 Hello everybody. Hang on. Let me get the iPad set up. Let me turn the sound off. I don't need to hear myself twice There we go. Hello How is everyone today? I hope you're all good so first I want to talk about stitching so I Love it that you guys send me inspiration photos especially for Pin cushions and becks creations It's been in particular and back. Hello Hi Linda. Hi Laura. Hi Petra She keeps sending me photos of pin cushions. She finds interesting that she wants me to make and It's just so funny because at this time at this moment I have sort of a pin cushion jungle going on I love it though. And so she I encourage her to keep sending them She sent me this one not long ago And the original pattern is from fabric and flowers dot co dot UK and it's called a new clip clip in pin cushion and It is a rectangular shaped pin cushion with the standard pitch cushion in the middle and then it has these little flaps That stick up around the edges to put your Sewing clips or quilting clips on Hey Janet and I love the idea now if you want to make this exact one They sell the pattern over at again. It's fabric and flowers dot co dot UK go by their pattern I am Deciding if I want to buy their pattern or be inspired by their photo to create something that looks more like a flower shape a Circular sort of rose shape with clips all over it without the pin cushion center I don't know what I'm probably going to do is buy their pattern to see how they made this exactly although I have a good idea and Then take that and go from there. So we'll see But I think this is a fabulous idea For a pin cushion. I don't really need another pin cushion at this point, but I just enjoy making them so fun fact so there's that and Then you know, we've been working on the slow stitch meditation journal, which I should have gotten out before I went live but let's see if I can grab a quick here we go and We have been doing these back to basics pages and they are a lot of fun The next one I think we're going to I have three particular stitches in mind that I've been requested to do So or and or want to do one is the bullion stitch One is French knots and one is chain stitch. So fun fact, I don't chain stitch much it's not my favorite embroidery stitch and I haven't done it in a long time, but I Will endeavor to do it on camera and if I make mistakes, you'll see him I will say that I have always enjoyed stitching and These are just three of I think there's like probably six more embroidery reference books in the other room these are the three I keep in the art room and I thought to Talk about them this morning because the subject of stitching came up but also I think you should have at least one in your reference library of Embroidery stitches if you're going to work on slow stitching something like this is good for reference and When you are sort of bored with the same old couple stitches that you do all the time These are good to sort of inspire you to try something new. I know there's lots of material on the internet these days and You can get reference for how to do embroidery stitches on the internet But I'm a big fan of books with paper I need to turn off that overhead light because I don't know about you all but that glare I Still haven't fixed the light in the art room. So that's a thing Hopefully we'll get that resolved at some point Anyway, so these are three books that I have in my art room that I use all the time. Hey Janet Hey Linda If I didn't say how do you already and Kathy? Hello? So this first one is embroidery and crazy Quilt stitch tool I like these but little spiral bound sort of reference books they have these for embroidery and crochet and Knitting and I have quite a few of them. The nice thing about them is if you are Working on a project that you're going to take with you somewhere Then you can just put these in your bag and when you're sitting like I am usually sometimes downstairs I can put this up on my coffee table like this. It has a little easel bottom And I literally can just sort of flip it, you know, and it's a really nice reference tool that this one's all about crazy quilting stitches and design and It has everything from the basics to where's that reference I just saw it You know, here we go. So it has all of these different stitches in it Here we go And this will tell you this is sort of their index So it'll tell you the stitch name and then it gives you the page number where it's located chain stitches on number 49 I haven't done paints chain stitch in years There we go. So I'm gonna yeah We'll work on that in a future project, but anyway, I love these little these little reference books They're nice because they're small and again They're easy to just shove in your bag and take with you, but that being said I do also have this one This one focuses more on and the reason I keep it is it focuses more on ribbon embroidery And while the basic stitches might be done in a similar fashion the way that you work with the ribbon is a little different I'm sorry Petra that you're not sleeping But I think most of us here can sympathize and feel your pain because you know when you're of a certain age A good night's sleep is just out the window Thank you. Yeah, Janet. I have to remember to turn off the Overhead light if I forget again, you guys feel free to remind me. Yeah, they're crazy this one These these are a really nice size book. They're nice and small They're not too big and even if you use them in your art room again, they have the easel bottom So if you're sitting here like I am working on a project You can have your you know reference book right here looking at how to do the stitches while you're doing the stitching It's convenient But this is a good one because it has lots of information about silk ribbon embroidery this one is called elegant stitches by Judith Baker Montano and Funny enough this one also is by Judith Baker Montano, and this is embroidery and crazy quilt tool It's called embroidery and crazy quilt tool stitch tool That's what it says on the cover But my favorite one is this one This is a big book This is the complete encyclopedia of stitchery. Holy cow. I cannot speak today And I just realized there's a cross stitch chart in here Look at that the minute. This has embroidery needle pointed in crochet like Hand sewing like this has all of it in it cruel, which I've never done. This is a complete sort of reference encyclopedia and This is a great just general tool. I use this one more than anything Called in complete Encyclopedia of stitchery by Mildred Graves Ryan and it looks like I haven't referred to it in a little bit, but There is a cross stitching new collection highlights catalog popcorn bear. I Do like stitching popcorn bear fun fact. I did a couple of them when my daughter was little one of which I still have downstairs This looks like it's just a catalog. I have no idea why I kept it and why it's stuffed in this book No, no idea. So I don't I don't know but anyway this book I refer to this a lot It is a paperback. So when I use it, I try not to break the spine Because I just wanted to last as long as possible But when I get stuck on knitting or crochet or embroidery If I'm especially going anywhere and bringing needlework with me I Will bring this book because it has everything in it. It doesn't matter what kind of needlework that I'm working on probably there's a Solution to whatever question I have in this book More often than not and it's not too big. I mean, it's much chunkier than the other one But again, it references anything everything. So These are the three I'd kind of recommend again. I don't know why that's in my thing. Okay So I wouldn't recommend, you know, when you can get out I Did think they belong together for some reason. I don't know When you can get out and you go thrifting, these are some like good kind of books to look at your thrift store for If you have the budget to buy them on Amazon, don't forget before you hit the buy it now button You know, look at the use because sometimes you can get these books for, you know a fraction of the cost with free shipping from one of the used sellers on Amazon versus Buying it brand new but You know good stitchery reference books that Help you solve problems are a great thing to have in your creative space whether they're painting reference stitching reference I Have some of both in my art room And I do find myself more often than not these days, especially turning all the devices off early and then just sitting and looking through my books for Inspiration or problem-solving. I mean the computer is great and thank goodness for the internet or we wouldn't all be here and know each other but Sometimes it's too much and there's nothing like referring and going back to a good book. That's my little lecture for the day We're going to talk about these now So I took this picture not long ago with my cell phone On one of our evening walks. This is the park near our house And this is the path going around the park We are I'm currently working on a painting on it on my easel inspired by this photo and Laura Gurgain who will be right back She used one of her photo editing apps to alter the colors on it this morning Which I've printed and with her permission and put that on my wall and To inspire me for some colors for the painting I'm working on over there There's no replacement for a good book. I'm right with you on that I love books next to art supplies. My next love is books. Oh besides my family, of course Anyway, I want to also besides working on this painting in acrylic I want to do it in watercolor and So I printed another copy of the reference photo this morning. We'll put that up here and Now that I'm thinking about it, I might set my printer to print the one that Laura did so hang on one second And I'll tell you what these are Okay, well that's printing I will tell you what these are so we're going to watercolor this morning and these Are from the dollar store So these are some of their wooden plaques. They have at the dollar store Originally, they had rope in the holes on the back to hang them They look they do look like tops from something, but they're actually in the dollar store frequently well dollar tree specifically has a certain selection now of arts and crafts supplies and These are some of their wooden plaques from the arts and crafts Section and these are just if I was looking for like a basic square or an oval or something like that And I found these ovals nobody had squares, but they had ovals that works So then what I do and you can use Plain wooden shapes or you can use some of their they'll have like a The little wooden board canvassie things that'll say breathe or happy day or something on them like at the dollar store They're already sort of decorated, but they're built out of wood You can use those too if they have any like raised bits on them sand off the raised bits like glitter or whatever or pry off the extra pieces of wood if there's dimensional things on them and then Get them nice and flat and then get some nice quality watercolor paper and Some good archival quality glue. I used a yes paste and I smeared one side of the board with yes paste and then turned it upside down on the back side of the watercolor paper I put weight on on them. I got two onto one piece of paper and I waited them down and let them dry and Then once they were dry, then I cut them out around the edges with an exacto knife and I sanded the edges a little bit and now I have two watercolor canvas boards and It just cost me two dollars Because I had the paste and I had the paper and so that's a great way and you can do big ones or little ones I do have some little ones. Let's see if I can find them. Yep So I do them occasionally when I do the paperclip art, too And I have a bunch of these that are made that I haven't done yet And these are again basic shit. This is a basic shape from the dollar store And this is probably one you can find right now. This is an Easter egg and then these are These are just basic shapes from the craft store That's an ATC card size. I think they have these like and there and then I just cover them with paper on one side And now they're little pre-primed painting canvases. So I want to work on one of these today So it's just a great way to if you like watercolor or gouache water media And you want to work on something other than just your standard piece of paper I Have watercolor grounds and they're okay I bought these ovals yesterday And I know the Easter eggs they have out again this year I bought these last year, but they have them out again. The ovals literally I bought yesterday So if you're like me and you like to play with water soluble paint watercolor watercolor gouache and You don't necessarily like working on Watercolor ground I have done and will do it's not my favorite thing. I don't like working on watercolor canvas I have done I will do not my favorite thing. I have a certain kind of paper. I really enjoy working on I am a cheap watercolor paper girl. I have no shame in saying that I like straff more Pull press watercolor paper. It's not the most expensive thing on the planet and it's but it's my favorite thing. Hey Michael Anne So I or Fabriano, those are my two kind of papers that I like But you can never find like boards that have your watercolor paper that you like on them I at least I can't and not for an affordable price a budget-friendly price So I figured out a while ago that I could glue my favorite papers either the straff more of Fabriano To a piece of wood with yes paste when I was doing a lot of the art paper clips, which I'm gonna try to get back to doing soon So when I was a Dollar Tree yesterday, I saw these I thought you know, I'm gonna get two of those and we're gonna work on the canvas Because I want to talk to you about the inspiration photo. So this is the original inspiration photo Now there's a lot of photo editing apps out there Yeah, our tease of watercolor paper. I mean you have a favorite brand of paper you're used to working on You know how the paint's gonna move around on it You enjoy working with it But then you can't find any of these substrates with that same kind of paper or consistency This is a way to just do a DIY and to do it inexpensively and you can do it on any flat Board or again those flat wooden canvases you see sometimes at the dollar store And they'll be already painted and primed just give them a quick little sand Maybe paint the edges black or a solid color with acrylic paint and then glue your piece of paper to the top front So you can do your painting on it Anyway, this is the original photo now sometimes when I'm painting in either watercolor or acrylic I Want to be inspired by the shapes and form of the photo, but I'm definitely not a realist painter so I like to abstract things I like to change up the color of things and The easy way to do that and not be Not get stuck in the realism of the original inspiration photo is to Apply a painterly effect to the photo with some sort of app Now the apps I used to use aren't around anymore. There's a new one I'm going to download and play with this afternoon called be casso and Laura's not back yet. I don't think but it's capital B e capital C a s s o and She took my photo because the patrons and supporters over in patreon have access to this photo and She took this original photo and she applied the app to it You ready? She did that to it. I haven't tried the Arteza paper yet But if anybody has let me know Hi, darling. Good morning It might only be on Apple, but if you have a other kind of tablet See what kind of painterly photo editing application apps you can find out there and start with a free one and See if you can find one that you like working with don't pay for it right away if you're not sure you're gonna like it Hey Donna So I looked at this this literally I just saw this a few minutes ago And I've already hung it up in my painting alcove to inspire colors on the canvas I'm working on for this and I'm also I think we're gonna work on something watercolor II inspired by I'm gonna have both of these on the table But I love the colors and the one that Laura did So really this picture the original photo is interesting and inspiring But then you look at this She did not do anything but apply the app to it. So it's just another way for you to Keep yourself inspired. I think in my opinion. Okay, we need to get mixing plates I have a small set of watercolors These are em gram and Daniel Smith if I'm not mistaken. Oh, there's some Blick Blick watercolor in here This is what I call my Pacific Northwest palette. So it includes these colors here If you want to if you're watching the recording and you want to stop the camera image We have Daniel Smith buff Naples yellow M grams ochre undersea green, which is a Daniel Smith color Sap green At the quiet on red. I don't think that's how you pronounce that but you know Rose of ultramarine Daniel Smith color Dioxazine purple at the quiet on blue Quedock run on gold tigers eye a Daniel Smith color and it's a golden brown ambery color Cpia and neutral tint Isn't it wonderful? Yeah, we are gonna start with getting our Table situated. I Think and I yeah, so Kathy said this morning as Laura was posting The photo Kathy was saying that she wants to try to paint it with Different strengths of coffee and you know what Kathy if you have any tea in the house, what about adding some tea to the mix? I need a break. Why do I not have a rug? I used to know somebody who painted with wine Which was interesting? So I'm just making a purpley color. That was too red. I did not grab much of that Dioxazine purple now the M. Grand paints. They are very very pigmented Just FYI It does not take much Okay, the first thing I'm gonna do is get my Board wet with dirty paint water because you know, why would I not use dirty paint water? I'm gonna do this. That's just a spray bottle of water that I use for my watercolor paints We're gonna take some of this purple Okay, Michael and we'll see you later. Have a great day So when I can't travel Kathy, you know, I I'm that person that you know that the hotel rooms always have like a Little small coffee pod and then like a little selection of teas and coffees usually which are horrible They're usually horrible. I take them home anyway because I take them into the art room to make like dyes and stuff with So this is watercolor so this The the colors I put on above this are gonna mix a little bit with the color below But you can minimize how much that does by drying your stuff in between layers, which is what I'm doing Yeah, Petra if you think about it if it stains your clothes and your carpet when you spill it It's probably gonna stain your paper and artwork in an interesting way Will it be our quival? Well, it might not be but you know These days take a picture of it or scan it if it's something that you really want to preserve That's cute Okay, so I like that. I'm gonna stick with me Purple for the moment. I'm gonna get the piece wet where I want the paint to go I'm not going to get it wet where I do not want it to go I always I always take the shampoo bottles not because I use them Because I donate them to our local shelter when I get back We accumulate if quite a few of them and then I'll take them a box of stuff and I always take the coffees and teas with me I do drink tea and coffee, but usually the kind that they have in the hotel room is not great So I'm working on this horizon line Let's see. I'll move this down a little bit so you guys can see what I'm doing. I'm gonna take a little bit of this blue This is the anthaqua tone blue No problem Laura. Yeah, the guy I used to work with that One of these, you know artists cooperative shop. He he was actually very very good. See I'm gonna switch brushes here because That's a lot of blue. I'm gonna move that around. Yeah, that's better so this is a Princeton select round blender brush and I a long time ago stuck this in my watercolor brushes because I was never using it for acrylic But this sort of round Puffy blender shape works great for doing things like that this in watercolor and because it's I think originally intended as a Acrylic brush it doesn't grab too much pigment and lay down too much where I don't want it to be But it gives me different interesting marks Which is something that I'm getting back to exploring more of Markmaking interesting mark making If you're gonna buy tea just get the cheap stuff at the Dollar Tree Kathy since you don't drink it And you're just gonna be getting it to paint with So even though I'm working with a photo that's been edited edited in a painterly fashion doesn't mean that I am Going to exactly copy the realism in that photo. I'm gonna be very suggestive about the marks. I'm making hopefully Well, that's the idea We'll see if I actually manage it See let's try this brush Actually before we do that, let's dry. I'm actually very comfortable with going to the dollar store our dollar trees in In particular, they will not let you in if you do not have a mask on Period I saw somebody yesterday try to come in without a mask on and they were like no sir. Sorry. You have to wear a mask There was no ifs ands or buts about it I'm gonna grab some neutral tint And mix that with the blue We're gonna need some hoodock around Cold maybe mix up a little bit of the red and then maybe some ochre Okay, darling. Have a great day. I'm looking at the photo for reference Where the highlights are I like the color that lori used in here. So we're gonna try to mimic some of that Something I started doing with my acrylic painting a long time ago and I was using them on the canvas I was working on yesterday is making my own paint brushes and mark making tools There's an artist out there and I can't for the life of me remember her name Although I did reference her when I started making mark making tools So I'm gonna have to go look up my old posts later And if I can figure out who she is, I'll let you all know But she literally just took sticks and leaves and branches and feathers and Things and made her own mark making tools and I'm kind of wondering If I mean you'd have to pick sort of maybe different types of materials for water for it to hold up with watercolor, but I really enjoyed using them yesterday in the painting on the acrylic So I am kind of wondering I gotta grab my sponge. I'm kind of wondering if we can do something like that With a watercolor that would be interesting Oh Kathy. Oh, I'm jealous I want my vaccine evidently organ is What is it 31st in the country for giving out vaccines? It's not great I love my new home state, but you know so with my watercolor painting as well as acrylic painting I always start with backgrounds and um I am not the person who wants to Have to go in and like touch up the sky When I'm done So I always try to like do whatever I'm going to do with the sky and get that done first and be in my happy place with that first um And with watercolor you generally want to work lighter to darker This is a piece of a mr. Clean magic eraser, by the way Yeah, it's so bad linda. I mean Kathy It's so bad Oh, I'm so sorry Petra Hello christian So this right now that i'm using is the pure Blue what is it anthaquidone blue again? I do not think that's how you pronounce that i'm pretty sure i'm butchering the name of that blue So but i'm adding little touches of it to the orange While it's still wet and it's going to mix with the orange and we'll get some shades of green and because the orange has Gold in it and some other colors it will get some sort of dark grayish colors Blue is a great color to suggest Darkness and shadow Well, welcome christian See before I do what I want to do next Let's see if we can add a little bit more of this into a couple places Okay, so what i'm going to do for the trees I'm going to take I mix the neutral tint with some of the blue And i'm going to put some on here And then we're going to grab some water Brazil that's a long ways away and a part of the world I have not been to yet Hopefully sunday So there's a big kind of tree right here Before I get too far we want to get some water on there as I make a mess all over the table. That's okay So now that I sort of have an hint of some abstract shadows I can sort of follow those and see where they go To suggest all the trees and things that are in the background of this photo I'm glad to see this morning. It's not just me having all the like million typos Because y'all know if you've been following me for a while. I have a habit of not proofing things before I hit enter Next thing, you know There's some crazy typo Glad it's not just me Laura, I hope you're not asking me that question. I have trouble with english I wish I was more bilingual, but yeah, that's not Yeah, no I am not And I don't have that talent although it's pretty funny because I had a great uncle who Spoke and Wrote and read seven different languages. I did not inherit that talent I was kind of hoping my daughter would but I don't think she did maybe her kids That's good. I figured you were I figured you know me better Than that. Thank you Donna. I figured most of you know me better than that. Yeah, I'm you know The epitome of ignorant american. I don't understand And it wasn't taught the other languages in school, which is sad So now I'm adding some more of the ochre Which is a Opaque color less transparent without adding a lot of water to it than the other colors I need to dry it again in a minute because it's getting a little bit too Blendy Is that a word blendy? Oh see I wish I had been taught more of that or emphasize that I To be honest, it's kind of shameful I'm second generation american my grandmother was born in italy I don't speak any italian So It wasn't taught in school. It wasn't to emphasize by my dad Yeah, so And I wish she was still here for me to ask her to teach me some things But I'd have to go take a class now. I don't she's not around anymore. Unfortunately Hang on a second. I'm not looking at the chat if you're all asking me questions Let's see I do still have family in italy and they do contact me usually via facebook And I usually have to translate what they've sent me because it's usually in italian I'm in orginia a teeny tiny little brush. Let's grab the cpa I do find it as you can see I find it handy to work on pieces, especially watercolor um that I can Do like what I just did turn it around And turn it sort of every which way It's mardi gras That's cool So I don't want to outline everything, but I want to emphasize some of the lines I think it helps bring out that painting And I'm using a very small little princedin round number three. It's not the smallest round brush I have but Uh surf it so peg this is a dollar street dollar street Yeah, yeah a dollar tree oval board it had a A piece of rope in it through these holes to hang it up And then I used some yes paste to glue a piece of my favorite watercolor paper to the front And then I cut it out. I kind of want to grab an orange and I don't have the right orange in this palette So hang on one second. Let's find Just grab the full Daniel Smith palette that I have. It's not all the colors they have because they have a lot of colors Hey now and I have 90 of their colors Let's see Pyro orange That sounds like a good plan Yeah, so I like creating boards that I can watercolor on and Oh, yeah, that that's a good color And um, you can buy boards that have been prepped for watercolor paint But it's just more budget friendly to just create your own And if you have a good quality archival paste And some paper that you enjoy working on Then you can just make your own So like the blue is a good shadow color the orange and the yellows and the golden's Golden colors are good highlight colors to suggest lightness brightness and warmth Basic painting 101 and this orange that I'm using like the ochre is a fairly opaque color without um Adding too much water. So if you have parts that aren't exactly What you wanted you can sort of for the most part cover them up with this color and then I'm going to add some of one of these to that So the orange is wet So when I put this purple mixture on here, it's going to blend a bit with the orange, which is actually what I want So Okay, Petra All right, Linda Have a great day That pyro orange was the boost that we needed on this painting The other reason for me like turning it around is because I am a clumsy messy artist And so it's a way for me not to get my hand stuck in To the paint Which is something I've done So many times I can't even tell you and then I have to figure out a way to either incorporate it into the painting or cover it up So look at how that just starts to pop with that orange So there's something to when you're painting too Interesting to making just sort of suggestive marks Again, you're not looking to copy the photo. That's what cameras are for But we are looking to create an interesting painting suggestive of said photo That's interesting Yeah, so this has A lot of colors in it and it is a plastic palette. I got the idea for it from Peg Robinson and These are available on amazon and I just took the blending tray out and I glued the half pans in Um, I actually have room for more but to be honest Um, I don't really need to add more daniel smith colors to my collection I think I have the colors. I want to use there. You will see some tubes down here They are tubes of whole wine watercolor gouache In a few colors that I use in combination sometimes with my watercolor paints I do find there's something interesting and um convenient about using the opaque colors in conjunction with The transparent colors Using them together. I keep trying to not do that and I never manage that I can try to link the palette for you guys later Give you a link in the friends chat over in facebook And the friends and supporter chat Um And it was very inexpensive Hi, jan. It's sorry. Yeah, so if i'm not talking to you right away or answering your questions It's not because I didn't see it. It's probably because i'm not even looking at the ipad. Um, so The big palette to my left is all daniel smith With the exception of the tubes the tubes are whole wine And winds are newton gouache The rest of these half pans are all daniel smith The small palette to my right that you see on camera is a mixture of m gram and daniel smith with one generic Blick watercolor in it And now there's nothing wrong to by being either way in my opinion I Will sometimes just want to challenge myself to working with a particular palette and so I will Other times you will see my desk if you're ever here in person And it's covered with like all kinds of different brands of watercolor because they all react differently and Um apply differently and so Frequently, I want to just use you know this color from that palette and this color from this palette The ones that I have I'll be completely honest with you that I don't use as much as I probably should Because I love my daniel smith color so much Is my schmincky paints? I do have schmincky paints You're welcome janet Now daniel smith paints are not the cheapest thing on the planet um And I would not invest in them if you're not sure you're going to enjoy watercolor But if you know you love watercolor and you want to buy a good quality paint Um daniel smith is a great brand and You know, I would say to you build your stash the way I did which is just going in with like 20 dollars and buying one or two tubes in a time Yeah, so I just took the tray thing out of it And then I just glued my pans down metal pans or metal pans and palettes are great and all but this plastic one Is wonderful. There's nothing wrong with the plastic one. I honestly and I but I never have to worry about it um Rusting or any of that. It's plastic I did glue the pans in with e6000 rather than use like a tack Um like, you know tacking punny because I really I'm not changing this again Thank you janet. I really like the way it's turning out Yeah, my daughter isn't doing a lot but she does more with markers and pens so Invariably if I'm cleaning out the pen or marker stash before I get rid of anything I usually ask her Um If she needs anything Thanks peg Yeah, so if you Like watercolor and you like painting, you know, don't be afraid to try it. My daughter's a recommend. Yeah our other, um Sort of kid adopted kid Render the family very good friend of the family. She likes to stitch So when I'm cleaning out the stitching supplies, I will ask her does she need anything and then my daughter, of course as I said likes drawing and plant and planner stuff So that works It works very much So the trick of course is to know when to stop. I want to go to a bigger brush Which is the trick with any painting knowing when to stop and I'm sort of looking at Where are my colors puddled And how that works with the inspiration photo And how I can emphasize those shapes You can fit once you get that piece out you can fit a lot of watercolors in that palette It also probably because I know you can fit small tubes in here Um, you could probably use it to fill it with tubes of either watercolor or gouache Or if you have the small acrylic paint tubes If you were going to take like a selection of those kind of things to travel I need a crew to come play in my studio. I start but I get yeah peg. We all get distracted It's so easy, especially right now And you know peg it's taken me years To get my stash down to where I want it and I think I'm good with it And then I you know go down a rabbit hole looking for A piece for a project and then find a whole bunch of stuff that I've forgotten I have Just did that the other day And you know, we're home now. So we're all home. So we don't have anything else to do Yeah, so daniel smith are expensive. So, you know, I um started my collection slowly too And I've always thought it would be fun to sort of road trip it around the continent And help people with their stash Clean out their art rooms Help them help them get it set up the way they want. I'm going to go into the big palette and pull out sleeping beauty turquoise It's a large blob of turquoise. Let's zoom that out a little bit Peg agreed and uh mike deacon has been doing something similar over in his group with his monthly missions Where he not only gives you, you know colors and and technique inspiration, but he'll give you like tools and parts to use like an ingredient list and It's a great idea Because it's getting all of us to get our stuff out of our, you know, hidey holes We've stashed into And I've always thought it was a great idea It like sounds like a plan to me, you know rent a couple of campers and Drive around the country the continent That's something I've done before a fun fact with with people artist friends and that The biggest question you need to ask yourself is what do you want your space to be? What kind of art are you're going to be doing? Uh, how do you want to play? In your space and once you get that question answered then it's easier To do the rest But if you don't know where you want to go with your space then it makes it hard Okay, so now we're gonna like See it sounds like a good idea, right? Okay, so this is white gouache Most of your whites are a gouache opaque kind of consistency fun fact So I'm yes, you saw I grabbed it straight out of the tube So I stopped beating myself up a long time ago about you losing the white space in a project I am just not that person that Without good masking fluid that can save the white space. That's just I have to give up on that because that's just not I'm evidently not capable of doing that Never have been fun fact, but you can lighten up parts that have gotten too dark By adding some gouache and remember this is all water soluble paint. So it's going to blend a little bit with the background Even if it's not completely wet It's hard. There are some things I'm giving up on that. I'm just not As into as others and so I'm giving up on those Maybe saving a tool or two And then there's other things that have been in my stash for like a million years that I haven't even tried So I'm trying them and then if I don't like them they they're going You could also do this white part with like a white gel pen We're mixed media artists. Don't be afraid to break out the pens The gouache is going to blend a little bit better For what I want That's too much Sort of proud of myself. I'm doing this without my reading glasses on The struggle is very real I mean, I was looking for something else the other day and I I knew I'd sort of lost track of Where my some of my pre-cut laser cut chipboard stuff was I have a bunch of stuff from mike deacon and I could find the little ones But I didn't know where I'd stashed the big ones and then I was over at the small bits bank part of my craft room And I was looking for something else and uncovered them I was like, oh That's where those are So I Rearranged some things so that I knew now I know for sure where they are and I can find them and and use them And peg I fully expect both the girls the blood daughter and the adopted daughter at some point When I'm gone to want to dig me up and yell at me and say what the hell Only what the f Yeah, they're both They're both gonna just look at the and and that's you know after I've done years of purging That's gonna be fun I try not to do that Uh to have so much stuff that it's just going to be hard for them, but I mean, you know, I'm still here so When I am purging stuff, I do have a habit of telling both of them Look, this is something I'm thinking about getting rid of are you going to ever want it? Because if you're never going to want it and I don't want it then why am I keeping it? And that's not only true with the craft room. It's true with the whole all of the half parts of the house I am glad that one of the girls likes to stitch and rebecca wants to get into Some regular sewing Both good things because I have a lot of both of those Yeah, moving helped a lot peg because I had to get rid of stuff and then once I got in here in the new space I had to figure out how to work um in the new space And get that set so that it worked better for me So I mixed a little bit of the sleepy beauty turquoise with the white that was on the palette There is a little bit of turquoise in the back here of this inspiration photo that laura has created The version of my original photo And I want to add a little bit more of it Unfortunately, moving is not feasible for everybody saying, you know, there's that Okay, I want to add a brighter yellow and so I think we're going to try to quit awkward on yellow Because I think it needs to just be brighter Um In the old days in the old house I would just do one room or category at a time And it's not feasible for everybody to do this, but I would literally empty the craft room out into the hallway and then Arrange the furniture how I thought was going to work for me and then only put the things back I knew I was going to use that process doesn't work for everybody And I don't know that it would work in this space But it definitely worked in the old house A dark spot right here It needs to be lighter So it does get to the point pig where that's definitely true. My parents are going through the same thing as you all know My mom fell recently She has a uti which when you're a senior especially a senior female can be dangerous And cause a lot of complications that you don't expect from a uti And it's just to the point where my parents need to downsize their house is too big Need to get mom better first, but yeah, it's a thing Well, you know, there's a big community out here pig willing to help and at least give you um mental and emotional emotional support if nothing else if we can't do anything else For whatever you decide to do I think i'm going to dry that and then look at it because I think that might be done I think this whole year has been a big eye-opener for everybody pig But yeah going through a natural disaster like that. I could see where that would be kind of an aha moment Thank you So one thing you should know about your paints, whether it's watercolor Wash acrylic They dry they look different when they're dry than they do when they're wet So you want to dry them before you make a final decision on whether it's done or not one thing at a time pig Don't do too much Yeah, we thought about keeping our california property, but now with what's happened in the world and everything I'm kind of glad we didn't do that. Yeah, I really like the way that looks and i'm going to leave it That's a cute little painting. I think Actually now that I say that I might want to add some more white. Hold on Leave it to me to always change my mind some more lightness here. There we go. That's better Yeah, just a little bit like right here. I needed a little bit Let's see Yeah, I don't disagree Kathy. So every place every place has something Um, I think what I'm going to well not me by myself But what we're probably going to do eventually is if either or both of the kids ever move um Out of the area then, you know Probably will want to be near the children So You know, that's kind of a thing But if um, I keep purging the way I have been You know packing up my stuff won't be a big deal Bob would like warmer. I saw that comment peg Um, but the cold is great for my asthma That's a thing So you can sometimes lift up some of the pigment or water with your brush Music clean damn brush Let's see. Okay Yeah, so that's totally understandable We are in part where we are because of my parents. They're not far away Which has turned out to be a good thing Seeing as how my mom got hurt and all I'm going to cover up that little bit of white paper right there Just a little bit So I'm going to stop touching that because I like the way it looks and if I keep touching it It's going to turn out more and more muddy And that is not what I want So how cute is that and that's just I get on a little piece of wood now you could Once you're done with this Poke it re poke the holes where the Rope was and put some wire or something there. I think what I'm probably going to do is just Glue a bracket to the back Yeah, bob would be happy like living in the hottest like state in the union you can find year round My asthma would kill me So one of the things I do do with this extra pigment that's on here So you can leave this and you can just rewet it and use it again I hate to waste it like that's a thing of mine I do take this little container which is from One of the home chef meal kits You can see it's fairly gray in color And I just take regular water And I know Kathy you've been um dying papers And this turns out to be like some kind of dark gray usually. I mean it depends Exactly on what paints I've been using um But when the little jar is like kind of full Then I'll use it. I'll shake it up. Hold on put the lid on before I do this So when the jar gets a little full more full Then I use it to dye papers And I usually get some sort of blue gray color because really when you mix all of your colors together in your palette If you sat and mixed them all together you would just get a shade of like gray or brown And whatever is left I just wipe up with a baby wipe and Of course those of you who do mixed media know you can save the painting baby wipes and dry them And use them in your work But now the plate is clean The water isn't here now you could just do this and then dump it down the sink I'm not I don't have a sink in here And it's rather than you know walking Around the hallway with dirty paint water because hello my middle name is not grace Just fyr And then then you have something that you know is going to stick to the paper, you know, it's not going to do anything weird Yeah, so this I sent out to some of the patrons and supporters An envelope and it had some of the paper That I dyed with this basically paint water now. It's not the paint water That you dip your brushes in this is mostly pigment water This goes down the well I have to clean the water first and then it goes down the drain. I have a I use the golden They have some chemicals that separate the pigment from the water And so that when you dump it down the drain, it's just water. Anyway, I you do that Um, this is just the pigment from your palette Now I will sometimes do it also with the if I have a little bit of the hemi gouache or acrylic paint, but generally this is just gouache The hemi gouache and the regular watercolors And it makes great background pages junk journal pages In fact, I can show you the paper they make with it. Hang on one second But I think about that because I still have the big stack So this was done when it was mostly blue paints And what color you get just depends on what color pigments you have in here at the time but But I have some that are more gray than others I think it was very blue this time because I had some ink in there And if you're really trying to create on a budget, then you really don't want to waste anything And even if you're not on a tight budget If you're like me, you just really rubbed you the wrong way to waste anything And you just really You know, this cost me a dollar the board Why are we blurry? Hold on Okay, it was just me that was blurry. I don't know. Um, so this cost me a dollar to make I already had the paper I already had the paste. I just needed the wood substrate now. Yes, you can get pre-cut wood at the craft store It's going to cost you more than a dollar. This is just from the dollar tree And you know, maybe you're going to be out thrifting and you see a box with a flat top Even if it's already finished, you could stand the finish off and you could glue some watercolor paper to the top Okay. See you later pig Good luck at the doctors And yeah, I love the organic nature of the shape the unevenness of the pigment when you do it I know Kathy was doing some coffee dyed papers And she did very much what I do first. She crinkled the paper up And then you kind of semi flatten it and you put your whatever you're going to use to dye it Whether it's coffee or paint pigment water or whatever On the paper and then you just let it dry and see what happens And the pigment will will like sink into the Crinkles and then I iron it flat when it's dry Yeah, so I just want to you know, when we do these lives I want to give you guys, of course We'll do some art and stuff But I want to give you some ideas of what you can do To make art that's you know budget friendly and not like abnormally expensive You again you can buy watercolor art boards. They're already prepped. They already have the paper attached to the front And that's great. If you don't want to be bothered to do your own I have no no shade to anybody I've bought my own watercolor art boards in the past and I probably still have a couple of the closet I find more enjoyment though out of making my own And I can do them in any size. I can do the big ones. I can do these little ones I really want to find like A wood cigar box and I actually might have one I think it's got some stuff in it at the moment But I might have one I can do something like this to the top of because I think that would be cool All right, so that's it for today I am going to head out I had all of these pens and markers out because I thought I might want to use them on here I I like I could add some black marker to or pen to this, but I'm not going to I like the way it looks the way it is Now that being said it I it's probably going to be up for sale in the etsy shop at some point because I am literally running out of wall space to hang things And I know I have trouble getting rid of my art. It's like hard for me to do But I do have too much of it So if you've seen a piece or seen me share a piece that you're interested in purchasing and it's not in the etsy shop Please DM me Send me an email message me on facebook Whatever all of my contact information is in the video description and or the link tree list of links Um and let's talk because I have literally I don't have a Barely a spare piece of wall to hang stuff There's just not enough room in my house All right I mean people literally come over and they stay the night and I ask them Do you want to take some artwork home with you? 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