SETTING UP MY ART SWATCH BOOK LIKE A BULLET JOURNAL ☆ sketchbook time ☆

[@oliviervigeant-paquette662]

Such a good idea! Love it. It’s by far the most advanced Swatch Sketch Book I’ve seen.

[@LaurenceP-art]

Thank you! Can't wait to swatch some more!!

[@tanisgeorgetti1439]

@@LaurenceP-art thanks so much for making this it’s helping tremendously definitely having trouble with my brain though trying to compute how to measure out the largest colour wheel you did keep making the circle but I can only get in 16 lines! Lol I have had a head injury so that’s what I’m telling myself! 😂 I’m just going to copy one on the internet I can’t figure it out myself unfortunately!

[@LaurenceP-art]

Haha it was hard for me too and honestly redoing it would require some serious thinking! I think I need a stencil 😅

[@Itsmekourtneyc]

Definately my type of book. Thanks for sharing. So helpful as I start this journey.

[@LaurenceP-art]

I’m glad this was helpful! :)

[@sigrunella1]

I love this idea of an art bullet journal. In colour theory pinks and rose colours are categorised as cool reds so you could try using your pink in your cool colour wheel. You will get a very vibrant purple with the pink and your warm blue.

[@LaurenceP-art]

Thank you so much for this info! All reds look warm to me to some extent so I was kinda struggling haha. I'll try it again with pink! :)

[@lesliev7874]

A great idea. You've combined all the things! Fun to do when you want to paint, but don't have a specific idea.

[@LaurenceP-art]

Exactly! And you feel super productive!

[@kathleensmith1494]

Love this

[@LaurenceP-art]

I’m so glad to hear that!! :)

[@Waybo03079]

I LIKE this idea. I'm going to modify it to make it so I can LOVE it. I'll use watercolor paper, and put it in sleeves in a binder. (Scrapbook!). My color swatches will be all Blues on one page, all Reds on another. (I'll use the pigment to determine if it's red or violet or blue, etc.) With individual sheets, I can rearrange them, and if I screw one up, I can start over! Thanks for the basis of a great plan!

[@LaurenceP-art]

I’ve been thinking about modifying it to use a binder… I think my next iteration will be like that! In the meantime, I collect everybody’s suggestions :)

[@snowpony001]

New subscriber and beginner to watercolor here. This video was really interesting and very helpful. Hard to find videos on color theory that explain the warms, the cools, the cool warms etc. and how the colors work together. Thanks. I love your Swatch book and how you’ve set it up. That’s the type of thing I love. 👍👍

[@LaurenceP-art]

Welcome to my channel!! I’m glad you enjoyed this video. I posted an swatch book update not too long ago if you want to check it out :)

[@katieakr]

Now I want to do this!

[@LaurenceP-art]

Do it!!

[@jp8649]

This is SUCh a good idea! It's so perfectly presented too. Def gives me the motivation to do something similar since I've wanted to for a very long time.

[@LaurenceP-art]

I’m glad you like it! Let me know if you change anything, I’m always looking to perfect my swatch book :)

[@user-qs1xz2mx6f]

Wow! Thanks a lot for this lesson, it's very useful 🎉

[@LaurenceP-art]

I’m happy you enjoyed!! :)

[@ricettacolo4942]

Thank you so much. Finally! I was thinking about this myself for quite some time. But it seems impossible to me. How to set it up?! Now I can simply follow your beautiful and well structured lead. Thanks again. This video made my day!

[@LaurenceP-art]

Oh I’m so glad it helped! I’m planning to film an update soon ish to go over what I did, how I used it and what I would change. Stay tuned! ☺️

[@olwynm402]

very helpful indeed. thank you so much. I especially appreciated the 3 colour variations chart. Best wishes.

[@LaurenceP-art]

Glad I could help! :)

[@irenehenry1834]

TFS. Your system really appeals to me. I am fairly new & trying to understand the theory & will use your system.

[@LaurenceP-art]

I really like having everything in one place! To be honest I don’t use the color theory that much (I should probably use it more) but the system is so worth it :)

[@trollbogies47]

This is incredible! So mathematic and detailed!!

[@LaurenceP-art]

Thank you so much! I hope to put even more useful pages in there soon 😃

[@KikkiF]

What a nice book you’ve made. Like the colour mixing ideas and I think I will incorporate that to my swatching from now on. I hope you will show the finished result when you’re done with the book. =))

[@LaurenceP-art]

I don’t think it’s ever going to be done but I could do a swatch book tour from time to time to show what I added over time!

[@angelagioia5211]

Thank you for sharing your swatch book. It was both informative and inspirational. I'm going to do the same.

[@LaurenceP-art]

I’m so glad you liked it! I made an update video not too long ago (you can find it on my channel), maybe you’d like to watch it to have even more informations! And there’s a LOT of excellent advice in the comments too :)

[@rociocruz2786]

Really interesting,THANK YOU❤

[@LaurenceP-art]

I’m glad you enjoyed! :)

[@janemorrow6672]

Fabulous! I’m going to do this. One thing you could look at with your colour theory would be the cyan, magenta, yellow palette. I’d be interested to see what you think of it.

[@LaurenceP-art]

Yes that's such a good idea! It would be a very interesting test to do. I'll make sure to report back on that!

[@veystone2580]

Transparent allow a LOT of light to pass through. Opaque reflect all the light and let NOTHING through. Therefore, semi-transparent, let most of the light through but REFLECT A SMALL PART. And semi-opaque, REFLECT MOST OF THE LIGHT but let a small amount through. 😉

[@LaurenceP-art]

Oh thank you for the explanations! It makes so much sense now 😮🥰

[@katefarmerpallotta9710]

Wonderful. Thank you

[@LaurenceP-art]

I’m glad you enjoyed! I’ll film an update soon :)

[@daisyodell2770]

Love this soo soo much! Going to search for any update videos you have made, thank you for sharing!

[@LaurenceP-art]

I have done a couple videos on color swatching and mixing but I’m planning on doing a real update soon!

[@daisyodell2770]

@@LaurenceP-art I watched them all and loved them. I also subscribed so I won't miss the update. Thank you for the great inspiration!

[@LaurenceP-art]

This makes me so happy! ☺️

[@keepyourshoesathedoor]

This is great! I want to do the same thing now!

[@LaurenceP-art]

I recommend it 100%! I made an update video not too long ago if you want to know my recent thoughts/what I would do different after a year :)

[@ultimatewitcherfan6677]

Wow! That’s a great idea! I’d like to try to do something like that!

[@LaurenceP-art]

Do it!! I’ll film an update video soon since I’ve been using this swatch book for more than a year :)

[@robertgonzalez373]

A scientific approach to recording swatches. You have addressed the things that I kept thinking of but unable to put to paper. It reminds me of my laboratory notebook from years ago. Thank you. I noticed a one year follow up video which I will watch next.

[@LaurenceP-art]

I was a little bit inspired by my old chemistry labs notebooks! :)

[@lysflies]

Hi laurence, I am so happy I found your video. I was thinking to do a swatch book (not card) in a more organised (?) way. I also do bullet journal and I wonder why I never thought of combining the two. I am very inspired and so ready to start mine. How’s your progress so far? :)

[@LaurenceP-art]

I'm so happy it inspired you! I use mine all the time, it's a very valuable tool. I'd like to spend more time swatching but it's so useful to choose colors! I hope you find yours useful as well :)

[@ArtistaRachel]

I really like this idea! I'm definitely going to make one of my own. Where did you get those awesome stencils and triangle rulers?

[@LaurenceP-art]

I think they’re from a architecture drawing kit! They sell them at my local art store. And yes make one, it’s so useful! :)

[@crystal_cave.9202]

You could add something to do with blending techniques with pencils ✏ and also watercolours made with different mediums like the Japanese watercolours are made with different binders.

[@LaurenceP-art]

Oh yes I would love that, thank you for the great ideas! 🤩

[@stephanie.kilgast]

Cadmium is not cool. It's a warm red. If you want a cool red, you need a quinacridone or a naphtol. Though I'd suggest going for quinacridones as they're more lightfast than naphtols. Quinacrdione magenta (PR122) is probably the most magenta of them all, though most people prefer PV19. Another interesting cool red that is less pink is PR209. Also, cobalt blue is probably the most neutral blue. Neither cold nor warm. For a good split blue duo, the most usual is phthalo blue GS (PB15:3) and ultramarine blue (PB29) For the yellows, you picked two neutral yellows as well. One option would be to pick lemon yellow (or any other neutral yellow) and something more orange, like PY110.

[@LaurenceP-art]

Thank you for all of these informations! At the time, I tried to pick from what I already had which was not ideal (and I guess it explains the weird color mixing...). I did not have the appropriate colors! I created a new watercolor palette that I hope will be good for mixing and I tried to fix these mistakes. The video is coming soon and I would appreciate it so much if you told me what you think of my new choices! If you want to though, no pressure. I think I'm going to do an updated version of this swatchbook video with more accurate informations. Thank you again, I hope you have a good weekend! :)

[@GlitterPoolParty]

Measuring and drawing all 70 pages seems very fidgety and inefficient. I would recommend that once you've settled on a template, you should transfer the blocks onto a hard cardstock or plastic sheet that will serve as a stencil that you can lay onto each page and just outline the standardized blocks. Or unbind pages and run them through a printer to apply your templates.

[@LaurenceP-art]

I thought about doing something like that but then I got lazy… I don’t really measure my pages anymore but when ever I feel more in that « bullet journal » vibe, then I might put more effort in the measuring and making everything perfect

[@whatifitnt]

Color wheel: purples and why they turn brown/muddy : kzbin.info/aero/PLpD2RS3zo8zRBXGjKjp_5ZWBTZnKW-4XE

[@LaurenceP-art]

Oh yes thank you!! I’ll check it out 😊

[@LovinLnCottage]

I really wish that people making tutorials would refrain from using a musical background. It is a nightmare for the hearing impaired to separate the speech from the music. It is even more difficult if the speaker has a foreign accent as well. This is a video that I really wanted to watch, too.😢 I think that this is such a good idea. Maybe the music can be removed and the video re-uploaded? 🙏❤️

[@LaurenceP-art]

I'm taking note of it! This is a really good suggestion, thank you. Unfortunately I don't have the video project anymore, only the mp4 so I can't separate the music from the audio. I will make sure I don't include music in the future. In the meantime, I know this is not ideal, but you could watch it with the subtitles?

[@CherylsCreativeWorld33]

I put the closed captions on everything, and turn the sound off, so I read and watch. I hope this helps. I am hearing impaired too.

[@LaurenceP-art]

I’ll definitely keep that in mind in the future though! ❤️

[@Plainjane67]

Terrible paints with bad pigments.

[@LaurenceP-art]

Which ones lol

[@pennypop408]

Seems like too much work for me I would rather paint p[cs. Looks good.

[@LaurenceP-art]

I agree it’s a lot of work! 😅