 new studio space. This is the first official art video being filmed in the new space. There's a little bit of an echo. That's because it's a really big room. I'm okay. Excuse me. Before I moved, I did this anatomical heart rainbow watercolor, and I just did it to see if I could. I had an idea I still do for doing a series of them in different color themes, and when I shared this one you all said, can we see how you did that? So I'm going to show you, and there are of course some tricks. And this is the inspiration photo I used. Now, you can just get a picture of an anatomical heart off the internet somewhere if you have a copy of Grey's Anatomy in your inspiration library. There's probably one in there, and I know you're saying to me right now, who has Grey's Anatomy in their art reference library? I do. Anyway, you can get this off the internet. That's where I got this one because at the time that I was wanting to do this, my books were packed. So this is just off of Yahoo or Google or something. So the first thing you want to do, and here's a bigger copy, especially if you want to do a number of these over and over again, and you want them to all be similar in size and shape and form. If you did a freehand sketch, every time you sketch it, it'd be a little bit different. This way it will be more similar. It'll still be a little different, but they'll be more similar than they will be different. I'm going to silent my computer. Hang on, I'll be right back. Note to self. Mute all the devices in the new art room before you start filming. All right, so this way they will be all more similar than they will be different. And like I said, I really want to do a series of them in different color ways or color themes. I want to do another rainbow one, a bigger one. I want to do one that is beach themed. I want to do one that's desert or muted themed. I want to do one that's metallic. Maybe one that's forest inspired, maybe one that's inspired by faith or Freemasonry. You never know. I think there's a lot of possibilities with us paintings in artwork to symbolize your love of something or your wish for love of something. In the case of the rainbow heart, for me, I love love rainbows. Who doesn't love rainbows, but also my wish for equality across all races, nationalities, faiths, persuasions. And my love of my friends who are different from me. So that's there you have that. Okay, so you could use graph paper or artist transfer paper to transfer the basic outline of this image to your watercolor paper, where you could do this at the time. Again, I had all of that. I couldn't find it. So but then I thought, you know, this might be better anyway, because the transfer paper generally only comes in like black or white. So I got a pokey tool and I went around the image in key places, an inch or so apart, and poked holes. And I did it until I'll show you the other one. I did it until I went around the whole entire thing in the back looked like that. So I'm going to do that to this one. And once you get that done, you're going to need a water soluble pencil, watercolor pencil, it doesn't have to be a fancy brand, it could be Crayola, just something water soluble that has a nice sharp point. And that's not too dark a color like light blue, a light pink, if you're going to do the rainbow heart. Alright, so I'm going to poke all my holes and I'm going to get a pencil and I'll be right back around here just a little bit and bring the water to my right side. My brush is in the water. We've got our picture with the holes all punched just like the little one. I actually see a spot that I missed along this one artery here. A piece of watercolor paper. This is just inexpensive artist loft watercolor paper, 90 pound, it's not the best paper but it'll do. If you're planning on selling the original of this, you probably want to use better paper. Okay, I'm going to put a couple of clips to hold this to the paper while I do the next step. Okay, you're going to take your watercolor pencil, in this case I have a Derwent watercolor pencil and this is in the color turquoise green. The heart is round, right? So the edges farther away from you, the divots farther away from you would be darker and in shadow than the part that's closer to you which would be lighter and brighter. So I'm going to use a cooler color rather than a warmer color to outline the heart because it'll blend with the colors when I'm done painting which will be cooler around the edges. So in that case I'm going to choose a blue but again I'm choosing a lighter blue, a turquoise green because I don't want it to be too dark. So I'm going to go into, let's see if we can zoom in a bit, I'm going to go into each one of these little spots where I poked a hole, going to make a dot. Yeah, I'm going to do that over the whole thing. It takes a little time but that's okay. Turn on some music and just create your dots. Now the other way to do this of course is to use the tracing paper or you could rub a bunch of pencil on the back of this and then trace. I like this because you get fewer marks. Don't clip the whole thing because that way you can just keep lifting up and you can see where you've made marks and where you haven't, where you maybe need to darken the marks. Okay, so I'm going to do that whole thing. Okay, it might take you a good few minutes to do it this way. I know it's a little harder than other ways you can do but I think it's well worth it. You might find yourself having to as you go along, re-poke some holes so you can get the tip of the pencil through the hole. Then once you're done keeping your reference photo sort of on the top of the drawing, keep flipping it up and connect very lightly. Connect all of the dots or most of them if you