 Hey guys, how are you this morning? I hope you are all doing well We are going to do some basic watercolor practice this morning. I think that it's good to switch it up every now and then with Something that's like really basic and although these look simple they might be harder than I think but I'm gonna give it a try anyway. I don't want you all to do the same. I Don't think they're as complicated as like trying to do a face. So We are going to try to paint Water droplets or as the frugal crafter calls them do drops now. She has a video on her channel About these are ready. And she call again. She calls them do drops. I don't have the link available As I say that hang on Maybe I can find it Really quick Let's see Frugal crafter oops Do drops But it paint do drops. There it is right there So I'm going to stick this disc link in the What am I trying to say? I don't know what I'm trying to say. Oh in the chat. Here we go So that's the link to the frugal crafters do drops video I do suggest you try it and go look watch her video when you have a chance, of course one We're done here this morning. I Am going to use some things that she showed in her video, but I'm also wanted I also want to try a couple things We'll talk about them in a minute And this is the my watercolor journal that we've been working in Upside down because you know, that's how my day is rolling right now. You've been following me on social media. I Do have some inspiration photos just off-camera. I'm not going to show them because they're actually copies of somebody else's work to inspire me on what I want to do this morning with my new drops and I have no idea how he's going to turn out. They might turn out like garbage But we're going to we're going to practice and play which is what this journal is all about some of these paintings have turned out fabulous and Those ones that have I love them and I've actually photographed them and we're and they are being reproduced on postcards If you buy something from my Etsy shop you get one a postcard of something With your order Generally unless you get a mystery box, those are packed ahead of time. They don't always I don't always remember to put the postcards in Some of these are successful some Not so much But they're all good Don't forget to say hello and let me know who all is here this morning We are going to play with my Daniel Smith watercolors this morning But you could do this with any brand of watercolor, you know, I'm always saying to you guys that you don't You know have to spend tons of money on your supplies I what you can afford You definitely fall you can afford is Crayola then use that. Hey penny If you have a little bit more money than buying Crayola Then I do recommend for starter watercolor kits like the Windsor-Newton Cotman is a really good one It's fairly inexpensive. Most of your big box stores have it and you can use a coupon fabulous The other one that's really great is Koi You can generally find the Koi Pocket field sketch thing box 20. I don't know what they call it. It has 24 colors in it And I know Hoppy Lobby has it. You can use a coupon. Hey Amy So that's again, that's a really good one if you Want to order from Amazon Amazon has the Koi 30 color set And I like Koi my travel box has quite watercolors in it and Daniel Smith for the most part That's all that's in it. So hey Kim So these are the ones we've been working on in the recent past and this is the one we did last week So today again, we're going to do do drops I'm going to cover up our elephant so that we can protect him a little bit from getting to Narfed up which I have a habit of doing Let's rearrange the truck the table a bit. We're going to actually set the water on top of our elephant There we go Whoa I like the I like the Koi paints, you know, they're student grade. I don't know that they're very light fast But there's nothing really wrong with them All right, so If you watch Lindsay's do drop video, she Has watches already on her paper and then she creates her little droplet shapes with the pencil and then she paints them in And I like the idea of doing them that way. Again, I have a picture just off-camera. Hey toy That I'm not going to show you because it's somebody else's artwork, but I'm using it for inspiration We may need a white gel pen, but they're just that way off-camera I am going to do some I think Maybe like six background color swatches here and kind of a lightish tone of color and then We're going to dry that and then we'll come back. I do have Two different tools that I want to use to preserve White space and or The lighter color we're going to try some resist techniques. So I have a white This is just a white crayon You can find like fancy like watercolor white crayon In the watercolor department. I know hobby lobby has them in a pack of like three or four of them They're not super expensive But if you have kids around and they have a crayon box, just go take their white crayon. They probably don't need it anyway I used to have daycare. So I have a lot of white crayons. The kids never use the white one When I was at michael's recently and yes, I did brave michael's even though I frequently can't breathe in the store Um They I went down to the gilroy one and that one has great ventilation And doesn't bother me nearly as much as the other ones around me And I knew that some of the color splash stuff was on sale So I picked up this color splash resist pen to try. I don't know Anything about it It says create your design on your surface with the resist pen wait until the resist ink is dry approximately 30 to 60 seconds Drying time varies depending on thickness and surface used