well a few people have asked me if I use
aqua brushes like this and the answer is
no but I've got myself a pack and I
thought I'd share my experience with you
and these are made by pan tell I think
of there are other brands available it's
just a kind of a brush and you fill it
up with water inside unscrew the barrel
and fill two line indicator apply
pressure to the barrel to increase water
flow to give desired effect squeezing
the barrel continuously will flush
through the previous color on the tip
well that sounds interesting
okay so let's see what happens if I open
it up if I can open it up infernal
bubble pack things that are really
difficult to open on them oh there we go
right so what have we got there a kind
of blessed it's quite squeezy and that I
felt was gonna unscrew but it's a pop
off kind of thing so that's um you know
it's little brush basically and that's
the thinner one that's an even thinner
one cool I'm gonna go and fill these up
with water so here we are we have to
unscrew I've got this neat little tap
here which will make it easier to fill
it up with and then screw it back on
this is the very fine brush this one and
if you squeeze it oh the water comes
through into the brush so I'll fill up
the others and see what happens
three full watercolor brushes let's go
and try them out oh well here we go I'm
gonna do really loose painting this is
unlike what I normally do and I've got
my trusty old Windsor Newton watercolor
set here which I've had for 30-something
years a long time I'm gonna use the
other colors work yeah this is the big
big one here well I'm gonna get some of
this as I think cadmium yellow I don't
know what colors I've gone in I'm just
gonna drill some flowers so what I'm
doing I'm just kind of squeezing
slightly oh yeah
so what I'm doing I'm just gonna
squeezing that that the barrel slightly
and then that's giving me sort of water
to fill up so it's it's quite good I am
I think it'll be really useful if you're
going out sketching and maybe that's
what I'll do next week next week I'm
going to be in Kazakh in the late
district of England and I might meet
some of you there because I'm going to
be doing drawing lessons and stuff at
the pencil factory there and then I'm
gonna go off out into tippet of I'm just
putting some orange in it I've no idea
what this orange is I'm sorry I should
know what all these colors are I just
buy them and shove it in there so I'm
just dropping that in and now and see
what how could this easy this is to
clean and it says just to sort of
squeeze and drip and then that should
kind of get rid of it and yeah that's
pretty good
that's cleaned it a little bit this is
one of my favourite colours which is
bizarrely favorite color this is called
neutral-tinted after anything together
and I just kind of sketch Imber these
gonna Daisy petals
most businesses have trying to get a bit
of this showing over there in fact let
they made this made that there so you
can see me doing a little bit of mixing
going on it's not easy and so that this
has really gone really quite dark so I'm
gonna add that and I just squeeze little
squeezes in some water I will finish out
for me so that's nice so I'm just doing
these kind of petals just fairly random
some hiding behind other ones and
they're all different numbers of petals
and you know this is just abstract I
suppose I'm talking of which side a few
people have asked me about abstract
something out then a huge amount about
and I asked a friend of mine he's a
photographer but she kind of does
abstract photography and she's a better
person for loss it for - I never asked
her if maybe a weekend if I could
interview her and talk about abstract so
let me know if you think that would be a
good idea in the comments box below
then I'll stop getting that all
organized
now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to
just kind of if you watch so it kind of
squeezed a bit of water onto there and I
can add a bit of green in there and now
I'm just going to just fill in all the
spaces I might speed this up
I don't suppose abstracts the wrong word
and it is a sort of impressionist
difícil
I shocked I think if I was doing this no
doubt I'd use a bigger brush you know
this is taking forever to feather and no
bigger the brush the faster you can fill
fill in an area I think I'm doing this
because I'm anticipating a long hot
summer after this raising cold endless
winter that we've been having spring
just doesn't want to sprung breeze a bit
more water in there there's quite a lot
darker isn't it so what I can't do that
you see I can squeeze a bit of water in
there just to kind of thin it down as
I'm going along so that's useful I like
that um I do you want to get this quite
a bit darker below in the middle of the
bunch
this is painting wet on wet which again
is something I really do and only very
kind of indicative for Nikoli and not
kind of us both better graphic down away
but than this it's kind of fun to do
this kind of thing every now and then
just play
well I'm gonna have a bit of blue in
there now I gotta clean that hell it up
a bit they're squirting some water
there's too much bleep anyway um and
that's much too right anyway I'm gonna
put a little bit of shadow behind the
yellows there it's a hint of the
modeling on the petals and you probably
notice I'm doing this with one one brush
this is the big one let me try this
little one here and what I'm gonna use
it for a different thing use at
different times but a bit more green a
bit more water just squeeze some water
in there Oh see but joint sighs I've
been a definite kind of brush mark there
so I'm just gonna lay down this little
pattern and I want them mostly basically
down below underneath so these are gonna
be kind of shadow effects in the dark
below in the flower bed or in the bowels
if they they might be well that's it if
all the flowers might make us change and
part of that and so I'm using these it's
almost calligraphic isn't it just to get
a little kind of texture in there
and clean this brush let's see how this
goes so they say just flush it through
and mmm was quite a serious color isn't
it so I'm gonna put a little bit of make
this a bit more squeeze it there I just
made that's still too light so I'm gonna
want some of these to be below in the
shadow and this I think is tea so I'm
gonna squeeze some water in there down
below this is completely unplanned and
out of my head as well I'm just gonna
get a little bit more kind of aura and I
get a little bit more kind of orange
eNOS just to know just to brighten up
the flower to flower middle bits stamens
anthers or whatever it's called and then
I'm just gonna squirt out the orange
from that and I'm gonna come back to
this green here and I'm gonna bit more
blue in there and I think I just want a
bit more of this kind of kind of graphic
bit down here so washing in
well there we go I'm gonna say that that
is it and I think that was really quite
interesting for me anyway so I'm gonna
try squeezing you know most of the cars
I think some colors are gonna stain
brush tips and these are kind of a very
fine nylon brush tips on there and in a
way it kind of reminds me a bit like my
Copic markers say how quite like that
and I think they're jolly good fun so
next week I will take them out with me
and I will do a kind of a landscape
thing because other people people have
been asking me to do landscapes as well
and we'll see how that goes but I think
that's quite fun there we go they're
quick and they're simple and they're
easy and you can just kind of stick them
in your back and take them with you and
not having to worry about getting jam
jars out and all that kind of thing so
so if you're on the move I think these
are really really good I'm gonna take
these with me now I don't know what they
say going through the airport security
with those some some law against them or
something interesting so there we go
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