 Okay, hi guys whoever's watching. I'm so behind hang on. I've got us. I gotta find my I've got to find myself Oh, that sounds so funny. I'll never get used to saying that Yeah, yeah, now the whole world knows my password to my iPad. That's all right. I don't care Let's see There I am There's the broadcast. Wow. We already have ten people watching. Okay. Let me turn the sound off So I don't have to hear myself talk Whoop all right and let's open the chat Hey, Lisa the D 20 to 50 hello Jody hello. Yeah, good morning. I'm just running behind, you know as usual That's unusual. Those of you who have been watching me in my channel for a while knows yeah, especially with these live broadcasts It seems like no matter how well-intentioned I am I'm usually running behind You know what started out as a relaxing morning just I ended up trying to get a lot of stuff done and I you know I don't know and I'm on on my third cup of coffee. I don't know if that's a smart idea or not But I just feel like I need more coffee Okay, I'm gonna move the baby wipes out of the way. We don't really need those for watercolor Paint tubes, I'm still trying to use up we're gonna move those out of the way And before we get too far into it I'm going to Take off the auto lock So let's do that Because that just drives me and the rest of you crazy Okay auto lock is off. Yay Now if you're watching on a tablet, and I don't I don't know I don't remember I'm having one of those mornings We'll discuss it in a minute. I don't remember how to do it on the desktop But if you're watching on the tablet or smartphone if you click on the picture Then you click on the three vertical dots on the right upper right then click on the little gear. This is quality Then click 720p and that'll give you the best picture possible Okay. Hey, Lisa I've got my dryer and it's unclipped and not gonna knock everything over Yeah, we'll discuss that in a minute too Okay before we get started even though we're working with watercolor today as I've said many times in the past and I'll say it again pigments and some of the paints are toxic and Your skin is just like any other organ and it's porous So protect yourself and put on some kind of a barrier cream or gloves no matter what medium you're working with you should always be doing this So I'm gonna use art guard. I have art guard. So I'm gonna use it Back to have a spare-hole jar of art guard and I have that one jar for like eternity and when I bought it I had to buy two of them And I may just open that one and make sure it's not moldy or dried up and then gift it to somebody because I have a whole Entire jar of it. Anyway, all right. We've got our art guard on it. Also Bonus it moisturizes your hands and if you're like me wash your hands a lot That's always a bonus. It also makes it easier to get some of the mediums and paint some things off your hands All right, we're gonna move the journal up So you can see it better We're gonna move that water out of the way you don't need to see the water That works Okay So I had a request for a sunset palm tree sort of thing and I was running gonna go look for a Inspiration photo on I'm gonna sit down now. I really need to just sit down and take a breath Okay I was gonna look for an inspiration photo on paint my photo and I just honestly ran out of time this morning And thought coffee was more important But paint my photo is a place where you can get photos to create art from their royalty free So I do recommend you go over there if you don't have a photo for something that you want to paint All right, that being said, this is my watercolor journal if you don't know I made this one myself And I'm pretty sure the paper inside is either straff more or Canson XL from one of those big giant pads or Fabriano paper or a combination of I do know when I made it I used up what I had and The I made this a long time ago and those of you who know me know I have anxiety disorder and my memory is not the best On a good day, so I don't and today's not one of those days So I don't remember exactly this was a paid-for course that currently is over on you to me But there's gonna be some changes with all of that for 2017 for right now It's in you to me. There's a journal making course, and this is the actual journal. I made when I filmed that course, okay? I get a lot of questions about this journal. That's why we're gonna start off with that So we're gonna flip through here And just show you some of what's in here This is just you know, these are studies playing with my watercolor and mixed media supplies Some of these are fabulous some of these not so much and Today, you know was supposed to be kind of a calm relaxing morning and then watercolor Wednesday, and then I was gonna continue work on Hey, Aquarius artist on filming some things and Trying to catch up on some stuff and forcing myself to not work on the secret project, which is just really I'm excited about it, and I can't really talk about it too much, but it's also like driving my anxiety like through the roof I'm also trying to plan in 2017 and My very good friend Cindy utter is she's so sweet. She's constantly telling me to just stop and take a breath She's not wrong so I'm just kind of Razzled and that's how hey Cindy and that's how I get when I have a lot to do and I put a lot of stress and pressure on myself and I have to remind myself that's not important not super important to get things done quickly as it is to get them done correctly so that means stopping and taking a breath and taking a step back and Doing it right. There's no hurry. I have the only deadlines I have or ones I've put on myself and I am my own boss and I can extend those if I need to so We're gonna spend some time today just playing with the watercolors And then later I'm gonna catch up on explorations of me which I do with Cindy utter who's here this morning And I'm going to purposely keep myself busy and away from the computer unless I'm video editing So that I don't work on the secret project and drive myself crazy or then I already am But yeah, you know, I got caught up with Thanks. I'm trying. I'm really trying I got caught up with editing a video at the last minute because you know brilliant me I thought I had all this time this morning to just sit back and relax and then I realized I needed to update my video descriptions and default settings in YouTube, which I did and Oh holy cow and then I thought oh I have time all I'll edit this one video really quick And you know before I knew it and make coffee and you know all the same time And before I knew it it was 958 and I had to go to the bathroom before I turn the camera on. I know that's TMI, but The the video currently is over and you to me and if you go to my website at Gina be errands calm There is a page there for classes. There's one called the classroom. Don't go to that one go to the other one and The link is the link that'll take you directly over there will take you there. Oh Thanks, Gail and welcome this morning and Cindy if you're if you can since you're an admin here Can you pop in the link to the? At least that classroom page if not the page where this this class is over at you to me So we're just slowly flipping through while we're chatting and catching up and letting everybody Kind of you know, join us this morning. I had part of my crazy busy morning was I had people Messaging me over Facebook this morning about when my classes today was going to be the live broadcast was going to be and Link they wanted links and things and so I Was not even awake yet sweet. I am he is probably here lurking somewhere. He is in the UK And I was messaging me this morning for him. It was already afternoon, but for me It wasn't even 7 o'clock in the morning. I did not even have my first cup of coffee. So Yeah Hopefully I didn't sound too crabby. So this is what we did last week So we're gonna do a sun like I said, we're gonna do a sunset What would I say sunset palm tree? And I'm gonna just do it for my memory because like I said, I didn't have time this morning to Go find an inspiration photo because I got too busy doing other things and Driving myself crazy and I don't have anybody else to blame for that except myself Because I drive myself crazy and welcome Amy at Ampex creations. Welcome Alrighty So we've got our mixed Watercolor palette here. This is one that I use frequently if I'm not using the Daniel Smith palette and just to review This has a mixture of choir, which are by Golden Windsor Newton Grumbacher Schminke and Van Gogh in it brands of paint. There's also a few Sennelier here at the bottom They sent me some samples and I put them down here at the bottom There's like brush hairs or something sticking out of there All right And then I thought maybe it might be nice to take these mission gold out just because of the kind of painting I think we want to do today and these emission golds are so bright and Vibrant they're a little bit more opaque than I'm used to but I think that they would work really nice For this painting at least in part. So I think we're going to use a combination of the two. Thanks, Cindy It's one of my very first videos that I did and I was Injured at the time I had just torn my rotator cuff and I actually complain about it a lot in the video It's not the best shot series of classes. I've ever done But I get the point across and you figure out how to make the journal But one of the reasons it's pretty inexpensive is because it's not the best job of filming I've ever done not that I'm any expert because you know, I Know just enough to be dangerous coffee I Need more coffee. I'll probably need more coffee like a hole in the head But I'm gonna have some anyway. All right So let's get our paint to wet now This is my spray bottle just for my watercolors because it has a little bit of ox-gall liquid in it Which aids in the rewetting And flow of your watercolor paints It makes them reactivate when they're