what this is used for advertising, advertising, advertising and I'm wanting to expand your mind because I do that. That's. That's like my nine to five. I get that. You know I don't want to keep everybody on that one little tiny path. There's so much more to using art for education and connection and getting that human response and doing things to help others. So that's what's important to me and I get to share that whenever I get to do events like my paint by number stuff. I get to do that when I do live painting. So I'm very excited that that's going to happen.

Speaker 1: 6:51

Every month, starting in April, I will be at the Home and Garden Show with the 720 Market. We will be making giant paper flowers at Camp Creative. So watch for that and please come by and sign up so you can take home a giant paper flower on a stick that you're going to walk around with. They're going to be a lot of fun and I'll have some on display. And then, yeah, that's going to be the beginning of my journey with 720 every month for the rest of the year. We have camps. The beginning of my journey was 720. Every month. For the rest of the year we have camps, we have doing live painting, all kinds of face painting, so I'm very excited to be part of those events with the 720 market group. Oh my gosh, so so excited to have that outlet all set up.

Speaker 1: 7:39

Just this year is just one of the most exciting years for me for art in a very, very, very long time and I am just thrilled that it's finally coming to light. It's been a long journey. This is not overnight. It has been a very long journey and it just keeps getting better. I just love the response that people have with my work and I love being able to create things that make people visualize their dreams again, and I'm happy to teach how I do that, and there's nothing that I can say enough about learning something new. You just never stop. I will never stop learning something new. I love it. You just never stop. I will never stop learning something new. I love it, and just wanted to encourage you to participate as much as possible where you're at, in the journey that you're on and sharing. Sharing is caring. I like that monster thing. Scaring is caring. That was their little take on it.

Speaker 1: 8:39

And, oh my gosh, I started sketching and forgot to even like mention that I'm drawing mailbox from Hila Lovey's prompt. Oh my goodness, I just was like so excited to sit down and talk to you. I wish that mail never ends. It's always nice to get that handwritten correspondence, a card. I love sending cards. It just seems like it's one of the very few forms of communication that is still old school, I guess, and it's just so lovely. And yeah, we all get junk mail and stuff like that.

Speaker 1: 9:15

But I can remember when it was a big deal to get your um, your name on letterhead and get personalized stationery and I always grew up wanting a desk with one of those paper blotters on it and that you had like a diary on it. I would like circle those in the Sears catalog, the French provincial little girls canopy bedroom sets with the desk and the drawers. I dreamed of having one of those so much. I wanted one so I could like have all of my papers and stationery and pens and I just always wanted that. I loved it. It was so pretty and I love having your space.

Speaker 1: 9:57

I always tried to make sure my girls all had desks so they had their space to put their stuff. It was very important to me. They probably look back and the things that I thought were just so like necessary, they're like I don't care. But there were things I never got and I always wanted. And you know, I wanted to make sure that they you know, when they wanted something, I did my best to provide that so they could get that experience and decide, yeah, I really wanted that, or no. This wasn't as big of a deal as I thought it was going to be. So don't we all do that, especially with parents or friends? You know, you see somebody that needs something or wants something and you want them to have it. You want them to have that experience. I'm very much, you know, that type of person, but just wanted to share a little bit, doodle a little bit and just say hi and say thank you to everyone who has supported me and has been attending the events.

Speaker 1: 10:54

I had a great helper this week at the event I did for Compass. Sexual Assault Awareness and the Goodwill groups got together. It was with a purpose and Jay from Compass helped me with all the people painting and it was phenomenal. We would have four people at the canvas at one time, multiple times throughout the night, and that's the most I've had at an event like just one, and people waiting in line, and she was just such a huge help making sure pallets were cleaned and brushes were cleaned and people had the right color and the right number and we were filling things in, trying to get things done and we had three hours and we it was nonstop.

Speaker 1: 11:35

It was, it was great. We almost got finished, but they got to take the canvas back and there'll be a little project for them to finish up and yeah, it was just wonderful. So, jay, if you're listening, I love that. We got to connect and I got to meet you and work with you that night and you were just heaven sent, lady, beautiful girl. Just appreciate your talent, your passion, your time with me. Just thank you, thank you, thank you. So everyone, have a wonderful weekend, happy Friday, doodle your mailboxes, they're so cute and, yeah, I'll talk to you next time. Take care. Bye-bye.