 Hey guys, how are you this morning? Yeah, let's see Grab a couple of brushes I'm a little bit behind as usual. I don't know that that's unusual for me All right, let's see Okay, that's in the way over here somewhere. All right We have four more paint brands to do a To paint with to try actually doing a painting with something besides what we've been doing in our swatch book and Sorry, I have like three conversations going on at once. It's another three cup of coffee day I think I've had three a three cup of coffee day every day this week. I don't know what's up with that But anyway, I just yeah, I don't know So we have praying Peerless which is in this folder here and then we have royal and langnickel and brush show in this palette So I Initially thought we would just do two of them this morning. We might do a four-part painting. I'm not exactly a hundred percent sure I'm gonna need that And I also wasn't sure what we were gonna paint and then I remembered I had this notebook of flowers I actually got this on Amazon As a used book. I didn't pay very much for it I think something like a dollar or less and It's probably intended for somebody who likes to do gardening because it has pictures and descriptions of the flowers and their habitat and entomology just in all of that and You know, there's a place to do your own drawing or put a picture. I don't garden So I got it for the photos for reference like my bird book And I thought this morning. We would either do a corn flower, which I thought was pretty Or a carnation I'm kind of liking the corn flower this morning Especially because I think the purples might be a challenge with some of the paints we have but it might be a challenge in a good way So I think we're gonna try that so I'm gonna prop it up against my tape drawers back in there So I can see it and This is my watercolor journal, which I've been working in since last year and we'll do a little bit of a flip through here My tables too crowded, okay I did as we're doing the flip through I will say that I thought at some point that We might start doing watercolor in More of a mixed media setting not that these aren't mixed media because technically they are because you've got watercolor ink This is like Stipillo pencil and you've got regular pencil sometimes color watercolor pencil But I thought we would do them in a more regular Art journal page setting if you've bought something from me from a Etsy shop You've gotten a postcard with this image on it or this image on it. I Actually have to order more of those. I'm gonna actually put some more of these images on different postcards print some new ones That might go on a postcard. I really like this one. Let me know if you guys have any questions If you like the idea of doing like mixed media pages with watercolor, let me know mixed media journal pages and Going forward we may alternate between working in this book and working in the doing journal pages And I am in the process of trying to get my hands on it a few A few paint brands that I've been wanting to try that are not ones I've gotten so I'm working on that So these are what I have some of these are you know some of these I like some of like, you know, not so much Some of their you know, it's an experimental thing and I like some of these journal pages and you know Even the ones I don't like I learned something from and that's the point Is to learn the chat is awfully quiet this morning These are ones that I did when I was working through my Gene Haynes books And I have some more work to do through her her books if you like the style of painting I really do recommend that you pick up one of her books Hey, Lisa. Her name is Gene Haynes H-A-I-N-E-S. I thought we would do maybe a four-part painting like this one But with some flowers if y'all like that idea Or like how I did this one My dog bandit If you've been watching me for a while, you've heard him in the background He's noisy And this is the one we did last week So I thought that we would skip this page for now. I'll come back to it and That maybe we would do a four-part painting on these two pages Put my coffee out of the way So I don't dip my brush in the watercolor because that would not be good. All right. Let's get a pen out And let's divide our page Let's see do I want to do it in pen or pencil that would be the question. I think I want to do the dividing in pencil I'm just gonna eyeball it. No no measuring and then we're gonna take a pen and write the brands on the bottom So what brands did I say? Okay, royal. Let's see Okay, don't do what I do I have this habit of putting my pens in like wet acrylic and then I Narf up my pens like all the time Like see I think I messed up this pen the last time I used it and that's like an expensive mistake to make so don't do that Whether it's wet acrylic or wet watercolor Don't do that Leave this pen out and see if I can save it. We'll see sometimes cleaning the nib with a little bit of alcohol Works not always All right, so now we're gonna take our pencil and we're gonna do like we did with the bird or any of the drawings We're gonna do a rough pencil sketch. You could do it in regular pencil. You could do it in watercolor pencil I'm gonna just use a regular pencil. I don't I like the lines to stay on there. I think they help Suggest the shape that I want it's up with this pencil sharpener It's not like I don't have other ones. I've got like 20 pencil sharpeners up here Every time a company sends me pencils or crayons. They send me a sharpener This one is from Faber-Castell. I think yeah So I have lots of pencil sharpeners Okay, this one works pretty good and it's nice and it's compact This one normally works good too. This is a Prismacolor this one I bought I don't know what's up with it this morning It's probably just user error Okay, I like these cornflowers because they're kind of weed Kind of like a weed shape, you know, like they remind me almost of a thistle, right? I like that So we're gonna just Sketch in Just loosely Loosely sketch in some shapes When I'm doing these four-part paintings Prismacolor one. Oh, yeah, I like the Prismacolor one I like actually my favorite one is the silver Prismacolor one that opens in the middle This one This is my favorite one Because it does three different sizes of pencils. So you almost always have The right size sharpener. I Just trimmed my nails this morning in there. Not exactly filed correctly. Anyway All right So when I'm doing these four-part paintings, I like to put some of the flowers Right over The separation line so half the flower is painted in one brand and half is painted in the other brand and I'm using the drawing in the book for inspiration. I'm not Exactly copying it. These