GREENS + PINKS! 🌸🍃 Relaxing, chatty art supply haul unboxing + swatching (minimal music / no music)
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- Make yourself a cup of tea and join me while I unbox a couple of small orders from Jackson's! I'll also quickly share two new books (we'll be looking at these in detail in a future video) and then I'll swatch the watercolours and pencils so that you can get a good idea of what they actually look like. I hope you find it inspiring! This is a very relaxing video with very little music and I'm chatting all the way through, so it's great to put on in the background while you work. Happy creating!
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Make yourself a cup of tea and join me while I unbox a couple of small orders from Jackson's! I'll also quickly share two new books (we'll be looking at these in detail in a future video) and then I'll swatch the watercolours and pencils so that you can get a good idea of what they actually look like. I hope you find it inspiring! This is a very relaxing video with very little music and I'm chatting all the way through, so it's great to put on in the background while you work. Happy creating!
Fun fact= chromium oxide green is one of my favorites and it was used by the artists of the ajanta caves as the backdrop colour approxiamately 1500+ years ago.
My husband laughed when you said "right up my street" because in America we say "right up my alley" but we like yours better!! 😍
Ha ha, I love that!
Such beautiful colour choices! Those greens are gorgeous!
I always enjoy seeing the different art supplies that you choose and hearing your thoughts and findings on them.
Those books look lovely too!
Thank you for sharing another informative, calm and restful film with us all!
Stay safe, stay happy & stay creative! 😘 xxx
Thank you for always being so supportive! I appreciate it more than you'll ever know. I tend to worry a bit before putting up each video (as you know), and you're always there to give me a little confidence boost! I feel very lucky. 😘 xxx
You absolutely have to try Daniel Smith Cascade Green.
You're the second person to say this within just a few comments - I think it's a sign! ;)
@@NatashaNewtonArt make that three. I just commented above also recommending Cascade Green before I saw these comments.😂
Schmincke's Perylene Green is one of my faves as well. It's so rich and moody. Just .. gorgeous! 😊
It really is!
Is the Perylene Green a granulating color?
Perylene green from schmincke is so nice 😍😍 also Prussian green is very beautiful
It's gorgeous! I look forward to using it. :)
I bought a set of the Woody 3 in 1. They are for kids. I used them a little bit, I did a color chart, activating them with water, of course, and I was really dissapointed, the very next day all the mixes were muddy. But they are SO FUN to play with I bought a second set and gift each one to my 2 granddaugthers. They are loving them! Perfect for kids. 🥰
I only really use them dry for texture and mark-making - they're great fun!
@@NatashaNewtonArt yes, they are lots of fun!!! 🤩
I love all those greens! Have you tried Cascade Green by Daniel Smith? That does really interesting things.
Thanks Laura! I haven't tried it yet but I've seen it being swatched and it does look very beautiful.
Just bought it & am using it in a current piece - loving the way it breaks into green , blue, and some brownish granules. So cool.
Oh! M Graham's Viridian is superrrrrr easy to rewet and doesnt dry harder than a rock and check out the cool greys it makes with that ultramarine pink from M Graham you got the other week!!!!
I will give that mix a try, thank you!
I love your unboxing videos! In fact I love all your videos. Would love to see one on how you store all your supplies! I have quite a small confined space to store all my supplies so am a little bit obsessed with storage options 😂
This is a great idea, and I'd love to share my storage solutions when I film my updated studio tour later this year!
Great Greens those are.
There are lovely Greens out there in the world, and since they make you feel calm...
I also like to use those "multi-colored" Greens like cascade green, undersea green and green apatite. I mostly use the greens as a background for animals, and so the background is not to flat, a little spotted like nature is.
Perylene green and Prussian green are two colors, that I am keen on trying.
I'd like to get Cascade Green, it looks beautiful! And yes, greens are perfect for the times we're living in, as they really do help to make us feel calm. :)
I recently received a parcel with pop corn instead of bubble wrap ... genius ! .... Our chickens loved it 😂
Yeah... when I get deliveries I prefer it when they use crumpled up craft paper as box filler. Beware of Perylene Green... it's soooo granulating that you don't want to touch any area with it after it dries... subsequent washes on top lifts most of it up and pushes the pigments to the sides of the re-wetted area... at least that's what keeps happening to me. otherwise it's a cool color indeed!