Apply ink or paint over dried resist to reveal your design. That's going to be interesting So we're going to we're going to actually try that today And because I'm very much into product packaging right now and Creating texture and things we're going to try to save the backing paper, which I don't always do Hey, Wanda And again, if I seem a bit off those of you who follow me on social media Know that I'm having issues with the car my car and the dealership Because you know Evidently when I tell them what I want, it's not clear. I don't know Okay, I think I'm going to do because I want to I think we're going to draw our shapes on first They don't have to be round They can be round. I'm going to zoom in. Hold on Now this is a refresher If you're watching on a tablet or a smartphone or other smart device If you tap on your screen on the on the broadcast Three little dots will come up in the upper right hand corner If you tap on them then tap on the little gear and This says quality and then tap on the highest resolution It says that you can go and you'll get a much clearer picture And there you go. Okay, so let's let's make some shapes. Let's make some like droplet shapes I'm just keeping it kind of loose and sketchy. I probably should be a little neater about it, but I'm not gonna be Because you know, why would I do that? And yeah, I already have a cough drop in my mouth This week has been horrible for my asthma and my allergies Not sure why that is Probably stress has something to do with it Okay, we're going to take this resist pen Ooh, it's got a nice brush nib So can you guys see that it's got a nice flexible brush nib on one end? and A flat chisel tip on the other end All right So on most of the droplets, there's a there's a reflect there's a reflection spot at the top And a larger one at the bottom So I think what I want to do is take this resist pen And I think I want to put some of it at the bottom. Alrighty We had to dry that So if you have a travel watercolor kit or a travel Um, you know a field sketch kit that you take around with you Um, this kind of a pen would be much easier to take around with you than masking fluid and a brush Um, or a crayon or both. Um, and also the molotow masking pen The problem with the molotow with masking fluid is it takes a while to dry And for me when I'm out and about I I have no patience on a good day when I'm home. So much less when I'm out All right, we're going to take a large brush This is a master's touch number 24 round. So it's a big brush And we're going to just go over our dew drops here Get the paper wet Hey, Lisa I'm sorry that you still haven't seen the AT&T guy So annoying All right, we've got our daniel smith the watercolors here And let's see Let's see. Let's see. What colors do I want in the background? I'm going to go in with opera pink first because who doesn't love bright pink like seriously You don't I don't think I want my background to Um dark though not to start with I want to build up the layers. You always it's watercolor. So you want to start Lighter and work your way darker, which is why we put water on there because we really want it to be very washy I'm going to do one in cobalt teal Again, you can use any paints that you have I of course like daniel smith paints, but there's lots of really great brands out there Use but can you you can afford to don't break the bank? Okay, this is what colors this handsy yellow medium Which is a little bright for I think for what I want to start with so we're going to lift some of it Because that was a really bright. I really want to have it be light and washy to start with at least okay, and then Mm-hmm How about a green? Let's do salo yellow green I like these masters bruh touch brushes, but every now and then you get one and the hairs just come out of them They're affordable brushes, but that's so annoying All right, and then let's do a Ultramarine blue This is a dark pigment. So we want to just put a little bit and then put a bunch of water to keep it light and washy to start with at least Okay, and then I kind of want to do a purple. So let's do quidochrone purple again We're going to just put a little bit because this is a dark color And we're going to lighten it up by adding a lot of water Okay, and then how we are back with the dryer Don't forget to ask if you have any questions either about what we're doing this morning or something else I will not be here for any live broadcast next week. I'm going to be out of town FYI, but I'll be back the week after that I will be in and out online as far as the face group group is concerned it will depend on Where I'm at what I'm doing what the internet connection is like And that sort of thing I'm not sure you guys can see I'm going to zoom in if I can for a minute, but that Resist pen did work kind of It worked well enough at least I think on some of these We'll have to see going forward Some of the paint might be too light to see how well it's working yet I think that's good enough. We've got a wet spot here and here and here, but I think that's okay I think it's okay. All right, so I'm going to go in with a smaller brush Um I'm going to go with this number 16 round. This is a royal watercolor brush Royal actually makes a decent watercolor inexpensive watercolor brush. They stay to a nice point Um, the bristles don't fall out. They're fairly cheap and available in a lot of different places So if you're on a budget, it's not my favorite brush, but it's not horrible I prefer Princeton brushes that either the Princeton select or the Princeton Neptune But these royal brushes aren't bad And I like I said, I don't have problem with the bristles