 How are you? I'm trying to get the chat thing to work. Hey, Lisa. Hey, Eve. I'm going to move all these over here so I can put the iPad there so I can see what's going on. Alrighty. I don't know why I don't see a picture. You guys see a picture? Why I don't see a picture? Oh, whoops! Hold on. You guys see a picture? We don't need to hear that. I don't like hearing myself the first time. I'm good. I'm good. Things are starting to calm down around here. I know I say that, but oh, yay, yay. You know, I thought once the book got published that, you know, things would kind of calm down and get back to my normal. But there's still so much left to do for 2017 and I'm not done yet. Just, the book's just part of it. Hey, Amy. All right, so we are going to discuss the book and that's going to, you know, I'm sorry if you guys get sick of hearing about it, but I'm really proud of the project and it is my way of making some money to keep the YouTube channel going and, you know, keep myself in art supplies without digging into the family household budget. We have a student in college, so we can't really afford for me to do that. So anyway, so you can still get the printed spiral bound version of the book in my Etsy shop. The link is in the description below. This is printed on really nice thick card stock paper with a glossy vinyl cover and it's spiral bound so that you can fold it back on itself and it's meant to be colored in and written in. So this version is really nice paper and if you buy it from my Etsy shop, all of those copies come signed. Now this one's not signed because this is actually one of the proof copies, but all of the copies you buy directly from me that are spiral bound all are signed on the inside cover. That being said, there is currently the Kindle version of this up for sale at Amazon and that is already up and ready to go and you can go over to Amazon and you can download the Kindle version. If you don't have a Kindle, that's okay. They have an app for your desktop, your tablet, whatever smart device you have, and the Kindle apps work equally well on Apple devices as well as Android. Those of you who know who have a Kindle know that a Kindle is actually an Android device or uses Android software, but I also have the Kindle app on like my iPad and my smartphone and they work just fine. So you can get it over at Amazon. Just google my name if you don't want to bother with the link. You can just put Gina Aarons in the Amazon search box. The link will come up. I am working on an Amazon print on demand version of the book that you will be able to buy over there at Amazon and it'll be a little less expensive than getting this copy from me but the drawback is that the paper is not as nice. It's a nice paper but it's not as thick as this one and it's not going to be signed and it's going to be paperback so it's not going to be spiral bound but when I get my proof copies if I'm good with them I'm going to set the listing live and then I'm going to have a video showing the Amazon copy of the book what it looks like and what you can do with it to alter it a little bit to work for you. So that being said that's the spiel about the book. Can you tell I'm married to a New Yorker? Spiel. All right so before we get started we are going to grab the art guard. Hey Miko how are you? So you came just in time you didn't have to listen to me talk about the book again or I know there's a delay or maybe you are maybe you are listening to it I don't know. All right so we're going to put on our art guard as I've discussed before and I'm going to drill it into your brains. Some of your pigments and other art materials are toxic so you want to be sure to check to protect your hands and you want to use some sort of barrier cream if you are like me and you don't really care for wearing gloves and so I use Miser Newton art guard but there's a lot of them out there. Google barrier cream or if you are an Amazon shopper like me because for whatever reason you can't you know get out to the store there's a lot of reasons I don't go shopping a ton anymore not just financial ones health ones and we won't go into that this morning that's a long conversation but it's easier for me to go to Amazon so if you type in barrier cream or art guard or something like that then you can find it. Hang on one second now that I've greased my hands up somebody is texting me and it's a good friend and a fellow artist so you know I just can't type on my phone to begin with and then when my hands are greased up I really can't type. All right hey Sharon hey Dory how is everybody okay so we talked about the book we've put on our barrier cream so we are good to go so we are going to get started. I thought this morning you know we have been for a while um whatever we do on Monday then we try it in watercolor on Wednesday. Monday if you don't know is Monday with Dekowart we work with Dekowart products and acrylic paint so I thought today why don't we keep doing that so I don't know that I've ever ever done a Buddha face in watercolor. I don't think I have and if you don't know if you missed Monday's broadcast go back and watch it when you have a chance I painted this fabulousness on Monday she turned out so cute in Dekowart paints and I do have to tell you guys it looks like she's found her forever home like before we were even done with the broadcast I was getting emails from a particular person so it looks like we might be able to finalize the details today I have gone ahead and sealed her and she might be onto her forever home this week. Anyway I thought we would try something like that in watercolor. Hey Narda okay hey Cindy and FYI everybody everybody say hi to Cindy she's the one that was texting me asking me if I'm live so we're gonna just say hey Cindy by the way I'm live. All right so I thought we would use the Prima watercolor paints just because I have a nice variety of light and dark colors so let's get them wet and I'm going to so some of these metal pans I love these metal pans so these metal watercolor pans I love them they're great they're easy to clean they're not too big