 How are you today? Welcome to another video for my year 2017. We are here for the month of August and the prompt for this month is hot and cold. If you want to know more about the group or what we're doing in the group, see all the videos everybody's made and sharing the work that they're sharing. The best place to get all that is in the Facebook group and to join all you have to do is ask. And the link is in the video description here on YouTube along with my website address, my Etsy shop, if you want to support the free content here on YouTube and on Facebook, you can shop in the Etsy shop. The link to my tip jar, if you want to put a donation in the tip jar for my teaching. My happy mail address, so much more. So check out the video description. All right, so you can take the hot and cold prompt literally, of course you can, but you don't have to. You can use the prompt to discuss or think about your mood. Are you running really cold and dead inside? Are you warm and fiery or hot and fiery? Or are you just warm in kind of middle of the road and happy and pleased with your life? Is your art cold and dead and flat? Or is it hot and fiery and going 100 miles an hour? Or is it something in between? So you can really take the prompt a number of different ways and I want to encourage all of you whether you're watching the video here on YouTube or you're part of the Facebook group to take the prompt and all the other prompts we've done so far this year and all those we will do going forward out of the box, take them beyond the obvious, beyond the ordinary and create something that really speaks to you and is unique to you, all right? So today we're gonna talk about colors, hot and cold colors, yes? And I've got simple things. I have Crayola, Crayola, these are just crayons. I do have the Jane P. Davenport Mermaid Markers. I just honestly, I grabbed these because they were easy and I just got them and I've used one but I thought, well, okay, we'll just play with them. I have a water brush here. I did find with the one that I played with, they're super, super pigmented and I really wanted to blend it out with just some water and make them something more watercolor-y. So I have a brush. So we're gonna do a quick, just a quick face. Nothing complicated and I am going to start with a black, big, crystal pen. Plain, cheap, easy to find, not, it's nothing special. It's just a big pen, it works great. All right, so we are going to just do a simple little sketch of a girl's face. Now, if you wanna do something like this and you are not sure about drawing faces and you aren't sure about proportion and you aren't sure about, you know, your abilities, your skills, I will tell you that it just takes practice and I have to concentrate here, wait, I can't. That's hard, so hard to do this and talk to you all. I will tell you though that coming shortly I am having some new stencils come out which speak to helping you all figure out the proportion on the face and getting things down on paper and it gives you kind of a starting point. So look for those to come out soon. I'm not sure if they'll be ready for release by the time this video is out but you will probably have started seeing the stencils on the internet because there are some prototype samples out there with a few people. This is a little bit short, but that's okay. This is not the proper way to sketch a face. You're supposed to do the circle and put the line. I never do that. If you draw that way fabulous, good on you. I think that's wonderful. I just, it doesn't work for me. So if you're going to add color to any drawing, sketch or painting and you want to not use the obvious colors then you want to think about your colors as warm and cool. Some of the colors suggest sunlight, brightness and warmth and some suggest coldness, coolness and shadow, yes? So we're going to use the Jayden Davenport markers as an example. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take out the flesh tone and I'm going to take out the brown and we're going to just put those aside because I don't think we're going to, we're going to probably not use them. And let's look at the rest of these colors. You can see I haven't used most of them. They still have a little green spacer thing in them. All right, so your reds and yellows are definitely your obvious warm colors. Your blues and purples are your obvious cool colors. Now greens, greens could go a couple of different ways. If you just take these two greens you'll see one of them obviously looks warmer than the other one. One looks cooler, right? This one is cooler, this one is warmer. So when you're painting with these colors, you want to use your warmer colors on the part that are closer to the viewer, the parts that you want to highlight and you want to use your cool colors on the parts you want to push back into shadow. All right, so actually I really want to experiment with how these work with just some plain crayons. So we're gonna try that. I have these Crayola twistables, which I actually really like and they're just a crayon, a twistable crayon. And I'm not sure how these Jane Davenport mermaid markers are going to work with their crayons. I would imagine because the crayon is waxy that this will, the markers will just kind of sit on top. I use that blue one and let's see. Here's a green one. This