 So in a moment, we're going to be working on the painting, Jeff's just doing a warm up really quick. I hope you've all had a super awesome, wonderful weekend and day. And Monday. If you're new here, hi, hello, what's up? I'm Erica and on camera. I hope it's Jeff, my husband, and we're artists till death. We go live every day. Usually at 6pm central, except for on Tuesdays during the week. And it's not always resin today. It happens to be airbrush, but it is always a good time. And I'm so thankful. Always a good time. It is always a good time. So thankful to all of y'all that are here with us today. Today is going to be a little glimpse into adding airbrush onto artwork that was not created in airbrush to pull out some depth and dimension. And honestly, it's stuff that I could not do. At this point in my watercolor journey, the amount of shading that I'm looking for, I cannot do it yet without messing everything up. And so my husband is going to help me with that. Before doing that, he has got to warm up, which is what you're looking at right now. Thank you JJ for reminding people to hit the like button, the subscribe button. Leave me a comment. Tell me where you're from. Tell me what's up. What are you working on today? And do you like the color purple because purple is. I think what color we're going to be doing this shading on this piece. Maybe mixing a little bit of a little bit. Shading gray. And with this but I don't. I'll see when I when I put it on. Yeah. I think you should get an airbrush. Jeff and I are going to do a resin piece and then basically show people how to make it a marble finish. But I just don't want it to, to give it a different. I don't know if I like that purple for that. So let's just make a maybe like a purple base teal. No, I don't want to use purple. You don't really have any purple in that. I don't. So I've been working on this piece for. I'm not even sure how long I have many hours logged into working on this piece. And I love her super much. And after messing her ear up with shading, it looks like there's mud in there, which is fine. Maybe she was in a muddy part of the water. So I'm just messing up these. Thins. More times than I care to count. Jeff was like, Hey, if you like. Let's use. I'm happy to help you with this trans black looks like real quick. Tutor, you just have a safe flight, sir. You have a California compressor. Do you know anything about that brand? That's what we have. California air. California air. It's a good airbrush or it's a good. It's a good compressor. I don't know what it is about when we go live that makes our dogs always. No, they've been quiet the entire day, not one single peep. Not one. They're like, is it time? Is it that time? I don't know. I don't know how to keep getting these sticky notes from them. Here. So normally I would, I would want to mask off this white. I don't know how masking paper is going to do with this paper. It's very textured. The paper is just very textured kind of, and then there's paint on it. And I don't want to. This paper, so I'm just going to do some light. Light shadows around these areas. Not worried about getting it on here. Cause we can just go back over that with the white, with the white paint and clean it up. So I'm not worried about getting it here. On here. There you guys. I'm trying to get the. Yeah. Do you know what the artist of this is? Yes, it's, um, my goodness. You had asked. What have I been able to tell you immediately? Once again. Notice you don't need a lot of. A lot of paint when you do airbrush. Just a little bit, especially when you're using these stencils. You just want to just barely hit it. Just to get a, a, a nice little soft line. Especially when you're using a stencil. See that, that was almost too much. I don't know what that, what that was doing. So the original artist name is Kellogg's loops. I hope you guys can read that. And he is really talented water colorists. I think he, I don't know, could be she, they are a very talented water color artists. And I'm just using their inspiration to kind of develop. And I think when you first start learning a new medium, the best practice is to find what like attracts you. And then just copy it until you get a feel for the material. Right. That's what I did with Olivia. Sorry, Yama. All the people. Hopefully. The artists that inspired me to do these water color pieces. Doesn't really have a problem with being inspiration for people. And I'm just trying to make sure that I don't offend people and get you guys into it a little bit better. I mean, personally, I don't think there's. Anything wrong with being inspired by someone else's work and using it to. Evolve your own style or even create your own style. I do think that proper. Like in spoke credit should be given always. I don't know if it's a certain style. Or could be, I don't know who knows. Getting credit. When you're inspired by something is super important. I think. I can't even really tell where your airbrushing because it's so faint. You really, you really got to really take it easy on. Do you want to do a shadow? Yeah, I like all shadows. I don't know if I can almost do that with like a gray marker. If you want to do it with a gray marker, you can. I couldn't do it with watercolors. I'm not going to attempt it with a marker. It looks so good with a shadow. I hope you have a super safe flight. Have news on Clara. She's back out of the hospital and home arresting. So we love that. So, so happy to see all of you guys here. Thank you so much for coming in. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Maybe I'll put a crystal there. Just one Swarovski just pierced her ear. I was honestly, when I was doing this piece, I decided I was over it with her ear. And almost just painted a whole bunch of white hair over it. So if I were to be trying to do a shadow on this hair that you're working on. The depth of what is behind it. Like the bridge of the nose versus the base of the nose is different. So the weight of the shadow has to be different. Well, and this is the thing with this particular piece is it's, it's not that it's flat, but everything is, you know, pretty, pretty flat. Like, so if I were to go in here and really want to do a real shadow, I think it would just look too. It would, it would distract. Yeah. But I like the weight of this shadow. Did you send me a text earlier? I don't know if I got it, but I look just like kids quite until you're on a call for work. Um, yes, that is 1000% them. So have you guys ever dabbled in airbrush or water color? I changed her mouth. I changed a lot of things. So I basically used the Kellogg's loop. Loops piece as basically a stencil. I wanted the shapes down and I wanted to be inspired by what was already there and then kind of make it my own. No to both. I think it would be good at airbrush. I mean, you're doing a whole bunch more faux finishes now. And it just definitely, I don't know, I would have it in my arsenal and in most mediums. I think I would, I don't know. I can't see it hurting to learn how to airbrush no matter what art you're doing. What's up Kelly? How was your day? So what Jeff's using right now is a custom cut stencil. I think we have it on our website. We have it on our website if you're interested in his. They're just, they're basically called hand stencils. It just gives you a nice little edge. They're meant for being able just to block an area. Just so that it gives it a little bit more realistic, a little bit more, a little bit more control with your shadowing and whatnot. Yeah. I mean, you know, it just makes it nice and clean. It keeps this white hair right here from. Getting paint on it. Just makes it nice and clean. He says, it clicks so fast when I saw airbrush in the title, not that I don't on the other vids, but the airbrush is. That magic type of stuff. Kelly. Thank you. I really wanted to get this piece finished by Friday, where we'll be having a. We'll be having a lot of fun. And many others. I would love to have all of you guys here for that. Sure. And I'd love to have all of you guys here for. For the. Art sale. She already looks better and he hasn't even done that much airbrush to her. Do you like the copper highlights or do you think they're distracting? Hold on. Let me get him caught in the light. Jeff have. Jeff had to go. He had to go. Jeff had to go. Jeff had to go. Something at the window to a friend of his, but canvas always wants to see. If anyone is at our window ever. She hops up and wants to see out. So we're going to have doorbusters and grab bags. During our fall sale will be on Friday at 6pm. Central. The same time you joined me here today. Jeff will be over to do more airbrush in a moment, but we're going to have more airbrush in the fall sale. Did you draw it on canvas or transfer a sketch? This is. On arches. Watercolor paper. So I'm going, he has allergies from being in his anti Ronda's this week. You're okay. So it's on watercolor paper. And there is a compound. So I'm going to put it on canvas. So I'm going to put it on canvas. Canvases in order to watercolor on them. But that wasn't on this one. So it's just on very heavy watercolor paper. And the brand is arches. I think the shine of the copper looks good. So she hang that on the back of the couch. All right. Back to the tutorial. Hey, hey. I'm going to show you. Only if you lose your confidence. Okay. Go get some water. Come here. I'm gonna get him some medicine. Will you do that? Oh, I'm putting a Mike on my shirt. So I don't have my, I lost a contact this morning. I'm getting up close to the little challenging and this easel moves back and forth which is terrible I love this easel but that's the only thing that I don't like and I was trying to paint with it we took it to a pool party last week and the wind was blowing it's terrible and what I'm doing I'm just I'm just giving this just a little bit more definition separate the shadow from she doesn't have any eyelashes on hers which I'm not going to put some on you. Came back. Very bright, eyebrows look great. So you don't have to always stick with your medium like if you're doing water color you're doing acrylic, you're doing airbrush and always you're not comfortable with the paintbrush doing the little stuff get you get you a paint paint get you a pencil and just very lightly add it until you like it and darken it or use airbrush or use paint whatever whatever you're comfortable with. Hello everyone, I don't know TG but Kujo had an enlarged chart and a more severe collapsing trachea and Bowie just has a slight collapsing trachea just gets exacerbated when he has allergies and it happens like every other time we go down to Rondas. Hungry. Oh yes Kelly I did paint it it's not perfect so did not mean to do that but I don't hate that. So Jeff is helping me with it. We do often use Posca pens and pen touch pens a lot of our artwork at this point is mixed media. A lot of his portraits will incorporate acrylic wash, airbrush, charcoal, graphite, sometimes resin but I think I think it's important to just trying to get comfy. Sure. Granted I'm cheating by Jeff being the person that's airbrushing for me but I'm working on it I'm learning and trying but I haven't gotten there yet and so in the meantime Jeff is helping me. Even my resin art is a lot of times mixed media and we'll add decals over it or we'll do a painting on top of it or a number of other things but I think it's I think it's important watercolor all-in-one brushes or water and brush so Kelly I do have some watercolor brush pens but I did not use any of those on this piece. The paints I used on this piece you know if you guys don't mind me taking you away from the arts I use mostly these watercolors to our tour core I've no idea how to actually say it watercolors and some of these Koi watercolors. This palette is just a palette it's not I just use these paints on this palette and then I have a gouache that that I use that was gifted to me from my lovely fairy art mother and the brand of these are my brother's it came I guess that's the skew for maybe online. Do I sell I'm sorry Kelly are you asking if I sell the artwork or the watercolors? It is a collaboration JJ says y'all's teamwork is next level love that fairy art mother writes love her too she's in Vegas right now visiting her son Mitchell a highlight on the eyelids looks really good. I messed up the flow of the ear so just yeah this is this will be fine because it's not it's not super detailed so it's not it's not a big deal like I think it's fine watercolors I do not sell watercolors you can make your own watercolors by using glycerin mica and honey and just honey yeah honey is it's the binder that's in all watercolors mind blown guess tell me that my fairy art mother I had no idea learn something new every day yeah yeah you just get those things together and there's a million recipes online I made my own they did not work as well as the store bots and I don't really work with that many metallic watercolors so didn't work out for me when I tried to make my own so but you can you certainly can make your own what do you want to do with the with this like it's I think you need to separate it I didn't hear what you said they can you just separate like I think there needs to be a very flat you know like yeah I figured we would put a shadow under no it would be too much hi how do you propose how do you propose we separate the flatness of my coy lily pads oh outline yeah go for it there's a request for you to help detail other people's artwork they said please I'm gonna assume he's thinking about it yeah like you're helping me to detail my artwork people are like can you help me with mine only because I have such a different style and a person would have a completely different style and then I guess I would just have to see the work first I'm almost 100% sure that it was a light-handed like you know mine comment I don't know if she could have been serious let me know I think we've only taken in other people's artwork to work on like a handful of times it's a big risk when you take in other people's artwork because you're you're taking ownership of something that someone else put time and energy and money into and when you like when we take in other people's artwork to work on it's it's a five-page agreement the liability waiver it's a whole deal anyway I'm not I'm not like making a solid line around this I'm just kind of no I like it barely barely touching it just so that it is I would like yeah go for it once you start something like this you have to I mean the fish already looks better from having that slight outline Kelly says JK I'm in Canada we want to come up to Canada we do but maybe not work in Canada Jeff's scared because the long story from when he did body painting I can't believe they booked you there when anyways how do you experience the difference between gouache and watercolor what is the difference so Mandy watercolor is a transparent water-based medium and gouache is an opaque water-based medium and you can you use gouache to you can read you reactivated reactivate gouache yeah you all you have to do is put water back on it and you can reactivate the gouache whereas a lot of times watercolor will seep into the paper gouache will seep into the paper too but it's got like a surface level paint that doesn't sink in and so you can reactivate it and further manipulate it by just adding water to it the way around that is to use an archival spray in between the layers so that it doesn't reactivate so for example these dots are this water down here is gouache so you can see that there's something loop behind it but my water down gouache you can barely see that line if it was watercolor you'd be able to see through it cool come on up one day that tells you how much I love both of your work well thank you Kelly I really appreciate that I'm having a fire sale on Friday if you would like some of my work I do ship to Canada I know greatly appreciate your support for us as a small business trying to make it in this crazy world I have a line how are you doing TG you're right it is too cold for Jeff my fella is not about being cold that's the best definition I've ever heard I suddenly understand and I have googled it multiple times well thank you Mandy for letting me know I've helped out they're they're relatively similar so in the family there's so there's watercolor and then there's gouache you can also if either of those mediums are intimidating at all you can also just take your watercolor nope you can take your acrylics and make a wash out of them by just very much watering them down and that's actually what Jeff does he doesn't I mean you could watercolor but he does acrylic wash instead and you can get translucent the translucent medium color pigment you can get paint translucent paint with just watered down acrylics and those will not reactivate they'll stain wherever you put them the watercolors of translucent wash is opaque and they work really well together gouache and watercolors I think most times people use gouache watercolor and color pencil together I'm sure there are a lot of people that do airbrush on top of it as well but I don't know great snowboarding here what don't tempt me we haven't booked our a snowboarding trip yet I can't even think about that yet you both are so gifted Galen thank you so much I really appreciate you being here it's 78 in Colorado right now mmm what do you think? pretty nice here no it's not 90 yet I haven't been out since this morning okay another question about media type sure Bombay ink versus acrylic ink so Bombay ink is it's a water-based and it's a very thin it's actually ink like is in pens so if you were to be writing with a quill you would use an ink like Bombay have you ever seen those you probably haven't because I'm the crazy person that watches I probably can't even pull it up right now I can't even find it there's people on that there's one person that I watch that does these like massive I don't know what kind of oriental painting it is so I don't want to be insensitive and call it one thing when it's not but it's you know Asian a heritage type art and they they like wet it down and they pull like a big row of ink across and then they put these little people would like a red suit and a hat I'm not describing it well but it's beautiful and that is with like Bombay acrylic inks are much heavier they tend to separate and they have a bigger particle size and so personally in terms of preference I prefer a Bombay ink actually I think I may have some to show you in comparison so they're so one is an ink and one is a liquid acrylic basically it's just a fluid acrylic much like golden it's just different but only slightly so for example this is not Bombay but is a liquid acrylic so it's an acrylic type ink it's pretty thick you can see even though it is a metallic if you were here I guess you could see the particles almost because you can see the difference in the sheen right in this light blue that's on top you can see some dark in it where the different particles are it's not gonna let me focus and then you have this one is a Liquitex ink but it's a lot like Bombay these are a lot more pigmented a lot more concentrated and both should be light fast you can use them both with like a paintbrush a pen a brush pen you could probably put both through an airbrush but depending on the needle size for the acrylic based one this one's by dollar Ronnie I'm sure I'm saying that wrong I was trying to find the particle size the micron size or the UM but it's not on here so when you use one like this let me see if I have one that's just sitting the acrylic based ones you have to shake really well before you use because they'll settle here's a flat one okay perfect okay so here is the DR1 just like the blue one I just showed you this is a flat it's like a CPS Tiana I'm not sure but let me try to find okay all right so see the color up here it's like very clear on the top then it's a little bit more concentrated here and on the bottom it's like dark it's not even the same color as up here and you can see little bits of sediment sinking because the particle size won't stay buoyant because it's very thin liquid but the particle size is big so it stinks like when you make sugar into cold tea to make it sweet tea everything's gonna just sink to the bottom whereas this one you can't even see through it on any in any light I don't have any more of this brand handy but it doesn't separate because the particles are finer and for me that just means an easier blending ultimately that's the long way around of saying you can blend easier with an ink than acrylic what's up Donna Parker use Bombay inks on a clear resin piece where I just dragged some all skewer through it how did it go well Bombay inks are they're good so Jeff added the outline and I think I like the kind of drawn on maybe stickered layer I like the outline I like the separation from how it was yeah this one is not outline don't you think it looks better I think it does any added some depth in the flower petals not this one did this one but the shadow makes it you know look at my nails the shadow makes it looks so much nicer I think I think he added these little dots of highlight because she is you know a little watery and he added more wispies which I think looks really nice do you guys have any more questions about just trying to get that copper to hit the highlights you can see a sheen of it but it's not gonna do it do you have any more questions about any other mediums working on this piece right now can be pretty great Bombay could work to add details on watercolors but the difference in watercolors and inks is are that wherever you put an ink is gonna be where it lives forever watercolor you can kind of wake up mess around move around a little bit but not so much with inks wherever you put the inks is gonna be where it lives so make sure that wherever it is that you put them your cool is where it's at Jeff uses a lot of fluid acrylics for his airbrush this is some of his collection and we use a lot of Posca I am not sure where he went you may have had to go drop something off I'm hoping he adds some lashes and I think I want to add some definition into these fins or do you think that they're okay how they are I think some definition in between more of the flower petals would be good but what do you guys think should I put shadow under the lily pads he did not have lashes because he wasn't sure why she didn't have any that must have happened when I was taking care of my belly I think you don't Parker I hope you're okay that picture Jeff's working on with you is stunning it's one of my most favorites that makes sense with the Bombay inks being permanent where it lands well thank you so much I did another piece by this artist let me show you what she looks like so this is where Bowie hangs out when we are doing a live so we're working here he's in his director's seat moderating wine so this is the other one I've done from that artist I did some changes but I love her she will also be available at our fire sale on she's just creepy on Friday it's 6 p.m. all right I'm just going to I'm gonna fix some of the fin because it's kind of odd looking and if he's not out by the time we get done with it we're about to come send a search party for you I didn't change a lot do you think anything about doing a shadow under the lily pads or is that too much I mean if depth was a concern I just what do you think I wouldn't do that because you have to then you have to do it a shadow on her and you have to do the shadow on the hair and you have to do the shadow shadow on her more probably more definition of the hair this is just very subtle I think if you did it it definitely I think it would make it dark and I like how light all of it is I'm not sure I guess I should outline this fish to match that one or do yeah I see what you mean about adding too much to it and then it goes from kind of cartoonish to are you trying to be realistic he did not add lashes because he wasn't sure why she did not have any you see that tg well I was gonna add lashes but I didn't want it end up putting my style lashes on it when her lashes are so soft in the reference because I know I would have ended up going full like we go and clubbing lashes and not like daytime Aquarius lashes I like that variation in aqua color in the top left corner that's one of the beautiful things about water colors you just put your color down and then add more water and then just let it live and then it just disperses in that kind of unique pattern alright be what do you think I should put in that top left corner I don't know because I don't want to do just another little time maybe a wheel but if you guys want to see how she ends up you're gonna have to come back on Friday at 6 p.m. Central just kidding I'll end up posting about her soon as I think she's finished I'm sure because I'm very proud of her and I put a lot of work into the piece and yeah I hope she finds a new home this Friday at 6 p.m. Central if you guys are so inclined but till then Bowie's ready to go outside I'm sure and I got a good dinner what are you looking for but till then be kind of one another you never know what someone's going through and always remember here at artists till this studio Dallas Texas her or I or we do the test so yeah I know but I have to put a pause in it for I go right into and we'll see you guys in the next video then he's like why are you saying it so fast so you just literally just sometimes you don't need an in-between sometimes you just have to go just you know I mean not mean just anyway you guys I love you all so much thank you for being here and we'll see you guys in the next video tomorrow at 2 p.m. Central no I don't we'll do but we'll probably do resin so we'll see you guys tomorrow bye bye but let's say bye bye