 Hey Ian and Bex creations. How are you guys already Kathy Whitney? Hey already? There's only I just literally just came on There's already three of you holy cow So today we're gonna work with our PBO watercolors. We're gonna create a little painting with them as Those of you who have been watching watercolor Wednesday. No, I have this fun Round palette. I love this thing. This is fabulous. No, it doesn't come with this thing. This is separate. Hey, Lisa I Um, that's great. I didn't want to miss it either. I was doing other stuff and was like, oh crap It's five minutes to ten So anyway This little turntable thing I got at my local tap plastic store For those of you who don't know what tap plastics is or you don't have one near you Hey toy it is a store that just sells things made out of plastic and acrylic Um, that's all they have they and they make custom things too. They sell these little turntables and These like silicone non-stick dots. I don't know if you're gonna be able to see those on camera But I have them stuck to the top here So that I can put my round PBO palette on here and look Who doesn't love something it spins right Okay, so tap plastics TAP plastics if you Google that word they do I believe have an online store So you might check it out Now this as you all know by now I have a pocket box collection I love pocket boxes, you know in my lifetime my daughter's gonna probably find a case of pocket boxes in my art room and You know Some of them may still be like this one in the wrapper and she's gonna go what the hell mom Just shake her head, but I just can't help myself when I find a new pocket box Hey, I love it when you guys come to so I haven't opened this one yet And I'm pretty sure most of the colors that are in here are in the round palette, but the round palette only has I Think there's some greens in here that aren't over here You know, I can't read it. I need my reading glasses. I don't know Put the lid underneath get out the reading glasses. Hey, Christina. Hey Linda hello, welcome. So yeah in this. Oh, no, we have earth green permanent green It looks like we have all the same colors in the round palette Yeah, they tap plastics is wonderful and I do believe they sell online So check them out. I love that store whenever I need, you know, something like this for my art room or Have you you guys have seen my? twinkling Okay, oh This is my twinkling h2o's palette the parts to make this all came from tap plastics So that clear plastic base and the turntable it sits on because of course it spins Those are all from tap plastics and they're very inexpensive So I would definitely check them out when you want to create something like that for your art room. Check out tap plastics and This little tiny one was only $2 and 30 cents Because it still has a price tag on it. So I haven't opened this one yet. I do need to do a color key for it I'm not sure I want to do it this morning. I think I want to we want to just get right to painting But when I get a new kit of watercolors No matter who it's from generally speaking and I have a few of these now that I have to catch up on I Don't unwrap them until I have a chance to make the color key. So frequently when you buy these Watercolor kits the little pans are not marked with the color name The label is but the little pans are so as you as I unwrap them I like to write down the name of the color and that way if I run out of one I can Easily replace it. I love this little pocket box. But anyway, so PBO has lots of different What I'm gonna put this in here so I don't forget lots of different kinds of watercolor sets There's supposedly artist grade watercolors Does this one have? They have light fastness information on the Wrappers there's only one color on here that has a low rating which is the alizarin crimson they're not as transparent and of Colors as say Daniel Smith, but they're very pretty affordable and I'm pretty pleased with them It's one of the ones I really like and then I'm definitely going to be keeping in my collection And I love the little white pocket box because you know the pocket box is fun the round palettes my favorite I have to admit very much my favorite. So we're gonna of course keep the Color key handy. Let's see. Let's put it like up there We have this morning We're gonna work some more on those flowers that we worked on the other day This is my little binder of inspiration photos. I've taken and or altered in my computer And so we're gonna do some more paintings with these flowers, which are gonna be more challenging I think in watercolor than they were in acrylic because you can't really Will let the layering of the paints gonna be challenging so We're gonna prop this up over here the copy of these These flowers the picture is on my website Gina be errands calm and it's there's a page called inspiration photos They're free to download free for you guys to use and Create paintings from sell said paintings. You can't sell my photos, but you can sell the paintings And generally have fun with and be inspired by so feel free to do that So this is our watercolor journal that we're trying to finish And if you know if at some point you guys want me to do the color key for that pocket box Let me know we can do that and I call it a color key. Some people call it a swatch color swatches It just depends on Who you are and who you talk to the frugal crafters been having some really great Watercolor videos out lately. She's done one recently Where she did a review of Daniel Smith and she did a color chart blending chart I'm not unlike the ones that we've done in our swatch book in past watercolor Wednesdays and I think she did a great job with it and She seemed to really like the paints I do too, of course, you all know that though But yeah, go over to her channel and walk give her a give her a watch Maybe subscribe if you haven't already. This is my watercolor journal. There's some great paintings in here. There's some Paintings in here. There's some failures in here. You know, this is a book of studies and Experiments and there's a few paintings like this where we took four of the brands of watercolor we were able to acquire and You know tested doing four parts of the same painting with the different brands and you can definitely like in this one See the pigment quality and the different brands because we have Windsor Newton, which is a student grade Windsor Newton Van Gogh, which again was artist grade, but kind of student artists Holbein which in my opinion is in the same it's expensive, but it's in the same grade and then look at these These are the quarry by Golden look up right there There's another one. Oh you watched it Lisa, what did you think? Here's our cherries That we did so we're gonna flip this around here on this side and we will put our Rearrange my table so it makes more sense and you guys can see what I'm doing Got a variety of brushes here. I think I'm probably gonna want to use This is a Royal and Anglic Lang nickel Zen one inch flat Zen brush I love these brushes by Royal by the way. They're very budget friendly. They're synthetic, but I love them for watercolor They work great I have a really bad habit of being really tough on my brushes and Like leaving in moon water for way too long and the next