How I use mixed media to capture landscapes SKETCHBOOK TOUR

[@sirenu-eveart6246]

Lovely sketchbook tour, loved the last sketches with the insects on so cute and cool 💕💕

[@MelanieChadwick]

Glad you liked it

[@ChantelleArts]

wow your sketchbook looks amazing! lovely to capture so many memories 🥰

[@MelanieChadwick]

Thankyou!

[@jessicastrideart]

I love how you remember so much about each day that you made a sketch. Beautiful work Mel! x

[@MelanieChadwick]

Thank you! 😊

[@jenniferrobinson8769]

Wow. They are beautiful. I particularly love the last pages you shared of animals and various items, also the botanical art. The layouts and colors you choose are so pretty! I also love how you seem to get constant inspiration from the landscape all around you. I love how there are so many different views, angles, colors, moods, and styles.

[@MelanieChadwick]

Thank you so much Jennifer. The landscape really does inspire me to keep sketching!

[@marie-claireallington851]

😀perfect timing I just got in from my Monday sketch stop on way home from visiting my mum in the carehome - so a cuppa coffee and this is perfect 😀😀😀

[@daisiesandsunflowers5587]

Thank you for this look through your sketchbooks, Melanie. So inspiring to see how the sketches accumulate over a whole year. They really add up to a lovely body of work and help give tangible memories of how you used your time❤

[@MelanieChadwick]

Thankyou! I think that is what I like about keeping a sketchbook, little and often builds over time!

[@wendyj_thecoddiwomplelady]

Thank you for a another wonderful video, it’s good to remember the few sunny days we had this year! 😁

[@annedurand3136]

I love your landscapes so so much Melanie!!! Watching this for 50 mins is a dream. I am slowly making my way through your Advent Calendar course and I really want to take more time to explore your wonderful Substack in the future!

[@MelanieChadwick]

Lovely to hear Anne, and I look forward to seeing your woodland inspired sketches. Hope to see you at one of the meet ups we have scheduled!

[@thompson_jules0]

Your sketchbooks are beautiful, so many lovely memories🎨🧡 Thank you for sharing🙏🏼

[@megbowyer6436]

Always love your art. So inspiring 🤎🧡

[@fannynoriega3181]

Thank you for sharing your sketchbooks. Very nice work! Love to watch while I attempt to doodle ❤

[@MelanieChadwick]

Glad to hear that!

[@gabischmidt2753]

Hi Mel, I really enjoyed your beautiful sketchbook tour! It has so many memories of where we have been. I realized again that I need to learn not to overwork my sketches:) I really love the sketch you did from the orchids. Thank you for your valuable work! Gabi:)

[@MelanieChadwick]

Oh thank you Gabi, glad you recognised the spots. It's hard to know when to stop sometimes. I'm try to stop before I think it's finished!

[@rl4424]

Hello Mel, Enjoyed your video and your sketch book tours. Love your work! Thank you 😊❣️♥️❣️

[@MelanieChadwick]

Thank you so much!

[@tinametcalfe654]

Yay!! Love your sketchbook tours!

[@Zoewhiteart7676]

Some beautiful sketches. 😍✍️🖌️🫶🏻

[@idoiriber]

Hi Melanie! Beautiful surprise see my friend Mila and me in this sketchbook tour. Happy memories of our trip to Cornwall and the day we met. Looking forward to return!!!

[@MelanieChadwick]

Thank you! Glad we could meet in person and sketch together in Marazion.

[@carlaruiz-pl2np]

So beautiful and inspiring as usual. Your sketches transmit happiness to me🥰

[@MelanieChadwick]

I'm so glad to hear that! Thankyou.

[@luannianke8110]

Good look. Enjoyed a lot.

[@kanamichelle7404]

Such lovely work, Melanie! I was looking to see if you had made a print to buy of the tinted charcoal drawing at the 46:24 mark. I didn’t see it on your website. I absolutely LOVE it and would love to buy a print if you plan on making one. It just grabbed me! I plan on buying the 2025/calendar. Maybe two, one for my daughter❤

[@MelanieChadwick]

Thanks so much. I hadn't intended to make that one in to a card, but it may appear in my next zine. Glad to hear your thoughts on it though as it was working in a new medium.

[@Paintspotsandpaper]

Hi Melanie, I really enjoyed this tour of your work, it was so inspiring! Can I please ask where you get your tins to store your neo colors in, I just don’t know what size to get and yours look perfect with all of the right colour tins for each colour group. Thankyou so much for sharing, take care ❤❤

[@MelanieChadwick]

Thankyou! I get asked that a lot- I bought them from the Online journal shop, I'm not sure if they still stock them. They are called tiny containers by hightide.

[@martinakuroneko5962]

I really love your style. But more important, as strange as it may sound I absolutely love your voice. It's very soothing to me. I could just play your video in the background and instantly find peace :) Warm greetings from Poland!

[@MelanieChadwick]

Aw thanks so much!

[@rebeccamettert]

What gouche colors do you use in your goiche palette? Love thos colors you just showed

[@MelanieChadwick]

Thanks, the gouache were ready mixed by my friend Kriksis- a mix of browns, greys, greens.

[@Scrabbledat]

Beautiful work! Curious to know about your green paint water brush, did you make it? What medium is it? Thx!

[@MelanieChadwick]

Thankyou! Do you mean the waterbrush with acrylic ink? I do make custom ink brushes- just fill a waterbrush with a bit of liquid acrylic ink and water.

[@Scrabbledat]

@ oh very interesting! I’d loveee to see a video on how you make those if you have time.

[@mchlup]

Hello Melanie, I wanted to ask you, does the Moleskine withstand multiple layers of colour when doing watercolour?

[@MelanieChadwick]

Moleskine does quite well with watercolour layers and ink- and its thicker than the royal talens art creation.

[@mchlup]

@@MelanieChadwick Thanks for the reply and info.