Hey, Kathy. How are you? I'm here. I'm just turning everything on here. We're both a couple minutes early so my That's better Just I'm just setting up my iPad so I can not only see the chat but so that I can monitor the connection and appearance of the broadcast My download and upload speed seem to be fine this morning and The picture from what I'm seeing on my iPad seems good So yay Hey, Lisa So I have a really specific idea about what I want to do today with of course watercolor because that's my primary thing I was thinking about doing a acrylic pour this morning, but I Filmed it instead yesterday I am having a lot of fun doing the acrylic pours and I think I finally have my paint consistency what it should be and The ingredients what they should be I'm going to be experimenting with adding some rubbing alcohol to the paint mix and seeing what that does Some people add it and I'm not sure exactly why but I'm going to play Yes, so we're going to talk about this stack of stencils first so I I Recently got this and some mail I ordered this from my friend my dear friend Mike deacon art comm did you all know he has his own line of stencils and Most of them are steampunk themed Masculine themed which I love because there aren't a lot of that out there I fell in love with the Sun one of his when I saw him use it on a page not long ago So when he was sending me something anyway that we'll talk about in a minute. I said Can you toss in one of those Sun stencils and bill me for that because I'd really love one. Hey Irene. Hey Katrina So this is from Mike deacon art comm There is the website there I'll try to remember to edit it into the video description afterwards and it is a fabulous stencil So go shopping he has stencils and all kinds of stuff go over to Mike deacon art comm and look around He's got some great stuff. I I'm all for supporting our local artists You know that in our community and I don't mean local in the actual like around the corner sense I mean local in our community sense. He is in the UK. I am in California. So we're not exactly local These are my stencils Mike has been helping me Professionally produce my own line of stencils for those that don't know yet Let's do the other two first These two are already available for purchase in my Etsy shop This is the arrows one the and these are my these are my actual working copies and this is the Face the meditative face one I've already nerfed up my stencil Because you know, that's what I do both of these are currently in stock here in my house and They are for sale in the Etsy shop the link to the Etsy shops in the description below I'd appreciate it if you guys go over there look around go shopping. I also currently have all of the stamp Sets in stock in cling mount. I don't have them all in stock and unmounted. That's fine though You can still order them that way and they will come To you drop shipped from the manufacturer. It takes a couple days extra but It's worth it if that's what you want to do it doesn't it doesn't cost you any extra money In fact, it saves you a little money to get them unmounted. It just takes a little extra time Thank you so much Okay, so these are brand new when I got this one It was because he was sending me a stock shipment of these and Two new prototypes and so he was sending me the stock shipment and the new prototypes I said Mike. Can you toss in a son for me, please? So here are the two new prototypes. I am going to be playing with them today and Ordering stock in the next day or two. These should be ready to come out for May This is the first one and This is one of my favorite doodles I've ever done it is available as a digital download in my Etsy shop and I Love it as a stencil. I've been playing with it and doing a DIY version of it And to have it properly properly laser cut it cut. I almost said cut it because that's proper English Is just fabulous and I can't I haven't had time since I got it which was just the other day But I'm gonna play with it today and I it I can already tell you I love this one I'm gonna make some more melted metallic paste and play with this because I think that might be great And here is the other one which is a feather Stencil Which is another favorite doodle of mine? I will be coming out with more faces I just don't want to bar you all with only faces. I've got a lot of designs there'll be two every month or so coming out for the next little bit and These two will be available soon As soon as I test them and approve them I will and I have the prototypes on order. I will Have these available for pre-order Not the prototypes the stock as soon as I order the stock I will put them available for pre-order in the Etsy shop And again the first two are are still in stock. So you can order either one of these already Okay. Oh good Lisa. Hey Mary. Hey Gerta So I want to make sure that I tell you all about that and you know Remind you to support not only myself in my Etsy shop, but your other local artists that you like most of us only do this if we don't have another job and Or if we do we're not making a lot of money So, you know, they call it starving artists for they don't call it that for nothing So, you know support them when you can and I think that's a great thing to