Derwent drawing pencils are amazing, they need to bring out more colours 😊

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

I totally agree!

@hugbloom2664

10 ай бұрын

I agree!

@adriannabcustomfurniture

10 ай бұрын

I agree!!

What a joy you are!! I love your spirit!! I read a review for ESSE watercolors and someone mentioned your channel…so glad I read that review!!

Current Favourite is definitely watercolours!

I am a wood or pure graphite pencil person for sketching but for writing and drafting I use mechanical. I like being able to use the side of a wooden pencil. Love your video, thank you for sharing ❤

Watercolor, plus, I like the Caran D'Ache Technalo graphite watercolor pencils. They are great for drawing and getting a little added dimension shading with a wet brush.

Lately I've been interested in more loose impressionistic style drawing. So I've been exploring minimal sketching with light color pencil & going with either watercolors, or ink washes on top. Trying to keep to larger (size 10) brushes & be very intentional about details. Using a fountain pen has helped speed up the process when drawing outside. Love my R&K Sketch Ink (Thea color) as its dries to a very warm grey and doesn't stand out too much. Also started using the Faber Castel Matte series pencils and enjoy that they don't have that shine that normal graphite pencils have. Plus learned to book bind over the pandemic, so now I exclusively make my own hardcover sketchbooks to the size, paper quality, and brand of my liking. It's helped me to keep a regular sketchbook drawing habit. Thanks for sharing all your materials. Will look into the Princeton Aqua Elite brushes.

I really enjoyed your favorites, and your artwork is so amazing

@kriksis

8 ай бұрын

thank you!

Thank you!

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

I’ve been obsessed with watercolor for a while now. It is so much fun ❤

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

It really is!

I love mechanical pencils too, but I prefer .7mm leads over .5. They’re a bit harder to find here in Australia, but I feel really clumsy when I use .5mm for some reason. If you want a fountain pen that won’t ever dry out, I highly recommend the ones by Platinum. The platinum preppy was my first fountain pen, and I lost it. I found it 2 years later and it still wrote perfectly (no dried ink or anything). I know Noodler’s make some inks that are lightfast+waterproof etc. that have a good reputation, but I haven’t tried them yet. I love their Southwest Sunset (formerly Apache Sunset) ink though, it’s my favourite! I have been meaning to get the Kaweco Perkeo too, so I’m glad to hear you like it!

Favorite materials acrylic gouache, watercolor, luminance pencils, Derwent pencils, neocolor 2 😂

I loved this video - full of good information and inspiration! I couldn't say which is my current favourite medium as I love so many, but I do find that watercolours are quite magical, so they will always have a special place in my heart. :)

@awatercolourist

11 ай бұрын

Just saying hi 👋🏼 😊

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you Natasha ❤

8:52 I agree, the touch and feel of the brush in the hand makes quite the difference. It too took me by surprise.

My favorite medium changes so often, it's hard to pick just one. In 2023, what I have enjoyed the most is making papercuts from thin brown paper bags from my bakery. After cutting, I dip them in golden amber shellac. It gives them extra strength and a rich color. I use acrylic matte medium to glue them into my sketchbooks. I love making loose sketches with colored inks and a bamboo reed pen. My favorite brands for water soluble inks are Herbin and Robert Oster. I use DeAtramentis Document ink (black) in my fountain pen for pen and watercolor sketches. It is waterproof, so you can paint over it after it is dry. I agree with you about Derwent Drawing pencils and Derwent Lightfast pencils. Thanks for the color suggestions.

This is my first video of yours. It was the fox figurine in the thumbnail, which made me click! So cute - where is it from? Love your preferred colour palette and your genuineness! It made me subscribe! 😊

I love how your art journey is evolving and your studio space is quite charming. I love mechanical pencils from a design perspective but I also love the feel and smell of a nice wooden pencil. My favorite medium is watercolor and I have been lately been obsessed with dark moody blues like Payne’s grey, vivianite, and indanthrone blue. France is a great place for a holiday and I hope you have a lovely time. Thanks for the video😘

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!❤

Thank you so much for this lovely and informative video!! I love your preferred palette; love those muted colours and natural tones. I also LOVE mechanical pencils - I have the clutch pencils and I adore them! I love the thicker leads. All my best to you! ❤

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!❤

Loved hearing what art materials you have been using lately! I recently got Caran d'ache neopastels and have been really enjoying them 😊

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Yay, thank you!