Thanks so much for the advice! I haven't experimented much with it yet; it's such a gorgeous colour and it's good to have this info about it. Appreciate it. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt oh, and viridian green is a wonderful mixer! A watercolor teacher taught me many years ago to mix viridian green with a magenta or quinacridone violet (pinkish violet anyway) and it makes an amazing grey!
Such pretty colours 😍
Thanks Jen! I'm loving these colours right now.
I'm always drooling over your art hauls and putting them on my art materials bucket list, having to make do with stuff I have, but some day...
And love yellows, definitely a spectacular yellow 💛
@@jeng3805 It's taken me literally years to be able to afford to buy the art supplies I am now able to buy, so I hope that you can someday too (and sooner rather than later!). :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt me too, will be starting with water colours, and hopefully putting together my own pallets 😁
I love these so much and I’m so glad that you decided to get some greens because they are my favourites. Green appetite genuine is definitely my favourite greens because of the colours you see in the granulation!!
I'm currently putting together an all-green palette (and I'm filming the process too!).
Love your hauls! The oyster pencil is one of my favs & most used! It’s so pretty paired with the Derwent lightfast fossil and on top of any violet earth/caput mortuum type colors! 🎨✨
I will definitely try out that combination, thank you for the suggestion! 🖤
Such a relaxing video! I have a love hate relationship with greens. I also tend to love the bluish greens, as I find some of the yellow-greens kind of garish and unreal looking. DS Cascade Green is my favorite, (named after the blue/green forests in the Cascade mountains where I live) and I just recently saw a video with Schminke Forest Blue, which is similar to Perylene Green but even bluer I think. which I am ordering soon. I love the Stabilo pencil you showed. I have the set of primary colors, but now I want to look into the full range that they have.
Agree on the DS Cascade Green - so beautiful!
I'd wondered how Cascade Green got its name! I have Schmincke Forest Blue - it's one of my all-time favourite colours. :) The Cascade Green is now in my cart on Jackson's, just waiting for the next time I place an order!
@@NatashaNewtonArt YAY! I am so glad you are getting Cascade Green! It has such lovely separation qualities, and that wonderful bluish green.
I think it was YOUR video, where I saw the Forest Blue, now that I think about it. It is on its way to me.❤️
those greens are so lovely i want them so bad 🍃
New subscriber here, have to say I love how thorough your explanations are with swatching your supplies. Very intriguing I could watch for hours :D
Thank you so much, this is lovely to hear - and welcome to my channel! 💚
I loodde grens. Green is my favourite colour. Mixing perylene green with perylene maroon makes a beautiful black. I love Alyona's channel, too. You and she are not good for my wallet!;). Great video. Always happy to watch what you discover.
It's so strange how I'm suddenly (well, over the past year or so) absolutely loving greens when for years I wouldn't use them in my art! Thanks for the tip about P. Green + P. Maroon. I know what you mean too - whenever I watch other art UA-camrs, my wishlist gets longer and my wallet groans! ;)
1) David Hockney had a special exhibit in San Francisco when I was living there and I was a student volunteering with a special needs adult group and I got to enjoy the exhibit with my friends with a very knowledgeable docent. Hockney makes me feel like creating great art is totally attainable.
2) I keep lemon yellow in two half pans, one for mixing and one for using as is and in my Van Gogh student pallette it was always the most used and dirtiest because I'm always mixing with it. I'm very happy to see you got it too!
3) I LIVE for greens and blues ! The ones you have are so pretty!
I agree with you about David Hockney - he somehow does make you feel as if it's entirely possible to create great art yourself! He has such enthusiasm and a unique view of the world - completely inspirational! And that's a GREAT idea to have two pans of lemon yellow. Having worked with it a bit now, I can see that it's going to become an essential colour in my palette.
Oh goodness. My brother has just moved to the sea side (Poole) and the pebble spotters guide is a perfect gift. Thanks so much for the recommendation.
You're welcome! It would make a fantastic gift. I'll be filming a full flip-through soon. :)
Such a fun video. Im super into granulating teals and turquoises right now- so its safe to say I almost have every cobalt teal and turquoise from every artist grade watercolor brand available to us...plus several brands of handmade watercolors...lol...My fav so far is Kremers Cobalt Turquoise dark...boy o boy-its the most beautifully intense granulating color ...Soooo--Not sure why I commented all that unnecessary information...lol. well great video. Thanks for sharing😊♥️
Never apologise for sharing your love of certain colours with me! I find this type of thing fascinating and I never know which amazing colours I may discover next! I'm so curious about the Kremer Cobalt Turquoise Dark now... :)
Ok GURL give me MORE! I am just so fortunate to be doing art in a period where you do your videos. It just feels awesome. Continue being amazing Natasha! God bless your calming voice, art and videos.🙌🙌✨✨✨🥰🥰🥰☺️
Thank you and I hope that the videos inspire you in your own work! 🖤
Perylene Green is gorgeous. Also a green palette would be interesting to see . It’s my favourite colour. That perfect range from warm yellow to olive green.
I started putting it together today (I'm filming the process!).
Gerat purchases, Natasha! I had to laugh when I saw you unboxing the Stabilo crayon because my daughter used them when she was little. I still have tons of stumps lying around somewhere. Maybe I should collect them and put them into my art supply stash. My daughter won't miss them. She'd rather laugh at me and snatch my alcohol markers and colored pencils in return. Can't wait to see what your lightfast test will reveal. We had some early paintings my daughter made with them hanging on our walls for quite some time and they did not fade. I don't expect them to withstand heavy sunlight when they're diluted, though.
Concerning my other post: Thank you for doing what you did. I‘ve been away for a while and couldn‘t do it myself. 👍🏻
Ha ha, you should! Quite a few people seem to use crayons in their work. ;) It's interesting to hear that you had your daughter's artwork hanging on the wall for quite a while with no issues. I must remember to do the swatch and pop it on the windowsill with my other lightfast tests! I'll do one dry swatch and one with water added, seeing as these crayons are water soluble.
No problem at all, Sonja! :)
I'm addicted to your art haul videos 😍
Ah, thank you! :)
been obsessed with some of the Winsor & Newton greens here lately. Cobalt Green, Terre Verte, and Winsor Green (phthalo green) are all gorgeous!!
I love Winsor Green (Blue Shade), it's absolutely gorgeous!
Thank you for sharing. I enjoy your videos and sharing your thoughts. I like the paints and pencils you selected. I liked seeing how the Midnight Black made the Brown show in the Mars Black. And using the oyster over the two blacks brings out the blue in Midnight black and pink in Mars black. I’m definitely going to be experimenting more to see what I can find hidden in these wonderful pencils. I like the Ultramarine pink. This color would make beautiful flowers or a door on a cottage. Great name for your unnamed pallet. Your new greens, especially the blue green would be awesome additions. Have a wonderful week! Fran
I love the greens, sap green has always been one of my favorite greens its just so bright and lively. I think that yellow will make great dandylions in the fields lol
The Daniel Smith version seems to be a particularly nice one too! :)
My meat from Pipers Farm come wrapped in wool which I throw on the compost heap. Mine always disappears by the following day. Foxes love them apparently lol.
Lovely video; inspiring and thoughtful and your voice is so calming. Looking forward to the golden acrylic video too. Thanks so much Natasha 💖🥰🌟✨⭐️💫💕
Ah, thanks! 💕
Awsome video soooooo exciting thanks Natasha I love the prussian green that looks like blue 🌺
Thanks Deborah! It's a gorgeous colour, isn't it! Nothing like green though (I'm not complaining because I love it and know I'll use it anyway!).
Can't wait to see how you will use these. Stepping out of the comfort zone is so important to us. I'm have recently started looking at watercolor and pencils after using oils for years and its a lovely journey, and has led me to your channel. Thank you for the video.:)
How lovely that you're experimenting with new mediums! I think it's so important as an artist to do this, as you said. I've been on a journey of discovery over the past year and it's been very exciting - I feel a renewed enthusiasm for my work and I'm finding new mediums and ways of working that I love.
The video was super enjoyable, had it on replay while working on my Tropical Palette restock! 😁 So glad you are enjoying all the greens, the green and pink combo really works well. So much so that we have picked a powder pink velvet sofa for the bedroom and looking for some nice tropical vibe green wallpaper! Maybe I have been watching too many HGTV Handmade interior design videos… 😅
Back to the subject matter. That Stabilo crayon pencil, I noticed there was a brush sign on it, have you tried using it as a water soluble medium? I wonder how the pigment behaves.
And that Holbein Sea Fog really is your colour, it’s one of my favourites too! A green pencil you may like is Willow Green and Olive Green and Mustard all by Holbein. They are my top 5 favourite colours from the 50 Pastel set! 🧡👍🏼
I love the thought of a pink velvet sofa! 🖤 I did try the Woody pencil with water and it's really nice to work with in this way! The colour is beautiful and it wets very easily. I'm currently doing some lightfast tests on a dry swatch of it and also one where I used water with it. I'll report back if I see any changes! Now checking out Holbein's Willow Green, Olive Green and Mustard - thanks for the recommendation!
Beautiful colours Natasha! It's really fun when colour inspiration pulls art in a new direction. I love Schmincke perylene green. I have a feeling you're going to love the viridian. I fell in love with it again after creating studies using the Zorn pallette which is very muted. It plays so well with other colours.
I love the ultramarine pink pencil. I think it will be a gorgeous compliment to your grey's and blues. 🤗 I look forward to seeing the David Hockney book. His landscapes are just amazing!
Thank you! I already LOVE the Viridian - it's such a gorgeous colour. I'm going to be sharing a couple of colour palette videos soon and you'll see that I've included it in the second one where it works beautifully with the other colours. :)
Loved this video. Can’t wait to see inside the books! 🥰xx
Coming soon! 💕
Oh my! you name checked me again!!! thank you that was such a lovely surprise!!! I am so happy you got the book of the Hockney Exhibition,I love that the book is the same size and shape as an i-pad David really wanted it to be shaped like that and I'm glad you loved the virtual tour on the R.A channel. It's so lovely to see you gradually expanding your pallete of colours and you take us on this journey of discovery with you in your brilliant and insigthtful videos. Lemon yellow is a really good mixing colour it adds a vibrancy to any mixes, it also enhances ready made greens if you add a little to them,as I discovered,a greens only palette/tin is a great idea too!. I have a few of the Stabilo woody pencils and I love using them they are great for mixed media work and have been a staple of mine for quite a while, I love drawing with them on dampened paper and use them in my sketchbook and in other mixed media pieces.The pinks you chose in the pencils are really lovely too.It will be great to see how all these new colours change your work and further enhance the new boldness that is beginning to happen in your work which is really inspiring to see. I hope you will try some botanical works too in the future, I think if the striking way you paint birds could really translate well into botanical pieces. I leraned with Prussion blue it is better to geta 'Prussian Blue Hue' as these are made with less problematic pigments (and I've found are better for mixing too) than regular 'Prussian blue' which I've found is fugutive in any medium. Mars Black is my staple black as it's a great mixing colour and it does have sepia undertones which is why I love it so much, but I also use Lamp Black and Ivory Black too. I have that beautiful pebble spotter's book,I could imagine you creating a book like that too! (Matt) I look forward to your book review video,books are really important to me too and I have a large collection that I'm inspired by and I also look forward to the Golden acrylics video too as acrylics are my main paint of choice and have neen for many years now and it will be wondrful to see and hear your expriemces and insights on this medium,and the sketchbook sketching series would also be a very welocme return too.
P.s I will email about the Hockney Exhibition and some other updates too.
Hi Matt! Indeed I did! Well, I had to thank you for your wonderful suggestion of the Hockney book. :) When you watch my latest video (the one I uploaded this evening), you'll see that I've taken your advice and have mixed lemon yellow with some of the greens in my new Greens Palette. What a fantastic colour lemon yellow is! It's going to become an essential in my palette now. And thank you so much for your email! I'm working towards a shop update that's happening in just a few days so I'm crazy busy at the moment, but I will reply (apologies for sometimes/often taking a while!). Hope you've had a lovely weekend. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt I'm so glad you loved the Hockney exhibition book as much ass I thought you would. An artist friend told ne about mixing lemon yellow into ready made greens to enhance them, I will admitt at the time I thought it sounded like a strange idea,but I tried it and it does work!! I don't use Lemon Yellow as a colour on it's own that much,but it is a brilliant mixing colour,it even makes great tinted blacks and dark browns too.It's a staple in my palette too because it's proved to be such a versatile colour!.
I love reading your replies to my comments and also getting your emails in reply too,but I don't expect you to answer/reply imediately.just do so when you have a little time. I repeat my colour palettes over all the mediums I use. So if I have say Lemon yellow in handmade watercolour, I also have it in ink,arylic,coloured pencil etc and I've always done this. This is what I love about the community that has grown around your channel here on youtube,that we share thngs with eact-other,pass on knowledge and ideas etc. I sounds as though your online shop is really taking off as well,which is great to hear, you so deserve that success with your amzing artwork. (matt)
Beautiful colours and very relaxing video! I received the Schmincke Horadam Ocean Grey yesterday. It is a wonderful colour. It granulates and the prigments separate beautifully. I find it very special.
Thanks Silke! I have the Ocean Grey in my cart on Jackson's at the moment, ready to check out when I place my next order! 🖤
@@NatashaNewtonArt how exciting! Can't wait to hear what you think about it.
I love how Spring-y the colors all look together. The Daniel Smith colors I really want are Phthalo Blue Turquoise, Phthalo Turquoise, and Ultramarine Turquoise. Are they all similar? Yes. Do I need them all because the colors call to me? Yes. I love bright watery tones like aqua and teal. They make me so happy. :)
I completely get this! I'm exactly this way with Payne's Grey. I have so many of them, but each one brings something just a little different from the others. 🖤
I love your videos! So relaxing and informative 😍
Thank you so much! 💚
Oh, I am so happy you liked the name "Night Garden" and picked up it, because it really speaked out like that to me! 😍
Thank you so much for choosing my suggestion, I feel honoured! ☺️
And how beautiful are the greens you have chosen! Also the Lemon Yellow fits in nicely alognside them. I feel like I really am a "green type" of person, my favourite as far is cobalt green PG50, the lighter version, no matter which brand (though many people says Daniel Smith's one may be hard to rewet, but I never had the chance to try it).
Speaking of green mixtures, I love SO much Green Apatite, Serpentine green and Cascade.
At Daniel Smith's they are going to have a fair competitor now, with Schmincke coming out with the super granulating sets 😂😏
So glad you are exploring this color!
I look forward to see your sketchbook flipthrough/ creating process videos; I was missing them too 😊 Sending hugs💚
Thanks so much, Elisa! 'Night Garden' really is the perfect name for the palette - it just describes it so well! I have finally ordered DS Cascade Green and am excited to try it. 💚 I've been a bit quieter online recently as I've been dealing with bad migraines again, but I hope to be back with a sketchbook video and also a small watercolour art haul soon! x
I have some awesome green recommendations for you: sennelier's forest green and daniel smith's deep sap green. Give them a lil' peek!
Thanks Sarah, I'm going to have a peek right now!
Hi Natasha,
Those books look delicious! 🤩😍 Did you actually see the Hockney-exhibition? I have seen the video of him talking about it and explaining how he worked. I will definitely check out the tour! Thanks! 🤗😘
Those art supplies also look so yummy! Alyona is such an enabler, isn't she! But you are not too far behind with your lovely swatching (not the worst swatcher at all)!
You just bought another set of beautifully matching paints and pencils! ... Except for the lemon yellow which is too cool for my liking on its own but it is definitely worth having as a mixer. However, the bright purple/pink, the viridian and the lemon yellow could really pop together in a bright summer floral illustration - perhaps even complemented by the prussian green (which is definitely a greenish blue)!
I am curious as to how you will use all these colours!
