Miranda you are so cute! I already have a lot of the art products you mentioned and love them! However there were several things that I have never seen before and now must have😃 Thanks for another great video! Merry Christmas!

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such a fun video to watch.

I’ve only started watercolor painting a few months ago, so I am always on the lookout for good, inexpensive supplies. Thanks for the video! And giveaway!

I adore the Rosa Gallery paints. They're definitely a firm favourite of mine!

I'm getting papers together to make my own mixed surface sketchbook! Watercolour paper, black paper, craft paper, handmade paper, pastel paper - I even want to hunt down some old maps cause I've seen people draw or illustrate on maps and it looks so good!

I should have described what was in the link I sent, it's a flexible ring that goes around your neck, the phone attaches to a strong magnet, and it comes with a strap that you could wrap around your torso for added stability. Great for filming a lap painting.... I should mention that it requires a MagSafe phone case

Hard to believe how expensive everything has gotten. The Qor 24 set was around $50 not that long ago. I'm getting the Ohuhu water based markers you just reviewed. Thinking I'll be buying a special coloring book soon.

I love your paintings! So beautiful!

Thanks Miranda for sharing your favourites. Many of them I have and enjoy. But..... FYI. I was very disappointed with the Sarah Simon Watercolor Workbook. Although I have been at it for a year or so, I consider I am still learning to watercolour, and was hoping to get a real kickstart with her books (I bought the big one too, "Modern Watercolor Botanicals"). I had a number of difficulties. Firstly the colours. I bought the Cotman paints because she recommended them. They are only just okay. (This did lead me to W&N Professional paints, which is another story - because I LOVE them.) She also recommend the Princeton Select Brushes. As I already had one of these I did not buy any more. They are also only just okay. The colour mixing recipes did not provide the colours as shown in the book, no matter how hard I tried. This could be user error, but honestly, I don't think so. And she uses PW6 in a lot of her mixes. Why? Her little example image of each project, did, in no way resemble the colours stipulated. Frustrating when you're trying to learn, obviously (IMO) you're trying to match the reference image. And after the first couple of projects most of the instructions were just cut and pasted. The print was small and light grey. I am nearly 70 and found it very hard to read. At times I had to resort to a magnifying glass. The paper was awful, IMO. It was advertised as high quality watercolour paper, and I felt this was false advertising. It felt okay, was a heavy weight, but was obviously wood pulp/cellulose. The results were nasty. The paint lay down was very streaky and blotchy. (I tested these paints in on my Baohong Academy paper and they worked fine.) For a couple of projects I transferred the images to the Baohong block, and while this worked, it seemed a bit pointless, so I put the book away. And as a last swipe (and I know I'm nit-picking here). The publisher or maybe the author decided that adding water to paint was 'animating' them, rather than 'activating'. As I was already irritated, well....nearly but not quite the right word. These books were NOT cheap. Over $40 Australian each. So disappointing, I couldn't recommend it for any painter, beginner, student or otherwise.

Really fun assortment of items, many new to me. Loved the silliness at the end 😊

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Great suggestions! I share your view of the Khadi sketchbooks - odd, but so much fun!

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I always love seeing the supplies that other artists use 🥰

I do love Paul Rebels glitter paper; I need to use it again now you’ve reminded me, haha! Sooo many supplies to use and never enough time. ❤

:O :O I didn't realize how many different paint sets you had!! I have a 2 a W&N Cotman set and I get 2 DS tubes per year, (birthday/xmas) I loved the baohong paper never experienced cotton paper before and wow!! So many lovely art supplies in this video, thanks for taking the time to show them :)

I do not need any more watercolor palettes, I do not need any more watercolor palettes, I do not need any more watercolor palettes, I do not need any more watercolor palettes........ well, perhaps just this lightwish palette

These videos are so fun! Thank you for sharing 😊

What’s really best is get 6 bast pure colors and learn to mix colors. The tin and packaging here is what you’re paying for. Most of those colors are premixed and you don’t know what the mix is, so if you try to mix two of them, you’re mixing all kinds of unknown colors that don’t work out well. I wonder why so many people don’t want to work at learning anything about paints and mixing. They just want to hurry up and paint and inexpensive water colors are always weak.

Yes, love your gift guides. Even though my main medium is acrylics I love, love watercolors.

Okay, I'm curious... did anyone run out and buy the Dina Wakley journal??? It's so rare that they re-released it! I gotta know!

Hullo Miranda, This is a sweet video~! The controversy surrounding brushes can be difficult to navigate, Like the Silver Black velvet brushes are a mixture of natural hair with synthetic hairs, now there have been some who have said because they are made in India and sable or weasels are NOT protected, like their cows, the hair is not ethically sourced. So be sure to READ the descriptions quite carefully! I have done quite a bit off research and I have found Princeton Brushes are very well marked and finding the Natural VS Synthetic hair brushes are well labeled! I have even taken part in a test at a local artist event and finding who can actually tell the difference between natural or synthetic hair brushes! I was amazed at the "old hands" who swore they would NOT be "fooled" and the Princeton Aqua Elite line was the "best" natural hair brush according to the event participants, THEY WERE WRONG! It is 100% synthetic and the most picked as a natural Kolinsky! I have picked up a good set of these brushes and they are wonderful brushes! My Gran told me more than once that all you really need is a #12 long belly brush for painting in watercolors! She painted 9x12 and on up to 17x22. I found I need a larger brush when painting over 3 feet or just 24 inches and beyond!

Wow Miranda, you're an amazing artist. Thanks for showing us your favourite arty bits. I've got some of those watercolour tutorial books and I haven't done anything in them. Thanks again.

I love my khadi fat book, but I think the sizing in the fat book is different to the sizing of their loose paper and other sketchbooks. I think the fat book is only internally sized (or with only very light external sizing. I find that some media go right through to the other side of fat book sheets and the surface leaves a lot of fibre behind on my putty erasers and tape. Which, for the price… not a problem, but worth knowing about!

Baohong Academy is just as good as Masters/Artist Grade

Are the travel brushes synthetic?

How do you use the bright teals in your paintings?

Those super rusty pliers are so you :) Oh no not the dreaded Skor tape again! Oh well, you can never change this one either then! I also have the YinMin from A. Gallo - I should really use that - indistinguishable from ultramarine though!

The Peach Light being pink always throws me - and you're right it looks so different in the pan! But I finally found out, they are referring to the color of peach BLOSSOMS, not the fruit! The lavender is lower lightfastness because of the PV3, which I wonder why they bothered to even put in. It usually really brightens a purple but I don't see it here. PG 36 *is* phthalo green -- yellow shade. I think they mislabled the PG17 because it looks like PG8 to me! And the Olive Green must have an orange pigment that they left out of the labeling. And the Permanent Yellow Medium is definitely mislabeled - that looks like Hansa Yellow Medium to me, which is PY97. PY65 is Hansa Yellow Deep and so I think they were correct in the 5th gen set. But it wouldn't be a Paul Rubens set without some typos in the pigment info LOL!!

I have a couple Sanford mechanical pencils that have that retractable tip and nice plastic erasers. I do like them a lot for sketching like you do, so one stays in my go bag. I also have one of those collapsible cups that I believe are made by Faber Castell and I really like it because of the built in brush rests. I just take one for plein air! And I just keep my travel brushes in my go bag as well.

That pot really turned out so beautifully 😍

“giveaway” I have a Strathmore that is 100% cotton but not 140 pound, so if I win I would like to try that sketch book.

Thank you…I will be putting my stickers in my swatch book so they don’t get wet when I start using it

I bought these paints and I love them, the only color I don't like is the lemmon yellow, in my set it is not pigmented as the other colors. Do you know if there are other watercolors similar to these? I wanted to buy another set, but due to my location it cannot be delivered.

It looks like a beautiful set for anyone looking for a decent watercolor set for a low price. Giveaway!

Giveaway, Miranda can you enter me please? Thanks for the opportunity. 😊

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super happy about the paul rubens. I picked up the 12 color a while ago and have barely used them but this makes me happy and I'll save them for my more serious paintings vs my practice sketches.

Pls pls give extra pets to Daisy for being a good girl! ALSO, giveaway!

I vividly remember doing this same painting in 7th or 8th grade with the masking tape! Our teacher had us use cool colors so that the salt made it feel like a winter scene ❄️

Thank you for this review! I also liked these paints.. And also the Swatching book! Have a good start in the new week! ❤

Giveaway. Thank you 😊 lovely supplies!

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Cute stuff! 🎄❄️❤️