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This was so cool! Thank you for sharing the whole process. I’ve always loved rainbow chard and I plant it more for its beauty than for eating. It’s out in the garden still, under a fresh snow. Some of the leaves are visible and the colours are even more beautiful against the white. I just love your work!

Mini cheaders are better than regular size cheaders, in my opinion. They fit great in a sandwich and are just somehow nicer.

Gorgeous holiday project. The sketches do look amazing alongside each other. Thanks for sharing. Love your tin. An artists EDC.

This is absolutely stunning!

Beautiful artwork Molly..

As others have commented these are brilliant. The level of detail is amazing. I didn’t realise that it takes as long to fully create the prints. They look wonderful in the mount. If you make your own, mounts how about a video on that. Sorry if you already have! Good luck with the launch.

Fascinating video overall. I especially enjoyed the up close shots of you mixing and rolling the ink. 😋 I’m glad Winnie is feeling better. 🐶

I think this is a gorgeous print of the chard and my favorite ❤. Well done Molly!!!

Watching a master printer at work, in such detail, is a great privilege. Thank you for making such insightful videos and for sharing your knowledge.

It looks fantastic!! Loved seeing the different layers and the process.

Oh I love Pegasus. I had a temp job just down the road from it last year, and accidentally spent many lunch breaks and much money in there over the that time! I hope your lovely dog is ok.

I think your colours are beautiful with the blue and green together. Thank you for sharing the process. It is interesting to see how patient you have to be with this technique. There’s also quite a risk, I imagine! Seeing all of this has helped me to appreciate the art so much more. ❤

Thank you for showing the process they are stunning.

Love the chard. I feel for you on the 7 left out. Frustrating.

Beautiful! Love the colours!

I love (to eat) Swiss Chard. It's one of my favorite foods ever. To your art... I have such massive mad respect for the amount of fussiness that wood engraving entails and the amount you put into it. Add your creative touch and the results are so impressive. I have taken a look at your website a few times and I'm sad to say I likely won't ever buy anything from you merely because of the complications with buying overseas (from the US). But man, I love that you share your process with us on TH-cam. I'm definitely a keen fan of your work.

Gorgeous, lush colours. Always a joy to watch your videos.

Just beautiful. Love to Winnie. ❤

Love it ❤❤

Well done for challenging yourself - I think the prints have worked beautifully! I’m currently wrestling with a four block Lino print which is very far from my comfort zone, and it was very useful to see how you layered the colours!

ohh I do self-directed residencies too! and a bit of a self-university as well sometimes. Very cozy to watch <3

I love them!

I love the bold nature of the prints. Really lovely.

I love the bold nature of the prints. Really lovely.

It’a so nice to watch this after a stressful day. Your channel is my favourite on YT :)

I was a stage manager before COVID and I loved using altoid tins for various supplies in my kit. Will be getting into sewing in the coming months and already have some such tins ready for organizing there. So, not an artist, though as a lover of organization, your little tin brought me a lot of joy.

Molly I've just suscribed lovely little sketches ❤😊

What a lovely video and idea! I'm totally going to make my own travel sketching kit. Also, just because you can't or don't want to sell the sketches you made on this trip doesn't mean you can't use these as research sketches to convert to bigger or more sellable works and prints!

I’ve recently created a mini linoprinting pack that I take out with me inspired by your plein air woodcuts: a stamp pad, 2x2 inch Lino, my cutter with a couple of different blades and a little sketchbook to print in. I like what you said about them being small and easy to make so it doesn’t matter if they’re not all great.

Umm I think your little sketch’s are brilliant. Maybe you are being a bit harsh about your art. 🧡

Me and Maple enjoyed watching this a lot ❤🐕 I love that you made the paper the right size to slot into the tin, that's ingenious! I've been looking for a tin for my neocolors for a while but haven't been successful yet!

So interesting girls! Thank you!

Wonderful miniatures and scenery! Hope you used water from the lakes in your paintings!

Your sketches were lovely - would look great as wall art. Great ideas for a mini sketch kit. 🙏💜

I sent a couple of pictures of my travel kit on Instagram. Thanks for this video because it inspires me to keep going with a similar project I lost momentum on! Also, random question but what size is your purse? I love it and was looking at her work but see she makes big and small sizes. Best of luck for a successful holiday season!

Loved this video Molly - and your sketches. Your limited palette really worked in pulling the whole project together. Gorgeous! I have a couple of mini sketch kits too, although bigger paper than yours. Just like you say, I can take either of them anywhere and they fit inside coat pockets, hip pockets, small shoulder bags etc. I can also use them standing up without the need for resting anything on the ground. Sketching outside is one of my all time favourite things to do, but I loved your mixed media set up. Will be giving that some thought 😏. (By the way, I use a small 60ml nalgene bottle for my paint water. I've attached an elastic band so I can hang it from my palette. Works fine for me). I hope your projects are working out as you'd hoped and that Winnie has made a full recovery. All the best to you and thanks for sharing😊

Thank you, Molly. You've eased my hesitancy with trying something new by sharing your discomfort with the small format and the limited supplies. I want to throw down quick sketches when I'm out and about, and often thnk about what I'd bring but never do it. I'm inspired to gather some of my favourite supplies. If I put together a kit I'll be sure to share a photo of it with you.

A beautiful video with stunning scenery! Your mini sketching pack is such a good idea. Whenever I go on holiday I take equipment and materials but feel so daunted that I end up hardly doing any sketching 🤦‍♀. I really do need to make more of an effort so I think a mini pack with limited materials and on a small scale might be a better choice for me 🤞. Doing 50 sketches was impressive and such a lovely record of your holiday and they are beautiful 👏❤

I really like this idea. I have a tiny sketchbook for my bag too, only I just put a tin of Art Graf because I can’t imagine limiting my colour options to just a few pencils/paints so I go greyscale. Might try your idea!

Fantastic video Molly very inspiring, just being out in nature and sketching nature is a great skill. I find a sketch can capture colours better than a photograph and can be a stepping stone to a bigger project. I sometimes sketch in monochrome just using one colour to capture the values. Either water soluble graphite or neocolour 2 or watercolour. I am going to try the mini paper as I tend to sketch larger I think it can be more freeing as I will not be so precious about a piece of paper than a sketchbook. I am like you I spend most of my money on art and craft supplies.

Inspiring as always Molly! I loved the little travel kit you put together - its tiny size was impressive, and yet you still created so much work from it. I thought they looked beautiful all together. I’m trying to sketch outside more and have a pencil case with watercolours and pencils, but haven’t particularly enjoyed using the small sketchbook I bought, so I’m going to copy your idea of cutting up some tiny pieces of paper instead!

Such lovely scenery! Thanks for sharing. I’m glad that Winnie is feeling better. 🐶

Dear Molly, I loved this video. And your mini tin. Sliding the paper into the lid to work, is genius.I am just starting a week’s holiday in the Highlands and was frustrated because I’d only brought a small sketchbook.You have definitely inspired me!. I have a mini sketch pack using an old camera case.Now I am going down to the shore with some mini pieces of paper. I always enjoy your videos but this was really special. So encouraging , and wonderful scenery.Many thanks🌷

Molly every single one of these paintings is GORGEOUS! I'm so impressed as well with just how small you managed to get the sketching pack 😅😂 Also the idea to cut the paper so it'd fit in the lid of the tin is absolute GENIUS! Literally mind blown haha My partner and I actually went to Wastwater earlier this year with some friends (including some friends of friends we hadn't met before), it was beautiful as you know, and despite being very new to art in general as well as new to sketching outside, I did manage to do a couple of sketches while we were there (you inspired me to give it a go!) which was a bit scary when doing a very clearly very amateur watercolour in front of people you barely know 😅 But those who commented were very complimentary so that was nice!

maybe you tried to get a little too 'mini' with your sketch pack...? you could use that tin for watercolor pans only, and fit a wider selection of colors in it, and then add another small pouch for pencils, neocolors , and brushes....? i bet you could still fit both the tin and another pouch into that wonderful leather bag you carry! also, i can easily imagine that you'll make some beautiful wood engravings inspired by your sketches! my favorites among your sketches are the ones that feature trees. amazing scenery...

Ah, this was so beautiful and I thought your sketches were lovely! Made me want to do more sketching and shrink my kit even smaller. I have found little single serving jam or honey jars a great water container, sometimes you find them at hotels or in pre-packaged food gift baskets (at least in America). I also loved the idea of creating different color kits for each season.

Thank you for sharing your vacation and your painting project with us! Learned a few things!

really love this video Molly! the scenery is magical and your sketches are so gorgeous! I feel so inspired and I think I'll make a mini sketch kit!

What a great idea, I'm going to try it! Thank you. I love what you have created.

Lovely to see your travels Molly - what breathtaking scenery! Hope Winnie is okay now. If Neocolor 2 can be used with water, could you take more of those and get away without watercolour?