Yes folks, it's a long one! Nearly an hour and a half of calm swatching over the course of two autumnal days at the end of October. I've decided to do something different in this one and I've broken up the swatching with views of our garden, and later on, you can see the house and garden at dusk as I head out for a walk before it gets dark. This video is perfect to put on in the background while you work. Make yourself a hot drink (Green & Black's Hot Chocolate or Clipper Organic Tea with milk and one sugar for me!) and sit back, relax, and enjoy these beautiful colours. I'm swatching several different mediums from the October Art Haul including coloured pencils, watercolour pencils, Neocolor 1 & 2 wax pastels, gouache, acrylic gouache, paint markers, watercolour pens, graphite matt pencils, acrylic paint and acrylic ink.
.... you're a woman after my own heart with the Green & Black's HC 😊... team it with a slice of fig & date crumble cake & my word, you're in heaven! 😋 xx
Wow 1,5h video, such a treat! Going to save this one for Monday and work on my own projects while I'm listening and watching this. :) Thank you for giving us longer videos once in a while, you are perfect companion while I'm working!
I watched yours a little while ago and enjoyed it so much - I'm in the studio today and you kept me company too! I have no doubt I will watch it again during the week as I find your videos so relaxing. :)
Seriously never imagined how much I'd come to enjoy swatching vids, relaxing and has definitely informed my supply shopping. Love a long vid, thank you!
You're so welcome, thanks for watching! I totally understand what you mean though, as they're also one of my favourite style of videos to watch on RUclips. I have them on in the background while I'm painting!
I ended up spending a lot of my day today painting, doing studies while listening to you switch your paint? You do have a knack for doing these, your voice is so nice. Also I do enjoy a good swatching session!
I really do love a good swatching session! I wondered why so many people left the same comment.😁 So many great colors and new products to try. I love your house in the country. What a beautiful place to make art💕 I bet you have squirrels or some other creature in the walls, but it would be amazing if it were something a little more otherworldly 👀 Keep us posted.
Ha ha, thanks for making it to the end! ;) Oh, we definitely have paranormal activity here - so many different things have happened that were definitely not animal/wildlife related (although we have that too!).
I definitely love a good swatching session lol I think every time I watch one of ur videos I see something new or learn something new thank u for sharing with us and I love the footage of ur garden and house outside so beautiful
If iam using my Acrylic gouache or high flow acrylics for anything, I add acrylic retarder to it. It extends the workable open time by triple! I used to buy the Golden acrylic retarder, until I learned how to make my own for much cheaper! I see way to many people on YT making their own by mixing distilled water and wayyyy to much Glycerin. Glycerin does work, but it actually works too well. If you add to much glycerin to acrylic paint, it will never cure properly. It doesn't allow the acrylic to form a film, then cure... it stays sticky... ATTRACTING DUST. Along with not drying, Glycerin will remain inside the paint, never dry... AND attracting bugs. Most acrylic retarders are made mostly of propylene Glycol, distilled water ( or deionized water, which is what I prefer to use ... its more pure than distilled) and the cheaper brands will add a bit of Glycerin. I mix up a 50/50 mix of propylene Glycol and deionized water... than I add some methocel to make a gel retarder. I also just put a 50/50 mix in liquid form in a squeeze bottle as well. So I have a gel retarder, and a fluid retarder. You can actually just use straight propylene glycol, without any water! And no matter how much you add... the acrylic will always dry and cure. Propylene glycol will even evaporate and work in freezing conditions! So never add Glycerin to acrylic paints... use propylene glycol. And if you aren't thrilled about making your own, just buy golden acrylic retarder. It's a game changer for acrylic gouache. Propylene glycol will also work as a retartder with watercolors and regular gouache too. Well, I hope you try this out and have a wonderful day 😊
@@sinikka9434 hi, I am German, too. And I find Kremer is also very pricy to be delivered within Germany. Nevertheless it is worth it! And I am really really happy that Jackson’s have reduced their delivery costs for us again, so we are able to enjoy brands like Roman Szmall again without massive shipping costs. Unfortunatley all custom fees are soooo expensive. It was so great before Brexit….🤷♂️, and it’s really a shame that you have to pay those also for deliveries under 20 Euros as it was before July 2021. (ok, I must admit that I rarely stay under 20 Euros🙈). Nevertheless I love buying from Jackson’s. Especially their customer service is so fanatic what I had to learn after a parcel was hold (or better got lost) by customs for almost three months, although all fees were paid in advance. By the way…., what do you mean by Lyra factory outlet? I have never heard about that?!
Ahhhh the perfect hour and a half being sick, snuggling in my bed and watching swatching! Thank you for sharing your time with us. I would love a video on your inks and how you use them. I have quite a few too and want to put them to better use. Also you can buy a very fine liner that screws right on the high flow bottle and use it almost like pen. I got a couple off of Amazon. ( and I watched every minute❤️)
i've stopped the 3 project fs i'm working on , including book binding with hot and cold press arches, and another with stonehenge 100% cotton cold press in another book , i made several travelers notebooks with high wnd water color paper, 3 are A4 -----2 are A5
@@CATAZTR0PHE i made 2 travelers notebooks used thw stuff it mwthod can't remember what the woman's name is on you tube look foe how to stuff ur butterfly book no sewing or gluing plus i bought the binding circles ans have the happy planner punch so i made 2 of those too but the first onw i actually put together i will glue bind it
@@CATAZTR0PHE a channel called "pear Fleur",she shares several videos on binding and gluing a sketchbook. and also a channel called "Nik The Booksmith" also has great sketchbook making videos. I make my own sketchbooks and have been for a while now,I don't by readmade sketchbooks anymore. It takes time,but I love the process and I use many differnt types of papers for the pages. I both stich and glue the books I make.Stiched ones are stronger biindong wise.Glued ones are good for travel sketchbooks. I invested a bit in good tools etc to make the books. and can't ever imaginr buying a readymade book again. I tend to do them over a weekend.But it means you can in efect add as many or as little in how many pages you put in them. I, also experimenting at the moment withmaking my own concertina sketchbooks.But give both types a try and see which you prefer.(matt) P.s I get the papers to form the pages from several differnt companies and makers,Jacksons has a service when you can buy large sheets and have them cut down into smaller pieces,I use a lot of handmade papers too and toned and black papers too more recently.I make A5 sized,postcard size and A4 size,but want to start making larger ones like A2 and A£ and I make them in landscape and portrait format. I find the process of making my own sketchbooks really calming almost mediatative,and I like that it has a history to it as a process and that appeals to me a lot.
I broke down and bought myself the full set of the Stabilo 3 in 1 pencils. They're water-soluble, but I've found an alcohol blender meant for alcohol markers works really well, to blend them together. The colors are brighter and they behave better and stay where you put them.
