 Hey guys How are you this morning? Why am I upside down again? You know, holy crap. I thought I figured this out last time Am I upside down for you guys or am I right side up upside down? Okay? I'm gonna try not to make y'all real sick, but I'm gonna switch the camera around hold on See if it makes a difference. There was a bunch of updates to apps last night. It's probably an update issue I didn't make any difference did it? It didn't we yeah, thanks. Hey, Art Sherpa. Yeah, it didn't make any difference. I'm still upside down You know, there were like I didn't even look to see what apps updated last night, but there were eight or nine updates last night So sorry about that. We'll have to Work with it the way it is. I will Flip the picture around I'll flip I'll flip the picture around when I put it up on YouTube You really want me to change it around or just leave it. It's okay. All right So here we go. So we're gonna do a fish today. So we're gonna use a couple of art. Hey, good morning If I sound kind of funny, it's cuz I'm a little bit Icky this morning for my allergies. I've got a cough drop in my mouth actually It helps control the cough the coughing in them. You cuz that's probably TMI this morning. Anyway We're gonna work on this fish and we're gonna work on a Stand on your heads Aaron. You're so funny We're gonna work on a couple of different techniques to do this fish I've gotten one of my books out here and I opened it up to this picture of this flying fish It's called a spot fin flying fish. Good morning So I thought he was interesting so that we would do him and I've got one that's kind of ready to go here that I've already done my sketch on and I've done a little bit of a Background and I'm gonna show you guys how I did that I wanted to do it ahead of time because the background takes a little bit of time to dry and there's really no way to speed it up So we're gonna put that to the side And grab our pencil and I'll explain what this is As we go along Yeah, I love the orangey reds. He's got some really pretty dark colors in here You could use a brown you could use of course pains gray I'm wondering what violet would look like is the dark shadow color in this fish Paint a butt. Okay, seriously You know two seconds in we've got somebody wants me to paint a butt at least they didn't ask to see my boobs this time block He's gone. Yeah, so if you guys see somebody like that if you can block them, that's great if you can't Let me know I'll try to catch them All right, so the first thing that you want to do is if we want to just do our sketching To get our basic shape and layout on here and again, you want to just do light pencil strokes You don't know digging any holes to China with your pencil. Yeah trolls trolls are everywhere All right, so the first I'm gonna start with his head here. I'm gonna make sure you guys can see him there we go if you don't have any like books of You know animals then, you know, you definitely can Go to the library, but you also can And I'm gonna zoom in just a little bit. Let's see You can definitely also There we go Go to Pinterest. I love Pinterest Okay, so I'm going to Put his head in and you definitely can do this by just making shapes So his head's kind of a funny shape so I'm gonna something like that not quite a Circle and I'm gonna put his little eye right here I'm not sure if it's another eye or a mouth or but there's something right here another piece of anatomy So we're gonna kind of sketch that in Then we've got this sort of long teardrop for his body And again, we're just doing a light pencilly sketch. Yeah We're gonna start to put some of his fins in the first one over here starts about right there and again We're using the book for inspiration. I Don't expect you to copy it completely and You guys have watched me long enough to know that when I'm doing these if it, you know My image runs off the page unlike the one in my reference photo or reference book. I'm not so concerned about that I'm gonna put in the other There's a fin in the back here. I'm gonna just put that much of a line in Yeah, I definitely can So normally I wouldn't do it this dark But you guys are having trouble seeing I don't want you to do it this dark do it lighter This is not a stabilo. This is a Faber-Castell Jumbo to be pencil. I like it because it is Nice and fat and when my hand my arthritis is bothering me it's easy to It's easy to hold on to and Definitely if you're somebody who really is concerned about drawing to exact scale This is probably not the way to sketch for you. You probably want something that's a lot more precise I am I'm more interested in an artistic impression usually Then I am drawing exactly to scale And I kind of like the fact that he's kind of running off the page here and that his his Other fins are not gonna actually all be on the page Yeah, I love this pencil and it you know, especially for those of us who have you know issues you have any issues with your hands And as we get older we do Then this big fat pencil is really easy to hold on to I know there's lots of like attachments You can stick on your pencil, but this is easy easy for me Okay, so once you have your sketch then we want to work on The background because the way that I did the background on this one Takes a while to dry and yeah, there's lots of fish on Pinterest. So definitely go to Pinterest and You know just put in fish and see fish pictures and see what pops up and use one of those for inspiration Now I'm going to put some water on here. And as you notice I Evidently this brush was a little dirty because the water is clean And I guess I didn't clean all the paint off of it because you notice the little bit of yellow that's on there That's all right. We're going to go with that I've got some light blue here in the lid of my palette and