 Hi guys, I just need to find myself on the iPad so I can see your comments. Hang on Give me a second. I'm not finding myself. That's gonna be a problem Hear my dog barking. He's just going crazy And I'm glad to see that the picture is the words are the right way because it was like flipped to this way a second ago Okay, I just need to watch my own broadcast on my iPad and I need to figure out how to find myself That sounds bad doesn't it? So if I go to my channel, why is my live broadcast not coming up? Shouldn't it be that's gonna be a problem Hey, Michelle. So I'm going to my channel and I'm not just not finding myself. I know it's probably me It's operator error. I know it is it's operator error. Oh my god dog shut up. It's the gardener It should actually come up right up here because I follow myself. I Know that sounds bizarre, but I'm gonna take the iPad to the desk look in your subscriber feed Okay Let's see There I am. Hey, there I am Yay found it. Oh, well wait. We don't need the sound on there. Let's turn the sound off And let's get the chat up. There we go. Yay Found it. Oh, yeah, yeah And of course as soon as I turn the camera on the gardeners would decide to start Working on the yard next door and my dog hates gardeners Just they absolutely hates them All right, I've got a lot of stuff on my desk again. Let's see So we're gonna work on our book again, and I think Michelle who is one of my admins and she's here It and I came up with a good name for this book So product review swatch book Now make sure you fast-forward yourself on iPad I'm not that far behind the lag time on the picture from what I'm seeing and what I'm doing is not that it's only about 30 seconds all right So we call we're calling this a product review swatch book and We are going to be doing this on a cup a few different products I'm gonna of course be doing the watercolor. I have a lot of them And I think Michelle is working on one with different products. This is a great thing to do if you're curious about Any particular product watercolor? Of course Pencils pens you could do one for acrylic paint inks And get together with your friends and do sort of a swatching party and have them bring you know the Products that you don't have so you can try them and compare them and you can make a more educated decision about what to buy Rather than doing what most of us do which is just you take a class And then you think you have to like buy whatever it is that they say and Then after you've bought it and spent money on it. You realize you don't like it And that was kind of the premise behind this whole thing I'm drinking coffee Okay, this morning before we get started. I wanted to show those of you who were with me on Oh you Michelle's saying to her initial video is live I actually did watch it this morning where she talks about the first round of products that she got in that she is Reviewing and going to be adding to her book. Hey Barbie so go and over to Lady Blue Studios and Check it out because she's doing a great job And I'm hoping to get more of my art peeps to collaborate with me and do like somebody who has maybe lots of acrylic paint you know to do one and Somebody who has lots of inks and sprays to do one and that sort of thing um I'm gonna just be focusing on the watercolor one for right now and I I do have The I do want to do another one and I already know for what? With gel crayons and gelatoes, but I don't I'm not going to start it right now because I do have a lot of them You're welcome Michelle and I would love to do one on gel crayons and gelatoes, but I'm not going to because I'm gonna focus on this one But I think that would be a good one too. Just gel crayons and gelatoes Okay, so this is from Monday when we did Monday with deco art and now it's got its coat of The deco page in antique on it and some wax on top of that So it's all nicely kind of semi gloss shiny and sealed And I just have to change the notes on the back of it and sign it and it's good to go and My husband said he likes it which means two things one It's probably a pretty good painting and two that's the kiss of death for sales because whatever he likes never sells Thank you. Okay, so this morning, I'll tell you what these are in a minute. We're gonna put these underneath so you're not distracted Thank you, so this morning if we have time and you guys don't mind watching I have two paint paints I'd like to do we'll see how far we get so we were sent a set of twelve colors Mission gold watercolors from Weber art comm the link is already on my watercolor Wednesday page on my website So you can go over there and take a look and they sent me their boxes. So cute I don't normally like paper boxes, but this one's very nicely presented and inside of it has the pamphlet in it with all of the light fastness information and Translucency staining and all of that stuff in a little pamphlet inside with the paints You don't always get that so that's nice that that's in there Now these are tube watercolors. These are you know artists grade Normally come in tubes. So we're gonna grab out our six colors And I do have my reading glasses on today because you know, I can't see without them up close not the little print Okay, so we need yellow Orange Red If you use they have permanent red, so we'll use that we've used that before with the Daniel Smith. We need a green We're gonna use Viridian because I think that's the closest green. I Think the sap green is too yellow. They have an ultramarine blue and Bright clear violet The colors are of course a little different than the other ones. We've been using but that's okay. So I have it's a little tiny Plastic palette that I got for this. These are like 97 cents at Walmart Walmart not Walmart. Holy cow. Hobby Lobby. I told you guys I need more coffee So I'm gonna just put a little bit we don't need a lot in each one of the wells if you guys have any question Questions I do have you know the iPad here next to me. I've never tried these before I've heard good things about them They're not too expensive Webber art is also It seems to be the owner of Bob Ross brand and Donna Dewberry at least they have those on their website I don't know if they're the owners of or they just sell them. I'm not sure Um But they have them on their website So I would go over there and check them out. Oh good. Thank you, Michelle. Okay. I've got just a Princeton select number eight round brush and I don't have to recreate a chart because we've already done that here But what I want to do before I get started is write mission gold over here So I know which one that is I'm gonna get my brush stamp and We'll start with the yellow. That's a nice bright yellow. I gotta say I like that yellow All right, let's try the orange. I just brushed my hair and I've got little strands of hair everywhere All right, let's see red So the first thing you want to do is because this is a comparison, right? So when you're doing these, you know If you're doing if you're doing one of these especially with your friends, you know You're getting together with them and they have whatever product that you're doing your book on If they have different ones than you then you want to you know Do some kind of a in the first section a chart that compares the one product against the other products Similar colors from each so you can get an idea of vibrancy and how the paint moves and everything Now that that greens a bit more blue, but that's a pretty green I gotta say and the paint is moving really nice on the paper. I think this is the blue The blue and the purple look black and a little palette It looks like black This is a nice ultramarine too, I gotta say Very nice paints. I don't remember what the price point was but they I don't they weren't exorbitantly expensive Now this purple is gonna be a bit different because it's a different kind of purple And I put a lot more pigment on there than I did on the other two Let's see if we can lift some of that So just take a damp brush that doesn't have too much water on it and you just do that and it'll lift up some of the pigment Rinse the brush off so it's clean and do it again. I just I want to get a comparison that's similar to the other two swatches There we go So those are kind of nice. I like those Let's give them a quick dry so we can flip the page When you dry your page with the heat gun, it's gonna do this. I'm not too concerned. Okay, so the next section That we have I'm gonna move that out of my way and that's gonna I'm just in one of those moods where everything's bugging me today All right, so now we have our four little houses. So let's do a little house with the Mission gold and let's put down here at the bottom the brand of paint And we're gonna start lighter to darker because we're working with watercolor paints, right? Yeah, feel free to ask questions everybody If I miss it Michelle will she'll get on my case about it She'll text me if she has to like yesterday when we did the tests. It was pretty funny All my admins started texting me Because we were having issues It was like the old days when I was an American greetings team lead and my phone would just random you just start going off when there was a problem All right, so then we're gonna work our way darker Cooler, I should say not say darker. I should say cooler Using only the six colors that we have that we did the tests with I gotta say you guys I'm pretty impressed with these paints. These are nice watercolors. I think they compare or stand up very nicely to the Daniel Smith and the Schminke Michelle when you decide to like try to go live or Cindy or Jerry you guys know all on all play admin So least I can do for all the help you guys give me But I do have to give a shout out to Lindsay the frugal crafter and Shannon green for helping me yesterday with basically YouTube live for dummies helping me figure out how to do this because Otherwise, yeah, we wouldn't be here right now I'm gonna switch all the way to the violet and I did make notes so that I don't forget what I'm doing I Did that this morning right before we went live. I made notes I've got to print them which I haven't done yet because my printers turned off. I have all my extra devices turned off We are a device heavy household so Now this isn't intended to be a perfect little painting This is definitely when you do this kind of little painting test. This is just intended to do something with the paints Different paints a similar image with the different paints. So, you know, maybe You don't you're not confident in your drawing. That's okay Use a stamped image. You totally can get away with doing this with a stamped image stamp with waterproof ink like stays on or something And do it with that Okay, let's add some blue And I'm trying to you know get the colors in a similar place to what I did the first time It's not gonna, you know, no two paintings are going to be exact and that's okay The eye I got to agree with you there the pigmentation on these paints is fabulous I would definitely look them up and you know, if they're in your budget This is just a small set of 12. I didn't look before we went live how much it was But I don't seem I seem to remember it not being too much But there I mean you can see them compared to the others, I think they may be a little even brighter They're definitely brighter than the Schminke and they're very comparable to the Daniel Smith I'm gonna go now to green because we've got some green in these and they were gracious enough to send me these It's not a paid endorsement But I did get the products for free this brand is called mission. I'm gold There by Weber art comm or that's where this is from Weber art comm. I I'm assuming that's the manufacturer They're called mission gold mission. What does the little brochure say? Mission me a ho m i j e l l o Mission gold watercolors And they have look at all the colors they have I Mean that's just you know fabulous all the colors Okay, now I lost track of what I was doing So I'm just lifting a little bit because they're they're so pigmented and I want to See how they compare more to like the Schminke which isn't so much the code look how bright these are These are fabulous. I mean look at that now we have what colors do we have we had? Permanent yellow light which is Extremely light fast orange Just orange. That's all it says is orange Extremely light fast. No Good light fast. Oh And they have it on the tubes. I don't need to look at the brochure So extremely light fast the blues extremely light fast the red is extremely light fast The green is extremely light fast now the purple is not the purples only two The purple is only two stars, which is limited light fast But that's true for a lot of purples not all purples and they do have purples That this is bright clear violet And if you wanted a color that's similar That's very light fast then you would get violet lake If you're concerned about the vibrancy really standing the test of time Okay, another quick dry and this is just a sample. So if you get