Love it when you swatch! Derwent Lightfast is in the queue. For US viewers, please know Jackson’s Art delivers to the US in 7-9 days using their reasonably priced “tracked shipping.” I paid USD-$3.95 for a $33 order.
natasha do you have the salmon and the salmon pink? in the neocolor 2? i think i saw you haul and swatch thw salmon ur thw salmon pink i think you'll love too
I really feel like you would fall in love with Faber Castell pitt markers (the two green brush ones you swatched) but in their calligraphy line. They have an amazing tip that can deliver very sharp lines, but can also make broad strokes which can be very useful in your art style. I personally prefer them to the brush ones (which is extremely unusual for me), and I absolutely love the white color in the calligraphy line. Perfect for semi-transparent overlay strokes that add a lovely texture
I do love a good swatching session! 😄 I drew a darling little toe garden in my sketchbook in the spirit of the season while I watched. Literally toes being grown in mounds of soil. I figure it's something rural trolls would cultivate. The urban trolls get theirs at whole foods, but nothing beats fresh from the ground in the troll's opinion.
waoooohooooo i w been waiting i just bought the derwent drawing pencil set , the whole set of albercht durer , a 12 ok of light fast to sss if i like them bought 2 blocks of arches paper ong i'm looking at luminance i can't go near them till next month i got 3 strath more mixes media sketch books because they're 100% cotton last month i bought the 500 series strathmore 100% cotton going to do a painting today on it once the numbness in my fingers stop a bit
Swatching is pretty much the only thing I do with my own supplies as I can’t draw, lol, but must buy everything! So I, too, love swatching videos.... it’s all I do on weekends to wind down, watch YT swatching and haul vids 🤗🤗🤗 I have full set syndrome so never understood why/how people can only buy some things... until I watched your videos... and went and bought diff single supplies with just colours I liked (some Polychromos, drawing and graphitint, etc) the other night... was fun, can’t wait til they get here! Now I need to look into Pablos I see.... lol
I do love a good swatching video; however, I do wish you had’ve labelled your swatches as you were swatching so I could record the names of the ones I’d like. Just brand, type, colour name or number (if there is one). Would be fine with abbreviations! Gorgeous views!
A suggestion for swatching white colored pencils and other white art mediums. Use a black pen underneath the white. That shows the brilliance and opacity of the white pigment. Does German ancestry count???
Perhaps there's an animal/s in the wall? I'm not sure what kind of modern modifications can be made on historical homes in the UK, but if the walls are old it's entirely possible as it gets cooler that wildlife might have found a route in through a less-edified part of the house.
I love a long swatching video, even a year later. Is interesting, we love the same products and colour palette. I didn't realise W&N had a potters pink acrylic, so yay. I use my watercolour one most painting sessions. I have added the Liquitex light pink to my wishlist now too.
I love your voice, this swatching is so satisfying!! Two things that were a bit frustrating, though: 1. You could zoom a little bit, the whole left side of the screen is wasted, and seeing the swatches up close feels nice 2. You need to color correct videos like those. All dark colors are looking the same in it…
I really prefer the neocolor 2 over the neocolor 1, I feel like the # 2 gives me the madesame versatility because of the water solubility I have a set of 28 neocolor 1 but bought off ebay in a sleeping shopping spree and not paying that close of kkkkkk
love holbein anything. Japanese historically paint with more earthy colors, they didn't even have a name for "green" until the last century, it was earthy greens called as shades of blue. So beautiful.
I ❤️ a good swatching session! I live in a very rural area, hours away from an art store. I enjoy your descriptions of colors, so helpful to people like me who don’t have access to see the choices in person before ordering. Thank you!
When I first watched your videos you were saying how you only use blue greens. I am very glad how you havecsinced embraced all greens. One of the others I wstch says to not use too much water with Neocolor II. I still need to test that idea. My first test was a disappointment as they were very uneven when I wet them.
Thank you, but unfortunately that link no longer works! Jackson's changed the way they do the affiliate accounts and I need to sign up afresh. Great that they're now in Australia!
Greetings from Germany! I watch your videos for a while know and I absolutely love your calm and gentle personality :) Your work is inspiring and I even bought a lot of muted colors (the Derwent Drawing Pencils are gorgeous!) - even tho I’m more of a vibrant rainbow type 😅 Keep up the good work and thank you for making these awesome videos 🧡
Thanks so much for this - I do love a good swatching session!! (Yes, I made it to the end!😅). It always makes me very happy when artists use German products, although I’m a German living in the UK for many years now and can take absolutely no credit for the quality 😜 - but as a big Faber Castell fan I love hearing the colour names, they’re like my friends (Earth Green is a special one, and Cinnamon too😊)! I just finished Inktober using Albrecht Dürer watercolour markers in Dark Indigo, Indanthrone Blue and Grey on grey toned paper, which was such a wonderful combination. Regarding the noises, it could be the change in temperature outside with heating inside that makes the old floorboards extend and squeak, hopefully… 👻 🐭
That does sound like a lovely combination for your Inktober pieces! And yes, I absolutely love the various German art supplies I own. The quality is top notch!
It would be really nice to see the matt graphite next to the graphite equivalent, especially the B’s. To make them as dark as you did, Do you have to press hard? Do the feel like graphite while drawing? They are very enticing especially for filming drawing!
they are very cool. they are matt in comparison to the 9000er from faber castell. the 14 B is very darf like a black colored pencil. they feel very similar to normal graphite only a bit diffrent (the 14B a bit) but not much.
These intrigue me as well. Smoothie77 Drawing and Painting did a couple in depth videos. A swatch and comparison and a finished piece. If you get time it's informative. it's so subjective and I'm trying to not buy stuff for awhile, but the 14B I want. There must be carbon mixed in? Congrats on your artbooks kickstarter success!!!
I didn't press super hard, and I would say that they feel like a cross between graphite and coloured pencil. I look forward to using them for some artwork and then I'll be able to report back in more detail!
I love a good swatching session, and with all those beautiful greens! 💚 The neocolors are just amazing. I like that you can have the right color ready to use and so richly pigmented. If you loved the Pitt Graphite from FC, I would highly recommend to give a go to the Staedtler Mars Lumpagraph Black pencils. They are just the deepest, blackest black I've ever seen in a pencil. I use them all the time in my illustrations. Also, speaking of pencils, Derwent has a beautiful line of pencils called "tinted charcoals". They are basically charcoal pencils, but with color pigments in it, and they have 24 really natural, desaturated colors as for the Drawing line. I think they may be the kind of neutral you may like. I own a few of the warmer colors: Sunset Pink, Sand and Burnt Orange, and then a cold Ocean Deep. Really nice ones. I wish they had the same shades in regular colored pencils too. Last but not least, I'm really impressed by the Tri-Art Sludge acrylic paints, I hope to see they in Italy in a near future. I'm always glad to know when I can do something to help avoid some waste or reduce pollution, and now even choosing an art supply (and plus, with gorgeous natural colors which are otherwise hard to mix every time! You never get the same one you did before, don't you?) So thank you for sharing this new product. As always that was super-interesting and relaxing as well. I would be really interested in a video about all your acrylics and in acrylic inks. Hope you are feeling better and sending a big hug 💚
Thanks Elisa! Dominic has a set of the tinted charcoals from Derwent and they are truly beautiful colours. I've heard about the Lumograph pencils but have never tried them! I'm so glad that you enjoyed the video. :) Sending a big hug back to you as well! 🧡
Woohoo!! I got my ghost story! 😂👻 Maybe your next color palette could be called "Spooky Night"? 👻 Thanks so much for this long video, Natasha! And as others have said, I love I good searching session!
