 Hey guys, just trying to bring up the comments on YouTube One of my neighbors is having the audacity to have his gardener work on his yard and my dog is not happy Couldn't you tell by how he's barking? I always think I'm prepared for these things before we get started And I'm really not Always seems to take a minute to show up on a playlist on fit on YouTube What's going on? I don't know what that is. I didn't click on that. Okay. Thank you. Seriously It's always funny. I'm always telling you guys. I'm trying to find myself It sounds like I'm having a mid-life crisis. I'm really not But I can't see the chat if I don't do this part Somebody's watching You all somebody's watching me I can't watch myself on my iPad because I can't find it It's like there's a delay. I know there's a delay from what I say to what you guys see But there's also delay and it's showing up on the feed We can't really get started until I can see the comments So we'll just keep working on that part. There seems to always be an issue Let's see if I go to here, which I don't really want to do But is it showing me? Yeah, there I am Hi from Sweden. Hey, hello Sana and Aline. Hello. Good morning. So we're gonna work on some more Swatches for our product reviews to watch book this morning We're gonna work on Prima and Prang which are both affordable brands. I was gonna do peerless, too But I don't want to try to doing three brands is Difficult hey Michelle and I thought this morning. It might be nice to focus on two kind of affordable easy to get brands So we're gonna do that So first we have Prang and Prang makes Kids watercolors. They also make this These semi-moist watercolors which are still probably technically a kids watercolor, but they're a little better watercolor and They do have some light fastness Although neither one of the brands we're working with today, although they both say they're light fast neither one of them say how much life fast they are so I Don't know but this is the semi this isn't the traditional Prang Children's cake set. This is the semi-moist. They actually come in little half pans that you can take out Like a regular artist watercolor the pans are a little different shape but it's similar and this is the 16 half pan set I got it from Amazon Yeah, we're gonna do the premium this morning Aline I got these on Amazon. I think they were like 10 or 11 dollars. They weren't very much Both of these brands are pretty affordable now the Prima as you all know if you've been seeing them And I want to do this first because I want to explain this So the Prima as you know if you've seen my videos and everybody else's videos of the Prima They come in a small half pan box Like this one this is an empty one from Jackson's art so they come in a box like this right And you each one of their sets they have the classics Tropicals and decadent pies and they each come in their own little box like this. That makes me crazy I want all of my brand of that paint in one box So that's what I did. I put all of my brand of Prima in one box. I Unboxed to them and I put them all in this large 48 pan box And this does have room to grow so at some point if Prima adds more colors I can get those and add them to here So I have them now these don't have color names. Hey, Mary The Prima don't have color names. They have color numbers So we'll have to work with the color now we'll have to work with that But I just wanted to explain why my Prima paints weren't in the small box. That's small box I like but there's three different sets of paint and I wanted them all in one box so I already pre drew my Blending charts and my little houses and everything if you want to get copies of Any of the Swatches or anything that I've done you can download them all off of my Watercolor Wednesday page and after today's broadcast. I'll link the Prang and Prima websites along with updating the Images to add these swatches that we do today. Thank you. Yeah I just I Yeah, well a lot of issues a little obsessive compulsive is one of them and having those three separate boxes and Misplacing one of the sets which is probably going to be that day the one that I want to use I could just see that causing a whole bunch of problems If you only are going to get one set then you're going to be fine And I love that the Prima comes in a proper metal watercolor box with a traditional normal sized half pan So at some point if you run out of a certain color and you want to replace it with instead of Prima a Sennelier color you want to squeeze them from a tube in there or Daniel Smith or something you could do that You could use the same box the box is great. Hey Michael. How are you the box is great? And yeah, the Prima are not horribly expensive neither one of these brands are horribly expensive I think a lot of us are that way. Okay, and we're going to use our watercolor Brushes from Royal. I need I need a rag. I forgot a rag this morning Okay, these are the Royal Zen brushes and this is the Number eight round. I already have glue stuff on me Where the heck I already stuck my my fingers in something. I'm good You know I'm good. I you know It's been a crazy morning already it always is great mornings are always crazy for me because I'm always trying to squeeze in coffee YouTube time gym time and Chores or errands all before I go live this morning. I managed all of them, but chores I figured the dirty laundry and dishes could wait until we were done All right, and I have to catch up on YouTube comments Okay, so the prank has They're little pans aren't marked but they have this little like paper swatch thing in the inside Oh, see I already stuck my finger in something again And I haven't made a color key because I just got this it just came in so we're gonna let's see They just have basic colors. So There's only one yellow oops, I Am just a really messy this morning Exactly. I don't need to do chores are still going to be there The dirty laundry and the dirty dishes they're not going anywhere And you know, I've been really hard trying to Exercise and eat right and at night frequently I just eat salad or vegetables or something like that and When I cook I just cook for the family. So the way I look at it those dirty dishes aren't even mine You know if they don't get done right away because they don't want to do them. I'm not gonna worry about it too much So we'll do the praying first And I've lost about three pounds by the way yellow number five now these have names and numbers And then we see yellow We have orange and yellow orange. Let's do the orange Yeah, see I wish I could get my kid to do the To do the Dishes and stuff. She's not here enough Green number nine Thanks, you know, my blood sugar is a little high although it's not been higher. It's not higher than it was last year But you know, I definitely have Diabetes in the family and I'd rather not get that so this year. I'm really determined to get it under control Getting sick and hurt at work kind of threw me off of my game. So and it's been a struggle since then So I'm working on it. All right So I've heard good things about these pranks and I haven't done a color You know a color key or anything. So I'm excited with the first brush of paint To see what they do. Wow, they're pretty creamy Look at that yellow These are the other yellows. These are the dan these are this is the first four Brand chart that I made You know, it freaks me out every year um, I am My daily blood sugar is fine, but I only just started really watching what I eat and my Doctor does that long. What is it six months? I don't know. It takes a while for the changes to show up in the um In the blood test. So I'm you know, it's it's not worse than it was last year, but um So I'm just going to keep at it. I'm not going to let that discourage me You know frequently when I write my daily thoughts in the facebook group. I am not lecturing you guys. I'm lecturing myself I don't know how many of you who don't know me that well realize that I'm actually speaking to myself The orange is okay. I really like the yellow uh red It might just be the orange is dry I need to maybe put some more water in that orange Look at that red. Isn't that a pretty red? Let's put some more water in that orange I haven't gotten official diagnosis yet, but um I'm just treating it like I am Between getting hurt at work and having asthma and everything else that's happened to me since 2012 I never used to mind going to the doctors, but no. Yeah, that's changed They're not my favorite people They are okay blue and drinking tea and doing art um Keeps me out of the you know cookies Okay violet that's a dark purple It's pretty though. Look how dark it is So those are pretty well pigmented now. They're a little flat in tone But we'll do some more color blending. It's like I have a hair or piece of fuzz on the end