Belated happy birthday, Helen! I'm a Roman Szmal user and I really like taking Qor breaks, just turning them loose to see what they want to do with each other - and with Roman. People who like a lot of control over their watercolors get frustrated with Tor, but to me it's like having a houseful of puppies - just less to clean up on the floor. Usually.
I also bought the set of 24 QOR paints and they are SO lovely!! I loved hearing your expression of joy at watching the Quinacridone Magenta make its run through the water - it’s like magic and it’s my favorite color in the set. Have fun experimenting with all your lovely gifts. Happy birthday 🎉!
Belated happy birthday Helen! Lovely haul! I love your hauls, painting videos, in short every video. Have literally binged watched your channel since I have found it 🙈 you sketched with the pen so well. Loved the bunny. I prefer a slightly longer riggers. I find them easier to control even though the the brush fibers are like extra long. Can’t wait to see you do a full painting with Qor watercolor and the new Rosa Gallery watercolors!! PS: I share your love for Turquoise. Glad to know someone who too like it 😊
I'm very flattered at your binge watching - thank you! 😂 I'll have to bear that in mind with riggers, thanks! Yes, the Qor seem to be amazing! I know what I'll be doing tomorrow!!
Happy belated birthday, Helen! Your family and friends are truely wonderful. It was great to see all of their lovely gifts. I'm finding the Cor watercolors tempting too but I always talk myself out of buying them because I also already have so many paints. Getting them as a birthday gift from one's husband is a great idea - so thanks for the inspiration.😉 I'm curious about your virdict on the Arches hot pressed paper. It reacts so different from the cold pressed one. Personally, I think it's better for colored pencils than watercolor, but it certainly comes down to the individual painting process as well. As for rigger brush I love to use it for long and thin leaves or blades of grass (with a bit of pressure applied in the middle of the stroke). It's easier to paint them with a rigger than with an ordinary round brush. Anyway, enjoy all of your new supplies!
Yes, I'm definitely very lucky in the friends and family department! Though my husband wouldn't have a clue what to get, so I just choose all my own stuff! I'm not sure I'd have got the QoR otherwise either, to be honest - or maybe just the 6 pack. Oh, that makes me especially interested to try out the paper now - haven't used it yet.
Happy belated birthday!! I think you'll love exploring the Qor's unique properties. The way they push other colors around on paper is really fun to work with!
Belated birthday wishes! My most recent Cult Pens order also came with Love Hearts and the Jubilee gel pen, rather apt for the coronation. Oooh the Qor tin is LOVELY with all the little well.
Firstly…happy (belated) birthday 🎉 secondly, I was shocked at the colour choices of your Rosa Gallery paints, because I bought 12 a few weeks ago, and they’re all EXACTLY the same as the ones you’ve chosen, except for the chromium oxide. Every time you picked one up and read out the name, I was going “no way!” My cat thinks I’m bonkers 😂
Happy Belated Birthday 🎉! Hope you enjoyed your day! You definitely received some beautiful gifts and such a nice variety of different items! I picked up the 12-tube set of QoR paints about a year ago when we were in the US for a long weekend. I really like them, but they’re hard to find here in Canada (or very expensive if you do find them). I hate it when paints explode out of the tube like that. I started having empty half pans at my side whenever I open a new tube now 😅. I have a few Lamy pens with different nibs, I like them okay. I haven’t crossed to the dark side of collecting expensive pens, so Lamy suit me fine lol.
It's a shame you don't benefit from lower US art prices for some brands! Glad to hear you like them too. I definitely feel there is a dark side to nice pens, so I think I need to stay on this side for a good long time yet!! 😬
Happy Birthday 🎂 Helen , looks like you had a fabulous arty day 🎨🖌️🖼️ . Love that you can purchase separate rosa gallery pans , that’s really good to know , I opened my romantic set yesterday and I have the landscape pallet as well but not yet opened. Thankyou for sharing your birthday art supply haul .
Hope you had a marvelous birthday! What a great bunch of new toys to play with. Looking forward to your reviews. I too love the flowy watercolors; QOR is a favorite for that and the rich pigmentation. They market their binder, Aquasol, separately and it can be added to water to give other brands more energy. I love seeing what it'll do to more contained colors. Have fun experimenting!
