 hey guys i just thought if i was going to work on this little like i don't know it's not really a seascape harbour scape i don't know that i would just go live on periscope so if you caught my post last night on social media this is the photograph or one of the photographs i took when we were in half moon bay over the weekend um of the fishing boats that were across the restaurant um in the harbour from where we had lunch um i like this one i like the reflections in the water in this one but i like i'm gonna do i'm gonna do something based on this one um and hi um we had um lunch at um half moon bay brewing company yeah it's a really nice place right and hi and okay so i'm gonna work on this a little bit and i just thought i'd get on periscope while i do it so last night i did a quick uh pencil sketch there you can go just a quick pencil sketch not you know an exact copy of the photo something inspired by the photo and just some basic lines not a lot of detail and then earlier this morning i put a little bit of masking fluid in a couple of places that i wanted to at least for right now preserve and keep white um and you guys are gonna be upside down i don't know how to fix that and still see the comments hey guys um i've got my daniel smith watercolors out and i think i'm gonna start by doing the sky and i'm going to get the paper wet hi how are you i'm gonna start by getting the paper wet back here you want to paint well get your paints out and paint with me why not did you guys hear that an williamson cinnamon cooney susan hillis and i don't know who else is they're doing a um i just heard about this like two minutes ago they're doing a periscope collaboration this saturday morning at no we're not painting let's paint nude really okay so do i have to block you are you gonna just leave seriously i'm only on for like a minute i already get a troll we'll see if we get another nasty comment and i'll catch you that was and i'll block them anyway so about seven um hi so seven a.m pacific standard time here in california i don't know what time that is anywhere else in the world but that's when they're doing the collaboration here on periscope so you should um you should get on um i'm gonna start with this color um that's called lunar blue oops where are you there you are this one here 10 p.m eastern time okay that's good to know yeah because i don't know i barely know what time zone i'm in people i know that doesn't sound right but it's true hey seattle the home of daniel smith paints which i'm using today i love daniel smith paints oh thank you yes i made this a long time ago this is the original one the video is here up on youtube about how i made it and it's i guess been recently inspiring um hey russia wow it's been recently inspiring um cali black and secret soto and a few others to make gene aprons so yay it's to this day not my best best made video but it is the most popular video on youtube so i'm just doing my sky right now and the paper is wet so the paint per the paint is kind of going where it may and like i said i'm being inspired by my photos which are right here okay you know what block yeah i just blocked that and i'm waiting for like a little tripod to come in that i've ordered for my camera and when that comes in me for my phone when that comes in i'll be able to do better um i know really i'll be able to do better views for you on this um periscope thing hopefully it'll be in soon so i'm still i'm still with a lunar blue and it's kind of it's wicking in the water which is what i want and i'm not going to cover the whole thing i just i want to cover just part of it it was a cloudy kind of a stormy day and i am looking at where the sunlight was coming in the photo where the shadows mostly were but i feel like it needs a little bit of some other color of blue do you know there's a watercolor queen i love my watercolors is being the watercolor queen a good thing i don't know hi how are you we already had a troll i don't know i like periscope but geez i'm going to add a little bit of um what is this cobalt blue violet it doesn't take long no it doesn't i like periscope i'm liking doing periscope but holy moly now i have my paper stretched on a uh blocking board that i ordered actually from the UK and it looks like this on the back it's by ken bromley and um the paper you get the paper wet and then you use these rubber things and you stretch it around so what no matter what i do to it or how wet i get it it's not gonna buckle which is fabulous i always like to do my backgrounds first like the sky and get it you know almost perfectly the way i want it hi that way uh lisa swank hey how are you that way when i um go to put the ships in i don't have to try to touch the sky up when i start putting all the masks in the sky is already done so this is that cobalt blue violet i'm not going to put too much of it because i don't want to make the sky too violet you know what i forgot a clean rag good thing there's a pile right behind me so i am gonna lift a little bit up let's see so you won't ever be able to get it all up you have to work with watercolor from light to dark um but the paint some the pigments will stain the paper some pigments more than others so you want to be careful that pretty much that when you put it down that you put it in the right place the first time i will definitely be posting the finished photo to all social media accounts um i won't be probably filming it unless i'm here on periscope but definitely i will be um filming it on um i mean photographing it and putting it everywhere so here's what our sky looks like right now let's see and this is the original photo oops that's a good suggestion yeah definitely you know you guys know i share everything with everybody and when i'm asked not to share something with somebody it's really hard for me to keep my mouth shut you know i really have a big problem with that oh boy all right for the water underneath the boats um i'm gonna use the same lunar blue and then i'll add a little bit of turquoise something to it because i like my water to be turquoise so let's start with the lunar blue again and i'm still i've still got this pretty big wide brush it's a quarter three-quarter inch flat on princedin neptune brush um i'm gonna start by not having my paper be wet and i'm gonna actually be a little bit more careful here than i was with the sky because i don't want to get a lot of this into the boat shapes necessarily here my stomach growling i just ate