of my brush So that's the praying and then let's do the prima Now again the prima um do not have They don't even have um Names they just have color numbers So let's find some color numbers that work. So we have a number five Which is the yellow Let's do 17 which is an orange And then number three is nice red number six number eight and number nine okay, so And I think these I did spray them, but they look a little dry again Sometimes with cake watercolors you need to really spray them a couple times and let them soak a few minutes in between times to really get them moist And with pre-made cake watercolors like the pans tend to be really super full Which I think I've already said in a video. I don't care for I like to fill my own pants because I can make them three quarters full and the water has somewhere to go So this is the prima And then orange That was the wrong orange. Well, that's all right That's a different orange. So that's number four Oops Because see I'm reading the comments while I'm painting um number three Yeah, when your blood sugar is above um normal levels and kind of stays there They diagnose you as pre-diabetic And if you don't get it under control you'll become diabetic And for most of us who do art. Yes, we could change what we eat But we don't move enough, you know, because we're sitting on our butts painting all day Movements really the key getting your exercise Hence going to the gym as many times as I can squeeze in during the week no matter how crazy it makes my morning schedule So these are our prima colors And aren't they nice Here's our other colors by comparison Schmink daniel smith mission gold and may mary blue Here's our uh, winds are newton van go hold mine and quarr And then these are the ones we did last week grumbacher sinelli and coy So they're not bad. They're you know, um They're not they're not daniel smith. They're schmink, but they're not bad And when you're on a budget, you're not even sure you're going to like watercolor And you're just going to do cards and tags anyway or mix media I think one of these will work fine and the praying Um, they're really affordable Yeah, just remember to you know, if you're going to eat sugar eat natural sugar I eat a piece of fruit, but try to limit that and eat more vegetables And lean proteins and move the biggest thing is just move All right, let's do a little a couple little sample paintings But let's not too go go too far with that because i'm going to have to remember i want to use the same colors I already swatched So let's go back to the praying And we'll start lightest to darkest like we always do So decide where your light's going to hit your painting And this will tell you more about the paint than just doing a swatch wheel How well does it blend with the other colors? How easily? How does it lift When you want to blend it with just plain water, how well does it do that? Crayola will work until you figure out if you even like them I agree with that I started out with a set that's similar to crayola or the praying set. There's nothing wrong. In fact Up until not long ago. I had the praying makes a I think metallic set and a glitter set of watercolors And I had those in my travel kit up until recently Yeah, these are non-toxic watercolors. You don't have to worry about any of the pigments Being toxic if you're going to be doing art with kids with the praying set Or something like crayolas the even the praying semi-moist and these are like I said, these are pretty well pigmented and they're lightfast How much lightfast? Well, we don't really know but They're supposedly lightfast So we're working our way to from our warmest color to our darkest color exactly so A lot of times when you think you're hungry, you're actually thirsty So try having something to drink instead of something to eat Which will be why lately you see me on camera a lot with cups of tea and Keep yourself busy. A lot of us are boredom eaters so Keep yourself busy so that you don't get too bored. That's a lot of red on that house I love how watercolors move too. That's one of the things I like about them. It's one of the things I've always liked about them Okay, some green I'm doing not too badly considering. I don't have my reading glasses on I um drink a lot. I I try to stay with decaffeinated tea because I have high blood pressure That runs in my dad's family um There's that little piece of fuzz And I drink a lot of green tea um Stash makes an organic lemon ginger, which is nice and This is big glows decaffeinated green tea um also Is it T a z o? I don't know how you pronounce that they make a bramble wine That's not it's not decaf, but it's low caffeine Yeah, see don't do that you got to get out of that habit have have a glass of Like a fruit flavored organic tea or something something with no sugar in it But you know something that tastes a little bit on the sweet side. Don't put don't put any sweetener in it. I drink my tea Unsweetened room temperature These are really well pigmented like I'm having to kind of be careful about how much paint I put on where And they blend nicely on the paper like I'm getting this nice like gray color right here without even trying It's all about just changing your routines up And trying something different whether it's when you are tempted to go snack on candy sitting and doing some art or going for a walk It's all about just developing healthier routines, which is easier said than done. I'm the first one to tell you that No sweetener. I never have drank my tea with sweetener And I like my sugars and stuff, but I've never been like a huge like eat candy all day kind of girl. So For me, it's always been a matter of not moving enough because you know I'm not big on exercise Unless you unless I have to be I'm trying not to say that anymore because you know exercise is good for us So that's not bad Let's try the prima And I don't drink any soda drink a lot of water. I drink a lot of decaffeinated tea All right, let's try our prima paints Again, these you know these cakes they dry they dry really fast All right I'm a big boredom eater So and I don't so I don't do but when I say I don't do boredom. Well, that's one of the things that um Yeah, um green tea is really good for you I drink a lot of the green tea or um I've been known to have two tea bags in my cup. I'll have one lemon ginger and then a green tea I've done that plenty of times Yeah, once you get used to having um low low little or no sugar in your diet It's like switching to low salt Once you do it and you get in the habit of it Then you kind of almost can't go back you have things that are really Normally sugary and you're like ew And I don't know what it is about the tea. It's something in my Italian family. None of us like our tea really sweet We all like it room temperature unsweetened. So I don't know I don't know what to tell you in that regard. It's a family thing I don't do too many flavored teas and I don't like them too like flowery The bramble one is wine one that I just found is the only one that I can really stand I do put sugar in my coffee It's the one thing I put sugar in but I use coconut sugar, which is Supposed to be better for you lower glycemic index and all that so um I switched to that a while ago and I like it better when I do put if I don't have that I use raw sugar And I really it's the only thing I add sugar to No, I don't drink soda or anything and I only have two cups of coffee a day No worries, Nancy. We're just doing our swatches. We're working with prima and praying today So two real affordable brands and what we're noticing about them is um Although they're affordable brands. They're fairly well pigmented but they um And they blend really well. I think they're good for their brand and we're just what we're just chatting about blood sugar The fact that all of us just sit on our butts and paint all day and probably eat too many of the wrong things Because you know me and my big mouth. Did anybody notice that after monday's broadcast, I accidentally deleted all the footage When we were jelly printing and then we were discussing menopause You never know what i'm going to talk about when we start these these uh broadcast See, I don't like it cold room temperature Unsweetened like this is this is warm. This is a little bit warm, but that's okay. I don't like it too hot or too cold Yeah, I think it's kind of it. You know, my grandmother was from Italy she wasn't born here. So I think it's an old country thing To have um Like warm not too hot or not too cold tea I don't remember her serving a lot of tea when I was little, but she must have No, it's probably me because you know, I don't keep secrets from you guys Um, my husband calls me chatty kathy, you know, I tell everybody everything So these are the primas and like the prang, you know, they're not as well pigmented as the artist's watercolors I I will say that but They're not bad and they blend nicely on the paper I'm getting these gray tones without even trying They're blending when I don't want them to That could be good or bad Gabby, yeah, exactly. I'm gabby gabby very gabby My husband has to remind me sometimes not to tell people certain things Like, you know, if we go to family functions and he says don't don't you know Tell them this or that like when he was going through cancer testing. He said don't I don't want you to tell anybody He doesn't I have it by the way. He was it was negative But it was not allowed to say anything to anybody I think the primas also blend too much. You have to really drive them in between your colors They do lift well though. I noticed that last time so that's not bad. All right, let's go to the next test Let's do a color wheel Yeah, see I've got my cup tea and I have a habit of using the same tea bag like four or five times So by the end it's really just like lightly colored water My husband said last night, you know, honey, we we can't afford afford for you to use more than one tea bag a day I just laughed So we'll do number five One two three and then we'll do a red which was number Three one two three and then we'll do the blue which was number eight And then for the praying We will do number five. It's funny that both of their yellows are number five and they're close in color, but they're a little bit different They use the same color numbers I don't know if that means anything For their red is number one Yeah, and these are These are inexpensive watercolors. These are not proper, you know artists professional watercolors Yes, they have some light fastness, but these are affordable watercolors and look how brilliant the colors are And look how well they like blend together on the paper without even trying Look at this praying one. This one's almost dry. I love that All right, so now we're going to do our color wheel test and for this we're going to need our plate Sip of tea Oh, I'm glad you're doing something Nancy. So when you guys are tempted to go have candy or something Pick up your paint brushes and said instead get your beating out your crochet hooks Keep your hands busy doing something else And don't forget to take a break and go out for a walk Even if it's around the block or you know, if you're the kind of person that you have trouble leaving the house That's fine. Go walk up into the hallway. Get some steps in somehow It looks like it does right. It looks like it has a little bit of ochery color to it. You're not You're not wrong So the praying paints are about they were 11 dollars in change. I think on um amazon, this is the 16 half pounds semi moist praying set. So maybe somebody could look it up while we're here And then the primas come with 12 colors in each set And the one we've been using is the classics And there I think 25 and they come in the nice metal box the praying come in a plastic case And they come with a paint brush, but I I haven't tried it. I don't know that it's the best world's best paint brush All right, so let's try this. So we're gonna do the primas are in front of me. So let's do the primas. So number five is the yellow So we'll put the pure color here in that section of our color wheel That's for me. Nancy. It's not what I'm eating because I eat pretty well. I mean, you know, I have my You know moments where I have something I probably shouldn't have but I don't do it too often I almost completely cut potatoes out of my life stuff like that. It's really all about Not moving enough Which is why I started going to the gym Oh, see 8 20 I was wrong Just make sure you get the semi moist and not the other ones The semi moist are a little better quality paints than their cakes and they're better pigmented Oh, see 10 50 So get the semi moist That's important when you're searching praying Praying 16 half pans semi moist Yeah, take the dogs for a walk Nancy God, I've got to drag my dog over to the Vets and get him his rabies shot. He does not like riding in the car. That's not going to be fun I got to tell you guys All right, so we're going to take some yellow on our plate and we're going to mix it with red About 50 50 And we're going to put that color here Like my twinkling h2o's and I have a big palette of them um I don't think you need a lot of them. I think and I took a lot of my um What did I had a bunch of those sparkly pigment powders and I can't think of what they're called right now And I turned them into like a twinkling h2o by adding gum Arabic to them So you walk up and down the stairs first. That's a good idea So I think with these primas you have to play a little bit more with blending To get different colors because I got three different colors than the original two, but they're not very not really different Perfect pearls. That's it. Thank you So I had a bunch of perfect pearl powders and I mixed them with gum Arabic and made a sort of a Um Twinkly h2o I have a big palette of that. I can get it out one more done if you guys want No, perfect pearls. It was perfect pearls And I have way too many colors when I first started doing this, you know, I was very much like the rest of you I thought, you know, the teacher says I need that and that means I need to have one in every color You don't really need to do that So I would say pick if you're going to buy twinkling h2os or if you have perfect pearls And you want to turn them into like a twinkling h2o Add some gum Arabic to them until they get pasty And any any powder would work Add some gum Arabic to them until they get pasty And then let it dry out and they re wet just like twinkling h2os do Pick a few of your favorite colors Oh, that's the wrong one Pick a few of your favorite colors and get those or if you're buying Twinkling h2os, you know, they have them in sets like tropical sets and that pick a set with colors in it That you think you're going to use But I wouldn't buy a ton of them Because you probably aren't going to use them all the time, you know, like I like to use mine if I'm doing a seascape I'll add a little bit of a turquoise one or a A white pearly one to the waves in the ocean to help me suggest, you know, the the light hitting the water Okay, so now we're going to do our blue and yellow I had better luck mixing the blue and the red than the Yeah, I red and yellow Yeah, so you have to they come in sets just like similar to the prima, of course, they have more colors So they have more sets But so pick You know, if you're like me, it's probably the tropical set. Whatever set has turquoise in it um It is a binder That's used in watercolor paint I don't know if I can find it right now See see my gum arabic is not in a the bottle it came in Because I put it in a different bottle But it's a binder you can get it in the fine art aisle. Windsor Newton makes one that's available like everywhere and um It's used to stick all the pigment particles together and have it stick to the paper Basically So yeah the praying I had the praying. Oh look see what happened. I was not paying attention and look at all that Look at the muddy mess I got over here That's not gonna work So when I first um heard about praying when I first started this I had the plant praying glitter set and the praying metallic set and I loved them Later I got the twinkling h2o's but um I liked the praying sets All right, let's try that again No, so you mix the um Gum arabic is mixed with the the pigment powders to bind all those particles together and make it into the paint that you see me using right now And have it stick to the paper Okay, so now that's the color we've already put on so now we're going to add more yellow to some of that Some paint companies use honey as a binder to stick their their pigments together And other companies use gum arabic I like the gum arabic because it's not sticky in the palette Paints that are bind bound with honey stay sticky and moist. They don't ever really dry out and I like my palettes to dry out Gesso is like a primer that goes underneath your paint So that's different And they do make gesso's specifically for watercolor That are more absorbent than traditional gesso So if you're having trouble working over gesso, you might want to switch to a watercolor gesso Let's do the same one with the praying. That was the prima And daniel smith makes a clear watercolor gesso, which is fabulous So that means you could do some kind of a mix media Collagey background put a layer of the clear watercolor gesso over it Let it dry and then you could watercolor over whatever you put on there Which is really fabulous Okay, so here's the yellow which we've all decided already is a little bit ochery And see it's not just because You know at first I thought maybe it was because the pan was contaminated