Okay, oops. Let's turn the sound off before I hear my own voice. Let's see. There we go. Hey guys, how are you this morning? All right, the first thing we need to do is pick watercolors we want to paint with today because I haven't done that yet. Let's see. Mmm. We have Prima, the mixed palette, Van Gogh, Maymary Blue. It might be fun to use Maymary Blue. We haven't pulled them out in a while. Maymary makes two different levels of watercolor paints. The blue is the artist's grade. I don't remember what the student grade is, but there is one. They're an Italian watercolor paint brand, I believe, and I don't have a full palette of them. I've been collecting them slowly. But they do have really fun colors and interesting names like Dragon's Blood, Garnet Lake, and then of course with the regular colors like CBM paint gray. So I think we'll maybe use this one. This will be fun because there's not really too many. Sorry, I'm getting all these notifications suddenly because I'm live, so of course it would happen while I'm live. Anyway, there's not too many like normal regular colors. There's a few, but I think we're gonna use this one today. So let's get it wet and get started. There are lots of different ways to get your watercolor paints wet. I'm a sprayer, obviously.  So do what works for you. All right. Now last week I know there were suggestions flying about what to paint and I don't remember what any of them are. I don't remember. So we're gonna, maybe we might do a couple of paintings this morning. I want to do an owl, but I want to do it like Gene Haynes style and you know, with the non-traditional colors like we did our nudes where instead of using any flushed, we didn't use any flush tones. So I want to do an owl kind of that way only like I said Gene Haynes style where it's kind of drippy and suggestive and so we're gonna try that. I have this book here. This is one of my bird reference books and there's a bunch of different kinds of owls in here and before you ask, this book is Birds of North America Western Region by DK Publishing. I got it on Amazon used. It was not very expensive. So let's just, usually I like barn owls and so don't be surprised if I do another barn owl. I have done one in the past. I just think they're the cutest thing. Hey Ian. So we're gonna do an owl. We'll end up doing a barn owl if I can't find one I like better. He's kind of cute. Boreal owl. I think I want it. We're gonna just do, we're gonna do an owl. We're gonna just use this for reference. I'm gonna actually prop it up back here. I do have my book weight. I found it. So unexpected issue with reorganizing your studio when for lots of different reasons including anxiety disorder and other things. You have a really bad memory. You can't remember where you put stuff away. But I know I found my book weight. It took me a little bit. If we have time this morning, we are going to use some of these calendars, a picture on one of these calendars for reference for another paint, little painting. These are from my husband's friend Brent Frazier. He's a photographer. Every year he takes a lot of pictures and then at the end of the year he puts them into a calendar and has them printed. And he gives my husband, well, I shouldn't say gives. My husband buys one every year. And he has been for years and I've been begging him for eons to bring them home. So I can use them for painting inspiration. So finally this year, he brought me a giant stack of them home. And we've used these as inspiration in the past, but it's been a while. So I thought we would pull another one out. Now Brent does sell these and I will try to later on post the link to his website. I have quite a few years of calendar here, except this year because my husband kept it at his desk. Hey Gail! So I think that we're going to do the owl first and then we will pull one of these out and use it for inspiration unless you guys have a better idea after we do the owl. We're gonna do the owl first. So let me put these somewhere. Put that here. All right. I've got my watercolor journal, which we're still trying to fill up and let me just there. Make sure I'm on camera. So we're still trying to fill this up. So I should be, you know, I could be doing something on a loose piece of paper, but I really want to fill this journal up. I think I started it last year, so I would kind of like to fill it up. Of course, you know, I have a really bad about dating things. 20. Oh, see I started it in 2014. So it would be really nice to finish it and fill it up. So calendars are definitely a great source of inspiration, especially if you get one from, you know, a photographer. And maybe you have like me, if you're like me, you have four or five photographers in the family and it seems like every year they all put out a calendar and I try to grab them when I can and put them in my stash of inspiration things, photographs and I do think I have more inspiration material than I probably do watercolor paint, which is saying a lot, but you know, it's something that I refer back to a lot and I love them. So we're going to just keep like flipping here. Oh Thanks. I like to paint flowers. They're a lot of fun. Obviously. There's a lot of flowers in here So I thought we would do like an owl in this kind of like we did the peacock Here's our nudes, which went over very well And you guys a lot of you a lot more if you tried it than I thought would and I'm very proud of all of you for doing that All right So I want to do an owl here. I have a cough drop in my mouth if I sound funny. That would be why Okay, and I've got my rag. I Think we're ready to go Maybe I don't know All right, we need a brush a couple of brushes. I'm gonna get Kind of a bigger This is an Eskoda I like this brush a lot. It's a good detail brush and we're gonna get out To brush We're gonna put them all in water. I Did make this book I get asked about this book a lot. This book is from a course That I one of the first online courses I ever sold Right now it's available for purchase on you to me and you can Download the video or you should be able to it will shortly be available directly from me through my website and Definitely will be downloadable. I have to I Have some computer work to do on that and I have to organize the files and all that but I'm working on it Right now it's available over at you to me and there should be a link in the description to my you to me Channel if there isn't you can go to Gina be errands calm and there's a classroom page that has a link to the Udemy class I'm sorry that you have a migraine. I You know knock on wood Haven't gotten one since I had my daughter But when I was younger I used to get them all the time.  