 Hi guys, I'm trying to find I'm trying to find myself. Oh Yeah, yeah, okay. Hang on Because otherwise I can't see the chat while we're working today. Oh There I am. There's the broadcast. Oh turn the sound off We don't need to hear me talk or the commercials, okay There we go good morning everybody How are you today? We are going to work. It's welcome to Watercolor Wednesday. Okay, so we're gonna I'm totally distracted this morning. I apologize in advance I posted something earlier semi controversial probably for some but I think it's for most of you who are my friends family loved ones and Subscribers followers. I think that you know our little family all are on the same Wave length of wave length as far as thinking and so that you'll all most of you are going to agree with it So but yeah, I'm tired of the hate filled comments that are flying around the internet Anyway, enough of that. Let's get back to art. Okay, so First thing I have lots of stuff. I want to talk about and then we're gonna do of course We're gonna do a little painting today. Of course. We will I should pull my other sample out of the printer Okay, because you know totally distracted the more this morning and my brain is going in a million directions at once and I can't even show you how messy on my countertop star because I'm working on some samples for a secret project and Holy crap Mess. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. So that's my job today after I'm done broadcasting is to get the samples finished Alright, so these two cards these is this is a hundred and forty pound watercolor paper and Before I left for Alaska. I Decided to swatch a whole bunch of the black pens that I have in my stash That I use in my mixed media and watercolor to try to see which ones were like fast and which ones weren't Hello, Lisa and everyone Um so I I did swatches on these cards and I taped part of the swatches you can see here on the Copic sample That part is darker than the other that's because I put painters tape over half of the swatch and I left them on the dashboard of my car. They've been on the dashboard of my car for about a month now. This is not You know a proper Scientific light fastness test by any stretch of the imagination and it was only a month So how they would react longer? I don't know how they would react without the windshield glass in front of them I don't know because I didn't do that test If you put anything in front of an object Just that barrier is going to prevent provide some UV protection Now if it doesn't have a UV properties, it's not going to give you very much But the I don't know that car automotive glass doesn't I would assume automotive glass has some kind of UV coating in between the layers so But obviously if you look at these samples, it doesn't have a lot Some of these pens didn't do anything some holy crap. Okay, so this whole card It doesn't look too bad The pilot varsity, which is my favorite disposable fountain pen did change color a little bit And I have to have that one handy and I can put a little swatch here underneath and you can see You can see the difference between the two the fresh ink and the ink from the window So there was some fading and color changing not a lot but a little bit most of the pens on this Card didn't do too badly including the Sharpie The Molotow marker, which is an acrylic paint mark part paint marker did great the Xeno did fabulous The Feud ball did pretty well Now this other card holy cow some of these were really bad. Look at the Copic again How much you know this you know this is the one was covered with tape and this is the one that wasn't and Here I happen to have a Copic One of these Copic wide markers, which is I think the one I did the swatch with so here's the fresh Copic So that gives you a clue and then let's see I'm looking for my spectrum aqua in black Which you know I put away somewhere and you know who knows is this it? This is the spectrum noir in black Is that on there? Yeah, that's on there. I don't know where the aqua marker is at the moment. That's odd The Stadler tri plus Really bad this one that you there's a marker here. You can't even see it. It's this Frixion colors they're by Pilot and I Don't know if they're a gel pen or just a marker, but it faded completely It's complete now. I didn't have this one in black. I had it in this blue color, but it's completely gone You can see the faint and I don't even know if you can pick it up on camera, but there's the faint Like outline where of the writing The colored ink is completely gone the colored components of the ink are completely gone It just left whatever else was on there It looks like I wrote on there with a white Graph peps not so great and tombo the tombo is bad. So I'm going to do a More of an in-depth video with these and I'm going to pull out the markers and do you know fresh samples But I wanted to show this on camera this morning because I thought the results were pretty interesting And they apply to us as watercolor artists and we're we always are talking about light fastness and mix media artists, so I Thought I thought that was pretty and only a month. So if I left them there longer, I don't know what they would do Add it to my pile of stuff. It's not done yet. Okay, then I want to talk about this Isn't this pretty so this was sent to me in happy mail By Erin young from Canada now she tried to send me one last year a Similar piece it got lost in the mail. We don't to this day. I don't know where it is Maybe someday it will be returned to her or me. We have no idea But I did get this one and isn't this cool 3d piece With a metallic finish. I think she did a great job and she sent me a bunch of