I always watch art videos to the end, especially good artists like you. I cannot afford patreon ( I am on a disability pension) but you would be the fiirst one, I am so grateful for your generous and helpful vids. Thanking you so much. Love the content and the paintings.
oh my gosh! Most helpful video ever for me as a color pencil artist who is also getting into watercolor. This is the VERY BEST imagery of a black cat in tons of angles, so I can better understand this particular breeds interesting hair structure! Awesome, awesome, awesome. I recently found your channel and you are my number one go-to for getting started in watercolor. I'm so excited to start that adventure! Love your personality and relatability.
Oh wow! I have photo's of three of my wonderfully black cat's that are now sadly no longer with me . One of them was called Scrags and he looked so much like your cat . I will try and paint them all when I've finished making 5 quilts for my grandchildren.
Hello, just found you and I have a thing for black cats. My very large female, "Summer" deceased early in her time with me. I have some photos and wanted to try a watercolor of her for my wall. Black cats are unique and have real character. Thanks for sharing your black cat with us!
I'm so sorry to hear about Summer. Black cats are a special kind of challenge but they are such unique cats. I have a whole playlist about painting black animals by the way.
So very beautiful and heartwarming to watch, Rachel! XOXO...Loved it so much....sure missing my studio assistant so much...and enjoyed seeing your snuggles with Miss Sadie!
Totally new n I love, love your painting!🎉❤🎉❤; I don't do watercolors but need to learn. My husband loves his cats..n I do acrylics..well started about a year ago. I will definitely pursue your channel..n about a month will support you..bc Sadie just won my heart. Years ago my first cat was a black one..n my ex husband literally abandoned it! It has taken me 20 years to finally move on from depression from what he did. Question: do you like watercolors better vs. Acrylics?❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Oh my goodness I love love love this painting! I love black cats anyway, you make this look easy, I'll bet its not when I try, but I will try a similar painting. One tip I have for white gel pens, the ink gums up quite quickly, if you draw on the back of your finger it frees up the ball and flows better x
This was a wonderful video Rachel!! I just started using lamp Black this morning and it’s really great!! Thank you so much for turning me onto it!!💕🐈⬛💕
Thank you, Rachel......this was a wonderful tutorial and I'm grateful you are so generous to share it with us. I'll go to your Patreon site to download the drawing tomorrow. I absolutely love MoonGlow. I used it in my latest Fozzy painting.....so much fun.
I just found your channel last night and love the Sadie cam💕 But not being a painter, I'm not trying to catch every nuance of your technique and can see how the inset may distract some viewers. Maybe you could post some kitty cam-less versions as well as the videos with Sadie cam? 🤔🙂 BTW, I agree that the blue highlights on your black cat really make her shine 😊
this painting of Sadie turned out so great, with the mixture of moonglow, black and touch of blue. Would you please do another painting of Sadie with all her wonderful browns that she has in her mane. I'd be very interested to see how you do that
Hi Rachel. I just watched this wet on wet black cat tutorial and I think you’re a wonderful artist. And I’d like to thank you for sharing your talent. But I’d like to give you a constructive critique in the spirit of helping you improve your content. It’d be easier to follow your tutorial if you kept all the superfluous videos on sides and corners out of your tutorials. This way we’d be able to follow what you’re teaching us much better. Thx again for sharing a lovely technique that’ll help us achieve improvement in our art. 🥰
@@jonisolis9645 I appreciate the feedback - it seems some people like Sadies 'muse cam' and some don't. I think it adds a touch of personality to my videos. But maybe a poll is called for : )
That is my late Sadie - I found her in a park as an abandoned kitten so I'm not sure her breed. She made the best muse though! I made a video about her at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dNO_YWK8gpg.html
Just found you on U Tube. WOW Rachel. You go girl! I have a black cat and dog. Sometime their fur looks like it is turning a orangey color. Weird. I wonder if throwing a warm color in is a bad idea? ... BTW, love your soothing voice and happy demeanor. Just subscribed. Love your hacks also! Thx- Mendy, ( from Georgia) 🍑
Would wetting the back of the paper as well as the front help? I like doing that when I want to paint wet in wet to keep surface at the right wetness level.
@@rachelparkervarner Thank you for that answer, I was wondering about that myself. So can we assume you're not loyal to one brand of watercolor paint? I love Daniel Smith's Moonglow and please consider looking into Bloodstone Genuine, as well. Both are amazing colors, where the pigment tends to separate into beautiful shades. I enjoy painting with Holbein's Peacock Blue and have many tubes of Winsor/Newton and a few from M. Graham. It's true what they say---buy the best you can afford.
I know I should take some of these old videos down but I figure someone may get something out of them still. I've learned a lot about teaching watercolor online in the last year or two!
The video of the cat and your son are distracting from the painting. Can't watch both at same time. What is your goal? That space in the screen could be used to show the painting in more detail/closer if it didn't have to share the screen with ref photo AND your cat live. Perhaps you can create a separate channel of vids of you living on your cat and your kid. I am interested in painting techniques.
These videos take hours to edit, many more than the actual painting and a lot of work. It's up to you whether or not watching a 30 second ad is worth watching a video that took hours and hours to create. I sure hope so and I hope you find a lot of helpful tips!
