My Color Swatch Book 

Excellent color swatch book. You really do a wonderful job keeping all your items organized very well. I wish I could do that. Thanks for sharing.

I loved seeing your swatch book. I have one also but mine is a little simpler. One thing I have added which I really enjoy is a zippered pencil case in the front. Inside I keep a small color wheel and a few pamphlets that I wanted to keep.

I want and desperately need a book like yours! You are soooooo organized! Just love all that you do!

Love your swatch book. I have something similar, but I have my markers and pencils separated. I'm not a fan of the Color-it pencils. I love Sandy's Hex Charts! Thanks for sharing.

You did a great job not only making the swatch book but sharing with us Thanks ❤️

Wow how organised are you, I just have a little pad notebook with all mine in I might have to upgrade mine lol thanks for sharing x

I am in awe of your organization and cataloging expertise. This offers a great many ideas for taming our growing mass of art supplies. I am sure your workspace is equally as orderly as your swatch book; maybe one day you'll give us a peek. Thanks Lisa! Lisa from NC

Now what can I say … an artist’s bible! I am new to all this professional drawing but have only this week treated myself to 3 full sets of Derwents, Prismacolours, and Polycromos. I am yet to receive them but have to organise myself and do exactly what u have done. I am in complete awe. It satisfies the ocd in me also. Wondering if u printed on normal printer paper or do I source a special type? Also wondering if u can send me ur lists of pencils swatches. It’s ignited me to get organised from the get go. Wanting to thank you for this video. It’s very very very helpful and I now know what direction to go in. I also noticed u said that u keep your pencils in cases rather than the boxes / tins they come in. Can u perhaps show how u do this too. Organisation is the key to enjoyment. I am a teacher and everything has to have its spot and I trust u are someone that is highly organised. Bravo. Many many thanks sent via the cloud. 🌷

Wow,I have found my match! I'm extremely organized too (it gives me peace, it really does, it's my zen gardening if you will) and I'm just starting my swatch binder as we speak and thought I'd let some youtube videos play in the background of people showing their swatch books/binders etc. And I'm laughing because I made dividers too! I intend to seperate by mediums as well. This is so therapeutic. I've been feeling very depressed lately, to a point where I am at times dysfunctional and this is exactly what my mind needs right now, some control coupled with the feeling of productivity all while doing something enjoyable that is not too demanding. Thanks for sharing your swatches and organization tactics, when you said you would email out your lists, oh my gosh, you must have gotten so many requests... how kind of you to offer that, you really went out of your way being helpful. I'll definitely be subscribing and looking at some of your other videos, can't wait to see what else you have on your channel. But first, time to swatch 😊 Should only take a few days since I'm starting completely from nothing and will probably use all my weird different sized swatch cards to stick onto my pallets. Since I just started your video and don't know if you do this as well but another art youtuber I watch (emily artful) did something I really like a lot in concept: she made swatches for her pallettes in the size of the palette ca and laminated them and stuck them to the bottom of the palette with velcro so when she uses them she can just snap them off and they are extremely durable due to being laminated. I thought that was a brilliant idea and may make some additional palette specific swatchcards like that. I think it's especially useful for plein air painters. Anywho, long paragraph but wanted to share my thoughts. 🖌🎨 Edit: (some tips of sorts) -Wanted to also add, what I will be adding to my swatch binder is a color printout of the full range of available colors for that brand/collection so that way I can take note and see when it comes up, which color I want to add to my collection. Since I only have a black laserprinter I took screenshots with my phone eg of the full range of nevskaya palitra white nights and will be going to walgreens to print out a photo of that screenshot. I know it is possible to get these color charts for free from some retailers like jacksons but they were out of stock so I'll just invest the est 10 cents for a photo printout - also, because you had mentioned you can only send your lists in a msword format which I'm assuming is .doc or .docx, anybody who has a google account can use their free google docs which lets you open and edit all kinds of formats like excel spreadsheets or pdf or word documents. I was so happy to find that when I was a student that couldn't afford ms office - when making my swatch sheets, I cut a letter size piece of paper according to medium I'll be using and I will make enough squares for the entire color selection offered so that when I do expand what I have now I don't have to make a whole new sheet or add in colors out of order, I'll have some blanks inbetween now but I prefer that to having a green pop up somewhere after black. That would just irk me unbelievably 😂

My OCD sister I don't even have all my markers and pens yet (in the mail) but I have labels and I got paint swatches to try and match colors because many of the sets I got have no color names. I'm gonna spend a good part of today matching colors and making labels for the markers I have while I wait for the rest of my supplies and my swatch book to come in the mail. And after everything is finally named and properly labeled I will go on a swatch fest. I'm so excited. Now I'm not sure if when you say OCD you mean you actually are or if its just a saying, but I've been diagnosed for years and I understand you either way. Its so satisfying to have everything in an order that suites you.