is kind of a warmer green. And just keep layering your colors. And let's go in with some mermaid markers. Let's go back to cool colors. This is a violet color. I'm gonna take these little rings off and screw that brush part back on all the way. There we go. Oop, this one's got funky britzels. That doesn't make me happy. See that? I don't like that. That doesn't make me happy. These are brand new. There we go. So I just squeezed it a little bit to prime it until a little bit came out. And I was right. The mermaid markers resist the crayon, where the crayon is, which actually I kind of like. And I'm gonna right away take my water brush, squeeze a little bit of water out from it. There we go. So the crayon acts like a resist. So it's going to push the ink in the mermaid marker away. So going back to the bristles, there may be an easy fix for that. Sometimes if you take these, because they're nylon and you put them in some hot water for a few seconds, it fixes the hairs. The other easy obvious fixes to just chop them off. But yeah, I might have to write an email because I don't like that. All right. So now we're going to go in with a cool color. I'm sorry, a warm color. I knew what I meant. You all knew what I meant too, didn't you? So this is a yellow one. This one's fine. Again, I've got to take the thing off. So we put the violet where we want the shadows to be, where we want the face to recess away from the viewer. So this is the warmer color. And we want to put it in those places where we want it to be out and closer to the viewer. Those places that we want to highlight. Like with any other water-soluble material, don't go too far before you get in here with some water if you want to do some blending. I don't know how well these do or don't stain. So I would recommend not letting them get too far before you get in here with the marker. They're very pigmented. And if you just put a little water on here, you can really spread it around. And I'm working on a scrap of 140 pound watercolor paper, by the way. This is just a scrap. I don't even remember what this is left over from to be honest with you. Now we're going to switch back to a cool color. And now I'm going to switch to this blue. I was going to choose the turquoise, but I think I want to choose this blue instead. I'm going to have to check all the bristles on these markers now, get that started. I'm going to go back in to those places I want to be in shadow. Now the blue may mix with the yellow and create green, but that's okay. I'm not also trying to cover up the pen marks. I don't care if they show. I'm putting the water where I want the paint to go. So if you don't want the paint to go into the hair, then don't put water there. What color is this one? Deep sea. I'm guessing that's dark blue. That's not brown. That's not black. There is no black in this set. Let's see what we can do with this one. There's also something to be said for using a color for your darkest shadows that's not black. In my opinion, you get a more interesting piece of artwork if you do. Those of you who know me and have followed me for a while also know that I really like the more abstract primitive, that's really my thing. It makes me really happy. I don't do realism. I don't even try. My few attempts at it, I wasn't happy with. Like this color, I have to tell you guys. It's a deep sea. It is a great color. I could keep going with that color. Ah, yay, yay. Okay, so we're gonna come in here with our water brush. This is just the water brush. Squeeze it a little bit to get the bristles moist. Grab a baby wipe. That's perfect. Lift some of that pigment up. It does lift very nicely, by the way. Okay, I'm gonna come back with, push out over to the side so I don't stick my hand in it. Cause, you know, I would definitely do that. Come back with some crayons. These are like twistables, but they're by Sanrio, the people who make Hello Kitty. They're a kid's crayon. You heard me right. Sanrio. I love a good crayon. So your aqua blue is gonna be warmer than the violet that I'm putting in her eyes. So that'll help give her irises, the colored part of the eye, some depth. See if I can go in here with a white crayon. And I don't know if this will work or not to whiten up the sclera, cause of course, you know, I went crazy with the paint here. Which is okay. Maybe. Yeah, that did help. I'm gonna make her lips darker. Let's see, one of these in red. We'll use this one. This is crazy art. I'm gonna take my big pen again. Let's see, we have all this crayon and the mermaid markers. And you know, I know in mixed media, we're always like, oh, what pen can I get to write over them? Your big pen. Works great. We always forget about the trusty big pen. Works great. Nothing fancy. I'm purposefully having my lines be sketchy and irregular, loose, keeping it loose. So experiment this month with warm and cool colors to create something unique for your journals, like a face or something else. I didn't use any flesh tones in here. So I challenge you to use no flesh tones. See what you can come up with. Have some fun and don't forget the one thing I'm always bad about doing, sign your work, okay? That's it for today. Check out the video description. Don't forget if you have any questions to leave me a comment and above all, go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.