 Hey everybody Good morning, how are you? We are going to do a live Monday with deco art this morning and like with the watercolor. We're gonna start out with some basics Good morning I've had all my coffee. So yay. I think I'm awake Well, I've got some I've got some tea next to me. It's half decaf, but you know good day All right, so this morning with our Monday with deco art, we're gonna start out with these little bottles here now This is the palette sampler set of deco art traditions artists acrylics It comes with these 12 bottles. You can order these from deco art comm go to traditions deco art traditions and They have the palette sampler kit. I think it's like $21 in change And it comes with 10 colors and two mediums. So it's a really easy basic kit to get and try and you get You get a good selection of basic colors and we're gonna go over that today and we're gonna do some color blending color mixing And if we have time I'm going to show you how to turn it into a journal page to Decorate chalk paint this weekend. Oh cool. All right, so the kit comes with oh See now I need my glasses so I can read the labels Extender and blending medium Glazing medium these will both extend the drying time of your acrylic paint and the glazing medium will make it a bit translucent or see-through you get opaque white and You get carbon black You get raw umber raw Sienna Let Hansa yellow night. I almost called it lemon yellow because it looks very lemony to me Napsal red light Red violet Thalo green blue Thalo blue and Ultramarine blue And you all know me. It's got it's got a number of blues or blue-green. So I love the palette So for the at least the first part of this we're gonna take out the two mediums and We're gonna take out the black and the white now if you choose to expand on this Sort of exercise that we're gonna do you definitely could add in black and white later and I'll talk about that as we go along and you can Experiment by adding in the black and white, but for right now. We're gonna use these colors and we have three six We have eight colors I'm gonna arrange them on my table from sort of lightest like yellow Orange red. I'm gonna put the violet one the the blue green and Then the thalo blue the ultramarine blue and I'm gonna put the raw umber at the end so I've got This is the that's okay Cheryl This is the deco art traditions artist acrylic palette sampler set of paints I have more deco art traditions paints But I thought for this exercise if we limited sort of the color palette that would be better for you guys Then because I think I have like 20 colors. I think that would be too many So we're gonna start with Hansa yellow We've got raw sienna the napethol red the red violet the phthalo green Blue the phthalo blue Ultramarine blue and raw umber in that order and you notice I'm not complaining about my Picture being upside down because I think I figured out what I was doing wrong I'll show you what we're gonna do so we I can't so I know we have eight colors here So the first thing we need to do and this is a piece of hundred and forty pound watercolor paper Strathmore watercolor paper So the first thing we're gonna do is you're gonna get a ruler and a pencil and We're going to mark out a grid. That's eight squares by eight squares And I want to kind of try to center it in the paper Let's see The paper is nine nine by twelve so I'd like to do one inch squares one inch squares would be good So I'm going to do a go a half an inch up from each end And then we're gonna just make tick marks, you know, put a little Line have a have a eraser not too far away so you that you can erase when you make a mistake like I just did Okay, so one two three four five six seven eight Okay, now we need to do it this way And we have twelve So I want to do two inches in so one Two three four five six seven eight That'll work I'm gonna switch to this ruler just because I have it in its handy. This is a actually a quilting ruler from your fabric store Or your craft store if they have a fabric department going to first Mark out my half inch border Now the nice thing about this ruler is it has all these lines on it So you can really line it up with the edge of the paper so you can get a nice straight line the first time I'm just using a big market. You want to use a watercolor marker. I mean watercolor marker. Hello waterproof marker. I Did say I had all my coffee Doesn't seem to help them. Let's see Now these lines don't need to be perfect, but you know, I don't want them completely wonky either I'm gonna do the outside first and we're just we're making a grid right now You want a grid that's eight squares by eight squares. This is the part that's probably gonna take the longest This filling is making your grid So while I'm doing this that gives you all time to go get some paper and a pencil Make some notes or do this along with me So now I'm going to line up my ruler with the black edge and the little tick marks I made with the pencil and I'm gonna just start doing my lines. I Missed that comment and I already messed up. I can tell you guys already, but that's okay. We're gonna work it into the Finish piece. Yeah, I already miss I already messed up, you know Maybe I ought to have an extra cup of coffee before I do these things It's okay. We'll make it work. It's a make it work moment, right? Maybe we'll use the extra space for Writing I hope you guys all had a fabulous weekend. I hope we had a nice quiet weekend We chose not to go anywhere or do anything for a change Which was very nice and I already have too many lines because I already messed it up, but