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Thank you Lori and welcome to the channel! I love the sticks so much that I have recently bought some more and will share more about them and how I love to use them soon. So happy you found the channel and look forward to sharing with you! 🌸

Thank you so much for the suggestion, sounds great! I’m going to look it up right now! Thank you 🫶🏻👌🏻

Those are all fabulous ways of using them! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you 🌸🌸

Thanks for joining me all the way from Seattle and hope you join me again on more adventures, we have such a beautiful country. I will be heading off to the bush soon and will share a little of it here. We live in an exciting time when it is so easy to connect with others all over the world, thanks for joining me.

Thank you so much for the recommendation. I’m about to buy some more so will look at the Magenta, thank you

@@heidishedlock-acreativelife specifically quinacridone magenta. ❤️

Thank you!

Thank you! Jackson’s has such an amazing selection of art materials.

Then you would recognize many of the names of places in South Africa 😝 Fort Nottingham was set up as the base for the Nottingham Regiment who were sent by Queen Victoria to protect the area from local tribesman. The fort is still there today and the area is known as Nottingham Road. Since this general farming area set slightly up the hill from Pietermaritzburg sits midway between the coast (and the city of Durban)and the Drakensberg mountains (which form the border to our province), the whole area is known as the Midlands. It’s made up of small farming communities and gorgeous little country towns and is a popular tourist route known as The Midlands Meander. Hope you get to visit us one day from the original Nottingham 😜🙌🏻🫶🏻

😂😂😂😂thank goodness for that! 👻👻👻It means you need to take me back again - just saying 😜🙌🏻🫶🏻

I had what felt like a million layers of clothing on, I could barely bend my arms😂 and my fingers did feel like they were going to fall off by time the wind picked up - I think maybe it helped me to work even quicker and just record what I saw. As you know the Midlands has a beautiful charm in winter and the change in colours from a still green Durban was delightful. Although the best place all weekend was definitely by the fire😜

Thank you so much Dianne, I really appreciate you taking the time to watch 🙌🏻🌸

Thank you Renée I look forward to sharing them with you soon on this channel 🌸

Thank you Christi, appreciate you joining me and I look forward to sharing a little about my oil painting as well as my sketchbooks with you, thank you! 🌸

Thank you so much. Isn’t it wonderful that as artists we have so many exciting options. We are always constant learners. Always something new to learn, so I totally understand how you feel! 😜

Thank you so much! We too have such hot weather in Durban at the coast so it was lovely to enjoy some colder weather and change of season for a change. Hope you have some respite from the heat in Texas soon. Thank you for watching 🌸

I looked back in your videos & have the answer. Watched how you filled empty brush pens!!!

@@timbrant1538 yay! Glad you found it, I was going to direct you to my video on the brush pens so that you can make some of your own too if it interests you. I have really enjoyed using them and love that I can make the colours I love to use. The pens add a nice little pop of colour and some linear elements to the drawings. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch, much appreciated Tim.

Love it! 😝 It’s a wonderful problem to have right?! My husband is always telling me I’m going to sink the house with the weight of the books!😂

They are like the opposite. Neocolor ll’s dissolve with water and Neocolor l’s don’t. So I don’t think one is better than the other, I love them both and use them depending on the technique or mark I want. For example if I’m still going to use wet materials like watercolour or ink and I want to keep the fresh mark I will use Neocolor l so that they don’t dissolve or loose the mark in the wet materials. If I want a watercolor or more painterly effect I will use the ll’s which will dissolve in the water or wet materials. I love them both for their different qualities.

Thanks so much, I appreciate you watching! I love the fact that the Neocolor l’s don’t dissolve and you can retain some of the mark making especially when your sketchbook page is a little wet. I actually love them both, the l’s and ll’s and they have been a great addition to my art materials. Thanks for sharing 🩷

Lucky fish! It would be my happy place too! 😝

I should definitely have looked more closely at the greens. I had a beautiful deep dark blue green in the ShinHan brand that I deleted from my basket that I should have got instead😝 Next time! I’m glad I’m not the only one that means Neocolor and is thinking Neopastel. I could have kicked myself when I was editing and kept hearing myself call them Neopastels 😝🫣 And thanks for the Paint suggestions I will have a closer look at the pigment info - great tip for next time thanks

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you watching!

Absolutely you can! And the best colours are usually the ones mixed yourself from a limited palette but sometimes for ease I want just a dab of colour to add to something else like for example a dab of green to add to a pink to knock it back and then it’s just so convenient to have a premix that I already like on hand. But I agree the best colours are the ones you make yourself because then you can get just the exact tone you are wanting 👍🏻

Exactly! Often I don’t want the mark I’ve made to dissolve or disappear so I’ve been using the 1’s for that reason. I actually find I’m using the 1’s more than the 2’s now. I need to collect a few more colours.

😂😂😂😂 it’s problem! 🫣 I often tell my husband - some girls buy fancy clothes or have a shoe addiction or have their nails done regularly. I do none of those. I just like art supplies 😝

@@heidishedlock-acreativelife me too I’m waiting on 4 things for $455 this week ssshhhhh Derwent pastel pencil 72 set the pH Martin set and 2 gauche 🙏 I got a lovely new set of mission gold watercolour set last week I will do a vid when they come awww so excited

SO exciting!!!! Love an art supply delivery 😝 Enjoy xx

I think I could hold my own in this challenge 😂

@@tarabooartarmy3654😂😂

That’s good to know, thanks for telling me. It must just be mine. It feels scratchy, perhaps it was a batch that wasn’t mixed properly or some other reason. But I do love the colour so have still been using it and enjoying it.

How wonderful! I can imagine it was, I would have been like a kid in a candy store 😝 Thanks so much for sharing Suzanne

Just keep playing and experimenting with them. I always think there is no right or wrong way, what feels right for one artist may not work for another.

Yay! That’s the best kind of compliment, thank you and look forward to sharing with you! And hi in Australia all the way from South Africa!🙌🏻🫶🏻thank you

Oh goodness I didn’t think of that!😂Luckily I don’t have that problem but thanks for sharing the play sand idea. I can see how it would work exactly the same.

Yes, I agree. Since filming this I have become more aware of other products by this brand and it really doesn’t get enough limelight. I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve tried so far.

Hahahaha, you made me giggle 😂 The rice works so well. I find the dividers to separate cool and warm colours just helps me when reaching for a colour, you know where to look😜

Such a great tip, thanks for sharing. It’s definitely a great cost saver if you can find the colours in the stick and use them this way. Thank you

Since filming this I have used it quite a bit and I absolutely love the colour! No regrets about buying it. It adds an interesting little pop of colour.

All those gorgeous colours are always so tempting😝 Many artists use a craft knife, I’m afraid I may loose more than the pencil if I do that😂 and some artists use a pastel pencil sharpener…you can buy sharpeners especially for pastel pencils. But I just use my regular hand held sharpener and go really slowly. I also never sharpen them to completely sharp points as that is when they break, I sharpen just enough to use them, and that seems to work for me.

Thank you so much

I haven’t tried using alcohol, I will definitely give that a try! Love finding new ways to use supplies, thanks for that. And I didn’t know the Gioconda were Koh-I-noor as well! I have only seen the soft pastels in our shops, I will definitely keep my eyes open for them now that I know. Thank you so much for watching, much appreciated 🙏🏻 Have a beautiful creative week💐

It’s such a beautiful book! Hockney’s drawings are so simple yet so full of life! Thanks for watching, I love a good art book! ☺️

You can never have enough books…or art supplies right? 😝🫣 I am sure you will really enjoy Big Magic, so much creative wisdom shared! Thanks for watching, much appreciated 🙏🏻

@@heidishedlock-acreativelife absolutely my studio is well stocked it really is a illness heheh compulsive creativity and purchase of creative goodies

@@Karlena_Lewin_Studio 😝😂🙌🏻 I think I have the same affliction 😂

@@heidishedlock-acreativelife it’s so nice to meet other people with the same issues let’s be friends Hello I’m Karlena from New Zealand nice to meet you 🥰

@@Karlena_Lewin_Studio hello Karlena, so lovely to meet you too! I have family in New Zealand, near Auckland, I so hope I get to visit NZ one day!

Thanks so much for the suggestion. I will give it a try, thanks.

I was wondering about using them that way, like when you use oil pastels dipped into turps. I watched this video because after many years of painting and Arthritis in my hands I am looking at throwing out the paints for something immediate that I don't have to struggle with opening paint tubes and jars etc.

@@glynislaidlaw4064yes these are lovely to use if dampened first or even used with a brush but if you have oil pastels and the smell of turps doesn’t worry you, you can also use your oil pastels in that way too. Baby oil also works well with oil pastels. You can work with them and then work into the marks with baby oil or even linseed. I will be doing an oil pastel share sometime soon. But hope these options work for you and are easier on your hands. I hope you find an easier way to keep creating 🩷

@@heidishedlock-acreativelife Thank you Heidi, greetings from NZ I am a new subscriber, enjoying your channel.

​​⁠Thank you so much and welcome from New Zealand! I really appreciate you watching and look forward to sharing with you. Much appreciated! 🙌🏻🫶🏻

Agreed postage costs have almost doubled in the last 2 years. As an artist it has made sending artwork, especially larger artwork to overseas clients even harder. I now send all larger paintings off the stretchers and rolled in a tube. The drastic increase in shipping costs has also had a disastrous effect on art supplies in South Africa as most of our art materials are imported…and the weak ZAR currency doesn’t help either. So if I know of friends or family traveling to South Africa it’s cheaper to purchase in USA or UK and have the supplies brought over in their suitcase.

Awesome! I love a good art supply sale! ☺️

Thank you so much, I really appreciate that! I have an online community called Creative Community Studio which is an online support for artists and we have a website with over 100 tutorials on various topics. I don’t necessarily teach my particular style, although I do lots of demos, but show others how to progress in their own art journey. Links to the community details are in my show notes of each video.