lunch i think i ate too many snap pea chips who else is addicted to snap pea chips besides me and then i'm just gonna pull it down with some water but so that on the on the brush clean so that we get this kind of even transition between the color and the white paper without there being a line there already start suggesting the shadows under the boats with some extra pigment from the lunar blue and i'm gonna just leave it sit there and let it wick down into the water i might need to switch to a smaller brush soon let's keep going as i have more boats to do how are you guys all today on this fabulous tuesday oh thank you i'm not worried about my pencil lines i am going to leave them i probably won't even try and erase them when i'm done i'm gonna let them help me suggest my shapes in the finished painting um i'm glad you're good and because i know you have good days and bad days again over here just like with the other side i'm going to take some of the lunar blue i know what it's like to be in chronic pain because of the shoulder thing i had besides having a torn rotator cuff as if that wasn't enough i had giant calcium deposits they hurt all the time i got i get asked that a lot by doctors well when did they hurt all the time pull some of this out right here i am liking the way that looks now there's ripples in the water in the original photo the ripples are going oops you know side to side if you guys remind me if you're on social media when i post i'll post the pictures of the painting like progress pictures like i'll after we do today's layers wherever it ends up i doubt it'll be finished i'll post a picture if you guys remind me i'll post the original for you too and that way if you guys want to try painting along you can do that i'm just painting some i'm still i haven't switched to any other colors yet i'm still using lunar blue i like this color it's like a bluish grayish color it's one of my favorite daniel smith colors i want to make a trip to seattle just so i can go to daniel smith well and visit my parents they don't live too far from there i should probably visit them too mom if you were watching this so now i'm just putting in some lines starting to suggest some of the masks and things you see above the water whatever would be above what's above the water would be below the water but it would not be an exact reflection of so you want to make sure you know distort your line a little bit because it's going to make it look more real it's too much water i should be getting the mail or doing dishes or laundry or something but i'm still painting yeah it's a good thing my husband texts me before he comes home so i know when to go do the laundry oh thank you see that's just a few you know brush strokes with a that's just one color of paint i know right well he knows i'm stressed out about now right now so he's not i don't think he's too concerned um let's add i still want to i'm still um and he knows that's why he texts me on it when he's on his way home and he works in fremont so when he texts me i have 45 minutes to get all the chores done i was supposed to be doing all day long to get him to get him done oops um i still want to put some turquoise in here though i think let's get my turquoise color it's kind of wet i'm going to use um ultra marine turquoise i'm going to follow my instincts i'm always telling you guys to do that so this is daniel smith ultra marine turquoise that's it's kind it's a little bit on the green side but i think i'm liking that for this project and i'm going to just add a bit of it here and there and before i add too much of it and before it dries i'm going to go in rinse my brush off and go in with just some water clean water so i can push that around and sort of get it to mix and blend with the lunar blue trying to remember to look up and look at the screen here on periscope that way if you guys aren't asking me any questions i don't miss them you don't always have to worry about getting rid of all your lines you let the lines and the puddles and drips from your watercolor help you create the finished picture that you want yay your first live video to watch um i'm going to take something called neutral tint which is like a very translucent dark gray it's not really black it's really great when you're doing water i'm sorry i've got a like like price price tag goober on my paint brush okay and i'm going to go in here this is neutral tint and i am oh thank you made out of my husband's old blue jeans so this is neutral tint and i'm going to use the neutral tint to help me create the shadows in the water i do expressive watercolors i don't do literal translation this is as literal as i ever get to be perfectly honest and blunt i'm still using my three-quarter inch flat i haven't switched to anything else and i am trying to remember to look at my inspiration photo so i put the right colors in the right place and it's my inspiration photo is just that it's inspiration for the finished piece it's not this is not intended to be an exact replicate of the photo just inspired by and right now i'm just really focusing on these shadows in the water the reflections you want to work light to dark with watercolor don't start out with your darkest colors because then if you get it in the wrong place you really can't you're really kind of stuck you can't can't lift it up thank you before we do anything else with the water i'm gonna turn it around so you can see that's what i have so far this is again this is our inspiration photo sometimes you have bad connections with periscope i have that sometimes in the middle of ands um broadcast i kept losing connection i think that has to do with uh cell phone carriers more than it does with anything else i could be wrong i'm frequently wrong i'm wrong a lot um i'm going to go in with color what color you're working on canvas this is watercolor paper and it's stretched onto a ken bromley watercolor stretcher board um it has it's a solid piece of wood with grooves in the side and it has these rubber bits and you get the paper soaking wet and then you wrap it around the board and you you use a mallet to put the rubber bits back in and it pulls the paper around and when it dries it's tight as a try to tight as a drum okay so now i'm going to go in with and again i'm gonna use i think the lunar blue is going to be our color for this painting um or do i want to go with pain's gray i might want to go on with pain's gray i like pain's gray pain's gray is a good color this