I have Kate Leach’s book. It was lovely to see you exploring her ideas. What I’m finding is that with an inspiration, each of us does it a little differently, a different style or rhythm that works for us. I enjoyed watching your way. I enjoyed seeing you go back and add or adjust, seeing the process. Seeing it in a book, it seems as if she had it all planned exactly. Watching you, I have more of a sense of the process, as you interacted with the paint and added in a contrast or more flowing color, especially the gold. I’m going to try it!
@claresunderland2633 Thank you so much for your kind words! I love the way you put it-everyone brings their own style and approach, even when working from the same inspiration. That’s what makes painting so special! I’m really glad you enjoyed seeing the process unfold. It’s true-books can make it seem like everything is planned from the start, (although authors do go through the same as we do, we just don't see it) but when you translate the book into reality on your own, it’s all about adjusting and responding to the paint as you go. And yes, I had lots of fun adding that gold! I’m excited that you’re going to try it yourself! Have fun with it, and I’d love to hear how it goes! 😊🎨Thank you so much for watching the video and I am so happy that it inspired you to give it a go! Happy Painting! ♥♥♥
@joanieharrison7991 oh, thank you so much! I always thought I was too loud! 🤗 Your comment gave me a warm hug this morning! I really appreciate it. Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed the video and for sharing your thoughts! Thank you! Happy Painting! ♥♥♥
@sandyhopkins5661 Yes! A zentangle over this would look really great! If you do it, let me know how it goes! Thank you for your support, I am so grateful! Happy Painting! ♥♥♥
@missjameequilts Welcome aboard! It's so nice to have you! I am really happy you enjoyed this video and hope you can try it yourself! Let me know how it goes! Thank you once again! ♥♥♥
Thank you! 😃 I am happy to know that you enjoyed the video and appreciate your kind words about my teaching style! Thank you for your support and happy painting! ♥♥♥
Hello Donna! I am glad you are going to give this a try! I am sure you will find this quite fun, easy and inspiring to continue to do more! These paintings are perfect to get anyone one of a rut! I hope that before the New Year, you have one of these in a frame in your home or studio! Wishing you the best and thank you for your support and sharing your thoughts! ♥♥♥
Thank you so much! I am so glad you enjoyed it! The best paper of the group is the Leyton, hands down. The others are good but not as good as the Leyton one. Extra tip there! ♥♥♥
Hi Dee! Thank you so much for watching the video! These are so fun and really relaxing. I am quite excited about them. I think this is something that you can never go wrong at, and I think it does give a really "feel good" ending, because it is so difficult to really mess up! I loved this so much! Glad you do them too! ♥♥♥
Great video. I look forward to more like these. When you are a beginner like me it isn't always as easy as it looks. Watching others gives me courage to go for it.
Thank you so much for your feedback, Paula! I appreciate knowing that people enjoy these type of video so I can make them more often. Thank you so much for your support! ♥
Hello Scotland! Oh how I wish to visit! and hello @gordondickson7674 ! I am so glad you enjoyed the video and that you have decided to stick around with us! Thank you so much for sharing and support! Wishing you a Happy New Year, may it be grand! ♥♥♥
Thank you so much for subscribing! I look forward to seeing your lovely comments, learn from your experiences and share what we like and dislike along the way! Thank you so much! ♥♥♥
So excited to find your channel. Love your easy calm style presentation and the watercolor swatching is so helpful. Thank you for highlighting watercolor brands that aren’t talked about. Will be trying the Leyton brand for sure. Have a wonderful Christmas
Loved it! So beautiful!! I enjoyed watching this video! ❤ And the color you chose absolutely gorgeous! Happy belated Christmas and have a Happy 2025 New Year for you and your love ones!
