LIVE: Sunset Cityscape & Cherry Blossoms Painting Tutorial 12:30pm ET

and we're

live

on the Frugal Crafter YouTube channel. I just hope this stream works because I've been having technical issues all morning so I hope this isn't blurry and choppy and a big mess, but honestly, there's nothing more. I've moved every cable I can move, adjusted every antenna and it is what it is, if it's a total nightmare I guess I'll get out of it, but let's keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best that we get a good transmission. I have Sarah here with me hi and she's on the other computer monitoring the chat and she will pass along your questions to me if you have any during the broadcast and it will be the same as always if you have a question type in the word question. her in all caps and then she types your question normally so that the automatic YouTube spam filter you know doesn't kick you out and if the moderators in the chat can help you, they will; otherwise Sarah will pass it on to me if you have any questions about my new floral flower

painting

workshop class you can ask Sarah and she will ask me and I think that's it all the supplies and the reference photo and everything is in the video description or on my blog, so that should also be the information you need for this.

In this project, the paper I am working on is Aqua V 6x9 material. I was actually a little scared so I only have a couple of sheets left and I buy it in a pack of 50 so I ordered a few more the other day but I really like it it's very affordable and it's 140lbs and it's 100% cotton, so you can have that cotton

painting

experience without spending tons of money. Anything else we should mention. I think you understood everything. Great, we're going to do the same technique we did. Last week we wet the back of the paper because it's like my new favorite technique.

Now I just love it, it gives me such a good result and we're going to use a spray bottle for that, you could use a big brush if you wanted. to spray bottles a little faster and I'm working on a craft mat. I would suggest here if you have a really nice table, don't stick it directly to your table, but you can stick it to your drawing board or you know, take a piece of cardboard and put some contact paper on it or something so you have a non-porous surface or service that you don't worry about damaging.

I'm going to flip it over, glue it on, and then I'm going to spray. the front and I'll leave that too. I'm going to start with a one inch flat brush and spread my water all over here. If you have bubbles, you can lift the paper and drop it again and some bubbles should come out. You shouldn't be a big deal, you just don't want puddles, you want it evenly wet, but no puddles, we'll start with cobalt turquoise, oh, when I meant, I've always had it, this is just tiny bits of glass. of stress and went to cleanse my palate.

They sprayed it on me but I didn't have my cloth, so I ran upstairs to be taken away. I've been up and down the stairs about ten times before holy moly. I'm and you know. and ahead checking the antennas, but I think if my husband can hear me because I'm yelling at him, he said it doesn't work with all the cables and yes, thank you. I completely forgot to cleanse my palate because I'm going to get started. with a little bit of cobalt teal and these paints are new to me, well they are new paints too, they are imported from Poland and a saleswoman who is actually from Maine sent me these.

I buy them linked in the video description, but they are very economical for a good quality Watercolor, it costs like fifty-five dollars for twenty-four molds with a can and they also have individual molds, so you don't have to worry about running out of them and then not be able to get them because they're from Poland, so the information in the video description too, if you want a little, so I'm going to highlight here with the cobalt turquoise. You can use cobalt teal or very diluted Prussian blue, but if you use Prussian blue, then tone it down and then dry the brush. and then bring it to your newspaper.

Will you have big puddles leaving Kaali flowers as you go? We're also going to work this from the bottom, but as we go up, we're going to We're going to tilt our brush so we end up without doing this, it's good that the water line is like this and down, so we just want to make sure that that's what we are filling for all our others. things, there's not as much change from wet to dry with these paints. I found it to be an interesting and neat ad. I was worried my things would turn out too pale, but it wasn't a problem, which is nice and you want. the water is a little darker than the sky, although I'm going to go off paper so I don't have to worry about puddles.

I clean my brush and then I'm going to pick up some silly yellow beauty cadmium yellow. any neutral to warm yellow will be good. I'm just going to put a little bit in the sky up here without overlaying the blue because I don't want to have green in my sky so you can do Make sure you clean that brush well if you use the same brush. I like to use a flat brush for this technique because I find that I can end up making puddles because the rounds just hold a lot more paint and water at once and now.

I'm going to take some CAD Orange, so I'm using more colors and normally they would just be because I was curious and wanted to try these paints, but you can mix them if you want, I'll use them as a kind of magenta pink. color, so if you're going to mix, use it for your red, it won't give you as vibrant as an orange, but as you can see, we don't really need a vibrant orange. I'm just touching some clouds because it's a

sunset

, so the light would reflect, the colors of the

sunset

would also reflect off the clouds, so I want to put some of that up there.

This brush is an espresso wash from Royal and Langnickel if you've been looking. the minta brushes and you have a more local air conditioner for you, they have them for four ten dollars right now and this year there is a 20% discount, so your total purchase coupon today, so I am not sponsored by them , but that's pretty good. okay, I've been sponsored by them in the past, just so you know, and now I'm going to grab some magenta. This is actually called geranium Lake in this set, but it's like a magenta or Quinn couldn't. I couldn't even call it purple, but it's very magenta adding a little bit of that to my sky and that's what we have so far.

