 Good morning Kathy and anybody else is here. My back is to the desktop as you all know if you've been watching me for a while I'm running around this morning like crazy because I was trying to get another one of Cindy under's art challenges done this morning, which was Lace ribbon and lace fabric and Ribbon and lace and I got it done just like five minutes ago. That's what this is So let's get set up. Let me move this somewhere where it can dry. Oh, we have a few people Okay, good morning So today, hopefully my water is clean. I think it is So hopefully today the picture is good the audio is good For those of you who don't know we've been I've been having audio and Picture issues since I upgraded my desktop The audio kind of was always never great. Hey Vicki But it was worse with the new desktop. Oh, I forgot to turn the auto focus off. Hang on In and out stuff's gonna drive everybody nuts. Anyway, when I went to the new desktop the audio is even worse So I finally broke down and bought a new Microphone yesterday, so I'm a like real youtuber. I got what they call a snowball It's cute. Um, so hopefully you can see me good and you can Hear me good I do have a cough dropping my mouth again. Alright, so this morning before we get started as you all know I wrote a book. We're gonna give the spiel about the book I'm not gonna pull it out right now But if you want to know more about the book or buy a copy it's available in my Etsy shop The link for that's in the description below. You can also go over to Amazon and literally put my Name in and the book will come up in both Kindle form and in Paperback When you buy it for me, it's a spiral bound and it's signed All right, so Kathy Eve Lisa Narda The D welcome everybody Vicki. I'm so glad you're all here So one of the things I've been doing and why my schedule is so crazy and I seem to be like 10 steps behind where I should be Is because there's just a lot happening right now, you know in the midst of trying to get the book published and working on the 2017 stamp designs I decided to upgrade my equipment like I don't know what the heck I was thinking like that was like a Few too many things and then it's the holidays. We're going into the holidays. So I was probably too many things at the same time Anyway, we are finalizing the hey Lisa Oslin Lisa. Oh, hey We're finalizing the 2017 stamp designs and I'm gonna give you all a little preview now. They are gonna be up for pre-sale within the next two weeks so it's honestly it's a matter of me getting the Listings up If you don't know I am a rubber stamp designer. I have Six sets in stock and available at the moment We have five more coming out for 2017. I am going to be releasing them early Because they would make really great Christmas gifts. These are the original sets one and two that I came out with first and These are just printouts of the images that I did last night late last night then and that was in 2015 In 2016 we came out with four more Hey, Sim UK. Hopefully we have no audio issues or anything this morning I'm just I'm doing this little spiel in the beginning and I kind of like doing it because it gives you all a chance to find me and join and everything Okay, so these are these are all currently Available the birds probably have to be The number one current Bestseller puffy why are you puffy Narda? So are you ready for the 2017 designs? Okay, so here's one Set and they're sold in unmounted red rubber sets now for the pre-sale. They will probably be for the pre-sale, they will probably be drop shipped to you directly from the manufacturer and If you want to get to them Already cling-mounted and cut I can order them for you that way and I can get a price for you that way You have to just let me know. That's what you want. You send me an email or something So this is one. This is set number seven. Lotus and Doiley Auto correct us suck. I agree with you This is set six. I'm eight Ellie's and friends This is set nine. Hamza Hamza and Yes on some of these sets like the Hamza these designs here are sized to fit inside the hand and On some of the other sets some of the designs like the heart heart the row of hearts would fit inside the hand and Some of the words have been resized to fit in the hand also This is we are coming out with a art doll set So you have three doll bodies a couple of faces and a couple of heads and three faces along with a set of wings and a bunch of words and Again, a lot of the designs from the other sets would be pretty stamped inside of the doll bodies And these would be cute little gift tags or something This is paint brush and elements and that's set number 11. I do have a 12th set, but I'm not Completely satisfied with it yet. So I Am still working on it. No, that's a good question So I have them done in red rubber and not a silicone because I can get more detail in the red rubber So deep etched red rubber Yeah, oh, yeah, sorry, I Just noticed. Yeah, it's too high right there We go so deep etched red rubber you can get more details in the in the stamp designs in silicone You can't get as many details So when I did the original sets which were These these have a lot of detail in them and they had to Do There was no way you were going to get all that detail in silicone you had to do you have to do red rubber So since you probably missed some because I had them too high here. We go We'll go backwards So they will be shortly in my Etsy shop Hopefully in the next few days it just is a matter of me You know getting confirmation that things are being in Manufactured We've already confirmed these designs. So that's already been done and as soon as that happens. I will be Updating the Etsy shop and I will be adding these images, you know to the listing and creating the new listings and you can pre-order The price will be the same $26 a set for unmounted red rubber. I'm not sure on the clean mount Pre-cut but if any of you are interested again private message me and email me and I can Find that out for you. I think this one's my favorite Not to make you know, I'm not that I'm biased or anything and I can even do the old set in pre-cut red rubber You know pre-cut clean mount. I can also order wood mount. So if you have a preference, you just let me know and I'll get a price for you All right, so that's that spiel now. I think everybody's here who wants to be here And since we were having so many problems with the camera and the audio We're gonna do a kind of a little flip of the book here so you can get like a better picture See. Oh, you want a closer picture? Before I start with the watercoloring Okay, yeah Okay, hang on. Let me go in closer. That's as close as I can get There we go So again, this is set 11 paint brush and elements This is the art doll one dolls and wings the Hamsa Ellie's and friends Lotus and doily and They're all intended to be sized to work in as like a small delusions journal or of course make cards and tags with them And you'll notice that a lot of the designs are bigger than they've been in the past So that's that's intentional. All right, so now we'll get Started with the watercoloring because that's why we're all here today, right? I'm adjusting the focus That Manny group it's okay All right, so I'm gonna just double check on the desktop behind me that I get this in the right place without knocking over the microphone Okay, so this is the watercolor journal and since we've had problems in the past with the internet connection I'm gonna do a little flip and then we're gonna decide what we're gonna paint in the meantime While I'm doing the flip if you guys have an idea of something you want to paint put it in the chat I do have these photos that we used on Monday as inspiration for a kind of a land abstract landscape in acrylic We could do one of them in watercolor if you want So the poor picture was it was AT&T's fault. I Did get that straightened out have to pay more money to get that straightened out. Thank you AT&T The audio was the webcam so that Logitech C 920 webcam gives you a great picture when you have a good internet connection But the the microphone sucks so and it wasn't great with the PC now that I have a Mac It's even worse. So I had to get a microphone So that's how this if you're having issues like that during live broadcasts or recording That's you know, look at look at those kind of two issues So you guys let me know what you want and you're welcome Lisa So, yeah, so those hopefully I'll have be able to get those listings up on AT&T over the weekend No guarantees though. That's why I said the next week or two But keep an eye. I will be posting on social media when I do get them up. I'm trying not to crunch on my cough drop This is really not good for my teeth and that is not good with it makes the cough drop ineffective. I love this one Look at how bright and clear that picture is I'm so glad we got that solved Now these two let these two pictures I get asked about a lot These are lessons from the gene one of the gene Haynes books. So if you don't know who she is go look her up She's a fabulous UK watercolorist and yeah, holy cow Yep There they look really good when you can see them clearly and they're not blurry These are some of the ones where we were testing different kind of paints this one is Dayla Rowney and Prima I love this little bird. I Think that we're going to use the Daniel Smith muted palette that I created. I'm really having fun working with that palette So I'm thinking that we're going to keep working with it for a while Water droplets were fun our nudes We're almost done with this album There's our watercolor Buddha So we literally have one two three pages left So we're going to put this deli paper in to protect The sheets behind and here is our palette which you know, I haven't gotten wet yet I told you I was filming something else like five up until five minutes before you guys have no preference for what you want To paint this water that I'm putting in here with the dropper is water and ox gall liquid It aids in the rewetting and flow of your watercolor paints and I'm putting it in with a dropper rather than spraying it Even though I've enameled the inside of this pan this case Just so that water doesn't go everywhere and you know miss get into that one spot I didn't enamel and start making the case rusty Because you know I'm paranoid that way and I truly am paranoid when I say that that's not exaggeration So you only need two or three drops of ox gall per cup of water Vicki You don't need too much and I I tried it when I got in the whole buying watercolors because they're one of the ones I had trouble getting to rewet well and It really made a big difference and if it did with that it would do with a lot So I love it. So now I use it all the time But you don't need much like one little bottle of ox gall liquids probably gonna last you a really long time The giraffe we need an inspiration photo. I need something to prop up over here. Let's see There we go knocking things over in my art room Trying to get to stuff Show me sky. All right. Well, let's do the giraffe next week And maybe the last one will be something