Hi Helen. I have been looking for a video like this for as long as I can remember. I am a big fan of purple and pink. Thank you very much. It's really great to see a unique comparison like this. Thanks again❤
Some of my favourite colours here...and some others that I now need! ;) Beautiful swatches! I really like how you are organising them into the folder.🎨😊
Ahhhhh... That was a glorious thing to watch while winding down for the evening! I think you may be responsible for another night of me dreaming of watercolour swatches! 😂😴🥰 It has also reminded me exactly how many of these violet-purples I own! 😂 It is a silly % of my rather meagre palette and several more than the greens I have! 🤣 Can you tell I love purples? 💜💜
The granulating paints are my favorite, especially Schminke's Tundra Pink, beautiful. This is oddly satisfying, seeing you organize all the paints and making it so you are able to move individual cards around as you add more paints to your collection. Keep up the wonderful work!
I love using granulating colours, Tundra Pink, Tundra Violet and Notturno are a few of my favourites💜 Another relaxing video and another lovely collection of colours, thank you🙏🏼
The more of these you do, the more I am inspired to start my own set! For me, it would be a great way to start moving the brush around even if I'm not inspired to do something more structured. Get started is my weakness 😊 Thank you, Helen! You do have a lovely paint collection ❤
Enjoyed once again. I too like the granulated colours so much. Must put some on my long list! Find them so tempting! Find your file idea ever better. Thanks
That was perfect therapy for bedtime viewing, thank you. ☺️. Some more gorgeous colours, I really fancy the notturno & the haze & tundra colours. But they’re already on the list, 😉. Another technical question, about your guillotine please. What brand is it & would you recommend it?
Thank you! Notturno is wonderful, but I'd say I prefer the Tundra colours to the Haze ones. The guillotine is the Precision Guillotine from X-cut. It's relatively cheap and cheerful, and the blade section needs tightening occasionally with the screwdriver key that comes with it, but I've tried others like Tim Holtz's expensive Tonic one, and I much prefer this one, because the arm goes fully up and you have better visibility.
You will fill that book, I'm sure. I was interested in the Rembrandt Dusk Pink. I just wonder how close it is to van Gogh's Dusk Violet or Interference Violet. I would like something that is a good shadow colour after using Terry Harison's Shadow, which is nice but it's opaque and I would like something more transparent. Oh dear! Have I suggested another buying spree for you? Sorry. 😂
great video!! 💜 i love all the variations of purple you showed, and you have a great collection! i also love the way you put your swatches in a binder like that! i personally like schmincke because of how their paints behave, but i might have to do some shopping around now after seeing so many more pretty colors!! 💜💜 thanks for the video!
I love your swatching videos! Maybe you already know that, but double sided tape is tricky. I made cards with it and put them in a binder to give them away somewhere in the future. The double sided tape went loose after one year on some parts of the cards. Now I use a glue stick or PVA glue.
Thanks! Yes, these ones may well do, because I'm just using up some cheapy old tape runners I've had for years! I'll just Pritstick them if it happens.
Thanks! I can't describe how wonderfully relaxing and calming I find doing this - more than painting would be, and something I really need at the moment after a particularly stressful couple of months.
I already have swatch sheets that I'm happy with, for most of those. I just want to make sheets that correspond to the slots in my new pencils cases. I almost never do any art without the corresponding swatch sheets!
@@helencryer I guess a lot of other supplies don’t grow as rapidly (or frequently) as watercolour paints where it’s just so easy to buy a few tubes or pans and quickly make a sheet out of date!
QUESTION: suggestions for a bright violet/purple, NON-granulating, for a bright, colorful sunset? I’ve tried my 2 Rosa Gallery PV19 & PV23; both looked muted against the bright oranges, yellows…
Loving these swatching videos. Can I ask what is probably a very silly question,and obvious to most ,(beginner here,)but what do the letters and numbers mean after the names of the paints please,many thanks 😊
Not a silly question at all - an exciting one! They stand for the pigments (the fine coloured powder part) of the paints. The P stands for pigment, then a letter which stands for a colour group name, then a number which identifies a specific colour from an international colour index, based on its chemical composition. The same pigments are used across different good quality coloured media: watercolour, oils, oil pastels etc (Though different companies will prepare them in different ways, so the actual colours can vary a bit). So for example most Ultramarine Blues are PB29. P=Pigment, B=Blue, 29=29th blue pigment on the Colour Index International. The pigments can be from all sorts of sources.
