A Tour of All My Current Sketchbooks | How I use Sketchbooks in my Creative Practice | Watercolour

[@maziedyl]

Thank you so much for this lovely tour of your sketchbooks. I sometimes feel guilty that I have multiple sketchbooks going at once, and take so long to fill any of them. Like you I have different sizes, brands, paper weights, etc. I feel vindicated seeing your selection! Thanks so much for your videos - I always learn from them and I so admire the simplicity and beauty of your painting style.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching, and I am glad you enjoy my videos 😊 And to make you feel even less guilty about your multiple sketchbooks, after I recorded this video I realised there were at least two more unfinished ones I had forgotten about 🫣😁 Hope you have fun playing in your sketchbooks!

[@majcik2354]

So happy I have just discovered you. I started to paint this year, flowers of course, but now getting into landscapes and want to try spontaneous watercolor landscape painting. I use only sketchbooks… they motivate me to finish each painting. Otherwise, on a loose piece of paper I would get to the “ugly phase” and abandon the painting. Thank you for sharing your sketchbooks… love the idea of using small paintings in a single page as a way to try concepts or new color combinations.

[@purenatures4755]

Thank u for sharing your sketchbook with us. Absolutely beautiful work.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your kind words 😊 Glad you enjoyed this little journey through my sketchbooks!

[@wistad]

It’s nice to hear your voice! I love your tutorials and style. Thank you for sharing with the world!

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching 😊 It is so lovely to know you are enjoying my videos and my watercolours 😊 Happy painting!

[@moosefamilyadventures]

Thank you for sharing. For some reason I feel a sketchbook is not a free place to play. I sheet of paper I can throw away, but in a sketchbook it seems to be cemented. I need to change my mindset! I love your videos! ~April

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your lovely comment 😊 I do remember this feeling when I was finding it hard to paint in my pretty sketchbooks… I started buying really cheap ones with thin paper, and those ones somehow made me find the confidence to be more fearless in my ‘pretty’ ones.

[@moosefamilyadventures]

Thank you for your reply. That makes sense because I have a cheap multimedia that is awful for watercolor, but it’s so used and I really can appreciate what is in there. I need to be brave with my pretty ones. I have a Perfect Sketchbook and a white Etchr that I’m making a promise here to use!

[@Monardadidyma-g5q]

A grand journey through some of your sketchbook works. Thank you so much.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed “travelling” through my sketchbooks ✨

[@dixiedrost4783]

I'm a big fan of your work! Love the colors you choose and the beauty you create in such small sketches. Very evocative.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you so much for such kind words 😊

[@Angie-pl3uw]

Thank you. Althoughiliked them all, my very favorites were in the little sketchbook. They’re really stunning.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you so much 😊 That little sketchbook does feel a little bit extra special to me too ✨

[@UJB123]

Very nice! I use my sketchbooks in a similar way: fun, ideas, paint tests, etc. Like you said, "It's just for me".

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you! Sketchbooks are such a special little ‘secret place’ to create in…

[@CIMMER14]

Thank you for sharing your painting practice.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching this video 😊

[@minachannel3233]

なんて素敵なスケッチブックなんでしょう✨ 見せていただき、感謝しています✨ありがとうございます😊

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your kind words 😊

[@van_creative]

thanks for sharing your beautiful sketchbooks with us

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@jillweisensee8524]

Your work is so lovely. It makes me happy to have found your channel. I need to go back and see if you’ve created any feather videos. I also like the few paintings of people. Thank you so much for continuing to share your work!

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for your lovely comment and for watching my videos! I do have a feather video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKbMaoKqoL2ApdE , it is one of my earlier ones :)

[@AleksdeArt]

Wonderful art, thank you for showing!🤍🤍

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your kind words!

