 Hi, I'm Allison Felix, Olympic gold medal winner and Bounty's host person. Quiet. Quicker, pick her up first. There we go. Hi guys. Did you hear me trying to turn the iPad off the sound? I'm here, I'm here. Yeah, yeah, I'm here, I'm here. All right. Got my stuff laid out. Got my coffee. All right. So before we get started, we are going to, hey, craft joy. Hey, Teresa. Hey, Danielle. Auntie Bernie. All right. So before we get started, I'm going to, I'm going to tap, hey, Amy, I'm going to tap on my screen. The three little dots on the right are going to come up. And I'm going to click, I'm going to tap them. And then I'm going to hit the little gear. This is quality. I'm going to press resolution. It will allow me to, and I'm going to tap on that. And then I'll get a much clearer screen. All right. It's been a crazy morning. All right. Again, it's going to be like that, I think until the end of the year. So we have my mixed palette out of paints here, which include Windsor Newton, Grumbacher, Schmincke, and Van Gogh. And also some Sennelier, which isn't on the back here, but there's some Sennelier sent me some samples of their paints. So those are at the bottom. So we are going to use these and all it, look at all of these little scraps of, I've got some matte board. I've got different kinds of watercolor paper, some old stained watercolor paper. This is Strathmore. And I think this might be like 300 pound paper. This is really thick. But I've got a bunch of scraps here. I've been working on the texture panels. And I've got to film step two for those today. But these, if you haven't seen part one yet, it's on YouTube already. And I want some little tiny pieces of artwork to put on these. Once I get the backgrounds done, that will kind of be the focal point. So we're going to play with creating some things on these little pieces of scrap paper. And then I'm going to use them on these texture panels later. And I said already, it's been crazy. So here's a YouTuber tip for you, slash computer tip. Hey, Leah, how are you? Okay. So what I've been doing the last couple of weeks, which is why things are just crazy, one of the reasons things are just crazy for me is I've been going back through my computer files and different websites and organizing my classes that I've created for sale into one place and into separate folders. So if I have a folder for say my book binding class, you can open that folder and all the videos for that class are in there. They're numbered. Any bonus material for that class is in that folder, in a very organized fashion. I know you're all thinking, well, weren't you doing that already? No. My computer hard drive is such a mess. I have to tell you. It's just not pretty. So I, and I also have video files like all over the place. So I'm really trying to be organized about it. And I would recommend to all of you, if you're going to venture down that road where you're sharing digital images or you're selling video classes, that you have them in some sort of organized storage system in your computer or Dropbox. Now I'm doing a lot of things on Dropbox right now. So I've been loading to Dropbox and I have, as of this morning, all of 2014 done. That's right. 2014. I have to do two and a half years. Awesome. But now doing 2014, which is the year that I started selling classes. It was a smaller year. Hey, Wanda. Now I know what to do and what not to do. So it was a learning experience. So now 2015 and 2016 should be easier, but I'm going to try to do it now before the end of the year so that I don't have to play catch up later. So that's what I've been doing besides working on the secret project, besides working on a bunch of stuff for 2017 that's going to start coming out and or be announced tomorrow, besides working on some personal issues I can't really talk about. They're not bad, but some personal real estate financial things that my husband are working on, which again I can't announce right now, but we're working on that. There's just, there's a lot going on. And so if I seem sometimes where I'm distracted or late for broadcast or unable to make broadcast, now you know why. And it's probably not going to ease up for another month or so. So just so you guys know, that's why I'm telling you. So you're aware and you don't think I'm ignoring you all because that's just not possible. I love you guys. All right. So we are going to start with, and I love, you know, every time I reorganize my table, I have more space. And we are not planning on living in this house forever. And when we do move, I was thinking about getting rid of this table, but now that I've reorganized it, I'm thinking, I don't know, maybe I want to keep it. I like this table. I might just have to give it, have to give it a paint job. It's a mostly metal and laminate table. So I'm thinking some automotive spray paint might work. Anyway, future future art project. Let's get our, I've reorganized everything. See, so now I have trouble finding stuff. All right, let's get our water down. Again, if you're new to watercolor Wednesday, this is water with a little bit of ox, gall liquid in it, ox, gall liquid aids, and they're rewetting and flow of your watercolor paints. And I love having that in my water. And yeah, this is an old conference table. And it is got a fabric cutting mat on it, which is 58 inches. And the table is about a half an inch bigger than the mat. And it's on casters because it used to be in the garage. I used to want to be able to move it around. I don't really do that anymore, but I love the size of it. So I'm thinking that when I do move this table is coming with me. It's not one of the pieces of furniture I'm going to leave behind. I don't think. So anyway, let's get our paint wet. Now our friend Teresa, aka Cracked Heart Studios, really wanted to see me use or give you guys some ideas or suggestions on how to use pen and ink with your watercolors. And then I kind of expanded on that. And I thought maybe other water soluble materials with your watercolors. Maybe pencil, pen, that sort of thing. So I think that we are going to do that today. And I'm really thinking I have to. And everything is backwards because, you know, I rearranged my table. So things are all backwards. I think I need to have the paints over there. And I know you can see the little bottles of golden fluid acrylics are just off camera. I have a bunch of these little tiny bottles. They're really old. Some of them are drying up. So I'm going to be using them up on those texture panels. So that's a different video and or broadcast. All right. We've got our paper. Got our paint. Put all our brushes in some water. Hey, Gail. Nothing wrong with that. Get your therapy done and in, you know, whether it's physical therapy or mental health therapy, we all need a little help now then. All right. So first before we get started, I'm going to tell you what I have and what I may grab because I have some ideas. We're just flowing through my brain. All right. So we've got our watercolor paints. We've got a bunch of little scraps of paper. I've got my favorite colored pencils on the planet. I do love my Derwent pencils and my Spectrum Noir pencils. I love them. But these Koi Noir Magic pencils, I love them. They're multicolored. Each one is got, you know, like this is like yellow, red and pink. So each one's got a different color range in the pencil. You never know exactly what you're going to get. Love them. Love them. Love them. So we have those. We have Derwent Inktense pencils. I have aqua colors. And these are just a generic kids pencil. These are Maypen Helix. I have Prima watercolor pencils. I have Derwent watercolor pencils, which are a little different than the Inktense. And I also have Crayola. These are Crayola Extreme Colors neon. And these are not water soluble, but they're a neon pencil, which I love the colors of them. We've got a Feudball pen, which I don't remember if it's water soluble or not, but we're going to find out today. I've got a white Uniball Signo. This is the Angelic, the fine tip. I've got a Stabilo water soluble graphite pencil. A Sharpie pen, which is waterproof. My favorite pen, the Pilot Varsity, which is not waterproof. And I love it. I've got a Sharpie Gold paint pen. In my opinion, Sharpie paint pens are the best value for the buck. They have a really great gold paint pen, and they're readily available everywhere. Just get the water-based one. That's just my FYI. I've got a pencil. I think this is a 4B. Yeah, but any pencil. A white paint pen. This happens to be Posca. I've got a few Winter Newton watercolor markers. I got these on clearance not long ago at my local art and framing supply. And then I have a few aqua markers by Letraset. And off-camera that way on one of my new shelves, I have my brush-os, color bursts, and I have these new Lindy's Magicals, which I was thinking this morning it might be fun to drop a little bit of these into the wet paint. Or sprinkle some into the wet paint. So I'm thinking we might try the Magicals. I haven't tried them yet, so I don't know what they're going to do. So maybe we'll try those. All right. So we're going to grab one of these pieces of paper. I'm going to use this really thick Strathmore one, and I'm going to zoom in for you guys, because otherwise you're kind of far away. For going over Gesso, any paint pen. So the best thing to go over Gesso is going to be a paint pen. Sharpie will do it if that's what you have, and they come in a lot of