If you could only have THREE art materials to use in your sketchbook, what would they be? (For example: If you say watercolor each color counts as ONE of the things)
‘It’s the playing that leads to ideas.’ Brilliant. I’m a quilt artist, and I find this is true. I need to play. Adults forget to play. Great advice, Paula.
I honestly think that it's incredibly valuable to see the process of reworking an idea over and over again until you figure out how to translate the concept in your head into a successful image on the page. Learning involves both failures and successes and if give up when something doesn't work out the way you want it to, you miss out on the opportunity for growth.
Paula, you said you aren’t great with color!? Paula, you are AMAZING with color!!! It is one of the incredible qualities that I love about your art! Thank you for being honest about your feelings when you feel frustrated. You make my inner child giggle with “artistic tantrum!” 😂 You have inspired me! Thank you! 😊
I enjoy your honesty and sharing of your emotional response to your art. It is interesting to me that you, the artist, may not like something you've created, but me, the viewer may like it very much. Also, you keep persisting regardless of how you feel. This inspires me.
I'm glad you let us see the process you use to get to something you like. It makes me feel better that I don't love everything I do. I believe you're right about discovering ideas as you go. Keeping the 'fails' is a perfect reminder that I just need to keep trying.
📙 love that you show your full process, even the ones you hate. We are oft times the worse critics of our work, but you show persevering can lead to great results. Loved your goddess images ❤ I too seem to gravitate to faces but go from acrylic, water colour and pencil not yet finding my true style. Thank you for sharing your works x
Thank you so much! I am my harshest critic; other than my inner critic and imposter syndrome of course! 😂 those guys can be rough! I’m sure if you continue to play with all your media you’ll eventually find which calls you the most… I know what brings me more joy and peace when I want to wake up on a Sunday morning and play with it before even showering or breakfast! I’m a little zombie on weekend mornings (truly not an early bird) so my higher self chooses and it’s wonderful!
📓 I enjoyed this very much. Great inspiration. Thank you for the message that it’s ok to play and not everything needs to be a masterpiece. My perfectionism holds me back from enjoying as much as I could 😊
Hi Olga! I’m so happy you enjoyed the video 🥰 I’m a complete type A so I’m always teaching myself to let go and enjoy the process, I’m happy I can share what I do ❤️ let’s just have fun!!!
07:40 your process, that’s AMAZING! ❤❤❤ I’m struggling to just play without worrying and learning how you keep repeating until you’re happy is super helpful
I was so fortunate and blessed to happen upon you on RU-vid. I've made one comment already. And like I said before I don't do social media. And I definitely do not post any comments but obviously I am for you because you are awesome. I just, I've been on this for a couple hours. I'm sure I've been multi tasking and you are just awesome. I really like your style. I really like how you just laid out there.And I just can't thank you enough.You have inspired me so much at this moment in time.Thank you thank you
I especially love the last one, the golden leaf, and the one which took you three attempts, the third is really gorgeous! Thank you for sharing, and thank you for showing that things can still turn out great even if one is very unhappy with initial ... not quite so successful tries.
Just found your channel today and I love it. I have long wanted to make a sketch book and I love your ideas! I especially love that you showed the ones you weren’t happy with but you kept trying and showed that you learn from them. I also like your showing trying the same one again to learn from it. Thank you!
Thank you so much for showing us the whole process. It helps a lot to see that even very talented artists like you don't like every piece of artwork they make. ❤❤❤ I get so much inspiration watching your videos. Thanks a lot!
It's amazing how good your ideas are in your sketchbook and then what happens when you turn them into wall art! I can't imagine anything I'd ever do that would translate into gorgeous wall art. You are SO inspiring, even when you hate something. I appreciate how you take what you perceive as a mistake and figure out how to get through it. Not many artists would be so transparent. Love you!
Girl, you have some real talent! Your style is EXACTLY what I hope to mimic in my clumsy, childlike way. I am NOT an artist, but I’m going to borrow your ideas and just have fun. ❤❤❤
📖Omgosh!!! I love you!! I love how honest you are..." I hated it.....I still hated it....I was feeling all pissy"... lmao! It's like you're right inside my head Paula! I'm really really new to painting with watercolor and your videos have been sooooo helpful and you make me laugh. I just received a new watercolor sketchbook today....and it truly is intimidating! 😮 Thank you for sharing your art with us, for being so down to earth, and for making me laugh! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you so so much Shannon! 🥰I’m very grateful you are finding this useful and you can relate to my process! I hope you enjoy playing with your watercolors!!! ❤️❤️❤️ don’t be intimidated! It’s just paper! I swear I need to write that on my desk 😀
Well...I must admit, I'm pretty famous with my family and friends for trying something new....and then flying into a blinding rage and pitching whatever I'm working on into the woodstove...true story😁
I just want to thank you and RU-vid for helping me to be more comfortable with nothing becoming something! You have helped me in the last three or four days I’ve discovered you to just fill up a few pages in my sketch book and I am grateful for that. It has helped me to also start to thinking on my own and to also stop overthinking when I’m releasing creative energy. Thank you 😊
So grateful for you! And I loved how you worded it “releasing creative energy” that’s what it is really about! And of course the joy and satisfaction we get from it! Thank you! ❤️
Great video - fantastic to see your sketchbook that you use for your main art, so much practice and repetition. It encourages me to keep practicing and repeating ❤
I love that you don’t cut things out when they aren’t perfect, leaving in your struggle and how you overcome it is so helpful to me and I’m sure others ❤️
Paula you are such an inspiration!! I began to lose my fear of drawing and making a mess after started to fallow you! I am an artist but I have so many traumas and blockages that these videos have been like some sort of a saviour for my lack of confidence. So I’m very thankful to you and your wonderful kind smile!
Thank you so much for sharing this with me Sonia!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I have felt the same so I’m happy to share what helped me so we can be happier creatives together! 🥰
Paula, you don't have to justify keeping a painting. You can keep it simply because you made it. Maybe it was a bad feeling that you had to get out. Or, like you said, it was a necessary step to get to the painting you *do* like. But if you just genuinely don't like something you made, it's ok to throw it away, and that's not a tantrum. That's honing your craft and gaining the valuable knowledge of what *doesn't* work. Please be more patient with yourself. You deserve it! Warm wishes from Minnesota! ❤️❤️❤️ May your pencils always be sharp and your colors never bleed.
I just found your videos and am enjoying them so much! Thank you so much for showing your process and even the ones you don’t like. It is so helpful for me to know that I’m not the only one that messes up and that it’s part of the process of learning. Great video!
I really appreciated your comments about how and why you decided to do different things on your pages. It gives a nice peak into your creative process! Thank you!
I feel so relieved that I am not the only one that goes through "artistic tantrums!" I have come across so many times when I sketch and paint something out with the best of intentions in my mind and then I get the pen/brush to paper and it just blows up! Thank you for your advice and really the best advice is exactly what you said - just keep trying and moving forward. Don't give up on the creativity! ❤
Im so happy you didnt give up! Im still trying to learn the pencils on top of watercolor and my markers im always so scared im going to ruin my picture but i love how the combined mediums look....i really enjoy watching these videos because your honesty and encouragement is everything and i can feel your words because of your expression behind it all...and as always THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANOTHER AWESOME WEEK OF ART!
@@bycreativepaula thank you so much for the advice and taking the time to reply to my little comments each week...i do enjoy your content and the uplifting advice you always guide with and offer just is so genuine and thats rare now days....thanks again for the encouragement and hard work that you put in for our watching pleasure every week
I really enjoyed this video- it made me want to go play in my sketchbooks! I make my watercolor sketch books and I made one that was very rectangular-3 1/2” x 8”. For some reason, I also decided that they would be double spreads. And then I decided to go through and tint each spread with a watercolor wash. Each decision was out of the ordinary for me. I only have a couple pages left in it but it has been lots of fun. No need to reply👍😀
I love how you are so genuine! You don't mind sharing your up's/downs. That's what it's all about. I also really liked the one picture of a lady in your second book but you showed the pictures in it fast so I can't share exactly which picture it is. 😐
Thank you so much!! ☺️ I’ll probably try to do a slower flip through my sketchbooks soon - in the meantime you can always see more of my portraits at Pacal.art on insta ❤️
i just bought two sets of water colour paints and i am so itching to start it just excites me to have all my supplies and i have a few days to play with them !!! Lynn Eyland Halifax Nova Scitia! Thank you Paula!
This video was incredibly helpful. If an actual artist (you) struggles at times then of course a newbie like me will definitely struggle. I like the way you talked yourself through the rough spots, and determined that everything you created had some value, even if you didn't love it. I am enjoying the process so much more instead of feeling pressure or disappointment.
I just want to say thank you! I ran across your channel the other day and love your positive attitude about art and life! I forgot how fun this can be and I plan to start dabbling in it soon!
Hi! Welcome and thank you so much! ❤️ I think we all forget at some point why we liked art in the first place; and as adults we need a constant reminder that fun needs to be a part of it! Hope you started playing already and are enjoying it! ☺️ all my best!
Recently found your videos and I am happy I did!! I plan on getting caught up because I feel so inspired to make mistakes and see where that takes me! Thank you!!!
📓 Thank you for taking the time to read the comments! I have no idea how to use watercolor… you make it look so easy that I really want to try now. I just need to buy a sketch book that I can do watercolor on. ❤ I want to let you know that I really enjoy watching your videos and watching you draw is relaxing and addicting. Keep it up, Paula! You are doing wonders to a lot of us!