coming out or anything like that So if you're on a budget look for that I'm going to go in with A little bit darker pink on the pink. We're going to do the pink one And oh and you can see right here on the blue That that resist pen has has worked It has worked well enough. So it's interesting and I'm assuming it says on there You can put coats so you could do it and then do it again and again So it's a very interesting All right, so we're going to go in with a darker pink. This is called rhodonite Um, I think that's how you pronounce it I'm going to do this so I don't stick my hand in something And there would be a shadow Um at the bottom and Kind of to the side. So I'm going to add that dark pink Inside This is too big of a brush. I'm going to have to switch to a smaller one So there's our little white spot I'm going to zoom in because I'm I'm like looking at the picture and I'm not thinking you guys can see me Oh, I can't see many anymore Never mind That's as far as we can zoom Okay, then I'm going to go in with an even darker pink. This is quinoa credo magenta Make sure I'm sticking my brush in the right color Hey kyla fabulous Boy, how many of us out here who are watching right now are big fans of kyla give hand like hello It's a pleasure to have you here this morning Okay, so this is like I said, this is the quinoa credo magenta and I'm going to just I want to accent the edges of where our little droplet is I want to That's way too much quinoa credo magenta Kind of make it look like a torn piece of paper wet piece of paper. Hey, Cindy. Hey sherry We are working on painting some fun little do drops here this morning If you go all the way back to the beginning of the chat, you will see that I posted a link to one of the frugal crafters video Where she does do drops and there's a lot of videos out there that where they are painting like do drop Type shapes. There's lots of different techniques. So I thought I would Try it And right now I'm just keeping this very tonal. So I'm just using like shades of obviously shades of pink in this one So it really depends on, you know, you could use this as a blending experiment and also Use this as an experiment to see what colors work well for you for shadow and light Oh, that's such an honor to hear and you know, we don't live that far apart because don't you live in oakland? And I'm in san jose. I don't know if you're aware of that kyla Hey, Ian. How are you this morning? So, you know, the trick with watercolor is don't put more paint on there than you're ready to deal with And keep your colors, you know light on the light side and work your way darker And don't feel afraid to experiment. Don't feel like oh, I've never worked with watercolors. That looks really hard I'm not gonna. I don't know. I can't do that. Oh baloney That's a load of baloney and that's keeping my language really clean So, you know, I want you guys all to experiment and play work in your journals You don't have to be crazy like me and let the whole world see what you're doing All right, so we are going to go in here. I just I can't help myself So we're going to go in here and I'm going to go in here with some of my quedogra on purple because I just can't help myself And I'm going to go in here and make the shadows darker I'm adding just a little bit And then I'm going to go back with some clean water and I'm putting the clean water in an area where I don't mind if the color runs So you want to keep if you don't want the color like to go this way Then don't put water there because the watercolor is mindless It's going to take the easy road and it is going to go where the water is I'm going to go back to the opera pink Hey, karson and cat's life. Welcome Oh, see, yeah, you should you should we're not we're not far apart from each other That's a lot of pink So i'm gonna blot. There we go Blot they call it blot if you're a proper watercolorist you call it lifting, right? But we're mixed media artists. So what what's our our only rule to break the rules? Right I'm gonna go in with some white. Oh, I have to get it wet first This is daniel smith Just because it's the palette I have the most colors in so Um, it's the one I thought would work the best for me this morning Loops that was too much of that. There's no stinking rules. That's right So that's not a bad droplet for my first water droplet. It's not horrible. I haven't done this before Rule breaking we love rule breaking. Don't we kyla like real he know Life's too short to just stick by the rules all the time All right, so we're gonna let's go down to the next one Um, we're gonna start with the same color the cobalt teal Which is the color that we used in the background here And again, I'm going to put the shadows in And starting with my lightest shallow shadow color, which is the color the same color we washed into the background And then um, we're going to take that same color And I'm going to Do something interesting with the edges of this little swatch Okay And this is like I said, this is fun. These kind of little simple exercises Are just challenging enough to be interesting And they're fun enough to really get used to your watercolors what they will and won't do with water How to control your watercolor? How to use resist this resist pen has limited success I like it, but I would say to you if you're going to use this recollections resist pen Um that you probably want to do a couple of coats of it before you start painting Aren't they overrated? Yeah, they're totally overrated rules All right, so where were we? I'm going to go with phthalo turquoise, which is darker And i'm just going to put a little bit On the outside and on the inside and i'm going to take the little there's a little bit on my brush so So i'm going to use it Rather than wasting it And put it around the edges Lindsay the frugal crafter has a different way of doing this than I do I do, you know Some there are some similarities and there's some differences. So I do recommend you go watch your video And there's a bunch of videos on youtube for doing like do drops or water droplets And the more I saw them come up in my feed the more I was like, okay Somebody's really trying to tell me I need to paint do drops or water droplets because It keeps showing up and it's not going anywhere I have to go to the smaller brush Oh, hello, ashley and welcome You know these simple little techniques are ones that That we should kind of focus on trying to master because they'll make all the difference in learning to control our paint When we go to paint those bigger important pieces I'm going to I need a flat brush. I really want to That's too big. This is a prinston neptune flat And i'm going to get it wet And we're going to go into the turquoise Color And I'm still I'm just using the cobalt turquoise. I'm not I'm not using anything else I darkened to the background a little bit. I left this light and I also added a dark Kind of shadowy reflection here And I like the way that looks Does it look like a real dew drop? I don't know I don't know. I don't know but I like it That's all that matters, right I'm going to take some of the road tonight And I'm going to go back up here It's all about experimenting and not, you know, if you guys are in my facebook group and you saw recently where I did the live video And I had the camera turned sideways for part of it. So, sorry. Um, you know where I showed my, um What did we decide to call them? Um Learning experiments Not everything you're not going to be successful at everything And that's okay And one of the reasons I love art journaling is because I can do these experiments and if I don't like them Nobody ever has to see them And doing a page of droplets like this You know, the first one may not turn out so good But as you go along and you do more of them down the page, you're going to learn um What you like And what's working and then you'll be able you can go back and adjust the other one Like I'm doing right here See I like that better and I don't care if the, um pencil lines Show we're it makes me the artist. So who cares? Okay, so we're going to go back to the blue one because I'm still, you know, I'm fussing with the pink one We still I don't think we're done with this one. We need a bigger shadow. I think that's part of my problem That's what I why I added this here So I want to use for shadow um I think I want to use prussian blue And that's the other thing is this is a really great experiment to Really try out what colors? Um, you know work well together which ones you like using for shadow which ones you like using for a light um I'll I just saw that you posted something want to hang on a second I want to get at this paint before it dries too much So that's the other thing you want to get at your paint and you want to push it around And blend it into your background. I mean, I like this water droplet II kind of um modeled background Um, but if you're really into blending then you want to really get in there before it goes too far Okay, I like that. Okay. Let's see. Um Yeah, so these I'm not the first person to think of this By any stretch and there was somebody in the world watercolor group that posted recently A droplet page similar to this one that they did and I thought oh, that's a fun idea So I thought we would try it today It's a really great way to to try out your colors Which ones work well for shadow for you and I happened to come across this resist pen So I thought we would try that too. I do have a crayon. We haven't used it yet But if you only have a crayon you could go in here before you get started And use the white crayon to color where you want it to stay white or stay lighter And the watercolor is going to be resistant to the wax and the crayon And I used to have daycare. So I have lots of these crayons around called paint stick I've never heard of that in it has somebody else But you know, I'm not up on every single one And there are like proper wax resist paint sticks around I just use a crayola crayon I've always used a crayola crayon because they're cheap and they're easy To be honest with you and I've already gotten all my water dirty I don't know if you could see that on camera, but this one's yellow and this one's blue already. I you know All right, let's do the purple one and let's start with The quedocridone purple that we were using which is a really dark color. So we really want to um Tread lightly with it And I'm going to go in with a little bit in the top of our droplet A little bit of it in the bottom of our droplet And then I'm going to rinse off my brush And come back with water Now for some reason the quedocridone purple and maybe it's because of that pigment. I don't know this one. Um I've always noticed that It dries really quickly and it's sometimes hard to get in there And move the paint and pigment around before things get out of control Yeah, no one sees it unless it's live exactly You don't have to be crazy like me so the thing with water droplets that you want to keep the edges fairly clean because Um, you know, this is a drop. So the edge would be pretty clean It's not like flower petals where you can be crooked and um, it doesn't matter Okay, that's not bad. I'm going to take some more of this purple Let that dry for a second and I'm going to come in and just add some interest to