 Hi everybody, how are you? Hey Sylvia, all righty. So we are here on some watercolor today. So as I said on Monday, we're gonna work on a giraffe. We are going to not discuss and not post anything in the chat regarding all the stuff that happened yesterday. There's enough of that going on the internet right now. So I'm gonna start the broadcast by saying this is a no politics zone. We are gonna work on watercolor. We're not gonna discuss that other craziness, okay? I'm just gonna put that out there. Hey Ian. All right, so we're gonna work on our giraffe, this other inspiration photo that I printed. Good morning, Kitty Jo, good morning. And I'm really thinking that we wanna do something sort of Gene Haynes inspired. So I'm going to work on that. First, I need to finish clearing off my table. We'll move the baby wipes over here. Isn't this cute? This is off topic. No, it isn't really, but let's just, we're gonna let it go. Good morning, Lisa. So isn't this cute? I got this yesterday when I was at IZO and getting a few things for myself and also for a friend who doesn't live in the area. And I found this cute little container. This is actually a sugar bowl, a mini sugar bowl. And I was thinking, how fun would it be to put some ink in and use with my dip pen? That would be a lot of fun. So I actually, this is not watercolor related. I just think it's cute. It's not watercolor related. All right, we're gonna find somewhere for our inspiration photo. Let's put it over here next to the iPad. You guys won't be able to see it. Good morning, Dawn. I'm trying to arrange my table this morning so that you guys can see everything. Let's see. Okay, before we do all that, let's do the first thing. We're gonna, again, use the muted palette. We're gonna get it wet. And then I have something else. Hey, Cindy, good morning. So before we do anything else, this is water with a little bit of Oxgall liquid in it. Oxgall liquid, you can find in your fine art aisle of almost any arts and crafts store. Windsor Newton is the brand that's pretty readily available. You only need for three drops, I'm sorry, three or four drops per cup of water. So one bottle of Oxgall liquid is gonna last you a really long time. And you'll probably never need another one, especially if you don't do a lot of watercoloring. But it aids in the rewetting and flow of your watercolor paints. Okay, now the surprise item that we got, that I have is something I saw in another watercolors video and I thought I really wanted to try it. I was really intrigued. Basically, it's water soluble graphite. Yeah, so I really like this. Now, I do admit that I wonder if the ink would evaporate out of here. It's not airtight. So, but if you put a couple of drops of glycerin in the ink, you should be fine. So I'm gonna give it a try. I have a lot of Sumi ink. And the Sumi ink is really cheap here where I am in California. So if that dries out, it's not like a big deal. So I'm gonna try it with that. And can somebody type Oxgall in it? It's two words, O-X-G-A-L. And let's see. It's usually like right in front. Yeah, here it is. Sorry, G-A-L-L. So here. My Windsor and Newton. And I know that it really helps because I've tried a few different brands of watercolor paint recently as part of this series that were really difficult to rewet after they dried in the palette. Holvine being one of them. So, I I started using, I'm gonna address that in a minute, Ian. So I started using the Oxgall to aid in that. And I found that it really did work really well. Hey, Eve. Yeah, you could do that. I have a lot of Sumi ink right now and it's only $1.50 for like a big jar. And I figure if it would work with Sumi ink, it'll work with anything. So I'm gonna try with a little bit of Sumi ink and see what happens. I normally put it back in the container when I'm done. That's what I normally do. And I usually use one of these little green dishes. Now these are single scoop ice cream or gelato containers from Las Vegas. When I was in Las Vegas, I had some gelato. I actually have a couple of these. Yes, I made my family save them and I brought them all the way home with me. And because they have these little like divots in the rim all the way around the rim, your pen actually lays very nicely across the little dish without rolling away. Sumi ink is a Japanese calligraphy ink. Okay, so this is basically water soluble graphite. It comes just like this in this cute little box. And when you open the box, there's a little tin here of graphite. My watercolor graphite. There we go. So I think we might try some of this today. Oh yeah, that's a good idea, Ian. And both with this soluble graphite, isn't the tin cute? It's not why I bought it, but the tin is cute. All right, so now we're gonna let those sit for a minute and we're gonna arrange our table. This is the watercolor journal we've been working in all year. Actually, I don't know, did I start this last year? I started this in 2014. So it's about time that I, you know, finish it. We've only got two pages left in the back. I'm gonna just skip because we're gonna be working, or I'm gonna be doing a flip when this is full. And I might just work in this again later today and do that last page and get it all completed and then we'll do a flip. We'll see. Okay, so we're gonna work on this