 Welcome back to today's feature film. I feel like I'm trying to do something different every time and it's not working Well, anyway, welcome back to the average and Steph on the average artist and today we are reviewing this fine set of gem like gouache paints. Did you like this slow ease in? Thought you did. They came in a massive package like this So we're just gonna open them up because I don't need this box Let's unveil. Unveil. Mm-hmm. That's good. Oh my god. Yeah, okay. There we go And it's in case in that lovely plastic we all love again, so let me just attempt with my nails. Oh, it worked Get this off Here's a box Okay, so first of all you have this case and It's smaller than I thought again doing this thing where I don't know the size of a palette that I've ordered but it's kind of Little bit feels a little bit cheaper than the the H.I.M.I ones, but that's not what's important What's important is what's on the inside guys? So, let's take a look at this Beautiful overlay. I like that. That's cool. It tells me all the colors as well. Very nice I better not mess them up. Let's see has a little indent here so you can take these out They're the shape. They're the shape. I love this shape No, it's so lame because you won't actually see the shape when they're inside, but how cute that is. I don't know why I like this kind of like when They do interesting like jelly shapes with paint jelly cup design love it Yeah, so it's looking cute. It's looking very vividy. Vividy is that Can't speak today. They're looking very vivid Which is strange, but maybe a nice selection of colors They've also got this lovely plastic topping, which I absolutely love Taking off so I'm kind of looking at these now like why am I not this It comes with this. Wow It was advertised that it comes with this palette. This is just a bit of sheet plastic That is completely rubbish Oh, no, I'm worried about the state of these paints now if they think that this is a Palette look at it. It's like we're gonna use it because I'm lazy and I can't be bothered to wash up a new one But geez Let's see these brushes Yeah, I'm not Seeing the potential here. This was slightly bent as well So but we are gonna try them out just because I want to look at this as like a kit like a whole Experience you can have This experience. Yeah, I'm gonna test them all out everything in the case because you know You might buy it from Palette You might be like, oh this one comes with a palette and some tape brushes and this one doesn't so let's see if it's actually worth your Time Probably not right. Let's get painting. I forgot that I have to on plastic these I'm just having a hard time about it, and I would appreciate your support through this process. Thank you My god, please please gems, please jammies be good to me There we go Okay, not too bad. Not too bad Absolutely hate Hate because I don't know what to do with the plastic beds and everyone always says oh swatch them but I am not a fan of swatching so They're going in the bin. I'm sorry. Okay. I'm sorry. Oh Beautiful gemmy shape, please be good. Yeah, I'm going to try and paint something that Has some like really interesting lights in it because I feel like that's something I want to get Badara is playing with light in the subject and Yeah, so I've been looking on Pinterest as usual because I feel like it's a good really good reference tool And I just really want to Paint this guy in a cafe because I think it's a really nice photo And I know like I'm kind of taking some credit for someone's photography here, but basically what I want is to just Practice using light and this is the only way to do it for me right now is to just try and See if I can mimic this photography this photograph and There's so many good like painting stuff Painty stuff, you know, I mean there's so many good Artists there that you can just look at for reference like how they've done that brush stroke and how I what do you like about a piece? And like it kind of helps you Pull apart things that you find interesting about the subject So and then you can focus on maybe what you like about stuff. But yeah, I'm just trying to Paint loosely as well because that's what I enjoy. I like to paint loosely and I'm using these so If you don't know gouache is an opaque water color So you can use them sort of like a water color if you want to We're just lots of water, obviously water it down. What can you can use it really opaquely to? Layer and layer and layer. So I really like them. Sorry about the train again. Live by a train Like yada yada, you probably heard this before if you know me do need to like learn How to measure things out without just going for stuff Probably gonna get this like proportions all wrong but I think I just want to practice lighting and Painting a bit better It would be good, I think like I've done this Probably should have sketch this out a little bit first, but I've done it where I've like stretched it a bit too much I'm gonna look at the negative spaces Yeah, you know plasticky palette not great, but Does the job I guess I'm just roughing out the shapes for now. So it's not like that bad, right guys, right? Also, I want to test out these beautiful brushes By the way, the brand for these are Tavo look Tavlo. Oh my god my English Tavo loza Tavo loza. I don't know how you say that, but yeah, seems like they hold a lot of water Not too bad. I think like they hold a lot of um color That makes sense. So I'm just gonna go in with like dark shades right away as I'm impatient So far, they're not the best, but it's still okay This scene is like of a man eating or not eating drinking some coffee in a Diner or something and so we're on the outside looking in and it plays with light really nicely. It just Has like a sense of early morning light and I really want to learn how to paint light or depict certain lights a little bit better in my paintings and Yeah, that's just something that I want to do and I've look I've made this windowsill here, right? So this wall bit should be there, but fine, whatever that you know, that happens I just genuinely want to like rough out what everything is. So obviously it's not gonna be looking great straight away It's a work in progress But yes, yeah, I'm not sure about these paintbrush, but it's it's not awful It's not like flaking off. You know when you have like really cheap brushes that they just completely flake and Completely don't hold water, but this one is not doing too badly. I would say it's it's average. Oh, hey, like me Please don't leave I feel like stuff has to be really really really crappy for me to give it a negative review Yeah, the paints themselves are pretty nice. Like they're just standard jelly Wash by the way, lots of people are confused. Okay, so jelly wash isn't a thing Jelly wash is like I called jelly wash jelly wash because of the jelly cup design They come in and it was just like a nice thing to call it like these are gem wash like it's not a thing It's just wash Everyone's like, is that jelly wash? I'm like, no, it's just squash. There's such thing as jelly wash But you know, whatever It's not looking Terrible, I mean the proportions are kind of there Just need to Work it a little bit more. His shirt is like completely pink. So this is gonna be fun to like paint in and he's got like this huge pocket Yeah, I'm just trying to block in like his features. I guess This old man is just sitting there He definitely has a little bit of a hunchback who amongst us don't Um It's so wonky, but you know, like sometimes we just don't see that And now I feel like I've made it either wonky but like that way This guy's gray hair. So I feel like I've done it really white So I need to get it gray There's obviously like the light highlights from when the light is shining on it But let's turn it down a little bit, maybe Really want to get this like silver chair looking silver I guess it's just about layering colors on colors As well, I've definitely made this shadow too dark So I want to try and pick that color back up again It's supposed to be the same sort of level as that and I just want to pick up the color if I can Not sure if that's looking more silver or not. It's just looking Splotchy, but I feel like the more time you spend just trying to Get the colors right because with this silver reflection It's reflecting all the colors that sees around it, right? So it is actually not just gray, you know, I mean, it's actually seeing this pink Bounce off it seeing the light from the window bounce off it So you have to be like trying to think in that sort of sense Okay, so it's looking a little bit wonky fine. I kind of like it, right? So I just want to do details that show up through the painting now. I Don't want to like spend So much time on this because it's just a study And it's meant to be quick and just like to help me gauge understanding of light But I do want to have it somewhat finished This lighting here looks really weird. Everyone kind of sucks at something Before they get good at something, right? Well, this I feel like this painting doesn't suck that much It's just the lighting. I'm a bit like, huh? What happened to this lighting? It's a little bit odd, but Yeah, let's see. I want to do the the lines of the tiles Yeah Wish me luck, you know me like wish me luck with this Kind of okay Now I just need the lights down which we obviously know I struggle with because look at this wonky nurse The what like everyone just ignore the wonkiness. Okay, just that's just how I am Sometimes in life people are wonky and just yeah, okay Learning experience, you know, it's all learning My brush nearly fell on my hands and that would have been disastrous Okay, it's not looking terrible, but it's not looking Magnificent Oh my god, why did I get so wobbly? Why are you wobbling? Why did I get so wobbly the last couple ones? I kind of like it kind of like it. Whatever. There's also like some really cute like you can barely see them But like leaf patterns on these tiles Which I do like hint at a little bit because they are quite sweet, but it's like a repeated pattern Not bad. Not bad. Kind of getting the hint that it is a pattern. I hope of a tile Yeah, looking kind of cute Oh, that looks quite cute actually. So let's see if I can do it again and again and again Yeah, look it kind of looks cute, right? It doesn't look terrible Oh, unless you do it completely wrong I kind of like that. There we go. I said it. I kind of like that pattern I think I'm kind of done with this painting a little bit. Um that hand still bothers me though I said I wanted to work with um light a little bit more when I first started this piece And I feel like I have done that, but I don't know if I've successfully like discovered how to do Does that hand look worse now? I'm not sure Ah Good times I'm not sure if I've successfully hinted that this is for a window. Um, there is Some highlights on the window That would help me indicate that this is for a window. So I'm thinking Maybe we should try that. Maybe we should paint over the top and I'm not sure how well it's gonna work out, but you don't know unless you try we're gonna try it. Okay. Everyone just breathe for me I don't know why I just I went for it. I always do that. I just go The problem is that this ghost seems to reactivate quite easily. So I just want to hint where there's like light on the window and shapes There's also like writing across his face, but I feel like I'm not braving it off for that step just yet but yeah, there's like specs of Like I hope that this is conveying that Because if it isn't it just looks like random shapes, but I feel like yeah, I feel like that kind of worked Right. Am I crazy? Is that like a little bit? Okay. I like it It's wonky. It's not perfect. But you know what? It's me and I think it conveys that It conveys that it's me Oh my god Okay, I think I'm done I'm always like I could do a little bit more um, but I have to get this video up for you guys And so what do you think? This is the final painting And let's take the tape off. I do like the paints I'm always I have a lot of affair with gouache. I feel like it always Works out for me somehow I do really like this painting. I'm really glad that I pushed myself to try Something different and try the lights Um tried to draw paint something with dynamic light in it, I guess And yeah, what do you guys think basically? The paint brushes turned out not to be awful As I fought. So there you go. That's something And yeah, I really enjoyed this painting and I hope that you guys like this painting and this process But here he is the grumpy old man in the window and I kind of like it I kind of like the wonkiness. I kind of like that. It's not perfect. That's me I'll never be perfect. And uh, yeah, so thanks for watching. Please give me a like if you enjoyed this, um Video it would super help my channel and subscribe if you're not because that'll be nice as well. All right. Thank you. Bye