that's all right We're gonna work it out. I'm gonna I have one of these it's longer I used to do as some of you may know a lot of sewing so I have a lot of these like Rulers and tool I love tools. So that's one thing when I got rid of some of my sewing stuff I didn't get rid of the tools. So however many colors you decide to do this with you want to make sure that you have At least when you do your grid, you have at least one square for each color At minimum. Yes, I love my Omni grid rulers, which is the brand of these plastic rulers And if you're into mixed media and art journaling making your own journals, these rulers are super handy. Good morning, Miko How are you? I am making a sort of color We're gonna make a color blending chart and I already messed up because these I have too many squares, you know Because I had two cups of coffee this morning. That wasn't quite enough and you know I can paint your pretty pictures, but math is not my strong suit. At least not anymore anyway. All right So now how many squares did we end up with now that I to screwed this up? Let's see One two three four five six seven eight nine ten see ten and I only have eight colors Oops That's okay because right here that's gonna actually come in handy Because we're gonna write the color names Here yeah, we're gonna do that So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take the same marker and I'm gonna write my color names Since I have this extra row of squares Yeah, exactly for some info. So I'm gonna write in this extra row of squares. I'm gonna write the color names Okay, so we have Some of these words I have to look at them Yeah, see right? I have to look at them to see how to spell them This is a good exercise though in you know working with whatever happens in your artwork or on your art journal page things don't always turn out the way you have them pictured in your head and That's okay, you need to just figure out how to make it work. It doesn't mean it's wrong It's just different than what you thought it was going to be So put all your color names here And you can use any like I said any range of colors grab some craft paint from your stash If that's what you have and use that This is a basic exercise. It's not about having any particular color range of colors if you have Deco art Americana paints use those Whatever colors you may not have these exact colors and that's okay Okay, so the first thing we're gonna do is grab one of my brushes here. I'm gonna just use this filbert brush You know, I don't know you could put this in your art journal I can show you how to turn this into a journal page if you have a reference book you could do this Exercise in your reference book as part of your reference book as one of the exercises You could have a section in your reference book your supplies reference book. That's for exercises and experiments So I'm gonna squeeze out a little bit of each one of my colors on I have some wax paper here Nothing special. This is just dollar store wax paper Which is my favorite, you know disposable palette paper dollar store wax paper You can throw it away when you're done or you can Spread the paint out on it and use it as collage material in a mixed media page How's everybody liking the inspired by Van Gogh series the part three aired this morning? There is a part four that shows you how to finish and seal the piece Okay, so now the first thing we're gonna do is Put a swatch of each color in the box next to the name Then what you're gonna do is take the next box next to that name Put some of that yellow and then put some of this next color. That's below it. Ross. Yena mix it Just mix it right on the page about 50 50 See what kind of color that you get you could of course mix it on your palette paper Kind of rinse my brush off a bit And I'm gonna take the same lemon yellow in the next square And I'm gonna mix it with the red maple red right on the paper You go of course you could mix it over here and then put it on the paper, you know, whatever you Whatever works better for you Remember, I'm the lazy crafter. So, you know, and you're gonna do that all the way across I'm gonna finish doing my swatches here first You see here's the original Ross Yena compare do it mixed with the yellow the different color that it turns color blending yep So here is the nape fall red and you can see the difference between it and what it looks like when it's mixed with that yellow And you want to blend these all the way across just like with the watercolors. This is one of your basic This is like an acrylic basic You don't know what your materials can do if you don't play with them And you don't try and you don't do experiments like this Now what you could do at the end since we have this like extra or a squares is you could pick Um, oh, thank you. You could pick you could take the color and you could mix it with white And then also black in half of the color and see what happens And maybe we'll do that since we have that extra square So there's the phthalo blue No, these colors came in the deco art Palette sampler kit of their artist traditions paints. Um, this is the color Sampling that they send you and it's a set of 12 paints. These eight colors black white and two mediums You would want to probably for Experiment sake Pick a warm and cool of each one of your primaries at minimum. So you'd want a Um, a warmer and a cooler yellow a warmer and a cooler red a warmer and a cooler blue Um at minimum But you can do this kind of experiment with whatever colors you have If all you have are like neons and pastels because that's what you