I love this piece so much!! The colors are perfect and bright and lovely, and I love the flow of the piece. And cute kitties don’t hurt 🧡🤍💖

I LOVE THE WAY THIS TURNED OUT!!!! The colors, the kitties, the chonky pencil texture, the beans, the composition! ALL THE THINGS!!! I also love hearing how inspiring this piece was for you, that positivity inspires me in turn 🧡💗💜

So glad that this brought you joy! Hopefully it will to others also, it's gorgeous! Thanks for sharing this, Denise. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 Happy Pride!

I ❤ everything about this video: your happier voice and news that you are feeling beter, the fun cat portrait, the colour choices, the kind and supportive message for the LGBTQAI+ community! Congratulations on persevering towards your recovery 🎉🎉🎉 I am looking forward to see what comes next!

So I love my pencil colors and I love my watercolors. But I’ve always used them separately. This has encouraged me to try them together.

I've always enjoyed using colored pencils together with watercolors! I just think about what medium I want to center the piece around and adjust accordingly. Watercolor provides a GREAT base for colored pencils so I can avoid the white spots and don't have to burnish (I love the pencil texture actually!) and colored pencils are super cute as lineart! Looking through my sketchbook right now and I seem to really like the combo lol It's everywhere!

Denise, I love this style of art, and it looks and sounds like you really enjoyed doing it! The colored pencil lines are so expressive and bold. I dont think i would be brave enough to try strokes like that, but im glad you were. Make the time to do more art like this if you can, I look forward to more! God bless!

Cute Dunkin' Donuts cats I feel like I'm swinging between getting distracted and being hyperfixated on things.

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Gosh, this is beyond gorgeous! Might be my favorite piece of yours.

I love these kitties so much! They are adorable! And then the little multicoloured toe beans! Genuinely the only downside is that it means ace kitties are unlikely to happen. But really, I can't complain about that - the glorious pun and the beautiful piece are so good, I can't imagine anything better than this, so this piece is absolutely perfect! Re: watercolour pencils - a coloured pencil artist I follow also dislikes them because they are bad at being pencils, and they aren't as good at being watercolours as actual watercolours are. Prismas are apparently extra-soft pencils (compared to other coloured pencils), so if you try other brands, might be good to be prepared for them to be less smooth.

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I love EVERYTHING about this video. It’s so so nice to hear you so happy Denise, you deserve some happiness. I’m not normally a person who would use coloured pencils on watercolour, but your chunky hatching is brilliant. The colours you chose are fab, and it is perfect. And lastly, your Pride message, it’s so needed right now. Happy pride from this L to my fellow lgbtqia+ friends.

I own Prismacolor Premier colored pencils and watercolor pencils. I am a fan.

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WOW! I love these. I've never gotten into colored pencils - too fiddly for me and mine look like a grade schooler did them. But, I love what you did with them. I may need to revisit them. Happy pride! 💛🧡💜

Toe beans!

I wish I had seen this a when it came out. I would love to buy a print as a gift for my cat obsessed queer soul-friend. Gorgeous and whimsical work! I am glad to see new content from you!

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This is adorable :)

Color pencils will do that to you. I bought a BUNCH of Caran D'Ache from Jacksons when I visited London, and then got more from Blick when I got home LOL.🧡💓💜

I love the way the crosshatching looks. I might want to give that a try too!

That’s such a unique way to use colour pencils and it’s so pretty 😍 lovely to hear that you are feeling more inspired and wanting to create ❤️

Oh the chonky lines and the colors, oh the beans, oh this turned out so cute and sweet 😭❤❤❤

Happy pride everyone!

I enjoyed this video so much and what a lovely piece! These kitties are adorable 🥰 also the color combination is so so lovely. It brings me joy 🧡💕💜 Great work Denise!

Ahhh, I love the different colored toe beans and the colored pencil with watercolor!! This is definitely my favorite of the pride series so far 💖💜

🫶🏼🧡🩷🫶🏼. It is great to hear the joy in your voice Denise!

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Denise, this is ridiculously beautiful! And I'm so happy for your joy! ☺️☀️💗🧡💕💜🧡💗

Welcome to the coloured pencil rabbit hole, it is wonderful down here

Prismas are amazing amazing colored pencils. I have used them for years ❤

I love this style it looks amazing. Can’t wait to give it a go. Will you be posting daily for world Watercolor month or once a week to show us your pieces?

