As an Earth Science teacher, I love the fact that you pulled out the reference book! My favorite unit to teach is rocks and minerals. I also named my daughter, Opal, partly after my favorite gemstone! 🥰
If you have a local art supply store, they may have individual pencils that you can purchase for probably less than $2.00 each. I have built much larger sets by doing this and you will be surprised how large a set you will have in no time. Good luck!
My only local store is Walmart. Nearest art stores are some distance away. Hobby Lobby is 70 miles in Sierra Vista. Michael's and JoAnn's is 110 miles in Tucson and Jerry's and Blicks are 180 miles away in Phoenix area.
Just a heads up Amazon has had a crazy price flux going on with the prismacolor 150 set this weekend it has gone down to $67 and as of right now you can get it for $71 so if you are trying to get the set and were waiting for a good deal I'd watch it right now and jump on the sale!
Jennifer, I don’t do much “just coloring” anymore, but I really enjoy watching you. You have such a nice voice to hear and I just love to watch videos like yours about artistic endeavors, all kinds, and I still plan to use my color pencils for my art again too, Right now, I’m working to build my fine art skills mostly in oils and watercolors. But what got me back into my art mojo, that I neglected for so long, was COLORING. If more people could realize how helpful building their coloring skills are...how it helps you to learn about color choice, shading, highlighting, mixing colors, recognizing patterns and just becoming more secure about the beauty that we can all create. And you and Steve truly help so many people do this. Thanks for all you do!
Opal is one of my favorite gemstones, and just so happens to be my birthstone. The black variety is breathtakingly beautiful and exceedingly rare, and would make the perfect subject for coloring on black-toned paper.
Found your channel about 6 weeks ago, and so happy that I have, I Colour with my little Apricot toy poodle April sitting on her little bed on my work surface too 🐩🐩🌹❤️🌺🌹
I love opal and Sapphire is my gemstone, so I was super happy you showed both. The blue gem with the star in the middle is a star sapphire! I actually have a star sapphire ring that I am absolutely OBSESSED with. I freaking love that thing so much. I have these dainty child sized hands (generally... like when they're not swollen to their limit from my lifelong battle with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis) so I always preferred small rings. They stopped making star sapphire rings in "women's" sizes over a century ago because it was too difficult to make them into stones that size. So what I have, that has been passed down through 4 generations, is apparently now super rare. It is probably my most prized material posession.
One thing that would help with choosing intensity of colors, is to use a black and white filter on your cell phone’s camera. Go with light medium and dark there, as well as with the actual colors.
Jennifer I just discovered something new. The Rich and Ray reusable silicone twist ties with magnets, sold on Amazon. It’s a silicone “string” with magnet flowers on each end. I put 2 strings , 1 vertical and 1 horizontal,across my metal pencil tins to keep them from coming apart and dumping all over when I travel. They seem to be really strong and helpful!
As usual I've so enjoyed your video. Thanks so much for sharing. I opened a RUclips channel myself awhile ago and I know just how much work goes into making a video, I so admire what you and Steve do and think you're both really great. Love your videos. Thank you.
I followed along and first time doing Gems and totally surprised myself .. I’ve watched many many tutorials on coloring and such but I’ve fount myself coming back to yours every time !! I love how you break everything down so it’s so easy to understand ! I’m kind of still a beginner color’r lol so I want to Thank you!!! Love watching.. well.. everything you do in your videos!!
I think the SF pencil gems looked great on the black. They kinda looked more realistic because they were slightly duller. It’s like real gems would have some transparency if they were sitting on the paper and the black would show through making them more muted in colour.
