 already people watching trying to get my there where there I am this way I can read your comments 10 people whoo hello and of course see the iPad is sideways I'm filming it correctly on my phone the view screen is the right orientation but on the iPad I'm always sideways I don't understand that I'll flip it when I save it to YouTube hey hey everybody hey Lisa so today in case you didn't know we're doing trees and landscape I printed out a copy of the PDF document I created which is available in my Etsy shop it's a digital download it's $2 and the colors are off on my copy because my printer was running out of ink and so I used my husband's printer and obviously his is running out of ink too so but anyway this is a copy of the document which includes of course a copy of the color key for my watercolor palette I'm going to use and that way you have a complete list of all the colors in my palette and copies of the two sample pieces of work that I did so we are going to work on a couple of we're going to do one little landscape and then if we have time we'll just do some trees how is everybody today are you ready to paint with watercolor hello I saved this because this is the palette of colors I used to make the original samples and I just have a hard time just wiping that away and cleaning it off hey Miss Jenny how are you um so let's start with the easier one of the two let me see if I hey somebody crafty that's all I saw because when I looked at the screen you disappeared I gotta pick a brush let's see you know I think I have too many brushes I have trouble picking um you know what I think if we're gonna start with the simpler one of the two we're gonna start with this one hey everybody hey Michelle this is a very suggestive sort of pine tree this is a really really easy one hey how are you um art zologies in the house cool so I think that I'm gonna use a flat brush and I'm actually gonna use this one this is one of my favorite flat brushes this is a Princeton Neptune and this is a half inch flat I really like this one for a number of reasons I love the Princeton Neptune brushes as you guys know this one has a plastic handle and I have a habit of leaving my brushes in water and forgetting they're in there and so with the plastic candles you don't worry about them cracking so this is really cool so we're gonna start with the suggestive tree and we're gonna need the embossing tool for this because we're gonna want to dry so the first thing I'm gonna do is you get my page wet and I'm working today on this hot press watercolor paper it's not my favorite paper it's very smooth and I know from playing with my watercolors for a while that I like a little bit of texture to my paper and I really like cold press that's a matter of preference just like paint brands are there's a lot of really great artist paint brands out there you really just have to try them and see what you like all right so I'm gonna start with some handsome yellow and then some water I didn't really clean my brush off really well so it's got some yellow on it still because I wet the paper first see the paint is gonna bleed all over the place but that's what we want I'm gonna push this up a little bit so you guys can see it there we go that's better but that's what we want for our background we wanted something really suggestive of bright sunlight now I'm gonna go into my palette where I have a little bit of this orange mixture and I think this was like pyrrole orange maybe with a little bit of permanent red you'd have to look in my notes because I don't remember to be honest with you but I have it here and I'm gonna put it in here in the background a little bit just a little bit not too much and I'm gonna sort of do a color no-no so what do I mean by that I'm gonna add some blue into here now you want to do this carefully because if you don't you're gonna get brown because you're gonna have all three of your primary colors on the page at the same time and we don't want a brown sky hey mark so I'm going to take some of my cobalt teal and I'm going to I have some on my brush it's pretty wet and sloppy and that's the way I want it I'm gonna flick it at my paper now we're gonna dry it before everything blends too much and we get it brown because we don't want a brown sky I'm turning the paper and tilting it a little bit so I can see where it's shiny and really wet and anything that's too wet and starts to blend too much I'm gonna lift with my rag so yes and answer that question what you could do is do the blue first dry it and then do the yellows and orange and then dry it for the sake of expediency I'm not doing that I also like to like do things in a hurry I don't have any patience for anything okay it's mostly dry so and you guys aren't on Periscope today to watch me dry paint so I rarely watercolor without my heat tool close by when I'm at home because I don't have patience for paint to dry even with watercolor even though it's water soluble we're gonna do some trees and landscapes today okay so with water color even though it's water soluble if you layer your colors like you should when you're doing acrylic paint what do I mean by that so colors that are next to each other on the color wheel that blend well together put those on the paper and then let it dry and then you can put your other colors so in this case you could do the yellow and orange first and either dry it or let it dry then put the blue the yellow and orange may still reactivate a little bit but they're going to react reactivate very little and and they're really not going to blend too much with the blue and you won't get brown so if you have a lot more patience that me than me that is really the way to do this kind of a background something blue since suggestive to suggest the light this is a not a realistic type of a painting in the least so now I'm going to come in with more of my red color