Yep, these colors go together. That is such a cool painting.

I agree that's a pretty retro feeling green. but I can dig it! (is that a retro phrase? lol) anyway congrats to your jail free kitchen savvy partnership, assuming I guessed the answers correctly.

Beautiful! Lol yeah nothing evokes that era like avocado bathtubs and burnt sienna wallpaper- but I love those colours!

Carnations are my fave! My grandpa used to grow them and he would put me in charge during my summer vacations. They just have the best smell to me.

It came out so interesting!

No regrets! This is really cool and I think the color palette you chose really makes this piece work so well☮️ Groovy! I actually was/am a flower child/hippie😊 I miss saying “far out” - ya dig? I’m hip to this art style. It’s cherry! 😁😁😁 Every single time, Irene-you make me want to run to my studio and create! Your childhood memories are wonderfully similar to my own…but I actually DO miss the days of phone books, black and white Zeniths on rolling carts and Swanson Hungry Man TV dinners. Carnations were definitely in the grocery stores-and also sold on street corners! -I’d forgotten that until just now. I bet they were every mom’s favorite because they were really the only choice😅 Although we did have our fair share of Carnation Instant Breakfast to accompany our Tang and Space Food Sticks, we were never lucky enough to have homemade curry. A popular snack growing up was Premium Saltines Crackers with butter and grape jelly. Makes me think of watching Mr. Rogers and Mickey Mouse Club, and I still crave that snack from time to time! Flowers not glowers, man. Dig it.

Ha! Embrace the weird. I love this one. Not sure exactly what it s, but it kind of reminds me of the old French posters from a graphic style. (I'm probably not explaining that well) speaking of rotary phones, have you seen that viral video of a young person trying to figure out how to use one? It's every bit as funny as one of us trying to figure out new tech! 🤣 Thanks for sharing, it brightened my day. Happy arting! 🌻

I'm always surprised you don't have a gajillion subs. Always love your content!

I’ve been doodling a lot of ‘shrooms lately too…they must be trending, haha. Your book is starting to fill up with some great pages! 😊

Oh Irene😮 Thank you for borrowing Producer Mike’s pen 🖊️. Adore 😊 the color as well as the ink color. So much so that I ordered the ink and the LAST pen from Jet pens. Thank you 🙏 for helping me spend my money 💰 on wonderful objects of joy 🤩

Thanks for the Mont Blanc ad link ❤❤❤!

Great color!

Sold! Irene, it was either the swipe of the slice or the slice of the swipe, something about your mushroom doodles, that dreamy green, or your charming banter….no matter the cause, this has me hooked, line and sinker & I just bought my own swipe in a slice of melon color coral-ish tone💕💕🤠 I got the Scabiosa ink in addition to a Magenta and the lovely Goldgrun. Scabiosa sounds like a Harry Potter Spell, don’t you think?! Thanks for the great recommendations ❤❤❤ Can’t wait until they arrive!

lovely doodling session! 💚 recently I've been trying to spend less time online, so I've been feeling the creeping of time as I understand less and less slang my younger coworkers are throwing around. 😅

One day you are young, and then you find yourself enjoying this video very much.

Oh Irene, you are such a scream! I’m Scottish and we specialise in creepy crawlies, along with all terms relating to them. Yep, just shuddered whilst lying down in bed - impressed? I was. Anyway, I digress, and yes, I do that a lot, ask Ann over at The Creek, you know who I mean, oh sender of happy mail. 🥰 I digress once more, apologies. I wanted to immediately jump into telling you that I loved your drawing. It’s imaginative and wonderfully unique. Derwent is obviously very readily available for me, but I don’t let a thing like geography get in the way of art products. No, I genuinely think their products are excellent, in particular their pencils. There is a huge Derwent pencil museum on the River Derwent in the north of England. You can also see Derwent make the pencils! Yup, I have a crush, and have only just realised. 😳 Before I leave, I think you may be interested to know that until you brought my attention to “Strathmore”, I hadn’t noticed a thing wrong, as I was busy chatting away to myself on just where on earth could I learn to write so beautifully. Occasionally, with your more flighty viewer, honesty really doesn’t pay. I love your dialogue and you always make me laugh, or on down days, at least lift the corners of my mouth. What? I’m Scottish! We brood about stuff. Albeit, usually the English. 😂🖌️👩🏻‍🎨

Just a wonderful video, Irene 👌. Good to see you using the Derwent. They are wonderful and I too enjoy the muted colors. I like them SO much that I ordered the new 150 set of their Chromoflow pencils because they have tons of beautiful muted colors 👍. I plan to incorporate them with my Drawing pencil roll. Never knew about the Rembrandt paper. I didn’t notice your boo boo until you said something. I’m so anal I would have to write out Rembrandt on another piece of paper/cut and splice and dice 🤣. Gotta have it “perfect”. Anyway, I ordered the paper in the blue and green because those are more my colors. By the way, your colored pencil painting is truly amazing 🤩 and inspirational 🎉

We use Bachan's on everything too! It's especially good on pork chops, and we use it as our beef jerky marinade. YUUUUUM

I love using these pencils , and your video reminded me to use them more often .. I use the strathmore blue toned paper for gouache paintings.. it's a good weight paper for that , and the color is nice to work with , too 👍👍👍 Norakag ☺️☺️

You literally took the words right out of my mouth!😂 Just label the Starathmore paper as Rembrandt ❤ Your drawing looks so beautiful on this sanguine paper! I have a small A6 pad and confess it’s a challenging tone-the drawing pencils look so lovely on it. Bravo! The derwent Drawing Pencils are some of my all-time favorites. I’m really happy to see them in your adept hands❤ Enjoy! (And watch out for Joro spiders!🕷️ 😮 To put your mind at ease, they only figuratively fly and their venom is literally harmless to humans))❤ Thanks, too, for the splendiferous wordplay! Huzzah!

Wow that sanguine colour is really pretty! I might need to research Rembrandt papers now…loving that colour! The Drawing pencils are also such a beautiful set; I’m glad you have the whole tin now. 😊

We have huntsman spiders, look them up😂 Someone once told me they “home” when you release them outside so I just leave them alone now.

Yup, slippers rock! We seem to have more than the normal amount of spiders this year. Those pencils and your artwork are lovely! Beautiful earthtones. Thanks for sharing them with us. Have a lovely week and happy creating! 🌻

Ohhhh I didn't know Bachan came in different flavors!?!?! Costco only has the original sauce. Thank you for inspiring me to take my set of Derwents out. They are so soft and pigmented.

dang those pencils look so smooth and pigmented 🤯 I feel like dubbing in different languages has gotten a lot better over the years. generally I'm in the same boat, watching in the original language with English subtitles, but I'm finding that more and more projects are getting really good English dubs. that, and my sister is literally a voice actor. 😉

Hi Irene, I just got these pencils as well. I have been dying to try them and I really like them. I only swatch them so far. I love the Rembrandt paper...I am getting it in a different color.

I am grateful that we call him by Rembrandt because I am thinking most trying to say Van Rijn would have too many saying Van Ridge in. I figured you were going full in on the sanguine theme with the paper, pencil and word definition: optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation. Oh wow, I will have to try that BBQ sauce. I've never seen it! Now I have Blue Oyster Cult's song Gozilla going through my head. OH NO There goes Tokyo, Go Go Godzilla!! I actually prefer subtitles, but it can be tough when you are tired. Did you put on a bad tiki? Did you have flashbacks to Peter Brady with the tarantula on his chest? You get a pass on the Strathmore snafu, the spider trauma overwhelmed you. I actually don't mind spiders. they eat things I hate more, like mosquitos and flies. But that's just me. I love the Derwent Drawing set. Very buttery and smooth. Beautiful drawing.

So nice the colour is really opaque

How long will this 5ml tube last?

Thank you for the review. I wanted an upgrade. I have been painting with himi for nearly two years now.

"we all do each other" 😂 Thank you!

I want a AquaElite 20 round. They are like $65 here and hard to find.

My tin stays closed.

Who’s that in the background…..Buddy Rich he’s on the wrong show.

glad you're having fun with florals! but for me, I feel like no matter how many other people I see enjoying themselves with loose watercolor florals, I feel like it's never gonna be something that I enjoy painting myself. woe is me! man, hearing the word "wash" pronounced like "worsh" gets me riled up every single time lol. like, who even decided that that was going to become a widespread thing?? I used to hear it all the time when I worked at the mall. like yes sir, I will ring up those light worsh jeans for you 😭😭

Please please please narrate a children's audiobook. You have the best voice ever!

Oh no not hives!!!! That’s the worst…but your painting is one of the best! I hope you frame it. I’ve never thought to use the white gouache (or watercolor) at the end. I really like that; definitely will give this technique a go! In the Grand Art Lottery, this one was definitely a winner 🥇 ❤🎉 Thank you, Irene! And I hope your maples are celebrating spring with their excessive helicopter seedlings, not giving up a last hurrah😅

Nice painting ❤️

Cute video. Thanks for sharing ❤

I too find watercolors the most fun and fascinating medium to play with. Does that mean that I should get rid of all the tons of other mediums that are also fun and easily collected? 😂 NEVER ❤. By the way, great 👍 painting 😊

I learned samaras. Thank you! I noticed ours yesterday!

I know that exact video and also love it! Inspo from that video was one of my first good flowers!

Yay! She's back! I think it's lovey, and a reminder for me to loosen up. I always have a death grip on my brush or pencil, poor things! Thanks for the channel recommendation! I'll go check her out. Worshington, indeed! 🤣

who cares about the seal!!! for gods sake. not fun listening you to nitpick and complain

Thank you & yes life is to short to mess with a glob of paint that is called “watercolor” but won’t react well to water 😂😂😂! As a beginner got Arteza tube watercolor paints & took a month to put water over the wells & had to chip pieces out! No fun for sure!

Hello what pen are you using ? Thank you. Thanks for sharing all these videos

Congrats to the winner

I just wanna say I’m a huge fan of the Irene and Producer Mike Podcast ❤ That ink color is cool-looks a little like Venetian Red watercolor on my phone screen. “I think I’m ready to try a broad” is something that can not necessarily be spoken in mixed company 😂 Fun giveaway! Congrats to Russell for winning 🎉 🖊️ I’m loving the Diamine Inks. Right now I’m messing around with shellac inks, and before you gasp, I’m only using them on dip pens. The shellac really imparts a softness that I like. Ooo hey maybe I should get some micro mesh! Never knew about that little gem. I’m watching this long after the contest, but I really want to use the words “fountain pen curious” in a sentence, so: “I am way beyond fountain pen curious. I am to the point where I dream of pens and inks.”😊 2000 subscribers!! Right on, indeed! Keep on truckin’ 👩🏻‍🎨💐