 Okay, folks, my YouTube app dropped out on me, so we're going to try it again and see if again will work. We'll try it a second time. I have no idea if anybody will show up a second time or if you're going to give up on YouTube, the way I feel like doing right now. But maybe I'll be lucky and the trolls will give up on things as well. That would be kind of nice. Welcome back. You got the notification. Yay. I'm going to try to lower this a little bit so I can actually see while I'm painting because it's a little challenging. Even first you don't succeed exactly. I'm going to try to lower this a bit so I can see while I am painting because it is practically impossible for me to lean back up and be able to keep commenting and talking to you while I'm painting. Yes, I am back. Your chat doesn't automatically scroll up. Well, that's a bummer. And the ASMR dude is still there. I have not figured out how to get it in landscape mode. I will read up on that. We'll see if landscape mode is a little more possible if I do something different because right now it is not cooperating to get me in landscape mode. I even have weird lighting going on here. Let me see if I can get this back in the light. You found me again. Hooray. I got lost. I don't know if my phone overheated because it is very warm. I need a new phone so bad. So this might be one of those things that will work better once I get a new phone and I can't do that until August unless I want to drop a fortune in the Apple Store. So we'll see how that goes. How do I deal with hard edges? Depends on where they are. I'm having some trouble in here because I got interrupted by the phone dying so I didn't get to complete what I was doing. So that's a problem. But since I'm going to be adding spots to them after it dries, then I'm going to hope that that's going to work. Now you're going to get a taste of what Vienna does when there is a squirrel outside because this little nasal whining she does makes me about crazy because she's a nutty girl. The phones are pricey. Don't read you. I won't read you. Are you saying don't read me or that I shouldn't read you? Or that you're sad that I'm not reading you because I am reading you. I'm trying to read everybody. Just not doing a great job of it. I have two puppies and if you look through my channel I have some videos with the puppies. They were sleeping very nicely earlier because they were tired. We went to the park all morning for like two hours for them to run and swim. Frozen again for you. It's not frozen here for me. And so the puppies were tired. We got baths and they were all fed and bathed and they were taking naps and now they're awake because apparently somebody looked outside. That is what the dogs do. So in the sketchbook series that I've been doing in the last month or two, I've been trying to use all these different sketchbooks. Just a million different ones because I don't like any of them particularly. I haven't found any that I love but I'm trying just to do a million quick paintings. And by quick paintings I mean anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour or something like that. Not putting a lot of time and energy investment in it. But it teaches me things like what certain lines will look like when I move the brush a certain way and I'm trying to figure out how to make these look like little hairy doobobs on his head. I don't know what they're called but those kind of things that I'll practice in my sketchbook. And there's no pressure because it's just a sketchbook. I don't really have to put any super, super huge energy into it. Yes, you like the doobobs too. Lots of doobobs in my world. Brush off. It's a little too wet. I don't want to end up with some bleeding going on. Ossocones. There you go. That's the word. Oh, saying high loads of times is spamming. Yes, please don't like just keep repeating yourself in order to get me to say hello to you because that is spammy. We don't like spammy. So I happen to know that the opposite color of yellow is purple. So for my deepest shadows I'm just going to throw some yellow on and I'm going to be, or some purple on and I'm going to be really generous with it. Find and figure out how to chat. Yay. Awesome. So the purple is going to give me some real serious contrast and some more interesting color than just using brown. So I used a little bit of some quinacridone burnt orange earlier, but now I'm just going to dive in with some crazy purple just to see what happens because it's just paper. You know, it's a sketchbook. Free hand paint. Yes, I do. But sometimes like today I was trying to figure out, well, what should I paint if we end up doing a painting here on this live video? What should I do? And I went to that stack of photographs that I had printed out at Costco because sometimes I just need a little something. Oh, goodness gracious. It's a squirrel, Vienna. Give it a rest, girlfriend. Yes, this is my life. Squeal, squeal, squeal. Mommy, I'm panicking. I'm going to die because I can't get to that squirrel. It's a problem. And whatever. That's my girl. Paint here. Squirrel TV, exactly. My life on squirrel TV. So if anybody's only watching the giraffe video and you did not watch the other one, then you might want to go watch the other one because I talked a little bit about my other website that's coming, art-classes.com. My classes will be moving over there and if you've already bought the class, you will have access to it over there. But if you want to wait, you know, if you have a class you've bought and you want to wait to go watch it on the new site, the new site is going to be easier to navigate. I'll just let you know that. That was my goal, is to make it easier to get to. Yes, she's a high energy dog and she's my stress monkey. She just gets so hyper. She just freaks out when something upsets her and there's very little you can do to calm her down. She's just wacky that way. Ticky butt. Just stops. This paint in here is too wet. I should not be doing this, but I'm trying to get it done so we can finish this video. And so I'm going to have some pretty heavy bleeding going on here because it's not dry enough for what I'm trying. This photograph is not April the Giraffe's baby. The photograph is just a giraffe taken by a lady named Louise, Louise Petrick in 2015. Uploaded to the site PMP.com. I think it's called PMP. I think that's the URL. The name of the site is Paint