They're horrible So get better quick rest turn off the lights I have a mixing plate in case I needed I decided to put one out So Ian yeah, definitely so then if that's the case I would definitely hang on to them and use them for inspiration. They're fabulous This is actually deli paper. You could use tracing paper. You could use vellum You could use if you have old typewriter paper wax paper I just want to prevent some of the drips and splatters from getting on the next pages I'll know I like drips and splatters. I don't necessarily You know, maybe I get blue drips and splatters on a page that I don't want blue on that would be shocking but So we're gonna start by making Getting one of these leftover colors that's on here wet Oops and I know right I'm just adding some color to the page. I'm gonna zoom in just a little bit and don't forget to Set your resolution on your tablet if you're on a tablet or smartphone Click on the three dots then click on quality then click on the highest resolution It'll allow you to and before we get started. I'm gonna put on some art guard because I almost forgot Even watercolor paints have some pigments in them That are toxic so you should protect your hands You should use a barrier cream if you have one and you should definitely wash your hands after you're done painting before you Anything or touch your face You could use parchment paper deli paper is like a dry wax paper and you can get I get it at my local restaurant supply But you could use parchment paper Deli paper is a little thinner than parchment paper, but use what you have And honestly any piece of paper where will work for a barrier If it is a little bit, you know waxy then it's a little bit more water resistant than regular paper But use what you have Okay now that I remembered my barrier cream I'm gonna grab some of the permanent yellow lemon yellow put some of that on here, too And yeah, my grains are horrible aren't they so this is the Maymary blue watercolor paints there. I think I'm pretty sure they're Italian watercolors You can get them at like Dick Blick art guard is a barrier cream. You can also use invisible invisible glove There's a lot of different brands out there. This one is by Windsor and Newton So we're going to now I'm gonna go in with Indian yellow We're doing an owl. Hopefully hopefully it's gonna come out looking like an owl We'll find out. I don't know So we're going to try to do it sort of gene-hane style Which means we're gonna suggest this shape, but we're gonna keep it, you know loose and splattery And we're gonna suggest, you know Lightness and brightness with color. I love this Maymary blue Indian yellow. It's really bright And yeah, we all feel bad for Mama cats because we you know those of us who have been there know exactly Unfortunately what she's going through poor thing So I'm putting a little bit of color down where I want it to be real bright and look like the owl is in the sun Sun's shining on him. He's very warm Trying to suggest a few shapes, but not too many not yet Gene Haynes, that's exactly right and she has a number of books and videos out DVDs out The DVDs are fun to have like when you're on a road trip or something you can you know If you're not the one driving which I'm usually not because I get too anxious and make everybody else in the car scared I think So I can put my DVD player on and I can I can watch one of her videos Yeah, my grains are just miserable All right, so we're going to go in with a little bit cooler color at dragon's blood, which is this really pretty Red color It's more of a warm red and it's gonna blend it's gonna blend with the yellow Which I'm okay with But I'm gonna encourage it to blend and run by putting some more water I've been trying to lately share other youtuber videos with you guys that I find that are very inspiring Not just for like mixed media, but also watercolor and other things So I'm gonna keep doing that if you all like that To see those videos you have to be in the Facebook group or on one of my other social media Things what do you call those channels sites? Links, I don't know You know, I got to tell you we've only put two colors down there, but hey, I'm liking him already. Oh, hey. Oh, yeah, sorry Yeah, it's H AI I love her website someday. I would love to take a class from her. That would be so cool Thank You watercolor gypsy. I my spelling is not good on a You know, it's not good on a good day There I agree with you. I love her books. I'm a big fan I'm working through one of them right right now. I need to open my water and my hands are Wet from the art guard All right, let's keep going. All right we're gonna stay with a big brush and this kind of thing is really great with a big brush because Purposefully because you have less control and that's you know We're not working on realism. We're working on suggesting color and light. I'm taking some of the red and Some water on my toothbrush and I'm splattering that on Oh, is it just me or did you guys lose me? There we go. You guys aren't the only ones I'm watching on my iPad as I always am and The iPad went out, but the display behind me on the computer is fine and it says we're still broadcasting So I'm not sure what it is. It must have been a YouTube thing. I don't know. I Don't know. That was weird I haven't done anything except splatter a little bit of the red with my toothbrush. It's all I did I Just dipped the toothbrush in the watercolor paint and then you just did this and flicked it up with a toothbrush All right, let's keep going And going and going. Oh, sorry We are gonna go with some I Really want to put some magenta. I don't know why Except that it's pink No worry worries Rockland. We just got bait barely got started. So it's fine and And you know the replay is gonna be on YouTube. All right, and Before we do any drying and I do think I'm the point to the point where I want to dry it a little bit so that colors Won't mix as much I'm gonna add some purple This is Garnet Lake. I have two purples in this Palette one is Garnet Lake Which is a I don't know like a grayish reddish purple It's a pretty color. It wasn't just you that lost the feed Gail I lost my own feed Like I said the computer was still broadcasting but YouTube wasn't showing me so I don't know I don't know Now the iPads wanting to go to sleep the heck is going on with the feed this morning Hey, you guys aren't the only ones having issues. There's something funny going on with YouTube this morning Okay, I if you're new to my channel, then you don't know Daniel Smith is my favorite and Both of those colors are in my palette. I Love them and they're fabulous. You definitely could use Rose of Ultramarine in place of this primary red magenta and moon glow in place of this Garnet Lake color. Definitely you could They're fabulous fabulous colors. Yeah, something's up with YouTube today because my computer is broadcasting to YouTube Just fine and it says it's still connected, but YouTube. I don't know what's up with YouTube today Okay, we're gonna dry this a little bit now.  