our background That dried really fast. Yeah, I just put that on there and look it's dry already. It's not moving That's all right. We'll make it work Okay So now I want to keep going darker. Um, but I want to use let's see what would be a good color to use for shadow Let's try something fun. How about quedocridone violet? This is very blue. The violet is very red. Hey patricia So we're going to go with that. It's like a dark purpley red color Let me use my bigger brush And if you feel like if you want to be more expressive with your painting and you feel like you're just really struggling with that Go to a bigger brush size Um start painting with the opposite hand your non-dominant hand Switch it up Do something that forces you to let go of control Oops, that was a lot of pain oops So i'm going to lake tahoe california next week i'm really looking forward to it and looking forward to doing some painting while i'm there and Taking a bunch of inspiration photos. I will be posting of course to the facebook group So if you are a member already you are going to get hopefully tons of inspiration Yeah, as they dry. I mean look at this one. How much it's popping as it's drying I love acrylic paint. Don't get me wrong, but watercolor is so much In some ways more challenging more fun and definitely in my opinion more portable Um, so if you are the type of person that loves to travel but wants to do art Or maybe you're busy running around the country teaching Um or something like that um watercolors really easy to take with you and you can get through You know tsa with it. It's not a problem Generally unless you're me and you get stopped at tsa all the time The daniel smith paints are made here in the usa and sold here in the usa They are made in seattle. Their factory is a lot of fun to go visit. No, they do not pay me to say that They do not pay me to say that they don't pay anybody to say that Let's see And you know, I like the marks the brush leaves and I like the you know suggestion of the puddles and and that sort of thing so You know get your shadows where you think that you like them in your droplet and then If you need to go around and work on the background, although you all know that's not my favorite way to do things Sometimes you have to Make sure you have a rag always if you're using good quality artist paints Then they will lift up at least a little bit Oh lisa, you definitely can give kyla The approval to join a life of art and self expression That's not a problem and if you all need any ideas on Fabulous ways to create homemade journals. Oh my god go watch kyla give hands channel If you've never heard from her about her before She's got a fabulous channel with some really great ideas You should go get check her out She did a series I think last year where she was making a different journal I think I don't know was it once a week kyla And I know we were all following you along because we all thought that was fabulous Okay, some of these are more of a struggle than others to really make it pop That shadow see there we go Now know that your colors, you know, most of your watercolors are going to dry a tab. They're going to dry a bit lighter Then they initially go on the page. So know that ahead of time And I think don't be afraid to go dramatic with your shadows Because there's something about that one. It's very dramatic, but there's something about that one Oh 23 Ah, yeah, I've been watching you for a while. So I lost track there I know it was after I got hurt at work. So Because I couldn't do a lot but I could sit home and watch youtube And I really like that one. Okay, we're gonna leave that one alone because I'm gonna mess it up. All right. Um, let's do the yellow one Yellow yellow yellow Let's go with nickel azo yellow first, which is less bright Um more Almost green. It's more of a gold Let's do this And put some in here It's called it's I know right because everybody gets it wrong. My last name is pronounced errands If you're american if you're german, don't ask me to pronounce it because I don't say it, right? But errands we pronounce it errands That made a dramatic difference right there in our drop I have some big changes coming through for 2017. I'm really, um I have a lot of things to think about and a lot of Things that I know I'm already going to do that. I have to work on and So stay tuned. I'm going to continue to bring you Going forward as much Free live content as I possibly can Yeah, I recommend you guys go subscribe to kyla's channel Not only is she a fabulous artist makes wonderful journals, but I believe if I'm not mistaken. She does some life coaching I could be wrong on that She has she's the one that makes the um The playing card deck Kyla, what do you call it? I have all of them I should know the answer to this question Because I have them all It's like the inspiration sticks only they're playing cards. They're absolutely fabulous You know, you get stuck on what to do on a page You just go pull out some cards out of her deck. They're wonderful I like the way these droplets are coming out. I don't know about you guys That's it. Cindy. Thank you mix media inspiration deck. I love I love those cards. They're fabulous All right. Um, I really like that yellow one I'm thinking I'm looking at it on camera I'm thinking I want to add a color to it. What color do I think I want to add green gold We're gonna just go crazy because why not it's in my journal And nobody's gonna tell if I make a mistake, right? You're not gonna tell anybody. Are you it's just between us, right? There wasn't enough water there. That was pretty dry. There we go. That's but I have I have homemade sticks