 that's any better hopefully. Oh yay! I guess that is better because right away it came up. Here myself on Echo. Yay! That's much better! Okay so we are um so that's weird so for those of you out there who do periscope this has happened to me twice in a row now once with past brush then today um where I've had some problems with the connection and I just went back in out and back in again and that seemed to help I'm not sure what's going on um so we've got four different um hi A B how are you? Jerry? Everybody? All right so I've got four different sizes of round brush from uh I have a one, a four, an eight, and a sixteen. Um I've got some watercolor pencils everything is really good with me right now I'm still drinking my coffee but otherwise I've got some Sigmund pig sig blah blah blah I can't talk this morning either evidently um Stadler I don't know Sigmund I don't know who Sigmund is I've got some Stadler pigment liner pens now this came in a set of four I got these at Staples and um I used some of Staples Rewards money oh yay Mark I am good um and then we've got some feathers here I've got my Daniel Smith watercolors and we've got some watercolor paper here that I've cut into bookmark size and I have these watercolor sleeves I mean watercolor sleeves holy cow I'm having trouble talking this morning I should have more coffee um these are bookmark sleeves now back when in my craft shop days or gift shop days when I was selling lots of arts and craftsy things I did a lot of um yeah that's a good idea Jerry can you can you PM me and remind me and um you know what I'm gonna blog on the day of the watercolor Wednesday I'm gonna blog that week I'll try to do it on Monday with the materials list and sources um so um I cut some watercolor paper to fit in these bookmark sleeves now these bookmark sleeves are from clearbags.com I used to sell lots of bookmarks in my gift shop crafty days and I still have a couple hundred of these left so I thought we would do some feather bookmarks um especially with um Christmas coming up and and or you know whatever holidays that you celebrate gift giving holidays so um we're gonna work on that today yeah that's a fabulous idea Jerry good thought that would be why she's one of my admins on my Facebook group all right I also pulled out some feathers for inspiration thank you because I already thought I saw one um now I did also find a book which um when I get a chance later today I will go onto my website onto my blog page this is my website I will go onto my blog page which is on there and I will put the amazon link for the book um on there and I found a book called bird feathers a field uh I think it's a guide it's bird feathers a guide to north american birds or something like that um and it's like an auto bond a bird watching book but it's all about feathers wouldn't that be a great resource book for paint for watercolor painting so I found that today so I'm gonna um list the book on here I found some feathers though in my stash I thought we would use for inspiration this morning yeah see right I thought the same thing I'm gonna start with this one just because I think it's the most interesting and the first thing of course we're gonna do is a sketch now you can do a sketch in just pencil pencil of course um or you can do it in water soluble pencil yeah right I mean and I you know I think it just would be a fabulous resource book in your art room I'm going to start with yeah I love that stencil of course because it's mine and you know if you go to my youtube channel I'm gonna use this one if you go to my youtube channel and you look up the watercolor Wednesday playlist there is one very early on of a feather um that's done differently than what we're going to do this morning but um it's very pretty feather so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to sketch out my feather shape inspired by the real feather that's sitting next to me the first thing I'm going to do is just lightly with this water soluble pencil I'm going to sketch in this spine of the feather I don't know what it's called but the center part this I just called the spine good morning everybody so and it doesn't necessarily have to be any more complicated than that the one thing I will say is I'm gonna make the bottom a little fatter and I am good morning and I'm gonna taper it going up there we go now I'm gonna look at my feather for the shape I I do too little known fact I have a collection of feathers in my in my art room a jar of them these I grabbed these out of the jar this morning so I'm just drawing the basic shape of my feather I just keep them you know I have this little area that's sort of I you know one of my friends that came over to visit called it a little altar area honestly when I started sticking things over there I didn't think about turning it into something like that I get I guess it is I don't know it's just a collection of things that kind of you know have some importance to me crystals and actually some rocks and things and beads and things some from my grandmother who passed away and just different things so just if you don't have a real feather just you know sketch a feather shape you can always go on to like Pinterest is a really great resource for inspiration photos but I'm going to I put this book into my amazon shopping cart this morning okay so there we have our sketch I almost stuck my pencil in the water how bad would that be all right good morning everybody I love the hearts Pinterest is fabulous I love Pinterest I'm going to start with um sort of a medium brush um this is um yeah chocolate hearts today I love chocolate it's not good for me but this is the number four and I'm going to look at my feather and I'm going to actually start with uh Payne's gray or neutral tint actually maybe new this is neutral tint that'll work neutral tint is like a translucent gray color and I'm going to go along yes that is my youtube channel so I'm going to go along next to the spine and I'm going to bring some of it out like this I'm using the feather in front of me as inspiration for where to place my marks I'm going to get the brush wet before I get too far oops I just dropped a rag into the garbage it's not the first time won't be the last time I'm not getting my paper very wet because I'm trying to control where the paint goes I am wanting to blur my lines just a little bit and keep that edge kind of wet so that it will blend with the next color I'm going to put on there which is going to be I'm going to take a little bit of quid awkward on gold down here I'm going to mix it with some add some water and then it's a little bit on the orangey side so I'm going to mix it with some uh sepia or no raw umber yep that's perfect that was perfect okay and I'm going to put that in while the paint's still relatively wet not too much try to keep the edge remember to go in with just a clean you know brush that's damp and you can lift up some pigment if you've put too much you can also you know blend those lines a bit I only do watercolor on Wednesday every other Monday I do um acrylic and we do Monday with deco art using deco art acrylic products let's keep going and these little hand-painted bookmarks are just you know they're they make a really great gift they're they're quick they're easy and when I was in the gift shop days you're going to do a craft show I would do one hand-painted and then I would color copy it onto really nice photo paper and then I would um sell copies cheaper the hand-painted ones were more I'm going to pull some of the pigment out down here and I'm also going to activate some of that pencil I have going on in here a bit of our goldish brown color now remember if you lose any of your spaces that you want to stay white or fairly light you can always go in later with some white Chinese white you can actually go in with white acrylic um just have fun with the process don't worry so much about you know getting things perfect in my mind art's not about about being perfect anyways see I like that right there I don't want to type so for the original paintings I would usually do about for a bookmark that didn't take me very long you know made no more than $10 usually like about 650 and the and the copies were um $1.25 and I sold hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of the copies I can't even tell you guys how many exactly perfect as an eye of the beholder I love that remember as we're here painting our feather that and if somebody can like Jerry maybe if you're online still you can post a link to our Facebook my Facebook group on the Facebook group um one of the things that's on there is a watercolor Wednesday list with a link to the YouTube playlist but also it has a file for upcoming episodes of watercolor Wednesday here on Periscope and different things you guys have requested to see and you can add to the list and request certain things thank you Jerry and see this down here we have a white spot right there can you see that let me hold it up a little bit right there I love that I'm not going to touch that at all I love the way that turned out now if you use anything for this besides black it's going to make it more interesting so I would definitely you know recommend black is fine if that's what you have but something that's like a dark blue or a dark gray or um it's going to be more interesting in your paintings than just plain old black and you can add a pop of black on top of this you know if you think it needs it go in here I love that oh looks great okay let's do the other side and the other side on this feathers a little different I almost stuck my brush in my copy didn't I oops all right so let's see what we can do with this other side it's more spotted I'm going to turn this around this way I think it might be easier so I'm just barely touching my brush to the feather and I'm doing less of a straight line and more of a line of dots because that's my impression of what's going on in the real feather now I don't want to get too far before I put just a little bit of water on some of them I don't want to do even all of them I just want to do some and I think I want to spread the pigment out a bit here along the spine thank you for all the hearts now when you finish your feather and you're doing it this way remember that you could just leave it you don't have to do anything with the pen the pens but if you want to outline or highlight certain features you definitely could do that with the staler pens or really any pen that you have in your stash you want to probably test it and see you know how they work over watercolor I have a carbon ink pen that works too both over and under watercolor and there is a video on my youtube channel about pens that work over watercolor and under watercolor now before we get too far we're going to go in here with the brownish gold color that we mixed up to hang on while she had a bird business years ago yeah see this kind of thing especially if you have somebody who you know had something like that in their lives and they really love birds this is like a great gift for them little known fact I like to paint feathers I like to paint birds I like to watch birds I don't um but I'm not a huge bird fan I'm always I guess thinking they're going to poop on my head a little known fact I love that way that's turning out right there and and we're only using a couple colors here we're not you know using the whole rainbow now of course you could do this impression of this feather hello I know right um um in a dark color and a light color but and it could be you know the impression of the natural feather but without the uh but in non-natural colors well one of my daycare babies when I had daycare though this should have a very lucky life she got pooed on poor kid we were out at a store and we were getting back in the car actually was out with the daycare kids and bird pooped right on her head good morning Michelle remember when you're painting that you want a variety of tones of color light colors dark colors that will really make your painting pop leaving white space see I I guess I needed more coffee this morning thank you leaving white space will also give your painting some interest I'm going to go in with some black now this is just this is black I'm not going to use a lot of black but putting the I will hang on a second the black will make the other colors pop because it's darker than the neutral tint you don't need to put a lot of it but it's going to make it pop okay so uh let me see if I can zoom in for you guys I have to get up on the foot still something on is that better so there's one now you definitely could let this dry and then go in with some of your black pen um we are going to do another one and let this dry naturally instead of um pushing it so let's do another one make sure I get the there we go so I've got a couple more feathers here let's do the black one I've got some really dark intense pencils but I don't want to use I have one that's what is this ink black but I think I want to use sepia instead which is a little bit of a brown color I can do a weird color yeah let's do that uh let me still use this one to outline I need to turn it this way to um do my drawing all right so let's draw another feather and I'm gonna I have to turn it this way because I am right-handed so although I know I've been doing lots of left-handed art I am right-handed so again first let's do the spine and again this is a sepia colored um water soluble pencil isn't she having great ideas today I love that okay let's make the bottom a little bit fatter than the top and then let's do a shape to our feather we're gonna use this black one as an inspiration for shape now again you know you can use things like your real feathers or this feather book that I'm gonna order for inspiration that doesn't mean you have to copy them exactly you know just have some fun with it I kind of love that this one's a little bit mangled okay and I think this is one I found um in Las Vegas at um one of the museums we were at I was walking back to the cart was sitting on the ground everywhere I go I find a feather I don't know what the big message is in that but all right so there's our feather sketch water soluble pencil again okay so I got out four sizes of brush must be a sign in my path that's the only thing I can think of my sister um who's very much more knowledgeable about that than I am um my little sister she said it's um um has something to do with messages receiving messages so um yeah these are not not not a problem so these are that's what we're here for for you guys to ask me questions rather than me just do a tutorial on um youtube um so these are ink tense pencils but you could use any kind I also have crayola watercolor pencil um when you're doing a sketch like this if you want it to look very watercolor-y and you don't want to have to deal with your pencil lines or erasing pencil lines you just want it to be about the paint and the shape then you want to use a water soluble pencil it's just easier I call I tell people you know I am not the frugal crafter that's Lindsay I am the lazy crafter so if there's an easy lazy way around something I'm going to tell you about it because I like that um so using a water soluble pencil just makes things easier um and um crayola works just fine um you can get them for less than $10 pretty much anywhere I was at Hobby Lobby yesterday and I think um the watercolor paints were less than $4 they had some brushes that were less than $4 and they had watercolor pencils that were less than $10 um my crayola is just fine until you get used to the medium and you decide you really love it and then if that happens then you can decide to invest in the really nice stuff and my favorite watercolor pencils are the Derwent Inktense um I also like the Prima watercolor pencils okay so now we're going to do this and Jerry has asked for non-traditional colors so let's do that we're going to go with one of my favorite Daniel Smith colors which is Ultramarine Turquoise I mean you know it's a dark turquoise so how do you not just love that right so again we're going to go near the spine oh sorry this is Strathmore 140 pound watercolor paper um this one 400 series sorry 400 series Strathmore watercolor paper I usually use Strathmore I do have some arches Strathmore is very budget friendly most of your art supply stores and craft stores have Strathmore on sale periodically and I'm always looking for paper on sale if they have arches on sale I you know and they have had then I stock up but um those kind of sales are few and far between normally so when you're using non-traditional colors and if you're using an inspiration feather then you want to look at you know where are the darker areas of the feather that are farther away from the viewer and use your darkest color or your color that suggests darkness your your cooler color in those areas and then use a warmer color in the other areas you could do it all one color by just doing like this where you have darker tones than others I have used Canson Canson works great um I I buy what's on sale if the Canson's on and I have some Canson around here somewhere I've got wads of paper you guys you guys don't even know I've got lots of paper I love I love paper evidently I can't say too much all right and I love that we use the brown pencil to outline this and it's blending a little bit with this paint and giving us a secondary color um yeah who doesn't and I heard I saw that post about the sleepy beauty turquoise so when I first started collecting my daniel smith paints which are my preferred brand although I own some other brands and I like them and at the moment I'm collecting may mary um which I'm also intrigued by they have some interesting colors um I started collecting them one tube at a time um I do have some student grade van go paints and they are fabulous they you can get them at hobby lobby they're a good starter paint that's good to know um and I've been known to go to hobby lobby and get one tube of paint with a 40 off coupon when I was building up my collection so don't be afraid of doing that so this is just one non-traditional color and look how pretty that is how do you not just like that so I'm going to go in here and I'm going to add just some darker values while the paint's still wet and it's gonna it's gonna bleed and bloom a little bit without me doing too much hobby lobby sells van go I think that's about the highest end they get but van go is a nice uh watercolor paint it's not daniel smith but it's very nice they have a decent selection of colors the tubes are between 399 and I think 599 or 699 a tube so I definitely would recommend looking into it um at your local hobby lobby and I yeah like I said I you know one tube at a time and when my local art supply store fine art supply store has their sales I look to see if daniel smith is on sale and if it is then I go um stock up on a tube so that's not even done yet and that's already pretty so I'm not sure what other color I want to use but in the meantime let's finish with the turquoise I'm going to turn my feather around just because it's easier for me to not stick my hand in something I don't want it stuck into and also too if you don't have access to you know a fine art store or you know if you're honestly if you're like me and a few of you other that are on there I know who have trouble getting out pink or magenta would be great a great color I have this opera pink color that's on here that we might use that um then you know look for your sales um if you have trouble getting out of the house like I do some days I just figure if you want to run people over with your car it's probably best you don't not drive then you know go to you know watch for sales at um Dick Blick Jerry's Artorama I love um any of you who are in the UK I love Jackson's art and even if you order um from them here the shipping is decently priced and it's actually some of their stuff's cheaper than you can get it over here I love Jackson's if I lived in the UK I would probably want to live near Jackson's and it would probably be a huge problem because I spend a lot of money there yep this is going to make a really great bookmark now a lot of times what I've been doing with these watercolor Wednesday paintings is I've been loading them into my Etsy shop as digital downloads that you guys can download and reprint you know for inspiration or to use in your journals or whatever don't forget to sign your work I'm always like forgetting so don't forget to sign your work we're not even done and look at that such a great idea all right so let's do a little bit of this opera pink color let me show you first this is one of my this is one of the reasons I love Daniel Smith look at this color opera pink oh curry's art okay so this is the opera pink it's like a bright neon floor I don't even know if it shows up how bright it is on camera so we're going to take a little a little bit of this goes a really long way so we're going to put just a bit here and there and then put some water Daniel Smith is an American company they have a really great line of paint some unique pigments so the other thing I can tell you about signing your work that I learned the hard way when I first started signing my work I would sign my name just like I sign everything else pay checks and everything don't do that come up with an art signature something that's unique to your artwork that you use just for signing artwork you sign with a logo sign with something and put the date they do have some interesting colors I do own those and they're very different they're something between a watercolor and a gouache I think they're more opaque or at least they seem to be to me but I like them and they're great for doing little projects like this if you want to just you know use inexpensive paints and you want to just make a bunch of you know bookmarks because you're having you're doing a craft sale or something you know maybe you want to use a lesser expensive watercolor paint the gonzi paints would work as would the van go paints a hobby lobby has the gonzi paints I got mine with a 40% off coupon so this is a really strong pigment so one thing you see me doing is lifting with my rag so we don't get too much of it I'm going to go back into my turquoise you're welcome I love the coys are also a great paint you're right there's a lot of really great student paints out there that you can try if you can afford a little bit more and you don't have to you know just use Crayola there's some really great paints out there that you can get and try before you invest in something like the daniel smiths to see if you're going to like the medium I'm adding some just some little touches of a darker turquoise to my feather that's a good idea yeah that's a good idea if you have local art friends and you're all you know really into watercolor you know see bring some empty half pans and have a little arty party and you know share colors that's a great way to build up your palette I think Cindy udder has the set of white knight paints I don't think she's on right now but my friend Cindy udder I believe has the white knight Jerry you know Cindy you can ask her I believe she's got them no they're not but for me they're also not super available I had to um I had if I want to get them I have to order them so I'm really wanting to add a pop of black or neutral tint to this to make it really pop so I'm going to do that oh wait am I going to do that or do I want to use pen I might want to use pen all right let's put this one aside I love this one let's go back to this one and let's I have to figure out what size that'll work all right so I've got eight my stailer pens this is a point three and this is a point seven so if you just add a few doesn't it it's this is completely dry now and if you just add and you don't even have to outline the whole thing just add a few marks here and there with your pen the other thing to remember that a lot of times a lot of these pens are permanent when they're dry but when before they're dry you can go in here and and I've done this plenty if you guys have seen my journaling videos I'm constantly spelling words wrong so you know I get in there I start to write the word and I write it incorrectly yeah that's kind of the story of my life so you can smudge the pen just a little bit and it just gives your you know painting a little bit more something that's interesting so I would not do any more than that to it I would make sure that I come in here I try to sign it and put the here and then that's really interesting too sorry I missed that comment I was writing my name can you post that again the other thing I thought would be fun to do on these while we're waiting to see if whoever that was that wrote that posted again as I thought it would be fun if you googled the translation for feather or if you know what bird the feather comes from that particular feather in another language like French or German or Spanish and you or Latin what I was thinking was Latin and you wrote the Latin word for the feather on the bookmark I thought that would be interesting and fun and it would make it sort of look like field notes um and I do have this other size pen here so you can go in and add some fatter lines yeah I would consider that actually I've considered doing a live hangout where we have we actually get to paint together but the problem with that is that google hangout is done at my desktop and the camera setup is not as easy so a periscope would be easier so here's this one we'll see if this one's dry yeah it's dry now this video will be on youtube it's a good idea Erin why don't you if you're not my friend on facebook yet friend me and then why don't you message me about it or if you're in the facebook group message it in the facebook group and let's see if we can work out something I don't what I don't know what the next um thank you I don't know what the next um watercolor wednesday next week is but we can we can start working on it for next week cool you can always email me through the email on my website Erin um this is my facebook name my everything I do is yeah it's okay nobody spells Erin's right including autocorrect so this is my name on everything if you google this name I'm going to pop up everywhere so sunflowers are next week so if somebody you know the Erin has a great idea as does Jerry so you guys have to remind me though so that I remember when I get off the air that I said I would do this and I'll make myself some notes and what I'll try to do on by monday is do a blog post on my website and something through the facebook group where we have inspiration photos for um I would love some feathers lisa inspiration photos for the sunflowers and materials lists um prepared ahead of time so that you guys um are ready and you guys can paint along with me um skulls um sunflowers are next week koi but if you go to the facebook group and you can go to the watercolor wednesday document and you can suggest skulls and we'll add it to the list so now with this turquoise one I'm going in with a black pen oh cool see I didn't know that and I'm just adding some of that you know hairs I don't know what what do you call a mix of hairs I'm sure there's a technical name like scientific name I don't know what it is and I'm not wanting to outline the whole feather but I'm wanting to give it some interest more interest you know don't ever feel like yeah that's a good question B so don't ever feel like with your watercolors you can't accent and highlight your painting with some of your other mixed media supplies like a black pen or you know if you've seen my watercolor wednesday youtube videos you know I add splatters and you know I stamp with my rubber stamps and the idea is to create a piece of art not to be a watercolor purist I love my watercolors but I'm I know stretch of the imagination of purist and look at that doesn't that look great that's with the point three this is the point seven I'm not going to add a lot of this because it's a much bigger nib but I want to add a little bit I will be loading this video to Dropbox so that I can get it saved and put up on youtube it's a long process it takes me like a day because the process is not great but I will do that so you guys can replay it let's get this one signed I'm really wanting to sign it in here let's get a smaller pen I should really have my reading glasses on but I don't so you create something like this and whether you're selling the original or you're wanting to make copies of it and just sell the copy and keep the original you can put them in these plastic sleeves they make great gifts or if you're doing a craft show they make a great little you know inexpensive little thing to sell you know you could sell them for five dollars each the copies like I said at dollar twenty five I sold hundreds and if not thousands of bookmarks in my day I love the idea that Aaron and Jerry had I think we can combine the two next week to do something unique for watercolor Wednesday so that you guys are prepared a few days ahead of time and you have time to get your paints together your paper together so we can paint together on Wednesday I love that and we have an hour and these small little projects like bookmarks you definitely can do in an hour and I love doing these little bookmarks like we did last week I have these so I think that we're going to keep doing that and we are going to you know do these little gifty things the holidays are coming up whether you are celebrate Hanukkah or Christmas or some other winter holiday this is a time for giving gifts to your friends and family and wouldn't I know my friends love when I give them a little piece of art and I'm sure yours would love that too it's like giving them a little piece of your soul so wouldn't they love that is there any final questions so you guys were Aaron and Aaron and Jerry you guys have to remind me so I can work on that I'd rather do that than bookkeeping so you know which I still haven't done definitely you can post your pictures in the group I will help you if you want me to um um oh see somebody somebody looked it up for me oh yay six puppies um um the group is for helping you with your art um a creative life expressing yourself in a creative healthy manner that's what the group is about so definitely you can post your pictures of what you've been working on um the admins and I definitely will help you and um I mean and it's a creative safe place we don't allow you know we have rule code a code of conduct so um you know go into um the rules when you get into the group and look at the code of conduct you know where you can post just about anything as long as you're nice basically you had to be nice no nasty no nasties and uh you know don't forget to you can find links to the facebook group my Etsy shop and a bunch of other stuff including my blog page and all that stuff on my website including links to my old daycare website and knitting website which those of you who only know me from youtube don't know that about me I've tried to remove the daycare stuff and knitting stuff a few times and people do not want it removed I get tons of hate mail so it's still on there but you have to search for it um I I do sugar skulls occasionally so Cheryl added to the list we'll do a sugar skull thank you so much I love you guys too I I can knit and crochet do embroidery all that stuff maybe one of these days we'll do a periscope where we just do craft something crafty I have to give my hand a break my arthritis is bothering me on in this hand I actually my finger feels bruised here and I'm not sure if it's because I did too much left-handed art or what I have to uh I did have a glove on before we came on camera you're welcome all of you guys have a great day do some watercolor painting make some feathers and if you want to do periscope with other things besides painting because really we have watercolors every Wednesday acrylic painting every other monday if you want me to take a day once a month and do knitting crochet embroidery something like that let me know a message me through the facebook group make sure you post something and tag me something like that and let me know and we'll work it out and you guys all have a great day don't forget to um do something nice for yourself because you deserve it take a deep breath I will post these two yeah everybody post your feathers to the group I'm going to post mine and I'm also going to scan them um and I have a couple more pieces of paper so I'm probably going to do a few more and I'm definitely going to order that book because I saw that book this morning you're welcome and if I come across reference books like that I think that we're going to start a list today because I did order a few more reference books the other day my admins and I have um found a few books um so we're going to start posting a list of watercolor reference books reference and by that I mean reference for pictures name of nook book oh the book is called bird feathers hold on hold on I gotta get my shopping cart hang on gotta wake up the desktop bird feathers a guide to north american species if you go to amazon and you google that bird feathers a guide to north american species it should come up the cover says bird feathers in a red triangle and it has a bunch of feathers on it um so I think you're gonna like it and we will um add the um watercolor uh Wednesday reference book library list to the Facebook group and um yeah if you have any questions message me and or the admins through there make sure you tag me in the post otherwise I sometimes miss things and uh that's it for now I think I will talk to you guys later have a great Wednesday and a great west rest of the week and paint some feathers you're welcome yeah Lisa post the link link to the book and I'll look it up the Facebook group name is a life of art and self-expression you can find the link to it from my website here and I'm going to go today to my website and I'm going to update my blog with the materials list for what we use today and the name of the book that I use today um a day late and a dollar short as my dad would say but next week when we do sunflowers we will try to get all that posted by Monday on onto the website so make a note of this and I will post a link to said posting in the Facebook group all right you guys all have a great day and I will talk to you later bye hugs to you guys too and hug those puppies I love puppies