Beautiful, Irit! Thank you for the watercolor shopping guide. I have spent too much money trying to find what I want, so that will be so helpful in the future. Great idea to put all of your water soluble supplies in one caddy!
Irit I love your shopping guide ❤️ and your generosity to have it available for free. Thank you !!! Because of your channel I have being inspired to do my own combination of colors.
Hello Irit, loved the video 💕and I always appreciate that your thoughts and advice are always well thought out and you only recommend your favourites that you truly use and love. And thank you so much for the Watercolour Shopping Guide 💕- so sweet and generous of you. After having watched you for sooo many years 😉 I have taken your advice on many of the colours and tools and brands I have purchased and I have learnt to take time to really make up my mind before hastily jumping in and buying - all through watching and listening to you. Thank you! Have a lovely weekend, 🌈🎨 Valérie xx
Watching you paint makes me happy 😊 Agree about the dusk yellow being more green. Also, I have been inspired by you to experiment with interesting mixes and what do you know... the dreaded orange is now in my permanent landscape palette. 😱 Shopping guide looks great! Thank you 🙏
Thank you for this beautiful, relaxing video Irit! Your painting is gorgeous. Thank you also for painting this in real time and letting us know the beautiful colors you chose. I’m looking forward to painting it this weekend. I’m so excited for you and us with your future plans! Everything about you and your colors/paintings are dreamy. So nice of you to share the shopping list. Have a lovely weekend! ✊🏾💕
I always struggled with tearing off paper from the glued stacks and i have even tore a few (of course the most expensive ones -,- ) but this palette knife method is cool I will do this from now on!
Hey everyone! I hope you'll enjoy today's video! If you want to see pics of the watercolors mentioned, check out the blog post- www.iritlandgraf.com/post/favorite-art-supplies-floral-painting
love the finished painting! I so enjoy your video's. I definitely going to try the paper. I also just found out that Moonglow is fugitive :( And then I found Kimberly Crick Art on youtube and she has a 3 part series (?) about Moonglow and one of the videos is about making your own. Might be a good inspiration for mixing your own. Looking forward to see the next video!
Thank you Susan! Yes, Kimberly's video seems to have reached a lot of people. I've seen other lightfast testing that found the color unchanged, so I hope the color doesn't fade so fast 🤷♀️
I lso use Hahnemuhle, but bought theit anniversary packs. It has the same weight (I think) as Cornwall. Also loving the paper. It seesm sleeker than normal coldpress, but it behaves so nicely with my paints. It\s just so nice to find cellulosepaper that works, seeing as cotton is kind of to expensive to just play with.
Good to know! I completely agree and I think depending on what techniques one uses this paper can be a fantastic affordable alternative not just for play but also for "proper" artwork.
Oh Irit..... love your videos so much. Its been fun watching you grow into style! Just Stunning! Oh, and yes.... I ran quick and purchased the long point pencil sharpener!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!! Plus I finally purchased the Caran D'Ache museum watercolor pencils...OH MY STARS....GAME CHANGER!!!! Thank you so much for being one of my fav "enablers " 🤭❤
Thank you for the lovely inspiring video Irit....I’m definitely going to try that paper....you didn’t steer me wrong with the Fabriano Vergatone so I’m not hesitant to try the Hahnemuhle Cornwall paper....the way your paint and brushes glided over it was just magical!
thanks so much for all of this information as well as the shopping guide. I cannot wait to take my time and look through it. I am saving it for a nice quite time to enjoy it:)
That’s till something worthwhile comes along. I’m returning the "I’m bored purchases." I am often guilty of that at 2am when I can’t sleep. The strangest things have magically appeared on my doorstep. I can’t wait for your book to come knocking on my door. Go Irit Go!!
DaVinci Artemis could be a substitute for Moonglow. It has the same pigment formula and an excellent lightfast rating. It may be harder to get in Europe, but worth a look.
I think is stil contains the same red pigment as moonglow and doesn't hold up well in the sun, despite the rating. If I remember correctly Kimberly Crick has a video about all of those similar colors and shows her lightfastness test results. 🙂
I adore your art and could watch you paint all day. Thank you for the video. I'm wondering if you might like Shadow Violet Light? It's a newer release from Szmal and I think it is more blue than Shadow Violet and it doesn't contain any black.
Glad you like it Ema! Yes, the Van Gogh version is quite different. It is lighter and more like a pinky peachy skin tone, whereas the Lukas one is a warm yellow orange.
Love the video! I enjoy watching you create as I am trying to get back to looser watercolors after a year of detailed botanicals. Have you ever tried gouache paints? Very different from watercolor but an interesting medium to explore. I only just received mine so not too sure about them yet. It's a medium I'll have to experiment with before I get used to it. Hope you and family are all well. Happy painting my friend.
Thank you Renee! I have a nice collection of Gouache and I think it's a fantastic medium. I have mostly used mine like watercolors till now. I hope to learn to use them more in the future but right now I'm really into what you see in the video, so maybe next year 😉 or I will incorporate them into my current routine, that would be fun actually 😀
Hi Irit! So...regarding a replacement for Opera, have you tried Dan Smith’s Quin Pink? It’s pretty close, given it can’t be “fluorescent” AND lightfast. I also really love the earthy granulation of Rhodonite; it’s got to be the brightest Primatek ever! Let me know if you want me to send you sample pans...I’ve got both on hand. (I think...unless one of the girls yanked my Q. Pink 🤦🏻♀️) Please do lmk if I can send you some! PS - Can you give me a compelling reason to NEED Schmincke? I’ve built up a big stock of DS...more than anyone NEEDS, but the sale at Jackson’s is making me twitchy... 🤗
Thank you so much, but I have a tube of Rhodonite and a pan of quin Pink, I love QUIN Rose but should probably try pink again 😀 I cannot give you a compelling reason. Schmincke is a beautiful paint, that I myself no longer buy since it's not vegan. It is also really expensive outside of Europe. For me, nowadays, when I have a vast collection, the only reason to try a new brand is if they have unique colors or a beautiful version and formula of a specific color I enjoy. Hope that helps and thanks again!!
Hi Irit, thanks for this and your guide...Wondering what ever happened to your Aquarius Roman Smalz paint...did you not just like them because they have honey, do they not flow...I wondered your honest opinion. Also, could you recommend or did you in another video...some museum aquarelle colours worth trying...I do not see them mentioned here as your favourites I would love to know some of your fauvourite colours to pick up that you like....thanks Irit. bytw..."Botany for the Artist an inspriatioanl guide to drawing plants."..by Sarah Simblet 2010...I got from the library here in the Yukon...you might like it if you could first see it at your library...I am working through it...I may buy it...realistic but very cool illustrations...Jans
Hi Jan! Yes I mentioned some favourite colors in previous videos and have been using the same this month. Like green ochre, burnt sienna 10%. I think the aquarius paints are great, they have a few duds but nothing unusual that other brands don't have. It's mostly because they are full pans and so take a lot of space in my palette so if I have a similar paint in half pan I pick that one.
Hello Irit... I hope you and your family and friends are all safe and sound... terrible sad news from Austria... sending healing hugs xxx Apologies for sending this message via your RU-vid channel... I didn't know how to reach out and I was concerned... take care