Hugs & Love
Chrissie
I haven't seen the exhibition, unfortunately (apart from online via the Royal Academy's YT channel!). We don't feel confident enough to go into London at the moment, with the C-19 cases rising again. I went to a Hockney exhibition at Tate Britain a few years ago and it was wonderful! Thank you as always for your kind and positive comments - I appreciate them so much! I'm glad that you think that the Prussian Green looks blue too. ;) Sending hugs back to you! xx
@@NatashaNewtonArt Honestly, I would have been just as careful! The video tour is very inspiring, by the way! Somehow, I saw quite a few of those colours you bought in those paintings - lots of greens, of course! 😉😍 Seems like Hockney did a painting a day!
Chrissie I have just been to the Hockney exhibition and it is so stunning it really is,I loved the virtual tour on the R.A 's channel,but seeing the paintings in person was astounding it really was. It's on untill Sept 26th, so still time to go if you felt you could travel. I love the vido of him talking about the work as well. I have actually met him!,he's long been a hero of mine. But the book Natasha talks about is really worth having, it's the same shape and size as an i-pad and I love that.
@@avirtualcanvas7584 Oh, I know, seeing an exhibition in person is always better than any screen show could be, no matter how well done it is. Unfortunately, I am in Germany so I definitely won't be able to see it. Props to you for meeting the man! What a great experience to have! 🤩
HI Natasha, have you seen the new Golden Soflat Matte acrylic paints? I feel like this type of acrylics is something right up your alley!
I haven't tried them yet, but I have heard of them! :)
Lemon yellow mixed with black is interesting. Ive alwssys considered lemon yellow to be part of my split primary collection.
I will try it! Thank you. :)
Hey Natasha, oh boy do I have a challenge for you. I challenge to illustrate and render an art work, with the following colours, Opera Rose, Phthalo Blue and Lemon Yellow of any brand you currently own. But keep in mind Opera Rose is Fugitive
I would accept this challenge if I had an Opera Rose, which I don't (because as you said, it's fugitive!). ;)
I’m going to the van go interactive immersive and exhibition in may I can’t wait I bought the van Gogh castle arts. Pencil set because I know me and exiting out through the gift shop I bet it’s for sale for a ton of money I’m excited though, I’m putting money away every check like I said I know me lol
That sounds like fun, Deborah!
I always like the look of those chunky pencils but worry how to sharpen them 😆 I’m not brave enough to use a knife.
Someone told me that they make a chunky sharpener just for these pencils and I found it on Jackson's!
Hi Natasha, I have recently found your channel and so thrilled with your work. It is amazing. Your canvas art is beautiful. Are you using gouache or acrylic paint?
Thank you for finding me! :) For the canvases I use acrylic paint, and I work with watercolour, gouache, and coloured pencils for my pieces on paper.
The Woodies can be wet like watercolours
That has to be Prussian blue right? Maybe it was mis labeled! I’d send that back or email Jackson’s
It definitely doesn't look at all green to me, but I do love the colour!
It is not mislabeled. Historically, Prussian Green is a turquoise, not unlike what we see here.
I think I've asked about this in another video, but I'm interested in the mixing dishes you use. Where did you get them? Thanks in advance.
They're available on Jackson's Art Supplies! There's a link underneath my videos. Just search "stackable ceramic palettes". :)
Do you know that the woody pencils are water sluble
I did! they work quite well like that too. :)
Hi, can I ask what sharpener would you use with woody pencils. Tfs
I'd love to know the answer to this too, Eleni! I thought of that after I'd bought it. It's so chunky I'm pretty sure it won't fit any of my sharpeners!
@@NatashaNewtonArt , well I googled it and there is a plastic stabilo sharpener for these pencils. I did not know that they where water soluble and now I want to try them, since they are relatively cheap, about 11 euros for 10 pencils.Thanks 😀
@@atrefre They work really well with water! And thank you, I've also now purchased the sharpener and a couple of other colours. :)
Please share the moo glow. Recipe if you find where you wrote it down thx
If you Google 'Kim Crick', she has the recipe on her blog. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt thank you natasha
“Moo” glow? 😂
Lovely video as always👍, and thank you for leaving off the music I personally find it so irritating trying to listen to somebody talking with background music. X
Thanks Nicola, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm liking less music too - it seems more natural. :)