is a princeton select pointed philbert brush oops there you are so it's like happy medium between a flat and around and it's got this great point on it and i think it'll be good for getting around these ships um yeah let's do pain's gray around the ships and also um we have a look like i'm there was a there's a dam there i think it's a man-made dam or harbor um thing so i'm mixing my pain's gray there we go i'm hi how are you so i'm gonna mix some of my pain's gray with a little bit of brown i'm gonna use bloodstone so this is daniel smith bloodstone and that just turned the pain's gray a lot more brown than it was usually pain's gray is a dark blue black and this is the color of bloodstone right here by my thumb and i'm gonna use this to go in here because now the sky is dry i'm gonna use my bigger brush that i had before to just pull in some clean water and that paint i just stuck on there is gonna run in bleed and it's gonna it's gonna take the easier road it's gonna follow the water so i'm gonna use that to my advantage and let it do that and i'm gonna take some more of that paint and in the back of the picture you can barely see it but there's a line back here behind the ships where the rest of the harbor is the rest of the dam or whatever you want to call it because hey cindy okay so now i'm gonna go again with my larger three-quarter inch flat brush right up underneath that paint i just put on there and i'm going to just put some clean water i want that color to move its way down between the ships i don't want it to go up into the sky and because we're working with water color it's going to take the easier road and it's going to follow the clean water that's what you want now while that's wet i'm gonna go back to the smaller pointed filbert brush and i'm gonna look and see you know where we have on here some really dark spots if you guys have any questions let me know i i am continuing to look up at the camera if it seems like i'm kind of getting lost a little bit it's because i keep stopping and kind of looking at the camera that's pretty nice huh what do you think the other thing we can do is i have this little bird here that was in my photo and i think i want to use the same color because this is completely dry up here now so i can just put this paint on here thank you and it's not going to go anywhere and i think i just want a hint of the bird i don't really necessarily want the whole bird maybe just like one wing thank you have you guys noticed with periscope there's some odd people on here and i don't just mean that the people commenting i love water color when i first started doing fine art and less crafty things i chose water color because it was easy and very portable and it's still my first love i'm going to also use this color i think to suggest some of the windows on some of the ships here and some of the shadows i think all right mate actually let's take i take that back let's take the color we have on here and let's mix it with some of our lunar blue that color better water color is really great medium to learn if you think you have control issues because with water color you have no control no control so it kind of it forces you to let go of those issues now the thing about this pointed filbert that's really nice is i can go in here like right here with these little windows and i can either lay it on its side because it's a flat brush and get a lot of coverage or i can just go in with a little point and some water and work in a tiny teeny tiny space and and push that paint around this is like a walkway between the ships i gotta do something about that let me do i'm gonna just deal with one thing at a time complete failure you know what i have some stuff that i've done that's complete failure but that's how you learn i think you learn the most sometimes from the stuff that is a failure don't be scared of painting and just trying and don't be scared of failing i failed plenty at painting yeah i did um water color is a great medium if you think you're the kind of person like i can be who tends to try to have way too much control over things that are really not controllable um water color might be a good medium for you to let go of some of that because with water color you don't have any control see i knew it good i could hear that in your voice over the periscope a fellow person who has control issues i have total control issues i think it comes with the whole having anxiety disorder thing so my therapist has told me people with anxiety disorder tend to be people who like to see things in black and white and calf control over things so i'll do that fits me into a tea so this is just black nothing special about this color it's just black and i'm using it to suggest my boat shapes i need some more water yeah see as soon as i say that people are all oh yeah that's true it is true unfortunately it's true so and i'm i'm going in here with the black this is black i don't always use black in my water color but sometimes it calls for black yeah see water doing watercolor can teach you a lot about your art and yourself i think i'm staying away from this part up here because i need to add some black up there but it is um or some black maybe mixed with blue or blue but it's wet and i don't want the black to go in the wrong place except i gotta drop the water in the wrong place that's not the first time that's happened now this is just water and this is the kind of painting that you shouldn't feel like despite the fact that you're using watercolor that you have to rush you know just take your time do a few layers enjoy the process i am using daniel smith watercolors which happens to be one of my favorite brands of watercolor love their paints they are made here in the united states in seattle i believe yeah they're fabulous paints and i don't generally get too political but i am all for buying supplies made here by american companies if we can any of you who follow me on social media no i don't normally get too political because and i tend to take people off my news feed who do just f y i but if i can do my small bit by supporting american companies i'm gonna do that so i'm not gonna you know blend out all my lines and if i get puddles in kind of a little bit of the wrong place i'm gonna just let it go i still need to work on this little walkway but that's just a few minutes of painting what do y'all think so daniel smith watercolor paints as well as other paints in their category are artist grade paints are