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We're a couple minutes early I went to my website this morning. This is the address here So hey Anna Lisa. Hey Hey, Teresa over at Periscope. I'm gonna be like talking to both Streams so sometimes you'll ask me questions that you don't see asked in one stream or the other But I'm answering that question. It's because it's from the other one We're we're simulcasting again in both Periscope and Ustream at the same time I did actually take some pictures this morning of My setup I'll post them to Social media later, so you guys see my homemade setup From now on there is a watercolor Wednesday page on my website here and any documents or website download kind of things reference material that I Talk about you'll be able to find the links over here. I Can do that I can read the questions out loud before I answering them That's a good idea, and I have more coffee, so I'm gonna hopefully do better today Anyway, there's a watercolor Wednesday page on Gina be errands.com So any websites downloads Anything I talk about though. I'm gonna try to put the links over there I'm gonna try to put the ones I know about that I want to talk about before the broadcast over here If some come up during the broadcast, I'll try to remember to stick them over there if I forget you guys message me somewhere One of the ones that I added was Brent Fraser photography, which is some of the reference photos We've been using from those calendars. My husband brought home from work. I Also added a couple of links that refer to paint tests, which we're gonna do this morning The two brands we're gonna work with this morning are Schminck and Daniel Smith Hang on coffee break and every week We are going to Or every other week it depends, you know, it depends maybe every other week and in between we'll just do a painting But when we do these to paint test sessions Whatever brands I've decided that we're gonna work with I will find reference material for you guys and I'll post the links here So make note of this Now go to the watercolor Wednesday page. This is where my blog page is at this is where my shopping site is at It has links to all the places on the internet. You can support me Etsy Red bubble, you know All the links for all of that stuff are here Okay, and you know, it's a do-it-yourself website So and I don't really I know enough about what I'm doing to be really dangerous So there's always improvements that my grammar sucks. So there's always typos You see something spelled wrong or you know It won't surprise me and it also won't hurt my feelings if you you know, send me a message and Let me know. Hey, you know, I noticed this word over here is spelled wrong Yeah, you know a periscope. I'm sideways on my view too and on the camera. It's fine. So I I Should say on the smartphone. I don't know It's a periscope thing on the smartphone. The broadcast is fine on you stream if you prefer to go to you stream It's fine. All right, so we're gonna talk about light fastness today. I'm sorry that we're sideways on periscope and it seems like Even for me because I'm watching my own broadcast on my iPad Moving my iPad around doesn't seem to do anything to the view and I know it's okay in the first smartphone because I checked it before as we were getting on So I got to think it's a periscope issue and it could have something to do with all the updates that have happened recently not sure we're gonna talked a lot today and No, I the phone is fine The phone is not sideways. I can try it, but Yes, the phone is landscape. I just double-checked it again. So I don't know We're gonna talked a lot today About In my iPad, it's also so they're talking on over on you stream I mean a periscope about the view being sideways and I think it's a periscope issue my Broadcasting device is landscape, but the view for the viewers is sideways. So I'm not sure And I'll fix the DV and art link after the Broadcast I'll take a look at it. I think I checked all of them except that one and That one was sent to me by a YouTube viewer. Alright, so we're gonna talk a lot about lightfastness today So like many of you, I'm sure I have this little Drawing and note that my daughter wrote for me when she was about three She said that I mean she wrote drew it with like Crayola markers. What's okay D crumb? What's okay? Hi? She wrote it with Crayola markers and When we talk about life fat fastness, this is what we're referring to so when she drew this it was light bright colors I think it was like blues and you know bright oranges, maybe pink and over the years. It's turned, you know green All the colors have turned green. I do I do remember it being all different colors That has to do with light fastness and the pigments in the marker fading over time all of your art materials whether they're kids art supplies or adult art supplies have a certain amount of light fastness or they don't and Watch sideways cool So When we talk about light fastness we revert referring to the pigments staying true to their original color over a long period of time or not In this case, of course, this is Crayola markers or comparable I don't remember what the brand was now But it was just a kid marker and over time it's turned green the only one that's kind of stayed is the bright You know orange. I think that was orange. It might have been pink, but that one's kind of stayed The rest of them have all turned green and I pull I have this on my bulletin board. I pulled it off my bulletin board So we're gonna we're gonna refer to that this morning. I Tried to tilting my device. I'm still sideways on periscope All right, so before we get started with too much chatting. Let's open up our paints This of course is my Daniel Smith palette, which you've all seen If you've watched me before it is my preferred brand because It's made in the USA it's easy for me to get and I love their huge ginormous range of colors. They have over 200 colors Some of them are made with semi precious stones a lot of them granulate meaning that when they dry They leave this granular