 Hey everybody, good morning. Now that I see that there's at least two people watching, I know there's somebody watching besides me. So as you can see, I got another watercolor set. This is by PBO and company that all of us mixed media YouTubers have been introduced to by Patty Tolly Parish among others. They do some fabulous metallic paints and iridescent paints. I was unaware that they did watercolors until I was googling some of these palettes to use for the watercolor Wednesdays. And when I found out PBO had a palette and it was round, I had to have one. So I saved up my pennies until I could afford it because it's not inexpensive. It costs about $45. I got it from Amazon. So I had to save up some money for that. And we I think are going to swatch it this morning. I'm not going to do it in the color in the review book, but I do need to make a color key. So I thought that we would do that this morning. I also went back to my local tap plastic store and you can find out more about them and their locations by going to tapplastics.com. This is their card. And is it just me this morning? Or I think it's kind of a little bit blurry. I don't know what's up with that. Maybe it's just me. I'm going to put the web address in the chat. There's a reason we're talking about tap plastics. Whoops. Hold on. Autocorrect. I hate autocorrect. I swear to God. Oh, see, it's not just me. And I'm getting an error posting a message. Why is that? Okay, that is weird. I'm not even able to post something in the chat, which is odd. Maybe because I'm well, no, because I'm watching on a different account. Okay, that's weird. It doesn't want to let me post. Oh, there it now. Yeah. So it doesn't want to let me post from the iPad, which is odd. I'm wondering if I should come out and go back in again. What do you guys think about that? Or should we just live with it? Hey, you know what? We're going to just live with it. We seem to be slightly out of focus this morning. And I'm not exactly sure why we are slightly out of focus. The webcam is working fine. So I don't know. I'm playing with the settings. Hang on a second, guys. That didn't help that made it worse. I don't know. We'll just leave it. So anyway, so there's a reason we're talking about tap plastics this morning. And good morning, everybody. First timers. Good morning, Kristen. Home school, Mama Four. Maria, Lisa. Good morning. We're slightly out of focus. I don't know what's going on with I don't know. I don't know. I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow. I don't know. I put the address for tap plastics in the chat feed for a reason. So a lot of people, hey, Sana. A lot of people asked me about my round palettes a lot. Specifically last week, we were playing with, hang on, let me get it. We were playing with the twinkling H2O palette, which is a round palette on a Lazy Susan. Now I have round palettes that I've purchased. There's a great company called Robax, R-O-B-A-X. They make a round palette that's fabulous, but it's very expensive. And I love their round palette. I own one, but I wanted to figure out how to do another one less expensively for my twinkling H2Os. So I went down to my local store that sells all things plastic and acrylic, otherwise known as tap plastics. And that's where I got the parts to do the original twinkling H2O palette. So I thought I would go back over there when this PBO palette came in and look for another Lazy Susan piece and maybe chat with them a little bit, find out some information and get some more parts so I could show you guys what I did. Now the first time I made the twinkling H2O palette, I velcroed and or glued everything together. This time when I was chatting with the guy, he had these little, they're sticky back, they look like sticky back flat back gems. Only they're silicone and they're like little silicone feet. And this, they sell these acrylic Lazy Susans at Tap Plastics in different sizes. I got a little one for working with the PBO palette and I stuck some of these feet to it in equal distances apart on the top of it. And so when I put the PBO palette on there, it doesn't slide. This, my whole table is moving and this is not moving, but at the same time works great. The small one is nice because look what fits on here. All right. So and this one, this was $2.30. So it wasn't expensive. And this one's about four and a quarter inches across. Yeah. Tap Plastics is only on the West Coast, but if you go to their website, which is why I posted it, they do seem to have an online store. So you not only can check to see if they have a location near you if you're on the West Coast, but you can maybe order stuff from them or maybe you can look at their website, see what kind of store they are, get an idea and see if there's something similar in your neighborhood. Now the one I used for the Twinkling H2O palette was one of these big jobs. This was $7.25. And this one's nine inches across. And then you can use the same little silicone feet on here. And then you just need a clear plastic plate. Now I did get this from them. These clear plastic rounds are a little bit pricey. This is $12.85. It's still cheaper than the round pallets from Robax, which I love again. I can't say that enough. I love their pallets. Their pallets are really expensive. This altogether cost, you know, around $20. And the Robax palette costs about $100. So big price difference. You of course could get a Lazy Susan from somewhere else. You can get them in the kitchen department at, you know, any big box store, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, and then use something flat and sturdy, a plate maybe, and create a round palette. I like these silicone feet because you can use the Lazy Susan for other stuff and it's not stuck to the bottom of your watercolor palette. So when you have limited space in your studio, you can get more use out of the Lazy Susan by using it on other things like your paint, your paint palette plate, than just your watercolor paints. So that being said, that's my little lecture about round pallets. But they were very nice. They gave me the little feet. I told them I'd give them a plug. I shop at the Blossom Hill Road store in San Jose, and they're very, very nice there. And like I said, it's a store that only sells things that have made out of plastic and acrylic. That's all they do. All right. So we have this round PBO palette. Yeah, thanks Theresa. Okay, so I don't know if you guys want to watch me do the