 Hello and welcome back to The Average, I'm Steph, I'm The Average Artist. Welcome, welcome. Today we have a little package to unwrap. I guess you've seen the thumbnail of the title, that's where you clicked here, so let's just get to unwrapping. I haven't actually seen what's inside yet, but I'm very excited. This comes from a little Etsy store, which I will link down below. But I was just intrigued by it because it looked really, really fascinating and you know me, I love art supplies that are just like unique and interesting, so here we go. Take my own reality free to Carlo, very nice, I like that. It's kind of a cool little free print you get. It says, hi Stephanie, thank you so much for your order and for supporting my small business, best regards Will, PSF, I had a little extra gift for you in your parcel. That's so nice, where? And like I've ordered this and I haven't said anything about like a YouTube channel or anything, so you know what I mean, like you'd think maybe because I have a YouTube channel that they might give me something extra, but no. So it comes in this like beautiful little case. Oh my God, look how cute, look how cute that is. Really nice, like porcelain Lillian May, oh that's so sweet, little tiny, little tidier palette there, so cute. And he's given me this beautiful little brush holder as well for free, that's so nice and it's really nicely glossed, that's so varnished is the word I need to say. Here is the thing I bought it for, this tiny little matchbox, paint box thingamajig watercolor set, so let's open it up. Oh so sweet, oh it's so sweet that I don't want to open the packaging, but we have to because we want to use it. Yeah, I'll link this down below, obviously I bought this with my own money, no ad or anything, so you know, these are my own sports and so far I think it's pretty freaking sweet. Look how cute, can you see that, and it even has like its own like matchbox design, so Lillian May studio, that's so sweet and it tells you the different colors on the back, so I've got ultra green, blue, color yellow, but under, and azirian, I've already said that right, azirian crimson, and here they are, look how sweet they are, it's got like a little indented, I don't know if you can see that, but the little indented Lillian May branding there, it's really sweet, oh I'm like oh it's so cute, I can't believe it, so nice. So let's make a tiny painting with all this tiny little set that we have, it's so sweet and I can't believe it, three two one transition. I have decided to paint, obviously a scene of a photograph that I took from my window, I don't know why, just feel like it, you know, just feel like painting my cat on the window, I'll put the photo up here now of what I want to paint, it's not going to be exactly like that, I want to take a horrible gate away, I think that's just going to look horrible, and maybe put some like trees and leaves in there instead, I don't know, or maybe just faded background, not sure yet, haven't got to that stage, all I've got to say on the matter, I'll see you in a second. Coffee is the nectar of the gods, I'm not even joking, like it actually helps me work, I've got my paintbrushes here on this lovely stand that I got given for free, very nice, thank you again, if you watch this, oh I can't wait to put my little paints on this little palette and a little tiny painting, so cute, okay, I feel like I have to be so careful with it, I'm so clumsy, so you know, look how cute they are, I can't get over how cute, okay, so I want to do something, I want to do an underpainting of like this burnt umber, but like really really light, because I think it's good and it just has like an, you know, it gives the vibe of the whole painting if you do it like that, except this top bit where the trees are going to be, because I want that like really light blue up there, a little bit of light in England sometimes, so we're going to take advantage of that light and actually put it in the painting and not just pretend that dark and gray, because it's not always, as you can see from the photo, actually in the photo, yes it is still dark and gray, it's just light, I don't know what else to tell you, but yeah, I just want to paint like a soft underlight, underlight, so everything that shines through will have like this consistent brown light, I guess, yeah, brown is the color I've decided to do this with, but it doesn't matter, usually I would do like a pink or something, but we're going for we're going for uniqueness, okay, we're going for different today, and that's that, okay, I don't want any questions about my process at this time, thank you, I'll be taking no questions, goodbye. Very nice, after a little hair drying action, you can see that the paint has smoothed down and created some nice textures within the painting, oh yeah, okay let's use the little little palette I guess, oh so cute and innocent, sweet, okay I just want to, I keep saying okay, ignore that, ignore the okay, I really want to just, you know, just, we talked about wonky lines last time and everybody, everybody was like yeah I love your wonkiness, and I'm like what, excuse me, I mean I know I said it, but I could say it, I'm joking, but yeah I've got wonky lines guys and it's just the way it is, also if this is the window, and I said that that was the open space where the light is, I've left way too little space, but baby steps for me, okay, baby steps, I'm just just imagining that this is the window now, okay, it is very brown, I will give you that, and I, you are probably thinking Steph, why is it brown, and I would tell you I'm not sure it's just happening that way, and here comes a little cat to kind of fuss about, he's keep walking, keep walking, don't drink the paint water, I'm just smocking up where the shapes are, and I hope that it makes sense visually, found anything, I'm gonna make the window a lot smaller just because I can, you know what I can, because if you take a picture, what did I say like that, if you take a picture for inspiration, you can make it your own right, so there's a little cat here right, there's a little pesto here, it's very cute in a little, basically what I have here is like a fluffy infinity scarf if you remember those, and she lies in it on the windowsill when the heat is on and it's so cute, because she's like actually finally warm, because she's a cat from Spain, we've got her in Spain, and um she's used to the heat, and now it's like no, no, no, you live in England now, so welcome to the pain of the cold, so anytime she can get her hands on some heat, I guess all cats are like that right, all cats are like uh heat please, so yeah she's snuggled up in an infinity scarf, which is very cute, so you know what, take that, and I know why I'm extra awkward today, if you noticed that, it was like Steph, what is happening, I can tell you, I've got like some, I've got a plant here, which is actually a fake plant, I killed the real plant, and then I stuck this fake plant in there instead, because I thought that made sense, and it does kind of make sense to do that, because if you can't keep a plant alive, then you shouldn't be allowed, so many cats I guess, but we'll move on from that point, I'm just, yeah I'm blocking out the shapes of where everything is, this is probably not how you should paint with watercolours, but it is just what it is, and I usually, I like watercolours, but I guess I like gouache better, so I will probably be using a white gouache as well to help me out here, but these colours are really nice, really pigmented, the story of this is that I just went on Etsy, and I was like hmm, I wonder if they have any cute art supplies on Etsy, and yes they do, obviously yes, helping a small business, and I think yeah, as a person who sort of has, sort of has a small business, I say sort of, I sell my comics and prints and stuff, so it's like I get it, you know what I mean, like you guys probably get it as well to be fair, it's just, it's nice, it's nice to support small business there, I've said it, I've said it, what are you gonna do? I think you probably agree, so probably nothing, and yeah this painting you're probably like what is going on here, and I would agree with you, I would agree with you, that's what I'm gonna say about that, anyway so what happened was I saw this little matchbox set, and I was like that is so cute, and yeah so far it's going really well, I'm really liking these, I'm liking the way they're drying, layering, it's very cute, I wonder what their process is for making like these paints, and I think there's something special about knowing that it comes from a small business, you know, I absolutely adore this little palette, I'm just gonna like draw the dark sections of Pesto, the dark, the dark side, she's just like peeking out, and then the infinity scarf that I've never worn by the way, it is literally just, well I have worn it back in the day, but it's just like so soft, I think she likes it, so it's very cute, it's very tootin' cute, hmm I'm gonna stop speaking because tootin' tootin' is not something that I should have said, I was very awed, does anybody else go like a little bit mad when they're painting, where is that white gouache, he's sneaky bug, where did it go, found it, yeah so it's just a normal tempura, white gouache, gouache, yes, so just blocking out everything at the moment, as usual, I like to block, nearly said the s-word, stuff out, that's the s-word I meant to say, continuing with detail, I've really not done a good job on where everything is in this painting, but I don't really mind that, you know like I said before, I'm taking, I'm not taking this painting, this, what am I trying to say, I'm not taking this reference, I'm not taking this reference, thank you, literally, even though maybe I should be, but I'm not, okay, I just want to paint and have fun, this fake plant, oh right, it looks very fake from this angle because you can see where the plastic bits meet the edge of the the leaves, but I'm going to paint it as if it's a real plant here, because I like to pretend that I can keep a plant alive, and nature likes me, yeah, liking his paints, Pesto looks so small there, I think I've just completely messed up her proportions, so even though I said I want to take this reference, not like quite literally, I do want to paint her as cute as possible because she's such a cutie patootie, why have I said that, why have I said that again, I feel like I said that earlier and I was like, don't say that, what's wrong with me, all right, okay, let's get some, I'm going to block in some major colors now, I don't know if you can see that, but I'm really enjoying the way that these colors are sort of blending into each other in a really interesting way, and I think that's all down to the paints themselves and I think it's really pretty, what I like about this composition, if I can say it's a composition with like my whole chest, is that there's like a sort of darkness to the outside, a sort of like, you know, brown dense woods, and then the inside is all like warm and pink and friendly, and I kind of like that, like juxtaposition, and I really like the shadows as well in this picture because it just shows you like how cold it is, I guess, emulate that if I can, if I have the skill, my wonky skill, yeah okay guys, you said it, I agreed, fine, we should have figured out where these windows were before painting the outside, but you know, that's the way I am, don't want to hear it, okay, okay guys, I don't want to hear it, the internet's like well, should have listened to us in the comments before you made this mistake, you should have listened to what we were going to say, you should have foreseen, actually the comments have been quite nice recently, I don't know why I keep going on about the comments, I've had worse comments in my time, so thanks guys for keeping it real, for keeping it light and friendly, didn't get any cone head comments last time which is very interesting, it