It was interesting to hear that you are a doctor. I’ve worked with internal medicine residents in the USA for the past 30 years and recently retired. Many of the younger doctors are now exploring self-care, along with the patient care they have chosen to do. Even some of the major medical journals have sponsored Physician art in the magazines. Good luck with your work, 2020 was such a stressful time for my doctors and you. I’m enjoying your work and channel.
I turned to doing art again during the pandemic too, I’m a scientist and I can completely relate to getting back into doing this kind of thing after spending your whole life focusing on science and research. Thanks for sharing!
I always say Rosa Gallery are my absolute favourites. So far only couple out of 68 colours have faded in 2 years otherwise they seem lightfast. Very affordable and I count them in professional brand too. Thanks for sharing your answers. It is good to keep your profession and hobby separate, I agree. I have over the last 2 years learnt so much. Thank you
I do understand not every painting is a Rembrandt, but once you added the flower on that color mixed background the background itself becomes very suggestive, very inspiring, all those colors work better. I like watching what other people come up with and from there to become inspired, pretty hair lady 😊😊
I am another person who is creative soul who also has substantial science background as a med school trained public health advocate (lawyer and epidemiology trained research interests in community health). SARS-CoV-2 was a tad umm colorful fir public health folks. Very stressful and my fiber arts groups saved my sanity... I realized what I really loved was playing with color and picked up watercolor as a mindfulness kind of thing around 3 months ago . I love your videos and although most of my work is with Rosa Gallery at this point, I used my "no spend" savings to order from Jacksons -- half Rosa tubes and 12 Roman Szmal OMG. QoR essentials came last week. Thanks for what you do in both parts of your life. I so enjoy your positivity.
I have tried most of the professional watercolour brands and I keep coming back to Daniel Smith and Roman Szmal. They are just so consistent and handle so beautifully. It helps that I love interesting granulating colours. On a side note, in my brain I have named you Asha. 😉
Always to the 🔚. I love DaVinci watercolors made in USA on west coast. I also enjoy many others. Some of my favorite special colors -granulating etc. Are Roman Szmal and Daniel Smith. I adore M Graham gouache too. -Lue
I love all the watercolour brands you mentioned. I also really love handmade watercolours, particularly A.Gallo and 31 Purple Fish and Cozmic Creations
Today I learned that I need to use what I have, and experiment because that’s how I will learn! We share love of medicine and Art, they are both Brain Work! I’m 83 and still learning! Thanks for teaching and sharing! KarenDirmish, learner!
I live in Canada, and when I started watercolor painting, it was with the DaVinci brand (which, sadly is no longer locally available). I’ve also bought smaller quantities of Daniel Smith, Senneleir, W&N, Qor,Schminke, MGraham, some Holbein, Daler Rowney and VanGogh out of curiosity or specific colour recommendations or to satisfy the ‘want monster’ 👺 . I definitely prefer buying tubes and filling pallet wells or full pans with them. I’ve got +/- 100 semi filled tubes/pans and have come to the conclusion I have more than enough for this lifetime! As you noted, it’s good to buy a locally available artist quality paint and use, use, use it! With 20/20 hindsight I’d be perfectly happy with DaVinci plus a few pigments they don’t have.
I started with Daniel Smith watercolors as a friend worked at the store in Seattle. It’s what I still use and prefer, but I am experimenting with handmade watercolors.
Thank you! It was lovely to hear about yourself, as well as art! It has just occurred to me where the 'scrubs' comes from - as a skincare maker I had wondered if it was err facial scrubs, and DOH of course it's theatre scrubs, isn't it?? 🙃 Is that FW ink? It is lovely on the green. I don't know 'how' to do the abstract, so will have to try - I love your gentle style. I also see why there isn't time for more gorgeous London garden en plein air type videos too, so little spare time! I would love another level of KOFI, a lower one so we can dip a toe in to get started. I have just started Michael Harding WC's, and loving them. They actually answered my oxgall query, and now it's more colours!
