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Hello Cherry, 🙋🏼‍♀️ from Cookeville, Tennessee…100 miles west of Knoxville and 100 miles east of Nashville Art Stores! We don’t 😢have and art stores here. So I mostly buy on line or take a few road trips.😊🚗💨I’m 73, retired and enjoying my revived artist life. I’m so glad I found your channel on TH-cam. You have such a wonderful soft voice I immediately thought of Bob Ross, most celebrated artist of my younger life and still is. Unlike Bob, you didn’t put me to sleep 🤭😴 I had to videotape his shows so I could finish watching them. I love you are in Switzerland! My father’s great grandparents moved to the US from Berne, Switzerland. I don’t have much history, I do know Francis was the name shared by the men and it changed to Frank in the states. I’m female and named Frances. 😊 A wonderful first video and I can’t wait to read the next ones! I prefer longer videos but also enjoy short ones when time isn’t available. I enjoy a lot of the same products. As a Pen & Ink artist, wanting to add colors, I found Inktense and fell in love with it. I have some wonderful colored pencils and a few watercolor paints. I have used Strathmore paper as a first choice for over 60 years. I love drawing miniatures and found Stonehenge cotton minis, perfect for miniature art work. It’s wonderful paper and see if you can access their website. You can get some wonderful deals. I loved Crayola crayons growing up and then appeared Caran d’Ache Neocolor II 🫠. I was very good and started small and then went back to get a couple of more and I heard myself justifying buying the 84 set, it was back ordered 🤭I started looking for the colors that were discontinued from the 126 set, thus creating the 84 set. A wonderful woman in Switzerland, in a town 30 mins from Berne, selling in the box new 126 set! I ordered it. I was going to cancel the back ordered 84 set, but it was already on the way. I now have enough stock in Caran d’Ache to be a voting me.🤣I do love these beautiful pastels! To keep from having marks / lines on your artwork, the CREATIVE ART MATERIALS Caran D'ache Palette Aquarelle it’s a plastic palette with a smooth finish and a rough finish. It’s great to create a palette of colors to paint with without creating lines on the artwork. Check your plastic cutting sheets for a rough side and that would work also. I do like your 😊Etcher sketchbooks and the price is very reasonable. The foundation of a great work of art is the paper! Artist usually discover that just like you did and you fell for watercolor pencils. 😌 😮I’m sorry, I talk too much! I’m happy to meet you and I look forward to getting to know you. The comments from the audience are wonderful and you deserve every one. If anyone makes ugly comments just delete them and don’t give them a passing thought. 🤗 Have a great week and better weekend with Renley ! 🐶 He’s so adorable and what a wonderful studio assistant. Please don’t send him away, if you don’t have to, he might get sad and cry. I have found my pets are my best friends when working in the studio. 🙋🏼‍♀️ Fran

Thank you for sharing such a great video with helpful insights in your painting journey! I too find the urban sketching intimidating and uncomfortable. I like the ideas others gave below which I will try as well. I wanted to recommend artist Karen Rice to you for inspirational videos. You mentioned the book you like that the artist did messy but beautiful work. This lady makes beautiful and exciting work approachable. She breaks the work done to start it with using thicker paint, water and even an old credit card. What I love to see is her nature scenes! She beginner friendly watercolor and also very experienced artist! I just found the urban sketcher in Ireland Roisin Cure who also has TH-cam videos and is so very lovely and charming and sketches and paints her life! I wish I could hand out with her because she absolutely engaging and her talent and passion is amazing! 😉

I enjoyed this video very much, thank you so much. I watched it to the end in another browser but have signed in again so I can leave comments, which is not something I normally do on TH-cam. I loved seeing those glimpses of your sketchbooks and would love to see more of them in future videos if possible. Thanks!

Creative. Wonderful video. Your approach is different and refreshing. Thank you!

Indigo. Love your videos, they're a breath of fresh air. Don't change a thing.

Amazing video. Looking forward to seeing how you get on with all your new goodies! Thank you for sharing your view on the brushes. As a hobby/newbie/for fun only painter, I've always only used synthetic brushes. Wasn't planning on "upgrading" (I've heard opinions "real" brushes are better) any time soon. Now will probably just stick to synthetic anyway, unless I can find non-synthetic ones at the thrift store to try out.

Creative! <3 I am in love with your reviews. I've used some of these books myself, my personal favorite has been drawing on the right side of the brain (I believe there is also a left side of the brin but I'm not 100% on that). I can't wait to see what you do next. I didn't realize your Art Haul was literally your first video, I feel so grateful to experience the beginnings of your journey here on TH-cam. You got this!

Had NO idea it was your first haul until you said something, lmao. I love long form content, and I love art hauls. Please do more art stuff, and hauls if you haven't already, and even if you have! Art is all about experimentation. Even if you use a supply in the non intended form of use, you're still using it and creating with it. That's the main goal of all art supplies, creation. You got this! Love from the USA <3

Well actually… I think you may be saving money! 💰 Expensive art supplies pay off in the long run, don’t they? 😉 Those will last and you will treasure them 🎉 I am delighted to have discovered your videos recently, thanks to your watercolour book reviews. I love and collect art books too. Keep up the good work! 👩‍🎨 💙

You have a very soothing voice. Lot's of personal insight that I enjoyed. Thank you so much for sharing!

I used to be against animal hair brushes, but synthetic brushes are often made of plastic derivatives and other materials that are not good for the environment or people. Some animals are humanely raised and some small brush companies use recycled hair and hair that is harvested without killing animals.

Daniel Smith makes a water color stick that would travel well.

