 Hey guys, this is the first in a series of videos. I think I'm gonna call The messy journal or I think I'm actually not sure at the moment of filming anyway in this first episode, we are going to explore the idea of making sort of our own inks for lack of a better term and or Fluid sort of paints. I have lots of pit powder pigments in my stash of stuff that I almost never use including some primary elements and Magical something Lindy stamp gain magicals and and Primary elements color arts primary elements with the name of the company. I couldn't remember last night prime color art anyway, along with a Bunch of these I forget what the brand name are I put them in these little salt and pepper shakers a long time ago Back when we still lived in California. Anyway I'm not gonna toss them out or purge them or anything, but it's time to use them. So I I already made one over the weekend And Let's give it a stir. I dumped a bunch of different colors in here There's a bunch of sediment that's sort of settled at the bottom, which is fine The color there's a bunch of different colors in here including some browns and some oranges and I was kind of shooting for a rusty color But I got this red color instead, which is fine. It's pretty and we're gonna keep it that way and we're gonna use it but let's Try to do something that's more rusty. I'm using old spice jars Old glass jars. I already had in my stash of stuff. Let me wipe this off. I'll show you how I do one then we'll speak through making a couple of them and And Yeah, I'll show you why I did what I did So you just need an old jar. I have this other one. This is a pepper grinder jar, but that's fine So I watched a lot of videos and did some research on making your own ink Almost all of them said to use some vinegar as sort of a preservative and so the water doesn't evaporate So I just have this old Jar from downstairs of white wine vinegar, we're gonna use that Just any like dollar store vinegar would work I'm not really measuring it, but there's probably I don't know a couple tablespoons of vinegar down there Then it said also to put some salt in remember why Something about brightening the color I think Again, this is salt. I already had this isn't from the kitchen. This is from my stash of Watercolor stuff because if you put salt in wet watercolor paint and then let it dry naturally It'll give you a cool texture anyway so then Before I put the water in I just started dumping colors in to be really honest. I'm gonna start with Knowing that we're still trying to find or make That sort of rusty color this one says burnt orange and these Have been in here so long and they're kind of dried up and they're Yeah, so I mean Probably eye shadow would work If you have some maybe watercolor pan paints that you don't care for Those might work and then this one. Yeah, again, this one says burnt orange. I'm gonna try to get as much of it out Yeah, and that's actually by itself a kind of a nice rusty color So that one's empty. Oh, yeah, see look I'm gonna add. Oh, let's see I think I'm gonna add a little bit of turquoise to that. I think that might work We're not gonna add the whole jar this time because I want to use this one first actually to make a turquoise color But let's do this and add a little bit. Then let's put some water I recommend putting the pigment in first and then the water so that you don't over fill Put the lid on very very tightly Whoops. See this is why you want to put the lid on tightly Did I mention that I mess you by you know? Nature looks pretty black Because I probably put too much turquoise in but this is like just a giant experiment and We're gonna just see what we can do look at that how pretty is that you could save the wipes To use in other art Probably should have gloves on Probably it's because this has a shaker top and that's probably not a great idea to have on here All right, so let's put that aside and let's add some like Red to it maybe Because that went pretty green Let's do like brilliant red I'm just guessing. I'm just playing. I'm just dumping colors I'm not using really any rhyme or reason I'm just dumping We'll stir it this way this time Closer we need some yellow Let's do yellow ochre Yeah, where gloves? Why do I have a feeling it's gonna be hard to get off my hands? That's pretty good Let's grab a paintbrush. I have right here out of paper They're actually watercolor postcards, but we're just again. We're using up what we have That's a nice like rusty brown color. I was kind of hoping for more orange But it's pretty close So let's Let's say do we want to add more yellow ochre or I do have lemon Let's add lemon Just keep adding pigments if you have like at this stash of pigment powders around just keep adding them So you get the color you want, honestly, and if you don't have pigment powders Maybe you have fluid acrylics. You're not using and you could do this with them or maybe you have Eaks that you don't have the right color you have just a few colors and you want to mix it make something more unique and interesting Use what you have Make some interesting colors I don't know that that did much. Let's see Didn't really think we accidentally made a really good sebum tone color Yep, it's very brown. That's okay. It's gonna stay brown. Look. It's a pretty brown. So we're gonna leave that one Still shooting for a rusty color though So I'm gonna get to mix it I'm gonna speed forward through the process. I'm gonna switch camera angles and I'll let you know what I come up with at the end And I'll be back. Okay, so we used about quite a few of the powdered pigments. We have an orange color a green a Turquoise a brownie rusty color and a red that will work for me I think so if you're like me and you just have lots of powdered pigments around Play with what you have experiment with what you have. Maybe you don't have a lot of powdered pigments But you've got some inks. Okay, get those out Maybe you don't have either of those water down some acrylic paint Make a few colors reuse some jars you have laying around the house if you're like me, you've got drawers full and Make yourself some really watery fluid acrylic paints. We're not worried about light fastness. We're not worried about Anything but a nice bright brilliant color you can experiment and play with or a few colors All right, limit your color palette though. I would encourage you not to make too many I would do like no more than probably these five kind of colors. All right I'll see you in the next video. Don't forget to experiment to play to make fun art Have a good time doing it and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you in episode two. Bye guys