seemed like the cone head crew were letting that one go, you probably need to go back and watch my other video if you have no idea what I'm talking about, okay so I just want to do like a blue sky, it's a little bit blue, pinky, what am I saying, it's a little bit yellowy, probably wait for other stuff to dry, again that's my problem with watercolor, I just go in, what I'm going to do is a little bit of a, what am I going to do, a hair dryer action right now, so let's do that, honestly it's something so satisfying about watching um watercolors dry quickly under a hair dryer, uh you wouldn't know because I didn't show you, but just imagine that it was really cool, you like watching me, huh, like watching this channel, probably not, you're probably not really necessarily brown, they're kind of more grey but if I draw them in and then I can go, thanks, thanks, thanks for that, thank you Nocci, that's really helpful, can you just bog off, can everyone just go away and try to paint here, hello, just gotta push ahead because you know the ugly stage is ever present in sometimes even my paintings, right forever, the ugly stage is present, but it's fine because guess what, we're having fun, see it with me now, it's okay to make mistakes and have an ugly stage because sometimes it just happens that they really want to make a really dark, uh a bluey brown here because I really want the shadow to be like really deep because I feel like it's not deep enough, yeah could be helping, could be helping, oh no I mixed a bit of the white, the palette did just too small, how would this, how would it backfire on me, yeah yeah I can see it being a bit more of a wall now, it's making more sense, you know how Picasso had like the blue era, I'm having a brown era and I don't want to take any questions, thank you, so that's paint water, please my love, so I'm just going in with some like white gouache to just highlight some areas and I'll probably mix that a little bit more with the watercolors just to like hint at where the light is because I can never do that with watercolors, like keep the light in, I can do it a little bit but it's not as good as I want it to be so I'm just highlighting areas and I'm probably gonna go in over some of these with more like color to just uh define where those colors, I'm also going in with the white gouache here in like certain areas behind the trees where the light is sort of brighter, I guess it's where it's coming through the clouds a little bit but you can't really see the clouds because it's so misty but I really like just highlighting shapes within the piece, I think it looks nice so I'm gonna continue doing it, right we're sort of coming to the finalization stage and I just I really want to just do some darker shadows, probably darker than that in actually in the photo but I feel like it calls for it because I don't know it seems like a pretty gloomy photo and I want to emulate that, I think I have already but I think we could go gloomier, that makes sense, I would like to go gloomier, there's just lots of like dark shadows that I haven't really bought through as much as I could have so I'm just trying to do that a little bit to just gonna make it super dark because I think it's just like bits and bobs on my desk um yeah it looks like my desk here so I just want to make it like super dark and out of frame, you can't really tell what it is kind of thing but yeah totally loving these paints so far like I said I will link them down below if you're interested in looking at them or buying them, it's super reasonable price for handmade paints and come with this beautiful like obviously handmade palette holder so like I think that's really sweet and I think I've said the words sweet about 50,000 times in this video uh so just ignore that if it's possible to ignore that but yeah I think we're coming to like the final steps here because here is some slime some slime on windowsill, I'm gonna apologize for it, I've made like this dark shadow around pesto like really um blue, I don't regret that but it's it is showing sort of if that makes sense so I want to like really if I can bring out her details a little bit more to make it really obvious that she's a cat here and actually you can't really see her eye because it's like underneath this bit but I've moved her eye slightly up just so you could understand that that's her eye otherwise it would just look like what's that lump there, I don't know, I don't know can you see pesto here little cat here um hope so, really enjoyed this painting I think it's very nice I just want to do some shadow here, really enjoyed making this piece I think I'm gonna stop there uh probably could go on for a long time and keep going but we just did this quick painting to review these paints and I think they are absolutely beautiful they layer well they they're very nice I really like them and I think if you want to get some watercolours it would be nice to get it from a small business let's just peel off this tape even though it's all completely dry there is a hair here as well which why why okay it's staying there because I feel like if I smooth it it's gonna move the whole painting but yeah I'm gonna take this off now because I'm too impatient I have a problem guys and thank you for being here with me but like I said I feel like this painting is a really good practice piece I I obviously could spend hours longer on it and perfect every little detail on it and I feel like it would be a much better painting but it's just a practice and for review of these paints really nice really sweet sorry I made a mess of them that's tends to be what I do I will clean them up now but yeah what do you guys think did you enjoy watching me paint with this tiny little palette tiny little palette so small so cute it's fine what did I say about me being clumsy uh yeah little matchbox palette done thank you for watching please like and subscribe all that jazz and I'll see you hopefully if you don't unsubscribe next time bye