 So, I clicked on my image so it should stay live. Just on me. It says live on the send. Yeah, it's going to show your picture at first, but then it should flip to me and stay there. My nose itches. Of course, my nose itches. You hit live. Of course it does. I've been working today on a lot of stuff done. A lot of stuff done. Now I'm just working on a page just for me. Just that I can play with and have fun with. And well, I'm going to share with everybody this morning. I've already got so much stuff done. Hey, the D. So I did get myself to the gym this morning. My back is feeling better for those that don't know it. My back was bothering me yesterday. Hey, Mary. Hey, Gerta, Lisa. But I got to the gym today. My back is feeling great. I did go down to Hobby Lobby in my sweaty, icky gym clothes. But, you know, who cares? And I've been wanting to go down for a week. And I just haven't had time. So I went this morning before I came home to get ready for right now. And so look what I found on clearance. Are you serious? In gold with the turquoise zippers. Yeah, it was. I don't know the regular price is $34.99. And it was $20.99. Dang girl. And I know, right? And I just double checked to make sure like all the zippers and stuff worked. I picked up a couple of other things, including like some elastic and, you know, stuff like that. But yeah, the bag, I wasn't expecting to buy the bag, but I just leave it there. But I just couldn't. Yeah, no. Leave it there. I know, right? It's golden turquoise. Mary, how could I leave it there? Open. I'm just curious. What does it have in it? Does it have pockets or? Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'm willing to share. So I got some fabric to do some crafty stuff with plain white, which, you know, I have every other color on the planet. I didn't have anything that was just plain white cotton. I found this one, which has teepees on it, which, you know, I don't know about the teepees, but the flowers are really pretty. I like the teepees. Yeah. It's pretty. I don't know why I liked it, but I did. And then they have this turquoise one with feathers on it. Oh, that's cool. I know. I don't have that. Hey, Ian. Hey, Mary. Hey, Gerda. Hi guys. After looking at that blog the other day about making your own mark-making tools, I had to go buy some chenille stems because, you know, I didn't have any. So I'll be sharing these because you've heard sharing these red of them. I know. You can't just buy one. You have to have like a million. I had to buy some jewelry things. First up, jewelry pieces I need to make for my sister. I found this really cool elastic that's like one in five, eight inches wide, really soft. I want to make some more of those pencil bags that fit around your journal. Yep. That's, that's a big. I got that. I got two of them because they only had two and I really like it. So here's the inside. Yeah. Here's the inside of the bag. So it has this pocket here plus this pocket. Take all this out. So plus this pocket and that's just one side. And then there's another side and this other side has this pocket here plus these, which come off. Wow. And I checked it and there's like no missing pieces. There's no broken zippers. There's no holes in it. You know, I was like, cause these three 65 happy planner things, like don't really go on clearance often. No. So as you said it was Hobby Lobby. Hobby Lobby. Yeah. So I don't know if the gold color is discontinued and that maybe it's the gold, it's just the gold color. And if that's the case, they might be on clearance at all the Hobby Lobby's. Sorry. You heard yourself for a second. So yeah, I mean, I just love the bag. I mean, it's golden turquoise. They didn't have to. No, Cindy, I would have picked you up one. I know you well enough. They only had one. I will have to check. I'll have to go to Hobby Lobby. I didn't have, I don't have any other Hobby Lobby's around here. Like we only have the one in like a hundred mile radius or something. It's ridiculous. At least it's close enough for you though. Yeah. It's 20 minutes from here. So it's not that far. That's cool. All right. I was telling Cindy, I'm, you know, it's that time of year for me. And I don't know about the rest of you, but it's that time of year to make the appointments with. Yearly checkup at the primary care physician. Your yearly checkup at the asthma doctor. Your yearly checkup with the cardiologist for. I have was born with a heart defect. So I got to get that checked. It's pro. I'm sure it's fine, but I got to go in anyway. Probably is going to be time for the mammogram soon. So if you guys are putting all of those things off, I know it's no fun. I know it causes anxiety and stress, but just do it anyway. Yeah. I actually, um, where I go for the new lung doctor that I have to go see, he, um, it's through a different hospital. It's called Guthrie services, which is out of Pennsylvania. Anyways, he, I got a thing in the mail the other day from Guthrie because everything is computerized for them and they have all the records. Well, we see that you're due for a mammogram and you're due for this and that and the other thing. And I'm thinking, uh, no, what? Yeah. Yeah. They always, you know, it. They just don't have all the records. Yeah. They want to get you in there for as many things as they can, but also, um, uh, you know, it seems like all that stuff comes in batches. It does. Yeah. But I can't just do a while. You have to like do like six things. Yeah. It's nice though to get it all done though. Usually May is my month. Usually I have to go. I'll do, do all that crap. So I do, I do think the mammogram baby is not due right away. I think that's not doing it for a couple months. I hope. Let's see. Well, just a couple of pencils. Just so you guys know, um, I'm actually not creating a watercolor piece today, but I am working in my journal. So you guys will get to see the video eventually. And hi, Ian. Hi. Uh, Yassna, Yanni. Hello. Um, Mar-Luan. Hello. Terry. Hello. Kristen. Hello, everybody. If I missed you. Hello. Um, and yes, I agree. This is a really great size. I love this happy planner bag. Um, of course you can get, um, a bag to carry some of your art supplies around by using like a cosmetic travel cosmetic bag from like Target. But this happy planner bag is very well thought out. It's nice and big. And I've been wanting one for a while. And, um, I was so happy to see it on the clearance and I, you know, had to peek around the boxes because they were stocking shelves. And, um, I'm glad I did because it was behind one of the boxes on the bottom. Now go check out hobby lobbies. If you're close. Yep. I'm going to have to go check it out. If you don't have one close, you might check their website. It might not be on sale, but it might be. I don't know. Ah, Gerda. So here's our watercolor journal so far, what we've have so far, you know, some, just some swatches, some tests, and then some different, you know, paintings, experiments. Kristen and Cheryl. Hi guys. I'm still having weird issues with, um, YouTube today. I mentioned it yesterday to people, um, if you've left a comment on my channel and I haven't responded, I respond to the comments daily, um, every 48 hours at the outside, right now there's almost 30 comments in the likely spam section of the comments on my YouTube channel. Only when I go over there to look at them and click on the, the tab, there's nothing there. Or it says it can't open it. Did you get a hold of YouTube for, for about that? I emailed them and I got, you know, a standard response, but I don't know if or when they're going to be able to get back to me. They'll get back to you. It normally takes, I've noticed about 48 hours at least. They send you the yes, thank you for contacting us and then yeah, we'll get back to you. Yeah, it's very weird that there's all these comments over there that I can't open. So I don't know what to think about that. I'd say they got a fluke in their system. There's, yeah, there's something funny there. I'm going to rearrange my table a little bit because I'm running out of room, big surprise. I'm going to go mute for a second because I need to dry my page. So I'll be right back with you. Okay. I have printed out a bunch of the photos from the weekly challenge in my year 2017 and also from our inspiration folder. I printed a whole bunch of them out. I wasn't really positive which one we were going to do today. I'm kind of thinking we're going to, I love this one by the way. I'm thinking this one might just be great as collage paper on something. So I don't know that I want to paint it today but I love this one. I do think we're going to paint this one. If you're not part of the my year 2017 Facebook group, then you need to maybe be a member and look in the description below and check it out if you do Facebook. And Terri, I just saw your message about the storms. Yes. I'm going to echo what everybody else says. Stay safe. All right. Apparently I'm not going to mute. I'm just going to keep going. So I thought we would do this flower shape. I found it interesting. So I thought we would work on that one. So I'm going to do a basic sketch. I'm going to just use a plain color pencil. This isn't a water soluble pencil or anything. It's just a plain old color pencil. Ian, I want to tell you thank you very much for putting the winners, the weekly winner photos by themselves all in one folder. I really, really appreciate that. Thank you. So it is really funny while I'm doing my little sketch and I'm going to zoom in a little bit to see you guys can see what I'm doing because I don't know what I'm doing. It is pretty funny that I got a lot of comments about the baby. And I appreciate all the lovely comments. But you know, I did do a shortcut with that baby. You know, if you're not confident in your drawing skills and you don't think that you can draw something like that, use transfer paper. That's what I did. I could have sketched it out, but I didn't want to. So, you know, use transfer paper to transfer the basic shape and proportions and then fill in the rest of the details with your paint and your color pencils and whatever. See that guys? Gina cheats also. You know, you don't have to always feel like you have to draw everything. I will also tell you this particular flower. If you are in the My Year 2017, this flower is going to come up again next week. So, I'm just drawing the basic shapes I see. Terry, that's a bummer. I know what weather on the body does and it's not fun. Hey, Bella, how are you? Terry says the weather, the front that's going through is hurting her body and more. And they have two more coming through tonight and tomorrow. I know, you know, any of us who have any kind of health issues, but especially, you know, if you have something like arthritis or something that's sensitive to the weather, it can just be horrible. Bella, I like your name. Bella nailed it. I like that, that's cool. Hey, Elizabeth, I've decided to play a little bit differently in my art journal today. Nothing wrong with that. Totally not Cindy style. I don't know, I just... I don't know. I do think I'm going to put that little seed bud thing in. Ian, yes, to answer your question, remind me later on, I will send them to you after this. I have to try to, I was watching Mike Deacon's blog before we went live. I almost forgot to go live because I was watching his vlog that he just posted. And he was talking about needing to do laundry and I thought, oh, shit, I got to add that to my list today. I'll tell you, ever since Jeff moved our laundry room upstairs, oh my God, Gina, it's so much easier for me to do. And now I can also see how much is there. So when I get, you know, a couple loads, I'll do it. And it's just so much nicer. Okay, I'm going to take a white crayon. This is just a white Crayola crayon. It's nothing special. Don't you love Mike? We all love Mike. Mike is a great guy. So where I see the highlights on the flower, like on this seed, like right here on this bud, I'm going to color it with the white crayon and I'm going to add some white crayon there. And I won't really be able to see it, but it will protect that from getting too much paint there. Sorry, Bella, I feel for you. Being trapped, laid up in bed, that's just, is not fun. No, I can't be fun. That doesn't sound fun. It's not. I was talking with Mike Deacon earlier. We were talking about building a time machine or a travel machine where we could travel from place to place. You just walk into a booth, push a button, and end up there. We were talking about where we would go, and I told him, I said, yeah, I'd be at a beach under a tiki hut. And I'm like, you know what? I'd probably stop at some guy named Mike out in the UK. He's laughing. He goes, I'll bake a cake. Okay. I can't imagine eventually somebody's going to come up with the technology to do that. Do you realize how much money they're going to make by doing it? Right. It is. I will say it is on my bucket list to go visit Mike. So as always, you know, when you're painting any of these paintings in watercolor, you always want to start with your lightest value and work your way darker. With watercolor, you can't take it back. Not easily, anyways. So this is my mixed palette, by the way. It's got Quar, Windsor Newton, Grumbacher, Schmincke, Van Gogh. I think these big ones at the bottom are still in LA. Yeah, they are. So there's a lot of different ones in here. That was Bismuth Yellow, which is a Quar. No, Elizabeth, I'll leave it. And it's not perfect, but it helps make lifting the color easier because the color can't absorb into the paper. And I could push a lot harder with it. But it is one of those fun techniques. You can get a resist crayon to do the same thing. But I like just the plain crayola because you don't get a perfect white space and it's a little bit more blendy than using, what do you call it, masking fluid. And Ian, yeah, you're our tech, you're our technology brother. You need to figure out how to fold space. Let's just let you figure that out. That's what I told Mike. I said, his Ian. I told Mike, I said, you tell Ian to get on that, would you? Yeah. You guys stop building steampunk stuff and figure out how to make a booth. This is a little bit brighter yellow. This is Hans yellow. And when you're doing any painting, you should just be taking inspiration from the photo. We're not looking to copy the photo exactly. If you want an exact copy of whatever it is, hire somebody like my daughter who's a professional photographer and have her take the pictures. There's this bright orange space of other flowers behind the white one. So we're going to suggest that by just putting a wash of yellow in the background. And I've been painting two minutes and I already got schmutz in my plate. What the hell? What is schmutz? Schmutz. You can tell I'm married to a New Yorker who grew up around a lot of all his friends in New York were all Jewish. So we say things like schmutz. Oh, okay, I get it. You know, garbage actually was lint in the plate. Ian says he has lots of rearranging his work times. He's got a lot of stress. Oh, I'm sorry. Ian, stress is not good. So I'm going to take five minutes. I'm going to get some sap green. I apologize guys for my squeaky chair. I will get the hubs on that tonight to get WD-40. So it will stop doing that. I have to say usually it's me apologizing Cindy because you know the picture is bad or rubbing a sound issue. Today everything looks good. Well, not here. My chair squeaky. I can't move. So I'm going to do the shadows with green. Green is on the cooler side of the color spectrum. And there's a lot of green in the picture. There's green in the background. I'm going to take some of this sap green. It's mixed with a little bit of yellow that's on the palette. And I'm going to put it where the pedals are overlapping and there's a shadow. I'm going to put a little bit of the pigment. I'm going to just come in with a brush with water and or my rag. And I'm going to blend it out. And you can see right here. I'll see if I can hold a flower up. Let me get this blended. You can see where the paint is resisting where the crayon was right there. When you're painting something that's white, the trick is to paint around it. That sounds like it'd be awful challenging. So knowing me, I'd probably just paint the flower a different color. Well, you could do that. And you could do that. There's nothing wrong with that. Heather, no. Gina and I are actually on different coasts. She's on the west coast. I'm on the east coast. Cornia. I'm in New York, upstate New York. And we are getting another storm or I would say sunny California, a little bit gray outside. And right now it's, like it always is in central New York, gloomy. Every once in a great while, we see the sun. Not very often. So if you're having any problems with resolution, find that gear where it says quality and check on the highest resolution that it will let you. And that may help clear things up for you. Heather, Gina and I have got to know each other quite well because we do a lot of Google Hangout time together. So we're always getting pretty much on a daily basis. And we've gone on a lot of art adventures in real life. So much fun. I was actually, you know, earlier today talking to Aaron, we got to get back out there to see him again. I know, right? I think that, I think Aaron has better eyebrows than I do. And if you guys don't know, we're talking about Aaron from Imperfect Impulses. If you don't know who he is, you should check him out. I don't know that he's posted a lot of new things lately, but... Not lately, but boy, he's an artistic soul. Yes, definitely. So you just slowly work your way darker. Heather, that may be because your, Heather says a resolution keeps going in and out. That may be because you have it on auto. What kind of a device are you looking at it from? Are you on an iPad or a PC? It is sometimes YouTube, you guys, or the internet connection on my end or yours. Just FYI. Terry says they got more thunderstorms right there now. Uh-oh. Hey, Carol. Terry, are you anywhere near Raleigh? Okay, Heather. This is darker green. This is Hooker's green. I'm also noticing, you guys, regardless of resolution issues that... Cindy is getting the comments before I am. There's some comment issues, I think. Again. I'm not sure how to fix the resolution on the laptop, Heather. Ian, do you have any idea? Hi, Josie. Okay, that was a lot of Hooker's green. I think that was too much. So, let me get in there with the rag. I would love to know why they called with that. Right? Heather's on 720 resolution. So then it might be the connection, like Gina says, either on her end or on your end. What I would say is go out and come back in and try that. I can tell you that from my end, I'm watching it on the iPad, which now that I've zoomed in a bit, you can't really see. Actually, there were a couple of spotty moments, but now it's fine. Hey Ian, that sounds like fun. He says, go on a Gina and Cindy fan, coast to coast trip. Sounds fun to me. Heather's asking if your camera, you have it set on autofocus Gina. No, I turn the autofocus off. I always turn the autofocus off. Yeah, that's what I figured. If I don't, then it's going in and out, in and out. And I don't know about you guys, but it gives me a headache. That's usually the first thing I do when we're doing this is turn off the autofocus. All right. Heather's going to try to go out and come back in again. Notice my voice is going funky again, Gina. Yeah. I'm having some asthma issues today. I've been sucking on my inhaler like it's nothing. It's crazy. Yeah. Well, I finally got through to the doctor and they are going to call the pulmonologist and arrange things for me. Thank God. Good. I get to go back to see him at the end of April. And that's when he's going to do more tests and hopefully give me an idea of what's going on. Yeah. I like the worst parts, just not knowing. It is the worst part is not knowing. And going through with the pulmonary doctors, you know, the trial and error of getting you on the right medicine is also not fun. That sounds like a blast. Yeah. And that's probably what I'm looking at. So I'm not looking forward to it. All right. Yeah. Lisa, this allergy season for those of us who are sensitive to allergies and have asthma is going to be horrible. And those living anywhere like California where you've gotten a lot of rain, it's going to be horrible. Now I'm just deciding what I want to do next. You know, I have this instinct to put some turquoise in there because why wouldn't I? I put turquoise in everything. I have phthalo turquoise. It's a core color. It's really pretty. Now the core colors are really, really bright. Look at this color. That's just a tiny dab out of the pan. Chat soon, Ian. Okay. Heather went out and came back in and she says it's better. So that's good. Okay, good. And Ian had to take off. Sometimes it's just YouTube and there's not a lot we can do about it. Unfortunately. Okay. So see my instincts were right because I added a little bit of that turquoise and that's just popping now. I love that. I'm sitting here mesmerized by watching you. It's a lot of fun. Water coloring is my Zen place. I get asked all the time about the anxiety disorder. What do I do to, you know, help with that? And I'm happy to share, but you know, art is my Zen place. Art is the thing that I can do that helps me get out of my own way. And that's awesome. Yeah. Especially when I have things coming up like doctor visits that I don't want to go to. Right. Well, you know, and I think it's nice for anybody that's got some type of a mobility issue or mental illness or chronic pain to be able to get into that Zen place. And I think, and at least in my opinion, that's why we do a lot of art. It's just, it's the best place to be. And maybe for you, it's not art. Maybe it's something else, but whatever it is, maybe it's actual meditation, whatever it is, you should do that. Exactly. I mean, it could be, you know, taking a walk. It could be whatever it is listening to certain music or whatever. Yeah. Kristen, thank you. Yeah. Long issues are no fun. You know, I have been saying for a while now, you know, I was born with mitral valve prolapse and I've had it my whole life. I'm pretty sure the checkup for that's going to be fine. I doubt there's any change. I don't feel any different. And it's less important to me than breathing. I've got to breathe. My heart is still beating and it's not having any issues. So I'm not worried about that, but the breathing is a concern. And the fact that after almost five years, the medication is still not right. It's also a concern. I decided. Oh my God. You're going to believe it. Gina, last night I cleaned off my brayer. It's actually. Oh really? Yeah. It's like reddish pink again. Ooh. It's kind of scary. I have to do that. All my prayers. I did purge some prayers, but all my prayers are really nasty. Well, I decided last night for the heck of it, just to clean it off. Lisa says to get two boxes of crayons and start coloring. Call me tomorrow. Yep. Yeah. I agree with that. That's a perfect thing to do. Coloring. Arting. Listening to music. Reading. Going on a walk. Whatever it is for you. It doesn't matter. Google Hangout with someone from the opposite coast. Yeah. So this is actually doxazine purple. This is another choir color. Again, look at how bright that is. It's just teeny tiny dab of it. I've actually been doing a lot. Sorry. Okay. Reading lately, Gina. Reading is great. Yeah. I find it. Hey, Marielle. Um, I find that at night, if I read, I can get my mind not to shut off per se, but I can get it distracted enough so that when I shut off the light, I don't have 45,000 things going around and around in my mind. Yeah. So I pretty much start every night. Yeah. Because I have anxiety disorder and I didn't know that that's what that was for years. Just FYI. My brain doesn't shut down easily at night. It keeps me up. Not to mention the fact that I post menopausal and all of that stuff. So hormones, you know, wreak havoc on that too. Um, but reading helps me, you know, shut my brain down so I can actually get some sleep. That's exactly what I did while that. And I just love to read. So I always have. There is that. I've always loved to read. Can you believe this guys? I'm actually using up some of my paint horde. Can you believe it? We don't believe it. I am. It's giving me a good excuse. So when I go shopping next, I need more painting. So see, I'm going to hold this up to the camera. Let's see. There we go. That's the addition of the purple. So. Yeah. A little tiny bit of paint. And, you know, like I'm always telling any of my students, no digging holes to China with your paintbrush. Just a light touch on the page. You. You can't take it back. So a little bit of pigment goes a long way. Use a light touch. You can always add more. And because it's wet, it's like bleeding in. Where are we? There we are. It's bleeding into some of the other colors. And you're getting these unexpected little happy. Spots that I like. All right. For those of you who weren't on this week's live. Kind of art hangout that Cindy does. It was so funny because I don't remember now if it was. Before she had everybody else come in or after, but she was showing all these different little art pieces that I've sent her over the years. And some of them I don't even remember painting. She's like, you remember this one? I'm like, no. I was. What was I looking for? I remember now. You were looking for something. I don't even know now. I don't know either. I don't remember some of those. They were fun. It's great because I have them from 2013. That's four years ago. I know, right? Crazy. All right. I don't like that brush. We need some sponges. I have to say, when I come to my paint table, I try to paint with brushes, but I like my sponges so much better. Anybody just noticed what I did? Does anybody know what this is? I think you call it a spoolie, but it's an eyebrow brush. It's great for whether you're doing acrylic or watercolor. You can just drag it through the paint and create these lines. These are cheap. You can get them at the dollar store. All right. That's just an eyebrow brush. I have a few makeup brushes. My favorite one are these eyebrow brushes or eyelash brushes. They make really great marks whether you're working with acrylic or watercolor. They make interesting marks in the wet paint. You can get these at, of course, at Alta or Zephora or Target, but you can sometimes also find sets of makeup brushes at the dollar store. They have one of these in it. Lisa, find yourself something to do at night before you go to bed and make a routine of it. That's how I ended up. I'm actually reading a series called The Deathlands. There's 125 books in it, and I'm at 109, I think. I know that once I'm done reading that, I shut off the light, and I can actually, like I said, calm it down enough so that I can go to sleep. Maybe if you can find some type of a routine every night, something that really relaxes you and get into a routine of it. I keep saying the word routine, but that's what I've had to do in order to be able to sleep. That's exactly what I do. I read every single evening. The reading I do before I'm going to bed is something that I know isn't going to, how do I say this, be too engaging. I love to read a trashy romance novel, but to be honest, it's not so captivating that it'll keep me awake. If I read art books right before going to bed, I'd never get any sleep. Oh, yeah, because your mind was going 100 miles an hour. And I'd want to get up and start painting. Yep. I've been there done that, Gina. Yeah, so I can read the stories. And when I get sleepy enough, I'll just go to sleep and I'll finish it, you know, the next day. Gina knows every now and then I'll pinger it. Like, I don't know, it's 10, 11, 12, one o'clock here. Gina's like, you're not sleeping. I know I'm like, what the hell are you doing awake? Yeah, not sleeping today, but it happens. It's all good. Now, of course, if you're doing any painting, I'm always telling you guys this, we're mixed media artists. So if you start to lose the white space, don't worry about it. Just go back in with some acrylic paint or a gel pen. I like where this is going, but I'm kind of wanting to darken up the background. So I'm going to grab some Coedocratone gold deep. And I'm going to mix it with some of the other colors that are in here on my plate. Gina says she watches you before sleeping. Okay, I hope that doesn't mean I'm boring. No, she says she watches, I think it's my life or my year. Oh, yeah. I know I watch those of you who make videos. I watch your videos in the evening generally or when I'm eating lunch. But generally in the evening, my husband will have, you know, some sports game on TV or some car show or something. So I'm on the sofa next to him, but I've got my iPad going with earbuds in because I'm watching something else. He can't say we don't spend time together. Oh, that's quality time there now. It's all well and good until he's throwing cow tails at my head. I still think that's funny. I'll never forget the look on your face. It was just hilarious. For those who don't know, like I didn't, cow tails are a candy. I had no idea. Cindy said one day to me that she was eating cow tails and like, what the hell? What do you mean you're eating cow tails? That's disgusting. They're really good, aren't they, Gina? Yeah, they are good. I agree. And then of course I had to send her some and then Bob fell in love with them. So yeah, now they have a regular delivery of cow tails. You didn't hear him what he said to me last night. I said, you know, I'm trying to find that candy that you like. And I said, you know, the markets over here are sold out. I'm not sure where to get it. I could order it for her from Amazon. He says, no, no, we need to find a market that has some in stock. I might want an extra bag so I can try it. Let me tell you he didn't like it. He's a huge sweet tooth guy. Like for me, I'm, you know, I like sweets and all, but I'm happy with, you know, a piece of fruit. I don't, but he loves cake and ice cream and yeah, candy. As long as I have it here, I'm good. If it's not here, I crave it so bad. But as long as it's here, I, you know, it's a great while. I'll, you know, have a little bit, but nothing. Okay. So now we're going to really. So I have indigo, which is, you know, dark blue. So again, we're going to just take a little bit. Little bit goes a long way. Girda says you're not boring and she says she dreams about flowers. Okay. Well, that's good. Elizabeth's getting hungry. You want some candy, Elizabeth? Yeah, right? I know in her, in Elizabeth, in your books, where you do your daily pages. I love checking out the different candies and stuff that you guys try. And a while back, you tried an Aero, A-E-R-O candy bar. I love those. They are so good. It's just a very, very light chocolate. My favorite candy on the planet is from Sea's Candy. It is a dark chocolate covered raspberry cream. And that's, yeah, my favorite thing. I like raspberry. I love raspberry gelato. I love raspberry sorbet. See, raspberry is my thing. I love raspberry. I'm just, and I don't mind dark chocolate, but it's not my favorite. I think my favorite is more a white chocolate. Yeah. Or a really, really, this sounds awful. I like cheap chocolate. Even like an ice cream. I love cheap chocolate ice cream. I don't want any bean brand. I just want the store cheap. I just love it. I don't know why. But as far as candy bars, it's got to be white chocolate. I think that's my favorite. At some point when I'm painting, it happens every single time. I forget about looking at the reference photo. I just start having fun with the painting. You're funny, Lisa. I was too. Lisa, what? Lisa raised on a farm, and when I think of cow's tails, it's not good. No, because let me tell you, when you're milking cows and those suckers hit you, they hurt. Well, when she told me about, she was eating a cow's tail. I wasn't raised on a farm, but I was like, what? How are you talking about? I figure everybody hears about those things. When you want to add pups to your painting, I'm always saying this. Think about using some other colors besides black and white. Use like dark indigo, which is a dark blue. Use Payne's gray, which is a dark blue gray. Use Davey's gray, which is a dark green gray. Purple's are a good shadow color. Good highlight colors are orange, cadmium red, any of your yellows. Just think outside the box, and I think you'll be happier with the results that you get. I can't believe how much shadow, definition, and realism you get with watercolors. I wish. I wish. You know, practice. Practice, practice, practice. Practice. Practice. Practice. Practice. Practice Practice. Practice. Practice. Practice. Practice. Practice because when I first started, I never took a watercolor class. I just. I just started painting with them to this day. I haven't taken a proper watercolor class. That might shock some people or not. I don't know if we could follow you then. Sorry. I just started painting and I was working at a gift shop. and I was besides being an artist I was a cashier and you know as a mom and pop shop so we were either swamped or dead as a doornail and I wanted to have I'm not the kind of person to sit still for long so I wanted something to do at the desk and that I could do that was maybe creative that the customers when they were there might find interesting so I went and got a cheap set of art district watercolors and some paper and I just started playing and I did not take a class I just started playing with colors I had just barely learned what an ATC was at that time this was like 2007 2008 practice practice that's all it is it's just practice I mean I've read some books since then but I've never like taken a proper class from anybody on watercolor you have any of your very first watercolor paintings yes I can go grab I have I have a I have that yes I can go grab a book I'm talking like let me go yeah let me go grab that right away right now I know where exactly where it is but there's there's that I would probably stop here cuz I like the way that looks mini savages making brownies you're gonna send me some no frosting I'm not a frosting person it's funny cuz when I bake a cake I don't frost it so I just bake the cake and then I hand my husband the container frosting I'm like you put what you want on your pieces because I'm just not a huge frosting fan right Elizabeth it's I love the way she does this definition and she just does a beautiful job chewy ones you're right Terry chewy ones Eve you can have the frosting you sound like my husband I just it's I don't know kills the taste of the cake I like just plain old cake it's so for some reason I've been inspired to make myself a painted paper journal hi Kathy Gino be back in a minute so I'm working on I normally do my painted papers only on one side I'm not sure why but right now I decided to start working on them and getting both sides down so I can make myself there might be some in one of these let's look I gotta zoom out portfolios I don't think this huge one has any in it these aren't watercolor this is mixed media there you go ugly faces we don't all start out doing these are some of the ones I did on my very first YouTube video painted paper see if I make a copy of it and I think I'm gonna want to sell the copies or reproduce the car I saved the original which is always smart you've seen some of these like I've even sent you all some copies of some of these I started cutting this one and thought wait I should make a copy of that yeah you go girl she's gonna what we were talking about cake and how frosting and I usually when I take I just leave the frosting off yeah and Eve says she takes all the frosting and Kristin says she's just a cake girl too I really like like gelato and ice cream like I like candy but I like ice cream and why the way they are on the YouTube you know the last version yeah if they're not in here I know I've got some of the first ATC cards actually I found the ATC cards the other day whoa I'm looking at the other version never mind I haven't seen any watercolors yet I know they're around here somewhere have copies of all of them there Heather she's looking for certain watercolor ones that's why she's not worried about the glare yeah these there's a lot of glare here because of the part it's a portfolio it I got a little over the house you guys I have so much of it so who we who remembers these Elizabeth just it really depends on what type of printer it is printed out on Elizabeth asked if you make a copy of your pen and paper can the recipient use it with Matt may be on it or will be run and I can't remember off the top of my head which one Gina will run um a desk jet or inkjet printer will run a laser jet will not so generally speaking if I'm gonna sell you an actual copy of one of my old backgrounds then I will usually go have it printed at staples so but it's a nice copy okay now we need to zoom in because these are little so I'm gonna zoom in as far as I can and here's one of my where are we there we are that's one of my original watercolor ATC cards I'm gonna pull them out of the plastic because they'll be too much glare otherwise can't even want to know what that round that's a seven gypsy's ATC card holder that I don't think they make anymore so these look at these these are old these are literally these are the ones I did at the front desk at the gift shop this is from 2008 these are my first water colors and these are watercolor on drawing paper which FYI don't do it's not great paper to work on and you have a lot of problems with it peeling and it doesn't hold the water well these are just what I called at the time I still call these are just watercolor doodles but you know what Gina if somebody is just playing around and doesn't want to spend the money or can't afford to put the money on proper watercolor paper it will work it'll work I use that for years I just used paper from the dollar store now this is the reproduction of a larger watercolor piece that I put on an ATC card I also did just some like these this is one that I was telling Cindy and Jerry about recently this is done with make sure I'm on camera so this is done with acrylic medium some kind of acrylic medium like GAC and then you mix some Perlex powder in it and you literally glob it onto your card and then you heat it with your heat set tool and all these big bumpy bits are bubbles in the G that come up in the GAC 2008 yeah mixed media will work too these and these are old so you guys I wanted to make sure we found some of these because I want to show you you don't have to this is I mean I don't know why I put glitter on that but I'm looking to see what else I have this is and this is a lot of like early work of mine here's one that's I just did a little bit of water color around the edge but then it's just collaged I had just learned about ATC cards into this is 2007 I used to trade ATC cards I don't really do that anymore but see what else is in here the other day it was like hiding in plain sight you know walk by it every day I forgot it was over there it's funny I used to do a lot of the trades and swaps and all that stuff too it just point where everything I was making left yeah I'm not doing that anymore I mean I don't mind you know doing happy males and that kind of thing but like I said it was to the point where it didn't matter what I made it we go out the door and it was just driving me crazy so by contrast here's one I did in 2014 this might have been a swap that we did over at KIU KIF so this is one of the first ones this is one of the latest ones this is watercolor and acrylic Cathy says ten years ago time flies I know right ah you know yeah you just you don't realize that you know you I used to tell people oh I haven't been doing mixed media that long only a few years and then I caught myself one day and went wait I found these cards and I went okay I've been doing mixed media since 2007 that's a long time before that I literally was just a seamstress and I did a lot of sewing and like you know Christmas ornaments and oh guess what my machine stopped having temper tantrums yay you believe it I told you if you're having trouble just unthread it nine times out of ten it's how it's threaded so these are some of the I did a lot of these coffee cups this is one of the first designs that came out with these coffee cups I did a lot of them and this was reprinted on tote bags and t-shirts and all kinds of things that's really cool though do you have any of those that you had them printed on no but I still have the artwork loaded up to cafe press and I can get it printed on things I was just you know I'm just saying through your own you know memory or no it's so funny you know I didn't keep any I didn't keep any it's so weird and I've always had a thing for hands so you know my latest Hamsa stamp set I've always had a thing for hands so this is one of my first hand doodles and I always made sure when I did an ATC card swap with somebody that I kept one you know I would make a limited run of the same design and then I would make sure I kept one right so yeah you guys don't have to feel like you can't watercolor because you don't know how I didn't either when I started yeah so can't use what you can get use what you can afford I started out using drawing paper I didn't even know what mixed media paper was see you later D and I got my paper at the dollar store and my paints were from art district they were an art district which is a very cheap student set and I think I got it with a 40% off coupon at either Michaels or Aaron brothers alrighty so here's our flower today and there's some art share so I hope it gives you guys some inspiration to just try and just play you don't have to you know be proficient at it on the only way to get better is to just play I do really like this it's turned out really cute you did a great job as always Gina thank you all right I have a meeting with a product developer which is really weird they called me I don't know what they want from me but I'll let you all know if and when I can I don't know what I don't know what it is about but I'm wearing my tie-dye and I'm not putting on any makeup I don't care we're meeting at the coffee shop so it's all good does anybody have any questions yeah that no there's no shortcut it's just practice I used to just watercolor at the desk all the time on these little ATC cards I would cut the paper up into small bits and I would just work on these doodles sometimes I would bring a bigger pad with me and I would just play with the paints I got a cheap student set that was something that was a little better than Crayola but it was an inexpensive set and it did have limited colors which in retrospect was a good thing because I had to mix colors and I had to learn to how to mix colors I didn't always mix them correctly but I had to figure out how to mix colors and that was a good thing and I always used and I still love to use one of these so I had my cheap set of watercolors some drawing paper and a general's layout pencil extra black okay and I still love this pencil but I did all the drawings with the general's layout pencil which is not waterproof and it does bleed a little bit with the watercolor paint which I really liked and I moved to that around to create some of the shadows that's a good idea Gerda thank you so much Muriel you get sorry that you're craving frosting Eve I'm sorry hey I'm gonna I'm supposed to have this meeting at Starbucks if I get out of there without ordering a pastry I'm maybe lucky if you get out we're gonna paste your ear crazy well you know I'm not a huge you know I don't have to have like tons of sweets or anything but I love bread oh yeah that's that's a huge downfall for me right I am noticing on our little painting here that I want to do this a little bit on the stem happy one I'm singing Eve says she runs on sugar used to run on Diet Coke I have a thing for flavored water it's my mother's fault I worked I lived on Diet Coke I think I had it hooked up as an IV caught for me it was coffee I used to drink like two pots of coffee a day now I'm lucky if I get if I just do two cups then that's a good day most of time I usually have three you know what's funny is I never drank coffee until a certain company that we won't mention that I worked at went on strike and I was in management and had to work 16 hours a day I learned to love coffee yeah I I have always done some kind of job like working for as a merchandiser for American greetings which I loved and do miss I loved working as a merchandiser and helping people so that was fun but my hours were crazy so I had to be on-sided account sometimes at 5 30 in the morning or earlier and I'm not a morning person so coffee I in the past have worked as a way for fab in way for fab for a national semiconductor graveyard that wasn't a fun shift so I had to stay awake drinking a lot of coffee so your addiction came from is all yeah job always on the job my one of my first jobs outside of you know crafting which was my only skill out of high school was picking and placing capacitors onto key cards for Schlage electronics and that again was a job that started at you know like six o'clock in the morning so I drank a lot of coffee yeah I was funny because it was one of the mornings that we're headed myself and another manager we're heading in to work and I was just I was dead on my feet and he was like man you got to wake up I'm like you know what he's like we're stopping at coffee shop so we stopped at one of those drive-thru coffee places you're an upstate and we stopped in that he's like well what do you like and I'm like I don't drink coffee so I think he got me a latte and it was I got the biggest one I could get and from then I was fucked yeah well that's crazy it's not yeah coffee coffee is my thing so I do I also love bread and dairy so God forbid I should ever have issues of dairy or or weed or anything I'm in big trouble all right I am going to see you all later I am going to try not to have a fourth cup of coffee today all right I'm sure we're meeting soon Gina all right I will talk to you all later I want you all to just practice and have fun with whatever art creative thing you're doing whether it's a watercolor or whatever else doesn't matter just have fun with it and practice and play if you're not a member of my year 2017 or my other Facebook group or Cindy's and you want to be you can message us the link to my two groups are in the description below I can get Cindy's in there too if you want to send me happy mail or email me about something all of that stuff and more is in the description so check it out and the most important thing of course is to go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later and have fun because that's all about there you go life's too short not to have fun yep all right I'll see you all later bye guys