 small tubes and things, so they're all in here in this box. We'll go through and see what all is in here that I was able to use. There was a few products that I opened that were just completely dried out, and so they went right in here. So that's what happens, right? That's why we're doing this. Hey guys, I don't know there. Can you see the screen behind me? I'm chatting with my friends online and one of them, Vicki, is discovering watercolor and her joy of watercolor. So as part of Project Pan Art Supply Style for 2020 is not only use up what you have, get out those supplies you bought and never tried, but also to purge what you don't like or what you just have an excess of. In my case, hello, watercolor is one of those things. So I had a, where is it? I have two boxes of watercolor tubes, one of which I knew I needed to work on I needed to work on for this project because I knew there was a lot of paint in there. I didn't need, didn't want, didn't like, was sent to me in PR. I'm gonna pass the whole bag onto Vicki. It's a gallon's of black bag. And then we were just chatting about Gesso's and I'm gonna send her some clear Gesso. I have a big jar of it that was not touched at all. So this is a third of what I had in there. And then I have a lot of watercolor ground from Daniel Smith. I have a lot of it and some of it they sent me. So I'm gonna send some onto her. This is their regular watercolor ground and then this is their transparent watercolor ground which is like clear Gesso but meant for watercolor. So I'm gonna send that all onto her. And yeah, we're gonna be all good. All right, I'll be back. This is my bin. It's lined with a plastic trash bag. It lives under the table for the moment. While we go through this whole project pan or supply style thing and try to use things up, open things that I've bought that I've never used and try them and decide, do I even like them? Why do I have it? It needs to go away if I don't. All of that stuff. I will link some informational videos that inspired me to do this in the description below. This was a makeup thing originally and I thought it was such a good idea. Most of us like the beauty gurus who have like five million eyeshadow palettes. Well, if you're an artist you have probably five million paint tubes. You know, we have some similarities there. So I thought I should probably do this as some art supplies. So we're gonna go through the box and I'm gonna talk about what's in here. What I'm, a couple things I did replace. Some things I'm not replacing. And some things I am just consolidated so that I can use up. So there's that. All right, let's get to it, shall we? And I do have a garbage can as I set off camera. Move this out of the way. The first thing that's right on top is some wax paper. Now, you know, a friend of mine once told me, you know, your backups are at the store. You don't need to have like, you know, 20 rolls of wax paper in your closet. You can always go get more wax paper. I have three more rolls of this in the closet that I've been hoarding for whatever reason. I've had these same rolls of wax paper, probably four years. So I used up one. That counts, right? So I'm gonna, you know, endeavor to get that under control because that's just really ridiculous. And we haven't even gone through the stash of art papers that's in that closet, which is also ridiculous. We haven't gotten there yet. Deco art mediums. These are just the first two I can find. So clear pouring top coat. I do like clear pouring top coat. I don't need a ton of it around, but it is a really nice, there's another one in here somewhere, which we'll get to. I like the Deco art clear finished mediums. They're nice. Do I need two jars of it? No, I actually had two. These were both full. I used to be on the Deco art helping artist program. So they would just send me things to use and to try in videos. I'm not, they don't do that anymore. Fun fact, they did send me these for free. I didn't pay for them, but at the same time, I don't need two of them in my stash. I do think I reordered, reordered that I repurchased a small one. Hang on. Okay, sorry, a big one because that was all the store had in stock. I went in looking for the little one and all I could find was this one. So I bought it. This will probably last me two or three years before I use it up unless it dries out. I will say with lots of these, you really have to, you have to Vaseline the threads. That first time you open it, put Vaseline around there. Every time you use it, wipe off the rim, put some more Vaseline, or it just gets to where you can't get the lid off and they get glued shut. And when you get to be over a certain age and you've got arthritis in both of your hands or your hands don't grip the way they used to, like me, then it's really hard if not impossible to get them off. So love the medium, love the clear, love the finished, this is in my basket of finishes. I love it, but the jars drive me crazy. But anyway, I went through two of them. I did repurchase one. Again, this is just something I'm gonna just have and I'm gonna just keep it. I don't need two of them. I don't need a backup. The backup's at the store. All right. Liquitex pouring medium. And to go along with this, we have two containers of flow trawler flood. So I do love to do the occasional acrylic pour. And a couple of years ago, the kids got me a gift card and with that, I got this bucket of Liquitex pouring medium. This is a lot of pouring medium. Fun fact, I did not use it all. The bucket was about half full. I always use the pouring medium 50-50 with the flow trawl. I mix it up. So what I did was I took a bunch of empty containers, mayonnaise containers mostly. This was a sauce, some kind of sauce came in it. I reused it. I washed it out and reused it. And I filled a bunch of them up 50% with the pouring medium, 50% with the flood or flow trawl. And one of these was half empty. The other one was full and this was only half empty. And I filled up a few jars of these and I used up a lot of it. I think I have three or four more of these containers of the pouring medium mix left in my stash, which is fine. I don't need any more pouring medium until I've used all of this up. But switching containers enabled me to get a lot of the bulk out of my way in the art room. So these can all go in the trash. Okay, you'll notice in that video I was playing with some paints. Now I had a lot of paints that I depotted or detubed into these jars. And I put all the blues into one jar, all the reds, oranges into another jar, all of the purplish dark blue colors into another jar, all the greens into and yellows in another jar. I ended up with four jars of paint of which I've used about half of what's in here. Some of the paint was getting on the dry side. So I did have to mix it with slow, dry medium and some of the flow, trawl and flood. I'm sorry, some of the flow, trawl and pouring medium mix. This paint is a little lumpy. So it's a little hard to work with. So it may be that it doesn't last much longer, but I'm doing what I can to use it up. Because I did that, I was able to use up all of these tubes and some of these bottles that were mostly empty of deco art paints and these tubes of Dina Wakeley paint. Fun fact, I love Dina Wakeley paint, but I like the bottles, I don't like the tubes. The tubes drive me crazy. So I cut open a bunch of tubes and I put the paints in these four jars. And when I mean a bunch, and this was a little bit of blue paint from something else and I put it in there too. When I mean a bunch, I mean a bunch. And look, I used up some deco art pouring medium too. So look, these are all paint tubes that I used up. Now some of these, I went to go use them up. These are dry like rocks. So that's why we're doing this. You have mediums in your stash, you never even get to them and you barely try them and then the next thing you know, they're bad. That's not good. But look, all of these paints that I was able, this had black paint and pouring medium in it. I was able to use that up. But look at these, all of those. That's a lot, right? All right, I was, oh, there's one more. I was able to use up one of my Bible high gliders in brown. I thought it was like dried out and just weird. Turns out I'd used up almost the whole thing. So that's just gonna go away. I did use up one jar of triple thick. Now I'll be honest with you, I Instagrammed this at the time. This, I couldn't get the lid off. This is why we're talking about the Vaseline. So, and I knew it was only about half full. So I just cut the lid off with a box cutter and then used it up on some canvases that I was working on. I did reorder this because I do love this. So I did reorder it and it'll go in my jar of finishes. I am not reordering the Dekawar pouring medium. I like it in all, but it doesn't work any better or worse than the Liquitex pouring medium mixed with Floetrol. So, and I have that, so I'm gonna use that. When I'm done with that, I will buy whatever is most economical, whether it's just straight Floetrol or it's the Dekawar pouring medium. It is a good pouring medium. It's very affordable. The Liquitex one is very expensive, but I have it. So I'm gonna use it up. I used up some tacky glue. I had to cut it open to get the last of it out. I used up one roll of washi tape. Who can say that? And I used up some preola model magic clay back in here. All gotta go in the trash. Try not to get my head in the camera. So these are all empty. Okay, I was going through some other stuff and working on a YouTube collaboration just the other day and I found a bunch of creola stuff that I forgot I had. I kept a few because I do like using them occasionally to do backgrounds. I don't need all of them. So I'm going to pass these on to somebody else or donate them. There's a few markers here that I'm not using and there's some creola twistables along with some regular creola crayons. So those can all just go away. While I would like to keep a few, I don't need to keep a ton of them. So this is kind of a little basket of just things where I've been putting things that are still usable but that I don't need to keep. These I'm still working on. So hopefully when we check in next, I can tell you that I've used up all of these. This is where all the paint went. They're all about half full of what they used to be. This one's like right to about there. It was to about there. I'm trying people. I did a lot of acrylic pouring. It is kind of lumpy so it kind of worked. I got some pretty stuff out of it but it was difficult. I might do a little bit more of that and I also am working on a canvas so we're trying. That's it for right now. I am going to next be working on not only using up this paint but I have a bunch of water soluble crayons. So that'll be a next thing. What do you have laying around your art room that's just collecting dust that you have touched for ages, is it paints and mediums? Are they even good stilled? Are they dried out? Even get the lid off. Project Pan Art Supply Style. Let's use it up or let's get rid of it. Use it or lose it. I am looking forward to doing more of this and really just using my products playing with that stuff that's been sitting there that I've barely touched. So I hope it gives you some ideas and the two things I repurchased were these. I did buy some yes paste but I used this up a long time ago and there was like a teeny tiny bit in it. I couldn't get the lid off so I just threw it away. Again, this is one of those things. You've got to put Vaseline on the threads. So these have to go away and I've got some Elmer's glue all. These all have to be put away. But these two were repurchases of things that went in the trash. So these are good products. I'm glad I repurchased them because I use them a lot. The rest of it has just got to go. So that's it for today. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe. What products do you have in your studio that you need to go through and look at? And let's do share. Let's start a conversation or a thread. Give people ideas of how they can use up the products and experiment with the products. Some new maybe and unique ideas. Maybe some ideas about how to store things in a way that you can get to them and you don't forget what you have. Let's start a conversation over in my Facebook group, A Life of Art and Self Expression. And the link is in the description below. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe. 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