 Hey guys, somebody's watching besides me Wait, I gotta gotta set it up so I can watch myself. It's been a crazy busy morning. How is everybody? I hope you're all good. I'm still seeing the commercial. Alright, so this morning before we get started We're gonna talk about a little bit about my vacation, which you probably all sick of hearing about but We're only gonna talk about it with with respects to watercolor Wednesday. Let me zoom in just a little bit It seems like I'm a little far away. That's better All right, so at the end of our trip we stayed an extra couple of days in Washington my parents if you don't know live there in little town called Rochester and we flew in and out of Portland because it was less expensive but Portland and Seattle are only like a couple of hours apart from each other and Both of them are like an hour and a half away from my parents. Anyway, the ship left out of Seattle So when we got picked up at the end of our cruise I pretty much begged and pleaded with my parents as I have probably not done since I was five Please, please. Please. Can we go to the Daniel Smith store before we leave Seattle? Hello, Katana? and of course my mom who's all for it and Creative in her own right said sure the guys were not Too pleased but it was kind of funny because the Daniel Smith store by the way, it's fabulous if you're in Seattle It's on 41 51st Avenue in Seattle Their address is Daniel Smith comm their web address and I do recommend if you that you go there definitely go there It is hard to find and Seattle like a lot of big cities is constantly undergoing construction and You know street improvement and that makes it even harder to find we got lost so many times. Hey, hey, Chetah. How are you? We got lost so many times and my parents live up that way and we still got lost. It was hilarious We had so much fun just trying to find the place, but anyway Despite the fact that it's a little hard to get to I recommend that you go if you have a chance I've been to a few of the Shops associated with some of our websites that we all love as artists and mixed media artists like Dick Blick And I've been to a couple different dick blicks now at this point Generally, I have not been to Jerry's our drama and I haven't been to the UK yet So I haven't been to Jackson's so I can only speak to the ones I have been to And Dick Blick I love their website, but their stores never quite live up to the website the websites usually for obvious practical reasons have a lot more product in them Then are on them then the store has in it You know, you can't possibly usually stock the store with every single thing you have on the website At least I didn't think so Don't I went to Daniel Smith. Oh my god, you guys Nothing they have so much more in the store Then they have in on the website I can't even tell you if you go to the Daniel Smith website to shop. They really only have Daniel Smith products and but in their store they have golden they have Windsor Newton they have not just painting supplies, but framing supplies and and caustic and They have so much. I can't even tell you the store is so huge now I had my family with me and my husband, which makes art shopping and filming Uncomfortable Especially when you have the men hovering around behind you. Are you done yet? Are you done yet? So I do plan on going back and the next time I go. Yes, I'm gonna film this time I only took a couple still images they are at the end of off to Alaska part 5 They are also on my website and I think I loaded them to the group page or at least one of them They had every single color of Daniel Smith watercolor in the store, which I've never seen any art supply store I've ever been to the carries Daniel Smith usually has a select grouping of colors They never carry the whole 238 to branch because this was Daniel Smith's flagship store and factory They had all the colors yes, and they said and factory the paints and pigments are the paints are made in Seattle They're you it's a USA made and distributed paint brand. I love that It's easy for those of us who are in the States to get because it's made here It's not any more expensive than any of the other artists grade paints And if you are like me and you really want to upgrade to dark artist grade paints Just buy one or two tubes at a time. Don't feel like you have to buy a whole giant set of them That's the way to do that when you're on a budget, and that's how I built up my collection. Okay That being said I met before even got in the store I met Deborah Burns who was the blog specialist for Daniel Smith in the parking lot I have this tape here because her phone number is down here at the bottom And I'm not really okay with giving out people's phone number even if it's a work number But You can get the Daniel Smith blog at Daniel Smith blog calm and again their address is 41 51st Avenue South Seattle, Washington And I do recommend you go there and Deborah was a very very nice lady. She's already friended me on Facebook and She said my name sounded familiar how cool was that Daniel Smith doesn't sponsor channels or anything anymore, and they don't need to I you know I tout their products anyway I have bought every Daniel Smith product I own and they have not sponsored anything FYI. I'm gonna put that disclaimer out there So I went to before I even got into the store was having a cool time had a 10-minute conversation with Deborah loved it Okay, when I was there. I didn't realize I guess in my delirium, you know, I go to the Daniel Smith website I just go to watercolors. This is their watercolor Pamphlet and this is their color chart that has all I mean look at that Those of their watercolor paints And I just go to the watercolor I you know, and I knew they made oils. I had no idea they actually make acrylics now Some of the colors are being discontinued in there for they're either sold out already or they're on clearance on the Daniel Smith website They have a lot more in the store than it seems like they have in the website I had no idea they made acrylics, and I am gonna probably at some point want to Get a couple of tubes and start trying them as I run out of other paints and see how they compare to like golden They did carry gold and it seemed like they had every golden product on the planet They had a whole half an aisle way of golden But look at these colors in the Daniel Smith acrylics They have the standard colors and they have these fabulous iridescent colors Duo-chrome colors, which just the color varies a little bit depending on what angle you're looking at it The interference colors that have shimmer and then some pearl. I had no idea and so yeah I'm we're gonna have to try these at some point as my budget will allow And my you know I use up old paints and things like that because yeah, I'm totally interested in Acquiring some Daniel Smith colors They don't they have a cobalt teal And that would probably be one of the first ones I get to try next to some other teals that I have. Oh Yeah, I would change your settings too high Okay, so anyway, I probably one of the first colors I would try would be teal and compare it to some other teals I have and if I like it then I might be purging some of the other ones Their prices on the tubes weren't too expensive compared to other art quality paints So I'm interested in trying those. I did of course pick these up and you know as I was being rushed by my family Not my mom loved my mom, you know dearly in that respect She was like, you know, she bought some art supplies while she was there for my little sister and her partner Tiffany Megan and Tiffany are both artists too Tiffany works for Michaels, which we'll talk about maybe later, but Anyway, there is crazy about art stuff as I am and