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This is really beautiful. If you'd like to do another one where you describe some of the techniques you use with the pen, I'd love to watch it!

We just got home from Amsterdam. I never got to see the beautiful countryside the you show in your video. I wish I could have met you and see your beautiful work in person.

Gewoonweg ‘out of this world’ prachtig 🤩🥰

this is so beautiful! thank you

The two swatches after 10:19 Talens Rembrandt titanium buff and Schmincke Horodam Potters pink, which you say have both yellowed, is it the paint, or the paper? I think I can see yellowing of the paper when you bring the two halves together could it be the paper which has made the paint colour look different . Thanks for all your hard work, mammoth task.

I've wanted a set of polychromos for a long long time. I'm fortunate to to be here. Life is a gift.

Thank you for sharing your extensive research with us! It would be interesting to see a lightfastness test with UV protective spray because I'm skeptical that it makes much of a difference. Either way, I think I'll just continue painting with non-lightfast colors because searching for completely lightfast options is exhausting, expensive, and seems near impossible.

Beautiful painting❤

Your accent is 🔥

Belíssimo!

Very thorough and interesting video thank you Suzan, I think many red and violet pigments are more fugitive than other colours, particularly the PR83 alizarin crimson which is a most gorgeous colour but not lightfast. It's a shame about prussian blue, it is such a pleasing colour. personally I like Indanthrene blue PB60 so that's a disapointment for me.

Wow, Susan, that's incredible. So complex, but you've really captured the gnarly beauty of this wonderful old tree.

Ahh..that's why my pencils keep breaking! Yes I use the broken bits too. Where possible, I even tape them back on to the pencil!

Absolutely beautiful

Thanks Suzan, I just watch your lovely video- Art Vlog- drawing with fineliner and polychromos. WOW what a lovely drawing. Well done. Looking forward to your future work. Alan.

love to see all the process of drawing!🙂

Hi Suzan, lots of love from the UK. I just stumbled upon your channel and I love your work. You now have a new subscriber. My neighbor had an old apple tree in their garden for several years, it looked very similar to your willow tree. I wanted to draw this tree in fineliner pens so I videoed it and took lots of photo's. The next day it was gone. Sadly sawn up. But luckily I have my photo's and it's my next drawing project. Bye for now, Alan. xx

Prachtig gewoon! Knotwilgen zijn zo’n mooie bomen, maar dan moet je ze ook nog zo prachtig kunnen teken! Mag ik vragen hoe lang je er in totaal mee bezig bent geweest?

So much Work and effort is on this video, i hope more people see it

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Awesome video! Schmincke' number: 215 is their Lemon Yellow. Pigment number PY3. They don't make a Permanent Yellow Light in their Artists grade paint. And you are correct. PY3 is not the best yellow for lightfastness in any brand.

Your drawings are so beautiful! I like pen and wash, but never thought to use coloured pencils with fineliner - the result is really effective and allows for more control and detail. Thanks for sharing your work.

Your speech is just fine. I only thought you had an accent for my American ears. I have trouble hearing but I understood you perfectly. Thanks for the lightfast info. It’s always helpful information.

It must be just the way it looks on camera because the Van Gogh Prussian Blue didn't look like it faded at all whereas the Schmincke was noticeably different. I appreciate all the effort you put into doing these! Filming the making of the swatches, the year later filming, and then going through and putting those bits together and editing them...........

To be quite honest, I didn't notice any kind of speech issue at all. You sound just fine and "normal" to me. And those results are really surprising! And as far as Prussian Blue goes, since I heard you mention something about that being the color that inspired your lightfast testing, I know that it isn't lightfast, but I also learned that it comes back if left in the dark! I would love to try that!

Thank you! Exelent informatorom!

Thank you for sharing this in-depth lightfastness test results. Really appreciate it. Its super helpful!

Thank you for a great video and all the work you put into testing these paints. I had to laugh about mystery pans because I've forgotten to mark a few myself. 🤣 I love Prussian and Indanthrone blues, but neither held up very well. :( PV19 was in quite a few of your failed mixes, which surprises me and now has me wanting to test all mine. PR83 and PR177 were expected. Thanks again as I thoroughly enjoyed this. 🙏

This is a really good video, thank you so much for sharing your results! I am also making my own lightfastness test, but I only have a south-east facing window. So my results take longer to get to your level. As for some lightfast pigments, I suggest that you look on Kimberly Cricks website. She tested a lot of colors. Handprint (google search: handprint watercolor pigments) is also very good as a resource, but a bit older. And for looking up colors in general, Jane Blundells blog is also highly recommended. So as my lightfastness tests are not in a south facing window and only a little more than one year old, here are my suggestions for yellows and reds: PY154 PY175 PY150 PY129 PR122 (it’s lightfastness is better than on the label. It is one of the most lightfast red (magenta) pigments) PR255 PR254 All cadmium yellows and reds and oranges: PY35, PO20, PR108 PR209 PR179 PV29 PV19 (in its Rose shade) is my favorite red and showed no fading so far. But I predict that this could happen in my second year of tests. But in general I chose all of the colors I own with lightfastness in mind. I followed recommendations from the above mentioned websites for most of my colors. That’s all what I have at the top of my head right now. Have fun looking them up 😍😊 (I might edit this post when I remember more colors 🤭)

Simply beautiful. Thank you for taking the time to make the video

I've heard that UV spray doesn't really work, but I've never tried it. We have to remember: paint lightfastness is best preserved under museum conditions...low light (or managed lighting for certain time periods, I think?) and mounted under what is called "museum glass" that is made w/UV resistance in the glass. I think it's very pricey. All we can do to preserve our paintings is arm ourselves w/knowledge of best practices, and recommending to our customers, if we're selling or if it's going to hang in a gallery, that they don't hang any art work in sun or even bright light, and then we have to kiss 💋 it goodbye, right? I'm getting ready to get some of my art printed and I understand that the ink colors used in printing are more lightfast than almost any of the paint we use. That's good news! 😁

its none of my business but I believe this is the first video i've watched from you and my first thought was "this person has such a sweet voice and accent!". wow not very often we get to see such long experiments when it comes to watercolours. This is very valuable thank you

Thank you for you swatching and light fastness tests.

You made a great job🎉.

Thank you for a great video! It was very informative

I agree with @erikaleighart to try PY175 as a lemon yellow. Winsor Newton calls this Winsor Lemon. It made it through an 18 month test in my south facing windows in the Mid-Atlantic in the US. None of my deep reds (I tried over 12) made it through without changes, except my cadmiums. Some faded, most just had color shifts, usually not in a good way. Reds (and purples) are simply difficult, with the exception of cadmiums, which are known for their stability. There are some brands with deep cad reds- leaning to purple, Schmincke‘s is more blue leaning than Rembrandt. I have one from Utrecht ( a small American brand) that is quite a deep red, leaning purple. Qor Cad Red Deep also looks lovely ( but I think is very expensive in Europe). There are so many things that go into stability, environment plays a big role. Humidity can wreak havoc on watercolor. The numbers that manufacturers put on their tubes are from testing that was done nearly 25 years ago. Pigments manufacturers change, even the method of synthesizing some pigments has changed, and that can affect the stability. Manufacturers, if they do any testing at all, now use a Xenon arc lamp that is supposed to mimic so many years of UV exposure, but it is really not the same as actually hanging on a wall. And those numbers are for museum conditions too. I enjoyed watching the video, thanks for all the work!

You mentioned suggestions for some spots on your palette you are trying to fill with more lightfast options…For a cool-leaning red, how about PR264? And for a cool lemon yellow, maybe PY175 (Winsor and Newton has a very nice one)?

I am quite literally in the very middle of swatching all my supplies and doing exactly what you did, so I know how much work this is. But it’s great to do, right? Because then you can sort out whatever is not lightfast and say with confidence to anyone purchasing your work that you use lightfast materials. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this in a video on TH-cam. 😊 What a lot of work not just to do the tests, but also to compile everything into a video!

wonderful thank you ............so enjoyable to watch ..god bless and all the best

I love your video. So calm and soothing with the spoken commentary.

I’m curious to see the results. I have a large Rembrandt pallet, and a small schmincke pallet. Also, a few schmincke granulated paints. I watched the video all the way through. It’s very calming, your commentary is so relaxing and conversational.

Brilliant.

Thank you for sharing this, it is beautiful! It makes me want to try some coloured pencil drawing - I have some somewhere in a cupboard 🤗

Polychromos and ink omg i love that mix!

It’s totally beautiful thank you for sharing , i look forward to seeing more xxx

Wonderful video, and I love the mix of fine liner with pencil! It's a combination I never tried before, but definitively curious to try it someday. All the work you did in the sky really paid off - the whole drawing looks amazing. Super happy to have found this channel and your work!

Beautiful. I had a set of 12 Polychromos laying around for a long time and tonight I decided to use them in my sketchbook. I was wowed by them in every way and considering getting more colors which brought me to your video. I loved watching you draw with the fineliner. I think I learned a trick or 2. Thanks. All the best to you!

I was searching for info on Rembrandt olive green and saw this video. Thank you for posting your test details. Here in India we frame watercolors and keep inside. Even the most lightfast watercolors may fade in the tropical sun if kept in balcony or direct sunlight. Not only do all well known brands have Prussian blue, they have mixtures with that too. Like Prussian green of Daniel Smith, Violet lake of Mijello etc. WN has another version of pb 27 named Antwerp blue. Does this pigment fade less in mixtures?

Also what paper used matters and water etc its complex thing. but there is pigments like prussina blue what i recommend simply avoid. i have few what are likely problem even manufacutrer own tests but their features maeks me want use them at least if i seen fading real hanging condintions not yet possbility do weinow tests. i dont know aparment owner thinks if i put tests window. and glass at least here blocks most uvb radiation what is thing what is problem some pigments and also makes skin cancer.

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