texture in the paint and one of the things I love about watercolor is The watery granular texture that you get with watercolor that you just really can't duplicate with anything else and I love that about it. Now. They only come in tubes. They don't come in cakes So you can't You can't necessarily compare them with lots of other brands that only come in cakes you can they don't come They don't make cakes. They only make tubes now. I have not had a Yay, okay good. They're fixing things over with the view over on periscope Keep throwing those hints out there on periscope for adjusting the view for other people who are watching for me It doesn't matter because I'm only looking at the comments But maybe it'll help some other people out that are watching so whatever you all have done that have helped switch the view to landscape For you know yourselves throw some hints out there so other people can give it a shot Okay, so I some people I know have said that with Daniel Smith paints you they squeeze them out of the tube into the pans and let them dry They have trouble reconstituting them. I've never had that problem. It's not an issue for me I am in a habit with all of my watercolors of taking my spray bottle before I get started I Spray the whole palette Even if I only think I'm gonna use one color. I have a habit of spraying the whole palette fairly well Leave it that way set it aside. I'm going to move this little note somewhere safe because I don't want to get water on it Yeah, I've never had that problem with Daniel Smith either I've seen other artists talk about it, but I've never had that problem now This is my Schminck palette and do I think that's how you pronounce it. No It's a German word Some people say schmincky. I don't think that's necessarily right either I'm not German and I'm not even German American. My last name is Aaron's but my husband is German American And he always says he only knows how to get yelled at in German Schmincker Schmincker. Oh, thank you Schmincker So I only know how to say but I can see English and they say nine and then that's the end of the conversation. So So anyway Schmincker, so now we know Schmincker and This is the that palette now. I haven't used it very much. I have used it a little bit For no particular reason I don't I like them They're very well pigmented. They have a lot of colors and They come both in tubes and panform the tube colors match in pigment Strength match the The pans so if you use one particular color say the cobalt turquoise and you use it up You can get a tube of their to cobalt turquoise and the pigment is going to match You can't say something about that like that about Daniel Smith because they don't make pans. They only make tubes I like pan paints and I started with pan paints one of my gripes about them though is that And I know why they do it because it's a good value. They fill them all the way to the top And I guess I've gotten used to Creating my own pans and not quite filling them up all the way so that when I spray them like that with water The water doesn't just pool everywhere and it sinks inside. It's a personal weird idiosyncrasy of mine It's not, you know, there's not that there is anything wrong with these All right, so you can get lots of information about Watercolor brands their lightfastness their opacity or transparency their Granulation their staining ability whether you know, that means whether they're going to soak into the paper or not From the manufacturers a lot of them have it not all of them. We found out that we don't think Prima Who just came out with watercolors actually has any lightfastness information on their paint? One of my peeps over in my Facebook group is in communication with them As am I and so we are working with them to try to see if we can find that out, but we don't know yet Daniel Smith has a color chart that you can get that's a printed color chart and under each one of their print They do make sticks and I don't have them yet. I do want to get them to try I Need my reading glasses. Hold on All right, I can't read this little print without these All right, so this is the Daniel Smith printed chart And under each brand of paint it tells you all the information that you want to know it has the lightfastness rating one which is excellent to for which is Fugitive or not rated and the tried. Yes, you're right So in the try dots they have a dot color chart that you can buy for about 20 ish dollars 22 something like that and And on their color chart dot chart it has an actual sample of the paint And it has the same information on it under each color that this printed what has so whichever one you have We'll have this information as well as most of these brands have this information on the tubes so all of the brands have some colors that are extremely lightfast and Some colors that are all the way at the other end of the expect spectrum where they're not even rated So no matter the brand whether it's an expensive fine art brand or it's You know a lesser one if they've rated their paints They all have ones that are rated as lightfast and ones that aren't so if you're really concerned With your artwork standing the test of time and you want to only use lightfast paints You want to look at that when you're buying them I don't generally look at that I honestly to be honest with you until you guys all started asking me this question I never even looked I if I create a piece of artwork that I really love I scan it It's a 21st century. That's the best way in my opinion for me to archive my artwork is to scan it and create a digital file now It's not a traditionalist way to go of course do and I'm not an expert. I don't know everything I you know By any stretch could I get some of this information wrong? Yeah Hello, I'm the one who's put to my telephone in the refrigerator. So sure All right, so I'm a Daniel Smith chart and most of these charts they have lightfastness. They have Transparency ratings whether the colors transparent or opaque all of these colors that you see if you look at this chart If you can