a couple of boo boo's on it It's not you know a huge deal. They may drive me crazy How much are they on those websites Michelle Okay, so now we have a new section So this is color wheel and if you're gonna do this kind of a book and you're gonna play with different brands You should really should One of the things you should do is not see how vibrant they are and not you know And how the colors and pigmentation compared to other brands. What about blending? How do they blend? So these are the two brands that we already did and Using the same three colors the red the blue and the yellow See I would get them at cheap Joe's because cheap Joe's is usually always cheaper and for artists paints Teresa, that's not bad at cheap Joe's the $48 Especially look if you're comparing them to Schminke Somebody look up a 12 tube Schminke set because I can gear or even a pan set. I can guarantee you the Schminke is more a Cheap Joe's does rock. We love cheap Joe's Okay, so this is our color wheel section and Here's too too, you know, I already did in pencil So what I did is I made myself a little template. I kind of a circle. It's not a perfect circle It's like a circle II kind of shape And then I sectioned it off with Better brand paint make does make painting easier. I agree with you Okay, so I sectioned off my kind of circle II kind of weird shape and into One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve sections So you want one section for yellow blue and red and then you want three sections in between Each color make yourself a template that you can just put down on your paper You can trace around it and then you mark off little tick marks where each black line is and then connect them with a straight edge So I have two here. So underneath one of them. We're gonna write mission gold And then we're gonna write that color numb color numbers not color numbers color names See Schminke is a lot more and these are nice We're gonna do permanent red so one two three so here the red will be here And then we have ultra marine blue one two three So the whole premise behind this whole series is I know a lot of you are thinking about upgrading your paints a little bit Or just getting into it and you're you have no idea what to do So I want you to be able to make an educated choice About what paints you're going to buy with the budget that you have And we will be doing some lesser known brands or lesser expensive brands like um Koi we'll be doing something like that. Okay, so I'm gonna start with the pure pigment Put some clean water in here And I'm gonna put the pure color in this section here That's a little bit watery that yellow is really bright. I gotta tell you I'm gonna need my little mixing plate And I want to put this here because I want you guys to see what I'm doing Then I'm gonna go with the red And again, I'll put some water in here. I have the Ganzai tombi watercolors I know that's not how you say that so we'll be doing those also So we're gonna do a swatch of the red Then in between the two in this center one here, you're gonna do a 50 50 or so mix of the two colors red and yellow Hey, everybody. Hey mark That's you isn't it mark mwb So here we're gonna do a 50 50 blend of the red and yellow or about you know, it's not gonna This is just practice. Okay, then you're gonna take this Part of it anyway and add more red to it and that goes here And then you're gonna take the other part and add more yellow to it and look at all of those cut different colors That you get with just two colors of paint Now this one could be a little bit more On the orangey side. So if I was I would probably do go ahead and do this and just add some more yellow to it While it was wet. I like that color better Yeah, no not much lag time. We've got it. I think we got that figured out I'm gonna put some more yellow on the palette because I've used it all up. I Think we're good on the red. Okay, so then the next one. We're gonna add our blue Hello from Finland. Hello So we're gonna do a pure swatch of the blue Remember with a lot of these brands if you want to start getting into some of these fun, you know Really nice artist brand of watercolor paints that you're really loving how pigmented they are and you really want to try working with them You don't have to buy a set, you know, just buy a tube Really, you can start out with some of these watercolors with just three tubes of paint yellow red and blue And that's what part of this, you know, practicing is about Okay, so here we've got our blue swatch now in between again, we're gonna do 50 50 We're gonna put some red And some blue Look at this purple. Oh my god, are you guys seeing this wait till we get it on paper. Hold on It's a nice dark purple color. Look at that then we're gonna take that and I need more red Some do fall very flat Teresa. I agree with you this brand. I can't say that about Okay, so now we're gonna take part of our purple and we're gonna add more red to it And we're gonna put it between the per the first purple and the red swatch And look at this pretty magenta color that you got now. There's no, you know, there's no formula If you don't want your two swatches to blend into each other, make sure you do what I do and leave a little bit of a line between Otherwise you need to mask off your color reel with masking fluid and let that dry before you can get started. I Have no patience. So we're not doing that So now I'm gonna take some of my same this purple here and I'm gonna add more blue to it I think I need to add a little more blue because I think I mixed it up with the other ones too much And like I said, there's no science. This is just you know, you're playing and you're practicing mixing colors Nice Okay, so now we're gonna work on some greens So we're gonna take yellow and blue make green right My dog is just going insane the neighbor's gardener must be next door He absolutely hates the gardener. So we're gonna put the 50 50 mix here. That's a pretty green. I like that These colors are very nicely pigmented. I gotta say and I'm not just saying that I like I mean, I like all watercolor paints, but Okay, so then I'm gonna take some of it and I'm gonna add more blue to it. This is a pretty color Look at that and you really look at all these different colors you can make with only three tubes of paint We only have three are you only using three of the colors that are on here So now I'm gonna take some yellow and add it to the other rest of the green Look at that. So now we're gonna give it a dry Nope, I got a smear of paint You know, I'm the messy artist messy lazy artist There we go Don't forget to ask questions if you guys have questions comments concerns That's not bad for for individual tubes Daniel Smith tends to run about 12 to 25 You could use drafting tape mark. That's a good idea Something that would release easily This is a hundred and forty pounds draft more watercolor paper It's cheap and inexpensive when you're doing experiments like this But of course if you really are Particularly about your paper and you like say working on arches and you want to know how it's gonna look on arches Then or something like that then you need to use that paper Frisk it would be good. Yep. If you have any, okay, so that's one color blending exercise that you definitely should do Here's another more complicated one Now this one I figured out how to do from Sandy Alnok on YouTube I've already linked her video to our watercolor Wednesday page on my website Where she talks about how to do this. I'm gonna do my best, but no guarantees I Of course again have made a template This is a four inch square this fits on my page in my book that I'm working on and so I can just lay this down on here Trace around it, you know mark off some little tick marks and then use a straight edge to create all my little squares So I don't have to like measure stuff out again because if I have to do that do too much math That makes my brain hurt So I would definitely recommend if you're gonna do a lot of these to Make yourself a little template. These are the first two brands that we did. I did these off camera So I'll show you how I did these and again. These are only using three colors Yellow red and blue and look at all the colors that I got on both of these brands So let's do this for the mission gold So first thing you want to write the brand and then of course we want to write the names of the colors I love Canson paper too. I my favorite is Fabriano Cold press or soft press. I will talk about that. Yeah, let's talk about that Okay We'll talk about that Lisa in just a minute remind me if I forget before we get go off the air, but we have plenty of time Let's do the color blending first. So when you create your chart start warm to cool We'll talk about it actually a little bit right now. So Whether you do three colors or you do all six colors start warm to cool your warmer colors When you look at them they Evoke the feeling of warmth and sunlight Brightness light and the cool colors When you look at them you think about coolness and shadow, right? If you look at a traditional store-bought color wheel which I have handy Okay, here's a traditional store-bought color wheel you can almost divide this in half this way and Look at all the colors on this end When you look at these don't you think of summer sun and sunlight and warmth and When you look at this side you think of coolness and shadow Right, so that's what when we're talking about cool colors and warm colors. That's what we're talking about Okay, now you can look at specific colors just greens and if you look at just green You can see cool medium and warm in the just the green Does that help answer some of your quit that there's a lot more to it than that that's like really brief Okay, so let's work on our color blending here now the first thing you want to do We did it. We're gonna do our swatches cool to warm warm to cool In the first in these first squares now you want yellow here and here red here and here blue here and here and These squares put a swatch of the pure color where these squares meet Where they cross paths put a swatch of the pure color Right, I'll show you what I mean and we're gonna take this one step at a time. So first let's put our yellow here and Here and then where these two meet is yellow. So here Look at now. I didn't reload my brush Look at how far that yellow went and I didn't even reload my brush. Make sure you use a waterproof pen Now when we do the red So we would have red here And red here and then where are these two meet which is here red Sandy Alnok explains this probably so much better than I do. So I do recommend that you go watch her YouTube video Now we're gonna do the blue so blue Blue and then where they meet so here blue Now the more colors that you do the more complicated that this gets and you're really just wanting to get an idea This is practice I would recommend starting out with only a few colors because the more you do more colors that you do the more confused you're gonna get all right now in These two squares the red is meeting the yellow, right? So on this side the left-hand side of our Chart we are going to blend the red with more yellow and on the right-hand side We're gonna blend the red with less yellow. So you're gonna get two different colors of orange and again like the other There's no, you know, there's no Exact rhyme or reason to this so so I'm gonna mix my red With a little bit of yellow Okay, this paint really goes on really nice. I gotta say And then I'm gonna mix it with more yellow and look at the wide range of colors that you can get just to paint Just two tubes of paint Okay, now for this other one for the purple you have It meeting a couple different colors. So let's do the green first Who's Michelle oh This chart did you mean this chart this okay? Yeah, you can get a you just really don't need a lot of paint and this is really good practice I want you guys to think what whatever brand you have I want you to think about doing this because it's really great practice for showing you You just you really don't need a lot of paint colors So here I'm going to mix it with more blue and less yellow Look at that pretty dark green and then on the other one. I'm gonna add more of my yellow Isn't that pretty then on the on this one is red and blue, right? So we're gonna add I've got some here that's on the blue side. So let's use it That's a very pretty purple dark purple and that's a cool color that you look at that And you don't think of sunlight and warmth you think of shadow. So that's a cool color This one is still cool, but it's warmer. This one is more more in the sunlight, right? And for me, I had trouble wrapping my mind around cool and warm until I started thinking of what ones Made me think of sunlight and what ones made me think of shadow Okay, so we're gonna take our blue I'm almost out of red and I'm going to add more red to it And look at that So especially if you're working with paint in particular if you do a Chart like this with just a