Just found your channel (thanks YT algorithm) and I love that you’re an artist and architect! I love watercolor especially and playing with new supplies! I really love that you and others have validated me to have more art supplies than I really need. Thanks for posting your wonderful videos!!
Hi Liz, inspiring to see your work in your sketchbooks. I am all the way in Denmark, an expensive place to buy art materials. Have been experimenting getting different art materials for my sketchbook, am very drawn to everything with line… Fell in love with Derwenrt graphitint pencils and their inktense pencils. They are both water soluable and I use them a lot in my sketchbooks along with Neocolour II and different pens. I use several sketchbooks in different sizes and with different paper at the same time, some for evening sofa, others for outdoor and am right now on a sketchbook online course with Cheryl Tave.
I LOVE buying art supplies! Two years ago, when I fully embraced my artistic bent, I bought everything I thought I wanted to try, some of which are hardly touched today, some not at all used. These days, I purchase what I'll use, often using them in the same day. I've also made it an imperative to reach back and used the old unused with the new...it's a goal. I love your work. I picked up watercolors inspired by your work and others who I watch. I hope to get good enough with watercolors to one day participate in Urban Sketchers. Thanks for sharing all you do!
I confess, I'm an art supplies hoarder! I just think all the colors are so beautiful, and I want to own them all!! But, I recently saw a quote somewhere on Instagram about using more vs buying more. So that has become my goal: use what I have and really improve my skill rather than buying more supplies that I don't really need. Love the weekly vlogs!
Hello Liz, I enjoyed this very much! As far as art supplies go, I am another one who, when face-to-face with art supplies, wants all of everything. That's why I own over 500 colored pencils - but I do my main work with watercolor and pen and ink! I recently pinned this quote over my desk (from Arthur Guptill): "You surely cannot become an artist by the simple expedient of collecting art supplies." It shames me into working every time I find myself about to browse some online art supply store. :-)
I thought that I was the only one to be crazy trying new products and materials. Now I understand the process and the idea behind thanks to you. I'm testing and testing until i find my way out or in in this art path of my. thank you very much ended.
Being a person who has loved pen and paper since early childhood, I am addicted to buying anything related. I started attempting watercolors about 15 years ago. I am still a beginner and have never really produce a painting worth its weight in paper. However, I have enjoyed this journey of pure play. Late last year I decided if I was going to paint I had to become a better sketcher so that is my lasted project. Now this I can say I have seen improvement. I am always tempted to go back to acrylics, which I find much easier to use, but I can't let myself give up the challenge of learning watercolor painting. Even though my work is far from even "good", it is a most relaxing hobby and calms my nerves immediately. I will go on buying something new when it catches my eye, even knowing it is a false hope it will help me improve. I plan to keep on enjoying this hobby.
Would love to know about your palette colors and brand and to see you break down your kit for Urban sketching. I really like all of your different tea cups.
I limit my "New material" spending. I usually only buy new items at Christmas. This year I am looking at the w&n or ds wc crayons and the faber castell Matt pencils. I usually add a new color or 2 for my water colors.
There may be a long interval between buying ( usually on ‘special’) and actually integrating them into my work. I like a workshop which separates the technique and material from the creative process. I enjoy your confessions of being a procrastinator. Me, too.
I really love buying and receiving art supplies. I dabble and make swatches of each colour and the odd comment usually surprise or disappointment. I had very little as a kid, I would use the other side of old envelopes or tear open an old cornflakes box and draw on the inside with just an HB pencil.Now I'm in my 60s alone and having finished parenting, I treat myself to small sketchbooks or a few pencils thru open stock. I recently received thru the post, 2 Derwent china white pencils. I love them for highlite on eyes. My other treat is logging onto RU-vid and watching other artists such as yourself, sharing tips and experiences. thank you from a fellow Aussie
Hi there Liz, I also live in Sydney, I stumbled across your channel trying to look for urban sketch groups in Sydney. I love watercolour and mainly pen and watercolour is my favourite. LOVE your drawing style. Will be watching the rest of your videos. The book looks great as well, have been looking for something of that size for a while. Would love to hook up for a sketch day sometime. Never been urban sketching before.
You paint pretty tea cups! 😍😍 I like to try new tools but tend to stay to my watercolor paints, I agree it's hard even just to switch to another paper.. Love your clog! I'm a new fan..
love your blogs Liz! I love to try out new supplies but I always return to watercolor. I think I have a bit if a collector gene and I like to try it all! but it is the only collection I have and it gets used so I am OK with that;) have a great day!
I agree with you Liz, it is tempting to buy new supplies, especially with the hope it will bring better results. I like to try and stick to my basic colors, I have a long way to go trying to master them.
Hi Liz you have made so much sense I get so excited buying new art materials only to become frustrated that I can't seem to focus on doing a painting....but it will now practice with what I've got and enjoy experimenting thank you xx
Hi Liz, loving your videos! Just wondered which brand of watercolor markers you were referring to in this video. You mentioned that they didn't bleed through the paper and that's what I'm looking for. Thanks again for the lovely videos, I'm learning a lot.
I've just got to own the art supplies. All of them. I can't get to everything in my art closet so I don't use them. But I own them. At night when I go to sleep I have a smile on my face.....because I own them.
Thank you for the vlog Liz. I do love to buy new supplies but actually I do not try them out properly. I'm a beginner so I just want to buy but buy ;) By the way, today I've got your book yeeaahh! Can't wait to read it. Thank you :)
Another interesting video, as I am new into sketching and watercolors I prefer for now not to digress too much into new materials. First I need to learn to use what I have... robert, absolute beginner
I think we all have a collector gene in us, I did that with fly fishing equipment & now with sketching as well as all that goes with that. I am fascinated with the 'grid' you place under your page to make lines for writing. Did you make it or purchase it & where if you did? Thank you for your very fine videos, took me a while to realize you are a lefty as am I.
I too like to buy new tools and get some artistic "juice" going. But many times after the initial burst of excitement they end up in the back of the drawer, are you hearing me Copic markers? I have to work on my discipline about purchasing new stuff and making sure I am really going to use it.
I'm always drawn to new materials, but I can grow easily bored if they don't do what I want without too much coaxing. I do love a full day of playing with materials, and I seem to have an obsession with organizing and cataloguing and swatching them. No idea why. 😄
Love your sketchbook! It looks like an art book :) I didn’t know that about the W&N Pigment marker, they’re with copic markers at the art store so I thought they were just alcohol markers. Can they be used like that on any marker paper?
Hi Mape - your request is noted and added to my list! :-) In the meantime, most things that you want to know can be found here... lots of stuff in the various sections www.lizsteel.com/sketching-tools/
Which ink do you recomend for apply Over it? (Sorry my bad english) Im Between Pilot Iroshizuku Black and Noodlers bulletproof. But i dont know so much about inks :)
I have lots and lots of different art supplies and sketchbooks and at times it is overwhelming when I have 7-12 books started. I know what you mean about settling on a few things that work. I love the sailor fude pens and Faber Castell watercolor pencils. I also use 4 sizes of rapidity graph technical pens. Recently I have been developing a brand new technique I call "carving paper" and I am writing a proposal to demo at the 2017 USK Symposium in Chicago. I live in San Francisco so this one will be as close as they have been to me..I put together a sketch bag that is about 6"x9" and hold a sketchbook and a good supply of pens, pencils and a tiny watercolor box.. Limiting what I paint with often allows for more creativity as you have to really use what you have, don't you think? Thanks for your blogs, love them...
So 2016 was the most expensive year for me, meaning I spent a lot on new art materials because I got more income than I was used to (which is good!), but honestly it makes me feel overwhelmed sometimes. So i like to keep out of sight what I am not using at the moment, and then switch around between mediums every now and then. I also invited a painter friend on an "art-date" where I took with me some supplies that i am not using too much, and we just played with it like kids would do. Really fun!
Bonjour, Je vous suis depuis un certain temps et je n’ai pas vu de vidéo où vous présentez vos témoins encreurs … Pouvez vous me donner un lien svp ? Merci encore … j’adore ce que vous faite 😊
Liz- I have to know the pattern of the gorgeous cup you drew and sipped from on Thursday? I can't get it out if my mind! Haunting me! Lol. Loving the clogs.
Most art supply stores (at least that I've seen) hang their watercolor tubes with the "cap up". However, I noticed at the end of this video...you're hanging them "cap down" with paper clips. (Clever use of the clips, btw! :) Care to share your reasoning for the cap down? Just wondering what your thoughts are. 😊 🎨
Ok, I don't know to many artist that are not in heaven when they visit an art supply store. That being said I love buying new supplies but I normally try to have a need for them. I do try to master them because I don't want them sitting in my stash collecting dust. This doesn't always happen though.
Paint to Paper wish I was like you When I test something I buy the whole range of colors of many brands which isn't very economical The good part is I have enough paint at least a year
I was bought a set of 6 watercolour markers and some pigment markers. Must admit I haven't taken the time to learn how to use them properly. I think I may need special paper for the pigment markers. I'm sure I could be more imaginative and try to incorporate them somehow into my sketching/painting......!
the pigment markers work best on the special paper... normal paper will absorb too much of the ink. Most markers blled through too much to make them really sketchbook friendly.
No- moleskine is still my favourite sketchbook to sketching outing and travelling but for daily use (more casual) its the alpha. Weight and number of pages is the big reason.
This video is pretty great. Your art is wonderful. Good quality. However, mouth sounds and lip smacking made this video almost intolerable. Maybe moving the mic further from your mouth would help? Or putting a filter on it?
