I love love adding peachy tones to my greens. What about you?!

I had been watching so many videos of things to “NOT” to do that it does scare you into not playing. I’ve been taking all the mix match paper that I have had through the years of painting..not painting cycles and I just started using it all up playing and have spent hours of just not caring about the weight of what I shouldn’t do. I feel so much better about my art and I’ve made so many gains. You were the teacher I needed when I was a little girl and I know I would have blossomed and found the drive to become an artist. Nothing wrong with discovering it in my 60’s I guess. So thank you..you make me smile every time.

I love your comment about your paper staying wet since you live in the nw US. I am a desert dweller and have quite the opposite experience! Yesterday I made a nice bright green using phthalo turquoise and aureolin and was pleasantly surprised when the line I painted (wet in wet) of aureolin showed up. I love the combination of DS Amazonite Genuine tipped with Magenta. And I am crazy about granulating watercolors! I am definitely excited to follow your lead and audition a variety of colors for leaves. Sometimes it's hard to let go and try the unconventional - but I'm working on it! Many thanks for your exhuberance and encouragement. Your sparkle is just what this introvert needs! You are a blessing, Kristy.

Thanks! Painting leave the Kristy way puts the most beautiful leaves on the page, EVER!

Great video…I love using all the colors in my palette and not being tied to rules. Your enthusiasm is contagious-it has been great painting for “fun”. Love learning to use all your brushes. Thanks, Kristy!

Oh how I have got addicted to a daily dose of your Kristy joy for colour and rule breaking. Thank you so much for making me smile and motivating me to get on and paint. xx

Not until I began painting did I realize the diversity and vibrancy of greens….I am so inspired by your presentations Kristy…well done!

Before I started to watercolor, I just didn't see colors the way I do now... I've fallen in love with every green shade & blue/green shade they make... even before I play with them. I remember being fascinated with any new paint, while watching how it moves along the paper! Aqua Green, Winsor Newton, & Phthalos just thrill me! I went through this with blues 💙 also... then reds, you get the picture Kristy. Thank you 😊 for your encouragement to color "outside the lines" and to make art a part of joyful playtime! Love you Kristy, a California Gramma ❤

I love this video & also your approach to painting the leaves. Thank you so much for sharing. X

I love how you share your joy, very catching! So excited with all these variations of colours, thank you Kristie for showing how to think outside the box! Precious!

I just got some Academy paper and I'm wicked liking it!

Always like your take on things….discovering pictures on “Unsplash” leaves are not always green 💡🧐 inspired everyday by everything! So many new ideas, be open and be liberated❣️🙏🏽🙋🏻‍♀️👍🏽 Mia

your liner brush is my favorite of all my liner brushes. Thank you for making that available!

Hi Kristy, Iam so glad I found your channel you are the best teacher EVER! You have given me inspiration! I love liner brushes the longer and thinner the better to paint beautiful tree branches. It is the only brush I can use to even attempt a tree branch. Really enjoyed your lesson, Thanks.

I love the idea of glazing and gave it a try on your "Better Composition" video (the yellow at the end...come on...that was AMAZING), anyway, I tended to get some hard lines at the edges of my leaves and a few blooms, not sure what I'm doing wrong. So grateful for your videos, they've opened up a much less stressful way to paint for anxious me and I'm loving it!

Wonderful colours in these leaves..going to keep this in mind in future

My browns and blacks and weird greens are definitely under used, I love how your classes make me think about all my colors!

I got my brushes ordered yay! I can’t wait!

Gorgeous leaves. I have worked with a liner or rigger like the English say. I like it for fine details and expressive marks.

I especially love this! I'm gonna try this and somehow put in a teal & white flower. Thanks for the inspiration.

Great video Kristy. I have enjoyed your experimental videos letting colors do their thing. It's fun.

I absolutely love your liner brush. I like to make lots of thin lines.

Yay for exploration and stepping outside the box! I like how some are brighter and some are more neutral ❤️ thank you for sharing with such enthusiasm 😊

That was absolutely beautiful!

I have used my liner brush and I love it, thank you for telling us about it .Teresa from Adelaide

Brand new to the page. I relaxed a lot with this lesson and mixed all sorts of colors...rarely rising my brush.

I love your videos ! And the way you talk always gives me a good feeling, and that is priceless !! Thanks.

i was so hesitant to try the not rinsing brush challenge, but i actually really enjoyed it! i probably will still keep rinsing for alot of my art, but theres definitely times I'm going to paint this way now. also i tried adding the different colors into leaves and I LOVE IT! so much. I'm still learning I've only been watercoloring for a bit over a year, and you're videos teach things that others don't and definitely bring the fun and freedom into it! i have never used a liner brush, i have some skinny detail brushes and some pointy round brushes i use for details that you use your liner brush for. i probably will try a liner brush and a cats tongue someday though since i love buying new art supplies!

Kristy, I can't remember if you usually have music in your background, but I just wanted to say that for me, it's distracting. I'm not wanting to be fussy here, but when I'm listening to you, I just want to hear you. You are very enjoyable to listen to without any extra "fluff." Love this exercise...especially not rinsing the brush! Thank you.

Loved this. Thank you.

Hi Kristy! I hate greens normally but this exercise has changed my mind somewhat. I'm using other colours I don't normally use and this is fun! Thanks for your approach! I needed this! I gotta get a dagger brush. It makes things nice and round because my rounds are not cutting it for me. Take care and thanks!!

Never too much green ! I love using many different greens. 😌 🌿☘🍀🌿☘🍀🌱🎊 #boop !--

Love your style 💝💝

Thank you. Love it.

I love liner brushes/ detail brushes/ riggers... i love brushes! (Way too much!) Fun fot tree branches as well as uncontrolled lines and of course details, but the have another flavor sideways. Lol. Enjoying your videos... it's nice to play ans have fun! Thanks for sharing

You are so authentic and inspiring…I appreciate you!

I love all the variations of color!!

Lóve this! Thank you so much Kristy❤ love from Amsterdam

very well presented....

My favorite color is green so I don't see a problem with too much green.

I want to try out a liner brush though I’m not sure what size to get. I’m hoping to snag one of your brush sets when they come back to Amazon. I love your videos. I’m new to watercolour and love your approach and energy. Awesome 💖

Great fun 🤩

Exquisite!

Love this so much! 🥰

I always make the #1 mistake which I have to get rid of. I have bought 3 liner brushes and stills not using well. They are too long and narrow. Not easy to control . Watching your video is useful and helpful to me. Thank you so much.

I like painting sweet liefs

I definitely need to practice this alot! My ovals look more like circles. 🙄

Very nice 🌸❤️

I enjoyed this exercise. My version is much too dark. That seems partly because I didn’t rinse my brush or use enough water.

Love it.

Hi Kirsty, Iove the idea of not having to rinse my brush all the time but I'm scared of muddy colours in my paint pallette.

I haven’t learned to use a liner brush yet - it seems like it could be difficult to control, so would appreciate your reviewing how to work with them. Just ordered your brushes on Amazon and am excited to try your dagger - others seem so much longer (same concern about control!). Apologies if you addressed this but when do you expect your watercolor set to be released?

Hi Kristy. I've been interested in art since my teens. I'm 70 now and I've ordered some water coloring supplies. I'll have everything I need along with Rosalie Haizlett's book Watercolor in Nature. It just dawned on me that I have no idea of how to light up my painting area to see the true colors I'm using. Any suggestions? And thank you for all the wonderful video's you've posted. I'm a big fan and have been watching your video's for days. I appreciate you're good natured humor as well as your talent.

Woo hoo just ordered my brush set 🙏😍 ya think it will really be April 17th before I get em?

Hey Kristy I love it when you paint leaves. They're so beautiful. If you don't mind though, I have a petals question for you. I am trying to learn roses and peonies, and sometimes I feel like I'm making progress, but sometimes, somehow, my petals wind up looking thick and stiff like plastic flowers. Do you have any suggestions for me? Thanks for everything you do.

Wonderful once again! When will your brush set be available be on Amazon again? Would love to purchase them. Keep up the great work!

I love this, but beautiful beautiful Kristy - did I miss yourlatest realease of brushes? I can't find them on Amazon 😢

Kristy - can you do a video on cauliflower effects and how to avoid them and when they may be desirable? Does paper quality play any part in this happening with the watercolors?

I have question with regard to Daniel Smith water color. I see that it comes both in tubes and in palettes where the paint is already in the half pans. Is there still a big difference in the paint even though they are both the Daniel Smith brand? Is there still some huge advantage with the tube paints? Thanks so much for your input

I was trying to buy your brushes and I’m not sure if they’re already sold out, but I can’t find them, the link doesn’t get me to them 🥺

I love your encouraging videos. Where can I get your paint brushes??

Kristy can you please tell me what paints you have used here? The link in description doesn’t tell me exactly which ones they are 💖

Hi @Kristy Rice.. looking for your brush collection.. please advise. Many thanks.

So I'm new to watercolor painting, so I went kinda cheap on the paints and paper i guess because i feel like it does make a difference in the quality of the picture is there anything i can do to make the best of the materials I have until I feel like ok I need to put more money into this new venture I'm trying? I question myself like maybe I'm not going to want to paint maybe I want to sketch or maybe I want to scrap book or mixed media idk I'm lost lol HELP

I have not used a liner brush yet. I don’t have one… any recommendations?

Are your brushes back in stock yet???!!! 😜😍🙏🏻

Any idea when your brush set will be back on Amazon again? Also where are your brushes made? Thanks

Hi Kristy you beauty. I tried to paint white blossoms 😕 it looked muddy.. How can I mix it well? Greetings from Germany 😘

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You keep saying green, but hardly anything is green.

This has all been done before I think she forgets that she hasn’t reinvented the wheel 😂 nothing she does is groundbreaking she makes it sound like this is all new and fresh when it’s been done over and over for years but many real watercolour artists . Wannabe sit down mam