 Hi guys, I gotta finish making my to-do list. Hold on. I haven't set up the iPad yet. Ay-ay-ay. It's been a crazy morning. Okay, first I gotta tell it not to go to sleep, ever. Then I gotta find myself. Which sounds like I'm having a mid-life crisis, I know. I'm not really. Oh, there I am. Oop, I turned the sound off because holy cow, nobody wants to hear that. Alright. Hey Eve, hey Josie. Alright, now we're gonna set this up over here. Okay, wait, bear with me. I got it. Let's see. I'm making my to-do list for the day. I haven't done it yet. Okay. Watercolor Gypsy, hello. Glenda, hello. Good morning, everybody. Alright, so today I It's a crazy day. You know, I thought my life was crazy enough when I Was working on the book and then at the same time working on the stamp line And then I finished both of those and then I start on some minor remodeling in the house like holy cow What the heck am I thinking? Ay-ay-ay. Alright, so quick. Hello Lisa Swank. Hello that girl Tatiana. Hello. Um Really quick question for you all first of all everybody Hopefully the picture and sound is good for everybody. Hey Cody. Hey Amy. I Literally ran out of time this morning to check do a speed test. So hopefully we're good Non watercolor related question. Alright So anybody else have like a bunch of old business cards That have expired information on them. You say you can't really give them out What do you do with them? None of them have my personal home address on them or anything, but I Can't really use them for business because they have Expired information on them so they don't work I do give them out in an emergency occasionally, but I have to stop doing that because I have plenty of the new ones So I obviously have this is a gallon-sized zip lock bag. What do I do with them? Anybody have any ideas? Let me know At this point art related things are probably not a great idea because I have too much like art supplies already But I don't know what to do with them Great. Yay. I'm glad they all everything looks good. Maybe ATC's there's a lot There's thousands of business cards Thousands that's a lot even for me and Even though they have expired information on them. I'm considering Business trading cards. Yeah, I'm considering I don't know gifting some of them you guys there some of them are nice Non-glossy matte card stock and maybe you guys could use them for tags or something. I don't know I don't know what to do with them Yeah, I might just recycle them They don't have my business my personal home address on them They do have my phone number not that that's a big deal. It's out everywhere in the world anyway So I could just put them in the recycle bin. I could we do have a shredder So I may just spend 10 minutes today putting them in the shredder. I don't know Yeah, that's what I'm thinking Cody is maybe keep a few keep a stack Put them in my box of like tag-making stuff and then just putting the rest through the shredder. That's what I'm thinking All right today Let's do fun stuff. I haven't hardly done art in like a week you guys. Maybe that's why I'm a little bit frantic and I either can't sleep or I'm sleeping too much Because yeah, things are just crazy There's just too much going on and you know, you have to meet with contractors in this and that and there's just Too much to squeeze. I don't have even five minutes to do art and I'm so behind on my my doodles I'm gonna shoot a quick video about that at some point, but I may just Carry them my little doodle book over into December That's a good idea to ask Lindsay. Hey, Della Okay, so the first we're gonna play with water soluble crayons today We're gonna do watercoloring, but we're not gonna use watercolor paints now this stack of journals I have in front of me. I wanted to share with you. This is These are some options that you have for water color journals If like me you like to do most of your artwork and mixed media in a journal For lots of different reasons if you haven't seen my little share video that I posted to Facebook recently I literally have stacks of finished and unfinished canvases and one of the reasons I started art journaling was because those canvases and loose sheets of matted paper They start adding up really quick and if you aren't careful there won't be any room in your house to live So I was really attracted to the idea of working in a journal In a book that I could finish and then stick on the bookshelf. So I started our journaling these This stack in front of you. These are pre-made store-bought watercolor journals So we are gonna work on some different kinds of media in the coming weeks water soluble media Maybe mixed with a little bit of watercolor paint, but not today And watercolor painting and we're gonna work in these books. These are from the stock I already had and I'm gonna just go over them really quickly This is a moleskin watercolor book journal and this is a little small one Does it say how big it is? Maybe maybe a little teeny print that I can't read 14 by 9 centimeters Yeah, five and a half inches by three and a half inches now. This is a small size that I like to keep For use when I'm traveling because it's little and it packs well. So this one we probably won't work in Because of that, but I have this one which I believe is also a moleskin Yeah, this is also a moleskin. It's I'm not sure if this is yeah, it's watercolor paper. So I have it in two different sizes So we will probably we'll work on the bigger one on camera, but not the littler one I'm gonna save for when I need a new travel journal Then I also these two I believe are both from hobby lobby one was gifted to me and one I bought This one is handbook journal. I got this on clearance. It was seven seventy nine and it is Five and a quarter inches by eight and a quarter inches This is got some seems like really nice paper in it. You never really know for sure though until you start working in them This one is I believe also from hobby lobby I think this is the one that was gifted to me and this is a watercolor journal filled with handmade paper now I'm not sure if the paper is cotton or paper pulp. I don't know but it's got this really great like handmade edge So it's another one that we'll be working in and we may be working in two or three