happy mail and evidently she works in a plant That packages coffee because this is There was no food in this this is a sample She said of what she does what she makes it where at the place where she works So that's pretty cool, and I'm thinking that needs to be a journal cover. I'm not sure Favorite marker of all the pens that I and she sent me a bunch of painted papers, too So that was very nice. So I want to thank her publicly on YouTube So much for the art now I have to figure out where I'm gonna hang it because I really like it So it's got to be somewhere in my art room. I think Favorite marker Well, I still love the pilot varsity for sketching and writing it's a very nice smooth pen The Pentel gel roller for fabric This one I have that one handy wait that one's right here somewhere. It's in here somewhere here. So this one Didn't fade at all. This is a really great pen the gel roller for fabric writes over lots of different mediums Hey, Amy. Hey, Beth Lots of different mediums and paints It writes really smoothly. It's obviously very light fast It's not a big pen and it doesn't have a lot of ink in it But it's one of my favorites or I love it. I also like the feud ball Which also didn't do too badly You can see here it faded a little bit Maybe you can't see hold on Let me zoom in hold on And I really love my big brush pens They're fabulous and they really Don't get enough attention. I don't think From some people. I really like the big brush pens and they did pretty well the spectrum noir didn't do too badly either Um here is The spectrum noir Here's the pit big brush pen So it Is a little bit lighter not too much that might just be because this ink is wet This is the spectrum noir Did I say spectrum? I meant pit big brush pen. This is the spectrum noir now again This is a little bit darker. It may have faded a little bit, but it Didn't do too badly certainly not compared to the copic which did horribly My favorite paint pen is a molotow marker. They're affordable. They're easy to find They're refillable It's the one kind of that I'd go for So like I said again, I'm going to do an in-depth video just about these and I will I will talk about these in a separate video and I have the I have the video footage where I created these so I'm going to put all that together Yeah, so I'm surprised at the copics too and for for line and wash So in conjunction with my watercolor paints, which is this is watercolor Wednesday My favorite pen is the pilot varsity disposable fountain pen Then I use it and the let's see Sharpie marker pen Which is down here Which actually did really well. So I use those usually together The sharpie marker pen is not water Soluble it's waterproof And it Actually did very did pretty well although sharpie is not light fast. It didn't do too badly Yep, I don't have any micron brush pens, but I do love my micron sketching pens Um, so when when you're talking about just sketching and sketching with my watercolors and creating You know interesting marks with my watercolors. I like to sketch out the lines. I want to stay With the sharpie marker pen because it's not going to go anywhere Then I will add some more details With the vars pilot varsity, they both have the similar color of black ink But the pilot varsity is going to bleed Which I like and if you know your pen is going to do that And you know what to expect you can work with it And this is my favorite pen like if I had to pick one favorite pen And just grab one pen on my way out the door. It would be the pilot varsity But these two together are fabulous and when I take my um travel my supplies traveling These are the two pens I take with me. I'm not sure if that's exactly what you were asking, but That's interesting for just a strange little doodle. All right. So this morning We have my um journal here. I've got my I was so distracted this morning by other things going on that I didn't even get all my photos in my album yet listen Wait, it's a good morning coffee Yes, it does Beth. It does rewet Um, so you have to be careful with it. Um spray you can spray your surface with a matte fixative Before you add another layer of anything I would work spray it with matte fixative or workable fixative because it will rewet The sharpie marker pen is fabulous. It's permanent. It doesn't go anywhere The Pit big brush pens you can move them around while the ink is fresh and then once they dry It's not going to go anywhere. So the big brush pens are nice that way if you want a layer That's not going to go anywhere And I don't own a lot of copics lisa. I only own a couple of copics in black Um, just because I like their black ink Um, but I have the full set of spectrum noir markers Um this morning, we are going to work on this page which is in my small delusions journal And this is where I do lots of mixed media. Um Um watercolour and mixed media paintings and We are going to work this background started out as something. I was just wiping my brushes off on from another project And then I glued down just some random scraps and bits and pieces that I had laying around And then I covered the whole thing with daniel smith's transparent watercolor ground Which is like clear jesso For watercolor zoom out just a little bit So what the only thing with the transparent watercolor ground is that you have to Let it cure for 48 to 72 hours to get it to work properly for you. Oh wow, Beth That was me last night because my daughter and her boyfriend came home from canada very late Um last night slash early this morning. Um, so yeah, I feel for you But if you have to be awake, I'm glad that you're doing something fun Um, so anyway, so The nice thing about the transparent watercolor