hi welcome back to another episode of trying art supplies from weird places last time i took
on the challenge of the discount store ross dress for less and that was kind of a bust
and even more recently i tried art supplies from shein.com that was an even bigger bust so this is
how big it is compared to the picture from what it showed and today i'm taking this challenge
to the next level because today i am going to be trying art supplies from the hardware store
i feel like this one is probably going to be the hardest challenge yet because
to be quite honest with you i know virtually nothing about tools and
wood and tile all i'm saying is that the only thing that i ever buy personally at the hardware
store is plants so depending on whatever i find today i'm gonna try to make either a painting or
a drawing it just depends on what they have and before we get this party started if you're new
here feel free to subscribe and also real quick before we get into it i want to give a shout
out to one of my internet buddies jordan shrinks she's always such a sweetheart she sent me one of
her new journals from her new tara collection and they are so absolutely just chef kiss the inside
is dotted pages so you can basically do and create whatever you want with the journal it's ethically
made in europe out of all vegan recycled materials and i'm not getting paid and i don't think that
she even knows i'm gonna be talking about it on youtube but i genuinely just want to support her
business i'll leave a link in the description box down below and again shout out to you jordan you
went off girl and with that being said let's go see what the hardware store has to offer
g'day ladies and gentlemen welcome to draw with jazza i'm jazza
do i look like i build because i don't okay i'm back the very first thing that i'm gonna
need is a canvas now obviously the hardware store they're not gonna have blank canvases
so what i found instead is a really cheap good replacement i found
a piece of wood believe it or not in the art community it's very popular to
use wood instead of canvas for your paintings and this is a triple layer piece of wood it's
kind of thick it's completely smooth on the top which is almost exactly what they sell at the
craft store for triple the price and not just that but i love the smell of freshly cut wood
now even though i've chosen my canvas it's not ready to go wood is a very porous surface it can
get damaged very easily paint can flick off it i mean the list goes on and on and on about the
downsides of painting on wood normally what you would do is go in with some gesso but obviously
the hardware store ain't got no gesso but unbelievably i found this bullseye one two
three primer for all surfaces it seals odors block stains it's a pure white color and it even says in
the back that this can be used directly on wood so yeah to start this off let's go prime this bad boy
dude this is like perfectly smooth right now
it's sprayed so evenly that the surface of this sounds like straight up asmr
so now that i have my canvas she's ready she's primed this leads me to the next step
of my painting process drawing my outline as far as writing utensils goes lowe's had it on
lock guys look at all this stuff they have they have like regular pencils they
have like weird crayon things they have so much i don't know which one to get
i mean they had literally every type of writing utensil under the sun but i didn't want to get
just like the normal everyday boring stuff because you guys have seen me use that stuff
thousands of times at this point i ended up picking up some graphite carpenter pencils
carpet or pencils are obviously way different than just a regular pencil they have a much
thicker lead than a regular pencil and the reason they're flat is so they don't roll away and i
kind of hold like a special like little heart for these because these always remind me of my
dad my dad makes the coolest stuff with wood and he always always always has one of these
okay so now that i got the canvas down i got it primed i got the outline down now this leads me to
the main event now this is where it starts to get very interesting because they had a lot of options
but not in the way you'd think obviously they have a ginormous variety of house painting brushes
huge variety every single size you can work with i was thinking that i'm gonna be here with this
ginormous brush painting on this tiny little canvas what am i gonna do this is gonna be too
hard to do i'm gonna make a really bad piece of artwork but it turns out that lowe's actually has
and i still can't believe i'm saying this but they actually have regular craft brushes
just looking at these i can tell you already that these are going to be absolute terrible
quality and i'm pretty sure these are literally the ones you can get at the dollar store but
that's okay because hi editing me here for some reason i didn't finish the sentence i just got
on my phone and then turned off the camera but what i was gonna say is that i'm happy
in general that they have painters brushes like i don't care about the quality i'm just happy
they have them now for these next item these ones are more typical of what you'd see at the
hardware store and that of course is regular paint brushes i ended up picking out three
different house brushes we got a standard two inch in a standard one inch and i also picked
up this brush now this looks like just a regular ordinary brush like the other two but what makes
this so interesting to me is how this is like completely solid because it's so stiff it gives
you so much control about where the paint is gonna go exactly on your canvas and i also picked up i
don't know just in case like none of the other brushes work i also picked up this foam brush
it was only like 50 cents and the scraper tool which looks like something that bob ross would use
now the moment that everybody i feel like has all been waiting for what am i gonna paint with
oh god okay i feel like everybody pretty much got the gist of what
i'm gonna be painting with and that of course is straight-up house paint
obviously it's no secret that lowe's has endless color selection but what i ended
up doing was picking the colors that are as close to primaries as possible
and one thing i like about these is all the fun color names that these have for example this
one's not just yellow this one is golden spell this one's not red it's cut ruby lastly brown
velvet and the colors of these are incredible i didn't expect them to be so pigmented at all
in fact i thought it was going to be the exact opposite so now that you've seen all
my painting supplies from the hardware store let's actually get to painting
oh god it's all the hairs stuck in the painting for me yeah as expected those brushes were
absolutely terrible quality but that's okay because again at least the hardware store
even just has craft brushes for me to work with you know what i'm saying and as far as painting
with house paint it was almost it wasn't almost it was literally exactly like using gouache uh and if
you don't know what gouache is it's kind of like a weird hybrid between a watercolor and acrylic
paint it's kind of like the mid-tier between that and literally i was getting some like vietnam
flashbacks because that's exactly what this paint reminded me of now i still have one last step to
do with this painting and that's the final step which is to add in the fine details and i wasn't
too sure how this was gonna pan out because like i said i've never used house paint to make artwork
before so i ended up buying two things the first one are these lumber wax crayons which these
worked really cool but i'm not gonna be able to use them for this video and what i'm gonna use
instead are these industrial strength sharpies now these sharpies are insane they go on metal wood
pvc concrete it's water fade smear resistant they withstand heat up to 500 degrees and just
all around it looks like and it works like just like a regular sharpie except way more badass
and with that being said here is the final artwork
well there you guys go that was me taking on the challenge of painting
with stuff from the hardware store be sure to like and subscribe if you haven't done so
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don't forget to check out jordan's thing because i'm so happy and proud of her and yeah with that
being said i hope you guys have a good day happy drawing and i'll see you guys next video bye