As you can imagine, my father was very happy to take some of these supplies home - he now has a box of gouache, a box of oil pastels, and the two small boxes of markers (including the bunny pin, lol). He may well end up with more markers once I've gone through them all and made up a giant set. There will be plenty of remaining duplicate colours, I'm sure!
Congratulations 🎉Arrtex, what a generous gift! It’s awesome you now have a wonderful supply of the brush markers you needed. 👍🏼 One of the things I’ve learned, when I have duplicate supplies, they aren’t as precious as they are when I only have one. Takes away the “fear” of not having it any more so it’s easier to use and create beautiful works of art! Have fun! Enjoy going through them and creating your rainbow of markers! 👍🏼 Fran
Hi, Becky! I watched this yesterday, but didn't get a chance to comment. What a box of goodies!!!! Skimming through the comments and your replies, I'm really glad that you've decided to share these locally, especially because you've said that they are mega-expensive in Australia. I think sharing them with friends is a really good way to go, but as others have said, don't forget to keep a few spares for yourself. I'd love to hear your dad's thoughts when he has tried his new supplies. Hopefully, the sick family members are recovering well? Hope the cats have enjoyed all their Christmas treats, too. Ours always loved their share of the Christmas roast beef. Special occasions were the only time that they had the same meat as we did, and they always knew when those occasions were. They'd be rubbing round my legs as soon as it came out of the oven, but they had to wait until we were served, so they had it with us (ie near, not at, the table! ). They always finished before we did, though. I had to keep an eye on them so that the one who finished first didn't try to get at the other one's bowl!!!
I'm sure he'll enjoy them! I can't wait to try the watercolours and gouache. I've used some of the markers and they're great too! I guess people are getting better? Haven't heard much for a few days - a lot of it going around though. Nick went to his work's Christmas party a few weeks ago, and that turned into a super spreader event, but somehow he and I have managed to avoid catching any lurgies over Christmas, thankfully! Cats enjoyed their snippets of dinner and Gandalf sat on the chair next to me for most of it. It was his third birthday yesterday!
What a fun parcel to receive! Sounds like you’ll be able to put the items to good use too… lucky for your dad too, that’s fantastic there were some duplicates for him! I think the postage would be crazy, I’d be sharing locally, or storing them for backups later.
40lbs of art supplies!!😮😂 it was like a never ending box! Especially the amount of markers, that is insane. I am glad your dad can make use of some of them! It would be fun if you sent some of these to other Australian art RU-vidrs. Then the postage wouldn’t be too ridiculous, and maybe they could open them on their channels also🤔
Wow, what a haul! So glad you can finally get stuck into the world of alcohol markers! I think giving it to your friends who'd want the spares/extras is a great idea, though you could probably keep some yourself in case a pen runs out or something down the line and then you'd have replacements. I've got Copics and Ohuhu's so I know it's pretty fun to play with. Happy arting this next year!
This haul is insane! It’s amazing and hilarious at the same time. What makes it even better was that fact that it was complimentary. Enjoy your goodies. Duplicates are good because you don’t have any refills. If you plan on giving them away it might be better to give the away locally. Shipping from Australia around the world might be prohibitively expensive. Who knows, it might be cheaper if people bought their own supplies instead of paying for shipping! 😅
Haha yes the international shipping rates are astronomical. Local giveaways or I'll keep spares. I had to drag the box through the house because it was too heavy to lift. 🤣
I kind of just left it for a few days because my brain couldn't comprehend the amount of boxes in there, lol! I am looking forward to using the gouache. 🙂
Holy moly merry seasonal haul...that box was quite a art haul..lol...really enjoyed this video..the company really does a job with thier different lines of markers...quite amazing..mikelle art mom✍🎨👩🎨
That is very nice of Arrtx to send you all this materials so you can produce beautiful artwork for us to see ❤❤ I will definitely consider to buy their products next time I shop. Happy New Years Eve for all 😊
Hi Becky, I am so glad you received these art supplies. What a wonderful gift. I bet your Dad was really happy to get some art supplies. I think giving away the art supplies you aren't keeping to your local area is better than paying an exorbitant amount of money to ship them.
@Becky Tregear Art I do think so. Maybe to a library or other social organization. Is there a senior center that could use them? Or even so a giveaway for Australians only.
What a gorgeous surprise for you and wow so many markers .. I'm keen to get some of those.and the vision paints omgosh !!! They're gorgeous too ..well-deserved enjoy
@@donnabulman3690 They were some of my favourites in there! I gave Dad one of the gouache boxes and I'll keep the other for review in a future video. I am so curious to try them!