ground, which is like clear jesso for watercolor Is that once you give your page a good coating of this and let it cure Then you can watercolor over whatever's on here And it turns everything on the page absorbent. So the papers the acrylic paint The tape it's all going to take watercolor paint the same way so I love this stuff and it is the one thing when I was in seattle I went to the daniel smith store that I made sure to get a jar of because I love this stuff If they had had a bigger jar, I would have bought one Okay, so that being said I was going to work with the daniel smith paints this morning And I thought well, let's try something a little different. I haven't pulled out in a while So these are the van goe watercolors, which is a student grade watercolor And they're nice and um, I have a small palette of them In a pretty good color range So we're gonna get these wet This is a spray bottle I use just for watercolor and it's got some oxal liquid in the water Which will aid in the rewetting of the paints and the flow of them on the paper Um, when you first put it on it's a little bit gritty But once it cures for a few days, then it's not it's It's less so now if you have liquid text clear jesso Which a lot of us have That stuff's super gritty This is not as gritty as liquid text clear clear jesso Um, it's got a little bit of a tooth to it, but it's not bad Oh, that's a good idea beth Yeah, that would work great for that. I do have the white daniel smith ground I don't use it as much as I should but yeah, definitely you could use it in the place of like white gouache or something That would be great idea Okay, so we've got the pictures of these flowers that I took on one of the hikes I went to Went on in wash, uh, alaska When we were I think we were in ketchup can I don't remember Um, we were just walking on a path and I was like distracted taking pictures You know story of my life my husband says i'm dory FYI, you know, we have the new finding dory movie coming out my husband started laughing He said you're dory because i'm Kind of am Well, I always have multiple cars and cats and cats life So I always have multiple projects going on so to just give something a coat of clear jesso and set it aside for a few days Is not a big deal because there's always plenty going on in my art room So it's not usually a big deal Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is i'm going to take my um Hey antbex creations. Hello. Good morning. Um, I'm going to take I think I think i'm going to take Do I want to use my crayon or do I want to use a I think I want to use a regular pencil This is a A helix drafting pencil a five millimeter drafting pencil. I think it's just to be led Serial creator. Yeah, that's for sure. All right, so I have my um Photos right here you can just see hey lori you can just see the corner of the album But they're right here sort of slightly off-camera and I'm going to sketch My flowers in I um, I don't remember if this Image is on the inspiration photos Free page on my website or not I'm going to do some updating of the images on there Today this afternoon including adding the new meme that I made earlier this morning that I posted and by the way Any of you who've seen the meme and you've liked the meme feel free to share it Um, I'm going to post both of those and I'll update the photos for you guys And I don't know what kind of flowers these were. They're just some random kind of white wild flowers So the first thing we're going to do is just look at our photo and sketch out The shapes that we see I don't ever worry about having too many sketchy pencil lines on my work I think that they're You know, they just add in my mind because maybe because I'm a mixed media artist They just add interest to the page So I can see you posting comments out of the corner of my eye. So hang on a minute So one of the things I like about mixed media is that there's no rules And that whatever you do to the page just adds adds more interest I love that And I'm really just Obviously deciding to do this group this group here of three flowers is what's kept what's catching my attention There is a fourth one there, but I'm not sure I'm going to draw it in We're using our photo as inspiration. We're not looking to copy it exactly Oh an fyi if I can just brag just a little bit In the last 48 hours Not only has mr. Mark Montano himself, which we all know and love liked One of my photos on instagram, but so has deco art painter and prima marketing Yay What gotta love that. All right, I'm definitely just liking having these three flowers on here now the original flowers are White and yellow Obviously, I would have to paint the white in because You know our background has lots of color on it and we might do that. I have white in here I have Chinese white so We'll see what happens. We're going to start with a large brush And I'm going to start with some greens And as usual do the background first the nice thing about putting Yeah, I'm just realizing my thing is upside down Okay, the nice thing about putting um Doing watercolor over a mixed media background is that um All watercolors transparent so all of these layers and marks and collage items They're going to show through which I love that who who doesn't love that Okay, so this is um permanent yellow green again, these are van go watercolors and using my Um original photo for inspiration. I do think I need to clip down my pages So they're flatter They're a little curly. Don't tell anybody All right, so we're going to just be kind of abstract and suggestive with the background I know those of you who have been watching me for a while that won't surprise you I'm I'm uh mixing some sap green into the permanent yellow green, which you can't really see because Um, I have you focused on the journal Which is okay So it's just a little bit darker green because you know with watercolor we start Light Right and we work our way darker Now you can do this sort of thing if you don't have the transparent watercolor brown You can try it with Clear gesso, um golden's absorbing ground. You'll have varying degrees of success Um, but I definitely if you already have those products in your stash of stuff I would try them before you go out and buy Something else and see if what you have Works good enough for you So I'm you can see what I'm doing is creating definition In the flowers pulling out the flower shapes from the background by painting around them And then coming in with water And blending If I get you know color in the wrong place. I've got my rag in my hand Now when you use this Transparent watercolor ground the paper reacts in my opinion very much like hot press paper What do I mean by that? So I know somebody's going to ask so in my opinion when you use hot press paper I Um, I think I have less control over where the paint goes It really wants to spread and blend in places. I don't want it to regardless of whether they're Um wet or not Um It just seems the paint seems to kind of want to go everywhere and it's a little harder to control And when you use the transparent watercolor ground, I think I have the same issue Hey paula So we're just working on Some watercolor over mix media We've got a base coat of acrylic paint and collage On the background and everything's covered with um transparent watercolor ground Okay So now I am going to go in and I'm gonna Grab some chinese white And I'm not really going to water this down any more than it's going to get just by the fact that there's water on the brush I'm going to use the photo To show me where the parts of the petals are their whitest Again, we're creating an inspired piece of artwork from a photo that we took We're not looking to copy it exactly because that's why we took the photo Yeah, you know, I really don't want people to limit themselves with your watercolor really, you know It's just another medium It's a fun medium and there's nothing wrong with doing just straight watercolor paintings But if you want to try mix media or you're working already with mix media There's no reason on the planet that you can't incorporate your watercolors into that So i'm just using the chinese white I'm basically just Painting it on the highlighted or brightest and whitest parts Of the flower. This is um daniel's. Um, sorry This is a van go watercolors and this is their chinese white It's not a gouache. I don't I think all chinese white is kind of a opaque gouache kind of paint I could be wrong that i'm not sure on but I think so um I can get the tube out and tell you for sure in a minute Now a good shadow color for white objects is blue I'm gonna switch to a little bit smaller brush. This was a master's touch number 24 round So a big huge fat round brush. It's great for doing washes. This is from hobby lobby. It wasn't very expensive This one is an escada versatile um synthetic round brush a number eight round This I got from jackson's art supply in the uk again. It wasn't expensive It's a nice brush though I mean leaving a little space between the edge of the white paint and The pencil line where the green is against the pencil line because I don't want The green to blend at least not too much with the white I want the line to be sort of crisp Yep, I love a good violet for shadows. There's nothing like a good violet color for shadows It's one of my favorite colors And as you all know, I love daniel smith paints. Yes, I'm a collector of um pocket palettes And I love watercolor paint in general, but daniel smith is my favorite I just haven't used the van goes in a while. So I thought we'd give them a shot this morning Now if you are using your watercolors in mixed media and you know You want to put a layer of something over this when you're done Then I definitely would recommend spraying the whole page with a workable fixative um or something like that Before you do anything else and then trying not to get the page too wet I'm just going around the flowers and giving them, you know, a couple coats of the white Now you of course could do this if I had known for sure what I was going to do to this page When I was putting the watercolor ground on it, then I probably would have sketched it out before I did anything else Painted white watercolor ground where the flowers are and put clear on the rest I didn't know this is what I was going to do. So I didn't do that All right, let's see. I've got cerulean blue And I'm going to mix it with a little bit of the chinese white And we'll get something uh in the aqua region Now if you are of course painting a flower like this and you Um, you know the original flowers say white, but you don't want to paint them that color. Well, you don't have to Um print the inspiration photo in black and white. So you have the Values and tones of the colors in the painting and then Choose other colors Use your cool tones like your blues your violets For shadow and use your warm tones like yellow orange red for highlights So we have some puddles overlapping each other. So I'm going to make sure to put a shadow there Got some interesting comments on Some of the live broadcasts recently and I'm going to respond to all of them today Some of the comments implied that the broadcasts are too long Which I find interesting because they are a live broadcast tutorial and I'm not sure How fast you all think I can paint but It's not I can paint pretty fast, but I can't paint that fast Okay, we're gonna I want to dry that a little bit which means I have to move some stuff Because my table is a mess All right, so when you dry your watercolors and then go to add another layer You will take the you do run into the taking the chance of reactivating the prior layer But they're going to move around a lot less than they are if they're fresh and wet And thank you Paula I thought it was an interesting comment Now I do want to be careful about drawing this that I don't get it too hot And have the heat gun in one place for too long because You do have acrylic paint things on here and you do take the chance of um Melting things and creating texture that you might not want See I'm a watercolor junkie too. Well, I'm an art junkie. I should just say oh art junkie Yeah, I thought it was an interesting comment All right, I'm gonna take some more white The other thing you want to keep in mind when you're doing this watercolor over mix media is you're not No, you're not going to get the same look as you do it as you would on fresh watercolor paper It's very very different But I like it. I think it's interesting Exactly at Bex creations urinate. It's gonna bubble It's gonna create texture that you might like but um, you might not like So you want to be careful Now I have some neon colors here on the base layer Which is nice if they show through a little bit because they'll help indicate sunlight and brightness and warmth That was a little wetter than I wanted but But we'll work with it Now you can also go over this with you know, again, this is a mix media piece. Remember people There's no rule so you can let all of this dry and then highlight things with you know, white gel pen Pen and ink Whatever you're Feeling at the moment. Oh, you know Beth. I always come back to watercolor too when I started Back to the road of painting as an adult. Uh, I Gravitated first to watercolor. It is my first love. It always will be Um, it's very I love that it's portable. I can take it with me Okay, we're gonna let those petals dry a little bit. Let's do some work on the center So I think for the centers I want to start with A green but I'm going to take my green that's already wet here on the palette I think I'm going to add a little bit of panes gray to it. Oh, that was a lot of panes gray Let's add some green to that That's better So I have this color that's like a dark gray green now that I've mixed by taking the yellow green Permanent yellow green and mixing it with panes gray And we're going to just dab that here into the center We're going to use this here too in the background a little bit Yep, I love watercolors. I'm with you guys. Obviously Haven't really met one. I don't like either. I get asked that all the time. Daniel Smith is my favorite. They have a large color range their Professional artist grade and semi affordable. They're made in the usa. They're easy for me to get but I haven't really met one I don't like to be honest with you and the van goes are not expensive. You can get them a hobby lobby Like my hobby lobbies had some colors on clearance recently So I'm not sure what that means if they're getting rid of them or not, but they have been on clearance And the tubes you can get them in a set too. They come in sets. In fact I have a van go pocket set because you know, I'm a pocket Set collector. I'm a slash hoarder So this dark color is wet and that's fine. I'm just putting some light yellow in there I'm going to dry it again in a minute, but So one of these that I just got in the mail Or that's coming maybe maybe it's not in yet. I've ordered a one of these small pocket kits of van go one They have this thing for yeah, it's a poor it's a poor issue And it's the one thing I probably won't charge because I just love my pocket kits They're very versatile and you know, you don't have to feel like you need to do a big, you know, painting or Water, you know a big page in your journal. You can just do greeting cards and accs. That's how I got started And I love my heat tool when I'm traveling. It's harder for me because I Don't have this And I'm very impatient But I'll paint a couple of layers and then you know, we'll go out and do the tourist thing And by the time I come I come back it'll be ready for me to Continue working on Daniel Smith watercolors only come in tubes. I think they used to come in cake form in a set Because I've seen a couple of older watercolor artists on youtube and the internet Reference them, but they don't anymore. They only come in tubes. I'm not sure why that is but they only come in tubes So this is permanent yellow lemon yellow We're gonna put some of this in here I'm gonna let that dry for a minute and go back to our white Just dry again Oh, yeah, and sticks. Sorry I did get some sticks while I was in um, seattle The sticks are really nice. They're a lot. Um, you know along the same idea of a neocolor, but way more pigmented and lightfast They don't have the complete color range In the sticks that they do in the watercolor tubes But the colors they have are fabulous. I got 10 colors when I was there Which is funny because I was only going to get five colors and I just couldn't help myself But they used to have cakes and I'm not sure why they don't have them anymore, but they don't have them anymore So I'm going to take some permanent blue violet here and I'm going to just mix it into the Um, sort of light blue color that we were using thank you And I'm going to mix in some Chinese white into it to just lighten it up and make it a little bit opaque Because the Chinese white is generally an opaque color And while I'm working on the petals, what's happening is I'm giving