 Hey everybody, so I just filmed this for or I was just on periscope with this and I could insert the periscope video on YouTube and just stick at beginning and ending in it And I may do that at the end of this video Or in a separate video if you guys choose to watch it you can do that But I thought it would be nicer for the YouTube viewers for to actually get you know a kind of Regular normal desktop view of what we're gonna do All right So we are going to talk about remove these the destruction of My koi watercolor kit and my Windsor Newton kit Which I did yesterday. I know right? so You know I saw Romani's realm did this a while ago where she took her um Koi kit apart. I don't think she went as far as I did. I don't remember now. It's been a long while since I watched her video She may have just cut The plastic apart I think I tend to think that's what she did do But definitely if I can I'll try to remember remember to link her video in the description below but if I forget somebody else put that in the comments and Definitely go to her channel and look for it I Like my koi watercolor kit. I like the selections of color in the kit But and I like the fact that it comes with a lot of mixing room So it had you know the lid that you could mix in Move my color key. Okay. I had the lid that you can mix in it had this extra tray You can mix in that was really great. This box is really big and bulky, and I'm not a big fan of plastic Watercolor palettes. I prefer metal. It's easier to mix on it's easier to keep clean If you want to keep it clean, although mine tend to look like this well-loved I Like this one because it's so small. I love the size the color selection was not the greatest I prefer a bigger color selection. There's no way you were going to get that in this box Even with putting three more colors in the lid which I did here But the size is great obviously much more much different than this one I know from experience from recent travels that if you travel with your watercolor kits in a box Any kind of box, but especially one this size that TSA security people are going to ask you to unpack your travel watercolor bag So they can look at the box. That's a pain in the neck. Just take my word for it So when I got back I thought about it and thought about it and thought about it. I Really like This box. This is my schmink box and it is a really beautiful metal Watercolor palette box and these boxes are made a generic one is made without you know the schmink label on it That you can get and they come in different sizes. This is the 48 pan half pan size and they that's the biggest one I think they go as Small as 12 half pan So I thought about it and thought about it and I wasn't really exactly sure how big the 12 half pan one was but I thought you know It's not that expensive Jackson's Art sells them through Amazon. They're about 20 bucks I'm gonna try it Now Jackson's Art is out of the UK So it takes longer to get here, but with shipping it's still cheaper than ordering one of the Comparable metal pallets that I can get in a US from a US supplier. So It is a little cheaper if you go through Jackson's directly than it is through Jackson's through Amazon So I would go to Jackson's art comm I will try to link them in the description below and Look go to the search box and type empty metal palette and it's gonna pop up make sure when you order it That you order empty watercolor pans So these are empty. I won't tell you what that is in a minute. These are empty watercolor pans This one is a half pan and It is Here's a ruler So it's about an inch long little little more than an inch and this is a half pan. All right, so you want to make sure you get Depending on how many colors you want to put in your box that you get some of these empty pans I always have a selection of pans laying around and when I'm placing an order from Jackson's or Dick Blick or somebody And I need a couple extra bucks to get the free shipping I usually order empty watercolor pans or something like this that I know I use a lot in my studio And so I always have kind of a box with a few empty pans in it that I can use And I'll show you what I did with that small box and I'm gonna explain to you what this bag is in a minute The Periscope people already learned what this bag is So there you go. This is the 12 half pan box It's a little bit smaller this way than the Windsor Newton, but it's a little wider and it's a little bit fatter But it's very comparable in size. It holds 12 half pans or six full pans. Now these metal boxes And I'll show you with the big one Come with this removable tray And this is what holds all your pans of watercolor paint This is just the box part with this removable tray 12 is a lot of colors, but not for me So the first thing I did when I got it was take the tray out. This is the tray from this box Because I knew right away that wasn't gonna be enough colors now with these trays This is made to hold 12 half pans, but I know from the bigger box You can actually get two more one more on each row so you can actually get 14 in here in my 48 color box I have 52 I've squeezed it in tight things don't shift around then they stay nice and tight in there So I took my new metal box. This is the color key that I've already made and I did this to it so I took all of my Watercolors out of the Windsor Newton set and The Koi set the colors are in this thin plastic tray So I pulled it out and then I plopped all the cakes out. This is what's left of that tray Now as I was taking them out I took my color keys for those sets and I laid the cakes on top of the appropriate color So that I knew when I went to go rebuild the kit which color was which name So that I could make a new color key So as I did that I Picked the my favorite colors from the Koi set For that to put in the new set I used five of my favorite Daniel Smith colors from tubes To add to the new travel set So now I have a really nice selection of really beautiful colors to take with me when I go on vacation And I have all these spare all the extra cakes here in small bags Marked with the brand WN for Windsor Newton and then the color Viridian. This is a green This is the Koi this is ivory black Now you'll notice the Windsor Newton ones come in a half pan That's how they come in there in their kit That's one up on the other guy because I love that they were really easy to pop out When this is empty, I can reuse the little half pan Excuse me, I can add some Viridian to paint to that or something else and that's just really great I love it the Koi set were harder to get out because there are these dry little cakes that were like rubber cemented in Which is why this looks that way because they were a pain to get out What I did do though Once I figured out what was going in here I filled this first and then all the leftovers I put these little bags and I labeled them and then I just put Them in this sandwich bag. So I have this bag of spare paints that unless one of the Daniel Smith ones gets emptied, which could happen I can refill those from the tube, but the rest of them I can just refill from something in here Until I use them up now I also took the sponges out of the Koi kit and had two sponges in the kit and they fitted right here and This is the little paintbrush from the Windsor Newton kit I love this little paintbrush It's a great little travel brush. Isn't it fabulous and it fits right on top of the sponges which squish down So when it closes it fits right in there snugly and the pans now Should I decide when I'm traveling I'm