swatches and see what these colors look like, or do you want me to do a painting this morning? There's a bubble under the sticker on the label. It's driving me crazy. I just leave it alone. All right. So if you want, we can do a painting. The PBO palette does come with a travel brush and this has 24 colors. So this is a nice little palette. I haven't swatched it yet or done the color key. So I don't know what the colors are like at all. So I'm going to pull out both. Let's do a painting first, and then if we have time, we'll swatch the PBO palette. How does that sound? We can just see what watercolor palettes we have out already. This is Prima, Windsor-Newton. I told you guys I'm very much distracted today because, you know, I'm leaving on vacation. I take that back. We're going to we're going to swatch this and then we'll play with it because I have, I just got inspiration. All right. I need my reading glasses for this because I can't see the little labels. So the first thing, of course, that we're going to do is write all the colors. I'm going to start over here. I'm going to get out my carbon ink pen because this one is waterproof. And a lot of time with these little pans, like they're not marked on the pan, only the super expensive fine art brands actually mark the side of the plastic pan with the color name or number. Lots of the other brands don't do that. It's a big pet peeve of mine. So before you take the label off and while you're doing your color key, write the name down and then you can peel the label off. Now don't throw these little labels away because, you know, we're mixed media artists, right? So I've got deli paper right here. So I'm going to stick them to the deli paper or wax paper. I like the master's touch brand of brushes and stuff and paints. I think they're a good value for the money. You know, again, like I'm always telling you guys, if you're buying a less expensive brand of paint and you're not sure if it's lightfast, make sure that you scan any work that you create with it that you really love for posterity because if it doesn't say it's lightfast, it probably isn't and it's going to fade. I'm having trouble getting this one label off. Of course, you know, just because I'm on camera and I'm trying to save the label. Yeah, definitely paint with them. I love the lesser expensive paints. There we go. Especially if you're just doing, you know, cards and stuff with them. I think that's fabulous. You don't want to spend a ton of money on paint if you can help it. And even Jane Davenport put a blog out. Okay, I have to say this little, the round pellet's a great idea, but this thing is fiddly. Okay, wait, getting these pans out of here is going to just bug the crap out of me. Pardon my French. Once this is set up, I can, I can see that this, I would like this, but okay, let's see, dark cadmium yellow. So I started here with this yellow because it's next to the Chinese white, which is obviously a color that you'll be able to recognize. So you'll know where to start when you actually are doing the painting. But this is, this is one of my, I love my watercolor paints. And a lot of the super fine art brands come wrapped like this. They all drive me crazy unwrapping them makes me completely nuts. And I agree, you can't beat it for 10 bucks, especially like I said, if you're just, you know, buying paint to play with and do your mixed media with, you know, you don't want to spend $100 on or more on Sennelier or something else. This is a PBO here. And we're fiddling with getting the paints out, but they're making me crazy. I usually do this part off camera, but I thought maybe you guys, you know, it can be frustrating unwrapping all these little pans, and I, you know, you guys aren't the only one to get frustrated by this. Just FYI. Does anybody have any questions while I'm unwrapping? There is some good colors in here. Now you could, I already thought you could take your little pans out. And you know, you could put magnets on them and stick them inside the tin and you could actually fill the tin up with a lot more paint from other, maybe other favorite brands. Now this palette was, like I said, $45, so it wasn't the cheapest palette I've ever bought, but it wasn't the most expensive either. I got it on Amazon. There are 24 colors in the palette. I like the fact that it's round. It's packaged in an interesting way. The paints have gotten mixed reviews. We have White Night coming finally and we have, there's another one. I can't think of it right now. Now the pen here that I'm using is a carbon ink pen. I got it on Amazon. It's waterproof fountain pen. Hey, Lori, how are you? We're not doing anything exciting yet. I'm unwrapping these stupid little paints. I should have done it off camera, but oops, spelled that wrong. That's okay. I don't have, you guys don't have to read it. I only know one. It has to be able to read it. Oh yeah, so many people are moving right now. We're out of work. I know so many people whose husbands are out of work. That's not good. I don't know if you guys all saw my post on Monday, top of everything else that's going on this week before we leave. Everything happens right before you're, you know, going out of town or something, doesn't it? My husband shattered the screen on his phone. So I have to go pick up the new one today. He's so annoyed with himself. Good thing we had insurance. I haven't moved in over 20 years. So when I do finally move, it's going to be a gigantic deal because I, although I've been trying to purge, I have way too much stuff. So I would definitely recommend taking this plastic liner out to do this part. Yeah, the reviews that I've seen on Amazon and other sites were mixed. So we'll see. I, oops, I really haven't met too many watercolors I don't like. So yeah, see 30, when you've been someplace like 30 years, 20 years, Lisa, moving is a huge deal. When we finally do move, it's going to be, oh, it's going to be a problem. Paul, that's not how you say that, I'm sure. P-H-T-H-A-L-O-C-Y-A-N-I-N-E. Green. Seriously, they couldn't come up with a better name. I know that's probably the pigment, but holy moly. These are a pain to get out. I gotta tell you. I've said that. I've said that preferably. I've said that a few times and I, I'm a, I'm a homebody, Lori. I, you know, like to stay home and I'm not a big fan of change and you know, so I hear you hot flash. My glasses are getting fogged up. I don't do change or spontaneous well. Okay, what is this one? Yellow ochre. There is a good selection of colors in here and we'll know in a minute if you know what we think of the colors, how well pigmented they are. Somebody, a couple of the reviews on Amazon said they were chalky. Okay, these are like the hardest paints to get open. That's probably one of my, going to be one of my problems with these paints. Yeah, I'm right there with, yes, not a big fan of change. I always chalked it up to the fact that I have anxiety disorder and I, you know, and I like control. It helps me keep the anxiety in control. Change is conducive to that. Yeah, the packages, these little, I know why they do them this way. Some of them are much easier to open than others. These are not easy. These are a pain in the neck and the fact that the little pans aren't marked, you know, it would be nice if one of these manufacturers would like pre-mark the pans or better yet, pre-mark the plastic pallet insert with the color names so that maybe you don't even have to sit and write all these names on here. I'm having a hot flash but I need to put these back on because I can't read that for a number. Yeah, you're not the only one, Laurie. That's a scary thought now since we're all on YouTube. You've got to be careful. So this pallet even has a sepia pains gray as well as black in it, which I love that. Again, we'll have to see how much we like or don't like the paints. Yeah, we'll still be here because I'm trying to get the paper off these paints. For those that don't know, I'm pretty open about the fact that I have anxiety disorder. If there is such a thing, you can probably consider me borderline obsessive compulsive. I have a reactionary attitude towards things. It's not necessarily always the healthiest thing on the planet. I have my fair share of issues with depression, which would be why I'm not a size two because I have a tendency to eat my way through not how I'm feeling. And my husband and I both are creatures of habit, but he's very much better at doing the whole spontaneous thing than I am. I'm not always so great with that. When he's not with me, it causes me anxiety issues. I'm not great at spontaneity. No, especially after we've been metapausal, right? Because losing weight is a pain in the neck. Literally, it's hard to get it off. It's like super glue on your fingertips. It's just not good. All right, I'm just going to push all these down. All right, shall we see what happens when we spray it? I did get a new bigger spray bottle. When I was at TAP Plastics, they sell the bottom parts separately, and then they have different kinds of tops. Yeah, I have control issues. I have had, since I was little, my mother could tell you about them. Yeah, it's always been an issue. I don't ever remember not having them. Some of my issues, as we call them, disorders, whatever you want to call them, it seems like I've always had them. I don't really know any other way to be. So this is just for watercolor. And I got the bottom, and then they sell the tops, different kinds of tops separately. So I got a bigger one, because the other one was too little. And I did put some Oxgall liquid in here to aid the rewetting of the watercolors. And I labeled it. See, I labeled it. Control issues, right? Everything's labeled. All right, so let's get this wet. Now we can get some color. Yeah, I like plan. Plans help me be less anxious. Without a plan, it's just not pretty. So again, I'm going to start with the yellow that's next to the white, because that gives me a good place to go where I won't get confused about where I'm at, what color I'm using. So this is primary lemon yellow. That's nice and bright. Let's see if I can move in just a little bit. So I know from personal experience that I need to be as organized as possible. It helps with the anxiety and have things planned. At least one of my sisters also has anxiety disorder, and she's worse about it than I am. Now this one says dark cadmium yellow, but that's a really nice pale orange color to me. This is just says orange. This is going to be a pretty palette when it's done. This one is primary red cadmium. They're more opaque than other watercolors. I will give you that. They're not super transparent, at least not so far. This is permanent rose. That's a pretty color, but I don't mind them. Unless I'm doing something like this on camera, I don't generally use just one brand to paint when I'm creating a painting. I use multiple brands, so I could definitely see using these with other ones. Even my art room has to be organized, or I have a problem with that. This is alizarin crimson, and then we have violet permanent. That's a pretty purple. The problem is with the control thing, and the organized, and trying to keep your anxiety issues and stuff under control, is that as a supervisor, I'm no fun to work with, because I like everything to be in control, and I have trouble delegating. So I don't think that's necessarily true, Teresa. I think that it depends on the brand. So one of the benefits to really saving your pennies, and buying a really good brand of watercolor, like Daniel Smith, Schmincke, Sennelier, is that you can be rest assured, except for a few colors. Their products are light fast, even if they're not, you know, even the lesser colors are a little bit light fast, and they're going to last a while. I'm losing track of where I'm at. With some of these other paints, you just can't be assured of that. Prima says that their paints are light fast, but I haven't seen any evidence of that. Now I'm, hold on, one, two, three, four, five. Let's do this one. Okay, so now I'm a big fan of scanning your art and using whatever your budget will allow, and then if things fade, you have original copy of it. Yeah, you need to fix that, Laurie, because that's going to cause you more issues than not. I have certain places where things go and they stay there, and when I put them away, they go back there. I am constantly revising how I do that, and I label everything, and when I reorganize everything, I label it again. This is their indigo, which is a really pretty color. Yeah, no, I don't. As a supervisor, I was very organized, and things were done in a timely manner, but I had trouble delegating, and I wasn't always nice about it when stuff didn't get done on time. I have no patience. I have the patience of a nap. I swear to God, on a good day. I don't mean to be annoyed with people, but yeah, you will be much happier if you can get your creative space organized