 Hey guys, how are you today? We are here for art joy of sharing and for February and this month We're talking about water-based mediums and I love my watercolor paints if you've been watching my channel for any length of time You know that this is my favorite palette, which is my Daniel Smith palette. I love my watercolors They're my favorite water-based medium along with a few markers and crayons of which I have way too many I'm gonna just put that out there. I have some acrylic paint pens that are drying up, but that's a different subject I have this whole tray of sprays that I didn't even know I had some of which probably don't even work anymore a Sprays are nice and all and I do keep some around but They frequently like get clogged up. They're like the bane of my existence and most artists Feel the same way, you know, they're nice to have around but I find myself off more often than not Shaking the pigment up when it's settled and then just taking the top off and Just dripping it on things and using it that way and at some point. I think this year I'm doing something called project pan art supply style, which is a different video We're not gonna really talk about here, but at some point this year. I think I'm gonna have to use these up One of the things I wanted to take a look at is this box, which is crazy this box These are water-soluble crayons, mostly neo colors, but you can see I have some Dino wiggly scribble sticks. I've got some actually watercolor crayons. These are actual watercolors in a solid stick pigment These are probably my favorite because again, I love my watercolors I'm actually not a huge fan of the neo color twos So I think we're gonna play with these and we are going to see If I'm right in my assumption that the only ones I really want to keep are these and that the rest of them can go Maybe the Dino weight leaves, but I think the rest have to go. I think they have to go So we see so I'm gonna do some playing. I've got some scrap paper here. I Always am needing to make backgrounds and things What I want to see is how easy there they are to move around Because when I want to do that There's really only a couple colors of the neo colors that I ever use and if I keep any I may just keep those colors Like this dark purple, which I absolutely love this color But I like have every single color of neo color to crayon, which is stupid Don't do don't be me so We're gonna just take and the end so if you're gonna Invest in some watercolor or water-based mediums for your art Don't buy a whole set of something back when I first started I thought if you need a neo color, too, you had to buy the whole like line You don't need to do that find your local mom and pop art supply store They're the ones that are gonna have the neo color twos for instance You can just go buy one crayon or three crayons, whatever your budget will allow You don't have to buy the whole entire set Do that the same thing with like watercolor paints You don't have to buy a whole giant box of watercolor paints for God knows how much money You can just go buy one tube or two tubes your favorite colors the colors You think you're gonna use don't buy the whole set again. Don't be me. Okay, so this is These are all the neo colors and I don't know what color that is because it's way too small And I don't have my reading glasses on but it's a teally green color and this is a dark purple I think this is a black gray, dark brown something like that my problem with the neo color twos is always that They don't completely dissolve which drives me crazy. Okay. Here's a dino wakely media crayons. This is a their dark purple Let's see. Here's a similar oops That can't be good when the papers come out It's probably because it's old similar teally green and then We have Maybe this one like a dark grayish brown Okay, and then over here. These are Windsor Newton and Daniel Smith Actual watercolor their watercolors they're except it's a watercolor stick. So this is a dark purple and then Here's a teal It's cobalt teal and then Let's get a dark burnt umber, but you know, it would be so much easier with my glasses on. This is I don't know what this is. Oh, Prussian blue Widery black Windsor Newton Windsor green blue shade French ultramarine Lamp black moon glow Let's do Burnt umber So this one's Windsor Newton. These other ones are Daniel Smith And I have burnt umber and Daniel Smith too, and it looks like this So look how different the pigments are between the two I may even decide just to keep the Daniel Smith ones and like the dino wakely in a few neo colors So we'll see what happens. Let's get them wet now. Shall we? So this is your neo color. So with the Daniel Smith if I keep at it. It's going to completely dissolve With the neo color too, you can see that you always see the scratch marks And with the dino wakely it it works okay, but it's just not as pigmented But look at this. So if I keep at this that's nearly completely dissolved Okay, so here's this purple color And if I just like I said earlier if I decide to keep any neo colors This doesn't mean I need to keep the whole entire line of neo colors. What color that is Quedachron violet. This is the dark one. We'll