What Did I Use?! Reviewing A Jackson's & Amazon Art Haul 1 Year Later (Inktense, Neocolor l's etc.)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Taking a look at how I've used an art haul, one year later!
Jackson's Handmade Soft Pastels:
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Jackson's Pencil Storage:
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Akua Printing Ink:
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Caran D'Ache Neocolor I 30 set:
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Caran D'Ache Neocolor I Open Stock:
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Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer Watercolour Pencils 24 set:
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Albrecht Dürer Watercolour Pencils Open Stock:
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Derwent Inktense Pencils 72 set:
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Cretacolor Megacolor Pencils 36 set:
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120 Black Zipped Pencil Case:
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The original art haul video:
• Big Jackson's Art & Am...
Neocolor l & ll comparison video:
• Caran D'Ache Neocolor ...
Derwent Inktense pencils review:
• Derwent Inktense 72 Wa...
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Sometimes you just gotta go and buy a bunch of stuff to figure out if it works for you or it doesn't. I find it reassuring that if you don't use something you pass it on to someone else; doesn't go to waste.
Oh, never to waste - I hate having things that are just taking up space.
I’m loving this haul revisited series! What a great way to assess past purchases! And I always find it interesting to hear and see what other artists use in their practices. I appreciate that you include examples when you can. It’s neat to see the art created with a product.
Thanks ever so much!
I find these art haul reviews so interesting. Thanks for doing them!
Hi Sonya!
Thank you! I'm a bit embarrassed about this one though, seeing as I didn't use the products very much - real life though!
@@helencryer ah but you don't know what you'll like until you try it. and some things are good to have even if you don't reach for them all the time
@@awatercolourist hiya! No idea why YT didn’t see fit to notify me until now 🤷♀️
@@sonyaoart No worries 🙂. It happens to me too.
Your artwork is beautiful Helen!
Thank you, that's very kind!
Great idea to do a yearly review and reconsider. If you do a "no buy 2024" you will surely use these more. I will also do an "Inventory" of sorts to see what is there. I am trying to use more, buy less this year, so your video keep reminding me to "shop from my shelves" before buying anything. Thanks for th video.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy rediscovering what you have! I definitely am not promising to do a 'no buy 2024' if something catches my eye, but I just am really happy with what I already have now.
I love your videos. Your cards are beautiful. Thank you for sharing your art with all of us. Have a wonderful week.
Thanks so much! And you too!
2nd! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Hello! Thanks!
Good morning Helen , interesting to hear your assessment of various products , I agree with you totally that Jacksons soft pastels are beautiful to use , in my view head and shoulders above anything similar . I also find that all Derwent products are consistantly good . I look no further now , I'll stick with these products , time spent trying anything else is time I could use being creative . Thank you for the videeo , Mike in Exeter xx
I'm glad you rate the Jackson's Soft Pastels too! I agree to some extent with Derwent products, but don't love all their lines (for example Albrecht Dürer watercolour pencils blow Derwent's regular watercolour pencils out the water, I prefer Prismacolor to their Chromaflow, I love the Lightfast and Drawing Pencils, but they need to be supplemented with other brands' colours, and I don't think their Pastel Pencils are rated that highly.)
The little bird is so cute 😻 I have maybe 25 inktense open stock. I love bright colors and I’m exited to take them out for nature journaling when it gets a bit warmer in the Rocky Mountains! They don’t get much use in the winter.
That sounds so nice!!
I was considering that MegaColor set just last night. I just love using those pencils. They're fun to look at, feel great to hold, and they put down a great line. I particularly enjoy the white to layer over watercolor. My only issue is memorizing the color by name instead of by end color as it is sometimes misleading, particularly in the yellow shades. When I prefer a waxy pencil, I reach for those. Speaking of that, I need to test how waxy they are compared to the Neocolor I. Could I get away with using them as a resist? I love the Neocolor II, but the resist is the only reason I would reach fot them. Thank you, Helen! I really appreciate all your videos!
I tried the white for a watercolour resist, and they worked a bit but not great - nowhere near as good as Neocolor I white.
For the colours, I just taped a swatch chart inside the lid - I can only seem to do art with any medium along with swatch charts!
