Okay, a quick overview of what you could use if you were doing water coloring, essential. Some color, some water, and even just one brush. I've done many paintings with water color paper palette and one brush. In this class, I will probably be using this right here. That's my favorite. It's a squirrel hairbrush.

Now there's 1234 brushes here. Any of these will work anything from a number, say 10 or 12 down to a POTUS about an eight. So between eight and 12 round brush and the reason it's a round brush is because the brushes actually round goes around. I always like one fine brush. This is a sable brush. This is just inexpensive box store brush maybe cost $3 and it works just fine for fine details.

Now you can use two colors. I always like two reds and a lesser in red, or we call it crimson and a cadmium red. You can also go with quinacridone or not so there's lots of different reds but get a dark deep crimson red and then a bright. Well I hate to say but kind of a Coca Cola red or farmers tractor red. Then for the blues there are about five blues but I like to use famous in blue because it stains well. And ultra marine blue because it makes very good Gray's if you need gray.

There's cobalt blue, and there's azure blue and civilian blue. But these are the two blues that I like to use at this point. Teaching because they're easier to use. Then we have our yellows, there are so many yellows. You can use a cadmium light yellow, you can use a Hansa yellow. You can even use yellow ochre, which is over here in my little tray here.

That's yellow ochre. Although it doesn't look very bright. It's very, it's a good, it's a good yellow. It doesn't make the high key greens that this yellow does. Another one is nickel, yellow, or nickel as Oh yellow, and as a yellow. So lots of hellos up there for today.

Get a bright yellow, some nice clean, pure blues, and a few reds. Now these are tube colors and they squeeze out here and they're very squishy. they lend well for putting on very thickly and letting the water disperse them. But you can also use the tray colors here. Just make sure you give them a little squirt and moisten them up before you start. They'll work really well.

Moving on we have our essential brushes review our two colors and our cake pen colors. Now over here we have some Sharpies, permanent pens, pens that don't bleed when you add water to it. A common office pencil works great. That's an HB. It's not too hard. It's not too soft.

Or you can get a German stapler, a little softer. Any pencil that you feel comfortable with. So here we go. Let's go see what else we have here. Over here we have a razor blade, very handy. sharpen your pencil if you can't find a sharpener, it cuts paper and scrapes the paper.

If we need some white highlights today, we are going to use a sponge to get foilage on a tree. Get some texture with a sponge. So that's our new instrument. And right over here on the side, we have a selection of big brushes. Now big brushes are great. If you need to get big things done.

It would be very difficult to use a very small brush to do a sky when you could do it with one or two swipes of this, these brushes. And we have an unusual brush here for some people and not for others. This is an Asian brush. We're going to do a little bit of that today. They come in all different sizes. I love these brushes.

They're made of goat hair, and they don't hurt the goats. This is a Picasso brush. Also it's a new one they put out and I like it. It was about $9 you get it at a paint store. It's called pet Casso brush. This would cost you about 150 to $200 if it was a real fine art brush, great brush, squirrel hair, but it's synthetic For synthetic squirrel hair brushes, wonderful brushes, and here we just have a synthetic flat brush, which I've had for like 10 years.

It's Robert Simon's very good quality for about $12 green painters tape. Wonderful for taping the paper. That's how I got this nice clean edge here. We tape it we paint it and remove the tape gives you a very good presentation. That's the paper tape and it's not acid acidic. And last but not least for the materials except for the paper is an eraser and do get a good vinyl or white eraser erasers are for getting results.

They help us draw. They do not I repeat, they do not get rid of mistakes because there are no mistakes. In art, so whenever you use your eraser, make sure you're using it to its best advantage to help you draw. We'll find out about that. Here we are four brushes. One pencil, one fine Sharpie and one.

One extra fine Sharpie and one fine Sharpie. water to rinse water to mix some colors. And I like to keep this handy just in case I need it. The razor blade never no sponge maybe not yet, but in one of the projects that tape and our three secrets wet dry. Watch what Dry watch and it's all depends on the water, these three and water. Let's put the secrets to work now.

And here we go with our first project, which is going to be painting the tree