What fun new supplies!! 😍 Thank you for reading aloud the pigments of the Rosa Gallery paints. It's so interesting to hear what different brands use and mix together. The black grape sounds especially unique and interesting! Qor has a synthetic oxgall liquid medium that you can add a few drops of to your "clean water" water jar, and paint with. It improves the flow of the paints even further than they already do, as well as slowing down the drying time a bit so you can really work some wonders in wet wash blends. You can use the medium with other paints as well and it will work the same as with Qor paints, albeit not as significantly due to differing binders. Thanks so much for sharing your haul! 🙏😊 (Even though I'm late to the party and it's nearly time for your next birthday already.) Lol 😅
Happy birthday. You will love the Qor paints if you expect how quickly they disperse. Their quin magenta is the best out there. One thing I found with Qor is that they have very little drying shift, which I really like. I have found that on hot press paper, the colors don’t look as bright. However, hot press is ideal for pen & ink and if you have ever used liquid watercolors, I think it’s good for those. It’s also good for gouache because gouache sits on top of the paper.
I was watching Toby urbansketch and he uses a lamy fountain pen with carbon ink so I was looking at them. It looks really good. I think I might get one. Happy birthday.
Hi Helen! I find it so astonishing how you can make a lovely picture so easily, could you share some tips on your daily art practice? I’m a bit stuck with mine, I have been practicing daily for about a year and a half and my skills seemed to have reached a plateau… Enjoying your videos ❤
Thanks, that's very kind! At the moment I'm not managing to do art every day, and when I do, it's feeling a bit haphazard. I seem to be flitting from style to style, and medium to medium right now, with no plan and actually feel a bit stuck myself. I think often I'm led by whatever the latest art materials I've bought are. One thing I sometimes find useful though is having art books, and looking through, and copying something from one. That way you're forced to use maybe new techniques or styles, that can help you practice or may trigger new thoughts for your own art.
@@helencryer That’s a great idea! I have lots of art books but I haven’t used them for my practice lately. Will give it a go! Thank you so much for your kind advice!
I hate to say this, but REALLY....the only reason that I bought the 24 Qor set was because I wanted the palette! The paints are good, but really love the bubble mixing areas. Hope you are still enjoying your birthday haul! Oooohh! I JUST ordered the Khadi watercolor paper.
It was funny that I was browsing new watercolors brand that I discover while watching this video, and then hear you talking about it! It is Rosa gallery! I was pleased to find this Ukrainian brand as Ukrainian myself, now I am eager to try it out. The price is pleasant too and now I see that artists do appreciate it, no reason not to go for it
Happy belated birthday. Very nice selection of presents. I enjoy the chromoflow pencils but I will warn you when sharpening, don’t sharpen to a sharp point because they will break.
I went to the Moleskin shop in Liverpool Street station on Sunday and it was a complete wishlist dream! So many beautiful notebooks and sketchbooks, pens etc - I love Moleskin sketchbooks I already have and it was torture to see everything there in front of me and not be able to buy anything (weight/bag restrictions for flying back to Scotland 😢)
I was wondering about the black grape...mine out of the tube is much redder/more colorful than yours out of the pan...I hope you are not too disappointed with this recommandation😢
WHAT A LOVELY GIFT BOX FROM YOUR FRIEND WOW
I know!! She's so generous and thoughtful!
oh boy, can't resist an art haul..
Guilty pleasures 😂
What fun!
Love, love, love Helen Wells. 😊
Lovely supplies. Happy birthday 🎂 !
Thank you!!
Happy belated birthday. 🥰🙏I dabble in watercolor... not really an artist but I liked the QOR . They burst out on wet wash... 😂
Thank you! I too am a dabbler, and think these are perfect for dabbling!
Belated happy birthday 🎉 love your gifts. So well you have shown us them all. Lots of love🍬
Thank you so much!
@@helencryer 🙏🏼🎂 most welcome friend 💐
Happy Birthday 🎉!!
Thank you!!
Belated happy birthday, Helen! I'm a Roman Szmal user and I really like taking Qor breaks, just turning them loose to see what they want to do with each other - and with Roman. People who like a lot of control over their watercolors get frustrated with Tor, but to me it's like having a houseful of puppies - just less to clean up on the floor. Usually.
Haha! I love your analogy! Yes - this sounds my kind of fun!
I also bought the set of 24 QOR paints and they are SO lovely!! I loved hearing your expression of joy at watching the Quinacridone Magenta make its run through the water - it’s like magic and it’s my favorite color in the set. Have fun experimenting with all your lovely gifts. Happy birthday 🎉!
This is great to hear! I've not actually watched many reviews on them or anything, so I'm happy to hear other people loving them!
I adore Qor, I bought a set of 6 to try and fell in love with their vibrancy. They are pricey, so I treat myself occasionally to a couple of tubes.
Are there any colours you particularly like?
@Helen Cryer I love dioxazine purple, green gold, quinqcridone gold, and cobalt teal. They are so vibrant.
Listening to you chuckling when swatching the quor paints made me smile. Belated birthday wishes Helen 😀
Haha! Thanks so much!
Thank you so much for sharing your art birthday gifts. I see new to me colors. Can’t wait till you swatch them.😊
Thank you! This video is a little while old now, so I have most likely already swatched most the things from here!
Happy Birthday! Love Qor paints. You entire haul looks like a year of good times to come :)
Thanks! 😁
Belated happy birthday Helen!
Lovely haul! I love your hauls, painting videos, in short every video. Have literally binged watched your channel since I have found it 🙈 you sketched with the pen so well. Loved the bunny. I prefer a slightly longer riggers. I find them easier to control even though the the brush fibers are like extra long. Can’t wait to see you do a full painting with Qor watercolor and the new Rosa Gallery watercolors!!
PS: I share your love for Turquoise. Glad to know someone who too like it 😊
Oooo the dispersion of Qor watercolors 😻😻😻 you just convinced me to pick some on my next Jackson’s haul 🙈
I'm very flattered at your binge watching - thank you! 😂
I'll have to bear that in mind with riggers, thanks!
Yes, the Qor seem to be amazing! I know what I'll be doing tomorrow!!
@@helencryer binge watching was inevitable. Every video is unique and super interesting.
You have a good friend, Helen! Many people don't, but I like the Moleskine watercolor albums for mixed media journals. Enjoy your new supplies!
She is wonderful!! (Not just because of gifts!!) I've not had a Moleskine like this before, so it will be good to see what it can do.
Happy belated birthday, Helen! Your family and friends are truely wonderful. It was great to see all of their lovely gifts. I'm finding the Cor watercolors tempting too but I always talk myself out of buying them because I also already have so many paints. Getting them as a birthday gift from one's husband is a great idea - so thanks for the inspiration.😉 I'm curious about your virdict on the Arches hot pressed paper. It reacts so different from the cold pressed one. Personally, I think it's better for colored pencils than watercolor, but it certainly comes down to the individual painting process as well. As for rigger brush I love to use it for long and thin leaves or blades of grass (with a bit of pressure applied in the middle of the stroke). It's easier to paint them with a rigger than with an ordinary round brush. Anyway, enjoy all of your new supplies!
Yes, I'm definitely very lucky in the friends and family department! Though my husband wouldn't have a clue what to get, so I just choose all my own stuff!
I'm not sure I'd have got the QoR otherwise either, to be honest - or maybe just the 6 pack.
Oh, that makes me especially interested to try out the paper now - haven't used it yet.
Happy belated birthday!! I think you'll love exploring the Qor's unique properties. The way they push other colors around on paper is really fun to work with!
Thanks! Sounds great!!
Happy Belated Birthday Helen! Thank you for showing such interesting things, many new to me. The Qor paints look amazing! Best Wishes
Thanks ever so much!
Love you birthday gifts. I love Helen Wells too!!! I did a small online workshop w her which was fun. Happy belated birthday
Oh,chat sounds fun!! Thank you!
Belated birthday wishes! My most recent Cult Pens order also came with Love Hearts and the Jubilee gel pen, rather apt for the coronation.
Oooh the Qor tin is LOVELY with all the little well.
Ahh, I hadn't twigged that that's what the pen was! Ha! Yes, the QoR tin is a bit different isn't it?!
Wish you a very happy birthday. Best birthday gift when it's arty stuff. One can never have enough right.😂
Exactly!! Thank you!
Firstly…happy (belated) birthday 🎉 secondly, I was shocked at the colour choices of your Rosa Gallery paints, because I bought 12 a few weeks ago, and they’re all EXACTLY the same as the ones you’ve chosen, except for the chromium oxide. Every time you picked one up and read out the name, I was going “no way!” My cat thinks I’m bonkers 😂
Hahaha! That's so funny, love it!
And thank you!
That's funny
Happy Belated Birthday 🎉! Hope you enjoyed your day!
You definitely received some beautiful gifts and such a nice variety of different items! I picked up the 12-tube set of QoR paints about a year ago when we were in the US for a long weekend. I really like them, but they’re hard to find here in Canada (or very expensive if you do find them). I hate it when paints explode out of the tube like that. I started having empty half pans at my side whenever I open a new tube now 😅.
I have a few Lamy pens with different nibs, I like them okay. I haven’t crossed to the dark side of collecting expensive pens, so Lamy suit me fine lol.
It's a shame you don't benefit from lower US art prices for some brands! Glad to hear you like them too.
I definitely feel there is a dark side to nice pens, so I think I need to stay on this side for a good long time yet!! 😬
Happy birthday to you 🎂🎉🎈🥳 Blessings!
You got beautiful colorful gifts~ how fun and exciting ✝️❤️🙏🏻
Thank you so much!!
Happy Birthday 🎂 Helen , looks like you had a fabulous arty day 🎨🖌️🖼️ . Love that you can purchase separate rosa gallery pans , that’s really good to know , I opened my romantic set yesterday and I have the landscape pallet as well but not yet opened. Thankyou for sharing your birthday art supply haul .
Thanks!! Yep, they're a really good price too, so it's easy for people to dip their toes in, though it sounds like you've dived in too!
I am loving watching all your hauls❣️❣️❣️. I’m a very new subscriber so I’ve got lots to see…❗️❗️❗️❗️
Thank you so much!!
Hope you had a marvelous birthday! What a great bunch of new toys to play with. Looking forward to your reviews. I too love the flowy watercolors; QOR is a favorite for that and the rich pigmentation. They market their binder, Aquasol, separately and it can be added to water to give other brands more energy. I love seeing what it'll do to more contained colors. Have fun experimenting!
Oh, interesting! I didn't know that existed, thanks!
Happy belated birthday Helen! :) :)
Thank you!!
HAPPYYY BIRTHDAYYYYY HELEN! i'll be back to watch the haul later! hope u had a good birthday and a super duper rest of the year! XD
Awww, thanks ever so much!!!!
Oh that's Helen Colebrook's journal set!! I have that one too. 🥰 And happy belated birthday 🥳
Oh cool! Thank you!
The rhodia notebook is especially nice for fountainpen inks with shimmer and/or sheen.
Ooo - nice to know, thanks!
Happy birthday Helen! Thanks for the fun art videos :)
Thanks so much!
Happy Belated Birthday :)
Thanks!!
Happy birthday Helen! Tombow brush pen is amazing for line and wash, it’s like soft fude nib fountain pen for me as it’s perfectly waterproof.
Ahh, I've only ever tried them for brush lettering, never line and wash, so something new to consider, thanks!
What fun new supplies!! 😍 Thank you for reading aloud the pigments of the Rosa Gallery paints. It's so interesting to hear what different brands use and mix together. The black grape sounds especially unique and interesting!
Qor has a synthetic oxgall liquid medium that you can add a few drops of to your "clean water" water jar, and paint with. It improves the flow of the paints even further than they already do, as well as slowing down the drying time a bit so you can really work some wonders in wet wash blends. You can use the medium with other paints as well and it will work the same as with Qor paints, albeit not as significantly due to differing binders.
Thanks so much for sharing your haul! 🙏😊 (Even though I'm late to the party and it's nearly time for your next birthday already.) Lol 😅
Thanks ever so much! Maybe I should get some and have an experiment with it!
Second! Boy, I’m glad I couldn’t sleep tonight, otherwise I would have missed this. 😂
Don't think I can't detect your sarcastic tone, young man!
Aaaah, not to put too fine a point on it, but it’s middle-aged man 😂🥲
😂
I feel like at my new and advanced age, I can call anyone young man or young woman!
@@helencryer Actually, you don’t look or sound of “advanced age” 🙂
Happy birthday. You will love the Qor paints if you expect how quickly they disperse. Their quin magenta is the best out there. One thing I found with Qor is that they have very little drying shift, which I really like. I have found that on hot press paper, the colors don’t look as bright. However, hot press is ideal for pen & ink and if you have ever used liquid watercolors, I think it’s good for those. It’s also good for gouache because gouache sits on top of the paper.
Thanks ever so much for the hints!!
Belated Happy Birthday Helen, I hope it was a good one. How exciting to unwrap all those wonderful supplies.
Thank you! Yes, very jammy! 😁
Where are my manners! Happy birthday 🎈
Thanks! 😁
I was watching Toby urbansketch and he uses a lamy fountain pen with carbon ink so I was looking at them. It looks really good. I think I might get one. Happy birthday.
Oh, I hadn't twigged that he did too - that's brilliant news! Thanks!
Nice Birthday Art Haul! I also got Helen Wells book but did not receive yet ❤Thank you Helen!
Ooo - I hope you like it too!
Happy birthday!
Thanks!
Hi Helen! I find it so astonishing how you can make a lovely picture so easily, could you share some tips on your daily art practice? I’m a bit stuck with mine, I have been practicing daily for about a year and a half and my skills seemed to have reached a plateau…
Enjoying your videos ❤
Thanks, that's very kind! At the moment I'm not managing to do art every day, and when I do, it's feeling a bit haphazard. I seem to be flitting from style to style, and medium to medium right now, with no plan and actually feel a bit stuck myself.
I think often I'm led by whatever the latest art materials I've bought are.
One thing I sometimes find useful though is having art books, and looking through, and copying something from one. That way you're forced to use maybe new techniques or styles, that can help you practice or may trigger new thoughts for your own art.
@@helencryer That’s a great idea! I have lots of art books but I haven’t used them for my practice lately. Will give it a go! Thank you so much for your kind advice!
Im fairly new to your channel, what a lovely haul. Happy Birthday!
Thank you!!
I hate to say this, but REALLY....the only reason that I bought the 24 Qor set was because I wanted the palette! The paints are good, but really love the bubble mixing areas. Hope you are still enjoying your birthday haul! Oooohh! I JUST ordered the Khadi watercolor paper.
Haha, I don't blame you! It's lovely! And thank you, yes - I love my supplies! I hope you absolutely love the Khadi!!
Happy birthday
Thanks!
It was funny that I was browsing new watercolors brand that I discover while watching this video, and then hear you talking about it! It is Rosa gallery! I was pleased to find this Ukrainian brand as Ukrainian myself, now I am eager to try it out. The price is pleasant too and now I see that artists do appreciate it, no reason not to go for it
That's great! Yes, I definitely suggest trying them out!
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@@surpriseitsus9622 thank you, it means a lot♥️🌼
Happy belated birthday. Very nice selection of presents. I enjoy the chromoflow pencils but I will warn you when sharpening, don’t sharpen to a sharp point because they will break.
Thank you, and thanks for the advice!
I went to the Moleskin shop in Liverpool Street station on Sunday and it was a complete wishlist dream! So many beautiful notebooks and sketchbooks, pens etc - I love Moleskin sketchbooks I already have and it was torture to see everything there in front of me and not be able to buy anything (weight/bag restrictions for flying back to Scotland 😢)
Ooooo... that's rough!!!!! It sounds gorgeous!
@@helencryer it really was. But at least I know what I'm going to spend my birthday money on next month!😁
Do you have a genuine sable brush? How does the W&N synthetic compare to it?
I only have a couple of teeny sables, so can't really compare, sorry.
@@helencryer No worries 🙂
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Nice.
I was wondering about the black grape...mine out of the tube is much redder/more colorful than yours out of the pan...I hope you are not too disappointed with this recommandation😢
Oh that's interesting! No, I'm not disappointed - it's still a nice paint!
I don’t like black grape. I booted it out of my palette 😂
Mine's not very grape-like, but I do use it occasionally for a rich black.
Happy birthday!
Thank you! 🙂