going someplace specific like Las Vegas the desert that I need to adjust my colors a little bit to be more desert appropriate I can go back to my bag. I can switch out some of the colors easily because These little pans have magnets on the back So I put a magnet on the back of the pan. It sticks to the metal in the bottom of the box Just like that. It's not going to go anywhere. The sponges help keep them all tight and snug in there And it's changeable so I could you know switch them out I can make it actually another color key at that time and I would probably write on the back of it Travel palette desert selection or maybe I'm going to the beach and maybe I decide I need more blues Although, I don't know why I would because there's three in here Or whatever, you know, I could label these for like desert selection Beach selection. I am taking a trip to Alaska next year I you know Alaska trip and I can adjust these out to be appropriate to the trip I'm going on very easily by just popping these cakes out and going to my bag Taking one of these putting a magnet on the back of the little pan and sticking it in here and putting in the new Color key in and putting this one in the bag and just constantly switching them out from here. I think it's a fabulous idea this little box is small Has once I did this by the way, and I took that this thing out Instead of being able to get 12 to 14 colors in it 21 Only three colors less than the Koi palette which hold 24 right So this gets 21 colors and look how much smaller it is than the Koi box Right the other thing I found when traveling and I learned something new every time I travel Is that when you're traveling with watercolors like I said TSA is gonna want it They're gonna want to have you take that watercolor box out of your travel kit because it is going to be a problem So if you have your watercolors in a red bag like I have them in this one You've got to pull the bag out pull the box out open it up so they can see it then when you pack your bag It believe me it's a giant pain in the neck so Now my bag will be packed in a way that I will have my watercolors in This bag which fits inside that bag all my watercolor stuff will be in here this fits in here and When TSA says can we see that or even before they do when I'm putting my stuff on the conveyor belt To get checked through security. I can pull this out of the art journal bag put it in its own bin For them to look at and put the art the art journal bag in a different one. This opens up flat like a computer bag This bag is by Tom bin b i h and I will again try to put the link in all the links in the description below If I forget one somebody help me out It has some pockets here in the cover for I have pens pencils a Mr. Water brush thing. I've got a little this is a pouch From this is a day runner pouch. I have brushes in here regular brushes and water brushes depending on where I am I prefer to use regular brushes, but if I'm out like on a hike I would make sure before I left that all my water brushes had water in them because I wouldn't want to bring a cup of water I Have this velcro pocket which has a few core sample cards in it and a color wheel An empty sheet protector pocket that I can put Receipts ephemera inspiration pictures are artwork in It comes with this plastic dashboard. I Put in this bookmark so that I could bookmark where I am where the last painting is that I didn't hear And then I filled it with watercolor paper I also have a small watercolor block by fluid watercolor paper. This is a fluid watercolor block This is four by six and a couple of regs and they fit in here really nicely. I Have some peerless colors back here because God forbid I should not have enough colors and inside this front zipper pocket I've got a plastic palette just in case I need more mixing room But I definitely could say fit my hotel key card in one of these pockets and take this with me And a glass of water down to the pool, you know, wherever I'm at Like I said, we're planning an Alaska trip So I'd love to be sitting out at the pool on the ship, you know with a cocktail and my watercolor bag Just doing some painting would that be fun? And this fits much nicer in my travel bag And it's easier to get out when TSA asks me to get it out then the old setup was And I have to repack my bag now because I unpacked it for Periscope Which I guess you guys will see because I'll I'll either put it at the end of this video or I'll make it I'll put a new video, but let me repack it and I'll show you This is a watercolor journal. I do bring with me and I do do paintings in here I have some paintings in here for my last trip These are from the Nevada trip and this probably won't be done at the end of the year This is probably one of the journals. It'll take me a while to finish, but This is not a big deal to carry with the this watercolor bag I can carry both of these, you know down to the pool or whatever Or if I don't want to bring this I can just bring the paper that's in the bag that works, too But this fits in here really nicely. I unpacked this for Periscope now I've got to repack it So this was where my watercolor kit was and but this was a pain to get out of the travel bag and then repack When TSA wants to see wants to see my watercolor paint paints. This was a pain in the neck to open So I knew after this trip that that was a problem All right, so let's repack this so I've gotten here This I didn't show all of this on the last of it on the periscope so So there's an exacto knife and a small pair of scissors. Make sure that what you're bringing is Going to be okay with the secure airline security They keep changing the rules so make sure you check before you leave and adjust your bag accordingly I Haven't made any international trips in a while But this bag has been through a few us trips without a problem fyi Blending stump stapler little small hole punchy rate a couple of erasers these little bowls are for water This has washi tape on it These are fabulous. These are plastic embroidery floss bobbins somebody one of you all gifted them to me with washi tape on it or a couple of you They're great And they live in here a Little small this is a for a pillbox, but I have my small metal embellishments in it Some little different texture tools bubble wrap Burlap little piece of a plastic shelf liner These are all washi tapes that I've been gifted This is when you guys give me washi tape. It usually ends up in my travel bag at some point I'll show you about those in a minute little mini black stamp pad to go with my date stamp staples for the stapler That should not be in there glue stick And this is my mini set of colored pencils and spare pencils So this I got at the Japanese dollar store So and then the front of this this is a Kipling 100 pen case So the front of this I've got some pit pens some water-soluble pencils and my Stabilo pencil a Mechanical pencil and that sort of thing and a glue brush. This is there's a couple of glue brushes here closes I Love these cases when I was in Las Vegas. We were right next to the outlet mall and they had a Kipling outlet was fabulous All right, and this fits in here, and I love the monkey, but he gets in the way sometimes There we go this clip Should be so on the outside. I've got my pens and pencils clips when I need them to hold my journal open glue collage podge gesso Pallet knives baby wipes neo color twos a small set My watercolor bag fits in here and so does my journal and I can take this on the plane it fits in the seat underneath the seat in