I like using unusual tools. I have wooden skewers - the cheap one that are pointy one end and flat on the other. The flat end makes great irregular dots!
Found you a few days ago and I have been watching you since, you make me smile I have done a duel mixed media and I really enjoyed it so thank you for your fantastic enthusiasm
Thank you so much Denise, I really really enjoyed watching you creating all these amazing and stunning pieces. They’re really really cute and adorable too. They all need framing. I really really love ❤️ each and everyone of them. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags ❤❤❤❤
I am so addicted to your channel! I watch it on the bus on my way to work. ❤ So I am in love with these graphite watercolour and had to find where to make your own. Welllllll, didn't I just stumble upon your workshops!!! Mmmmm, so many amazing workshops I want to do but I needed to restrain myself (because, you know, US dollar to AU dollar is a bit hefty!). Can't wait to do the workshops I did buy. 🙌🩵😁
Love it! Abstract landscapes. Beautiful! Love the color palette book idea. Nice spinoff of art journaling. Also, you are a born teacher. Infectious. Lovely. Joyful. Thank you!
Hi Denise, I'm a relatively new watcher and u LOVE ur channel. You ARE THE ultimate ENABLER 😂. I've been looking at these paints for a while but now that I'm watching you, well, there goes my budget again 😆. Thank you for getting me to love and use my stencils again.❤
Ordered the graphite colors and a few other items. Completed my very first watercolor today while waiting on the gold paste to come in. Thank you for your inspiration, enthusiasm, encouragement and generosity!
You just made me buy a jar of graphite powder 🎉 I'm obsessed since getting the Kuretaki Graphite colors and I want MORE PLEASE 😅 I just got a hobby muller and glass and I have 36 colors of mission gold, ds, wn even Schminke Horadam to play with. Thanks for giving me a new project!
Your Art reminds me of some Chinese Art or Japanese prints from the 1800s, or at least, this piece does. The hills and those Bonsai trees...! I love your positive attitude towards your art! I want to do what you do but sometimes my health stands in my way. I'm bedridden and it's hard to put everything on my chest. The water tipped over and made a mess all over my bed! I haven't found a way yet :( It's bringing me down and interfering with my art making. Thank you.
I am so excited to have found you on RUclips Denise….I LOVE your enthusiasm and happiness and excitement when you like something you’ve done…I LOVE watching your video’s because you TOTALLY inspire me…THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Oh Denise!! I love all of these so much! Part of what I love too is when you do your little landscaping pics your camera angle makes it easy for me to actually see things in it if that makes sense? Sometimes i will just shoot a pic of something im working on and that perspective lets me see it differently than just on my board. Thanks for teaching and encouraging us all so much!!❤🤗❤️
Thank you!! 🥰 I don’t currently offer anything in person. I just fully shifted my creative business from photography to art this year after doing the art things on the side for a few years.
This was one of my favourites of your videos. I love your glee ( and those that don’t can just change the channel!) I have fusion paints. I used the sage green on a chair, and it the dark blue on a small table. Never thought to use them on my art. Thank you. Keep your joy! I am an uptight artist. Symmetrical and exact. So I have been doing your abstracts for therapy and I still find I try to control! I am having fun!
Oh my gosh, such a gorgeous colour palette! I am in love with the landscape ones in particular but they are so interesting! Always love your enthusiasm!😅💕🇨🇦
Just discovered your channel and this tutorial was so fun and energetic. I too use watercolor and mixed media plus collage in my work. This reminded me that I just need to play sometimes. Thank you, Denise!
Those were beautiful! And you can really see the landscapes in the paintings. Thank you for showing us how to do landscape piantings and beautiful colors of paint. I love color and darks so much and painting with beautiful colors is even more exciting!!
I just discovered you and the graphite paints, so went looking and there are none of the Gansia Tambi ones and believe it or not, they are not available except in the USA but I will not pay twice as much for delivery. So, imagine my joy when you told me that they can be made at home. Brilliant. All I need is the graphite powder, Amazon, here I come.
Yes!! My favorite way now is to just to mix graphite powder with some tube watercolor. Mix some with the powder, test it, mix with more powder if you want it more graphitey… you can make some 1/2 pans of your favorites!! Super easy. You’ll love them! ☺️
Found you a few days ago and I have been watching you since, you make me smile I have done a duel mixed media and I really enjoyed it so thank you for your fantastic enthusiasm 😊
I love the Kuretake graphite colors! Im also loving your videos. Just stumbled upon them and have watched several already and ordered a bunch of stencils!
I’ve been catching up on all your videos over the past week and this is one of my favorites!! The colors are gorgeous and yes! They are just like little landscapes. Now I have to buy all these exact supplies … arghhh.😂
I love Fusions Mineral Paints...I bought some ages ago for a piece of furniture I needed to revive and it was the best paint I ever used! Really outstanding product and I see they have expanded their colors....how yummy!!
Hodge you have any videos on where to start or how to sell your artwork? If not have you thought of making a video here or Skillshare about it? Love your energy and knowledge.
I listen to you on 2x-speed, and you sound just like PeeWee Herman the way you growl with excitement and say "HAHAHA...!" with such joy!. It cracks me up every time! P.S. ...Greatest Color Pallett book EVER!!
I have just found your channel in the last week and am LOVE your abstract stuff. I can’t wait to get a little time to try playing with my supplies like you do. Thank you!
Gorgeous! You make your videos so fun to watch. You teach while entertaining us with your enthusiasm. I’m collecting stencils, about the only thing I need, and will be trying your technique soon. I’m looking so forward to it. You’ve put me in such an abstract kind of mood which is great!! 🌸🎨🖌️
Denise, I just discovered your channel recently and have been binge watching...and shopping...a lot. I can't thank you enough for sharing your talent, creativity and joy with us. I have wanted to watercolor my whole long life, and have been scared to try. But your style is exactly what I have been feeling and seeing in my imagination of what I want to create. I tried my hand at a few beginner pieces and squealed with delight...thought of you and had to start laughing. Yep, found the joy of watercolors and letting go. You are amazing!!!!!!! P.S. how many stencils are too many? Asking for a friend...teeheehee...thank goodness they aren't too expensive. Can't wait til mine come in.
I’m so glad you are enjoying my videos!! You’ve really made my day!! I’m not sure you can have too many stencils… gold… or art supplies!! Haha!! Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
Have you tried: Derivan liquid pencil? They are graphite in tubes, 6 colors and two types: re-wettable and permanent. I’ve watched some reviews but I feel you would do this product more justice. I’m seriously considering these and would like your take. Thank you.
I had to look those up and after seeing the package - I recognized it. I have 2 tubes of this that came in one of my art boxes... they sent me yellow and blue... and I thought "blah"... and never opened them - that was a bit before I got obsessed with the graphite watercolors. Now I'm intrigued... so I need to get them out and play. If I love them, I'll do a video soon! 😊
After reading some more about them.. they are made with graphite powders just like the graphite watercolors. And I have made some of my own graphite watercolors with some of my favorite liquid watercolors and mixing in graphite powder. I bet it is almost the same as those. But I'll have a play with them.
I’ll have to try the graphite pigment with watercolor; I would love to create my own versions. I’m curious though, could graphite from a sharpened pencil produce similar results, 🤔
@@RMurrell31 graphite from a sharpened pencil would produce large flakes where as the graphite powder is ground down super fine. I have a jar of the graphite powder.
@@2lilowlsstudio I’ll look into graphite powder, I think it would be an interesting exercise using brighter watercolors. I think the graphite would darken them a bit, but what fun.
I'm using Paintes tape and Artist tape usually. It really depends on the paper. All cotton papers do better for me... and then papers that are a mix of wood pulp and cotton or all wood pulp tend to pull fibers or tear easier. I try to make sure the paper is completely dry - that affects it too if I'm using watercolor paper and it is still wet - it tears. I have a video coming out on Monday where I was using different paper and it was tearing the paper - so I show you my trick of using the heat gun to get it to come off easier. Just heat that tape up a little with your heat gun and the sticky stuff releases.
@@2lilowlsstudio I’m not sure I asked that correctly. The song book that you use as a journal. Didn’t you say you treated the pages with a product? That’s how I should have asked. Ty. I really admire what you do and how you do it for us Ty again.
@@valariemagnus508 ah! For that book, I just painted a thin layer of clear gesso over the whole page with a 1” cheap brush and let it dry. Then it is ready to paint on with out damaging the paper. You have to do that for every single page you want to paint on. So I just waited til I was ready to use a new page to do it. If you paint multiple pages at a time they would just stick together. 😊
Enjoy listening to you and learned a few things about supplies. Your enthusiasm is contagious! Thank you very much
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you! 🥰
The right top one looked like our coastal islands with the graphites;)❤
It does! Thank you! 🥰
Denise, this is a lovely tutorial and very creative. I love your color choices. Thank you for sharing your talent.
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you! 🥰
I like using unusual tools. I have wooden skewers - the cheap one that are pointy one end and flat on the other. The flat end makes great irregular dots!
I love skewers too! I have a package of them in one of the drawers I sit by… I need to get a few out. I forget I have them! ☺️
Love the term “blank page paralysis”
Right? It’s real! 😂
I just bought the kuretake graphite watercolors and lo and behold...here's your perfect video! Can't wait to use them.
Hope you enjoy them!! 😊
Wow! 🤗💕💕
Thank you! 🥰
So pretty!
Thank you! 🥰
Im so happy to find you. Just love yiur style and painting idias. Love that ❤
Thank you! 🥰
These are all wonderful!
Thank you!! 🥰🥰🥰
I love it when you get so excited. It makes me smile. These are beautiful, as usual!
Thank you! That really makes my day 🥰🥰🥰
Found you a few days ago and I have been watching you since, you make me smile I have done a duel mixed media and I really enjoyed it so thank you for your fantastic enthusiasm
So glad you are enjoying the videos! Thank you! 🥰
Thank you so much Denise, I really really enjoyed watching you creating all these amazing and stunning pieces. They’re really really cute and adorable too. They all need framing. I really really love ❤️ each and everyone of them. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags ❤❤❤❤
You’re the best! Thank you!! 🥰
Wow. I have this set of watercolors and have. Never known what to do with them 😮 now I do😊 thanks
Oh yeah... these are awesome!! Happy painting!! 😊
I am so addicted to your channel! I watch it on the bus on my way to work. ❤ So I am in love with these graphite watercolour and had to find where to make your own. Welllllll, didn't I just stumble upon your workshops!!! Mmmmm, so many amazing workshops I want to do but I needed to restrain myself (because, you know, US dollar to AU dollar is a bit hefty!). Can't wait to do the workshops I did buy. 🙌🩵😁
So glad to have you in class!! Thank you 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you so MUCH for your enthusiasm when coloring. It gives me joy ! and inspiration of course. But today I needed plain JOY!! 😍
You are so welcome! 🥰🥰🥰
Love these ,,,,xxxx ❤
Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
Love it! Abstract landscapes. Beautiful! Love the color palette book idea. Nice spinoff of art journaling. Also, you are a born teacher. Infectious. Lovely. Joyful. Thank you!
Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
Smart color palette book..😊
Thank you!! 😊
Amazing work.
Thank you! 🥰
Love your enthusiasm and wicked artist laugh! I would turn this into 6 blank cards plus 2 bookmarks. Gorgeous.
These would be fantastic for cards! Thank you!! 🥰🥰🥰
Hi Denise, I'm a relatively new watcher and u LOVE ur channel. You ARE THE ultimate ENABLER 😂. I've been looking at these paints for a while but now that I'm watching you, well, there goes my budget again 😆. Thank you for getting me to love and use my stencils again.❤
I get it!! I want all the supplies… and then I can’t wait to share them 😂… you’ll love these paints!! Some of my favorite 🥰🥰🥰
My gosh, the bottom ones were sooooooo beautiful!!! 💕
Thank you! 🥰
I love these! Your videos are SO fun to watch and listen to. LOVE your channel! 😀
Thank you so much!! 🥰
Ordered the graphite colors and a few other items. Completed my very first watercolor today while waiting on the gold paste to come in. Thank you for your inspiration, enthusiasm, encouragement and generosity!
Fun!! Those graphite colors are so beautiful! Hope you have fun with them. Thank you! 🥰
I really love the bottom pieces
Thank you! 🥰
You just made me buy a jar of graphite powder 🎉 I'm obsessed since getting the Kuretaki Graphite colors and I want MORE PLEASE 😅 I just got a hobby muller and glass and I have 36 colors of mission gold, ds, wn even Schminke Horadam to play with. Thanks for giving me a new project!
You’ll love having more graphite colors. They are gorgeous when you make some! Have fun!! 🎨🎨🎨
I love your enthusiasm, and your reminders to just do it! I prefer the bottom row, they are stunning!
Thank you!! 🥰
I love all of these. I would not have gravitated towards this color group but now I’m inspired. Thank you very much.
You are so welcome! 😊
Love these❤❤❤
Thank you! ☺️
Your Art reminds me of some Chinese Art or Japanese prints from the 1800s, or at least, this piece does. The hills and those Bonsai trees...! I love your positive attitude towards your art! I want to do what you do but sometimes my health stands in my way. I'm bedridden and it's hard to put everything on my chest. The water tipped over and made a mess all over my bed! I haven't found a way yet :( It's bringing me down and interfering with my art making. Thank you.
Thank you! 🥰
I am so excited to have found you on RUclips Denise….I LOVE your enthusiasm and happiness and excitement when you like something you’ve done…I LOVE watching your video’s because you TOTALLY inspire me…THANK YOU SO MUCH.
You’ve really made my day! Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
The sounds effects make this even more fun! :) Thank you for sharing your creativity!
Ha! Thank you!! 🥰🥰🥰
Oh Denise!! I love all of these so much! Part of what I love too is when you do your little landscaping pics your camera angle makes it easy for me to actually see things in it if that makes sense? Sometimes i will just shoot a pic of something im working on and that perspective lets me see it differently than just on my board. Thanks for teaching and encouraging us all so much!!❤🤗❤️
I know what you mean. Taking pics at different angles does let you see different things! Thank you! ☺️
32:23 the 3 landscapes remind me of a Japanese water garden
I love that 😊
On a Denise Love marathon on RUclips and Skillshare! No Netflix today!❤
Oooh! Fun!! Happy painting 🎨🎨🎨
I would so love to spend an afternoon painting abstracts with you! Ever thought about in person retreats?
Thank you!! 🥰 I don’t currently offer anything in person. I just fully shifted my creative business from photography to art this year after doing the art things on the side for a few years.
This was passed on to me, by my daughter, and I just love it......I'm going to try it myself. Thank you 🥰
Wonderful! Thank you! ☺️
love these
Thank you! ☺️
Beautiful Denise
Thank you! 🥰
Your reaction is great ❤ I was worried that you were going to do a real landscape instead of your normal lol ❤ thank you ❤❤
Thank you! 🥰
@@2lilowlsstudio always my pleasure ❤️
Beautiful. The last three you showed look like landscapes. Love your channel. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you very much! 🥰
This was one of my favourites of your videos. I love your glee ( and those that don’t can just change the channel!) I have fusion paints. I used the sage green on a chair, and it the dark blue on a small table. Never thought to use them on my art. Thank you. Keep your joy!
I am an uptight artist. Symmetrical and exact. So I have been doing your abstracts for therapy and I still find I try to control! I am having fun!
So glad you enjoyed this one... I love these too. Thank you!! 🥰
Loved this one! If you were going to do some burnishing, where in the process would you do it?
Thank you! 🥰. You burnish when it is dry. 😊
@@2lilowlsstudio before doing the other layers like the acrylic?
Oh my gosh, such a gorgeous colour palette! I am in love with the landscape ones in particular but they are so interesting! Always love your enthusiasm!😅💕🇨🇦
Thank you!! 🥰
I love this chanel. I love your smile. And your voice. Thanks for sharing your artwork. So inspiring. ❤
Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
Just discovered your channel and this tutorial was so fun and energetic. I too use watercolor and mixed media plus collage in my work. This reminded me that I just need to play sometimes. Thank you, Denise!
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you! 🥰
Going to share this,for sure!
You put me out side my comfort zone. Crazy lady.
Yay!! That is the place where we can grow as artists.. Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
These are absolutely gorgeous ❤
Thank you! 🥰
Those were beautiful! And you can really see the landscapes in the paintings. Thank you for showing us how to do landscape piantings and beautiful colors of paint. I love color and darks so much and painting with beautiful colors is even more exciting!!
So glad you loved these. They are some of my favorite! Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
I just love you!
Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
stunning tks xxxxx
Thank you! 🥰
I just discovered you and the graphite paints, so went looking and there are none of the Gansia Tambi ones and believe it or not, they are not available except in the USA but I will not pay twice as much for delivery. So, imagine my joy when you told me that they can be made at home. Brilliant. All I need is the graphite powder, Amazon, here I come.
Yes!! My favorite way now is to just to mix graphite powder with some tube watercolor. Mix some with the powder, test it, mix with more powder if you want it more graphitey… you can make some 1/2 pans of your favorites!! Super easy. You’ll love them! ☺️
Found you a few days ago and I have been watching you since, you make me smile I have done a duel mixed media and I really enjoyed it so thank you for your fantastic enthusiasm 😊
Thank you so much! 🥰🥰🥰
I love the Kuretake graphite colors! Im also loving your videos. Just stumbled upon them and have watched several already and ordered a bunch of stencils!
Those graphite colors are so good! Glad you are enjoying the videos. Thank you! 🥰
🎉 IT looks like a Japanese landscape ❤🎉
I love that! Thank you! 🥰
The color palette book is a brilliant idea
That has been super helpful for remembering color palettes I loved and what I used! 😊
I’ve been catching up on all your videos over the past week and this is one of my favorites!! The colors are gorgeous and yes! They are just like little landscapes. Now I have to buy all these exact supplies … arghhh.😂
Glad you like them! Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
Omg I sense another rabbit hole! I think I need to make some graphite watercolors!!! They are awesome ❤
You totally need to make some graphite watercolors!! They are amazing 😍
I love Fusions Mineral Paints...I bought some ages ago for a piece of furniture I needed to revive and it was the best paint I ever used! Really outstanding product and I see they have expanded their colors....how yummy!!
They are super yummy!! Now I want all the colors after playing in the few colors I have! They are all gorgeous! 😍😍😍
Everyone should start the day with Denise Love. You’ll have a smile on your face even if you’re not into art… ❤
I love that! Thank you! 🥰
I have been watching your videos the last couple of days and you are so fun to watch and totally inspiring 😊
Thank you! 🥰
You are so infectious to watch. I love what you do😊
Oh now I'm excited❤I want to get the big anniversary set when I can, they're in that one
That will be a fantastic set to get! I love all the colors I used. 😁
Love these!
Thank you! ☺️
Hodge you have any videos on where to start or how to sell your artwork? If not have you thought of making a video here or Skillshare about it? Love your energy and knowledge.
I don't currently have anything out on selling art on RUclips or skillshare. I'll add that to my list of future ideas! 😊
This is an awesome video makes me want to go be abstract 😂
Thank you!! 🥰🥰🥰
I listen to you on 2x-speed, and you sound just like PeeWee Herman the way you growl with excitement and say "HAHAHA...!" with such joy!. It cracks me up every time!
P.S. ...Greatest Color Pallett book EVER!!
Haha!! I listened to one of the videos fast the other day and cracked myself up too 😂😂😂
Denise… I recently saw where Michael’s sales the Canson Heritage watercolor paper online, but the price is astronomical!! Just an FYI…
That’s interesting! I’ll check it out! Thank you! 🥰
I have just found your channel in the last week and am LOVE your abstract stuff. I can’t wait to get a little time to try playing with my supplies like you do. Thank you!
So glad you are enjoying the videos!! Thank you 🥰
Oh, no! You’re throwing away that yummy tape! I keep mine for collage material.
Sometimes when I’m filming I do things without thinking. Too many things going on at once! 😊
Gorgeous! You make your videos so fun to watch. You teach while entertaining us with your enthusiasm. I’m collecting stencils, about the only thing I need, and will be trying your technique soon. I’m looking so forward to it. You’ve put me in such an abstract kind of mood which is great!! 🌸🎨🖌️
Thank you!! 🥰
Enjoying all your videos. Nice to hear a fellow Southerner on YT! Do you ever do in person classes?
Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰 (not doing in person workshops at this time.)
Fantastic as always ❤
Thank you! 🥰
Denise, I just discovered your channel recently and have been binge watching...and shopping...a lot. I can't thank you enough for sharing your talent, creativity and joy with us. I have wanted to watercolor my whole long life, and have been scared to try. But your style is exactly what I have been feeling and seeing in my imagination of what I want to create. I tried my hand at a few beginner pieces and squealed with delight...thought of you and had to start laughing. Yep, found the joy of watercolors and letting go. You are amazing!!!!!!! P.S. how many stencils are too many? Asking for a friend...teeheehee...thank goodness they aren't too expensive. Can't wait til mine come in.
I’m so glad you are enjoying my videos!! You’ve really made my day!! I’m not sure you can have too many stencils… gold… or art supplies!! Haha!! Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
Have you tried: Derivan liquid pencil?
They are graphite in tubes, 6 colors and two types: re-wettable and permanent. I’ve watched some reviews but I feel you would do this product more justice. I’m seriously considering these and would like your take. Thank you.
I had to look those up and after seeing the package - I recognized it. I have 2 tubes of this that came in one of my art boxes... they sent me yellow and blue... and I thought "blah"... and never opened them - that was a bit before I got obsessed with the graphite watercolors. Now I'm intrigued... so I need to get them out and play. If I love them, I'll do a video soon! 😊
After reading some more about them.. they are made with graphite powders just like the graphite watercolors. And I have made some of my own graphite watercolors with some of my favorite liquid watercolors and mixing in graphite powder. I bet it is almost the same as those. But I'll have a play with them.
I’ll have to try the graphite pigment with watercolor; I would love to create my own versions. I’m curious though, could graphite from a sharpened pencil produce similar results, 🤔
@@RMurrell31 graphite from a sharpened pencil would produce large flakes where as the graphite powder is ground down super fine. I have a jar of the graphite powder.
@@2lilowlsstudio I’ll look into graphite powder, I think it would be an interesting exercise using brighter watercolors. I think the graphite would darken them a bit, but what fun.
Lol I grew up watching Bob Ross on pbs lol. Happy accidents
I did too!! Did you know that his hair was a perm?? He did that frizzy fro on purpose? I watched that documentary on him and didn't know that. LOL!
@@2lilowlsstudio I watched one saying he wasn't seen by his piers as an artist😳didn't know about his hair lol
Could you send me the name of the graphite’s you are using;ifu like great watercolor brushes; try Polina Brights the best
I post all the supplies in the description below the video for you! 😊
What kind of tape do you use? I have trouble with tape marring the paper. Even low tack tape. Using the $$ paper even.
WA AAAHAHA 😟 lol!
I'm using Paintes tape and Artist tape usually. It really depends on the paper. All cotton papers do better for me... and then papers that are a mix of wood pulp and cotton or all wood pulp tend to pull fibers or tear easier. I try to make sure the paper is completely dry - that affects it too if I'm using watercolor paper and it is still wet - it tears. I have a video coming out on Monday where I was using different paper and it was tearing the paper - so I show you my trick of using the heat gun to get it to come off easier. Just heat that tape up a little with your heat gun and the sticky stuff releases.
Can you comment on the gesso you used? Actually how you did it? Just a clear that dries clear?
I don’t use gesso. I paint right on the paper in the video. Watercolor paper is sized already.
@@2lilowlsstudio I’m not sure I asked that correctly. The song book that you use as a journal. Didn’t you say you treated the pages with a product? That’s how I should have asked. Ty. I really admire what you do and how you do it for us Ty again.
@@valariemagnus508 ah! For that book, I just painted a thin layer of clear gesso over the whole page with a 1” cheap brush and let it dry. Then it is ready to paint on with out damaging the paper. You have to do that for every single page you want to paint on. So I just waited til I was ready to use a new page to do it. If you paint multiple pages at a time they would just stick together. 😊