TRYING OUT PAUL RUBENS AGAIN | what i really think about watercolors... 

Im kinda sad you dont get to paint everything you want on this channel because thats how RU-vid works, I would love to see you paint anything besides portraits even if its an unpopular opinion 😂💜

These are gorgeous 💕 Would love to see more still life and landscapes!

I think the art community is very centered around portraits and whether an art piece looks "good" or "bad." Measures in improvement are only shown in an outer perspective, measuring not the personal growth of the artist, but whether the subject looks "prettier." I'd also love to see more still life and backgrounds, and will continue to support you no matter what! Thank you for bringing such amazing videos.

I enjoyed watching you paint the still life and seeing how you placed the colors! I feel like your enjoyment showed through that painting the most. I think it would be lovely to see you paint some landscapes and still lifes more often! Especially since that is what you enjoy and are more interested in.:)

Well I have always enjoyed your watercolors! I started painting with watercolors at 10 years old. I just turned 60 but I have worked with all types of mediums and every subject! I had a reasonably successful art career, well I paid my bills and have a house to live in. I would love to have a big fat bank account, but I am happy and that is no small thing! I use mostly DaVinci watercolor paints, but I have several brands and have used even more over the years. I encourage you to keep painting and just paint what you love and people will find you! I did and I have been watching quite a while. I do not need these paints, so I hope the people who enter will enjoy them when they win!

I love that you also show your painting processes that are in your opinion not perfect, I mean I love the first one here, but as you said you overworked it I could see what you mean in comparison to your other pieces, and I love that you show, that not every single painting is a major sucess and that its totally normal! Thank you!

I actuallly really liked your still life you can tell you felt more free and was having more fun with it all 3 painting were really pretty!

loved the paintings. I love landscapes a whole lot. That's what I usually paint. And you're right, no, these are not favoured on social media at all. When your living depends on it and get that 100% so I understand all the portraits. Hopefully when you can afford to, I'd get to see how you paint landscapes on here. really loved the still life, gave me so much encouragement. have a good one.

Wow the difference in these three pieces is astonishing! Great work showing the range--I really loved your still life and would love to see more content surrounding them! The dramatic lighting and contrast was really appealing. I have enough watercolor, so I'll leave the giveaway for everyone else, but thank you for sharing! :)

Wow your still life’s are absolutely captivating! I am normally not one to appreciate them, but you have created so much interest with your shape language!

I wish you would be able to upload whatever you want/ paintings you want without worrying about if your viewers will enjoy it. We make art for ourselves and what makes us happy. I appreciate all of your paintings. Have a great day

I LOOOOOOVED watching you paint that still life HECKING WOW!

I got this set and I loved it except the violet! I don’t know what it was but it was like it had a film on it that absorbed water but didn’t allow me to pick up any pigment? But it’s easy enough to switch it out for a pan of Windsor and newton violet or another brand. The sepia, burnt umber and burnt sienna were gummy and had chunks but what I did wrong was put a drop of water in each pan before I started painting and worked from that drop. If I just go in with a wet brush and wet the entire pan I have much better luck. I love the set, I love my 48 Paul Ruben’s set in the pink tin, the opera colors in the tube and the new layered colors are all awesome. So I tried to email Paul Ruben’s to get those 4 pans replaced and my email kept being returned saying that it couldn’t be sent that the email address didn’t exist. I know they have a team that works in the US market but it sucks I can’t get a hold of them. I wanted so badly to love that set. And I realize 50$ isn’t a ton of money for Artist grade sets but I still shouldn’t have to replace any pans if I paid $50. The rest of the colors were amazing. I just mixed this set with some from the 48 set I have and I usually use them in conjunction with my White Nights as they’re very similar. They’re great, I enjoy using them especially when I need watercolors that are controllable and I need them to behave and stay where I put them. I go for other brands for granulating colors.

I’d love to see you do some still life studies with transparent and opaque paints 😉

love the still life piece.

Loved this video ❤️❤️❤️ your portraits and still life are absolutely gorgeous!

the thumbnail eyes are captivating !!

Wow these are all so different and amazing ❤

The way you chisel in shapes for the watercolor still life was mesmerizing

I would honestly loooooove to see you paint landscapes !! ❤️❤️

I love the still life you produced in this so much

I have heard so much about Paul Ruben’s watercolors. The colors look really vibrant and the tin…gorgeous. I must say that I really did like the still life painting. I would love to try something like that.

Thank You for mentioning the issue with the 440 Violet color. I've been looking every where to see if mine was a "dud" or of it was just the way that particular color is. It doesn't rewet easily and it's so light. Also- Love, love, loved ! Your grey eyed portrait. (And your still life) I look forward to looking up some of your videos of gauche portraits. Lovely work!

