Is so cute

I believe Kolvo sketchbooks makes an arches paper sketchbook if you're interested. Love the video! ❤🎨🖌

The Choosing Keeping Gansai paints are from Kissho. I absolutely love their curated sets and the beautiful boxes they come in.

This was so inspiring to me! I am definitely going to be trying this with one of my sketchbooks. I have the color cubes and haven't used them much. Many of the ones you say were "ruined" I really enjoyed. 😊Thank you so much for sharing!!

Happy Belated Birthday!

Interesting! Love to see a similar journey to mine. I have stacks of pictures and have bound them into books. Its really fun! subscribed 😊

Nice haul. Can’t believe you had to Google what a decade was, though.

The numbers I saw on the two pans you turned over coincide with the brand KISSHO. 53 is a blue and 127 is a green. It's worth checking out the other colors ❤

These arr absolutely GORGEOUS little paintings!! You have inspired ,e to go outside to paint!! Thank you!! 😊

i love Cass art store, and i miss Brighton :)

Beautiful video. Will be checking out choosing keeping. Thank you

What a fantastic haul! Loads of amazing colours. Love these chatty vids ❤

I mean it was your birthday 🥰 the sets are so pretty! I'm dying to get the winter set one day!

A lovely sketch. Great colours, and I dont think perspective makes any difference in most cases. The eye sorts it out for itself, somehow. I'm off to do do some plein air with a group of sketchers in a town, Alnwick, close to home. I've sketched on my local beach and enjoyed the various people coming up to me, even small kids. Every one of them was very kind and complimentary, the kids asked question. I love it. I hope youll do it again. Thanks for sharing your process.

Well, I love my Kuretake paints, but when I saw the pretty japanese style boxes I couldnt believe I hadnt seen them before. Theyre gorgeous! I'll have check them out. Also, I'd never heard of Choosing Keeping. Thanks for sharing your haul, and I'm going over to your channel to see what you paint.

Lovely paint colors. Those last 3 blues looked very similar wet, did they have much of a drying shift?

Beautiful haul! The paints from Choosing Keeping are Gansai paints (that’s the type of paint) and the brand is Kissho, not Kuretake 😊

its a good drawing why so few likes you should have much more for that

You're so inspiring!

Cute little pink sketchbook 😄what are the loose sheets u have in between ?

I love these! This makes me itch to grab one of my sketchbooks and do some abstract stuff again - I haven’t done any in a while! That grey & ochre & sienna palette is so good!

Whenever you put the white dots on the black ink I immediately see blackberries 😊

I follow you on Instagram and did not know you had a KZfaq channel. So exciting to get a look into your sketchbook. Love your artwork ❤

I love the color palettes and patterns and textures you've used. Some of them remind me of schools of fish in a colorful reef and others of landscapes seen from above. Braided rivers from above look like shiny streaks in the landscape. I'm in a bit of a funk at the moment, mostly hormonal 🙄, but hubby was laid off a month ago and hasn't had much luck yet finding work so I guess there's a bit of that lurking in my mind too. I just can't seem to get it together right now, so I'm reading a lot of art books for inspiration and checking in here and Instagram to see what everyone else is doing. I did finally buy some of those art creations sketchbooks 2 small and 1 A5. One of the small ones was for my daughter. They're thicker than I expected, more pages I guess, so more than worth their cheaper price. I think those 3 cost me less than the 1 Moleskine I have. I don't mind the yellower paper either, as my Moleskine isn't pure white. I could have bought the white paper ones but art deco and flowery covers aren't really my thing lol. I like to cover mine in stickers and marker pen, then I know at a glance that it's mine. I think tomorrow I'll just pull out some paints and paper and potter around for a while, maybe that will trigger an idea and magic might happen. Messy magic. "Don't worry about liking what you're creating as long as you're enjoying the process". I think that should be my motto for a while until I get it together. Have a great week 😃

Those pink and green ones look soooo delicious to me! Love all of them but those especially

Fascinating to see your progression. I think I’m more drawn to your current abstracts, they really do feel delicate, and so interesting. Also love that you’re not hating on your old work. That was a step…just as this might be a step. Thankyou for sharing ❤

I'm really grateful for the video you shared. Any alcohol marker videos you create would be incredibly helpful for me, as I'm just starting to use alcohol markers. Happy Sketching from Phoenix, AZ. 🤗❤️

Honestly in my opinion there is nothing worse than doing art in bed or on the couch. I wish I could but I never feel comfortable and I feel like my art comes out bad when I do it like that, much prefer a desk but it does get stiff there too, can't win really. Nice spread, thanks for sharing. 😊

I clicked on your video because I'm always curious what people put in their travel art kits. I also bought one of those wonderful Lihit lab cases. Mine is a beautiful olivey green and much thinner than yours, cause I wanted to be able to keep it in my purse all the time. I just love it. I found a great YT video from a while back where some smart person used an empty clamshell that a set of a dozen Tim Holtz gears came in to construct a watercolor palette. It is the neatest thing. The little indentions hold a surprising amount of artist's grade tube paints, and because it is only about 1/4' thick and weighs pretty much nothing, I can get an amazing amount of other supplies in my little case. I really enjoyed getting a glimpse of Margate Beach. I grew up very close to the Gulf of Mexico, and spent a lot of time at the beach growing up. It's been quite a while since I've been to the shore, and I especially liked your little gull friend! I was #986 subscriber. Congrats, you should be at 1000 subscribers any day!