colors. The only problem I have with Sharpie is the water-based Sharpies, which I prefer. They dry faster for one thing, and you can put acrylic paint over them, because it's basically acrylic paint. The water-based ones are not as readily available everywhere. If I just run out of the gold and I want to run to say the hardware store of Michaels and pick up a gold paint pen, water-based, I have trouble finding it. I can find oil-based, but not water-based. So I frequently have to order them from Amazon. But that being said, they're a good value for the money. They may have them at Walmart. Honestly, I don't shop at Walmart, so I don't know. But I would check around at your local stores. Michaels usually has them. Hey, Ian. But Sharpie will work just fine. If you can find the water-based Sharpie locally to you, that will work. There's a few other generic sort of brands of acrylic paint pen. But the best thing is an acrylic paint pen. Now, the Feud Ball will work over acrylic paint, and it works great. Of course, the Scarlet Lime Pen does too. But, you know, it's not made anymore. It'll work over paint and gesso, the Scarlet Lime. So will the Feud Ball. And the Pilot... I mean, the Sharpie pen will... This is a fine point. So if you're writing over gesso, I would say a Sharpie is fine, but I would use... Okay, I should say it was okay. I would use a fatter tip. This is like my spares box. So if you're going to write over gesso, like especially if you're using a really textured gesso, like Liquitex, or if you're working over watercolor ground, both of those have like a really gritty, sandy texture to them. And if you use the fine point pen on that, you're going to ruin the tip of your pen, even though the ink will write on there fine. So I would use, say, use a Sharpie that has a broader felt tip. And it should work just fine. And you'll be less likely to ruin your pen. A big market, too, will work. Something with a broader felt tip. But my favorite paint pen is and always has been Sharpie, water-based paint pen. And that's good to know, Teresa, because I have an Office Max. It's not super convenient, but the next time I'm over that way, I'll pop in and look and see if mine has it, because I like the water-based Sharpies. They have an oil-based, which is great, but it takes longer to dry, and you can't put, like, acrylic paint over oil-based product. It won't stick. All right, that being said, let's zoom in. Quick what, Teresa? Coffee, sip of coffee. Okay, so we're going to go over using both kinds of pen for watercolor, ones that are waterproof and ones that aren't. What did I just do with my own? So distracted. And why you might want to use one versus the other, or maybe both. Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to just, we're going to keep our shapes and paintings simple today. We're not going to do anything super complicated. And I'm going to actually see if I can zoom in even a little bit more. Okay. All right, so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take just a number two pencil. Remember, we're mixed media artists. For the most part, everybody on here loves mixed media. So if you're doing that, the whole point of doing some of these things with these different materials is to just make interesting marks and have an interesting piece of artwork when you're done. And we're not really out covering up the marks or making all the marks go away. So we're going to just keep it simple. And we're going to just do a feather shape. Now this little scrap of paper happens to have a watermark here in the corner from the paper company. I think it's kind of interesting, so I'm going to leave it. And I know you guys probably can't see it on camera. But I'm going to just do a simple feather shape. Just, I'm just giving myself some guidelines, right? And when you're drawing your feathers, just think of hairy leaves. So if you just try to draw a hairy leaf, then you're going to get it right, okay? So that's good. I like that. We may do some flowers and things too, but we're going to start out with a feather. But we're going to keep our shape simple today. All right, so now I think I want to go in with my coin or pencils. And these are not water soluble. So whatever I do with these, this is going to stay on here. And because they're going to resist the watercolor a little bit. So I'm keeping it loose and sketchy and just really adding some color and some marks with the coin or I'm just really feeling like you guys need to be like it's not in focus. So hang on just a second, you guys. Oh, that's bad. Yeah, I know you feel like you've been drinking. Imagine how I feel. Hopefully that's better. Some of my scraps of paper. Okay, good. It's better. Yeah. All right. So these little pieces of paper are small. So there's only so much I can do, but you'll get the idea. So we put some pencil, the graphite pencil and coin or pencil on here. Now your graphite pass standard graphite pencil may move a little bit with water. I don't think it's going to move a lot, but we're going to find out. Let's take another shot. So long as it's not tequila shots, because yeah, I can't do those anymore. Too old. My liver can't take it. All right, let's see. So this is one of the Maypen-Pichilex pencils and I'm going to just add, I'm going to put this near where I put the coin or pencil because I do know it's going to move and I actually want it to when we start hitting it with water. And I'm going to put, I'm just going to leave it at that for right now. I'm going to take a Cotman-Winter Newton brush. This is a Filbert. This is a 13 millimeter Filbert. This is from England. I don't remember where I got this. Who needs a liver? Okay. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to get our paper wet. And as we get it wet, see look at that Maypen-Pichilex pencil is moving already. So it's adding some color to the water. Now remember, you can add as many techniques or mediums as to your pieces as you want. There's no limit. There's no rules. We're going to break all the rules, right? I'm going to go in with turquoise and this is grumbocker. This is a grumbocker paint. It's really deep dark turquoise so I'm going to just take just a bit of it. I'm going to try to just take a bit of it. Let's see. And we're going to put a little bit of it at the edge. Then I'm going to rinse off my brush. Actually, I haven't tried the Windsor-Newton pens yet to be honest with you. They've been sitting here for a while and so I haven't tried them. So we're going to try them this morning. So I'm just taking the very tip of the filbert here. I'm barely touching the paper and I'm using it to give me the little hairs sticking out on the bottom of the feather. Like with a lot of other things that I do as if you guys have been watching me for a while, you've noticed I have a tendency to turn my paper a lot so that I don't get my hand stuck in the wet paint. Okay. Hey, Petra. Hey, how are you? Good morning. Hey, Patricia. This is a really great brush, Windsor-Newton, which is a company that's been around forever making watercolor paints. They make some really great brushes and I honestly do not remember where I got this from. I don't think they sent it to me. I think I bought it somewhere because I wanted a filbert watercolor brush and I might have gotten it at Aaron Brothers Art and Framing. I don't remember. I could have maybe ordered it from Jackson's Art in the UK because it does have like a millimeter size on here instead of anything in American measurements. I don't know that for sure, though. I don't remember. Okay, so I like that one already. We're going to just let that dry for a minute and we're going to go to another little piece of paper. Let's grab another one. I've got all these little pieces of paper here. Here's another one. And we are going to take the... Hey, Vicki. This is a Stabilo All Pencil and this is the graphite color. There's lots of different water soluble graphite pencils out there on the market and I have a whole set of Dermant pencils. This is just the one that was handy this morning. And so let's do some sort of flowery shape and it doesn't have to be a real flower. Just something that sort of resembles something that could maybe be in the garden. Yeah? I almost dipped this in the water, which you could do, but that's not what I want to do this morning. I'm going to take my Pilot Varsity Pen. This is not waterproof. This will bleed when the water hits it. It's a disposable fountain pen. There are a couple blog posts out there for actually refilling these on doing when I have one that's empty because I want to fill one with Winsor Newton ink sepia. They have a water soluble ink and they have a couple different ones and they have sepia colored, so I want to fill it with sepia. Okay, so then we're going to take our Sharpie Pen, which is waterproof. And wherever we put this, it's not going to move because it's waterproof. But it does sometimes have trouble writing over graphite, by the way. Yeah, elegant writers work well. Look and see what you have. Let's see. I'm going to pick this one. This is the Winsor Newton. What color is this? This is mauve. These are watercolor markers. They are Series 1 paints. They are permanent. It's supposed to be permanent and light fast. They're double-ended, a fine tip on one side and a broader brush tip on the other side. And then I also have Stap Green. And then we're going to come in with our water. And you can see where the pilot varsity is