It is watercolor those of you that work with watercolor No, it can still reactivate, but it's gonna be less likely to do so if I dry it first before I put any more colors So we're gonna do that. I I'm pretty sure cascade green is in my I'm How it also as I'm drawing this I'm gonna go in where I have any sections that are not Huddly enough. I like the play of puddles and The watermarks. I think that's why I like Jean Haines style a little bit a little bit a lot and Hang on a second watercolor gypsy and I'll get my Daniel Smith Color key out you can order a dot sample chart from Daniel Smith and that includes samples of all 238 of their colors and That's a great great way as you're building your palette to test out the colors that you think you might like Which is how what I did when I was building the Daniel Smith metallic palette that I have Okay, so now that's Rinkly but isn't it cute already? Okay, so my Daniel Smith metallic palette, which I just put together has in it Seven iridescent colors. It has gold Aztec gold bronze copper ruby electric blue and blue silver and Then it has do a seven duo chrome colors violet fantasy Ocean aqua Cabo blue hibiscus mauve and violet If you rock limb if you just search for my name Gina be errands or Gina Bronzini errands I'm everywhere and the Instagram link should be in the description of the broadcast Also, it should be on my website Gina be errands comm I love seeing them granulate and separate and I love doing that with all watercolors But Daniel Smith colors do it the best To be honest with you. This is my Daniel Smith palette and yes, I have cascade green So this is a 48 pan palette and I have 52 in it because you can actually get one more color in each row and you can tell by how well used this is how messy It is that it's very well loved. I love this palette. It's my favorite and there should be a picture of this color key on My website. There's a watercolor Wednesday page on my website and there should actually be a picture of this color key on there Or a link to it or something All right, let's keep going We're gonna stay I think We're gonna try this Brush, what is this called a I always want to call it a sword brush the striper Narda, I don't understand the question unless I missed something grid doctors grits doctors. I don't know I'm late. I don't understand. I missed some I missed something Something important. I'm gonna go in with some turquoise because you all know I can't resist some turquoise Dagger brush, that's it. Thank you. The actually this is a Princeton one and it says striper. Oh, it does say dagger It does say dagger See, I'm just I'm you know, I'm having one of those days I've been working on the secret project and I've really been working on it a lot and My brain is starting to get on overload So start you're working with watercolor. So start with Your lighter colors and work your way darker I'm glad to be painting right now because I've been stuck at the computer working on the secret project and paperwork associated with it literally four days and It's nice to do something else to be honest with you It's very nice to do something else. I love the addition of that turquoise in there The nice thing about this dagger brush is you can get a really thin line. You can get something larger and flatter You have a lot of options with this brush that you don't necessarily with other brushes and I like the Princeton brand because they're not too expensive. I know isn't this owl turning out cute So if I want a darker pigment or darker version of the pigment Then I'm going to pull it right out of the wet wet pan if I want to water down when I'll pull it out down here one of the fun things about watercolor, I think is Learning to control the water It's a challenge for me. And I think that's why I gravitate towards a watercolor So these fun little animal shapes, they don't take long. They're easy to do It's a fun way to play with color and light and really, you know work on Your colors and what you like and what works for you to suggest different shapes and different different paintings He is so cute. Holy cow Okay, so I didn't get the eyes wet yet. We're gonna See we have some dark here. I think actually I need a different brush now We're gonna go with the a scota brush Which is this is a scota surround number eight and I'm gonna take the color that was on here Which was probably paints gray and I'm gonna add a little more pigment to it Right. This is turquoise green the blue that I was adding on there It's these are may marry blue paints Well, yeah, and the replay will definitely be here. So And you know I'll post pictures later So I'm gonna use the more watered-down version of the pains gray first to really darken up the shadows And that will really get him to pop They're cute The paintings are cute with the goofy colors, but the dark shit dark shades really really are what make them start to pop So don't be afraid to get in there with your darker colors and your cooler colors Now I don't have white in this palette. I do in some of my palettes, but not this one Jean Haynes is not afraid to use white in her paintings and I applaud her for that I'm not either But I'm a mixed media artist and I don't have white in this palette So we're gonna just dry him and get out a little bit of gel pen Okay, now I'm gonna keep going and I'm gonna go into the pains gray and I'm going to go right into the palette the pan So we get something stronger So these this is I have two kinds of Italian paint now I have this one the may marry blue and then I also have the new zeki and I'm sure that's not how you pronounce it I'm gonna have to ask my aunt Who speaks Italian? How badly am I butchering that name because I'm sure I'm butchering it very well I never learned Italian although I'm of Italian heritage unfortunately and I like I like both of them I still prefer Daniel Smith. I like the way they granulate But that being said these are very nice and they're both very very well pigmented I'm barely touching the brush to the paper Barely barely and I think he's just about done I really like the way he looks you guys. I'm gonna mix some of the dragon's blood into the pains gray, which should give us Sort of a dark black color Should give us something a little darker than just the straight pains gray. Well, I shouldn't say that it might We'll see that's pretty good, and I know there was some more questions there. I'll look at them in a second Okay, we're gonna dry this again, and then I'll look at the questions It's just you know different water colorists have different opinions about it It's sort of like lifting or or as I say blotting Some water colorists say that you should be able to create your painting Without