see it like this one is chromium green oxide and it has a dark black circle underneath the color That's because that one is Opaque, it's not transparent. I know right so you know If so if you really want to you're concerned about lightfastness and you love Transparency then you want to pay attention to all of these ratings and markings when you're buying your paint It also tells you on these which ones granulate or not And granulation means that when the paint dries it leaves a Granular texture in the paint on the surface and I love that sort of grainy granular texture One of the things I love about watercolor I'll answer the scanner question in a minute one of the things I love about Watercolor is the grainy texture that some of the colors give you and the pooling and puddling and the texture you get from that Those are some of the things I love about watercolor and that have always fascinated me somebody asked me over on periscope about What kind of scanner I use I do have a halo scanner mouse and I use that occasionally. I also have an HP all-in-one scanner printer and I an HP NV and I use that most of the time My projects are littler so I use that both of these documents I have Actual pamphlets, but I did find downloadable versions of these Two brands and their color charts with their markings for granulation now There's Schminck one because it's a German Schmincke. I got to start saying that correctly because it's a German watercolor and I think it's in the printed online version as well as this one the Descriptions for each thing are in English and German so It takes a little longer for me to get through but you can get information about all of these paints From their websites. I do have a couple others that I've picked up over, you know shopping and things Quar has one And again, they have the same kind of information that each company has a different way of rating their colors though So while one Daniel Smith if it has a one is is very light fast and have if it's a five not four not so much another one One may not be light fast at all and and four may be very light fast So they each have a different kind of rating system So it's a good idea to print these or pick them up and find out before you go shopping get some kind of a key all right If you watched my YouTube video I posted last night. I put this little binder together for us to do these tests in this is a I forget what kind of I said last night and I've already forgotten what kind of binder It is but I picked it up at Tuesday morning. It was inexpensive was like three bucks I already had it in my stash of stuff. I didn't get it special for this I made a couple of sections comparisons and samples and I created a Chart on here. I'm gonna pull the chart out. I'm gonna work with that first and this is 140 pounds draft more watercolor paper. I've made six columns Well seven but six columns for colors One to write notes in for the brand There's a row across the top top to write the basic color name in and then in each square Depending on the brand of paint I'm gonna write the actual color that I use and then if you want if you need to make notes about your tests You can write that over here now. I made enough spaces to do four tests on here so today we're gonna do two of them and we'll start with the Schminke and I think in my opinion, I think good colors to try And do this on would be yellow This is a sharpie marker pen orange The colors you want to try may be different for you red green and The brands that you do this with are gonna depend on what you have in your stash or what you maybe you have a friend that has A few different brands of watercolor paint even if it's only one brand But her brand is different than yours get together and you guys do this test with your two different brands of paint Okay, blue and then on this last color I really debated a lot because if I left it you left it up to me I would do probably do Payne's gray. You all know that if you've been watching me at all But I really think that the one that I'm curious the most about would be violet or purple So we're gonna do purple Some shade of purple Okay So we're gonna start with the Schminke. Oh You're welcome. This is gonna be on the YouTube later. So no worries there. So you can catch up later Okay, so over here. We're gonna first thing that we're gonna do is we're gonna write the brand now If you want to make notes about the brand or if it's say may marry But it's the may marry has a couple different clients They have their student grade and then the may marry blue which is the artist grade So you want to put some notes in there? Schminke is just Schminke as far as I know I could be wrong. I'm frequently wrong Okay, now I'm gonna do cadmium yellow helps if I spell yellow right I'm gonna do And I was looking at this last night to see what colors I had that were similar on the two On the two color of the two palettes. So you want to kind of keep You know, you want to do you want it if you have permanent red in both brands Then you would want to do permanent red. I don't have the same exact color Across the board in these. Let's see. I have Pyro orange and Daniel Smith. I have transparent orange and Schminke Which actually is a real one of my favorite orange colors Let's do that and then we're gonna do a red and so let's do Let's do scarlet red in it. So let's do Cobalt green dark Let's do a blue now. I the standard blue I have in almost all my palettes It's a good primary blue ultramarine blue and then violet. So I only have one true purple or violet color in the Schminke palette, which is manganese violet. So and then For Daniel Smith, we're gonna do hands a yellow medium Now sure I could get closer because I have the dot chart, but that's not the point I don't want to do that because I want to show you guys how you can do this with what you have Your colors may not be an exact match, but you should be able to get an idea of pigmenting and granulation Comparing similar colors or closed colors So pyrrole orange Of course if you want to do this with different brands