I have the new Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends. It takes a bit to figure out how to easily get to the middle value. I had been wishing for an easy way to carry my set (ALL 200#) of them. And this is the answer! I love the case. I wish I could use your color chart. I don't have MSWORD. I am a new subscriber. I recently saw your first post on the Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends and subscribed. I enjoyed your video and look forward to more!!! And now I know how to set up my own swatch book. This is great.

Woohoo! I am also a swatching queen so I really loved this video. I hardly have any pencils but I do have a TON of markers and they are all swatched. I bought some pre printed swatch books on Amazon and my 11 year old daughter designed covers for each, so I have alcohol markers in one book, water based markers in the second and glitter, metallics and gels in the third. I also did a lot of research on the Sharpie colours so I’d be really intrigued to see if your ones are the same as what I came up with. We maybe have different colour ranges though as I’m in the U.K.

So in love with your swatch book! I also have a swatch book but it's not as clean and organized lol! Thank you Lisa for sharing and giving us a look inside your swatch book. =)

My God woman, is there a pencil you don’t have? I love your book. I purchased a small set of pastel pencils and found that I like to work with the pastels. Would not mind a FC or Stabilo pastel pencil set. You must have a large room to store your stuff....I too have OCD but my house is small so.....I do not have a dedicated “woman cave” that I can call my own. Love my Bics too and have both sizes, the fine and regular tip.

Love your swatch book Love from India

Wow, your video is packed with so much useful info! Not only is it about your swatching method but, as a bonus, you share invaluable info about the swatched items. The Chameleon markers seem fun and interesting, look forward to watching the videos you made on them as well. A couple questions: What is CreateSpace paper? Do you put your markers in cases and if you do, is there one you prefer? Thank you! :)

I broke down and got a label maker. Couldn’t tell what pencils were in which case, and it was making me nuts. 😆 I don’t swatch. Heaven forbid if I ever do begin swatching..... I don’t have enough time to actually color as it is! 😝 Enjoyed listening and seeing your swatch books, tho. 👍

I love you having OCD LOL...you know I emailed you!!!! Thanks for sharing with us Lisa :)

Thanks for sharing. I loved it.

I did the Sharpie thingy too...😂😂😂...I’m really bad cos I put them in colour order with the Bic...did it with the Koi and Pitt pens...SN Illustrator and colorista...One day...I will do it right across every range...can you imagine?...😂😂😂

Lisa this is amazing! Thanks for sharing this

You are awesome. I thought my notebook was neat, but you make mine look like a kindergartner's!! I'll be contacting you for sone of your chart if you don't mind sharing!! You have really put a lot of work into this..

Thank you. Very helpful❣️

I can totally understand how much effort you put in making sharpie color chart with names, I'm trying from a long time and not successful yet So please sent me the sharpie one Thanks again and again ❤️

i really enjoyed this video.. I just found your page by accident today.. and wish I would have found you a long time ago.. I just getting into alcohol markers.. and love this swatch system... I will show you mine when it is complete! excited to watch more of your videos - could you please email me your MS WORD - sent you an email Hugs

I would love for you to do some videos with pan pastels... I just received my set of 80 and I’m scared to use them lol. I still need to get the sets that did not come with the 80.... looking at your swatches I really like the colors in those sets! You would think for all the $ spent on the entire set that they would have included those :(. Please do videos soon using pan pastels....thanks

Well done!

Oh I am subscribe to your channel

I tried emailing you at the email address but it would not work:(

OCD.... Oh Crap Darn.....

I tried to contact you by email. It came back?

Hi Lisa I love your setup beautiful done 👌👌 I have your email address will get with you you have several ones I would like thank you so much for sharing with everyone happy colorful creative hugs to you