Thanks for making it to the end, Valérie! And yes, it was a completely unintentional spooky story this time! Love that name for a palette too; Spooky Night. Hmmmmm... ;)
I love a good swatching session...and wow, no wonder you were hearing things because the house looks positively ancient! Around the 57 minute mark, during or just after the unexplained racket in the hall, I noticed that my heart rate had increased a little, lol. But imagine--all the deaths that must have happened there over the many years!--it is probably really a ghost. Are those your ancestral halls? So gorgeous, and so utterly haunted-looking. I don't know, maybe this video was in honor of Halloween? Anyway, thanks so much for the awesome content!
Hi Valerie! The odd sounds were genuine and totally unexpected while I was filming! We've had quite a few paranormal experiences in the house, which belongs to my fiancé's family. It was built between 1898-1901, so it's old but not super old like a lot of the buildings here in the UK!
I love a good swatching session….with you, Natasha! I was watching while doing some other things, but I was watching and sometimes I’d miss something and then have to go back or look something up on the web. So many colors I want to make note of. And thanks so much for the quick outdoors view and a peek at your beautiful home! What a “treat!” (A bit of Halloween humor…just a bit.)
Yes another good swatching session to love! 2 videos in a row. I love all the yellow olive greens at the moment. Thanks for the relaxing time, Natasha. In kindred spirit Eliza Dulwich Hill, Sydney Australia x
Love!!! Thank you so much! I love a long swatching section/video! I was on the fence about the shin Han gouache paints but now I’m going to try them. Also, I would like to recommend you the Molotow water brush, my favorite is the size 3mm but also like the flat one. They hold tons of water. I use distilled water so they don’t get cloudy. Thank you again for a wonderful and entertaining video!
I'm late to the game but I love abgod swatching session! So happy to have come across your channel. Can't wait to watch more. Thank you for sharing the beautiful shots of your home and garden, it's just what I imagine when I think of an old English country home.
Better late than never in discovering your channel and lovely videos. I do love a good swatching session, no matter the art medium. I must also thank you for your Luminance content, as it helped me make the decision to splurge for the set of 100. No regrets. They're simply wonderful. Hope this Halloween is as lovely for you, though perhaps less spooky!
I love a good swatching session! I love seeing how the products you purchase look swatched. It really helps to decide if they would be a good addition to my plethora of art materials….. can’t really have too many of the right ones. 🥰 Thank you for sharing your valuable time, thoughts and new art materials. I appreciate you very much. Love, Fran
Oh they look even better swatched. My shopping list is growing as I watch...lol Just love those muted pinks and blues also those Lyras and Matt Blacks....Don't worry about the noises we have a problem much the same and we are used to it. Just an overlay of energy from the past. We just have to double check window and doors when we go out lol...And yes I love a good swatching session and this was fabulous.
I love a good swatching session:-) What a great way to finish my day! Your video is captivating and did not feel long at all. I go for the superb liquitex blue and the Tri art sludge! And really I want to try the liquid ink too. Really great colours. Thank you for sharing and for the beautiful walk around yr gorgeous house.
I love me a good long swatching video! Thank you for the video, Usually love the Haul videos but skip on the swatching ones one they tend to be for the same supplies for which there are already 15 vids! However, your selection of supplies tends to be quite unique so I watch as long as they take. I find myself populating my wish list after every one of your videos… 🙄😬🥴
A little hint for the FW inks -- you can buy stainless nail polish agitator balls from Amazon, and if you drop three or four in your inks, it makes shaking them up when they settle SO much easier. Gets all that thick pigment off the bottom like a charm. (Just make sure they're the *stainless steel* ones, and not the regular ones, or they'll rust and ruin your inks. Learned that one the hard way. :D). I think they run around $5USD for a couple hundred of them, so they're not expensive at all, either. Hope that helps!
Definitly love a long swatching session video!!,but it's lovely to hear your reasons for choosing colours and how you'll use them in your work,and it's like going a voyage of creative discovery along side you. You say you want to get a waterbrush to take on outdoor trips. I have tried several and learned not all water brushes are created equal! some release too much water,others you really have to squeeze hard,which can be taxing n your fingers,others leak as you use them,but one I have come to love is by Caran d ache,it's their aquaflow waterbrush,it dosen't leak,is nice to hold is weighted really well,but what I really like on the barrel on two sides are buttons and you use these to get the water out into the brush tip, it gives you more control,and is not taxing on the finger tips,it's now the one I use the most,they come in several tip sizes,and you can get them in sets or singular,reasonably priced,definiltly reccommend trying this as part of your travel art kit. I'm glad you love the Shinhan paints,the pigmentatation is really rich and I love the hybrid paints,they are so versatile and layer really well and are perfect for mixed meia pieces. I have ordered a set of the pitt matt graphite pencils,as I don't like the shine of graphite either. The garden is really looking lovely as the leaves turn,do you think you would ever create a piece of art based on your garden?. and lovely to see the whole house too,an amazing building. I like the ethos of the Try/sludge paint,being made from recycled waste pigments,so am going to try these asbwell,that dark teal is lovely a very Natasha colour!!!. Lyra do make really good quality materials I love their aquacolour crayons. Maybe try the kremer grey water colour set you have with the lyra grey pencil set,I think they would be a good combination.Something else you may like,are viva color watercolour sheets, I discovred these last year as part of an inktober bundle, and love them,they are a great travel kit supply and the colours are so rich,they do sets and refills too. But have to say I recently got their mettalics set and oh my!!! so stunning jewel like colours some of which have colourshift properties, they are some of the most stunning metallic waterccolours I have used,they layer over other colours and on blackpaper are astounding. But their regular colours are also really amazing and they smell amazing too. I think the reason we love your videos so much is because they feel like we are in the studio with you, looking over your shoulder and that is really lovely,it's like engaging with a favourite artist friend espcially in videos like this one. P.s I jus completed "Inktober" and loved it and will start "Huevember" next!! Hope you and Dominic are both doing okay. have a good week both of you.
Thanks for making it to the end, Matt! ;) And thanks so much for the water brush recommendation, I'm definitely going to see if I can get this on Jackson's or elsewhere. That's really helpful! I'm in love with the Tri Art dark teal sludge - what a colour! Great idea to combine the Kremer Greys palette with the Lyra pencil set too. Good luck for Huevember - I hope you find it really inspiring to do! :)
I love a good swatching session!! I am from Germany and I love your different materials. I am new in mixed media and your opinion is so helpful! Thank you!
