 Hey Ian, how are you? I'm just getting started. It's been quite a morning. Hey Kathy. Alrighty. So first things first, we are going to get started with the iPad first. And as usual, I'm watching my broadcast on my iPad while my desktop is doing the actual broadcasting. I have an HD webcam on a long cable so I can move it over to my art table anyway. So I'm going to click on the display and click on the three dots, click on quality, click on the highest resolution it'll let me. That'll give me the best picture I can get so that I can keep an eye on what everything looks like. And we'll set this off to the side so I can look at the chat. Then we're going to cover our hands with some art guard. I woke up this morning to ants in my kitchen. Like seriously, I think all of Santa Clara County is built on a giant ant hill. Drives me crazy. So that's how my day started. Hey Tommy girl, how are you? So needless to say I'm on my third cup of coffee because I just feel like after battling ants in my kitchen this morning and cleaning my kitchen and then having to do laundry and everything that goes along with that. Yeah, I needed to have another cup of coffee. All right. So we are going to use the Daniel Smith watercolors today and I'm going to activate them with some water that has ox gall liquid in it which is from Windsor. The one I have is from Windsor Newton. I have to get the inspiration photos like all wet. We're going to move them. We're going to put the brushes over here. All right. So instead of spraying it, I really liked how the paints reactivated by putting some in with a dropper. Also, if you are more careful about how you put your paints in your metal watercolor box and you don't have to worry so much about the box maybe rusting. Now, I will say it's not the box that rusts. It's this tray that holds the watercolors in because it's not enameled on the back side which is kind of dumb. No, yeah, although we do have flying termites in Santa Clara County and my parents' old house when they lived here, we had that in actually our garage which was disgusting. I went out there one day to get something out of the freezer and every single surface was covered in termites. It was gross because they were migrating. But yeah, it still wasn't a great thing to wake up to first thing this morning. I should have done this before I went live but my morning has been unexpectedly busy and I know I say that a lot but today I really mean it. This whole ant thing termite. Now, you got me saying termites. Yeah, this is a great way to activate the paints and also ensure that you're not wasting your water everywhere and that you're not taking any extra chances on the box rusting. Now, I will tell you that I do lift up the tray. This is the most used box I have so I do lift up the tray every now and then clean underneath it. If there is any rust under there, I clean it off. I do have a piece of plastic wrap between the tray that holds the paints and the bottom of the box. The inside of the box is enameled so I worry less about that rusting through than I do the tray. But now that I know about Jackson's art and I know a cheap place to get these boxes should I have one that just really gets really past it and really rusty. I can just buy a new one. Yeah, less damage to the brushes too. I agree with that. I'm good. It's just been a crazy morning Tommy girl. We're using Daniel Smith. I edited the title of the broadcast to reflect that. Daniel Smith is my preferred paint. I really like their color range. I like the way the paints granulate. I like the fact that they're really easy for me to get because they're local to my area. So we're going to do a cherry tree. I don't know how this is going to turn out, but we'll find out. I need a pencil. That'll work. Hey, Lisa. Both Lisa's Lisa. Oh, and Lisa. Did I see? Yeah. I'm Lisa S. Hey, all right. So we have all of these pictures that we need to thank Mr. Ian for sending to me all of these fun inspiration photos of cherry trees and some of Japanese gardens with I think that's a Japanese maple, but that's really great inspiration. So we're going to use one or more of these pictures to create our painting today. And I think our main composition is going to be from this one, but we're going to change the maple tree to a cherry tree. Sorry. All right. So I'm going to set my pictures up propped up against the cabinets. I have these really great photos of cherry blossoms that he also sent me. I'm going to put one of them in front and set it up off camera. There we go. So I have some good inspiration. I like cooking, but it's really hard for me to stay focused. You know, I love cooking and I'm not a bad cook, but, you know, I get distracted the phone rings or something like that and then I burn everything. It's just, you know, squirrel. I'm okay. All right. So I got happy mail recently, which I loved and I appreciate all of your guys happy mail. This particular happy mail have this really interesting brush in it by Rosemary and Company and it's a triangular brush with a fabulous tip. And I haven't, I mean, you can see it's still got all the sizing in it. So we're going to try it this morning. We're going to get all of the brushes wet and