bring this one this way This is the Windsor Newton one Which you can see is more like the Others where it doesn't completely dissolve Which might be okay in certain applications See I really I really like the Daniel Smith ones So I definitely want to keep those I think the Windsor Newton maybe has to go I think the dino wakely has to go and I think I'm just going to keep a few of the um neo colors in certain colors so Going forward for me in my art and my art Art supplies, I'm going to be doing more of this where I'm really looking at what I have Whether I bought it or was sent it in pr Do I really need to keep it? Do I really like it? If I don't like it? Why am I hanging on to it? I have just a lot of categories of this kind of product this month. It's going to be the water Soluble media and I want you to do the same thing. I want you to take a second look at what you have I mean, I could show you a art tutorial and how to you know, make a pretty watercolor painting I have some of those already on my channel but I want you to find which water soluble media you already have or Is out there that you really love and use that one I don't want you to collect every don't be me don't collect every single one on the planet And then because you think you have to have them all you don't have to have them all All right Okay, I'm going to edit this into the prior video clips somehow some way don't know exactly how yet Let me turn off the overhead light. There we go. So I Sad and went through more than just a few neo colors when we were on camera I went through a bunch of water soluble media crayon type things that I have in my stash I pick I didn't get rid of all of everything So for instance, they I'm getting rid of all of these neo colors I kept about a dozen crayons that are my favorite colors that I do use I most of these I've never used They've got to go. I don't need them clogging up my space clogging up my stash There's no way on the planet. I need this many colors I have a bunch of these other water soluble crayons. These are also water soluble and they're different ones some are recollections some are Sparkle gel crayons some are color peeps some are Rose art They work great too, but I have I again, I kept about a dozen. I don't need that many and I certainly don't need like five yellows The dino wake the media crayons we decided we talked about them. They're not my favorite the Daniel Smith watercolor sticks are totally my favorite. I love them There's nothing wrong with these or just not my favorite. They're not for me So they've got to go and the winds are newton watercolor sticks again, not my favorite So they've got to go too. I am going to be selling these I'll let you know in the description below whether they've sold or not if they haven't Make me an offer my email address is in the description below. I can't afford to just like these to just give them away anybody Google in or go into amazon and search neo color to water soluble crayons You'll see how much how expensive they are. They're expensive But I am willing to sell them and You can message me if you're interested and let me know and we can bargain we can discuss it and You know, I don't expect full retail. But yeah Anyway, um, don't be afraid to go through your supplies and get rid of Things that just don't serve anymore. That includes something that may be your favorite like for me water soluble media I love it my favorite is my Daniel Smith watercolors and I've got a few others that I love and I'm keeping those and the rest of it If I don't love it, it's not going to stay. There's no point in it clogging up my space All right, that's it for today. Go out and do those swatches Do those experiments try those materials and see what you like and you can use going forward in your art And what just has got to go because it's taking up too much room I know you're like me. I know there's something And I want you to go forward in I want you to let it go All right, that's it for today I have a lot of swatching and playing to do All right, don't forget to check out the video description for any relevant links go out and Try those materials if you want to do samples Here's one thought So if you don't have any watercolor paints and you're not sure if you're going to like them I know quarr which is by golden and daniel smith both have dot sample cards I know a lot of mom and pop art supply stores will have in the spring and summer They'll have demonstrations from the different art supply manufacturers and in those Demonstrations a lot of times they'll give free samples. So see if you can get yourself some samples to try some things Get together with some art friends. Maybe they have watercolors and they hate them But they love the dina wiggly crayons and you can't stand them. Maybe you can do a trade Something like that also keep your eyes out. Of course at your Thrift stores and your art salvage stores, which seem to be popping up all over the country All right, I am going to go through these and see which ones i'm keeping and which ones are going away And I will catch you all in the next video go out and have a great day everybody Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys