Thank you again for such a lovely video, I hope it was as soothing for you as it was for me. I was also quite chuffed to see that I share some of your favourites, although the Shire Grey might now need to come home with me. 😀 I really like your philosophy that playing and experimenting with our materials is a passion of itself. Hope all is ok
Hi Helen you make the most perfect circles! I really enjoyed watching you do this video. Loved all the gorgeous colors! Thank you for a beautiful video! Susan from Az❤🏜️
I love your page of flowers, lovely to think of spring on the way. Swatching was just what I needed to see and I did some of my own today (watched this video last night)
Thank you Helen, I hope you are feeling recovered and this helped relax you, it certainly was lovely to watch and listen to. I don't know how you paint such perfect circles!!
whatever happened the past few days, I wish you all the best and salute you for taking care of yourself by doing a relax-swatch. i believe i am right when i say: we are here for it all. we are here if you need us.
That quinacridone deep gold is one of my favorites too! I’m in the southwest US, so I get to use it unmixed often for desert landscapes, especially sunsets :) all the others are gorgeous too!
1st…hugs for the rough days you’ve had. 2nd…I was missing you this week & so happy to see you here for coffee today. You picked some very lovely colors to enjoy and I appreciate you sharing them.I luv them all, but that Quin Violet vibrates. I think swatching interesting colors in a slow relaxing way is a great active meditation. I’m pretty sure swimming in such luscious colors sets off a good dose of comforting signals in the brain. I even think there’s something to painting circles too. I haven’t read it fully, but your calm swatching reminds me of this book “ Shodo: The Quiet Art of Japanese Zen Calligraphy”. It’s been a year already, meeting Mike. Nice to have an in person arty friend. Take good care of yourself this week Helen & I hope next week is better for you. 💜🤗💜
Thank you, thank you!! You leave the loveliest comments, and I appreciate it. It was definitely a meditative thing to do - I think we know what we need, if we listen. I'll look up the book. All of my kids are making it home this weekend, and in a few days I'm going to Greece, so I'm pretty hopeful!!
@@helencryer yes! My husband got me the 36 set for Christmas and I absolutely love them. I was saving for it over the 24 set because so many of the additional 12 colors granulate, and are so nice and mixtures.
For paints that don’t rewet well, try adding glycerine, honey or Winsor and Newton blending medium. Check the videos of Sarah Burns Studio and Painting with Mher for their experiments and thoughts. For the glycerine, Mher recommends vegetable glycerine, I think… Not sure though.
Always love your paintings, they come out so beautifully. Could even make mini Easter cards out of the flower painting. Just gorgeous. Keep up the wonderful work!
Thanks for this utterly relaxing and delicious swatching! I loved your paintings at the beginning, too. I need that paper!!! And I'll be getting some of those colours you swatched, too. ❤
I've been thinking about your swatch albums recently. I really like idea of having a large swatch of each color but I think I commented on your video that I didn't think I could justify having a large album for so few paint colors. I did have a look around and saw smaller albums with 4 cards per page but it's just not the same. For a while now though, I've been wanting to do some of those color mixing strip charts that Sarah Burns does. The ones where she takes 2 colors like lemon yellow and cobalt blue or something and adds a little bit of blue to the yellow all across the chart until it finishes with the pure blue. She uses them to help her pick colors for limited palettes. I like the idea but don't want to store strips of paper or fill a sketchbook with just these mixing charts so I was thinking I might try your card album idea for these. A page could have a color swatch of the main color, like lemon yellow and then have mixing charts of lemon yellow plus my mixing color in each of the other slots. I've ordered an album from Amazon, got to wait a couple of weeks for delivery, but hopefully by the end of April I'll have an album of swatches and mixing charts. I'm really looking forward to starting this project.
Beautiful selection of colours… you have a few of my favourites in there (lunar blue, quin gold deep, galaxy pink, shire grey, the list goes on 😅). Good for you in downsizing your supplies!! One of my nieces recently took an interest in watercolour, so I think I have someone to share items that get neglected in my art cabinet.