thing you know, they're ruined. These really hold up to a lot of abuse Yeah, I thought she did a great job too And I'm glad she said something about the watercolor sticks because I'm really loving mine We'll have to work with them more This is a Princeton select round number four again. Princeton's one of my favorite brush manufacturers Here's a Princeton Neptune. This one can be used on watercolor or acrylic the select the Princeton Neptune is especially formated just Formulated just for watercolor and I really love the Neptune line And this is another Royal blush brush blah blah blah blah I have had my coffee as well Another Royal brush. This is around number 16 Probably my two favorite brands are Princeton and Royal FYI. They're very very budget friendly The Royal are a little less expensive But the Princeton very often go on sale like at Arab Brothers for buy one get one free or buy two get one buy one get two free So love them and stick them over here in our water We are gonna need a pencil Because the first thing we want to do is sketch out our flowers At least roughly So I'm going to start I'm gonna zoom in a little bit because I want you guys to be able to see this maybe I need to use a darker pencil I don't really want to use a darker pencil Okay, so It's not one. Yeah, sometimes I do my sketches in watercolor pencil if I don't want them to show especially Most of the time I don't care if they show so I just do them in whatever I have available in I in especially in this book because this is just really I I've got to turn the autofocus off I will this the book is all about doing studies and and experiments and Hang on let me turn the autofocus off because that's gonna drive me crazy. I don't know about you guys are real um This is all about Studies and experiments and being a mixed media artist. I kind of like the extra texture I get from the lines and everything Now you may not be like me and maybe you don't you know the lines really bug the crap crap out of you So then you want to probably either not do the initial sketch or do it in something that's water soluble Like Ian said use a watercolor pencil use a pen that you know is water soluble something like that and use your photo as inspiration You don't have to copy it exactly I'm going to grab an iPad. I don't mind the lines, but some of the lines are gonna bug me So I'm going to erase a few of them. Of course, you know Most of my erasers are covered in charcoal dust so much just presents other problems Yeah, so you have to you know, it's great to have a journal like this and experiment with You know using just a plain pencil maybe then going over it with a Pen that you know is water soluble adding some color pencil to it and then painting or all of the above and try different things To see what you like to start to develop your style. That's there's no shortcut. I you know, you all know I would tell you if there was a shortcut There's no shortcut the layering of these flowers is kind of complicated Yeah, but interesting. So I do want to Sort of give myself some kind of a rough sketch to work work with before I start painting No set rules remember the most important lesson we are mixed media artists That means we don't have any rules. We can break them as much as we want So now when I start to draw this flower that's overlaying this one This is where I want to take my eraser. Hopefully with a clean end and I want to make sure that I don't lose track of which petals go where I'm gonna I am gonna erase some of those extra lines It'll just it'll aid me later Remember flowers in nature are not perfectly round the petals are not round there, you know irregular shape nature's not perfect So remember that when you're drawing your your flowers It's okay if they're wonky and you know, especially if you prefer to be more of an abstract Expressive painter Impressionist type painter, you know, you know, you're not shooting for realism to begin with and It doesn't matter if they're you're just looking for the feeling that flowers give you you're not looking to copy them exactly I don't know if you guys can see this at all. We're gonna we're gonna do something about that Let me get my basic pencil sketch in here first It's looking at my copy of the picture. You can't see a dang thing So hang on. Let me erase some lines Okay, so we're gonna use where's my pilot? Okay, I'm grabbing a yellow Derwent watercolor pencil and a my pilot varsity fountain pen This is water-soluble. The reason for that is the flower centers are really dark So I'm thinking to add this to the centers Which will give some interest but also enable you guys to see the you know, basic lines that I sketched in here Okay, so there's where our basic flowers are and then I have this yellow Derwent watercolor pencil And I'm going to go around In the picture if you look at the inspiration photo from the website The you know tips of the the flower centers are very purple and dark and the edges of the petals are very yellow If you wanted to change the color of these flowers, of course you could do that you could Put your photo in black and white. Why is it every time I'm live is when people start messaging me Pretty funny Now you're starting to be able to see it on camera Yeah, or use photo use photoshop Ian did some great job with these flowers and he posted them in an album in the Facebook group Where he completely changed the color of some of the flowers and how he did a great job. So You could use his photo. You could if you have photoshop, which I Have premier elements and photo photoshop elements, but I know it will change colors of things. I don't know how To use it that way. I'm still learning Okay, so that's interesting like base. It gives us a basic, you know idea of what we're shooting for The first thing I'm going to do is take my flat brush And I'm going to come in here into the background and just get it wet Forgot to get a rag and get one in a minute Get it wet reg Always start with a rag All right, and we need to wet our paints down. I Swear to God. I have Jim brain this morning. I went to the gym this morning and my brain is just not I don't know It's not engaged Now again, this is a spray bottle. I keep just for my watercolors. I Like the frugal crafter. I prefer to work from pans, but I don't always When I do work from dried out watercolor paints or pans I use this spray bottle because it has oxgull liquid in it which in a Aides in the rewetting and flow of your watercolor paints Water break water break hang on you can get oxgull liquid at any arts and crafts or paint store Okay, so we're going to go with one of our greens. Let's see. Let's do some of the Thalo cyan green. I Don't think that's probably how do you pronounce that? I'm pretty sure I just butchered that crap out of that But isn't it a pretty color now because the paper was already wet it's gonna like blend and do this fun kind of abstract thing Which we really like. I really like Okay, we know we want to start light and work our way darker, right? So we're going to start Our flowers with lemon yellow. Oh Thanks, Lisa if you guys have any questions you can ask them here about something in my articles or video You can ask them here or you can ask them in the Facebook group. Just remember to tag me if you put them in the Facebook group So the flower petals are yellow on the edge then white or cream and then they go to purple It's a strong color. Yeah, this is I don't know. This is yellow yellow. This is deep cadmium So I'm and this is lemon yellow. So this is light Because it's going to blend with this deep cadmium Now this is look at this lemon yellow Look how bright that is and I've only picked up that little bit of paint and look how far I'm able to get Right. I don't want to go too far because I want to be able to come in here with some water and Just blend it out a bit You will find as you're working with your watercolor and you're experimenting and you're painting Something that I knew but I forgot about until I was watching one of Lindsay the frugal crafters videos some of the Watercolor paints, you know, they lift easier than others your artist Fine artist watercolors that have the pure pigments usually lift better than the ones that are dye based They usually stay in the paper. They're harder to lift Okay, I do want to blend that pencil in a little bit around the edge Okay, so it's more of our lemon yellow. We'll keep moving our way around Watercolor pencils are a lot of fun and they're easy to take when you're traveling. So Or the watercolor crayons like the Daniel Smith crayons They're a lot of fun and they're easy like I said to take around and still, you know Kind of create some interesting watercolor pieces Now we just have some plain water and I'm not going to be too precious about any of my lines Or too controlled. I'm not a big fan of how My artwork turns out When I try to be too controlled I feel like that really shows in my work and I'm usually not happy with the result Which is why I started doing more expressive pieces in the first place So we're gonna let that dry a little bit. We're gonna work on one of the other flowers I'm actually gonna Let this part dry right here and I'm gonna work over here if it's not dry when I want to do this I can come in with the heat gun, which is nearby. Don't forget if you guys have any questions to ask I'm here to answer questions I'm gonna come in with the big flat brush here Remember what I said about not liking things looking too controlled. You hear my stomach growling. Jeez. It's loud. I Did eat breakfast. I've used the ink tense pencils And I like them they give you a different look and you do have to be really sure You know as you're working with it that you're real happy with that color in that place And if you're not to do something about it really quick because they yeah, they are you know permanent when they're dry But you know, it's kind of an artistic challenge and I you know, who doesn't love a good challenge So we're gonna do this whole painting today with the PBO watercolors As you can see they're very nicely pigmented nice bright colors. I Haven't had too much of a problem with them being too chalky or anything They do have mixed reviews online. I love this brush and I got it on sale Royal did send me some of their brushes, but I had already purchased this one in the interest of all fairness and disclosure They have sent me some of their brushes. They sent me some sizes. I didn't have which I love because they are great Okay, like that So now we're gonna come in with our same round brush we've been using and I'm going to just activate some of this pilot varsity pen and let that dry This is gonna bleed that way because I got a drop of water on it But we're gonna just work with it and be okay with that Don't you just love what that pen does when you get it wet? I just love that. Okay, so Let's see water break. I think I'm gonna go into dark cadmium yellow I think we're gonna do dark cadmium yellow Which is this yellowy orange color that is really wet Yeah, go on brush those are great. I haven't played with mine as much as I want to but they're great I do have them. I also have some of the color burst and I just got some Magicals in so we're gonna be playing with those in some future Episodes so the flower has layered petals. So I want to make the petals behind the ones on top a little darker I'm not minding if the darker Yellow is mixing and Kind of going everywhere. I want it to be suggestive. I don't want it to be too controlled At the same time, I'm gonna keep my rag handy and if I get too much of the yellowy orange I can just lift it up By pushing the rag into the wet paint and that gives me a really pretty effect. I like the way that looks I tend to be a sloppy painter. So that's why I usually have a piece of deli paper Covering up the finished pieces underneath my pages here Okay, there's another giant puddle of water, which I don't normally mind But I don't want to dry it because I want the paint to mix That puddles a little bit too big Where I thought I was going with all that water Do what we did before and come in here and lift up some of the pigment you see it's lifting pretty easily Well, and I you know those of you who've been watching me for a while No, it's hard for me to go out and go shopping because of my asthma So I tend to just not bother most of the time and just mail order stuff But the few times I've been out shopping. I haven't seen the color burst in the stores That doesn't mean they don't have them. It just means I haven't seen them So I ordered mine. That's looking that's looking pretty interesting Let's keep going and let's let that dry a little and let's go over here color in some water If your page is not wet enough then and don't go too far before you add some water if you like the blendy puddley kind of You know expressive look that I do if you're shooting for something similar. It's really all about Controlling the water puddles to be honest. So we're gonna do that and let's go up here to this one I'm still using a pretty big brush, which I don't have tight control over but I kind of like that It's helping me keep my you know color Loose and expressive. I have less control over it. That's kind of what I'm shooting for Remember with watercolor to state to start lighter and work your way darker Places that you want to have white in the end are our best left white or you can go back and add white wash Or white acrylic paint white gel pen. We're mixed media artists. So there's not really any rules Okay There's a little bit of green in the tips of some of the petals and I'm not sure if it's a reflection or what Or if it's the way my photo printed, but it's interesting So we're gonna take a little bit of green and I think we're gonna use the same green we used in the background I need a plate. Isn't the aren't these little plates cute? I found these at the Japanese dollar store I'm sure it's meant for like sushi or something. I'm forgetting to talk again, aren't I? Oops looking at my picture and see Yeah, I'm told to by the way in that the color bursts is more vibrant. So I am Looking forward to swatching them out, which I haven't done yet and comparing them to the color verse But back to the PBO I'm not sure how many colors that they have I know that the sets weren't super expensive and I'm pretty happy with the ones that I have this round one is just I Really like it. I like the color selection and I like I Mean I like the I like the round palette. Let's be real The round palette is just