 I've got my morning tea. Yes, out of a beer stein. It's a ceramic beer stein I picked up when we were in Germany in 2001. It's my favorite tea cup. The tea's a little hot though. Good morning everybody. How are you today? We are going to take a break from doing swatches this morning and work on a pet portrait. This is my dog Bandit. I'm going to use him as practice because I actually have to do a couple of art pieces for my sister of her dog. But it's been a while since I did any pet portraits at all and I'm not sure how I want to do hers. So I thought I'd try a couple of different things with my dog and see which ones I like better. Anyway, so I thought we'd try one of those on camera this morning and I had to bribe him to get him to sit like this for the picture. Unless I had a dog bone in my hand, he wasn't interested in sitting still. I've got my tea and a little bit of coffee and icky from my allergies and asthma again this morning. The hot tea helps. Yes, as I said a minute ago, this is a ceramic beer stein. I know that, but it's my favorite tea cup. All right, I need a clipboard. Let's see. Let's clip his picture to this. This is my beautiful baby sister Elizabeth and her dog, her black lab. His name is Junior. So that's one of the inspiration photos I have from her to work from. I've got to print some more photos on that thing. Put this up over here off of camera. You can get that picture of my dog off of my website. GinaBEarons.com. If you go there and you go to inspiration photos, the picture is there and you can download it. Oops. See I moved. So now everything fell over. He's a good dog. He's very protective and he's a pound puppy. He has a couple of issues. He's a little bit of a food, I don't know how nice to say it, a food whore. He really loves his food boy. He's got food issues. He won't bite you or anything, but man, he's hungry all the time. This is my watercolor journal. So I thought we would play in here today and we would do some experimenting with his portrait in here today. I've been working on this since last year and there's some things in here. Just experimenting with my watercolors, re-familiarizing myself with them after not really doing anything with them for a long time. Hello, and it's been a lot of fun. There's some pieces in here I really love and there's some that I don't so much, but I'm going to leave them. They're part of the journey, the learning experience, so here's a quick flip through. And when I'm finished with the journal, I'll do a proper videotape flip through and I will put it up on YouTube for you all. So what I want to do with Bandit is something more like this one, which was a lesson from one of the Gene Haynes books that I have, who's a UK artist who I absolutely adore, her style, and I thought we would do something along these lines with Bandit's portrait this morning. So we're going to see how that works out. It's not pixelated on my end. I'm watching myself on YouTube from a different device than I'm broadcasting, and it's not pixelated on my end, but if you go to the bottom right corner of the screen, I think that you can click, depending on what kind of device you're watching from, you can pick the resolution if you're on a PC. On the iPad, you can't really do that. It may get a little bit blurry now and then because it takes the webcam a second to focus. This is the last piece that I did, and you haven't seen the videotape for it yet, but you'll see this is another four-part painting with four different products, and each section is going to be a different video. There'll be two broadcast in one day and two broadcasts the following week, and at the end of this series of four, I put my conclusions at the end, so make sure you watch until the end. We're going to work on Bandit here on this page, I think. I couldn't decide what watercolors I wanted to use it. If I wanted to use the Mission Gold, which I'm really loving, by the way, these are really great paints, or if I wanted to use my Mix Palette, I think to start out with we're going to use the Mix Palette. I have you on full screen, and I can't see the chat. That won't work. We're just getting started, Gaitana, so no worries. Oh, sure, here. While we're waiting, I'm in it. This is Bandit. You can download this picture of my dog from my website, jeanabearans.com, go to Inspiration Photos. Somebody's messaging me while we're waiting a second. Hang on. He's a cutie. He's very protective, too. You can't be anywhere in the vicinity of his property, or he doesn't like it. Thank you. Yes, we've always had purebred German shepherds until we got Bandit. He was a pound puppy. Our last dog passed, and we thought that was it. We weren't going to get any more dogs. I wasn't really okay with that. It's all my fault we have him. We went about three or four months, and I just was not comfortable not having a dog around. He's a great pooch, and as I was saying earlier, I had to bribe him to get him to sit like this with a dog bone. He wasn't like, oh, God, there's mom with the camera again. He was just not okay with that. This style of painting, like I said, inspired by Jean Haynes, and if you don't know who she is, you should really look her up. She wrote a lot of books. She's got a few videotape classes out. She's a UK-based watercolor artist, and I love her. I'm a huge fan. Oh, yay! Well, welcome! I am no Jean Haynes, but I love to play with my watercolors. So we're going to play today, and we're going to do work on Bandit's portrait. We're not going to do a sketch first. It's all going to be about putting the right colors in the right place. And you could get really into the whole color thing. Really, you know, depending on who you are, you could get really technical and historical about learning about your colors, and, you know, which colors are made with which minerals and which chemicals and which pigments, and I am just not all about that. I, you know, we have Lindsay the Frugal Crafter. If you had to name me similarly, you would call me Gina the Lazy Crafter. So I don't really care where the colors came from. Not so much. I care a little bit about which ones are toxic, and you should always, working with any paints, make sure you wash your hands when you're done. But I like to just look at my colors, and to me, which ones look warmer, like you're sitting in the bright sunlight, and which ones look cooler, like you're sitting in the cold. And that's really, that's all I think about when I look at my color palette on any palette of paints I'm working with. So we're going to get started, and we're going to start, like we always do, with the lightest color. Now Bandit obviously is a black and tan dog, but I think that we're going to, like with the sheep, we're going to mix it up a little bit. I am going to start with a light bright yellow. I think I'm going to start with the Sennelier yellow. And you know what, I'm going to switch to my wide flat brush. I've got a variety of brushes here. This is one of the Royal's Zen brushes. I'm going to put some water on here first. Did anybody notice that my water things are a little cleaner than they've been? I soaked the glass in a big bucket of Murphy's oil soap and water. Boy, did that do a lot. The paint just peeled right off the glass. Okay, this is a Sennelier yellow light. Now Sennelier is a very well pigmented paint. So when I put this on here, this is going to be really bright yellow. See, look at that. And I'm going to, the light's kind of coming from this way. I'm going to leave some of it splattery. I'm going to let some of it just run. Now if I wasn't doing this on camera, I would probably do a few layers of colors, and then I would maybe put some salt in the wet paint and let it dry. The salt would suck up some of the pigment and leave a really fun grainy texture in here. That's really fun to play with and gives your piece a little extra, just something. You can also smush Saran wrap into the wet paint and let it dry like wrinkly Saran wrap, plastic wrap. And Theresa, and that would give it an extra texture too. But you have to, when you do those things, you have to let it dry naturally, which will take at least an hour, and I don't want to wait for that. But I think when I do, if I like the way this turns out, when I do the real thing, I will probably implement some of those techniques. And you should try them in your experimenting with watercolors. You should try doing a swatch of color with salt in it. Just plain old table salt. It doesn't have to be any special kind of salt, just plain table salt and plastic wrap. Okay, I like that. I want to dry that though. Let's dry that. I hate waiting for things to dry. I use my heat embossing tool more for watercolor than anything else. When you're working with the salt or Saran wrap though, don't use your heat tool. Just let it dry naturally. I have already had my two cups of coffee, but I do have some tea next to me. If you don't have any of Gene Haynes books, and you would be interested in getting one, I recommend as a starter her book called Color and Light in watercolor. Something like that. Oh, Grease, welcome. It's morning here, so... Oh, Norway, welcome. Wow, I'm worldwide. Who would have thunk it? All right, so as some of you may know, I'm going to be in Las Vegas next week. And we are going to, although we have... Hey, Victor! Although we have as yet not planned exactly where we're going to do it, we are going to be planning a sort of Starbucks or something. We'll be sitting around and hanging out. And if any art pieces are in the area and you want to come by and say, hi, take pictures or whatever. All right, so now I'm going to start with... I'm really wanting to start with a dark, but I shouldn't do that. Bandit is a boy. And I know it's sexist, but I'm not wanting to put pink on him. How about some turquoise? I think that is a good choice. I have a cobalt teal and this is a quart. This is a quart paint. This is a mixed watercolor palette. I love you guys all too. I think it's great that we have such a fabulous sort of YouTube community here that we can all help each other in our journeys. I'm using my flat brush. He's a very kind of hairy dog because he's a mixed breed. He's got this huge undercoat right now. And yeah, blues and purples, that's what I was thinking Cindy. And so I'm using the flat brush to kind of make these lines and I don't think I'm going to blur too many of them out. I'm going to kind of map out the shape of his face. You might not get it exactly right. That's totally okay. It's about making layers of marks. You know, I never have enough room on my desk when I do these things. What is with that? So the thing about the quart paint is once it dries, you really can't move it too much, which can be good and bad. But one of the reasons for doing these kind of experimental paintings is learning to use your products. Whether you're working with watercolor or you're working with acrylic paint or inks or whatever you're working with, you should do some kind of journal pages where you're just doing studies and you're playing with your products to learn what they will and won't do. So I like that I can put some water on here and the core watercolors will move a little bit, but they won't move a lot. I'll still have a lot of those lines. Yes, I love the fact that we have an international community and that we can all help each other. I love that. Yeah, Cindy, you're meeting me in Las Vegas. You can't get stuck because of the weather now after everything that we've gone through to do this trip. That's just not right. I'm not okay with that. Hey, Mary. Now, if you want to learn to do more realistic drawings, I'm very expressive and almost impressionistic painter. If you want to learn to do more realistic drawings, you really need to watch somebody like the Mary Atelier, who's here now watching. She's fabulous, FYI, if you all don't know, as are many of you in different things. Mary, she does these, she calls them just her practice sketches and I look at them and go, holy crap, lady. I don't know how to do that. Or I shouldn't say that. I do know how. I have no patience for it because, you know, impatient. Hello. I keep checking the Las Vegas weather, and according to the Las Vegas weather app that I have, the app I have, it's going to be in the mid-70s to mid-80s. Yes, Cindy Utter is going to be there. Michelle from Lady Blue Studios is going to be there and Annalise Kreitz is going to be there, along with Erin from Imperfect Impulses. And I don't know who else at the moment. Okay, so I like this. I like this shape. I've mapped out his shape pretty well. I'm pretty happy with it. So let's dry it again. And you might ask why I keep drying it. I don't normally do this much drying because in between the layers, I want to preserve as much as I can the marks that are on here. Yeah, right? So I don't mind if the paint moves around a little bit, but I don't want to lose a lot of the marks I've already made. Hey, Michelle. Yes, we're going to have a blast. And of course, the husbands while we're all gone are probably going to, you know, sit home all week and eat fast food and do all those things we don't normally let them do. I told my husband I was going to touch him from Las Vegas at six o'clock and tell him to go home to work. He has a habit of working too much. Yeah, doesn't it? I already love the way it turns out. So this is about, and I'm going to switch now to a different brush. I'm going to switch to this round brush. Oh, you know what? I take that back. I'm going to stay with the flat brush. So when you're doing something expressive and if you especially are somebody who has trouble doing expressive because you want to just put details in, use a tool that you have less control over. I would normally go with a flat brush, but I'm not going to until we're going to get to the details and put his face in. In the meantime, I'm going to stay with a big flat brush instead of going to a round one because then I have a little less control about what I'm doing with this. Yeah, mine will be eating weird and mine will be at work too, Michelle. And if he's not at work, I'll know because he has that find friends thing on his phone. If he tells me I'm at home and he's, you know, not really, yeah, I'll know. All right. So let's work our way cooler a little bit. I'm going to, I want to put in some sap green. One, two, three, four, one, oh, five. One, two, three, four, five. I'm trying to count because, you know, I got too many colors on my palette. Is there such a thing? Too many colors? All right. So let me put some of this here. I'm just, I'm referring back to the photo. I can't drink too much anymore now, you know, now that I'm of a certain age, I just, I can't hold my liquor like I used to to be perfectly blunt. It's just not pretty. We already had Michelle and Cindy and I already had this discussion. It's just not a good thing. Elizabeth. Yeah, it just, it just doesn't, I agree with you very much. And Bex creations. It's just not the same. My body just can't handle it anymore. And then when you're on, you know, a bunch is a different kind of medication that all have the same warning about, you know, not being great for your liver. And then you try to drink. It's just, trust me, it's just not pretty like EMT is helping you to the car. Not pretty. And yes, that's happened to me. So I don't drink too much anymore. Okay. So that's already looking good. I like that. I'm not going to dry it this time. I'm going to go in with I want to go in with some violet. No, we won't. I'm afraid of heights, Michelle. Lori, we probably did. We're always talking about liquor and menopause. I don't know. We're not usually talking about what I'm painting. So we're working on a pet portrait of my dog. I have to do one for my sister's pooch. And I thought I would get some practice in because I haven't done a pet portrait in a while. So I thought I would practice a little bit by working on my own dog. If I'm going to mess up a pet portrait, it might as well be my dog. Now that's dioxazine purple, and that is a choir paint. It's a little bit too blue for me at this stage. So, yep. So I want to add a little bit of something red to that. So I'm going to add the Sennelier Opera Pink. I'm sorry, Opera Rose. And I'm going to get sort of a bluer violet than anything I have on my palette. And so we're working our way cooler. Yeah, no kidding. I'm working with a wide flat brush because I don't have tons of control with it, but I like that I don't have tons of control with it. I do have a favorite water. So my favorite watercolor paper is Fabriano. I like cold press because I like the little bit of the texture in it. But if you are in my Facebook group and you saw my bookmark little video that I did for you all, and you saw when I did the stamped version, because I always like to do a version for those of you who, you know, don't want to draw, don't know how to draw, you can do something like that without drawing a figure. Anyway, you saw that the stamped figure didn't stamp perfectly because of the texture in the paper. So if I'm just watercoloring, I really prefer the soft press. I mean, yeah, cold press. Now, Fabriano makes a soft press, which is a little bit less textured, which is actually I like that also. So, yeah, my, I think I just said this before, my daughter's boyfriend and his family are from Lithuania. And, you know, when we go over there, the first thing they do is pour vodka. I've never done vodka shots before I met the Jerovicious family, but I don't try to keep up because I just can't. Now, he's a little fatter in the portrait the way he's turning out than he is in real life. Like his head is a little bit wider. So I'm going to do this and blur some of these edges a bit. I've messed up plenty of paintings. You guys just haven't seen too many of them, but I've messed up plenty. I'm going to splatter some paint. Gotta love the splatters. Well, he's fat in real life, but I think I'm painting him a little fatter than he really is. Let's dry this again. And if I haven't said before, I love that we can come on here in a live broadcast and just sort of start chit-chatting like friends who have known each other for 20 years about whatever happens to come up, but also the painting. I think that's cool. Now we're going to go to a smaller brush. This is still a larger brush, but this is a round Princeton Neptune round. This is a number 14. So it's still a pretty big brush. And let's start with... Let's go darker. Oh, you haven't figured that out yet? Wait, tea break. This is still violet, but this is a blue violet. We're going to be there from Saturday until... I'm going to be there from Saturday until Friday. I have to fly home Friday for a family wedding. Everybody else will be there until the following Saturday. Oh, yeah. See, you have to have it fenced. You have to have some place for them to go. So remember when you're holding your paintbrushes to... I have a tendency to do this. We're not drawing with our paintbrush. We're painting. And you get free or more expressive marks if you, you know, hold it back towards the tip. No worries. I'm behind in the happy male thing. I just, I knew I wanted to kind of squeeze it in before I went to Las Vegas. So that was me trying to squeeze it in. And I just figured most of the time I figure I'll just film while I'm doing stuff. That would be how I now have over a thousand videos on my channel because I just start creating and figure, oh well, I might as well just turn on the camera. 99.9% of the time, in case you all didn't know this, my videos are not planned. It just happened because I'm in here creating stuff. In case you had no idea. Because you, I don't know, live in a hole somewhere. And I don't mean that in a bad way. Let's see. Let's try to map out his shape a little bit. Yes, it's going to be a big birthday celebration week. You hear my arms of my new chair squeaking against the table. You hear that in a few videos. So I'm just trying to get, you know, the placement of his features. And his dark patches of fur. Yeah, I don't plan a lot of the videos. I haven't this whole time really on YouTube. They just kind of happen. So as you're working on a piece like this, you have to decide as you're going when you put the color down which lines you want to keep because they suggest what you want them to and which ones you want to just have kind of be free and expressive and drippy. Okay, Michelle, I'm 52. I think my whole body has arthritis. I'm going to suggest his collar here. I think he's still coming out a little fatter than he is in real life. There's something about that that's really that really thanks, Theresa. There's something about this just like this that's interesting and you could leave it at that. I've always loved dogs. My mom's a breeder. She breeds German shepherds. See it well. That's what my mom keeps telling me. Stop complaining. It doesn't get better. Oh, thanks, mom. For those of you who missed it, no, I'm not drinking beer. This is tea. I know, yes, this is a beer stein. I picked it up in Rotenberg when I was in Germany in 2001. It's my favorite tea glass. And yeah, that's my dog because, you know, somebody's on the sidewalk and they're not allowed. He's right outside my window. All right. Let's take some of this purple. Yeah. There we go. And I'm splattering paint all over my iPad. Oops. So now let's go darker. Let's go with Indigo. Indigo is a really pretty alternative to Payne's gray. Again, mapping out his features. The purple is wet. So it's going to blend a bit, but that's okay. I kind of want it to do that. Now, you know, if right away, if you do something, you're like, oh crap. Get in here. Have your rag handy. And, you know, you're going to do this and some paint maybe is going to go somewhere where you don't want it to. You just have to figure out how to, what did Bob Ross say, make it work? Have it be a happy accident. And some paints will lift easier than others and some will stain more than others. Stephanie Park did a staining and transparency experiment with Maymary blue paint. I talked about it on our last broadcast and she saw the recording and she said, oh, I think that was me. And I filed it away and couldn't find it. But she sent it to me again. Thank you, Stephanie. So I'll be posting that to the Facebook group at some point. Probably today I have her permission. Yeah, happy accident. Bob Ross talked about happy accidents a lot. And happy trees. For those who don't know, Bob Ross was an American artist who was on television like every week. He's starting to look like a dog. Just keep trying. There's no way to get better at something like art. If there was a shortcut, believe me, I would tell you guys, I love a good lazy man's shortcut. I'm all for that. But some things there is just no shortcut for one of them, unfortunately. Yeah, I could stop right here. I'm not going to, but I could. I mean, he's looking a little bit more like a pug than my dog. But like I said, I think I made him a little fatter than he needed to be. But I'll just keep playing with it. That's better. You see how I added just a little bit of really light watery mixture of the same indigo and I mixed it with some of the purple. Okay, so it's very sheer, but I just added that and right away that made him look more like the photo. Because I just brought that side in a little bit. So when, you know, this is easier to do in acrylic paint and sort of hide those kind of things. But I think one of the fun interesting things about watercolor is learning how to live with them and have all those marks make something really interesting. Okay. Yeah, so Bob Ross is an American painter. He painted, I think, mostly in oil and he is on YouTube, Victor. So, yeah, look him up. He's really fun. I want to use something really bright. So I think this is the time to bring in some of these Mission Golds and they have this I mean, I could use other things because, you know, I've got a million paint palettes, right? But I think I want to use this orange and I think I want to mix it with a little bit. This is the Mission Gold Orange. It's just called orange. And then I'm going to mix a little bit of the Quar Quedocridon Gold into it. And let's put in some highlights. And this is going to mix with the indigo and you're going to get some brown. Just be prepared for that. Know that and be okay with it. But see some of it's staying the orange. I'm going to put this nose. Today's another one of those days where there's all of these different Facebook conversations going on on my Facebook, like all at the same time. Got to stop trying to talk to everybody at the same time. I don't know if you all have that problem. Seems like all week I've had like six phone conversations. Facebook conversations open at once. I don't think it's so much about understanding what he says, Victor, what he does is just watch him paint. He's just so talented. The way he paints trees and does landscapes, he makes us look so easy. Yeah, exactly. So when you're doing these kind of things and you're doing especially a watercolor portrait, you know, you don't have to try to stick with the realistic colors. Like get away from that habit altogether. Now we want to dry this a little bit. Okay, so before we add any more darker colors I want to add some more pops of something bright. This time I'm going to use Vismus Yellow. It's a this is a golden plate. I didn't get any water in it. There we go. Yeah, golden this is a Quar watercolor by Golden. It's sort of really bright and it's a little bit opaque. It's more like chalky than some of the other ones. And I want to just add some yellow on top of these other colors that are dry in places on his face. He's got some white for some highlights. Oh, I'm going to switch to something really small. This is a Princeton Select number four. Now the Princeton Select brushes can be used for acrylic or watercolor. I really kind of like some of them for watercolor because they have a bit of a stiffer bristle with kind of more snap. The Princeton Neptune's I love because they're nice softer bristle brush. They're great for washes. You can see how this is a round. This is a bigger round, but it doesn't have as much snap as this one. But these are my two favorite brands are the Royal brushes, the Zen and the Princeton brushes either in the Select or the Neptune. All right, so now do I want to just go really dark and give him a pop? I think I do. I think it's time to Oh, definitely. I have to make some more postcards and isn't he the cutest thing already? He does need a pop. He's not done yet, but I have to do some more postcards of some of these. He's going to be one. I think the front door is going to be one. Maybe you guys could vote. You guys have seen some of these paintings. You could vote and and let me know which ones you wanted me to do because I've got to print new postcards and I think I'm going to do postcard sets on Etsy for those of you who want to just buy postcards and don't want to have to buy stamps to get a postcard. Okay. You just totally distracted me, Victor. We are going to start with neutral tint which is a very sheer sort of dark gray and I'm going to just put it right here with the other colors that I had on here. It's a little lighter in tone than the paints gray or black but I can darken it by adding black. This is a mixed palette and in this palette I have Coir, Windsor Newton, Grumbacher, Schmink, Van Gogh and Sennelier and then I also have my mission gold here. The orange I used was the mission gold. Alright. So now we're going to add some of this neutral tint and let's just make Puppy Dog here pop. I got asked recently about actually I didn't get asked. I had a conversation recently with somebody, Renee, if you're there about drawing, how they want to just paint and have fun. They don't want to have to worry so much about learning to draw. They just want to be expressive with their paint and I'm sure you can do that. I did that for a long time but I just want to tell you that being able to draw and practicing your drawing will aid you in your painting and will make your painting better. Does that mean you have to? No. Of course not. I think his eyes might actually be a little bit too far apart. Let's see if we can bring this one in a little bit. Hey Patricia. So let's get rid of this over here. I'm doing a pet portrait and sort of inspired by my dog. I have to do a pet portrait for my sister and I'm a little bit out of practice with the pet portrait thing so I thought that I would experiment on my own dog before I mess up somebody else's dog. I have never done quilling. I've done a lot of arts and crafts probably 90% of what you see at the craft store but quilling was never one of them probably because it's too fiddly and I'm not into fiddly things where you have to just really just that's probably why I don't do realistic portraits either. It's too fiddly. Too technical. Thanks Patricia. Drawing helps you see and the other thing I tell people that I work with for drawing is draw what you see not what you think you see which is hard. Think about that statement. It's really hard but knowing how to draw will aid you in your painting and just because I don't like to do realistic stuff doesn't mean I haven't learned how. I didn't go to school for art but I have learned how. I still don't like it. Mary ears are way more realistic than mine are and you see how I'm adding new marks. This is watercolor so we're not trying to cover up the old marks. We're working with what's on here. Those old marks even if they're in the kind of the wrong place are helping us give our peace interest and suggest our pet portrait and yes I'm bringing a small palette of watercolors to Las Vegas with me. I need some more neutral tint. One, two, three. Didi is fabulous. Isn't she fabulous? Didi Willingham? She's wonderful. Even on my best day trying to do a realistic portrait I am no Didi. Didi is wonderful but that kind of thing would just make me too stressed out because I'm too much of a perfectionist probably and I would just get so annoyed because it would not come out the way I want. That's a good question because this is not enough room for me for mixing. I find that I use this and that and this and it's you know I find most of the time I just want this to sit here and the plate because just this is not big enough for me. Thanks. The sheep was from a Gene Haynes lesson. It wasn't from color and light it was from one of her other books. I don't remember which one off hand that sheep may be on the cover. It may be from the one with the chicken on the cover now that I think about that. I use the same plate for whether I'm working with acrylics or I'm working with watercolor for mixing. Let's see. The sheep was fun. I'm just deciding if I need more of this anywhere. Let's get out the bigger brush. I'm going to just mix all of these together. Hang on a second I'll flip backwards and you guys can see the sheep. Let me dry this. That's pretty good. I'm actually liking that. I'm going to leave it alone. I don't think so. It may be but I don't know anymore. I can't keep track. I have over a thousand videos. Hang on. I got to find it. There it is. So this is the sheep. This is a Gene Haynes lesson. I don't remember if I filmed it or not. If I did I definitely said that it was inspired by her book Gene Haynes. She has detailed instructions for doing portraits like this in her book. My dog is more controlled than the sheep is. The sheep is more free. It's a little blue. We're going to just go right in here with lamp black. Not too much. Oops. Just stuck my hand in some wet paint. Not too much. This is black. I don't have any white on either one of these. I have my sound off so I can't hear anything. The black really will make certain features pop out. The Gene Haynes lesson doesn't have that. If you're working on a portrait like this and you really want to have certain things just pop. That little bit of black. Teresa. I'm here alone. Everybody's at work or school. It's just me. I can't really show you the sheep and dog at the same time. Let's see. I don't know if it's hard yet. I was thinking I maybe did. I want to put some white in his eye. This palette doesn't have white on it. Let's get another palette out. I have a shortage of palettes around here. This is the Prima palette. It has white in it. It's the first one I grabbed. No rhyme or reason around that. It's just the first one I grabbed. One thing Gene Haynes talks about in her books is don't be afraid of the Chinese white. A lot of watercolors don't use white. They don't like that it's in palettes. It's in there for a reason. Don't be afraid to use it. Try to leave the white space in your paper. If you don't, use the white. I should probably wait for some of this black to dry. I'm not going to. It's more of an adventure if you don't. I'm kind of liking that accidentally right there. It's a very dry brush. It's really scratching the white paint into the painting. Thanks. I like that suggestive texture I'm getting from his fur. I prefer that other where the brush was dry. Let's see. Don't be afraid to break out the white. You could, of course, use white watercolor paint. We're mixed media artists. For the most part, all of us are. Don't be afraid to get out your white gel pen, your white markers, your white ink, whatever you have. I'm not one of those watercolor artists that's like poo-pooing the white. I like my white, sorry. Can you hear my phone? It's on silent but it's still buzzing. Talk to you later, Cindy. Yeah, exactly. That's probably what he was thinking. I have to dig a hole. I've got to eat some cat poo. You know, go dig up some rocks or God only knows. I just, you know, we love him but he's nuts. That's pretty good. Let's do a little bit. I did. Let's move this palette. I'm going to move it somewhere. Here he is. His name is Bandit. He is in a run right outside my window. Always. You can download a copy of him from my website. If you want to paint Bandit, I don't know. Try painting your dog or like the video that aired today. I painted my front door. It doesn't have to be the perfect painting. We're shooting for something expressive here and creative and something that makes you happy. You know, it's not about being Picasso like by any stretch. Yeah. His face is still a little fatter but you know, if I was going to, but I'm okay with that. Yeah, he definitely has this mom. Will you just take the picture already because I really want to go dig a hole? Look on his face. Doesn't he? Or would you give me the bone already because he was really just the only reason I could get him to sit still was because I had a bone, a dog bone in my hand. There was no other reason for him to sit still. So I could keep playing with it but I don't really want to. I think I want to, as I'm saying that I'm going to just do something right here. Yeah, that's better. I'm actually looking at it on the broadcast so that's the other thing. When you get stuck on your paintings, take a picture of it, look at it. There's something about looking at a picture of your painting that helps you figure out what's wrong with it. I'm not sure what is with that. Yeah, that's better. We got him from, he was a rescue animal so we're not exactly sure but he's around eight or nine years old. You can tell he's not a young pup anymore. Look at all the white fur around his face. So you can let this dry and then you can go in like with a white gel pen if you want your white to pop more. I don't think I do. I like this. Yes, so stepping back. Hang it on the wall. Take a picture of it. Just walk away from it for a little bit and go back to it. Don't keep frustrating yourself by thinking that you have to just, you know, fix it right now because you don't. Okay, see I'm going to just keep playing with it. See that's the problem. Somebody asked me how do you know when your painting is done when it is varnished or goes to its forever home. I want to just keep playing with it. Thank you. Well, it was a lot of fun. Like I said, he's an experiment and I have to do some pet portraits for my sister and her pooch. I have to print some more inspiration photos for that. I thought I would do one on camera and we would take a break from the swatches for a while at least for this week. Yeah, I have lots of paintings that are at this point just backgrounds that need to be redone because yeah, I have loads. I don't care if you put the canvases on sale for a penny a piece. I don't need to buy any because I have a lot of them. Even when I do commissions I just go to the garage and find it canvases the right size and paint over whatever is on there. Okay, there we go. Baby wipes, don't you love it? Alright, I think that's it for today. That was a lot of fun. Thank you. So go out and just paint something ordinary. Your pet, your front door. Let's see. This is an impressionistic piece inspired by some flowers from my mother-in-law's garden. The video is coming up for that. Here's the piece that aired today, my front door. Again, it's done with that drippy kind of expressive splattery style where we've got the drips of the yellow gold on there to indicate the lightness and warmth. This was done with I think the Mission Gold paints. I don't remember now. You have to watch the video. I don't remember now. I do show the palette in the video. But just have some fun with it and enjoy the process. Don't worry about it if you're doing a perfect portrait or not. Just have fun. Oh, you're welcome. You're all welcome. And that's it. Now I'm going to go have some lunch. I have an appointment. I have to work on packing. Try not to bring my whole art studio with me. I'm going to do a third thing next week in Las Vegas. The temptation is to bring lots of art supplies. I'm already packing more than I normally bring, but I'm going to refrain from bringing any more. Oh, good. The front door is an easy piece and you can do just go take a picture of your front door. I didn't load a picture of my front door to my website because I really want you all if you're going to do that, go take a picture of your own front door and take a picture here and band it. You know, you can switch it up and don't use the realistic colors. You use some other colors if your front door is just white, but you know, paint it blue. Just have fun with it. Yeah, I know, right, Michelle? I'm already bringing more than I normally bring, plus some other stuff I won't tell you guys about until I see you. So I'm trying really hard not to pack anymore. You're welcome. And everybody have a great day or a great evening and I will see you all when I get back. There are videos that are scheduled to broadcast on my channel for you all, but there probably won't be any live broadcast next week until after I get back. And then we will resume with the swatches and we'll probably do one week we'll do swatches and one week we'll do a painting. In the meantime, look up Jean Haynes, her last name is spelled H-A-I-N-E-S. You can get her books on Amazon and I think her videos too. I have ordered a couple of her books from Amazon UK because for whatever reason they weren't offered on my Amazon. And anyway, I'd recommend starting with color and light. And yes, I don't travel well by myself so once I get there I'll be fine. I'm going to make sure I have my Kindle in my hands like for the whole flight or my book. I have to read the Konmari book that everybody's been crazy about. So I'm going to probably try to read that on the plane. I've got an art book too because I need to have something or I'm going to yeah, I don't fly well. And my husband made me promise I wouldn't get arrested because I caused a problem on the airplane. So all right. I'm going to do it right now. I will talk to you guys later. I will be posting on social media from Las Vegas probably just like I always do. So if you aren't following me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or you're not in my Facebook group you might want to think about joining one of those because I will be posting and we will be shooting some video while we're there that I'll edit when I get back. Michelle, my husband made me promise I wouldn't get arrested. Oh yeah, we'll be doing videos, Victor. We'll be shopping. There's a Dick Blicken Las Vegas and a couple of other things and we will be shooting from there and yeah, not a problem. We may even do a couple of you know like video lesson kind of impromptu things like in the in the condo while we're there. Maybe a couple of like already party kind of videos where we're just you know working in our journals and filming or something like that. Alright, that's it now. I got to eat some lunch before I go get my hair done. I don't want to have gray hair for Las Vegas so I got to go cover that nonsense up. Alright, I will talk to you all later. Have a great day.