This is a useful video because we can see we’re all in the same boat! Buying art supplies with the best intentions of using them but then they end up being neglected. I have only once given art supplies away. It was a watercolor paint set. At the time I bought two (one to use and spares) but then started to buy other brands so I gave the spare set away. My Caran D’Ache Neo IIs aren’t used either as crayons or as watercolors ( I made a watercolor palette by breaking the sticks in half). I don’t use my soft pastels or pan pastels for pastel painting, I use them to enhance or correct issues on my watercolor paintings. Your cards are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, definitely! I just don't like having completely redundant things in my house, so will get rid of things eventually. I love using pastels in that way too!
@@helencryer 👍☺️
I have a very large set of Inktense pencils that I’ve had for years but I hardly use them because they’re so bright and chunky. Every so often I feel the guilt of not using them so they get a quick outing! I want to love them, maybe one day I will.😉 x
Haha - yes! So relatable!
Never thought to use the tin like that!! Thank you for sharing all your things .. and enabling me to… hopefully inspires me to do more art ❤
Thank you!
I really enjoy your 'one year' reviews, it's interesting to see what you've enjoyed using and not so much. Your lino cuts are lovely😍 I don't have any Neocolour 1's apart from white which I use as resist. I do have some Inktense pencils and a palette set but I don't seem to use them very much, just never gelled with them for some reason. My grandchildren enjoy using them though so I feel they're not going to waste.
I'm trying to be on a mostly no buy this year apart from restocks but I've already succumbed to getting myself some of the new Schmincke Horadam Natural pigments and liquid earth, some really lovely colours and i did manage to restrain myself and not go mad!
We all seem to be in the same boat with the Inktense pencils!! I'm going to have to give them some more thought for ways we can use them!
Oooo - I was looking at the new Schminckes!! How are you finding them?! (I was sad though - the Natural pigment I most liked, is fugitive!)
@@helencryer that would be great because i've always wondered if I'm just not using them properly! I only received the Schmincke tubes yesterday morning so not had much chance to play yet but I'm loving the look of them swatched. I'd say a couple seem a little more vibrant in real life, have a slightly weird texture out of the tube but from experience that's pretty standard for natural pigments and they do dry lovely. I tried to choose colours that were most dissimilar to my Wallace Seymour natural pigments, so went for Chalk, Curcuma, Dragons Blood, Dyers Green, Indigofera and Yellow Ochre, the lightfastness ranges from fair to good. I know what you mean about the Stil de Grain being fugitive, such a pity. I also picked up the Liquid Earth (watersoluble charcoal) in Sanguine and it's so lovely, both in colour and texture. I'll definitely go for the others 2 colours in that range........a bit less daunting for me than charcoal, lol! Just checked and it's all still on sale on Jackson's until tonight so if you're tempted it's a good time to try😉
Arghh!!! Don't tempt me!!
@@helencryerhahaha……sorry🫣😂
I’m jealous of your haul, however I’m determined to not buy new art supplies till I revisit all my supplies this year, love the fact that you are allowed to like supplies a lot even though you don’t reach for them constantly.
Well done!!
I was particularly interested to hear what you had to say about the Cretacolor Megacolor set. I bought that set at Christmas, after buying a lot of the pencils open stock. I originally purchased the open stock pencils for myself, but the pencils were GREAT for my kids. They just go down so well, are chunky, and very vivid - they’re basically like really nice crayons which aren’t as waxy/smudgy. So, I bought the set for myself… but my kids have taken it over, too. I absolutely recommend these for kids, if you can swing the price. They’re clearly artist quality, but I was disappointed that the set of 36 had several colors which were similar to each other, and not enough (in my opinion) more muted or at least secondary/tertiary colors. I don’t know if they are quite waxy enough to create a resist (as I see someone else asked about) but they are waxy enough that they don’t always layer well. To some extent that depends on the paper you use. I did find that when I took them out of the tin and put them into, first, a zippered pouch, and then later, a plastic pencil box, we all used them more. I actually separated the tin into the lid and bottom part, with then intention of using then as portable paint palettes. I found that one of the halves works perfectly to lay across the bottom part of my New Wave u.go medium pochade box… it holds onto the magnets and expands the palette space significantly.
Yes, I can see them being ideal for kids! That's lovely! I agree on the colours - I was making a swatch to go inside the lid recently, and was thinking it's a shame there were so many similar greens - some more natural, or very pale or very dark colours would have been good.
I didn't buy mine for layering/blending - they were more for mark making in single lines on mixed media work, so I'm OK with them not blending well. I tried them for a resist, and they don't work well for that, but that's what I got my Neocolor 1's for.
Love the revisited haul videos!
I don’t have any Neocolor I’s and I haven’t bought them because I think they’d be a “middle category” for me too. They look like a fantastic product (and I love my Neocolor II’s), but I don’t think I would use them enough to justify the purchase for me. I have a lot of supplies that are probably middle category products that I love and think are fantastic, but don’t reach for them much so I feel a bit guilty. However, at the same time, it gives me comfort in knowing that I have those supplies in my cupboard because when I’ve used them, I do enjoy them… so it’s nice to know they’re there for when the urge strikes. I think I’d have remorse if I gave them away and decided a year from now that I wanted to use them. (Far easier to give away the stuff I don’t like at all 😅.)
I also have some inktense pencils that don’t get as much use as they should (none of my pencils do, except a handful of white or pale colours that I use on watercolour/gouache pieces to add detail).
Thanks! Very sensible! I'd only recommend the white Neocolor 1, as a resist, if you have the 2's. I know what you mean - it's nice keeping nice things around!
Wonderful art work Helen and you have so much more to discover by exploring the materials you haven’t used much yet. Love your narrative calm voice and your creativity- it’s so good to reflect on what we bought and what we tend to keep using more. I’m looking forward to more of art reviews from you- I love the bird drawings in such a beautiful background!
Could I also ask you if you don’t mind where do you buy cards and envelope sets , I want to do birthday cards for friends:)
Thanks ever so much!
I usually get Anita's card blanks, from Amazon, The Range or Hobbycraft:
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A year! So glad I found your channel those months ago. I’ve had an upheaval in my art style and what supplies I use. I am obsessed with media that dries permanent - but also watercolour. Big fan of the neocolor 1s. I must admit I find the neocolor 2s kinda muddy. I wish I liked them more. This year I found Flashe, Luminance, and the inktense blocks. Rediscovered Gelatos that have been in my drawer for a few years. But my fave is always the Pitt pens, especially the big brush/dual.
Still working on the oil pastels situation - why are they so difficult for me to use? 🤔🤗
Those cretacolor mega don’t layer well in my experience. Nice colours.
Even all the names of the materials makes me happy!! I only have a couple of the Pitt Pens though - I need to spend more time with markers - definitely not got to grips with them yet.
My only suggestion for the oil pastels is just to use them for a few highlights/pops of colour to start with.
Lovely reviewing your haul from last year I have all the sets of coloured pencils u have shown in this video for my adult colouring.. and also the full set of neocolors 2. It’s amazing what we actually use I need to use more of my art supplies I’ve got so much.. ❤❤❤😊😊😊xxxx
I'm curious which you tend to use the most of all your materials?!
I think the only thing I’ve got that’s like what you had here is some inktense pencils. I’ve got 24 in my art kit along with a water brush (for times when it’s not really appropriate to get out watercolours and a pot of water). I like the idea of maybe combining them with the watercolours at some point for some extra details (like you do when you layer up different media for background and details), but usually I just do one or the other.
Thanks - I should definitely consider thinking about them in that way too - with regards to a travel kit!
This is brilliant, such a fantastic idea ☺☺☺
Thank you!
I love those lino prints! I make my own faux lino prints using ink and masking fluid. I’ve shared some of my work on Instagram.
I scrolled back and found them - they're great! They look very labour intensive though - I will probably stick with lino cuts so that I can re-use them!
@@helencryer The don’t take any more time than your average sketch. I really love painting them!
Oh, that's cool!
Interesting to see what you ended up not using, despite finding the products of good quality. I find my (huge) stash can be sorted into about the same categories as yours, and by far the largest group is the stuff I like and can't get rid of because I MIGHT want to use them sometime...but never do. 🤣 It's the 80/20 rule of using 80% of the products only 20% of the time and vice versa. Maybe even 90/10. But I'm running out of space, so I'm trying to get rid of the ones I'm pretty sure i won't ever use.
Haha! Good luck with it!!
wow amazing, I want to have it.
thanks for reviewing it🤩
i never use my inktense much either as they seem way too bright . i have a 24 set of pencils and a 12 set of blocks, which i got cheap many years ago and was going to use them in textile art which i was doing at the time, but never really got that inspired to use them that way. I recently got a white block to see if i can tone the colours down a little to force my self to try them again. i prefer to mix them on a caran d'ache pallete and use like paint . if i use a watercolour pencil i much prefer albrecht durers
A common theme! I also bought the Caran D'Ache palette for the same reason, but haven't got round to it yet. The white block is pretty cool with how opaque it dries - that may well work really well.
The Lino prints are lovely, I started with Akua ink, they’re fine on Lino if you’re only doing one or two layers but I fell foul by trying a 5 layer print on washi paper (I know better now) the old leaves out and ruined a quite good print. They’re more designed for collagraph etc but they are a really nice affordable ink to use xx
That's good to know, thanks! I only planned for single layers with it - I'm not advanced enough for anything more!
@@helencryer I know what you mean, I usually start running into problems on layer 3. My print at the moment is going to be a learning print, I’ll try it again implement what I learned. X
Hi
Very interesting to see, what and how you used the items!
I love the AD pencils and the inktense, but don’t use them that often. (Shame on me)
I have a love hate relationship with the Neocolor I s. We had to paint with them in school fairly often (Growing up in Switzerland comes with some nice Caran d’Ache products used in school. Every pupil got the Caran d’Ache Gouache as well. I can just remember that we had to clean it over the summer break every year 😅)
I absolutely hated to work with them and my hand still hurts from remembering how it was to paint with them. They always remind me of the art projects we had to do in school. One specific project was to paint in the style of Paul Klee with the Neocolor I.
I prefer the II s, not that many memories attached to them 😂
Now I wish I was Swiss!!! (Switzerland was the first place I ever went abroad to!)
It's fair enough you prefer the 2's though!
Buying stuff can become a habit; I should know judging by the fishing tackle I have as well as some paints, papers, and brushes. The thing is using them and you've done some nice works already, but in books. Why not try a nice piece of paper that can later be framed? You should do more of those and video them.
Haha! The pitfalls of being a 'collector'!!
Thank you! I do occasionally use loose paper for my drawings, which I frame and sell at my craft markets. I've also had sketchbook pages reproduced at my local printers, and had prints/cards made.
It’s funny how things turn out, isn’t it? Just under a year ago I was really enjoying using the Inktense pencils I have - I’d just added some more I got in a really nice shop in Ludlow. About a month later, I suddenly ‘discovered’ watercolour & I’ve use the pwcils about twice since then. But they have their place & I’ll use them again, just as you will. Btw, your little great tit (?) is beautiful but I really LOVE your linocuts. If I’m ever down your way, I can imagine a visit to your craft market could be quite expensive for me! 😂
It's so true! I love how art can take you in totally different directions, but you still have all the options available!
Haha - thanks for the compliment!
Wonderful Helen, as usual! May I ask you, as the expert, what the difference is between oil and soft pastels? I haven't used any of these and I would like to understand. Thanks!
Thanks! I'm definitely no expert 😜 but soft pastels are drier, more dusty, and a bit like using chalk, while oil pastels are kind of stickier and greasier, a bit like using lipstick (though with both kinds of pastels, there's a lot of variation in hardness across different brands).
I find the Inktense too unpredictable for my touch - i dond myself saying 'oops' alot because they're so bright and vibrant i usually i prefer things muted. I love my Albrecht Durer pencils. I only bought a few open stock colours. I am learning that whole sets are largely a waste for me and the art i enjoy doing. I need all the greens, browns and greys, a good few blues but very few yellows/orange/pink/reds. I love brands that allow you to make up your own set. Derwent has been great for that.
That's close to what I mainly use - I should follow your example!
I have the same watercolor pencils and feel the same way about them. I like them a lot but just don’t use them very much … I think I need to change that attitude haha
I figure their time will come!!
Same opinion of the Inktense but after seeing you use them with other products I’ve done the same. It’s likely my technique but I do think they stain too much so it makes them hard to use.
Yeah, they definitely require a different way of working.