 Hey guys, we're going to revisit an old tip. So this is a page I did recently for Lifebook. If you want to learn more about this lesson, it's Lifebook for 2015, Week 17. I'm not going to tell you exactly what I did because you really should go pay for Lifebook and get the lesson from there. But I will tell you that contrary to the lesson, I did a lot of the shading around my face with some Sumi ink mixed with water, thinned down with water. And I get my Sumi ink at Daiso. Sumi ink I like to use. It's nice thin. It's kind of a grayish yellowish brown color. I mean grayish yellowish black color. And I really like the way it comes out on the page. It also is fairly permanent when it's dry. And I like using it. But as I was doing this, I was thinking I would really like to try something like this again with something that had more golden tones. So in the past, on a previous video on my channel somewhere, and I don't remember where, you guys are going to have to look it up. I don't know. I had gotten this golden transparent shading gray. Now this is the original airbrush color. They've taken this same paint and it's now repackaged and it's called High Flow. It's the same paint, same color. I really like the shading gray color. I've used it on a lot of previous pages. And I figured out how to take a little bit of the black golden fluid acrylic and a whole bunch of airbrush medium and basically make my own. Because as you all know, golden products are expensive. I did get this one on clearance after they changed the packaging. This was on clearance literally for 99 cents. That was a while ago though. So then I thought why couldn't I do that with something that's more of a goldish brownish like sepia color. I did go to my Fine Arts supply store today. And I got a High Flow in sepia. So this is a really great color, the sepia color. And this little bottle will cost like six dollars. That's a lot of money for one ounce of product. I am wondering if I can take a brown color in fluid acrylic that's maybe similar to this that I already have and make something that's more reminiscent of the transparent shading gray. Or if I can thin this out and extend it with some airbrush medium to make it last longer. So we're going to do some experimenting here. I've got my airbrush medium. I've got a bottle. This is from my stash of empty bottles and boxes and things. This is actually a candy making bottle. It's a good bottle for this. It's got a nice dispenser top. I'm having trouble with my left hand today. I'm going to open things. There we go. It's got a nice dispenser top that I'll be able to use to pour a little bit out with. And the lid stays on there pretty tightly so it won't dry out. So we're going to do some experimenting. I'm going to first search for a brown in my stash of fluid acrylics that's similar to the sepia color. I may go get another bottle. We're going to try a couple things. So I'll be right back. Just so that you have some comparisons. This is the transparent shading gray color from golden straight out of the bottle. This is the one that I made. I'll shake it up a little bit. It's pretty close. I'm okay with the way these two look. And actually when they're dry they are pretty similar. Probably it's a little closer even if I mix it up. It's been sitting for a little bit. So now we're going to try that with the sepia. Now this is the one I just bought. Let's see if there's a seal inside here. Yes there is. So this is the sepia color from golden in their hypho. That's a really great color. So I'm going to start with raw umber. And this is golden fluid acrylic in raw umber. And I do have it in a high flow already. But I think I'm going to just use the fluid acrylic. I'm going to start out with just a couple drops of paint. I think that's what I did last time. I might need to put some BBs in here to help keep things all mixed up. I probably should put some in the other bottle too because I bet I didn't do that. So BB shot will help you keep things mixed up inside when you're doing things like this. And you can get a vial of, there's like 350 BBs in here and this little vial costs like 99 cents or something at Walmart. So let's put a little more paint. Put the lid back on. Put my finger over just in case. The color's not bad but there's not enough paint in there. So let's add some more paint. And I think I can get this raw umber to be pretty close but I don't think it's going to be the exact right color because I don't think it's yellow enough but I don't know, maybe I'll be surprised. Maybe I'll be surprised, that looks pretty good. Now that looks pretty good but I think now it doesn't have enough airbrush medium in it. It's a little thick. And this is how I did the other one and I just went back and forth with paint and airbrush medium and mixing it until I got it right. Because you're using a medium instead of water you don't have to worry about it evaporating or not holding the pigment. Oh, there we go. So I like that, that's pretty close. So I have another idea though for something even better. I need to go get another bottle though. I'll be right back. Okay, now this idea is even better because it doesn't require you to have a golden fluid acrylic. Now you could try doing this type of thing with any paint. Mix it with a medium because then you don't have to worry about breaking down the binders in your paint. If you mix it with water and you put too much water to paint ratio then you break down the binders in the paint and you take the chance of it not really sticking to the project that you're working on. So using a medium is always a better idea. If you don't have airbrush medium or you can't find it you can use glazing medium that will work too. Anything that's liquidy and that's going to make it transparent versus opaque because that's like the really nice thing about these is you have this transparent shading medium, this shading color that you can just layer on top of each other and on top of other paint colors without totally obliterating them and that's what I like about these. So I have this other bottle. This is an empty eye makeup remover bottle and I have this idea. So I thought to myself, what if somebody doesn't have, self, what if somebody doesn't have golden fluid acrylics to play with and do something like this with? Well, okay. You definitely could try it with a deco art fluid acrylics and I bet you you could do the same thing with theirs with the black and then do one with your raw, they do have a raw upper. But what if they don't even have that? What if they can't find them? My idea. What about watercolor? I don't know if watercolor will mix with the airbrush medium at all. I have no idea and I'm going to use this one because it's out and handy. This is Maymary blue, this is sepia watercolor. It could be any brand sepia watercolor for this. Use sepia or use the black. I'm going to use the sepia and I'm going to just squeeze right out of the tube and dollop, a little dollop of this paint. Keep in mind that tube watercolors, especially artist quality one like this one are very strongly pigmented and you probably don't need a lot. Start out with a little bit. You can always adjust your ratio as you're experimenting. Let me remember to stick some BBs in here. Put some airbrush medium. Try not to make a huge mess. We need more paint in there. Let's put some more paint in there because that is totally not enough. You could get an inexpensive brand of tube acrylic paints. I mean tube watercolor paints like Royal Langnickel or Mixed Up. Let's see what it looks like. Did I remember to clean my brush off? I don't even know. We need to add more paint. I guess I answered my first question because I wasn't sure if this would mix with the paint or not. I'll be right back. Adjusting my color a little bit, that's closer. I want to stop putting the May-Merry blue though. That one's expensive. I have this one that's an inexpensive watercolor from DickBlick. This is the DickBlick brand. It's an inexpensive brand. Again, this is Sepia. Because it's watercolor, it's already pretty translucent. You have to add more of it to the airbrush medium to get the color pigmentation I think that you want. Then the next trick is going to be to dry it and see if it is waterproof. If it's still water reactive or not, so let's find out. We're going to add a paper hair. Now the color pigmentation is definitely there, but it's a little bit too dark. Now let's add some more of the airbrush medium. We'll have to do just like we did with the other one. Oops. Bubble. That's better. I like it. It's a little bit different color because it's a different medium than the acrylic. It's a little less yellow. If you wanted it to be more yellow, you could always add a little drop of yellow to it. I actually like the color, so I'm going to leave it. Next, let's dry all of these and let's see if these watercolor ones are still water reactive after they're dry. I'm wearing a white top. I should have put an apron on before we did this. I hope I didn't get any paint on me. It's a brand new shirt. Okay, so let's see. Look at that. It's permanent. So because the airbrush medium is a permanent acrylic medium, when you mix the pigment with it, even if that pigment is in the form of watercolor, it's going to make it so that it is not able to be moved around anymore. That's interesting. I have Decowart media fluid acrylics. Use those. It's an affordable option for this. If you don't have those, use some inexpensive watercolors or some other fluid paints. But use what you have. Have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later.