 Hi guys I'm just trying to bring up the chat on my iPad before we get started and I'm having trouble hang on and There's at least one of you out there Hold on. Hey, seriously. I Hate hesitate to say I'm trying to find myself because it just sounds so weird, but I'm trying to find myself Well, there we are there. I am yay There's three of you watching now put me the mute on Let's make sure the mute is on the other Let's talk to you. Okay, cool. All right. Good morning. Welcome to water color Wednesday First before we get started while people are joining us. I thought I would unmold these so this is just Inspired by and William sin over Annalise creates and or Nancy Vastina somebody else is on it too That's exactly the problem Michelle my new iPad I'm still getting used to it, although it's very similar to my old one It's definitely different I Just use golden molding paste Some brands call it modeling pastes the same thing there is a flexible one. I don't have that I just had this I know and used the deco art one and so I Just used what I had closer. Okay. Hold on So I thought we were waiting for people to join us. We would unmold these so this is a leaf mold all of these This mold I got from Amazon. The rest of these are from Hobby Lobby when I got them when I was in Las Vegas And so let's see this these have been drying for two days and I wasn't super careful about You know that extra So you're gonna have to cut I'm gonna have to cut some of this trim the edges, but I Gotta say this is surprisingly more flexible than I thought it would be and look at look at that Detail in that I'm gonna have to trim it, but I Gotta say I'm very surprised. I might have to order some more molds now I Like the idea that I don't have to like get anything special like any special kind of clay or anything I could just use what I have Hello, isn't that what we're all shooting for not having to buy more stuff and I love these feathers. These are gonna be great Right, that's what I thought Michelle. I thought it should be more stiff because on paper. It just is so stiff All right, let's try the I'm nervous about the lace ones. Let's try the hearts first. Oh Yeah, see look at this now. This is I think a chocolate mold Cindy found it at Hobby Lobby when we were in Las Vegas and she cut it and it was a big mold she cut it in half and Gave me half Well these little hearts are cute Yeah, very great for inexpensive embellishments Teresa. I totally agree with you And you could use them on your journal pages ATC cards, you know Of course, you could put them on a canvas you could put them on so many things Let's try the lace ones now Now the lace ones you really have to make sure you get your Stuff in all the cracks There's no holes Look at that I mean, I'll have to trim the edges, but is anybody else is surprised I am as I am About how this more modeling paste works and this is just golden modeling paste. It's nothing special It's hey Lisa. It's probably something we all have in stock You could definitely glue these down to a page and then watercolor around around and over them Use your spray inks and some water soluble things that would be fun You could also mix paint with your modeling paste before you do this or molding paste All right, let's do another one I'm just I'm just so surprised That's what I thought Michelle. I thought they're really delicate ones would not pull cleanly out of the mold and that they Would break when I tried to pull them out. I Was really kind of nervous about it and this one's kind of thin on the end But I don't think that's because of the mold I think that's because of the way I put the paint the modeling paste in I probably missed a spot See I missed a little spot. All right now this one was also a big mold and Cindy cut it in half and gave me half and This one might again might be a little bit broken I went back and put a second layer on there because it looked like I had some holes in it Never mind How cool is that? So again be glad this is not smell of vision because I literally just got home from the gym like with 10 minutes to spare I did manage to get some inspiration photos put up to my website One of whom one of which we're going to use this morning how cool is this this is going to be This is going to be so cool and these are inexpensive and it's a great idea because this this mold was twice as long And so Cindy cut it in half so for our journaling and what we do with it. You don't need that huge long mold So you definitely could cut it in half and then sell half of it or share it with a friend That would be a great way to get more of these molds and they're not super expensive They do sell them at all your arts and craft stores in the cake decorating aisle and you Can use a coupon, you know use your 40% of coupon and yes, that's what I'm saying. I stink Alright So this morning, I think I Don't know which paints we're gonna use I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Okay, so I when I was in Las Vegas and we went to Dick Blick and for those of you who don't know Dick Blick and Utrecht are the same company Yeah, thankfully Michelle since we shared in bed all right, so Utrecht and Dick Blick are owned there, but they're part of the same company. So when we were at Dick Blick, I picked up some Utrecht brand Watercolor brushes. These are synthetic These are the Utrecht 6150 line of brushes these I got around number four a six and eight and I thought I would get them to try now these brushes are super affordable They start from like two dollars and sixty three cents and the most expensive one is like less than eleven dollars So I really wanted to get them to try So that we could you know, I'm always looking for a good inexpensive paintbrush So we're gonna try those this morning. I Have my mission gold paints. They were honestly out before I left and then I have my mixed paint palette I'm not honestly sure which one I want to use this morning Don't know and We'll get off the watercolor journal And my watercolor travel journal. Okay, so this is my watercolor travel journal This is the one I bring with me when I go out of town one of that couple and Yes, you are You are Teresa and LOL. Yeah. No, it was a nothing cakey going on. I'm not I'm 52. I don't do that anymore Anyway, before I stick my foot in my mouth So my travel watercolor palettes about this size I could take this one traveling with me if I wanted but I don't usually have one that's much bigger than this This is the mission gold palette And this would be great for traveling because it has just enough of the right colors in it except no pains gray But I could mix something close with the van dyke brown and some blue and toss a little bread in there I'd get something that's pretty close So when I'm taking watercolors with me, I just take this and like a water brush So this is my travel watercolor book Yeah, that wasn't the least of it I let all I can say is somebody we were hanging out with and having lunch with one day made me blush like crazy Okay, and I'm not gonna say anything about the baddest so don't ask So these are some different paintings that I've done while I've been on vacation different vacations This is one that I did on this last trip to Las Vegas and Then this is one another one that I did. I normally only do one this time. I did two and This one got a lot of comments And I thought this would be a good one to paint today rather than doing more test swatches We can do test swatches next week And I may even start filming some of them because I've got a lot actually to finish And I don't want to keep doing swatches on a watercolor Wednesday live and Speaking of that there are two videos That air today the first two parts of the next four-part painting and in this next four-part series at the end of each section Each brand then I have put my conclusions about that brand now. These are my conclusions This is my opinion take it for what you will you're totally okay It's totally okay to disagree with me. I live like Yeah, I like What was the one I whole buying watercolors straight out of the tube they're fabulous But when they're dry like this and you go to rewet them they don't rewet super well So while I like their paints and they're nice then they're a little pricey, but they're nice I Like my to work from a dry palette like this. So in that particular case I'm not super excited about them. So that's but that's my opinion at the end of each section I put my opinion. Hey Josie. How are you? I'm just catching up on the comments here Okay, so yeah, Michelle broker bet in Las Vegas like on the first like two hours All right, so we're gonna work on another version of these desert blooms and I did put my reference photo up on to my website So you can go there and print it out. I put a couple of other photos too I think there's five pictures and all that I added this morning What do I like in regards to what Josie? So I put I think five pictures up this morning Hey Sharon and so you can go to my website and you can there's an inspiration photos page and You can print out print out and use this reference any of the photos on there I've taken all of them my daughter took a couple and but I have her permission to use them and They're great photos. This is one I took at Red Rock Canyon and so we're gonna work from this I'm gonna stick it up here And we're gonna work here in my watercolor journal. Let's see find a blank page. Oh Oh type of so my favorite type of watercolor paints are Daniel Smith. Um, I do also like Shminka They're very well pigmented. They're a little bit pricey, but they're really nice paints to work with As far as inexpress in it blah blah blah blah blah Some more caffeine. I'm telling you holy cow as far as inexpress expensive brands go Oh Probably Van Gogh It's a affordable brand. It's pretty where readily available of just about everywhere. Hobby Lobby has it The fact they've had some of it on clearance. So if you want to go pick it up on clearance I think that's a great idea. I also like Koi Koi makes a really nice watercolor paint It's very well pigmented fairly transparent and I enjoy working with it and my travel watercolor box is Probably three-quarters Koi It's Koi and Daniel Smith so But at the end of each video there will be a text box at the end of each of the four new four-part series that gives my Conclusions about that particular brand of paint and when we're done reviewing all the brands that I have I'll give you some sort of overall summary probably in a video where we will go through The swatch book and talk about each brand and what my conclusions are That'll be coming up All right, so one of the other things I did and I did this right before I left was I went out and got some ox skull liquid now ox skull is a watercolor medium and Windsor this is the Windsor Newton brand. I got it at Hobby Lobby and yes, it was 1299 a Yuzukupon It is supposed to increase wetting and flow in your watercolor paint And you add three to four drops to a cup of water and so I actually put some in this spray bottle I think this came with my twinkling H2O's and I got it to try See if it Rewet the dry watercolors any better than using plain water Which it's supposed to do also at some point We're going to try it on those dang Holbein paints that I had trouble rewetting so I Thought we would try that this morning, and I think that I'm wanting to I think we'll use the mission gold palette I'm really liking the mission gold paints now. They're not super inexpensive. In fact, they're you know Pricey like everything else out there. They're not the most pricey