Anyone needing tips to train yourself to use super light pressure, take up calligraphy! I've been a heavy handed artist my entire 37 years of life and only in the last three years or so, since beginning to learn calligraphy, have I actually been able to truly use super light pressure. Now for colouring I've been able to have light pressure for decades, but it was always super difficult to get into that mindset. Since learning calligraphy, however, I have been able to even draw lighthandedly, which is something I was never able to get myself to do in the past! If you take this advice, and can afford it, I suggest beginning to learn calligraphy with the Tombow Fudenoske pen. It's a flex nib pen and you can get them in packs of 2 generally: silver (super stiff) and gold (a little more flexable). The silver banded pen is amazing for heavy handed people because you have to use a lot of pressure to get those thicker lines. After getting a hang of it, graduating to the gold feels like an accomplishment. When I graduated to the gold pen, I realized was when I was confident in being able to switch between heavy handed and light handed strokes effortlessly. I don't work for Tombow or anything, I just like helping people out and because heavyhandedness broached, I figured I'd suggest a permenant solution to help with it, should anyone need to hear it. Anyway, have a great day, week, month, year, rest of your life everyone ❤
I missed this video when you first posted it, but I wanted to say that I just got your new Mandala Bliss with the black paper, and I absolutely love it! I've wanted to try a black paper coloring book for a long time, but never could find one. There are a lot of coloring books that have a black background, but the part you color is actually white, so I was thrilled when you announced that your latest coloring book had the option of being printed in black. I appreciate the simpler mandala designs in this book because I can spend a couple of hours instead of days to achieve some beautiful colors and blends. Thank you also for the jewel tips. They were really helpful and easy to follow.
Love this video! I absolutely love gemstones. A few days ago, I received my Mandala Vol. 5 books. One on mixed media and one on black. I couldn't decide which one to order so of course I ordered both. Can't wait to color these in both books. Thanks for this video!
Hi there! Thanks for spending so much time and attention on this coloring crazy we all love :) I was just wondering if you have the Cezanne set and have compared them to the Scrpirerr Farbens? I have heard they're the same, and according to other videos I've seen that show lightfast testing, the SPs have better lightfastness than most budget colored pencils. Since the Cezanne set has 120 vs the SP's 96, I was debating which to choose. I believe the Cezanne set has more grays and metallics, which I'm not interested in - I don't use metallics, and Prismacolor has plenty of grays. Unless the SPs or Cezannes' have blue-grays, which are much more rare, for some reason. It would help tremendously if you have swatches of both you could show side-by-side. I've seen videos of each, but not by the same person, and due to differences in lighting at each person's home, I can't really compare them. Thanks again for all you do for us, and happy holidays :)
Wow . Now I know why we don't see Steve on camera . He's really handsome. Come on give us more than one second. PS you're very pretty too . I can see you you guys are madly in love . I like the reviews you both do.
When it comes to picking lights, mediums, and darks I use a value finder made for quilting. It's just a cardboard frame with a piece of red plastic. The colors don't show through, but you can see value much more easily. You can find them cheap at a fabric or crafting store.
I’ve read that there is a an opal mine in Utah where they give tours and let you mine. Sounds so fun! But I’m sure it’s in the middle of no where. There’s also a place in Idaho where you can hunt for diamonds. Hope you have fun on your mining adventure.
I only have the 72 set of SF because Amazon didn't have the 96 set at the time I bought them. They are also Chinese, but with a German sounding name. I have a LOT Of different brands of colored pencils, because of course I do. 😂 😂
Voy siguiendo tus tutoriales...maravillosa forma de enseñar...por favor quisiera aprender a dibujar oro y gemas talladas...seria genial que puedas hacer un video de gemas 💎 talladas Mil gracias
Hi, love doing the gems, i try to put one in everything lately. Question: what are Xpaofey, i thought you were the best one to ask. , my neighbour was talking about them being an acrylic pen or pencil. I looked on Amazon and they are there. I use all the other pencils and pens, i like to experiment.
Just a heads up Amazon has had a crazy price flux going on with the prismacolor 150 set this weekend it has gone down to $67 and as of right now you can get it for $71 so if you are trying to get the set and were waiting for a good deal I'd watch it right now and jump on the sale!
You have the most beautiful hands. I'm obsessed with esthetics and your hands are so amazing. I can watch them for hours. I have a really pretty face, but my hands suck. They are small sizewize not don't look feminine I love everything feminine
I guess, there is no "right pronunciation" of Schpirrer, since it is not a real German word. It seems to be a made up, look-like-German word like Häagen-Dazs. And just like Häagen-Dazs they use letter combinations unknown in German. I have never come across a word where a "p" follows a a "sch", not even in a name. For the suggested pronunciation of "sh-p" you would only need an "sp", "Farben" though is a real word and means both colours or paints, and your husband pretty much nailed the pronunciation "fuh-bann".