go to the store and buy tubes in the exact same color by ultramarine blue By hookers green by cadmium yellow by alizarin crimson in both brands For our red we're gonna do What red did I say it was doing scarlet red? So we're gonna do permanent red green. We're gonna do Cascade green blue ultramarine blue and for our purple I'm gonna do quidochridone purple because that's what I have I Do too. I love somebody just said they love cascade green. I love cascade green Quidochridone purple is a little bit more blue than manganese violet But we're gonna that's what I have so that's what we're gonna use Okay, so now it's time to swatch So I'm gonna use just a kind of a medium to small round brush I'm going to use this van go brush This is a van go number six round and let's see So cadmium yellow So I'm gonna grab a little bit of the paint Make sure you guys can see me and I'm gonna put it here on one on the left side of my square These are about one inch squares I'm gonna rinse my brush off That's gonna be the full strength of the pigment But then I'm gonna take my brush with just water on it It's just damp and I'm gonna pull some of it out. I'll let it dry Look how bright that color is and then the transparent orange I do a lot of counting. So if I if you catch me counting on camera if I do it out loud It's because that's how I find my colors on the palette That's the transparent orange and one of the things I love about it is how it, you know You can get this bright dark vibrant color or you can really pull it out and get this really pretty transparent color Scarlet red cobalt green dark is this one Make sure I'm pulling the right ones If you guys have any questions as we're going ask I almost never recommend one paint over the other I will tell you which one is my preferred favorite, but I don't I have lots of brands of paint and I love them all Sorry, I had to count Um, which one is best for you will depend on what you want to do with it and what your budget is There's lots of really great brands of paint out there And then manganese violet So I like the idea of doing this in a binder because Then you can make your sort of own reference book and the really great fun way to do this rather than um I'll answer that in a minute over on periscope Rather than buying a bunch of brands of paint is to get together with your friends who also love watercolor And have different brands that you do and you all get together and you all do some of these charts And then you can make when you go to buy more paint at more educated decision about what's going to work for you what colors that you like and What's in your budget? So that's the great way to do this You don't need to be like me where you have like a million brands of watercolor paint So we are testing different paints Um, we're swatching six basic colors and then we're going to do uh two little paintings with the two different brands of paints Uh all each painting will be all in one Um, I'll answer that in a minute And we're creating a little watercolor reference book Okay, so we just we just swatched to schminke Um, and so we're doing yellow orange red green blue purple Now we will do the daniel smith There is not enough room on this table with all these devices over here I'm just gonna just gonna put that out there. All right. So now we'll do um So most of the time You really need to mix flesh tone To get a good one. You can get close with some of the brands Um to something that's already, uh, you know, kind of a fresh flesh tone you can work with like with the schminke There's napal's yellow red, which is kind of a flesh tonic color Uh, somebody i'm sorry somebody on periscope asked about is there a good flesh tone? So all the brands have like a napal's yellow red ish type of color And for the most part if you don't want to mix flesh tone That's probably going to be the color that you want to go with Because it's a very flesh tonic color. You're welcome. So this is the schminke Naples yellow red and then this is the daniel smith napal's yellow Which is more yellow, but you could just add a little bit of um, you know a tiny little bit of red or pink to it Uh To get a flesh tone most of the time you have to mix something Probably the closest one i've ever seen is the schminke napal's yellow red All right, so now we're going to do daniel smith and first we have the hands of yellow medium Now this is a slightly different yellow color than the cadmium But this is what I have and in my opinion, they're both very well pigmented Now pie roll orange, which is a nice orange, but it's not necessarily it's not as Transparent as the transparent orange But it's um, I love this color And it's more of a red orange This is more of a burnt orange But they're both very well pigmented Okay scarlet red and I said we were going to do permanent red They're both very well pigmented brands of paint In my opinion Cascade green Oh, that's not cascade green. See I stuck my brush in the wrong one. Oops talking while I'm doing this Holy moly. Okay cascade green. That was sap green Which is a completely different color Cascade green is closer to the cobalt green dark In the palette that I have Yes, please tap the screen if you love the broadcast over on periscope Also, um, don't be afraid on both Periscope and ustream to share the broadcast if you like what you're seeing um, if you Have questions or anything for me later You can leave a comment on the youtube video when it goes up or you can join my facebook group a life of art and self expression This is the daniel smith ultramarine blue And you can see that it's actually more it's a brighter more pigmented. I think than the um Schminke but not by a lot And then quedocridone purple So there you have a side-by-side comparison of similar colors in the two brands of paint Is there a difference a little bit? Not a lot. I don't think um I'm gonna put a little bit of more of the permanent red here So this gives me a a good Um idea of the different brands of paint now if I was my favorite palette is a mixed palette So if I was going to mix a palette and I've done I do have one that's a mixed palette I would pull the transparent orange from the schminke And the manganese violet and then the ultramarine blue from the daniel smith the quedocridone purple The cascade green and I would mix up the colors What you're going to find when you get into watercolor is there is not one brand generally that you love Um that you like the finer qualities of water the artist grade watercolor in that they stain And they last and they're lightfast But that the different artist grade brands have colors that you love daniel smith makes colors like moon glow that nobody else makes And and they have tiger's eye genuine that nobody else makes But both schminke and golden's quar have a fabulous cobalt turquoise that I just love and So really I love schminke cerulean blue and I just saw that it was a post over on periscope Somebody said that they need a palette that's just blues and purples that they're weird. I don't think that's weird I love blues and purples All right, so that's our color comparison. I am going to let this dry and after the broadcast I will be scanning this as it is right now and putting a copy of this up on my face But my uh facebook group and my website for you all and as we fill it out We will keep scanning it and adding to it and updating the document so that you guys have a color comparison I do recommend that if you're interested in getting some To any watercolors that you do a little bit of research and depending on your budget I Built up my collection by buying one tube at a time or two tubes at a time All right, so now we're going to get out our next section Which again has spaces for four brands of watercolor I'm not going to go too far with this because I want to use the same colors we use to create our Our little comparison chart I'm going to write In the corner the brand of paint that I'm using After I put my glasses on so I can see what I'm doing Okay, so make sure you put the brand on here somewhere And that you make yourself some notes if you need to Do it in a waterproof pen so that when you do your painting it doesn't run And I recommend doing as per one of the charts that I found over on my website That might be the dvn art link that somebody said they had a problem with They did I think 12 different color compare uh comparison paintings with different brands Doing the same picture so I recommend I love that idea So I recommend that you do the same thing and we're just going to do something simple It's not about doing a perfect drawing By any stretch. It's just about drawing something That's the same and that's something maybe that's easy that you can draw That'll give you an idea You know something something simple like that So now I've got to do another one over here and they you know, they don't need to be exactly the same But you want them to be similar enough that you can get an idea with the two different colors of paint And you could be doing this with you know, maybe what you have is like Crayola and um Rose art that's fine do it with those And you know what and see if they have light fastness Information if somebody out there if you have just really basic craft store paints Maybe you have artist loft and Crayola Or something like that Find out for me if they have light fastness ratings and if they do what are they? Message me because that would be I think that would be interesting to know Kind of looks like it's hanging off a cliff doesn't it but that's fine All right, so now we're going to just do a couple of little Little paintings. All right We'll do the schminke first And I'm going to start with the ultramarine blue Easier to stamp you could stamp you could definitely stamp and you could stamp in Um stamp in permanent ink and then color them in if you're not a drawer definitely do some stamping That's a great solution and if that's you know If you're not like I said if you're not a drawer do some stamping use your Even in a limited color palette you can get some interesting effects. So use your cooler colors in the shadows And your warmer colors in the light To help you Create the effect that you want in your little painting. So here i'm starting with the blue Which is a cool color Blending it out a bit with water I'm going to go in with some of my violet, which is also a cool color Right into some of the blue And it's going to blend with some of the blue and I'm okay with that It's going to give me interesting shadows Then I'm going to go in with cadmium yellow As soon as I figure out which one that was And I'm going to go into the areas where The that would be lighter and brighter that the sunlights may be hitting my painting and then blend them out with water Now this schmincke paint this yellow and some yellows not all brands do this are really So well pigmented that you can just put a little bit on there and blend it out with some water and it's going to go far Some of the daniel smith colors do the same thing Now i'm going to go in with the transparent orange Which is still a warm color, but it's a little cooler than the yellow And some of these are going to blend with the other colors that are on here and i'm going to get some brown or Excuse me. Wow coffee burps or mud But because i'm not using any neutral colors I'm okay with that because maybe I want them. They're going to give me something that's interesting Let's go in with some red The idea is to maybe get A little bit of all of your colors in here So you can really get kind of an idea But don't just slap them on there and You know just put them any old place try to be thoughtful about where you put them and create an interesting little sample painting Okay, and the last one we're going to do is green Now for the green I want to just use the green the greens This particular green is kind of cool not real warm green Now right next to it. I have may green which is a very warm green and you could use these two greens together And actually get a really interesting painting That's a whole other conversation So there you go. That's a little cute little interesting