in a manner that works for you, where you can go and retreat to and it's not messy. It'll give you a break from the chaos that is the rest of your life or your house. I know that's the way it is for me. When things get chaotic, I come in my office. So that's their sap green. I really like that color. This one says earth green. I don't know what that means. Oh, it's kind of a brownish green, a grayish green. So Jane Davenport advocates, like I do, scanning your work, scanning it no matter what kind of materials you've used or taking a photograph of it, and she doesn't honestly too often sell originals, and I actually don't either, and I didn't realize that until I was reading her article. Not that I'm opposed to selling the originals, they just, people would rather buy a digital copy. There's advantages to that because if you have used something that is not lightfast, then you don't have to worry about it fading on the customer. Some materials though, now like neons, especially some of the neon like gel crayons, they don't photograph, or they don't scan well. So you have to photograph them. For whatever reason, the neons do not like computer scanners. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe somebody out there does. I don't, and I don't honestly have the patience to figure it out. Counting. This is the sepia. Oh, that's a pretty color of sepia. Dark blackish brown. I like that. This is a pretty palette. The pigment load looks great. They're nice bright colors. They're starting to dry a little bit, so we'll be able to go back and see. Here's the Payne's gray. So some Payne's gray, depending on the brand, is more blue than other brands. Golden's Payne's gray is very blue. It's like a dark navy blue. Most of them are more like this, where they're a dark, like translucent gray color. Here's their black, which seems to have like a little bit of a brownish tinge to it. When you put it next to the Payne's gray. Yeah, sepia. I love, this is a pretty sepia color. This is, I'm going to put the white on here, but you're not going to be able to see it. It's just, it's Chinese white. So that's a pretty palette. And they're drying, they're more opaque than I'm used to with some other paints. But I'm okay with that. And I can see I'm using these in conjunction with other watercolors. Try, is the screen unfrozen? Hopefully. I don't want to go too far with that. So I thought we would work on, okay good. So I thought we would do, the last couple weeks we've been doing different versions of the same photo whenever we do a live broadcast. So Monday we did acrylic version of these flowers. And I thought today we would do watercolor. These flowers, I don't know what the name of this flower is. It was on a flowering bush at my brother-in-law's wedding. And I was bored as I get bored, I get bored easy. And I was walking around taking photos with my iPhone. And the original flower is like cream and green. And when I printed the copy of the photo, my printer was low on ink. And I happened to by accident get these purples and blues. And I loved it so much, I did an acrylic. So I thought we would try doing it in watercolor today. If they rearrange the table a little bit so that we can get the book on here. Whoops. Okay. So this is the watercolor journal, which I'm going to have to zoom out of it. Otherwise you are not going to see what I'm doing. This is my watercolor journal, which I've been doing lots of experiments in, using it sort of like a field study notebook kind of thing. Hey Victor, how are you? So we're going to look for a blank page here. Some of these are great. Some of them not so much. When I get back, I'm going to photograph some more of these pages and or scan them and make some more postcards. So these are all just experiments with paints and different kinds of paint, different techniques, some successful, some not so much. Here's one of our four part experiments. Same painting with each section done with a different kind. We've done a few of those. This is the one we did last week. Let's see. Oh, there we go. So now we have a space over here. Thank you. There's a couple of them that are, they're not horrible, but all right. So I need a pencil. Thank you. Okay. So the first thing we're going to do now that inspiration photo for this is on my website. You can download it for free. GinaBEarons.com. There's an inspiration photos page and it's in the original colors. This is accidentally, you know, like I said, printed in the wrong colors. I take my phone with me everywhere, like most of you. I use it to take inspiration photos a lot. I get distracted at events taking photos of things to the point where I knock people's wine glasses over unintentionally. I'm a danger to myself and everyone around me normally. In this particular instance, I was walking around the venue and I found this in the garden. And I happened to catch a little bug on here too, but that was an accident. But it's a, it was a very interesting flower. So the first thing we're going to try to do here is, yeah, well, maybe. Okay, so we're going to just sketch out our shapes here. Just roughly rough sketch, loose pencil lines, no digging any holes to China. I'm not looking to erase them later. And I probably, that's probably a different disorder or something. I'm probably anti-social. I don't know. I don't know. I like people mostly. So when you get pictures like this, you're looking to, you know, use the photo for inspiration. You're not looking to copy it exactly. It has all these like seed head things here in the middle. I don't know what they're called. I don't know what this flower is called. I don't, I have no idea. Yeah, well, you know, my issue is with crowds. So I'm not great with crowds. I now know after living with that for years and years that that's more than likely because of the anxiety disorder. You'd think I would have gotten a clue a long time ago because I do have a friend who has severe anxiety disorder. And she's always talking about how she can't deal with crowds of people. And, you know, you just, you're sympathized with your friend, but it just kind of, I don't know, I guess it went in one side and out the other side of my head. I don't know. So sometimes I do these quick sketches in pencil and then I'll put some in in a pen. And sometimes I won't, I am going to erase a couple of these lines because they're going to be distracting. And I'm not going to erase most of the pencil. And before somebody asked me, this