A Loose Mixed-Media Play Session: Watercolours, Neocolor II's, KingArt Gel & Tempera Paint Sticks

[@teekierudite5108]

The ending is always the best part for me. I especially love the bottom painting. That blue ocean is stunning, reminds me of where i grew up. Love your work!!

[@helencryer]

Thank you!! We are lucky to have been able to live by the sea!

[@Sycamoon]

Thanks, Always enjoy your informal play with colours and different art materials. 🌞

[@helencryer]

That's incredibly nice of you - thank you!!!

[@jomassey4207]

Lucky sister to receive such a lovely variety of art supplies. 😊

[@helencryer]

She's happy to pay for them - I just get the fun bit of picking them all out for her!!

[@zenandink3531]

Fun! I love the colors in the top one 😮

[@helencryer]

Thanks - I'm just trying to play with more colours and expand what I use regularly.

[@jessicastrideart]

I loved this Helen! Thanks for sharing another lovely video.💙

[@helencryer]

Thank you!!

[@beedee4427]

As always, you work those supplies hard and come up with such textured and "fun" (if you know what I mean?🤔) pieces. Cheers!

[@helencryer]

Thanks!

[@Purpleladybirdart]

Love those King Art gel sticks…great art as ever, always inspiring. 💜

[@helencryer]

Thank you!!

[@zoewhiteart7676]

Such a relaxing video. 😊 You always seem to be really good at beach scenes, I love them both. 🩵

[@helencryer]

Thanks! I only really started painting since I moved to the coast.

[@riverAmazonNZ]

I haven’t been able to get my hands on the shuttle art sticks here, so if you think she’d like them they’d be a good one. Everything is expensive here so I’m sure she’ll be happy whatever you choose!!

[@helencryer]

I'm currently exploring an alternative... stay tuned!

[@lyndamorrill5687]

How fun! Oh NZ one of my bucket list countries, hope your sister enjoys her supplies you send to her.

[@helencryer]

Thanks!

[@pastelsgirl]

Thank you, Helen, lovely work!

[@helencryer]

Thanks!

[@SylviaCostello-lu1bu]

Hi, I spent six weeks holiday in Australia, it was too hot for me also it was all city or vast areas of no one around, great holiday but i wouldnt live there. Like the bottom painting tfs sylvi

[@helencryer]

I've never been, but will have to go to New Zealand at some point, to hang out with my sister! Thanks!!

[@beejayem42]

👍🐨

[@awatercolourist]

Good morning 👋

[@helencryer]

On holiday in Australia?!

[@awatercolourist]

@@helencryer If I’m ever lucky enough to go to Australia It will be permanently. Only problem is, every time I consider getting serious about immigration to Australia the internet kindly serves me a video with big, fat, juicy Australian spider *🕷️ 😱. EVERY TIME. At this point I think the universe is trying to tell me something. Not sure what, though. *The spiders seem to get bigger and bigger with every video. In the last one, the spider was the size of a 3-month kitten 😭.

[@helencryer]

Looks like you'd better stay in Britain then, even if you keep to Aussie time... (though to be fair a pretty massive spider ambled over my duvet close to my face, only yesterday!)

[@helencryer]

P.S. My Dad spent a big chunk of his childhood in Australia, and their garage was made from an abandoned termite nest. Maybe it's not the spiders you need to be worrying about? 😁

[@awatercolourist]

@@helencryer What’s on Earth made you think I’m in good ol’ Blighty?! I’m not - brace yourself - even British! Now there’s a country I’d LOVE to return to. I miss walking home in the biting cold and I miss the dreary grey skies. I miss the rolling landscape. I don’t miss London. But I do miss autumn and your hiyas 👋. I miss the woods. But most of all, I miss the biting cold.

[@tigg5036]

I have a challenge for you Helen - do similar but left handed

[@helencryer]

@@tigg5036 Oooooo!!!! I'll try it! Excellent way to be forced to be loose!!

[@tigg5036]

@@helencryer you got it - have a go, may also break you of something else ;)

[@oraweetaphianthong877]

Art supplies in NZ are soooo overpriced! I live in NZ too, so I know. I wish I had someone to send me W&N artists watercolours, their prices here are insane!

[@riverAmazonNZ]

So expensive 😭😭😭

[@helencryer]

If you see something online over here, you'd like me to get and send, let me know. You'd have to figure out how much the postage rates, insurance/tracking etc are, on the Royal Mail website, and if it's not prohibitive.

[@riverAmazonNZ]

@@helencryer that’s so nice of you! In my experience postage is quite a lot. It’s a big pain. Downside of living on an island, everything needs to be imported.

[@zenlife1200]

@@riverAmazonNZ I agree about the postage being expensive in both directions. I'm in New Zealand too. Postage is ridiculous in general. I live in the Waikato and I can get art supplies sent overnight from The Drawing Room in Christchurch but anything on my own island from Hamilton or Auckland takes a few days and I'm only half an hour's drive from Hamilton😂 I shop at Gordon Harris, Hobbyland, The Drawing Room, The Ribbon Rose and sometimes Lincraft. Are there any other good stores that I don't know about? I forgot Takapuna art supplies. I think the Art shed in Tauranga is gone now.

[@riverAmazonNZ]

@@zenlife1200 those are all the places I shop at too. Anything else I get from overseas but only if nobody sells it locally. There’s more available than there used to be, at least!