front of me When I am going through security and they want to see the watercolors I can just yank this out way easier to get out than the red bag And it's just a really good solution, and I love this and it's going to be this way now for a good long while so I hope that gave you some ideas of what you could do and Stay tuned for the periscope video. I hope it answers some more questions I do show some new deco art helping artists stuff I just got in to help us finish the Monday with deco art canvas and work on future canvases and We talk about a few other things. So I hope you all remember to have a great day Don't forget all of my contact information in the description below So you have questions comments or concerns you have ways to get a hold of me now So never fear. I also have started a new Facebook group So if you want to be part of that follow the link for that that's in the description below and have a great weekend everybody I'll see you later. Bye Hi guys so this time we are going to be Recording live while we're on periscope I'm going to turn the HD camera on in just a minute. So this time though, we're going to try having my phone here, which is actually hanging off of my Tool catty you guys probably have on your art desk somewhere those wood Revolving tool to early. I don't know what you call it really thing. Hey Cindy to really thing I don't know what you call it with all the little Martha Stewart makes one recollection recollections make one anyway You're hanging on there Just FYI I think it'll be easier for you to See we'll all see my face and I can see the comments easier when I'm looking at the phone But we're also going to record it for YouTube because I think there's some youtubers who don't do periscope Don't know what periscope is that might want to see this and I know they've been asking Thank you very much Somebody just said you're very beautiful. Thank you. I don't know. Hi. Alright, so we're gonna turn the HD video camera on Say hello as you join if you would and let me know who you are introduce yourself to the group Okay, I'm gonna do my YouTube intro. Okay. Alright Hey everybody, so we're here today and while I'm here filming you in the HD camera We're also over that way on periscope and we're gonna discuss the destruction of my koi watercolor kit because yes I spent some time yesterday Taking it apart Okay, and this is what's left of it. I'll show you see Okay, keep it clean and whoever you are Emeril whoever. Yeah, this is probably not the channel for you Yeah Anyway, this is what what's less left of my Block user. Okay. Sorry guys. I just blocked somebody because yeah, we have a problem. We might have another one We'll see if he makes another comment. Hello Anyway, this is what's left of my koi watercolor kit. Okay, that makes two. How many are we gonna have? Let's see. Let's try for three. Shall we? All right. So anyway, this is what's left of my koi watercolor kit I also took my Windsor Newton kit away apart. You know that I have had a love hate relationship with this kit I love the size of the box Love it. It's nice. It's small easy to take with you when you're traveling Wasn't happy with the color selection inside kit. This is all that's left. I Took them all apart. So this one is really easy because the Windsor Newton kit had Hang on. Let me get this out of here. Okay had the the watercolors in here in already in half pans I'll show you what I mean This is an empty watercolor half pan. So the Windsor Newton pans Came just like this with the watercolor already in the pan So this one's easy. I was able to just pop the pans out with their color in them Here's one that I didn't use that's in a bag. I labeled it Windsor Newton and Alizarin Crimson the color it is, right? The koi kit is a little different. So the koi kit you've got to pull the little cheap inexpensive Plastic thing out of the kit This is really this is what's left. It pulled out kind of fairly easy. It's glued down here And the sponges came out easy, but then when you go to take try to take the little cakes out This is what happens Most people are not going to try to take the cakes out. So, you know, but when you do get them out You just get these little blocks of hard Watercolors. Okay, here we go. Here's another one Block another one you guys see anymore and let me know Okay, so When you take the little cakes out, they look like this now, I like the koi paints and I think they're just as well Pigmented as the Windsor Newton paints They these these are both not expensive I know really if you guys see another one, let me know that was three This is just a small Windsor Newton travel kit I don't think it was a artist's grade. I think it was a student grade. I could be wrong and they you know frequently wrong, so But I think the koi kit was just as good and fairly well pigmented and I can prove it Here are the two color keys from the two kits So I always liked the Windsor the koi kit because it had more colors. It had a purple. It had a Payne's gray And it had a nice brown in it not and the ones are Newton had a brown too But it didn't have a purple and it didn't have a Payne's gray because the kit was just too small now I could have taken these pans out of here and Replace them with colors that I wanted to use of course I could have and if you have this kit and You have the same problem with it I did you can either do what I did here and put some colors in the lid But then you lose your mixing space or you could take out the pans with the colors in them You don't use get some empty half pans Put them in and fill it up with a color that you do want in here Of course you could do that if you have the 24 Windsor Newton set You're gonna probably be much more happy with it than I was with this one Like I said the thing I liked best about it was the size it just The way it was configured is not big enough to hold Another enough colors for me and yeah, the first thing I do when I make or get any kit is make a color key always always because the colors look different in their Cake form then they do on paper. Okay So that being said This is what's left of the koi one. I know Cindy you're just cringing, but this is all that's left. I took all of my Little Cakes of watercolor out of here I know see and I actually as I removed them I stacked them on top of the color key as I removed them So I could keep track of which one was which because like I said they don't look the same This way as they do on the paper. In fact, this one is cadmium red This one's close. So here's the cadmium red and this is the cake. It's close Where's one that's different? So here's this one. This is this yellow color this one here. I don't know how do you how you pronounce that? I have no idea You guys aren't seeing that. I'm forgetting to show the other camera. See, okay, so I'm showing periscope I'm not showing you guys. Maybe I should just film this twice. I Don't know. We'll leave it on. I may decide to refilm this for YouTube after I'm done with you guys. I don't know All right, so then I went to Jackson's art comm They also sell It would it's a you know, especially if you work In like 3d or in heavy texture I know a lot of artists that do stuff on canvas with lots of texture and they glue things down And then just so over the whole shebang and then do some do a painting This would and I don't know that I'm actually gonna throw it away throw it away because this is really this is interesting I know it's trash, but it's interesting, right? Okay, so then I went to Jackson's art comm You can also order