of these at the same time And then this one is one that's I just got recently. This is a Strathmore soft cover watercolor journal. It's a hundred and forty pound paper and it is Seven and seven point seven five inches by nine point seven five inches and it's got some series 400 watercolor paper in it. So we are going to be working in some of these I'm going to pick a couple of them to work in today and then as far as water soluble Love the journals with the red poppies these yeah, I've heard good things about this and so we're going to try it Okay, so I'm just reading the comments That's great and Bex creations. No, if you guys have any now and I haven't gotten there quite yet but if you guys have any tips for the audience as far as watercolor mediums that you know we or you know Great black pens or anything like that. We can use with our watercolor journals that are on sale right now on clearance especially Whether physically at a store or online post let's post them in the In the chat for everybody because this is the time of year when that kind of stuff goes on sale So we're going to be working with the crayons today and probably a pencil It may be a little bit of black pen, but let's go over what kind of crayons we're going to use Now I have a lot of different kinds of water soluble crayons We're probably going to have to do two or three videos trying different ones Because I kind of have a horde of water soluble crayons, and I don't think we can get them all in one. We'll try These are probably the least expensive. I think they're like three or four dollars for the set of eight These are target up and up water color gel crayons They come in a very minimal amount of colors. They smudge very nicely. They are water soluble They're not the best pigmented on the planet, but I do like them These are by Maypad Helix. These are their gel crayons, which are supposed to be water soluble Now I do think I tested them a while back, and I just don't even remember. I don't remember how they so we'll work on them I need a cough drop. Hang on Okay Too much dust around my house These are the recollections color splash watercolor crayons. They look very similar Helix crayons and a couple of others that I have When you open them, they almost look like they're made by the same company in my opinion And just have different labels on them, but we're going to try them. They come in obviously more colors I have distressed crayons. I have three packs. I don't know if they have any other colors out Um or not. I do love these I've heard good things about the lira crayons. Hello na 122. Hello. Good morning And good morning patricia Okay, I also have This box has prima Um water water soluble oil pastels and portfolio oil pastels now. They're not a watercolor crayon They're an oil pastel that happens to be water soluble. So whether we use them today or not. I'm not sure Um, we may use them in a different video now With a lot of these materials because they're either oil pastels Or they are Oh, see, thanks. Cody. Now. I'm gonna have to go look for the other three sets that I don't have Because a lot of these are either waxy or in these this case of these Um oil based mediums even though they're water soluble in many cases you can't easily Draw or paint over them after you have these on the page. Um, you can Um paint over them sometimes with acrylic paint, but not necessarily right over them easily So you want to know that and do some test pages and see what works for you with the materials you have and what doesn't I Also have the complete set of neo color two crayons Yes, I know the complete set. I said, yeah, you weren't hearing me wrong um A lot of these are available in open stock, which is how I started collecting them And um, you know, you just like my watercolor paint collection You get one or two at a time until you have all the colors you want or the complete collection I don't use these nearly enough, but they are fabulous and we probably will be using some of them today I have them out just in case I also own 10 Of the daniel smith watercolor sticks and these are basically watercolor pigment Pink blah blah blah water color pigment in a sticker crayon form. These are fabulous They're artist grade, uh, watercolors. So for the most part they have great light fastness So I definitely recommend them the only Beef I have about these is they don't come in enough colors All right, so now we got to clear all these off um Yeah, uh, the the neo color twos are opaque They're not very transparent Um, or clear they do seem kind of hazy or cloudy. I agree with that Hey, Teresa Okay, so let's pick a journal to work in and let's you know what let's work in this one first I haven't done anything with this one I don't know if you're supposed to paint on that first page or not, but we're going to anyway We need a pencil And it will probably need a pen Because you know, that's how I roll Let's get out a white one just in case All right Yeah, please don't forget to give me a thumbs up like share and subscribe and um If you can and want to support my channel, um, go, please do so by shopping at my Etsy shop All right, there's a few different ways you can use, you know, your water soluble crayons You of course can mix them with your acrylic paint Um, if you're going to do something over them, um, that's the best way to do it You can let them dry and coat them with clear gesso and then go over them But I do recommend experimenting with them and seeing what works for you We're going to just do some like easy shapes today You know, and I'm not even sure I'm going to start with pen work. Let's well, let's see I'm just going to do some we're going to we're going to do flowers because I just I feel like I'm in a flower mood So I'm just drawing I'm going to zoom in a little bit so you guys can see because I don't think you can see very well okay Basic shapes Table is a disaster again My table is always a disaster. Who am I kidding? all right So we're going to use um Okay, so I have a princed in, um select brush. This is a pointed filbert Can you see that? It's got there's a really cool tip on it. It's like a cross between a you know, really sharp pointed round and a flat It's super the coolest brush. So we're going to work with that a little bit today I don't know made up flowers. I'm thinking maybe a poppy shape So we're going to we're going to see what happens with that Now like with anything else, we're going to start with our lighter colors and work our way darker And I think I want to work. See let's try the mayped helix and see what happens So I'm going to grab the red And one of the ways of course you can draw this on there and then activate it with water And if you don't mind the crayon marks Then that's fine because a lot of these won't completely dissolve and they'll leave crayon marks If you don't like the crayon marks then another way you can use these At least some of them We'll see how the mayped helix do is to get your wet brush and brush and rub it against the tip of the crayon And when you're putting together your like travel watercolor kit, you know an easy way to um add some Um, you know interesting media to your kit is to add a few of these crayons Um, especially if you don't have or don't want to have a you know a watercolor palette And I don't want to carry lots of paint around you can add a few extra colors to your palette by just having a few of these crayons in And you of course can draw with them, but you can also Um No, I forgot what I was going to say because I looked at therese's comment You can also draw with them, but you can use them as paint too I'm anxious to see how these kind of all work together because I don't know that I've ever Done that on a painting And I started with the mayped helix because this is a like kids craft quality Water soluble crayon, which means they're inexpensive, but also generally means they're not super pigmented So I kind of knew this red would be like light colored and um So I was okay with that Yeah, it's okay. Hey, Kathy So we're starting with the mayped helix now. I've never that I know I've seen the mayped helix in a store Um, they sent me these crayons most of these crayons I bought The exceptions being the portfolios I'm sorry The primas and the mayped helix those were sent to me by the manufacturers So we can properly disclose All of that stuff I've swatched the crayons, but it was a long time ago And right now my entire like front room is packed Which includes our watercolor reference book I don't know. I have no idea what box it is. I knew one of you guys was going to ask that question So these are these are the mayped helix and you get some color from them You get more color if you of course draw them on the page than you do if you Do it from the crayon Now this is a little bit different brush. This is a royal and line nickel zen brush And it's a really short like scrubby filbert brush So when I draw it directly on the page I like this because I can get rid of most of the crayon marks And really dissolve the crayon Now that's just That's just the mayped helix crayon. Oh, that's good to know. Della. So around here in california that I'm I haven't really seen them So to start with we're going to um stick with these bright ones I'm going to go with the pink one These are the distressed crayons now like the other crayons you can of course you do them the same way and you can Pick them up from the crayon. You can draw with them on the page Um generally speaking if you do this way and you pick it up from the crayon You usually get like less pigment on the page as you can see there, but if you Draw it on look what happens So if you're in doubt if you haven't done your swatches, you're not sure how they're going to react Do it this way rather than immediately drawing it on the page But even if you mess it up What's the difference? We're practicing and I can tell you right now. I like that working on this paper, but It's warping like crazy I can tell you that already Now this is a bright warm color. So I'm going to keep it to the same side of these little abstracted flower shapes um on all of the flowers I do want to Okay, I do want to do this now. I'm going to take some of this distressed crayon And I'm going to put it on my plate I'm just literally just coloring it on the plate. I'm going to add some water You should swatch your colors first if you if you can Oh ian's here. Hey ian Um, they the distressed crayons are fabulous. They blend really well and they're super pigmented More than the others like the may pet helix. I'm a fan of the of the distressed crayons Now I'm going to go into my Sort of abstracted flower shapes and this this red while still a fairly warm color Is cooler Than the pink So i'm going to pick some of the spots on the flower that I think I want to be cooler Okay, you do kind of have to work quickly with this distressed crayons because it sits on there too long and then you can't move it around I do like them. I mean this is look at this distressed crayon red as compared to the may pet helix red I mean talk about brighter and more pigmented But also more expensive Are they worth the money? Yeah, I think so. I like them Aren't junkie so, you know for what it's worth. I don't know So swatching the colors by swatching the colors. I mean actually taking each one of your crayons. I'll show you wait Let me grab some watercolor paper Here's a piece. What is this? This is a piece of fabriano 300 pound. I probably ought not to use that for swatches Here's a piece of 140 pounds. So this is just a little this is just a little piece of paper So what I mean is you take each one of your colors And you just draw a block of the color And then you come back with water And you water activate at least half of it So you can see what it looks like straight from the crayon But also after it's been activated with water What color you're going to get And if you do it right and you do colors that blend well together the other thing you can do is blend the colors across To see how they blend together and you do a swatch like that Yeah, we're going to be doing pencils Um and coming up week Ian. That's a whole different. We're going to just focus on one at a time We'll probably do Of the different kinds of crayons I have and then we'll do two or three of the pencils Okay, so I like that Um, I do think I want to add some of this kind of olivey green color to it Do that And you're welcome There's lots of kinds of Watercolor crayons out there. I don't want you guys to feel like you have to have one any one particular brand And you may already have some in your stash of stuff. I just want to give you an idea Of what you can do with them besides Just adding them to the edges of your mixed media pages or you know, that sort of thing Um, you can do a lot with them and of course you can do a lot with them In conjunction with you know acrylic paint and stuff like that. So just you know, the more waxy it is The less likely it is that you're going to be able to easily go over the top of it. So be aware of that Okay So that's that Let's try something different And let's try, um, a neocolor Let's see I think I want to add some purple I know I know purple So this is aubergine, which is my favorite favorite favoriteist color In the neocolor twos. It's like a that dark dioxazine purple, which I love love love So we're going to add some of this And you may find with some of these that you want to activate the crayon and then maybe others you don't maybe sometimes you want to leave the line Yeah, the recollections are glittery. They're fabulous. I love them It was hard for me to get them because like none of the stores near me had them in stock So that was a pain in the neck Plus there's a hole not being able to breathe inside of michael's Because it's either their crayons or their potpourri or like right now the cinnamon candles And I think almost every store I've been into with the exception of the one where My um, little sister's girlfriend tiffani works In washington state. They all have really bad ventilation. Okay. I like that. Let's put some Brightness in the stems. This is the what colors is spring green Now most of the time with your neo color twos the color is really going to brighten up and pop when you get it wet So just be aware of that. All right, let's see I think it's time to start working on the flower center. So i'm going to start with the recollections in the silvery color Yeah, so it's the cinnamon scented pinecones. They I have a big problem with them. They make me wheeze Yeah, I love aubergine the eggplant dark purple eggplant color. Um, and it's Um, you know, there's also the dioxazine purple in some brands which is not quite the same but And then liquitex has Another one too. I love that sort of eggplanty purpley color. Love it. Love it. Love it Um, I'm going to start with this target up and up gel crayon To make my center's darker. I had to stop working at michael's in part because of the smell of the Pine cones Thanks, Kathy Well, I love doing art and you know, like I said at the beginning of the broadcast, you know We decided in all my crazy wisdom not um to do some, you know repainting and things inside the house you know Right before the holidays which has made my life A little bit more stressful and I literally haven't done art in a few days like until the other day where I did the water Watercolor the crocheted coasters. I haven't done any It's driving me and it's driving me crazy Yeah, so all of those to answer some unasked questions all of those items that you're talking about the pine cones the citronella Um, the candle's appropriate now that I have asthma. They all bother me So I actually don't shop in a physical store unless I have to and when I do I hold my breath a lot, which is probably not a great thing So these are daniel smith watercolor um Sticks And they literally work like the other ones in that you can you know just draw on your paper Let's see. Um, they didn't have a pain's gray, which kind of bummed me out when I picked these They do have moon. I do have moon glow. Let's see The paper is getting really wet. So I'm being a little bit gentle with it And we're gonna dry it in just a minute Probably let's see. Yes. It is leading through just a little bit. I'm gonna turn the page over and show you all in a minute So this is um Interesting paper to work on but you're not going to be able to do double-sided paintings You're going to just want to do single-sided and I probably should stick a piece of deli paper back there Okay, so here is There we go Yeah, so I just It's not worth the coughing and the wheezing and the um Having to take all the medication So I just don't You know where lots of perfume anymore. I don't have lots of smelly candles in the in the house anymore I avoid those sections of the store or just avoid shopping when I can to be honest I do I do stuff by mail order. My husband gets tired of me holding my breath at the store. He says it's not good for me All right, let's dry this Now before you if you're working on paper, you're unsure about or paper that you know is not watercolor paper Before you do anything else on top of the paper With a pen or a pencil make sure you dry the paper thoroughly or that you let it dry thoroughly The daniel smith are fabulous. I just wish they made them in more colors That would be my only gripe Okay, so I'm going to take my pilot varsity pen So explain more about what you mean in because I'm not sure I get it So I wasn't real sure about what kind of flowers we were drawing or painting and now I'm just kind of following the Lines that we got in the paint I'm keeping it, you know loose and sketchy. There's a few I'm and I'm going very lightly on the paper because it does turn out that There's a few wet spots, which is you know, the paint the pen is going to bleed, but I'm okay with that You mean when you go over it with pencil, you get the texture of the paper the pencil doesn't go into All the little textury spots in the paper usually sketch paper is pretty flat With no texturing on the surface, but I mean I like loose messy sketches. So You know, I don't know that that would bother me I've never had that happen though unless I'm you know sketching on paper. That's like watercolor paper So the charm of these loose kind of abstracted designs is Is to keep it loose Um and keep it sketchy and I'm sorry. I got just got distracted because my husband is texting me Oh, hold on And I think it might be important Okay, I just have to tell him okay All right Now, you know, I always am telling you guys this remember we're mixed media artists For us. What does that mean? There's no rules So who says you can't do a little watercolor painting with your water soluble crayons and or oil pastels and then add Some pen work or pencil work to it Who says you can't do that? And if they do say that, why are you listening? So i'm going to go in here and see if I can Make some of our pen bleed on purpose. I might need to use that other brush. Where's another brush Now the problem with the pilot varsity brush is if you leave it sit on there too long it can Dry and not move too much Um depending on the paper you're using and what it's written on top of It's moving a little bit and we're going to go in with our white gel pen No, first we're going to dry it again. That's not why you have to write on there I love this is just your standard Um durice heat embossing tool. It wasn't expensive I bought it years ago when I was still scrapbooking at michael's and I used a 40 off coupon It's the best thing on the planet to be honest I don't know how to explain that Ian Except to say, you know, it's youtube And I usually sketch on bristol vellum. Um, I love the super smooth Texture of the paper And when you scan it, um, you're not distracted by the texture Now because I'm trying to write over these water soluble crayons. This white gel pen is not really doing very much. So Let's get out a paint pen This is what I was talking about when you're um Working on top of these crayons sometimes you have trouble I have to activate this pen. It's been sitting for a while So sometimes you have trouble driving over the top of them I've heard good things about aqua bee paper Yeah, see that's more that's much brighter and if you Get some in there that you don't like I'm not so sure I like all of these black crayon Okay, so I like this. It's cute but I do think it needs brightening up a bit You know, you can really overthink these things now. This is a Port uh prima oil pastel once I put this on here. I can guarantee you're not going to be able to do anything over it It's not going to stick It is water soluble They're opaque They do smell they do have an odor. They smell they smell like oil paint. Well oil pastels so You know if that kind of thing bothers you then I would say stay away from these Because they're going to really bug the crud out of you But of all the things I have on the table, they're the most pigmented and the most opaque You can see look at these now. I equally like I think I think the primas and the portfolios Um are equally good So whichever one you can afford or easily get your hands on I don't think you'll go wrong Um, I do think the portfolio the primas have a few more colors than the portfolios So if like me it's all about having a wide range of color Then you probably want to get the primas um I can get the portfolios at my local office supply store But the primas I have to order because nobody has them in stock At least I mean stores that I can go into I don't you know I don't go into michael's or joanne's much because they can't breathe So they may have them. I don't know So there's just some quick easy, um poppy flowers Hang on a second. Oh there. Okay Um, so I like the way these turned out And what I am going to do is I'm going to take my my pen And I'm going to turn this this way And make the signature and the date part of the design Now, of course, if I was going to scan this into a digital file I could use one of my programs to erase that and just have the flowers if I wanted Um So yeah, so so the oil pastels are fabulous, but they do have an odor now most of the time I don't use them a ton. So most of the time I keep the box closed I use what I need to and then I put it away so that it doesn't really Bother me, but there is an odor So if you're sensitive to that kind of thing like I am it's going to bother you um She works at the I think it's the shehalis store sue my parents live in rochester washington And my two, uh, baby sisters Slash nieces, which is a long story. We won't get into right now on camera. Um, but they both I think live in olympia and, um tiffani works at the shehalis store and if you go in go to framing and tell tiffani. I said hey Um Thank you. So ian the other paper I really like drawing on just for doing sketches dollar stored um drawing paper It's very inexpensive, but I also use these canton excel bristol vellum board Papers I get them when they're usually like buy one get one free And they're great for just doing mixed media on or ink But also just drawing on especially if you're planning on scanning it and reproducing it because there's no Texture to the paper All right, so should we do we have a few minutes? Um, should we do another quick one in one of the other books? Excellent this one did bleed look So you can't do anything on the back side. This is going to have to be a single-sided journal Let's work on the mole skin We'll do something quick in the mole skin Thank you So the portfolio are very easy to get they're very reason they're reasonably priced. I agree with both of those sentiments Um in where I live they're available at the office supply. You don't even have to go to the art supply store Sure Okay, so let's get another piece of deli paper just in case Now if you don't have deli paper for this sort of thing you can of course use like wax paper from your dollar store It's just instead of in sheets. It's going to be in a roll But that's very inexpensive if you have a restaurant supply or kitchen supply store Um, then you can get like sheet boxes of deli paper like 500 or a thousand sheets. It's not expensive All right, so let's do another one and let's Let's start this time with Hmm the neocolors So these are our neocolors. We'll switch up our our color Colors a little bit. I'm going to start with this yellow one. This is Sahara yellow I'm glad I'm able to read these without any um reading glasses on out first. We're going to start with our pencil sketch. Let's see Let's see if we can do like a little bit different shape of flower And these are just you know kind of made up suggestions of flowers they're not I'm not looking at a book or or anything like that now I love the loose sketchy lines because It adds to you know The charm of the kind of loose piece of artwork if I wanted a realistic thing then I would take a picture Yeah, so deli paper makes great collage paper and yeah cosco has it if you have access to a cosco or a winco I think winco has it too Sometimes you can get something called sandwich wrap which is basically the same thing It's not exactly the same but it's close So literally I'm just coloring on my page with the yellow crayon And we're going to go in with one of our brushes. I like this little zen Um royal and langenacle zen number 10 brush This is brush number z 83 sc For your information and somebody's going to have to remind me later what links and things that I said if any that I would put in the description You guys I've been messing up on that lately and I'm So glad I love you guys because you all comment. Hey, jena you you forgot the link and I love that So keep doing that. I take no offense. I do forget the links Things like I said have just been crazy around here lately. So Me forgetting stuff. Yeah, that's just par for the course So look how bright that yellow became when I got it wet Okay, we're gonna go and add the distress yellow now if you have a couple different brands of you know water soluble crayons You know, it's like anything else. Don't think like you have to just use one thing Mix them up if you want who says you can't And if they do say you can't don't listen. Why are you listening to them? And I have no plan. I don't know. I don't know. I have the urge to use yellow. So we're going to Yeah, so if you have a pound shop as they say in the uk or As we say a dollar dollar store, you know, look there Especially if you're on a tight budget because and you and you can't get around like I don't you know I can't always get around everywhere um You can get roll a roll of wax paper or um grease proof paper or deli paper. Um Many times in the kitchen supply section of your dollar store I gotta say I'm liking that already. I don't know why I'm using yellow. I have no plan. I'm just you know My instinct said oh yellow So we grabbed yellow Um, I really like that a lot. Let's go with this bright green Now some of these stay water soluble after they're dry. Some of them don't I do believe this Distress crayons is one that does not so once it's dry It's there and it's not going anywhere I could be wrong I'm frequently wrong. We've had that discussion already Now when you color with them directly on the paper as I'm doing you can see that you don't always lose The crayon marks the drawing marks now depending on the look you're looking going for that may be okay And you may like that But this is why you should do little practice journals with your supplies so that you know what they'll do When you're working on a painting you'll know how it'll react and you can get some kind of idea That's a great idea lisa. I now that you said there's three more packs of them. I'm gonna have to go see if I need them I love the yellow. It's very cheery Um Oh, thank you 50 pe and is 50 cents um us isn't it $2 shop. Well, whatever your budget shop is go there first. That's what I would do It's what I do do. What do you mean what I would do? It's what I do do I kind of want to add some turquoise to that because you know, that's what I do, right? If we mix it too much with the yellow, we're going to get green flowers though I'm wondering if we should do orange instead. That might be interesting Um, let's try another neocolor crayon. This is neocolor Or this is just orange So when you're you know building up colors like this and something You know, you want to I want to add turquoise to this But I really kind of can't because the yellow if I do that on these flowers. It'll just turn green It won't be attractive. So I'm choosing orange instead. It can mix with the yellow and it'll be okay So remember your colors. You don't want to get brown. Oops Did you see what I did? I dipped to this end in the water Remember your colors. You don't want to get brown flowers or you know Green flowers unless that's what you're going for Now you can also activate your crayons with A clear gesso or matte medium instead of water. So remember that and then in theory Um, once it's dry, it shouldn't move around in my experience. It still moves around a little bit But a lot less than if you don't do that. Where's that color? I like that color Yeah, I don't know what the exchange rate is right now Not that I can keep track of that on on get any given day That's what computers are for right my brain is so fried you guys I spent most of yesterday in a photoshop class And I think I learned a lot my my brain is fried I have another class tomorrow, but it's on a different computer thing That's another reason why you know, I haven't gotten a lot done because in all my wisdom I decided oh, let's do the computer classes now Because that's brilliant It does look like spring right So we're going to add some red. This is what colors this ruby red So I'm going to go easy with this red. I don't know how bright it's going to be So I'm going to do one flower at a time You can always add more so just like with any other water soluble media or paint You know add a little bit and then activate it and then go back and you can always add more But it's it's easier to add more than it is to take it away Now I have to say this paper is reacting better and there's no bleed through on the back You can Ian I agree with that and there's something nice with using these crayons in that you can leave some of the you know crayon Um sketching marks um And also activate some and get the color it gives you a really nice look Oh, will it lift these generally in my experience don't lift well none of them. They don't lift well Not like watercolor paints Especially like the oil pastels. They don't lift I I wouldn't even try I'm losing track of the conversation, but hang on a second. I'll catch up in just a minute So I'm really not putting a lot of this color on here and look how bright and vibrant it is So here right here. We'll try. Oh, we'll try lifting it. So I just put some water right there And see you can see that it doesn't really lift very well It'll lift a little bit But red especially even in the watercolor paints is a hard color to lift Okay, let's see. Hey Sharon That's interesting. Joan vodka I'm gonna have to try that. I think we've got some russian vodka around here somewhere But we have the cheap stuff too. I won't race the russian vodka on that. Let's see oops Confuse your martini glass for your water jar. Okay. Oops I've confused my coffee and tea for my water glass. That's happened Hi Sharon. So yeah, Ian. That's what I have found. So these you don't really You use the minimum amount of water to activate them you don't really use a ton of water like you do with watercolor paints Because that really doesn't work I'm gonna go in with I'm gonna work on the stems a little bit. We're gonna go I'm just gonna pick a color. I'm not gonna think about it. Do I want to use that one way? I'm gonna go back to the distressed crayons. I'm gonna use this one is peacock feathers You know, I'm gonna get my turquoise in there somewhere So they're different. I mean, yes, they're water soluble soluble, but they're very different than your uh watercolor paints They're gonna react differently You're not going to um be as easily able to do some of the washes and things and glazing But if you get used to working with them, you know You can do a base layer of your watercolor paint and then go in and add a little bit of watercolor crayon To give you a little bit different, you know effect and use them together because we're water We're mixed media artists, right? So we can break all those rules that say we can't do that Yep, you say hello to tiffani for me sue She's a good kid She and megan are about to get married. So In june, I think Um, let's try this one This is the target crayon Now if you do create a piece of artwork that you love with some of these materials do me a favor Scan it Because you know, not all of these are going to be lightfast And you know, then a few years down the road, you're going to be oh man You know, all the colors have faded or they've all turned brown Scan it scan it right away scan it's while while it's fresh um, and um, you're going to save yourself a lot of headaches um And at the same time you won't have to worry about you know Finding Lightfast products that are in your budget just use whatever it makes you happy and just scan it afterwards Okay, I want to add a little bit. Let's see. We're going to go in. I keep wanting to go back to that purple See, I love this purple color. I've got to be careful Because if I add it into the wrong place and it mixes with the orange too much It's going to make brown purple and orange make brown I almost stuck the crayon in the water which you can do and i'm going to show you on a sample So so far we've drawn on the paper and activated the crayon We've painted the crayon with water and picked up the pigment that way The other way that you can do this with your any of your water soluble materials like your pencils and your crayons Is you can um dip them in the water And then draw on the paper with them and i'm going to Hey, hello I'm going to show you in a minute The target crayons work great and they're inexpensive. They you know, they just only they only come in the eight colors They're in the kids craft supply aisle. Um, but they're fabulous. They work. They work wonderfully I really kind of want to add a dark blue see Pains gray neo color crayon. That's what I want. So this is paints gray Which I think the paints gray crayon was the first one I bought to be honest Which those of you who know me won't be surprised, but I do think it's the first neo color two color I bought I think I bought a few skin tones in the paints gray Because I think I was taking um lifebook So, you know Okay, let's try this Yeah, it's a I agree with you Ian. It's really good practice to just scan all of your artwork So the target these are a kids art supply There's no information on light fastness or anything my guess would be these are going to fade or turn brown or gray Um after a while if exposed to the sun especially Now your neo color twos I believe Let's see before I say anything Maybe they don't So your neo color twos I don't think they don't have the light fastness on the crayon that daniel smith do Let's see. Let me look at another one I know the neo color twos are not the artist grade water soluble crayon that car and dash makes They do make one that's more expensive believe it or not And it is their water of their artist grade I don't see any light fastness information on the crayon. There may be some on the website But these are their student grade crayon. They do have one that's more expensive um The distress crayons. I don't believe there's any light fastness information Um neither is there for the prima or any of these others the only one that does is the daniel smith So a good practice to get into is just to scan things And you know if you've done it in a book it's not going to really be exposed to the sun too much So you're probably going to be fine The portfolio oil pasta water soluble oil pastels eve The portfolios and the primas they're both very similar So one way I kind of keep my lines loose and sketchy is I hold my pen kind of far back So that I purposefully have less control over it Um, sometimes you've seen me do the sketches with my non dominant hand For the same reason So like watercolor paints and other water soluble materials The ink or crayon is going to go where you put the water So when you're working with any of these materials, whether it's a pen or a pencil or that watercolor paints Just be conscious of where you put your water Because that's where your Color is going to go to I like that I do think we need to Where's that purple crayon and my plate? So we're going to do this On that plate and just color some of the crayon on the plate And in my travel watercolor my travel art kit I carry a small set of watercolor paints But I also carry the 10 color set of neocolor twos And I make sure that the colors in the neocolors are different than what's in my watercolor paints So that I have a greater variety of colors should I need them There we go Because who doesn't love a good splatter All right, make sure to sign your work. I should probably dry this first before I do that There is a spray in Um, it is made by crylon And hang on a second. I'll get it for you um that you can put on your um Any of your artwork really but especially your water soluble artwork And it does provide some extra UV protection Let me dry this first I love my intense pencils. I'm not a big fan of the intense blocks, but that's just because I find them um Fiddly to use Makes a UV archival spray Now this is the matte and it has um non yellowing protection and UV protection So if you have something like this, especially if you're going to hang it on the wall And you're not sure about it being lightfast Give it a couple of quick easy light coats of this first before you hang it up and let it dry Okay, okay And now let's see if I missed anything else um Yeah, so the portfolios are cheaper Um, but then the primas but the primas have a few more colors But I and I have mine in my box together. I like them both equally I love the crylon spray. This is fab This is fabulous stuff. I just bought a new can at hobby lobby. I used a coupon. It's 1099 without the coupon Sure, of course you can sunshine art. We will all go check you out Yes, so you can do that and what I was going to do was um, oh hold on I have no more room on my table you guys okay Let's just put that there Put that there put that there. Okay So I'm going to just grab kind of a dark color so that we can see it All right, so one of the ways you can use your current year any and this works with any of them If it's water soluble, you can do this. I'm going to zoom in as much as I can That's it All right. Here's our little sample card. We're doing so you can do like what ean said you can Dip your crayon in Um, you can get the brush wet and and get the pigment off the crayon and then flick it and just get your splatters You can also dip your crayon in your water And then look what happens So if you get your crayon wet or and this works really well too with um Like the stabilo pencils any of your watercolor pencils, so that's another way that you can use these So think outside the box don't just color them on paper and then get it wet Um get it wet with a brush and do your splattering or painting dip it in the water and do your painting Crylon has an odor della. So you have to use it outside Any of your carnal any anything that's a spray can item Spray paint clear coat and use it outside and I have to wear a mask when I use it And make sure I have my rescue inhaler handy Yeah, so that works really well the knee and like I said caron dosh does have a professional grade version of the neocolor two I don't know what they're called and it's a water soluble crayon. Uh, but Um, I I heard it's a lot more expensive I don't own them my own neocolor twos. That's fine for me And you can see the fun effects you get this is just great and the neocolor twos are really well pigmented, but you can do this with any So you could do it with one of these this is the target one My little piece of paper is full another piece of paper So here's the target, um up and up gel crayon and just dip it in the water And the different crayons are going to react differently to being dipped in the water like that. So Yeah, you have to use them outside and you have to if you have any issues with breathing breathing or asthma wear a mask Make sure you've got your medication and probably don't do it when you're home alone just in case So this is the mayped helix one dipped in water I'm just trying to pick some blues here. So here is Here's the daniel smith watercolor stick and this is cobalt blue Now you can like these others you can stick it right in the water Now this one is It does have the light fastness on here, but I can't read it right now Oh, this is it does have excellent light fastness. So The daniel smith crayons for the most part Um, some colors some of the pigments aren't light fast. Um, I think this one is one of them opera pink It has a light fastness of um for it's not fabulous, but opera pink is not even in the regular paints is not great Um, this one is excellent So, you know About I wouldn't be too concerned about that, especially if you have a budget to use what you can afford Does anybody have any other questions? Now we'll probably do a few a couple more of these with the playing with the crayons um In some of the other journals will also be in the future working with pencils And maybe some markers and pens I do have some of those that are water soluble Um, so those are coming up now. I will have to say next week um, I Won't be live at all and I know I can hear you all grumbling already before I even say it um there is painting work going on at my house Monday to thursday and And standing and drywall repair. There is no way on the planet. There is not going to be too much background noise So instead of dealing with that, we're going to just skip a week and take a little vacation There are videos already scheduled to air for you um, but and I may tape a few things Um in maybe fast forward without any sound for you Um, but there won't be any live broadcasts. So, uh, but we will return the week after and we will return with a Bang and we will be working with more with the crayons and the pencils and the markers and doing more experimenting with watercolor materials Um in the in the new journals and trying them all out We are going to do watercolor pencils I I I'm I'm being forced to take a vacation Uh, yeah, so, you know, william my painter is a very nice elderly man from down the street who has a painting business um, but um There's no way and I like him a lot, but he's going to be loud so William and son's painting and by the way, if you are in the sandals a bay area give them a call look them up on um, the internet Fabulous family they have their own painting business their neighbors from down the street All right, that's it for today. Don't forget the most important thing besides supporting my channel like sharing and subscribing Go out and do something nice for yourself. Okay, because you deserve it. I know you do And this holiday season is crazy whether you have extra projects going on or not. It's just because it's the holidays It's crazy. So remember to take a deep breath Do some art do what you need to to stay calm and relaxed And don't forget. We're all here for you if you need anything join the facebook group And if you have any questions comments or concerns, don't forget to tag me in your post All right. I'll see you all later And I yep now I got to clean up my office because it's a disaster All right. Bye guys