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Thank you! I’ve been seeing zinnias out and about on my walks and have wanted to learn how to paint them!

Great comparison 👏👏👏🙏🌹 Thanks 🙏👍

So beautiful ❤

Great video, thank you for sharing :)

Beautiful and inspiring. I'm learning how to paint florals. Greetings from Toronto, Ontario 🇨🇦 🫠

whoo, my background color puddle was too thick, ... the color dried too fast. so with all the harsh lines i decided to make a double layered background... 😅 now i have a 'dark night of the dahlias' (still some nice cauliflowers in it) kinda love that dark contrasty thing that's going on ... awesome tutorial 🩵

GOOD video - I love Princeton brushes & go back & forth between all of the ones you reviewed. Think my favorite depends on what I’m painting & maybe my mood 😃 thank you 🙏

Like your red top ❤

I thought I was being too hard on my aqua elite brush since it lost its point. Good to know. Thank you. I will try the heritage

Great video! Thank you for saying you can't have too many brushes :)

I have used all the brushes you listed and love the Velvet Touch the best. The Velvet Touch also comes in “long” which is something that I use a lot. I paint smaller picture so this is brush is the best for me. Did not like the Elite or the Neptune at all. Velvet Touch and Heritage are the two I like the best.

Your excellent video inspired me to look in my brush collection! I found three Princetons: a quarter inch Aqua Elite Angular Shader, quite stiff, which I've used a lot; a Velvetouch petals, used only a couple of times; and a size 10 Neptune that hasn't even had its protective cover off. I must rectify that! 😆🌺🏵🌿

I am glad you mentioned the point on your Aqua Elite brushes do not stay sharp. Mine don’t either but I thought I was doing something to them to cause this. I make sure I wet my paint before I start so I am not putting the points into a hard clump of dry paint.

It was the Snap brushes I started out with a couple of years ago. I like the precision and love the price but I prefer something a bit softer these days and the Snap doesn't hold as much water so I prefer them for gouache now. I haven't tried any of those other Princeton brushes but I'll give them a closer look now I've seen them 😃

Total Princeton Fanboy here. I need to check out that Heritage 10. I personally think the White Taklon Snaps are seriously underrated. I always recommend them to beginners because they are cheap and you can abuse them. I primarily use mine for gouache. Same with the Velvetouch. I have a Filbert in the Velvetouch that is my go to Gouche brush. I have tons of Aqua Elites and Neptunes as well. I appreciate the quality for price ratio and the wide range of synthetic fibers. My only gripe is they don't make #12s in the Aqua Elite and Neptune Travel Brush Format. Thank you for the side by side comparison. For me, I like going from a softer to a stiffer fiber as I paint in watercolor so this is a very useful reference. PS--not sure if you've tried the Petals Brush in the Velvetouch line I don't do botanical art but I love unsual brush shapes. This one's designed for botanical art and part of a brush set designed for such. Happy Painting!

interesting! i do all my florals and everything actually, with the neptunes, they are my absolute favorite brush : )

Loved it, informative, and the flowers are so pretty :)

Yes… This is when I would whip out my soft uncontrollable Princeton neptune brush and just let the abstract flowy softness shine.

Good morning, Crystal. Hope you are getting well adjusted in your new abode. I over a few months bought one of each too, to explore… and ironically… it went a full circle where I now finally appreciate my first brush Princeton heritage so much more even when I didnt back then. My second brush neptune drove me crazy due to its uncontrollability for definition but now… I too did eventually objectively assess it for where it will offer strength ie ultra loose, abstract and washy looks. It’s a brush where I would hold higher up the handle. I found the aqua elite less appealing than the heritage though quite pricey. Velvetouch was my least liked due to the way it picked up the least pigment. Still debating whether the Snap would be a waste of money for me but my curiosity will probably make me buy to experience it. My final conclusion so far was that the heritage is able to pick up and distribute not just water *but pigment too, more evenly and nicely on paper, with the closest output to the silver black velvet ( which i have the 6 & 8). There is less uneveness and pooling at each brushstroke. Since I cant afford the bigger black velvet brushes , i plan to buy more Princeton heritage to build my bigger size brush collection. But am sure… if I practise and use every tool dilligently… I’d be able to better appreciate when each is best used for different types of painting. That way… I would stay positive and never feel buyer’s remorse.

I ❤ watching your Shorts. Your music choices are very nice!

When I’m watching your videos I never want them to end. I so enjoy what you have to teach me. Thank you for that.

Do I like it what???? Ha ha ha, sorry, I had to. Love the video!

New info for me. I will subscribe. Thanks

Thank you crystal. I really enjoyed doing this with you.I live in Cambodia as lucky enough to find some eucalyptus leaves the other day. you are very refreshing to watch!

love your irises! 💕

lovely!!u r great!!

What palette is that?

Lovely in every way…

Aloha, Crystal! Beautiful painting. What is that color you’re using? TIA

Crystal!! More books!!!! i love it! Thank you so much for going through these. Redoutes Roses was my favorite.

OMG, I have that Eucalypts book! Found it in my Dad's collection from an old workplace. I love looking at all the variants

thanks for sharing! do you know that there is a second part of edith holdens diary?

Delightful!

I am so drawn to Nature Memoirs! (Wendy H)

We used to live down the road from where she lived when she was alive and she lived in the south Midlands near Solihull UK and we had a load of people coming around the area when it was released

Adore the books!!!

Hello from Dunedin FL US

Thanks for sharing! These books are beautiful!!!

I have two of those books ❤❤❤❤bravissima

Hi, Crystal!

Thank you I have been watercoloring 6 months I love it!!! I love florals too;)

Beautiful.

💃go on! 😝💖☝️🤔trying to do art.not fall asleep. anybody else? 🥱yawn at some of the music in videos? Go girl!💖upbeat tempo! & (not boring 🥱elevater music.)😊☕💪💖👍😎

I've been wanting to ask what type of pallet you use? Also, I love your work and channel) so very inspiring 😍

I’m having to pull myself away from your videos! Thank you so much for all that you share. I’m itching to dip my brush now! 🩷

Love this! I would like to know the size of your palette when it is fully open. I have a small space for a palette, rather narrow. Thank you.

i particularly loved the limited palette while you were at the pink, orange, burgundy, light to mid green stage, in the first 14 mins. sooo sweet.

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