hello and 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 actually about winsor newton lifting prep we
did cover this product in full four years ago you know many people have viewed it and stuff
like that to give you kind of like a little basic information this medium is like an additive that
you can use if you routinely are scrubbing out or lifting established color off of the surface
to create highlights and get back to the white of the paper this is a very very valuable tool
it works great it does all kinds of cool things you can take it with a wet brush
and you can apply it directly on the surface where you know you want that lifting to occur
and it makes it that much easier to get the the color back up you can mix it with your existing
watercolor just a couple of drops with you know a pool of um color and then use it that way and then
lift that color back up very easily um or both you can double down and you know really make sure that
that stuff comes back up but i wanted to kind of like if you aren't familiar with you
know watercolor that's not your primary area that you understand how dynamic this product
really really is and all the fun things that you can do with it that are outside
the normal kind of watercolor uses um so today i want to show you a couple of things that i've
been playing around with that i think are really interesting one is opening the bottle
because you know child proof also converts to like old proof so what i'm going to do is i've
just got some cold pressed watercolor paper here and i'm dipping my wet brush into the lifting prep
and my brush is clean you don't want you know paint on your brush to contaminate your
your lifting prep and i'm just going to actually put this down on the page here
and
let this lifting prep dry it it dries very very quickly you have to worry about that
and what we're doing is applying the medium directly to the paper
to give it like a little teeny place for it to reside where we can lift the color back up
so now we've given that a couple of minutes to to dry really didn't take long at all and
you can see that even with just this raw medium onto our paper there's almost no color shift in
the paper at all you can't even really tell where it has been applied but what i wanted
to show you is some kind of fun things a while back we've done a demo with some um
powdered water-soluble graphite and people had said oh well i'm having a little bit of
trouble like erasing or picking up the water-soluble graphite after it dried
well try this so we're going to apply some water soluble graphite onto this surface we
are crossing over the area with the lifting prep and as you can see it doesn't change
the behavior or the material at all it doesn't like freak out or beat up or do weird things
it still behaves just like the paper has we're going to get like
a deeper concentration going here so you can really really see what we're talking about
and lay that in
and give that a minute to dry
here we go all right we're going to clean that out and then another thing that i want you to try
to take a look at is we got some watercolor pencil here and what we're going to do is lay this in
on top of the lifting prep
so you can see how that works
and
not only are we going to go over
the dry paper we're going to go over this part with the lifting prep it is just a
little bit damp still in this one area but overall pretty dry
and so we've we've really kind of worked some color into this
and it really
developed value there and then we're gonna do is take um another color just to add some emphasis
blend that in there and then like color colored pencil watercolor pencil isn't this is you know
a watercolor pencil isn't generally that hard to pick up um when it's dry it does get a little bit
harder when you've wet it and you've had sequential layers and then you're drawing
back on top of it and that part has dried and stuff like that that's where it gets tough if
you've made a mistake and you're wanting to go back and you um create some highlights or maybe
you got a little bit overzealous and severe you can actually use this medium to kind of help you
protect yourself from yourself if you know that that's a tendency that you have so what we're
going to do is we're going to use our wet brush and activate this watercolor pencil
not only on just the plain dry paper but also with the area that's been treated with the watercolor
medium the lifting prep and let that dry just a little bit and then we'll come back and i'll
show you some fun stuff that we can do because of the cool properties of this prep all right
so we've given these little guys some time to dry and we've got a cheap joe's fridge scrubber here
i love these little guys these are super handy for scrubbing out so what i'm going to do is just wet
my brush my little fridge scrubber here got some kleenexes or paper towels or whatever you want
to use and i'll show you how easy this is so this is ground in colored pencil onto a cold
press that we've also activated and allowed it to completely dry and we're going to just go back and
barely barely scrub just a little teeny bit and it comes
up quick as lightning it's crazy so with this windsor doing lift lifting prep we can do
a whole lot of really really fun stuff interesting treatments um in more than just
you know watercolor now i'm going to show you we're going to do the exact same kind of thing
with this water-soluble graphite which is a little bit temperamental a little harder to deal with
when it's completely dry after it's been activated so we're gonna
just bang you know and so you can create some really really amazing highlights really quick
just like that now you can also like if you have an erasing shield or like
i have a circle template here um you can also like lay those in and go like this
pick it right up it's just
super easy
to be able to create really really nice edges cool curves and stuff like that and because
of this lifting prep being applied there you have a whole bunch of freedom to do a whole bunch of
different effects that you weren't able to before just buy the addition of this handy little tool
so if you haven't thought about this as an option check it out windsor newton lifting prep it's
fascinating and fun and very inexpensive and handy and we hope that you will enjoy
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