our paints are getting nice and juicy. Now this is just an empty medicine dropper bottle. You can get these from American Science and Surplus and I usually have quite a few of them around and it is a great thing to put your watercolor water in with the Oxgall liquid in it. And then you can just use the dropper to put the water in the pans. If you have little kids around, save one of their empty medicine bottles and wash it out and use that. My daughter's 22 and I don't have kids around anymore. Just do yourself a favor though and what I'll do as soon as I'm off camera is label it because I forget what's in here. I'm sort of, can you be a half vegetarian? Because I do eat quite a few vegetarian meals, at least when I'm home. So my family makes fun of my fake chicken. So I'm going to first, I like this picture here which I don't know, I'm going to move everything down just a little bit. Let's see if you can see it on camera. I'm okay Gail, how are you? Baddling ants in my kitchen this morning. I'm on coffee cup number three. The secret project is done and out of my hands and there'll be an announcement about it this weekend. So there we go. So you can see most of the picture up here. So we're going to just like do a quick pencil sketch of I like the little bridge in this photo and the movement of the tree. Yeah, there was a, we had a little tremor this morning. I don't think it was very strong but I was, you know, finally had the ants all cleaned up and I was sitting drinking my coffee and the house felt like a truck ran into it. So, yeah, but, you know, it was it was fine. You know, I'm a California native so I don't you know, they happen. It's not nothing you could do about it. Oh, that's a good, I'm reading back on the comments so that's a good tip. Sometimes you can buy these empty bottles at the pharmacy or the drug store. So you might want to ask and semi-vegetarian semi-vegan. Okay, so I'm semi-vegetarian. I would never be vegan. I like cheese too much to be really honest. I could not do that. I could like probably give up eggs but I can't give up cheese unless it's going to kill. Well, we won't go there. I can't give up cheese. I don't eat it as much as of it as I used to. I do have high cholesterol but and they do. They seem, I looked to them, the Rosemary and Company people up and they have seemed to have a really good range of brushes and in your bedroom. See, at least they were in my kitchen. I'd rather have them in the kitchen than in the bedroom. Holy cow. Hi Sharon. Hi Eve. It's not frozen for me so I don't know if anybody else is having trouble. I'm getting the page wet. These dropper bottles are really handy. I also have one that has alcohol in it that you've probably seen me use on camera. They are really handy in the art room. So I'm using my really big Princeton Neptune brush. Really big giant round. I don't think that's what it's called. It's a quill brush. It's a number eight quill. Yeah, we sometimes get them in the bathroom which is another strange place to have ants. I'm going to use Oh, my thing is upside down. Alright, let's turn it that way. So I'm going to use the Sleeping Beauty Turquoise which is a light blue color. My comments we're going to start talking about food. Y'all are going to make me hungry. Well, I love opera rose. It's a good color. Okay, and then I'm going to switch to a smaller brush. So let's see. I want to go with one of my greens. I'm going to keep it light for the moment. We're going to go with green gold and I'm going to just try to grab just a little bit. Yeah, maybe you need to send me that Pinterest recipe. I know when we were putting the new refrigerator in because like I said before we live in Santa Clara County and this is old farm community in fact where my house used to be an apple orchard years and years ago and I think that means we just have tons of tons and tons of ants and creatures and so anyway I had a habit especially when I had day care of getting a bunch of you know the little ant traps and putting them way back underneath you know the stove and underneath the fridge where of course where the kids couldn't get them but they would be under there and you know the ants would hopefully take the bait and not come back anyway when we move when we move the paint I mean the refrigerator and stove to clean underneath them when the new one was coming we found so many of the little ant traps I was like oh man we haven't done this since I got heard at work this is not good okay let's see the light is strong on the paper oh it is okay well let's see let's turn it a little bit or maybe let's see and I can also zoom in a bit hang on yes I Gail I I didn't get gifted these I bought these and I bought them like two or three tubes at a time until I built up my palette and this was before I discovered Jackson's art and I bought the empty box from Shminka but now I know about Jackson's art and they sell these metal watercolor boxes which I love and I won't stop using despite the fact that they sometimes have a resting issue I would just buy a new box but yeah no I bought this was not one that was given to me if that's what you're asking thanks Gail I hope that helps a little bit on the light it is very