love I still recommend that you do this with those colors Okay, so going across on our yellow, we're going to take our yellow now and we're going to mix it with our red violet and I wouldn't do all these squares across in the yellow because you really want to Do this while the paint is wet And look what happens purple and yellow or some of those colors. You shouldn't mix unless you really want a brown tone But sometimes you want a brown tone So you want to know how to mix it and you want to know what color brown you're going to get So you see that red violet and the yellow made a brown So now we're going to do it with the phthalo blue green Try to rinse your brush off pretty well in between And i'm just doing about 50 50 now if you did this with You know more yellow than the green you would get a different color. So I do encourage you to you know Do a few of these charts So look what happens when you mix that So here's the original green blue and here's what when you mix it with the yellow So we're going to do this all the way across and i'm going to keep going These are acrylic paints. Yes You can do this kind of color experiment with acrylic paint with watercolor paint with um, of course if you work in oils You could do oil paint. I don't work in oils Let's see. I want the phthalo blue And and again, like I said, if you have a reference book, you know If you're part of journaling crazy island style last year, we did reference books at the end of the year and if you have a reference book I really um Recommend you, you know, probably doing this as part of your reference book I have it. Yeah, I have a big. Um, I have the golden Um color chart poster. I actually don't have room in it in my stu for it in my studio anymore Okay, so now we're going to do What's we were up to ultramarine excuse me ultramarine blue Yeah, erin, where do you keep your watercolor chart? It's a good question One of the things you learn by doing this exercise is what colors you don't like to mix I'm really like, oh, that's really an ugly color Okay, so there's our handsome yellow Mixed with all of the other colors we have on our palette paper, but we have this extra square So let's get some of the black and white Which I wasn't going to do this morning, but Subconsciously, I must have wanted to do it Yeah, I have so much paint that's never going to happen Thinking about purging some more paint. I know that's an artistic no-no, but Oops, I didn't mean crap you guys. I meant I did something to my iPad hang on I can't see what's going on Okay, there we go Yeah, yeah, yeah All right, so now let's take we have just a little bit of yellow left Let's not enough yellow. Let's get a little bit more yellow Yeah, my reference book I have is just um Can't as the um kanson xl mix media spiral bound I actually unbound a couple of of the pads And then did my sheets and then rebound it with binder rings So here I'm going to mix half of this with the white and you get this really pretty pale yellow And then I'm going to mix the other half with black And you get this really interesting yellowy black color I'm actually going to put a little more yellow in that. All right. So now now we should do the raw sienna So the raw sienna we're going to start with the handsome yellow So you don't don't start with the color that you have there As for blending because you already have that I'm I missed something. Yeah, sorry. What did I miss? I had some iPad issues because my rag hit the iPad So again, that's it mixed with the yellow Yes, so as my art improved has improved And I've it's not that I'm I'm weeding out lesser quality paints as much as I'm weeding out The paints that I initially bought That to try And now as my art has improved and I've gotten more experience. I've discovered I don't care working for Working with So I have some products that I just you know I you buy because when you're starting out you think you have to try everything And in a way you kind of do But Now that I have some more experience under my belt. I'm realizing, you know, I I tried it. I'm glad I tried it I don't like it and I have a few things in my studio stash that I've been Kind of reluctant about getting rid of but at the same time I'm not using them. I don't really care for them so I And there are some things I would like to have and or do like I want to take life book next year, so Oh, I think some things have to go now now here we have the red violet mixed with the yellow And mixed with the rossiana look at the two different colors that you got Yeah, pan pastels had to have them for me I know it's probably some kind of artistic sin, but intense blocks I like my intense pencils I'm not a big fan of the blocks. I gotta say So now we're going to do it with the green Yeah, I love my pencils. I just I'm not a big fan of the blocks and maybe it's just because they're A pain in the neck to use and again as I've said I'm the lazy crafter, so You know I don't know. There's just something about them. I'm not a big fan So there's the green the green blue mixed with lemon and mixed with rossiana Look at the two different colors that you get I have to stick my finger over here. I forget what color I'm on So I'm going to just keep going and I'm going to I'm going to keep blending and mixing and I'm going to keep looking at the screen And while I'm doing this, um, you know Shoot some questions at me Okay, again, look at those two different colors there So one of the reasons you want to do this is not only so that you know what colors mixed To get what other colors, but also so that when you need to mix a certain color for