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monkeymintaka
United Kingdom
Приєднався 27 жов 2006
I’m April, but I go by monkeymintaka online. I live in the Lake District in the UK and love to explore the area on my channel.
On this channel, you will find a lot of experimentation, new materials, sketchbook play and monthly vlogs.
On this channel, you will find a lot of experimentation, new materials, sketchbook play and monthly vlogs.
Painting my sketchbook cover and sketchbook tour 😍
I finished another sketchbook. I just keep on keeping on, what can I say, I'm a sketchbook junkie
This one has a lot of drawing sessions in, which is always fun to look back on!
People/things I mentioned:
Sedem: sedem_illustrates
Odd Orange: oddorange.stationery
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Let's Hang Out!
Patreon: www.patreon.com/monkeymintaka
Instagram: monkeymintaka
Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/monkeymintaka
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Thanks for watching!
This one has a lot of drawing sessions in, which is always fun to look back on!
People/things I mentioned:
Sedem: sedem_illustrates
Odd Orange: oddorange.stationery
*****
Let's Hang Out!
Patreon: www.patreon.com/monkeymintaka
Instagram: monkeymintaka
Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/monkeymintaka
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Thanks for watching!
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South Africa Vlog | Safari, mountain hikes, travel sketchbook
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Last October we went to South Africa for 2 weeks. We travelled to Durban to hang out with family, went on a little safari to the bush for a few days, a hippo cruise, whale watching and then a trip to the Drakensburg to spend a few days hiking in the mountains. It was such a lovely trip and I even managed to do some art! I hope you enjoy seeing what we got up to :) Martin's photos: ...
WALK & DRAW - Raven Crag | Latrigg Fell | Chatty Art Video | #3materialsdrawingchallenge
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Last week we visited Raven Crag, Keswick and Latrigg Fell in the Lake District. This is a very mini vlog of our hikes and some drawing of the views. This month I am also taking part in the 3 materials drawing challenge, so all these drawings were made with just three materials! It is a challenge for me, as I love ALL the materials all the time :) Let's Hang Out! Patreon: www.patreon.com/monkeym...
Huge Birthday Art Haul! | Part 2 - EXPERIMENTATION
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This is part 2 of my huge birthday art haul. In the last video we opened and swatched all the materials and now we have some fun with experimenting. My favorite part! Let's Hang Out! Patreon: www.patreon.com/monkeymintaka Instagram: monkeymintaka Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/monkeymintaka CHAPTERS Intro - 00:00 A Mish mash of materials - 00:17 Gold Faber markers - 06:11 Daniel Sm...
Huge Birthday Art Haul! | Part 1 - SWATCHING
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It was my birthday last month and I treated myself to so many art supplies. Too many maybe? It took me 3 weeks to make this video and I have split it into two parts. This first part is a little art material chat and swatch. Part 2 will be out early next week and will be all about experimentation :) I didn't name all the colours, but you can pause for the swatches and names. Let's Hang Out! Patr...
Plein Air SKETCHBOOK TOUR 😍 - Lake District, Bologna, Madeira, London
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It's another sketchbook tour. What can I say, I'm on fire. As long as it's me on fire, and not the sketchbooks! This bad boy has taken almost 2 years to complete and has gone on hikes, drawing meetups, holidays and road trips. I think you can see my style evolving throughout the book and it was so fun to relive some of these places and old colour schemes. People/things I mentioned: Emma Carlisl...
Choosing a colour palette to take to Madeira! Swatch with me :)
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I am off to Madeira today (as you watch this video maybe!) and I would love to do some plein air sketching while I am there. In this video I go through my process of picking colours, pairing colours down to create a slightly-limited colour palette and of course - some general rambling 😂 CHAPTERS Intro: 00:00 Research Madeira colours: 03:06 Picking initial colours: 05:09 Pairing down the colours...
SHOP UPDATE! Quick product Tour :)
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Check out the shop if you want to treat yourself or buy a friend a little pressie! Let's Hang Out! Patreon: www.patreon.com/monkeymintaka Instagram: monkeymintaka Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/monkeymintaka Thanks for watching!
Filling every gap in my sketchbook & SKETCHBOOK TOUR 😍
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I was ready to do a sketchbook tour of this guy a couple of weeks ago, but I had SO MANY random swatch pages that I thought it would be fun to challenge myself to draw over them all and create new pieces. A couple of pages were a bit meh but most turned out pretty cool. Which page was your favourite? People/things I mentioned: Emma Carlisle: emmacarlisle_?hl=en Arty: instagram.co...
