 Hey guys There I am there we go. Hey, how are you? Excuse me for just a minute because I am Stuffy today. I didn't make some tea. So we're gonna use some essential oil here So I'm not coughing. Hopefully through the whole broadcast I'm trying something new rather than eating cough drops like a million times a day That's actually working too. So yay. Thank you, Michelle So it's an essential oil from doTERRA called breathe works like a charm FYI the tea helps too, but like I said, I didn't have time. I thought you guys in the gym were more important It's just allergies Nancy. Nothing Nothing abnormal, you know, just allergies the story of my life these days all right, so We're gonna work back in our swatch book here and this morning we have these peerless watercolors Now if you'll notice one of the things I was doing this morning One of the other reasons I didn't get a chance to make a cup of tea before we got started And I have water instead is that I put a couple of links in the description below And let's see if I can see them. Yeah, so one of them is to the peer the website for the manufacturer These are peerless watercolors and the other one is to a couple different places that you can buy them Hey Victor This particular set of peerless was gifted to me by pita Thompson and She put them together in here with In this book and when I got it I put these clear acetate sheets in it now peerless watercolors Come with the pigments on these little pieces of paper When you buy the peerless the sheets of paper are much bigger. They're like this big She cut off little swatches for me and put them in this book You can buy books of the different papers the different colors in different sets on the couple of websites that I included As you can see what from the swatches next to the little square you can't really tell by looking at the sheet of paper What color you have so it's even more Hard to tell with these than it is with some other watercolors because they some of them all just look dark and black They are light fast. These were originally I believe Developed to tint black and white photos They are Very easy to transport in your watercolor kit So if you are the type of water colorist that even when you're traveling you want to take a whole bunch of colors with you Then I mean you see how thin this is you can fit a bunch of colors in this little tiny folder Or a folder like this and there's a bunch of you know different people on YouTube and that that Can show you how to make these folders and one of the places you can buy peerless watercolors is on Etsy And there are a couple of Etsy sellers that sell watercolors Already done up in a booklet like this. You can buy the big swatches and then make a little booklet like this Just cut a little hunk off All right, and there's all kinds of information about light fastness and all that stuff on the peerless website And I smell like eucalyptus trees now But it's clearing up my sinuses. All right, so we're going to work with these this morning And we're gonna make some swatches and honestly Peter gave these to me quite a while ago, and I haven't really used them Because I have lots of other watercolors, so You know Yeah, I don't usually either I Have a mini kit that I carry around with me So usually I have something with me all the time at the very least I have paper and a black pen and Then I can do the coloring when I get back All right So we're gonna try something a little different here, and we're gonna try working straight out of the book So we'll see what happens. I really don't want to keep taking the rings apart Okay, we've got a spot right here, so we can do it right here We are gonna need The dryer No, I believe peerless are More of an artist grade. They're not super popular Um, which I'm not sure why I Could be wrong. I haven't used these too much So I don't really know but maybe somebody can go look at the peerless website and find out But I believe they're perfect artist grade. They're very well pigmented. You can see by the colors I mean look at these bright colors I mean look at that You usually student grade paints aren't that brightly colored and I do believe they're light fast All right, so we're going to we need a pen pen pen You're welcome and one of the reasons you know, I one of the reasons I always include the website for these things is That You know, I don't always know lots about them before I buy them either and we can learn together And I am frequently wrong about stuff So, you know, there could be something on there that you guys see that I'm wrong about and I do think they're dye-based and I don't I think once If I'm not mistaken peerless unlike other water soluble paints once they're dry, you can't reactivate them You know, once they're dry on the paper, they don't move around again. Jane Davenport does use these You can get some of them on Amazon, but They can be kind of hard to find One of the best places to find them is Etsy ironically There was a Store called two hands papery and I think they're in Colorado that has them Okay, so now we have to pick colors that we're going to use Let's see So we want a yellow Let's do daffodil yellow and then an orange I prefer pants to actually marry the only reason I own the peerless is because they were gifted to me They're fun to play around with but I prefer pans even when I travel I have a little small metal pans that I bring with me and one of my favorite new That's of course is as you all know if you've been watching my videos is this one, which is are the mission gold. I Actually really like these paints a lot And this is the size pan that I usually bring with me when I'm traveling. I need a green here my dog There's my dog again Yeah, I like the the action of sloshing your your brush in the paints and yeah playing with the paints I like that too. I agree with you You know, there's somebody out in the yard. I'm sure that's what it is You know God forbid or you know out in the street, but they're in front of this house So, you know again, God forbid they should be walking on the sidewalk. He doesn't like that Get away from my sidewalk But nobody can ever sneak up on me Because I always know when they're coming Okay, so now that we got our colors picked because you know That's the hardest part when we do these things is picking the colors. I gotta wash my plate off. Can you tell I forgot? so Michelle Mitchell turned me on to the essential oils by doTERRA FYI and When we were in Las Vegas and they are just fabulous and This breathe stuff the whole family loves the breath. We all have allergies and the breathe works like a charm All right Yeah, you have a lot of choices and they have a lot of sets with a lot of Colors, but I don't know. I don't know if I know they have them in Australia And I know some parts of the world. They're like they're way easier to get than they are here For whatever reason because I think they're made here. So I don't that doesn't make sense I think they're just not very popular. Hey, Anne But you might try just Amazon does have some of the peerless. So you might try Amazon UK and see if you can get some there Here in the US they only had a few colors so Okay, so first I'm gonna just start with the purple since I'm right here on that page and Look, that's just a little bit of the paint off of that swatch They're very well pigmented You're welcome. And of course you're a moderator One of my creative cohorts. So of course I'm going to make you a moderator Whether you want to be or not All right cobalt blue Again, look at that's just a little bit of the paint off of the paper. I agree with you. I they're just not I Don't think they're bigly mark. Well marketed. Let's see. Let's go back to green. What green did I say light green? and I don't know they're not talked about like with any of us you know mixed media people we don't talk about peerless. So you can see you can just barely touch your brush to the paper and look at all the pigment that you pick up off of that piece of paper. I liked it the first time Mary Lickily. I thought that was funny. Okay let's see chrome orange. There it is. So you just barely touch it to the paper and look at all that pigment that you get. They need new marketing people they should hire my daughter that's what she does for a living. Lord knows she's always telling me what I'm doing wrong. All right so I'm gonna put a little bit here on the on the palette over here and let me grab some of the green. They're beautifully vibrant so you can see here by looking at the other colors that are on the palette. Put this away somewhere. How compared to there's some good brands on here so I've got Sennelier on here look how bright they are. One of the other things they have that is a marketing and in my opinion a marketing and production issue is that they sell the piece of papers like loose or in a book where you have the papers you know this way like you have to flip. They should really market something like this. They should come up with a palette that's like this that's on one sheet of paper or that's a book with many colors on one page. I think that's kind of a marketing issue also. Okay so let's try this real quick. I know right he wants to be on the video. Okay so now we'll do a sample house. There is one. Okay and the brushes I'm using today are ones I picked up when I was in Las Vegas at Dick Blick and these are the Utrecht generic watercolor brush. This is a 650R number eight round. Yeah multi-color palette that you can just get a bunch of colors on one sheet rather than flipping through a book like this and each sheet only has one color on it. I think that's they did that's a mistake. Okay let's start with yellow. There was some green on my brush so it's a little bit more green than yellow. Oops I still have green on my brush. I hear what's bothering him now the gardeners are next door. He does not like gardeners at all. So swatching with the paint is fine. That's one thing but painting with them and creating a piece of artwork is a whole different ball game. So sometimes they swatch nice but then they don't paint nice. And those of you who have been playing with your watercolors and you've tried a few different brands will know exactly what I mean. So let's do a little painting here. We're using Peerless this morning. We're adding Peerless to our swatch book and trying them out seeing what we can do with them. They do kind of separate funny some of the colors in the palette. Are you guys seeing this here? The purple has had some of the blue pull out of it into the water. That's interesting. I don't know if it's bad or not it's just interesting. No they don't and that's that's they need to make a functioning palette. Because I think that's one of the big problems with Peerless is not that people don't like to paint. The little pieces of paper are pain in the neck. So I'm pulling the leftover paint off the palette but I'm also pulling some out of the book and you can see when you pull it right off the book off the paper how much more vibrant it is. Okay let's do the green. It might be but you would think they would be able to come up with a way for them to create a functioning palette and not have to okay Mary I