Lovely haul video. I’ve not really used gouache, but those do look tempting. I’m hoping that by next year maybe there will be a Helen Cryer artist calendar that we can all buy? 😊
Yay unboxing video, I love seeing all the treasures you get in the mail! Doesn't matter if it's mostly organizational items or if it's full of colorful paints/media, it's always a joy to watch. I finally figured out why I enjoy your videos so much. You show exactly what I want to see and how I want to see it. For example, in this video you show all the products you received and then you play with them. It's like christmas, open all your presents then play with them after. When it comes to the painting videos, sometimes you speed it up during the slow bits but sometimes you keep the normal time when showing how you paint a scene or how you add in finer details; I just absolutely love it.
Hi Helen, I've been loving your haul videos! I love how soft spoken and focused you are. Thank you so much for making such enjoyable videos ❤ You are amazing.
I just got my first DS watercolor stick two days ago. I wanted Piemontite so badly and the stick was by far the cheapest option. It was so worth getting - what a gorgeous color! That and the Roman Szmal October paint are perfect moody November colors. I chopped it into a half pan yesterday & it seems to work really well that way. I’m also finding it kind of handy to be able to quickly dissolve a thick concentration into a palette well. Definitely considering getting a few more sticks.
Ha! How funny! I'd still like to get October too, but it was out of stock last time I looked. I definitely like the idea of dissolving them into a palette too, as a quick way of re-wetting.
I would love to try the holbein gouache. I am in love whit my himi miya gouache 56 colour set. I don,t wanna let go of this set. But i wanna try disiner gouache. I hope i wrote it right and i don,t know if i should try holbein gouache or winsor and Newton gouache. I love you,re art haul😊✌🏾👋🏾👍🏾😁🎨
I think you will find either Holbein or Winsor & Newton Gouaches a wonderful step up from the Himi (though they are very cute) - I think you'd find them so much more pigmented and rich. I would say that you should go for which ever are cheapest for you to get locally, unless them being lightfast matters to you. I think the W&N ones have better lightfast ratings.
Also, do you have any watercolour paints? Another thing you can do is just buy the white Holbein or Winsor & Newton gouache, and use your watercolours to colour the white. This works really really well, unless you need really dark gouache colours.
Every time you lay down color you make me happy. Your swatch book is beautiful I want to explore the colors on each page. Have you pulled out the colors for each page and done current swatches of your favorites. Those would be fun to watch.
I love that calendar. What a fun haul. Do you have pan pastel videos? I have a a lot of them but just haven't gotten the hang of it. I need a nice beginner video.
I don't I'm afraid. So far I've just used them for under layers for a few mixed media pictures, though I used them a long time ago to colour paper for paper flower models.
Super video Helen. Thank you. Love your swatches, especially the folder. Your haul getting unwrapped was great fun to watch. Im interested in the Khardi papers and sketch books, and put them on my shopping list. Please can you tell me what brush you used in your demo. It had a lovely point, and seemed to hold a lot of water. Thanks again......Alioban
Those Holbein gouache paints are lovely. When you opened the box I was like... sooo pretty. Those Daniel Smith sticks sound expensive but you get a lot of paint for the money. That was fun. I have 4 x the Canson XL pads, forgot they came in twos. 🙄😂 Looking forward to the swatching. ❤
Yeah, the Holbein paints get you like that! The sticks are expensive, but cheaper than a tube, and my curiosity over them won out! You'd better get painting, woman!!
Very informative. Great mix of products. The Canson XL is affordable to experiment with, not too precious so apt to paint more frequently. I too find that the Holbein gouache is really creamy. 🎉
As usual, a very interesting and diverse collection of supplies! I'm most intrigued by the DS sticks. They aren't easy to find online in Canada; I'd love to find them in a little pack like the granulating set you found! Love all the books/calendar/zines for studying and inspiration as well. Now for my little (ok BIG) whine. I used to order from Jackson's quite frequently. However, over the last few months, they've updated their website and now I'm redirected to a "Canadian" website, rather than using the normal website with Canadian currency conversions. I *hate* the Canadian website. A lot of links are broken, the descriptions are not as detailed (cannot always see complete list of colours in sets) and a lot of items just are not available on the Canadian site. it's incredibly disappointing. I feel like I've lost a source for art supplies 😭. I've enjoyed many, many orders and shopping from Jackson's for years. They had excellent prices and great shipping prices to Canada. I was able to buy things that aren't available in Canada, it was fantastic... until now. I guess it's a money-saving win, less art supply shopping lol.
@@helencryer It is VERY frustrating, because for a moment, before being redirected to the Canadian site, you can see the number of items on the regular site (and lower Canadian prices). Being able to briefly see what you can no longer buy makes it more painful 😣. As an example, on the “regular” site, if I click on the Black Friday sale link, it indicates 272 items. As soon as I click to see the second page, I get redirected to the awful Canadian site, where there are initially 234 items. That’s not bad, but as soon as you click on the Canadian site everything refreshes and there are only 75 items total. From 272 to 75 is a pretty big disappointment. There’s no point in even going to the site anymore.
The new delivery looks good! Like the Illustrations book, reminds me of your paintings. I have a sketchpad on my desk I use as a sketchbook instead of my little pads, don’t want to „spoil“ them by making rubbish art in them! Perhaps we should form club!?! ( Ordered a set of CaranD’Ache wooden pencils ) as seen in your video, for myself & daughter! Thanks.
Hi Helen, great video. 1st one for me - I'm happy I found you today. :) Oh I can relate about new sketchbooks..or bound paper anything. I became a hoarder, pardon, a collector (instead of user) of sketchbooks and journals with cute/cool covers. Yesterday bought the cheapest with yellow cover from amazon - hopefully that will break the cycle. 😂
Ah, that's lovely, thanks! You're welcome to join our 'Bad Art Sketchbook Club'!! So far all it entails is having a sketchbook solely reserved for art we aren't allowed to judge ourselves on, and promising never to get precious about it!
Another lovely haul, thank you🙏🏼 I also bought one of those 'Really Useful' boxes for my Lefranc paints a few weeks ago. I'd been keeping them under my desk in the cardboard box they arrived in and it was getting a bit battered! Your idea about having a sketchbook to create 'bad' art and not being too precious about it really does resonate. I'm really trying to just enjoy the process of creating in my sketchbooks now without stressing about everything being 'perfect'🥴.........easier said than done sometimes but I think I'm getting better at it😬
Haha, that sounds familiar! I love the boxes - they are gradually replacing everything in my house! Another viewer and I just set up 'The Bad Art Sketchbook Club' if you fancy being a member too! It basically involves having one self-judgement free sketchbook! That's it so far!
The botanical book images reminded me about Mary Delaney's work. She was a collage artist from the 1800's and England. There is a book with her art and life story. It is good to show the work of women from the past as well. Thank you for the Daniel Smith review, have you looked into their you tube channel, good tips there too .
With your 3 swatches of the lunar black, I can’t help thinking that the middle and right hand swatches look like a hedgehog and a badger! Haha I think I have too much imagination sometimes!
We are totally on the same wavelength. I picked up Melanie Chadwick's zine, the illustrators book, and a sealable box for my Flashe paints. Too funny. I would love to hear what you find with the Holbein Gouache lightfast ratings. My quick look had all the fun and unique colours being non lightfast so I have just been using them in my sketchbook. I guess that was the original purpose of them anyway but a little sad. Thank you for the great video and for supporting fellow artists.
No way, that's hilarious! I looked on Jackson's Art website at the individual tubes of Holbein Gouache, and many of the pinks and purples are fugitive, but everything else looks decent. A couple of independent 'in the window for 8 months' kind of tests showed the same.
OH GOODIE! Helen’s got watercolor sticks! Spoke to my eldest yesterday, she did some research and found a large art store in Scranton, (or rather a small town attached), that’s about 45 minutes away. I live in a very tiny town in the Poconos…not much close by. The reason for the art store, she and her beautiful wife, who has also started dabbling in watercolor, will be here for about 5 days next week-you know, “Black Friday” sales! My daughter says she just gets overwhelmed in these stores, and has pretty much stuck with everything I’ve sent her. We have several plans for when they are here. We’re hoping to find a really large sheet at the art store that we are all going to paint on together…kind of. I’m finishing my rooster later today on xuan paper, I’ve already done a bunny and a horse-my Children’s 3 Chinese birth animals, done in mostly ink-although I did add quite a bit of color to the rooster. We’re going to mount those on the large sheet, and…just something to do together for the girls to keep. Project #2 is some lampshades we’re going to coat with watercolor medium and then paint. At the store, I’ve made a list of things I’d like for Christmas..one us those DS sticks. My best friend got some a few years ago, uses them all the time, and still has 3/4 of each left. I DO need to check and see if they have the colors I want..I saw you have sodalite-so that answers that question! (Or one of them!). I was going to get tubes, but Liz, my friend, pitched a fit and told me to get the sticks-if they’re available. Looking for hematite violet, one of the transparent cool yellows, one of the Quins (PV42 I Think) and amethyst. My friend found one of the limited release Christmas green (Cascade with a bit of piney, Christmas-y smelling oil in it. She wanted to share it with me, but I’d already put a few drops of my favorite Christmas oil in a spray bottle, sprayed it on the paints to wet them..to be honest, I like mine better. It doesn’t seem to affect the paints or paper (one small one I did of my tiny town between hills-I sprayed the paper with it first for an underpainting-no problems!) I’ll send your link to my daughter! Ooohh…that Paynes gray is a pigment this pigment addict doesn’t have yet..looks a bit too blue though..it almost looks like a PB60 I have (a handmade one). It DOES also look like sodalite..but..even more blue?
Aww, so nice having family visit, and I love hearing all your arty adventures!! It does seem like the sticks will last for quite a while - they seem very dense with pigment. I'm not sure if they're available in all those colours though. I think the whole available range is given on Jackson's website, which I linked to, if you want to check in advance.
Hi Helen I cant afford all those sticks in one go so am going to buy one now and again, what colour would you suggest getting as my first one to try thanks
As they operate pretty similarly to watercolours, I'd just see what watercolours you already have, and pick out a different one, that will complement them.
Nice video, lovely haul. Looking forward to the gouache swatching. I've got some of the W&N designer gouache and I love them - I'm really only just starting to use gouache in earnest so I'll try to use what i have before I'm tempted to buy another brand (although given my track record for buying art materials, I'm not confident I'll manage to wait 😂)
@helencryer The holbein gouache was tempting me too! 😂 I looked up the lightfast ratings and was rather underwhelmed so decided not to get them. Also I have a small set (plus a few freebie tubes from an art store opening day) of acrylics I've been too intimidated to try so I should really give those a try those first! 🤣
I have serpentine genuine in a pan and in a tube (it's California's state rock! xD). I noticed that the stick version doesn't have the same granulation and color separation! A bit of bummer, but maybe it will work better if applied directly then wetted?
I've been looking at the Holbein gouache on Jacksons all week and have been very good at resisting and then you come along, I can just blame you when a mysterious package arrives in the post 🙈👀😂
Hi there! I'm an artist from Germany and found your videos yesterday after searching for some Urban sketching videos (both Nepal videos were great watches!) and I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos and thank you for sharing! Your swatch collection looks great and useful! I'm way too lazy to do that, but it was very satisfying to see. Could you maybe make another video about the watercolor sticks by Daniel Smith (or any other brand) in the future to check up on how you feel about them? From what I saw, I think they would be too much hassle for me, so I just stick to my pans. - Which is why my sticks are still in the closet where I put them in like - oh dear! - two years ago. So I could use some more ideas on how to use them. :) Anyway, have a lovely Sunday!
Thank you very much - I appreciate you watching! I think I'll probably use the sticks chopped up in half pans mainly - just a cheaper way of getting them. If I had lots of the sticks though, I might chop small slices into some kind of container and make a really mini palette with them. I do like the idea of rubbing them into water in a palette for the harder to re-wet ones though.
@@helencryer Thank you so much for answering! The sticks are cheaper compared to the pans, that makes sense. I just need to be a bit careful because I love collecting things (and I need to be stopped, quite honest. I'm running out of room!) But I look forward to seeing you play with them some more!
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that PBk26 may be a typo, because that's spinel gray and it's the pigment in their Neutral tint, and in Payne's gray it's N/A
I think you have far too many paints. 😆 However, thanks for pointing me to the Rosa Galery range, I bought a nice cadmium yellow and the cobalt grey granulates lovely.
I love the art you picked up!! your swatch map,looks like the ones for pokemon cards😂 I own 4 of the watercolor sticks from lyra,but I don't know what to do with them😅
I’m exactly the same about sketchbooks 😬 I have loads but end up buying a couple more just so I’m not so precious about my existing ones…crazy. I’ve just bought a couple of Canson Art Book ones (A5 100% cotton Saunders Waterford paper) which are on Cass Art for £12.95 each. How can one resist 😂
Haha! Another person was saying similar too, so we've just set up 'The Bad Art Sketchbook Club'! You're welcome to join! It involves having a sketchbook that doesn't become precious - it's SUPPOSED to look bad!! I immediately went and looked at these ones, and even put two in my basket, but then remembered I don't need any more! They look great though!
Lovely haul video. I’ve not really used gouache, but those do look tempting. I’m hoping that by next year maybe there will be a Helen Cryer artist calendar that we can all buy? 😊
Wahh!! That sounds very scary! But thank you so much for your belief in me 🙂
@@helencryer- I also think this would be a great idea or maybe a zine of your own! I love your art!
@@TerriChannel yes! I was looking at the art in that zine thinking Helen's was every bit as lovely and worth having a zine of too!
Thank you both so much!! I'm very flattered!
I second what they said. 😁
Lovely way to start a Sunday morning,an art haul with a cuppa.🫖
Thank you! Hope you've had a nice chilled day!
had a lovely day,hope you did too 😊
Yay unboxing video, I love seeing all the treasures you get in the mail! Doesn't matter if it's mostly organizational items or if it's full of colorful paints/media, it's always a joy to watch.
I finally figured out why I enjoy your videos so much. You show exactly what I want to see and how I want to see it. For example, in this video you show all the products you received and then you play with them. It's like christmas, open all your presents then play with them after. When it comes to the painting videos, sometimes you speed it up during the slow bits but sometimes you keep the normal time when showing how you paint a scene or how you add in finer details; I just absolutely love it.
Well that's a really lovely thing to say, thank you so much! I'm happy you feel that way!
Hi Helen, I've been loving your haul videos!
I love how soft spoken and focused you are.
Thank you so much for making such enjoyable videos ❤
You are amazing.
Thanks for your lovely comment!!
All interesting - thanks so much.
Thanks!
you got me at Art supply haul.. !!
a stunning haul it looks fantastic ❤❤
I just got my first DS watercolor stick two days ago. I wanted Piemontite so badly and the stick was by far the cheapest option. It was so worth getting - what a gorgeous color! That and the Roman Szmal October paint are perfect moody November colors. I chopped it into a half pan yesterday & it seems to work really well that way. I’m also finding it kind of handy to be able to quickly dissolve a thick concentration into a palette well. Definitely considering getting a few more sticks.
Ha! How funny! I'd still like to get October too, but it was out of stock last time I looked.
I definitely like the idea of dissolving them into a palette too, as a quick way of re-wetting.
