live and boy did I forget which day it was and so it is Sunday and that means it should have been a art learning stream today learn how to draw draw how stream as I call it where we follow George Bridgeman's book page by page in order to get better at drawing but I simply forgot which day it was at all so so so instead of doing that a couple of hours late which would have been no fun and I need to turn off the sound on my phone so we don't get interrupted yeah so so instead of doing a late art stream I thought I'd do a little Q&A and try to answer questions from you guys like your beard thank you hello everyone and basically what I have to say first so for those who see the stream afterwards I'm preparing for the inferno festival and I'm behind on everything of my work so the streams will have to wait until after Easter and after I'm home from inferno the same goes for for patron updates and member updates I just taken too much work on that's you know that's the sickness I guess how are you I am tired and stressed that's how I am your beard looks like an upside down heart nice I hope everyone is having a good day I am having a good day it's just a stressful period because I've taken on too much I was so happy on draw what thank you because you got the Loch Ness Monster yes I remember my favorite youtuber aren't you always tired and stressed most of the time yeah most of the time that is correct I have created a tiresome and stressful life for myself so so yeah what time is it there what time is it I don't know it's almost nine hey bro how are you how are you loved my Loch Ness Monster excellent is it okay if I watch your videos even though I disagree with some of your beliefs I'm always nervous to watch people that have really different opinions so to be quite honest I don't even agree with all my opinions I think that one of the reasons why we speak and why we put videos and art and other communications out there is to see if our thoughts ring true and sometimes they do and sometimes they don't I don't require or expect or even hope that my audience agrees with everything I say because that would be stupid because I probably say some stupid shit once in a while so I need you guys to help me identify the stupid shit I say sometimes it'll work other times I'll be too stupid to understand it lego lego time to start making questions make some questions what do you do when you're stressed and tired like to feel better the best thing for me would be to go out running and mountain running works apart from that weightlifting works and apart from that I know if I'm just going to relax I like gaming I that's my preferred mode of relaxation don't say no to words when did you and what drove you to paint your nails I probably started painting my nails when I was like 16 years old as a part of you know toying around with gender expression and identity and all that stuff and then because of my bipolar depressions I took a deliberate stand to stop worrying about my looks stop obsessing about that part and then I became this long-haired bearded old man so but after I think like 15 years of not painting my nails I started to do it again because it feels good your art has definitely inspired me what is a good tactic for improvement and that sort of depends do I always go for black nails okay now these nails aren't I need to apply new but no there's no black here improvement yeah the most important thing is to draw a lot and to have fun and I think it's a cycle of three things you need to do you need to have fun and play then you need to find through play find things to study and through study find things to execute and you can mix those three in all different in all different directions but those three is play study and execution that's all it is without beard you are incomplete and my wife's thing so I love your art your channel everything you're one of my favorite artisan creatures thank you what's your favorite black band and your favorite death metal band my favorite band quit last week stick it see it never heard of them a black metal band my favorite right now it is Witch Club Satan I'm totally obsessed with the new Witch Club Satan album otherwise a little bit older I think you know bands like Rotten Christ Swedish Shining Udvost more black metal adjacent things like enslaved the mood is good talk is great yeah loads of bands I recently gotten into more of Ishaan stuff very cool very good okay great when's the next play date with Scott the first Saturday of next month what are you going to draw did I have no plans did Tim Burton change your style a bit it remind me of it did is there an influence of Tim Burton in my art that's a good question because I a nightmare before Christmas was incredibly impactful on me but I think also at the same time there come came this just this tsunami of Tim Burton the likes and I quickly became a little bit sick of that style but there were a few sort of Burton the likes that definitely influenced me more than Burton himself and that was your Yonan Vasquez with Johnny the homicidal maniac that was incredibly influential on my art style hey man love you and everything you do I tell all my friends about you because I think you speak up about many things that people are afraid to talk about thank you for doing what you do thank you for telling your friends I mean that is an awesome way of spreading the most reliable way I have of spreading my art spreading my words and you know making a living of this is that people tell people word of mouth is powerful what do people mostly think about you when they meet you for the first time I'm not the correct person to ask about that I have never met myself for the first time I'd probably think I was a bit of a dick favorite web series like web TV series I what do you mean by web series I've been a fan of your work for a while and I was wondering what advice you have for young artists out there such as myself as to build their own image and getting their creations out there so hmm hmm that is a really good question I'll think a little bit about it while I show some of the paper I use because that's easier so here are a couple of the different papers I use oh it's pointed the wrong way sorry about that Fabriano hot press paper and we got some Fabriano mixed media paper and most of what I do uses Fabriano student-grade drawing paper 300 grams and so and the reason why it's Fabriano is that you know there are many great brands out there but my local art store has a lot of good Fabriano papers so I need to go back ever since we made the short on Imperial Triumphant I began to immerse myself further and further in the New York City underground scene Piran skull shitter and couch slut have all been amazing great names haven't heard any of them I probably need to to look into that scene yeah so there was this question about as a young artist how do you get your image and art out there and I I I can tell you a little bit about some of the mistakes that I see young artists doing one of them is that now I'm assuming that you're technically you're good you you are proficient enough to be professional you have a style of your own it might be a style in development but you have a style and you have your fundamentals good enough if not then that's what you need to work for you don't need to think about image when you don't have the art down the art comes first but but the first mistake I see is that a lot of young artists will put themselves in a very small niche and you often hear this advice that you should niche down so they make an Instagram account called fussy bear lady artist I draw pussy bear ladies because why wouldn't you and when you sort of limit your niche in the name in the presentation in everything when you define yourself like that metal artist supreme whatever then you don't have the room to improvise now I have a supremely stupid social media name I'm called then only had home which means the young mr. Holm which is I'm not young anymore and no one understands Norwegian so it's a really stupid name to have but it does allow for flexibility and I didn't know that ink monsters would be my biggest claim to fame right now and I'm very happy that I didn't name my YouTube and my Instagram ink monster guy because that would have been limited so first of all don't limit yourself and then second experiment have fun and find ways of being yourself on social media artists have a huge advantage because our art is an extension of our self and if people are interested in our art they a lot of them are also in some way interested in us so instead of trying to find an image or trying to I mean we all build our artist mythology but but instead of trying to push that forward you find ways of showing yourself and for me talking to a camera works and writing stories and telling mythology and that works for me but for other artists it can be completely different find ways of showing yourself and narrowing down your image is only really good to get yourself in the market for art which says a lot about capitalism but that's what it is you won't be able to branch out yeah and I think I think a better thing and would have been wise to say to me as well when I was young would be just to name yourself your art name and then be flexible with the niche and you can niche down without having that define your identity I think jamer jamer crates that's why I chose my name I knew I'd be able to create a ton of things have you heard of Jack Storber no have you heard of tally hall what's your favorite song I haven't heard of tally hall are you planning for more collabs with different painters that would be that would be very yeah I would love to I have no current plans but at the inferno festival I will be collaborating with artist and musician Costin Cherno and we will be doing a performance of four lovecraft stories which will be awesome and I'm practicing so much for that right now any particular song you've been listening to a lot lately yeah lately yes so I've been listening to so much of of which club Satan's debut album I absolutely love it the two songs there are many good songs I mean hex is fantastic salvation is fantastic fresh blood fresh pussy is great but the two songs that have been going in my head the most is I was made by fire and mother and especially mother it's I think mother by which club Satan is absolutely astounding in addition to that I've been listening to the new priest and priest is my all-time favorite I'm a Judas Priest fanboy I'm not a fanboy about any other band the same way that I love priest and it's been kind of telling that that I like the new priest record but I've been rather wanting to listen to which club Satan again so so that's tells you something about the space I'm at but the new priest album is great and there are a couple of songs that have been stuck on my mind and one of them is with God with God asked my witness God is my witness with God is my with what is it called with God is yeah God is my witness I think it's called something like that and which is a banger and then escape from reality so far thank you for your advice I originally found your channel for my love of all things mythology and your art has been really inspiring thank you can you talk about time you are children what I didn't understand that I must say your recent fuck-off series was amazing radical inclusivity doesn't make sense to the bigots but it hit me right in the