house painting all right So that's what the schminke palette Does anybody have any questions so far? So now we have the daniel smith palette coffee break Okay Anybody has any questions on either you stream or periscope? Please don't be afraid to ask I may not know the answer, but i'll tell you so and maybe we can find out what the answer is together All right, I took out a lot of brushes when I set up this morning and i'm Just like per usual. I'm just using this small van go number six around All right, so now we're going to do the uh daniel smith Again, we're going to start with the blue with watercolors in general The more water you add the lighter and more transparent your color will be It's easier to work with them though if the pigments are Well done well made Then it is if they're not We will be what as we do some of these experiments we will be um comparing to some of the artist grade paints Some brands that are you know lesser are looked on as lesser like koi and van go Prima which is probably considered a craft grade paint or student grade paint All right, what color did I do next purple? I already see I already forgot So i'm going in with the cool colors now I Am making some things darker as I go, but the places that I want to be light. I'm leaving white paper You could do this the other way where you start with the warm colors and you go darker If you're more comfortable with watercolor then you can do it either way, but if you're just starting out you might want to Start with cool colors I'm working on it You're welcome. I'm working on it So if you could april if you could um april asked if I had whole vine yarka or mission paints No, I don't but I'm working on it if you send me those names I will request What I've been doing is requesting samples from companies And um to my surprise or maybe not I should maybe I shouldn't be surprised They're actually responding favorably to this whole idea of the series and they're sending me samples of paint. So If you send me though, and what's the worst they can do is say no if they say no I'll go to my local fine art supply store and see if they carry them or I'll order them Within reason I'll just order like six tubes of the colors that we're working with but um if You send me those names and remind me because I can guarantee you as soon as we stop broadcasting I'm probably going to forget so message me And I'm yeah, and I'll try to get samples All right, so now we're going to go in with our yellow Which is this one So far the companies have been very responsive In a positive manner most of them to me doing this series and sending me samples so Let's hope that Good luck sticks And it's good idea to have this right next to you because if you're like me and like two seconds after you do something You forget You've already created a reference palette of the colors that you want to use in your sample paintings So I would definitely recommend you keep that handy So put on some pigment and then lay out some water and blend it with some water You will notice that Some colors don't lift As easily as others because they have more of a staining property and they Right away soak into the paper and you aren't going to be able to do too much lifting So generally speaking you probably just want to be careful about where you stick your paint colors So this particular this is the daniel smith Which is my preferred brand. I like their I like their paints. I do think they're more vibrant There are some colors in the schminka palette that I love like the transparent orange They also have the naples yellow red, which is fabulous flesh tone color Wait Allergies They also have cobalt turquoise. Now the core which we haven't done yet And I do have also has a cobalt turquoise and we haven't gotten there yet, but that's a great color Um They have some nice golden silver. Thank you. All right. Let's see red Yeah, thank you. Hey, I can use all those blessings My allergies and asthma have been acting up I haven't been doing a lifting test But if that's something that you need to know for your for you I think that that's a great idea to add a lifting test in here to what you're doing I when I'm doing these little paintings here. I am noticing with both of them like right there That's kind of a lot of red. So then I'm taking my rag and I'm just lifting a bit of it off I know that red's not going to lift completely off From working with the paint, but I think that that's a great idea When you're doing these to do a lifting test, you might also want to Maybe you want to do a little painting and then maybe you want to do in this other square Um Just pick one color do a lifting test Scratch into the wet paint pour salt into the wet paint And add drops of alcohol into the wet paint and use the same color for both of these to see how they react That's actually I just thought of that just now and that's not a bad idea We're running out of time, but it's not a bad idea. Okay now we're going to go in with the green Uh cascade green what test are you looking for when doing a lifting test? So when you're doing a lifting test, you're You're looking at whether you can lift the pigment off the paper completely or not if needed and Most of the time with your fine art paints It's probably not going to lift completely with any brand If they are a fine art quality of pigment It probably is going to stain You know fairly easily But I would be more concerned of doing these tests with the two brands and finding out What kind of color depth and variation I can get in the paint creating little paintings with them How bright they are and compared one to the other then I would be in doing different fun like playing techniques like you know Like lifting or anything like that. I'm finding I want to add some more of the red to this one You're my dog barking. I bet there's gardeners outside somewhere Sometimes you want to lift sometimes you get you get paint in the wrong place You know, I do that I do that a lot. You never know That might be too much scarlet red, but let's find out. So lifting just means