 Well, hi there. My name is Sandy Allnacht. I'm an artist and paper crafter and today we're doing brush show in space And now another malodorous episode of pigs in As I was working on this I just kept having that little Muppet show thing run through my head when I was a kid They always had pigs in space. That's a trailer for one of the newer episodes So it's a little fancier than it used to be when I was a kid But we're gonna do brush show in space today Brush show is a watercolor powder. It comes in these little jars and I'll have a video at the end of this Where you can see how I made my little toppers for my jars and stuff and get more information on the product but basically it's a powder and when you put water down it will Move just within that water if you put it on dry paper You should be able to just blow it off with your breath and get rid of it I wouldn't use anything to brush it off unless you're really careful because you don't want to smush that pigment into the paper But I'm gonna be doing a background around this. I just wanted to color my images all first One of the things I really like about brush show is that it retains some of that granular look So as I go through this, I'm gonna leave that granular look I'm gonna leave some white spots and white areas that sort of thing I don't want it to be all perfect because why would I do it with brush show if I'm not gonna let it kind of Let the let the beat of seeing as it is So I'm moving it around with my brush. I'm also using a I think this is a number eight brush It might be a number 10, but I think it's number eight and I do find myself using larger and larger brushes lately Just so you know that is just the thing that I do seeing Sam just painting on different sections with water and then adding powder on you can do a couple sections at a time if you're prepared to Just get them all going at once or you can just do one shape at a time and Start spreading that color around Have little by little get the whole thing done when I When I do my brush show I often Do loose paintings in order to loosen up before using regular watercolor because brush show does what it wants to do But this is one of those techniques that you can use to make it a very controlled type of thing and Do need to remember that when you get a little bit of that pigment outside of it if it gets wet You are gonna pick up a little bit of that color We're gonna see a few areas in this where I have some issues with that, but in general it's not gonna bother me for the whole card Here I use two different yellows Lemon yellow is the the main yellow and then I went back to some of that gambos Which is of course one of the prettiest colors in brush show so that I could get a little differentiation in color on two sides And you also notice like a couple times I'm dabbing off color because that will just it'll help it dry faster and it also stops that movement right away And here I'm painting Something right next to an area that had yellow in it So I'm gonna get a little yellow accidentally into my helmet. I'm not too worried about that I'm just gonna let it go. I just want to make sure that I don't get too much in there so when you're Putting your color on if there are areas where you're really not happy with any of that color getting into another area Just be real careful what you touch it to because this stuff remains wettable afterward So if you sneeze on your card when it's all done the color will move again, so no sneezing on your card But here you can say I tapped a little bit onto the piece of tape there And I tapped it onto the tape because then I can pick that color up Just add some water to it and water it down as much as I need to or add more pigments If I want to have it a little heavier in color and just put a little bit of that gray into his space suit The thing that I'm working on the surface the black surface that I'm working on is my Ellen Hudson craft assistant and that is a metal 12 by 12 sheet of Metallic stuff that is super easy to clean up However, if you're going to tap a little bit on to make a palette for yourself You can't see the color you can't really see how much you have there So that's why I do it on the tape next to it But I I like to use the craft assistant when I'm using my brush I just because it does get sometimes everywhere, especially if you're going to blow some of that color off like I do Then you want something that's going to catch it. Don't let it get all over your desk or you could have some issues So here I'm just painting in a couple different layers I've added more pigment to my little puddle so I could make it a little darker gray and as it's drying Slightly I can add more layers to it and the water and the color that's underneath is going to help it to blend in a little bit And move that color around and make this look as dimensional as I want it to just add a little bit on top of my helmet and Now we're going to speed up because we could be here all day if I don't so I'm going to add some pink to one of the Balloons and again, I'm going to allow the brush out to just be sort of loose and Smushy all over the place not really Stressing out about trying to fill in every square inch and you'll see when the card is done It has a very loose feel to it. Even though this is a very controlled technique There's a little spot there where on that planet at the bottom I have some pigment that went outside of it. I am going to be doing that background so some of that pink pigment will Blend into the black background. There's not really way to lift that entirely Once you make that goober So bear that in mind that you may need to do some recovery work But if you're going to do a background like I'm going to be doing with a loose Kind of spacey sky then you don't have to worry about it all that much So I'm going to finish off all of these images I wanted to add a little bit more to the top there because I got a little the red at the top of that planet Didn't like how it wouldn't push around so I just added a little bit more of the gambos on top So you can play around with this and adjust it and add more colors to things and blend them out to be a little smoother If you want to or add a little roughness to them whatever way you want it to come out because The stuff is really fun to play with a few more finishing touches here I'm going to clean up the planet and add a little bit to it. I didn't like quite how much My my little balloon had on it and then I thought since I had a little bit of this pink pigment I'd add a little bit also to the space suit Do that now the face I didn't want to have a lot of granularity on so I made sure that I mixed my paint on The tape so that I don't end up getting big old grains of of pigment on his little face And you see how nicely that that came out that was sandstone was that color off all of the colors Listed on my blog. So if you need to know what these colors are, I will let you know over there Because they are not in my head as I'm doing this voice over Now the gray color which is related to the black. So I've used the black in a lot of my brush show videos before The gray is just a lighter version of it. You still get a lot of that color break out But here I'm trying to get a base coat of kind of this really light gray first And I wanted it to be really really light and then add more to it So I added a little bit by sprinkling off and then a lot of it. I'm adding using the brush and picking up pigment Here I've got a lot of water on my brush so I can soften it out a whole lot And just spreading that color around Until it looks like I have a little shadow underneath the mission control sign And then I want to add a little bit more at the very base Because my sky I want to have that planet that that's just a little line that I've drawn around it that little arc Because I wanted to create this scene of having a planet down below And the mission control sign by the way I drew that on to here. I stamped my sentiment and then just drew a little box around it The next step is putting glossy accents over all of the parts that I've already colored because I want them to remain Those colors and have a little more freedom when I'm painting the background And when you do this you want to let it dry all the way because guess what if you get dry pigment on wet Glossy accents it's going to stick So this is after it dried I let it dry for a couple hours because I want to make sure it was really good and dry And you can see there's some yellow out in the sky there Just picked up on my brush some of it might have been from my water because I hadn't cleaned it And some of it might be from just pigment that was touching outside of those But I'm going to be putting enough color down not going to worry about it too much And here's where you can see putting some of these colors out here. I'm going to use some violet and some cobalt blue And you can see how fun they come out when you're just sprinkling them. I've sprinkled them with Water that's just been painted on you can spritz all over it But I wasn't as confident that I had really covered All of those areas around each one of my planets and everything completely with the glossy accents I just wasn't confident that I had done that well. So if you're confident then you could spritz all over it, but I felt better just doing this with a brush and moving the color around And you can see as I go I have a little more Little less control in some areas a little more in others depending on whether I want that spotty kind of granular look at the top And it softens as it sits in the water too. So I'm making sure I keep it nice and wet But down toward the planet, I want to have lighter color So I'm going to pull down a little bit of that color. So as we go It's just going to be a soft bluish purple down by the planet and the dark is going to be up in the sky So sprinkle a little bit more And start spreading it around And all of that area is still wet. So all of it's going to be able to move and be re-wet But if you let it dry too much then you may end up with some hard spots of blue But I'm going to keep getting that sky darker and darker I did do this one time before and I tried to go all dark The first time around without doing it in layers like this And it was really hard to control I ended up with almost blackish spots So I found this was a much easier way to go when I did it the second time Learned from what I have made my mistakes with So you can see I'm spreading that color down I'm getting a little bit darker blue toward the bottom But I'm not going to have it yet because it's just like I said really easy to get too dark too fast And so I wanted to keep keep my options open to see how dark and how light I wanted it to be All that area is still wet. So now when I pour that color in there I'm able to really get it to move around really nicely And start to get a much better gradation from that bluish purple All the way down to the other colors the lighter colors down toward the horizon line And I'm just picking up color that's already on my brush So I can get some of that pinkish purple color down there And a little bit that over sprayed when I shook my purple the last time Put a little bit more in here I think that might have been shaking on a little bit of that pink color as well And spread that out a little further you see how wet the paper is because all of that Color every time I tap that brush it just keeps moving I'm doing this on arches cold press paper. So if you're using other papers it may or may not move the same way So I like it on this kind of paper because the texture of the paper itself and the rag content and it moves the color around in really beautiful waves And you can see here I'm just going over it with enough layers and keep tapping in more colors But now I've got this gorgeous sky when it all dried. Isn't that beautiful? How fun that came out. It looks like he's just totally flying above the ground And the color lightens up as it gets down to the bottom But it's nice and solid up at the top because they built it up in those layers and I used a signo pen White gel pen to make those little dots for the sky So here you go a couple more videos that one that I promised about doing the caps On the brush of bottles. There's also another brush of video there for you You can click on my face in order to get Subscription to my channel and I will talk to you guys later. Thanks You