flowers have like jaggedy leaves Jaggedy, is that a word jaggedy? Hey, Danielle, how are you finally broke down yesterday? And I joined cat cat hands mixed media morsels Facebook group because I just couldn't Hold myself back anymore. I love her idea of the mixed medium morsels and I will be doing something with that coming up Probably over the summer Only because I just don't have time to do any filming for that right now So I like that where the flowers like overlap like that Yeah, I can't I can't wait. It's such a fish fabulous idea that she had and like Michelle Mitchell, I have a bunch of coasters and I did start doing some mixed medium morsel stuff on some of the coasters I think I'm going to continue with that. I always intended to turn the coasters into a journal of sorts, so I think I'm going to use cat hands Idea For what to do on the pages Yeah, and also to get myself refreshed with Techniques that I've forgotten about because I haven't used them in a long time. We all have some of those don't we? There are some fabulous artists on YouTube and I'm constantly finding new ones every day Okay, so we're going to just when you do these four-part paintings take some time and you know Really sketch out your shapes don't if you want the painting to turn out decently don't rush this part and But also, you know, you notice I'm doing lots of loose sketchy lines. Nothing is straight. Nothing is even My art is definitely not about perfection I like to suggest shapes rather than be realistic with them and because I don't erase my pencil lines I like to have them help me suggest the shape of whatever it is that I'm Painting hello angel hello Amy and don't be afraid to get out your paints and you know Doodle along with me paint along with me whatever you don't have to do the same thing. I'm doing just have some fun So we're doing corn flowers this morning We're going to do a multi-part painting in each sex vertical sections I'm going to have a different brand of paint in it and these are the last four brands of paint that I have To do this with at the moment. There are a couple more brands I'm trying to get a hold of the companies these particular companies didn't want to send me paint so I'm gonna have to buy them which means that I have to wait for funding Money, it's all about money, right? It's all about the dollar So that's an interesting composition. So I like that. All right I'm trying to keep up with the Facebook. I mean the comments the chat While I'm painting which is always a challenge. Okay, so we're gonna put all our brushes over there We will I kind of did these in an interesting order because I have royal and brush out in the same palette I probably put it should have put them next to each other, but that's all right So we're gonna get our paints wet here And we're gonna put down some paper because we don't want to I'm a messy Artist and we don't want to get royal paint on the part of the painting where it shouldn't be. All right Now just as a reminder I have in my spray bottle of water for my watercolors a few drops of Oxgall liquid This aids in the wetting and flow of your watercolor paints and it really does Work very well Hey, honey, how are you? I'm The Netherlands I am trying to get the flow sketchbook Shipping to the United States cost more than the book. Holy cow Sent them an email you reminded me, honey So anyway, Oxgall liquid It really does aid in the rewetting and flow of your watercolor paints and you only need three or four drops per cup of water So you just need a little this one little bottle is gonna last a long time And you can get it at any of your arts and craft stores Hobby Lobby Michaels and I used a 40% off coupon. So I didn't have to pay full price All right, let's start with a big brush And I am going to now Like with lots of these other paints, you know, we're working with limited palettes and So I'm going to take the purple that's in here, which is a violet And you see it's very very blue I want it to be more red So I'm going to mix it with some crimson lake, which is kind of a pinky red Oop, that's too much So I'm going to add more violet That's better Okay My table is just not big enough this morning. It's me having issues. I'm telling you right now I don't know what oopsie I'm telling you Okay, deep breath sip of coffee I'm gonna just have to make that work. All right. So let's start over here With this flower and I'm going to put this color In the center of the flower And then I'm going to grab Some water Hey, jerry We're doing a four part painting. We're using the last of the brands of paints that we have that we haven't used yet We are painting some cornflowers purple cornflowers And um, I just splattered paint all over the section that should be praying paint. I just splattered royal paint over there. So, you know It's gonna be one of those mornings So now I'm just dabbing in some darker Paint and one of the ways to lighten up watercolor, of course is to add more water And depending on the paint you can see if it lifts well or not. Some colors stain fairly quickly The reds especially I'm gonna take some of the prussian blue that's in the palette And I'm gonna put it here in the center of the flower And you notice I'm using kind of a big brush. So that's another way to force yourself to be More expressive when with your painting is to paint with your non-dominant hand Use a bigger brush that you have less control with It forces you To have less control which can be a good thing And you notice what I did. I didn't even think about it. I painted the whole flower with the same color of paint I told you guys i'm just off this morning Didn't I say that I've said that a few times So we got most of it off. Now you notice this is royal and royal is a student grade paint But it is a good quality student grade paint. So it did stain a bit But we'll be able to work with that So this is the violet and if you've watched some of the four-part painting videos That's not the first time I've made that mistake and just continued to paint into the other section So if you've watched the four-part painting videos you've seen me do this before So with your watercolor always start lighter And work your way darker add a little pigment Then come back in with some water To blend it and spread it out Now up here. I want to I don't want to get necessarily this green Into the purple too much because we'll end up with brown not that that's a bad thing because we're painting foliage But I don't necessarily want tons of it Hey chouchetta. Hey, how are you? I was saying earlier for those of you who are just joining us. I've either had too much coffee this week or not enough Probably too much because I just feel off this week I think