 Okay, so I've got my one iPad on Periscope. Oh wow. Holy cow That one has a sound Let's see if we can do this one for YouTube. It's so weird searching for my name. Good morning everybody We're having some technical difficulties this morning Because you know, that's you know, I have a black thumb with technical devices these days Just I don't know what to say about that now. I can't find myself on YouTube Is anybody on YouTube? Can you tell me in Periscope? Can you hear the sound? I have no idea what's going on Hey, I don't want uploads. I want live live streams. Here we go live now That's the one I want. Oops the volume off Why is the chat not showing up on here? Let's see maybe because he's not subscribed Crappola your volume is working on YouTube. Yay. Okay, so we're gonna switch back over to there Holy cow you guys What a disaster. I don't know why the chat's not working on this one It could because he's not logged in you can see and chat. Yay. Okay. I prefer YouTube When it's working I Had to log back out and go back in again. Holy cow when it's working. It works. Well, that's not what we wanted Hopefully that's me And I'm live. Yep. All right. Yay. Hey, we've got the bugs worked out on YouTube. Hello Wow technical difficulties, sorry about that guys So let's see if we can get Periscope loaded on this one and then we can get started Holy cow, we've wasted 15 minutes and While I'm doing that off to the side here Because I can't see your Periscope comments I can't stand on the stool and paint at the same time to see my phone So as I was saying now that we have the bugs worked out and you can hear me on YouTube yay We have this four-part painting inspired by the calendar page from my husband's friend Brent Frazier and I Did it in four parts Each section with a different brand of paint that we've already swatched in our review swatch product review swatch book and It was really interesting to try to continue sharing the same Sharing not sharing to continue painting the same painting Trying to get a similar color or effect with four completely different brands of paint even when you're using the same colors You would think that It wouldn't be that hard. It was a lot harder than you think and some of these brands were easier to achieve that with than others and One of the I love the mission gold they're very very vibrant I did tape it Um, I don't have my husband's password for the iPad. So that's not going to work But anyway, so I can't see the Periscope comments If there's something important over in Periscope if you could switch over here to YouTube, please for me That would be great I'm not going to fuss with the technical equipment anymore I'm going to continue broadcasting and I hope you love the broadcast But if you're asking me questions in Periscope, please either switch them over to YouTube chat in the live broadcast or Private message me or email me. Hey Teresa. All right. So I did this. I did tape it. So hey Cindy I did now that we have the technical difficulties worked out. Yay I am like I've said simulcast on Periscope If you're over there and you're trying to ask me a question or make a comment or anything then Please come over to YouTube and ask me there As long as I don't have too many technical difficulties, I will be trying to switch over to YouTube live It's a little easier barring technical difficulties and it's also better for my YouTube channel to be honest So anyway, I did tape this literally right. Hey Alaska. Hey, I am going there in May Cindy Lou. I can't wait It's our anniversary Um Anyway, I did tape this and I have it in my video new video camera So I will be editing it later today and getting it uploaded for you guys at some point But I wanted to have you see this first while we were working on our technical issues over here on YouTube And with my equipment because I have a equipment black thumb lately Yay, I'm glad Cheryl that you figured it out YouTube When it's working is easier, I think so I'm going to move this and we are going to work in our review book We are going on a cruise to Alaska and I'm not sure what all the stops are my husband booked it so I have no idea I Think it is. I'm not sure I'll have to let you know Okay, so we're going to start a new page here. We did this page and we filled it up So we're going to start a new one And I just realized I have to make my chart on here Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna do Windsor Newton I will let you know we're gonna do Windsor Newton. I have a small Windsor Newton set pocket set I Think these are cotton and watercolors, which is their student grade. I have a few of the each each kind but This is my little set of ones I use when I'm doing the watercolor with mixed media and I don't care if you know I stick an acrylic paint brush in there or something like that and then I have this set Which are Van Gogh watercolors they did not come in this box You know, y'all know if you've been watching me for a while that I like the metal paint boxes and I Put them in here, and I had some cake and some tubes I Have kind of a lot of colors So first thing we need to do before we can do anything is I need to make my grid on here See I forgot to do it See I'm telling you I'm guy You know what I like watercolor Watercolor are fun Okay, so the easy way to do this. Let me move all these paints out of the way. I Hate math you guys like with a passion math just literally makes me for insane. I Can do math I can do complicated math So this is what I do once I figure it out the first time I don't want to have to do it again So I'm gonna mark Keep it try to keep it lined up on The edges. This is one of those new pens that jet pens sent me This is the double-ended one and it's waterproof. I love it and it would be so great to have Like in a travel kit because it's double-ended you have a super fine point and a Boulder tip Hey Josie, how are you? Good morning everybody See if we can get all the people that over at Periscope switched over to YouTube, right? I'm not gonna keep Yeah, I'm so glad you did. I can't see the Periscope comments for those who view who are just now joining us my I I'm having device issues again because you know I have a device. I have an electronics black thumb So I'm so glad you're here Michelle So right now I'm just cheating and I'm copying my measurements and marks over from my other chart because I've got to make a new one and I forgot Because you know, that's what I do forget. All right. Let's see Thanks, Michelle. I appreciate that Okay, so then the trick is to Figure out Let's see, you know, it doesn't have to be like super neat, but You want to give yourself some kind of a grid it's a good idea with some of these to create like a template This doesn't like writing up against the ruler first thing I've Has first time I've had a problem with that. Let's use the scarlet line Which is more like a ballpoint It likes writing up against the ruler I'm in barring technical difficulties, which honestly Susan they might be my fault Because like I said, I have a I have an electronics black thumb it is usually easier on YouTube than it is anywhere else and The upload and replay is easier because it's almost instantaneous And for you guys from a customer service standpoint, it's that's a fabulous thing Thanks Cheryl and so I want I want from a customer service standpoint I want it to be easy for you guys I don't want it to have to take me 24 to 48 hours to get video Recordings up of broadcasts for you guys to replay So that's why I'm switching to YouTube plus I can see the chat The one thing that's never been a problem is the chat, but have a good day Susan Okay, so now we're gonna do a cross Figure out how many colors you want to do and you need to make that many columns and Then I try to do like four brands per page This is what I've been doing if your book is bigger you could do more and then because the first time I did it My math was off and I had this huge margin over here. I just thought okay This is a good space for notes if you want to make notes Because you know all right, so you have yellow orange red purple Okay, so you can do that it depending on your printer. It might not like printing over Watercolor paper this is hundred and forty pound watercolor paper and it does not always go through the printer well Missed a line Okay, so let's do the we have Windsor Newton in van Gogh So the first thing we need to do is get them wet. I'm gonna pull them down off the table I just heard yesterday from Royal who makes Royal makes paintbrushes, but they also make I think pelican and talons maybe Anyway, they're sending me paint. They say they're sending me paint We'll see what happens. I don't know Okay, so the first thing we're gonna do is write our color names up here and We've been If I look up here, so I'm gonna compare it I want to do similar colors each time no matter if I'm starting a new card. So let's do cadmium yellow And this is going to be the Windsor Newton I only have one sort of you can ask questions on my Facebook page The life of art one and you can also ask questions here Make sure you tag me if you put a question in the Facebook page so that I see it I'm gonna put cadmium red here, which is in this set is kind of an orangey color Hey, Lisa. We're gonna put a lizard and crimson You didn't miss much. We just had technical issues For the green I'm gonna use Viridian blue I'm gonna use ultramarine and this set does not have a purple So we can't do purple because this little 12 set doesn't have I'm way to hold on the phone. I might have purple I got a bag of Windsor Newton paints, that's not them Because you know my low-tech storage solution plastic bags They're there That's them. Yeah All right, I bet you there's a purple in here Yeah, I have purple lake. I don't have my glasses on Where are they? Okay, I Have evidently I like purple lake because I have that a couple of different times. Oh Here this is better dioxazine purple Okay So the last thing I'll do off-camera is swatch. Oh, hey Victor swatch all the Windsor Newton paints I own but I'm not gonna make you Watch that. Oh that was for periscope followers. Okay Yeah, let them know over there any of you who maybe have both applications open let them know over there I am broadcasting, but I can't see any of the comments Okay, so let's get out a small brush and You know, I just I feel like I need to take a deep breath Okay, all right, let's get out a smaller brush and let's start swatching our colors again, this is the Windsor Newton Look how bright that and this is their cotton and these are their student grade And I like their student grade paints. Some of them are decently light fast Some of them are not just like with any other brand. They're pretty affordable. This is the cadmium red But see what I mean about how orange it is? And you can get their cotton and watercolors and also van Gogh, which we're also gonna do today They're both kind of a student grade, but they're both available at Hobby Lobby So if you have a limited budget and you want to start building up your collection of watercolor paints You can go in there and get literally one two bit of time with your 40% off coupon Until you have the colors that you want and if you're just doing our journal pages or greeting cards You know something like that and you're not doing like a big watercolor painting that you you know Want to last for a hundred years kind of a thing? There's then these are fine. I did show some pictures recently on my Facebook page of a pen and ink drawing that one of my aunts who was our college art student did for me as a gift when I was a kid and Some of the ink is fading She did a few of them for few of us nieces and nephews and mine is the only one that's still readable And because I sealed it between plexiglass But the reason that it's fading is because the ink wasn't light fast So it's a good example of why that you maybe if you're doing a special piece like a gift for somebody you want the Payton or ink to be light fast You can see it by going into my Facebook group Alright, so there's our colors beautiful colors in the Windsor Newton And don't forget, you know if you guys have any questions to let me know I can't wait to edit the video for you guys because of the four-part painting because that's going to be fun I can't get the cat back on that right now Hey Laurie Long time no talk Okay, so the next one with it will do is Van Gogh whoops and Evidently spelling is just not my thing today off Thank You Teresa she did and She was so excited when I restarted the Facebook group, which was her idea in the first place and She always encouraged me to not do what she did and let her art You know just fall by the wayside and not do what she left what I loved She'd be so happy with all of us that were that we're doing you know that we're we're following our dream Okay, so for this one We're gonna do permanent lemon yellow Yeah, she had cancer. She had breast cancer a few years back And it came back with a vengeance and metastasized into her brain, so She wasn't in a lot of pain at the end. Thank goodness Let's do Permanent red deep and we have Viridian on this palette, so let's do Viridian Ultramarine and Permanent blue violet so I want to encourage all of you to get together with your friends and do some of these like swatching parties and They have everybody like a pick a subject matter whether it's watercolor, maybe it's going to be Penn Michelle who is on here from Lady Blue Studios is doing one of these swatch books with pens and markers and Maybe you want to do it with that. Maybe you want to do it with other water-soluble material and if you're Love Naples yellow in any paint and if you're thinking about buying You know upgrading your supplies and one of your friends already has it you could add it to your swatch books Swatch book and try it and see if you think that you might want to you know invest in that See how you like it before you actually make the investment. Oh and pencils So this this kind of Experiment swatch book I think is a really great idea and it could be adapted to fit into any art supply So these are pretty equal these paints and of course you could do it with acrylic to paint. You might want to add some Retarder to the paint. I don't know on some of the blending things that might dry a little quickly I don't know you have to try it But I think it would I think it would adapt well and it would be fun to do one of these with acrylic paints and compare Like some of your cheaper like craft Acrylics to some of the artist ones and see what how pigmented what the difference is So, you know, those are pretty equal in my opinion, and they're both very affordable. They're both available a hobby lobby Okay, let's Drive and I think this is the first time you guys are seeing the upgraded book. Isn't it? I had to do a bigger book We quickly read ran out of this space in the old one or Sticks you could do watercolor sticks blocks. You could do yeah traditions Paint I love the traditions paint From Deco art. It's one of my favorites. So we're going to divide this into fourths You very much could on this. I've been asked a couple of times do a stamped image. You don't have to do a drawn image And you know, of course as soon as images are finalized I'm coming out with four new sets of rubber stamps. So you definitely could stamp them on here hint hint All right, but let's do a little house Just a simple little, you know box. I want to use the other end. Let's see. We're not looking for Picasso here We're just doing a little practice art piece Using the colors we just compared on the other page, you know, a simple little house that you probably learned how to draw You know in elementary school art class When you first learned about perspective Thank you for about the new book cover The first set Lisa the first set of watercolors That's a little Windsor-Newton Cotman pocket set. It's only got 12 colors the problem with that set If you're gonna watercolor with it in my opinion is it doesn't have a purple and it doesn't have a Payne's gray So I would switch out a couple of the pants. It does have white and like two browns I would take one of those the white out and one of the browns out and I'd switch and I'd put purple and Payne's gray in there And it has yellow ochre too. I would I would maybe think about taking You have three like brownish colors. Oh The stamps. Oh, thank you All right, so now we're going to Do our little paintings Yep, we need to mark them Whoops Ever one of those days where you just feel like you're off like I can't even spell this morning my spelling is never great But well the nice thing with watercolor about doing a swatch book whether you have one brand or a whole bunch of brands is the paints Especially with watercolor but also with acrylic look very different in the tube or in the pan Then they do on paper or canvas Yeah, the making the grid is the longest part. Okay, so let's Use our same colors. We already used and let's do the Windsor Newton first Try Dana try putting Mixing the paints with some gum Arabic they might need to You might need to add if they're old they might you might need to add a little bit more binder to them and That may fix the problem. I would add a little gum Arabic to it and see what happens Okay, so I'm going to When it start with our colors are warm colors the colors that remind us of sunlight and warmth When you look oh, what did I just do? Holy moly people did you get that? Let's lift that shall we holy cow and crappola I Told you I feel off today So you notice that the paint lit obviously here's a bi-accident test so the paint lifts pretty well look at that That should be Van Gogh. That's not Windsor Newton Holy cow told you I feel off. I maybe I just need more coffee. I don't know He brought I know right Michelle. You know me too. Well Deep breath. Holy cow, but yeah, I would add some add some get some gum Arabic and add a little bit to it and see if That helps it probably will So we're starting with our warm colors the colors that when you look at them remind you of a hot the hot summer sun sunlight and warmth Start with those put them in the spot, you know if the sun's coming this way or coming that way Put them, you know decide where your sun is coming from and then put all those warm colors in The appropriate place where the sun would be hitting your image All right, and then we're gonna slowly work our way to cooler So that was the orangey color out of this palette that we used now I'm going to the red which is going cooler to lizard crimson So live a lizard crimson for red is a cooler red This is I generally when I'm especially when I'm doing these experiments. I use inexpensive paper This is Strathmore 140 pound watercolor paper It's easy to get it's inexpensive and when you're practicing and learning it doesn't cost a lot my favorites Fabriano I I Like Fabriano paper a lot. I heard a watercolor artist recently and it might have been owning's art I don't remember and I think it actually it was and he had a good point if you're doing paintings that you're giving away or selling and you're thinking about You know stretching your watercolor paper and all that nonsense instead of Going to all that trouble of stretching and everything Just buy 300 pound paper Because you'll save yourself a lot of aggravation But 300 pound paper and they do make it it's like painting on a piece of chipboard, but it's really expensive You know, I never hide my mistakes from you guys, you know, I make plenty of them So it's part of the fun process. It's part of the learning process and you know, I don't see the point in hiding Any of that I don't always stretch my paper it depends on what I'm doing and if it's going to be for sale that kind of thing It really just depends I don't stretch it a lot I should say I do sometimes not a lot though So these are the little Windsor Newton paints and they they work really well I don't like stretching it onto a board and taping it down I have one of these and I can't think of the name of it right now, but I have this paper stretcher thing That's actually really nice. It's a wood. I Actually ordered it from the UK. I don't remember the name of it I've shown it in video before though, and you basically soak the paper and wet it and wrap it around this board and Then let it dry and it stretches around the board I Don't disagree with you Teresa. I frequently just open up the pad paper and start painting. I like watercolor blocks They're really easy to work with But you know one of the fun things about art and mixed media is that you know there are no hard and fast rules and You just need to figure out what works for you try some different things But like I said one of the nice things I like about maybe getting people to start doing swatching parties with their friends is Instead of doing what a lot of us did who now know better And when you start doing mixed media going out and buying a lot of art supplies because you think you have to have them And that only to find out that you'd rather not have spent the money on that If you have friends that have them Then you can try them first and you could try them in your swatch book and see if you're going to like it or not And you want to upgrade or you want to invest the money? Are you okay? There you go. Okay, so now we'll do the van go same thing Now some colors will lift When you make a mistake like I did and some colors will not they immediately stain the paper so along with Yeah, so and I'll talk about that more in a minute Cheryl along with Lightfast information a lot of times you're the chart from the manufacturer that has lightfast information is also going to have staining information And also some of the colors will be more opaque than others and that will be on there, too And some will be very translucent So yeah, you have to soak the paper first and I actually have an acrylic picture frame one of those ones with a deep lip It's actually kind of a big one. I think it's 16 by 20 and You soak the paper for about 15 minutes And then you can stretch it on to a board and tape it down or you can stretch it around this this blocking thing I have and put it down That's funny Lori, I like that Okay, so vermilion now we're going to go with the orange the most one of the most important things about doing this exercise is that Is the color blending? experiments which we're going to do next and Those are you know, it's important to practice blending colors. You aren't always going to have the color that you want on hand and It's important to know even if you do have lots of colors on hand What they're going to do if you mix them up together Something's dinging at me. It's one of my devices. I don't know Well, that's one of the reasons that we're doing this series Cheryl is so that you guys can at least watch me on a high-def camera Experiment with as many of these products as I can get a hold of so that you guys can make an educated Decision about what's going to work for your budgets And whether you want to even just even try it or not Let's go with the blue Just this one little dry You're welcome Plus, you know, it gives me an excuse to write all these paint companies and say hey, you know, do you think you guys couldn't help me out? I Don't mind doing that You don't have to sneak Teresa But I'm kind of far away from most of you I think I shouldn't say that because probably there's some of you there on the corner Michelle you're one of my best friends if you make it to California, you are more than welcome in the art room If I could fit a lot of them on my suitcase for you know our upcoming Trip I would but I don't think I I don't think I'm gonna make it through security and I'm not checking them So we're gonna work our way through to the darker colors. Let's see now, you know, I'm working literally I'm not waiting for anything to dry and The colors are mixing together and what we what you start to get like right here Is you start to get them to mix together and they're turning gray because all your colors that's what happens when you mix all your colors together you get a neutral and Sometimes that's what you want and you're okay with that We'll have to kick the daughter out so there's room for Michelle Yeah, where are you Lisa you I know we're in California You and Anne Williamson and is only like an hour away So there's our two little houses and I like them both Well, I do need to move out of San Jose, it's like the most expensive place in the entire nation live I won't even tell you Hey, yeah, yeah, how much that like fixer-uppers cost around here and of course Shannon wants me to move to Texas. Oh Santa Rosa. Yeah, my mother and dad used to live in Ucaia. We drove through Santa Rosa a lot So now we're gonna start on our color blending experiments and I'm gonna flip to and I'm gonna get out my two templates and We're gonna go to a clean page We need pencil So we've got our circle template. We're gonna do two of those You could do this in pen, but you don't need to I would just do it in pencil After you make yourself a template make yourself a template out of something Yeah, and got it I have just a little ordinary plain Tract house and has a beautiful two-story home, but That being said, I'm glad I don't have a two-story house. I'm not getting any younger I think it would be hard for me get up and down the stairs. So then we're gonna just connect our marks Well, you know my dream is someday for us to be you know a big enough community making enough money to warrant having some sort of You know Retreat That would be fun. Don't you think I'm multi-tasking me by so sick. I figured I was out chatting with them I don't multitask well anymore Now that I'm over 50 and been through menopause. It's like I don't know my brain doesn't multitask well The older I get the worse it is see there you go big Josie you and Victor have to get together My daughter's boyfriend's from Lithuania. I don't know that that's too far relatively speaking from Ukraine Oh, that's Beth with the art barn. Yeah, we could meet at the art barn. Yeah, somebody has to tell Beth She needs a retreat at the art barn. I Think that's in Canada, but that's you know, I've always wanted to go to Canada. So I'm okay with that All right, so I'm Windsor Newton my daughter works For a travel agency so and then van go Now when you do these color blending exercises, of course, you can Do with a ton of colors or you can limit your colors. We're gonna limit our colors. So I'm gonna do Cadmium yellow We're gonna just do primaries like we did before then skip one two three and then we're gonna do a red So we're gonna do a lizard crimson and then one two three and then the blue ultramarine. Oh, cool I would love to see that Yeah, I go to visit my daughter's boyfriend's parents and it's so cute dad has a really cute accent But I don't know what they are saying when they start, you know, I have trouble with English So some of the best vodka though. I gotta say one two three. So here and we'll do Permanent red One two three. So then ultramarine Well, you know, I didn't I never did vodka shots before I met Polly as soon as parents Record to me. Holy cow They go down a little too easy if you know what I mean All right, so now first thing that we're gonna do Yeah, yeah, I'd like to see me paint after a few drinks that might be interesting So the first thing we'll do is we're gonna try with the cad We're gonna do the Windsor Newton and we're gonna put our pure swatches of our color Into the space good can go well welcome So the empty brand. Hey, Brandy. So empty half pants. I Order normally from cheap Joe's because they're very inexpensive over there or Jackson's in the UK, which surprisingly enough more often than not it's cheaper even with shipping Always I always use basic But you can use any colors and we can discuss that as I'm painting I should be painting while I'm talking about that So we're gonna do the Alizarin Crimson next So The best way to do your could this color wheel blending exercise is use a red a yellow and a blue Now you can use any red yellow or blue And Which ones you use are gonna give you different results So, you know, maybe do it once with you know Closest that you have to your primaries But then the next time that you do it switch it up and use a different yellow and a different red and a different blue I saw somebody and I again, I don't remember who it might have been Owning's art. I Don't remember and he did it with His yellow was like yellow ochre and the red was It might have been a lizard crimson and then the blue was like Prussian blue or something It's cheap Joe's in the UK. I mean cheap Joe's in the US and Jackson's art in the UK Go directly to the website don't go through Amazon Do yourself a favor. I like Amazon. Don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan. I placed in order last night Um But go directly to the website. Okay, so now we're gonna do the ultramarine Now I'm going to mix half and half my yellow and red Approximately, you know, there's no hard and faster rule to this and then I'm gonna put that in this blank space in the middle I could make that a little darker by doing a little more paint a little less water But the illiterate crimson is a blue red and then adding yellow to it You get almost this nice kind of darkish flesh tone color out of that. You see that That's one of the reasons why it's one of my favorite colors So now I'm gonna take part of this and I'm gonna add the rest of the yellow to it And then I'm gonna put that here next closer to the yellow swatch And then I'm gonna take the other part. I'm gonna add the rest of the red to it You're welcome, and I'm gonna put it over here and look at those three different colors you got Out of just those two tubes of paint right So now I'm gonna wipe this off my plate and We're gonna grab some more of the illiterate crimson And we're gonna take our plate here, and we're gonna mix it half and half with the blue That's a pretty color Then we're gonna take and we're gonna add more blue to some of it You should get a really dark violet color and then take the other part and add the red to it Look at that Isn't that pretty right the plate off again? You guys are welcome. I love doing this All right, so whoops, that was the wrong blue So those are my two favorite websites to get stuff from Jackson's art in the UK and Cheap Joe's Yes, so I would I that's how I do my down Daniel Smith doesn't sell Their paints in a cake. I think they used to But they don't everything's in a tube. Lots of them are from natural minerals, so they're not Pigmented the same as other kinds of paint and you need to have a palette and then empty pans So and the size of the pan is just gonna depend on you and what you like. This is a half pan These bigger ones in this Van Gogh palette are the full pan If you get the full pans, you can fit less in the in the if you use the metal palette You can you're gonna get less in there So if you want to do the full pans get the big 48 pan palette because you can get 24 full pans or 48 half pans or like this one's a combination of so I put the colors I don't use as much in the in the small pans Yeah, they do fit in there. They fit. Yeah, use an Altoid container. If you've got it use it They fit in there nicely And you don't need lots of colors as we're showing here you can get look at all these different colors We got we're only using three tubes of paint So here I'm gonna do half and half Although you all know one of my favorite colors is moon glow and that's not gonna be in your basic three-tube of paint Get some moon glow. That's a good color Okay, so now I'm gonna take and I'm gonna add some more yellow to that They do make a watercolor stick. I haven't tried them yet But when we go to Alaska, we're Going on via ship out of Seattle So I'm trying to talk my husband into letting me either when we cut go or when we come back To do a side trip to the Daniel Smith store I'm working on him So now I'm gonna add some more blue There's a really nice Kind of a Prussian turquoisey blue color that would be great for water And look at those look at all of those colors from three tubes paint Now like I said, which primary colors, you know, which shade of red yellow or blue that you use is gonna give you a completely different color wheel But I do know Daniel Smith sells some of their tubes in small sets. I think there are five mil tube instead of 15 and Get one of those and just practice and do some of these color wheel experiments and see how many different colors you can get Okay, so now we will do the van Gogh set and Opera pink is fabulous and also they have a cobalt Is it cobalt teal? Alright, so now we're gonna do The van Gogh set it's a little dry. Let's spray some of these Mission gold is, you know, they're very pigmented I liked working with them this morning. You'll see on the video. I did a lot of blotting though Or we're not wait. We're not supposed to call it blotting lifting They're very pigmented like the orange is really shockingly bright So I would think that with the mission gold. There's a little bit of a learning curve And there's no reason why you have to stick with one brand, you know Maybe you like Moonglow and Daniel Smith, but you like the red from Schminke and you like the Prussian blue from Windsor Newton make a custom palette. There's nothing wrong with that. Oh I'm so glad well, and I'm gonna keep repeating these exercise until y'all start getting the clue We're gonna and or tell our book is filled up But it's something that you should not just do once and then forget about you should keep doing it Those of you who are on periscope and are watching I don't I'm not seeing the comments and I keep forgetting about you guys So you have to come over to YouTube Otherwise, I'm not seeing the comments. So now I'm gonna mix half and half The nice thing about not seeing the comments over on periscope is if there's trolls over there. I've no idea I Guess that's a good thing So I'm gonna do half and half If you're just making cards and tags and doing mixed media Then maybe you don't want to invest a lot of money in watercolors, but if you're gonna start doing watercolor painting then Then you probably want to upgrade just a little bit. So this permanent red is a really strong See that's that's it. I don't care if there's just one of you or if there's 25 of you I will I will be here regardless because you know, I love you guys So I added some more yellow to that The red on this is really strongly pigmented. Yeah, no, please Teresa. No, no, no, I don't miss the trolls The trolls and that I Don't know sex workers or whoever they were that was just craziness Okay, so there's some my rag is getting it Nikki, all right. Now, let's do red and blue one of my favorite colors in the van go is a Color called purple lake and actually I don't see it on here. Oh No, that's not van go. That's Windsor Newton. I'm sorry is permanent blue violet. Oh Well, you can give me thumbs up. Nobody's given a thumbs up yet. You guys, you know, you could do that I'm just saying Everybody could give a thumbs up and one of you have the idea that if you know, you didn't have lots of watercolor paint or access to Friends with watercolor paint. Could I put other mediums in here? Well, sure. You could do one for Water-soluble mediums and one for non-water soluble mediums. Why couldn't you you could do watercolor paints watercolor pencils a water-soluble crayons all in one book So trolls Victor are people over that when I was broadcasting on Periscope that would come on just to say nasty things Use foul language at you know, they were just mean people Yeah So you can tell I didn't have too much water on my paintbrush here and I did here That's how come the color is lighter one of the reasons the colors lighter. Oh, thanks Cheryl. All right, so now Let's do blue and Yellow oh See you guys gave figured out how to give me hearts. Look at that. Okay, so we'll do half and half Then we'll add more blue to some of it more yellow to some of it And maybe you just have a few inks or something like that You should Do it with what you have All right, I think why for you guys as much as I can especially on YouTube I'm gonna do it once a week if I can do it more some weeks I'll be able to do twice a week. It'll just depend on my schedule and if people are home I Like it because I can you guys can ask me questions. So this is just another color blending exercise and Yeah, this will be up on YouTube so let's do this is just another color blending exercise Different different way of doing it and you can find more colors again. I made myself a template because you know Math and me. Yeah, we're not friends. I'm not going to be able to do any hashtag events or Periscope hops for a while There's too much going on So some of you have seen me do this particular blending exercise before it has the same kind of idea That the other one does but you this is a way to get even more colors I know right Michelle. You just realized that All right, so I Encourage you to do at least one of these in your product review book. You don't have to do both of them and Honestly of the two the color wheel is easier So I want but I want you to do one of them I'm gonna show you how to do this again. I've shown it before with the other brand paint brands and Again, you can totally do this with acrylic paint. This is not just a watercolor thing Yeah, Michelle. Have I mentioned to you or Cindy that I don't fly well alone? That's why I so I must love you guys to be doing this I'm gonna be dropping periscope at some point. I will I shouldn't say that I will be on periscope when I'm doing say a periscope hop with Susan Hiles and I may occasionally simulcast with periscope. I won't be watching the comments at all I can't see him right now. My phone's up there But I like I like YouTube better. I like the recording has a full screen. It's not a little tiny screen I don't have to optimize it. It doesn't take five million years in a day To get it loaded Yeah, well remember Michelle. I have anxiety disorder. Let's I can say about that. It's not good. Okay, so now I'm gonna write the colors that I'm using and so here and here is gonna be the yellow and then Here and here will be the red And then here and here will be the blue Okay, and this is the winter new So this is how you do this one and I want you to pick one of these that appeals to you better um You may prefer like I said to do the round one and that's fine Are you Cindy Lou? Are you in Las Vegas? Where are these two columns meet right here will be the pure pigment So we're going to put this yellow here Okay Now we'll do the red The alizarin crimson Where they meet which is here. It's going to be red It's a little dry There we go Need my plate back again here We're going to do a mixture of red and yellow We're going to have this one be more on the red side So we're going to grab some of the red Mostly red And a little bit of yellow That was a lot of yellow was too much yellow. Let's put some more red in there. Shall we there we go And this this mixture that's more on the red side will go here Okay, then we're going to add more yellow to it and make it more on the yellow side And that goes here Look at those different colors we got You killed Chad again. See Teresa. What did you do? Holy cow? It's all your fault All right, so now we'll do blue Where they meet is going to be the pure color. So we're going to just put the blue there now This one's a little different so Here we've got the blue meeting the the yellow And then we're going to put a little bit of yellow in it and put that here And I'm just doing all my mixing on a white dollar store plate dessert plate And then I'm going to add a little more yellow and I'm going to put that color here And there's no formula to this you just put a dab of this and a dab of that. It's kind of like cooking All right, so then we need more blue So let's get another blue pile over here And let's grab some red And we will put some red in there A little bit of red. We want this one to be more on the blue side And we're going to put that here towards the blue end of our color chart Then we're going to grab rinse our brush off and grab some more red and put that here And look at all those colors again that you got out of only three tubes of paint Yeah, that works. I like the this plate because I mostly only use it for watercolor And it has a little bit of a lip on it and I tend to be a sloppy painter. So But whatever's cheap Rag is very dirty Baby wipe time There we go That's better. So let's put this one aside And then let's do the van go And we will do permanent lemon yellow and if you're Trying to decide between a couple of different brands of paint I obviously cannot write and talk at the same time. Um Then it's good to do these side by side and you can test and see which one for you That you that you like working with better that blends better that you think goes on the paper better for you Maybe you don't want to paint that strongly pigmented like the mission gold Maybe maybe you prefer something that's not that strong. That's always a possibility I have not had that's a good question. I haven't had any problems with molding Um, but these palettes today and right after after this taping Um, I will have five of them out and open and I will leave them out for two days Um and let them really dry out. I don't close them back up until they're not juicy anymore. They have to be bone dry If you do that you shouldn't have any problem with them getting moldy Um, if you live in a humid area Um, that how long you have to do it might be different. I'm in california Teresa's hilarious. All right, so now we're going to do the same exercise, but we're going to do it with the van go But yeah, I leave them open for at least a day. It depends on how wet I've gotten it and how, um How long it's going to take to dry depends on how wet I've gotten it So there are a couple of brands that stay sticky and I don't like that Um, senelier is one of them They're made with the binder is usually honey And I am not a big fan of one that stays wet Because of the way I store my paints. I like them to be um to dry out Well, we have a mixed crowd so while I don't mind a good dirty joke now and then I try to not have that on youtube because sometimes there's kids watching If not the live broadcast and the taping I'm in san jose california All right, so that's our yellow and where it meant we put yellow. So now let's do our red And look at this is the red. I said it was really pigmented That's after I've put a lot of water in it. So it's a pretty good red I like the van go paints. They're fun to play with They're good quality student paint and they're affordable um, okay, so where they meet Is red no keep them open So when you've been painting like we are right now and you've gotten your paints all wet Don't close it right away. Leave it open at least overnight and let it dry out before you close it Otherwise, you're going to have problems with it molding. Um, okay I'm not super great with puzzles, but go for it victor I shouldn't say that it just depends on if my brain is like turned on and engaged or not Oh ventura county. That's in southern california. My brother lives in uh redlands Okay, so here we're gonna put the blue Okay, so here we're gonna we have our red meets yellow Oh, he did a video. Oh cool I love gifts from victor. I owe a lot of people happy mail and i'm gonna be working on that I have to pay for this. I have there's a funding issue We're gonna yeah, it probably won't happen until april, but it i'm working on it Okay, so here we're gonna mix red and yellow because it's closer kind of to the red side We're going to make it more red So we're going to mix our colors You know about 50 50 More red than yellow though All right, and we'll put that here And then i'm going to add more yellow to it No, I haven't seen it. I don't I haven't had time if you've had it on youtube I haven't had time to watch videos victor So that one's more yellow. There we go And look at the difference between You know some of that's because I maybe have more water in here, but not all of it All right, so now we're going to do the blue. We need more yellow Some of it's because of my yellow this yellow is It's I don't have cadmium yellow in the van go and the cadmium yellow I prefer it's More translucent It is less chalky the permanent yellow lemon yellow is a little chalky Okay, so now we're going to mix our blue and um yellow with a little bit of yellow And we will put that here I need some more blue There we go That's better So the more water you put in your paint the lighter the color will be the lighter of value The color will be oh good. I like surprises sometimes My husband would be laughing hysterically at that. Do you guys just say, you know He's known me a long time. I don't always handle surprises. Well happy male surprises. I like them Okay, and then here we'll grab some of this red this crazy red That's a really bright and very well pigmented and we'll add a little blue to it And we'll put it here Was that in the right place? Yeah, that was the right place Let's try it. What am I doing? Totally you can do this with acrylics And then I'm going to add more blue to it I encourage you to take out whatever paints that you have They may be watercolor. They may be acrylic. Maybe you just have inks And you should really learn the best way to learn your materials and what that you can and can't do with them Is do some color charts and some color blending. Um, this is 140 pound strathmore watercolor paper Um, I don't know what the gsm is. Let's see 300 gsm So it's not super thick paper, but it's good enough for this exercise And whatever maybe you just have inks. Maybe you have acrylic paints I encourage you to get One of these books together and do it with whatever and do these color blending Exercises if you have like-minded artistic friends and maybe one of them has watercolor one of them has acrylic paint You know, one of you has water-soluble pencils make a product review swatch book and all of you get together bring what you have And do these experiments with what you have I would if you're going to do a bunch of different mediums in the same book I would separate them out into sections One for acrylic paint one for watercolor paint that sort of thing. Um It's not really an inventory book This is just an experiment and swatch book and it compared I started doing this as comparison for you guys um A lot of you asked me about what kind of paint you you should buy um And so this was a way for you to see on camera what they all look like now This is a schminke and daniel smith two of the best Um, or at least most highly regarded a watercolor professional watercolor paint brands around um, and um they're Well pigmented This is mission gold and may mary blue And these are dry they look different dry than they do wet Oh grease. Oh cool. That's on my bucket list. I'm going to visit grease someday Um, and then this is windsor newton in van go and we're going to go down the list Of all the paint brands I either have or can get my hands on And if you have no art friends near you, that's okay I have been making high res color scans of these pages And they are on my watercolor wednesday page on my website. You can actually download these and um Compare them yourself and decide for you You know and what your budget is what you can afford and what you want to invest in think about what you want to do if you're going to We're going to just talk about watercolors here for a minute if you're going to Get into watercolor and you're thinking about buying them first think about at least for right now What do you want to do with them? If you just want to do some mixed media work Maybe paint a few cards that kind of thing that you probably don't need schminke or daniel smith I love daniel smith. It's my favorite. I love that their colors are made in the usa I love that they're made out of natural minerals a lot of them I love the way they granulate. I there's nothing about them really that I don't like But that being said if you're just going to do a few cards and that sort of thing Maybe you want to get a koi set or a windsor newton student, you know pocket set like this one You can get a lot of these a hobby lobby. Maybe you want to just get a few van go tubes So think about what you want to do with the paint and what your budget is and then decide I built up my collection by buying them one two bit at a time for the most part And you all have virtual friends. So that would be why You know, I have scan these and you guys can download them and put them in your book And likewise if you guys have materials that you have that I don't have That you've done these tests with scan them And I will print them and put them in my book somebody did some inks recently and this and they tagged me and sent me the image And I haven't printed it out yet The watercolor not inks. I'm sorry the liquid watercolor hydrous watercolors You can do virtual exactly you can do virtual parties now Hey, Puerto Rico. Yay Exactly and now I've already updated the watercolor Wednesday page here at my website and I have added links for Windsor Newton and Um Van go already and I updated a few other links added some things I I had I found and I Will add these scans later today like right after we are done here. I'll scan them The other thing that I did is I I will be doing color charts for the paints of these brands that I have That we just worked with Um, and the other thing that I did here is I added pockets when I made this book And in this back pocket, I have printouts or pamphlets from the different companies And each one of these has in it The color like this is the emission gold one. Look at all these colors. They have and on here they have um How light fast it is whether it's translucent or not how how If it's non staining or staining um And there's some pigment information on here too that I don't understand Um, but I printed one of these out for each one of the companies or in the case of emission gold they sent me this so If I found a Printable I tried to remember to link it on the watercolor Wednesday page A bunch of pamphlets. Yeah, see um You can request some of these pamphlets from the companies and they'll send you information if you go to their websites like you go to Um golden and they'll send it to you Uh, I love you guys too Um, we have been working in uh lead brun. We've been looking in our working in our product review swatch book for watercolor paints and Today we added this is the book And today we added, um Well, I'm still chatting. So, you know me. I'm a talkaholic. So, you know, it's already 11 30, but we're still here So today we added um windsor newton And van go here. I'll turn this this way Um, and we did first we did our comparison swatches and that we could compare to our other brands and um They compare really well the per I don't have cadmium yellow and van go Um, and the I have permanent lemon yellow, which is the color I like, but it's a little opaque and a little chalky So it wasn't quite the same Oh, so have a nice dinner. I'll see you later Then we did two more little house paintings comparing The two colors Then we did some more color wheel color blending exercises. These are the four that we already had in here These are the two that we did today Then we did these kind of square chart color blending exercise Oh, see that was wet. I closed the book and I didn't dry it first Oops Let's get that dry. She'll put some more paint on there Had a wet spot. Oh, you're welcome. And then off camera. I will add um and Color swatch page that has the complete Um, you know list of colors I have for these two new brands in my inventory to the to the back of my book um I've already added the printouts from the companies for light fastness and that to the book Um, and every week we're going to do two new brands until we get Um through most of what I have and or I've been sent I just found out from royal that they're sending me some stuff and some brushes I don't know exactly what they're sending but Um, they're sending something Um, and a few companies have said they're sending things. So as they come in, I'll let you know I did just get this pen from jet pens. It is definitely waterproof. I love it um It says zebra A lot of japanese stuff I'll have to see if I can find out from you guys what it is for you guys It has a super fine tip on one end And it's got a bolder tip on the other end. I love it. Oh, I love trader joes. Have fun there They have some um really good organic food Um, yeah, we all should eat a little less crap I try hard I had a big bowl of vegetables and rice last night with a little bit of bacon Of course, the whole family was like you made brussel sprouts Like yes, I made brussel sprouts You don't have to eat them. What are we going to eat? I don't know All right, that's it for today Don't forget. We have the four part painting when we have four more paint brands in the book. We'll do another four part painting Um, yeah, exactly. Laurie. I'm right there with you. I'm trying so hard to eat better and then valentine's day came, right? Holy moly As soon as we have four more paint brands in our book, I'll do another four part painting I did tape the one that I did this morning. So I will get that video up as soon as I can And I think that's it for today Yes, there is a video. It's already up on my channel about how I did this. Um, there also is, um All of the recordings for Doing these swatches and everything are all up on my channel. Look under watercolor Wednesday Yeah, thankfully gluten's not a problem for me But you know, I just eat too much other stuff and don't walk enough I'm trying to fix that but I was walking so much. I pulled a muscle in my upper leg So I had to take a couple of days off. That wasn't fun. You're welcome. Laurie. It's so great to see you here And I'm glad you all caught me all I will be back for sure next wednesday at 10 a.m Maybe also on monday if you're not in my email newsletter yet Um, they find out first before anybody else what my live schedule is going to be on sundays So you can go to my website and sign up for the the link for how to sign up for the newsletter list is in there Yeah, exactly. Uh, I like that idea victor. Um If you're in my facebook group, um, they find out usually on monday Um, how uh when i'm going to be live I do put it out on social media the morning of also So there's lots of ways to catch me You guys have a great day too Yeah, we're artists. We sit on our butt a lot and don't get enough walking in That's hence this is why i'm trying to go to the gym Oh good Now also the email list people are going to be the first ones to know They're the first ones to know about their live schedule. They'll be the first ones to know when the, um Preorders are ready for the new stamp sets. They'll be the first ones to know when the designs are finalized um They are the first ones to know about coupon codes So if you want to be in on any of that you have to sign up for the email list if you want to know before anybody else I also do share things with the facebook group But they're usually a day later than everybody else than the than the email list. So just fyi If you want to know any of that you should be in one of those two things All right, and that's it for today. I will see you all later michelle. I can't wait for las vegas It's gonna be a lot of fun Well, you know, I do have to keep funding these broadcasts and my youtube channel my art supply habit Um, my husband's threatening to make a poor me public service announcement. You need to support Um, my channel. So he doesn't have to be in the poor house because of my art supplies. He's he's threatening So, you know, I don't know You can shop in my etsy shop. You can um Hit the support button here on youtube my channel here on youtube has a support button So you can always click on that if you don't want to buy anything, but you'd like to support my live broadcasts and all of that um One of those two would be great I yeah, we have to discuss that michelle because I don't either I want to like bring my whole art room with me and I can't do that All right, I will talk to you guys later. I'm going to go try to grab some lunch I have a friend coming over in a little bit to um to um Art with me Ah bribery, Teresa. I see that All right, I will talk to you guys later Bye