From Jackson's art through Amazon. They have an Amazon store now you guys know that I have These big metal pallets These are big these hold these are supposed to hold 48 colors But actually you can get four more cakes in here than they they say so you can get 52 in them And then and then the little pans are in here really nice and tight and they don't shift around This is my schmink set. I like mixing my watercolors on the metal palette better than Plastic, I think it's easier to mix the colors together I also like that the metal doesn't stain So if it gets to be too icky and my colors are too muddy because I've got too much on there I can easily wipe it off and get it clean again. You can't always do that with the plastic. Sometimes it stains Depending on the paint that you're using But like I said, I liked this small Windsor-Newton kit for traveling. I realized that both schmink And a number of other companies sell a version of this metal palette that only holds six full pans or twelve half pans Now if you order it like from schmink, it's really expensive Jackson's art, although it comes all the way from the UK is a lot less expensive and But it takes like two and a half weeks to come in but look This is the Windsor-Newton one, it's just slightly bigger. It's not a lot bigger Now it's supposed to hold 12 half pans and All of these palettes Come with I'll show you with a big one. Let's see all of these palettes come with These trays like this and this is actually the insert that holds all of your pans of watercolor And then the actual palette box looks like this. Okay? So the little one had one Here it is right here Now if you use this you can only get 12 Half pans in here, but But but but if you take it out If you take it out, yeah, man, my butter on your butter. Oh cool So if you take it out I'll show you with the big one so Look how much you have a lot more room in the box Then you have on here to get paint in I can prove it So I'm not gonna do it with my bigger sets because I really don't have any need to I Just knock the paint a paint thing out of the schmink stuff. Hold on. It's gonna bug me now. I gotta fix it There we go. All right, so if you take this out I Took a bunch of my little half pans and I I glued a little piece of magnet to the back They were it was a sticky back magnet, but I thought Because this isn't a watercolor set and it's gonna be getting wet That's sticky might not stick So I broke out the e6000 and I just put a little dab of stick of e6000 on the back and glued the magnet to the back and then I filled up my box and I was able to get 21 colors in my little box Which is just slightly less than the koi You write the magnet idea is a great idea then I put my sponges here from the These are the sponges that were in the koi set I turned them on their side and I shoved them in here it not only gives me some place to sort of wipe my brush off on But it also holds the pan up the pans up tight in the box And guess what else this is the little brush from the Windsor Newton set I have to tell you this is my favorite part of the Windsor Newton set and They may sell these brushes separately just by themselves And if they do I might have to get another one, but isn't that the cutest thing? It's a nice Round tip brush great for water coloring. It's metal. So it's very durable and look at how tiny it is and Guess what? It fits right here The sponges are squishy right so I can just leave it there Fold in the mixing tray part Close that I made a color key for it And that will sit in the lid. I haven't laminated it yet I need to laminate it, but it'll sit in the lid and the whole thing closes up Right now. I took a few colors of the koi set out Because I wanted to include five of my favorite Daniel Smith colors in here. I Included and left I included in here by Daniel Smith Nickel azo yellow I'll show you so nickel azo yellow, which is this one Quedacredo and gold deep moon glow Which is this dusky gray ish black ish purple. It's a really cool color Rolls rows of ultramarine and this really cool Look hot pink. This is called opera pink Yeah All right, so now I have this new great Travel water color kit that has for me the perfect colors in it That'll work just great for when I'm traveling and if I ever decide I want to change up the color selection because I'm going Some place specific like for instance the desert back to Las Vegas and maybe I want some more red earthy colors in here Like I have one. I even wrote earthy on it Somewhere hold on to this one. So this is from the koi set and this is called light red and It is this red clay color And so this is a great color to stick into your water color kit when you're going to like Las Vegas If you're gonna be going and you're going next week. Well, if you have time go to Red Rock Canyon or to Valley of the Fire Cuz oh my gosh They're beautiful and there's lots of great inspiration, but if you're going next week, it's gonna be hot I should know I've been there already 106 the whole time we were there, but this is a great color for going to the desert this red clay color But because my pans are in there with magnets I can put this little cake into a pan stick a magnet on the back Switch it out with a color that's already in here for the trip to Las Vegas That works, right? Now I took all of my cakes that were in both the koi set and the Windsor Newton set And I put them in these little bags And I labeled them with the brand and the color name And these will go into my drawer where I keep my extra watercolors my tubes and things And I may take all these I have a lot of these now Because I I ended everything so I may take all of these and put them in their own bag by themselves And then stick them in the drawer because that way I can just grab the one big bag and dig through it When I want to switch a color out the plan is to use these up in here Before I go buying any more paint I know I say that I keep saying that I keep buying paint So and as for these boxes I don't know what to do with this except throw it away It does have some paint in the lid Which is kind of a shame Does anybody have any good ideas? So I don't have any good ideas The koi box now is interesting now with the Windsor Newton box, of course You could Put new pans in here and put more color in here Or you could just use the wells as they are and fill it up with tube watercolors and let them dry Definitely you could do that With the koi box now the one thing about the koi box is it was nice as it comes with you of course can Um, yeah, yeah, fill it with me. Yeah, I don't know. I know Daniel Smith from water color sticks marry. You're funny I know I've been eyeing them believe me Uh, yeah, I'm gonna have to put it on my christmas list or something The koi box has a nice, you know, a big lid to mix on and it also has of course the removal removable mixing tray that you can kind of hang on the side um But of course now I've destroyed all the pans but You can get these little empty pans at Jackson's dick blick or wherever. They're not very expensive and you could refill this with empty pans The thing is hi, how are you? um, the thing is you're gonna have to glue them in or you're or um I don't know so you would you would probably want to put like a piece of chipboard here on the bottom I would think To level out the bottom And then put the goods and then put the thank you. I have the good stuff So and then put the half pans in here and glue them in You could see if you could put a metal piece of metal in the bottom and then put magnets on the back of