Full Process 'Splodge & Scribble' Mixed Media Paintings, Plus Other Art and a visit to Lanhydrock

A round-up of my art, plus a couple of trips out, from the past week or so!
Lanhydrock House
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[@teekierudite5108]

Love the sand stuck to the painting, made it a much more authentic beach piece. Cornwall is so beautiful. Also, always love when you go over your artwork with more details. Keep up the great work!!

[@helencryer]

I can definitely be authentic then because I'm not a very tidy worker!! Thank you!

[@FaithAnnNB]

Beautiful paintings and loved seeing the highlights of walking around the gardens, buildings and church. I love old buildings/architecture so much, it was lovely to see the ceiling artwork up close like that!

[@helencryer]

Glad you enjoyed them!

[@poppyllulu]

I really look forward to your videos and love your splodge & scribble paintings Helen. Always a treat to watch! 😊

[@helencryer]

Thanks ever so much!

[@pastelsgirl]

Hello, Helen. I adore you, your videos and your art, specially your ‘splodge and scribble’ mixed media paintings. Thank you for sharing with us your beautiful day of adventures in Cornwall. ❤

[@helencryer]

Thank you for your sweet, uplifting comment!

[@Parianparlay]

It was really great seeing the place you travelled to visit. It was a lot of totally stunning buildings, I especially liked the Gatehouse the top looked like a crown almost. Loved watching you paint, you are talented I love the sketched easy that you start and then how the different elements come in as you use the crayons! Thanks for taking us along with you and your husband…he was very patient!😊😊☺️

[@helencryer]

Haha, thanks very much! Yes, he's very good!

[@racechick2033]

Lovely Lanhydrock in person and in your watercolour sketches are beautiful. ☀️❤️

[@helencryer]

Thanks Panda ❤️

[@pagewhite61]

What a gorgeous place, wow! Thank you for sharing it with us. I love your sketches.

[@helencryer]

Thank you!

[@madebylora]

Usually when there are renovations and scaffolding it is disappointing as a visitor, but how amazing to be so close to that fancy ceiling! And lovely sketches, as always!

[@helencryer]

I know! I was really chuffed they let us go up!

[@dlds44]

Your washes are lovely, and you have a gift for every medium and technique you try. Loved the portrait.

[@helencryer]

That's very generous of you, thank you!

[@natalierice6528]

I loved the portrait! Very interesting study. Your splodge and scribbles are always delightful too. And that plaster ceiling; I could spend hours studying it. Thank you for taking us along.

[@helencryer]

You are very welcome - thanks so much!

[@lisaharner3720]

That is an interesting portrait style. How bold! I love all the sketches! What an inspiring location too! It’s lovely!

[@helencryer]

Thank you!

[@RebaYoung-e5d]

Thanks Helen. This was just lovely as usual. I appreciate what you share.

[@helencryer]

Thank you!!

[@julieannestaub1502]

What a beautiful video and as always, lovely artwork! Thank you for adding US links to your supplies. Your friends in the States appreciate it 😊

[@helencryer]

Thank you!! I can't find all the things though, sorry! It also helps me out when people use them to buy things, even if it's not the thing originally linked to!

[@paulineshelley4421]

Thank you for sharing more beautiful videos from Cornwall. I have been to Lanhydrock a few years ago and loved the gardens and setting. It has real character. Splodge and scribble is something I must try. It’s amazing how the pictures come to life with the addition of the Luminance pencils. 😊

[@helencryer]

Yes, the setting is equally lovely! I like S&S because it takes away any initial stress I'd have in getting started.

[@colleenmcchesney1482]

Oh Helen this was such a great joy to watch today while we are having a huge rainy & windy day of weather from Tropical Storm Francine. I am so glad that you guys enjoyed the lovely adventure in Cornwall & at the beach. Such great views to paint 🎨 & give for inspiration. I am really loving 🥰 your splodge & scribble technique. You have such great beautiful paintings.

[@helencryer]

Thank you so much! Hope you are staying safe!!

[@moonchaserstudio]

You’re always such a joy to watch! Loved your sketch.

[@helencryer]

That's lovely - thank you!

[@mayuloves858]

Such a lovely place ❤ thanks for sharing it with us. I really enjoy the splodge and scribble work you do, it feels so dynamic.

[@helencryer]

Thank you!!

[@wendywhitley4611]

That ceiling was sublime!!!

[@jessicastrideart]

I visited Lanhydrock for the first time this year. I think it’s the most impressive National Trust property I’ve ever been to! Lovely sketches Helen! x

[@helencryer]

Isn't it just gorgeous?!

[@zenlife1200]

It's so relaxing watching all the splodge going down while listening to the music and then the scribble is the icing on the top. I think I need to get out more 😂 It looks like a lovely place though, beautiful gardens. I really liked the portrait in the monotone too. Your beach looks nice too. We live closer to the west coast beaches so they're mostly either rocky and wild or black iron sand. So unless you want to find your magnetic palette or clips covered in a hairy iron filing beard it pays not to put them too close to the sand 😂 Maybe this summer we'll go across country to visit the east coast beaches with their nice white sand and normal amounts of sand stickability, which can be bad enough in a breeze or shaken on you by your dog. Black sand in the middle of the summer heat is sure to burn your feet if you forget your jandals and don't run fast enough.

[@helencryer]

😂 I'm intrigued by your sticky sand!!!!

[@TerriChannel]

Hi Helen! More beautiful paintings- your work is such a delight (sand and all)! Wow, that portrait is really so dramatic (and maybe a bit scary) but you did a great job. I don’t think I would want her looking at me with her scary eye 😂. I’ve been tempted to get one of the Pith Oroblanco sketchbooks and it looked like yours held up to the watercolor better than I thought it might so now I have one in my Jackson’s basket. I want to try it on my Gelli plate also. I love how it lays flat. It was great to see the plaster ceiling restoration - it looks amazing. And that wood carved border and the beams in the old church were really beautiful. I really appreciate handcrafted things especially those that were done a long time ago. I’m so glad your husband is patient and you can take pictures as you like. I just love all the gorgeous properties and gardens you visit. I would love to visit some of those places someday. I love your splodge and scribble art pieces. Thank you so much for sharing them and all your wonderful videos!

[@helencryer]

Hello!! Thanks so much! Yes, her eye was definitely a bit scary! The Pith can take a bit of water, but it will buckle a bit. I've used it with a gel plate and acrylics, and that worked great. Yes - the handcrafted work was just beautiful!

[@annferguson3581]

Your last spread was just super, Helen! Lovely use of all the colours and mediums…thank you for sharing ❤

[@helencryer]

Thanks ever so much!

[@brendakuykendall272]

Absolutely lovely to watch❤

[@helencryer]

Thanks!

[@dianeleavitt7947]

What a dream to have such history and beauty in your own backyard and then to have such a talent to transfer it to paper so perfectly!! Love these videos!! :)

[@helencryer]

Thank you so much!

[@TheFeralGoatCreative]

I saved this for evening. A wonderful way to relax. Thanks!

[@helencryer]

Aww, that's so nice, thanks!!

[@zenandink3531]

So fun!…and such a beautiful place that was 😮😮

[@helencryer]

It's one of my favourite places!

[@phillipstroll7385]

Yay!!!! I finally saw British ppl at the beach. This is the first time ever. I always see all the British coasts, but i never see anyone on them or in the water. I finally got to see it. Thank you!

[@helencryer]

😂 You haven't seen many of my videos then!!

[@phillipstroll7385]

@@helencryer not all of them for sure.

[@helencryer]

That wasn't meant as a dig at all - I wouldn't expect you to! It's kind of a joke for me that there are always people when I go to the beach, but I'm too scared to paint any! (Except if they are tiny!)

[@phillipstroll7385]

@@helencryer I completely understand. I'm excited to see people on the English coats. I do so rarely see the British enjoying their beaches in KZbin videos. It's nice to see

[@ChantelleArts]

what a gorgeous beach, lve doing plein air at the seaside too 😊😊

[@helencryer]

Oh brilliant!!!

[@kymcrowart7876]

Yay! So excited to see this today!

[@helencryer]

Thanks!!

[@charisgriffin]

I loved watching this video - your sketches are so beautiful ! I am lucky enough to live very close to Lanhydrock and visit it regularly - the gardens are stunning at any time of the year. We saw the ceiling last week, the strange beasts on it are so fascinating and I too took lots of photos. You have inspired me to try my sketches ❤ in a different way (though as I often have a very bouncy Cavalier King Charles with me, sketching is not always an option 😂😂) ❤️

[@helencryer]

Ooo - how lovely!!! Yes - often best to work from photos later on! Trelissick tends to be my most visited NT property, as it's a fair bit closer to me. I love them all though!

[@valeriegehling4358]

Enjoyable as always. Your husband reminded me of mine sitting there, blesss. I’ve Polychromos & like them. Your sketches are colourful. Thanks

[@helencryer]

❤️ They're definitely good pencils, just not as soft as I'd like for this level of looseness!

[@beedee4427]

Yay, you're back at it! Loved your portrait and the sketchbook page was just lovely. Hope you're back to 100%. Cheers 😊

[@helencryer]

Thanks ever so much! Muddling through!!

[@dedewarren]

This is a great video… seeing this beautiful property and then watching you create your artwork! I LOVE the work you created. I was in England in June and have been at a loss on how to create a small sketchbook based on what I saw. I am going to try and work in the same way you have done. Thanks so much for sharing your process, you’re brilliant!

[@helencryer]

Thanks ever so much! Best of luck with your sketchbook!!

[@awatercolourist]

2:33 Love the portrait!

[@katebagley8234]

Love your splodge and scribble! You make it look so easy, I seem to get very muddy colours with mine 😊

[@helencryer]

Oh dear! Though I know we are harder on our own work than anyone else's! Can you leave more white space between paints maybe?

