You are amazing, Karen!

Fantastic! So inspiring! Thank you!

Thank you for sharing your amazing art and knowledge with us Karen. You are inspirational.

❤ beautiful!

Thanks for sharing. Really inspiring.i don’t travel very much but Thant’s no excuse there are many amazing things to see in my small part to the world. Thanks again. Who knows I my one day make it to a Cambridge Open Studio in person and not just on the net. 😀

Wow ❤.

Fabulous! I can’t imagine the joy of sitting for two hours and slowly going through each one. What a treasure!

Fabulous!! Thank you for your generosity.

Beautiful

👏👏👏👏👏👏

That was interesting looking at your many drawings & sketch books Karen, First time seeing you. Love your quiet natural way xx😊

I wish I could look at them all in person.....they look amazing! You are a very talented artist!

Super Vlog, I love concertina books too…. intrigued by all your boxes of ‘stuff’ could you do a studio tour …..

Thank you for showing us your wonderful collection of books. So inspirational.

Thanks for showing your sketchbooks! They are lovely and a pleasure to see. I appreciate your wonderful talent for sketching as you produce books which gives the viewer a very lovely story of each country or subject. Fantastic !

I don't usually comment on videos but I loved this one so much - what a privilege to see inside your beautiful sketchbooks! So inspiring, thanks for sharing.

Brilliant! Using you as inspiration for my alevel art !! And I absolutely love the techniques !!!

How wonderful. Lovely to see. Thank you.

Love your books and work. Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for sharing all your lovely amazing sketch books! I have just done this occasionally by myself!

So Karen, thanks for your reply re your sound & the difficulty actually seeing your paintings. If at any time your able to show your pics where they could be viewed much closer I'd love to have another look. They look wonderful but they just can't really be seen well from so far away.

Many thanks Karen. Love 💕 your work and your sketchbooks are so inspirational 😊 So off to do some sketch booking now 👏👍

Hi Karen, just found your channel. Thanks for the inspiration. I used to be a woodwork teacher, now writer, watercolour artiste', use ink and collage too. I started in art school, art teaching, but really I never taught art. Printmaking and etching was my true love in art school and uni. When I was young I had a real lot of trouble with sketchbooks. I am growing to like them, and follow utubers, "The unexpected gypsy" and "Adventuredenali" and have had a lot of inspiration. Size matters , and as a kid, it is hard to know why a sketchbook felt wrong, and you can't explain "the exploration" as a child....it wasn't just the white, the stark, the contrast, the personal holding, the blankness, the perfection, but it was size! (and content) I am not an urban sketcher, but I do like to go to the Botanic gardens and sketch the plants and structures there, and want to do more of that with Jane Blundell. So I suppose it was also the "topic/content" as a child that I also didn't really feel right about. I always felt like it had to be of a "thing"...and it often floated in the white of the background. Only as an adult can I use them for just colour fields, and playing with marks without the feeling to need to put "something" in them. I really like your adding space up and down, never thought of that! Collage and abstraction never came to mind in a sketchbook for me as a younger person. I wonder why that was? Do you think it is abstraction, and that is just a natural progression as an adult? I think your channel has the possibility of reaching children with this dilemma! I love the Etchr ones and have bought a few just in case they stop making them. (it happens) I use small handmade watercolour 100 percent cotton journals for swatching ink and watercolour. I have also found some thin paper journals great for collage from China. The concertina sketch books are intriguing... Can you tell me how you hold the snake when working? When out and about, is it just a matter of working on a small section, with bulldog clips? Could you give me the name or link to the concertina ones that you like? In kindred spirit Fellow artiste' Eliza MB Day Sydney, Australia xx

Wow. Love this sharing and inspiration from you. Thank you

Beautiful sketchbooks!

Wow you´re so inspiring, thank you ❤️

How fantasstic! I'm in awe of your work and simply love 💕 your sketchbooks. Your drawings are absolutely wonderful in so many ways. I never knew sketchbooks could be so interesting and so multiple! Hah hah! I first heard about you in Louise Fletcher's KZfaq videos. So happy I've found you and your work! Thanks ever so much ! 🌺

Thank you for sharing your sketch books I think i will buy the sea white having seen how you use it I have the large square one but its too heavy to carry around to go outoors with Your sketches are lovely and so interesting

Love these !

Beautiful!

PHENOMENAL!!!

Thanks for sharing 🌺

Thank you Karen, such talent! Wonderful memories! Could you repeat the contents of your travelling kit? Thank you.

I need inspiration badly ,I so want to paint! Dont even know my own style!

Lots of love from Denmark

Loving your longer videos. Would you do some longer flip-throughs of your individual sketchbooks? They look so awesome xx thank you

Hi. I’m still looking for the list of the pens you use, and also where I can find these concertina sketch books. Can you post the information someplace? Website, here, anywhere? Thanks. Your sketchbooks are amazing and inspiring. Wish the camera had been closer. Stay well.

You are very talented 😊 Your art studio reminds me of where I use to take my art lessons. My choice of art was mainly Cartooning. However I also took pastel, oil as well as chalk. In addition to basic drawing from life, and water coloring. Cartooning has been my prime choice of art since my teen's. By the way I've been told in order to draw even comic's one has to understand human anatomy. I disagree, though wanted to get your thoughts on that.

Love your books... some amazing work. When you return from your travels do you ever make larger drawings/collages to sell..?

Great encouragement. Where do you say you get your concertina journals from please?

I've just discovered your work and absolutely love it -- if your google search has suddenly spiked, that would be me. :) I am I'm curious -- are your concertina book pages one long piece of folded paper? Or are they several strips of folded paper attached to each other with masking tape or some other kind of tape? Many are using masking tape and I am wondering if there is a better option.

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volume too low but thanks for sharing

Maybe I'm missing something but I just don't get it...and I'm a painter

Diffiult to hear, but amazing video!

Very difficult to hear, voice doesn't project.. My volume is up full

The VOLUME IS WAY TOO LOW. I couldn't hear much of what you were saying.

too fast. it would be nice to see the artworks closer and longer. thanx though!

Be better if we could really see & hear about your sketch books.

Can’t see what you are showing because your camera is too far away.

You need a microphone; voice is too low.