page. I wanna protect this little piece. This is one of the ones that we did. Little still life that I wanna scan and turn into a digital something to do something with. So I wanna protect that. Okay, I'm gonna, I'm going back a few comments. And Lisa, oh, yes, I did find, even with the cheapest of watercolor paints, that it really did a lot for rewetting, getting the paints to rewet nicely. Okay, some of the cheaper paints, I really don't wanna rewet. I don't know, Lisa, oh, what you're saying, sorry to Cindy for I missed something, I think. Okay, so I think I'm caught up and I'm glad you're all working on some kind of project while we're doing this today. I think that's fabulous. We need a pencil first. It's helpful if I have a pencil that actually is sharp, right? I don't know why I put pencils up here that have no tip on them. This is a 6-8, it's kind of a hard pencil, but it'll work. So basically what I wanna just do is I wanna just get some shapes on the paper in pencil. All right, I don't wanna go into too much detail because I don't do that. Oh, okay. So let's do that. So, and I'm going to, this is a hard pencil, so it's not gonna leave a super dark line, but I'm gonna do what I can. Probably normally I wouldn't leave this dark line because I want the drawing to be more suggestives, but because we're doing this for YouTube. Now, you could take your drawing, if you're not comfortable with drawing or maybe you're comfortable with it, but you wanna focus more on the painting. You could take your drawing and you could put it on your page with some graphite paper or transfer paper underneath it and just trace your shapes. I'm not worried about all the crazy sketchy lines. I kind of like to leave all the crazy sketchy lines. Those of you who have been watching me for a while know this. Those of you who are new, if this bugs you, you are kind of like the style of painting at all. I just, yeah, you're just not going to. So I wanna get the basic landmark shapes on here so that I have a good reference material. Okay, I think that ear's a little bit big. What do you all think? Okay, I think that's pretty good. Hey, Patricia, hey, Kathy, hey, Dawn. All right, so we've got our basic shape on here and some nice reference marks. So I think we're ready to go. What do y'all think? So again, this is our reference photo. This is from, hold on, okay. So my picture froze, so I'm just refreshing because since iOS 10, I have trouble with the Facebook. I mean, the YouTube app. I have some water soluble graphite pencils too. I just really liked the idea of having some graphite in a pot, because I'm an art supply addict. Whoops, because I'm an art supply addict. So why not? I just spilled crumbs everywhere. Hang on. All right, so we are going to get started. So this picture is from Paint My Photo. When the broadcast is over, I'll post a link to this photo where you can get it and the artist who took the photo in the description along with this one, which is the one we used on Monday for Monday with DecoArt. Now, if you're just surfing around while you're watching me, go to the Monday with DecoArt video from this week and both of these links are in the description. They're both from Paint My Photo. And I don't know why I'm right-handed, but I like my paints on the left. I have no idea. I keep trying to put them over here. It just doesn't work for me. He's cute, right? Yeah, he's cute, so. And we've already got some schmutz on the page, like some old schmutz. I just spilled graphite powder, but we're okay with that. So we're gonna start with a pretty big brush and I'm gonna use this Eskoda brush. I'm sorry, Princeton Neptune brush. And this is a number six around, I'm sorry, number six quill. Okay. All right, so we're gonna just, first we're gonna get the page a little wet and we're gonna dissolve some of that graphite powder that spilled. So yeah, so Ian, I do that and I do that with, they're really fun thing to do, save the pencil shavings and make sort of an ink or paint with is Stabilo pencil, but you can do it with any water-slable pencil. Yeah, we're using the muted palette again. It's just, it's my favorite palette at the moment. So I'm gonna start with French ochre, which is a golden-y color, but it's not super bright. Well, none of these colors are super bright because they're the muted palette. And we're gonna do sort of wash and stuff. I did, as you see, I did get part of the page wet. I haven't used that yet. I've been hearing about it though. We need our clips again. So right on the shelf above my table, I have these binder clips. These are from the Dollar Tree. These are Daniel Smith. Now there is a video on this muted palette and what colors I used and why I use them to make the palette. So if you wanna know more about that, you can go look that video up. So now I'm looking at the inspiration photo at the areas of his face and neck that are a little darker, you know, yellow, golden color. I'm laying in some paint and then I'm going to go in with some more. So we're wanting to do something sort of suggestive, right? So that means that other than the pencil lines, we're not gonna get super specific about it. So a little paint box is actually from the Prima watercolor sets, but not being said, you can buy these little metal paint boxes empty from