doing any of those or without using white and you should be good enough to leave white space on the paper I generally speak while I don't necessarily disagree with that I Generally am having too much fun painting to remember to leave white space I'm being really honest and so it doesn't usually happen and I am noticing one thing he needs on his feet So, I don't know Some watercolors are okay with it some aren't something that the white is a waste of space I Actually, I'm okay with it So I'm wanting to take Some of one of our dark colors If I'm gonna do this barn owl he does kind of have a texture to his Or a ridge on his beak So I'm looking at my reference photo, and there is like a ridge on his beak So I'm just suggesting that ridge with some of the colors that I have here. I Don't want to go too dark And I don't want to go too much So that's good Yellow and turquoise always look fabulous together. I love them Yeah, they do they come from the sign writing trade And I know Ian that they're also used the dagger brushes are also used by auto painting dealer detailers I only know that because my husband watches a lot of auto painting deal tailing shows embossing ink pen so I You know Michael's had an embossing pen or Out for like a hot second and I like it but now you can't get them anymore. Does anybody else have any? Suggestions for an embossing ink pan ink ink pen out there There is another brand that makes one and I can't remember who it is is it Ranger and I probably even have one If I can remember we'll get him out so he's cute and all but he needs some white highlights So we're gonna just take a gel pen Now gel pens don't always want to write over watercolor. So just be aware of that I'm going to give some highlights in his eye and Probably put something on his beak. You won't be able to see the part on his beak Probably at all, right? He's the cutest thing. I love him. I Almost put my pen in the water. Let me zoom in on his face for you guys So I love him. He's cute. Let's do another painting and let's do one of the calendar pages We have plenty of time. It's only 10 38 And let me before we do that. Let me see. I actually know where my embossing supplies are That's one of the things I can actually find right now. Oh I take it back. These are embossing pens and these are by Zig and I've actually had these a long time And they work really well and they're and they don't dry up very quickly Which are great because I don't use my embossing tools a lot So I would I would look for zig I do think Ranger has one too and The Michaels one I like but it was only out for like a hot second You probably also could try and experiment with an empty paint marker like a Molotow marker In the size nib that you want to use and then fill it with glycerin I would actually try that and see if that works And then you could customize your embossing pen and embossing pens are nice because you can also use them as a resist for watercolor Did you know that so you can you know put your design on there? Let it dry and Then go over it with watercolor It does not perfect, but it does give you an interesting effect To move the paint so that we can look at the calendars Now I have to zoom back out again. All righty So the embossing pens you can like a draw a design or write words And then while the pen is wet sprinkle it with embossing powder and then heat set it with Your heat tool. Yeah, it's like a VersaMark pen Which I think I also have around here somewhere I don't know where it is it might be in that drawer I do have the Michaels one which I like I wish I could get more of them And I really like this one and it's by recollections and it was in their color splash line for like a hot second And I really love this one, but now I can't find them anymore because I think they sold them out And they're not going to bring it back again If you guys see these at Michaels this recollection resist this is actually called a resist pen But you can use it for embossing to if you guys see this recollections re double-ended resist pen Get me two or three of them I'll pay you back Because I really love this pen and this works great with watercolor. All right, let's pick a page More painting Let's see and the white gel pen that I have is a uniball signal I also have a lot of jelly roll pens and yeah if they smell funky. That's probably not a good thing That's probably time to get some new pens But you know that's what happens if you have too many honestly if you have too many supplies You know then you don't use things up before they go bad that's kind of the problem I'm just looking for a picture that stands out to me. I Should do this so you guys can see That one's not bad There's the dog because you know he knows we're live so he's got a bark and say hello Okay, that one's not bad. So let's put that one up here It takes me longer to find one that I want to paint than it does to paint it I think we've done that one before I really kind of think I want to do this one that I pulled out already Yeah, let's do this one that I pulled out Yeah, I like the zig pens, but there is a Versa mark pen. I do think Ranger makes a no bossy pen But you might try getting an empty paint marker and fill it up with glycerin and sing if you like that That would probably be what I would try All right, so we're gonna try this one Again, these are by Brent Frazier and this is Sunset Fog over Fremont Sunset over Fog Fremont pink same free blah blah blah blah Yeah, yeah, yeah Sunset over Fog Fremont peak San Juan Batista, California There I did it. Yay All right, so I'm gonna prop that up behind the iPad and I think so that we can see these side by side. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna skip these two interior pages and do it here and I will maybe next week. Maybe we'll do the two interior pages in the flip there I really liked something Robin Marie Robert Smith posted early this week one of the ladies from Documented life. I liked the layout of the page. It was actually not by her was by somebody else And I like the layout of the page. So we're gonna trust. Oh my god. This is a sharpie pen This is not water soluble. It's waterproof And I'm gonna just draw like a rectangle on my page. Those of you who follow her Will recognize the style and then I'm gonna Draw some squares underneath. I can add one more if I need it. These are going to be for the paint colors that we're using So now we're going to We're gonna just use paint today Let's protect our owl because he's too cute Alright, we're gonna start with a light color and the large brush and we're gonna start with the permanent lemon yellow Oh nice arches paper is always good. And I I love a good journal, but they're on my do not buy list right now I'll give you one guess why too many of them So they're on the I don't think so list Okay, I'm