hello welcome to chief 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 a handy product is very very inexpensive and
i can't believe i haven't talked to you about this before i don't know why but this one is wonderful
when you've kind of painted yourself into a corner and you don't know what to do
this is a decision making tool now this is very very simple thing this is called water media
acetate it is a polyester based film we have them in several different sheet sizes there's three in
a pack and we have like 11 by 14 and 14 by 17 and then also a 20 by 25 so which will almost
virtually cover a whole watercolor sheet we also have 12 sheet pads they come in various sizes as
well the way i'm going to be using it has several lifes in it so you know you don't need a whole ton
you're going to be able to wash whatever you do off of this
and then reuse it again so let me explain what i'm going to use this for right now i have a painting
i thought i liked and then it dried and i have my gold leaf on it and i thought maybe my gold leaf
would pull it out of the ditch and it didn't one of the things that bothers me about this
is that my brusho as it continued to dry it kind of muddied and sometimes brusho will do
that it continues to kind of diffuse into the wet wash and sometimes you want it to stop and
you just don't have any control over that so these really really pretty kind of like areas
have kind of all blended together and so we're lacking focus here and so for a painting like this
which you would i would deem a pretty unsuccessful at this stage you can actually use this product to
test out different options so what i have here is one sheet of the water media acetate and what
i'm going to do is just lay it down on my painting here and stuff and my painting's kind of warpy so
um it's causing it to bubble up a little bit this painting is on kilimanjaro 140 pound cold press
bright white and what i'm going to do is i have it's a cheap joe's legend which is really
really soft it's a sable brush and i'm wetting my brush and i'm actually pre-wet a couple of colors
on my palette that i think i want to use to try and resurrect this one from the dead
now the great thing about water mania acetate is that you can actually test
what you're going to do on acetate not on your painting so you can actually check and see
how this is going to translate before you've committed so i'm going to check and see like
do i want to darken this to kind of mimic this shape down here you can kind of lay that on there
and okay do i want to push it all the way to the corner do i do i not like that so much
you can actually just take a tissue and edit hmm i don't know and then you can actually
grab another color
and see if you want to
shift the tone of this around or do or do i want to take a totally different direction and
like move all of this over and you know because you can paint around the gold leaf if you really
need to do i want to push this whole area back a little bit so you can actually like test things
out see how it feels i got an interesting vertical thing going on here do i wanna do i wanna play
with that a little bit yes i do uh because that gives that a little bit of a punch so you can
make editorial decisions um and see if you like it and then don't have the the problem with the uh oh
then that didn't work out exactly like i hoped at all the cool part is you can take this off
you can either use a paper towel or a kleenex clean this off put it back in the drawer and it's
ready for next time so now you know the direction that you that you know now i know the direction i
want to go with this and where i'm going to take it and i haven't i haven't torched the whole thing
uh in the decision making process so check out water media acetate it's available right here
at cheap joe's it is a fantastic and handy studio tool sure you're going to like it
make sure to just pick up a pack see what you think we're sure that you'll enjoy
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