 Oh, two of you are here. I guess it's working now. Let me find myself. Hang on. I'm across the room at my desk, so I'm seeing myself. I guess that's a good sign. Holy cow. Hmm, okay. I think it's sticking. It doesn't look like we're going to get another network error. Oh, Josie found us. Yay. We'll see. Wait, give everybody a chance to catch up. I don't know what the deal is. I had the same trouble on Monday, but I caught it earlier than I did today. Hi. So I don't know if it's my computer or YouTube. I have no idea. As soon as the broadcast is over, I'm going to be doing some googling. Unfortunately, I know just enough about computers to get me in big trouble, so yeah, I don't know. We'll find out, I guess, or I'll find out. And I'm not prepared because I was trying to work with the computer. You found me. Yay. And it's working, and we're not getting a network error. Yay. So I don't know if it's my computer or the internet connection. Hey, AG2 fan. Hey. It might be AT&T. I have AT&T. They suck. All right. So today, I was, as you all, some of you know, I am in the Facebook group that was called World Watercolor Month. Now it's just World Watercolor Club, I think. And a lot of people post some really great artwork. Somebody posted a picture of an elephant. And I really liked the way they did it, and it kind of inspired me to do one, and to do it maybe if we, if I can, managed to pull it off. Gene Haynes style. So I printed these two elephant photos from Paint My Photo. So if you do pnp-art.com, that's the Paint My Photos website. Yeah, if you guys could help out Miko, Fo Show, and that would be great. Those of you who are watching the right broadcast. And if you're in the old broadcast and there's people over there that are looking for me, send them over here. So anyway, so we have AT&T, and I don't know if the network issues are AT&T related or computer related, but I'll be doing some googling. And I, yeah, it'll be interesting because I don't know that much about computers. I might have to hit up some of my local peeps who do know about computers. But anyway, so if you go to pnp-art.com, that's the Paint My Photo website. For the most part, they're royalty-free photos that you're allowed to use as inspiration for paintings and artwork. And I chose these two elephant pictures because again, I'm inspired by the one that I saw on World Watercolor Month. And we're going to work on one of those kind of hopefully Gene Haynes style. So we're going to work in our, before we flip through the quick journal flip, let's get these wet. We're going to work with our Daniel Smith paints in our watercolor journal. This is again our watercolor spray bottle that has some Oxgall liquid in it that'll aid in the rewetting and flow of the watercolor paints. Recently, I've been watching lots of videos on setting up palettes and painting from tubes or painting from cakes. And one of the YouTubers that I saw said that watercolor paint squeezed out of the tube and let dry like this and rewet doesn't work well and that you you should really work from the tube fresh. There's a lot of controversial opinions about that. I disagree with that. Daniel Smith is on their website. They advocate doing this. So I would say when it comes to any art or medium that I would encourage you to form your own and the reason I'm mentioning this is for this reason. I want to encourage you to form your own opinions. This is in my way. See, I'm all discombobulated because of the computer issue. Okay, I would encourage you guys. I'm still having problems. I have no idea how long this broadcast is going to last. There is network errors and I don't know if it's my computer or it's actually the internet connection. I have no idea. I have no idea. It's the weirdest thing on the planet. I'm back. Yeah. All right. So anyway, this is the kind of style that I was thinking to do the elephant in and if for some reason we lose the live broadcast wherever we're at with this process, rest assured that I'm going to stop and I'll turn on my HD video camera and I'll tape it. Okay, I'm going to say that right off the bat. I don't know what's up with the internet connection today. I have no idea. Okay, so but we're going to I want to do something in this style. I want to do an elephant. So anyway, so I was watching a lot of watercolor videos and she said that she didn't like working from the tubes that it's not really good for the paint that they don't really last. I disagree with that and I like working from dried paint. She likes the tubes. She doesn't she said it's not good for the paint to let it dry out. I disagree with that so but you need to form your own opinion. This is what the one we did last week. I'm hoping this sticks but again if it doesn't um hit refresh toy. Yeah, I prefer the dry paint. Now again, I'm going to say it one more time. If something happens to our broadcast again, I'm going to turn on the HD video camera wherever we're at and I will um yeah exactly rainbow. You don't have to use one that doesn't rewet well. There's enough brands out there that do rewet really