ART SUPPLY HAUL: ACRYLIC INKS, HANDMADE SKETCHBOOKS & MORE!

[@sandfly60]

I think of you every time another package of art supplies arrives at my door. As I have no artist friends locally to share my hauls with, it’s nice to be able to connect with people on here. Today was a set of Koh-i-noor pastel pencils. And they’re lovely.

[@paulwoodford1984]

You should film your hauls and post them

[@deannaglaze2098]

LOVE all of your videos!!! I sent you the Denik sketchbook in this video. Glad to see you will use it. I've never had any with creased pages before. They are great for playing around and not being worried about being "precious". Can't wait to see next weeks adventure!!!

[@sandihester]

AWE!!!!! It’s you Deanna!!!! THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰🥰! It was such a fun gift to get and I really appreciate it soooooo much!!! So kind!

[@sandfly60]

I thought of you when my mega haul of pastel pencils arrived today! Hahahahahaha. I have just wandered around with a fistful of pencils all afternoon. They're so beautiful. Happy days.

[@sandihester]

Eeeeee- that’s fun!

[@paulwoodford6229]

You're definitely someone who lives for the moment and doesn't sweat the things that have already been done and can't be changed. Very inspiring. Especially your comments previously about not being afraid of the sketchbook and just break it in.

[@sandihester]

Thank you Paul!

[@rebeccabee6615]

Great haul. I love how much you love to learn new things and are always experimenting! You’re an artsy explorer! Btw…some marker nibs are reversible. You may be able to turn that one around. Worth a check.

[@sandihester]

WHAT?!? Reversible???? I’m running to check that out! THANK YOU!

[@enamary1]

Hi lovely Sandi, re knocking the narrow ink bottles over, I stand them in a small wider jar packed in with a paper towel. Does the trick for me. Thanks for all your great videos!

[@sandihester]

Great tip! Thank you!

[@michelepastele5347]

Those handmade sketchbooks are such beauties! Love seeing the transitions from the sketchbooks to the easel - so fun! Good job Sandi - thank you!

[@sandihester]

Thank you Michele!

[@4RT3indisciplinar]

Sandy is like Sunday...solar hug from Buenos Aires!

[@sandihester]

❤️

[@LJ-xw3ou]

Thank you for showing your actual painting at the end of this video. Amazing process. ❤it!

[@AM-kq6tv]

Yay!!! Arcrylic inks. This is going to be fun to watch :)

[@madelynsmith8281]

Great art supplies. Love your new vintage sketchbooks. The sketches and paintings are beautiful. I have never used inks before. I will have to try the holbein acrylic inks. 🎨

[@impish22]

Yay... making my Friday better.. as usual..!!

[@sandihester]

🤗🤗🥰

[@oh.journals]

when you mix acrylic inks there's only a tiny little bit needed to drastically change the color and I love it so much.

[@sharontree7272]

You have changed my life!! I always strived for duplicating what I see. No more I just strive to enjoy and make something pleasant to the eye. Or tell a story

[@sandihester]

🤗

[@jasperbrooklyn601]

for the inks I would recommend getting iron/not copper bb pellets to shake them up

[@trudiatherton1633]

I love love love the section that’s quiet when you can hear the noise of you clonking around- it takes me back too college and being in a room with other artists.

[@suesummers8813]

Loved Autumn and Adams sketchbooks…

[@sandihester]

They are soooooo wonderful!

[@smilesoftexas]

You are just so so precious!! I think I get just as excited as you do when you open up new gifts and goodies!! Thank you for sharing those with us. I felt like I needed to bow my head when you were committing yourself to not be fearful in using your new journals. 😁 I’m starting to get butterflies about the art workshop coming up!!! Just around the corner. Sending you lots of hugs to you and Grady and tummy scratches for Cooper and his furry brothers/sisters. ❤️

[@sandihester]

That is so funny about feeling like needing to now your head 😂😂😂 I cracked up!

[@MSKCCooke]

You're so fun Sandi! Thank you for brightening up what was previously an icky day! 🙂

[@sandihester]

🥰🥰🥰

[@samcook532]

So much fun right here ! Thank you so much for brightening up a snowy Friday .those Holbein inks are .... DELICIOUS I totally get the frustration about the marker tip .but I'm a betting that you'll end up loving it 😂

[@sandihester]

You’re probably right 😂!

