Your background music is awesome.

I believe your knowledge and choice/use of pigments is why your color layering and blending is so lovely. I adore your miniature paintings in this sketchbook! - Melissa

Beautiful😍😍😍

watching your painting 'appear', reminds me of old Kodak commercials where the film develops from nothing to everything... always fun, holding my breath til the colors morph into shapes & evolve to a whole movement...awesome... ty.

I love the angle of that picture! How fun to revisit a memory, and it looks wonderful. I would be interested in a review of that Koh-i-noor disc set. I’ve often wondered about it

Lovely as usual, beautiful way to start my day in New York. ❤ such talent!

I’ve just recently found your channel and love it. I’ve been binge watching the oil pastel videos so I can learn how to use them “properly” 😂. I love the fact you are showing others that you don’t have to have experience supplies to make beautiful art! All of my oil pastels are student grade or for kids. So thank you for your videos!!! Trolls will be trolls 👿 Their just mad they can’t make beautiful art like this with their fancy oil pastels. ❤ keep sharing what YOU love! ❤

I have mostly professional supplies, purchased second hand, because they are easy to replace individually. I would hate to fall in love with something I may not be able to get more of. I also appreciate the continuity and ease of use of many established brands. I use all of my supplies even though most sets include some not so lightfast colors. I do keep track of fugitive pigments, but I am really only concerned if they will not outlast me.

I agree with you 100 percent. I love the creative process and am just as happy drawing with a school pencil on a piece of regular paper as I am when I use my better art supplies. I love your painting; it reminds me of the dove I’ve had the pleasure of observing this summer. - Melissa

AMEN. Also - lovely painting!

I just finished swatching a newly purchased set of 12 half-pan watercolor paints: the Schminke Horadam Special Edition Floral set, which cost me $105 Canadian from Amazon. The package came with Chinese information stickers on it! What gives? My set of 24 Mungyo watercolor half-pan paints was less than $100. They're from Korea, made in Korea, by Koreans, hopefully. What gives, the Germans can't make a profit from manufacturing their own product in their own country by their own citizens? 🤔 I also just purchased on Amazon a set of Rosa 21 monopigment FULL pans made in Poland by, I'm assuming, Polish workers for $80 plus tax and delivery. Where is Schmincke's national pride? 🤔 ($$$) I too am a happy hobby painter whose modest paintings live hidden away from the public eye in journals. Now I want to get into crafting my own journals. There's lots of videos on KZfaq about various ways to do that; much cheaper than buying Arche's blocks because some KZfaqr says you absolutely must use the best of the best, i.e. the most $$$ watercolor paper in order to be a real artist 😂 Ha! And don't get me going on brushes😠 No Kalinsky Sable brushes allowed for the vegan influenced watercolor painter. That's now considered animal abuse. Shame on you for not being politically correct 🥺 Think I'll go paint something now to get myself calmed down. 😡 Like your bird painting, it's lovely. Greetings from Toronto, Ontario 🇨🇦

I’m a chemist and pigment nerd, and am fascinated by lightfastness, but have been getting less and less concerned with it, because I mainly work in sketchbooks. When I do large watercolors I definitely pay close attention now, especially since several people have asked for my work and framed them. But the rest of the time I am perfectly happy to play with my student grade as well as my better paints. But I also realize that the lightfast claims of many brands are just using lightfast numbers of pigments determined years ago and claimed by the manufacturers of the pigments, which maybe are not even tested in the medium of use - watercolor is much less lightfast than acrylic for instance, because the pigments are spread so thinly. Only a few companies really do testing of their materials. I’ve learned enough to guess which ones will be truly lightfast, which companies I trust, and which ones are iffy at best, and make my choices accordingly. Plus I like to do my own testing- you are correct that environment has as much to do with permanence as just UV exposure. Humidity and pollution can do as much or more damage.

I love neon colours and they are never lightfast. I don't care.

so brilliant, I should visit Hungary ☺☺

He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding (Daniel 2:21). Beautiful video, beautiful artwork, beautiful thoughts. Thank you for sharing - Melissa

ii adore these walk along historical visits...the wish list of my heart includes knowing & speaking multiple languages, playing multiple instruments well, & illuminating manuscripts... those aren't my gifts...suffice it to say ii appreciate all the wonderful opportunities ii get to share with you, watching you grow, knowing you reach many more people who may not comment but are touched by yr thoughtful presentations...ty!!

Thank you 😍😍😍

Thank you for the beautiful tour!