bleeding with the Winsor Newton marker a bit, but it's creating this interesting secondary color and shadow. And I'm just pulling the pigment up with the water. I haven't added anything else, but the markers and the graphic pencil. So I'm going to just do the one color first. And the graphite pencil, the pilot varsity pen, they're sort of all bleeding together and creating this interesting look. Then I'm going to rinse my brush off and then I'll do the green. Wanda, just because you said that, we're going to do a face next. Easy one. If I can do faces, you can do faces. Go to my YouTube channel and look up a video called Good the Bad and the Ugly. And believe me, some of them are really ugly. All right. So now, you know, that's a little too clean for me. So I'm going to take some water and I'm going to take that little bit of the turquoise that we had from the other feather. And I'm going to do that. And then if it gets where some place where you don't want, just go in right away with a rag and just lift it up a little bit. There you go. I like that. That's cute. So that's one. Let's go back to our feather. It's dry now. Or dry-ish. And let's go in with... There's too many choices. That's the problem. As you start to get to where you have too many choices and then what do you do? I kind of want to add a little pink to this. So we're going to do that. And we're going to take some of our... This is the Letraset marker. I need a smaller mixing plate. That one is just way too big. Hold on. I moved them all. There we go. So I'm going to put a little bit of this marker on this little ceramic dish. And this is the Letraset marker. And this is flamingo pink. Oh, that didn't show very well. It might be too light to do it this way, but you can do it this way. I don't know what's showing up. So like if you have a travel set and you're wanting to do some traveling, but you don't want to take a lot of watercolors with you and you're going to be like coloring and stuff too, you might want to think about just adding some water soluble markers to your stash of stuff that you're bringing. And then you kind of have a two for one. Yeah. Well, in the background, it's not white white. It's like an off white because it's old stock that I got from God knows where. I don't know. But I like the way that looks very much. I am going to come in here with some Sennelier opera rose, which is a really bright color. So a little bud of it goes a really long way. I almost stuck my wet brush into the pencils. That would not be good. So that's cute, right? Let's see. Yeah. I'm friends with Claudia. Hey, Kyla. So here we go. So that's a cute feather. It's kind of, you know, a thing I like about my watercolors is I really am not a blendy, realistic girl. So I like when the water puddles and you see the water, the line where the water puddled and you see that dry into the image and you see the sketchy marks. And to me, that's really interesting. Why clean it up and make it look perfect? Life isn't perfect. And I don't like my art to be perfect. I find it more interesting when it's imperfect. So I love this. So there we go. There's another one. So let's grab another of my million scraps of paper over there. All right. Here's another one. We're going to do another one in this kind of dirty paper. And it does feel like it's like 300 pound paper, which is really expensive by the way. I do know I got, I've gotten some from a couple people. I've been gifted some because I can't afford to buy it. It's too expensive. But if you have thick 300 pound paper, it's like painting on mat board and you don't have to worry about stretching it or taping it down or anything. It's just, it's not going to work or go anywhere, not easily. All right. So just like with anything else, we're going to start with a sketch and we are going to start with the pilot varsity pen right off the bat. Now, if you're not, no worries, Sharon. So if you're not comfortable with drawing faces by all means, you know what? And let's do it this way. Let's do it this way. So we're going to start out with a pencil, especially for those of you who are not comfortable drawing faces. We're going to start with a pencil and we're going to just do half a face. I'm going to do a frowny face shape first. And then I'm going to draw a semi circle attached to that like this. Then we're going to, over here, we're going to extend the circle just a little bit and bring it up to like hinted a tear duct. Right. We're going to draw a, we're going to do that much. Yeah. And over here, we're going to bring the line down a little bit and we're going to do it over here because your eyeball is round, right? But the opening is almond shaped. So I, yeah, I haven't finished the packaging things yet. I've got to film that today. I've been working on cleaning up my hard drive files and internet things and so, so yeah. I'm wondering if this will show up better if I do this. Let's try that. Let's see. It is a little bit better. Okay. So then for the crease where your upper eyelid is, we're going to just put a line here. We're going to hint at it, right? Then we're going to hint at an eyebrow. We're not doing a whole face. We're really just doing a partial face, right? We're going to put the little hint of a nose over here. This would be the iris, but there's a, you know, if you look in the mirror, you've got it, everybody's got a pupil. So make sure you put that in. All right. So then I'm going to take my pilot varsity pen and I'm going to go over some or all of my lines with the pilot varsity pen. So I'm going to go over the eyebrow. I'm going to go over the upper lid line and around the pupil and around the iris. And I'm going to do the nostril down here. We've got one nostril showing, and I'm probably going to leave it at that. Then I'm going to come in with a round brush. This is a Grumbacher Academy Gold Round Number 5, right? And it's damp now. And the pilot varsity ink will bleed. I love that it bleeds. It's fabulous that it does. So I'm going to go over all of those lines that I just made and encourage it to do its thing that I want it to do. I can pull out some of that ink into like the outer corners of the eye where there would be a natural shadow. I can pull it this way to the inside corner of the eye where there again would be a natural shadow. I can come down here. Now my brush is drying out. There would be some shadowing around the nose. Around the nostrils, right? And if you did nothing else and left it at that, that is interesting, right? I like that. We don't have to leave it at that. Of course we don't have to leave it at that. So we're going to go in with a pencil first. I have this thing about purple eyes. I don't know why I do. I have no idea. First I'm going to go in with a watercolor pencil. This is a Derwent watercolor. This is light violet. And it is a watercolor pencil. Just because it's a watercolor pencil doesn't mean you have to activate it. Just FYI putting that out there. Yeah, you could try this with any. I would recommend a regular pencil because it will, regular pencil will move a little bit with the water but not a lot. And then if you go over certain lines that you know you want to have darker like your eyebrow, your upper lid where the eyelashes would be, and I never draw eyelashes FYI. If you've seen any of my faces, I rarely draw eyelashes. I like to just make the lid darker and hint at the fact that there's eyelashes there rather than sit and draw the little hairs. I think it's more interesting. But you could go over the graphite, regular graphite pencil with anything that you have that will move a little bit. It could be charcoal will move with water. It could be graphite pencil. If you have a soft graphite pencil, it's going to be darker than the regular one. It could be a marker. If you have one of these watercolor markers and you have one in a dark color. This is called a pilot varsity. It's a disposable fountain pen. Of course, my favorite color is the black. It does come in a few other colors, not a lot, but it is a really, it's really my favorite pen. And I've never had a problem with it clogging. I've taken it on plane flights and it doesn't leak. It's not refillable. So when it's empty, it's empty. But there are tutorials out there on how to refill these and you can refill them with Windsor Newton ink, which is also water soluble. And thank you. All right. So now we've got that purple on there. So let's go in with our a little bit of water. Love that. And it's really, I mean, obviously, this is all about the eye, right? This is a Letraset marker. This is plum blush. And yeah, it's got a nib on it. It has a fountain point nib. So it's really, it's wonderful. It's a wonderful pen. All right. So this is plum blush. And I'm going to use the fine pointed side of it. Now, this is, this is wet. And this is a water soluble marker. So it's going to bleed a little bit, which I'm okay with. If you look at yourself in the mirror and you look in a, if you're like me magnifying there, then you'll see all different colors in the color part of your eye, the iris. And you'll see little lines and striations. And so just look at yourself in the mirror and try to mimic some of what you see in the mirror. This is one of the coin ore pencils. And it's not going to move. So I can, I can try until the cows come home. This is not going to go anywhere. Right. So let's go in with more, a little bit more water. And what I like, what I like to do when I'm doing these little studies is just pick a feature of the face and really just practice drawing that feature. Now I'm just picking up a little bit of what's left of the little really light pink marker that's in my tray over here and adding it to the inner and outer corner of the eye where the eyeball recedes into your skull. Those of you who didn't know in a former profession, I was a licensed dispensing optician. And lab tech. I made glasses for a living, made and fit patients for eye glasses. Names of the pen. Yeah, I can afterwards, we can list the names of all the materials that we've got laid out here on the video after the broadcast, if that's all right. Or actually, I can do one better. Hang on, let's see. No, I can't do it from here because I got to turn around and leave the table. But I can do it after the video if you guys want me to stop and do it now. I can do it after the video. All right, so I like this and I don't know that I would add a lot more to this. The only other thing, I like my splatters. The only other thing I would maybe do is pick a purple color that's over here on my watercolor. Oh yeah, I like that. A little bit of purple splatters and then I'm going to take some of the splatters and just add water to them. Now of course, if you're doing this and you create something you really, really love, what am I always telling you guys? Scan it. Scan it. Especially if you're new to watercoloring and you don't know if your materials are light fast or not. And maybe you're not too concerned about it if they're light fast or not. Now all those scenarios are fine, but then if you really like the piece and you think you might want to save it for posterity or use it again, I would recommend scanning it. Like I really like this one. It's really cute. I would save that and scan it. But don't feel like you have to do a whole face. You can just do part of a face. You could just do like lips. Here's another piece. I don't know what this is a piece of. It's some kind of paper. It feels like hot press. I don't know. We'll find out. Let's find out. Oh, okay. Vicki, the fountain pen is a pilot varsity fountain pen. You know what? Hang on. Let me hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Let's see. Can you hear me typing? Okay. Refresh your screens. Yeah. Refresh your screens. And I wrote a few things down. I will go over the list in more detail at the end of the broadcast, but I don't want to do that and walk away from you guys too much that way. All right. So next, let's pick another facial feature. So let's do lips. Do I want to do? Yeah, we're going to just try. I don't know how it's going to turn out because I don't know what kind of paper this is. For the lips, I'm going to start out with another sort of, we're going to do like half a lips. Half a lips. So like pretend this one was overlapped like that, right? So we'll start out with the nose. And we'll put this little thing that's above your lip. It's called a diastema. No, that's the thing between my teeth, diastema. I don't know what that's called. The little thing, the little thing between your, I was just at the dentist. She was asking me, how long have you had that large diastema between your front teeth forever since birth? Okay. So then we're going to draw in the upper lip. It's just a series of shapes. Don't think of it as, I know, right? So that wasn't me doing quick typing Wanda and not checking spelling. So I will, I will fix it after we're done. All right. So this is just, think of this as the shape as like the yolk you put on a pair of oxen, right? So this would be where the animal's head was right here. And then it would go down and then back up again over here to hit the other one. Cupid's, yeah. So then we're going to put half of the Cupid's bow, whatever this thing is right here, right? Just, it's like a curvy L. Then we're going to put a little smiley face here. Then a frowny face. And then just extend it out a bit. Then down here, another smiley face. And then another smiley. I tend to do really full juicy lips. That's just what I like to draw. And then I like to hint at the bottom lip. I don't like to bring it all the way up. I like to just hint at it by just doing the one line. And again, I'm just using a regular graphite pencil right now. Right now we're going to put that down and we're going to pick up again our pilot varsity pen. And we're going to go over some of the lines. Now just because the pilot varsity is water soluble doesn't mean you have to activate it. You know, maybe you want to do it after and after the watercolor paint is dry. You could totally do that. Alright, so then let's come in with some water. I think I'm going to switch back to this filbert brush. I'm really liking this filbert brush, you guys. I don't want it too drippy. So I'm blotting it off on my rag because it's right underneath my arms, which you can't see. And I'm going to go in with just the tip of the brush. I'm not really touching it very much to the paper at all. And I'm going to, again, take some of that ink that's like on the brush and I'm going to use it to give my piece more shading. And I take that back and I switch back to that round brush. I feel like I have more control. One of the things I like about using water soluble materials like the pilot varsity pen and even doing faces in like charcoal is that you can really move the medium around and get all your shading in on your face without a lot of work. Yeah, faces and pieces, yeah. So I love that. So I'm going to just pull that ink around. Now your upper lip is darker than the lower lip. So for the lower lip, I'm going to pull most of the color down to the part underneath the lip where there would be a shadow. There would be a little bit of a, like, shadow right here. And again, I have my baby wipe and my rag. So if you, you know, now this pen will stain the paper. So you're not going, if you get some in the wrong place, you're not going to be able to get it all off, but you can work with it. Just trust me on that. Oh, that's cute. I'm just saying, all right, so that's cute and all. Let's give it some color. This one's really just about the lips, the juicy lips. So we have all of these choices, choices, choices. I'm going to start with some watercolor paint. This is Sennelier. Again, this is the Opera Rose. I'm going to just put some on here. Ears are hard. Ears and hands are difficult. They're challenging. I wouldn't start with them. I would start with something else. But they're, you know, the challenge is fun. And again, I'm not, these are just little scraps of paper. So for the most part, I have no idea what kind of paper this is. Some of it, like that one piece was marked and it said Strathmore. And that was 300 pound. This one is not 300 pound paper by any stretch of the imagination. I don't know what it is exactly. How to refresh your screen. Well, I don't know if you're on the computer, you should just be able to hit the little refresh button. On a tablet, you may actually have to go back out and come back in. Or just check the description again and see if it's in there. Let's see. Yeah, see, I would have to go out of, you know what, pull, go into this description and pull it down. And the little wheels, spinning wheels going to come up. And when it comes up, it'll refresh the description. So if you're in an iPad, which I'm watching the broadcast in an iPad, to the right of the description is an arrow. If you click the arrow, it'll show the description. If it doesn't show the name of the fountain pen, then pull, touch the description, pull it down into the little spinning wheel thing comes up and it's going to refresh the screen and then it'll pop up. That's the only way I know how to tell you. All right. So we're going to come in here and we are going to use, what are we going to use? This is a German inktense pencil. This is Carmine pink. Carmine pink. See, I don't have my glasses on again. It's a little bit of a darker color than the opera rose. And the inktense is water soluble. This is a little more red, which I wanted. And the thing about the inktense is they don't easily move after they're dry. So once they're dry, that's pretty much it. I really like that. I do want to give her some splatters. We gave the other piece some splatters. And this one's really all about the lips. But you could come in here with a, if you've gotten too much color, I don't know how I, you know, really. I usually, I do do this occasionally. So then go in with a white gel pen and add some white highlights like to this thing over the lip. Maybe a white highlight here to the upper lip. You should really wait until the watercolors dry, but we're not, why not? Don't tell anybody. Okay. So I like that a lot. And so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to get some water and some of the pink paint and we'll make some of the spots lighter and kind of bleed a bit. Like she kind of got messy with the lipstick. I love that. So you don't feel like you have to do a whole face. You can do a face in pieces. Why not? That's cool. All right. What should we draw next? I want to do another feather because I actually have an idea. Let's see. Let's do this long, like, skinny piece of paper. This feels like Strathmore 140 pound cold press. She's very sassy, right? That's very sassy. So, you know, I do have a face drawing class. It's available on my website. There's a page called the classroom. And it's actually a class that you get directly from me. And one of the things I've been doing that's been sucking up all of my time is putting all of my classes that I have for sale in one place, organized in folders with all of their attachments and videos so that when you guys buy a class directly from me, I just email you basically the link to that folder and you download everything in that folder and that's your class. You get to keep it. So that being said, there is face drawing classes on the website and I have more stuff I'm going to be adding. So, all right. So, I want to do another feather and I want to take out some... I took out... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, see you later, Vicki. So, I'm going to use some of these magicals. I haven't used any of them yet. This one says sassy sapphire. I have no idea what color that is, but let's try it. Let's use... Let's outline our feather with a water-soluble pencil to start with. We're going to use the Maypad Helix Lagoon. I'm in a blue turquoise mood today. So, let's just stick with that. So, we're going to sketch out our normal sort of hairy leaf shape, right? Don't stress yourself out, you know, trying to draw a full face or, you know, a proper, you know, what is deemed a proper image of anything. Just have fun with your supplies. Don't listen to anybody else who says otherwise. I'm going to add a little bit of this blue... I'm sorry, turquoise, Winsor-Newton aqua, I mean watercolor marker, just in a couple of places. And I think I'm going to add the purple one too. This is mauve. Do I have a pink? I don't think I have a pink in the Winsor-Newton. I take that back. I have a quinoa magenta. Let's try it, shall we? Don't know what it's going to look like. What's the worst it could happen? Now, everything I've put on here is water soluble. That being said, sometimes with markers, if they're on the paper for a long time and they get too dry, then they're not easily moved around. So that means that you're stuck with part of the mark that you've made with the pen, which isn't a bad thing, I don't think. Cat or a tree. We'll do Wanda. We'll do one of those next. Okay, so I'm going to, before this gets too dry, I do want to take some of one of these other colors in my palette. Okay, the thing I want to do is I want to take some of the Magicals while it's wet. It might not have been wet enough. I'm going to close this up before I spill it all over the place. Because, you know, my middle name is not Grace or Patience, so it's a very real possibility. I like that. You could even go in here with just the water. Let's move our face pieces out of the way. It's been a while since I've done a cat. For those of you who don't know, I used to teach acrylic painting at Michael's. I actually ran into my old boss the other day. I left on good terms, but by my choice. But it was weird to run into her, nevertheless. I like that. Okay, let's go in here now. I want to go in here with something that's not going to move around. So I'm going to take one of my Coinoor pencils. This is one that's like red and blue, which kind of fits with the feather here. Now, the watercolor paint is wet, so I wouldn't advocate doing this with a pen while it's wet, because it's going to probably mess up the nib to your pen. I would definitely wait and let it dry. But that's a cute feather. Hey, Josie. On that, we have some magic holes on there. We've got the watercolor markers on there. We've got graphite pencil on there. It's really cute. Okay, next. I've got a million pieces of paper over here, so let's pick another one. I like this thick paper. I'm thinking it's the 300 pound. Of course, I like it because it's like ginormously expensive. Yeah, see, you can also use like water soluble crayons. Any of the water, there's a million different kinds of water soluble crayons out there, but you could use any of them too. You should not be afraid to put all your water soluble mediums together on one piece. Don't be afraid to experiment. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. They're a learning experience. Just have fun with it. All right. So we're going to start out with a sharpie. You know what? Let's do, first let's do a test because I don't remember. This is the Feud Ball pen. I don't remember if it's water soluble or not. Let's dry it. I want to say it is kind of, and I don't remember. Let's hit it with water and see what happens. Oh, it's waterproof. All right. Cool. Good to know. So, all right, let's go in with the Feud Ball first. And what do I want to do with the pen? Wait a minute. I think I want to do it with paint first. So this is normally how I teach students to paint trees. We'll do a tree first. I'm going to use first, we're doing watercolors. Start with your lightest color and work your way darker. I'm going to start out with green, gold because it's warm. It's a warm color. And I'm going to add one of the easy way to get lighter watercolors colors is add more water to them. So my favorite brush for trees is a Filbert. My favorite kind of tree is a pine tree. So the first thing I'm going to do is take the tip of my Filbert brush. I'm going to barely, barely touch it to the paper. I'm going to start at the bottom and slowly go up. And as I go up, I'm going to lift the brush up so that I have a fatter line at the bottom and a skinnier one at the top. It doesn't have to be perfectly straight. Nature is not straight, right? Then I'm going to take the same color on the Filbert brush. And I'm going to start at the bottom. And I'm going to use the fact that the end of the brush is rounded. And I'm going to twist and turn it and tap it. This technique will work great in watercolor and acrylic. As you go up, make your marks less and closer together. Yeah, definitely. Jillian, you can use Daniel Smith watercolor sticks. I do have my own set of 10. I love them. Any watercolor, I just figured this was enough watercolor supply, water soluble supplies that we didn't need to add anymore that I have on my table. But I could get them there. Now they're right there in easy reach. All right. I'm going to go to a slightly cooler and darker green. And so I'm going to go to sap green, which actually needs more water because it's a little dry. And I'm going to do the same thing. I'm not necessarily looking to go exactly over the marks I just made. I need some more paint. OK. So I really just want to add this color. Now I readily admit that doing this on watercolor in watercolor is a little more challenging than doing it in acrylic because it's harder to layer your marks on top of each other. Your paint is transparent. It's not impossible. And you get a different look than you get when you do it in acrylic. So I would definitely suggest to you guys that you try it in both. Oh, that's good to know, Ian. All right. So then we're going to work our way darker. And I am going to actually go to the blue side, which is really cool. And I'm going to pick phthalo turquoise. Just because you're doing a suggestion of a tree shape doesn't mean it has to be green people, right? All right. So let's see. That's a little bit wet. I'm going to take some of this phthalo green, and I'm going to run it down where the trunk of the tree is. Just barely, barely, barely. And it doesn't have to be a full and complete line either. You just want to put a little color there, OK? Then I'm going to put some more water in my paint here. And again, we're doing the tapping thing, right? I'm giving the filbert brush a little twist as I'm painting. I'm tapping. I'm going in kind of a zigzag. And as I get to the top, I make it a lot narrower. Now I'm going to switch to a small round brush. And I'm going to go dark. Ooh, don't want to stick with watercolor? Wait, we've got all these other supplies out here. Hold the phone. Ha, let's see. Hold the freaking phone. Let's try. What are these colors over here? So this one is a Derwent Intense Pencil. It's called Iron Blue. And we are going to use it on our trees. And I'm doing the same kind of sketchy shapes, running it down the trunk and then kind of doing a sketchy, loose, messy zigzag up the trunk in the pencil. And the dark color is going to give it just some interest. And I may want to go in with my little brush and activate some of that pencil, but not all of it, because the pencil marks give it just some more interest. Yeah. So then I'm going to come in with some water. I'm going to turn my paper around. And I'm going to, oh, my water is very blue. That's all right. And you can see the way it's beating, that there's something on the paper. It's all right. My water is dirty, of course, because you know, I'm really bad about keeping my clean water clean. I'm going to use manganese blue. I have some Sennelier paints. I have three tube paints in here that they sent me samples of. And I have a Sennelier pocket kit. I am not a huge fan of their tube paints, because they stay sticky. They don't really dry out completely, but their pans are nice. Sennelier are nice. There's another Italian brand. I would love to get my hands on to try. But I'm having difficulties getting them. I don't remember the name of it right off the top of my head. I think it starts with a V. Okay, so let's go in now. The sky, if we're doing a mini landscape, the sky, the farther away from the earth it is, the darker it is. So let's go in with like this turquoise color. And let's just put a little bit of it up here. These are pretty pigmented. So I would go easy on it. You can always make it darker, but it's hard to make