Good morning 👋😊 Susan 🌹Thank you for sharing your video of the cardinal I enjoyed watching you paint very much. It's my 2nd year now that I have gotten your emails on what you are doing enjoy your weekend and looking forward to seeing your next video 👍💌🌹👋☺️🦄
Hi Linda! Morning ☺️ and you are welcome, thanks for watching! Really appreciate you sticking around to read my emails and musings over time. ❤️ hope you have a great weekend coming up too!
Just FYI for viewers who commented video too fast ... UA-cam gives viewers the ability to slow down the video (see Settings icon at bottom of video) but also slows the audo. You can just turn off audo and watch only.
Really nice, Susan! I love how you left white and lifted white areas for the branches and leaves and light areas in your background. Did you use a different brush to lift? Thanks very much for your video and encouragement!
Hi Susan! Thanks so much ❤️. And yes I did use a different brush to lift. I used the quill to put down the wash and a synthetic/blend round brush to lift (because the quill is too soft)! I left all the brushes I used in the description :)
Hi Susan, Really enjoyed the video and I cannot tell you how helpful your attitude towards painting is for me. As a beginner I was getting so frustrated and wanted to give up until I stumbled across your blog. I now always repeat to myself what you said in a previous post "have fun and don't worry about the outcome!" Question on wetting the back and front; does wetting the back help your paper stick to your acrylic board to prevent buckling. I have never seen that technique before and have been primary working with watercolor paper in block form. Really grateful for your advice and so glad I found your blog and videos!
Hi! Sorry for the late response and thank you for such a kind comment. It makes me really happy to hear that me and my blog have been able to help you even if just a bit on your journey! To answer your question: yes, wetting the back and the front makes the paper stick completely flat to the paper while painting. I tend to enjoy doing it this way mostly because it allows for a softness (and more time) to work wet-on-wet. I used to work more with taping down the paper and using blocks which works, too! But you are right in that the paper does buckle! If you do want to prevent buckling (and you are using loose sheets) you can also do a method called "stretching" the paper (perhaps you already know this!) - which essentially is soaking the paper and letting it dry completely flat before actually painting on it. It's an extra step, though, that I'm a bit impatient to take! I hope that helps :)
Beautiful! Love to see more of you on UA-cam!
Thanks, so sweet!
1:50 I admit that I have slowed a video or two of yours down by 2x so i could paint a long and learn how you do things 😎 im a tech genius lmao
happy new year!
Good morning 👋😊 Susan 🌹Thank you for sharing your video of the cardinal I enjoyed watching you paint very much. It's my 2nd year now that I have gotten your emails on what you are doing enjoy your weekend and looking forward to seeing your next video 👍💌🌹👋☺️🦄
Hi Linda! Morning ☺️ and you are welcome, thanks for watching! Really appreciate you sticking around to read my emails and musings over time. ❤️ hope you have a great weekend coming up too!
@@SusanChiang Smiling and Thank you too ☺️🌹🦄
Just FYI for viewers who commented video too fast ... UA-cam gives viewers the ability to slow down the video (see Settings icon at bottom of video) but also slows the audo. You can just turn off audo and watch only.
Really nice, Susan! I love how you left white and lifted white areas for the branches and leaves and light areas in your background. Did you use a different brush to lift? Thanks very much for your video and encouragement!
Hi Susan! Thanks so much ❤️. And yes I did use a different brush to lift. I used the quill to put down the wash and a synthetic/blend round brush to lift (because the quill is too soft)! I left all the brushes I used in the description :)
@@SusanChiang Thank you so much for this, Susan! I'll check the brush description next:)
Hi Susan, Really enjoyed the video and I cannot tell you how helpful your attitude towards painting is for me. As a beginner I was getting so frustrated and wanted to give up until I stumbled across your blog. I now always repeat to myself what you said in a previous post "have fun and don't worry about the outcome!" Question on wetting the back and front; does wetting the back help your paper stick to your acrylic board to prevent buckling. I have never seen that technique before and have been primary working with watercolor paper in block form. Really grateful for your advice and so glad I found your blog and videos!
Hi! Sorry for the late response and thank you for such a kind comment. It makes me really happy to hear that me and my blog have been able to help you even if just a bit on your journey! To answer your question: yes, wetting the back and the front makes the paper stick completely flat to the paper while painting. I tend to enjoy doing it this way mostly because it allows for a softness (and more time) to work wet-on-wet. I used to work more with taping down the paper and using blocks which works, too! But you are right in that the paper does buckle! If you do want to prevent buckling (and you are using loose sheets) you can also do a method called "stretching" the paper (perhaps you already know this!) - which essentially is soaking the paper and letting it dry completely flat before actually painting on it. It's an extra step, though, that I'm a bit impatient to take! I hope that helps :)