I like these sketchbooks or rather I love the tan but the grey is meh. I wish it was darker in value so white would pop. The grey tone is more like newsprint and dingy. I do love that tan/beige tho!
I quite like the softness of the grey but being darker would be preferable so it is a true mid tone rather than being too far on the light side. The "beige" (which I also keep calling tan, lol) is such a lovely warm tone! 💜
Hey, cute haircut! Spot-on with saying that you're "going to anyway!" with regards to starting a new sketchbook, hahaha. I agree 100% and that's why we have so many sketchbooks... and I love them all! When I moved my studio, I took a peek into my old subscription boxes and didn't find any Art Graf blocks, darn it. Oh well. Oh my goodness, I can't believe how many paintings you did in this one video - wow! While I like all your paintings, I especially like your watercolor ones. 😀
Thank you, I needed a haircut so badly and it's a lot cooler for summer. It's a shame you couldn't find any Art Graf, I hope you can get some in the future because they're really fun. I can't wait to watch your new studio video! Of course today we have a family event so I might have to wait until tonight to see it, wah! 😱
You were really on a roll. I love the cow-she is so funny. Over all I like the grey-toned book the best. It's more soothing to my eyes & you did really interesting things in it. The window was very cool!
Thank you! Grey is such a great neutral tone and very soft. I also like the warmth of the beige but then it's hard to do anything but warm colours on it because I always gravitate to them, lol.
I love that you include the pieces you consider failures and that you explained why. It’s nice to be reminded that the RU-vidrs who do art are not always perfect with their pieces. It’s a good reminder for us beginners that not every piece turns out perfect. Altho I thought the snail turned out well. The cow was my favorite (even thought I don’t like cows). Have you thought about using a blow dryer or a heat gun to help dry your work faster between layers? It cuts down a bit on waiting times.
Thank you, the cow was definitely the most fun because of how her expression turned out! I do have a heat gun which I use occasionally but it can mess with the paints and paper so I generally prefer to let everything dry naturally.
Hi Becky, love your new hair cut it really suits you, I've just ordered these can't wait for them to come. It's a very misserable cold rainy day here in Wales here today yuk. Loved that diddaproving cow lol
Thank you, it was high time I went to the hairdresser, lol. I hope you enjoy your sketchbooks when they arrive! It has been endlessly hot here with really humid weather this week on top, ugh. But I can't complain too much because there are gigantic floods further north in NSW and QLD and they had a year's worth of rain within four days. It's insane!
Great tip about the ink! I have these sketchbooks and don’t love them for watercolor (since it;s transparent), but now have a great option for Inktober! Thanks for being so upbeat, even when things don’t turn out, and all the FEARLESS experimentation -it’s so encouraging and inspiring. You’re quickly becoming my favorite art channel!
Oh wow, this has to be the most artwork you’ve done in a single video if I’m not mistaken!! I am thoroughly impressed. I have to say my favorites are definitely the unamoosed cow(lol), the palm tree silhouettes and the eye in graphitint. Eyes are one of my favorite subjects, but yes they take forever! I feel this way about tutorials also because it makes you feel like you shouldn’t be experimenting/learning yourself, but in reality, that’s what we all do as artists all the time argh! I think your new sketchbooks are off to a great start Becky😊
I probably should have stuck to six but it ended up being eight, which is the most arts I've done in a short time, and the videos with the most artworks overall were the two Inktober ones I did last year. But they were filmed over a much longer time! I was tired after all of them, haha!
Great video! I don’t know how you did so many paintings in one go. Loved the disapproving cow😂 For some reason, I see it as a character on Brokenwood Mysteries. Love the new haircut💕
Thank you! Sometimes I get in The Zone and can produce multiple paintings in a short space of time. I took most of the week off afterwards though, lol.
Thank you! I finally had it cut after many, many months (the time before was in lockdown, Nick had to trim off the split ends for me and it actually turned out ok, lol! 😂).
They look like my kind of sketch books would like to see your holbien gouache and luminance pencils in two separate videos in them. No such thing as fails in art only more experience. You make me feel very moootivated eight pics is quite impressive. I get so tiered after work I'm lucky to get one done. I liked the snail as well, you could easily round his shell or pop in a leaf or two but he is fine as he is. My fav is not amused cow lol :)
Thanks! The window is with the Holbein gouache but I didn't end up doing a second painting so I will do that in another video. I am waiting for a wet palette to arrive so I can keep the gouache from drying too quickly. I would struggle to do art with another job, for sure!
What a fun video, with a lot of good art! My favorites has to be ’Not Amooosed Cow’ and the snail 😁. Although I really liked the eye and the window study too. You did really good, no disasters or failed arts! A good start on 2 new sketchbooks 🥰 I have to add you how good your hair looks 👍
Beautiful paintings. Love the cow so much. They can look quite grumpy at times. I am with Lindsay Weirich on the grey one, it is a bit too pale for my liking. I saw it in an art store and yea, not my thing either. I want to see the tan one though.
I love cows, they have so much personality! 😂 The grey would benefit from being darker for sure. I think a lot of people like the beige colour better. That warm tone is really lovely.
Very nice artworks! I love the cow. The sketchbooks seem really nice, I was thinking about getting them, but I never came around to do so. Yesterday I acutally saw that Hahnemühle came out with a sketchbook (at least here in germany) with paper which is 100 % cotton (250g/m²). But thats very very expensiv, well I want it anyway now.
@@BeckyTregear In the US they look like they will be reasonable! They only market some of their products in the USA, and other things are ridiculously expensive, but I think they are marketing their products aimed at urban sketchers more widely around the world. Hope they become available for you!
I watched so many videos of you,but never saw you infront of your camera,your hair looks very nice☺ I love Hahnemühle paper,I have a toned watercolor paper sketchbook too,but I have no idea what I should draw/paint in it. The Logo is a rooster,because Hahn,means rooster in German😊
Thank you! I am mostly camera shy but I am trying to be more confident and brave, haha. I'd also just had my hair cut for the first time in many, many months! 😂 Thank you for telling me that Hahn means rooster, I love finding out the reasons for logos. ❤️ (I also hope I pronounced it properly).
hi there.. i've been using the grey toned paper, and i love it so much.. it's sturdy enough for like and wash, and also for my gouache paintings .. it's such a nice cool subtle grey so it just adds to the finished piece.. I bought two separate pads of the same paper, because i sell my pieces and is easier if they're on separate pieces of paper.. enjoy playing with these books.. I'm sure you'll love them .. thanks for the video.. norakag , here 👍👍
Great video Becky, I really like your sketches, and learned more about how the warm or cool tones of the paper affect color palettes; which makes me wonder if the snail might have popped more on the gray paper. I wasn't even aware of toned watercolor sketchbooks; definitely want to purchase some. I'm curious to see more ink, gouache, and watercolor paintings💕😁!
I will try a snail on the grey to see if it makes a difference! I only discovered the toned watercolour books by chance late last year. I don't know if any other paper companies make them. They probably will soon, lol.
@@BeckyTregear Here's hoping, and I'm excited to see the results! I'm going to do the same with two pieces on toned tan, I had trouble with. Wow, this must be a new type of sketchbook paper then, and I hope they do produce more lol. Thank you again Becky💕😁!
Haha! 😂 Oh gosh, that’s a hard question! I think it will depend on if you want to use watercolours or dry media like pencils, or a combination. Strathmore mixed media journals are quite good, Clairefontaine Goldline is another brand of sketchbook I like. Anything with cotton watercolour paper…aahhh there are so many options out there! 😱
@@BeckyTregear Oh BOY! I just went online and the range of stuff available is incredibly daunting! Why cant they make it simple? You said in one of your videos that the paper is the place to spend the money and after trying to do watercolour in my existing note books (even though they are 160gsm) its just not cutting the mustard. The watercolour just isn't flowing. Not that my paints are the best, but still there just isn't any movement on the paper I'm using. I will have to invest but oh dear... which sketchbook to get! and now you've sent me down the rabbit hole of coloured pencils!!! ugh!
@@makeroomtogrow It’s so daunting going into the sketchbook wormhole! Another one I’ve thought of is the Stillman & Birn range. Beta in particular is suitable for watercolours. 200-300 gsm is the best sort of thickness for wet media paper. 😊
Wow 8 different paintings, you were busy! I actually like how small they are because they don't seem as intimidating to start and finish. Is the paper in them rough like coldpressed? I'm wondering if colored pencil would layer over top watercolor on them?
Thank you, I was pretty exhausted by the end of that lot (I can hear it in my voice at the end of the video, lol). Smaller books are definitely less intimidating. The paper does have a rougher cold press texture so pencils aren't very smooth on it, but I imagine they'd be ok over the top of watercolour with a little burnishing? I guess I am adding that to the list of things to try in a future video. 😂
Ooo! New sketchbooks! How do the new sketchbooks stand up against Derwent Inktense? I love doing many layers, at least 10 layer of colours, have been gessoing heavyweight paper but would love a proper sketchbook.
I got the new super granulating sets, some in tubes and some half pans, because yikes to 18 bucks per tube...but I've been combining desert brown and desert green in my abstract horses, and holy moly they are amazing. I am a beginner painter and I love watercolor paints so much. I have a great transparent m. graham set that was sold wet paint, for regular stuff, though I had to add Cobalt teal, which is very stinky..I can't get enough of granulation though.
I love granulating watercolours! 💜 I would very much like to get the new Supergranulating sets but they're just a bit too expensive at the moment and I'll have to wait for a sale or something, lol.
I'm pretty sure I've painted that exact same snail that you painted in the tan sketchbook in mine! What a funny coincidence. I enjoy toned watercolor paper a lot but I have to admit that I was extremely disappointed with the quality of the paper. I'm no stranger to cheap cellulose watercolor paper but the toned Hahnemühle paper doesn't even feel like it's meant for watercolor to me. It feels like painting on drawing paper...
I think the snail came from Pixabay so it's likely to be one of the really popular images which pops up on the first page, haha. Yes I would say the paper would be much more difficult to use in larger sizes and it's most definitely not as smooth flowing as cotton paper. But in these smaller books I really didn't have any problems and the watercolour worked well enough for sketchy purpose. A fair bit of warping though!
lol dont get on the angry cow' bad side, might headbutt you I've used toned paper fr coloured pencils but never thought to for watercolour, for some reason my brain just wants to add white to the paper for highlights
