Ahhh! I can’t believe Jazza’s your sponsor! Looking great you two. These bags are incredible and I can’t wait I already pledged for the full bundle bag! I can’t wait,
the sound track in thebackgroujnd i dunno if it was just me but that is another yyt intro moriah elizabeth also does art... just wanted to point out vidwas amazin loved ghoula lisa
OMG It's so amazing that our favourite content creators are sponsored by our other favourite content creator ❤❤❤ Thanks Evan, Katelyn and Jazza!! My daughter (11) and I watch both of you every night on our Friday night RUclips sesh
Came to make this exact comment. To reduce the intensity of the hue (desaturated) add the compliment. So for the green/teal a red orange would have helped tone it down
Did you know the Mona Lisa was originally more vibrant colors? It's been damaged over the years and can't be physically restored, so that explains the yellowing. But you can find digital restorations online. Also her eyebrows were worn away from repeated cleaning before it was put in a museum.
Anyone else freaking out cause your favorite crafters have references to eachother in videos Cause E and K were promoting Jazza’s bag and the music at the end is the same music Moriah used (Moriah Elisabeth.)
I just came here from an MCSkizzleman VOD where these two raided him right when he was trying to finish up. Finding out that E&K, my favorite DIY channel, have met some of my favorite Minecrafters felt like an amazing crossover episode!
the background of the mona lisa is actually mountains , its a full mountain range thats been split and reversed , like right goes left and flipped kind of thing , its really facinating how he did that painting . its a real place that Leonardo knew and had been to .
He probably painted the piece in stages, and used a camera obscura to project the mountains in a more manageable size. As this method was very new (I don't remember, but possibly even invented by Leonardo) he did mistakes with flipping when transferring resulting upside-down leftside-right projections.
If you havent looked up digital recreation of what the true colors of the Mona Lisa are under that horrible, aged varnish, you should. Its so vivid and blue and beautiful!
Yes! a much less famous replica was done by one of his apprentices. It's at the Prado museum in madrid. Either way, both are much more rich in color and beauty than the varnished variant we have now.
I love your videos in general, but as a tiny painter, this video brings me so much extra joy. 💕 P.S. For really tiny brushes, I’m a big fan of size 20/0 or 0000 brushes (mainly from Princeton and Windsor & Newton Cotman), BUT don’t simply rely on the numbered brush size. I generally pick whichever brushes LOOK tiniest because some of the tiniest brushes I’ve used haven’t actually been the smallest sizes available.
in my college painting classes, the second step was always putting a flat color background on the whole canvas, just like Evan suggested! it helps in two ways; one by helping colors harmonize (since they all have the same undertone), and two by actually making it psychologically easier for your brain to work on it. a plain white canvas is more intimidating than a plain green canvas, or a plain orange one, etc. so adding that base color helps you get started. 10/10 suggestion Evan, you must follow your own advice next time though (the first step of painting was gessoing and sanding the canvas but i don't think that applies to keycaps)
See, whereas for me and my digital painting, I make my entire canvas a light gray or desaturated borderline gray color so that my skin tones actually look like skin. Not for undertones, necessarily, because i make my paint brushes fairly opaque, but because a bleach white canvas actually throws off our eyes' sort of natural white balance, and we can't see or mix properly very well.
@@s.colins2050 that's a good point! i use a gray canvas for digital art too, but i so rarely get past the sketch stage these days that it's mostly so i can slap on shadows and highlights and have them actually visible (plus less eye strain 😎)
I just found that last week, I started my own unique painting a few times. Then went bob ross on the background. My canvas's are white, making them wet, then white, then a basic flat color helped just get going.
I love Katelyn trying to figure out in real time how to explain that the type of painting they're doing is impressionistic at 8:20, meanwhile Evan paints THE most famous impressionist painting literally next to her XD
Ok, glad I'm not hallucinating! I was sitting here thinking, "I KNOW I've already watched this!" I always forget these videos are after the uncut release 😂. Still watching both for the algorithm, just feeling slightly more sane now lmbo
The editing on this video is hilarious and so creative! It's amazing just how much is added through the editing alone. It's like an entire third character in the video. Massive kudos to the editor(s)!!
