That is so funny - what you wrote about the whiskers! They give him a very distinguised look. I actually think this turned out as nice as your painting on paper, just a little different. Shows how skilled you are that you can just wing it! Thanks for all the links to your other videos. I really enjoyed this one and the other koala. 💙🐨
Love the video Liz. I've painted 4 Etchr Sketchbooks, but in acrylics. Will try watercolour on the next one! Have a wonderful time when you come "down under". I'm sure no-one will criticize your koala for being deformed! Jane 😊
Thank you Jane! I got back on Sunday after an amazing trip, so am doing a flip through of my sketches in the next few days. The book stood up to six weeks of tough treatment really well. It’s grubby but in one piece!
What a wonderful video! loved watching you decorate the cloth cover so beautifully. Your Koala turned out so GREAT... the colors, the soft edges, the pen work... just create such a vibrant lively final product. So well done and so helpful to someone getting ready to paint his own Etchr cover. Thank you also for the Borland tip. It was unknown to me but I now know to what to get and how to apply it. Thanks so much, Ms. Chaderton. I plan to watch your Koala painting vid next. :)
Dear Liz, I have been following watercolour videos for several years and have just discovered your channel. So impressed I have ordered two of your books. Thanks Yvonne
We are back now and had an amazing time - we both loved Australia. If you want to see some of my sketches, I've done a flick through: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qul1AagQ4Nw.html
Love the way it turned out. Really like the intensity of the colors. You are amazing in how you handled this unpredictable surface and made an exquisitely beautiful painting. Well done.
I plan a little flick through upon my return. I am at Sydney airport about to fly to Bangkok and only have 2 pages left! might have to get an extension….
if I were doing it again, I reckon preparing with watercolour ground would make life a lot easier and if you have painted it before it would cover up the previous too.
my reference photo looked like it had whiskers and I emphasised them for fun. I now understand that koalas don’t have whiskers and what I observed were long facial hairs…. the person who pointed this out (see other comment here) did say she checked her photos and half seemed to have them 😳. oh well I can’t take them off and it has to be a ‘live and learn’ lesson. Just as you have the drop bear, perhaps I have the whiskered koala? 😊
Love your cover so much, and yes, people that will criticise your koala won’t be your friends 😅how long will you be travelling? I sure will be missing seeing new art by you while you’re away
@@LizChadertonArt my father was a birder and I love birds. My mother was an artist and I do watercolor. Seems like your book is a marriage made in heaven. ☺😆
Hiya, I looked at the photo again (it’s on the community tab here) and it really looks like it has whiskers! I didn’t think I was making them up, though I did emphasise them in my painting. But Google agrees with you and says they don’t! Oh well too late. This one is the special whiskered koala found in remote areas of New South Wales…… very rare and exclusive 😳
Your Koala has lovely character whiskers… There is a lovely sanctuary in Brisbane if you get there. You can feed kangaroos in a field and even book to hold a koala. Maybe your photo shows longer facial hair but I’ve not seen long whiskers. ♥️✨🐨
Liz, I realize this is your profession, so you probably give less thought to your ability to focus on your tasks and how you decide on what you decide on creating. But it would be great if you could make a video for someone like myself, a self-admitted lover of art, but so scatterbrained that I find it hard to sit down and concentrate or get into a creative rhythm that feels like I'm making any sense whatsoever with my choices of creation ... for example, my primary goal is to become a better painter, but I sometimes stall out before I get started in part because of distractions, but also in part because I don't feel a sense of purposeful direction... or maybe it's overthinking/over-complicating. Perhaps a video on how you do or don't organize (develop) your creativity and process? How you choose the process and why, and/or what others can do to feel more purposeful direction in the idea development phases, and less flopping around with random ideas that you hope just work... and no clear sense of an end goal other than "a nice painting if I get lucky"... What you practice and why, when, how you choose your subjects and why... I can't think of someone better to do this. (Maybe this only makes sense to me 😂)... Thank you in advance!
@@LizChadertonArt Thank you. It seems like a very packed question, I understand... but thanks for considering it. The best artists just go for it and with it. That's where I want to be. Just need some pointed guidance. Thank you kindly, from snowy northeastern USA. 🙏😊❄️