I'm going to just use what's on here For this picture. I don't want the color to be very dark. I want it to be light But the darker the pigments are the paint is when you do this the more that it It shows up. We're going to make it grainy. I'm going to put some green I did blue and green in the other one. This is coming out more yellow because evidently there was some yellow paint on this big brush You want to get the page really wet if some goes into the fish. I'm not so concerned about it. It did in the other one, too Then This is just plain ordinary like generic table salt In fact, this is Albertson's brand and we haven't had an Albertson store in my area of California In like ten years, so I've had this thing of salt for a while. This is a royal langnickel one inch flat Zen brush I got this on clearance at Michaels They were having a big clearance and it's actually I think it's actually an acrylic brush But I like it for doing washes and watercolor. I don't remember how much I paid for it But I'm pretty sure it was clearance either at Michaels or I'm pretty sure it was Michaels Okay, so I want you to just get some table salt ordinary plain old table salt And you're going to sprinkle it where you have all the water and the paint. Yes, this can be messy Too much salt. You're gonna let that dry completely before you do anything else Range my table a little bit better. So you guys are gonna be able to see all right So as this dries the salt's gonna hey Hey, Allie the salt's gonna pick up some of the pigment and it's gonna leave a grainy texture and I'll show you The one that's dry So this is the one that's dry But I did yesterday and Can you see like here this way? No this way Oh boy There we go by my finger the grainy texture there in the paint That's from the salt when the salt dried it picked up some of the pigment and it left this grainy texture in the paint And it's just gonna give this kind of watery watery Watercolor background of this fish and it really interesting texture and give him some extra life Now I have salt all over my table All right So now I'm gonna take some smaller brushes because that one is too big and we are going to wet our Pallet of paint Hope you all are having a good week You're having fun playing with your watercolor paints. I hope all right I'm gonna use kind of a medium round medium for the ones that I picked This is a Princeton select round number four and I'm gonna start with New Gamboge Which is this one here and I'm going to referring to my picture of my fish I'm gonna Start with you know my lightest color Work my way darker because unlike acrylics. That's what you want to do I'm gonna lay in some pigments If you have any parts of the fish that you want to leave That you want to be white you either have to leave them white Or you have to go back and add Chinese white or you can add Sometimes I go in with a gel pen So I'm gonna lay a bit of pigment and then I'm gonna just come in with this is just water And I'm gonna spread my pigment around Started to see a lot of you doing watercolor painting and you're doing fish and birds Good afternoon, and I'm so excited Has everybody seen Cindy's udders two birds on Facebook that she's been doing she did a duck and up I Think a pelican and I think Cheryl haven't you been doing some birds, too And I'm gonna stick with the new Gamboge for for right now when it comes to these fins I want to blend some of this line these lines a bit But I don't want to blend all of them because if you notice in the inspiration photo He has these ridges So we want to blend some of that but not all of it because we want those ridges to be there Yeah, I have to stop buying watercolor paint. I keep saying that but my drawer where I store all my tubes is full I have to stop buying I have to stop it. Hey, hello from Italy Grandmother and grandfather were from Italy, Oriano You're Luca So we're gonna just go around our fish and I'm barely right now barely barely touching the paper I'm I'm referring back to my photo which is off camera because I got want you guys to see more of what I'm doing then I want you to see the photo and I am putting starting to put in some of these lines and then I'm gonna come in with some water I'm gonna blur them just a bit not too much So a little tip or trick if you let your pigment dry just a bit Before you come in with the water It's gonna still move, but it's not gonna move as much and so you'll be able to spread the color out a little bit But you're gonna still have that line and sometimes you want that So let's come over here and let's do the same thing over here And as we're going along, of course, if you guys have any questions, let me know and also When you're doing something like this You know the more water you put on the more it's gonna blend And maybe you don't want that maybe you want it to blend less so then you put less water You also of course can go in with a rag and do some lifting if you get it too dark Water is the big key. You know some watercolor artists will tell you the kind of water you use I use tap water Some artists only use bottled water. There were some big debates about that. I just use tap water He's looking pretty good. I Want to put a little bit of something down here on his tail Not too much because his back fin is in the photo is pretty white You know what would be a fun fish to do is one of those They called angel fish those goldfish with the big big wings All right now. I'm gonna go in with some nickel as nickel as a yellow Geez, I can't speak this morning Which is The sort of golden yellow less orangey a dollar Cooler yellow knows the new gambos is very warm and bright Okay, so we're gonna go in this is where his one eye is and there's a dark spot here There's a dark spot here. I will of course post this up on Facebook It takes me a few