Your sound is too low for me to hear.

So lovely :) which brushes/ brands would you recommend or have you most enjoyed?

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Ooooh I loved this! Your work is beautiful!! It's not embarrassing at all!!! 😊🎉

Creative. I started learning watercolor here on KZbin because it was free but hopefully I'll buy some books on watercolor this year

I love the end of your sketch book, with the angler fish. Thanks for posting this, I know how hard it is to share first attempts,but it’s really encouraging and appreciated

Wow this is such an enjoyable sketchbook tour your art is so pretty 🤩 it’s incredible especially considering you were new to watercolour! Love how you went back later and added stuff to the more simple pages too.

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So interesting to see your progress. You clearly had some talent in drawing when you started. I think seeing you go through this has convinced me to take the domestica course. I am currently doing a different one and once I finish, go ahead and start the domestika one.

I would be very proud of myself if my sketchbook would look like that!!! It's amazing 🤩😍 thank you so much for sharing this! 🙏☺️

Your sketchbook is beautiful! I have this course from Domestika as well, although I have yet to start it. Been focusing on pen and ink, but the plan is to combine it with watercolour. Thank you for sharing, your work is inspiring.

Thank you for sharing your sketchbook with us. Quite special to have a guided tour of your first six months of progress, love the "fish" at the end!

Dot from the UK Wow, what a fabulous sketchbook and your first, you must be very proud of it and of yourself too, it is so beautiful. I would love to see all of your other sketchbooks as well. You certainly have a talent with watercolor. I have struggled for many years with watercolors, but recently bought a big set of Kuretake Gansi Tambi, cost a lot of money but at 73 I can't take it with me, so I'm more determined than ever to paint something I can be proud of, you have given me hope and lots of ideas. So, thank you for that and for sharing, I loved all your colors and subject matter. I'm going to see if you have anything else on You tube, and watch this delightful video again. Lots of love from the UK, Dot xxx.

Fish. It was brave of you to share your first sketchbook, thanks so much. I enjoyed it very much, especially seeing the way you created stories in your pages with your fish and birds and other quirky elements. That's so much more creative than just putting blobs of paint down on the paper. In an earlier video you talked about using your Daniel Smith dot cards, where you created small pieces of art with with each colour rather than just swatching them. I also have the complete set of DS dot cards and I love this idea - I haven't touched them yet because I'm scared of "wasting" them. I would really appreciate it if at some time in the future you could make a video about this. Thanks again.

Synthetic ❤

I enjoyed your tour of your first sketchbook! As one who is in the beginning stages of learning the watercolour medium it’s fun to see and know others are beginning and growing their skills as well. I am on the search of a sketchbook I want to commit to. Today I opened a Kolo 100% cotton sketchbook. It has 28 pages 300gsm. I have an Arches travel sketchbook, a small Etchr, and I just purchased a Baohong 100% cold press sketchbook. Not really sure why I continue searching, sometimes size is an issue, also I think I can be reluctant wanting too much perfection due to cost of the sketchbook.

So neat! I loved watching this! Thanks for sharing! What brand are the sketch books

Cool to see such a progress in only 6 months! Respect! My level with watercolor is like your page with the nail polish. I hope I will get also better in my drawings, like you. 😊

Fish ~Lovely to see ur progress !^^

Amazing tour, amazing sketchbook, amazing progress! Thank you for sharing. I'm taking that Domestica course too and it's been fantastic to see how you got on with the exercises. Your doggie is adorable!

Great and inspiring progress through the sketchbook! Absolutely loved the deep “fish” end. Thank you for sharing!

No Amazon in Switzerland?? Your haul video was perfect! I watched to the very end. If you every want anything from the States, I am happy to be your mule and I will ship them to you. How awful. No wonder you spent a small fortune on your art haul. I just subscribed and look forward to watching you swatch. Hello from Buffalo, NY.~Susanne

Hello Cherry, 🙋🏼‍♀️ from Cookeville, Tennessee…100 miles west of Knoxville and 100 miles east of Nashville Art Stores! We don’t 😢have and art stores here. So I mostly buy on line or take a few road trips.😊🚗💨I’m 73, retired and enjoying my revived artist life. I’m so glad I found your channel on KZbin. You have such a wonderful soft voice I immediately thought of Bob Ross, most celebrated artist of my younger life and still is. Unlike Bob, you didn’t put me to sleep 🤭😴 I had to videotape his shows so I could finish watching them. I love you are in Switzerland! My father’s great grandparents moved to the US from Berne, Switzerland. I don’t have much history, I do know Francis was the name shared by the men and it changed to Frank in the states. I’m female and named Frances. 😊 A wonderful first video and I can’t wait to read the next ones! I prefer longer videos but also enjoy short ones when time isn’t available. I enjoy a lot of the same products. As a Pen & Ink artist, wanting to add colors, I found Inktense and fell in love with it. I have some wonderful colored pencils and a few watercolor paints. I have used Strathmore paper as a first choice for over 60 years. I love drawing miniatures and found Stonehenge cotton minis, perfect for miniature art work. It’s wonderful paper and see if you can access their website. You can get some wonderful deals. I loved Crayola crayons growing up and then appeared Caran d’Ache Neocolor II 🫠. I was very good and started small and then went back to get a couple of more and I heard myself justifying buying the 84 set, it was back ordered 🤭I started looking for the colors that were discontinued from the 126 set, thus creating the 84 set. A wonderful woman in Switzerland, in a town 30 mins from Berne, selling in the box new 126 set! I ordered it. I was going to cancel the back ordered 84 set, but it was already on the way. I now have enough stock in Caran d’Ache to be a voting me.🤣I do love these beautiful pastels! To keep from having marks / lines on your artwork, the CREATIVE ART MATERIALS Caran D'ache Palette Aquarelle it’s a plastic palette with a smooth finish and a rough finish. It’s great to create a palette of colors to paint with without creating lines on the artwork. Check your plastic cutting sheets for a rough side and that would work also. I do like your 😊Etcher sketchbooks and the price is very reasonable. The foundation of a great work of art is the paper! Artist usually discover that just like you did and you fell for watercolor pencils. 😌 😮I’m sorry, I talk too much! I’m happy to meet you and I look forward to getting to know you. The comments from the audience are wonderful and you deserve every one. If anyone makes ugly comments just delete them and don’t give them a passing thought. 🤗 Have a great week and better weekend with Renley ! 🐶 He’s so adorable and what a wonderful studio assistant. Please don’t send him away, if you don’t have to, he might get sad and cry. I have found my pets are my best friends when working in the studio. 🙋🏼‍♀️ Fran

Thank you for sharing such a great video with helpful insights in your painting journey! I too find the urban sketching intimidating and uncomfortable. I like the ideas others gave below which I will try as well. I wanted to recommend artist Karen Rice to you for inspirational videos. You mentioned the book you like that the artist did messy but beautiful work. This lady makes beautiful and exciting work approachable. She breaks the work done to start it with using thicker paint, water and even an old credit card. What I love to see is her nature scenes! She beginner friendly watercolor and also very experienced artist! I just found the urban sketcher in Ireland Roisin Cure who also has KZbin videos and is so very lovely and charming and sketches and paints her life! I wish I could hand out with her because she absolutely engaging and her talent and passion is amazing! 😉

I enjoyed this video very much, thank you so much. I watched it to the end in another browser but have signed in again so I can leave comments, which is not something I normally do on KZbin. I loved seeing those glimpses of your sketchbooks and would love to see more of them in future videos if possible. Thanks!

Creative. Wonderful video. Your approach is different and refreshing. Thank you!

Indigo. Love your videos, they're a breath of fresh air. Don't change a thing.

Amazing video. Looking forward to seeing how you get on with all your new goodies! Thank you for sharing your view on the brushes. As a hobby/newbie/for fun only painter, I've always only used synthetic brushes. Wasn't planning on "upgrading" (I've heard opinions "real" brushes are better) any time soon. Now will probably just stick to synthetic anyway, unless I can find non-synthetic ones at the thrift store to try out.

Creative! <3 I am in love with your reviews. I've used some of these books myself, my personal favorite has been drawing on the right side of the brain (I believe there is also a left side of the brin but I'm not 100% on that). I can't wait to see what you do next. I didn't realize your Art Haul was literally your first video, I feel so grateful to experience the beginnings of your journey here on KZbin. You got this!

Had NO idea it was your first haul until you said something, lmao. I love long form content, and I love art hauls. Please do more art stuff, and hauls if you haven't already, and even if you have! Art is all about experimentation. Even if you use a supply in the non intended form of use, you're still using it and creating with it. That's the main goal of all art supplies, creation. You got this! Love from the USA <3

Well actually… I think you may be saving money! 💰 Expensive art supplies pay off in the long run, don’t they? 😉 Those will last and you will treasure them 🎉 I am delighted to have discovered your videos recently, thanks to your watercolour book reviews. I love and collect art books too. Keep up the good work! 👩‍🎨 💙

You have a very soothing voice. Lot's of personal insight that I enjoyed. Thank you so much for sharing!

I used to be against animal hair brushes, but synthetic brushes are often made of plastic derivatives and other materials that are not good for the environment or people. Some animals are humanely raised and some small brush companies use recycled hair and hair that is harvested without killing animals.

Daniel Smith makes a water color stick that would travel well.

Creative! Thank you for your very informative reviews, so helpful to see books I don’t already own (but now want!) and your sketchbook work is lovely!

I believe things you bought should be used. My mom have precious book thing too, and she won't let us use anything as intended if it "destroys" the item. Then the things just sit and deteriorated, and get thrown away.

Steve Mitchell from The Mind of Watercolor KZbin channel recommends Nita’s book. He also teaches that watercolor paints itself. He succeeds at “spontaneous” watercolor which is always a fail for me. I love his channel though and he does do a lot of other methods and knows watercolor thoroughly.

Creative……I thoroughly enjoyed your review. Thank you💕

Perhaps the best way to describe the difference between Luminance and Polychromos pencils is to compare them to gouache and watercolor. Luminance definitely has the quality of gouache with an immediate opaque coverage that causes the color to pop. Polychromos have a more transparent quality like watercolor and are best applied in layers. A color pencil artist on KZbin called Lachri Fine Art has done several videos over the years describing the different qualities and why she uses both in her practice. If I could only pick one, it would be Polychromos. Though it takes more work to layer the colors, Luminance feels chalky to me in a way that I haven't gotten used to but am trying to learn to tolerate. Also, I love the color match system of Faber Castell products. However, I think one of the greatest advantages of the Luminance line is they provide pigment information as does the Derwent Lightfast line. I find that I prefer the Derwent Lightfast over the Luminance pencils because, to me, they have a smoother application compared to Luminance. Nevertheless, both lines offer a beautiful color range with hues unique to each, so I have a collection that I've built by purchasing open stock from both lines. But if you prefer a pencil that feels like a gouache and you don't need a lightfast pencil, nothing beats a Prismacolor. They are the Sennelier oil pastel of pencils, creamy and opaque.

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party - i love swatches. I have a large selection of Derwent Inktense, both in pencil and block. I do love them. I also have a set of Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils. They are good, but the Caran D'ache Museum Aquarelles are better. I have a small selection of them. I recently purchased a few of the Neocolor II crayons. I like them, but they are more opaque than I am accustomed to - quite similar to gouache. I have been experimenting with several brands of coloured pencils, a few at a time (Derwent drawing pencils and Derwent Lightfast as well as some Luminance and Holbein).

Creative! Such wonderful, thoughtful, incisive reviews. I added several to purchase now and others on a future purchase list. Thank you.

Party! I love the neocolor II's!!

These are beautiful, I want to try them all but the decent ink-tense and the nei color II are my favorites the color really makes the party pop! 😅

Indigo! Thank you very much for this video, it was wonderfully detailed, and as a beginner watercolourist, I found it quite helpful. Please don't use music, I appreciate the format of your videos,

I love the lamp! It would be nice if you turned the music down several decibels because it drowns out your voice when you're creating, so I didn't hear 65% of your words.

Well done

Party.

I would love to get Luminance ❤

Party! 🎁