dried very out better than just plain water And it makes them a little easier to paint with you can get ox-gall liquid at any Art supply store or craft store. It comes in little bottles By Windsor Newton. Well, I'm sure other brands. I have Windsor Newton like this and This one's from Hobby Lobby. It was 1299 but I used a coupon number one use a coupon and The only me three or four drops per cup of water So this is gonna last a really long time. I probably will never need another bottle of ox-gall liquid in my lifetime Because I'll probably be 90 and still have that bottle Even though I paint a lot All right, let's get our paint sweat Another brush here So I finished some more spirit dolls yesterday, and if you follow me on social media you saw them And I the video I was editing was one where I Did a little movie saying that I've made some more dolls and that they're gonna be listed They're gonna be on Etsy this morning As soon as we're done or this afternoon as soon as we're done with this I'm gonna fix the link to Etsy for the dolls I Love ice. I love coffee any kind of coffee This is This is actually deli paper. I would use something that's a little bit waxy not Straight tracing paper you could use wax paper But this is deli paper tracing paper would work if that's what you have vellum would work to something light and thin, but this is Deli paper and The bonus is that the more messy and goofed up it gets then the prettier collage paper it makes later, so All right We've got some brushes Now at this morning. I have a grumbocker Academy gold round number five Royal and Langnickel round number ten Royal number round number sixteen Just because I grabbed these out of my container of mixture of brushes and I liked the sizes of these this morning. Hey get Tana Hey toy Good morning everybody so glad to see you all here this morning All right, so we're gonna get started and we're gonna start because we're working with watercolor and We're gonna be making a painting that's pretty colorful and in the end if it turns out the way I want it to it's gonna be kind of dark, but we're working with watercolor You can't take back what you put down, right? So we want to start light and work our way darker So I'm gonna start with the lightest color that I know I want on here, and I think I'm gonna go with the Mmm, the Schmincke yellow. I think that's what we're gonna go with I need my plate. I Use a white ceramic plate for mixing generally For those that don't know That's a little bit of the Schmincke yellow. That was a again. That was us. There is a one Pan of Schmincke paint in here because they sent me a sample Before we get started Let's give ourselves some reference lines. Shall we okay? So I'm going to about two-thirds of the way down put in my horizon line I don't like to put it smack in the center because that's kind of boring So that's where the sky is gonna meet the water because of course, you know me You can't tell me Sunset palm trees and have me not do water. It's just not gonna happen All right, and I'm going to just sketch in some basic shapes And this is a journal that's filled with studies and experiments and We're mixed media artists. I love the lines and I love the messiness I Don't try to erase anything. I love the kind of expressive style of having all the messy messy pencil lines and everything else on there So we're gonna go with that. I'm gonna think that's good for now. I love Schmincke paints very much Daniel Smith is still my favorite because It's easier for me to get and I love their color selection but I Love Schmincke. I mean I have a Schmincke palette Well, I mean you guys know I collect I collect watercolor paints like some people collect postage stamps Schmincke is a German brand of watercolor paint. They've been around a long time and And They're very fabulously well-made fabulously Pigmented I Think they're very comparable to the Daniel Smith. So the Daniel Smith's is a newer company So whatever's above the water would be reflected in the water So you want to remember that when you're painting anything with water? I want these this yellow to kind of fade out So I'm gonna just I'm going in with just water and this is the Schmincke yellow see how pigmented it is I didn't put very much on there and I put water in it. So these are really That's the main difference between your artist quality paints and your Student quality paints the main difference besides light fastness is how pigmented they are that works for me Yeah, so Your your best brands I agree with Jess So just see so your best brands of paint like Schmincke one of the fabulous things about Schmincke Is that if you have a set of Schmincke paints that you bought that have the dry pans in it And you use all of say ultramarine blue and you need to go get more ultramarine blue You go by a Schmincke tube. It's the same exact pigment as the dry pan They're one of the only companies. I know of that does that Sennelier might be similar No, I think Gail, I think they're the same as I think the two are very comparable comparable They have different color selections And I frequently in some instances use my two palettes together because they have slightly slightly different colors The palettes I own have different colors in them For me where I live in the world Daniel Smith is easier to get because they're made in the USA and they're like a couple states up on the west coast Schmincke is harder to get for me And and price wise though, they're about the same so You know, I don't think one is better than the other Yeah, don't you just love offer pink just it's one of my favorite colors Okay So because we're doing a sunset and I really want this line to be fairly pure And I don't know that I want lots of color bleeding into this the Sun where it's setting I'm going to dry this and that won't 100% prevent the other colors from bleeding in or reactivity in the yellow, but it'll go a long way Rotary night's not bad either just The opera pink is really bright, but I don't think it's super light fast, but I don't necessarily care about that If I create something I really love and how's that color in it? I just make sure I scan it So that works all right now, let's go in and let's grab some of this mission gold orange I'm just going to grab a little bit because this is really really really bright And I'm going to mix it with the Schmincke yellow that was on my palette, you know, I'm in California and you would think that Some things would be easier for me to get and that art kind of would be a bigger I don't know bigger deal here. It's not really It's called opera pink Gale Daniel Smith does have a really great color chart that you can order from their website or Amazon I know that has color and little dots of all of their 238 colors on the chart and you can get these little sample dots for it's like $20 or something $25 and they come on eight and a half by 11 cards So before you go buy a whole bunch of Daniel Smith paint I would definitely recommend to order their sample cards of all their samples And then try all the different colors and see which ones you'd like and I you know, I'm I'm I Don't have an inspiration photo. I'm just doing this from what I think might look good and it might not turn out at all No worries That's what we're here for I do more chatting than I do concentrating on my paintings that when I'm doing these live sessions So, you know, honestly, my paintings don't always turn out the way I want them to That's just kind of par for the course All right, I'm gonna take some darker yellow and this time I'm gonna use the Permanent yellow from the Mission Gold palette, which Like I said, I like their colors, but they're a little bit more opaque than I'm used to and very much more pigmented They sent me these I didn't buy them kind of as a Disclaimer, I do like them, but they're they're pretty opaque and a little bit goes a long way Now I got these accidental marks right here. I kind of like them. So we're gonna leave them Here my chair is being all like squeaky and stuff. Okay Let's go with the permanent red. Wow, that's really bright Let's try this cadmium red. Oh, that's better So I want my sunset to go from yellow to orange to red To blue to purple to blue and I'm gonna focus on the sky first and I do when I'm painting With acrylic I tend to do this in the same way I focus on the sky or the background first and then do the foreground that way when I'm like painting in the trees I don't have to worry about Messing up the background or doing something to the background Around the foreground image that I created and I'm trying really hard not to get too literal because I really Yeah, yeah, I should just be honest. I'm a closet perfectionist It's probably part of the OCD thing People with OCD tend to have also compulsive disorder. There's a little bit of something dark in there Anyway It never comes out the way I want it to Because I always want to try to match the photograph And I just drive myself crazy. So I tend to I try really hard not to do that That's how I got into being more of an expressive abstract Artist in the first place. It's not bad. I'm gonna go back to some of our yellow and it's probably gonna turn orange That's okay, and I'm just I'm just touching it in the paints really wet So it's staying pure in some places and it's blending in others It's giving us something really interesting. Let's see So Heather Let me address Heather's question first. So it may not be ever one of your favorite mediums, but One of the things I like about it is that it forces me I'm gonna I'm gonna go next to a color called purple lake FYI it forces me to Let go of the notion of control because with watercolor paint you really don't have a lot of control Over what the paint's gonna do. I mean you can try and control it with where your water goes But you don't always have fabulous control And I love that and I kind of as an artist. I need that in my life Yep, they are