The colors are pale. I know they look parallel on my monitor, but they really are pale. So just to give you here, you can see it dry, it doesn't move too much when it dries, if you look at the sky, I just want to show you that you need that pale background so that as we build our like our. everything will be highlighted and displayed on top because we won't keep any white areas. In fact, I completely forgot to paint that to draw our bridge there, but we will cross that bridge when we get to it, it's just a miracle where the whole transmission maybe we don't have a bridge, it sure isn't necessary to have a bridge, the bridge is optional, it will still be a lovely scene, there is actually a Budapest scene, a bridge deliberately in Budapest.

I found the photo on Unsplash. I thought it was really pretty, so I'm taking some of that duranium lake that's like a magenta color and I'm going to pick it up, oh just take some of that orange that I just used and then I'm going to go. Come here and I'll start painting on some very distant buildings. I'm using a small angle just so I can easily get some building shapes in there without a lot of work and just to interact a little creatively. April is here, boy, thanks for joining us. April yes. you guys have questions about these paintings usually she's here to help yes in April if you can stay tuned to the chat if anyone and if anyone asks if you have questions about it she can certainly know she knows better than me about these paintings. paintings because this is literally the second time I've played with them besides showing them.

I'll share my swatches when you get to the point where I let something dry so you can see it, but yeah, they're really pretty. So he can. He was wondering if he could suggest a good brand of professional watercolor that does not use cadmium in its pigments. Most prolines will have some cadmium colors, but if you are looking for a tone, the word tone, then it will not contain cadmium. So now you know, you'll probably want to shop instead of buying a set by individual color so you don't have to worry about getting cadmium by mistake.

Most student paints do not contain cadmium because it is expensive and you know. like they were marketing to kids, obviously they wouldn't want to have cadmium in there and it still seemed like there was a cadmium free brand that actually talked about being cadmium free, omg I wouldn't want to put you down so I'm not 100% sure but definitely You can avoid buying cadmium paint in any range you know you want. I'm going to take the orange and this is a cadmium orange, but you could use a pyrol orange. fix your own Orange clearly and I'm going to put another row of colors.

Look at your brush and make sure you don't get water drops on the ferrule because if they slide down they will leave a puddle on your head. paper, I know there's a little puddle, they'll be careful with a drip drawer here because when you have an uneven tension of water on the surface of the paper that's when your flowers end and these are the only flowers. what we want in this image is our

cherry

blossoms

, when we get to that point, I'm just doing it, I'm rotating my brush on different edges to get different shapes of buildings and your horizon rises higher if you want and then I just I fade out at the bottom, so when I do the next row I don't see a hard edge of where the buildings stopped, so gently dragging that paint, how nice Kumar.

Sometimes I have a hard time mixing the color black in painting. I love incorporating black in art. Some tips to make it easier to mix black. Usually if I'm going to use black I usually wait until I'm completely done and use it as a contrast color, so for blending I guess I would suggest blending in as much as you want from your paper, never bring pure black to your paper, mix it on a paddle and then bring it back already mixed. He said I personally don't use black very often, so it's not like black watercolor paint.

I would mix my own black, so that's something you could try mixing instead of using black, take two neutrals, so if you're paying for something green and you want to have a shadow instead of taking black, take a little bit like alizarin crimson and mix it . use its opposite to obtain a kind of natural black. I'm taking a little bit of yellow here and adding it to those orange buildings just to give it a sun-kissed look. I thought the yellows and oranges were a little dark, so that's going to set the tone. Bring it down a little bit and again, just feeding the background a little bit, our next buildings will be purple.

That purple is very strong, so I'm sure you have a rag on hand that you can dry your brush on so you can grab it when you have it. a really dark color, you take your color, you put it on your palette, you add water, you have to dilute it enough and then you block it on your brush so it doesn't have too much and then the yellow underneath is going to tone down so it becomes like a purple gray, so look, our purple is not super dark here and everything is nice and diffuse because it's so far away and as the paper dries, our buildings are going to get a little bit sharper. and then we'll get a little more details.

Oh, be careful not to stick your hand in the bottom of your painting and we can cover that with biggie adding a little more depth to the water, but it's very easy. just put your hand on your paint and don't notice, just remember to twist your brush, use different edges and get those buildings on the bottom and since your paper is wet from the back you can usually fade it out without adding If there is additional water in these final buildings, I'm going to take a mix of, take some purple and then take some Prussian blue, they call it Paris blue and that's it.