days as you all know to get him up there They take a little bit more video editing And if I don't take time with my video editing then we have issues like what happened this morning where I had to take down watercolor Wednesday because there was a video editing error and Fix it It's reloading right now though FYI Cuz you know I hate video editing and I'm honestly I'm not that good at it I can paint you pretty pictures, but don't ask me to do some fancy video editing So again, we're working our way from darker to lighter Right now. We're working with nickel also nickel as a yellow Okay, so once the watercolor is dry, that's a great question Once the watercolor is dry, you can choose to do nothing to your painting Know that that if it gets wet the water will reactivate the paint You can also though Set your watercolor or seal your watercolor just like you would any other painting and the best way to do that is with some sort of a spray like Krylon's workable fixative which you then could work over again with more watercolor or other media Or a matte finish spray or some kind of a spray varnish I would recommend an aerosol because I think you're gonna have an easier time It's drier and it's not going to reactivate the paint I Would let your watercolor painting dry really well for a day or two and make sure it's really really dry before you do any of those There's some really great YouTube videos by different artists out there that Go over how to seal your watercolor paintings. I do recommend it. I have an old It's actually like an acrylic pen and ink and watercolor Piece that was done by one of my aunts when she was in college and it was never sealed I did actually as an adult go back and Seal it in a frame so no oxygen can get in there But the ink started to fade and the watercolor even the You know top-of-the-line brands At some point granted that point may be you know a hundred years from now But at some point they will start to do that, too So you do want to seal it especially if it's something that you really enjoy and that you really want to keep and You want your you know children to keep and all that so I'm just going around with my you know slightly darker color And I'm adding it into You know different spots on my fish. I love using Pinterest for inspiration It's a really great source So I definitely do recommend it Especially when you're on a budget and or you just want to live in your house I mean we'd all love a ton of art books, but you know they take up a lot of space Yes, can you hear the air conditioner come on? I mean, you know, it's only October here in California And it's you know still like a hundred degrees outside. I just don't get it. Thank you for all the hearts. I Haven't switched paint colors yet. I'm still using the one color Okay, he's already looking interesting All right, so now we're gonna go in with another darker color think I Am going to I'm real I'm gonna listen to my instincts and I'm gonna listen to what my Creative part of me is wanting to play with this morning, which is quodachrodone gold now Daniel Smith has two colors of quodachrodone gold Quodachrodone gold and quodachrodone gold deep. We will probably use both on this fish with some quodachrodone sienna And I have no idea if I'm saying that right by the way Probably not So again, we're gonna go in and we're going to Work into our darker spots Yeah, see I'm I'm more of a cold weather girl. I'm happier when it's cold just And you know in California, we don't usually have so many of these super hot days. This is not normal for us So I'm going to blend some of this. I'm not going to blend all of it And I'm going to go around my fish and I'm going to do that everywhere I'm starting again at his head and working my way around Now how much detail you put in your fish just depends on you What kind of painting you want to do? How precise you want to be do you want to be more expressive with your fish? And suggest shapes rather than actually paint or draw them in that's totally up to you and you have to decide as you're painting what you want and You know play play just play and and try it a couple different ways and see what makes you happy Probably blended that a little too much right there I have family in texas I talked to them online. I don't actually I don't I haven't been to texas as an adult I won't say I've never been to texas when I was a baby. I have been a couple times, but I don't really remember too much Only time as an adult I've been to texas was at the airport On my way to germany. Dang it was hot even inside the air conditioning But you know they have jerry's arderama in texas And I'm thinking someday I have to go to texas For jerry to see jerry's arderama. I just you know I think I have to Oh, those of you who are in some of the western united states And I guess georgia I oddly enough If you have an erin brothers art and framing near you and if you're not sure go to their website They're only in a few states including georgia and idaho at texas um, washington, orgin and uh They're having a big sale right now Yeah, there's jerry's in a couple of states So I'm thinking I'm going to have to go on vacation These watercolors are daniel smith my favorite watercolor brand Um, I'm building my palette. They're a little pricey erin's art and framing Cells of course framing supplies, but they are a subsidiary of michael's arts and crafts And they right now are having a buy one get two free canvas sale Along with a buy one get one free paintbrush sale, and I think also their Generic brand of paint is on sale But it's a good time to stock up on canvases and paint brushes because they've got some they carry the princeton select brush So just keep going around your fish with gradually darker colors Referring to your photo to make sure you're putting those darker colors