cockles of my heart yeah so so the point that a lot of bigots do not understand about respecting everyone and I want to make a video about this as well but when people ask yeah but but do you respect fascists that then the answer is yeah so far as I can I do but the problem is if they are serious about their ideology their ideology says people like me for my political beliefs for my sexuality for a bunch of things should be put against the wall and shot and believing that about another person is a huge sign of disrespect that is like spitting in the face of someone same goes with with fundamentalist Christians I have no or Muslims or whatever I have no problems with religious people but if you feel that I deserve to burn eternally in hell for not accepting your God then that is actually spitting in the face of the one you're talking to it is so incredibly disrespectful and when you're met with that level of disrespect you're allowed to use self-defense and disrespect them back you can 100% disagree without being disrespectful yes you can and I I mean so many weird and wonderful people with extremely different beliefs than mine and they're all fantastic but at some point and this happens mostly on the right side and the conservative side of politics but also on the left side of politics when your ideology or opinions by default dehumanizes and spits on others you don't deserve respect you by acting disrespectfully you have thrown away your claim to respect I always wonder if they mean the hell in Norway or Michigan because I need to know if I need to get my passport yeah I love the terminal at the train station in hell Norway because in Norway the Norwegian word for freight as in a freight train is so on the terminal in hell the little town of hell it says hell god's terminal I think that is fantastic respect until you affect others yes that is you affect others to a degree we all affect others but but until you demand the punishment or making life worse for others to satisfy your ego or ideology I mean you know it is it is it's always a sort of a loose it's not easy to put strict boundaries on this for for instance working as an artist working I mean just working at all you meet meet a lot of people who believe truly in capitalism and I think that capitalism and specifically the idea of private ownership private property as opposed to personal property is actively harming others but I don't put a line in the sand and say no I will not talk to you because you are a capitalist bad man no because that doesn't make sense to me has Jesus a respond yes Jesus has a respond older and strangely white who were the funk have you visited Gauls gallery I have a lot of art in Gauls gallery Galilee Fjallad in Bergen Gauls has basically a ton of my work permanently in his gallery so I'll visit them I visit him all the time that's the first time I've heard the difference between private and personal property yeah so private and personal property are like this the personal property is I own this thing and I own this thing and and I uh let me see if I find I should find something I've drawn oh yeah yeah I made this thing so I own it I own you know the personal things I own okay so those are mine and they can have become mine through various means and that is personal property private property is specifically the right to own land that other people farm the right to own factories that other people work in and the right to own homes houses that other people live in that is private property the private property rights of capitalism is the right to own and own the things that others use and through that ownership dominate them it is the right to be a lord in a sense and that makes sense because the private property of capitalism is a direct descendant of the divine rights of kings that were just distributed to the property owning class so that we got a lot of first and lot of small kings and then now we get great emperors like elan musk and all of them I remember none of their names now cheers from libanon seven people I I didn't understand that who's the craziest metal band you've seen crazy in terms of live performance um yeah that's a good one uh I mean bands like uh watane are intense on stage shining sweden are intense on stage uncomfortable um in a great way um I need to think about that a little bit you're the dragon dude how tall are you 187 after that do you understand anything about anarcho-syndicalism I'm not huge on anarchist theory I I've read very little political theory at all I just skimmed a bit here and there and read some back in the day I don't really um I call myself anarchist and socialist um I don't really like to specify much more than that because I don't have any firm grasp of why anarcho-syndicalism should work better than anarcho-commonism or anarcho-privatism or anarcho-individualism or any of those I I think that we also get really surprised to see what works I mean what uh has been done for instance in Rojava over the last decade is amazing and it doesn't specifically look like any of the anarchist theories so do you think anarchy is unique than socialism I think uh anarchism is a a form of socialism but I I'm not really there's a lot of when I talk about politics in my videos there's a lot of screaming matches like you know no socialism is this and communism is that and this is that and this is this and I think these are these categories are useful when they're broad and vague now I don't I don't really care how you define for instance capitalism um because I'm against the current system we're living under and whether you call it capitalism or or something else doesn't matter to me and if it was if I was living under uh Soviet uh under the Soviet state I would be against that uh that doesn't mean I'm against everyone who calls themselves communists but uh but um you know I I'm not that huge on categorizing or locking in the categories do you ever uh go to meetups possibly at Karl's gallery I haven't done a meetup yet but I'm planning on doing something there soon favorite vocalist in metal Rob Halford without a doubt uh Rob Halford uh Peter Steele was great a fantastic voice um um uh I like so many more LG from entombed was fantastic blah my mind is I'm tired yeah did you want to talk about politics today or is it just been catching your eye in the chat just catching my eye in the chat I'm going to name random artists that you've probably never heard of Lemmon Demon Tally Hall Jack Stober Rare Americans the Living Tombstone Necrotoky and Mother Mother never heard of any of them would you agree that political parties are the bane of democracy I don't know what that means good day love your content do you have a favorite snack uh I I love these days I I love snack but but these days I love uh bear bell protein bars are you religious yes no no yes no not agnostic I'm atheistic and somewhat religious what made you begin to do art in general I think you should uh go to the dark art podcast the dark art society podcast on youtube dark art society podcast and I'm the guest last week and we talk a little bit about that do you believe in god now I'm going to go all Jordan Peters on on you and say that depends on what you mean by god and believe and in and you and do do I believe in the god of the bible absolutely not I I mean you can clearly see by reading the bible by reading archaeology you can see how that was invented it's a human invented thing it is it is a story and do I believe the stories have power yes I absolutely do do I believe that we live in a fully matric materialistic universe uh yes absolutely do I believe that in spite of this we live in uh in a universe that we uh that we interpret as same sentient yes I do and I don't think we can do anything but interpret the universe as sentient and act is as if the universe is sentient and if that's what you mean by god then sure god satan whatever how do I differentiate myself as an artist you do what you think is fun what you think is interesting and when you get better at and better at doing what you think is interesting you will also get better at accepting your flaws and that combination of your interests and your flaws is what people call your uniqueness are you a classical hero blah blah blah that guy has intentionally misinterpreted some of the just to be chill there it is I think I know who you're talking about have you played any of the celda games I've played most of them I absolutely love celda thoughts on Anton Levé don't like him uh the the satanic bible is a fun book but it's not interesting ever read Kurt Vonnegut uh yeah I read slaughter high os five and I loved it ever tried sculpting a little bit Jordan Peterson warps to hero myths yes absolutely but but I mean uh credit where credit is uh do one of the things uh I I think uh Peterson is intellectually dishonest he is politically toxic and even dangerous uh but I also think that he has a great mind for interpreting stories um it goes a little bit askew when he starts trying to claim that that that there's some factual um factual underpinning to how he interprets the stories then it goes astray but that is the same as with Jung and as with Joseph Campbell um and I mean there is a good reason why Joseph Campbell is so incredibly influential in Hollywood and in storytelling and that is because he interpreted stories in a really good way the mistake he did was saying that this was somehow proof that all of these were a monomyth that he had figured out that it basically justified why white men wrote all the good literature and Jews were bad and that that's base and women were bad and when you go take these stories and say oh I can interpret them well very well and it is true I base myself on pact and it says that women and Jews are bad that that doesn't make sense could you defeat two monkeys in hand to hand combat uh monkeys uh I could defeat two monkeys eight no no no monkeys yes is it frankenstein or frankenstein's monster I uh colloquially will call it frankenstein even though i'm talking about frankenstein's monster how would you say aspects of your life experiences has shaped your art um and you as an artist I mean let's take that question another way art is communication that's basically all it is it is trying to communicate things in a way that mere words alone can't do even if you're using just words for your art if you're a poet or a writer the art part is how to use them to communicate something more than just the words so what you're asking is how has your life experiences influenced the words coming out of your mouth I mean in every way that's the simple answer in any way nice nails also what is satanism um I have my own ideas of satanism and why I choose to call myself satanist uh one of the reasons is that I have been called satanist for expressing my views uh so I like to just take that and use it another is that that I think that what religion tends to do is to say that this is how the world is don't think too much about it this is how the hierarchy is don't question it um and the argument for religion is that if you don't have religion then you will slide into nihilism and by nihilism they mean that if you don't have religion then you will realize that life is meaningless and pointless and that there is no objective reason why you shouldn't kill or should kill or there's no objective reason of any of that for me satanism is in a sense accepting that yeah in some sort of