My Photo. And I go there to get a photo reference for things because sometimes I want to paint things and I want to be able to paint without having to worry about copyrights and the folks that upload their paintings there or their photographs give permission for folks to paint them. Yes, Vianna, calm your little self. She does this sometimes just to get my goat while I am trying to record voiceovers. So I end up having to just, she sits beside me with her head right up against my leg and I have to just keep petting her for 15 minutes while I'm doing my voiceover because she will not stop. She can't stop herself from being cray-cray and overexcited. Relax. Yes, relax. Yeah, just stand here right by mom. Just stand here by me. I will pet you. I will pet you. Okay, that brush was too wet. I'm not paying enough attention. I'm doing some quinacridone. Thunder jacket. She would have to wear that Thunder jacket 24-7. I have one for her but this is just like random squirrel comes by and she does do this even with her Thunder jacket on. It calms her a little bit. Yeah, see all of this was supposed to be spots and it's not. So after it dries I'm going to have to go back and add some intensity in there anyway. So I'll be able to fix some of that because I think we're going to have to wait to finish this one. But we got a good start on it, right? That's a good thing. Emma, if everybody says you're spamming I might have to block you. So if you don't want to be blocked I would recommend not continuing to spam. The instance that paints too wet. You can lift off some of it. So I could go in here and try to lift off some of the moisture because I'm trying to hurry but I'm going to lose some of this beautiful color in here. I've got some really interesting mixes happening here that I want to keep. If I dab that off I'm going to lift off all that. And in here I have some things to fix but if I lift that off it's all going to go light and I want to add more richness of color on top of that. So that is kind of my reason for wanting to wait and put it on top rather than lifting it all off. But maybe I will try, I don't usually use my heat gun in my sketchbook because I don't want to do things to the rest of the pages. But perhaps I will try, the dog is listening. Yay! I'm going to try folding the paper away from the other pages. So I now have some really interesting stuff going on down here that I really love and I'm going to keep. I have some blooming that's going on up there that I don't want to keep. So I'm going to see about removing it by painting over top of it. So I'm going to go with some quinacridone burnt orange. Start adding some definition in that area as well. It's going to kind of go up into his ear, I know his ossicone, sorry. This little ossicone deal here. And I'm trying to keep it loose. I don't want to end up losing the freshness of all of these giant smooshy brushstrokes because they're pretty fun. And there are some times when we just get overworking things, lose all of that beautiful stuff, hang on to it. So yeah, that worked well. Typically I keep a couple of sketches going at the same time if I'm going to sit down for an afternoon. I'll start one and I'll grab a different sketchbook, start another, and get a couple of them moving so that while one is drying, I'm off painting the other one. It kind of gives me some flexibility in allowing something to dry and still painting something interesting elsewhere. So I've got some Lunar Black, my favorite black because it does some really great granulation. So I'm going to go into just a few areas to get that really dark contrast going. He's got these really funky, fun teeth while he's trying to chew, turning his mouth all kind of funky sideways. In the photograph, he doesn't have any grasses that he's chewing hanging out of his mouth. They're just kind of, it's kind of implied that he's got grasses inside his mouth. So I'm going to add some outside. So you kind of get an idea why his mouth is all kind of crickety-kitty-wompus like that. A little bit more in here in terms of those spots. Remember, all that was supposed to be spots, and I've lost it. So I can go back in with more color that I'll be careful not to let it bleed and get the remaining spots put back in and drop some purple into my quinacridone. So that'll make them nice and dark. The grasses are the things hanging out of his mouth. Now he's got some big old spots coming down this way. I don't want to go too far because I really like this beautifulness going on down here. So I'm going to try to leave that. And I'm just going to let the spots dry. Drop in a little extra color that's on my brush so I don't waste any of that. And that is about it for this sketch, I think. I might throw a little bit of blue sky here. What is the color there? It depends on what color you're asking me about. I've used a lot of colors on this. If I put a little bit of blue sky around him, it's going to give a little definition to that side. That was Gialo telling Vanna to shut the heck up. He gets very tired of her crying, whiny baby stuff. And he knows that mommy yells at her. So he says, oh, that means I can yell at her too. Done that before I added my grasses. But there you go, right? So giving a little definition around the white highlighted parts gives them a little bit of shape. So I hope you're enjoying Watercolor Weekend. I haven't seen a ton of people posting paintings on Instagram, but I hope today's little live broadcast here has inspired you to go do that. Because I want to go look at the hashtag tonight and see what everybody is creating. So go out there, grab a sketchbook, grab a stamped image, whatever you want to paint with, and throw some color on something. Give it a try. Be loose like this. Be tight, whatever is your style. My style varies depending on what my mood is. And you can do all kinds of fun things with Watercolor. Check out my blog. Check out the Ellen Hudson blog. There's plenty of inspiration out there for you. Down just a little bit. A little more softness here where that shadow comes across. I'm going to call it done before I start getting too fussy with it, because I'm feeling very fussy now. All right guys, thank you for joining me. Sorry about the splitting of the video in the middle. I will post the finished dry one on Instagram as soon as it's all dry and ready to roll. Have a fabulous day. We'll see you guys later. Bye-bye.