a lot of fun So I want to make sure to get in here really quick with the water and blend this green out because I want a hint of The green but I don't necessarily want these large green blobs Which requires me putting water on the paper working a little bit quickly and scrubbing at it a bit This one's a little dry, but it's all right, and then you can Come in and again lift a little bit. That's pretty good though Yeah, I love a good watercolor crayon and Reeves the Reeves brand in general is pretty affordable They're pretty nice All right, so now we're gonna let the petals dry a bit. I think I Think And we're gonna work on our flower centers a little bit and I'm gonna come in here first with Indigo Indigo, I know I don't want to do indigo. I want to do Prussian blue The Reeves. I'm not sure they may be It's always good to be mindful of your supplies being toxic or not and to make sure that you take proper precautions when necessary not all brands are created equally and some pigments are toxic and You really need to above all just make sure you wash your hands when you're done really well I mean, I wash my hands a lot to the point where they're kind of dry And it's not an old-age thing. It's a I'm an artist thing I Mean they're dry because I'm having fun in doing what I love so I don't mind it But you do want to make sure before you like eat anything or touch your eyes or anything like that that you wash your hands Maybe somebody else knows if they Reeves are non-toxic. I'm loving the way this is starting to look am I the only one? Okay, we want to go now. Let's see I don't want to add the obvious brown although there is brown in the flower centers I'm kind of not wanting to do that We are going to add some violet print now There's only one violet in this palette now if if it was up to me We'd have a couple violets, but one is better than none. I do have some palettes. I bought that have no violet I don't like that. So if they conform to AP standards, they're probably non-toxic just good It might also mean though that there's no lightfastness. So you want to be careful Yep, exactly Lisa. I'm I'm I had a daycare business for a long time and I did lots of art with the kids we they loved our time and you know You just have to make sure that you have supplies that are safe for them to use and honestly safe for us to use We can take precautions and know to wash our hands. They don't always and they stick their hands in their mouth So you want to be careful? I'm not going to clean these up too much because I'm lucky. Well, I'm loving this blobby shape that I'm getting this purple crazy purpley and anemone kind of thing going on here Flower center and this violet is ultra per sorry a violet permanent. I almost said ultra marine blue It's not ultra marine blue So these flower centers are wet while it's wet. I'm gonna add darker pigments There's this purple that's in the center of these flowers is really dark and the pigment is going to blend out Into the water. It's going to take the easy road And I love that Yeah, you know We all used to do that used to drink water from the pipes that probably had lead in them We drink water out of the hose, right? We all survived That doesn't mean that doesn't mean that we it was smart to do Okay, now I want to dry this a little bit before we do anything else This is a good time for questions if anybody has questions Because it can see where it's still shiny and therefore wet. I can also see where there's Blobs of water that are way too big We're still here to talk about it Okay, that was back in the day where you know Our parents could open the door and say get out go play and weren't worried about us being supervised because they don't have to worry About anybody snatching us all right We are going to switch to a smaller brush and I'm going to use the Princeton Neptune round number eight and Now I'm going to go in with I Want to add some pops of shadow. I do think I want to use one of the darker There is a pains gray in here, and I think that I want to use the pains gray There is a black too, but I think I want to use the pains gray pains gray in my mind is more interesting Now the black that's in this palette is kind of a black a brownish black The pains gray is more of a bluish black or it kind of reminds me of neutral tints If you have fine-art watercolors and you have neutral tint, you know what I'm talking about Okay, so we're going to take a little bit of this. I know right That is a shame I mean I remember having some great fun with my friends outside might we live near an orchard and we Went out and played our parents didn't worry about it I'm going to take a cue for my inspiration photo about where the shadows On the pedals should be where the you know upper ones are laying on top of the lower ones I'm going to put some pains gray on there, and then I'm going to come in with a water brush Now if I'm not quick enough like I really kind of wasn't And it dries a little bit. I'm okay with that. It doesn't really bother me Have your rag handy if you get somewhere. You don't want it. You can lift it There we go. Do you have? Let's see. I'm filthy and happy and so yeah, exactly And bex creations. Do you have a white preference with this type of painting ie soft and blendy? I don't understand the wi ght word Ian Maybe it's misspelled. Maybe I just don't get what it means It's very possible. I know I'm no rocket scientist I know just enough about a lot of things to get me into into big trouble I kind of like the challenge when I'm painting with any medium of Having to work with whatever happens on the paper While we're waiting for Ian to type because I'm not sure what he means if somebody knows what he means Please by all means write it on there. So remember to use your breath your brushes to your advantage And you know even if you just have one size of round brush, you're gonna get different marks with it if you hold it different ways so Remember to use that No worries Ian. I mean seriously. I put your English on a regular basis and frequently people do not understand me I prefer 140 pound cold pressed watercolor paper, which is not super textured, but it's not super smooth either and I prefer that now if I'm going to Create something that I know for a fact is gonna have to be turned into a digital image at some point Meaning it's an illustration for a book project or it's something that's going to be turned into You know a background for something I something I have to scan into the computer then I will use hot press super smooth paper because it scans better and You don't get funny shadows because of the paper texture So But generally speaking when I'm just working this way. I'm using hundred and forty pound cold press. That's my preferred It's not as textured as rough press, but it's not Super smooth either and I've been using it for so long when I try to use the hot press I can do it, but it's a lot more challenging because it's I'm not used to it and it seems like the paint blends differently Because there's no texture. It doesn't stick as easily, you know into the cracks and crevices of the paper Hey, welcome The other thing too is you know when you're creating paintings and you're working on a piece of artwork if you get stuck and you're not sure