don't know I don't know what you were trying to say. They must be able to come up with a way to create a functioning palette without having to worry about the dyes contaminating each other or some other issue I don't know. They do blend nicely on the paper so without trying too much I put some green on here I'm getting some nice shades of brown it is blending with the other paints on the on the paper and that's kind of nice. It's doing it by itself I'm getting secondary colors without trying too hard and Mary your posts are funny because I don't have any idea what you're trying to say. Actually I shouldn't say that. I think I might have an idea what you're trying to say. Wrong link. Which link is wrong? It could be have something to do with that YouTube squishing our links thing that's going on. There are some links to the video description. I understand from when I was gone in Vegas there is some issue with YouTube links. So I did notice it's getting almost a little bit too muddy but I do notice it kind of lifts very nicely. If you come in here if you've gotten too much pigment and you rewet it before it gets too dry. There we go but it's not really moving once it's dry. So I think it does a very nice job. The next will be to see how they blend so we'll find out. I'm going to dry this if you guys want to ask questions. Sorry for the noise in advance. Okay so now we're going to do a color wheel. We'll see what happens. This is one of those tests of a good watercolor. You know if it blends well. Aha! I've got one. I don't have to draw it. Yay! So yeah the website is peerlesscolor.com and I gotta put our colors here. Gotta figure out what colors it was I used. There we go. Yeah I do agree with you. They almost bleach out on the palette and you really need to use them straight from the little pieces of paper. I totally agree with that. So the next trick is going to see how they blend which might be interesting because they might not really blend well and if that's the case for some of us who do something other with our watercolors then just you know fiddle faddling on a tag which I do do occasionally. I like the occasional fiddle faddle you know but if I want to do a painting I don't know if these don't blend well. These would not be my first choice of paints to pick. Okay so let's do our pure colors first. I mean they're nice and bright right off of the paint swatch and yeah I noticed that Mary it was pretty funny. Usually it's me with all the typos so it's nice when it happens to other people. Okay so that's straight off of the palette. So now we're gonna have to try to see if they'll mix well which you know I don't I don't know so far you know thought it did strange things over here so let's see what happens. So that's the blue. We're gonna add some yellow. Well this is cobalt blue and this is the koi cobalt blue and I don't think it's they're supposed to be the same color but I don't think they are and I kind of agree with that it's not as deep. So now we have that now we'll add more yellow to some of it. I have to tell you guys I'm not impressed with the way they blend and it's really hard to pick up a lot of pigment. I think these are good if you're doing like greeting cards or tags. Hey Michael but I don't know about doing a painting with these. I think that would drive the for one thing the little pieces of paper would drive me crazy. Now we're going to add some more blue. I think these are great paints for coloring in rubber stamps and doing greeting cards. They're not super pigmented but they're fairly inexpensive and easily portable. I think that if you're a watercolorist and you're doing paintings though you're going to be disappointed. Okay so that's the yellow and green and blue and this is here's the koi next to it. Koi are really well pigmented. Okay so now let's do the blue and red and I'm really kind of having to work at it to pick up a lot of the blue. What's some announcement? I missed something or was it something I said and I wasn't paying attention to what I was saying. You know these things happen. So that red is really really dominant so let's put some more blue in it. There we go. Yeah these are good for quick sketches. You know you could travel with them if you're going to do a quick if you're going to do any kind of serious painting even when you're traveling. I don't know that these would be the paints I would bring. Yeah these are these are easily portable and if you don't want to mix I wouldn't focus on mixing with these because they're so portable and they're so flat because they're little pieces of paper I would just get a whole bunch of colors and make them into a travel palette and I think they would be fine for that. I wouldn't I wouldn't try to do too much mixing with them. I don't they're kind of a pain to mix with to be honest with you. Hey Josie I agree with you Mary. I'll stick with my metal palette my little small metal palette that I bring. All right so now we're going to do red and yellow so here's the red and some colors as you can see are way more vibrant. You don't have to try too hard to pull pigment off of the little piece of paper that red is really vibrant. No it doesn't. I agree with it. Oh happy birthday Josie. Welcome. Glad you could join us. They just don't you know like I said I'm struggling getting blending them. They do. I agree with you Anne. So if you're going to do these I would think they would make a great travel palette but I think you would want to just get a whole bunch of colors and don't blend them because I don't think you're going to be happy. We had another paint that sort of lost pigment when you blended it. Let's see if I can find it in here really quick. Praying but Praying is a student grade. The primas did a little bit. These I think I just had too much water. I don't think that was the paint. No they're not and so they're not going to last long but I think if you're going to just do like a small travel palette you know with some colors in it these would work fine but I don't know. I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't count on these being your only one kind of watercolor paint. My dog's barking because of the gardener. I don't know about yours Anne. You turned oh your um dried silks. I have silk glazes. They come dried. Praying don't get me wrong. I just when I did the blending and I do think they were easier to blend than these peerless. Yeah if if Dan all the companies need to take a cue from the peerless in that they're very portable. Oh they went dry. Oh don't get over just do some practicing with them. It's going to be fine. So see this is what I'm talking about. Look at these. The all the other color paints I've ever used including Crayola. Don't do this how they start separating on the palette. Praying was much better. So that I don't like that and all that paint that was on there but you don't get that much on the baby white. I don't know. Oh you can totally. Yeah I started with Praying so and Art District paints. Let's see. I forgot what colors I was using people again separating a binder issue. I don't understand Mary. The Crayola paints were gooey and sticky. I I've never come across a Crayola set that's gooey and sticky. Now the Praying ones that I have are semi-moist. So they're a little bit like that. I don't know that I've ever come across a Crayola set that's gooey and sticky. Anybody have any thoughts on that? So we have if you guys forgot the pure pigment here and here oops here well except I just got a red dot on there and then where that those two lines meet pure pigment. It could be Mary. That could very well be because they don't have the it could be that the way these are made that it's almost pure pigment with a very little binder because of the way they're made. That's a very good point and that could be why when you put them on the palette they separate that way and keep in mind these were these were developed like ants I think said earlier for stamping and for coloring black and white photographs. These were not developed with the intention that anybody was going to ever make a painting with them. The thing that's nice about them is they're very sheer. All the colors seem to be very sheer. I don't think any of them are very opaque. Yeah in fact I have some experiments I'm going to do coming up. I'm probably going to do film them today because I have lots of everybody's out of the house for a long time today so it's a good filming day. I'm going to work on the brush shows and making them into a palette. I'm going to film that and I have a couple of experiments I want to try. I think I think you're going to like the pencils Michael. Okay here's that scarlet. The scarlet is really bright look at this as somebody said earlier about the Daniel Smith dot card that's the closest thing any other manufacturers have I think to as easily portable travel palette as the peerless is the Daniel Smith or Quar sample booklets. It would be nice if Quar had all of their colors available like Daniel Smith does and if you're going to turn those sample booklets into something you want to travel with you might want to do it in a way that's flatter than mine. This japonica scarlet is a really nice color and this is the blue. Mary you're just struggling with that keyboard today aren't you? Holy moly. Yeah the best thing my husband and I did when our daughter got older was create his and hers offices. You can sure why can't you? All right so now here we're going to mix red and yellow and here it's going to be more red here it's going to be more yellow hopefully. Oh I'm sorry Mary you're dedicated mixed media artist to be here with us instead of sleeping and Mary might be right about the binder because they just don't hold up well when you start trying to mix them. That's because I typed that way without trying Mary. All right so here we're going to do blue with yellow more blue and then blue with yellow more yellow but I think I'm using up all of my paint on my little swatches so I think that's another part of the problem. Yeah I agree they could be they could be pure pigments with no binder and some of these little swatches don't you know these little papers they don't have as much pigment on them as others so that's something else to know like the red seems to have lots of pigment on it and no matter what I do I pick up tons of color but I'm already running out of color on the yellow and the blue like I would like to get that one more blue. I'm gonna see if I can blend it here right on the paper sort of but the red there's plenty of red but yeah I'm definitely running out of blue. I do have spare little pieces of paper I already need to replace the cobalt blue and the yellow. Yeah test them out and you know you should do some swatches playing with your materials is the best way to learn what they will and won't do and what you like about and don't like about them. So there's our peerless swatches. All right so this is this is the Koi. Yeah that's that's pretty that's it that's it exactly so I would definitely say my conclusions for this particular brand of paint are that they're nice for single color use in cards or calligraphy coloring stamped images. I think these would be