very limited colors You get a really you get really good practice at what you can and can't do with those limited colors And you can do a lot more than you think you can look at all those We only had the three tubes paint look at all those colors on there And you could just keep going it just depends on how much of one color or the other you put in there Okay, so let's dry this now Okay, so it's not about how much I'm mixing Barbie. So when I'm mixing this one Okay, this I'm just mixing blue and green blue and yellow, but I'm just putting more blue than yellow When I'm mixing this one, I'm putting blue and red, but more blue than red It's not really about how much much I'm mixing. So when I'm mixing And we're gonna do another one and I'll have my little palette here on camera I need to wash it off. Hold on and by wash it off. I mean this Normally I would put that paint on a you know piece of paper, but Let's not do that. So there you go clean plate All right, so these little pallets come in handy. There's plenty of paint here I'm gonna let it dry But I can reactivate it later and I can use it for some kind of random background So I'm not gonna do anything with that now the other two sections I have in here before we do our other paint brand Is I put a technique section in here. So I had already made these Little cards with different watercolor techniques on them scratching in the paint salt in the paint plastic wrap in the paint blending Watercolor over modeling paste and etc. So I didn't want to redo those tests But this binder came with these little page protector pages So I just cut them down a little bit and I only put one in each so I could see my notes on the back about what I did We did these really early on in the live watercolor Wednesdays So if you want to see how I did them or what I did it should be in the watercolor Wednesday or the live playlist somewhere We can redo them at some point if you guys want this one is crayon on there first and then watercolor over it the wax in the crayon is a resist and Then in the back I decided to do an inventory So what I'm and I'll do this off-camera because you don't need to watch me do this But I basically did a duplicate of the color key out of each palette So I will be adding the mission gold to this and that way if I'm out with friends or Experimenting or at the store and I'm looking to add to my collection to maybe have us try something else something new I don't want to buy something. I've already I already have that we've already done already But this way I can look in my book and see what I've gotten it. I can take this with me So now let's go back to the beginning And Let's do if you guys are up for it. Let's do may marry blue This one. I don't have to use a plate because this one's in a palette The mission gold will probably never be in a palette just because I can't keep buying metal pellets I don't have any room to store them Okay, so while those are like wet a little bit. I'm going to write the Names on here in the brand Now the may marry blue or the artist version of their paint and I think it's BLU not be I was gonna put a E on there, but I don't think it that's it. That's right They have another one that's the student grade and I don't have that one. So I don't know So I'm gonna do primary yellow See, I don't really have an orange. I have dragon's blood, which is a red orange I guess we'll have to use that because I have a this is my collection of may marry blue paints. Hold on So it's gonna, you know, you'll get the idea, but who does a pain's gray mission gold I don't have that one. I'm gonna need that one. So I don't have the exact same colors I'm just working with the ones that I do have that are close You're so funny. Michelle. She gives me that product number and if you're Getting together with friends and you're doing this you're working on your swatch book and you're doing you're having like a swatching party They may not have all the you know Same colors in each brand either just work with what's close And it will give you an idea of how pigmented the paint paint is or isn't How hard it is to get the same kind of color on there? That's mainly what you want to know. Okay, so now we're gonna do our swatches So this is may marry blue Michelle, can you do me a favor? And Kathy I agree with you. I like her avatar. Can you put up some prices? For and places where people can get the may marry blue. I got mine at Dick Blick So this is a different kind of an orangey red color, but it's what I have so we're gonna use that and My red is more pink and the green is more yellow. I mean, you know, they're all off just a little bit It'll work though. We'll get an idea May marry blue are generally known as being brighter than a lot of other paints. I Think they're made in I want to say France, but Italy maybe ma I Meri blu one word. So there's our first completed comparison page When you get your first completed page, you should probably sit and make some notes about what your thoughts were about each brand No, there's all your colors. That's an interesting comparison. I like all of them, but I like paint Okay, so my empty metal palettes are from Jackson's art in the UK. There are other places you can get them But I find the prices are real good at Jackson's art and the shipping is Sometimes cheaper than I can get it anywhere here in the US and the little plastic pans I usually get from cheap Joe's FYI Okay, so there's now they look very different usually dry than wet, but look at that. That's a nice page So then we would go to our sample page and we would do another little house Make sure you're right at the bottom. Oops. See I did it again. I always want to write blue with an E at the end And that's not right. That's not how you spell it Let's just use the white out thing. There we go may marry blue VLU. All right, so let's paint our little house. I Look at how bright these are These are nice All right, so primary yellow You're welcome And that may marry blue are not inexpensive. I gotta say I Like them, but I bought them one tube at a time Which is why my you know box looks the way it does. Can you you guys can't really see it on camera? So I bought these one tube at a time Every time I go actually to a physical Dick Blix store I Buy a couple more tubes and that's how I started most of my collection People think you know, oh wow, she must have a lot of money to have all that paint I go to the store and I buy one or two tubes at a time. It's taken me years to build up my collection of