Amazon, Dick Blick, or my favorite place, Jackson's Art out of the UK. And any of, yeah, going back to Ian's question or a statement, any of your water soluble pencils or crayons, if you have crumblings or shavings of them, think about saving them or putting them in some sort of little pot or jar and adding a little water to it. And you can make sort of an inky thing with those shavings. Like you really don't need to throw anything away. I know that sounds crazy and goofy, but unless, of course, you have an art supply horde situation going on and then maybe you need to throw things away. I don't know, you know, we've all been there. I say that with, you know, love in my heart. We've all been there. Is it funny to already like where he's going already? I mean, we barely got started. I'm gonna zoom in a little bit. Now, we can only do so much about the glare because the paper is wet. So no matter what I do with the lighting, there's gonna be some glare just so that you all know. So I'm using the quill brush, it's pretty dry, but I'm using it to pick up some of the excess water before we put any other colors on here. Now I'm gonna go in with, and in this picture, I'm gonna be using more of the brown tones in the muted palette. And I'm gonna go in with the Rossiana. And this is a, you know, darker color, darker pigment. And I'm using a big brush, which forces me to not have a lot of control. And that's kind of the point in a painting like this is I don't wanna get too wound up in trying to control where my colors go or I want it to be about the color, temperature and mark making. Whether I'm working in watercolor or acrylic. Yeah, you can dissolve it with Gamsol. I have to be careful with Gamsol, even the odorless kind, because it can make my asthma act up. So, because you know, odorless doesn't mean odor-free. Still have, I don't care what they tell you, it still has an odor. So all these puddley drippy marks, I love that when I get those. And I wanna keep it nice and loose. I'm not an artist to keep my colors perfectly blended. And you may be that kind of artist and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that. I just don't do that. Start with the same color, the Rossiana start sort of mapping in a few spots, using of course our photo as a guide. I almost stuck my brush in the wrong color. Now I'm not looking to, you know, exactly copy the photo. I'd never do that. You all know that, but we're using it as a guide. And also let's see, I'm gonna use just the tip of it too. There's lines like crinkles around his face. So now that I did that and it's a little bit wet, I'm gonna put a little water on it, blot some of it. And I'm gonna get one of my little cards. This is a piece of a credit card, old credit card. This really won't show up necessarily right away until you get more pigment on there. But it's a great way to get some of these little wrinkly lines in his face, is to scratch marks into the wet paint and the pigment will settle in those marks. Alrighty, I think I'm gonna try a flat filbert. This is a Royal and Line Nickel Zen brush. This is a number 10. I don't think they call it a filbert, but it's got a flat tip with sort of filbert-y shape at the end. Filbert-y, that's a word, right? All right, so now I wanna continue to go darker because it's watercolor, right? So we start light and we're gonna work our way darker. I'm gonna start with the raw umber. Yeah, so keep them in a binder clip, otherwise they fall at the bottom of my tray that's above my table and then I can never find them and I end up having like the rest of you like five million of them because I can't find anything. So I just make more, just like the wrong thing to do. That was a lot of raw umber, which is okay. We'll make it work. I am gonna control the blooming a little bit by getting my rag in there. Okay, I'm gonna put the eyes in first. Yeah, you know, I'm constantly putting things away in a super safe place and then I can never find them again. I don't know, it's really annoying. Looking at the photo and just looking at where the shadows, the darkest parts of his face are. I'll catch up on the comments in just a second. So I wanna leave some of these marks. Some of these marks I really like what's happening with them. Some of them I don't. So I'll either come in and lift a little bit or I'll put water there to get the pigments to sort of spread out a bit. Yeah, you could totally stop right here. He's really pretty and I would try something like this on like mineral paper definitely in or watercolor UPO. That's really fun and interesting to work on. So I missed what bra I had on the palette with a little bit of Rossiana that was also on there. And I'm gonna use that for someone to start highlighting some of those shadows and start to give him dimension. So, you know, once you start making him darker or brighter, you know, that's when your painting will start to pop. Even if you're being super suggestive about it, I'm gonna wash some of this dark paint over where we scratched into the paint and then I'm gonna come in with some water and you'll see, start to see those scratch marks I left in the surface of the paper start to show up. We need some more of the dark color. Thank you, Patricia. So there's all different kinds of paper out there that are fun to try