Three Watercolour Paintings, Including A 'Splodge & Scribble' Around Girona, Spain (Travel Art Kit)

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Three Watercolour Paintings, Including A 'Splodge & Scribble' Around Girona, Spain (Travel Art Kit)

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2 ай бұрын

Paintings and more scenes from Girona, Spain.
(Apologies again for lots of amateur filming!!)
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Пікірлер: 71

@Katubes 2 ай бұрын

I really appreciate the fact that you put the reference photo up as you paint. It really helps the viewer see how you're going about with your painting as you progress.

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@awatercolourist 2 ай бұрын

2:20 Lovely collection of pigments.

@Saahrish 2 ай бұрын

I absolutely love watching you paint and your splodge and scribble method really helps simplifying subjects

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yes - it kind of forces you to simplify, which I often need.

@beejayem42 2 ай бұрын

Loved the splodge and scribble one! 🐨

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Everywhere2 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking us along! Try leaning us against a half-empty wine bottle next. ;^D

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

😂

@lisaharner3720 2 ай бұрын

I think both the balcony door and the splodge & scribble are excellent! Two different styles but equally appealing. I can sympathize with your pain as I have lower back pain that goes down my leg to ankle. Walking even short distances is challenging. ☹️ Hope you find permanent relief soon! 🤗

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes, pain is very hard work to live with - I'm sorry you're experienced that. I need a new hip, but we're trying to delay it with cortisone injections, but my last appointment for one was cancelled and I'm very overdue now.

@jude6752 2 ай бұрын

I love how your low tech videos are so great, so real, and still very watchable! AND i wish I could learn our splotch and scribble. However, I was also loving your window - your eye for proportion and perspective is so good! 🥰

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

That's really kind - thank you!!

@jacquiwilmot7802 Ай бұрын

Thank you Helen for your atmospheric pictures. Don't belittle your paintings, I particularly like the window and on location buildings. I think you use just the right amount of detail

@helencryer Ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@valeriegehling4358 2 ай бұрын

Wow! How interesting to see the restoration room & pigments. Art is much more scientific than I ever imagined, & has so many facets! All interesting in their own right, I feel the more I learn the more I need to learn, endlessly interacting with so many different subjects! Making this hobby really addictive! Hope your pain eases. Thanks for another interesting tour!

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Yes - there's so much to it! Thanks!

@jessbutterfly9801 2 ай бұрын

You have every right to criticise your own words, however you like, but I will say my most favourite piece was from your balcony looking at the other balcony doorway from your apartment. Just the amount of colour and detail were amazing. I wish I had patience for something like thatand the skill. I’m a chronic pain sufferer and I understand the frustration of not being able to go to places and being held back but at least you did do something for self-care and made the most of it. I hope you feel better soon and in less pain.

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much! I'm so very sorry about your pain too. It takes over everything! I'm staving off a hip replacement with cortisone injections, but for a number of reasons I'm very overdue my next one.

@SewArtyAnna 2 ай бұрын

I have to say I often love the paintings you like the least! There’s a looseness and ease in the one you like the most though ❤

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I think some of it is to do with how much I enjoy doing it as well.

@ChantelleArts 2 ай бұрын

These look so good, what wonderful paintings ☺☺

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@teekierudite5108 2 ай бұрын

You may not be a fan of paintign buildings but it turned out really beautiful. I especially like how the water stain from the dried edge of watercolor makes the lintel even more realistic. The second watercolor painting is also quite fun. Keep up the great work!

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@melc23 2 ай бұрын

Looks like & you're having a great time. What a beautiful place 😊 All lovely paintings & all so different. I find it's so hard to paint buildings without getting dragged into the detail. I could never be as loose as the splodge & scribble and get the fab result you have here. Hope you & your daughter enjoy the rest of your holiday ❤

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much!

@PatriciaVoinescuArt 2 ай бұрын

Loved the pigments table and your window sketch! ❤

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@WhstlblwrBlastingEpsteinsILK 2 ай бұрын

30 seconds in & I'm like 😮😮 How do you decide which gorgeousness to sketch/paint and/or journal. 🤩🤩🤩

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

It's definitely a gorgeous place!

@TracyIndy 2 ай бұрын

Thanks again for taking us along on another fabulous journey. The pigment display was wonderful, as were all of your paintings. The window would have been my choice too, but look at the variety of painting styles you accomplished. 🎉 Sometimes, not going on the big trip gives you a deeper adventure. 😊

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@janemcgrath9615 2 ай бұрын

I think both paintings are beautiful especially my favourite the splodge and scribble technique, I just love how the pen brings it all together,that’s my favourite part of this style of painting. That cathedral was something else,wow,the architecture! Thanks again for taking us along,it’s somewhere I’d never get to visit. Hope you’re hip’s better after it’s day of rest.

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@Purpleladybirdart 2 ай бұрын

Love both your paintings - what a talent! I really enjoyed seeing the natural pigments and how they achieve the colours using natural materials.

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much!

@Paintspotsandpaper 2 ай бұрын

Hi Helen, all of your paintings are beautiful! It looks really gorgeous where you are, not too touristy, I’d love to go there where the parks aren’t packed with sightseers. Have a wonderful time won’t you. By the way, I sometimes go abroad with just my daughter, it’s my favourite type of holiday, but don’t tell the other half will you?🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰🥰 Thankyou for sharing, take care xx

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Haha - yes, daughter holidays are lovely!!

@FaithAnnNB 2 ай бұрын

You might not have been happy with your window painting, but I think it’s lovely!! Love the splodge & scribble style painting as well! I have found that after working on a painting for a while, I often dislike them and am really critical. I think it’s because my face is so close to the painting for quite a while while I’m working on it and I see every mistake magnified. If I set the painting aside for a day (I put it on a little holder on the mantle), when I look at it from a distance, they aren’t so bad 😂. Hope you are feeling better soon, looks like you had a lovely restful day 😊

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I definitely liked the window better after coming back to it!

@awatercolourist 2 ай бұрын

9:49 I love that balcony painting!

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Look forward to seeing your building painting soon too 😉

@awatercolourist 2 ай бұрын

@@helencryer Can’t a guy be lazy for the rest of his life 😄

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

😂

@colleenmcchesney1482 2 ай бұрын

Oh Helen all of your paintings are amazing & gorgeous! They are so colorful, detailed, with both of the different styles! It’s looking like a great fun holiday trip with absolutely stunning views of inspiration everywhere! Thanks for sharing your experience & adventures with us! Continue to enjoy & have fun!! 🥰

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!!

@colleenmcchesney1482 2 ай бұрын

@@helencryer You are welcomed!

@teresawilson9530 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful work as always!

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@cheesegoddess1 2 ай бұрын

I feel you re: hip pain. Enjoying you visit and sketches. 💚

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I've always been very active, and needing a new hip is a complete and utter nuisance. Because I'm still in my 40's we're trying to delay a replacement by using cortisone injections, but I am overdue one and still need to wait 2 months!

@cheesegoddess1 2 ай бұрын

@@helencryer yes. I have also been active all my life and am waiting for surgery too. Just in 50s and playing the injection game as well. Next shot is the 10th and it is past time as well. Determined to keep being active, but it can be exhausting at times. 💚

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Yes, totally!!!!! I completely sympathise! ❤️

@ietslekker 2 ай бұрын

Like your videos so much...

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@tdelphia1 2 ай бұрын

You're too hard on yourself! I like all the ones you shared, but I think gelato and some relaxing reading perhaps help create a good artistic mood for the splodgey painting 😊

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@susanorban3059 2 ай бұрын

Hi Helen! Thanks for a marvelous video! I enjoyed each bit of it. I can say with a large amount of surety that I will never get to Spain or Europe or UK etc. So I really appreciated this video. I loved the scenery and watching you paint. Your paintings were both gorgeous! Thanks for sharing this and I hope your hip(s) get better. I took have some hip issues and it's not fun! Hugs from Susan in AZ🏜️🥰 P.S. i loved seeing the Cathedral and the pigments and what they came from. So interesting!!🥰

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Aww, thanks ever so much! I'm sorry you struggle with your hips too. I'm overdue my next cortisone injection, and will need hip replacements in a few years, so nothing uncommon, just very frustrating!

@zenlife1200 2 ай бұрын

I'm starting to think that there are a few advantages to having aphantasia. (Not being able to see pictures in your mind.) I don't have any have any previsualization of an image before I start. My drawings just evolve as I work on them, so they're always a surprise and therefore I can't really be disappointed that they don't match an image in my head or turn out how I wanted them. 🤷‍♀The drawback is that I need to physically see something to be able to draw it and of course it's probably part of what's caused my face blindness, or at least exacerbated it. Another plus is that I don't get the nagging inner criticizing voice that most others seem to have. My brain thinks in words so has no processing space for extra things like that. I read somewhere recently that how accurate to life a piece of art is, is a purely artistic choice. No one else knows what your vision for your image is so no one else can see mistakes that you think you've made. I liked all your paintings today. To me they were all examples of different styles you were trying out and are all a part of your growth as an artist. So even if you make a painting that doesn't appeal to you or isn't what you expected, it doesn't make it any less important as a piece of art than the ones you like. “Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

I definitely don't have a pre-visualisation of my paintings either - my pictures always evolve (and why they usually end up being mixed media), BUT, I feel strongly whether I like what I'm seeing or not, and if it's my own work, I feel frustrated when I dislike it.

@zenlife1200 2 ай бұрын

@@helencryer I'm still experimenting with the 2.4mm calligraphy pen and water. I haven't figured out what exactly I'm trying to accomplish other than I can't help but be loose with my sketches. The pen and water are too unpredictable to be tightly drawn sketches and I really do want to loosen up. I borrowed a small table easel from my mum in law so now I get ink runs through everything too. I don't fell frustrated with it, as such, but I do have a few eek moments when it feels like everything is doing it's own thing 😂 I like doing your splodge and scribble for the same reason although I can still get too tight adding the penwork and details after the wash. I enjoy your channel and exchanging ideas here. Hopefully my waffle adds to your channel engagement so you get something out of it too 😉

@margaretpinsent6388 2 ай бұрын

I do love your splodge and sctbble style! I liked all of your paintings, theyre all different but stiil lovely. I couldnt find a reference to the ink you use in your Lamy, what is it? Enjoy the rest of your stay. Mx

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! It's Platinum Carbon Ink (link in description box)

@margaretpinsent6388 2 ай бұрын

@@helencryer oh! I mustve missed it!

@shadowguard3578 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful paintings! BTW I have an update on my Derwent mechanical pencil, the leads keep on breaking. Last year my Derwent pencil stopped working so then I stopped using it. Recently I fixed it, it worked for a few weeks, but now my leads have started to break and fall out of the pencil. It recently happened with two leads I put in the pencil. The leads broke and the pieces fell out of the pencil. My only conclusion is the pencil is at fault. I will use my Derwent leads in a non-Derwent pencil and see what happens.

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the update!

@shadowguard3578 2 ай бұрын

@@helencryer you’re welcome!

@jessbutterfly9801 2 ай бұрын

What particular watercolours are you using?

@helencryer 2 ай бұрын

The palette is in this video at around 1.40: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rJ50mLx6prO0ZYE.htmlsi=fUfQQHr_pmqTCAzG