Sarah!! Just wanted to tell you how much I love your channel! Yesterday was my birthday, and my husband surprised me with your brush set!! I didn't think he was paying attention to my hints lol... I am so excited to use them!!! Thank you so much for sharing your abundance of knowledge and geeking out to art with all of us art nerds! sincerely, an art college drop out lol
I love that you are a regular, genuine person. Your little studio looks like a real life studio. I hate that everything has to be Pinterest perfect anymore. Thank you for keeping it real.
I loved seeing your brush technique in this video. So inspiring and informative. I also learned so much about how to later gouache! Thank you or sharing.
Thank you for the anxiety trick. That is exactly me, I will freeze up and get frustrated. And then not paint or draw. I will now be printing my photos and making a grab bag to do my next painting. Might do this all the time. It takes the actual step that I could spend hours on figuring out what to paint next.
Having a picture based encyclopedia on hand is my go to for just picking an animal or something to warm up if I have decision paralysis. Usually after I finish one, I've gotten in the groove to wander with my brush and try some random ideas.I also find that having the physical printed material helps my focus and eliminating distractions vs using my computer!
Love love your videos from your creativity to your advice to all the talent you share. Love love the videography of your process, love that you are in the top corner while doing voice over. Great video. Thanks.
The waterfall you worked on around 16:25 is lovely. I love the atmospheric perspective you created. I feel like something might pop out around the sharp edge of the rocky form in the foreground.
Thank you. I get bored so easily trying to find inspiration. I envy your ability to just create in your head. I have a terrible time doing that and even when I do manage to come up with something it usually looks contrived. The area I live in is very uninspirational. Believe me when I say you are incredibly lucky to live in such a beautiful area! Love your work. I don't even use gouache and I love seeing how you are able to build such beautiful works with it. Mine always looks like a child's school poster. Lol. Thanks again for the ideas.
Hi, these vignettes are delightful and truly inspirational. I should imagine doing this exercise would definitely lead to painting larger versions of what originally drew you to your most significant places. Happy painting and have a great xmas break.
@@SarahBurnsStudio I can imagine. The moment when a pink swatch amongst green swatches suddenly is a beautiful water lily on a pond, and some white thing all of a sudden is a waterfall when the dark thing comes along.
Love this. Thank you Sarah - I'm going to your suggestions especially the one where you printed off a bunch of pictures in different sizes - love this idea.
Thank you for sharing such an inspiring video. Great ideas, Sara. I could listen to your ideas all day…and you have such a soothing voice. One thing I do to get me painting is that I set up two places in my “studio” (tiny bedroom). Those spaces have everything set out to start (or continue) a painting. Brushes, pencil, eraser are there, water container is there, paper or pad is set up, tape is already around the edges, and palette or tubes are there, paper towel or cloth are set out there…no excuse to not just jump right in…😊
Thank you for mentioning aphantasia. I’m one of them, only found out quite recently, i have never been able to create a visual image. Didn’t know it was actually something people actually did, create visual images that is. I really need references. My imaginary work is pure doodles, mainly circles! 😊
Such a packed video :) so many good ideas and advises in here, I will defenetly have to rewatch this a few more times. I will try the printing out of pictures and putting them in a jar !!!! What I had done in November, was what I called the "gratitude month", where each day I painted one vignette of something I had been grateful for during the previous day. It aws such a nice exercise because I had to paint something, and it made me much more focus on little things that I could pick to paint every day. At the back of each vignette I wrote a few senteces and I noz have a beautiful tiny collection of happy, funnny, cute mondain moments to cherish and remember.
I LOVED this session. I'm really trying to get myself back into painting and art in general. Finding you + gouache has helped SO much that I've finally started using my art journal and the idea of using pictures from my adventures felt like a facepalm moment. Thank you!