[@elisabethsvendby]

Yay, great haul, Sandi! And that ink-test page looked like a gorgeous painting :D I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

[@sandihester]

Thank you Elizabeth!!!!

[@marilynburke7609]

You are my best inspiration. Thank you. 😊❤️

[@sandihester]

❤️

[@CreatingCuteArt]

Your excitement is contagious!😍

[@sandihester]

I’m SO glad!

[@scenicrouteart]

OK I’m late to the party but love the art hauls!❤

[@deborahmeyers551]

Great art haul thanks Sandi loving your landscapes and the looseness always works magic! Loved the sketchbooks expecially the mustaed one I like creampages too they give sketches such an organic look I feel happy weekend Sandi 😘

[@sandihester]

Thank you!

[@michl6688]

Love the tree sketches in your Autumn & Adam sketchbooks! I just got some new inks (excited to try the magenta!) and a new Moleskine sketchbook in RED last week. This video came at the perfect time! 😊

[@sandihester]

Red Moleskine?!?! I’m jealous 😂🤗!

[@TheYellowsun76]

Wow! Super fun stuff, and those handmade journals... Beautiful!

[@sandihester]

Thank you!

[@marypartridge5154]

Because you just jump into things and do not seem too fussy you give people the confidence to have a go at painting. And this I find great. A lot of the utube videos are about painters just copying photographs. You are good with colour.

[@sandihester]

Thank you Mary!

[@sayleonara1829]

I love the color swatches!! In the beginning by minute 7 I see a abstract landscape with pink cliffs and a gray waterfall :) the colors are soo beautiful 💜

[@annevai]

40 mins! What a treat! Just listened to your authentic obsessions podcast and I wished it never ended! So interesting to here someone pick your brain and inspiring as always. I wrote a quote from your podcast on my sketchbook... "if i didn't have fun doing it, was it really even good?". Thank you for the awesome videos and being a constant source of inspiration!

[@sandihester]

Thank you! This week I was interviewed for a really long podcast - like 3 1/2 hours that will be out in April! 🤗

[@nancyloomis3046]

Hey Sandi….I love that yellow-green from Holbein! It really is beautiful. And oh my those hand crafted sketchbooks are so special. I’m sure you’ll do lots of beautiful work in them, 👍

[@sandihester]

I figured I wasn’t alone with loving that color 🤗

[@julietoye9872]

Highlight of my week, your videos! Those handmade sketchbooks are so beautiful, and I love what you did in them. Went to the website, all sold out! I'm not surprised! Have a great weekend 😊💟🤗

[@sandihester]

What - all sold out?!?!? They just restocked too - wow!

[@sandihester]

Oh wait - they said they have a restock this weekend

[@julietoye9872]

I'll need to be quick!!! Xxx

[@neningd233]

Follow them on instagram to find out when their regular shop restocks happen. You literally have to login at the time and be quick selecting the ones you want. I recommend paying for one you like straight away rather than spending too much time browsing and adding to your cart otherwise you’ll find some will have sold by the time you check out.

[@mollye8141]

Love the landscape. It is so good.

[@sandihester]

Thank you!

[@txbobcat74]

Is there anything more fun than a box of art supplies! How fun!

[@sandihester]

Nope!

[@MegadoseTheOutsiderArtist]

I'm number 1! Finally! Ok... back to the video

[@MegadoseTheOutsiderArtist]

It's so cool when you react to gifts, the love you show is so genuine! I bet your such a good person in real life. I am trying to find real people, like you, to be in my life. I'm getting to old for the hate I see everywhere... so it's so nice to be in your channel and feeling good. You don't judge, you don't talk politics, you don't do any of those negative things... SO THANK YOU SANDI🥰😇

[@sandihester]

😂🤗

[@sandihester]

Awe - thank you- I’m glad you like what you’re seeing and hearing!

[@scoanime]

Another great video. I'm loving all your landscape work. It's so gorgeous

[@sandihester]

Thank you!!

[@sallysims5090]

Another fun video! I like sketching in charcoal too. It is very freeing. I really enjoy seeing how your landscape in ink process progresses. When you mentioned the pumice-y gesso, it made me wonder whether a thin coat of watercolor ground on slickish paper would work well. That should help keep it matte but with a bit more absorbency. Gotta check it out! Thanks again for the inspiration. Have a great weekend. :)

[@sandihester]

That could work Sally! I’ve never used that product.

[@paint_freckles]

Love the final peace Sandy so pretty love seeing your process. love drawing with charcoal but always make such a smash so smudgy do you put fixative between yours on the sketchbook. I am so looking forward to the workshop my painting is so tight right now. I had my one year old niece over to paint with me it was so much fun she is a process artist. Saw a picture of her this week dipping her brush into the dog's waterbowl thinking she was painting.

[@sandihester]

I do use fixative. That is so cute about your niece!

[@neningd233]

Great video as always Sandi! I watched it just before bed and now I can’t wait to get over with sleeping so I can get painting tomorrow! Should have waited to watch in the morning d’oh!😅 I also just listened to your Authentic Obsessions episode today, love hearing your cheerful, motivating voice keeping me company.

[@sandihester]

That’s funny! I love going to bed thinking about the next days art work. I have several podcast interviews so thank you for listening! I have a new one coming out in April that is LONG!

[@neningd233]

@@sandihester ohh exciting! I'll have to look up what the other podcasts are! Yeah it's great to feel enthused for the next day, but then sometimes that converts to insomnia for me, not helpful! 😅 Also bit frustrating if it's a weekday and I have to put off my painting enthusiasm till the evening if I'm lucky, or several days if I'm not. Happy painting lovely lady, looking forward to seeing what else you put in those lovely handmade sketchbooks too!

[@parmavioletmay]

You could absolutely make ASMR videos like the Sketchbook work you do from 32:01 . It is so peaceful and relaxing to hear you work! :)

[@sandihester]

Thank you!

[@sjmsutherland]

Hi from your newest subscriber, I love your style and the textures you create!! I've been wanting to use acrylic inks for a while...you have given me the want to go get some now!!!! Thank you for sharing your process, great video!!!x

[@sandihester]

Welcome Samantha!!!!! I’m so glad the video was helpful!!!! Thank you for the kind words!!!

[@ClaudetteHasenjager]

Your inky landscapes are so inspiring 🖤

[@sandihester]

Thank you!

[@GillianCrossArt]

And then you mentioned the bottle which you knocked over...thankfully I only spilt half of mine but it was the same liquitex narrow bottle. Great video and sketches as usual 💜

[@sandihester]

Thank you Gillian!

[@fuzzydragons]

that shadow green colour looks like you could use it with so many other colours just change the tones, and its very nice just by itself

[@sandihester]

I agree!

[@benjo3562]

I love your hauls!

[@sandihester]

🤗

[@0javi0]

Seriously considering writing “do not be too precious of your sketchbooks” in the first page of each of mine 😅 I loved to see you using those inks ❤️

[@sandihester]

Do it if it helps 😂🤗!

[@AliciaCotoruelo]

I have the same MOLESKINE, I paint in watercolor

[@sandihester]

It’s a great one!

[@Lucy_Bayard_John]

I bought soft plastic droppers. You can rinse them. I bought a pack of 100, small and medium, not expensive at all. I put a few drops on a ceramic plate and Voilà!

[@sandihester]

Nice!

[@angelafrings3440]

Try keeping the open ink bottle in an old teacup. Less likely to knock it over. I really enjoy your channel.

[@sandihester]

Thank you!

[@markkarules]

What did you think of that blue sketchbook? I use that brand all the time, it is really affordable here in Finland. I think it is very similar to the moleskine one.

[@kimfox8622]

Agreed. I love mine.

[@sandihester]

I mentioned that I was repurchasing so I obviously love them! They are really wonder!

[@GillianCrossArt]

Haven't started watching yet but you mentioning inks reminded me...you know when you knocked over your magenta quin-whats-it ink? Well I did the exact same thing yesterday with my magenta quin-whats-it ink...Maybe it doesn't like us not knowing what it's called 🤣

[@sandihester]

😂😂😂😂 but that is a bummer

[@jcookie9448]

Lovely video as always! It's so helpful to see how the paper handles the inks. When someone is painting in the same volume as you do - How the heck are you supposed to store all your artwork and sketches? You probably have 1000+ paintings/sketches laying around!