well. Daniel Smith is one of them and anyway, you should form your own opinions. Okay, so wherever we're at in this process, if we have any more network issues, I'm going to be stopping and I'll I'll hook up my HD video camera and we'll finish the elephant that way and hopefully we don't have any more problems but I'm not going to guarantee anything. The internet is acting really funny this morning. Okay, I've got the book turned just a little bit just to be more comfortable for me and I'm going to use my inspiration photos again from paint my photo to sketch out the shapes of the elephant that I'm seeing. I wish one of you knew more about uh knew something about computers and or live closer because I don't know if it's the internet or if it's my computer. So, I'm just drawing some loose guidelines and you probably can barely see me with um see it. Let's see. That might be a little bit better. I'm afraid to mess with this but if you click on the on the if you click on the broadcast and three little dots will come up in the upper right corner. Click on them. Oops and then click on the little gear that says quality and click on 720p. It'll greatly increase your picture quality. Yeah, I don't know if it's bandwidth which doesn't make sense because I'm the only one home. We're supposed to have high speed internet but like Lisa Swank can attest. We have AT&T and similar to Comcast they suck. Okay, so I'm just sketching out my elephant shape just some loose quick sketchy guidelines. Okay, so we've got our our quick but I want to keep it loose, right? So, I'm going to start out with getting my page wet in some kind of random places and now it's time to decide what colors kind of colors I want to do my elephant in and I don't want to do realistic. I think I want to do express I know I want to do expressive and I want to do like teal and purple and those kind of things. I'm not going to do gray and I think for the color pop of color to suggest sunlight and warmth that I am going to use let's see new gambos and if those of you who don't know Lisa is one of the newest members of my team over in the a life of art and self-expression Facebook group and she's also the team member for Cindy Utter's group artsy endeavors. She is our welcome and birthday ambassador so I'm going to start out with some splatters and drips and think Lisa thanks for keeping everybody updated. I get too discombobulated when this kind of thing happens and see I didn't even unplug the heat gun and we're going to need that at some point today you know we will so let's get that unplugged before we get too far. Okay, wow. Now in this particular case because we're doing something that's gene hand style while I want to keep my colors mostly ones that blend well together if I get some that kind of create mud I'm not too worried about it she doesn't really stop and dry anything and I think that I'm not necessarily too worried either. I'm going to go to a large round brush this is a royal watercolor brush number 16 round and I am going to grab this teal-y color that's actually on my palette from something else it's probably cobalt teal that's what it looks like it could be a mixture of cobalt teal and teal and phthalo turquoise yeah and yeah so we have AT&T so yeah so you're all on board that Comcast isn't necessarily a whole bunch better but yeah AT&T is terrible and they have a you know they have a monopoly on the whole thing so so I'm going to put this teal in the shadows and then I'm going to add some water I'm going to just let it you know it's kind of kind of drip and flow where it may this is about suggesting your shape not necessarily painting it realistically I'm going to put it over here I'm going to put it a little bit away from my pencil line because I don't want it to blend too far into this part of the head and I'm going to get a green color because it's going to blend with a yellow which is wet but I'm okay with that so you know it's the opposite of like the painting that we did on Monday where you can start off with dark with black and you can work your way lighter because it's acrylic paint and you can just you can go over your drips and splatters and correct color correct where you've gotten things too dark or too light very easily with water color you can't do that um you could go over it with acrylic paint or gouache but if you really want to get used to using watercolor then you have to know it's transparent and you know if you're using a fine artist grade it's probably staining um some of them are more staining than others and so see I didn't get to that quick enough you really have to work with whatever happens which can be challenging so you can already kind of see the elephant coming out there can't you so I right here his tusk got yellow which is okay I guess but I think I want to get it lighter so I'm going to go in there with just water and then I'm going to lift some of the yellow paint some brands lift easier than others and I'm not sure if it's because of the pigments they use I know some of the ones that are like dye-based um I'm assuming because they're dye-based they don't lift very well I don't know that much about paint chemistry to be able to tell you exactly I want to go in I'm really getting the feeling that I want to go in with some quedocratone gold look at my paint thing it's all messy let's see I'm gonna get out a separate plate because my palette on my um my mixing tray on the on the kit here's all but I don't want to wipe that off because that's paint that we might want to use today all right so this is a darker warm color so I'm gonna I'm gonna use this to suggest warm shadows if that makes sense ah the artist in the Facebook group see I don't remember um the artist who I'm trying to do her style her name is Jean Haynes there was an artist in the watercolor group that did an elephant that she inspired me to try one I've been thinking about it for a long time she kind of reminded me oh yeah I wanted to do an elephant the artist's style I really admire that we're we're working on um doing something in that style her name is Jean Haynes and she really spends lots of time suggesting her shapes with color and she does a lot of work with warm and cool colors she's fabulous I can't recommend her enough the first book of hers I ever got was color and light and um there are two versions of that book the newer version has um more in it uh than the old version um but you can't go wrong with either one and hello after the crazy morning we've had trying to get online I'm glad everybody's finally found me so I'm using this darker warm color for the shadows and the wrinkles you know in the elephants um trunk so Jean Jean is really about using color and putting the color in the right place and uh really working with the drips hey Joe Jean G E A N Haynes H A I N E S she has a number of books I would recommend color and light as a starter book it's a really great book she has an older version which might be a little less expensive than the newer one the newer one um has more in it but they're both very good the newer one has the same things as the old one in it but it's got a little more than that I think it's H A I N E S not H A Y I don't think there's a Y that's it she's a wonderful artist well at least the broadcast is sticking yay okay I'm going to grab a cough drop because I'm all icky okay so now before I do any drying I think I want to go in here with the darker color and by darker I mean cooler I don't mean it may actually be darker a darker tone but I mean cooler and I think I'm going to use this violet that's on my palette and again I'm using the paint my photo pictures as a guide I'm touching barely touching the tip of my brush to the paper barely barely I'm getting only a little bit of um paint on here and then I'm going to come back with some water she's very expressive I love her style she's just fabulous I'm not going to get too far ahead of myself and I'm going to do you know one section at a time I'm going to try to leave the tusks as white as and pristine as possible but you all know if you've been watching me for a while that I sometimes have problems with that let's see you know it's just practice I just started out doing watercolor doodles really on drawing paper no less and I still have some of them there you know the paper was absolutely horrible yeah paints gray is a fabulous color and we haven't added that yet we probably will this is violet this is a violet color this is just something that was on my palette it's probably quedocratum purple mixed with a little bit of paints gray because that's what it looks like to me okay so we need to put start to put the suggestion of an eye in so I'm gonna do that here I am just copying the shapes that I see again on the paint my photo picture put a little bit of paint this is a number 16 round okay I love the way that turn is coming out so now I'm going to go to the other I'm mostly by the way looking at this photo on from paint my photos rather than this one I'm mostly looking at this one and I'm okay with just working with whatever happens with the violet mixing with the yellow it's going to turn sort of a grayish brown I'm okay with that and I'm using this violet to further accentuate the shadows in our elephant and to you know suggest the shape and give it some interest rather than painting it literally and realistically because that doesn't make me happy put some down here and we're gonna not go too far before we get some water in here because we're about suggestive marks and not literal ones right and this is a female elephant by the way that's what the picture said on paint my photo so for that reason we'll start to refer to her as a she and she is looking fabulous at least the network error stopped yay holy cow all right so let's finish with the violet right going down here now Jean is really you know an advocate of not only using your warm and cool colors but you know she uses things like violet for her shadow color and she uses quote awkward on gold for the you know warm color and her lessons in her books are fabulous now I just grabbed a little bit more the violet and I'm going to