 Hey guys, just trying to find myself on On YouTube that sounds so weird when I say that I'll never get used to saying that There we go This way I can see the chat on YouTube oops We don't need to hear my voice twice All right. Good morning Oops. Let's try not to bump the camera. Hey, good morning Nancy. How are you today? Alrighty, I'm just clipping all the wires out of my way So I don't trip over anything because as I've said a million times my name middle name is neither patience or grace So, you know hearing you having you guys hear me like crash and fall Live on camera wouldn't be good. Oh, thanks. I'm good. I'm good this morning You know what? I was waiting for two days for a phone call back from somebody about something fairly important and I never did hear back from them so I finally last night sent an email answered all the questions I needed to answer and Heard from them this morning. Okay, great. Thanks. We'll proceed forward. So Yeah, yeah, yeah, I you know in the old days I would have called them back this morning and like totally yelled at them, but I just didn't It's done. The questions are answered. We're it's going forward. I'm good So I so I can focus on other things like really being creative and finishing up my YouTube my videos this week that I need to do Good morning, Michelle. So as we're kind of just delaying a few minutes You know waiting for people to remember. Hey, we're live As most of you know I came out with my stamps finally and they will be coming like this Which is a sheet of unmounted red rubber This is one of the Sets I already had out No periscope today. I you know what I just This is not a multi. This is not a simulcast week. This is a bad week to try to do simulcast So if you see anybody Michelle asking about periscope on Social media, I'm not doing periscope today only YouTube All right, so this the stamps will come like this on a sheet of red rubber. They're deep etched red rubber so you need a sheet of Easy mount cling foam to turn them into a cling mount stamp They'll be packaged just like this with the but with the new designs and In this size I'll put all fuss with that putting it back in the package later. No, you don't have to worry about comments These are the new designs and all of the new sets all have words in them Hi, Teresa. Why am I bragging because I need to make money to pay for my art supplies All right, so all the new sets have words in them I do have this one set which is similar in style to the other doodles And I actually did it right after those other ones came out live live no, not live came out for sale and I Did these these this way in purpose? So if you look at it You pay attention you have all the pieces and parts here to create a border or a flower or something like that Hey So I did these that way on purpose So you have a couple of different possible stems a couple of premade borders some petals And then a flower center And these will be I will have the first shipment of stamps in 10 days from Monday. And yes, I'm waving it everybody wave. Hello I did finally come out with my little doodle birds And I actually created a few new birds just for the stamp set and the person who helps me design The stamps actually pulled out one of the faces from one of the birds and one of their little fluffy tops So you actually could you know doodle your own basic shape and then put stamp in the the bird face and the top The yeah, the birds are cute this one Are some doodles these are inspired by my nightly doodles The birds are so cute aren't they I know and there's a couple of secret projects Coming out in the future someday with the birds. I Know someone who wants to write a book and she wants to use the birds in the illustrations for the books So but I don't have a timeline for that Well, if I do actually Teresa if you sign up for the email newsletter Then you and you're on there then when the announcement came out Monday for the stamps You got a 20% discount code If you are not signed up for the email newsletter and you want the discount code go sign up All right, so this one was inspired by my nightly doodles and I thought these would be really good in my year of my life journal and if you're doing documented life They'd be really good in that I love the arrows and she took my arrows and she made one of them real small But these would be really cute also on some tags and things and then of course we have my doodle girls two girls And I was gonna actually put more girls on here But I really wanted to get some words out there So I did two girls with a bunch of words and all as I said all the stamps have some words on them either a quote or a phrase Or something So open the newsletter Teresa because it has a 20% discount code on anything in the store You just have to spend a minimum of $10, but these sets are going to be $26 each They did go up by $1 because of just the cost of manufacturing It's all the way at the bottom look at the bottom And if you still can't find it private message me off of YouTube So that's my little spiel before we get started because I really need to try to sell these stamps Make some money back. All right, so we got a Couple more shipments of products to review in Holbein was one of them and they sent me their water some of their watercolors and their gouache And I had no idea that Holbein made acrylic paint But they do and they sent me this five tubes start primary color starter kit and really even with acrylic paint This is all you need You can mix a lot of colors from just these five tubes of paint and I am really loving them And you know what these acrylic paints dry really fast. I've done a couple of journal pages with them now Including one that's in the Facebook group. The video is over there Under photos and then you click on videos and it's in there and I also just did a Journally crazy island style page with it and if you want to see that page have to be signed up for the class If you want to see the video, but I'm really loving working with these and these just five tubes of paint and They're really nice paints. I had no idea they did. I don't know why I didn't know they made acrylic paint All right, so let's get to swatch in so first Yeah, you'll have to message me the sign Teresa. Yeah And no guarantees, okay, so I'm having some asthma and allergy issues this morning guys, I'm sorry They're not super cheap, but they're not super pricey either I forgot to go look at like Dick Blick or somebody to see about prices before we went live I did remember to go and Link on my website the Pages Manufacturer pages for the two paints that we're going to do today whole bind and choir if somebody can shoot out some Prices from Dick Blick or somebody while you're online here in the chat For everybody I don't think from whatever Super cheap, but they weren't too bad I'm okay, Nancy. I have you know, it's a long story for those of you who don't know but I had a work injury and because of it now I have allergies and asthma and Everything bothers me. I can't shop at Michaels without a surgical mask like everything bothers me. It's annoying and Right now in California. I hate to brag, but it's warm and sunny and everything's blooming Like that's the worst time of year for me Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is swatch our paints and I'm going to do the whole vine first I Actually, so here is the color key that I did. It's all wet With the paints and Here's Schmink So like here's The reds look at the orange. I actually like this permanent yellow orange a lot a lot of people are gonna Get pounded with snow. I'm sorry The yellow is very comparable. I really like the way they're pigmented. I think they're nice paints. I Love their violet. Their violet was really great Hopefully Michelle unfreezes. Oh Wait, am I frozen too? Oh, no, I'm not frozen It could be YouTube Michelle, hopefully All right, so we're gonna Swatch our colors here for whole vine I'm gonna write The names down Let's see. Let's do Permanent lemon yellow again because I have that in this brand and I also had it in Van Gogh And I don't have