3 years later and these pencils have fallen out of favor within the community. I'm glad for that because I think it's shady when cheap Chinese pencils try to look like something they are not. These would be easy to mistake for an actual German colored pencil.
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Bless Steve, his hard work behind the scenes.
As an Earth Science teacher, I love the fact that you pulled out the reference book! My favorite unit to teach is rocks and minerals. I also named my daughter, Opal, partly after my favorite gemstone! 🥰
Opal??? The Americans are really crazy...
This are vey fun to colouring gems! Super tutoriel congratulations, Jennifer!
I only have 12 prismacolors but my Walmart now has a 24 ct set. On payday tomorrow I am going to pick it up.
If you have a local art supply store, they may have individual pencils that you can purchase for probably less than $2.00 each. I have built much larger sets by doing this and you will be surprised how large a set you will have in no time. Good luck!
My only local store is Walmart. Nearest art stores are some distance away. Hobby Lobby is 70 miles in Sierra Vista. Michael's and JoAnn's is 110 miles in Tucson and Jerry's and Blicks are 180 miles away in Phoenix area.
I got and swatched my 24 set of Prismas. Getting ready to color with them.
Just a heads up Amazon has had a crazy price flux going on with the prismacolor 150 set this weekend it has gone down to $67 and as of right now you can get it for $71 so if you are trying to get the set and were waiting for a good deal I'd watch it right now and jump on the sale!
Thank you Jennifer .this was a very interesting tutorial .thank you for sharing
Jennifer, I don’t do much “just coloring” anymore, but I really enjoy watching you. You have such a nice voice to hear and I just love to watch videos like yours about artistic endeavors, all kinds, and I still plan to use my color pencils for my art again too, Right now, I’m working to build my fine art skills mostly in oils and watercolors. But what got me back into my art mojo, that I neglected for so long, was COLORING. If more people could realize how helpful building their coloring skills are...how it helps you to learn about color choice, shading, highlighting, mixing colors, recognizing patterns and just becoming more secure about the beauty that we can all create. And you and Steve truly help so many people do this. Thanks for all you do!
Love you lots and Steve God Bless Always 🙏😊😇😇💗💗
Your nails look fabulous!!! (Also your technique is great, thank you for the tips!)
Opal is one of my favorite gemstones, and just so happens to be my birthstone. The black variety is breathtakingly beautiful and exceedingly rare, and would make the perfect subject for coloring on black-toned paper.
Found your channel about 6 weeks ago, and so happy that I have, I Colour with my little Apricot toy poodle April sitting on her little bed on my work surface too 🐩🐩🌹❤️🌺🌹
Love your gems and your nail polish!
I love opal and Sapphire is my gemstone, so I was super happy you showed both. The blue gem with the star in the middle is a star sapphire! I actually have a star sapphire ring that I am absolutely OBSESSED with. I freaking love that thing so much. I have these dainty child sized hands (generally... like when they're not swollen to their limit from my lifelong battle with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis) so I always preferred small rings. They stopped making star sapphire rings in "women's" sizes over a century ago because it was too difficult to make them into stones that size. So what I have, that has been passed down through 4 generations, is apparently now super rare. It is probably my most prized material posession.
Omg this was so simple. I appreciate this video!
Love how those hems turn out! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
One thing that would help with choosing intensity of colors, is to use a black and white filter on your cell phone’s camera. Go with light medium and dark there, as well as with the actual colors.
Jennifer I just discovered something new. The Rich and Ray reusable silicone twist ties with magnets, sold on Amazon. It’s a silicone “string” with magnet flowers on each end. I put 2 strings , 1 vertical and 1 horizontal,across my metal pencil tins to keep them from coming apart and dumping all over when I travel. They seem to be really strong and helpful!
As usual I've so enjoyed your video. Thanks so much for sharing. I opened a RUclips channel myself awhile ago and I know just how much work goes into making a video, I so admire what you and Steve do and think you're both really great. Love your videos. Thank you.
Great video Jennifer. I love that there’s no end of possibilities 😍. Thanks for sharing this
Oh so exciting! BTW, that color shirt is beautiful on you.
New subscriber and I’m loving your gemstone 💎!! They truly pop on the page with a 3D effect.
I followed along and first time doing Gems and totally surprised myself .. I’ve watched many many tutorials on coloring and such but I’ve fount myself coming back to yours every time !! I love how you break everything down so it’s so easy to understand ! I’m kind of still a beginner color’r lol so I want to Thank you!!! Love watching.. well.. everything you do in your videos!!
I think the SF pencil gems looked great on the black. They kinda looked more realistic because they were slightly duller. It’s like real gems would have some transparency if they were sitting on the paper and the black would show through making them more muted in colour.
Anyone needing tips to train yourself to use super light pressure, take up calligraphy! I've been a heavy handed artist my entire 37 years of life and only in the last three years or so, since beginning to learn calligraphy, have I actually been able to truly use super light pressure. Now for colouring I've been able to have light pressure for decades, but it was always super difficult to get into that mindset. Since learning calligraphy, however, I have been able to even draw lighthandedly, which is something I was never able to get myself to do in the past! If you take this advice, and can afford it, I suggest beginning to learn calligraphy with the Tombow Fudenoske pen. It's a flex nib pen and you can get them in packs of 2 generally: silver (super stiff) and gold (a little more flexable). The silver banded pen is amazing for heavy handed people because you have to use a lot of pressure to get those thicker lines. After getting a hang of it, graduating to the gold feels like an accomplishment. When I graduated to the gold pen, I realized was when I was confident in being able to switch between heavy handed and light handed strokes effortlessly.
I don't work for Tombow or anything, I just like helping people out and because heavyhandedness broached, I figured I'd suggest a permenant solution to help with it, should anyone need to hear it.
Anyway, have a great day, week, month, year, rest of your life everyone ❤
I missed this video when you first posted it, but I wanted to say that I just got your new Mandala Bliss with the black paper, and I absolutely love it! I've wanted to try a black paper coloring book for a long time, but never could find one. There are a lot of coloring books that have a black background, but the part you color is actually white, so I was thrilled when you announced that your latest coloring book had the option of being printed in black. I appreciate the simpler mandala designs in this book because I can spend a couple of hours instead of days to achieve some beautiful colors and blends. Thank you also for the jewel tips. They were really helpful and easy to follow.
Thank you for this! Perfect timing as I just received my book (on black paper) in the mail yesterday! 🥳
maybe I will get mine today then
thank you Jen!! loved this video
Loved this experience, Learned a lot. Can't wait to try what I have learned.
Thanks! I've been looking forward to this ever since you showed us those pretty gems!
Love this video! I absolutely love gemstones. A few days ago, I received my Mandala Vol. 5 books. One on mixed media and one on black. I couldn't decide which one to order so of course I ordered both. Can't wait to color these in both books. Thanks for this video!
You made this look easy. Gonna give it a try!
Hi there! Thanks for spending so much time and attention on this coloring crazy we all love :) I was just wondering if you have the Cezanne set and have compared them to the Scrpirerr Farbens? I have heard they're the same, and according to other videos I've seen that show lightfast testing, the SPs have better lightfastness than most budget colored pencils. Since the Cezanne set has 120 vs the SP's 96, I was debating which to choose. I believe the Cezanne set has more grays and metallics, which I'm not interested in - I don't use metallics, and Prismacolor has plenty of grays. Unless the SPs or Cezannes' have blue-grays, which are much more rare, for some reason. It would help tremendously if you have swatches of both you could show side-by-side. I've seen videos of each, but not by the same person, and due to differences in lighting at each person's home, I can't really compare them.
Thanks again for all you do for us, and happy holidays :)
Wow . Now I know why we don't see Steve on camera . He's really handsome. Come on give us more than one second. PS you're very pretty too . I can see you you guys are madly in love . I like the reviews you both do.
When it comes to picking lights, mediums, and darks I use a value finder made for quilting. It's just a cardboard frame with a piece of red plastic. The colors don't show through, but you can see value much more easily. You can find them cheap at a fabric or crafting store.
sounds like a really nice set. I am always trying to add to my collection
I’ve read that there is a an opal mine in Utah where they give tours and let you mine. Sounds so fun! But I’m sure it’s in the middle of no where. There’s also a place in Idaho where you can hunt for diamonds. Hope you have fun on your mining adventure.
