Hey everybody, welcome to my studio. This is Pam Kohey. And here's another video part one. I'm going to be working large scale on artist oil paper. Here I am to stop measuring it and using some tape to attach to the wall. I usually measure it to figure out what size I want and I'm actually going to cut this down the middle and then tape it to the wall. Because after the painting is done I may want to mount onto 248x48 inch panels. So that's what I'm doing here. I'm taping everything onto the wall. And please like the video if you are liking this type of video content. Please subscribe to my channel so you don't miss part two. Okay, so now I'm putting on those dry marks which I love to start with. I consider this to be my play stage. It just is a way for me to become loose and free, engaged with the surface and the size of the paper. I'm using everything from Windsor Newton Oil Bars to Art Graph which are water soluble, Stabilo 8046 to get my really nice dark marks and even Maribu crayons. And just so you know, everything you see me using really is pretty much on my resources page at artandsuccess.com. I like to have an easy way to find things for myself so I link everything to my favorite products right there. Here's a close up. So how do you pick your colors? Sometimes people ask me that. And you know, in this painting I decided to use a pretty limited palette and the reason for that is it. It just gives me so much freedom throughout the, you know, every stage of the painting. Once you limit your colors you don't have to worry about harmony and it's just one less thing you have to think about. So the main thing is I like to choose a warm and a cool or a couple of warm and a cool or vice versa, a couple of cools and a warm. And here I'm using Gamblin Pain's Gray which is kind of a cool. It's Esfaltum which is a warm. Grahams, transparent orange, iron oxide, that's a warm color. Chromatic black and Gamblin Quick Dry White. And I like to mix with my cold black medium. And so it's roughly a complimentary palette and please check out my online painting course. It's not open for enrollment. And the course focuses on, you know, basically filling your artistic toolbox with everything you need to know so that you can paint your best art. I'm here I am just, you know, I like to have a swatch whenever I mix my paint so that if I come back to a painting after several days or, you know, after the painting is dry, I can remember what colors I used. And here I've mixed, you know, tints, tones and shades. Tints come when you mix with white, tones come when you mix with grays. And shades come when you mix with the blacks. And I like to get an idea for all that this limited palette can do. And this is just a simple swatch, but as you can see, there's so much variation within these few colors. And it's really fun to mix them. And then record what they look like on scraps of paper, you know, these scraps are arched soil paper. And here's a close up of that palette. I get a lot of people asking me about, you know, how do you make drippy paint? Because it's fun to paint with brushes with a cold wax medium and oil. So here I am mixing a 50, 50 solution of galca to Gamzal. And here I'm using really long handled brushes. You can't really see it from the angle that you're looking at the video, but these are really fabulous. And they're called jewel plain air, bristle brushes. And I believe this is like a number six bright. And again, I list this on my resource page because it's kind of hard to find. I just recently ordered some and, you know, they're easy to travel with. They're really lightweight and they're super long handles so you can be really free. Now you're just seeing, you know, basically my process of play. I've got the drippy paint going. And I kind of just go back and forth between the warm colors and the cool, thickened thin. The drippy paint versus, you know, a stiffer paint. I love to make marks. This video is sped up about a thousand percent. Again, I wish I could work this fast, but in the real world that really isn't the case. This has really been edited way, way down. And this is really just the beginning stage. So just play. It's going to be developed in future videos. So again, please subscribe and then you won't miss part two. And who knows, maybe there's going to be a part three. I never know. I still love to use my hands. Just make sure you have gloves on. That's my green Messermycer tool. It's a silicone tool. Great flood edge. These are the really big RF pigment sticks. Just love to use them for mark making. 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And I'll have a link to it so you can actually check it out for yourselves because you might enjoy having that in your studio as well. Here just a few close-ups so you can really see what the marks look like. That's the Arnaf pigment stick. Here's where I took my glove tan and just sort of move that pigment stick downward. And we're more blending with my hand. It's pretty thin paint, lots of white paper still showing. That's it, transparent, earth orange. It's still so beautiful. And I lined up some pencils and you know, put them down. That's why I got those multiple marks. That's the paint's gray. It's just so lovely. So thanks again everybody. I really appreciate you watching this video and again please hit like if you enjoyed this content and I hope that you'll subscribe so you don't miss part two. See you next time.