 Hi guys. I'm turning on the iPad so that I can see your comments. So give me a minute. Booting up now. There we go. Hey. You can see me. Woohoo. Welcome today everybody. Oops wait. I can hear myself in stereo. It's never a good thing. Good morning. I hope you all had a great Christmas or winter, whatever winter holiday you celebrate and I hope you all had a happy New Year. It's great to be back with Watercolor Wednesday this morning. There's so much going on for me in 2016 but I'm being organized and I'm keeping a schedule. I'm trying hard. Good morning Mark. I'll explain to you what this is in just a minute. I thought real quick while we're waiting for people to show up that I should share with you a few little things I got for myself. Good morning. Oh you miss me. It's 8 p.m. in Finland. Wow Finland. Cool. Good morning. So one of the things I got for myself over the holidays. I decided I wanted a small inexpensive no these are watercolor. Watercolor kit that I could use when I'm doing mixed media that I wouldn't be too worried about you know if I stuck an acrylic brush in it or if I got acrylic paint or ink in it you know that I didn't mind if it got messy and contaminated so to speak. So I got this small Winsor Newton pocket kit which I've had one of these before and it's perfect for this. It's just got basic colors but it's just what I want when I'm you know doing mixed media and I want a little bit of watercolor on there. Try it could be your internet connection. Try going out and coming back in maybe. Mine's not skipping. Okay so anyway so I got this small Winsor Newton kit and I got it from Hobby Lobby and I used a 40% off coupon so it's not you know it's real affordable plus bonus. The Winsor Newton kits come with these little small brushes which I really like for traveling. It's a super fine round brush and you know the handle fits over the brush end and I love these for traveling because they're small and compact so you know I have that for my travel kit that I can just set aside and use and then I have this little kit and I have the old color key from the other set because I took the other one apart. So this I just have for you know what I'm doing mixed media and it just sits actually above where the phone is sitting right now. I'm going to put it back there and it's just out all the time. The other thing I got that I wanted to share with you is I found another one of these sort of postcard size watercolor pads and I know there's you know I've seen them before Fluid has which is this brand that we're going to be using today. If they are I would go there and I would stock up. That's true. So the other thing I found was by ProArt and this is a watercolor four by six inch pad and it was again it was $5.99 it was on a separate trip and I again I used a 40% off coupon so I got it for a really good price and it's got 15 cards in here so again this is perfect with this and even if you did have the Windsor Newton kit which I just put away oh it's way up there um you know that's a nice travel kit you just you know you don't have to like go out of your way and spend tons of money and go hunting around for special stuff you could just do this with a rubber band and that's a fun kit to take around with you to just play with your watercolor paints. So I wanted to share that with you this morning and then also something else that I love yeah you know why there's a reason for that which I'll share with you in just a minute there's a reason for that. I buy from other places but when I do it's online. So these are Koi water brushes and these I got I think from Amazon although they have them at Hobby Lobby they might have them from Michaels. I know they have them at Hobby Lobby but I think I got them at Amazon. They come in different sizes small medium and large and the nice thing about these brushes and they also have the short handle and the longer handle they call that something small petite oh this is long this is a long tank and this is a short tank these are nice because for a travel brush because they have this black cap so you could travel and I have traveled with these handles full of water you stick the black cap in and it's not going to leak and you can package them in your travel kit like this so if you have a really small hey so if you have a really small art kit like this one the brush fits in there really well. So I love these Koi water brushes so that's another something I stocked up on over the holidays because I actually only had one and I misplaced the others they're in here somewhere I don't know where and then these these are definitely from Amazon and I found out about these from another watercolor artist here not here but on YouTube these are actually Japanese condiment containers they're meant for taking like in your lunch like in your bento box and she uses them for her water taking water with her when she's traveling that wouldn't surprise me I live in California and they're like I got mine on Amazon and if you just google like you know Japanese condiment container or you know small condiment bottle they will pop up because that's I don't remember exactly what I typed in but it was something vague like that and they did come up they were really inexpensive I don't remember exactly how much but I think less than five dollars and