more uh pigmented than normal paints and um these particular paints are made with pigments that other paints are not and they have some colors that nobody else has they also granulate really well and you get little you know textures of the paint in the paper um that has to um do with like like right here i love the way they look and they have some fabulous colors and they have a huge huge huge range of colors and they're readily available everywhere um and i saw that somebody asked me to post something will you explain explain what i'll be happy to explain let me know a little more about what you want me to explain they have complexity yeah that's a good word for it it's been a tough week week for me and it's going to be a tough week so i couldn't think of that word but yes they have a there's a lot of complexities to the paint and um the way they lay on the paper the way they stick in the texture of the paper um they use some um semi precious um oh okay good they um uh they use some semi precious um elements to pigment their paints um that nobody else uses um and they have this is my this these are the colors i own and daniel smith they have i think 238 colors or something um they have a color dot card that you can get that cost i think like $25 or $28 and you can get a set of every single one of their colors a little dot of actual paint um let's see if i have here's mine um i cut mine up and i put it in this little book that i made um but this is we'll show you it's a little dot of actual paint and you could actually make a painting from this it's enough to do like little atc cards or something and you can get this from danielsmith.com i got my daniel smith paints from a local art supply store in here in san jose called um university art i've also gotten some from dick blick and um palace art and office supply in santa cruz and lens art also in santa cruz a lot of places carry um daniel smith paints um you can order it directly directly from them um or i think jerry's artorama has them i think cheap jose has them i mean i think all the big companies have daniel smith paints what do i want to do now what part do i want to work on now i think we should put some masks in it'll start to look like a painting i need some i need a straight edge where's my ruler okay so we can get straight all right so i'm going to stick with um the black for now i think that we've been using i think i'll mix a little bit of the lunar blue in it just a little bit not too much okay this is one way of doing like straight lines and watercolor you could also go in here and you could um you could do the masks with ink pen if you wanted i pushed a little bit too hard on the paintbrush but that's okay i can live with that that's better yeah micron pens would work um pit pens would work if you have a carbon ink pen that would work i have a few of those which one i use really just depends on my mood honestly that's all i'm not again i'm not super worried about covering up my pencil lines because i'm going to leave them i'm not going to try to erase them and also remember that your paints can dry a lot lighter than it goes on um so you may find after it dries that you want to go back in here with um some of those pens anyway over a few of the lines to give them more of a suggestion of the shape that you're looking for yeah i loved their wet products they're some of my favorite they make some really great art products art supply products there's a lot of masks in the original photo i'm not going to draw them all in because honestly that would make me crazy i just want to give the suggestion of the mass a big droplet of water and the pencil lines will help do that it'll suggest more mass than i've actually drawn in here with the paint or the pencil if you take a watercolor class and you're painting buildings or architecture a lot of times they will use this technique with the ruler for some of your straight lines or a gift card or something like that i have a friend who is a retired fairly well-known pen and ink artist he'd be cringing because he'd be like your lines aren't perfectly straight and he'd be wanting me to go in here and pen and fix them but that's not the kind of art i do hey carol mitten was that you i just saw pop in control issues i totally have control issues hey the more stressed out i am more control issues i have oh yeah jim has he love him but yeah his name is jim cambell he does a lot of nautical and historical scenes he's been on three us postage stamps so he probably knows a little bit about what he's talking about he's just a different kind of artist than i am that's all i cannot do what he does with pen and ink with paint yeah you know yeah my phone goes off all the time now my husband's always now saying oh periscope periscope but sometimes it's um not art people it's kind of weirdos there's some funny things here put on periscope i think i'm resting my hand on the edge of the board so i can get my lines a little bit straighter yeah i keep getting periscope notifications about i've gotten a couple where i didn't watch the scope but the title of it was naked something and i was like what the heck why would that show up on my thing i don't know i know you right so i don't know i thought it was odd so i'm just drawing in a suggestion of my mass i'm not being too precise about it because this is a suggestion of the harbor i don't want it to be a realistic portrayal by any stretch yes uh yes i am my husband and i went to um half moon bay over the weekend and santa cruz it was a fabulous drive wasn't too hot out we ate some great clam chowder i spent some money at palazart an office supply that i probably shouldn't have spent because i really couldn't afford it but i did anyway that's pretty good i like that let's keep going so in the in the boat inspiration photo there is this crossbar here on this one ship that i'm pretty sure was a fishing ship it might have even been a commercial fishing ship i know nothing about boats and ships i tend to get seasick um i'm just copying the shapes that i'm seeing on that crossbar i don't fish yes i like to eat fish does that count okay so that's not bad that's getting there right oops so it's getting there so now i want to take um i need some brown let's see let's actually pull in some sepia thank you sepia is like a grayish brown color yeah this i like this kind of stormy gray oceany color palette obviously so this is sepia so this is like a grayish brown i'm going to use it here on the walkway