thing in on the planet But they're not cheap either, but they're very nicely pigmented. I gotta say I really like them and This 12 color palette is really nice. Okay Yeah, I gotta arrange everything so let's get our palette wet first Normally I do this off-camera, but I was at the gym so We'll let it sit for a minute Let's see what I did the last time Okay, so the first thing you want to do is get a number two pencil and I just got some Drawing pencils from map at helix and this is they're called black peps This is a HB to Drawing pencil this will work any pencil will work and Also, too when you're talking about types of paint you want to you know Decide what you're gonna do with it if you're gonna just play in with your art journal in in your art journal with it Then I would definitely go with something more budget-friendly like the Koi paints or the Van Gogh paints or something like that rather than Spending a lot of money on like Daniel Smith or something Unless you decide you really really really love watercolor I'm gonna try and move this up a little bit so that you guys can see what I'm doing Let's see Rearranging my table. This is all stuff. I usually do before I get started I'm still trying to get back in the swing of things from being on vacation So if you're a beginner, I would definitely say go with Like the Koi I wouldn't spend a lot of money on paint So now we're going to first do a drawing And I know all of a lot of you don't like to necessarily do tons of drawing and that's fine but doing good art and good journal pages Requires a little bit of drawing skills You don't have to have tons of drawing skills But a little bit goes, you know, you should have a little bit and you don't you can be suggestive I usually am so I'm going to follow this stem. I'm really just picking out the flowers and the stem here and I'm using my photo as inspiration For my drawing and first I'm going to put my stem in oops And I'm not going to worry about the extra lines this you know journal is for experimenting in and practicing and I kind of like the Suggestion and the interest that the extra lines give you when you're a page And there's only one way to get better at drawing To do it So as a beginner Josie, I would stick with that, you know, something that's budget friendly Like the Koi you can get Koi at Like Hobby Lobby they have the Well, I guess it's the 30 pan set now, but I last time I was at Hobby Lobby they still have the 24 I Think the new one is like 30 Okay, so now I'm gonna look at these flowers here and I'm going to just I'm looking at the shapes I'm looking at I'm drawing what I see not what I think I see Think about that statement so draw what you see Not what you think you see Which is way easier said than done. I'm aware of that Yeah Sorry, sorry Josie. I forgot that you were in Italy there for a minute. Yeah, there probably isn't I have been in communication with an Italian paint company I Forget where in Italy that makes watercolors Trying to get them to send me some things To try Maybe you can get something like the Koi kit on Amazon does Amazon Prime. Do you have Prime there? So I'm just looking at the shapes in my inspiration photo and if you want to get a better look at the inspiration photo then Go to my website and print it out. Oh good. You know, I love a good small mom-and-pop art store There's just really nothing like it We found one when we were in Las Vegas desert art supply. Love those guys. They're a little bit off But you know there you can tell they're creative types because aren't we all a little bit off So I'm doing light pencil sketches You know if you're not sure that you want to keep the lines Maybe you want to erase them later then you want to keep your pencil lines light no no digging any holes to China with your pencil and You know, there's nothing wrong with a good suggestive sketchy mark Yeah, we really love that guy. They had tons of the place was packed Florida ceiling with art supplies great prices great selection of stuff and probably the most Manufacturer pamphlets and stuff I've seen in any art supply in a long time No, I agree with that Teresa. You wouldn't think that at all, but they but we found them They did have some Now especially when you're doing some kind of a study or a practice sketch don't worry so much if your image ends up running off the end of the page and Even sometimes when I'm working on a canvas or a piece for a client Sometimes I do that intentionally or even if it's accidental. I like it and so I end up not changing it So don't feel like that you've made a mistake if things run off the end of the page Like this one's going to the other one did too in the practice in the travel journal remember your inspiration photo is a suggestion and You should you know use it as such if you want a true representation of what you saw. Well, that's why we have cameras But when you're working on a piece of artwork Use your photos as inspiration for your art and you try to create the impression of what you saw rather than Trying to make yourself crazy painting exactly what you saw. I think that's pretty good So now I'm going to come in with a black pen And this is exactly how I did the one in my journal So once I had the basic shape that I was happy with Okay, wait tea break. Let the camera focus. There we go then I took a black pen something that was waterproof and I went and highlighted Some of the shapes that I liked No, I don't worry about the pencil showing generally. I just let it help me suggest My shapes in the finished piece now if you're worried about the pencil showing and you really don't want it to you have two solutions One would be to use a water soluble pencil like a watercolor pencil One would be to let your waterproof ink dry and then erase the pencil Now you can try