light painting I haven't put a lot of color on here yet and I can actually zoom in a little bit more I don't know let's play with the lights for a minute hang on a second let me turn off let's see is that better I turned off one of the lights you guys tell me if that's better give it a second because I turned off all the lights first and then it was really dark yes better okay good so we just have some light green and some light blue on here and then I want to I want to dry this my old dog who passed away he used to like to eat bumble bees and honey bees he was a weird dog the spiders yeah these are 15 mil tubes but you definitely can get their sets of paint in 5 mil tubes I didn't know that when I first started buying my Daniel Smith paints so so yeah so and I do recommend most of the time going to the website because they have the best selection of their own products but if you have a local art supply store that carries Daniel Smith go there especially when they're having a sale alrighty so we've got some different kind of brushes here I've got Princeton Neptune I've got an Escada brush I've got the Rosemary brush we're going to try this one I'm really intrigued by this brush okay so now we're going to go in with Opera Pink I think which is a really nice bright pink but it's not light fast so you're going to get a shadow over here of my arm because I turned off a light so but that's not on the painting so I think that'll be alright okay so I'm going to go in with Opera Pink now remember that I am not a realist painter by any stretch I don't sit and draw you know generally unless I'm doing a close up or paint you know each individual you know petal on the cherry trees and things like that I'm so all over the place this morning you guys so I want to put a light like a suggestion of some of these cherry blossoms in before we put any of the like branches or anything in which we might do with pen and I gotta say I'm liking the little interesting marks I'm getting with this triangular brush I'm just tapping it on yeah so I would try your local art supply for sure and if there's colors that you want from the Daniel Smith line or any line really that they don't have a lot of these places will order it for you um so ask ask them because they will probably order it for you now remember this is I want to do like it's like a little like a pond or a river so you know whatever's above the water is going to be reflected in the water right oh that's a good idea Ian you would think that they would enamel the whole inside of the box and the bottom of the tray because that's like every single one I own I think including the Prima this is a Prima one I think all of them the issue is not the inside of the box because they're all enameled it's the bottom of the tray that holds the paint in they're all there stainless steel so what I would tell you guys is if you get one of these before you put any paint in it take the box and take this piece out and spray the bottom of it with some enamel which I'm going to have to go back and do with some of my boxes now this brush you get such a fine point on it I am liking this brush Daniel Smith should be on my Amazon yes and this is a rosemary and company triangular brush series 40 and it was sent to me in happy mail recently and I am loving it absolutely loving it I don't remember right now because I've had kind of a bad morning and I've taken a lot of asthma medicine the last two days because of the fires in California so I don't know remember who sent it to me but without looking it up but I love it so so far we've used green gold opera pink and Sleeping Beauty turquoise for those of you who are keeping track okay so now I'm going to I'm going to start to suggest the tree branches and I'm going to use color I'm not going to use I have this color called tiger's eye that would be a good light tone I know you're looking at that going light tone but yeah you have to trust me so I'm going to just start at the base and then I'm going to push down hard I'm kind of twisting my brush as I'm going up and following my pencil line I'm also lifting the brush up okay we'll do that again I'm going to start at the base of my pencil line I'm going to push down and as I'm following the pencil line I am twisting the brush and I'm also lifting it up there we go I'm going to go to the base and I'm going to get it wet down here yeah I'm going to have to go back and look at the bottom of my boxes and I'm going to have to clean them all and I think Ian's got a really great idea and it's a pain when you have as many as I do but I think it's totally worth it to pull the pull the tray out clean your box off and then spray the whole thing with some enamel that's going to be hard for me because I can't really spray paint makes me weese I used to love to use spray paint my art but it makes me weese so I'm going to have to see if I can get my husband to do one or two boxes at a time or something the green gold is a beautiful color and it's one of the first ones I bought because it reminded me of the golden's green gold acrylic green gold and I love that color I don't know who doesn't love that color so I really wanted it for that now I'm going to just with