How about using a paper stump to assist the blending before it dries. Or you could use a stiff cotton bud on a stick to move the wet pigment around .

This answers my questions about the tempra paint. Your experiment came out nice. 😊

Thank you for sharing.

I enjoy your videos.

You play the piano well. My back hurts when I play so I don't play anymore.

I love it !

6:14 I did some amateur bookbinding and the way you break in a spine is to hold the textblock (all the pages of the book) in one hand and push the covers down onto the table. Then add a few pages to the front cover push down, a few to the back cover push down, and so on until you reach the middle. Straightening the middle is the last step. (This applies to hardcover books bound with thread and glue, but it is probably the best approach for perfect bound books too - perfect binding just means the spine is only glued, for example, like magazines). In short, try starting from the covers, not the middle.

You’re right on both counts regarding the Versa mark ink pad. It is also can be used to the leave water marks on pages/cards over your already laid down ink blended backgrounds ❤❤

Nice haul. Tysmfs ❤

Your background Saga made me laugh! Very funny. Love your videos and your comments. Great work.

This was so helpful. Would love some color alongs!!!

As a newbie, this is very helpful to see!

this video is way, WAY too rambly. even with the intro skip. please just get to the point.

Hello Coloring Chemist, I realize I'm going to ask you a question that you did a video on it about 6 months ago - trying bout different coloring book papers using Kuretake Zig Clean Color brush pens. I am sport I didn't see that video until today, Nov 21, 2024. My question is about trying out Zig clean color brush pens in Tuttle published coloring books. They are very well made, beautiful art work, the line work page is a copy of Japanese wood block prints created between 1700's to mid 1900's. They are about 9" x 12" and the inside paper is thick and smooth. The titles are: Beautiful Women; In A Japanese Garden; Floating World; The Colours of Asia; Meditations On Tea; and A Touch of Asia. All originally published between 2016 & 2017. The books are beautiful just as they are, each color print of original painting is opposite the black line design of same piece. I'd like to hear about your experiments using the Zig brush pens if you have tried any of these gorgeous coloring books. Thank you! Kris

How can you tell beforehand which books are printed on Amazon paper? I wish the publisher would tell us the pounds and roughness/smoothness of their pages

I have to stop watching your videos - you keep showing me art supplies I have to have. I didn’t know the Lightwish super golden markers came in a fine tip, & I need them! Thank you so much for all the info you share.

I cannot find those pigment pens by we r memory keepers, do you have a link?

Yay! I love your chemistry and art videos. I hope to see more. It scratches both my artistic and science oriented itches. 🥰

Hey Connie. Love watching your videos. I was wondering if you could do a video showing how you use your ink pens to color. I have the STABILO pens and would love to watch some coloring with there ink pens. Thanks, Sue

HI Connie, Always great video. The Pantone Markers are alcohol markers. They are the only alcohol markers that use pigments. I don’t know about steadtler, but pit pens are considered water based.

Wonderful comprehensive video Connie.🥰

Hey try this.. I saw it on a very old video recently and it works great for any waterbased/pigment pen, by far the easiest/smoothest method I've found. It made me pick up my waterbased pens again. Put the darker color on a palette and then pick it up with the lighter color. It's a variation on tip to tip blending but much easier to control both in how much color you pick up and how fast it blends on the page. It also makes blending small areas easier It's only a two color blend but you get the appearance of way more colors since the ink mixes as it lays down without having to have a million pens. You can add a few colors to the palette at once and pick them up with the same pen and get nice variation of color for things like leaves, or bricks. You can also pick up more than one color at a time and mix them straight on the pen. You can use a blender pen to pick up a color and blend it to clear (very helpful when blending into another color already on the page), or the white pen to do the same and blend it to white. Be sure to start your application in the darkest area and work with side to side motion or small circles out to the lighter area.

Your skills are outstanding-brilliant!

Hi Connie ! I am late to viewing this! I was going to sit and watch this a few times!!! I was so saddened to hear that Hanna had the health issues again! So I guess we will have to enjoy what we can? I like that you have them all! The time garden, then the night voyage and the time chamber I think? I love these books too! Look at Doodle Robot, she did a really cool pg change on one of them! Yes Amanda has been talking about the Molotov markers!!! I got the arrtex as well!!! I watched Doodle Robot do a review of them and I’m glad i got them!!!! I dont know if you can use Jet Pens in Canada? That is where I get the Pental dual hybrids from and they have some really cool colors? thanks for sharing your experience!!! Have a super weekend!!!

Thanks so much for the links to the lovely, shiny background techniques! Much appreciated! I have the Neocolor I crayons, but no tempera sticks, so Im excited to give them a try, too~