😂😂😂😂 it is indeed theatre scrubs lol though I love pampering myself so liked the idea of body scrubs too 😂 Using acrylic ink and a dip pen ruclips.net/user/shortslLX57ZCk860?feature=share
Thank you for an interesting video! My favourite watercolor brands are Roman Szmal and Daniel Smith. I seem to buy DS more often for the same reason as you - I love to make small palettes and experiment with different color (pigment) combinations. Tubes are more practical for that. I am lucky (?) to live just over the street from a little shop that sells both of those two brands. I have to exercise mental fortitude not to visit that shop too often. If RS colors were in tubes too, I would be bankrupted. I have also a soft spot in my heart for Van Gogh colors by Talens, those were my first "good" watercolors after the opaque ones we had in school. The old curved Van Gogh plastic travel palette for 12-15 half pans is still the most ergonomic and cosy palette I know, I have managed to get three of those, with variable colors (I'm changing them now and then). I somehow miss the time I only had the first one, and my hand remembered all the movements to get different shades of those few pans I knew so well.
Thank you so much for sharing Atalan mountain! I agree there’s something soo nice about knowing your palette soo well it’s all intuitive. That being said, changing the palettes often yields more experimentation and growth for me 🤣😂 I guess it’s about balance x
When I initially tried watercolour, I bought one of those store-brand student watercolour palettes from a general craft store. I would NOT recommend doing that! Mixing colours resulted in muddy colours, they were hard to rewet and the colours were chalky/cloudy. I thought a cheap set would help me decide whether I liked watercolour painting, but it actually made it feel difficult and frustrating. So, doing it again, I would spend a bit more money on fewer colours to get higher quality paints. Now, my favourite 3 brands are Daniel Smith, Schmincke and Roman Szmal. Sennelier and M Graham are too gloopy/runny for me. Maimeri Blu is sort of “in the middle” 😂 (I like the tube paints over their half pans).
I've only tried three brands: Winsor & Newton, Daniel Smith, and Sennelier. I like the first two but found Sennelier to behave so differently. I can't get it to flow at all. I want to love it, but I don't. I've only been painting for 2-1/2 years though. Thank you for this video and for answering our questions.
There is no tangible reason why I chose A. Gallo as my favorite brand of watercolors. I haven’t tried all the brands but all the brands I have are good. My first palette was a Paul Rubens 12 half pan palette (no longer available; the brand starts with 24 half pan palette). The brand was recommended by Kimberly Crick. The paints are very good. Last year I purchased two Rosa Gallery 21 full pan palettes; the mono pigment palette and a different Rosa Gallery 21 full pan palette. They were on sale for $23. I can resist paying full price but I can’t resist a sale!!! 😅
Awwww lovely artwork. I love derwent inktense that has to be my favourite art supply. I do have some watercolours that are student grade as when I started painting I wasn’t sure if I would enjoy using them or if I was going to keep it up but I do love using watercolours. After seeing this I’m going to invest in some professional quality ones. Thank you for the recommendations and I look forward to part 2 ☺️
Hi! Still watching but when I saw what I believe to be a dryer sheet my eyes popped! I LOVE using dryer sheets in multimedia! Back to video … it’s great so far! 🌺
Hi, thanks for your excellent videos. Learned quite a bit about various supplies from your channel. I was curious to know what ink you were using to draw the flowers?
Great suggestion! It was the Daler Rowney FW ink (Peach) & dip pen - I’ve made a short answering all the questions about what I used for this piece. Thank you for your kind words x
I love daler-rowney and derwent for mixed media. They are probably my favourite brands. I dont have a favorite watercolor brand at the moment but i agree with you: Roman Szmal and Daniel Smith are both incredible. I use the Art creation from Royal Talent as my mess around sketchbook . Will be waiting for part 2 ❤
Hi Sketches - lovely video! I really loved watching you draw those beautiful flowers with the Blue Pumpkin nib (I keep calling it the Purple Pumpkin 😂). I don’t know that I have a favorite brand of watercolor paint. Among my favorites are A. Gallo, Roman Szmal, Daniel Smith and Qor. Thank you for the video!
A little late, guess I just missed the premier I love the vibrant, fun colors of Holbein (also they are so cheap for me!), in particular I love my Holbein shiny gouaches. But I’m also loving DS and the variety they have. While schmincke granulating colors are just ❤.