Ahh,I see,thanks for that explanation Helen. Only been painting a few months and really enjoying it,but now I know I’m going to stick with it I’ll start to invest in some quality paints,only have cheapies at the mo hence no numbers. I’ll be back with more questions!!!! 😂 Have good one …
Sorry about that! I have tried Talens Pastel fixative which seems to work fine on soft pastels, and I have Senneliers Oil pastel Fixative, but haven't used it yet.
Hi Helen. I have been looking for a video like this for as long as I can remember. I am a big fan of purple and pink. Thank you very much. It's really great to see a unique comparison like this. Thanks again❤
I'm really happy it's helpful to you, thanks!
Such colourful beauty! *sigh* 😇🩵🙏🙌
❤️ It just makes me happy looking at them!
Some of my favourite colours here...and some others that I now need! ;) Beautiful swatches! I really like how you are organising them into the folder.🎨😊
Thank you!
Ahhhhh... That was a glorious thing to watch while winding down for the evening! I think you may be responsible for another night of me dreaming of watercolour swatches! 😂😴🥰
It has also reminded me exactly how many of these violet-purples I own! 😂 It is a silly % of my rather meagre palette and several more than the greens I have! 🤣 Can you tell I love purples? 💜💜
Ahh, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Haha! Enjoy your purples!
The granulating paints are my favorite, especially Schminke's Tundra Pink, beautiful. This is oddly satisfying, seeing you organize all the paints and making it so you are able to move individual cards around as you add more paints to your collection. Keep up the wonderful work!
Yes, mine too! I can't even explain how satisfying it is to me, anyway! Thanks!
That Tundra Violet looks a lot like a sky. Just sky, really.
Aren’t they? Made me want to buy them all
@@mzebony 😂. If you have the pigments, just mix them yourself. It’s cheaper and more fun.
You definitely can for some, but others I've not had as much success with.
I love using granulating colours, Tundra Pink, Tundra Violet and Notturno are a few of my favourites💜 Another relaxing video and another lovely collection of colours, thank you🙏🏼
So beautiful, aren't they?! Thanks!
Lovely. Like a small gallery of its own. 💗
The more of these you do, the more I am inspired to start my own set! For me, it would be a great way to start moving the brush around even if I'm not inspired to do something more structured. Get started is my weakness 😊 Thank you, Helen! You do have a lovely paint collection ❤
It's honestly such a lovely way to get to know your paints better and fall in love with them all over again, I highly recommend it!
This is a great idea, but my attention is like a squirrel! Great swatches! Keep creating 💜💛💙
Haha, thanks!
Enjoyed once again. I too like the granulated colours so much. Must put some on my long list! Find them so tempting! Find your file idea ever better. Thanks
I'm glad! Thank you!
That was perfect therapy for bedtime viewing, thank you. ☺️. Some more gorgeous colours, I really fancy the notturno & the haze & tundra colours. But they’re already on the list, 😉. Another technical question, about your guillotine please. What brand is it & would you recommend it?
Thank you! Notturno is wonderful, but I'd say I prefer the Tundra colours to the Haze ones.
The guillotine is the Precision Guillotine from X-cut. It's relatively cheap and cheerful, and the blade section needs tightening occasionally with the screwdriver key that comes with it, but I've tried others like Tim Holtz's expensive Tonic one, and I much prefer this one, because the arm goes fully up and you have better visibility.
You will fill that book, I'm sure. I was interested in the Rembrandt Dusk Pink. I just wonder how close it is to van Gogh's Dusk Violet or Interference Violet. I would like something that is a good shadow colour after using Terry Harison's Shadow, which is nice but it's opaque and I would like something more transparent.
Oh dear! Have I suggested another buying spree for you? Sorry. 😂
Maybe I'll go and take a look! I don't think I need any more paint though!!
@@helencryer I think you're right. But if it's your only hobby you are allowed to spoil yourself.
Have fun creating your folder 😘
Thanks! I really am!
great video!! 💜
i love all the variations of purple you showed, and you have a great collection! i also love the way you put your swatches in a binder like that!
i personally like schmincke because of how their paints behave, but i might have to do some shopping around now after seeing so many more pretty colors!! 💜💜
thanks for the video!
Thanks! Schmincke definitely seems to be the star of the Purples!
❤ The dusky, and the granulating ones are my favourites. I have Noturno coming from Jackson’s andI wish it would hurry up!
Oooo... I don't think you will be disappointed when it comes!
Aww these are lovely! 😍
I bought the Schminke Tundra Violet not long back & its just beautiful. If I could paint my walls with it, I would! 😅
Gorgeous, isn't it?!
I love your swatching videos!
Maybe you already know that, but double sided tape is tricky. I made cards with it and put them in a binder to give them away somewhere in the future. The double sided tape went loose after one year on some parts of the cards. Now I use a glue stick or PVA glue.
Thanks! Yes, these ones may well do, because I'm just using up some cheapy old tape runners I've had for years! I'll just Pritstick them if it happens.
Great organizing skills but think of all the time it takes away from painting. But you seem to enjoy 😊 it so keep up the good work 🎉
Thanks! I can't describe how wonderfully relaxing and calming I find doing this - more than painting would be, and something I really need at the moment after a particularly stressful couple of months.
You have beautiful swatch charts for so many of your art supplies, are you thinking of doing the same thing for your pencils/pastels/etc?
I already have swatch sheets that I'm happy with, for most of those. I just want to make sheets that correspond to the slots in my new pencils cases. I almost never do any art without the corresponding swatch sheets!
@@helencryer I guess a lot of other supplies don’t grow as rapidly (or frequently) as watercolour paints where it’s just so easy to buy a few tubes or pans and quickly make a sheet out of date!
Yep!!
This is so helpful, I can see what I would really like and what I don't. Not a fan of the redder ones
It's so funny what we do and don't like! It's not like we can particularly pick that!
QUESTION: suggestions for a bright violet/purple, NON-granulating, for a bright, colorful sunset? I’ve tried my 2 Rosa Gallery PV19 & PV23; both looked muted against the bright oranges, yellows…
Of the ones I've got, I think Schmincke Quinacridone Purple, PV55 might be the best. Quite smooth and builds to a beautiful rich colour.
Loving these swatching videos. Can I ask what is probably a very silly question,and obvious to most ,(beginner here,)but what do the letters and numbers mean after the names of the paints please,many thanks 😊
Not a silly question at all - an exciting one! They stand for the pigments (the fine coloured powder part) of the paints. The P stands for pigment, then a letter which stands for a colour group name, then a number which identifies a specific colour from an international colour index, based on its chemical composition. The same pigments are used across different good quality coloured media: watercolour, oils, oil pastels etc (Though different companies will prepare them in different ways, so the actual colours can vary a bit). So for example most Ultramarine Blues are PB29. P=Pigment, B=Blue, 29=29th blue pigment on the Colour Index International. The pigments can be from all sorts of sources.
Ahh,I see,thanks for that explanation Helen. Only been painting a few months and really enjoying it,but now I know I’m going to stick with it I’ll start to invest in some quality paints,only have cheapies at the mo hence no numbers. I’ll be back with more questions!!!! 😂 Have good one …
Glad it's something you're enjoying!
Beautiful 😻 now I am tempted to get so many of them 🙈🙈
Hey Helen, I was wondering have you tried any fixative for soft pastels and oil pastels?
Sorry about that!
I have tried Talens Pastel fixative which seems to work fine on soft pastels, and I have Senneliers Oil pastel Fixative, but haven't used it yet.
@@helencryer thank you for sharing it. Can you try to do a video on them? Only if it’s not a trouble.
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Hi!