Uninterested in Xmas but would even pay Aussie postage for a watercolour month box 😀

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Absolutely love the theme you went with! So adorable and full of joy. And you have no idea what a relief it is to see art bringing you genuine happiness!! You've had so many rough years and are much deserving of finding LIFE in making things! Just my opinion here, but I love how the fur on the long haired kitty looks almost like she's made of yarn. :-D 🧡💕❤

So happy you found your spark again, that feeling is amazing!

💜🧡 watercolours and coloured pencils are like peaches and cream. They just go together perfectly. I think finding a unique way to use them together is absolutely perfect for pride month. Happy Pride month Denise.

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This is a beautiful piece! I was so glad to get one of the boxes from your shop. Also, I relate so much to only being able to read/watch/do things that are familiar and comforting. I’ve been really struggling with just that exact thing the last couple years.

It’s just so wonderful to hear the excitement and happiness in your voice. ❤

Absolutely love this piece 😍 I'm a sucker for puns and such great color choices! So good to hear you've been enjoying to experiment with new and fun supplies again. Happy pride 🌈

Love the hatching you did on the piece, Denise! I myself like to pair colored pencils with watercolors when I want that texture that you just can't get any other way. Glad to hear how much of positivity this whole process brought you. Happy Pride! ❤🧡🤍💓💗

This is so cute, and it's brought me (a fellow member of the LGBTQIA+ community) a great deal of happiness. Using colored pencils "properly" kinda hurts, IMHO. I really enjoy the hatching you did with them. I'm gonna have to get a sticker or two!

Happy Pride!! Thanks for another great video Denise! 🎉

I really only worry about doing art stuff “properly” if it’s a safety issue. Otherwise all bets are off! I paid for the supply, I will use it however I want. You can’t discover anything new if you only follow the rules of those who came before you, right?

I'm in love with you his piece! The texture and colors bring me joy!

Absolutely love them!! What a fun way to celebrate the diversity of pride. I painted watercolour pride-circles. Not as creative as your animals but still fun! 🧡💗💜

Patty-I just wanted to thank you for introducing me to DaVinci watercolor paints. I love them. I am slowly building my collection. The upside to this is I live in the same county as the company. So, I receive my order within a few days. I'm loving them.

🧡💗 I love your enthusiasm and creativity, and your joy in finding that curiosity again!

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Love it. Are beans the cats pads? ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

This idea is so genius and so funny at the same time! 😍😍😍😍😍😍 Happy Pride and love to the Community!

Hullo Denise, I have had creative slumps over my Art career, I have never been able to use art block to limit my production since if I did not work I did not eat! I made a whole bunch of not great art, but if the client was happy why did I care if it was crap? People want what they want and if they cannot make it themselves they will pay others to do so! I hope you continue to support the communities you have belief in. 💖❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💓I have enjoyed using different mediums over the years and going digital in 1998 was a big drawback for me. I have always used color pencils after breaking away from my initial watercolor painting “rules” and trying many kinds of mediums Watercolor is still my true love. I want to say thanks to you as you have been a primary influence on me and my paint choices since I found your videos. My palettes and painting kits are filled with DaVinci Paints! I have used just about every major brand and I can say that I have never been as happy with any other brand as I am with DaVinci. You are truly amazing so inspirational and truly a kind person, thank you. I am glad that your advent kits are selling so well I hope you consider creating enough next time to allow others as well as your Patreons to show their support for you and your Art journey. You might consider a sign-up or similar system for your next project. I am not sure how to judge these things, but I know that you can garner more support from people that would love to help you. I am aware the price might be out of some peoples reach, why not think about a trimmed down version? I am sending you health and happiness, please keep safe and be well.🥳🥳🎉

I love the hatching I also enjoy using colored pencils over watercolor. Layering watercolors is more fun than layering colored pencils🧡💖

This is such a cute concept and beautiful execution! I love this use of coloured pencils, really tempted to try it because I don’t have the patience for the ‘technically correct’ way. Your pride pieces have brought me so much joy over the years, thank you 🧡🤍💜

Very excited to hear you very excited!! Cool piece! 🧡💗 I love toe-beans!❤️

OMG THE TOEBEANS!!!! Sooooo cute! I agree with you that this is probably my favorite but not for the reason you think. Having watched you over the years, I think your art very much reflects how you are doing. And this piece is so joyful! it's a celebration from the colors to the lines to the washes. It feels like your own personal spring. I am so happy! I think all your pride pieces need to be enamel pins. They are lovely and subtle enough that they can be warn as either a decoration or a subtle nod tipping off those that know.

The video I've been waiting for!!! I love the concept of the piece, and I'm also super into the mixed media :) I'm really glad you found something that's exciting to explore, and I'm loving the result ❤🧡🤍💗💜

I dearly love this! I would love this on a zipper pouch. Any hope of that happening? ❤❤❤

This is such an adorable piece and your joy is absolutely infectious. Happy Pride! 🧡🤍🩷💜

Beautiful work! I suggest you get the 24 set of Derwent drawing pencils they would be absolutely perfect for you! If you want to branch out into mixed media more I also recommend gouache! I use it with watercolour and overall gouache is now my favourite medium!

Loving the bright and cheerful colours on this! And the kitties are veeery cute! 😍

❤🧡💛💚💙💜Can see why this is your favourite in your brilliant Pride series,The coloured pencil was the pefect thing to add,it captures the fur of these to cats so well and gives them both their characters. I love the fact that they also look like a ying and yang symbol,showing that the L,G,B.T.Q.I.A+ community needs that harmony/unity right now. as a Trans man I loved the calm serenity of the Trans lion piece,but this new piece makes me smile looking at it,a real purrfect feline celebration for Pride month(matt)P.s Happy Pride month Denise.

As soon as I can afford it, I'm going to buy your earth- friendly pallette.

Oh my goodness!!! This is a really cool piece!! So different from what you usually do, and wonderful to see how happy it makes you! Makes me happy too!!❤ I love how you integrated thise colored pencils in!! I would love to see you do that in some of your other paintings too, just for fun. I can imagine how cool you would make them. Thank you, you brightened my day!!😍

Happy pride!!

in LOVE with this piece’s process from start to finish. it’s really lovely to see that initial wash and how you build up on top of it. awesome work + happy pride denise! 💗❤️🧡

I still play HotS too! It's a lovely comfort game for me, and what you said about seeking "comfort" resonates so hard with me. The piece is absolutely gorgeous, the chunky pencil lines are so fun. You've inspired me to get my colored pencils out again to see how they play with my watercolors. Thanks for another awesome video and great art. HAPPY PRIDE

Are you related to Erin Mallon? Y’all speak so similarly haha. She’s an audiobook narrator xD

Just love the hatching pattern you used for this and I love the colors. Regarding watercolor colored pencils, I encourage you to purchase some regardless. You can still use them dry, but if ever you want to do some touchups on a watercolor piece, you can use them in small applications and, if desired, use water to dissolve the pencil marks. I just finished a mixed media piece where I told myself I'm going to give myself permission to touch up with watercolor colored pencil instead of being a purist. It's my art after all, I can do what I want!

Happy pride everyone! This piece is definitely a favorite of mine as well.

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WHAT? This bisexual watercolor nerd who loves Firefly ALSO went down the dopamine deficiency rabbit hole after some prismacolors starting in March! I have a watercolor commission I need to work on, but I just can't quit the pencils. 😅

I love this piece so much! As you said, the LGBTQA+rights have been suffering, and it's honestly really saddening. Indian government has still not legalized same sex marriage, and it's disheartening. People, though not all of them, but most of them still see the community as an outcast and treat them with disrespect. It's just sad. I'm so sorry for the rant, and please feel free if you need to delete the comment, idk if this belongs here. Also, thank you for the video. Really appreciate this. :)

The title of this really annoys me. I’m so sick of this being shoved down my throat. Are we also gonna celebrate heterosexuality because we seem to always be excluded I know that a lot is gone really badly but also a lot of great things have happened for the community. It seems like now no one is allowed to talk about their beliefs or the fact that they I had a sexual because then your phobic or you are some horrible person. It’s constantly pride this pride that rainbow flag that Rainbow community, this rainbow community that I don’t want understand what is so important about having to constantly talk about sexuality which is what this is. This is someone’s sexual preference. Celebrating someone’s identity is something completely different. My sexual preference might be heterosexuality but that’s not my personal identity. Apart from that, I love this artwork, the colours you’ve used the subject and the style and I love the other things that you talked about. You’re just being nice if there was somewhere to go with sexuality didn’t have to be spoken all the time I thought my art place was safe. Well, we don’t talk about religion or political agendas, and we just talk about the beauty of Art talking about animals and social justice. Is that relate to them that you talk about is fine that’s completely. Different.

So gorgeous! Also, your experience of ADHD + pandemic is SO similar to mine. Congrats on finding your creative curiosity again! 🧡🤍💜💓💜🤍🧡

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