Hi guys, how are you today? If you're new to my YouTube channel and watching this video, then let me introduce myself. My name is Gina Arons. I am a local to San Jose, California mixed media artist and watercolorist. I've been doing mixed media art and watercoloring for a number of years now and been on YouTube since 2012. Actually, I'm about to hit my five-year anniversary with that this June. I do lots of travel art, which is why you're all here. I do lots of travel art and I go everywhere with this little brown case. This little brown case is my travel art case, my actual one, and if you were at the class at direct travel recently, then you saw this case live and in person. It's a little vintage cosmetic case. It's about 14 by 5 by 9. It's about 9 inches. Because it's a vintage case and I do take it everywhere, I do have this belly band that I made to go on it with these two clips. This is actually the luggage tag that hangs on it, not that I ever check it, but it just looks cute. I have this on here because it sometimes does get really full by the end of the trip and I just want to make sure that the old vintage clips are not going to bust open and have everything spill everywhere. The size of this case is perfect for sitting underneath your seat on the plane in front of you. You don't have to put it in the overhead bin and it fits everything that you need if you're going to travel with art supplies and creative things. I can even fit my Kindle in here and things like that. Then I just take a little handbag or a small backpack for other personal items that I don't want to check. I have traveled quite a bit with art supplies within the U.S. and cruises and planes and I've never had a problem with anything in this case. As far as security is concerned, that being said, I do take out anything that I think might be an issue like scissors and check them if I'm bringing them. Be aware of security requirements when you're packing your travel art case if you are. I'm going to open it for you now. This is the inside of the case. I don't always bring everything that's currently in here, but I do sometimes. This is a little paper trimmer. It depends on what I'm working on. If I'm working on the type of a journal where I'm documenting my year, this is the current one that I'm using for this year where I'm really saving like plane tickets and postcards. These are fortune cookie fortunes. If you're on a trip, maybe the ship's photographer took your picture and you would want to put it in here. This is more about saving all those little bits and pieces of your travels and not actually doing too much art. If you're doing this kind of art, then you're going to want a little bit different supplies than if you're just doing art art. My case is usually packed for both. Yes, I can get this in this suitcase when I'm traveling with it. I don't always bring the paper trimmer, but I generally bring everything else that's in here. This is a travel water cup. This is not a must-have, but if you have one you can use. I've used the plastic cup in the state room or hotel room and that works just fine. I just happen to have this.  This is a golden. I use this as a glue when I want to glue down heavy objects into this journal like smashed pennies and things like that. I have two of these little cases. They don't always come with me. They're both for water coloring. This is the generally the one that comes with me and the one that we've talked about in class if you're watching this video. I have to put that away. I forgot that was in there. This is my travel watercolor journal. So these two at minimum come with me. I can fit my iPad and Kindle and things in here if that's all I want to bring with me. If I want to work on this one too while I'm gone then I bring these other two cases in this journal. So while I'm gone I always spend time in the mornings doing watercolors with Mike Morning Coffee before we get out to go do anything. Any tours or excursions or meeting up with friends or family. I do these little watercolors and they're just simple quick easy watercolors. Nothing super complicated and I always put a little bit of journaling on them. These are some that I did on the cruise. This one that I did on the cruise while we were on our cruise to Alaska. This is one I did while we were in Lake Tahoe kayaking. And I've taken this out with me on trails and at coffee shops and most of the time I work at it on it in the hotel room after we've done all of our fun stuff so that I'm not taking away from friends and family on the vacation. At the same time I'm spending a little bit of a alone time early in the morning or late at night before bed and just working on a little something creative. And sometimes you know I'm working on this and the husband's across the table and he's working on something else. You know there's nothing wrong with that so yeah. So this is we're going to work on a little travel art. This is the case I bring. I never bring a ton of materials with me. We've talked about this in class. This is probably more than the average person needs but this is you know that you can get a lot done with what's in here. A couple of black pens. One that's water soluble. One that's not and I'll always have a white pen. I always have some kind of a straight edge and something with a point to scrape with. A couple of small little clips to hold my journal open while I'm working. A spray water bottle to get my paints because we're talking about watercolor so to get my paints re-wet. This little needleless syringe is for filling up these water brushes. I carry these kind of brushes generally with me and this bottom part holds water and then you just screw on the top brush part. And these travel really well and I've taken them everywhere they don't leak. Some small short pens and pencils and a crayon to do different techniques with and do my basic sketches with. And this is one I just picked up. This is probably way too many. Inside here is my actual travel watercolors that I take with me. And then on the other side which I'll show you in a minute. On the other side I have just a few bonus pieces. I have some paper tallying and wax paper that I always carry with me that helps protect the other paintings when you're working on a new one. I have a little bit of plastic wrap which I'm going to show you what you can do with that today. I'm not sure if we're going to work with that in class or not but I'm going to show you what to do with that. A little bit of salt and an eraser in case I want to erase some of my pencil lines. Now I probably bring more colors than the average person would bring but this is a small 12 half pan watercolor tin. It's a generic tin. Now I've taken the insert out that only holds 12 colors so that I could squeeze more colors in. And these are the colors that I generally carry with me and I get a lot of paintings done with just these colors. They work great. There is a little small travel brush in here.  There we are. To do you know grass or eyelashes or something with if I'm doing a face. Let me get that wet. Some of the bristles are splayed. So we're going to put that back in there and I just ensure that it stays shut with a rubber band. So to do travel watercoloring you don't need much more than that. If you're going to take one of these other journals and you're going to do more of gluing in your tickets and pictures and things like that then you're going to want something that's going to carry glue and tape and that sort of thing. And just keep it in mind that you know don't bring so many supplies with you that you're spending more time doing art than enjoying your vacation because that's you know not what you should be doing. This one I could live without this one. This one because my watercolor kit remember has pens and pencils in it. This one has a stapler, some glue, some tape, my reading glasses which I need and an extra little bottle of glue regular like Elmer's glue.  Now the reason I don't take acrylic paints is because of things exploding. Ask me how I know that you don't really want to know it's not pretty. So so I take watercolor. Watercolor is easier and safer to travel with and you have to put less things in Ziploc bags and not worry about them exploding. So that's what I bring with me. I'm going to repack this little suitcase. Now we're going to work on a couple of little samples. We got some fun inspiration photos from the people over at Paul Gauguin Cruises and direct travel and I have an idea for an additional one of the photos that I wasn't sure what I was going to do with but I just got an idea so we're going to work on that and I'll be right back. Okay these are some of the inspiration photos they sent me to work with. This one I've already done a bigger sample painting of. We're going to do another little one so I can show you a different technique. We're going to talk about both of them in class but here's the bigger one that if you are watching this you've already seen. Now there is a speed through clip of video at the end of this where you see me working on this and see what I exactly what I'm talking about when I created this if you're not quite getting it. So stay to the end of the video and you'll see that clip. They also sent me this one and this one. So I have an idea and I printed out extra photos and so I have an idea of something that we're going to do. We're going to do this one first and I'm going to show you a couple of different ways that you could do this photo. When you're working on these we're not trying to copy every single detail about the inspiration scene or photo. We're trying to just capture the feeling and essence of it. You know if you want an exact copy that's you know that's why we have cameras. That's not why we paint at least that's not why I paint. I'm more of an expressive impressionist painter than I am a realist painter. That being said I do take a photo of everything like while I'm out on my tours and then like I said usually in the mornings before I'm having my while I'm having my coffee before everybody else is awake I'm sitting at the table or at the desk and I am going through the previous day's photos and picking one to make a little painting of in my journal. It was really fun on the cruise because I got to we had a state room with a balcony and I got to sit out on the balcony with my coffee and paint out there. That was really fun so if you have a chance to book your cruise and you can get a room with a balcony I would definitely recommend that. Alright so we're going to work on this one. I'm going to look at work on a smaller pad of paper because this is the kind about the size that I actually take with me on vacation. It's not too big and it's easy to work on and get through and not be intimidated by doing a big giant one. So I'm going to move this up here. Hopefully we can get all that in camera. There we go. And we're going to just use a number two pencil. I'm going to go ahead and get my paints wet.  That being said I'm a water color so I have palettes like this but I will tell you I never travel with them often. Generally I have a small set like this one. This is a small pocket set by Van Gogh and there's a number of different ones out there on the market. This is a nice one and I may actually bring this one to class so that you all can look at it and we're going to get it wet. I'm going to use this spray bottle of water.  So I do recommend if you're setting up a palette for home or travel use that you do this so you have an idea quickly of what the colors are going to look like. I'm going to get my brush wet. This is just a plain round brush. This is a royal watercolor brush number 16 round. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to take a number two pencil and we're going to do our sketch. Now you could do this if you don't like the pencil lines to show when you're done and you're worried about that. You could instead of a number two pencil put in your case a water soluble pencil and then as you're painting the color from the pencil is going to dissolve into the paint. I kind of like the sketchy lines so we're going to do that. So I'm just if you look at the inspiration photo these are just triangles and rectangles and don't think of them so much as you know huts. So don't focus on all these little teeny tiny details just focus on the basic shapes and really we don't want to sketch the whole thing we just want to get our huts in here. So I'm going to look at the photo and I'm going to just eyeball it but you could layer if you if you're working from say you picked up a brochure at the um cosier counter of an excursion that you went on and you there's a photo in there that you want to try to paint and add to your journal.  