they don't leak so you can fill them with water they have a small nozzle tip so you can use them to either wet your palette or to refill your water brushes and you can just carry a little bit of water with you in your travel kit so that's something else I stocked up over on over the holiday I missed some of the questions you guys asked something I saw something about metallic metallic watercolors one of their reasons that I don't shop a lot a lot of arts and craft stores I should say craft stores besides Hobby Lobby is because of my allergies Michael's especially is one and especially it's true over the Christmas holiday between the cinnamon pine cones and the candles and everything else I can't breathe when I walk in the door and I start coughing and can't stop coughing I was tried to go into a Michael's recently hello and I don't know if it was a cleaning product or somebody's perfume or something but it permeated the entire store and I had to actually leave I didn't buy anything so it's easier for me to just go to places I know that don't have that issue or to just shop from home because I really get tired of having to take medication every time I want to go somewhere the other thing we'll talk about is these two little experiments these are just scraps of paper that I've experimented on with watercolors and this one is from a video that's coming up on YouTube yeah Amazon Prime love Amazon Prime um dickblick.com Joanne's occasionally I'll order from because they have something I want that nobody else has but they take forever to like ship stuff to you so I don't they're not usually my first choice although I'm waiting for an order from them right now um anyway I wanted to share these two with you because I thought these are just experiments but don't throw these kind of things away if you're doing documented life or something like this wouldn't these make great place markers you could punch holes in it you could cut it up and use it as embellishments on a journal cover or a journal page um they could just be bookmarks so save these kind of things I love the way these both turned out so I'm going to be saving them for my um I'm doing I'm combining documented life and my year of my life journal from last year into like one by I'm doing a binder so I'm going to do a combination of the two and I'm going to be using these in those in this this year so chattering chattering anybody who asked questions and I missed your questions and didn't answer them I didn't see them so if you want to ask them again while we're getting ready here um we're going to spend a little time just chatting um I usually try to do that before we get started all right so we're going to work on painting galaxies this morning which is a lot of fun this is my watercolor journal and going forward this year I will be doing some of the watercolor Wednesdays live in here because I want to finish it and I didn't I didn't finish it last year and I'll do a quick flip through for you guys some of these paintings you will recognize from um different advertising and things I've been doing on the internet I love this one and there's an example of a galaxy in here oh yay I love making handmade journals it's my preferred way I I do buy a lot of journals don't get me wrong but I love making journals oh good for you that's a lot of fun I had a video that posted today about doing a journal page in five minutes so here's the galaxy I did in here and um one of the ways to do this and this is not my original idea there is a youtuber who I saw do a galaxy or a nebula um and I thought I would give it a try and of course gave it my own spin thank you so much so I did that and at first when I did was this one here in the journal and the first thing I she did hers in a circle too but she just you know was careful about where she put in the paint and I thought well that's going to make me crazy so how about if we try using masking fluid so I've done it both ways I do prefer masking fluid I think it's easier so I'm going to show you how to do that I'm going to set this book aside now because I've already done a galaxy and I don't want to do another one now this is a piece of paper that I put masking fluid on a little while ago and I think it's dry or dry enough so that yellow stuff on there is masking fluid now the Windsor Newton masking fluid comes in a bottle that looks like this how come yeah bigger pieces are easier so if you're struggling with your art and getting you know those you know getting it to look the way you want go bigger don't go smaller small is hard the smaller you go the harder it is we're going to paint a galaxy so Windsor Newton masking fluid will come in a bottle like this this is gum arabic um this is not masking fluid but the bottle is the same shape um it's in the fine art department at any of your craft stores including Michaels I took my masking fluid out of the bottle that it was in and I put some of it in this fine liner bottle needle tip bottle so you can draw lions on your paper with this it has a really fine tip in it and of course we've started here and I don't have my reading glasses on and so can I get the little there we go the hole um I also took and put some of it in this bottle which is what I did this with so this is a bottle that I got from American Science and