and erase the pencil after you've water colored on it, but I find that that's difficult at best I usually don't bother because hello lazy crafter here Not the food frugal crafter. That's Lindsay lazy crafter. Hey Katana, how are you? No problem. We're just getting started So I'm going to use my sharpie stainless steel pen to Help me suggest some lines and I kind of like these Accidental pencil sketches here. So I'm going to put them in and you can use any pen. I'm going to use the sharpie pen, but I don't either so I usually just leave it. I either do it before I watercolor or I just leave it so go ahead and Take some of your lines and highlight some of them. You don't have to do all of them, especially if you plan on leaving The pencil lines then it's not important that you do all of them But you probably want to do a few of them and that way you make some shapes stand out a little more than they would normally When you're watercoloring and you're going to be able to see this better on camera, too And those of you who've been watching me for a while, you know, I like my loose sketchy lines Part of the reason for that is because trying to draw a straight even line just makes me want to just tear my hair out So I generally just don't even bother Because it just is too frustrating And I don't feel like you have to draw, you know, every single line in Whether in pencil or in pen, you know, like again Be suggestive the human eye is going to put some of those lines in whether you Ask it to or not and flowers are not You know straight and even their edges are uneven and ruffly and nature is not even in straight so Don't draw it that way. So that's pretty good. I am going to erase this little line right here Because that one's kind of in the wrong spot Let's use this eraser That's not suggesting any anything so it needs to go away You know, I don't know what these are these were this was taken in red rock canyon. There's some kind of wild desert bloom I think they had the name of it on one of the signs at the visitor center But none of us remember what that name was if one of you out there knows let let me know but I don't know Okay, so now we're going to start painting All right, so the first thing we're going to do is put this up here Because now it's really color and shadow reference So I'm going to take the wider of the brushes the bit that number eight round And I'm going to mix on my plate here because this palette of paints. These are the mission gold paints is really small I'm going to mix a little bit of the burnt sienna With a lot of water I'm going to put in a little bit of the van dyke brown And I'm going to just a little bit of blue I want to just blacken it up just a little bit Yeah, there you go. They're beautiful flowers. I yeah, but I have no idea Okay, so I'm going to just randomly the first thing I wanted to do was You see how this has like a grayish brownish green background because of the rocks and the dead vegetation So I wanted to do that first before I did anything else and this is how I did the page in the journal This is a little too green. Let me hang on. Let me Okay, now it's too red It's not the color I want Yeah, yeah, yeah That's better Just keep mixing it until you get the color that you want That's better Holy moly. All right. So the first thing we're going to do is this okay Then take your brush with just water and take some of those droplets And put water on them And spread the pigment out you can leave some of them the way they are the background of these flowers was very uneven And um had lots of textures and tones in it. So don't worry about that And your color could be even lighter than the one I started with and to do that just add a lot of water to it And you can even take some plain water and do this and that's going to You know Hit some of the paint The best way to learn about watercolor is just to start playing Don't listen to have should haves or need to's or must do's just start playing and enjoying your paints and figuring out What what they can and can't do and what you like and don't like about it And just go from there. I've never ever taken a proper watercolor class I watched a few dvds and youtube videos So I like that And just keep doing that until you're happy with your background. This is the background So do this first and then when you paint your flowers and you don't have to touch it up And the only thing I did with the original Was after I was done then I put in some shadow And I actually like this even better. So that's the other thing is if you do one of these when you're um On vacation, you know consider it like a study And if you want to paint it again, the more you paint a subject the better you're going to be at it Globe mallow. Okay. See there you go You have to find your own style. Teresa. I totally agree with that All right, so we're going to leave that I like that we're going to mix up some green I'm going to do the stems first Now that greens a little bit bright and limey for me and for what I'm seeing in the picture So I'm going to add a little bit of Ultramarine to it There we go and tone it down a little bit by just mixing some more blue in it I'm going to put this on the side of the stems where I want the shadows to be And then I'm going to take my brush with just water on it And I'm going to blend that pigment out to the other side And it'll give me some Variating shades of green without adding any more color I'm going to see if I can zoom in a little bit for you guys And don't worry so much if you go outside the lines, you know, this is not You know about this is about suggesting your shapes and colors. We're not Crazy about going outside about not going outside the lines Have fun with the process And that was um sap green for mission gold and then I added