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I just love this concept and especially where you used your swatches of watercolor. Genius!

beautiful drawing 😍❤

Brilliant idea. Very nice cards. Thanks for sharing this.

explosion of color !!

They look so fun to make! Love that nifty glue thing you used!x

Great video, I just have a question... How long will the colors from the tubes on the palette last... If I put them on the palette with a lid... how long can I use them... Thank you and greetings from the Czech Republic 🌞☀️🎨 🖌️

Thanks for sharing your organic and honest process of your abstract art book. I'm thinking pale watercolors would allow for notes to be taken, or quotes written. I especially am thankful that your voice is low and warm. Although I find music distracting, I manage to mute it then unfortunately miss some of what you say.

Great review - thank you. Just wondering if you are happy with the black pencil case? I'm looking for a new one. THANKS, Duncan

Your painting was sooooo much prettier than the reference photo! Love the muted colors! The bluebell woods are so pretty. I love it! You should have a playlist of your Splodge and Scribble videos. They're my favorite to watch, inspires me so much on a day I'm completely not inspired to paint ❤❤

Lovely! I got some of these after watching your previous video and they are very versatile! Love the carefree mixed media approach, I feel like trying it myself 😊

These are lovely! I hadn't thought about using up those small pieces as cards. ❤

Your creativity in using your abstract paintings is wonderful. I really like this concept. The final result is stunningly beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

I really enjoy these one year on videos - so useful to see what's been good and what hasn't. Thanks 🙂

I really like the concept of looking for tiny artworks in a bigger piece. I see you use tempera sticks , do they dry completely ? I have some faber castell gelatos and I find they just do not dry on me when I use them on paper even when I thin them out with water they just stay smudgy on the paper.

Love these. 🤩

Hi Helen, thankyou for showing how you finished these cards off, it was very helpful. Yes, as soon as you started showing the parts that you’d picked to cut out I was already thinking about turning them into miniature landscapes as most of my work is based on wildlife and countryside! Definitely going to make some of these. Thankyou for sharing your work and ideas. Take care ❤❤

Beautiful, I just love these,and such a great way to use up scraps,great to see the whole process,once again you’ve inspired me to give this a go. They looked great all laid out together at the end.

Lovely video, thanks for sharing

They are wonderful, well done!

I love these cards! How do you package them up to sell at craft fairs or markets?

W o w, Helen... these are lovely... gave me a new view on what to do with bits & bobs ii've made, ty so much for sharing.

Hi Helen -- I just got one of these myself, and I'm about to modify it. I'm curious if you've made much use of yours. I love the idea of having at least a little water at the ready for when the opportunity to paint arises (thinking of leaving it in my car).

Beautiful!! Thank you for showing the whole process ❤

Helen, I loved watching you make your beautiful little cards. They look so happy and make me smile. Thanks so much for sharing. I can’t seem to find the aperture cards that are affordable in the states unfortunately. I use small regular cards for mine but I love the small squares of yours so much better. The hunt continues.

Love these thank you for showing your process,also what is the music? I would like to add to my Spotify library thanks.

They're completely fabulous! Last time you did them I ordered the cards and am currently building up some "bad art" to turn into gorgeous little pieces like this. Always inspiring. Cheers Helen 😊

What kind of a price point do you use for these? I think they are fun.

Your cards are beautiful and inspired me to try some. I am wondering if you spray them with sealer? Thank you

Love these! Thank you for sharing!❤❤

I love so many of these!! Middle row…all three on the right…they might be my favourites. However, there are a couple of other cute contenders… just love all the colours!! ❤❤

They look great Helen and fun to do. Thanks for sharing (-: Marion 🎉

I could watch you create these tiny masterpieces all day. They are stunningly beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

I love how these turn out each time I watch you make them 😄

Loved your previous video too, thanks for showing more xx

I have terrible writing. I need suggestions for how to sign my work without making it ugly

Pretty fun!

Very fun cards, little jewels of artwork. Has a mini gallery feel to them. Just wonderful, keep up the fun art!