Where to go Well, first of all if you're in my Facebook group, you can always ask someone in there for some help with some feedback We always give kind feedback But you can also Something I found that's handy is to take a picture of it or like right now. I'm looking at the video Of the painting and I'm looking at it to see how it's looking in the video Somehow taking a photograph of something There's something about taking a photograph of it that Really works really well Giving me a new perspective on whatever I'm working on Sometimes just stepping back doesn't do it. I should say so I'm gonna drag some of this darkness around Because this shadow this flower back here is really behind everything else and it's really in shadow It's very hell project through another lens It's probably the best tip I can give you guys is to break out your phone and take a picture If you're a youtuber look at it like like right now I'm I said I'm looking at it on the screen It's very very helpful. The paint is really actually pushing around very well Talking and painting is challenging That's me that's not the paint and that's me with it wouldn't matter what kind of paint we were using I'm gonna put some lines in here. I might blend some of them out, but I'm kind of wanting some lines in here. So let's do that and I'll look at the questions in that So I'm just using the tip of my brush Remember to when you're working from an inspiration photo. We're you know, it's an inspiration photo If you want an exact copy print the picture But if you want to create an interesting piece of artwork Use said picture as inspiration for your art You're gonna be more pleased with it Unless you're one of those people that really like You know the process of Creating, you know photo realism. I am not that that's not me. That's never been me I find it tedious to be perfectly Frank Some people love it and I am not gonna knock you if you do in fact I probably admire you because I have absolutely no patience for it Never have probably never will my sister does Karen Is a realist painter Blend out some of the marks I just made Maybe I like the way I like where that's going. I am gonna blot up some of the extra water Okay, let's see Yeah, taking a picture and walking away from the picture for a day or so Yeah, and you know turning if you have a journal or canvas You know turn it around sideways upside down. You'll see flora bully doing that a lot Okay, now I got to say I like where what though happened with those marks almost more than down here So I'm gonna blend some of them a little bit, but I'm not gonna add any more and I'm going to leave them. I love The expression they give me up here in this flower. I absolutely love that Okay, so we're gonna go back to our yellows and I'm gonna use our medium yellow And I'm gonna use it in a pretty strong form. I'm gonna basically use it straight out of the pan without adding any Water to it any more than I have to to get the paint to work on my brush So it's a pretty strong as you can see it's a pretty strong bright yellow This is cadmium yellow pale Yeah, I agree with you in and one of the reasons, you know I work in these books and that we do watercolor Wednesday. These are studies Like I've said before not all of them turn out. Well, some of them are some of them are bad I mean, I have people that I say that on camera and people are like seriously. I don't see that I do But these are studies so I'm learning About this composition and if I wanted to do this composition again And I wanted to do it for sale I've learned a few things from just doing these flowers that I would know that I would want to do again And what I would not want to do again Now one of the things I always have a hard time with if I don't use masking fluid is leaving leaving white space And you notice I've almost completely lost my white space on all of these flowers That's pretty normal for me Sometimes I do sometimes I don't sometimes I paint them and decide that I'm not crazy about that composition or those flowers and I didn't I don't want to paint them again Sometimes I decide, you know, I really like them as they turned it out in this journal And I take copies of the actual page and turn turn it into something that's reprintable because I don't sell my journals And sometimes I think, you know, I really like that painting and there are things I like and don't like about the way it turned out But I think I want to paint and paint it again In, you know, a full copy for sale now. I will tell you that I Sell more lessons and more Digital copies of paintings than I do actual paintings Not by choice just because that's just the way my market is and I'm okay with that unless I'm doing a show or something when I was still in a You know artist cooperative gift shop and selling then I sold a lot more original art than I do now Part of that is I think because of shipping shipping is really expensive And unless you live in town and you want to come by and buy a painting. It's really hard To be able to afford the shipping Yeah, wax resist is a good way to do it. You don't have to have anything fancy. You can use a white crayola crayon Looking at that. I'm looking at that. Um, I'm sorry. I'm looking at the picture On the video. Oh Sorry, Kathy. All righty. Now. What do I want to do? So we have yellow ochre Get a baby way So yellow ochre. Hey Sabrina Usually somebody in my family calls, you know, when I'm in the middle of broadcasting at Bex creations, so No worries. I know I know how you feel This is yellow ochre Yeah, I just um was looking at the flowers in the Display on my iPad and I switched my View or resolution on the broadcast that I'm viewing to 720p So If you're on a tablet or that sort of device, do you click on the screen in the upper right hand corner? Then there will be three dots three vertical dots click on those click on the gear and then click on Your preferred resolution So I'm just using the yellow ochre to add more interest to our flowers here some sort of like expressive Lines some of those lines got too thick, but that's all right. We're gonna Make them work That's getting better. I'm liking it better All right, we're gonna take some of the same yellow ochre color. We're gonna add some of it to our flower centers At least the two centers that we can really see a lot of them. Anyway Can't really see that one too much. I like that You know my My picture Yeah, the colors are staying nice and crisp. They're flowing where I want them to when I want them to they blend very nicely They lift fairly well. I I like I enjoy these PBO watercolors I have to say Very much and as we add more layers to this painting. I'm getting more and more happy with it so I'm gonna go back to the paints gray here and Work on our scent flower centers here It's a pretty they're pretty it's a pretty yellow they're yellow ochre in this set is very nice all the yellows in this set are very very nice I'm gonna take our purple that's in here and I want to darken it up a little bit So I want to get a fair amount in here With some of the paints gray I want a dark purpley gray You can see how easily these blend they blend very easily not all paints do Sometimes some of the brands really just don't want to mix with each other and you know You can try