she bought them some stuff She couldn't resist while she was there While I was there I stocked up on something I actually needed which was transparent watercolor ground Think of it as clear just so for watercolor. I've used it in a video recently after the broadcast I'll try to link it below but I did a Acrylic and collage background and then I put a layer of this on it You have to let it cure for 48 to 72 hours and then you can water color over whatever was put on there underneath it And that page will react very well to the watercolor if you don't do something like this then the watercolor is not going to React well to things like acrylic paint and glue This gives it something to absorb into and I was running low on this so I stocked up and Of course one of the things I wanted to get when I was there is because I've been wanting to try them are The watercolor sticks and I was going to try to just get five That didn't work to just get five their acrylics were let's see Before I tell you that Let's see This does not say how big the tubes are This just has the colors so they had they had tubes and They had they had tubs like Tubbs this size and bigger. Oh see so the transparent if you like playing with your watercolors And when you want to do more mixed media with your watercolors and this is on sale at Amazon right now Get the transparent watercolor ground. You're not going to regret it. Just remember that after you use it Let it set for 48 to 72 hours. Just set that book aside and work on something else Don't try to work on it right away There were acrylics seen that they again they had tubes and tubs a couple different sizes of tubs that seem like and I think they started it like six or seven dollars for the smaller tubes Maybe somebody can look it up on the website and give us all a clue and hello Lisa. I did see you there and Hova Ward 16. Hello No, man or not good shopping buddies, especially for art supplies At least my men they're not, you know, none of the men in my life my dad my husband My daughter's boyfriend, none of them are artistic if we're at the sporting goods store The outdoor store the tool shop Or the electronics store then they're all fine But if we're at an art supply store or anything girly forget about it. They're like, are you done yet? Are you done yet? Are you done yet? So anyway, I did get some watercolor sticks I tried really hard to just get five Obviously you can see that didn't work. I just couldn't do just five I wanted to get enough colors that we could try them and have a good color selection without having to necessarily bring More stuff into it and yeah, we're gonna actually play with the sticks and or paints this morning I am going to be properly swatching the sticks in our review book and I have as You saw before I left we have the PBO paints, which I haven't done yet We'll be doing those in the book too not today While I was gone I got old a small set of old Holland watercolors Which I had to order like I paid I paid for all of these by the way Yeah So I got old Holland a small set of six tubes and I got white nights I finally got some white nights and I bought all of these they had to be shipped from overseas and We will be putting them in the book We're not playing with them today, but they did come in while I was gone And I also got three new brushes in one of you all recommended. I try these the escota versus till Brushes, so I got three sizes of their round This 10 sticks and the watercolor ground cost me around a hundred dollars Just FYI the sticks. I think we're eight something apiece But I saved up for this. Oh the best cerulean blue In acrylic or watercolor Not all companies even have cerulean blue. That's what that's one thing you should be aware of So I like Daniel Smith's cerulean blue. I just double-checking to make sure they actually had one I Also like schmink on Maymary blue and you're talking about watercolor if you want a really bright vibrant cerulean blue I would say go for Maymary blue or Mission gold which is one of my new Surprise ones that I like and I could see using the mission golds with the Daniel Smith very much Both of them are very light fast, so that would work. Well All right So we're gonna be working playing with these today. I have no idea how they work I've never used them before I haven't used watched any YouTube's about them. I don't have any We're gonna play today, and we've got our brushes to try I'm gonna put Debra's card over there. I do have my Daniel Smith palette and These are the Daniel Smith colors that I have in here That was a comparison that I did And you can see it's well-loved So we will probably be using it in conjunction with the sticks. I don't know that for sure yet. I have no idea But I have it here In case I pulled it out in case I didn't want to have to dig it out mid-broadcast Yeah, let's see so we're gonna be working on And put these in the water The poppies that we did on Monday if you were here for Monday's Monday with deco art that you saw me work on these poppies Some poppies inspired by these pictures that I took in Alaska and we are going to be Doing a watercolor version and trying the watercolor version so when I bought these I tried to get a cool and a warm of each color and then Really dark. I wanted pains gray, but they don't have pains gray. How funny is that? They up, but I got black. I of course got moon glow which is a gray purple color. I didn't really need and Of course, I got I got the teal because you know it was teal. I couldn't resist. All right, so let's put that there We're gonna work in our Watercolor journal at some point when we fill this journal up. I'll do a proper flip and put it on YouTube for you guys Before I left I photographed a few of these pages so I can get some new postcards made and that there is a Sunflower one I did from the twinkling H2O's This is the one from the PBO colors. Oh Thanks Okay, so here we go Thank You Cheta. Yeah, this is a fun journal when I made it. I didn't intend on using it for watercolor I was gonna use it as a big glue book and Yeah, that didn't happen Obviously, all right And I came home completely stuffing and congested all right Let's zoom out just a little bit because you can't see the whole page. All right. The first thing we're gonna do is draw And See Use I think this pencil and I also want to have out my pilot varsity pen Hey, how are you? All right, so we're gonna use our photos as inspiration, but we're not looking to copy them exactly, right? We don't do that. I don't do that. I never do that So the first thing I'm gonna do is the pencil sketch drawing what I see Not what I think I see Think about that statement It's way easier said than done and It's something you kind of have to practice and train yourself to do So I'm picking out a few flowers for my inspiration photos now this Photo and this is one I altered in dynamic auto painter. I ordered altered this photo and Took out of some of the details made it more fuzzy basically. I used the application called Benson Dynamic auto painter makes your photos more painterly and it's a good app to use when you're painting from a photo and You do less realistic more expressive pains like I do Anyway, that being said this particular photo is on my website at Gina be errands calm and for downloads so that you guys can use it if you want and paint from it or use it in collage It's a free download go to the inspiration photos page. Oh, thank you. So lots of loose sketching lines. I'm not I'm gonna leave the lines on here. I never as you all know never Erase them. I like to leave them and let them Suggest help me suggest my shapes. I Think they make the piece more interesting. There goes my dog As you know, he knows mom's live. So let me bark I