is a mechanical pencil sent to me by Maypen Helix. And this is a drafting pencil, a seven millimeter lead made in Korea. And this is a nice mechanical pencil. It has a eraser underneath that cap here at the end. No, I'm definitely not what you'd call a social butterfly. I'm better now than I'm older, but I was definitely a wallflower in school. All right. So now I'm going to add, this is the Pilot Varsity Disposable Fountain Pen, which I love, but this is not Lightfast, this pen. So be aware of that. And definitely if you create a piece of artwork that you love with it, protect it from UV light, scan it, that sort of thing. I'm going to just add a few marks here to the flower center. And I think that's all I'm going to do. Maybe that's all I'm going to do. Maybe that's not all I'm going to do. I can't make up my mind this morning. Okay, I'm going to add just a few lines. There is a sort of a, okay, just like that. All right, we're going to start with a bigger brush. This is a, speaking of master's touch, this is a master's touch brush. It's a number 24 round. It's huge, see? And I'm going to actually put some color in the background around the flower. I'm going to use our color key we just made as a guide. Let's see. Let's do the permanent violet. And I just want a little bit of pigment and a lot of water. So when you're painting and you have something that's white, you have two choices, of course. You can go back in there with acrylic paint or gouache, or you can try to paint around it and leave it white. When you are working with colors that you're not going to let things dry, then you want to leave, it's better to leave a white space. I want to add some of this color around our flower. Yeah, I get overwhelmed really easy, Lori. I sympathize with you very much on that. It doesn't take much for me to get completely overwhelmed with stuff. Now, the pilot varsity is not a waterproof pen, so it's going to bleed a little bit. I'm okay with that. I think there was a piece of my hair stuck in the rag. Well, it's going to have to stay there. Okay, we're going to add a little bit of this to our flower center. And let's see. I want to go with, let's see, prashing blue, which is already sort of a bluey green color. And yeah, you just do one thing at a time. I do the same thing, Lori. So we sound like we have the same problems. You need to just tackle one thing at a time. Anything else is going to completely overwhelm you. This is a PBO watercolor set. This is their round 24 pallet set, Clarey. And it is on a small lazy Susan that I got over at Tap Plastics. And we're working with watercolor. So unlike when I did this with acrylic, you have to start on, and I did it on Monday's live lesson for Monday with DecoArt. With watercolor, you need to start light and work your way darker. With acrylic, you can just add layers of whatever color you want to. That's a little lazy Susan I got at Tap Plastics. They sell them in different sizes. They are a West Coast chain, but you can order from them from their website at tapplastics.com. And you can look around and see if you have a store like them in your neighborhood. Tap Plastics only sells things made out of plastic and acrylic. It's a store like that's devoted to that sort of thing. I'm going to activate some of that pen that's on here. Now if you have an inspiration photo, I talked about this on Monday, that you would like to paint, but you would like to paint it in different colors than the original photo. Print it in black and white or use an app to alter the photo and print it in some different colors. This one printed by accident in purples and teals. That wasn't intentional. My printer was running out of ink, but it was a happy accident. Yes, I am. I like Tap Plastics. They're one of my favorite chains. I had a nice long conversation with the manager the other day when I was in there. And yeah, that was a shameless plug. So this is more of that Prussian blue. Now we're mixed media artists, so don't forget that you know you can go back and add highlights with like something fun like a gel pen or you know there's a million materials out there that you can do that with. I'm doing, what are they called? You're supposed to call it lifting. It's blotting people. I mean you get too much color or water in the wrong place. Blot. So I'm just working on my petals, adding the shadows in the petals using the photo as inspiration for said shadows. I'm doing it with darker blues. Darker and darker blues. I'm using the Prussian blue because it's very turquoisey or tealy kind of color on its own. It's like a blue-green. Of course, I could mix something, but you know, I like to try to use what's in this palette. So far, I'm pretty impressed. I like their paints. Yes, they're more opaque than I'm used to, but I'm just adding a bit more water than I normally would and it seems to be coming out just fine. Yeah, it's just, I call it blotting. Yeah, tapplasticsalloneword.com. It's a fun store to go into. And if you have one in your neighborhood, you know, maybe a different company, look them up and see what they have. It's a fun place to get inexpensive things like plastic lazy Susan's and, you know, pieces of acrylic for doing that. What is it? Dendritic printing. They sell, and they sell retail displays and stuff like that too, which is how I knew about them because back in the day when I was still working in retail and doing lots of arts and craft shows, that's where I got some of my stuff from. I like that. All right, let's go in with the indigo and we're going to let the flower dry a little bit and we're going to add some varying shades to the background of the flower, like similar to what we're seeing in the inspiration photo, where it's got layers of purple and dark blue and I like that. This is their indigo. I'm liking this indigo. So, you know, if you wait for things to dry more, then you don't have to worry so much about a color bleeding where you don't want it to. I have no patience for that. We discussed that already, didn't we? I have the patience of a nap and putting some dark, darks in here, like just like with any other piece of artwork, whether you're doing collage or acrylic or, it doesn't matter, anything, putting some dark, darks and light lights, make everything pop. We're discussing coffee. I'm trying not to go have another cup of coffee. I've had too much coffee this week. I ate chocolate yesterday. That wasn't good for me. I'm going to, we're going to dry this a