here and I'm actually going to make some more I'm going to put a little bit of permanent red in here and I'm going to get some mostly pyrol orange which is one of my favorite orange colors and now we're going to start to suggest our tree and I'm working from the lightest and brightest colors to the darkest colors so I've got my light yellows and light blues on here now we're going to do go a little darker with the orange the first thing I'm going to do with my flat brush is I'm going to draw my tree trunk or I should say suggest my tree trunk and I'm barely touching the brush to the paper and it's not about making a you know a perfect line you want it kind of straight and parallel with a paper but I mean trees aren't necessarily parallel in real life so I wouldn't worry too much about that I'm going to suggest some landscape down here remember that this orangey red color is going to suggest lightness and brightness and warmth sunlight that's what we want now I'm going to come in here with the tip of my brush and I'm going to back and forth I'm just tapping it on the paper just like a zigzag wider at the bottom narrower towards the top you could do this with a filbert too and the filbert will give you less straight more curved branches it's it's there it's neither one of them is wrong it's just a different look I encourage you I would encourage you to try it with both kinds of brushes now I'm just coming in here with some water that was a little too much water and that's going to allow some of the paint to blend thank you for the hearts I love that and it's going to smudge some of the marks a little bit that's what I want I want it to be suggestive I just did my paint brush in the paint that wasn't what I wanted I think I should have more coffee it's already been a weird morning okay I'm gonna do it down here just a bit okay I like that look at my notes and see what I wrote in the notes we can use a new gambos too which is a bright orangey yellow color put some of that on here before we get too far into our darks now don't forget to put some of this on your trunk so as you're adding your colors you don't want to just do the branches and you don't want to do everywhere and you don't want need to go on top of the same marks you already made this is about suggesting your your shapes and creating something that's interesting to the viewer and it's really all about the marks and the colors and putting them in the kind of right place and just experimenting and playing really that was new gambos so now we're gonna go in with some purples but first I want to dry the oranges a little bit because I don't want to I could make if I make brown that's okay but I don't want to make too much brown so I want to dry this just a little bit because I'm working on a watercolor block and I'm using my heat embossing tool you'll see what's happening with the glue and that that happens and my paper is warping a little bit but I'm not too concerned so I've got some different purples that I've already got over here on my palette and this one is a rose of ultramarine which is a very red purple so we're gonna start with that one and I'm gonna put some on the trunk first and this is the time where you really start deciding what is the shadow side of your tree so I just decided that the left side was the shadow side and that's where I put the purple now I'm going to tap some of this into my branches I'm just you really I'm just using the tip of my brush don't dig any holes to China with your paintbrush I'm also not gripping it you know tight like a pencil in fact the farther back you grip your brush the less control you have but the more suggestive marks that you make so now we're gonna rinse the brush off and we're gonna come in again with just some water we like our marks they're very suggestive but that doesn't mean we need to leave all of them on there without letting some of them bleed and blend and smudge and if you think about maybe for some of you it might be easier to think about the colors as working instead of from lighter to darker what about warmer to cooler so so far we've used all pretty warm colors even the teal if compared to other blues as a warmer blue because it's a green let me know if you have any questions it's one of the reasons I'm here on Periscope every Wednesday is not just to show you these tutorials but to answer your questions now I'm gonna start to use one of my favorite Daniel Smith colors moon glow this is 140 pound hot press watercolor paper this paper is by let's see fluid it's a fluid hot press watercolor paper block I found these blocks before at my art supply store and hobby lobby but all I think this one is from Dick Blick last time I placed an order I wanted to get you know to the minimum to get free shipping I think I ordered paper I'm pretty sure that's where this is from so now I'm gonna go to a cooler shade and we're gonna go with the moon glow which is more of a gray blue purple it's still purple and you notice we've used no greens and we're not gonna be using greens this is all about suggesting your tree with using warm and cool colors without actually using any realistic colors because you don't it's about suggesting the shape and the lightness and warmth without necessarily using cook the realistic colors and that's true for foliage and nature as well as you know faces and things those of you who've seen me paint before know my favorite way to paint a face is to not use any realistic colors don't forget your landscape down here because it wouldn't all be light and bright and warm there'd be some dark spots all right so just like before we're gonna come in with some water these kind of little quick tree studies are fun to do they're great practice thank you they're easy and you learn a lot about what your you can get your paint to do and to not do and because you're not stressed about you know doing