with something next to it, but it's not It's just a little bit It's a little bit less bright. It's a little bit ochery more ochery than the prima um and then red This one It's praying too. Is it praying that makes a set of metallic watercolors in like a cd case That's really hard to find. I used to have one. I used them all up Um, I think you can only get it at dick flick from I'll try not to um Delete this one Like I did another one only go I promise I will delete this one. It's a good thing We were only jelly printing on monday and there was you know, no I don't think there was a lot of reference material in there that you guys would want to refer back to because I deleted it by accident I like this blue Now there's a in this set you have a blue and a turquoise blue And a blue violet and a blue green. It's got a lot of blues, but only one yellow, which is interesting I know right me Me and all my brilliance accidentally deleted the video Because you know technology black them. I should just paint my thumb black All right, so there's our yellow. We're going to grab some of our red Let's see how well we can get these to blend and make secondary and and secondary colors So that's it. Oh, that's in the wrong spot So i'm not going to waste my paint. I'm going to put that here And let's see that's a good. It's a good accidental test. Let's see how I'll lift so I just have my Brush just has water on it and let's see how much of that will come off Actually kind of a lot, you know, I'm impressed some paints Won't lift and sometimes you don't want them to lift but sometimes you do Especially if you do like I just did All right, so let's take our color and some of it and let's put more yellow in it These blend very nicely with each other For inexpensive watercolor paints. I'm pretty impressed So let's add some more red and see what color we get Very nice I like that Now are they as well pigmented as even the prema? No You can tell just by the reds how much more pigmented the prema red is than the um Praying red Although it could just be I had more water on the brush Hey, Tammy But they're pretty comparable. I think if you went with either one you wouldn't be making a bad choice Okay, so now let's do our blue and purple. So I've got some I mean Blue and purple or blue and red make purple. We're going to make purple for watercolor Michael all of our watercolor Wednesday videos are geared towards beginners um Once you have your set of watercolor paints and you've decided which ones you're going to buy You should do these kind of tests and play and do these kind of blending tests with them That's the first thing you should do And then I have a bunch of watercolor wednesday videos um here Where i'm working in my journal And almost all of those are geared towards beginners There is one where I do dragonflies and that's a really easy painting And that's probably for a straight on beginner who's not used to watercolors I'd probably recommend that one or the sunflower one So if you go to the watercolor wednesday playlist, there is a playlist And you look for the sunflowers or the dragonflies. That's probably the two I would recommend That you start with Okay, so now we're going to do our greens But the first thing you do when you get your new brand new set of watercolors is make a color key Where you swatch all your paints Then you need to do some blending tests Then do your dragonflies and we're going to be filming some watercolor stuff. I think while we're in las vegas um And i'm sure that will be beginner stuff too. So And i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm about to film today. I'm going to be filming another four-part watercolor Series where I pick four different brands of watercolor that we've swatched already And I have a fairly simple composition in mind And we are going to it's going to be a four-part video series. I'm going to film it today. It'll air It'll probably air while i'm gone But that'll be something to look forward to it'll be a floral inspired Hey, tereza Probably I am because I have them. Um, it'll probably be Yeah, I will I will be at some point Because they're water soluble And I have I have I don't have tons and i'm not going to go out buying tons, but I do have some So those are our two color wheels That's okay. I had trouble finding the feed too, tereza. I couldn't see any of the comments there for a few minutes It was really bugging the crap out of me to be honest with you Okay, so I am going to do this is a same if you haven't seen me do this before This is still color blending just a different format. You don't have to do both of these If you do one or the other You're doing something and if you have a large set of watercolor paints Like the prima That have a couple of different colors of yellow a couple different colors of red a couple of different colors of blue Then do these color blending exercises do a few of them with different colors of yellow different colors of red You know like this one is five three and eight, but I could easily do it with 21 um 19 and 36 Which are different colors than the ones I used so What colors of the primaries you use what version is going to give you a different color blend? And it's a good idea to experiment with your set to see what you're going to get And this is you know, just a little bit different way to do it. So again, we're going to do Let's put it down here And we do the pure color here and here and then we blend in these nine squares So this is the prank. So we have number five number one and number seven And the prima is number five number three and number eight I really to test colored numbers. I like color names just fyi That's going to be a problem for me I like color names Yeah, cool and warm primary wheels exactly All right, so let's do the praying first. It's in front of me So we put the pure pigment here and here Now I didn't reload the brush And this square here is a little bit lighter, but pretty well pigmented. I got a lot of paint on my brush It went pretty far without having to reload now. I think for here. That's a little faint. So I'd have to Reload but that's not bad. So where your squares meet You would blend those colors together because we have yellow and yellow then we just have yellow So these three are always going to be yellow So now we're going to do red more red They usually most of your better brands will list them on the tin or the tube Some just don't the prima don't the prima only have numbers. This prank set has names on it along with the numbers um It just depends on the set so where these two lines meet is going to be more of that pure pigment. So here And it's usually on the little pan of paint itself or it's on the side of the cake somewhere and if you buy a nicer set of watercolors like the Schminke then each little pan is wrapped in paper and the name of the color is on the wrapper So as you're unwrapping them That's you should have your color key right there all drawn out and write the name down as your I do think the schminke though have it on that little pan somewhere It seems like or might have been winds are newton some one of the brands actually prints it on the plastic pan But they don't all do that Yeah, I I just use um Strathmore Or kansen but I do have some arches. I wait till it's on sale um michael's owns a chain of stores called erin brothers art and framing They occasionally have really good sales And on paper and paint brushes like buy one get one free And although your first pad if it's arches might be kind of spendy if you're getting the other one free Um You know, it's not so bad. Yeah, I like kansen. I like strathmore too. I'd buy what I you know I just buy I use whatever as long as I can paint. I don't care Unless I'm doing something for a customer and you know, I have to do some pieces for my sister um So I'll probably bust out the arches for that But I'm what I'm just doing this. This is just can't this is just strathmore paper Sure. So wait for sale, especially in the paper wait for sales and if you have an erin brothers art and framing you near you then um Wait for them to have a sale and um When they have a sale on brushes or paper goes that's when you go stock up I'm all about the tips. So here I'm going to mix my red and yellow Together because they're red and yellow meat right here And here I'm going to have the mixture be more red and here I'm going to have the mixture be more yellow So first let's do the more red The praying paints laid out nicely on the paper. I gotta say um, I'm again, I'm very surprised I don't know why I'm so surprised but Yep, I started out with inexpensive paper because you really need to learn how the water how the paint moves on paper And what you can and can't do with it what you like doing it with it and what you don't before you switch to expensive paper And I still use the cheaper strathmore and that type of paper Um when I'm doing things like this I agree with you completely Teresa All right, so now here and here we have the blue and yellow This one we're going to make more blue this one. We're going to make more yellow I also love that we have a community here on this when we are doing these live broadcasts That are all artists of all levels And that we can you know have kind of an open forum to share tips And I'm constantly learning things from you guys as much as you are from the broadcast. So I think that is fabulous Use what you have I'm going to actually put some more blue in that because I think that was didn't have a lot of blue in it Oh, that's better Let's go over that again That's much better So the more water you add to your pigments the Um less strong that color is going to be Try to put this in the right square So I added more yellow to it There we go Now here we are doing blue and red. So this one is going to be more blue. This one will be more red So let's Turn our palette and see what happens. See what kind of purples we get. Oh, that's a pretty purple That's more red to it. They're both pretty I have once Yeah, so just a little bit put water in it Nancy and like the one of the things that I have a problem with some of these Is that There's no refills So that's a big deal for me If you have a set like the kurataki set and you use up all of like the blue And you can't easily get a replacement pan They may have them for the kurataki set you just said that name so that What popped into my mind, but that's a problem for me like the koi for instance They have replacement tubes of color for some of their paints, but not all of them I think that's a problem prema says they're coming out with Refill pans for their paints, but they don't have them yet. I think that's a problem I like to have a palette and if I use up all of yellow I don't want to have to buy the whole palette over again just to get more yellow I use them all the time when I am out of town. I like them a lot. In fact, it's funny I always bring a few regular travel brushes with me, you know that The bottom pops up and off and it covers the bristles, but they don't hold water I end up not using them and I end up using the the water brushes instead the water barrel brushes instead I like them. I still find myself doing the same thing where I'm putting it in water and then wiping it off on a rag Even though you don't have to do that as much Because I'm I'm crazy But I like them. I like the pen Pentel pen. I like the koi water brush and I like the this one Pentel, I just got given the prema ones and they you know what they're nice and they have a lot of different sizes I completely agree with you Michelle The pentel have always been my favorite So this is the prema And look at how bright both of those colors in again. I didn't reload my brush and look I can get this color square color too That's a lot of pigment on one brush That's a good tip Theresa. See that's what I like about our little group We help each other out I love that. Okay, this is the red It's a little dry. That's not the pigment or the paint. That's me because It's a little dry See, that's the prema red. The prema red is just really The praying are fine. If that's what you have use them. I'm not going to say don't buy them I know I wouldn't do that to you guys, but the prema Have lots of pigment No, Teresa, please keep the tips coming. I think that's great. I love that we can share the ideas with each other And the tips and tricks. Hey, I don't know everything. I am no expert I just love sharing about art And I learned from all of you as much as you probably do for me. In fact, maybe more so The red the prema red is fabulous. This is the blue which is very close to an ultramarine blue And some of the colors are more are pigmented better with others and that's true of every brand I've ever come across Like the red is fabulous. That is the yellow the blues Not quite so much Yeah, I got asked on the last live broadcast the one I accidentally deleted if I would help Someone do the live broadcasting thing like we're doing now And I said sure because I know exactly what not to do because I've made all those mistakes already All right, so now we're going to do our red and orange and yellow and do an orange here a more red orange Isn't that pretty these blend nicely together with each other? and then We were just discussing them a little bit because somebody asked about gum arabic and we got into a little bit of a conversation about um watercolor gesso there is also a um conditioner you can get to put in your water to um aid in your watercolors flowing better on the page And I actually have never used it. So I can't tell you anything about it. Maybe Teresa has um There aren't they very much This is a good difference between the prang which is really even though the semi moist are you know A little higher quality than their regular ones. It's still a kid's paint versus supremea, which is a crafters paint. So you have kids crafters Student artists in my opinion. This is just my opinion. So you can tell where the differences are Yeah, they hate the water So you can use watercolor in the delusions journals if you use a ground You have to use a ground or you're not going to have results you like at all And I've done uh Watercolors in the journal by using a ground and the best thing is to do is to put your ground on the page and then Just set that particular journal aside and let it sit for a day or two And then come back to it Like the daniel smith ground is really better after it's been sitting for 24 or 48 hours Um golden has something called absorbent ground Oh, that's not different enough Um that works the same way Oh, that's good to know Yeah, I'm going to get some of that water conditioner. Um, I'm hoping they have it at one of the stores we go to in Las Vegas It's one of the things I want to keep pick up and try Okay, so now we'll do our blues and reds I have lots of twinkling H2O so I don't know if I need the pearlescent medium Yes, you can paint so you have the whole fat over lean Oh, that's yellow Holy cow All right, so you have the whole fat over lean rule. What does that mean? Um Okay, so you can paint oil over acrylic, but you can't paint acrylic over oil. It won't stick You can paint Over watercolor, but you can't paint watercolor color over acrylic because it won't stick The the ground that you put the watercolor on has to be absorbent So if you have a water an acrylic base You need to cover that base with like a clear gesso or clear absorbent ground before you put the watercolor on because it's not going to stick And I would just get into the habit of if you're going to do watercolor with acrylic Do the watercolor first And go for it mary And how do I know these things because I've done it wrong And and if you do um I do a watercolor over acrylic pages when the whole paper is not covered with acrylic And then the watercolor paint will stick to the paper. It'll The acrylic paint acts like a resist I would use watercolor gesso Oops, I just stuck my hand in that didn't I? oops Okay, so I just did a video putting the koi in a palette Little round Use with lids and then put them away. Okay Yeah, yeah, so you just have to be aware michael and keep keep typing mary and and um I'll answer the question Yeah, so you have to remember that The acrylic paint is going to act like a resist just like the oil paint will act If you put acrylic over it, it's going to resist the acrylic paint So if you have a little bit of oil anything on a page The acrylic paint is going to want to go and stick to the raw paper and not to where you have the oil Whether it's an oil pastel or oil paint The acrylic does the same thing with watercolor the watercolor is going to want to go stick to the paper and not to the acrylic paint You got them out. Okay So you just want to be careful that you really spray that page with a fixative because um The paint may rub off and yes, it's a good idea to thin them down Because if you don't thin them down enough, you still have the problem Okay Oh, they cracked um I don't have that problem so much with them cracking It could be the environment where you live But you might think about maybe adding a little bit of occasionally I shouldn't say that occasionally I have it with a tube paint that I've squeezed out into a palette And after it dries it cracks um I add a little bit of gum arabic to it And that seems to take care of the problem So i'll re-wet the paint and add some gum arabic to it if you get really adventurous You could pop those cracked cakes out put them into a dish or a bowl Smush them up mix them with some gum arabic and then put them back I Actually know, uh, jerry belini is not on here right now But she had some old watercolor paints that were her mothers That were completely dried out and she wanted to save them They had not only does she want to use them. They had some sentimental value. So She actually took them out of the tube Smushed them up Added gum arabic to them. They were dry. She didn't try to re-wet them. They were completely dry and she added gum arabic to them And made them into a paste and was able to reconstitute all the paints Like she cut the tubes open and they were just dried balls of paint So I would try that you could try just putting a little bit of gum arabic into the paint pan In its dry state you could try re-wetting it and getting it, you know real soft And then adding a drop of gum arabic or you could just pop it out crunch it up Add the gum arabic get it pasty and stick it back Sounds like it needs more binder And if you live in a really dry kind of arid environment And remember people when you do this with your watercolors no matter what brand That and they've been wet like this don't shut it right away and put it away Especially in if you're in a humid environment because it'll get moldy So you want to I just put these on usually on the shelf above by my camera And I leave them open for a day or two until they dry out then I close them and put them away Yeah, so if you have any of your paints that have dried out like that in the tube Mary Just take them out of the tube and you might have to cut it open Put it in a little bowl crush it up and add some gum arabic Yeah, and let them dry first I I even with the ones from the tube I just And the other thing is too when you're filling your pans from the tube If you just fill your pans like halfway there's a piece of my hair in that palette Then the water when you spray it or drop water in has somewhere to go So, um It doesn't like spill out all over the place Yeah, um, yeah I still have this one from last week sitting up here because I was using it for something And then I have this one sitting up here that I forgot what brand this is it might be grumbacher I didn't want to wash all this paint down the drain But I don't remember what branded is But they're right Right here on the shelf I usually do after a broadcast like this It's usually the shelf is usually full of drying paint palettes, and I'm going to film the four part um The next four part watercolor journal page this afternoon So by the time I'm done today, my shelf is going to be completely full with palettes So they make lots of different mediums for watercolor just like they do for acrylic Teresa's right about that. There's all different ones Paralyzing ones wants to condition your water watercolor grounds if you're working on paper or another substrate that's not super absorbent um Some of them you'll find that you never need to use and they're not, you know, they're pointless for you to try um Other thing other, you know, they depends on the environment you live in and how you're using your paints I have not yet come across any of these companies. I've got watercolor paint stuck on my finger now Um that have like samples like they do for some of the acrylic mediums um But if you have a friend that likes watercolor and you want to try a particular medium like watercolor ground Or gesso or the water conditioner. Maybe you guys could go in and get a bottle and split it or something I see that's just what was off my hands. Look at that In the plate Cool, I would love to see it Nope so They may be separated So what you just what you need to do is just remix them together If the pigment has hardened and the binder has completely separated Then cut the tube open Cut the tube open and pull the hard part out If some of that liquid gets in there, it's fine Add crush it up and put some gum arabic in there and remix it if it's just separated liquids You just need to mix them back up. You could try leaving the cap on and just squishing the tube around But I don't know that that's going to do a lot You might want to Just squeeze it out into it's hard. See okay, so cut the tube open with a pair of snips or scissors sharp scissors Pull the hard stuff out that hard stuff is where your pigment your color is Yeah, you're welcome So then take that and crush it up And then put gum arabic in it And you'll have brand new paint. Oh and I was going to show you guys Speaking of gum arabic. So this is this is my sparkly palette Some of you have seen this before it's on a lazy susan So these larger Tubbs are powdered pigment Mixed with gum arabic and all you do is wet them leave them sit for a few minutes And then they're just like the twinkling h2o's you just mix them until they're pasty um And that's the same thing you would do with a dried hard tube of watercolor paint And you just you have to cut it out of the tube. That's probably the hardest part Stick it in a baggie or something take it outside and whack that sucker with a hammer get out some frustrations Wack it with a hammer Or or a mallet I just take my little bags and I would double bag it and I take them out to the garage and I just Get sit them on the floor like I did with the rocks in that in the five minute video where I did the rocks And I just whack them with a hammer Um, and then get it out as powdery as you can and then mix it with some gum arabic Whether it's a dried up tube of paint or you have some of these pearl x powders. It's the same process And Teresa asked me about gouache and see all the colors you have I love my sparkly palette Do you really need all these colors? Probably not Yeah, you could do that. Um, you won't be able to use it for food when you're done. So Be aware of that. So this is a lot of colors of sparkly paint You probably don't need all these colors. This is a lot of colors I would pick a few of your regular colors if you're going to buy the twinkling h2o's like I said buy You know pick a set that has like turquoise in it and buy that set Or whatever your favorite color is Just mix it until it's pasty like the consistency of Like elmer's glue And and I was gonna say Teresa asked me, um, I think it was yesterday Or last night about gouache And could she had some that dried out. Could you reconstitute it? Yes. I said, yes, don't throw them away So gouache are like watercolor only they're opaque That's like the big difference They reconstitute so if you have gouache that you've squeezed out into a palette and they've dried up Don't throw them away just spurts them with water. They're supposed to dry up. I have one of them too. Hang on Okay, this is I love these big round palettes when I have friends over we use these This is my gouache palette And you can see where these have dried in here These are nice deep wells and I don't fill them all up so that when I spray it the water has somewhere to go And this one let's crack. I don't worry about that It will reconstitute itself and turn it something like that the next time I get it wet Um, I did have some gouache Pants I popped them out and stuck them in here And you just spritz the whole thing with water and it reconstitutes itself just like with any other watercolor And so this is my main gouache palette. I have a few different colors here that don't fit They do smell like I don't notice that my watercolor palettes have an odor I do notice that the gouache paints have kind of an odor and it must be the way they make them um and this is Reeves and Pelican Okay, somebody's gonna ask me. I know Yeah, see these aren't loose Well, I shouldn't say that this one has a loose piece. Um, I'm not gonna worry about that. Um But yeah, if that's bugging you and it's in a pan you want to take out somewhere I would pop all of these out I would crush them up And I would add some more gum Arabic to it and then stick it back because it's probably just not It doesn't have enough And the koi is not an expensive paint. So I would guess that they don't have enough of a binder And this palette doesn't go anywhere. I'm not taking it in the car. So if they do that, I'm not worried This is from a company called robax palettes R o b a x They have different sizes. This is the smaller one This is the smaller one Okay, hold on So you guys are gonna know now those of you who have are new to my channel I really have this thing for watercolor paint paint palettes. Like it's an addiction. It's a problem. So here's my other one And I took the mixing tray and I glued bottle caps to it and I made some more wells So I could add a few more colors because you know that wasn't enough colors And I do the same thing. So even you know, even with these they're only filled like halfway And there's some cakes in here that I just broke up and stuck in the in the holes And they come with a lid the lazy susan and then mixing trays They're not cheap though, but they're great when you're having like arty friends over Because I can just put these