The thing is, I have MANY favourites - probably enough for lots more videos like this!! It feels really good to let go of my less used stuff. But I may have gone down a pastel rabbit hole the last couple of days though!
@@helencryer I don’t have enough room to get into pastels, my art cabinet is full of just watercolour, gouache and a few coloured pencils! (Too many sketchbooks, I think 😆.)
Hi Helen they are just beautiful and very relaxing to watch thank u for sharing I have a couple watercolour paints you have shown by SCHMINCKE pink galaxy and the purple one can’t remember the names lol as I’m new to all this
This was fun...lots of colors/brands I haven't used. I love seeing DS's Piemontite gen in there...one of my all-time favorite landscape colors. You have no oranges! I don't use orange often on its own, but I can't live without having Schmincke's Transparent Orange (PO 71) just because it's such a beautiful color 😊
This was lovely. Thank you. I have a special fondness for Isaro paints - I get the most Turner-esque results with them, without even trying. Esp the Cad yellow lemon. Also, the Neptune 8 was my first watercolor brush years ago. I still come back to it though the tip is now less precise. It is the one that feels perfectly natural to my hand. 💗
Yep! I made dupes for all the Holbein pastel watercolour set once and discovered this! (I got made to take that video down from UA-cam though - apparently my dupes were too good 😂)
I love Isaro watercolours! I have 3 of their pinks and I'm planning to buy a few more tubes as soon as I can ❤ As for materials I don't want... I donate them. There's an art college nearby and they're always happy to have some freebies and I know they make use of it.
I would love to try more Isaro colours, but I really don't need them - I just picked out a few colours that seemed most different to what I have. That's great!
@@helencryer bloody AutoCorrect. I actually meant it would be nice for you to watch out all your blues that you own probably in order of the ones you don’t use all like least to the ones you use a lot and love the most and then you go through each colour family that you have like a series.
I think it’s a great idea to add honey to watercolors that are very dry..W&N…I’m going to have to first try this on less expensive paints…. I’m curious if it changes the pigment or possibly weakens it??? I AM going to do some research as this peaked my interest. Prayers for a better day tomorrow, Helen, and that the swatching was relatively relaxing for you!!! It’s always been good for me to swatch OR watch…. Again, sending my prayers and wishes for blessed days ahead, Nancy Rolfe Nancy Rolfe
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Thank you again for such a lovely video, I hope it was as soothing for you as it was for me. I was also quite chuffed to see that I share some of your favourites, although the Shire Grey might now need to come home with me. 😀 I really like your philosophy that playing and experimenting with our materials is a passion of itself. Hope all is ok
Thanks ever so much!
Yes, the Shire Grey is rather lovely, I'm afraid!
Hi Helen you make the most perfect circles! I really enjoyed watching you do this video. Loved all the gorgeous colors! Thank you for a beautiful video!
Susan from Az❤🏜️
Haha, thank you!!
The floral painting is so cheerful😊 love it!
Jo.
Thanks!
I love your page of flowers, lovely to think of spring on the way. Swatching was just what I needed to see and I did some of my own today (watched this video last night)
I'm glad you got to do some too!!
Thank you Helen, I hope you are feeling recovered and this helped relax you, it certainly was lovely to watch and listen to. I don't know how you paint such perfect circles!!
Aww, thank you xx
whatever happened the past few days, I wish you all the best and salute you for taking care of yourself by doing a relax-swatch. i believe i am right when i say: we are here for it all. we are here if you need us.
This really touched me - thank you so much xx
That quinacridone deep gold is one of my favorites too! I’m in the southwest US, so I get to use it unmixed often for desert landscapes, especially sunsets :) all the others are gorgeous too!
Mmmm, lovely!!! I love your part of the world!
A beautiful relaxing video,just what’s needed sometimes,a lovely chocolate box of colours ❤
What a lovely way to put it!
Thank you for swatching - I love watching and I also find it so soothing and relaxing to look at the beautiful watercolours! All the best for you!🎨🌼
Thanks so much!
When the Schminke Ultramarine violet was wet it looked blue, when it dried it looked violet. Always amazing how the colours alter when dry.
1st…hugs for the rough days you’ve had. 2nd…I was missing you this week & so happy to see you here for coffee today. You picked some very lovely colors to enjoy and I appreciate you sharing them.I luv them all, but that Quin Violet vibrates. I think swatching interesting colors in a slow relaxing way is a great active meditation. I’m pretty sure swimming in such luscious colors sets off a good dose of comforting signals in the brain. I even think there’s something to painting circles too. I haven’t read it fully, but your calm swatching reminds me of this book “ Shodo: The Quiet Art of Japanese Zen Calligraphy”. It’s been a year already, meeting Mike. Nice to have an in person arty friend. Take good care of yourself this week Helen & I hope next week is better for you. 💜🤗💜
Thank you, thank you!! You leave the loveliest comments, and I appreciate it. It was definitely a meditative thing to do - I think we know what we need, if we listen.
I'll look up the book.
All of my kids are making it home this weekend, and in a few days I'm going to Greece, so I'm pretty hopeful!!
We have such similar taste in color, and I love the mission gold paints as well, and feel like they are an excellent value compared to others.
Individually they cost a lot where I am, but I thought my set of Pure Pigment tubes was brilliant value!
@@helencryer yes! My husband got me the 36 set for Christmas and I absolutely love them. I was saving for it over the 24 set because so many of the additional 12 colors granulate, and are so nice and mixtures.
love your flowers.....those circles inside the squares...mesmerizing...thanks
Thank you!
For paints that don’t rewet well, try adding glycerine, honey or Winsor and Newton blending medium. Check the videos of Sarah Burns Studio and Painting with Mher for their experiments and thoughts. For the glycerine, Mher recommends vegetable glycerine, I think… Not sure though.
Thanks! I'm a bit scared of messing with the ingredients of my expensive paints, but might cautiously experiment a bit.
@@helencryer Just experiment on a pea-sized dollop. Use a tooth pick to pick up the tiniest amount of additive and add it to that dollop.
Oohhh your paint tins are fabulous. Love the really large ones too. Could you share where you bought them?
Hi, they are all my old Winsor & Newton pencil tins, of which I spray painted the lids.
Thank you
Always love your paintings, they come out so beautifully. Could even make mini Easter cards out of the flower painting. Just gorgeous. Keep up the wonderful work!
That's a good idea - to chop up my big painting! Thank you!
@@helencryer Like when you make small paintings, you could sell your flower painting as small gift cards.
Thanks for this utterly relaxing and delicious swatching! I loved your paintings at the beginning, too. I need that paper!!! And I'll be getting some of those colours you swatched, too. ❤
Thank you!
Oooh. Love that lunar blue. You are amazing at painting circles, I must say!
Haha, thanks!
Huge hugs 💖🤗💖 love swatching!!!!
Thanks so much!!
I've been thinking about your swatch albums recently. I really like idea of having a large swatch of each color but I think I commented on your video that I didn't think I could justify having a large album for so few paint colors. I did have a look around and saw smaller albums with 4 cards per page but it's just not the same. For a while now though, I've been wanting to do some of those color mixing strip charts that Sarah Burns does. The ones where she takes 2 colors like lemon yellow and cobalt blue or something and adds a little bit of blue to the yellow all across the chart until it finishes with the pure blue. She uses them to help her pick colors for limited palettes. I like the idea but don't want to store strips of paper or fill a sketchbook with just these mixing charts so I was thinking I might try your card album idea for these. A page could have a color swatch of the main color, like lemon yellow and then have mixing charts of lemon yellow plus my mixing color in each of the other slots. I've ordered an album from Amazon, got to wait a couple of weeks for delivery, but hopefully by the end of April I'll have an album of swatches and mixing charts. I'm really looking forward to starting this project.
That sounds like a really gorgeous idea, and project to work on!
Beautiful selection of colours… you have a few of my favourites in there (lunar blue, quin gold deep, galaxy pink, shire grey, the list goes on 😅).
Good for you in downsizing your supplies!! One of my nieces recently took an interest in watercolour, so I think I have someone to share items that get neglected in my art cabinet.
The thing is, I have MANY favourites - probably enough for lots more videos like this!!
It feels really good to let go of my less used stuff. But I may have gone down a pastel rabbit hole the last couple of days though!
@@helencryer I don’t have enough room to get into pastels, my art cabinet is full of just watercolour, gouache and a few coloured pencils! (Too many sketchbooks, I think 😆.)
I love a good swatching video. This was delicious! ❤I have some of those colors but need a few more of your collection. 😊
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Hi Helen they are just beautiful and very relaxing to watch thank u for sharing I have a couple watercolour paints you have shown by SCHMINCKE pink galaxy and the purple one can’t remember the names lol as I’m new to all this
Thanks ever so much! I love that you're at the start of your watercolour journey!
It seems you were sitting in "my" spot when you painted the Mount , more lovely memories , thank you , Helen . Mike in Exeter xx
Sorry for pinching it!! Thanks Mike!
I do love a good swatch video. Some of those colours are absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
This was fun...lots of colors/brands I haven't used. I love seeing DS's Piemontite gen in there...one of my all-time favorite landscape colors. You have no oranges! I don't use orange often on its own, but I can't live without having Schmincke's Transparent Orange (PO 71) just because it's such a beautiful color 😊
I rarely use orange or red paints, though I do own some. Quin deep gold is orange enough for me!
Love the texture of this paper😍
It's yum, isn't it?!
@@helencryer Yum yum☺️
Lovely and so relaxing!
Thanks!
This was lovely. Thank you. I have a special fondness for Isaro paints - I get the most Turner-esque results with them, without even trying. Esp the Cad yellow lemon. Also, the Neptune 8 was my first watercolor brush years ago. I still come back to it though the tip is now less precise. It is the one that feels perfectly natural to my hand. 💗
I don't have many Isaro paints, but do like the ones I have!
7:55 That is fascinating!! PO73 is pink in tints, not orange or peach.
Yep! I made dupes for all the Holbein pastel watercolour set once and discovered this! (I got made to take that video down from UA-cam though - apparently my dupes were too good 😂)
@@helencryer 😄
such a satisfying video, I love it ☺☺☺
Thanks!
I love Isaro watercolours! I have 3 of their pinks and I'm planning to buy a few more tubes as soon as I can ❤
As for materials I don't want... I donate them. There's an art college nearby and they're always happy to have some freebies and I know they make use of it.
I would love to try more Isaro colours, but I really don't need them - I just picked out a few colours that seemed most different to what I have.
That's great!
Absolutely beautiful can we do it again? Would love to go to 3 large swatches of all your different colour families that you own.
My three favourites from each colour family? In planning on doing something similar so that more colours are represented.
@@helencryer bloody AutoCorrect. I actually meant it would be nice for you to watch out all your blues that you own probably in order of the ones you don’t use all like least to the ones you use a lot and love the most and then you go through each colour family that you have like a series.
I think it’s a great idea to add honey to watercolors that are very dry..W&N…I’m going to have to first try this on less expensive paints….
I’m curious if it changes the pigment or possibly weakens it???
I AM going to do some research as this peaked my interest.
Prayers for a better day tomorrow, Helen, and that the swatching was relatively relaxing for you!!! It’s always been good for me to swatch OR watch….
Again, sending my prayers and wishes for blessed days ahead,
Nancy Rolfe
Nancy Rolfe
Please let me know how you get on! I'm a bit nervous to try it on expensive paints too!
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How did you paint such perfect circles?
Close up they aren't really that perfect! Having the pencil squares to paint within means they can't get too crazy though!
2:06 Really nice 🙂.
Thanks!!
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@@helencryer hello!
@@pastelsgirl Hi! Haven’t seen you for a while!
@@awatercolourist hi there! Was busy with non art stuff 😖 finished now, thank you. Always a pleasure to see you ☺️