Art Haul - Inks and Watercolours - Choosing Keeping & Jackson's Art
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I got a bunch of stuff the last few weeks (some of it in March that I hadn't tried!) so I thought it would be nice to do an art haul AND a sketchbook cover painting all in one video. The first 40 minutes is a very chatty swatching session and the last bit of the video is the painting. I used a lot of materials in the video and I'm useless at remembering what I used but I should have mentioned a...
MARCH VLOG - Meeting Art Friends, 100 day project, Illustrating a Picture Book
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Yes, it's another long chatty vlog! I hope you don't mind these long ones 😆 This month i had another social month and met up with THREE art friends! I also get caught up on the 100 day project, try my hand at mounting my own artwork and work on the picture book I am illustrating - Goodnight Patchy Bunny. Arty: artysubu Katie: katiecannondesigns Odd Orange: instagra...
MONKEY TRIES...Crochet pt. 2 | Chatty vlog | Blankets, cardigans and amigurumi
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Here is the second VERY LONG crochet vlog. I was only going to do a couple of months, but I was having too much fun and took on some longer projects. I think this will be the last crochet vlog, but I might do smaller videos every few months to share which projects I have been making! Videos, blogs and patterns: First Christmas scarf: ua-cam.com/video/r_CO8_zeFJ8/v-deo.html&ab_channel=NatiCroche...
FEBRUARY VLOG - Inky sketchbook play, Edinburgh, shrink plastic
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FEBRUARY VLOG - Inky sketchbook play, Edinburgh, shrink plastic
Art Haul - Ecoline Brushes for days, Grog squeezers & Karin decobrush
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Art Haul - Ecoline Brushes for days, Grog squeezers & Karin decobrush
This sketchbook has had many lives! 🤩SKETCHBOOK TOUR🤩
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This sketchbook has had many lives! 🤩SKETCHBOOK TOUR🤩
Neopastel Doggo! Odd Orange session with Arty's dog Sam :)
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Neopastel Doggo! Odd Orange session with Arty's dog Sam :)
Art Haul - Flashe Paints, Watercolour Inks and more!
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Art Haul - Flashe Paints, Watercolour Inks and more!
Folktale Week 2023 - mixed media process and sketchbook tour!
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Folktale Week 2023 - mixed media process and sketchbook tour!
MONKEY TRIES...reduction lino print | Chatty vlog | It's harder than I thought
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MONKEY TRIES...reduction lino print | Chatty vlog | It's harder than I thought
MONKEY TRIES...Crochet pt. 1 | Chatty vlog | Learning Crochet
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MONKEY TRIES...Crochet pt. 1 | Chatty vlog | Learning Crochet
SKETCHBOOK TOUR | Mixed Media | Doggust | Chatty
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SKETCHBOOK TOUR | Mixed Media | Doggust | Chatty
Shop update! New product tour | Birbsfest | Zine | Postcards | Sticker sheets
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Shop update! New product tour | Birbsfest | Zine | Postcards | Sticker sheets
SKETCHBOOK TOUR | Odd Orange drawing sessions | Oil Pastels | Chatty
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SKETCHBOOK TOUR | Odd Orange drawing sessions | Oil Pastels | Chatty
MONKEY TRIES... Derwent Graphitint Paint Pans | Doggust
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MONKEY TRIES... Derwent Graphitint Paint Pans | Doggust
Week VS Weekend | How I fit my art business into my life
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Week VS Weekend | How I fit my art business into my life
Art Haul! - Neopastels, Holbein Gouache, ArtGraf watersoluble graphite
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Art Haul! - Neopastels, Holbein Gouache, ArtGraf watersoluble graphite
Neocolors & Neopastels - Your questions answered!
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Neocolors & Neopastels - Your questions answered!
A weekend with monkey! | Chatty Art Vlog
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A weekend with monkey! | Chatty Art Vlog
I have been vegan going on 22 years now and started the same and then began to give more thought to vegan art supplies. I am trying to find reasonably priced vegan oil pastels but so far no luck ...found one that is and has good reviews but out of my budget as a newbie to oil pastels.
Love your peacock!
Thankyou :)
April, when did you finish sketchbook #1 ? I started last may & just started sketchbook #17 !
❤ Courtney
Please disregard the username! That would be my 10 year olds doing!!😂
Wow! That’s a lot. Nice one :) I just looked and started April 3 and finished May 7. So it took a month to do the first one :)
I think that everything you do looks like it could turn into a illustration. I love the food plate…could be in a kids book, background is lovely. Not sure about hot sauce though…lol I think maybe you are better than you think you are.
Thanks for your lovely comment :)
Great video I loved it I'm just trying oil pastels you made me realise I can mix it up I usually stick to 1 medium but your art looked so much fun
I love to mix up as many mediums as I can :) it’s a lot of fun to play with texture and also see how they work together. Have fun experimenting!
This evening I was watching your videos while making collages. Thanks for keeping me company.
Glad you like them!
@@monkeymintaka I really do. Have a nice day!
Fyi…you can soak the DS sticks in water prior to using to create a creamier application, too
Ahhh thankyou! I will try that as a couple were really crumbly.
Great sketchbook tour, thank you for sharing!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
For the brusho pigments, I found out about them probably a decade ago and I forget who it was who told me about them, but they put these little hardware bits in them that essentially you make a hole in the top and stick the metal hardware in and then you can take it out and shake a bit out through the relatively small hole, I am definitely not explaining this well lol but it does help with the mess in terms of the risky business of opening and closing the little bottle.
A few people have mentioned similar methods :) I have yet to try it.
@@monkeymintaka haha literally saw those other comments riiiight after posting mine 🤭
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A pleasure to watch, as usual!
Glad you liked it :)
that came together beautifully! what a heart warming story<3<3<3 i love this, thank you, April!
Thank you so much! ☺️
What black pen are you using to draw the line on the houses? Love your art❤
Is it the pen with the red bits in it? If so, that’s a water brush pen but filled with sepia ink.
SKETCHBOOK NUMBER 55??? what that's crazy 😮😮
It’s pretty cool! I have a few that aren’t numbered too, that are part of other projects. But it’s since 2017 so…it’s like 7 books a year.
Missed this live but I did buy a few of your bears postcards and love them! You were kind enough to include another bear with a note on the back. Fun to watch you make them. Checked out Helen Darkik, oh my how wonderful her work is!
Ahh yay! I’m glad you liked them :)
I hate blocks…I can never get them off without flawing them.
They are pain! But maybe they just take practice 🤔
April, I get a kick out of your accent, and your humor. Your art is joy!
Ahh thanks :) but what accent 🤔🤔😂😂😂 just kidding. I’m glad you like it.
I love all your drawings and paintings April! The colour combos are so gorgeous!😍😍😍
Thank you so much 😀
Love your sketches especially the ones from Odd Orange session with film stills! The color purple one has turned out so great ❤
That was a really fun session :) thanks payal!
Absolutely Stunning. I love your style and all the neon-pastel-color mixes! The Dragon was my personal favorite. 🐉
Thankyou! The dragon was fun :) Not something I normally would have done!
Keep posting this kind of video pleaseee i need those
I’ve been very busy recently for a project like this, but hopefully soon :)
@@monkeymintaka i see your IG story today, you hv a walk in nature, drawing some ducks and hv a great time with sedem illustrate ☺️ have a great week ahead April
Pedro pedro pedro 🎉🎉
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I actually love the sun through the trees. Very magnifimagical.
Thanks Amo :)
Lol chicken rooster goose clarinet monster😂
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Your art always makes me so happy, April!❤
That’s lovely to hear Fiona:)
Griffin and chicken is so cute together.
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Beautiful art, yet again! Your raccoon pen drawing made me crack a smile…. There’s a clever little raccoon who comes to visit our yard a few times a week. We’ve named him Ricardo, and he is consistently in a battle with my husband: Ricardo climbs our bird feeder poles to get to the seeds, my husband makes adjustments to the squirrel baffles on the pole, Ricardo figures out another way to climb over the baffles…etc. Anyhow, your pen drawing looks so much like Ricardo. :-D Thank you as always for making and sharing these videos!
Ahh that’s so funny. Ricardo sounds like a character :)we don’t have them in the uk and I’ve never seen one in the wild elsewhere. Maybe one day!
Super cute cover!!!🥰
Thank you!! 😊
Loved this video, I always enjoy seeing your sketchbooks!! You inspired me to paint the front of my pith sketchbook 😊 xx
Oh yay! Are you enjoying it? I think it’s my new fav regular sketchbook :)
@@monkeymintaka I LOVE my Pith sketchbook, I throw a lot at it and the pages take it really well!! I'm not surprised it's your new fave, I love mine!!xx
you are so studious! i have binged a few of your videos now (and yes, i love the 1-2 hour long ones very much) and i very often hear you say that you're behind, you didn't achieve you goals for the week, you are "lazy"...and honestly i wish i was as "lazy" as you are. you are an artist with one million sketchbooks in progress, your art is gorgeous, you work a full-time job, you hike for hours, you make youtube-videos, participate and stream drawing sessions, have an etsy shop, work on ideas for books, go to the gym, run, go on hour-long walks, watch movies, read books, watch youtube-videos, sleep a bit only to wake up in the middle of the night in order to get the most out of the day, visit places, travel, cook healthy vegan stuff, entertain family and friends and do more art! also you're friends with Arati, i mean come on! and sometimes you relax, god bless your heart:) i think you are amazing! and i wish my depressive ass would be able to accomplish more than just go to work. but that's my truth and i am so grateful, because you let me participate in your active life and get a glimpse of what that might feel like. i'm sorry, so much text, but i had to say it. i'm glad i found you<3
Thanks for your thoughtful and kind comment 🥰🥰 I will have to read this when I am having a bad day as a pep talk! I do think that watching many videos in a row can probably be a bit misleading though, while I have done all those things I definitely don’t do them all together! I have periods when I do lots of work and periods where I do nothing. But I think a lot of us are like that :) I’m glad you are enjoying the videos!
@@monkeymintaka of course, you are right, it's always good (and a requirement of being fair to a person) to differentiate. it's not all activity, it can't be. thank you so much, April <3
Sei molto creativa! Brava .😊👍❤
Thankyou 🥰
I love you sharing your talent, both in the drawings and in the accompanying talk. You make me laugh and smile, time and again. Thank you for being you.
Ahh Thankyou! That is the greatest compliment :)
Thanks for sharing your sketchbooks!
Glad you like them!
Loved your tour! I am down for the griffin and chicken zine 😃
Yes!! It’s on my long long list of projects to do 😅
You’re so talented April , like I always say your Art always amazes me . Your colour blending and animals & people & landscape inc trees & forests , your Arts always very good xx
Ahh thankyou :) I’m so happy to hear that 🥰
I love it all. Especially the people and pets! I'm curious if you're able to use those images for prints or portfolio since they are actual photographs? I ask because I've kinda shied away from doing drawings from photos for that reason. But they came out so cute, I'd love to try!
Hmmmm 🤔 I haven’t really thought about it. The only prints etc I’ve made from photos are normally animals and one time I made humans into cats, so I don’t think that would be a problem. I think if you change it up more so it wasn’t recognisable it would be okay. I definitely recognise that girl with the boots and chicken, I’ve seen other people use her as a reference.
No one counts, exactly!! 😅 if there's someone who counts, would be freaking weird 😬 i'm joining the 3 materials challenge in my pace meaning once a week 🐌 always love how colourful your sketchbook s are, we get immediately happy by seeing just a few pages 🥰
It would be a bit strange if there were people keeping track 😅 thanks for your lovely comment :)
April, do you have peacocks in the area? That’s what peacocks sound like here in Carlsbad, California
We don’t! Just pigeons and lots of seagulls :) It was my neighbour doing something very strange in his driveway. I can assure you no peacocks were involved 😅
😂that’s too funny well we won’t discuss you neighbors strange goings on LOL 🤣 lovely video as usual I’m also a Patreon and a fan have a great day/ evening
i truly adore your style. it lends itself so well to be an entry point for those who don't know how to do abstract/deconstructed/loose form composition, however it's highly sophisticated. it's like magic
Oh Thankyou :) I never would describe my style as sophisticated but I’ll take it! 🥰🥰🥰
I couldn’t find better words… agree 100%. Your style is just fantastic❤️
Wonderful vlog, April. Mont marte is the Australian bargain brand. If you brave another long haul flight and come to Sydney in Oct/Nov, there are beautiful Jacaranda cruises on the harbour, but you would need to bring purple pencils! Thanks for sharing.
Ooh I didn’t know that. It doesn’t sound Australian 😅 not sure if I can handle that long flight. I may have to stop in Asia for a few days! Would love to come back to Australia though, I’ve only been once.
what a beautiful place to visit 🥰
Last time we did Cape Town on the other side and that’s an amazing place too. I wasn’t vloggin back then though :(
What a gorgeous area! And such cool contrast between the first and second hikes. I love procrastinating big paid art projects for my own frivilous ones :)
I know! The second one felt like a stroll in the park after the morning hike 😅
Stunning views of those mountains!🤩
Aren't they gorgeous! I wish we had stayed there a bit longer and did more hiking. There's always next time :)
i really enjoyed your video! I am curious to take a look at how you finish drawing the pre-prepared pages!
Thanks! I am working on the Madeira vlog now. Hoping it will be ready sometime next month!
Such a great travel vlog. Thanks so much for putting this together for us all to enjoy! ❤
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm working om my Madeira vlog at the moment too! Hopefully it won't take 7 months 🤭
I love the bowls I would buy too many too. The cathedral peak area reminds me of the area of Wyoming that we are moving to. So you will definitely like it when you come over for a visit.
Yes Katie! I can’t wait to visit 🥰🥰🥰 2025 maybe 🤔🤔
So beautiful and interesting. Thx!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!