Hi friends welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach. I'm on weight watchers and I count calories and macros. Happy Sunday. It's Sunday so we always do a really fun kind of different video on Sundays and today's video I'm really excited about because it's all about snacks and I'm going to be sharing with you some healthy snacks that I have discovered for the new year. If you follow me here on my channel you know that I've lost over 136 pounds. I am right about at my goal weight and my goals for 2023 are to not only clean up my diet but get lean and strong. So I'm looking for some snack foods that have good ingredients that are healthy so that I can have healthy snacks on hand and I have a lot to share with you today.  Make sure you're subscribed and your bell is turned on because I upload five videos a week and like I said we always do something kind of fun on Sundays. Down in the description box you will find nutrition coaching where I offer personalized to you macros and calories. Highly highly recommend. This is how I've been very successful in my weight loss and I have one-on-one coaching. If you would like to talk with me directly links and discounts to my other favorite healthy things and come join our Facebook group we would love to have you. I have two bags of healthy snacks so let's jump in. I like what healthy snack video doesn't involve a taste test. I know that you guys like when I taste test products on camera so I can give you my first impressions. None of the items that I picked up for today's video I've tried in the past so this is going to be a true first impression taste test. I'm going to share with you all of the points for all of the healthy snacks. We'll talk about the calories the macros. We're going to deep dive into these snacks and we're going to taste test every single one of them. Lucky for me I'm a little bit hungry and I could definitely use a snack. Let's jump into healthy snack number one. First up are these perfect bars. So these are actually the snack size perfect bars I picked mine up in dark chocolate chip peanut butter with sea salt. Now these are actually in the refrigerated section of your grocery store by the yogurt. Now typically the perfect bar is pretty high in calories pretty high in points but the snack size are really really good when it comes to their macro profile so each bar has 130 calories. You're going to get six grams of protein which is nothing to sneeze at for 130 calories and like I said they are in the refrigerated section so you do need to keep them cold so they're not really a portable snack unless you're going to eat them relatively quickly after leaving your home but you could certainly leave these in a refrigerator at your workplace or anywhere that you are able to keep them cold. I just pulled these little guys out of my fridge. These are so adorable. So here's what the bar looks like. These look really good. They smell very peanut buttery. These are really good peanut butter forward. I mean really good intense peanut butter flavor. I love the crunch and sweetness of the chocolate chips. These are really really good. These would be a really good dessert option because they are a little bit on the sweeter side or if you're kind of craving something sweet in the afternoon this would be a great option. You do get eight bars in the box and again you just find those in your refrigerated section of your grocery store. The other thing I found by the yogurt are these chobani complete drinkable yogurt shakes. Now I have heard a lot of things about these and I've never tried them. Now they are a little bit high in calories. There is 200 calories per container but there is 25 grams of protein and it says zero added sugar, 25 grams of complete protein, no lactose. So if you're sensitive to lactose this is a good option. Billions of probiotics and nine essential amino acids. I did pick mine up in the flavor banana cream. Oh wow. That is really really delicious. It has a little bit of the tang of the yogurt but it really reminds me of the chobani Greek yogurt in liquid form. That's exactly what it tastes like. The banana flavor is really really good in this. This would make an excellent snack. We typically want to keep our snacks between about 150 and 250 calories and the fact that this has 25 grams of protein actually makes this a really good snack and it tastes pretty darn delicious. Next up are these Nola bars. Now I found these at Sprouts. These were buy one get one free and I believe they were $10 a box which is pretty pricey but with the buy one get one free it was $5 per box. There's four bars so it's a little over a dollar per bar and they range from 130 calories to 150 calories. This one has three grams of protein. This one has six grams of protein. So these are keto bars and typically keto products are generally a little bit higher in fat so I don't consume a lot of keto marketed products. Not to mention they're really expensive because they put the word keto on there which could be the case with these. These do have 12 grams of fat 11 grams and 12 grams so they are a little bit higher in fat but the good thing about healthy fat is it keeps you full in pairing that with the protein and do we have fiber. Yes we have five grams of fiber in this one eight grams in this one so that actually makes these a really really well rounded bar. So here is what they look like and the first one we're going to try is the white chocolate macadamia nut. Oh look how good that looks. There's little white chocolate chips on top. Smells really good. Wow. These are so good. Oh my gosh absolutely delicious. It is kind of ooey gooey like caramelized buttery. Wow these are really good. Perfect keto nola bars deliciously deliver keto carb conscious fuel so you can conquer your day indulge in decadent white chocolate and macadamia nuts in a convenient chewy bar. Wow that's real good. That is really good. So they are sweetened with stevia but I don't get any aftertaste at all. I mean they're really really delicious. Now we're going to try the peanut butter one. Look at that. You know what this reminds me of? A payday. The payday candy bars. That's what this looks like. That's also what it smells like and tastes like. Oh my goodness. Payday. Payday candy bar right here. Delicious. Absolutely absolutely delicious. 10 out of 10 recommend. Now these I found at Walmart and I've seen these a few times in store and I've put them in my cart, taken them out of my cart and I thought if we're going to do a healthy taste test snack video we need to pick these up finally. These are from the brand Junkless and I grabbed the peanut butter chocolate chip chewy granola bars. It says no hydrogenated oils, no high fructose corn syrup, no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives, no fake stuff. There's six grams of sugar per bar, 130 calories and three grams of protein. So not a super high protein bar which is fine because typically granola bars aren't meant to be a protein bar. This is more of just a snack bar and if you love granola bars this is going to be a healthy option. So here is what they look like. Reminds me of the Quaker granola bars, the chewy ones. Smells really good. Yummy. Really really good. Wow. This says real food for real people. At Junkless Foods we believe great tasting snacks can be made simply without all the complexity excess baggage that comes from a lab.  At Junkless we've gone back to basics by using some whole ingredients that your family will love and trust and you can actually pronounce EA. It's really good. I mean it's really really good. So what's in here is whole grain rolled oats, brown rice syrup, natural peanut butter, rice crisps, dark chocolate chips, non-GMO, canola oil and salt. That's it. Nice clean ingredients and a much much better alternative than the Quaker chewy bars. Here's another thing I grabbed at Walmart. I actually heard about these on someone's YouTube channel. I think it was Alexandra Rodriguez here on YouTube. I'll link her channel down below. She was talking about these Kodiak chewy granola bars. These actually have seven grams of protein and I picked up the dark chocolate. There are 140 calories and again seven grams of protein which is pretty darn good for a granola bar. It's over double what was in those Junkless ones. Here is what it looks like. Now this one is definitely thicker and larger than the Junkless. It does have only about it only has 10 more calories as well. So let's taste it so we can compare. Impressive. Really good. I don't taste any protein like protein after taste or anything. It's very chocolatey, very chewy. Actually really great as well. I mean either one of these granola bars are great options. If you're looking for a little more protein, grab the Kodiak. If you just want kind of a sweet, take you back to your childhood Quaker granola bar. Grab the Junkless but they're both excellent. I talk about simple meals a lot in my grocery haul because I really, really enjoy this brand. They have really clean ingredients and I thought I would grab a sweet treat from them. I generally buy their crackers. I love all of their crackers. Their rosemary ones are amazing. Their black salt and pepper. So I grabbed the seed and nut flour sweetfins and mint chocolate because you already know I love mint anything. When I say clean ingredients in these, I mean clean ingredients. Here's your ingredients in here. Seed and nut flour blend including watermelon, cashew, sunflower and flax flour. Interesting watermelon flour. Coconut sugar, tapioca starch, arrowroot, cocoa butter, Dutch cocoa powder, cocoa extract, baking soda, rosemary extract for freshness, sea salt, peppermint extract, and cream of tartar. That's it and you actually get 12 cookies for 140 calories and you get three grams of protein which is not bad for a cracker slash cookie combo. So here's the size of them. Not bad at all. You could even have to serving and have six of them and that's going to break your points in half as well. My mint dreams. My mint chocolate dreams. You know what these taste like? These literally taste like the thin mint cookies from Girl Scout. They're crunchy. They're chocolatey. They're minty. I really like these. I think these may be a new go-to healthy snack for me. So far, I feel like we have really nailed it with these healthy snacks. I'm so excited about these. Here's another one that I found at Sprouts. These are the rice bar with two eyes. The rice bar and I have mine in cocoa or chocolate orange. They're 93 calories per bar and they are crispy puffed rice bars. There's five of them in the package. They're like I said 93 calories apiece.  So again, this is going to be a sweet treat. This is going to be a bar you could pair with some protein like a hard boiled egg or a cheese stick or maybe some meat. You can always enjoy these types of things and still get your protein in by pairing these with some type of healthy protein. So here's the size of the bar. They are pretty good size. They are fully and I mean fully covered in chocolate. They smell like those chocolate oranges that you get at Christmas which I love. This is like a chocolate covered rice cake. The crunch of a rice cake, the taste texture of a rice cake with the amazing orange flavor. Oh my gosh, the flavor is really good. Can you see that? It looks like a rice cake, legit rice cake. This is really good. This is a great sweet treat. If you love chocolate and orange and they actually had several different flavors, I'm definitely going to buy a few more. I mean 93 calories and this is a huge bar. It's literally a chocolate covered delicious rice cake. Next up are Chetties. If you've been following me for a while, you know that I used to buy Chetties all the time. I discovered them when I actually flew to Arizona to do the home inspection for the home that we ended up purchasing. I found these at Sprouts and was like, I need these. These are a cracker with protein and then they disappeared. Literally disappeared off the shelf. I went on their website. It said that they would be restocking in Sprouts in August and I just saw them now in January. Completely different packaging.  A few other changes is now they only have six grams of protein when before they had eight but nobody's complaining about six grams of protein in a cracker. You get an entire ounce of them. There's four servings per box for 130 calories and here's your ingredients in these. Wheat flour, organic cheddar cheese, corn starch, whey protein, cane sugar, onion powder and jasmine extract. That's it. I mean for crackers you're going to get a really clean option and six grams of protein. So here's what they look like. These look exactly like the Chetties that came in a bag. Please fingers crossed these are the same crackers because those were amazing. These are then. These are Chetties. I'm so happy these are back. Oh my gosh, I'm so happy. These were a complete go-to for me. They are a Cheez-It but better. They're crunchy and the cheese flavor of these is like is real cheese. It's not that fake cheese if you know, you know when it comes to cheeses. Not that I don't like cheeses but six grams of protein, clean ingredients. I'm seriously so happy that these are back and that I can buy these whenever I want to sprouts. Now these bars you guys recommended that I try several comments on these bars. These are keto bar again. Remember keto typically means high fat. These do have 12 grams of fat in them but these are from the brand Monk Pack and a lot of you said that I would really enjoy these because they're sweetened with monk fruit and I love Lakonto. You guys know I love their monk fruit. So I did grab the blueberry almond vanilla. There's one gram of sugar, three net carbs, five grams of protein. They are grain free and they are plant based, 140 calories per bar. Not bad at all.  Here is the size of them and they had four or five different flavors at sprouts and again I have the blueberry almond vanilla. Here's what it looks like. Doesn't that look so good? There's a little drizzle of frosting and the blueberry is just radiating from this bar. It's very strong blueberry scented. See you Monk Pack. I see you. This is delicious. I mean absolutely delicious. It's chewy. It's sweet. It's nutty. I get the crunch and texture of the nuts. It's sweetened with alulose which is a sweetener derived from figs and raisins. It's a really good natural sweetener and then there's also some monk fruit extract as well. Hence why they're called Monk Pack. This is really good. I mean absolutely delicious. A great option for a granola bar that's actually going to deliver you a decent amount of protein. Next up is bada bean bada boom. Now I used to buy these all the time. Actually when I was only doing weight watchers I would pick these up a lot because they usually sell bada bean bada boom at gas stations. Well they've repackaged because this is definitely new packaging so I thought I'd try them again. It's been several years. This is the sea salt and you get one out. It's 110 calories and there is six grams of protein and basically what these are is fava beans or broad beans. So it says broad beans with plant-based protein and fiber roasted for crunch season two perfection. So I'm excited to try these. It's been such a long time. I don't even remember what they taste like. I just remember them being really crunchy kind of like a corn nut. So here's what they look like. Those are really good. I get salty. I get crunchy. They're good. They don't taste like beans at all. They definitely give me a little bit more of a corn nut vibe. Really good. They're also vegan non-gmo and gluten-free. Now I love being a chickpeas. This is another thing I like to buy a lot are chickpeas, roasted chickpeas, chickpea snacks because they're really high in protein and they're just another good crunchy healthier alternative to a crunchy snack like a chip. I saw that they had the Vienna Super Crunch Schoolhouse Classic. So this is a trail mix and you guys know I love trail mix. That's another snack I really love and this one contains Vienna chickpeas, dark chocolate gems, fava crisps and pretzels made with dark chocolate four grams of protein and 60% less sugar. It says peanut free 100% plant based. So one ounce is 120 calories. There is five grams of fat and again four grams of protein and two grams of fiber. Let me shake this up. So when it comes to trail mix that's actually really good macros and points for trail mix. We got all our pretzels on top. Let me kind of dig down here. So here it is. It looks really good. Smells really good. Sweet, salty. Oh these are really good and you're actually getting chickpeas and fava crisps which are both really good sources of plant based protein. Again an excellent, excellent alternative to traditional trail mix. A much better nutrient profile and much healthier ingredients. Another thing I found at Walmart were wisps. Now I've tried wisps in the past but I've never tried this flavor and you guys know I don't like spicy but I love pepper jack cheese. Explain that one to me but pepper jack cheese is my favorite. So when I saw this I'm like yes we have to try this. These are the Asiago and pepper jack cheese crisps. 12 grams of protein, one gram of carb, zero sugar, gluten and lactose free. So one serving which is 19 wisps. I would probably have half of that especially if I'm going to put these on my salad which spoiler alert is amazing. You don't even need necessarily a full serving but 19 of them is 150 calories. 12 grams of protein. That's an excellent distribution of macros, calories versus protein. So here is what they look like. Just your traditional parmesan wisps. They smell really good. I get the parmesan and then it kicks in with the Asiago with the pepper jack cheese and it's just a little bit of spice. Definitely doable for a spice wimp like myself but the flavor of the pepper jack is there. Oh my goodness. These are delicious. Such a great high protein snack option. Right next to the wisps at Walmart were these. These are the 34 degree crisps.  They're made with coconut oil and there's only one gram of sugar per sweet crisp. Now there's 13 crisps in a serving. So if you ate 13 of them that's 13 grams of sugar. That's a decent amount of sugar. It's 120 calories and two grams of protein. These are designed more to be a sweet treat. Not something high in protein. They look really good. Look at these. These are so cute. So this is one of them. They are really, really good size and again one gram of sugar per crisp. So good. They're so crispy and light and lemony. They remind me of lemon meringue pie. Kind of the crust part of lemon meringue pie. They're really good. I mean absolutely delicious. There's a ton of them in here. This says that 13 cracks is a serving with 12 grams of sugar. So it's a little less than one gram per crisp. You could have half of a serving and it would be just a great sweet treat. Something that gives you a crisp factor. A lot of people like sweets also like that bit of a crisp and this is the perfect combination. Next up is Navitas Organics. I was really excited when I saw these at Sprouts. These are the Superfood PB&J plant-based organic power snacks. So this has peanuts, strawberries, dates, delicious berry, and nut bites and contains six different superfoods. That you can have two of them for 70 calories. So that's amazing. It's only one gram of protein and two grams of fiber. The ingredients in these are so good. Like super, super, super clean. Here's what they look like. I mean they are really good size. So this is 35 calories. Smell really good. Delicious. Oh my goodness. So good. Very date forward which I love dates. Dates are such a great natural sweet treat. I taste the strawberry. I get the texture of the strawberry and the peanuts give it a nice nutty crunch. This is really, really delicious. On the back here it says nutrition on the go. Real food ingredients and the best in flavor and texture. They're organic, non-GMO, kosher, gluten-free, and vegan. They were a little pricey. I want to say eight dollars. Eight dollars and 50 cents. But it's worth spending a little extra money to put good things in our body. Now let's talk potato chips because I know a lot of you, unlike me, I'm a sweets eater. I do like good chip too though, but I would pick a sweet over a chip. A lot of you are chip eater. So I wanted to show you a couple of healthy chip options. So this is from the brand L'Oailly. This is brand new to sprouts. They just got these in. These are the Fomino chips and I got mine in Tangy, Baobab, Onion, and Moringa. So I believe like sour cream and onion maybe. Thirteen chips is a serving for 130 calories. One gram of protein. They are potato-free, vegan, kosher, peanut-free, soy-free, and tree nut-free. There's no artificial flavors, no added colors, no preservatives, and no trans fat. So these are not made out of potatoes. They're made out of Fonio and Cassava. So I know that Cassava chips are really good. They're a potato chip replacement. I've never heard of Fonio. Okay, I'm really excited for these. They're interesting looking. They kind of give me cracker vibes. So here's what they look like. They smell amazing. Oh my goodness.  I'm surprised at how good these are. Definitely sour cream and onion. Crunchy, crispy. They remind me a little bit of a Pringle, but much healthier. Really, really good ingredients. Less calories, less fat. There's only six grams of fat per serving and you're also getting two grams of fiber and only one gram of sugar was zero added sugar. These are incredible. They have other flavors. I am 100% picking those up. And then the last snack, I don't need to taste test it because I eat these all the time. I discovered these when I went to San Diego and they are incredible. These are from I-1 Organics. They're the protein puffs. My favorite is caramelized onion. So good. There's seven grams of protein, which is amazing for a chip. They're baked. There's three grams of fiber. You can have an entire serving for 120 calories and it says gluten-free, non-GMO, soy-free, organic, kosher, and vegan. Let me show you what they look like. So this is the size of them. They look like a puffed Cheeto. They're so good. They're sweet. They're crunchy. If you love onion flavor, things like sour cream and onion or caramelized onion, you will love these. Thank you to my friend Kelly who recommended these when I was in San Diego because I haven't stopped buying them since. So I had to share them with you. So those are all of my healthy snacks. I was really excited to find so many healthy options at my local grocery store. Again, these are all from Sprouts and Walmart, but you can find these at several different grocery stores. Check your health food stores like Whole Foods, Natural Grocers. Check Kroger stores. They generally have a pretty wide selection of health foods. We don't have Aldi here, but I've heard that they offer quite a bit. Check around and see what you can find. You can also go on the brand's website and check their store locator. So for example, if you wanted to get the I-1 puffs, go on their website and see if there's a store locator that will tell you where you can find them nearby. But I would say that we batted 100%. Every single one of these is amazing and I feel really good about having these healthy snacks on hand.  Again, subscribe if you're not because I upload five videos a week and we do something fun like this every Sunday. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things. And don't forget, come join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. Here's to happy, healthy snacking and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.


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Brian It's going on guys. This is Jacob Schup filling in for Tom O'Brien. I believe he'll be back tomorrow Let's take a look at what we have going on in the markets today The ESMini up about 1.06 percent the Russell down slightly NQ's up 1.3 the YM up 0.7 percent gold We're seeing just a little bit of a pull down back in gold But of course we have seen this Meteoric rise in gold over the past Month, I would say well beginning March One minor that's super interesting to look at now harmonies down a little bit, but I mean this has been You know from around this time period something like a 48% rise it's nuts right I mean this is actually going back more into like December and stuff like that But this has done so well over a certain holding period that we've had Really impressive to see Some of the gold mining stocks do well new month now. We were down again today But again, I remember we were talking a little bit of you had a caller come in right around this level Again, this is on some lower volume coming down and then we just shot back up So it's good for the gold guys at the time being of course We're gonna have Tim Ord on a little later today And I'm sure he'll have plenty to say about where gold is going of course him and Tom We're calling this kind of move up in gold for quite a while and we saw it. I mean, that's pretty nice I mean check this out like all-time highs on this thing just right under that 2200 level Silver itself not doing as attractively just off about 1.68% right now still around that 2430 level copper Right under $4 on the contract crude He's getting locked out around this level at 77 69. This is nice, you know everything that we're looking at today It's important to look into the context of the CPI that had come out, right? And we'll take a look at that in a second here This was the commodity that I was worried about Right and now of course this is volatile. So it's not part of core CPI And I was concerned that we were gonna see increases in oil prices, right? And we really had and seeing these guys stick around these low 70s and then to shoot up and we've stayed Pretty consolidated in the 77 68 area And we're actually a little bit lower today as well. We can talk a little bit about why that's getting locked But first let's look at CPI Again, this is the CPI was a little bit higher, right? But the context of all this is not for may cuts, right? Obviously not for March cuts because we're already into March But believe the market had really been looking at a June cut, right? And some of this stuff with CPI was not bad Looking forward towards that Okay, so let's take a look at food Unchanged massive, right? This is this is pretty good food away from home about the same Let's take a look here energy commodities obviously up, right? This is a little bit what I was concerned about with it of 3.6. However, this is down on the 12 months adjusted Let me take a look at medical care services So down slightly for this which is positive Transportation up minorly. So I mean this is this is pretty good news, right? Owners equivalent rose only 0.4 percent on the month that was down from 0.6 percent in January you know This is all decent stuff, right if we're looking for a June rate cut, okay? And if we can maintain this kind of tight You know kind of program that we're on and we see inflation that not being as bad Month over month will be in a good situation and again, I think that's a lot of what this pricing in Is doing and of course if we get any rate Decreases, you know, we're off to the races as Tom says Quite interesting. Take a look at Tesla 178 80 There's some issues their autopilot along with some of their competitors had been tested by some body and they were received poor Ratings for all of it. Of course, this is in its nascent stage and I am sure we will see this This technology get better as we go on but additionally you're having a lot of competitors coming out of China with this And I think we'll see that become an issue for them in the coming years and Tesla is the best boys to my opinion to combat These new Chinese EVs that are about to be hitting like Europe and probably to some extent America unless we have some kind of Tariff on them or embargo against it, but Even Tesla themselves are saying they're they're worried about it, right? So, I mean, what does that kind of say for the rest of the industry steel dynamics? 131 of course some pretty volatile movements Up to 137 70 and great dollar has been down it cracked that 104 to 105 area And we were at 102 97. Of course, we are up a little bit right now But not a big deal in the cues up 1.3 4% 440 325. I mean even when you get some Hot CPI, right? I mean you still have the I mean obviously the cues are up today, right? Our futures are up the Russell just is doing Russell things But the NQ is up in the now futures. So, you know, I Think the market is pretty confident That we'll see a rate cut coming pretty soon. Give me one second to get my timer up All right Let's take a look at some stories. This is what I wanted to say regarding Tesla Oh, also, I want to say to if you because I just dealt with this beforehand and this is just an off thing but you know, we You know, we talk to some people from TD Ameritrade which is now Schwab Network and we use thinkorswim here I was having some issues logging into thinkorswim. It wasn't recognizing anything Even when I went to reset my password. So I was talking to the guy and what happens I guess sometimes it just became my my account name became locked because I logged in at too many different places So if you're experiencing that it is a pretty simple fix. You just got to know what to ask for Anyways, I thought I was gonna have a day without a training platform I was gonna figure out I was gonna do that All right, we'll take a look here. Tesla's autopilot and full self-driving technology and nine other assisted driving systems marketed by major Automakers received poor ratings from the US insurance Institute of highway safety in a new study released on Tuesday The double IHS a safety research arm of the insurance industry also said there's no evidence at the autopilot Or other assisted driving systems have real-world safety benefits based on crash Data, right? I would be really interested to see that crash data, right? Like is it, you know, how much of the autopilot was at fault regarding that? Yeah, I know there are some stories around what GM was trying to do in California, and they had some situations, but I believe the major one which is The the car hitting a pedestrian pedestrian actually was drunk and fell into the car So I'd be kind of interested to see how much of these autopilots, you know We're actually really at fault for it. We're able to look at insurance claims data We have been able to look at vehicles with and without these systems and determine There's no reduction in claims as a result of these more advanced systems and really okay So by comparison there's evidence that automatic emergency braking system cut rear-end collisions by 50% and cut incidents I have that on my car and it is grading, but it does work. Anyways, folks. Stay tuned. We'll be right back We have Basil Chapman on with us next


There are different perspectives to which quality of service can be defined from the service provider's viewpoint, from network's viewpoint, from customer's viewpoint, this is very intuitive. We have already covered the QoS perspectives from the ITUT perspective, from traffic engineering perspective, from network and user perspective. Now we are going to look at it in a more formal manner, that is the QoS management views. The QoS management views actually means that starting from the user to the network, from the service to the user again, what has been the overall quality of service experience that has been taken out of the network. So ITUT actually defines four viewpoints. These viewpoints are interrelated and we can actually understand the relationship established between one viewpoint and the other. It's a cyclic relationship. It starts with the customer's QoS requirement which is a static definition. It is the QoS level required by the subscriber. This is usually defined in the form of a service level agreement or contract. The network also makes a certain offering. Now this offering in terms of QoS is what the network provides or plans to provide or targets to provide. It includes specifics of QoS that are provided either by the service provider itself, by the network provider or by both. So this offering actually helps the user to become aware of the services it is going to get. Which in turn allows the customer to have a service level agreement or a contract with the service provider. Then it is also a declaration which is known as a public offering. Public offering is when the government is a witness to a contract that is established between a service provider and a service user. So this public offering is actually a QoS declaration that such kind of QoS is going to be expected by the subscribers. Then it also helps the organization or the service provider to plan a certain QoS and maintain that QoS. So this is once it has been declared then it becomes more of a compulsion for the service provider. And then for the service users or subscribers it also provides a means to compare the services coming from different service providers. So that if one service provider provides better QoS then the user can opt to stay on with that service provider and leave or terminate the contract with other service providers. Then there is another perspective, another view is the QoS actually can be achieved or delivered by the service provider. Now what offering a certain organization made to what actual QoS it was able to achieve or deliver to the customer. Now this is a measurement so it means it's a dynamic thing unlike the QoS that was declared by the service provider. Using that static declaration and this QoS measurement it can be used to see if the desired service is being provided to the user which was promised in the SLA. So this is basically a check which helps the corrective actions to be triggered once there is some discrepancy or deviation between the QoS that was offered and the QoS that is currently being provided. Then there is a customer perception of QoS. The customer perception actually is the post service delivery experience of the user in terms of approval ratings or the overall ranking or scoring of the service. Again it is a dynamic thing because a user might experience good service at one point in time and not a very good service at another. So it can again be used for comparison purposes. Now this helps the customer to make up his or her mind to stick on with the same service provider or move on to a new one. And this again basing upon the customer perception as in approval ratings helps the organization or a service provider to take corrective measures. Now these four viewpoints of the QoS are very well linked up in the form of a cycle that starts from top left that is customers QoS requirements and terminates with the customers perception of the QoS. It means the customer is eventually going to declare if it has realistic expectations or requirements from the service providers or if it needs to readjust or calibrate its requirements according to the experiences that it gets from a service provider or multiple service providers.


Welcome back to the review and today I want to take a look at volume five of how to think when you draw with Lorenzo. That's right, volume five. I have all of them. They're fantastic. I highly recommend them. You can only get them through the Kickstarter. So look at the Twitter or their social media, subscribe, they will tell you when the Kickstarter goes live and then you can get those books. You can't get them otherwise. You get lots of questions about how do I get them Kickstarter. That's how you do it. Now let's take a look at it. Back volume five will preview the spine and there you go. After all this time, you're starting to get a lot of materials. So they added this here. So if you look for something that tells you in which volume it is, definitely handy because there's a ton right now. You got character design, animals and monsters, vehicles and machines, elements, layout and composition. I love these natural world and world building. You got the intro and then you got chapter one character designs. So that's already cool for animators because it's always kind of going through an animator lens in terms of posing and structure, but it's always good for reference, just kind of how you have your hand poses and all that. It's cool stuff already. Four arms, again for structure, always handy. The more detail, muscles, biceps, definitely handy when you want to draw, which I can't, but that's why I love these books. They give me hope that going through these would be helpful to me. You got braids, plates, okay, it's not exactly animation related, but good detail we didn't have before. And then you have the expansion pack, more poses, but then you get some good expressions, especially here, lands and wrinkles. Then you got surprise expressions, definitely a bit more helpful for animation in terms of posing, just the facial expressions, great, asymmetry is nice, head and face shadows. Look at that. Good stuff there. There you go. Double page, shoe angles, got the expansion pack, sword angles. That's cool. Simplified skeleton, I like it. Got your double page here. Costume fit, interesting costumes, ponchos, that's about folding, chain mail, that's interesting. That's of course all new. Long skirts, a lot of clothing, these couple of pages. Then you have bending down, a couple more about posing and how your body is going to function as you get into all of these poses, like high kicks, that's cool. Cleming ladders, again body mechanics, angles, then you got chapter two, animals and monsters. Let's start with mice, nice line of action, that's super cute. Cute faces, cute poses, different designs, bats, get your flight cycle in there, different poses, again different designs, basic dogs, poses, structures, design, that's cool. Facial, there's a yawn in there, monkey and ape heads, dragon scales, that's cool, look at that, that's cool, I love that, that would be fun to animate right there. More double page, poor guy, it's very cool though. Small anthropomorphic characters, cute, get your walks in there, look at these designs, great reference, sharks, who doesn't love sharks, except when you're swimming with them, multi-limbed monsters, that's cool, that would be a pain to animate but really cool. Flaming eyes and hair, getting more into design here, then I love this one, vehicles and machines, robot heads, come on, that's cool, motorbikes in profile, tron vibes there, armored vehicles, spaceships based on birds, come on, what a topic, I like it. Chapter four, elements, waters flashes, cool for 2D effects, liquid metal, yeah, a terminator, particle effects, wall, fireworks, definitely new, leaves in the wind, give me a zaki thing here, avalanches, that's the trailer, remember that goes, avalanche, anyway, chapter five, layout and composition, it's great, that is always cool, especially these pages are great, salvaging shots, just for composition, it's great, already imagine your animation in there, love these, sound effects, that's cool, that's new too, obviously everything is new but that's an interesting addition, more sound effects, ominous composition, again, I love these kind of pages, dogfights, that could be for your spaceships, Star Wars and stuff, natural world, that's also interesting there, you're at a double page, bamboo, stylochemite and stylochetite here, pine trees, all naturey stuff, rivers, river banks, more rivers, landscapes in 3D, again, composition, just variety, just kind of interesting, more organic shapes when you do a little background for your animation, expansion pack, again, seascapes, chapter seven, world building, that's always cool, the weathering and the kind of organic nature of things not being clean, like that's cool, a lot of that stuff is added, especially in the Star Wars TV shows and or was actually very cool, definitely weather design versus some of the newer ones, like clean pristine designs, food packaging, anyway continue, curtain grapes, more lamb's bread, composing interiors, that's again cool, all like that, tree houses, kind of creepy, kind of cool, more tree houses, arched bridges, spooky houses, there's a documentary series on Disney Plus about how they build things at Disneyland and Haunted Mansion was part of that, embedded objects, destroyed buildings, more double page, Mayan temples, it really just covers so many things, that's cool, and then that is that, so they have the four and new things, here's 1% volume one, you can see what happened, this is the collection so far, they also have how to think when you write different ones, there you go, backside and or the backside, it's more deep, and there you go, that's the backside, and there you have it, that is the page through for yet not a volume, again you can only get these through Kickstarter, so there's no website where you can order them ahead or afterwards or anything, just subscribe to their social feed, they will let you know when the Kickstarter happens and then you can choose on whatever you need, whatever package you have, just one you can go back, they sell the bundle of all their previous ones, lots of options, so check out their socials, again they get a lot of questions about this, you can always check Twitter, whatever they are and they will tell you when the Kickstarter happens, and that is that for the page through, if you like this, you're interested in more of that, you can subscribe to my channel if you want to, I'll do more book reviews and page throughs, I've got a bunch of books everywhere and I got so much to go through, a lot of Star Trek stuff too, gotta get back to that, there's a whole stack here and next to me, what is this, so I gotta go through that, there's some cool stuff there, I still haven't gotten through this, every time I say I'm gonna go and do this next, but then something else comes up, oh yes, Deep Space Nine and so on, a big big pile of books, so anyway, more to come, stick around, let me know, comments or anything you want to see, maybe, maybe recommendations about other books that you like, art of books, writing books, I don't know, drawing books, whatever you have, but that's that from me, thank you for watching and I'll see you in my next upload.


sort of a living master opposed to a master who is no longer in his body and the difference really. Do I have to really explain the difference between the dead and the living? It's a big difference, isn't it? What would you like to be right now, living or dead? Living isn't it? So the values of living I don't have to sing. It's very significant to be living, isn't it?  So that significance continues in everything. Those who left their bodies can be a great inspiration, but you cannot work with them. There may be a certain span of time when they may be willing to work or they may be capable of working for a certain span of time. That is if they have set themselves up like that, if they have a certain level of mastery upon themselves, there may be some who will work for a certain period of time. Otherwise, their energies are conducive for your sadhana, but they are not a guidance. They are a good ambience, they are a good atmosphere, they are good soil for you to grow, but still they are not a guidance. When you sit here, you are not mostly receptivity, you are mostly your own mind, isn't it? Am I right? Yes. When you are mostly your own mind, you need guidance and guidance and guidance and guidance. If you are all receptivity, you don't even need a master, I'm telling you. Because grace is all over. You don't need a master, you don't need a temple, you don't need a meditation, you don't need anything. If you are all receptivity, that's a rare being. Right now, you are largely mind, moments of receptivity may be here and there, isn't it? When you are largely mind, you will do best with the living, not with the dead.  There is no place in the existence where there is no grace. Maybe a few places are more conducive, that's different. But there is no place in the existence where there is no grace. It is just that, is it churning up intensely enough in a particular place for you to be receptive? Because your receptivity is at a certain level of insensitivity. Now you see, you sit here, you think this is just a garden. If you go into the temple, you will become like this. But some people go into Dhyanalinga temple and they look around, nothing is happening, just chit-chit-chit, water drops are falling, nothing happening, what's happening here? Then we dunk them in cold water here.  There are some, even if you dunk them three times in the cold water, nothing happens, they go sit there and still look up and down. You take them there to Bhairavi, suddenly they are up. These are different types of energies. It is not that here it's any less, even here it is. But it is not in the same level of intensity that you can perceive, wherever you are, it is there. You know, there used to be boats, I don't know if they are still there, I have not come and checked. First when I came, when we came and opened the triangular block, which was the only thing, actually we had only one hut. And the first thing we built in the triangular block was one room and we built the toilet block. Then I found people had toilet problems. What's a toilet problem? It once happened, Shankar and Pillai went to the doctor and said, doctor I have some serious toilet problems. Then doctor asked, what is the problem? You are not able to urinate, you are not able to pee. No doctor, perfect every day six o'clock in the morning, like clockwork it happens. So your bowels are not moving, what's happening? No doctor, it's perfect every day at seven o'clock in the morning, like clockwork always on the dot. Then doctor thought about it, then what is the toilet problem you have? I said, but doctor I always get up at eight o'clock. So people had such toilet problems. Not that it was not happening, it was happening, it was happening little messy. So I asked him to put up a board that divine is here also. Inside every toilet, when you close the door, when you sit down, says divine is here also.  After all the whole spiritual process is to cleanse yourself. It is one of the most, the best clean up jobs you can do in a day, yes? So grace is there also I am saying, it's not any less in the toilet. But you may not be able to feel it in the toilet because you want to finish a job and go out of that place. Temple is more conducive, not just in atmosphere, even in terms of energy. It is made conducive so that you can feel it. Right now there is life energy everywhere, but you are not able to take it in. You have to make food in a certain way and consume it, then only you are able to take it in. A goat comes and grazes this grass and he is nourished. You cannot eat this grass and be nourished, you need a different kind of thing. There are many insect forms, there are many other microorganisms where for them ninety percent of their life energy happens because of sunlight and air, no water, no food. Only ten percent of their energy happens because of water and whatever food they consume because they are micro. If you are micro, how much would you consume? Micro micro, isn't it?  How you receive the sunlight, air and water, easily sixty percent of your life energies can be generated from sunlight, air and water, only forty percent from the food that you eat. Most human beings in the world can eat twenty-five to thirty percent of what they are eating right now and live perfectly well, maintain the same weight, not lose weight, maintain the same weight, live perfectly well, become much more healthy, much more agile, much more active and much more energetic. With just twenty-five to thirty percent of the food that they are eating, you can experiment. And it happens when you are in a Bhavas Pandana program, you are not even eating twenty-twenty-five percent of the food that you normally eat because you don't give you time to eat. And people are much more energetic than usual. People come to Samyama, if they become meditative, they barely eat and they still fight. So your receptivity has to be enhanced. If your receptivity is enhanced, dead, living, even the non-existence will help you.  You will receive all kinds of messages, the kind of messages that you like. If your guru sends you a note from heaven, I love you, don't believe it, it's your mind. Yes? It's your mind, he doesn't do such things. It's economical to receive love letters from heaven because it doesn't cost any paper. You know, it's an ecologically very sensitive issue, paper. So it's a very eco-friendly love affair. It happened. A boy went to college, first day he looked like this, on his left side there was a beautiful girl. So on a little piece of paper he wrote, I love you, do you, and passed the note to her. She wrote no and passed it back. He looked at it, then he wiped out the no and gave it to the girl who was behind. She looked at it and she said yes and sent it back. The moral of the story is, save paper and save nature. So ecologically it's good, spiritually not good. So when you're so much mind, you need constant, you need another mind to fix you. If you were not mind, you were all receptivity, then the dead and even the non-existent would help. Even a rock would help you, I'm telling. Anything, just a blade of grass could be your guru, yes?


Welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and I'm very happy to bring you this tutorial on painting water and reflections. You will follow me and learn through the stages of concept sketch to underpainting to final painting with soft pastels. This month we're focusing on painting water and in this tutorial oh are you gonna learn a lot. Also if you would like this video subscribe and click that bell icon that'll let you get notified of future videos and just by liking this video it helps ensure the video gets seen by others. YouTube shares it more often. Also this tutorial that is free on Monet Café is brought to you by the faithful support of my patrons. Thanks to their $5 a month support I'm able to keep these free lessons coming on Monet Café. Thank you patrons. Welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and I'm happy to start off this month with some water tutorials. Learning how to paint water and we're gonna learn different things like painting still water, painting moving water, reflections and the first lesson I created a painting from a subject matter that was one of my own photographs and it was a beautiful place here in Florida. It's called Fort De Soto, Florida. It's a very popular place to go camping and I had snapped a shot that was just a really lovely scene and the water was moving and I decided to paint that one with a lot of drama and like a magnificent sunset like we get here in Florida and that one was done on pastel premier paper. My first time using it and I really liked it. It's a sanded surface and I decided after this one it was so dramatic that I thought let's do one with a little bit more of a neutral theme and also give an option for people who may not have sanded papers. So we're doing another one that is on unsanded paper. I'll be telling you a lot more about the products using more of a neutral palette. So you can take the same reference image and create it in different ways. So one's going to be moving water and one's going to be more still water. So I will be providing a bit more of these tutorials for my patrons on my Patreon page but you'll get plenty here on the Monet Cafe channel and we're going to have a lot of fun in the month of February learning how to paint water. I'm excited. Here we go. I find my paintings are always more successful when I do a value sketch. I like to use these Tombow dual brush markers and I keep a little case of my value sketches. I find that you can use them again to create a new painting. You don't even need your reference image. They give you really all that you need with value and you can get interpretive with the color. So these are a lot of fun. By the way, I have a video called Pastel 101. It's a four part course right here on YouTube that goes into detail about how to create these value studies and why they're important. So I'm just choosing three values. These are the three that I chose. You can sort of see the numbers here. And by the way, if you're a patron of mine, you will be getting all of the color notes and more product information. That's because you know, you're faithfully giving your support. So thank you patrons. Now, almost always in a landscape painting, darker elements are going to be vertical elements and things that are in the foreground. Trees are almost always darker and these trees in the distance are further away. So the value gets lighter and thus I used that lighter marker. And now I'm going to just get some of those horizontal marks on the water. By the way, I'll be talking about all of this much more slowly when we get to the painting part. But this just gives you an idea of how quickly and easily you can create a little value study. And trust me, it really does help you when you start painting. The surface that I'll be using for the pastel painting is a surface called pastel premiere. I buy mine from pro art panels. The color that I'm using is the Italian clay. And this is a water friendly surface. Although I've learned you've got to be a little bit careful. It doesn't take quite as much water as some other pastel surfaces. Now these are the ink tense blocks made by Derwent. I love using these for an underpainting. They get very vibrant when you add water, but you certainly don't have to have these. You can use soft pastels for your underpainting and simply add water to them just like I will be to the intense blocks. I'll be using a piece of willow charcoal. That's a big chunky piece, isn't it? And I like using charcoal to get it a basic sketch because it's a similar product to pastel. And I typically won't use like a lead pencil. It has kind of a sheen to it. And sometimes your pastels won't cover it. Now this is to be very, very basic. You're really just getting in super basic shapes at this point.  And I don't mean all the way off, but just zone out in other words, so that you're not thinking I'm drawing a tree because often we have cliches in our minds of what trees look like. And sometimes often the trees will be a totally different shape from that cliche tree. So that's all we're doing here, getting in some basic shapes before the underpainting. Now this is where it gets exciting. Now I have that big 72 set of Derwent intense blocks, you certainly don't need that again, you could use a dark pastel for this. You could use a new pastel, they're kind of harder. So I often break mine. I don't think you can see the number there, but I held it up anyway. And I often break mine because I like using the shorter sections to paint with. Now I am going to speed this portion up. But basically all we're doing is kind of the same thing as in the little value sketch is to block in the darkest elements. And now I am using this same intense block for even the background trees in this one, but I'm using a lighter touch reflections sorry for the sunlight shining in there.  So now I'm using a lighter touch remember in the value study that was a light gray, I just simply didn't press as hard, but I used the same color. And now I decided to add a little bit more of a cooler temperature. This is still a pretty dark intense block, but it's a little bluer things tend to cool off in the distance.  And I do know that on all of this, I'm going to be able to layer my soft pastels. And I know that this under painting is going to serve not only as a roadmap, but I want to allow some of it to peek through some of the color will peek through the final painting. And it really gives it that painterly and artistic look. Now by the way, again, in that pastel one oh one course that I have free here on Monet cafe, it's four separate lessons. And it has I think the third section is called the under painting. And you will get so much detailed information about why we do an under painting. That's a question I get all the time. Why do you even do an under painting?  And I answer all of those questions. So check that out if you're kind of new to painting with pastels. Now I'm pulling down. Notice my strokes. Now that this is much slower for the reflections. I'm not really going side to side. I'm pulling down more. Now I'm getting a little bit of that edge on that bank there. And I'll be talking more about the reflections. Once again, when I get to the pastel painting, see how I just measured there. Typically, reflections are typically a mirror image of what's above the surface. I had a real light touch there and dropped it. But often, you have to be careful not to just totally create a mirror image because often the movement in the water in this case and other things will cause the reflection to be a little bit different. In this case, the reflections were a little bit longer than the images or the values above the water line. Now here's the fun part. We're adding some water. I always like to use the largest brush possible. It helps to create large, you're blocking it in with large elements and it keeps it very painterly. And when you use a little brush, things to just seem to have that little fine edge or little dots or little details and we definitely don't want that at this point. Now that's a pretty dark blue in the background there. It was a little darker than I thought. But once again, that is going to be just fine when I layer with pastels. Now with this brush, I'm just kind of turning and moving the acrylic ink or it actually is acrylic ink. It's compressed acrylic ink. The Derwent Ink Tense Blocks in just a gestural kind of motion. I'm not painting leaves per se, but I am going ahead and giving it a little bit of energy and gesture and movement. And see this did come out really dark, which is fine. This is exactly what this is for is to be more of a value roadmap to get started prior to adding soft pastel. It's also going to be some drama and dramatic color that you're about to see. I decided to add my colors for the Derwent Ink Tense Blocks in layers. And right now I'm just getting in my darkest values. Now I'm using that brush. It's it's kind of splayed out a little bit and it's served to my advantage to create more wispy edges. That can also be done by using a fan brush, by the way. I always forget to grab that. Now I pulled down some of those reflections. What's above the surface line is going to be reflected below. Now I'm going horizontal because that's kind of like a river bank and this was actually like I mentioned before. This was Fort De Soto Park in Florida and it's absolutely such a beautiful place and this really was a dramatic type of a scene. So I got my little horizontal bands for the bank in there. You see how that already is starting to look like something? But now for the reflection, I'm going to let the water do what water does, which is the gravity is going to allow the water to just drip down. Again, reflections go down into the water. So your first part of drawing or painting water is going to be reflections being pulled down. We're going to layer this eventually adding water on top that will give that feeling of flat water. Now it's fine if it gets all drippy like this, it doesn't bother me at all. I let it drip. If it gets a little too drippy, I might just kind of knock it off with a paper towel. But to me that creates already just a kind of a painterly edge. So now you get the idea. I'm going to just speed up this dark portion before I get to some of this dramatic pretty color. Again, just pulling the reflections down the same thing with those distant trees and can you see it already is starting to look like something? Often too reflections will be a little bit lighter than what is above the surface. There's some little tips and tricks about painting water that I'll talk about later. Now I'm getting some yellows to go in the sky. This is actually a lighter yellow than the one I just broke off. So I'm putting a little bit lighter in the upper part of the sky and a little bit darker in the lower. Now this is a little bit flip flop from a lot of sky scenes. Typically it's a little bit lighter at the horizon or just above the tree line and it gradually gets darker. But this was an interesting sunset type of sky. Sometimes clouds and things can change that a little bit. So you want to make sure you learn some of these typical rules but you pay attention to how things are really behaving in nature. And now I'm getting some orange colors. I wanted to intensify that warm color behind the trees and often when things get behind trees when the light or the sky is behind trees it's called sky holes. It's typically just a shade darker like a value shade darker. And this is definitely creating some of that drama. Now what did we say about water? Whatever is above the horizon line is going to be reflected down into the water. Now this is the sky and I do know I'm going to be wetting this and it's going to be dripping and everything but I went ahead and I did notice this pastel premiere paper it didn't stay as flat when I added some water. It did receive the water fine but it created some little humps. Maybe I'm a little too heavy-handed with the water and that did make it a little bit harder later for me to get those very flat strokes across to get that very flat horizontal water. So that's just something I wanted to mention. Now I'm going to be adding some of that color that's in the sky. I went even a little bit darker added a little bit of it back behind the tree line there. And all I'm doing is replicating the mirror quality of this. Now if you have a hard time painting a mirror image like this I mean from the top to the bottom you can literally take your board turn it sideways. Sometimes it's a little easier to paint that mirror image when you have it sideways. So that's just a little a little trick. But these colors are just really still serving as my under painting. They're going to get blended and I'm going to add the pastel on the top. This was a lot of fun. And again you can use this same technique with pastels but I've found that the pastels when you do it in stages like this when you add the water the dark part is kind of kind of rewet and get diluted a little bit more than the ink does. The ink stays set a little bit more. And now I'm adding the water to the warm values I've put down and you'll be able to see what I'm talking about that it will layer over the darker color and it will kind of dilute it a bit but pastels will get more muddied with this particular technique. So that was drippy and fun and to me creates the perfect beginning very loose and painterly to start adding soft pastels. Now of course we need to let this dry first and I'm going to be using I think primarily other than one Terry Ludwig dark or a couple of of darks from another set. I'm pretty much exclusively going to be using the Sennelier pastels. I love Sennelier pastels. They just have such beautiful color and they performed beautifully on this pastel premiere surface. Now this is the Sennelier set. This is the Paris collection and it's got little cat hairs on it because our cat came in and got into my art studio without me knowing and laid on the set.  All right now here is a Terry Ludwig darker color. This is a Terry Ludwig is an American made soft pastel company that makes fabulous soft pastels. They're in a rectangular format. I've used this one so much it's really gotten smaller and it's very dark. This particular color looks almost black. It's called egg plant. It's like a dark dark dark purple and this scene was very dramatic. The trees almost looked black in this scene but I do give them a little bit of greenery a deep kind of a green very hint and very neutral green before the end of the painting but I'm just re-establishing the darks notice I'm not pressing hard I've learned over the years trust me it's been hard to do to develop a really light touch sometimes so light I drop the pastels but what this is going to do is going to keep it very painterly. There's quite a few things a light touch does it it has soft edges things look painterly another thing is it allows your beautiful underpainting to peek through those little spaces another thing is it allows you to get more layers down if you start pressing firmly right away with soft pastels you're going to lose the ability to add more layers that's one of the beauty beautiful aspects about soft pastels is that capability of layering and especially on these sanded surface surfaces that give you that ability more so than unsanded surfaces now I'm going to start working on the reflections I'm really just trying to get the general shapes in once again I was struggling with the bumps that were caused on the surface because of the water added I might try to be a little easier with the water next time I do this and by the way I have the tutorial I mentioned at the beginning I'm not going to include it in this lesson but I mentioned that I was going to do there's those bumps I mentioned that I was going to do another painting of the same scene with a whole different color palette and a whole different surface I know a lot of you can't afford the sanded surfaces so the next painting of the same scene will be on unsanded paper with a primarily neutral palette I love neutral colors and I have love bright colors too and sometimes I just get carried away with color and I forget how much I often love painting with a really neutral palette and I've got a couple of sets of soft pastels I'll be sharing with you in that video that have some great neutrals in them and I'll talk about the power of neutrals and why it's important in your palette so now I've got the darks in here and I'm trying to keep a lot of this real time but there are parts I'll have to speed up this painting took a little over an hour so I don't want the video to be quite that long I just added a little bit of a rich kind of burgundy just a little bit to the trees now this is a piece of pipe foam insulation it is something you can buy at a hardware store and it happens to be a really great blending tool for sanded surfaces if you use anything that has cloth or fiber it seems to get stuck on the sanded surfaces and this pipe foam insulation does not notice I'm just pulling down the reflections and I'm also using it to kind of soften some of the edges to the treetops that are above the surface but the reflections in the water are going to be pulled down and eventually we will layer over top of this to make that water look flat this water is going to have some movement to it now I have the similar concept I'm using the warm colors similar to the ones that I used with the Derwent ink inktense blocks and I'm using a light touch and I'm just getting in glazing in some of the sky let me zoom in so you can see it a little better now can you see how beautiful that color is looking already I was later noticing that my one tree looked like a heart they both kind of did so I had to try to do something to change that you know it's funny how these little shapes show up after the fact and our brains don't see it while we're painting so doing the same thing pulling some of that same color down into the water once again just like a mirror image and this scene did have a lot of pink and magenta in it and so I'm just gently introducing a pink that will vibrate with the yellow if you press too hard you cause the pastels to lose that color mixing effect I often argue that some people say you can't mix pastels and you definitely can't like you can mix watercolor or acrylic or oil but they mix on the surface if you don't press too hard they start to interact with each other when little bits of the underpainting part or the background part is showing through now what did I say about what does color or what does value do when it gets behind trees it gets a little darker just a tad darker and sometimes if I know there's a lot of magenta going on back in that sky I'll punch up the color a little bit for some of the sky holes not all of them now sky holes if you're brand new they are the spaces of the sky showing through the tree and if you want your painting to look more painterly and artistic it's a good idea to paint them negatively don't paint all your branches and leaves paint a general shape of a tree and carve the sky into it your painting is going to look so much more impressionistic now I'm comparing some of the teal colors and the blue colors I wanted to do what I mentioned earlier I think I'm going to use that darker one there there's three teal colors in this set well there's more in this Paris collection set but I wanted it to be a little bit darker because this is kind of like an evening scene and as I said in the beginning when choosing the colors for the underpainting what typically happens with trees in the distance or things in the distance they cool off and that's because there's a lot of atmosphere there's literally a lot of air between you and things that are far away and it takes the warmth out of the color palette that you're seeing and so things just look cooler and see how that's already looking like those trees are further away just by cooling them off in temperature a little bit now I'm going to use this one that's a little bit lighter because that other row of trees I want to give the illusion that it's even further away there's like three levels there's the main dark trees there's the ones that are kind of in the middle they're a little closer and that bank is even further away so I'm just giving that illusion of distance I love creating paintings that aren't flat I like to have levels of things where the eye can play and go back into the distance now I did do the reflection of that a little bit darker now before I said reflections were a little bit lighter right well why did I do that one a little bit darker I'm going to zoom in here so you can see what I'm talking about so the trees above the horizon line are lighter and the reflection is a little bit darker well it's because reflections work in reverse typically on water so if your element is very dark it's going to be lighter in the water as the reflection if your element is light it's going to be a tad darker it's just really interesting how that works and there's some scientific principles behind it but I'm not going to go into that right now now I'm just glazing I wanted the front part of this painting to be so loose that it didn't stop your eye to go back into where the focal point is the focal point are those trees of course the reflections going to enhance everything but really the trees and that reflection kind of in the upper third of the painting so the reason I'm keeping the foreground and you'll see very loose is I don't want to create a barrier for the eye to get hung up on that's one of the things that I did early on with painting is I put a lot of detail in the foreground if there was grass in the foreground I give all this detail in the grasses and detail in the flowers and if you're wanting that painterly impressionistic look it's a good idea to keep the edges the perimeters of your painting especially the foreground not overly detailed that's a general rule of thumb and it will create a way for the viewer to go to your focal point more easily now aren't some of those blues pretty notice I put some of that pretty blue that's in the water in the background trees on the right hand side and that gave more color harmony to the painting often when I add a color in one place I look for other areas I might be able to replicate that color to give some connectivity to the painting I'm speeding this up right now ever so slightly you should still be able to follow along just fine I'm going to add some music but I'm not going anywhere I'm just going to paint a while just kind of pay attention to how I replicate things from the sky into the water well I'm not going anywhere yet here's where I wanted to tell you I added some of that deep green this is from the Terry Ludwig dark set Terry Ludwig pastels makes two sets of darks they're both wonderful but it has some really nice dark pastels and all various different colors and adding a little bit of the screen just kind of warmed it up made the trees look a little bit more like trees even though once again this was a very the trees were very dark because the sun was setting behind it and so it definitely did create more of a dark well you can see it in the photograph it's almost black so I wanted to give it a little more color now I did carry down some of that green into the water I'm just trying to keep my strokes vertical see how I'm trying to pull them down but I knew if I had green in the trees above the water I wanted to make sure it was consistent I'm adding a little bit of that green to the bank there I couldn't really see the bank in the reference image but I knew in my mind there had to be some sort of a bank there so I just kind of created it myself and with the bank I add a little bit of that green in the reflection too with a really light touch so now I'm going to continue to develop the sky with some other colors I got a little carried away with color with this one and as I often say I have the advantage of being able to go back and watch my painting process since I filmed myself so much and there were some stages I'd say about three quarters of the way through that I wish I had stopped but I just kept on going I still like the final very much but I really really love when things are super loose and impressionistic I guess I'm not going anywhere yet this is where I'm putting in some of those sky holes I'm carving in some of the spaces behind the trees now that's a little dark right there that I added just a second ago but I am going to lighten it up by blending some pastels now this was interesting the tree line and the distance it had a haze of blue behind it now I know this is Florida those are not distant mountains but I thought you know what I'm just going to go ahead and do it because it's kind of neat looking so I found some real pretty blue I added the little tad darker value blue first then I put a blue that's a little bit lighter on top of it that's often a good strategy is to layer something that's maybe a little darker than you intend just a tad and then you can lighten it up now what did I have to do if there's that blue in the sky I've got to bring a hint of that down into the water if you see me tapping and coming down I'm kind of measuring sometimes you'll see me use my fingers I'm literally making a little ruler with my fingers of how tall something is above the horizon line and then bringing it down to make it about the same distance below the horizon line now I am going to soften these colors that are in the water a little bit I want that I want it to look like water so I'm going to kind of blend those in a little bit actually my pastels kind of start to blend themselves when I start making the horizontal strokes over the water right now you see almost everything other than the underpainting has been just vertical kind of blended strokes in the water now what's going to make this water look like water is when I start adding horizontal strokes on top of the water so keep that in mind when painting water create your vertical reflections first pull them down let them look real watery blend them pull them down and then you can just lightly glaze horizontal strokes on top of the water and voila all of a sudden you look like you have flat water now you can see in this one the water was moving so I do create some bands in the water and like I mentioned before in the next one I'm going to make the water look more flat so okay so I am going to I'm going to play a little music right now but pay attention to how I'm working there I'm measuring and then I'll come back when I start adding the horizontal marks here's where I start to very gently put in some of my horizontal marks that are actually going to layer on top of the reflection I'm also adding a little thin broken line of water that sort of comes right up to the edge of the bank often you get a little light ripple of water and if it's far away like this you want to keep it thin and you kind of want to keep it broken you don't want a solid hard line there so that also gives that illusion of water kind of rippling up next to the bank and now I'm putting in some of my final little sky holes and sky holes they take a while to get the hang of and I feel like I'm always still fussing with them to make sure they look accurate but they can be the icing on the cake and the reasoning is because you usually have a lot of contrast where you have sky holes it's what's the darkest the contrast is dark next to light your darkest element next to your lightest element and because the tree is the darkest thing your sky holes behind them are going to give some nice contrast all right now here's where I'm starting to give some of those horizontal marks and often you know it's a good idea to use a lighter value when doing this but I thought I would use some of the colors that were in the sky already that's where I was fussing with the bumps on this paper I couldn't get a good horizontal mark it was it was pretty darn frustrating so beware of that and maybe don't be so heavy-handed with the water so I did kind of have to wrestle with that but because it was moving water I gave a little bit more of chunky bands you know and I wanted to keep this very loose and impressionistic so I didn't want to overdo it I wanted to keep it a little bit almost abstract with some of these marks and here's where I'm using a little bit of a lighter value on top again kind of reestablishing a little bit more of that little ripple next to the bank and still wrestling with that bumpy paper you kind of can't see it from this angle and I know some of the water typically horizontal lines you want them straight across okay but because this water was moving it did have a little bit of a an upward kind of a curve from the lower left to the right so I emulated that a little bit now I'm adding a little bit of a lighter green just to a few little certain areas in the tree I didn't want to lighten it too much because it wouldn't be realistic once again the sun is behind there things that are flat like land or fields is usually a little lighter value so I added a little bit of that light value there I just brought a tad of it down into the trees I'm measuring there into the reflection of the trees and the water to make it consistent and believable so now I'm really pretty darn close to being finished here and overall I was very happy with this painting and it definitely had dramatic color but that's why I decided I wanted to go ahead and do one that's very neutral so that one will be the very next tutorial I hope you guys learned a lot with this and if you're a patron of mine and you recreate from this video I 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