Hello, and welcome back to Jenna Gets Creative! Today is a special video. I am doing a collaboration
with Weblight Dreams. So I will link her everywhere. Definitely go check out her channel and her
video as well. This all started because I have a whole bunch of these Thomas Kinkade
watercolurs, and they're from 2004, so they are 15 years old this year, and I really wanted
to do a special "using 15 year old watercolours" video, and I was running out of time and ideas.
I told her about it, and she said hey! Why not, let's do a collaboration, let's use only
old art supplies, and let's do something to do with old memories. So I am going to use
only my old art supplies, and I am going to recreate this photo of my... well I call them
my aunt and uncle. This is Pam and Leonard. Leonard is my maternal grandfather's nephew,
but because he was child #8 in a very large family, he was born in 1919, he wasn't actually
that much older than Leonard, so then even though that made Leonard my mom's cousin,
he's much older than her. He was her uncle. So this was Mom's cousins that were her aunt
and uncle, so I called them aunt and uncle, my sister called them aunt and uncle. They
were pretty much our extra grandparents. They visited a lot. So this photo, I am guessing
that this is from the 1940s, just based on the fashion choices made, and I'm not sure
if this is a genuine early colour film photo, because those were available in the 40s, but
I don't know how widely available they were. Particularly in middle class British Columbia
in the 40s. I do know that my Grandma and some other people in the family hand coloured
black & white photographs around that time. So this could be a genuine coloured photo
from the 40s, or this could be hand coloured with dyes. I will be doing this. Let's get
started with what I'm going to use. For paper, this Soho series sketch paper, it's actually
a mix media paper. I don't know the exact weight of the paper. It's not listed, but
it really does feel about the same thickness and texture and quality as Canson XL mix media.
So that's probably about what it is. I've done ink drawings on this before. As in bottled
ink. I know it'll stand up to it if I'm careful. So I'm going to use this. This is my smallest
one. It's... it's postcard size. A6. This is what I'm going to use. Hopefully it doesn't
go too, too poorly. I may be tempted to re-do the project on better watercolour paper if
this is horrible. Hopefully it's not. By the way, I know I bought this in 2007, so that
definitely makes this over 10 years old. That makes this 12 years old. My drawing tools:
I have been in the province of Newfoundland for 7 years now, and I brought this particular
tin of pencils with me in my suitcase when I moved here, so I don't know exactly how
old it is, but they're at least 7 years. So I will be using Staedtler Mars Lumograph pencils
. I know it's going to look like every other video because they're still my favourite,
but I'll be using ones from this tin, I promise! Now, for colouring, I'm definitely going to
start with a watercolour or ink base. For watercolour I'm going to use these Thomas
Kinkades. I have put them in pans. This is my Daler-Rowney gouaches, my Thomas Kinkades
are on this side, here they are. Except for this, that's a Sennelier. These are the Thomas
Kinkades. I will be using them out of the pan, just so you're not confused, this is
what I'm using. If there's any colours I can't quite do with that, or I want something a
little bit different, I do have eight of these Winsor & Newton drawing inks that I also bought
around 2007. So they're about 12 years old now. If for some reason I need a really rich
black, this good old trusty Chinese ink is... again, bought in 2007. 12 years old. These
are the paint brushes of types I might want to use that I also bought before leaving BC,
mostly around 2007. Some may be slightly newer. So we've got... these are all Winsor & Newtons.
So is the fan brush. Winsor & Newtons. These are specific to the art store I bought them
from, Opus. So is this one. This is just a basic squirrel hair Chinese ink brush I got
at my college book store in 2007, bought these together. And I have absolute no idea what
type or brand of brush this is, or how old it is. I took it from my mom's collection
when I was doing the course that required me to buy this, so this is probably from her
school days. If I want to do more details on top of that, all of these coloured pencils,
all the way over here, are from my school days. My high school and even elementary school
days. I have Prismacolor Scholar when the company was Berol. I have Prismacolor Premiers
from when Sanford still owned it. See, Sanford logo. I have Laurentien coloured pencils.
This brand doesn't even exist anymore. I have a video on that, go check that out. And I
have a couple extremely old Crayolas. If I need to erase anything, this kneaded eraser
is so old it probably isn't going to come out of this round shape, but I can lighten
things up. If I need to erase completely, I have this eraser. It's multiple little modules.
You just push them up. And this was given to me by an international student we had living
with us at some point in high school. It says made in Taiwan. Pretty cool. Early 2000s,
maybe even late 90s. This is my high school pencil sharpener. I am going to make a couple
concessions for myself, and I think Weblight Dreams will call them fair. If I end up using
any of those super old coloured pencils that are way too short, I have a pencil extender.
This is like 2 years old. Sorry, I didn't have pencil extenders back then, but I'm not
going to torture myself! And of course, I didn't bring any old mixing palettes with
me, because you know, they're cheap. So I will be using a mixing palettes and water
containers that I have acquired since. I think that's fair! Let's get drawing. So this piece
went really, really well right up until I had to finish the facial features, which I
was putting off for so long because I knew they would be difficult. I really only have
one brush that's small enough for fine details on a card this size, and well really it isn't
small enough. It was just the closest thing I had. I have a very, very old Winsor & Newton
Cotman round 1, and the bristles have frayed off. There's not many bristles left, doesn't
really like to hold a fine point, so I was very much dreading making the final facial
features. You may or may not see at the end, I did end up turning the camera off as I got
really frustrated and fiddled, but I tried to edit what I painted in the facial features
with the coloured pencils. On her, on Auntie Pam, it turned out fairly well in the end.
The last little bit I did with the watercolours she kind of started to look like a Romulan,
but when I went in and fixed her up with the coloured pencils, it worked out. She turned
out looking like Auntie Pam. As I hold the final piece in my hand, Uncle Leonard looks
like he was recently in a fist fight and has two black eyes. I couldn't fix that. I knew
I was going to have to go in and edit this piece digitally before I decide to print it
out, maybe give it to some family members. I don't know what's my plan with this. I definitely
don't want to give the original out to any family members because, like I said, Leonard
looks like he got punched in the eyes. I will show you near the end, I will put up the edited
file. I did improve it quite a bit, just only editing his face. And I think you'll find
that my digital edit also still falls within the realm of only using supplies that we've
had for at least 10 years, and that's because, you see, I use Photoshop, yes, but I don't
subscribe to the current constantly updated photoshop service where you have to pay a
monthly fee. I use my old Creative Suite 5.5 disc, the student editioin, which I bought
with my university student discount back when that was a thing, 2008ish. So the Adobe Photoshop
software I'm using is also at least 10 years old. And just in case anybody out there is
wondering, if you can get ahold of and older photoshop, will it be just as good as what
people are using now? For the most part, yes. For all of my needs, it's always been perfectly
adequate. I have no desire or need to go and subscribe to the current Adobe service. I
am getting a digital screen tablet for Christmas. I know that because I've banded people together
to contribute to it, and I ordered it myself. So I get to know that the box is sitting in
the closet for like an entire month before Christmas, and then the day after Christmas
we're going to visit my family, so you know. I get to torture myself with the knowledge
that I have this brand new shiny toy that I don't get to use for quite a while. So we'll
see if I end up think that I need an updated version of Photoshop or any other software.
I'm actually really curious to try Autodesk. But I'm getting off topic. I'm rambling. Can
you tell I didn't script this video? It's Sunday as I'm recording this voice over. I
was thinking to myself last night, when we got home from spending all day at the craft
fair that my husband had a woodworking table at, I was thinking you know what? It's okay.
I can put off doing my voice overs for the week until tomorrow. I don't have to upload
until Tuesday. Oh wait! I'm doing a bonus on Monday! I'm collaborating with Weblight
Dreams. So I need to finish this. So yeah, I haven't scripted my voice over. I'm gonna
get quite rambly. If you don't want to listen to me ramble, just mute it. Just watch the
art. It's fine. My point there, somewhere in there, was that at the end I did digitally
fix Leonard's face ever so slightly. I did it using an 11 year old version of Photoshop,
so it still fits within the requirements. No the computer's not that old, but who still
has a functioning laptop that's that old that can actually handle photoshop and upload the
YouTube? Probably not many people out there! And if you do, it's probably an Apple, and
I don't have that kind of cash! By the way, if you're new here, if you came here from
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you can look her up as well. She did do a November video. So later on this week you
are going to see a Pokemon creation video. I'm trying to use up the footage that I've
filmed before we get to January, because I don't know yet how the new FTC rules are going
to be implemented. I don't know if new uploaded Pokemon videos in January are instantly going
to be flagged and demonetized and comments disabled and all that, so I'm trying to use
up the footage I already filmed. I don't know if I will continue the series after I get
out the ones I've already filmed. That would be unfortunate if I don't. I really enjoy
doing them. But you will see one of those this week, and you will also see footage from
a challenge I did in the Lacrhi Fine Art artist group over on MeWe. And after that we're heading
into December. Which is exiting, and scary, where did the month go? Weblight Dreams and
I are both going to be doing a piece every single day in December all the way up to Christmas.
Yes we're doing another insanity like that so soon after surviving Inktober, and then
I'm considering doing JanuHarry. It's a challenge put out by the people who do Linktober, except
it's Harry Potter themed. I'm considering doing that. Well, I pretty much will do that.
I don't know if I'll put it out on my channel because again the FTC changes, but you can
find that on my Instagram for sure. I might have to play catch-up at the beginning of
the month because I won't be in the province for the first week, but yeah. Anyway, at this
point I have probably rambled enough. I am not going to do torture myself trying to edit
this unscripted audio, and then caption this unscripted audio. Head on over to Weblight
Dreams' channel and check out her video if you haven't already. If you're here from her
channel, hi! Welcome. Thank you for coming. Please subscribe! And thank you so much, Weblight
Dreams, for doing this collaboration with me. For giving me a kick in the pants to use
those Thomas Kinkade watercolours like I've been wanting to. And yeah, we should do more
collaborations outside of the Art Addicts Alliance in the future, because this was a
lot of fun. Thanks everyone for watching, and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye!