Excellent info as always. Yes, as we age, less is more. But I love all your videos and learn something from each of them. I had a breakthrough with my mojo the other day (Thank you Jesus!) and am busy painting my beloved Norwegian folk art in oils once again. I need a bigger house so I can have a separate room for each medium! LOL Thanks for your generous sharing heart. You are a GREAT teacher!
I am so excited for these kind of videos. I love all of your videos. You are a wonderful teacher. I purchased a couple of your classes and I will get to do them next week. So excited. I am not an artist or a card maker. I just enjoy coloring. This was a wonderful video!
The "micro" tutorials are going to be popular, I think, because people want just the info. They want an answer or a tip they can use right now in the hour. I like the option of watching both types, and maybe I would watch both, getting the pearl of wisdom nugget, then going back and drawing, painting along with the long vid. Great vid today. Soon I'll try using the huge set of Prismacolor pencils I got from my sister.
I LOVE this idea! You're right about people just tuning out after their brains are "full". As I age I've learned my saturation point and will sometimes pause the video and come back to it, but that's not practical for everyone. Thanks for all your knowledge you so generously share with us!
I’m so glad that I’m not the only one out there that finds too much info can be confusing. So these mini tutorials will be great. I loved this tutorial because of focusing on just one thing. I love the colors you used in your sketch book drawing. Cute card too. I would love to sit with you at your dining room table and color and learn.
So very interesting.....I love the colors and the difference in the papers is a real surprise. I only wish I could draw. Since I can't draw, I spend my time watching your videos and dream.
Stonehenge snowy white is really white (FYI) and I have of BFA in printmaking with an AA in graphics so when you talk about “art” I get what your saying. The thing I like about you is you don’t dumb it down you speak to us as if we are your equals. I have never turned you off like I have done to others who hit my last good nerve. I love your teaching style( that’s why I have taken so many of your classes) you keep doing you and I will keep watching one day I’ll be a patron and get more knowledge from you, your like a well never running dry and I’m the sponge soaking it up. Thanks
I just discovered you in the past year. I know, I'm not sure what rock I've been living under! I have learned so much from watching your videos, but I find as I'm getting older that less is more when it comes to my brain's absorption of information. I love your idea of tiny tutorials for those times I feel like I can't appreciate all the detailed information you are teaching, so thank you for thinking outside the paintbox!! Can't wait to see more. P.S. Watching you color and paint is so mesmerizing and relaxing!
Hi Andrea take one of her classes that you like the medium in, water color ,copic , colored pencils she teaches it all and the best thing the class is there always. I have done some twice and plain to go back again and do things I just have trouble understanding like perspective
Thanks Sandy for a great tutorial. I have been focusing lately on watercolor and Copics, but this video reminds me how nice it is to work in pencils too. I am not a “teacher” either, but loved teaching China painting on porcelain. It’s rewarding when a teacher can verbally break the steps down for the student to “get it” and you see a connect. Keep up the great work, you are an awesome instructor and artist.
Always love your videos, I watch them all, even when you use Copics (I still own none) who knows what I will learn!… I too started following you as a beginner card maker and I am now shifting to watercolor and colored pencil art… slowly 😊 May I suggest leaving some quiet moments in your videos?…. While executing the just mentioned technic? … it could set a different pace for the person listening… But your now mini tutorials are really great, your creativity seems to us limitless and is always a source of inspiration 🥰🌺 Thank you Sandy
Like the shorter more focused concept. I guess I have a short attention span. LOL. Looking forward to seeing more in this format. I did learn something today!
Thank you Sandy, this idea of “bite sized” tutorials is great. I do some IT training for staff in work and definitely find that less is more… I give short half hour training sessions focusing on just one or two things that I want people to take away and the feedback is definitely better than than long 2 or 3 hour sessions. So go for it… I love the soft blend you get with the pencils, just gorgeous. 😘
Last night I was thinking about hand coloring large die cut sentiments instead of ink blending. I wondered if it was possible and how would I go about it. I opened my iPad, went to RU-vid, and there was your video! I must say it was clearly divine intervention 🌟 Thank you for this video!
All your videos are amazing!! Dont worry if you dont hav training to teach art. I have and I cant to do it becouse I dont hav patience hahaha . You have a gift!! Thanks for sharing your art
Love the idea of learning techniques little by little. I'm primarily a card maker but branching out into some mixed media and sometimes, as you stated, there's an information overload. 😊 I really enjoy watching your tutorials. They're very helpful.
Sandy, don't you find Caran d'ache Lumanence and Polychromos to be of higher quality than Prisma colored pencils? Just hoping You have a video where You compare these three pencils. I love Your videos and indeed I learn something from every single video. I'd love to join every patreon from those I learn from. There are at least three that feed my art and creativity. You, Jennifer and Lachri. There are more but at a glance these are three of my go to video producers. Thx for all you do.
Different pencils have different qualities. My favorite color range when looking for bright happy colors is prisma color. These were the pencils are used in college when studying under my professor. I like polychromos but the color range is much smaller. Luminance has an even smaller range but the quality of them is off the charts - and the colors they do have are the ones I prefer for realistic fine art. so everything has its place. 🥰
Sandy, I love the shorter video, because exactly as you said: overload...and it doesn't take much!!! I'd like to know how you can color in all directions yet not show any change in direction on your project! Did I say that right? I love your videos TYFS
It’s because I’m using light pressure and a really sharp pencil - I lighten the pressure when going over places that are already dark and press a little harder to get that sharp point into the white spaces.
When I do storytelling it’s often because I have no words to explain it. A lot of people can watch and see how, so I still post things I can’t explain.
I don’t use blending pencils since they require lots of pressure-‘my hand gets tired. I love the look of soft pencil shown here, or using gamsol. Lots more in my beginner colored pencil playlist. (See the Getting Started video especially.)