and try and try to get the paint color that you want. It's really difficult So as you can see something else. I'm always talking about on camera Every painting has an ugly duckling stage every artist who's honest about it we'll tell you that they all have an ugly duckling stage and You know, you just keep working through if you keep working through it and you don't let yourself get frustrated You can really at the end come out with a really nice piece of artwork and that is no matter what your medium That doesn't matter if you're working with watercolors or acrylic or markers or whatever you're working with Yeah, see the gear is handy. So and Generally, I'm you know, I've been trying to remember lately to tell you guys about it at the beginning of the broadcast broadcast I've only managed that a few times but Yeah, the gear is very handy Especially when you're having problems with things buffering It's kind of like on my webcam. It's like the autofocus when that drives me crazy. I just click it off You just have to keep going. That's exactly right and if you're just starting your art journey and You know, you're really wanting to learn how to be better at things. There's no shortcut. They're there really isn't Just practice and have fun and at some point Things will just click for you. I know that sounds trite But it's completely true anybody where their salt will tell you it is they're just at some point whether it's in the middle of taking a class or listening to a Broadcast or a recording or reading a book something will happen That will just click for you. He's a fuzz. So these are starting to come together nicely. I'm happy now Okay, so we're gonna go in with Earth green which is dark like brownish kind of Green and I want to just add a little bit of it to like the background It's like a gray green. I shouldn't say brownish. I should say gray green this Round palette is nice because I think it has 24 colors Yeah, 24 half pants. It says Demi go days. That means half pants, I guess And it comes with a brush which I haven't I haven't used yet But I don't know that I'm too excited to use because I'm not so sure I like it well in we all have art failures and And sometimes those just need to be painted over I Have a lot of canvases in the garage that you guys have not seen That I would classify as painting failures So I just grabbed what did I just grab indigo, you know, especially paintings from when I first started learning and And a no, I honestly didn't really know what I was doing That's the wrong color and why I thought I had to paint on canvas and I couldn't just paint in a journal I don't know you can I prefer to do like these kind of studies and journals and then, you know If it's a failure, that's fine I keep it I can keep it for posterity You could even like make notes in the margins about you know what you thought you liked and what you thought you didn't like what was a success and what was a failure and Then, you know, just shut the book up and stick it on a shelf somewhere Why I ever thought that you had to do everything on canvas. I have no idea but now I've got a garage full of ugly duckling canvas This is still the indigo. Okay. I'm gonna take some of that indigo I'm really liking that color and let's put some of it in our flower centers I am gonna come in here with some gel pen I'm gonna dry this and come in here with I think with some orange gel pen or orange paint pen and maybe gold Excuse me and add some highlights to the flower centers. There are these gold little seed Gold and orange little seed heads in the flowers So when you're working on your paintings, you know, and you're working on the shadows and the light First of all, Jane Haines has some great books on that but Use your cooler colors for the shadows and your warmer colors for the light You'll be real happy with the results. I think just experiment and play Cool colors would be violet blue some of your greens Warm colors would be orange yellows. Oh, yeah, you got to make sure you use You don't have to use expensive paper when you're starting out But you do need to use the proper weight paper for what a medium you're working on If you're working in mixed media most of the time It's safest to just stick with watercolor paper 140 pound at me at minimum and I've put plenty of holes in paper and when I tell you to use Good weight paper I speak from experience because when I first started I was watercoloring on drawing paper people And I still have some of those and talk about making holes in paper like seriously This is more of that media. What is this pale? cadmium yellow pale So layers one of the things I've always loved about watercolor is that you can just layer your colors on top of each other You can still see all those other marks because the watercolor is transparent I just love that. There's just something about that I am going to have to stop adding color here at some point because we need to get in here With and bring some of the white back and we need to put those orange Seeds in So let's see Okay, let's give it a dry. Thanks Lisa Okay, I'm going to use my small brush Just because I want a little bit of control over what I'm going to do here and I'm going to come in here with the white And I cleaned off my palette because I'm not sure I don't know that I'm not going to need that This is the white from the PBO palette, but I'm not sure I really didn't leave white as much white as I wanted So this this is watercolor although your white in any of your pal palettes is usually more opaque than the other colors So that it's opaque enough for what I want to do and it's not really so This is golden fluid acrylic titanium white I'm just going to use a little grab a few drops And because it's an acrylic I don't want to use my watercolor brushes on it. So I am going to grab a acrylic brush This is obviously a well-loved brush Thank you Kathy and Ian we all have that that happens to the best of us Okay, so this is like I said, this is a fluid acrylic. So it's semi-transparent Color, but it's more opaque than the watercolor. It's not going to completely cover up the um Watercolor paint, but it's going to give me the like white highlights that I want with little effort because remember on the lazy crafter with a little effort and um quickly And you know, we're mixed media artists so Don't you know let anybody tell you that if you're you know painting with the watercolor that you can't use Um anything else on that on the painting. That's a loadable Use what makes you happy And you could use a soft body acrylic paint Um, I like that this one has some transparency to it And I would rather have a few like semi-transparent or transparent layers than one opaque layer I love golden fluid acrylics. They're fun to paint with But they're pricey But look how that made that flower start popping Okay, so the other thing we can do with this uh paint Is there are a few white dots Thanks. I I I like that. So I wasn't sure I was gonna like them when we got started Putting the color in but I like them now And that's usually the case, you know, there's always a stage when I go Oh god, that's really ugly and you have to do this and make this mistake live on camera really But if I just keep at it I find that at some point I get something I really happy with That's generally the case Now did I learn some things creating this piece? Of course I did And if I was going to do it again for sale or on a greeting card There are probably steps I would omit or You know, maybe shortcuts I would have taken I don't know though I think I would have maybe done the same steps because I like the way this is coming out Now the original inspiration photo has like Vainy Like folds in the flower petals. So I'm trying too hard not to blend All of the brushstrokes out of this white acrylic paint and it's very subtle I doubt you can see it on camera, but It's just lending an extra something to the flower petals And I'm going to just use up the white acrylic paint here that I have Which Susie are we looking for Lisa? There was some debate on the internet about the name of these flowers And I don't know who's right and I don't know what they're called I'm not what you'd call a gardener I like to grow vegetables when I can but now that I have asthma it's hard for me to even do that. So And I was never great with flower names to begin with ah So look at look at what that did to the um painting that made a big difference I'm really liking the way that that's looking very much It is making me want to do something else though. Let's see I have an orange. Let me find it. Hold on. Yep That orange. No, not that one Hyrule orange I'm looking for my orange people Okay, so I have some She might not know lots of people don't know how to use the chat. That's that's pretty common So some of my fluid acrylics are getting pretty old I try to get in here right now and then it puts some water in them, but this is um Quedocratone gold That's a lot of it. I'm going to take some of it out And this is handsome yellow light orange is really going to make it pop And remember what I said about gel pen accents. Well, you don't have to just do gel pen accents You could do like we're doing acrylic paint accents The goal is not to cover up the watercolor paint. We're accenting the painting by adding some Other medium They I have no idea That they could very well be So though some things I don't like about this flower Are there's too much of the dark? And it's too regular and uniform So This is what did I say? This was handsome yellow light Again, this is a golden fluid acrylic And I'm not looking to cover up those dark lines. I'm just looking to Um break them up a little bit and that's making a big difference Now whatever you do to one flower you probably want to do to the other ones At least in a few places right And don't be afraid to just you know put some paint on here and make a mark just you know Be make a suggestive mark This color is a very warm color very suggestive of sunlight and and brightness and warmth Like any of your yellows are in any of your mediums So put it in your places where you don't have enough highlights. Maybe you Took too much away Maybe there's too much shadow It's some I agree. I think it's some kind of daisy I don't know what kind exactly but I think it's some kind of daisy. Okay, so I'm going to just add some of this In random kind of random places And that's really making our painting pop and that's Sometimes I'm happy to just work with one medium and I love the results and other times My muse is just screaming at me to get in there with something else Um, this is one of those paintings And you don't forget with acrylic paint if especially if your background is dry You can get in there and with a baby wipe and you can just Blend it smear it wipe it up. Okay Um, so we're going to take And see now I'm loving where that's going. I I like that. Okay, so we're going to take some of our yellow And this isn't in the inspiration photo But I'm going to add it anyway because I think it adds it's going to add a nice pop And I'm going to put just some dots in the flower centers So I got my pbo watercolors from amazon I have no idea if Um, what stores might carry the pbo watercolors There is a store in santa cruz california that palace art and office supply that has Their acrylic paints, but I haven't been there in a while and I honestly have no idea if they have the watercolor paints A few too many yellow dots Over here. That's a few too many. So let's let's get that rid of that Okay, so I'm going to take some of this um gold And I'm going to just add some yellow to it because I want to Make it less watery, but I also want to make it more orange than it is And this may not be bright enough. I may still want to come in here with a brighter color But we're gonna see if we can make this work Now I'm being a lot more deliberate in the dot placement on the painting than is in the photo Because I think that it's adding something interesting To the painting to do that And you'll notice i'm doing kind of a c shape here a c shape here And then in the photo there's just random peaks of dots Of this center coming out from behind the petals Um, just like that And I do have my brushes in um The acrylic in one side and the watercolor in in another so they're separated Don't put your watercolor and acrylic brushes in the same water So I like the way this turned out. I think it's really good. I think it's done And i'm pretty happy with it Um, the original flower was about this big around. I don't know how big is that two and a half three inches To be perfectly honest. I was um kind of God, I hope nobody's watching this and that I know I was bored at a party and I um Well, I want maybe not bored. I get distracted really easy. My husband's nickname for me is dory And these flowers were sitting next to me in a flower pot and I couldn't help it. I took a picture Now see where we started with this painting and where it ended up are two completely different things I love this painting as it is It is something that I would scan and reproduce put on a postcard Put on a greeting card for sale. I love the way it turned out But there was a point there when I where I thought holy crap what mess am I making and how I have to do this on camera Hey, jody So pbo watercolors. I'm pretty pleased with them um, I did go in and accent this jody with some golden fluid acrylics, but That's not because there's anything wrong with the paint with this particular composition I would have done that no matter what paint I was using. I think that the pbo watercolors um Are this 24 color set? Is nice and bright It's got a good selection of cool and warm in each of the colors the yellows the reds the blues It's got a good selection of greens and browns a panes gray and a black and a white um Although to be honest like lindsay the frugal crafter Um in any of my palettes. I can always lose the white not because I don't use it But sometimes like with this painting I would find it more helpful to have a small bottle of a fluid acrylic Or a or a small sample size tube of a white acrylic paint in the watercolor box Then the white watercolor paint. I'm not a huge gouache fan I just never was able to get into it and when I want to make something that's opaque or I want to add opaque access I tend to grab my acrylic paints and that's what happened here I do have a huge watercolor Sorry gouache palette watercolor gouache palette that I never use Um, and it's you know kind of for sale. I haven't really