You can also use phthalo, but super diluted because they will. It's really strong and you can also add a little bit of that cobalt turquoise to bring in some of the colors from the sky, so you'll end up with a dull teal color, did you mix it with the right color on your palette and then dry your brush. I like that this palette doesn't hit a lot of metal palettes, I'll hit them for a while and say you break them and after we have this kind of smooth row of buildings, let's go It needs to be dried to get a little more detail there so that You can see the buildings right on the edge of the horizon.

I'm going to apply a little more orange on some of the buildings here before I dry it. So if you have any questions that you've been holding on to, it would be a good time to ask when I'm drying this because usually the dryer doesn't work, you can't hear it very well on the movie, so but you can hear me answer your questions. and the orange will keep the blue art from being too vibrant. Okay, I might as well show my swatches while I'm drying because people will please walk. Yeah, what's our fun? I have to cut this out in my sketchbook.

I was reproducing this new sketchbook it looks great like this so the colors are reallyvibrant, the ones on the top row are earthier and have a little more opacity and the ones on the bottom are more vibrant and more sheer and there's actually a color called blush, which is like a milky white peach color that would be good for Caucasian skin . There are also several browns that would be good for darker skin tones and of course you can mix our colors to complement different skin tones. Well, another thing I want to show you about my swatch because someone sent me an email asking what to do with their watercolor containers because they had that packaging and they are afraid of getting confused.

What I recommend doing is recording them by taking the packaging of your watercolor containers, gluing them with tape it in your sketchbook and then, and then, swatch right underneath so you have all the information about the pigment and the color number and everything at your fingertips, you don't have to punch for that and you can always use a marker and write the information on all the colored trays. Make sure you don't get the paint in the puddle on your table, so you may want to stop and wipe it off because you need to dry both sides. the paper, can you go on a diet even late?

I should remove the wrinkles here and here you can see at the bottom is where I put my hand on the paper and you notice that, but I knew I was going to cover it with a little bit of glitter. more colors, so I didn't worry about that, but if it had been perfect and then I wasn't going to go over it, that would be a problem, so if you do that, what you want to do is get a clean, damp brush and just write. go over it or with a wet brush that has the color you want and just go over it, but try not to add more water to the paper than there is already, you want to keep an even moisture on the paper, since this is dry, it could really be better if I drew that bridge there and I'm just going to show you my painting here and I'm actually going to take that angle of the bottom of the bridge right from my painting and this is how I would do it.

Place my painting a little bit higher than what I'm going to draw on it, take my ruler, I'll find that angle, make sure these papers are horizontal to each other or each other, that they're parallel to each other, instead of figuring out where I want to make sure have that angle and then I'm going to use it for the bottom angle of my bridge and then I'm going to put a perpendicular or actually a line, it's not perpendicular to that, but it's going to be parallel to the edge of my paper going up from there for that center beam and if you get those two lines right, everything else will fit very easily, okay, it's probably a little tall, but okay, I'll put another one here for This my paper is still a little cold to the touch.

I know it's not one hundred percent dry, but it will be fine to draw on, but be careful, if it's not one hundred percent dry, you won't want to do anything. deleting still, so if you have to delete then wait before doing so. I'm going to jump in here and I'm going to mimic that angle here and I'm just going to take it off the edge of the page and draw a little line to the other yeah, your little post that I drew and I'm going to bring it down and you're going to meet that one the way it is. the perspective and this one on this side is actually going to go below our first line which is a little bit high.

I'm not going to post it yet, but I'm just going to make a little mark to show how high I want to go and I'm going to thicken this line and draw just a few lines just to show where I'm going to have the posts on the front of the bridge I probably won't draw the line towards the back of the bridge because I can do it freehand and that's it, that's all we need for our bridge, but it's nice to have that in there , when we're going to go paint these little abstract buildings here just to see how far we're going to go with that, okay, any other questions before we're okay, I'm going to dress up a little bit more.

I think it's going to take that kind of part of the paper, okay, sure, so I'm going to take my flat brush again. You could use a larger flat brush if you want, but this works well for me and that color. We mixed before, I'm going to dry it on my palette and I'm going to put some water line and get to the edge of that river there, we would go behind our bridge. change to a larger angle here hand gun and I'll have to be careful not to slide my image. I'm going to mix in a little bit more of that color, so we had our cobalt turquoise, we had a little bit of Paris or Prussian blue. blue and we had a little bit of purple and I'm going to start making some cube shapes just to indicate that the edges of the rooms, can you take a little bit of purple and then just brush a little bit in there?

I just want to make sure it doesn't look like water and it has enough contrast there and I have a smaller brush, I take a little bit of purple from the container that's there, dry my brush, so I don't want too much water and I'm just going to throw in some windows just little marks like that, that's too much paint so I'm going to do it a little bit less and we don't need to have too much detail there, it's just to give it a little bit of a little bit of texture and it shows that something is happening back there it's very abstract and yeah You feel like something in the back needs a little more definition, like maybe that row of purple buildings, you can do it by just very lightly hitting the top edges of them with your Tilt your smaller angle brush, but I don't.