I've had three cups of coffee every day so far this week Hey, michelle We're painting some cornflowers this morning. We're going to do a four-part painting right now. I'm using royal and langnickel They are an affordable student brand of paint decent quality a little bit more opaque than I would like but That just depends on the application if I'm doing cards and tags or something like that Then I might want this kind of paint You notice I'm not blending all my lines I am leaving some of them to suggest marks No, you didn't miss too much. We just barely got started just me chattering on about how I've either had too much or not enough coffee All right, we have a darker green here. We have a deep green So I'm going to add some shadows with the deep green. It's going to blend a little bit with the other green and we're okay with that So I'm just barely touching my brush to the page Light touch no digging any holes to china with your paintbrush You don't need to do that I'm going to come in with some of the same prussian blue that I put a minute ago Prussian blue is a great color cool shadow color. I think I have a little bit too much of this green down here So we're going to lift it Or in in Gina's painting terms blotting. I'm okay with using with using the term blotting Not all watercolors are I have a prinston nap tune number 14 round This is a large round brush. I did pull out some smaller ones But I thought it would be fun to challenge myself this morning With a little bit less control because that's really I already feel out of control this morning if I thought, you know, hey Let's do more of that I do have some smaller brush brushes available I like the way that looks so far. I am going to take some of the blue and some of one of the greens and do that And get paint all over my desk. My desk is constantly full of paint splatters Let's go back to the flower a bit. It's had a little bit of a chance to dry not it's still pretty wet But that's right. We'll make it work Now when you you know what I'm doing any of my paintings. I'm using the photo as inspiration Does that mean I'm in a copied exactly? No I'm going to do something artistic from the photo if I want an exact copy. Well, my daughter's a photographer I'll have her take a picture for me That's not generally what I want to do. I like the way that looks so I'm going to stop there Now what we have to do though is clean our palette because this is the wrong kind of paint And move on to our next section Close this up for now And these are praying semi moist half pan watercolor set This has 16 colors in it. And this is a very affordable student brand of paint and these semi moist ones are not bad I got to tell you guys I'm going to get them wet Okay, and let's start with the flower now in this one. We have a nice pretty Red violet color already So we're going to start with that And I got to say, you know the other set I like those paints, but it didn't have this color in it Um, and I could have spent more time mixing it of course, but this is a pretty color And I like I've already said I like these praying paints, especially if you're just playing with watercolor and you're not you know In any way shape or form going to be serious about it And you just want to play and do an art journaling thing I think the praying something like the praying are a good choice. They're very affordable And this is the I started out with praying paints Hey, Anne When I first started playing with watercolor I had I used praying So I'm just adding more of the blue violet to the red violet So that we can sort of get something that Is similar to the other side of the flower See how hard it is to Make a painting Look cohesive with different kinds of paint. All right We have this little bud here So I'm going to put down some pigment And I'm going to grab some water I am blotting off my brush because I don't want it. I want it wet, but I don't want it sloppy wet At least not right now And if you get too much or you put some in the wrong place just do most of that paints Will lift they won't lift completely, but they'll lift a little bit But I like them to look messy and Spotted and blotty and That's one of the things I like about watercolor. So Why am I thinking of the clown from Simpsons like it looks like his hair I don't know what that clown guy's name is because I'm not a big Simpsons fan, but You know that crazy clown guy. I don't think that's a good thing This is the red violet still. I'm just still playing with the violets getting it close to where I want it to be And then we're going to let it dry a little bit and we're going to work on the greens Okay, so let's work on the greens now for the greens we have Green yellow green and blue green. So we're going to start with the yellow green Because I think it's close to the green that we used from the royal palette Yeah, I can't think of his name this morning But you know the clown guy I'm meaning is now that I put the bottom of the flower and it looks like a flower But before I did that it kind of looked like his hair Okay, so again, I'm barely touching the brush to the paper and you'll notice with this Princeton Neptune brush That it really holds a lot of paint and I've only dipped it in the one time and look at all the Painting I'm able to do it holds a lot of pigment and water And this is not an expensive brush and no they did not send they didn't pay me To say this and they didn't send these brushes to me for free. I bought this brush And when you buy a good watercolor brush You can do this kind of thing with it and this is a synthetic brush So so those of you out there who you know don't like to use brushes made out of real animal hair This one doesn't have any it's synthetic Thank you So those of you who are just joining us. We're doing a four-part painting using four different brands of watercolor paint to see what kind of um comparison that we can do side by side and the unexpected thing that I'm liking about some of these paintings that we've been doing is that um, some of them I you know, I like them they look like studies like field notebook entries and um, I'm kind of liking that so if you Buy things from my etsy shop and you're a collector of the art postcards that I get printed look for some of these to be Um featured on some of those postcards because I will be Soon hopefully reprinting uh printing some new postcards and some of these will be on there I like the Neptune brushes. I'm a big fan Nep Princeton Neptune and Princeton select are my two. I think favorite brush brands brush types So this is the blue green And again, this is the prang semi-moist half pan set prang makes a few different sets The semi-moist is Wow, excuse me Burping up