fundamental sense there is no reason there is no meaning at least not universal or at least not comprehensible and then starting to build meaning on top of that so it is for me it is accepting the fundamental atheism the fundamental nihilism of the world and trying to conscientiously build meaning uh even build religion but I don't like the idea of a religion because I don't think these meanings should be enforced onto others but yeah that's basically what I mean by satanism and it has a lot of other aspects it has the aspects of satan as a rebellious mythological figure it has the aspect of satan as creating in defiance it is in some sense it is like the mythological satan figure it is saying that this world god created is a bit fucked and defiantly trying to unfuck it so satanism is creating your own meaning out of the meaningless of it all got it I mean for me I can't speak for anyone else when I was agnostic at one time I wanted to believe but when we look at the context of religion and history really warped my sense of the word you seem really tired man I am really tired can you tell us about the transition from copying other artist's work to making original art that you enjoy I mean then if you aren't able to create something meaningful maybe what you need isn't to practice your art skills but actually to live life are you interested in vexillology the study of flags never heard of it I never interested in flags but it's fascinating if someone could teach me about vexillology what is your favorite fruit to have this pear that I have in my hand right now it's refreshing to see you actually put a lot of thought into your response instead of just saying things like in your shorts it humanizes you quite a bit yeah the shorts are carefully written and read I read the text to the shorts so that's not how I talk or how I think even but I'm trying to reflect how I talk and how I think in them and I'm trying to write them truthfully but but you know I think I think one of the interesting things about having this internet fame is that I get introduced by you guys to a lot of thoughts and ideas that I wouldn't have otherwise so so you guys challenge my views sometimes by disagreeing with me sometimes by agreeing in ways I don't like and when I do a live like this I it is much more about it's more about actually trying to engage instead of just and trying to learn I mean so I'm trying to make my answers better and more truthful every time I think and I yeah I think I might have seen you jogging in Sun Weekend a while back yeah I usually jog in Osana around Salus but I have jogged through Sun Weekend a couple of times yes so you might have seen me and you can stop me even if I'm jogging you can stop me and say hi that I haven't yet had any unpleasant interactions with with people who know me from online so it's all wonderful I'm not the biggest fan of discussions about religion or politics because of some past experiences but you make it logical and thought provoking so I thank you thank you okay so Vexilology is pretty much the study of flags like knowing symbolism colors and history on reddit there is a subreddit under the same name and it has a community of people but finding flags and I would absolutely love to sit down with someone who is passionate about flags and to try to understand and to feed of their passion because it is nothing is greater than than listening to geeks geek out over the things they geek out about okay there was you my friend are not an aestheticist but an artist for sure but Crispin Glover's work is disturbing in the most provocative way uh Crispin Glover the actor i um Crispin Glover did a great role in in Deadman small role but great one of my favorite movies why free art why do it I did that with mine but the catch is none want my art if it even if it's free yeah so uh free art isn't about getting paid or not I get paid for my art I I like to get paid I like having money it's better than not having money I wish I would have more money you can send super chat um and that would be appreciated members would be appreciated but the point is free art isn't about that free art is about what art is and as we already discussed here for me art is communication art is speech so when I say free art I mean it in the same way as free speech and if you have said something you don't have the legal right to stop others from saying the same thing because that's weird and copyright is really weird and it does kind of do some awful things with how we think about art with how we think about communication with the work conditions artists work on her and you know how do you transform something inspiring into art I don't know I mean if I see something inspiring then the question for me is how do I not transform it into art because or how do I find the time to transform it into art my my instinct is always how can I make this into art I want to create a comic and I need an artist that be willing to communicate and create a story together any advice my advice to people who want to write a comic with an artist is number one learn to draw you don't necessarily have to become good enough to be the artist but you need to learn to draw I think comic book artist who or comic book writers who can draw are generally better the second if you are serious about getting artists to draw your stories then pay them for it the artist will be doing perhaps 10 times as much work as you on your ideas you need to pay pay them for that my friend Tudon Dunbeck who works for Marvel and has you know all of that it has worked for all the big ones and does great writing she her she broke into comics by saving up money and paying artists to to do her self-published comic even though she is a good artist in her own right she knew that she couldn't write or draw in that temple that she needed for the comics so she paid and that's what you don't ask artists to draw to draw your story because they will use 10 times as much time as you used to write it okay I can paint better than you and sculpt cool excellent um good luck with your painting and sculpting and hope you get great success if it's free speech work copyright it ain't all bad think about it with all its vices copyright does some good for people like what I've tried to draw and now I stopped because I want to rock on electric guitar excellent okay I think it's time to um it's time to end this I'm looking for any final follow-ups to some of the things I said say I'm a poor artist and some million dollar company steals my art in a world without copyright say you are a poor artist and some million dollar company steals your art in a world with copyright how do you fight them how many successful cases have there been of a small artist suing a giant corporation for copyright it's my only chance to survive so actually most artists don't rely all that much on copyright so if you're an independent artist you rely on commissions creating original works uh selling original works um doing custom works uh doing classes courses uh and all all manners of things that that none of them have anything to do with copyright a few manage to to to create a property that will sustain them like like Bill Waterson is the perfect example of someone who built his own copyright property and managed it very well and also used his copyright to protect Calvin and Hobbes from being over commercialized which is one of the reasons why Calvin and Hobbes is it it's still respected but it sort of is fading away because he didn't allow corporations to exploit it the main reason why we have a copyright or why how it functions in society today is that it allows companies to own a copyright and hire artists to infuse their creativity into the property so the property becomes worth more and the artists don't necessarily become worth more i'm new to artists career thank you i still don't agree with all but uh still try you do make compelling argument yeah i want to say something very important if you are an artist and you have the choice to keep your own copyrights then that is always better than to sell your copyrights to a corporation but for instance uh like with bill waterson who probably earned a fortune he could probably have earned an even bigger fortune by selling his copyrights at the right time but he did the right thing and kept Calvin and Hobbes his and also kept it from being over exploited but yeah if you are unsure if you uh yeah uh if you are unsure of what to do with your art always keep your copyrights if you can okay i think that uh was uh the last word for today if you like my art and you have the opportunity to support i release all my art for free use so you can copy it you can download it you can print it you can even sell it there are some good questions here but i don't have more energies um energies so yeah you can support me by spreading my art if you have the money you can also support me by becoming a youtube member by buying originals on den ungeherholm.com or by um super chats and uh by um patreon and by buying prints and all of that stuff thank you so much it was really fun to talk with you i'll talk with you all again after Easter and after the inferno festival and hopefully i'll see some of you at the inferno festival where i'll be doing way too much every day so i'll be even more excited uh exhausted than now bye


Hi everyone! So it is the weekend and as you know from the last video I was practicing my bandage skills. I have some little beans in the background mix and dillan and my willing victim Dully. So I can show you how to bandage how the nurse taught me even. Okay so she taught me to go this way with your bandage the opposite way to the way you put your toilet roll. That's the right way isn't it? Oh the toilet debate.  Hang on.  Thanks. And we're doing 50% because the bandage has to line this bit with 50% of this bit like that. If that makes sense. So you've got 50% bandaging. Is that okay patient? That's lovely thank you. There you go. 50% and then that's one layer. Gonna go over with a bandage, crepe bandage, exactly the same.  And then just on the edge of the heel then once more over the heel to cover and then just go 50% put your leg down now. Thanks. You can come again. Then you put your tape on. So today is Monday it is a week two of my management placement which is our sign-off placement as a student nurse to say I'm safe to see patients as a newly qualified nurse. So it started off amazing again. I've had a really interesting morning I've been up at the hospital with my mentor. We had an MDT meeting to go to about a patient that's going to be sort of discharged back into the community and it was just interesting to see all of the different people and their different inputs. So we had the social worker, we had like a case manager ward nurse. I'm not 100% sure on her role. And we had someone from the mental health team as well. And then we had us as district nurses to represent the patient as a district nurse. So really interesting really really complex case by the sounds of it. I can't really go into too much detail because of confidentiality and all of that jazz as always. But it's a really interesting case. It was really good to sit into that meeting and just see how everyone worked together and everyone was actually acting as an advocate for the patient and voicing their concerns which was amazing to see that everyone the main focus was the patient and their best interest at all times was maintained. So it was really good to see that but seeing it from different angles and different perspectives of people. So that was really good. Then we had a couple of the patients that we went and did. So we had a leg dressing to do two legs on the same patient. So he had both of his legs dressed and we had an insulin patient to go to. And we had another patient with dementia who we needed to get blood from and do a temperature because she's got a few things going on. So it was really interesting to go to her and she was so lovely and she let us do everything because from what I've heard she's refused and declined care previously. She's been declining her temperature and things like that. So it was really nice that she let us do that today and she trusted us to do that. So that was really really nice and lovely to see. And apart from that I've done documentation. I've been writing down as well terminology in my book because there's some terms that I didn't quite understand and I need to print out pictures so I can visualise it as well as understand the words because it's to do with wounds and presentation of the skin and the surrounding skin. And there's all these different words that I didn't fully understand but I'm going to learn them by the end of this placement. I'm going to have these down to a T hopefully because it's really important for documentation. Really important for a sort of a set and a wound as well and deciding what to do with these wounds. So it's really important that I understand it. So I've wrote them down. I've started to make a list. I've started explaining what they are but I just want to print out and just to add to my own little placement pack that I've got just the presentations and all of that and I want some images to go with it as well. So hopefully I'm going to get on that. This is actually the first placement that I've had where I've given myself homework to do. I've never done this before. I'll write down things in my book as a go and I'll ask questions and nurses will ask questions of me and I'll find out the information if I don't know but I've never actually been so interested in something where I'm writing down the terminology. I want to print pictures. I want to understand it so I'm giving myself extra homework when I get home. So I've never had that before and I just love it. I love it so much and you know I love it because I want to do these things when I get home and I want to tell you all about it. So yeah. So it's been an interesting day. It's been amazing and yeah I'm going to stop talking now because this is already like five minutes long so I should see you all tomorrow. So today's Tuesday. I've just got back from my placement and again another completely mixed day. So today we have been in clinic and so this is for patients that can leave the house and they can come into clinic and they just need that extra care in whatever way. So today we had a mixture of patients. We had some leg ulcers. We had pressure sores. We had a catheter washouts or bladder washout. Apparently they've changed the name now but I can't quite remember what she said but apparently bladder washout is not the term to use anymore but that's pretty much what it was. You sort of remove the catheter. You get a hundred mils of saline. Push the saline in. Sometimes they use the 50 mil bag. Push the saline through the catheter up into the bladder and then it comes back out again to sort of wash it out and just make clear it if there's any obstructions. This also assesses if there's any blood. If it's dark, it's cloudy, anything like that but luckily we were good today. It was clear. It was clean. It was lovely so we didn't have to do anything further with him. We also had a Doppler assessment. So a Doppler assessment is... So there's two ways of doing a Doppler assessment. There's a manual one and there is an electronic version. So the manual one is where you put the gel. There's like a jelly that they put on first and then there's like an ultrasound so they listen to the sort of the blood flow in the legs but the electronic one is like a blood pressure cuff so they put a blood pressure cuff around the arm and then one around each foot. This just gauges the arterial pressure in each foot so if they have a good flow of blood they can compress the leg then for compression therapy. If they don't have a good flow and it's really restricted they're not going to want to compress that even more so they can't do compression therapy. So this is what a Doppler assessment is used for in this case with lymphedema. Any sort of edema in the legs. They use the Doppler as well on wounds that are taken longer than I think it was six weeks. So really sort of long-term wounds that are taken a long time to heal. They do the Doppler assessment because they think maybe compression therapy might benefit and it might just help repair the wound a lot faster. So we did that today we had another patient with extremely high blood pressure so we had to refer them back to the GP to get this monitored because it was really quite high it was quite concerning. They also had a wound as well that we had to redress. So yeah so we had quite a lot going on and mixture of things today. We also had to sort out patient care notes because there was some notes that were sort of missing things. There was notes that were all over the place and we're just making sure they're all up to date as well. So we did that sort of towards the end of the day and yeah that's it really and I'm going to end it here and I shall see you all tomorrow. Tomorrow I'm with the band 7 nurse to sort of see what she does and how she manages things and then I've got a palliative training session 2 till 4 I think at one of the hospices so that's gonna be really interesting so it should be a good day tomorrow as well. So yeah that's it from me I shall see you tomorrow. So today it is what day is it oh my god I've lost track of my days it's Wednesday thank you it's Wednesday had to remind myself Wednesday so today I've had a really busy day it's been manic I've been out with the band 7 nurse it's been really amazing we've had complex patients so we've had the really complex wounds we had a home visit with a patient where we had to go in with the tissue viability nurses so that was really interesting to see we had a new patient assessment which was really interesting again so we did all of our observations and everything pressure area checks and everything and yeah it'll be nice to follow up on that one I've discovered that I really really like new patient assessments because I like to know the patient from the beginning to end it's been really hard for me to go into a patient that I don't really know and you're sort of trying to look through the notes and find what's wrong with the patient what's been going on with the patient what you're doing for the patient and when documentation isn't quite a hundred percent clear it can be a little bit so it's just really important that I've discovered that documentation again I've said this before in previous vlogs documentation is key when you're going to see a patient document every single that last detail so that if a new nurse is picking it up they know exactly what they're doing with that patient so I've been trying to write my notes really thorough for the thorough this can't even speak thorough so that another nurse whoever's going to come in can pick it up and go this is what they did with that patient so it's really interesting the second half of my end afternoon I went to palliative care training over at the John Taylor hospice and this was actually amazing because even though I've had patients die on me I've had end of life I don't fully understand palliative care I've never dealt with palliative care I don't know what hospice hospices do I assume the hospices were mainly for the end of life stages but actually they do a whole lot more than I actually ever imagined they do so much so I've actually just arranged to go out with palliative care nurse for the day in October and hopefully learn absolutely everything about palliative care because that's something that's actually really interested me now it's really interesting training session and that will just be fantastic so when I go out for the day with her I will do a whole vlog on palliative care I think and just obviously the basics because well not basics because palliative cares so specialised but just I'm gonna just teach you whatever I learned on the day basically so yeah so that's been my day it is five o'clock now I finished a little bit earlier today so I'm going to have my dinner I don't know what I'm gonna have I'm gonna shower I'm gonna settle down for the night I'm gonna chill it's gonna be amazing because I finished early and I shall see you all tomorrow again I probably won't vlog Friday I'll just leave it as Thursday because this vlog's just gonna be way too long it's gonna be long-winded I don't want to repeat myself I just want to give you all the new information that I do rather than repeat myself so yeah I shall see you all tomorrow guys it is now Thursday I've had another amazing day it's been so so busy I finished about half past five and then my mentor dropped me home so lovely over so I didn't have to get changed to walk home out on my uniform and she dropped me literally on the street and yeah it was just so lovely over very grateful for that today we had a mixture of patients again we've had wounds we've had pressure area checks we've had skin checks we've had skin reactions to look at we've had male catheter to insert we had a diabetic patient we've had a whole range of patients today we've seen quite a lot of patients I can't even remember where we started and where we finished it's been really busy and then we had to update all of the notes and everything for the patients we usually have handover about half past one so we have our handover and the whole team come back to the office speak about the patients any problems any concerns all of that update everybody and then we go out back out and see patients afterwards so we did that I looked up some medication because there was a medication that we weren't too familiar with we'd never seen before we never heard before it was very strange so I looked that up and that was quite interesting to look that up it was called by DeRio something like that I'm gonna put the name there I'm not very good at saying names yeah you know I'm not very good at this so I'm gonna put the name there tell me how it said so I had to look up that and it was for type 2 diabetes it's this particular ones only given weekly it's not an insulin is a different type of diabetic medication it's an in-cretin memetic so it mimics the in-cretin or in creating however you want to say it I don't know how to say these words again it's the most frustrating part for me it's not been able to speak and sometimes I'll say a word about medication or something they'll just be like that's not how you say it you say it like this oh okay that makes more sense yeah sorry guys not the best at medication pronunciations they're all in Latin apparently so I'm really sorry about that but yeah I've got my book here I'm looking at it now oh god look at my scribblings look at that writing that's terrible that is not how a documenting care knows for promise it is much neater than that I swear so this one is an agonist it binds to the GP GLP1 