This is where playful escapism meets colour, pattern and art.
I love to tell stories through my art, and am totally obsessed with big cats and palm trees, birds and jungle life. I love working in different traditional mediums, mostly watercolour and gouache, coloured pencils and oil pastels, but I also love working digitally in Procreate, and of course Photoshop, which is where I bring it all together and create my repeat patterns.
I’ll be making videos documenting my art process and exploring colour and pattern. There'll be some tutorials, likely some animations, and ASMR art videos. If you like my work then subscribe to my channel and come along for the ride :)
I've filled 2 sketchbooks with these paints, both like and dislike them, they have a learning curve. The colours are very nice as Rebecca shows, very muted, earth tones. The sparkly graphite shows when dry and is beautiful and subtle, but it transfers to opposite page and also fades with time. They do not mix well with each other nor with other brand paints, they are overpowered and lose effect when mixed on palette or paper with, for example, Winsor & Newton or Sennelier. They dry fast, so are difficult for large washes or wet-in-wet, and do not lift well. 2 or 3 layers become saturated and then dry very flat and dull. I had best results with architectural and some people scenes, but could not make the paints work for any floral or vegetation. But the paints are unique and worth trying.
Wow, thanks so much for your insights. That was the first time I used them so am very interested to hear what you have to say. I haven't used them much since I made the video, apart from a crow I painted yesterday, and yes, it had a unique dull flat look, just as you say. I look forward to using them more and seeing how I can make them work for the kind of work I like to do.
I have the big set of the Graphitint pencils as well. I like them!! Love the colours and the way they lay down. Like you, I'm not really a big fan of the cold press paper. It can be too rough. But, it has its uses and sometimes I'll use it when I need that extra bit of texture in a pic.
