hi alexa how many days ago since march 23rd 2019 march 23 2019 was 591 days ago
591 days ago i have been planning this video so what happened on that date is
my friend robin sealark uploaded a video where she tested out new art supplies
there was a few art supplies in particular that i had never heard of looks like gray poop and you
guys know i spend most of my free time studying art supplies and art brands and things like that
so whenever i discover an art supply that i have never heard of or i think is weird or strange or
whatever naturally i want to try it out and since march 23 2019 in secret i have been collecting a
whole entire plethora of art supplies that i would dub either weird new unusual strange i've never
heard of and some of these art supplies as you're gonna see i have had them for literally months and
months and months and i've had to like really restrain myself from off camera trying them out
and testing them and see what they're all about but finally as of yesterday the last art supply
finally came in and 591 days later i can finally finally test out all of these weird supplies
and before we begin fun fact actually really really sad fact i'm a tiktok star now i have been
posting a lot of art related content so if you'd like to go check out my tictok that would be cool
and yeah guys with that being said 500 days in the making here is this video all right to start this
off we're going to start off with what i think is going to be the most weird and strange item out of
everything today this item here specifically made me want to do this whole entire video
if you paid close attention to the intro you might have already seen it
this is art graph number one artist graphite putty
if you don't know what graphite is it's the lead inside of a pencil it's made from graphite
and this my friends is graphite in the form of a putty in my whole entire life i have never
seen this anywhere i haven't seen it for sale the only place i've ever seen it was on robin's video
hold on i'm gonna get gloves because i don't trust it
oh wow it literally looks just like gray poop it's so easy to crumble
see today is probably not the best day to have worn
this white long sleeve shirt i should have thought this through more let's test this bad boy out
for some reason my brain is thinking it's going to look just like charcoal
but it's not it's graphite texture which is really tripping out my mind
oh my god look how smooth it is even though it's been in my room since last night it feels ice cold
like it's been in the refrigerator or something it kind of feels like it's wet or like full of an oil
but it's completely dry so that's really tripping me out
on the listing it says you can shape it to a point and you can use it like a pencil
if that makes sense so i'm going to shape it really quick get a nice little point to it
shaping it didn't really work the second that i put the fine point to the paper it flattened out
now this stuff is water soluble meaning that it'll break down with water
and you can use it like a paint so i really want to check that out
oh my god i've never been able to paint with graphite before dude it's very very pigmented
it's so pigmented that it kind of looks like gouache whoa you know what this would be great
for it would be incredible for like art therapy reasons like if you're having a bad day or a bad
year this would be great to just like go in the studio get out all of your aggression and just
even though it's kind of hard to get like really precise with it it's really really really fun
oh my god this is so fun this is the most fun i've had all week
as if this year couldn't get any weirder the best art supply that i've found this year is gray poop
now for this next art supply i actually found it from tiktok i want to say either last year or the
very very beginning of this year i bought this product about eight months ago and i
have been waiting ever since every single day for eight months to finally try it out
this is a brush shaper now i know people shape their brushes but i've never seen a specified
product for shaping your brushes since i've been on the internet i've seen people use hairspray
laundry detergent glue trimming off the brushes water heat pressure bar
soap regular soap liquid soap coconut oil some of the things that i've seen are very
sus now this is by the brand speed ball you've seen that many times on my channel
here's the before i feel kind of bad for
them because they've obviously had a rough year just like everybody else
it doesn't have a smell at all like at all at all it's a pure liquid but for
some reason i thought it would be more like a gel so all you do is dip it in
and wipe off some of the excess it's kind of already shaped itself that's weird
i was not expecting that but i'm gonna shape it even more precise if you've ever felt what like
watered down lotion feels like that's exactly what this feels like we'll try the next one
oh wow this is like magic in the blink of an eye it basically just restored my whole entire brush
instantly that is crazy okay i'm gonna try to do these two dip them in wipe off
i am having a little trouble getting this brush to be as precise as i want it to be
this one was by far the craziest i might have to do two rounds of this one but i gotta say
from where it's currently at it's way better than it was before so i'm gonna leave these overnight
to dry and i'm gonna come back in the morning rinse them off and we'll test them out okay so
it is currently the next day the brushes have completely dried i have not touched them since
i shaped them and put them off to the side and i gotta say these brushes are absolutely immaculate
now there is one brush which was like the craziest brush it's still not as perfect as
i would like it to be i might have to do a second round of brush shaper but guys other
than that these brushes are literally back to normal out of everything so far this is
probably worked by far the best and if you ever get the opportunity to buy this in a craft store
buy it purchase it this stuff in the long run will save you money because you'll be able to
preserve your brushes for so long yes 10 out of 10 would recommend brush shaper
yes now this next art supply was actually brought to my attention from one of you guys one of my
viewers and obviously i've heard of black paper before but i've never heard of black watercolor
oh it's wet yeah it's exactly what it sounds like watercolor paper that just so happens to be black
so my first initial thought was like what is the point of this because obviously regular watercolor
it's very transparent and as soon as you put watercolor on this you're not gonna see it
this watercolor paper my friends is for well generally you can use it for whatever but
generally it's used for mica pigments i got these in the jazza inky credible box i hope i said that
right it came with the whole entire variety of colors but the ones that really caught my eye
were these two in particular uh it also came with some gub gub gum arabic
and what it does is that it turns this powder into a workable ink like texture
the aesthetics i absolutely cannot get over the aesthetics of this paper oh so pretty
the color on this pink is absolutely gorgeous the duochrome oh so pretty
uh there was a little spillage with the gold but that's okay
i really want to test it out regardless
wow it's so pretty this watercolor paper works like an absolute dream you could do so much with
this pigment it's absolutely beautiful wow and see if you were to do this on regular paper it would
warp the paper it would be too thin it would absorb it would tear so this black watercolor
paper is just absolutely incredible now speaking of jazza ladies and gentlemen welcome to draw with
jazza i'm jazza in the jazza ultimate creativity box there is one specific item that really really
really caught my eye now get ready for this because this is probably one of the most if
not the newest invention of all the art supplies that i'm showing this is the sta-wet palette
now this isn't like a normal every single day kind of palette no no no you know how
sometimes you mix up an acrylic and you focus too much on your painting
when you come back it's completely dried out
but this bad boy prevents that from happening so how this works is that this palette
has a special sponge on the inside you wet this sponge
you soak the special paper in extremely hot water for 20 minutes put your acrylic
down just like you normally would on a side note this colbat teal is my favorite color
so pretty mix it up mix it up all right first we'll do like a giant blob of paint
and see how this works out and we'll also do a thin coat of paint to see if this dries out too
okay so it is currently the next day my fake nail has popped off since
yesterday and here's the palette i have not done anything to it
i haven't checked it added more water absolutely nothing but okay here we go
smells like wet acrylic oh oh oh oh it's completely wet still oh my god i guess at
some point the water had mixed in with the acrylic and made it kind of like a wet wet texture like i
expected it to work but i didn't expect it to still be like such a like a thin liquid
what is this magic so yeah if you do use this sta-wet palette just be aware the water might
mix with your paint and thin it out a little bit so if that's something you're not into
be aware of that but other than that this palette is so cool 5 million out of 10.
now this final item i wanted to save the absolute best for last because if it turns out that this
item works it could be a game changer a total game changer for those of you who are subscribed
to my second channel you might have seen my home depot haul where i bought this if this
works this will be a game changer that video was shot maybe somewhere in late july something like
that so it's been a hot minute since i've had this product and by the way before i even show
you this product use this product with caution because it will have vapors now this my friends
is the clean strip paintbrush water rescue and basically what this is is really concentrated
brush cleaner so basically all you do is you add your water up to the fill line
you put either your oil-based or latex-based dirty
brushes that you think are ruined and unsavable you put them in this
you let it soak for 24 to 48 hours and i'm just gonna leave this bad boy outside for 24
hours hopefully no roaches get to it you pull it out scrape off the excess paint
and boom your brushes are restored and you're able to use them for another day
for the third time in this video it's the next day on my palette knife which is like very high
quality made in italy kind of thing which also happened to have very cracked on oil paint which
was impossible to get off the paint thinner cleaned it right off it cleaned it right up
like this thing looks absolutely brand new which i've never been able to clean it up that much
for my artist quality brushes it definitely softened up the oil paint that was cracked on but
it was really strange because there was like this white crust that was on the tip of the brushes
and as far as the cheap brushes go it ate through it
oh god it ate through the super cheap brushes oh my gosh sad and it makes me wonder if
full size brushes like this one if this is a different type of metal or a thicker aluminum
or maybe the exact same thing would happen with these brushes i don't know i couldn't tell you
but i did follow the instructions i tried everything and i'm sad to say it was a flop
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you guys so much again for watching and i will see you next video bye