Surplus and it's like an old paste or rubber cement bottle do you guys remember those that had the brush in the lid so real easy you just put a plate upside down on your piece of paper or something round and then brush around it with your masking fluid to get your circle shape and then what I did is I just splattered a little bit of it onto the paper um and then I've let this whole thing dry the masking fluid protects the paper from the paint so wherever you have masking fluid it's going to stay white so as you paint it's not going to get colored and that's a little easier than trying to be careful around the edge now is my edge perfectly round well no but this shape is a lot more circular than it would be if I tried to draw it freehand now schminck does make a masking fluid and there's this blue instead of the yellowy color and it doesn't smell as bad as the one winter newton one is cheaper but it smells more so um you have to really you know have the windows open and that kind of thing I did go to geneabee errands dot com and there is a blog page on my website along with a whole bunch of other stuff and I update the blog once a week okay I've already gotten my paint palette wet that's great again I'm using daniel smith paints uh there will be you're welcome there will be a um pdf of this broadcast that will um I will create within the next 24 to 48 hours it'll be on my um etsy shop and uh copy of the the this broadcast will be on youtube uh both of them will also be available for download I have a watercolor class in you to me and I do load these videos over there along with the pdfs and if you pay for the class you get everything that I load in over there and I have to actually add to it today all right so like with any other watercolor painting I'm going to start light and work our way darker for for doing the galaxy you're going to need some paints obviously paper masking fluid you're going to want some white let's see I'm going to use I have that I'll tell you what that is in a minute and then a white pen I think I put my gel pen in the other room oh there's one that'll work signal um so you'll want a white gel pen I actually usually use a jelly roll pen but it's out with my doodle stuff in the other room and also this is a sakura what is this called some it's a sakura it's a crayon it's like an oil it's like a oh yeah yeah I don't know what it's called s uh I don't know scs it's like a white crayon and it's like oil paint you could use a white crayon you could use a gelato but you need something with a small tip all right so let's get started I'm going to start with my big brush and this is just a royal watercolor brush number 16 round nothing special nothing fancy you all know if you've been watching me for a while I don't spend lots of money on my brushes because I tend to abuse them all right so we're going to start light work our way darker we want to pick colors that blend well so you don't want purple and orange purple and orange are going to make a brown galaxy maybe you want a brown galaxy I'm not one to judge if that's what you want I don't want a brown galaxy so we're not going to pick those colors I'm going to start with quinoa coral which is a pretty color kind of an orangey red color I'm going to put some of the pigment on in sort of a diagonal lines then I'm going to come in with some just water I'm going to let it sort of go where it may and I'm watching myself on the iPad and let me zoom in just a little bit so let the paint just go where it wants you can do it with acrylics um you aren't going to get the blendy I shouldn't say aren't going to it's going to be harder to get sort of this blendy watery effect if you're going to try it with acrylics I would probably say try it with fluid acrylics and you might want to add some airbrush medium or reach harder to them so you have more working time to sort of move the paint around and it's all going to be if you're working with acrylics it's going to be about layers layers of marks unlike watercolor which you really have to just you know the colors are more side by side so in some respects it might be a little easier I would give it a try and and whatever happens share okay so now I love that color don't you just love that color like just that by itself it's just pretty all right let's try sleeping beauty turquoise because you know I have some turquoise in there right so this color with the pink should make something that's kind of you know a purpley color and I'm going to just dab it into where that paint is already wet and you see it blooming into the other color I'm using Daniel Smith but you could use any brand I like Daniel Smith I have lots of other brands but Daniel Smith is um asked the question again was that the one about acrylics I'm going to blend like with the red I'm using Daniel Smith watercolor paints you can use any kind of paints that you wanted and yes you can probably do this with acrylics but I would recommend doing it with a fluid acrylic definitely if you use a heavy body or fluid acrylic I would recommend adding a retarder or airbrush medium to the paints you have more open time before the paint dries so we're letting the colors bloom and blend into one another we're softening up some of the edges with just water we have our yellow dots here those are going