 start and then I do have a sketch in my sketchbook. If you saw that over on Instagram or Facebook then you've got a preview of what I am going to be painting. As long as this works we're hoping this is going to continue to work. We'll see how that goes. I should probably plug in so it doesn't drain my battery. But do you have any questions? Because you know first time live here I try to keep up with questions on my YouTube videos. I use an app that allows like even if you comment on old things it allows me to see the comments in real time so that sort of thing. Favorite watercolors are Daniel Smith by far. You can use a lot of others but how do I seal my watercolor cards? I don't seal them. Favorite media I like all the mediums. Recommend watercolor brushes good as good like the silver brushes but aren't made with squirrels. That I don't know. I haven't found any others that I find of the quality of the silver brushes. Except wait there is one hold on there is one but no it's not this one. There's one and I will show you this brush. This one I have not even used yet because I'm afraid to use it and it is called a Windsor and Newton. You can see that. Is it going to focus on that? Maybe it's not going to focus on that. A Windsor and Newton series 7. Sable. I don't know is Sable still squirrel? Anyway this sucker was three hundred dollars. Three hundred bucks and it holds water the same way and even better than the silver brushes but I don't think anybody else wants to buy a three hundred dollar brush. So this thing is a beauty and a wonder and I have to I have to use it. I have to use it. I can't just buy it and then sit there and look at it. Try to use watercolor ground to paint on boxes. Can't get good coverage. I use the Tim Holtz little round tool the little round one to apply it on there. Hobbies that don't include crafting. Gosh no I don't have time for anything. Saying I'm afraid of something. Yes I'm afraid just like everybody else is. Yeah crazy for one brush. It is like ridiculously crazy. Oh so you bought the four and the six. Are they good? Have you compared them to the silver brushes? Once you finish the watercolor card can the colors bleed after scent? Generally yes because watercolors can be rewet so if somebody squirts it the colors may move. Get a smooth coverage with the little stamp or yes. I cut really smooth coverage. If you look at my video go back month or two during the CHA time frame. Use a $300 brush it's only precious if you die and somebody else gets to use. I know I know I have to do it. No I don't really do acrylics. I haven't really gotten it into acrylics that's like I'll know their whole thing to buy and get into and I don't really have much. They're about the same as the black velvet brushes. Okay and I haven't compared prices on the smaller ones. I only when that was the one that was recommended by a teacher it was like I think I'm gonna try it because I had all the other stuff for class and I was prepared to spend a couple hundred dollars if I needed to on paints so since I didn't have to spend on anything else I thought well let me just spend on a brush so and I hope you guys don't mind I'm wearing my jammies. I put my jammies on after I walked the dogs and we had baths because I got soaking wet. I just put my PJs back on because it's Sunday. Do I love watercolor now as much as Copics? I probably even love it more right now because I'm learning and the fact that I'm learning makes me love it. I love my Copics. I'm never gonna stop loving them but yeah for PJs every day size six and seven about $80 each or together because yeah they are pricy. Need to watercolor it is Daniel Smith heavy package of small tubes. Yes if you go to the Ellen Hudson site and well you can actually click through my site yesterday's post. I have a link to a whole kit if you want to get the whole kit because Ellen put these together and it's called the Sandy All Knock Bundle which is kind of crazy. Somebody has a product with my name on it but it's a group of things. It's watercolor paper and this little set of paints. It's a little set of six paints and the reason that it's a bundle is because I have my watercolor class my exploring watercolor on my blog yes it's on sale as well and in that class I teach you how to use just three warm and three cool colors red yellow and blue red yellow blue so if you want to take that class you can do that so yes you get 10% extra off the price that's already off so do it now and I don't know if they've sold out of the or given away I guess whatever all of the dot cards but I have my Sandy All Knock card and they are giving away I think they had a hundred of them so depending on how many orders have been placed you might still be able to get it six and seven were $80 together okay that's not too bad given what brushes are do I ever do plen air painting I do sometimes I want to do more but I need to either break free of the dogs a little bit maybe I'm gonna go take a class or something to get myself out there and doing it really new subscribers since yesterday well you're probably my newest subscriber and yes there is a watercolor class coming on flowers at some point I'm asking fluid okay let me get back I had a question that I was starting to answer and then I lost it it disappeared so re-ask if I've missed your question watercolor flower class is going to be coming and I will tell you guys I've told you on for the little tiny number of you who subscribe to my second channel it's called two things in a rant and on my page my YouTube page down in like the bottom right corner I think it is as associated channels you can find that one okay the dot card yes I will explain that if you go to my other channel there's a video over there and I do kind of vlog things over there and little short videos and puppy videos feeling puppies and on that channel I talked about a new website so now all of you on YouTube get to hear about my new website I hope you don't crash it there's nothing that you can see up there yet but you can sign up for notifications I did send out my first notice to everybody who already subscribed had a couple hundred subscribers already which is exciting and it's called art-classes.com so you can sign up there for more information there is a new class that's ready to go it's all of all of the classes that exist right now on my blog are going to exist over there and you're gonna be able to just take the same class you don't have to rebuy it however I'm having like I have to figure out how to import all of you and all of the classes you already bought so that they're live when you get over there that's the next big challenge we've got the content up and so now that we've got the content there if you happen to go to that website and you see like the whole site more than just the little coming soon box on the front page then don't buy anything yet until it's all live because if you buy something it might not stay there because we're we're still working through it so you'll be in my house tomorrow huh don't do that okay dot card let me grab one and I will show you I don't actually have my own dot card which is a little ironic because one would think I would have a stash of them she told me they were going to give me a bunch but I have Shirley Trevina's palette so a dot card is this it has a whole bunch of little dots of paint these are actual paint they take the paint they splooge them on these are all done by hand say again the name of the website art-classes.com and then you can take your brush and you can wet that and actually use that as paint and the reason you want to potentially get my dot card which you can get for free if you buy a Daniel Smith product while supplies last on these dot cards then you can actually get this and try out my colors and decide if you think I'm full of crap in the colors that I picked it was hard picking 18 and whoever you are L craft I wish you would go away that would be really nice I don't know if I can block you but I'm going to as soon as the video is done so if you're looking to be blocked from my channel you scored okay how long do those last well it depends on how long you use the paint the paint dots are like that you can see that up close so you know depends on how much you paint I paint a whole bunch you reported them thank you can I block them here oh look at that I can do that right here on my screen hopefully that means they're gone I don't know why people come when they're unhappy there's also another video on my other channel if you want to read that one or read one watch that one that's all about being kind to each other and that was not kind so there you go all right what other questions did I miss because I was yammering I answered the dot card thing thank you for reporting and you either gone good I wasn't sure if blocking only blocked it for me or blocked it for all of you don't let the negative steel art joy absolutely yeah I'm not in my best-looking phase right now which is probably kind of silly I should have maybe I dreamed about cheese no nope sorry Brian not a cheese dreamer best place to get Daniel Smith paints right now they're on sale at Ellen Hudson so I would recommend that how long do the dot cards last it like I said it depends on how I like pie love pie how much you paint with them because there's a little bit of paint on there just not very much thank you for being so real well good well we'll see if Justin's gonna behave himself love the videos painting and Copic skills are awesome thank you very much for that ever use the grounds yes look on my channel for the word grounds if you do a search then you can find a video showing how I did it so for the person who is trying to apply them you can watch that video to find out how I smush the color on using the Tim Holtz application tool hello Netherlands and everybody else of course I'm so excited there's like all these wonderful people here it's like I'm I have you all in my studio yay digital images smear when you're watercoloring you have to have a printer with ink that works with watercolor because my printer doesn't either so I can't use digital's and do watercolor another from Washington State yay oh I'm your first choice for a live video yay what I recommend to beginners wow it depends on what you want I recommend that you look at a lot of different things and see what appeals to you most and don't just buy what I say yes the colors are listed on my blog yesterday don't listen to just what I say or just what one other or two other people say watch a bunch of things and see what mediums appeal to your eye the most personally I think colored pencil is the most controllable for new people who have never done any art before watercolor pencils are the second easiest one because you have the ability to do like a pencil you're used to writing so it's a hand motion that you're familiar with and then you just add a little water to it that kind of moves you toward watercolor well Pennsylvania and Georgia will Daniel Smith bleed through Bible pages nope they don't what I do with art impression stamps do I have a class with that eventually I do want to have a class with that but I have like a whole list of things I need to have classes with so we will see that's watercolor pencils okay here's another one of those it's like it's the same as the $300 brush issue because watercolor pencils you can go really cheap and you can go really expensive and a lot of circumstances like with Bibles the the least expensive ones work fine because you're not going to get really intense color in most Bibles anyway because of the paper and if you like a soft look then inexpensive pencils are great okay Brian I think you have decided you want to go away too so bye bye it's interesting questions but I'm a little tired of them so oh wait no I didn't block them I only deleted the message okay Brian if you put more questions up I am gonna hit the block button next time okay so watercolor pencils the ones that I like the most like my favorites are the expensive Karen Dash pencils they're from Sweden and they're like really fabulous okay so I think it's just is it Justin you guys want me to get rid of so watercolor pencils you can go low-end you can go high-end one of the kind of medium ones that I like a lot are the Albrecht Durer ones and if you can get a set of those then that that often kind of splits the difference but if you're willing to spend $4 a pencil and go for the fancy ones because what I do find in general with any kind of stuff that you use any kind of art supplies you use the more you pay the better quality you get same with paper same with craft supplies same with anything if you're looking to be cheap it's just gonna be what it is unfortunately your kind respected man has a lot of power and likes oh goodness okay you definitely want to be blocked bye bye another one bites the dust hey hey brushes again with brushes if you get a good brush you're gonna have a whole lot better luck with with spending more money on a good brush the silver black velvet brand is the one that I like the best so when I use the most you can go back and watch the early part of the video and see $300 brush if you want to spend $300 on a brush but probably not boy there are trolls out like crazy a lot of people have said once I turn them on to the silver black brush black velvet brushes they just won't go back now favorite watercolor paper arches and I like the rough because I like texture but a lot of people don't Princeton Neptune I've had a lot of trouble with the bristles falling out so I haven't really liked them and they don't hold water the same way that the silver brushes do I get the brushes from I shop at Ellen Hudson for just about everything unless I'm like physically in the Daniel Smith store because then everything leaps into my chart my cart favorite kind of paper for ziggs you kind of need something a little smoother for the ziggs because they don't work super well with lumpy paper even though I use them sometimes with that silly children will just ignore them block them as I can and yes Ellen Hudson ships faster other crafty stores that take forever I've ordered things from some of them and it takes like two to three weeks I am not patient I'm just gonna tell you that right now I need everything right away when I want it well hello Emma yes you can ask a technique question glitter mama I don't know if I can verbally explain it or if I would have to demonstrate something print on watercolor paper without jamming your printer that I don't know it really depends on your printer and how it takes paper and all that kind of stuff so yes Ellen is definitely one of the faster shippers like I can order one day and it will be at my house the next because I live really close but I can also order in the morning and drive to her shop and pick it up that is how bad I am best way to cover a mistake and repaint um I have been told now this is I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you this I have not tried this but in my last watercolor class that I took people talked about soaking the whole dang piece of paper in the bathtub and they just washed all the color off it if you have staining colors that won't necessarily work okay if I can find Maximilian when he comes across the screen I will do that and block him the the bathtub thing I have not tried yet most of the time it's just paper I start over I just toss it and throw at the recycle bin and start over you with some brands of paper you can use the other side so it really depends on that so many of an order you place from scrapbook store in July of 2016 exactly there you go kind of a problem right okay tip tippy you want to go bye-bye too and goodness gracious people there are just trolley trolls everywhere do I have it my own collection of watercolors coming out it's not a collection of watercolors but it is Daniel Smith watercolors this is not my card but I have a dot card and you can see that on my blog from yesterday there's a video yesterday that shows you how I put it into my palette and how I chose my colors and all that kind of stuff so when I find my inspiration whatever my mood is that day for the most part I try to be prolific because if you've ever heard the phrase that it takes 10 that 10,000 hours to get good at something just spend my 10,000 hours I just want to spend them and get done with it because I do not have that many hours left on the planet so oh did I miss him again shoot sorry sorry sorry okay Maximilian bye-bye see ya wait you didn't go bye-bye no that was just your message they got deleted well hopefully you got blocked too goodness gracious so I just try to keep creating and creating and creating sometimes that means just taking stamps and doing scenes and all that kind of stuff but other times I have one of the things that I have let me show you with all this watercolor stuff I'm doing I have a gajillion sketchbooks that I'm testing out and trying to see if I like them you had to only a troll patrol would be awesome and what I did was go to a folder where I have a lot of my vacation pictures that I've wanted to paint and printed them out at Costco and I also went to a site called paint my photo PMP comm I think is the URL for it and they have pictures that other people upload that you can paint so people who take gorgeous pictures put them there it's always a time this one's a fraud you didn't pay for any painting for me so you can go bye-bye troll troll troll make a water painting with oh goodness gracious what is wrong with people Prima confections watercolors I do not like they call them artist quality yes I have used the dart Martin duck martins hydras you can look on my channel for those they are coming from the internet yes they have no life the mouse over the comments so they go by to so they go too fast yeah periscope was bad but this is crazy they do need prayer we could all stop and pray for them right now okay I've lost it I have totally lost it yeah I think there's more pair more people here troll wise than periscope simply because there are more people on youtube than on on periscope and twitter it's just a bigger platform and they do sidetrack me which is kind of a problem but hopefully if we have a couple of live broadcasts and block them all then they won't come to the next broadcast trying new line watercolor yes it is challenging because you have to create your own outlines in some way whether you do that with a pencil or with doing a um watch my jiggy yeah block party big time just keep reporting these people as they come by if I miss them I love the video with Ellen Hudson yeah over on Ellen Hudson's channel I have a thing about painting trees so if you want to see a video about painting trees you can go watch that uh no I'm not really teaching anymore in person that just did not turn out to be my the best use of my time so for the most part I am uh wow goodness gracious uh facebook live with people you let join your page um yeah I could do that but you're reporting like crazy good for you for the most part this is where my people are there are 65,000 people here and there's only like 4,000 over on facebook so I'm hoping that in the first couple times we knock out some of the other people that we don't want here uh tips for using watercolor cakes not really sure what you mean by watercolor cakes uh to report people or block them you can just hit click on their name and they some little box apparently comes up um that brings me back to a question I know I did not finish somebody asked me about the prima watercolors on the packaging and on amazon and everything it says that they are artist quality watercolors and they are not just want to let you know that so um yeah and the cakes are pans but the cakes are like when you buy them they're a little dry cake as opposed to a pan that you can also fill pans come empty uh you can report people for being jerks being abusive just lost me you see a circle going around well hopefully I will come back and not be circling around anyway to get moderators uh wish there was I don't know if there is maybe somebody can tell me that I will um I'm hoping to get a meeting with my youtube partner person so that I can kind of ask some questions like that beginning watercolor kit yes if you go to my blog from yesterday there is a link to my sandy unlock bundle and that gives you a lot of the basics that you need uh favorite brushes and watercolors for brush calligraphy that I do not have an answer for because I'm not a calligrapher that's not my gig for some people that is I don't see a whole lot of reason for um for perfecting like hand lettering that for me it's not a thing like I know there's people that that's their whole business they do because they do calligraphy calligraphy on projects I never plan to do that I'm not going to be doing any wedding invitations so for me it's just fun it's not something that I want to dive into and perfect it's just something I enjoy I'm doing the 30 day bible challenge 30 days of bible lettering challenge right now and I do sometimes some of the bible journaling challenges that include some lettering and that sort of thing but it's just because I'm a font geek it's not because I have any interest in becoming a good letterist so oh you're very welcome for the inspiring post Dr. P.H. Martin's Hydrus I like them they're very intense color they're the watercolor equivalent of the um by my way blank the pencils the ink pencil ink tense pencils yes because they mostly stay put once they're dry they stay put and you can layer on top of them without lifting the layer beneath so if you're one of those people who's concerned about um your watercolors running when you send a watercolor card then you might opt for the p.h. martins hydrus because those won't run I missed a bunch of questions sorry last question if you print digital watercolor print shop that uses a regular ink copy you have to test I can't tell you what copy or your printer is going to use anyway thank you guys for answering each other's questions yay a blank chart no I don't have blank charts for anything but Copics I do have if you go to sandy on that comm slash charts there are all of the charts that I've done of all the different mediums so if you want to see what the colors are what the sets are how they break out all the ones that I've done so far are are there on that page saw a bible journaling question um eventually I may do another bible journaling class on the new site I'm not positive because I have another thing going that I can't tell you about but just pray I'm just gonna say that because it's a cool thing uh let's see what else intense or fun yes they are how often do I clean my watercolor brushes I rinse them every time I use them and that's it I don't actually do anything else uh use the smartphone app no I actually don't use the smartphone app because I have all the markers so I don't actually need to but have a sip of code guess I could do that let's see are there any other questions or should we do a little painting kind of up to you guys if you want to sit and answer questions and I will do my painting and post it on Instagram later that's fine is YouTube live a thumbs up I don't know we're going to see how this works I want to look at it afterward and see how it works do I recommend a book for beginners on something and I paint paint paint paint paint okay let's see if changing the orientation of the phone so that it's the other way actually works let's find out because I'm going to take it out of my stand and I'm going to put it this way you're going to be looking at the ceiling for a second so hang tight because I have to fix my stand so that things kind of work here right back for a second and now let's see if that will go now I need to turn the phone the other way goodness gracious this is just being a pain in the drain sorry guys I'm feeling incredibly disorganized over this okay can you see is it vertical is it what what happened here okay nobody is talking so that means I can't see anything which probably means it's telling me it's a giraffe tilt it um goodness oh my gosh I'm just seeing the bad words showing up let me move my stand and then I can reach this because right now the way I have it set up I can't reach it okay this is the reason why I said if this video goes sideways that we might not keep this video live on youtube okay how about that does that work can you see now it's still vertical did it work let's see no it's telling me to rotate my device it won't let me do it horizontal which is really irritating okay is that April the giraffe well yeah I know it's still vertical it won't let me go horizontal vertical is apparently the only option we have and uh yeah but I guess that's the way it is it's what we're gonna have to have I still can't get it up on my computer so I must not be subscribed to myself um I have no idea what an asmr video is and I have no idea if it's even a clean thing that I can talk about okay that was not the rush I intended to pick up a different one here I've used the uh Gansai Tambi's quite a lot oh sorry I missed venom because venom is trying really hard to get himself blocked working at it but I have to be looking up and looking at the paper and talking all at the same time well if you turn your phone it's bigger so there you go trying to scroll back to report feel free to report away okay there we go there he is bye bye block so I did this sketch using a photograph from that paint my photos website they should do a video reacting asmr I have no idea what that is I hope I have not said something bad by by repeating what you've just typed in there uh this is a size 12 round in the silver black velvet yeah sorry I'm trying really hard to keep up with talking and looking and reading all at the same time but that is not super possible trying to do it all at once yes this is probably one of my other favorite colors quinacridone gold it is in my dot card my dot card includes my favorite 18 colors that don't include the six basics because in my pack the reason I didn't pick them even though like new gambos is one of my favorites um favorite colors I didn't include it in the palette because it's in the set of six so I wanted to have some different ones so I picked instead the permanent yellow deep which is a very similar color but slightly different so uh somebody told me in a video somewhere out on the webs wherever wherever it was I think it might have been kelly eddington in a video she did talked about using uh can you buy the class without all the supplies you have them all absolutely you can you can actually use whatever paints you have whatever paints you want you can use your gansai tambi you can use anything um I recommend that you use the ones that I suggest because you're gonna get those results um I haven't been impressed with the