Love the creations you made for your sketchbook color (colour!) palettes that look almost 3-dimensional. As a weaver myself, I tried to figure out how to translate that into cloth -- there was one that looked like point twill with gradient stripes that I could see weaving. Also loved the views of Scotland. We were there about a decade ago and the views are just amazing. And yes to buying something textile in many places that you visit. They're not just mementoes, they're also inspirations.
That was exactly my goal, to have these little color studies sort of resemble potential weaves 😅 I'm glad it came through! Thank you so much for your kind comments 🥹💕 and for making me feel better about splurging on textiles 🤣
Hi Andrea. I love your channel and all your colourful creations. Im in New Zealand but I buy quite a lot of wool from Scotland for weaving on my rigid heddle loom. I really look forward to seeing more of your weaving. It must have been so exciting seeing all the cones of wool and weaving looms at the university. Thank you for taking us on your journey with you.
Ohmygod I'm such a nerd for medieval painted churches! I loved all the things you showed us from your classes and Scotland. But... MEDIEVAL PAINTED CHURCHES
Crazy Random Suggestion. Obtain spring tension rods, those thin cheap ones in lengths that can go from wall to wall. Place two on walls so that you can use them as temporary shelves (two form a shelf but you'll need enough for five shelves) that will hold your artwork until they are dry. When no longer needed place the rods in a tall vase, or a cardboard cylinder (the type used to mail posters; you may need to tape the cylinder into a corner, so it won't topple) until next time they are needed. Storing the rods vertically won't take up too much space in a small dorm room. That should help you with your need for drying space as you can have 'shelves' from just above the floor right on up the wall without taking up all available floor space. Plus, you only need four or five inches between the shelves. Sweet, eh? First time visiting your channel, but I have to leave before I got to the end. Check on you later.
Beautiful, Beautiful! Loved every minute! (I haven't painted in a while and this morning before work I just played with color on a 4" square and now I need to make mire and collage with them!)
Thank you so much! 🥹💕 It really is so beautiful, and I'm glad I had the time to run around and tourist a bit. The middle of the pack is the best place to be 🤣❤️
So happy to find your channel! You're such an awesome and interesting person and it's so inspirational to see you exploring your passions in life and still learning and experimenting when you are already so knowledgeable and talented! I only took a little interest in art previously and only now am starting to appreciate it. Started doing a little weaving with a childsize cardboard loom cutout to start experimenting lol... And trying to start reading on the history of weaving in different cultures and how the materials and patterns and equipment are so varied :) anyway, cheers to the lovely time in your journeys for many years to come and many blessings to you!
I’m so happy this popped up on my feed today. I was sort of missing your vlogs. I checked Instagram and was reassured you were all right. I love everything about these vlogs.
I appreciate every second of your videos. Obscure is simply something I won’t see in Texas if you didn’t take me there. I have to rerun the video because I was embroidering and looked away through some of the tour. They are never long enough, but I’m happy you made a video at all. Thank you.
Thank you so much for all of the extremely kind comments that you've left on my videos recently 🥹💕 I'm sorry I'm really slow to respond but please know that I do see them and they *truly* make my day. I'm so happy that I can bring you some joy and inspiration 🥰🥰🥰
You do inspire. I have my own channel for little kids so I know the work involved. I’m perfectly content to see a simply heart in response. You’re full time is school and making videos, and editing and attempting to live. I get that. I may be 66, but I remember how busy I was at your age. Do what you’re able to. Be happy with your own goals and progress. Never let outside influences have too big an impact! Follow your inside intuition. Be Andrea. You are God made, God breathed and have a path that no one else has. Love being a tiny lady bug in the corner watching.
Happy new year, Andrea! Thanks for taking us along on your journey ☺️ I absolutely loved the section of the video with your sketchbook! It was very inspiring and made me want to play too!
Hey, Aleyna! Happy New Year to you, too!! Thank you so much for tagging along with me 🥹💕 This course made me appreciate sketchbooking so much more. I'm sure you'd make something really beautiful 🥰🥰🥰
It's so fun to follow! Love that you are painting wet on wet, as a waldorf person thats very familiar to me ;) That weaving computer program is also very interesting, when I learned weaving we did it all by sceching and counting and it was soooo time consuming!