[@josesantiagodevicentemarti4031]

CONGRATULATIONS...!!! 👏👏👏👏👏🎶📽️🖌️🎨

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you so much 😊

[@ChantelleArts]

I love these, what fantastic sketchbooks ☺☺

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed this video 😊

[@richardsemione7012]

Thanks for showing us your sketch books. They are windows into your creativity and experiments with design and technique ideas. They represent moments of creative sparks that lead to more creativity. Most of all they allow you to grasp ideas that may have been gone, so quickly, unless you had captured them on paper. They really bare your soul down to the creative spark that allows your skills and talents to produce the beautiful results we call artwork that show the better parts that are alive in us and allow us to fulfill our desires to express our inner self.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching, and for such a kind and thoughtful comment! You expressed the process of painting in sketchbooks so beautifully with your words, and I will think of them every time I paint in my sketchbooks...

[@sambill2045]

Beautiful, thanks for sharing👍

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@lanabaker4327]

I absolutely love your works, Anastasia! So beautiful! You are very talented. And it's a pleasure to hear your voice! ❤❤❤

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for such a lovely comment 😊❤️❤️❤️

[@beatrixkogler8938]

Thank you very much my dear Anastasia for this video and showing your heart in those sketch books. I loooved seeing you are using gold also :))) and you also did and do some abstract pictures - I did too, but haven't done for quite some time. Somehow I miss it. And it was so very interesting seeing your artwork in the first phase as well hearing your voice with it. I'm quite simelar handling my own sketch books. Haven't useed it also for quite some time. Well you are very inpiring in so many ways, my dear :))). Hearty greetings to you - Beatrix

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you so much Beatrix! I love playing with golden watercolours, they are such joy to create with ✨ I am glad to hear that you have enjoyed this video and that we share a sporadic sketcbook practice 😁 Happy painting!

[@polgara28]

It is wonderful to hear your voice! I know it creates extra work for you editing-wise, so thank you! This was a treat for me, waking up to see this. Your color explorations and sketches are beautiful. I really love your abstracts! They are amazing. Thank you for sharing this with us. Love from the US. 🌻

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for such a lovely comment 😊 Glad you enjoyed this format, with the voiceover! I hope I can start adding more videos with the voiceover in the future.

[@CnBArtStudio]

Thank you for sharing these today. I just started using Etchr sketchbooks. They are wonderful. Excellent quality. I am also learning to build a sketchbook practice to learn and practice techniques, mix colors etc. I love your work and look forward to your videos. 😊

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching 😊 It is so wonderful to know you are enjoying my videos 😊 Etchr sketchbooks are so, so good! Have fun!

[@timmiweber584]

Thank you so very much for sharing.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching!

[@thompson_jules0]

Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful sketchbooks with us, such beautiful art and inspiration🙏

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your kind words!

[@lululatortue8229]

Merci pour cette belle présentation de vos carnets

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your kind words!

[@joycesnodgrass7068]

Thank you for the tour of your sketchbooks! I'm encouraged to use my sketchbooks more often. 😊

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching! I hope you have lots and lots of creative fun painting in your sketchbooks!

[@JuanitaBanana-z8w]

Merci de nous montrer la diversité de ton talent. C’est très bien d’entendre ta voix et j’apprécie de lire le texte anglais en même temps. Toutes tes peintures sont belles et inspirantes.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your kind words 😊 So glad to know you are enjoying my videos ✨

[@NancyJackson]

I LOVED hearing your voice!!! I love all your videos and paintings but it is hard to read and watch you paint at the same time. I have to keep rewinding to see how you did a technique. It was a thrill today to not have to read. Keep making videos. Your paintings are beautiful!!! And I’ve learned so much.

[@AnastasiaMily]

I am so glad to hear that Nancy! Thank you for watching and for your kind words. Thank you also for your feedback about the voiceover videos vs the written commentary videos - I hope I will be able to start adding more voiceover videos eventually but I just do not have much space or time to do it (I do not have a studio, I paint in the living room and I almost never have the house to myself so there is always background noise and distractions/interruptions so it's hard to focus on what I am trying to say :)). Music over videos plus the written commentary allow me to release a video every week, and if I was aiming to do the voiceovers I would probably be able to do it once a month or so. Thank you again!

[@maryamamini1734]

Love to see your books they are so beautiful you are so talented ❤

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your kind comment 😊

[@glouiz340]

Thanks for sharing 👍 😊

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@MsMerlin333]

Theses sketch books are beautiful 😊💛🖼

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you so much 😊

[@knitwit014]

I really like your botanicals! Beautiful.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you so much! Glad you like my efforts in painting botanicals - they are such a lovely subject to play with in watercolour!

[@humi002]

Amazing.....thanks for sharing ❤❤❤❤❤

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@beckyuhler4257]

Thank you for sharing your sketchbooks! It was very interesting to see all of the different kinds of paper, and I love seeing all of your experimentation. I’m curious what you (and anyone else) think of the paper in the Baohong sketchbook?

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching! I love the paper in the Baohong sketchbook. Apparently it is their Academy paper which I buy in blocks too. I enjoy the way all my paints perform on it - this paper is great!

[@MerrrryBeth]

Just gorgeous… You are so talented❤❤❤

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your kind words 😊

[@davidschonberger8609]

What a wonderful surprise to hear you speak! Given your first name, I suspected you might have Eastern European roots, possibly Russian. (Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is a very well known Russian tennis pro.) I've been eyeing the Etchr Perfect Sketchbook. They are really nice, handmade, pricey but probably worth every penny. I love that jack-o'-lantern painting! Great use of complementary colors. 🎃I also really dig that minimal line-and-wash two-page spread. And those little orange abstracts were really cool as well; they remind me of Joan Miro's work. Based on what I see on your website, it looks like you generally paint on sizes around 1/4 sheet or smaller. I bet you could make a dazzling full sheet lighthouse painting! 😁Thanks for sharing your musings on sketchbooks and the sketchbooks themselves.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your thoughtful comment, I really appreciate it! Glad you enjoyed this little journey through my sketchbooks 😊 Etchr sketchbooks are pricey indeed but the paper and the binding are so good. I do know that people create their own sketchbooks out of Arches etc - I might try that (when I find the free time to bind my own sketchbook book 😁 ). Haven’t painted on a full sheet yet, but that’s also in my plans!

[@AdeleReece-xp1fz]

Love your channel Milly and I always find something you are sharing inspirational. Thank you for this video so lovely to see the extent of your creativity ❤

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for such a kind comment 😊

[@HerrHonnacker]

Hallo, danke für die Einblicke. Ich mag besonders die Federn bei 02:14. Viele Grüße aus Deutschland

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your kind words! Painting feathers in sketchbooks is such fun... I often paint them when I don't know what to paint.

[@ann-marielofberg1159]

So many nice sketches, I also use mine like that. I can choose if I wanna share them, or not!

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you!! I agree, sketchbooks are just like journals - we can choose to keep them private, or we can choose to share them if we are willing. I find it very freeing.

[@준희TV-h5b]

그림이 너무 멋져요~!

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you so much!!

[@butterpoweredbike6135]

Thank you for sharing. If someone looked in my sketchbooks, it would feel equivalent to them rifling through my underwear drawer. So personal, though they'd see little more than a bunch trees and color swatches.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching! I agree - sketchbooks are so personal. I believe we are our most authentic creative selves when we are painting in sketchbooks. It is such a freeing creative practice.

[@togetvj]

Your sketchbooks show you have a wide range of skill and yet you tend to do videos on pretty much the same topics. Your abstracts at 9:28 and 13:50 were really good, and the skates, mushrooms, yachts and seascapes, and the one with the winding road through mountain side were amazing. I wonder why you don't do tutorials on those. Perhaps you feel happier doing the pine trees and landscapes, perhaps you don't worry about the number of subscribers, but I think if you expanded your subject matter you would attract more viewers. I hope you don't mind me saying that because I mean it all as a compliment and your paintings are always so beautiful and inspiring. 🙂 PS I have lots of journals and I love the REAL STONE ones which Emily Olson reviews among other journals.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching and for your feedback, I appreciate it! I do feel very happy painting landscapes, and they are what I paint not in sketchbooks but as complete pieces. I don't really paint anything else as standalone paintings (not in sketchbooks) as landscapes is what I am very passionate about, but I have actually been planning to eventually start adding videos on sketching people, etc. I already have a couple of videos on stone stacks and feathers, and on semi-abstract landscapes too. The thing is, I am short on time, so painting and sharing my landscapes in their current format is currently what makes it possible to release a video every week.

[@togetvj]

@@AnastasiaMily As a retired person I often forget that other people don't have all the spare time that I have. 😄 I look forward to watching your videos and I have followed one which is in one of my many journals. I've given your channel a mention in my blog. Thank you. wotcolour.blogspot.com/2024/01/watercolour-tree-using-roman-szmal-paint.html

[@corgisrule]

@@togetvj Thank you for this!

[@togetvj]

@@corgisrule You are welcome :)

[@JinaNia2022]

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[@AnastasiaMily]

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[@SlySkippy15]

I’ve noticed artist favor certain Art Spectrum colors: earths/indigo/Paynes gray. I don’t own Aussie RG, but see AS and DS Aussie Red Gold have the same pigments. What AS colors do you use or find working well with your palette?

[@AnastasiaMily]

I don't have that many Art Spectrum colours on my palette but I do love their Indigo and Payne's Grey (although my current Payne's Grey is by Rockwell Canada, but I'll switch back to AS when I run out). I love Art Spectrum's Indigo and Payne's Grey as they move very fast on the wet paper and create beautiful effects. I used to have more of their colours, and they are all wonderful, but I ended up switching to mostly Daniel Smith for the size of their tubes and for their array of colours. Also , I found that AS white gouache outperforms W&N for me - it has a better coverage and a much brighter white.

[@SlySkippy15]

@@AnastasiaMilyThank you Anastasia. I’m defiantly getting PG and indigo. I also saw artist using their white gouache too. You’re an amazing artist and an inspiration for me. ❤

[@kimrebecca3064]

와우 넘 멋져요. 팔레트는 어떤 물감인가요?

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you so much! I use watercolours by a few brands, all artist's quality - Daniel Smith, Holbein, Winsor&Newton, Schmincke...

[@pawealbrzykowski9251]

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[@AnastasiaMily]

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[@ArtDreamPainting]

💖💖💖💖

[@AnastasiaMily]

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[@juliehopkins5784]

Thank you Anastasia. I make my own little sketchbooks from paper sheets. I was gifted some hot press paper which I don’t use very often, aha, make a little sketchbook! p.s. I would never show anyone my sketchbooks 😂❤

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching Julie! I know what you mean about not showing your sketchbooks - it took me a long while to become confident enough to show them 😁 That’s the beauty of it - we feel so free in our sketchbooks as they are ours and we don’t need to share the results with anyone… Have fun with that hot press paper! How do you bind your sketchbooks?

[@juliehopkins5784]

@@AnastasiaMily I followed Liz Chaderton’s KZbin tutorial on making your own sketchbooks. The one I make is using concertina folds, with the paper glued to very stiff cardboard that I have covered and use a ribbon that is glued under the sheet of paper on one of the sheets of cardboard. Then I tie it up, voila! Quite fun. Bonus is that you can make the pages and number to your requirements. Shame I can’t share a photo here. p.s. hope you can understand this. 😂

[@AnastasiaMily]

@@juliehopkins5784 Thank you Julie, I have found Liz's video now and will have a closer look! Making my own sketchbooks has always been something in the "too hard basket" for me but I would love to have control over the size and the number of pages. Also, concertina sketchbooks look such fun but they are always quite pricey...

[@Sglinert]

Please do a stacked rock tutorial!

[@AnastasiaMily]

I do have a couple of stacked rocks videos, where I demonstrated mixing greys and neutrals: kzbin.info/www/bejne/in6qpaWwg9Z5a9E kzbin.info/www/bejne/qorJqaCMhdmrasU Hope these help!

[@Sglinert]

@@AnastasiaMily Thank you so much1

[@aramekizian4277]

Merci de connaître des aquarelles plus récréatives où l’on se fait plaisir.

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching! Playing with watercolours is such amazing fun indeed 😊

[@monikakapon1898]

Szkoda że nie ma tłumaczenia po Polsku 😔 - zastanawiam się dlaczego???!!!

[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you for watching! This was my first video with subtitles so I wasn't sure how the KZbin translation worked. I added different languages now, including Polish, I hope it works for you...

[@angelaschon6623]

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[@AnastasiaMily]

Thank you 😊