with a bog doc you guys send me an email or Private message me on Facebook so that I remember that when we're done. I'll look up some inspiration photos I have a bunch of these photos here from Lake Tahoe and a lot of them have cloudy Stormy skies or sunsets. I don't know This one's probably the most stormy there actually was a storm blowing in Let's see what we can come up with So I'm gonna start with my large one inch flat Princeton Neptune brush and I'm gonna just get the paper wet It'd be interesting doing a stormy sky with this palette Okay, I'm gonna switch to the triangular brush and I'm going to grab some Prussian blue And I'm gonna put a teeny tiny bit of quin gold in it Just like and I want I mean teeny tiny. I mean teeny tiny And you notice it just took some of the brightness out of the blue and you notice I'm skipping around the page That's on purpose. Oh We have a glare issue again, don't we? That's better. Hey and becks creations. Hello How are you today? Thank you Craft Stella. Hey, thank you and you and good morning Well, it's morning for me Okay, so when you're doing something like a stormy sky you really want to There's a little dot of something right there. Let's get that off You really want to make sure be careful whether you're doing acrylic or watercolor be careful about what? Colors you put when you don't want to make mud. You don't want a brown sky. Oh good. I'm so glad So I'm going to and you want to work lighter and work your way darker, right? So I'm going to go in with That naphthol Maroon that word the one I can't pronounce the name It's this dusty gray maroon color I love and There's a lot of water in there, which is fine and I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of use my you know Lake Tahoe pictures For inspiration, but I'm not going to we're gonna do something. That's a little more stormy Don't be afraid to do some lifting or to get some Salt in there or some Alcohol to you know add some texture to your painting And if you put salt on there the paint has to be really wet and then you have to just let it set You don't dry it with the heat gun Remember if you're doing something over water, whatever's above the water will be reflected in the water, right? Hey Sharon Yeah, we're all so happy for you that you've got good news antbex Now I am keeping parts of the paper white where I'm gonna probably put some yellow and Oranges in and this is the muted palette. So there's no actual yellow But I have like quingold and I have French ochre So it'll be probably one of those colors I'm gonna add some turquoise to the bottom part. This is ultramarine turquoise. This is a really strong color now where the Land or sky meets the water whether it's a lake or the ocean is a fairly straight line So even when you're doing an abstract Kind of a landscape scene you want that's that Line to be pretty straight and I haven't planned this in case you didn't know like you know normal I always say it might turn out like poop because I haven't planned anything. Yeah, this is Daniel Smith This is my Daniel Smith muted palette collection, which I am just really having fun with right now Now I do want to put a little bit of the yellowy colors are gonna be the sky reflected in the water So I'm going to Lift this here Just a little bit. I'm it's not gonna all lift up that I'm gonna Lift some of it Yeah, I'm I'm at that stage to where I don't have to have them every year and you know unless there's an issue and I Can't say it's something I'm gonna miss That's probably TMI, but hopefully Ian's not here or Victor And if they are sorry All right, so before we do anything else we're gonna dry this a little bit. Yeah, I went through the change early I started in my early 40s so now it's you know All that stuff is done and over Can't say I miss it so this is my watercolor journal that we've been working on and I've said before that. I'm not sure exactly What I don't remember exactly what paper isn't here. I think it's Fabriano 140 pound Cold press I do prefer cold press. I know this is cold press paper. It could be Strathmore or Kansan XL this journal was made as part of the class that I teach Over on you to me the class will shortly be available on my website. That's something else. I'm working on and I Honestly would have to go back and watch the class to figure out what paper I used I don't remember. It's probably Fabriano Yeah, you know, I hate to tell you I'm back I'm 53 and I did ask my mom about that recently and my mom is 75 and She gave didn't give me good news. She said they get milder at least for her. They got my elder But they never really went away. I Was not really happy to hear that FYI and You know being a few pounds overweight doesn't help So this is the quin gold Which I want to use but I think it might be too to orange So I'm going to I'm gonna put in a little bit of raw umber Yeah, it's going to be available soon on my website. So look for it The Coming soon link is already there. It's just a matter of me getting Dropbox straight now Yeah, I have too much cancer in my family. So I've opted not to take any hormones Yeah, I wasn't too I wasn't too happy to hear it And I hope for any of you who are in that process in life that for your sake that you're not like Though evidently women in my family and you don't like have them for eternity. I hope that's not the case for you. I Will say that, you know, probably getting some exercise and getting out of the studio and getting some fresh air and Keeping yourself in good shape does help So yeah, there's that I know we'd all