 How are you? All right, there's quite a few of you now. There's more than just me. All righty, so hopefully The quality of the video is not horrible. Can you guys let me know if it is or not? I am trying to upload New new watercolor palettes part two and a half because evidently one of my videos was missing the ending so Unfortunately, I found this out right before we went live and I'm not sure If the video quality is going to be very good for the first 19 minutes, so if you guys could let me know in the chat How it's looking to you that would be helpful. Hello from England. I love the rain and England is on my bucket list I need to go there soon Um, all right, so that's the first thing I'm gonna say I'm gonna apologize for screwing up the video and editing on the part two of today's video where I show my two new watercolor palettes. I Don't know what happened. I Evidently screwed up the editing somewhere, so I'm trying to upload two and a half right now I don't normally upload video to YouTube while I'm also live on YouTube So I'm not sure for the first few minutes What that's going to do to the broadcast and what it looks like We have 16 minutes left, so if you guys can live with it I would rather we just let it go and let the video upload And just let it run because it's only a few minutes out of the hour hour and a half long Broadcast and that way all of you who didn't get to see the rest of the video because I screwed up the editing We'll get to see it, but you're going to see to do today, too Well, I see I have a lot of friends and fans. I need to go visit in England. So it's definitely on my bucket list And I just I love the rainy weather. I mean, you know, I'm 53 years old I met a puzzle and hot all the time. So, you know, I love the cloudy rainy weather My husband, of course, is you know German and built like a stick and freezing cold all the time He has he says I have bad circulation. So So, yeah, so there's that constant debate, he's freezing. I'm hot All right, so before we get started today while the video is uploading, we're going to just chat a bit We're going to take our time getting started of course the first thing we're going to do is go to your if you're on a tablet or smartphone and I don't know how to do this on a desktop because I'm normally watching my own broadcast as you can see If you click on this screen, there's three little dots up here in the upper corner and Then click on the gear that says quality and Then click on the highest one that it will allow you to do and you'll get the best picture possible with your connection So that's the first thing you should do Second thing I'm going to do is try to remember to put on my art guard So this is a barrier cream Lots of paints, especially professional artist grade paints have pigments in them that are toxic cadmium is one of them and it's in a lot of paint so Whether it's acrylic or watercolor or oil, especially oil So anyway, you should be using a barrier cream and or wearing gloves. I don't like gloves So I use barrier cream. This is a winter Newton art guard. There's lots of different ones out there There's one called invisible glove, but look for one that's easy for you to get that's affordable in your budget I have art guard. So we're going to use it and bonus it's kind of like It's got this like hand lotion consistency. It's not greasy So, you know, we're artists, right? So we wash our hands a lot So that means that I don't know about you guys, but my hands are always dry So this will helps a little bit with that I mean, you know, my skin's dry anyway because like I said, I've met a puzzle so It's different than it used to be used to be oily now. It's drying Okay 14 minutes Of you know, if you picture if it's if it's Fuzzy at all for you. It should clear up a little bit in about like I said 14 minutes Okay, so we are going to play We are right here I'm good. Yasna. How are you and by the way? Good morning, Yasna. Good morning, Sharon. Good morning, Lisa. Oh good morning, Lisa Swank Everybody good morning. All right. So here are the two new watercolor palettes and like I said in the beginning of the broadcast I screwed up the video part two video that posted this morning So, um The part two and a half is posting right now, but these are the two new palettes Um, this one is the annual smith metallic palette And aren't those colors just yummy and pretty? Doesn't that just look gorgeous Hand cream. Oh, yeah. So yeah, you need to um look research where you are for a barrier cream and um See what you can get local Uh or sometimes it's called invisible gloves. So I don't know These are the italian watercolors that I screwed up the video on and we're loading the ending right now Are they beautifully pigmented? So we're going to play with both of these this morning before we get We're taking our time because that video is loading with the proper ending for this And I don't want to stop it because It's not even guys's fault that I screwed up the video. I'm going to get let's see I'm getting a pipette and a little cup here So I'm going to pour this is my Watercolor spray bottle and the water has oxgull liquid in it which aids in the rewetting and flow of your watercolor paints Now those italian watercolors as I say in the video can't see that's loading right now These have our honey based so they stay a little bit moist looking and sticky While we're taking our time this morning, we're going to just I was going to do this Of course before I turn the webcam on but you know that I found out I screwed up the video editing Okay, good. I'm glad you guys are good For me, it's a little bit um choppy and just a tad fuzzy But that's probably because I'm sucking up all the bandwidth of my wi-fi right now in the video So I'm just hoping as long as it's good for you guys. It doesn't matter what my picture looks like Okay, so that's a daniel smith one and we just I wanted to really get them. This is the first time I'm rewetting the palette so I usually um spend a little time Just really getting a good amount of water in each pan to get that to reconstitute them You don't really have to do that with these these ones But we will anyways Since I have it out I'll keep these pipettes around for watercolor And painting in general they're handy I of course had to buy them from like amazon because you know, I didn't save any from when my daughter was little But if you have little kids around and you have old Like medicine droppers they would work Little fuzzy. Okay. So it's it should clear up in a few minutes it's I'm sure it's fuzzy because of um like I said I'm sure I'm 99.9 percent sure. That's why And jackson's have a new yeah, they have a couple of new programs. I did I love jackson's art out