the very tip of this brush barely touch the paper so I'm going to switch to I do have a little tiny brush here which is another esco to brush this is a number one round and we're going to stay with the same color for the moment I'm going to put a few more branches in you don't need to draw every branch and the fact that I've had extra coffee today is probably good for drawing branches because my hands are shaky and I but you want to twist the brush and you know you want to barely touch it to the canvas no digging I used to tell this to all my painting students at Michael's no digging any holes to China so it's not the little plastic pans it gets rusty it's the actual tray that holds the pans in the box the empty plastic pans are not expensive this box holds 48 I actually have squeezed 52 in here if you want to match you know if you want a big selection like this but I think I think I think 25 is good to start the triangle brushes are not super expensive I have some Raphael brushes that are a lot more expensive but I got to tell you I like it already alright I'm supposed to be painting aren't I we're discussing brushes holy cow I'm going to go back to that triangular brush for a minute put some shadows in under our bridge there's some shadows under here yes I am talking is anybody else having problems with the sound I guess if you can answer that question the answer is no yeah yeah yeah there's red cross again they want my blood hey Teresa can you guys hear them in the background I don't know if you guys can hear that the red cross is calling the house phone which is unplugged except for the one phone and there's an answer machine on it yeah anyway there's a reason for that because only people that call are like red cross they want my blood because I'm be positive which means they always need my blood type okay that's not a bad start I kind of I'm kind of liking this painting we're going to go back to a smaller brush this is one of my favorite watercolor brushes I think it might surprise you this is a generic store brand Utrecht brush this is a round number 6 the number on it is 6150R and I bought this when I was in Las Vegas with the girls for our little art retreat and I love this brush hi Miko how are you hi Teresa hi Matthew hi everybody so we've been using Tiger's Eye which is one of the Daniel Smith colors for the branches I'm going to go in now with some sepia which is a lot darker brown and I'm going to put a little bit of it on there and then I'm going to get some of it wet so it kind of goes where it may and suggest some shadows for us you can also do more branches with the darker color and your lines don't have to be you know equal even they should be crooked they should be broken because theoretically you would have branches of cherry blossoms you would have blossoms on top of some of the branches right so well that's good I wish you know I've never had a boss like that that would have been really nice to have a boss like that he gets bonus points of me practice this painting I haven't planned it out you or guys are seeing it as I'm painting it I have not planned any of this out just FYI oh Ian that's a good idea my husband might have some of that since he does he makes models and miniatures we might already have some of that that's a good idea and I think I'll probably just go through and do the boxes that are already having an issue first like the Daniel Smith box the ones that I use the most and then I'll go through and look at the others when I have a chance okay it should be about the cherry blossoms right so let's go in and put a little bit more detail on our blossoms we're gonna go in and use rhodonite which is a little bit more of a dull a duller pink it's not as bright and like fluorescent but it's still pink one of the colors I hate mixing is pink and I'm just tapping the brush onto the page if you look at some of the pictures of cherry blossoms that you can find on the internet go to paint my photo first of all they have some really great pictures and if you type in cherry tree you're gonna get like literally thousands of hits you know what Eve I don't even know I'd have to actually get the tubes out because I didn't mark that you can actually find a copy of the color key for this palette on my website on the watercolor Wednesday page and any of you who are watching the broadcast if you want you can go look at that maybe you can figure out how many primatex are on palette I don't have any idea without looking at the tubes my favorite are Daniel Smith they're easy to get they're made in the USA they have a huge range of colors some of which you can't get from other manufacturers I love them bonus their store and factory is up in Seattle Washington near my parents but trying to get my parents to find it and drive me there is I gotta film that for you guys next time that was hilarious that was so funny my dad kept making the wrong turn my mom was getting annoyed with him I think she I think he was doing it on purpose because I think he thought it was funny so I'm going back in with some of these darker pink dots and I'm just getting them wet because I want to be suggestive about this I want to suggest you know a park with cherry blossom trees blooming and some of these dots are going to blend and some are not because I've let it dry for a little bit and that's fine I'm fine with that I'm going to let it let it happen the way it will my parents my parents were they're funny they're a funny couple let's see I should be looking at the picture for you know suggestions and where to put stuff somebody want to explain that it's a particular range of colors that they have don't worry about it if you're going to start collecting any paints Daniel Smith or otherwise just get the colors that you love if you're concerned about your work being archival then look at the light fastness Daniel Smith has some colors that are made from unique sources and unique colors that nobody else has and that's one of the things I like about them actual ground stones exactly so I do have Tiger's Eye Minnesota Pipestone I think might be another one let's see I'm going to just go down the thing here I don't think rhodonite is one but it might be potters pink might be fuchsite is bloodstone is moonglow might be kyanite is I think lunar blue might be solidite is sleepy beauty turquoise I think is that's all I can think of right now you'd have to look again I'd have to go look at my tubes because I don't remember and I'm not having a great morning you know when you wake up and before you even have coffee you have to deal with ants yeah it's just not going to be a good day it's just not alright so I'm going to come in with some sap green which is still a yellowy green but it's darker than the green we first started with I am using the Japanese maple picture as inspiration although I am changing the maple tree into a cherry tree just FYI in case anybody wonders what I'm doing because you missed the first part of the broadcast Ian sent me some pictures and we are using them as inspiration moon glow isn't okay potters pink okay I think the solidite is I think the kyanite is the fuchsite I think might be I also have hematite violet bloodstone honestly I just pick them because they have the colors that I want to be really honest about it there are a few of the prematech colors though that I really like yeah those I have all those that's too big a brush yeah so Ian sent me some gorgeous pictures he's been really great for inspiration photos and putting he's been putting some inspiration photos in the facebook group too so you know if you guys need we have a photo album in the facebook group that is shareable pictures so if you guys need inspiration photos and you're getting sick of looking all over the internet go to the facebook group and go look there it is isn't it let's see so I'm going to take a little bit of the tiger's eye and the sepia that's in here and I'm going to add a little bit of Chinese white to it and we're going to try to bring out the bridge by painting around the bridge so painting in between the little spindles and adding a shadow you know the whole youtube thing happened by accident I was taking a class from Pauline Agnew and this was just before I got hurt at work with American Greetings and I she had a part of her class which is so funny looking back on it because the lesson in the class was thank you Ian so the lesson in the class was to do a jelly print a mono print and I had no idea what a mono print was I didn't know what a jelly plate was I said what how can you print with jelly like seriously that's what I said to myself I had no idea what they were talking about and after googling and I thought well I don't have that and I can't really afford that so how how can I do this lesson because I really want to try this so I just used a sheet of acrylic and came up with kind of my own way of doing things that she was kind of intrigued by and said can you show me how you do how you did that and I thought um okay so I couldn't figure out how to get video up anywhere except youtube I didn't have a great camera in fact I think I either filmed it with my old iPhone 4 or with um my ipad I don't remember and it is still up on my channel um it's the first video that I ever put up and um yeah so that's how it started and I got that one video up and then I just kept putting then I got her to American Greetings and I had nothing else to do so I kept putting videos up so it's all Pauline's fault the whole channel is Pauline's fault the whole thing I do like core watercolors and I have them in my mixed palette um they are super vibrant they came out after I started collecting paints but of course you know I have them and I love them yeah that's probably what he means Teresa so yeah the whole the whole idea of me doing youtube and all is Pauline's fault and watercoloring on um on here you know when they started allowing us to do live broadcasts well the obvious one for me was to do a watercolor because I watercolor all the time so I just thought that was kind of an easy no-brainer so like any other time I watercolor I'm going to I've started out light and I'm going to slowly make my colors darker and continue to add interesting marks that suggest the shapes that I want in my painting until I start doing something that I really like exactly so everybody give Pauline a thanks and if you want to learn more about fine art painting techniques and mixed media painting I really can't recommend a paid for class enough than anything by Pauline Magnu she's a wonderful teacher and she's got the patience of a state and I did not know anything about figure drawing or faces or anything until I found her so I would definitely recommend her the triangle brushes as I'm using it on this painting more and more it's my favorite I really like it I can see me ordering another one they I think they had him in two sizes but yeah I'm really liking this brush a lot not only do you have a nice flat it really flattens out well to do a wash but it comes to this beautiful point that's just it's a wonderful brush already looking at our painting on the camera I have one that's it's flat and it's called a sword brush and it has a similar shape this one actually is some kind of cross between a round and a flat it's actually the tip is the feral is shaped into a triangle you get the advantages of using a round brush with also having this sharp point at the end it's a very handy brush you can get do a lot with this just one size of brush I know you asked Ian but you know I'll answer your question so I'm gonna I have this other color that's more purpley that's called rose of ultramarine and I'm just tapping this with the tip of this brush just the tip it has a really great point to it this brush I love it and don't forget when you're doing watercolor part of your painting is process is probably at some point going to be lifting you're known to as mixed media artists is blotting and if you're using good paints and you get colors where you don't like it you probably can get that area wet and then come in with your rag or your towel and you can probably like I just did lift some of that up you also can use marks you don't like as an opportunity to put something on top of it so nothing is ever a mistake that doesn't mean you have to live with where the paint landed but that you know maybe you need to change things up and put something else on top of that I like working with watercolor because they're transparent I can see that original mark that maybe I wasn't too crazy about but I can make it less obvious if I put something on top of it like I just did no this one is not expensive it was six cents or something Ian went to the website and priced it out earlier this is by rosemary and company and this is a triangular series 40 brush they make a lot of different specialty brushes at this company um yeah I was pretty impressed I can see me actually ordering more brushes I've got to finish the secret project first and then get that done and then I can see me ordering some more brushes from them so remember this is like a nature painting so you don't want anything perfect and even nature is not perfect and even nature is wild and crazy and all over the place it does really it does look like chalk pastels it's this is a fun painting and it's probably not going to be too dark because of the nature of the painting but I you know I'm liking it a lot and we'll get I can only stay on until about 11 but we will get as far as we get with it and we'll see what happens I'm going to go back to the opera pink and we're not really going to water it down at all now and I'm tapping again I'm still using that triangular brush and I'm tapping it on the paper yeah the green gold is my favorite green from Daniel Smith it's my it's my favorite green green gold and sap green where the first two greens I bought there are warm greens yellowy greens um but I use them the most it is this it's coming out nicely I you know like I said this is an experiment working in a journal like this is fun when you want to experiment with different compositions different kind of paints you know you can really you can try it in your journal and if it doesn't turn out you know you don't have to be like me and show the entire planet but it's a great you know there's a great sense of freedom to working in something that you can feel just really free to just try before you make something that you're going to be sell to customers or you know put online somewhere and this is opera pink now I I'm pretty sure this has like little to no lightfastness just FYI for those who are concerned about this this is a gorgeous color it is not what you would call lightfast in the slightest sense of the word yeah I have one that is sixty five dollars and I honestly have trouble using it because it was so expensive like I don't want to ruin it at some point I guess I'll get over that because you should use what you have but I don't know what the hell I was thinking buying that brush and pardon my foul language for those of you who are offended by that sort of thing those that know me in real life and not on social media knows that know that I tend to have a foul mouth sometimes so now you want to be careful about mixing your pink with the wet green too much you're going to get a muddy brown color and that may not be what you want you may not be willing to live with that so you want to be careful with that hi Patricia yeah I you know ask any of the girls I went to Las Vegas with they'll tell ya ask Cindy Utter or Michelle or Ann I'll ask my husband he and I have been together for over thirty years so I don't think there's anything I could do that would surprise him too much so you really want to start out a painting like this by doing your blue wash in the background and getting your background sky color to be something that you can live with because as you can see if you wanted to go back now and touch up that sky it'd be it'd be really almost impossible to do we do need to work on the bridge a little bit before we call it a day so I'm going to switch to a little small round brush and I'm going to use what color am I going to use um I think I'm going to use the raw umber violet and I'm going to just put it right here it's like a purpley brown color and I'm switched to my smallest brush which is the escada number one and let's work a little bit on bringing out our bridge some more I'm going to put my rag right here and I'm actually going to zoom in so you can see what I am doing I'm going to zoom in as much as I can anyway I'm going to grab my reading glasses because suddenly my eyes don't want to focus the joys are getting old okay so again just like before I'm painting kind of around the bridge which you know painting around an object in watercolor and leaving like leaving things white is not something I'm always really great at but thank god I'm a mixed media artist so I can just go back in there with white paint if I need to yeah we're already starving artists because you know art in general doesn't really you know if you want to make a living out of it it's really difficult as you all probably know so that means that we can't really afford to spend that kind of money on a paint brush you literally have to be Bob Ross yeah there are no rules I mean I could go back in here with white paint and just you know be crazy this brown paint but there is something to be said for the challenge of you know trying to paint around the subject and bring it out if you're a Gene Haynes fan like I am she would not be as controlled about this as I'm being I really like the way the cherry trees look so I'm trying not to touch them at all but the bridge needs help so we're that's probably the one part of the painting that's not exactly right and the fact that this brown is like a violet brown kind of lends itself to you know the cherry trees reflecting their you know light or their shadow their pink color onto the bridge yeah I live you know I live in San Jose California so you would think because I'm like in the heart of Silicon Valley that you know we have great internet but that's not true because you know I live in the heart of Silicon Valley so I would have great internet I don't always sometimes it's fine sometimes it's not the bandwidth isn't what it should be so the tree of course is the focal point but the bridge in this piece is important too so you really want to spend some time on both with the tree you can be more expressive the bridge is a piece of architecture so it needs to be a little bit more controlled but I'm trying not to be too controlled that is something that I'm constantly fighting with I do love being more expressive because it doesn't make me as crazy I do have control issues and being trying to do realistic art makes those control issues just go completely haywire so that's one of the reasons I don't usually do it and you know again I have control issues and I'm kind of a perfectionist so yeah I think I suck at realistic art thank you Lisa oh sorry Heather I know there was problems with all the live feeds what was it last week and over the weekend a lot of group owners had trouble pinning things that was a problem too I don't know they said they fixed it okay let's see I think that's pretty good so my display froze and yes this would be a great composition to try a resist technique on so definitely I would do if you're going to do that do your preliminary sketch and then where you want your bridge to stay white use a white crayon use masking fluid if you have a resist pen like the Ranger one or a VersaMark pen or something like that I'm going to do that on here I'm going to take my white white uniball stigno gel pen and I'm going to add some of this and you probably aren't going to be able to see it too much on camera I need to put my red because I'm so do take your white gel pen and do you know little groups of white dots kind of throughout your cherry tree it will add to the highlights of your blossom the suggestion of blossoms you do want to do this on a page that's completely dry mine isn't completely the gel pen doesn't necessarily like to write on wet watercolor paint and you don't have to cover the whole thing I mean you can do it as many as you want but trees are fun because trees are not um they're not perfect they're very organic and free flowing and crooked and anybody can do a tree it is helpful to have an inspiration photo so that you have some kind of an idea for inspiration for not only shape but shadow and light so I do recommend that and the little dots just add a little something thank you so much Yasna um yes so ok so first question so Ian sent me cherry tree pictures um uh since last week and I printed a bunch of them out and he's going to put some of them into the