rather paint Yeah, I have high blood pressure that runs in my family too and I've had that for a while and I'm trying to avoid the blood sugar thing because That also runs in my mom's family because none of them eat right so and I'm not great about it always So, you know, we haven't done much to this sky But look at how pretty that looks and it's not a really bright dark suggestion of a stormy sky But for what it is I kind of like it Yeah, I I cut back my caffeine a long time ago two cups a day That's it 99% of the time every now and then I have a third cup, but that's not real common So far really right well no for because I've used I use the Prussian blue And it's just a light wash now you could do something like this and then you could stamp over it This would be this would be a cute background Hey, Sylvia Hey, Rita. I you know, I wish I could say that but I I have them They're not as bad, you know when I first started menopause what's called you call it what it is They were really bad and they were all the time now. They're not you know It's not all the time anymore and you know, I don't thankfully I don't have any more night sweats But I do still have them occasionally Yeah, they are much better there, but they haven't completely gone away Kathy for me either All right, so let's keep going with this. I'm gonna take some more of that Prussian blue And we're gonna mix it with the teal that's on here Keep going because you know want to start light and work your way darker. You can't take it back Oh, yeah, I could tell some funny stories about that antbex creations My husband probably wouldn't appreciate it though You know you go to bed with no clothes on because you're having to your own personal summer and you're having night sweats You know the husband gets the wrong idea and you're like, don't touch me. I Love him, but don't touch me. I'm hot And not in a good way Now I personally like the way you get these patterns in the water color with the puddling of the water and the paint That's not for everybody. Some people really like to sit and blend everything Together and if that's what you like cool You all should know by now from watching me that that's not what I'm about. I know right Lisa Just you know, it's one of those menopause things that you know, your mom doesn't tell you about Which is probably a good thing because you don't want to think about your parents that way but you know Yeah So and I'm there's a lot of cancer in my family. So I've opted not to take them All right, so we're gonna add some Prussian blue. I almost picked up the green to our Maroon We're gonna get this dark purpley color Right, it does give a new it does give it a whole new meaning and I don't know if it's a good meaning or Now I'm barely touching the brush to the page barely and I'm finding you know The photos are inspiration right now. I'm finding the dark spots in what I want to be the water part of the painting and I am adding more dark colors to it And then I'm gonna add some water Now, you know, these are artist quality paints and their water color So, you know, even though you dried the yellow some of it may still mix with the purple I wouldn't worry about it too much. Call it a happy accident All right, this is gonna be a great stormy cloud color too. So that's what we're gonna do with it. I Hey, I'm not you know, I'm not shy So that's not a problem That I get from my mom and it kind of disturbs my daughter a little bit. She told me the other day. Oh my god, mom You're just like grandma stop She's only 22 though. She'll understand when she's older See Well, you know men need to know too it's important, you know, otherwise they just feel like you know frustrated because they can't help you and they don't know what's wrong and you know, that's the other thing I'm I'm you know I'm not for that You know, your husband loves you and he wants to help you out Oops thread because I was sewing earlier So I'm just using my rag to sort of lift the edges so the edges kind of are Are more muted right here. It dried a little bit. Can you see this mark right here? So we're gonna just go in and we're gonna just work with it. We're gonna add some more paint on top of it Yeah, in fact, my memory issues are so bad at times my dog I just have my husband come with me to the doctor and I just tell the doctor, you know, whatever you need to say to me You can say to him. It's not I don't keep any secrets But I tell the doctor it's probably good if you tell him because I won't remember later So just like with faces, you know, you can do these kind of stormy scenes You know, you don't have to use blues and purples and yellows You could do them with any color It's more about where you put the dark dark and light colors than it is anything else. Excuse me I am liking where this is going Which kind of surprises me to be honest. All right, so now I want to do something most of my pictures It was a little bit stormy cloudy when we were on the lake and most of my pictures we're taking at night and They have some sort of, you know, it's Lake Tahoe. So there's some sort of shoreline Mountains in the background So we're gonna do add something like that It depends on the gouache gouache Watercolors are water soluble like regular watercolors, but they're more opaque There is such a thing as acrylic gouache and once it's dry, it's not going anywhere You can use Watercolor on top and then go over the top of it. Of course with acrylic with marker You know inks. We're mixed media artists. So don't be afraid to add other stuff to your painting I Don't