of the uk It's got to be my number one favorite place to buy art supplies fyi and um, I Uh put some links on my website for them Um, but yes, please even if you're in the u.s. They have really great shipping cloth And they're price on thing That it's worth it send over there for stuff because you can't get it for the same price here. You just can't Like the metal watercolor pallets Okay, so we are going to paint or at least use for inspiration another picture out of my husband's friend brent frazier One of his calendars. This is 2013 I um, of course Didn't know until right before broadcast. I was doing this so I will afterwards put a Link to his website in the description below. I'm using the photo with permission his Website is there brent frazier photography dot com b-r-e-n-t f-r-a-s-e-r Photography dot com. I'll post it in the description When I can after after the broadcast, but anyway, he's a fabulous photographer and My husband buys calendars from him every year as I've said before And recently my husband brought all of the old calendars home because he saves them and um Oh, yeah, you can't see that Holy cow. All right. Sorry. I'm seeing my picture on the screen. You can't see that Um, so we're going to use this one is inspiration for today's painting. I love this one. I love the colors Nothing else I'm gonna move the iPad over just a little bit And I'm gonna set it up off camera And we're trying to finish The watercolor journal, right? So let's do a little flip. Let's just we're just killing time right now because we're waiting for the camera situation to clear itself up So this is my watercolor journal that we're trying to finish I started When did I start this? 2014 One of my goals is to finish it this year To fill it up I made this journal as part of a Udemy course that I have for sale over there And we'll soon be for sale directly from me on my website And I intended for it to be a collage journal when I made it I did not intend for it to be a watercolor journal. It just turned out to be one That wasn't what I was shooting for when I made it So, you know and but it's been fun working in it. This is Fabriano hot press 140 pound watercolor paper Hanson watercolor paper. I don't remember Um I'd actually have to go back and watch my own video to find out and some of these paintings were Really successful at some really not so much But it's been fun every single one of them. I had fun creating and I had fun learning from Chicken yeah, and yeah, there's a chicken in here. There's a couple of chickens actually Some birds my dog I think I need to zoom out a little bit maybe we'll see just different experiments with paint and it's It's been a lot of fun working in this book Okay, I'm going to do a proper slow um flip video In here. This is what we did last week Right, so we didn't do these two inside pages So we're actually you're going to go back a little bit and work on one of these inside pages And I'm using deli paper to protect the other artwork Not that I'm opposed to splatters and splashes because I'm not but That doesn't mean I want it to get everywhere So we're going to use the italian watercolors and probably some of the metallic ones also I have a cough drop if I sound funny in my mouth because you know, of course I'm wheezing and gross this morning. All right. I didn't even get paintbrushes out. So most of these Most of these are recorded not all of them some of them I did off camera because they're lessons directly out of like a gene hain's book Which isn't something I can really show on camera. That's not fair to her You should really go buy the book like one of the ones I get asked about a lot is the sheep Um, and that one's a gene hain's lesson. So, um, it's out of one of her books Yes, I do get worried about my paintings, especially when Um, any of my artwork I get worried when it's time to Share it with others honestly and in a situation, especially where I think it's going to be judged and We're almost done. We have like one minute. Let's see. Oh, sorry three minutes In a situation where it's going to be judged and I know You know, there's chance. They're not going to like it. I do I get worried. Of course I do Hey Heather So I want to do some washes first. So we're going to just get the paper wet here so that Paint will just kind of flow and be free All right, we're going to start with What color am I going to start with? I'm going to start with a little bit of the Lemon yellow from the italian water color paints now I do say in the video and I'm sure it's probably in the part that's loading right now that I forgot to load um, that These of the mission gold they're that pigmented and so You probably want to just use a little bit a little bit probably goes a long way You can always make it darker And some you know watercolor paints lift easier than others some pigments lift easy easier than others so So we're going to start with a little bit of a yellow wash And then I'm going to pick up that that was lemon yellow. This one is called magenta lake It's the prettiest color and look how like I know you guys can see the corner of the plate there. It's so pigmented Oh heather it might not be you. It might be me I screwed up the editing on the watercolor palettes videos that aired today parts Part two. I forgot to put the ending in the italian watercolor palette. So it it could be me Give it like two more minutes and then the video part two video will be done loading and it should be fine But look at that see what I mean how dark that is that's actually not as dark as I wanted it So I'm going to just take my rag and lift some of it Now this is um, you know a pink so it can blend okay with the yellow without making mud We're going to get a little bit of an orange, but that's okay But you don't want to put the purple or blue and the pink and the yellow like all in the same place Because you're just going to get brown and you probably don't want a brown sky So I am going to also take some of those I'm going to pull some of it down here Because this scene is over a lake this is trout lake At mount shane mount blah blah blah blah blah trout lake at mount shasta Uh montag california I don't know how to speak this morning Yeah, it's probably not you Um, it's probably me um But just in case you want to make sure that you have clicked on that little quality gear and take it off auto and Click the highest resolution. It'll allow you to click My video is now uploaded and and it's um done. It's processing so It should be Better or better shortly you might need to refresh Okay, so before we put the blue or purple on there I'm going to dry this because I don't want it to mix too much with the yellow Don't you just love youtube Okay, now these uh, italian watercolors and again, I say in the video and I'll say it here again For those who haven't seen part two and a half, which is like the important ending part where I do all the swatches Like hello, um, the name is uh, zeki frenzy. I'm sure that's not how you pronounce that I am italian by heritage, but I do not know how to speak italian I have to ask my aunt how to say that properly because I know that's wrong Um, but they are that being said their fine art quality watercolors. They are um I believe handmade and um, honey based Um, some of them are pure pigment based Um, some are all so um, and I only used a little bit and you can see how much color is on here Um, I this is just a heat embossing tool from michaels And yeah, I got it with a coupon. It's by duris. It's not expensive and I love this So, um, yeah, I've had it obviously for a long time. It's very well loved It's full. I always use it for paint drying. I hardly ever use it actually for embossing So I would just get one of these And use it until it dies and then buy a new one use a coupon All right, so here we go. So now we can go in And we can add some of the um, we can make some purple and add some purple So I'm gonna stick with the Italian watercolors for now. I'm gonna pick up a little bit of the ultramarine blue And you don't need too much Like I said, these are super pigmented artist quality Great lightfastness. No, they did not pay me for these. This is not a sponsored video. I bought these In case anybody asks or is wondering They were really hard to get they were not super cheap Which is why I just got the 12 pan set Um, but that being said they shipped them very quickly and I got them very fast and that The customer service was excellent Hey, Sharon So like with any other Paintings I do in watercolor. I always start you guys know this by now. I always start out with light washes and work my way darker You can't really take it back. So if you get something in the wrong place You're screwed I have to say to you the selection of colors in this palette is very good. I could have used One less brown color and a purple Um, that being said the colors the colors are very nice This is a master's touch brush and I like the size and I like master's touch brushes in general This particular one seems to lose bristles a lot, which is driving me crazy So now I'm going to go in with just some straight ultramarine blue Why is it as soon as I have the camera on and everything's working? Well, I have a hot flush Good thing you guys can't see me Rita's here. Hello Rita. I'm painting. I evidently missed some people popping in Now if you have metallic watercolors and you're playing with your paints What are the fun things to do is to do a painting like this one a like little, you know lab landscape painting or Sunset painting and then add a little bit of the watercolors to like your sun or your water to just give them that little bit of an extra glow I'm going to start to put in some of our Horizon Oh, I guess I should have dried that first It's really wet over here Hold on they don't look very mountainous You do that's interesting I have to say I do really like these paints And there's no like any butts about it. They're a little bit more opaque than I'm used to But that being said, they're super well pigmented. I really like them They're just too hard to get for me to have them You know in my regular stash of stuff I do like them, but I think I'll probably use them sparingly because I'll probably not be able to get any more of them Now now the face is gone. Sorry There's little kids poking out of my painting. I actually kind of like that. That's cool All right, so we're gonna mix some of these together now And we're gonna keep going And I'm still I'm sticking with this big brush for now. That doesn't mean I'm going to Not change brushes. I do have these other brushes out There's a bunch of grass and stuff in the foreground, but it's water There is also water. So I before I put the grass in there's another brush Hair that's going to make me crazy Before I put the grass and stuff in I want to get the water right I'm going to have to switch brushes because that's going to make me crazy This would be why sometimes, you know, it's worth it to buy a more expensive brush better brand Master's touch generally isn't bad, but this particular brush just loses bristles all over the place. It's driving me crazy This brush I love the size. It's a 24 round But it's just making me insane These are the italian zecchi Forenzi watercolors the link to the websites in the description below You will have to use your translate button that should pop up when you go to the website because the whole website's in italian All right, we're gonna go to the smaller brush. This is a royal. This is also a 24, but this is a different brand so each Brand has their own way of sizing things. So this is a royal 24 round and this is a master's touch touch 24 round. Look at the size difference And this is a nap tune Princeton nap tune number eight. Look So they're very different So just, you know, it's good to have a fat one like a medium one and a skinny one And I mostly most watercolors will tell you they use round brushes more than anything All right, I lost where I was Um, I'm gonna grab some cadmium yellow Isn't that bright? Look at that. It's just a little bit of cadmium yellow You know, I'm not sure but most watercolors just prefer a round brush. I actually don't know the name of it Are the reason for it. I'm sorry. I'm reading another comment. Yeah, that's the name z e c c hi and then f re I'm sorry f i r e n z e The website address is in the description of the video. I did manage that this morning I didn't dry those mountains. So I'm trying to keep the Blue from bleeding into this yellow dark yellow and turning too much green This is a royal brush, which is a very inexpensive brand and I actually like them a lot I also really like Princeton nap tune I do have a couple of really expensive like $65 brushes They're just they're almost too pretty to use to be honest So just work your way darker when you're doing a painting like this and really get your Background when you're doing something like this it has lots of grass or trees or something in the foreground Get your background your sky and your water and stuff down To where you're really happy with them so that you don't have to do too much touching up Afterwards when you get all the other stuff in and you take a chance of messing it messing it up and that's A way that I paint regardless of the medium whether I'm working in watercolor or acrylic. I do the same thing Yeah, the bigger the brush the less fiddling and the more you know expressive abstract marks that you get and You know you all should know by now that's you know my preferred style of painting So the bigger the brush you have the less control you have which I kind of like now when you're doing a Landscape or a water scape like this one Usually there's a lot of drawing involved As you're layering your colors and you're sort of doing glazes of different colors Me bear creations. Hello. Good morning I'm glad to be painting this morning. I spent most of yesterday on the computer Which is still a creative pursuit, but it's not my preferred one It really isn't So I'm taking some of the ultramarine blue straight out of the palette I'm using it to add interest and texture to our Mountains here that will be in the background And I'm going to leave those marks because I think that they add a lot to the painting I love a good thunderstorm How do I like that? I think I like that I do think I'm going to leave this blank down here. I'm going to do some journaling about what paints that I used To create this painting. I think that would be a nice addition to this piece So now we are going to take Some of the neutral colors in this palette and I think I'm going to start with sepia And I'm going to just put it right here in the bluish purple And look how dark that is It's so dark. This is 140 pound hot press watercolor paper. Sorry cold press watercolor paper I said hot press before this is cold press. I prefer cold press. I like the texture On it's either Fabriano or it's Strathmore It could be canton, but I don't think so. I made this journal as part of my utomy course Um The book binding course you can still buy it over on utomy. It'll shortly be available directly from me on and my website Um, I don't remember though. What kind of paper exactly that I used. I know I had both of those I think it's Fabriano These no these are the Italian watercolors that I posted a video about this morning that I screwed up the video So part two and a half just posted a few minutes ago Um So part watch part two and part two and a half But these are honey based handmade watercolors from Italy That I I I purchased recently Again Now I'm drawing continually drawing it because I don't want Some of the layers to mix with the other layers now, of course, you're thinking it's watercolor They're going to reactivate. Yes, but they'll be less. They'll reactivate less if they're dry and pizza and they go if they're wet I have more control if they're dry And while it may blend a little bit it won't go nearly as far so now Now I'm using this photo inspiration photo with permission photographer And again, I will put his link in the video description below after the broadcast His name is Brent Frazier. He's a friend of my husband's And I'm using it as inspiration. I'm not expecting to Do an exact copy of the photo by any stretch Of anybody's imagination. I'm but I love the colors. I love the suggestion of the Sunset in this photo. So we're using it To suggest our painting and to suggest the color and light And shapes Yeah, this is like one piece of paper like long rectangular piece of paper that I folded One end up on and then folded it in half I probably shouldn't tell you that I should probably tell you you have to go watch the video, but You know What if I done the smart thing? So to make your painting less flat And more interesting, of course you want shadows and light and you can if you're using good quality paint You can most of the pigments Will lift So if you get too much of a flat color in one spot, you can just get some water in there and lift some of it back up again Okay, so I'm going to try to whoops. All right, so When you're painting water, whatever's above the water would be reflected in the water So you want to remember that So I'm going to put a like a little bit of this brown And then I'm going to add some water A little bit of these are super well pigmented paints like I said before They remind me a lot of the mission gold. So I'm going to tread lightly with them And Put just a little bit of color Yeah, so it's good to get a good quality watercolor brush. I do have some cheaper brushes this Actually, this royal one I'm using right now is a cheaper brush My preferred brand is Princeton Neptune, which is a proper watercolor brush They're not super expensive and they're a synthetic brush But there are some fabulous brushes out there Don't feel like If you don't have the budget for it that you have to spend a ton to get what you can afford But get the best one that you can afford the brush is really important Like with the paints if you decide that you've tried a lesser expensive product and I don't advocate going out and spending tons of money on watercolor paints or brushes If you're not even sure you're going to like it yet But if you've tried a lesser expensive and you decide you like it then go That when you add to your supplies go out and get the best that you can afford Okay, so I'm going to um Take that sepia color and keep using it. I'm actually going to add some cerulean to it Which is going to gray it up because the cerulean is more of a green So when you're doing a suggestive painting you're just you're suggesting shapes You're not actually trying to paint each little individual tree So get out of doing that right away But Practice making interesting marks Yeah, I this is this is not a royal zen brush. This is just a royal Regular royal watercolor brush, but I have some of their zen brushes and they're very nice Most of my brushes are synthetic. I don't have too many that are the real thing And not because that I'm opposed to real hair brushes or have any Honestly have any, you know philosophical Issues with that. I mean, I guess if I think about it, I probably do but that's I just don't have them because they're expensive To be on to be really blunt and honest Okay, one thing I'm going to go in while that sits a minute is I'm going to go in to mount shasta Which is what this is supposed to be in the background And of course as per usual I didn't leave any white, right? So I'm going to go in with a white gel pen Because mount shasta is always snow capped. It's a very tall mountain This is a uniball stigno angelic Oh, thank you So as I'm adding my layers of color and I'm darkening things up and I'm adding more detail As much as I ever do then I'm going to consecutively smaller brushes and they give me more control This is an escala brush. Now. This is pretty new to my stash of brushes I did get a few of them and I have to tell you I like them Um, I think these I actually got from jackson's art out of the uk and I really do like them a lot Um Before we finish with the grass, we're going to actually make some orange Yes, so now I'm doing mix media because there's a another thing on there I almost I almost never do anything that's not mixed media like that doesn't really happen So I'm mixing up an orange. I like the kind of striations in the inspiration photo of orange That I see reflected in the water Behind the grass. So I want to add them in The first couple times I did paintings with water and um, I couldn't figure out why they looked wrong And I actually asked one of my teachers pauline agnew And she's the one who reminded me She said because I wasn't doing it from a photograph. I was just doing it, you know out of you know, my imagination She said whatever is reflected He does is above the water is going to be reflected in the water. I'm like, oh You're right So yeah And she's a fabulous teacher by the way. She's teaching a lot of courses next year So if you have a chance and you want to take a course from a really great artist, I would recommend her in a heartbeat So I'm making some more orange and I want to there isn't too much of it in the inspiration photo above in the sky But I think there should be a little bit Um, so I'm going to add a little bit. Yes, Heather hang on. I showed it in the beginning But yeah, there's a lot of you that are here right now Yep, I like that. Okay. This is the inspiration photo This is taken by Brent Frazier again Just the same one of the same artists who I used an inspiration photo of his last week So if you go to last week's live video his, um Website addresses in that, um video description. Um, he is a photographer. He sells these calendars yearly So if you email him, I'm sorry. I'm sorry if you email him, I'm sure that you can get Copies this is the 2013 calendar. I don't know if he keeps back copies, but you could ask him And I'm using the photo with permission from him Yeah, it's a gorgeous photo. He's a fabulous photographer. I am so blessed to be related to my blood or friendship some fabulous photographers um award-winning Photographers in all aspects of photography. Uh, they're just they're all fabulous I you guys when one of you guys says something to me about oh, you're such a good photographer I love your inspiration photos. I laugh because I don't know what I'm doing with a camera Oh, that's Ian. See he's late Hold on let's all email. Let's let me message Ian live on on camera All right, so I'm adding a little bit of darker yellow I'm really because there's going to be some grass here. So I really want to get this Right Before we put the grass in Everybody say hi to Ian when he gets here I'm being really careful about where I'm putting my water. I don't want my mountains to bleed into my sky And one of the things about watercolor that's you know, when you get good at watercolor Or that's challenging about watercolor is learning to control the water and I'm looking at the Picture on the screen because it gives me a different view of what I'm doing Okay, so I think that we need to Make sort of a pinky purple Here. Hey Teresa, you know better late than never as my grandmother would say Of course, I think she said that because the whole family was notoriously late for everything Oh, that's so great The Paralympics is a good cause I think Ian's on his way over everybody say hi when he gets here. He's late too, Teresa So don't feel bad So the one thing about these honey-based watercolors that I have They're from Italy. Um, if for those of you who are late, we're working on the watercolors that I posted This morning a share video this morning of the two watercolors. I haven't touched the Daniel Smith and italics yet But we're going to hey, Ian everybody say hi to Ian Hey Kathy Anyway, they're honey-based so um That means they kind of stay sticky And they don't they don't dry out um The way other watercolors do Which I kind of have a love hate relationship with But they're so well pigmented. I gotta tell you I'm sure the photos are blog worthy me bear creations. I would post them anyway It's a good cause the Paralympics are a good cause so I would post them anyway But then I post pictures of everything My family asked to actually ask me can you not post that? You know, I had problems the other day I had second thoughts about posting pictures of the new any of the nudes I've done recently Because now my mother-in-law is on facebook and so I wasn't I wasn't so sure how that was going to go over her She actually commented on something that she thought she said good job keep up the good work. So I was like, okay, cool. Yay mom Um She's 87 so you kind of never know How things are going to go over I'm having another hot flash again I don't know. Maybe it's the sitting under the lights this morning Oh, the link was all over social media this morning, Ian I I posted it actually before I realized there was a problem with the new palette share video this morning The first few minutes of the broadcast if you go back to watch it are A little blurry because I'm uploading part two and a half to the new palette share video Cause you know, I didn't get the ending on there. I screwed it up Because I have my head in too many places at the same time right now She is a sassy lady Very strong lady very somebody to be really Have a lot of admiration of I wanted something that was purple, but it was more blue So that's too it. There we go This is bugging me right here. So let's put some water on here. This is going to be a test So this is just water on this part that's almost dry already Oh and look they lift really nicely. Look at that There was a mark there that I didn't like But that lifted very nicely. I have to say So Kathy we're using the new italian watercolors that I posted the share video on this morning. They're called Let me type it hang on a second. Let me type it. Let me go into the um Hang on I'm going to type the name because I keep I keep butchering the pronunciation. So So there you go There's the name the link to their websites in the description below that it's an italian handmade watercolor paint Okay, I need to dry that again That way the mark that I leave with the paint is going to stay And it's not going to bloom and bleed into the other colors around it and I'll get Something I'm happier with They're handmade, um, honey based From italy. I've never heard of them before either and actually one of you guys recommended them I wanted to see them for me to try them and I don't remember who it could have been Josie Gido I don't remember. Um, and they were super hard to get because I'm in the u.s. And obviously they're not Um, but I have to say that and they weren't you know, they weren't cheap. These are artist watercolors. So you know, they weren't cheap, but I have to say if you're a watercolor aficionado or a collector and you really like really nice watercolor paints At least a small set might be worth checking into. Um, they're super well pigmented. They remind me a lot of the mission golds um Pure pigment honey based really nice watercolors We're going to go in and add some black to our brown Which isn't a color I use very much of in any painting I covered up my inspiration photo with my phone So i'm just making some marks on our mountains in the background To mimic some of the foliage that's on the mountains in the inspiration photo Obviously not trying to Paint it exactly Yeah, you have to click the translate button. My Italian Is you know, not great. I mean I can you know, I can say manja That's pretty much it Um, I could understand some things that my grandmother would say when she would When she was still alive. Um, but that was I think by accident more than anything Okay, I'm going to add some of these darker colors This darker color to our shadows In our water and again, you really want to get your reflections in the water Um down And your background your sky your water before if you have like grass or something in the foreground before you get Um put the grass down Because it's really especially if you're doing grass It's hard to touch go back and touch this kind of thing up And my nana I miss my nana nana is nana as the great-grandkids called her. Um She was a great lady. Anyway, let's see My aunt I have two aunts One of whom is no longer with us that both were painters and our artists and they're the reason That I do this my parents had a lot of trouble when I was younger Trying to get me to focus and concentrate and sit still and You know, I was one of these kids that you know when I did like get in front of the tv You couldn't get me away from the tv and Um anyway art was one of those things that I would do um When I'm not in the art mood so So yes, I turn on music. Um, I I you know when I go through Periods where I'm posting lots of videos that I've been cleaning things. Um, that's probably because um I'm either Struggling with inspiration Struggling to work out um An idea for a project Or all of the above I turn on music. I clean my studio. I rearrange things I go out and take a walk take some pictures Um I'm thinking what all I do Yeah, I used to want to watch a lot of bob ross and I have been for a long time and still I'm a general hospital fan Although lately they need I think they need some new writers I'm not too so thrilled with their storylines lately So the easy way to do grass I should I should do a close-up on this whether you're painting with an acrylic or watercolor um You just take your round brush and flick it up And make sure that your grass strands are not going in the same direction that some are crooked And some are you know going wonky because it'll look more natural if they're all going the exact same way They just look like hair follicles And use you know different Shades of paint and if you're doing it in watercolor, you know like now I've got Just a little bit of paint on here and I can go over it with a darker value and That will also make your grass look interesting Sounds like fun road trip to my house, huh? So yeah, I turn up music when I'm just in here by myself. I usually have music up loud um, whatever kind of music you find inspiring um Sometimes, you know, it's aerosmith and sometimes it's Tchaikovsky, so it depends on the mood that I'm in um, but you know music helps a lot Reading, you know when I'm at a loss for inspiration Sometimes, you know, that's when I'll crack out a book or I'll do a life book lesson Or something like that Going for a walk getting out of your own way in your own space that health That's helpful too and there's no there's no quick way to do grass so Let me let me zoom in When are we leaving? I saw that Kathy. When are we leaving? There we go Remember, I'm in California Some of you are really far away So I'm barely touching My brush to the can the paper the canvas And this is the same way I do grass even in acrylic. This is what is this? This is the scottis. This is number eight round But you see how right here you're starting to get an interesting variety of tones in the Grass and it's starting to give me the effect that I want But grass is not quick and it takes time Just make sure you go, you know every which way and you don't go all the same way Yeah, my parents live in washington state. They don't actually live here They used to live in or again. They used to live in um grants pass Yeah, I love bob ross who doesn't love bob ross He made painting looks so easy Okay, this is a little brush and this is one that's not been well cared for I have the feeling this is a royal brush, but I don't know what Size because the paint is all oh, yeah, royal number four But the finish is all peeling off because I left it in the water too long evidently at some point So I haven't switched colors, but as I'm painting Um, you know the paint that I'm picking up some of it is more watery Therefore more translucent than others and some of it is more as it's drying out. It's getting darker Yeah, I saw your washi tape haul Teresa. What were you thinking? That's insane I mean, I have a lot of washi tape, but I didn't buy it all at once That was nuts All that coffee one was awful cute I might have to go to a hobby lobby this week Of course, I'll go and they won't have that one Yeah, I don't Toss my brushes often So and I'm battered with my brushes So sometimes I leave them in the water and you know, of course the handle swells and then the next, you know The ferrule and bristles are coming off from the handle. So get some marine epoxy some two-ton epoxy Keep it in your studio. It's a two-part thing. You can get it at the hardware store mix some up In the ferrule stick the handle back in there and let it dry that suckers never coming out again And this one could use a lot of tape maybe duct tape and I've done that too before A cherry tree. Wow That would be interesting. Let we can do a cherry tree. We could do it next week Lisa, um, Lisa. Oh, if you're are you um in the facebook group? Are you friends with me on facebook? Somebody who's friends with me on facebook um Send me That suggestion email me or message me so that I remember for next week that I said we would do a cherry tree And in the meantime, I will try to find an inspiration photo and we'll do a cherry tree Maybe ian. Ian, can you email? Can you message me that? Thank you, Teresa Okay, I'm going to add some blue to this, um dark color we have going on Yeah, somebody somebody send me a message because I'll forget I can guarantee you I know you're probably thinking is this she done yet, but you know, you just really Keep adding to your shadows until things are really popping for you and you really are liking it remember that blue and purple make really great shadow colors And of course mixing them with black is cool. I can do a cherry tree. Yeah, we'll do one in here I'll look on paint my photo is a really great website for Inspiration photos If you don't know about it yet. P. Just google paint my photo. I want to go back to that other brush This is the size that I use a lot, which is this escota number eight This is um the favorite size my preferred size of watercolor brush for most things Sure, I'll see what kind of um inspiration photos I can find I'm headed to san francisco this weekend. Um, and I don't know exactly where we'll be or if there'll be any blooming cherry trees But there might be I'll look I don't think we're going to be near in japan town. You never know though You were overlooked. Teresa. How are you overlooked? If I overlooked some you Teresa, I wasn't on purpose Okay, now we're going to go in with these daniel smith colors So this is the italian palette That I got these are the colors that are in it I just got the small one And that cost me around 60 dollars us I think it was a little more than 60, but I don't it wasn't more than 70 Maybe with shipping it was okay. This is the daniel smith metallic palette And this has been sitting with watercolor in it. I mean water in it for a while now like with a lot of tube paints That you set out to dry in a palette Um, I found that it's best if you put some water in there and let them sit for a few minutes like we've done They've actually been sitting for quite a while. It's also best with any of the watercolors. I've found if you um Use oxgall liquid in your watercolor paints in the water To aid in the rewetting and flow it really does help Them flow better and helps them rewet better And so I want to add a little bit of this gold Which I just love and I'll I'll Play with the colors here for you in a minute And this will give the painting just a little bit of a shimmer. I haven't overlooked you tressa If I unfriend you then you have to be worried Oxgall it's um, I'll I'll show it in a minute. Hang on. Give me a minute So I'm going to actually pick up some copper Which I also have in here when I add some of the copper And you're probably not going to be able to see the shimmer on camera. Super shimmery though It goes as a dog because you know i'm on camera It's like, oh wait, I forgot mom's on camera. I have to bark At least he's doing okay. No, he's been sick lately, but he's getting old So I really like that I I love that um Let me so let me do uh, yeah where I'm at so oxgall liquid. Let's see That's not it That's not it It's by wind. I have the winds are a newton one, but it's made by lots of different people I have to see where I put it away. I put it away Yep, there it is all right So this is it. Oh And then gal l is the other word you only need a little bit of this in a cup of water And um, it aids in the rewinding and flow of your watercolor paint. That's what it's for Um, again, you can get it at hobby lobby or michael's in the fine art department and use a coupon That's how I got it's 12 99, but I used a coupon And then let me grab I always have like tons of scraps and tell them on camera I'm gonna just grab a pad So I love this painting. I think it turned out really well. Oh, let me like get it in Let me let me zoom out back out again. Whoops. That's the wrong way I like this painting. I think it turned out really nice and um, it's definitely something if I was going to Paint it again to hang on a wall. I'd probably spend more time and do more details on it But but maybe not I really like the way it, um Turned out and it was quick and easy and fun to make I will probably do some journaling down here in the bottom about what paints I used Um, but in the meantime, I can Oh, holy cow Wait a minute So I don't know that you can see it on camera But now there's a little bit of a shimmer in the in the sunset and reflected in the water Which is what I wanted which I love and it just gives the piece a little bit of an extra pop All right, so these are Okay, wait So I'm gonna type here. I'm from my iPad. You'll see me as come up as my other channel. So it's ox go and Okay, Teresa does what have a pattern on it. I don't I don't know what you're talking about I've lost track of the comments in the thread You can make washi tape out of masking tape. There's a bunch of videos on that google google that here on youtube Are we just talking about washi tape? Yeah, I love a good moody sky Okay, so this is the daniel smith metallic paint now These have been sitting with water with ox skull liquid in it for the entire broadcast I did this right. I put the water in right as we went live at 10 a.m And these are they were completely dry before that is iridescent gold I'm going to zoom in a little bit. I want you guys to see this This is aztec gold These are fine art watercolors See you later, Sharon This is bronze Now i'm not adding any more water to these i'm rinsing my brush off and i'm blotting it on my rag This is the copper Again, this this set was completely dry I put water in it before we got started and they've just been sitting here reactivating. There's been a lot of chit chat on youtube about Tube watercolors not rewetting well and daniel smith, especially that's a load of bunk in my opinion. That's my opinion I don't have any problems with rewetting them that one was ruby iridescent ruby This one is iridescent electric blue and this last one is iridescent blue silver This first row is all iridescent colors This next row is duo chrome colors Okay, hold on So this is duo chrome violet fantasy Which you probably can't really see on camera It's a very pearly color and it looks very white from one way and purple from the other way I don't know that you're even going to be able to see that on camera, but It's a beautiful color and it's great like I could add that to the top of mount shaft. Oh, we should do that Hold on Oh my goodness. Hold on hold the phone Yep, I like that. That looks cool Okay, um This is duo chrome ocean And it's a blue green. Isn't that pretty? This is um duo chrome aqua duo chrome Cabo blue Um duo chrome hibiscus and duo chrome just means that they have like two pigments in them two colors in them So one way like the hibiscus is pink, but another way you see some purple And these are after they've been dried and reactivated by being sprayed with the water with oxgull They've been dry for about a week This is duo chrome mauve And this is duo chrome violet I know right so this is my new metallic daniel smith's palette and again, you're not going to be able to see all the iridescence on camera But yeah, funny. Yeah when you come over I can show you in real life my daughter who is not a painter She's a photographer said she she needs to learn how to do watercolor backgrounds For some of her school work the old fashioned way rather than digitally on a on a computer And I she said mom. Do you know how to do that? And I went uh, yeah And she said so can you show me and can I use those really fun new metallic water colors? I saw that you have Yes, probably you can use them which she was talking about these so these are um These were about 11 to 12 to like 13 dollars a tube for these particular colors So what I did was I have their 238 dot color chart And I went to that that chart and I pulled and I pulled out all of the iridescent colors And duo chrome colors and I swatched them all And then from there figured out which ones I really liked that would add to what I already own To create a palette from that's how I chose the colors that I chose um, I already owned the duo chrome violet fantasy And I think the duo chrome violet It was either the violet or the mob I already had in my collection and they weren't in my regular daniel smith palette because they didn't really fit in there There wasn't a place for them in there So because I was going to only do 12 colors, but there's 14 in here. So um So I had those two and then I picked 12 other colors that would complement what I already had those two that I already had um And I and I um, you know some of the pigments like so wait hold on They have a nice pigment load. I have not had a problem with the colors uh rewetting. Um, I am seeing something Rossiana so Rossiana and daniel smith is not a color that I own to be honest I don't use Rossiana very much. I have heard that some of the colors are a little harder to rewet I have found that if you take some of the Water with ox skull in it and get again, I think there's like three drops per cup of water or something like that Three to four drops per cup of water. It really makes a big difference And like what I did with this is I will take this water instead of spraying it in I'll take the pipette and I'll actually pipe Use this to put a bunch of water in each pan before I get started painting And I'll just let it sit for like 20 or 30 minutes If it starts to dry out before I start I'm ready to start painting Then I add more water to it They it reconstitute them nicely and they get nice and creamy and I haven't had a problem with any of my daniel smith paints Or other brands to be honest. Mary Mary blue or any of the other ones that I have that are originally from tubes Because that's a problem that I've heard some people say about any tube paints not just daniel smith And aren't you not I aren't I am a sucker for aquas and blue greens too obviously I have not gotten any of the new blue according to the people distributing the pigment It's not available in the us yet, and I cannot get it yet. It's not been cleared by the epa And when it does come here gambling is got the rights to it already So if any of you are outside the us and can get an acrylic or watercolor in the new blue And send me some happy mail. I sure would appreciate it and I'll send you some artwork back Because I'm trying to get some of the new blue. I understand cinnamon cootie got some I haven't gotten any so Yeah, I know right so that's the story on the new blue All right, are there any other questions this morning So yeah, so if any of you can get me a tube of the acrylic and or better yet watercolor In the new blue. I certainly would appreciate it doesn't have to be a big tube. I would just like to try it I really don't need more paint, but I would like to try it very much I just can't get it here. All right. That's it for today. Uh while we run my New school called me back. Yes. I'm going back to school at 53 years old I'm looking to go back to school and learn some computer stuff. Um It's all going to benefit the art and youtube thing. I'm not branching off to do something else, but Yeah, I'm crazy that way because I don't have enough to do It's going to be like gold dust. You're right, Ian It's going to be really hard to get but if any of you out there can get me a tube and send me a tube And some happy mail. I will send you some artwork back So that's it for right now. I have to Clean up and call my counselor back for school And uh, yeah, so ox gall liquid if you haven't tried this in your water yet You're having problems with the rewetting or flow of any of your water color paints Be they tube originally from tubes or they were just in the pans try adding a little bit of this to your water And um seeing if that helps you Yeah Sometimes yes And like I said instead of spraying it always in here, which you know, I do a lot you guys see me do a lot that a lot Think about just taking some of the water with a a little a medicine dropper or something And just putting a whole bunch of water in the pans and letting it sit Now when I do fill my pans from my tubes, you will notice even with this one They are not completely full that's on purpose so that you can get water in there I like of course when you buy pans that they're really full but Like these ones were really full, but there was a little crack around all the edges So that when I put the water in the water has somewhere to go And I like that I don't like them to be full all the way to the top. So you have nowhere to put the water I don't like that So I like half a dropper. Um How much is a little bit of the ox gall liquid? So you need three to four drops of this per cup of water And then I take about half of this dropper full um, and I just squeeze it into the pan until the pan is almost to the top with water And then I just let it sit and I got this is what we got All right, this is it for right now. I have got to go. There's the dog again I will talk to you all later. Have fun painting Think about adding some ox gall to your repertoire of stuff if you're having a trouble with your watercolor paints Rewetting and um That's it until next week. Somebody sent me the note about the cherry trees Yeah, if I could I'm not sure So you can mix any of these iridescent colors with paint But especially this pearly one you could mix it with a little bit of a flat color. It would make it a little bit Iridescent Yeah, so watch this watch video, but you want to watch there's three parts one two and then two and a half Because I screwed up the number two video Because you know There's too much going on for me right now as lisa knows lisa's in on some of it So lisa knows I have too much going on lisa swank All right, this is it guys. I'll talk to you later Bye if you have any questions you can private message me make a comment on the video or catch me over on facebook Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it Bye