Thank you for joining me! 🥰 The computer program is fun! We also spend a lot of time doing things by hand on point paper, but I haven't been showing that as much just because it's usually during class time and I felt weird filming 😅😅😅
Keep taking us wherever you want. It's quite enjoyable. I hope you get to your loom soon, Do you mind if I bookmark one of your photos for inspiration for a possible future project ? I love your sketchbook. I wish I had the time to sit down and make a wish-book of color inspiration and just play, but something has to go to make room for me actually sitting at my looms. LOL
I'm so glad you're enjoying the videos! It'll be a little while until I actually get on the loom, but when I do, things get really fun 🥰🥰🥰 Out of curiosity, which photo sparked inspiration? If you end up using it in a project, I'd absolutely love to see what you make! 🤗
Hi there, Is it true that this time of year in Scotland that the sun comes up at 9 am. and goes down at 2.30 pm because you're so close to the artic circle?
Hi Andrea. So love your videos, your enthusiasm and positive attitude to everything. I hope you don’t think I’ve got a nerve, but … you’re in Scotland and I thought I’d ask you since you’re there! I’ve been trying desperately to find ANY info on Edinburgh Yarn Fest which I assume is in March. Do you have any knowledge about it? Am in South Africa and can’t find any links, etc. Regards Clea, and happy 2024!
Thank you so much! 🥰🥰🥰 I actually don't know anything about a festival in Edinburgh, but I did go to the festival in Perth in September and had an amazing time (and I have a video about it, if you want to check that out!).
Hi Andrea. I love your channel and all your colourful creations. Im in New Zealand but I buy quite a lot of wool from Scotland for weaving on my rigid heddle loom. I really look forward to seeing more of your weaving. It must have been so exciting seeing all the cones of wool and weaving looms at the university. Thank you for taking us on your journey with you.
I'm so enjoying your Heriot-Watt Uni adventure videos! Yes, please for the niche tours of beautiful Scotland. Thanks for sharing.
I'm so glad you liked them!! Thank you 🥰🥰🥰
Love the creations you made for your sketchbook color (colour!) palettes that look almost 3-dimensional. As a weaver myself, I tried to figure out how to translate that into cloth -- there was one that looked like point twill with gradient stripes that I could see weaving.
Also loved the views of Scotland. We were there about a decade ago and the views are just amazing.
And yes to buying something textile in many places that you visit. They're not just mementoes, they're also inspirations.
That was exactly my goal, to have these little color studies sort of resemble potential weaves 😅 I'm glad it came through! Thank you so much for your kind comments 🥹💕 and for making me feel better about splurging on textiles 🤣
Really enjoying your channel. Thanks for taking us along with you.
Thank you so much, that means a lot to me 🥹💕
I love the obscure little places you take us. I will never get to visit and going along with you like this is the next best thing.
Thank you so much for tagging along with me 🥹💕
So happy to see you back. I've missed your happy stories!!
Thank you so much!! I'm sorry it took so long 🥹💕
Yea! A new update!
🥹💕 I'm sorry it took so long!!
I love your trips throughout Scotland. And also your feeling for colors. 😊
Yes, I really enjoyed the trip you took. Such interesting places and beautiful views. Enjoyed your design process.
Thank you so much! 🥹💕
I ❤ u. Your work is beautiful. It’s so inspiring. I’m a weaver as well. Since 2018. You are inspiring me to get back to work. Thank you for sharing.
Especially love your 2nd and 3rd color stories, the greys and pale tones give them so much depth!
Thank you so much!! 🥹💕
Hi Andrea. I love your channel and all your colourful creations. Im in New Zealand but I buy quite a lot of wool from Scotland for weaving on my rigid heddle loom. I really look forward to seeing more of your weaving. It must have been so exciting seeing all the cones of wool and weaving looms at the university. Thank you for taking us on your journey with you.