But I also have kyla's cards. I sometimes use them together Um, her cards are fabulous And I'm not just saying that because she's here on the broadcast I'm saying that because it's truly something I enjoy using I like that yellow one. Holy cow. It might be the only one that likes the yellow one You can see the progression of where I like the blue one and I like the yellow one. This one's okay But you know what is wrong with this one? The edges are not Um, defined enough. I wonder if I just went in here with a Oh, yeah That made a difference right there so you can go in and dark and okay. We'll do that at the end Oh good. Yeah, these droplets are fun I saw it and I thought you know I have to try that They're a fun practice, especially if you're getting to learn What your paints will and won't do and what you with the paints will and won't do Okay So let's do the green one We'll start with this the same green we used in the background This is a bright lemony green and this is called phthalo yellow green I think we do inspire each other and I love that we do that Um, because that's part of the joy of doing art, right? I love that I I like that color. I don't know what I want to add now Um, I think I'm going to do something. It's a little opposite. I'm going to go in with some of the bright yellow Uh, which was what was that? Hansa yellow medium That's the brightest most lemony yellow I have here on my on this palette I'm just going to add a little bit of it to the center of our droplet here Because I know this green isn't bright enough, right And then I'm going to just lift some of it. I just want a hint of it. Yeah, I like that. All right um Let's go in with Some sap green. We're going to just go dark and we're going to just go crazy with it, right? All right, so this is sap green and Some of these colors Are going to be the same or very similar in whatever paint brand you have some of them will be different because Um, it seems like every brand has a few colors that are just unique to that brand Um, they're mixtures or something like that Um, but sap green it sap green is pretty basic Just put a little bit and then get right in there with the water brush I'm sorry with water on the brush and move it around and if you get too much water or too much paint have your rag candy The biggest thing is just don't be afraid to make a mistake Just go for it and have fun. The most important thing is that you're having fun with it That sap green made it pop. Look at that now you could do these with draw your dots with um Watercolor pencil really get your different mediums in there and really play around with it You know, whatever you have that's water soluble and you don't have to stick to water soluble. We're not going to All right, so I'm going to switch now to the little brush And I have phthalo green Which is kind of more on the blue side It's more it is more on the blue side than the yellow green Okay, so we're going to go in with a little bit of this Yeah, because I think that would be nice here That made it pop, didn't it? Have you all noticed that I fixed my networking error? How did I fix it? I don't know I have no idea I only know about enough about mechanicals and Uh computers to like get me in trouble I I know a little bit I I clicked on the settings and there was something that I know some of my software like my antivirus just updated and there was A setting I know was clicked on before that was suddenly off So I turned it back on and that seems to have helped Okay, I'm liking that I'm going to leave it alone because I like the way that looks we're going to go to our last one This one's ultramarine blue And let's start with the ultramarine blue Which is again, this is a basic every paint brand on the planet has a ultramarine blue shade. So This is the wrong brush Oops That's really big That's all right. We'll make it work right can always do this See there the resist pen really it does work now. Is it the same as using um asking fluid? No, but it does work and it works well enough And I think it's something that I might carry in my um I don't know if I can get another one. It would be nice. That's something that would be nice to have in my kit My travel kit So we're gonna work our way darker You know, it's always the last one you have problems with right? Holy moly. All right. Let's try this again Trying to make it so all the shadows are like going in the same way Trying uh Let's try prussian blue, which is a darker blue green And I'm just barely barely barely touching my brush to the canvas and I probably should switch to a smaller brush Um around the edges that I have a little bit more control over a little bit of this in the background Wow, it's been almost an hour already You know, I have so much fun chatting with you guys and painting and just hanging out here in my studio with you all I forget what time it is. It just flies by At least the dealership hasn't called again about my car So now we're going to go in with this daniel smith has this color. They have some colors that are made from semi-precious um minerals This one I think is one of them and or it's a blend. It's called solidite And it's a bluish gray color So we're gonna we're gonna go in here with this. Oh, you're welcome. Wanda. This is a you know Would be a great thing to you know, do some little water droplet paintings on atc cards um tags They're just great for practice. I like this page that just has you know, a whole page of water droplets So this color may be coming up very black on camera, but it's not you're gonna have to just trust me on that But it's a great color I have to stop buying all of their dark grayish bluish colors because I think I have all of them I don't need anymore Yeah, oh, yeah, go get cracking on that design team video, Cindy So we have some open spaces on next year's design team There will be a design team call coming out soon in the facebook group and on youtube So watch for it. The announcement will come out next month. So that I have time to really think about Who I want on the team? Uh for my rubber stamp and digital image um line, so if you're interested Keep an eye out It's coming And we have a design team video coming out. Um From everybody on monday I've already filmed mine I like that I gotta I'm gonna stop playing with that one too because that one looks good. Okay, so we're gonna go with our This is just a pencil a hb pencil stapler hb pencil nothing special And i'm gonna come in here with the pencil You could do it with a coordinating color pencil I don't think you need to Just adding a little bit of graphite really around the edge Helps define your droplet and look how much those popped out from the page now you could also go in here because On some of these the white highlights don't show up as well as others you can go in here with some white gouache white paint pen white gel pen White watercolor whatever you have we're gonna um Wow, those are really popping aren't they we're gonna go in here with our white paint that I have Chinese it's Chinese white out of my palette And i'm going to I already did the pink one earlier i'm gonna do a little bit Just on or near where the resist was Which worked better on some colors than others Oh, that's a good idea ian So there you go water droplets aren't they fun you could keep fussing with it And like ian said you could do you could do some kind of drips or something that connect You know all your drops together you could splatter on here. There's lots of different things you could do on here You could journal around the drops um Maybe you see a deeper meaning behind the the do drops or raindrops or droplets of water um A little drop in a big pond that sort of thing so you could think about what Meaning maybe is behind the page for you and journal all around the edges That would be fun too. These are cute on their own their fun practice So I hope you all give it a try and I got to say I like this pen and what i'm noticing is if you go back over some of these spaces With where I can see that the pen is there and I get it wet And then I come in with my rag and I lift it I'm taking off the surface paint, which really isn't stuck to that where the resist pen is Um, so if you're at your michael's and they have these recollections resist pens Again, it's double-ended. You have a chisel tip on one side and a brush tip on the other. It was 70 off It was really cheap. I don't remember how much it was but it was only like a dollar or something like that It was not expensive I would give it a try I and I like that it dries fast unlike masking fluid All right, that's it for right now. I hope you all love making your dew drops if you make some dew drops I hope you share them on social media and in the facebook group And tag me because I would love to see them if you don't tag me. I missed up. There's just too much. I get there's I get too many posts Just kyla knows I just she's there too. So are a few of you others There's just too many posts. And so if you don't tag me then I frequently just miss it All right, I am again not going to be live next week. You won't see me live until the week after that Monday, what is it? Monday the 20 something Monday the 20 Second I will be back with Monday with deco art and I'm not sure we're going to work anymore on ant Marcella My painting that I was doing she may be finished. We may start a new one and um I don't know yet, but I'll think about it while I'm gone and But there are videos that are going to post for you. Everybody. Have a great weekend and a great week Keep painting keep practicing break all those rules because we're mixed media artists We can do that and who cares nobody's going to see it All right, and you know What I'm going to stay next don't you and yes, thank god for good Thank goodness for hoot sweep love hoot sweep You also can post to instagram facebook and twitter all from instagram fyi for those of you who do lots of social media That's a good idea. And so do four droplets and give me each droplet a color that you feel represents a session With a season with each session written in it Maybe you need to type that up and put it in the facebook groupie in because that I don't know But I like the idea maybe or with each feeling how you're feeling Pink and red does the color of passion by the way So what I'm going to say next you all should know by now Go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself and maybe somebody else because you deserve it and probably they do too Play with your paints play with your art. Have some fun doing do drops Show kyla's channel some love There's a shout out that went out today show them some love and Go all the way back to the beginning of the chat before this session ends and find the link for lindsay the frugal crafters Do drop a lesson and where she does more with these do drops and go watch her channel There's a bunch of do drop or raindrop things on youtube All right, give it a try. I will see you all later I'm going to go check my phone and see if the car dealership people have called me back yet If you want to know more about that, you're going to have to follow me on facebook Not even in the facebook group my personal facebook page friend me All right, I will talk to you all later. Have a great day everybody And uh keep painting. All right. Bye