 Here we go. So we're taping this with the HD camera along with being live on Periscope because that is an easier way for me to get the video up onto YouTube for you all so you can see. Like I said, I'm not sure what to paint. I do have my large watercolor journal here out with lots of artwork in it. One of the suggestions this morning was a butterfly. I've actually done one in here already. Here we go. These are all on YouTube in the Watercolor Wednesday playlist. So if you guys have any suggestions, let me know. I do need to finish this journal. I need to do some more work in here. Firefly. I don't know what they look like. I don't know what they look like. That's the problem with Firefly. I live in California. I don't think we have Fireflies. I could do a bumblebee. I did a bumblebee in here, but that's the last one that we did, the poinsettia. There's a bee or fly. Pyramid. Dragonfly. We could do a dragonfly. This is just a mixed media piece. Yeah, you know what? Let's do something in the big book. I'm going to leave this activated because I need to work on that and finish that page today. Let's get the Daniel Smith colors out. I just got back from the gym. Smelly. Be glad this is not smelly vision. Dragonfly. We can do a dragonfly. We'll do a dragonfly. I'll do it without a reference photo. So, you know, hello. I don't know how well it's going to turn out. We'll find out, right? We're just going to play and have fun. So the first thing I always do is get my whole palette wet. Now, these metal palettes, you can lift this whole tray out and you can actually use this bottom as a mixing area. As you can see by how pristinely white it is, I never do that. These are Daniel Smith watercolors before anybody asks. I know somebody will. I'm going to put my brushes in some water. Got my rag. I've got our big journal. I'm going to zoom out a little bit on the HD camera. There we go. And let's go to the end here. Put some protective deli paper here. Not that I care too much if I get splatters on the opposite page because I'll just work them into my journal page. But we'll try to keep them at minimum. I'm going to make sure I've got that. There we go. The whole page in camera, which we do. So of course, when you do this, you know, whenever you're playing with any kind of paints, you could do realistic dragonflies, you could do more illustratorly or doodly dragonflies. I have no idea which ones are going to come out of my pencil, but we're going to just find out, right? It's best, of course, to work from a photo. All of my devices are currently in use for this broadcast. So I have no idea. So we're going to just wing it. You get it? Dragonfly wing it? I know. I'm just totally not, I just, I'm trying not to have a third cup of coffee. You guys, it's really bad habit. Because if I leave it up to my own devices, I'll just drink way too much coffee. It's not good for me. So I'm going to draw the body in a couple of sections. You kind of have the main body area and then the dragonflies have that long tail. I don't know what you call it. They have two sets of long skinny wings. Yeah, me too. And my parents are like that. They love to drink coffee. So in this case, especially when you're not sure of, you know, you're drawing, you're shaping, you're shaping of your subject matter. If you're not confident on where you want to go, there's nothing wrong with doing a pencil sketch first before you get started. And although you're seeing it pretty well on camera from what I can see, I am actually using a number of light pencil strokes. This is just a standard number two pencil. This is one of the Faber-Castell jumbo pencils, which when my hands are, you know, achy and bothering me from arthritis is easier for me to hold. I like the way it feels in my hand. I'm just going to pencil in my basic shape here. If you guys have any questions as we're going along, you know, go ahead and fire away. So I would always do things in sets of three. If you've been watching me for a while, you know that. I think three is more interesting than one or two. So I would put a couple more dragonflies on here. They, I would try to make them so they're not, you know, all the same size and shape. I didn't even touch my iPad and the pictures all flip, flipping around by itself. It's just interesting. So good morning, everybody. Did you all get your exercise in yet today? I did. That's why I stink. I'm not a shower yet. It's periscope. You know, I wish they'd work the bugs out. Holy cow. Thanks, Cindy. Hello. Good morning. And yes, I was talking about the Six Plus iPhone. I heard, I saw that Facebook message, but you know, I'm doing this. So I'll just answer your question here. It's big. I have the regular Six iPhone. The Six Plus is bigger. So we're just sketching in our dragonflies. You know, dragonflies are the basic shapes are, you know, easy. Yeah, that my husband, he goes back and forth. He got one and then he thought it was actually too big. And now he thinks he probably should have kept it. Anyway, so, you know, just circle for the head, some ovals for the body and some like teardrop shapes for the wings. Right. And dragonflies have like two sets of like long thin wings. And they have, you know, a long thin body and kind of a long thin tail shape, right? And the other thing you can do is kind of, you know, something that's like illustratorly kind of thing to do is, you know, give them make some dots, you know, that would suggest like where this dragonfly came from or where he's flying to. And