[@sandihester]

😂😂😂 I do have a LOT!

[@Anonymoi]

Finally pushed over the edge to buy acrylic inks! But I’ve been wanting to ask a question about your Moleskine sketchbook, and since now I know you’ve purchased at least two, it seems like a good time. I know the one you’ve shown in the past has cream paper, and you said in this video that you like cream paper. But when I go to Blick to look at the one you have, it looks white in the photo, and the reviews suggest that the company is not consistent with the paper color. That’s held me back from buying it, because I also really like how the cream paper looks. Was your newer one also cream? Thanks!

[@kimfox8622]

Try the blue Royal Talens one. I use the same sketchbook and love them. they are same as moleskin just cheaper and beautiful cream pages.

[@sandihester]

Yes - all the ones I’ve bought have been cream

[@christicovington]

Hey Sandi I know you're in Nashville too and I don't know if you have checked out paper and ink arts in Donelson. It's right down the street from me and they are super nice. Thanks for another great video! Much ❤!!

[@sandihester]

I haven’t heard of them - is it an art store????

[@christicovington]

@@sandihester yes ma'am. Not as big as Jerry's or Plaza but it's a neat little art shop.

[@sirensong3556]

Hi Sandi Can you post about the brushes you use?

[@sandihester]

I usually have them listed in the description with links. If not on this video you’ll find them in other videos

[@alcefaly]

Sandi, I thought I’d watched all your videos, so imagine my surprise when I came across this one! I hope you enjoyed Alabaster! AKA #AlabamaGoatPlay

[@ellengoodloe9786]

those new inks almost seem kind of like golden high flow. Do you prefer the Moleskine to Stilman and Burns books?

[@sandihester]

I am liking the Moleskine better these days for some reason - maybe because of the cream paper

[@cazkiwinz4300]

Your swatching scribble is still prettier than anything I’ve actually “painted” 😂😂😂

[@sandihester]

Well thank you 😂

[@rayemartineau8644]

💓👍👀 2/20/22

[@robincivis9501]

Was that wooden carved animal Cooper? It had his tail!😉

[@sandihester]

No - it was a goat I think

[@jessbutterfly1934]

Sandy, the link isn’t working for me to find the handmade sketchbooks. Could you please direct me out where I can go

[@carlamariestudios]

I'm thinking about buying some of those acrylic inks, but do they bleed through the pages in your sketchbook?

[@sandihester]

Sometimes if I over work the page but not usually

[@minnahumble2294]

I am at minute 6:00 and you still have not mentioned the brand of those acrylic inks, or listed them amongst your supplies. Could the brand be “Delta.” It looks like there is a delta symbol on the label.

[@minnahumble2294]

Oh, oops. They are Holbein.

[@LourdesEsmeralda]

it makes me cringe how you use your art supplies, I am the opposite I treat my art supplies like GOLD, I wish I could be looser but I can't. BTW love your channel!!!

[@sandihester]

I’m so sorry I make you cringe! I use to treat them like gold and then I just started using them like a maniac creative woman 😂

[@maryamkj1264]

خیلی خوشگلن

[@jewlez8924]

Question for other subscribers: why do we constantly see you guys give these bigger channels free stuff or things you created? These are established channels that make a decent living. Why don't y'all find the smaller channels that would REALLY appreciate and need a leg up, why don't y'all help them out? Send them the free sketchbooks paints brushes pens and $ . I see ppl send channels with MILLIONS of subs $$, money the subs don't really have to give to begin with, and these creators TAKE IT! eye roll and ps: you prob won't see these sketchbooks again in another video. Just saying. Oh that was a really nice sketchbook by the way, let us know if she ever purchases any from you........

[@KLeonardM]

Hello Sandi! Was thrilled to see a new video . So wish you did one everyday . lol Beautiful sketch books from your viewer and so very kind. Looking forward to seeing your video you mentioned on Instagram with the large paper. Question please : How do you seal , varnish or protect the art on wood that you sell? Thanks so much and will see you on Instagram

[@sandihester]

You can either varnish it or just leave it as is in wood