hello and welcome to cheap 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 just a compilation
of some really underrated products that are absolutely amazing that i want to show you
really really quick that i think could be a wonderful time savers and really really handy for
you so first up hockey brushes you will see these in the catalogs and the flyers and it is spelled
h-a-k-e but it's actually pronounced hockey kind of like the sport not hake not hacky hockey this
one is the ron ranson one that we make here at cheap joe's it is made out of super soft goat hair
although this one doesn't look all that super soft because it's still got the brush sizing in it
and stuff but this is wonderful they're very very inexpensive
and they are wonderful for broad applications of color they are wonderful for blending
i have used them for blending large passes passages of charcoal and stuff because they
can easily be washed out you dry them off and then you can go back and do a
a whole bunch of different stuff with them so hockey brushes are a real steel they are super
inexpensive they last forever if you take good care of them and they are wonderful addition to
your whole art stuff repertoire then these i'll show you these these are cheap joe's really good
canvas panels these are little teeny baby ones now why am i showing you these because you're
like how is this useful to me and how does this apply to my world well you've heard me go on long
long sermons about keeping track of your colors and having them available when you're painting
to like lay in next to stuff to establish contrast to figure out great color combinations and what i
advise is if you work primarily in oil or acrylic that you can make color cards out of these
you can actually put the um you know mass tone at the top and then maybe a thinned glaze at
the bottom or tint it with white or tint it with black on either side and the best part is that on
the back it has a handy little sticker where you can write all the relevant information on there so
as you're painting you can have your most used colors already ready on these and if
you're trying to make quick decisions about i'm not sure which yellow i really would like in
this instance you could always lay those out and then and look oh well i don't know this
one's a little bit too harsh in that this one would work better so using these mini canvases
as color cards is a really really great way to kind of get your colors organized and also have
color cards immediately available on canvas so it looks exactly like it's going to look on the
surface and stuff so these are just a couple of cents a piece and a wonderful wonderful tool
and they're super fun i love doing all kinds of like cute little teeny paintings on like i paint
like little bugs on them and stuff and i think they're adorable last one is stonehenge aqua
hot press block look at this are you kidding this is like christmas this is wonderful now this one
is a ginormous block but i have absolutely fallen in love with this hot pressed surface it's super
silky soft and a really really wonderful bright white so look at stonehenge aqua
we have these available in all kinds of different surfaces besides hot press but one of the reasons
that i like this hot press so well is because it does all the things that you want it to do with
water media and stuff like that um it also i've been playing around a lot with liquid
charcoal and it accepts that really well and then also i can draw all over it so pen and ink
graphite all kinds of different stuff works well on stonehenge aqua got like a little
demo piece here that you can take a look at but check them out all wonderful really inexpensive
amazing products available right here at chief joe's and we're sure that you will enjoy
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