Honestly, just use whatever pencil is handy. This one happens to be a prism a color 6h That says something else on there. Hold on USA. Can we seal prism a color turquoise? zero two two seven three Six it's a 6h drawing pencil. I think it came in a set of pencils So just get on it. Just make yourself have yourself do backgrounds do something like backgrounds Or you know when you're having a block, that's when I do backgrounds. I clean and purge Listen, we all get stuck for inspiration And maybe if you're really stuck that's the time to get out of your space and out of your own way and go out and Take photos Go walk around the neighborhood take some photos of some pretty flowers and plants but we all have moments where we're Kind of stuck for inspiration don't so don't feel definitely don't feel like you know, that's just something that is Wrong with you. I'm kind of feeling like I want one more flower on here So we're gonna put one more. I don't when I'm doing watercolors I almost never erase the pencil and I usually use something pretty hard because you really can you know You can push really hard on it and because the lead is so hard. You're not gonna get a dark line Honestly though most of time I don't care. I just grab a pencil and sometimes I Do the pencil sketch this way and then I? Go over and color pencil We make my picture bigger and see if you guys can even see what I'm doing. Oh, you can't why didn't one of you say something? Suddenly my picture is blurry. What the heck? There we go. You can kind of see it. It's gonna be pretty faint But I do want to zoom in a little bit for you so you can see The pencil marks a little better. Let's see So you can see there that they're just they're pretty faint sketchy lines. They're not You know, I haven't I haven't done anything really dark And I really just suggested the leaf stems Let's see if I can move some things around so we can stay zoomed in So there we have our pencil sketch. I do think we're gonna put some pilot varsity pen on here Now this is not a waterproof pen. This pen will bleed But I know that I'm prepared for that So if you're gonna, you know, whatever pens you're gonna use in your painting whether you're using watercolor or acrylic know what they're gonna do and So that you can work with it and I just want to put a little bit for right now where the flower centers would be We I'm not gonna go too far with this pen because we might want to add more of it later I have no idea how these work. I have a Red a pink and a violet. I think that we're gonna start with and we're gonna take our medium brush I need a rag Now before we get started, let's grab a scrap of paper and let's use a dark color so that we can see You know on camera This is what colors this Qued awkward own red Now this is just coloring it straight on the paper. I'm gonna do this first because I don't know what these crayons are gonna do Look at that so the the pigment in the crayon dissolved almost completely and Look how brightly pigmented they are plus. These are lightfast. This is rated excellent They have the lightfastness rating right on the crayon How cool is that? Okay, so let's try like we would do with a neocolor sometimes and we would do this. Oh Look at that Okay, I'm liking these crayons. These are Daniel Smith watercolor sticks and good morning, Alan Okay, so we are gonna start with we're gonna start with the red. I want to start with the red So we're gonna start with the red I'm gonna start by taking it off the crayon Now remember with watercolor, you know, you have to work From a lighter or medium color and work your way darker So if you're gonna start with a medium color like I just did then you need to leave white space and This particular journal is all about just playing and having fun. So if I make a mistake It's not a big deal It should never be a big deal. You should just play and have fun with your paints. I Talked about that yesterday and yesterday's daily thoughts Now before I go too far while that's still wet. I'm gonna go in with my pink This is opera pink which in the regular Daniel Smith paints is one of my favorites. It's a really bright pink Oh, but you know what? I'm just realizing I can do this right Duh, I like the look that you get a little bit cranny a little bit watercolor-y You can blend some of it. You can choose to blend all of it. I Think I like these now. I'm gonna go with the violet. What color is this? This is qued awkward on violet Test it on our little piece of paper. That's a nice color I don't throw these little test pieces of paper away. I toss them in happy mail. I use them as bookmarks Just FYI Hey paper junkie. How are you? We're playing this morning with Daniel Smith watercolor sticks Now I did hear a rumor not long ago that Neo color twos are not necessarily light fast. We all love our neo color twos. I have a big giant collection of them Daniel Smith watercolor sticks are of course depending on the color. They may be more or less like fast than other colors But that's an advantage to using Sorry, I'm having trouble painting and talking at the same time That's an advantage to using like a fine art paint material painting material Neo colors are student grade Which I had no idea until recently I am from California as My husband will tell you because he's from New York the land of fruits and nuts and it really is the land of fruits and nuts Now because these are in a crayon or stick form. I would venture to guess and we're gonna try it so we will know We will know today that it's gonna be difficult to Color on top of them or do other stuff like right? I should say right on top of them Now see that was interesting the crayon marks don't want to dissolve So we'll just work with it more add more pigment Which we need to do anyway Can you hear me crunching on my cough drop? I came home congested full of allergies. Alaska is beautiful But it's very rainy and everything is blooming So I'm using I only have ten of the sticks. I love them, but I only have ten of them I mean, you know my budget will only go so far So and I had to save up for that so I am using the colors I have I have some pinks of red and a violet So we're using what we have and I have the inspiration photo right here So I'm using it as inspiration for where to put the colors. I have The lamp black which we're gonna grab a little bit of there's a dog again So I like to work with the paint when it's pretty wet for the most part I like to work with what's happening with the unexpected Puddles and blooms of paint I find that fun and it's a challenge controlling where your colors go and what happens and and letting that suggest the shape that you want Yeah, and Alaska is a rainforest so everything's blooming like all the time and everywhere. I want to have these giant beautiful red poppies this is moon glow which is a Grayish purple color and I'm gonna paint in some of the shadows on this flower here He was glad to have us home Not that he doesn't you know like our daughter or anything, but he loves dad It seems to yeah, it seems to I mean you can't you won't be able to see it on camera But where it's drying there seems to be a little bit of a sparkle And I don't have green in the crayons. So that's one of the things we're gonna have to break out the other palette for I Could mix green of course I could mix green, but you know Not a big fan of mixing colors. I mean, I know how My spray bottle walked away. Okay, let's get our greens wet. I Have four greens in the Daniel Smith watercolor paint line. I have Yellow green phthalo yellow green green gold sap green and cascade green We are gonna start with the lightest one, which is the phthalo yellow green the lightest and brightest and We're gonna put some of that on our stems. I'm barely