I love a good swatching session, but my purse doesn't 😅 I am slowly becoming swatch addict 😅 thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into these videos 🙌🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for making it to the end, Tanya! ;) There's something so calming about swatching, and it really helps me to get to know the colours and materials better.
Thank you for another great session...my bank balance always seems to diminish somewhat after watching your videos...lol....did hear a knock noise as you were demoing the bright green
You're welcome, Gail, and sorry about your bank balance! ;) There were so many knocks and noises while I was swatching, but I carried on regardless, ha ha!
I love a good swatching session :) I have to admit though that I watched in chunks over two days. Much fun to see art supplies that I haven't considered using or didn't know existed. Have ordered the Faber Castell matte graphite!
I would love to see the tan sludge mixed with the potter pink acrylic I don’t know why I feel like it be a beautiful color! Also does the matte graphite pencil erase well?!? Thanks for sharing! Love watching you swatch!
I'll have to do an update on the matt pencils after I've used them properly! I haven't had a chance yet - lots of painting over the past week or so but no drawing!
I love a good swatching session! I know I’m seeing this late but, better late than never, right? I really enjoyed the variety of your new supplies and think I may be trying a few of them myself.
I love a good squatch session ;) i loved the accidental way you said swatch earlier. (imagine a sasquatch swatching colours in your garden :D lol) thoroughly enjoyed this video! take care!
Thank you for your lovely company on Halloween 🎃👻 I love a good swatching session🧡 The Pablo pencils in Garnet rose and ash grey look so dreamy. I guess you can’t expect ghosts to behave near Halloween but I’m glad you share the house with your family, I’m sure hearing those noises on your own would be a lot more scary, hopefully they’re all friendly art lovers
Thanks for making it to the end! ;) Ha ha, I think the ghosts were all excited about Halloween - I would be terrified sometimes if I lived here on my own, but with other people around it's not so bad. And to a certain extent you do get used to it. I've had so many strange experiences here!
I love a good searching sessiom!! I’m very curious about your families house too! Please let us know about the strange happenings! I could listen to you all day xx
Thanks for making it to the end, Jo! And thanks for such a lovely comment. :) The house is owned by my fiancé's family, and he's hoping to start a channel at some point about the house and the renovations etc. He's been filming bits here and there for months - I can't wait for him to launch his channel! xx
Thanks for making it to the end, Laurel! ;) For some reason the thought of my video combined with American Sunday Night Football is amusing me greatly. 😁
This was very relaxing. I would love to spend a few nights in your house! Sounds like an amazing old Victorian with possibly a few “visitors”! (Added: you’re house is absolutely gorgeous! I love a good swatching session!)
I love a good swatching session! The sludge really intrigues me, I'd love to see how broad the colour variance is between the batches. I'm very interested in those acrylic inks, too. I only have one lightfast pencil that I got as a free sample. It's in violet, not a colour I tend to use, so other than swatching it I haven't really used it. Your growing collection of yummy green colours is making me want to try some more from the range, though. I'm already a big fan of Derwent's inktense range, which also features some lovely greens, and I recently got their inktense paints, which act like higly pigmented watercolour, but can also be layered without washing out previous layers (similar to the pass paint, but in pans). I love them, especially the shade Dark Plum, which is my current skeletal tree shade of choice.
Yes folks, it's a long one! Nearly an hour and a half of calm swatching over the course of two autumnal days at the end of October. I've decided to do something different in this one and I've broken up the swatching with views of our garden, and later on, you can see the house and garden at dusk as I head out for a walk before it gets dark. This video is perfect to put on in the background while you work. Make yourself a hot drink (Green & Black's Hot Chocolate or Clipper Organic Tea with milk and one sugar for me!) and sit back, relax, and enjoy these beautiful colours. I'm swatching several different mediums from the October Art Haul including coloured pencils, watercolour pencils, Neocolor 1 & 2 wax pastels, gouache, acrylic gouache, paint markers, watercolour pens, graphite matt pencils, acrylic paint and acrylic ink.
.... you're a woman after my own heart with the Green & Black's HC 😊... team it with a slice of fig & date crumble cake & my word, you're in heaven! 😋 xx
Wow 1,5h video, such a treat! Going to save this one for Monday and work on my own projects while I'm listening and watching this. :) Thank you for giving us longer videos once in a while, you are perfect companion while I'm working!
I watched yours a little while ago and enjoyed it so much - I'm in the studio today and you kept me company too! I have no doubt I will watch it again during the week as I find your videos so relaxing. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt Thank you so much! Same here!
Seriously never imagined how much I'd come to enjoy swatching vids, relaxing and has definitely informed my supply shopping. Love a long vid, thank you!
You're so welcome, thanks for watching! I totally understand what you mean though, as they're also one of my favourite style of videos to watch on RUclips. I have them on in the background while I'm painting!
I ended up spending a lot of my day today painting, doing studies while listening to you switch your paint? You do have a knack for doing these, your voice is so nice. Also I do enjoy a good swatching session!
Ah, thanks Stephanie! Glad to keep you company! I hope that your work is coming along well. :)
I really do love a good swatching session! I wondered why so many people left the same comment.😁 So many great colors and new products to try. I love your house in the country. What a beautiful place to make art💕 I bet you have squirrels or some other creature in the walls, but it would be amazing if it were something a little more otherworldly 👀 Keep us posted.
Ha ha, thanks for making it to the end! ;) Oh, we definitely have paranormal activity here - so many different things have happened that were definitely not animal/wildlife related (although we have that too!).
Thank you so much for posting this right now. I just hit a wall trying to organize my art supplies and now I have the perfect reason to stop.
I'm happy to provide a temporary distraction, ha ha!
2 birthdays ago i bought all the neocolor 2 open stock that i didn't have i ha s thee full set now
I definitely love a good swatching session lol I think every time I watch one of ur videos I see something new or learn something new thank u for sharing with us and I love the footage of ur garden and house outside so beautiful
Ah, thanks Amber! x
“ I love a good swatching session”! Seriously, those are some beautiful colors, some have been added to my wish list 😻tfs, Natasha! X
If iam using my Acrylic gouache or high flow acrylics for anything, I add acrylic retarder to it. It extends the workable open time by triple! I used to buy the Golden acrylic retarder, until I learned how to make my own for much cheaper! I see way to many people on YT making their own by mixing distilled water and wayyyy to much Glycerin. Glycerin does work, but it actually works too well. If you add to much glycerin to acrylic paint, it will never cure properly. It doesn't allow the acrylic to form a film, then cure... it stays sticky... ATTRACTING DUST. Along with not drying, Glycerin will remain inside the paint, never dry... AND attracting bugs. Most acrylic retarders are made mostly of propylene Glycol, distilled water ( or deionized water, which is what I prefer to use ... its more pure than distilled) and the cheaper brands will add a bit of Glycerin. I mix up a 50/50 mix of propylene Glycol and deionized water... than I add some methocel to make a gel retarder. I also just put a 50/50 mix in liquid form in a squeeze bottle as well. So I have a gel retarder, and a fluid retarder. You can actually just use straight propylene glycol, without any water! And no matter how much you add... the acrylic will always dry and cure. Propylene glycol will even evaporate and work in freezing conditions! So never add Glycerin to acrylic paints... use propylene glycol. And if you aren't thrilled about making your own, just buy golden acrylic retarder. It's a game changer for acrylic gouache. Propylene glycol will also work as a retartder with watercolors and regular gouache too. Well, I hope you try this out and have a wonderful day 😊
Hi Natasha, it's so relaxing to see you swatching all these beautiful colors
And you have Kremer 🥺 I live in Poland and wanted to purchase Kremer watercolors but delivery is sooo pricey. Kremer is the best 👌
Have a good day! 😊
😅 oh, I've added this comment before watching the whole video, and Natasha talk about Kremer too 😅 oops
@@CATAZTR0PHE Aren't Roman Szmal and Renesans from Poland? I love the Roman Szmal watercolors but shipping gets pricey for me too 😅
@@sinikka9434 hi, I am German, too. And I find Kremer is also very pricy to be delivered within Germany. Nevertheless it is worth it! And I am really really happy that Jackson’s have reduced their delivery costs for us again, so we are able to enjoy brands like Roman Szmall again without massive shipping costs. Unfortunatley all custom fees are soooo expensive. It was so great before Brexit….🤷♂️, and it’s really a shame that you have to pay those also for deliveries under 20 Euros as it was before July 2021. (ok, I must admit that I rarely stay under 20 Euros🙈). Nevertheless I love buying from Jackson’s. Especially their customer service is so fanatic what I had to learn after a parcel was hold (or better got lost) by customs for almost three months, although all fees were paid in advance.
By the way…., what do you mean by Lyra factory outlet? I have never heard about that?!
Ahhhh the perfect hour and a half being sick, snuggling in my bed and watching swatching! Thank you for sharing your time with us. I would love a video on your inks and how you use them. I have quite a few too and want to put them to better use. Also you can buy a very fine liner that screws right on the high flow bottle and use it almost like pen. I got a couple off of Amazon. ( and I watched every minute❤️)
Thanks Julie! I'm late in answering your lovely comment, but I hope you're feeling much better now! x
i've stopped the 3 project fs i'm working on , including book binding with hot and cold press arches, and another with stonehenge 100% cotton cold press in another book , i made several travelers notebooks with high wnd water color paper, 3 are A4 -----2 are A5
You sew them or glue them together? It's A4 or A5 format?
I plan to do this but sewing puts me off... 😰
@@CATAZTR0PHE i made 2 travelers notebooks used thw stuff it mwthod can't remember what the woman's name is on you tube look foe how to stuff ur butterfly book no sewing or gluing plus i bought the binding circles ans have the happy planner punch so i made 2 of those too but the first onw i actually put together i will glue bind it
@@CATAZTR0PHE a channel called "pear Fleur",she shares several videos on binding and gluing a sketchbook. and also a channel called "Nik The Booksmith" also has great sketchbook making videos. I make my own sketchbooks and have been for a while now,I don't by readmade sketchbooks anymore. It takes time,but I love the process and I use many differnt types of papers for the pages. I both stich and glue the books I make.Stiched ones are stronger biindong wise.Glued ones are good for travel sketchbooks. I invested a bit in good tools etc to make the books. and can't ever imaginr buying a readymade book again. I tend to do them over a weekend.But it means you can in efect add as many or as little in how many pages you put in them. I, also experimenting at the moment withmaking my own concertina sketchbooks.But give both types a try and see which you prefer.(matt) P.s I get the papers to form the pages from several differnt companies and makers,Jacksons has a service when you can buy large sheets and have them cut down into smaller pieces,I use a lot of handmade papers too and toned and black papers too more recently.I make A5 sized,postcard size and A4 size,but want to start making larger ones like A2 and A£ and I make them in landscape and portrait format. I find the process of making my own sketchbooks really calming almost mediatative,and I like that it has a history to it as a process and that appeals to me a lot.
I broke down and bought myself the full set of the Stabilo 3 in 1 pencils. They're water-soluble, but I've found an alcohol blender meant for alcohol markers works really well, to blend them together. The colors are brighter and they behave better and stay where you put them.
Ah, that's interesting! Enjoy experimenting with them, Julie!
What a wonderful way to spend some time! Rather an hour and a half of beautiful switching. I do love a good LONG swatching session! 😍
Love it when you swatch! Derwent Lightfast is in the queue.
For US viewers, please know Jackson’s Art delivers to the US in 7-9 days using their reasonably priced “tracked shipping.” I paid USD-$3.95 for a $33 order.
Thanks Linda!
natasha do you have the salmon and the salmon pink? in the neocolor 2? i think i saw you haul and swatch thw salmon ur thw salmon pink i think you'll love too
I think I have the Salmon in Neocolor 1 and the Salmon Pink in Neocolor 2!
I really feel like you would fall in love with Faber Castell pitt markers (the two green brush ones you swatched) but in their calligraphy line. They have an amazing tip that can deliver very sharp lines, but can also make broad strokes which can be very useful in your art style. I personally prefer them to the brush ones (which is extremely unusual for me), and I absolutely love the white color in the calligraphy line. Perfect for semi-transparent overlay strokes that add a lovely texture
I'll have to check those out, thanks for the suggestion Julia! :)
I definitely love a good swatching session. :D Makes me feel so much better to know I'm not the only art material collector. ;)
Haha, I like a good swatching session! I was truly interested as the gouaches are on my wishlist and I am waiting for 3 matt pencils right now 😍
I do love a good swatching session! 😄 I drew a darling little toe garden in my sketchbook in the spirit of the season while I watched. Literally toes being grown in mounds of soil. I figure it's something rural trolls would cultivate. The urban trolls get theirs at whole foods, but nothing beats fresh from the ground in the troll's opinion.
Thanks for making it to the end, SarahLou! ;) I love that you were working in your sketchbook while watching this too!
I love a good swatching session ... it's a great time to paint the caps of my paint tubes and do a bit of swatching of my own.
Thank you for making it to the end! ;)
wonderful colorpalette. i also love the earth green from the polychromos. such a lovely green grey ^_^
I love a good swatching session!! 🧡
waoooohooooo i w been waiting i just bought the derwent drawing pencil set , the whole set of albercht durer , a 12 ok of light fast to sss if i like them bought 2 blocks of arches paper ong i'm looking at luminance i can't go near them till next month i got 3 strath more mixes media sketch books because they're 100% cotton last month i bought the 500 series strathmore 100% cotton going to do a painting today on it once the numbness in my fingers stop a bit
Oh wow, enjoy all of your new art supplies, Deborah!
lol i love a good swatching session
Swatching is pretty much the only thing I do with my own supplies as I can’t draw, lol, but must buy everything! So I, too, love swatching videos.... it’s all I do on weekends to wind down, watch YT swatching and haul vids 🤗🤗🤗 I have full set syndrome so never understood why/how people can only buy some things... until I watched your videos... and went and bought diff single supplies with just colours I liked (some Polychromos, drawing and graphitint, etc) the other night... was fun, can’t wait til they get here! Now I need to look into Pablos I see.... lol
I love a super long fabulously good swatching session! That Sludge teal colour is a complete find - I adore it! :)
Isn’t it amazing?!
I am a German living in Australia for 12 years and I love your art hauls and swatches. So relaxing!
Thank you, Silke!
I do love a good swatching video; however, I do wish you had’ve labelled your swatches as you were swatching so I could record the names of the ones I’d like. Just brand, type, colour name or number (if there is one). Would be fine with abbreviations! Gorgeous views!
"I LOVE a good swatching session!" I'm working on my BUJO while watching you and thinking about all the things I need. Cheers!
A suggestion for swatching white colored pencils and other white art mediums. Use a black pen underneath the white. That shows the brilliance and opacity of the white pigment. Does German ancestry count???
Perhaps there's an animal/s in the wall? I'm not sure what kind of modern modifications can be made on historical homes in the UK, but if the walls are old it's entirely possible as it gets cooler that wildlife might have found a route in through a less-edified part of the house.
So many interesting mentions during this video. Can’t wait to see you you use the FW acrylic inks and neocolors in your pieces.
Thank you! I'm so looking forward to experimenting further with mixed media. :)
I love a long swatching video, even a year later. Is interesting, we love the same products and colour palette. I didn't realise W&N had a potters pink acrylic, so yay. I use my watercolour one most painting sessions. I have added the Liquitex light pink to my wishlist now too.
perfect video for a rainy Halloween night at home! A great kiss from Italy
Happy Halloween! 👻👻👻
I love your voice, this swatching is so satisfying!!
Two things that were a bit frustrating, though:
1. You could zoom a little bit, the whole left side of the screen is wasted, and seeing the swatches up close feels nice
2. You need to color correct videos like those. All dark colors are looking the same in it…
Love watching swatching videos & swatching!
Never knew had Sludge acrylics & like the look!
Gouache only ever used white!
Love a good swatching session and especially that potter’s pink! I have the full set of Lyra polycolor pencils and love them!
I love a good swatching session! (And I don't mind a good ghost story either - but I hope your bumps and thumps quieten down!)
I really prefer the neocolor 2 over the neocolor 1, I feel like the # 2 gives me the madesame versatility because of the water solubility I have a set of 28 neocolor 1 but bought off ebay in a sleeping shopping spree and not paying that close of kkkkkk
I do LOVE a good swatching session! Thanks for taking the time with us. :)
Thanks for (s)watching! ;)
love holbein anything. Japanese historically paint with more earthy colors, they didn't even have a name for "green" until the last century, it was earthy greens called as shades of blue. So beautiful.
I ❤️ a good swatching session! I live in a very rural area, hours away from an art store. I enjoy your descriptions of colors, so helpful to people like me who don’t have access to see the choices in person before ordering. Thank you!
I'm so glad that you find the videos useful, thank you!
Copic has something called opaque white it comes in a tiny square box and a little jar it’s the best loaves white anything , it’s gorgeous
I love a good swatching session... I learned a lot, thank you and have a wonderful day
Oh I know im late to the party but I didnt realize you live in a fairy tale wonderland!!!
I love a good swatching session! Wow...those sludge colors are great! All the colors you choose are just lovely! 🥰
When I first watched your videos you were saying how you only use blue greens. I am very glad how you havecsinced embraced all greens.
One of the others I wstch says to not use too much water with Neocolor II. I still need to test that idea. My first test was a disappointment as they were very uneven when I wet them.
🧟♂️ long swatching videos are amazing.
This is amazing! That ash blue gouache 💜💜 I love seeing your house and garden as well as the swatching. Thank you so much :D
Thanks Debs! 🧡
@@NatashaNewtonArt I love a good swatching session! xx
Fabulous.! I do love a good swatching session :-)
ATTN ALL AUSSIE SUBSCRIBERS - Jackson's is now in Oz too so there's fast and cheap shipping, nothing to stop us using Natasha's link :)
Thank you, but unfortunately that link no longer works! Jackson's changed the way they do the affiliate accounts and I need to sign up afresh. Great that they're now in Australia!
Imlove a good swatching session Thank you.
I 💗a good swatching session!
Thanks for posting this very helpful video! Have a great weekend! - Kelli
You are so welcome!
Greetings from Germany! I watch your videos for a while know and I absolutely love your calm and gentle personality :) Your work is inspiring and I even bought a lot of muted colors (the Derwent Drawing Pencils are gorgeous!) - even tho I’m more of a vibrant rainbow type 😅 Keep up the good work and thank you for making these awesome videos 🧡
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy the latest one - it has a very calm vibe. :)
Ilove a good swatching video-very relaxing too.
Thanks so much for this - I do love a good swatching session!! (Yes, I made it to the end!😅). It always makes me very happy when artists use German products, although I’m a German living in the UK for many years now and can take absolutely no credit for the quality 😜 - but as a big Faber Castell fan I love hearing the colour names, they’re like my friends (Earth Green is a special one, and Cinnamon too😊)! I just finished Inktober using Albrecht Dürer watercolour markers in Dark Indigo, Indanthrone Blue and Grey on grey toned paper, which was such a wonderful combination.
Regarding the noises, it could be the change in temperature outside with heating inside that makes the old floorboards extend and squeak, hopefully… 👻 🐭
That does sound like a lovely combination for your Inktober pieces! And yes, I absolutely love the various German art supplies I own. The quality is top notch!
💜 “I love a good swatching session”! 💜 This was so relaxing, Natasha! Thank you for your hard work. Looking forward to your Patreon 😍
So glad you liked it, thank you! 🧡
I love a good swatching session. Great job!
It would be really nice to see the matt graphite next to the graphite equivalent, especially the B’s.
To make them as dark as you did, Do you have to press hard? Do the feel like graphite while drawing?
They are very enticing especially for filming drawing!
they are very cool. they are matt in comparison to the 9000er from faber castell. the 14 B is very darf like a black colored pencil. they feel very similar to normal graphite only a bit diffrent (the 14B a bit) but not much.
by the way i love your art 🥰
These intrigue me as well. Smoothie77 Drawing and Painting did a couple in depth videos. A swatch and comparison and a finished piece. If you get time it's informative. it's so subjective and I'm trying to not buy stuff for awhile, but the 14B I want. There must be carbon mixed in? Congrats on your artbooks kickstarter success!!!
I didn't press super hard, and I would say that they feel like a cross between graphite and coloured pencil. I look forward to using them for some artwork and then I'll be able to report back in more detail!
I love a good swatching session, and with all those beautiful greens! 💚
The neocolors are just amazing. I like that you can have the right color ready to use and so richly pigmented.
If you loved the Pitt Graphite from FC, I would highly recommend to give a go to the Staedtler Mars Lumpagraph Black pencils. They are just the deepest, blackest black I've ever seen in a pencil. I use them all the time in my illustrations.
Also, speaking of pencils, Derwent has a beautiful line of pencils called "tinted charcoals". They are basically charcoal pencils, but with color pigments in it, and they have 24 really natural, desaturated colors as for the Drawing line. I think they may be the kind of neutral you may like. I own a few of the warmer colors: Sunset Pink, Sand and Burnt Orange, and then a cold Ocean Deep. Really nice ones. I wish they had the same shades in regular colored pencils too.
Last but not least, I'm really impressed by the Tri-Art Sludge acrylic paints, I hope to see they in Italy in a near future.
I'm always glad to know when I can do something to help avoid some waste or reduce pollution, and now even choosing an art supply (and plus, with gorgeous natural colors which are otherwise hard to mix every time! You never get the same one you did before, don't you?)
So thank you for sharing this new product.
As always that was super-interesting and relaxing as well.
I would be really interested in a video about all your acrylics and in acrylic inks.
Hope you are feeling better and sending a big hug 💚
Thanks Elisa! Dominic has a set of the tinted charcoals from Derwent and they are truly beautiful colours. I've heard about the Lumograph pencils but have never tried them! I'm so glad that you enjoyed the video. :) Sending a big hug back to you as well! 🧡
Woohoo!! I got my ghost story! 😂👻 Maybe your next color palette could be called "Spooky Night"? 👻
Thanks so much for this long video, Natasha! And as others have said, I love I good searching session!
Thanks for making it to the end, Valérie! And yes, it was a completely unintentional spooky story this time! Love that name for a palette too; Spooky Night. Hmmmmm... ;)
I love a good swatching session...and wow, no wonder you were hearing things because the house looks positively ancient! Around the 57 minute mark, during or just after the unexplained racket in the hall, I noticed that my heart rate had increased a little, lol. But imagine--all the deaths that must have happened there over the many years!--it is probably really a ghost. Are those your ancestral halls? So gorgeous, and so utterly haunted-looking. I don't know, maybe this video was in honor of Halloween? Anyway, thanks so much for the awesome content!
Hi Valerie! The odd sounds were genuine and totally unexpected while I was filming! We've had quite a few paranormal experiences in the house, which belongs to my fiancé's family. It was built between 1898-1901, so it's old but not super old like a lot of the buildings here in the UK!
Natasha you spoil us!
I try my best, ha ha!
I am from germany :D 😁😁👍
I love a good swatching session….with you, Natasha! I was watching while doing some other things, but I was watching and sometimes I’d miss something and then have to go back or look something up on the web. So many colors I want to make note of. And thanks so much for the quick outdoors view and a peek at your beautiful home! What a “treat!” (A bit of Halloween humor…just a bit.)
I'm so glad that you enjoy the swatching sessions, Nancy! I always hope they're useful to people. :)
Yes another good swatching session to love! 2 videos in a row. I love all the yellow olive greens at the moment.
Thanks for the relaxing time, Natasha.
In kindred spirit
Eliza
Dulwich Hill, Sydney Australia x
Thank you so much for watching, Eliza! I'm slightly obsessed with green at the moment. ;) x
Love!!! Thank you so much! I love a long swatching section/video!
I was on the fence about the shin Han gouache paints but now I’m going to try them. Also, I would like to recommend you the Molotow water brush, my favorite is the size 3mm but also like the flat one. They hold tons of water. I use distilled water so they don’t get cloudy.
Thank you again for a wonderful and entertaining video!
Thank you so much for the suggestion!
I'm late to the game but I love abgod swatching session! So happy to have come across your channel. Can't wait to watch more. Thank you for sharing the beautiful shots of your home and garden, it's just what I imagine when I think of an old English country home.
Thank you so much, Christine!
I love a good swatching session😀 Absolutely marvellous! Thank you Natasha ❤️
So glad you enjoyed it, Wendy!
Better late than never in discovering your channel and lovely videos. I do love a good swatching session, no matter the art medium. I must also thank you for your Luminance content, as it helped me make the decision to splurge for the set of 100. No regrets. They're simply wonderful. Hope this Halloween is as lovely for you, though perhaps less spooky!
Ooh, enjoy your Luminance pencils! They're always a joy to work with.
I love a good swatching session! I love seeing how the products you purchase look swatched. It really helps to decide if they would be a good addition to my plethora of art materials….. can’t really have too many of the right ones. 🥰 Thank you for sharing your valuable time, thoughts and new art materials. I appreciate you very much. Love, Fran
Aw, thank you Fran! And I appreciate you and your lovely comments too! x
Oh they look even better swatched. My shopping list is growing as I watch...lol Just love those muted pinks and blues also those Lyras and Matt Blacks....Don't worry about the noises we have a problem much the same and we are used to it. Just an overlay of energy from the past. We just have to double check window and doors when we go out lol...And yes I love a good swatching session and this was fabulous.
I'm so pleased that you've seen so many colours/materials you love in this one! And thanks for making it to the end, Penny! ;)
I love a good swatching session:-) What a great way to finish my day! Your video is captivating and did not feel long at all. I go for the superb liquitex blue and the Tri art sludge! And really I want to try the liquid ink too. Really great colours. Thank you for sharing and for the beautiful walk around yr gorgeous house.
Thanks, I'm so glad you enjoyed it Cristina!
I love me a good long swatching video! Thank you for the video, Usually love the Haul videos but skip on the swatching ones one they tend to be for the same supplies for which there are already 15 vids! However, your selection of supplies tends to be quite unique so I watch as long as they take. I find myself populating my wish list after every one of your videos… 🙄😬🥴
This is lovely to hear, thanks Maggie! :)
A little hint for the FW inks -- you can buy stainless nail polish agitator balls from Amazon, and if you drop three or four in your inks, it makes shaking them up when they settle SO much easier. Gets all that thick pigment off the bottom like a charm. (Just make sure they're the *stainless steel* ones, and not the regular ones, or they'll rust and ruin your inks. Learned that one the hard way. :D). I think they run around $5USD for a couple hundred of them, so they're not expensive at all, either. Hope that helps!
Thanks so much for the tip, Elizabeth! That sounds like a good idea.
Definitly love a long swatching session video!!,but it's lovely to hear your reasons for choosing colours and how you'll use them in your work,and it's like going a voyage of creative discovery along side you. You say you want to get a waterbrush to take on outdoor trips. I have tried several and learned not all water brushes are created equal! some release too much water,others you really have to squeeze hard,which can be taxing n your fingers,others leak as you use them,but one I have come to love is by Caran d ache,it's their aquaflow waterbrush,it dosen't leak,is nice to hold is weighted really well,but what I really like on the barrel on two sides are buttons and you use these to get the water out into the brush tip, it gives you more control,and is not taxing on the finger tips,it's now the one I use the most,they come in several tip sizes,and you can get them in sets or singular,reasonably priced,definiltly reccommend trying this as part of your travel art kit.
