hello welcome to cheap just 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 video is actually just kind of discussion
throwing some things out there and today i wanted to share with you a list of like five things that
i love now granted it's more things than just five we're talking categories kind of thing i
love lots of stuff i could you know droll on forever uh telling you about different
things that i like but i wanted to share with you some like important things that i totally
dig totally love one drawing materials so i mean we'd have video upon video about that and we have
but i love drawing materials i love mechanical pencils i love click erasers i love gel pens i
love all that kind of stuff i love colored pencils big time you know all of those things um just kind
of get me going and i absolutely like dig it like i'm always like freaked out when something new
comes along in the drawing category i always want to try it play with it do all kinds of cool stuff
just love it and i really consider drawing to be the foundation of pretty much all other media
and so i cannot uh separate that from like my art existence at all like drawing material i
have to have it now when you love your drawing stuff as much as me like seriously love it um
you want to take good care of them and that is why i love the pencil cases from global i've probably
talked about this before i don't care i can't express to you how important this is i have large
collections of watercolor pencils colored pencils pastel pencils blah blah blah blah blah and my
drawing uh pencils when you have one of these cases it is the best way to keep them safe keep
them from the cat knocking them off on the floor and then getting all busted up and stuff like this
and then you always know where they are you're not like um you know dredging around in a drawer
looking for where that silly thing was um you know it's in the case and it's taken care of so this
don't consider it a luxury consider it a necessity it's a way to take care of your babies you know
then another thing that i love that i think doesn't get enough attention is cat's tongue
brushes man i love them they are so cool i mean i'm already kind of predisposed to ovals anyway
but like cats tongues are kind of cool because they're like ovals and rounds that had a baby
um so as you can see it has a pronounced like oval head but it has like a really sharp point
on the end so it's fantastic because you can treat it like an oval but then you can turn it quickly
and then create a like magical sharp point and it does all kinds of cool things and with this
wide head it's like having an extra big belly so you're not charging it all the time and you can do
some fantastic stuff with cat's tongues brushes and people don't pay enough attention to them
they're so cool um and this one is the chief joe's signature series 50 50. um this is a three-quarter
inch one it is glorious it is beautiful i love it and you should definitely try one
uh then uh the other thing my friend leslie got me into this but um i've been using stonehenge aqua
white watercolor paper the hot press like that 140 but i've been using it as a drawing substrate
now granted you can always do water media on it it's also great for like the water-soluble
graphite stuff that i do sometimes um but this is just magical it's kind of got like
the perfect combination of just not so much tooth that you're having to compensate for it but just
enough so that like it doesn't like smear all over and stuff like this so that has been a fantastic
kind of like evolution that i really really like and it tests your presence about it just kind
of beautiful and all the results are even more beautiful on that other things that i really like
are gold things if you've been watching two minute art tips you know that i like some shiny
i like metallics i like gold i just do and i'm not apologetic about it it's just one of those things
and here are some of my favorite favorite like gold shiny things one we have another video in
our series about frederick's metallic gold canvas as you can see it is primed with a universal
gold gesso it is fun i did a really large piece took me a while took me a while to
circle back and finish it and stuff like that but this one is really really great
i intend to use this much much more and look at this cute square one like it's adorable
uh so that one that one's going home with me and then mona lisa gold leaf i use this a lot y'all
i've been using in combination with watercolor and some acrylic stuff like this right here
and i love it because it's just like a high impact punch a way to focus um get you to the focal point
and stuff like that i love it and it is so fun to use it's really really easy to use no kind of
smelly awful stuff it's you know they have their own adhesive but i've used i've used
it in combination with other adhesives and it is great then fine tech metallic watercolors
now this isn't just gold this is about every color under the sun my friends so um you can
buy them in these like little cakes like this or we have them available in glorious sets or
we even have the boxes that you can customize on your own they're not cheap i'm not going to lie
and tell you that but they are worth it you get a lot of bang for your buck a lot of real estate
coverage with these colors and they are super high impact they blend well with every single
color you know in manufacture i have tried and i absolutely love them so check out some fine tech
they are great and then lastly on my list um i love the color periwinkle it's my favorite
um and it has been for a long time i don't make it you know like excuses for it or anything like that
i even had a tag on my car that said periwinkle you know so um it is the best i love it every time
i see that color it makes me happy um and so a lot of times i try to incorporate that into my work
somehow i mean granted it has the ability to kind of take over um but i absolutely love
it and you should incorporate the things that you love into your everyday make the most of them and
just enjoy yourself your materials should make you happy make you feel inspired make you want to get
up and make some cool stuff so hopefully this list will make you think about like what kind
of things that you love and make you happy and uh get out there and use those things
uh enjoy those things and uh have a great day thanks for watching and hope that you enjoy
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