 Oops, I already got my hand in the paint. I didn't even get started yet. Hey, that happens. Because the pom-pom fringe is wet. Jerry says, did I ever score? Hi Eve, how are you? I gotta shut, hang on. I have to turn my desktop to mute. Hang on a second. Hey, Mary. I forgot to turn the sound off on the desktop. Hang on. Jerry Bellini is messaging Cindy and I. Hi Cindy is here also. Hi guys. We're gonna hear nothing but ding, ding, ding, ding. And that's what I'm doing. All right. I'm good. I'm still coughing and sneezing more than normal. But I'm all right. Okay, so we're looking at this wonderful, colorful, kind of sort of muddy mess just to have something pretty to look at this morning. I'm going to set my quality to be hopefully as good as I can. Let's see. Quality 720p. So this is mini ball fringe. It looks like this. It was white. I bought five yards of it. I want rainbow ball fringe, but I don't want to pay 20 bucks for rainbow ball fringe. When white is like a dollar a yard. So I use some inks I have in my stash to try coloring it. We'll see how it turns out. A few spots are kind of muddy. Not that I have a problem with that. I'm going to let it dry almost completely and then rinse it off. And we'll see what happens. You know what? I turned the sound off on my desktop, but if Cindy talks, I can't hear her. That's not going to work. Hang on. Sorry, Cindy. I muted you. That's okay. I'm here. Not a problem. You guys are going to have to live with the dings. All right. So that's the ball fringe experiment. We'll find out how it goes. My question is, can you guys see me? I don't think they can see you. We haven't figured out how to work that out yet. Does anybody know? And I saw some. Yeah. I'm still kind of sick. Hey, Kathy. Hey, boy, look at how many of you are on here. Like in just a couple of minutes. Everybody's coughing. My mom said, well, some of her friends had this flu cold thing and it took two months for it to go away. And poor Cindy. She's still sick. She's been sick. All right. So we are going to work on some of these images from Ian Jackson's challenge over in my year 2017. If you don't know about that, it's a Facebook group. There are videos here on YouTube about it, but we have a lot of stuff we do over in the Facebook group that you don't necessarily see. We have an art challenge over there. And these are three pictures from the challenge I haven't done. And so we're going to probably work on these. I do want to mention though that we're going to have a giveaway. We're going to have a giveaway. The link is already set up and in the description below, the giveaway is already live. If you know, not long ago, I placed an order with, I don't know. I forget who was it. Jerry's Arderama or Dick Blick. I think it was Jerry's Arderama. I think it was, I think it was too. I think it was Jerry's Arderama and they said, I ordered one watercolor wheel and they sent me like a whole. And they didn't want your, they didn't want them back. So we're going to have a giveaway. And I have four of them to give away. So go over to the raffle copter link. All you have to do is be a subscriber to my YouTube channel. So go over and put your entry in and you might win one of these. So we can get that out of the way. Hey Diane, Diane, don't be afraid, sweetie. We're all learning. Don't be afraid. Okay. I don't know which one I'm going to try yet, but what I'm going to do is I just printed. I'm really quick on this paper right before we went live. I do want to cut them apart because this is going to be too distracting for me. I am so excited. Gene, I can't wait to play with watercolors. I love watercolor. They're fun. Can I put my vote in? I want to do the elephant. Yeah, the elephant. We can do that. That gives me a chance to use my new graphite palette. So I'm okay with that. Now, wait a minute. I'm going to do mine colorful, but. Well, you can. There's no, you know, wrong way. You know, you guys all know that, right? No rules. No rules. No right way. No wrong way. Just your way. Okay. This is one of my watercolor journals that stays here at the house. See, Cindy, this is what I was talking about before when we were talking about travel kits. You know, you know, when I do date, sign in date, I hand write it. I never stamp it. And I don't always date them. Sometimes I forget. See, you should date them though, Gina. I know. I should at least sign them. Even if they're not dated, I should at least sign them. Exactly. All right. Welcome. Hey, Ann. All right. So we are going to. I'm so excited. The elephant in here. I'm kind of thinking I want to do it this way, but I'm going to be weird for this journal, but I don't care. If I can zoom in just a little bit more. Yeah. The graphite will go do well with this palette. This is my graphite palette, which has the graphite from the tubes. And then also I have an art graph tin in here. And I have my little color key to tell me, show me what color the different graphites are. We're going to start with. I think pencil. I got these. Watercolor general. Yeah. Watercolor graphite pencils in. The mail recently. And another pencil sharpener. You guys, I have like so many pencil sharpeners. I'll show you my secret Ford. What is it with having 45 pencil sharpeners? I know, right? And it seems like every time like I get a new, like set of pencils, there's another sharpener in it. Yeah. And then the company sent them to me. This is just pencil sharpeners and erasers. Like it's like ridiculous at this point. Why do we have that many crazy? I need to go through there and just throw some away or give him away and happy mail or something. Because there's just too many at this point. There's just way too many. And I hope you feel better. Oh, and you're not feeling good. I'm sorry. Okay. So the first thing you want to do of course is sketch your shape. Now, if you're not comfortable with your sketching skills, there's no reason why you can't transfer the image to your paper with carbon paper or rub the back of the image with the side of your pencil and then put it face down and trace around it. You can always do that. That's not a problem. A couple of questions, Gina. Yeah, yeah. Marietta Lear wants to know more about your graphite palette. Okay. And Diane Babcock always has a problem sharpening pencils. The lead always breaks. Tips, please. Don't push it so hard into the sharpener. Yeah, the other thing to do is when you're sharpening your pencil and most of us, and I'm right handed, so most of us do it this way and you turn the pencil. You should actually do it the other way and turn the sharpener. It's actually less stressful on the lead inside the pencil. And that's actually a tip from, I want to space, say the people who make the spectrum noir pencils, but it might be Prismacolor. I don't remember now. And it does actually work. So what I do is I hold my pencil in my non-dominant hand and then the pencil sharpener in my right hand. I wonder, Gina, if that would stop the Prismacolors from busting as much as they do. It does. It doesn't stop it completely, but it does help a lot. And don't ever use, like, electric pencil sharpeners are convenient, but they're terrible for your art pencils. Like, unless you have just your standard number two pencil, don't use one. And then my graphite palette. So this is an art graph, little round tin of just water-soluble graphite. And it comes just like this. And it's all one color of just water-soluble graphite. I don't even know if it doesn't even stand here, but it comes just like this. You can get them at the art supply store or Amazon. These six little pans are these colors. What are the colors? Can you read those? Yep. So you have gray number three, gray number nine, which is darker gray, sepia, which is a brown gray, because they all are graphite-based. So it has a brown tinge, yellow, red, and blue. These are all tube paints. And they're from this scent by Duravane. I almost said Duravane. It's not Duravane. It says Duravane. It's called Liquid Pencil. It comes with 12 tubes. Six of them are water-soluble or water-reactive, and six of them are permanent. I haven't actually used the permanent ones yet at all. I've only used the rewetable ones, these. But I love them already. I got them for Christmas. And when you start looking into water-soluble graphite, there is a lot more products out there than I thought there would be. And there's a million water-soluble graphite pencils, which I almost like more than, and I know you guys are going to be like... Some of you are going to go, what? I almost like the water-soluble graphite pencils more than the black Stabilo all-pencil. No, no, no. You didn't say that. I did say that. No, no. That's not cool, Gina. I know. But whether you have this General's brand or you have Stabilo makes one also, that's water-soluble graphite. And there's a few other brands that make water-soluble graphite paint. The permanent ones seem interesting to play with. I haven't done it yet. But of course, being somebody who loves watercolor, I really wanted the water-soluble ones. Okay, so now let's do our sketch. So of course, you could just trace your elephant on here. But if you think of him as basic shapes, you know, like his head is kind of a squarish oval, and then this kind of a long shape for his trunk. And then we've got a little peak of his body showing here. And if you use... You know, I don't mind the pencil lines, so they don't really bother me. But if they do bother you, then use a water-soluble pencil like this one. Any one of these. Okay, just so you ladies know, my elephant already looks like a... He looks like he has a bad wisdom tooth. His cheeks really swollen. So then once you get your basic shapes on there, and yeah, I'm going to switch pencils because I kind of want to see how dark... I just automatically picked this one up, but I kind of want to see what color of graphite these general ones are. Yeah, water-soluble graphite pencils, Kathy, are really cool. I haven't... Ian, I haven't used those stick water-soluble pencils. I have not even heard of them. You're going to have to send me a link now. You guys are really bad, like for the enabling thing. Mariel says that she uses a lightbox to help her draw, and that's a good idea. Yeah, I do have one. It's in the drawer next