Ohmygod I'm such a nerd for medieval painted churches! I loved all the things you showed us from your classes and Scotland. But... MEDIEVAL PAINTED CHURCHES
Crazy Random Suggestion. Obtain spring tension rods, those thin cheap ones in lengths that can go from wall to wall. Place two on walls so that you can use them as temporary shelves (two form a shelf but you'll need enough for five shelves) that will hold your artwork until they are dry. When no longer needed place the rods in a tall vase, or a cardboard cylinder (the type used to mail posters; you may need to tape the cylinder into a corner, so it won't topple) until next time they are needed. Storing the rods vertically won't take up too much space in a small dorm room. That should help you with your need for drying space as you can have 'shelves' from just above the floor right on up the wall without taking up all available floor space. Plus, you only need four or five inches between the shelves. Sweet, eh?
First time visiting your channel, but I have to leave before I got to the end. Check on you later.
This is a really good idea! Thank you!!
I very much enjoy seeing anything in Scotland you see! It looks like such a gorgeous place!
It's such a beautiful country! Thank you for tagging along with me 🥹💕
What a beautiful adventure! Scotland is gorgeous. I look forward to the inspiration project you mentioned. Thank you for sharing this! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you, too! Thank you so much for your kindness 🥰🥰🥰
Thanks for taking me along on you adventure!
Thank you for joining me! 🥰🥰🥰
So glad you’re back, Andrea!
Thank you!! 🥹💕🥹💕🥹💕
I love your color and texture play, and what lovely views and close-ups of historical sites.
Thank you! 🥹💕
Beautiful, Beautiful! Loved every minute! (I haven't painted in a while and this morning before work I just played with color on a 4" square and now I need to make mire and collage with them!)
I love the Scottish Borders! thank you. Oh and love your work.
Thank you!! 🥰 It's a really gorgeous part of the world!
Hi Andrea Happy new year . Always enjoy your videos, Thank you for taking me along on your adventures. Your art work is so good.
Thank you, that means a lot to me 🥹💕 Happy New Year to you, too!
Lovely vlog. thank you. Berwick = Bear-ik 😉 The wee polar bear at 10:23 though 😍
Brilliant! Great job and we enjoyed coming along!
Thank you so much for joining me 🥹💕
You are doing some great work in school. So glad you are able to take some excursions, Scotland is wonderful. I'm also a middle of the pack walker, 😊.
Thank you so much! 🥹💕 It really is so beautiful, and I'm glad I had the time to run around and tourist a bit. The middle of the pack is the best place to be 🤣❤️
Was getting worried about you! Then I remembered it was the holidays🤪 over there, too! Hope you had a happy Christmas and a merry New Year!
Happy holidays to you, too!!! 🥰🥰🥰
I love when you bring us to scottish tours and also your paintings in that scrapbook are fun to see. Happy New Year.
Happy New Year to you, too! 🥰 Thank you so much for watching!
You do impress me with your talent.
So happy to find your channel! You're such an awesome and interesting person and it's so inspirational to see you exploring your passions in life and still learning and experimenting when you are already so knowledgeable and talented! I only took a little interest in art previously and only now am starting to appreciate it. Started doing a little weaving with a childsize cardboard loom cutout to start experimenting lol... And trying to start reading on the history of weaving in different cultures and how the materials and patterns and equipment are so varied :) anyway, cheers to the lovely time in your journeys for many years to come and many blessings to you!
really enjoying your videos and looking forward to more
Thank you so much! 🥹💕
I’m so happy this popped up on my feed today. I was sort of missing your vlogs. I checked Instagram and was reassured you were all right. I love everything about these vlogs.
I'm sorry it took me so long to get this one out there! 🥲 Thank you for your kindness 🥰🥰🥰
I want to go on travels with you……
Why is everything so impossibly heart-achingly beautiful in Scotland?
Great way to spend time playing with water colors. All this feeds skills for a creative job someday. Keep it up 👍🏽🎨🖌️
Thank you so much 🥹💕
Loved this video. Thank you! Looking forward to lots more Scotland content.
Thank you so much for watching! 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you for taking us along on these adventures! Was a nice peaceful video to enjoy after the chaos of the holidays 💙💚❤️
Thank you so much for joining me! Happy Holidays! 🥰🥰🥰
@@AndreaAlexander of course! Happy Holidays to you too!
🌷Hi Andrea. So glad I found you!I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your adventures. And best wishes for the New Year. 🌷
Happy New Year to you, too! 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you for tagging along with me!!