and bulky I love them and there's lots of mixing space but the inserts where your paints actually sit are not completely enameled they have bare metal so I'm having to kind of go back and catch up now with some of my paints and the ones where the insert is starting to rust it starts to rust really this is going to get wet so you would think they would enamel the whole thing but they don't and take all the paints out and then have my husband help me enamel them and then put the paints back so you want to get some spray enamel from the hardware store give it two good coats back side and front side and then put your paints in and I would recommend not doing it the way I did and I would do it before you put paints in these are from Jackson's art out of the UK it's the least even with shipping if you're in the US it's the least it's a place to get them all right so that's my little spiel about the tins at some point we may do a video I don't think I'll do it live on on these if I haven't already I don't know I don't know my brain is just all over the place this week but I have done a few where I've enameled the whole insert but it's a pain once they're set up like this to do that because you have to take all the paint paints out um this is not the right water bottle okay when I have I like my homemade pallets where I put the paints in versus a store-bought pan because when I do them I don't fill them all the way to the top and then you can use the eyedropper to like put water in and activate the paints these are like the one gripe I have about the cream of paints besides the fact that we don't know about lightfastness which would be my second gripe is they're so full which is great from a budget perspective but they're so full that if you try to do the dropper thing it's just going to run out the sides anyway so we're going to use our watercolor spray bottle which has oxal liquid in it which aids in the rewetting and flow of your watercolor paint is that enough of the normal spiels we should just like have a big text box before we get started or something and I have a bunch of my color keys I haven't laminated so I think that might be this week's project is to laminate a bunch of the color keys because I keep getting them wet it's not good for them okay so we got that wet set that over there open up our journal okay it's called ox gall liquid hold on that's not it that's not it there it is got it okay it's called ox gall liquid O X G A L L liquid this one is by Windsor and Newton but other brands do have it you only need three or four drops of this per cup of water and it aids in the rewetting and flow of your watercolor paints it does a great job and you wouldn't think this would make a big difference but it does make a big difference I especially noticed it with hard to rewet paints like the uh mission gold some of those are hard to rewet not mission gold sorry whole vine um and it made a big difference with them being able to um um rewet nicely and flow nicely on the page so I would definitely if you're going to get into watercolor I would just use a 20 you know 40 off coupon and um get a bottle of this this is from Hobby Lobby it was $12.99 I can guarantee you I used a coupon so I wouldn't buy at full price unless you have to oh now we have Ian everybody's asking are you live are you live hold on let's get Ian over here we need to say hi to Mr Ian and I typed try to type yes and it came out lira like honestly who does that might you know I'm a writer my spelling is atrocious though my grammar too that's why my head to be booked had to be edited so many times you can never find the link he always has trouble all right let's turn the book the right way it makes it that Lisa I agree with you it makes a really big difference and it's something Cindy that I didn't hear anybody talking about like nobody I've never heard anybody talking about it and I was googling um I was googling something and I found a you know random old blog somewhere and they talks about oxal liquid I'm like what the hell is that I need to find me some of that try it because I was having a heck of a time with the whole line watercolors once they dried in the pans rewetting them I can't type on a good day the phone is worse so let's find a blank page somewhere here we go okay so we have one two three four pages left and then this book is done and we'll be starting on a new journal and once we get this book filled up I will be doing a video of a journal flip probably to music all righty so now that we know what side we're working on we're gonna switch paints over there protect the painting that's on there with a sheet of deli paper oh yeah I want a bunch of thumbs up don't forget to like share and subscribe please and I'm gonna need a cough drop we need a lot more rain in California to get rid of the dust and pollen so that I don't have to like take my meds all the time okay so let's do a Buddha face in watercolor I think that would be fun I don't think I've ever done one well got all this random stuff like on my table that you guys can't see I didn't clean very well but that's right so first thing I'm going to do I think is get the page wet I've got a large flat brush this is a master's touch three inch flat brush and I'm just going to get the page wet right now we're going to go in with that triangle brush I'm loving that triangle brush and we're going to start because we're working with watercolor right so it's the opposite of how I did the face in acrylic I need to start light and work my way back to dark yeah if I had thought about it I probably would have taken a Zertec before we got started I've actually been taking my allergy meds and are using my rescue inhaler a lot lately all right let's start with the pastel set number 44 which is color seed dream and it's this really light pale blue green color and it's very I'm not even sure the color is going to show up on camera to be honest it's so light and pale I do like the pastel set because I like not having to just really water down the pigments to get the light colors that I want um because you know I'm the lazy crafters okay so number 46 which is pool party which is still kind of a bluish green color but it's darker I'm going to actually use the painting that I did the other day as reference it does sound like a movie rosemary's brushes rosemary's baby you know you know somebody's calling me from Seattle Washington but it's not a number my phone recognizes I can pretty much guarantee you it's probably a salesman you need to just stop calling I've blocked more numbers lately on my cell phone from sales people like it's just crazy you know I'm on the do not call list they call anyway I love this triangle brush because I can use it like a you know large round brush and kind of do washes with it but I can also it has a super fine point on it okay I like that so the interesting thing about this buda face is it's a study in um you know shades of cool jail I'm not afraid you know it's just me in the room talking to myself so um now I forgot what I was saying oh shades of cool so they're you know even on if you stick to like the cool or warm side of your color wheel some of those cool cool colors are warmer than the other colors so it's interesting to do a painting sticking to one group of colors and making that work it's a good challenge and um you look cool in shades um so um this is a good just something that's good to challenge yourself to try I think although like I said I've never done it in watercolor all right so now we're going to go with sticking to the pastel palette for the moment this is called lilac rain I need to move my water it's not in a good spot of course if you're not familiar with or comfortable with drawing any faces much less a buda face then um there's no reason why you can't take an inspiration photo and sort of use carbon paper tracing paper to trace the basic proportions onto your page before you get started I think personally that when you do get started budas are easier for a few different reasons I find their shape and usually facial expressions and positions interesting but also eyes closed or easier um and less stressful to do than eyes open I think these are my opinions you know somebody out there may disagree with me people often disagree with me that's totally okay no problem with that it does look a little ghostly right so remember when you're painting that all paintings have kind of a poopy icky ugly dougley stage I don't care who the artist is or what they tell you it's true for everybody and we're mixed media artists so when you get done if you feel like some of the features you know don't stand out for you as much as you would like them to then you can go in with you know watercolor pencils gel pen anything like that I'm going to put some of the colors I'm using in my face in the background this does a couple of things creates interest across the painting of course but also like if you keep the background of your painting similar color to the edge of your face if your proportions aren't exactly right it kind of disguises that yeah you know gail I you know yeah we've been getting AARP ones which is just irritates the crap out of my husband he doesn't like to think that he's old enough to sign up for AARP no these are the prima watercolors oh Indonesia welcome prima the prima watercolors they're fairly inexpensive they're um you know decent quality especially if you you know aren't you know really sure about the whole idea of watercolors to begin with you might want to start with something like the primas if nothing else the box that they come in is worth the price if you need reference photos for something like a Buddha face I've done so many of them now I don't do them with reference photos anymore but you can find them all over the internet I'd recommend starting with a site that allows for you to create artwork from their photos royalty free like paint my photo no they're not a sponsor all right so now I'm going to go with number am I going to go with it wait a minute I think I'm going to go with number 15 in the tropical set and right now this painting is very very wet so when I put these colors on there is going to be some amount of blending without me even trying and I'm okay with that I find that a challenge if that doesn't work for you you may want to dry your painting in between layers I'm happy birthday gail I missed where you posted that but I see somebody else did I talked about moving the water didn't I and then I didn't do anything about it hold on that's going to be better and don't forget to have a rag handy because you know if you get too much of one color in some place you can lift some or all of it up by just getting your rag or a clean wet brush or something into that paint and lifting it up I have the classics tropicals decadent pies and pastel dream scale and I like them very much I don't have the new metallics mostly it's because I have lots of other metallic watercolor paints and I really kind of talked myself out of getting them I don't really need them and you do get to the point with your art supply collection where unless something you know really new and super exciting comes out you just kind of go that's nice but I don't need it in my collection it's not going to serve me it's taken me a while to get to that point but you do get to that point now at some point I'm going to want to stop some of the blending and dry this a bit so that it doesn't continue to go everywhere I don't um I've never heard of them but there's a lot of brands out there that you know I've never heard of so I'm putting the water underneath the watercolor that I put down there and I'm putting it underneath the line because I want it to blend down I don't want it to blend up so the watercolor is going to take the easy path it's going to go where the water is so that's a way to kind of keep some control over your watercolor paints and also kind of a challenge at the same time is to control where they go to control the water and that takes some practice some days I'm better at it than others we're still using that what is it number 15 in the tropicals and I'm just using my colors and my lines to bring out the shape of my face now with watercolor of course we're not looking to cover up you have to leave some of those light colors in the dark space because um unless you want to go out back and add white acrylic paint or white gel and they're not cute so far I haven't heard of it either but there's a few um there's a few brands out there that are like regional brands around the world like the zeki frenzy and I know that's not pronounced right I'm gonna have to ask my aunt who speaks Italian you know how to pronounce that um um out there that are um I forgot what I was saying that are regional brands that you know I've never heard of I almost forgot the ear oops you never know uh Azalea I would try um you know I bet you there's at least one YouTube video about it if there's not I would be really surprised so I would um do a YouTube search I'm going to switch for now to a little bit smaller brush this is an eskoda number eight round this is still that blue color my paper is starting to dry a little bit but that's okay I'm ready for it to do that I've discovered um recently I switched from a pc-based computer system to an app all apple at least in my office and I discovered something we used to say google it now I'm going to tell you YouTube it YouTube is your friend and if you're stuck on how to do something there's probably a YouTube video so I would say put it in the YouTube search engine because it's probably out there all right I'm going to switch to number nine in the classics which is a nice dark purple oh thank you jillian all right and we're working our way darker right and I'm using the acrylic painting I did on Monday as a reference I'm not going to go too far with that purple color before I get back in here with the water and move it around and if I get like too much under her nose she looks like she's got boogers under her nose now we'll just get in there with some the rag all my girls and this was commented on on Monday have sort of a round face big lift look that's been true for a long time I don't know what my unconscious feeling about there are reasoning behind that is I just know that that makes me happy so that's what I've been painting for a long time somebody in the Monday broadcast said they're African looking she's not wrong um and again I don't know why um I just know that that's the kind of face that I seem to see that's my default face so you can see how this purple you know suddenly we have this purple in here and it starts to make a big difference with how the face looks yeah you got to be careful with YouTube sometimes the stuff that's on there is just yeah right now I am hooked on a UK TV show that's um their replays are on YouTube called nightmare neighbors next door holy cow it makes me so glad I have nice neighbors I have to tell you it's a pretty funny show though hey we bear creations hello all right so again we're not going to go too far before we get in here now your purples uh you know if you're doing a painting that's all on the cool side of your palette um and you're using like I am you know blues and purples your purples are going to be your warmer of the colors um the blues will be the cooler of the colors for the most part I kind of like this like crazy uh marks we got from the puddling of the paints over here oh good Azalea see I told you there is always it seems like I know with the Mac um there's always a YouTube video I'd save my butt with a new computer more often than not especially lately especially yesterday I should say it was a problem with some of our calendar printouts on the Facebook group I'd screwed up and because of the screw up I found a I found a mistake which so it was a happy accident but then I had to figure out how to fix it yeah it was a big deal oh I'm sorry Gail I hope that you're okay and that things are if not that things are better soon seems like a lot of people that we know in the art community right now are having health issues um and so I would urge you all to take good care of yourselves um I think you know most of us have already health issues which is why we do art and then if you guys are like me you know I have to make an effort to not only eat better but to go out and get exercise because I you know as artists we spend a lot of time on our butts at our desk um and or you know you have some sort of mobility issue so it's hard to go out and get some exercise and stay healthy um it's kind of a challenge but it's just so so so important even if all you can do is you know walk up and down the hallway if for whatever reason physical or mental you can't get out of house um do that at least get some steps in every day so like with acrylic um we're going to layer our watercolors um you just they layer a different way watercolor is transparent so you can see you know we're I'm just doing washes of color on top of each other so I can see all the other colors and marks underneath and that's one of the things I find that I really love about watercolor I'm working on it you know I gained weight when we were in Alaska and I'm having trouble getting it back off again um I had lost like 25 pounds before we left and then I gained it back so I'm working on it I figure even if I'm getting steps in because I'm at the grocery store that counts right not that I love grocery shopping but I have to do it today we're like out of stuff there's a house phone again it's probably probably the uh Red Cross they still want my blood she kind of looks like she has her mouth open um and that was kind of a happy accident I think I'm liking it so we're going to leave it every single Buddha face I do is different and um even if I'm using the same inspiration photo they're all they're hand done so every one is different oh thanks usually I do my buddhas in blues and greens um with yellow and orange and this one Monday I just decided to as we were painting I was using purple and blue and Cindy utter it's all her fault she said do a Buddha face and so I thought okay let's do one using purples because I don't usually do that that was a good challenge yeah just just do slowly um and do what you can and work your way up thank you yeah