to do watercolor and other painting techniques on. I would suggest that if you have it in your budget or you can get a sample, try it. There's the one paper that's made out of stone. I don't remember the name of it right now because I'm having some memory issues this morning. There's Yupo, which I think is basically like plastic. Okay, we're gonna let his face dry just a little bit and I'm gonna come with my big brush and we are gonna grab some undersea green. And a bunch of water. Maybe somebody can answer Kathy's question. So I don't want my background too perfect so I'm definitely coming in and doing lifting with my rag but you notice something starts to pop out from the page when you just put a little bit of color back there. So I'm also gonna take some of the Prussian blue that's in here and again, a bunch of water because the Prussian blue is very bright but I don't necessarily want it that bright. And I would say just like do like that much, put a little bit. They have different papers Kathy made out of different minerals and like I know there's a paper made out of stone and like I said, I can't remember the name of it. I would say try it. And he may be talking about the stone paper, which again, I don't remember the name of it and it's gonna bug me now. They're in the paint because you know, I'm going to take my blue. I know you're all going out and I'm gonna take my green. Okay. Yeah, it's stone paper. That's what I thought you were talking about Ian. I just don't remember the name of it. There's a brand, particular brand name that's pretty popular and I don't remember what that brand name is. Okay, he's looking pretty cute. You see, I don't remember either. I'm gonna switch to my favorite brush right now, the triangle brush. And the graphite I think is gonna be one of our last ones that we do. I do think we need to straighten up the edge of our face a little bit. I think we need to define the edge of his snout over here. I think it's a little bit off and funky. So one of the things that if you've taken a Jean Haynes class or you have any of her books is she defines a few bits to help the painting stand out. Yeah, it is made out of minerals and stone like stone pulp instead of paper pulp but I cannot remember. I can't remember the name of it. This kind of painting, kind of free expressive painting would be fun to do in that kind of paper, I think. So I'm gonna come in with some French ochre which is another earthy tone, but it's on the red side. I'm gonna keep adding a little bit of this to our giraffe. Now you notice I haven't done any drying. Things are pretty wet. I'm okay with that. Yeah, look for it and see if you can find, oh, oh, gami, is that the name of it, Ian? Look and see if you can find, maybe your store has a small pad of it or sometimes you can get a sample. I know in my art snacks I got a sample of a watercolor paper, a small pad. It's really little, it's cute. Like if you could get a little pad like this one which is ATC size, this is Stonehenge. Actually, I wonder if this is made out of stone. I don't know, it's called Stonehenge. Maybe somebody can look it up for me. I just got this in arts snacks, but a little past small pad like that is a good one to get when you wanna try some of these other papers. I'm looking at, again, the giraffe's picture over here and the different places on his face where there's shadow and then I'm not gonna go too far hopefully before I put some water. Sometimes I forget and then the place where I put the pigment has dried too much. That happens. Oh, the Stonehenge's cotton, yeah, I wasn't sure. I just got it, I haven't played with it yet or anything so it just came in the mail. It's just a different surface to paint on and it reacts differently to the paint and the watercolor than regular cotton or paper, tree pulp paper does. And it's a fun challenge to work with it. It reacts completely differently and you might find that you like working with it better because you like the way it reacts. So I would suggest giving it a try. You never know. Now of course you could do the giraffe shape and do him in crazy colors, blues and greens or pink. Of course you could. It's actually kind of a challenge for me to use these more natural muted tone palettes which is I think why this palette has been a hit for me lately because it's a challenge. So I'm grabbing some of the Quedocridone Gold which y'all know if you've used it before in any brand it's generally a very bright pigment. So it's gonna give our painting a pop of light that it probably needs. I do think it's time to start adding some of the graphite in. He's pretty cute. So I'm using this bright Quedocridone Gold to really try to make the parts of his face that are closer to the viewer and not in shadow to really pop out. Yeah, the U pose resists more of the paint also and it reacts differently than regular paper does and because of that it's really interesting to work with. Okay, I'm gonna come back in with some of the raw umber first before we do anything else and we need to work on his nose a little bit. Yeah, so it's good to try the different kinds of paper the 100% cotton papers, the ones made from tree pulp. I would try a bunch of them and see which ones you like working with better. It's just fun to switch things up a little bit and