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Thankyou Helen ❤

Another very enjoyable video Helen. The inspirational landscape and your sketch is wonderful.

Daniel Smith's Undersea green is one of my favorites too and because it's made up using French ultramarine and Quinacridone gold, I always add those two colors first in any limited palette I create, just so I can make my own undersea green if I don't have palette space for any convenience colors. In my desk palette I currently have five convenience greens, which is a lot for me. Sap green, undersea and perylene green are my usual go to greens but I'm trying out a Serpentine stick and a tube of Cascade green at the moment. Both are granulating. The Serpentine is like a paler, yellower version of sap green with reddy brown speckles through it. The cascade green leans more towards being a darker turquoise green that separates into green and blue sort of like Schmincke's Shire blue. I don't have Shire blue so I'm just judging it from pictures online. Shire blue is a color I've wanted to try for a while, but now that I've got something similar, I haven't really found many places to use it. It's not really an urban sketch color for me, seascapes though would be good.

it's amazing what a frame does.

You must not paint many evergreen forests since your greens almost all lean warm. I always have DS perylene green on my palette and could use DS' jadeite genuine a lot as well for all the deep bluey forest greens. Perylene green is a great mixer and can go cooler or darker-kind of impressive for what is actually a BLACK pigment; might be one to consider if you are looking for a green candidate to add.

As enjoyable as it was inspiring, Helen. I'm also impressed by how well you make YT-ready videos while you're away from home. Thank you for all that you do for us.

I love playing around with mixing greens! I still like my DS sap green and undersea green, but it’s really fun to see how many greens you can get from a small travel palette 😊

It was enjoyable - beautiful landscapes and lovely sketch.

This is an inviting bucolic scene, Helen! Reminds me of the rural area in Pennsylvania US where I grew up. It’s nice to visit occasionally to restore my spirit. ❤

The last mixed green is so pretty

Those are some very nice greens you mixed up. Spectacular or not, your painting is a wonderful representation- I think it’s beautiful.

Beautiful! I love how you use the colored pencils for detail I never realized that the neocolor II’s would soften with the heat,, but it makes sense being wax based. It really did look like oil pastels. Very nice effect. Your mixing of the gouache with watercolor was very interesting and that piece turned out really nice.

Sorry, not first today! I was detained by real life.

I’m just watching this while having a bit of lunch before heading back to the garden to get some weeding done. I love your little painting. It’s so sweet. It’s supposed to be a rainy day tomorrow and I think will spend some time mixing some greens too!

what a stunning palette, I love it ☺☺

This video popped up just in time. Lately I have been a bit bored with my usual mixes, so your mixes are very inspiring. Do you have a favourite mix?

11days ago you did a Gouache painting & as I tried to copy your style mine failed miserably! I tried to paint ( watercolour), & „scribble „over with various colours ( inks ), all your little sketches with mixed mediums look good, mine was nothing to write home about! I realised how difficult to copy your sketches are! But, I won’t give up! Hi,hi. I like your sketch & the view from window! Thanks.

Hi Helen - your vids have been popping up in my feed and I've really been enjoying them. New subscriber! It's a rainy day here in Toronto and I'm lazing about enjoying watching you swatch these greens. What lovely friends to let you use their white dinner plates for this!😊😊

Wonderful work and colour instructions. You have reminded me of the versatility of ultramarine blue in making greens. 😊

I think the painting is absolutely beautiful! The countryside, spectacular and it was really nice to see the color combinations you used to develop other green colors. The bottom right swatch plus the one to the up and left, diagonally are my two favorite

This is so good ☺☺

another amazing video, I am loving this series ☺☺

Nice haul, the square hold punches are shouting my name. Now I’ll have to check out some oil pastels. Just filled my Amazon cart with wished for items. It will be a while, since I had packages arrive yesterday and more on its way. Not sure if I have enough lifetimes to play with what I already have but play I will. Thanks for the ideas. These art videos cropping up on my feed are dangerous, full of inspiration and mayhem. Love it!

That's plenty of toys you've got to play with there :o) The pigment sticks look great, I want to try them myself at some pint, but you know..... cash flow.... Onwards !!

You kindly addressed my question about using acrylics. I think I was thinking of the ability of acrylics to be used when adding flowers over an already green background. And thanks for the link. Have you thought of a book. Your technique is clearly very popular. Jim.

i took your advise and put my rsz set in one of these tins, thanks for the tip. That is one pricey tin my dear. Most of the White Nights in my 34 tin seemed blotchy, inferior and low pigmented, So I exiled them to a ziplock. Roman Szmal is the smoothest paint- it swatches cleaner than any major brand on the right paper.💌

Hooray for colour mixing and not just endless swatching…SO much more helpful. The comparisons to other brands was equally compelling. Thank you ! 🇨🇦

😊 awesome video

Ow, it is a very beautiful painting you made of the white church and the mountains

Blitz is quite the attentive hostess. I do believe she wanted to be in the gouache/watercolor picture. No paint session is complete without the old paintbrush in the tea. I think it's somehow a rite of passage into the world of watercolor.😀 Thanks for sharing. Love to watch your splodge and scribble sessions.

I love your videos Helen! Thank you for so many ideas to paint things. I’m a little jealous because I’ve always wanted to visits an area like that. lol

Lovely painting 😊

“Scariness of the blank paper” I love Helen. Btw Helen your gorgeous.

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I am five months late for the party 😄Congratulations for one year anniversary on CZcams ! I am a beginner. Your thoughts on new products are really helpful and inspiring. Your videos are agreeable and soothing with your voice and music. I am planning to watch all the videos in the past and future Thank you😊

Fab, great video. I actually just rewatched the one you did in France last year, and then I found you splodge and scribbling in Cambridgeshire! Thanks Helen 😀

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I loved your paintings today, especially the gouache experiment! Looks like a lovely, relaxing visit in the country with lots of paint time! ❤️

I enjoyed all of these. Thanks for sharing ❤

I bet your friend is absolutely thrilled with all the versions of their farmhouse! It's not often you get a "resident artist" in the house 😆. All three paintings have so much character. I wish I could loosen up like this. I'm all about the details when I absolutely don't mean to be. V frustrating. Also, still awaiting my Neocolour IIs from Amazon but I live in Australia and even in winter we're pretty warm so I'm wondering how they're going to go. Can't wait to try though 😃. Thanks for another one and keeping me entertained 👍🏻😎

LOL for the paintbrush accidentally ending up in your tea! But at least your bottom stayed dry painting on the blanket instead of trampoline 😂 I love that your vacation is a relaxed pace so you get lots of art time. My favorite is the last one with the gouache experiment.

Helen, ever used acrylic as watercolour in Splodge and Scribble?

This was a great heads up for me regarding the neo colors melting and going sticky. Usually I'm only thinking about how my paint is drying too quickly in summer. I hate the summer heat here, especially when it's humid, so sticky me plus sticky art materials will only add to my hate of it 🥵😂I do really like the results you got though. Your gouache painting is lovely, I do think that a bit of urban sketching with gouache should be my next thing to try. Today I'm swatching all my gouache paints into my Nova book and it's actually quite nice outside today, if a little bit cold. I've just noticed one thing while swatching. I added a bit much water to my last color swatch (I forgot to wipe off the excess after I cleaned my brush), and when the water went through the page it activated the gouache on the other side too. I wish the Nova paper was as thick as the Beta paper. I know this is Sarah Burn's favorite gouache paper but it isn't mine so far 😂This might become a colored pencil, pastel pencil and charcoal book for me and my gouache will stay in my Beta book. I like using the calligraphy pen in the alpha book because of the contrast against the white paper but the right subject might look good on toned paper too 🤷‍♀

I like how.the gouache painting turned out. 😊

All 3 pieces turned out great! That gouache painting is quite impressive considering it wasn’t pure gouache and you had to mix every colour from watercolour. I wasn’t sure if the opacity would be lost too much. I’ve done the occasional watercolour + white gouache mixture when I’ve been doing a watercolour painting, so that I can get some lights on top, but I’ve never done an entire painting using white gouache and watercolour. Perfect for travelling light! I’ve never really thought about it, but didn’t realize you’d have to worry about melting neocolour ii’s!!

My favorite was the second painting/drawing. Really loved that amount of detail. Are you going to add some details to the third image? I felt a little bit was missing. Still, beautiful work!

Helen, thank you so much for sharing your wonderful experiences out in the country. That last little painting is a masterpiece! ❤

I really love the neocolor2 painting of the farmhouse, you’ve captured the hot sunshine so well with your tones!😍

How fun! So many ways to see and re-create the world around you.