any realistic colors you know they're fun it is very calming I'm glad I should it should be okay so now we're gonna introduce even cooler colors so we're gonna go in with a blue I'm just looking at my notes to see what I used last time I used what I thought I used so we're gonna go in with Prussian blue which is a dark it's a dark blue it's a little bit on the in my opinion it's a little bit on the turquoisey side but it's one of my favorite blues I'm gonna use a little bit of that now see I just put a little bit under the of that dark color on there and look how that tree is just starting to pop look at that so you want to try to have when you're doing this a good balance of what you're really light colors and you're you're really warm colors with your really darks the darks are gonna make your painting really pop and the other thing too is if you're using a lot of brights put some neutrals in there because those neutrals are gonna make those brights really pop and I didn't dry it again so my paint is mixing a little bit with the wet purples and things are on here I'm okay with that don't forget your you know little landscape or whatever it is that we've suggested here that's near the tree again we're gonna clean our brush off and we're gonna just get it wet now the PDFs for these watercolor Wednesdays are available in my Etsy shop for sale they will continue to be available for sale we are going to continue to have some version of watercolor Wednesday for the new year for as many Wednesdays as I can manage I'll always announce them the either the morning of or the day before and it'll probably be more often than not it will be every Wednesday I do think I'm gonna do a paid for class on you to me that's just watercolor serve an in-depth thing where we make a watercolor journal and then we paint all the pages and we use a different technique on all the pages so you guys tell me if that's something that you would be interested in and then we would use our watercolor Wednesdays to answer questions and do yeah cool I have to film it so let me film it first I have to film it and I've got to get it up on you to me so it's my project one of my big projects to get ready alright so that's our blue so look at that that tree is really starting to pop so now we're gonna come in with some pains gray which is a dark bluish gray counting here which one of these I think it's this one these is pains gray it's good to have your color key handy so you can figure out which colors are which in your palette because some of them all look the same so if you don't know if you don't have a color key with your swatches I would not know on some of these what color it is so now this is the really dark color and this is gonna make it pop even more so look look at this dark almost black color in here and how that makes that pop and you don't need to put this everywhere just put it in a few select places welcome to everybody who's just joining and you have your oranges and yellows that are showing through the leaves of your of your tree here so you're getting the impression of sunlight shining through the tree branches and isn't that a lot of fun I'm looking for the other one that I made the other day I don't know what I did with it you know I keep putting artwork away and then I keep losing it I don't know where it is right now oh yes yeah I might actually know it so here's the one I did the other day when I was creating the PDF document so that's just a simple quick pine tree now you can I like I said you can do these with a filbert brush and if you don't know what a filbert brush is and I'll show you a couple things I wouldn't use this one because this is a little bit small I would use one that's larger I have an oval wash would work too I may actually not have one that's big enough so you want something that's rounded at the end so this is a lunar blender this is a Princeton Neptune brush this is an oval wash I'm sorry this is Princeton select this is a Princeton Neptune and you notice the same this thing they have in common is they're both flat brushes but they have rounded bristles at the end this is a filbert and I'm going to show you on a scrap of paper before we move forward and let's just do it with the color that we have here on the palette so let's just use for the sake of you being able to see it let's use the blue because it's nice dark color so again you would do the same thing as I did with a flat you would paint your trunk with the tip of the brush just again barely touching it to the paper then you're going to take your filbert brush and just like we did with the flat you're going to tap it to the paper and back and forth but look at these marks that you get these sort of rounded marks that gives you the impression of a different kind of a tree and this is a technique you can do not only in watercolor but in acrylic paint and if you layer your colors on top of each other especially if you dry them in between welcome everyone who's just joining then you get something that's really interesting and it's definitely a different kind of a tree than use doing the same basic brush strokes but with a flat brush so I encourage you to try both and now that I realize I don't have a wide filbert I might need to get another one when I use acrylics actually I don't oh cool I don't water my acrylics down usually I do paint half with heavy body and about half with fluid acrylics usually on the same canvas water them down all right so now we're going to work on something that incorporates a little smaller version of the tree that we just did and a different kind of a tree in a landscape now when I that sounds interesting that would be fun at Christmas time to do on some Christmas cookies when I painted this sample I intended to start out by painting a true landscape I ended up painting something that turned out to be more pond-like with landscape