The two-minute art tip segment opens with several small videos on the screen from past shows plus the text I like shiny.
The title of the segment also appears which is Underappreciated Products That Won't Break the Bank
Hello and welcome to Cheap Joe's Art Stuff! My name is Julie and I'm here to impart some
knowledge to you today via a Two-Minute Art Tip. And today's tip is about some more under-appreciated
products, but these are very inexpensive and won't break the bank, so perk up! We got some
good info for you here and some fun things to show you. So, I wanted to start off with
something that's really kind of unique. You will see this in our catalog under the children's
art supply area but it's really pretty fabulous. I would definitely, and I already have, been
playing around with these because these are great. (A picture of the Stabilo 3 in 1 Colored Pencils sets appear on the screen along with a quick overview description)
These are by Stabilo, they're called the Woody Three-In-One Pencils and so it is a,
you know, colored pencil (Julie has one of the pencils in her hand and uses it to draw on white paper), and it's really nice.
It has that kind of like chubby crayon feel like back from kindergarten and stuff. But
what's interesting about these is that they are,
uniquely concentrated for what's marketed as a children's art supply. They are pretty
intense (Julie continues to draw and layer with the stabilio pencil) and I've been surprised by them. So, as you can see you can get a good bit of coverage
with these, and they're so, they're so big that you can cover a large area, you can get
a really expressive gestural line with this. (Julie changes pencils and switches to a green color and continues to draw and show their characteristics) And they come in these, you know, super playful
awesome colors. But the thing that I want to show you because it's what makes them just
kind of unique from other material for kids is that these are really, really, really great. (Julie puts down the pencil and picks up a paint brush which she puts in water)
So we're going to wet our brush here, we've got the dry pencil onto the surface, but I
want to show you what happens when we activate this color. (Julie removes the wet brush from the water and activates the color from the pencil) So watch this! Look how brilliant
and amazing this is (Julie paints water on the pencil drawing and creates a beautiful, intense purple) and how quickly it activates and what a really, really long way it goes. (More water is added to the brush and Julie activates the second pencil drawing color and creates an intense teal/green color)
And this is, like, a kids' art supply. Now, um, we don't have them in individual sticks,
we have them in sets. We only have them individually in our retail stores. But they blend great, (Julie uses the brush and water to blend the 2 colors on paper)
the color is, like, really intense and gorgeous, and they're really really fun. (Julie washes her brush and then puts it on the table) And so, I encourage
you to take a look at these because this is one of those things that, like you know, adults
are going to walk by this and not even take a second glance. And it has the cutest little
chubby sharpener (Julie picks up a red sharpener and shows it on camera then sets the sharpener and pencils on the table) that you'll need to re-sharpen them, and they're just wonderful. So take
a look at them, this Stabilo Woody Three In One pencils. Now the next product I wanted
to show you is called a Cheap Joe's Scroggy Loose Goose Brush. (Julie picks up one of the brushes and shows the dry brush and its unique head on camera) Now, this is what it looks
like when it's dry, so I wanted you to be able to see how unique this head is. Now,
I'm going to go ahead and wet it. (The Cheap Joe's Scroggy Loose Goose Brush is put in water) This is based on a sign painter's dagger striper,
okay, this is what sign painters used to use to make signs or pinstripes on cars or, you
know, long lines on signs and stuff like that. (Julie removes the brush from the water) Now, the story behind this is that years ago,
like I think it was like 22 years ago, I was at the Ohio Watercolor Society Convention
and met Hal Scroggy, who was a wonderful artist, and we instantly became fast friends and he
was wonderful. And he was demoing in the booth where I was for Cheap Joe's and we just cackled
and had a ball, and he was using a dagger striper attached to a pencil. So he basically
had a pencil extender with a dagger striper brush on it, and it was the most, like, crazy
thing I've ever seen and I was like "what is that?". But let me show you how he was
using it. I got some watercolor over here and we're gonna load this thing up. (Julie dips the brush in a paint well on her palette to add color) Now, if
you are into a lot of linear form this is going to be perfect, I'm going to blow your
mind. (Julie starts to draw with the brush) So, you're going to lay this down like this and you can get a very very even consistent
line. But that's not exactly how Hal used it. Yeah, you can use it that way, but what
he liked to do was (Julie shows Hal's technique with the brush which is slightly twirling the brush from side to side while drawing a line) take it like this and then flip it like that, and then he would also
do this kind of crazy slapping thing (Julie slaps the brush full of color on the paper) where he would like, you know, slap things down
and have these really expressive ends on his marks and stuff like that. And I was constantly
laughing at him because he's flinging junk everywhere, but I absolutely adored him and
I love how, you know, expressive and remarkable his brush strokes were. And just with this
one tool (Julie continues to draw a variety of line styles with the brush) and you can see it's insane the kind
of variation that you can get with this brush. It's just, and you know, you load it up and
you go and you go and you go, and it does all kinds of, you know, really cool stuff. (Julie adds more color on the brush and continues to show the many different variations that can be created)
And it has so many kind of unique properties, just like he did. So, check them out: (a picture and description of the brush appear on screen) the
Cheap Joe's Scroggy Loose Goose Brush.
Check that one out, it's kind of one of those looked over gems that is in our lineup.
Then, I wanted to show you the Cheap Joe's Palette Cups. (Julie removes from the desk the paper she was demoing on and brings on camera her actual palette with an attached palette cup)
This is my actual palette from home, I'm working in some oils for the first time in a long
time, and I've got my palette cup actually on my New Wave Glass Palette, (On camera there is a shot of the palette cup on Julie's New Wave glass palette which has a variety of oils colors) which I absolutely
love, I use it all the time, I've got two different sizes of them. This is my smaller
one, but see how I have my palette cup just attached to the edge? (Julie moves her palette over to the edge to demonstrate) And what I do is I just
kind of, like, lay it over the edge of my working surface because this little clip thing
will cause the thing to kind of, you know, bounce about and stuff. So I just hang it
over the edge like that. But you can unscrew this (Julie removes the cover of the palette cup) and I've got mine full of lavender oil. (There's an overhead shot of the lavender oil in Julies cup)
I've been using that as my primary medium. I really like it and one of the reasons is
that the smell of oil just kind of makes me you know, but the lavender seems to counteract
that enough. (Julie puts the lid back on and closes it up) But I can't say how handy this is, because I can close this up, I can put
this in a, you know, a cool place, and then come back to it days later and BANG everything's
ready to go. (Julie taps on the lid) And this is nice and tight, I don't have to worry about the pets getting
in it or anything like that. (Pictures and descriptions of the palette cups appear on screen) Now, we have this in two different variations.
We have one cup or that we have a double clip that has two cups on it so you could have
two different kinds of mediums in there at the ready, you know, right attached to your
palette. A couple of bucks for this simple solution is just amazing, I think. And then
lastly, what I wanted to show you, is the Cretacolor Ergonomic Lead Holder. (a picture and description of the lead holder appears on screen) Now, you're
like "a lead holder, really?" Well, yeah, you know, (Julie is holding one of the lead holders) I'm afraid in my life it has come
to be the time when things start to hurt, and lately my thumb has been a problem when
I'm drawing and I'm working. And I have found that this is a great relief simply because
it's so oversized (there's an overhead shot of the lead holder as Julie describes it's benefits) and it has a special ergonomic grip on it, so I don't have to close my hand
quite so tightly, and I can work and I can do gestures really really quick and easily (Julie sketches with the lead holder)
and still have control without having to, you know, actually activate my thumb all that
much. It's got this funny little humpback on it (Julie shows the humpback on camera and the beneficial grip) which allows me to kind of, you know,
really clamp it between these two fingers and have full control over it.
And this is kind of a lifesaver and I have really really enjoyed using it lately because
stuff's starting to hurt, you know, and when they say ergonomic, they're not kidding. And
so for just a couple of bucks, this solves a big problem that's kind of bugging me lately.
So if that's something that's happening to you, definitely check this out, the Cretacolor
ergonomic lead holder. We have the lead refills for it and you don't have to buy this specific
brand, you know, it's kind of universal. You can put all kinds of different stuff in it,
so, this is quite a buy so check it out, and we hope that these suggestions are useful
to you, maybe open your eyes to some possibilities. So thanks for watching and we hope that you
enjoy.
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