Well A Very Merry Christmas To You!! :D Oh My!! what a wonderful gift from Arrtx!! I actually had that gouache set on my wish list but none of my family got it for me sadly, so I can't wait to see a future video about them :) I'm also excited to see them watercolours in action, and a giveaway would be nice but please don't do it if it means your out of pocket, I'm just as happy to see what you come up with using them :D
That is a crazy amount of art supplies! congrats! I am super intrigued about the watercolours, can't wait to se more about those. As for all the duplicates, what if you broke down some of the big sets into cute curated little palettes of maybe 6 and send them out that way? Would be cheaper to ship. Or do you have a Patreon? You could maybe gift little sets to your patrons. Just some thoughts.
That's amazing. I've been coveting those gouache paints so I'm jealous xD Can't wait to see what you do with them. I'd love to see some mixed media art and seeing some marker painting from you too.
@@BeckyTregear a man of good taste xD Glad you can share it with him. I hope you and your family have a wonderful new years eve and a happy new year since I probably will miss the next video. See you next year :)
@@tempest6781 I haven't even finished making the next video...I hope it'll be done on time but I am also on a break so there we go, haha! Have a happy New Year 😊
Merry Christmas becky, I've been ill all over Christmas with flu so havnt played with my goodies yet, just keep staring at them from the soffa lol. You did great there, hope we see some of these in action soon
Oh no, that's no fun! Quite a lot of family members have been sick with colds or covid and so Christmas Day was only about half the people...but with all the food, doh! So many leftovers. 😬 I hope you're starting to feel better!
Merry arty Christmas! I got fancy watercolor paper, a 76 set of luminance pencils (!!!) and some opaque watercolors from kohinor. I’m curious about the gray toned watercolor for sure. 👍🏻. Having used some pan pastels and struggled a bit with the twist caps getting stuck I hope the same thing isn’t an issue with your guoache pots!
Oooh that sounds amazing, especially the big set of Luminance! The pan pastel lids are more annoying to take off than these gouache ones which are a bit easier to grasp. Having said that, I haven't used them properly and had the experience of taking lids on and off in rapid succession, so time will tell! So far so good though.
@@BeckyTregear I'm loving the Luminance. I already had two 20 sets (portrait and regular) and a smattering of green pencils, so it's lovely to have them all, now! Also that's good to know about the gouache pots being easier to use~ I mistakenly got a small set of pan pastels for my Dad for his birthday but he has arthritic hands and managed to get one of them stuck right away and could barely get them open in the first place. Fortunately when I contacted the company they were very gracious about sending me a replacement for free, even though it likely wasn't their fault entirely (and I made sure they knew I understood that, too). I think my Dad gave up on those not long after, sadly. But I'd definitely give the company an A+ for customer service!
I am so happy for you do you but he deserves this more than you are an aussie finally getting the big box of art supplies from a art supplier. I’ve been wanting to get my hands on these for so long the only problem with this brand is that it seems to be really hard to find and buy in Australia and if you can luckily find something on Amazon it’s really expensive do you know any other way of being able to buy these products or maybe giving the company some feedback about making it more available to the Australian public?
I've been reminding them every time we're in contact that many people in Australia want their supplies too! I think some items are on Ali Baba which lately has been a lot cheaper and might be worth checking out.
I don't know watercolour, but have been learning alcohol markers and think they actually share some common techniques, so I think you will be fine. It's all about starting light and building up layers and I think that will work well for you. Blending might be similar to colour pencil too.
That was a great unexpected Christmas present. Is your dad like markers? Or you could sell some of them, the price of the shipping out of Australia. Have an exciting week trying all of this lot. The watercolours look enticing.
He's definitely going to like markers now, lol!! I gave him the little boxes along with the gouache and pastels, so he's very happy. I still have hundreds of markers to organise, but they're really lovely and I've done a few small artworks with them already, heheh.
My wonderful idea of what you should do with this all is a giveaway of all the duplicates brush markers sets that complete the whole range of colors and pick me as the winner of course 😄😁
Maybe I'm too cynical but this doesn't really scream "we had leftover stock" to me because these are products that they still sell and if they wanted to get rid of them, then a good sale would have achieved that. Contacting a RU-vidr, going to the effort of sending this heavy stuff to them and making sure it's a little bit of everything and not 10 items that didn't sell..... That screams cheap advertising to me. Probably hoping you'll keep showing the products in videos and do a giveaway with the duplicate items or give them to artist friends to introduce the brand to new people. I don't like this type of advertising on social media..
Oh very cynical, haha! But maybe you're right. I think because they're "anniversary sets" they may have gone too far past that particular date. Otherwise many of the sets are definitely still available. All I know is that I need to find somewhere to store all of these, lol!
I went through the whole lot and made a large set with one of each colour, kept a second set for spares, and gave the rest away. I took them to my colouring group and everyone took a bunch of pens so they've been distributed as much as possible. 😁 But yes...soooo many red shades. 😂