cadmium yellow. So let's see Now whole vine paints are a Japanese brand. I believe I Only have one orange. So we're gonna swatch that one It's a yellow orange Why do I always start this without my Reading glasses on and then I can't see what I'm doing. All right. Oh, that's better And then we have pyrol red. I think that's spelled wrong by the way. Oh, yeah, it is oops We only have one green so Well, we have ultramarine and permanent violet now there is a Video coming out next week where I show you how exactly how I set up this whole vine palette What I did how I got to this place. I was able to get all of the nine sample tubes of watercolor and The five gouache tubes that they sent me all in one palette so I can use them all together I frequently don't Just use only watercolor or only gouache on a painting I frequently mix them up Yeah, you know, I also wanted to tell you guys somebody and I thought it was creatively Amy and I went to go back to try to find out for sure before we went live and I can't find it But somebody what this morning was altering a Like a wallet to turn into a Midori style Midori. Yeah Midori style Our journal and I thought that was so clever That now I'm gonna have to go thrifting for an old wallet See the five starter tubes set is not that's not bad for the price and look how big the tubes are guys These are not Small these are 60 ml tubes two ounces of paint and if you you know compare them to some of the other brands like golden You know, they're they're affordable as we all know we love golden, but it's not Super affordable. They're super vibrant. Look at this. This orange now is a very different one than the ones we've used But look at that color people These no, they're not sticky. I don't think they're sticky not as sticky at least as like golden paints and Like I said, I've done a couple of journal pages with them now with the acrylics and they dry really fast Now I still think the most pigmented watercolors we've tried so far may be the mission gold But these are pretty close Quar tubes are expensive. I do have some quark paints. We're gonna do them next Stamps are sticky. Yeah, I saw that I saw Cindy's Video to I was watching over my coffee this morning. I've gotten stancers sticky to the quart tubes are more expensive But you know, they have some colors That I really love that match I'm gonna make sure I stick my paintbrush in the right hole in the right hole in the right pan that sounded so bad. All right, um, They have the core paints have because they're made by golden they have colors that match their acrylics Watch her video because I I really like the way she the stamps that making the flowers was pretty cool. I know right me and my I Don't know how to talk sometimes. So look at these colors. They're so vibrant and I partly I didn't have to struggle to get them to be to be so vibrant or anything Welcome. I make myself laugh. I don't know if that's good or bad. I think that might be sign that I'm nuts, but you know all right, so Those are the whole vine and before we flip pages. We're gonna go ahead and do the core too now We're gonna use this because I Have my core in this empty schmink palette and This is a palette that frequently if I'm going on vacation somewhere like when I go to Alaska I'll be bringing this big palette with me because it has a bunch of really great colors from a bunch of different brands This is a mixed palette. There are core paints in here along with Windsor Newton Grumbacher Schmink Van Gogh And these ones down here at the bottom that are shiny These are Sennelier. They are samples I got when I went to a demo with them and I only have the three colors. They stay sticky So I don't like I I like my watercolors to like dry out. I'm not a big fan of them staying sticky That kind of bugs me Yeah, you know, I'm not what is saying, you know to find that so anyway So instead of picking and choosing out of here and me having to count and figure out which ones are choir We're not going to do that But this is how this is where I have my choir and I have a number of palettes that are mixed like this They're not all until I started doing These reviews I didn't really keep them separate I kept them all mixed up And there's no reason why you can't build your collection by buying the choir cobalt teal because you love that Daniel Smith moon glow because you love that one This whole vine permanent yellow orange because you love that there's you know, nobody says you have to just stick with one brand Get an empty palette and just start building your own custom box But because I don't want to have to I'm gonna be lazy this morning. We're gonna just dump out the bag of tubes It's easier And let's pick out some color now Choir is one of the brands that makes a really good metallic watercolor and I do have gold and silver Let's see I have qued awkward on red You keep saying that I have pyro red light. Let's see Hands a yellow. Yeah, I have silver Cobalt blue. Oh, here's Viridian. Let's do that one. There's another yellow Nickel azo yellow is not right. Let's see Ultramarine Let's do Hansi I at least need to look at them Let's do this one because it compares closer to the other paints that we've used No, I Haven't had a trouble writing over them. Oh, I have pearl and silver. It looks like All right, so wait, I lost track you guys. I've lost track of what I'm doing. It doesn't take doing it doesn't take much squirrel I don't think I have an orange in let's see Let's do pyro red and Nope, I don't have an orange in core so we're gonna have to like do without it because Yes, they don't They don't perform the same There and I frequently mix my metallics with a color like I have the pearl Because I like to give sometimes my color a little bit of a You know Metallicae shine, so I'll mix the pearl with the color But they don't act the same. I really like the metallics for doing like highlights of light on water when I'm doing a seascape Yeah, I don't have orange. We can do Quarroquino gold is the closest I think I have I Need purple. Do I have a purple? I do have a purple Somewhere oh in my hand They know it's not just you and I really like the metallics, you know when you're doing like a sunset painting and You want to add that just that little something extra to You know the water where the light is shining on the water use a little bit of a metallic gold silver pearl don't feel stupid Hello, I'm the queen of stupid I Know you know when I was training For a company we shall leave unnamed I Used to tell my trainees that the only stupid question is the one you don't ask and that's the truth I honestly believe that there's no such thing as a stupid question. Don't feel stupid. We're all learning. That's how come I started My channel in the first place was because I was learning I wanted to learn more and I wanted to pass it along to everybody else and Get feedback from you all so we can all learn and grow together. That's the whole premise from my channel from the start So don't feel stupid. Okay Let's see so let's start our swatches here and Then we can move forward. Let's fill our little palette We'll put some in the palette and thank you guys, but you know, I do like the rest of you have self-esteem issues So I would You know, if you're really unsure about Whether you're even gonna well that tube just kind of exploded all over the place If you're not unsure about if you're gonna like the gouache or not You might want to go with as good a brand as you can afford but not too cheap Reeves is okay if you're just gonna like make cards with it, but it's not a great in my opinion paint I do have some But I don't think they're fabulous or anything I Like the whole buying gouaches. I gotta tell you guys. I'm pretty impressed But most of your paint brands make a gouache not all of them I Do have Reeves I have talons. I Do have a gouache palette a big giant one Let me fill this first and I'll pull the palette out Mola can see what brands I have I know there's some Reeves in there and I don't use the Reeves as much I think the other one that's on there might be talons and it was a cake set and I really like it I've used it a lot. In fact, I I took the cakes out of the original palette that came in and put them in my giant round palette The only problem I have with the core paints is I hate these little fiddly tops the little tops make me crazy But I have that same problem with lots of paint brands. I love the choir Bottles because they have a nice big cap Exactly. So you need to figure out first what your budget is and You need to then figure out what you're gonna do with them So if you just want to play do some art journaling Make some cards, then maybe you don't want to spend tons of money on like choir watercolors I put all those tubes back. I need to write the names down still Okay, so Hansa yellow And it's no point in doing these comparisons if you don't write the color names down But if you buy a starter brand of paint even Reeves and you discover that you really are liking using it Then maybe you do want to upgrade at some point To a better brand Well, you all know I love colors I have I have so much paint every now and then I do a paint purge normally it's acrylic paints because I don't really purge my watercolors ever but I Um I love paint. I'm just I'm a freak for paint and I know how to mix colors, but you know, I'd rather not all right So I have a giant choir palette If you haven't seen it before It looks like this Giant choir palette giant gouache palette. What am I thinking? So pelican is the main so this is mostly pelican and Reeves Here is the color key for these that you can see and I Used to do a lot of gouache Um, and I still frequently mix my gouache with my watercolor There's nothing wrong with that. You can see where I uncaked I took them out of the original palette that came in and just popped them in here But there's nothing wrong, especially when you're doing faces because they're more opaque Hey Scotland that's on my bucket list. I need to go visit so I when I started with um gouache, I got the pelican, which is a pretty good brand Um, and they come in a cake form, but I'm really loving the whole vine if you can afford it Okay, so let's get our let's get our colors done here So we poured out our our six Choir colors choir of course is made by golden paints in case you didn't know And just like other golden paints, they're pretty vibrant These colors aren't an exact matched Um to the other colors why I've used but they're close so A set of what for under 30 dollars gouache Genesis torres You might want to share with everybody if you have a link if you can put a link in the comments I know right well unfortunately Um, I have loads of asthma and allergy medicine because every time I complain the doctors just throw more medicine at me um But I hate taking it because the cure is worse than the problem to begin with Oh whole vine. I like the whole vine. I got to tell you guys whole vine or look at the mission golds So far. I mean, I'm a big daniel smith fan, but I think if I was just starting out and I was watching somebody do this I I would um I would go with whole vine or mission gold Um, I don't I haven't had a problem with rewetting them. I know some people have had that problem I just did that in the purple um With core and sometimes with daniel smith, but honestly, I've never had that problem now I would say What I normally do when I paint and I did today with the whole vine paints Was I sprayed them with water and I let it sit for about five minutes and then I sprayed it again So I would um, you know, not being a big hurry Okay, that works and then people can go over to amazon and they can look that up The mission golds were great too So there is our Comparison this is winter newton van go whole vine and choir The Choir are expensive, but they're nice paints. There's nothing nothing at all wrong with them. I I really like them. They're just expensive Like daniel smith. I mean, I love daniel smith, but it's not cheap So if you're gonna if you're gonna start out with a really great brand of paint like choir daniel smith Um schmink and you're on a limited budget You might want to just buy a couple tubes at a time and start out with your primary colors you really Really really really can get by with a yellow a red and a blue to start And then I would do an orange a green and a purple and then do a panes gray And maybe a white and then start adding in your fun colors the whole vine green Is this permanent green? What is it called permanent green number one and it's a very um Limey kind of a bright green. I really love this green and this this yellow orange Is fabulous. I had no idea and they have a lot of colors of paint So let's give this a quick dry So we can move on And let's see how they blend and paint with It is very bright and happy I'm drinking some warm tea here because it's the best thing for my My congestion and allergies. No warm warm tea helps clear out all the mucus. I know you all didn't want to hear that but you know Okay So here we go I just have to remember to put the right paint brand in the right little house I already pre drew my house to see all didn't have to suffer through watching me do that So let's see what it's like to paint with them Because for me, that's you know, that's one of the tests for me How easy are they to paint with to do wet on wet stuff with dry on Wet stuff with to blend on the paper to blend off the paper That sort of thing I'm loving this whole this orange that they sent Now whole vine did send me. Uh, I contacted them like with um mission gold and prima And Who else mission gold prima? And that's it so far. They sent me paints. So I told them I was doing this told the companies I was doing this and they sent me some paint I have some other companies that have said they're sending me paint, but we're not going to advertise them until I actually get something from them How do you not just love that orange You know, I didn't really ever like orange until I started painting with it And then I realized what a great color it was Okay Try hot tea and if you're really mucusy put a little bit of lemon in it the citric acid and the lemon will help with the mucus and Honey if your throat is sore put some honey in there. It'll coat your throat But warm drinks are really great for people who have allergies and asthma. It helps really keep everything clear So this is a organic. What is this? Um Bramble wine tea This is not one that's caffeine free, but it's very low caffeine And it smells fruitier than it tastes because I'm not a big fan of fruity flowery teas um But I like this one I also got a lemon ginger the other day that was nice. That's nice too All right, let's see Let's start talking about allergies and asthma will stop. I'll forget to talk about watercolors I'm liking these paints And unfortunately once you have an exposure to something and you develop something like allergies, I've been told by doctors that um Once your allergies sort of go on their rampage. They don't really ever go off the rampage So you're stuck the older we get the worse it is. All right, my only comment to that was oh fabulous That's just what I needed. Just thanks a lot So just like always I am painting from warm to cool colors and I am And light to dark So your warmer colors that would suggest sunlight and brightness and warmth Would be the reds the yellows the oranges the cooler colors that would suggest shadow and cold would be violets blues Your greens are sort of on the border in my opinion Some of them are cool. Some of them are warm. This one is pretty warm Oh wrong blue And i'm not too concerned, you know things are going to blend on the page And that's okay I kind of want to see what it's going to do when they blend some of these Without me trying too hard make a really nice sort of dark paint gray color and I like that Oh, Nancy. I'm so sorry We have a dog. He's you have sometimes heard him barking in the background. He's a mixed breed um pitbull Shepherd sort of thing Um, but he's outside a lot. He's only inside um at night because um partly because of my allergies, but also because he's messy I'm a control freak. Yes. You didn't know I just had to talk with somebody the other day about that. Well, I think it was Jerry one of my admins I'm liking these paints you guys. I'm gotta tell you let's put some violet in there We love bandit. He's a very protective dog So he doesn't like anybody near his property at all So if there's like a neighbor, you know two doors down that's outside that shouldn't be You know that he feels shouldn't be he tells me because he starts barking I you know, I'm liking these paints. I like the way that turned out And these are just quick little paintings. These are not Picasso. We're just um You know doing quick paintings. Now, let's do the core one The one thing about the golden core paints are they're yellow Is very very pigmented. It's something I've noticed about not all of the brands Um, but core is definitely one of them. I I felt mission gold was too that had a really nicely pigmented um yellow Yeah, you know what this really I think one of the things I like about watercolor Is that I really can't be a control freak about watercolor. It has a mind of its own It's going to go where it may and I don't have that much control over it No, it doesn't this is van Gogh And this blended a bit better than the whole bind did um Whatever paint brand you have there's ways to work around that No worries lorry. Hey Good glad you're here So depending on what brand you have there's ways to work around that and to work within the brand that you have in the paint That you have on its properties some will blend better on paper than others And I think so far the two best that did it Did that where schmink Was okay may marry blue. Look at the may marry blue and we just naturally got look at all these dark gray colors that we got Um and then van Gogh did a pretty good job too. Look at how much brighter this whole palette here All of these are pretty bright Oops. I just stuck my brush in the wrong color No worries And and you know sometimes and it depends sometimes too on what colors you use how bright they're going to be Um, and how much how well they're going to blend some pigments do that better than others do And so, you know, usually within the same brand you'll have ones that are brighter and ones that are darker So it just depends and and you know these paintings aren't exact. I'm doing them all a little bit different Yeah, so this new tea I got is a lemon ginger and I am not a huge ginger fan Um, but I do like it when my allergies are bothering me. I'm learning to love it more than I used to This is and that was a different color of orange than any of the others. So it's going to be a lot more golden brown It's uh, what color was that? That's quedocratone gold deep It is one of my favorite colors in both the choir and daniel smith Um, it's a fabulous orange color And it's nice and dark My teacup's kind of blocking the screen here. There we go. I do think this choir ultramarine is fabulous Look at how dark it is without me even trying very hard The color may not be, you know, super true to Um on your screen to what is going on on the paper But it should be pretty close now. I will say that One of the things I like about choir paints Is that before you go out and buy a ton of choir watercolors You can write to golden or go to your local art supply store and ask For some samples now, of course They don't have a big color range and they don't have all the colors in the samples But they do have samples of these colors on cards that you can get the little card and you can try them before you buy them And daniel smith, of course has the same thing you do have to pay for their color cards because um, they have a lot of paint on them Um, but I would definitely think about doing that If you're thinking about one of these two brands of paint now they're as far as i'm aware and I of course could be wrong I'm frequently wrong about stuff. Um, but as far as I know They are the only two brands that do that and that give you Um, or that have available for you to get some kind of um sample chart. Um That's so that's really I like that so you can tell definitely tell the difference in how pigmented They are now let's see So the quark colors you can get they have three of them at least they did last time I got them And they come in these little booklets and the booklets have a piece of paper and then they have this little Piece of parchment here. I actually taped it down and then they have six blobs of paint on them And each one of these is a different kind of color way um And they match what's on the cover here. So this is like more earth tones Um more this has got the reds and greens in it and this actually has the teal in it Oh, see that's good to know because I've written to just about everybody and so far these are the only ones that Um have samples Yeah, definitely if you're you know watercolors can be pricey like any other art supply And if you're thinking of investing in something more than a koi palette Then I would definitely write to the company you're thinking about and see ask them. Do you have sample? Booklets available or some kind of sample card. Um With actual paint on it that you can actually play with not one with pictures one with little blobs of paint The thing I like about these are their little blobs of paint. These are the daniel smith ones I cut them down small so they would fit in here But it's an actual blob of paint and the quark has the same thing and now we're finding out. Windsor newton has that too So definitely I would write them The whole vine green is fabulous, right? Okay, so here are our houses And you know some of this depends too on what you like Maybe you don't like super bright vibrant colors and you really prefer to do more layering and have them be lighter toned That's going to Deciding that's going to give you a big push in the direction of what paint to get Get some samples. Yeah, send up send off for those samples today I'm going to have to go to Windsor Newton and do the same thing I love Jackson's art If I ever get over to the uk, I want to go to that store. It's on my wish list Well, like I said, there's no reason why you can't get say you love the quark quid awkward on gold deep You love the whole vine permanent green you love May mary blues purple There's no reason why you can't put all of these in a palette make a palette. That's just for you All right, now let's do our color wheel So these are the ones we've done already And I will scan the pages we've done today And put them in on my watercolor Wednesday page on my website so that you guys can download them You can see right there. Look at the Windsor Newton and van Gogh are nice paints. So these are both student grade This is their caughtman and this van goes kind of a student grade paint also But look at look at them as compared to this is mission gold and may mary blue Right. So these are much much brighter and these are much much paler. So You know, but you may you may prefer this depends on what you're doing and what you like and you might like a combination like Teresa I of course just like watercolor paint. I can work with whatever you send me, you know, because I just like watercolor Because I'm crazy that way All right So let's do our color wheel. So we're going to put Permanent yellow And one two three and then put one here. This will be the pyro red Oh culinary school my other love cooking. Well, good luck House have fun with that I have a great day over at culinary school in that ultra marine I actually considered going back to culinary going back to school to culinary school Um when I discovered mixed media and then that was that All right So on this one, we're going to do handsy yellow And then pyro red one two three four one two three four ultra marine Okay So let's get to blending I'm going to switch to a little bit smaller brush I'm going to do the core first just because it's in front of me So the first thing of course that we will do is put The pure pigment in our squares our triangles And then red I almost stuck my brush in that quote awkward on gold Put awkward on gold Teal and like moon glow It's a fabulous color combination combination of paint colors and then ultra marine. Okay. I need my little plate out All right blending time. All right So now We are going to mix the yellow I think you guys can see me hopefully And then some of the red Do kind of a 50 50 mix and that mix goes here And then we're going to take some of that and put more yellow in it and put it here That's a pretty color and then Some of it and put more red in it and even if you only have one Brand of paint. This is just a really great practice It's great color mixing practice To pick three colors of paint off of your palette Some kind of yellow some kind of red and some kind of blue Draw one of these circles out and then start blending them together to see what you get It's a really great color blending practice And you don't have to have tons of paint to do it It's very peachy. Yeah, so You would want to if you were going to mix a flesh tone Just put a teeny tiny dab of a brown into i mean a blue into one of these To brown it up just a tiny little bit and make it a little less peachy And then that would be a perfect skin color Okay, so now we're going to take some of our blue And some of our red And then take And add more red. Let's try to get red and not the orange And most of the time your watercolor paints dry Um lighter than they are applied Yeah, I would rec definitely recommend doing this with whatever paint medium you have This definitely can be done with acrylic paints and I've done it with acrylic paints um I've done whole journal pages where I just have three colors of acrylic paint and each little square on the page has a different color in it Um, and that's great practice Um, you can do with any kind of paint Color mixing applies across all mediums I totally agree with maria. So, um, I need some more blue Now we're going to do our greens Just limit your color palette because I think you'll get more out of it if you do When you're practicing with your color mixing Pick three versions of primary And mix them And see what you get and then do another one where you pick three different Um versions of primary Like for your yellow, you could pick that quote awkward own gold And for your red you could do like an alizarin crimson And for your blue you could do maybe a teal See what you get Okay, so now i'm going to put more blue the rest of the blue in there Let's put a little more blue in it Just so I have a bigger color variation They I actually think they do I started with watercolor when I started playing with paint um, and I really prefer I I think they're more, um interesting You can yeah, you can create so many colors with just three tubes of paint You don't need a lot and like even the whole behind the starter set it only has five tubes of paint And so far I've done two journal pages with those five tubes of paint I mean I You know anybody who's been to my house or you watch my videos At all, you know, I have lots of paint. I love paint and I love paint colors You don't need to do that though, especially when you're starting out So there's our choir I think the thing I like the thing I like about watercolor is if you wanted to you could mix them right on the paper You don't have to mix them on a palette and then put them on the paper with acrylic. It's harder to do that Yeah, I don't disagree with that the real myrtle. I don't disagree with that And especially that, you know, again, if you compare it that to daniel smith and schmink Even may marry blue and mission gold. I love those mission gold paints I never even heard of them before one of you all said something. Can you try mission gold? Yeah, let's just not talk about brushes maria Oh, yeah, yeah, I have a thing for brushes It's so bad But I do love princedin brushes and this is a princedin select. I also have the princedin naptoon brushes. I love that's my actually favorite brand Okay, so let's start with our yellow that put some on our palette here Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I've gotten rid of a lot of craft stuff But yeah, I like brushes You notice I said craft stuff and not art stuff Sure, shoot nancy. Let's break these again My favorite scrubby brush Yeah, I do have a favorite scrubby brush Let me put this red on here So when you used to be able to find them and they're hard to find now I really like The folk art plaid folk art brush. It's called a scruffy brush And it's a short bristled brush Um, see if I have one I don't I think I think they're all like oh no, I do have one Okay So this is a plaid folk art brush. It's called a scruffy. This is a half inch scruffy and it looks like that And I love this brush And this is a really great brush for doing like blending with acrylic paint on a page. I love this one Um, this is a new one. I just got this is a low Cornell stippler brush And it's intended, you know for doing this kind of thing I actually like it for scrubbing and and being scruffy on the page. These are my two favorite kind of brushes like that Um Neither one of these is like super available that I've seen at the craft store. I've had to mail order them So, um, you'll have to look around at your local craft store if somebody sees them at a local store Let me know I have trouble getting to the craft stores like Michaels without medicine and masks because of all the stuff the potpourri and all that stuff You're welcome folk art makes some really great Uh brushes that way. Um And when I first started, you know painting again, I was doing folk art style painting. So I used to do anybody has anybody been to a craft shop where you've seen the wooden bunnies with the changeable fabric ears I used to make those Paint their little faces Make the ears Okay, so those are three primary colors in the whole vine and they're pretty comparable to the choir Let's start doing some mixing though now. Uh, let's do our oranges first So let's pull some of this red over here And then let's pull the yellow in. Yeah, I made a lot of those wooden bunnies. I had um some Senior citizens at um our local masonic, um home Um my husband's a freemason and the guys in the wood shop would cut the bunnies for me and then I would paint them And make ears Yeah, well, you know, I don't know that I was ever completely sane to begin with Uh saying's a relative concept, isn't it? Okay, and so now I'm going to pull some more of the yellow into it I think for starter paints. Um, these are good, you know a brand that I don't haven't talked about yet And maybe I'll pick some up when I'm in Las Vegas and we'll do some thing with them. I only have I think like brown and pains gray um is Store brands you trekked And dick blick both have store brand of watercolor paints I've only picked up the occasional tube of like Van Van Dyke brown or pains gray, but you know what I like them Um, and they're affordable That needs more red Well, I hope you know besides just watching me paint, you know, which if you love paint is interesting at all and all um, I hope I want to be entertaining too. So, you know Y'all don't get bored And if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? I mean, you know I'm gonna put some more red on my palette And some more yellow Okay, now let's work on our purples And let's see what happens Look at that. Look at that color. I love that color And you guys can't see my face. You're just watching my hands when I'm smiling at my other two Partners in crime are all Talking about Vegas, um Uh, well, you know, I try It may be the whole catholic guilt thing, you know, if I don't be kind and generous with people then I think I'm going to hell but I don't know Yeah, Maria. I I crack myself up a lot My husband comes into my office and he says, who are you laughing at? I just tell myself He just rolls his eyes shakes his head Yeah, they'll get to see I gotta sell some more stamps. So I have shopping money Yeah, I don't know where in the uk jackson's art is located and I don't know how many locations they have um But they are a uk store and um, you know, I don't know if they're in scotland or just you know down in england, but Um, I love them and they have good prices and stuff Isn't that pretty? These blend nicely. I gotta say these whole bind paints blend nicely. I think all right. Let's get some more blue out The bluer one this one Nancy. I like this one So this is going to be a pretty green. I can already tell Look at that It's okay. My husband's going to reno in um, I think a week for his brother's bachelor party. So Probably they're going to get into nonsense there so I can do what I want when I'm in vegas I don't know if bluer is a word. Is bluer a word? Yeah, I like jacksons and You know, even dick blick um They don't have the same amount of stuff in the store that they have on their website um There are things on the website they have for available for sale. They don't have in the store But that's true with any company that has an online store Artistic dictionary exactly look now look at these two. Um Comparatively, you know, they're pretty comparable. Let's dry. This one's really wet. So let's dry it Don't gamble lisa. I saw that I don't gamble. So Um, I don't know about winning big it's hard to do when you don't gamble I just go to vegas to watch the crazy people and the shows and eat some really good food and Go shopping at dick blick The core blue is a little prettier Yep, so that's what I'm talking about each brand is going to have colors You're going to be really drawn to more than other brand more than that same color than another brand So, you know, that's you know Unless you fall in love with a particular brand of paint, you probably want to um Pick and choose a tube here and there. I'm just catching up on comments Yeah, right. I mean, trust me crazy people in los vegas go together like peanut butter and jelly I just they really do All right. So now this is just another Color blending exercise. We've already been on an hour. So I don't know if you guys want to watch me do this one too But this is just another color blending exercise. It's a little bit different one, but it's the same idea just in a different format Definitely, you can ask me questions. This is probably the time to do the questions So we're going to uh across the top and down the side We're going to put put the pure pigment and I'm of course going to write the color I won't get any more taping done today either. I've got to finish editing And creating the pdf for the march journaling crazy island style lesson that I filmed yesterday Which we'll take after we're done with this and I get some lunch in me It'll take the rest of the day to get all that done Now don't forget if you're going to use this as sort of a reference book and you're going to um Use it to Test and catalog and experiment with the paint brands that you own or that your friends do Don't forget in the back to do some a technique section where you play with scratching in it playing with having Plastic wrap drying and all that sort of thing and we'll go at some point. We'll read we'll go over these again I've done these online on camera before um, and also doing an inventory section and I have all the little brochures in the back Um that they've sent me or that I've printed that have Um all the information about light fastest and stuff in each for each one of the brands that are in here cool All right, so we've got the core Now let's do the um whole mine Yeah, no here. It's 1109 uh in the morning It's too loud in my house to try to do it at another time I can't say anything about nasty weather because we may have nice weather here, but we have earthquakes so now So in the square where the color name is put the pure pigment That's just such a nice bright yellow and here we've got some more pure pigment now where Your horizontal and vertical squares meet Pure pigment now, of course you could do this with three primary more primary shades of red yellow and blue up here And then you could have three different colors of red yellow and blue down here And then do this that would be interesting to do an interesting color blending exercise Okay, so now we're going to do the red I'm going to need to play in a minute. I'm actually not a big fan of super warm hot weather And lately in california. That's pretty much all we get I won't complain too much, but um I like my favorite yellow across all brands of paint be it watercolor or Acrylic is either Hansa yellow, which is this color or naples yellow um If you make me pick a brand of yellow in watercolor, that's my favorite brand in shade of yellow It's probably the core Hansa yellow because I love how bright and vibrant it is Now where these two meet would be more of the pure pigment right here Sorry, Cindy All right, and then blue of course I like naples yellow It's a nice like soft or blue But when you're when you're talking about color mixing and like primary colors It's sort of more a gray or subtler. I'm not blue. Holy cow naples yellow. It's sort of a Subtler blue Yellow I keep saying blue. Holy cow. It's a subtler yellow And um, it's a little bit grayer. So when you're color mixing it like you're doing flesh tones I prefer not to use it for that because I think it's a little too gray But it is one of my favorite colors Yeah, yeah, I I have no idea what that's like. I'm from here. My husband keeps shaking my his head at me um He's born in new york city queens and yeah He doesn't mind living somewhere where it snows a little bit, but he doesn't want to shovel it That's pretty much his exact words And it can't get too much snow Okay, so there's our blues Probably I keep saying naples blue because I'm painting with blue while I'm talking about yellow paint. That's yeah All right. So here We're the the red is is hit uh meeting the yellow So on this end we're going to do red and yellow But we're going to do it more towards the red make it darker more towards the red tones Here where the red meets the yellow we're going to make it more yellow So we'll take some red and some yellow Put a little yellow in it And it's just going to orange it up it up just a little bit Now when when you're done doing an experiment like this don't waste this paint on this palette Fill it up with water and do some like painting background papers or something. Okay, so this is going to be more yellow Yeah, I think if we live somewhere where it snows that's where my husband would be um Working from home those days Maria church cancellations on the tv. That's pretty funny I live in california. We need to have an earthquake for things to stop But that they do when it happens. Okay, so we're going to do the same thing with the blue we'll make One mixture that's more towards the blue side and the red Here And then one that's more towards the red Make sure I put it in the right place Okay, and then we need some more yellow Okay, so now we're going to do the same thing with the yellow and the blue And we'll make one that's more on the yellow side And put it here That pretty limey green I got without trying. I didn't even try too hard And then we'll take some and we'll put some more blue in it. That's a nice color swatch in there Need another baby wipe Yeah, I like I like the greens The cores mix up and make some really nice greens the hands to yellow and ultramarine blue actually in any Uh paint brand those two colors hands to yellow and ultramarine blue make a really nice green If you want greens that are a little bit more on the tealy turquoisey side Use like a prussian blue or a peacock blue for your blue Um, this is the whole vine peacock blue, which is very prussian bluey color And it's already more turquoise and then when you add something like hands to yellow to it, it makes it more so All right, let's do the whole vine now When I was little we lived in georgia and drove all over the south Um, united states southern united states, but I don't remember any of that. I was too little And we're going to get out some red And then some blue I know right the green is really pretty okay Now we'll first do the pure color Now this is the permanent yet lemon yellow, which usually is a lot lighter pigmented in any brand and a little bit more White or chalky than other yellows um, and it is a great color, but um But it doesn't really compare to the hands to yellow But you're gonna get if you have like a lemon yellow and hands to yellow in the same brand and you Mix them with the same ultramarine blue. You're gonna get different colors So that's why i'm saying when you're doing these kind of blending exercise no matter what brand of paint you have Do pages where you have these kind of little charts with three completely different colors each time you do it Because the only way to get to know your paints is to try them I do love this pyrol red on the whole vine and I think this is decent paint. I really do How it compares to the ganzai tombi and some koi paints will be interesting because I do have both of those And at some point we will be adding them to our book So in the future that'll be something to look forward to to see how they compare Because they're all they're all asian brand paints. I think all japanese I could be wrong, but I think all japanese paints. I almost stuck my brush in purple oops okay Now we're going to start our mixing. So let's do our um Yellows and reds first. So we'll take some of our yellow and pull it over And then some of our red Now that had a lot of water in it Probably a little too much water, which is why it's so light They are I like using the ganzai paints when I'm doing um um embellishments like for tags and cards and things So we're going to do this again because that was pretty watery now with watercolor Of course the more water you add to it the lighter pigment you're going to get So I would recommend Nancy that you do some color blending with The kurataki and whatever other cheapy set that you have I would do it with both And I think that you know, you're going to probably be surprised by the results But I think you should do it with both. That's a pretty orange color. I like that color Okay, let's come over here And let's do some purples and see what happens And like I've said before when in other episodes where we're working on our book here If you have friends who have watercolors, they do mix media Maybe they just have a little Windsor-Newton-Cotman set. That's okay. I would definitely um think about um getting together with them and bringing your paints to each other and Doing this exercise And switch paints. Now see I put I kind of put the wrong color in the wrong space. I'm talking while I'm doing this See All right. Well, let's Finish this one Oops and let's do one that's more blue over here That's true. Cindy. They don't pop like they do in real life Praying set that we're gonna we're gonna uh work with at praying is definitely like a student grade kids set But if you're just doing cards and tags it will work just fine I'm interested to see how it blends and you know what it does Using these kind of techniques You build a custom set just for you. I think that's a great idea And that's what I do my travel set whether you're talking about my big one or my little one, they're not I love Daniel Smith, but they're not just Daniel Smith paints. They're a blended sets And I got the prank recently just to try it for this because I was curious About what it would do And I know it's a very affordable Um, you know, I should say an expensive brand of watercolor paint now I Have been looking for lightfastness information on the prank and I can't find it There may not be any it may sort of be like the primas and there may not be any so if you guys Find it. Let me know we're trying to get the lightfastness information from Prima All they say is they're pretty lightfast. That doesn't give us a rating or anything really tell us anything Royal Langnickel and they're a pretty good brand. I have some of their paints They're not bad. They're not horrible. I think the only ones I could truly tell you that are horrible Um, our artist loft. I'm not a big fan of the artist loft cake watercolors um I have had them and I gave them away. I'm not a big fan of Crayola only because They're very they're pretty well pigmented actually for kids paint, but they're not lightfast at all Um, so if you do something cute with it It's going to fade So I would definitely stay away from some of those brands. Um The artist loft I just I have not been impressed by anything that's artist loft to be honest with you So there's our two palettes here I'm a little wishy washy sometimes so I've been told So here let's open up our book So these are the ones that we just did this morning and this is the schmink and daniel smith Which are two of the you know leaders in the watercolor world Along with the windsor newton professional series paints and I have some of each of windsor newton I have a few professional colors and a few mostly I have kotman, which is their student grade And then we have mission gold and may mary blue Yeah, I got their semi moist I'll show you guys in a minute and this is the windsor newton and van go ones that we did I have royal langnicle brushes and I like them They're some of my favorites Um, I also have uh princeton. I also like princeton. Obviously. I just already said that but Langnicle paints aren't horrible. They're not fabulous, but um They sell them in hobby lobby And if you want to just play and you just want to buy three or four tubes of paint Get the royal langnicle or get van go I like the van go too. I mean, you know, I've really never met a watercolor that I hate except for artist loft All right, so I'm going to put these back in and I'm going to share something with you guys I haven't really shown on camera crimson lake That's a pretty color crimson lake I know what color that you mean I don't think it's light fast, but I do love it and I do use it. Okay. So this is the schmink palette that I own Now again my schmink palette I bought with 48 colors in it But I did find out pretty quickly that you can squeeze them all over that way and get one more color in each row And then the little pans don't jiggle around. So I did that. So my palette has 52 colors in it This is my daniel smith palette So you can see here and there's similar colors in each palette I like, you know, I have grumble. I have a lot of paint. I like paint Van Gogh is there's nothing wrong with van go and I if you're going to buy a starter set of two paints Get van go. I like their paints. They're pretty decent for starter paints Okay, so these are pretty comparable in color and pigment load in my opinion I like daniel smith because they're made in the usa Um, and they're less expensive than the schmink, but that being said you can buy a premade schmink Dry pan set, you know where that where it's already filled in the little plastic pans And when you want to go refill them their two tubes match The pan the pigments the same um daniel smith doesn't do that because they don't make dry pans. They only make tubes. So um I guess depending on your point of view schmink might have one up on them because of that But daniel smith is also easier for me to get and I like that. It's um made in the usa that is opera pink And I think it's one of the brightest pinks I've seen yet. I love it And then of course we have our moon glow, which is a gray purple, which is one of my favorite colors But this is the cobalt turquoise and the schmink Yeah, this one opera pink Okay And if you know if I was going to build a palette that had Um both of these in them. I like the rose of ultramarine opera pink moon glow The schmink cobalt turquoise the schmink cadmium yellow um their um transparent orange There's no reason why you can't pick and close pick and choose If you guys want I will scan these for you and put them on the watercolor wednesday page If that works for everybody Okay So those are those two And then I have this is the mission gold Now of course, I don't have as many you know mission gold paints they sent me some as the other two But these are nice and bright And look at this permanent rose Just have the tubes over trusa All right, so I'll scan these I'll do my I'll do my complete color listing of the two brands we did today And then I'll scan all these and put them on the website look from later today This is made all the may vary blue tubes. I own And almost every brand of paint I own if I've bought it I have lots of reds blues and purples. Those are my colors. I like to paint with And this down here is van go. I love the van go Permanent red violet and permanent blue violet. Those are beautiful colors I also love the van go prussian blue and these are student grade paints, but I love them And this is my windsor newton set now The mission I like the mission gold paints. I They're nice paints. I don't have that many of them. Look at this burnt umber. I mean, I love that color And they're not horribly expensive Okay, so this is the windsor newton's paints I own the ones of the little mark down here in the lower right corner are the professional artist Line of paints um The anything without that mark in it is cotman, which is their student brand um, I obviously mix and match And um, I like these they're manganese blue is I love the manganese blue It's a favorite blue and I also love their permanent rose and dioxazine purple. I love the dioxazine purple And their cotmans are not horribly expensive and the artist ones I have I got on clearance I was at a local art supply store and they had some older tubes of windsor newton artist paints And they were clearancing them out because they're old packaging nothing wrong with the paint. I'm like, I'll take some of them So when I'm building a palette Of paints a new brand like I've been trying to build the may marry blue. So we'll look at that one so when I start building a palette To begin with I choose two yellows two reds two blues Okay, so a warm yellow and a cool yellow So like a lemon yellow and then something that's cooler more towards the red Red blue green side like maybe indian yellow or You could think of it as like a pure yellow and then an orange yellow or a pure yellow and then a brown or yellow And then the same thing with your red something that's red red something that's maybe even more blue red Um, and then the blues something that's blue blue and then maybe more green blue So to start with I will just get those six tubes of paint Then as I go along I'll add in a pains gray because I love that for a neutral I frequently will add a sepia, which is this one or a um Van Dyke brown, which I also like um a violet So I'll I'll add in a neutral a violet and then some greens And I will start building up my colors from there until I have a palette that makes me happy That has a decent enough selection of paints like this van go palette That I have enough colors that I can work with that to paint almost any painting And what colors I don't have I have enough choices here to mix from now frequently my palettes Are green and or blue heavy because I paint a lot of scenes with those um, so even my Daniel Smith the schmick came this way So it came with all these colors, but my Daniel Smith palette you'll notice Has a lot of blues and blue greens in it And probably more violets and neutrals than normal. I don't generally buy black I do have black because it came with some things So I own a few black paints, but a dark black or neutral is really easy to mix Um, just mix all your primaries together and you're going to get it. Um That being said it doesn't it's not bad to have a tube of black if you Said would you buy black or white? I'd get black before I got white And of course if you have a brand like schmick that has some really pretty metallic colors or the choir Then those are those are just fun colors to have but if you're doing lots of landscapes or sunsets or something Those metallic colors are fun to add in to just have in your palette, but you don't need to have them Those are like bonus colors Any other questions and I'm gonna I'm gonna swatch these other two brands for you guys And then I will put them in here and I'll get everything scanned I have to figure out where I'm going to put them Any other questions Yeah, I I Didn't know about the mission gold paints maria until one of you all said something and when I wrote them They were very nice about it and they sent me out a few tubes of paint and I'm pretty impressed by them Um, they're not super cheap, but they're not horrible either Um, so these binder rings I got at Um staples Definitely if you guys have Watercolor paints that you've swatched Maybe you're working on a book like this And um, especially if they're brands that I don't have But maybe they're brands I have but I we aren't going to have the same colors I can pretty much guarantee you that I think it would be great if you guys do your swatches your tests your experiments Scan the pages. Let's create a photo album in the facebook group I think that's fabulous and let's share And talk about our impressions of the paint so that everybody can make an educated decision about what watercolors they want to buy for themselves And I really want to encourage you. I think the best way to do it is to do a mixed palette This is one of my favorite besides the daniel smith palette This is one of my favorites and this is a mix of a bunch of different brands Of paint um, and there you can see again this blue heavy big surprise blue heavy So, um Yeah, this has van gosch mink grumbacher winter newton quarr and I know these ones at the bottom here is snellier Um, so because I got I went to a demo and they gave samples of snellier watercolor paint now I'm not a big fan of these. They're super pigmented. They're fabulous quality paints. They're made. They're binder's honey They never really dry. So that's a I'm not a big fan of that So but I definitely think that you know if you've done this and you've you know done your experiment and you've done your color key Let's scan them and let's make a photo album so that we can all share in the groove and talk about it and then people when they're out at the art supply store and they're Building their collection of watercolor paints They can decide which color they want from which brand because if they like that color better, it's going to work better for them Yeah, ma'am graham or have honey too and they're sticky and I did write them I wrote a whole bunch of companies some I didn't hear from at all Some are sending me and as they come in I'll be sure to share with you guys And I'll do little youtube videos where we actually open the box and we swatch the paints and all that stuff Yeah, I've got to go eat some lunch. It's lunch time And I got to now clean up my mess And start building that pdf for journaling crazy island style So I will talk to you all soon Nancy, Teresa Everybody else that's watching right now. I want you all to have a great day I do own prima and they also sent me some more paints so So we are and there's a prima video an unboxing video And a swatching video that's going to air on monday for the prima and the whole vine So you'll see swatches and me playing with all of the stuff that whole vine sent me and all and a different video with prima And um, we will be adding prima to our book. I love their paints We're trying to get nailed down specifics on from them on light fastness But I do love their paints and we'll be adding them to our book for sure and um as for shinhan I don't have any I've heard good things about them And I am either going to just have to break down and buy some or try to if somebody has the contact information I've been looking for and I haven't found it. So let me know Most important thing If you want to support me and you're up for that go over to my etsy shop You can buy you can pre-order the new stamp sets. They're up for pre-order The initial release will be in in 10 days from this last monday And um, that's a great way to support the shop support the channel right now and um, don't forget to have a great day And do something nice for yourself Like play with your paints because you deserve it. All right And I will talk to you guys later and I will get all these My inventory swatch and I'll get it scanned for you guys. But yeah, let's start a facebook In the facebook group. Let's start a photo of them All right. I'll see you all later. Bye