Wow. They are beautiful. I particularly love the last pages you shared of animals and various items, also the botanical art. The layouts and colors you choose are so pretty! I also love how you seem to get constant inspiration from the landscape all around you. I love how there are so many different views, angles, colors, moods, and styles.
Thank you for this look through your sketchbooks, Melanie. So inspiring to see how the sketches accumulate over a whole year. They really add up to a lovely body of work and help give tangible memories of how you used your time❤
Hi Melanie! Beautiful surprise see my friend Mila and me in this sketchbook tour. Happy memories of our trip to Cornwall and the day we met. Looking forward to return!!!
Hi Mel, I really enjoyed your beautiful sketchbook tour! It has so many memories of where we have been. I realized again that I need to learn not to overwork my sketches:) I really love the sketch you did from the orchids. Thank you for your valuable work! Gabi:)
I love your landscapes so so much Melanie!!! Watching this for 50 mins is a dream. I am slowly making my way through your Advent Calendar course and I really want to take more time to explore your wonderful Substack in the future!
Hi Melanie, I really enjoyed this tour of your work, it was so inspiring! Can I please ask where you get your tins to store your neo colors in, I just don’t know what size to get and yours look perfect with all of the right colour tins for each colour group. Thankyou so much for sharing, take care ❤❤
Thankyou! I get asked that a lot- I bought them from the Online journal shop, I'm not sure if they still stock them. They are called tiny containers by hightide.
Such lovely work, Melanie! I was looking to see if you had made a print to buy of the tinted charcoal drawing at the 46:24 mark. I didn’t see it on your website. I absolutely LOVE it and would love to buy a print if you plan on making one. It just grabbed me! I plan on buying the 2025/calendar. Maybe two, one for my daughter❤
Thanks so much. I hadn't intended to make that one in to a card, but it may appear in my next zine. Glad to hear your thoughts on it though as it was working in a new medium.
I really love your style. But more important, as strange as it may sound I absolutely love your voice. It's very soothing to me. I could just play your video in the background and instantly find peace :) Warm greetings from Poland!
Thankyou! Do you mean the waterbrush with acrylic ink? I do make custom ink brushes- just fill a waterbrush with a bit of liquid acrylic ink and water.
wow your sketchbook looks amazing! lovely to capture so many memories 🥰
Thankyou!
I love how you remember so much about each day that you made a sketch. Beautiful work Mel! x
Thank you! 😊
Wow. They are beautiful. I particularly love the last pages you shared of animals and various items, also the botanical art. The layouts and colors you choose are so pretty! I also love how you seem to get constant inspiration from the landscape all around you. I love how there are so many different views, angles, colors, moods, and styles.
Thank you so much Jennifer. The landscape really does inspire me to keep sketching!
Some beautiful sketches. 😍✍️🖌️🫶🏻
Thank you for a another wonderful video, it’s good to remember the few sunny days we had this year! 😁
Your sketchbooks are beautiful, so many lovely memories🎨🧡 Thank you for sharing🙏🏼
Thank you for this look through your sketchbooks, Melanie. So inspiring to see how the sketches accumulate over a whole year. They really add up to a lovely body of work and help give tangible memories of how you used your time❤
Thankyou! I think that is what I like about keeping a sketchbook, little and often builds over time!
Hello Mel, Enjoyed your video and your sketch book tours. Love your work! Thank you 😊❣️♥️❣️
Thank you so much!
😀perfect timing I just got in from my Monday sketch stop on way home from visiting my mum in the carehome - so a cuppa coffee and this is perfect 😀😀😀
Always love your art. So inspiring 🤎🧡
Thank you for sharing your sketchbooks. Very nice work! Love to watch while I attempt to doodle ❤
Glad to hear that!
Hi Melanie! Beautiful surprise see my friend Mila and me in this sketchbook tour. Happy memories of our trip to Cornwall and the day we met. Looking forward to return!!!
Thank you! Glad we could meet in person and sketch together in Marazion.
Hi Mel, I really enjoyed your beautiful sketchbook tour! It has so many memories of where we have been. I realized again that I need to learn not to overwork my sketches:) I really love the sketch you did from the orchids. Thank you for your valuable work! Gabi:)
Oh thank you Gabi, glad you recognised the spots. It's hard to know when to stop sometimes. I'm try to stop before I think it's finished!
So beautiful and inspiring as usual. Your sketches transmit happiness to me🥰
I'm so glad to hear that! Thankyou.
I love your landscapes so so much Melanie!!! Watching this for 50 mins is a dream. I am slowly making my way through your Advent Calendar course and I really want to take more time to explore your wonderful Substack in the future!
Lovely to hear Anne, and I look forward to seeing your woodland inspired sketches. Hope to see you at one of the meet ups we have scheduled!
Yay!! Love your sketchbook tours!
Good look. Enjoyed a lot.
Hi Melanie, I really enjoyed this tour of your work, it was so inspiring! Can I please ask where you get your tins to store your neo colors in, I just don’t know what size to get and yours look perfect with all of the right colour tins for each colour group. Thankyou so much for sharing, take care ❤❤
Thankyou! I get asked that a lot- I bought them from the Online journal shop, I'm not sure if they still stock them. They are called tiny containers by hightide.
Such lovely work, Melanie! I was looking to see if you had made a print to buy of the tinted charcoal drawing at the 46:24 mark. I didn’t see it on your website. I absolutely LOVE it and would love to buy a print if you plan on making one. It just grabbed me! I plan on buying the 2025/calendar. Maybe two, one for my daughter❤
Thanks so much. I hadn't intended to make that one in to a card, but it may appear in my next zine. Glad to hear your thoughts on it though as it was working in a new medium.
Hello Melanie, I wanted to ask you, does the Moleskine withstand multiple layers of colour when doing watercolour?
I really love your style. But more important, as strange as it may sound I absolutely love your voice. It's very soothing to me. I could just play your video in the background and instantly find peace :)
Warm greetings from Poland!
Aw thanks so much!
Beautiful work! Curious to know about your green paint water brush, did you make it? What medium is it? Thx!
Thankyou! Do you mean the waterbrush with acrylic ink? I do make custom ink brushes- just fill a waterbrush with a bit of liquid acrylic ink and water.
@ oh very interesting! I’d loveee to see a video on how you make those if you have time.
What gouche colors do you use in your goiche palette? Love thos colors you just showed
Thanks, the gouache were ready mixed by my friend Kriksis- a mix of browns, greys, greens.