a certain Um Painting or piece of work that you are very comfortable with blending your colors together And and playing and experimenting and it doesn't scare you to have to say, you know blend a certain color to match You know, I don't know the red the red in the spreader Um, because you don't have that exact color red and I've taken classes where they've asked asked you to Uh, pick look at that creamy color that happened when I put that white in there Um, they've asked you to pick two items from around around you and then color match them By blending colors and so They're one of the most important tools Aaron. I totally agree with you You learn so much by sitting and playing with your supplies and blending your colors About what you can do and about what they can do Okay, so now we're going to do napsal red light and again when we do this we're going to skip over You know the You know like here I blended These with the napsal red um, you could you could actually do this so that you have a row of the Original colors down the side and across the top and so you have so you can meet them here And you can you know, you would have a handsome yellow here and then everything with raw umber You know going down this you could do that Color charts are not ever pointless not ever in a million years. I totally disagree with that They may they may be a little tedious You you can do it that way again, as I've said I'm the lazy crafter. So yeah, I don't usually do things that way I've I've done it where you have to mix it. You know, you should mix it on the paper. I'm just mixing it I mean on that palette. I'm mixing it right on the paper I'm doing one square at a time. The paint is wet. Uh, see I don't I totally disagree with that Public color paint color swatches may be a little tedious, but I think it's an important exercise and an important practice thing that you have to do to get better at art So this is the red mixed with um Rossiana I'll show you how to mix color tones. Um, everybody does it a little differently There's some michelle the burge on um, youtube has some really great videos on color mixing skin tones Okay, let's see where was I so we want to do red violet So here's our red and our red violet and look at the color that we get It's pretty dark reddish purple. Look at that I'm going to keep moving my finger because I'm trying to answer your questions And do this at the same time and I'm going to lose where I'm at So here's red and green and these are Normally two colors you don't put together because you're going to get black or brown But sometimes you want that neutral color and look at this dark interesting brownish black color that we get And wouldn't that be pretty In a painting as your neutral You know you need when you do a painting with lots of pops of bright color You need a neutral to make it to really offset it and make everything pop and look at that color Now when these dry before you forget what you've done you could put little notes right over the dry acrylic paint Again with your waterproof marker or any marker really once these are dry Just make sure it's dry completely And you it's a 50 50 blend and you could put what two colors Um, you know that you put in each square so that you remember Okay, where was I that was red and green oops See I forgot where I was at It will totally make your painting come to life. You need to have that in your paintings Then you need is you need neutrals to offset the bright colors Oh, I'm glad. Um, do you do periscope erin? Look at that dark purpley color reddish purpley blue It's pretty Doesn't show up so well on my drop paper because my drop paper is kind of an off white color But oh my first few pair of periscopes were not great Just FYI my first few YouTubes were not great, which is funny because some of those First few YouTubes get a lot of views Cracks me up. Okay, so now we're going to do Ultramarine blue and just like with the watercolor Wednesday experiments these these um Basics color blending this is really important if you want to you know get better at art Don't jump into just doing a painting you need to do these basics and you need to You can do all your colors. I chose to just do these sort of primary colors for this demo because my chart would end up being too big for the demo and we'd be on camera for too long But you can definitely do all your colors and I encourage you to do that And to make notes in the squares or to rearrange your chart so that you have a pure tint here and a pure tint across the top So you know which colors you've put in each square Yes, yes, I agree with you So now we're going to do our black and white Also doing a chart like this where you only use two colors and black and white And then you mix those two colors in various amounts By themselves and or with black and white to get different colors and see how many different shades of color you can get With a very limited palette and believe me you're going to get way more shades and tones of color Then you think you will And mixing your own neutrals and your own blacks and knowing how to do that by doing a chart like this um and using another Kind of a homemade neutral rather than black or white is a lot more interesting in your painting Than just plain old black. Okay, so this is the red violet Which is a little purpley and we're going to mix it with yellow, but it might turn a little bit brown See look at that Turned into almost a yellow ochre color, didn't it? But that's a real pretty color So now we're going to mix it with the raw sienna Again real pretty color. That's a nice Um reddish new