around it so that's just what you know my muse was telling me to paint that day so we're going to work on that the one tip I will tell you about doing a landscape with water in it whether it's pond or it's an ocean a seascape whatever's above the water should be reflected in the water not necessarily perfectly reflected but there should be an indication or hint of say this tree you can see here reflected a bit in the water and over here where this sort of mountainy bushy shape is there's a shadow right here there's also some shadowing here where this tree is overhanging the pond so you want to be conscientious of the fact that whatever's above the water should be reflected in the water so we're going to switch to a round brush I'm going to switch to this one this is a round number four now when I started with the sample I actually started out by using Moonglow a very light wash of Moonglow I think wait look at my notes see it was a week ago I don't remember that's so terrible I know oh so you know that's not true either so I mixed some Prussian blue with a little bit of paints gray we'll do it right here some phthalo yellow green which is this kind of bright green a little bit of sepia we're looking we're shooting for a grayish blue of course you could use a color that's in your palette of course you could but it's more interesting and more fun to mix your own and then we're gonna add some water so we get kind of a thinner mixture and then you want to start to outline your shapes so the first thing I started with is the big tree trunk and it's not about getting a perfect exact shade just start with a lighter shade something that's sort of a grayish greenish grayish bluish something that's you know a little more interesting than just you know plain anything all right and then I'm gonna put my horizon line in now I in the in the PDF I ask in the PDF and let's ask you guys live online do you notice an error in this the problem with this there's a blatant mistake in here it works because of other things on here but there's a mistake welcome so when you create a painting any painting you don't want your focal image whatever it is to be smack in the middle of the piece that's really boring and uninteresting you usually especially when you're talking about a landscape you want your horizon line to be above or below the center of the canvas if you think of your canvas in sort of a grid of thirds so vertical thirds and horizontal thirds where those four point yeah exactly it's in the center of the page so where those four those those lines meet those four points that's kind of where you want your focal points to be or where they shouldn't be near so when you put your horizon line in it should be in the lower third or the upper third of the canvas in this case it's not so bad because we have this big tree right here and it kind of draws attention away from the horizon line being smack in the middle but that's actually mistaken if I was going to sell this I would mat it or crop it so that I would cut some of it off somewhere because it's actually a mistake so when you put your horizon line in you want to pick a spot that's above or below the center of the canvas so in this case let's put it now if you're doing a seascape and you want it to be all about the ocean you want to put it above but if you're doing maybe a landscape works in this case about the trees then you want maybe put it below so I'm gonna put it down in the bottom I'm just using the tip of my brush if it was a landscape I'd be less worried about this line being straight because maybe it's bushy if it's water you want this line to be pretty straight because where the water meets the sky is going to be a pretty straight level line so now I'm going to come in here and I'm gonna sort of map in my smaller tree that's in the distance I'm just putting in my shapes right now and then I think I'm gonna do something right here again and I'm gonna pull in my flat brush and I think I'm gonna put some kind of land mass-ish kind of shape right here that looks good to me then I'm gonna come over here and I'm gonna start putting in more details to this tree trunk you know lines in the bark because the bark is you know wavy and crinkly and you know not even good yes I encourage all of you out there who want to start painting and never have before or maybe it's been a while do it do it do it life is too short not to do what you love okay and we're just we're just kind of map roughly mapping in our shapes I'm gonna come down here to our little tree and suggest some little branches down here welcome everybody who's just joining right you could even go so far as to like put some shapes here that's such a loaded question so both mediums can be expensive it depends on you know what kind of paint that you end up buying watercolors are some of them are very expensive but so are acrylics I would say that watercolors to get started they're less messy in my opinion I started with watercolor and they were watercolors very portable and not messy so in that respect I think it's a little easier to get started with watercolor and they do seem to go longer and also with watercolor you don't have to worry about them going bad in the tube if they dry out in the tube and I have a friend Jerry Bellini and I don't know that she's on here right now if she is Jerry say hi from my arts and parts and she did a YouTube video recently where she took her mom's old watercolors that were dried up in the tube and using some gum Arabic revived them she pulled she peeled big really peeled the tube back from the watercolor to pull the pigment out and then crushed it up and added some gum Arabic to it and repotted it in a new pot and that worked just great so you know it's watercolor so for the most part they can be revived when acrylics go bad in the tube that's your just your out of luck they're just bad so now while we're gonna let this all dry a little bit and we're gonna actually turn this around so I can work on the sky I'm gonna use the filbert brush I'm gonna use the Prussian blue I've got because I've got it here you could use ultramarine blue you could use a combination of the two mixed together I could grab some ultramarine over here which is more of a true blue whatever blue you want for the sky we're gonna do some in the sky and when you really want to do the sky before you get too far with the tree because you don't want to have to go back and touch up the sky and work around the tree I think watercolor is more forgiving I agree with you now in your sky the farther away from the earth it is the darker it is so start by laying out your pigment up at the top bring in some water and I take that back I'm gonna use the flat because I'm really bring in some water before you get too far I put these on my YouTube channel if you go to YouTube and you search Gina be errands calm I'm sorry Gina be errands holy cow I need more coffee you will find these videos there and I've created a playlist that is just for recorded on Periscope this dried a little bit so I'm just gonna I'm not gonna freak out I'm gonna get it wet I'm gonna add some more paint and you notice I'm leaving white spots because that's gonna hint at you know it being a you know a little bit of a cloudy sky I like that I almost never do just plain blue skies oh good yeah it'll be it'll be on it'll be on YouTube it takes me like the whole day to get the video set this so that it can be on YouTube there's a little bit of a process I go to to get you guys the best quality that I can because this is being filmed with my iPhone and this it's not a huge picture it doesn't take up the whole screen so but I will get it I will be downloading it and working on it this afternoon so I'm going up to the back up to the top and the paint is still wet I'm just laying in a little bit more pigment I'm gonna grab some ultramarine and it's gonna blend a little bit with what's on here because it's wet I want that and I want it to be a little darker up here add some more water don't be afraid to get your rag in and do some lifting if you get too much pigment do it right away know that if you're using artist grade watercolors they're gonna stain so you may not be able to get all of the paint up and some colors stain more than other colors so that looks pretty good I like that so now what remember what I said about whatever is above the water being reflected in the water so let's take some more of our blue do it I say do it so I'm gonna put a little bit of the same sky blue in the in the water I say in my opinion if you're debating about whether to start back in painting and to start doing it with watercolor you're welcome or acrylic I I would say go go with the watercolor watercolors really my favorite if I had to grab one art supply because my house was on fire and be my watercolors hey Carol so now that I have some of the sky reflected down where the water is gonna be so I'm gonna let that dry a little bit and then let's work on our tree trees we'll go back to our round brush I'm not want a bigger round brush I've never tried them yet oh see you have to try them and you know how I learned I get asked a lot if I took any class never taken a watercolor class live or online I've read a lot of watercolor books and I've done a lot of playing yep so do that you need to do that so just get your paints out and play and have some fun I'm gonna switch to a larger round brush because I really want to be suggestive with my marks let's see let's use this one it's a royal and leg niggle you're welcome okay so I'm gonna go with some greens what greens did I use last time oh green gold and cascade green so green gold is a more olivey green than the phthalo green this is the phthalo green it's really kind of bright and then this is the green gold which is more olive olivey I used green gold and I used this cascade green which is a very blue green so the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come up here to the big tree and I'm gonna and this is a larger brush this is around this is a number 10 this is a royal and leg niggle and I'm just dabbing you notice I'm just dabbing there you go yeah I usually ask for gift cards for Christmas people don't know what to give me I'm all just give me a gift card because I could tell you what art supplies I want to the cows come home but you probably won't get me the right one and that way if they get me a card and I you know run out of something you know a color or something I have it during the year and I can just replace it easily so then I went and what rinse my brush off and I'm just this is just water that's letting the pigment sort of move around I'm not trying to cover up my brush marks because they're gonna hint at leaves and I want that and I'm not worried about mixing with the blue in the sky because it'll just make more green colors so I'm gonna take some more of the same green only I'm just gonna try to get a little bit last time I mean last time this time last time I got too much and this was wet down here when I did the sample so then it just blended into the sky which was okay but it wasn't what I wanted so I'm gonna come in here with just the tip of my brush I'm gonna put some of this green here over this suggestive little tree that we've got going on here maybe a little bit down here and maybe a little bit suggested in the water because remember what I said about what's above the water would be reflected in the water right and then don't forget about this little thing over here put some dots on there to suggest like foliage or bushes or you know it's not really a tree we don't want it to be a tree but we don't necessarily want it to just look like a rock either and this brings your color all around the page so that you don't just have it in one spot and I just lifted some of the color because I thought there was too much I'm gonna take a stronger amount of the pigment here and I'm gonna put a little bit more on this tree this is still wet so it's gonna just it's gonna blend and bloom a bit and I want that that's nice so now I'm gonna come in and I'm gonna you know don't worry so much about actually painting the realistic rock suggest your rock when I first started learning it drove me crazy because I couldn't get it perfect to the way I wanted yes that means I'm probably a perfectionist but I realized being suggestive about my shapes made me much happier and much freer to just play with my supplies and that made that made me much more happy so that's what I do okay so before we get too much farther let's put some let's put some more color in our tree trunk I am going to use some of the colors I have on my palette but not just of that just them one of the colors I want to introduce is moon glow which is our purple color just because you're using green in your tree doesn't mean you can't suggest and use other colors in your painting yeah that would be fun I've always wanted to do a really big painting something huge so this is moon glow and again I'm just running it kind of roughly down with the tip of my round brush on the trunk on and nearby the other marks that I made I do sometimes mix my own colors but I and I know how to mix my own colors but it's not my favorite thing so this is just water some artists really only use like a 12 color palette I was watching an artist on YouTube this morning and he really just uses a 12 color palette and he mixes all of his own colors and that's really some artists love that I am not one of those I really just like to paint and so if I can do that and not have to worry about mixing colors all the time that doesn't mean I don't know how just means it's not my favorite thing I'm keeping the water when I put it on here that would be fun when I put the water on here I'm keeping it inside the tree trunk so that the moon glow stays in the tree trunk put some of it here some of it in the water some of it over here just do some dabbing you're gonna get some of the unexpected happen if you don't do drawing in between you're gonna get you know this purple color mixing with the green and making it brown we're doing a landscape so those colors would be there anyway and working with the unexpected that happens with watercolor well in my opinion that's one of the fun things of working with watercolor I'm gonna put some down here we're gonna let all that dry a little bit and we're gonna come back up here to the tree and I'm going to add some a darker my darker cascade green I also paint an acrylic masking fluid you mean so yes and in the online course I think I'm gonna one thing we're gonna do in the online course that I'm we're looking to develop for the new year is I think that we're gonna make a watercolor journal out of some paper watercolor paper and then we're gonna paint do a lesson on each page so by the end of the class you'll have a full book of watercolors and I think with each lesson we'll focus on a different watercolor technique one of them is gonna be using masking fluid one of them will be wax resist one of them will be using plastic wrap one of them will be using salt and that sort of thing and by the end of the class you'll have a good repertoire of different techniques you can do with your watercolors and we'll probably do one that's just focus on blending and you know puddles of watercolor color and how you can get that to work for you instead of against you hey Dory so now I'm just putting in some of my color and then putting in some water forgot what I was doing there for a second okay and I'm gonna put some in my little tree here put some in my water because you know I said that whatever is above would be reflect be reflected in the water right and put some over here put some in the water and get in here with my just plain water just on my brush no paint so you can lift some with just a damp brush and then dry it off and with your lighter colors your light yellows your light yellow greens mostly the lift almost completely your darker colors won't yeah this is a hot pressed watercolor block it's actually not my favorite see how that paint and water is really kind of going everywhere and it's I really like painting with cold press because you have all the nooks and crannies and the little divots in the paper and for me not only does that give my painting something interesting to look at in the background besides the paint but it's a little easier for me to control where the paint goes in my opinion yes I do and a lot of times that when I'm doing the sky actually earlier if you didn't see it I turned it upside down but sometimes I even work with the paper tilted when it's just me and I'm not on camera and that lets the paint paint flow down and you get these interesting drips I'm gonna switch back to my smaller round brush thank you and we're gonna continue working on our tree trunk here I'm gonna actually dry this up here a little bit because I want to work on the branches that are in amongst those leaves yes I am a big fan of Jean Haynes if y'all don't know who she is look her up she's got some really great books you can get them on Amazon they're fabulous and I would recommend them to anybody so I'm gonna use the colors on my palette you can use purples browns this was moon glow but then some of the green mixed in it so I don't know what color it is now but we're gonna use it and now it's kind of a reddish-orangey purple e-color but we're gonna use it yeah so you don't I love watercolor because you can't control it so I'm gonna come in here with a tip of my little brush and I'm gonna make some of these hinted branches back here darker I'm not gonna make all of it darker I'm gonna leave some of it light every time you do this is gonna come out slightly different so with naturally where I have these sections that naturally turned dark then I'm gonna take my paint and I'm gonna work with those and I'm gonna emphasize them and make them darker and the ones that are light will leave light and we'll let them be the lighter parts of the tree so the other colors I used in the tree trunk were also some sepia which is a brown it's a very dark brown I do I love my watercolor pencils I've got twinkling H2O's water soluble media is really my thing so this is one of our dark dark colors so this is really gonna make things start to pop this is the sepia the dark brown one of my favorite browns in any palette whether it is watercolor or acrylic this is a good painting tree trees and tree bark is a good exercise to do when you've had too much coffee because tree branches aren't straight so if your hands are a little shaky that's okay so with pencils you know it really depends on the kind of pencils you have you have more control about where the paint goes but then when you get it wet it really does blend there they're just a completely different medium I use them a lot in conjunction with each other I'll make a lot of times do my initial sketch in watercolor pencil and then go over it and start to define the shapes in the watercolor paint and there's no reason you can't do that and sort of you know in one respect to do it a mixed media piece but do it with all water soluble materials they're very different so I'm gonna take the same sepia color I'm gonna put some here and then again in the water because we've got to put it in the water I'm gonna put some down here I'm gonna put some over here on our like rocky shape and then what's reflect above would be reflected in right so we're gonna put some here and water these reflections that are in the water would be a little bit blurry they wouldn't necessarily be you know true to form that's pretty good at my notes so I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna use some moon glow my favorite color moon glow I love this color I'm gonna do it over here because my plate is a little bit messy so when your palette or your plate or your mixing area gets really messy like that you could of course choose to just leave it that way you can rewet it and do another painting with it you can also wipe it off and one of the fun things to do is just get it really wet and then wipe it off with like a coffee filter and stain a coffee filter with this leftover paint or something like that and then dry it and then you can use that in your mixed media okay so this is moon glow and you just keep layering your dark colors you could use Prussian blue hey patty you can use neutral tint which is a dark gray it's a very transparent color really neutralizes the brightness in your other colors I like it as a color all on its own so I'm just taking the moon glow and I'm dabbing it in across my painting in the areas that would be darker see the only problem with me painting in front of the camera you guys who have watched me enough now on watercolor Wednesday no know this oh cool yeah there'll be a replay and also I'll put it on YouTube is I get so involved in what I'm painting I forget to talk because I just love to paint so that's pretty good I'm this is paper this is hot press watercolor paper so I'm gonna take some paints gray now which is our dark blue gray and it's more interesting color to use than black which is why I like to use it I'm gonna put a little bit of an internet tree so I do I'm here on Periscope I'm on YouTube I teach with crazy island University comm and that's not there's a few different things on there including art journaling I'm also going to be having a watercolor course that comes out January of next year I say that but it might be a little later because I haven't actually started filming it yet I have to do that at even assistant one that knows how to edit video so I'm barely touching my brush to the tree trunk I prefer I prefer both that's the easy answer holy cow so this palette I'm using these are Daniel Smith watercolors there's a PDF for this class that's available in my Etsy shop Daniel Smith is my preferred brand although I have other brands that I like including Van Gogh I like to squeeze the tubes out into a palette like this into pans and that's my favorite way to work with my watercolors and both my palette I use here in the studio and my travel palette are in these metal boxes I think it's easier to mix your paints in these metal boxes than it is on a plastic palette you need to just get some brushes and some paints and some paper you can watch these replayed episodes on YouTube and you can follow along there are PDF downloads available like I said in my Etsy shop and there in those is notes step-by-step with pictures that I created when I did the samples for the previous for that week's class you can find me on Facebook I have a Facebook group called a life of art and self expression and that way if you get stuck on something you can ask me and I will like I said I will be on you to me and there will be course on you to me and in there you'll have access to you know discussions and all that stuff you can just get crazy with drawing branches in here so and I tend to do that so you want to try to not do that yeah yeah I try to get crazy sometimes with the little branches because you could just keep going up here but to start painting in watercolor you just need some paints and some paper and a brush you really don't need anything fancy a round brush and a flat brush a palette of paints it doesn't have to be a big expensive palette one of my favorite paints is Van Gogh watercolors you can get them at Hobby Lobby and the tubes are not that expensive exactly so the first thing I do when I buy any watercolor paints is I make one of these color keys to go with that palette of paints that I just bought it really is the only way to see how those colors are going to be true on true to your paper when you're painting and if you don't have that it can be really difficult to pick the right color okay I like that we need to do some work down here but first I want to dry all this because I don't want this to get too smudgy okay so yeah the first thing I do when I buy or create a palette of paints is I make a color key it's a very first thing I always do so now I'm going to use some of my paints gray and I'm gonna just you know I'm gonna utilize what's on my palette which is different than I think what says in the notes but I'm gonna utilize what's on here and I'm gonna make sort of a version of paints gray using what's on my palette and I'm gonna take this color that's a good idea I'll work on that today so if you go to Facebook or YouTube and you search for my name Gina B. Aaron's the same name that's on here on Periscope you'll find me in fact if you just go to Google and put my name in you're gonna find me all over the place so I'm gonna take this dark color I created out of what was on my palette and the first thing I'm gonna do is put it here underneath the tree around the sort of bushy shape that I created and then I'm gonna add some water and I'm gonna just blend it out just a bit I like that add a little bit more right here I'm gonna do something similar over here so basic color blending theories work with watercolor as well as acrylic paint and any paint so that what does that mean so if you blend all your primary colors together you're gonna get a neutral so I had yellow green blue I'm sorry yellow blue red on here all the same time so if you mix all of these together you're gonna get a neutral it's gonna be in the red family because of there was so much red on here but you're gonna get like a neutral gray color see so you should know that that's one of the basics you should know about color blending so I'm gonna come back over here to the paints gray and I'm gonna mix it with a little bit of moon glow start with this horizon line and then water when I first started painting doing paintings in both water color and acrylic I immediately started painting water always been my favorite I don't know what that means that was not in English so I'm not sure what that means I'm gonna just blend it towards the middle with just water I'm gonna take some of my cobalt teal which is one of my other favorite Daniel Smith colors because like who wouldn't love that color like honestly and I'm gonna put a little bit of this in our pond water and this other colors are wet so look at what happens and I'm gonna stick to the areas of the pond that are lighter with this color they'll blend a little bit into the darker colors but look at that isn't that fabulous and every time you paint this is gonna come out slightly different but that's okay and then they're a lot of fun and you can try different shapes of trees but now you have some basics see I love painting the water there's just something peaceful about painting the water so here's the sample other sample that I did when I created the PDF document and you can keep going with this and make things darker and darker or brighter and brighter you can add some more dark to this rocky area painting deserts is fun too I know every time I go to Las Vegas I try to not only take lots of inspiration photos but do some painting I love to go to Red Rock Canyon any of the youth that are in or have been near Nevada Red Rock Canyon is just gorgeous does anybody have any questions about painting trees you could totally do this as a landscape and instead of doing pond water do something that's suggestive of maybe a grassy field you could put a little suggestion of a building in the background and you could do it very easily so let's take our pains gray put a little bit of on there and suggest to suggest something that's man-made it's really easy so with all these wonky unusual not geometric shapes the best way to suggest something that's man-made is to put in a geometric shape in there somewhere and that then they'll go oh there's a little building there okay see later so then so then they know oh look at that there's a little building right there it's just matter of practice if I can make it look easy if I can do this you guys can do this you gotta trust me on that one so just get fun have fun with it and just do some playing there you go something quick something easy it doesn't have to be you know Picasso you're just practicing and playing and having fun and trying your techniques I will work today on next week I think we're doing flowers bird of paradise I think was suggested now if you guys do go to my Facebook group again it's called a life of art and self-expression if you go over there and go into the files tab there is a water couple of water color Wednesday documents on one of them we take viewer suggestions for upcoming episodes so you can go and add to that whatever you would like to see on that you know an upcoming episode next week I think we're doing bird of paradise flowers and we will I've got to go Google some sample images and then work on the PDF this afternoon so I will be doing that later today and if you have any questions comments or concerns you can find me on Facebook on and you can always email me thank you I'm glad you could be here too this periscope of course will be here for 24 hours and I will be downloading it and putting it up on to YouTube along with the bonus footage that I filmed to create these I do film it with my camera and I'll be attaching that to the end of the YouTube video from today's episode all right you guys have a great day don't forget the most important thing go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you guys next week bye oh good mark you're welcome post it to the Facebook group all right I'll see you guys later