Creative! Thank you for your very informative reviews, so helpful to see books I don’t already own (but now want!) and your sketchbook work is lovely!

I believe things you bought should be used. My mom have precious book thing too, and she won't let us use anything as intended if it "destroys" the item. Then the things just sit and deteriorated, and get thrown away.

Steve Mitchell from The Mind of Watercolor TH-cam channel recommends Nita’s book. He also teaches that watercolor paints itself. He succeeds at “spontaneous” watercolor which is always a fail for me. I love his channel though and he does do a lot of other methods and knows watercolor thoroughly.

Creative……I thoroughly enjoyed your review. Thank you💕

Perhaps the best way to describe the difference between Luminance and Polychromos pencils is to compare them to gouache and watercolor. Luminance definitely has the quality of gouache with an immediate opaque coverage that causes the color to pop. Polychromos have a more transparent quality like watercolor and are best applied in layers. A color pencil artist on TH-cam called Lachri Fine Art has done several videos over the years describing the different qualities and why she uses both in her practice. If I could only pick one, it would be Polychromos. Though it takes more work to layer the colors, Luminance feels chalky to me in a way that I haven't gotten used to but am trying to learn to tolerate. Also, I love the color match system of Faber Castell products. However, I think one of the greatest advantages of the Luminance line is they provide pigment information as does the Derwent Lightfast line. I find that I prefer the Derwent Lightfast over the Luminance pencils because, to me, they have a smoother application compared to Luminance. Nevertheless, both lines offer a beautiful color range with hues unique to each, so I have a collection that I've built by purchasing open stock from both lines. But if you prefer a pencil that feels like a gouache and you don't need a lightfast pencil, nothing beats a Prismacolor. They are the Sennelier oil pastel of pencils, creamy and opaque.

Indigo

party - i love swatches. I have a large selection of Derwent Inktense, both in pencil and block. I do love them. I also have a set of Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils. They are good, but the Caran D'ache Museum Aquarelles are better. I have a small selection of them. I recently purchased a few of the Neocolor II crayons. I like them, but they are more opaque than I am accustomed to - quite similar to gouache. I have been experimenting with several brands of coloured pencils, a few at a time (Derwent drawing pencils and Derwent Lightfast as well as some Luminance and Holbein).

Creative! Such wonderful, thoughtful, incisive reviews. I added several to purchase now and others on a future purchase list. Thank you.

Party! I love the neocolor II's!!

These are beautiful, I want to try them all but the decent ink-tense and the nei color II are my favorites the color really makes the party pop! 😅

Indigo! Thank you very much for this video, it was wonderfully detailed, and as a beginner watercolourist, I found it quite helpful. Please don't use music, I appreciate the format of your videos,

I love the lamp! It would be nice if you turned the music down several decibels because it drowns out your voice when you're creating, so I didn't hear 65% of your words.

Well done

Party.

I would love to get Luminance ❤

Party! 🎁

Great video!

Just a thought about the detachable band on the sketchbook, maybe when you take it off put it over just the back cover while you are using the book so you don't lose it like I probably would do. Beautiful haul. Never feel guilty about buying yourself high end art materials. You deserve them.

Party. Might have to try Luminance.

fab haul 'documentary'...took notes...some ii invested in, some are on wish lists...all worth any expression that contributes joy...

You’ll have a much better time using a cotton based watercolour paper that has a decent amount of sizing when using the Ecolines (and any other water-soluble media). Sizing gives you more working time and you’ll have a lot of fun with these tools. 😊

I adore my Luminance pencils. I also love my Holbein and Derwent Drawing pencils. They are a joy to work with and I don’t care if they make me an expensive date 😁😁😁

Hi hun I have both sets of the polys and the lumerance colouring pencils I have a lovely colour of artist grade pencils I do adult colouring in.. thank u for sharing ❤❤❤😊😊😊xxx

Someone has been watching lots of TH-cam and decided to get all the top tiered supplies 🤣 you remind me of myself 🙃

😊creative😊

Party 😀

Great video! Very thorough, and a lot of helpful information. Thank you ❤. Indigo!

I loved this relaxing swatching video. Seeing all the beautiful colors along with hearing your calming voice was a great diversion from the craziness of the outside world. I was especially intrigued by the Turner Acrylic Gauche. The dark green, red, and gold reminded me of colors from a Renaissance painting. I look forward to seeing the projects you make with these. And as usual, your little dogs were charming! Nina looked so cozy and made me want to curl up and go to sleep and I’m thinking that Renley must be high-spirited from hearing his scurrying paws in the video. He must want to party, party, party! 🎉🎉🎉

Party!!

Party!

Please try all these water soluble products with watercolor paper, to see the difference. The Ecoline works better on watercolor paper. Ecoline is liquid watercolor in a brush pen. I love this video.

All very pricey…I’d need to feel very accomplished to buy most of these.

Indigo.

I feel similar guilt for splurging on high end art materials. I've been doing art for a very long time but I have imposter syndrome especially with social media filled with such successful artists. My husband always reminds me that I AM an artist and if I love my art supplies while creating, all the better! Enjoy your materials! Life is too short otherwise! Love your video <3

Love your dog. We lost our baby of 14 years this week. I can’t stop crying

Thank you for talking about brushes. Sable are way outdated. Synthetics are so good these days. Animal fibres don’t improve anyone’s painting. They are cruel and completely unnecessary

I use a lunch pack for my stuff. They’re padded, insulated and waterproof. Work really well and usually inexpensive

Thank you so much for sharing! You gave me so much insight on all these materials in your video. 😄❤️