in the center of the table and we just can have fun Of course, my dream studio has a place where I can have those out all the time I would just It's really, you know, it really depends on what you're mixing the gum arabic with So when I did the pearl x powders I just added a few drops Mixed it a few drops and mixed it until I had something that was like the consistency of a paste or a glue You don't want it too hard of a paste. You want it a smooth paste Like elmer's only maybe a little bit thicker Oh, like gel medium That kind of consistency gel medium So here's our two brands that we did today And it's again, it's probably gonna vary how much gum arabic that you use depending on where you are And what your environment your weather is like where you're at how humid it is how dry it is You might need more or less depending No worries. Hey, we're all you know playing with our watercolors and we're all learning in the learning process And so, you know, I learned from you guys as much as you know, you do for me So I love that we can exchange ideas back and forth I don't know what that is The square I don't have that Well, I'm not trying to type anything. I don't know if I can't I oh, yeah, I can Oh, I'm on the ipad see I could um put emojis Let's see what it'll let me do. Oh, yeah, I have all oh wow Some of them emojis are not in english Let's see Let's just get to the smiley faces There we go So I'm on an ipad. So I'm watching on my one of my other youtube channels I'm watching my own broadcast. So I'm able to put the smiley faces in that gb errands By the way, is me if you guys don't know that because you're like, you know Like comment on your video or something and you see gb errands. It's me I have a couple of different youtube channels three actually to be specific Good. Yay. One of you guys by the way One of you guys sent me an image of some paints that you swatched with a light fastest test And I'm not sure if it's somebody here on this broadcast or it's somebody else off that's not here Um If it's one of you guys send it to me again I'm looking for it because I was going to post it to the watercolor wednesday page today And I'm having trouble figuring out that safe place. I put it in On my computer Yeah, it's you know, it is weird to watch yourself on youtube Yeah, but because I have a couple of other accounts besides my main channel. I am able to watch other people They don't know I'm watching necessarily It's good if you have people that don't like you on youtube and you can see if they're talking smack about you Did I say that out loud? I did I Know right, you know me michelle. I put things in a really safe place and then can't find them for months. That's not good I'm hoping it was Stephanie parks because I have a couple emails from her on my computer And I'm hoping it's in there and I'm hoping it was her and then I can just pull it from there So I'm loving these brushes Well, yeah, it's happened So I'm loving these brushes. These are the royals and I don't tend to spend a lot of my brushes There's some beautiful brushes out there that work great. They're really expensive I don't know about you guys. I don't have that kind of budget so Princeton select is like the top of the end for me. I do have a couple of really expensive brushes But they cost so much money. I'm afraid to use them If you're just learning I would I would get something like Reeves or Royal something that is Inexpensive until you decide if you like it or not. I would not Go spend a lot of money on either gouache or water color or acrylic paint or anything else until you know for sure That you like the medium and that's the whole reason behind this whole book I don't want you guys going out and spending a lot of money on anything If you don't even know if you like the medium and even if you like the medium Maybe a brand like schminke is forever going to be outside of your realm of being able to afford it And there's nothing wrong with that so there is affordable alternatives to Having those kind of paints. There are lots of artist quality brands that are decently pigmented that have Lots of different colors and that are affordable So I would try that by Crayola, you know, there's nothing wrong with Crayola Be aware if you create something with a brand like Crayola Not know knowing for sure. It's probably not life fast light fast Then that means over time that piece is going to fade So if you really like it use the fact that we have technology here in the 21st century and Scanning your artwork into your computer To save it. All right So Sorry, I'm distracted. I'm getting some Facebook messages So use the fact that we have have computers and scanners and cameras to take photographs of the piece Or scan it into your computer to save it knowing that that Crayola paint when you're experimenting That is not probably light fast. So if you really love it scan it Keep it out of the light do it in a journal that you can close something like that. Okay Um The Prang and Prima both claim to be light fast. They do not either one of them tell us how much light fast They are but they both claim to be light fast Um, Crayola is not I can tell you that from things that my daughter did for me when she was little and she's 21 now And they've all turned green No matter what color she used whether it was the paint or the markers um Prima and Prang are both very affordable vango and Windsor Newton Both have affordable student quality paints so Go with what you can afford and that you know that goes for any Any medium i'm distracted by other things that are going on in the chat Can you tell so that goes for any medium when you're starting out? I want you all to learn from my mistakes Don't when you're getting into this mixed medium painting thing go out and immediately think You need the best brand and you need every single color they make because you don't need to do that It's a mistake a lot of us make but you don't need to do that and then at some point you realize You know, I bought all these, you know, whatever it was oil pastels, and you know what I really don't like them Now what am I going to do with them? You need to join the one of the hoarder arts website facebook pages Yeah, you are distracting. I get distracted enough. I don't need your guys help Oh Holy moly So I really like the deco art fluid acrylics and their artist acrylic Okay, um, and I'll address the uh, crayola versus Reeves in a minute So I really like the golden I really like the deco art fluid acrylics and their artist acrylic Now their artist acrylics not like the golden heavy body and their fluid acrylics do not have some of the colors golden has That being said You could do with a lot of colors from deco art, which is way more affordable And then buy some of those specialty colors that only golden has from golden Um, that being said, I love golden extra heavy gel medium Matt it's my favorite thing on the planet to collage down thick pieces of paper And nobody else has really a product that's comparable when I need something like that from a brand like that I know I like that particular thing and nobody else has anything that's comparable Then I use a coupon. I make sure I go to one of the big stores that has it and I use a coupon I wait till it's on sale, um, or I save up a list of things That I need and then I order them all at once from like dick blick and I order Everything on that list. I've been accumulating so that I can get free shipping something like that to give myself a break um, crayola won't perform like Reeves neither will the praying but you need to um Do buy something that's affordable to try to see if you even like the medium It's you know, if you buy a ten dollar set of crayola or praying to try the watercolor And then you decide you hate them. You don't feel bad about donating it to goodwill Um, or passing it on to a friend, right? And if you decide you love it You don't feel bad about doing the same thing and upgrading to daniel smith or schminka. So I always if you've not tried watercolor Figure out what your budget is and buy within your means and then if you decide you really love it then upgrade to something better I love liquid text glazing medium. I like it better than the golden Yeah, see I I don't paint with too many oil products because the um chemical things make me cough and and wheeze so and see Michelle likes the golden glazing medium. I like the liquid text and I'm happy with the golden too. I switched back and forth I'm not picking with glazing medium. I'm I've also used glazing medium from the hardware store. That doesn't bother me either But I did do a test. Um last year. I think maybe the year before where I I mixed acrylic paint With different mediums to see which one would stay wet the longest and the one that stayed wet the longest Was airbrush medium Which