Here's the UK link for the aperture card blanks: amzn.to/4fLLS8w

Hi Helen, thanks so much for your useful advice, I was seriously thinking of getting the inktense blocks, but probably won’t now as I don’t think I’d have a great use for them. Did you keep your inktense pencils, I find they come in handy and was considering buying the full set as at the moment I only have the small set of about 10, what do you think? Thanks again for sharing, take care ❤

Helen, I love these type of time tested reviews! I love my Gallery and Sennelier oil pastels. And the inktense pencils are great. I’m on the fence about liking the inktense paint pans so resisted purchasing the blocks. I’m never going to reach for them with all the other watercolor options I own. Your organization is impressive and top notch! Thanks for keeping us up to date.

It's nice to see how things have changed over time, what products you keep using, which you did not find appealing, etc. Gives perspective that even though some products look really fun, the reality can at times, be different. Keep up the wonderful work!

Love your art haul reviews ❤ I've been searching also for a good opaque White marker to Set Highlights and so on. my absolut favorite one is also the uni posca. I tried the one from aber castell too, but as you mentioned in the video, it's way too less opaque. ❤your lightfast comparison chart is amazing❤ I just have ten of these, but I love them. they have a great color range.

I love these videos - it's so helpful to get an in depth review of an art haul 👍🏻 thank you so much for doing these haul reviews. ❤ I also admire how perfectly clean and organised your art supplies are. I also have a lot of sennelier oil pastels and I love them. But I keep them in a box with drawers (usually used for softpastels) and only sort them in color groups...when I am unsure about a color whole drawing, I just do a quick swatch on some paper. But your system looks so neat and perfect...guess I am just a bit of a messy artist. 😅 If you find them to be a bit too transparent you might want to use a different paper. I didn't like the sennelier oil pastel paper because the colors turned out quite inconsistent. Try using them on pastelmat - it works perfectly!

I combined all my major coloured pencil brands in one big pouch and i actually use all of them and discover new colour and layering combos this way. I also have seperate tins with a smaller colour combo and try to regularly exchange them with those in the pouch 'cause I genuinely forgot colours I had. 😂 The first ever schmincke horadam granulating colour I bought was forest brown and it is still my absolout favourite. When it comes to the white pencils, i think the poscas are acrylic paint and the faber castell pitt one is an ink ( unsure) so the posca definitely ought to be more opaque , my white posca feels quite scratchy and unfortunately always randomly discharges a huge blob of white paint while using it so I usually don't gravitate towards it although it is the most opaque white paintpen I have . I love my mungyo oil pastel set and I enjoy them more than the sennelier oil pastels simply because especially in a more humid environment the senneliers just are too soft and are harder to work with for me .

Great long term perspective. The opposite of "unboxing and first impressions". Good to see how materials stand the test of time and personal preference.

I heard it a lot but in your video it is clearly to see! Many people told me, that roman szmals watercolor paints have drying issues! And in your video I really saw, that every other watercolor paint dried nicely, but the two Roman Szmals- perelyn green deep and perelyn violet- dried not evenly but with really Hard edges. And both roman szmals paints behaved exactly the same!! Is this something you've already noticed before?

I keep thinking that combining all Watercolor in one may make a difference! Else i never understand which brand to pick up. I have Winsor newton and Sennelier combined, which is general go to. Daniel Smith for landscapes and Holbein for anime/ character design

Great recap,very interesting to see what you really enjoyed using and what you didn’t so much. I loved the bunting drawing and that eye was amazing.

Thank you for the video. So interesting! For the Schmincke Gold Powder, I mix it with water in a little dish and let it dry. I find this way, when I rewet it, it sticks really thickly to the paper and I do not have waste. I also have the same impression from the Sennelier oil pastels. I bought a few to try them out, but I just found him too soft and messy and then decided for the Van Gogh ones, because they have the pigment information, are a bit harder and a lot cheaper. (and later I also bought the Neocolor2.) But I found the Sennelier ones not so different from the oil sticks and am wondering, if one could use them more like oil color and with things like a brush and also what medium could maybe be used. 😊

I will have to give that Colored Pencil medium a try. I have used liquid mediums meant for makeup because that was what I had around but they dried very quickly.