there's a walkway here between these two ships and i'm still using that pointed filbert which is a brush that i love and this prinston brushes meant meant for use with um watercolor or acrylic by the way i love to buy these when they're um erin brothers art and framing which is owned by michaels will have um a few times a year they have buy one brush get two free and that's usually when i stock up when i need new paint brushes so that's a good color there i like that i want to add some of this to some of the boats too i think let's see i'm going to suggest shapes in the boat without actually drawing we're just being suggestive right erin brothers they are a little bit different from michaels they have i in my opinion they have um and this is just my opinion i think they have a better selection of fine art supplies although it's usually a much smaller store they're focused on framing and fine art um and i i prefer that so so i'm just going in here and i'm suggesting the shape of my boat with the sepia paint i've got some um masking fluid on here and i won't really know for sure if all those colors are in the right place until i pull it off that's okay and i do this another boat these boats are closer in that picture to the viewer that was probably too much sepia paint but maybe not because this boat this boat's pretty dark maybe because it's being overshadowed by that one i'm not sure although this one could use a darker spot up here just laying down some color then adding clean water and letting some of the lines bleed maybe not all of them but some i'm going to lift some of this right here because i think that's too dark no i'm not saving this for youtube i probably should have been well actually i shouldn't say that this is recording to my telephone and so i can actually pull that off my phone and post it on youtube which i don't normally do if you've been watching me on periscope but if you would like me to you guys let me know and i definitely can do that you won't see all the comments but you will see me painting so maybe that's something that you guys want me to do i can do that i did that with what video did i did that with recently and i added it to a video an extra video i filmed and you guys liked it so maybe that's something you guys do want me to do i need to go back to our neutral tint i can do that i can put it up on youtube and i'm going to add some of the lunar blue to the neutral tint and as i'm going across here i'm going to to work on our reflections in the water oh you're welcome i can get it up there no not a problem so i'm just i've got the neutral tint and some lunar blue here mixed together i off this big brush and i'm going to use the back end of it here to scratch into the paper just add a little bit at a time don't add too much because if you add too much and you get it in the wrong place you can't take it back but that's one of the fun things about working with watercolor and all of these scratchy lines will um the paint will stick in the line so it's just going to give you one more piece of um an interesting mark an interesting thing on your painting yeah right now what do you all think there's the painting here's the original photo yeah thank you i love this um harbor when we go to half moon bay you know like any other harbor it's kind of sticky it smells like dead fish but it's pretty and i don't think i've ever been there when it's super warm i think i've always missed missed um the warm days i am painting on 140 pound cold press watercolor paper which is my preference um i would love to paint on 300 pound but i can't afford 300 pound that is not in the budget i don't know about you guys that's really expensive um and i prefer cold press because i like the texture um i've tried um hot press which is very smooth it can be i usually buy my cold press when it's on sale so like when michaels has a sale on paper i usually get um go and stock up i i like fabriano paper again i wait until dick blick or somebody has it on sale and then i stock up when it's on sale because yeah i can be really pricey i do buy a lot of pads i don't always and i actually have quite a few of the really large sheets of fabriano paper um but most of what i do is pretty small and the pads are easier to get and they're easier to get on sale and when you're on a budget like we all are right then you need to do what you can afford and i'm just using the straight cpi i'm not mixing it with anything else right now i'm liking the way this is looking on here and even with my tubes of paint um when i first started collecting the fine finer quality artist paints um yeah we're all watching the pennies yeah i would just go in with you know my budget of $20 or whatever and i would get you know sometimes that would only buy two tubes of paint sometimes it only buy one tube of paint um and if i had a coupon i would use a coupon um some of your um fine art stores if you teach online um or you teach like at michael's like i was teaching at michael's and you can prove that you do they'll give you a like 20 discount um so you know i always go for all of those discounts so that i can get all of them some more cp uh i'd add a little bit of this kind of reddish color which is bloodstone which is a brown uh yeah yeah reddish brown first i'm going to grab some more cp uh so at some point when you're doing a painting like this and you're yes you're inspired by the photo that you took that doesn't mean you have to copy it exactly at some point you're going to do what's best for the painting and what's not necessarily in the photo and that's okay this is your painting what's the worst that can happen yeah well yeah exactly lessons and patience having a crafting budget isn't that the truth you know i wish it was one of these teachers um or artists that you know was in a gallery making a lot of money that would be wonderful it's not my reality so you know it is what it is and i'm happy to be painting and sharing with you all but yeah if we had to um eat based on what i made on youtube and everything yet we'd be starving so you just keep adding layers to your painting until you're happy that's really all this is about i'm trying to just make sure that i have all of my shadows in the same spot all the way across the painting trying to like refine my shapes as i go adding clear water where i want to be more suggestive and less literal about my shapes or where i've put paint in because that happens i like that so wherever you are wherever you go no