do pay the karma forward I Also wanted to tell you really quick if you're getting into pouring medium and pouring acrylics and you're like me and you Want to use reusable cups to mix your paint in? Oh, yeah Katrina. I will hang on a second then I these little cups that I've been using are from Q tips from the dollar store and they make a great mixing cup and These which I really am not a fan of plastic palette knives You all know this if you've been watching any of my videos, you know, I recently purged a bunch of these out of my stock But these make great Stirrers for mixing your pouring paint And they're reusable so you're not using like a paper cup and a popsicle stick and then tossing it in the trash when you're done and I kind of like that so These plastic palette knives are some of them are on clearance at Michael's so you might want to check it out I got this for 49 cents And Katrina, I'm glad you said that because there's been a couple questions lately The design team video just came out on for this month came out on Saturday and I got a few questions What do you mean by unmounted versus cling mounted? So I'm gonna show you Let me show you let me pull one that I have Okay, the same design done both ways Okay, so Deb, thank you. I love the girl stencil too. I do have about six girls. So we're going to be Coming out with them slowly So I had to have a few faces and not all full front on summer profile And I have a couple like basic bare bones face so you can put the features down and then and then embellish it so Yeah, it's gonna be fun and Thank you for that you love. Can you use Mary you want to prop you could use a one ounce cup but It depends on if it's gonna be enough paint depends on the size of the canvas that you're pouring so I filled these about one third to halfway and I got two Eight by ten canvases out of it So it just depends on how big of a pour you're doing you're gonna have to experiment All right, so these this is one of my stamp collections. This is one of the first ones that I came out with Um God three years ago, can you believe that this is one of the first ones we came out with two or three years ago? I've lost track now, so I don't even know maybe one of you guys knows better than me and This is this is or was the most popular design the feather It's still pretty popular and this is what I mean by unmounted versus cling mounted This is an unmounted. I'm gonna just quickly open this So you can see So this particular set if you bought any of the designs unmounted They come like this you get a single sheet of unmounted deep-etched red rubber with all of the different designs on the single sheet and It's and it just just like this. It's gonna look like this and Then you need to mount it to cling mount foam and then cut them out Um You can use a product called easy mount You could of course mount them to cling mount foam and then Glue it to a wood block if you prefer wood block stamps I can order the stamps as wood block, but I no longer carry them in stock. They don't sell Well, that's just you know That was a money thing And for me, I don't know about you guys, but for me I prefer the cling mount. They're easier to store Then a bunch of wood block stamps, but I know there's some people some folks out there That's still prefer the wood block of course now getting us back in here is a pain in the neck So I do have a few of the unmounted in stock. I do carry them I don't carry as much of them as the cling mount which is The more popular way Hi, Eve. No, you're not late So yeah, so if you put them on the easy mount and then you cut them out Then they will stick to an acrylic block and they they will look something like this set. You just have to do it yourself This sets already done that they've already mounted it on the easy mount foam for you and they've already die-cut it and Then you just take them off and you stick them to your acrylic block Yeah, I'm old CD or DVD boxes are the best way to store these and honestly, that's how I store mine most of mine, I also have a binder full of The Ranger they have their stamp pockets and I have a binder with them in there and I have my Set of stamps from my design line in that binder so I can just pull it It's me. It's just because I'm lazy. It's an easy thing. I can Pull the whole binder down when I'm working on a design team video So so that's the difference getting a sheet of plain unmounted red rubber versus having and having to mount them And then cut them out versus having it done already So when you're paying the extra a few bucks to get them this way That's why because they're already die-cut them and mounted them for you Yeah, so I really prefer to have them clean mounted rather than have to do it myself.  