try something new. This is the graphite, dark gray. Of course, cause it's graphite. Oh, thanks Lisa. Now this graphite powder cause it's graphite it's very granulating. Now that's probably going to not be okay with some of you. Personally, I love it. I think it's fabulous. I love it when things granulate and it's down here in my plate kind of mixing with the blue and I actually like that. So I'm good with that. I'm gonna use the watered down version right now. I'm not looking at the comments just FYI. So if you guys are asking something and I'm not answering that would be why. Give me a minute. Yeah, so this book is made as part of a class that I teach that you can now get directly from me over on my website, geneabyearons.com. This was one that I made and it's been fun to work with and work in I gotta say. That's a good question. I don't remember. No, it doesn't say that it's permanent when dry. So I think it says watercolor graphite. So I would venture to guess that it's like any other watercolor paint that you can rewet it if you want to. He looks angry. Well, he sort of looks pissed off in the inspiration photo. So that might be why he probably looks like completely annoyed that he's being interrupted in his morning and people, stupid humans are taking his picture. He kind of looks annoyed in the photo, I gotta say. Yeah, I don't think it's permanent. I think it's water soluble. I'm trying to suggest his chin hairs, but it's just not working. So I think we're gonna do something else down there. I'm gonna go in with now, I have burnt umber and other brown. Yeah, he looks like he's like really stupid humans. You really, you have to take my picture again. That's what he looks like. He looks like he's totally peoed. And that's, I guess I'm copying that from the photo. So now even the spots are, have different tones in them. So there's parts of the spots that are lighter and brighter than others and parts that are in shadow. So don't be afraid to come in and put some of these dark colors in and not completely cover up the work you've already done. Yeah, he looks totally teetop. So unlike with acrylic paint where if you make a mistake, you can just cover it up. If you make a mistake in watercolor, you just have to figure out how to work it in and live with it. But that's part of the charm and challenge I think of watercolor painting. Not that I want to remove it, but that's good to know. I find it's, it gives the painting an interesting texture. I love the color of it. Before we leave today, I will do a sample on a piece of paper of this. I like the color. I almost stuck my brush in purple, but maybe we need to have purple on our giraffe. Maybe that's why I wanted to stick it in purple. My picture froze again. Cause of course it did. Cause, you know, we're on YouTube. It's not freezing for you guys. It's not freezing for my computer's end, but, you know, I don't know. Like I said earlier, I have problems since the iOS update with the YouTube app occasionally. I'm gonna add some purple cause, you know, why not? And this isn't, this is called Napsul something maroon that I can't pronounce. So try cat Carson and cat's life. Go into your browser instead of being here on the, if you're in an app. I am not gonna do that because I'm broadcasting, but I have found when I'm, it's happening to me and it happens whether I am broadcasting or watching. So I don't, I don't think it's my broadcast. I found that if I go in the browser, it stops doing it. It did it again. Seriously. So annoying. I know it's not my internet connection because I have, I did, not only did I do a speed test before we went on cause I know better now, but I've upgraded my internet connection. So, and it happened not long ago when I was trying to watch Cinnamon Cooney, her live broadcast. So I don't, I think it's something with the iOS update. Personally, that's what I think it is. I don't know if that's accurate or not, but I'm looking and I'm looking every now and then at the computer behind me and it's not freezing up as far as the stream coming from the computer. So now I'm going kind of bolder and I'm really, you know, I'm laying in this purple. I'm using it as my shadow color. You know, as per usual right now, that purple is just my thing. And, you know, again, don't be afraid to, you know, put the pigment on there, you know, get your brush in there, use lifting to just get the look that you want. I'm going to go back in with our pop color or highlight color, which is the Quedocridone Gold. And I'm going to use a pretty pure version of the pigment, meaning that I'm not going to water it down too much so that I can get that pop in there. And between purple and the graphite and the gold, it will really make your painting start to pop. Now there's nothing wrong with stopping before you do this if you really like the look of your painting, then fine. That's cool. You know, experiment was just taking it a little bit farther. Now that being said, if you do experiment and you get to the point where you want to go farther but you really like the way it looks at that moment, then I would suggest stopping for a minute, let it dry, scan it or photograph it, and then continue so that you have a copy of the painting in its other form before you maybe take it too far. Oops, wrong color. And