This is my first video of yours. It was the fox figurine in the thumbnail, which made me click! So cute - where is it from? Love your preferred colour palette and your genuineness! It made me subscribe! 😊 I prefer using wood pencils for sketching, because I tend to press to hard and they seem softer on the paper. For me at least.

Hope your Holiday has been fantastic! Looking forward to your book!! Currently my favorite art supply is simply Prisma Colored Pencils!!

Hi there! My current favorite medium is a tie between ballpoint pen and colored pencils 😊

@kriksis

7 ай бұрын

Hello! :) Thank you for sharing!

I use both mechanical and traditional wood pencils and I enjoy both. When I started my art education, I split my time between classical art and technical drafting and graphic design. Loving all types of different writing implements is what most stuck with me. And as a mixed media artist, I throw them all into my work together! Hope you are having a delightful vacation!

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!❤

Watercolors!

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

:))

Hi Kriksis, I love this type of videos! Thank you so much for share it with us. My favorite art supplies is gouache and coloured pencils. :)

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! ❤ thank you for sharing your favourites too. :)

Favourite medium: watercolours 😊.

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

❤

I loved this video ❤thank you for sharing x

Thanks for sharing your favourites 💛 I’m enjoying watercolours and coloured pencils at the moment. When I’m sketching out and about I use brush markers and coloured pencils.

Thank you Kriksis! Have fun in France. Watercolor is my fav.

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Thank you again for sharing your views, Enjoy France 😊 Stay safe 😊 x

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, I will

Daniel Smith watercours

how fun, I must get the coffee going first !!

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

I’ve bought some handmade watercolour paint over the years. This year two new handmade watercolours small buisnesses I’ve bought from are: Beam paints, an indigenous woman owned company in Canada. Stoneground paints, also from Canada. The Beam paints are packaged plastic free. The two most original colours from Beam are Wild Salmon and Wet Grizzly. They’re both iridescent, have a special reflective texture that is amazing!

Thanks for sharing your favorites! Watercolor is my favorite medium and I tried Essee paints because of your recommendations. Have a wonderful holiday!❤👋

Haha, "what is your current favorite medium, I am really curious?" Instant coffee isn't all bad, it serves a purpose and sometimes it's perfect. Your color combinations are my favorites as well, plus, I love ❤ watercolors and wish I had the variety you have collected. Yes, I also have the Derwent Drawing pencil set and they are so beautiful I enjoy them every time I take them out to sketch or use in multi media. Also, I use both mechanical and lead pencils depending on the paper quality since I usually don't want to engrave/indent as I work. Keep up the great work you're doing. The microphone is amazing and totally improves the audio. Great video, thank you!

Looking forward to watching this tomorrow as a nice reward for having to get up early!

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it!

I’m very into acrylic, the same moleskine sketchbook, pencil (wood pencil), and gouache!

Princeton Aqua Elite are my absolute favourite brush too. They feel incredible.

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Yes they are lovely:))

Ahh I love this!! And yes, the Princeton Aqua Elite I think you described well. It's almost a strange but super pleasant tactile feel. If I had to describe it, it's like matte and almost grippy? Basically the opposite of "glossy and slippery" if that sounds right? Your little adventure gouache palette is so precious too ❤️ how perfect of a teeny container it is!

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you Gingah! ❤haha I think you also described Aqua elite brilliantly 🤩

I have both mechanical and traditional pencils. My favourite medium is watercolour, but sometimes it’s colour pencil. I can never quite decide 😂. Enjoy your holiday ❤

My favorite is watercolor. Bon voyage!

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Good choice!

I prefer mechanical pencils and my favorite medium is watercolor. 😊

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!!

oh I didn't know you were from Latvia that is so lovely. I recently learned about Deep Deep Light and fell deeply in love with everything about it. They are so inspiring and I intend to get as many as I can and paint baltic themes. I agree with what you said about handmade watercolours. Happy painting

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing ❤

Hi Kriksis! Thank you for sharing your favorite art supplies, I love watching these videos and may have to make one myself. :)) Inn recent times my favorite art supplies has been watercolor, but I also like to use polychrome pencils and pastels to give details or accentuate colors. Have a beautiful holiday. Love and leaves ♡ PS: I'd love to do a art supplies and art exchange with you.