they are and I You know the best thing I can tell you is to just play and have fun with your paints and Use your watercolors as a way to let go This is called purple lake and if I'm not mistaken, this is a grumbocker color by the way and I love pocket boxes. I'm a pocket box addict and I have a collection now of pocket boxes and Yeah, I just got a new one in the mail and I ordered two more this morning because you know That's what I should be doing with my art money Not that was a joke people You don't have complete control no matter how good at it You think you are you just really don't have complete control Now on it and remember that whatever I'm doing up here would be reef in the water, right? So I'm gonna take some of our orange I'm gonna go back a few colors Start out with doing like small things like greeting cards ATCs And just you know playing around in a journal That goes a long way No, I want to put this tree like here away from the edge. So that means that I have to Remember to put something over here if you want paints that are super bright and maybe semi opaque The mission gold are a good choice again. They're artist grade. So they're not super cheap and for again for me They're hard to get I know I haven't yet seen them in a local store I would have to mail order them. Not that that's a big deal now since I have asthma. I tend to mail order a lot of stuff May marry blue is also good and they're more transparent. Let's get some of this purple lake in here Now I want to make sure to keep the purple lake away from too much of the wet yellow Because it's going to give me I shouldn't have put it right there. It's gonna give me brown Have fun Cindy We'll work with that later But I want to keep I want to keep the purple lake away from too much of the yellow because it'll give me brown I'm just putting some water on here Okay, now we're gonna go with some blues blue blue blue. I love blue. Who doesn't love blue I don't want to do Prussian blue because it's too too green Yeah, that's the that's the main thing for I know for me gale. I'm reading back to some of the other posts Gale for me art is all about healing and I'm gonna go with say low blue. I don't know if that's exactly the right choice, but we're gonna just go with it Is all about healing and working through my emotions and honestly I have anxiety disorder. It's about staying off medication I like the core watercolors. I am welcome by the way. I am. I'm glad you found it this morning. I Love the core watercolors, especially because Some of the core watercolors are the same as our favorite colors in their acrylic paint I love that and so for instance, I have in here cobalt teal, which is a golden color and I have That was the first one I bought what awkward on gold deep is a golden color and so they have some of the same colors As they have in That we love in their acrylic and paints and other mediums So I love that and they're fabulously pigmented. They're wonderful paints. I should really be using even a bigger brush for this Let's see For the water part. Anyway, this is a big flat brush by master's touch. So once one and a half inch flat I'm not worried about all this craziness right here because there's gonna be a tree that goes there I'm so I'm not, you know, nothing is too precious at the moment I like that. All right. Let's take some more of that blue I'm a big brush and let's see what happens because what's the worst that could happen people? You screw it up. All right. Well, just close the book and turn or turn the page Ah, Ian. Sorry, Ian You know all I can tell you is I mess up English so And I sympathize because nobody gets my last name right I get constantly I'm getting called Mrs. A. Hearns and it's not how you say my last name So it may resemble a hot mess right now, but we're not done yet All right, we're gonna go back to our round brush And I'm just trying to decide. I think I want to dry this again. I love the choir. I own quedocquero magenta, quedocquero red, alizarin crimson, pyrrole red phthalo blue, cobalt teal, phthalo turquoise And you know there was a turquoise in there. Buridian green, quedocquero and gold, bismuth Manadale yellow. That's a mouthful. Nicolazzo yellow, Hansa yellow, yellow ochre and Burt Sienna and Pains gray. Their Pains gray is fabulous And those are all in this palette These kind of abstract blendy sky things are really Good for figuring out how to do color mixing and what's gonna work for you and what's not So I do encourage you to try something like this even if it turns out looking like garbage Because it'll teach you a lot about what you do and don't like about your watercolor paints. I was just blotting up some puddles of water with a dry brush Trying to remember not to get my hand underneath the Pecan Pretty much just yeah, unless you guys have given me a suggestion. That's pretty much what I do. I Just open my eyes and just pick a palette. I do have some new palettes that I Need to work with but they're paint brands that we've already done on camera I'll share with you my new pocket palette that I've gotten Towards the end of the broadcast It was a wet spot wait. Okay, those of you who don't know I use my heat embossing tool more for drying my watercolors And for any other thing and though this isn't you Po I and this is um Fabria, I'm pretty sure this is Fabriano. Ha cold press paper Coffee wait coffee break Let's see shall we? Just deciding where I want to go with this So I'm going to go with stay with this big round brush for the moment because it has a lot a nice point on it and And and and I'm trying to decide here I'm going to go with Indian blue one two three four Indian blue which is a dark Look at that Deep deep dark blue, and I'm pretty sure I wrote Indian blue and it might be short for something because there's a period at the end of Indian and then I don't know it's a So Windsor Newton color, maybe somebody there knows I have a few old pollen tubes. Holy cow. That was the hardest one to get for you guys to try And they're okay. I didn't get them. I had to get them from Jackson's Art out of the UK. Love that place by the way Big fan But they were super hard to get now old Holland does or did have the whiskey painters palette Filled with their paints, but I understand they've discontinued it and originally I thought well if I'm gonna order these paints I'm gonna get that whiskey painters palette, but then they discontinued it before I could order one. So that didn't happen So the farther away from the earth the sky is the darker it would be so I want to just put a bit of this darkness So my yeah, I love watercolor paint and at this point I'm a watercolor paint collector and like I said like some people collect Postage stamps or teacups. I collect watercolor paint and I'm just gonna let go of trying to fight it I've been collecting the main Marys like per tube so I Yeah, I just you know budget Is not super friendly with ordering a whole big giant pallet of paints and You know, honestly, I have a lot of paint. So I'm gonna go here along the water line And I'm gonna do a fairly straight line With this same blue Okay, and then underneath it. I'm gonna come in with the brush with just some water And if you don't get to it too much before it starts to dry on you just go into that water With some fresh pigment and it'll disguise the fact that you made a mistake It won't get rid of it completely and honestly, I like the kind of puddling and you know craziness You get with watercolor paints one of the things I love about watercolor paint And I prefer watercolors over gouache because you can do this sort of thing and you can still see the previous colors and layers Underneath the paint and I love that. That's one of my favorite things and I find myself when I'm working with acrylics Working with sheer layers of acrylics because I really like the sheer layers of paint. Yeah, postage stamps would be way cheaper Jess, I agree with you and Maymary are fabulous and they're super well pigmented. I like Maymary's and when I am In a dick blick store is usually when I get some more Maymary paints I love to go to Las Vegas and when we do go I usually can talk the husband into letting me go At least once to dick blick while we're there and then I can buy a couple more tubes of Maymary paint If I have to order something from dick blick I'll stick a tube in there if I'm trying to like meet the minimum shipping So with the water down here, I'm putting in kind of horizontal marks of paint So that it starts to suggest water, you know, the ripples and waves in the water And you see me occasionally when we're getting too much color on here If you're a proper watercolorist we call it lifting I just call it blotting The Maymary's are fabulous. I like them. I do have I have a few like I said, I have a few I Did start putting them in a large palette because you know, I Want to add to the collection at some point So now this with these horizontal lines and with the dark blue in here it starts to resemble something that's water But see I need to remember not to forget this part over here, which I'm I'm neglecting like stop it up here in the Margin So you guys have a few more days to enter the giveaway and if you don't know about the giveaway my channel hit 6,000 subscribers and I'm doing a giveaway of six priority mail packages to anywhere in the world and There is a video about it that has the rafflecopter link in it. So If you go over to the video you can Sign up Yes, the mea mea ho I think is Ian is I think how you pronounce it again I put your English on a regular basis, but and that's a Spanish word, but I think it's a mea ho. I think Mea ho mission gold and that's what these are here And I actually was pretty impressed now. They're not super cheap. They're really well pigmented and They are a little bit more opaque than I'm used to and they're a lot more pigmented than I'm used to But they're nice to use in conjunction with your