Betty White’s birthday was this week….I couldn’t resist trying to paint her! I used the back of a reject painting, so don’t ever throw stuff away, you can always practice on the other side of watercolor paper!
Facebook Group
Lots of students have been sharing their homework in our Facebook group – it’s all classes mixed in together so you can see what other students are creating in other classes and decide if you think you want to try one.
I’m going to test out Facebook Live for Drawing 101 students Sunday 21st at 1pm Pacific time; we’ll be looking at how to use a grid to enlarge an image. In future live broadcasts I’ll do ones with tips for different classes on the website. While students not in class are welcome to watch, I won’t be answering questions that are already covered in class, just elaborating on a particular tip related to class.
And a note about the group: you guys know I overwhelm my plate with to-do’s on a regular basis. I’m checking in on the Facebook group each evening, so if I don’t answer there right away, know I’ll be swinging in later. I did ask Rosy this week to be a moderator, though, so she’s being super helpful and encouraging, and can help approve new members when I’m not around. (But she’s in Hawaii so you might still need to wait for time zones a little bit!)
Join Facebook Group#CopicColors Challenge
Copic is doing something kinda fun this year – highlighting a trio of markers each month and inviting artists to participate. (Spoiler alert, I’ll get to be part of one soon!) You can see this month’s color selection HERE.
A YouTube change
YouTube announced changes to their program; to combat “spam” channels, they changed the threshold for being part of their partner program, and drastically increased both the subscriber count and watch time minimums. With only a month’s notice. My main channel is fine. But my Bible Journaling channel is new (started in September), so it hasn’t met the watch time count yet. Channels need to meet the numbers by February 20th. It’s not crucial to be part of the YT program, and channels can join later once their channel grows, but many in the YT community are frustrated by this, feeling icky about being kicked out of the program. But read on to find out how you can help. First – my own numbers:
- Requirements — minimum 4,000 hours of watchtime in the past year + 1,000 subscribers
- My main channel — has 200,000 hours in the past year and 78,500 subscribers
- Bible journaling channel — has 2,400 hours since September 1 and 2355 subscribers
If you’re interested in Bible Journaling, I’d love if if you’d turn on a playlist and let some videos run (even silence them if you want, haha!). You can also SHARE the channel on your social media and see if you have friends who’d be interested in that kind of content. To find playlists, go to the channel and click on the “playlists” tab.
If you watch videos from other small-ish channels, do the same for them. Go turn on their playlists and let ’em run. Share them with others. Do a little every day for the creators you appreciate, and let’s see if we can combat the YouTube rules!
So fun! LOVE Betty White–I’ve been recording all the Golden Girl reruns on my DVR this winter. 😉 I’ve also been trying to help out the small channels by running their videos while I craft. I will try and do the same for your bible journaling page when I get back from Creativation. P.S. I missed you this year. 🙂
Sandy what an amazing portrait I knew who she was straight away. You are such a talented lady. :o)
Wow Sandy, I didn’t know here name, but I now what she played in “The Golden Girls” . A serie that whe also could see here in the Netherlands. Your painting of here is stunning and very good otherwise I shouldn’t have recognized here!
QUESTION: I have been a subscriber in YT for awhile, and I have watched your Bible videos before on YT, I just went to watch a few more after reading your post and it says “private video” would not let me watch, even thou it did say that yes, I was subscribed when I signed on? Any Ideas what happened? why?Thanks, I did try for ya,lol
That’s really weird! No idea why. Normally that would only happen if I gave you a link to a video that’s scheduled and not yet public.
Sandy, Painting is amazing!!!!! I LOVE, LOVE your Bible YT channel, I do admit I haven’t had any time lately to visit ANY of my YT channels, BUT you can bet I will make a huge effort to get there and watch as many as I can, and when I am doing bills or other things I will do the other thing you suggested, lol. I will do my part Sandy, I want you to continue it, I so enjoy it. Thanks.
I wrote this email first Sandy, then went to watch a few videos before went to take a nap, didn’t work, so then wrote above email, sorry didn’t see this “reply”button.
Did I mention how many times Bruce kept repeating “Wow!” when he saw this painting? LOL – you really are good! I hope your video watches go up!!! I love what you do!
What a wonderful portrait! She is one of a kind and you captured her wonderful smile. Great job, Sandy!
Oh my gosh, you really captured the essence of Betty White in your painting! What a fun lady she is. Hope she gets to see it!!!
Love Betty White! Love your portrait, too. tfs
And if you set the speed at 2x, you can run through the videos faster!
LOL!!!!