 How are you? All right, so we've got some watercolor stuff here and We're gonna do the Daniel Smith first So I ordered some Daniel Smith watercolor and I know I really needed them like I need a hole in the head But I really really really wanted to create a special Metallic and iridescent watercolor palette inspired by Prima's new one that's gonna be coming out But I really wanted to create one using fine art quality paints. So I ordered some from Daniel Smith I already it turns out and I thought I did had two of them in stock already They're not in my regular Daniel Smith palette because they weren't appropriate for that palette and I don't use them a whole lot But now I thought you know, I'm gonna break those out We're gonna put them all together and have a Daniel Smith metallics palette So I have a this is a Prima watercolor box And I've got a bunch of half-pant here in fact, I just got some more and We're gonna create a box. So they came shipped They came today and they put the tubes in these cute little boxes that I think I'm gonna have to save So that I can make fun like tags or something out of the packaging. I just love these boxes And I'll tell you what colors I got in just a second. Let's get them all out here they're in Seattle, Washington the factory and store and I have been there. I can't wait to go back there It's really fabulous and because I'm also on the West Coast. I didn't take too long to get here All right, so I have I already had duo chrome violet fantasy and duo chrome aquamarine. I bought iridescent bronze iridescent ruby Duo chrome violet pearl iridescent gold iridescent copper iridescent Aztec gold duo chrome hibiscus duo chrome Cabo blue iridescent blue silver duo chrome oceanic duo chrome mauve and iridescent electric blue So I do have a little painting that I made where did I put it And I used the scratch paper that I was testing The Daniel Smith dot color chart on this paper to decide what colors so the nice thing about ordering their color dot sample chart is That you can chest out the colors on a piece of paper before you decide what you want so We are going to look here and I'm going to use this to decide kind of what order I want The colors to be in let's see Cabo blue Oceanic I Already had aquamarine and I think I want it to be like here So I'm going to put them in some kind of a order here and hibiscus and The problem is I don't remember the exact one of these is a very white color with just a little hint of But yeah, and it's this one with it just a little hint of purple in it and then the aquamarine one is like a light aquamarine Metallic color, so we're gonna put this one in the front because it's very pale And I think the aquamarine one is the one that's Yeah So that'll work there So I think we want these we are now I'm gonna be able to get I should be able to get seven in each row Because you can fit that these boxes are made for 12, but you can actually fit 14 in them So let's do the same thing with the iridescent ones and I want to start with Like the lightest color and work our way darker or the warmest took the coolest So I'm going to start with the gold and then I'm going to go with Aztec gold and then bronze and then copper and then ruby and then Electric blue and blue silver So we're going to put them in our box like that and know before somebody asks this painting was done with Prima paints This was not done with Daniel's paints. All right, so then the next thing to do is to fill up Now if these don't snap in you need to move these little fingers in a little bit so that the pans snap in tightly So see seven you can get seven in You can get these little empty half pans anywhere that sells fine art supplies eBay Amazon has them Okay, this one here is a little bit loose. So I'm going to pop both of these out. I'm going to push this little finger in Yep, there we go. That's nice and tight in there now. They're not gonna Move around now this whole thing does come out if you want to fit more colors than that in here You could do that and you can either glue the pans to the base of the box Or you could you put magnets on the back of them? Okay, um I Do have this little piece of sponge. I might want to stick in here. Maybe I don't know. We'll see So we are done with those. So now we're gonna take a piece of watercolor paper Before we get started and we're gonna make a color key. I need a ruler and A black pen Something not waterproof and fine tipped So I'm going to draw a line about halfway through the center of this piece of paper And then we need to make seven Rectangles on each side. Um I'm just gonna kind of eyeball it You could measure them out and yes, I've made plenty of mistakes doing these color charts and then had to Make a new card I've done that before so measuring amounts probably at the like the smart way to go. I never claimed to be smart. I Just like to paint pretty pictures Okay, so then before we do anything I want to write the names Down in each one of the squares. Oh, this one's exploding This one is electric blue. So yeah, and this one is duo chrome violet pearl So now Let's finish our swatches here So I think this is a pretty good selection of metallic colors for you know, adding them to faces or flowers or ocean scenes Any of the things I might want to Add them to and a lot of these have You know, so the duo chromes have two Colors in them like it like the aqua is like a blue and green depending on which way You know, the light is hitting it. You could see more of one color or the other I don't know how well the pearls gonna show up on camera at all but this this light one The violet fantasy But it's very pearly, but it looks purple if you hold it to the right way So there we go So that is our Daniel Smith my new my new material Daniel Daniel Smith metallic palette don't do that Okay, my hands are very messy now and I want to show you something else that I got so so that one so