Great pieces! ❤️ I would love to see more landscapes and still life paintings! ❤️ I would like to try these watercolors as I really like using this medium. I am also studying at the moment so I would really appreciate this set for my studies!

i love watching you paint traditionally

Love your nails so much!!!

The still life is honestly my favorite out of the three! beautiful work

Aww I also do really LOVE when you paint landscapes and still life paintings, please do more :). I loved this video I'm definitely in an art block and have been for a few months 🫤 so i'm gonna binge watch your channel.

really fun paintings. the still life turned out great.

Honestly, I want to see you paint more still lifes, this one was beautiful! Tempted to do some still lifes now, haven't done any since college! lol

I enjoy watching people paint even though it's not something I do myself that often unless it's using derwent inktense pencils like a watercolour. I've had Paul Rubens watercolors on my wishlist for years, I've just never been able to convince myself to purchase any so a giveaway for a chance at a set is perfect.

I like your still life! I already have these paints and they’re great ❤️

I love anything you draw and paint!!

I would love to see landscapes! I love plein air so it would be so cool to see you make a video like that!

I love still lives !!! If you make more, I’ll totally watch them!

Would love to see more paintings too

This is just absolutely stunning! I absolutely agree that it is more fun to have packaging that is fun too (on top of good quality materials). I am quite new to youtube and atm my channel is a little bit of a mix of everything (some portraits, some sketchbook work and some landscapes). A few video's are recordings of my classes and oh yeah, some studio tours too. I feel like I should focus on one thing but it is hard as I really like creating lots of different things!

All of them are lovely especially # 2and 3

I LOVE THE STILL LIFE PAINTING!! The way it solidified and gained form from those blotches of paint was so satisfying(tho i liked the inital dreamy look too). Of course not all people will like landscapes or still life but I think you should post it nevertheless, who know maybe you'll gain another audience that'll enjoy all three equally

The whole video is meditation to me 💜💜💜💜

Would love to see more still lifes, I love them

SOOO PRETTY! I love when you use watercolors and the pallet you chose for the second portrait was lovely. What music did you use in this video? It sounded so familiar but I couldn't place it and I'd love to add it to my study playlist.

I love how you paint 🥰😍 its amazing and so beautiful ✨ wanna do such videos like u 😊

Your work is always so beautiful love! I hope you have a Happy 4th of July!x

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Hey my dear friend 🙋That's super cool !Big thumbs up Brilliant work my friend. Lovely sharing 😍

Would love to see still life and landscapes from you

I like landscapes❤️❤️

Would love to see like a sketchbook spread, where you paint still lives... it's not my strong suit, so it would be nice to see someone you look up to interprete it

I'm an artist and tattoo artist in Las Vegas, Nevada. I used to prefer oils and acrylics, & I thought I strongly disliked watercolors. I'm a huge proponent of learning mediums I don't think I enjoy, or that I've a hard time with. It turned out that I'd unfortunately had a poor experience with watercolor in my younger years entirely due to the low quality of the paints, tools, and especially the paper. It's now my FAVORITE medium! (Even though my audience/clients prefer my graphite pieces.) I would absolutely love to try these paints! Your watercolor examples are wonderful, and I enjoy your content. Your art is your art. Paint what you want to paint. Draw what you want to draw. I understand where you're coming from, entirely, as a fellow artist. I create what I wish to, but I also try to simultaneously produce artwork in the vein I'm aware people enjoy. Do both! 💜

Wonderful ❤️

@ObeyMyBrain I would love to try some Paul Rubens, the only fancy watercolors I've tried are some DS. Other than that I've only ever used cheapos, except for a lucky find of a couple tubes at a thrift store of WN.

@mywrittenletters I would like these new watercolors because it's always fun trying new art supplies from new brands and also some of my existing colors are soon all used up (especially my reds, blues and yellows :) )

@madpaintingandart I'd love a nice set of watercolors, right now I have a tiny arteza set and like three tubes of Daniel Smith's granulating WC. I love going out on art trips with my kiddo where we draw/paint the world around us, and we could both use this set!

@wuwucat I've only used a 12 color set from prima so would love to see how this one compares! Your still life's are lovely!

Yours videos , all is so beautfull and you make me want painting so much, just give me this vibe of calm and safe space, i am so sad about you, i always think you always painting what you like, i loved so much drawing but when i start i kind of obligate myself to like pencils, because in my city them are more sheap. I love yours videos, thank you so much. I am in love with you art, they are pretty much a rich thing to see....

@LHammerArt I could use an upgrade from my old Sakura set. I know what you mean with Still Lifes. I havent done any in a while because people just dont find them as captivating sadly. Yours are lovely

Always looking to test new supplies, to see if it can be integrated in my workflow, or give effects i don´t have for now. Great test, cheers! @khasis

@procrastinatingbri! I would love this art set because I'm trying to be more fluid and "messy" with my work and I think watercolors is great to try that!

@anxistudio! I would love to try this set of watercolors because I haven’t been able to paint with watercolors that often anymore because of my busy schedule and school, but I love working with watercolors so much and this set would definitely motivate me to start painting more again! Thank u for the opportunity and I loved ur paintings sm

@celina_draws I really love your non portrait paintings! You should paint more things like still life or landscapes 😍 I'd like to try paulerubens watercolor, because I love the soft granulation and the colors. They would be great for training and whole paintings:)

@thewildforlorn Such beautiful work Sara! I would love to try this palette as I've been very curious about trying some Paul Rubens products and you've shown that you can make amazing art with them. I just recently lost my mom and would love to create something to memorialize her as she was always the biggest supporter of my work.

I thought your portraits and still life turned out exceptional even if you did slightly overwork the first one. I could see you struggle with it and figured you preferred gouache or dig art as your preferred form. Life is not about algorithms. Do what you love and people will come. I just turned 50 and this has been a lesson reinforced many times over. Also around 35, you will find you stop caring 100 percent what people want or need all the time and reprioritize. (I have no clue how old you are, but that was my experience and this freedom from caring truly liberated me in more ways than one). I know your videos are your moneystream, but I really love learning gouache as well as landscapes and still life paintings despite portraits being my go to. I think its bec its out of my comfort zone and I'm always trying to learn. I'll watch your landscapes, but you're talented in both mediums and what ever you are painting be it portrait, or still life. Take the win and enjoy the journey friend.

@studio_mino I love painting in watercolour.💕I’m curious how is the paints in real. I see the beauty of your art and pretty good comments about it. Its really temping to try at least. I am not good at still life painting. Omg! You paint both perfectly! You are a great artist and I admire your work. Thanks for sharing these beautiful pieces with us.

@inchbury I've been using Winsor and Newton watercolors for the last five years for my go to medium. I always wanted to try any of the Paul Rubens watercolor set because of their depth and vibrancy that the paints can achieve. I always heard great reviews, but I can't afford their high quality paints. I was gifted the Winsor and Newton set for my 15th birthday, so I wasn't really given the choice on what paints I use lol. Good luck to all the other entries, and have a great day!

@intercosmicqueer I'd really love this set of watercolours because I'd really love to be able to experiment more with making art! My current medium is liquid inks, so I think pan watercolours would be a good next step into trying something different :)

how do you film overhead like that? i literally have no idea how to achieve that :(( but i love ur videos

@gladinicks I love creating art, so I would love the opportunity to explore watercolor as an art medium while creating more art.

@lucysartcorner_ I love your painting videos and def would enjoy so much to try out the Paul Rubens watercolors! I love that medium so much and haven't tried that many brands :)

I really enjoy watching people paint landscapes! I do get what you mean tho, kinda sad

I was looking for your tutorial on oil painting but I couldn’t find it :((

Agnes Clouder.The paintings are very cool and inspirational. I like your painting style. I take care of my elderly Mom and my husband who has cancer and is recovering from a bone marrow transplant. I have just started to pick up a paint brush again and I try to find some " me" time. I would love to have a set of these lovely watercolor paints.

@dottedsky Hi, Sara! Love your channel. I'd like a set of the Paul Rubens watercolors because I don't really buy great watercolors for myself. It would be lovely to have world class watercolors for my art. Thanks so much! 👩‍🎨🌛🎨

@adrialism - I'd like to try the set because I love using watercolor and unfortunately I can't afford higher quality paints, especially since i'm not doing art professionally. On another note, I'm very sad to hear you can't show us what you enjoy painting here freely because of the algorithm. I love drawing everything - portraits, still life, landscapes, abstract... and watching your process would be amazing. I hope to be able to support you and your art on patreon someday soon though❤️

@idntevenknowtbh I'd love to receive this set! the colours look so beautiful and fun to work with and i've run out my old paints. thanks for the opportunity!

