 Hey guys, how are you today? All right We are gonna make I mean, we're gonna do a little watercoloring in our my year 2017 journal or At least you could I'm gonna actually do it on a piece of watercolor paper. This is a piece of Artistico Fabriano artistico paper. It is soft press 140 pounds soft press is something between Hot press and cold press. There doesn't have as much texture as cold press, but it's also not completely smooth this was gotten as a sample at a little seminar I did at a local arts and crafts store, so I'm gonna whack off a hunk of Paper from the sample about two inches wide You can make your bookmark any size and or you could do this in your directly in your journal if you want to now This piece of paper is Because I know somebody is gonna ask Just a little bit less than six inches long about an eighth of an inch less than that I'm gonna put this back away My other pieces of paper Maybe there we go There's samples, okay? So we're gonna just do a little quick easy. Don't freak out. It's gonna be an easy watercolor tutorial because you know really You guys should know you better than that all right, so This is my Daniel Smith muted palette use what you have you don't have to use watercolor paint So you could use any water soluble materials that you may have in your art room. Maybe you have Neocolors, maybe you have Crayola watercolor pencils whatever you have use what you have all right and do some playing We're gonna zoom in a little bit Okay There we go So first I'm gonna do Some pen work, and I'm trying to decide what I want to draw Let's see I kind of want to just do flowers because you know, and they're kind of organic and they're easy So let's do that. Let's do kind of a flowery shape I'm not gonna sketch the whole thing out Because I want the watercolor to be to do some speaking on that page But I want the pen to help define what's going on. I think that's good. I actually like that We're gonna need a watercolor brush. I'm going to use this Princeton select filbert number eight brush it looks like that a filbert is like a flat with a rounded end Use what you have though Okay, I'm gonna start grabbing a rag. I'm gonna start by That pen that I used is a pilot varsity Disposable fountain pen and as you can see it is water soluble, which I love That's text message to hear that So I'm going to Activate some of the pen I'm gonna put the water where I want the ink to go the ink is only gonna go where you put the water So that's one way to control what's going on in your picture and then we're going to take our Muted palette which I love and find challenging to work with in a good way and There's this Napsal maroon color. We love so I'm gonna See now this is wet. So I'm putting it in the water where the pen was That's my brush off and push the pigment around and then I'm gonna zoom in some more Let's see so you can really see And then I'm gonna take a little bit of the red that's in here and the quite own red I think it's which one it is and I'm probably pronouncing both of those incorrectly That wouldn't surprise me. I'm just barely touching the brush to the paper Barely barely lift some of that off. So I'm taking a damp, but dry brush and Going over the pigment and just lifting some of it off. I'm gonna take the quid awkward on the gold It was my phone again Then I'm going to take some of my greens. I have this one called undersea green. It's a beautiful beautiful muted green color Just gorgeous Again, just put a little bit of pigment and then rinse my brush off I'm blotting it on the Reg I have under my arm, but you can't see because it's off camera Because I want you to really just see what I'm doing As far as the painting is concerned Okay, and then I'm gonna take a little bit of our turquoise because you know, I rarely paint anything Without putting turquoise in there. I just don't this is ultramarine turquoise. I think what I want to do Is get it wet and puddley and then do this Well, it'd be nice if I got it on that. There we go on the bookmark. It's going everywhere except the bookmark Isn't that always the way? So there you have it quick easy. It took like five minutes. I'll zoom out a little bit for you There we go So quick and easy took about five minutes. It's not complicated Maybe you just want to do it doodle it and you want to do as like a Zentangley thing and you want to draw and not paint whatever you feel Like doing as I've said in the beginning and I will keep saying until you guys are sick of hearing it There's no right way. There's no wrong way. There's only your way So think about doing a little piece of artwork Create if you're following the book club But maybe make yourself a bookmark that you can use in your books that you're reading If you're not doing the book club Then just make a little piece of artwork in your journal or one that you can put in your journal and Make sure you've sized the paper if you're going to put it in later either tip it in or paste it in that you've sized The paper to be something that will fit in your journal before you get started And so that you don't have to cut down your artwork. That's it for today, everybody Don't forget to like share and subscribe. Please. 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