 Hi guys. How are you today? I am not quite ready because it's been one of those mornings. Hi, but I have some stuff to share. Let's see. I shared that one last week, I think. I think I shared this one before. No, you didn't, you didn't miss it. Carson and Cat's Life. Hello, Lisa. I'm, we're just getting started. I was at the gym this morning and then I rushed to kind of take a shower before we got started. And so now I'm running late. So I have all this stuff that's still out because I haven't put some of it away. And some of this is new. Drop in. All right. So you all know you've seen this round PBO palette before, which I love. It's got 24 colors in it. And I love, I'm discovering through this whole process of swatching paints. Hey, Anna. That I really love collecting unusual palettes. That's what kind of what I've discovered. And it's more that I like to collect them than I want to use all the different kinds of paints. So I love this PBO round palette, not only because it's round, that in itself is unusual, but I love that it has 24 colors. It has a fabulous color range. It's a wonderful palette. We've swatched this before and these are the colors that are in here. They're fabulous. I did find out that PBO has a little small pocket kit. Not too dissimilar from the Prima watercolor palette and the Schmincke palette. It's basically the same except it's white. So I had to have it. Hey, Teresa. But it only has 12 colors in it. But as you can see by the fact that they're wrapped, it's literally brand new. I think it came in yesterday or the day before. So I had to have that. I just had to have that. You know, it's not like I've got tons of money laying around, but I get a few bucks in and I spend it on more watercolor palettes. I think it's a sickness. Personally, I don't know. So I just wanted to show you this is my little small travel kit. But this is the one I take with me when I go on vacation. And as you can see, they're about the same size. The inside is a little bit different, especially because I took the insert out of this that the trays fit in. The trays, the little pans, but they're very similar. Now, so the pans, the watercolor pans, most of these kind of palettes come with something like this that holds the watercolor pans in. And you can get, it'll usually come with 12 colors. You can actually get one more half pan in each row. So you can get 14. I actually, in my travel palette, took this out and I put magnets on the back of the half pans and I put them in that way. And this is the actual one that usually goes with me on vacation. Yeah, and for me, it's watercolor pocket palettes. Not watercolor palettes, pocket palettes. I can't help myself. So I got that one and I have this one. I have a few. And then see what else. I got these old Holland ones because I really wanted to try, in this case, I really wanted to try the paint and the palette that they had that I was interested in they actually don't make anymore. Jackson's art seems to still be under the pressure and they can get it and they keep putting it on back order. So I'm keeping an eye on their website. But in the meantime, I got this small set of old Holland stick, just six tubes, because at this point I really don't need any more paint. I want to collect palettes, but anyway. So we may play with those today. I'm not sure yet. You all saw the White Nights one that we played with last week that I, again, couldn't help myself. It's a cute pocket palette. All right, I've shown this one before. This is the Dayler Rowney Square. You can get this almost anywhere. I got this one at Hobby Lobby. It has how many colors does it have in it? Nine, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Yeah, ten colors and a brush and then these four mixing wells. Now I like this palette because it's square. Again, unusual. It's like the round one. In my opinion, it doesn't have nearly enough colors for the size of the palette and you have the lid to mix on. So as a watercolorist, I would have preferred they add a couple more colors in here and made better use of this part of the palette. So I don't think it's the best design palette and it actually may be the one pocket palette I don't keep because I found a Dayler Rowney Pocket Palette that I do like that I want watercolor paints, aqua fine. This is their pocket palette set. I had to order this. I ordered it from eBay and it has, I think, 12 colors in it. I'm just having issues this morning. I can't get it open. Oh, see, it's me. I need to take a deep breath because I was rushing. Okay, I think it opens this way. I had it open earlier. There we go. Push. It could say push. It's still triple. All right. So it comes with a piece of vellum here with color swatches on it, which is nice that it has that and it has, yeah, 12 colors in it. So in my opinion, it's a little better palette because it's got a few more colors than this one. It's got two more colors. It's got, what colors does it have that this one doesn't have? Well, black for one. I'm looking and light red. So this color and this color are in addition to what is already over in this palette. I like this little box. It reminds me very much of the Winter Newton box. It's a little bit bigger. So I like that. It comes with a cute little brush. So, yeah, I've discovered I'm a pocket palette collector, I think. I think. So I think I'm going to let this one go, the square one, even though it's cute because it's square and all. It doesn't excite me as much as this one or the round one. But I don't know if you saw the video on YouTube where I made this journal out of an old CD or DVD wallet, but this fits nicely in here like that and I put a rubber stamp in the back pocket. There is a back pocket and this is for sale in my Etsy shop. It's going to come with the watercolor paints. The description below the video. So there's that. So now I have all these watercolor paints to try and do something with. Well, not all of them. I've got these two new ones. The PBO we've already tried a different palette. I do have this UPO paper that I was interested in trying at some point to see what we could watercolor on it. I don't know if you guys want to do that today or not or if you want to work in the journal, you let me know. I hope you all are having a great week. I do think I'm going to let go of at least one of my large round robax palettes just because I don't use them. I haven't touched them in about a year and especially the gouache palette. So if anybody is interested in that, message me. The only thing is shipping is going to be kind of probably pricey. This is the gouache palette. It comes filled with paints. They are Pelican and Reeves. And if I can find the spare tubes, if I still have them, I'll include them. I'm not sure. I have to look. I don't know. There's a couple extra colors underneath. It's really big. It doesn't have as many wells as my other one, but it's large across, I think it's like 15 inches. I don't know if it's going to fit in a large party mailbox. It might be too big. Shipping might be interesting. This setup wasn't cheap. This palette is really expensive. If anybody is interested, let me know. I do have another one that's filled with regular watercolor paints. I'm considering letting it go, too, because I just don't use these. I have discovered through my watercolor journey this last year that I really, really enjoy pock palettes. So let me know. I'm still going to keep my twinkling H2O round one that I made, because I love that one. But yeah, let me know on these. Okay, so let's do something. Maybe let's do, let's just play, let's do both. So this is UPO is a synthetic paper. 100% polypropylene. This is 74 pound. This is a little sample pad that I bought one night when we were in Las Vegas. I was with Las Vegas with the girls, and I just wanted a small pad to try it. This is a 5 by 7 inch pad. It's got 10 sheets for 8.95. So a little less than a dollar sheet. So it's not super cheap paper, but it's 100% polypropylene. I don't know what polypropylene is, but I've heard of UPO this paper before. Let's find something to paint. Maybe we should try doing something with this flower like we did on Monday with Decorat. Okay, now because we've already played with De La Rowney paints, I'm going to set that palette aside for now. Let's get out the old Holland paints because we haven't played with those yet at all. This little 6 tube sampler kind of set was not expensive. I did get it from Jackson's Art in the UK. I think they were less than $30. They weren't super expensive because they're teeny tiny tubes. It's going to require some color mixing because, hey, Gautana, because we only have a very basic set. So this is Ultramarine Blue. I need a brush. Okay. It's been one of those mornings. All right. I need a pen. Okay. So these are old Holland. Now the old Holland paints were gotten by request from a viewer. I, of course, can't always do that because it costs prohibitive. It's going to be pretty cost prohibitive, but when I can, I will. Yeah, I got to get my glasses. Hang on. I'm not going to even try to pronounce this. S-C-H-E-V-E-N-I-N G-E-N yellow light. I got no idea. Maybe I should come in a little closer so you guys can see a little better. Yeah. I have trouble with English words. That's what it sounds like to me. And old Holland paints, I think are from the Netherlands. I can't read it. I can't read it. It's way too little. But yeah, I think they're from the Netherlands. Something like that. What's a nice bright yellow? Look at that. Okay, this one. So this one says golden green deep, but you notice the label is yellow. So you really can't, and that happens a lot. Maybe it is, Dawn. That happens a lot with a lot of paint brands. So you have to really go by the color name, or if you're at the store and there's a swatch card, look at the swatch card when you're picking your colors. You can't go by the color on the label, because with a lot of brands, the color on the label is deceiving. Holland, there you go. Old Holland. Oh, old Holland, Holland. Yeah, you're right. Okay, so this is golden green deep. I also didn't finish all my coffee before I left to go to the gym this morning. That doesn't help. Okay, so that is the label. You see the label there. You have to look at the pigments. You have to. And this is the actual color, see. It reminds me of golden green gold, of golden paint, green gold. It's a very pretty color. Oh, here's that word again. Same word. I was going to stick my fountain pen in the paint. Well, it's a pretty red. Nice and bright. Look at that. Next, yellow ochre light. Almost bursting from the tube as I open the tube. So, anybody know what the binder is in these old Holland paints? Is it gum Arabic or honey? And this other one is burnt umber. Yeah, right? That would have been very bad. It's one of my favorite fountain pens. It would have not been good. So, one of the tests that we'll do, it will take more than today. It'll take a couple of days. Now, is to see how these dry if they dry, if they stay sticky, that kind of thing. Because I don't know what the binder is. Okay, let's watch these last two. I was going to do it again. See, that's what happens when I don't drink all my coffee before I get started. But I didn't want to be lazy about going to the gym again this morning. And then this is the burnt umber, which is a very pretty brown. There you go. So, now let's do a couple of little test paintings. Let's just draw some squares on my paint, Sharon. Old Holland is a very old brand of paint. I think they've been around a long time, yes. They may, I think they, like a lot of companies started out making oil paints. They do make oil paints. And it's easier here in the U.S. to find old Holland oil paints than it is old Holland watercolors. Guess how I know that. All right. And we've got our mixing plate. Let's get started. And we will do something with the UFO, I promise. All right. I'm going to start with some of the green color. Oh, gum Arabic. Okay. So that means they should dry pretty decently and they shouldn't stay, thanks Don. They shouldn't dry and stay sticky. I'm, I like Sennelier paints. Their colors are fabulous and bright. But their binder is honey. And I don't like that they stay sticky. I think that was Sennelier. I have it in my mix palette. I'm pretty sure that's Sennelier. And I'm not crazy about that. So this is just a light wash of a little bit of the green with a whole bunch of water. So this is the green virtually straight out of the tube. And I'm using kind of the flower picture that's propped up in front of me that way as sort of inspiration. But I'm also just playing to see what the paints will do, how easily they move on the paper, how easily they move in water or don't, how they blend and just doing a couple of little sample paintings. This is kind of a layout I've been thinking about for a while as we practice with some of these paints. So it's fun to finally do something with it this morning. I saw somebody on YouTube do a similar layout in one of their watercolor journals when they were playing with their paints. And I don't remember who it was, but I thought it was a clever idea. I tend to find that the paints that have honey as a binder are nice but they stay sticky. They don't really ever dry. And I like to take my watercolors with me. So I like for them to be dry. So I'm going to take some of our blue and some of our green and just make a different shade of green. I'm going to use this. This is our watercolor spray bottle. It has Oxgall liquid in it which helps aid in the rewetting of the paints, watercolor paints and allows them to flow a little easier. It's just giving me a darker color. Remember with watercolor you got to start light and work your way darker. And you could spend tons of times on little paint, tons of time painting like this. But they should just be quick little they should just be a quick little study just play. And I think one of the nice things about the way watercolor is that we're not going to agonize over it being perfect. We're just playing and having fun with the paint. And if we end up with a fabulous painting out of it, that's cool. But we're going to just paint and have fun. Now before we get too dark there we're going to take some of our red. Now there's no white here so the red thankfully is a very pinkish red. You notice that? So we're going to add some water around the center and rinse my brush off. Now it's just water. I didn't grab any more paint and so don't forget if you have problems with the picture quality to adjust your picture quality settings by clicking on the live video feed and clicking the three little dots in the upper right-hand corner and then clicking on the little wheel and it takes some of the blue and some of the red and make purple. That's a very red purple. Let's try that again. Need more blue there. That's better. Now this is a flower that I did a version of on Monday with Monday with Decor and acrylic paint. We're just shooting for an impression of the flower. We're not shooting for an exact representation of. I almost never do that. They do mix nicely together. I got a nice purple here. I am fairly happy with the way they behave. They have some fun palette setups if old Holland is a paint that you want to try or you want to look at investing in. They have fairly decent light fastness and like all paint brands there are some colors that are more light fast than others. For me in the U.S. where I am they're just a little difficult to get so I think that I would still stick with the Daniel Smith because of that. I would want to come in here with a white gel pen. We're going to let that drive it. Now we're going to go in and I'm going to take a little bit of the Ultramarine. It's actually tricky. I want to just add a teeny tiny teeny bit of yellow. I want to just turn it into a slight shade of aqua. I could have gotten it more but you won't get, teal is a really hard or aqua is a really hard color to mix. So if you want my advice buy a tube when you have a small trial set like this that's not going to be a color that's in there but I would still say try start with the starter set and then if you decide you like those paints and the price points is good for you then one of the two colors I'd recommend adding would be a nice turquoise or aqua color and a purple. Of course there's the dark the dark neutrals that you also also wear a paint to mix all the time. Any color that you find yourself mixing all the time is one you probably want to add. Hold on, I need to move this I just looked up and realized I need to move this so that you guys can see what I'm doing. There we go. Hey Michelle we're playing with old Holland Watercolors and we're just doing a few little basically little studies with the paints to see how they behave. We're letting this dry a little bit this is just kind of an abstract flower shape so this paint is all very wet so I'm just adding in some yellow and it's going to just go where it may we're going to see what happens. This kind of little painting is fun to see how to make and see and practice how your paints blend we're going to do a little galaxy painting and again I'm going to want to add some white gel pen to this but we're going to have to let it dry we're mixed media artists so adding white pen to our piece is perfectly acceptable because the great thing about being a mixed media artist is that there's no rules so no matter what medium you're working in there's no rules and we're going to have to try to make sort of a black color I think well first I want to add some purple let's just do it let's just do it shall we we have to make sure our purple doesn't get into our yellow because we'll end up with a brown galaxy that's not what I'm shooting for oh there goes some more salespeople calling my house phone okay so now we need to mix up a sort of a black color so or a dark color so we're going to mix all of these colors that are on our plate together and then I'm going to add some of the dark brown to it oops I got my brown blob of paint in the yellow let's see if we can get that back I'm going to add some blue to that so mixing your dark neutrals challenging it's not impossible as you see I just added some more blue to it I got a nice dark neutral you won't get black black is going to be really hard to mix I'm not saying it's impossible but it's going to be difficult and our galaxy is not going to be super dark because of it so that would be a dark neutral a violet and a teal would be colors I would recommend after you buy your initial setup of paints you're probably in a kit like this like one of these that you think about adding and the nice thing about buying one of these metal palettes and then um adding paint buying it empty and adding your paints to it as you can really customize it to have be whatever you want so you see we're not getting a super dark black and we're not going to I mean I could add less water but I don't know if we want watercolor Wednesday to be that long hey at least the dog's not barking today alright let's get out a baby white see how close we can get so this is just without I'm only going to add water as much water as it takes to rinse off the brush and I'm going to blot it dry that's the obviously the blue we're going to add the red we'll get a dark purple a reddish purple probably two reds so we're going to add some more blue let's add some yellow without trying to grab the whole brown blob and then more blue I have an idea we're going to try it so that still gives us a dark gray thanks Katana so that's a dark brownish gray I have an idea so let's try the brown without too much water and then some blue that gives us something that's pretty dark it's still on the blue side but that's pretty dark so let's see what it looks like on paper it's pretty good it's still not black but it's a good dark neutral tint so there you go ultramarine blue and burnt umber does somebody write that down so the best way to learn how to color mix is to do what I just did practice and play one of my teachers that had some blue on it but that's fine my teacher's Melinda Kutsona is having a color class coming up she's an oil painter but she teaches in all mediums and um this is an online course um that I would probably recommend if you want to learn more about color she's a pretty she's a good teacher the best way to learn about what your paints will do is just take um one color and black and white and mix that one color with different amounts of black and white and see how many different shades you can get uh in um some courses they have you do with black and white and then like orange or green that's pretty good we're gonna we're gonna leave it at that I'm not gonna keep fussing with it I don't know what to do with this other one yeah these are these are um this is a good little starter kit it's a six tube set again I got it at Jackson's it's not expensive of course you know every two minutes or I should say every two dollars I get you know I've got it suspended on art supplies God forbid I should put it like towards the household budget or anything because you know that would just make way too much sense so we're gonna still work with the upo so don't forget about the upo paper and I think we're gonna do a face I think Katana has a good idea so we'll try to do a face on the upo so seascapes are kind of a default for me when I'm not sure what else to paint I like to paint them um but I have painted a lot of them so okay we're gonna let that dry a little bit because I want to add some white gel pen well maybe we'll force it we force it to dry this is a uniball um signal angelic which is the finer tip uh uniball the broad is the thicker thicker nib so we're gonna just add some little white highlights to our flower here and they might be so subtle that they barely show up I can see them I don't know how well it's gonna show up on camera and the flower is pretty abstract anyway but that's okay I'm all right with that I like it now when you do these like galaxy paintings um one of the fun things to use is these crayons these are um by Sakura and I got this at jet pens do we know what it's called it's all in jet well I mean we do but it's in Japanese but this it's this white crayon and I think it's an oil based product because it has a little bit of an over odor not enough to um bother me and trigger my asthma thankfully but it does have a odor now on this galaxy painting this would show up much better if this was darker I think I need a fatter pen this is a mulitow paint pen when you're doing these splattering the paint makes it gives you a better effect and well you know while your dots are wet you can kind of smudge them a bit that's kind of it's fun it's not perfect but I don't want it to be some white highlights into our ocean over here some of these touches are very subtle but they're really going to you know make your painting really pop the colors are cool see now I just don't know when to get when to finish because you know that's what I do all right I like this this old Holland paints decent um the color selection is okay I mean if I was going to permanently add these to my collection I would definitely want different colors or more colors because those for me aren't really enough to do much of anything with um let's work with the um UPO paper I'm going to do this put this here now this UPO paper is very very smooth and it feels like a piece of plastic I don't know how absorbent it's going to be if at all and it says you can watercolor with it though it's going to be very interesting that's all I can say I think it's I think you're right Lisa it's a synthetic paper it's um 100% polypropylene it says made in the USA um they have different kinds of UPO and I got this as the watercolor pad so but I have no idea so we're going to find out alright so let's mix more of that dark neutral color that we had oh that came out darker than the first time alright it's a drop of water on my brush where I don't want it there we go so most of the time when you're mixing a dark neutral with a limited palette like this you're going to get something that's like a dark blueish gray like we did here or I mean depending on how much of your colors whatever colors you added you might sometimes get a you know redish gray the best way to get black is to buy black so I'm barely touching my brush to the paper trying really hard to leave white space the paint is staying nicely right where I put it I didn't want that other line up there it's in the wrong spot but let's see what we can do oh and it blends out look at that it blends out pretty nicely so it's really just sitting on top of the paper it's not it doesn't look like it's absorbing in hardly at all putting our lips in I have a class on my website that you can pay for and download on drawing faces doing faces a few different ways it's definitely different I'm not sure I like it or not it's definitely different I will say that yeah it seems like you might be able to I think you meant to right wipe away Lisa and I do think if you get it in the wrong place we're going to try that in a minute because we're doing an experiment yeah you definitely can wipe it away I mean it's going to come right off it's not absorbing into the paper it's going to dry on the surface of the paper so you definitely could wipe things away it's going to lift pretty easily I have not read anything about UPO paper like from their website or anything I have no idea as is my usual technique I just started playing with it just you know jump right in why not cause you know why not so the nice thing about it is if like you do like I just didn't kind of make her face too fat you can just wipe some of the paint away I've heard it referred to on YouTube but I've never seen it demoed anywhere that would be interesting I'm just playing with the colors that I already have on my palette I'm not shooting well I never shoot for perfection but we're just playing here I'm really wanting to see how these respond on this paper we should give her a neck it does feel funny it feels like you're painting on a piece of plastic with watercolor paints which is not something you should be able to do it should beat up and it really shouldn't flow very nicely and this does that a little bit but it's reacting a bit better than I thought it might now one of the things is going to be how is it going to be after it dries is it going to just wipe right off after it dries without like a dry paper towel I don't know I think I still prefer regular paper but I have this little pad of you post so we'll be practicing with it maybe on Decowart with Decowart some acrylic paints and see what happens that was just enough blue because it sort of puddles on the paper it kind of gives an interesting texture to the paint and to her face I don't know if I like it or not and I don't know that I have an opinion either way it's just interesting it is fun over this summer I was going to say spring we're past that over the summer look at your local art stores and see which ones are going to have different paper companies doing demos because frequently they'll give you samples of paper like Fabriano Strathmore maybe even the people who make Yupo which is Legion paper by the way that's what it says on the pad yeah I'm not I'm not sure I don't know if I like this paper not for watercoloring it might be great for markers or acrylic paint I'm not sure I like it for water soluble media it's very strange the paint definitely just stays on the surface it doesn't soak in at all it's just right there on the surface of the paper it moves around a lot and I think that you could definitely work that to your advantage it's easy to move it around on the paper it definitely takes some getting used to I got to say I am kind of nervous that I'm going to accidentally smudge something I got to be honest with you about that that does make me a little bit nervous I'm just I'm trying to see how we can if we can layer colors and how that works I haven't given her any hair yet I probably should do that at some point I do kind of like this kind of blotchy effect you get because the water is really sitting on the surface of the paper and I'm kind of liking that kind of blotchy effect that you get I think that playing with that a lot you could really get that to work to your advantage I've got to give her hair now let's see I think I'm going to just use I'm going to just use what's on my palette I've got different colors yeah I this is I think the same kind of thing it says it's watercolor paper and you can paint on it with water media you get an interesting effect it's completely different from regular paper and yeah the color doesn't sink in so it's very much on the surface of the paper I would definitely say if you create something that you like on this paper I would think about doing spraying it with a few layers of fixative and then maybe running it through a laminating machine or something to really seal it in because definitely scanning it because this is going to just it's just on the surface of the paper it doesn't sink in at all I don't think I kind of like her actually there's something about her that I really like I'm going to stop fussing with her because I do really like her face this part makes me nervous because we're going to see how this reacts to drawing it I might totally mess her up here people we'll see I'm going to not hold it too close because again I'm going to assume polypropylene is some kind of plastic so I'm not going to hold this too close she's not completely dry but she is drier it worked a little bit but not too much so now one of the experiments I want to do is here is our old haul and little paintings that we did here's my baby wipe switch it to a clean corner and we're going to do this and you'll notice that I get a little bit of the paint off not a lot most of the time with your water color it really stains and you're never going to get it all off because it's just going to make the paper dirty oh yay Galina so we're going to we're going to try it on this UPO paper holy cow I'm going to pick a little part I really like her so I don't want to do anything right here yep see it wipes right off so that little spot that was there came completely clean off without staining so it really is just on the surface of the paper so you're going to want to treat it like it's a charcoal or pastel painting and you're going to want to spray it with a fixative and you're going to want to seal it somehow maybe laminated if you have a laminated machine definitely frame it right away for something you love if you really love it I would say scan it and make a digital copy because this is going to be really easy to get messed up it's plastic paper it's basically paper made out of plastic they make it for all kinds of mediums this is the watercolor pad that I got when I was in Las Vegas in March with the girls and brought back for us to try here on watercolor Wednesday and that along with the old Holland paints I thought we would give both of those a try this morning which we did I like the old Holland paints they're nice they're decent quality they're artist grade they're not super cheap and they're a little difficult to get and I think the colors I love this green gold and I love the red light my Daniel Smith is still my favorite oh see that's a good point Don, good point no laminating what would be too hard to travel with Cheryl so I definitely wouldn't do lots of paintings like for a client on the UPO paper you do get an interesting look I will say I will be spraying this with a fixative but honestly I'm going to let it dry completely and I'm going to scan it in my computer before I do anything because I love the way she looks and you get a unique look you're not going to get with anything else oh yeah so when I'm traveling with my watercolors I or any of my art supplies and I do always for the last art supplies always and where I'm going depends how much I bring so I definitely I get up early in the morning and I do a little bit of painting and journaling while everybody is still sleeping and I'm having my coffee and waiting to start my day and then I sit and let it sit and I we go out and we do the tourist thing and doing that things are drying so the last day that we have to travel home I don't usually do any painting because I don't want to have to take a chance of something smudging this would be great for kids this might be great for markers and or they could paint something on the paper and then you could just wipe it off and they could start over so you could have sort of a reusable paint pad that would be interesting and it would be fun to play with it's not super cheap I would definitely just get a little small pad like this this one again was $8.95 it has 10 sheets in it so a little less than a dollar sheet I wouldn't buy any more than that to play with and if I can I'm going to email my local art supply store that has all of the demos over the summer and see if they're going to have and I don't know if Legion Paper has samples that they can sell or that they give away but it wouldn't hurt to go to their website legionpaper.com and email them and see you never know all they can do is say no and you know there's only like 9 of us watching that includes me so there's only 8 of you out there so it's not like we're going to run them dry with paper samples or anything or samples does anybody have any questions she's super cute I was questioning her as we were doing it but she's super cute I like her so you would have to carry a fixative if it's something that you want to save or some sort of a clear plastic sleeve to slip it in until you can get it home but I would definitely take a picture before you put it in the sleeve and before you get home in case it's ruined on the trip home yeah it's very it's thicker than pallet paper but it's very plastic it's got that it's not waxy sometimes most of the time pallet paper is kind of a little waxy this is very it very much feels like a piece of plastic it's 100% polypropylene and the old Holland paints I only got 6 tubes so the color range I would have preferred they didn't stick the yellow ochre in there and then I got a purple but you know that's just me you guys there's nothing wrong with this little 6 tube set these are teeny tiny tubes they're not very big they're probably 5mm I don't know even with my glasses I can't read it if it even says made in Holland it doesn't even say I'm not sure they're really little tubes though but I got it at Jackson's Art it wasn't super expensive and they're nice paints I don't bring tubes traveling I only bring you know pocket pallets like this with dry paints in them in fact this is my pocket pallet those of you who came late this is the one that I usually take traveling with me and it has a mixture of different brands of paints in it some Koi, some Daniel Smith I think mostly Koi and Daniel Smith I'm having issues this morning right now I can't even get the color key out Koi and Daniel Smith so tubes are kind of a pain to travel with and if your tubes are too big you're going to get now by TSA and also if somebody commented on one of my older videos water color videos where I talked about getting stopped and checked at TSA with my water color paints since I switched my paints to the smaller pallet box I have not gotten stopped to ask to open my water color pallet at the TSA check in line at the airport when I had the larger plastic Koi pallet box which I used to travel with all the time that one I got stopped all the time and this one's metal so I'm not sure I think it must have been the size and they see this large square box in my bag and they want to see what's in it since I switched to this smaller box it's not a problem so this is a small empty metal water color pallet this is the PBO one they're the same size so these small pallets would be just fine this one the white night pallet it probably would be okay but you're getting a little bit bigger and I don't know it depends on what mood the TSA people are in to be honest with you and I never check my art supplies I always carry them no worries Cheryl alright so go out this week have some fun with your art supplies if you're in an area where you can get some you post samples try it I do think it's fun to play with it's going to be fun to see how markers work on this and I also have a render paper around here somewhere so I got a couple of render paper these were sampled booklets and they have like one sheet cut up into two pieces in each booklet and I had two sampled booklets put them together into this little journal so that I could I left one of the outside covers here which tells about the paper and render paper is a paper that has like a core in it and it's supposed to be no bleed through paper so no matter what you do with markers and things it's not supposed to bleed so I am going to be trying that soon too and I want to not only use it for markers but again I'm interested to know how this works maybe with how it reacts to watercolor media yeah especially alcohol markers the render paper is supposed to be great for alcohol markers I don't know about the UFO we haven't tried it that way yet and this is watercolor Wednesday so we won't be doing it on this broadcast but we will be maybe next week trying some watercolor on the render paper now it's not meant for that but I am wondering how it would react anyway it says it's 110 pound paper let's see it's meant for markers it's not meant for painting on but we are going to try it anyway we are going to see and I know last year I went to my local art supply store Lens Art and Santa Cruz love that place and if you are in the area definitely go pay them a visit but they have lots of demos and I went to a Sennelier I think watercolor demo and the company who distributes Sennelier here also does Fabriano paper so we got Sennelier samples and Fabriano paper samples so I'm going to be checking to see if they have any UFO demos coming up maybe alright that's it guys I'm going to go try to eat some lunch and then I've got somebody coming over to pick up some stuff that I'm purging and there's a lot of other stuff to do alright I will talk to you all later have fun playing with your paints again old Holland water colors they're interesting for me they're a little hard to get but if your local art supply store has them you might think about adding a couple colors their green gold is very nice and this red this was their red light I like this red color it's very nice pinky red it's a very good color yeah I you can use lots of things as a watercolor medium and we're going to be I have some things coming up that I want to do that I'm going to yeah I have some things coming up so we're going to be working on that alright everybody have a great day play with your mediums again UFO paper think about picking up a sample if you can I'm definitely going to be going to their website this afternoon if they have samples available and I can find that out it'll be in the Facebook group so if you're not in the Facebook group and you're on Facebook think about joining it's called a life of art and self expression the link should be in the description below and that's it for right now I know there's more stuff I should be telling you but I can't think of what it is right now so yes I have a pocket palette addiction I love pocket pallets they're just a lot of fun these little surprise boxes of pallets and I mean you know yeah they're fun alright that's it I will talk to you later oh anybody who's interested in one or both of the large robax pallets they're both filled with paint you'll get them as is with the color keys and everything let me know they're not cheap shipping is probably going to be a bitch pardon my French but if you're interested and you've got the budget let me know email me private message me Facebook something like that alright that's it everybody I'll talk to you later have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it bye