receptor so then once it's done that it increases the insulin secretion but then it suppresses the glucagon secretions and then it slows down the gastric emptying as well so it does quite a few things it's more of a slow release long-term acting sort of injection rather than fast acting which is quite good I think for this lady this one is only to be used for type 2 diabetics not for type 1 and it's only as a last resort if other medications aren't working and the patients got uncontrollable diabetes with the blood glucose levels and all of that if they can't control it with using other medications like metformin such things it can also be used in conjunction with other medications like metformin and things it was really interesting to read upon that and have a look at that and everything that it does and looking at the nice guidelines around it because I'd never seen it before I'd never heard about it before the injection size it's like a rocket I was there like I've never seen this before and yeah so me and my mentor both a little bit stumbled by that and we had to look at the instructions on how to mix it up and give it because it was one that you had to mix up as well inside the barrel it was very strange I'd never seen it before but it was really really interesting for me to see that so yes that has been my day it's been really really interesting it's been another amazing week I'm back in tomorrow and then I'm off for the weekend and I'm back Monday as I said I'm not gonna vlog tomorrow I don't want to repeat myself so I'm gonna leave the video here and yeah I shall see you all next week for another amazing week of learning and yeah I hope you have a great day hope you have a great Sunday hope you have great week whatever you're doing whatever you're up to and see you next week


Hi guys, I'm trying to find I'm trying to find myself. Oh Yeah, yeah, okay. Hang on Because otherwise I can't see the chat while we're working today. Oh There I am. There's the broadcast. Oh turn the sound off We don't need to hear me talk or the commercials, okay There we go good morning everybody How are you today? We are going to work. It's welcome to Watercolor Wednesday. Okay, so we're gonna I'm totally distracted this morning. I apologize in advance I posted something earlier semi controversial probably for some but I think it's for most of you who are my friends family loved ones and Subscribers followers. I think that you know our little family all are on the same Wave length of wave length as far as thinking and so that you'll all most of you are going to agree with it So but yeah, I'm tired of the hate filled comments that are flying around the internet Anyway, enough of that. Let's get back to art. Okay, so First thing I have lots of stuff. I want to talk about and then we're gonna do of course We're gonna do a little painting today. Of course.  Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. So that's my job today after I'm done broadcasting is to get the samples finished Alright, so these two cards these is this is a hundred and forty pound watercolor paper and Before I left for Alaska. I Decided to swatch a whole bunch of the black pens that I have in my stash That I use in my mixed media and watercolor to try to see which ones were like fast and which ones weren't Hello, Lisa and everyone Um so I I did swatches on these cards and I taped part of the swatches you can see here on the Copic sample That part is darker than the other that's because I put painters tape over half of the swatch and I left them on the dashboard of my car. They've been on the dashboard of my car for about a month now. This is not You know a proper Scientific light fastness test by any stretch of the imagination and it was only a month So how they would react longer? I don't know how they would react without the windshield glass in front of them I don't know because I didn't do that test If you put anything in front of an object Just that barrier is going to prevent provide some UV protection Now if it doesn't have a UV properties, it's not going to give you very much But the I don't know that car automotive glass doesn't I would assume automotive glass has some kind of UV coating in between the layers so But obviously if you look at these samples, it doesn't have a lot Some of these pens didn't do anything some holy crap. Okay, so this whole card It doesn't look too bad The pilot varsity, which is my favorite disposable fountain pen did change color a little bit And I have to have that one handy and I can put a little swatch here underneath and you can see You can see the difference between the two the fresh ink and the ink from the window So there was some fading and color changing not a lot but a little bit most of the pens on this Card didn't do too badly including the Sharpie The Molotow marker, which is an acrylic paint mark part paint marker did great the Xeno did fabulous The Feud ball did pretty well Now this other card holy cow some of these were really bad. Look at the Copic again How much you know this you know this is the one was covered with tape and this is the one that wasn't and Here I happen to have a Copic One of these Copic wide markers, which is I think the one I did the swatch with so here's the fresh Copic So that gives you a clue and then let's see I'm looking for my spectrum aqua in black Which you know I put away somewhere and you know who knows is this it? This is the spectrum noir in black Is that on there? Yeah, that's on there. I don't know where the aqua marker is at the moment. That's odd The Stadler tri plus Really bad this one that you there's a marker here. You can't even see it. It's this Frixion colors they're by Pilot and I Don't know if they're a gel pen or just a marker, but it faded completely It's complete now. I didn't have this one in black. I had it in this blue color, but it's completely gone You can see the faint and I don't even know if you can pick it up on camera, but there's the faint Like outline where of the writing The colored ink is completely gone the colored components of the ink are completely gone It just left whatever else was on there It looks like I wrote on there with a white Graph peps not so great and tombo the tombo is bad. So I'm going to do a More of an in-depth video with these and I'm going to pull out the markers and do you know fresh samples But I wanted to show this on camera this morning because I thought the results were pretty interesting And they apply to us as watercolor artists and we're we always are talking about light fastness and mix media artists, so I Thought I thought that was pretty and only a month. So if I left them there longer, I don't know what they would do Add it to my pile of stuff. It's not done yet. Okay, then I want to talk about this Isn't this pretty so this was sent to me in happy mail By Erin young from Canada now she tried to send me one last year a Similar piece it got lost in the mail. We don't to this day. I don't know where it is Maybe someday it will be returned to her or me. We have no idea But I did get this one and isn't this cool 3d piece With a metallic finish. I think she did a great job and she sent me a bunch of happy mail and evidently she works in a plant That packages coffee because this is There was no food in this this is a sample She said of what she does what she makes it where at the place where she works So that's pretty cool, and I'm thinking that needs to be a journal cover. I'm not sure Favorite marker of all the pens that I and she sent me a bunch of painted papers, too So that was very nice. So I want to thank her publicly on YouTube So much for the art now I have to figure out where I'm gonna hang it because I really like it So it's got to be somewhere in my art room. I think Favorite marker Well, I still love the pilot varsity for sketching and writing it's a very nice smooth pen The Pentel gel roller for fabric This one I have that one handy wait that one's right here somewhere. It's in here somewhere here. So this one Didn't fade at all. This is a really great pen the gel roller for fabric writes over lots of different mediums Hey, Amy. Hey, Beth Lots of different mediums and paints It writes really smoothly. It's obviously very light fast It's not a big pen and it doesn't have a lot of ink in it But it's one of my favorites or I love it. I also like the feud ball Which also didn't do too badly You can see here it faded a little bit Maybe you can't see hold on Let me zoom in hold on And I really love my big brush pens They're fabulous and they really Don't get enough attention. I don't think From some people. I really like the big brush pens and they did pretty well the spectrum noir didn't do too badly either Um here is The spectrum noir Here's the pit big brush pen So it Is a little bit lighter not too much that might just be because this ink is wet This is the spectrum noir Did I say spectrum? I meant pit big brush pen. This is the spectrum noir now again This is a little bit darker. It may have faded a little bit, but it Didn't do too badly certainly not compared to the copic which did horribly My favorite paint pen is a molotow marker. They're affordable. They're easy to find They're refillable It's the one kind of that I'd go for So like I said again, I'm going to do an in-depth video just about these and I will I will talk about these in a separate video and I have the I have the video footage where I created these so I'm going to put all that together Yeah, so I'm surprised at the copics too and for for line and wash So in conjunction with my watercolor paints, which is this is watercolor Wednesday My favorite pen is the pilot varsity disposable fountain pen Then I use it and the let's see Sharpie marker pen Which is down here Which actually did really well. So I use those usually together The sharpie marker pen is not water Soluble it's waterproof And it Actually did very did pretty well although sharpie is not light fast. It didn't do too badly Yep, I don't have any micron brush pens, but I do love my micron sketching pens Um, so when when you're talking about just sketching and sketching with my watercolors and creating You know interesting marks with my watercolors. I like to sketch out the lines. I want to stay With the sharpie marker pen because it's not going to go anywhere Then I will add some more details With the vars pilot varsity, they both have the similar color of black ink But the pilot varsity is going to bleed Which I like and if you know your pen is going to do that And you know what to expect you can work with it And this is my favorite pen like if I had to pick one favorite pen And just grab one pen on my way out the door. It would be the pilot varsity But these two together are fabulous and when I take my um travel my supplies traveling These are the two pens I take with me. I'm not sure if that's exactly what you were asking, but That's interesting for just a strange little doodle. All right. So this morning We have my um journal here. I've got my I was so distracted this morning by other things going on that I didn't even get all my photos in my album yet listen Wait, it's a good morning coffee Yes, it does Beth. It does rewet Um, so you have to be careful with it. Um spray you can spray your surface with a matte fixative Before you add another layer of anything I would work spray it with matte fixative or workable fixative because it will rewet The sharpie marker pen is fabulous. It's permanent. It doesn't go anywhere The Pit big brush pens you can move them around while the ink is fresh and then once they dry It's not going to go anywhere. So the big brush pens are nice that way if you want a layer That's not going to go anywhere And I don't own a lot of copics lisa. I only own a couple of copics in black Um, just because I like their black ink Um, but I have the full set of spectrum noir markers Um this morning, we are going to work on this page which is in my small delusions journal And this is where I do lots of mixed media. Um Um watercolour and mixed media paintings and We are going to work this background started out as something. I was just wiping my brushes off on from another project And then I glued down just some random scraps and bits and pieces that I had laying around And then I covered the whole thing with daniel smith's transparent watercolor ground Which is like clear jesso For watercolor zoom out just a little bit So what the only thing with the transparent watercolor ground is that you have to Let it cure for 48 to 72 hours to get it to work properly for you. Oh wow, Beth That was me last night because my daughter and her boyfriend came home from canada very late Um last night slash early this morning. Um, so yeah, I feel for you But if you have to be awake, I'm glad that you're doing something fun Um, so anyway, so The nice thing about the transparent watercolor ground, which is like clear jesso for watercolor Is that once you give your page a good coating of this and let it cure Then you can watercolor over whatever's on here And it turns everything on the page absorbent. So the papers the acrylic paint The tape it's all going to take watercolor paint the same way so I love this stuff and it is the one thing when I was in seattle I went to the daniel smith store that I made sure to get a jar of because I love this stuff If they had had a bigger jar, I would have bought one Okay, so that being said I was going to work with the daniel smith paints this morning And I thought well, let's try something a little different. I haven't pulled out in a while So these are the van goe watercolors, which is a student grade watercolor And they're nice and um, I have a small palette of them In a pretty good color range So we're gonna get these wet This is a spray bottle I use just for watercolor and it's got some oxal liquid in the water Which will aid in the rewetting of the paints and the flow of them on the paper Um, when you first put it on it's a little bit gritty But once it cures for a few days, then it's not it's It's less so now if you have liquid text clear jesso Which a lot of us have That stuff's super gritty This is not as gritty as liquid text clear clear jesso Um, it's got a little bit of a tooth to it, but it's not bad Oh, that's a good idea beth Yeah, that would work great for that. I do have the white daniel smith ground I don't use it as much as I should but yeah, definitely you could use it in the place of like white gouache or something That would be great idea Okay, so we've got the pictures of these flowers that I took on one of the hikes I went to Went on in wash, uh, alaska When we were I think we were in ketchup can I don't remember Um, we were just walking on a path and I was like distracted taking pictures You know story of my life my husband says i'm dory FYI, you know, we have the new finding dory movie coming out my husband started laughing He said you're dory because i'm Kind of am Well, I always have multiple cars and cats and cats life So I always have multiple projects going on so to just give something a coat of clear jesso and set it aside for a few days Is not a big deal because there's always plenty going on in my art room So it's not usually a big deal Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is i'm going to take my um Hey antbex creations. Hello. Good morning. Um, I'm going to take I think I think i'm going to take Do I want to use my crayon or do I want to use a I think I want to use a regular pencil This is a A helix drafting pencil a five millimeter drafting pencil. I think it's just to be led Serial creator. Yeah, that's for sure. All right, so I have my um Photos right here you can just see hey lori you can just see the corner of the album But they're right here sort of slightly off-camera and I'm going to sketch My flowers in I um, I don't remember if this Image is on the inspiration photos Free page on my website or not I'm going to do some updating of the images on there Today this afternoon including adding the new meme that I made earlier this morning that I posted and by the way Any of you who've seen the meme and you've liked the meme feel free to share it Um, I'm going to post both of those and I'll update the photos for you guys And I don't know what kind of flowers these were. They're just some random kind of white wild flowers So the first thing we're going to do is just look at our photo and sketch out The shapes that we see I don't ever worry about having too many sketchy pencil lines on my work I think that they're You know, they just add in my mind because maybe because I'm a mixed media artist They just add interest to the page So I can see you posting comments out of the corner of my eye. So hang on a minute So one of the things I like about mixed media is that there's no rules And that whatever you do to the page just adds adds more interest I love that And I'm really just Obviously deciding to do this group this group here of three flowers is what's kept what's catching my attention There is a fourth one there, but I'm not sure I'm going to draw it in We're using our photo as inspiration. We're not looking to copy it exactly Oh an fyi if I can just brag just a little bit In the last 48 hours Not only has mr. Mark Montano himself, which we all know and love liked One of my photos on instagram, but so has deco art painter and prima marketing Yay What gotta love that. All right, I'm definitely just liking having these three flowers on here now the original flowers are White and yellow Obviously, I would have to paint the white in because You know our background has lots of color on it and we might do that. I have white in here I have Chinese white so We'll see what happens. We're going to start with a large brush And I'm going to start with some greens And as usual do the background first the nice thing about putting Yeah, I'm just realizing my thing is upside down Okay, the nice thing about putting um Doing watercolor over a mixed media background is that um All watercolors transparent so all of these layers and marks and collage items They're going to show through which I love that who who doesn't love that Okay, so this is um permanent yellow green again, these are van go watercolors and using my Um original photo for inspiration. I do think I need to clip down my pages So they're flatter They're a little curly. Don't tell anybody All right, so we're going to just be kind of abstract and suggestive with the background I know those of you who have been watching me for a while that won't surprise you I'm I'm uh mixing some sap green into the permanent yellow green, which you can't really see because Um, I have you focused on the journal Which is okay So it's just a little bit darker green because you know with watercolor we start Light Right and we work our way darker Now you can do this sort of thing if you don't have the transparent watercolor brown You can try it with Clear gesso, um golden's absorbing ground. You'll have varying degrees of success Um, but I definitely if you already have those products in your stash of stuff I would try them before you go out and buy Something else and see if what you have Works good enough for you So I'm you can see what I'm doing is creating definition In the flowers pulling out the flower shapes from the background by painting around them And then coming in with water And blending If I get you know color in the wrong place. I've got my rag in my hand Now when you use this Transparent watercolor ground the paper reacts in my opinion very much like hot press paper What do I mean by that? So I know somebody's going to ask so in my opinion when you use hot press paper I Um, I think I have less control over where the paint goes It really wants to spread and blend in places. I don't want it to regardless of whether they're Um wet or not Um It just seems the paint seems to kind of want to go everywhere and it's a little harder to control And when you use the transparent watercolor ground, I think I have the same issue Hey paula So we're just working on Some watercolor over mix media We've got a base coat of acrylic paint and collage On the background and everything's covered with um transparent watercolor ground Okay So now I am going to go in and I'm gonna Grab some chinese white And I'm not really going to water this down any more than it's going to get just by the fact that there's water on the brush I'm going to use the photo To show me where the parts of the petals are their whitest Again, we're creating an inspired piece of artwork from a photo that we took We're not looking to copy it exactly because that's why we took the photo Yeah, you know, I really don't want people to limit themselves with your watercolor really, you know It's just another medium It's a fun medium and there's nothing wrong with doing just straight watercolor paintings But if you want to try mix media or you're working already with mix media There's no reason on the planet that you can't incorporate your watercolors into that So i'm just using the chinese white I'm basically just Painting it on the highlighted or brightest and whitest parts Of the flower. This is um daniel's. Um, sorry This is a van go watercolors and this is their chinese white It's not a gouache. I don't I think all chinese white is kind of a opaque gouache kind of paint I could be wrong that i'm not sure on but I think so um I can get the tube out and tell you for sure in a minute Now a good shadow color for white objects is blue I'm gonna switch to a little bit smaller brush.  It's great for doing washes. This is from hobby lobby. It wasn't very expensive This one is an escada versatile um synthetic round brush a number eight round This I got from jackson's art supply in the uk again. It wasn't expensive It's a nice brush though I mean leaving a little space between the edge of the white paint and The pencil line where the green is against the pencil line because I don't want The green to blend at least not too much with the white I want the line to be sort of crisp Yep, I love a good violet for shadows. There's nothing like a good violet color for shadows It's one of my favorite colors And as you all know, I love daniel smith paints. Yes, I'm a collector of um pocket palettes And I love watercolor paint in general, but daniel smith is my favorite I just haven't used the van goes in a while. So I thought we'd give them a shot this morning Now if you are using your watercolors in mixed media and you know You want to put a layer of something over this when you're done Then I definitely would recommend spraying the whole page with a workable fixative um or something like that Before you do anything else and then trying not to get the page too wet I'm just going around the flowers and giving them, you know, a couple coats of the white Now you of course could do this if I had known for sure what I was going to do to this page When I was putting the watercolor ground on it, then I probably would have sketched it out before I did anything else Painted white watercolor ground where the flowers are and put clear on the rest I didn't know this is what I was going to do. So I didn't do that All right, let's see.  Well, you don't have to Um print the inspiration photo in black and white. So you have the Values and tones of the colors in the painting and then Choose other colors Use your cool tones like your blues your violets For shadow and use your warm tones like yellow orange red for highlights So we have some puddles overlapping each other. So I'm going to make sure to put a shadow there Got some interesting comments on Some of the live broadcasts recently and I'm going to respond to all of them today Some of the comments implied that the broadcasts are too long Which I find interesting because they are a live broadcast tutorial and I'm not sure How fast you all think I can paint but It's not I can paint pretty fast, but I can't paint that fast Okay, we're gonna I want to dry that a little bit which means I have to move some stuff Because my table is a mess All right, so when you dry your watercolors and then go to add another layer You will take the you do run into the taking the chance of reactivating the prior layer But they're going to move around a lot less than they are if they're fresh and wet And thank you Paula I thought it was an interesting comment Now I do want to be careful about drawing this that I don't get it too hot And have the heat gun in one place for too long because You do have acrylic paint things on here and you do take the chance of um Melting things and creating texture that you might not want See I'm a watercolor junkie too. Well, I'm an art junkie. I should just say oh art junkie Yeah, I thought it was an interesting comment All right, I'm gonna take some more white The other thing you want to keep in mind when you're doing this watercolor over mix media is you're not No, you're not going to get the same look as you do it as you would on fresh watercolor paper It's very very different But I like it. I think it's interesting Exactly at Bex creations urinate. It's gonna bubble It's gonna create texture that you might like but um, you might not like So you want to be careful Now I have some neon colors here on the base layer Which is nice if they show through a little bit because they'll help indicate sunlight and brightness and warmth That was a little wetter than I wanted but But we'll work with it Now you can also go over this with you know, again, this is a mix media piece. Remember people There's no rule so you can let all of this dry and then highlight things with you know, white gel pen Pen and ink Whatever you're Feeling at the moment. Oh, you know Beth. I always come back to watercolor too when I started Back to the road of painting as an adult. Uh, I Gravitated first to watercolor. It is my first love. It always will be Um, it's very I love that it's portable. I can take it with me Okay, we're gonna let those petals dry a little bit. Let's do some work on the center So I think for the centers I want to start with A green but I'm going to take my green that's already wet here on the palette I think I'm going to add a little bit of panes gray to it. Oh, that was a lot of panes gray Let's add some green to that That's better So I have this color that's like a dark gray green now that I've mixed by taking the yellow green Permanent yellow green and mixing it with panes gray And we're going to just dab that here into the center We're going to use this here too in the background a little bit Yep, I love watercolors. I'm with you guys. Obviously Haven't really met one. I don't like either. I get asked that all the time. Daniel Smith is my favorite. They have a large color range their Professional artist grade and semi affordable. They're made in the usa. They're easy for me to get but I haven't really met one I don't like to be honest with you and the van goes are not expensive. You can get them a hobby lobby Like my hobby lobbies had some colors on clearance recently So I'm not sure what that means if they're getting rid of them or not, but they have been on clearance And the tubes you can get them in a set too. They come in sets. In fact I have a van go pocket set because you know, I'm a pocket Set collector. I'm a slash hoarder So this dark color is wet and that's fine. I'm just putting some light yellow in there I'm going to dry it again in a minute, but So one of these that I just got in the mail Or that's coming maybe maybe it's not in yet. I've ordered a one of these small pocket kits of van go one They have this thing for yeah, it's a poor it's a poor issue And it's the one thing I probably won't charge because I just love my pocket kits They're very versatile and you know, you don't have to feel like you need to do a big, you know, painting or Water, you know a big page in your journal. You can just do greeting cards and accs. That's how I got started And I love my heat tool when I'm traveling. It's harder for me because I Don't have this And I'm very impatient But I'll paint a couple of layers and then you know, we'll go out and do the tourist thing And by the time I come I come back it'll be ready for me to Continue working on Daniel Smith watercolors only come in tubes. I think they used to come in cake form in a set Because I've seen a couple of older watercolor artists on youtube and the internet Reference them, but they don't anymore. They only come in tubes. I'm not sure why that is but they only come in tubes So this is permanent yellow lemon yellow We're gonna put some of this in here I'm gonna let that dry for a minute and go back to our white Just dry again Oh, yeah, and sticks. Sorry I did get some sticks while I was in um, seattle The sticks are really nice. They're a lot. Um, you know along the same idea of a neocolor, but way more pigmented and lightfast They don't have the complete color range In the sticks that they do in the watercolor tubes But the colors they have are fabulous. I got 10 colors when I was there Which is funny because I was only going to get five colors and I just couldn't help myself But they used to have cakes and I'm not sure why they don't have them anymore, but they don't have them anymore So I'm going to take some permanent blue violet here and I'm going to just mix it into the Um, sort of light blue color that we were using thank you And I'm going to mix in some Chinese white into it to just lighten it up and make it a little bit opaque Because the Chinese white is generally an opaque color And while I'm working on the petals, what's happening is I'm giving the um centers a chance to dry which is generally how You know, that's generally how you watercolor you let something dry you work on another part of the page Because you usually don't have a heat tool with you. Oh, see Kathleen. Yeah, that would have been fabulous You would have become my best friend I did meet um one of the um Executives for Daniel Smith. I ran into her in the parking lot and I was taking pictures and we started chatting She was very very nice So just remember to work your start, you know for the most part Start light and work your way darker because you can't really take the color back Um, a lot of times the watercolor paints will stay now. That's not always true If you use like the transparent ground um A lot of times the color will kind of wash off. It won't completely it may stain with white paper a lot of times it stains So you have to really, you know, just learn to live with what happens And accept some more of that purple. I'm not going to worry if it's not exactly the same color We'll just make it work. Okay. So I'm going to go back to the centers I'm just dabbing in a dark color with my brush. I'm not I'm not really brushing it in. I'm just dabbing it in I'm using up the rest of that dark green color that I made And then I'm going to come in with some Payne's gray And I like this little journal where I can just really experiment in um using my Watercolors, you know in my mixed media applications. I can just do little Um studies and just play around and if you know, some of them turn out great. Some of them don't it's just You know a fun place to play. Nobody ever has to see it. You don't have to you know be like me and put it on youtube So I mixed some Payne's gray and some sepia Because I'm not so sure I want the straight Payne's gray on here. I'm kind of liking the pastelli kind of look that I'm getting But it does need some like darker tones So again, I'm just going to just dab this color in Now I'm mixing some lemon yellow with white Again because the white isn't um an opaque paint So I'm just I'm going to make the yellow a little more opaque But we've got to let what I've done on here dry a little bit Let's see heat tool So I'm going to dab in some of this lighter yellow that I made And because I dried the centers it should the marks that I make should sit right on top and they shouldn't really go anywhere Maybe make a little bit more. I didn't make enough I'm not adding very much water to the paint so it's Not diluting it and lightening it up too much Which is good because that's I don't want it to be too diluted Now I like working with watercolor because I like to see all the transparent layers through each other The only really gouache color paint that I use generally is white um Definitely you could do this sort of thing with gouache instead of with traditional watercolors and you might really enjoy that And if you haven't tried gouaches, I would probably give it to say give it a try Buy a couple of inexpensive tubes and give it a try Now when you have a large range like daniel smith some of their colors are more transparent than others And that's true with a lot of large lines of paint. Now i'm taking my The dots of yellow out into the petals just a little bit because the center of these flowers Has like lots of you know, hairy stamens in the middle. I like that. That's really pretty. Um, I'm really thinking that I want to do this So this is the pilot varsity pen Hey, cindy I hope you're feeling better today Now you should if you're going to go in here with any pen you should probably wait until things dry completely um You'll ruin your pens and just trust me when I say that because I know because I've done that Um I've ruined a lot of pens What I can say about that it clogs up the nibs The paint particles get stuck in that. Um And the nib of the pen and then nothing wants to write and yeah, it's not good. I need a piece of paper But this isn't a complicated drawing. This is just flowers flowers are Fun, they're easy Anybody can draw flowers.  I'm drawing over wet paint. So it's not really because I'm drawing over wet paint. So it's It's messing up my pen Now I forgot where I was Okay, I'll answer that black pen question in just a second. I'm a good black pen. Um Waterproof or non waterproof So remember the pilot varsity one of the things I like about it was that it's Not waterproof So that means that it's going to move around And I know it's going to move around And I frequently use that to my advantage And I use that ink as part of my Uh painting. I love that waterproof Um, so I am and have been like most of us a big fan of the scarlet line pen, which is no longer made unfortunately um The feud ball is a good pen too, but it's not necessarily waterproof My favorite waterproof pens has been and still is a sharpie pen. So if you want a fine nib Uh pen get the sharpie marker pen, which is this one Um, it's refillable. It has a very fine nib in it And it's a great little sketching pen But sharpie makes a lot of pens and they're all waterproof If you can spend a little bit more money and you don't and you know, it's a and you don't mind, you know, ordering stuff Because I know my local stores don't have it Pit pens are great once they're dry They aren't going to move around at all For me, that's always a tough question because pens are kind of like Paint watercolor paint. I haven't really met one. I don't like Yeah, the sharpie marker pen is my favorite and I love my um, I love my pilot varsity Disposable fountain pen. Those are my two go-to pens generally now the super fine sharpie um Pen does not work well over paint and gesso It works better over a plain paper Um, so you have to get a sharpie with a bigger nib on it to if you want to write on Write over paint with it Instead of doing that I was going to do something else. Let's do let's see All right We need to dry it again So sharpie has been my favorite sharpies easy to get when I first started in mixed media sharpie was um Um, I love the sharpie I uh, you know, I could get them in target. They weren't expensive Yeah, the scarlet line playing a fabulous a good substitute is the football um or the pilot pilot Hold on Pilot doesn't make another pen. I don't know if they've just continued it along with the football though. I mean the scarlet line pen Oops Um See it's not like I don't like pens. All right So the field ball is if you like the scarlet line the field ball is a good substitute FUD e-ball I got this a jet pens Um, there is also the pilot multi ball Again from jet pens. This one has a little bit finer nib on it than the scarlet line pen and Wait, there's one more I have to find it Pilot makes another pen. It looks the same like the scarlet line pen I can't find mine. I don't know where it is Because you know because I'm on camera as soon as we're off the camera's off. I'll find it Um, I also, you know, I have the pit pens in a number of different sizes And they're fabulous and once again once they're dry, they're not going to go anywhere But you have like a couple seconds to move it around because it's an alcohol pen Um, I also have the stapler pigment liners. They're actually really nice how did they do on the oops The stapler pigment liners didn't do too badly on here And those come in a different number of different nib sizes. So they work well But you know, I even have things like a low the Lowe's marker Permanent marker that my friend Cindy utter. Hey Cindy gave me Um And a big market. I mean, you know, and let's see the big market didn't do too badly right here um Yeah, the non waterproof pen So it's one thing I always tell people no matter what medium you're working in is you really should take out If you're going to use pen with it Take out your pens like black if you have it in a bunch of different kinds and test them Do do some big swatches like this And then let it and then get it wet see which ones run and which ones don't Set it out in the sun see which ones fade quickly and which ones don't like the frixion pens.  What did I just do it got wet and I want I didn't want that ink there Um, but if you know, it's going to get wet you can use it to your advantage So this is um a White gel pen Uniball signo broad The uniball signo does come in a couple of different colors Ah Different colors different nib nibs There's angelic, which is a fine point and this is the broad one So i'm going to just add some more white highlights to some parts of the petals here Just another layer And some marks and dots to the flower centers And I'm just I'm keeping my colors simple But you you could keep going and you could keep adding layers You're going to get something like this and of course you could put a quote on here if you wanted I don't think I really want to I like the way it looks just the way it is So there you have it van go watercolors It's not a huge palette. I mean, you know, I have bigger ones Um But it's got a good selection of colors And like I said the van go watercolors are not expensive. I at hobby lobby the tubes are about five dollars a tube And it's good if you're going to use your pens in conjunction with your watercolors and mixed media I think to have one Waterproof and one non waterproof pen again and a pencil. So in my watercolor travel kit, I've got a pencil I've got a sharpie marker pen this actually one of these and I've got a varsity Disposable fountain pen now the nice thing about the silver body sharpie marker pen is that it's refillable So you just unscrew the handle and you get a new ink cartridge and you just Screw the new one in They do make it in a black body. Um, that's disposable Same pen Oh, I'm so glad Paula. Yeah simple easy flowers. I'm going to make sure That I have this photo in my uh on my inspiration page on my website for you guys And I will then you can download it and you can paint from it I'd love to see what you do and that's interesting to know. So it comes back in the cold Uh That's interesting. You know what I might stick this piece of paper in the freezer And see what happens My husband will wonder why there's pieces of paper in the freezer, but it won't be the strangest thing I've ever done Like I said, he thinks I'm dory. So, you know Hey, hey Cheta, how are you? We're just finishing up So I will be filming something about these. Um, um Lightfastness tests I did in my car It's interesting. I I didn't expect the results that we kind of got I thought the sharpies would fade more because they're not supposed to be lightfast and they didn't hardly fade at all um The tombows graph packs and the stapler tri plus faded a lot but by um Contrast the stapler pigment liners didn't fade at all The distress markers which are not my favorite and I actually sold them all in a few mystery boxes They did actually pretty well. They're not supposed to be lightfast the zig clean Um color markers. Um, they faded a little bit Of course the pit pens did well copics didn't do very well, which that surprises me That's probably the biggest shocker of the day is the copic markers. So this is fresh marker that I did earlier And then this swatch was I had tape over half of it And the other half was exposed to the sun for a month and that's what happened So even the bit under the tape faded so I almost didn't remember to come on chachetta. So it's okay. There's just a lot of stuff going on this morning um The pilot multi ball did very well, which is the other pen that's similar to the scarlet line. So here's the scarlet line And here's the pilot multi ball, which has a thinner nib. It's a great pen. I like it, but it's got a smaller nib um, the pentel gel roller for fabric or the feud ball Are comparable pens to the scarlet line the pentel gel roller for fabric works great on paper and it's waterproof Um the uniball signo, which we're used to using in white does come in black fyi and sepia and both of those I own both of those colors and it's a fabulous pen But again for me pens are kind of like watercolor I haven't really met one. I don't like They're good for different things I would definitely advocate Looking at what is that available at your local target your local office supply And then if they don't have what you're looking for and you want to try some new things go to jet pens jet pens does have some I don't want to call them grab bags But they have some like pen assortments that you can buy like they have one that's a white pen assortment And they'll send you a selection of white pens that they carry um paint pens gel pens um for a really good price you'll get a whole bunch of these You know white or black pens and different kinds that you can try And it's a great way to try like some new pens that you maybe normally would never even think of I did that long not long ago with white pens Oh good. I hope you do. This is a really easy image to do anybody could do it You know again, I'm going to zoom out just a little bit so that you can see the um original photo Hopefully not too much so that you don't see the rest of my desk There's some glare there, but Let's see There we go. All right. I turned off the light um So so the light's a little dark now, but that's all right So this is the original photo just some wild random wildflowers from alaska Uh that you know, they were just on a path when I was hiking and Um, I just used it for inspiration to create this, you know This is an inspiration photo You know, don't stress yourself out trying to copy it exactly Just have fun with it and use it for inspiration to create your page Maybe what the inspiration you get from it is the colors And that you want to create something abstract with yellow white and green. That's fine Um, but don't stress yourself out trying to copy the photo and flowers are easy They're a great thing to practice with so yeah, definitely I'm much less stressful than faces And I hope you all have a go at the watercolor. I hope you all do I hope you all have a great day Like I said earlier, I will be updating the inspiration photos page Um this afternoon probably as soon as we're done with the broadcast and making sure this photo and a few others are on there I will be updating the memes page over there also And adding in the new meme that I made this morning You know no hate zone Um because this you know, this is a no hate zone Um, and if you don't understand what that means then go over and look at any one of my social media I posted it earlier. You're free to share the meme.  This is not great paper. This is a small delusions journal. It's basically file folder paper Um, and it's got acrylic paint collage and stuff on it And then I covered the whole thing with daniel smith transparent watercolor ground And let it cure for a few days and then we started watercoloring on top of it And this is the kind of look you get this is one I did um A couple of weeks ago now That is um, there's a speed through of this on youtube already Um, and this is the kind of thing that you can do with watercolor in mix media, which is what this journal is about So have fun with it. Don't be intimidated by it. You don't have to have fancy watercolors if you just have crayola use that Like I said, I haven't really met a watercolor. I don't like They all work All right All right, that's it right now you guys. I'm going to go update the website and have some more coffee.  That was tough So anyway, all right, I will see you all later create some art have some fun Be nice to each other and yourself talk to you later. Bye guys Yeah, let you have to let the ground cure for 48 to 72 hours And to really have it work Well, and if you read the teeny tiny print on the back of the jar it says that If you're like me you need to get your reading glasses out So I would say do um, just so Put this on a page And then I just set it up above on my shelf and let it dry for a couple of days And I I do something else while it's curing and then I come back to it And you'll do you might want to do a couple of test swatches, you know Do do a couple pieces of paper And let one dry and within a few hours play with it Let the other one dry for a few days and then play with it and see what the difference is Yeah, don't stress Just enjoy it. All right. I will see you guys later. Bye