matter the occasion just have your cell phone out to take some pictures and get yourself some artistic inspiration for your next painting or journal page you never know where the inspiration is going to come from next i always have some form of electronic device with me to take photos and stuff with even if it's just sometimes just my phone does anybody have any questions out there you guys got to remind me to talk because i'll just get to painting i'll forget to talk that wouldn't be the first time that happens i usually cut it out of youtube maybe i'll record i'll save the recording of this off my phone and maybe we'll make this a watercolor Wednesday more heart i love the hearts thank you so much okay i like that so far but i'm thinking it needs a pop of something so here's what we have so far and sometimes when you start painting you get to the point where you think oh what the heck did i do that's really ugly just keep working because every painting i've ever done has an ugly duckling stage or yeah it needs a pop of something right something warm to indicate the sun and i do i think that's going to happen next first i want to finish working with the shadows in the water over here because it does need a pop i totally agree with you so we've got our neutral tint add some water to it and then we're going to get our lunar blue that and we're going to start i'm going to start over here and i'm not going to go too far before i rinse my brush off again and i go back and add a little water to blur those lines just a little bit and get that paint to move just a little bit i also need to pull down some of these masks into the water because they'd be reflected in the water now again you can use um something sharp like the back of your paint brush or something else to drag some lines you don't necessarily need to do all of them you just need to do enough of them that you're giving a good representation of your reflections in the water if you want to learn more about expressive watercolors i really do recommend the gene hanes books or dvds um she's a really great expressive watercolorist she does an all she does all kinds of subject matter from nature and flowers to scenic views and people okay so now just tap on above the little person icon that's on the right of your screen and that will give you the um hearts you know i when i started this on camera i said i didn't think i was going to get it done today but you know what i think i maybe i lied i'm thinking i lied so now's about the time when i go in and add some dark darks light lights which we we kind of did already i haven't taken the masking fluid off yet we're gonna have to dry this before we do that all right so one thing i want to do thank you my husband's old blue jeans literally so i have some sepia here and i have some of this bloodstone color and i'm gonna go here into this mountain damn thing i think it was part of the man made harbor and i'm gonna just give it a little bit more interest by running this color sort of over over it here it was made out of earth and concrete so it's pretty good i think i want to go i need to go in with you know i think i want to go in with nickel azo yellow that's a color that you wouldn't normally see in this painting and it's not the photograph but okay so this is nickel azo yellow right here which is kind of a bright like greenish yellow i'm gonna say the sun is coming from this way so if that was true then this side of everything would have a warm reflection from the sun it wasn't really it was pretty actually a pretty dreary day so there actually wasn't too much sun that day i'm kind of giving it more light and life than it actually had that day because it was pretty overcast i'm gonna lift some if i get to feel like i have too much in there and you know on the paper i'm gonna add a little bit of it to the water just a little bit there we go and that gives the water some life look how that made that pop up right there and really just come to life right there so that's a really strong pigment so just put a little bit on it on your paper and then just get some clean water that's pretty good you know what i'm pretty happy with that let's um do a couple more things to it and then let's get that masking fluid off i want to give my bird a little bit of some dark color i think the bird just needs to have some black in it i keep trying to do it with a different color but i think it just needs some black yeah that's better all right let's dry it gotta do this carefully because i don't want to do anything weird to the masking board so anybody have any questions while i'm doing this it's pretty good okay i need my rubber cement eraser have you considered using a ranger heat tool um yes but i have this one so i don't feel the need to buy another one um there's nothing wrong with a ranger heat tool at all i understand it works very well i just didn't feel the need to have two of them if ranger sends me one i'll use it i don't think i'm on their radar but you know so now i'm just rubbing off the masking fluid that i had on here from earlier and that preserved some of the paper in its pristine white state and it gave me some extra lines to suggest some shapes that normally would be hard to preserve them in watercolor painting feels like there's a piece right there that's pretty good okay so i'm thinking that we need to do a little bit more that same yellow uh little bit of sepia that's not sepia oops sepia that was too much sepia need to frame and hang this one yeah right i need more i need a bigger house with more wall space is what i need all right i'm going to put because the sunlight is over here and the one thing that doesn't have any warmth on it from the sun is this um damn thing or so everything i do is always for sale or copies of it is so if you guys see if you see something you're interested in email me or contact me through facebook i have a lot of things listed in my etsy shop sometimes the original is not for sale because it was a gift for somebody um or it's just maybe it's something in my journal um but that doesn't mean i can't get you a copy of it my daughter's a photographer and she photographs almost everything i do so so this is the sepia mixed with a little bit of that yellow and now is the time that you can really you know lay in some of these dark colors and really give your piece some interest now the other thing you can do is you can do do the unexpected and add a cool color that suggests us shadow without actually being like black so i'll give you a for instance this is a color called moon glow by of course daniel smith it is one of the paints i bought this weekend because i'm running out it is this dark purpley gray color right here um etsy shop is my name gina b erin's if you don't see what you want in the shop of course just let me know and um contact me and i will um get it listed for you or we'll work something out privately so this is a dark purpley gray color and this color suggests shadow very nicely and it gives your painting a pop of the unexpected you're welcome i mean you know i have copies of things i have digital um prints i have my own line of rubber stamps i've got more canvases that i can shake a stick at they actually all need to find their forever home because they're i have no room to hang anything seriously so we're going to just go in to like the ships and we're going to use this violet violety gray color this blood uh moonstone to add some depth to our shadows that we have going on and it's just kind of a pop of the unexpected color that makes the painting look really interesting like the yellow is a warm color that suggests lightness and brightness and warmth the purpley violet color of the moonstone suggests coolness and shadow your cool colors generally speaking are like your blues and your violets and your some of your greens and your warm colors of your oranges and your reds and your pinks so whatever i do to one ship i just need to carry across the whole painting so that it goes all the way across and i might even put some into the water a little bit that looks pretty good i'm liking the way that looks i kind of like that i don't know if it really needs too much more i think what i want to do is mix up a color i missed that last comment whoever posted that posted again i like it too yeah i i just i don't know i don't know that it needs too much more i'm going to mix up a combination of the moonstone and the lunar blue let me um let me know if you guys have any questions or anything i encourage you to give this a try i think that you would like the process i know watercolor can be a little scary for people but don't be scared just give it a try what's the worst that could happen get yourself an inexpensive set of water colors to start you don't have to start out with the most expensive thing on the planet yeah see so if you start thinking of your colors this way um in shades of cool and warm instead of you know light and dark and you start thinking about what colors in that frame of mind that you can use to suggest your shapes you get a more interest whether you're working on a journal page or you're working on a painting you get a more interesting finished piece i think than you normally would and i think you guys will like the process a little better and whether you're working in paint or you're working with markers or you're working in collage if you kind of just keep those um thoughts in mind those color choices i think you'll be happier i got too much water right there you guys realize i should still be like doing my chores i do think we're almost done though this is looking really good i'm really happy with it and it might end up for sale in my s e shop or at least a copy of so look for it there soon probably in a matted and framed shape cut them out for it i'm just using kind of the leftover bits of paint that are on my palette and what i'm doing is i'm you know adding more shadows and highlights i'm also blending some of those um lines left by the masking fluid blending them in to the surrounding painting by just adding a few more marks and it makes them look more like they really do belong i'm loving painting with this paint brush i gotta tell you guys i love the fact that it has a really fine small tip on it that i can paint with or that i can just lay it down flat and cover a big area i like that i don't know i think it might be just about done what do you guys think you can't see the whole thing in the paint in the phone unless i do this so that sideways i'm sorry what do you all think i think it might just be about done purple and yellow who to thunk it yeah see i didn't think i'd get it done today but boy i'm happy with that all right so now what you do is you take a mug one of these you know sharp pointy sticky thing all right thank you i guess i could take it off here before i cut the folded edge off i gotta pull the rubber things out too i probably should wait till it dries completely but it's mostly dry to be honest with you one more now i don't always stretch paper because most of the time i work on a block and a block is glued on at least two sides but i don't always work on a block and i do have paper that's like in a pad or that's giant sheets and i want to be able to do paintings on that without it getting all warped and wrinkly which is why i got this paper stretcher you could use tape and tape the paper to a board i hate the tape the tape drives me crazy the tape is just i don't know i have problems with it this paper has been in here a while give me a little hard time hang on where's my sticky where's my pokey tool i like i like the stretcher board it's really easy to use to get the paper on here and it dries really really tight and flat it's just been on here a while and i don't have the grip today that my grip is not what it used to be since i had shoulder surgery so there we go so i have trouble getting stuff off of things like this sometimes okay and you don't want to bend it so you could cut it out and then pull these edges off but i'm thinking it would be easier to do it this way i should watch the ken brawling video he shows you how to get it off of here he makes it look so easy holy moly it's not as easy as they make you make it look there we go ha okay so now it's on so this is what the board looks like see the edges so you have to soak your paper for like 15 minutes then you wrap it around the board and use those rubber stops to put it on then you take your edges somebody just asked about the edges alrighty and your straight edge and your knife and you cut them off you could do a painting like this without taping it down or putting it on the board the thing is though that when you get the paper really wet it's gonna buckle and i never have good luck with getting the paper to lie flat again so then you just cut all these um edges off i could probably use my paper trimmer it might be easier oh somebody shared my video on twitter that was nice i didn't plan this i never