in the right places You know, I've said this before in different videos, but when I'm painting Especially when I'm painting and talking to you all I sometimes lose track of where my shadows are or where my sun is so um I have been known to especially on canvases on my easel to put a post-it note to the side that says sun So that I know which way the sun is coming from and I don't get confused Especially if I paint a little bit and then come back That's what this is. These are out of the tube and then I just let them dry And then I reconstitute them with some water I'm I'm building up my palette. So I'm I need to add some true blues and a couple of reds I want to get some prussian blue in particular and some ultramarine blue and then probably alizarin crimson and Probably cadmium red Those are the colors that are missing out of this palette. I do have my van go palette not too far away in case I decided I need some of those colors so I Am not super picky about my brushes, but I do have to say I prefer synthetics um He's looking pretty cute the Princeton select. I believe is a synthetic brush um, I do have some natural um Bristle brushes. Oh, there's fuzz on my brush Um, and they are nice and all and they hold a lot of water, but they're very expensive um Most of the time when I'm painting with watercolor I am painting with a Around brush about this size about a number four Two a six that seems to be my favorite size Um, I will share with you guys something. I just got um as for traveling in just a minute When I'm painting with acrylics I prefer a filbert brush I do use them occasionally in watercolor, but not as much as I do in um acrylic paint You can get away with just having one Round brush. I would make it a medium size something about this size um Because you can do a lot with that You can do fine points and something fatter by just pushing on the brush a little harder um If you can afford a little bit more, I would suggest Something bigger and flatter like this one inch flat so that you can do washes So that's already looking cute, right? Let's go in with Let's start to add in some reds because our fish is looking a little bit like a goldfish Not that I have a problem with that and we could switch the colors up use some artistic license But let's add something more red into him Um And I think I'm going to use the red that's in the lid of my palette And I think I'm going to just add some catechord on gold deep to it to make it a little bit less crimsony And make it a little bit more orangey So he doesn't turn out to be a really pink fish. Okay. I think that's a good color All right, so again, we're going to start up at the head Now he's got these like spots It almost looks like a heart shape on his head So I'm going to just I'm barely touching the um paper. I'm just using the tip of my brush He's got kind of a spine Line that comes down this way now I'm going to put that on there and then I'm going to get my brush wet with just water And see how that just blends really nicely I'm going to just blend the one side and leave the other side as straight as I can get it Because there is a line down his back in the photograph Now in the photograph This is pretty stark So I'm going to blend it a bit, but I'm not going to blend it too much Yeah, I You know in my crafty days. I did a lot of one-stroke painting. In fact, I have a friend who's um A master one-stroke painter Although she doesn't do it. I don't think too much anymore Um and she's she taught me a lot and it's really fun And I still find myself occasionally using those some of those techniques um For doing leaves and flowers With just a basic flat brush all right, so now we're gonna I'm going to Go and I'm just looking for where I see kind of a darker reddish orange color on my fish in the photograph And again, I'm going to choose to blend some of it But not all of it and you will notice that you get a different effect If you do it on dry paper and then wet it versus wet the paper first and then do this So I encourage you when you're doing these paintings, you know, try both ways and see which one you like better See how you can get thank you see how you can get you know your technique What works for you and each painting will be different and all paintings Have an ugly duckling stage So just keep working the paint. It doesn't matter whether you're working with acrylic Or you're working with watercolor They all have a stage when you think holy crud. What did I just do that is really hideous They do they all do So that's why you should do some of the practice cards because then you get past that point where you're scared Of doing the water first or any of the certain techniques You you just work through the ugly duckling stage until you get something that you like Remember with watercolor unlike acrylic paint, you know, the color is going to stain you can lift it a bit, but it's going to stain Um So it's harder to correct mistakes, but it's not impossible. There's always a creative way around Something that you perceive as a mistake Um, and maybe that mistake happened for a reason because something else needs to go there Now you can always go over your acrylic your watercolor paint with You know white gouache, which is an opaque watercolor um I'm just starting to use some of this darker color as um Kind of putting in the shadows here I'm barely again. I love this brush because it has such a nice point on it and I can just get these sort of lines on here Without trying too hard Yeah, the quidoch would up some colors will lift really really well and some colors won't Some colors have more staining than others so The darker generally speaking For me at least what I found is the darker the color the more it stains the lighter colors lift pretty easily So i'm just going around my fish With my dark red