to stay white if you're doing this with acrylics then it you know it's going to be all about the mark the layers of mark making so instead of working with the colors all side by side blending into each other you're going to put do a layer let it dry do a layer let it dry and you're going to build up your marks and make your galaxy interesting in that that way that I would definitely try it and if you have some success at it or you want to share I would love to see you over in the Facebook group I do have my own Facebook group maybe somebody can post a link who's a member now I'm going to start to darken up the area around these sort of nebula shapes right um oh Detroit welcome I'm going to come in with prussian blue and you could definitely do I should say I should stop and say you could do planets this way in my udemy class I showed doing a galaxy with planets in it um which is something I don't haven't done anywhere else so if you know you want to see how to do that you have to go over there but you could definitely you know think outside the box you could do planets in this you could do your galaxy and then you could paint a porthole around the galaxy so this is like a window outside of a spaceship um crazy eileen family is one or a life of art and self expression brandy was actually the group I was talking about this is prussian blue those of you who um have been watching me for a while know it's one of my favorite blues and I'm touching it to the paper in some places where the paper is wet some places where it's not I have a niece who is a talented spray paint artist and she can do this kind of thing with spray paint and it just it's phenomenal I'm not that talented with spray paint I can do it with watercolor that's okay brandy that's one of the groups just make sure if you guys post anything to facebook you better tag me otherwise I'm not going to see it this would be great on greeting cards so now just like with the other colors I'm going to come in with just some water I'm going to blend it out a bit let it bloom into the other colors on my page if you're doing this and you're using lots of blues for the basic galaxy background but your nebula is say orange or green um especially the orange you might want to let the orange dry before you put the blues in yeah they're fabulous they're it's an art form unto itself that I don't know how to do and I can't breathe around spray paint anyway so so I'm going to come in here now with some pains gray which is a dark bluish gray color yeah these are fun and they are just really quick easy I don't think periscope is super android friendly I got a new Kindle for Christmas and I have not even figured out how to download the periscope app to my Kindle so that's just putting that out there for you it's fine for me thank you so much yeah it's really an apple app it really doesn't like being on other devices I don't think maybe somebody can go into the um face who's on the facebook groups I am can you go in and if you know how can you get the internet link and put the internet link in there for people on facebook to either watch it live or to come in um and watch the tape of it oh okay so um yes so praying is an inexpensive student grade brand but they sell nice metallic watercolors um I would definitely look at them and you know I used to have I may still have it in my travel kit somewhere there was another brand let me think on it because there was another one so this definitely could be made into something that's like a porthole you know where you're looking out a ship window that would be so cool I'm going to come in here with a little bit of this sort of metallicy color I have that's called uh kyanite thank you it's like a metallicy silver color silvery like a gray nebulae's are fun because there's no pressure to you know paint a face or paint yeah I think inktense would work uh paint a face or paint a landscape or you know this is just really all about playing with blending your paints that's the that's the facebook group thank you so let's let that dry for just a second because I think to answer your question I do have boy let's see if I still have it really quick it's going to bug me if I don't look I don't still have it so I'm not sure there is another that what's not praying somebody else makes metallic watercolors it might be in here this is one of my travel cases I didn't know what would oh the link the link will make it really easy thank you this is one of my many travel kits no I don't think I do still have it there's somebody makes a little square set of just metallic watercolors and I don't remember what the name is and I don't have it anymore I want to say pearl or something go to dick I think I got mine at either dickblick or jerry's artorama and type in metallic watercolor set and my guess is it's going to pop up it's like a square it's like the size of a seedy container and maybe pearlescent maybe and they're all it's like 12 pearl pearly metallic colors and then praying makes a metallic set and a pearlescent set and of course lots of your big heavy heater manufacturers make metallic or pearl colors or iridescent colors maybe I don't remember you guys I just remember what it looks like and I used it up a long time ago I'm going to dry this a little bit while we think needy maybe needy