gonna take some of that yellow and some water Okay, and then I'm gonna take some of that yellow and I'm gonna paint one of these squares There we go And then we'll write the color name underneath Yeah, right. So I can't go to the etsy page because it's on my it's on my do not buy list I have so many like my studio is only so big and I have so many little like pads of paper like hiding everywhere So keeping with the same kind of drippy suggestive style, which is what I really like If I haven't said that enough already um We are going to suggest this painting From the picture that Brent took And there's a big like dark shadowy mountain shape here in the front So if I get some marks down here that I don't like that doesn't matter because they're going to be covered up But I want to really work on the water and the background first and get that where I really like it Now the sky is sort of it's a sunset. So it's a purpley blue shade If it mixes too much with the yellow or the orange, it's going to just turn brown. We don't want a brown sky So I'm going to take some of this Dry it and lift it with my rag And let that sit for just a minute and I'm going to come in with This grayish paints gray color, which I think might be a good color for this I might want to add a little bit of the purple to it And here's a here's a watercolor tip for y'all So, you know, if you're making your color keys for your watercolor palettes where you have this Sample swatches lamb and and you're a messy painter like I am laminate them Laminate them it's the best thing Otherwise you ruin your swatches Yeah, it's not good So that's turning a little bit brown because it's a little too wet.  Okay, so I'm just touching up on comments here and Hacking tape is a great idea, but just make sure you laminate them some way Um My travel journal is a hardcover travel journal and I think it's strapped one But I have a number of different ones. So, you know, whatever one that you pick that is fits in your budget That has the paper that you like All right, so that's dry ish. I did make sure that I put my colors. I've used so far down here Um, except for the paints gray, which we're going to do right now and We've used some of the garnet lake because I mixed it with the paints gray And I would venture to guess that we're going to um Dragons blood So before we get any farther, we're going to write the names down And this is a great like thing to do if you're like testing out different kinds of paints And you're like swatching them and stuff. All right, so let's go back to our grays and our purples And we've mixed our garnet lake and our paints gray together over here Hi, Heather. How are you? And hi Val. How are you? All right, so we're going to go in with this uh mixture of like paints gray And garnet lake made this like gray color We're going to put a little bit of it down and then we're going to come in with some water It may blend a little bit with the orange and get a tad muddy, but it shouldn't do too badly because we've dried Those other colors. Oh, sorry a sinus infection. That's horrible Okay, I do want to come in with the dragons blood I'm going to start to suggest Hills that are in this picture Yeah, a block a watercolor block is really easy. I have a like I said, I have a journal I take with me It's a hardcover journal.  That means we get to break all the rules. It doesn't matter The sound was gone. That can't be good You know, I'm telling you guys, I think something's up with youtube today I am heather. So this is a picture taken by my friend of my husband's Uh Brent Frazier. Um, he's a photographer besides being in, um the semiconductor industry and um He painted that photo and my husband buys his calendars every year And finally after me asking my husband for years to bring the calendars home with him. He finally did So I got it. I got a whole stack of them Okay, so I'm mixing some of the dragons blood with some of the permanent lemon yellow And we're gonna just make this a little bit more orange up here above the water line Yeah, I heard from some people that it was weird crazy yesterday, too I heard that who was it that said something was it Teresa sim She was having trouble uploading it uploading something. Was that yesterday? Netty pots are um, not comfortable, but they do work like a charm heather If you haven't tried it yet They're not my favorite thing, but they do work really well Drag I know don't you love the name dragons blood may mary blue has a few Colors that have really cool names like that dragons blood, which I just love. I think that's the coolest thing I'm loving where this is going too. I will show you guys that came in late at the end Um, the owl that we did earlier. This is actually the second painting that we've done today Um, I'm going to come in with some of the garnet lake. Let's see. I think I think I don't know You know, I never plan these things out very much So when you see me in these broadcasts and I seem to be winging it it's because I really am I really am so I'm going to start suggesting the foliage on so in my mind in If you started using more than The one medium it's mixed media now that might be wrong I don't know what the proper definition is but, um I also don't like definitions necessarily so I am one that loves to break rules ask my parents Oh, yeah, yeah, I asked my parents someday if you're in the facebook group my mom's in the facebook group you can ask her I love to break rules got me kicked out of the house I was a rule breaker. Oh, yeah, and I agree with the essential oils thing I use them on a regular basis and they are a godsend they work fabulously Um, I I don't know what the proper definition of mixed media is it may be when you use more than two different mediums in the same um piece Um, but whatever makes you happy do that, you know and because we're mixed media artists and we're creatives We should just be free to be us and be who we want to be and to hell with the rules Of course, like I said, my mom would just be cringing if she was watching right now because yeah, I was definitely a rule breaker kid And I wasn't even the worst one ever kids that broke rules Oh my poor mother So this is the pains gray mixed with the um Garnet lake And I you know, these are hills in front of this foggy beachy scene and the hills are covered in foliage So I definitely don't want them smooth and even I want them blotchy and uneven to suggest the foliage so that's The way I'm painting these is definitely intentional And I'm just slowly making them darker Rule breakers unite. I love that heather and yeah, Ian if you're happy with calling it a mixed media piece Then call it that and you know do what makes you happy And don't listen to the doubters Because they won't make you happy Okay, I am going to take some of this color Watered down pains