Coloring with Albrecht Durer pencils in Wildflower Folk by Christine Karron - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Part 1 of 2 videos where I demonstrate how I colour with Faber Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils.
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I mention Candice @HappyCatastrophy
Thank you for this beaitiful coloring and tips! I have these pencils and did a coloring whitout water but i did not use them like this. You triggered me to try out!
Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoy trying your pencils out again 😊
Moving on to part two :)
Loving this tutorial, and it came at a great time as I'm quite new to coloring (took a couple oil painting classes way, wayyy back in high school ;), and now that I'm comfortable with my pencils, I'd like to venture further. I have some Derwent Inktense, so no excuses.
I'm thoroughly enjoying your videos, with your soft, calming voice and expertise. I've learned a lot from watching you, and after the house quiets in the evening, you're my go to watch ;)
Thank you so much, I wondered if I might be boring people! I’m trying not to use slang, and slow my speech down so I can think about what I want to say and wasn’t sure if I had slowed down too much 😁
You make it look very easy Jackie ,I have shied away from colouring people up to now .
I studied Life Drawing and portraiture for many years, but Christine Karron books make it easier because she has the grey scale where the face would have shadows. There are many resources on RUclips and the internet if you need help getting started with basics.
Thankyou for sharing how you use these wonderful pencils. She’s very very beautiful Jackie. I want to go do a portrait right now! ❤❤❤❤
You are so welcome! I think they are a fabulous pencil - for years I only had the AD’s and Derwent Watercolour pencils and they were more than adequate. Then of course, the Graphitints and Inktense were released and they offered something a little different, and then Amazon made buying cheaper stuff much easier but cheap watercolour pencils just don’t cut the mustard in my opinion 😉 When you think of how far the ADs last, they are good value and worth the investment.
Absolutely Lovely 😍
Thanks for the tutorial. I am new to the adult coloring community and it all seems a lit confusing. But, I have learned a lot from your video. 😊
Welcome to the colouring community! Don’t be afraid to ask questions, and the main thing is just dive in and enjoy yourself 😉 there are no rules! Thanks for watching 😊
Wow! This was so so so enlightening! I realize now that I was trying to use another artist technique that just doesn’t work for me. I needed to go back to what is comfortable for me, which is taking the pigment off of the pencil and putting it on the paper, not putting the pencil to the paper directly. This is the technique I use for the Tim Holtz, watercolor pencils and so I am very comfortable with it. I have been using the shavings from the pencils and not actually a water brush to the tip. This would be so much faster! Although with the shavings, I do get a dark opaque pigment if I want. But I’m doing all that sharpening which is annoying. And I also have to be very careful about using too much water. I have found that using the shavings means the pencils go a long way, because nothing is wasted, but I can see where this technique would make these expensive pencils stretch even further! I am really excited to break them open and try them again now. Thank you so much for showing me this technique and for opening my eyes to the fact that it might not be the mediums it might just be That we need to try another way of using them. Perhaps a more unconventional way like your former artist teacher noticed about you. We just have to use these mediums in whatever way works whether one artist or another approves of it or not. Thank you so much for doing this video my friend. I appreciate you so much.
If you use the "lick" technique (taking color off the tip with the brush) you can actually "sharpen" your pencils with a knife, removing just the wood to expose the core, and save all the product. There is kind of a trick to this so watch a couple of videos (google) before trying. You may also want to try traditional watercolor.. you can hold pans in your hand and just go right into the dry paint with a waterbrush for a similar experience.. no wood involved. There are a lot of really nice, inexpensive, paint lines out there that do high quality cheap pans.. check out Rosa, White Nights, Roman Szmal. If lightfastness is desired check your LF numbers before you buy.. but Van Gogh paints are all LF1-2 and therefore "safe" regardless of color.
As they say, “there is more than one way to skin a cat!” No matter what the medium or brand is, there is almost always at least one way to get a reasonable result with a little creative license. I think one of the important lessons I’ve learned though, is that sometimes we are just not picking the most “suitable” product for the result we want and once we accept that we make life easier for ourselves. There are very few colouring books that are perfect for using water medium in but if you accept the limitations (paper will buckle, the paint won’t granulate the same as watercolour paper etc) you can still create something that’s pleasing. I hope that makes sense, it’s not always easy to put thoughts/feelings into words - but I have been sharing my process and that process and it’s results make me happy 👍 I think it’s also really important to remember too that photographs and even video, fail to really adequately share the damage I do to my paper but I find that damage acceptable and I wonder if you all would be so impressed if you held my books in your hands and flipped through them? 😉😆 Anyway, I’m glad the video helped you a little, the pencils really are an awesome product and I hope you make friends with them ❤️
She’s beautiful ❤
Thanks Jackie 😊
I love watercolor pencils. They are just so versatile and portable. I own full sets of Albrecht Durer, Derwent watercolor, Derwent Inktense, Supracolor, Museum Aquarelle, Kohinoor Mondeluz, Goldfaber, and Lyra Aquarelle. I've owned and rehomed dozens of others.. Arteza expert, two different types of Staedtler, Prismacolor, General's Kimberly, Brunyzeel, and more I can't remember off the top of my head. There are two decently well known brands I'm 90% sure are white labeled (same core rebranded).. Mitsubishi Uni/Albrecht Durer, and Brunyzeel Design/Lyra Aquarell.
I think Albrecht's are the best on the market overall.. they are artist quality, a lower price point, available open stock easily in most places, have a well thought out 120 color palette, thick core but can sharpen to a strong sharp point, are good wet or dry, correlate in color exactly to Polychromos (which is always a nice bonus in a brand), and have excellent construction quality. I prefer them over Supracolor, but would suggest looking at Supras for select open stock.. they have some very light pastel shades, unique natural greens (including an entire selection of "olive" tones), cool browns.. and a warm black that is fabulous.
The one I regret buying the most is Museum Aquarelle.. they are very nice pencils but so expensive, and the color palette is not only limited to 72 but it's not very balanced. Most colors are midtone with very few lights and darks, many are very similar to each other, and I always wish for other colors when I use them. The most basic requirement for an artist quality product should be a light/med/dark shade in both warm and cool for every color family, which including white and black can be accomplished with 60 colors if they are chosen well.. and that requirement is not met in this set. They also have a tendency towards opacity which is not a plus for a watercolor product, they really feel more like gouache pencils, especially the ones with white in the mix of which there are many. The saving grace would be if they were all LF1 lightfast, but they aren't, and have been tested IRL to show fading even in some of their higher rated colors.. so no different than any other brand. I have chosen close to identical colors in both the Museums and Albrechts and used them side by side and can't tell the difference in the finished work, nor a significant improvement in the ease of use, so the 2-3x price just doesn't reflect the performance.
The best "budget" brand IMO is the Mondeluz, look for the cardboard packaging.. they were marked up significantly when capped and put in tins for export but they are the same exact pencils.
I agree, the proliferation of cheap products flooding the market make it much harder to make purchasing decisions. Depending on your needs and budget there are some good lower priced items, however, watercolour pencils don’t seem to fall into that category. The pigment is usually lacking and you have to work harder at getting a decent result. I agree with you too at being influenced by “influencers” and thinking I needed more pencils and more colours but what I have found is that I do keep reaching for the same colours even when I have a bigger set (the Kalour 260 being a point in case) and I also find that the shades all start looking the same. For many years I made do with Derwent Artist and Studio pencils supplemented with some open stock Polychromos pencils ❤️ Derwent have always been easier than any other brand to source in shops here along with FC Polychromos open stock although Amazon has opened things up in choice and price wise. I’ve always been on a bit of a budget though for personal reasons that I won’t go into here, and usually I’ve bought the better products whenever I managed to sell my original art and funded purchases through my sales.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences, I think we may have many in common! 😊
Just discovered your channel and it is a happy addition to my “list” of channels.
Thank you, I appreciate your support!
Thank you! The video was very helpful to me!
I'm so glad! Part 2 is uploading now if you are interested in seeing how I finish the rest. Thanks for watching 😊