I'm just lazy to be honest Alrighty So we got all those questions and comments and concerns of the way and yeah, Mary you could start out with doing the one ounce Cups and do a mini pour and maybe practice on one of these, you know Maybe not this small, but you could get a four by four canvas I've got a bunch of these in different sizes, but and do a mini pour Go look yet and Marie Ritterhoff's channel and also there's a new one. I just heard of this morning called Danny Clark And he does they both do lots of acrylic pours Okay, we're going to use my mixed palette this morning, which has in it Quar Windsor Newton grumbocker Schminke and Van Gogh Just because it was easy for me to get a hold of this morning And this is going to be my inspiration face this morning This is the current issue of W magazine which came in the mail just the other day This is the May issue. I really like the way the lights hitting her face and her the proportion of her features so So we're gonna use that I'm gonna prop it up off camera because you don't really need to see that I don't think Yeah, if everybody could give the video a thumbs up like share and subscribe if you would that would be fabulous I'm gonna get all these wet and They can just sit kind of marinating while we're talking about what we're doing in Acrylic pours are very addicting Gerda. I'm having a lot of fun with them I've got to say and I'm looking forward to experimenting with the different Formulas for creating the pouring paint. I'm gonna be practicing with adding alcohol to the paint seeing what that does I know some people add it. I don't understand quite why so I'm gonna play I Have an overabundance of paint in my room big surprise. I know And so, you know, it's gonna be a great way to use up some of it And you're welcome Katrina alright so I took my little journal the other day in between waiting for acrylic pours to dry and I took our new neon and brights palette and I just randomly put some on this page and there's still some Salt stuck to here and let me get it off and I got the page wet and then I put some of the paint down and then I just and then while it was wet I sprinkled salt in it and then I let it dry. So if you sprinkle salt in it And I'm gonna zoom in so you guys can see Okay, if you sprinkle salt in it you get this pattern here in the paint Because the salt will pick up and absorb some of the water and the pigment. These are watercolors. Yeah, Katrina So you get this interesting sort of brightly colored textured background Which is what I wanted and we're gonna try something that I've really old I've done as them as a mixed media piece After by the way, you have to let the paint dry naturally So you just set the whole thing aside to dry and then you just rub off the salt And it tends to want to stick to the paper so I think there's a few random bits here and there But we're gonna leave them Yeah, I saw Anne-Marie Ritterhoff do that Gerda and that looked really interesting Okay, so I've tried what we're gonna do on here as a mixed media Within a group brightly a bright acrylic background and then putting charcoal on top. I've done it With different layers of different kinds of acrylic paint and ink. I've actually never done it in just watercolor. So I'm gonna give it a try. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna paint in a face Hopefully well, but you know, no I'm not gonna guarantee anything and we are gonna paint it in with the dark tones and We are gonna leave these bright tones peeping through We may also try a watercolor hack so I'm gonna get one of these out in case I need it This is a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.   Okay, so The next is deciding where to put her face and I kind of really want it over here So I just I want to Sort of sketch in some features Yeah, Paula, you haven't missed a lot. We were just talking about my stencil line and Mike Deakins Stencil line and that sort of thing. I you know what I can get The Stabilo pencils at my local art shop, but they don't always have them in stock so I find myself just Doing the easy thing and getting them from Amazon to be honest It really is the easiest way to get stuff sometimes I'm not looking at the chat right now. So if anybody's asked me a question that I haven't answered that would be why I'm just I'm looking at her face and I'm kind of rough sketching in Her features. I'm not worried about exact proportions matching exactly her face her face's inspiration That being said if you are worried about it, you can always use Some artists transfer paper To transfer laying the photo over your journal page and transfer her her face that way There's a little piece of salt right there Now this pencil again is water soluble. So it's gonna mix with whatever I Water whatever I put on there. So here's our pencil sketch Okay Yes, Paula, you are spelling it correctly and the Stabilo all pencil comes in black graphite Red blue yellow and green and It is I don't know who it's by just says Stabilo Aquarellable Derwent any any water soluble pencil when you aren't sure about wanting the lines to stay now as you all know If you've been watching me for a while, I don't always care if the lines day or not So sometimes I just use a regular pencil Use what you have. Don't feel like you have to go out and buy anything special Okay, so we're gonna get our brushes wet And we're gonna start with the bigger of the brush and we're gonna start with our So we've already got our bright warm sunny colors on here So we're gonna start with the shade shadow colors, which is backwards from how I've been telling you guys to paint with watercolor So we're gonna start with our lightest warmest shadow color Um, I probably the one you're gonna use the most is black. I like the graphite But probably the one that you're gonna use the most is black So I'm gonna start with raw umber Which is sort of a golden brown color I'm gonna put my plate over here so you can see it try to keep our sponge clean and I'm using her picture for reference for shadow and light, right? So I'm going to this is my Lightest shadow color I'm gonna put a little bit on and then I'm gonna come in with just water and That graphite stabilo pencil will mix with The water and the paint and that's okay It's one of the things I like about it and I can tell you already that this pet for this painting this pen What is this this paint brush? It's not working for me. I'm gonna switch back to a filbert Filbert's an old favorite style brush of mine, whether I'm painting in acrylics or watercolor It seems to be one I go back to quite often So again, I'm I'm looking at the photo. I am looking at where the shadows are in her photo and I am Adding some of this raw umber To the painting in those areas to just try to bring out her features the idea as I said is to Leave the bright colored background that's already there. We've already got the Shadows there. It's a backwards from how I normally paint, but I thought it would be an interesting challenge The photo is from the cover of W magazine You can do this with any reference photo of any face that you find interesting that exact photo doesn't matter But this is the photo that we're using this is the current issue of W magazine, which I do subscribe to Um, there we go. I do subscribe to it's a great magazine for collage images But you could do this technique with any photo So I want to already test our sponge Wow, okay, just FYI the magic eraser sponge does work It's pulling up some of the blue in the background that was down there on Yeah, it's Wonder Woman that was down there since Monday Holy moly. Okay. So FYI The magic eraser does work. Wow. Okay Good to know So that hack works All right, so now we're gonna go with Davey's gray, which is a green gray Hey B Okay, we don't want to get too far Before we get in here with water. Yeah, Mary. I really you know, I figured it was one of those Pinterest hacks That honestly pardon my French was a load of crap Um, that's interesting to know that it actually is not um I didn't expect that The magic eraser is very interesting. It's more interesting than I thought it was going to be So it definitely picked up some of the blue that was in her forehead Which has been down there since Monday So it was well and good and dry So I'm switching back for a second to the raw umber Just for a second We're gonna add some shading to her lips My stomach is grumbly And no, if you caught that I didn't clean my brush off. I just went ahead and grabbed the other color You don't always have to clean your brush off The magic eraser is from the dollar store. It's something that you use to clean stains off of things It's in their cleaning supplies aisle It's a household cleaning tool Which is why I kind of thought, you know, there's no way really that's not gonna work I thought it was full of bologna But I was wrong Yeah bleach would work Bleach. Yeah, bleach bleach work bleach bleach is interesting to use if you haven't used bleach on Your artwork of any sort yet. Um, I would recommend giving it a try because it's interesting So I I'm just Playing with the shadows and you know at some point It'll start to come together. Hopefully We'll see hopefully Now if you start to lose some of your like reference lines and you're worried about that You can um, you know go back in Okay, um, the smell will eventually go away. Kathy. It just takes a little while So, yeah magic sponge mad magic eraser. That's just a brand name So any of these like cleaning magic cleaning spudges they used to get like stains off the wall and the kitchen and stuff like that Evidently. Yes, they really do work for lifting watercolor paint Which I didn't expect would happen. I'm gonna go in now with some indigo, which is as those of you who know dark blue That's really dark. We're gonna add some water to it Yeah, so check out the household department And when we were in the art chat yesterday with some of the ladies from my year 2017 And other groups we have the group that meets every tuesday Um, and we just hang out and do art and chit chat Um, we were discussing the benefits of also hitting the makeup supply aisle and getting um You know, um eyelash Brushes clean unused eyebrow brushes and eyelash brushes like spoolies And some of those kind of things and using those in your art because they make interesting marks Okay, so this is the again, this is the indigo. I'm not going to go too far again Before I come back with water And make things more sort of blendy and suggestive, right Okay, I will admit to you guys. I think this is a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be I don't know why I always think these things are not going to be fun Probably because I don't think they're going to be fun to do on camera I was wrong again So i'm doing the hair because i'm just giving kind of her face a little time to dry A little bit So i'm with you guys. I'm really loving the way she's turning out at which I didn't expect so I already said that though And you could keep at this and really you know get as detailed as you want Um, you all know, I'm not one for tons of detail She has fabulous eyebrows. I'm just not gonna I don't know that I'm going to do them justice But she has fabulous eyebrows She's really a beautiful woman and I think that's why I was so attracted to doing this Her face on here I took one look at the her the cover shot one. Hmm. I think I have to paint that I'm not looking at the chat if why I So when you're doing something like this and you're really trying hard to be suggestive You know the one thing you don't want to do is Let the paint sit for too long before you get back with the water and um do some blending And um spreading out of the pigment Um, although if you do make a mistake evidently as we just found I'll just found out what you can use a magic eraser to fix it So That's good to know Just really works like a charm You just put it on there and just sucks all the water up Okay, so let me catch up on the chat Hey, Barbara So paula the only secret I can tell you is I paint a lot Uh practice Um, I will tell you if you guys want to get better at the suggestive painting thing Out about really being expressive in your paint. I definitely can if you have it in your budget recommend one particular Uh teacher who does teach in person and online her name is pauline agnew Her link is not in the description. Um, she's from ireland. I can give it to you All those who would like it um She's a really fabulous teacher And I learned a lot from taking her classes Okay, oh, I don't know about that I never make mistakes. I don't know. Maybe I just don't show you guys So this is a mole skin watercolor journal and it is 140 pound cold press Which is my preference. I like the texture on the cold press paper Um, I have a pentallic, but I haven't used it yet. I got one for christmas. This is a mole skin I've been trying to kind of fill this one up first But I've heard good things about the pentallic journals Um, you know paula, I don't remember she has a few different online courses Some are in abstract painting. Some are um Figure work flowers. She's got different ones. You have to go look look it up Yeah, this is 140 pound pretty sure it's 140 pound I don't think I have the I don't think I stuck the label in the cover But it is definitely a mole skin. All right, so let's keep going and let's go to neutral tint Which which is like a transparent black It's more purpley than the blue of the indigo. So Yeah, paula, remind me. Send me a um An email or or a p.m. Over on facebook I know if you have it in your in your budget. She's about to have a class in spain I don't quite have that in my budget, but wouldn't that be nice? She's really great to take a live in person class with So again, we're just going to those shadows spots. We're making them darker By adding those cooler colors Trying to do it and challenge ourselves to do it without adding black That's the easy way to do it um, but that's Um, not necessarily the way I like to do it going to let's see Oh, it's 135 Thank you for looking it up I know that I'm really happy with the paper. It does warp a little bit as it dries, but it is really nice Yeah, it's really it's really nice. It's a really nice paper to work on Now because we're usually using mostly transparent watercolors. You're able to see hints of the other colors underneath Which is nice and I love that Yeah in spain she does classes in spain ireland. She does come to the united states Um, I don't know what her schedule is for the next year Um, I have taken a class with her here in california, which was a lot of fun But I found out about her Um online and my first class I took with her was online So again, we're not going to get too far on the areas where we want to Um, you know blend it out and make the color lighter in tone You don't want to let it dry on there too far before you get in there with the water Okay, let's see Love the moleskin. I haven't tried the pentallic yet, but Yeah, I I'm with you mary. Let's all pack and go to spain.  I'm going to use dioxazine purple purples are really good Shadow color. I'm going to just put it here where I had the neutral tint Which isn't really honestly going to do too much to it No, um, eve there's something about the way they make these magic sponges Or these cleaning sponges. It's different texture And material than a regular sponge A regular sponge will lift up some of the paint if it's wet, but it won't take it off like this one I I don't I couldn't have gotten the paper white, but I would have gotten it really close and I just Add some more shadow in depth to it and really make things pop So one of the tricks to painting faces that I use when I because I mostly do suggestive faces Is if you're not sure of the proportions and you want to kind of hide the fact that they might be off a little bit Make sure the edge of the face is blended into the background and Like with a lot of my budas that started out because I wasn't sure of the proportions now It's just something I just do but If you do that, then the edge of the face is less Obvious and if it's off a little bit, that's also less obvious And at some point I always forget to keep looking at the inspiration photo. This particular painting