Great Nails!
Such pretty art❤️
Hi when I ever Color on black paper I always put down a layer of white first then put my colors on top I think this helps a lot
I only have the 72 set of SF because Amazon didn't have the 96 set at the time I bought them. They are also Chinese, but with a German sounding name. I have a LOT Of different brands of colored pencils, because of course I do. 😂 😂
I have the S.F 96 set and they are beautiful.
Awesome video 😊
Thank you!! Good luck on your mining adventure
Voy siguiendo tus tutoriales...maravillosa forma de enseñar...por favor quisiera aprender a dibujar oro y gemas talladas...seria genial que puedas hacer un video de gemas 💎 talladas
Mil gracias
As always beautiful nails💜
To my knowledge the Schpirerr Farben pencils are an 'oil based' pencil ... so I would expect them to be less opaque than prismas.
very good
I like my SF pencils also and would love to have a Tri Tones book for them.
And thanks to Steve too!
Thank you! ❤️🔥
I wonder if you have “favorites” listed at Amazon??? I cannot remember the Caran d”Ache blender (?) pencils and who has your favorite Chinese White???
Native German speaker here. Steven pronounced it correctly. "Farben" is the German word for "colors".
Good video
Hi, love doing the gems, i try to put one in everything lately.
Question: what are Xpaofey, i thought you were the best one to ask. , my neighbour was talking about them being an acrylic pen or pencil. I looked on Amazon and they are there. I use all the other pencils and pens, i like to experiment.
Just a heads up Amazon has had a crazy price flux going on with the prismacolor 150 set this weekend it has gone down to $67 and as of right now you can get it for $71 so if you are trying to get the set and were waiting for a good deal I'd watch it right now and jump on the sale!
Nice
Hi. So I cannot get this brand in Australia. I do have prismacolor. I’m assuming I can apply the same principle when using prismacolor.
Beautiful work...please gold or metal painting..
:dream-a-fie: LOVE that word :D
Good rule for colored pencils! Look at the tips, not the dips! 😂
l like them ty
How do you get the shine? Mine don’t shine
Have you tried your gems on the tan toned paper yet?
I love my SFs!
What is the name of the Rock and Gem book?
You have the most beautiful hands. I'm obsessed with esthetics and your hands are so amazing. I can watch them for hours. I have a really pretty face, but my hands suck. They are small sizewize not don't look feminine
I love everything feminine
I never grab my Conte pencils because they are black body with no dips and really hard to tell which color I have unless I swatch.
This reminds me a Sailor Moon thing..
💜💜💜tfs💜💜💜
Very good evening mam
If I had to name the colors on these pencils, I'd call the 'black' pencil something more like 'charcoal suit grey'. You're welcome.
I ordered this coloring book and paid for it and never received this coloring book.
Wow, I hope this gets resolved asap!
@@elizabethciano4870 It was about the same time the website went down for them, so I hope they got the order.
🐱🏍 24:33 🤷♀️ ❤
Are you fine mam so beautiful your smile 😊
I guess, there is no "right pronunciation" of Schpirrer, since it is not a real German word. It seems to be a made up, look-like-German word like Häagen-Dazs. And just like Häagen-Dazs they use letter combinations unknown in German. I have never come across a word where a "p" follows a a "sch", not even in a name. For the suggested pronunciation of "sh-p" you would only need an "sp", "Farben" though is a real word and means both colours or paints, and your husband pretty much nailed the pronunciation "fuh-bann".
3 years later and these pencils have fallen out of favor within the community. I'm glad for that because I think it's shady when cheap Chinese pencils try to look like something they are not. These would be easy to mistake for an actual German colored pencil.
Schpirerr is pronounced schpira
So like spira but with a sch
Shpy-are-a. Just go to google translate they pronounce it for you.
Please don’t be offended but you are saying ‘k’ a bit too much …..
More enabling, I have to stop watching. I have been on a Binge watch all night nursing a massive headache.