little bit and switch to a smaller brush. Who doesn't love coffee? I drink strong coffee with coconut sugar and half and half. Not that anybody asked. This is a Princeton Select or another round. Brushes is a number 12, so much smaller than the other one. Okay, let's go in here and take some of that Prussian blue and then a little bit of yellow. No water, not too much water, just the more pure pigment. Yeah, I try to switch to tea after my first two cups of coffee in the morning, but things have been kind of a little bit stressful lately. Like it sounds like some of you all are having right now like Lori with the move and everything. And so I've been drinking too much coffee. So that's kind of an issue. So usually I switched to decaffeinated green tea in the afternoon. Back when I was working in a computer field in manufacturing, I used to drink, I worked graveyard. I drank a lot of coffee. Too much. I started to get ulcer. So you notice what I did right there, I added the same color to the petal and I left the brush strokes in because it helps it look like the veins in the leaf, suggest the shape of the petal. I'll drink tea or coffee all day if you let me, but that's why I have to have decaf. Not only is it not good for a steady hands, but it's really not good if you have high blood pressure, which I have high blood pressure. All that caffeine is not good for you. So so I'm just rewetting this paint here because I got a little bit too much pigment. I am noticing that it dries really fast, which can be good. Usually when that happens and I go in to try to rewet it, it doesn't rewet well. This one actually doesn't do too badly. Sometimes I'll drink an herbal tea or a flowery tea, not too much. Usually it's just green tea. Okay, there's this little, because I don't know what kind of flower this is. It reminds me of some kind of like orchid-y type flower. There's this little like spotted thing right here on this upper leaf that we're going to try to just go with. All right, so we're going to go back to the violet. Yeah, who doesn't like cereal? I like cereal. So we're just working our way into the darker colors. I'm just touching a little bit of this into the flower. This is the violet and I'm not going to blend all of it with water, but I am going to blend some of it. I'm going to try packing light on this trip, you guys. If you all knew me better, you would all be laughing right now, as I say that. I totally do not pack light. I'm going to try it though. I don't know. It means I'm going to have to do longer while I'm gone, but we'll see. So we'll let the flower dry a little bit and I'll add some of these darker pigments straight off the palette into our background. I like my tea room temperature unsweetened, something I get from the Italian side of my family. We all seem to like it that way. So don't forget to have a rag in your hand when you're playing with your watercolors and constantly rinse your brush off in the water, but make sure you blot it off on your rag before you grab any more paint or touch it to your paper so you don't get too much water. You have more control over the water, how much and where it goes. These definitely are behaving more like a student grade paint. They're decently pigmented, but they're not, you know, Schmingas or Daniel Smith or anything. I love the round palette. I think the round palette is a fabulous idea, but who doesn't love a good circle? Right? I know. See, right? This time I'm only bringing one small backpack of art supplies. But yeah, you're right. You're not wrong. Okay, we're gonna go in. I'm gonna grab some Chinese white here. That didn't do anything. I don't generally do use lots of Chinese white now. I know why. Okay, you know, I'm gonna just listen to my own instincts. Okay, when I'm just going on a weekend trip and we're driving, I bring way more stuff with me. So this is what I'm talking about with these kind of paintings. Although this is watercolor Wednesday, I'm gonna bust out the white acrylic paint. This is beautiful on its own. And yes, the white acrylic paint will probably blend at least in part with the some of the watercolors. This is titanium white. And this is I'm just using an angle brush and I'm just scrubbing it in along some of the places where I got too carried away with the colors. I'll catch up on the comments in a minute. You don't need to do a lot of this. You of course could do this with a paint pan or a gel pan. There's lots of ways to do this. But almost no paintings in this journal are strictly watercolor paint. Most of them are mixed media. Mixed media doesn't always have to mean lots of globby layers of thick mediums. So good thing you guys can't see my face because actually, I'm concentrating so much. I'm forgetting to talk and I'm painting with my tongue sticking out. Anybody else do that? Oops, this one. Okay, so I'm catching up here. Teresa, I'm not sure I understand that you agree with me and Lori about the tea. And I drink lots of water. I don't know if that's what you're talking about. This round palette is fabulous. It's not too big. My favorite thing about this PBO palette is the watercolors. It's probably the palette itself, the round palette. I love it. And it's not a big palette. It's only about seven inches across. So it's a good size. And you could take the plastic insert out and put more paints in here. Definitely you could. And this, I just cut a piece of watercolor paper to fit inside of here. And then I just drew lines on it. And these are all the colors that are in the palette. There's no like pattern for this or anything. And I don't know how to pack well. I suck at packing. Packing lightly. Okay, so the other thing I'm going to do and I'm going to make sure I don't stick my watercolor brushes and my acrylic brush in the same well because we don't want to contaminate one or the other. Let's get a gel pen. Let's see. Those might be too green. That one might work. Yeah. Oh, there is a downloadable like color wheel stencil. And you should be able to download the file for it on the Watercolor Wednesday page on my website, genabearans.com. If somebody could put the address, I'm pretty sure I remember to stick it on there if I've forgotten. Somebody let me know. But she and my friend Anne Williamson of Annalise Creates here on YouTube made me a stencil pattern for a round color wheel like this. And also there's one with checkers that you can download and create your own stencil. You're right, Teresa. There is one