coffee. Um is closer to an artist grade Our artist quality paint. It's not exactly but it's closer And they supposedly do have some light fastness. I don't know exactly how much but I'm gonna lift up some of this up here. It's a little too much Blending blending pushing and pulling the pigments around There we go. I like that better No worries. I'm still here. I'm gonna be here for a while. We've got two more parts to this painting to do So I'm not going anywhere anytime soon Yeah, thank you're welcome. I know you wanted to hear that this morning. That's why you joined me, right? So you can hear me burping up coffee I think I've just had too much coffee this week. I think that's what the deal is So we're just adding some shadow and dimension to our stems here By adding different colors of green and blue green This is a number 14 Princeton Neptune round Yeah, probably it doesn't and you're probably not wrong Okay, so now we're gonna do just like we did with the other one. I'm gonna grab some clean water And kind of just take all my greens Put this here Okay So those two Look, you know, I like the way they look. They're pretty comparable. I think this is Royal and Langnickel. This is Prang Okay Next Is brush-o So I'm gonna leave this open and I'm gonna stick it on the shelf above the camera When you've been painting and your palette is wet, don't close it up Let leave it open for a day or two and let it dry out before you close it Otherwise, they may get moldy Carefully do that. So we're not gonna hopefully smudge anything And now we're gonna grab the brush-os Oops Now with the brush-os, I don't have I only have a few colors. So we'll have to just make it work with what we have I really should get one more piece of paper over here because you know, I'm just having one of those mornings when I'm really messy So everybody uses brush-os By you know dropping them into water and I just wanted when I Got these brush-os and these were gifted to me by a youtube fan. Lou Jean Martin Uh Eugene if you're watching this live or the recording. Thank you very much and she sent me some brush-os in um little bags and I love them, but I wanted to use them differently Than everybody else does so I took them and put them in a palette I mixed them with some gum arabic to make them into more of a cake um that I could re-wet And use as a regular traditional watercolor and that seems to work very well Now I'm going to take some of the This is olive green It was so sweet of her now the brush-os that was just a little bit of it. Look how pigmented they are They are so pigmented And they re-wet very well. They mixed with the um Gum arabic nicely and um this is a ranger palette that's intended for Uh ink alcohol ink and um I put the royal in here royal and langnickel in here and the brush-os in here and it's working working great I gotta say And I just put a little tiny bit of brush-os in here with the gum arabic. You don't need a lot They are so pigmented. Okay, so let's get this started here So i'm gonna start with the green just because um just because I don't have a reason just because Because that was the color I wanted to start with because it probably because it's the color. I know I'm gonna have to do More fiddling with and I'm gonna want to Um That just a little bit. I'm gonna want to let it dry for a little bit before I do add more colors to it So I'm gonna try to remember to go up to the line, but not over the line I'll paint the base of the flower here And then we're gonna come in. Oh, bye. Bye cha-cha. Have a great day So now I'm just going in. I'm just this is just water The brush-os are very different than your other watercolors. They're very highly pigmented They're nicely transparent. I'm not sure about the lightfastness if you for those who are worried about that Um, if you've been watching me for a while, you know, I'm not always concerned about that This is the 21st century. So if you create a piece of art Art that you really want to save for posterity scan it into your computer Now look at all those varying shades of and tones of green that I've gotten with just the one color I'm going to zoom in for you guys You see that right here That's just the one color of brush-o paint and look at all those different Colors that are in there. You see some blues some yellow some green I do Zoom back out just a little bit. There we go I do use them and I've used them in here before and they're nice and there is no reason this particular Painting we're doing this morning. It's just about watercolor. But when I'm working on um, and I'm not doing this particular demonstration um I frequently use water soluble pencils markers crayons All in conjunction with my watercolor paint This particular green is the brush-o. This was olive green. I mixed it with a little bit of yellow Not too much though Hello, sana. How are you? and um, yes, I did hear from a friend a long time ago who was very into photo preservation that um, if you're going to save images on your computer for posterity That you should really save them as a tiff file t-i-f-f and um That was the best way to preserve them And then if you needed to post them to social media or share them somewhere You could take a copy of that and save it as a jpeg um Hi, sorry you said that already I Let's see So this is the purple that I have which is a nice red purple and we're going to start with that But we're going to have to um add some Blue to it maybe to get some depth of color. We'll see maybe not So you notice I'm just putting the pigment on And now I'm just spreading it with water now now look at that. That's just the one color I didn't mix it with anything. I didn't blend it with anything I just I'm adding water to it and I'm getting all these different shades of color out of the one brush-o color And that's something that I really don't see with lots of other paint brands Some of your daniel smith brands that are made with precious minerals They do this But other than them, I um, I haven't seen any a lot of other paint brands do this And it's pretty interesting Trying to remember not to go over the line Those of you who are just joining don't know that I already messed that up with the first two sections No worries No worries the brain gap. I got a brain gap all over the place this morning. So please no worries We're gonna add a little bit of ultramarine blue to this and try to darken it up a bit I'm leaving this white space down here by the stem because I don't want to Get too much brown And if I mix the purple with the green I'm gonna get brown. So Yeah, mine either, you know, and that has to do with the fact that I have anxiety disorder I'm pretty open about that And the more stressed out I am the worse it is just, you