I would use the pink and orange construction buildings because they would be further away and would behave and be more out of focus. Now let's work on the bridge itself, we'll use the cobalt turquoise and we're done. I'm going to go ahead and paint everything. I'm going to start with this bottom part here. It's easy to do it at an angle because it has the nice flat edge. Tiffany come on, what do you do with all your unsold paintings or paintings that don't? I don't think they are good enough to sell or even give away. Sometimes I'd like to cut them up and make them into bookmarks or I usually have containers at art fairs and craft fairs and share them with other paints, so I would do that. just keep them there and someone will usually find them, you know, it's funny because, Oh, paintings that you might not think are cool, other people will enjoy, so you know, I usually throw them in my craft fair stuff bin, but yeah I don't think it's good enough to sell, so I would cut it up, make it into a bookmark.

I'll practice working on the back, something like that so it doesn't go to waste. We're just sitting around making cakes a lot of the time. When I paint, when I feel like a painting is failing, I keep pushing and try different mediums and do other things to it, so I usually don't have paints that are completely wasted now that I'm giving On the other side of the bottom of this bridge, I'm handing it loose with my brush and I'm going to smudge a little bit of that color in there so you have the side closest to us with the post.

We've got the side on the bottom and now we're going to go in and pull those little posts on the back and you can thicken them with the food with a round brush if you want to detail here on the top of the bridge yeah, I think that's probably enough for now. I'm going to go ahead and add a little bit more, but I want to see what it looks like after I've worked on it a little bit and there's a part under the bridge that kind of holds it up but it gets lost in the shadows and when we put our trees there, I really don't want to do it in case it ends up being unnecessary or I end up fighting against what we're going to do now I'm going to take a little bit of the Paris blue here and I'm going to add a little bit of cobalt turquoise so it doesn't look really out of place and I'm I'm going to start this under the bridge here and I'm going to even go right where I had part of the land area because it would be dark and shadowy.

I'm just shaking it gently. I'm using a synthetic brush. This is a. roan like majestic nickel, so it's like a kind of rig is a rig on the brush. I'm using it so I don't end up getting too much water. I started from the corner here and also because the bristles are a little bit stiffer, it will push the paint without it having too much water and I can go to the edge if I want some waves and I'm going to try to keep the horizontal visible strokes that we like. parallel with the bottom of my paper, because love, this is going to be covered when we place our branches and I have to worry about that, but I want to get some of that dark color in there, a little creative.

Our stiffer brushes are best for dry brushing techniques. Yes, definitely, because softer brushes will just fall off when you try to dry Brush II. That's a different brush to be able to push the paint when you don't have a lot of water and do a little bit of that up here on the coast as well just to define it. I don't want to define it because it's too far away, but I wanted a little bit in there and then I'm just going to use a little bit of watery cobalt turquoise just to spread it out a little bit and we.

We can always adjust that later too, we just want to get a nice sink, so the next thing we're going to work on is our branches and we're going to mix in a nice dark color for what we're going to use. blend with our synthetic brush here, it's better to blend with a brush with harder tips, you won't get as much water in there. I'm going to use my CAD Orange and my Paris blue, it's going to give me a really nice dark, it's going to give me a pretty dark transparent, although the cat orange is a little bit opaque, the Paris blue is so strong it's going to make it very, very dark and then the Which brush you used to paint your branches is completely up to you, you may want to use a flat and use it on your chisel edge like I'm going to do here or you can use a dagger or a liner or around, sometimes all you look at is if I have to make a long straight line, I like to use a flatter angle, but if I'm doing rough, rough branches that I often like to walk around on or something where I'm going to have a place that will hold a little more water.

Grab this one here. I was going to bring the exact brush that I had as everything. Everything was set and then I got a little sidetracked. I was painting upstairs to do my practice piece in my office and then I got distracted. It's so nice outside, so I had to go inside, lie in the sun for a while and then there it was. like, oh my gosh, it's time for the show to hit the road, that's because it's so nice outside, so easy to get distracted, so nice and tomorrow is going to be nice, it's supposed to be good all weekend.

Well, yes, Father's Day is a Sunday to call my father. God wanted us to eat outside, he wouldn't care if there were houses in restaurants, so you will eat inside, yes, no, it's not a barbecue, to each his own. Yes, I like the atmosphere of a barbecue, I don't like it. grilled food, but yeah, there aren't many things you can grill with a vegetarian. I mean, the vegetables are good like in a packet inside, but they're also good in the oven, so you don't have as much on top, yeah. but there are less dishes to clean yes, I like that, I appreciate it, you know as much as you love dishes, the dishwasher, but the camping pan, the manual dishwasher, every can, but they don't seem to come out very clean. place it on the big branch reaching into the sky so all those pretty light pastel sunset colors we're headed to look great behind our dark branches and I'm a little more orange in my dark here to warm it up a little . a little bit now we can deepen this color with some colored pencils and a little bit, so don't worry if you're not making it dark enough, it's actually okay because we're going to put our flowers in and you know, it's better You have less branches because you don't you can get rid of them once they are there, actually because you have a very dark color, so don't worry if you don't, if your branches are dark enough, we can adjust them later. well, that will obscure the ones that we really want to be prominent, just this tree looks a little more menacing than the um tree because there are no flowers yet, I hope it's a little scary, okay, that's enough to get you started. our benches now we're going to splash some of that beautiful magenta color called geranium lake.

There is no information about the pigment in all the molds, so maybe April has it in her Etsy shop. I'm not sure I'm essentially here. April if you have the information let us know if we can find it on her website that would be really great and if she doesn't have it then yes we could let us know. I had never heard of these paintings before, but they really are a lot of fun. I'm using a juicy juicy brush to apply a little bit of that geranium lake and if you want to protect an area, just put your hand down and cover it, but I think these flowers can really spill out wherever they look.

I think they look very good. This is a great way to get them up and running without worrying about where you are going to place each little flower because there are so many. This is just a great way to get out of your own head and A little shine falls on the creative planet Janet, so blurring the warm orange buildings is the way to make the blue buildings go further. Yes, it is, I mean, normally you think your warm colors come forward, but in this situation. We have the sun setting behind those buildings, so they are making them glow, so being out of focus tells your brain to move further away from the bridge that is in sharpness.Thefocus tells us it's closer, so now what I'm going to do is get a round brush.

You may want to use a firm or synthetic one, use what you have, but if you find that you can't thicken the paint enough, then go. Go ahead and I'm going to use a synthetic and I'm just going to rub where those feathers are and that will give me my flowers. Now this set comes with a titanium white which is rare in watercolor, usually there is Chinese white which is more like a mixed white. Titanium white is on a more opaque white, so if you don't have titanium white and your Chinese white doesn't cut it, then get one of your round acrylic brushes.

Don't use your watercolor brushes with your acrylics just get some or white gouache and you can use white gouache with your watercolors and that will be the same thing so what you're going to do is rub the spot where you had those splatters and the paint will flow there and you go Let's finish with these multicolored flowers, which is what you want Linda Smith, are there any specific needs that we should have on hand for your new watercolor class? Well, I actually wanted to answer a question about that because someone had to put up a Message in the classroom if you need a couple of special brushes, so I recommend a couple of brushes, one of which is a dagger and it's like a angled brush, but it has very long bristles and the other one is a deer leg picker and what I'm saying is if you have those brushes that's great, if you want to pick them up that's wonderful, but if you don't, you can always see the lesson.

There are a couple of lessons using those brushes and seeing if you like them, so those would be the Only two things you probably don't have yet would be a stag for a brush tip, a quarter inch tip for a stapler and a brush dagger three-eighths of a quarter to 3/8 of an inch and if you have those brushes and you have I've been wondering what to do with them, we're actually going to give away some flowers with them, which is a really cool effect. You get these long, spooky petals with them. You think I'm like poppy has those creepy floppy ones. petals or think of an oriental peony.

They cut out those spooky petals that we're going to do that kind of effect with those brushes or a dagger brush and I actually just ordered a triangular brush that someone had asked me for. to paint a calamitous colitis, a flatter clematis and so I will. I'll add that lesson there, but you can also watch it and see if you want to do that. It's kind of an advantage. I keep thinking of different things I want. adds so you get the feeling that it's one of those classes that's going to get really big, but hey, I thought you know you don't like flowers, you don't care what painting you don't have to look at, it's better to have it then. you know, and then I don't have it now.

I'm also splatter resistant on some of that white, so I get some kind of more random spots. Danielle Crater. Can you use your watercolor brushes with gouache? Yes, absolutely, you may prefer a stiffer brush. gouache because you tend to use it thicker and more opaque, but you can get a little creative. Have you tried the triangle brush? Not yet, I just ordered one and it hasn't arrived yet, but I'm expecting it on Tuesday. I think that was my Jerry's Burn. I'm a shipping confirmation and I'm probably going to kick myself because I found some on clearance and I'll probably want to order 24 per class, but I only ordered a couple just to try them out.

Leah gaffur when I mix a gray using burnt sienna and ultramarine blue after a while of mixing it and then leaving it alone it starts to separate on its own. Do you have any solution or do you know why I just remix it? It's because they're both sedimentary colors and they're also inorganic colors, so they don't really mix, those pigments are still little individual pigments when you mix them they're still there, they don't combine, you know, they don't really mix, they're more of a solution that I make sure of, so yeah, they will separate and sometimes they will separate on the paper, which is really pretty, that's why I love that combination, the way they dry, if you're in a wash very wet, they separate and it just has a really nice texture, um, so no, just mix them together before you pick them up with your brush like this, your brush over there and make them move again and that would be my suggestion.

I'm a movie quote. There are some? good resources for learning perspective um, I think the best thing you can do with perspective is go out and draw what you see, go out into the world, draw what you see, hold a piece of phlex, drop the dry erase marker and just do Be sure you don't shake your head when you do it and that will give you great lessons about perspective. Look at the perspective. A bit. I learned to draw in a Lindsay class, but I'm not a big fan of tricks and formulas. because formulas don't always work when you're in the real world trying to draw something, so I recommend just drawing what you see and practicing, that will teach you more than any formula or trick.

I'm just going to tip this one. because there's quite a bit of brightness there and I think I'm going to dry this out because it's going to be hard to go any further and see that you want to put some more flowers down here and we're also going to want to put some of our sunset colors here because you would have liked some of those petals. Light whites would have picked up some of the oranges and golden yellows of the sunset, but doing so while everything is wet could create a kind of muddy, slushy mess that is Why didn't I mix the white and pink on the palette?

I'm moving and rubbing and letting the mixture blend into the paper so they stay nice and fresh. Okay, we'll give it a quick dry. Any questions while I'm drying off here right now. You can go ahead and grab some colored pencils if you think you might want to add a little colored pencil to your composition. I'm going to add some Prussian blue watercolor pencil and also black, white and magenta. pencil I really like to be Artesia or Artesia Artesia set of 24 and it's also a Lucas set of 12 which is very inexpensive so I think we're T of 24 costs like 18 or 19 dollars and I think the Lucas set of 12 costs like eight or It goes on sale for nine dollars, so I'm not sure.

I think I paid about seven for it, but they're both good. I think it's easier to find good, cheap GWACs than good, expensive watercolor. I'm not sure exactly why, but it seems that way, so I'm going to take this, let's see, yeah, Prussian blue and I'm going to shade under my bridge now that I can see where the branches are. Why I wanted to wait until I had the branches because I didn't want to just have this band of dark color, so I'm shading under the bridge and then I'm going to bring out a little bit of that color on the left side. of my paper, I'm going over the flowers because I want the flowers to have some contrast and I want them to stand out a little more and I didn't want to use masking fluid, but you could have used masking fluid for all of them instead of the white and then I painted everything, remove the masking fluid and then apply the magenta color there, but I don't want to do that, that's why I do it this way, why are you doing this like a little?

Paint well because I can fit in. This would be great as a large painting, but I can fit the entire palette and all of my paint in the frame. What I would do if I had to make a big painting. It's so tall. It's such a tall composition that I would have to zoom out a lot and there would be a lot of space outside of my palette and the paint, so I thought it would work a little better on YouTube that Tiffany bang way. I know you. I recommend Windsor Newton Cottman for a set of students, but is it safe to use them with middle-aged school children?

I would be middle aged in a high school, it's just that they should be smart enough not to eat the paint and yeah, I mean, I would even use them. with younger kids, if you're going to be there watching them, then the modern common colors don't contain any more cobalt or cadmium than they used to, but I don't know if it was for safety or cost, they stopped using real cobalt. UM Academy like in the 90s I think so. I wouldn't, I wouldn't hesitate to do it personally. Leah Gaffer. Is there a reason you don't use masking fluid very often?

I just don't like it. I don't like the hard edge. I get that when I use it. I don't like waiting for it to dry. The reason I love watercolors is that I can start painting as soon as I want and when I have to add steps, steps that require a lot of time and waiting. I get distracted by things and don't stick with a project, so it just doesn't work with my workflow. How I prefer to paint, but the egg does it from time to time, but it's just not my favorite, it's not one of my favorite things.

I don't enjoy the masking process, so now I'm going to take this white pencil and I'm going to add a little highlight on the top of the bridge there and I'm going to take something like this cool and blue. and add that to shade some of my bridge here, this is the watercolor pencil. You don't have to thin out your watercolor pencil if you want a sharp line and want to leave it as is, you can do it totally or EVP with a regular colored pencil. for this, but I have the pressure blue right here, that's the color I wanted, so I'm going to use what I already have and since I feel like I lost my other paint, the bridge was darker, so I'm just going to go. with that Prussian blue under the white line that I just did with a pencil to make it stand out a little bit, I'm going to soften the bottom of my line there because I wasn't very careful when I erased my watercolor pencil and I have the bottom of my bridge a little ruined, bring Friel, where do you like to get them?

Oh, bags and mats. um, I cut my own mats, but I buy the bags at Paper Mart and I also have them from a new line. I also bought some from Jerry's Adorama when you shop at Capon, right, you have to get like five hundred or a thousand so it takes a long time to use them, but I bought some eleven by fourteen from Jerry's Autorama a couple of years ago when they were on, they must have Been overstocked or something. He said a really good price, so you know. I would look around if you need to meet a hundred or less you better get it as an art like a Terry's Adorama or a store like that because they won't charge you big shipping fees because like all these stores like the one you wanted, Paper Mart It has separate shipping fees which can be expensive for not ordering much. um no, I don't have the magenta. which I used because I left it up and it was a prismacolor and I have my drawer I will break and I have my poly without chrome down here but, ironically, I don't say oh wait, this one is pretty good, I think not I don't have a magenta like I had before, but I think it'll be fine, so what I'm going to do, I'm actually going to do the white first.

I'm going to go around and look at all these different shapes where I have flowers and I'm going to scribble some rough edges on some of these, especially if I have a spot and you don't know, you can't really tell that there are flowers there, so many of these spots you just scribble. around some, basically, rough circles or even just scribbles, you know, just because you wouldn't have all the flowers in front of you, so you basically want to get some of that fluffy texture in there and you can go in and add more paint, so you know .

Nothing you're doing here is like your final step and you can't do anything else, so keep that in mind Amelia Gregg. I have Schminke watercolors with a toxicity warning for Nepal Yellow and Chrome Yellow or there are many toxic colors. They are still used today and should be avoided, no they should be avoided and they're not really that toxic, but you know there are labeling laws that have to tell you if there's any of that chemical in there, even if it's in such a small amount that you would have to eat five tubes of paint to have adverse effects, especially if they want to sell their paints in certain countries or they want to sell them in California, they have to have these labels, there are a lot of them there.

Some companies, like American Crafts, put a label on everything they sell. They are so afraid of being sued for floaters across California, so don't let that stop you. If you have small children, you definitely wouldn't leave it where. they can reach for it, of course, you know they can't, because the kids will know that they will get dirty with it, you know, if they don't know what it is, they will be curious, so you know if you are using it. the paint the way it's meant to be used, you have nothing to worry about if you know how to wet the paint, your papers and your coffee and then drink, then you know that's not the best, it's probably still not enough to do.

You're sick, but you know it's probably not a risk worth taking, but yes, there are still a lot of toxic pigments because they lag quickly and many types of pigments are light and fast. Sorry, continue. I thought you were done, um, Lindsay, where are you? I find triangle brushes and dagger brushes. Dagger brushes are fairly easy to find at any art or craft store. Triangular brushes are a little more complicated. I just found mine. I ordered at Jerry's Autorama. The silver brush does them and is better BES TE. makes them and I know that the Rosemary company also sells them, but they are a European store and I didn't want to order from abroad and have to pay more, plus I don'tI think they offer a synthetic option and I prefer to get the synthetic with synthetic squirrel brushes so it was just a personal choice although I have heard their brushes are excellent so if that's not a problem you have.

I know other people have said that their triangle brush is just divine and it's not like you're going to know what I'll buy it once so with watercolor brushes you don't know not to have to replace them because the watercolor is so soft I don't feel like I'm going to go ahead and take a very dark brown pencil or a black pencil and I'm going to look at my branches and figure out where I really want to accentuate. lines and maybe anywhere you want to add some nicer smaller twigs. I can do it now too. I recommend prismacolor and that is what I was using upstairs in my office and I have to say that even these colors are soft next to prismacolor.

It's like I'm drawing with chalk because my colors are so creamy which also makes them more prone to breaking, so that's the downside of those markers, it's those pencils, but I feel like I have to work a lot harder to get to the saturation level. . in color with others with other brands such as polychrome or soft color. I've never tried the color pro because I don't think I like them based on what other artists have mentioned about them being harsher. I like a soft pencil. I'm not doing a lot of layering in detail and stuff, my catcher is the triangle brush like the Princeton cat tongue brush.

It's similar in the fact that you can get some really sharp strokes and effects that you wouldn't get with our typical round or angle. or flat, so I'm very excited to try it. I don't have one and haven't used it yet so I'm really excited to play with it or actually order it because the best ones were on clearance. I ordered two. I had a size six and a size eight close to both for about two dollars each, so I ordered two of each so I could have one downstairs in my study and one upstairs in my office or put one in my travel bag if I really wanted to. loved it. and I ordered one of the silver faux squirrel ones because I heard they're really great, they cost more money so I didn't want to buy two if I didn't like them, but yeah, I'm really excited I made them.

I haven't tried them yet, but I think they'll be similar to the cat's tongue brush and the fact that you just expect them to hold a lot of paint and water and have a nice sharp tip, and I just saw some. beautiful flowers made with them and they look so easy when making the strokes. I think it would be interesting, it would be and it makes a single stroke that would take you like a couple of strokes with a round and it won't look as fluid and effortless, so it's something I wanted to try and I finally found Dix order, they didn't have anything on my local dairies.

