 Good morning everybody. How are you? You know something about the eye, you know the iOS 9 and periscope updates just make me crazy So I have my camera landscape, but the picture on the iPad is funky, so I don't know what you guys are seeing I'm moving the bag around to see I guess that's better. So this is my new before we get started with the watercolor live This is my new art case. I found this at a local a consignment shop in La Selva Beach, California Yeah, it's not landscape on my iPad it's portrait Although on the camera on my phone it's landscape, so I have no idea No, no, I don't know. I've got to think they need another periscope update So anyway this This bag I just fell in love with it I probably paid a little bit more for it than I should have but I just fell in love with it It's about I keep getting out asked how big it is. It's about Good morning everybody eight and a half inches this way and it's about 14 inches across and It's about six inches deep and it actually is expandable A little bit you can see that there's a little bit of room play room here To stuff more things in it. I did create a belly band for it out of some painted fabric painted Canvas that I had hey Lisa And I added a couple of belt clips you can get these easily at the fabric store Because I have a habit of traveling and then stuffing my bag at the end of the trip full of like all kinds of fun bits and pieces Good evening all the way from the Netherlands. Cool So I figured it might need a little bit of extra help staying closed. It is a leather bag It is pretty fabulous And I can fit a whole lot of stuff in here. I've got a this is a small Hey a small pen brush case You can get these really expensive like hobby lobby and I do have brushes in it, but also pens and pencils and This kind of a case is nice because you don't have to worry about the your bristles on your brushes getting crushed I have a bag of some water brushes a couple of binder clips These are always handy when you're working on your journal if you know to hold it open while things are drying a date stamp Blue stick Hey Good morning. Artsology cool Spray little spray bottle. Oops for with usually has water in it. It's almost empty right now black ink stamp Some samples of washi tape some of which are from happy mail that have been gifted to me from you guys Isn't it though? I love I agree with you are sure but I love that I fell in love with the case I can't even tell you a pencil sharpener Some napkins and rags Because if you're gonna take your art journal with you and I always take some watercolor with me You need to have something like that a water color pad This is one of those small fluid acrylic cold press pads My travel watercolors and I just put the rubber band to help keep them closed We are getting a little bit of rain. Yes Just not a whole lot It can hold all this bag can hold a lot more than you think it can. Yeah, these are mini colored pencils These are from the Japanese dollar store With a little pencil sharpener and a small eraser An old gift card for you know glue spreading and that sort of thing a small 10 crayon set of neo color an eraser a pair of scissors My ziplock bag of collage posh a leans and gesso and I have it like this because Frequently when I'm flying with my art bag This is one of those things I take out and put in the checked luggage because I just don't want to deal with the people at TSA So it's already in a bag and I can take it in the scissors out and just stick them in the check luggage This is my year of my life journal, which as you see when I opened it was already in here and it does fit My watercolor journal also fits in here Okay, so whoever that is if you're going to just be a troll then I'll block you So just don't even bother. You might as well leave now and then I have a small mini cutting pad and metal ruler and Then some little folders and envelopes with paper ephemera and things in them Everything fits in this bag and I actually could get a little more in here sometimes I have a Exacto knife in here, but like the scissors and the bag of collage glue It is one of those things that I usually take out For the people at TSA because I just don't want to deal with them I'm always the one on the trip that gets snagged and stopped and I just don't get it Because I look I don't know Yes, and I love this, but I love my harbor freight bag. Don't get me wrong. I still have it and I have other You know bits of travel art stuff what I bring with me really depends on where I'm going and So sometimes I change up what I'm bringing depending on where I'm going. That's a good idea So I change up what what is in here depending on where where I'm going and what my trip is You know what's entailed with my trip And all the extra surplus travel art stuff lives in the harbor freight bag in between trips so But everything I need in here I try not to really not to bring more than this because more than this I just don't use But if I'm going someplace where I'm going to not be doing any watercoloring and I'm going to mostly be working in my Year of my life journal then I'll bring less of the watercolor stuff and more Things for the year of my life journal So I just wanted to I got a lot of questions about this so I want to show this really quick and it's about the size I Love this bag. I got to tell you it's functional and pretty You know, I love the fact that it's a leather suitcase. You could probably find something. It's not heavy It's actually a lot less heavy than the harbor freight bag The problem with the harbor freight bag is I have a tendency to overload it and then it gets really heavy And I can't lift it through the airport It also is open on the top and although it hasn't been a problem yet I could see me stuffing it under the seat and having something fall out and then you know With my like it would be my Kindle or something and that would be an autoprot. That would be a big problem This one closes up tight. It's You know, it's just big enough to hold everything But not too big that I'm tempted to overstuff it and have it get too heavy You probably could find something