gray and garnet lake and I'm gonna I know you're all like screaming. Why do you do it? Okay, you can always like lift some of it if it gets in the wrong spot I'm gonna leave the rest of it Yeah, I'm a rule breaker I got into a lot of trouble growing up Not a lot a lot. I mean, I never got arrested or anything but My parents had a lot of rules and I didn't like them Because you know So I'm I didn't dry this again. It's wet and I'm okay with that and this pains gray is going to Mix a little bit with the other colors that are on here It'll give me that sort of blotchy look that's suggestive of suggestive Of foliage though that I want So we're gonna stick with that And it's gonna kind of bloom and bleed into the other colors And like I said, it's gonna suggest that foliage look that we want Yep, do what makes you happy definitely All of you should be just doing what life is too short not to do what makes you happy That's the ultimate thing if there's a definite rule about it out there. I don't know what it is Just fyi. I have no idea I'm purposefully having it like drip and run. I love the kind of Um field journal notebooky look of that right field sketchbook look I love where this is going Again with like with the other picture. I love where it's going So I'm going to take some of my um Garnet lake again Mix it with some of the yellows and oranges we have here There you go. Life is too short not to use white paint in your watercolor. I totally agree with that Okay, I love that I'm going to stop painting now because I love that way that looks and I don't want to mess it up anymore by touching it again Let's see so Okay, so I'm going to answer Heather's question About how long I've been painting if there are questions before that that I've missed. Please type them again Um, and while I'm talking I'm going to show you the owl we did earlier for those of you who came in late This is the owl we did earlier So I've been doing art my whole life I was always one of these kids in the 60s. Well any kid at any time they can't sit still Um, I didn't do idle very well and when I did I got you know sucked into like the tv and then you couldn't get me away from the tv I was I I'm sure there's some kind of diagnosis for that today Uh, I know that when my daughter was young and she had some issues and we went through testing with her Um, including obsessive compulsive disorder. Um, she didn't have any of the traits, but I had all of them So I was definitely one of these kids that had to be occupied in a constructive way And my aunts two of my aunts one on each side of the family were both artists artists and art students And so I always grew up coloring and painting with them And my grandmothers were both needlework artists and so I know how to sew and embroider And crochet and knit and all of that stuff. So I was always crafty um, but I've always loved paint now back in about I stopped painting and crafting and everything for about five years when I first met my husband God help him. He had no idea What he was getting into. I don't think um And then I picked it up after we met and have been going strong ever since After my daughter was born. I was in a artist cooperative gift shop thing I'm sure you guys all have like at least one in your area. Um, that's a space place where you rent space And I had a booth there for a long time. Mostly it was crafty things because they're honestly easier to sell And I really kind of stopped painting for a long time I picked it up again while I was at that shop. One of our one of the owners was rary into mixed media art And I did not had never heard of it before. This is was around 2006 2007 And um, I thought that sounds really interesting So I started picking it up again then and I started with watercolor doodles. I've always loved watercolor I love its portability. I love it's the challenge of controlling the water. There's nothing really about it. I don't like Um, and now that I've discovered gene Haynes. I love it. Um So I've been going steady ever since then at the as the years have gone by since then I've done more painting and mixed media and less crafting That doesn't mean I don't still pick up the crafts occasionally and do something that I've gotten rid of a lot of stuff because I don't Um, I don't enjoy that part of it. Uh, I used to be a professional seamstress although I don't really like sewing And I used to I'm a published machine knit designer although I don't really care for knitting So I've tried all of them when I say that if you go into michaels I've tried 90 percent of everything in the store. That's not a lie or exaggeration. I have tried it Um, I don't like most of it, but I love watercolor and I keep coming back to it So that's kind of a long answer to your question. Um I think my go-to subject is actually floral if I if I don't know what else to paint I'll do flowers. I do do a lot of landscapes, but they're not my go-to subject I think my go-to subject's probably flowers because if I don't know what to paint I'll paint flowers I have a lot of friends watercolor gypsy that don't do art at all. And so they don't get any of it They don't they don't get any of it not at all Okay, how are you so good at stopping a note of working practice and I'm not always good at it Um, sometimes I go too far with something so you You just have to practice and figure out what works for you And if you're at a place where you think I really like that even if Experts out there say that you should keep going with it because it's not done yet. Listen to your own inner voice and listen and follow that direction that you're being given And that's the most important thing is listen to yourself and what makes you happy not anybody else You don't have to make anybody else happy except you art should be about um enjoying the process And not about anything else if you can make money off of it fabulous Um, and then tell me how you did it because I really I don't know what people think that you know, I'm not making money at it at all Um, hardly at all I should say very little hardly enough to keep me in paint So if you guys figure out how to do more than that, let me know Um Just make yourself happy but practice when I first started doing mixed media I constantly overworked pieces and went too far with things. Um, I did learn through that process though To start listening to my own voice and what what I really wanted to do with my work So see so Ian so even wikipedia doesn't have a Exact number of mediums to use in a piece before it's mixed media So I think that if you just use, you know, a mixture of things, you know, sketching and painting and you know, pen work Uh collage then that's mixed media and if you just have collage and paint that still makes media If you just have two things I tend to do more like sketching and paint Than