 Okay, so I went out and received, so I went out and purchased some of these new metallic paints by Folk Art, and they're called Duochrome, Duochrome I think, let's see, wait a minute, sorry, Colorshift, they're called Colorshift paints by Folk Art, they are a Duochrome kind of a color where they are mainly one color, like the one in my hand right now is the pink flash, but they have an undertone of another color, in this case a purpley color, and I thought they were really interesting and I'd heard about them, they're selling out quickly at a lot of stores, I'm not surprised, they're really great paints. Anyway, I went out and found some at my local Michael's store, so I decided to come home and swatch them on some black card stock to get an idea of what all the different colors look like. I was on a live video chat with Artie friends at the time I was doing this, so if you've seen me, if you've seen me sort of take the card off camera to the left side, that's because the iPad was there and that's where everybody else was chatting and I was showing them what I was doing. But anyway, I went ahead and swatched all the colors and as you can see from me putting the swatches on the black stock, card stock, they really do have an undercurrent of another color in all of the tints and I don't think I got all the colors, but I got a lot of them, I got all the bright colors, they have some other, like they have gold and copper and I didn't get any of those. So we're going to start off this video by swatching these metallic paints just to see what they look like on black card. I love a good metallic, these are not super cheap, but they're not super expensive, they're regular prices, I think $3.99 a bottle in the US, but they're cheaper than a lot of other metallics and they're really really nice paints, nice and thick. So anyway, here we're going to go through swatching all the paints, I'm going to put some music on and I'll be right back when I get to the next thing. Okay, I will say that I think this last color here, the black flash, I think is my favorite color. I love the black with the gold undertones, it's really really pretty and I can't wait to use it in a journal page or even in a painting, really really gorgeous color. I will be showing some still images of these dried swatches and the other paints that we're going to swatch because I decided to just keep going, I had some other paints I wanted to swatch and compare. So we're going to get that out in here in just a minute and I will be right back. Okay, so I'm giving those other swatches a closer look and showing them to the gals that I'm chatting with in Google Hangout, my art friends and I decided to go ahead and swatch these neon paints that my dear friend Cindy Utter sent me little samples of there by Derevan and they were touted as or advertised as opaque neons, which I found hard to believe are opaque fluorescent paints and I thought hmm first of all let's give them a really strong hard test and see if they can cover up this white line on this black paper, which I really doubted they could do. This is probably not a super fair test FYI. So I decided to do that first and then later on that you will see that I compare them with golden fluorescent paints which I have. I don't have the exact same colors in both paints but I do have them both and I have a lot of colors in both and I will say that the Derevan neons I think worked that while they weren't opaque they worked very well and I like the nice bright colors. They had little or no odor. I can't say that about the golden paints. The golden paints have any of you who have used them before they have a chemically odor to them. I don't know exactly what it is but the neons especially do so but the Derevan paints didn't have that and if you're sensitive to smells and or have asthma like I do that's kind of an issue. I am off-camera wiping the brush and extra paint off on a piece of deli paper because I figured why not. I might as well do that and then use it for collage later and I did that with the metallic paints earlier also. So here I'm going to swatch both the Derevan first and then the golden and I will put still images of both swatches at the end and you can be your own judge and see what you think. I love a good neon regardless of whether it's opaque or not. The lesson learned here is they are not opaque neither are one of them and golden doesn't try to say they are. Golden says they're translucent. There is more opaqueness in some of the Derevan colors more so than others and of course it depends on how much of it you put on there and so you know there you have it. As I zoom out a little bit and we put the two different colorways side by side that the Derevan and golden are equally as bright paint but they're also equally as translucent. I don't think that anyone is more translucent or opaque than the other one but they're both very nice. If you're sensitive to smells like me I would probably tell you get the Derevan because they didn't have any odor that I could detect and the golden I can't say that about. So I hope this gives you some ideas of what you can do. Have a great day. Do something nice for yourself. Think about supporting my channel if you can and or joining one of my Facebook groups. Check out the video description please for ways that you can do that and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.