I'm glad you love the Shinhan paints,the pigmentatation is really rich and I love the hybrid paints,they are so versatile and layer really well and are perfect for mixed meia pieces. I have ordered a set of the pitt matt graphite pencils,as I don't like the shine of graphite either. The garden is really looking lovely as the leaves turn,do you think you would ever create a piece of art based on your garden?. and lovely to see the whole house too,an amazing building. I like the ethos of the Try/sludge paint,being made from recycled waste pigments,so am going to try these asbwell,that dark teal is lovely a very Natasha colour!!!. Lyra do make really good quality materials I love their aquacolour crayons. Maybe try the kremer grey water colour set you have with the lyra grey pencil set,I think they would be a good combination.Something else you may like,are viva color watercolour sheets, I discovred these last year as part of an inktober bundle, and love them,they are a great travel kit supply and the colours are so rich,they do sets and refills too. But have to say I recently got their mettalics set and oh my!!! so stunning jewel like colours some of which have colourshift properties, they are some of the most stunning metallic waterccolours I have used,they layer over other colours and on blackpaper are astounding. But their regular colours are also really amazing and they smell amazing too. I think the reason we love your videos so much is because they feel like we are in the studio with you, looking over your shoulder and that is really lovely,it's like engaging with a favourite artist friend espcially in videos like this one.
P.s I jus completed "Inktober" and loved it and will start "Huevember" next!! Hope you and Dominic are both doing okay. have a good week both of you.
Thanks for making it to the end, Matt! ;) And thanks so much for the water brush recommendation, I'm definitely going to see if I can get this on Jackson's or elsewhere. That's really helpful! I'm in love with the Tri Art dark teal sludge - what a colour! Great idea to combine the Kremer Greys palette with the Lyra pencil set too. Good luck for Huevember - I hope you find it really inspiring to do! :)
I love a good swatching session!! I am from Germany and I love your different materials. I am new in mixed media and your opinion is so helpful! Thank you!
Thank you for making it to the end, Viola! I'm so glad that you found it helpful. :)
I love a good swatching session, but my purse doesn't 😅 I am slowly becoming swatch addict 😅 thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into these videos 🙌🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for making it to the end, Tanya! ;) There's something so calming about swatching, and it really helps me to get to know the colours and materials better.
Thank you for another great session...my bank balance always seems to diminish somewhat after watching your videos...lol....did hear a knock noise as you were demoing the bright green
You're welcome, Gail, and sorry about your bank balance! ;) There were so many knocks and noises while I was swatching, but I carried on regardless, ha ha!
wow i just discovered you and i am basically binge-watching all your videos... I love your works and colors, they are so dreamy...
Thank you so much, Sofia! I'm glad you're enjoying them. :)
I love a good swatching session Natasha☺️😂. Interesting. Thank you👍🏻
Thanks for making it to the end, Fiona! ;)
For some reason pablos hurted my hands alot..
I love a good swatching session :) I have to admit though that I watched in chunks over two days. Much fun to see art supplies that I haven't considered using or didn't know existed. Have ordered the Faber Castell matte graphite!
I'm loving the matt graphite, so I hope you like them too!
I love a good swatching session
I saved this one for a bad day. I've had multiples. So I watched this over the weeks loll. Thank you for your work
I hope that you have better days ahead! 🖤
Patty-I love a long swatching session.
I would love to see the tan sludge mixed with the potter pink acrylic I don’t know why I feel like it be a beautiful color! Also does the matte graphite pencil erase well?!?
Thanks for sharing! Love watching you swatch!
I'll have to do an update on the matt pencils after I've used them properly! I haven't had a chance yet - lots of painting over the past week or so but no drawing!
I love a good swatching session and I am also german…
I love a good swatching session! I know I’m seeing this late but, better late than never, right? I really enjoyed the variety of your new supplies and think I may be trying a few of them myself.
Thanks for watching, Mary!
I love a good squatch session ;) i loved the accidental way you said swatch earlier. (imagine a sasquatch swatching colours in your garden :D lol) thoroughly enjoyed this video! take care!
Ha ha! x
Thank you for your lovely company on Halloween 🎃👻 I love a good swatching session🧡 The Pablo pencils in Garnet rose and ash grey look so dreamy. I guess you can’t expect ghosts to behave near Halloween but I’m glad you share the house with your family, I’m sure hearing those noises on your own would be a lot more scary, hopefully they’re all friendly art lovers
Thanks for making it to the end! ;) Ha ha, I think the ghosts were all excited about Halloween - I would be terrified sometimes if I lived here on my own, but with other people around it's not so bad. And to a certain extent you do get used to it. I've had so many strange experiences here!
I love a good swatching session...thanks
What a treat!!! I looked at the swatching in 2 parts just to enjoy it fully! I really loved this video, I really do Love a good swatching 😍
So glad you enjoyed it, Katja!
I love a good swatching session. That was pretty epic but a fab haul. Definitely interested in your inks.
Thank you for making it to the end, Joanna! ;)
I love a good searching sessiom!! I’m very curious about your families house too! Please let us know about the strange happenings! I could listen to you all day xx
Thanks for making it to the end, Jo! And thanks for such a lovely comment. :) The house is owned by my fiancé's family, and he's hoping to start a channel at some point about the house and the renovations etc. He's been filming bits here and there for months - I can't wait for him to launch his channel! xx
I love a good swatching session! It was great to watch along with American Sunday night football. Thanks!
Thanks for making it to the end, Laurel! ;) For some reason the thought of my video combined with American Sunday Night Football is amusing me greatly. 😁
This was very relaxing. I would love to spend a few nights in your house! Sounds like an amazing old Victorian with possibly a few “visitors”! (Added: you’re house is absolutely gorgeous! I love a good swatching session!)
Thanks SueEllen!
I love a good swatching session. So many inspiering colours. Thank you😊❤️
Thanks for making it to the end, Lis! ;)
I love a good swatching session! The sludge really intrigues me, I'd love to see how broad the colour variance is between the batches. I'm very interested in those acrylic inks, too.
I only have one lightfast pencil that I got as a free sample. It's in violet, not a colour I tend to use, so other than swatching it I haven't really used it. Your growing collection of yummy green colours is making me want to try some more from the range, though.
I'm already a big fan of Derwent's inktense range, which also features some lovely greens, and I recently got their inktense paints, which act like higly pigmented watercolour, but can also be layered without washing out previous layers (similar to the pass paint, but in pans). I love them, especially the shade Dark Plum, which is my current skeletal tree shade of choice.
The Inktense paints sound really lovely! I'm very impressed with the Lightfast pencils, and they do have some stunning greens. :)
Yes, I love a good swatching session!!!