For miniature detailed paintings i suggest you to use nail art brushes, there are those very thin ones for details, might be more comfortable to draw small details
I think a wet palette would be an absolute GAME CHANGER for you guys-- they're so handy, especially for acrylics. You keep your paint wetter longer, can make glazes right on the palette... it's very common among miniature artists! You can make your own easily, or check out professional ones! (The channel Squidmar has excellent recommendations!)
Awesome idea, if you do this again use primer so the paint has a better surface to adhere to. The plastic shine makes the paint lift. Can also lightly sand the caps but primer is more reliable.
miniature painter here, i dunno if youll even see this comment but heres a bunch of helpful advice for future acrylic painting, as already brought up thing your paints, its better to do several thing layers building up the opacity than one thick one, something that should be done at the start is priming your surface with acrylic primer the paint will stick better than on what im assuming is the slick abs style plastic of those key caps, this is a big one BUT you shouldnt use those tiny brushes the body of the bristle just cant hold enough moisture for the paint to stay usable, you can get fine lines using SHARP full bodied brushes, AND you really need to avoid getting paint deep in the bristle of on the ferrals as thats going to dry out deep inside the brush and cause splitting and youll lose the sharp point, trust me large sharp brushes are so much easier to control than single hair brushes.
this is too late now but maybe it’s useful future reference: to make a color less saturated you add a little bit of the opposite color on the color wheel to it, so in this case you add a tiny bit of red paint to the green :)
This was cool! If you want, here is a tip or two for painting with Acrylics at that scale, as I paint wargaming mini's a lot. Try not to use the smallest brush. Often, going one size up and not using the tip of the brush gets better results, and you MUST thin the paint, as chat mentioned. You should also use your off-hand's thumbnail as your pallette. With brushes that small, the paint will likely dry out before you get to the model/object from the main pallette. By adding a small dab to your nail, you can get 2 or 3 brush loads out of it without having to reach for the main pallette, and it will keep the paint in better condition too. And, I think they both ended up great!
13:49 In case anyone is curious, "Mona" is the Italian word for "Lady," as in the lady of a house. Her name is Lisa, and she's a Lady of high standing, thus Mona Lisa. Though, who Mona Lisa actually is, and if she was even a woman at all, is heavily debated. The most common theories are that she was Lisa Giocondo, who was a noblewoman from Florence, that she was actually a self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, or that she was a portrait of Gian Giacomo Copratti - more often known by his alias Andrea Salaì, a boy Leonardo took in as a child that served as his apprentice, and has been largely suspected to have been his lover.
I painted a version of starry night for my art gcse around 10 years ago, Van Gogh is my all time favourite artist and painting versions of his works meant I got to spend loads of time researching him for the written part of the gcse. I used acrylic and a palette knife, literally globbing paint on the 1.5 metre wide canvas, it took weeks to dry as the paint was so THICK. Seeing Evan use a single hair brush is honestly so impressive!
I love this, and have a whole new appreciation for painters of miniatures. You both did great considering the momentous tasks before you in subjects so well recognised and in the scale to which you're working. But you also gave me a weird fright at 19:16 when the intro music for @MoriahElizabeth 's channel started and i honestly wondered if RUclips had mistakenly fluffed up and was playing your two videos overlapping😅😅😅
I started watching both Jazza and EandK in summer 2020, and I had been following the story of the bag since the beginning. It is so cool that he sponsored this, can't wait for the bag. Having him sponsor an art video is perfect, this was so fun, even with Katelyn's stress
You could make up and sell kits that has a set up of those two tiny paint pallets and two keycaps and the mold to hold it all, along with some paints. E&K's Keycap Creator Kit! Buy your kit NOW!! I would buy it!
I haven’t watched jaza in a while, but I’m so glad he sponsored this video! I’m an art student so I will definitely be looking into the carryall bags I’m so glad I found out about them through this video!
These turned out really cool! I love that even on mini scale you still go through the five stages of grief of painting 😅 I’m too late to make a difference but the reason Mona Lisa is so yellowy-green is because of the yellowing of the varnish over top of the painting, she would have been much more saturated when she was originally painted. So you honestly could have just painted the colours saturated and then done a green wash over top. But you did so good!
I will say, as a person that dabbles in oil paint and watercolor, that Mona Lisa is not half bad! Its hard to do faces at full scale, much less on a tiny tiny key cap using brushes that you cant be as precise as you want to be with. I genuinely think you guys did an amazing job with these!
For thin acrylic paint a fine watercolor round brush is lovely. A Windsor and newton series 7 #2 is my weapon of choice. You end up fighting crappy brushes too much.
Might be worth looking into mini paints for the next time, they're highly pigmented at a thinner consistency. You can also buy retardents and thinner to make them even more like tiny oils. Additionally, for tiny paintings I'd recommend using kolinski 00 brushes and also replace the paper on your wet palette with straight up normal parchment paper. It's thinner and keeps the paints alive a lot longer.
@@IunaIia sort of both, it's paint made for miniatures, brands like pro acryl, vallejo, reaper, etc., but also in tiny bottles, because you don't normally need that much of it...
If you're going to layer oil and acrylics: oil can go over acrylic just fine. But if you put acrylic over oil, there's a good chance it will crack or peel.
As someone who regularly paints in a miniature scale (dolls, miniatures, and doll accessories), I've developed a few techniques. Work with thinned paints and thin brushes, and in layers. To keep the brush tip straight and precise, pull the paint, don't dip. I remove excess paint and straighten my brush hairs on the back of my left hand. The main technique though is just work with thinned paint. It stays wetter on the brush and flows better.
I haven't laughed so hard at a video til now! I was feeling your pain trying to get the colors right but when Katelyn make Mona Lego and then Mona Ghoul I lost it! Good job BTW. This was super fun! 💚
The Golden Open series is slow drying acrylic. Using Open medium with the color would slow it significantly. If you use high-end color, you can "thin" it significantly without loss of color. I used to use craft acrylic, but having used Golden and the top line of Liquidtex. I won't go back. The ability to cut the very expensive color with medium to achieve a more economical and perfect texture means I can use one type of pigment for brush or airbrush by mixing with the appropriate medium. Also check out Golden's Pencil and Pastel Ground to let you draw on things you otherwise can't draw on.
I have a lot of respect for anyone trying small scale work without much of a background in it. I paint dolls, often very small dolls, and i know just how freaking difficult it can be to get your hand to stop shaking and make it do what you want. When your object you're painting is the size of a pinto bean, it's a real challenge!
You guys are so fun to watch, no matter what kind of project you're doing! :) Evan really struggled because the tip of his brush did almost nothing, and although some of the problem seemed to be a thick paint it also looks like that brush has run its course.
12:33 OH MY GOSH YALL COLLABED WITH JAZZA?!?!?!?! TWO OF MY FAVORITE CHANNELS COLLABING, THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE!!!! (AND IT INVOLVES AWESOME BAGS!!!!!!)
I love the video and the art and I think you guys did a great job! I have a bad habit of watering down my acrylics a little to make it act more like watercolor which does help layering (more important with stylization imo cuz i find doing thick paintings tend to be harder to get solid and clear lines but not impossible) As someone else mentioned, use the color wheel, desaturization is achieved by using complementary colors (an example, orange and purple, opposite ends of the color spectrum, or blue in ur yellow, red in ur green, etc, u dont have to be as extreme as just mixing warm colors or cool colors into the opposite tend to help.) Also also I believe Mona Lisa is so yellowy over the entire painting due to aging of the medium and paper! So likely she looked less sickly and puke green when she was first painted. Anyways love the art and you guys inspire me to do art and other crafty projects!
When you are painting very tiny things (like miniatures or keycaps) with acrylic, if you are finding that the acrylic paint is drying on your palette you should try a wet palette. You can easily make one by layering a damp paper towel and parchment paper on top of a plastic surface. They you put the paint on top of the parchment paper and there is just enough moisture that it keeps your paint from drying out.
If you want the finest brush you need to be looking at Raphael Kolinsky 8404 No. 0/0. They ain't cheap, but if you want minute detail, that's where you go. Also, thin your paint waaaay down (think skim milk) and do multiple passes.
I'm listening to this while trying to sleep and i was like "new video started playing?" Because of the music ( 19:16 ) that Moriah Elizabeth uses as her intro, that was funny 😅
I think they look really nice! This past weekend, I finally painted a painting with Bob Ross that I actually liked. Painting isn't easy and it does seem more difficult with acrylics. I had to modify a lot of things to get my painting to work.
As someone who frequently paints freehand things on her nails, I found this video to be extremely relatable, lol. Nail polish dries quickly on your brush and even with long nails, it's not like I have a ton of room to work with. My nail art often looks better from a little further away when you get the ~impression~ of what I was painting. 😅
8:47 Katelyn: **chugs Gamer Supps** "My lip is twitching... I think like, out of stress." 😂 Yeah personally, if I were going to take on this challenge, it definitely would have been Magritte's Son of Man. Waaay easier IMO lol
hindsight’s 20/20 but i think gouache could work well for tiny paintings? it’s like a cross of acrylic and watercolor so you get the pigment but it remains thin and watery!
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Probably sleepin
Ahhh! I can’t believe Jazza’s your sponsor! Looking great you two.
These bags are incredible and I can’t wait
I already pledged for the full bundle bag! I can’t wait,
Now that's a brand deal I can get behind
the sound track in thebackgroujnd i dunno if it was just me but that is another yyt intro moriah elizabeth also does art... just wanted to point out vidwas amazin loved ghoula lisa
OMG It's so amazing that our favourite content creators are sponsored by our other favourite content creator ❤❤❤
Thanks Evan, Katelyn and Jazza!!
My daughter (11) and I watch both of you every night on our Friday night RUclips sesh
I know it's too late but the best way to dilute a color is use a tiny amount of the opposite color on the color wheel.
That is incredibly useful to know, thanks!
Desaturate not dilute but yes it’s a great tip!
Came to make this exact comment. To reduce the intensity of the hue (desaturated) add the compliment. So for the green/teal a red orange would have helped tone it down
If you weren’t going to comment this I was 😂 I was yelling at my screen “just add the complimentary color!”
YES you have to use a TINY TINY amount tho or else your color will just turn brown.
Did you know the Mona Lisa was originally more vibrant colors? It's been damaged over the years and can't be physically restored, so that explains the yellowing. But you can find digital restorations online. Also her eyebrows were worn away from repeated cleaning before it was put in a museum.
oh i always thought she just had thin eyebrows
oh wow! thank you for the insight kind stranger :3
7:35 Props to the editor for making Katelyn's flower shirt say "colors are hard" in the flower font ❤
Katelyn edits 😂😂😂 fits her 100%
the editor is katelyn and it said it on evan's shirt to
sorry that was kinda harsh
Anyone else freaking out cause your favorite crafters have references to eachother in videos Cause E and K were promoting Jazza’s bag and the music at the end is the same music Moriah used (Moriah Elisabeth.)
I was surprised to hear The music Moriah Elisabeth used at the end. It was a nice surprise.
@@galaxyendergirl same
I just came here from an MCSkizzleman VOD where these two raided him right when he was trying to finish up. Finding out that E&K, my favorite DIY channel, have met some of my favorite Minecrafters felt like an amazing crossover episode!
same
the background of the mona lisa is actually mountains , its a full mountain range thats been split and reversed , like right goes left and flipped kind of thing , its really facinating how he did that painting . its a real place that Leonardo knew and had been to .
There a back ground
@@janicelynn3787 what?????
@@snarky4lyfe144 I never looked at the back ground. Lol
He probably painted the piece in stages, and used a camera obscura to project the mountains in a more manageable size. As this method was very new (I don't remember, but possibly even invented by Leonardo) he did mistakes with flipping when transferring resulting upside-down leftside-right projections.
If you havent looked up digital recreation of what the true colors of the Mona Lisa are under that horrible, aged varnish, you should. Its so vivid and blue and beautiful!
Yes! a much less famous replica was done by one of his apprentices. It's at the Prado museum in madrid. Either way, both are much more rich in color and beauty than the varnished variant we have now.
Yep! This should be a series! The WHOLE KEYBOARD PLEASE
I love your videos in general, but as a tiny painter, this video brings me so much extra joy. 💕 P.S. For really tiny brushes, I’m a big fan of size 20/0 or 0000 brushes (mainly from Princeton and Windsor & Newton Cotman), BUT don’t simply rely on the numbered brush size. I generally pick whichever brushes LOOK tiniest because some of the tiniest brushes I’ve used haven’t actually been the smallest sizes available.
thanks for the tips!