also thins out your paint makes it a little bit glazy So there's you know, so there's that too to confuse you more because you know, that's what I do Golden heavy body is really expensive. So is um liquid text heavy body um And unless you're painting on canvases And you're doing fine art. I don't know that you need those heavy body expensive paints So transparent glazes I would if you have airbrush medium or glazing fluid either one of those will work If you have hardware store water based glazing fluid, that'll work too But make sure you get the water based and not the oil based because it won't mix with the acrylic paint If you're just doing journaling. Yeah, you don't need um Really expensive paints if you're just journaling that's the other thing I'm happy to answer any questions like that that you guys have Because I've probably made already all the mistakes So I think this afternoon I'm going to fill in the fourth part journal page I'm going to do a floral design and we are going to pick four more We did this sheet before on the last four part painting. So I think on the next one I'll probably do this Selection of paints winter newton van Gogh whole vine and quark half paint works. There's nothing wrong with craft paint Now the only craft I should say the only acrylic paint that I've come across that I don't like is artist loft the michaels brand I'm not a big fan of their acrylic paint. I'm not a big fan of the watercolor paint. It's just Not very pigmented and you're better off getting um in the case of the acrylic paint a craft paint Or liquid text basics, which is their student grade paint than the artist loft paint Um, and in the case of their watercolor, you're better off getting a prang semi moist or even a crayola or art district makes a um a metal tin of um Cakes and I I've had that in the past It's art district not artist loft and they and it comes with the brush too. They're not great paints, but they're better than the artist loft They're horrible I have heard interesting things about their paper. I haven't tried it Somebody asked me to but it's hard for me to get into a michaels and go shopping because I have to have a mask on and take medication their Uh, yeah, popery stuff makes me wheeze If you have them Already and you're not going out and buying paints lisa then definitely you can Yeah, those places are fun tammy and yeah craft paint. I love craft paint fine liquid text basics There are some colors in the liquid text basics. I love they have a dioxazine purple. That's just fabulous I think that's what it's called I have it around here somewhere Um, there's also a brand at erin brothers again Aren't framing that you can get called amsterdam and I've seen it at A couple of other stores and it's a student grade paint, but it's better pigmented than Way better pigmented than artist loft amsterdam So now I have to put my book back together Go into what in vegas michel Are you adding more stuff to do the to-do list? You know, we're only there for a week, right? So one of the other things I'll do when I'm uh today is I will swatch my inventory of these two brands of paint my daughter and her boyfriend Who are totally not into art daughters of photographer boyfriend is a um Math major he's going to be study to be for a cpa He's the least creative type. I think the only other person I know Less creative is my husband who's a similar personality. Um, they went to one of those nano blast Oh, yeah, my oh, thanks michel. Yeah, because it's really it's like a pain in the neck and even with the mask on I end up getting a headache But I keep getting asked to try the artist loft paper And it's just yeah, I have trouble getting in the store Which my husband says is not a bad thing because that means I don't spend so much money at michael's But he doesn't realize I can go to hobby lobby No, I don't know what to tell him I do go to hobby lobby I have similar problems at joanne's. There's something about those stores. They have some potpourri or something Yes, I know how so when you get um, I'm going to answer the liquitex basic question if you guys haven't seen it how to get all of the Tube out of the liquitex basics or any tube of paint Get yourself a pair a big pair of scissors Cut those suckers open when you get down to where the tube um, cannot You cannot squeeze out paint, but you know, there's more paint in there. I hate to waste paint I have a bunch of the little these These are glad the gladware disposable containers tight fitting lid. These are meant for like salad dressing So cut the tube open and use a palette knife to scrape all that paint out into one of these Cut it smack in half and just dig that paint out of there I Would show them to you, but they're out in the garage garage, but I have this giant pair They're about this long of metal snips There it looks like a giant pair of scissors. They're meant for cutting sheet metal And they're great for cutting all kinds of tubes open They're nice and sharp. You probably could use um, these kind of scissors these are from harbour freight They're pretty good Oh, no, these are the stamping up ones Uh, I don't know what these I have some from harbour freight. Oh here they are Um, these are nice and sharp and they're cheap But the metal snips are not bad Yeah, any bottles mary I I do that with all of my paints when I get down to that point where I know there's some in the bottle And it just won't come out I just cut that sucker in half and dig it out with a palette knife And if I have a bunch of different kinds of like purples that are like that Then I just put all the purples in one container I mean because honestly at that point it doesn't matter Yeah, even your friends who don't maybe you know think that they would be interested in that you'd be surprised They have they end up having fun Of course, my daughter said now don't say anything because you're gonna I'm gonna bring this in and you're gonna tell me all the things that are wrong with the composition I don't want to hear it. So I would never do that out. Why would you think I would do that? I won't do that Yeah, so just I would just do that and sometimes if I'm really being anal about it I will squirt a little bit of water into that cut end of that tube and like swishing around and then dump that out in there too I know right look at how thick it is and we're not even done yet I might need to order bigger rings now you can get these binder rings really huge But you have to like special order them like on amazon Yes, my deco art is carried by michaels and I think Joanne's I know michaels has it you can also get it from the deco art website. I think michelle that was Shannon green that you're thinking about with the meetup Tin snips that's it exactly Lisa. So tin snips get a big pair of tin snips there that you're best like hobby tool Every hobby room should have tin snips and a hammer I love tools, but that might be because my dad's a mechanic That's something you all don't know about me when I was my studio was in the garage. I have my old toolbox full tools They don't carry all of the deco art products, but they have a lot of them. So you but so you might want to Look and see what they have before you do any ordering I'll see you have to go to a specialty store around here. It's just easier for me to just order them Yeah, paint party Um, but you can get like binder rings like really big Like I think the biggest I saw was like three inches or something. All right. I think that's it I am going to go take a shower now because I'm still in gym clothes And I have to go to the grocery store Because the daughter took the last of the lunch foods to work with her And I need more tea see my cup is empty There's no there's nothing in there Um deco art paint michaels or um from the deco art website and all of the and the prima paints you can get from prima Or a lot of our amazon and the praying semi-moist are also from amazon I have not seen either one of these yet at any of the craft store at hobby lobby I shouldn't say any of the craft stores because I really only go to hobby lobby. It's the only one I can breathe in no worries it's great to be here with you guys this morning and um yeah I'm going to do the four part painting this afternoon and the um Inventory swatches and I'll get the website updated today too So look for that sometime later this afternoon or tomorrow You too don't forget to do the most important thing everybody Something nice for yourself because you deserve it, right and we're going to all keep each other motivated We're going to move more eat sweets less drink more water and green tea right more green vegetables I am not a vegetarian, but you know you can eat a little bit of your meat with some a bunch of green vegetables All right, I'll see you all later. Have a fabulous day All right. Bye guys