 Hey Ian, how are you? You know, no matter what I do, my desk is never big enough. I know you all feel me. I know you all have the same problem. I'm gonna spray my watercolors again. There are so many things going on today. It's such a busy day for me today, stressful day kind of, but I have to find time to paint and chat with y'all because it'll keep me sane. Alright, so the first thing I'm gonna do this morning while we're waiting for people to join us is I'm going to cover this color swatch. Yes, Ian, I feel that. So the first thing I'm gonna do is cover my color key because I don't want it to get messed up, but I'm not gonna break out the laminating machine because I just don't feel like it right now. So we're gonna do it sort of the old-fashioned way, pre-laminating machine, and we're gonna do it with packing tape. Clear packing tape. And this way, as I'm using the palette, the little samples that I made won't get all messed up because they get accidentally wet because I am not great about not getting my things wet. Hi, the D. My husband says I can watch some of you all who have channels on my TV, but I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet, and I certainly don't want to watch my own channel on the TV because yeah, I know. So if you're gonna play with watercolors, and you've made your color key and you want to protect it like I always do so that it doesn't get wet and get all gross and you have to make another one, you need to cover it with something. You don't have to be super fancy about it. You don't have to get out a laminating machine. You don't have to make a little pocket. You can just cover it with packing tape. That'll work. I mean, unless you're crazy and you're like totally soaking your watercolors like in a bucket, which I don't know why you would do, the packing tape will be just fine. So then once I have it covered, I'm just gonna trim it. I'm gonna leave like an eighth of an inch around the edge. Just like I would if I was laminating it. I'll leave a little bit of an edge. And I'm a bit distracted today, so I'm hoping I'm leaving enough of an edge because my brain is not fully engaged in what I'm doing. All right. I'm just, there we go. So now we have our color key. I have videos on making color keys. I've made a lot of them. Okay, so this is just a little sample painting I did just earlier today. Using both the muted palette and then some of the neons. I really love it and I really wanted the neons so that I could use them like I do with neon acrylics to highlight my paintings and really make parts of it look like the sun is really brightly shining on the composition, whatever, whatever I'm painting. So I did this one earlier. We're not gonna do a face because that's a little hard for everybody. Hey, Mary. We're gonna do something much simpler, but this was a lot of fun and it was really quick. It's not perfect. It has some issues, but I was just playing and that's what I wanted to do and it works just great for what I was doing. So we're gonna open to the next page. Move that. Let's see. I'm gonna hold my book open with a little mini binder clip here. And the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna talk about the paints. Okay? So these are, as I've posted last night, this is my new Brights palette. I have yet to label it and yes, I do label them. In fact, it says Van Gogh, but I purged some of the Van Gogh paints that were here because they were duplicated somewhere else and so that doesn't need to be on there. There we go. And I turned this into my Brights palette. Now these are bright watercolors from a couple of different brands and the details and exact names are in the video description. Just FYI. So what I'm gonna tell you about these paints and where to find them is in the video description. Now, when I put this palette together, I knew right away that I wanted to compare these Japanese neon paints, these six big pans here with some artist quality bright paints. Most of your artist quality paints don't really make a true neon. Neons and fluorescent paints are not light fast. And my thing is, hold on. Let's try that. Fluorescent is not, fluorescent pigments are not light fast. So most of your artist quality paint brands are not, I don't know that any of them even make any. So these true neons, these came from Japan. They are not light fast and because they're Japanese ganzai watercolors, they're also pretty opaque. Which I'm okay with in this case because they're really pretty neons. These six smaller pans over here are as close as we're gonna get in Daniel Smith paints. That's right. These are Daniel Smith paints. Oops, here we go. Hey Kathy. So in the Daniel Smith paints, I emailed them and asked them, okay, this is what I'm trying to do for my YouTube channel. What was it exactly I wrote? I'm looking to try and create a neon artist quality light fast watercolor palette or as close to one as I can get with artist quality paints and to do some comparisons on the YouTube. So question is, which of your watercolors are the brightest and closest to neons? So they sent me six. I asked for certain kind of colors and they sent me They sent me some names I can't pronounce. So I did put them in this description, but I'm gonna shorten this one to quin yellow, but it's not qued awkward own. It's another quin. Pyro, orange, anoid, scarlet, opera pink, phthalo yellow green and manganese blue hue. I did type out the names again in the description and all of these Daniel Smith paints with the exception of aqua pink have a light fastness rating of one or two, which is good. There's go from one, which is excellent, all the way to four, which is fugitive, which is not, you know, sort of kind of light fast, but not really. They have one more rating, which is past four, which is just they can't even rate it or they didn't rate it. So the opera pink I already knew was a four. I have opera pink. I had it in my stash. I love this color and as you can see, it's very close in brightness to the pink over here in the Japanese watercolors. It's not fluorescent, but it is very bright. Then the phthalo yellow green, there's no yellow green over here, but it's also one that I already owned that is a really bright, pretty color. The yellow I also like. Now, the yellow is a light fastness of two. The orange is a one, the red, the scarlet is a one, the green and the blue are two. I can see all of these working very well together and they're going to be really pretty. And we're going to just play with them and create some just kind of abstract things with them. I also have some of the Japanese metallic paints here, and I have my muted Daniel Smith and M. Graham muted palette. Yes, these are Fine Tech and Ganzai metallics. So these are Japanese metallics. Hey, Paula, how are you? So we're going to use them together and we're going to actually, if you guys haven't heard of the blog called Doodle Wash, I do recommend that you look it up. It's a really fascinating blog and she has or he they have some posting about these neon watercolors of Japanese ones where they do something like this. And when I filmed this and did this, I said that it was inspired by Doodle Wash. So we're going to actually play some more in that similar manner. I I opera pink is not quite fugitive, but it's a four, which is not great. It might as well be. And I agree with you, Kathy. I love opera pink. It's always been one of my favorite Daniel Smith colors. So I think you guys are going to really love this exercise because it's really just about playing with your colors. And I'm going to get I guess I'm going to use this paper towel. OK, so Paula, I did put a link to eBay in the video description. If you Google Lumi neon watercolor, L-U-M-I, you're going to get a number of places to get them from. All of them are from Japan. That being said, it's really hard to get them from Japan. I had one shipment that got lost. And I never did get it. So they're they're kind of a pain to get. But I will say that I do think after playing with them, they're just the couple times I have. I'm really glad I did. So I'm going to start with in this particular exercise, you can just start with whatever color you want. And I think I'm going to start with the orange for no particular reason. Hey, Anne. So I'm going to just paint a circle. Or as close to one as I can. Look how bright that is. I don't even need to zoom you guys in close. Do I? I'll zoom you in a little closer. OK, a lot closer. That I'm going to rinse my brush off. And I'm going to just put some water in here. And I'm going to allow the pigment to bleed. It's going to follow the water. It's not going to, you know, go on to the dry paper when there's wet water right next to it. So I'm going to let it do what it wants to do. Oh, good. Hang on a second. I'm going to invite one of my friends to help out with questions. So let's give it a minute. And then we're going to have Anne on here helping us with questions. And I'm going to fix the screen so it stays on me. We'll see when she comes on. I'm going to go with another color. Let's see. Let's try this bright pink. Now, I did say today wasn't, you know, it was a stressful day for me. And so I won't get into it too much, mostly because I just feel like sometimes I'm just whining about stuff. But that being said, I don't have the steadiest hands on the planet today. Oh, Anne is here. Oh, she's maybe here. And if you're listening, I see your icon, but I don't see you. OK, so let's go back. So they come in a pack of six colors. You may be able to get them individually. I don't know, but I figured if I was going to have to order paint from Japan, then I was going to get all six of them. It did take forever for them to come. Thank you for posting the link in. You can get them on Amazon from a number of different sellers. You can also get them on eBay. I posted an eBay link in the description. Hi, Muriel. Can't hear you, Anne. I can see you now, but I can't hear you. And I do have my speaker on, so I should be able to hear you. We're having technical difficulties, you know, there's always something, right? All right, let's try now to mix it up a bit. And we're going to add in the Daniel Smith manganese blue. You do want to try to keep colors next to each other that are going to blend well. So don't put orange next to light green because you're going to get brown. And I don't think if you're trying to create a bright neon painting that that's what you want. Oh, we're flashing to Anne. So again, we're going to just try to go. Very light touch with the paintbrush. And this is also a great way to test your paints and, you know, to test do something like abstract that you don't have to worry about how that painting is going to turn out, if it's going to look like the real person's face or whatever. And you can just, you know, play and see how your colors blend. We're having speaker issues, or at least I think, Anne is can you hear me now? Yeah, I can hear you now. Ha, I accidentally muted my mic, of course, right? Yep. Oops. I can hear you now. Everybody welcome. And I love it when one of my art friends can come on live and help me with questions. I don't get distracted by painting. So go ahead and paint your to your heart's content. Gina, and I'm here to help you with the questions. You don't have multi task. Thank you. You're welcome. Excuse the barking in the background that Mailman came and delivered a package and my dogs go nuts. So I am I apologize if you hear barking in the background. So I'm just glad or some of this neon yellow on here. And I, you know, again, I have to say I'm really loving these paints more than I thought I would. This is definitely one of those things that I bought just because you guys kind of requested it on YouTube. And I was curious to see if anybody made them. Gee, thanks. Now I really want to buy these, Gina. Sorry. Be buying anything else. Well, the good news is they they're really small. They'll be easy. There you go. So I'm going to dry this. I am in the process of a big giant moon. And so I am packing my art room. A lot of the things I don't use on a daily basis are getting stored away because we're getting ready to put the house up for sale. So nothing's done unfortunately. Yeah, it looks like it. I love anything fluorescent and these look awesome. Yeah, just remember that when you're working with anything fluorescent, I don't care if it's watercolor, acrylic paint, marker, crayon, none of your fluorescent pigments are light fast. All of them do not scan well. So if you like to scan your artwork on a computer scanner to reproduce it, like to make it into a digital image, they don't scan well. You're better off photographing them. You can photograph them if you have the right lighting, but they do not they do not scan well at all and they're not light fast. So you do want to take a photo of it or something if you you create something that you really love. Yeah, that's true. So we're going to go in here and these are the some of the Japanese. Metallic paints. Oh, and there there in goes an abler alert. Oh. It just added the. Gee, thanks, Ian. Is it for the metallic paints or the neons? I think it looks like for the neons or the metallics. Let me look. It's for the metallics. Key show, gun side, Japanese watercolor paint, Lumie accent six color set for twenty dollars and ninety nine cents through prime, if you're a prime member. Yeah, and then there's also the fine tech set, which are these round ones and I but I believe they're both Japanese. Leave it to the Japanese to come up with good stuff. They always come up with watercolors. Yep. And I have to say I do love them and I love mixing up these some of these Japanese watercolors, even though they're more opaque than I'm used to with some of the other ones. Well, these round ones are fine tech and the square ones are the guns I. Yeah, these are fine tech. I put them all together because, you know, I do have a set of Japanese metallics, but I mean, Daniel Smith metallics, but I thought for today's broadcast that I should. Yeah, we know they're not. We know fine tech is not Japanese, but we're talking about the square ones. The square ones are Japanese. Yeah, but I said I thought they both were. Yeah. Oh, there we go. Yeah. That's my fault because, you know, I'm not completely with it today. It's OK. It happens, right? We all have those days. Hey, I'm never with it. Well, today has. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we have the same issues. That's why. So far, my day is not starting out too badly. I just there's some I'm just having anxiety issues, but my car is ready. From its recall repairs, like four days early because they evidently got the parts in. They weren't expecting to get the parts in. All right. The D has a question. Gina, have you tried the Yasi Moto? Yes. Yeah. Yasi Tomo actually Yasi Tomo. Watercolors, they look like student grade, but I heard they were good. I haven't. I haven't heard of them until now. Yasi Tomo. Thanks. Now I have to look them up. I do wish, you know, because I'm in the area I'm in in California, and we have a large Asian community, Japanese especially. I do wish we had a store that carried some of these things. So I could just go there and buy them. Yeah. Wouldn't it be nice? Yeah. We don't know. So really what I'm doing is I'm just doodling with my paint, these paints, and that enables me to practice with them and play with them and figure out how they work and how they move on the paper. Yeah. I like those fine tech, fine tech metallics. Those look awesome. Yeah. I do have to say I've used both of these, not a lot, but they are equal in my mind. Well, I'll be making a list. So when I move and I'm in my new home, I will definitely try and order these. You'll be able to order them, right? Yeah. I'll be said no more supplies until we move. Damn it. I want to put some black pen on here, but we have to dry this first. I don't know if your black pen is water soluble or not, because there's some black pens out there. They say they're permanent, but they're not permanent until they're completely dry too. So if you put water over them, you're going to get smudging and smearing. Yeah. And if you want to draw over your watercolor, of course you can with any pen, but you really want to have everything be dry. Yeah. For sure. You have more control that way over what happens. But I will hold this up to the camera. Whoops. Can you see that? Not only how bright those neons are, but look. Yeah. So pretty. And remember this blue that's on here is pretty bright. And it's an artist quality Daniel Smith paint. Thanks, Kathy. She said they're small and I say go for it. Yeah. Okay. So you can just create something like that. That's easy. It's pretty. I could see this on a tag or a card front. That is cool. Yeah. It is kind of Zen. And you could also put some of these colors down and then you could doodle a mandala over the top of it. Over in our group, my year 2017, Wanda has been doing mandala doodles. And you definitely could start off, of course, with white paper, but why couldn't you start off with a layer of these bright watercolors first? True. And then, of course, adding more links for all of us to go by. Of course he is. So the other thing I want to do is sort of a, these are going to just all be easy, but we're going to do some sort of flowery shapes. Now this is a Filbert brush, which is a flat with a rounded tip instead of a flat one. That fluorescent pink is amazing. It's more like this one they call Rose. It's like a purple, isn't it? Yeah, or a magenta, yeah, kind of, yeah. It's on the purpley side. Very pretty. Kathy Whitney said, stop it Ian. Okay, at least today it's not me posting all links and everything. But I was happy to create this bright palette and add it to my collection. I think it was a really good move on my part. It was something that I didn't have other than the opera pink I didn't have and the green I didn't really have anything else that would work the same way. And you'll notice I'm using them right out of the pan. So I'm getting really full strength of the paint. Yeah, it's pretty. I will say that from using these kind of Japanese watercolors in the past, I know that for, I don't know why, but for whatever reason it seems like the water that you put in there evaporates really quickly more than it does in a regular watercolor. I don't know why that is. Could be the pigments or whatever they use, you know, I think. Yeah, it might be the binder. Yeah. It tends to be very humid in Japan in the summertime. So maybe that they do something different with the binding. So. Yeah, that might have something to do with it. Not affected by the weather or something perhaps. And you can tell I've been playing with them because then I've got this paper towel now that's all. Groty. That's an art word, right? Groty. Yes, I think so. So yeah, so the first round, so my car is ready early and the first round of tests I've had to have because of my annual, you know, checkups and stuff came back negative, which is good. Oh, that's good. So I'm hoping that's a good omen for today because I'm having more tests done today. So, so I'm just like putting some of the yellow on the tips here. That's a beautiful painting. Which one? This one? Oh, this is easy. I'm going to switch brushes. You can paint something with just the neons. You know, it is possible. Even though they're neon, if you go by color temperature, in this palette, I've got some greens and blues. So they're cooler than the other colors. This red, while Daniel Smith included it in the brights and I like it, that red. It's on the cooler, muddier side. You're not on camera, Gina. You know, can't see your palette. Oh, here. No, your plate. Your plate palette. Oh, this one? The one I'm mixing on? Yeah. So here. So it's, while it's bright and it's a bright, for an artist's paint, it's a nice bright color. It's not a neon, the red. And I would never use the neons by themselves generally. I'm just doing this because we're playing and experimenting, but they're a nice compliment to add some warmth to your other colors and your other paintings. Kathy says, I love that green. What is it? The green is Daniel Smith, phthalo, yellow, green. All of the colors are in the video description for the Daniel Smith side. I just stuck my brush in the wrong water. So you guys can't see that, but now it's all 30, all my water. At least I didn't stick it in my water glass or something. Those colors are so lush. I want it. I so need it. Well, I wanted to include some artist quality paints for you guys because I know some of you, you know, are really concerned about light fastness in that. And you might, and I thought you would probably appreciate that. That being said, you all know that Daniel Smith is my favorite color anyway, our brand anyway. What kind of watercolor, what kind of watercolor journal are you working in? This is a Moleskin. I think it's five by eight. This is a Moleskin watercolor journal. It's not your regular Moleskin. And I actually like this. I do have some pentallic journals that I got for Christmas. I haven't tried them yet. I'm really trying to fill this one up first. Paula, you're funny. Oh my God. I'm swimming over to Gina's home right now. She put the emoji for swimming and big grin. Well, you know, I do like it when my friends come to play and knows that. Yes. And honestly, it's good for me to have to share my toys with other people because otherwise I tend to get all wound up and not sharing with people. Charity asks, what's the pound of the paper? 140 pound. 140 pound. Okay. And it does curl a bit when dry. You know, you can see here. Oops. Where are we? These pages are dry. It does warp a little bit, but it's not too bad. It doesn't make me crazy or anything. I kind of like. Pentallic doesn't do that. Yeah. I kind of like it when they do that though. Yeah. I'm, yeah, I'm, I'm okay with it. Yeah. 300 GSM in. I shouldn't be putting gold in there. I should be putting like this pearly color. Let's see what that looks like. And I'm just playing and this whole journal is about playing. And you know, I don't always like the way things turn out in here, but that's okay. To me, art's all about play. Yeah. It should be. If it's not, you're doing something wrong. I can't wait. All right. Next stencil prototypes are on their way for the next batch of stencils. It's going to come out. Cool. Hopefully I won't have trouble with it getting lost. Like I did the neon watercolor paints. So I'm going to put some of that. Look at how bright that is. I do love that color. Let's get some of that blue in here. I love working with metallics and fluorescence. There are two of my favorite things in any paint, any paint. Yes, I agree. In fact, my next round of tests and picking up my car and all of that, I'm stopping at Joanne's because I, how do I not have any aqua or teal colored metallic, like rub and buff or gilding paste? How is that possible that I don't own that color? I don't know. And I need to do a video on the dragon eggs and I want to do one that's that color. So anyway, Paula says, oh, I dare you to make a painting with just neon watercolors. Go on Gina. Well, I just did. This is just neon. So here I'll push it up a little bit because I don't know about you guys, but I don't think you're seeing nothing. That is pretty. So I mean, these are simple little kind of weird flowers, but I'm just playing with the paints. Okay. That's interesting. I just discovered that these react like acrylic paints when you get them hot. They bubble. Oh, and that might have something to do with the fact that they're so opaque. That could be it. Yeah. And you can never have too much glitter in my opinion. No, but I need to have glitter has been on my no buy list for a while because I actually have a lot. Yeah. So do I. Yeah. It's it's not. It's one of those things that I'm probably going to pass the way, you know, at like 90 years old and the daughter is going to go, what the hell mom giant box full of glitter in the art room. Yeah. And I know out there, you can all feel me on that. So I know it's not just Ann and I know there are some of you out there that have been sharing your art room reviews lately and good for you. I don't mean this to have you stop doing this. In fact, I encourage you to, but I've seen your art spaces and I know you guys have a lot of stuff like me do. I do and and does so. Too much. Yeah. And that is why I'm not ordering anything else because I have to move it all. Right. I got to know. I'm going to move my paper. So that I don't get things all picked up. And we're going to go back to that filbert brush. We're going to go to the muted palette and I'm going to grab the Indian yellow. See, they're they're acrylic. They're acrylic. See, I could tell you that from hitting it up in because it bubbled and I wonder if these are too. There's some kind of water soluble acrylic. Instead of a true water color. Maybe that's why they're opaque the way they are. Yep. Hmm. That was a lot of Indian yellow. I actually didn't mean to put that much on there. Can't wait. Nice though. Yeah. Well, we're going to blot some of that up. Add some gold. The gold metallic gold to it. I'm going to add some water to that first. I forgot that's an emgram paint, which I love the emgram paints I have in this palette, but they're very pigmented. If you're going to get them, keep that in mind. May Mary blue is also very, very pigmented. So let's do a simple sunflower shape and I just want to show you how I would use these metallics in a regular painting like I did when I was playing with a face earlier off camera off of the live broadcast. I won't say off camera because I did film it. And I'll put music to it. Oh, and FYI, you guys, this is going to make all of you laugh and it's okay if you laugh. So two things lately, I've been so distracted and this is how I know that I've not been okay lately. So I evidently had a voice over clip saved in iMovie that I forgot about and it showed up as audio. I guess I thought it was music on another video. So it had to be edited out. Thankfully, it was caught by the people at CanvasCorp before we aired it. I don't think I put it on any other videos, but if I did, somebody let me know. And there is a four part series on painting a canvas coming out next month. Part three, I'm in my workout clothes and evidently you see all my back fat and rolls. So let's just try to keep the hateful comments at bay. I'm okay with my back fat, but that doesn't mean I really intended to show you all on camera. Hey, join the club, Gina. I know, right? I know you all feel me because I know, you know, we're all in that kind of the same boat, but yeah, I didn't I didn't intend to show it on camera. So this is the yellow. It's just called yellow. It's not called anything else in the Japanese watercolors. And I'm just going to use it to give the pedals a highlight. And because it's opaque, it goes pretty well over the watercolor paint. What comes in a tube or a can, Eve? Oh, Ian. Okay. I guess Ian was asking, test some watercolor paper. Talking to myself. Sorry, Gina. No, that's okay. Cindy does it too. Heck, I can do it. Are you kidding? Even when Bob is home, he says, who are you talking to? Yeah. Yeah. And as long as we don't start arguing with ourselves, we're okay. Oh, is that how that works? Oops. Yeah. At least that's the way I like to say it. At least it's not raining today, Gina. Was it raining in your neck of the woods this week? Yes. Oh my God. As if we were done. I guess Squaw Valley and some other of the ski resort said that they may be open indefinitely past summer even. Wow. Because there's so much snow. Yeah. They said there's like, we've got, I don't know how many feet of snow now. It's ridiculous. Wow. You know, people always try to call my cell phone and it's a Sunnyvale number. How much you want to bet it's a salesman? Oh yeah. So I really like the way these neons make this simple painting like the sunflower really pop. And I'll hold it up to the camera in just a minute. We will probably be at some point doing like a Buddha face. I do them in acrylic a lot. I do them in acrylic a lot. And do the pops at the end with neon. I think, I think at some point maybe next week we need to try one in watercolor. Eve, I think the intense blocks are actually ink pigment pigmented ink. I think that's true. I think they're pigmented ink. I don't think they're and once they dry there, you can't move them. No. So this is what colors is quinoa cardam gold. This is a Daniel Smith. This is from my muted palette. The one thing I'm bad at with watercolor is leaving white space. Even if I start out intending to leave white space, I usually don't. I'm the same way. I get carried away putting the color now. Yeah, I tend to do the same thing. Almost done. Have I missed any questions? Nope, you haven't missed any questions. Okay. We can go back to one of the other paintings. By the time I finish this one, you guys, and it's probably going to be dry. And we can see if these Japanese watercolors will lift. Oops. Pretty. Right. So I think these are a really interesting addition to your paint box. I want to get. Let's do pink. These are just ink joy gel pens. They're nothing special. So what is that about pink hair? Oh, yeah. I'm not sure what you guys are talking about with pink hair. I think I missed part of that conversation. I missed it too. Oh, somebody, Kathy saw somebody with pink hair in Nebraska. No, Nebraska is not someplace I would think to see somebody with pink hair. Yeah. And I would equate it with Claudia Rossi. Her name is okay to say here. She is a friend of mine. She is a friend of mine. She is a friend of mine. You're going to go back to, I think these flowers. Now these, this pink here is. Right. That's so pretty. It's very pretty. And especially if you do these little paintings, a little bit of journaling near it, I think it's great. I might do some journaling on this one too. So here's this first one that we did. Watercolor. You know, I don't know. I do know that when I heat dried this one, it started to bubble like an acrylic paint. So let's test it. It is dry now. Although the metallic is slightly sticky, which is interesting. Let's find it. Test patch. That one maybe is a little wet. This one's dry. So let's see. No, Ian, it reactivates. That is cool. So it is definitely a watercolor paint. It reactivates. It's not a permanent pigment, whatever it is. So that's interesting. You guys are just chatting away. I love that you're all answering each other's questions. Oh, the pink haired lady in this week's challenge. I did see that and I thought, hmm, okay. I don't know what I'm going to do with that one. So I haven't done it. Now I will say that coming up, you all should be watching the Tattered Angels Channel and their Tattered Angels blog because I took a couple of my year inspiration photos and did them for Tattered Angels. So they will be coming up soon. I have not been able to share them. In fact, I did a third one yesterday for them. Cool. Yeah. I haven't done anything for canvas core in a while. I mean, that's my next goal is to do something for them. And remember too, when you're working in your journal and you're doing journaling on your journal, I'm all about adding words. You all should know that by now. They don't even have to make sense to anybody but you. Nobody has to read them but you they can be mess. I like when they're messy. That's sugar bait. What Eve, you think the paints are sugar based? Is that why they're a little bit sticky? I lost track of the conversation somewhere, you guys. You don't have to, you know, take of course you can spend hours on your paintings. Of course you can, but they don't you don't have to. You know, when you're just in a mood and you just want to create something, do that. Maybe it's just splotches on a piece of paper. Do that. This is fun, especially when I did the other one. That's the other one. When I did this one, instead of hand drawing the circles, I use different sizes of bottle caps and then put the painter on the canvas. I don't know what to do there. Looks to me like a great border piece, that black one that you just showed. This one? Yeah. You could do over it. Yeah. I see like doing a sketchy doodle or something over the top of it. I think. I don't know yet. It'll come to me. Ian said to touch the paint and see if it's sticky. So these two are completely dry and the metallic dried with a little bit of a texture, but it's it's a teeny tiny hair sticky. This one is not completely dry yet and it's definitely sticky. This one over here is not sticky at all. They do seem to take a little while to dry. Oh, yeah. So Eve is right. So the m grand paints, these here, these are made with honey and they never really completely dry. They always look like they're wet and they stay sticky. Huh. That's interesting. But when they dry on the paper, they don't seem to be sticky at all. Sorry. That's my phone going off. Be right back. So Kristen, welcome. The links to the paints and the name of the paints in my new brights palette are in the video description. Daniel Smith was kind enough to send me the names of their six of their brightest paints that are in their color colors. And while they are very bright and except for the upper pink, very light fast, these are brighter. That being said, these neon fluorescent paints are not light fast at all. And the upper pink is barely light fast. So you just have to decide if you care if your paints are light fast. That being said, I can see using all of these together myself and my work. So the metallics are great. And I got these initially to compare the fine tech with the Gonsai. And I like them equally. I also have a Daniel Smith metallic palette that's a lot of fun to play with. And a Prima. I like metallics. I also am looking and I also have a Prima metallic paint palette. The Daniel Smith has a lot of metallics and duochrome paints. And they come in colors which you're not going to really get in these. So this is the Daniel Smith palette. So yeah, you totally could do that girl and use this neon either the rose or the pink or both in her hair. And the upper pink, she would have fabulous hair. And I would definitely do that. I would do a base of her like this one with regular paints or a pencil sketch and then highlight her hair with these neon watercolors. And these are a really great accent. Of course you can use them on your own as you've seen. And they make a really pretty painting. But I think the way to get the most punch out of them is to use them as an accent to your other work. To have them highlight the warm high spots that are closest to the viewer and the ones that are getting the most sunlight. Oh Eve, okay good. Is Sadie the one who wrote that? Mary asks, are you doing DSMITG now? I don't know what is that. I don't know. Daniel Smith. I still don't know what she means. Oh. Kathy, you're more than welcome. It's not stealing if I let you take it. I wouldn't be sharing my art ideas and practice here on YouTube and Facebook and other social media sites if I am okay with you guys taking my idea and running with it. Okay, Sadie saves the day. That doesn't surprise me. And that being said, there's a lot of information about the paints on the doodle wash blog. I just haven't read it all yet. I didn't get past. Oh, knee on watercolors. And the starch may be why it's, you know, until it's completely dry, there's a little bit of a little bit of dirtiness to it. And yeah, I would explain the opaqueness. Japanese watercolors in general are going to be much more opaque than your regular, like Daniel Smith paints. And you can see here where, you know, I've used on this flower some of the manganese blue in here. And some of the scarlet and laid it over the other through it. But whereas where you put the neon orange, which is the Japanese, it completely covers up the other paint. Mary's asking which one did you use the Daniel Smith on? And did you use them today? Yeah, so I used the scarlet and the manganese blue on this painting. I used the green and the scarlet on this one. We have the manganese blue. I do really love that color. That is pretty. And on this one I used both of the yellows, both the Japanese one and the Daniel Smith yellow that I can't pronounce. I used the pink from the Japanese set. And I used the manganese blue along with some colors out of the muted palette. You will be seeing these going forward. You will be seeing this on my desk a lot when we do these watercolor tutorials. They are equally bright. They are just a different kind of bright, Mary. And like I said, if you really want a true neon, then you need to get these. But if you want as close as you could get with using a traditional watercolor paint, I would say even this scarlet, which is a little earthier than I would think for it to be. These are all pretty bright. The two yellows when I swatched them on the white paper. Yeah, they are bright. Here is the sample. This is on 140-pound watercolor paper. So Daniel Smith has a couple of different tube sizes. They can be anywhere from just under $10 to $20 depending on the pigment. You can get small-sized tubes of these. You don't have to get the big 5-mil tube. They have, I mean, 15-mil tube. They do have a 5-mil tube. And you can go to DanielSmith.com on their website and copy and paste all the names out of the description here in the video to the website and look them up that way and compare them, though, with the prices on Dick Glick or Jerry Zardarama or even Amazon and see who's going to give you the better price and who has the smaller tubes. If you're just doing this as an accent to your other watercolors because you want to add this bright pop then I would say get the smaller 5-mil tubes if you can. 5 ML. They'll be cheaper for one thing. I tend to order them instead of try to get them at my local art store because my local art store doesn't have the colors in stock I want, so I just don't even bother anymore. And that being said, I don't remember all six, I had two of these. I had two, oh no, I had yeah, I had two. I had the opera pink and the yellow green already. So I had to just order the other four and I think it was just under $50 with shipping. I don't remember exactly because I've been waiting forever for these other six to come in. So I don't remember. All right. Any other questions? Oh, and I can't show you, so you know what I'm talking about for tube size. Let's see. So this is the 15-mil tube. That's the size of the tube. And this is the other one. This is only five. And this is the pyrol orange. I bought it in the small one. So if you're just going to get these to try, I would say get the little one. All right. And I have to go too. I've got to go pick my car up. I've got to go pick my car up. I've got to go to Joanne's and I've got to go do my stupid treadmill test. Good luck on that, Gina. Thanks. I have done it before. But you know, waiting for the results is not fun. No, I agree. All right. Bye, everyone. Bye, everybody. So go out and play. Think about adding some of these to your collection. If you want to get the Japanese ones, which are great, they're going to take a long time to get here in the States. Don't forget the most important thing. Besides supporting your artists here on YouTube and in real life in your hometown, if you can by, you know, shopping in their stores and, you know, just being nice on social media. Go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Play with your paints. We did three little paintings here in an hour. If I can do it, you can. All right. Bye, guys.