the um centers a chance to dry which is generally how You know, that's generally how you watercolor you let something dry you work on another part of the page Because you usually don't have a heat tool with you. Oh, see Kathleen. Yeah, that would have been fabulous You would have become my best friend I did meet um one of the um Executives for Daniel Smith. I ran into her in the parking lot and I was taking pictures and we started chatting She was very very nice So just remember to work your start, you know for the most part Start light and work your way darker because you can't really take the color back Um, a lot of times the watercolor paints will stay now. That's not always true If you use like the transparent ground um A lot of times the color will kind of wash off. It won't completely it may stain with white paper a lot of times it stains So you have to really, you know, just learn to live with what happens And accept some more of that purple. I'm not going to worry if it's not exactly the same color We'll just make it work. Okay. So I'm going to go back to the centers I'm just dabbing in a dark color with my brush. I'm not I'm not really brushing it in. I'm just dabbing it in I'm using up the rest of that dark green color that I made And then I'm going to come in with some Payne's gray And I like this little journal where I can just really experiment in um using my Watercolors, you know in my mixed media applications. I can just do little Um studies and just play around and if you know, some of them turn out great. Some of them don't it's just You know a fun place to play. Nobody ever has to see it. You don't have to you know be like me and put it on youtube So I mixed some Payne's gray and some sepia Because I'm not so sure I want the straight Payne's gray on here. I'm kind of liking the pastelli kind of look that I'm getting But it does need some like darker tones So again, I'm just going to just dab this color in Now I'm mixing some lemon yellow with white Again because the white isn't um an opaque paint So I'm just I'm going to make the yellow a little more opaque But we've got to let what I've done on here dry a little bit Let's see heat tool So I'm going to dab in some of this lighter yellow that I made And because I dried the centers it should the marks that I make should sit right on top and they shouldn't really go anywhere Maybe make a little bit more. I didn't make enough I'm not adding very much water to the paint so it's Not diluting it and lightening it up too much Which is good because that's I don't want it to be too diluted Now I like working with watercolor because I like to see all the transparent layers through each other The only really gouache color paint that I use generally is white um Definitely you could do this sort of thing with gouache instead of with traditional watercolors and you might really enjoy that And if you haven't tried gouaches, I would probably give it to say give it a try Buy a couple of inexpensive tubes and give it a try Now when you have a large range like daniel smith some of their colors are more transparent than others And that's true with a lot of large lines of paint. Now i'm taking my The dots of yellow out into the petals just a little bit because the center of these flowers Has like lots of you know, hairy stamens in the middle. I like that. That's really pretty. Um, I'm really thinking that I want to do this So this is the pilot varsity pen Hey, cindy I hope you're feeling better today Now you should if you're going to go in here with any pen you should probably wait until things dry completely um You'll ruin your pens and just trust me when I say that because I know because I've done that Um I've ruined a lot of pens What I can say about that it clogs up the nibs The paint particles get stuck in that. Um And the nib of the pen and then nothing wants to write and yeah, it's not good. I need a piece of paper But this isn't a complicated drawing. This is just flowers flowers are Fun, they're easy Anybody can draw flowers. So, you know, I don't want you guys to feel intimidated like you aren't going to be able to do this Let's see. I'm drawing over wet paint. So it's not really because I'm drawing over wet paint. So it's It's messing up my pen Now I forgot where I was Okay, I'll answer that black pen question in just a second. I'm a good black pen. Um Waterproof or non waterproof So remember the pilot varsity one of the things I like about it was that it's Not waterproof So that means that it's going to move around And I know it's going to move around And I frequently use that to my advantage And I use that ink as part of my Uh painting. I love that waterproof Um, so I am and have been like most of us a big fan of the scarlet line pen, which is no longer made unfortunately um The feud ball is a good pen too, but it's not necessarily waterproof My favorite waterproof pens has been and still is a sharpie pen. So if you want a fine nib Uh pen get the sharpie marker pen, which is this one Um, it's refillable. It has a very fine nib in it And it's a great little sketching pen But sharpie makes a lot of pens and they're all waterproof If you can spend a little bit more money and you don't and you know, it's a and you don't mind, you know, ordering stuff Because I know my local stores don't have it Pit pens are great once they're dry They aren't going to move around at all For me, that's always a tough question because pens are kind of like Paint watercolor paint. I haven't really met one. I don't like Yeah, the sharpie marker pen is my favorite and I love my um, I love my pilot varsity Disposable fountain pen. Those are my two go-to pens generally now the super fine