watercolors. I tend to use them as more of a gouache But I really like them They're not super cheap But you know, this is one of my favorite palettes because it's got a mixture of my favorite colors from my favorite paint brands And when I'm just painting for myself Frequently, you'll see me with a couple of different palettes on on the table and I'm mixing all the colors up There is no reason on the planet You have to pick one brand and just only have one brand you can start a big palette and put a mixture of coir Mission gold Schminke Daniel Smith all in one palette. Why can't you we're mixed mini artists. We break all the rules. That's what we do That's normal and it's okay. All right. I like that. I think we need to go in it needs a pop now It's looking interesting We're gonna go in with Deciding Pain's great. I think we're gonna just bite the bullet and go in with a pain's gray. Let's see. I like pains rate gray because it's It's not black It's like a super dark blue almost like an indigo and I'm okay with it mixes with some of this other stuff That's on my palette and this is a quarter color Yeah, my one of my problems with Daniel Smith is I guess they used to make like palettes filled with their paint And they don't they just do tubes now, which I think is a shame. I've heard that about the mission goal that their palettes really nice Okay, that's only one color and then some water And so you get this variety of tone that suggests rocky a rocky something out crop See when you're painting trees if you've had too much coffee. It's actually even a palm tree It's actually not a bad thing because nothing in nature is straight and perfect. Oh Thanks, Kathy So toy what what's what's What name I Are you talking about the mission gold paints? They're Mieho mission gold See, I'm looking at the chat and look see if it dried too much Remember with almost any of your watercolor paints that they're gonna dry a little bit Darker Then how they look when you first put them down Okay, hang on a second toy and I'm gonna get out the box for you because I actually happen to know where that's at So right there what I did was I put water where I wanted the paint to go and I left to the part where I don't want it to go dry So that's kind of like a trick there and then Rest my hand on here. I'm gonna let that dry for just a second This is the box. They sent me the company is Martin F. Weber company and they make these Mieho mission gold watercolor paints if If you just type in mission gold watercolor, you're gonna find them they come a tube this is a tube set that they sent me and Mieho is spelled m-i-j-e-l-l-o Ian saw me last night on a couple of live shows. Okay My live shows or somebody else. I'm I'm like lost now The white nights are good, but I think they're they're okay. I think they're a little chalky the white nights I wasn't they're okay. They're an okay student set, but I I wasn't overly impressed. I should say It's been a while since I painted anything resembling a palm tree in anything except acrylic paint So I don't know how this is gonna turn out. We're gonna find out because I might just be totally ruining my painting I'm starting with this larger brush One of the reasons I have a smaller one out is because I might want to Switch to the smaller one now I'm barely barely touching the brush to the paper and one thing I'm doing is not I haven't added any more paint to the brush if you use an artist quality Paint it really goes a long way and when you start to run out of paint. That's okay because you get this variety of tone Just kind of naturally Yeah, I think they're for me. I like granulation, but I'm with get Tana. I'm not a Huge fan. I do have a small set of white nights that I purchased and they're okay. There's something I would use to Like maybe do tags or cards with I probably would not never do a proper painting with them This is more realistic than I normally get those of you that have been watching me for a while know this I'm gonna I have to move some things around him. I need more access to the to the journal Okay Because I want to really do this. All right. I have a sister who is a realist painter She does a way better job at those kind of things that I do. She doesn't have She has the patience for it. I Heard Shannon green the other state day She had a video out for canvas corp where she said was talking about this coloring book thing That she made and how it was kind of fiddly, but she likes fiddly. I don't like fiddly And this may be way too dark from to you know, I don't know I'm not super happy with the tree So we're gonna see if we can make it work and make it more something that's more expressive Because it's not my favorite tree. Okay. I've got some more pains gray here And that's the thing about having a journal like this. This is this is about Experimenting and playing with your paints and seeing you know seeing working out in a small way You know some of these things You know that you want to try seeing if they'll work or not Yeah, you know the sunset sky I can do without even thinking about it now one thing I always forget that you know, you can do why can't you is? Take something pokey Pokey pokey pokey tool This is a knitting needle This is a double pointed. I don't use them for knitting anymore using for painting You can do this in acrylic, but you can also do it watercolor. Why can't you? That I kind of like I do want to soften up this edge here So we're gonna see what we can do about that And I still missed did somebody say that I am sawed me on some live shows and I don't know I'm sorry Ian. Oh my god Ian You're gonna be like my friend Kimba who her I keep wanting to call her Kimberley and that's not her name Holy cow I'm sorry. I'm gonna apologize Someday maybe a million years from now. I'll get it right Anyway, I didn't know that I don't know where Were they recordings of live shows? So Aquarius artist that's actually something I've been thinking about doing is doing Sort of actually we can do a proper Google Hangout With up to 10 people not it wouldn't necessarily be through YouTube Where we could Have sort of a chat session. I've thought about that. It's not the best tree. I've ever done, but it's not horrible I'm it's I'm okay with it sort of I'm gonna mix my paints gray with some of my other colors because I want it to be a slightly different color And I'm gonna use what's on my palette So I'm mixing it with some of the reds here Yeah, like a live class or maybe a live chat session or I Haven't I haven't figured it all out yet So I'm gonna just put the hint of like land or something Like behind the tree and we can use this color to sort of I don't know give the tree some More interest It's not the best tree I've ever done. I'll admit that I'm always missing ginger cook and the art Sherpa live I never seem to catch them. I try But I've only caught them a couple times Of course, I really want to mess it up and do this to it. You guys are gonna just all scream I know you are because you know, I'm like messy things So I love to do that. This is a mixed media journal, right? So, you know, ultimately, this is an experiment with Mixed media colors and paintings and you know Being messy and having fun with your with your paints and Trying out different things try splattering something and see if you like it Maybe you'll hate it, but then you know, you hate it. And how do you know you hate it if you don't try it first? I'm gonna do it with the yellow Yeah, I like that Yeah, they both are full of knowledge a lot of knowledge and I think that's fabulous So I'm gonna stop touching it because I'm actually pretty satisfied with this the way it looks Um, and I will show you so this is the mission gold paints that we were talking about And Get my pocket box My thing of pocket boxes that I have to put away. So I already owned some van go paints, as you know Because they're in the other palette But I had to get this as a little van go Royal talons pocket box and I told you I love pocket boxes. So I got this one And isn't it cute it has tons of mixing area it comes with a little brush and 12 colors And I love it It's a cute little box And I paid for these This is the old haul-end ones that I have. Um, I got the small six tube box And these are really they're nice paints. They're not my favorite, but they're nice This is the whiskey painter's palette that everybody's talking about earlier And I love this box. I haven't put anything in it yet. It's still empty But it actually is a flask so you can put your water inside the palette For water coloring and then it comes with this little well that you can hang on the side And so you have a place to wash your brushes and you have it all with this one palette Yeah, sometimes I like splattering sometimes I do it and it doesn't turn out well This is actually not bad. It's not my favorite painting, but it's not bad I have these these are Not great paints at all, but I had to buy it because of the box This is a kid's watercolor paint and I think at some time I'm going to pull the I have two of them So I think I'm going to pull at sometimes little cakes out And there's eight little cakes in here And wouldn't this be a cute like just little watercolor palette to sticking like your handbag or your wallet or I mean you can keep this in your car It's it's really little Let's see and of course you've all seen the round pbo. I love this just because it's round and it has 24 colors in it But I also have this pbo one Which is in what looks like a our standard metal watercolor box But this one's white and I like this one because it has a lip all the way around the mixing Um area So I would say because of that this is probably one of my favorite watercolor boxes Um, but the wells You know like the other ones it comes with this this thing that comes out I don't know. I never know about that. I always am of the opinion that that's fine if you never plan on adding more colors But if you