put it here on this mixing part of my palette and I'm going to pull up a little bit of this paint's gray into it to gray it out just a little bit okay again I'm just barely barely touching the brush to the painting barely barely and I'm going to come back in with some water I've been doing watercolor since about 2007 I grew up though painting and playing with all different kinds of mediums I had two ants that did a lot of babysitting while my parents were at work and they were both college art students so but most of that I think from what I remember was acrylic paint and markers and pencils let's say do this here this line is not quite right over here and while I want it to be suggestive I want it to be in proportion to what I'm seeing in the photo I get asked a lot about my anxiety disorder and there's a reason I'm going to bring that up so bear with me for a second um no I'm not medicated one of the reasons I'm not medicated and I'm able to not be medicated is because I do art uh art helps me deal with the stress and help healthy manner helps keep me from not going off the deep end so to speak and when things get stressful I do more art I'm looking at it in the monitor of the iPad which is where I watch my own broadcast and holy cow it's cute I got worried there for a second the screen froze so we're still with the violet and I'm just I'm using it but I'm I'm not blending it out as much with the water I'm using it you know straight um some of the paper is wet and it's going to it's going to you know blend by itself and I'll you know I'll it'll blur by itself but if it doesn't I'm going to leave those marks just remember to start with your again your lightest colors your lightest values uh warmest colors and then work your way cooler you're going to frustrate the crap out of yourself if you try to do it a different way to be really honest and blood isn't she turning out great I love her okay you ready hey Lisa both Lisa's and Miko Yas Yasna uh Joe Ian all of you that I've kind of missed um those of you who got confused with the other broadcast if you don't know we have broadcasting issues to start off with this morning of course we did because I have AT&T and they suck all right so now where do we want to go with this I think I want to take a little bit of the teal-y color I've switched to a smaller brush this is a grumbacher round number five there are a few marks and shadows on the tusks now you know the tusks are usually you know not pristine they're used for protection I think on the elephants so they usually have some character wear right so I'm going to use this teal-y turquoise color to suggest the kind of shadows that I see in the photograph on the tusks okay so oh what is that it's a dark spot oh dark spot I don't know what that is I think it's a piece of pigment or something it's something hold on Ian and I'll I'll tell you I think that's a piece of watercolor paint I think it's a piece of Payton's gray paint that's okay we're gonna work with it that color would end up on there somewhere anyway um so you want to just suggest just enough structure to suggest your image and you want to let go of the notion that you have to outline everything here's one I did of my dog bandit I got the idea yeah the only thing that needs ivory is an elephant at least I agree with you so here's a sheep this is a direct lesson out of one of Jean's books she shows you how to do this sheep and you're really only doing enough structure in the piece to suggest the shape of the sheep you're not like outlining the whole thing in fact I'm probably doing too much outlining but this is a fabulous way to watercolor and it just takes practice I'm actually gonna switch I'm gonna stick with the little brush for just a second and I'm going to grab some Payton's gray um just to stick in here this is wet so it's going to bleed a little bit I'm going to make some of it bleed where it's not wanting to move that eyes a little bit wet let's dry it make them match I'm gonna um I just want to get the eyes in here and the eyes are the part that I want to be as Ian says structured so I'm gonna actually go in with some black on a small brush and I'm going to just roll some of it off so I have a nice pointy tip and this is dry right here now while I'm not going to you know draw it exactly I just I don't want the paint to go too far and I'm going to use the black because it's going to give a really strong dark pop oh I'll show the dog again hang on it was a portrait of my dog okay so right there if I stopped right there you would get the definite idea that's an elephant I'm not going to stop there but um where's the dog there you go his name is bandit okay so I'm going to switch back to the large brush which I have less control over so if I stick to a larger brush to kind of answer more of Ian's question I have less control over where the marks go and it forces me to define the shape with the cut placement of the color and not by drawing specific lines anywhere so I'm going to just mix a bunch of these dark bluish gray colors here that are on my palette