 are you today? Alright water is dirty of course. Alright so we are here in this video talking about the prompt for the second week in February for my creative year. If you don't know what that is it is a Facebook group where we share these video links. We the teachers there are five of us in the group share our experiences advice our take on not only the weekly prompts but the monthly topic which are different we do daily daily work we encourage daily work and daily practice and that's part of the Facebook group that we generally don't actually share on Facebook I mean on YouTube it's only in the group so if you're looking for a fun supportive art community go join our Facebook group the links in the description below this month for the month of February the topic is color this week we are talking about the color blue at least I think we are yeah blue I wasn't sure exactly blue so I spoke about in the last video creating this palette and how I was inspired by Safiya Nygaard and a few other people I'll find the videos and link them in the description below in which they took things like makeup and mixed Safiya took all of her lipsticks and linked them mixed them together to create a unique custom lipstick and then it wasn't long after I saw that one that I noticed that somebody else who had also seen her video mixed all of her paints together to come up with a unique color and I thought okay that's interesting but if I mix all my colors together I'm just going to get some shade of neutral brown gray something like that I want to take it one step further than that and I took all of my watercolor tubes out and I mixed all of my reds together all my oranges yellows greens blues and purples to come up with a unique shade of each one of those I didn't differentiate say with the yellow between cool yellow and warm yellow I mixed them all together and by cool and warm I'm meaning a yellow that's more of an orangey golden color or a yellow that's more on the bright and blueish end of the spectrum so I expected when I did this to get sort of muted gray toned colors from the mixtures that's not what I got these all six of these are pretty bright the one that's most muddy or neutral might be the purple but they're all pretty bright across the board which surprised me to be honest and I made this watercolor set from what I mixed I will share exactly how I put what what kind of box these are in and all of that at the in the last video which is next week but I will show you some clips right here a few clips of me mixing the paint together I shared some of them last week also and really was not rocket science I just took a little dab of each one of the colors mixed them together on a plate and then filled these are full watercolor pans they're not half pans are only half the size these are full pans so we came up with this this week we're gonna play with the blue one so let's put a little bit of water here it is not liking being tilted like that there we go so we're gonna play with the blue one we're gonna let that just sit for a minute and chill and I am going to like with last week we're gonna do the easy first I'm gonna make two cards so these are ATC sized watercolor paper cards in there I think these seem to be like 140 pound paper if I'm not mistaken it looks like cold press I do prefer the texture of a cold press paper so we're gonna first take our wide flat brush again this is a Princeton select I'm sorry Princeton Neptune three-quarter inch flat watercolor brush and the first thing I'm gonna do is get my paper wet then we're gonna take a little bit of the paint you can always add more but you can't take it back so that would be a good example so if you get in here right away you might be able to lift some of it and depending on the paint that you're using it may or may not stain right away some of the more pigmented artist quality paint stain pretty well like pretty quickly and this by the way is a mixture of artist and student paint I didn't differentiate between the two so that's pretty good I'm gonna dry this layer and then we're gonna add more just like last week okay so now we are going to take some more of that blue I did remember to grab my little smaller porcelain plate that I used for mixing paints on this time not like last time where I was just using the paper I'm going to add a bit more color and then some water similar to what we did last time brush hair or my hair I can't tell the difference okay I'm going to take my rag and I'm going to do this and it'll leave that sort of modeled impression in the paint I want that I do have a particular image in mind so to dry it again okay I grabbed a little more paint and I'm using a round brush that Princeton select around number eight and I'm gonna do some splatters with the same blue this is all the same paint I haven't used any other colors or mediums yet this is just watercolor so then I'm gonna clean off my brush of pigment and dab dab it off a little bit so it's not drippy wet and you can go in and any of your splatters that are maybe in the wrong place or you want to just blend them out a little bit don't do all of them just do a few okay I like that now let's dry it again one more time drying it in between the layers means that the underneath layers that are already dry are going to move a lot less if at all when you add the next layer on top so you can really start to see all the texture from all of those layers of watercolor paint all right I'll be back okay now I'm going to take my stamp set from my design line stamp set number 12 which is this one you me and the sea and we're gonna take these these dots these bubbles there's two different size bubbles in this set and there it is misplaced my stamp block so I'm going to arrange the bubbles on a corner oops a corner at the stamp block I'm gonna use distress ink in the color weathered wood which is blue but it's more of a gray blue than the watercolor paint that we've been using which is okay and I'm going to randomly stamp around the edge of the cards okay that's good then from that same stamp set I'm gonna take my turtle and I'm gonna stamp the turtle in black this is black archival ink jet black archival ink we're gonna stamp the turtle that's a good impression yes okay let's do that one more time that is cute you of course could highlight him with pen pencil paint anything like that I think I'm going to take a little bit of white acrylic paint he's a lot trickier to do this with with paint because he is got a lot of detail it's actually probably a little easier if you do this with a pencil rather than acrylic paint so I do recommend that if you have something else you give that a try in fact this acrylic paint is not really even showing up so let's grab a white Derwent watercolor pencil plus the blue is not very dark so yeah this isn't showing up either not really I mean I can see it you probably are not going to see this on camera I don't think I'm gonna do it to the other one because it's not showing up I do own very few Prismacolor pencils because they are not my favorite one of them that I have is white but yeah see the background is just not very dark so we're gonna just let it go they're cute the way they are so you could do these and send them off to friends this week I am gonna show you how to do one more thing we did this last month too so this is another scrap of watercolor paper it's cut like a bookmark but you could use any scrap of paper whatever you have I am going to use the flat brush we're gonna grab some more of our blue and some water I'm going to put a little bit on the background I'm not gonna I'm not looking to cover the whole thing and like with the other I'm gonna blot it with a paper towel so we get this sort of texturey thing going on and I'm gonna switch to the round brush some more water here so I'm using almost a pure pigment with no water in it I'm barely touching the paintbrush to the paper which is giving me this uneven line which is what I want I also did not wait for the background to dry so that I get a suggestive mark again which was what I wanted and I'm gonna work on a just a basic tree shape again barely barely touching the tip of the brush to the paint and the water because it's wet it's gonna blend and spread a bit if you don't want it to do that again then dry in between if you get something that you don't like get your rag in there right right away so let's dry that we're back good or bad we're back so again I have the almost pure pigment of the custom blue that I blended with all my blues and I really do mean all my blues Prussian blue, civilian blue, ultra marine blue like they all are together in this pan of paint I am not adding much water to it and I am adding some lines it does need a little teeny bit of water I'm adding some suggestive lines and marks sort of tree abstracted sort of tree shape now we are going to look for a blue ballpoint pen up here's a darker blue try them both and see which one I like better you could use a marker you could use a pencil like this one so this is again a plain blue big crystal ballpoint pen so I'm gonna write around the curve here can you see the force through the trees so that is a cute little quick easy bookmark I'm gonna go ahead and sign everything and I am going to keep one like I did last week I'm gonna gift the others so make sure your name is on the rack list here in the Facebook group if it's not you might want to add it in and because you never know if one of the teachers or one of your fellow students is gonna want to send you a fun little gift so that's it for those of you not in the Facebook group if you want to be part of the rack list you want the sense of community and camaraderie that comes from the Facebook group my creative year the support to do daily art which we do do only on Facebook we don't show much if any of that here on YouTube then you need to be part of the groups think about joining and the link for that Sophia and I guards videos and any other videos I've mentioned that I can find will be in the description below the link to my Etsy shop and all of that stuff is in the description description so check it out don't forget to like 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