can until you have a light rough sketch. I don't even know if you're going to be able to pick that up on camera. Can you see that? I don't know but it should be like keep your photo handy because you're going to want that and let's get our paints out. Now these paints these are my Daniel Smith paints. They're the ones I used for the original and they have been sitting out for a good few minutes. I sprayed them quite a few minutes ago with some water or I should say I put some used a dropper bottle with water with some ox skull in it to help reconstitute the paints a little easier. I put like a third of a dropper in each one of the paints. I did it quite a while ago. I love my Daniel Smith paints. They can be a little fussy to reconstitute so I'm going to keep the original one sort of over here off camera so I can see it for reference. I am going to start with a large ish flat brush. I need a rag and off camera that way I have a journal with some watercolor paper in it. I can just kind of wipe my brush off on if I am so inclined. Okay I'm going to start with my Princeton Neptune three-quarter inch flat brush and we are going to start as we do normally with watercolor. We're going to start lighter and work our way darker and we are only going to put water where we want the paint to go. We're not going to put it in places where we don't want it to go. That's our way of controlling the water. I'm going to start with Hansa Yellow Medium so it's a trick with watercolor is controlling the water and also working the opposite of what you're instinctively wanting to do which is to just go in with the dark colors. With watercolor you can't really take it back so you want to go in with your lighter colors first. I'm going to pick some spots on the heart that I think would be closer to me closer to the viewer and lay in some of this yellow and then rinse my brush then I'm going to go back and with the damp brush I'm going to blend it out just a little bit. Again not putting water where we don't want the paint to go. Now I'm very much a suggestive sort of abstract style painter and so I am not trying for realism. I'm trying for suggestion. You may have a completely different take on that and that's you know what that's okay. Then I'm going to go in with some Pyro Orange. Still a warm color but it's cooler than the yellow. It's going to blend itself naturally into the yellow because the yellow is wet and it's going to follow the water. Don't wait too long if you want your edges to be blendy to go in and add water so you don't have too many straight lines if that's not what you want. Okay I'm going to switch to a little bit smaller brush. This is also a Princeton Neptune. This is a half inch flat and that was a three-quarter inch flat which I think I mentioned but you know I'm going to go in with a red and I think I'm going to go in with Queen Magenta. It's more of a blue red looking at the original and what I did on the original painting. My chair is sliding so that's a cooler a cooler red. I have warmer reds but this is a cooler one. I really like this color and I think it works well for this painting. I'm going to take some of that same magenta and I'm going to start suggesting the arteries. Now doing what we did with the pencil left dense in the paper but as we get the paper wet those dents are going to go away. They're going to get filled in with water and it takes some of this Queen Magenta. The original was splattery and drippy. If you are new to watercolor one of the tricks that you can do is if you put some paint where you don't want it most of the time when you're using certain paints that are certain pigmented a certain way it's going to stain right away but you can lift up some of it with them something like a Mr. Clean Magic eraser. All right so I'm going to stay with the flat brush for the moment and I'm going to go in with now with a kind of warmish green. This is phthalo yellow green. It's very much on the yellow side so it's a warmer green of the greens. I'm continuing to use my lines to find my place and using my original painting to suggest my colors. I really like the way the original one turned out so using the original photo or print you can see where all the dark parts are where they've done the dark lines that's where you want to put the cooler colors. You can in between layers of color dry your piece if you don't want them to blend too much wouldn't it try actually not to do that and being a mixed media artist you also can go back in with like a white a white pen to suggest highlights if you lose if you lose some of your highlights and you want to just slowly layer your colors like that until you get something that you like that you're happy with. We're getting there. Switch to a round. It's time to switch to a round brush. We're going to keep going cooler and we are going to also keep shaking it encourage the drips. We're going to go in with a purple and I don't remember what I used last time but I'm going to grab some cobalt blue violet which is a dark purple and I'm going to mix it with a little bit of the rose of ultramarine which is a redder. I lost track of what I was doing sorry and that wasn't quin magenta oh yeah it was too quin magenta never mind never mind can y'all tell I'm a little out of practice okay so this is still on the kind of warmish side but it's definitely cooler than say the yellow we are going to need more of that so as you're painting your pencil is dissolving and you may at some point lose track of where you want different colors to be where things should be that's why you don't want to go far with your reference photo. I'm leaving a lot of white space in case I want to go back and add warmer colors it's hard to do that once you've added all