 Good morning Hang on a second while I fix up my iPad I'll tell you about my morning. It's been crazy. It's always crazy Let's Make it so it doesn't go to sleep. Hey, Kathy Alrighty weird ad no, it's I guess on like a blood. Okay. That's a weird. I'm sorry. I'm so distracted this morning It's been a crazy morning as usual aren't all my mornings crazy I Since switching to the Mac Computer from a PC have been having problems with the Yahoo small business Site solutions editor, which is the their basic easy editor for websites I used to write HTML like a million years ago, but I don't do that anymore. I don't have time. Hey, Lisa But I noticed since switching to the Mac that there were a few features that weren't working and You know, I have to say the one thing about max that I don't care for Is not all and it's not really max fault You know Etsy doesn't want to print from Safari Yahoo small business site solutions doesn't want to work in anything except Firefox You know what like So anyway, I had to download Firefox only for editing my website So good morning petty starting over good morning All right, so the first thing we're going to do of course While we're getting started is I'm going to take this is some of my watercolor water and again This is water that has a couple of drops of ox skull liquid in it. You can get it in any art to craft store It's Winsor Newton has one that's pretty easily available everywhere and you know, Michael's hobby lobby You can use a coupon. You only need a couple of drops in like a cup of water. So It a little one bottle will go you'll probably have your whole career I think froze again, you know, it's gonna be a story of my life. So anyway So that's what this is and I put it in a dropper because I want to just drop it in instead of spray it I'm spraying it it works well, but it's hard on the palette the metal palettes Because the water goes everywhere and Although I enameled the inside of this one that doesn't mean that I want to take any chances on anything rusting So we're going to use the dropper and what is it with just new system now that when we first get started At least on my end the screen keeps freezing until we get going It seems like for the first ten minutes five or ten minutes My displays it's frozen again. I don't know about you guys It just seems to happen on my end because you know, I'm in the hardest silicon valley. So, you know, God forbid I should have a good connection to anything You know, no Yeah, and it's going fine in the background behind me because you know, I've got the computer on me Okay, so and I didn't get this wet. Although this is not one of my This is what do you call a pre-printing copy? You know, my brain is just fried from talking to Yahoo this morning. This is nothing good sign. So This is the pre printing copy one of them that gave me see it's not freezing for you guys, it's just me So anyway, for those of you who don't know I've written a book and this is the book it is a book about Taking yourself on a journey to creativity and self-expression and what's going to make you happy How to remind yourself to just be inspired all the time by life how to do that without Hopefully completely annoying The world around you and I don't tell you specifically how to do that I give you little stories prompts and questions to hopefully have you help yourself Figure out how to get there Hey Eve So anyway, it's for sale in my Etsy shop The link is in the description below and I do have a few more copies in stock right now and I have Another box of copies coming every copy is signed. This is again. This is just my you know printing You know, is this good copy? So this one's not signed This is not one that's going anywhere, but all of the other copies are signed on the inside there's always a little note and My signature on the inside and if I know you if you're a friend Or and we're friendly then I write more than you know, just a couple words I actually in some of them I put a couple paragraphs So that's that first first number one thing. We've already wet our palate. So we're gonna set this book aside We're gonna start off like we do every broadcast With the art guard. Oh Thank you, Lisa Thank you so much There is for those of you who are Outside the US I had this question last night And actually there was a problem with the Etsy listing that I've hopefully fixed since then There is a PDF copy of the book now how the PDF copy works is there is a listing on Etsy and you pay for the listing and then within 24 hours. I'm email you the PDF I Didn't have the shipping kind of funky on there. It should be working now and it's free shipping It's it's a little less than half the price of the printed version It's the full book. You can't print it or anything, but you can read it on an electronic device like a tablet or a smartphone All right, and we put on some art guard because even though we're working with color watercolors Um, you know paint pigments some of them are toxic. It doesn't matter what the Kind of painted is if it's acrylic or watercolor oil. It's some of that. It's the pigment sometimes that are toxic. So We're gonna put on our invisible glove or art guard. Oh Good Kathy. So I I just put mine on I have a Windsor Newton art guard But any kind of barrier cream that you have will work And by the way, when you do buy the books and we as Lisa knows they do come, you know, nicely wrapped and there's little, you know We do have the new muted Daniel Smith palette out we're gonna play with this morning Hey Gabriel and Hi, who did us? I saw somebody else pop in. Oh Sharon hi Sharon Before anybody asks the names of all the paint colors Are in the description? I put them in here there when I set up the broadcast There's a couple of them that I cannot pronounce at all like at all See undersea green Anthra quinoid red I have no idea if that's correct or not But awkward on gold Prussian blue Van Dyke brown burnt umber French ochre Ultramarine turquoise roasted French ochre, which is more of a red Raw Sienna Permanent brown raw umber buff titanium and not the mind maroon Can't have no idea if that's right the one that you could probably If you wanted to switch out is you could take out the buff and put in Payne's gray Depending on your taste and what you want for your palette I felt because I have the Van Dyke brown here, which is a very dark color If I wanted it to be more blue, I could add a prussian blue to it. So I would be fine and it's really more of a Yes, you could call it muted but earthy kind of a palette and I really was inspired by Red Willow Oberon Etsy. They actually don't have any of their paints in stock right now. They do have a dot sample chart card and Also the muted inks from Liquitex. I really thought Mmm, and I wanted an excuse to be honest to buy undersea green and The napfemi maroon You know it was an excuse All right, what's the other thing I have so much stuff for you to share With you to share with you guys. Okay, so we're gonna talk about these first now. You all know I have that triangular Pink brush that was gifted to me in happy mail And I love it Doesn't it? It's it's really pretty. So here is the regular French ochre, which is a yellowy Golden color and then this one over here by my other thumb is the roasted French ochre So it's definitely there are two different colors One is a lot more red than the other and they're two beautiful colors that They really add a lot to the palette Mary I'm I'm frozen again. Oh, I'm so glad Lisa Okay, so I got a couple more of these triangular brushes because I really really like them and when I was on the website They had these brushes These are Circular brushes. They're actually hollow in the middle. They're for doing trees. Now. We're not going to use them today Mostly because I don't know how to use them and I don't think we're doing anything with trees But I couldn't resist getting them to try I Got both sizes. They're called a rotary tree brush so I I Got them. I want to try them get out a couple of different brushes here stick in my water while we're chatting Okay, and then Barrett niece had a thing she had a video out this week, and I don't I think I don't think I Linked it, but she had did something interesting where she went out purposefully and got some makeup brushes to put in her travel watercolor Kit and I thought that was interesting and these are from Target, I didn't go and like order them from, you know, Amazon or eBay or anything. These are from Target. This is an elf lip brush and It has a nice small point on it, so it would be a really nice interesting brush in your travel Kit Yes, they do granulate very well this one is a target Up and up a brand lip brush and it has this metal case now the cap the cap doesn't fit on the end, but Still it's got this nice and I think these would be nice whether you have a Kit for acrylic or watercolor and then I got a couple of spoolies which are You know I what do you call? My granny's mush this morning mascara brushes Or eyebrow for your eyebrows if you do your eyebrows And I just thought they would be fun to have a couple of clean ones in the watercolor kit to use And we might use some of these this morning This elf one has another like angled brush on the other end and Then this one is a Sonia Cashew, I think that's a Lip brush my only gripe with this one is they're kind of hard to open and close But these are all retractable makeup brushes that would be interesting Paint brushes so you know if you're on a budget and you know a tight budget and and you want to get a You know small travel brush for your kit like this elf one was three bucks and It opens and closes very nicely It has a nice little point on it and we may actually use this one today and the spoolies We'll see I'm gonna leave them up here by the iPad When I ordered the rosemary and company brushes, they sent me all look at all this stuff. They sent me They sent me these quarterly. This is their quarterly newsletter. Look at the subsync this book is and it has how-to's and pictures articles It's just fabulous And the the route rotary tree brushes came with how-to sheets I Got two caught two different copies of the news quarterly newsletter and their catalog and so I mean I Definitely would recommend them. They're out of the UK. I believe Yeah, so it takes a little bit to get them, but I would definitely recommend them Okay, now I'm gonna try now that I did that whole spiel I'm gonna catch up on the Comments and Lisa what works well with chalk pastel paintings, too. I'm not sure are you talking about that makeup brushes? And I'm sorry. Everybody's getting colds right now So I'm sorry you guys everybody's sick I'm gonna stay away from all of you Okay, so we've got a few different pictures of still lifes. I reprinted my pictures so they were a little nicer Um, and so I think we're gonna do another still life today I'm kind of thinking maybe we'll do the succulent one which actually was a succulent was requested So I like this one in a little yellow cup So I think that we might do something like that with the muted palette And it gives me a chance to play with that undersea green. See I really like that color So let's put that over there right now. Let's open our journal Our watercolors are getting nice and moist and juicy. This journal is almost filled. Yay Some of these paintings are great some of them are Not so much, but they I learned something from all of them and that is the point of doing it And I can definitely see my progression In my abilities with watercolor throughout this journal Hey neon You can tell I should know by now when I'm reading or watching a lesson no matter if it's, you know Lifebook or Wanderlust or one of my books If I don't quite get it, I should probably Think twice about trying it. This is one of those. I'm not I'm not so sure this is from the gene names book Yeah, so I think so too. So we're gonna try the The little succulents we're gonna work on that today Now, you know, we are mixed media artists that means we get to break all the rules So you don't have to when you're playing in your watercolor journal Or with your watercolor paints just use watercolor paints if you want to bring in a little bit of gel pen or some acrylic paint Or something else do it You should know what the rules are So that you can break them Effectively, what does that mean? I know somebody's gonna ask me So what that what I mean by that is For instance You should know that if an oil based medium Is on your page, it should be the last and final coat. Thank you Kathy Because there is really anything else that's going to stick on top of it. Whether it's oil paint oil pastel Gelato's even to a certain extent. They're not oily, but they're waxy so Fat will go over lean but lean won't go over fat So watercolor as a base is fine Then you can put acrylic or oil on top of it. No problem But if you have oil pastels down first, you really can't put anything else on top of it And those of us who are mixed media artists and are playing around for a while And have tried things before we knew that we all know that because we've all done that mistake, haven't we I know I have All right I'm just getting my table arranged and getting my picture up here. Here we go Now my inspiration photo is from Uh paint my photo I think i'm gonna show my copy it almost. Um, it's from paint my photo So if you don't know what that is go look it up. It's a place where you can get reference photos to paint from royalty-free reference photos Coffee exactly eve. I feel like I need another cup after talking to uh, yahu this morning because you know Yeah, yeah Um So this is a homemade journal. It's filled with now. This is from a class that I have Um that I sell and it's over at you to me right now You can get the link in my classroom page over in On my website geniebairns.com. It is going to shortly be hosted directly from me But anyway, I made this book as part of a class A long time ago before I had shoulder surgery and I think I talk a lot in the video about how my shoulders hurting me So I apologize in advance if you go by the class um, and I don't remember if the paper was Um a large sheet of cancine or strathmore, but I think I think it was Fabriano um cold press Um, but it was whatever I have laying around in my office It was intended to be a collage journal And I made it to be that and then after a little while I started watercoloring in it. So But it's a homemade journal and I definitely recommend it the signatures are long triangles that are folded to fit. So This plate is too big So I get a lot of these little plates and things at um The japanese dollar store daizo. Um, so I would definitely recommend, um, you know, there are some Here i'm frozen again It's not you guys. It's just me in my end Okay, um I definitely recommend, um, you know a budget friendly option for pallets is to you know get your pallet plates and things at the dollar store whether it's dollar tree or um daizo or The fit store or there's a new one. I just heard of I don't think it's a dollar store exactly But it's a japanese store called muji and evidently we have one. It sounds like it didn't know All right, so i'm gonna need a rag And We're ready to go All right, let's start with a i'm gonna grab some ultramarine turquoise here And I think I forgot to put fresh water In my In my thing i'm gonna put a little bit of undersea green in it And i'm gonna hang on one second you guys Okay, there were flecks of something floating in my water. So that wasn't gonna work Yeah, it's a pretty color I'm gonna zoom in a little bit too There we go Line is really cool and I love doing live Because I love the interaction with you guys, but I also like The fact that I don't need to edit anything I know that sounds probably bad, but So we're using that new triangle brush, which I just am loving And I'm going to green up the um Ultramarine turquoise a bit with the undersea green and I love the color that we get when we blend these two It does right, okay, so we're gonna um Put this in the background The red cross wants my blood They keep calling. I'm gonna have to just go donate bloods. They stop calling And be positive. So they always want me they always want my blood Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can hear can you guys hear them in the back? We only have one house phone and it happens to be in the master bedroom Which is on the other side of the wall here from the art room and yeah, so you're gonna hear them There's nothing I can do about it Yeah, you know what I can hang on We'll see if I can do that without getting you know, and I'm gonna move the water I'm used to having the water on this side anyway. So let's just move the water because I don't want to get the photo wet No worries. Kathy have some fun doing the painting So our background is pretty wet, which is good and I'm going to just Put some more color. I don't you know necessarily want the whole thing too dark because you know, we don't have the Plant in but this is just the straight ultramarine turquoise Literally straight out of the palette And again, this is from paint my photo and with I think the french ochre No, never such a thing as too many brushes. What's that? I don't know what that is too many brushes And I'm kind of notoriously hard on brushes anyway, so You know Yeah, sometimes there isn't and I don't know what anybody else is going to say. I keep a pair of pliers in my art room For helping with stuck Things like that. So if you're going to kind of Change up The colors of something like that. I'm kind of doing this morning Then you want to maybe it's easier for you to not get distracted by printing your inspiration photo in black and white So I'm going to lift some of the color from right here and where I'm going to kind of map in Some of our succulent shapes. I'm going to go in with the understeer green Yeah, sometimes I hit them with a hammer sometimes I Whack them on the table There's been a couple videos where you guys have seen me whack jars on the table. I don't know if anybody's paying attention, but That's happened a couple of times They they solve anything everything don't they? Sometimes it's good event that's all I can say about that Not on youtube, but I try not to do those things on youtube I'm going to switch to a smaller round brush And I'm going to try attempt to Lift out some of the color before things dry too much Um, you can also use like a q-tip Which actually might work better. Let me try that Yeah, watercolor paints can be some of the worst for um Having the paint exploded out of the tubes if you guys have seen any of my palette making videos Um where I'm feeling like filling up the palettes like this one Um, you know that happens and it's very annoying in the in the extreme You know, I am one of those one There are a few brushes that I clean immediately Um, but I am the first one to admit to you all and I've admitted it before so those of you can watch you for a while Um, won't be surprised I'm the worst about cleaning my brushes um, I am really bad about it and um my brushes sometimes sit in the dirty water jar needing to be cleaned for like a week This is right now these it's full. I usually wait until it's like completely full and overwhelming and then I go clean them But that would be why all my acrylic brushes like look like nasty and I don't buy expensive brushes because I don't take care of them Yes, I have two neon the petroleum jelly really works well, especially on Like jars of gel medium and stuff like that. All right now. I totally forgot where I was at um Let's go in with some uh roasted french ochre I want to do that one first way Hold on. I think I want to do quidochridone gold first Because we're gonna work on like bringing out Some leaf shapes now, you know, I always tell you guys we're not Looking to copy it exactly. You want to just get the feeling of the painting Um, you can get as detailed on it as you want to get I'm just kind of going around the painting using the inspiration photo to put Some you know golden highlights and some of the succulent leaves like are in the photo now. This is a really strong color so you may find that you need to Get it wet and I'm just going to stop while My page is frozen again So just put a little bit a little bit will go a long way and there's going to be some spots on some of the leaves In the inspiration photos that have Like there's a little bit of yellow on them and it'll start to suggest shapes You do have to wash watercolor brushes, but they're a lot easier to wash because the Pigments are easier to get out of the brush Yeah, I buy sam uk. I buy inexpensive brushes on purpose So that you know, one of the reasons I do it is because then you know, I can really get on to the business of You know making art and enjoying the process and I'm not constantly, you know Keeping things pristine now. I will admit it's probably not the best practice on the planet And it would drive some people crazy My stencils are usually a disaster. I don't normally clean them I work on a piece of paper. That's like as clean as they get Um sarah whitney if you know if any of you who are in crazy island family um Lives near me and she's been over to my house before and she can tell you like my stencil collection drove her crazy because it's really It's really dirty Like they're all you know, I don't clean them until they're so bad that you can't paint with them So now I'm just going in and the leaves are all like tipped in Like a reddish brown color and I'm just you know, again, I'm I'm wanting to keep it loose and suggestive We'll see how successful I am at that today, but Um, I want to just suggest a few leaf shapes. I don't want to you know paint the whole thing Necessarily I'm frozen again And I want things to be blendy and puddley for the most part not necessarily all the marks, but I am I'm going in with just like this row. This is the roasted french ochre and I'm just kind of touching the tips of where the succulent pedals Maybe would be or are in the inspiration photo to help bring out The shape of those I'll catch up on comments in just a minute Probably if you want to do still lives then probably Fruit might be a little easier. I do. I like still lives. I think they're great practice I am kind of following the inspiration photo, but I'm kind of looking at where my leaf shapes Came naturally in the painting during the painting process also And that's pretty good. I like that. Okay Yeah, so every now and then you need to wash your watercolor brushes with brush soap and I actually have some up here um Most of the time you can just rinse the pigment out But every now and then you should take some brush soap to them and wash them out And the brush soap also helps condition the bristles my stencils get really gross I put them in a wash tub filled with water and morphe's oil soap and then I just let them soak for like usually well A couple of days to a week um, because you know depending on how um You know depending on how dirty they are sometimes I need to leave them sit for a long time All right, so we're going to use that same french ochre At least to start I'm going to use it to add some shadows on the cup This is I'm I'm not exactly sure because I made this journal quite a while ago But I'm I'm pretty sure that it's a fabbriano cold press I do prefer cold press. I like the texture in the cold press Versus hot press now if I showed you some of my you know I showed you my journal even in this journal not all of the watercolors paintings turn out They just don't Okay, so we're going to go in with some prussian blue. Let me go back to the big brush Okay, ask your question again I'll answer it again Oh kind of paper. Oh, sorry genesis. This is I'm pretty sure this is fabbriano cold press I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's fabbriano cold press. I made this journal a long time ago You know just um be less hard on yourself about the ugly phase all paintings And have an ugly phase even if you have lots of practice Oh see mine froze again, too, you know Some days it's just frozen frozen frozen And you know, it's not the signal coming from the computer because the signal has not frozen once So I'm wanting to suggest some of the background That is in the inspiration photo. I don't necessarily want to get crazy Detailed with it, but I do want to suggest some of it because I find it interesting And I love the fine point that you can get on this triangle brush All right, just love it Yeah, and we all have you know everything everybody has in art You know, there's an ugly phase. We all we all have that Even if you're experienced you have that Now I'm really trying hard not to stop and dry things. Normally, you know, you guys know I stop and dry things a lot, but I'm kind of trying not to do that. I just want to see what happens. It may turn out like poop. I don't know So that the uh succulent plant is like sitting in a little like a wooden box So I'm just going in here with a tip of this brush and some of this prussian blue And you know, I've had coffee so I have shaky hands, which aids me Oh, hey, so shaky hands are good for doing like tree branches and woodgrain. So if you've had your coffee practice your tree tree branches We won't tell patty. All right And see everything has an ugly stage. I don't necessarily think this is super attractive Okay, this is more of that undersea green. I am really loving this color. Thank you to Vicky Ross for telling me about it um It is a nice change and I really love the liquid text inks and they really made me think about Doing something similar and watercolor So I got some of these daniel smith paints. Okay, this is brushes too big for that Yeah, no, we're not none of us are going to tell on you patty. We're okay with you being here So, you know, I don't want to get too crazy with the details in the paint in the painting because I want to just suggest The shapes and again, you know, I I don't plan any of these paintings that we do on live I've been asked about that a few times lately. I don't plan these things And so sometimes they kind of turn out poofy, but Sometimes not Sometimes I even surprised myself exactly You know, we're generally discussing, you know families while I'm painting or Manipause or something. So, you know, whatever what we what happens here stays here Speaking of menopause, suddenly I'm like having a bunch of hot flashes again I love the challenge of watercolor. I find it interesting Something else to get asked about Yeah, I really, you know, I went I have the 238 dot color chart and I really went through the chart and I had the liquid text inks out and I had um A picture of the redwood willow palette out and I just went through it and Picked out colors to create kind of a moody earthy palette that I thought would work well together Ones that I liked they have a lot of colors that would work and I recommend if you have want to do something like this and you have the Dot chart go through and you know practice Put your sample your colors on a sample piece of paper and try them You know that Daniel Smith paints aren't expensive But are expensive. So, um, you know, you want to try them before you go invest a bunch of money So I'm just adding layers and layers We're going to break this up a little bit by bringing in a little bit of the unexpected Yeah, the colors are in the description I printed them Into the description and also on the video where I created the muted palette. They're also in there Because I knew you guys were going to ask me If you want to duplicate the palette the colors are in there. Um, I I'm okay with that. I do recommend that, you know, give it a try see what colors you have In your collection already that might work You know for this kind of palette you want like a variety of browns, but you're going to want some poppy colors You're going to want like a muted green. You're going to want, um, you know a red probably a purple and a blue I decided I wanted to keep the buff in Um and add a turquoise So lisa one tip that I know from being a teacher for grumbocker Is um that if you write the company and tell them you're having a problem with their paint caps They will send you some new caps So so there you have that So this is the buff I can't wait to take this palette to back to las vegas and like go do some painting like in red rock canyon Can't wait. All right, so we're going to go in with our What is it called napthomide? Napthomide that's what it looks like maroon It's a purple color Can I pick up the right color? I need more coffee that foco with yahoo threw me off people yahoo tech support Well, now we've got this brown. I've got to do something Uh, see I I do something with the art every single day So i'm going to stop with a plant for a minute here and i'm going to just work on the cup And it's just like old um rusty metal cup That I picture Finding like, you know in your grandmother's stuff um, I found things like this in my grandmother's stuff after she passed away um And they're just it's fabulous stuff to have around and to do sort of little still lives with Remember if we're going to be proper watercolor artist we call this lifting but it's just blotting Just call it what it is. It's blotting That's too much of the purple All right, we're gonna have to make it work. Yeah, I'm so glad uh, I'm jealous at the same time patty I have just too much going on um Right now to do any retreats, but I'm hoping that changes for the new year I really want it to change for the new year. I think you're gonna have fun I can't I would love to do an orly, um retreat or a jody old retreat Um, those are kind of both on my wish list I also would like to go back and do some more retreats with pauline agnew Those are also on my wish list I needed to get that past writing the book and everything and now I'm talking to uh, kp about next year's stamps. So I need to get that done too Then I can think about fun stuff I want to do a retreat on the east coast Next year that's like on my bucket list I've always wanted to go to the east coast patty as you know, and I've always wanted to go to main in particular I don't know why just I wanted to always go to main We'll use some of that brown since I I got it out here Well, I'm a california girl and I've never been farther east than indiana Um as an adult so I and I've always wanted to go to main So it is on the bucket list So when you're working with watercolors, you want to start light and then work your way to dark if you're Like me and you like, you know the sort of abstracted Look of paintings and you know, it's not really about putting in the details. It's about putting the right color in the right place In my at sea shop the link is in the description below But I think if you go to etsy and you type gene and be errands as one word, I should come up I say that but I don't really know that that's true, but it should be in there I sometimes have trouble finding my own store Without the link I know that sounds bad. I'm very absent-minded and sometimes technology challenge So I'm just really painting around where I want the details of the leaves to be And I'm just working my way to darker colors fixing the screen It's this one here. I don't know what it is called. It's a some kind of succulent. I'm not great with plants Um, in fact, I really you know, we bought a house with a large yard thinking that it would be great. We could do some gardening Here's a big secret. I hate gardening So I'm going to mix the ultramarine turquoise with the Quedocca round gold. We're going to get a nice dark green color I really dislike our gardening. It's just not my favorite thing It probably has something to do with the fact that I'm actually allergic to um spider venom And I've been bitten more than my share of times working out in the yard So That probably has something to do. I'd also just rather be inside painting I think it might be some kind of a jade plant or Or Something along those lines. Yeah I agree If it's not, you know, like a tomato bush, then I'm not really if you know, I also have gone through You know, I was hurt at work. I was on a lot of medication Up in that anxiety disorder. Those aren't excuses, but my husband thinks The medication might have something to do with My memory issues now I used to know more names of plants There's something about this mark right here that I like some to leave it See you later, Jillian. Oh nice. Polish watercolors. Um, no, you know, he messaged me, um over facebook Or he commented on something that he missed the broadcast. So I'm not sure what's up there Hopefully everything's good We love our mr. Ian. So hopefully it's all good So I'm just I'm barely touching this brush to the page And like I said, I've got this green that we mixed up this from the um Turquoise and the Conocron gold And like with anything else that I paint, you know, I'll work on the leaves for a while and then when I get to the point where It's either not doing what I want it to or it's, you know, blending too much Then I'll stop and work on another part of the painting The background is a mixture of ultramarine turquoise And undersea green Adi Um, it is a beautiful you mix the two together and you get this gorgeous color. It's very reminiscent of the liquitex Muted turquoise, I think we're going to go in with now some we have the prussian blue Let's add a little bit of the van dyke brown to it Yeah, my husband thinks it's a combination his personal theory not that he's a physician or anything But he's known me a long time his personal theory is it's a combination of anxiety disorder Which I've already always had and them over medicating me with a lot of different medications. So Yeah, my memory on Some days is like swiss cheese Yeah, it's not great. Um, all right. So now we're gonna stop talking about that So now I've got this mixture of van dyke brown and prussian blue and this is why I didn't put pain's grade here Let me grab a scrap of Somewhere So because you can take the van dyke brown and the prussian blue and you get this really nice kind of reminiscent of pain's gray color Without having pain's gray in there and it's nice to have the buff in there sometimes to mix with colors and mute them a bit Um and or make them a little bit more opaque, especially if you're like me and you're going to be using this um Pallet for doing like lots of still lives and landscape type paintings and yeah You don't need to get put black in there or pain's gray when you have a color like The van dyke brown now you also could take the maroon color and mix it with um like the permanent brown And probably some of the prussian blue And look what happens And you get a dark like reddish brown so depending on how much blue you put in there So you can mix a nice interesting dark color with these colors that are in this palette, which is why I chose For once not to put pain's gray in my palette Or black which I almost never put my palettes anyway So a little bit goes a long way. You can always add more But it's really hard to take it away in watercolor. It's not impossible But it's difficult and depending on the pigment strength of the paint um Some of them will lift or remove easier than others So you really just want to kind of go gentle with it So every place on the um little still life here where Their shadows are super super dark Whether it's in the plant Or on the cup I'm going to put this color I've heard the same thing and it's actually one. I don't happen my stash. In fact, I just heard that the other day I do use essential oils. So I'm actually I'm actually if it's not medication Or doctor related then I'm willing to try anything. So um, and you know the anxiety disorder doesn't help Um, and I didn't intend on chatting on and on about this. I'm sure somebody is going to complain. Um The anxiety disorder doesn't help uh So, you know days when I'm having issues with that. It's just it's worse, but Um The medication isn't helping lately. I've had to take kind of a lot of medication I actually try not to take the medic any of my asthma meds because I don't like the side effects, but Breathing is important So, you know There's that So I've used the new triangle brush and this is a actually grumbocker Uh brush. This is a round number Five don't worry. This is just a little still life. I want it a still life kick this week Monday, we did an acrylic still life Um with the pears and the orange And I loved the way it turned out. So I thought we would do another one Whoops, that was too much water So I don't want to go far before I'm back in here with the brush You of course can bring out your details of the pen or marker You know We're mixed media artists. That means we get to break all the rules and we get to do it happily With a smile All right, so I'm going to put there's some shadows. So let's put the shadows in before we go darker with Dark mixture Yeah, I'm not medicated. I've chosen not to be Um, I was diagnosed officially with the anxiety disorder during the whole process of treating the work work injury And the last thing on the planet I wanted was more medication As long as I'm not a danger to myself or someone else Then I'm going to choose not to be Yes, that makes before somebody asks that makes some days more difficult than others It means I as you all know if you've watched any of my videos make myself a lot of notes We need to make more of our dark because I've used it all Art helps, you know, if you're somebody who suffers with any kind of, you know, physical or mental disorder art does help Yeah, I've I've refreshed my screen a few times if somebody else is having, um Problems it must have something to do with some of our connections. I don't know Okay, so here's a Something I like that dark color for other parts of this painting but not for that background So I'm gonna blot that and let that dry a little bit and we're gonna come in here There's some of this This is that triangle brush. I'm just loving Yeah art art you don't have to say anything else in public But art helps a lot It's you know when I was died and I shared this with you guys as much as I can my situation's not legally settled yet So that being said, um Art helps a lot when I was Um first injured I couldn't really do anything else. So I just stayed home and decided that I would do more art things, um to help and usually if I'm not on camera, I am um got the music on and um I'm just painting quietly with the music on and that's kind of my way of you know meditating so I think a lot of us do art not only because we enjoy to help cope with situations in my opinion I could be wrong. I'm frequently wrong See my for my screen somebody's talking about their screen being frozen. Mine's frozen again, too It's probably something to do with our you know internet connection because I'm just glad it's broadcasting Okay, because you know, I'm in the heart of silicon valley in california. God forbid I'd have a decent connection So, you know in my driveway, I have like no bars and literally you guys I'm in the heart of silicon valley Like there's no reason for me not to have good internet You would think we would have great internet But that's not so So it's starting to come together now So meditation eve comes in a lot of different forms and for me Um just quietly painting and getting lost in my painting with some soothing music on in the background And letting my mind go blank is my way of meditating. So meditating comes in a lot of different forms So I would encourage you to try it a different way. I'm going to add Take some of our prussian blue Over here where we've got the dried background color Add some water to it Add a little bit of our dark color to it. Not too much Pull in some of these other colors use what we have on our palette Putting a wash over these background colors But those lines I made to like suggest that woodgrain background are not moving I mean they may re activate a little bit, but they're not going to go very far This isn't the best still life I've ever done, but it's cute Yep, I even have one that I um Haven't started in yet, but it's a swear word coloring book That would be very especially if you've had a bad day That would be really great to unwind with Let it all go let it all out It's a pretty funny coloring book You notice I'm leaving this front bit Um very light or white paper because the light is like directly in front of this painting Refreshing every five minutes is just making me crazy We had a better we had an easier time with this on monday Yeah, it doesn't matter so Even my daughter who is 22 and usually 22 year olds, you know poo poo all kind of other ideas That they're you know parents tell them those of you who have grown kids know that She's recently and she has anxiety disorder. She's I've known that since she was a little bit she recently owned up to the fact that she does and She's actually started meditating and had pretty good success with it. So Which is fabulous Just continually working way way darker now, you know, your shadow colors don't have to be dark colors They can be cool colors So you can use your violets and your Blues as shadow colors Yeah, art is definitely therapy for all of us Right very much agree with that. Well, thanks lisa for trying I know cinnamon coony got some from somebody in australia I think and i'm not sure how they did that and let's say lied about what was in the box I'd rather you all not try that unless um Yeah, I'd rather you not all try that I can't stop you but I don't want anybody getting in trouble trying to send me that new blue But I would love to get my hands on some of it. I keep getting asked to do You know some comparisons tutorials with it. I don't I can't get my hands on it I guess it's not approved in the u.s. And again, I'm not sure how cinnamon coony got it It's not really any my business. I do know somebody sent it to her But yeah, I've tried I even contacted the peter factory who Is developing the pigment and they won't send me any So we're going to go straight in with Let's see. Let's go in with the quingold Just straight pigment Losing track what i'm doing trying to stick my brush in a different color I see the chat going but i'm looking at the paper. So hang on. I can't answer right this second Right. Um Yeah, new blue. It's called yinman blue or organ blue. Um, I think daravan has the rights to make it into paint. It's a brand new pigment developed by a call a school in organ Uh, and um, yeah, uh, I can't we can't get it over here patty I you know lisa like she just said tried to send me some I would love to have some but, um Yeah, I don't know So this is the A red color that I have in here Yeah, it's going to give it a nice pop my screen is frozen again It's youtube live why wouldn't it be frozen? Then my shape of my plant is a little different than the picture, but that's okay. We're using our pictures as Inspiration we're not using them to oops Copy exactly That's too much red Okay Now using a muted palette is going to be a challenge I think it's a fun challenge to use whether you're doing it in acrylic paint or the inks And jelly printing with it. I would love to see patty do some muted palette jelly prints patty I haven't watched a good jelly print video patty's in a while. I haven't had time with writing the book and everything Yeah, that's that's what I was told by the factory too The only thing I can think is that somebody lied about Um it getting you know, I don't know It hasn't been approved for use in the us yet. That's why we can't get it Oh, see I was thinking it was just me being crazy busy with the book, but see it's you haven't been on Okay, so I don't I feel better now I thought it was me I mean, you know, I'm still on week five of life book and So I'm taking my red my purple and my blue that's on my plate all the colors That are from my palette. Look at this fun purple color that we're getting Which again is very muted pretty purple color a little bit of it. Well, you know working paying the bills is important patty So, you know And I know that your dogs have been sick on and off so And look at how this purply color that I did is making this Um pop speaking of dogs I'm loving it more now too than I was And hello So the light again is coming straight onto the plant from the inspiration photo and I really use the inspiration photo as Not only inspiration for the shape but for color and light and again If you're going to change the colors up and having it in the real colors confuses and distracts you then Um printed black and white Just because it's a color photo doesn't mean you have to print it that way. Oh, I'm sorry patty Yeah, bandit's not young anymore either and those of you who followed me on social media know that he's Had his fair share of issues and although he was cleared um You know, there are still some questionable issues with regards to his health health and Um, you know, we don't know how much longer we're going to have him. So I'm gonna just enjoy the time that we have So I'm using the colors that are left on my palette Just just darken up the shadows and you know, just darky darkening it up or adding more of your cool colors This is what helps make your painting really start to pop Yes, and they're the ones I guess in the us or I don't know Maybe it's worldwide Dara van is the one that's going to make paint from it At least to start with I don't know who else is going to get permission Oh, see bandit's at least 12 that we know of he was astray, but he's he's about 12 Maybe 13 years old. So, you know, he's had a good long life And he and you wouldn't know that you know, there's anything wrong with him because as you heard he's very He acts like he's like one year old puppy. Um, okay So first of all, this is part of a class that I have right now over on you to me It's soon to come directly from me on my website Um, and it's just you know, it's basic hardbound journal You can probably google on youtube how to make one to be honest It's not my best film class lesson. I've ever done um Because I didn't really know A lot about what I was doing when I filmed this class I just know I need that I got hard at work. I wasn't headed back to work anytime soon and I needed to make some money um And that's the gods honest truth um And it's just all basically a long rectangle of paper Um folded in thirds and then sewn in a signature Not hardback journal And I find it's much more satisfying most of the time to make my own journal Then it is to Buy one although I do, you know, love certain kinds of bound journals There's it's sewn in See lemon has some really great um Tutorials for how to do sewn journals hardcover journals Um, so does Shannon Green So I would go check out their channels I think that's pretty good Anything else to that I'm looking at it in the photo I think I'm okay with it. I do think we're gonna you know, we're mixed media artists, right? So We are going to take let's see a white gel pen Because why not in the sharpie and My sister has a black lab and he's um He's a lot older than babe, but he's going through his own Issues right now. Um, so I'm taking the white gel pen. I'm just going around the leaves of the little plant Not probably not all of them just some of them With the white gel pen I'm gonna zoom in as much as the camera will let me for you in a minute here And the paint is wet. So, you know, the gel pen doesn't want to write cleanly over it um, but It does write so, you know Take that for what it's worth. I'm also going to use it to put some highlights in the cup And then here's a black one Yeah, see lemon has some great it, but this is just your basic hardcover journal um And it has instead of one piece of paper folded in half. It's a long triangle fold folded in thirds And this is fabriano cold press watercolor paper, I think But like I said, uh, we discussed this bad memory and I made this book a long time ago So I don't remember exactly and I know when I did make it. I had a few different kinds of paper here Um, my preferred brand though is fabriano Now just like with the white gel pen. I'm putting some black sharpie pen on here But I'm not looking to Outline each and every petal um of the plant I'm just wanting to suggest some a few lines Now we're because you know what makes me an artist get your crayons out get your pens and markers out your pencils Add to your watercolor paintings with them. Why not? Don't listen to the doubters that say you can't do this or you shouldn't do that To heck with them You should wait till your paint is dry because I ruin a lot of pendants by not waiting until the paint dries Just gonna put that out there FYI When I tell you guys not to do something. Yeah, it's usually because I've done it wrong already So that's a cute little painting. I do There's a lot of pendants Let me zoom in that's as far as I can go. I'm rolled welcome and thank you. Um Yeah, I love art and um, you know, we didn't use any of these today I didn't feel the need but I look for these in an upcoming episode because You know, I forgot honestly, I forgot they were up there That's what I do Yeah, so yeah, so You have to know the rules in order to break them successfully But you should break them you're mixed media artists. You don't have to live and die by the art rules Um, just remember the the basic rule that you want to remember is fat over lean So your fatter heavier oilier mediums can go over the leaner thinner ones like Watercolor can go under acrylic Oil can go over both of them But acrylic and watercolor cannot go over oil now that being said If you have a acrylic base and you want a watercolor on top of it You need to get something like Daniel Smith's um, transparent watercolor ground And coat the page with that first and then paint on top of that and it's like a clear gesso for watercolor It won't work over oil though oil once you have the oil based medium on there any of you who do Mix media know I have been doing mix media know once you have the oil based product on there You can't put anything on top of it So it's called yenbin blue. It was developed in a college in oregon by accident They were doing something else and they discovered it by accident And um, it is patent pending. I believe And um, it is being made in paint into paint in other areas of the world But we are not able to get it in the us yet Dang it even lisa tried to send me some And you if you tell them the truth about what's in the box, then you they won't let you send it um It's annoying and as far as I know it's being made into Acrylic but nobody's doing it watercolor really dying to see it watercolor. That would be fun. It's something between A rush uh ultramarine blue. I think an oppression blue. It's like in between the two There's a couple of youtube videos on it. Um One of them was from jerry's arderama. I think So, um, you want to uh look up yenbin blue why i n m n m i n Or oregon blue And you'll find it. There is a couple of youtube videos on it and cinnamon coonies might be one of them because I know She's got a tube of it. I would love to get yeah, I can't get it. I tried Um No, we don't need any rules yenbin. There you go. Thank you eve I need more i need more coffee I need more coffee And i have a friend that we're coming over later this afternoon to do art with me So I need to have more coffee before she gets her There is I think it was jerry's arderama that just did a video on the new blue And I don't remember exact. I don't remember for sure, but I think it was them So I would look it up and see Um, so think about putting together your own sort of muted palette, you know, if you have a collection of watercolor paints already You probably have something that would work Oh, see I love it when I have, um, you know art friends who Like to do research That's not me my brain goes to sleep All right, so yeah think about challenging yourself to work with a really limited palette maybe a muted um Toned down palette less bright palette maybe a palette that only has a couple colors in it. So one thing about going from You know the big 52 color palette to one that's only 14 um Is that it's a challenge to get the paint to look something like what you want with the very limited palette so um But I like that. It's a good challenge. I think that's the video. Yeah So me okay, I think that's the video and he actually does swatches on a piece of paper I can't wait to get my hands on it All right, I am gonna go too because I desperately need some more coffee And I guess I should eat lunch because it's already lunchtime Now I don't think it's gonna let you post links. Um, but you gave everybody the name to search for and it is Jerry's artorama, so, um You go look up there, but it's they just posted it a couple of days ago And by a couple I mean it could be one or two or it could be four. I don't remember Don't remember All right, that's it for today That was fun. So play with your watercolors play with You know a limited palette a muted muted colors You probably could mute your colors down by taking like a bright Say you have a bright, uh, like green gold Maybe add a little bit of like van dyke brown to it and get a green that's more muted You know if you have colors and you can't afford to buy more paint think about Taking the colors you have and muting them down a little bit and then playing with that The ones that I um that you probably already have if you have watercolor collection is the queen gold And it's a perfect nice bright pop for a palette like this by itself All right, don't forget the most important thing you all know what that is right? At this point you should know it by heart Someday I want to teach a live class and I want to ask that I want every single one of you to be in the audience And say it back to me out loud Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it play with your paints break the rules And just make art don't listen to this is the other thing I want to just give you the quick little lecture on don't listen to all the people out there that tell you Um that your artist crap that you're not an artist because you don't do it this way or that way Do what makes you happy and to hell with everybody else To be honest and frank all right just do what makes you happy enjoy the process enjoy your art and your supplies I will I promise All right, I'll talk to you all later. I'm gonna go and Have some fun. Yeah, I love quinoa critter gold Daniel Smith makes the quinoa critter gold deep And I love it in this one. I didn't want that color because I've got a lot of other Um, you know browns going on and I thought it needed the gold the lighter one for pop So anyway All right the colors for this are in the description below along with who inspired the Companies that inspired me to make it the photos from paint my photo Everybody have a great day and let's hope that patty has some free time soon to do us all a jelly print video Or live stream because you know I like her videos better because I can never comment on the use stream thing drives me crazy All right, that's it guys. I will see you later. Bye