Thank you so much! Oooh Posca pens are great! I enjoy mine ☺️

Moonglow is amazing!! 🤩

Hi Caroline, thank you so much for your kind words 🥰 I’m so glad to have you here on my channel! Best wishes to you 💕

Thank you! ☺️

I followed a class by Denise Love on her Skillshare on how to make this mixed media journal so I wouldn’t want to make the same kind of video as her as it wouldn’t feel right 🙈 but I will eventually make a video on how to make a watercolour sketchbook, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet! ☺️

Haha! Do we like creating the same kind of art? ☺️

@Little-Ammy-Arts mostly lol but mainly because we jump around due to boredom and try everything that we find appealing 🥰 I am not the only one

Thank you so much for subscribing! 🥰 Oh Birbfest has been fun! I still have about 5 birbs to go I think. Trying to fit them all on one sketchbook page now 😂

@Little_Ammy_Arts it would be awesome if you could do a quick flip-through once you're finished!

I’m planning on it! 😊

I’m not professionally trained either and if I was I’d probably find it harder to loosen up but who knows! It depends on the teacher I guess 😄 It’s nice that you have loads of creative outlets. I really love making my journals at the moment so that’s another one for me. I’ve also enjoyed needle felting in the past but I haven’t gone back to that for ages! Other than my art I really enjoy playing video games 🎮

Thank you! I don’t know why I call them paintings I guess they just feel more like a painting than a drawing 😂 I love watching Lindsay’s videos! I think Pan pastels are my favourite form of pastels. They are just so nice to use. Do you like them?

Haha it makes me laugh when I think back to that podcast now. What a stir! I love seeing everything you do, your realistic stuff but most of all your sketchbook experiments and doodles. They always make me smile. I think you’re right, a true creative can turn their hand at anything, even if they are not very good at one thing it’s all about having a go isn’t it. Sometimes I really fancy sitting and drawing something realistic and sometimes I don’t. And when I do it tends to be something way smaller 😂 I’m still traumatised over that massive people portrait I did I think 🤦🏻‍♀️ What I don’t like is how I feel like I get stuck in that comfort zone of details and I struggle so much to get out of it! But I do actually think that’s a mindset problem 😅

Thank you Chantelle! 🥰 I love greens so much

Interesting! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts ☺️ My problem is, I don’t think I actually learned many skills when I was doing the realism, I traced every outline so I don’t feel like I learned sketching skills other than the correct proportions on a dogs face, which I still struggle to get right when drawing it on my own now. I didn’t learn any colour theory as I used to colour pick from the reference photo and match my pencils to it.. I’m not saying I learned nothing but I have learned so much more since experimenting with loose sketching and abstracts and making a big mess now than I ever did before.. also saying that, I learned most of my colour theory skills from when I tried oil painting so that was an absolute asset to me. I am grateful for the observational skills realism gave me though. That’s one big thing I have learned from it. And correct fur direction 😂 The whole thing is a journey isn’t it and I am truly grateful for every single part of it!

@@Little_Ammy_Arts ahh I see, yeah tracing and colour picking is a big short cut, you’re right - it’s not that it doesn’t teach you anything, it’s just much harder to learn if you don’t break it down brick by brick and build it back up again. Or at least that’s the way my brain works! But you know, it’s the journey that I love the most about art making. It’s all about the practice, not the result and it’s a joyful world of constant learning which I love.

I agree! Every single day we are learning something new with art and creativity and it brings so much joy ☺️ I think I always took extra shortcuts with my realistic art and that never did help me but everyone I learned from always traced and gave the outlines so I just thought it was the way of things.. It feels so much more fulfilling now I’ve learned to draw and make my own pieces from scratch. I look back at my sketchbooks from last year and feel so proud at the time and effort spent 😊

Thank you so much! 🥰

Ahh thanks Hannah! Glad to have you here 😄 I’m glad you like the long videos because I struggle to make short ones 😂

I 100% agree with you. And I love people who don’t sugar coat things! I didn’t even think of how it isn’t other people’s business what you spend your money on. My husband says that if this is what I want to do for my business then I would need to keep collecting the art supplies to make videos about as that is the very thing I’m making my living on.. which I also agree with and won’t argue with 😂 a bit far away from making a living yet though.. I keep spending it on art supplies 🤣 I appreciate your comment, thank you!

@ Anytime, lol.

Thank you Chantelle! I’m having fun with the soft pastels 😍

Thank you for watching! ☺️

Interesting!! I have a Graphitint white so I’ll definitely try that out. Thanks for the tip! ☺️

Ooh I’ve been getting into my pan pastels again recently so I’ll think about some videos soon! ☺️ I have also been using the faber castell soft pastels quite a lot since I recorded this haul. They’ve definitely grown on me!

Thank you so much Beth! I have like a constant cart on Jackson’s that I’m always adding to and also taking things away when I realise I probably won’t touch that item in the real world 😅 I’ve always hated that chalk feeling. But all of a sudden it doesn’t bother me at all.. so strange!

Thank you for watching! Daniel Smith are just on another level 😍 I love them

😂 I like the way you think! Thank you!

The Derwent Drawing white is my favourite white! It’s yet to be beaten for opaqueness for me. I bet I’ve gotten through 10-15 of those pencils so far 😂 I wish I still had my first set of Derwent Drawing! I bought the Gansai Tambi art nouveau set because I saw everyone had it 😂 but I loved the colours and if I’m honest it’s one of my favourite art supplies I own right now. I loved them so much I bought the big 48 set but I don’t use that half as much as the art nouveau colours!

Thank you! 😂 I don’t really want to address it in these videos as it brings the vibe down for me but also I just want people to know I won’t stand for it because if you don’t like something, click off or don’t watch it! Lots of entitlement around. People expect everyone to cater for them. Not me 😅

@@Little_Ammy_Arts Bravo girl! Bravo!

I appreciate your comment! Thank you. I think there is a lot of entitled behaviour going on recently. People expect to be catered for by everyone and that’s just not the way the world works 😅 Especially not small creators sharing their art joy on KZbin!

I haven’t thought of that before! I’ll try it! Thanks ☺️

Oh I will! Thank you so much x

I agree. I was going to say the same thing. 😊

Thank you! I appreciate this ☺️

Thank you! 🩵

I think it’s just the new way of things now unfortunately. A lot of people seem to be very entitled and expect everyone to cater to them or else you’re a terrible person! I won’t be doing it 😂 So thank you for your comment! I really appreciate it. The gouache - honestly I just saw that the Shinhan had the most amazing colour range! And I have tried the Winsor and Newton and the Schmincke. I’ve seen Sarah Burns use and love the Shinhan so I thought I might buy a few tubes! It feels so creamy in texture so I’m really excited about them.

Thank you for watching! ☺️

I always like to gather ideas from other artists for my own art ☺️

My studio is more like a tiny cluttered cave. I’ll have to share it one day but I’m a bit embarrassed 😂

Thank you for watching! I see what you mean by the sponsored hauls. I was very excited when I started a KZbin channel about art brands sending me things to review. But I’ve since learned that accepting crap just to make a video about is not the direction I want to take things in.. Although I will accept products to make a video if it’s actually something I really want to try! 😆

😂 I don’t know how I used to watch shows like Animal Cops because I couldn’t handle it now. I love dogs and animals but watching sad films and shows about them now just ruins my day so I don’t go there 😂 I even cry at happy ones!! Thank you for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed it ☺️

Ha interesting! Does that mean you prefer to buy your art supplies in singles and open stock? Because if so that’s very sensible! I have full sets of coloured pencils from years ago doing realistic art with them and so I’m glad I have them but now I would rather just buy the colours I want… although the Holbein Luminous watercolour range that just came out got me good 😅

Thank you so much for your comment! I’m glad you enjoyed watching. I do just struggle with people conforming to other people’s problems all the time 😅 own it and move on!

And I also wanted to add that I have no local tribe to get excited with either so I understand how making videos meets that need ❤

That’s a sensible way of looking at things and buying open stock is the best way to do it I think! That way you can try lots of things out. I do have lots of sets of art supplies and find myself not using so many colours. It’s nice to try a full set of something to get to know which colours you like but after that open stock is great!

I agree! I think it’s nice to have lots of different types of videos. Hauls, reviews, short and long process videos. I enjoy a variety!

Same here! Especially around Christmas or my birthday, I watch loads of art hauls 😍 Thank you for watching mine! I really appreciate your comment. And thank you again! 🩵

Exactly! Maybe some of us can't get giant art hauls, but we still buy art supplies, and we need to see the supplies in action! ❤😂

Ahh thank you so much for your comment! I love that, I find things I simply NEED all the time 🙈🤣 It’s just nice to share the excitement with people. And I have been frustrated in the past when I’ve not had the money to buy all the shiny, lovely art supplies i see online. I still don’t now to be honest 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ Your new art studio sounds amazing!! You should start a KZbin channel so we can all share your joy! 😉

Thank you so much! I really appreciate your comment. I think that’s where the problem with the art hauls are, is people buy stuff, don’t like it and then blame the creator perhaps? But I’ve done that before! Bought stuff I’ve seen in an art haul and not ended up liking it… that’s down to me though! Not them ☺️

I may or may not have already taken a trip to Hobbycraft and feasted upon that £30 Derwent Drawing offer 😏🤣 it was too good to miss! I’ll make a video about them soon. Thing is I think sometimes we can get sucked in by the new, shiny thing. I’ve seen and bought lots of things from other people’s art hauls that I don’t end up loving. But that’s a me problem and not a them problem! 😅 I’m feeling an abstract itch again right now so perhaps there will be more of those videos coming soon! Thank you so much for watching 🩵x

I really appreciate your comment, thank you so much! 🥰🩵

Thank you and thank you for watching! ☺️