that you put too much pigment like that on there And you're like, ah, right So then you try to lift some of it off and can you get all or most of it off To create the effect you want easily or does it automatically as soon as it hits the paper stain? And you can lift with a rag or you can lift with a wet brush I'm just trying to see how hard it is to make these paintings more similar to each other One is more blue than the other, but that's okay So something like that They're both nice. There's there's nothing I I wouldn't You know, I like them both for me Daniel Smith has a wider range of colors They're just as bright in my opinion They're easier for me to get They're made in the usa Their main office is On the west coast where I am a couple states up But but they're on the west coast where I am And um, they're easy a little easier for me to get But there's nothing wrong with the schminke and some places in the world where you're at Daniel Smith might be impossible to get but schminke might be easy to get They're both a really fine grade artist quality paints neither one of them are cheap They're both expensive. I'll put that right out there for you when they're on sale If you are interested in trying them snap them up The Daniel Smith do not come in panned palettes like this You have to put them in the pans from the tubes So if you are interested in the Daniel Smiths You and you want a palette like this, you're going to have to get an empty box and empty pans Yes, I know we're going up that way in May and I'm really hoping That I can talk my husband into an extra day on my trip our trip so that I can go there I'm hoping everybody. I'm hoping I'll let y'all know All right, so if you're going to get Daniel Smith They only come in tubes. I started my Daniel Smith collection buying two tubes at a time at my local art supply store You're going to need a Some kind of palette to put them in if you prefer to work from dried watercolor paints like I do Then you're going to need something to squeeze them into I prefer metal palettes because when The mixing area gets too goopy even for me If they're easier to clean Yeah, thanks April I'm I'm hoping I'm hoping I really have time and there's extra time So I think metal palettes are easier to clean. They don't stain the way plastic ones do metal or porcelain You can get empty palette boxes at Dick Blick Jackson's art in the uk which I love and I did order one from them recently Amazon has them and then you're they usually come without the little pans the plastic pans in them So you're going to have to order those too So the initial setup for your Daniel Smith palette may be a little more because you're going to need to buy something to put the paint in the Schminke Come in metal box palettes Okay, April. I don't know what kramer pigments It are um, so you're going to have to message me about that too She's saying kramer pigments are good for palettes. I don't know what that is now schminke Comes in metal palette boxes like this already Oh, see okay Message me because I never heard of it and my husband's from new york. So I'd be happy to shop in a new york store He's from queens Anyway, off topic. Hello squirrel. Um schminke comes in Um palette boxes like this is this is their palette box. I bought it this way. This is the 48 pan set Now you will notice that this has more than 48 in it because the 48 pan set you can actually get Four more paint you can squeeze four more pans in here And if you do they fit in here nice and tight and they don't wiggle around and fall out And I don't like having that extra wiggle room. So all of my 48 pan sets actually have 52 in them So even the daniel smith one has 52 in it So I've added four more to each one now these these I love these metal boxes And you can take these this insert comes out with all the paints on it You can actually use all of this is mixing area also and the lid And they sell I think 12 20 I want to say 12 24 36 and then the big 148, but I'm not positive that might be wrong But look at dick blick they do sell on dick blick the empty schminke palette boxes But you can get generic metal boxes from a lot of different places They're fabulous though And they're really great because they close up You know Small and you've got lots of mixing palette room and everything all in one box Now when you are using your watercolors, of course, and you've done like I've done in there wet Don't close it up until they're dry. Leave them sit out while a while while they're dry So here's our first two brands daniel smith and schminke I like them both It's personal preference, which one you prefer. I think daniel smith has a lot more colors in the in the line. I think then schminke does and You all know if you've been following me for a while that I love color And I love a variety of color and I hate having to mix color because I am not the frugal crafter. That's lindsey I'm the lazy crafter So if I can get away with not mixing color I'm gonna do that. That doesn't mean I don't know how it just means I don't like it So I prefer daniel smith because there's a lot more colors to the range Plus daniel smith has this really great dot color chart that you can get You know for 20 some dollars. Yeah, I'm the lazy crafter And I cut mine down to fit in this little book But they come on eight and a half by 11 sheets and you can for 20 some dollars you can get A sample of each one of every one of their colors And I don't think that anybody else does that Golden has a few samples for their paints, but not like daniel smith where you can actually get them all Um, and I love that about them So it do you does anybody have any questions So get together with your friends if you haven't already have everybody bring their different brands of watercolor I recommend doing this with even with your crayolas and stuff too. And if you can find information on light fastness and stuff From some of those, you know crafty brands Hey, let me know and let send me the information And and let's work with those too. I am going to put these back in my binder My facebook