anything else. I do do collage sometimes, but especially in this journal is not this is just like and there's some stamping in some of these um Early on I did like rubber stamps in the background And so that's definitely mixed media because you've got stamping and paint But but whatever makes you happy. I wouldn't listen to the rules break them break them hard and do what makes you happy And I think flowers are easier than anything else because they're from nature. So they're not Perfect, they're uneven. Um, there's really no wrong way to do them and You can do sort of a pretend made up flower like this one and still have it look like a floral shape and um suggest what you want but have fun with the shape so um I've done a lot and I've done a lot of floral tutorials on watercolor wednesday um and watercolor wednesday live So there's all of these are on there I don't think there's hardly any paintings in this book that haven't been filmed to be honest Are there any other questions? Did I miss any questions? Did I answer everything in a good enough way because my brain does feel a little foggy this morning I think I've like I said, I think I've been in front of the computer too much And you're welcome heather So In a couple weeks um for um In a couple of weeks after the initial palette setup videos come out for my two new watercolor palettes I have two new ones if you don't follow me on social media um I have the new daniel smith metallic palette Which I showed Aren't those pretty? And then I have this new one that I don't know how to pronounce the name zeki for frenzy I know that's wrong I got the small 12 pan palette because they were super hard to get and super expensive But the colors are beautiful And but they're they're more opaque than i'm used to they remind me of the mission gold paints um a lot um in their opacity and their pigmentation um So we will be after you after you see the setup process for these videos We will be doing pages in the book with these paints um Yeah, and it definitely it definitely is like blowing up a balloon and you just have to know when to stop before you pop the balloon But it just it's it's like doing portraiture um There's no shortcut I love a good shortcut, but there's no shortcut There is only the long way and practice and that's the best way to find out um for you What what you need to listen to for you to yourself and To know when to stop is you just need to practice And heather yes, I might need an extra cup of coffee today Because not only have I been working on the secret project like crazy and in front of the computer But I haven't been sleeping well because you know mrs. Menopause Um has decided now to um, you know have some of the symptoms um Come back with a vengeance and insomnia as one of them, which isn't helping Oh, I'm so glad watercolor gypsy that you liked it and it isn't yes the metallic palette So I have to tell you the metallic palette was definitely inspired by the new premium metallic palette that's coming out and I Really decided that I didn't really need to add a lot of metallics to my palette because in my range of pallets because I do have twinkling h2o's But if I was going to add metallics to my range of paints What would best serve me would be to have a fine art quality set of metallic paints So that Being in mind and knowing that daniel smith is my favorite And they have a lot of metallics I decided to set up a daniel smith metallic palette and when I did it I took When the video hasn't come out yet, but you see this in the video And this nude that we showed last week the background for her is the test page for all the metallic samples I had when I was trying to figure out what colors to order for this palette and I used the daniel smith 238 dot chart um To figure out and I swatched every single one of them I could find on the dot chart and then slowly developed the Paint range for this palette and I talk about that in the video when you see me setting it up And I think the daniel smith palettes part one Oh, i'm so glad i'm glad you guys like the live broadcast if you guys ever don't like like the live broadcast I'll stop doing them, but that hasn't been um the case so far so Yeah, the nudes were a lot of fun. These are the nudes from last week They were a lot of fun, and I definitely would recommend you guys give them a try What did ian say he say that I am a pho vest? He's probably right I do love doing a good figure Whether it's human or animal in non-traditional colors It's my favorite way of doing a painting. Um, I will do them the other way, but I don't like it Even when I did the elephant you see It's non-traditional colors The peacocks probably is close to traditional colors as I got but He's got all the splattery things in the background So no that daniel smith metallics have to be bought individually in tubes, and then you have to set them up in the box So daniel smith paints um don't um They come individually like this So I bought tubes that I wanted in the colors I wanted and I bought Um, I bought 12 of them because I already owned two and they weren't in my other palette because I didn't have room for them And wasn't sure what to do with them and then when I decided to set up this palette I realized I already have two colors and so I put them in here And I ordered them directly from daniel smith out of seattle Which I can't wait to go back to if you guys have The chance to be in seattle and go to this daniel smith factory and store do it do it do it do it It's fabulous and they have way more than um daniel smith paints Oh, that would be interesting to try. Um, Ian. Why don't you p.m. Me the name of it and I'll see I'm a Helping artist with deco art. I will see if um It's on the list to try No mix media palettes that are not spiral bound or loosely for hard to find And that's one of the reasons why I started making bound palette bound journals You could do mix media on a watercolor journal remember and you can also do mix media in a Um, you know, I love the dilutions journal Just don't use anything in it. That's too wet because the paper can't handle watercolor and that kind of thing Um, okay So this palette has in it iridescent. You ready? Okay iridescent gold Aztec gold iridescent I'm sorry. Okay. So this has seven iridescent colors, which are iridescent gold iridescent aztec gold iridescent bronze iridescent copper iridescent ruby iridescent electric blue and iridescent blue silver Then it has seven duo chrome colors, which are a metallic color That has like two colorways in it So like the pearly one looks pearly in one direction, but then if you turn it the right way, it's violet Um, so that one's duo chrome violet duo chrome ocean duo chrome aqua duo chrome cobble blue duo chrome hibiscus duo chrome mauve and duo chrome violet Yeah, so I ordered 12 tubes and um, these