@majahalllstrom Hi Sara, your art is truly wonderful, I have followed you for some time now and your style development is really amazing to watch. This autumn I begin art school here in Sweden. The medium I always have been drawn to have been watercolours. Earlier, through my regular school years, I have had little to no time to practise personal art since school stressed me out. So therefore it would be really nice to have a new fine set of watercolours since I finally can focus on art and improving after summer! ;) For the art school I’m attending, I have to pay for the materials myself. Stay safe everyone

i really wanted to participate to the giveaway but it's not available in my country, sadly :

i always feel so bad about posting because i so enjoy painting landscapes and nature type things, but everyone seems to like portraits. especially portraits of girls. i get the appeal, but i wish it wouldnt discourage artists from painting what THEY want instead of what the algorithm wants/whats trendy

@themoonandherphases I'd like to win these art supplies as I'm pretty new to art and watercolours is my favourite medium. I'm not able to spend alot of money on supplies so it keeps me from practicing, so I hope to win so I can further my art! ☉ thanks for this video and your beautiful art as always!

I don't really like portraits personally, if you made a shift to landscapes and still lifes I would personally eat it up lol. It makes sense that the majority of your audience likes seeing portraits because that is the majority of the content you produce, you built your audience around them. By that logic, you could start making content outside of portraits and you would start to build a new audience. I hate the idea that you get to Do What You Love™ but also not really, obviously things are always more complicated than they seem but I hope you try it out.

This are the same Nummers and colours as the Schmincke Akademie Watercolours.🤔

You sound like you didn't enjoy the paints, which is totally cool and fine, we all have preferences, but forced yourself to say something positive about them only because you were sent the supplies and had to do so

It have been 8 days already and the mistake in the title of this video is still there...

@anayellowbendyfruit I live in scotland and really love painting landscapes but mostly I am obsessed with that prussian blue wow

They paid you with free supplies. Why would you say you weren't paid when you were. It isn't their fault you came cheap.

@Ants_can_draw I would love this watercolor set I would like to use watercolors more often it would be fun to dibble dabble with this beautiful set ! ✨✨💖💖💖✨✨

@melanwen I recently lost my job and want to start to pursue a more artistic career. I love painting and art since I was a little child and got caught up in this crazy capitalistic world that just takes things from us and gives nothing back. I only tried cheap versions of watercolor but its an art form that I both love and hate... its beautiful and unexpected, but we have to wait for it to dry lol Also would like to add that you don't have to make an specific painting because your followers likes it better... of course they help you get your bills paid, but it's beautiful to see people making what they love and explaining why you love it. I hope you have a nice week and I can't wait to see more videos of landscape paintings 😊

@feelingsbutmakeitart I’ve been wanting to try these watercolors and you’ve showcased them so nicely I hope I win!

@loveahulic I have been keen on using and practicing with higher quality watercolors, especially Paul Rubens 🥰 I still use my first watercolor set 😂 so it would be nice to branch out 🤍 plus it seems like it would compliment my current art style 🥰 you have been so generous with giveaways, thank you! We’re so spoiled hehe.

@emalie.s I thought i commented already but idk and I got nervous that I didn’t! I’d really love to win a new set to try out as Ive been learning about different color properties and such. It would be a joy to try out this set and learn how to work with it!

@Yarisart_ I don’t often go to watercolors and I’ve recently started getting back into doing art heavily again, I know that a good set would definitely give me that extra push. I’ll also be re attending college for art soon and you can never have too many art supplies for that. Thank you for the chance to win these gorgeous sets 😋🎨💞

@shao.ren i want the watercolors to try more different mediums.

I really enjoyed all the paintings in this video and am a huge fan of how watercolors look for portraits, however I prefer painting landscapes myself. lately I’ve been choosing gouache to do that, but use it with a lot of water, so it’s more of a watercolor feel sometimes, but I would love the chance to experiment with a higher quality watercolor paint that’s already in palette form. The best I’ve tried is Windsor & newton cotman . Would also be interested to see more of your landscape paintings @sarah.Goelz

@/artbyashleyv That set looks amazing! 😍 I think you should still make the kind of videos and art you want. I for one would love to see your range!

@wasala.julia I love the colors in this set so much and would like to learn to do landscapes with watercolor!

@nots__27 I really like your work, your watercolor paintings inspire me a lot :D

@daisuke_caas My day always gets so much better when you post it videos r so calming💓 What really attracts me to the watercolor set is really the color range the colors of the set really harmonize with each other and I've heard nothing but good things about the brand from many of my favorite artists such as Victoria gedvillas and wero no yume ,it would be just lovely to have a set of my own to play around with

These watercolours looks great, always wanted to try those. Keep sharing your wonderful art, great fan. @Onyxcat501

@lunamei18 I adore watercolor but only have a cheap set right now, I absolutely love them for my landscapes and other pieces that can be hung in my house or gifted to friends

@_jymuj I haven't tried watercolours yet so I'm excited to try something new if I win!