I don't I don't know why but I seem to like this kind of face shape it seems to be my thing I'm going to take some of the purple and add a bunch of water to it and now we're going to go with we're going to switch back to blue because I think we're going to go purple blue purple blue and I'm going to use number 36 oh wait I want to use 23 I think I want to use 23 from the tropicals which is similar to 36 but it's um I don't know grayer it's not as bright a color so when you have a painting you're doing and you're using all bright colors if you put a pop of something more neutral in there or and or black and white it makes the rest of the colors really pop out and this is the color we'll use for like the dark shadows don't any more um but I have there's reference photos all over the place um really what I'm using is the painting from monday's monday with deco art that I did um as my reference photo so I'm using this this a scota brush and I'm just I'm just it's just water on the brush and I'm just pulling this paint out around the nose carefully so I can create the suggestion of shadows without making her look like she's got boogers under her nose there's always um some part of the face that I struggle with sometimes it's the nose sometimes it's the lips varies every time um this is the painting that we did on monday there are a lot of Buddha photos on the internet um again go to paint my photos and just type in Buddha and you'll probably find one that appeals to you to use and really just use it for you know not only the suggestion of face shape but of for color and light and um you know but switch up the colors and do it you know in colors that make you happy I put all my I own four and I put them all in one box patty have so much fun you're gonna have so much fun and welcome how do you perish in the house people she's going to a retreat we can all be jealous now do you notice when I started adding this darker blue it's just really started to pop out now I'm not a realist painter in either acrylic or watercolor I am somebody who's more abstract and expressionistic with my painting that makes me happy so I don't go for you know perfect blending or any of that craziness but you may you may want to that may make you happy nothing wrong with that my sister younger sister she's more of a realist painter she has landscapes and things I'm not into that probably because it makes me frustrated because I can never get it I'm a closet perfectionist I guess it's not so much in the closet now and I can never get it perfect like I think I want it to be so it just makes me mad there's a couple colors in here like 23 from tropicals and 36 from decan implies they're similar but 36 is brighter and this and the 23 is grayer there is no exact duplicates 14 from tropicals is similar to 33 in decan implies if I was buying them separately I would probably just get one or the other but because they come in sets that's not the case but I I think it's a nice set to have you're going to have so much fun patty and when you get back you know we all want to see some jelly print videos because we miss jelly printing with patty that's how one of the first ways I discovered mixed media on youtube where jelly patty tolly parishes jelly printing videos there's a little secret nobody knows yeah I kind of am gale my secret's out but the person I'm most type a about and hardest on is myself is not anybody else it's just me so you know you're welcome azalea you know I have to tell you guys I one of the things I love about our our live broadcasts is that we not only talk about art but invariably you know we start helping each other out with health issues in the in the chat or physical or emotional and I love that about you guys you know Ian's here today and thankfully he probably doesn't have to listen to any menopause discussions but you know I love that we can talk about stuff like that but I'm glad that you're here doing it it's a lot of fun I have discovered and I don't know I guess it's because of the new iOS update that the if you have if you're watching in your youtube app and the picture gets keeps freezing on you try watching in your browser on your smart device instead of the app at least for me when I'm watching not only my own videos but other people's in the app there's a problem with it freezing just since the ios update you know for me painting budas is in itself as then meditative process normally when I'm not doing it on camera and I really like the process of it you know especially if I have to say so because I painted a lot of them I don't have to think about it too much I can just paint one although I haven't painted one in watercolor before so this is new but for me because it's not something I have to try to part at I can just do it and be happy with the process and there's something about that that's just very satisfying I've updated all my devices and that's fine and I like that well I like some things about the new iOS I don't like others we do have a friend who works for Apple and I keep telling my husband tell John he has to fix this he keeps saying honey he has no control over that like but he has to fix him anyway um one of the things they don't always do is the you know that people who write the apps always get advance notice about the changes this is here's a little apple tip they always get an advance notice from Apple about changes so they can be ready with their updates and not all of them do that and or they don't do it you know properly I don't know but Facebook is evidently one of them all right so now we're going to go in with number 20 in the tropicals which is this really dark one that looks like black on camera I think but it's a super dark purple it reminds me of dioxazine purple in acrylic paint and one of my gripes about Prima paints is none of them have names they all have numbers I hate that I like to know what they are I'm going to put a little bit of it down in a few places and then before it gets too far or too dry I'm going to come in with my wet brush yeah usually it's like the Facebook app that doesn't work right after an iOS update sometimes it's the um one of the other apps this time it seems to be YouTube so I don't know I also don't like the swipe the swiping to turn your Apple device on is different I told my husband he's got to tell John I don't like the swiping they need to turn it back the other way just I don't like it thanks I'm I'm I'm nutty in real life fast Cindy I'm nutty I'm forgetful um it's on a good day my memory is like swiss cheese uh it is part of the anxiety disorder my husband also thinks it's medication related which we will get into today but because it's a long story but so in places like underneath the nose you know just go really lightly with your brush um you don't want to make her look like you know she's got boogers it's not attractive this purple is a lot cooler then the other one because this one is towards the blue side and then and the other one was towards the red so I can use this one in the shadows yeah like share and subscribe to my channel please that would be great yeah I I and I have some I have fine tech and Daniel Smith metallics definitely you know this is not only great practice for doing faces but it's great practice for using doing something like a face in unusual colors you know it's a Buddha and generally even when you are working from a reference photo your reference photo is of a statue that's not in realistic colors to begin with so I think you all should give it a try yeah there is that gale some of some of their memory issues are not new my brain never shuts off even when I was working as a licensed dispensing optician yes I used to be one of those I made eyeglasses for living um I usually get so into my hobbies and profession that at some point my brain just doesn't shut off anymore and I would dream about um mathematical formulas and things uh for you know jobs I needed to do at work because yeah I'm not I'm just that crazy but the medication and the anxiety disorder doesn't help you make it worse it's a little bit of water to this so I like the blendy puddles but I want to make sure that there's you know that there isn't too many you know weird straight lines because it doesn't really go with the blendy puddle look I don't know what else to call it when you I like blendy puddle you know it's when you do things like put your phone in the refrigerator that you really start to question your sanity to be honest with you and yes I've done that so you know we only have one house phone anymore we've unplugged all of our house phones um because we just don't use them so there's no point in having them and um you know I had to go dig up the one house phone so I could call the cell phone to figure out where it was so I just want a little hint of a shadow under the nose for that you know little spaces above your upper lip that little crease I don't know what that's called and that purple was probably a little dark so we're gonna switch purples here I'm gonna go back to the warmer one here and here yeah my husband's theory is because I was over-medicated for my asthma for a long time uh and um it's a workmanship we won't get into it but um his theory is because I was so over-medicated that um it did something to my brain and or the anxiety disorder made it work yeah that's next on the list is sleep studies and brain scans and I'm dragging my feet about it that's the most I've said about that in a while I don't like where she's going I have to tell you all see if we can rewet this yeah Daniel Smith is one of those companies that when you get into one of their workshops or a free product demo they're really good about giving you samples and things um golden also does and you know you guys should check out your little mom-and-pop art supply stores and Fabriano is another one Fabriano will give you a whole bunch of paper now you can use paper towels for you know the lifting or you know we're not fancy here we call it blotting um I use reusable rags just because it's cheaper to be honest um and when I first started doing this painty crafty thing um I had those and I didn't have any paper towels so now we have his and her her's rags my husband has his art his shop rags out in the garage and I have these um you can email um or call some of the companies and they will send you samples um golden will um Sinelli will uh so I would recommend trying that but I know my one of my local arts and arts and craft supply stores Lens Art and Santa Cruz if you live in the Bay Area and you're going to Santa Cruz go to Lens Art they've been in business since I think 1969 and they have demos every month and they have all different companies there golden uh Sinelli a Fabriano and when you go to one of their demos you get samples um so I would definitely recommend that so now it's just a matter of um finishing her up so that she's to a point that I am satisfied I may add a little bit of a touch of something I want to do something with her hair is not exactly I'm going to get out one of my flat watercolor brushes this is a Princeton Neptune three-quarter inch flat oh yeah everybody should just sub to Patty Tolly Parish um um yeah if you haven't watched your channel you're really missing out um I love her live broadcast she does Ustream a lot which I like watching her on I can never comment I have this problem with commenting on Ustream Patty knows about it it's been going on for years no matter the settings that I change or who tries to help me um I still have a problem so I don't know I haven't tried with the apple yet though so maybe when you know next time Patty um does Ustream I'll have to try it on the apple see if that makes any difference I like that had to add some that dark purple to her hair I'm looking at her on camera to see if I like where she's going I think I need to add some more blue in here and we're gonna go with that 36 that brighter one I talked about and we're going to use the large flat brush on purpose because I have a little bit less control with it um and I don't want to get my painting too tight and wound up oh good Kathy oh I'm so glad that you like the book um so far the reviews have all been good I do dread the day I