Nail art brushes are "a hair and some air". I have used them when painting minis for gaming. Takes a bit to get used to.
in my college painting classes, the second step was always putting a flat color background on the whole canvas, just like Evan suggested! it helps in two ways; one by helping colors harmonize (since they all have the same undertone), and two by actually making it psychologically easier for your brain to work on it. a plain white canvas is more intimidating than a plain green canvas, or a plain orange one, etc. so adding that base color helps you get started. 10/10 suggestion Evan, you must follow your own advice next time though
(the first step of painting was gessoing and sanding the canvas but i don't think that applies to keycaps)
white canvas drives me up a wall lol, I have to paint it before I can even think about starting.
See, whereas for me and my digital painting, I make my entire canvas a light gray or desaturated borderline gray color so that my skin tones actually look like skin. Not for undertones, necessarily, because i make my paint brushes fairly opaque, but because a bleach white canvas actually throws off our eyes' sort of natural white balance, and we can't see or mix properly very well.
@@s.colins2050 that's a good point! i use a gray canvas for digital art too, but i so rarely get past the sketch stage these days that it's mostly so i can slap on shadows and highlights and have them actually visible (plus less eye strain 😎)
I just found that last week, I started my own unique painting a few times. Then went bob ross on the background. My canvas's are white, making them wet, then white, then a basic flat color helped just get going.
Y’all did such a great job! There is such a product called extender medium for acrylic paint. It extends the open time and smooths out the paint.
definitely should have used some of that!
Jazza is the RUclipsr I’ve been watching the longest so it’s really cool to see him pop up in this video 😃
Jazz sponsoring them is a huge deal because I've never heard another you tuber mention there name because there kinda unknown UNTIL NOW😅❤
@clague2337 Simone Giertz referred to them as 'the resin gods' in her matchstick table video!
I learned about them when they worked with Alec Steele!
@@Gloulou10 I've definitely heard others mention them before! For example Safiya Nygaard.
@@thespankmyfrank Arin from the Game Grumps mentioned him in a video once, that caught me off guard :D
my favorite works of art, wide lisa and skinny night 😍
12:40 Good to know Jazza's new bags are Suppurvisor Approved!!
that yellow tone overtop the mona lisa is the varnish turning yellow with age!
I remember seeing a teeny tiny painting once, and the owner mentioned that it was so small it had to be painted using a single cat whisker.
I love Katelyn trying to figure out in real time how to explain that the type of painting they're doing is impressionistic at 8:20, meanwhile Evan paints THE most famous impressionist painting literally next to her XD
I saw the uncut version!! Pretty sure this one won't disappoint aswell.
thanks for watching both!
Ah so that's why I was like this feels familiar😅😂😂
Ok, glad I'm not hallucinating! I was sitting here thinking, "I KNOW I've already watched this!" I always forget these videos are after the uncut release 😂. Still watching both for the algorithm, just feeling slightly more sane now lmbo
@@Amarianee lol yeah i was confused at first too!
The editing on this video is hilarious and so creative! It's amazing just how much is added through the editing alone. It's like an entire third character in the video. Massive kudos to the editor(s)!!
Wet palette is the bomb for miniature painting with acrylics.
I don’t know about you but I’m loving these key caps painting videos 😄
For miniature detailed paintings i suggest you to use nail art brushes, there are those very thin ones for details, might be more comfortable to draw small details
I think a wet palette would be an absolute GAME CHANGER for you guys-- they're so handy, especially for acrylics. You keep your paint wetter longer, can make glazes right on the palette... it's very common among miniature artists! You can make your own easily, or check out professional ones! (The channel Squidmar has excellent recommendations!)
They were using a wet palette, but I don’t think they were using it correctly. I have that exact wet palette, and I dont think they wet the paper.
Awesome idea, if you do this again use primer so the paint has a better surface to adhere to. The plastic shine makes the paint lift. Can also lightly sand the caps but primer is more reliable.
I did that once. You can oil paint over acrylic, you just can't so the opposite. It's a good way of cheating the flat colors
Yep! This should be a series! The WHOLE KEYBOARD PLEASE. I saw the uncut version!! Pretty sure this one won't disappoint aswell..
miniature painter here, i dunno if youll even see this comment but heres a bunch of helpful advice for future acrylic painting, as already brought up thing your paints, its better to do several thing layers building up the opacity than one thick one, something that should be done at the start is priming your surface with acrylic primer the paint will stick better than on what im assuming is the slick abs style plastic of those key caps, this is a big one BUT you shouldnt use those tiny brushes the body of the bristle just cant hold enough moisture for the paint to stay usable, you can get fine lines using SHARP full bodied brushes, AND you really need to avoid getting paint deep in the bristle of on the ferrals as thats going to dry out deep inside the brush and cause splitting and youll lose the sharp point, trust me large sharp brushes are so much easier to control than single hair brushes.
this is too late now but maybe it’s useful future reference: to make a color less saturated you add a little bit of the opposite color on the color wheel to it, so in this case you add a tiny bit of red paint to the green :)
Should put the the cat in
This was cool! If you want, here is a tip or two for painting with Acrylics at that scale, as I paint wargaming mini's a lot. Try not to use the smallest brush. Often, going one size up and not using the tip of the brush gets better results, and you MUST thin the paint, as chat mentioned. You should also use your off-hand's thumbnail as your pallette. With brushes that small, the paint will likely dry out before you get to the model/object from the main pallette. By adding a small dab to your nail, you can get 2 or 3 brush loads out of it without having to reach for the main pallette, and it will keep the paint in better condition too.
And, I think they both ended up great!
Me watching Jazza's newest video right before this and you got sponsored by him?!? So happy for y'all
Same!
13:49 In case anyone is curious, "Mona" is the Italian word for "Lady," as in the lady of a house. Her name is Lisa, and she's a Lady of high standing, thus Mona Lisa.
Though, who Mona Lisa actually is, and if she was even a woman at all, is heavily debated. The most common theories are that she was Lisa Giocondo, who was a noblewoman from Florence, that she was actually a self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, or that she was a portrait of Gian Giacomo Copratti - more often known by his alias Andrea Salaì, a boy Leonardo took in as a child that served as his apprentice, and has been largely suspected to have been his lover.
I painted a version of starry night for my art gcse around 10 years ago, Van Gogh is my all time favourite artist and painting versions of his works meant I got to spend loads of time researching him for the written part of the gcse. I used acrylic and a palette knife, literally globbing paint on the 1.5 metre wide canvas, it took weeks to dry as the paint was so THICK. Seeing Evan use a single hair brush is honestly so impressive!
I love seeing creators supporting creators. Seeing Jazza's bags in here made me smile
I just love you guys. The way you hype each other up and support one another is really awesome. Wouldn’t matter the project I watch for you guys. ❤
I love this, and have a whole new appreciation for painters of miniatures. You both did great considering the momentous tasks before you in subjects so well recognised and in the scale to which you're working.
But you also gave me a weird fright at 19:16 when the intro music for @MoriahElizabeth 's channel started and i honestly wondered if RUclips had mistakenly fluffed up and was playing your two videos overlapping😅😅😅
I started watching both Jazza and EandK in summer 2020, and I had been following the story of the bag since the beginning. It is so cool that he sponsored this, can't wait for the bag. Having him sponsor an art video is perfect, this was so fun, even with Katelyn's stress
You could make up and sell kits that has a set up of those two tiny paint pallets and two keycaps and the mold to hold it all, along with some paints. E&K's Keycap Creator Kit! Buy your kit NOW!! I would buy it!
I haven’t watched jaza in a while, but I’m so glad he sponsored this video! I’m an art student so I will definitely be looking into the carryall bags I’m so glad I found out about them through this video!
These turned out really cool! I love that even on mini scale you still go through the five stages of grief of painting 😅 I’m too late to make a difference but the reason Mona Lisa is so yellowy-green is because of the yellowing of the varnish over top of the painting, she would have been much more saturated when she was originally painted. So you honestly could have just painted the colours saturated and then done a green wash over top. But you did so good!
Please consider 3D Printing a tiny gold frame to mount on each of these masterpieces! It would really complete the look!
I will say, as a person that dabbles in oil paint and watercolor, that Mona Lisa is not half bad! Its hard to do faces at full scale, much less on a tiny tiny key cap using brushes that you cant be as precise as you want to be with.
I genuinely think you guys did an amazing job with these!
For thin acrylic paint a fine watercolor round brush is lovely. A Windsor and newton series 7 #2 is my weapon of choice. You end up fighting crappy brushes too much.
Might be worth looking into mini paints for the next time, they're highly pigmented at a thinner consistency. You can also buy retardents and thinner to make them even more like tiny oils. Additionally, for tiny paintings I'd recommend using kolinski 00 brushes and also replace the paper on your wet palette with straight up normal parchment paper. It's thinner and keeps the paints alive a lot longer.
Mini paint, as in paint for miniatures, not tiny paint bottles, right?
@@IunaIia sort of both, it's paint made for miniatures, brands like pro acryl, vallejo, reaper, etc., but also in tiny bottles, because you don't normally need that much of it...
I just said that, aslo a set of the brushes for it as the ones I own are super tiny, I can paint faces on some minitures with them.
If you're going to layer oil and acrylics: oil can go over acrylic just fine. But if you put acrylic over oil, there's a good chance it will crack or peel.
Their ability to replicate even the vibes of these famous paintings is really impressive!
I often invoke the "3 foot rule" when doing miniatures...
(if it looks good from 3 feet away, the it *is* good)
I was going to say I didn't know you did miniatures. Then I remembered some spotlights.
@@eDoc2020 I also have done some model railroad stuff in the past.
As someone who regularly paints in a miniature scale (dolls, miniatures, and doll accessories), I've developed a few techniques. Work with thinned paints and thin brushes, and in layers. To keep the brush tip straight and precise, pull the paint, don't dip. I remove excess paint and straighten my brush hairs on the back of my left hand. The main technique though is just work with thinned paint. It stays wetter on the brush and flows better.
I haven't laughed so hard at a video til now! I was feeling your pain trying to get the colors right but when Katelyn make Mona Lego and then Mona Ghoul I lost it! Good job BTW. This was super fun! 💚
The Golden Open series is slow drying acrylic. Using Open medium with the color would slow it significantly. If you use high-end color, you can "thin" it significantly without loss of color. I used to use craft acrylic, but having used Golden and the top line of Liquidtex. I won't go back. The ability to cut the very expensive color with medium to achieve a more economical and perfect texture means I can use one type of pigment for brush or airbrush by mixing with the appropriate medium. Also check out Golden's Pencil and Pastel Ground to let you draw on things you otherwise can't draw on.
I have a lot of respect for anyone trying small scale work without much of a background in it. I paint dolls, often very small dolls, and i know just how freaking difficult it can be to get your hand to stop shaking and make it do what you want. When your object you're painting is the size of a pinto bean, it's a real challenge!
Katelyn, your editing style never fails to have me die laughing in every single video LMAO. I loved this video!!
Jazza is awesome! Love seeing you support him.
You guys are so fun to watch, no matter what kind of project you're doing! :) Evan really struggled because the tip of his brush did almost nothing, and although some of the problem seemed to be a thick paint it also looks like that brush has run its course.
Y'all need to collab with jazza! I'd die from the humor is one video
I think the both of you did great, painting on such a small scale and such well known paintings. Props to you both!
Ghoulisa 🧟♀ made me laugh so hard that I couldn't breath 🤣
12:33 OH MY GOSH YALL COLLABED WITH JAZZA?!?!?!?! TWO OF MY FAVORITE CHANNELS COLLABING, THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE!!!! (AND IT INVOLVES AWESOME BAGS!!!!!!)
Love the editing on this video! 😂
Painting on such a small scale is so difficult, you guys did A LOT better than I thought, especially with acrylic
The united version was one of my fave vids! I am gonna have to watch this cut version though too since y’all are so fabulous!
I love the video and the art and I think you guys did a great job! I have a bad habit of watering down my acrylics a little to make it act more like watercolor which does help layering (more important with stylization imo cuz i find doing thick paintings tend to be harder to get solid and clear lines but not impossible)
As someone else mentioned, use the color wheel, desaturization is achieved by using complementary colors (an example, orange and purple, opposite ends of the color spectrum, or blue in ur yellow, red in ur green, etc, u dont have to be as extreme as just mixing warm colors or cool colors into the opposite tend to help.)
Also also I believe Mona Lisa is so yellowy over the entire painting due to aging of the medium and paper! So likely she looked less sickly and puke green when she was first painted.
Anyways love the art and you guys inspire me to do art and other crafty projects!
Howls moving castle in the first minute! Yes. That's my vibe. Btw i love the Evans keycap, so cute!
When you are painting very tiny things (like miniatures or keycaps) with acrylic, if you are finding that the acrylic paint is drying on your palette you should try a wet palette. You can easily make one by layering a damp paper towel and parchment paper on top of a plastic surface. They you put the paint on top of the parchment paper and there is just enough moisture that it keeps your paint from drying out.
Have you ever seen the rendering of what Mona Lisa would have looked like without its varnish :) it’s insane!
Fun fact: Did you know that Da Vinci first painted Mona Lisas hair tied back in a bun?
Considering I literally watched jazza’s Pokémon card video RIGHT BEFORE WATCHING THIS I was pretty shocked by sponsorship
omg I can't wait to see how these key caps turn out!!!
Wow they turned out surprisingly well!! Theyre definitely recognisable
Oooh Jazza sponsoring you is super exciting! and it looks so cool, his stuff is always good
i love that evan still uses the phone case with the forbidden whipped cream!
These look so good it’s insane also I’ve noticed the editing has gotten a little more chaotic it’s fun
Katelyn is amazing replicating proportions, it impresses me every time
You both did insanely well!
Aww, I've already seen this. 😢 But Ghoul-Lisa had me cracking up! 😂
I like the idea of an entire keyboard with the theme of "vibes of famous paintings".
If you want the finest brush you need to be looking at Raphael Kolinsky 8404 No. 0/0. They ain't cheap, but if you want minute detail, that's where you go. Also, thin your paint waaaay down (think skim milk) and do multiple passes.
I'm listening to this while trying to sleep and i was like "new video started playing?" Because of the music ( 19:16 ) that Moriah Elizabeth uses as her intro, that was funny 😅
YES!!! I was thinking that!!
i love that you guys worked with jazza hes my fav artest ive watched him for years and hes from australia like me
I didn't know starry night was a tree, I always thought it was a church with a spire
my friend and I recently painted the starry night on a big window. So seeing the contrast in size is a lot of fun.
I think they look really nice! This past weekend, I finally painted a painting with Bob Ross that I actually liked. Painting isn't easy and it does seem more difficult with acrylics. I had to modify a lot of things to get my painting to work.
Even when I've already watched the stream it's always worth watching these videos for the fantastic editing
These look so cute
This video was a hoot! I laughed so hard. Great paintings.
the paintings are so smaaalllll, lol
As someone who frequently paints freehand things on her nails, I found this video to be extremely relatable, lol. Nail polish dries quickly on your brush and even with long nails, it's not like I have a ton of room to work with. My nail art often looks better from a little further away when you get the ~impression~ of what I was painting. 😅
Wowza, never expected to see a Jazza ad (outside of hsi channels) let alone a (sort of) collab with you guys! Pretty cool 💖
Hahaha the whole Mona Lisa face evolution was so funny
8:47 Katelyn: **chugs Gamer Supps** "My lip is twitching... I think like, out of stress." 😂
Yeah personally, if I were going to take on this challenge, it definitely would have been Magritte's Son of Man. Waaay easier IMO lol
I'm always suprised how little subscribers yall have, y'all deserve ATLEAST 5 Million.
Those Jazza bags look so amazing I just can't afford one!!! Also those keys turned out amazing for how tiny they are.
Editor was having fun with this one 🤣🤣
I just want to say I’ve love ur videos for 3 years now and I have to say thank u and u guys are so funny just saying
ghoul-lisa was made to be a PS1 character, even the hands match
This entire video was the definition of 'trust the process.'
16:45 Evan captured her face exactly as I saw it! 😂
I feel like using a toothpick might’ve helped with detail a little maybe? But they booth look fantastic!
Nice work!
High five for the Jones screencap, a very respectable ghoul representative 😎
hindsight’s 20/20 but i think gouache could work well for tiny paintings? it’s like a cross of acrylic and watercolor so you get the pigment but it remains thin and watery!
Man that painting of mona lisa is sick!
This style of editing, hilariously, is making me pay closer attention - you look away for one second you're going to miss something!!