know, and not that it's not that way all the time because it is but Just so for those of you who who, you know, don't know I have anxiety disorder. I'm pretty open about it and um One of the signs for me that Things aren't going well is I can't remember stuff and The worse that gets the more it Is usually a sign that I need to remove myself from whatever situation is causing me to have problems Thank you so much So now I'm taking the darker blue green what uh, this is emerald So I don't have lots of brush-os, but I do like them I like them very much I could see me adding some brush-o powders more colors to my Stashed at some point because I I'm enjoying them very much I only have yellow scarlet olive green emerald turquoise ultramarine blue purple and light brown And I know they don't make a ton of colors, but I do know they make more colors than that I actually like that and I don't want to mess with it anymore But what we're going to do is of course take some water over here And I'm going to I'm going to be careful about how much brush-o I take because I want to splatter, but I don't want it Too strong. Yeah, yummy Um, you know, I haven't I haven't done yet Um, and I was talking early on in the broadcast about how I'm thinking um Going forward if you guys want we can alternate weeks between working in the watercolor journal here Which is technically a mixed media journal because frequently I'm using pencil Watercolor pen markers rubber stamping or whatever But we can alternate between working in this and working in Like my small delusions on a proper art journal page with watercolor and some other mediums if you guys want Um, and I always thought that these brush-os would be fun to drop into other wet watercolors wet ink Maybe even wet acrylic paint. What would they do? I always thought that would be so I do know that's something I want to experiment with on the brush-os So again, I'm going to put this up on my shelf. I'm going to leave it open So that it dries You know, I I can't say that one can never have too many palettes because I Don't I've lost track now. How many I have I did get asked last week by one of you to take a picture Might have been Cindy. I don't remember who Um, and I am I do want to do that Um, I'm a little scared because my husband is in our facebook group That's so and I he follows me on social media. He might get mad when he sees all many palettes I have I will have to remind him that I didn't pay for all of them But yeah I have I've lost track I remember I still have my two giant round palettes that I bought from row back grow backs And I have the small twinkling h2o's one too So here's our three parts All right, let's do our last one is peerless now, you know, the peerless have good and bad points like all paints Um, they're nicely portable. They're you know, because they're on little pieces of paper But they come on like strips of paper So if you want them like in a palette you have to Put them in a palette. This was made for me like by pita thompson. Otherwise known on youtube as miss lady pedal and You know, that's kind of a pain if you have to like I don't know glue the little pieces of paper into a book um There's also not a lot of paint on the little pieces of paper Some of them like the cobalt blues almost already empty So they're not it's not my favorite But that being said if you're just taking it traveling and you want to take a lot of colors with you in a small space Peerless is definitely probably the way to go because look how flat this is. It's just like a little piece of paper Um And and they're a great travel. It's a great travel palette. I wouldn't use it for an everyday palette, but it's a great travel palette All right, let's see what we have here in the way of purples You do have to swatch them because they all the pieces of paper look basically black except for the yellows So if you don't swatch them, you have no idea what color you have Yeah, yeah, I don't know that he'll buy that A little creative. I'm not sure he'll buy that I could try He'll prop I mean, you know after 30 some years. I think he'll just roll his eyes and shake his head at me But I don't take the money for them out of the household budget. I paid for him. So So this is amethyst And I'm going to mix it with a little bit of the pink that's right here That's a better color for what I want Now peerless were originally developed for coloring black and white photographs From what I understand I don't know much about their lightfastness, but there it should be a link to peerless on the watercolor wednesday page on my website Which is gena b errands.com. Just google my name He probably will add Um So just google my name. You'll find me all over the place, but the website is gena b errands.com There is a watercolor wednesday page now one of the announcements. I wanted to make this morning Is there is a new watercolor wednesday fan page? What does that mean? so If you're a fan of the watercolor wednesday live or recorded broadcast and you've done some of these tests Created a painting have something that you want to share You now can do that So I if you email me the pictures Or an article Make sure on the pictures that you use photo editing software first and put your name on it You know copyright joe blow 2016 Um, but I will post them to the fan page And you can share them there um So we have that new If you have links you want to share with people Um, you know anything like that Okay, let's see. What other violets do we have here? Let's see Let's try this one. Well, yeah, that's nice Set that aside for a minute because this is again, see it's the I think it's the shape of this flower It's looking a little bit about that simpson guy's hair again the clown guy the evil clown guy Wish I could remember his name. I'll remember his name when we when we're done broadcasting So all you have to do is send me an email make sure your images Already have your name and copyright and the date on it or your signature or something Make sure that the um if you want to post an article or a note That it's already edited and grammar correct Because otherwise because I'm going to just cut and paste so And I'm not the best one at editing anyway ask an or Cindy because my my um Grammar sucks, so make sure it's all edited if you have links You can send me a link if you want to share a link put put a put a note with it Thank you. I'm so glad You know, I only intended to do this for a little bit and it was such a big hit with you all and honestly I love watercolor so much that we've just kept doing it so So what color is this? This is grass green So the one of the biggest challenges of these four-part paintings when you're doing, you know different brands is Matching the colors. You'll never get them to match exactly 99 times out of 100 So I just go with what's close We also have some new design team challenges that are going to be coming out for may With the rubber stamp design team of which ann and cindy are two of the design team members Um, so look for that. I'm going to be typing up the rules Or suggestions later today. I hate hesitate to call it rules because that makes me too bossy I don't like to be too bossy Um, let's try Viridian Which is yeah, that's more blue turquoisey color We had our first, um Submission to the watercolor wednesday fan page by stefanie parks She is a youtube fan. She doesn't do facebook or social media But she does follow me here on youtube. So stefanie if you're watching their live Broadcast or the recording. Thank you very much. She did some fabulous tests Um of the watercolor she had now she only had one brand But she came up with some unique tests that she did with the one brand that she had Yeah guidelines. We're going to have some guidelines for the Design team. Yeah guidelines. I don't want to be bossy. I need some blue here. So we're going to flip over to the blues And we're going to go with arctic blue sip of coffee okay Yeah, I'm naturally kind of bossy so It's hard for me to not be bossy, but I try It is one of those Character flaws I try to control Unless I'm talking to like AT&T or Verizon or somebody and they piss me off That's not dark enough Let's try this one over here. I have this deep deep says deep blue Yeah, that's better The one thing I find with the peerless is you have to work at it more to get a contrast in color Um, they don't blend as easily as other paints And it's hard to pick up a lot of pigment off the that little piece of paper. They're not my favorite. I mean, they're they're okay But they're not my favorite that's pretty good Yeah, it probably is and I'm italian scotch and irish all of those are bossy And my husband's german so stubborn, you know, our daughter has no hope All right, I'm gonna move my flower book before I do any more splattering because I've already got it wet a couple times So there we go four part painting So you notice it was easier to get depth of color with the other brands It's harder with the peerless Let's see. Let's try Let's work on our flower a little bit before we call it done So let's use that deep blue color Yeah, Verizon and AT&T cindy Or oh god Comcast holy cow You know as someone who was in customer service for years They must they have the worst customer service on the planet. I swear to god I'm trying to get it to look less clown hairy It's called a corn flower I'll show you the picture from the book in just a second. Let me get there. Let me get this Let me work on this flower a little bit That's good. I'm gonna stop because I'm gonna just make it worse It's okay. I like these over here better. I think that's part of the problem All right, I'm gonna put this down here. So here's our book that we started with and it Hold on. Oh, yeah. Yeah. There we go. Okay. So I got this book on amazon. I did buy it used It was only a I think a dollar or two And it's just a notebook of flowers. It's attended for somebody who likes gardening of which I am not one And it is the purple corn flower. Let's see And I have a couple of these books that I've just bought because they have interesting flower Um photographs or draw or artwork in them Now one thing I would do with this piece is I would come back Now that we're done painting I'll put that back there and let's grab Pink and purple gel pens So if you notice on the corn flower, there's some like stamens in the middle Of the corn flower, you know little Hairy stuff. Hairy shit. I want to say hairy shit. So I'm gonna just say hairy shit hairy shit coming out of the middle of the flower So we're mixed media artists. So don't feel like you can, you know, you know, I'm painting with watercolor So that means, you know, I can't go in with, you know, gel pen or any baloney That's a bunch of baloney and malarkey So come in with your gel pens with your Stamps I should have pulled out the colors before I got started this morning, but I didn't Okay So use a variety of purple and pink You can also, you know, do white to your flowers white gel pen Gel pen if you get in there really quick does bleed uh blend But you have to get in there really quick before it dries I do have this new gel pen. This is from Jet, uh jet pens. It's a sakura Decories The rest of it's in japanese. I don't know but it's actually it's by sakura. It's a nice gel pen So you can, you know, put some color in with a colored gel pen and then highlight those shapes With the white You get something that's really I'll do another one and I'll do I'll I'll zoom in for you all So I'm just In fact, let me let's see. Okay, that's as close as we can get We can get the camera can't get any closer without me taking it off the tripod making y'all sick But this adds something really fabulous to You know your flower and you like I said, we're mixed media artists I don't feel like, you know, somebody's selling you. Well, you're you know using watercolor So you can't do it anything else Baloney That's a bunch of baloney. Now you do want to wait and till your, you know paint dries before you get in here with your markers You know, or you're gonna end up like me where you're gonna end up ruining lots of markers But adding a little bit of gel pen or some rubber stamping or something adds a lot to paintings like this And I don't tell you guys not to do something very often But when I do it's because I've already done it wrong and messed up a marker or a pen or something Oh, you're welcome. Good night, hanny Glad you could join us Now jet pens does have this white pen and marker bundle That they sell over there and that's where I got this Sakura pen. I'd never heard of before I'm having a white gel pen in your watercolor kit is great for going in and adding back highlights if you've forgotten to leave white paper because you only have a couple of choices for Leaving white having white space or white highlights Let's leave the paper white to use a white wash or to use a white marker or paint pen Yeah, I don't like rules I'm not a joiner and I'm not I don't like rules That's not my bag So that just adds a lot that adds a lot. I'm gonna lift the book up so you guys can see These are I have jelly roll pens The new Sakura pen and these other pens. I think these are just from They say super gel Something I think they're from target And there's a delay in the camera. So I'm waiting for it to catch up There you go So it just adds a little something I do think the white gel pens Um or a white paint pen you could do this with a white paint pen like a posca pen I would use the really fine one um The one pc1 mr posca pen, which is a super fine tip Let's see if I want it to open So this is the This is the posca um I think they're easier to use than the gouache. I don't think any one of them is better than the other I think they're easier I'm not going to ever say don't go bother with the white gouache because I have white gouache and I like my white I always have Chinese white or something on my palette um that I My favorite palettes always have that now when I'm traveling I would rather bring one more color and a white pen Because space is limited and I like to not have to mix tons of color all the time So I would rather bring one more color and then bring a white pen and I don't think My travel palette has whiten it I could be wrong, but let's let's see If you try to empty markers and gouache Um, I haven't um, I don't know that that would work because the gouache is going to want to um harden and dry So I'm not sure how that would work if it would stay liquid enough to not clog the pen up Oh, see I do have white in here most of my favorite palettes have white in them And white that Chinese whites a good color for mixing Because the gouache is going to want to Harden it's not going to want to stay wet now. The other thing too is when you're buying gouache If you're going to buy some gouache to add to your Um collection of a watercolor paints Make sure you're buying a watercolor gouache not an acrylic gouache the acrylic gouache is going to harden up and Um, it does not rewet. They're two different animals Does anybody have any questions? Don't you love baby wipes makes cleanup easy I palette away. So I took all these brushes out and I only use the one that's pretty typical of me Um, I do have This other brush I've been using that I'm actually really liking they're inexpensive This is a Utrecht brand, which is a division of dickblick And they have their own brand of brushes and I got these two watercolor brushes. They are the 61 50 round A four and an eight And I'm really liking them Princeton's still my favorite, but I'm really liking them I mean, let's be real. I have a brush problem like I have a paint problem This is just the bucket or round watercolor brushes Um, I have ordered the gene hanes dvds. I have not had a problem with them playing That being said I usually play them on my on my computer. So I don't know if that makes a difference Sterling Edwards is a good brand. Yeah, I um I have a couple brands of watercolor paint I need to get to try and one of them. I'm having trouble acquiring which is old holland So, um, yeah, I don't know. I'm gonna I'm working on it I might have to just back order the a little small set and wait for it to come in Yeah, I'm gonna have to order it from Jackson's. I'm gonna I want to get one that's already in a palette I don't want to have to get tubes and put them somewhere So I'm going to work on that Well You know, I don't I agree with that statement for the most part I cannot have too many paints or brushes of the ones that I love But there are ones over this journey called mix media that I've acquired That um, I acquired a bunch of them and then discovered they're not my favorite. So um Yeah, so I would I would Caution you when you are watching anyone Hi When you're watching anyone on youtube or you're taking a class Just because the teacher's using a particular product Doesn't mean you have to use the same one Doesn't mean that you have to buy every color in that paint or crayon or whatever Um get just if if you're it's a new product Buy a couple in your favorite colors and try them If you decide you really love them then go buy more There are lots of products like gelato's. I love I love my gelato's don't get me wrong But there's lots of other products you can use instead of them that are less expensive I have not tried the versatil brush Probably because it hasn't been on sale. I do have a couple of really expensive watercolor brushes Okay, like this one Raphael soft aqua this little brush I think it was this one is was 65 dollars And I you know Oh, maybe it was this one see I have a couple of them. I bought I think I bought three of them And I spent over a hundred dollars on three brushes and the problem with that is they're fabulous brushes I love them. They are sable. They work fabulously They're I'm sorry imitation squirrel I love them, but they were so expensive That I have trouble using them so I find a lot of things from jackson's art are cheaper even with shipping than anything I can get over here um So I jackson's art.com for those of you who don't know is a uk art supply company And they carry a nice selection of empty metal watercolor palettes. They're cheaper than the ones you can get here They have um Lots of paints and things that are cheaper than what you can get here So go to jackson's art show them some love And um, yeah, I wow no way I'm not sure michelle. Wow. No way to what comment that I spent that much on a brush. I know I have trouble using them there. They sit up there, but they're not the first brushes I grab So I tend to use things that are inexpensive um, that's the first and last time I'll do that because um Yeah, it's just Yeah, I shouldn't have done that So when I tell you guys not to do something it's because I've already done it wrong most most of the time You know when I first started I thought oh gelatos I have to have one in every single color and I own one in every single color. Do I need all those colors? No Do I use them? No? I actually prefer some of the lesser expensive like target watercolor gel crayons and um Sparkle gel crayons to gelatos so You know watercolor paint is the same. So if you want to try watercolor paint try Decide what brand? You want to try that you're interested in there's a million of them out there. They all have their good and bad points Decide what your price point is decide what brand you want to try Get one or two colors if it's a if it's an expensive artist grade brand get one or two tubes of paint If you want a minimum number of tubes Get a primary red primary yellow primary blue white and black You can mix a lot of colors with those um, you can get cyan yellow and Quinn magenta And you can mix a lot of colors with those um And then if you really like them and you really love them Then add more paint to your to your palette But don't go out thinking you have to have a million tubes of paint when you're not even sure you're gonna like it And if you're just going to use your watercolors in conjunction with other mixed media projects and card making Then I would say go with something less or expensive like a koi Uh palette koi is a great one. We've done the koi Um