ever be afraid to do that. So we're gonna take some more of that maroon and And Let's see. I ate a couple of Butterfingers. I Won't own that I ate a couple of Butterfingers. I put some teal in the maroon And let's see And add some more maroon that was a little bit too much teal I want to make sort of a gray. See there we go So if you get something that's more green like a green and something that's purple You're gonna get this neat neat interesting like bluish grayish color. Oh And welcome and hopefully this sounds much better And I just you know, I had a couple of small Butterfingers, but that's all I made the husband take the rest of it to work Because you know, I shouldn't be eating that All right, so I do want to before I do this I want to dry around the waterline because I don't want to this color to bleed into the water too much So let's dry it again Well, you know, it's hard because most of us Create as a way of coping with issues myself included and That we And most of the time that also means that we also cope by not just creating but by eating things we shouldn't And I'm right there with you I say that as somebody who's right in that same spot as you which is why I'm not a size two and thank you So yeah, you want to keep control of your Water because that will help you keep control of your paints. So I am using that new triangle brush That I was gifted and I'm gonna put a line here across where the water meets the land and You could easily do something with boats on this or a dock or something Then I'm gonna put the water above the line that I just made Scrub it in just a little bit I try to keep like banana. I haven't I'm not watching the thread at the moment, but I try to keep bananas Dried berries And that sort of thing around they're not, you know fabulous for you either, but they're better than a chocolate bar I think and beck and becks. I think that's a great idea Yeah oranges. I love Cuties I Love cuties and so I usually have a big bag of those around, you know If you're gonna eat sugar a more natural one versus man-made is better for you, but yeah, I'm right there with you guys I got you know, I have eating issues. That's why I'm not a size two You know, if you ever meet me in person for God's sake, don't say oh you're fatter than I thought don't say that Because I already know I Already know You can say I'm shorter than you thought because that's probably true. I am not real tall But it's funny I bet most of you aren't either because it seems like whenever I talk to any of you or meet you all in person That we all have that same issue. None of us are super tall So the mountains that are farther away are gonna be lighter than the ones that are closer at least in the photos I'm using for reference No, I didn't see that and I'm a huge tin gun fan I you know kind of wish he was still doing his makeover show although He'd probably take one look at me and tell me oh my god. You're a hot mess Oh Thank you That's true Eve. I'm just reading your your message about not being able to eat dairy that would help a lot with the candy I Don't have that problem, but I don't know if that's a good thing So remember what I said about everything that's above the water would be reflected in the water, right? So and even though I don't have a lot of this reflection in the Original photo I'm gonna add it because you know the original photo is inspiration, right? So I'm gonna just add a little bit of this dark color To the water and it'll give a hint of a reflection and good for him because you know just because we're not a size 2 Doesn't mean we want to just wear, you know sacks, you know, we want to look cute too Now I kind of like this accidental white line. I got right here. It's I think giving the painting something interesting Like maybe that waves crashing up on the other shore or something. I don't know but I like it So I'm gonna keep it under tall. Yeah, I'm a perfect height To add five more inches to Perfect wait, I mean, yeah, so I need to be about five inches taller because I'm barely five three on a good day I used to be five three now. I'm like, I don't know five two and a half. I'm shrinking Already I'm shrinking. All right, so I like that I'm going to Go into my undersea green, which is a color that in spot one of the things that inspired me to create this palette because Vicki Who's here? She was showing some of her Daniel Smith colors and she had undersea green and I was like, ooh I don't have that one. I think I need to have that one. So now I have undersea green It's all Vicki's fault. Oh good. So the book really is you know, I get asked about the book a lot and what's in the book and The book really is Amy now that you have one It really is like having a conversation with me about doing art and why you want to do art and or whatever the creative thing that you want to do is and If you want to really do it, why are you waiting? It's written as if you were sitting having a conversation with me if you read it back to front or I'm sorry front to back I don't know why you'd read it back to front That really is a good peek to what goes on inside my head most of the time Yes, see Vicki. You're an enabler. It's all your fault I'm gonna add a little bit of this green here to this background up here and just hint it's like some of the Trees and foliage because this was like Tahoe and again, this was you know, some of these pictures were taken during the day some were taken at night, but It is like Tahoe. There's lots of green around I'll catch up on the comments in just a second. I want to