 Hey guys, welcome back to the average today. I'm really excited because we're going to test out some new jelly paints from This sharp called Magi deal I'm not really sure if they come from there But I ordered these of Amazon and bought them all individually and they finally arrived. So we're gonna test them out This video is brought to you by Squarespace from websites and online stores to marketing tools and analytics Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build your beautiful online presence and run your business Okay, so let's get into using these paints I thought because I have such an interesting view now that I would like to paint it because I think it makes sense to give it a go the landscape is quite lovely and The way the hills are in the distance that Spain it looks just beautiful with the clouds and the sea in front I just thought I needed to give that a shot and Try and make an interesting composition from what I'm looking at in real life And I'm going to be using these new jelly paints. So let's try and open them Like I said, I bought these all individually off of Amazon few of them ride together and then some of them didn't so they probably come from like different places But they're all of the same brand and they're all 80 millilitres Probably where they're from they're quite cheap, but I bought them a probably about eight No eight euros probably about seven pounds each probably about six dollars. I'm just guessing those amounts They're quite pricey for what they are and but there's more to them than the other jelly paints They're definitely in bigger pots I bought these three because I thought I should have primary colors and I bought a black and I bought this one because I Couldn't resist this beautiful lilac color I will be using white probably from my other acrylics because I couldn't find a white, but let's test these out I'm gonna use these mostly and let's see if I can create this landscape by just using these new jelly paints Okay, this came up really easily I'm gonna give a good tip in my last jelly video with all the lids that if you use a heater over the top It will melt the glue and I didn't think of that and I think that's a really clever tip So if you guys buy these kind of jelly paints and then struggle with the lids I Think that's probably the way to go. This one has separated a little bit from like The oil I guess. I guess this is an oil-based gouache It looks oily, so I'm just I'm completely guessing that I wouldn't listen to me actually never mind I'm just gonna mix it back in together. Okay, I'm gonna use this little mixing box Somebody gave me the good tip to use the lids as a swatch and I thought that was like very clever Okay, so let's just plonk these down I guess I think a little obviously goes quite a long way with this stuff because there wasn't that much paint on these lids But it looks like I could probably fill this whole page of color If I wanted to do you like the way it handles if that makes sense like it does feel Quite nice. It's moving quite easily around with my paintbrush. It's being pushed quite well some paints are like you're trying to Manipulate it a little bit with a paintbrush and it doesn't really work out. So this one is quite nice Black does seem super opaque, which is really nice Because when you use black you do want it to be like proper dense black So like I said before this video is sponsored by Squarespace and it offers such a great range of Website building tools for you I use Squarespace to host my portfolio site And I I really felt like it was useful to have something for people to go to to search for your name and to see your artwork In the future I'm thinking about selling my comics using my own commerce website on Squarespace and I think that would be really handy I just took a template that I liked and I went with it And then I just uploaded a lot of images that I thought were interesting And then I went to the about me page and a really little bit of a description about myself And it was super straightforward and easy to use Please head to the link in the description if you would like 10% of your first purchase of your website or domain Look down below for that link So I have been watching a lot of like abstract art kind of tutorials not tutorials, but Documentaries on YouTube there was one in particular that was Like a six-part series from BBC one and I found it really interesting because it explained why people Did abstract art or like the meaning behind it? And I really enjoyed it and there was something in particular that struck me was the just Markmaking and the importance of it and I really felt like I wanted to bring that forward into this piece a little bit Not that I'm doing it an abstract piece or anything But just that I wanted to make it more impressionistic if that makes sense So I don't want to have like a photorealistic view I mean, I suppose I've done that a lot in the past is made these sort of thick shapes within the image and built around that But that was kind of my plan for this in the beginning I made a very prominent decision prominent decision Yeah to make a yellow under painting So the colors would shine through to bring that vibrancy the painting overall won't have any kind of yellow tones But when you do an underlay of a color it shines through and it affects all the colors around it And I really think it's very important to do a color underneath And I think it really helped with this situation to Show that we're looking at one piece of scenery and bring all the colors together into