color that I created And I know it's off-camera now Yeah, I like their um Quirochrono yellow. I also like their Hansa yellow Which is a great color The Hansa yellow I own is Hansa yellow medium And generally speaking it seems to be that when I'm buying a color like Hansa yellow Whether I'm buying it in acrylic or watercolor. I seem to gravitate towards the medium rather than the light It's more lemony for me and I can lighten it up With what I can lighten it up with water or of course by mixing it with Chinese white Um, but I like the bright lemony yellow color So you notice I left this for a little bit now. I'm coming in and adding some water It's not going to all blend out, but that's what I wanted The flying fish has these wing like fins So I really want to try to capture that in my in my painting now right out here around his head In the book he's in a um Black background But here we've got the white background. So I'm going to do a little bit of sort of outlining Which is not something I normally do, but you notice I'm away from him a little bit Yes, you can give me a second. Um So that I leave some white There we go And I'm also going to do the same thing down here Again, I'm I love this brush. Like I said, I'm barely touching The paper and then I'm going to go in with some water Towards the inside of the fish And just blend some of those lines in towards the inside of the fish So it blends with that, you know color in his body A bit At the same time he starts to pop out from the page around him. Okay, that's without any super darks in there This is a hundred and forty pound Strathmore watercolor paper. It is the Um Red pad, what is it 400 series? And this is my Daniel Smith watercolor palette. It's in an empty schmink box I'll show you guys real quick and then we'll go back to the fish. We'll let him dry for a second. Um, this is the schmink um 48 pan watercolor box you can actually get 52 pans in because you can squeeze one extra one in each row you notice over here That I've got one empty one and this whole part comes out. You could actually use the whole inside of it to blend Um, and you can't really tell from this too much what the colors are Which is why I always do a color key. We talked about charts on on monday with deco art I always do a color key when I get new watercolor paints You can tell I splattered some paint on here um And this is the these are the colors I own and you can see by looking at it If you know anything about painting that I I've been collecting the colors and I'm Obviously almost complete here, but I need um a couple of true blues and I need a couple of true reds So that's going to be the next thing I buy I have to you know, save up for them because that right there is like 40 or 50 dollars worth of paint so All right, so let's go back to our fish So far we haven't used a smaller brush. We're still using the number four round Um, so now I'm going to start going in some really dark with some really darks And you know, I'm really intrigued by the idea of using a violet And I have this color That is called rose of ultramarine Which and one of the things I love about daniel smith is they have these paint colors like look at this upper pink And then they have moon glow, which is this purpley gray Order yours from jacksons. I didn't know about the ones from jacksons when I got the empty schmig palette If I had known I would not have the empty schmig palette. I would have gotten it from jacksons So we're going to use old rose of ultramarine and then we may use some moon glow too For our really dark parts. So let's do rose of ultramarine first And again Yeah, it's so much cheaper at jacksons even with shipping. I'm going to tell you The moon moon glow is the a fabulous color So I'm going to start to put my dark spots in here I'm not going to get too far with this before I come in with some water And if I get too much pigment, then I'm going to lift it Probably with my rags. It's tangy Try to think when you're painting about using an unexpected color for your shadow color Just because your shadow color in the picture is a black color doesn't mean you have to use that for your shadow color Think about using a violet or a dark prussian blue That's one of the reasons I love paints gray This dark color see you have to have some darks And and lights or some neutrals to make those bright colors really pop um It's really important Yeah, I love this color. It's one of my favorite daniel smith colors along with moon glow And because it's sort of a You know a reddish color It goes great with the fish I'm just again. I'm going around My fish. I'm using the Photo in my book for inspiration of where to put the colors, you know where the shadows are in the photo Instead of using black. I'm using this dark rose of ultramarine As I said earlier this video will be up on youtube in a few days um It will also be on periscope for 24 hours for playback Um, so you guys can play and you can watch the nice thing about having it on youtube is you can pause I don't know that you can really do that on periscope Because honestly, I've been doing more broadcasting than I have been watching so I haven't I haven't had a chance to watch too many Now you can see that Um, there's a rose of ultramarine. It doesn't lift super well So, you know, you need to you know, be careful and cautious About where you put it and you know, like I got some right there, but you know, that's gonna just have to be I think it gives my fish some character. So we're good with it Not too much It's all right, but I did to be honest. I don't remember Um, I know that I show my schmink palette on youtube um, I did a long video with um, one of my friends and um fellow crazy island family members um Where I actually show this schmink palette my daniel I show almost all my palates Um, but