I would love to try the holbein gouache. I am in love whit my himi miya gouache 56 colour set. I don,t wanna let go of this set. But i wanna try disiner gouache. I hope i wrote it right and i don,t know if i should try holbein gouache or winsor and Newton gouache. I love you,re art haul😊✌🏾👋🏾👍🏾😁🎨
I think you will find either Holbein or Winsor & Newton Gouaches a wonderful step up from the Himi (though they are very cute) - I think you'd find them so much more pigmented and rich. I would say that you should go for which ever are cheapest for you to get locally, unless them being lightfast matters to you. I think the W&N ones have better lightfast ratings.
Also, do you have any watercolour paints? Another thing you can do is just buy the white Holbein or Winsor & Newton gouache, and use your watercolours to colour the white. This works really really well, unless you need really dark gouache colours.
Thank you for this protip with swatch album ❤️
Haha, thanks!
I’ve been lusting after 2 of the Salsbury books!! They’re lovely.
I need to find out what the other is now!
Every time you lay down color you make me happy. Your swatch book is beautiful I want to explore the colors on each page. Have you pulled out the colors for each page and done current swatches of your favorites. Those would be fun to watch.
That's so lovely, thank you!
I wasn't sure what you meant about pulling out the colours for each page though?
I love that calendar.
What a fun haul.
Do you have pan pastel videos? I have a a lot of them but just haven't gotten the hang of it.
I need a nice beginner video.
I don't I'm afraid. So far I've just used them for under layers for a few mixed media pictures, though I used them a long time ago to colour paper for paper flower models.
Yay! Coffee break sorted. 😊
Aww, that's sweet - thanks!
@@helencryer💗💗💗
Same! ☕ with toasted bagels, vegan cream cheese w freshly diced chives.
Haha, love this!! Thanks! I'm tempted to ask in my next video 'What are you eating whilst watching this?!?'
Super video Helen. Thank you. Love your swatches, especially the folder. Your haul getting unwrapped was great fun to watch. Im interested in the Khardi papers and sketch books, and put them on my shopping list. Please can you tell me what brush you used in your demo. It had a lovely point, and seemed to hold a lot of water. Thanks again......Alioban
Thank you! The brush was a Silver Black Velvet 12.
Thank you. Will check them out 👍😊
Those Holbein gouache paints are lovely. When you opened the box I was like... sooo pretty. Those Daniel Smith sticks sound expensive but you get a lot of paint for the money. That was fun. I have 4 x the Canson XL pads, forgot they came in twos. 🙄😂 Looking forward to the swatching. ❤
Yeah, the Holbein paints get you like that!
The sticks are expensive, but cheaper than a tube, and my curiosity over them won out!
You'd better get painting, woman!!
Very informative. Great mix of products. The Canson XL is affordable to experiment with, not too precious so apt to paint more frequently. I too find that the Holbein gouache is really creamy. 🎉
Great you like them both too!
My puppy is intrigued by the Daniel Smith sticks swatching, she rarely pays attention to the TV!
Haha!! This is great! ❤️
As usual, a very interesting and diverse collection of supplies! I'm most intrigued by the DS sticks. They aren't easy to find online in Canada; I'd love to find them in a little pack like the granulating set you found! Love all the books/calendar/zines for studying and inspiration as well.
Now for my little (ok BIG) whine. I used to order from Jackson's quite frequently. However, over the last few months, they've updated their website and now I'm redirected to a "Canadian" website, rather than using the normal website with Canadian currency conversions. I *hate* the Canadian website. A lot of links are broken, the descriptions are not as detailed (cannot always see complete list of colours in sets) and a lot of items just are not available on the Canadian site. it's incredibly disappointing. I feel like I've lost a source for art supplies 😭. I've enjoyed many, many orders and shopping from Jackson's for years. They had excellent prices and great shipping prices to Canada. I was able to buy things that aren't available in Canada, it was fantastic... until now. I guess it's a money-saving win, less art supply shopping lol.
That is incredibly sad!! I'm very sorry to hear this - I would find it enormously frustrating!
@@helencryer It is VERY frustrating, because for a moment, before being redirected to the Canadian site, you can see the number of items on the regular site (and lower Canadian prices). Being able to briefly see what you can no longer buy makes it more painful 😣.
As an example, on the “regular” site, if I click on the Black Friday sale link, it indicates 272 items. As soon as I click to see the second page, I get redirected to the awful Canadian site, where there are initially 234 items. That’s not bad, but as soon as you click on the Canadian site everything refreshes and there are only 75 items total. From 272 to 75 is a pretty big disappointment. There’s no point in even going to the site anymore.
The new delivery looks good! Like the Illustrations book, reminds me of your paintings. I have a sketchpad on my desk I use as a sketchbook instead of my little pads, don’t want to „spoil“ them by making rubbish art in them! Perhaps we should form club!?! ( Ordered a set of CaranD’Ache wooden pencils ) as seen in your video, for myself & daughter! Thanks.
Thanks!!
I'm up for a club, I love clubs! 'The Bad Art Sketchbook Club' or something catchy like that 🤣
Hope you love the pencils!
@@helencryer Like the title! As, a grounder member congratulations!! Hi,hi.
@@helencryer Apparently they can only send 1 set( pencils) at mo.
And, Bad Art sketchbook Club it is! Hi,hi!
Hi Helen, great video. 1st one for me - I'm happy I found you today. :)
Oh I can relate about new sketchbooks..or bound paper anything. I became a hoarder, pardon, a collector (instead of user) of sketchbooks and journals with cute/cool covers. Yesterday bought the cheapest with yellow cover from amazon - hopefully that will break the cycle. 😂
Ah, that's lovely, thanks!
You're welcome to join our 'Bad Art Sketchbook Club'!! So far all it entails is having a sketchbook solely reserved for art we aren't allowed to judge ourselves on, and promising never to get precious about it!
Another lovely haul, thank you🙏🏼 I also bought one of those 'Really Useful' boxes for my Lefranc paints a few weeks ago. I'd been keeping them under my desk in the cardboard box they arrived in and it was getting a bit battered!
Your idea about having a sketchbook to create 'bad' art and not being too precious about it really does resonate. I'm really trying to just enjoy the process of creating in my sketchbooks now without stressing about everything being 'perfect'🥴.........easier said than done sometimes but I think I'm getting better at it😬
Haha, that sounds familiar! I love the boxes - they are gradually replacing everything in my house!
Another viewer and I just set up 'The Bad Art Sketchbook Club' if you fancy being a member too! It basically involves having one self-judgement free sketchbook! That's it so far!
@@helencryer @helencryer @helencryer Haha sounds like a plan!
The botanical book images reminded me about Mary Delaney's work. She was a collage artist from the 1800's and England. There is a book with her art and life story. It is good to show the work of women from the past as well. Thank you for the Daniel Smith review, have you looked into their you tube channel, good tips there too .
Thank you for the lovely recommendations!
@helencryer Mary was born in 1700's sorry about wrong date. Take care and thanks again.
With your 3 swatches of the lunar black, I can’t help thinking that the middle and right hand swatches look like a hedgehog and a badger! Haha I think I have too much imagination sometimes!
Ahaha! You must be the creative type! 😉
I’d never heard of Matt Johnson before - his work reminds a lot of Angie Lewins 😮 great video btw
I haven't heard of her! Will go and look! Thanks!
We are totally on the same wavelength. I picked up Melanie Chadwick's zine, the illustrators book, and a sealable box for my Flashe paints. Too funny. I would love to hear what you find with the Holbein Gouache lightfast ratings. My quick look had all the fun and unique colours being non lightfast so I have just been using them in my sketchbook. I guess that was the original purpose of them anyway but a little sad. Thank you for the great video and for supporting fellow artists.
No way, that's hilarious!
I looked on Jackson's Art website at the individual tubes of Holbein Gouache, and many of the pinks and purples are fugitive, but everything else looks decent. A couple of independent 'in the window for 8 months' kind of tests showed the same.
OH GOODIE! Helen’s got watercolor sticks! Spoke to my eldest yesterday, she did some research and found a large art store in Scranton, (or rather a small town attached), that’s about 45 minutes away. I live in a very tiny town in the Poconos…not much close by.
The reason for the art store, she and her beautiful wife, who has also started dabbling in watercolor, will be here for about 5 days next week-you know, “Black Friday” sales! My daughter says she just gets overwhelmed in these stores, and has pretty much stuck with everything I’ve sent her. We have several plans for when they are here. We’re hoping to find a really large sheet at the art store that we are all going to paint on together…kind of. I’m finishing my rooster later today on xuan paper, I’ve already done a bunny and a horse-my Children’s 3 Chinese birth animals, done in mostly ink-although I did add quite a bit of color to the rooster. We’re going to mount those on the large sheet, and…just something to do together for the girls to keep. Project #2 is some lampshades we’re going to coat with watercolor medium and then paint. At the store, I’ve made a list of things I’d like for Christmas..one us those DS sticks. My best friend got some a few years ago, uses them all the time, and still has 3/4 of each left. I DO need to check and see if they have the colors I want..I saw you have sodalite-so that answers that question! (Or one of them!). I was going to get tubes, but Liz, my friend, pitched a fit and told me to get the sticks-if they’re available. Looking for hematite violet, one of the transparent cool yellows, one of the Quins (PV42 I Think) and amethyst. My friend found one of the limited release Christmas green (Cascade with a bit of piney, Christmas-y smelling oil in it. She wanted to share it with me, but I’d already put a few drops of my favorite Christmas oil in a spray bottle, sprayed it on the paints to wet them..to be honest, I like mine better. It doesn’t seem to affect the paints or paper (one small one I did of my tiny town between hills-I sprayed the paper with it first for an underpainting-no problems!)
I’ll send your link to my daughter!
Ooohh…that Paynes gray is a pigment this pigment addict doesn’t have yet..looks a bit too blue though..it almost looks like a PB60 I have (a handmade one). It DOES also look like sodalite..but..even more blue?
Aww, so nice having family visit, and I love hearing all your arty adventures!!
It does seem like the sticks will last for quite a while - they seem very dense with pigment.
I'm not sure if they're available in all those colours though. I think the whole available range is given on Jackson's website, which I linked to, if you want to check in advance.
I think those pan pastel holders are well worth the money. I’ve only ever had problems with my pan pastels when I’ve taken them out of them 😂
I will never take them out now!!
Hi Helen I cant afford all those sticks in one go so am going to buy one now and again, what colour would you suggest getting as my first one to try thanks
As they operate pretty similarly to watercolours, I'd just see what watercolours you already have, and pick out a different one, that will complement them.
Nice video, lovely haul. Looking forward to the gouache swatching. I've got some of the W&N designer gouache and I love them - I'm really only just starting to use gouache in earnest so I'll try to use what i have before I'm tempted to buy another brand (although given my track record for buying art materials, I'm not confident I'll manage to wait 😂)
Yes, they're definitely great! I need to find out more about Holbein's lightfast situation before I go gung ho on them...
@@helencryer I've had that set in and out of my basket numerous times, lol. I keep talking myself out of things as quickly as into them 😂
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@helencryer The holbein gouache was tempting me too! 😂 I looked up the lightfast ratings and was rather underwhelmed so decided not to get them. Also I have a small set (plus a few freebie tubes from an art store opening day) of acrylics I've been too intimidated to try so I should really give those a try those first! 🤣
I have serpentine genuine in a pan and in a tube (it's California's state rock! xD). I noticed that the stick version doesn't have the same granulation and color separation! A bit of bummer, but maybe it will work better if applied directly then wetted?
Thanks, yeah - I get the feeling that you need to mix a fair bit up of the stick to release particles that granulate.
That folder for your watercolour swatches is wonderful! What folder is it?
Edit: Never mind, I’ve found the video 😊
Great, thanks!
I've been looking at the Holbein gouache on Jacksons all week and have been very good at resisting and then you come along, I can just blame you when a mysterious package arrives in the post 🙈👀😂
😬 I think you will really like your mysterious package!! Not a bad price though, hey?
Hi there! I'm an artist from Germany and found your videos yesterday after searching for some Urban sketching videos (both Nepal videos were great watches!) and I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos and thank you for sharing!
Your swatch collection looks great and useful! I'm way too lazy to do that, but it was very satisfying to see.
Could you maybe make another video about the watercolor sticks by Daniel Smith (or any other brand) in the future to check up on how you feel about them? From what I saw, I think they would be too much hassle for me, so I just stick to my pans. - Which is why my sticks are still in the closet where I put them in like - oh dear! - two years ago. So I could use some more ideas on how to use them. :) Anyway, have a lovely Sunday!
Thank you very much - I appreciate you watching!
I think I'll probably use the sticks chopped up in half pans mainly - just a cheaper way of getting them. If I had lots of the sticks though, I might chop small slices into some kind of container and make a really mini palette with them. I do like the idea of rubbing them into water in a palette for the harder to re-wet ones though.
@@helencryer Thank you so much for answering! The sticks are cheaper compared to the pans, that makes sense. I just need to be a bit careful because I love collecting things (and I need to be stopped, quite honest. I'm running out of room!) But I look forward to seeing you play with them some more!
I can wholly relate to being a collector!!!
Where did you get the swatch book from?
This is the album I used:
amzn.to/476wwGH
@@helencryer thankyou, love the colour swatching
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that PBk26 may be a typo, because that's spinel gray and it's the pigment in their Neutral tint, and in Payne's gray it's N/A
Ah, OK, thanks - I'll look into it some more.
I think you have far too many paints. 😆 However, thanks for pointing me to the Rosa Galery range, I bought a nice cadmium yellow and the cobalt grey granulates lovely.
I didn't know that was 'a thing'! 🤣 You're welcome!
I love the art you picked up!!
your swatch map,looks like the ones for pokemon cards😂
I own 4 of the watercolor sticks from lyra,but I don't know what to do with them😅
Thanks! Yes, I think that's pretty much what the folder is for!
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I’m exactly the same about sketchbooks 😬 I have loads but end up buying a couple more just so I’m not so precious about my existing ones…crazy. I’ve just bought a couple of Canson Art Book ones (A5 100% cotton Saunders Waterford paper) which are on Cass Art for £12.95 each. How can one resist 😂
Haha! Another person was saying similar too, so we've just set up 'The Bad Art Sketchbook Club'! You're welcome to join! It involves having a sketchbook that doesn't become precious - it's SUPPOSED to look bad!!
I immediately went and looked at these ones, and even put two in my basket, but then remembered I don't need any more! They look great though!
@@helencryerYes I need to join! 😂
Maimeri's Payne's grey is an odd one. My version has VAT blue 1, which is chemically the same as PB66. So, an indigo actually. Not lightfast though.
Oh that's interesting, thanks! Yet listed as high lightfast on various websites, which is a shame.
@@helencryer Maimeri rates all their watercolors lf 3 stars ;)
That PBk26 is very blue. I thought PBk26 was a deep grey. Strange!
Don't know anything about this one, I'm afraid!
GREAT VIDEO... QUICK QUESTION.. I REALLY LIKED THE WATERCOLOR SWATCH BINDER YOU HAD YOUR SWATCHES IN... WHERE DID YOU GET IT? thanks!😃
Thanks! This is the binder I bought from Amazon:
amzn.to/46psWqp
This was meditative and lovely to watch! I so enjoy your videos and unfortunately my wishlist keeps growing afterwards. 😁🤗😇🩵🙏🙌🇸🇪
I'm so sorry, but thank you ever so much!!