mark mark so when you get to a certain point with this before it gets too muddy then you want to dry things and yes when you put more paint on here it's going to keep moving and blending but not as much as if the paint underneath is already completely dry it moves less so we're going to dry the hearts are people are showing that they like the broadcast so right above the little person in the lower left I'm sorry lower the right of your screen if you tap that area above the little person the hearts will show up I'm using my heat embossing tool to dry this quick I have no patience for things to dry quickly naturally even when I'm not broadcasting just FYI Lisa needy pearlescent might be right I know they came in a square case about the size of the cd case very small and thin but it was enough decent quality pearlescent colors to work with now of course Daniel Smith has a lot of paints that are made out of semi precious stones and the kyanites one of them and they're I don't know if you can tell but they're they're a little it's a little bit metallic on that I don't I don't know if that's going to show up on camera um all right so now we're going to come in with I want to start giving it bright pops and so I'm going to come in with opera pink which is a bright really bright this is opera pink right here almost a neon fluorescent pink and I'm going to pick the areas of my nebula that are already pretty pink the areas that I maybe want to emphasize I'm barely touching the brush to the paper and I'm not doing any straight lines I want it to be uneven oh yeah that doesn't surprise me boy I love my arts and craft supplies I've been called an enabler many times sorry I don't actually do haul videos anymore because um I and I don't watch them too much anymore either because um yeah that's dangerous I just had a conversation with my husband the other day I have an event to go to um he's a freemason and we have an event coming up and I actually might need to go buy a new dress and at first his comment was um oh god you're going to go shopping and spend too much money and I looked at him and said you have less to worry about me dress shopping and spending too much money than me going to the art supply store he said never mind go ahead and go dress shopping because he knew I was right all right so I am just adding in my pink this is a number 16 round it's a pretty I did pull out a couple brushes but I you know this this one has a nice point on it so it works I hate shopping for clothes okay so now I'm going to come in with a brighter blue and I'm going to use cobalt teal this is a more um opaque color than the sleeping beauty turquoise so I'm going to be careful about where I put it and how much I put gonna again emphasizing those spots where there's already some you know turquoise on the in the galaxy even though you're using watercolors and you know you should think about them working as working more side by side than on top of each other you can do a bit of layering it is dangerous to do the online shopping I'm telling you especially at something like Christmas time when you know you have all the black Friday sales and everything else and I worked in retail for a long time so you know I know all the tricks it doesn't mean I don't fall for them I fall just like everybody else so I'm gonna let some of my marks bloom and blend into the other colors I'm gonna let some of the lines stay none of it is straight and even we don't want that now I'm gonna go in with I'm good you know what I said I wasn't going to but I'm gonna go in with some uh I'm gonna go in with neutral tint which is a very sheer color but dark yes I'm using Daniel Smith and I'm going to just like I was just doing with the other colors I'm gonna emphasize those darkest those darker areas so it's all about working with what happened with the paint what it did naturally when it bloomed and blended and pulling out those areas that you want to emphasize maybe reworking a little bit the ones that you don't but this is a good exercise that teaches you a lot about how your paints will bloom and blend and mix together it's a great practice exercise doing nabulas and you don't have to do them around you could fill the whole page see I got a smudge over there that's all right so this is neutral tint I have lots of other watercolor paint brands I like my Daniel Smiths they have a more unique color line than some of the other brands I think plus they're made in the USA oh cool the fine art brands don't generally they make some pearly colors and or metallic colors generally pearlescent or iridescent colors they don't generally make a lot so when you find those kind of colors it's usually going to be a student grade or craft grade watercolor paint nothing wrong with that I frequently have mixed them together okay so now we're gonna get really fun with this before we dry it we're gonna come in with clean brush actually I'm gonna switch to a smaller brush I'm gonna switch to my Princeton uh nope I'm gonna use this royal this is another royal blush this is the number eight round it's a smaller one Chinese white so I'm gonna come in here and the lighter spots on that painting I'm gonna add the white and I'm doing it while the paint is wet for a reason because see how it's blending and blooming and creating more