Transcripts
1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Hello, pulling out some art supplies
that I've never used before and seeing what
can we do with this? That's what I did today in
our intuitive painting. I'm Denise Love and I'm an
artist and photographer. Today I'm playing with some
Boku-Undo E-Sumi watercolors. These are really cool. They're an ink watercolors
that are meant to go along with ink drawings
and paintings. These have a wonderful deep
smoky darkness to them. They're also very rich
and vibrant in the color. They water down really
nicely for shear washes. Lots of fun experimenting today. I chose to pick three
different types of brushes and just
see how we could push our watercolor into
some yummy marks and lines and washing with color and just
saying what can we create today in our
intuitive painting? What feels good? Where do we want to
push those marks in lines and the lightness
and the darkness? In today's intuitive painting, we're going to put down four
sheets of paper taped off. We're going to paint like it's one big painting and
then peel those away to reveal what we created and then decide what do we need to add
to this to finish it off. Because when I'm
intuitive painting, I love just painting and
going with the flow, put some music on and
just see what feels good. Then as you peel those away, you can be like, look
how cool this is. Then you can cut up or add to do some
additional mark-making to finish and just create better compositions out of
the pieces you created. If you didn't get something
that you loved immediately. I love creating in this way. It's a little bit of the
serendipity that you get when you paint the big
pages and you cut them up. Same feel. I'm painting something big. I'm pulling the tape to reveal, and then if there's a piece we don't love, we can cut it up. But today's paintings, I
loved all four of them. We went back a
couple of times and added extra elements
once we were able to evaluate what is this need to really finish it off and
give me some good pops. I hope you have fun today painting with different brushes, seeing what marks and
interests that you can add. Then going back and
maybe re-evaluating and adding additional marks and color in there if you need to, or cut them up into
something great. I always like to cut a part. It makes for a good art day [LAUGHTER] I hope you have
fun in today's project. Playing in somewhat new ink, watercolors, and a new
mark-making paint. I'm going to show you that
came in one of my art boxes. I'm excited to paint
with you today. Come back and share with
me what you created, and I'll see you
in class [MUSIC]
2. Class Project: Your class project is to come back and share
with me some of the yummy intuitive
paintings that you created in today's class, using three different types of paint brushes
to get your marks. I want to see what you
experimented with. What colors did you choose? Did you try these
ink watercolors that I was playing in today
that are super cool? Did you switch it up
and do some other type of watercolor that you
already had on hand? I want to see what you chose to play with your color palettes, your mark making with
the different brushes. I can't wait to see those, so come back and share
those in the project area. I'll see you in class. [MUSIC]
3. Supplies: [MUSIC] Let's take a
look at the supplies that I'm using today in class. So, I want to start off with a new type of watercolor
that I've never used before. Experimenting with new products are exactly what I love doing. These intuitive
paintings for and with. It's a chance to explore your product and just
play and push paint around and see what can it do and what are the limits
and what does it look like, so that we can use this in our art practice going forward. So, these are the [FOREIGN]
watercolor paints and they are
watercolor ink paints and they're made in Japan. They're made to go with
Japanese ink paintings. So, they're really
cool actually. I painted some
little samples here. They're a little
darker and smoky, a little bit like our
graphite watercolors. I love the way that the water pushes around creates
really fun edges, gives you really dark
and light spots. If I add more water to it, it reactivates it a little bit
and changes things around. It goes really light
to really dark, and things like the posca pen
or the pen that I'm using today shows up really beautiful
right on top of that. So, these were super
fun to experiment with and just like with
the graphite colors, I wish there were more than
just these six colors. But these are some great colors. That's what I'm using. You can use any
watercolor you have on hand to play today because
more than anything, the goal was to pick
three different types of brushes and see what could we create with the
different types. So, I was using a Raphael
soft Aqua zero brush, which is like a
little mop brush. I was using a fan brush and I
like the stiffer fan brush. The fan brush that's made for watercolor is a lot softer
and I like the stiff brush, so I was using that again. This is an Ulrich 208 fan brush. Yes 208. Make sure I didn't
say 20B it was 208. Then I'm also using a large
wash brush Princeton, this is a Princeton select
one inch flat wash brush. Super fun to see the
different marks that each brush makes and adds to the interests
of your abstract. So change your brushes up. I'm also using an art graft 6B water-soluble
graphite pencil just for a little bit of mark
making and I loved the way the watercolor
ink repelled off of it, just like some of our
other watercolor stuff that we've done, that it repels, this repels too, and it makes the
most amazing marks right in the middle
of our watercolor. Super cool. Loved that. I'm using my Canson XL 140 pound cold press
watercolor paper just because it's my fun and expensive paper to
experiment and play on. Then I'm using a cure
talky Manga white liner, which I really loved
this and it did so good, just like my posca pen. So, you could use posca pen, but because I got this in my art box that I
got this month, I thought, what is
this? Let's try it out. It was super fun and I love the marks and dots that
it makes gorgeous. So I hope you have fun with
this intuitive painting. We actually go back and do a little extra painting
and taping off and adding to our compositions after we peel the tape to
look at what we had. So, that was super fun. I don't do that as often. I usually cut things up instead or mark-making
go from there, but this time I thought, we need some extra contrast. What if I did an extra line? We did some extra
painting that I think finished off
all four pieces in a way that I'm like these, are amazing and I
didn't even feel like I need to cut anything up. Super fun. I do these with
the intention of having fun. Painting a great big
piece that we then separate to reveal what
our paintings look like. These make for the best
painting sessions, especially if you're
experimenting with a new product that
you've never used before, because this is the time to
push that product and see what it does so
that we know going forward, do we like this? Is it gonna be part of our
art practice going forward? I love these inks. I wish there were more than
just these six colors. [LAUGHTER] But it is what it is. I hope you have fun
creating today. Let's get started. [MUSIC]
4. Color Sampling: [MUSIC] Before we
start painting, I actually want to do a
little watercolor test with this Boku-Undo E-Sumi
watercolor paints and these are watercolor
inks from Japan. I'm just going to activate
them and I want to see what do these come out like when we
try to paint with them. I've just got a paintbrush here, and I'm going to test each color to see what do these look
like and now look at that. I'm already thinking [LAUGHTER] these look a bit like my
graphite watercolors. Now I know already that was reddish-black,
yellowish-black, greenish-black. These have got colors with, I guess a black ink
mixed in, look at that. That's bluish-black, purplish-black, and
brownish-black. Super fun. We got a little
color swatches going. Now that I can see the colors, I can tell if I add more water, I can spread these out a little bit and
get lighter colors. I can have some darker
color showing in here. So I like seeing those. Now I'm feeling pretty good about our intuitive painting that we're going to do today. See, I like that
yellowish-black. Though we can just spread this
one out a little further, just test that out a little. [NOISE] I really like those, that red and that yellow, which things fit right
in with our charcoals, the reddish and the
yellowish charcoals that I love so much. Those were pretty cool. I like this greenish-black
and this bluish-black so maybe we can do a trio
of that in a painting. I'm liking these,
these are good. Now we've done our little
sample swatches so let's go ahead and start a little
bit intuitive painting and test these out. [MUSIC]
5. Painting Big: [MUSIC] Let's start painting. Let's see what these
sumi watercolors do as an intuitive painting. If you've got white page
paralysis and your thinking, I don't know where to start. Then take a water-soluble
graphite pencil or stick, or some of your favorite
mark-making, whatever. I love these water-soluble
graphite things. Let's use a art graph six B pencil and just
start scribbling. I want you to treat this like it's one great big painting, so just pretend the tape's not there and start creating and just let's see what
we can come up with. I love painting in this way now because I create so many things that I was never even expecting. All right, so let's check
out our sumi ink samples. Not completely
dry, but check out the very interesting ways that these colors
are separating, granulating, and
leaving pretty blooms. Look at the pretty blooms
here and this one right here. See now as these dry, the colors are really
becoming a parent. I can see that this one really
is a very pretty brown. I love the blue
coming out of here. This is a greenish yellow, so it's not as orkary
as I might like. I'm really loving the rows. What if we do rows in
brown? What about that? Then sprinkle in one of these others as an
accent pops possibly. I'm feeling these and I want you to get creative
with your brushes, and I discovered I
love the fan brush, so we can get some neat marks
and something out of that. Also got my raphael soft
aqua brush here in a z-rows, maybe going to be using that. Also got a little bit wire
brush here, that's a nice one. This is a princeton select flat wash brush in a one-inch, so what if we tried three different types of brushes to use with
our watercolors. I want you to get in the
habit of thinking this way, what can I pick? What can I use to paint on here? What do we want to start with? Do we want to start
with the fan brush, the wash brush, the
moppy looking brush? Let's start with a fan brush, [LAUGHTER] and we said we like the reddish black and the brown, so let's go ahead. I've already put water on
that from the other one. Let's just see what we can get. Look at that color. My goodness, look at that. Again, I want to encourage
you to treat this like one great big painting like
that tape is not even there. My gosh look at that. Super cool. We can stop at different spots. Look at this yummy
stripe we can get. [LAUGHTER] Look at that, I like the stripe, liking the stripe. Let's put some stripe over here. Not worrying about how it repels or is attracted
to the paper in any such way because
it's going to dry and give me some
interesting look with this is already doing. Super cool. All right, let's go ahead and
rinse that off. Let's grab one of
these others and we might come back
to the mop brush, but let's try this right here. I'm going to come back in with
the brown for the moment, and I could have like a little watercolor
palette sitting out here. If I wanted to do a
little bit of paint on the palette just to see how much do I have on here,
maybe I need to add. Look at that. It's like a
yummy ink when you do that. This is what I love
about maybe doing the intuitive
paintings is now we're figuring out how to use these supplies in ways that maybe we never
even thought of. Especially with a new
supply like this, make it really dark here. Maybe we'll come out of here and just come
up this other way. [NOISE] Look at that and
check it out right where that water soluble graphite was it repelled slightly [LAUGHTER]. Super cool. Let's do a little bit of this
brown here on this one. Maybe we'll just come right across it like
this and just see, let's just leave it like that. Yes, I'm loving that now. We do have another brush here, so what if we use this and maybe lightly
do the tippy thing, just see what we can. What else do we want
to throw in here, I like the brown,
I liked the red. Maybe we'll start this yellowy
color in there anyway, and we can just see like real
fine,[NOISE] look at that, [NOISE] real fine lines if we lightly tip it like
that, that's pretty cool. [LAUGHTER] My goodness,
you're just going to have to get excited with me. Look at that. [NOISE] I do actually start
these as one big painting and then I go into separate little paintings,
but that's okay. [LAUGHTER] It's just the
way I like to create. [NOISE] Oh, my gosh, discovering
fun stuff right here. Look at that. [NOISE] I'm trying to take
[LAUGHTER] some of the same element on each one, but oh, my goodness. This is awesome. Look at that. Oh my
gosh, look at that. [LAUGHTER] This is
insanely gorgeous. [LAUGHTER] I should
pull this out, let's look at these again. Don't want to add any of
these other ones in there because these are yummy colors. I do like keeping color palettes a little
more minimal sometimes, so do I want to come back with the same color feeling like look at the
darkness of this brown, that might be a nice contrast
in our little set here. We could come back to the brown and start getting
some dark elements in here. Maybe now we want
some dots. [MUSIC] I like the dot addition. I really love what I've
got going on here. There was nothing saying, "Here's where you
need to put the dots for the best composition." Or nothing like that. I was not trying to focus heavily on the composition
at this point. I was simply trying to put
things where they felt good, and if I'm not even looking at this and the way that
I might display it, which might even set you up for looking a little bit
outside your box on these. I really was just like, let's experiment with
this new art supply and see what it is
that we can get, and let's treat it as
a big painting because when we peel these
off to reveal them, guarantee you're going
to like at least one of them, maybe even more. I'm really loving
what's going on here. This intuitive, let's
do what feels good, has just made my painting
practice so much more fun. I love that I could pull out a new supplies here to
play with you today. This is like a watercolor
ink and they're made for like watercolor ink paintings,
like ink paintings. These come out of Japan,
they're super cool. I love the way the
color spreads. It's like a watercolor, and I love how it's drawing. This right here is
super gorgeous. This beautiful love that, this right here, my
goodness, love that. Once I peel the tape, we might look at this and say, do we want to add
anything else to it? Because we could come back with black or white posca pen and add other dots or other things. We could even just
continue working this, adding some more
elements if we're feeling like it could
use something else. I don't know, do you feel like these needs something
else or they're pretty cool as a more minimal feel. I'm feeling like maybe this one could use a
little something else, so what if we came back fan
brush with maybe the brown. Let's do the fan
brush with the brown, which we didn't do before we did the fan brush with the red and just see like what
do we want to go strap. Feel like I want to do a
little stripe landing here. Look at that. Maybe continue it at the
bottom, look at that. Like this was on top of it. That's super cool. Now I'm feeling a little
better about that just because it's a
yummy fun contrast. These are feeling good,
so let's let these dry, and then we can peel the tape and reveal what
we've got so far, and then we can make
decisions on if we want to come back in with
some more graphite or some posca pen. I'm going to let them dry
and I'll be right back. We're dry now and I went ahead, I'll let this dry
about 90 percent and then I hit it with the
last couple of minutes. I hit the real heavy
areas with my heat gun. You want to be careful
doing that with watercolor because the heavy
areas if you're, especially if it's by tape, if you just hold the heat gun over and try to get it to dry, you're going to lift the tape. The heat is what sometimes let you release the tape
from the paper, so if you ever have
trouble peeling tape and you want to
release it from the paper, hit it with your heat gun, but it also releases it from
the paper when you have wet materials that you've got pushing up next to
it like watercolor. If you release the tape, the watercolor goes right
up under that tapes, you want to be real
careful about how much you decide to dry
something with a heat gun, and especially with some
type of watercolor, I like it doing all these magical things
that it's going to do. Some of that just takes time. If I were to immediately
go through and heat this with a heat gun
at the beginning, I wouldn't get some of these
variations that I've gotten. What I particularly love
is right here on this one. It repelled some of that
water-soluble graphite, and right across this
stripe, look at that, it repelled it.
Love that feature. Now I know that this is
another one that will repel that water-soluble
graphite and make super cool patterns and variations that I'm
not going to get any other way because
on this stripe, my goodness, it's amazing. All right, so let's reveal
what we've already done and then we can decide if we
want to do something else. Don't ever pressure
yourself to think, I have to finish every
piece in one sitting. [NOISE] I like how this, it looks like it
could keep going but it's stopped by the tape. Don't ever feel that you have to finish everything
in one sitting. If you're you get to a
point and you're like, I don't know what else
it needs, I feel stuck. Just live with it for a time, and then one day you'll
look at it and think, what if I did this or
what if I did that? Maybe it's a new supply, maybe it's a new skill, maybe it's a new
technique that you saw. Save some of those if you're
just not sure where to go with it and then come
back to them later. When you're filling like,
[NOISE] here's what that needs. I'm using painter's
tape and you can see how easy that
peels from this paper. I'm using the Canson XL
watercolor paper on this. It's my favorite practice paper because I can get it real cheap. I got a whole bunch of them at the Michael's buy one
get one free pads, and I went back every day for a week to different Michael's
because I was like, maybe I need some
more and then I put it in my closet
and the next day I'd get up and I think maybe
I need a few more. I might be little bit
ridiculous on my little paper, hording [LAUGHTER] But
you're always need paper and the expensive paper is a barrier to creating sometimes. If you have a closet
full of paper that you got when it was buy
one, get one free. You don't feel stuck, you feel like I can create and I don't have to worry about the paper price
[LAUGHTER] Look at that. My gosh, this right here. Super gorgeous. Super love. Yeah, I love this
one just like that. See, I'm painting them
sideways because I'm filming. But look how gorgeous these look when you put them
upright like this. Let's see what this looks like. See now, might be
my least favorite. When I do these, there's
always, let's do this one. There's always like two to three that I love and
one that I'm like, not quite what I hoped. This one though I'm actually I'm thinking that turned
out, look at that. Even better that way. [LAUGHTER] These are gorgeous, just like they are maybe a
tiny bit of mark-making. This one, I don't
like it like that. I do actually like it like this. Let me tell you what's
bothering me about this one. I have so much extra
white-space over here then it's like I forgot
this edge of the paper. There's nothing coming
over on this edge at all. There's nothing
impeding this way. Let's set these over here. I'm actually going to do
something that I don't normally do in these intuitive sessions, but we're going to intuitive it into something a
little different. Rather than cutting it up. I'm going to paint this. I'm going to add to this. Let's just go ahead. I'm trying to get
the border about the same as what it was, and because I've
identified now that I've looked at it and use this
exactly what I want you to do. I want you to peel your
tape and then evaluate. Just going to go
peel and evaluate. What if we came back
fan brush on this side, in this way with this
extra dark line. Let's go ahead and pick up the brownish black on our
fan brush and come back. You know what I
want to do though? I don't want to paint where. Go ahead and keep our
fresh lines there. I want that to end in the same place the
rest of this ends. Let's just take the whole
thing down in case I get inspired [LAUGHTER] I really want to take the extra step
on this because I love this action so much that I feel like this
could be a favorite, and if it's not when
we're all done, if it's not, we can
still cut it up. I love approaching every piece with the option that
I can cut it up. Look at that. I'm not
getting straight at all. It's want a straight
line [LAUGHTER] Sorry, we're going to go lighter as
we go down. How about that? Check it out? Because I know that this
repels that pencil, what if we come back in here, and it might not do it, but
[NOISE] it is doing it. I can see some repelling. It's not going to do on the heaviest one, but check it out. It did it right in here on
the medium application there. I'm feeling a little
better about that. I don't know if I'm going to like it when I peel the tape, so it may still be
one that I cut up. But let's go ahead and dry this and then we'll
peel the tape again. [MUSIC]
6. Mark Making & Finishing Pieces: [MUSIC] We are almost
completely dry so let's peel the tape and see if
we like what I did. [LAUGHTER] Let's
just see what I did. I might have overdone
it and that's okay. Because remember,
when we create, we're creating
with the knowledge that we can cut this up
if we don't like it. But I do like it. Look at that. Now, I have some contrast and I had
something dark coming in. I like that it goes from
very dark to light, so there is some difference
there in the color. I don't want all the
colors on the page to be the same level of
lightness or darkness. I don't want it to be bland. I want there to be that
light, dark dynamic. Look at that. My goodness. Now, these three go together, and this one is very
minimalist in its feel. I almost feel like we didn't have the
extra dark in there. What if we come back with
a stripe on this one? This is the most tape I've ever added back on
anything I've created but man, I'm digging all of these and I almost don't want to
cut any of them up. But what if we came back with
a dark stripe right here? I want this to be
right on that edge. As I pull these up and evaluate, then I start thinking, did I get a composition
that I liked or do I need to take some paper and start
evaluating different areas? Do I need to crop it in a little further until it was
something I like? I could have cropped this
into that configuration. Or did we just magically
get something that was super cool as we were done? At the evaluating stage, now you start to think, is this finished or do
I need something else? Let's just do this. Let's just take this. [NOISE] Look at that. I want it really dark. I want some dark areas in there. Let's just get that
right on there. Is it finished or did
it need something else? What did it need? I'm not worrying about it. Ruining my piece per se because every piece you can cut up
into [NOISE] something else. But I'm definitely
trying to finish it as a composition just to see do I like that or do I want to
make it something else? Let's let that dry and
I'll be right back. Now it's dry, let's
peel that tape. That's what this intuitive
painting is all about. Doing what feels
good, what you think, let's try this in the moment, and then evaluating and saying, did you like what that did? See now, I really like that. That turned out
pretty **** cool. I'm loving that one. Now, [LAUGHTER] it's
funny as you do these, you may re-evaluate and think, now that I've done that, these three are my favorite and this is the little outcast. What is it that I can
do or change to make this one now part of the
collection that I like better? What is it that I'm seeing? I'm seeing more of
the deep red here and this is so light
that I feel like I'm missing that contrast. What if we take and make some other pattern in here that we
haven't done already? Let's just get a
different little sample. But what if we make the brush
do a pattern like that? Look how deep and yummy
and beautiful that is. Say right up in here maybe
what do you think of that? I'm feeling like
that'll give me that red in there that these
other pieces have. I'm almost feeling like I would then love these enough
not to cut them up. Where do we want to put that? Right here, do we want
it the whole line? Decisions, decisions
just commit. Bro, we committed. [LAUGHTER] Look at that. That is super cool. Now we want to leave
it like the one, I'm feeling the one
line. What do you think? It's your birthday, I'm
unwrapping presents. [LAUGHTER] See look how
beautiful these are. I'm feeling like that
right there was it, it was missing the contrast. Now, what if we come back and we decide to do a
tiny little extra bit? Let's let that one dry. That was what it needed. Now, what if we have
a little white dots or some lines or some
Posca marker-making? This is the time to
look at this and think, is it done or would I like
just a little bit of x, y, z? What is it? To do these, I'm going to use a Kuretake Manga white liner because it came in my
art box and I'm like, let's try out this one. It's a nice variation
on a Posca. If I take my little sample
sheet here, check this out. I can see what does
this look like? See look how good that looks. Just like using a Posca pen. If you've got a Posca pen, yay. This Kuretake is one
of my favorite brands, it makes all of these yummy, different watercolors and
stuff that I love so much. That Manga liner is super nice. We can just come back in
and now just start adding a tiny little extra detail
here and there if we like. Or you could be like, this is amazing,
stop right there. I am feeling pretty good about
these. Let's do this one. I'm feeling like this one, I could get away with a
little bit of something. Look at that extra little bit of something right
there [LAUGHTER]. Maybe right here
in the center one. [NOISE] Wow, look at that pretty extra
little tiny detail there. Look how pretty that is. I love that. Do I love
it just right there? I think I do. I think I love that little tiny bit of detail. Now usually when I
add something on one, I try to add it on some of
the others because then it makes it part of the
collection rather than some odd ball,
something I did. But I don't feel like
they all need it but that was really
cool on that one. This one almost has
enough going on as it is. I'm loving that. This one could maybe even use a couple of dots.
Let's just see. Maybe two of the
collection could have it and other two of the collection
could be its own thing. But do we already have
enough dots now that I added this contrast line and
we have the dark dots? I don't know, we might be adding too much in
with the white dots. It's all about stepping
back and deciding, does it really need
anything else? Do I want to continue
in adding things? This one, I might just go ahead in these lighter areas. Why not? Let's just do it in
this lighter pink and it's just a tiny bit of detail that you might have to even get really
close to even see. I love things like that. It's like a little surprise as you're getting
close and you're like, how cool is that? I'm liking that right
there [LAUGHTER]. Sometimes you just got
to talk your way through some of this stuff or
sometimes maybe not talk, listen to some music
and say, okay, what feels good today, or should I set this
to the side until something comes to
me the next time I'm up here in my art room. Then at some point
you're going to go , yeah that's finished. Look at what that
little soft dot did in that lighter
color. I love that. Let's go ahead check out these
other two and see is there something that we can add a dot to that's in this fun coloring. Let's see. Feeling
like maybe a dot just to cross this lighter line. I'm feeling that right there. Just paint what feels good. I'm not worrying about
ruining a piece. If you're worried
about ruining a piece, if you're scared to finish it, you're scared to
add the extra mark definitely set it to the side and don't paint on
it today because I guarantee you you'll probably do something that you regret. But live with it
for a little while and then when something
else comes to you, you'll be like,
this is what that needs and then you'll feel
good about finishing it. See, I like it. Okay. So those three. Perfect. Okay. Anything on here? Let's see, what do I
want to commit to? How about if we
commit to this and these up here? Why not? Let's just add to the already a little
bit of pattern we got in there because then
it just matches. It goes with what I already have going on at
the watercolor there. I love that [LAUGHTER]. Let's do this top one.
These are drawing gorgeous. Glad I did that. It needed the contrast. So if you're looking at the
piece and everything is about the same level of color, they're all the same lightness, they're the same darkness
and you're not seeing a nice range from dark to light, definitely consider going back and adding in something very dark if you already
had like white papers or something because it
gives your pieces of pop. Alright. [LAUGHTER] I am
going to call this set done. How amazing are these today? Greatest painting session,
this make me feel so good when I paint these and I walk away
with something amazing. Now I know how the Sumi
ink watercolors work, which is a new product to me. I bought these because I was getting those Kuretake
graphite watercolors, I was just getting that full
set of those and I thought, what is this I need
it to and then I put them on my
little counter over here and just forgot they
were there and somebody reminded me about these
inks and I thought, I need to pull those out and try those and see what they do. So, holy cow, I love how
these have an inky feel. The very matte. I love the different
looks that we got as we did the
different brushes. This right here is
one of my favorite. Definitely pull
out your fan brush [LAUGHTER] and then this
pin was super cool. The Kuretake Manga white
liner, that was fantastic. This was an extra
fine tip on this. It's the 2.07 to 2 mm, so I guess that depends
on if you go up or you pull but it is of the same size as the POSCA
pen but it's beautiful. It does a beautiful white dot. I love the fact that we had, so that was fun testing out a new white pen
and check it out. So I hope you have
fun playing in these. If you pick a different
watercolor deploy in, that's perfectly fine too. Really more than anything, the goal was to pick three brushes and I
picked like a wash brush, I picked a fan brush, let me just get the water off of that and then I also had like the mop brush to give me three
different types of lines. Look how cool they are. Experimenting and changing
your brushes and the sizes of the brushes and the types of brushes that you're using, so try these even with whatever water color
you happen to have. I just think it was super
fun to try that and a new found product
that I haven't used before, these are fantastic. I can't wait to see your
projects with these goals, and I'll see you back in class. [MUSIC]
7. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Check it out. What do you think about
the ink watercolors? Don't you like how
vibrant and rich the colors are and yet they're a little bit smoky and black? Super cool. Fits right up my alley and how
I like some of the colors. Sometimes I like
the very bright, vibrant pops of things and sometimes I like it to be
smokey and dark and moody. I love too many things. [LAUGHTER] That is my problem
even with my photography. I love all the stuff. With my painting, I
love all the stuff. There are a few
colors that I'm like, I want to love this
so much but I just can't or I haven't figured
out what to do with it. But you know what, in
today's ink watercolors , they're all beautiful. I have fun with
the paint brushes. I have fun with the mark-making. I'm like, good day
of painting today. These intuitive paint
sessions really give me joy and get me out of
a rut or get me out of a stretch of not
feeling like creating. Get me excited again about coming up here
and being like, I loved these so much, let's just create a
collection with these. These are the most fun I
have up here in my art room, which is why I've made several different classes of this type because they are the best and I want you to have this
much fun in your art room. I want you to get new
supplies and think, what can I do with this? Let's just do an
intuitive paint session so that we're not
putting any pressure on ourselves and we can peel that tape and say,
what do we create? Or let's cut this up into
some junk art collage. [LAUGHTER] I hope that by taking some of
these classes with me, you have gotten more joy
at your paint table, you are playing and
experimenting way more than you ever did
before because in the end, it's that experimenting
that gets you to the next level in
your art creating. I want you to have
as much fun with your supplies as I'm having. I didn't have this much fun
with my supplies years ago. I'd get up here and
I'd want to create a masterpiece and I'd get mad. Now I'm like, I want to paint something I can cut up and
make a masterpiece out of, and I have so much more fun. [LAUGHTER] I hope you
enjoyed today's project. I hope you check out these
Sumi ink watercolors and that may appear super fun. It's really cool, just
like a Posca pen, and just see what
can you create. I can't wait to
see what it is you come up with, what
you've painted, what your color choices were, what paint brushes you picked, what marks you made. Looking forward to
seeing all that. Come back and share
your projects with me and I'll see you
next time. [MUSIC]
DENISE LOVE, Artist & Creative Educator
