So awesome...so helpful...something joyful happens in my soul painting a curled leaf! Thanks for your teaching!

I didn't get the 3rd final

Wonderful. Delightful tutorial THANKYOU

Thank you very much for sharing your skills as an artist observer, teacher and delightful person

Lovely instructions detailed and inspiring just what we need THANKYOU

So good 👍👍👍🙋‍♂️

Clove oil is an excellent Antifungal. Just add one or two drops to your paint. But it is best to let your paint dry anyway to make sure you won't get any mold in your paint.

Wow!

Gorgeous!

Wow, so beautiful Helen. Helene

Helen you demonstrated how to draw curved leaves in such an interesting way and easy to understand. Thank you so much. Helene Edgington

Excelent!!!!!!

Nice

Helen I love your work. I just found you today... You are an amazing artist

You are an amazing teacher! Excellent instruction! Thank you for helping me!

So beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️

This was very helpful for me, being a visual learner.

grazie mille ! many thanks

I don’t know anything about paint making but using aloe Vera gel would be a cool experiment

I love it

Amazing.My magnolia leaves have now taken on a very real look.So many thanks

You are an amazing artist! I couldn't focus with the dog barking in the background it would make me anxious. (Gordon's wife)

Now call the test paper No. 7 (White, Orange and Yellow) and go to Sotheby's. It should sell for around 200 million dollars. See similar work of Mark Rothko No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red).

I wish is watercolor my child is made in rock and oil 😕😯😕😯😦😦

Natural Indigo makes a very nice watercolour paint, just takes a bit of work to get it to mix

I use tea tree oil as an anti fungal, honey instead of glycerine and I buy my gum Arabic aka Gum Acacia in bulk

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I love that you use actual plant matter for reference, and we get to see what you see, as well as your passion. So many others are just copying photographs and it shows - flat & lifeless with nothing of the artist present. I hope to be as skilled as you, one day 🙂

This was a really good explanation, more helpful then the other videos i found on how to draw curved leaves. thx for that

I have made ochre paint at Arbury park at my camp. At school, we were learning about the aboriginal culture

Thoroughly enjoying. Your tutorials, which colours did you use to paint these leaves?

Very helpful!

Qué entretenido. Eso es disfrutar de los colores!

Just a thought...and I haven’t yet thought this through, but what about using raw honey as an anti fungal agent when making paints from ochre??

a lot of indigenous people use only the bare essentials and the most primitive form of making an ochre paint that stays put is using spit sounds disgusting but it works! most of the worlds cave art wouldn't exist without it! the second is eggwhite but this would only have been available in springtime

Control ph lv to alcalistic. Then there wil be now funcus ♡ Kan some one tel me howe davinci his paint was made 20 microns thin? Good day to oll♡♡♡

Helen Hi Helen This is wonderful to watch again! I note that you don't appear to wet the paper first, before you add the pigment And it would seem that you use a very wet application of you pigment, at a close match to the finished colour, straight onto the dry paper. Have I got this correct? The effect is fantastic and unique.

Beautiful!

Fantastic the effect of the leaves it's a kind of 3D. You are a very nice painter Helen!

How did you get the little specks in your paint - it really makes the leaves look real? Loved your tutorial

good

Would be better to see you painting the proyect, In this video we only could see what follow after you paint any part of the proyect, nothing we can learn of it

THANK U SO MUCH I'm doing a project at school about animals (I chose superb fairy wren) and we need to draw it IT HELPED SO MUCH

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for this. Makes me want to paint right away. What type of paper did you use for this illustration, please?

I have found my dream channel! With videos and tutorials about BOTH ocher handmade watercolours AND botanical illustrations! All I want! Thank you so much Helen Fitzgerald for making your videos and tutorials. They are super great! I am so inspired! : )

I love your loose style. It feels so confident watching your work, in an otherwise unforgiving medium.

Wunderschönes exaktes malen ! Sie sind für mich ein Vorbild ,ich freue mich jedesmal auf die neuen Sachen.Danke

Thank you for this. No one has ever done thus sort of tutorial that I've seen. It makes much more sense now.

Beautiful ! Thanks for showing this!

hi Helen beautiful piece of work. can I ask what paint brands and brushes you used? thanks.