the half pans and put them in um You'd have to know somebody who um can Um Cut metal I might donate them to a friend if you would like these How much is which how much is what goofy bone? Hello, Lisa. How are you? Yeah, headed in backwards Oh the little one Okay, so the little one I can tell you hang on Hopefully you're not asking questions because I'm not looking at the at the computer Okay through amazon it's 21 87 Um, but I think it might be a little bit cheaper from Jackson's art if you order it directly Um, so I would look at their website first Um, and either way whether you order it from their website or you order it from Um amazon it takes the same amount of time it takes about two to two and a half weeks because it's coming all the way from the uk Jackson's j a c k s o n s Art exactly that's exactly it goofy bone um They have empty metal pallets And they also have full this is a full pan And this is a half pan pan Um, just type go and type Um at the top in the search window type empty metal pallet This is going to come up. This is the one that's labeled to hold 12 half pans or six full pans And you're just you're going to want to take this out if you want to get as many colors Out of it in it as I did Um, I toyed with the idea of having my husband Drill this out so I could pull these off And then I decided not to um I may change my mind at some point if you've been watching me for a while on youtube youtube or following me on social media That was kind of a joke. I changed my mind a lot because you know And order order enough pans to make it work Plus maybe a few extras. I keep this box of empty pans laying around Because I am constantly like redoing my pallets for you know, wherever it is that I'm going. Thanks for the hearts I love the hearts So, um, I always whenever I have to order something, especially if I don't quite have enough to like get free shipping I order a few empty empty watercolor pans because I seem to always need them And I was serious about these watercolor kits if somebody would like these, um Empty pat empty boxes You know, let me know and send me an email and I'll send them to you Um artist at Gina be errands.com Okay, first come first served so Then my idea is Another thing the re one of the big reasons I did this. Okay So as I'm traveling and I'm doing the Las Vegas thing This is the first time I really brought serious watercoloring with me on vacation and There were things about what I brought that I liked and didn't like Um, I really liked being able to have my art journaling stuff With me as I always do for my year of my life journal, which is this There's a video on this on my, um, youtube channel Here's one of the pages I did while I was in Las Vegas and Usually what I'm traveling I Okay, don't count on having the dining room table to like actually eat meals at or if there's a desk in the room Being able to do anything at the desk because that's my space and I usually cover it with journaling stuff Because who wouldn't? So I get up earlier than everybody else Thank you, mrs. Menopause and uh while they're all still sleeping and I'm having my first morning cup of coffee I'm working on my journal pages from the day before on our trip and um By the time they get up, especially if you're in Las Vegas and it's 106 It's even hot inside with the air conditioning on all of this glue drives really fast by the day Time they get up. I'm ready to do my writing and actual journaling because all the glue and whatever is all done I start out with my journal Pre-painted pages when I leave by the way. They look like this before I leave the house I do um, if you go to my youtube channel and um, there's a playlist year of my life journal And that's what this is and I have some baseball tickets and stuff from the game. We went to the other day I have to do a page So this always comes with me and the appropriate glues markers pens and a few things Come with me to work in this what I liked about this last trip was I also had some of my watercolor stuff with me, but And I had hold on Got my bag sitting next to me over here So I had this which was filled with watercolor stuff and then this that's really bulky And I could pull this out and like when we went to Red Rock Canyon or Valley of the Fire I could sit and I could do You know some watercoloring And I loved being able to do this and this is my watercolor travel journal and um, You know, I'll be doing every time we travel. I'll be doing pages in here now This will probably be one of the few journals. I don't finish Um at the end of the year. I have this thing about finishing journals at the end of the year This will probably just be one I just keep painting in until it's full and it might take me a few years To get paintings all done in it. But yeah, this is a lot of fun and I always I I may not always date the pages, but I always write like the place that we were Um or something about it. This was a sunset view actually from our hotel room Yeah, so I loved being able to bring that with me But this was kind of a lot and I thought it might be kind of a nice to have like a bag in a bag So I have my travel journal bag Which is this one? But what if I had a smaller bag in it that I could just pull that out that had all my watercolor stuff in it Or a good selection of it and I could take that with me like say if we go on a hike Like we did the day we went to red rock canyon That would be good and then everything else in here is for this journal I like that and I've made it through this bag by the way through the airport more than more than once not internationally the bag The bag actually comes plain um unpainted From harbour freight You can go to harbour freight com and look up the current the locations nearest you or order online It's called a canvas rigors bag And then I painted it. Yeah, that's my That's my handiwork um And I have I have a lot of pockets on the outside. So I've got all my pens. I've got some clips so I could hold my journal open See you later, Cindy I've got Gel medium and glue palette knives What's in this side baby wipes neo colors? Pencil sharpener. It's the one loose thing So then what I did is I took all my other like small bits and pieces um ephemera pencils pens And I put them in this red bag. I took all the watercolor stuff out washi tape I don't know which one of you sent me happy mail with washi tape like this It is the best idea So if you don't know, this is a embroidery bobbin uh embroidery floss bobbin. This is a pla- it needs to be a plastic one. This is a plastic one You wrap a little bit of your washi tape around it and you have this flat skinny thing Full of washi tape that's really small that fits great in your travel journal bag One of you all gifted them to me and I love that the only washes I have in here are ones you guys have gifted me The other good idea of course is to wrap them around an old gift card. I know right. It's a great idea And um one of you all might have been Cindy gave me some copper So and this is a paper paper bobbin and that would work But the plastic one is better. The plastic one is more durable And the tape won't stick to the paper. I mean to the plastic So I took all my bits and pieces my mini ink pad my mini colored pencils Yeah, these are mini colored pencils from the japanese dollar store. Aren't they cool? um Little bits of metal ephemera My date stamp. It's probably the biggest thing in here a little stapler So all that fits in this red bag, which fits in the travel journal bag I have a few pieces of paper kill me now. I know