(85) Arteza Sponsored Video, Product Review

Good morning everyone. So today this video is brought to you by Arteza or Arteza however you would like to pronounce it. They contacted me and asked if I would do a video with an honest review of their products and so they sent me a pack of 24 acrylic colors and a whole bunch of canvas. They sent me a pack of 11x14 canvas and a pack of 8x10 canvas. Now, this is a new brand for me. I have heard of the name, but I have not used their colors before. So I'm really interested to see how their acrylic paint compares to other brands that I am used to using. Now, with the amount of supplies that they sent me, I will definitely be doing more than one video, I think. um I at least two I may be able to get three or four with the amount of paint that I have and obviously with the amount of canvas that they send me and if you are interested in checking out their products they did provide me with an affiliate link which I have below it's the first link in the description of this video if you check them out and purchase anything after you follow that link I will receive a small percentage which will help me in getting future supplies. They do carry a lot of different items. It's not just painting supplies. I was checking out their website and it's pretty much any type of art supplies that you would like. One thing they don't have is a pouring medium. So for these videos I'm going to continue to use my Sargent Art Gloss medium. I really like that. And with one canvas, at least one canvas, I am going to add silicone and try and see how this paint works with creating cells. So I'm not going to make you all sit here and watch me mix paint, but I am going to mix up, I'm going to unpackage everything and then mix up some paint and see how it goes. These canvas that they sent me are similar to ones that I've used before. They look like this on the back. They're stapled along the sides. They do have the areas in the corner where you can stick the other wood pieces to tighten up the canvas. They are a little loose. So what you can do if you see there's some give in the canvas, what you can do if it's too loose is just take a bottle of water and you can spray the back of it. And then when it dries, it will really tighten up the canvas for you. So this one I'm just going to set aside and when it dries I will use it in another video. This is the, I'm going to move this out of the way, are all of the colors that I received in this 24 pack. I'm going to read them off. A few of these I'm really excited to try. There's a few colors in here that I really like using with other brands, so I'm excited to see. They have Titanium White, Lemon Yellow, Mid-Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Orange Yellow, Scarlet Red, Burnt Sienna, Crimson Red, Rose, Violet, Phthalo Blue, Prussian Blue, which I'm very excited for. I love Prussian Blue. Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, cerulean emerald green phthalo green russian green pale green raw sienna raw umber burnt umber mars black and cold gray so it's a really nice variety of colors um like i said i think i'll be able to get a multiple videos out of this these tubes are uh let's see 22 milliliters it's a little under one full ounce it's 0.74 fluid ounces so with these i'll probably use maybe four to five colors per canvas and let's see i'm going to pick out which ones i want to use on my first one and we'll go from there and i'll start mixing my paint my first painting i picked rose violet prussian blue and titanium white and like i said i'm going to use my sergeant art gloss medium and some water to thin it down. Just putting these in the cups. They are very bold and vibrant. This rose color is almost like a magenta. It's very, very nice and pink. The Prussian blue and the violet are also really beautiful. So we'll see how they look once they're all mixed together. A gloss medium is white when you pour it out, but it does dry clear and it gives it a really nice shiny finish so it lightens up the colors a little bit in the cup so they're not as bold but once it dries it'll be really pretty is mix a little bit of my own colors this is very very pink for me it's like the bubblegum pink so I'm going to darken it up a little bit I don't want it as pink as it is so I'm going to use some crimson red let me tell you right now, a little bit of this color goes a long way. There's probably about two-thirds pink to one-third red, and it gave me a really nice color. It's definitely not as dark as that crimson, but it's not that bubblegum pink anymore. Okay, so I'm just going to do a dirty pour with these. We'll see how this looks. Start off with some of the white. I'm going to go with that pink and red mixture some of the purple and that Prussian blue one of my favorite designs to be able to do is a striation look and I really got that with these colors right now I really like this so I'm going to make sure that the sides are covered and then I'm gonna let this sit for a bit and we'll take a look once it's all dry