some ultramarine blue to it fyi for somebody who's asking If anybody's asking So when you know when you're working with watercolors start with your lighter colors and work your way darker I almost always with watercolor or acrylic do my backgrounds first That way when I'm painting the focal point I don't have to go back and try to paint the background around it. It's already been done And I don't have to go back and try to touch up something because I Got you know background paint on it Okay, I have this other color of green that's more Blue darker of veridian green. So we're going to take some of that And we're going to add it in here and I'm going to actually brown put some of the brown in it So we're working our way lighter to darker And and I know my other green is still dry and I'm okay with that And this is going to blend in with it a little bit, but that's all right I'm using just the very tip of the brush. I'm still got this number eight brush And I got to tell you guys I like this brush It's a nice paint brush It holds a point very well Now you notice I didn't draw any stems over here, but the way the painting is coming out I didn't really need to it's being suggestive of the stems, which is nice I definitely if you're in the area, I would recommend that you guys take a trip out to red rock canyon I do know that Now I know why my husband and I usually go in the summer when it's really hot because there's nobody there The weather was beautiful, but everybody on the planet was at red rock canyon Also valley of the fire is gorgeous, which is out that way and um hoover dam They're all great places for inspiration That's pretty good. I kind of like that. So we're going to leave that and let that dry for a little bit and work on some other part of the painting So I've got some permanent yellow light here Did anybody notice I accidentally stuck? Oh, you can't see it on camera I accidentally stuck my paint brush in the clean bucket of waters and on both buckets of uh Our little tinted. I'm sorry So the first thing I'm going to do If you notice the flowers have kind of a yellowy orange center So I'm going to put just the permanent yellow the way it is mixed with a bunch of water in the flower centers Kind of sloppily when it come back in with some water and blend it out just a bit Towards the petal edges Missed a little that should be green Let's fix that shall we here we go. All right. Don't be nervous. Josie I'll keep you distracted When I do have to tell you that I I loved these mission golds before I thought they rewet nicely There's something about using that ox skull in the in the water though. I think it's even better than it was before All right. So now we're going to work our way more towards the oranges and when I did the sample one I even added a little bit of pink in there. So We're going to start with um, I have just orange mission gold orange. I'm going to mix it with the yellow that's on my plate Yeah, I heard about brussels and I haven't heard about anything else going on But I haven't really watched the news since I got back. Are you safe? Josie? I hope I'm just yellowing up my orange a little bit. All right So we're going to work our way from the center to the outer edges these flowers for the most part have darker outer edges and the centers are lighter So we're going to just put a little bit of pigment remember a little bit goes a long way There's no need to go crazy and overboard and you know do some lifting We're supposed to call it lifting not blotting. I still think it looks like blotting same difference And blend it out a little bit towards the outer edges And you notice how right there I suggested the outer edge of that petal By putting paint behind it These brushes hold a lot of water. I got to tell you I'm impressed No bristles are popping out. There's no stray hairs So I'm going to work my way around the page I'm sure he's going to be fine. Josie. He'll be careful. He and his new wife And how great is that that you have a new daughter-in-law? That's fabulous I shouldn't say that or son-in-law. It doesn't matter new your that your son has a partner He will be it'll be great Okay, so then I'm just blending it out If you don't get to it quick enough And it's the pigment starts to dry on the paper and it doesn't rewet well very well on the paper It stains just do this and take some more pigment And go over it some of those lines may show but just work with it and you know what like what bob ross used to call him happy accident just work with it And Work it into your piece like it was supposed to be there. Okay, so that's pretty good. We're getting there. I like it All right, so we are going to Let the centers dry a little bit. I do want to do something else to the centers We're going to keep working our way out We're going to take our same orange mixture and we are going to add some permanent rows to it Now just because your inspiration photo of whatever flowers you're using is a certain color Doesn't mean you can't paint them a different color. So you can take some creative license there So i'm going to take this permanent rows and go around some of the edges and darker parts of the flower It's going to blend with the orange paint on here where it's still wet and i'm okay with that It's going to give me an interesting secondary color and like right there. That's a little too much water So let's get some of that up There we go If you have a paint that you're using that's super pigmented like these mission gold ones then you know just You're going to have to practice with them and try to remember a little bit goes a long way And when you switch to an artist grade paint from, you know, something like the koi That's a hard it can be a hard adjustment It is very important to have to have good brushes now