get a bad one but it's recently listed on Amazon Kindle and I'm working on an Amazon print version those of course won't be signed but you can still get to sign one in my Etsy shop yeah golden usually gives out really nice samples um I um got some really nice samples from them in the past um and I do advocate you know um using your you know um shopping at your local small mom and pop art supply shop or scrapbook you shop um and um giving them some of your business yeah for Kindle so I did it on Kindle now you know when you're buying the Kindle or a digital copy of my book you can't draw it obviously because it's on a Kindle but you know it might be a way if you're the kind of person that you know for a long time I had trouble I love books so I had trouble drawing in any book um maybe you'd rather have a copy of it with you that you can take around you know traveling or whatever and you're just going to do the exercises in a notebook and that's fine or maybe you're just like me and you have a lot of books and you don't have room for one more book in your stash hello there's a reason I have a Kindle I like where she's going and I think I'm just about ready to stop what do you all think I kind of dread stopping because that means I have to go to the art supply store I mean a grocery store uh yeah 8B is really dark but it's a nice drawing pencil to have in your stash um I have a PDF available I actually just um um deactivated that listing on Etsy but if you because because nobody was buying it but if you all are interested in getting the PDF version I can reactivate the listing the file is large so what happens with the PDF version is that you pay for it and then within 24 hours I send you a copy um if the file is too big for Etsy you all let me know either way it's fine I do have a secure PDF though remember with Kindle you can get the Kindle app for your computer your smart device uh the Kindle app is of course developed for the Kindle which is an android but it also works equally well on Apple products I know because I have the Kindle app on whole products that's all we do she's starting to get a little cool isn't she Ian so let's do the number nine which is the red purple this is the red purple actually we haven't done what I did with the acrylic one yet maybe I'll take that back so with the acrylic one what I did at the end is I added pink um so I'm going to do that now and I'm going to use number two from the classics which is a bright pink I don't remember what EPUB is right now my brain is kind of on overload from the whole Amazon time it is available in Amazon in a Kindle which is uh Moby and I can I do have a PDF again you so the PDF you could read with your Adobe Acrobat Reader the Kindle version you can get that Kindle app on your smart device or your computer and you can read it that way yeah EPUB is like the new way like PDF is like the old way but I was when I was building when I was writing the book I was doing it on my old PC and um honestly didn't really know what I was doing be perfectly blunt um I learned as I went it was a tough learning process let me tell you um steep learning curve uh so it got written as a PDF there's probably a way out there to convert it to an EPUB I don't know what that is but anyway I have the PDF version if you guys want it I can reactivate that listing when I'm done here in format so adding the pink to this or like when I did the acrylic version I added neon neon pink um that is a color that just gives it a pop even when I do the ones in blue and green the color I usually the pop color I usually use is yellow or orange or both um and they give your Buddha face a really nice bright pop and jolt make make it warmer and I have something that we're going to try here because I did pull them out to try and I thought it would be interesting yeah the pink looks good okay so we're gonna let's dry this i'm gonna take the paint some put them over here somewhere every surface in my office has stuff on all right you just want to get the shine off of the paint lift your page up and look for the wet spots I would like to tell you guys that I never dry my paintings like this unless I'm on camera that's not true that would be a lie so I'm not gonna say that because it would not be true so we're kind of um not kind of sorry I'm reading a couple different comments so we're mixed media artists that means we get to break the rules and we don't have to listen to the watercolor purists that say that you only have to do things can do things one way that's a bunch of hooey so this is a sharpie pen the stainless steel sharpie pen which you all know if you've been watching me for a while that I love it has a super fine line um it is waterproof so if I did this before I did the painting it's not going to go anywhere um I could also use my pilot varsity disposable fountain pen and that would bleed and maybe do something interesting and I might have to try that on a different one but I'm going to just put this on a couple key places here to emphasize a few lines and I'm being really loose and sketchy about it and if my lines aren't perfect I'm not I'm not really worrying about it yeah so yeah it'll work on your ipad Gail um I have the Kindle app on my smart my iphone my ipad air um my mac desktop I had it on my pc when I still had a pc um and all of those Kindle app uh works on all of those and you can read the book on all of those all right so I love these these are Bible gel highlighters um these are intended for people who do Bible journaling which I don't but I love them look at the bright colors um so let's start with a pink one I love these things they're so cool now I got these at amazon they do have them at my local um Christian bookstore um but they never seem to have the colors I want to be really honest with you they always seem to only have like yellow and green and you know we had the discussion about me having trouble getting out so it's easier for me most of the time to just order stuff and it's not because I'm afraid to get out it's because I can't breathe at the store too much perfume and cleaning supplies now let's have a purple one and I think in another set I might have a blue one and these are just they're like soft like gel crayons now the one thing I will say about these um that's true um with any neon whether it's a paint or it is um one of these gel crayons they don't scan well so if you create a piece of artwork you want to reproduce in print form you need to photograph it because it won't really scan very well um the color doesn't pop the way you are going to want it to I can put a print of her in my Etsy shop now gail I will tell you that um the pdf version is a secure version and I don't think you can print it but that's what you're thinking you could also if you have chalk pastels or something like that or even oil pastels you could do this to your painting and adjust the shadows in your painting um and add another dimension to it um with those materials after your paint is dry or after you've dried your paint she's looking pretty spiffy you could probably also do this with like um you know gelados or something like that too I like these these are fabulous so there we go yeah that's the other way that I would try it with like the halo scanner mouse it's probably the one way you're going to be able to scan her and have it be the most accurate as far as color is concerned with the halo scanner mouse if you use a standard scanner the neon colors won't scan guess how I found that out I haven't tried it with a scanner mouse yet but then I haven't plugged my scanner mouse into the new computer yet either so it's great it's just like a regular mouse and you open up the program and with the program open you run the mouse over your picture back and forth from one end to the other and it scans the work in pieces and puts it all together and it's fabulous yeah look at um it's yeah halo scanner mouse look on um amazon I think that's where I got mine and I don't think mine was 80 but it wasn't 30 either I don't remember and it does work with pc or mac I just haven't plugged it in yet you could also take a you know white gel pen or something if you wanted to add some you know highlights but now I put that um I will gel pen it on here it doesn't want to it doesn't want to write very well so sorry it doesn't really need it anyway thank you yeah see so here's the original one we did on Monday and they're not exactly they are like nardis said they're sisters and yeah she found her forever home like right away don't forget that any of the paintings I do that are loose like this not in my book um our first sale I don't have any room in my house anymore to hang literally to hang up any more canvas they're in piles and corners literally um and um I can take one off the wall so if you guys have seen me in the past paint something that you like send me an email and I will um let you know how big it is and we'll talk about how much um it would cost to ship and all of that stuff we always discuss that first before I decide how much I'm going to charge you for the painting because sometimes the shipping is really expensive and I'm not a famous painter so you know I don't charge you know 300 for a little small painting I don't do that it is a big gallery you guys have seen like pictures of my dining room it's just you know literally in some places floor to ceiling canvas thank god for command strips otherwise my walls would have a lot of holes in them and my husband would be mad all right that's it I think for today um if you guys have any idea of what you would like to see next week let me know um if there's something I'm supposed to do oh the pdf I will um I almost forgot see it's only been like five minutes excuse me I will um reactivate the pdf uh listing for the ebook in my Etsy shop um give me like five or ten minutes and um um I will um and you can buy it there but yeah it's not printable and it's not editable um you have if you're going to sell a pdf copy of something like that you have to have it be a secure copy I had to learn adobe acrobat pro um to do the whole book so fyi if you want to write a book and you want to know about what not to do send me an email I'll send you an email holy cow um and I will reactivate the um what you can get it of course in kindle on all of your devices um like I said already so anyway don't forget the most important thing go out and have a good day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it gail if you want to wait for the amazon copy which will be a little cheaper and then the spiral bound copy the paper thinner though so you're going to have to be more careful about doing the work on the parts where you're supposed to write or draw then in this copy because more of your materials are going to bleed through the paper um but if you want to wait for that one um you have to give me until next week if you want one of these that's signed those I have in stock go into the etsy shop and um yeah buy one and I'll sign it for you and send it and you get it you know you get a postcard and usually you know nice fancy tissue and when you get it sent for me if you get the one from amazon you're just going to get the book in a cardboard box that's it all right everybody have a great day look at your local art supply store see if they have any upcoming demos um you're going to get free um sample supplies from them that way um I know mine um right now is having one of the oil manufacturers are coming out this month and next month I think it's golden when you go to the golden ones they give you paint samples medium samples like gel medium and stuff like that so go um shop at your local art supply stores but also check to see if they have demos and see if you get some free products you can also if you can't get out of the house if you're like me and it's difficult write some of these companies look up your favorite companies of products that you maybe use in your stash of stuff or ones that you would like to use and see if they'll send you some stuff all right that's it for today everybody have a great day I'm going to try and see if I can turn the camera off properly this time not like last not like Monday all right bye guys