Thank you for this wonderful demonstration! I’ve literally just ordered this book so it was lovely to watch the process before I attempt my own. You made it seem really do-able. ❤
Glad it was helpful! You will find this book to be quite easy to follow and everything is really great and do-able! I am sure you will have a lot of fun with it! Keep me posted! ♥
I'm loving that book, and especially very much helped by your example of what you're doing with it. (Super beginner here) I love the Tumuarta okay, but it doesn't have very good sizing, so the paint doesn't move around as nicely for me. (Maybe also because I'm a beginner. Thanks so much for your video!!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I'm so glad that the videos are helpful! I consider myself a super beginner as well, since my career has been in a different medium. But this journey with watercolors we are all together in it ♥ Tumuarta was good for this kind of painting, but I did try it later on (after this video) and did not perform as well. It's not a bad paper, better than most for the price tag, but I find that I keep going back to Arches every time, and after that would be Baohong or Hahnnemule.
I’m in love with this! I will definitely be trying this technique. I love to watercolor, but I do not do well at realism! But this technique is beautiful and something I think I can do! I have such amazing watercolors, and I feel like they’re just sitting there going to waste saying, please use me! Haha! I have subscribed and liked you’ve definitely found a new follower!
@cher1292 Thank you so much! I am so glad this video has inspired you to work on this technique! I assure you, this is so much fun you will be trying out multiple color schemes andmake plenty of these paintings! The approach is not only easy but rather beautiful! And yes! You will be using all the colors that are sitting around! Thank you for subscribing! I so appreciate! ♥♥♥
I purchased the Abstract W-C book by Leach some time ago & have loved it, especially when others demonstrate some of their projects based on that book. your examples at the start were Beautiful! and thanks for the Leyton paper suggestion: I ordered a pad today after hearing your description. ;-) Keep it up. I sub'd to see what else you do.
Thank you so much, @timh7246 ! The book is wonderful and the paintings are so much fun to do! I hope you like the Leyton paper! I find it extremely good for the price! Thanks for subscribing! I so appreciate it and thank you for sharing! Happy Painting! ♥
Just discovered you searching abstract watercolor. Love your paintings and have watched this several times. If you don't mind sharing, what marking pens did you you use in your work? (Couldn't read the labels!) I have only black and white and need to up my game! Thank you! And you are a good a teacher. The bookmark I made turned out good (because I did it from (bad) memory and was too heavy handed with gold paint I used in the white spaces!
@sassyjohn1 Hello! Thank you so much for watching and enjoying the video! The pens I used are as follow: Sharpie in Black and white (Ultra Fine), Copic Multiliner 0.3 in Brown and Olive (these are pigment based inks and waterproof) and Uniball Signo pen in Silver and gold. These are also pigment ink pens waterproof. Hope this helps and thank you so much for your kind comments and enjoying the channel. I really appreciate your support! I can be heavy handed too, this is a matter of getting used to the medium, although sometimes being heavy handed is not so bad at all! Thank you and Happy Painting! ♥♥♥
Hello @nanciecook9412 ! Thank you for your interest. My palette is a simplified palette by M. Graham. I purchased the colors individually. The colors are: Nickel Quinacridone Gold, Quinacridone Violet (which I did not use for this), Anthraquinone Blue, Olive Green, Quinacridone Rust, Maroon Perylene, Terra Rosa and Sepia. I mixed all these colors randomly really, and the only one not used was Quin Violet. Hope this helps! ♥ This limited palette is quite beautiful and earthy. I will be adding only three more colors to this sometime soon, and those colors will be Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber to complete this earth palette. M. Graham surprised me immensely. These color are amazing. Hope you like them. ♥
Thank you so much. The colors are beautiful and I’ll go hunt them down now much appreciated. Hope you have a wonderful holiday season and 2025 Looking forward to seeing more of your work. The ones shown I absolutely love
Thank you, @nanciecook9412 ! I look forward to hearing how you like them! Wishing you Happy Christmas and a wonderful new year as well! Happy Painting! ♥♥♥
Hi, Toni! Thanks for sharing your question: The M. Graham colors, I purchased the colors in tubes and then placed them in half pans. :) I was wanting to see how they dried and how they re-wet :) ♥♥♥ The Daniel Smith Palette came in half pans (the blue set) 😍 My niece in Colorado! Shout out to that gorgeous State! ♥
don't disparage yr teaching... my piano teacher laid a foundation stone at age 7... you never know who has never heard scales played beautifully... be ye likewise.
Good teachers have a passion to share knowledge ❤️🙋♀️
I have Kate Leach’s book. It was lovely to see you exploring her ideas. What I’m finding is that with an inspiration, each of us does it a little differently, a different style or rhythm that works for us. I enjoyed watching your way.
I enjoyed seeing you go back and add or adjust, seeing the process. Seeing it in a book, it seems as if she had it all planned exactly. Watching you, I have more of a sense of the process, as you interacted with the paint and added in a contrast or more flowing color, especially the gold. I’m going to try it!
@claresunderland2633 Thank you so much for your kind words! I love the way you put it-everyone brings their own style and approach, even when working from the same inspiration. That’s what makes painting so special! I’m really glad you enjoyed seeing the process unfold. It’s true-books can make it seem like everything is planned from the start, (although authors do go through the same as we do, we just don't see it) but when you translate the book into reality on your own, it’s all about adjusting and responding to the paint as you go. And yes, I had lots of fun adding that gold! I’m excited that you’re going to try it yourself! Have fun with it, and I’d love to hear how it goes! 😊🎨Thank you so much for watching the video and I am so happy that it inspired you to give it a go! Happy Painting! ♥♥♥
You could label your title with ASMR as your voice is very soothing and I like your work a lot. Best wishes.
@joanieharrison7991 oh, thank you so much! I always thought I was too loud! 🤗 Your comment gave me a warm hug this morning! I really appreciate it. Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed the video and for sharing your thoughts! Thank you! Happy Painting! ♥♥♥
I love these. You doodle so neatly and therefore it looks like a very frameable piece of art. Beautiful ❤
@janwoodyer735 I am so happy you enjoyed the video and thank you for you lovely words! ♥️♥️♥️ Thanks for your support! ♥️♥️♥️
Awesome 👍 Thanks for sharing 🙂
@zajournals Thanks for watching! I am happy you enjoyed it! ♥♥♥
I love your art work and looking forward to trying this. I have done zentangle and this would be a perfect surface to zentangle on.
@sandyhopkins5661 Yes! A zentangle over this would look really great! If you do it, let me know how it goes! Thank you for your support, I am so grateful! Happy Painting! ♥♥♥
New subscriber. Love this.
@missjameequilts Welcome aboard! It's so nice to have you! I am really happy you enjoyed this video and hope you can try it yourself! Let me know how it goes! Thank you once again! ♥♥♥
You are a lovely calm teacher...it was really nice watching and listening. Thankyou.
Thank you! 😃 I am happy to know that you enjoyed the video and appreciate your kind words about my teaching style! Thank you for your support and happy painting! ♥♥♥
Love your work, your style, your calm voice. Thanks for making this video. ❤
@ashleywright824 Thank you so much for your words. I so appreciate them. Thank you for sharing! ♥♥♥
Gorgeous - thank you!
Thank you! Glad you liked it! ♥♥♥
Just beautiful! 😍
Thank You! I am really happy you enjoyed it and liked it ♥♥♥
So beautiful. I have been in a watercolor rut. I will be giving this a try. Thanks for sharing 🪶
Hello Donna! I am glad you are going to give this a try! I am sure you will find this quite fun, easy and inspiring to continue to do more! These paintings are perfect to get anyone one of a rut! I hope that before the New Year, you have one of these in a frame in your home or studio! Wishing you the best and thank you for your support and sharing your thoughts! ♥♥♥
Your work is lovely, and thank you for the paper tips!