That 3d rendering of your weave design is so cool !!
Isn't that so bizarre??
I appreciate every second of your videos. Obscure is simply something I won’t see in Texas if you didn’t take me there. I have to rerun the video because I was embroidering and looked away through some of the tour. They are never long enough, but I’m happy you made a video at all. Thank you.
Thank you so much for all of the extremely kind comments that you've left on my videos recently 🥹💕 I'm sorry I'm really slow to respond but please know that I do see them and they *truly* make my day. I'm so happy that I can bring you some joy and inspiration 🥰🥰🥰
You do inspire.
I have my own channel for little kids so I know the work involved. I’m perfectly content to see a simply heart in response. You’re full time is school and making videos, and editing and attempting to live. I get that. I may be 66, but I remember how busy I was at your age. Do what you’re able to. Be happy with your own goals and progress. Never let outside influences have too big an impact! Follow your inside intuition. Be Andrea. You are God made, God breathed and have a path that no one else has. Love being a tiny lady bug in the corner watching.
loved your designs really love your videos they cheer me up thank you for sharing, happy new year and all the best with your studies
Happy new year, Andrea! Thanks for taking us along on your journey ☺️
I absolutely loved the section of the video with your sketchbook! It was very inspiring and made me want to play too!
Hey, Aleyna! Happy New Year to you, too!! Thank you so much for tagging along with me 🥹💕 This course made me appreciate sketchbooking so much more. I'm sure you'd make something really beautiful 🥰🥰🥰
It's so fun to follow! Love that you are painting wet on wet, as a waldorf person thats very familiar to me ;) That weaving computer program is also very interesting, when I learned weaving we did it all by sceching and counting and it was soooo time consuming!
Thank you for joining me! 🥰 The computer program is fun! We also spend a lot of time doing things by hand on point paper, but I haven't been showing that as much just because it's usually during class time and I felt weird filming 😅😅😅
Keep taking us wherever you want. It's quite enjoyable. I hope you get to your loom soon, Do you mind if I bookmark one of your photos for inspiration for a possible future project ?
I love your sketchbook. I wish I had the time to sit down and make a wish-book of color inspiration and just play, but something has to go to make room for me actually sitting at my looms. LOL
I'm so glad you're enjoying the videos! It'll be a little while until I actually get on the loom, but when I do, things get really fun 🥰🥰🥰 Out of curiosity, which photo sparked inspiration? If you end up using it in a project, I'd absolutely love to see what you make! 🤗
@AndreaAlexander the long shot of the colorful, algacovered rocks on Berwick-upon-Tweed Beach. Colour inspiration.
If you ever need to bounce ideas off the warp beam, just drop me a note. I'm usually sitting at mine.@@AndreaAlexander
Could try getting at least one granulating paint, like Daniel Smith Ultramarine.
Oooh, I haven't heard of those before! I'm definitely going to take a look.
I think what you do is great….mine would never turn out!
I'm sure you could make something beautiful 🥹💕
Hi there, Is it true that this time of year in Scotland that the sun comes up at 9 am. and goes down at 2.30 pm because you're so close to the artic circle?
When I was there, by late December, it was totally dark by 3:30pm which drove me CRAZY 🫠
Hi Andrea. So love your videos, your enthusiasm and positive attitude to everything. I hope you don’t think I’ve got a nerve, but … you’re in Scotland and I thought I’d ask you since you’re there! I’ve been trying desperately to find ANY info on Edinburgh Yarn Fest which I assume is in March. Do you have any knowledge about it? Am in South Africa and can’t find any links, etc. Regards Clea, and happy 2024!
Thank you so much! 🥰🥰🥰 I actually don't know anything about a festival in Edinburgh, but I did go to the festival in Perth in September and had an amazing time (and I have a video about it, if you want to check that out!).
Hi Andrea. I love your channel and all your colourful creations. Im in New Zealand but I buy quite a lot of wool from Scotland for weaving on my rigid heddle loom. I really look forward to seeing more of your weaving. It must have been so exciting seeing all the cones of wool and weaving looms at the university. Thank you for taking us on your journey with you.