then before I do too much of that, I want to draw my third dragonfly in. I'm not worried about any of these sketchy lines because I'm, you know, they'll just add, this is a mixed media watercolor journal. So almost everything in this journal has rubber stamping and ink splatters and, you know, the pencil marks just give, in my opinion, give the page some interest. So I'm just sketching my basic shapes for my dragonflies and we'll get our basic shapes on here. And then if you guys are paying along with me, I'll give you a minute to catch up and I'll show you another fun way to draw dragonflies that is even easier, sort of a doodly dragonfly that I've actually done for a long time. And I have the original painting around here somewhere and it's been reprinted thousands of times on greeting cards and tote bags. And okay. So then I would take and I would put some dots where each dragonfly was like coming from, right? You get just something that's interesting and of course give them some antenna, right? And that's a cute composition. Here's a little scrap of watercolor paper. And the other way that you can do dragonflies, and I'm actually going to do this with a black pen because you'll be able to see it better. I should really use a bigger piece of paper. Hold on. This is just a standard number two pencil. It's not water soluble or anything. This is just a Faber-Castell Jumbo 2B pencil. You can get these in, I think they came in a three pack and I actually got them at Joanne fabrics and crafts. I like them because when you're not young anymore and you have arthritis in your hands, you know, this pencil is easier to hold because it's fat. Okay. So here's just, this is just a blank piece of drawing paper. I'm going to show you. So this is the other way I've drawn dragonflies for a long time. And I usually, when I do these kind, because I've drawn them a lot, I usually just use a pen. I don't even start with a pencil. But you know, do one of these swirly circular shapes like this for the head and then do sort of a swirly oval shape for the body and then do a series of circles graduating down in size for the tail. And I'll hold this up to the camera in a minute and then go ahead and give your dragonfly some wings. And again, if you, you know, I really prefer the sketchy look. So I almost never just do a clean straight line like that. And then you can, you know, put your antenna. And you can do a dragonfly that's, you know, have fun with the basic shape of your dragonfly and do something that's interesting and fun on this kind of a dragonfly colored in. This is cute on a little greeting card or as an embellishment or something like that. So now we need a paintbrush. Alrighty, dragonflies are kind of iridescent, aren't they? Start lighter, work your way darker. I'm actually going to start with a color I have called Tiger's Eye. And it's one of the Daniel Smith colors made from semi-precious gemstones. And it's this really pretty light tan color. And you can't really see it, but there's a little bit of a metallic sheen to the cup paint. So we're going to start with that. And I'm going to choose to have my light source coming from this way. And the, so the shadows are this way. And then I'm going to come in with some water and just put the water on the inside of the dragonfly's body so that, that interior line blends a bit and isn't so harsh, but I still have the nice hard outer line. Thank you for all the hearts. I love the hearts. And, you know, don't forget to ask me questions if you have some questions. Oh, hey, Mark. Yeah, dragonflies. And you know these, we're not shooting for anything that's super realistic necessarily. We're just having fun with the paint and doing something that's shaped like a dragonfly. Oh, thank you. I love art, but art is some of the reason I have problems with my hands. I've been doing it a long time, so I have to remember to stop and do your stretches. You know, I was a knitter for a long time. And whether you're a painter or a needlework artist or a knitter, one of the things you need to remember to do is stop every now and then and do your stretches, stretch and flex your hands, roll your wrists, and get up out of your chair and walk around. Otherwise, you just get really stiff. Yeah, so, and there's, years ago, Vogue Magazine had a whole series of articles on hand exercises for people who use their hands a lot to help prevent carpal tunnel and stuff like that. So I don't know if that can be found on the internet somewhere, but you might look it up. All right, so I'm just, you're still using that same color, the tiger's eye. And now I'm touching some of the paint into where we've added the water and we've done a little bit of blending. And I'm just, I'm barely touching my brush to the paper, and I'm just being careful about not putting too much paint with watercolor. You can lift a bit, but it's harder to lift because it's watercolor. It stains the paper. This is a print, before somebody asks, this is a Princeton Select round number eight paintbrush. So I'm going to let that dry for a second, and then I'm going to start looking at the wings. And I do think I want to put a little color in the wings. The question is, what color do I want to put? I know that one I'm thinking of, I'm just going to go for it. I'm not going to think about it. Sleeping Beauty Turquoise. Yeah, so it's good to remember to stop and flex your hands. Remember to stop and flex and stretch your hands and the rest of you. So this is a little bit of Sleeping Beauty Turquoise. And I'm just going to put a little bit, and then I'm going to come in with the water before it dries. Again, on the inside of the wings, because I want the paint to stay on the inside of the wings, I don't want it to blend into the rest of the paper. And the watercolor is going to take the easier path. So it's going to follow the water. It's not going to easily go onto the dry paper unless you put water there. So welcome everyone. It seems like people are popping in and out. So I'm wondering if you guys are having problems with your connection like we did the other day. Someone doing one dragonfly at a time. And while I'm doing this, I'm also not only starting to color the wings, but I'm giving the bodies a chance to dry a little bit. I hope your phone doesn't die too, Cindy. I know you're having problems, but this morning I saw that. Oh, you're from San Jose too. Cool. What part of San Jose? I'm over by Santa Teresa. Lovely San Jose. This morning I was at the gas station putting gas in my car and not only was the crazy homeless man back who screams at everybody, but then some other guy came and was digging through the gas station trash cans. Wow, I thought to myself, wow, life in the big city. So before I go too far, I'm coming back and deciding that I want to put a little more color in my wings. And I know where that's at. I used to work for American Greetings and I was on the East Side a lot for work. I like that. All right, so now we're going to come down and do this one. And I think I just got some other color on my brush and wasn't paying any attention. Let's rinse it off and try that again, shall we? Told you guys I need that other cup of coffee. Are you supposed to need less coffee when you work out? I feel like I need more. So you'll notice me continually like blotting my brush off on my rag because I want it wet and I want to bring in some clear water, but I don't want it to be sloppy wet. Oh yeah, I'm on Periscope every single week. So yeah, I'm on YouTube. If you Google my name, you'll find me all over the place. Literally. I keep telling people that and they don't believe me until they go and Google my name. So I hope you're all having a great week. So that's pretty, I like the way that's turning out already. Let's keep going. So I have some good morning color. Do you want to add now? I kind of want to add Moon Glow. You all know I love Moon Glow, which is a purpley gray color. Again, it's one of those colors that's unique to Daniel Smith paints. Thank you. I love this color. The Sleeping Beauty Turquoise is one of my favorite colors in the Daniel Smith line. So this is just adding a little bit of purple to our Dragonfly bodies and I'm going to, while it's wet, I'm going to just listen to my instincts, which are screaming at me to grab this color. This, as you know, is opera pink. If you've been watching me before, you know that I like this color and the paint is wet. So it's going to bleed a little bit into the other colors of the body and we may get a little bit that goes into the wings and I'm okay with that. In fact, I may encourage that a bit. Put a little dash of the opera pink at the base of the wings and then just add some water. Thank you. This is just fun, easy, basic water colors. They don't have to be scary or any of that. Just have fun with your paints. So again, we're going to start with the Moon Glow. The only thing is when you work with watercolor, you want to remember to start with your lightest colors that you want to use and work your way darker. I'm going to go in while that's wet and I'm going to add my opera pink, a dot at the base of each wing. I'm going to come in with just some water and encourage that pink to flow. This large journal, yes, this large journal is one I made as part of a class that I have that I teach, a paid for class that's up on Crazy Island University and up on, I think it's on my Udemy channel also. And I actually, when I made this, I intended for it to be, I'll answer that in just a minute, Moonball. So when I made this journal, I intended for it to be a collage journal and then I just ended up watercoloring in it. So you don't necessarily, because this is watercolor paint, it's always going to move a little bit, but if you wait for the underneath to dry before you add more paint, it's going to move less. So usually what I do is I do a fair amount while everything is wet. And then when I get to the point where I'm starting to have the colors be muddy, then I stop and dry everything and then I come back and add more. If you want to leave some layers white, or I'll give you a couple options for this. So if you want to leave some areas of your page white, then before you do any painting, put masking fluid down and then let it dry. Masking fluid is a barrier that when dry, the paint can't get underneath it and you remove the masking fluid with a rubber cement eraser. Now you can use masking fluid in layers on a painted page. So say we've already done this and we like the turquoise and we want to save parts of that, but we want to keep adding layers of paint to the wings. You could add some masking fluid to parts of the dragonfly that you've already painted, let it dry and then come back and add more colors. That's another way to do it. I almost never do that, but you definitely can do that. Yeah, the first thing I do when I get any paints is make a color key or color chart. I think that's something you should do whenever you buy new paints, especially water colors. And I always, with my water colors, make them so that they fit inside the case, otherwise I can't keep track of them. It has more to do with me not being able to keep track of stuff and doing things like finding my cell phone in the refrigerator than it does with anything else. Yeah, I have those and definitely when you get any new water colors, make a chart. That's the first thing you should do because they look completely different in the case than they're going to look on paper. So just like with the other dragonflies now I'm coming in with just water. They are, I like them a lot. I love my Daniel Smiths. They're my favorite, but there's nothing wrong with the Gonsai Tombi watercolors. I love them. Their colors are unique. I think I have the 18 color set. So let's dry this just a second. I want to make sure it's dry before I do anything else. So that's my heat embossing tool, which I almost never use for embossing, but I use it all the time for drying my water colors quickly. Okay, so now we're going to start making things a little bit darker and more interesting. And this paint that I have on here for the most parts dry. So what I put on here may blend a little bit with the older paint that's already on here, but it's not going to do a lot. And I'm going to come in now with, want to do the wings first. So I'm going to come in with some Ultramarine turquoise, which is a darker color, still in the turquoise range, but it's darker. And I'm barely, barely touching my brush to the paper. Now I'm going to come in with just some water and I'm not going to blend all of this line towards the middle, but I'm going to blend little bits of it. I'm definitely the kind of artist that likes the lines and marks that I put on my paintings help me suggest the shapes I'm trying to paint. I find that interesting. So I almost never do paintings that are completely well blended. I like the way that looks. So we're going to leave that alone and let that dry a bit. We'll do the same thing to our other dragonflies. And the thickness or thinness of the line really depends on how hard you push down on your brush on the paper. You'll notice that I'm putting a thin, some parts of the lines thin, some are thick. I want it to be uneven and sort of suggestive. Welcome everybody. We have people popping in and out. I'm guessing that, like I said, that there's a problem with the connection again. Why am I not surprised? You could actually do this. These are easy. I don't want you guys ever to be intimidated, especially when you watch me thinking you can't do this. That's why I'm glad somebody suggested dragonflies and that we're not doing anything harder because we've been doing lots of hard stuff. And I don't want you guys to feel like it's too hard for you to do. I want you to enjoy doing things like painting with watercolor. So these are easy. And look how cute they are. Can't you see these on the front of a greeting card? They would be so pretty, Andrew. So the other thing we're going to do is I'm going to come in here and I'm going to put the antennas in with the same kind of uneven line with the tip of my paintbrush. And I'm using the same ultramarine turquoise. They're cute and simple, exactly. Not all of your paintings have to be super complicated. Sometimes you just want to enjoy the process of painting without the complications of doing something intricate. Doesn't that sound like I know what I'm talking about? But that's how I think. Easier is better sometimes. Everything doesn't have to be a huge, gigantic, complicated, Rembrandt style painting. No, I don't speak. I'm guessing you're asking if I speak Russian. The answer is no. I have trouble with English. So now we're going to come in like with the other ones. We're going to blend our lines just a bit, not everywhere, just in a few places. Now the other thing you can do with these dragonflies before you paint is outline them with a black waterproof pen. If you do it after you paint them, make sure that your watercolors are completely dry. These are those dots that I put on here and I'm going to just tap some water into them so that they're there but they're kind of, you know, watercolory and splotchy and messy and I like that. I don't remember which one of you suggested this but thank you because this is very cool. I haven't done dragonflies in a while. I see a lot of you joining. I hope I didn't miss a comment. I'm kind of getting lost in painting the dragonflies. Oh see Tina, thank you. I haven't painted these in a while. I forgot how much I just like just painting something simple like this and dragonflies are a lot of fun. So you saw me flick my brush at the paper which puts some, you know, splatters and marks of the paint that's on my brush on the paper but in this journal I like, this journal is about the splatters and the marks. Fireflies, oh okay. I haven't lived in the south since I was a baby but when I was little we lived in Georgia. My dad was in the army. There is a dragonfly stamp in my rubber stamp line. Yes and this is going to be up on, hey how are you? This is going to be up on YouTube. We are simultaneously recording this with my HD camera which is going to be way easier for me to get it on YouTube than the traditional way because periscope is just not super download friendly. Anyway so I will have it on there and you can review the drawing part. They're really simple shapes. Like I said there is a dragonfly stamp in my stamp line. Now if you're going to use a rubber stamp for your dragonflies you could totally do that and then watercolor them in but what I would suggest is that you make sure you use waterproof ink. How do you not just love that? They look like they're just bursting out don't they? I love that. Okay so we want to do something to the bodies like what we did with the wings. So I'm going to come in with what color? Thank you. They're so much fun. They're easy. I think I'm going to come in with, I'm trying really hard not to use paints. Great you guys. Hello Lisa. I think I'm going to come in first with some Kodakwardone purple which is a darker purple, more of a true purple. Try not to stick my arm in things that are wet. You know I have trouble with that. Okay so I'm going to put some of the paint on the dragonfly and then I'm going to come again, come in with water and just blend it in towards the dragonfly a little bit. I usually do a pdf after I get these broadcasts downloaded to my computer. I create a pdf of the broadcasts and in the pdf I do a close-up shot of the page and I do a copy of my color key or color chart here from my watercolor set and I usually do notes on the step-by-step instructions. They'll be for sale over in my Etsy shop to go along with the video on YouTube. I keep trying to stick my hand in stuff that's wet. So having that bright almost neon upper pink in there, that's going to be your warm color and that's going to suggest sunlight hitting your dragonflies. The darker purples are cooler colors so they're going to suggest shadow and I'm not going to be able to resist myself and put just a teeny bit of paint on these. I'm just not going to be able to. This paint's gray is a really dark blue gray and just a little bit of it is going to really emphasize those shadowy areas in a more interesting way than using black. I love that. These are just a lot of fun. I need some more paint on my brush. So you could do this on any kind of paper, of course, but you're better off doing it on watercolor paper. This is Fabriano watercolor paper, 140lb, but you can use Strathmore. I use Strathmore a lot. This came in really big huge sheets that I cut down to make this journal. If you're going to use other kinds of paper then you want to prep your paper with some kind of watercolor ground or watercolor gesso because the paper won't be able to hold up to all the water. It'll start to pill and fall apart. Those are cute dragonflies I gotta say. Add a little bit of paint to grade in the antennas. I love that. Alright so this is a mixed media journal. Thank you. So one of the things I do with this is I usually do crazy stuff around whatever it is I've painted. So let's see here. I have binders full of cling stamps and these are all different brands. So let's find one that I like here and see. This is a script stamp. This one might work. I like this one. So I'm going to take this script stamp. I have no idea before somebody even asked me. I don't have any idea where this came from. I've had it so long and it was wood mounted and I've unmounted it. Yeah I don't know. I have these little Studio G inks. You know they're from the what $1.50 bin at Michaels. I'm going to choose. I want it to create some interest in the background around our dragonflies but I don't want it to necessarily detract from them. So I'm going to use something that's a teal-y color so that it'll create interest without being a distraction. It's almost the same color as I used on the dragonflies. I like that. And then I'm going to take some of my same color we used down here which was the Ultramarine and I'm going to add some water to it and thin it out a bit. Now if you get some of it where you don't want it just get in here really quick. You're not going to be able to get it all off but you'll get a lot of it off and it'll still have a faint dot but it won't be. I like that. So I would leave this this way in this book whether it was a journal page or it was even a painting this could be framed and hung on the wall. It would make a great print. So let's dry this a little bit. Okay so now we really want to bring out our dragonflies. We really want them to pop in the background to be there but not to be. We don't want that to be the focal point. This is a carbon ink fountain pen. I got it on Amazon and I'm going to come in here into my black waterproof ink and it's a super fine point so it's going to add some black lines but they're not going to be real thick black lines. So you could do this with any kind of pen. I would just recommend something that's thin keep your lines kind of loose, sketchy. Don't feel like you have to outline the entire painting. Oh yay! Sometimes the pen doesn't want to write over the paint. It usually writes better under and there we go. So I usually have my rag close by to wipe off the nib and the other thing is that because it's a fountain pen that paper fibers get stuck in the nib. So can you see the difference between that dragonfly and like this dragonfly? He's more interesting and stands out a little bit more. You could definitely like I said you could do this before you start painting them or you could do it afterwards because maybe some most of the time I'm not sure I want to do this so I usually leave it until afterwards and then I look at it and decide if it I think it needs the extra black lines and these black lines along with the pencil lines that are underneath will help emphasize my shape and any kind of a fine nibbed waterproof pen will work and I recommend waterproof because then you don't have to worry about whether you're going to do it before or after and if that's the right pen and if it's going to bleed. I just found where's that pen? This pen which is a stainless steel Sharpie Fine Point. This is a fabulous pen and you can get them at Target FYI and that's a Sharpie marker pen. Yeah the pen just gives it an extra pot and you know we're most of you watching are into mixed media and art journaling and most of us almost never do just straight watercolor paintings. There's always an element of mixed media in them even if it's just a little bit of pencil work on the base so um and you know don't let somebody tell you you can't do that because you're paying with watercolors that's ridiculous and it's hogwash. Just you know have fun with it and play. I do so this is going to be on YouTube later. This is a good time to ask me questions when I'm just doing the sketching um it'll be on YouTube later. I will be creating a PDF to go with the video at the same time. The PDF will be for sale over my Etsy shop. You can find both of those my Etsy shop and my YouTube channel by just going to Yahoo or Google and typing my name in just like it appears here on Periscope. Um also I'll show up all over the place. Yeah see and I do too. I love combining all of my things together. Now you could add other um see I just love that. You could add other things like I've got my I don't know if you all follow me on Facebook but if you do you saw last night that I was pulling my silks out last night and putting airbrush medium in them to make sure they don't like dry up. You could let this dry completely and add a little bit of an acrylic glaze on here. Um yes I'll answer that question in a minute Mary. Um you could put a little bit of a wink of Stella Penn on here. Oh that and that as I'm saying it that's a good idea. So this is a wink of Stella Penn and this is the clear one and it's just basically a clear glitter pen for those of you who don't know and it's just going to add some glitter to the dragonflies which you guys probably won't be able to see but it's a nice touch. So this journal is in the bookbinding video that is on Crazy Island University and over on my Udemy channel. This is the journal I made when I was filming that class and when I made it I thought it was going to be a collage journal but I ended up using it for watercolor. That was a nice touch it gave it just a little bit of sparkle. See I want to keep going with that. So you can combine all of these things with your watercolor paints. You know just be aware that you know the base paint color this is watercolor so if you put anything too wet on it you take the risk of things moving around but grabbing those you know other things you have in your cabinet out and using them with your paintings and your journal pages do that like your wink of Stella Penns. Thank you. This is a great journal it's a great size. I just had this discussion with somebody the other day it might have been in the Monday with DecoArt broadcast. Working big like this is much easier than working small especially when you're learning and whether you're doing a simple shape like this or one that's more detailed like this. Working bigger is always easier so definitely and I know when I first started I started with large journals and they're still my preference. So I would tell you guys not to go too small especially if you're just starting out go bigger. These pages measure about 11 inches square I think. Yeah they're about 11 inches square so I and I think my first journal was 11 by 14. It was really big but I would definitely say go bigger because it's easier to practice what you want. This is one of my favorite paintings in this book. It's easier to practice what you want to learn and to you know get used to working with your mediums in a larger format and yeah I love the square shape. I did just get the new square delusions journal but I haven't tried it but the delusions journals are not great for watercolor. The paper doesn't hold up very well so you really need to have a journal that's made out of watercolor paper and this is the kind of paper that come in big sheets that are like 22 by 30 and then I cut them down to make this journal. So yeah I can understand that Mary and these papers the signatures on the in this journal are long strips like this and that I then folded to make each set of pages. See you could do this with a roll of watercolor paper and I don't know how many signatures are in here. One two three four five six seven looks like there's seven. So there's a you and me challenge going on. I'm assuming that's what you're asking about. There's a you and me challenge swap going on with Cindy Utter and I. The instructions are on both of our YouTube channels. You have to submit your mailing information to the email address in the video and oh you to me oh you to me that's it. So you to me U D E M Y is an online teaching site and I have a number of classes over there. I know I told you Mary I told everybody Mary I feel like I need more coffee holy cow. So that's an online teaching site that I have a few classes at and it's U D E M Y dot com. But if you go over there and search my name you're only going to find I don't know if you'll see all the classes and I get unless I give you the direct link because some of them have really long videos in them and you to me doesn't like that. But I do know that if you go to my website Gina be errands dot com there's a page that says class available classes and in that page is a direct links to every single class I teach. I have to go in there today and make sure I've updated it recently because I don't remember but I'm pretty sure it's updated including crazy island university you to me the YouTube channel is on there everything is on there and how to make this journal is in there at you to me there's a new watercolor course. There is Hannah Montana Journal which is a free course and there's a couple other things and all the courses have downloadable video so it may take you a little bit to download the videos but they are downloadable in the watercolor course when I can and I find that it's appropriate I download these live broadcasts into the course and give the students in the course the PDF so they can download the video and they can have the PDF for the cost of whatever the cost of the course was and there's six different sections already to that course and that course involves making a small journal gaps between signatures now see I have gaps in this one because I intended for it to be a collage journal so I purposefully left gaps yeah so if you're planning on your journal being a painting journal you don't want those gaps so what you need to do when you line up where you're sewing your journals is you need to put your lines closer together I think these were a half an inch apart when I sewed them in so you probably want them to be a quarter an inch apart and then your signatures are going to be smack up against each other but if you intend to put stuff in your journal then you want to leave a gap yeah see I almost always have a little bit of a gap because when I make my journals I never know for sure what I'm going to do with it the couple of times I haven't left gaps then I end up using it for collage and then the journals are like this and they don't close like the what is it the big drop paper journal is not done yet but it won't close unless I force it to it's going to need one giant journal band on it when it's done and don't forget that you know you can use your watercolors also and I'm not going to do this now because this is something I need to film for YouTube but um and I just threw my stamp in the trash there we go you can use your watercolors in your journal pages too here's one that's already um I think this went up this morning so I created this journal page for YouTube um there's a new series coming up watercolor and mixed media you can use your watercolors to accent your journal pages and your mixed media pages this has lots of different kind of mediums on it but also mo a lot of watercolor um so you don't have to just do paintings with them you know think outside the box and how well other ways you can use them on this little journal that's what that's going to be about this year and this is my watercolor kit that I don't care if I get um this is the watercolor kit that I just use when I'm doing mixed media stuff I don't care if I use acrylic brushes in it if I get it contaminated it's not a big deal so I keep this little kit around for doing these mixed media pieces when I am doing something that I know is more pristine watercolor than I use my professional watercolors which is this kit thank you so much I hope I am and you know if you guys ever have any questions comments or concerns you want to make suggestions I want to see me paint next week there is um you can PM me on Facebook there is a list um uh running list in my Facebook group um for watercolor Wednesday um suggestions of things that you guys would like to see so you can go over there and add something into the comments or edit the list and add something in I'm here every single Wednesday unless I have an appointment or I'm out of town uh and we'll just we're just playing with watercolors and using them in our journals and having some fun and my Facebook group that's called a life of art and self-expression and it's not only for watercolor Wednesday but all the kinds of creative life and business and self-expression so you know go over there and join and I'm on there all the time but you can also you know message me on YouTube um you can comment on the video ask a question if you have a question comment or concern leave it on the video and I will respond to you ASAP and I'm here every week you're welcome I'm I'm looking forward to being here with you we did do a simulcast on Monday for Monday with deco art which I also do every other week and we did a simulcast on use stream and periscope at the same time we will probably be doing that again um in a couple of weeks but this time we'll be doing it for watercolor Wednesday um it'll be interesting so stay tuned for that I will announce for you when that's going to be exactly but I want I know there's a few people who can't get to periscope but they can get to use stream so we will be trying to incorporate that when we can yeah I'm on use stream I'm on periscope Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Pinterest I've got my website uh you know I'm all literally I'm all over the place there's only a few I'm not on all right that's it for today everybody I am going to clean up my mess and I guess it's time to go take a shower now since I haven't taken one since I went and worked out at the gym this morning I'm always busy you know my brain is happier when it's kept busy nice uh enjoy that Danish Mary yum that sounds good all right I'll see you all later don't forget to have a great day do something nice for yourself get out breathe some fresh air get some exercise and play with your paints and have some fun all right I'll see you all later bye