plan these things am i supposed to plan them my cutting mat's a little bit sticky because i did collage friday and it i got glue stick on it and sarah whitney and ann who's on here right now they could both tell you i'm kind of bad about cleaning glue off on things all my scissors are sticky yeah see ann says yep my scissors drive them both crazy my scissors are all sticky so then you just go all the way around and you just remove all the funny edges and you would do this if you used um if you use tape i don't know what it's called i don't think it's called watercolor tape but it's the brown brown tape you use to stretch watercolor paper if you use the tape you you still have to cut it off you cut the tape tape to edges off and then these are trash and there you have it gum tape that's it gum tape so then you have it looks like this and it measures about nine and a half by about 13 and a half i like it i think it turned out really well i'm happy with that i think that's a framer what do you guys think now i still could if i wanted to touch up anything on here i could still do that i just wouldn't want to do a lot of it because now it would um it would buckle i am noticing though right here let's see what's that moon glow color i think right here though you don't want to do too much after you have taken it off your board because it's gonna get all funky and not funky in a good way but i would take it off the board before i decided if i wanted to put any um ink pen on here um i still don't know if i want to do that i think i might want to leave it with just the paint but i'm not sure goofy bone hey goofy bone yeah i like that i'm gonna stop messing with it now so there we have it i'm gonna turn it sideways because otherwise you guys will never get the whole thing in there there you go there's the painting finished painting and this is the inspiration photo that i took with my cell phone of half moon bay california i will try to post pictures of both on social media tonight sometime before the end of the day so you um you can look for them there um and when i do that i always post to twitter facebook instagram linkedin all those and i post in facebook on my personal page crazy island families page my group page which is a life of art and self expression and also um kelly donovan's page all things creative thank you i think that's it right now i should probably go try to get some chores done you guys let me know um what you want to see the next time i'm on um or what you want to see on youtube i will save this video footage and i'll post it up on um youtube um and if you see it are seeing it on youtube um know that if you have any questions comments or concerns all of my contact information in the description below all of my youtube videos and um those of you who don't watch me on youtube and are watching me right now on on periscope my youtube channel is my name gina b erin's and um if you have a product you'd like me to review or try again my contact information in the description below and don't forget the most important thing have a good day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and i'm glad you liked it it was a it was a last minute thing and i um you know like i said i didn't think i'd get this far with this painting to be honest with you but i am really pleased with the way it turned out you're welcome you're welcome so much and i hope you guys decide to watch some of these whether you're watching it on youtube or periscope and you decide to paint along with me um i'm thinking about doing a maybe like a google hangout where um you guys are all watching me um live in google hangout or i'm helping you paint or something like that so um i'm i'm mulling it over i'm not sure how to do it yet so i'm you know it's i'm think it's in the planning stages yay the biggest thing i can tell you is just try it just give it a try don't be afraid of having failures making mistakes i made plenty of them believe me i could show you some crap i've got piles of it um the best way to learn how to paint with any medium whether it's watercolor or acrylic or any just try it that's the best way to learn and there's some really great teachers out there um who you can learn a lot from some of them are free on youtube um sterling edwards is one um there there's so many of them um i can't even tell you some of the books that i was naming earlier um she's on there um hold on i can tell you let's see this is my um these are cds because i watch um learning cds like when we're on road trips so janet rogers you won't get all of her videos on youtube but you do get snippets of them um and she's really great to learn from and her husband steve rogers she does a lot of expressive florals he does a lot of landscapes and seascapes and cityscapes yep toy with a digit toy exactly that's exactly what you should do um sterling edwards see i have quite a few of his and then jean haynes you can see a little bit of hers sometimes on youtube too so search i do recommend getting their books or cds um to uh watch um i have to catch up on this i'm like way behind um especially if you do something like i do when you go on a lot of road trips i have actually a dvd player and i sit with it in my lap and watch it while we're on the road um or sometimes here on my work desk i'll sit with the dvd player and put headphones in so um you know definitely do that but just play play and just don't be afraid of making mistakes and um yeah paint mojo oh i would love to do paint mojo that would be so much fun um it's not in the budget right now but that is my dream for next year my husband and i are going to be our we've already got like four trips planned already uh we're going to be doing a lot more traveling and hopefully arting and traveling and meeting up with maybe some of you guys that would be fun so all right i'm going to get back to what i'm supposed to be doing today which is not being on periscope i have chores to do and i've got to go pick up the mail all right i will talk to you all later don't be afraid to um try this with inexpensive watercolors these is my daniel smith set but you can do this with anything i started with an inexpensive student grade talent set uh koi koi works well you guys know i like the koi set all right yeah i'm glad i ditched the chores too right this was more fun all right you guys all have a great day go out and do there and get some painting done get something creative done and express yourself all right talk to you later bye