move this green around before it dries too much I kind of like that accidental texture. We got there. Okay, let's see. I Miss something with Sharon's conversation. Oh about your height. You're talking about how tall you're you are Yeah, losing part of your leg would make a difference in how tall you are I'm glad that you're around. I'm sorry that you had to have that done but you know, I'm glad that you know The alternatives probably weren't great. So I'm glad you're still around Sharon Small but mighty. Yes. See God doesn't create You know things in a package bigger than they need to be to be fabulous That was always my theory anyway Whether it's true or not. I don't know but I'd like to think so All right, so I'm gonna go back to the yellow here I've got some light spots where I can add some of the yellow golden color in without Turning my water green or at least not too green You know, well, I love watercolors because they're sheer but you do want to be careful about layering them that you're not getting colors That you don't want exactly Yes, you are Sharon All right. Now, let's keep going. Let's add some darker of our gray color here Without diluting it too much This is all wet up here where these mountainous shapes are so it's going to sort of blend and go its own way So that's fine. We're okay gonna be okay with that, but we're gonna be Careful about where we choose to put the color and we're gonna just put like a little bit So we can sort of control Where it's going And one of you has to remember to send me the ideas for pictures for next week They have two pages left. We can do a giraffe on one of them and just keep working your way darker With your colors until it's really popping for you and you're really, you know, happy with the way it looks Don't be afraid to leave some white paper. It will aid in your composition Don't be afraid to, you know, mix your colors up and change them from what the original photo is Use your original photo for inspiration for form and shape and light and shadow Alrighty, we need to keep working our way darker. So I think I need to grab. I really love this maroon color and the undersea green I think they're my two favorite colors in this palette. I Should probably grab some like Van Dyke brown or something, but I'm just not feeling it this morning. We may at the end So I just took some of that maroon and I mixed it right into that gray color I made Which is cool. So I'm going to dot a little bit of this into our sky. I'm going to go back to my large flat brush And this is where I kind of want to be a little less blendy and I want to start like making Marks like for the storm clouds coming in I, you know, I have water in a certain place and the paint The paint I want it to go Where the water is but where I don't want it to go. I've left dry That's just my way of controlling The paint and the color and of course, you know lifting Don't make your shapes too straight or too regular because nature is not straight and regular nature's Imperfect and the more imperfect your lines are the better your picture is going to look to be honest with you A camel. Wow That's not something you see very often These are yeah, these are this flat Princeton Neptune I have both of them and I like the Princeton Neptune brushes, but these flat flat ones are my favorite And I happen to hit a like clearance sale on them at michael's. They were they were getting rid of them Okay, have a good lunch rita. I'll talk to you later The only problem with the um big flat brushes is they don't fit in my little watercolor pan They're great when I have my watercolors like spread on a plate But when I just have them in a pan not so much Yeah, they were I don't know what michael's was thinking but you know I used to work there and I don't know what they were thinking There's a little secret for those that don't know Okay, so this is some of the prussian blue again mixed with the maroon My dog's barking. There's a gardener or something outside. I'm sure Now I've got a good microphone. Now you can really hear all the all the noises I was watching the test video last night and Yeah, the noises are so much clearer, which is can be good and bad. I guess Yeah, no, I can't either um And you know now I just don't even go in there too much especially this time of year because I can't breathe You know all the between the potpourri and the cinnamon pine cones On every michael's store that I've been in with the exception of a couple of them that are not in my area The solution and I just I spend the whole time in there coughing It's just not worth it He is doing his job They'll stamp cinnamon pine cones. I hate those things Um, let's see And I grab some more of that maroon Because I love that maroon and when we were on Lake Tahoe it had the most gorgeous um shades of purple and red in the sky It was just so beautiful Yeah, I just order online I do a lot. Yeah, that's how I get 99 of my stuff is by ordering online Yeah, should somebody from workman's comp be watching? No, I still can't breathe. Yes. I'm still coughing and I You have trouble going to the grocery store and buying cleaning supplies I like this. So we're going to take a little bit. I think of the quingold Just a little bit. We're going to be really careful with this and hopefully not mess our painting up because this quingold is really strong Yeah, they put him right by the front door ampex and when you have somebody like me with allergies and asthma and one of my triggers is cinnamon Um, especially artificial cinnamon, then you know, I can't I start coughing in the parking lot I just don't I don't go anymore Not this time of year So I'm going to put a little bit of the quingold on here and then I'm going to add some water And this is a bright color Um, so this is going to really, you know, start to make things pop I'm going to keep it like hopefully too from blending with the maroon too much Because we don't want brown in the sky Or green If we get orange, that's fine And it's easier in watercolor to Um, just add a little and add then go back and add more if you need it then it is to lift you of course You can always lift but it's not as easy as you think And some colors stain faster than others because of the pigments used to create those colors. So It's just easier if you're going to start watercoloring to just be in the habit of just putting a little bit And then slowly making it darker until you're happy Yeah, I miss um, you know, I I worked in retail for a long time and a lot of different jobs And I really liked I liked working with the public. Um, I didn't like decorating Christmas trees. I've got to be honest with you But um, you know, there were things about the job and my co-workers that I liked and I do miss some of that Um, I don't miss the pine cones. I don't miss the coughing and You know having to walk around with apron pockets full of um cough drops and my inhaler and you know All of that stuff. I don't I don't miss that part of it Right. Well, not only unloading the truck sandbags, but merchandising the shelves You know, I um worked all different kind of retail jobs Like I said, one of them was greeting cards and you know, holy cow I don't miss having to be up and on site at you know, four o'clock in the morning or five o'clock in the morning because I've got to um Unload the greeting card shipment and get it out on display on the floor. I don't miss that Um, um, that was really hard work and that's how I screwed up my shoulder Yeah, see Michaels had crazy hours. I almost took that job We called it the butt crack of dawn because You know, it wasn't really dawn yet and you know, it was like the plumber's butt crack You knew it was coming but there was nothing you could do about it There was just you know It wasn't a fun time of the morning Yeah, my back's not great and my neck either, but my shoulder I've had it fixed, but it'll never be the same So how pretty is this composition coming out? You know, I said when we started that I thought it was going to maybe look like poop, but um I like it So I'm going to just use up the colors that are on my palette and start mixing things together that are here And mixing the red and the yellow and the blue together is going to give me a neutral And that neutral is going to be a little on the brown side because there's a lot of queen Gold on here, which is fine. I can't yeah, I can't hear you guys have to tell me if there's an audio issue because um I have all the audio turned off except for the microphone. So I don't hear anything So I don't like hearing myself Thank you So this is a you know another neutral. It's a brown This is just all the colors that we've used in the painting kind of mixed together And I'm going to add it to our land here To make it pop more. I love what's going on with the sky. So I'm going to leave it because I think it looks great Cool. I'm so glad we got it worked out If we ever move I'm going to you know have to um Make sure I have good internet My dream, you know office has um its own hard line to the internet I don't know if I'll ever get that but I like the watercolor sticks a lot Um, they're different than the paint Um, but I like them. I have 10 colors I like them a lot. Um Back now that you said that these are the daniel smith watercolor sticks I have It was so hard. I was going to just get five and I just couldn't just get five. I had to get 10 You all know how that is, right? I have moon glow They don't my only gripe with the sticks is they don't have all the colors That they have in the paints and I know that's a lot of colors to have in like stick form but But we want them So you definitely can like You know put like some on your palette Or get some with the paintbrush You can do this This is the moon glow Which you know is one of my favorite colors in it almost got added to this palette um I almost added it to the the muted palette and then I opted not to but it's a great color And you definitely could substitute out one of the browns for moon glow Which is sort of a gray purple Oh, I would try them. I have antbex. I haven't tried that brand but try them and let us know what you think of them The darker kind of um that you make your clouds the more stormy it's going to look oops Did you catch me there where I dropped my? Brush on the page So the sticks are nice, especially if you want to take Watercolors with you like traveling these sticks would be really easy to do You might want to even take them in instead of like a neocolor two or maybe a cut take a couple neocolor twos and then take Um, you know a couple of these This is brush was gifted to me. Um if for those that don't know it's from rosemary and company and it's a triangular paintbrush So it's got some of the properties of a round and some of the properties of a sword brush Or a what is it called? sword or Why can I never remember the other name? line um Like a pin striping brush It it yeah the pigment load on them is great. Like I said my only gripe is they don't have more colors And if you guys ever get to seattle to go to the store and look around I can't recommend it enough The store