it lighter. And then just activate it a little bit. And if you leave it blotchy like this and puddley, that just suggests clouds in the sky. So don't feel like you have to blend it perfectly to get something interesting. That's ridiculous. I have three Sennelier tube paints in this palette. I have Senaris blue, and I don't know that that's how you pronounce it. I have opera rose and yellow light. And I have a pocket kit. I haven't used it yet, but I do have a pocket kit. All right, so I love the way this is looking. You know me, I do like my splatters. So we're going to take some more of the manganese blue. I love my splatters. And this is just a simple landscape. It doesn't have to be, you know, super complicated. Just do something simple. I like the splatters. I like that, you know, sort of splattery craziness. I do want to darken up this lower edge a bit. So I'm going to put a little bit of one of the greens that I've used on the bottom edge. And then I'm going to just take just some water, which normally I would say clean water, but it's not super clean water. Okay. And now instead of having the trees look like they're coming out of the sky, they actually look like they're coming out of the earth. Yeah. That's a cute little landscape. So that's just a simple tree. How many colors in what, Gail? In my pocket kit. It's a 12 color pocket kit. I actually got it from Amazon. I like, like I said, I like the Sennelier cakes. This is the pocket kit I own of Sennelier. I haven't used it yet. It's still new. I like it because it has a good range of colors in it. It doesn't have a white or a black, which I prefer my kits not have. It has Payne's gray and violet instead, and then it has the sepia. So it's perfect. I don't remember how much it was. I bought it for myself for my birthday. And I like this kind of metal watercolor kit. This is my preference, the black water, black metal kits. Because I redid my desk, I know exactly where it's at. It's right there. So that's a simple, just simple trees. What was the other one, a cat? All right. What did I do with my baby wipe? I need my baby wipe. Let's clean the plate again. I don't have a reference photo, so we'll have to wing it. That side's dirty, but you know that's interesting. All right. So let's try, and I do a cat. I haven't done a cat in a long time. Let's do some sketching first with a pencil. All right. So we're going to just, okay, basic. I'm just going to do, you know, again, I don't have a reference photo because I didn't plan to do a cat today, but we're going to just make it work. I'm going to start with some water-soluble pencil. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. I'm going to start with my Pilot Varsity Pen. And we are going to put that over here, near the eyes. Maybe a little here and there on the cat's body. Then we're going to go in with some... or let's do something. No, let's not either. Let's go in with a Crayola. This is a neon Crayola. This is the light orange. So decide where your light is coming from, what direction. This is a waxy crayon, so it's going to resist whatever you put on top of it. You totally could do this in winter colors and you could put this on the front of a Christmas card. You could use it as a tag. You could put it in a little frame. You totally could. It's a cute little, easy, simple little landscape and it's a great practice for doing trees. All of these could be gifts. You know, we're going into the holiday season, so all of these could easily be gifts or gift cards. You could paint a bunch of these and if you're in the art business or life coaching or something like that, you could stamp your contact information on the back of these and you could have these in your bag instead of business cards. Wouldn't that be cute? And that's just off the top of my head what I thought of off the top of my brain. This is a Prima watercolor pencil. This is a green, which is a cooler warm color. This is a cooler warm color, so it's green, which is a cool, but it's towards the yellow on the color wheel, so I know that just makes no sense to some of you. If you look at your color wheel and you divide it in half to the, like yellows, reds and oranges on one side and the blues, greens and violets on the other, the yellow, red and orange side is your warm side and the blue, green and violet side is the cool side and the warm side will indicate or suggest sunlight and warmth and the cool side will suggest shadow. Okay, so before we do anything else, we're going to come in with our brush like cleanish water. My water is all dirty. And we're going to activate some of the things that we have on here that are water soluble. And let's do something that's kind of Gene Haynes inspired that's suggestive of what we're trying to paint, but it's not exactly. So now I'm going to go in with one of my smaller brushes and really liking what's happening to this cat. So let's go crazy. Let's add some phthalo turquoise because why not? It's still on the yellow side of the blues, greens, but it's a cooler color. So I'm going to just put a little bit and then I'm going to come in with water. I'm going to let it run and bleed and go where it may try to keep control of it. So I'm still suggesting the shape of my cat. And generally speaking, you would spend more time on most of these products than I'm doing here. Don't forget to have a rag handy. So if you get too much of something somewhere, you can just lift it. There we go. Let's see what it is. So the coin or pencils do blend well together, but you need to use odorless mineral spirits because they don't really move on their own. They're a waxy color pencil. But that being said, if you have the odorless mineral spirits, they do move. Okay, I'm feeling like I want to do this to the tail. I'm going to do something crazy and I'm going to add purple. I know you're all gone. What? Purple? Why purple? Purple is a great shadow color. So add some of your pigment and then don't let it sit too long before you come in with your water. Let it drip and run. Let it splatter. If you don't know who Jean Haynes is, oh for goodness sake, go look her up. If you like watercolor paint, if you like the suggestive style, you're going to love Jean Haynes. She's fabulous. Look her up. She's way more of an expert at this than I am. So I'm keeping the purple to the shadows of the cat. Or at least I'm trying to. And now before we get too much into the shadows, I don't want to ignore the highlights. And we have the neon pencil on there which is doing a great job suggesting high points of the cat. But I feel like we should add something else. And I'm wondering if I should add one of these other Winsor & Newton pens. This is the Cadmium Yellow. One. Yellow of course is, you know, a great highlight color. And again though, I'm not going to go too far with it before I come back with some water and do some blending, or not blending, do some moving around. I'm not really blending. I'm just adding water so that the paint will sort of puddle up and move and suggest the shapes that I want it to suggest. Now one of the other things that we'll probably do is do this. And just let the paint run. I love that. I do want to give a suggestion over here of the edge of the cat. So we're going to go in here with like we've kind of done here. We're going to go over here. I feel like that's missing. So we're going to put some pigment on there. And then we're going to add some water. There are some colors on here that if you were trying to do a realistic cat, you wouldn't pick these colors. I've got yellow, neon orange, green, violet, turquoise. That's kind of the point though. You know, feel like you have to just use realistic colors or supposedly realistic colors. So I'm adding a little bit of yellow or a sunlight color at the top of the head. The yellow is not bright enough. But I have the Sennelier yellow. So yeah, that's better. And of course I can always go in with a blueish sky color. So we could use the Sennelier blue and I can put it over here on my little plate with some water. I just went everywhere. But I love that. Okay, now we're going to really make this sucker pop. We are going to go in with... We want to go in with paint or pencil. I don't want to go in with pencil. So this is a Derwent Inktense pencil that's called Bark. I could do this with paint, but we're going to... This is about mixed media, right? So what you're going to start doing is darkening up your shadows. Really working on doing things like suggesting the eye. I don't have the line right there, but I love that. Thank you so much. If you guys remind me, I will try to remember to scan some of these little cards or photograph them and put them into the Facebook group. Y'all have to remind me though. And there I go saying y'all again. I really am just from California, I swear. So I'm just taking the pigment from that pencil and I've been around. I'm barely touching the brush to the paper. Barely. I'm really thinking like I want more of that pencil. This is Bark. So just add a little bit at a time until you get the look that you want. Don't go crazy with adding too much of it. But your watercolors will really start to pop if you remember to give them really a big pop of shadow and light. Which is the title of Shadow and Light is the title of one of Gene Haynes' books. So just like with the pens you can consider the pencils a paint source. So I can put a little bit on here in the water which is just really putting pigment and then I can move it around with the paintbrush. I'm not looking at the comments right this second. If you guys are asking questions this is my favorite style of watercoloring FYI. For those of you who are new and don't know me it's very cute. That's just a dark brown. That's a bark color. So we're going to go in now and we're going to go in with a little bit of white. No. First we're going to do black. Let's go in with a feud ball and we're going to darken up a couple of things like the eyes and some of the nose. I might put a few dots where the whiskers would be. That's all I'm going to do and I'm going to go in with one of my white pens. I'm thinking this one's too fat so we're going to use the uniball signal and we will put in the highlights in the eye. You could do this with white watercolor paint. There's no reason why you can't. Let's see. It's not really showing up the way I wanted to so let's try the Posca which is a paint pen. I don't necessarily want a perfect dot so I'm going to... The Posca pen is acrylic paint. It doesn't dry right away. There we go. It's a little cat. Wow, we've been on for almost two hours. This is a long broadcast. Hey, good morning. How are you today, Mark? I did not realize we were just painting a bunch of these little... We're just practicing some different techniques using different water-soluble mediums today. So we painted all these. I just finished the little cat. Does anybody have any questions? So I will never advocate breaking the bank to add to your art supply stash. I know it's tempting. Believe me, I know all about that. But look around at what you have and if you're not sure if it's water-soluble, test it. There is no reason on the planet why when you're watercoloring you only have to use watercolor paints. I'm going to zoom back out again so you guys can see some of the newer people can see what's on my table. So there's no reason on the planet that you can only have to use watercolor paints when you're watercoloring. You can use your watercolor paints in conjunction with all of your pens, your markers, your pencils, and if you're not sure if what you have is water-soluble, test it. Maria! And if you have neocolour 2 crayons or the new Ranger water-soluble crayons, of course you can use them with your watercolor paints. You can also just use your regular color pencils with your watercolor paints like we did here. Watercolor pencils, of course, with the paints, they don't have to be fancy. They can be Crayola. They can be, these are Maypad Helix. These are not expensive, but they work great. Now, I will tell you that no matter what mediums that you're using, especially if you're mixing up your mediums, like I frequently do, and a lot of what I use is not necessarily Lightfast. Scan it! Oh my goodness, people, scan it. And that way you have a copy of it for posterity. A lot of times the kids' art supply products are not Lightfast. Now, that being said too, I also know that a lot of neon colored things and neon highlighters do not scan well. So you may find photographing them works better. I know that from experience. But look around and see what you have. Maybe you have markers that will work with your paints. Maybe you have crayons that will work with your paints. Of course, if you have the Daniel Smith watercolor crayons, they're fabulous. And of course you can use them. They're like painting a stick. So of course. And just practice using your different materials together and see, try some of these little paintings and see which ones you like using together. You'll find that some you like working with the paint and some you don't. And that's alright. The facial features ones are fun. So these are a lot of fun in there. I think they're less stressful than drawing a whole face. We can work our way up to that. Again, I do have a class for doing faces. And a couple classes I think over on my website. There's a page called the classroom. It is going to be going through some updates in the next few months. Which is why I'm like all my time is being sucked up by organizing things in Dropbox. But that being said, there's already some stuff over there. But do just a partial face. Practice eyes. Do a few little eyes. Practice some lips. Practice noses, ears. You know, if faces aren't your thing, practice trees. I get bored with doing faces all the time to be honest with you. So that's why I switch some kinds of feathers or landscapes or you know, abstract flowers or something like that. Oh, you're welcome. Everybody, you're welcome. Those of you who came late, they're recording of the whole entire broadcast will be on my channel. You have to give it a few minutes because it doesn't show up right away. But it will be on the channel. And you know, dig out all those different water soluble medias out of your stash and try using it together and see what you come up with. I am going to be updating the description as soon as we're done. I will put the names of as many of these different things or at least the type of things they are in the description below. These are called coin or magic pencils. They're not water soluble, but I love them and they have this kind and then they have these littler ones, which are fabulous. Of course, I had to have both. And then Derwent inktense. We have the Maypet Helix pencils, Prima watercolor pencils, which I love. Creola neon pencils and Derwent watercolor pencils. You know, I don't know yet. I'm not sure. I have a lot going on in September, but I have to try. I have to decide today because September starts tomorrow. So maybe I don't know. There's just, there's a lot going on for me right now getting ready for 2017 and some other stuff. Some business, some personal. And it's all good, so nobody can get freaked out. There's just a lot of it. So I'm not sure. But I'll let you all know hopefully some time today or maybe tomorrow when I do a face. I made, maybe we'll do face pieces. Maybe I'll do an eye a day or lips a day or something. Any other questions before we, before I go have some lunch. I wonder if I'm hungry. It's almost lunchtime. And don't forget to you with your watercolors, you know, if you have magicles or brush-os or color bursts, you definitely could sprinkle some of these into your wet watercolor paint. Or if you have them in shakers, salt and pepper shakers, like I do some of mine, you could sprinkle them into the wet watercolor paint. It creates something interesting. We did that in this one. I have the first three original sets of primas. I know there's two more sets coming out any day now. I'm thinking about getting one more of them to fill up my Prima palette because I do have space for one more. I put them into a large metal palette. Took them out of the boxes that they came in. My favorite one is probably the Tropicals. That's no great big surprise to anybody who knows me. It has the brightest and most interesting colors in it. But I like them. I think that if you're going to buy a Prima set, you really can't go wrong with picking any one of them. I am going to add one of the new primas to my set of primas I already own. I'm really looking at which one of the two new sets will not only complement the primas I already have, but complement the other paints I have. I may I don't know yet if I'm going to do the pastels or the metallics. I don't know. I do have a big palette of twinkling H2O so I don't really need the metallics. Plus I have the magicles and a few other things. So I'm kind of leaning towards the pastels. We'll see. Faces are fun and challenging yourself to do a face a day for a month is great. So it's a great practice for those of you who want to get better at faces. So if you guys are going to do anybody out there doing the 29 faces of September and you want face practice I definitely recommend it. I do think I have the Outliner and I don't honestly think I use it. Let's see. Oh yeah, see Outliner where's my little scrap I had. I think when I've used the Outliner I've used it just like any of the other intense pencils because it's like a dark like charcoal gray color and it moves a little bit but it doesn't move a ton. So I mean I think I think I've just used it like a pencil. I don't think I've used it a lot. It came in the set and you know it was just kind of in there but it really is more of just like a pencil pencil. So I would say if you have this one and you don't know what to do with it do your pre sketches with the Outliner and it'll move a little bit but it's not going to move a lot. Don't count on it moving much and just use it to add interest like on the feathers instead of the graphite use the Outliner and it'll give you a darker line like a softer graphite lead pencil would. I honestly always forget that I have it. So I'm also eager for them to be more readily available too. In fact I'm going to call my local scrapbook store or hardly ever shop at but I think I'm going to call them and see when they're going to get them in and maybe go over there and look at both of them before I decide which one I'm going to add to my collection to answer that question and then Ian. So I always tell my students when I'm teaching them faces the best face to practice on is your own set up a mirror in front of you and just draw your own face. If you're going to mess up anybody's face you'll feel less self-conscious about it if it's your own face. I've messed up my own face a million times. See you later Wanda. It is lunchtime here so I think Gail I saw your post before that you have a gift shop. I was in an artist cooperative gift shop for a long time and they went out of business. I miss being in the shop. That was a lot of fun and I worked there also as a cashier so and I was in charge of their online advertising. I loved it. It was fabulous. I know for us in that shop the one thing we always did really well with was we always had a few supplies. Supplies always went really well whether they were handmade supplies and embellishments or they were purchased ones. They always went really well. So I think you can't go wrong if you get the primas in there especially if maybe if you have the ability to maybe have somebody come in and demo the primas or little onsite tutorials or something like that. Yeah it's fairly water resistant. It will move a teeny bit but it's fairly water resistant so I think that it's nice just to use as a pencil. See that's the thing Ian you can't you know if you're just doing your own face it's less stressful than trying to do a pretty face because let's face it. None of us are models you know I think we're all beautiful in our own way but Gail that takes a lot of practice. One of the best tips I can give you for that is to take their picture blow it up to the size that you want it to be and use transfer paper to transfer their features the basic outline of their features to your paper or whatever you're doing the painting on and then at least you have the proportions correct and then I would very carefully start sketching and or painting in the lights and darks and the medium but it takes a lot of practice and sometimes I'm able to do it and sometimes I'm not. So yeah it takes a lot of practice and there is a life drawing there's a life drawing channel that I really love here on YouTube and I can't think again I can't think of the name of it right now we're going to do a Monday we will be back with Monday with Decor. Yay! At least for a little while it is a holiday but I don't think we're doing anything. So if that's true then look for me to be live if it's not true and we end up being busy then I will post something for you guys and let you know and I'll be back the following Monday but the next time we do Monday with Decor we're going to do start doing Faces and Figures Nudes in particular and I'm going to show you some tips and tricks and I to answer Josie's question that just popped up so if you want to learn really well how to do Faces and Figures first of all I can't recommend enough the teacher Pauline Agnew she has lots of online courses she's fabulous she does in person classes too and she has a Faces and Figures course that she does I don't know like once or twice a year so I would definitely say keep your eyes open for that. I practiced a lot on my own face a lot just trying to sketch and look at the photo and get the proportions right screwed it up a lot charcoal is really good because if you get the proportions slightly off like with the pilot varsity pen you can push the pigment around you can adjust the shadows with charcoal you can erase it so it's fabulous I did learn fairly early on that if I took their photo and I traced the basic features on at least I had the proportions right and that aided me a lot in figuring out how to do that still hit or miss with me because I don't do Faces a lot so I'm a little bit out of practice sometimes but it is a good way to practice and I do recommend having a composition notebook that you just do Faces in I have one somewhere hold on I have a bunch of these these are just composition notebooks here it is so this one is just Faces so I just practice Faces and if I'm working from a book by a particular artist I make a note of it in the front most of these are just freeform I haven't traced anything some of them are great some of them not so much but they're all practice and sometimes they just practice features a lot of these are colored pencil I did some from Jane Davenport's book here's some suggestive nude sketches I mean I have done my share of news there's some hanging in my husband's office men and women men are harder my men always come out like boys I need a cough drop so I do suggest doing something like this and if you're going to do the 29 days then I suggest getting a notebook and do 29 filling it up over the 29 days with Faces and facial features like I said some of these are great some of them are not so much really bad some of them it's just practice there's no easy way there's no shortcut so but starting out with this is kooky animals and birds and one is alphabets but even if you work in a notebook like this especially if you're trying to copy real people starting out with the transfer shapes of their face is easier yeah Lee Hammond is great if you like the suggestive style of painting and sketching then Emily Ball has a book drawing a painting people if you like more anime style then let's see which I can't find right now it's in here then Chris Hart has a couple of really great books and of course she has a very particular way of drawing people it's interesting it's interesting to practice her way in order to develop your own style but I do encourage you to just try your own style I agree with you Lisa if I can I'll find it as soon as we're done and I will link the life drawing class in the description below along with again the name of the supplies that we use today it's a YouTube channel and they have timed lessons and non-timed lessons and even if you screw them up at least try and maybe if some of you have YouTube channels and you are better at doing realistic portraiture than I am because it's just not my thing honestly I probably could do it but I get bored halfway through that's part of my problem so if some of you are better at it than I am and you love the realistic art thing maybe do some tutorials on your channel and share them in my Facebook group I think that would be good yes so when you do voice you need to remember to flatten the chin lower the eyebrows usually make the lips a little thinner don't forget the Adam's apple this isn't a great example of a boy but don't forget the Adam's apple and I always make notes because this is my practice book so I make notes about what I do or don't like about the drawing or what I would improve if I could and I mean I show it to you guys but you don't generally have to show this to anybody this is just a practice book for you I got asked recently by one of my students what's the one thing I get tired of drawing and I really try not to lie to anybody so I said to her are you sure you want me to answer that question she said yes I said faces they do kind of bore me I like doing figures when I'm going to do figure work and I like doing these kind of faces like pieces of a face or a Buddha face where it's just half of a face or I do faceless girls those sort of things I find more interesting than just drawing a face my daughter is a photographer so if I want a realistic portrait of somebody I just have her take a photo in my mind when I'm going to paint I'm painting something that's more interesting than just a picture of somebody's face that's for the experts that are photography people to do or from classical artists like Rembrandt like because that's not my thing thing yeah faceless girls I do lots of faceless girls so and there is a few tutorials on my youtube channel for faceless girls in fact I did some for Monday with Decowart yeah Ian I think that's fabulous I did it up it's wonderful so maybe next Wednesday we'll see if we can do a watercolour faceless girl since now Kyla has put the be in my bonnet about it yeah I love Tracy Bautista Kyla I'm a big fan she's one of the first mixed media teachers I took a class with and we can do more work with faces and faceless girls maybe in watercolour different watercolour mediums next week alright that's it you guys I want you to remember the most important thing besides playing and having fun don't listen to the crazy snobby artists people out there that are going to tell you that you're not an artist because you can't do it this way or that way ignore them just have fun and play with your supplies and express yourself in a creative manner and to heck with the rest of them and that's cleaning up my language a lot alright so get out all your water soluble mediums and use them together throw in a few non-water soluble things and see what happens alright go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself and maybe somebody else because you deserve it and they probably do too alright I will see you guys next week we will somebody for God's sake remind me and we will do more work with faces and specifically faceless girls and something interesting because again I'm not too into the realistic thing we'll do an expansion on this eye and I'll show you about as realistic as I ever get which is super realistic and we'll do some faceless girls and some other stuff we'll have fun with watercolour we'll do a bunch of different things you guys private Kyla, Josie and anybody else private message me your suggestions on facebook so that I can make a list there is a watercolour Wednesday list on the facebook group but I don't think it's been updated in a long time if you're so motivated you can go in there and update it and add some things and put the put the drawing thing in the facebook group and if you're unable to do that you can email it to me and I'll put it in ok that's it for today guys I will see you all later I'm going to go have some lunch, bye