great don't try to blend them this is not what they're meant for and some colors you're going to run out of sooner than others. You're definitely going to want to take little pieces of the colors and create some kind of a book with it. They don't come this way so that's kind of a bummer. You keep cleaning off my acetate. Make sure you put acetate in between so the colors don't contaminate but they do you know lay very flat and like if you were doing quick sketches outside like on vacation these these might be nice to quickly add a little bit of color to a pen or pencil sketch these might be nice but I don't I wouldn't blend them I wouldn't try to do a big large you know watercolor painting with them I don't think you'd be happy. Yeah more than I I like the Prang better if you're going to buy an inexpensive watercolor the Prang I think are better the Primes are nice. Yeah sketches quick sketches I think these would be nice for quick sketches but I was just going to do the peerless but I do have other sets I need to test if you guys want me to I do have others but we could do a little painting too I mean it's up to you guys what do you guys want to do I was just going to do one maybe chat I have lots of video editing to do today I don't want to I hate video editing so I'm coming up in future Watercolor Wednesdays we are going to be working on Dayla Rowney and Langnickel yeah you are yay and Brusho which I haven't done anything with yet so they're still in powder form so I want to actually see about turning them into a sort of a mini palette one more test than painting so if you want to do it either let's do the Dayla Rowney so this is a little set from Hobby Lobby I bought this one they did not send it to me for free it's regularly $16.99 but you can get use a coupon on it and it comes in this small metal palette which is nice for traveling it's hinged so you're not going to lose the lid and you can use the lid for mixing they are cake water colors and they have it has this like plastic copy of the color swatch in here and I haven't opened this yet this is the first time I'm opening it I just I looked in it the sample in the store but the first thing I would do see wait I need a I need a pokey thing it's a cute box but the first thing I would do is pull this plastic thing out this flippy plastic thing if you're like this gonna drive me crazy okay so this flippy plastic thing that's just you could put it up here in the lid I mean I don't know that they already made sort of a color key for you so you don't really have to do one but you could I would take it off of here because that would just be that would just that would just make me crazy so I would put it here Mary I'm sorry I'm just pausing to laugh it does come with a small brush which is cute I haven't used the edits we'll have to see how it works but it's a cute small travel brush it's got more some wells here to mix with but you also could use the lid and it's a cake obviously it's a cake watercolor set now daily rounding should be a fairly decent brand this is their aquafine 10 half pans a mini brush compact case it does have a thumb ring on the back it doesn't say but this these are their aquafine maybe one of you guys see I wasn't planning I was only planning on doing the one maybe one of you can go look at daily rounding and see I think these might be student grade but I'm not sure they probably are but they're probably fairly light fast even though they're student grade because they're daily rounding so I'm gonna use my sprayer here that has some oxgull in it if you mixed missed one of my other broadcasts I bought some oxgull right before I left for Las Vegas this is supposed to improve wetting and flow in your watercolor paints and we have some paints here that I've tried that once their tubes are dry in a pan they don't like to re-wet well the whole line is one of them I like them fresh out of the tube but they don't re-wet well so I got some of this to add to my water from now on and it does seem to be helping I haven't tried it with the whole vine but the paints I've tried it with it has made a difference okay does it say if they're student grade or um or what so I'm off camera I'm just spritzing these with some water the water so like that see oh yay I have a spot yay I was hoping I wasn't gonna have to stop and draw stuff so I don't know about this brush I guess we'll try it and we have it we might as well try it oh no it's called oxgull liquid x g a l l liquid right the breathe essential oil works great the little bit of coughing I want to do when I'm normally like having allergy issues I hardly cough with it it's fabulous stuff you just kind of smell like a walking pharmacy but I don't much care so it's all right now you're supposed to add three to four drops per cup of water of this so you don't need much this little bottle will last me a really long time and again you can get it at any arts and craft store I got it at hobby lobby it was 1299 I used a coupon we'll try their little brush and see oh I should put the colors on here shouldn't I lemon yellow oh and hang on in second Mary there's no purple in this set so we can't do a purple um sorry say talk about coughing then I just it makes me want to cough so oxgull aids in the rewetting three or four drops to a cup of water rewetting and flowing better when you're painting with them some of these paints that I know and I know I kind of knew this before but I didn't really dawn on me till we started doing all of these uh you guys can't hear me it's the sound okay or not oh yeah yeah no I didn't disconnect anything holy cow