is fabulous and they have more than just daniel smith All right. See you later d All right, I think we're gonna stop there because i'm pretty happy with that. What does everybody think? Yeah, they're not cheap by any stretch, but like lisa said they're pure pigment and they're big sticks um It's a solid stick of pigment. I don't know if it says how big how much is on here. Let's see No, but it's a pretty good size stick And when you could compare it to a neocolor, which is more like a crayon These are bigger I saved up to get them and when we were on our way to alaska We stopped coming and going in seattle my parents live up there and I talked my dad into taking me to the daniel smith store so I could buy these i've been saving up my money And I got let's see I got black burnt umber moon glow Quinn violet Quinn red see Opera pink cobalt blue, of course I got teal because you know, of course I did um handsome yellow light and gambos new gambos And that gives me a good selection of colors that I can you can pretty much blend anything with these or paint anything with these And they're these cases they sell these cases for them too Which I thought were cute. Hi yasna. We're just finishing up Yeah, see if you can talk santa claws into it and see if they santa can give you a Yeah, special birthday present. I mean christmas present birthday present holy cow So here is our lake tahoe inspired stormy landscape And You know, you can keep going with it and make it as dark and as bright as you want I kind of like what's going on here. Um, so i'm gonna stop because i'm okay with this one But you could keep going and you could keep making it darker and you know You've seen me do that with lots of other paintings But you know when you get to a point where you're like, you know, I really like that then um, just stop Don't listen to this came up in a conversation this morning and I was quoted by somebody else which is Was flattering um create for you. Whatever makes you happy Don't listen to everybody else and we're mixed media artists That means you could to break all the rules. So if you create this and you let it dry and you decide You know, I want to add a little pen to that or I want to add a little water color to that I mean a little acrylic to that or maybe I want to go over it with my alcohol markers We'll do it Break the rules and do what makes you happy create art that you like whether you're on youtube or not You should be doing what you love and creating what you love And you're going to get people who are doubters people who try to um, you know, bring you down Don't listen to them because it's not about them. It's about you Or it should be if it's not why not Yeah, I love watercolor. It's always been my favorite medium if the house was on fire I'd grab my watercolor paints first before Anything else except the baby pictures of my daughter But it would be the second thing I grabbed my watercolor paints All right, that's it for right now. I am going to Yes, I will be posting pictures later after it's dry. Oh, well, I can dry it now. We can just chit chat and I'll dry Why am I waiting? Let me dry it now and then you won't get so much glare either Now you could while like while your mountains are wet you could sprinkle some salt in here and when that dries Wipe the salt off and you'd get an interesting texture that would be really nice Like a granulated texture the Daniel Smith paints for the most part granulate really nicely and you get this nice texture because of the pigments But you definitely can help that along by Putting some salt in there You also could put your colors on the sky and while they're wet squish up some saran wrap into them and um Let it dry Naturally and then when it's done pull it off and you would get some of these like streaky marks that I painted in it Okay, there we go. It's all dry So there you go It's really cute and I like the little little pops of green And the brown that we made Super cute All right, that's it. We will be back monday with monday with deco art I have no idea what we're going to paint so if you guys have an idea like the giraffe. Let me know Probably we'll keep going for a couple more weeks at least with whatever we paint money monday will in acrylic will paint wednesday in watercolor um and um Go out and just do what you like because you like it and don't listen to the doubters Break the rules break them hard We're mixed media artists so we can do that Okay Now when you are playing with your watercolors like this in a box and they're all wet Don't close it until they're dry So I take my boxes and I leave them open and I put them on the shelf above my table and leave it open for a couple days till it dries If you close it up, it might get moldy You too everybody. I will talk to you later. So glad that we have the Mechanical issues straightened out I'm so glad Yeah, yeah, and I could tell you guys a story. Evidently I can figure out computer issues, but I can't buy myself airplane tickets It's a long story. We won't get into but just you know My husband said honey, you need to call the airlines. You made a mistake So I took care of that this morning, but yeah All right, because I think my brain was on something else I will talk to you all later. Have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it break the rules Have some fun and do some painting. All right I will see you all on monday with monday with deco art And um, that's it for right now and before anybody asks this is from a like TV dinner thing Healthy choice. I think anyway All right. Bye guys