on there and it should be downloadable for everybody. Yeah. Well, I have problems with packing light and issue. There is laundry facilities available on board. We're going on a cruise. So now I'm going to just go over some other parts of my flower with gel pen. I've got this blue color here. We're going to work on these little seed head things in the center of the flower. I've got this blue color and I've got this lighter green color. And we might dab some of the white acrylic paint on them. We'll see how it looks after we get the gel pen on here. You can blend the gel pen a little bit if you do it while it's wet. So definitely don't be afraid to bust out some of those other art supplies with your watercolor paints and experiment with how they work together. Of course, if you're going to go over your paints with pen, you really want to make sure the paints are dry or you will mess up your pens. Guess how I know that? This is PBO. Where's the lid? I'll take the lid away. So this is the PBO watercolor set. It has mixed, very mixed reviews. It's not Prima. It's PBO. On Amazon, not all of the reviews are kind. I'm actually kind of liking them. They are kind of a student grade set, but I'm kind of liking them. I think the color selection in the set is very nice. This is the color selection of paints that are in the set. They're not super cheap. If you're going to get a lesser brand of paint other than a fine art quality like Schmigar or Daniel Smith or one of those, certainly Koi is a little cheaper, but these PBO are nice. I don't remember if they have any light fastness or not, to be honest. I just kind of assume that if it doesn't stay on the tin somewhere that they probably don't have much. I'm highlighting some of these shapes with some titanium white acrylic paint to make them pop. I love their metallic paints and their acrylic paints, and I know they have like fabric paint and inks. Every paint of theirs I've tried, I've liked, so when I found out that they make watercolor, of course I had to have them to try them. And they're not bad. I mean, they're not Daniel Smith is still my favorite. Somebody asked me that the other day. Daniel Smith is still my favorite, but these aren't bad. I mean, I really haven't met a watercolor paint I don't like, but the metallics, their PBO metallics are fabulous. I was hoping there was maybe a couple of metallic colors in the watercolor set. That would have been great. And there's definitely room to add more paints in here. I don't know if they make more colors or not. We're going to have to do some research. So that's pretty good. I like that. So let's see, clean up some of my I shouldn't say clean up, move some of my mess here. Here is the inspiration photo that we're working from. And this is just, somebody missed it. This is a small lazy Susan that I got at Tap Plastics, which is a local store on the West Coast that sells just plastic and acrylic stuff. And they have these lazy Susan's in different sizes. They're inexpensive. This one was $2.30 and I put some little silicone feet on top of it, sticky feet, so that the PBO palette will stick to it and it doesn't slide off. And I can, you know, so here's the photo. Now the photo is available for you to download and paint from on my website, GinaBeeEarons.com, there's an inspiration photos page. And this is the painting we did from this. And let's see. This is the acrylic paint painting that I did on Monday from the same photo. Oh, thanks Victor. I'm just playing. I'm just playing. I do like the way this turned out though. And you know, I know you guys want to learn more about watercolor. That's why we have watercolor Wednesday. But I can't emphasize enough two things. Remember to play no matter what medium you're using. Remember to play and have fun. And we're, for the most part, all mixed media artists. So don't feel like if you're painting with watercolor, you can't use other stuff on that painting. I love leaving the pencil marks like I did here and putting in inks and adding acrylic paint or gel pens and all of that stuff. So I think that you should play and have fun and, oh thanks, play and have fun and don't be afraid to mix up your mediums. D, I have lost track of, at one time, I had a whole bunch of people send me photos and I've lost track of which photo is yours. So if you can set it to me again, we can work on a painting from that photo maybe next week. Or not next week, maybe when I get back from vacation. And thank you, Kathy. I'm glad you love the stamps. There's also a lot of digital downloads. So because I use lots of mixed medium things in my work and not all of it is lightfast or archival, I frequently photograph or scan the work and then I sell the digital copy. And there's lots of digital downloads available on my Etsy shop of things. I just caught it up yesterday. So you can buy for a couple bucks a digital copy of a photograph that you want to use in your artwork. Oh, paint my photo. Oh yes, I have used paint my photo. I don't have to go to their site too often unless I read that wrong. I'm sorry. See, I'm truly like this whole week, I feel like I'm just half asleep. Anyway, I have so many inspiration photos. I don't often find that I need to go to paint my photo for something unless I have a client that's asked me for something specific like say a giraffe or something like that. Then I go to paint my photo and see what I can find. But it's a great site to find photos. There are a bunch of free ones on my website that I've taken and or I have permission from the photographer to post. Most of them I take. There is also a folder that we are an album that we're creating in my Facebook group that yes, it's okay to post. For my Facebook group that's an album of inspiration photos that we're creating. I just created the basic album last night. While I'm gone on vacation, I'm asking everybody to put their inspiration photos in that album. When we first started Watercolor Wednesday, Teresa, we did that with salt and rubbing alcohol and etc. We can certainly revisit it. I think that's a great idea. I often, when I'm painting, forget to put in additives. I often forget to drop salt in or alcohol. Sometimes I do, but I don't do it a lot. But we should revisit that because I have done that. I do paint my photo. It's a great site for free inspiration photos. I think that if any of you are out there looking for photos of things to paint, go over to paint my photo and see what they have. They're royalty-free