these dark colors you can do it but it probably has to be done with like a paint pen or a gel pen or acrylic paint. I'm going to go in with some teal again looking at my reference images trying to work quickly because I want this to go into certain places and blend a bit while the things are wet and this is a cobalt teal by the way you could do this with any set of watercolor paints you don't have to have anything fancy you could do it with koi or whatever you have you could also go in here with some gouache so if you did make things too dark and you want to brighten them up again gouache is much more opaque than watercolor and you could go in with a gouache and darken things up or I should say brighten things up. Now the one thing I noticed when I did the original and I'm noticing it now is I get lost kind of in painting the heart and I forget that I want it to be a rainbow and I lose track of making sure there was those sort of rainbow colors are still visible now see you can't lift color this way if you put too much in the wrong place or things start to puddle in a place that you don't want them to with a rag again mr. clean magic eraser works too so just trying to make some drips okay I keep going now I can go back to those white spaces and one of my flat brushes excuse me and I'm going to add some more of my yellow I'm going to add a little bit of nickel azo yellow to it which is not quite as bright if it mixes with the teal that's okay because it will make a green which we're going to be okay with to the round brush and some of our orange I think we're going to take some permanent red and mix it into that yellow and make a nice bright orange I'm barely touching the brush to the camp to the paper by the way almost at campus it's not campus sometimes I'm pushing it down a little hard and sometimes I'm just barely barely touching again I really liked the way the first winter now so I'm looking at that one I'm also looking here naturally where the lighter spots of the heart showed up when I was doing that first layer of paint now we're going to go in again with some purple this time we're not going to mix our cobalt blue violet with anything else we're going to use it straight I'm going to use it to highlight some shadowy spots try to bring out some shapes and refine some shapes I'll show you how to fix that a little bit I said about the mystic queen magic eraser it won't get all of it it gets a lot of it all right let's try not to drop the paintbrush again that'll be helpful so just keep going at it until you get with something that you like um I also went in with a little bit of I know I did paints gray mixed with the purple to like darken it up that I that I know I did still too um I'm going to darken it up a little bit yeah it looks better I think it needs more teal so when I did the original I refined the shapes at the end with a gel pen so we're going to and we're going to do that again as soon as I have something I like need some more drips so I'm going to take my green some purple because who doesn't love purple right all right let's dry it and see where we're at so now we're going to take a variety of gel pens and this is inexpensive paper that's why it's like buckling and curling like that now that I dried it so um you could iron it flat so I'm going to take my um uniball signal white gel pen first and suggest some sketchy lines I did this on the original one too not putting lines where you don't need to refine the shape so remember we're trying to be suggestive so right here there should be a white space which I covered up too much of so we're going to take a white paint pen here hopefully if it's not dried up it might be that's not cover some of that up it won't fix it completely but uh it might take a couple of coats of paint and you'll notice how with the lines on here it really starts to bring out the shape of the heart just don't get too wrapped up in putting too many lines as I say that I'm putting two more lines on here that's pretty fine a couple of other I didn't do this on the original but I have some other pens they are varsity profound pens I have a pink or red this one is a green and I'm just thinking to add it didn't do this on the original I'm just thinking it might be nice to do it on this one ultimately remember we're a mixed media artist so that just really means you have no rules and if you want to break them and not just use your watercolor paint you can there are times when I just want to use my watercolors but more often than not I'll use at least some kind of pen I'm going to sign it there you have it we have a topical rainbow heart I love it I love it as much as the first one so give it a try see what you think I will be doing more hearts at some point I don't know if I'm going to film them or not if you guys want to see them let me know the videos will be long they they're all going to be kind of longish so you let me know if that's something you want to see or not I think the next one I'm going to try is one with my muted palette I have a muted palette of paints with Daniel Smith and M. Graham that has sort of a deserty nature colors so I think I want to try a heart with these anyway that's it for the moment go out and like share and subscribe if you would find somebody else's channel a little youtuber that you love and share their channel with people and show them some love if you will there's a number of them out there I want to start a list over on my facebook group and just go out and be nice to each other try to be a decent human to yourself and to everybody else and do you know something nice for yourself because you deserve it and maybe do something for nice for somebody else too that's it for right now I'll see you later bye guys