That doesn't mean you need to spend a ton of money on brushes because it that's not true You just need to have a good decent brush and like I said, this is an inexpensive utrecht brand paint brush Um I bought it at dick lick. It's not expensive brush at all And it's holding up really well. I also like the princedin nap tunes and the princedin select brushes for watercolor And again, those are a little bit more pricey than this utrecht brush, but I buy them when they're on sale Um, I have a local place to your I know you don't have in in italy joe'sy, but Aaron brothers and they'll have buy one get two free and that's When my local stores have sales like that that's when I go buy brushes I want to be a grand grandma someday too joe'sy, but my daughter's only 21 and her boyfriend's 22 I would rather they both wait a little while and finish school So i'm in it continue working and you don't always have to blend all of your paint lines out Let you know let your paint lines live on the paper and let them help you suggest your shapes Um, you know if you make a line on your flower that you like Then leave it There's no law that says all your marks have to be blendy my my paintings are usually puddley I like them that way I fully anticipate being the grandma that spoils the kids rotten fills them up with sugar and then sends them home My daughter's gonna kill me But her grandmother used to give her bowls a cool whip just cool whip no pie. No cake. No just cool whip and then send her home Hey victor We're just painting some flowers here this morning. Thanks daniel They're called globe mallow. I know that because michelle looked them up while I was here painting them because I couldn't remember what they were called Um, they're wild desert wild flowers We saw them in red rock canyon When we were there I took some pictures at the visitor center You can download the the photo that i'm using as inspiration off of my website And I took a few flower pictures while I was on vacation some of which were taken at my brother-in-law's wedding Um outside their wedding venue They had some beautiful blooms and I got some great shots with my iphone The camera on the iphone is it's not as good as michelle's um HD camera I mean a dslr camera, but it's that's pretty good. Good. See i'm glad you're here and lisa. I'm sorry about your grandmother You know, I just made it through a couple of airports recently obviously so Um, you'll be fine. You know just you know, that's what tsa is for you have to trust them to do what they're supposed to be doing and um, you know Security might be stepped up a little bit. So you might want to Um not carry anything on board that you don't have to And i'm here every wednesday at 10 a.m. Pacific time Okay, so that's looking pretty good My stem is a little thick, but i'm okay with it. We're gonna just leave it Um, what do I want to do next? I think I I need to do this i'm gonna take a little bit of my green and if you look at the flowers There's a little bit of a green highlight in the center of the flowers Like a green shadow So we're gonna put some of the green in here And i'm not gonna blend it this time. I'm gonna leave the Painty marks or lines and let it do what it might And i'm just using i'm just i'm still using it. I'm using this number eight. It's holding a point very well this number eight brush And I think this brush was only like Four or five dollars. It wasn't expensive I thought the mixed media fabric beads were interesting. I haven't had a chance to watch the video yet I'm still catching up But I thought it was an interesting idea When I stopped talking it's because I'm catching up on the comments Okay, I'm gonna take some of the yellow straight out of the pan Well, don't be afraid of your watercolors. Just have fun with them and play Don't listen to anybody's well, it's supposed to look like this or you're supposed to do that Don't listen to that just do what makes you happy So this is permanent red and I'm just mixing it with the other stuff that's already on my palette I'm gonna put some yellow in it And now I'm using my paint colors to help me define some of my shapes They may do like blooming like this just did here, but I'm okay with that. Thank you victor I'm just playing I did get asked by people when I was in Las Vegas if I would do private lessons with them over Like google hangout or skype and I said I would so Karen no, we only know each other from online. I know a few of them in real life in person, but um, we've just been hanging out online for a long time And welcome by the way, so I'm using this darker orangey red color that I mixed up from the paint I had on my palette to Find my flower petals. I'm still working on the flower petals. You really want to before you start putting the shadows in really Make sure the rest of your piece is the way you like it You don't always have to make your shadows with Black think about making your shadows with colors Oh, I love a good abstract I work in acrylic too, but I really love watercolor. It's what I started in first Just playing I haven't done a canvas in a while. Actually, I probably should do one soon. So I'm still in practice And it's not like I have a shortage of canvases around. I've got a ton of them out in the garage They're on my do not buy list So you start to create depth in your painting in your in your flowers just by adding more layers of colors And I've taken classes to try to be better at abstract. I still kind of suck at it I work primarily in watercolor these days, but not only I do have a commission for um, some Sketchy watercolor pieces I need to do for a project for somebody Hey, you said how are you? Good morning Or afternoon what time is it? Oh, it's still 11 o'clock my time. So good morning. It might be evening where you are A