I'm holding the brush at the end. I'm really not pushing hard on it. I'm kind of letting it make interesting marks on the paper. Let's see. There's actually a little bit of a glow coming up underneath his neck. He's looking pretty cute. Oh, screen froze again, because you know that's what it does. Hold on. Okay, the only problem with trying to watch it in the app for me right now is that I can't see the chat. That doesn't help. I need to be able to see what you guys are asking me. Right, so he's looking a little less angry. Which is a good thing. Now I can come in and I can try to lift some of the paint in the places where I think it should be more white, or I could leave it and go in with some highlighter, which I might do. I just took some Van Dyke brown, which is a really dark brown. I'm mixing it with the graphite. And I'm gonna just go in to his eyes and add a little bit of that. Okay, and then we're gonna give it a dry. Let's give it a dry. I do love this stuff, by the way, this little pot of graphic. Graphics memory on my iPad, Ion? Or Ian, sorry. I'm watching the stream on my iPad. It doesn't seem to be a problem on the desktop, which we're broadcasting with, but the iPad seems to be like an issue. And it's an issue more often than not. Okay, I do think we wanna do this a little bit. So as I stand up and get a different look at the painting, let's see a couple of issues. It could be an issue with the graphics on the iPad because it's not, I don't think it has that much, to be honest. I'm gonna take some of our blue from our sky. I'm gonna mix it with some of the browns and grays on the palette. And I'm gonna come in here because his head looks a little bit lopsided. And we're gonna just fix it. There we go. That's actually better. The most important thing is that it's not happening for you guys, and as long as I can see the chat, it doesn't really matter. As long as you guys aren't having a huge problem with it, that's better. Okay, so we're gonna take and dry him, let's dry him. He came out a little bit more controlled than I wanted, but I think he's really cute. Thank you. Okay, so we're gonna get in here with a white pen. Hopefully I can find one easily. Hey, what do you know? All right. And I'm going to pull the photo. Here's our inspiration photo. And so we're gonna, oh, helps if I take the goop off the end of the pen. You know, I have a, so I have a Mac desktop. I don't have a tablet. And I'm assuming that tablet is the word that you meant. We're broadcasting from the Mac desktop. I'm watching on the iPad. So I'm gonna go in and using the inspiration photo as a guide. I'm going to just put some scribbly white lines in areas of his picture where there's the brightest, whitest highlights. And especially in those places where maybe I didn't leave enough white paper or any white paper. Now, you know, with gel pens and paint pens, you can get in here and you can add a little bit of it. And you can, you know, before it dries, get in there and smudge it with your finger or get in there with a paintbrush. And, you know, you could use white gouache for this. Of course you could. I prefer to get in here with a pen. And I like to keep my lines like loose and sketchy. I like that look. You know, this is, if I wanted an exact copy of the giraffe, then I would I would, you know, use the photograph, but I don't care for that. So I like to, we were doing an art piece, right? So I'm gonna put some little like dots where his whiskers would be on his nose, but I'm gonna block them with my finger. Yeah, you totally could put a leaf in his mouth or something like that. That would be cute. So that's a white pen. I'm kind of wanting to add black to you. This is a carbon pen, carbon ink pen. Sometimes it doesn't want to write over watercolor, but let's give it a try. Sometimes it's kind of finicky. See, look right now. Probably because it's just been sitting a long time. That's probably why it's finicky right now. No, see, it doesn't really, it doesn't always care to write over watercolor paint. Let's try something different. This is why sometimes I just prefer a Sharpie or a dip pen because they usually work when you want them to, to be honest. Some of those fancy pens are kind of an issue sometimes. Now I wouldn't do too much black pen work. I don't see even my Sharpie is not wanting to write over the paint, but you might want to just add a little bit here and there. I usually use some ink, Japanese calligraphy ink. I write over wet paint a lot, so I tend to nerf up a lot of pens, which is bad. He's pretty cute. Yeah, so you can do that. You can use this, this graphite stuff is fabulous. And I do have a little small brush. I didn't pull one out. Well, not super small, but what is this? This is a Utrecht number four watercolor brush. And actually the Utrecht generic brand of brushes. I got these, a couple of these when I was in Las Vegas with Cindy Utter and Ann Williamson and Michelle Mitchell. And I really like these watercolor brushes. Oh, see, picture froze again, because you know that's what it does. But I know you guys can see me and hear me and see the chat. Yeah, this is a Utrecht generic brand. Utrecht is an art supply store. The name, the spelling is U-T-R-E-C-C-H-T. It's owned by Dick Blick. And this is one of their generic brand watercolor brushes that I got when I was in Las Vegas to try. Frequently you can find the Dick Blick brand at Utrecht and the Utrecht brand at Dick Blick, just FYI. And I've tried their paints too and their paints are actually very good. The watercolor paints. I was pretty pleased with them. They do have separate websites, but a lot of their materials crossover. I said I was gonna stop, didn't I? I lied. In case you didn't notice, I lied. I'm really liking this graphite. In case it's something else you didn't notice. I'll answer that paint question in a minute if I can. Hang on, their paints are rebranded. I don't know actually about their paints. They could be rebranded and made by somebody else. I'm not sure. I just know that I have tried them and I do like them. They're decently pigmented. They're affordable. Now this graphite doesn't stay wet. I didn't put ox skull in it, but it doesn't stay super wet, just FYI. I do like it though. There's a couple of different brands of this and like Ian said, you can definitely make your own sort of thing using pencil shavings. I think it's a nice addition to your paint box whether you paint with watercolor or acrylic. It's a nice addition to your box of tools and supplies. I'm gonna stop now because I'm really liking where he's at right now. I'm gonna refresh the screen again. Monday, I had no problem with the screen freezing. Today is a problem, so I don't know where to go with that. Does anybody have any questions before we call it a day? Could I have done a better job on our giraffe? Well, certainly, but I always think that, but I think he's pretty cute despite the fact that, you know, I mean, I could keep working in, but I think I'd overwork him at some point. You know, we're always the most critical of our own work. So I like him, I think he's cute. And when I stand up, I like him more. There's something about the shape of his face is not quite right, I don't know. His snout, maybe, his nose part. I said I was gonna leave it alone, I will now. Step away from the painting, I know, right? All right, that's it for today, you guys. We will be back on Monday with DecaWart. So give some new things to try this week and this weekend. You know, if you can get your hands on some of this graphite, watercolor graphite, give it a try. There's a few different brands out. I got this one by ArtGraph, mostly because it's back to the cute little tin and it only had the one color and I didn't really need a ton of colors of graphite powder. That being said, maybe you don't have that in your art budget right now. Take some of your water-soluble pencils and purposefully collect some of the shavings. For instance, these are my pencil sharpeners and that I sharpen my Stabilo pencils with. And if you can see, that is full of shavings and I don't really empty it out unless I'm putting it into a jar with a lid with some water to make sort of an inky thing that you can paint with. So give some things like that a try and do some experimenting and I'll be back on Monday with Monday with Decorart. Let me know if there's anything in particular you would like to see. Send me an email or a message on Facebook. There is and I don't remember what the name of the company is, Lisa, but if you type in watercolor graphite into Amazon, it's gonna come up or into Dick Blick or somebody. It will come up. Okay, so don't forget to, here's the shfield. Don't forget to support the channel and the free broadcasts by shopping in my Etsy shop. If you can or going over to my website, GinaBeeArens.com and maybe getting a class from me on the classroom page. The links for both of those are in the description below. The Facebook group and my sister groups and I, along with a bunch of our admins have a free year long journaling program coming up next year. But the hitch is you have to be a member of one or more of the Facebook groups to get the free lessons. So go over there and see about signing up. Ian, that would be great. Send me some landscape pictures that you found and I'll see about, I have one page left in this journal so let's end it with one of those. And we'll do maybe do it in acrylic on Monday and do it in watercolor on Wednesday. All right, so go over to the Facebook groups and sign up so you can be part of our year long course and the most important message. You guys should know this by heart by now with your eyes closed. And if we ever meet in person and I ask that question I want you all to shout it out at the same time. And it's so true today, especially today. Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And you know, turn off all that social media crap that's all negative, don't listen to them. All right, I will talk to you all later. Have a great rest of your day. I am going to be playing with these and some ink and making my own ink pens, ink markers. Barrett Niece has a video out on using these and making your own ink markers. If you want to, if you want the link for that later message me over Facebook. I am probably gonna film it and tag her in it but message me over Facebook and I can tag, I can send you the link to her video. So this is gonna be fun. And we have a sewing 101 coming up too. Woohoo! I'm gonna film that today too, hopefully. All right, see you all later everybody, our giraffe. Woohoo! All right, bye guys.