touching my paintbrush to the paper and I'm creating an uneven line Touching on all the places here where there would be Sunlight hitting hopefully sunlight hitting the stuff Okay, now we're gonna go in with a darker green and I'm gonna go in with Yeah, sap green Now I'm going to clean my brush off and I'm gonna put some just plain water on that sap green and Blend it just a little bit and where it's where the other green is wet It's gonna blend and I may force it just a little bit But not too much We're gonna do all the stems first Try not to stick my hand in anything that's wet. I had a fun time painting in our state room on the ship When I wasn't Eating I ate way too much crème brûlée and of course the one day we hit a storm And oops my husband and I got both got seasick he got actually more sick than I did which is unusual So I got a little boo-boo right here, but that's okay. I'm gonna just make it work. I'm not usually for neat Paintings on me. Anyway, I like the splattery Look so we're gonna go with it See something was telling me to be splattery So some of your lesser quality paints are going to be well pigmented But there's just nothing like a good quality paint and then if you you know Go to all the trouble to create some of these paint pieces that you really love and you have it scanned And you've used a lesser quality paint then they're gonna fade over time. So I Would say to start off with use a better quality paint and definitely if you create any mixed media projects That you just really love Scan them scan them and and that way you have a permanent record of how it looks when it was bright and vibrant I'm just putting some water on here, and I'm letting things bleed Now these pictures of this particular picture of poppies was taken in Bouchart Gardens in British and Victoria British Columbia, Canada But I have to that being said poppies are everywhere in Alaska like literally everywhere Because it's so nice and moist up there. It's the perfect temperature. I guess for them Hey Teresa, isn't it your birthday today? So this is opera pink So we're gonna go in with opera pink here, and I'm gonna put it on the parts of the poppy that are lighter and brighter That are being hit by the sun 41 you're just a baby. Oh to be 41 again I shouldn't say that because I'm happy with how old I am Okay, let's do this one. Let me let that dry just for a minute. We're gonna do this one over here, and I'm just In case I'm off camera, which I probably am I'm Swiping it off the edge of the crayon Those of you who are just joining us like Teresa, I'm using Daniel Smith watercolor sticks Which I bought when I was in Seattle on my vacation I saved up so that I could buy them when we were up there I've been really wanting to try them So now I'm gonna go in with the crayon into some of those same spots, and I'm gonna just add more pigment not everywhere I'm 52 also Lisa. I'll be 53 in August. This is Quedachron and red really liking them and I think that From I mean I have a limited color range here. First of all, they don't make all the colors in the sticks that they have in the regular paints That's the first thing you should probably know and I have a I only bought ten sticks. I Mean, you know my budget was not unlimited that being said And I also I should say I have every single color of neocolor to crayon That being said of the limited colors that I have I Like the way they behave better with the water than the neocolors do They seem to be easier to blend whether you draw on the paper with them or you're using them from the crayon They seem to be easier to blend out the pigment Than the neocolors are and This one up here is dry and I can tell you just by feeling it. It's less waxy Then the neocolors are one of the things we're gonna try today as we are going to Paint these flowers and then I think we're gonna go back over parts of them with a pen to see how they write on top of because Any of us who have used neocolors know They don't really write on top of very well Because they're so waxy so I'd be interested to see how these perform. I might like them better Even though there's limited colors. Oh in December Lisa is your birthday Now I just decided I'm liking the the accidental accidental like smudgy thing. So we're gonna make some of these other colors do the same thing and They're reactivating nicely, especially in the parts where I put some of the crayon down and I didn't activate it that much to begin with Yeah, this is cold press cold press is my preferred paper. I'm not a big hot press fan I don't like the smooth. I don't like the smooth smoothness of the paper I like a little bit of texture. I also am not a big fan of rough press because I like a little bit of texture But not too much. I like when the paint kind of sticks into the little divots in the paper And the only way to know what your paper preferences is to try them and to be budget friendly I would say find out where When your local art supply is having a paper demo So lots of the companies like Strathmore and Fabriano, especially over the spring and summer we'll have demos and In the demos frequently they will give out paper samples and or paint samples. I Went to a Sennelier demo at Lens Art and Santa Cruz last year and I got some Sennelier samples. So and Fabriano samples from a demo on the paper. So Try that if you're wanting to do some experimenting find out when the demos are at your local stores golden does them and golden Last time I was at Spinner while since I've been to a golden demo, but last time I was I got I Think a sample of medium and a sample of paint. I Think it was a fluid acrylic Hi Maria, you know 4950. They're not that hard You know, I don't know for me some reason turning 40 was like a big deal, but you know 50 was no big deal I don't know So so far so good. I'm liking that. Where's our moon glow? Okay, so let's go to our two violets. So again, we have quedocca don't violet and moon glow Yeah, I don't I don't care anymore Doesn't matter. It's just a number Regardless of your number none of us live forever. So, you know So just trying to define my pedals a little bit with color placement And this one's a little too uniform for me. So we may have to revisit it. I much prefer this one But you know, that's why we work in this journal. This is a you know, these are little studies. So if I was going to Work on an idea for a painting and I wanted to work out The colors in it and the technique for it before I actually painted it like for a client or somebody or for a gift I would do it in here first and Work out any problems I had with it here before I did the real thing Yeah, I much prefer the way this poppy is turning out to that one up there So we might have to read this event and see if we can fix it without making it too much darker So in watercolor painting a darker color around a shape will help you define said shape So to define the edges of this pedal. I'm making the one behind it darker Making the area around it darker and or leaving the white space of the paper Okay, I think one of the things I like about these and I don't like about this is that shapes are less uniform and this one's a little bit too just Regular in shape. So we're gonna have to do something about that. Let's see what we can do So laying on the pigment and then putting the water on the page in the direction. I want the pigment to flow Let's see. Let's try that opera pink They're different hold on let me do this and then I'll answer that question Actually, let me do this. They're different. I think that for me, they're more of a coloring a Coloring tool. I mean, I think I still prefer the the tubes because They're both equally easy to use but the tubes there are more colors in the color range to be honest