somewhere I don't know. No, I know I've done the koi, but I don't know where Um koi is a good one. Um Prima is nice um The praying half uh semi moist half pans are nice um If you want a little bit of a step up van go Is nice Royal and langnickels not bad um, I wouldn't be too concerned about light fastness And those sort of things until you decide you're going to be more serious about watercolor and even then It's not my primary concern if I create something that I really love I photograph it. I scan it and I save it as a digital file someday Then if it fades I've got a copy of the way it looked originally And I yeah, I would just do primaries and white white and black And that you only really need and you could get away with no white and black Just do the three primary tubes and that you'll get a lot of use out of them And then if you like it then buy more colors The flower pages the single page this one Yep, I I have both van go and winds are newton and I like both of them I've I have yet really to meet a watercolor paint. I don't like Um, I'm not crazy about the whole line Um, they don't read wet well, and I'm not crazy about their pre uh the peer list because there's not a lot of pigment there to play with Um, this there is a video on this. They're in the watercolor wednesday playlist So go go look at the watercolor wednesday playlist because it's on there All right, that's it for today guys. I'm going to go try to run a couple errands before I have a friend come over for some um, tutoring art tutoring And uh, I will see you all later Have fun playing with your paints If you have friends who have watercolor paint, especially if they have different brands than you think about getting together and having a painting and swatching party And everybody bring their watercolor paints to share And you can do some of these four part paintings with each other's brand of paint so you can try other brands Then what you have and to see if you like them Those are fun kind of parties And that's when I break out my big round palettes when we have those kind of things All right So that's it. Don't forget the most important thing You all know what that is, right? Have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it Maybe buy some watercolor paint All right, I'll talk to you all later. We will be here monday live noon at noon pacific daylight time for monday with deco art Uh-oh thunder and lightning and rain and that's not good. That means it's headed this way All right, I'll see you guys all later. I am gonna clean up And then go run some errands Bye guys Oh, okay. So last minute question so no so If you mix your three primary colors, you're going to get a dark neutral It won't necessarily be black. It depends on what What colors exactly you're using to mix they can But you have to have the right colors of blue red and yellow and you have to mix them in the right amounts Depending on what color of blue and what color of red and what color of yellow you're using and the amount that you get You you put in there Um, we'll give you a different kind, you know, you'll get a different neutral So you'll always get a neutral. It just depends on how the amount of the pigments you put in and which pigment exactly you're using You know, if you use prussian blue and alizarin crimson and um, yellow ochre, you're going to get a different Dark neutral than you will if you use ultramarine quinacridone magenta and lemon yellow I'm the only way to figure out which ones are going to make a dark black ish color That you like is to play with your paints I prefer not to mix black. I prefer to have a black or a pains gray or Neutral tint in my palette. So this is a good last minute discussion before I go off the air so Start out by buying three primary colors And by white and black. I recommend the five tubes of paint As you paint if you find you're mixing a particular color a lot Or pains gray. Yeah black or pains gray if you find say you're trying to mix turquoise all the time Then go back to the store and add turquoise to your palette If you find you're mixing pink all the time go back to the store and add pink to your palette That's how you should that's the proper way to build up a a paint palette for any kind of paint whether it's watercolor acrylic doesn't matter Pains gray is my favorite neutral. Those of you who've been watching me know that If you've been watching me for a while pains gray is my preferred neutral. It's more interesting than black because it's bluish gray ish dark color I also like neutral tint because it's similar to pains gray, but usually a little bit more transparent So for my palette, I would pick probably cyan um a bright lemony yellow Probably like a quidochrome magenta pains gray and chinese white. That's probably in any brand That's usually the the colors are close to those that I buy Yep. Yep. And each one of those different shades of primaries, you know, going to give you a different blend And the only way to know is to do I do recommend Do you know do it like our swatch book? Where's our swatch book? I do recommend creating a reference book Of whatever paint brand that you have Yeah, and you need to in your book do some tests you need to do if you have more than one brand do a comparison You need to do some sample paintings You need to do some blending tests One section you should probably add to add to your book If you're especially new to Painting and blending is a chart where you've blended a particular color of paint Like say turquoise and then over here you've made notes about which colors of paint In approximately what amounts you mixed to get that color And and then you have a reference sheet And you probably should have it out every time you're working on a painting and you mix a new color that you like Make a quick little swatch and make a few notes and then keep painting And then at some point you're going to build up a nice reference book for yourself But the only way to figure out what colors in your palette are going to mix any other color is to Do a book There's no shortcut. If there was a shortcut. I tell you guys, I love a good shortcut I'm the lazy crafter remember. I'm not the frugal ket crafter. That's lindsay I'm the lazy crafter All right, that's really it. I got to go I got to go run some errands and go to the bank And I probably should do some chores although it's not high on my priority list All right, that's it for right now I will talk to you guys later. Have a great day And I will be back monday with monday with deco art and in the monday with deco art. We do the same kind of Paintings and process and color blending Except with acrylic paint. So if that's more of your speed, I'll see you monday All right. Bye guys