But I encourage you to just you know try try drawing it doesn't have to be exact remember we're just giving the impression of right my proportions aren't even always um right but I'm not worried about that because I really just want to get like I said the impression of that that scene and you can see that I'm doing lots of lots of little sketchy lines I'm not you know and I'm not going to erase any of them okay just just like that we're not going to do any more sketching than that so see that and it's not perfect but it's good it's going to give me the impression that I want all right so now I'm going to come in with my brush and I actually you need a rag or a napkin and that's not something I generally carry with me because I just pick up napkins from the coffee shop um and things like that and I usually um have a collection of them back in the state room or hotel room um that I've collected on the travel and I use those um I don't use the hotel towels that would be a big no no um you could carry your own rag with you if you so choose but using their um coffee shop napkins is fine all right so first we're going to start with the sky and the first thing I'm actually going to do is I'm going to just get this wet across the top here with just water then I'm going to take my ultramarine um deep color which is a more of a true blue and I'm going to add some water to it so that um it's lighter that's the way you one of the ways to lighten watercolor paint is to add more water to it the less water the darker the pigment is going to be and I'm going to just put it up here and you'll see how it immediately starts to go where the water is it starts to just blend down where the water is at that's what we want and you always want to start lighter and work your way darker with water color because you can't take it back um you can however do that put some water there and do this and you'll be able to lift some of the color up you may not get all of it but you'll be able to lift some of it especially if you do it right away so now I'm just taking just water and I'm going to pull the little bit of color down around my little huts I'm going to try to leave some white space or light space um because there's some clouds in the sky here so we are going to try to leave that light or white space um and I'll show you a couple different ways I'm actually not great at leaving white space um I get carried away with the painting and then forget to do that um but I'll show you some I'll show you a trick okay so I'm just going to pull some of that color down and then I'm going to take my napkin or rag and I'm going to go in while the paint is wet and I'm going to lift up some of that color and that's going to leave me some lighter lighter shapes in the sky now the sky when you're painting skies the sky is usually darker the farther away from the earth it is in this picture it's um it is a little bit darker but it's all pretty pretty much the same color but this is just the first layer and you can you know interpret your painting however you wish I'm going to add a little bit more color down here and I'm not going to get too far before I rinse my brush off and then get in here with just water so you might want to pause here and work on your sky but try to do it too quickly try to do it quickly and don't think about it too much that's what I intended to say remember whatever you do that you can go back in here with your brush get some just plain water on there and lift now some of your water colors depending on the paint brand that you got and the quality will stain the paper immediately you notice this isn't white it is more of a light blue now that's fine you can always go back in here when you get home with some white paint white acrylic paint and put some white in there if you so choose all right so work on your sky a little bit it should look about like that let it dry you might want to pause here and then come right back okay now we are going to add some light and shade to start adding light and shade to our painting and as you'll notice from the inspiration photo to this inspiration painting you don't I don't stick to the natural colors that are in the photo generally speaking you can of course but it's more fun not to the idea is to get the feeling of being in the tropics and who wouldn't want to be some place like French Polynesia or somewhere else Bali I know has these little huts out on the ocean and just thinking about the peaceful ocean scene and being out on the water in the sun and the warmth so one of the ways you convey warmth and sunlight and brightness in a painting is with using warm colors yellow being one of them so we're going to start with as a yellow medium which is a warm yellow and again I'm going to add some water to it so it's lighter because you want to do go start light and work your way darker try not to get your blue into it too much because you'll get green now and speaking of that if your sky is wet you want to leave a little bit of paper space between where the yellow goes and the blue is you probably don't want a lot of green in your sky and the yellow will do that it will convey and green it will make your sky green so I'm looking at the picture and I'm looking at where the sunlight is hitting the little huts and I am putting some yellow there and I'm being very suggestive about my marks I'm not you know sitting and painting every little line and no I'm not doing that I'm just going in now with some water plain water and I'm going to tilt my paper I'm going to let that yellow run down to where that water is going to be you may even do this tap it and we get some drips going right we already have something that looks interesting okay now we're going to go in with some orange now in a basic palette you won't have orange and that's okay you may have it in class you may not we're going to take our azo yellow medium and we're going to take some of our permanent red light which is our it's more of an orangey red we have like a blue red and an orangey red in this palette and we're going to make orange you remember your lessons from kindergarten yellow and red make orange right and that red is really strong so that was a lot of red so I'm just adding more yellow there we go so now I'm going to go in and again I'm going to start out in this hut and you'll see how that orange is just blooming into the yellow paint and that's fine I'm going to sort of put it where the shadow the darker brighter spots are and just like anything else if you really quickly think wow that's a lot of orange I didn't want that much orange there get in there with your rag or your napkin you won't probably get it all up but that's okay make it drip some more I'm going to go back um to this corner up here I'm going to take out some of that orange that ended up there and that actually should be blue we're going to put some blue there there we go all right now we're going to start to work on the ocean a little bit and we're going to let all that kind of dry now you can if you're home or if you're in a place maybe you're working in your hotel room or your state room if you have a hairdryer with you and you don't want to wait for this to dry before you move on to doing some more painting you can try using your hairdryer on a low um um a hot setting but low blowing you know you know so you're not blowing a lot of air at your painting but it's hot if your hairdryer will do that um at home when I'm home in the craft room I use my heat embossing tool I'm not super great about waiting for things to dry in fact speaking of that I think um no we're going to just let it go we're going to wing it all right so now I'm going to start on the water and you'll notice the water it is some places it's much more turquoise green than the sky you'll also notice if you look at your inspiration photo that there's little funky reflections of the huts and the huts pillar supports in the water up at the top at least so that's you know if you have this yellow drip it's going to create some of those illusions of some of those reflections in the water here like I did in this painting all right so we're going to take our I'm going to actually clean so we had some of the blue going to the yellow so let's actually clean that up with a rag so I'm going to take this other this blue is called cerulean blue it's not a pretty blue and I'm going to take some of that and I'm going to add one of the greens to a little bit of the green to it this is Viridian green it's a blue green and I'm going to just make this really pretty blue which is already pretty more turquoise by adding a little bit of green to it and look at this color that you get right so now we're going to take this color and you'll notice that this line here where the water is meeting the huts that's a very pretty straight line right so we're going to take the tip of our brush and try to replicate some of that line we may not get it perfect I think I made that hut too small but that's okay and we're going to take our brush and we're going to put some water down here on the lower part of the line and we're going to we're going to let it drip all right that was the husband did you hear him in the background telling me he's going to go take the car for a spin he just did some repairs on it so we're going to just let that drip and this is how I did the big painting and I just let it drip and I worked with the drips to create this texture-y suggestion of texture in the water and you could just leave it at that and do this this is great and I love the look of this cerulean blue mixed with this veridian green it's just fabulous don't worry too much right now if you get some of this blooming up here into your little huts you can of course take the edge of your napkin and your finger and try to blot some of that up if it's really bothering you I'm going to take some more of our paint and I'm going to go into some of the spots and just darken it up just a little bit okay now we're going to take some of our cerulean blue straight without anything mixed in it and this in this particular brand is a very kind of bright opaque color so I'm definitely adding water to it and I'm definitely I'm going to add just a little bit of it and at a time and not put try not to put too much so I'm going to you have this like second horizon line in the water that's more blue or I think where the sky is reflecting in the water and yeah so suggest that here and again we're going to try to for the moment keep our colors light and we are going to work our way darker I'm going to go back to our cerulean that's mixed with the green because you have this down here right water color is really all about controlling the water and the paint is going to go where you put the water it's not going to easily go into this dry paper it's going to try to follow the easier road and go where the water is okay so we're going to let that dry for a minute because that's going to be our base these are all of our base layers right so now we're going to go up to our sky and again with some of the cerulean blue this is this is dry up here now and I'm basically going to do something similar to what I did already but we're going to add some of this cerulean blue because the sky in the inspiration photo is very much the same color as the water here or at least very similar so we're going to put a light wash of this other blue this more turquoisey blue into the sky and this is this is how I did the big painting generally when I do videos like this I split it up into two or three videos for you guys are going to just leave it all in one and I am going to pause during certain parts so that you all can just stop there or keep going you can work on your painting you can pause so remember you're not trying to duplicate the photo we're just giving a suggestion of right and if all of my skies look a little bit stormy for some reason I like a stormy sky and I actually love to see you know a stormy ocean I don't like to be on a ship when it's storming I do get seasick but I love the way it looks now I'm keeping a little space or trying to between the ocean and what I'm putting in the sky I don't want the two to blend too much into each other so work on that and try to get your painting to look like that you can pause here and work on your sky and your ocean get the space layer down you probably want to let them dry a little bit before we move forward all right we'll be right back so now if you've done that and you've let it dry or if it's kind of dry but not completely dry we're going to let our sky and ocean dry a little bit and we're going to work on our huts so now we are going to start adding cooler colors shadow colors to our huts to suggest more of their shapes I do need my scratch a scratchy tool okay you're gonna need something with a sharp edge and I do recommend that you put something in your kit this is an old insurance card it could be an old gift card that you've just cut in half that has that kind of a pointy edge on it that's not only great for laying on your piece and then painting to get a straight line but scratching in the paint I'm going to show you what I mean here so we're going to start out with I think purple and I actually might need another plate I'm going to get a fresh plate because I don't want to get too much purple on that one so we're going to mix purple so if you remember from school blue and red make purple right so whatever blue and red that you have you can make purple with I'm going to take this other red that I have which is called matter lake deep which is already in my opinion sort of on the blue side and then I'm going to put a little bit of blue in it I'm going to use the ultra marine that we started with and you get this purple okay and it's pretty watery so it's going to be pretty light and transparent which is fine I'm going to look at my photo and I'm going to look and see where all of these shadows are on the little huts so underneath the roof line there's actually a window here and I'm going to actually let that sit for just a second there's a little window here this part's in shadow there is a walkway between the huts that you can kind of see while the paint is wet I'm going to take my pointy edge and you see you get these lines in the paint that are very suggestive and interesting and that's kind of the point without doing too much all right I'm going to come back with just some water in areas where I want it to be more blended and less of a straight line the pigment is going to settle in those scratch marks I just made on the paper and I actually don't mind this bleeding I got into the sky I didn't get that in the first one because I let things dry more but actually don't mind that I kind of like the way it looks so we're going to leave it and that's you know what Bob Ross would call a happy accident all right I'm going to put a little bit here and I have these pencil lines here in the background I don't mind those for you you might really mind them and if you do then you probably want to erase the ones that you think are in the wrong place before you get started I don't really mind them doesn't bother me I'm also going to add a little bit of this purple pointy edge again now there are some piers that you can see so again use your straight edge and scratch some marks make some suggestive marks whatever is above the water would be reflected in the water so don't worry about things blending down into the water the way they are all right now we're going to take I think we're going to go with a red we're going to go with the matter lake and deep one of your reds more of a true red and I'm going to take the parts of the bright sunny bits that are have some interest to them maybe there's a little bit of a shadow it's still bright but the brightest color in my opinion that reflects sunlight and warmth is yellow and then going towards the cooler scale orange and red some and then some of the greens so we have our orange where the sun's really hitting it I mean our yellow and then we're getting a little shadow and then more shadow does that make sense hopefully that makes sense and again I'm using just a little bit of paint and then water if you get too much water in there go back in really quick with your rag and you can blot some or all of it up it's going to depend on the paint and the pigment some of them stain the paper very quickly and you can't really you won't get too much of it lifted so I like that but I want to make now a darker purple with less water in it so now we have a darker purple you can see it's not only more blue there's less water there I'm using just the very tip of my paint brush this is really wet so it's going to go in a lot of different directions not that that's a bad thing I am okay with working with that but I don't want to get too carried away and I'm just again we're just using the tip of the brush you don't want to push too hard you don't need to dig any holes to china with your paint brush and you're just having fun have your cup of coffee near you or your cup of tea turn up some music maybe a glass of wine if it's in the evening and just have some fun painting some of the scenes that you saw when you're out on your excursions or you know in one case when I was in Alaska I painted the view of lighthouses and icebergs I got from my balcony which was really fun now I don't mind this purple bleeding into the sky but now I'm getting too much so I'm going to get in there with some water and I'm going to lift some of that up so now we're going to let that dry a little bit work on your huts and start building your shadows and next we're going to be working on the water now you could keep going the way we're going with the water and working with the drips and the puddles and the patterns that you get with the watercolor which is how I did this one and you get something really pretty and interesting or you can do it the way we're going to do it and for that you're going to need a little piece of plastic wrap um you if you're don't have I have some in my kit I always carry it with me but if you don't have some I bet if you asked the waiter at the restaurant on the ship or at the hotel if they had a little piece of plastic wrap you probably could get one um you but like I said if you don't have any you can do it without but I'm going to show you how to do it with and um we'll be right back I'm going to go get some plastic wrap okay yeah wherever you are on your vacation um your restaurants hotels delis probably have plastic wrap around um anything that's thin and plasticky though will work for this so here's what we're going to do when I got my plastic wrap and we're going to set that aside for a minute I'm going to actually I take that back I'm going to actually cut a thin piece of it off there's my scissors kind of want it in two pieces so all righty so first we are going to do this work this is wet right here so first I'm going to do this bit down here so we're going to go back to our cerulean blue this blue over here we're going to put some more of it darken up that line that we had going on there bring it down I like to leave space at the bottom so I like scenes like this because I like to do some journaling or writing about where I was and what I was doing at the bottom of my page at the very least I write where I was the name of the place but you could write you know all kinds of things about where you were and what you were doing now I'm going to make some more of that where I mix this cerulean with a green that was too much green put some water in there now for this technique it's all about having a lot of water in there if while you're doing that your cerulean dries up you want to go back and add some more and get it wet it's really really really wet which is what you want and you're going to take your plastic wrap and I'm going to put it down here and I'm going to scrunch it up and I'm going to let that paint dry like that so you see all these marks that you're already getting when the paint dries and you lift that up those marks are going to stay and you're going to get something very reminiscent of this pattern that you have in the inspiration photo okay so while that's drying we're going to go back and work on our huts I want to do it a little bit on here too but there's some well maybe I can there's some purple there let's try it okay so we're going to add some of this greeny color the cerulean and the green up here and then some water I'm going to leave a little bit of a light space between the two sections because in the inspiration photo there's this line in the water that's really interesting right we're going to take the other piece of plastic and kind of stretch it this way so the wrinkles are kind of horizontal I'm going to just push it in to the wet water and leave it sit there yeah that works all right we're going to let that dry now sometimes I do this and it's like the last thing I do or I'm halfway through the painting I put the plastic wrap on there and I just let it dry I go out for my excursions for the day and in the evening I come back and then I finish the painting if you can also get interesting um effects if especially if you're doing beach scenes by doing things like dropping salt into the wet paint it really granulates the paint you get this interesting texture and it's really interesting to do when you're like doing a beach scene and you're and to do it in the sand right so we're going to go back to our huts here and I am going to use my ultramarine blue straight out of the pan with no extra water move my plastic wrap out of my way and working again on the shadows and putting a little bit of paint and then some water so your cool shades that suggest shadow and coolness would be blues greens purple your ones that suggest sunlight and warmth would be um red orange yellow now there to get that line I just barely touched my brush to the paper barely barely and while I'm working on this this is drying down here so that was a lot of paint and a lot of water so you can go back in there with a damp brush and lift some of that or you can get in there with your rag now to get a dark black brown grayish color you can mix all of your colors together on your palette all your primaries will make some sort of neutral um I happen to have a color that's always in my palette and I don't know that you're going to have it in class but it's called paints gray it's a dark blueish gray color it's not quite black um you don't always have this in your palette but that is why I carry a black water soluble pen or pencil with me generally but you'll see if you do have this color um why this would make your painting pop I'm going to add some of this here to our our just a little bit all right so we're going to let all of that dry it's really wet play with your houses if you have a dark color like paints gray or black you can definitely add it and use it to aid in your shadows on your little huts let the plastic wrap dry and once that's dry we're going to come back and we're going to finish our painting and we'll be right back okay so you definitely could do this part in the morning and you could you know set the plastic wrap in there um go have some more coffee and breakfast with a family come back peel it off it's it's kind of dry I haven't mentioned them I have no patience for anything because I don't um and peel this off and you get this interesting texture the longer you let it dry the more of the texturey bit that you get we got more of it down here than up here because the color is darker and it's very reminiscent of what we have up here it is slightly damp still because I'm no I have no patience and I'm so I'm going to do this just get up some of that wet there we go so the other thing you can do is you can dip get the paint wet and you could dip a dry rag in it a dry napkin scrunch it up and dip it in and you're going to get I accidentally stuck my arm actually in this one and you'll get something like this kind of a pattern a wrinkly pattern and that just suggests this interesting pattern that we have in the original photo we're not trying to duplicate it exactly we're just trying to get that feeling of inspiration of right my huts are still kind of slightly damp I'm going to take some water here and I'm going to make some of these things that are going down into the water less obvious I'm not trying to take them away I just don't want them to be quite so obvious we're going to take some of our cerulean blue firm up that line a little bit we're going to take some of that blue green color add a bit more of that some of it up here and putting the water where I want the paint to go I don't want the paint to go that way I want it to go down so that's where I'm putting the water if you just remember that with watercolor paint you'll be golden that's pretty good I actually like that I think I might like that better than the first time I did it all righty that's pretty cool you could leave it at that I'd be totally happy with that I'm not going to so I have another yellow here um called lemon yellow the as of yellows like you can tell especially by looking at the dried cake it's a little bit more orangey than this one so I'm going to take this lemon yellow this one's also more opaque than the other one and I'm going to just add a little bit more of it to some places where we kind of lost a little bit of our brightness in our little huts you could I'm a mixed media artist at heart so you definitely could do this by using a gel pen or something else that you have in your kit depending on what's actually in your kit I carry um highlighter crayons so sometimes I use those after the watercolor paint is dry a little too much water right on the walkway to suggest the walkway and railings I'm also going to take some of our shadow colors here and we have a inconsistency with the roof line over here I'll fix it really quick my lines are tad off that happens I'm going to take my pointy scratchy tool and I'm using just the colors uh some of the colors I have on my palette to just help me add another layer of brightness or shadow to certain shapes to refine them and make them more and or make them more interesting to have them help me suggest the shapes that I want although I'm pretty happy with the way this painting is turning out the orange is still a cool I mean a warm color that suggests sunlight but it's cooler than the yellow remember it in my opinion again these are all my opinions you may have other art teachers in your life that or yourself that you disagree with me I take no um I'm not offended by that I lost my train of thought there could you tell all right because I'm painting that's usually the sign that I'm having a lot of fun is I lose track of what I'm doing because I'm painting now as the orange yellow and this purple color blend if they do where I'm putting it now it's going to make a dark neutral color so that's definitely a way that you can make a dark neutral color to darken up your shadows if you don't have like a paint gray or a black in your palette mix especially purple and orange together and you'll get a dark neutral color that'll work for you and your shapes don't have to be perfect it's not about perfection it's about expressing um the feeling of the place that you've gone to visit that you're on vacation yep that's pretty cute I like it so I'm going to dry this really quick with a heat tool which is not something you're going to be able to do in class um or on vacation I don't carry one of these on vacation I would I would if I was on vacation just let it dry but we're going to actually dry it with a heat embossing tool don't hold it too close and you know turn it in circles over your work if you're at home doing this all right I'm going to do that and I'll be right back okay there we have it um sometimes with some paper as it dries it'll curl don't let that freak you out um that's normal um I'm going to take a black pen now the two black pens I always carry with me um are a pilot sharpie pen a fine point you can this is their stainless steel ones they have lots of different versions of the sharpie fine point pen but you want the fine point that has a little tiny tip on it um and this one is permanent it's waterproof so if you do any marks with this you can go over it with more paint it's not going to go anywhere um this is a pilot varsity disposable fountain pen this is not waterproof um but if you have this and a palette of colors that don't include black you can put some of this on there and then add water to it and use this as your black color and this is a dark black blue it reminds me very much of paint gray paint um so and I'm actually going to use this one I'm not going to add more water to it but I'm going to use this one just because I like this pen um but I'm going to like I did with the bigger one I'm going to just add some sketchy lines and I would also generally speaking um add um I would do the journaling with this one or write the place the name of the place that I had visited and it's not about straight lines it's about just suggestive sketchy lines so get that whole straight line thing out of your brain just something like that that's all I would do it makes a cute interesting little painting and you definitely have plenty of space down here to write the name of the location that you were on vacation um to journal about it and about the time that you had with your family you even could go so far as to put a little picture of um you and your partner whoever you were with on vacation down here at the bottom there's enough room to do that and to paste that in so I hope that gives you some ideas of one version of this that you can do I am going to do another one I'm going to clean up a little bit and we'll be right back for those of you who want to stop and try this this is a good pausing or stopping point and um I hope you have a lot of fun with it if you have any questions about this um please email me my email is in the description below along with my website address um and I'm very approachable and you can even go and find me on Facebook and friend me over there I'll try to remember to put the links to all of that in the description below you can also leave a comment here on the video and I'll answer it I do reply to the comments once a day so all right I'm going to set up for the next shot and we'll be right back okay for this next one we're actually going to work with this shot now at first I saw this and I went hmm and when I was trying to print out these inspiration photos I was trying to fiddle with what size to print them at and I accidentally printed these on index cards but I think it was a happy accident so I have an idea for this one so the first thing you want to do if you have a shot like this that you want to paint from is you're going to need for most of you who aren't comfortable with their drawing skills this is what I recommend that you find a little image of the ship that you're on if if you are on a cruise like one of the Paul Gauguin cruises that you find an image of the ship now you know they're going to it's going to be in one of the brochures probably at the concierge desk you could get a postcard or a sticker from the gift shop maybe before you've left for the cruise you've gotten some information from direct travel and there's a picture of the ship in it you might want to save a few of those images of the ship and just cut them out and put them in your travel kit before you leave because I'm going to recommend that you do that and we're going to use that so I'm going to sit here and I'm going to just fussy cut out that's what this is called fussy cut out little ship and I think for most of you who are looking at this and going okay I can't draw a stick figure this is going to be not only the painting for you to do to work on to try and have fun with but doing it this way and not being intimidated by the ship um and having to draw the ship is going to be the way to go I just cut this little ball thing off it was at the top of the ship I don't know what that is but we'll add it back in with a gel pen I'm doing this without my reading glasses on that's probably a bad idea it doesn't have to be perfect just roughly cut it out it should be sized um to a good size for your page so depending on what kind of size of page you're working on if you're just bringing a small journal with you on vacation then you probably don't want a ship that's any bigger than this one and this one is how big it's um like an eighth of an inch shy of three inches okay um it's about about two and three quarters inches would be probably about what we want now all those and although this picture is vertical I'm going to do it horizontal it's your painting you can do what you want remember that okay so we're going to put our ship aside out somewhere out of the way where hopefully it's not going to get wet and first we're going to work on the background this is a really pretty image I love the um image of this island surrounded by the sandbar and then the ocean it's just gorgeous so we're going to start with a cerulean blue and it's mixed over here a little bit with our yellow but I think that's going to be okay for what we're working with we're going to just put a light wash no pencil this time so I'm just looking at the picture and kind of where that sandbar is putting in some of this color this blue green color and then some water remember what I said we're going to um work with our water colors and work lighter and work our way darker right the paint is going to go where the water is so if you don't want it to go somewhere don't put water there now we're going to come in with um I'm going to take a little bit of our azo yellow and I'm going to mix it with a little bit of one of the um neutral shades in here this is yellow ochre just kind of make a sandy yellow color I'm going to put that in here and remember too what I said before we are trying to give the impression of the photo we're not trying to copy it exactly we're giving the impression of the photo of our vacation how much fun we had on the cruise or wherever it is that you want all right now we have a bunch of we have two really interesting greens here so I'm going to take this one is a sap green which is a yellowy green already and I'm going to just mix it into that color we mixed with the yellow ochre and the yellow now this foliage on the on the island is definitely something where you could take and put these greens on here and then sprinkle salt in it and let it dry go out for the day go on some excursions when you come back brush the salt off into a garbage can and you're going to have an interesting gran granulated texture and to gear foliage that you might really like I don't think we're going to do that here but you could do that and it would be really interesting and I want to encourage you all to experiment with that when I am on vacation if we go out somewhere like to a deli or something like that and they have little salt packets I usually do put some take an extra one and put it in my bag I'll let all of that dry a little bit and we're going to come in with some of the cerulean mixed with that little bit of the ultramarine here that's on our palette just so we can use that up I'm going to put some water in there we're working on being inspired by our photo and not copying it exactly right because we're doing something fun and creative inspired by our vacation whether you're doing it while you're on vacation or you're doing it when you get home either way I like to do some of these while I'm on vacation and then if I really like the piece or the scenery and the way it turned out then I'll do it bigger on bigger paper and take more time with it when I get home taking the same color and putting it down here and some water this is they're very abstract shapes right you just want to suggest the shapes in the photo we're not looking to copying them exactly in this in this one more than the other one there's literally there's no drawing skills required for this one not that there's a whole lot for the other one either I have confidence in you guys I know you can do it I do want things to be a bit blendy so I'm going to put some water where I think the lines are not blendy enough I put some of this blue color up here and remember we're starting out by working our way darker right so now I'm going to take more ultramarine blue and mix it in here make it bluer less green we're working wet on wet we're putting this in while this is very wet so that things are bleeding and blooming and blending together just very quickly making marks and adding color so now we're going to take and we're going to take some of the same sap green I think and we're going to mix it with the blue that's on the palette we'll get a little bit darker green and I'm just tapping the brush and again something I didn't mention I'm using the same brush I did in the other painting the round one the royal watercolor brush round number 16 it's a kind of a medium sized um round watercolor brush and I'm just tapping in this slightly darker green color using up the green that's on my palette now I think we're going to take the blue from the other painting we're going to mix some of this darker viridian green into it that's a good color I always mix on something white so that I can see what the color is going look like or get some kind of an idea what the color is going to look like on white paper so I'm looking at where the darker spots of green are on the island where the shadows are and then adding dots of this paint there I'm going to take a little bit of one of my browns I have a burnt sienna here I'm actually going to mix it with a green and you get this sort of dirty brown green color again we're just I'm just tapping I'm trying to tap and not drag tap tap tap tap tap with just the tip of my brush this is all very wet so you don't need too much color it's going to just go everywhere if you get too much you can get your brush damp with clean water and then just do that and you can drag it and tap it and lift up some of that color you can also get interesting marks into your painting it's looking pretty good now this is just really easy there's no I mean you could leave it at that and that is really pretty interesting painting and then you could put your ship on and journal about your cruise I think we're going to take it a little bit further but I want to dry it I'm going to show it on camera this time so again normally I would say to you do this go have lunch and enjoy your day come back and finish it when you get back I'm because we're filming and I'm at home I'm not going to do that I'm going to use my heating boxing tool hold it too close to the paper and I'm lifting my paper up and and I'm just making sure what I'm doing is taking the shine off the paper the water off the paper and that's all I want to do so I just want to dry up all the loot the extra water now we can go back with our brush and I can take some more that green the Viridian green and by itself I think it's too bright for this painting but I'm going to mix it with other colors I have on my palette to sort of dull down the brightness a little bit like I did with the brown I have the paints gray which so I'm going to use that you could probably put some orange in it that would do the same thing you can practice with some colors have if you're not sure about your colors have a little scrap piece of paper handy next to you that you can you know mix up a couple colors and then you can just try it so I'm going to tap this other green in here and again we're tapping I'm doing I'm trying to do more tapping than I am dragging and leaving interesting marks marks that suggest the foliage and the landscape of the island I love the transparent nature of watercolor and the fact that you can layer a bunch of these colors and marks on top of each other and see all the previous ones in underneath that layer new layer of paint take some of them with some plain water and blend them out a little bit but not all of them so when I leave some of them I think some of the marks are interesting let's go back to our sand and let's take our plate I'm going to switch to a cleaner corner I'm going to take this is the yellow ochre I'm going to take a little bit of that just the very tip of our brush here then I'm going to rinse it off and get it damp and I'm going to blot it on my rag and I'm going to go underneath where I just dabbed in those lines of yellow ochre and put some water where I want the paint to go I want this line on the island to be fairly straight and I want it to blend out and be reflected in the water quick easy this is this is easier than the first one I love that okay so now we're going to take our little ship what do I do with my ship there it is and again easy easy easy so one thing that's always in my kit is a glue stick you don't have to use anything fancy elmer's will work in fact let's just use elmer's this is elmer's extreme there we go should do this on a scratch piece paper I would recommend doing this on a scratch piece of paper or something so you don't get glue everywhere just glue the back of your image your ship in this case position it in your painting now remember I cut off the I think satellite ball by accident which is right about here so we're going to take the white gel pen I'll stick it back in there suggest it to pull the image into your painting I'm going to take some of one of our watercolors let's see let's try for this blue that's over here okay something like that try that a little bit again in the original photo there's like waves or something coming off the back end of the ship so I'm going to suggest some lines yeah and there's plenty of room on there to do some journaling and write about where you're at in the world and on your vacation so there you go I hope that gave you some interesting ideas of what you can do on your vacation and do something creative with your art if you have any questions please let me know put something in the comments below or email me the link to direct travels facebook page if you would choose to book a travel trip with them on paul gogan cruises or any other vacation is in the description below you can go over to their facebook page and they will be happy to help you out a really great company great group of people and I'm not just saying that don't forget to like share and subscribe I am on youtube I do regular art tutorials here if you would like to follow me and the most important thing of course is go out and have a great day have a great vacation do some art do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys


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Welcome to JSA TV where we're covering the latest stories, trends, and innovations from leaders in global connectivity, real estate, the channel, and the networks within. Buffy Harakitas of JSA and joining me today is Mike Egbert. He is the VP of sales and real estate for Pilot Fiber. Welcome. Thanks for having me. Yeah, it's been a while since we had you here on JSA TV. We were just actually reminiscing about the time that we interviewed you from Philly, my hometown for Channel Partners Evolution, the fall show as we would say in the past, right? Yeah, absolutely. So welcome back to JSA TV. It's an honor to have you here in Las Vegas for Channel Partners 2024 on our live broadcast. So why don't you tell viewers what's new since we last spoke with Pilot Fiber? Yeah, absolutely. So we turned 10 actually this month and so Pilot's officially 10 years old. I've been with the company for the entirety of the 10 years. It's been fun to kind of watch us grow over that time. Our entire goal is always expanding our physical fiber network, expanding our building footprint in the New York City area as a regional fiber optic internet service provider. Our goal is to just make our services available consistently to more and more businesses in New York City. And so we've been at work doing that. We've expanded our physical network so that our fiber network covers all of Manhattan at this point and we've started to build a network in the Bronx as well so that we can start to service businesses in that borough as well. In terms of buildings that we're bringing onto our network, we're creeping up on 900 buildings that are on net for Pilot, which just means more amazing internet availability for customers in New York City that need those dedicated internet services. And so yeah, it's been exciting to kind of watch things grow and we're continuing to continue to do more of the same. Well, happy anniversary. Thank you very much. 10 years is no small feat in this industry, that's for sure. And speaking of the New York City market, we have over 3,000 customers, business customers, I believe, in that market. What are you seeing in the market? Yeah, over the last couple of years, we've really seen the demand for a greater than one gig bandwidth services increase. And I think that is companies are adopting cloud services more and more. They've got distributed workforces. They're doing just more bandwidth intensive things in their offices in New York. And so we've seen a lot of demand for two, five, 10 gig plus services in New York City. And we're keeping up with that. So one thing that we've always been excited about a pilot is that we're always rolling out new technology to support our customer base. And so with the increased bandwidth needs, right now in just about every building that we provide service in, you can get a 10 gigabit circuit for as little as five to 15 days. And as we see increased quotes that are being requested for 40 gig services, 100 gig services, although they're not a ton right now, we want to get ahead of that curve. And so we're layering on technology and different deployment styles that will allow us to meet those same lead times for ever increasing bandwidth tiers. Well, it's definitely so important in today's world, especially with the need for low latency and the fastest internet that's possible, right? Absolutely. Yeah, for sure. And can you tell me a little bit more?   Yeah, that's a good question. If you go back 10 years ago, when we started, I'd say that there was less auditization around dedicated internet access. A lot of buildings in New York City were still very underserved from a fiber perspective. And when we entered the market, we really started to bring fiber to buildings that really didn't have the selection that a lot of other buildings in New York did. We started to close the gap with competitive pricing, making higher bandwidth services available to companies in New York. And now fast forward 10 years, there's been a huge commoditization of internet access to where you're seeing a lot more competition, a lot more fiber availability, and really a lot of a race to the bottom with pricing. And Pilots really been able to be consistent with driving value by focusing on the customer experience. So that's central to everything that we do. Every single team at Pilot, every function at Pilot is rallied around that one thing, which is the customer experience being paramount. And so we continue to deliver services with no annual contracts, incredibly fast lead times, very clear and competitive pricing, and just keeping the customer in mind at all times, I think, allows us to not necessarily play that pricing game, but really continue to drive value as we iterate. One thing that's big for us is adding additional reliability to our network. And so investing in things like active fiber monitoring across our backbone, protection groups that allow us to have diversity on our network, and just different ways that we're rolling it out technology to make services more resilient and more reliable for the end user, and just drive value continuously in that way. Well, the customer experience is everything, and it goes to show why Pilot Fiber has been in business for 10 years and growing, dedicated to investing into your network, and also into that customer experience. So, Mike, is there anything else you want to add today? No, listen, it's been a great experience to meet with our partners here in Las Vegas, and thank you for having me again, and look forward to the next time that we meet. Absolutely, it's been my pleasure to speak with you today. Congratulations to everyone at Pilot Fiber for 10 amazing, successful years in the New York City market, and thank you viewers for tuning in to another episode of JSA TV from Channel Partners 2024. Stay curious, stay connected, and happy networking.


What's up guys we're back with another insane opening we have 24 dark legends booster packs yeah we opened up two blisters of this the other day these packs are actually really really cool they're like retro pack but from the United States so before we get started they give away for them this video these blisters all come with a gore's the emissary of darkness so I have a bunch of them they did mostly come out a little bit damaged from just being packaged a little bit weird so we're gonna give away three of those all you have to do is like this video be subscribed and let me know what you want to see out of here I'm gonna talk about some cards that are in here later because we didn't really talk about it the first time but three gores will be given away three different winners so make sure you guys like the video and subscribe you guys saw I bought like seven blue eyes from this set so there's some really cool stuff like graceful charity super rare the most expensive card is called dark bribe I'd never heard of the card until I actually opened this set so it was like pretty crazy I was like well art before I open the set I looked up the price I was like what is this so that was pretty cool also when I'm an ounce guys before we get started I'm probably gonna stream tonight or maybe tonight and tomorrow but definitely tomorrow I'm gonna be doing dual links tomorrow probably and then tonight I might do a gaming on twitch so if you guys follow me twitch.tv slash ruxin34 I'll have the link in the description I'm gonna be doing gaming over on twitch I think and then if we play like dual links maybe I'll do on YouTube and like cards will be on YouTube so I'm gonna split them up so that you guys aren't spanned with stuff that you don't want to see it so let's go ahead and start here I want to make sure everybody you know gets to see what they want to see what they subscribe for it luminous spark you a photo turtle three people servant I've only pulled one one hollow from the set ever so let's see if we can break that streak black pendant oh there we go you got a gallon duo ultra rare what is this card time out what is this card gellin duo ultra rare yeah I don't think I've ever seen it maybe maybe I've seen it but I don't remember it very well so here we go all right yes we had to turn up the lights a little bit we're a little bit dark in here okay amazon's chain master that's really cool flames swordsman and a left leg let's see if we can pull exodia exodia head is an ultra rare I wasn't sure last time but it's an ultra rare in this set so hopefully we can pull it it is one of the most valuable cards and by the way that gate guardian we pulled last time is actually like the highest like the most expensive rare and then it is also like top five in the set or something let's go mother grizzly we got painful choice see there's just crazy cards in here molten destruction this would be a lot of fun to do like an old school draft with because there's a lot of cool cards shining angel mango rai you ran heel zen root there it is the gate guardian as I spoke about it the most expensive rare in the set it's like a $13 rare on tcg player the low is 13 bucks and that's me so there we go we got another one gate guardian that's just a rare but that's really cool summon skull is in here as a comment someone of you guys commented said you wanted to see the common summon skull right leg of the forbidden one there we go and elegant ego test so these are super cool also i'm probably going to be giving away those other gores on twitter so if you want to follow me on twitter make sure you follow me at ruxin34 i've been doing some giveaways over there i gave away a couple booster boxes give away a few packs so i might be giving away some cards as well so if you want to follow me there you can do that nimbo momonga it's okay if you don't have it you just want to have a chance at the giveaway but uh just saying there we go black illusion ritual mystic tomato dark magician that's what we pulled last time we pulled dark magician and gate guardian drew right there's another left leg i feel like we won't have too much for problem getting the pieces it's the head that's going to be tough because it is an ultra rare all right here we go we got a sonic bird let's see if we can pull some epic by the way i got these from cool trainer ryan if you guys saw old school experts video he opened some like right after i did he but he bought him from cool trainer ryan so i was like yeah let me hit let me hit up my boy cool trainer ryan he hooked me up with 12 blisters and you guys should check him out if you're interested in some i think he has more copycat summon skull guy the fierce knight and giant soldier stone and travel so yeah he's a really cool guy so far we've pulled one hollow that's it just one hollow we're hoping for i'm hoping for graceful charity i'm hoping for that dark bribe card just because it's expensive blue eyes would be really cool blue has ultimates a super there's some really good supers in here mst of course it's in here guy of power messenger of peace okay we got a trap hole can we get more exotics limbs thunder dragon that's good and baby dragon nice put the thunder dragon over here all right just one foil so far by the way i forgot to say the 50k special the box that i'm going to be opening i can't announce it yet but it is going back and forth in the mail it's going it went it got almost here and then it went to a completely different state and then went to another completely different state so uh hopefully they don't lose it that's all i can say my also my big ps a return did finish it is on its way back so hopefully that gets here as well so hopefully we'll see those two videos the 50k special and the ps a return soon they're going to be good i think giant rat and giant germ right next to each other mst and gaya power again oh relinquished dark legends super rare relinquished it's like all the lower rarity stuff is all the big boys that's that's crazy probably looks pretty good relinquished that's really awesome super rare so that is a good pull we got a blizzard dragon gaya caribo haynain and gazelle gazelle the king of mythical beasts all right we got a lot more packs off we pulled two foils with a super and an ultra no secrets unfortunately this set could be really good for that secret rare mystic tomato giant trunade upstart goblin there we go blizzard dragon again okay all right all right we have an exotic lemon a lot yeah i don't even know what to say to that i'd say not only do one but two pop up i said i haven't seen an exotic lemon a while boom now that we've completed the pieces we just need the head so we're gonna need you guys to hit the like button for luck for that crazy exodia pull full exodia pull that's the goal we've always tried it we got so close with lob we pulled four ultra rares all the limbs but we can never pull the exodia head all right umiruka here we go giant germ nimble memonga tune mermaid mst tune world copycat okay all right another copycat we got another summon skull that's cool all right come on give us the exodia head come on give us the exodia head we'd rather have that over guard bribe it's cheaper but come on we definitely rather have that we got the memonga we got the tune mermaid the mst the tune world tune tune mermaid lots of tunes gay guardian again and an exodia piece we got two gay guardians this card's like over 10 bucks so that's like a really good pull especially for a set that isn't that value there's a summon skull there's a not crazy amount of value in here so pulling a ten dollar rare is definitely not bad especially you can pull foil and a rare so getting like gay guardian and a big card would be really nice here we go giant germ the nimble memonga tune mermaid again another tune mst all right tune world and two mermaid we figured it out wall of illusion oh another thunder dragon and then baby dragon always comes after it so these are like very very consistent with what order they come in i'm guessing there's like not too many comments in here and stuff so it's probably like you know it's really really easy to put the same order and there's a lot of cards in these packs let's count one two three four hopefully get some good five six penguins so that's pretty good where's that seven nine ten eleven we got the uh the legendary exodia pack with three pieces of exodia summoned to us by the penguin soldier there we go for all you penguin soldier fans out there i know all you guys are down there in the comments hyping up the penguins older so just two foils come on let's get some more they have the ratios on here i'm guessing they're the same yeah they're one in five for supers and uh one and twelve for old girls like the old school packs this was 2008 set so it's a little bit later but they went back with the old ratios he was in a room mahal vile you kind of have to when you don't have a secret tune summon skull flying coming carry number one cat's a poult turtle there's a summon skull right leg and another summon oh a double summon skull pack that's pretty cool we got three six nine we got half our packs left so we have not quite gotten to the ratio we're looking for we're looking for three through 12 but we only have two they get two gay guardians though so that's pretty good umiruka giants germ nibble munga tune mermaid msd tune world oh it's the rare okay it's the rare so it won't work is that our first gaya guy and thousand dragon all right come on let's get some crazy let's get something epic okay there's a little uh scanner thing in the back or in the front actually it looks like okay all right black pendant black pendant that was weird black illusion ritual mystic tomato heels and root wait what's going on over here okay i don't know magician of faith that's good rare summon skull we're gonna get another diamond double summon skull pack we did there's an extra card in here maybe it was just placed in a different spot another exotic limb another double summon skull pack we've got a magician of faith that's a pretty good one all right come on we're thirsty for a foil here come on can we get a foil oh my god shake the pack i know apparently you guys notice that i shake the pack a lot that's funny all right the giganto rat the giganto germ the mst gaya power mother grizzly feature come on where the foil blue ice tune that's a good one left leg at the forbidden one all right not bad not bad okay come on we're gonna need some luck guys we're gonna need some luck here we have we've got on a cold streak very cold streak we're gonna need you guys to believe that we will pull something good let's just get an epic foil here we go here's enrune wow by the the tune summon skull flying common carry number one giant rat cyber harpy lady this is actually like the second most expensive card this is and it's a super rare cyber harpy lady that's a great pull there we go check that out that is a very very nice card i'm sure you can guess why that card's worth a little bit more i'm not gonna have to say it for you but uh messenger of peace we got a left arm the forbidden one okay so that's a great pull so we're up to three foils can we get three more and get to the ratio that would be pretty tough but it would be pretty awesome UFO turtle that was a definitely a good pull though black pendant that was one i meant to mention i forgot to mention it so we pulled it giant trunade the flute of summoning dragon there's a lot of giant car giant trunade giant rat i forget i'm already forgetting one of them giant giant something i'm sure we'll see it again i've seen the sim comments so much giant germ giant germ that's what it is shining angel here we go come on upstart that's a good one sonic bird tune world ufo titl grave keepers servant beast skull that's pretty cool beast skull dragon double guy the dragon champion that's this is so weird how often they're like doubling why did i i meant to whatever didn't mean to sleeve that but yeah okay six more packs we are 75 percent of the way there we fold only three foils but remember these are blister packs there's no way they could be scaled and uh we've actually pulled pretty good for what we've pulled we just haven't pulled a lot all right shining angel let's get some good manga right ran he goes en route blank i'm carry number one gate guardian again a third copy with the left leg a third copy of a twelve dollar rare we're about to flood the market with three copies of gate guardian that's pretty awesome all right but can we get another foil okay what i want is an exodia i want an exodia head graceful charity super rare that's all i ask for you got black pendant black illusion ritual mystic tumult here's that route my villa tune summon skull oh oh red eyes that's like a five dollar rare i think i saw it up there on the price guide it was worth a little bit that's a cool rare red eyes black it's weird how red eyes and dark magician are rares but blue eyes is super rare i guess they're like we can't do that the blue eyes okay four more packs four more packs last time i told you guys to believe we pulled a cyber heart of ladies so i want you to believe again please please help us pull something good here we go shining angel upstart already a good start to the upstart yeah there we go that made no sense okay tune world UFO turtle totals great people servant dark magician all right that's a good pull it's a good pull three more packs three more packs three okay a power painful choice giant grenade mango right you ran mother grizzly okay i thought that was it oh a solemn judgment super rare that is super cool actually get it super rare super cool okay i'm sorry i'm sorry solemn i don't know what's up with the dad jokes right now solemn judgment yes we got a good pull okay that is a nice super rare i'm happy about that thunder dragon okay we ever got at least a place at a thunder dragon now that is good i've mixed all these piles up all right two more packs can we pull one more foil get just to be one away from ratio one away from ratio we're happy sonic bird black illusion ritual lord of the luminous spark UFO turtle oh what same one relinquished super rare i mean that's good but that's kind of weird two relinquished super rares that's cool i mean i'm happy with it but that's kind of weird that that happened oh wait wait wait we got more more limbs we got a right leg okay that's it i thought we had one in the back okay final pack can we pull final pack exodia magic can we do this let's go believe you guys believe that we can oh wait are they normally like this i don't remember come on last pack here we go mahala let me work a sonic bird black illusion ritual we're gonna need that for our two relinquished lord of d oh my goodness can it be the blue eyes can it be graceful charity can it be um dark bribe or it can be a copycat right arm of the forbidden one our journey complete to complete exodia and one opening continues one day we're gonna do that guys so let's go over what we got in this video from 24 dark legends packs we got a bunch of exodia pieces like a lot we got a lot of exodia pieces fortunately not the head but we do get all the pieces then for foils we got well then for other cards we got three thunder dragon three upstarts two dark magician one red eyes one blue beast skull not blue eyes we got three gay guardians that was really good two relinquished that was a little bit weird solemn judgment's really cool cyber harpy lady's really cool and then this random weird ultra rare card so we only got one ultra which is unfortunate but overall we did pretty good i think from like comments and then our super rares were really good so i had a lot of fun with this opening hope you guys enjoyed it make sure you guys subscribe if you did and look out for for streaming on twitch make sure you follow me there as well as doing some streams on youtube so i haven't probably gonna do both for right now so i don't really know which one we're gonna do but you guys can let me know in the comments what you think and that's it for this video see you guys later peace


It's wonderful to have you. Happy morning. I feel like we have to… This is good. Do we say namaste or no? Namaste is good. Namaste. Essentially, this is a way of, you know, when you look at a person, you tend to recognize their gender, their caste, creed, color, or good, bad, all kinds of things. To look beyond that, that fundamentally the source of every life is the same thing. So when we do namaste, we recognize only that dimension of you. You as a possibility, not as what you are today. So we're talking about like kind of re-engineering ourselves. I don't know if you notice, but New Yorkers tend to be a little high strung. How can you miss it? You notice. So what do we need to do to kind of reset ourselves, re-engineer? Well, it's in our engineering. See we have engineered the outside world the way we want, but what have we done about ourselves? As a generation of people, we are living in the highest level of comfort and convenience, but we are whining like nobody else. So we're not finding that inner peace, the true happiness, success. These birds have become very cliche, inner peace, inner joy. But tell me, all human experience, joy or misery, where does it happen? It can only happen within us. It never happens in the air, okay? People say love is in the air, but it's not true. When you are in love, it looks like everything is like that. When you are in joy, it looks like the whole world is joyful. So fundamentally all human experience comes from within us. What happens around us, there are too many forces, we can't control all of it. Some of it happens our way, but what happens from within us must happen our way. Right now this is the only problem human beings have. What happens within us is not happening our way because we are not engineered the way we want. Good engineering simply means it works the way we want, isn't it? So how can you achieve that? There is a scientific process, as there is a science and technology for external well-being. Similarly, there is an entire science and technology for inner well-being. Say, do you agree with me that this human mechanism is the most complex or sophisticated machine on the planet? But have you read the user's manual? That's very funny. That's very funny. So by the way, you do online courses, right? Yes, there is online in engineering process, which is more of a preparatory step. And then there's a completion process, which is always direct transmission. So you're very socially savvy, you know? I mean, you have almost two million followers on Twitter. I've been… There are over five hundred million people on our YouTube imprints are there. Wow, it's incredible. But you know, when you say, savvy, I've been living in this world for over six decades. So I know this world, the way it works. And what about also the Isha Foundation that you have? Because people can visit there, spend several days. Yes. We have two large centers. We have city centers, over 350 centers across the world. But we have two major centers, one in Southern India and one in Tennessee, near Chattanooga. Okay. So this is over a, over 2,300 acre property, which is a large meditation center. In India, it's over 500 acre property, which is one of the most important places. It's an incredible India platform right now, as a tourism place also. And I know that you're also in town because you're, I guess, a fashionista. I don't know, are you? I'm not okay. You look great. You've got every a styling from the top down to your toes. So you're doing something that fashion meets peace or...? This is a 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. So this year we are doing many things, whatever was dear to him. One thing was old life. So we are doing a lot of work with the farmers and creating model villages. Another thing is the clothing because one symbol of Mahatma Gandhi was always spinning wheel and hem because this was a protest against the destruction of textile industry in India by the occupying forces of the time. So we're trying to put this back because India has over 136 distinct varieties of weaves. No other culture has ever done this. It's taken a few millennia to develop these skills. But today, most of them are on the verge of dying because it's almost the last generation doing this weaving. Their children have all become software engineers probably in San Francisco. That's right. That's very funny. That's right. We're trying to put this back. To put this back, one of the most important things is to create a market. So we are exposing these textiles. We brought 120 varieties of distinct weaves to be presented to some of the top American designers so that they get familiar with these weaves and also how to use it. It's their choice. Oh, that's so nice. So if somebody is watching right now, can we do something to make them feel better? Is there something that we like a thought that we can kind of like think, you know, get our minds around today to kind of reset our day? The simple thing is just this. See, what people are struggling with is not their life. People think they're suffering their life. No, they're suffering their own thought and emotion most of the time. Either their body or their thought or emotion. Most of the time, unless they have an injury or an ailment, it may be physical body. But rest of the time, it's just their own thought and emotion. What I'm asking you is, when will you learn to handle your thought and emotion at what time in your life? Because even if you're 50, 60, if you've not figured how to handle your thought and emotion, when are you going to get it? Maybe you never do. So if you never do, what you're saying is the basic faculties that you have, which is unique to the human being, this level of cerebral activity is unique to the human being on this planet at least. So your most fundamental instruments, which is what makes us human, you will never get to use it the way you want it. Isn't that a disaster? That's a tragedy. Yeah. So can you do that? Can you do that by we, you know, meditation? Does that help reset the emotions? The word meditation doesn't really mean anything because it's too generic. It's not anybody with eyes closed, we think they're meditating because there are many dimensions to it. Right now, how to use the thought? There are some things which are constant within us for most human beings. Breath is happening, of course, and there is a thought process going on. So you can link these two, and because you asked right now what we can do, right now what you can do is simply this, see what you call as my body is an accumulation. It's a food that we've eaten, which slowly gathered like this. We were not born like this. And what you call as my mind is the various impressions we have taken in from the world around us. So this is a heap of food, this is a heap of impressions. So where is you? So the simplest thing is just this, that you create a little distance from what you call as my body and what you call as my mind. So you just do this, people can do this, there is also a guided meditation called Isha Kriya, which is available on the app and everything. All you have to do is with inhalation, you just remind yourself, I am not the body. With exhalation, you remind yourself, I am not even the mind. I'm not the body and I'm not the mind. So what are you? But with inhalation and exhalation. I'm not the body. Why do you ask me, huh? So what's the matter? Yes, exactly. I'm not the body, not the mind. See, the most important thing is, at least you know I do not know, all right? I do not know is a tremendous possibility. The moment you see, I do not know, the longing to know and the possibility to know naturally happens. Because if you think you know it all. The moment you see that I do not know, you ask the question, then what am I? But you asking me, what am I? You should not ask me, you should ask yourself, what is the nature of my existence? If you do not understand or know the nature of your existence, your existence is going to be accidental, isn't it? It is that which is causing so much anxiety. Suppose you're just about to get into an accident of some kind. Is there anxiety? I've heard you talk about fear, desire, that these are all...  That they're from the environment. No, I'm saying... See if you're getting into an accident, is there naturally anxiety in anybody? Natural, isn't it? Yeah, of course you're raising yourself for an accident. Right now, most human beings are existing accidentally because they do not even know the nature of their own existence. So anxiety, we are beginning to think is natural. Anxiety is natural. As a child, when you were two, three, four years of age, joy was natural, isn't it? Exuberance was natural. Now we are beginning to say anxiety is natural. No, anxiety is not natural. This is because you're existing accidentally. I'm not my body. I'm not even the mind. Inhalation, I'm not the body. Inhalation, I'm not even the mind. This is a guided process available on the app and... Sadguru. Nice to have you. Thank you. Check him out on all his social media platforms. He's got to go now because he's going to the United Nations. He's a busy man. Very. Thank you for something. Thank you. Thank you. Good day. Probably. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


Welcome back. In this lesson I want to go over the option back tester that you can use to find the statistics and probabilities to back up your trade before you even enter the trade. So there's a few things that you need to think about that you need to know before you enter a trade. One, what's your market assumption? Do you have a long bias, a short bias, or are you looking to play the underlying symbol as a market neutral type strategy? And then what is your strategy? A lot of this depends on the implied volatility level at the time you place the trade, but then you got to pick your strategy. Are you trading an iron condor, a strangle, a butterfly? What's your underlying strategy? And then when do you enter the trade and when do you exit the trade? At Navigation Trading we don't guess on what we think the best strategy is, we have statistics and probabilities to back that up. Let's go to the option back tester and take a look at a couple examples. So I'm looking at ticker symbol SPY. We choose an iron condor. We sell that iron condor. Obviously there's no earnings announcements because SPY is an ETF, not an individual stock. And we typically like to manage our iron condors at 40% of max profit. So you can see over a three year period entering trades with around 45 days to expiration, you can see that iron condors have been a pretty profitable strategy to use. Now we're looking at several different examples. We're looking at with different delta strikes. We're looking at 60, 40, 50, 30, 40, 20, kind of in that 30 to 20 delta is kind of this is the range where we typically put those on at Navigation Trading. So you can see with the 20 delta the most common 42 wins, 6 losses, 101% return. What if we wanted to do instead of an iron condor, what if we wanted to do undefined risk and trade a strangle? And we typically manage our strangles at 50% of max profit. Now these are all strategies that you'll learn about later in the course as well as our specific courses on each strategy. But this just gives you an idea of some of the statistics and data that we use to back up the strategies. And every time we place a trade, we know exactly kind of what it's done in the past and what the probability of success is going to be going forward. So you can do this on any ticker symbol. You can look at this from strategies of calls, puts, covered calls, call spreads, put spreads, straddle, strangles, iron condors and some other custom type trading strategies. So if you want to learn more about the option back tester and how you can use it for yourself and run all the scenarios that you need to know before you place trades, I've put a link in the resource links, go there and check it out. If you have any questions, let us know. Hope that was helpful. We'll see you in the next lesson.


The number one reason why people don't meditate is because they say they can't do it. Well, here's a news flash for you. People as young as five years old are being taught meditation. So if a five-year-old can do it, you can do it too. So in this video, we're going to talk about why people think they can't do it, why it's wrong, and why you need to start yourself a meditation practice. So stay tuned. What's up, everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And I'm making this video for a variety of reasons, but my heart just swells up every time somebody comes up to me and they're like, Chris, I started meditating and oh my God, it is decreasing my anxiety, it's decreasing my depression, it's helping me with cravings. When they say it, I'm just like, yes, yes, why can't I get more people to do this? And trust me, like I'm trying to push meditation on so many people. For me, it took me three years of working on my mental health to try meditation. And once I did, I was like, why didn't somebody tell me about this sooner? Like why? It's so beneficial. So this is why I am just so adamant that you need to try it now. Before I try to get somebody to try meditation, I get this excuse all the time, all the time from so many people. They always tell me, I tried to and I couldn't stop thinking so I don't do it anymore. And that is the biggest myth about meditation in general. Let me put it to you this way. The human mind on average has 50 to 70,000 thoughts per day. If your goal is to stop your thoughts, then you are running a fool's errand. It is impossible to stop your thoughts.  So for you to think that you're going to try meditation one time and stop your thinking, it's impossible. Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts. It's about not being carried away by your thoughts. What I tell everybody, what I'm teaching them about meditation like I teach it to all of my clients is this and please if you get nothing else from this video, remember what I'm about to say.  That's right. Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, it's about noticing thoughts. So when it comes to meditation, the practice that I use is called mindfulness. It's a form of meditation. It's very informal, which is why I like it. I have a mind that goes a million miles of minutes. Sometimes it's hard for me to sit, but I'm getting better at it. I've been doing this for about two years, but anyways, mindfulness can be done anywhere. So for example, one of the first mindfulness meditation practices that you get is focusing on your breath and you can start with as little as a minute a day. That's what I did. I started with 60 seconds. So if you want to do that, try it. I highly suggest you try more five minutes or 10 minutes.  That's literally all it is. That's all it is.  And when I used to walk her on the leash, she would drag me around all over the place. And when we were training her, you know, you yank on the leash and after a while of yanking on that leash, then my mom's dog started walking right next to me. It's almost like your brain. The more you keep training it, the less likely it is to keep trying to run off because you start noticing these things and you bring your attention back. This is why they're teaching meditation to children because it helps train the part of the brain responsible for attention and focus. So just remember, they are teaching this to children in elementary schools. So if they can do it, so can you. I just wanted to make this quick video explaining this misconception about meditation because just like any other skill that you have to develop, like, I don't know you whoever's watching this. I don't know you, but think about one skill that you have that you're really good at, think about how long it took you to develop this skill. Probably took you a while for some people. It takes years typically after practicing meditation for at least seven days, you see results, you begin to see results within seven days. Okay. For some people, it's two weeks. For me, it was almost instantly like I got hooked. So do me a favor, make a commitment to me right now that you are going to try this for seven days. If you need to check the info card up here, I always make videos about different free apps that you can try to help you out with guided meditations, but here is my question of the day to you. Leave a comment down below. What is stopping you from picking up a meditation practice? Give me your best excuse down in the comments below. All right. But if you like this video, if it helped you out, please give it a thumbs up, share it with a friend, get them to start meditating too. But if you're new here and you haven't yet, hit the little round subscribe button because I'm always making videos to help you out with your mental and emotional health and click or tap on one of the thumbnails right over there and check out some of the other awesome videos on this channel. Thanks for watching everybody. I'll see you next time.