 How are you today? We are here with another my muse video for my creative year and I Don't know what to tell you except that if you follow me on social media You already know my muse is screaming at me to get back into my watercolor doing back to doing my daily drawings and painting eyeballs Why eyeballs? I have no idea. I don't know But again, if you've been following me on social media, you've seen this little journal It's a pentallic watercolor journal and I started painting eyeballs like literally. I wasn't getting eyeballs What I first did was I started collecting eyeballs from friends and family. I have pictures of eyeballs not the actual eyeball and I actually paint from a digital copy of the photo usually on my phone or iPad But in the back of this journal is going to be these little printouts of upset eyeballs Some I've painted some I haven't done yet and on the back it actually says the person's name whose eyeball this happens to be and Some day when somebody is looking at the journal it will be an interesting game to see if they can pick out Whose eyeball is whose from this stack? in the journal But I'm having fun painting the different ones and you wouldn't think that there would be that much different between them because how different Couldn't eyeball be but they're actually very different And I'm having a lot of fun doing them. I intended to do them all this way in more of a traditional manner or this way But then as I was started working in the journal I was reminded by some social media posts of an artist Debbie Weir and She does these sort of doodly At semi-obstructed faces and things and I love her work So I thought you know, I'm going to paint what the one eyeball more traditionally And then I'm going to do one Debbie Weir style and so I'm continuing to do that throughout the book I do the one person traditionally and then I do their eyeball crazy traditional crazy traditional crazy so I Am up to this one that I did So tonight later tonight. I've got to paint her crazy so It's fun focusing on a particular Thing whether it's a body part like eyeballs or it's flowers or Limiting your focus or limiting your materials and then seeing what you can do with that That's a lot of fun and I find it challenging I find it interesting and definitely my muse is screaming at me to keep doing that for a while So I'm going to I have this small journal with a couple clips to keep it open And then my art toolkit Watercolor kit, which is normally in my travel art case But I've been take it's easy for me to take downstairs. So I Have to replace this you're gonna say what the heck is that? It's a piece of a mr. Clean magic eraser It is really great for lifting up your watercolor paint if you get too much in the wrong spot Or you get too much water on there and it gets to be too too drippy so That is a really good thing to use and though there will be I've been asked about eyeball tutorials We will be doing that I Think later in the month. I'm not going to do it for the my muse video because it'd be too long of a video But definitely I think that we'll be doing that But if you already are playing with watercolors and you have a mr. Clean magic eraser in your stash cut a little piece off and Practice lifting your paint up with it because it really does work really well So I usually have a piece in my case. We've got to replace it because this one's past it I have a Some kind of spray bottle. This is actually from a Screen protection thing for my laptop I take that back. I think it's for my old Kindle But it's the same size as the mini mr. By Ranger so that would work too. I always have a piece of paper while I'm at least doing the eyeballs a piece of test paper to test The paint colors on when I'm mixing them in the watercolor palette I need something This works for me to have a little scrap of paper in here. So I do I Have my travel watercolor palette, which is a small pan And I've taken the insert out that's supposed to fit the watercolor pans so that I can get more colors in here These are mostly Koi, but there are a few Daniel Smith colors in here Yeah, that's only two brands that are in here Koi and Daniel Smith and this actually this this Selection of colors works really well for me not only for the eyeballs But when I'm traveling this is a selection of colors that I work that I use that work for me really well There is a tiny travel Windsor Newton paintbrush here. I don't use it that often, but when I am working and I need a small Something with a small tip. This is actually a really great brush Oops, I do not have my reading glasses on so that just fits right there. There's a sponge there I can wipe the brushes off on Mostly it's just filler to hold things in place You could use any bag for this. I haven't had this art toolkit bag, but there's a lot of bags out there I have a Couple different black pens one that's water soluble one. That's not this is a sharpie pen. This is a pilot varsity Fountain pen in black black paint pen a white Uniball Signo pen actually a couple of small brushes that don't need to be in here because I haven't been using them So we're gonna actually take those out There is a ruler for a straight edge a couple of extra binder clips and a piece of a gift card To scratch in the paint and these mini binder clips I really just use to hold that in place Underneath here. I have a rag Some wax paper This if you have to close your book and things are still wet this would come in handy a Needable eraser to erase the pencil should I decide to do that which I don't often this is an extra piece of wax paper a piece of plastic wrap now one of the techniques that you can do in Watercolor that we'll discuss at a later date But and I've shown before is when your watercolor paint is wet and really juicy scrunch up a piece of plastic wrap in And stick it onto the page and push it push it down wrinkles at all and let it dry Just let it dry naturally when it is dry pull this off and it's gonna leave an interesting pattern in your paint I also have some salt for the same reason while the paint is wet You can drop the salt in there and just let it dry naturally and when it's done Shake the salt off rub the salt off and it'll leave an interesting pattern And then of course the needable eraser in case I want to erase something Pencil sharpener a couple of koi water brushes. I love these. They are easy. They're portable This is the larger one, which is I believe eight point eight ounce and the smaller one. I think it's point four I have a Large brush tip and a fine and the fine Here I believe yeah large and fine I believe so these are nice because they actually are meant to travel with so though Base which has the water in it comes at this black Stopper you can fill this with water put the stopper in it I've taken this a lot of different places on planes all over the place. It doesn't leak I've at least I haven't had a problem with it yet and then the top separately So I have the two bottoms and then the tops and then I have a selection of Mini-colored pencils. I have this is just a regular to be pencil. You see where that's from I when I see these I usually pick them up I have a short to be low all pencil if I want something that's water soluble and really dark I have a white crayon if I before I start painting I want to leave an area that's white But I don't want to you know get paint there I'll put some crayon on that and this will keep it from getting water paint on that section of the paper I also have a ballpoint pen in here and some mini kids colored pencils. So My muse has been screaming at me She really wants me to keep up with the water coloring to use limited supplies Right now. So that's what we're gonna do. I would love to see all of you do the same work with limited supplies Challenge yourself to do something different I I It could be anything. I have done challenges like this where I've challenged myself to do 12 little quick paintings in 10 minutes and Did they all come out good? No, was it fun? Yes, it's not always about the quality of work It's about just having fun with the process and getting re-inspired right now This is really inspiring for me and it's a little bit bulky but it's not too bulky for me to take somewhere if I need to and I feel like we're gonna be out somewhere that I Want to take this to go painting so think about how you can challenge yourself and Look up Debbie Weir. She's really inspiring to me right now. I did order her book. It's on the way I can't wait till it comes in. She has one on Amazon I'll put it in the description below, but if you have something right now that's really inspiring you I would love to hear about it. So either leave something in the comments below or if you're a member of the my creative year Facebook group We would sure love to hear about it over there. So please share Let's keep the group over in the face in Facebook a kind supportive group That's what we're all about sharing freely and being supportive. So let's keep it that way and Yeah, let's share what our muses are saying right now The most important thing of course besides like share and subscribe if you will I would sure appreciate that is please go out and have a great day Listen to your muse. She won't steer you wrong Not normally and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys