Hi Jill - why is the strathmore paper better than canson for this technique?

I love your work. You seem to capture the spirit of a poet in your intuitive approach. I am starting to watch your videos, hoping to free something that lies dormant or at least undeveloped inside me. Thank you, Heatherose

Hi Cathy, I absolutely love your work and your video composition!! I often look for you when I'm on KZbin. Your courage and skill are very inspiring 😊

Exquisite ✨️🙏

So so beautiful. It moved me very much watching your incredible gift. One can almost feel the soul in the eyes you paint. ✨️🙏

I would definitely like to see more red and blue birds and red and blue everything. How about the Jack of Hearts as in the Bob Dillion song.

I love your videos. I also love your voice it is so calming. Thanks for sharing your lovely experiences😊

In my very first watercolor class, the first thing our teacher did was tell us the importance of using properly sized cotton paper, all while teaching us how to break down our full imperial sheets of 300 gsm #140 Arches into the sizes we'd be using all week. As a total beginner I had absolutely no idea how valuable this lesson was, but I've been using Arches (THANK YOU FOR PRONOUNCING ARCHES PROPERLY!!!!) and Baohong cotton cold press ever since, for every dumb beginner exercise I do. I have a few cellulose papers and sketchbooks, and they make even swatching ugly and frustrating. I mostly use them for ink drawing practice. Watercolor needs to be my joy. There is no joy for me in struggling with icky cellulose paper with crummy or no sizing. When I can't afford Arches, I use Baohong, and I love it.

I choose watercolor because I adore blooms, broccoli, cauliflower, runs, granulation, flocculation, basically tiny, endless texture!!! That's what makes watercolor paintings interesting to me, and what draws me into them.

Great review. Thank you for your time.

Just love the way you paint and so enjoyable to watch jo

She looked a lot better with much less paint!

YOUR REALLY GOOD AT VALUE CONTROL WITH COLOR BALANCE AND I LOVE YOUR BALANCE OF HARD AND SOFT SHAPES. NICE PAINTINGS!

So lovely

My problem is that when I paint too much and the paper gets too wet it starts to shred. Maybe I need to be more patient between layers? Work on something else for a while.

Very nice. Music is annoying, grating, works against the painting theme.

I like the way you let the paint do its thing. I would have been annoyed at all the texture if it were me, but then again, I'm still learning and this is very encouraging. Thank you.

would have preferred to see the paints and consistency used instead of just you narrating them

Love the red and blue I’m going to try using this idea I can see it will be so helpful in deepening my skill in learning values

Really loved your videos so calming and very informative.

Beautiful ❤. I love this technique it gives the painting so much movement . Flowing color really fascinates me .

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing. Love your explanations of your process too

FYI, the word is "gradation" - no i.

My favorite style. You are a truly gifted artist. Virtually 1 perfect brush for most of the piece. Genius!

Such beautiful work. Do you have copies of your reference drawings available for download? Would love to recreate her powerful face. Thank you!

BRAVO 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 😊

Two of my favorite colors. And they make a wonderful black when combined. You’re very talented. I’m going to try water colors. Worked in oils then acrylics , the later of which I still use for paintings on canvas. KZbin videos are inspiring me to try watercolors.

I’m enjoying your videos. What’s the creaky sounds? Your chair?

Awesome! I have to go paint now, thank you.

I like your approach to watercolor.....and the result.

I’d love to see you remake this video with burnt sienna and ultramarine, you can get the darks you like in paynes grey but you also have the muted blue/orange fabulousness to add. Nice vid. Best to you🌸

breath taking. I love your confidence, whitch is key, your so truthful when admitting you would of used different colour, ""its not the end of the world, "" love that ...... oh your door may need some oil.😊

I love your channel ❤ I‘m new to watercolor painting and to painting in general but I love it. Can I please try to attempt this? It may not be as good but i love this type of whimsical style painting

The beautiful voice and honesty in your words makes my heart warm and watery

These are so beautiful

Beautifully done.. You really captured the feel and look of this gorgeous bird.. I love it and learnt a lot .. Much appreciated Thankyou 🙏🏻💫

Your layering is exquisite

Oh my god. Just watched again. Your words………

Wow wow wow ❤

It looks to me you made a mistake under the neck of the bird. I don’t like abstract paints. I ‘d go for realism. Keep working. Eventually you will improve!

oh, you are using XL... those are awful 😅 they are beginner, as in very beginner grade that gives a false idea of student grade. as I got to study watercolor in an art academy, my teacher advised me not to use XL unless I want wet on dry technique but I still wouldn't get even paint on wide areas and wet on wet is just no. the colors start moving around and bleed easily as you keep adding layers, it's awful. now as for strathmore, it's better, but more expensive than it should. but if I had to advise what beginners should by for watercolor, I'd say hahnemuhle harmony cold pressed or rough texture. even baohong on aliexpress is better if you're on a budget. I have both and was disappointed when I tried using watercolor on them again after perfecting my skills, so now I keep them for gouache only, since gouache works on pretty much any thick paper.

Finding the patience to allow a painting to completely dry-- been looking for that for a long time…smile…very much enjoying your work.

Glad to have found your channel…. Thank you for your careful descriptions….

Painting the planet Mars these two colours would be ideal.

I don't think the white/gray was needed, that said it was a great picture and has given me an idea of where I could go. I tend to paint trying to get a realistic rendering but I can see it's not necessarily needed. Thank you. I need to loosen up.😁🎨🖌️

So is it worth it if you want the best all around paper to get arches?

Its Shmink-E and Hole-Bine’ it’s embarrassing to see so-called professional artist not pronouncing correctly materials that are hundreds of years old. It’s embarrassing.

Stunning! Thanks for sharing! ☺️

Fabulous 💙💚🖤