Some of My Favourite Watercolour Paints - A Gentle Swatching Video (Plus Art From The Past Week)

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A quiet video, showing a couple of sketches I've done this past week, plus some watercolour swatching I just felt like doing!
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@jude6752 5 месяцев назад

Thank you Helen, I hope you are feeling recovered and this helped relax you, it certainly was lovely to watch and listen to. I don't know how you paint such perfect circles!!

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Aww, thank you xx

@janemcgrath9615 5 месяцев назад

A beautiful relaxing video,just what’s needed sometimes,a lovely chocolate box of colours ❤

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

What a lovely way to put it!

@selmag5819 5 месяцев назад

whatever happened the past few days, I wish you all the best and salute you for taking care of yourself by doing a relax-swatch. i believe i am right when i say: we are here for it all. we are here if you need us.

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

This really touched me - thank you so much xx

@msfrehel8758 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for swatching - I love watching and I also find it so soothing and relaxing to look at the beautiful watercolours! All the best for you!🎨🌼

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much!

@jomassey4207 4 месяца назад

The floral painting is so cheerful😊 love it! Jo.

@helencryer 4 месяца назад

Thanks!

@JLB0880 5 месяцев назад

That quinacridone deep gold is one of my favorites too! I’m in the southwest US, so I get to use it unmixed often for desert landscapes, especially sunsets :) all the others are gorgeous too!

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Mmmm, lovely!!! I love your part of the world!

@susanorban3059 5 месяцев назад

Hi Helen you make the most perfect circles! I really enjoyed watching you do this video. Loved all the gorgeous colors! Thank you for a beautiful video! Susan from Az❤🏜️

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Haha, thank you!!

@templemoore3799 5 месяцев назад

1st…hugs for the rough days you’ve had. 2nd…I was missing you this week & so happy to see you here for coffee today. You picked some very lovely colors to enjoy and I appreciate you sharing them.I luv them all, but that Quin Violet vibrates. I think swatching interesting colors in a slow relaxing way is a great active meditation. I’m pretty sure swimming in such luscious colors sets off a good dose of comforting signals in the brain. I even think there’s something to painting circles too. I haven’t read it fully, but your calm swatching reminds me of this book “ Shodo: The Quiet Art of Japanese Zen Calligraphy”. It’s been a year already, meeting Mike. Nice to have an in person arty friend. Take good care of yourself this week Helen & I hope next week is better for you. 💜🤗💜

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Thank you, thank you!! You leave the loveliest comments, and I appreciate it. It was definitely a meditative thing to do - I think we know what we need, if we listen. I'll look up the book. All of my kids are making it home this weekend, and in a few days I'm going to Greece, so I'm pretty hopeful!!

@silkspinner7010 5 месяцев назад

When the Schminke Ultramarine violet was wet it looked blue, when it dried it looked violet. Always amazing how the colours alter when dry.

@nottaholiday 5 месяцев назад

Thank you again for such a lovely video, I hope it was as soothing for you as it was for me. I was also quite chuffed to see that I share some of your favourites, although the Shire Grey might now need to come home with me. 😀 I really like your philosophy that playing and experimenting with our materials is a passion of itself. Hope all is ok

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Thanks ever so much! Yes, the Shire Grey is rather lovely, I'm afraid!

@kookatsoonjan 5 месяцев назад

love your flowers.....those circles inside the squares...mesmerizing...thanks

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@awatercolourist 5 месяцев назад

For paints that don’t rewet well, try adding glycerine, honey or Winsor and Newton blending medium. Check the videos of Sarah Burns Studio and Painting with Mher for their experiments and thoughts. For the glycerine, Mher recommends vegetable glycerine, I think… Not sure though.

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Thanks! I'm a bit scared of messing with the ingredients of my expensive paints, but might cautiously experiment a bit.

@awatercolourist 5 месяцев назад

@@helencryer Just experiment on a pea-sized dollop. Use a tooth pick to pick up the tiniest amount of additive and add it to that dollop.

@JulieToye-gy6ij 5 месяцев назад

Huge hugs 💖🤗💖 love swatching!!!!

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much!!

@user-fp4rk2bj8r 5 месяцев назад

I love your page of flowers, lovely to think of spring on the way. Swatching was just what I needed to see and I did some of my own today (watched this video last night)

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

I'm glad you got to do some too!!

@michaelinglis3566 5 месяцев назад

It seems you were sitting in "my" spot when you painted the Mount , more lovely memories , thank you , Helen . Mike in Exeter xx

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Sorry for pinching it!! Thanks Mike!

@teekierudite5108 5 месяцев назад

Always love your paintings, they come out so beautifully. Could even make mini Easter cards out of the flower painting. Just gorgeous. Keep up the wonderful work!

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

That's a good idea - to chop up my big painting! Thank you!

@teekierudite5108 5 месяцев назад

@@helencryer Like when you make small paintings, you could sell your flower painting as small gift cards.

@lourdesgallegos7508 5 месяцев назад

Lovely and so relaxing!

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@delyta. 5 месяцев назад

Oooh. Love that lunar blue. You are amazing at painting circles, I must say!

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Haha, thanks!

@lisaharner3720 5 месяцев назад

I love a good swatching video. This was delicious! ❤I have some of those colors but need a few more of your collection. 😊

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

🙂

@FaithAnnNB 5 месяцев назад

Beautiful selection of colours… you have a few of my favourites in there (lunar blue, quin gold deep, galaxy pink, shire grey, the list goes on 😅). Good for you in downsizing your supplies!! One of my nieces recently took an interest in watercolour, so I think I have someone to share items that get neglected in my art cabinet.

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

The thing is, I have MANY favourites - probably enough for lots more videos like this!! It feels really good to let go of my less used stuff. But I may have gone down a pastel rabbit hole the last couple of days though!