similar at a thrift shop or an antique store It's about the size of an old-fashioned Train case cosmetic train case. In fact, I'm not so sure that wasn't what it originally was. This is a repro Reproduction case. It's not a genuine antique, but you know, I bet if you look around you can find something similar I know Michelle from Lady Blue Studios posted a black Something similar that she found at a thrift shop recently And you don't have to do a lot to dress them up, you know, like I said, I just made this belly band Yesterday it took like 10 minutes. So or the day before and so it didn't take long And I just used some painy fabric that I had from my actually it was dropped fabric from from down here so Anyway, there's that Alright, so shall we get started this morning? playing with some watercolors now that I'm I'm kind of out of breath of sewing this morning sewing would take me days. Well, you know, you could do A belly you could get an old belt And just shorten it to fit around the case if you have, you know here in San Jose That's a good idea. Maybe I will do a tutorial on the belly band and Oh flower fell out Here in San Jose we have a Little old-fashioned shoe man, I think he's the last one left in the area and He is a really great guy little little old guy, but he's a really great guy and he I know I could go to him with the suitcase Because it's leather at any point should it need repair and get him to fix it for me But also if I wanted him to he would I know make a leather belly band if I wanted but that's a good idea I will see about doing a tutorial and It's really easy straight sewing. It's not Anything very complicated and if you don't sew if you or even have a sewing machine if you maybe have a friend that does Like I said, it's really easy and you can get those clips at any fabric store in the section where they have the notions where they have all the stuff to make belts with and You could get a belt from like the thrift store just shorten it and that would work too And wrap a belt around it depending on how big your case is Okay, so we're gonna get started with some watercolor. We're gonna just start with the basics All right, and I have an idea for another one of these cards, which I'll explain in a minute. Let's see. I need my pencil sharpener All right So part of learning watercolor is learning what you can and can't do with the paint or what kind of and I Had to hesitate to say can't because in my mind that there's just different ways to work with a watercolor and My screen's not frozen Anybody else? There's just different Effects that you're gonna get. Okay, so depending on what you do with your watercolors that you're gonna get different effects now like this one is Really wet watercolor that I poured some salt on and then let it dry This is really what watercolor that I squished plastic wrap into and push push it down and then let it dry and look at look at that effect on that This one is doodling with white crayon and then watercoloring over it and I made notes on the back of these as I did them This is just watercolor with lots of water and letting it pool on the paper This is just so through a stencil and then watercoloring over it. This is just watercolor splatters Watercolor blotted with tissue paper and in the watercolor world. We're not supposed to use blot We're supposed to use lift, but you know blot. I like blot Watercolor with alcohol drop drops of alcohol dropped in it while it was still wet. See what that does watercolors scratched with a stick While it was wet and this is watercolor blended together in a rainbow fashion While it was wet and if you do it right, you notice you don't get any shades of brown in there So these basic things are some of what we're gonna work on today and while I was getting ready for this and Thinking about if I should show the art bag or not. I actually thought of a new one So I'm gonna make a new card now. These are Zentangle cards. I actually had a Zentangle kit that I bought God knows how long ago and never used and I found the stack of cards in them So my idea was to take these cards do a diff different water color technique on them and make notes on the back And then at some point I'm gonna bind them all together. It'll be my own personal little reference book. So That's why I have these So before we get started actually, you know what let's work on these because I everything that we're gonna do today We can do on these alright So on our first card We're gonna work with Just creating simple shapes and blending colors. Now the first thing we need to do you can use any watercolor paints What kind of paint you're using when you learn it is not as important as That works to have a grid in your journal with techniques, that's a fabulous idea Whatever works for you, but doing a page with the different techniques or pages or little cards or something This is the best way to learn about watercolor before you get started painting anything super important to just play with your supplies and Figure out what they'll do and what ways you like to work with them So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get my watercolor palette wet now I did drop this the other day and this whole thing came out This whole thing the whole thing broke into the assie came into like a bunch of pieces So I think I'm gonna be transferring it to a metal box soon, but first thing we're gonna do is get the paint sweat Okay Yeah, try to get out and rejoin. I'm not sure. I only know that I bet you it has something to do with the iOS 9.01 update And I bet you it does I'm gonna just use this simple round brush This is the one that came with the palette. It's around number six and the first thing we're gonna do is we are going to just Create some basic geometric shapes and while we're doing that we're gonna be learning about what colors blend and make nice other colors and what colors don't and What happens with the paint when it's put down on a wet surface versus put down on a dry surface? These are things that you should know When working with watercolor, so I'm gonna get my brush damp I'm gonna start with red and this is matter lake deep. These are Van Gogh watercolors, but use what you have choose a red color from your palette and I just want you to on dry paper with your paint. I Want you to draw a circle and I think every week as much as I can be on Some weeks I maybe won't be able to be on but as much as I can we're gonna be on here once a week with just some basics like this. Oh Good, I'm glad. Okay, so now that we have that paint on the dry paper Now if you don't get the paper wet, it's gonna just stay there, but I just rinse my brush off I have no more paint on it. Just water. It's just damp and I'm going next to the paint And can you see what that paint is doing and never fear if you miss part of this because we're having problems with The watercolor, you know, this is gonna be on replay and I am going to actually put these on YouTube They'll be part of watercolor Wednesday So once I got my circle painted on now, I'm just going in with just water I don't have any more paint and look what the paint that was already on there is doing So with watercolor you can really sort of control where it goes by using water now I wanted it to bleed into the middle. I did not want it to bleed to the outside So I only got the inside wet Okay, now I'm gonna go in with a blue and I don't want to have a green blue. I want a blue blue if you put any green in here with this You have run the chance of getting some brown. Remember your elementary school color blending Red and blue make purple, right, but if you put yellow in there, you're gonna get brown Moment so I'm gonna use ultramarine This is ultramarine deep and I'm gonna go right next to Where we just were and I'm gonna paint another circle and this time I'm gonna go right over the red and That paint is gonna go right into that red circle I'm gonna rinse my brush off and I'm gonna get some just plain water and I'm gonna blend a little bit on the inside and Then I'm gonna take my damp brush again And I'm gonna go a little bit on the outside and if you tilt your paper and you get the water to run This is just water. I'm not adding any more paint and you can see where the red and blue met They made a purple color dark purple. I would probably if I was doing this as a real composition I would come over here with a little bit of water That was probably too much water. So if you dry your brush off on your rag You get it almost dry and then put it back in the water You can lift up some of that water and pigment a little bit I like the idea of making having a couple more drips here. Just that pleases my eye more So that's just basic geometric shapes and blending blending the shapes and It's good to practice a few of these Got over there and let that dry Another piece of this is just plain watercolor paper So it's also good to try different kinds of paper. This is zen tango paper It's pretty smooth. It doesn't have much texture to it. That's not really meant for water coloring So that this is a hundred and forty pounds Strathmore watercolor paper and actually left. This is the same paper Let's use this one. It's a little bigger These are just scraps that I use and I cut them into small pieces and use them as ATC cards or small little paintings that I sell in my Etsy shop wait coffee break So let's try this again. Let's use some different colors this time We're gonna start with as a yellow deep, which is just a deep dark or it's an orangey Yellow, and I'm just putting the pigment on dry paper again And this is good to do over and over and over again with different colors so that you learn What colors blend how they blend what secondary colors they make and Which ones you like working with and which ones you don't okay, so I'm just I'm not putting any more pigment on here This is just straight water get some of this to drip down here knock it on the table. I Like things to be drippy Hey, everybody. Hey Michelle. How are you? I always know it's you the red white and blue heart Okay, so I love that and I love the way that looks now though. I want to show you guys I'm gonna take a larger flat brush And I am going to get the paper wet Next to our yellow circle So you've seen a couple times now how the paint goes on to dry paper Let's see how it goes on a wet paper So now I'm going to use permanent red deep Red and this yellowy orange should blend very nicely together and make a nice orange color Remember this it's wet right here, right? I can see I don't know that you can see it on the camera But it's a little bit shiny So look what happens because the paper is wet These are things you need to know how your watercolors are going to react You know when you go to paint a portrait or you go to paint a landscape you want to know what to expect from your paint and what kind of Textures you can do you can get with your paint how you can control it and how you can't this these these are important skills to learn And so practicing on these little cards and doing these little sort of doodly shapes Is important So I'm just I'm going in with a little bit more paint around the edge And I'm just using the tip of very tip of my paintbrush to sort of the paper is wet So they're going to bleed a little bit, but I'm just putting in some like sketchy lines Just I'm just barely touching the paper with the tip of my brush So now I'm just got the I have the wet brush again So I want to come in here want them to blend a little bit the two circles Something like that All right Put that one aside Whoops Should we do another one? Let's do that. Let's do one on a card because I have an idea. Okay So I'm going to get this card wet with a flat brush I'm going to get the whole thing wet and then I'm going to stick with the flat brush for a minute And I'm going to get some pigment on here I want to use kind of a dark color because I want this to really show up so I can really see Or do I want to use a light color? I think and maybe I want to use a blue So I have some blue paint in my lid here So we're going to use that and we are going to put this lay this on top of the white paper This is just you know a wash of color Now yes, you could do this with a couple different colors While it's wet you can drop things like salt into it And the salt is going to pick up some of the pigment and when it dries you you just let it dry naturally And when it dries you brush the salt off and you get this modeled texture You can also squish Plastic wrap crumple it up and stick it in the wet paint and put something heavy on top of it and let it dry And then you'll get this effect I Had the idea that what I want to do is put some pencil to be low pencil shavings in it I know that sounds crazy So that's why I wanted the pencil sharpener To get this open though. Oh, there we go Needed to be emptied anyway in a huge way. Okay So I want to drop some stability pencil shavings in here stability pencil is water soluble and Look at that can you see that I'm going to hold it up in just a second I'm going to drop the big pieces off But look at that So I'm going to let that dry completely and naturally and then I'm going to brush it off And I'll put post some pictures to social media later That is really cooler than I thought it was going to be so think of some of these things as a background for some of your journal pages and Just practice and have some fun I learned how to do watercolor by doing simple doodles and I will show you exactly what I mean by that Let's see. I had a general's layout pencil, which is this which is a soft lead Smudgey pencil that's not really water soluble And it's the traditional sense, but when you get wet it will smudge and I would just draw doodles Now I have Cipillo pencil shavings everywhere Okay, so we'll just do a simple and I just did simple doodles. Nothing's, you know fancy and spectacular Just simple simple doodles. I'll do one of the ones that I Used to do this a lot this one. Okay, and then I would cut And then I would color it in can I move down? Oh, you mean closer? Yes Let's see There we go. How's that? Sorry about the shaking that happens when I touch the phone Okay, so it's just a simple teacup doodle. I did I used to do these a lot You could do a flower. It doesn't have to be, you know, a gene You're welcome. It doesn't have to be a genius drawing or anything. Just a simple doodle and Then color it in with your watercolors and practice Some of the blending you've learned from doing your geometric shapes by coloring this in so let's do that and I'm gonna start with what color Cobalt blue I think and I'm going to lay the color on without getting the paper wet around the edges where the teacup would be darker Where there would be shadows Then I'm going to come in with a damp brush with no more paint on it And I'm going to get the paper wet Now remember that this isn't watercolor paper So you're going to get different effects from the paint than you would on watercolor paper But this is the kind of paper I learned on I did not understand when I started that there was a difference between the papers Use what you have Okay, and then I'm going to do the same thing to the saucer and the handle And I'm just using the tip of my brush. I'm not I'm not touching it much My brush had a little too much water on it there. Let's see. Let me put this here Then I'm going to come in with just the damp brush with no Water and that this soft layout pencil may blend a little bit with the paint and it's going to smudge a little bit I was always okay with that because in my mind that just added extra interest and shadows to my painting And just simple almost childlike paintings. They don't have to be anything too complicated So I'm going to do the same thing to the handle. I'm going to go in around with a pure pigment You know around the edges of the handle that would be farther away from the viewer And then I'm going to come in with my damp brush and just add water and that paint is going to Take the easier road so it's going to follow the water rather than try to go into the paper Okay, so then I'm going to take my Blue And I'm going to do the inside of the cup But I'm also going to because this is a cup of tea or coffee, right? So I'm going to take my burnt umber a Brown and I'm going to put a little bit of that in here And it's going to blend with the blue paint. That's why Then I'm going to take the same brown and I'm going to go over my swirls And then I always liked to and I still like the color like to go around my piece with yellow ochre So we're going to do that and I'm going to take my clean water I have two waters here one's dirty one's cleaner than the other and I'm going to go around the edges with the yellow ochre Then I'm going to clean off my brush And just go in with some water and blend the pigment up to the doodle And this is just all stuff. I learned from just playing with my paints. I didn't Take a class. I have since but when I first started I Just I just got some paints and started playing and I almost used like a scrubbing motion And some of this other paint here is going to blend because it's wet and I'm okay with that in My mind it just makes the piece more interesting This is where though if you don't have watercolor paper it can get a little tricky because Your paper is going to want to pill and I'm really kind of scrubbing at the paper and it's going to want to pill and really buckle like crazy When I first started doing these I did one drawing paper, which is totally the wrong kind of paper But actually this Zantankle paper doesn't seem to be it's not watercolor paper It is it doesn't do too badly So I like that I actually want this to bleed a little more than it did I'm going to add some more of blue to the teacup. I think I'm going to go in with Prussian blue This is I just want you to do you know practice a doodle. It could be a flower It could be you know, it could be a teacup. It could be anything Just practice Doing these simple like you know shapes Thanks for the hearts. I love the hearts. I know some people are having problems With the screen freezing up this morning. I'm going to just blame it on the iOS updates. I don't know what to say I'm on my I'm viewing on my iPad. I'm filming on my phone. It seems to be fine It could also be that we have a bad connection now right here at bled a little bit outside the line I'm not super, you know upset about that, but oh Well just got some stupid little pencil on there So, you know happy accident. You have to figure out how to work with that, right? Okay So we have some bleeding Nonsense going on here. So we're gonna figure out how to work with that So we're gonna go in and I'm gonna take some pains gray Pains gray is a dark like blue black. It's not black I did lots of these little doodles and they were printed on greeting cards and magnets and all kinds of stuff Sometimes after they were dried, right, you know a little Yes, it says arzology. So there you go watercolor doodle. We'll set that aside to dry What's another one that we can try? Is there one that you guys want to see think I think that keeping in mind that right now we're doing practice basics Let's do some color blending Taking notes. Okay, but actually let's do let me show you the white crayon and let's do some color blending. Let's see Okay, so this is just a white children's crayon nothing special Okay Now keep in mind when you do this you are not gonna be able to really see what it is you doodle until after you paint it But that's okay Again, this is a scrap of hundred and forty pound watercolor paper And let's just do a simple Hopefully simple doodle. I don't know like I said, I won't know exactly What I'm doodling or how it's turning out until after I can barely see it You guys won't be able to see it at all Okay, so I just did a doodle with the white crayon white crayon the white waxy crayons gonna act as a resist So now we're gonna come in with some of our colors, which I have to get wet again Bottles running out of water. Okay, so I'm gonna start with this lemon yellow. I'm gonna come in with some of the blue Can you see there where the? Crayon is now of course you could do it with a colored crayon Keep in mind with watercolor for the most part you want to start lighter and work your way darker I like the challenge of working with the white crayon and I'm gonna go in with a green. I really like sap green It's a yellowy green. I'm gonna just come in here with some water Green's gonna mix with the blue a little bit, but green and blue mix or mix well after all blue and yellow make green so That I'm not too worried about I'm going to just blend my colors out towards the edge of the paper So they sort of fade out towards the edge of the paper you of course could fill the whole entire thing in with paint but I encourage you to try it either way and Play with it and see you know what you like you may find that you like it like this or you may find that you prefer It to be all filled in So there's just and these I save these I send these out in Happy Mail and things Or use them as bookmarks Okay, so now let's try some color blending We'll use one of these again hundred and forty pound watercolor paper now Here's our Sample that I've done already if for the most part you keep your colors like this and you're careful about how they blend Then you're gonna be fine that where you want to be careful is the green to the purples because those two colors If they mix together will mix brown Remember from school, you know red and yellow make orange yellow and blue make green Red and blue make violet, but if you mix all those together, you just get brown Okay, so let's start with red I'm gonna use Matterleak Deep I think I don't think this is the color I used last time Okay, then I'm going to go in with vermilion, which is an orange Then I'm gonna go in with my brightest yellow, which is the lemon Okay before those dry too much. I'm gonna rinse my brush off and just get some water And I'm gonna just in between them just pull in the water and If they get too dark Because I want to see the dark pigment fading into the lighter pigment Then I'm gonna just pull the damp brush through the water and it's gonna lift up some of the paint I'm gonna dab it off on the rag Okay I'm gonna do the same thing with the orange and yellow Get it wet and then the two colors are gonna just move towards each other into the water And then I'm gonna pull that brush through it Tap it off on the rag If it gets too dark trying to get that orange spot out of the yellow there we go Okay, so then I'm going to go in with a green and I'm gonna try to keep it as true to a green green as I can So I'm gonna go into permanent green indigo Violet so blue Ultramarine blue. I'm trying to remember rainbow Roy G. Biv red orange yellow blue red orange yellow green blue indigo Violet, so then I'm gonna do blue and then before we get too far. I'm gonna get Clean off my brush and do the thing with the water again. It's more green in here Now you notice how down here I haven't touched this down here and it's still blending in together It's creating some nice streaks and striations. I love that now I don't have The right colors on here. I'm trying to remember what I used last time Think what I did was I put some more blue and then I put the purple. I have a purple a dark purple Mixed them together right here. Now we're gonna go in with water. Just the plain water. That was too much water So that's a basic rainbow color blending But what I want to do is I want to take just some plain water and I'm gonna just drip it onto the paper Onto the edge and then I'm gonna do this You're gonna get a streak of like black or brown because all these colors are gonna mix together Oops, and the other thing I want to do is this is alcohol Rubbing alcohol just plain rubbing alcohol Look what that does to the paint now wouldn't that be a great background for a Art journal page or some sort of mixed media piece that these are the kind of things I want you guys to play with and Practice with your watercolors and start learning what you can and can't do with them Just play and have some fun. Don't worry about making a Picasso or anything The other thing you could do is you could write something Across here while the paint is wet and by writing I mean scratch it in with something pointy. I Don't even know what this is from. I have a feeling it's a knitting thing, but it's pointed at both ends I never use it for knitting, but I'm gonna take it and I'm gonna Scratch something in there now it may not show up as it dries or it may show up very well I don't know But scratching into the wet paint. We'll find out You get something like that. That's just scratched into the wet paint. You can kind of see some of it showing up So we're gonna let this dry and I'm gonna show you about how to scratch into the paint. Let's see So we're gonna just get this card wet and I'm gonna use what color I'm gonna use one of my favorite colors in this palette, which is this quote awkward on rose, which is a dark pink Which is just Lovely lovely. I love when I have colors and I don't have to mix anything I know how to mix colors, but I don't like doing it. Okay, so I'm just I'm just I put the paint the pigment on the paper It's dry. I'm spreading it around a bit with wet Water nothing else, right and we have and this on its own and that's all I did that's just pigment Lay it on and then spread out in a random fashion with a little bit of water That's why exactly that's why I get them all because I don't like to mix colors But we will be practicing color mixing in a future watercolor Wednesday and with acrylic paint in a Monday with decor FYI, okay So you this on its own is a really pretty mixed media background that you could use on a greeting card an art journal page On anything by itself. It's really pretty. Of course You can take something sharp and pointy or maybe less sharp and pointy. These are all knitting double pointed knitting needles And I don't really knit anymore, but they work great for this So the other thing you can do is you can do this and you can scratch Some designs into the paint and look what happens. Look how the pigment like sinks into those indentations you've made in the paint and as it dries They sometimes even get more prominent as the pigment's move around So that's always a good one to try also. I'm running out of room to put these All right, does anybody don't don't be afraid just I just want you to play right now I want you to play with different techniques I want you to play with your paints and your colors and just try some things and see What you like and what you don't and you know start yourself your own little reference page or you know card Set and write notes on the back. You know what you did that you like what that you did that you don't like That's perfect now a lot of these like random Things even if you don't like them and if you don't you know, you're not happy with how they turned out Think about how this would work as a background to a tag or a card with a stamped phrase over the top or quotation or one of my Maybe my feather stamp over the top or something like that really really cute stuff that you can just stick in a journal page Or you can stick in some happy mail Does anybody have any questions? Well, I drink some coffee You should try them with your doodles for sure Sarah and you can run a hundred I will put I will put pictures on Instagram and I will oh you did Cindy I'm going to put some of these pictures on Instagram and social media tonight and I know from experience you can put a hundred and forty pound watercolor paper through a Standard inkjet or desk jet HP printer because that's what I have But you need to be aware that the ink will run What you can do because Sarah is a fabulous world-class doodlers for as I'm concerned She could doodle them with a waterproof marker and then watercolor them in I think that would be fabulous But those of us who can't you know who want to just buy her doodles you have to set the ink with a fixative Before you watercolor on them or you need to have them printed at like staples or something on card stock You can I do recommend that you try these techniques on plain paper, which is what we use here today Also try them on paper that has been treated with gesso or Absorbent ground now watercolor will work on your standard white acrylic or black gesso It works a little differently on gesso versus like Golden's absorbent ground There are gessoes made specifically for watercolors Daniel Smith has what it's called watercolor ground. He has white black and clear They're all a little different use what you have and I would when you're prepping your car It's prep some that are plain straight paper and prep some that have your gesso and grant or grounds on and whatever you have in your stash of stuff and Do the same technique on straight paper and then do it again on one that has gesso to see how the paint paint reacts differently In my experience you have I have I Would try plain paper and watercolor paper Because you really want to know what you can and can't do with your watercolors with All the kinds of paper because depending on what you're doing You know with your paints in the future on your journal pages They you might be working on notebook paper If you are working on thinner like notebook or drawing paper You definitely want to use a gesso or a ground before you watercolor Use a clear one if you've already done stuff and you want a watercolor over the top of it But know that in my experience I have more trouble getting the paint to stop blending on gesso Then I do on straight paper With straight paper I can dry this like it's dry right now I could go over it with another color and it would blend a little bit with the colors that were already dry in here But these are not going to move as much as they would if they were still fresh If the background here was gessoed then these seem to activate really quickly and easily And I'm thinking that's because really the paint is sitting on the surface of the paper on the gesso And it's not being absorbed into the fibers and when the paper is wrought it's being absorbed in and staining the paper So it's not as easily moved around But you should try it both ways on a few different kinds of paper Just cut yourself some little cards and do you know different techniques on the little cards and then make notes on the back Okay, so you know it really is a matter of opinion. I For the most part when I do my watercoloring I use hundred and forty pounds