"Using art supplies that don't perform the way they should does affect your confidence as an artist."
"Can you do oil guys? Quick reality check... can we do oil paint over acrylic?"
"The spectrum noir seemed a lot more cooperative on blending... it's way more beginner-friendly."
"Expensive supplies don't make you draw better...draw with anything."
"They're actually not called graphite pencils at all."
"Corrugated cardboard: great for quick loose studies, excellent for blocking out contours or quick model bases."
"I love how it absorbs the paint and it's very smooth."
"One factor that I really look for is paper that can take all mediums."
"You don't need fancy materials to make really cool interesting art."
"Gouache is a hybrid of acrylic paint and watercolor."
"You really can make art with lower grade products. You don't need to get really expensive top-of-the-line products to make and create art."
"You don't need anything really expensive to create good drawings; it's how you use what is available."
"This is my number one pick for student grade watercolors, the price is good, the quality is good."
"If you're wondering why I have two Whites, the flake white, the one furthest to the right, has this property."
"Make sure you don't skimp out on your paper. I 100% believe the papers are more important than the paints when you're starting out."
"If you do have a limited budget that you're working with, I would recommend getting less pan pastels and spend that money on the Clairefontaine pastelmat rather than getting cheaper paper and more pan pastels."
"As far as I'm aware, there is no light fastness rating for graphic pencils."
"You can never replicate Australian Flow Troll exactly."
"Yeah, there's something about acrylics you just don't get today."
"The liquid acrylic and the acrylic ink have strong potential."
"He also mixed the yellow with minium, which is the orange lead he referred to also for coloring the frame, for example."
"Glitter: the mainstay of children's art projects and strippers' outfits for decades."
"Did you know that a surprising amount of pigments are basically ground up rocks?"
"I like to create my stencils out of vellum because you can see through it."
"Art must be this academic work, these serious materials in marble or stone or oil paintings on canvas, and then we jump for something more like an ordinary daily life, simple objects around us."
"Luckily, all the materials that I work with, the paints, the varnishes, the adhesives, are archival and fully reversible."
"Am I the only weirdo that just loves the smell of all kinds of office supplies and art supplies?"
"The holographic color is great, my ink works fantastic on it."
"I like a nice creamy pastel in a pencil, I don't want a transparent pastel, I want an opaque pastel."
"Love all of the Liquitex acrylic inks, they look so fantastic, I absolutely love the colors."
"I do love these pencils; I am pretty happy with them."
"If Polychromos and Prismacolor had a baby, it would be Holbein."
"Bits of white paper are crucial, it makes it a watercolour."
"Colored pencils vary; some are oil-based and some are wax-based."
"I absolutely love the Cezanne and the bamboo mixed-media papers and I will eagerly be using them in more paintings in the future."
"I love the richness of Aquarius green and the fact that it's muted."
"I absolutely love Winsor and Newton gouache; it is currently my favorite gouache."
"These are going to be moderate to highly lightfast depending on the pigment."
"It's like butter, they just activate so smooth."
"Oil prime linen canvases and panels are my absolute favorite surfaces to work on."
"The plastic shell will create bubbles on the gel plate; that's why you have to use the paper."
"Your Prismacolors are going to be one of the most pigmented pencils that you could buy."
"If you want to get to know your Prismacolors, try to stick to Prismacolor."
"I do think this kind of brown packing paper is unbelievably valuable when it comes to collage."
"Clear gesso is just like regular gesso except it has no pigment in it, so it's clear."
"If you cannot get the Liquitex brand of flow aid additive, there are a couple other options for people in other countries."
"The paints themselves are almost completely odorless, and the same can be said about the mediums engineered specifically for water mixable oil painting."
"Air dry clay is very nice because it dries very hard."
"Let's talk briefly about the three properties that gum arabic has and how it changes your watercolors."
"Oh yes guys look, they are water soluble. Oh, I love it!"
"It absorbs the watercolor like crazy, it's beautiful."
"Sometimes investing in a higher quality canvas really helps."
"Soft pastels are made almost of pure pigment."
"I think that this is great with colored pencil."
"It's a wonderful resource for those of you that are interested in the pigments."
"Oil-based clay doesn't get dusty, so if you're limited by studio space or if you're sharing studio space with painters then oil-based clay is really great for that."
"I've started out by covering my canvas with a coat of iridescent bright gold."
"I like the blackness and the richness of the water-soluble graphite."
"I love how the color pencils, like the really soft colored pencils, look with the paint markers."
"Every set of the Derwent lightfast pencils are 100% lightfast."
"You're not going to be unhappy with any of these brands; they're amazing."
"I absolutely love these pencils, and I really, really hope that in the future, Derwent will come out with more colors that are lightfast."
"These are sort of a mix of the oil and wax base... they just seem to be a really good combination of both worlds."
"These pencils were so wonderful to work with, especially for backgrounds, for getting that blurry sort of out-of-focus background."
"There is no one perfect way to organize your Prismacolor Premier pencils."
"They are formulated with rich pigments that will show up not only on white papers but toned papers as well, even on black."
"The lightfast rating on these pencils, especially this 36 set, are really quite good."
"These mica moon rocks from Color Art are just so interesting, I never saw anything like them before and I loved using them."
"It's actually a very curious texture and consistency."
"Prismacolor pencils are so soft and opaque and they'll stick even to the slicker papers."
"I really like how this type of paper behaves when it comes to putting down large washes of color."
"Another thing that will help, it will be adding paper, bringing our paper texture to that, and this is pretty simple to bring a paper."
"I do love my prismacolor and my luminance, and that's okay."
"I love that mica. See the distress mica flakes for snow is just beautiful, really beautiful."
"These watercolor paints are apparently made with gemstones."
"The pigments that I use are really innovative; they have maps."
"I absolutely love the Pablo. It is an absolutely beautiful pencil."
"If you can afford both of them, get both of them because they are fantastic pencils."
"No matter what surface you're working on, that color is going to stay really bright and opaque and super intense."
"The importance of the surface that you're going to use like pastel mat or watercolor or mixed-media paper or cotton vs paper, all these different factors come into play as to whether or not you're going to get the best performance out of your pencil."
"Mummy Brown was comprised of white pitch, myrrh, and the actual remains of Egyptian mummies."
"Alizarin permanent is my choice because it's more lightfast and is as beautiful as the original pigment used before."
"I'm using Saunders Waterford cold pressed paper; it's 100% cotton paper and it's a lovely paper."
"Prismacolor Premiers, my well-loved, well-used go-to pencils. They're easy to blend, they're soft, the colors are vibrant."
"How much does paper matter? What are different types of paper and how does it affect how your watercolors or gouache looks?"
"This is especially great if you don't know what papers you like to use yet."
"One of the main differences between 100% cotton or versus cellulose paper like this is the absorbency."
"Some colors have a much stronger tinting power than others."
"We like color names and numbers on our coloring materials."
"Our paints are made with local Manitoulin Island honey, wild-crafted tree sap, hand-gathered washed and sifted Manitoulin stone, and the finest light fast pigments."