paint Okay, so now we're gonna go with the dragon's blood and when I'm painting with my watercolors The only time you see me really only sticking to one brand is When I'm doing it on camera because when I'm just painting for me I Use all the brands Like I you know, so I'm working my way Cooler. I'm using the warmer colors the yellows the oranges the reds We only have six colors so Right now I was staying with the cool the warmer colors The ones that make you think of sunlight and warmth right when you look at these colors you think of the hot summer Sun, right? We're gonna put some red in here Now the paint's really wet. So things are gonna blend on their own and You're gonna get some blooming and that's I'm totally okay with that I like one of the things I like about watercolor is the unexpected Yeah, a lot of these paints unless you have a good budget You don't have to buy a set you can just buy a couple of tubes at a time the set are nice and in the long run Sometimes they're cheaper, but you have to have a larger cash outlay at the beginning and most of us don't have that So now we're gonna work our way cooler. I'm gonna skip the green for the minute, which would be the next color In the warm to cool specter cool to warm spectrum. I'm gonna skip the green for a minute I'm gonna go to Violet and blue and yeah, I hate smart smartphones for the autocorrect Drives me up the wall Now if you really don't you know wanted not have your any brown show up on your painting Then you probably want to dry your warm colors before you start putting the cool ones on there. I will that's a good idea Michelle I'm okay with some brown showing up on the painting. This is just a practice painting So one of the other little things that's nice about this little practice painting is you're learning about Colors blending and what you know secondary or third colors you're gonna get and if you like that or not and Working with you know if you want the paint to go a certain way making sure that part of the paper is wet and the other parts dry Okay, so now we'll go to the blue I'm also going to scan these pages and I'm gonna put them up on the watercolor Wednesday page on my website So if you guys want to you'll be able to print and download them and Maybe you have absolutely no access to any other paint brands from anybody. You don't have any art friends That's okay You have some virtual art friends and you can print out these pages that I've made and you could put them to in your book Okay Now I'm gonna go with my green you guys are having some discussion about smartphones. Sometimes I think my smartphone's dumb Either that or its owner is I'm not sure which now I'm purposefully You know wanting to get this like dark neutral color here and I'm getting it by mixing everything is wet So all these primary colors are mixing together and look at that dark black color that I got by doing that letting them mix So you really don't need to have Tons of colors in your stash to get an interesting painting. You really don't I didn't do that so much on this one But I like the way it turned out on that one. Okay, so let me Dry this Okay, so here is wait a minute Hold it. That's a be easier. I'll let the picture catch up with me So I'm gonna call I'm gonna scan this and I'll put it on my page on my website now We accidentally got all these black dark gray tones because everything blended together, but you know what I like that and It happened very easily. We also got that with the shmink Shminka and the Daniel Smith a little bit. I didn't try to do it so much here I was just kind of I just I encouraged it I didn't really encourage it with the mission gold But definitely if you just mix all these colors together, you're gonna get something that's black or gray some kind of neutral Okay, so next We'll do a color wheel. I agree with you Teresa mission golden. You know, you guys know Daniel Smith is my favorite But I have to say I'm impressed by the mission gold paints Hey wait sip of coffee. All right Now we have to put at the bottom. Let's put may marry blue. I see I remember to not put the E Okay, then we'll put the colors. So we have primary yellow skip three spaces and then we have primary red magenta and then skip three places and we have Ultramarine deep Yeah, Michelle could tell you about sometimes the crazy spelling things that I do. I Can't always blame it on spell check. Okay, so now we're gonna put the primary yellow The the I should say we're gonna put the full strength of the colors in their spaces on our color wheel So yellow I'm gonna put our magenta We're gonna get different colors because this is a different color of red This is more of a pink Than the other swatches so it'll be interesting and then our blue I Started down the painting road with watercolors I Stopped doing it for a while and discover rediscovered a love for it when I started teaching with journaling crazy Island style and I picked it up again. Okay, so there's our three colors in their pure form Yeah, and I definitely encourage you, you know do if you only have one brand of paint Do some of these exercises with the one brand of paint and like pick three different colors each time Pick a yellow a red and a blue each time you do it. Okay now Okay Trying to arrange things so that hopefully you guys can see what I'm doing. I need a clip. Oh Hang on All right, that'll work. All right. So now for we're gonna work with the yellow in the magenta first So we're gonna take some yellow and then some magenta About 50 50 so half half and half right I'm gonna add a little more yellow to that because that's not that magenta seems to be really strong that's a little better and I'm going to put this color here in the middle between the two the yellow and the red the magenta Leaving a space in between it and the other colors Right. I'm in California. I guess nobody knew that Very expensive bright sunny San Jose, California. I shouldn't say that too loudly So I'm going to take some of this color I mixed already That's 50 50 and I'm gonna add some more yellow to a little bit of it And then I'm gonna put that color here between the yellow and the first color I mixed Then I'm gonna take this first color I mixed and I'm gonna add more of the magenta to it Put it there. Look at all those different colors that you get with just two tubes of paint Yeah, I know I'm not gonna talk about it, but yeah the weather in California Let's just say we should we need more rain, but we're not I don't think we're gonna get it not right now anyway All right, so now we are gonna start with we're gonna work with the magenta in the blue So let's take some more magenta here Little bit of water. There we go And some of our blue Like 50 50 look at that purple that comes up look at that Brilliant purple. Okay. I'm sorry. I love purple. Can you tell? Where in California are you Lisa what city so look at that beautiful purple 50 50 now We're gonna take some of our purple and we'll add more magenta to it. It's a pretty purple, right? It's very pretty purple so This is like a permanent red and look and then ultramarine blue and look at the purples you get This is more of a magenta pink color And with the ultramarine blue so depending on which blue and which red you use you're gonna get lots of different colors of purple All right, so now we're gonna take some of our purple we're gonna add some more blue to it and look at that Look at the aren't those pretty colors All right, so now we're gonna go and I'm gonna turn my plate a little bit We're gonna use work with the yellow in the blue and let's put some yellow This is our face. I'm from here. I don't know about freezing faces But we're thinking about moving and when our Dodger daughter graduates, we don't know to where yet so Every place is going to be an adjustment for me Because I'm from here my husband's from originally from New York City So it won't be as big of an adjustment for him, but I've never lived anywhere where it snows or anything like that All right, so that's halfway, right? So then we'll add some more yellow to part of it pigment load looks very good Look at this beautiful limey color Some colors you'll notice you get this kind of Granulation where the pigment tends to settle in the crevices of the paper and you get this interesting texture in the paint. I Love that now we're looking for something I mean every place is gonna have different weather than where I live now But we're looking for something that's you know doesn't get too much snow Where it's an issue because my husband doesn't want to shovel it so So now this is more of the blue and I I can tell by looking at the palette already Look at this pretty like almost prussian a blue color that we're getting Look at that Isn't that pretty? Barbie. Yeah, tell Michelle not to block you. I Know a Michelle is trying to get me to move to Alabama. That's where she lives My sister wants me to move to Utah Cindy wants me to move to where is it, North Carolina? Okay? Okay, so now we're gonna go to this one and We're gonna do our color blending experiment more color blending. See if I get this there we go Hold maybe Maybe not There we go. Okay, so now we're gonna do this again and we're gonna we need to write our colors on there first Remember to put, you know, your notes on here the brand the colors If you have a mind like mine that forgets things two seconds after you say them or they happen You need to make notes. I won't tell you guys what the Weather is here you could Google it if you want it's disgustingly warm outside and sunny Okay, so now we're gonna do the same test again And the first thing we're gonna do was we're gonna put our Pure color pigments right on this underneath the name and where that those two squares meet Just like before and the more you do this the easier it'll be for you You have to think about it less. Good night, Rina. I'm sorry. It's so late there. Is it I'm assuming if it's bedtime It's probably late. See my pen wasn't completely dry. It's bleeding into the paint. That's okay Now we're gonna do the primary magenta We're device heavy here Lisa. We all have iPhones and iPads But sometimes they don't want to talk nice to each other when I'm trying to do my nightly, you know social media thing My phone doesn't want to share pictures with the iPad So then I'm trying to do it on the iPhone and it's just a pain in the neck There's just no other way to be nice about it. It's a pain in the neck. I know you guys are talking about weather I'm missing that weather discussions. I have some friends that just moved to New Mexico Okay, so there we've got our our primary colors We have them on the color name and we wear those two Squares meet those two lines meet we have it there also So now let's start with the magenta here We'll do magenta and yellow because they're meeting right here But we're gonna do but more magenta in this one and more yellow in this one So we're gonna just use what's on our plate and This color here that's on the plate if I just mix it together like that is more on the magenta side than the yellow side So we'll just put that here and then we're gonna take some of our yellow more yellow And we're gonna add it to some of that and we'll put that here. Look at that pretty orange color that came out That's nice All right, so then we're gonna switch this around and we're gonna do our Greens so here we're gonna do the blue with the yellow, but we're gonna have it be more blue So we're gonna just mix all these together that are on here. We'll get a color. That's about what we want Which is very pretty and very similar to the mission gold color And then we're gonna take some yellow and mix more yellow to some of that and put that here That's a pretty color it was 83 degrees here yesterday. I know you all hate me now You're all talking about the weather so I'll just throw that in there you can Google it It's been between 75 and like 83 Since the Super Bowl I think Super Bowl Sunday, it was like 77 I Only live like a town away from where the Super Bowl was I Used to actually live down the street from where Levi Stadium is back before Levi Stadium was there Okay, so we're gonna make Sorry, okay, so this is we're gonna make more of a blue-purple and we're gonna put this here Need some more water. It's getting a little dry. So let's add some water to it Look at that. It's pretty And then we're gonna take some of our magenta and add more magenta to it Now if you were mixing colors for a painting, it's a great idea to have a swatch of Or a little scrap of paper to try the swatches of what color you're mixing on to wipe it on and to see if the color is what you Want so that's how you do those and how you do the color mixing and you want to do this with all the different brands In summer we're usually between Like 75 and 95 We usually in a normal summer will have three or four days that are a hundred plus But usually not too many the last summer though as you all know if you watch the news It's been unusually hot in California and of course dry But we don't