Hello Melanie! I love binge watching your videos! Ever since you Collaborated with Sandi Hester I've been watching you. I also watch your friend Natasha Newton and I love her too. I like your style of drawing and all the art you make. I too am an artist, but I'm bedbound, disabled, and I live with lifelong trauma and chronic illness. I'm very blessed to have a wonderful Mom who looks after me, and at 82 it's very hard for her to cope. We live in long term poverty and don't have a lot of money for food. But I have my own KZread channel, and I'm working on making a documentary about my life. I have a passion for art! I'm going to get back to your video of swatching. Thank you Dear!!

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Michele, I'm honoured that you are watching my channel and that you enjoy spending time viewing me creating and making art. Really special to read and your mum sounds like a star! Keep working on your documentary, I look forward to watching.

I love how organized your kit is! It’s amazing how many things you can fit into that pen roll. I hope you’ll do a sketchbook tour when you’re done filling your sketchbooks! 💜🥰✨

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I know I was a bit concerned I had overfilled it but it seems to be holding up well, and yes I plan to when finished.

I loved seeing your kit (so well organised!) and the colour wheel and swatch cards are genius. :)

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Natasha, think I realised I needed to as I was spending far too long trying to locate the colours I wanted! Plus I'm not loosing crayons/pencils nearly as much on cliff edges! xx

So helpful! Thank you! I love the "peg and awl" roll you have, very useful.💕

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful, it took me a while to find this roll, and take the leap to buy, but very worthwhile.

You are such a warm person and bring comfort to a hurting world. Thank you for your videos. ❤

@MelanieChadwick

11 ай бұрын

You are so welcome

Yay a whole hour of Mel! Great to see how your channel is growing. I found this video so relaxing, thanks Mel x

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Aw thank you Debs!

I love how organised you are 🥰

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Took me a while but makes it so much more efficient for sketching outside

Hello Melanie, It's been a while, nice to see you and hear your voice.

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Hey there Scott, thanks for visiting!

Wow you have a wide range of colors! Now I must look up some of your drawings! I also must subscribe! So howdey from California! 🎨👍😀👋✍💐

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome and thank you! Hope you enjoy looking around. You'll find more of my drawings in my latest vlog at the end!

Just rewatched. Great especially the color wheel and swatch cards grouping the multi-media materials by color. Loved seeing the entire kit

@MelanieChadwick

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊 so glad it's helpful

Beautiful supplies. ♥️ And so wonderfully organized. I love your colorful tins and the wrap around organizer and backpack. Thanks for the lovely video Mel. 🙂🦋🌻⚘❤

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you Madelyn

Such a wonderful video to have on whilst I draw Melanie, and I love your setup! This is so handy and I'm definitely taking mental notes for when I next do some plein air sketching! The little tins look so handy!

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Katie, really nice to hear. They are really handy!

I like how you organized your materials Mel really inspiring thanks for sharing 💜

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! 😊

I always love your sketches Mel your palette is so vibrant it makes me really happy. Thanks for the lovely long video. Very tempted to buy those little tins now…..

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jennie! Sorry for tempting you...

Your video made my day!! Thank you so much!!

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!

Amazing sharing!!😍

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🤗

thanks for sharing

Your setup looks so handy. I've been getting into outdoor sketching a lot recently, and it is a pain searching through my case for what pencil I need. I love those little tins for the neo colours too! And your colour wheel swatching spread looked so cool at the end. I really want to try this with all my art supplies now!

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what I was finding with having all my pencils in one case. Definitely is a fun exercise to try and put all your colours in a wheel!

Thanks for sharing this Mel, really logical and organised approach. The swatch cards are a great idea!

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks glad it was helpful.

I have the lochby art tool roll and they are so useful, way better than using a pencil case , the art roll is an amazing piece of kit for all artists, makes getting to your art materials so much easier .

@MelanieChadwick

9 ай бұрын

Totally agree!

This is such a helpful video because i always end up wasting time and making the whole experience extra complicated. I have the mini Sendak and i put my pencils in point up……now I’m having an existential crisis of whether to switch it up or not😂!

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Mini Sendak sounds fine and limiting your choices is always good. Pencil up or down whatever works for you!

I realise I have most of those supplies except the scoring brush pens. I love sketching enough plain air. It challenges me to try new things and I think it builds confidence in not being precious or erasing if you use a fountain pen.. lovely relaxing video.

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree! Definitely builds confidence and takes away perfectionist tendencies.

Just watched this again sooooo relaxing Mel 💜

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!!

Hi Melanie! I just found your channel and I love the colours you use and how soothing your videos are. I was wondering if you could do a video on your favourite neocolors and how you use them. I've been wanting to buy some and I love your palette. It's amazing how you blend colours together to create your landscapes. Great video! Have a lovely day :)

@MelanieChadwick

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Saleha thankyou for watching and your kind comments. That is a video idea I would like to do, so watch this space!

Hello Mel! I know I’m a little late to watching this awesome video but I wanted to ask you a question, do you change out the colors of your materials depending on the time of the year? Or do you keep everything like that year around?

@MelanieChadwick

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for your question! Actually it does change seasonally. If you watch my season sketchbook tours I did last year I share the palettes that I used.