just because it's affordable and It's always on sale Yes, I love 300 pound watercolor paper. It's really expensive I do know from trying different kinds of watercolor paper that I prefer cold press Which is a little bit got a little bit of a texture on it. Can you even see that on camera? It's got a little bit of a texture to the surface of the paper. I don't know if you can even see Hot press is completely smooth Cold press has some texture There is two other textures of paper. There are soft press, which is a little bit between Cold the smooth and cold press and then there's rough press Okay, so cold hot press is completely smooth Soft press is a little bit textured, but not a lot Cold press is more textured Rough press is the most textured I prefer sort of a medium ground for me and I like cold press I Don't I like the nooks and crannies and texture you get in the paint with a little bit of a texture But Sarah. Yeah, Sarah if you're gonna do the doodly thing I Would use the hot press because it's completely smooth It's gonna be easier for you to do your doodles on and then if you want to get some of the texture like you would on the cold Press paper what I would recommend is Getting the paint on there and getting it wet and then putting a little bit of just table salt in the paint and Just leaving that alone and let it dry naturally Don't try to heat gun it or anything and when that's dry It's gonna give you a little bit of a mottled textured effect that you can you can kind of see on here If you use the bigger crystal grains that you use the more the more of that that you get you can see that on there There are ways to get texture on the soft press paper. I mean hot press paper Yeah, it does seem to bleed a little more and hot press and here is our Stabilo pencil one You know, I really like this now. I'm not gonna be able to empty my pencil sharpener like ever look at that. I love that I Could see that on a background. I Can show you on this one. It's still is there any wet spots? There's a few wet spots. I can show you on this one. So you just take this one has some wet spots right here Stabilo's are not expensive. They cost about a dollar 40 at my local art supply store You have to probably go to your fine art supply store to get it And yes, I keep salt in my art room Standard generic table salt So I'm just gonna pour a little bit into my hand and I'm gonna dump the salt into the parts of the paint that are still wet And you can see right away How the salt grains are getting darker colored because they're picking up the pigment and What happens is the salt grains absorb the pigment and leave a lighter spot in them in the painting Any kind of salt? Yeah kosher salt. You could use you know the thicker grain sea salt It will pick up more pigment. So try what you have You can also, you know watercolor over a background that's got some gesso on it that you've put the gesso through a stencil Remember I did I showed one of those Where is it? Here we go. So You can do gesso or modeling paste through a stencil Let it dry completely Yeah, right? Well, we won't yeah, I have ghosts at my house if you believe in that sort of thing which we do here My husband does now too. We had an incident really recently The exploding sugar bowl, I'll tell you guys about it. Maybe someday Anyway So Yeah, see So this is just You can do gesso or modeling paste through some stencils Let it dry completely and then watercolor over it and what's going to happen is your gesso and or modeling paste is going to Be more resistant to the paint than the paper raw paper will and without using any other colors or any fancy techniques You'll get something that looks like this. This is through one of this is my flower stencil Which is available in my Etsy shop This is the one with saran wrap you just get it like this one you just get it really puddley with water and Then while it's wet you literally scrunch up some saran wrap some plastic wrap and stick it in there And then what I do is they usually throw a book or something on top of it and just let it dry Once it's dry you lift the book up and you peel the saran wrap off And you're going to get this really fabulous texture in the paint and all of these are fun to do like in the backgrounds of your paintings Before you get started with the focal point like couldn't you see something like this in shades of blue With then on top of it, you know a field of flowers or something on top of it. Yeah, I totally you could try with foil That would be interesting experiment. I'm gonna have to try that now that you said that Cindy This is the salt one. This is the scratching one This is the one where we blended with our colors. This is the one with alcohol, which I kind of showed you on another piece This is just wet paint and I got a lot of dark pigment on there And then what I did was I went in with a paper towel or a cloth and I just lifted up certain sections and it left You know, it leaves the marks from the paper towel. It leaves the pattern from the paper towel or the rag in the paint This is just really watery inky Watercolor paint splattered on there with the end of a brush or even with a toothbrush This is like what we did this one where it's just paint with a lot of water and then Just moving the paint around letting it dry Pooling, I don't know what it's called. That's what I call it pooling And this is the white crayon And now we can add this to be low pencil one because I think this is cool And now I'm gonna have to do another one with tin foil All right So I think that's a lot of beginning stuff for you guys today and I'm gonna let me zoom out just a little bit If it will let me there we go Cheese cloth. Yeah, anything like that that would leave an impression in the paint. You could you know get your paper wet Like we did here Then lay that thing on top of it and then let it dry If you really want it to leave a deep impression put it down, maybe put a piece of plastic You know I have little I have little pieces of hard plastic around the studio I used to use them as pallets, but you could put that down on top of the cheesecloth and putting a book and then I Want to answer that in a Jerry and then put a book on top of it and just let it dry set it aside Just let it dry I'd love to see different If you guys come up with different texture things and I would love to see them post them to social media tag me and Yes, I will be doing This Every week as I can as my time allows and They will this will all be on YouTube for replay. Yes, definitely it will be and I will be adjusting the screen resolution so that you know, it's actually landscape and Making it as big as I can it takes me a couple days to get the video downloaded off my phone and then Edited in the software and all that The one from Monday should be up right now Any other questions? You know, I don't know any other way to be but sharing with my art I want you guys all to have as much fun with it as I did I do and you know for me It's very therapeutic and I know there's lots of you out there who need that and want that so You know, I want to share what I know what I'm doing with all of you The comments don't come through on YouTube. You're welcome They don't that's the only drawback and I hope they fix that someday because I'd like to see the comments on the video Love you too, Sydney. I Love all you guys Yeah, I'll be talking to myself exactly because there won't be any comments, you know, really But I'm you know, I'm always if you think about it. I'm always in a room talking to myself Let's just not tell my therapist that because you know, she already thinks I'm nuts All right, you guys have fun with it. I want to see what you do with your watercolors I'm gonna let this one with the salt on it dry and now I'm gonna have to go break out the cheesecloth and the tin foil We will be back next week with a watercolor Wednesday and like I said if there's a week I can't do it. I'll let you all know and As much as I can these will be on YouTube and I will be here live once a week and I'd love to keep working on basics with you all if you have specific questions or Something you'd like to see in the next one that I want you all to Message me over Facebook or social media. Yes a life of heart and self-expression is my thank you Jerry That's my Facebook group request to join we let everybody in And you can ask tag me and request certain things from the next live watercolor Wednesday I want to start from the basics and I want you guys to start Don't get ahead of yourselves Start with playing with your color creating texture making marks making yourself a little reference set of things, you know of techniques and ideas to create texture and what you can and can't do with your paints and just remember to have fun and just play and As we progress hopefully we'll get to the point where we're doing landscapes or portraits or something like that But right now. Let's just focus on the basics. You don't have to have fancy paint. You can just use what you have I started with our district set of I think 12 colors and Whatever these cards are Three and I think they're three and a half inches square. Yeah, they're three and a half inches square Play play play that should be your new mantra. That's you know, we Forget how to play as adults and I think that's a shame. I like these because it's a cute little reference book. It's not too Too much and at some point I'm gonna bind them. I have a zutter So at some point I'm gonna punch holes in all of them and bind them all together Don't forget to make notes on the back Yeah, basic salvin our salvation army goodwill you can find watercolor paints there You don't need anything fancy. I wouldn't do I mean even Crayola. Oh, that's all you can afford do that if you can afford it Get a little bit better than Crayola I'd like to you to see to see you at least get a student grade set But it doesn't have to be expensive go to Michaels or Joanne's and you use a 40% off coupon And you know both of those Michaels and Joanne's have coupon apps for your smartphone And so you don't even have to carry a paper coupon Which I love or hobby lobby See use the set you want and yeah, if you can get samples for of the Golden Quar watercolor paints, they're fabulous and if you can get Samples of the Daniel Smith watercolors they have a sample card set that includes all over 200 colors in their line I think it's like twenty five dollars or something. So it's not super expensive Golden has watercolor and if you go to your fine art local fine art store ask them if they have sample cards because they have sample cards and This is my sample card book that I made a while back and I cut up my Daniel Smith cards. They were big eight and a half by eleven sheets But and and I put them in here. They're not all in the little book these are the core sample books and they have three different ones and the sample books come with a piece of watercolor paper and They have actual dots of the paint that you can use and the colors are the same as Your acrylic paint line. Look at this. This is the teal in the watercolor Which of course I had to buy because I love that color So and I got my samples at my local fine art supply store. I said when I was there You know, do you happen to have any sample cards of the quart watercolors? They said yes, we do Would you like some? I got them for free. So and if you're on the east coast and you're near the golden, you know company You know our friend here Cindy utter went there recently and she got some samples from them for free and she took a tour so Yep, make friends with Cindy because she lives near golden All right, you guys I am going to go I have a bunch of video to edit and I have to finish for JK journaling crazy island style. I have to finish I have to finish my October editing It's due tomorrow. Oops All right, you guys have fun playing and like I said join a life of art and self-expression and if you have Any questions comments or concerns or something you'd like to see in the next video Are the next live series then, you know, make sure and tag me and I love spending time with you guys this morning and Don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it All right, I'll see you all later. Bye