Thank you so much! I am so glad you enjoyed it! The best paper of the group is the Leyton, hands down. The others are good but not as good as the Leyton one. Extra tip there! ♥♥♥
Hi Sundayberries, I really like doing this sort of thing and yours are really lovely. They’re very relaxing. Dee
Hi Dee! Thank you so much for watching the video! These are so fun and really relaxing. I am quite excited about them. I think this is something that you can never go wrong at, and I think it does give a really "feel good" ending, because it is so difficult to really mess up! I loved this so much! Glad you do them too! ♥♥♥
Great video. I look forward to more like these. When you are a beginner like me it isn't always as easy as it looks. Watching others gives me courage to go for it.
Thank you so much for your feedback, Paula! I appreciate knowing that people enjoy these type of video so I can make them more often. Thank you so much for your support! ♥
What a brilliant tutorial. Have just discovered your channel and subscribed. Cheers from Scotland ❤❤❤
Hello Scotland! Oh how I wish to visit! and hello @gordondickson7674 ! I am so glad you enjoyed the video and that you have decided to stick around with us! Thank you so much for sharing and support! Wishing you a Happy New Year, may it be grand! ♥♥♥
BEAUTIFUL. I could watch this for hours. It is so relaxing to watch you paint. I love how they turned out. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much! I am really happy that you enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing and your support! So very much appreciated♥️♥️♥️
You are so great to watch. I immediately subscribed! Such a lovely way of expressing yourself. Wonderful video, thanks!
Thank you so much for subscribing! I look forward to seeing your lovely comments, learn from your experiences and share what we like and dislike along the way! Thank you so much! ♥♥♥
So excited to find your channel. Love your easy calm style presentation and the watercolor swatching is so helpful. Thank you for highlighting watercolor brands that aren’t talked about. Will be trying the Leyton brand for sure. Have a wonderful Christmas
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your support and hope to see you back! Happy Christmas for you as well! ♥♥♥
Absolutely beautiful and a wonderful tutorial ❣️
Hello @erikaharris3078 Thanks so much! 😊 So Glad you liked it! ♥♥♥
Loved it! So beautiful!! I enjoyed watching this video! ❤ And the color you chose absolutely gorgeous! Happy belated Christmas and have a Happy 2025 New Year for you and your love ones!
Thank you so much!! Wishing you a fabulous New Year! ♥♥♥
Thank you for this wonderful demonstration! I’ve literally just ordered this book so it was lovely to watch the process before I attempt my own. You made it seem really do-able. ❤
Glad it was helpful! You will find this book to be quite easy to follow and everything is really great and do-able! I am sure you will have a lot of fun with it! Keep me posted! ♥
I really enjoyed your video.
Thank you so very much, @deborahcall9308 ! ♥ Glad you enjoyed it and appreciate your support! ♥
I'm loving that book, and especially very much helped by your example of what you're doing with it. (Super beginner here) I love the Tumuarta okay, but it doesn't have very good sizing, so the paint doesn't move around as nicely for me. (Maybe also because I'm a beginner. Thanks so much for your video!!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I'm so glad that the videos are helpful! I consider myself a super beginner as well, since my career has been in a different medium. But this journey with watercolors we are all together in it ♥ Tumuarta was good for this kind of painting, but I did try it later on (after this video) and did not perform as well. It's not a bad paper, better than most for the price tag, but I find that I keep going back to Arches every time, and after that would be Baohong or Hahnnemule.
I’m in love with this! I will definitely be trying this technique. I love to watercolor, but I do not do well at realism! But this technique is beautiful and something I think I can do! I have such amazing watercolors, and I feel like they’re just sitting there going to waste saying, please use me! Haha! I have subscribed and liked you’ve definitely found a new follower!
@cher1292 Thank you so much! I am so glad this video has inspired you to work on this technique! I assure you, this is so much fun you will be trying out multiple color schemes andmake plenty of these paintings! The approach is not only easy but rather beautiful! And yes! You will be using all the colors that are sitting around! Thank you for subscribing! I so appreciate! ♥♥♥
So lovely!
Thank you! 😊I am so glad you enjoyed it! ♥
Love the video!! ❤
Thank you so much! ♥♥♥ So Glad you liked it!
I purchased the Abstract W-C book by Leach some time ago & have loved it, especially when others demonstrate some of their projects based on that book. your examples at the start were Beautiful! and thanks for the Leyton paper suggestion: I ordered a pad today after hearing your description. ;-) Keep it up. I sub'd to see what else you do.
Thank you so much, @timh7246 ! The book is wonderful and the paintings are so much fun to do! I hope you like the Leyton paper! I find it extremely good for the price! Thanks for subscribing! I so appreciate it and thank you for sharing! Happy Painting! ♥
Just discovered you searching abstract watercolor. Love your paintings and have watched this several times. If you don't mind sharing, what marking pens did you you use in your work? (Couldn't read the labels!) I have only black and white and need to up my game! Thank you! And you are a good a teacher. The bookmark I made turned out good (because I did it from (bad) memory and was too heavy handed with gold paint I used in the white spaces!
@sassyjohn1 Hello! Thank you so much for watching and enjoying the video! The pens I used are as follow: Sharpie in Black and white (Ultra Fine), Copic Multiliner 0.3 in Brown and Olive (these are pigment based inks and waterproof) and Uniball Signo pen in Silver and gold. These are also pigment ink pens waterproof. Hope this helps and thank you so much for your kind comments and enjoying the channel. I really appreciate your support! I can be heavy handed too, this is a matter of getting used to the medium, although sometimes being heavy handed is not so bad at all! Thank you and Happy Painting! ♥♥♥
@@sundayberries Thank you!
You are welcome! ♥
Could you possibly tell me the brand and colors that are in your pallets box that you used colors from for the bookmark? They are lovely thank you
Hello @nanciecook9412 ! Thank you for your interest. My palette is a simplified palette by M. Graham. I purchased the colors individually. The colors are: Nickel Quinacridone Gold, Quinacridone Violet (which I did not use for this), Anthraquinone Blue, Olive Green, Quinacridone Rust, Maroon Perylene, Terra Rosa and Sepia. I mixed all these colors randomly really, and the only one not used was Quin Violet. Hope this helps! ♥ This limited palette is quite beautiful and earthy. I will be adding only three more colors to this sometime soon, and those colors will be Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber to complete this earth palette. M. Graham surprised me immensely. These color are amazing. Hope you like them. ♥
Thank you so much. The colors are beautiful and I’ll go hunt them down now much appreciated. Hope you have a wonderful holiday season and 2025 Looking forward to seeing more of your work. The ones shown I absolutely love
Thank you, @nanciecook9412 ! I look forward to hearing how you like them! Wishing you Happy Christmas and a wonderful new year as well! Happy Painting! ♥♥♥
Hi. Thanks for sharing this. Wondering, did you buy your paints in tubes and then put them in your palette? Toni in Colorado, USA
Hi, Toni! Thanks for sharing your question: The M. Graham colors, I purchased the colors in tubes and then placed them in half pans. :) I was wanting to see how they dried and how they re-wet :) ♥♥♥ The Daniel Smith Palette came in half pans (the blue set) 😍 My niece in Colorado! Shout out to that gorgeous State! ♥
@ I appreciate your speedy answer. I will look into these after the holidays
@@tonibaggett2301 Hope you enjoy them! Happy Holidays! ♥
don't disparage yr teaching... my piano teacher laid a foundation stone at age 7... you never know who has never heard scales played beautifully... be ye likewise.
Thank you for your words. I sure needed to hear that. Wishing you a Happy Christmas and a wonderful and peaceful New Year! ♥
I agree: don’t disparage. ❤
@@ashleywright824 ♥
Your teaching style is enjoyable and effective!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! ♥♥♥