Wow this is great! I cannot afford the whole Polychromos set, but I see what you can get with just a simple 12 color set, and it's wonderful! thanks so much for showing this!
This is brilliant! There’s often a lot of pressure to buy bigger sets of colours, but this is a fantastic example of how versatile a basic set of 12 pencils really is. What wonderful colours. Well done to the person who designed the chart too.
Wonderful to watch another brand being done. I am like you, I absolutely adore Kim. Being in her club is one of my best coloring investments. She is so encouraging, helpful, and kind. And it has been loads of fun meeting all the different club members from all walks of life.
First time I've ever done a chart like this. Wonderful exercise. I used stabilo all pencils, a couple each of crayola and progresso. I make go bags of pens and pencils, gelly rolls, a few tortillions, blender pencil, sharpeners, odorless mineral spirits, and bic ballpoints. I Iearn so much here that enhances and edifies other tutorials making them more understandable. i draw Zentangles, dabble in mixed media and art journaling, and love color for zentangle inspired art, zia's. some czt's use ecoline colors for base backgrounds, or other water based media. I think most of my net worth is in art tools now... I switch out go bags every week and its a new adventure and makes me happy. Thank you very much for all you do to help me/us, and for promoting others. If people in other realms did what you do, I believe more than 75% of the global chaos and feuding would cease. Hugs.
I've done this with my watercolor paints, and recently started considering that I should probably do the same with some pencils... and then here you've gone and done it. Thank you!
Thank you for this video @Colour with Claire! Just getting back into drawing again after being out of it for so long and will be implementing some of these charts to help me get my bearings again. Never done these but is a really great idea, though this isn’t anything new but new to me. I especially like the colour tracker that you showed at the beginning of the video :)
This is just such a fantastic idea! Because I do own quite a few of the larger sets, I might do something like all the Greens for the rows and all the different Blues in the other, because Blue Green is one of my absolute favourite colours and not all sets have all the exact Blue Greens that I’m after. That and Red-Violet. Maybe cross all the Violets with all the Magentas/Pinks or something. Like instead of doing 12 pencils that represent a fairly rounded choice of colours, I could just do it like I said, using my favourite colours and only testing their abilities. But for anyone on a tight budget especially (I had to just about go without food for two weeks sometimes to save up for most of the bigger sets that I have too, so I’m not exactly overflowing with financial resources myself 😄), this is just absolutely a fantastic sort of chart to create. 💖 from Australia 🇦🇺
Amazing! One thing I didn't expect was when you first blended some colors not much happened, but the colors continued to merge and the new color became more distinct.
Thank you! I haven't done this before. I just bought a set of 12 prismacolor Scholar pencils that I found on clearance. I was going to try to color a picture with just those. I think I will make one of these charts first.
Well, I just did this after watching your video. It seemed to take forever but it was worth it. I did it with the prismacolor Scholars and I got some nice surprises. The violet in the set is light. I did not like it too much when I swatched the set but it really makes some nice colors mixed. The same with the brown in the set. Thank you for this video!
Hola Claire ,gracias por el video ,me he dado cuenta que tengo mucho que aprender ,estoy haciendo las mezclas de los faber castell waltercolor ,tengo 24 colores y me saldran unos 288 combinaciones ,gracias otra vez ,me gusta mucho tu canal y tu blog ,tambien te sigo por redes sociales,
I had to do this back in highschool (graduated 04). Basically we were learning about color theory and a kid in the class complained that they couldent use their own pencils cause they had a lot of colors and the class only had sets of 14 colored pencils (there was a purple and a grey) Anyway my teacher used that as a reason to prove that you dont need a ton of different pencils, paint, markers ect. It was useful, I still want all the colors but it is good to know that if I dont have access to all the colors I can still mix colors and have a large selection. It can teach you a lot about color theory and blending.
Love it! No, I haven't never done it before. Lol, 😁 😁, I don't know if I'd even take the time to do it! I don't like swatching my pencils, I know with some of them you basically have to. But that's what I love you, youtubers that do all this for us, lol. I go back so many times on your videos, and many others. I think you already know pretty much whom I have to get information from, lol. When in the livestreams. But between you and a few others everything I need to know about coloring I just get from all of your youtubers pages. Like you! I want to do it now, get her done! 😁😁😁. Like your trees, or even can use on bushes, landscape. I'm lazy, and I just want to color. I'll go back for reference in your alls videos for what I need. I hope you understand what I mean! Lol. I can get out there sometimes! 😂😂. Thanks for sharing! 😉 💖!
Brilliant tutorial, Claire! I've only got the 60 set (£40 from Amazon on sale), but I was trying to work out the most effective way of doing a blend chart. Thanks for this!😊💖💖💖 On a side note, did anyone else find this video like ASMR? Especially with the pencil noise, and the regular tapping sound each time Claire's hand moved to a new box? (I'm guessing that was a watch/bracelet touching the table). Very relaxing indeed.💖💖💖😊
The blends have so much more depth than the straight pencil. Like if you went and found one of the blends as a straight pencil match the blend has more interesting appeal. Am I the only one who thinks so? Will you show us how to make black with no black pencil?
I saw Kim’s video a while ago. I love that you have shared this as well. Thank you! I would really like to see this broken down into a color picture using these blends!!! I just can’t transfer the concept into a picture.
This is a very useful video. Thank you for making it. I was wondering if there's a pen-shaped thing I can get for the blending solution in the UK, since using the bottle and the brush is going to be messy, knowing me.
Hi Claire, thanks so much for the video! After seeing Kim's video, I decided to try it with the 12 pastel Holbein's - I thought this would be beneficial for anyone who wanted the 50 set of pastel pencils but were too pricey - I will be showing it on my channel, but I thought I would let you know in case you wanted to try it! Thanks, Imogen 😊
I have actually already done it, but I will definitely show it in a future video and explain how I did it - I had always wanted to try these grids, and Kim's video sparked my idea! 😊
Hi Claire! Wonderful video as always! I've done this with the 12 pack of Derwent Inktense used the pencils dry for the layers then added water it looked amazing. May I ask what paper you use when printing out blending/swatch charts and any printable colouring art from etsy?
You can sometimes get the 36 set for about $35 on amazon Canada, I think the 12 pack is almost the same price which is annoying. If you dont shop on amazon though they can be expensive. Michaels with a coupon is your next best option, at least where I live.
Forgot to mention something. If you make a duplicate blend chart with pencils that blend with blending solution/powder/baby oil, perhaps you could use it as a kind of portable paper palette by using the liquid/powder and a brush/tortillion to pick up the colour and transfer to drawings/books etc. Did that make sense?🤷♀️
I love this! Sadly there aren't 144 different colors, if you check carefully, first row and first column have the same ones, so you only have 78 different ones :) Still...you get a lot of colors from a 12 set.