and we're going to continue to like define our elephant I'm again I'm looking at the photo and I'm kind of you know defining with the photo where the different shapes are where the shadows are oh thanks if I get the color somewhere that I like the color placement but I don't like to mark the brush left then I go in and put some water I maybe would go in and lift some of it up with a rag or clean brush so that it's more suggestive and right there I like that mark so I'm going to leave that mark there's a kind of a shadow that comes this way yeah so it does you know I had a teacher once that did tell me that you know you need to know how to draw the form properly before you can mess with it and make it wonky she's not wrong so drawing drawing drawing and there's no there's no shortcut to that so I'm just I'm literally just kind of using up the the colors on my palette because there's blues and violets and gray and Payne's gray colors on here and those are the colors I want in the elephant so we're going to use those oh thank you so much I almost always start out with a basic drawing of the of the animal or the piece that I'm working on for me I find that that's easier and because I'm a mixed media artist kind of at heart I like having those kind of pencil marks and other suggestions of shape and form on there rather than just the paint yep you have to you have to really practice your drawing that's one of the reasons I started doing the daily doodles granted they're just doodles but it is still drawing practice so no matter what kind of drawing practice you do do something it's also not about covering the whole piece of paper with paint it's about suggesting the form with a little bit of paint in a few marks this kind of painting is great because if you can master it which I still don't consider myself a master by any stretch um this is the kind of painting that's really great to do like plain air and you take it out with you you know on vacation you can be sitting in the little cafe and do a quick painting because it's not totally not about perfection at all so as you make your shapes um darker and you add more to your shadows more not only more marks um but more definition more and not even more definition but you make them cooler then your piece really starts to pop out I gotta make sure I choose the right words I'm all discombobulated because of the computer issues this morning she is turning out cute I'm looking at her on the camera on the video so Ian one thing I can recommend is of course keep practicing I love charcoal because you can just smudge it around to play with your shadows easily it's a fabulous medium um if you want to take a class from somebody who teaches you drawing um look up Pauline Agnew uh she has a Faces and Figures course that's fabulous and she teaches you how to do Faces and Figures in charcoal uh pastel paint um in a very suggestive manner but she's fabulous all right so I think we've um done pretty well by our little girl here I don't think she's done and I like this kind of accidental granulation we got over here I wish I could figure out how I did that I can repeat it on the other side holy moly I'm just gonna some of the Daniel Smith paints granulate like this really easily um and stick in all the lumps and bumps of the paper and I I actually like that about the paint I'm looking at her on the video trying to decide where I want to go now she's looking pretty good though um I'm gonna add some moon glow moon glow is a Daniel Smith color it's a purple purplish gray color some water of course it's the one little pan that didn't get any water so as I was saying when we first started our broadcasters lots of watercolor artists out there that have different styles um and different opinions about things some of them as I was saying are of the opinion that two paints do not rewet well that's in my opinion not true of all brands um it's definitely true of some brands but you need to go out and need to form your own opinion I also would like to see you all experimenting with different styles of painting until you find the one that works for you um we're all different and that's you know the joy of art and painting and creating is discovering those differences so I want you all to do that see I'm not I'm not about messing with the lines if they don't get erased I'm good with that so this is again this is moon glow which is one of my favorite Daniel Smith colorators and I'm gonna further deepen some of our shadows paint my photo has a lot of really great photos on it of elephants so I would definitely recommend you guys go over there now Jean is not only about um using color to create your photos your paintings but marks um and you know expressive marks so as I continue on with the photo and hopefully stick my brush in the right color did you guys see I almost stuck it in the wrong color I'm going to um you know let some of the marks speak for themselves maybe not all of them but definitely some of them come back in with the water brush where I want the color to be there but maybe be more expressive and blendy using the paint my photo photo for reference I don't know she's looking pretty cute not bad for an hour long painting and if you're really having a hard time making expressive marks again start thinking about just like with the acrylic painting from painting with deco art on Monday um start thinking about going with a bigger brush maybe even using your non-dominant hand and play with just play with the light in the shadow and that's one of the things I like about Jean's books is she just really encourages you to play with light and shadow she's really cute this elephant this is not quite right up here so we're going to take some of our colors now Jean is a fan of using you know adding your white in not all water colorists like using white she's one that and she talks about that in her book we're going to use white we may even come in here with some water color I mean some acrylic paint but I don't know we'll see and the whites really subtle usually unless you get in here with a white gel pen or white acrylic paint it's usually pretty subtle I could of course dry this and then do the white paint but I don't want to I think she's pretty good I'm gonna I'm gonna leave her okay let's see so that's true and every and everybody paints differently so for me it's about moving around the marks and paint on the paper until I get something that I'm really happy with but everybody's different and that's the joy of art we can all be different she does enjoy some spontaneous um yeah splatter layers more even more than I do and drips like she loves like drips I like my elephant so I'm gonna stop because I like the where this is going actually I shouldn't say that I do think I want to do this and take some of the teal and then some water and do that yeah I like that thank you Lisa so despite the problems getting our broadcast started this morning we did get an elephant painted I think she's super cute I don't know about you guys um you could of course let this dry and then or forcibly dry it and then go in with gel pen acrylic paint um you know lots of other things we are basically most of us mixed media artists so don't be afraid to experiment with your different mediums and putting them together on a piece I'm just learning how to do digital painting and drawing in on my husband's ipad pro and uh yeah I'm really loving it but I am a very much a newbie so again we use Daniel Smith watercolor paint paints my preferred brand as you all know and these were the photos from paint my photo you can find the these photos if you just go to paint my photo if you're not logged in do that it's free and um just type in elephant these will come up and yeah no rules we're mixed media artists that means we don't have any rules to hell with the rules you can throw them out the window I do recommend you practice drawing and try really hard it's really difficult and I know what I know from experience it's much easier said than done thanks paint rank um to draw what you see not what you think you see just draw what you see yeah so I really like my you know my favorite colors are like blues and violets for the shadows and yellows and golds for the the highlights those are my that's you know my favorite color combination there's lots of other ones out there but again this is uh from one of the Jean Haynes books where's my sheep here we go this these both of these are from one of the Jean Haynes books and this is her now on this one you did the painting and then you put salt in the wet paint and let it dry and that's how you get this texture here um I didn't do that this morning because you have to really wait for it to dry you can't speed it up but it's just about suggesting a few lines and she doesn't even start it out with um um any pencil lines or nothing I mean it's just straight paint yeah it's got a nice warm tone I really like our elephant I'm very pleased with her I could see me doing more elephants and there was you know somebody like I said somebody on in the watercolor Facebook group that um did one and I was like oh yeah I always wanted to do an envelope let's I mean an envelope an elephant let's do one today all right that's it for today I am sorry about all the problems hopefully I can get them figured out and figure out if it's AT&T or my computer I have this feeling it might be AT&T um and uh that's it for today don't forget the most important thing you guys all know what that is by now right I hope go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later all right and there are no rules and if you paint an elephant I would love to see one if you're not in my Facebook group yet um the link should be in the description of the video and go over there and join I'll approve you uh or one of the admins will Lisa will and uh yeah Paula I'm sorry the video is there I don't know there's some issues with YouTube this morning um it will be the broadcast will be recorded um on my channel so you can watch it in the replay I don't know what's going on I'll try to figure it out before Monday all right that's it guys I'll talk to you later bye