interesting marks in my painting and the white layer just like the other layers should be something that you work at and that you do do it with intention to create interest in your painting didn't that sound like I know what I'm talking about holy moly all right so I'm just going with the lighter spots on my painting on the spots that have you know white paper showing where I didn't get any paint on them some of it was intentional and I'm adding Chinese white which generally speaking is a color that's always in my palette I like and you could just keep going with these I have nebulas where I just for me it's kind of like doing a mandala and I could just spend hours and hours working on it all right so before we do anything else let's give it a dry and then we're going to take the masking fluid off we are going to need one of these you'll find these generally in the scrapbooking department at your craft store they have them at the office supply it's a rubber cement eraser and yes you can remove the masking fluid with your finger it will come off with your finger but if you have a lot of it on your page it's hard on your fingertips so just get one of these little masking fluid erasers they're not expensive they're only like a dollar or so it comes right off see now I'm not so sure I dried all the paint I think I did but we'll find out because it'll smear if it's not completely dry you guys don't you know don't make my mistakes hear my dog barking there's probably gardeners outside he hates gardeners and they always come when I'm like trying to tape or broadcast so if I was doing this with my fingertips they would be so sore right about now so there you go now if you were a little bit more careful about your masking fluid you'd get a cleaner liner on that outside edge than I was obviously do what I say not what I do oh boy remember my mother's saying that like a million times okay how do you not just love that just the way it is it's interesting right okay so we're gonna go back to our small brush and our chinese white and we're gonna put in some stars you can also just do this how is that not fun they're not but if and if you were gonna make this like a porthole window it wouldn't matter how perfect this was as long as your basic shape was right and then you would want to paint your porthole around it there's no reason why you couldn't do like the galaxy in watercolor and do the porthole in acrylic or do the porthole in pencil or marker or something like that that would be fun okay so I love that I want to I really want to clean that edge up a little bit because it's bothering me so I'm gonna do that for not having my reading glasses on so then come in towards the inside and blend your paint towards the inside leave the outside edge dry and it'll stay clean and and crisp I'm not at this point expecting a perfectly round shape and that's okay but this is much rounder than it would be if I did this freehand and also if you are going to do this as if it were a window it makes it look like there's a shadow from the window hello how are you I'm cleaning up my messy edge remember to go back in with your water before you get too far and your pigment dries too much to really blend out that inner line and and have it be a smoother transition I will be updating the udemy class with this video and also I think I still have to add the more expressive faces video into I don't think I did that I think I forgot before Christmas these videos are downloadable over there I do think they take a long time to download um but I would just recommend setting it to download overnight and just leaving your computer and just go to sleep I just stuck my hand in some wet paint I can feel it people wonder why I choose to do expressive painting because I am messy there's no other reason I am messy now see this is professional watercolor so I can I can put some water there and I can try to lift it but it's not going to lift too much so that's all right I can show you a workaround around that okay so unfortunately we have to get the dry the gun out again and dry this again okay the reason you have to do so much drawing is because one of the final steps is to come in with your gel pen and or your gel crayon or whatever you're going to use for your crayon and um work on your stars some more you don't ever want to use your any of your pens especially your gel pens in any kind of wet paint you always want your paint to be dry you'll ruin your pens if it's not so I'm going to come in here and I'm going to add some marks with my pen emphasize some of the shapes and splatters in the paint I have in here some of the lines sketchy uneven lines and it adds a different color of like a brighter white and this crayon this Sakura crayon which I got at jet pens um is really cool because you can come in here with this and you can put some of it down and then you get smudges and you can just get the soft kind of white glow that's different looking than the paint and in your own way you're adding all these mixed media layers to your galaxy and I think if you go to jet pens and you just type in Sakura crayon I think this is going to come up but it's a Sakura sc s white crayon it just says sc dash s I have white and black it does come in other colors but the only two colors I use are white and black so if