I love seeing your amazing neighborhood!! Lovely painting, too. 😍 Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

The charcoals would have been better as a soluble stick type thing

your room actually looks really cool in bright yellow 😮

Hi Gabriella! You look beautiful, happy, and rested! I have many of the same art supplies as you, and I truly enjoy watching and learning how you use them. No matter which supplies you use, I always feel inspired. Welcome back😊- Melissa

Thanks for this beautiful video. Please, could you tell the brand/model/size of the nice water-brush You used in this video? Thanks in advance.

I searched on youtube for videos on the XL charcoal blocks, thinking of asking a question. Before I even clicked on this one, the thumbnail told me the exact answer that I wanted: the divots in the blocks mean that you can lift the colour with a brush, the 'water-solubility" isn't just a matter of moving loose particles around the page. 😄 A chunk of the ochre charcoal in a half pan might round out a little tinted charcoal/graphitint pocket palette I'm assembling. Fantastic results you achieved there, and thank you very much.

Hiii :) Would love to see a project where you try to completely use up a box of oil pastels, including the part where some colours are not available anymore because they are already used up... would love to see your creative solutions to that, without using another set of oil pastels <3

Your are so beautiful ! For suggestion I would like to see a sketchbook tour just to see all your amazing art in one place. Keep doing what you are doing

my faves are yr renderings from yr neighborhood using mixed media's, as well as yr take on artist's painting & make it your own in paint & pencil. heat issues are too relatable in houston, the hurricane season this year...not fun, so yr shares are appreciated past & present. Enjoy yr mom's 'resort'.

Nice to hear an update from you Gabriella. The heat has been awful here too, although we have gotten a little break finally. I have been playing a lot with oil pastels. They are sooooo much fun. I always enjoy watercolor pencils too. Take care!

Hello Gabriela! Thank you so much for sharing this! I also feel like I need to get a hold of my spending on art materials... I have plenty to keep going. And you know what... Even if you review materials you already have, there's always someone searching for such reviews! Even if it's not something fresh out on the market. You know? Comparisons and such are the best. Also, demonstrations are really useful! I love your art! I hope you keep sharing, but at your own pace, of course! Thank you!

*SIGH* I feel like I have given Inktense a good solid workout and I just. don't. like them. I see how they have many attractive qualities, and I am ALWAYS urging people to use them on black paper, because they are so opaque. But for me, I just don't like them - mainly their texture, that chalkiness. On the other hand, I adore the Viarco! As you said, they both have truly unique qualities, and they are not at all the same. They are certainly both gouache-like, and both of them show up quite well on black paper. I just love the smoothness of Viarco and the fact that they don't get backruns. They do have limitations - or at any rate, differences - compared to watercolor, and yes it's a limited palette. But for whatever reason, I enjoy working with those limitations. I have never seen those Cretacolor blocks. Very interesting comparison among the three!

Beautiful!

I did enjoy watching you do this piece.

Great comparisons…I’ve watched twice. You do such good work!

The abrecht Durrell standard size pencils felt different to the Magnus to me too. They don’t seem to give as much pigment and when wet seem more bubbly on the paper. I was surprised.

Your paintings are beautiful!

Thank you. Good job. (One issue, Derwent aren't WC pencils, they're ink.) I'd like to see someone compare maybe Van Gogh watercolor pencils? I do have the AD WC (regular size) & Staedtler (super soft regular) in your comparison. Thanks again and great art!

Did your Violet bleed to the other side of paper?

Очень здорово. 👍👍Мне понравились чернильный блок. Особенно вариант возможностей . И на сухую и на мокрую. Думаю в сочетании с масляной пастелью тоже будет отлично. Отличный вариант для хорошей основы первых слоев в рисунке.

Lovely. Thank you so much for sharing. You inspired me!

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Curious if you tried the lyra’s and the koh i noor water soluble crayons?

You do you girl! You take a group of 5 people and you are going to get varying opinions on any topic. You can't please everyone. As long as you are not harming anyone, you do you!

Lovely small paintings in this sketchbook! As you are painting, it is hard to tell how small it is until your camera pans out. I am behind in watching, but I do enjoy all your videos! Have a wonderful week my friend💕- Melissa

I just got into water soluble oil paints. I'm painting on canvas paper that comes in a pad. Using hog hair brushes and synthetic brushes. It's great. So much easier than watercolor painting. I don't paint fast and oils give me time, lots of time, to work slower. If I make a mistake it's easy to fix. I think oils are the best medium. I'm going to dig out my stash of oil pastels that are currently buried in my art supplies trunk. Cheers from Toronto Ontario 🇨🇦

Thank you😊now I know what to use to sharpen my charcoal pencils- Melissa

this is so satisfying to watch 😊😊

So therapeutic Gabi!! ♥️💯