usually get like over a hundred and twenty Like that like Arizona Like if we get to like a hundred and five we think we're dying and that only happens for like maybe a day So these are our two new colors May marry blue or brands may marry blue and mission gold and I you know Well, I haven't met a paint brand. I don't like Let's be honest. I will be adding Thank you, I will be adding You know a full color key to the back like I did with the other two brands that we put in here I won't make you sit and watch me do that But I do think that you know the idea of a swatching party, you know, if you have friends who have say watercolors They probably have different brands and you do or even if you have the same brand they might have different colors So get together and all of you work on your swatch books and do some of these tests in your swatch books even if you only have one brand do some of these Exercises and practice your color blending because you really truly do not need tons of I love color I hate color blending generally as a rule that doesn't mean I don't know how and Even though I have lots of paint sometimes I still don't have the right color. It's a handy thing to know and It's a fun exercise Especially this is a great exercise for those days when maybe you are At a loss and you're having a creative block Then just do some color charts and color blending experiments I'm gonna do Windsor Newton You were already at an hour almost an hour and a half. So I don't know how long you guys want to be on I do have a small 12 Color set of Windsor Newton. This is my set I use with My mixed media so They're kind of you know grungy, but I do have a set of Windsor Newton a pocket set and I also have Van this is a set of Van Gogh colors that I have So these will be next I have paint samples coming from a few other companies. I have Including Grumbacher is sending some paint. So I hear And so when these paint brands come in I will be swatching them for you I do of course. I like you like you've seen I own Windsor Newton and I own Van Gogh and I own We'll be doing these two these are the gonzi tombi colors This is a mixed bunch of colors Um Including quarry is on here. So there's a few quarry colors on here So we'll be picking those out and doing those two in future episodes. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna do these enough So we're gonna try to do two per video until we get through at least through my collection and what people send me I think two is a lot if you have specific brands Hold paint picture with mission gold Paint a pic. Oh, well, yeah, I can do that Definitely I can do that not not right now because we've been on a long time, but Once we get through this book we will be doing paintings with some of these paints in my Watercolor Journal and what we'll do is we'll pick a different brand every week and we'll do a painting with it with the exception of Daniel Smith because The Daniel Smith we've already done a million times So I think once we get through our the paint brands I have and the ones I get sent Then we'll start we'll go back to the beginning and We'll pick brands that we've that we've done this with and we will do a painting with like the schmink We've already done a lot of paintings Daniel Smith So we won't do that, but we'll do a painting with the mission gold We'll do a painting with the main Mary blue and all the different brands that we have and if I forget you guys Message me lots of you are in my Facebook group. So message me and say hey Because you know I forget stuff a lot You're welcome and I'm I'm I'm very happy that we're doing this here instead of anywhere else I'm I'm very pleased with the YouTube live. It was a little tricky to real To set up, but oh you did the same one the only problem I have with this I can already tell Michelle is that it doesn't have a very big spine So I may actually have to buy on Amazon like a mini binder with a two-inch spine Because it's already getting pretty full but yes, so we're gonna work on our swatch we are Yeah product review swatch book and as soon as we get through most of the brands Then we're gonna go back and using this as a reference then we're gonna go back and we're gonna do paintings with each brand Yeah, the dividers stuck out the end and they drove me crazy So if when you see me next Michelle in put live and in person and I have a different binder, you'll know why This this is not the new video camera We are doing this with my new HD webcam and it does not zoom, but the picture is pretty clear I can I can hold the book up though for you guys so you can see well. How about this way that? My new webcam. I mean my new video camera will be In Thursday So these are the two we did today and these are the first two. I'm impressed by these I'd never heard of them before one of you asked me if I could see if I could get some and do a test with them You know, there's a million print paint brands out there, and I don't know them all but I'm pretty impressed And you know a 12 color set you really even if you're good if you decide to get a set and You want to get a set of nice quality paints? You don't need a ton of colors. This is only 12 colors and Where's it cheap Joes? I think the Michelle said had them for $48 They come like this now. You're gonna need a palette to stick them in because There's no palette here See if I get these back in the order. They were in maybe I don't know Okay So a lot of times watercolor sets will come like this with just the tubes and they don't always come with a palette And if you get them with the palette, they're more expensive so You know, you'll have to have something to put them in at the very least something like this that you can squeeze a teeny bit in and While you're using them you're welcome so you guys can set up with your fence friends some swatching parties and You know get on the Facebook group We have over a thousand members now and we're growing quickly and see if you can Find some friend art friends that are near you to get together to do a swatching party and You know, you guys can compare paint brands. This is my website You can get information on the Facebook group Information on the companies we've talked about today And all of that stuff here All right, you guys go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I will see you later and this video should be up on YouTube and just a matter of a few minutes For those of you who want to watch it and review it later you you guys have a great day to see you later