images so it's a great resource. You don't have to worry about getting nagged for copyright infringement or anything. Definitely put the link for the round base. This is the small lazy Susan that I got to fit on the PBO. You know what? Maybe it's because of me. Is it the plastics address, Clary? Oh, you know, that's probably why I won't let me either. It's because you're not an admin. I'm watching from my other account. I'm not an admin to my own channel. Let me hang on. Let me do it again. I have to spell it right. Hold on. That's the website for the company where I bought all my little acrylic pieces. You, of course, can get lazy Susan's at Target, your big box stores that sell kitchen stuff. In the kitchen, usually the kitchen section or the kitchen organizing section, usually they're for pantry closets, but frequently the ones for a kitchen have a lip on them. I wanted one that was flat and I also like that they have them in different sizes. They have from little itty bitty to actually, they had one that was bigger than this. Then they also have the round acrylic pieces of plastic that you can put on top. The silicone feet are nice because you don't have to glue everything together. Also, this little itty bitty one happens to fit on my small white plate. Put any links that you guys find that are helpful on the Facebook group. Or PM me so that I can or one of the other admins can. That's it. Playing with paint. Before we leave, I want to remind everybody I am going on vacation. I'm going to be gone from the 12th to the 22nd. My admins are taking care of the Facebook group. Everything else will be on vacation. YouTube does have pre-scheduled videos. Some things coming out while I'm gone. The live broadcasts are suspended until after I get back. We will resume them on the 23rd with a Monday with DecoArt. I have a bunch of these little paintings that are ugly that I have to recover. This is pretty now but it was ugly. So we'll be working on more of those and hopefully I'm going to come home with a boat load of inspiration photos. I will be posting those along the way to social media. So don't poke the bears. Try not to get distracted taking photos that I fall off of a cliff or something. My husband is coming with me so he can keep me out of trouble. Because I get distracted by, ooh, pretty. Oh, you're welcome. Enabling. I know. So my short quick review of these are I love the palette. I love the color selection. This is a great basic color selection. I do wish it had like a teal color in it. It could have used like one less of these blues like maybe the primary phthalo that you could have done without and maybe put some teal in. But you could take the plastic insert out and put more colors in here. I love the container. Opening the paint pans was a pain in the neck. They are not as bright and vibrant as some other brands. I don't know about their lightfastness. I would venture to guess because it doesn't say anything on the packaging about being lightfast. They probably aren't. Yeah, it doesn't say anything. Let's see. Wait, let me look at the little label before we log off. Let's see. What does the label say? Okay, I take that back. The label does have a marking on it. I bet you these are lightfast. We're going to have to find out and post to the Facebook group. But they're nice paints. I like it. It's nice. You don't have to spend tons of money for Daniel Smith or Schmincke. You can get something like this, especially if it turns out they're lightfast. I'll look that up and I'll try to put something in the video description for you all and also on the Facebook group. If you want to join the Facebook group, the link should be in the description below. Again, I'll be back for the live broadcast on the 23rd with Monday with DecoArt and then two days on that Wednesday. I'll be back with watercolor Wednesday. Hopefully the white night paints will be in by then. I think that's it. Don't forget to go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll try not to get eaten by bears, fall off a cliff, get too seasick. We'll see what happens. All right, guys. Oh, it does come with this cute little brush, by the way, a little travel like mini travel brush that instead of like having a cap, it screws together like this. It reminds me of a Chinese watercolor brush. It would probably make a good mop brush, a good background brush. It's not going to be great for detail because it's not pointed at all. No, these are the PBO watercolors. This is the PBO watercolor palette. We did open and swatch them at the beginning. So these are the colors that come in the palette. It's a round palette of 24 colors. And yeah, everybody have a great day. Don't get into too much trouble while I'm gone. Be nice to the admins over at the Facebook group. And play with your watercolor paints. And I would love to see you guys mix them up with some pen work and some acrylic paint and have fun with it. You can come up with really interesting stuff. And a reprint of this would be really fun on a greeting card. If you're getting ready to do spring and summer arts and craft shows, this image would be a great image for a greeting card. FYI. All right, everybody. I'm going to go eat some lunch. And then I've got to finish packing. And I have a bunch of errands to run, like go to the bank and stuff like that. It'll be up within... Kathy, it takes about five minutes for the live broadcast to show up on YouTube. It takes about five to 15 minutes depending on YouTube. So within a few minutes. But I did start out by opening the palette. I did save most of the labels, see. And doing the color key. And then this is the paints, some acrylic paint, some pen, some gel pen. And yeah, it'll be up within a few minutes. And while it's loading, I'm going to look up the color fastness or light fastness of the paints and a link to the paints and some information about that. And I will put it in the description so that when the video loads that it is already in there. And I believe there is a... the file for that Anne Williamson created for me to do color wheels and also the gridded color charts. I believe that's already up on my website, jeanabeearons.com. The link for that should already be in the description of this broadcast. The link for my website. And so go to my website and go to the Watercolor Wednesday page. All right, that's it guys. I really got to go. I'll talk to you all later. Have a great week. I'll see you in 11, 12 days. 12 days. All right. Bye.