Thank you for showing your early sketchbooks! Painting such flowers with one of your older videos was actually one of the first times I followed along with any painting RUclips video. Now I did them in my sketchbook and dug out the old ones for comparison too. So interesting to see how different these are. Thank you Shana for the inspiration! And the beautiful flowers 🌺!
As others said, Thank you so much for showing your firsts. Sometimes I get discouraged and you give me hope. I know I need to loosen up so the flowers are so beneficial. New fab
Hi Shana, this is exactly what I’m working on and you did a great job breaking down each flower for me. I so appreciate this. I can’t wait to try them today!
Thank you so much for sharing your earlier journals. I love this series! Another suggestion…. With Valentine’s Day coming up, a box of chocolates would be nice.
Thank you for talking about journaling. I stall because I am so afraid of messing up. I love your flowers and am excited to get started following your channel on journaling.
These are great! Will be trying them in my little watercolor spiral bound pad that I got from HL. Someday maybe I will spring for a for real, bona fide sketchbook.....maybe next week with my b-day gift card. Thanks much for sharing all your tips and tricks and how it was for you starting out.
I am going to find my water colour pad and paints and sit with you when the house has gone to sleep so grateful that you give your energy and time to these videos 💜🧡❤🖌
I really appreciate you sharing your first water color journals! It did my heart good. Practice makes confidence grow… ❤. Thank you for this lesson! Beautiful!
Inspiration! I'm going to try the flowers next. I've been practicing leaves and tree branches. As i said in another post, I'm a beginner to watercolor painting. I started my journal with painting blades of grass lol....so afraid of messing up my beautiful journal. Thank you for being here. Creativity adds to the quality of ones life. 😊❤
Very interesting video. As a newbie, I find myself wanting extreme closeups to see how the granulation behaved, how the colour moved when you added darker denser pigment at the base of the rosebuds. Find your connection of technique and outcome very helpful!
I appreciate your advice on not being afraid of starting a journal. I have this issue at times for the exact reason you talked about. I have to remember that a journal is for my eyes only! 😊
So happy I found you. I love the little flowers you have painted. You made it look so easy. I just started a journal to do this very thing along with a few birds, hopefully. Thank you so much.
I have a new Paul Rubens Hot Press pad. Have never painted on Hot Press. Do you have any tips for painting these flowers on this paper? Is there a difference?
Lovely video ❤ Shana, could you please write the names of the flowers? I've got a problem identifying them, and I'm not sure if I've seen them all myself
@@shanacirce2667 thanks, are rosebuds rose buds or a different species? Sorry for the silly questions, I think you live in the US so far away from me and you've got different flora around you :) You tempt me to try painting my local flowers when the spring comes.
Thank you so much for putting this wonderful way to learn to do watercolor painting. I realize I have a lot to learn and need lots of confidence in myself to do this well. Thank you for the lesson.
5 min in and already liking this video because your being brave and sharing your art journals that are not perfects. Thank you. Keeping it real . I moved on to etchr the small journal just stress me out. Beautiful roses. I also find if i make one page to swatch colors or to test brushes it helps me ease into a journal
As always great job. I love how you made the rose buds. So many of us, including me, try to over think them and then end up over painting them. Thanks so much for the lesson.
Thanks for sharing your journals with us, and thanks for the advice on being afraid to mess up your journal. Will you be doing anything for Valentine's cards? 😊
Not a silly question at all. I don’t find it necessary. As long as you are using a watercolor journal with 90lb weight paper or heavier, the paper should hold up and no water should leak through.
Shana, This was the perfect video for me today and your reminders about ‘the journey ‘ have been very helpful. I have been researching different brands of water colour journals and although I do have several different pads of 100% cotton water colour paper, I still would like to begin an actual journal . I would welcome viewers comments of favourite journals that you all have enjoyed using for water colour 😊 🤩💕
@@shanacirce2667 I have been thinking about stapling together some of the papers that I enjoy using instead of buying an actual journal book. There are some good sales on at the moment here in the U.K. on quite a few of the top quality paper brands….like Saunders Waterford and Arches, etc. ( actually have not yet used Arches ), and especially if you get the larger sized sheets and then cut them down…it really does work out very reasonable. Shana…..was there some sort of auto typing gremlin in your reply ? 🤭🤪 because I am not sure what you meant ? 🤪🤗🤗🧐🧐🧐💕💕💕
Regarding messing up your Journal “years ago, when I was teaching my children, we would all get our journals and our art supplies whether we were going to be doing charcoal, pencil or charcoal, colored or watercolor. For the day, we had our own bag of goodies and we would go on, a art excursion/picnic. It was my middle child who said to me but I don’t want a mistake and I didn’t remember to bring any eraser. And I said you will never need an eraser because as an artist, there are no mistakes… Everything you do is a learning process And you cannot tear out any pages either. Sometimes we get frustrated and sometimes things don’t turn out the way we got wood, but we can always go back and look at that page and see what we would do to change our drawing. I said, artist tend to be the worst critic, and I want this to be a fun project, but also a learning project to this day their art journals are one of my precious items in my home❣️❣️❣️
That was such a helpful lesson. I have been trying to get back to painting again and it’s been hard to know where to start thank you for the encouraging words
Wish I had seen this a couple days sooner as I cut a page out of sketchbook. Painting turned out horrible and hated for anyone to see it. I did learn a lot from it so all was not lost.
