Staring at your paintings won't help!

Sitting around mulling it over won't change your paintings. The only way to push them forward is to get up and do something on the surface.
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Lewis Noble has lived and worked in Derbyshire since 1996. His focus lies in the physical and emotional impact of the landscape on the senses and the effect this experience has on us.
His paintings are not snapshots or photographic frozen moments but through repeated layering and eroding of the painted surface, they contain all of the time it takes to make them.
The result is a body of work that speaks to the heart of what it means to be part of the environment.

[@carolegourvellec1581]

Hi Lewis, I'm truly liking your tutorials. It's the actual painting that you do that inspires, coaches and teaches. I would love to see more of your process and less of the talking. What you share is helpful, but just as making marks rather than looking at the canvas and contemplating, so is seeing the process similarly. Please do more videos showing your process, perhaps in length to some degree. I would absolutley love that.
I am a self-taught artist and enjoy seeing other artist's processes and gleanimg form that.
Thanks for all your sharing, Carole G.

[@theianyx6394]

your paintings are always so visually THRILLING!!!

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Thanks!

[@deniselovell1096]

Great advice, I spend far too much time "painting in my head" instead of just getting on with it! Re living far away from the sea, I live on the North East coast and the first place my Derbyshire cousins head for when they visit is the beach 😊

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Thanks!

[@sitabudhyarto2516]

100% agree with you .. just starting making some marks on the surface really really give a HUGE DIFFERENCE 😊😅

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Thanks for watching.

[@gol622]

Love the advice thank you ❤

[@PEBeaudoin]

I completely agree that just looking won't change anything - but Lewis - looking/reflecting/observing opens me to possibility - to imagine "what" the painting might want. I find it quite useful to just be quiet with the work. Then, yes, pick up something and make a mark. That is essential.

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Of course everyone’s different, I’ve done this for so long now, I find I get little advantage from it. I find I do better to get on with it. Thanks for watching.

[@kateveneroso5754]

Could you please comment on how surfaces closse up can take you away from distances depiction? Especially when doing landscapes. Working on small images become just many on a huge surface. Thank you.

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Maybe in a future video.

[@kateveneroso5754]

thank you for the consideration, I know you are very busy as an artist. I know I have not subscribed to you channel, and perhaps this might be my moment to break norm and do so! I do so enjoy your videos!!!

[@sublimeister9630]

Depends on your style… Abstract Expressionism, yes, just make a mark. But if your piece has a bit of ideological substance to it, then stare and make mental visualisation marks where you can sort out the effects it is going to make beforehand.

[@LewisNobleArtist]

I’m not an abstract painter or abstract expressionist. I’ve been painting professionally for 30 yrs and I know that looking at my work thinking about what I should do makes no difference. As soon as I make a mark it all changes in reaction to what’s happening on the canvas. If I’d realised this earlier in my career would have made a lot more paintings. Everyone is different though so this is just me telling you what works for me.

[@santoshr2984]

Abstract art is the snapshot of whats going on in the brain of the artist. Like a brain pic ..

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Maybe but I’m not an abstract painter.