This was interesting. The colors were very nice for the backgrounds and the peachy color used to draw the flowers was also very pretty. Maybe I missed it, but did you mention what inks you are using? Are they F W? Also what was the name of the peachy color you used to draw, and what was the tool you used to draw? Was it a brush? or maybe a silicon tool?
I still dont understand how you have the energy to make art, and go travelling while being a doctor, I would prob be sleeping all the time on my time off lol
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It was interesting to hear that you are a doctor. I’ve worked with internal medicine residents in the USA for the past 30 years and recently retired. Many of the younger doctors are now exploring self-care, along with the patient care they have chosen to do. Even some of the major medical journals have sponsored Physician art in the magazines. Good luck with your work, 2020 was such a stressful time for my doctors and you. I’m enjoying your work and channel.
Thank you so much for watching and sharing Elizabeth ❤️❤️❤️ I’m glad that there’s been a shift towards self care, can’t pour from an empty cup x
I turned to doing art again during the pandemic too, I’m a scientist and I can completely relate to getting back into doing this kind of thing after spending your whole life focusing on science and research. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching and sharing Green Sharpie Science ❤️ I completely agree x
I always say Rosa Gallery are my absolute favourites. So far only couple out of 68 colours have faded in 2 years otherwise they seem lightfast. Very affordable and I count them in professional brand too. Thanks for sharing your answers. It is good to keep your profession and hobby separate, I agree. I have over the last 2 years learnt so much. Thank you
Thanks for sharing Charul!! ❤️❤️❤️ just to check? Are you 123megalady and your user name has changed? If not - please disregard 😂😅 xx
Hello dear, yup changed to the real name but same 123megalady account. 😊
I do understand not every painting is a Rembrandt, but once you added the flower on that color mixed background the background itself becomes very suggestive, very inspiring, all those colors work better. I like watching what other people come up with and from there to become inspired, pretty hair lady 😊😊
Oh thank you John! Xx
I am another person who is creative soul who also has substantial science background as a med school trained public health advocate (lawyer and epidemiology trained research interests in community health). SARS-CoV-2 was a tad umm colorful fir public health folks. Very stressful and my fiber arts groups saved my sanity... I realized what I really loved was playing with color and picked up watercolor as a mindfulness kind of thing around 3 months ago . I love your videos and although most of my work is with Rosa Gallery at this point, I used my "no spend" savings to order from Jacksons -- half Rosa tubes and 12 Roman Szmal OMG. QoR essentials came last week. Thanks for what you do in both parts of your life. I so enjoy your positivity.
I have tried most of the professional watercolour brands and I keep coming back to Daniel Smith and Roman Szmal. They are just so consistent and handle so beautifully. It helps that I love interesting granulating colours. On a side note, in my brain I have named you Asha. 😉
😂😂😂😂😂 fair enough Tracey ❤️
Always to the 🔚. I love DaVinci watercolors made in USA on west coast. I also enjoy many others. Some of my favorite special colors -granulating etc. Are Roman Szmal and Daniel Smith. I adore M Graham gouache too. -Lue
Thank you Lue! You've been an MVP for over a year
I love all the watercolour brands you mentioned. I also really love handmade watercolours, particularly A.Gallo and 31 Purple Fish and Cozmic Creations
Thanks for sharing!! Xx
I hadn’t heard of purple fish or cozmic creations x
Today I learned that I need to use what I have, and experiment because that’s how I will learn! We share love of medicine and Art, they are both Brain Work! I’m 83 and still learning! Thanks for teaching and sharing! KarenDirmish, learner!
What an important lesson! Thank you for the reminder Karen ❤️❤️❤️
Daniel Smith is definitely my favourite brand, though I really want to try Qor for abstract painting ☺️
Thanks for sharing ❤️
I live in Canada, and when I started watercolor painting, it was with the DaVinci brand (which, sadly is no longer locally available). I’ve also bought smaller quantities of Daniel Smith, Senneleir, W&N, Qor,Schminke, MGraham, some Holbein, Daler Rowney and VanGogh out of curiosity or specific colour recommendations or to satisfy the ‘want monster’ 👺 . I definitely prefer buying tubes and filling pallet wells or full pans with them. I’ve got +/- 100 semi filled tubes/pans and have come to the conclusion I have more than enough for this lifetime! As you noted, it’s good to buy a locally available artist quality paint and use, use, use it! With 20/20 hindsight I’d be perfectly happy with DaVinci plus a few pigments they don’t have.
