 Okay, hey guys, how are you? All right, so I am Haven't edited it yet, but as of the filming of this right now. I just got done filming this cute little simple watercolor inspired by Ian Jackson's weekly art challenge over in our My year 2017 Facebook group if you don't know about the group but the description is in the I'm sorry the description The link is in the description below and I have some videos here on my channel if you just search hashtag My year 2017 they should come up. It's all about the year-long journaling program I'm sure if you're a regular watcher of my channel, you've seen them already If not, it's really fun join us Anyway, I really wanted to just do a quick little watercolor of the cat face Picture that he posted to inspire us all to do a painting and they're really looking at the picture It was just a square picture of a close-up of I guess his cat's face and It just kind of looked to me like it was a cat trying to stick its head through a hole in the fence or hole in the wall So that's kind of how I painted it because I thought that was really cute I did use some Christmas presents to do it Which I swatched here on the opposite page so for Christmas I got a set of Daravan liquid pencil paints and I already had the art graph that I got right before Christmas, which is a water-soluble graphite a watercolor graphite And then I also got a little small five-color set of some m-gram paints Which you guys have been asking about for me to Try and I decided to get this particular set, which is the desert South-west desert southwest watercolor set Because I thought it would be good to maybe compare them to my Daniel Smith muted palette. They remind me of similar similar colors Here's the Daniel Smith palette not only do they remind me of similar colors I thought I thought they would lend themselves very nicely to this palette And I may try to squeeze them in here in the middle with in some half-pounds if I can get some half-pounds in there Because I thought they would go really well in here Anyway, so I swatched them all on this page and then I used them to paint our little cat face now When I did these I knew it was going to be a big experiment. I wasn't sure it was going to turn out I did like the way it turned out and again the video for it's just a speed-through video But the speed video of me doing this I have to edit it But it should be up on the channel if you're watching this it's already up so look for it When I was prepping to do the video. I knew I wanted to take the graphite paints and Squeeze some of them out into one of these little disposable 99 cent Inexpensive little six well palettes. I got these at Hobby Lobby and I used them for trying these paints These are the m-gram paints that these are the liquid What do they call them again liquid pencils and paints and Now the m-gram paints are the binder. I believe is honey. So that means they stay like Tacky like they're not I wouldn't call them wet, but you could see it stick to my finger there They're definitely tacky so they never really like dry down completely that being said the colors are beautiful And if you're willing to kind of put up with that they're gorgeous, you know, they're not wet They're not gonna fall out and I'm not gonna waste this. I'm not gonna wash this out I will leave this like this and we'll use it the way it is The liquid pencil paints come like this there's 12 tubes six of them are permanent six are rewetable I don't know exactly what that means. I would assume that means after they're dry the permanent ones You can't move them and the rewetable ones you can The rewetable formula while you're to remove areas using water in a similar manner to watercolor techniques Or it is possible to use with a traditional eraser so I thought okay, that's interesting, but if I let them dry in the palette does that also mean they're rewetable this way in the palette like could you make a Graphite palette with these paints and let them dry like you do watercolor And then could you rewet them because I thought that would be really interesting to even take these six and these five and Do a palette with these paints together in them I thought that would be more interesting than adding these to the Daniel Smith palette, so The long story short is we're gonna try that right now. These are completely dry if you can see they're they're like bone dry so we're actually gonna try them now the This is a fabricic cast-out brush That I actually got with some water soluble pencils that I also bought for Christmas I've got a little scrap of some cold press. This is cold press soft press watercolor paper. This is Fabriano And let's just try it Oop the answer is yes Yes, they do So that's a gray three This is gray nine Which is darker obviously they actually rewet very nicely And I'm just using plain old tap water at the moment. This is sepia I'm not using tap Water with anything any ox skull or anything in it This is yellow Yellow graphite so the graphite color these graphite paints are slightly tinted with a color This is red The blue is really pretty I use the blue and the cat's eyes and then this is the blue So there you go. They are definitely Rewetable so you definitely could make a palette with the rewetable paints. They give a really interesting unique color here and They really if you can see let's see there we go. They really give a unique color They I love the kind of granulating Pigments you get they really are sticking into the the texture of the paper I really love the way they look I can definitely see adding these graphite paints to my Poitroir of things going forward and yes, I know I mispronounce that word But I'm really going to be enjoying using them so look forward to them on upcoming Watercolor Wednesdays live. I am going to try to find a palette box to put them in I'm sure I have one around here somewhere and yeah, they're going to be a lot of fun That's it for right now. I have some more videos to film and Plain paints to play with and I will talk to you all later. 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