do because you can squeeze in like Six more colors in here If you take this out and you just put like magnets or glue on the back of your pans So usually with these small boxes, especially if I'm going to take it on a trip. I usually do that Um, you know, I don't know that we've ever done a video where we just critique the boxes And I think at some point we should just take all the pocket boxes out and and look at all the pocket boxes We'll do a brief thing here. So um, Ian, I think you were asking about the white knights Here is the white knight one that I own and this is the 12 color Pock it's a pocket box because I figured if I was going to buy it Then I was going to use it as an excuse to add to my collection and buy the pocket box So this is the white knight's pocket box It has 12 colors in it as you can see from the color key, which I've done on this one They're very pigmented, but they're pretty opaque and they granulate. They're a little bit chalky for my taste They're not bad. I would definitely use them for experimental paintings Um greeting cards tags things like that. Um, they would be great Um, it's a cute box. Um, it has room for a brush, but it doesn't come with one, which I think is weird I had to order that one This is a senelier pocket box. Now I've had senelier in the past. They weren't super my super favorite one and um I sold it, but they do have a pocket box, which I of course I had to rebuy and add to my collection Um, this is the standard kind of pocket box. Everybody's got and it has 12 colors in it Um, the senelier don't really um, they stay sticky like for a long time Um, I find the pocket boxes all over the place Jackson's art supply Uh amazon dick blick jerry's ardor rama Um, I frequently go to google and I type in whatever the brand is i'm looking for and to see if they have a pocket box I type in say senelier pocket box and see who has it for sale um This journal is 140 uh, yeah 140 pound um, uh cold press Watercolor paper fabbriano No worry. No worries gale. So yeah, no, they're both very knowledgeable about things I Will never be knowledgeable about because I don't have the patience to learn about the chemical properties of paint And the pigments of paint. I just don't um, I don't have the patience for it And I would be a sleep pathway through trying to get through a textbook. So go watch their channel um Okay, and what else do I have here? So this one is dale rowney pocket box which I had to get from the uk because I couldn't find this anywhere here Some of these I've had to a lot of these I've had to order from overseas this one The biggest problem I had with it. I have is getting it open. Sometimes it's fiddly But it's a cute pocket box And it has they all basically have the same colors in them a little bit variety of tones Some of them will have white and black and some of them like this one won't and they give you extra other colors Instead, which I would rather they do because I could just put white and black in the lid if I feel like I need them This one comes with a small um A small brush, which I actually like this little brush It's it's pretty nice and it's not too small. It's a decent size so um, I Like travel brushes. Um, my favorite kit that comes with a nice travel brush is the um windsor newton pocket box And I have the pocket box, but the brush is somewhere else You can find some of these at michael's or hobby lobby the dale rowney one. I have not seen anywhere I had to order it This one I had to order This one doesn't have any paint in it, but I'm going to show you guys. Look at this thing. Isn't this cute? Wait, let me put some of these away And daniel smith dang it. They don't make a pocket box. Um, so That just fries my butt schmanga makes a great pocket box by the way that has their regular paints in it And it's in a box like this And you can get it at dick lick And it is has 12 colors in it But if you take this thing out And you put your paints in here with glue or a magnet you can get a lot more colors in it Um, so you might want to consider doing that. I will show you guys my travel palette in just a second Pro art do great travel brushes. So do um Da Vinci um, this is from art toolkit com art dash toolkit dot com I've ordered this when I heard about it. I had to have it because you know at this point I'm just a collector. I will use it at some point. So this is a great kit that comes just like this And this is a great travel kit Um, so this comes I didn't add I haven't added anything else to this. This comes with a ruler A waterproof sharpie pen A water brush and this is the kind of brush ian that I take frequently on vacation a pentel water brush I do have pocket brushes that are nice But frequently I'm out somewhere when I'm traveling where I don't have access to like a cup of water So I take one of these and out like a paper napkin Um, like if I'm you know having lunch at a casino in las vegas or something this kit comes with a moleskin watercolor album It's um Got 135 pound cold pressed paper It's five and a half by three and a half. This is a nice journal. It's similar to the one I carry with me in my travel kit it comes with This syringe tool that's for filling um your water brush Hey, Teresa, no worries Um, and this is my favorite part. It comes with this case and all these pockets. There's an extra pocket here to put something else in And and there's a pocket back here. You can put stuff in I'll tell you in a minute cath uh aquarius artist So this it comes with this This is their pocket palette. I already told you guys I'm a pocket palette collector at this point I love pocket palettes. I had to have it when I saw it on somebody else's Obscure watercolor video who I'd never seen before It comes in this little muslin case. This is their pocket palette. Look at that now This isn't great to use every day, but for when you're on vacation, especially if you're working in um A travel journal or a hobonichi Look at this It is like a a business card case that they have fit Pans into and there's like a piece of what feels like yupo on the lid So you have a little bit of a mixing area and as It has 14 colors, which is that's a great selection I wouldn't now these pans are pretty shallow because it's a travel You know, it's a pocket box. So I wouldn't And they're like they remind me of makeup eyeshadow tins. So I and they're magnetized. I wouldn't Fill them all the way up completely. I would put just you know a little bit in there So that when you put water in there, it doesn't run everywhere and it doesn't It doesn't get contaminated too much I haven't okay toy. I haven't seen this anywhere else except for art toolkit.com. This is called the pocket art toolkit And it's art dash toolkit.com And I haven't seen it everywhere else and they sent me this nice Postcard with some handwriting on it with it and I love this thing. I haven't used it yet, but I can't wait to use it And it came with this case and everything now it was 79 dollars But in my mind if you already have tubes of paint and you're just looking for something quick and easy To like take on vacation and you don't already have something to use and you're going to go buy something anyway I would just buy this it's got a brush in it. It's got a pen in it. It's got your palette in it All you have to do is stick paints in here and you're good to go You don't have to put anything else in here and this would fit in your carry on like that's easy to take with you Okay, so let's talk about this big giant thing I'm going to move the painting This is my travel bag It's a little suitcase. I got at a vintage store Okay, so this yeah, so if you have a small little bag like this maybe from Maybe if you're diabetic you have it from your old like pokey fingery thing I don't know what that's called right now. I'm having an issue this morning um Or maybe you have some other small little mini case that was meant for something else that you could repurpose This is a fabulous idea. I can't tell you guys All right, this is my travel bag And we're going to have a video coming up about making this belly band this I got at a vintage shop So um, and I've never seen another one like it. So I can't tell you guys where to find one This is normally what I take on vacation um Because I don't just watercolor when I'm out of town um You could get an vintage like train kit what they call a train case Um that was intended for holding makeup and that something like that would work for this um This is probably an old train case. This one's leather And this is my yeah, this is my my craziness Washy tape because you know, let's see in here is Yeah, Lancet that's it where you poke your finger So this is you can see these are the travel brushes. I usually bring with me the um Water brushes. This is my like little mini watercolor kit. Well what I was using before that one I bought I like that one And as room for some more pens, you know my favorite pilot varsity pen So this is my travel watercolor box. I usually take with me. This is the same These are the same size Okay, all I did in this one was take that insert out And look how many more colors I got in it I just took the insert out Um and these are like have magnets on the back They're magneted in in and then I have some sponge to hold everything in tight And I can just wipe my my brush off on the sponge This is the Windsor Newton pocket brush that comes with their pocket kit And this is a great detail brush Yeah, I think that's a great idea Ian. I know I know from trial and errors on my own that you want to take the minimum That you need to to be happy that's not going to weigh too much Um, and I know from experience that if I take a watercolor box bigger than this Nine times out of ten I got stopped by the tsa people at security And they want to know what the heck that big box is in my carry-on because I don't check my My I don't check my art supplies. I carry them. So you need to make sure. Hey, Sabrina You need to make sure that You know, whatever you take is going to make it through security. Okay And I know I used to carry the koi pocket box, which is a lot bigger than this It's probably double or triple the size and I love the koi paints. In fact, some of these that are in here are koi But that box was just a little bit too big and they always wanted to stop and know what that was in my bag So if I'm going somewhere and I just want a watercolor, I can just take this I don't generally do that. I usually take this whole bag with me Um somewhere in here. This is my travel Water cup, this is Faber-Castell collapsible thing I also do um, you know journaling for my year that's kind of scrapbooky smashbooky So I do have like a mini cutting mat and ruler and that sort of thing Yep, I love jacksons even from the us jacksons is the best place to buy Um What do you call it? Empty pocket boxes king four. Oh, there it is Okay, so we we we did this because Ian asked a question So Ian these this is my favorite set of um Travel brushes, so here's another one of those Windsor Newton brushes I actually bought an extra Windsor Newton kit just to get the brush because they don't sell it separately And I love this little brush and I keep it in here these are mitus touch Brushes I got them from amazon and they come in this little case and they fold up And these are nice large handled decent sized brushes that are they have a nice wide handle So those of us who have you know a little issue with our grip or arthritis These are easier to hold. Um, it comes with a round I got these on amazon and a flat And mostly I use the round Most of the time I use round And then it comes with a filbert And these are fabulous. I love these brushes And isn't that cup cool and it fits in here and I all of this stuff. It's in here really well And I can bring you know, I can bring a good selection of pens and markers My watercoloring some washi tape so I can work on almost any mix media project And the Windsor Newton pocket box I know is available at Hobby Lobby because that's where I bought mine This is the Windsor Newton pocket box And I bought this extra one specifically so I could get the brush And this and I use this one when I'm doing like mix media work So on the on the empty metal boxes I'm looking at back at some of the comments On the empty metal boxes, okay, so this these little ones are meant to hold 12 half pans If you push all these pans all the way over you can get one more in on each row So that's 14 half pans Um, the same is true on the larger sizes like in my 48 Pan boxes. I actually have 52 colors because I Pushed him over and squeezed him in and got an extra one You could totally do that Ian, you know buy an inexpensive set of paints while you're there to paint with and before you leave Make a donation somewhere You could totally do that I tend to not do that because then I'm not going to ever want to do that I'm going to want to just keep them and I know that about myself So this is called Midas Touch Whoops The the case just says Midas Touch They are natural hair bristle I don't remember I don't remember if it was just Midas Touch But I bet if you go Midas if you I got him from Amazon So I bet if you go to Amazon type in Midas Touch travel brush, they should come up I know like in Las Vegas. There's a number of um, you know, like art supply salvage resource type places And you know now that my youtube channel is growing. I have friends and fans everywhere So I'm sure that I could do that and donate it to you know meet up with somebody for coffee and say Oh, by the way here, I bought these for using here, but I'm not going to take them home with me. You want them? I'm sure none of you would say no So I I prefer like for instance here. Here's a good example I love this I like this pocket box But I probably wouldn't take it on vacation because I bet you I'd get stopped at tsa even though It's just slightly bigger than this one. I think it's big enough for them to question it This size they don't ever question But who doesn't love this this is fabulous and this has enough room in it to get it You know a few more things in it. Oh, you're welcome. Now. I gotta pack all this back in here That's always the challenge Back in the box. Holy moly And these actually should be inside this case This is a um, what do you call it Kipling hundred pen case? No, I haven't um, I'm really um, yeah, I really don't need any more pens. You guys think I have a lot of watercolors Yeah, we won't go there I told you guys getting it back in here is always a challenge huge challenge The black this black travel case is from American science and surplus and it came empty and I sewed in some um Of the tim Holtz ranger binder rings into it And I made um it into a travel case. There's actually a video on that here on my channel somewhere But it's from American science and surplus So that's my travel bag that I take with me and yes, it has its own luggage tag Which I'm not going to turn face up because it has my phone number Not that I wouldn't mind y'all calling me, but All right, I think that's it for this morning. Anything else I can help you guys with answer questions Okay. Oh, so I see one of Ian's questions. I don't want to miss anybody So Ian so um I would I take in my travel case. I have a selection of um coy watercolors and um Daniel Smith watercolors in the travel case. I normally take with me now That's usually what I take and I have This journal is the usually the one that I take This is a Strathmore watercolor journal And these are paintings I've done while on vacation Again, like the sunset we did earlier. This is like as realistic as I get. I don't and and I I like these these all turn out well This is one I did while in Alaska Um, and these are all done with coy and Daniel Smith paints And I'm happy with the color selection in that case Other one with all the goodies in it gale, which one are you talking about and I know before somebody Ian asks me I'm gonna open this back up again because I know I can hear the question coming Thank you gale So this case this black case that somebody asked me about this is from american science and surplus I sewed in these binder rings. They're tim Holtz ranger binder rings And um, then I put all these different goodies in it and there's a video on this on my channel somewhere Um before somebody asks me the colors in this case are because I know so this this is all coy and Daniel Smith In this case our chinese white Lemon yellow permanent yellow deep nickel azo yellow permanent orange quedocratone gold deep vermilion crimson lake quedocratone rose Here's our favorite who mentioned it earlier opera pink. Of course. It's in here purple moon glow Rose of ultramarine another daniel smith favorite cobalt blue cerulean blue prussian blue yellow green permanent green deep yellow ochre burnt umber and panes gray That is my standard travel palette that I take with me um You could totally buy paper there ion or it depends on what you want to do You could buy um um You could do that. I mean I don't I have this travel journal that I work in and I just take the journal with me You could buy there like a small postcard pack of watercolor paper Um, a lot of different brands make the postcard size packs of paper and you could buy that and um Then make the paintings and then send them off office postcards. That would be fun. Um, let me pull one out really quick I actually know where they're at because I clean my studio You know something like this size This is a good postcard size and you could buy like a pack of these and then You know use it while you're there and send them off as postcards to people that you know and love or to yourself And then you know, then you don't have to take it home with you and like this little pack This isn't the best watercolor paper, but it would work for something like that. It's um Well, this was 299 and I don't remember where I got this. I might be Tuesday morning But I just picked these up kind of everywhere my favorite art supply store Ever Sabrina So physical stores if they have a website are not Oh, they don't always live up to your expectations. The websites always have way more supplies on them than they can possibly um that being said Dick blick is you know, always a favorite. I like going there There's selections usually very different than what you see at On the website and it's different from store to store. Um, this different stores have different selection But I like going to daniel smith. It's it is a favorite so But in in law the I go to law I've been to las vegas a few times and go shopping art supply shopping every time I go My favorite store in the las vegas area is desert art supply. Love that place Dick blick in seattle Has their factory and warehouse attached to it is a store It is probably the well best stocked art supply store. I've ever seen They have a little bit of everything Including of course their own things, but also other things They have a lot of stuff. So if you're in the seattle area, definitely go there. It's definitely in my top two Um here locally to my house. My favorite store is lens art in santa cruz lenz And they have again a fabulous selection. It's a mom and pop place. It's not very big But it's built to the rafters and the staff's sweetest pie. I love that place Um So in it depends on where I'm at when I was in alaska, um, this was painted From a scene I saw off of my state room balcony Um, these were painted in the last time I was in Las vegas based on some photos. I snapped with my cell phone. Yeah might as touch Kathy Um, and as was this one and this one was painted from a picture I took hanging out of my car window on the way on a road trip that we went away for the weekend somewhere And I we drove by this church and as we were stopped at the light I'm hang literally hanging out the window with my cell phone taking pictures hoping to god. I don't Drop my phone. Um, I like I don't mind painting in public. It doesn't bother me I like to just sit in a quiet place and Have a cup of coffee and do some painting. Um, usually when I'm painting away from home Though my favorite time of the day to paint is early in the morning Everybody else is asleep. I'm sitting at the table having coffee and I Kathy I'll try to find it for you and I will post it in the facebook group For everybody Ian and some of you others if you're not a member of the facebook group You can join now the link is in the description below and as soon as we're done with the broadcast I'll find the brushes and I will I will put the link So frequently I'm in the morning everybody else is sleeping I'm having my coffee And I'm at the kitchen table and I'm painting and working in my journal from whatever we did the previous day Um, you know And and paint doing a little watercolor painting Um, a watercolor block would be great And I love it when you can find these postcard size pieces of paper in a block form For travel because then you don't have to worry about the paper warping as you're working on it And you don't have to worry about the the edges getting you know messed up So I love that to go back to Ian's question. Um, they're a little bit Um hard to find normally you find like eight by ten blocks and anything smaller or too much bigger is a little hard to find But if you can find them, I think that's a great idea to take a block Oh, this one. Okay. So and we're getting I'm just going back a little bit to questions. So this one gale. This is um $79 I haven't used it yet. Um, it is from I'm going to type the name of the place here in the description And it is art art dash toolkit and their websites.com. It's $79 you can buy You know, basically just the parts and you can buy Just the palette They have a bigger toolkit. I didn't want that. I'm a big fan of the pocket Obviously pocket kits and you can buy extra pans and all of that stuff I really wanted this one. This one is fabulous And you may see me at some point in the future Taking this out of here and putting this in I I could see that happening Um, let's see I also like jerry's arderama and I I want to go on a trip to texas on purpose just to go to jerry's arderama It's on my bucket list and I tend to try to Um plan vacations around where the best art supply stores are that I don't have around here Um, so I do that I'm probably not the only one on the planet that does that Michael's has a decent selection of paints and things They don't have a wide variety of brands But what they do have is decent. So you could definitely go over there. I personally can't shop at michael's too much I can't breathe in the store with all the potpourri and the candles and everything. So it's an issue So I don't That generally um go into michael's unless I really really have to Um, but that's true for a lot of places not just michael's now that I have asthma Um I I can check as soon as we're done ian. Um, I think you are too Travel easels, you know, I never take an easel with me. Um ian. I never take one with me There are a lot of different pocket easels out there I would tell you to bring one that packs the smallest in the lightest And try to gear your your travel supplies towards driving or flying So I try to have my kit be good for either or I used to keep one kit that was just if we went somewhere I would take like tons of stuff and a different kit if I would fly That gets to be a pain in the neck. Um, and so If I can just have one bag that I can basically, you know, make it's well stocked I don't have to fiddle with it. I can just take it grab my current journals and go That works for me and I know what's ever's in here is going to get me through tsa fine I'm not going to get stopped to security. You know, it's going to be fine I've taken this one to alaska On planes and ships. I've taken this one to las vegas and on planes I've taken it on road trips and this works just fine and I like that it's in the covered case there is a Open topped canvas tote bag a lot of people use and I have one and I like it But and it works. Okay for flying This one is better because I don't freak out and worry about things falling out of the outside pockets It's all closed up in one bag And I know there's a lot of pocket easel Different ones out there. I would say just get the smallest one in and the lightest one And toy I guess you're talking about going to michael's Yeah, I I tend to go to hobby lobby more than michael's because I can breathe in this store honestly um They don't have Um as much as the potpourri and candles and things that michael's has and the store is better ventilated That being said the shehalis washington michael's store. I love that place and bonus my Sister's girlfriend works there love tiffany. Love you And um their store is fabulously ventilated and I was able to go visit with tiffany while she was at work and do some shopping And chat about art and this thing. I actually helped a couple customers while I was there and I love that place The all the local store michael's stores near me they all are horrible as far as ventilation Um, so I have a really nice pair of polarized sunglasses and it hasn't been a problem at least so far Ian as far as protecting my eyes And I tend to try to sit in a shady spot anyway because I am very fair skinned and um Thanks to my mother's english irish heritage. I burn very easily So I tend to sit in a shady spot anyway because if I don't next thing, you know, it only takes five minutes and I'm sunburn But I do have a really nice pair of um Polarized sunglasses that really help a lot and they keep the colors very true I tried on a lot of sunglasses to see which ones would not mess with the colors of things This is fun. Just answering questions. I like this. We've done been doing this for like a half an hour But I love this little case I can't recommend them enough show them some love if you can if it's in your budget Um, if you can't and this isn't in your budget I completely understand and whatever money I make on youtube and from my etsy store. I tend to spend on our supplies I know that's not a great shock to any of you If you all think i'm making a living off of this it yeah, no um But there's a lot of different kinds of kits That you could maybe even have laying around your house that you could do something like this with it or would be really cute um, my family is from, um, london Ian and my grandfather is from glasgo, scotland and Part of my grandmother's family is from london and the other parts from ireland And then my dad's italian, so he's you know whole other ballgame And I want to go to england One of my things is to go to england visit with people And go to jackson's art. I know it's probably not as good in person as it is on the website But I would love to go just say i've gone shopping there Hobby lobby has a pretty good selection also again like michaels the brands they have are limited and um, You know you have to take that to consideration Um, but you can use the coupon. Um, don't forget in any of these places when you're out Ian, I will be letting you all know if I can arrange it. Believe me We're going to be spending a few days, you know, at least like probably a week and a half to two weeks over there It's on my bucket list. Trust me. Um, so remember all these places to use a coupon michaels hobby lobby joann's great places to get paints because you can use a coupon Do they have the best artist quality paints? No, but they have decent student quality paints including coy Windsor newton grumbacher van go depending on the store. You're going to find different paints um So buy what you can afford by the best quality you can afford and use a coupon So that's what I would do gale. Um, you know Is You know the big box stores are great when you need a bargain, but a lot of us have at least one Little mom-and-pop art supply store that's probably struggling to stay in business because it's competing with the big box stores so if you have one Go there and see what they have a lot of times they have I know my Lens art and santa cruz, which is about 40 minutes for me. It's a little bit of a drive But I love that place They have pretty good deals on stuff and they have nice sales when they have sales and when they have demos Frequently the demo is involved getting getting free samples on things whether it's watercolor paper Scenelia, that's how I got the scenelia samples. I went to a demo Over at lens art and they gave free paint samples. Um, so I you know, definitely try that Hobby craft is the big shop in the uk. Oh never heard of them But you know, you're gonna have to make the rounds while i'm over there probably need an extra suitcase And i'm joking at this point. I'm actually very good about only buying what I need or i'm seriously going to use Unless it's a pocket watercolor kit Then I just can't seem to help myself So frequently these websites most of them have coupons on their websites and And hobby lobby has an app michaels has an app Joanne's have an app And I just have their apps on my smartphone and when i'm there shopping I open up the app Click on coupon and we're good to go. I don't carry paper coupons with me anymore And Joanne's is great. They're great. They're almost they're almost rude They're so great. So what do I mean by that? So when you go to Joanne's at least in my experience I'm at Joanne's. I'm at the checkout. I'm fiddling with my app trying to find all the good coupons They'll take my phone for me. They'll click on all the right apps Uh coupons that will work for what i'm purchasing and then they'll go Use my browser to go to the jackson's um store website and get other coupons over there. They're really great. They're like Crazy great about it. Um a little bit on the rude side, but I don't mind that if they're saving me money As long as they give me my phone back at some point And I figure jackson's um in person might not be as great as they're online ian But uh, you know, I got to go there at least once just to you know, get the paper bag or something Uh gail. I feel that about dick blick. So I live in san jose california and I am south of san francisco I have to go to san francisco to find dick blick and uh any of you who Have been to visit in san francisco. No Uh, yeah It's scary to drive there and uh, hello. I have anxiety disorder. So it's really not great I'll be trying to visit as many galleries and museums as I can while I'm there in Um, another question that I get asked frequently is where where do I what do I take my inspiration photos with? Um, I get asked that question a lot more than I ever thought I would and I have One answer for you my cell phone. I've always used my cell phone Even back when I had an iphone I have an iphone and when I had iphone 4 doesn't that didn't have a great camera on it But I still that's what I used. It's in my pocket when I'm traveling. It's easy to carry I don't really take the video camera too much with me. Um, unless You know, I have a specific reason to um, but I always have the cell phone. So I just click away Yeah, see they're always in the downtown spot and um, yeah, I it's not that it's not in a safe spot It's just scary to drive there and park there and um, it's not my favorite place This is not quite the way it was of course when it came out because you know, why would it be? I don't know. Holy moly You know, I've got this thing of extra heavy gel medium. I don't know why it's even in here, but Let's see Didn't I say something about things not wanting to go back in here the same way that came out? I just use my phone. I've always used my phone. It works great Um, there we go And yes, this is almost always as full as you see it now Lens arts easier for me to get to than dick blick and it's in Santa Cruz And it's kind of a little bit away from the downtown area and it's less stressful to drive in So I tend to go to dick lens art Good media What do you mean by that toy? And whatever town you live in considering, you know, consider when you are a loss for inspiration Go visit your local art gallery or your local You know What do you call it, you know galleries where they have paintings for sale go visit your local museum We have a few fabulous museums in this, you know, san francisco bay area And they're a great place when you need inspiration to go visit If you said to me tomorrow Your studio is burning down and you can only take one medium with you I would grab one of my watercolor palettes probably the daniel smith one. Does I answer your question? I'm not sure exactly what you were answering toy. I asking Now when you're done painting you always want to leave your watercolor palettes open And let them dry out before you close it up so the things don't get moldy fyi um, so for HD video stuff in for youtube. I use a canon Wait a minute I use this. This is a canon vixia hfr 600 I don't have an SLR camera. My daughter is a professional photographer as are a couple of other relatives. They have those big fancy SLR cameras, I don't use that I use this this works for me And it's fairly idiot proof because i'm not the smartest thing on the planet when it comes to technology I only know enough to blow things up and get myself in trouble But it was inexpensive. So it's budget friendly. It does a pretty good hd quality filming and it's easy to use And what we're using right now is a logitech hd webcam On a really long usb cable and I can just move it from my desktop on the other side of the room and it hooks into the same Holy moly tripod that that the um this video camera hooks into and um, they both have I have two of these mounts So I can just interchange them by unclipping something Yeah, gail. Yeah, so I my husband will take me But it's not his favorite thing to do and I have to kind of we have to kind of be going up there for something else And I have to say by the way, can we stop stop at dick lick because it's not his favorite thing and um Driving to santa cruz. I can just do by myself Without having an anxiety attack When I first was filming in on youtube, I used my cell phone Which was a iphone 4 not the best my ipad which was an ipad 2 not the best And or a kodak play sport camera again not the best So some of the old videos where the quality is not quite what you're used to seeing like right now That's why I didn't start using an hd camera until a couple of years ago when I started teaching with crazy island university And it's the probably the best thing that came out of that experience is learning better filming Better things about filming and what to use and upgrading my camera This is really small. I took this to alaska with me and it fits in my bag really easy It sits in your hand really nice holds a decent charge Um, so this works really well, and it's a budget friendly some of these hd video cameras are like 600 dollars That wasn't in my budget. It had to come out of you know, etsy sales So that was totally not in my budget. Um, and this one was much more budget friendly And there's lots of different websites you can order these from that have really great sales That include like a camera case and stuff like that. Um, so Um like adorama Dot com out of new york, but you can just um, you could just um type into google Vixia hfr 600 and it would come up To use. Oh, so when i'm doing mix media, I okay in my travel bag I have watercolor paints gel pens black and white Paint pens pencil color pencil collage materials and tape That basically that's what's in my travel case This is my most favorite things that I can't live without when i'm traveling Toy, I think that's what you mean. I love a lot of coinora products. I think they're fabulous I love their multicolor magic pencils or some of my favorite color pencils. I wish they made a small pocket set So so toy that's so that's what's in here And I have a few tools that you would need to do those things with like a hole punch And a cutting board and a exacto knife pair of scissors that sort of thing But yeah, water. There's no acrylic paint in here. I like acrylic paint. I can live without it But if I have my watercolor paints and my gel pens, I have other things I can color with so I can live without it Sometimes when I'm traveling I will pull Certain things out of here and I'll substitute maybe more color pens or pencils If i'm gonna um do watercolor mostly and take an adult coloring book Say then I would substitute out a few things but for the most part what's in here state That's it stays back that way I do take extra heavy gel medium because I have a habit of gluing thick things down into my journal where I document my year and Like smashed pennies and I have in the past glued these to my journal pages But in order to do that you need to do use extra heavy gel medium something really thick and heavy And really just cover the whole penny. Otherwise it won't stick And you know double stick tape and stuff like that you have to remember to take that sort of thing All right, that's it everybody. I'm going to go have some lunch And then I have other stuff to do I will find those brushes The link on amazon for you all. I'm going to put it in the facebook group So go over to the facebook group if you're not already a member and um, I will put the link over there With regards to the brushes. I'll go find it and um Auto correct. Don't you hate auto crack? You know All right, so that's it for today Um, and if you guys have any more questions, you can ask them in the facebook group Don't forget to tag me though in the post when you do that so that I make sure I don't miss it And um, I think that's it for today. I will see you all guys monday on monday with deco art and Um and next wednesday. We will be here for water color wednesday If you have something specific you'd like to see me paint either monday for monday with deco art or on wednesday for water color wednesday Again, put it in the facebook group and tag me in the post And i'm always here to answer your questions And I thank you so much toy. I appreciate that I just feel like i'm one of you guys and i've learned what works and what doesn't at least for me And so i'll share with you share with you guys. Um, you know learned by my mistakes, hopefully Maybe no more coffee gail. I don't think you're wrong. I probably should cool it with the coffee I should probably have some more food instead All right, everybody. Don't forget the most important thing. You know what that is, right? Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And water color Ian water color I am in the world of water color month group and I love seeing all the stuff that they're doing I'm not actually participating in world water color month because for me Water color is not a month water color is a way of life And I do it all the time on a regular basis. So No, don't eat paint So I do water color all the time not just for a month for me I don't have time right now I would have loved to have planned it better where I could spend the month of july and doing a water color a day My schedule just right now is not working out that way But I love seeing what everybody else is doing and I would encourage any of you to Beginners or advanced water colorists go give it a try and if you're not a member of the world water color month facebook group go Go join if nothing else. It's a great source of inspiration and You know, it's a great idea to you know pick a month and pick a medium and then do it every day for a month Boy, that's a way to get Used to do using that medium and how you like it if you like it and what that's going to work for you And what's not so All right, you guys I will talk to you later And if you have um any other questions like I said put it in the facebook group Have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you all deserve it Maybe buy some paints All right, I'll talk to you later. Bye guys