Thanks for sharing Jenneke ❤️ that is really insightful! ❤️
I started with Daniel Smith watercolors as a friend worked at the store in Seattle. It’s what I still use and prefer, but I am experimenting with handmade watercolors.
Thanks for sharing Elizabeth! ❤️
I respect your decision to not share your real name! Also, Daniel Smith watercolors all the way. DS gouache is also amazing. 🙃
Thank you Jess ❤️
Thank you! It was lovely to hear about yourself, as well as art! It has just occurred to me where the 'scrubs' comes from - as a skincare maker I had wondered if it was err facial scrubs, and DOH of course it's theatre scrubs, isn't it?? 🙃 Is that FW ink? It is lovely on the green. I don't know 'how' to do the abstract, so will have to try - I love your gentle style. I also see why there isn't time for more gorgeous London garden en plein air type videos too, so little spare time! I would love another level of KOFI, a lower one so we can dip a toe in to get started. I have just started Michael Harding WC's, and loving them. They actually answered my oxgall query, and now it's more colours!
😂😂😂😂 it is indeed theatre scrubs lol though I love pampering myself so liked the idea of body scrubs too 😂
Using acrylic ink and a dip pen
ruclips.net/user/shortslLX57ZCk860?feature=share
this is fascinating, this is wonderful ☺☺☺
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for an interesting video!
My favourite watercolor brands are Roman Szmal and Daniel Smith. I seem to buy DS more often for the same reason as you - I love to make small palettes and experiment with different color (pigment) combinations. Tubes are more practical for that. I am lucky (?) to live just over the street from a little shop that sells both of those two brands. I have to exercise mental fortitude not to visit that shop too often. If RS colors were in tubes too, I would be bankrupted.
I have also a soft spot in my heart for Van Gogh colors by Talens, those were my first "good" watercolors after the opaque ones we had in school. The old curved Van Gogh plastic travel palette for 12-15 half pans is still the most ergonomic and cosy palette I know, I have managed to get three of those, with variable colors (I'm changing them now and then). I somehow miss the time I only had the first one, and my hand remembered all the movements to get different shades of those few pans I knew so well.
Thank you so much for sharing Atalan mountain! I agree there’s something soo nice about knowing your palette soo well it’s all intuitive. That being said, changing the palettes often yields more experimentation and growth for me 🤣😂 I guess it’s about balance x
Hi ive finnished around 30ish sketchbooks. I like working in sketchbooks. They are easy to carry around.
Wow!!! That’s incredible 🥳🥳🥳
I really love your particulary the losse floral illustrations and landscapes.
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Windsor and Newton professional grade is something I love. Loved this video and your beautiful artwork 😊
Thank you so much Deborah!
Rosa Gallery watercolors are wonderful, professional and inexpensive!
Yes they are! Xx
I love maimeriblu watercolors just pigment and gum Arabic but Daniel smith second favorite
Thank you for sharing Ang! I’m yet to try them but they’re on my wish list x
When I initially tried watercolour, I bought one of those store-brand student watercolour palettes from a general craft store. I would NOT recommend doing that! Mixing colours resulted in muddy colours, they were hard to rewet and the colours were chalky/cloudy. I thought a cheap set would help me decide whether I liked watercolour painting, but it actually made it feel difficult and frustrating. So, doing it again, I would spend a bit more money on fewer colours to get higher quality paints.
Now, my favourite 3 brands are Daniel Smith, Schmincke and Roman Szmal. Sennelier and M Graham are too gloopy/runny for me. Maimeri Blu is sort of “in the middle” 😂 (I like the tube paints over their half pans).
I enjoyed your video! I am enjoying using Beam, Stoneground M Graham and Daniel Smith water colors
Glad you liked it! Thank you for sharing Michelle xx
I bet your anatomy diagrams were amazing though!!
🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 I certainly enjoyed creating them!
I've only tried three brands: Winsor & Newton, Daniel Smith, and Sennelier. I like the first two but found Sennelier to behave so differently. I can't get it to flow at all. I want to love it, but I don't. I've only been painting for 2-1/2 years though. Thank you for this video and for answering our questions.
Thanks for sharing and your lovely questions Susan! ❤️
There is no tangible reason why I chose A. Gallo as my favorite brand of watercolors. I haven’t tried all the brands but all the brands I have are good. My first palette was a Paul Rubens 12 half pan palette (no longer available; the brand starts with 24 half pan palette). The brand was recommended by Kimberly Crick. The paints are very good. Last year I purchased two Rosa Gallery 21 full pan palettes; the mono pigment palette and a different Rosa Gallery 21 full pan palette. They were on sale for $23. I can resist paying full price but I can’t resist a sale!!! 😅
That is an impressive sale price! 😂❤️
Also the heart wants what the heart wants 😂 I’m yet to try A Gallo but they are high on my wish list x
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Awwww lovely artwork. I love derwent inktense that has to be my favourite art supply. I do have some watercolours that are student grade as when I started painting I wasn’t sure if I would enjoy using them or if I was going to keep it up but I do love using watercolours. After seeing this I’m going to invest in some professional quality ones. Thank you for the recommendations and I look forward to part 2 ☺️
Thanks so much 😊 xx
Kuretake Gansai, Holbein are in my supplies
Thank you for watching and sharing Margaret x
I also keep my hobbies separate from my work life. I love it.
Thanks for sharing! Glad it's not just me :P
Hi! Still watching but when I saw what I believe to be a dryer sheet my eyes popped! I LOVE using dryer sheets in multimedia! Back to video … it’s great so far! 🌺
😂😂😂 thank you for sharing that tip! It is a similar material but it was actually a dried out cleaning wipe 😂 great minds think alike! Xx
Hi, thanks for your excellent videos. Learned quite a bit about various supplies from your channel. I was curious to know what ink you were using to draw the flowers?
Great suggestion! It was the Daler Rowney FW ink (Peach) & dip pen - I’ve made a short answering all the questions about what I used for this piece. Thank you for your kind words x
I love daler-rowney and derwent for mixed media. They are probably my favourite brands. I dont have a favorite watercolor brand at the moment but i agree with you: Roman Szmal and Daniel Smith are both incredible. I use the Art creation from Royal Talent as my mess around sketchbook .
Will be waiting for part 2 ❤
Thank you for watching & sharing Etta! xx
My favorite brands are Daniel Smith and A Gallo. Love A Gallo's colors. And now they have full pans!
Not only that… they teased coming out with tubes! Xx
Hi Sketches - lovely video! I really loved watching you draw those beautiful flowers with the Blue Pumpkin nib (I keep calling it the Purple Pumpkin 😂). I don’t know that I have a favorite brand of watercolor paint. Among my favorites are A. Gallo, Roman Szmal, Daniel Smith and Qor. Thank you for the video!
Thank you so much Terri! 💜💜💜😂😂😂 I like the alliteration of purple pumpkin in honesty 😂 thank you so much for watching and your kind words xx
A little late, guess I just missed the premier
I love the vibrant, fun colors of Holbein (also they are so cheap for me!), in particular I love my Holbein shiny gouaches. But I’m also loving DS and the variety they have. While schmincke granulating colors are just ❤.
Next time! Thank you for watching MessyDesk and for sharing! ❤️
Favourite watercolour brand? I don’t think that I have one yet.
Thanks for watching! Hope work went well! Xx
@@SketchesnScrubs All good!
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Hey Jma! xx
This was interesting. The colors were very nice for the backgrounds and the peachy color used to draw the flowers was also very pretty. Maybe I missed it, but did you mention what inks you are using? Are they F W? Also what was the name of the peachy color you used to draw, and what was the tool you used to draw? Was it a brush? or maybe a silicon tool?
Lool Sandra, I hope you saw the short I created specifically for you.
FW acrylic inks , I used a dip pen x
Using acrylic ink and a dip pen
ruclips.net/user/shortslLX57ZCk860?feature=share
@@SketchesnScrubs yes I saw it. Thank you!
Good morning!
Morning! Xx
I still dont understand how you have the energy to make art, and go travelling while being a doctor, I would prob be sleeping all the time on my time off lol
Looool I honestly barely do 😂🤣