I bought it at Jerry's, yeah, I ordered it at Jerry's and I'm going to sharpen this and then I'll just do some detailing on the bridge to make it stand out a little bit more. Hopefully these color stores think they are a little fatter. Look at me, it fits in this sharpener. Oh my god, I broke the tip. I have stickers with an electric pencil sharpener because I always seem to break pencils when sharpening them on a handheld pencil. You know, I try to turn the pencil sharpener, but that's very awkward. Oh my god, I think she's going to try to sharpen it any more and it will break. on me, but I didn't like the shepherd's point, the downside of having softer pencils is that you have to deal with more breakage, so I'm just going to give my bridge a little more definition, um, I don't.

I have my pencil very sharp, but I can see where the pencil sharpener had broken. I have a little bit of a sharp point there as an edge, so I'm just using that edge to get a little bit. of a crisp line so I can hit the edges of those posts and give it a little bit of definition. I don't want to be too prominent, but I do want it to stand out a little bit and then for a final one for our Final Touch I think it's going to go in maybe because I have my white pens up here, blue ones, I actually forgot this, I have these down below so I can go in and very subtle highlights for this, it's my flow, I may need to refill it.

I've been using it a lot, we're really going to turn it into a kind of mixed media piece, but that's okay, mostly watercolor, a little bit of colored pencil, a little bit of white paint. I like the extra texture you can get with mixed media materials. maybe I'll grab my pink pen too, that was pretty wild, let's make it flow, so when I add something new like this, like a new color, I'll be your strokes really light, just a little delicate here and there, but once you started, you need to continue with the rest of the painting.

Oh, we haven't put our glitter on these yet, we want to put some yellow-orange paint on these flowers, but with the acrylic and the colored pencil we don't have to worry because it won't be altered by going over it with watercolor, it will stay, I'll stay true to where it is, you can take a little more time, I like to move around. loosely with my pens, Alaya Nelson, do you prefer the paste pen or regular acrylics? Well, it depends on what you were doing. I don't normally paint much with acrylics, but I do use them a lot to coat things as a base or paint. in crafts or like painting under an oil painting, so it would totally depend on if I would like it, but as far as mixed media, I like pens because I tend to do most of the painting with watercolor or gouache, so I go over the pens or anytime I need a detail it works very, very well, but everyone is different, everyone has their own preferences, their acrylics dry in a jiffy now I'm going to grab some yellow, this is a gamboge here though can't be seen I like gamboge, it looks more like a hansi yellow and I'm just going to add it to some of these flowers.

Be careful when you go through the blue area because you don't want it to go into the water because you just want this to be like the sunset reflecting off the flower buds, so you know that if you look at a flower with white petals, like a apple blossom or something like that, and you know the sun is setting, it will set capture the colors around it, it will capture that light and that's what we're just getting our flowers with this, just getting that little capture of the setting sun to color here, I'm going to take a little bit of the Orange CAD mixing it in.

I'm going to apply that here and there and the Orang. You have to be careful with the orange in the blue because it could turn cloudy because orange and blue are opposites. You'll probably see a little more orange above. the sky, but since our skies light up, we don't really have to worry about it turning any of those colors. I feel like you want a little bit more of that pure magenta color, you can use that, just grab it from the sky. pan and you can rub it anywhere you want if you put it on top of the crayon it will bump a little bit but that's okay it will bleed into the paper next to it and it will be fine or it will bleed into the little valleys where the crayon it doesn't touch, so it won't really stick on top of the colored pencil, but it can usually find its way onto the paper somehow.

Any questions before we wrap up here, we're all stuck. Marvelous. Oh, delay and Nelson, well, I might watch this again after you're done. It is true that the plays are always available. I think this person is new. I'm not welcome, it's always nice to have new people joining us and painting, yes sometimes, the repeats. They are not immediately available on YouTube, but they are always immediately available on my blogs and then YouTube wants to process them before making them public to viewers, but they are always available on my blog and this should be ready very soon. when it airs on YouTube, so there you go, I'll bring this one here so it's completely dry, our flowers are still a little wet in there, but it was a lot of fun.

I would try it larger if you wanted and I think it would be really nice done as a larger painting, in fact this would be really nice done in acrylics on canvas so if you were going to do this in oils or acrylics on canvas there are a couple of ways to do it, but one would be to come out your colors but you also have white on your palette and I would go ahead and paint everything. I would paint the canvas with white and maybe even a little bit of mixing medium and then pin it in place or if you are using oil you would just paint it white with a little bit of paint thinner to thin it out so you don't use the whole tube of white and then I would take a little bit of that teal Oddie brush and brush it on and then I would clean your brush and take a little bit of the yellow brush. that when you clean the brush, pick up a little orange and gently add those colors and then if you are doing acrylics, wait for the background to dry at the same point where we dried it with a heat tool, if it is in oils, let that set up overnight at least probably won't dry out, but at least you want it to get to that kind of sticky stage and then go ahead and paint your bridge and then your flowers so you know this is done progressively. technique where we are layering so you can do this in any medium you want in the same way, so if you are not a big fan of watercolor and want to try it in acrylics, oils or gouache or pastels, go ahead because the techniques They will be the same for this particular painting.

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