are the Metallic colors don't come in the small five mil tube. They only come in the 15 mil tube so Um, I ordered them all at once But you could just do if you're going to build a palette You could just do a couple colors at a time whatever your budget allows And if you have a store near you that carries daniel smith, they probably have some of these So you could build up your color your palette that way and if they don't have the particular color you want I bet they'll order it for you if you ask Um, those drops of water. I'll have to go back and watch. Oh, yeah, so the drops of water is a different video Um You know, I used to paint with a lot heavier hand and and be less free with my marks And then I am now one trick. I would say to try narda. It would be to switch to your non-dominant hand Because you have way less control and that can be a very good thing Um, when you're trying to be freer and less restrictive with your painting style And I still do that occasionally although now I have less control over my left hand than I used to since surgery and I It takes me a lot more Concentration to keep a hold of the paintbrush because I have some numbness in this hand But it's still a great way to loosen up my marks And I think that it might you know, I'd like to think at some point that it's a good therapy for me to do it I don't know that that's true because it's not getting any better, but So this one heather I made this one is part of a class I teach over at on you to me The link for the class should be on my website Gina be errands.com. There's a page called the classroom And there's another one that has to do with classes too. I don't remember the name of it But it should be over there on my website Um You can get it through you to me. You will be able to get it soon Um directly from me um I'm not done setting that up in draw box yet But at some point it's going to be not sold on you to me anymore and it'll be coming directly from me for right now You can get it through you to me and um the videos. I think I'll should be downloadable Yeah, so these are not cheap. Um, they range from like 10 to 20 dollars a tube It depends on the color and the pigments used in the color gale Um, I think most of these were about 11 something a tube Um, so that wasn't cheap. Um, I say had to save up for it. Um, but You know when I first started building up my watercolor paint collection I would go to my local art supply with 20 dollars and buy However, many tubes of the colors and brand I wanted with the 20 bucks and I just build up my collection that way They're totally worth the money. Daniel Smith is totally worth the money. Um, it just yeah hurts the budget a little bit I'll look it up. Ian. Thank you I do have a big thing of metallic paints. I like a good metallic paint. I love especially though a metallic watercolor And I love the fact that I have this palette now so like if I wanted I could take this and my regular travel palette with me on vacation and Wouldn't that be fun? That's one of the reasons I like these small pocket palettes um, Ian was talking about a metallic paint There is different kind of interference and Iridescent mediums that you can add to your acrylic paints. I know Liquitex has one. Um, I think golden might have one It looks like deco art has one. Um, so you can Use them straight or you can add them to Your acrylic paints to make them metallic And that's you know, if you can't afford a whole bunch of metallic tubes of paint That's a way to go is to get a medium that you can mix with your paint to make it metallic Now the some of the mission golds are really expensive. I love the mission gold paints. Um, but they're really expensive.   I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the fine tech paint or the premium paints I'm sure they're fine, but right now I can only do one or the other And I for right now I wanted to get the daniel smith that doesn't mean at some point I won't get the fine tech paint and maybe even the prima um For right now though, I had to pick one. I couldn't do all of them. All right, that's it for today everybody I am going to eat some lunch and I've got to go over to staples and Take care of some stuff for the secret project Answer some email. I got a film Playing with textures part three Yeah, so you also can go with twinkling h2o's you can make metallic paints out of Perlex powders and things like that by adding gum arabic to them. So there's lots of ways to get a metallic palette into your repertoire on a budget so Figure out what your budget is and then figure out what Paint you want to invest in none of these are bad Um, I think perlex even has a metallic palette and I I used to have it like a million years ago It's in a steady case and it's pretty small, but it it worked great. So Oh, I know my new punch is fabulous, isn't it? And that's how come I found um Let's see that's how come I was I remembered daniel smith had Um metallic paints because I was taking my watercolor sample cards and putting them into this new book And as I was doing it, I realized And this is the 238 dot chart. I'll cut up As I was doing it. I realized that daniel smith had a bunch of metallic colors See, there we go And I thought ooh, I can I can make my own metallic palette I love that So, yeah, I love my new punch. You're welcome everybody I am going to go now and I want you to remember a couple of things First of all Don't listen to anybody else except yourself Do what makes you happy If you like what you do Then cool if you want to be better great There's people out there that can help you with that, but if you like what you do, that's the most important thing All right and Just be free and and break all those rules break them hard all right, and Go out and do something nice for yourself. Maybe invest in some metallic watercolor paints. All right And because you deserve it. Yeah, and the art did these turn out cute. I'll be I'll be putting some photographs on social media later All right, that's it for today everybody. I will be back on monday With monday with decor and I think we're going to do one more nude an acrylic will do a female nude on monday and Then we're done with the nudes for a while And I think that's it right now If you have any more questions something I missed something I overlooked or something I Didn't answer completely then you can p.m. Me here on facebook. You can put a comment in the video Um after it finishes processing here on youtube You can also join my facebook group and tag me in a post over there And if you tag me I'm more likely to see it The group group is growing really big and I try to catch up with everything, but um Sometimes I have an easier time without than others So all the links for all of those things are in the description below And I will see you guys all next week. Bye guys