So a lot of people have been curious about the mop brushes, and I figured I should highlight them! They're Art Secret squirrel brushes and the large one I used is a size 6. They soak up water well, and aside from a few hairs falling out when they're still new, they're pretty durable. You can purchase them at their own site or at Aliexpress. You might find slightly cheaper variants of them at other stores on Aliexpress if you dig around. Just search "squirrel mop brush" in the search bar, look for the black ones with orange banding, and see what the reviews say. I've used both - Art Secret branded ones and others - and the quality is similar. Besides that, you can find all the materials I used listed in the description. Much love! - Kathy Aliexpress store: m.aliexpress.com/store/1266879?trace=store2mobilestoreNew Art Secret site store: artsecretshop.com/products/handmade-squirrels-brush?variant=17048932417625
Been using my Art Secret mop set for about four years now... excellent quality for the (then) price. Recently got the shock of my life when I looked to renew them 😲😲😲... damned Covid!
Just in case you'd not had the luxury of hearing it aloud before (and why should you, tbf!) the 'e' in Schmincke is voiced. As if it's Schminck *_-ah._* And the 'bein' in Holbein, rhymes with sign - I know, German is weird, I am very sorry! 🇩🇪 Pronunciation to one side, your layering and texture building is breath-taking, and your brushwork masterly. The portrait reminds me very much of Liv Tyler, and your colour pairings in all three studies are a delight, thank-you! 🙏🏼
You’re clearly a talented artist, and I enjoy watching you paint. What sets your videos apart, however, is your articulate description of the process, materials, and evident passion for what you do.
It amazes me that the start of a watercolor piece can look like just a big blob, like someone spilled something. Then, slowly it takes shape and you sit there like 😲
Your aesthetic is amazing! I loved the story you created with your bird painting, that could be fleshed out into a whole book or graphic novel. Thank you for sharing your vision with us, it's something this world could use a lot more of. Your voice is so calming. Good luck growing your channel. 🦋
You made me smile so hard, thank you. The crow was a tiny snippet of a story idea that I decided to paint rather than write! I adore crow stories and characters and I'm forever trying to will more of them into existence
The way you speak about the subtleties of colors, as if each shade is a repository of memories, emotions, and sense of place, really resonates with me. Love, love, love the color combination, and all the info about what goes into making the paints and how it contributes to the different results. ❤
I agree wholeheartedly! I can tell you are also an artist, writer, and probably an avid reader, as am I. This video took me to surprising places and feelings. Never have I watched a watercolor tutorial that was so sensory and aesthetically pleasant.
Thank you young lady. This is by far the most interesting use of two colors to make three paintings in detail. Paynes Grey is typically a mixture of Ultra Marine blue and Burnt Sienna. I would think the manufacturer probably uses their own mixtures of Burnt Sienna and Ultra Marine Blue to make their version of Paynes Grey. Enough said on my part. I just needed to make a point I guess. I have been painting with watercolors since the early 1990’s and you’ve done a remarkable job with this video. Do some more of these videos and watch your talent grow with many new subscribers as well. I have not purchased a tube of Paynes Grey, I make my own on the pallet with Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine Blue.
Payne's grey is a dark blue-grey colour used in painting. Originally a mixture of iron blue (Prussian blue), yellow ochre and crimson lake, Payne's grey now is often a mixture of blue (ultramarine, phthalocyanine, or indigo) and black, or of ultramarine and burnt sienna. I do not use black in any of my tube paints.
This was an awfully snotty comment. Maybe you need to read things or think a little harder before you post. You started out calling her young lady as if you needed to inform her and then it just became worse. Honestly, think twice.
I usually avoid Paynes grey because it is so opaque but seeing the beauty you create by pairing it with burnt Sienna has made me rethink. I can't wait to try it out, thank you.
Hi! One thing I tried to help me understand pigmentation in individual paints was swatching them in a spectrum of one pan to another that was complementary. So maybe try Swatches going from pure Payne's grey to pure burnt Sienna with as many transitions as you can to get a feel of your paints! Hope that helps you, art is a gift!
Thank you for this informative video comparing the various paints. Your resulting paintings are great, love the tones. And you have a very pleasing voice for narration. 👍
@@boxesofsheep You're most welcome! You need not be self-conscious, your voice is quite complementary to your art. 🙂 And btw, I have subscribed to your channel. 👍 Good luck! 🖌🎨
Wonderful! For me, the flowers in the boot really showed how well these colours work together. And the joke about us all needing flowers in our clothes! I needed that laugh.😃
You absolutely cracked me up with the ascribing to wear foliage comment. I love your style and color mix here, can't wait to get out these paints and play!. This is the first video of yours that I've seen, but I am hooked and subscribed! PS. Years ago for 4-H I organized the kids to perform a play where they could all take part, called The Flower-Town Ball. Yes, all the kids were bedecked in leaves & flowers. Growing out of their shoes, ears, hair & any other gap, crease or crevice we could fill. It was great fun and as soon as I started laughing about ascribing to wear foliage I could see them kids, my 6 & 30 friends, all trailing vines and grass across the stage. Thanks for a great afternoon,
I think I'll subscribe and stay awhile, you are soothing to listen to not all hyper and screamy ( is that a word? Well it should be) I love the old sepia paintings, I have one framed, done by my grandmother in the 1920's I love crows and old rusty stuff, tree trunks and nature. And now I'm an old old thing.😳
I really enjoy your descriptions of how these colors make you feel. I have always loved watercolor because the loose, fadedness of paint reminds me of a memory or a dream... So does your way of describing these colors. Thanks for sharing!
Your video was so interesting to watch, I love that you included the swatches of the color combinations from the several brands ! It's really helpful to see how each of them produces different mixes depending on their pigment composition. I really liked how you explained everything, that was relaxing to watch ! 😊
Kathy, were you inspired by The Little Prince when naming your RU-vid channel? I love the name and think of the aviator and little prince when I visit your channel.❤️ I’m greatly impressed with your skill and your seeming comfort and ease while working with the fluidy pigments. I agree with another commenter, you are unusually skilled at describing and explaining what is going on with the pigment and paper. Plus, your voice is wonderfully soothing. Thank you so much for sharing.
Yes 100%!!! I'm so happy someone caught it! It's one of my fav stories of all time (and I have far too many art prints and collectibles lounging around my apartment). Thank you for your kind words 😊
I thought this, as well! My dad gave me Le Petite Prince when I was about 6 (we're not French lol) and somehow, the illustrations and book itself opened up an even more rich and vivid imagination in me. I've loved it ever since then. ❤
Your videos ...(after watching this one I had to watch others) are beautiful and very informative! Thank you! I began painting probably before you were born...and have studied through the years with some very fine Artist and Teachers...but we never stop learning and I am so grateful for Creatives like you who share their skills with the community!...I too love this combo of paints and all that they can produce! In addition to these two together I also love the combination of Sepia and Indigo...So much can be achieved with either of these combinations! Again thank you for your wonderful video...from the music to your choices in editing...it was so refreshing to watch! ...Blessings, Rus from Pennsylvania ❤️🤓🖌🎨
I enjoyed this video immensely. Now I'm looking for some references photos that grab my interest for this project. My only complaint is I really would have enjoyed seeing the 3rd demo as well. Thank you for the inspiration, and have a wonderful day.
I just discovered your channel and am so glad. I have binge watched all your videos I could find and hope you will make many more. I echo all the many laudatory comments you have received - your voice and the calm feeling it induces. I appreciate the focused comments about the paints and your process, and especially that there is no folksy chit chat and unnecessary talk. The music is so well chosen. This video is my favorite of all I have seen and I hope you will make more that similarly explore different limited color combinations. You are so very talented. Are you a Patreon artist? I would love to support your work monetarily through that kind of subscription. I’m looking forward to seeing so much more from you.
Thank you so much Marilyn! I'm glad you found your way here 😊 I don't currently have a Patreon but it's something I can definitely consider in the near future!
Thank you for this video. So nice to see something that has feeling and intelligence when so much around us now is quick or shallow. And yes, let’s stuff foliage in all the places! I also love the combination of Winsor & Newton payne’s grey and gamboge.
breath taking. I love your confidence, whitch is key, your so truthful when admitting you would of used different colour, ""its not the end of the world, "" love that ...... oh your door may need some oil.😊
And this is why we dont need so many colours! Your work is amazing. I enjoyed your poetical descriptions too. The algorithm popped this up as a suggestion and I am so appy it did. You got a new sub!
This video is stunning, descriptive, clean and creative in its simplest form. Just two colours. Wow the results are superb. Now subscribed to see what comes next. Thanks for sharing. ❤❤
Hello Kathy. Thank you so much for presenting this. This colour combination really caught me once I saw your vid. I am very much into autumn etc. as you described so eloquently. My home is done in these colours (roughly!) and they are colours that really make my heart skip a beat. I will try this combination and if I ever get a kudo on one of my paintings, I will tell people I got this from Kathy S. Keep up the amazing work. And your own humility aside, all 3 of your paintings in this vid were spot on. Even the bird, that you criticized. Be kind to yourself. Keep on wetting pages! Best, John.
Holbein has such a different character to it, while other colors give the character of nature, earth and the „known“ . but just slight green to it and it gives the feeling of „unknown“ something between man and world, as you perfectly described „old buildings, rusted locks etc. seeing such visual and stark differences in colors I wish i had the space and money to own every Brands and every color, but till then thanks to amazing artists 😊like you who can show us the beauty of watercolor.
The whole process of your paint session was absolutely mesmerizing! Such beautiful work! My experience with watercolors is limited and quite disappointing! Nevertheless, I truly enjoy and appreciate watching someone like you perform magic with them! Thank you so much for sharing!❤
I’d love to see you remake this video with burnt sienna and ultramarine, you can get the darks you like in paynes grey but you also have the muted blue/orange fabulousness to add. Nice vid. Best to you🌸
This is a beautifully narrated video, interesting medium, gives me food for thought for artwork in the future....I think it's my favourite art video...🧡💚💙
I would love you to comment as to the use of sennelier inks to add in to the watercolor, as in my experience I find a certain depth achieved bringing richness beyond anything that is found in using straight watercolors. As well iridescent mediums , silver, gold ink, etc. may be incorporated in multiple ways that bring certain special effects. I would as well like to complement you as to the expertise of your painting skills . Yes as well I am going to try some Daniel Smith burnt sienna. Mixing Payne’s gray is something long ago that is relatively easy that I enjoy doing on my own. Also lastly artists should remember that in using grays or blue grays in a painting allows the eyes to “rest”, and helps bring balance to a composition. In art an exemption their exists to every rule imaginable but one. And that is in placing the focus of the composition, directly in the center of paper/canvas,whatever. Their seems to me no way around this rule, however which way you look at it .❤ Nice video!!!
*wow...huge fan of muted earthtone colors personally and the texturing techniques i use for paper would greatly benefit from these combinations....thank you*
Thankyou so much for your beautiful 2 colour paintings. You make them look unbelievably easy but I find them unbelievably difficult to get right. I kept recognising your calming voice. Are you that beautiful lady who makes - mostly by hand - the amazing dresses and other garments from the past if so how extraordinary talented are you?
I just love your passion in describing the different things you like about each brand of burnt sienna. So evocative and lovely! This is my first video of yours but it definitely won't be my last:)
Two of my favorite colors. And they make a wonderful black when combined. You’re very talented. I’m going to try water colors. Worked in oils then acrylics , the later of which I still use for paintings on canvas. RU-vid videos are inspiring me to try watercolors.
Have all of these Burnt Sienna and Daniel Smith is my favorite as well. When you speak of the nostalgia of that shade i almost cried, it was so beautiful.. I dont know where ive been but im a nut for RU-vid art and im so happy i found your channel. Thank you for sharing yout words and skills.
Wow.. you are amazing. And these limited colour palette videos are awesome. Can you please do a slow real time version of sketching and watercolouring video of one these paintings using your limited colour palette? Thank you for sharing ❤
Came across this video by chance (now subscribed). One of my three favourite watercolour combinations brought together, analysed, described and applied in such understated beauty. Anyone that genuinely loves this medium would totally understand this video and love it also. Thank you.
Wow! These are all wonderful! I really love the limited palette concept and it really helps to understand your colors better (newbie). I look forward to creating the same combos in my journal for reference. I definitely get stuck when trying to combine colors and this seems like a great way to get aquainted with these combos. I also get stuck on finding the shadows ~ would love more details of how you find them along your loose style of painting. Looking forward to more inspiration ~ thanks for sharing your amazing talent ~ I could watch you paint all day.
That was the most amazing video I've seen since starting my journey in art this past year. You have an amazing mind and I love how you shared what you see, know and feel. Thank you.
Wonderful and communicative as always. I admire your combination of painterliness and control of the medium. DS are a lovely brand but I’m a sucker for Schminke especially their lush, creamy pastels. The word is German of course and means Paint or Makeup. That ‘e’ on the end is articulated so we phonetically get Shhmink-air with an almost unpronounced R at the end. Good old German.
Wonderful demonstration of these two paints I can’t wait to do something similar. your quiet ,detailed and articulated lesson really inspires. Thank you
wow! Totally on point for me... I recently gave up on Neutral Tint, but recently took it back up as an experimental "gray + color" approach... and have found some wonderful and unexpected color interactions... after your video I also tried on my earth tones (burnt sienna and yellow ochre) and have found more "oh wow" surprising color interactions. Thank you for this timely video!
I'm so glad to hear!! It's such a fun process - finding new combinations and being startled by how they turn out. And I love the gray + color pairing, too 😊
@@boxesofsheep - Indeed.. and one of the benefits I carried over from a Graphic Design career that a neutral (pure gray or a subtly tinted/shaded gray) can really make the primary colors pop when placed side by side (without mixing)... though the watercolor neutral tinte auto-mixing (what I like to call it) sure does play nicely with any color I am working with... anyway, thanks again for the video! I hope you can do more along these "two-color" (limited pallette) experiments. Take care... :)
So beautiful! I am a novice, and I would never think to put these two colors together. I would assume it would get muddy, but turns out, it is a very beautiful and moody muddy!
Very interesting I’ve never actually paid attention to water colors but this is fascinating,,,, I’m subscribed the Xtra comments left behind are equally important to your art , every artist has they’re own idea
Thank you for this inspirational video. Lovely time watching you paint! I too prefer WN Paynes grey and DS B. sienna too. Palete staples. WN Paynes is a wild child, which is what I love about it! And have every size of Art Secret brushes. After years of hunting for the perfect brush, they fit the bill. Just enough body and spring. Don't hold too much water. And the price is right. I highly recommend them.
Beautiful work. I love using Indathrene blue (PB60) with burnt sienna or quinacrinone rust (PO48) for a similar moody mix. Adding a touch of quin gold to this mix is beautiful too.
Ill try that now! I usually use Ultra + Burnt Sienna for limited palette but I also like other PR101 like Indian Red with Ultra. I love quin rust, particularly M.Graham.
I really enjoyed all that you bring of yourself in this tutorial....your very interesting knowledge, your way of thinking, who you are as an artist, and your terrific skill. I subscribed!
Really excites me, how much you can do with just two colours. Schmincke btw has another colour called Transparent Sienna wich is made out only of PR101. I think, this colour is much closer to W&N Burnt Sienna.
Such an intriguing painting approach. It is magical what happens when just a few colors mingle together. Thank you for generously sharing your creative process and providing a valuable learning opportunity for many artists. Wishing you a truly wonderful day ahead.
this is a very well done lovely video. i’m a beginner watercolor artist and you have truly inspired me. i love the way you describe the colors you use and execute such wonderful pieces with them. very inspiring