good abstraction in my opinion is one that just makes sense when I do them And I'm probably way hard on myself They just look like somebody just threw paint on the canvas and it doesn't make sense I don't work in oils. It's probably the one thing I don't work in The fumes make me wheeze, which would by what be why I don't work in oil So I'm just adding layers of color Until I get the suggestive look that I want. Yeah All right, that's pretty good And this was a quick painting when I did it. I think I did it well I did some of it before everybody got up in the morning. I think why we were having coffee Or when we got home I don't remember one of them I did before coffee and one of them I did after we got home Back to the condo So you notice I just mixed everything that was on my plate together And I got this nice dark brown color And I'm just going to work with what I have I might Add a little bit of ultramarine blue to it blew it up just a little bit There we go And that made sort of a grayish brown less reddish So I'm going to look at my reference photo and I'm going to put some shadows in A little bit of pigment and then a whole bunch of water Just do a little bit at a time Yeah, yeah, I I was almost done with it No, no worries Nancy. Welcome Watercolors are not forgiving You're right. They're really not and I but I like I think I like the challenge of working with them There's something about it that intrigues me So the only thing you want to make sure that you do is have all of your shadows going in the right direction or the same direction when you're doing and that's true for Any kind of painting or drawing So sometimes what I'll do when I'm working on a piece if especially if I'm working on an easel with canvas Is that I will put a post-it note that says sun and with an arrow So I know which direction the sun is coming from so that I don't screw up my shadows You can also use your dark shadow color to cover up and disguise Some of the lines and things that you don't like You won't get rid of them, but that's okay, but you can cover them up and make them look Less obvious so it can straighten out the shape of your flower a little bit if it's off It was a lot of fun and um, yeah, we're gonna have to do it again because it was a lot of fun I'm going to alaska in may With my husband so that's also going to be a lot of fun Yes, my husband says your guys are a bad influence on my vocabulary michelle But he said it with a wink and then he said the f board so I don't I don't think it I don't think it was that big a deal 41 you're just a baby Yeah, I love the challenge of watercolors. I love how they move on paper I love the translucency and the ability that you have to really just layer them on top of one another Do you see we had some orange escape, but I'm going to work with it I'm going to just put some water here and blend it out a little bit Well, my birthday's in august august second Okay, so we're going to just work our way around the page now if you're a mixed media artist Like I like to consider myself You don't have to stop with the watercolors and pen and pencil technically that's mixed media already But you could do some stamping in the background. You could add little highlights of white gel pen you know don't limit yourself To one medium if you feel like you want to add a little bit of white gel pen to it or some acrylic paint highlights Or something do it just have fun. Especially if you're working in a journal like this where it's just a study journal Don't be afraid to try things Thank you These flowers were fun to paint as much fun to paint this time as they were the first time I would not want to be 14 again Not not for anything in the world So a little bit of pigment and then spread it out with water if it blends with other pigments in the page Don't worry about it. Let it go If you don't want it to then you have to control where you put the water and how much water And leave it don't be afraid to leave a white space It gives you an interesting Illustratorly look. Yeah, I'm my uh astrological sign is Leo Leo the lion Well, congratulations Karen. Yeah, you never know when you're on here for the newbies Be you male or female what we're going to talk about Sometimes it's menopause and if there's men in the audience I feel bad Because you're probably learning things you don't need to know or don't want to know But you know we just chat and paint and You can ask Michelle and Cindy. I'm like this in real life too. We just chat and do art and You never really know what I'm going to start chatting about So that's pretty good. I feel like We need something down here. I was 31 when I had my daughter. She's um 21. All right. That's pretty good I'm feeling like I want to break it up a little bit though and we are going to Add some let's see. We're going to try to mix up something that's more blue here Yeah, that's pretty good So if you want to make a dark black blue color Or a dark black gray color Mix here all your primary colors together together on your palette when you have a limited like 12 color palette here Like this one that doesn't have the black in it just mix red yellow and blue together until you get The color you're looking for if you have a brown you can use the brown And I'm going to take this darker color here Do you really want to add some dark darks? It really will make your peace pop I'm going to have to get used to these brushes. They really hold a lot of water I have to say though. I like them So it was looking good before but then I added that and look what happened. I like that I am going to mop up some of this extra water because there's too much water on there All right, like I said before I can't wait to have grandkids I'm going to be that grandma that spoils a marat and with bowls of koolif and then sends them home My daughter's gonna kill me. I'll also make them eat vegetables. I'm like Our boyfriend we love him dearly If they get married we won't be upset, but The boy does not like vegetables. It must be something some a Lithuanian thing at least that's what he claims I don't know if I believe him But he claims it's a Lithuanian thing Okay, so now I'm adding my dark dark shadows and yes, I'm going right over the stems in some cases Where I deem there appropriate and I'm actually not really looking at my photo anymore Now I'm doing what's best for my painting And not necessarily what I see Um is best for What what is in the photo? I'm doing what's best for the painting. I'm trying to watch the chat And paint at the same time and it's just not working All right, so at some point you need to put the photo away And you need to do what's best for your painting Yeah, I like the Princeton Neptune too. They also hold a lot of water for a long time. I use super cheap brushes That frustrated the crap out of me because the bristles would fall out and all kinds of other things um You don't have to spend tons of money on your paint brushes But spending a couple dollars more for a nicer brush like the Princeton Neptune The Princeton select is also nice. It doesn't hold quite as much water But you can use it for acrylic or watercolor Um, or this this one's nice for a cheap. This is a cheap brush Um for a cheap brush. This is a great one Thank you victor Oh, there you go. Now everybody has Karen's facebook, um link The use of water and where you put your water is just as important as where you put your pigments You definitely can use watercolor with stamping stamped images if you don't Draw or you don't have confidence in your drawing skills There's nothing wrong with learning about watercolor and playing with it with stamped images You have some fun figure stamps or something like that In your stash of stuff stamp them with waterproof ink or emboss them and then Play with your watercolor paints I'm going to have to go look when we're done with the broadcast because now you're all they're all talking about your work, Karen So I'm sure it's gorgeous Okay, I kind of like that. I am going to do this. I'm going to take some of my yellow I'm going to just dirty it up a little bit with The grays and we're going to take some of the grays Now if you're going to do this Then you want to and you want to not get it on your flowers Then put little scraps of paper on where the flowers are This is a study book So I'm not too concerned and you can also like if you get like I'm not so crazy about that blob So go in there with a wet brush with no paint on it You won't get it all up if it's a good quality paint, but you'll get I got 90 of it up I haven't yet. I do have some design team members Some of whom are here in the chat hint hint that have some of my stamps They should make some things and they should post them I would love to see or any of the rest of you So I like that that that's pretty good. So I'm going to set this aside Somewhere. I don't know where Trying hard not to get paint on my new ipad Yeah cough cough michelle So here's our original inspiration photo Since somebody brought it up. I was trying to figure out how To message all of you So here's the original photo and I just you know took some creative license with it Here's the original study that I did while I was on vacation. They're you know done from the same photo, but they're very different And there's nothing wrong with that You know take some creative license with it have fun and you know draw it a few times and do it a few You're bound to create one that you really like That's true. You do And just play you know and remember you can do something like with a stamp And one of my stamps or somebody else's stamp is stamp the image on your paper or in your journal with watercolor I mean in watercolor with water soluble Blah blah blah blah. I need more caffeine. Holy cow people waterproof ink Yes, I do a little bit. Sorry at or emboss it And then watercolor it you don't have to draw if drawing is not your thing But if you want to be better at painting you probably should practice your drawing and there's no Way to get better at it other than practice. There's no shortcut because believe me I'm the queen of shortcuts if I knew of one I tell you Oh, you're welcome daniel And I can't help this snoring. It's part of the asthma and allergy thing So anybody have any questions? We will be back next week with another watercolor Wednesday. I'm here every week unless I'm out of town And um some weeks we do paintings. Some weeks we do Swatches, um, I have um Daylar roundy brush show royal and langnickel Um Who else oh and peerless yet to do You're welcome everybody um, I do have a uh facebook group if you don't know about it called a life of self-expression Sorry a life of art and self-expression and if you want to See more of my work every day because I do post stuff every day. Um go over and join the group um instead of a fan page. I have the facebook group and um You can once you're in there you can tag me and post you can you know private message me if you have questions My contact information is usually in the video description below my email address and everything so if you have any questions or comments or anything like that don't be shy and uh Everybody don't forget the most important thing. You all know what that is right Have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. All right Yeah, are you feeling arty? I love that saying All right, so don't forget to do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I will talk to you all later And like I said if you you know, I'm easy to find just google my name. I'm all over the damn place All right. See you all later. Bye