Atique Ahmed

Sweet painting, Charlie!! Miss hugs too….miss seeing all of the people I would normally be hugging too.🤗😍

Charlie I’ve spent all my adult life in the school of hugs! I’m not especially a hugger even so and during flu season I say, “I love you from afar!”, several times a week. However, seeing your separated bunnies made me well up😥 Ok, I’m just gonna say it, I miss hugging my loved ones-and even the odd stranger at this point! I hope and pray we all get back to normal humanity, even my awkward version of it.🤗

Thank you, Mugdha! I’m glad that my explanations are of help. I remember how confusing it was when I first started watercolor. So often, the terms describe something very simple, but it all seems difficult when you don’t know the meanings.

Great review! It’s great that some companies have less expensive alternatives for artists that don’t need to spend on expensive professional grade paints but don’t want to paint with very inferior paints which can be difficult to use.

Thanks, Sandra, I too am surprised by the results on black. And I have wondered why these kits have sponges. Hahaha! I had no idea for sure. I usually just ignore mine.

Well this look like a great travel set! I don’t like to mix colors when I am on the go. Normally I’m not in one spot long enough for it to dry in the pan and may not be able to replicate it later. Thanks for another fine review!

Unfortunately I don’t read the ad til I see the price.

Amazing Review as usual… When I see a review by Sandra Strait, I know is a must see… Me personally use the Albrecht Dürer watercolor pencils in my watercolor art in the finishing stage of the process, it helps a lot to accent details in the project. That’s how I achieve cat hair in my watercolors… The watercolor pencils Albrecht Dürer are amazing, but they are professional grade. These watercolor sets are not bad at all for being Student Grade by the way, but I wonder how is the lightfast on this ones?

Many thanks, Saania!

Thank you! I’ve followed your blog as well.

Wonderful review, Sandra! What a great range of colors!!

Thank you, Claire! It’s wonderful to know that people enjoy my reviews for more than just learning about a new product.

Dancing. Ugh! It was ruined for me during high school. Two weeks a year, gym became dancing class. I was clumsy, incredibly shy, and have absolutely no sense of rhythm. The classes were run like a competition, the gym teachers making them as much like a sport as possible, and yelling at you if you weren’t scoring the goals. I hated sports, too, so double whammy. They were always just before Christmas, and for years, afterward, I couldn’t hear ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ without cringing and getting sick to the stomach.

Polar bears, one of my most favorite animals and these two look marvelous!!! Dancing always seems like such a joyous activity. My maternal grandma used to sit at her piano pounding out a tune, jump up, grab one of us kids and dance us around her small living room; singing and laughing the whole time. Special memory.

Fascinante, Charlie, me gusto los osos bailando

Fantastic Charlie! What a marvelous scene to ponder and it makes me giggle.

Fascinating you doodle how you executed these those polar bears dancing the night away.when I was little a joined a group folk dancers it was fun !

What I wouldn’t give to be able to dance! I have a photo of Joe and me dancing at our wedding. We look so happy. It’s one of my favorites. That old saying, dance as if no one is watching fits here. I think everyone feels self conscious. That means they aren’t paying attention to you, just to themselves. If you can paint, you can dance!

I love all the colors you’ve used! The sky, water, ice, and reflections on the bears are just perfect.

Fun doodle, Charlie. You’ve nailed the sky. Slow dance is all I can do. I have no sense of rhythm in the dance floor.

What a beautiful sketch. Happy to see you continuing to try things. Life is too short to do things we don’t want to. There are too many things we “have” to do each day that are no fun….cooking is at the top of my list! I’ve noticed since I haven’t been working my creative spirit has been ignited. My job is crafting things I would normally not do. Earlier this year I was thinking I needed a change. Well, careful what you wish for!

The background is lovely. Admire your imagination

Aww thanks so much, Fanna! 😃💕 Hehe… I adore that your husband uses your mug. But yeah, he needs to start painting if he wants to earn the right to use it! 😉 lol As for skies like these… it’s wet in wet and light colors first heading up to Indigo. There’s lots of demos on YouTube for Northern Lights Watercolor. On this one, I tried for a dark sky, but I think I liked my last one with more colors better!

Bonjour, Cathy! 😃💕 Yeah, I’m practicing storybook illustrations currently, and some turn out better than others and have more and less detail. I’m playing with the balance of the two and just making single objects was fun, but I want to tell visual stories more. These polar bears had less detail than the ones I did earlier in the month… that one was a bit more realistic. 😉

Thanks so much, Mugdha! 😃💕 Glad I’m not alone… I’d much prefer to be outside looking up at the stars than in a well.. just about any group setting! 😊 lol And yeah, I had thought about writing a children’s play back then. The two I wrote were both comic murder mysteries. But I did get to design and paint the set for a children’s play based on the story Billy Goat’s Gruff… I also played the tallest goat! hehe

Thanks so much, Kellie! 😃💕

Thanks so much, Marisela!😃💕I love that both of your parents love to dance! That’s so cool! And yes, you will definitely leap and dance again my friend. I think we should always live life without imposing limits… it’s just more fun that way!!

Charlie for sure you have a very quick mind. I’ve seen in your writing hoiw it comes to the fore in many things and when it comes to goodies, it absolutely glows and beeps. Love it! Phillippe is going to have to put a tracking device on your ankle. Oh oh there goes Charlie. Time to send a text. I won’t tell you then about Lindt chili chocoiate bars. Chili? Oh oh I feel a cheat coming on. I am sure one square won’t hurt me on top of my ration 1.5. Now where is the freezer….

Lovely painting and lovely thoughts..just one more pen, one more brush…sometimes it is hard to say no…but a little restraint is good..for health and pockets LOL…

Fabulous Charlie! It amazes me how much they can stuff in their cheeks.

Jejejejejejeje. Love the face with his mouth full and looking for the next on line…. Jajajajaj. Good one Charlie.

I started laughing when I laid eyes on that squirrel and didn’t stop to the very end of your post. Wonderful painting and post, Charlie!! There’s a jar of mixed nuts on our kitchen counter so your description of the peanut consumption hit home…directly. Glad that I’m not the only one who can’t eat just one…chip, peanut, cookie…..😍

Peanuts are one of my downfalls too – in almost any form. There isn’t much that can’t be made better with peanuts or peanut butter. I had Pad Thai for lunch this weekend – if I’m going to have peanuts I at least try to make it seem like there is some other nutrition involved!

I picked an ice cream bucket of green beans today. I have a friend coming tomorrow to pick them up we ate some that I picked two days ago for dinner tonight. I’ll have more to pick in two days. I only have one person left on my gimme list. Planting an extra row to give away has been brilliant. I’ve given to most of the neighbors and a couple of friends further afield. Next year I may even do more so I can pass them on to the food pantry. Unless the squash beetles kill them, my zucchini plants should be out of control in another week. I feel some bread in my future.

I had hamsters and gerbils as pets when I was a kid. I loved when they stuffed their cheeks with food to run off and hide it. They were so cute!

Oh, I have a saying about my head when things get out of control, “The squirrels in my head are loose and they have machetes!” Look how well behaved yours is! But now I understand why I never quite get what they’re yelling about-they have their mouths full!🐿🐿🐿

Brilliant doodle, so funny. Monkey nuts take me back to my childhood, when we’d go to a green grocer’s called Mickey’s, and buy a bag.

Hahaha, that’s me with candy. He is so cute and funny!

lovely

Thanks so much, Marisela! 😃💕 Still waiting on the cookies…. ugh! hehe But yay for little treats and that occasional indulgence. We need them… and now more than ever!