is no exception I'm already just painting and having fun and forgetting to look at her photo That's not unusual It's not necessarily a bad thing either because at some point it should be become about your painting um And having fun with the process and the art and not really about a photo Yeah, I don't know how they make these or what's in these But I do I do know that you wouldn't have gotten the same kind of lifting with a regular sponge So you need to look at dimples as any other feature on the face Look at where the shadows and highlights are and paint it that way paint What you see not what you think you see Yeah, paul. I want to go like do urban sketching and and also go Do like an art class like overseas like take one not be the teacher Thank you. Oh katrina. All right. Have a good evening. Good studying. Good Um Good luck with whatever it is that you're studying And thank you, mary Okay, so we do need to come and dry this and I need my trusty white gel pen So let's dry this Okay, so her nose got a little dark. So let's let's test this a bit And let's go in with our magic eraser That's just Oh my god, you guys I am just blown away by how well that works.  It does work. I can't believe it Yeah, only like three colors We're not quite done yet, but we're getting close Okay, so one thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take my really big brush And a bunch of these colors that I have on the palette And I'm going to tone down the area around her This is something I do with my buda paintings a lot I'm not necessarily looking to make it black Um, okay, that's just crazy how that works It'll leave some stating behind but Who would have thunk it magic erasers now now everybody's you're all going to be Like raiding your cleaning supply cabinet It's pretty funny So it's not about the background. It's about her face So I want to neutralize some of the background so her face Stands out more and this is something I do when I paint a buda in acrylic paint also Um, I really want her to stand out, of course These you can get a box like this of them. How many is in here? I mean, I just bought a whole box because I do use them around the house This is four pads. I think it was like $2.99 or $3.99. I think I got it at Target I mean, I only need one in the art room because I just cut a wedge of it off So that one sponge is going to last you a while They do have a generic brand of these Mary at the dollar tree So I would my dollar tree happened to be out of them, which is why I bought them somewhere else So I I would tell you all to go to your dollar store and see if they have one So let's see where the highlights are wearing her eyes And let's add them back in because we kind of lost them a little bit and I'm going to add some other Like white highlights white Make, you know, pop out some of the white Now this is gel pen So if you get too much on there or you're not, you know, quite happy with the lines Get in there with a damp finger right away and you'll be able to Get it off there blend it in I'll give you guys a close-up in just a minute Like super close-up shot I am going to add some of the white gel pen to her eyes to, you know, sort of bring out the Whites of the eyes that you kind of because the paper there was no white on the paper So I won't even say that we lost it. It wasn't there to begin with Okay, and then I'm also going to come in with my back with my pencil You know, and I haven't used any materials that are, you know, unusual Hard to find hard to get These are all simple materials and, you know, as far as the watercolor paints, which I get asked about a lot They don't have to be anything fancy I've told you all that Get what you can afford and if you don't know if you're going to like watercolor Don't go immediately investing in, you know, a bunch of expensive paints if you're not sure you're going to even like them So I'm just choosing some spots on her face Eyes and bring out her features She's really really good-looking Yes, this is the Mr. Clean one Um, and there's but there's different brands and there's now the generic brands of these around So I would say get what you can afford go to your dollar store and see if they have it first The list what is the list Mary? So i'm going to take a black pen Yeah, so you can get I my store for whatever reason didn't have just one sponge You used to be able to just get one sponge now. They only have like boxes of four But I think the dollar tree has boxes of two Thank you so much paula Um, I do teach a few lessons. I have a few recorded lessons I'm thinking about doing like live lessons with people via google hangout Um, but I don't know if there's any interest how much to charge Any of that mostly I just teach here on youtube Um, I do some watercolor tutorials in my year 2017 not all the time, but yeah, I do do them I do them here every week There is a section on my website called the classroom and any of my tutorials that I have filmed in the past Including my portion only of Crazy island university and there's a watercolor course all of them are in there you can pick and choose which ones you want to But get um, I always forget that it's on my website So if you guys have forgotten don't feel bad because it's my website and I forgot um But you pay for the class and then I send you the link to the place where you can download all of the Video and keep once you've paid for the class Yeah, I use like the things that go under Paper plates like a picnic to stiffen the paper plate those make great stencils. There's all kinds of stuff if you look Outside of the stationary and art supply section at your local store There's all kinds of stuff you can use in art to make marks and all kinds of fun things Okay, so I'm going to I want to do some journaling over here. This is damp though. Let's try it If I've missed any questions, um type them now while I'm drying. Oh, that's too funny mary I have a got to get it list too like a dream wish list I want a macro lens for my cell phone I want um, I saw this leather like tablet case that I could probably fit my ipad Um and my kindle and my phone and the cables and stuff in for like when I'm traveling and teaching Like things like that, but none of them are super cheap. Like they're all expensive Okay, let's see I love that She turned out so much better than I thought she was going to I got to be honest I thought it was an interesting experiment, but I had no idea what was going to come out of it Yeah, Kathy. I love making art um, and I love making supplies for you guys, but um I do the etsy shop because it's easy. My website is able to sell things on it, but web the um Etsy shop is easier for some things. Thank you so much You're paula you're safe place paula if you're safe places like mine, you know, you might never find them till you're moving The pink was already on the page The bright colors that you see poking through were from the Brights and neon palette that I just put together last week Now this is a technique. I've done in acrylic many times I've started with a piece of paper that has neon colored paint Just randomly smeared all over the background and then you put on top of it your dark colors Okay, so for instance one way you could have done this if you were doing it in acrylic You put the neon colors down in the background. Let it dry completely Come back to it after it's dry With some black charcoal Cover the whole thing in black charcoal and then using an eraser and or paper towels um Lifting up the charcoal in the right places to reveal the figure or face You also can do it with black paint On top, but I would recommend adding glazing fluid or Airbrush medium to the black paint. So you have lots of time before the paint dries to lift it up And I've done it that way many times. I've never done it this way with watercolor. This was a lot of fun I'll be doing this again The charcoal one is a lot of fun.  You can always go back and put some on you can highlight certain things with uh chalk pastels So the charcoal on top of the acrylic paint is a lot of fun and pauline has a lesson in her figures class Where she at least she used to Have a lesson where she taught that I don't know if she still does or not Thank you I understood mary. No worries. I'm the queen of miss smelling things in case you haven't noticed So yeah, I will um Send whoever wants the link to pauline agnew's website and her class listing. Um, if you Uh, private message me here on youtube or email me my email is in the description of the video Um, or p.m. Me over on facebook if we're friends on facebook and I will give you her link Um, I don't remember how much her classes are. Um, they're not super cheap But they're not the most expensive out there either I can tell you that whatever she charges is well worth it. She gives kind gentle helpful constructive criticism when asked She has a really great facebook group that you can go in and hang out with other Student former students And if you are blessed to take a class with her in person She's really a great lady I'm a big fan in case you haven't noticed All right, that's it for today Um, I hope that um, you all found this interesting I was going to film this as a separate video, but I'm not going to now because we tried it, but yeah, uh pinterest art hack Uh magic erasers. Do they lift watercolor? The answer is yes Yes, yes, yes All right, and if you have other art hacks you want me to try Send them to me. Let me know I'm shopping my etsy store if you can support your local artists, of course myself included If you can't please don't forget to like share and subscribe This video and my youtube channel. We're really working hard right now to get to 10 000 subscribers this year I'm at 7800 and counting and we are at 800 000 views here on youtube. So woohoo Um, we are working hard to get that number up though. So let's see what we can do If you're not a member of one of my facebook groups What would like to be you want to send me um happy mail email all of that stuff's in the description Check it out link for the etsy shop all that stuff The most important thing Is to go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it Play with your watercolors. Try something new. Is there a technique that you've Um done in another kind of medium and you're wondering if it would work in watercolor There's only one way to know give it a try. Thank you, latisha By mary by girda by paula by everybody by lisa All right, I will talk to you all later. Bye guys. Bye eve