it's kind of a neutral, but it's still kind of on the reddish side, but it's pretty I'm going to do it with the red This as usual this will be on periscope for 24 hours and after that it will be um on youtube Probably as a monday for deco art So probably i'll air it next week because it takes a little while to reformat these periscope videos To be something that is watchable on YouTube i'm going to mix it with green You're going to get a neutral you're going to get something that's you know pretty dark I'm going to add a little bit more of the because that wasn't quite 50 50 Editing so pain in the neck erin Just FYI it is not my favorite thing I'd rather clean the bathrooms, but it has to be done Okay, see where were we okay now i'm on phthalo blue um I did not go to school for art. I went to school for um Early child development of all things Um, I have done just about every job on the planet including um, I was a licensed dispensing optician for a long time um, I learned mostly by doing And practicing I have a few favorite teachers um in person and online one of them is Pauline Agnew And I learned a lot from her and her um sometimes teaching partner melinda kutsuna they're both um Fine artists and they do a lot with mark making and color blending um, let's see So I think i'm here So we've only gone about halfway and look at the different colors that we already have On our chart So many different colors and I haven't added any new bottles of paint. We're using the same palette of paints Doing okay. I'm doing okay I stopped taking most of my allergy meds um After getting sick Which means i'm starting to cough again some more but I think it's one of those uh things where I think the cure is worse than the disease so No, I don't know And it's in the middle of you know workman's comp nightmare. So who knows what's gonna happen Yeah, exactly so I've only done half of it and look at the different colors that you have on here Now you definitely could do this as an art journal background. Let it dry and paint something over it um using your glazing fluid Which would turn the paint translucent And allow some of these colors and marks to show through that upper layer You definitely could do that um and then in that case what I would do since this background is so colorful Is I would limit your palette to maybe black and white For what you paint on top so that these pops of colors show through what you paint on top And that would be really really really cute thing to do I'm gonna do uh one or two more rows and um I encourage you guys to Keep going and get your whole chart filled in if you have any questions. I'm available all over social media um And and my facebook group life of art and self-expression you can go to facebook and look it up and um request to join And uh if you need any help with anything Yeah, you could do one that's on raw paper and one that's on gesso You also could take your little squares and put a strip of gesso Along one side and let it dry before you do this And that way you know what it looks like on raw paper and gesso Which is always a great idea So just keep going and keep playing and seeing you know what you can come up with how many different colors you can come up with and definitely think about um So I have a strip here. This is just plain. This is another piece of watercolor paper. So I want to show you one more thing before we go this morning. So if you have A palette of paint of paints And if you limit the palette to two colors plus black and white, so let's do red And The phthalo blue, which is the darker of the blues and then black and white So take a I'm going to take about 50 50 and mix them together And put them on my paper You get this really dark purpley blue color Then I'm going to take a little bit of my white And mix it in look what happens to the color They're the same colors. I haven't done anything Yeah Then I'm going to take it and I'm going to add some black Look at that charcoal gray that happens Then you can take it and you can take there's not much blue left over here But I can take the little bit that's there and add it to the red So we have mostly red with a little bit of blue. Look at that Completely different color than what we started with And again, you can add your white and then add a little bit of black And you get another gray color, but look at the different gray color And this is another good color blending exercise And again, this is another one that is really good to do Like you could do this on the back of a journal page and wouldn't that be cool or or use this Like this could be a bookmarker cut up for ATC cards or something Does anybody have any questions? So I want you to go out today. I want you to get some of your paints out and I want you to make some squares I want you to play with your paints and I want you to blend them The deco art media traditions acrylic paints and their media fluid acrylic paints are a good quality Affordable artist paints to play with if you're just getting started um because uh, I like watercolor paper because it um warps less as you're working with it Um, it holds up better to the wet acrylic paint Then mix media paper does um, it will warp a little bit. You notice this one is warping a little bit But not a lot. Um mix media paper warps more and I like things to stay pretty flat You can do it on any paper. You can do it on cardstock. Whatever you have. Oh good carol. I'm glad I've got to practice cutting some more stencils today because somebody Asked me if I could do the flower in a three inch and I don't think it's gonna work well But I'm gonna give it a try and see what happens. I'm out of flowers. I've got to cut some more I've only got mistake cuts Or oops cuts Alrighty So go out and make some color charts with the paints that you have on whatever you have When I did my reference book. I use mix media paper. You definitely could do that You could use cardstock use what you have I have it's okay, Cheryl I have a lot of watercolor paper around my studio because I I like to paint in watercolors primarily So that's what I have but use whatever you have These are something to be used for reference and as a practice exercise. They're not meant to be a finished piece of art So use what you have I would just recommend that you start with a white base So if what you're using is not white then you probably want to make it white with some gesso Um Keeping in mind that how your colors look on top of gesso is going to be different than raw paper Um, I would recommend plain white raw paper And then if you want to you could take each square and you could put a little a little spot of gesso in each square And then do your color swatch over that and that'll tell you the difference between what it looks like on the paper and the gesso Yep, you can use acrylic paper if I mean I always wait I like again I like watercolor paper because that's what I primarily work in you can use acrylic paper Remember to use your coupons most of your big box arts and craft stores have apps The apps have coupons in them Um, usually 40 off. So use a coupon a lot of them will have paper sales And you know buy one pad straffmore especially has sales all the time buy one pad get one free so um I would recommend that I always wait until when I need paper I wait until there's a sale or I use a coupon. I never just go just buy paper without one of those To save some money We're all starving artists here. So, you know, you gotta save a couple bucks where you can I love coupons. I love my coupons on my smart smartphone especially because I'm never forgetting my coupons Which is a problem Doesn't help to have coupons if you can't remember to bring them with you to the store But hobby lobby has an app joanne's has an app michaels has an app Yep, that's the way to buy paper. Cheryl. That's I always buy paper when it's buy one get one free buy one get One 50 off if you have an erin brothers art and framing near you Um, they are a subsidiary of michaels and they frequently have like buy one paint brush get too free Buy one canvas get too free Um buy one pad of paper get too free something like that So if you're near an erin brothers art and framing Then I would recommend waiting for them to have a sale They also have coupons, but they don't have a an app. You have to go to their website and print the coupon um and it's erin a a r o n brothers So if you google that you should find their website And that's where I also stock up on like paid brushes because they have a really nice selection of fine art quality brushes as well as lesser expensive brushes And they always have a really good sale when they have a sale. It's a really good one anything else all right, so Um Yeah, see ac more. I know has coupons There's a lot of different, you know arts and craftsors around the country that aren't near me so If you have a particular Arts and crafts retailer near you look them up and see if they have an app or at least a printable coupon on their website A lot of them have both these days So I want you to go out and I want you to make your color charts and I want you to just play with your paints And look at right here all these different colors of neutrals that we got Yeah, some stores will take a paper coupon from another store, but they won't take the app coupon So you need to be aware of what the you know rules are for you when you're couponing If you've done any couponing before you need to read the rules and five fine print for that store and their coupon policies Believe me. They have them. I know it's yeah. Anyway, so read their coupon policies before you leave the house So you know what they are and you're prepared You may need a paper coupon But look at all these pretty neutrals we got that you could definitely use In conjunction with like a neon. So if you put Let's see So here's another americana paint. This is sizzling pink Before we leave you're welcome And so look what happens and this is why erin and I were telling you guys you need some good neutrals So look at these pretty neutrals and look how this pink pops up against them And they're so much more interesting than just black or white So these neutrals are going to make your your brights really pop and shine So learn how to make your own neutrals rather than just always relying on black and white And uh play with your products and play with your paint. That's the only way to learn what you like and what you don't like And um, you know after you've got a little experience under your belt and you've done a little playing You realize like me with my intense blocks that I think I'm gonna have to put up for sale because I don't really care for them Um, the things that you like and the things that you don't you can purge them Pass them on to another artist who's just starting out. You can sell them on art supply hoarders on facebook. Um Anything like that so go out and have a great day everybody do something nice for yourself play with your paints And I'll see you all later. I'll be here wednesday 10 a.m for um watercolor wednesday and we are going to do a watercolor fish And play with some background textures and some more basics you're welcome I'll see you all later. Bye