I don't remember if I actually did an unboxing. I don't think I did I I do know there's somebody on youtube that did do one. I don't think it was me Thank you. I'm so glad Yeah, one of you all, um, let me know this morning that there was a video Editing error in today's watercolor Wednesday. So I appreciate that. That was how I caught it because you know I would not normally catch it So we're just we're adding in, you know, our colors We're blending of a bit that we're using the rose of ultramarine by dan We're using daniel smith watercolors this morning for those who are just joining us Oh, they do look at that So i'm gonna go into a few places and i'm going to add in some darker What am I trying to say? I don't know darker um Stripes of pigment especially in the fins Um, that I don't really blend out so much. I may blend them a little bit but To really start to you'll notice that if you do this and you're not, you know, just Kind of smudge them rather than blend them too much It's going to start to give him some really some character make him pop Give him some life now at some point You know, you're going to want to still have the reference photo out But at some point you're going to do what I want to do what's best for the painting Rather than what's in the photo Those are sometimes two different things And remember we're being inspired by the photo. We're not necessarily trying to copy it exactly Oh, thank you so much This fin down here needs some help. So let's see what we can do about this down here I'm still using the rose of ultramarine. I haven't switched to any other colors yet I do think I will but I haven't yet Thank you One thing I do with periscope when i'm broadcasting and when I do watch although I haven't had time lately um And I do with both the ipad and the phone fyi has started doing it When we had that latest that last update that screwed up periscope the facebook. I mean the ios update I go into my general Settings and I turn off the auto lock that makes it go to sleep Um Otherwise I just seem to have nothing but issues That's pretty good. I'm thinking I want to do Let's see I'm going to grab some moon glow and we're going to give it a try The moon glow again is in the probably violet range, but it's a blackish grayish Color i'm going to put it in the darkest parts of our fish Now some water colorists are very anti adding like white gouache to your painting To bring out the highlights if you forget, you know, or you lose the white spots I am not like that. I don't Find I don't have a problem with that I like to add the white But what I usually do is dry my painting first Because I usually want to control the white a lot more than I have wanted to control the other colors Right now I got to be honest with you. I'm not looking at the book that much I'm looking more at my fish and what I think works for him. I'm going to go in with just water now this color moon glow this does stain quite a bit and you can move it around but Um, if you don't catch it right away, you can't move it too much Not really going to also. Let's see. I think that's a complicated question for me Yes and no Um, I like using them when I'm working with like my intense pencils or my stabilo pencils Um, but when I'm painting I prefer A brush like this And to that end for my travel kit. I just got some uh some new Brushes I'll share with you before we go off the air here And they're synthetic For somebody asks Okay, so now I'm going to come in with um, something really dark Probably paints gray Which is almost black. I'm going to put a little bit of that in Which will really make the other color pop Um, my preferred Water storage brush, you know water brush that has the storage in the handle is the pentel water brush Um, the koi aren't bad, but again, my favorite is the pentel Probably because the handle is nice and fat and it's easy to hold Um, so I own a lot of the pentel brushes Uh, I do have a couple of the koi Um, and I like them But my favorite again is the pentel. It's also, um, you know, fairly affordable and it comes in, um, three sizes Um, the koi is nice because it um Comes apart and has that nice plug in the handle for when you're traveling Okay, so his tail is Fairly white. My fish's tail came out fairly dark And I left some white, but some of my fish is a little dark. So this is where you come in with your Chinese white Make sure that your brush is clean and that the water you put in here is from the clean side Of your water. I have two pots of water one for dirty one for clean So that your white stays white Yeah Um, okay, so now I'm going to come in and I'm going to add in my I'm going to oops I'm going to dry this first. You know what? Let's dry it first Now let's go in with our white. So I'm going to take my Chinese white And I'm going to come in and I'm going to just add look at what happens when you add that little bit of white Take it back. You only used it twice and it died. Your heat gun died. Take it back I've had mine a long time. I bought it to do it back when I was still doing, you know as we all were more scrapbooking and greeting cards and Yeah, who knew it was going to be my favorite paint tool I had no idea So I'm adding white highlights Using the book page as inspiration for where those highlights should be Just using the paint brush and the Chinese white to basically just draw some lines on the fish I'm barely touching the brush to the fish so that I get a nice thin line I love the kind of life that the little pop of white gives your watercolor painting It just gives it gives the gives it some life the little pop Yeah, no, you know as I'm always telling my students No digging any holes to china with your paint brush or your pencil I'm just going around and making sure I've got You know highlights where I want them. I think that's pretty good. Blend this one just a bit. I see where I'm waiting I Teach with crazy island university And then just doing this You can go to crazy island university.com. I haven't done any watercolor classes for them yet I'm a little behind in my filming for stand-alones, but I teach with their um year-long journaling crazy island style course I'll never see yours. So there is my fish my flying fish now these are the two New things I got for my travel kit recently now. This is my favorite castel And look at this. It's a portable water pot and it folds up small And these are by mitis touch. These are synthetic Um, these are I know right. These are paint brushes. I know You know, I don't know for all girls here or not this morning, but and there's only nine of us right now Okay, to me they look like tampons It's kind of an odd shape for a paintbrush, but I gotta tell you Look at this I know right so you get a round and that thing is the handles are nice and thick and it's a nice big paintbrush You get a round they're synthetic They're you get a flat there is another set by somebody else that's natural. It's uh twice the price And then you get a filbert And then I have one really small one that came with my Windsor Newton travel set. Um, that is a really tiny A point like this one. And so between the four now these are perfect travel brushes And they just fold up Into the handle. These are called mitis touch midas touch And they come in the set of three With the little holder I can't decide actually if it looks like bullets tampons, I don't know it reminds me of tampons I used to have a little case like this to hold them at my purse Amazon and I'll show you the other brush that I have. I have a spare one. Let's see. Oh, let me get the one So this is my travel paint palette. These are great portable things. This is um Um I travel paint palette and this is the other brush that I have and loving this brush spurred me on to Uh, especially for traveling on to a search for more proper travel brushes I do keep some regular brushes in my kit But sometimes it's nice to just have something tiny that folds up And I did misplace this for a while and I contacted Windsor Newton and asked them, you know, do you just sell the brushes? They said no I honestly think that's a marketing mistake. They should sell just these And while the handle is a little bit short, it has a nice small round tip on it And it folds up really small and fits really well inside the handle So I went to amazon and just typed in travel water brushes and I found these And um, yeah, I love them. So between this one, which is really small And then the three larger ones. It's perfect My bristles were a bit splayed probably from the last time I used it Now it's all nice The only problem with these is you have to be careful how you put the brush end into the handle when you pack it away But most of us are pretty careful. So and then this is a small Same kind of box is the big one. This is the little one that's supposed to hold I think six half six full pans or 12 half pans. I took the insert out Um that came with it and I put my paints in the pans With magnets on the back um And then I could get see and then I could get more pans in here And for my travel set, I have a mixture of coy And daniel smith And this is a good. This is a good Color range selection to travel with because I can just take this anywhere and paint pretty much anything And then I just have this rubber band to keep it closed just in case so when I'm traveling or flying nothing pops open I don't really need it. It's just a precaution So I hope you all give your fish a try and I'm I saw somebody posted they never do figure they never did figure painting Well, I hope you give it a try. Of course, you don't have to start with this do some basics and just do some Experiments where you're not freaking yourself out trying to paint anything, you know, just do like this is watercolor We talked about this in the first episode. Oh good. Good good to know So put that in your like Shopping cart and then wait until the price drops and then then buy it And I could see me wanting another you know two of these because when you're water coloring You want one for dirty and one for clean water and this I mean how handy is this So do some of these practice cards for those of you who are too intimidated to do anything like a fish or a bird And this these are just playing with watercolors what you can get them to do and not do You know blending different colors scratching into the color Playing and you know, I want it we're going to start using one of these techniques in our paintings every week Like today we use the bit with the salt For the background and you can see if you look at the fish, you know, of course He pops out from the background, but there's this interesting kind of watery texture that just lends itself so well to The whole composition and makes it interesting Thank you so much so don't forget to support my youtube channel as well as periscope and You know, I I don't have lots of online classes that I teach except for periscope and youtube But my youtube channel is monetized so I can try to make some money on it and there is a fan And funding something on youtube you have to go look I don't know if you choose to do that you don't have to but you know Go check it out What subject matter next week? I don't know. What do you guys want to paint? You let me know I should stop picking we should start painting what you guys want to paint We can do more birds and fish or we can do something else. Oh, I was going to show you what I was going to do with this See we're not done yet Flowers we can do flowers. So one of the things you can do with your watercolor paints. These are some of my Oh good. These are some of my stamps I have watercolor wednesday playlist on youtube. So we can do flowers next week. Let's do flowers So these are some of my stamps. You can buy them in my etsy shop I stamped them on this watercolor paper with Waterproof ink. This was archival. I think ranger's archival ink And this is hot press and I'm not a big fan of watercolor and hot press paper because I like the texture of cold press um, but If you're going to do this you want to get a nice clear stamped image These are um, okay, so I'll answer that in a minute erin So to get a nice clear stamped image. You don't want the texture on the paper. So I chose the hot press And these stamps are done in deep etched red rubber They come unmounted sheets in sets of there's two sets. They're they come individually in wood mount or individually in clean mount Um now so these I stamped these last night. So this is good and dry And when you have some of your leftover paint or you have to wipe your brush off you can go in here and just like with your other paintings This the ink from the stamp is not going to move But you can color it in with your watercolor paints And get some practice pushing your paint around and seeing what your pigments will do and not do By painting in a stamped image I almost forgot I had these off to the side because you know, I moved them out of my direct line of sight. So Things happen Yeah, we can do a flower and then we can do a feather and so work on Yeah, and we can do we can work on shading So I just laid in some pigment now. I'm just spreading it out with water just like I did before with the fish Hey, you know what if you guys are friends with me on facebook um Either p.m. Me the list of suggestions or make sure you put it on the um video when it goes to youtube Or start a list over in my facebook group Any of those Because i'm only going to remember flower I can tell you that right now So you can just have some fun painting in a stamped image and then you're not pressured To worry about so much about the drawing Yeah, I know you guys like the live so and I know not everybody does periscope But I have so many problems with you stream I and periscope is easy for me. Thank you carol Yeah, one of the ways you can support me and keep me on periscope and youtube is by shopping in my etsy store If you just go to etsy and you type in gina b errands, I should show up Yeah, if you don't belong to the group a life of art and self expression go over and join Will admit you jerry's going to start a list over there and um We will have everybody put suggestions in of what you would like to see Just like with any other watercolor painting you can layer your colors right on top of each other Because they're watercolor and they're translucent And they're you know water activated they're going to blend and mix But that's okay You're going to get these interesting fun You know new secondary colors that you didn't anticipate And some of these suggestions I've done on a taped Version of watercolor wednesday that's already on youtube, but I didn't do it live and I don't know that I gave lots of explanations So it might be good if we're going to keep doing these live lessons to revisit that and do it again And so we'll do that And I'll I'll probably start the video by showing you what I did the first time If I've done that subject matter already But I like to do flowers Flowers and birds I like to do fish too, but I have something with birds right now Remember when you're saving up for your art supplies or you're trying to you know buy art supplies like right now I'm saving up for my daniel smith colors. I'm missing You know use your coupons when you have them save up your money and shop the sales all of your big box retailers Have apps and all of the apps have coupons in them now a lot of the big box retailers For craft supplies don't have tons of fine art supplies, but they have just enough that will make us happy Let's see And I'm going to add a little bit of this turquoise color. I think So you can do these little you know Stamped images you can get some practice color blending and shading And then you can cut them out and you can use them embellishments as embellishments on greeting cards Or tags or in your art journals It's a great way to get some practice Start light and work your way to dark until you're happy Stamp the image in black So that that is always going to show And there you go, isn't that cute? Yeah, you can totally use it for birthday cards or oh, I'm going the wrong way. Totally use it for birthday cards or There we go, thank you cards anything So think about doing something like that too. Don't be intimidated by the watercolor. Just play. That's how I learned I have never taken a proper watercolor class ever Acrylic, yes watercolor. No, I only know from doing A few books couple of dvds. That's it. I recommend Janet Rogers Her husband Steve Rogers and Jean Haynes all of whom have books and or dvds And they're fabulous and they're all expressive watercolor painters and they teach you a lot about color and light All right, I think that's it for this morning guys We're already a few minutes over how long I thought we would be so next week. We will do flowers go over to a life of art and self-expression on facebook and add your suggestions to the list And if you have recommended teachers for watercolor classes online or in person we have a list for that in the group and add the list and put a review with the with the name We would appreciate that because that's one of the things my facebook group is about recommending great teachers to our fellow artists All right, that's it for right now. Everybody have a great wednesday And I will it's on facebook area. It's called a life of art and self-expression and um Everybody have a great wednesday. Have a great week and I will see you all next wednesday here on periscope. Bye