advertised it anywhere, but I have two big robax palettes I love them, but I don't use them and they kind of are both for sale. So if anybody's interested Uh p.m. Me later, uh through facebook or send me an email or something They're not cheap and shipping is going to probably be pricey, but they're full of paint um artist quality paint in some cases so Anyway, yes these flowers. I don't know what they're called These are the photos. I didn't already get paint on this one, but um They were beautiful The copy of the one of the copies of the pictures is on my Uh website. Yeah, so you can always scratch in there to bring some of the white back Or to have to hey patricia or to give Yourself a groove or more texture in the paper where the paint will actually sink in if you watch Lindsey The frugal crafters video Where she reviewed the daniel smith paints and she painted chinese lantern flowers She did that with the leaves and she scratched in the leaves to create a vein and all the green paint went and sunk right in that scratch mark And that's a way to do it. You can also leave white space by using of course masking fluid You could use a white wax resist or a wax resist. I just use a white uh crayola crayon um The photo was taken at a birthday party that I was at with family and friends And I was just completely distracted as usual because I'm distracted a lot. My name's dory Hello world. My name is dory And I always have my phone with me and I couldn't help it and took a picture of the flowers I took a few pictures. They were just such an interesting color combination Oh, I'm sorry patricia That sucks The recording will be on youtube later. Uh the rebroadcast I I just you know, I'm distracted a lot. Um, the other question I get asked a lot is Why don't I take my inspiration photos with my phone? I've been taking them with my phone since I had an iphone 4 um, I just use my phone And um, it works great and it gets me good enough pictures to do my paintings from In some cases they get a really good shot. That's not really because I know what I'm doing That's completely by accident. I'll have you know And this little dish, you know these little white porcelain plates I use for mixing Are either from the dollar tree or the japanese dollar store I have them in different sizes and they are fabulous for ink paint And they're porcelain so they wash off easily so you don't have to have separate ones for like acrylic or ink or Uh Watercolor you can just have one and just clean it african daisies. Okay. That's great to know. They're fabulous. I love them Um, they didn't have it, you know, sometimes like when I repot flowers Especially if it's something interesting. I sometimes leave the tag in the pot and they I did look for the tag It wasn't in the pot. I don't know And so now we've painted it a couple of times and this is the watercolor version and Let's see Grab it off the wall. Here's the acrylic version That we did on monday with deco art No, I haven't lisa. I have not upgraded to windows 10. I have um Editing software. I'm worried about not being able to take the change and honestly, I like the windows I have I don't see any need to upgrade I will be hopefully in the next year buying a new computer Um, and I'll probably be switching to apple from a pc Because I think it would be easier on the video editing process And some of the picture creation things I'm doing right now So this is the brush that comes in the pbo kit. It is a pocket like travel brush. It does come apart in two pieces And then it screws back together. It reminds me of a chinese like ink brush In the way that it in its appearance in the way that's made I haven't actually used this one So how about if we do a quick test? We need paper Hold on we need paper My table's a mess Okay, here's a little scrap of watercolor paper. Uh, this is um 100 some 140 pound Has a little bit of um Modeling paste on it. I don't know if you guys can even see that on camera Um, it looks like through pudginella. I save all these little scraps for doing stuff like this So let's get the brush wet. I haven't used this brush And I'm going to get this wet Oh, hey shelly We won't tell anyone I'm almost done though. Sorry So here I'm going to get this paper wet And I am going to use I want to just see how this brush works. So we are going to use I don't know what color this one of the blues Prussian blue it works pretty well You can see now that there's modeling paste on here seems like a good brush for washes I don't know that it would be good for detail work. It does come to sort of a point, but it's like a rounded point So I think it would be tricky It's kind of too floppy to do deal detail work, but it'd be a good wash brush And I don't I don't but it's interesting brush. I mean I'll I'll use it Because you know, I don't really not use any brushes But there you have it this is the brush it comes with it does come with a brush the 24 set The pocket set does not come with a brush. I wonder if this brush fits in here Actually now that I'm thinking about that. I think it's too big Oh, no, maybe not. Oh, nope. It fits. Look at that. That's cool I don't know if a koi travel brush would fit in here. It might that space might not be big enough This is the pbo pocket set, which I haven't used yet. I have to I have to swatch all the colors All right, does anybody have any questions? So you can get the pbo watercolors on amazon you probably can find them at your fine art supply stores if they carry pbo paints um lines if you're in california, I know In santa cruz. There's palace art and office supply. They have pbo acrylics I don't know if they have the watercolor, but I know they have the acrylics I just went ahead and got mine from amazon both the pocket kit and the 24 round palette are both from amazon Yeah, I don't like I said, I don't know. I just know they were pretty so I took a picture That's what I do Alrighty, that's it for right now. Um, don't forget the most important thing Here's a copy of the color key for the round Palette has again 24 colors in it What's the most important thing y'all know what it is, right? First of all be nice to each other because like there's enough hate in the world I'm sick of all the hate that you know horrible posts. Um, this picture along with many others are on my Uh website free for you to use for art inspiration. If you create something you want to sell Um from the picture feel free You can do that And ian and others are loading inspiration photos to the facebook group So if you're not members of my facebook group yet go to the just this broadcast description And look for the link. It's in there and um, there's lots of free stuff Including I downloaded some free stencil designs for silhouette people There are very raw jpegs for The basic doodles that I created the stencils from you can also download if you're not a silhouette person But they're very raw and unedited fyi The most important thing is to be nice to yourself and everybody else You deserve it and probably they do too And there's enough hate in the world right now Go out and have a great day be nice to yourself be nice to other people And i'll see you later. Have fun making art and share. I would love to see what you guys do with it All right. See you later guys. Bye