sharpie um Pen does not work well over paint and gesso It works better over a plain paper Um, so you have to get a sharpie with a bigger nib on it to if you want to write on Write over paint with it Instead of doing that I was going to do something else. Let's do let's see All right We need to dry it again So sharpie has been my favorite sharpies easy to get when I first started in mixed media sharpie was um Um, I love the sharpie I uh, you know, I could get them in target. They weren't expensive Yeah, the scarlet line playing a fabulous a good substitute is the football um or the pilot pilot Hold on Pilot doesn't make another pen. I don't know if they've just continued it along with the football though. I mean the scarlet line pen Oops Um See it's not like I don't like pens. All right So the field ball is if you like the scarlet line the field ball is a good substitute FUD e-ball I got this a jet pens Um, there is also the pilot multi ball Again from jet pens. This one has a little bit finer nib on it than the scarlet line pen and Wait, there's one more I have to find it Pilot makes another pen. It looks the same like the scarlet line pen I can't find mine. I don't know where it is Because you know because I'm on camera as soon as we're off the camera's off. I'll find it Um, I also, you know, I have the pit pens in a number of different sizes And they're fabulous and once again once they're dry, they're not going to go anywhere But you have like a couple seconds to move it around because it's an alcohol pen Um, I also have the stapler pigment liners. They're actually really nice how did they do on the oops The stapler pigment liners didn't do too badly on here And those come in a different number of different nib sizes. So they work well But you know, I even have things like a low the Lowe's marker Permanent marker that my friend Cindy utter. Hey Cindy gave me Um And a big market. I mean, you know, and let's see the big market didn't do too badly right here um Yeah, the non waterproof pen So it's one thing I always tell people no matter what medium you're working in is you really should take out If you're going to use pen with it Take out your pens like black if you have it in a bunch of different kinds and test them Do do some big swatches like this And then let it and then get it wet see which ones run and which ones don't Set it out in the sun see which ones fade quickly and which ones don't like the frixion pens. Wow those really fade um So that you know What they're going to do when you're working with them so that you don't go and use say the pilot varsity pen Get it wet and then like oh crap. What did I just do it got wet and I want I didn't want that ink there Um, but if you know, it's going to get wet you can use it to your advantage So this is um a White gel pen Uniball signo broad The uniball signo does come in a couple of different colors Ah Different colors different nib nibs There's angelic, which is a fine point and this is the broad one So i'm going to just add some more white highlights to some parts of the petals here Just another layer And some marks and dots to the flower centers And I'm just I'm keeping my colors simple But you you could keep going and you could keep adding layers You're going to get something like this and of course you could put a quote on here if you wanted I don't think I really want to I like the way it looks just the way it is So there you have it van go watercolors It's not a huge palette. I mean, you know, I have bigger ones Um But it's got a good selection of colors And like I said the van go watercolors are not expensive. I at hobby lobby the tubes are about five dollars a tube And it's good if you're going to use your pens in conjunction with your watercolors and mixed media I think to have one Waterproof and one non waterproof pen again and a pencil. So in my watercolor travel kit, I've got a pencil I've got a sharpie marker pen this actually one of these and I've got a varsity Disposable fountain pen now the nice thing about the silver body sharpie marker pen is that it's refillable So you just unscrew the handle and you get a new ink cartridge and you just Screw the new one in They do make it in a black body. Um, that's disposable Same pen Oh, I'm so glad Paula. Yeah simple easy flowers. I'm going to make sure That I have this photo in my uh on my inspiration page on my website for you guys And I will then you can download it and you can paint from it I'd love to see what you do and that's interesting to know. So it comes back in the cold Uh That's interesting. You know what I might stick this piece of paper in the freezer And see what happens My husband will wonder why there's pieces of paper in the freezer, but it won't be the strangest thing I've ever done Like I said, he thinks I'm dory. So, you know Hey, hey Cheta, how are you? We're just finishing up So I will be filming something about these. Um, um Lightfastness tests I did in my car It's interesting. I I didn't expect the results that we kind of got I thought the sharpies would fade more because they're not supposed to be lightfast and they didn't hardly fade at all um The tombows graph packs and the stapler tri plus faded a lot but by um Contrast the stapler pigment liners didn't fade at all The distress markers which are not my favorite and I actually sold them all in a few mystery boxes They did actually pretty well. They're not supposed to be lightfast the zig clean Um color markers. Um, they faded a little bit Of course the pit pens did well copics didn't do very well, which that surprises me That's probably the biggest shocker of the day is the copic markers. So this is fresh marker that I did earlier And then this swatch was I had tape over half of it And the other half was exposed to the sun for a month and that's what happened So even the bit under the tape faded so I almost didn't remember to come on chachetta. So it's okay. There's just a lot of stuff going on this morning um The pilot multi ball did very well, which is the other pen that's similar to the scarlet line. So here's the scarlet line And here's the pilot multi ball, which has a thinner nib. It's a great pen. I like it, but it's got a smaller nib um, the pentel gel roller for fabric or the feud ball Are comparable pens to the scarlet line the pentel gel roller for fabric works great on paper and it's waterproof Um the uniball signo, which we're used to using in white does come in black fyi and sepia and both of those I own both of those colors and it's a fabulous pen But again for me pens are kind of like watercolor I haven't really met one. I don't like They're good for different things I would definitely advocate Looking at what is that available at your local target your local office supply And then if they don't have what you're looking for and you want to try some new things go to jet pens jet pens does have some I don't want to call them grab bags But they have some like pen assortments that you can buy like they have one that's a white pen assortment And they'll send you a selection of white pens that they carry um paint pens gel pens um for a really good price you'll get a whole bunch of these You know white or black pens and different kinds that you can try And it's a great way to try like some new pens that you maybe normally would never even think of I did that long not long ago with white pens Oh good. I hope you do. This is a really easy image to do anybody could do it You know again, I'm going to zoom out just a little bit so that you can see the um original photo Hopefully not too much so that you don't see the rest of my desk There's some glare there, but Let's see There we go. All right. I turned off the light um So so the light's a little dark now, but that's all right So this is the original photo just some wild random wildflowers from alaska Uh that you know, they were just on a path when I was hiking and Um, I just used it for inspiration to create this, you know This is an inspiration photo You know, don't stress yourself out trying to copy it exactly Just have fun with it and use it for inspiration to create your page Maybe what the inspiration you get from it is the colors And that you want to create something abstract with yellow white and green. That's fine Um, but don't stress yourself out trying to copy the photo and flowers are easy They're a great thing to practice with so yeah, definitely I'm much less stressful than faces And I hope you all have a go at the watercolor. I hope you all do I hope you all have a great day Like I said earlier, I will be updating the inspiration photos page Um this afternoon probably as soon as we're done with the broadcast and making sure this photo and a few others are on there I will be updating the memes page over there also And adding in the new meme that I made this morning You know no hate zone Um because this you know, this is a no hate zone Um, and if you don't understand what that means then go over and look at any one of my social media I posted it earlier. You're free to share the meme. Uh, however you want wherever you want um, but yeah go out and give your loved ones a hug and um, let's be supportive of each other and Create some fun art and don't Don't forget the most important thing Go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you do definitely deserve it Yeah, watercolors are fun. This is not great paper. This is a small delusions journal. It's basically file folder paper Um, and it's got acrylic paint collage and stuff on it And then I covered the whole thing with daniel smith transparent watercolor ground And let it cure for a few days and then we started watercoloring on top of it And this is the kind of look you get this is one I did um A couple of weeks ago now That is um, there's a speed through of this on youtube already Um, and this is the kind of thing that you can do with watercolor in mix media, which is what this journal is about So have fun with it. Don't be intimidated by it. You don't have to have fancy watercolors if you just have crayola use that Like I said, I haven't really met a watercolor. I don't like They all work All right All right, that's it right now you guys. I'm going to go update the website and have some more coffee. I need more coffee Because it was a late night a daughter and her boyfriend had to come here to get their keys so that they could go home and I am not used to staying up that late waiting for people to come in on a red eye to get their House keys. That was tough So anyway, all right, I will see you all later create some art have some fun Be nice to each other and yourself talk to you later. Bye guys Yeah, let you have to let the ground cure for 48 to 72 hours And to really have it work Well, and if you read the teeny tiny print on the back of the jar it says that If you're like me you need to get your reading glasses out So I would say do um, just so Put this on a page And then I just set it up above on my shelf and let it dry for a couple of days And I I do something else while it's curing and then I come back to it And you'll do you might want to do a couple of test swatches, you know Do do a couple pieces of paper And let one dry and within a few hours play with it Let the other one dry for a few days and then play with it and see what the difference is Yeah, don't stress Just enjoy it. All right. I will see you guys later. Bye