to us, but I don't really use it very much. I used to, when I did stained glass, I had to use the lightbox a lot for my patterns and that kind of stuff. So I've got a big one downstairs, but I am not hauling it up here. Yeah, I have a little one, and when I'm doing something that's more like... That's totally in the wrong place. You know where I'm doing like a portrait? Then I'll bust it out. Kathy is saying that when she drew the elephant, drawing the negative space first, sometimes that helps. You know, I've heard that. I actually heard that in a lesson that I took. I think it was last year on Lifebook, and somebody was talking about to draw the negative space first, and that does work. It does, because if you see this shape here, it keeps the proportions. And it also helps with... It does. So that's a great idea, Kathy. Hi, Mama Cat. I've actually taken enough clout of that, but you know... Mama Cat says hi. Hey! I need a brush. Got issues right here. I should have done this before we went live, put water in my graphic. So this is water with Oxgall liquid in it. Yes, for those of you out there who are vegetarian, this is natural Oxgall. I do have the artificial stuff. I haven't tried it yet. I got it before I left for Phoenix, and I haven't had a chance. I've kind of been waiting to use up the water that's in here, and then I'm going to refill it using the other stuff and see what... Hey, Ian, that's a great idea, but I want to see you play with watercolors on that light box. Ian says he has a big light box. It's a front window. Well, you know, that is a broke artist's best light box, is putting the thing up against the window. That's too funny. That's funny, though. All right, so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take a flat filbert. This is just a Cotman, Winsor & Newton, half-inch filbert. Jerry Bellini says say aye to everybody. Oh, hey, Jerry. So I'm going to push the graphite around with the... This is just the graphite. I haven't added anything else yet. I'm just going to push the lines around and sort of try to refine and define some of the shapes before we put any paint on here. I'm going straight for the paint. I'm kind of giving my graphite a little chance to activate. Yeah, I didn't use that graphite, so I'm playing with gray paint right now. That's not bad. Now you can kind of see the elephant shape. Just pushing the pencil mark around. Ian says he picked all the photos in that week's poll for the negative space, so Kathy has a good point with doing the background first. Yep. Barbara, to answer your question, since this is a graphite, some of them, they're not usually permanent. Like this one, the Daravan has some permanent graphites in the box, but if it's a rewetable graphite, it's probably not permanent. And some of them are actually erasable after they're dry, like a regular pencil. So this is the ArtGraph graphite. I guess I should look behind me and make sure I'm in camera. It's probably a good idea. Question for you guys. Are you guys all painting or are you just hanging out watching? I know Maraudel's at the library, so I'm just now pushing this graphite around to darken up our background and help our elephant stand out a little more. And this is a good practice to practice on an elephant, but the ground first is something you can do with portraits of people, too. If you can find really good inspiration photos with really striking lighting. I love a good inspiration photo with really, you know, bright, striking lighting, whether it's people or animals or still life. Those are fun to paint. Hi, Crystal. I hope you're feeling better. Hey, closing your libraries. This is from Kathy. I can't believe they'd be closing libraries. That's not cool. So already with just that, I haven't done too much, but already when you look at this, you can see the elephant in the painting. So I'm going to go to a round brush because now I want to be able to get into smaller sections and smaller surfaces. I'm going to start with the lighter of the grays, the grade number three. I do have a plate here next to me. Kathy says the library, as you're saying, there's not enough money. I just think that's wrong. It is. You know, in San Jose, we can't even get them to take care of the homeless population. I'm sure that's in other parts of the country, too, but I was driving to go pick my car up from the body shop this morning. And I think I drove by six or eight very large homeless encampments. So now I'm going to go around and I'm going to darken the shadows in the elephant, you know, the shadowy spots. I'm going to try to leave as much of the lighter spots unpainted as I can. You all know I'm not real great at that. We'll see how it goes. I might add some of the blue graphite to him. I think actually his eye is in the wrong place. Like I said, my guy's got a bad wisdom tooth. His jaw looks all swelled up. I love it. Gotta have fun with it. Exactly. What's the point otherwise? Exactly. If you don't have fun with it, why bother? I've gotten asked a lot recently, you know, how do you get better with watercolor? There's no easy way. Just play and practice. I think it was Bob Peterson that posted in one of the groups, too, about how he was, you know, not comfortable, I think, playing with his watercolor paint. Just don't stress yourself out trying to paint anything, you know, in particular. Just play and have fun. Mary, what the heck were you trying to say? I think something about the library is closing because of no money, but that's pretty funny. Really, Mary, you guys all know it's usually me that screws up the typing. I can't spell it worth a dang. She said her phone told her to quit typing. So I'm barely touching my brush to the paper to just try to get some of the wrinkles in his folds in his face. And I'm going to take one of my graphite pencils and I'm going to refine some of the lines. You're cheating, Jean. I thought you were going to do this with watercolors. Well, technically, this is a watercolor paint. It is. No, you're the end. Bob, I have to show you what my funky elephant looks like when I'm done. I mean, it's a water soluble paint. Cheater. Well, you know, the water soluble pencils aren't technically watercolor either and we've done them. Very true. And there's no reason why you can't mix these water soluble graphites with watercolor paint. I love doing that. I'm hanging out in the background being quiet. Okay, so I'm going to go now to the next darkest gray, which is gray number nine, which is a similar color to the art graph. And I always kind of always blot my brush off on a plate because I want to make I want to stay lighter. I don't want to I don't want to take a chance of putting too much paint on there. I try to I try to have more control than that. Doesn't always work, but this guy's skin looks like my hands do all wrinkled. I noticed that the other day I was like, Oh my God, when did that happen? Yeah. For some reason, it just I just noticed it. I was watching an interview with whoopie Goldberg of all people on YouTube the other day. And she was on UK TV show and she was talking about I'm sure was a few years old she was talking about stand up comedy routine she's doing that was all about aging and I'm not going to talk about it on here. But all I can say is it was pretty funny. It wasn't slightly at all politically correct, but it was funny whoopie Goldberg's never been known to be politically correct passion. So, but it was about you know happens to the female body and and that sort of thing just FYI was pretty it was pretty hilarious. I went yeah I got that. They snuck up on us didn't they Elizabeth talking about wrinkles again. Oh yeah wrinkle yeah they just they sneak up on you. I really want to add some sepia I think to him of a sepia graphite a little bit of a brown. Isn't it a pretty color look. It was pretty. Mary I can totally see you using this water soluble graphite in your artwork because this would that for one thing the colors are very remind me of things that you do. That would be awesome for her street art not street art. Urban sketching for urban sketching I know right. Yeah that would be awesome. When I opened the box. Her urban sketching came to mind. And some of the things even that she's been doing for the my year 2017. Absolutely. He's covered with like hey and mud so I'm mimicking some of that and this is kind of a warm yellowish brown tone. So it will hint at light without you know just leaving the space white. If I'm going to be selling the piece Elizabeth and it's not being framed then I do seal it. But if it's going to just stay in my journal not necessarily. Crafty girl. I'm just looking at the chat making sure I'm not missing anything. This is so relaxing. It is. It's nice to get back to doing some painting the last few days I've been doing nothing but sewing. I like it. Let's grab some of that blue and let's give him a little pop. And the blue is a good cool shadow color so. Isn't some pains gray. I love a good pains gray Daniel Smith came out with a new pains gray recently that it has a blue tinge to it. And I'll be honest I was trying to figure out how I could squeeze it into my palette before I order some because I really do want to order some. They came out with a few new colors. And I got to try them at Creativation. So I'm looking at all the places on his head where there's shadow. And I'm putting some blue in there. Kathy I'm here you can't see me but you can hear me as here. We haven't figured out yet how to get me on camera with. We really haven't we didn't figure it out last time I think I must have clicked on something trying to have you guys see the table. Because normally you it would flip back and forth when Cindy is talking. And I don't know I don't know if I can fix that. Don't worry about it. It's a good. I'm all good. I'm here. If any of you know how to get us both on camera doing YouTube live at the same time. Easily using Google Hangout. Yeah, let us know. It has to be easy though. Yeah like push a button here we are. Yeah exactly. All right so we're going to go back with the pencil. And he's he's pretty wet so some of the pencil lines are going to stay. Some aren't. Some are going to. You know get really kind of dissolve and that's that's okay. It's really wet. Yeah. I think I'm using too much water. Well depending on what you're you're shooting for that might be okay. I'm shooting for it to look like an elephant. I don't care. As long as you can recognize that I'm good. Yeah see. So far so good like I said he's just got wisdom teeth problems he's got to go see his dentist. No worries. You know elephants generally have really like we were talking about earlier wrinkly you know dry looking skin so you just you're going to you know necessarily want to try to draw all the wrinkles you just want to you want to hint at them. Now you tell me. Sorry. So I think I'm going to stop there because I think I like the way he looks. We're using Google Hangouts Mary and I don't know if there's an easier or I should say better way to do this that isn't super complicated. I do frequently have a problem with picture and or sound quality with Google Hangouts. Even when I have good internet access and the cameras working fine. So I don't know but Google Hangouts is the easiest way to do this. The other ways involved downloading software that's complicated and I don't have the brain power time to do that. So I'm going to actually sign him because I always forget so let's actually sign him at the bottom. All right you guys slow down there speedy guns all this. Well I yeah I was going to try to do as many of these on camera as I can I have three of them catch up on. Holy crap girl. I'm still working on my elephant. He's looking pretty good though. Yeah I mean it's I like painting elephants are fun to paint so so I'm going to turn this my journal this way now. I can always go back and keep I don't only can't afford it Mary I just don't have the brain power to try to figure it out. She is painting she's doing the elephant. You can't you can't see me because that's what we were just talking about we're trying to figure out how to get it so that you can see both Jean and I at the same time. Google Hangout via YouTube but we haven't figured it out yet. Yeah normally on Google Hangout you see the main whoever is talking in the big picture and then little picture you see the other people that are on the live and if I turn around and look at my desktop. The Google Hangout YouTube live window is open and I can see Cindy's desk in the small picture over there but it doesn't show up on the camera on YouTube so I don't know I don't know. All right since you looked look over again Gina and tell me what you think my very first watercolor elephant. Oh he's cute. I think he's all right. I think you did a great job. Thank you. Take a picture of him and make sure you post it over in the my life group. Okay I will see what I click on your picture it shows up on YouTube everybody got to see you now. Oh yeah hang on I'm going to do it again Cindy. There you go. You guys want to see my elephant. Here he is. In all his glory. There's a delay I'm watching on the iPad you guys by the way. All right here it is. Crystal sought she says looks great. Yeah I think it looks fabulous. He's so cute. Hi guys. So we can stay with the gray and those type of tones with this landscape palette I will be bringing out my muted palette this is Daniel Smith and Emgram. Because I think these colors with the graphite would work well in this painting. Oh you guys can't see me because you're still looking at Cindy. Thank you Eve. It was six months in the making my hubby built me my dream studio so I'm very very happy and very lucky. Okay so I think we're going to do this one next and these you know these should just be little quick practice watercolors they don't have to be big and complicated. Get a small journal do some little practice pieces. Nobody ever has to see them you don't have to be crazy like me and show them to the entire planet. Just try them out and the ones that you really like that you think turned out really well then you can go and do those on bigger paper and take more time with it. So this is one of the other challenge photos that I need to do. So I'm going to do this one. Yeah this one I would be totally stuck on. Well I'm going to give you guys some. I used to teach landscape at Michael so granted it was an acrylic but let's get some of these wet. Now the Emgram paints have a honey base so they kind of always stay sticky. The Daniel Smith have a gum Arabic base. Yeah I think she did a great job everybody and I would love to see those of you who are doing this. Doing any of these paintings I would love to see what you're doing over in one of the Facebook groups either my year where this challenge is located or in a life of art and self expression or Cindy's group artsy endeavors. Mary's phone keeps telling her to shut up. Mary. Oh my God you're going to make me start coughing. Oh that's pretty funny. That sounds like something my husband would set my phone to do. Oh right. Shut up Cindy. Oh yeah yeah. All right so we're going to do this one and again. All right what colors do I need wet for this one. Um well this paid the inspiration photo which I just got wet. Has a lot of grays and greens and some um amber-y colors and some yellow. Grays, amber-y, yellows, and greens. Yeah I think the ones I got though must be the honey one. I know Emgram makes some with honey Eve and because the ones I have stay sticky and it could be something else. They could be gum Arabic but there's something about the formula that stays sticky. I have the same problem with some Sennelier paints. Um but I love the colors so I'm willing to live with it. You just have to be careful that you don't close the palette up before they're as dried out as they can get so they don't get moldy. And you must always leave your paints out like this open when you're done and let them dry out so they don't get moldy. Uh speaking of which guess what I found out the other day. I hadn't had my pit pens out in quite a while. My big pit pens. I opened up the whole tip of it was covered in mold. Oh. That was I'm just looking to see if they are again. It's usually the purples that I use the most. Nope. I don't know if maybe I got it wet when I had it out before or I don't know but it was covered in mold. I was like ah what is that? It was gross. Mary they're all deciding that Mary's phone's telling her to shut up because she's in the library. That would be a good idea. So I'm gonna again I'm gonna use a pencil these are the water soluble pencils and I'm going to the first thing I'm going to do is put in my horizon line. Now this is the same thing I used to tell my students so I'm going to tell you guys. Of course if you're doing it from a picture like this and you want to just copy the picture do it the way it is it's about halfway. If you want to do something really interesting then you should try to remember the rule of thirds which says that if for a piece to be more interesting that you want your focal point to be in the upper or lower third or the right or left third of the canvas. So I always tend to push my horizon line up or down so I'm going to actually in this case because this photo is really kind of about the water and not about the sky. I'm going to push my horizon line up to not quite the upper third of the paper but pretty close and I'm going to just draw a line. Well that was hard. Right. I know that was difficult right. So then I'm going to take and I'm going to. There's a tree here. Okay. That's that's angled right. Yeah. There's another one here in about the center. And then there's another one over here on the edge and these other two are straight up and down. Okay. Whatever is above the water is going to be reflected in the water to do a semi believable even impressionistic landscape or waterscape. You want to have a suggestion of those reflections in the water. We have double trouble. Gina and I are I think we're sisters from mothers or something because we just we have a lot of fun together. Yeah. And why is it I constantly want to call Aaron you know hey baby brother how come you can't come with us. Oh my God he's fantastic too. Right. Oh my God. And if you guys don't know who that is it's Aaron from imperfect impulses. Yeah Aaron Blazovich. Okay. So then I'm going to I'm going to suggest all the like grassy bushes like I'm just going to draw a line kind of here at the bottom where that foliage is foliage. Yeah. There's actually there's actually two trees over on the right. Gina you missed one there is there's one a little one right here. Yep. Now you could spend a lot of time and like you know do branches and I think my husband and Gina's husband are kind of worried about me. They're kind of worried about getting the two of us together again. You think we just have a good time. It's a lot of fun. It's all right. So why are we making all these little branches just to make them look well I'm not going to make all of them I'm going to suggest more than more than I'm going to sit and draw them. Okay. I'm going to suggest a few of them I'm not going to I'm not going to sit and draw you can of course if you want. I'm not that kind of painter. So I never sit and draw every branch. Yeah, no, that would not be but that being said I might want to some of these pencil lines in the you know finish piece. So I'm going to draw a few of them. Remember to whatever you do on top to do on the bottom. Mary I hope you do we want to see what you do. Yeah, definitely. And talk about a fabulous artist that does wonderful realistic work that I just don't even have the patience for which is probably why I enjoy watching her videos. Now she does beautiful work. Yep. All right, and that's about as much of a pencil sketches you're going to get out of me. I'm going to start again with the filbert. Alex says that the quality seems really terrible for her my the only one that hasn't happened before. The quality looks good to me on this end. Honestly Alex mine isn't great either but I have a lot of devices on and I'm watching on my iPad and the iPads terrible but if I look back at the desktop it's fine. It's going to depend on everybody's internet connection and of course YouTube. But I know I have 5.06 bits per second on upload so it should be fairly decent going out past that I have no there's no guarantee. All right, so again we're going to take just water on our brush. Some of it's you guys just YouTube. And you know when we do when I do Facebook live it's better. Yeah, sometimes Alex the computer is better and my tablet is just horrible and I'm watching on my tablet and it's horrible. And behind me if I look at the computer it's fine. Cindy you want to tell them how to find the settings for the, or do you know? What are you talking about? The picture quality. Oh I don't know honey I have no idea. Okay so if you're on a mobile device and you tap the picture. Hit the little hit the three dots on the upper right. Then hit the little gear and then hit the highest resolution it will allow you to. Oh, mine's on auto. Yeah sometimes auto is not good enough. So I'm just activating the pencil I haven't done anything else I'm just activating the pencil. But anyway, pushing the again pushing the the graphite the color around. And I start a lot of my watercolors this way with something water soluble whether it's the pilot varsity pen, or it's the water soluble pencil of some sort. One thing I am learning with this watercolor stuff is it's you have to do a very light touch. Yeah, so you want to remember with watercolor it's the opposite of most of the other things you're going to be playing with it in the mixed media world. You want to start light and work your way darker you because you can't take it back. End it up unless you just add acrylic paint and start over. All right, so now I want to put some green down here first I think. So a lot of times you'll find that your desktop computer is going to be much better. So I'm going to go with this green which is a Daniel Smith color. And it's called undersea green. And these are all the colors in my muted palette. FYI I can take a screen a picture of it later if you guys want to know the specifics of the color ones in the middle here are m grand. Safe travels Kathy thanks for stepping in. And this undersea green it's one of my favorite. I think Daniel Smith colors. I'm going to take a need a little something. I'm going to grab my little plastic ruler. And I'm going to this paint down here is wet right. So I'm going to just do this. Thank you Mario. My very first watercolor attempt, but I'm having fun with it so I'm just dragging I'm dragging some of this paint up to make it look like some of the grass in the inspiration photo and remember when you're doing grass. Don't make them all going the same direction in the same length in the same thickness it just looks like hair follicles. It doesn't doesn't actually look like grass. Well that's a cute tip. Yeah. And so I always keep something with like a corner on it in my travel watercolor kit. Like a palette knife. Yeah, something. Diane can't see something but I don't know what she can't see. She can't see what I'm working on right now, but I'll show it to you at the end Diane. We're going to keep watching here. Yeah so whether whether you take a gift card and you like cut it so you have a couple of sharp corners. Or you have like a I have in my travel kit I have one of these little plastic rulers. Okay where was I got where it was. All right let's see now I'm going to know you know proper watercolorists are anti heat gun. I'm not one of those but that being said we're going to let this dry a little bit and we're going to come up here. I'm going to put a little bit of Indian yellow which is a pale like buttery yellow. All right I want a nice like a like a burnt umber type color. There should be. Yeah I found it. Yeah I was going to say that palette you have there should be one. Yeah. Cindy has one of my old palettes just by the way I send it to her because I'm not using it. Oh I'm so lucky Gina thank you thank you thank you thank you. You're welcome. Okay so whatever you do above you have to do below remember and yellow like at most of your yellows are really bright so a little bit goes a long way and always air on the side of caution and you know you can always make it darker some of these pigments stain so you can't always take it back. Yeah I love my heat gun Mary and when I'm not you know when I'm wanting to just keep working on like the grass I would just use the heat gun. Sorry guys if I break out tune in here every now and then it just happens. That's usually whenever I'm singing that's when I'm happy. Okay so now we've got some yellow here so we're going to let that dry a little bit and let me see. I don't see any green up here I just see shades of gray let's use some of the graphite that's on our plate. Generally speaking where the earth meets the sky or where the water meets the sky it's usually a pretty even line. If you look at your reference photos like from nature it's generally that's going to be the one like straight line especially it's true with seascapes. I gotta tell you last night hubs and I sat decided to watch a little bit of Netflix and he found this show it's called the kindness trials. You gotta check it out it is so uplifting and so cool on this gentleman from England I think he is he goes around the US actually around the world and he's he's going strictly on people's kindness. And then he repays their kindness back. You know, toward the end, and it's just amazing the amount of people that are out there that open up their homes to this guy and they're just. It's just phenomenal. It really is so if you guys and they don't they don't have to they just do. They just do. I mean there's a lot of people that say no, you know, they won't bring them into the house but I mean there's also a lot of people that you know they're like absolutely the one of them that we watched last night and I don't want to give too much away if you guys don't want to watch it. But it was a homeless guy, and the homeless guy went and gave this guy a change of clothes and all this other stuff and it was just out of his heart he was just that type of a person. It was so amazing to watch that and see how uplifting that people can be. It was it was awesome. It was just really awesome. And in case you guys didn't catch that that was my dog like parking in the background because you know somebody is probably in the front yard on the sidewalk and God forbid. So I added some of the blue graphite color just a very light like wash of it, because this you know it's a very kind of foggy scene. And the sky is very grayed out because of its foggy and misty so the blue graphite it's a good color. Mary says Mary says he's missed the live chats. See, well my wiring is finally fixed yay. Let's see I'm going to go with now French ochre I think. Which is a golden brown color. And for those of you guys that watch my videos, I do apologize for all the coughing. Unfortunately, I am still sick. I'm going to go back to a specialist in the beginning of March to find out what's going on. Apparently it's not just pneumonia in my lungs. So we got to figure out what's up. We will get it figured out. So with the new color down here I'm also doing the scraping thing again. And I'm going to add a little bit of this up here because there is a little bit of a hint of the golden color. Put a little bit of a wash of it in the water. Then we're going to add another just take this whatever's left of the French ochre and I think I'm going to put some burnt umber in it. Thank you, Mary. It's really a good idea to have one of these color keys for your paints because they some of the colors they all look the same in the palette so I'm going to put some of my yellow I had in here which was what was it in the in yellow. And I'm actually barely touching the brush to the paper. What I think is so funny Jean is you and I are actually working off the same exact page paper I mean picture in mind looks totally different than yours. I'll show it when I get done. But you know what that's some of the joys of painting and teaching in a group is I can show the students, you know how I would do it. But even if you use the same techniques that I'm using, it's going to turn out completely different and I love that. I think it's looking really cool. I don't like this one like blob here on the grass so I'm going to get some water in there and lift it because supposed to call it lifting. It's blotting people called removing called yeah just get it out of it. Okay, so we're going to keep darker and I'm going to take some van dyke brown which again is a dark. It's a darker black or brown and it makes it with the burnt umber I had on here. So the other thing you want to remember when you're painting with any medium. There's no need to dig any holes to China with your paintbrush. You have a light touch and a light hand to make some interesting marks no matter whether you're trying to copy an inspiration photo. Use it as inspiration copy it exactly or you're just doing something abstract. Hi Lisa welcome. She said she almost missed us. Oh hey Lisa. Our fabulous moderator for so many of our groups Lisa she deserves a big round of applause. So he does so much for us you guys just don't even know behind the scenes. I'm using the very tip of my filbert brush I'm barely barely touching it to the paper. And just adding more depth to the grassy parts down here at the bottom. I'm going to turn it upside down. You know I do that when I work in my art journals and I wonder how many people that drives crazy because I'm always turning my book around and around and around and circles. Yeah I when I'm doing landscapes and I want to like put color above the horizon line like I'm wanting to do right now. I just find it's easier to do it this way get it to look kind of straight and not get my hand in something wet that I've just done what I want but I'm not sure how to get it. And then I'm going to take a little bit of that color with more water because remember what I said whatever you do above you have to do below. I'm going to go back to my pencil. Now I did get a comment in one of my videos recently my art snacks videos where they didn't realize that one of the things you can use. When you're doing something water soluble and you can activate with water and push it around is charcoal pencil. Of course you can. Yeah I love the yellow tones and I love this muted palette I do have to say I think it's one of my current at least favorite palettes the color I love the colors in the palette. This is fun. I do want to let's see get the round brush out and let's get some graphite. Let's see what we can do we're going to actually mix some of the graphite. Brown. So if you want to get something that's like black a blackish color and you don't have black in your palette. But you have like orange and purple mix start mixing all those colors together ones that you wouldn't normally mix together you'll get some sort of a dark gray brown. You probably won't get black black but you'll get pretty close. I like that some sort of. I think the three color combination you do use will give you a different kind of color. A varying shade and tones. I could use my pilot varsity pen because that's a dark blue black and it's it is sitting right there. But I want to see how this looks without using it. So I just have the round brush and I'm again barely barely touching the paper. Hi Alana. Brown. Purple and orange will make a dark neutral you know anything opposite each other on the color wheel red and green mix them together see what color you get. I didn't like that so I'm going to do this. This is just so cool. Yeah. It looks so funny. Now if we can figure out how to do these kind of joint broadcasts on Facebook we will be doing them at least over in the my year. But we have to we don't know how to do them so. And I'm not yet working on it and another thing guys just so you guys are aware I didn't start it this week because I'm actually going on vacation next week. But the following week we're hoping the first week of March to start basically Google Hangouts. The problem we have right now is we can only have 10 people together and it's basically going to be a few hour crafting session or art session. So how it's going to work is like either I will initiate it or Gina will initiate it and then we will send out the invite and then the first eight or seven or nine people that join up with us. We can actually see you via Google Hangout we can chat we can create together and just get to know each other and have fun. So yeah let us know if that's something you guys are interested in doing if it is look into getting Google Hangout. You do have to download it you have to sign up as long as you have a Google email you should be fine. But check it out because week after next once I get back from vacation we're going to start playing with that. Oh no no that's too dark. Put some water on it and then get a rag and try to lift it. So this is the pilot varsity pen. I do carry one of these around in my travel watercolor kit. I love this pen. I did get in recently in some happy mail. I don't think the video is aired yet. I got something called the pilot V pen. And it evidently is the same pen. But it none of it is in English. So I'm not sure. Cory Lonza sent this to me so I'm not sure where she got it from. Is it something you can find at Daiso maybe. Maybe I'm going to do some Googling later I keep meeting to and I keep forgetting. Awesome great Barb we'd love to see you there. We talked about doing it this week but then I'm gone next week so we're just going to hold off. Yeah and it's going to you know it's not going to be anything that's you know put on YouTube or anything like that. It's just you know going to be like a just a chat with friends. Mary you should be able to do it on your mobile. Yeah it's basically it's going to be fun. It'll just be us getting together and whether we're working on who knows whatever you want to work on. Yeah. You know have your stuff set up so you can sit and chat and hang out and. I mean it's hard when we live you know across the country from each other especially Gina and I we have a hard time because we like to. Hang out together so we do it quite often we'll get on Google Hangout and just show. Yeah I'll be doing mine. Yeah we all we have a habit of saying oh let's just get on really quick I want to ask you something either one of us have said that before. And then the next thing you know four hours have gone by and we're still on the computer. Exactly. My husband comes home sticks his head around the computer hi Gina. Yeah exactly Bob does the same thing. Yeah I really like this. All right I gotta show you because I'm not sure how much more I want to do to mine. I'm just doing a little bit and hang on a second and then I will because I think I'm just about done too. It just needed a little bit more I don't know moodiness going on. Mine looks blotchy oh no oh no oh no. Oops I don't know what we're oozing about but that didn't sound good to me. It went oops that's all right it's all good. So I like that that looks I like mine. Let's see let's see what Cindy's looks like. All right hang on I gotta lift it up again. Okay you ready for this masterpiece. Here we go. There it is. Can you see it Gina. Yeah oh I like it. It's different. Yeah I like it. I got a long ways to go girl. That was fun. Thank you Diane. So Mary Google Hangout has an app. They have an app that I think you have to download and then you can do Google Hangout on your phone. Actually yes they do. So that or your tablet or whatever. But of course you probably can bring your laptop to the library. We have one more but I have to dry this because it's very wet I can't like turn the page. If you guys want to see me do a quick little bird. Holy crap you're killing me Gina. Okay wait I have to dry some stuff so it's a good time for questions. What? He's cute the little birdie. Yes he is very cute. One page at a time. This is actually fun though. I don't know can you guys still see me? Maybe not. I don't know if Gina should. Yeah. No you're still I haven't switched it to me yet. They still are talking to you. You got to check out. This is from my dear friend Gina. That when I, yes Barb you heard that right. This is my very first time watercoloring. This journal I purchased from Gina probably three years ago. When I first started to know her and I was looking on her Etsy shop. And it's a watercolor journal. This is my very first watercolor today Barb which was the elephant. My second. Yay. And then I get to do a birdie but isn't this journal gorgeous. I just fell in love with it. It's done with the fabric and the lace and it's just stunning. And did you all catch that where she said this is her first time watercoloring doing little paintings. Yes. You caught that right. All right so let's switch the camera back. Yep. I like my elephant. I think he's cool. I like your elephant. All right so now we're going to do the little bird. I like doing little birds. I'm going to actually break out a regular color pencil. And I'm going to grab a turquoise one. This is a Derwent pencil. And this is out in the color turquoise green. And I don't know why I want to do turquoise but I want to do turquoise so we're going to do turquoise. So first I'm going to draw the little bird. Let's see let's put his head on here. Now the color pencil is not going to go anywhere. It's going to stay there. The paper is a little wet on the backside. I like that. Diane you're going to have to do take out for dinner tonight because you're just transfixed from YouTube. No cooking huh. You know for my husband and I it's just the two of us so you know I got asked recently if I do meal plans not anymore it's just the two of us. I just look in the fridge and see what's in there. And my favorite is called yo-yo which is your on your own. And that's what tonight will be is yo-yo. We have leftovers so. I do like the little like tree stumpy thing that he's like on sitting on. So to do to do to do to do. This birdie looks like he's done a lot of dinners. I know mine's mine's. Off a bit but that's all right. I'm not sure about his tail. This looks like so much fun. I see like I said before and I've said it I've said it a million times. I'll say it be saying it a million more. I don't care about the lines. Even when I'm painting a big piece for a customer. Generally speaking you can see like pencil lines and stuff in there. I like the way that looks. But if you don't then you wanted to use a different kind of pencil. This one is not water soluble so. All right. That's funny. Barbara calls yo-yo grazing. I like that grazing. Left of meatloaf. So I'm actually going to get a larger flat brush. This is a Princeton. It's a kind of a filbert. It's a grainer house. He's like wispy like ends on it. I don't know if you can even see that on camera. Yes. You know I always try to keep a water clean but they always end up both dirty. How does that happen. So I'm going to get the background very wet. Why? Tell me why. You'll see. You'll see. I haven't got there yet. So I'm going to get the background around the bird wet and then I'm going to pick up a little bit of the undersea green. So that's why we do that. And I'm going to put it on the background and then it's going to automatically just start moving around because the background is wet. So I'm going to wet my background. And you just want something that's large and flat to get the water. It's easier to get the water on there and then drop some color in the puddles of water. Okay. And the background on the inspiration photo is like green and golden. I need something to put under there. And you can use again a rag or paper to you know if you get too much on there have your rag handy always when you're water coloring. And if you don't have green mixed blue and yellow. Geez I don't think I have a green here on this palette. Okay that palette I sent you has a million colors on it. I can't see how that's possible. Tonya there's not one here. I like that color green. That's like a seafoam. Yeah there's some cool greens in there. Oh, yeah. That sounds really good. I must start getting hungry. I've only had a protein bar and lots of coffee this morning so. And a cough drop. But that doesn't count. Gina show the bird photo, please. Oh there it is. You can find all of these photos in the art challenge weekly art challenge photo album on the my year 2017 Facebook group. They are all from Ian's weekly art challenge. Is it weekly? Weekly, right? Yeah. Ian, are you still here? I just had to do my inhaler. Now my hands are shaking like crazy. Yeah. I'm gonna have a shaky bird. Shaky, shaky bird. Okay, so I'm gonna let that, I'm not gonna try to duplicate this exactly in intensity or anything, because for me, of course it's about the bird. It's not about the background, but I did wanna give it a little bit of color. I'm going to put some yellow in his belly. Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow. I'm using the Indian yellow that I already had out that was on my palette, on my plate, my mixing plate. Now there is some white on the bird, so I need to try to do something I'm not great at, which is leave some white paper. We'll see how far I get with that. The good thing that I believe in using acrylic paint or something if I don't manage. I'm also gonna put some of this yellow in the stump that he's sitting on. Must be Ian left us. I believe it's weekly, and he's still doing it. They just did the elephant is the newest one. Yeah. And I don't know what Ian is in that. What was that? For those of you who don't know. Was that the newest one or was it Paris? I thought that was the Eiffel Tower thing. Oh maybe, I don't know I'm so far behind. I went to the photo album and these are the three that were in the album that I hadn't done yet. So it could be there's one I don't know about. That's very possible. Where the heck did my palette go? So this is a color called ultramarine turquoise, which is a turquoise color that's more on the green side than the blue side. Look how pretty this color is. That's really pretty. Yeah. So I'm gonna use it on the tree stump. Yeah. Paris is the newest one. Or whatever this thing is he's standing on. The Eiffel Tower is the newest one Gina. Okay. Well, I haven't gotten there yet. Sorry guys. Just me being happy. So I don't have to worry about these pencil lines moving anywhere because this is not a water soluble pencil but I do want to not put any of this paint into any spaces that are gonna be supposed to be left white. Good, Mariel. I hope you do get to hang out with us. We're gonna have fun. We always have fun. Of course. I told Gina, of course she's a California girl and I'm in upstate New York. So what's it been doing here? We got lots of snow. So I told her, I said, I'm bringing your butt out here and I'm gonna throw your in a snow bank. Yeah. I don't know what that's like. I'm a California fruit loop. So I have no idea. I'm gonna throw your butt talks right in the snow bank. You wait girl. Let's see. So I'm gonna take some Van Dyke brown, I think. I'm trying to do this without breaking out some like black paint, but let's see. It's not like I don't have any. You can't break your back out any black. I'm gonna make my black on my bird a little bit purple. Imagine that. Well, I'm gonna mix the Van Dyke brown with the turquoise I used in the tree stump. Which is gonna give me a dark like gray blue. And we're gonna use that for his head. Yeah, California's full of raisins and nuts. Yeah. Fruits and nuts. Yeah, my husband's a New Yorker for those of you who don't know. So he calls it the land of fruits and nuts. California nut. And let me just say the hint out there. It's not because of what we grow in the farms. Okay, I've got Payne's gray and purple and I want to darken it up. I don't really want to do a black though. Well, what happens if you mix the purple with some orange? Well, let's try that. Let's try this. Hi, Patricia, it's Cindy Utter here as well. I'm hanging out with Gina today. You can't see me, but when she pushes the button, you'll be able to see me again. Let's make it bright orange. Too much water. Ugh, it's a red. No, I don't like that one. It's always a good idea when you're learning a new medium, even whether you're experienced at painting or not, or art or not, to do a couple of pages of just like color mixing, like not really doing anything else, but learning how the colors that you have in that palette mix together. And what colors that you make. And when you make a color that you like, make some notes. Let's try this one. Yeah, California raisin, yeah. I'm a California fruit loop. That's what I tell people, because then they're like, oh, and they say, oh, that's what's wrong with you. It's sort of like that conversation. I know you've all had with people where they say, what do you do when you're like, I'm an artist? And they go, oh, I do think I'm gonna have to break out some Payne's gray or something for this little bird because he's gonna need to be darkened up. And I don't, this particular palette of colors doesn't have, well, I could use my pen. Let's see how far we get. So I'm gonna take some more of that Indian yellow, but I'm gonna take it straight out of the pan. So it's pretty bright. He's got these orange bits on his toes. I wanna hint at those. And I'm gonna take some of it and put it here. I gotta leave that white, huh? Yeah, it's so fun to be out with my husband and his friends who are, you know, I do live in Silicon Valley. So most everybody I know is in the tech business. And so, you know, we go out to business functions and things and I meet some of his friends and they're like, oh, what do you do? Thinking I'm probably in computers and stuff too. Oh, I'm an artist. Oh, okay. And I always wonder what he said to them. Yeah. I think I have to break out some black. I really want black on this. Let's see. It's one of my palettes. I mean, I have so many palettes, which one has a dark black in it? Not that one. That one's not open yet. I do have some palettes we have to like open and play with. I haven't done that yet. Let's see. Van Gogh, I think does. This is a Van Gogh palette. Yeah, it does. I think this one has black and paints gray. You know, I like my Van Gogh watercolors. The only thing I've ever done with them is just like slopped water on paper, but I'm not actually painted with them, but I like them. I think I love the colors. I love the Van Gogh watercolors and they're inexpensive and they have great colors. See, those of you who are out there that are creative all like feel my pain, right? Okay, so this is the Van Gogh paints gray, which is very blue. And for our little Bert friend here, it might not be blue enough, but I did put this layer of graphite down, so it may work. I am gonna have to go back in some white in because I didn't leave any white space for like that, you know, reflection in his eye or anything. Corey, how are you guys down in Florida? I'm heading for North Carolina Friday. Mary wants to know if you've ever tried Stedler watercolor. No, but I have some other Stedler products and I like them, including pencils around here somewhere, water soluble pencils. My hands are shaking like a crazy. At this point, to be honest, I'm really trying hard not to add any more pallets to my collection because it's already kind of large. I mean, I've had to send some off to Cindy. Yeah, she did. Not more than I'm ever probably gonna die and have this huge like collection of watercolors. Yeah, Rebecca knows our numbers though. She does, yeah, but she's already said that she has to like go through them first and decide what she's not keeping. Oh, really? I gotta talk to her. Yeah, she has started watercoloring recently. Good, good, good, good. That's awesome. All right, I gotta do something with my stump here. I've been playing with my bird. Mary's phone's acting up again. Again. So I do wanna add some like, my bird is really fat, but I'm gonna leave him that way because there's something cute about it, but I do wanna add white highlights and some pen marks, but I need to dry it first. So Mary, I'm not a fan of the Kurataki watercolor paints. I actually got rid of mine. I thought they were kind of cakey. I'm not a huge fan. That being said, I do have some of the metallics which I like better. I feel like I'm yelling because the heat gun's on. I probably am. You were. Yeah, okay. So this is the, again, the pilot varsity. It's my favorite. I know I've said that like a million times. I forgot to put his eye in. So well, we'll just do it now. Slow down there, Speedy. My bird's not quite done yet. Oh, okay. I'm working on him. I like him though. He's cool. Do, do, do, do, do, do. Remember when you're doing projects like this, not about copying the photograph exactly. Try not to, and believe me, I know how much harder this is to do. It's easier to say than it is to do. Try not to copy it exactly. Don't get wound up in trying to copy it exactly. Do an artistic interpretation of said photo. If you want an exact copy of the photo, frame the photo and hang it on the wall. And if you're having trouble not copying the photo, then that's the time to stop what you're doing and do a timed exercise. Do some art with your eyes closed. Do some art with your non-dominant hand. That's why you see me doing some of those exercises here on the channel and in other things that I do on a pretty regular basis, is to keep me loose and inspired and not get too wound up in the details. You know, I think that is one of the biggest lessons to learn as an artist, whether it be drawing, whether it be painting with acrylic paints, whether it's watercolor, it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Even collaging, just to loosen up, to actually loosen up and let the creativity happen versus trying to make it happen. Yep. That's a very hard lesson to learn. It's a really difficult lesson, but it's one that we all should heed more. Okay, see you later, Eve. Take care. Okay, have fun. So in case you didn't notice, we've renamed the I, we, because there's like two of me, right? There's only one of me. I say that in a couple of videos I have yet to edit. There's one of them and I don't remember which one where I keep saying we. It's not we, it's just me. I don't have a staff. I did get asked that recently. Can you have your staff find this out for me? I don't have a staff, it's the staff of one. I've renamed the live broadcast and I was kind of agonizing over the name and then I realized I already had an alternative name that I have been using and kind of own and haven't used in a while, Art Adventures Live. So we will be doing that and sometimes it will be Monday, sometimes it will be Wednesday. Sometimes it will be watercolor. Sometimes it will be deco art. Sometimes it will be canvas corp. I need one more color. I want, why do I keep going back to Payne's gray? Why what? I keep going back to Payne's gray. Well, it's, you know, it's a really, Payne's gray is a really fun, interesting color that allows you to do a lot of things with shadow and light without actually using black, which is kind of a challenge. So I'm gonna take some of these colors that are on my palette now that I have my bird in a place that I kind of like him, but I want him to stand out from the background a little more. 79 degrees, woohoo, California is pretty warm too. It's not that warm, but I'm not gonna do too much bragging, but I think we're getting more rain because, you know, the flooding and mudslides we've had are not enough. We need more rain, I don't know. California is either feast or famine. It's always, it's either dry as a bone or we have too much water. MWB Arts is on says, hello, Gina. Hello. Yes, find your own style. I'm still searching, but getting closer. Good. Yeah, just keep searching. What you can, you know, all you can do is just keep trying until you find something that works for you, a style that works for you, or you, you know, mishmash a bunch of styles together into one that's uniquely yours. Yeah, that sounds like something I'd do. Right? I know. Birdie looks like he needs a hair combed. So I'm just giving the bird and the stump he's on some dimension. I'm darkening up the background around him. I'm gonna add some shadows underneath him. I'm actually to the point where I'm not looking too much at the photograph. I do want to break out a white gel pen, let's see. And we're going to, because, you know, there's two white spots above his beak. Don't be afraid to get your white pen involved with your watercolor paint. We're, you know, ultimately we're mixed media artists and why limit yourself to one medium if you don't have to. Crystal, take care, Han, hope you feel better soon. My bird's a roly-poly bird. He's definitely fatter than the inspiration photo, but he's cute, I like him. Lisa, I think that's how you find your style though, Han, is just keep playing. It is, you just keep playing and trying and experimenting. I mean, I have some work that I've done in the beginning that I look back and go, oh, we all have those. I also have some like styles that I've tried and I've tried it and in some cases I bought the supplies to do it because I was taking a class and then turned around after the class was over and sold all the supplies because I realized, you know, that's not a technique I enjoy. We've all done that. I do, one of those projects is, actually I was thinking about this the other day when I was in the Hobby Lobby or wherever I was. I have one of those projects in the closet where you, it's around a wheel and then you put all these strings through it to braid. I think I did that for about 10 minutes with all the supplies and then it just, it's in the closet. It needs to go, yeah. I don't know what you call it. I can't think of the name of what you call it, but it's like a braiding. It's like a Japanese braiding or something. You know, that was one of those things I thought, oh, it's so cool. I gotta do that. Yeah, no. Yeah, I mean, I have some things too that I don't do too often like embroidery and I don't necessarily always enjoy it but I do have some of the supplies that I probably won't get rid of because when I do wanna do a project, I don't wanna have to go buy anything and I have all this stuff I might as well just keep it. Right. Patricia, we've all been there, done that. Yeah. Patricia wants to know if you're gonna schedule these regularly, Gina. Yes. So we're going back to a regular broadcasting schedule and unless I'm out of town or something like that, you know, at an appointment or something similar, we will be back to our regular schedule and we will be broadcasting regularly. Okay, I have to dry for a second, sorry. So crocheting, Diana is one of those things that I don't do a lot of anymore and need to work but when I do do it, I don't wanna have to go out and buy stuff so I have a supply, a small supply of stuff that I keep. I think I'm gonna stop because I think I'm pretty pleased with how he looks. I could keep going, but I'm not going to. I'm actually in the process of using up all of my yarn, crocheting a king-sized comforter from my bed. So there's our finished bird. All right, so we're finished. That means I have to stop, hold on. Yeah, okay. Hold on, don't roll me yet. I have it, going back to the crocheting, I have a bag of little, I showed it recently, it's small crochet pieces that I did back when I was in the Artist Cooperative Store which was more than five years ago. I think it's more like eight years ago. And those at some point are gonna end up in fabric collage or on journals or something. Cory, she's quite a few hours away from it. Yeah, so Cory, so that Oroville Dam that had problem with the spillway and the emergency spillway was actually quite a ways for me, it wouldn't have affected me if it had broken. There is another dam that's not too far for me, smaller. Again though, it's fairly close. And we have friends that are in that town. We're up on higher ground than they are. So they would have ended up under a couple of feet of water. Worst case scenario, we would have had a foot of water but we're pretty far away, that was a big if. When we bought this house, it had a lot of drainage issues and so we've fixed them. So we generally don't have a problem. Okay, are you ready for my bird? Yes, hold on, let me switch the camera to Cindy. There's my little fat, really, pulley bird. I think he likes chocolate as much as I do. Here's Cindy's. Here's my bird, guys. She's cute. I don't know, my light, hang on, my light's messed up. Let's try it this way. There we go. There's my little bird. He's cute. Sitting on a big stump. So it's fun to have a journal like this that you can just do these little play paintings in and you can just experiment and have fun and you don't have to worry about whether they come out perfect or anything. It's just to experiment. Here's the cat that was, I think, our first challenge, wasn't he? I don't know. And you can just play and have fun. It didn't break, yeah, but the spillway, the concrete spillway on the Oroville Dam had a big hole in it and then the emergency spillway, which is earthen, had some erosion issues because of all the water they were letting loose. So. Thank you, Barb. It was fun. It was a lot of fun. Now I have to catch up and get, I gotta figure out what other ones I'm missing, Gina. Well, the cat was one of them. All right. And there was some flowers. The cat, flowers. And there was one more. I can't think of besides the new France one. All right. I might just play with those while I have this out. They're good little practice pieces. And, you know, just have fun with it and try to get as far as you can with the piece without, try to challenge yourself without using, actually using black. I think my hubby's home. Okay. He'll be sticking his, he'll be sticking his. Is there something wrong with black? And I sometimes like you've seen add black at the end, but see how far you can get with your painting without actually adding black. You can do a lot with light and shadow and suggesting light and shadow and doing this little bird and not even doing him in any of the colors that he's in in here. You know, you can do all the light parts in a light bright color like a yellow or an orange and then do all the dark shadow colors in light purple. Your cool colors. So. This was really fun. This is, you know, I enjoyed it. You have a virgin water color book, Barbara. Well, you need to break that sucker out and you need to do some paintings in there. I know it's Cindy and Cindy's doing, she did a great job. Oh, thank you, Muriel. Yeah, so everybody who's worried about me being too near any of the dams that are, you know, threatened with all of our storms we've had and will there are some more coming in. Don't be, I'm pretty in pretty high up ground. So it's not, it's not gonna really be an issue. I do have to say because I have anxiety disorder at least in part, I do spend quite of a time when it's raining with my head up at the ceiling looking up, making sure the roof is not leaking. Not that we have a leak, I'm just paranoid. Yeah, she does that. And then I call her up, I'm like, what are you doing? She's like, looking at the roof. Yeah, look at your roof. Yeah. I love it, Gina, you know it. I know, and yeah, who doesn't love watching Mary painting out in her car? I love that. Don't be afraid when you're going out of town, even if you're just running errands or you know, you're going out to the park, have a little kit of watercolors that you can take with you. It doesn't have to be more than a book like this in one pan of paints. It can be very small. Take it with you, do a little painting. Who cares if people watch you? Who cares what they think? Just have fun with it. Someday I'm gonna try that because I love, I know one of the ones I don't, I don't even know where she was at. It was last year and I was watching it and it was like a big long walkway, a covered walkway, like you would see going into a hospital. Yeah. And sitting there watching her bring that to life on paper, it was just amazing, amazing. Mary, you are so talented. It's awesome. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And on these little quick paintings, you know that, you know, whether you're doing them from inspiration photos or you're doing them from a trip and I do have a journal, I actually don't, I don't know that I've ever shown this on camera, hold on. Barbara, the who, you know, it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks. It doesn't, you know what? If somebody doesn't like my bird, if somebody doesn't like my elephant, that's their problem. I had fun doing it. I love doing it. I'm just gonna keep doing it. And you know, I share, if somebody doesn't like it, you know what, change the channel, watch somebody else that you do like, you gotta get past that. Do it for you, not anybody else. Just for you. Did know what she said. So before we end our broadcast today, this is my actual travel watercolor journal. This is the actual one I take, thanks Mary, I take with me when I go on vacation. It's been with me a lot of different places. Stick the luggage tags and, you know, things like that in the front cover. I don't know if they can see you or me right now. They should be able to see me. Okay, all right, just wanna make sure. So this is the inside cover. I see, you know, all those sticky tags you get from your luggage and that sort of thing from your tickets. And these paintings were done, actually done while I was on vacation. I do label them mostly for my mind so that I remember, okay, what, you know, where was it I was at? And it doesn't have to be anything super complicated or super realistic. And this is before somebody asks, I think this is, oh, now I don't know, see, I covered it up. I think it's, is it a mole skin? No, it says, this is a Strathmore watercolor journal. This one is a mole skin. You know, I know the tags. I have been looking in Barnes and Noble for mole skin watercolor journals and they're not in there. All they have is those writing journals and the sketching journals. So I'm probably gonna have to line and order some. Yeah, so I tend to order my watercolor journals like this from my Amazon, Cindy. And I also have a pentallic one too. Most of them, you know, I don't, I just, the pentallic one is pretty because it's got a blue cover. I mean, but, you know, they're all about the same. Right. So I do do some journaling on the photos when I get them painted. These were all done like early in the morning while I'm drinking my coffee and everybody else is still sleeping. I actually do these while I'm on vacation. And yes, I took this with me to Alaska and I did this one out on our balcony. And they don't, this is, you know, this, this is, and I've done this, you know, this is the one I did in Phoenix. And the inspiration for this didn't actually have a cactus, but Cindy has this thing up for cactus plants. Oh my God, they're so cool. Oh, I put a cactus in here. Every time I go and buy a cactus, I'm like, oh my God, oh my God, look at it, look at it. I live in California, we see a lot of cactus. Yeah, honey, there's no cactus in New York, trust me. So this goes with me and this is my travel kit. You don't need, you don't need more than, I don't need more than this. I could take this with me. It would fit in my handbag and I could take it out to the coffee shop if I was meeting friends. I could take it away for the weekend. This is from Art Toolkit, but you can do something like this in a travel wallet or something like that. You don't have to get this Art Toolkit one, but it has a basic watercolor palette in it. And these aren't, these aren't fancy paint. These are Koi and Daniel Smith and mostly Koi. So all these cakes here are all Koi, that's Koi watercolor. Only ones that are Daniel Smith are these ones that are different. And that fits in here. A couple of clips. Remember what I said about the cut-off gift card? This is actually an old expired insurance card. A white pen, a couple of black pens and my favorite pilot varsity pen. A couple of water brushes, a white crayon, a ballpoint, some water soluble pencils, including an old Stabilo that's really short. And a regular number two pencil. Now this one and this one, these are from like, you know, when you're in the casino and you're filling out like one of those, you're filling out one of those forms, like to do sports betting and stuff. It's like a keynote. Yeah, so that's what these are from. And this one actually is Ikea. Well, you can get these at Ikea too, but. So then I always, I grab them and I stick them in here. Gina, can you make a list of what you have in that? Yes. Kit, please. Yes. Paper towels, a couple pieces of deli or wax paper, some plastic wrap for pushing into the wet paint and letting it dry. So say I did a painting and I wanted to get an interesting texture in it. At the end, before I leave to go get dressed and we go do our day, I would put the wax paper into the paint and smoosh it down, or I would sprinkle salt in it and just let it dry while I'm gone for the day. And then when I get back, I can wipe the salt off or I can pull the plastic wrap off and it will leave an interesting texture in the paint. And I carry these with me. And then this is from, you know, one of the screen protector things that you put on one of your tablets. But this is the same. It's a mini mister. That's all it is. And it's for getting the paints wet and the water I can fill in my brush. You don't need more than that. You really don't. Especially if you don't plan on doing, you know, any plantery type things while you're on vacation. If you just want to paint and have fun, you don't need more than that. And I do love this art toolkit case. Now you can get this art toolkit case. It comes with a small journal this size. This is teeny tiny. Okay, Diana. And this one I've done, I took this one to Phoenix and I did this and I did her. That art kit that you got, it comes with the book, but what other supplies or none? It comes with the book. It comes with a black pen, the ruler, a needleless syringe to fill up your water brush. And I do think it came with a water brush. I put these in here, but I think it came with a different water. It came with a Pentel. Right. And you can get it with or without a small palette and it's really, really teeny. It would be too small for most of you. I don't know where it is right now. It's, I might've given it away even. It's the size of like a business card holder. It's really teeny. I don't actually... And who... It's intriguing, but I've never used it. And who makes that set, Gina? Huh? Who makes that set? The company name is Art Toolkit. Art Toolkit. I wouldn't... When you go to the Art Toolkit website, and I don't know where mine is right now, you'll see the watercolor palette you can get it with, but you can get it with or without. If you're going to order this, get it without. The, take the journal out, because the journal's nice, but take it out. Put in a small, one of these small metal pans or your Windsor Newton pocket kit will also fit in here. And... And I'll make a list of everything that I have in here. All right. Oh, thank you. And you really, I mean, even if you took one that's this small, and you know, you could put it with a rubber band, and that would fit in your handbag. So don't be afraid to, you know, take your stuff out in public to take it traveling with you. If you're in the San Jose Bay area, I am going to be doing at least one travel art class for a local company called, well, not local, they're a worldwide company called Direct Travel. It's in March. If you are in the area or you can be in the area, you want more details, email me and I'll get them to you. And we're going to be talking about travel art. And I wasn't going to say anything about that, but you know, since we're on the subject. All right. Does anybody have any other questions? And just in case you didn't know, I have this thing for pocket travel kits. I have this thing for pocket, pocket, pocket kits, pocket pink kits. I have a lot of them I haven't opened yet that I want to play with. You know, I like, that's another watercolor that I've actually had in the past that even though I've done anything with them is the Lucas. And I- Yes, I have a pocket kit that I want to try. It's not, you know, there's no new colors in there compared to other paints that I have, but you know, the quality is a little different than some of the others. And I just want to, I just like pocket kits. I'll be honest. I just like pocket kits. I'm going to have to, now that you've got me doing this, I'm going to have to get a, I have one of the small tins. I have to get the right amount of- Now this one is nice. It's even smaller than the one I normally carry with me. It's the size of an Altoids box, but it's made by Whiskey Painters. And they sell these little half pans that have magnets on the back. That's cool. Yeah. But anything, any small palettes like that will fit in the Art Toolkit case. And this Charm Cindy, Miss Cindy made for me. Hmm. So, you know, the point was don't, you know, don't be afraid to just play and experiment in your journals and to take them with you when you go out of town. I don't go anywhere without some kind of art supplies, even if it's just this, and even if I end up not having time to play with them. Rembrandt, I want to say I have tried them, although I currently don't have any in my collection. The travel case, the travel class, sorry, Mary is going to be a lot of fun. Of course, it's sponsored by a travel, there will be a certain amount of sales pitching going on. But we're going to talk about traveling with your art supplies and maybe even actually doing some painting. That depends on how many people are in the class, but at the very least there'll be a lecture and a show and tell, and I'll have all of my stuff with me. That'll be fun. That'll be a lot of fun. It'll be a lot of fun. So if you're in the area or you're not too far away or you plan on being in the area in March, I think it's going to be March 14th. So if you want more information, then send me an email. Yeah, I make a lot of travel pocket kits because I want to always show you guys how to make stuff rather than just go buy things. And then I don't need any more. So then I give them away. And there's some of that that's going to be coming up if you're in the My Year 2017 group. I've made a few things for my week for show and tell, but then I don't need them. So I'm going to be giving them away. Alrighty, everybody. Is that it? I believe I is done here. My hubs is home, so I got to go let them know that yo-yo is for dinner. Yes, I should start. Laundry. Oh, fun. Yeah, fun. I have to go get the mail. All right. Patricia, you're welcome. And I hope you guys enjoy it when I hop on with Gina. I have a lot of fun. Like I said, Gina and I always have a lot of fun together. And if you want me here, just give me a holler. I'll be here for you guys. Yeah, and I will make a list when I can of Art Toolkit and everything that's in here. I will try to put it in the description below the video. I will also put it over in the two Facebook groups. Maybe underneath the post about today's broadcast. Sounds good. All right, cool. I will see you all later. We will be back on Monday, barring unforeseen circumstances at about noon. All the live broadcasts, I think we'll be at about noon my time in California. So whatever time that is for you all and Art Adventures Live Monday morning or Monday afternoon. And I will not be here next week as I'm on vacation, but whatever you do, don't forget to have fun. That's what life's all about. See you guys later. Okay, bye guys. Bye.