right. I have a few pieces of paper and um a little mini Um cutting mat and a ruler because I do carry a small exacto knife with me Which so far has not been a problem flying although like I said, I haven't done an International flight since I put this bag together, but in the u.s. At least hasn't been a problem Then I thought okay, that's much better. I like that and there's still room for this in the bag. I like that Now I need to do something about the bag in the bag This koi box is just way too big This one. I don't like it didn't have enough colors Hence buying this one with the 21 color is perfect This fits in that bag my bag within a bag This is a tom bin bag, but you could use a lot of different things you could um You could use a cosmetic bag you could use an old planner that zips up you could use anything Um, this bag has a pocket on the outside, which I can stick the journal in or right now I have my Peerless watercolors in it It has a pocket on the outside Which you can stick, you know inspiration photos or something like that in right now I have a plastic mixing palette in it Which I you know again, I don't really like plastic palettes, but sometimes when you're out and about and you just you need an extra place This one and I should take it out of the wrapper. This one was from hobby lobby 99 cents So that's a cheap like a little plastic tray. You can just keep it It's not the best thing on the planet, but it'll work in a pinch Now I got to get it back in here because you know my fat fingers are in there Now this one is more like a planner the zips up Because it has a binder inside So technically speaking, I don't even have to bring the journal. I could just bring this bag I put in a zipper pocket for brushes in the front and a few pencils um This is just from the Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah like franklin covey planner section of your office supply store. I had a bunch of these Laying around my office. This is a different kind of planner pocket or mini binder pocket mini binder stuff fits in here Um, because this the binder rings are the same as in a mini binder Um, I have a sheet protector in here at some point I want to put an artwork or something in there or like if you are out With the watercolor kit and you pick up little bits of ephemera to use in the other journal Or you pick up inspiration photos. You can just stick them in here Something flat it comes with this black plastic like dashboard and then I put this Bookmark here so I could like bookmark where I'm at where where's the last painting that I did and then I filled it up with watercolor paper I put Uh, I have room enough for another little smaller pad of paper because you know You gotta have extra paper, right? And then I have a couple of rags back here And then the lid has some little pockets in the front That have a ruler some pens a little mini spray bottle a mister um a water brush and The only thing is my metal box is not quite Skinny enough to fit in this empty pocket right here So I may take a seam ripper to it And pull out the stitches right here And move my ruler over somewhere else Or take out the stitches to this pocket on this side of it Yes, it is Um so that I can get this metal kitten here and this does shut up with this kitten and it seals up fine so the plan is for My watercolor kit travel water. This is my travel watercolor kit. It has everything in here I need And it fits in my other bag so I can have my watercolor bag in a bag Right and I can just pull this out and go when we go hiking when we're traveling the other thing reason for doing this Every time I travel I learn something new So when you are flying with watercolors in a box TSA is going to want you to open up the box They're going to want you to dig it out of the bottom of your bag so they can look at what that box is in your bag Guess how I know that So this is easier to pull out of the other travel bag than the red thing is The red thing fits in there great, but it fits in there very snugly. This would I can just pull the handles take it out open it up Lay it out flat in one of those trays when you go through security. Yeah Um, and then put the other rest of the art stuff in another bin and I'm good to go I did that with the red one on the way home, but it was a big pain in the neck repacking the bag This is a lot easier has short handles a long handle. So like I said, we're out walking around I can just take this with me. I can extend this so it's a cross body bag. So I love it Thank you. Tom bin now Tom bin And it's spelled b i h n this is their field journal bag. It's actually discontinued I'm sorry, but they do have some old stock. So if you go to the tom bin website And you call them or email them Yeah, the colors will be limited, but they do have some old stock. So I would check with them It comes with paper, which of course I took out because I wanted watercolor paper in it, but They are supposed to be working on a newer improved version Of course, I don't want to wait because who knows when that's going to be, right? And I happen to love this color. This was something they call I think this is the red It's more of a burgundy color, but you know, it's a good color So it all fits in them in the other bag. Now it's not going to fit in there because now it's a big mess So now the only loose thing in my bag is the pencil sharpener Which you have to have one of those Does anybody have any questions? Hello, Melanie. Thank you for the hearts. I love the hearts So, yeah, when you're traveling with your arsenal, hi, how are you? Thank you Um, so when you're traveling with your art supplies, you know, you're gonna, you know, every time I travel I Refine my travel bag Um, will I ever stop refining the bag? Um, I learned something new every time and um, some of that has to do with, you know, the Um Security people, you know, constantly changing their mind on what is allowed not allowed on the plane So it's always good To um, and I'll answer that in a minute. Mary. It's always good to check With um your airlines about what isn't isn't allowed on the planes before you leave home and um Yes, I do have a long watercolor video on my youtube channel that just posted that is like an hour long And I go through almost all the watercolor paints. I own I do sometimes travel with tubes of paint Usually It's because I bought tubes while I was on vacation and have to bring them home and I don't want to check them Um, but the tubes are usually not a problem because they're not very big um Okay, here's the two tubes I brought home from las vegas Um, I know right so these are um blick artist watercolors now dick blick and utrecht Which are the c2 hours. See I don't even know it was long. Um Dick blick and utrecht are owned by the same people and they have their own brand of watercolors, which I actually really like um Especially for basic colors like sepia, which I bought which I seem to use a lot when I at least when I'm at home I use a lot of sepia and also of course panes gray a color. I use a lot in acrylic and watercolor um, and they were really inexpensive and um I talked the husband into like letting me go so But these are not a problem because they're not real big. They're only 0.47 us flu announces 14 ml so Um, that video will post next week. I believe the sunset video Um, so these tubes are usually not a problem with bringing Trick for opening caps on watercolor These caps are not a problem opening um seah um The caps I have a problem with are my acrylic paints like my artist paints. They're a pain