Love how delicate these flowers turned out. Thank you for sharing your older journals. I am also in the afraid to paint in a journal club. 😊. Bought one a year ago and haven’t used it yet. You’ve given me the inspiration to use it without fear. ☺️
Thank you for sharing it’s very helpful.
I *cannot* express this enough ~ THANK YOU.
Thank YOU for watching. 😁
Thank you that is so encouraging. I suggest that you date your journal entries so you have a reference. I love practicing in my journal
I do date my journals now. I just date the whole book with months. Like April 2024 - June 2024. Rather than the pages. Thanks for watching! 😊
Isn’t it funny that UK and America call flowers different names Fantastic teaching I have learnt so much, especially proud of my coffee cup xx ❤
So happy for you loving your coffee cup! I love when y’all feel successful. 😁 I love finding all the little differences between UK and American vocab.
Thank you for showing your early sketchbooks! Painting such flowers with one of your older videos was actually one of the first times I followed along with any painting RUclips video. Now I did them in my sketchbook and dug out the old ones for comparison too. So interesting to see how different these are. Thank you Shana for the inspiration! And the beautiful flowers 🌺!
Thank you for following along. I’m so glad you are making progress and feeling successful.
As others said, Thank you so much for showing your firsts. Sometimes I get discouraged and you give me hope. I know I need to loosen up so the flowers are so beneficial. New fab
Hi Shana, this is exactly what I’m working on and you did a great job breaking down each flower for me. I so appreciate this. I can’t wait to try them today!
Yay! So glad it will be helpful, Nicole. Thank you for watching.
Thank you so much for sharing your earlier journals. I love this series! Another suggestion…. With Valentine’s Day coming up, a box of chocolates would be nice.
Great suggestion. I am going to do a Valentine theme something soon.
@@shanacirce2667❤
Thank you for talking about journaling. I stall because I am so afraid of messing up. I love your flowers and am excited to get started following your channel on journaling.
Can’t wait for you to get started Mary Ann! Happy painting!
These are great! Will be trying them in my little watercolor spiral bound pad that I got from HL. Someday maybe I will spring for a for real, bona fide sketchbook.....maybe next week with my b-day gift card. Thanks much for sharing all your tips and tricks and how it was for you starting out.
Yay for birthday gift cards! Happy Birthday. 🎈 thank you so much for watching.
@@shanacirce2667 Thank you!
I am going to find my water colour pad and paints and sit with you when the house has gone to sleep so grateful that you give your energy and time to these videos 💜🧡❤🖌
Thank you for sharing your early journals. I write dates on everything in my sketch book and sometimes write down what I used and the inspiration.
Great idea!!!
Brilliant ….. going to practise these …absolutely delightful . Love your videos !🙏
Thank you. 😊
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! I do agree on the Canson. I use the same
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Thank you for your great, inspiration videos. I just purchased my first journal ❤
I really appreciate you sharing your first water color journals! It did my heart
good. Practice makes confidence grow… ❤. Thank you for this lesson! Beautiful!
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Inspiration! I'm going to try the flowers next. I've been practicing leaves and tree branches. As i said in another post, I'm a beginner to watercolor painting. I started my journal with painting blades of grass lol....so afraid of messing up my beautiful journal. Thank you for being here. Creativity adds to the quality of ones life. 😊❤
Be brave Roseanne! Every brush stroke is an opportunity to learn something new. 😁
So love your tutorials! Thank you.
😊 thank you for watching.
Thanks for revealing your earlier journals. They're good reminders to be patient with the process, and very encouraging to beginners like me!
Very interesting video. As a newbie, I find myself wanting extreme closeups to see how the granulation behaved, how the colour moved when you added darker denser pigment at the base of the rosebuds. Find your connection of technique and outcome very helpful!
I’m so glad you find it helpful. Thank you for watching!
I am gathering my supplies and can’t Waite to start! I just retired and saw your video and thought that this is something I might love! Thank you.
تعجبيني الوان الازهار التي ترسمين ❤
Thank you. 🙏
I appreciate your advice on not being afraid of starting a journal. I have this issue at times for the exact reason you talked about. I have to remember that a journal is for my eyes only! 😊
Be brave and paint! It’s all a journey. Thanks for watching.
Loved this, Shana ❤️ I really learned a lot today. It was super-fun looking through your previous sketchbooks with you. Thank you SO much, as ever 🤗💕💫
So happy I found you. I love the little flowers you have painted. You made it look so easy. I just started a journal to do this very thing along with a few birds, hopefully. Thank you so much.
Those flowers are nice to practice painting. Like your work very much.
Very helpful and easy to learn. Thank you for taking the time to show us how to paint but also where you came from.
My pleasure. Really hard to do, but it’s important. Thank you for watching!
This has been super helpful. I have my journal open and am ready to go back and start from the beginning!
Thank you for sharing your older journals - it was encouraging as I look at my own and see some improvement.
Thank you for watching. Sometimes it can be so fun looking back at where you started and how far you have come.
Pretty! I’m a beginner, how’d u learn to paint so well? All tips are appreciated! ❤️
Lots of practice!
Thank you, I really appreciate your teaching style.
Thank you for watching! I’m so glad it works for you. 😁🎨
I have a new Paul Rubens Hot Press pad. Have never painted on Hot Press. Do you have any tips for painting these flowers on this paper? Is there a difference?
I don’t often paint on hot press. It’s probably been over a year. I think you need a bit less water.
Thank you for showing your beginning stages. I find it to be hopeful for me.
It just takes time and a little bit of patience. Finding ways to love the journey. 😊😊😊
When you’re making leaves and flowers is there a trick to not getting that solid water pigment at the very end when you lift up?
Use less water, tap the paper towel
Love this!!!! ❤❤ I'll be trying some flowers like this soon
Me encanta como pintas y aprendo mucho contigo gracias.
You're an artist... design cool covers for your older journals!!! 😎 ❤
Thank u for sharing your coloring skills to us❤❤❤
Shana, this tutorial was very interesting and fun! Thank you. Helene
Lovely video ❤
Shana, could you please write the names of the flowers? I've got a problem identifying them, and I'm not sure if I've seen them all myself
I did rosebuds, lavender, thistle, a coneflower, and the other petal one doesn’t really have a name. I hope that helps.
@@shanacirce2667 thanks, are rosebuds rose buds or a different species? Sorry for the silly questions, I think you live in the US so far away from me and you've got different flora around you :) You tempt me to try painting my local flowers when the spring comes.
Thank you so much for putting this wonderful way to learn to do watercolor painting. I realize I have a lot to learn and need lots of confidence in myself to do this well. Thank you for the lesson.
Just take it one day at a time. Thanks for watching! ❤️
Thank you for this wonderfully informative video! ❤ So many tips and tricks..just what us beginners need to know! Best art teacher ever 😊
5 min in and already liking this video because your being brave and sharing your art journals that are not perfects. Thank you. Keeping it real . I moved on to etchr the small journal just stress me out. Beautiful roses. I also find if i make one page to swatch colors or to test brushes it helps me ease into a journal
Can’t wait to try these. Thank you
Love these flowers. Thank you for more beginner watercolor painting. I’m waiting for my new Qor paints to come in so I can follow along much easier. 🌸
Thanks for watching. I hope you love your QOR paints as much as I do. ❤️
Just love how you explain! Gonna try it! Thank you 😊
Thank you! 😁
As always great job. I love how you made the rose buds. So many of us, including me, try to over think them and then end up over painting them. Thanks so much for the lesson.
My pleasure, Sandra! Thank you for watching.
Thanks for sharing your journals with us, and thanks for the advice on being afraid to mess up your journal. Will you be doing anything for Valentine's cards? 😊
Yes, I’ll have at least one day soon for something Valentine themed.
@shanacirce2667 thank you
I struggled a little to see as it is a bit to far away. Enjoyable though thank you
Yes, we all need to trust the process. Thanks for showing all your journals.so encouraging to see.
I tell my self to trust the process every day.
When you start a journal do you put a barrier behind the page your working on so the next page isn’t ruined by water??? Silly question but I’m new.
Not a silly question at all. I don’t find it necessary. As long as you are using a watercolor journal with 90lb weight paper or heavier, the paper should hold up and no water should leak through.
@@shanacirce2667 great thank you that helps me a lot. Yes I think the paper is 140.
Love these.
Really enjoying these videos ❤
Thank you for watching. So glad you are enjoying them.
I see you Zox. I have my own collection, Fun. Live journaling with you.
My sister in-law just gave a bunch to my son and I snagged one. They are so fun! Thanks for watching!
Shana, This was the perfect video for me today and your reminders about ‘the journey ‘ have been very helpful.
I have been researching different brands of water colour journals and although I do have several different pads of 100% cotton water colour paper, I still would like to begin an actual journal .
I would welcome viewers comments of favourite journals that you all have enjoyed using for water colour 😊
🤩💕
Thanks for watching. You just owe me my favorite. I would live to hear from others about their favorites too. 😁
@@shanacirce2667
I have been thinking about stapling together some of the papers that I enjoy using instead of buying an actual journal book.
There are some good sales on at the moment here in the U.K. on quite a few of the top quality paper brands….like Saunders Waterford and Arches, etc. ( actually have not yet used Arches ), and especially if you get the larger sized sheets and then cut them down…it really does work out very reasonable.
Shana…..was there some sort of auto typing gremlin in your reply ? 🤭🤪 because I am not sure what you meant ? 🤪🤗🤗🧐🧐🧐💕💕💕
@@sheilacym haha. Yup, auto correct got me. It should say “ you know my favorite. Baohong. I would love to hear from others about their favorites too”
Thanks for this video, it's great to see that as an artist, we all start in the same place. I also date my pages when painted and make notes.❤❤❤❤
Me too. And I swatch. Otherwise I can't remember what I've used is I want to look back for a color.
Regarding messing up your Journal “years ago, when I was teaching my children, we would all get our journals and our art supplies whether we were going to be doing charcoal, pencil or charcoal, colored or watercolor. For the day, we had our own bag of goodies and we would go on, a art excursion/picnic. It was my middle child who said to me but I don’t want a mistake and I didn’t remember to bring any eraser. And I said you will never need an eraser because as an artist, there are no mistakes… Everything you do is a learning process And you cannot tear out any pages either. Sometimes we get frustrated and sometimes things don’t turn out the way we got wood, but we can always go back and look at that page and see what we would do to change our drawing. I said, artist tend to be the worst critic, and I want this to be a fun project, but also a learning project to this day their art journals are one of my precious items in my home❣️❣️❣️
I love this! ❤️
How do you create a pleasing composition using these simple flowers? Thank you.
I’ll do a video in the next few days on this. Great question. Thanks for watching. 😁
I have learned so much from watching you're amazing tutorial videos and cannot wait to start this fantastic journal. Thank you so much😊
I really enjoyed learning how to do the whitish flower. It filled in a space in my watercolor learning. Thank you so much❤!
I will use this idea in my “ first” journal. Thanks for the demonstration. 28:49
Very helpful!
That was such a helpful lesson. I have been trying to get back to painting again and it’s been hard to know where to start thank you for the encouraging words
Wish I had seen this a couple days sooner as I cut a page out of sketchbook. Painting turned out horrible and hated for anyone to see it. I did learn a lot from it so all was not lost.
You are the greatest teacher….do you paint birds too???
Thank you so much. I have painted birds as well. Maybe I will add a few more in the upcoming videos.
Thank you for the clear instructions!
Is there a way to post my work for you to view?
You can post on instagram and tag me or there is a Facebook group called Umbrella arts Academy watercolor where you can post.
Meant to add…how is gouache on hot press?
I don’t think I have ever used gouache on hot press. I’m sure it probably works great. 🤷♀️ you’ll have to let us know. 😁
These are so pretty Shana! Thank you! ❤
Thank you for being vulnerable. It truly does give us hope that practice will help us to advance as well.
Thank you for watching!
You are one of my most inspirational guides in watercolor. Thanks!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoy the channel. Thank you for being here. 😊
Now that was fun! Love all the paintings. I’m learning so much.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it Linda!
wonderful
Love how delicate these flowers turned out. Thank you for sharing your older journals. I am also in the afraid to paint in a journal club. 😊. Bought one a year ago and haven’t used it yet. You’ve given me the inspiration to use it without fear. ☺️
That’s wonderful, Jessica! Be brave and go paint!