[@PaulaScardamalia]

Always love watching these to see how I might use your techniques for my work. Did a watercolor sketch of where I am staying on Lake Erie, and am thinking I might need to do some scribble after the splodge. 😅

[@helencryer]

I only started doing the scribbling because my splodging isn't very good 😂

[@thefrostedblueberryart]

Random comment of today - I love the music you use in your videos, Helen. Well, the one at the end during your Timelapse sections. It just makes me recall expressive contemporary dance workshops I took at university and in turn, I think it suits the medium of watercolour, painting in particular, very well.

[@helencryer]

Thank you! I pay a subscription to Uppbeat, and like some but not a lot of the music, so my selection on here tends to be a bit limited!

[@thefrostedblueberryart]

It’s hard to find just the right royalty free music isn’t it?

[@dustydesert1674]

Such a lovely video. I haven’t been feeling very well the last couple of weeks (reoccurring chronic stuff) and it was bringing me down - and this wonderful video was just what I needed. Thank you so much!

[@helencryer]

I'm really sorry you've been feeling rough! Sending you virtual hugs!!

[@ladyflimflam]

Those are nice granulators in the church. I’ll check them out.

[@helencryer]

Yes, the newish granulating paints from Rosa Gallery are pretty impressive!

[@GreenSharpieScience]

Thanks for sharing!

[@emanuelagiorgini4451]

Belle pagine!! Tutte le artiste hanno mariti pazienti. E anche rassegnati. 😂😂👍❤

[@helencryer]

😂 It's probably true! Thank you!

[@tdelphia1]

I'd have been tempted to go with crimson lips on the monochrome portrait 😂 Thank you for a nice long video! I've missed you the last week and a half! The ceilings...amazing! Looks like Fall is arriving there too (saw some color on a few trees). Helen, are you familiar with Alain Picard? I think you would enjoy his pastel style ("painterly," impressionistic, vibrant). He does online classes, but also has a nice selection of free videos on youtube (under his name). Alain is also a joyful, encouraging person and a delight to watch. (like you 😊)

[@helencryer]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate being missed - it's been a peculiar time for me, and I was avoiding art for some reason. Yes, the weather is definitely turning, but I'm hoping for a couple more sunny weeks so I can get back in the sea a bit! I do know Alain, thank you! I really really like his work, and because of him I bought the NuPastels, though then I got distracted by other mediums, but I know I'll work my way back to soft pastels soon.

[@mildredmassey4742]

Great vedio

[@watercolor.wyloeck]

How wonderful to see that you're using watercolors in the Tales Art Creation sketchbook. I just bought one, and I'm so afraid to use watermediums in it... Does it bleed through a lot? Or buckle a lot? Thanks as ever for your videos, I always end up with nice ideas 🙂

[@helencryer]

Thank you! The Art Creations sketchbooks can take a reasonable amount of water (I mean, I was working reasonably wet here), and it takes it pretty well. It makes the paper a little bit buckled, but I've never had it bleed through. Sometimes if it pools at the spine, it can soak through the thread holes, so I blot away any puddles there. I feel like these sketchbooks aren't for 'best' anyway though - and that they're just crying out for you to chuck stuff at them!!

[@watercolor.wyloeck]

@@helencryer Hi Helen, thanks so much for your elaborate reply :-) Much appreciated! I'll have to overcome my fear of throwing some water at them then it seems 🙂 But yes indeed, they are not the best quality of books, but certainly ideal for daily shenanigans :-) Have a great weekend!

[@TheNailPolishHound]

What was the music during the splodge and scribble section - so relaxing.

[@helencryer]

Music is from Uppbeat: uppbeat.io/t/ambyion/floating and uppbeat.io/t/holly-jones/getting-it-right

[@TheNailPolishHound]

@@helencryer Thank you 🙂

[@wegajane]

What was that delicious green @12:00? DS Serpentine? Thank you, Helen... this was lovely ❤

[@helencryer]

The lighter green was Rosa Gallery's Aureoline Green, and the darker edges were either Serpentine or Roman Szmal's Autumn Green. Thank you!

[@Paintspotsandpaper]

Hi Helen, really loved watching you work and was just about to ask what pencils you used, when you mentioned them, they looked so soft and fluid that I thought at first they were watercolour pencils dipped in water. Were the really soft looking ones the liminence pencils? If so, I might NEED these in my collection 🙄🙄😂😂😂! Thankyou for sharing, take care ❤❤

[@helencryer]

All the ones with the coloured wood barrels are Polychromos. They're very good pencils, but not as glidey in my opinion as the Luminance (I might have used one or two of these - they have natural wood barrels).

[@Paintspotsandpaper]

@@helencryer Thankyou Helen xx❤❤

[@awatercolourist]

4:20 What if that had broken? 😂

[@helencryer]

Can you imagine?!?! 😬

[@awatercolourist]

@@helencryer I know it would have broken if I had done it. I’d probably also end up poking my eye in that horn while turning around to leave 😂.

[@helencryer]

@@awatercolourist * Escorted from the property by National Trust volunteers, whilst muttering 'I really do love art... really!!!!' *

[@awatercolourist]

@@helencryer 🤣🤣🤣