in the neck I don't know. Excuse me. The only trick I can tell you is pliers um In fact, if I was carrying those kind of paints with me, um, um, or Yeah, okay, mary or older, uh watercolor tubes Um, that maybe the paint has dried on the lid um I would put a little pair of pliers in your kit because that's um really the only way I've gotten Tubes like that open and I have some of that problem. Usually like I said, it's with my acrylic paints Windsor newton. Love your acrylic paint. Hate your lid Grumbock or two nice paint sucky lid Okay, well, you know the worst case scenario if you can't get the lid off and it's just it's sealed on there is not coming off Yeah, I got a tip for you Take your tube turn it upside down cut the end off Cut this end off squeeze the entire thing out into a new container Um, you can get those little tiny like gladware containers that are I think they're meant for style addressing or something You can also get little small different kind of tightly sealable containers For soy sauce or things that like the japanese dollar store There's all kinds of even the dollar store has small resealable containers. You can get ones that are intended for acrylic paints um like wait a minute Depending on how much watercolor paint you have I'll show you what I mean. I just picked some up on clearance at a hobby lobby These are not them, but these are like them So at the arts and craft store you can get you know a bunch of these little tiny containers The lids fit pretty tightly you could squeeze the tube of watercolor out into here after you cut the end off And then just put it in a new container because if this is really sealed tightly shut it is not going to come off I think you're stuck The only other thing I could tell you would be to try soaking the tip in some water and see if it loosens up the dried up Watercolor paint there that might work Yeah, exactly your kids paint comes in those I use them for making up my these are my travel paints. I do carry a few acrylic paints with me Um, and there's some glitter glue in there See now i'm on camera. I'm not going to get that back together on camera um But but that's what I would do. Yeah save the little containers for travel um, but you could also try just getting a really shallow little small dish And um just soaking the top of the paint tube in the water For a little while and seeing if that loosens up the lid it might because it is water soluble paint. So it might Um, and you might try that before you butcher it and cut it open But also remember, you know I know with a lot of these tubes whether it's acrylic or watercolor When you think you've squeezed the last bit of paint out you haven't squeezed any of the rest of the paint out There's still paint in there So I always cut the tubes open and I use some kind of a craft stick or a palette knife And I scrape out the rest of the paint you'd be surprised how much is still in there I do that with acrylic paint and there's a lot of paint still left in there Any more questions? I'm so glad you guys can be here with me today because of course again, this is a last minute thing And I'm definitely gonna have to refilm for youtube. I may leave some of these clips in here But yeah, they can't see anything of what I'm doing At all do I paint night scenes? I do sometimes. Yeah, um It's been a while since I did one, but I think I might have something that's a night scene in acrylic coming up for Monday with deco art When we're done with the current canvas that we're working on I used to teach for michaels and Grumbacher sponsors those classes by the way So check your local michaels store because they do have a lot of really great acrylic painting lessons One of them is a night scene with trees that you might like But yes, I and I I think I have I have the urge to paint a canvas and to start out with it black And do something like that. So and I have some deco art black gesso I want to try so I think that might be our next canvas piece for Monday with deco art See they're a little hidden tip Oh and I can show you guys what I just got from deco art today I got a box from deco art if you want to see I love the hearts. Thank you so much Yes, okay So today I got a surprise Well, not really a surprise from deco art I ordered some things some some Uh, I really like refills So I wanted I needed some more already All right, nobody who knows me will be surprised. I needed some more deco art traditions. I don't have my glasses on detail um Artists this is their artistic traditions artists acrylic aquamarine because you know, I'm almost out already Because you know for anybody who knows me you're not surprised, right? Um, and then I wanted some of their satin varnish Which I haven't tried yet I needed some more fabric painting medium. I know, right? Um And this I don't know what this is, but I thought I would order it and try it. I have no idea what cream wax I didn't know if it was something we could use to like keep pages unsticky like maybe daddy vans ish I might try it and this is a drying time extender So to you know extend the drying time of your acrylic paint so it doesn't dry so fast And that's not all I got and then I ordered some deco americana deco page paper So these are their collage papers and they're like tissue and they come in different collections, right? So this is old world This one is tribal Ship to shore I love this one because it's very blueprinty. Who you know how I am about blueprints you guys. Um, moroccan Right, these are great eye cat And this is a great way to get little these aren't very expensive And it's a great way to get small selections of different kinds of tissue without having to do a million swaps I mean, we all love a good swap, but you know This is another great way to add to your collection. This one is called victorian romance Okay, who's watched secret soto redoing her lampshade? Like this one right here looks like that blue napkin. She put used on her nap on her lampshade I love that arrows safari life gold trends gold basics Because you know you got who doesn't love metallic Silver basics because you know you can't have the gold without the silver right metallic type Can you not just see that on a journal page? I know gold, right? Yeah, mary, right gold. They have gold. You need the gold one mary paisley punch gold stag My husband's birthday is coming up. So I may have to Use some of this on a card for him How much let's see if they have the price on here. This is silver trends Whoops And this one is vintage silhouette Now, I know you can order these from the deco art website I don't know how much they are, but they're not I know they're not expensive But it doesn't stay on here. I don't remember. Maybe somebody can look it up and type it in the comments really quick These are deco page papers by americana. Um, they should be on the decoart.com website Maybe one of you guys can look it up for me really quick Then you know, we're working on our canvas, right? If you don't know what I'm talking about, I have the Monday with deco art series and we're doing a mixed media canvas Using only deco art products or at least mostly deco art products. Yeah Okay, I think we're only up to step three But here it is after step four Okay, so when we do step five that will involve maybe adding a little more paint Maybe adding a little more doodling and I'll answer that paint question in just a minute So I knew I knew they made something I wanted to try on the canvas And but I didn't see it on the supply list for the helping artist program And so I emailed our coordinator And I said, you know, I know you make this thing Is there any way I could get some because I have this canvas series I'm working on and I really would like to use them on that canvas They sent me all of the colors. I only wanted I only needed black and white And I did buy a black and white one from amazon. Hi, hi. How are you? Um, and I tried them here on my painting drop paper Which is covered with smears of acrylic paint and glue and they work like a charm I gotta tell you guys these might be might be my new favorite paint pen So these are deco art glass paint markers. They're intended for writing on non porous surfaces But it's basically a paint pen. Yeah So they have gold White Look at that pink. Um, this turquoise color I'm looking to see. Yeah, it's called turquoise citron this lime green Violet Yes, they do Uh, silver I'll show you in a minute. I've got my drop paper right in front of me. I used them on there Um, orange red They sent me all of them. Yay Um, this is just blue But it's a really pretty blue yellow and green So they sent me all of them. Uh, that was so great and unexpected. Now we can use them on our canvas and we aren't just, um Religated to only black and white, right? So You see this black marker here. This is the black glass paint pen And this is covered in acrylic paint and this is just plain drop paper like packing paper Let's see if I can show you the white one That's the white glass paint pen Right there. That's the white one. I love I love the white one I think, you know, it's not super opaque, but it's not translucent either It's something in between. I like it a lot and that's probably because it's meant to write on non-core surfaces But it works great on, uh, paper and paper covered in acrylic and It doesn't, you know smear. It's, you know So I love it. I think they're great. They're a great thing and they're not very expensive and probably a lot easier to find than Uh, posca, I love my posca pens, but they're a little hard to find So that's what I got from DecoArt So now we are all ready for me to film part five because I've got to film the last part for the canvas And then we can start a new one and maybe we'll be using some of these papers in the new canvas I'm not sure yet so Any more questions Now my desk is a disaster I found my yuhu stick die I needed some more yuhu and I couldn't find my I knew I had extra in here somewhere But I put it away. I couldn't find it So I've been using scotch This one it works okay You're welcome But I prefer my yuhu Oh, yeah, I forgot I almost forgot. Thank you for reminding me. Okay. So yeah, so I did a comparison video um Where we compared some of the DecoArt paints to um golden And specifically the DecoArt fluid acrylic paints to golden fluid acrylics now While they're in some cases or most cases more translucent And a little bit less pigmented than the golden I like them just as much as but they're a fraction of the price And their traditions artist acrylics are nice now. They're not as heavy-body So if you're really used to working with a heavy-body paint that really it gives you a lot of texture Then you won't like these because they're very fluid and more the consistency of craft paint, but better pigmented But you could mix them with a gel medium To make them more heavy-body I like them though. I find working with them really nice and They jelly plate really well FYI they do great backgrounds I've used Nothing but DecoArt paints on this Um, and you see all these bright colors Some of these are their neon craft paints Some of these are their fluid acrylics Their traditions artist paint I don't have too many of their craft paints. I only have the neons So most of these are their artist kind of paints and I really like them And if you want to see more about How they work and using them then Watch the Monday and DecoArt series where we work on this canvas, but um I'd say it's a good buy. You know golden is great paint. We all love golden. I love Um Grombacher paint wins or newton. Some of them. It's really expensive though golden especially They're fabulous paints, but especially if you're just doing it as a hobby or you're just starting out I would think about buying something like the DecoArt traditions paint because I I love them You just might have to get them online because I don't know that there's a good selection of the paints and colors around in your local craft store Um, I haven't seen a lot of them Not consistently Um, so you might have to order them online. That's kind of a drawback Any other questions? Thank you for the hearts. I love the hearts Oh, you're welcome. It's all good. And if you have any more questions after you watch the um My youtube channel my contact information is in the description and you can um Get a hold. There's a lot of ways to get a hold of me. They're called DecoArt media paints Okay, so the two types of paints I have Okay, now I like the americana neons. I've always liked the americana neons and before I started as a DecoArt helping artist Um, I had I had the americana neons So go to your craft aisle at michael's or joanne's and they'll have americana neon paints My three favorite ones if you can only buy three yellow orange and pink Okay, if you can afford a couple more get green and blue um So the other kind of americana paints I have that I love Are DecoArt media fluid acrylics and these are very comparable to golden fluid acrylics They look like this And this particular one the cobalt cobalt turquoise It is a great color I just picked that up by accident by the way And then the other one I have is the deco art traditions artist acrylic paint Which is I love it. It's the consistency of a craft paint, but it's pigmented like an artist paint. So it's got more pigment um A deep excuse me. I had to say it launched a deeper richer color than your, um, uh craft paint But it has that same kind of Uh Not fluid not heavy body kind of in the middle of the road consistency You could thicken it up. I said like I said with like a heavy gel medium And that make it more heavy body that way if you wanted, um, both of these mix really well with their, um Fabric medium which I love To turn them into fabric paint. So you don't have to buy tons of fabric paint You just need fabric medium and you mix these 50 50 with the fabric medium I think it was 50 50. I don't know. It might have been less Two thirds of one third read the bottle Any other questions? Thank you all the hearts. I love the hearts I'm definitely gonna have to re-film this for you too I haven't been paying attention to that camera at all Maybe I'll use this bag for their little Okay, my little cakes So now I have all these little cakes spare cakes Oh, thank you. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. So as we wrap it up here and I get on camera to film for youtube I want you all to remember one thing Go out and do something nice for yourself. You deserve it Yeah, all right do some art do something creative take a walk Enjoy your kids laughter While you can when they're little because when they're adults, you know, you know Mine is never home anymore. She's 20. She's at work again She's got to make him living I guess All right, I'll see you guys later Yeah, die, you know what big hugs to you and you know, if you ever need to chat Um, just message me in facebook and you know that goes for all of you My contact information is at the bottom of all my youtube videos So if you want to get a hold of me, you know how and I will talk to you all later Have a great weekend. Okay. Bye