There's not as many colors in the sticks but if you're talking about just adding a few water soluble things to your Paint kit for like traveling these sticks might be easier to travel with Then tubes of paint or a big palette box like I can't I don't ever take this big box traveling. It's too big It's getting better but I think if you are you know if I had to do it again and I was taking a class that said that you need to have a water soluble crayon. I Think I would I think I would probably buy these versus the neocolors. I like the way they work better No, I didn't bring the puppy home Pretty sure the guy who owns and would have frowned upon that since he raises the puppies To run the I did a rod But that being said holy cow. He was cute, you know Lisa when my grandmother passed it took it took us months She had so much stuff. We had no idea Make sure I'm using the right color because the moon glow and the lamp black Look the same in the stick. They look the same Yeah, we did thankfully my grandmother didn't live that far from where I was and She all four of her kids were living. So, you know, I was just kind of that She wasn't my mom. She was my grandma. So I You know, I was there to help them do what they needed to do But still it was a big job I'm gonna leave that one alone because it's just getting I don't know. It's alright. I'm gonna come down here and work on these Yeah, we we You know who knew how that my grandmother was a closet hoarder of just odd things We had no idea So we got in there after she passed away and she just had you know boxes of empty jars and boxes of boxes and You don't know what someone has until something like that happens And especially if you're on a timeline to like sell the property and that doesn't make it any easier It makes it harder. So because I have these sticks and even though I have this palette here I'm trying not to use it. I really want to play with the sticks and see how they behave Because we're using the sticks and I have a limited palette. I didn't get all the reds, of course I just got ten sticks We're using the violets for our shadow colors Although in the original photo if you look at my website, the poppies are red These are turning out to be pink poppies, but that's okay. You're using your photos for inspiration. We're not looking to copy them Shipped from Kansas. Wow Nobody went through it in Kansas before they shipped it to you. Holy moly Okay, this is black. I don't have pains to gray as from what I could tell they didn't have pains gray in the sticks Which Daniel Smith guys if you're watching you really should have pains gray Just you know a suggestion Okay, so I'm gonna darken the center of that one there. I'm gonna darken down here I'm gonna add a little bit of water to it. So just cuz your inspiration photos are in particular colors doesn't mean that You have to Paint them in those colors you print the pictures in black and white. So you're not distracted by the original colors and Then paint them and whatever colors that you want That sucks Lee so that nobody went through it before they sent it to you that should have been done I do think they make a sepia and I don't think I bought the sepia because that was like the one little Thing they were out. I got raw umber instead because they were out of that color on the shelf So but I can see me adding to these definitely they I am finding them a lot easier and to use than the Neocolors They just you know, they just don't they have a limited color range, but I'm liking them a lot. I'm going to use a Little bit of teal because you know, it's teal. Why not? It's my big brush I am liking these brushes by the way these I bought from Where did I get I had to order I ordered them from Jack since when I ordered the old Holland paints And they're a scotta versatile Synthetic brushes This is a number eight round and the other one was a number four round and then I have a small tiny number one and I am liking them a lot They work very well They're a little but they were a little bit hard for me to get so do I like them better than Princeton? Not necessarily because for me. They're a little harder to get Not really for any other reason other than that So I'm just putting a little bit of this teal in the background to sort of just brighten up a few little parts of the background but yes, I could definitely see me adding to my Collection of these crayons and maybe purging some of the neo colors like that's how much I like these better Okay, no, like I said before though. I don't have any greens. I'm gonna have to get some greens in here We're gonna go right into the cascade green So remember when you're painting not to dig any holes to China with your paint brush Let your brush do the work I'm just using a very light stroke And especially when you're using watercolor you don't want to even with good papers scrub at the paper too much And then I'm gonna come back in with a little bit of water. I got my brush wet, but I'm dabbing it off on a rag So a blotting it I should say so that it's not soaking wet And I don't want to lose all the expressive marks I just put on here with this dark green But I want to blend some of them make it look a little more painterly Okay Now we're gonna go into our sap green That sticks are very portable and they have these five crayon boxes They sell with them so you could get like five crayons and stick them in your travel bag That is very portable and these little protective boxes are really nice And you know, and I love the fact that they're made right here in the US They're made in Seattle their factory is right there next to their store on South first Fat that's fabulous. I'm still using the sap green and I'm going to do some So I just tapped the brush To that stem that I painted earlier in the light Yeah, phthalo yellow green. I want to suggest a leaf. I'm not looking to necessarily painting exactly You could you could totally use an exacto knife and just break a little piece off cut a little piece off and Put it into a little tiny pillbox or an Altoid tin Like these would be very much easier to create a palette out of for traveling Then even then the tubes would be from one thing you could do it at the very last minute You don't need to wait for anything to dry normally. I do this with a filbert brush Even in watercolor, but you don't have to use whatever brush you have It's just a matter of tapping the brush to the paper Sort of in a zigzag Making your zigs and zags a little smaller as you get up towards the top You also would don't have to worry about are the paints going to dry and crack and fall out of the palette If you make a travel palette or a watercolor palette out of these crayons Rather than letting tubes dry In a palette Not that I've really had a problem with that with the Daniel Smith paints generally when I have a problem with things cracking It's usually the lesser expensive brands and I find that you have to add more binder to them like gum Arabic. I Can already tell you I'm gonna want like a selection of greens. I can already tell you that All right, so let's see now. We're gonna go in with our cascade green. It's a little more water Just using the tip of the brush adding some suggestive shadows It's a darker color you could totally use a prussian blue for this Of course paints gray There's a lot of colors you could use to do this. I have the cascade green, which is a dark blue green The thing I'm liking about these a scot of brushes is there they hold a lot of paint and water You can go pretty far with them Without having to reload And my better brushes that I like using do that plus these are good quality brushes I have yet to lose a bristle With the lesser crawl quality brushes, you know, the bristles fall out. It's very annoying. I'm forgetting to talk Aren't I oops? I like that. That is nice. All right. Let's put some darkness here Oops wrong color. Oops. That is really nice. I'm liking these Let's see it's black Okay, let's close those up and move them out of the way. Let's dry Maria you're funny. Okay, so one of the tests I want to do on these is now On the flowers at least we've used the sticks, right? So how do they write on top of because as we all know neo colors don't run on top of very well So let's try here first You know, they write on top of beautifully if this was a neo color. You couldn't do that So this is again the part pilot varsity disposable fountain pen and I'm just going to use it to add some Marks to my painting here. I'm not looking to Outline everything. It's just another layer. It's another tool Don't be, you know, don't be afraid to use other stuff with your watercolor. We're mixed media artists for God's sake No rule mixed media means no rules We all have days like that Lisa. I mean Teresa Sorry, so mixed media does mean and should meet no rules If you create a piece using materials, you're not sure of holding up over time scan them scan them scan them If you want to sell said piece make sure that you give the purchaser a warning That not all the materials used in said piece are necessarily like fast Or that you're not aware that they are I know there are artists out there like Jane Davenport that Don't sell the originals. They sell prints because they're not sure of the light bass in this on some things Look at that. Isn't that nice? All right, you can also take remember I said we're mixed media artists. Whoops. That means no rules Take a white pen. Oh, yeah, I forgot I had that The water sprayer so this is a white pen, right? White uniball signal so don't be afraid to come in with a white pen or white gouache You know, this is this is About having in fun and being expressive or at least it should be It's not about listening to art Snobbs tell you. Oh, you shouldn't be doing that or you shouldn't be doing this. That's a load of ho come Don't listen to them Do it feels right. Now look at how that white and black pen just made that pop And when you're working in a journal like this, you know, these are think of it as a study so these are studies and they're not necessarily anything you ever expect anybody else to ever see and If you do something you love well sure then you could do a bigger piece that you want to hang on the wall But you can really be free to just be expressive and and make marks and create something that's just really lovely. I love that very much Okay, now let's watch the colors that I did buy because I definitely did not use them all on here But isn't that pretty a couple of Scraps of paper This is a that was a uniball signal white gel pen Which is done generally the pen I use for doing this when I'm working with watercolor I even carry a uniball signal in my travel kit It's like my go-to pen I use it a lot In fact, I usually don't get just one of them I usually get a couple of them and I always usually get them at jet pens These are kind of my go-to pens at the moment uniball signal in white and the pilot varsity disposable fountain pen in black Okay, we're gonna set this aside somewhere And these are the sticks that I bought Daniel Smith again Daniel Smith watercolor sticks Neo colors Yeah, you can't even see the whole box on camera and I don't want to zoom out anymore because I want you guys to see so all right We have I need my reading glasses so direct comparisons not necessarily going to be possible because You aren't necessarily going to have the same colors in the two brands But I'm going to get as close as I can Without digging through my entire box of new colors because honestly that would get old really fast The neo colors have way more colors. That's like one of the biggest things you're going to find than the Daniel Smith sticks oops, I Should have done this before I got on and did the live broadcast, but I didn't think of it till just now You kind of want it to go this way Okay, we need a red and we need a violet Yeah, I'm gonna want to get more of these. I that's probably a given There's no way on the planet that Yeah Neo color has a anything close to moon glow, so we'll just pick one. Let's see close this one. Let's do this one And then brown or an umber that's actually burn number and then black All right It took me a while to get all the neo colors just FYI These are the Daniel Smiths So this is what colors this new gambos. This is neo color Golden cadmium yellow. This is the Daniel Smith Hansa yellow light This is neo color yellow Daniel Smith cobalt teal neo color Turquoise green Daniel Smith cobalt blue neo color Dark ultramarine Daniel Smith opera pink neo color raspberry red Which is gonna be darker because it looks like a darker color see there you go Daniel Smith Quit awkward on red Neo color ruby red Now these are more waxy so they color better if you're just coloring with them These are don't color as well. Let's see quit awkward on violet Daniel Smith neo color purple violet But they're also like I said more waxy so they're harder right on top of Neo color a virgin which is one of my favorite colors in the neo color. I love this color. I have a couple of crayons Daniel Smith moon glow neo color burnt umber Daniel Smith burn number Neo color black charcoal. Oh, sorry. This is charcoal gray Oops, and then Daniel Smith That's black. I know I have black. We'll leave that on there This is black neo color black Now I have my neo colors stored in a box like this By color families and that makes it very easy to use them When you are going to use them and if I add to my collection of Daniel Smith crayons Then I'm definitely going to want to At some point put them in larger containers But if you're just going to buy like five crayons to start these little containers they have for the crayons are fabulous Okay, so these here on the left are the Daniel Smith watercolor crayons These here on the right are the neo color crayons And let's see what happens shall we now like we noticed before these crayons Daniel Smith crayons Really do I'm gonna turn in this way And I'm gonna zoom in Oh, I already am never mind All right, they do dissolve nicely in the water nearly completely Look at that luscious teal color I can I can see me wanting more of these. I definitely can see that That's okay, right? We did a painting using my new Daniel Smith watercolor sticks and right now We got the painting done. I'll show I'll put I'll bring it back on camera before we're done here But right now we're doing a compared direct comparison with the watercolor sticks and neo color to This sample I'm doing right now is the Daniel Smith watercolor sticks. They dissolve very nicely As we discovered already during today's broadcast. They also write over very nicely which Any of you who have used the neo colors for your mixed media know that neo colors don't necessarily write over very nicely So these are the Daniel Smith colors that I have and again I could work at these a little bit more than I am for the sample But what I am noticing generally speaking is that it's fairly easy to get the whole crayon to dissolve Nicely in the water without working at it too much These are the neo color twos. I didn't pick the exact colors because I do want to dig through my whole box of neo colors But I tried to get close So far the colors are pretty comparable as far as vibrancy But you have to work at it a little more to get them to dissolve now both of them you could Color on your pages or papers with them and then dissolve them instead of with water clear gesso That would be fun. I know they do a lot of that over in life book You can see here how consistently there's crayon marks in the background, which is without trying hard There isn't a lot of crayon. There's a little bit but not as much as over here Now this is the gray one that I put down by mistake oops Hello, I love I was in Victoria, British Columbia recently. Love it All right, so Daniel Smith watercolor crayons neo color two crayons Let's dry them. Oh Victoria was just gorgeous Tanya. I gotta tell you Okay, so this is the Daniel Smith one and we did a little piece earlier We were playing and creating our poppies Um that they write over very nicely. Okay, so they write over very nicely. This is a pilot varsity fountain pen This is the neo color to This is writing over it. Okay, but I feel like it's not writing as smoothly. I'm having more trouble And you can see the ink is darker, but they're both very vibrant and the neo colors neo colors are student grade Karen Dosh does make an artist grade which surprises me that these are the student grade neo color twos That really surprises me And I understand a rumor circulating around right now as the neo color twos are not lightfast the Daniel color Daniel Smith watercolor crayons are The life fastness rating is right on the crayon. That's the other thing is on the neo color twos I'm gonna put my reading glasses back on here so we can see if it's true. This is purplish red water soluble wax pastel swiss made water soluble Karen Dosh How's their address? It doesn't say anything about whether it's lightfast or not conforms to AP AST something M But the rumor is these are not lightfast And there's nothing on the crayon to tell you if it is or not On the Daniel Smith watercolor crayons lightfastness excellent Says right on the crayon for each color now like because depending on the pigment to use they may not all be excellent So you're gonna want it like this one is lightfastness to This is lightfastness one. So this is Lightfast but less so than the teal Excellent one of the ones. It's usually not super light fast as opera pink labels over the Yeah, this is light fastness for which is not very light fast if at all opera pink. I love that color, but it's not like fast This one is excellent so on the wall on the Daniel Smith ones when you're Yeah, yeah, see create and be free. It should be a state motto somebody's motto When you're picking the water Daniel Smith watercolor crayons, you don't have to do lots of extra research run around the store Ask questions. Just look at the crayon Itself and it'll tell you if it's lightfast or not Like I said, I love my new colors. Oh, I should say I like my new colors, but they're not from what I understand They're not like fast, which that's kind of sucky They cut they're really expensive to not be lightfast And if they are I could be wrong I'm frequently wrong is what I tell people I'm frequently wrong But if they are like fast, it should say, you know, I would think that it would stay on the crayon and it doesn't at all So there's that Does anybody have any questions? Who doesn't love cake I wait too much to cram a lay out vacation you guys No cake for me for a while. So these are my new toy and yes, I saw the post I love these little boxes. I got the boxes at the Daniel Smith store There are supply stores the first one I've ever seen That actually carries in stock The empty metal pallets and the empty watercolor pans 99% of the time I've got to order parts when I want to put a new pallet together The Daniel Smith store has them in stock in their store. That's how good that store is That's how much they have everything they have porcelain pallets. They've got the empty empty metal pallets They've got acrylic paint oil paint watercolor paint paper crafting supplies framing supplies everything So if you're in the Seattle area, there's two stores in Washington state I think I guess their flagship stores the one that's actually in Seattle the other ones outside Seattle So I would go to the one that's in Seattle. I Haven't been to the other ones. I can't tell you anything about it But it's at 4150 1st Street 1st Avenue, South Seattle, Washington. I Know right because we're always talking about menopause or food Why is that? so this is the painting that we made today and The flowers were done with the watercolor sticks the stems were done with the Daniel Smith what regular watercolor paints And I know right we're always talking about menopause or food here on on the live broadcast I'm not sure why that is Oh this pellet I Could ask about this palette a lot this there's two common questions I get so I Get asked about this palette a lot I Can ask a lot of questions about my paint collection that are honestly nobody's business They involve finances But I will tell you that I built up my collection of Daniel Smith paints by buying literally three tubes at a time I would go to my local art supply store with $25 and I would buy three tubes of paint that I wanted and I built up my collection that way when I wanted a color That they didn't have I Went to their Daniel Smith website and ordered them But I always limited my whatever my you know I had I limited my budget because I didn't have you know unlimited funds to build up my palette This box is an empty schmink palette. I learned after I bought it that there were cheaper options out there The one from Dick Jackson's art supply out of the UK looks exactly the same and it's a fraction of the price So I definitely would say look around for the container that you want to put them in the containers are going to come without them Little pans, so you're gonna want to order pans. This is a 48 pan palette You can get 52 pans in it and if it's in here nice and tight and they don't slide around So yeah, there's 52 colors in here. Yeah, just a few at a time that's the way to do it and And I have should they asked me if I was gonna be there for the weekend because they were having some cool demos I told her I was leaving on Sunday that Yeah, Sunday morning because one of the demos was Sunday afternoon So I'm definitely want to get gonna want to go back Which my parents won't complain about because you know, they live up there. They'd left for me to visit more So whether you're you know get getting sticks or or neocolors or two paints You know, you don't have to go out there and buy every color. You don't have to have every color right away Just buy a few colors and look around first to see what you have that'll work But I do definitely like these watercolor sticks. They are very nice and I love the way these flowers turned out and You know when you do these little sample cards, I don't know about you guys But I save them and I put them in happy mail or I make bookmarks out of them or They end up in mystery boxes Yeah, Lisa, let us know about their demo more about those them their demos Deborah did asked me if I was gonna be there for the weekend because They were having some demos that weekend that I was there and I was leaving so I wasn't gonna be able to go to them Yeah road trip, right I will tell you driving around Seattle if you have any issues with anxiety is not fun I mean, I'm glad my dad was doing the driving It was funny how many times we got lost and my dad has an excellent sense of direction and we still got lost so And we had the GPS on because there's just so much construction going on So I would definitely want someone else to do the driving Right. These are fun They're just little samples and we will be adding Daniel Smith watercolor sticks to our Review book But I couldn't wait to do a painting with them today And when you're putting your travel watercolor kits together to you know, look for some small You know spray bottles like this one to activate your You know paints with now. This is from my former employer American greetings. They sent these all to us It was a gift to all the merchandisers it was originally filled with hand sanitizer spray And I just washed it out and filled it with water Yeah, so Daniel Smith does traveling demos around the country They come to Lens Art and Santa Cruz once a year and I know they go to other art supply stores So definitely You know check out your local art supply stores They're going to start having lots of demos probably every weekend over the spring and especially into the summer Lens Art and Santa Cruz has At least one demo every single weekend over the entire summer Yeah, we kept getting stuck a hover work We kept getting stuck on the freeway instead of trying we were trying to get down to first Street our first Avenue South and we kept getting because of the construction accidentally rerouted on to the freeway it was just As something it was funny We passed by the giant Ferris wheel twice and I don't know how many times we went by the port and Yeah, my art supply stores frequently have Daniel Smith on sale So it's good, you know and Daniel Smith comm will sometimes have a sale So if you're going to want to stock up on your paints Your colors and expand your palette whether you're going for the crayons or the tube paints or whatever I want to try the acrylics Look when they have a sale and and you know your if you only have twenty five dollars You can make it go a little farther if you do it when it's on sale Does anybody have any questions and I am liking these brushes again. These are a scotta See wait, let me Try them off These are a scotta Versatil Synthetic brushes I did have to get these from Jackson's out of the UK because I Was going to be too hard for me to go to a bunch of research and see if I could find them locally And none of the local websites had them So I ordered them from Jackson's at least not that I can I could find and I didn't search super hard So I because I was getting ready for Alaska Yeah, those are the kind of things that we you know that we will remember when they're gone, right? Yeah, your fine art supply stores look for your fine art supply stores If you have a college or university nearby, there may be a fine art supply store near the college or university So look there You may have to go one or two towns out to find one. They're not Frequent like they used to be anymore. Oh Good, I'm so glad Lori But yeah, that's one that's one memory I'm always going to remember getting lost in Seattle with my dad and my mom yelling at him because he's hard of hearing And her yelling at him the front right the front seat. No, not that way go left go left Him going right because he can't hear I'm telling you guys it was hilarious Even with hearing aids he doesn't hear her so I don't know what that means Maybe that's why they've been married so long. All right. That's it for today. You guys Daniel Smith water color crayons Two thumbs up. We love them. They're made in the USA. They work fabulously Love them. Love them. Love them Yeah, don't they don't they So, yeah, I'm glad I added them to my collection of things and I will probably be looking to expand the collection of those They're a little more expensive than the neocolors, but look how big much bigger the crayons are I mean the crayons are just huge In comparison to the neocolors They don't have as many colors as the neocolors and As the regular Daniel Smith water color line they the colors are more limited, but what they have is very nice. Oh I'm glad to I will be back on Monday because we'll do another Monday with decor. I Have got to go run some errands. My daughter is moving out with her boyfriend this weekend and I've got stuff to do and Mystery boxes to mail mystery boxes sold within a couple hours last night. I've got a mail. Everybody's mystery boxes today It'll be the recording for today's broadcast will be on the channel. You'll be able to watch me do the painting and Yeah, don't be afraid to you know mix up your mediums. We're mixed media artists that means there's no rules So just because you did the painting with watercolor paint doesn't mean you can't go back and add pen and gel Pen or acrylic paint or something to it to jazz it up. All right. That's it for today guys I'll be back on Monday with Monday with decor art and we will be doing another It's painting from an inspiration photo for my Alaska trip And I have a Lake Tahoe trip coming up later on this summer that I will be taking you out on a Photographic journey with me. Do you have a postal scale to compare their weights? Oh, yes, I do have a postal scale But it might say on the There's always lots of questions So here's a Daniel Smith, I mean, here's a neocolor crayon hang on All right, so this one does it stay on here. How big it is I'm trying to read it without my glasses on That you know, I am 52 that doesn't work anymore Hmm. Neither one of them do I have an old-fashioned postal scale. Let's see if it's heavy enough to Okay, let's away the Daniel Smith one first There are no rules right it on your wall Okay, two Daniel Smith crayons is just about an ounce That's for two crayons. So about how little less than half an ounce each because they were a little less than an ounce Alright two neocolors to one Daniel Smith. I'm not sure yet But we will be there for a week So you can get two or three neocolors to one Daniel Smith watercolor crayon. I'm watercolor stick So these are about double the size of a neocolor But yes, so we're gonna be in Lake Tahoe later on in the summer and I'm gonna be at least taking you on a photographic journey with me again like I did with Alaska and We'll see what happens. I may try to do a live broadcast from there. We'll see All right, that's it for today everybody. Don't forget the most important thing You remember what that is right? Besides there are no rules and yes write that on your wall paste it on your forehead do a journal page There are no rules. We're mixed media artists no rules But the most important thing is don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it You're welcome. No problem. There's always a last-minute question I'm always trying to sign off and there's a question and I always think ooh good question. So no worries But yes, if you if you go to the Daniel Smith's store and you run into Deborah Burns tell her I said hello, hey Daniel Smith has a Facebook group and on their Facebook every single Wednesday Deborah posts a what color Wednesday post so they'll put a color swatch on there and they have a contest Well, it's a little game that you guess what color that is So go over and I already did my guess this morning. I'm pretty sure I'm wrong But but I did my guess so go over and to the Daniel Smith's Facebook page and see if you can guess what color green that it's a green color All right, that's it everybody. I'm gonna go run my errands. I've got to get the boy Daughter's boyfriend not my boyfriend. I don't have one a Graduation card he graduates this Friday from college and they're like I said moving in together So I've got to get some gifts and Run some errands and mail those mystery boxes All right Monday, we'll be back with Monday and decor and Wednesday will be here with water color Wednesday And I think that we're gonna be working with either the white knight or the old Holland And I think that's it for right now. Everybody have a great day And I will talk to you later You know things are crazy I'm crazy. I don't know I'm gonna take a picture of things before I put everything away See you later Teresa have a happy birthday. Everybody wish Teresa happy birthday and do something nice for yourself Don't don't be don't be dependent on other people being nice to you for your birthday because you know just don't All right. Bye guys