Just what I needed today, thank you. Was so frustrated with my painting this week, just felt horrible about what I created. But I don’t have give up and get rid of my brushes!❤
I love watching your videos 🥰 I live in Copenhagen and is always looking for new inspiration. You really make me want to use my watercolors again 🥰 Thank you for sharing ❤️
Oh my, I just discovered your channel today. What refreshingly authentic instructional videos, I have to be careful to not just binge watch so dug out my watercolors and a journal so I can start doing, not just watching. I have a lot of chronic pain, and the program I follow to help with it has a whole section on play. I just rewatched it yesterday and discovered your sketchbook videos today. My stars must be aligned nicely! Question: I am assuming you are using waxy colored pencils, not water soluble? Do you use both? By the way enlarging your pages - brilliant.😊
Hi! Thank you so much and welcome! I’m happy to have you here! Play and joy!!! I am so sorry you have pain, sending healing prayers to you! I hope you are enjoying your watercolor play! And yes, I’m using prismacolor pencils ☺️
📓 You're the reason why I bought a sketchbook and watercolors again and already filled it half way in two weeks. But also, that brought me to a video idea, because the colors are very cheap and I wonder if you can tell as an artist what the differences are. Maybe you could try cheap art supplies and show what you can do even though the material isn't the best. Thank you so much for your inspiring videos!! ❤
Wow! Thank you so much 😊 you’ve made me super happy and I feel honored! I actually LOVE that idea! I was at cvs a couple of weeks ago and thought maybe I should make a video using the supplies there! So it’s definitely in my list! Thanks! ❤️
Cheap paints are less pigmented, use more fillers, the pigments themselves are cheaper, often they are not lightfast. That said: You can still have a lot of fun with cheap paints and create beautiful art! And if you only use them in your sketchbook, lightfastness seems less important. Most artists say: If you are on a budget and have to save money, even student grade paints can render beautiful art work, but buy the best paper you can afford!
📓Hi Paula! Love watching your artwork techniques. As a person who spends more time away from my studio (and paints) and outside in the nice weather, I’m wondering if you would do a video on ideas that do not use paint…maybe just a black marker?
📓No reply needed! Just want to tell you that you have inspired me so much these last few weeks since I found your amazing Channel! I even have a box of items to keep my sketchbook going in the car! You are truly a light ,and I love your videos! Thank you from Texas! My three materials: Watercolor (Maybe Blue/teal) Micron Pen in black 1.0 A metallic Marvy Uchida Opaque Brush pen
Of course I’m replying to all my emoji besties! ❤️ lol Thank you so much! 🥰 it means the world to me that you’ve felt inspired!! Love your material choices + I’m plant based too + miss TX! Haven’t been since 2021! ❤️
I love your videos with sketchbook ideas❤ I start doing a sketchbook and don’t have my drawings on random papers😂 Your videos are very inspirating, keep going what you are doing !
📓Thank you Paula. I have seen a few of your videos and really liked you collab on the Create this book 3 from Di. So I watched this one today and have been really inspired. I have just bought my first watercolours and have been a bit nervous to try them. They look so cute in their pans! I love these botanical ideas and now can’t wait to try them. Thanks for showing me how things go from not great to better even for a professional artist . (I am not a bestie but wanted you to read my comment so I added the notebook.)
Hi! So first of all you are a bestie now! 😉 soooo happy to have you here! ❤️ thank you!!! I’m so happy you have felt inspired and I get it! It’s sooooo hard to break in beautiful new watercolors! They look so pretty and pristine! But it will happen as you start having fun with using them… so don’t be nervous! Remember it’s just pigment on paper! But yeah I have to be honest when they are as destroyed as mine you crave a new set… will I dare use it if I get one? 😂 probably will stick having fun with the ones I have played into old age!
Hi from South Africa. It’s the first time I’ve come across your video n thoroughly enjoyed it. I think I’m too rigid in trying to do thing’s perfectly n often destroy my work as I think it’s not up to mark so it was refreshing to see you work n just have fun in a loose way. I Definitely need to be more free n spontaneous n not get too bogged down with what I think is “right”. Loved watching your work.
Hi and welcome! I used to do the same thing! It’s a process to remember that we can make art for the joy of it and not only for the results! Have fun! The rest will follow ❤️
📓 Hi. Do you have a preference on which markers to use before using water color paints over them? I don't want my pen to bleed. I love your work!!! Also, how can I get my art made into a professional print?
Another great sketchbook idea video Paula! If you're looking for suggestions for a future video, I would love to see some Posca pen (or any acrylic paint pen) ideas for sketchbook art. 😊
Well her kids are teenagers so I feel it's less likely that they're just jamming the bristles or being carelessly rough. But also I think it's nice that she works hard to give her kids a life where they don't have to worry about whose brush is whose. They likely just replace them when it's time. It's lovely. ☺️
Great idea and great execution! If you're looking for another idea, how about variegated fur? I've got a cat that looks like she fell in the dry rub, and painting cats like her... well, I need an example, really bad.
Thank you so much! 🥰 For the fur I think the Arrtx acrylic markers could work! I painted fur with those on my previous video designing characters and I think it could work for the different colors of fur mashed together… if not I would definitely go for traditional acrylics… easier than watercolor and color pencils is a great option too but so time consuming
Love your process and your complete honesty about it. Very inspiring. Please could you share the name of the gold marker that you used in the last painting. Thanks.
