Derwent XL Inktense blocks ❄️ demo & winter landscape 🌨️

[@gabriellaritaart]

Correction to the voiceover: The XL Inktense block set has "Ink Black nr. 2200" in it, not "Chinese Ink nr. 2030". I got the colour names mixed up, sorry!

[@alanefideler7234]

Those bars look so delicious. But unfortunately they’re forbidden snacks

[@KobieK]

The painting you did is very relaxing 🤗

[@xargothunter5746]

Beautiful painting as usual.

[@gabriellaritaart]

Hi, yeah a bit of a bummer for those colours being fugitive, but altogether nice palette. Thanks for commenting 🌸

[@tinakoyama8258]

I just love the way you did those distant trees wet-in-wet right at the beginning! This is stunning. Good to see you back! (This was at the top of the page when I went to KZbin today!)

[@gabriellaritaart]

Dear Tina, thank you so much 🙏💕 have a nice weekend

[@starr-starr]

Beautiful painting. Brilliant color mixing.

[@gabriellaritaart]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@jlm517rocks]

SO SMART tutorial, brilliant result... [yr Derwent junkie double]...

[@gabriellaritaart]

❤️

[@izabelakin4740]

You do real miracles with Inktens. I'd love to watch another video with using them. Bye!

[@milenamarcocci6320]

Love your art work ❤❤❤❤❤bravissima

[@gabriellaritaart]

Thank you 🙏🏻🌸

[@susanorban3059]

Love the colors and the texture of the paper. Beautiful pic! I have the large set of the inktense small sticks and wanting to learn how better to use them. Thanks for a great video!❤

[@CHOMIQ]

I would love to see more of your work with Inktense XL. Thank you for shearing ❤

[@gabriellaritaart]

Thank you 🙏🌸

[@ChantelleArts]

this is fantastic, i love it ❤❤

[@gabriellaritaart]

Thank you 🙏🌸

[@MelissaBeach-z5w]

What a beautiful painting! I have the regular Inktense blocks and pencils and I love them as well. It took me awhile to realize paper matters🙂 Thank you! -Melissa

[@gabriellaritaart]

Thank you Melissa 💕

[@vickilee6335]

I'm so impressed with your color mixing. I need to watch again to see exactly how you managed it. Beautiful painting. I think your paintings would sell if you ever wanted to go that way. Maybe make some prints? I don't know. This is just so beautiful.

[@gabriellaritaart]

Hi Vicki, thank you 💕 No I don't have a shop at this point. I have a regular 9-5 which is my main source of income. I tried to sell paintings before and no one wanted to buy them lol. So for now I only do KZbin

[@vickilee6335]

@@gabriellaritaart I understand. Maybe the time isn't right. And I'm sure it would take some time and expense to set up, but there are some of your pieces I think would sell.

[@evabalazs3159]

Dear Gabi, Thank you for this demo, it's very inspiring. If Derwent added a cian to this colour selection, every colour would be mixable with the three primaries: yellow, fuchsia(magenta) and cian. Bright blue in this set is a bit reddish for a cian, but it can also work. If you have Sea blue (1200), or Dark Cerulean-(1010), which colours are pretty close to process cian, I recommend using those colours instead of the Bright blue. For nice warm brown mixtures I recommend you to try mixing yellow with a warm violet ( violet+ fuchsia or blue+ fuchsia ) as well.

[@gabriellaritaart]

Dear Eva, thank you for the colour mixing tips, I don't usually mix browns from primaries, so it's definitely a learning curve for me. But I'm up for the challenge. I will continue to experiment with browns. I would happily give up violet and mustard from this set though in exchange for bark/chocolate or baked earth, as I'm really missing those colours from the old set. I use a lot of yellow ochre, burnt sienna and van dyke browns usually in watercolours so it's a definite challenge not to have any of those. But it's a fun set altogether.

[@diannedupuis2960]

Great video and beautiful work!

[@sueallen952]

Gorgeous, have just subscribed

[@gabriellaritaart]

Thank you and welcome to the channel ☺️🙏🏻🎄

[@sandrarahimi5688]

Another beautiful painting and it is amazing that you could create such earthy colors from such a vibrant palette. You mention that the pan inktense paints work fine on student grade cellulose watercolor paper, but not the blocks. The blocks aren’t just bigger versions of the pans? Also I was wondering if you had ever tried Chinese watercolors like Karen Wu uses. And if so, how do they compare to inktense.

[@gabriellaritaart]

Hi Sandra, the blocks and the pans are slightly different. The pans are more like watercolours, the blocks are more opaque and chalk like. I never tried Chinese painting but I've been watching Kate Wu for a long time and I would like to give it a go at some point.

[@Julie-vy3oz]

Thanks for sharing!

[@gabriellaritaart]

❤️

[@alimcbally2339]

Why do these inktense block perform better than the older inktense blocks, the older ones, made ugly dry dots.. I like these very much.. Awesome painting.. ❤

[@gabriellaritaart]

Hi, I think they are the same. They just perform much better on a rough surfaced 100% paper, which is what I used for this video. On budget paper they do look dotty and streaky.

[@Leebeloola]

This reminds me so much of our local pond in winter. I'm going to try following along. I got the 2nd inktense small pan for Christmas & I'm trying to figure out how it works. It takes longer than I thought for it to dry enough that I don't pick up the colour underneath

[@gabriellaritaart]

Hi, I'm glad you're experimenting with Inktense 🌸 I wish you a happy New year 🎊

[@Katubes]

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me decide on which Derwent inktense sets to get. Say you could only afford to buy only one set, which set would you buy and why. The new XL blocks featured in this video can be used to mix colors but I wonder how realistic that really is. Which set do you find that you reach out for often: the small intense stick set with many different colors or these large XL blocks with limited colors. How do you find the quality in pigments with the new XL blocks versus the small multi color sticks? With the XL blocks do they mix colors easily? Thank you for any advice.

[@gabriellaritaart]

Hi, so far I haven't noticed any difference in terms of quality, just the shape is different. It depends what you need. I quite like these new XL blocks, but of you want more colours, the small blocks are much cheaper, you can get a 36 set for the price of the new XL set which consists of only 12 colours. Also if depends on whether you want to draw them dry. They small blocks are better for details.

[@Katubes]

​@@gabriellaritaarthi thanks for your reply. Do you find it easy to mix colors with the XL blocks through?

[@gabriellaritaart]

So far I've been able to mix what I wanted. I have a new video coming out on Saturday done in XL blocks. It will be a winter painting with sparrows.

[@Katubes]

@@gabriellaritaart thank you 😊

[@moonram4820]

Hi here are my suggestions for browns. Mustard with a touch of black, poppy red with black, the primaries yellow, fuschia, blue and lastly yellow and violet. Do let me know if these suggestions helped you. 😊

[@karin7765]

We have the intense blocks at the studio I work..I'm not the only one who works with them but I always find dirt/ grease or even other color pigments on them is this normal or is it because they don't take good care of them??

[@gabriellaritaart]

If you use them as dry pastels, they can get a bit dirty from repeatedly touching them, but they can be very easily cleaned with a piece of dry fabric or simply handkerchief