 Hey guys, how are you today? So I have kind of a little experiment. I thought I would just try and record for you guys. While back I was given some brush-o watercolor crystals. It's a powdered watercolor pigment and I was gifted them these little bags that come in jars and I don't know how many colors there are but I have three, four, five, six, seven, I have eight colors. These were gifted to me from Lou Jean Martin. Thank you Lou Jean and I'm finally getting around to doing something with them. So anyway it got me thinking when I was doing all these watercolor experiments that you know hey I've got those brush-os around somewhere before I get too far with them I wanted to try something. So last night I took a teeny tiny bit of the scarlet color and I put it in my little palette here activated it with water and then let it dry because I wanted to see if they were reconstitutable after they were dry like a regular watercolor and if they were how hard it was to get it to reconstitute. So I have no idea. I know nothing about brush-os except for what you all have said to me Lou Jean in Happy Mail and a couple other people since then. So I have a little scrap piece of paper here and let's this brush is wet so let's see what happens. Look at that because I had a specific idea for these paints. It looks like they reconstitute and dissolve in the water again very well. Look how bright that scarlet color is. Now when I activated it originally I just did it with only water. So now I want to do another experiment. I need another little stick and I'm going to use gum Arabic as soon as I find it. I have some somewhere. Is that it? Yep. So gum Arabic is a binder, traditional binder used in watercolor paints. If I just activate them with water and let them dry they might crack and you know turn back into powder but I'm wondering if I kind of use the gum Arabic and it dry and I mix it up and then let it dry. Can I then mix these up and put them in a palette and let them dry and have them in a palette instead of these little bags? Do you see where I'm going with that? So let's see. Let's get, we'll use the same color. We'll use scarlet. I also don't think that gum Arabic will do anything to the pigment but I mean I guess you never know. A little bit goes a really long way I found last night with these. They're really strong so I don't think it's my imagination to say that it looks like a much darker powder. That's about the same amount of the powder I put in there with the water last night and it seems like it's a little bit darker. Let's get our brush and let's blot it and then, yeah look how much more vibrant it is if you mix it with gum Arabic. It actually looks very much like the color of fresh blood. I hate to make that comparison but that's what it looks like to me. All right so now what we're going to do is I'm going to let this dry. I don't know how long it's going to take to dry and I'll be back and we'll see what it looks like after it's dried and then we're going to kind of like turn this over and like tap it and see you know if it crumbles. It doesn't rewet with water that sort of thing so I will be right back after this is dry. All right we're back. I can't wait anymore. So our brush shows that we mixed with gum Arabic are dry-ish. The center part is still a little wet but the edge is completely dry. So what we're going to do is take our card that we used before and I'm going to just, this is a Pentel water brush. You know what it rewets just like regular watercolor. Look at that. Turn the view screen on the camera so I can see what you're seeing. There we go. So I love that. So in the next video for brush shows look for me to have taken all of my brush shows and mixed them with some gum Arabic into a palette. I don't know what palette yet because I have to figure out where I'm going to put them. And we'll make a brush show palette that we can play with in our product review swatch book. If you have some sort of powdered pigments like these brush show pigments that are intended to be water soluble there's no reason why you can't mix them with a binder like gum Arabic and turn them into something that you can have permanently in a palette instead of having in a jar or a baggie. Something that's already ready to go and ready to paint with. So there you have it. I have fun with that. And yeah, don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself. These are going to be fun to play with. Look at how bright this red is. I love it. All right. Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Think about supporting me and my YouTube channel, my Facebook group and all of that by shopping in my Etsy shop or hitting the support button on my YouTube channel's main page. That's it for today. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later.