 Empty pans for these all for things that you used to have. No, I bought them empty Well, I will talk about why So I did a lot of research on probably no more about watercolor now But I needed to know and I didn't read all the history on here because it was long and boring Okay, but if you go to Wikipedia and I'm guessing they have the same if you typed in acrylic painting Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's so much information and I know we already talked about the main difference between Watercolor and gouache is that watercolors transparent and wash is opaque. Mm-hmm. That's the main difference I've had heard some people say about these that they're um, we're gonna test that I got my black Okay, or not because I are a little more opaque and then they say no water color They seem to be when I did my when I did my swatch card. They seem to be more opaque than my other colors. I will say this color It's not as opaque I had to kind of do it a couple times to make it a little deeper color because I wanted to have the Yeah, color on there. So I knew what it looked like And I think the same thing with a little bit of the pale aqua couple of them I was I mean you're still and I'm always sort of mixed Maybe because when I started watercoloring, I didn't really know what I was doing. I was just playing Um, but I've always kind of mixed my watercolor and gouache anyway On on the same piece because just depending on what kind of effect I was trying to get so I don't Necessarily keep them that separate I do have separate palettes for you know, I do have one It's just gouache, but that doesn't mean I don't paint with that when I'm painting with watercolor. I do sometimes Just to get different effects and especially if I've put some watercolor paint somewhere And then I don't like the way that looks and I want to make it less Busy then I'll go over it with some gouache and sort of you know, white out some of what's on there Kind of like a little bit of uh white wash dress. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay, and the main difference between Um Say hobbyist grade watercolor paint. There's a different word for it. It's in here somewhere What do you mean by hobbyist? I know I know after hang on They're sitting here somewhere. Oh boy It came with all that stuff. It was just like that ruler awesome Okay, so you have three different grades of watercolor you have artist grade Which I have some out here where we can play with Student grade and then scholastic grade Um Scholastic grade it reminds me kind of like if kids grade but crayola a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah These kuretake and the koi Seem to be from what I've read Like scholastic grade paint or crafter grade paint. They're not artist quality. They don't have from what I've seen I can't find any documentation on lightfastness or You know any of those like archival kind of things you would want to know about the paint if you're a professional artist And you're doing a painting with the paint. Uh-huh. I did watch a review video on these where somebody said she contacted the company I don't know exactly through what right and they may have it out there I just they did not have any number didn't have a score. Yeah, but they did say it's very lightfast Yeah, I don't know But but we can't find that anywhere and the same with the koi like I love the koi They're just as well in my opinion pigmented as a kuretake But there's no like info out there anywhere. So I don't know. Um, what I don't know how to pronounce it I want to say sumi painting. Sumi. Yeah What what is that? That's an asian style of watercolor painting. Okay, because that's what these I think are meant for. Yeah. Yeah, yeah I think so too. And that's why they're that's why they're more opaque because that kind of painting is not necessarily done I don't think with lots of translucent paint. Okay, because um Where these and I think these are equally as good and in my opinion just as bright But they're more traditional transparent watercolors than those are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah That's the one that's in my red. Um, go back. Oh, it's fine. Okay. Those are beautiful now Um, oh trust me. You could still get them to be very translucent if you want But if you're going straight from the pan to the pager It's gonna be a lot harder. You just you have to add more water So one thing I will tell you and the viewers is if you want to know a lot about Watercolor paint and transparency the history of watercolor like just go to wikipedia I'll try to put the link in the description below but It tells you all about the pigments and staining characteristics and Um, granulation and another word. I can't pronounce There is just so much information and we also found a little I found a little bit on the koi Uh watercolors. There's not a lot out there But I found a little bit and I'll link with that link and sarah found Some interesting information about the kurataki set too. So we'll try to I printed it all but we'll try to link everything Um, and we're gonna play with I can't I can't play with my paint with my reading glasses We're gonna play with some different paints. So Okay, let's talk about these half pans in a minute. These are all over here Yeah, these are all artist grade paints really in the student grade paint. I only have the koi set anymore Uh, I've gotten rid of everything else. Um, because I don't like them to be frank. Um I love my koi sets and I love my kurataki set. They have different properties The kurataki set's not as portable So, um, it probably like I will I would take it I yeah, I would take it probably with the koi set like when we go to lake tahoe Or are we going on a road trip and we're driving but where I'm going next week? I'm flying I would just take the koi because it's smaller and it'll fit better in my carry-on Um, I have the smaller set sarah has the ginormous one And I I repanned mine in a Quar box And see another water brush. So when I repanned mine, I got enough room in there to stick a water brush in there Yeah, I love that idea So I can just if I wanted to I could just take this in a block of paper and I'd be good I'm wondering if I there's something I can think of to put in here to kind of hold the pans from jostling around What about bubble wrap? Oh, they are thin bubble wrap I bet you could talk the postal annex people into giving you a sheet Maybe I don't have any or I'd give you a piece Ah, whatever. I'll figure it out I'm sure I have something a piece torn off a padded envelope I'm sure I have some of those laying around So the first thing I thought we would do is play with the Comparing the koi set with the kurataki set. So I should have mine and What I like to do when I do this is compare colors and You also could just kind of play like this was done um Just I was just playing with colors of a paint set and it's just an abstract thing with puddles of watercolor paint Did you do that when we were I think last one is the time we were not last time a timely for that when claudia was here And this yeah, and this is the one I did yesterday I just was playing with puddles of watercolor paint and honestly, that's how all of these started out Yes, I was working on some assignments. Is this hot press too? Oh, this is hot press. Yeah, I was gonna say yeah And these are all cold press you can feel the texture I like the texture, but I haven't tried hot press for I tried it and I gotta be honest hot press is not my favorite It's too smooth. I'm you don't like the smooth. I'm used to watercoloring on something with texture But that's the only difference like it'll handle the watercolor the same way that cold press will just yeah, okay, um There is a kind of paper by frabriano called soft press Really and it's halfway between cold press and hot press And it's so if you don't like quite the amount of texture on the cold press soft press That's interesting soft press. Yeah See me. I would literally try to draw the lines and I know you can't really do that No, and I drew any lines that were on any of these after the watercolor was drying. I didn't well I mean like with the watercolor. Oh, it would take obvious How long did it take for you to get to I did all of these in like an hour No, I'm saying to get to this point where you could do these that fast I started watercoloring in 2007 A long time If if I can't even learn as fast as you did So I'm not gonna use that one because that was wet. I really love your expressive style. Oh, thank you It's my it's I you know, I want my painting to be a relaxing thing and that's you know I think my style once I actually settle in on the style. I think I'll end up doing um Excuse me. I think I'll end up see being a little more if Sarah shows up her color card And you compared to my her colors are way more perfect than mine because I was just I'm just not there And I wanted to see the darkest shade all the way to the lightest shade and she didn't do that so much Neither one is wrong a little bit of a light shade but not quite as right neither one is wrong Mind you there. You could do it either way But every time I get a watercolor kit I make one of these every time because you cannot tell by looking at the pan what the color is going to be Yeah, big difference on uh, especially you can tell really because the big pants here You wouldn't know that these two are purple No, no because they look black. Okay, so I'm going to write Let's see koi And then I'm going to pick a color that's similar to one in my box. Let's see Um, how about the we'll do the koi Cadmium red which is this one Compared to the kerataki red They're pretty close in color It's not well. Yeah The koi is a little deeper a little more of a true red than the kerataki, but yeah Well based on those swatches And I'm going to label it And then what you can do is just put and this is a carbon ink pen On a permanent when it's dry And it's waterproof. So then what I want to do is I want to Just do a a squiggle Oh, so you can check just the yeah, so you can do two swatches You can do one over the ink to see how opaque it is and one on the plain paper to just see just the color And when you're comparing paints and then like I'm going to do one card And I'm just going to do all a bunch of reds and we're going to start with the two Student grade paints and we'll do I've got a I've got a schmink palette here I've got this is my mix palette. This has Coir, Winsor Newton, Grumbacher, Van Gogh and a couple of schminks in it And I've got the Maymary palette, which is this one And I've got Daniel Smith and we've got you're an awesome influence. I know, um Peerless and I know aren't they great. I love these tin. That's the schmink one on the van Gogh Oh, cool. All right, water brush No So we're doing Koi Yes, I'm in it koi Now when I buy paint palettes one thing I always try to look for is How easily is it refillable? One of the problems I had with the first paint palette watercolor palette I bought was because it was a very inexpensive one and I right away used up all the yellow ochre and then Found out the company didn't make refills so Yeah, so you can get refill pans for the kurataki from jackson art supply, which we found out yay jackson's art supply Yes, they're out of the uk, but shipping is not that bad And they get their the stuff gets here really quickly because I've ordered from them before um The koi set you can get some refills Which I like But you can't get all of them like they sell tubes of paint, but their tube set only has 18 colors in it This is the 24 color set. It's interesting. So there's some colors missing so kurataki is spelled with an a at the end Oh Oops, I spelled it wrong big surprise me too because I looked at yours and I was like, oh, yeah, that's right Yeah, no, it's not I'm playing me for it. Um so I like And prefer sets that have easily obtainable refills Because when you have a set like any of these You're not going to use up all the colors right away. You'll find after you've painted or painting for a while There'll be one color That you is probably going to be an unexpected color for me That was yellow ochre that is the one that goes out first And then you're like, okay. Well crap. I still have lots of good paint in there, you know But I don't have any yellow ochre now. What am I going to do? And I did check that the um The kurataki they do jackson's art does sell Every single color single see, um They might not be in stock right now, but no, but they sell them and most of the student paints don't have any refills available Um, so the fact that koi has any even if not all of them is good and the fact that kurataki has all of them is fabulous Um, one of the reasons a lot of people right away go to artist paint is because most of your artist paint companies if not all of them Yes, they make cake watercolor sets like van go, but they sell the same exact color in tube form So if you run out of a color, you just go buy the tube and refill your little pan Okay, so Um, which one is my red put the right swatch in the right place Now with these brushes, um, you can squeeze it if you need some more water Okay, yeah, I'll probably use these brushes more for um the washes Paper towels. Oh, I'm gonna try to um bring with me bring some with me on the plane Uh, yeah, or ask these students for extra napkins That's true But I'll probably still pack some in my bag anyways just in case I already like the smoothness of this Don't one thing I noticed is that you don't see hot presses as much in stores No, you don't it's a lot harder to find it is So that's kind of decently opaque. It's not soup. I mean, I can still see the black line, but yeah, and this is a hot press. So Yeah It's it's smooth and the difference between the hot press and the cold press You can see where the paint settles in the nooks and crannies on the cold press And this and this pools at the bottom and probably would um, it would probably do drips better. Yeah. Yeah So just depends on what you're trying to do. This is the koi. Okay, there This is this one right here The cadmium red It's a little bit more of an orangey red where the kerataki is more of a Blue red. Yeah But see they're both in my opinion. Those are both equally, um Pigmented neither one is I don't think any more opaque or transparent than the other one Yeah, they're both they're both nice Yeah, they are very nice. All right, and then we have Okay, see we forgot that our guard again sarah and I are so bad I have a thing at home and I think I haven't used it We went So now we have these other kits that you can try and you can pick out a red that's close And see compared to these artist paints what the student grade paints look like I don't have as many colors in the may marry because I just I just started my collection and so Don't have any just started just started young She made room by giving away her other stuff. I did And these are schmink. These are the schmink paints Which you'll probably really like everybody likes shrink See what colors they got I would say I think the scarlet red would probably be the closest on here. Yeah Now when you're just starting out and you're playing You don't have to invest in these expensive artist paints One of these like kurataki or the koi set is good enough until you decide how much you love watercoloring A friend like me who loves watercolor and has them and you want, you know, then you have the opportunity to come over and say Gina, can I try some of your paint? All right, Gina, thank you for letting me win the yeah Not like you had to choose I've chosen it random. I know Okay, let's you recorded it I did so I don't even know how to spell these It's a german word And I've heard it pronounced a lot of different ways while she's doing that. I'll say that Um, some companies not all of them will sell you Um, or give you color sample cards Golden's choir paint has these kind of same color cards And I've turned them into this little like sample paint book That I can take with me when I'm traveling Um Daniel Smith has big eight and a half by 11 sheets I cut them down to fit in here and they actually both of these actually have dots of little dots of dried up paint on them The Daniel Smith one is nice. I don't know Okay, so No, the choir one doesn't have an on there that I see I like the Daniel Smith one because for each and every color It gives you a rating for how light light fast it is Whether the pigment that was used to make the color is toxic or not And it tells you how light fast it is what the rating is Is it staining or not? Does it granulate or not? How transparent is it? And um, I love that about their paint So they have all these little codes at the bottom of their paint. So Daniel Smith. What else are we doing? Daniel Smith may marry And Van Gogh M. A. Oh M. I spelled it wrong. M. A. I. M Yeah, M. E. R. I Big surprise van Gogh H, right? Yep And if you want to you can do the peerless if you want to the peerless that's the little ones that are on paper I need the part of the pen so I can fix my spelling here Okay, so for Daniel Smith you have the Daniel Smith palette or do I I have the schmink? I have the Daniel Smith one So yeah On the Daniel Smith, we have Ecuador red Which should be close and then on the van Gogh we have Permanent red deep. I'm thinking for the schmink. I don't know how to pronounce it scarlet red would probably be the closest Yeah, and I always pronounce it weird too. So it's german. I don't know. I have trouble with english Me too. What was it scarlet red? Scarlet red, yeah And then may marry. I don't have enough colors. So we probably just have to go with the primary red magenta Yeah, it's not really the same beautiful colors though I wonder Look at the one that you That's a mix of colors. I don't remember. Oh, I know. Let's see. Oh you put Ruby red Oh, that's a schmink color. Mm-hmm And then Van Gogh The ruby or late deep. Yeah But those aren't really quite that close. So No, and the ruby red is Good color Lost It's a little paint wet. What's the Daniel Smith one? Quinacordone red. I just put queen red I don't spell out quinacordone unless you have It's really hard to spell Would we just say oh Primary red magenta I don't think we decided on this one because this box has a mix of different paints in it. So let's just place that one up for him And then we just said for Van Gogh permanent red deep. I really like this pen It's a great pen. I got it at amazon You get refills too. Yep Oh, I shouldn't have asked. No. Okay. See that's just the first color going on and this is the Van Gogh. Do you not care about Everything else getting wet? No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't matter And look at that that's I Comparatively I say those student grade paints. They look pretty nice. This is a little bit brighter These are duller But I think when you're starting out You know these are pretty good option Daniel Smith is made in seattle Very nice. Just started to drool. I see the schmink paints. The schmink paints are nice And beautiful. There's a Daniel Smith Nice. Yep, very nice. But yeah, even the student grades shrink right Pretty pretty nice So here i'll trade you And this is the Quinacordone red Oh, Daniel Smith. Okay It's written on the back of the color key. I know I should otherwise I should have just looked. I get the pufis at some point though I'm going to have to like label my box because I have too many of the same box That's going to confuse me at some point Now the artist grade paints like I said you can refill them from their tubes or the same color So if you run out of one I wonder um the core Yeah Do they have the same colors in the um Like as their Do their watercolors names and pigments match their acrylics some yeah, and that was that's a good idea So I don't think I have the core in I don't know if I have the red. I have a lizard and crimson And oh, I have a quinacordone red Okay, we'll have to like make room. I ran out of room on my sheet This seems a little more opaque. Maybe I just picked up a little more paint And they have which Daniel Smith Yeah, yeah a little more and it's also you can see it's more of a pink red or a blue red Then the others are more of an orange red I think but it is one of my favorite colors of Daniel Smith paint Since this is kind of a test for hot press paper for me too. Yeah, I will say Depending if I want to be free and just kind of let the paint do its own thing I don't think I'd have a problem with this, but if I'm trying to be My normal self and control everything. I'm not gonna like it because I think they're doing less control with the hot press than with the cold press Yep, so I'm going to see it's this one right here This is the core. What are we doing? See, it's very much. It's very much like the um Like the Daniel Smith That's the core Oh, okay It's the same color Paint is quid awkward on red But yes, they have a cobalt teal in the core Just like the acrylic paint so I'm missing one. Oh may marry And if you did if you're a student of journaling crazy island style And you did a reference book This is a good like test to put in the watercolor section of your reference book Oops Now the may marry seems to be pretty well Pigmented, but it's more translucent than the other ones. Oh, it is It's beautiful. It's a beautiful color, but look how much more translucent it is than almost all the other ones that are on there That's interesting How do you is it just q o r? Yeah, yeah Um, how do they compare like how do the different ones like compare like in price? I'm not asking for your actual numbers, but like Your most expensive one that we have on the table here is the schmink. Okay um Your artist paints are Stets We'll just talk about sets instead of tubes, but um The van goes the most affordable set This one was um Under 80 dollars. I actually got it a lot cheaper than that because it was old packaging Um There was nothing wrong with it the paints were fine But the packaging was old so I got a big discount Okay, um So that's a great way to buy by fyi if you see the package on the shelf at the art store That has the old packaging and it's like at the bottom pull that one out because you might get a discount um The schmink are not only um Really nice artist grade paint with really great great light fastness and rich color And all that stuff. They're also imported from germany and so Um, whereas this one costs about 80 dollars the but this doesn't have as many colors This has like what 18 or something the schmink has 48 colors. That's a um, I got it for Uh less than this but the retail on it. I think it's like 600 dollars. Oh geez so But how about like say koi because I know a lot of people like the koi the koi is I love the koi Sorry, um the koi the koi are um They don't really they have a few sets, but the sets only have Like a few tubes in them. They don't have like a 48 color set Oh, I don't do a bed tubes usually. Yeah They do have a few sets that have like eight tubes or I think like 12 tubes in them And they're about 30 40 dollars So that's not bad. Um, especially for golden Exactly and um you I like the tubes because you can get a palette like this metal box empty Which is how I got this one with the maymary paints in it And you can get them from a number of different places I got this one from jacksons and it's less than half the price of this schmink box, which I got from dick lick FYI And even with shipping from the uk it was still half the price and I got it I ordered it from jacksons through amazon. Oh, so this is uh, oh just a watercolor palette just the box So I got the box separate. I got the box empty And it didn't have the pans in it or anything and if you look here is the Box I got from jacksons through amazon. It was half the price of this one. That's from dick lick That's a schmink box. It says shrink on it. That's why and this is more excessive They neither one of them come with the little pans in them to put the paint in they both come completely empty So when you get a box like this, you have to buy these little pans And they come like this And so you get these little pans and then you pop them in here Let's see if I can pop one out. So then you pop them in here and you can get You can get 48 of these little or half pans in one of these boxes Versus 24 full pans, which are these bigger ones But you have to remember to order pans when you order the box You won't have anything to put the paint in Now by association Association that kurataki set has full be really big full pans and they are plastic So when you run out of your paints if you empty a pan, you know, I wouldn't throw the pan away I'd save it and then if you wanted you could refill it with something else Yeah, because if you're going to buy a new separate pan single pan, it's going to be in the pan You don't have to worry about yeah, since it's a hard watercolor. Yeah Okay, um, where's the Uh, this one is that one Talking too much But see then if you're doing the reference book, you have a nice chart like this And you can do all the brands of paint that you have and you have a nice comparison This is a good selection of paints And you really only need to worry about light fastness and all that if you're going to do a piece That's for sale and or a piece that's going to maybe hang on the wall Especially if it's going to be exposed to any sunlight. Yeah, just doing it journal It's not a big deal. You're just doing it in a journal. Nope. It's not a big deal Or on mail art or something like that. It's not a big deal not to the point where I really need to worry about Because everything I do is in journals anyways And then where is the core? The core is in this one and this is a mixed box And this is the one when I take one of these bigger palettes with me Traveling I take this one because it has kind of a selection of almost all the brands that you see here on the table Um The core is this one here And it also has space for one more kind of paint because you know, I really need one more one more too with paint I think we should do like a turquoisey blue next because I just like turquoise Oh, maybe we should do prussian blue Isn't that pretty? I think it's because I'm used to using golden fluid acrylics So when I see the colors down on the paper, I recognize them I may not recognize the names, but I recognize the colors Right and and they're the core the thing I like about the core is all of those colors We've fallen in love with in the golden paint range. They made them in watercolor. That's why I'm like Yep And I I bought I didn't buy a lot of core but I bought those colors because I really those of you that are jealous right now for me of me Don't be because this is making me want to buy all of them And she doesn't get to take them home. They have to stay here Okay, okay. I don't know what color you want to do. Lex, but I'm going to do a blue I'm going to do blues. Blue sounds good. I'm I'm going to do See we can do prussian blue. I don't have that in all of them, but I have something that's close in all of them What does the prussian blue look like? It's a it's a turquoisey blue. Okay, so Um, do we have it in the kurtaki? Let's see. I might have it in mine Um here because mine has a little more Trying to figure out which one there's a couple that could be close. So I would go with um This one number 66. They call it a Violet it doesn't look violet to me But it looks more like prussian blue Oh the menthol violet menthol violet which and you guys should see this it's this one right here That is not violet Um, this is also their their um There some of the names are a little odd. Well, you know, I know from my wholesale buying days when I was in the gift shop that when we would order Gift bags tissue paper fabric or whatever from asia the color names were always One thing and we would expect a certain color and something completely different would come in So we usually try to ask for swatches because It was different It's probably um a translation too. I think so. Yeah, I'm just going to do mine next to it since I have more space on Yeah, I I need to do another card So it's menthol uh, no wait And it's prussian prussian blue You don't have this one on your in your set. No, okay. I actually have more colors of water color than a purr Everyone said it But that's only because this is my only full set I wanted to have all the colors because there's only 36 It's not like I was gonna have to buy a ton of them tip of the iceberg And I got it 50 off. So I got it for 20. I got it for less than the smaller set In the daniel smith, which is I think that one this one. I think so. Let's see Yeah, it's So we don't really have a Prussian prussian blue, but we have Thalo turquoise. It's a little bit different color, but it'll work We have lunar blue. Let's do lunar blue So daniel smith has some different colors than anybody else Not just because of the name but because of the pigments that they use they're completely different than other people like moon glow I love that color. Let's do um lunar blue. Okay Mink I didn't think to tell you to bring a pen I you know, I had it on my mind, but I just I was actually being good today and not bringing my whole Part and supplies so And then do we have in the core anything that's close? Let's see Well, I have phthalo blue, which I'm constantly smelling wrong Um P-h-t-h-a I think so That's how I wrote it on here. That doesn't mean it's correct, but that's how I wrote it on here The only reason why I remember that is because I'm always spelling it wrong as well We're gonna do the same and then may marry. Let's see Um in the may marry. I have prussian blue It's one of my favorite colors. So it's usually one that I buy Okay Oh wait, okay All right, so what are we doing for koi prussian blue I like that using this pen forces you to not press hard. I tend to be a heavy writer So and you don't want to break it obviously No, of course it because of the kind of the tip that's on there You can't you don't want to press too hard. Exactly. So I like that gives you a nice delicate line It's good practice for when I use my own pit artist pens because their tips are so delicate They can break easily too or get some bushed easily. Yep. They're too expensive What's really fun to do when you get to the a certain point is to get one of these empty palettes Like I did with this one and put your favorite colors From each one of the lines into that palette and then you have your own like custom palette I like so you have your favorite yellows from maybe a couple different brands and your favorite purples Because you'll find that you gravitate towards like even on this red one. All of them are beautiful But I think that my favorite one Of all of them that I would probably use the most is probably Either the koi or the schmink I was gonna say for red specifically. Yeah. I'm because some of them are more pinkish, right Like you said and I was avoiding that like if you were talking about pink, it would probably be the daniel smith I like that red Yeah, that's very pretty. Yeah But The schmink is really nice, but I don't obviously know very much but just by looking at the swatches and that's all right now as a beginner That's all you need to be worried about You know if you want to learn more and you want to learn about like fastness and all that like I said That's great. But when you're starting out, you just need to find colors that you think are pretty You don't need to know more than that And you don't need to freak yourself out thinking you need to know more than that Kurt toky. That's really pretty Ever oh where's the cover for that? I don't want to put it down without it That's really pretty Okay, that is not violet. They call that menthol violet But it's menthol and menthol is like a blue Yeah, but menthol violet. That doesn't make sense. But it's menthol violet Okay, let's see koi But as you see how much pigment you pick up just by barely putting the um, but see how this is kind of um I got a ton of pigment probably because I've been sitting in the um Because it's a little more opaque. So if you pick when you pick it up if you pick it up with more Paint than water and it's a little drier You get a darker pigment like you just did which is when I picked it up it was right after it had been sprayed You can see and see you tell the difference But look at the koi and the kurataki. They're pretty I like both of those. They're pretty well pigmented both of them They're all just again just about equal This is the van Gogh. This is the van Gogh. I'm assuming it's this one right here. Yep The one with the big hole in it because I used to have one This one is oh, look see Color that it pulls down. See it dripped because there's no like there's no texture for to like get caught in Oh, that's beautiful So this is the quarcello blue you know, it's It's a good color. It's um I won't be using this paper on the plane slightly different than the um prussian blue But that's the core color. It's not that different It's just a bit brighter. Yeah a little more. Um Can't see the word that I wanted to say Um, I haven't smelled time and this is What again? Oh because that's prussian green. I'm picking up the wrong color. This is the koi. Yeah, and I was wondering why that was That green because I picked up the wrong color Oops oops, and it's this one right here. Yep. Well that makes more sense now. It's blue That's the schmink. Oh, it's beautiful People are gonna wish that they could see down like the way you normally film Probably you might have to do like a view of a better view of them So this is not quite the same color. This is lunar blue Um, which is more gray and less turquoise And what are we doing? Yeah, we did maybe and I'm sure daniel smith makes a um I'll look I have their sample sheet. I'm sure they make a prussian blue Who daniel smith, but that's their lunar blue, which is more gray. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's like a light panes gray I was just gonna say panes gray. Yeah, it's a nice color though. I like it. Let's see This is a really nice paint The maymary. I like the maymary paints made in idly That daniel smith. Oh, they do prussian blue. Is this from the color dot chart? I'll have to grab some and do a little swatch. Yeah, I'm gonna just do a little Oh, that is a pretty color. Where is the uh, lunar blue? It's like five from the right Found it. It was what? Okay, that is the daniel smith a little tiny line of the daniel smith Prussian blue I'll make a note But that's a pretty color. That's a color. I don't know You see yours? Oh, that is pretty. Isn't that pretty? Yeah, it's um in the bottom in the middle on there. Oh, okay But I this lunar blue is really nice I like the lunar blue and I like the um moon glow and they have a couple other colors like that that are Way different than anything anybody else carries Um, and they're my favorite one of the reasons that daniel smith is one of my favorites I was just gonna ask you what's your favorite brand of watercolor daniel smith All the way I like the other brands and there's nothing wrong with them And any if any of you other companies are watching and you want to send me paint to try I'm all up for that because I love watercolor Yeah, you wouldn't have them if you didn't like them exactly and I own a lot of different brands I love them all plus like you like we're seeing here. There's different brands. They can have the same Same color But different pigments Yeah, yeah, and when you're painting certain pictures and you want a certain shade of a certain color and I hate mixing color Where's schmink? Schmink A little slow Oh, that's all right Oh, you grabbed a great prussian green, didn't you I did that's the one I did green first because I noticed how they're right next to each other Which I love the prussian green, but we're not doing a comparison on that one and it's a different color We should do 11 color Yeah, because yellow A lemon yellow is like a basic color that you need when you're doing a palette if you're just doing like basic colors You need a good blue a good red and a good yellow So far even want the pans that weren't it's what anymore when I got to them they I have to be very easily With just a I think that the kurataki and the koi can compete very nicely with the other paint brands and For the price for the uh, what for the price point when you are the last angel spent I think For the price point when you're just starting out and you're doing art journaling I think the koi and the kurataki are really good buy When you compare them to the other more expensive brands I didn't realize at first when I first started using water brushes that when you squeeze it out It comes out the side before it goes down the bristles And I put a little too much water, but that's okay because this is a beautiful color Just color the whole page We don't have lemon yellow, but we have fancy yellow medium There's a young lemon yellow in the um, and I believe oh wait, we have the sample wait a minute called the I keep forgetting. I've got the sample book. Oh for Daniel Smith. Ah, yeah Let's see. Do you have anything I could use to let's see if I can do it in the finger Okay, this is thick making sure I'm grabbing the one that I need they have lemon yellow. Oh nice. Okay, and then we have Trying to do this so the paints don't go everywhere The schmink paints maybe want to go back to Germany and visit my husband's family. So I have an excuse to buy paint That's funny Hi, I want to come visit. Bye. I'm going to the schmink store. It must be like heaven for you Have you been to the actual schmink store there? No, and I would need one of the relatives to come with because I don't speak German Oh, so they don't they don't well, I know not everybody speaks English and Some some of them do and some don't the um, okay, so we're going to do um Um, oh and the core we don't have lemon yellow, but we have this other I can't read my own writing, but it's bismoth Bismuth something yellow vanadale yellow I spelled it wrong It's okay something like that um That's a lemon So we're doing primaries. Yeah, did you was that what you were trying to do primaries? No, that's an accident I just realized because I understand basic set and I was thinking oh great. Wait a minute. We just did primaries Or we're doing primaries. You know what we should do. We should do a purple too Oh, yeah, I agree. I would say pinks, but some of the reds are kind of in my opinion Like the purple is one of my primaries because I cannot buy a set that has less than at least 18 colors And I've seen lots of videos because I've been watching a lot of videos on watercolor lately um, or at least reviews on watercolors that People seem to Mix purples a lot and granted you can still mix some colors in here to make a different purple Well, sure, but I hate mixing. I hate having to stop and mix purple all the time And I like a palette that has at least 18 colors in it So I have a nice variety of colors a nice dark a nice light Shades a couple shape uh different shades of each color and a purple Like that's a palette that would make me really happy So I can read upside down so oh, okay here. No, no, that's fine. Just keep doing it I'm gonna read a play down No, I can already tell you from doing some of these Color keys that the one I know I'm I don't like I'll use it for something because I have the paint But the one I'm is it going to be the main Mary. It's a little bit chalky The yellow is the yellow. Yeah, it's not as bright All right, let's after Daniel Smith Um schmink and it's a lemon I'll look at the names on here because And that's the lemon yellow as well. Yep Core and it's the one that's bismuth bismuth b i s m u t h Vanadale yellow Yeah Vanadale yellow spelled the way it sounds The van go is a lemon yellow and the main Mary is a lemon yellow So core is the only one there is an aluminum yellow. Yeah Because again because I got a set so like tubes Just so you could start off with I just started collection. Yeah, because I wanted to start a little collection and I Didn't necessarily want all the colors Did you get tubes? Yeah See but it's very lemony compared to these other ones. It's a nice color. Looks like I chose well that time Which isn't always against all right, so Um your thing's getting stained. That's all right. They're already they were already stained I honestly the new brush I got because I got I had a small one But the um kurotaki And then I got a medium one so I could do a little bigger areas. Yeah Um because like you know, I like details So I'm not gonna do a whole lot of big and the kurotaki makes a nice uh big flat water brush Like they don't only make round they make flats. I think I got one from you and happy me Yeah, so I might bring those to do with me. I have to remember and that's nice for doing washes You know just getting the paper wet or doing a wash of color This is quarry. Yeah, that's four Oh, no dino smith. Sorry dino smith. Yeah, that's dino smith. Oh, I forgot to do the lines. Oh, see Maymary See, it's okay. It's just not as bright as like even the koi is a really bright lemon yellow See, there's all of our yellows Watch the wise let your carbon ink dry before you put. Oh, yeah, because it will react with water if it's not dry But but that thing said yellow pigments in any paint are generally not opaque Unless they've been mixed with titanium white So generally speaking any yellow pigment in any paint is going to be pretty translucent Whether it's acrylic or watercolor or anything. This is very light yellow. Yeah Very pretty though. I have to say I think on this card. My favorite yellow is the schmink lemon It's the brightest or the koi Yeah I like the maymary. There's just something it's just it's different than the others. Yeah, I know it's supposed to be lemon yellow but And what I really like about or at least from what I've used because I haven't used my This is the only time I'm using anything else right now, but um At least with the kuratakis They require so little water to activate it. You really can just use a water brush. You don't have to spray You don't have to spritz them first It just depends on if you want a more transparent color You will have to spritz them so you have a little more. I like them. My only grape is the box I don't like the cardboard box if you're going to do watercolors. It should be at least in a plastic box That's like one of my grapes By that same token. I love the koi set. It's a great travel set. But again, I'm not a big fan of the box Um, the outside box is fine, but the inside is really thin sheet plastic And at some point I can see me taking all the guts out and gluing half pans in here And putting the pan that paint into half pans because these this the guts part of this is just really thin sheet plastic And bugs you and bugs. Yeah bugs me. All right, so koi. I'm assuming this is the one. Yep You're gonna be editing some of this. Of course I will like my face Maybe not bad. Thank you for editing out my um my snorting I I edit well and I edited it out like because we like now we were just you know Doing a lot of chatting and talking while we were painting and some of that was private stuff I don't necessarily want any of us to be having aired on youtube So, uh, you know, I edited it out. I like how Anne sent you some of her Clips, she did. Yes, and we put them all together. I thought it would be easier and um then have it Shared on all the channels if they wanted and we did the same thing with the upcoming swap video for kif Where we edited um a few different people doing things into one video and it's going to be aired on multiple channels um Is it going to be um claudia's music? No But it's going to be an atc swap. Oh, okay. Hawaii themed atc swap. Oh, this is a very pretty one Isn't that a pretty I you know, I like the van go palette there, you know overall I was very happy with this one. My only gripe with this one was it didn't have purple So I took I did have some van go purple. So I added it to the lid But the nice thing I I like about the full Watercolors from what I've seen, you know, the nice thing is that it's always going to react again Yep, so that way you can put it in there and you can reuse this blue You can reuse purple. I don't I don't clean my lid and unless It gets, you know, really really bad But I know I generally speaking know because all this is still good paint And I can just put dollops of colors that I'm missing down here up here When I'm working on something specific and then if I wanted I could take this. It's not that big Um, and I have my purple in the lid. All right. So where's the core? Um This one this one. Yeah And there's a little asterisk, right? Yeah Oh, there it is Oh, you like this color. Yeah I do like that color if you could see this it's too small to really see There's a hole in it The whole thing is a hole. Yeah, they're like you have to like really get in there So that's how I can tell when I get a new palette and I start playing with it Which colors I really like because they're the ones that get um holes in them first in the van go palette Um, which is the one I use the most for youtube I've already had to refill the lemon yellow the matter lake deep and the prussian blue Because and I'm gonna just use the tubes to refill right? Yeah And I um have to do the sap green soon too and the van go palette is great because It has two paints that match the same color so you can just refill from the tube Now I need may marry And then I'm gonna just make And that's that one. Yep. Okay. Just permanent yellow lemon. Yeah They mixed up the worry a little bit Well, because I'm sure the may marry paints made in Italy Yeah, so that's it doesn't exactly translate and the printing on the tube is really really really teeny So I had to use my on a couple of the tubes I had to use my reading glasses and my magnifier to read the name of the paint because it was really really small Now, what do you prefer for size pants size of pans? um Because I'm assuming it depends on what type of watercolor painting you're doing Like if you're doing a big piece or if you're doing a little bit like little pieces If I I don't mind the half pans I would rather sacrifice having a big pan of paint To have a lot of colors Then having a smaller palette with big pans in it. Okay. Um But if it has the big pans it has to be a palette of like this one of at least 24 18 to 24. Otherwise, I'm just not happy because it's not enough of a color selection for me Okay Well, yeah, we all know that you because the color. Yeah This one is contaminated This lemon yellow. Oh it is looks like there's a bit of green in it. Oh, yeah, not surprised I'm a sloppy painter. I am too much for perfectionists looking at that Screaming inside. Yeah, she does that with a lot of my stuff because I'm messy Oh, I I don't care that she keeps it that way But I see that and it makes me want to fix it But I'm not going to because it's your stuff and you know, I always I always offer to let her clean my stuff But you know I'll just use up the paint So we are doing purples. Yeah, let's do purple Okay, um, do you want to do are we just doing a straight purple because there are two purples and the larger set of the curled up Well, let's just do a straight purple because I don't think we have lots of choices and and we I don't know that we even have the right color purple in all of them. Okay, let's see sneak just see what we Get the closest comparisons we can yeah Right here. I turned all those off. I hate that. I just don't go on the browser In my um on my laptop anymore. I usually just use the app And I'm too lazy to go through blocking. I just ignore those If that's a game that I don't want to play which most of them I don't I switch around Schmink only has um manganese violet In this palette I have I'm sure they make other purples, but that's I can't afford them You have a purple in the palette may marry. That's what's important. Exactly. See I would mix but I probably would want to use purple. I really like purple Well, that's what I should have gotten. I should have looked at walmart I should have seen if I could find a mixing tray for a travel So the van go one is in here in the lid. That's the purple. It's actually blue violet It's it's over here too, but it's not on and Quar we only have one color Yeah, I love that. It's not on there because I added it last and I just have never gotten around Making a new color key. Oh, okay Did you recognize this plastic casey? Yes I reused it. Oh, don't throw it away. Right. Yeah. No, don't throw it away. It's nothing wrong with it It's useful All right, koi is purple I even say clean. I don't even say the whole thing. I don't put an acronym purple I don't I don't even know if I say it right, but yeah Um, a lot of your art supply stores Throughout the year will have demonstrations on the weekend And if it's a watercolor or other paint company like even golden if you go to the demos, which are usually free Um, you get samples Free so, um, that's a great way to acquire a few different little things like when I went to the schmink Was it schmink? No senelier demo. It was a senelier demo. I got Two tubes, uh, no three tubes of senelier watercolor. I got Um, senaris blue opera rose, which I love that color And yellow uh light yellow Which is a fabulous color um And then schmink sent me Free samples and they sent me a lemon yellow And I want to say they sent me a red too. Yeah ruby red Um, you need to do the line. Oh, yeah So don't be afraid to go to these demos or write to some of these companies and ask them if they've got samples Cuar has their sample little, uh, booklets And daniel smith you have to pay for it But you can get all over 200 color Sample dot sheets of all their colors. It's like 25 on their website. Wow. You can make that go a long way Exactly the dots are decent size and if you're doing just our journal pages or atc cards Those little dots of paint will go a long way or if you're like me. I love doodling So if I do in a doodle and you want to color in like little details like that, then it's going to go a long way sheet for me They just compliment each other so well Yep, and this is why it's so important to do a color key. I've learned You see this purple This is what it looks like in the paint. Exactly. It looks so black. That's why you need to do a color key before you do anything I wouldn't be able to I would be like, I don't know what I'm doing. Oh crap. That's not the right color You're gonna start over, you know. Yep I've done that Oh, that is not a nice gorgeous It's more of a red purple. Yeah So the van Gogh is more of a blue purple Okay, I'd really do like the kurataki, but I like the I think because pink is my favorite color So the closer it is to pink the happier it makes me Okay, so the the kurataki purple is much closer to the van Gogh purple than It is to the koi purple because it's more of a blue purple Oh, you're right. I can tell you that just by putting it on here without budding it out The van Gogh is a little bit darker. Yeah, it is a little deeper. I didn't get I didn't get too much of it on here Yeah, there you go. It's a little bit grayer too. Yeah Notice that too. I'm gonna put a little more pigment on my kurataki because I didn't spray it It's more of a gradation on here You do like a red like a deep red or something. Yeah, I got the color next to it So I'm just lifting and you won't get it all out because this purple is a color that's gonna stain But I can get some of it. I can lift some of it. I'm just getting it wet. Yeah, and this is Daniel Smith, and I just picked the wrong color one two three four five One two three four five I guess that's the thing about having the tiny half pans and you have to really Yeah, you have to count and I might have gotten the right color. I should just you know make sure Oh, no, that was the right color. It's a lot more red Than the others and it's quinn purple. Yeah I got it right in person. Look at that. Isn't that just pretty like I wonder if something about quinacridone is like a reddish color. Maybe that it may be maybe that that's the nature of that pigment I don't know enough about pigments This one's manganese violet in the shmink paint That is a gorgeous color. Oh my goodness. Isn't it pretty? Just spreading it out in the smoothness of it It is just I think so far of all the people's on here. I think it's my favorite Oh, I can't wait to play with the Pellet that's so core Oh, wow, that's so dark Add some water. It's watercolor It's very blue. It's more like the kurataki purple. It's a very blue purple I think I've made up my mind. I think I really do like the uh cold press better The smooth is really nice. It's nice, but it's very smooth and I like the texture And I feel like you get a better color on the cold Or maybe you're just picking up the um More pigment. Well, it sticks in the texture of the paper It doesn't just sit on the top and soak in and then soak in and then look weird. Yeah. Yeah Oh core I saw big pans of the yellow on the bottom because it's a common color you use or Um, yeah, and that was one of the samples I got and it was in a tube that wasn't resealable wasn't resealable Okay, so I had to dump it all out and there was too much for one pan. Oh for a small pan. Yeah I grabbed a little I didn't realize how much I had grabbed for the core and um oops Not really because it's beautiful I'll just keep spreading it out. I don't want to waste it. Okay that core purple sure is pretty Like I'm gonna tell you that's what I'm saying. I'm doing right now. I I'm Daniel Smith I grabbed too much on my um on the core. Oh, yeah. Wow. I didn't realize how much I grabbed. I'm like do you Oh, oops Because you had just gotten it wet. So that's a pretty color chart Mine's a little awkward looking, but whatever You need this one. It makes me happy. Yes, please Makes me happy Yes, I'm noticing that you need a lot less Even though these react very well and they're very highly pigmented The tube paints will always be more pigmented because of the nature of the of the paint So with the tubes you tend to need a lot less of it To get the color reaction that you want Than any kind of cake pre-poured thing Yeah, I was gonna say it's just I noticed that it's like I think that's why I'm grabbing so much without realizing because I'm used to the hard And then there's when you start upgrading your paints, there's some things you want to think about like the Sennelier paints and I have some in this palette here um Sennelier because the binder is honey Never really dries in the pan. It's always sticky. Oh, I remember you saying that Yeah, so you want to be conscious of that and that for me That's another reason for me to not have lots of Sennelier tube paint because that kind of makes me crazy Okay, um, this is a very very very light color. Yeah um I noticed that It lifts much better off of hard Yeah, that may marry. No, just the water color probably because you don't have the texture for to get soaked into Okay, that's pretty. It's good to know though That is How do you think you're so dark mine so like light I added a couple of coats I kept picking up more paint and I put the porta squeezed out a little too much water That's good enough. Yeah I just like to see that Not like I'm gonna you know, but when I come over again I'll know which ones I want. I just don't need shrink Uh One and doing this will help you Sarah when you do decide to or if you do decide to buy more watercolor This will help you decide which ones you maybe want to gravitate towards Yeah And I will say that I do like the way shrink goes on. Yep. Um, and all of the artist paints You don't have to just right away go by a set like my daniel smith collection. I started out just buying one tube At a time. Um, how much are they per tube? um, the daniel smith run about like 10 to 20 dollars a tube depending on the color and the Um pigments used to make the color some of them cost more money Kind of like anything like like any art like any artist paints. Yeah The golden acrylic paints run that are the same way like some of their series ones like cheaper than the series for And daniel smith is carrying almost the almost everywhere. Yeah stores. Yeah, okay At least around here because maybe they are I mean other ones would be a little harder to find I'm sure but yeah But these are more affordable than schmink. Yeah, you said they're What schmink schmink two though you can buy I bought this as a 48 pan set But schmink you can also buy just per tube And I think per tube the cost is about the same as daniel smith um, but in The san francisco bay area where we are the only place I know for sure that has schmink and daniel smith is lens art and santa Cruz There may be another store locally that has both not but not that I have found Okay, like university art has daniel smith, but they don't have schmink Okay, so then you can just take one of your sets and just start playing like the kurafaki set Okay, I think I got a lot of color I know you do and So I'm gonna start by just putting water on my paper and get my paper wet So just get your paper wet and start dropping in color into the wet part Just a lot of a little bit block. We don't just call it blotting. It's lifting Blotting is a no-no word Okay, so then I'm going to take Another color and for these kind of color experiments where you're working wet on wet to just see What you can get your watercolor paint to do and just you're just really playing with the water and the puddling and You don't have to necessarily worry about complimentary colors or If you make mud, you know, oh well, you're just playing So I'm gonna pick Wine red And it's gonna stay with the water and it's gonna just blend with the other paints I have on here And you can kind of make it do what you want by dropping more water on there And you can make one color bloom into the other one you can tilt it and make it drip And this is a great fun way to just do backgrounds for Written journals or mixed media journal You could do collage on top of it Just be aware that the watercolor paint might still move Don't you love that turquoise color isn't it great? Oh the turquoise is it cobalt blue? This is This is cobalt blue. Yeah. Yeah, I like that color. So it's a little bit pale. So I want to add some dark spots I like the um effect it has this is buckling way too much But um, whatever I'm just playing. Yeah, but um, I like when it what is it called when it when it blooms It one color into the other that this is exactly how I did this one By the way Or even how it pushes the other color out when you add it to like an existing pool Yeah, it pushes it out. You can also while this is the wet if you have It gotten all your color on there and it's still wet You can drop some table salt in certain places and that will absorb all the water and pigment Yeah, I've seen people use that before that's awesome. Yeah, it leaves a really cool texture And of course blue pink and purple and yellow like some of my favorite colors used together It's interesting Seeing these together. This is I don't think you have this color in your set, but Even so just seeing how they How they mix together or don't or how they just react with this paper. Yeah Well, yeah, because that's hot press. I just I found that I'm you know, it's okay Probably just by playing now. I have a feeling I'll probably stick with cold press for the most part. Yeah, but this is definitely going to get used Um, yeah, I mean I have some more hot press. So I'll use it, but it's not my favorite So then I just start to look at the design on the page and see if there's areas I want to define and make more prominent than others maybe someplace that needs some yellows a good color for Hinting at sunlight Giving you some warm water I went to a paper demo at Lens art and I got samples of paper. That was really cool. It was a Fabriano demo Oh, so I got samples and that's where I learned about the soft press paper Because I have Fabriano cold press. I did not know Fabriano made a soft press Yeah, this is all the colors come off very easily up on hot press. I don't know if I like that Because sometimes you might want to pick some up because there's too much water right, but not all of it But yeah, this is very very much picking up a lot of it So I think that I would if I'm going to be serious about doing something on the hot press Or at least this specific one then I think I would um Probably make sure that I don't use too much water where I want to pick up Let's see watercolor. You can always add more but you can but that's a good thing to know by just playing and experimenting and trying things and it's a great Thing to find out if you get you know go to some of these demos and you get these free samples of paper and you can just try them Before you buy a whole stack of paper and then discover you don't like it Because I know I don't have a budget for that I have a feeling the pinks are gonna go up first I love the turquoise green is a pretty color. Sorry. This pink looks really really bright next to the deep pink in the purple and the blue Don't mind. Oh good. They can't see my face. No, no. They're just looking at my hands I'm I'm having a bit of a Can't say that. She's never mind. She's melting down over here because she's in love with the pink color That's all we can say about that. I have some 12 year old viewers. So yeah, that's why I I wanted to say a certain word, but I wasn't going to I wanted to put that out in public and that too Even if you didn't have any 12 year old viewers So now I'm just you know kind of I don't know it has Sort of a geometric feel here. So I'm just emphasizing that and highlighting certain areas and putting more color Until I get something I like I'm just putting color down and watching it move around Sarah's just playing but there's that's what that's the way you learn is just to play and move the color around and see what it'll do And I have no idea what this is. How it'll blend You're not focused on making anything that you know what it is It's just I don't know what it's going to turn into eventually. I guess I'll see what happens But yes, this color does look amazing with the other ones And since I'm not as serious about watercolor, I have a feeling that the These are going to last me forever And just get something like that you could use it on your own on its own for a page or a painting You could put a quote on top of it. You could cut it up for embellishments You could scan it You could doodle over it. They're great to doodle over and cut it up into inches. Yep. Yep Sorry me and my doodle obsessions and gotten re-inspired to start doodling. Yeah, so There's this one and there's this one I did the other day the light brown. It's a yellow ochre not like I wanted to just write yellow ochre, but that's not what they call it. These are all done the same way They're just playing with the paint and the pigment and Keep playing with your paint. I'm just telling you Yeah, I know because the big set has metallics in it. The little one doesn't that's one of the main differences Has a few other colors, but the main differences the metallics now the schmick set comes as metallics No, and this one is just what Sarah is doing. She's just putting color on the page and moving it around huddling it And that by itself is a cute background for like doodling on top of and this particular one could be would be a cute bookmark And here's my chicken my first attempt at a expressive chicken, but he needs help. I need to practice my chickens. Let me see Better than I would do it especially first try Do you know how long I don't know 20 minutes. Yeah me perfectionists. Okay pale aqua next purple is may or may not You can also lift with your brush That's true Like try to Okay, just yep and then dab it off on that But if you have a lot of it, then you need to do it that way. Yeah And I almost always watercolor with a rag or a paper towel in my hand For lifting Here's another paper towel if you need it The kurotaki colors are really nice and they're bright and they're this one was done with the kurotaki this one. I think I did with a van go palette Yeah so This is artist grade watercolor and this is not this is student grade so At least to think the kurotaki may be artist grade Japanese watercolors, but I don't think so. I haven't read anything that says that I haven't read anything anywhere that says the grade Light process anything. No, I could it could be professionals. They could be student grade. Yeah But it's kind of the information is hard to find and I don't remember looking at these really shouldn't from what I've read You really shouldn't try to compare them completely with Um I mean and you'd have to tell me this because you're the watercolor artist, but um With traditional western watercolors because they're different very different. They're different. They're not going to Compare quote-unquote, you know Um, yes, they're gonna have very so in in the any literature from Jackson's it says traditional Japanese watercolors for professional artists and crafters like That usually means that it's some court sort of high-grade student quality um, or artist quality paint Comparable to the van Gogh set Which I could already tell you that without looking at the literature by looking at these two Abstracts van go in there. I didn't know no no it didn't that's my opinion Oh, but I could tell you that it's comparable to this van Gogh set, which is Um an artist grade, but it's not, you know top of the line or anything um But looking at these two abstracts In my opinion looking at these two and this one's done on hot press granted But I think that color of the pigments is very comparable between the two. Yeah And the kurtakis a lot cheaper I mean they have some colors that I I don't know like if you've seen any of the kurtaki colors and other brands Before but do you use the bigger brush? Oh, yeah. Yeah, this one. Yeah, I'm just going to do kind of color around it Oh This is oh here. This is the bigger one. You just need to change the barrel because it's an empty So put put this barrel on it because this is full. Oh, you've switched it because of No, I was using the big one. I just used all the water Oh Because I was just going to do that a little bit Oh, but right this one You gotta put in hot some hot water. Yeah It's a little bit I think I put the cap on funny. It's gonna bug me What I'll do it. I'll fix it. I've got some green or something in there. Uh-oh High performance paints ideal for sketching illustrations sumi manga calligraphy and more To the fairly versatile. Yep And they're uh affordable That's the thing I like plus you can get half pan refills of all the colors You can get refill tubes for the koi But they're not as easily obtainable and you can't get all the colors. This is awesome See look at that and see the blooming there you have the red and purple. It's blooming into the yellow. That's fabulous And that's the way you learn about you know, what you can and can't do with your watercolor paints I'm just putting a little here So I can grab some yellow and move it around the way I want to do without getting too much pigment In colors You just want to remember with your watercolors that you need to think of the fact that you're working from light to dark So if you want light areas, you need to leave them lightly colored if you want white areas You need to leave them plain paper Or you need to know that you're going back over it with a white Since you're doing mix media a white gel pen or a white paint pen or white acrylic paint or a white gouache Because you can't really most of your colors stain so you can't Count on being able to lift the color up Okay, and since we can't find any information on the staining properties of the kurataki We don't know I mean, I guess you could test all the colors like you're doing now and then see which ones will lift cleanly and which ones Won't My guess is most of them won't lift completely And the darker the color the less likely you're going to get a lot of it to lift Generally speaking in my experience, that's how it works the really dark colors don't lift very much The lighter colors you can usually lift almost all of it See some of the colors are already dried so they don't bloom as easily, but right I saw that happen And I was like even the purple it didn't really Create that much mud. Yeah, but there's also less pigment. So in right the yellow is very very light Sometimes those unexpected Areas of mud are nice Love you pita. Love you pita And I love her like I mean because when I have a question about something If she has the tongue Then and she's able to help me. I know that She's going to tell me in a way that you know She likes to things be done and if I'm asking her it's because I want to know her opinion. Exactly. Exactly. So Whereas I usually answer the question with the question by saying well, what do you want to see happen? Okay, do you see what just happened? Yeah, purple blue no wait that was I think One of the darker purples the deep pink. Sorry the deep pink the dark pink and The cobalt blue mixed in To make this amazing Color with the yellow don't tilt it because you're gonna I know I'm trying to show you and it's fabulous It makes me feel a little better. I'm like it's just in the middle. It's nothing I'll probably do the laundry or something to be honest Sometimes I just do these abstract backgrounds and then I just leave them sit and I do a lot of or I stamp on top of them Sometimes sometimes I'll stamp a quote on top of something. You make really nice tags out of them. Yeah. Yeah And even the sample, you know cards if you were going to make a bunch of these sample cards and then You didn't have a reference book to put them in, you know, this could be cut up for embellishments Mm-hmm Do you tend to turn your work much? I know I've watched you before you He does never it seems like you do but I'm wondering if I do is that because you Know you're filming or um, I do turn my work a lot but not usually when I'm filming Um, except for today earlier today. I started a new painting series and For that I did turn my work Because we were working we were working on a background and it was um abstract We're going to be doing a journaling by fives inspired Monday with deco art series that involves Working on a canvas in 15 minute increments doing different things on the canvas Oh, okay. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, sounds like it'll be fun And we're not, you know shooting for doing, you know, a landscape or a face or You know anything like that unless of course, it's what they want to do Uh-huh Oh my god, I'm gonna take this You can make some of it like blue into the other but not all of it See how these little few just a few little spots at bloom I just realized there's no actual orange in that set is there No The closest orange is the scarlet red the scarlet is the scarlet red the closest one in the small set But you have yeah, you have an actual orange. Yeah, yeah Because that's more. I mean it's more of a yellow orange, but um, I mean a red orange Orange is at least for me It seems like I'm it's easier for me to mix the right orange that I want than it is the right purple that I want And that's just something about me. I think What color are you using there? This is the scarlet red Oh, okay, doesn't say they yeah, the orange would be really nice with that blue Or green the turquoise That color It's a mixture of blue and green. Yes Yeah, see if I did that on this paper would have immediately pulled up like almost all of it See, I really I really like cold pressed cold presses my thing. I like the texture Mm-hmm. I think I'll save the hot press honestly for either if I just want to be messy Well, it's here where it's good to doodle on the hot press I was going to say because of the smoothness right I can use it to doodle on like zen tangling I could see zen tangling on the hot press. Mm-hmm. I'm gonna say yeah do that doodle and then color in with the watercolor. Yeah, or With intense pencils. Yeah Something that I would want a little more control like have small areas I don't need as much water with because the more water it seems like the And it's fine. It's I like how messy you can get with it But but these kurtake paints are really well pigmented I think and they're a good buy and I know the small sets carried a hobby lobby And they have them at of course amazon and a bunch of other places I got my hobby lobby with a coupon The 36 set is also $40 on the end of the month. That's nice. That's a good deal I think it was cheaper than the 24 set at a lobby lobby Or maybe the same price Without the coupon. I just got blue in my room. You got purple. Yeah Oh, yeah, you can see it's already Yeah Arches watercolor, I like the fluid watercolor blocks because they're affordable and they come in a lot of really Great sizes for traveling like the four by six But they're not attached on three sides They're only attached on two arches are attached on like three and a half sides And they have a little like two inch opening on one side stick So because it's glued down more it warps even less. Okay Um, yeah, but it's more expensive Yeah, because if this was even just on this side You would only be worried of like only this. Yeah, and you know, it's fine because it's I'm not like doing like Fine art pieces or anything. No, and this this is 140 pound Strathmore paper and you notice that it's not obviously Blocked down or anything and I got it a little bit wet. It's a little bit warped in the middle I don't know if anybody can see that. Is that 400 series? I'm not good. Um, no, this is actually the yellow pad Which is what is that 300? I think Student green Yeah, so it it warped a little bit But not too much and most of the time when I'm just doing these kind of little practice pieces You know, I they curl a little bit, but that doesn't bother me It's only when I'm working on like something more important bigger That I want to work on a block um But I like the convenience of having the small blocks when I'm traveling instead of like tons of like loose pieces of paper That's annoying I don't like that Unless it's you know in the binder. Yeah Yes, or in a book like my I love this bag. This is the bag I ordered Did you show that on video yet? Not yet. This is the tom din bag and they don't make it anymore It's the field journal kit. They do have a few left in old stock So you have to email them or call them Yeah, I don't think you hadn't put this together yet in that video. No, and so this is the red color And it has a pocket here in the front And in here I have a mixing palette And it has another pocket in the back, which is where usually my peerless palette is but it's over there right now And then inside it has all of these little spaces for brushes And just get it into the frame so they can see better. Oh, there we go for brushes. Thank you, sarah For brushes and then I've got my Windsor Newton Set here, which I had to you know add more colors too because I didn't have enough dark colors I came with this little ruler, which is cute. I put in a Zippered pouch from a planner that I had and I put some brushes and pencils in here along with a couple of um Tim Holtz mini misters And then I have another little pouch that has some Of the coir sample booklets Because you know the one set of paints not enough in the color and it has a color wheel. Yeah Always with the color. Oh, I found my small color wheel. I'm gonna have to add that to my travel kit There you go. I have a Sheet protector here because I do want to stick Either a finished piece of artwork or I want to be able to put maybe some Traveling ephemera in there or something And it came with this Plastic protector. I found this Battery's low Oh, yeah, I found this that's beautiful bookmark thing yesterday at staples And then I put watercolor paper in it and I've got a couple rags And I love this guy. Um, is that the yellow pad as well water filter? Yeah, this is yellow pad strachmore 300 series I believe Yeah, I believe so. I don't call me on that but I do believe so Because I know I like the 400 Just in all their papers just because it seems to hold up a little better to whatever you're doing Of course, I prefer the 500 but it's very hard to find it unless you're ordering it online or something. Yeah I do have a 500 series mixed media journal and it's amazing That outlet's funny over there. It doesn't know what to do No, it's a blinkin Do you pause it? No, I'm gonna shut it off and I'll do I have an ending. I do know um I made myself a script because I kept forgetting half of what I was supposed to be saying I don't say the whole angel policy part, but um, I do have to mention a lot of that Oh because of you're using people different companies products or Because of your work you don't want people copying you both Both both. Just to protect everybody involved. Yeah, because I do not want to be one of these You're using Daniel Smith and the thing you don't want people to think they're they're yours Or like they're into the comfort or Daniel Smith to think that I'm doing something wrong with their brand You know, they own that intellectual right to that brand and their products and I don't want them to think that I'm you know doing anything with their product that Would even hint at people that that's Mine You also when you're doing mixed media, you're using lots of like different pieces of paper and collage items from different companies I don't want people to think that's my artwork. It's not. So, you know tissue paper from target Yeah, you don't always remember the thin company that made it. So I want to make sure I have that like a general disclaimer in there That's a good idea. Yeah, because I did notice that you put those up recently Yeah, and even though you put the re is your your um collage video Are your videos even though you updated all of the all of them? I noticed It was like You know I have noticed it that she's done it, but I saw it and I was like Gina hasn't seen it yet. Yeah, I did I'll help her out I did find the um YouTube studio creator app because of Shannon green and that's been fabulous because I can be on my phone Now and I can open the creator app and reply to the comments on my phone Um, effectively easily with the one app without having to like fish around everywhere. It was really a pain without the app So the what it's a youtube studio creator app Which like nobody knows about and it's just for youtube creators And you can go in there and you can get your dashboard. You can find out how many subscribers you have look at all your analytics Reply to all your viewer comments The youtube app lets you I don't know about analytics with our analytics again Those are like, um, how many what your which videos are being watched and for how long and I don't know if the actual youtube app can do that But you can reply to comments. Yeah, but you can't but you can't see all the comments And um, it was hard to find the comments without going to each video See with this app I can just go to one place and look at all the comments on all my videos Oh, and it just separates them by video in as well. No, it's just no it just separates them by newest to oldest Oh, so it's as if you they were just putting it on the wall message thread like it's an email box. Yeah No, it's easier. It's easier a sense of When you get to a certain point with your youtube channel It went you start having a lot of comments It's easier than going to this video and then answering them And then this video and then answering them and then this video and answering them Because I was doing that and that's a big pain in the neck Um, and it's I guess when you're hard when you're getting big and you have more videos and more and more Yeah, when you're little it's not bad, but when you start to get past a certain point where you're not little anymore it's really hard and Um going to this app you can just see all of your comments One thread and then you can reply to them all and it's really really easy I love that. But what if they ask questions specific to a video and you're not sure what oh, I've that's happened I go back and watch the video So so that actually does the same question Well, not in that case, but that does happen a few times and that's just because of I just figure that's me Um, sometimes people ask about something I've done in a video and I don't remember exactly what I did So some occasionally I do have to go back and watch a video because I don't remember I would probably have to as well. Um, it doesn't happen a lot, but it does happen Me I just I have a good memory sometimes and it depends on what it what it's pertaining to Yeah, and it does like I said, it doesn't happen a lot, but it does happen And I didn't say anything to my mom about Bob's test because it won't serve any purpose to do that She'll just get worried And drive me crazy. You're saying, um handmade items with your images not mechanically or mass produced Is that because you could end up making a lot more money off of stuff that with your artwork and I don't want them to make money off something with my artwork on it But you said you could do it with handmade items. Yes, but and it could still make money that way Yes, but if they're if they're mass producing them or mechanically producing them They're gonna be millions of them and then I get no money. That's not okay with me You're making a couple hundred of them for a craft show. I'm okay with that. Okay. No, I was gonna say Because I'm a former craft show person. So totally I'm okay with that because it happens and it's just You know your images get out there people But if you're gonna start manufacturing things with my image on them, but I'm totally not okay with artwork The more I get into art and more and realize how easy it is To essentially steal someone's work without realizing it Because they might put an image out there, but there's no People are freaking out about the possible changes in copyright law and For the average artists It's not going to make any difference because people have the ability to steal your stuff now And for the most of us we can't do anything about it because we don't have the money to go buy a cop A higher copyright attorney And and fight whoever it was. So what's the copyright law? The persons in asia and they steal an image or copyright viewers that you have over here You almost have no recourse. How are you gonna find out anyways though? It well it depends on what it depends on what it depends But there are ways my husband works for a multi billion dollar company And they make capital semiconductor equipment and there's a company in asia that stole their software And They don't have much recourse. They're trying but because it's in um, I think it's in china because it's an asian company They only have so much rights in international copyright law and china has a really big history of just not listening to that They don't care Well, they own our company. I mean our country. Yeah. Yeah practically. Yeah, so You know, if they already shareholders, yeah, so if if they can't do anything about it You know, what do I what recourse do I have? So, I mean, I can you know take all the precautions and I will but what's the um copyright law with the part of it That's changing that are freaking that's freaking want to marital abrams has a big thread about it in the youtube creator facebook page Um Something about the u.s. Government wanting to make digital Images and artwork Like what do you call it free not free, uh I know what you're talking about, um creative licensing or something like that Yeah, something like that like that's a free like if you've posted it on social media then anybody can use it basically Um unless you filed an actual copyright on the image like there won't be any more implied copyright Because right now we have like an implied copyright So if somebody stole an image of mine off the internet, but I can say I have that I can prove I made that I've got the painting hanging on my wall I that's not right because they could get it and mass produce it right make millions off of it No, no, no, no, that's not right right. That's what they're trying to do change it to I understand people freaking out because you spent all this money You're putting the work into it and then you know, there are people out there They will already do they're already doing it. Yeah already do it But we'll do it even more because they'll know they can get away with it. Yeah Oh, but it's my right What I don't understand how people can do that to other there's an artist I think in new york that takes people's um instagram postings and he Copies them and blows them up huge and sells them as prints and galleries like nationwide And he's been taken to court and he won Like does he claim them as his own? No But he shouldn't necessarily have the right to sell them either. No because he's not giving the money to anybody else. Yeah I don't understand all the parameters about it, but he won that people I've downloaded pictures from the internet or Used in this too for inspiration or like some of them some of them mean sometimes per like I bet um I don't know for sure. Yeah, I put it on crazy. I'm crazy on family. I'm still working on it. Um Instead of my house home. Oh The Something something you downloaded crazy. Oh for the um Remember how heides for doing a lot of like intense work I wanted to you know, I'll start with my favorite flower. It's fairly simple. Well for me. It's fairly simple because I already know it I've already Colored them with different media, right? But with the intents I haven't done that yet. So I wanted to or at least a watercolor paper without any on top of like Gesso or something just yeah bear you know, um So I googled some images So I wouldn't have to I mean because I can draw up on myself They're fairly simple, but I do much better when I have reference Because I'm a visual person, right? Um, so I googled an image. I found one that I really liked I just got like four or five of them on there and I sketched it out lightly or Sketched out lightly and then drew the lines a lot darker So that way when I raced him there would still be a line there But I knew that you wouldn't be able to see it once I put the intents on it. Okay, you know, um So I didn't do it exactly because you know It's very obvious if you put the two next to each other very obvious the same thing I didn't do all the lines exact, but you know on um Kyle and Lily's They're very rugged the edges are very rugged. So I'm just like, okay, whatever. This is where the flower is. Okay. Yeah, I did that But it's very obvious. It's yeah, that's the where the inspiration came from. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah But you know, I put them in the same positions Um, I put you know the same amount of flowers and stuff like that. It was just Doing that. I wanted to get pretty flowers down So that way I could play with colors because it's just easier for me. Well, those flowers are fairly easy. I feel yeah I like flowers are a good thing to learn to paint with because there's a lot less Anxiety about having it be perfect because flowers aren't perfect. They're very organic and I love about Kyle Lily's because they're You know, they get the really long stems Yeah, and they look like they should just fall over a break. Yeah, they look very fragile Yeah, but they're so strong. Yeah, and they're just so elegant. I think just Not perfect. It's just I don't know. Yeah, I just love it. I just I love painting. I love all flowers I love all flowers, but least favorite They're they're they're common, but I think it's so because they're so common I like I like carnations. I don't like to fake lead. I don't like any flowers that are fake dyed flowers You know where they've dyed them with color food coloring or something. I don't like that I normally don't either. Here's where I brought in that time to that party that time Well, those are pretty but yeah, I only brought them because they were you know, the colors Oh Because I saw I wanted to get like sunflowers. I don't know if feeling sunflowers that day, but they didn't really have Safeways have sunflowers. Safeways had some really pretty sunflowers. Yes, surprise me, but for some reason the that day the my safe way was like Some of them they were already browning on the edges. Not terrible. Which safe way do you go to? There's the one on Cochran and the one on tenants Because it's right around the corner. Tenants is a bigger store, isn't it? Yeah along with this gas station I don't yeah. It has a gas station. Yeah, that's the bigger store. I like that one better Oh, they normally do like but every once in a while you're gonna get some flowers that are you know Going to start to brown or whatever because yeah, it happens. They don't stay forever, you know, and I'm thinking about this paper towel It's totally off subject I wonder if you took these paper towels and you got them put them on white paper and then spritzed it with more water and left Hey, everybody, I hope you've enjoyed this little impromptu Little chat and painting session sarah and I had where we were playing with and exploring and comparing a bunch of different brands of watercolor Including the kurataki set that She just got I have the smallest one and she and I actually bought Both bought small ones at the same time and she fell in love with them right away and Ended up selling that set passing it along to a friend and Ordered the bigger set because she wanted more colors. She's starting to take after me. That might be a bad thing I don't know So but she was curious about how they stacked up against some of the other paints And she knew I have a large collection of paint. I have a large collection of paint big surprise. You guys knew that, right? Um, and she wanted to know if we could um do a comparison So we had a lot of fun with that. I hope it taught you a few things like it did us and I love all the brands of paint I have in my collection now. I think that my um collection of brands and colors is Really coming along nicely And I hope it gave you some ideas If you are on a budget and you want to start playing with watercolors of what your options are out there To not only get a nice quality watercolor, but get one on a budget The kurataki set is very affordable. It is a very readily available And half pans replacement half pans for every single color are out there and available I'm sure on a number of websites, but definitely on jackson's Arts out of the uk for sure, and I'll try to put a link to their Store in the description below The koi set of course is also readily available At hobby lobby and a number other of other craft stores They do have a tube set of replacement colors, but it only is 18 So it would work for their 18 color set. I have the 24 set So the 18 tube refill will only refill so many of the colors So I would still be missing some so I'm going to have to think twice about that before investing I actually am going to have to look and see what colors are missing out of that 18 tube set But I do love my koi set So that's it for right now if you guys have any more questions about watercolors Let me know Play with what you do have and just do some of these fun abstracts that you saw me doing at the end and Sarah was doing some off-camera I want you to just play with your colors and see what kind of marks you can make with them and What they do when you add water to them and you know while they're wet You could think about pouring some salt on there and letting it dry and then see what happens And just play with the paint. Don't worry about trying to make a picture Just play with the paint and see what you can get it to do and what different colors look like when they blend together And that sort of thing You will find copyright notices and appropriate disclaimers In the description below of all of my videos from now on along with all of my contact information So if you are a Person product or company that wants to have me do a review On your product. Maybe you want to send me something all my contact limit information is in the description below So feel free please like share and subscribe. Don't forget to have a great day Or week weekend. I think it's Tuesday Tuesday. I think I don't know. I think it's Tuesday. Have a great week Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I will see you later