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Go for it! Thanks for sharing your favourites. :)

Winsor & Newton professional watercolour. Hope you have a lovely holiday 🏖️☀️

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I use traditional wood pencils as I've got a set and my favourite medium is watercolor! 😊

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

Nothing better than a cup of tea and a Kriksis art material video ^_^ I completely agree with you about Pith sketchbooks; the paper is very spongey and soft and textured and I've yet to find a medium that feels super nice on it, althought black ink creates some interesting textures. Moleskine was absolutely made for graphite, and like you, really enjoy mechanical pencils on this paper :D I got very excited seeing that big box of inks!!

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Yaay! Thanks dear. :)) Thanks for sharing how you relate to my thoughts about some sketchbooks.

I am enjoying soft pastels a lot at the moment. They are very impractical, though!

My favorite medium is weirdly seasoned: in warm months it’s definitely watercolor, but when it’s getting cold I start craving opacity and dense textures - and I switch to pencils, acrylics and even water mixable oils

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!!

Lovely video 💛 all the supplies shown were very exciting and the example work beautiful 😊 on a side note, if you don't mind saying, what is the name of the upper left Kuretake yellow pan colour in your sketchbook palette? ☺️

I prefer mechanical pencils. My currently favourite supplies are watercolours with coloured pencils over the top😊 I hope you have a lovely holiday

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!!😊

I have too many fancy mechanical and clutch pencils. They’re 0.5 and 2.0 mm graphite sticks in 2B grade.

@awatercolourist

11 ай бұрын

Hi Hippo 😊 👋🏼

@hippopotamusbosch

10 ай бұрын

@@awatercolourist 🙂👋

It depends on what I am drawing if I use a mechanical or wood pencil. For rough sketches or for painting over, oh, and for when I plein air, I use mechanical pencils. My mechanical pencils have both refillable lead and erasers, which make them perfect for field work. But sometimes, I like to just make a graphite drawing, and then I'll use wood pencils. If I am doing that in the field, I'll take my Blackwing because it is the most versatile wood pencil out there. Currently, even though I love watercolor so much, I am using mostly gouache and learning to use oil pastels. A neck injury makes it impossible for me to do anything that isnt completely vertical right now. I have a lot of acrylic paints, but I always make such a mess with those, so gouache it is!

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, really interesting. :)

Hello! The palate container at 4:15 , may I ask what brand it is? I love the size

Watercolors

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

:))

Do you have any tips on making your own watercolour mixes for pans?

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Hello! I have a video about colour palettes I filmed at the beginning of this year, that might be helpful to choose colours for your work. :)

Could someone help me with the name of the third sketchbook mentioned please? Moleskine, Pith Supply and ...?

My current favorite medium is just pencils and inks. After discovering how much I like mechanical pencils for my work I rarely use the normal ones anymore. What fountain pen do you suggest for manual refilling? I bought an ink pot but I was struggling finding a pen that isn't a cartridge based one.

@lightwavz

11 ай бұрын

You can find ink converters for most brands and styles of pens. And you can syringe-fill your used cartridges with your favorite drawing inks as well. There are lots of videos with how-to on both. Try very small cake decorating pastry syringes or tiny pipettes to refill your current cartridges. I have a messy path to my favorite method, but experimenting is half the fun of using your supplies, right? 😅

@gemnickygamer169

11 ай бұрын

@@lightwavz I don't really have any cartridges anymore as I'm getting back into fountain pens again. Preferably I'd like a pen that was ready to go without having to by a converter. I'll look over some tutorials. Thanks.

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Twisbi eco is a lovely option then. Has cartridge built in already and a lot of capacity. :) Both for Lamy safari and Kaweco Pebeo I bought cartridges as extra. Best of luck!

@gemnickygamer169

10 ай бұрын

@@kriksis Thank you.

New Sub also

@kriksis

8 ай бұрын

yaay! welcome!

Reduce your video time, it’s too long. Talk less l usual watch without sound. I like watching you work it’s very relaxing. Keep up the amazing work, your very talented. 🌸🌼🌿🌱🦋🌷🪻🌺🍀

@kriksis

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip