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Transcript Hi. I’m Pays164, and here’s a little demonstration on how to clean up and fix mistakes. Sometimes you might come through and, oh my goodness, just make a really good little mess of yourself. Simply just coming back and doing techniques called cutting will clean everything up. Same color as I used for the …
Transcript Hey this is Pays164, and this is how to balance your letters in your graffiti piece. Make sure you just kind of step back and look at the wall, get your proportion down. If you’re working with a sketch feel free to draw a line in the center of that and have that your …
Transcript Hey, I’m Pays164, and here’s a couple of tips for the best spacing techniques when you’re painting your graffiti piece. We discussed earlier in some videos that you can come through, and apply a line across the wall. Count your bricks if there’s bricks. Take footsteps to divide up each letter so you how …
Transcript Hi, I’m Pays164, and here’s some of my better letter structuring tips. I like to kind of structure my letters off of different images. If I’m down in New Mexico painting with my friends I might kind of shape my; P, A, E, S, just to kind of vibe with the environment like cactus’s. …
Transcript This is Paise [sp ?] 164. Here’s some tips on creating fine lines. First and foremost, a fine tip. Fine outline tips, that are compatible with cans, that are more pressure sensitive. Pressure sensitive cans allow you to just lightly press the tip. And with that, and a combination of a good flick of …
Transcript Hi, I’m Pays164. In today’s graffiti demonstration, I’m going to break down to you how to do sharp lettering. Basically, you’re just taking your own lettering style, stretching it out, giving it almost that blade look. You know, that 1980’s look. Check it out. I’m mean it’s about as simple as that. Any type …
Transcript Hey this is Pays164, and now I’m going to give you some tips in graffiti background. Sometimes it doesn’t have to be too complex if you’re running out of wall space, but picking good colors to fade around your piece so that you can silhouette images such as city building, subway cars and whatnot. …
Transcript Hi, I’m Pays164, and here are a couple tips to remember while painting graffiti. First good tip to remember is write the color that’s in the can on the can. You’re out and about, it’s getting a little darker outside, you’re shuffling through your bag trying to get the right color out… It’s just …
Transcript This is Paes 164 and these are a few quick tips on how to clean your graffiti tips. First and foremost when you’re done flip the can upside down and spray until you kind of clean out the nozzle. Ain’t nothing more a pain in the butt than when you are in the middle …
Transcript Hi, I’m Pays164. Now, we’re going to demonstrate how to use a fat cap. First, a fat cap is a type of tip that’s going to spray much wider than the normal tips found on your stock spray paint can. You have snowballs. Montana has a series of fat caps out, very easy to …
Transcript Hi. this is Pays164, and this is how to control your spray paint can, and how to use your graffiti caps. Very simply, grasp your spray paint can. Get a good grip just with enough room to slide your finger right on the top. You don’t want to get it too high, and end …
Transcript Hi, I’m Pays164. Here’s some tips on how to do graffiti for beginners. Don’t get too caught up in trying to get all wild style when you’re still trying to understand the concepts of bending your letters, and getting your graffiti done. So basically, keep it real simple. Blockbusters, mobile styles, throwies [SP], all …
Transcript We’re going to make a pair of jade drop earrings and these are great just because they add a little color to your outfits. You can wear this with an all black or you can wear this with a sort of green top. It will just pick up the green in your top and …
Transcript Hi, my name is Tam Tran and I am a designer living in New York City. I also have a jewelry store and a workshop called Lost Wax Studio on Elizabeth Street between Spring and Kenmare. My thing is sort of more about ancient jewelry, and trying to find the perfect connecting point, between …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a pair of blue quartz and labradorite dangle earrings. So basically this is the earring we are going to make. This is our blue quartz drop and then the labradorite bead. So, I have a piece of 24 gauge wire and I’m …
Transcript So now I’m going to show you how to make bindings from wire. These are commercial binders that you can buy in a store or since you already have the wire, I’m just going to show you how to make the components instead of buying it. Sometimes it’s a little nicer because you can …
Transcript Hi I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a pair of Rutilated quartz drop earrings. So, Rutilated quartz is basically a type of stone. And, it’s a quartz and the Rutilated means these are the rutiles inside of the stone, so you can see the markings inside, that’s called the …
Transcript So now I’m going to show you how to make a hammer dangle component to hang off of your chain. So basically we’ve made the basic unit with the loop and I’m going to pick a place to put it on to the chain and so it’s going to look like this. And then …
Transcript Hi. I’m Tam, and I’m going to show you how to make these dangly earrings with briolettes. Briolettes are the teardrop cuts of stones. So these are what we’re going to make. So these you can buy at any bead store, these rings in oval shape, and these are the briolette beads. And for …
Transcript Hi my name is Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a simple thin wire ring from silver wire, 16 gauge, at home because we can only use this mini torch at home so you want to use something very, very thin with the wire. So basically this is pretty popular …
Transcript Now I’m going to show you how to build a vertical component to your horizontally wrapped chain. Because these are beads, if we’re gonna build it vertically it needs to go this way from the chain. So you can buy things called a head pin, or you can make them with your wire by …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam, and I’m going to show you how to make a bracelet with wire wrapping and Czech glass beads. So basically, I’ve wrapped all these beads on it, and I’ve chosen the colors sort of so they’re a little metallic, and darks. And they will look great with any outfits. So basically …
Transcript Hi I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a pair of fresh water pearl earrings with emerald bead clusters. Basically this is what were going to make. So basically we have our pearl, our 3b for the cluster that your wire and the wire for the clusters and the wire …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam, and I’m going to show you how to make a pair of chain earrings with briolette dangles. I didn’t finish this one, because I just wanted to show you the different options you could do. This is basically a ready-made chain that you can buy. So you can buy thicker, heavier, …
Transcript Hi. I’m Tam, and I’m going to show you how to make a single gemstone earring. And here, we’re using pearls. Basically, this is a very popular, simple earring, that a lot of people feel that it’s lacking in the market place, just because it’s too simple to be sold in stores. But it’s …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam. I’m going to show you how to make a very simple pair of earrings by texturizing a ready-made oval disc that you can just buy at any beading store. So this is what it’s going to look like. When we buy it it looks like this, but after you texturize it …
Transcript Now that we’ve sorted the piece and it’s cooled off, we’re just going to clean up the seam. So now see, by adding heat to it, because it’s sterling silver, it’s turning black, it’s oxidation, so using sand paper, you can pretty much shine it all back up again. The solder went really nicely …
Transcript Hi I’m Tam. And now were going to make a, just another easy leather knotting bracelet. And so basically this is just determined by the beads you choose. So I chose these cool sort of skulls. This is carved out of an agate. This is a porcelain skull. These are porcelain. And these are …
Transcript So now I’m going to show you how to start a chain and add the beads. So we made our basic component. Basically, you want to have at least three wraps, that way it’s secure. You can even do a longer coil as part of your design. But you want to have at least …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam, and now we’re going to talk about how to use the different crimps and attachments to put on the clasp and everything. So here I’m going to show you, I’m using the bead along wire. So basically this is what we’re going to do. I’ve already finished one end of this …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a simple leather bracelet with one bead on it and sliding knots. So basically, this is the sample of what we’re going to make. This is a pearl with unnatural leather and the sliding knots mean that they’re adjustable. So if you …
Transcript Hi. I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make another fun wrap bracelet with blue wax cord and these brass tubes and these cool dangles that I found at the bead store. I have a yard of wax cord. And basically, this is another organic project, meaning there’s no exact dimensions …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a simple necklace with a pendant. This is a pendant that I’ve made and I’ve already put it on the cord and I’m going to show you how to do the adjustable sliding knot, but a double one instead of just a …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to wire wrap. This is a very popular technique. This is one of our popular workshops at our store. Everybody sort of likes to do this because it’s very low tool usage and you can do a lot of things with this technique. So …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a rolo chain bracelet with leather cord or wax cords. So basically this is what it’s going to look like. Rolo chain basically means it’s a name of a type of metal chain. So you can go to any beads or jewelry …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam, and we’re going to make a freshwater pearl bracelet. Real pearls, like freshwater pearls or South Sea pearls, you want to knot them so that they don’t bang into each other and damage the pearl. It depends on how valuable your pearls are, but most pearl jewelry is knotted for this …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m gonna show you how to string beads on leather and just add knots like these bracelets here. So basically we just put on any bead you’d like. These are great because these are more like summery kind of bracelets so you can add lots of color, their easy to …
Transcript So beading is completely different than stringing and knotting, because beading is more like sewing with tiny little beads. And stringing and knotting is about using beads, but you’re going to be putting it on a string, as opposed to sewing it with a needle and thread. So the first material, of course, are …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam. I’m going to show you how to make a long necklace with mala prayer beads on loop cord. So basically, we’re going to make something like this, which this is a sample of a necklace I made already. Basically, this is something really long that you can wear doubled as a …
Transcript Hi. I’m Tam, and now I’m going to demo stringing and knotting with a silk string. Usually, this is what we use for pearls. You put all your pearls onto the string, and what you’re going to need for this is very, very, very pointy tweezers. Basically, my first knot is like so, so …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam, and I’m going to show you how to make these very simple bracelets with just a few beads and string of any kind of leather or waxed cord, which is what I’m going to use here. These are great for the summer because they’re colorful and they’re summery, and we sell …
Transcript Hi, I’m Tam. I’m going to show you how to make a wrap bracelet with jump rings, or washers, or any kind of washer-type hardware. So, these I actually got from the hardware store. These are actual jump rings from the jewelry supply. You can actually use anything as long as it has a …
Transcript I’m going to show you how to use a silk string in the knotting and beading. So when we use a silk string, it’s usually when we use a better material. So now I’m going to attach the clasp, and when I attach a clasp with the silk string, I use a product called …
Transcript So these are the instructions for the origami penis and balls. So the first step for the origami penis is we’re going to make a book fold, so it’s going to start with the white side up. We want to take the bottom edge up to the top edge, make sure that it lines …
Transcript These are the instructions for an origami elephant. The first step for the origami elephant, take out your sheet of paper and we’re going to make a diagonal fold. So start with the white side up, take the bottom corner and fold it all the way up to the top. Try and get it …
Transcript So these are the instructions for an origami water cup. For the origami water cup, I’m going to grab one sheet of paper. The first step is going to be with the white side up, we are going to fold a diagonal fold, so take the bottom point and fold it all the way …
Transcript These are the steps for the Origami Butterfly. For the Origami Butterfly we’re going to take one sheet of paper, start with the colored side up and we’re going to take the bottom edge going to fold it up to the top edge, this is called a Book Fold. Now go ahead and make …
Transcript These are the instructions for a origami penguin. First step for the origami penguin is to start with a sheet of paper. We’re going to start with the white side up and I’m going to go a diagonal fold. We’re going to fold the bottom corner up to the top corner. So go ahead …
Transcript So these are the instructions for an origami panda. So for the origami panda, go ahead and grab a sheet of paper. We’re going to start with a book fold. So go ahead and start with the color side up, and we are going to fold that one side of the bottom all the …
Transcript This is a video to make an origami bunny box. The first step for the origami bunny balloon is a book fold. So we’re going to start with the color side up, go ahead and make a book fold, so it’s going to go from the bottom edge up to the top. Make sure …
Transcript These are the instructions for an Origami wallet. So for this Origami wallet, I’m going to use 6 inch paper, but if you want one that’s more life size, you might want to use 12 or even a little bit larger. This will be a smaller version of the wallet. The first step, go …
Transcript So these are the instructions for making an origami flapping crane. For the origami flapping crane, we’re going to start with a sheet of paper with the color side up. We’re going to begin with a diagonal fold. So the diagonal fold, we’re going to take the bottom corner. We’re going to fold it …
Transcript So these are the instructions for an origami lotus flower. So for the origami lotus flower we’re going to start with a blintz fold. In order to get the blintz fold we have to find the exact center of the paper. So, we’re going to fold a diagonal crease. So, make sure that it’s …
Transcript This is a video for an origami turtle. Let me give you an example of one right there. That’s what we’re going for. Grab a sheet of paper. We’re going to start with the colored side up and we’re going to make a book fold. So take the bottom edge, fold it all the …
Transcript This is a video for an origami snake. The first step for the origami snake is a diagonal fold, so go ahead and start with the white side up and we’re going to fold one corner to the other. Make sure that it’s nice and precise. We want to be as exact as we …
Transcript These are the instructions for an origami shark. The first step, we’re going to take a sheet of paper. We’re going to start with the colored side up. We’re going to make a book fold, so go ahead and take the bottom edge and fold it all the way up to the top. And …
Transcript These are the instructions for an Origami Samurai Helmet. For the Origami Samurai Helmet, we start with a regular sheet of paper and with the white side up. So, with the white side up, we’re going to take the bottom corner, I’m going to fold it all the way up to the top corner. …
Transcript This is a video for an origami bookmark. The first step for the origami bookmark is we’re going to start with a sheet of paper with the color on top, and what we’re going to do is we’re going to make a diagonal fold. So go ahead and take one corner and bring it …
Transcript These are the instructions for an origami car. The first step for the origami car, get a sheet of paper and start with the white side up. What we’re going to do is we’re going to fold the bottom edge up to the top edge, and this is a book fold. Make sure that …
Transcript This is a video for creating an origami boat. The first step for the origami boat is we’re going to take a sheet of paper and we’re going to start with the white side up, we’re going to make a book fold. So go ahead and start. We’re going to take this bottom edge …
Transcript This is a video for an origami jumping frog. The first step for the origami frog is to pick out a sheet of paper and now we’re going to start with the white side up and we’re going to fold a book fold. So take the bottom edge and bring it up to the …
Transcript These are the instructions for an origami owl. The first step for the origami owl is, we’re going to take a sheet of paper. We’re going to start with the colored side up, and we’re going to make a diagonal fold. So go ahead and take one corner, bring it all the way up …
Transcript My name is Ben Friesen. I am an Origami artist from Brooklyn, New York. I’ve been folding since I was at least five years old. My mom got me a dinosaur origami book. I was one of those kids who was very ADD and she wanted to find something that would keep me still …
Transcript This is a video for an origami fish. The first step for the origami fish is to pick out a sheet of paper. We’re going to start with the white side up, and we’re going to make a diagonal fold. Go ahead and fold the bottom point up to the top point. Just get …