group is called a life of art and self-expression The link should be on my um website This is going to be uh become a watercolour reference book and as part of these reference this reference Yeah, jenebyairons.com if you go there the very first page of the website, there's a link to My email list and then if you go to the blog page, I think is a link to the facebook group Something like that, but it's on there I know it's on the blog page well, Cheryl Talk to some of your local friends and peeps And see if they have watercolours and which brand they have Maybe you have the ganzai paints, but maybe they have koi Get together and do this test with those brands And if you aren't up to doing any of these tests and you're just going to watch me do this So that you can make an educated decision about what kind of paint Up, you know are going to work for you to upgrade to in the future. That's cool, too I want to do this Uh for you guys so that you guys can make an educated decision about what paints are going to work for you with your budget Because that's the number one question I get asked is I want to upgrade my paints from you know the craft store paints I have um and the you know or the you know craila paints that I have To something better. So what should I buy? and I'm not going to give you a specific brand But I'm going to show you some examples of what I like and what works for me So that you can make a more educated decision about what's going to work for you And even if you only have one brand do some of these little paintings These are good practice And do do some of these little paintings do four of them and maybe do them in different color ways Then do another one And do some background techniques You know make four squares and paint the same color in all four squares Scratch into the wet paint in one Pour salt onto the wet paint in the other one. Let it dry. Don't touch it. Leave it alone Drop alcohol into the wet paint in one of them That's an interesting technique on the other one Put white crayon underneath it Draw a doodle and then paint over the top of it And you could there's lots of different ways to do this watercolor reference book That don't have anything to do with comparing paint brands I'm going to and I'm going to shoot as many of them out there to you guys As I think of them For me, this is going to be comparing paint brands because right now that's Um, that's what I have and that's what we need to do. Definitely if you have If you whatever watercolor media you have Water soluble media, maybe you have a watercolor paint watercolor pencils and gelatos They're all water soluble Maybe you want to do these comparisons with each one of those To see what they look like next to each other and what kind of effects you can get Which ones are more strongly pigmented than the other? Hey brandy Which ones are more strongly pigmented than the other? And when you do little paintings with them Which ones give you the effect that you want? So maybe you only have one watercolor paint brand But you have some but you also have watercolor pencils. You've got gelatos Do you have water soluble oil pastels because that would work? Anything that's water soluble You could even do this with some of the um Inks, so if you have delusion sprays, they're water soluble If you have fw acrylic inks You could do something like this with them You just have to work a little faster because with the acrylic once it dries you can't move it around Think outside the box a little bit and what water soluble mediums do you have in your art room that you can do some comparisons with To you know to compare them one to the other for vibrancy of color Yeah, and then when do little paintings with them to see which one's going to really give you The effects that you want when you're working with these little paintings And it's not a bad idea to do some technique tests And maybe at some point we will do that in here and we'll do some technique pages Um, I I think first you should do the comparison to each other Do your little paintings then once we have that done Then pick your one or two favorite brands And we can do some techniques and we can add to our reference book with some techniques Silks will work twinkling h2o's Whatever you have and maybe as part of this book you want to do an inventory of what you do have I'm not going to be bothered anymore. I did that once it was just too much It's not updated. I haven't updated it. Nobody tell pita thompson. Please my friend pita because she'll be mad at me It's so beyond out of date. It's not even funny All right, that's it for today everybody If you want to support the free broadcasts my youtube channel Um, the facebook group you can shop in my etsy shop There is a top shop listings on my website. It has all the places you can find all my merch Um, including etsy red bubble. I just added a bunch of new things to red bubble There's a support button on my youtube channel pain page, you know all that stuff Um It just don't forget the most important thing Have fun and play do something nice for yourself. You deserve it Play with your supplies. It's not about creating fine art. It's not about being Picasso It's about enjoying the journey having fun and doing something nice for yourself because you deserve it I saw that brandy. Thank you and somebody ordered from um etsy this morning Thank you so much All right, everybody. That's it for today. I have to Go have something to eat Maybe go run a couple errands. I've got to get some steps in And I will talk to you all later do your comparisons. I'd love to see what you do if you create some charts And you want to share Send me the pictures post them to the facebook group Um, it would be great. We should create a file with our our pictures in the facebook group So we have reference material we can share with everybody because maybe you have gelatos But maybe somebody else doesn't and they don't know whether they want them or not and they can compare them to what they Do have so that would be great. All right, everybody. Have a great day