a sort of color family I think that a lot of people leave out that step and that's something I used to do as well was just not have an under painting And it really helps so I suggest giving it a go for this piece I wanted to be really free and I hope that it shows in that Aspect because as I was painting the clouds and looking at the scenery It was obviously changing as I was doing it because it's real life and I kept looking out the window looking back and then Even at near the end of the day it was kind of getting a bit more cloudy and gray rather than this bright Sunshine that we see at the beginning. So I had to kind of rely on my own Memory of what I had seen but also trying to depict what Was there at the beginning but also is there now So I was kind of blending as I was going and just making it up as I went along a little bit But looking as well at real life and it felt like it really helped the piece come to life a little bit because it was just And I was chasing like a little bit further on with the buildings because I start out with these buildings and I make a decision to Make it more from my own mind and taking stuff from what I was seeing and make my own composition From the beginning and then I realized that maybe doing that was detrimental to how I was painting This because I was looking at the buildings But I was also trying to imagine what I wanted the composition to look like so when I went to put them together The perspective didn't really make sense and it was difficult to envision that and I think I made a harder task for myself By making up part of the visual instead of looking at one fixed point of my view Which I didn't do I just kind of went for it, but in the end I think I really prefer it I do mess around with the buildings I only painted free in the beginning and I realized that I looked really weird like there was just this big gray Area in the lower left and I thought I don't really like the way that was looking And I really wanted the mountains and the sky to be more of the vocal point if that made sense and so I went back in and I started just to add more buildings as They go down the slope towards the sea you can see lots of different roofs and patterns of houses and stuff So I decided that I wanted to obviously make that part of the image And I did and I think it makes it more visually interesting definitely than just having a big block of gray roof And then another block of gray roof and I felt like it really added to the picture But then also I had the problem where I was adding a lot of stuff and it was getting a little bit Too complicated So I went in and I just thought you know what I'm just gonna have fun with this I'm gonna block out shapes of different color. I'm gonna match colors Even though maybe that building is not necessarily the same color as the other building To round off the color family within the image and I really started to enjoy the painting again It became less hard work and more enjoyable again So I started making blocks of color and just kind of going with it and feeling the motion of the the picture and just kind of forgetting that I had to Get something that was detailed and on point and when I started to do this I realized that it was really coming together a little bit better Am I a hundred percent happy with this picture? No, but I feel like I learned a lot from doing it and also I think that it does look good. It's interesting to look at It's not perfect But I think most things that I do are not perfect and if we strive for perfect then we'll never get anywhere So I'm glad that I did this. I think it looks very nice I might hang it on my wall. I really like the color composition of it and there are things in it that irritate me, but That's it. I think that's what I'm just gonna leave as because I really like the way the forms just Feel and sit and rest together and as well the colors overall just work And I'm really glad that I just loosened up rather than try to be finicky because I don't think I'm a finicky artist I think I'm Definitely a loose painter. So it makes more sense to me to just follow what I I like to do and in the end I think that came out as a better result when you just follow what you know and You follow what you are interested in doing as well because I felt like because I was trying to push a certain direction That wasn't really me. It just didn't it came off as that Whereas just going for what I enjoyed painting it it made it around the picture work better So that would be my suggestion to you guys is like not always think like you have to paint really realistically or In a certain style just try and follow what you enjoy Okay, so I think that's the end of the painting I might mess with it a little bit more because I can't seem to stop but I think it's final I think I need to stop painting it now and yeah, I Quite like it. I like parts of it and other parts. I'm still Wanting to fight with but I'm just gonna leave it now and let it breathe and maybe Look at it again tomorrow, but I think for now it's done I said that like 500 times overall the jelly paints were really nice and I really liked them I think they were a bit oilier or something So they took a while to dry long a little bit longer than the other jelly paints Not sure if the formula is different or something, but yeah, they were okay to work with once I got used to that fact thanks to suggest space for sponsoring this video There is a link down in the description. Thanks for watching. Please like and subscribe for more and I'll see you next time. Bye