@FaithAnnNB 5 месяцев назад

@@helencryer I don’t have enough room to get into pastels, my art cabinet is full of just watercolour, gouache and a few coloured pencils! (Too many sketchbooks, I think 😆.)

@PatriciaVoinescuArt 5 месяцев назад

Love the texture of this paper😍

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

It's yum, isn't it?!

@PatriciaVoinescuArt 5 месяцев назад

@@helencryer Yum yum☺️

@colourfab 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for this utterly relaxing and delicious swatching! I loved your paintings at the beginning, too. I need that paper!!! And I'll be getting some of those colours you swatched, too. ❤

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@JenniferHRoss 5 месяцев назад

I do love a good swatch video. Some of those colours are absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@tdelphia1 3 месяца назад

This was fun...lots of colors/brands I haven't used. I love seeing DS's Piemontite gen in there...one of my all-time favorite landscape colors. You have no oranges! I don't use orange often on its own, but I can't live without having Schmincke's Transparent Orange (PO 71) just because it's such a beautiful color 😊

@helencryer 3 месяца назад

I rarely use orange or red paints, though I do own some. Quin deep gold is orange enough for me!

@kelliebach5240 5 месяцев назад

We have such similar taste in color, and I love the mission gold paints as well, and feel like they are an excellent value compared to others.

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Individually they cost a lot where I am, but I thought my set of Pure Pigment tubes was brilliant value!

@kelliebach5240 5 месяцев назад

@@helencryer yes! My husband got me the 36 set for Christmas and I absolutely love them. I was saving for it over the 24 set because so many of the additional 12 colors granulate, and are so nice and mixtures.

5 месяцев назад

I love Isaro watercolours! I have 3 of their pinks and I'm planning to buy a few more tubes as soon as I can ❤ As for materials I don't want... I donate them. There's an art college nearby and they're always happy to have some freebies and I know they make use of it.

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

I would love to try more Isaro colours, but I really don't need them - I just picked out a few colours that seemed most different to what I have. That's great!

@kyliescolouringindownunder3098 5 месяцев назад

Hi Helen they are just beautiful and very relaxing to watch thank u for sharing I have a couple watercolour paints you have shown by SCHMINCKE pink galaxy and the purple one can’t remember the names lol as I’m new to all this

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Thanks ever so much! I love that you're at the start of your watercolour journey!

@SN-sz7kw 5 месяцев назад

This was lovely. Thank you. I have a special fondness for Isaro paints - I get the most Turner-esque results with them, without even trying. Esp the Cad yellow lemon. Also, the Neptune 8 was my first watercolor brush years ago. I still come back to it though the tip is now less precise. It is the one that feels perfectly natural to my hand. 💗

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

I don't have many Isaro paints, but do like the ones I have!

@loriknoke8021 5 месяцев назад

Oohhh your paint tins are fabulous. Love the really large ones too. Could you share where you bought them?

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Hi, they are all my old Winsor & Newton pencil tins, of which I spray painted the lids.

@loriknoke8021 5 месяцев назад

Thank you

@zenlife1200 5 месяцев назад

I've been thinking about your swatch albums recently. I really like idea of having a large swatch of each color but I think I commented on your video that I didn't think I could justify having a large album for so few paint colors. I did have a look around and saw smaller albums with 4 cards per page but it's just not the same. For a while now though, I've been wanting to do some of those color mixing strip charts that Sarah Burns does. The ones where she takes 2 colors like lemon yellow and cobalt blue or something and adds a little bit of blue to the yellow all across the chart until it finishes with the pure blue. She uses them to help her pick colors for limited palettes. I like the idea but don't want to store strips of paper or fill a sketchbook with just these mixing charts so I was thinking I might try your card album idea for these. A page could have a color swatch of the main color, like lemon yellow and then have mixing charts of lemon yellow plus my mixing color in each of the other slots. I've ordered an album from Amazon, got to wait a couple of weeks for delivery, but hopefully by the end of April I'll have an album of swatches and mixing charts. I'm really looking forward to starting this project.

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

That sounds like a really gorgeous idea, and project to work on!

@ChantelleArts 5 месяцев назад

such a satisfying video, I love it ☺☺☺

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@nancyrolfe3033 5 месяцев назад

I think it’s a great idea to add honey to watercolors that are very dry..W&N…I’m going to have to first try this on less expensive paints…. I’m curious if it changes the pigment or possibly weakens it??? I AM going to do some research as this peaked my interest. Prayers for a better day tomorrow, Helen, and that the swatching was relatively relaxing for you!!! It’s always been good for me to swatch OR watch…. Again, sending my prayers and wishes for blessed days ahead, Nancy Rolfe Nancy Rolfe

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Please let me know how you get on! I'm a bit nervous to try it on expensive paints too!

@jessbutterfly1934 5 месяцев назад

Absolutely beautiful can we do it again? Would love to go to 3 large swatches of all your different colour families that you own.

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

My three favourites from each colour family? In planning on doing something similar so that more colours are represented.

@jessbutterfly1934 5 месяцев назад

@@helencryer bloody AutoCorrect. I actually meant it would be nice for you to watch out all your blues that you own probably in order of the ones you don’t use all like least to the ones you use a lot and love the most and then you go through each colour family that you have like a series.

@awatercolourist 5 месяцев назад

7:55 That is fascinating!! PO73 is pink in tints, not orange or peach.

@helencryer 5 месяцев назад

Yep! I made dupes for all the Holbein pastel watercolour set once and discovered this! (I got made to take that video down from RU-vid though - apparently my dupes were too good 😂)

@awatercolourist 5 месяцев назад

@@helencryer 😄