shareable inspiration photos file over in my facebook group the link for that's in the description so give him a little bit to get the photos in there and then go over there and check it out and he sent me and this is the main one we used for inspiration but this is a maple tree so he also sent me some cherry tree pictures so I just he sent me this one and this one and this one and I love the shapes of these trees I liked the one with the bridge in it because it had the bridge in it so I used that one and then he sent me some inspiration photos of cherry blossoms so I used mainly these two and I see you later Eve and they will be over in the facebook group or some of them and then so resistance method so the resistance method is a method for doing watercolor wherein you would do your preliminary sketch first any parts of the page that you know you want to save as white paper you would put something over that so that the paint doesn't get it get on there so you can use a white crayon literally I use a white crayola crayon you can use a if you have a embossing pen or a VersaMark pen see this one is a VersaMark pen this one is a Ranger embossing pen a clear one and this one is actually by recollections it actually is a resist pen they're all basically the same thing and these what you put these on there where you want it to stay white and then you let it dry and then you paint over it and wherever this is going to stay white just like wherever the crayon is going to stay white now the other way to do it is to use masking fluid it looks and smells kind of like rubber cement and you have to put it on there and let it dry and then paint over it and then when you're done you have to rub it off and whatever is underneath the masking fluid is going to stay white it's really a challenge to do that in watercolor I'm not always great at it I like to just paint and be free with it I have trouble leaving the white paper so using a resist is really handy you also of course we're mixed media artists it means we can break the rules and you can go in afterwards and add a white gel pen add some white acrylic paint add a white paint pen so don't feel like if you haven't been able to leave the white paper that you've messed up your painting exactly you could do this same one in four different color ways to reflect the four seasons and how pretty would they be not only in your journal but like hanging up on a wall or something together I haven't seen that movie but I like the way this painting turned out it's not bad for planning it literally I woke up this morning and the first thing I had to deal with was ants in my kitchen so oh yeah see clear birthday candles work I just have a white crayon crayon when I closed my daycare business I literally took the kids box of crayons pulled all the white ones out that they never used anyway and I still have those crayons so everybody thank Ian for the inspiration photos he did a great job finding them I love our cherry tree and we're getting a little bit closer to filling up the book I only have a few pages left so you guys make sure to send me some suggestions via email or the Facebook group or private message for what you would like to see next week and help me fill out my book we've got one one two three four five I think five pictures left before the book is full oh yeah that works probably also if you have an old what we would call a grease pencil I used them in the optical business a lot to mark the lenses before I would make your eyeglasses which is an oil based like pencil that would work probably a white oil pastel would work because the oil is going to resist the watercolor paint so anything like that to preserve the white paper on your painting yep clear crayon anything like that I have to go out and buy something special look around to see what you might already have or what's cheap and easy for you to get and use that I do have to think that I don't remember this month if I filmed my favorite thing for the month or not but I think that if I haven't and I have to look at that later today it's on my to-do list I'm going to be saying this rosemary and company triangle brush is going to be my favorite thing sure I can do that I can do something that's sort of Halloween themed even since it's going to be October or at least fall themed maybe an ink watercolor and ink pumpkin or something send me some photos we shouldn't just leave it up to eat every week you guys should send me send me some photos of some things that you'd like to see me paint next week and I will pick one and we will work on it alright that's it for today you guys I've got a meeting in a few minutes so I've got to clean up I will see you soon I will be back on Monday for Monday with DecoArt and this weekend keep an eye on my channel and all of my social media because there will be announcements for the brand new design team announcements for the secret project and a few other things we've lost so many talented people recently this year and yeah they will all be greatly missed alright that's it everybody don't forget the best most important thing yeah do something nice for yourself because you deserve it okay alright I'll talk to you all later bye guys