you add some of that and some of your white gel pen now like with you know any gel pen doesn't gel pens generally don't like writing over any kind of crayon so wherever you've put the crayon um you're you can't go back and add gel pen there so I would do the gel pen work first and then I would add your crayon afterwards I love jet pens one of my favorite places to get art supplies jet pens I wish they were a sponsor them and Daniel Smith somebody put the good word for me so you just keep adding and look at look at that how do you I just love that so one of the other things I did in my journal let's see if oops I can find it quick you know I never know when this broadcast are going to take me otherwise I wouldn't be more prepared oh yeah I hey see I found it right away all right so one of the things I do especially in my um journal is I it's a mixed media piece so I always do some stamping and I'm going to do purple I don't know why I want to do purple but I think I want to do purple or do I want to do blue what do you guys think we can edit on the camera I'm thinking the blue oh see purple okay let's do purple all right so one of the things I like to do in my journal especially because it's fun but also because I'm messy uh is do some turning it into more of a mixed media piece which is fun and um if you've made a blotcher a boo boo then you know it doesn't matter um so when I think of galaxies and nebulas I think of science and then of course you think of math I love science hate math but I have this really cool rubber stamp by hero arts and this one is called formula fun and this whole this rubber stamp the whole thing is like a math formula like um you know is it geometry where you write the shapes and you put the see I don't know math I can paint your pretty pictures but I don't know math so I love this stamp because and it goes really well with this kind of galaxy print so let's put some of this on here it's cool it's called formula fun it's by hero arts I got it in amazon I get every you know I get lots of things in amazon so so that's fun right you don't have to put it everywhere then what you can do is we can take some of our neutral tint see I love amazon and I'm going to put it on my plate my plate's messy but that's okay and I'm going to just water it down a bit where I got it on the galaxy I'm going to just do this it's not going to get rid of it completely but I love that that's fine but it does have it around the edge love that I'm going to also take a scarlet line black pen right there you go and definitely I would recommend doing this big and then if you want it on a greeting card or a bookmark or something like that then scan it and reprint it smaller they're definitely easier to do big than they are small although I have done small ones see I it's so easy for me to spend gift cards it doesn't take long so there you go there's our galaxy painting now in the udemy class I show you how to not only do galaxies but planets you could definitely you know have a lot of fun with this it's one of my favorite ways to play with watercolors to just do galaxy paintings and to do the mixed media like this where you you work in your markers and you work in some stamping and then you know you could after it dries you could do some color pencil work on here you could keep going yeah I would trade them in for it I don't know about you but I would use the amazon more than those other ones so have some fun with it does anybody have any questions I don't need any more pencils I don't need any more pencils I love to watch the color move to it's one of my favorite things about watercolor I will be downloading the video from today's broadcast to youtube and udemy it does take me a little while to do that because I have to take a long time to get the video off my phone and then I have to try to what do they call it my brain is a blank but I have to try to configure the picture enough make it big as big as I can that's not the term for it there's a term for it that I just can't think of right now I think I need lunch or something anyway it takes me a little while to do that so it takes me 24 to 48 hours to get the video up but it will be up and I will at that time be pulling still images out of the render thank you mark I will be pulling still images out of today's broadcast and I'll make a pdf too so I scan my images at a high resolution on my scanner here at home and then I do professional reprints from a local professional photography lab called bay photo they do ship in the US at least I don't know about worldwide but they do ship and they can do reprints on specialty papers regular papers greeting cards stretch canvas cell phone cases all that kind of stuff my favorite way to reprint my artwork is on their metallic paper they have a metallic paper I do think they're in scots valley Santa Cruz area somewhere in there and if you're going to ask them for a paper sample they do have paper samples and their metallic paper is one of my favorites I heard somebody say earlier about the earthquakes we've had a couple earthquakes in the couple of the last couple of days I haven't felt any of them but you know it's standard procedure here we do live in California I'm just fine no worries I'm on society six I'm 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