Amber, I'm really sad that you've only just 'discovered' the joyous adventure of colour, and I'm really glad glad, glad that you _have_ found it now! I think it does take time to break away from the kind of art you were doing, so be kind to yourself with that. I think, too, that eventually you'll discover that 'realism' doesn't have to be tightly rendered detail, but can be imaginative and free. 'Realism' just means that it looks like the 'real thing', but it doesn't need a lot of detail to achieve that. It can be done wth just a few lines! Changing colours, choosing what you put in and what you leave out of your work is what makes it fun. If people want 'real', hey, they can just take a photo! After all, I think the majority now has a mobile phone with a camera. If they want it mega-realistically drawn, well, they can buy some tracing paper and trace it for themselves. It isn't hard - it just takes a bit of time and patience. But you, as an artist, you can do whatever 'talks to you', and no-one's going to know that you moved that clock tower across to the other side of the picture, and made it say 10 to 10 instead of 9.15, or that the shop awning and paintwork was a dull brown, and you've changed it to a lively pink! Or that the person walking down the street was carrying a heavy basket and you've given it a back pack or nothing at all - all that is up to us, the artist. Also, remember when you show your work to someone, never point out your 'mistakes'. Hold tight to your tongue and listen to them - they aren't going to notice these things, and even if they do, you can just shrug and say, with a smile or a grin, "Well I like it like that!" When I was a beginner, a passing stranger saw what I was painting and wanted to buy the finished product. I suggested that she came back in a couple of hours and see if she still wanted it. When I had finished, she did come back. I wasn't happy with it, but she loved it, paid for it and went away with it and a huge smile on her face! A good lesson learned! Hope something here is useful? 🤗

I have also just been given these markers and really enjoyed watching how you used them along with pencils.

I love rock and metal music the most but never been to Download. I love Castlerigg stone circle also! Been there many times and done a few paintings. Great video!

TY for talking about the light and blue in the trees✌🏼

Love your videos. Can I ask what white gel pen you use.

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I love the luminance pencils, but so much money lol and i really need to use my neocolors more, love the colours 🥰 I need to visit the lake district, keep saying I will but never make plans too hmm favourite place was New Zealand, both islands

Lovely to hear all your answers. A month of quickies would be nice, but I'd do a couple of biggies (similarly if procrastination wasn't an issue) I really can't wait to see your whole sketchbook flip-through, and see the progression from these line and wattercolour beginnings to the amazing and beautifully intuitive pages you're now creating. I love it !!

Yes! I found you yesterday and I dug up my 2 small sketchbooks of Talens (partly filled) and started🤗....again🤭. Love your style & honesty❤

This is so relatable! I wish I had more time to paint everyday ! lovely painting! <3

I love watching paint mixing and swatching! Thanks.

I have some of the same art goals as you. I actually am trying to teach myself realistic pet portraits but I’m still trying to find out what things I like to do. I joined an art community on twitch in January and they’ve been so inspiring and it helped me reignite my passion for art!

Really nice! Love the seagull 😍 Also your camera angle was perfect ;-) Congrats and thank you from Belgium

Hello❤ i love to experiment, too. I cant paint the Same Things every day😂😂😂 so i dont have "a Red thread" in my artworks (how we in Germany say)😅

What a fun video! I just found your channel and and subscribed. I agree about perspective... learn the rules... then break them if it makes you joyful while you paint! I'm in a experimental phase lately, deliberately breaking most of the rules I learned about painting, and it's been liberating, joyful, and best of all not stressful! I love the wonky work I do now!

gouache is EVIL!!🤣

“One bad painting.. like the shark” Girl WHAT the shark was my favorite one 😮 I thought you showed it to us bc it’s so fucking cute

Omg YES, I keep wanting to discard any sketchbook with a "ugly" painting even tho I want the satisfaction of a full sketchbook

The paintings are beautiful!

Great chat Amber.! As a burnt-out semi retired magic realist artist I now paint what I want for pleasure..mostly small watercolour works . Love now to do wonky perspectives and lìnes and paint with waterbrushes. I used to do large acrylic paintings.. and painted tiny details in my work. It was not worth getting repetitive strain in juries and damaging my eyesight. Younger artists should be aware. I loved impressionist art as art student but got into realist commercial and fine art. Thanks for video..❤ your work. Take care. From Canada 😊

I really can relate to you, the procrastination... It's dreadful and really hard to step over it. A couple of days ago I did my first sketching! I don't think I can call it an urban sketching as I was in my car 😂! Your video gave me some hope now,