Hullo Sarah, this was a lovely video! I have become much better with soft pastels by working small! 6x8 inches is a “big” picture! But by working small like 6x8 gives me less to worry about! I use less paper less of my sticks are used up and I create more ideas for time spent as well! This can translate to gouache and watercolor too! You are truly amazing and I am thankful for your kindness and inspiration.
they are so beautiful! I instantly wanted to watch the video again right after I finished watching the first time! the way you made the water looks like they're splattering and running in the waterfall piece is so awesome 👏👏👏
Love the idea of having some small printed photos ready to go! I find photo organization on my phone is frustrating (at best), so I’ll get distracted just looking for my painting photos. Great tips and helpful to watch you paint a variety of small paintings!
Ohh, this morning I am just envious of those of you who simply lack inspiration. I have plenty of time and inspiration but have a vision disorder that makes painting more than 1 hr per day extremely painful. This hit me 25 years ago at age 47. And so, dear friends, enjoy your physical abilities while you can❤️
It all sounds all too familiar!!! I never knew it was called decision fatigue. I love your tips and suggestions for getting out of this mode that always leaves me so exhausted that I din’t end up painting anything. I will be printing and organizing my photos all in one place to choose.
Thanks for sharing I like to paint on the small side especially when I was ill it made me feel connected with my art and still doing it lots of great ideas thank you ❤
Same problem!!!! I created a file last year called "paintworthy". I have a lot of both printed and digital photos scanned to my tablet. I like being able to zoom in and have a bigger reference to look at. I learn how to paint kinds of landscapes to be able to paint my mind's eye ideal painting.
Oh my, I feel so understood. Decision paralysis... Big time! And I so want to get out, paint on location, but I have Raynauds, and it's really not possible when it's cold. I planned a few big paintings, but the perfectionism is keeping me from beginning 😮💨
Really useful tips, inspiring paintings and sage advice. Thank you for sharing your skills and experience. I am looking for a new printer, the images you printed out look crisp. What printer do you use please?🙏🏾
6:40 Yeah, I’m one of those people who can’t visualize (aphantasia). I’m currently working on what you talked about, changing certain things instead of just automatically representing exactly what I see, and then also trying to build a sort of “semantic visual library” in my mind. I can’t picture how that animal’s jaw goes, but I can store it semantically “okay it has an angle like this going that way, and wraps around there like this,” etc.
I like to separate my reference hunting from my painting time. Scroll in bed saving a bunch of refs, then quickly pick one at semi-random from that pool when I want to paint.
I almost picked up a mini zink printer for printing reference pictures, but skipped it. Maybe I should reconsider it! The tracing paper tip is great one!
6:40 Yeah, I’m one of those people who can’t visualize (aphantasia). I’m currently working on what you talked about, changing certain things instead of just automatically representing exactly what I see, and the. also trying to build a sort of “semantic visual library” in my mind. I can’t picture how that animal’s jaw goes, but I can store it semantically “okay it has an angle like this going that way, and wraps around there like this,” etc.
Loved these ideas, Sarah. One thing I want to work on is coming up with a couple of goals to focus on so I’m not so all over the place. Any good suggestions? One I’ve thought of is to practice more with gouache (instead of watercolor) and am thinking of a weekly goal of painting 1 painting a week. Would appreciate any ideas or thoughts you might have.
More drawing. It’s less reliant on materials and you can do it literally anywhere. I find drawing often leads to my most creative ideas. As for theme you could pick one per week (like one week forests, then boats, cats, cathedrals, whatever)
I find it very difficult to paint indoors, because no photo model vibrates like nature does when I paint outdoors. But thanks to your excellent suggestions, I think it will be much easier and more pleasant to paint indoors more regularly. Many thanks to you
I agree! I definitely prefer to paint outside. But we have too many months of cold, wet, awful winter 😆 gotta do what I can on days I can’t stand to be outside
I’m still learning how to use my guache. I noticed you seem to always start from the top down. Would suggest this a a better technique to practice? 😊🇦🇺
So as someone that has aphantasia i can say i NEED references 😂 annoys the crap outta me when ppl say draw from your imagination. There's nothing wrong with my imagination, i can think it i just cant see it to even try drawing it
I can’t visualize in my head. I think of concepts, the way I draw is very methodical and I need multiple layers of sketching, otherwise I can’t tell what I’m doing or it’s wonky, I need to build that structure to make a successful drawing
I hope I don't come across as a negative person, but I've tried doing all this stuff many times, and it made me absolutely hate painting. I even stopped painting for years because my throught was "well, I can't do all those quick little intuitive sketches, I can't force myself to use big brushes for everything, I don't like the impressionistic don't worry about the details look, so I am not an artist, because I hate every second of it, and you are supposed to enjoy it." Everything they tell you not to do is the only way I found any kind of freedom, liberation, and enjoyment in art. Unfortunately, it makes it hard to connect to other artists, who all seem to benefit from everything you're saying in this video. I am glad it helps you work through it to create art though, I will never say it's a bad thing, just doesn't seem to work with my annoying brain.
Like I said, we are all different! And each of us has to try something to find out if it works for us ☺️ I’m glad you found something that works for you!
You are not alone. I feel the same, and it frustrates me over and over again. If I could live again from start, I would educate myself to restoration of paintings. I enjoy immensely when I sometimes have to repair or patch some picture or object: To carefully choose the right colors and work painstakingly slowly point by point. I'm euphoric and zen and forget everything else. And I'm quite skillful and patient doing that, I think. I admire all the artists so much but I just don't have the courage or frenzy that is needed. It's my eternal dilemma. I would need therapy first to be able to go to art therapy.
For some reason, the audio setting was automatically ai translated… but I paused the video and adjusted it back to original, without further issue. Really weirded out though 😅 what the heck, TH-cam? 🫠
@@mariacamilagarcia9654in a different language?? I saw a notification from TH-cam recently saying “coming soon- AI translation dubbing in multiple languages” and was like 😱 that’s crazy 😝
German mans voice here. Awful! After fiddeling some i could turn it off in the cogwheelsettings. But your videodiscription stays translatet. They basically take your work, fake a voice and a text, and send it out worldwide as yours. TH-cam lies on us! and they steal your original content.
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Sarah!! Just wanted to tell you how much I love your channel! Yesterday was my birthday, and my husband surprised me with your brush set!! I didn't think he was paying attention to my hints lol... I am so excited to use them!!! Thank you so much for sharing your abundance of knowledge and geeking out to art with all of us art nerds! sincerely, an art college drop out lol
I love that you are a regular, genuine person. Your little studio looks like a real life studio. I hate that everything has to be Pinterest perfect anymore. Thank you for keeping it real.
I love your small gouache paintings. They are like tiny windows with wonderful views.
Portal pages ✨
I loved seeing your brush technique in this video. So inspiring and informative. I also learned so much about how to later gouache! Thank you or sharing.
Thank you for the anxiety trick. That is exactly me, I will freeze up and get frustrated. And then not paint or draw. I will now be printing my photos and making a grab bag to do my next painting. Might do this all the time. It takes the actual step that I could spend hours on figuring out what to paint next.
Yesss empowering! ✏️🙏
I love that idea of printing out photos ahead of time. Thank you!
It’s amazing the way that you’re always learning and growing in your sketchbooks 🥰
Trying! ☺️
Thank you for choosing my photograph.... the snow one with sunlight
Great suggestion!
I love you adding the references to the book!
I love how you keep challenging yourself, it’s inspiring and so fun to watch!
Having a picture based encyclopedia on hand is my go to for just picking an animal or something to warm up if I have decision paralysis. Usually after I finish one, I've gotten in the groove to wander with my brush and try some random ideas.I also find that having the physical printed material helps my focus and eliminating distractions vs using my computer!
Love love your videos from your creativity to your advice to all the talent you share. Love love the videography of your process, love that you are in the top corner while doing voice over. Great video. Thanks.
I loved this video Sarah you are such an inspiration for me - I am exactly as you described. Your little paintings are FAB xxx
The waterfall you worked on around 16:25 is lovely. I love the atmospheric perspective you created. I feel like something might pop out around the sharp edge of the rocky form in the foreground.
I love the idea of printing out a handful of little pictures and painting from them. I'm totally going to try it! Thanks for sharing.
This is definitely one of my favorite videos. Thanks again.
These ideas are very inspiring. Thanks so much for taking the time to share them. ❤
Thank you so much for sharing your process. You inspire me. Have a relaxing cup of tea after painting. Take care 😊
I’m going to try this for sure as I spend too much time pondering and end up not painting 🖼️ thanks x
Thank you so much Sarah. Know that overwhelming far too well. Genius hacks👌❤️
Great idea! Love these small paintings!❤
Thank you. I get bored so easily trying to find inspiration. I envy your ability to just create in your head. I have a terrible time doing that and even when I do manage to come up with something it usually looks contrived. The area I live in is very uninspirational. Believe me when I say you are incredibly lucky to live in such a beautiful area! Love your work. I don't even use gouache and I love seeing how you are able to build such beautiful works with it. Mine always looks like a child's school poster. Lol.
Thanks again for the ideas.
Hi, these vignettes are delightful and truly inspirational. I should imagine doing this exercise would definitely lead to painting larger versions of what originally drew you to your most significant places. Happy painting and have a great xmas break.
Yes I often use the the thumbnails before doing a larger version
wow this video is so good in many ways. thank you for sharing
So glad you’re back making videos Sarah! I’ve missed them. Thank you for the many good ideas, I will definitely use them!
To watch you paint those small images with a big brush was like seeing miracles happen.
😂 it feels like that too
@@SarahBurnsStudio I can imagine. The moment when a pink swatch amongst green swatches suddenly is a beautiful water lily on a pond, and some white thing all of a sudden is a waterfall when the dark thing comes along.
Love this. Thank you Sarah - I'm going to your suggestions especially the one where you printed off a bunch of pictures in different sizes - love this idea.
I love being able to look back at the original reference when I’m flipping through the sketchbook 😊
Thank you for sharing such an inspiring video. Great ideas, Sara. I could listen to your ideas all day…and you have such a soothing voice.
One thing I do to get me painting is that I set up two places in my “studio” (tiny bedroom). Those spaces have everything set out to start (or continue) a painting. Brushes, pencil, eraser are there, water container is there, paper or pad is set up, tape is already around the edges, and palette or tubes are there, paper towel or cloth are set out there…no excuse to not just jump right in…😊
Brilliant Sarah very useful way to learn different landscapes and compositions
Ty! Your videos are just what I needed.
Thanks Sarah. Such great advice again 👏
Definitely want to do the peekaboo effect! Brilliant!😊👍
Thank you for mentioning aphantasia. I’m one of them, only found out quite recently, i have never been able to create a visual image. Didn’t know it was actually something people actually did, create visual images that is. I really need references. My imaginary work is pure doodles, mainly circles! 😊
Such a packed video :) so many good ideas and advises in here, I will defenetly have to rewatch this a few more times. I will try the printing out of pictures and putting them in a jar !!!! What I had done in November, was what I called the "gratitude month", where each day I painted one vignette of something I had been grateful for during the previous day. It aws such a nice exercise because I had to paint something, and it made me much more focus on little things that I could pick to paint every day. At the back of each vignette I wrote a few senteces and I noz have a beautiful tiny collection of happy, funnny, cute mondain moments to cherish and remember.
Love your small paintings. Thanks for sharing, and also excellent tips and advice.❤
Thank you for the great advice, I’m going to print a load of my photos right now. Your work is beautiful 😍
This idea is incredible. It’s like you were reading the thoughts in my head. Thank you for this. You have a new subscriber.😊👍
I LOVED this session. I'm really trying to get myself back into painting and art in general. Finding you + gouache has helped SO much that I've finally started using my art journal and the idea of using pictures from my adventures felt like a facepalm moment. Thank you!
Merci Sarah pour cette vidéo et pour ce partage, super idée ces petites photos ! Et génial d'avoir la traduction en français comme ça
Great video and class! Thanks for the tips!
Thank you very much for this video. Great inspiration. It is so encouraging.Loved watching you paint.
Hullo Sarah, this was a lovely video! I have become much better with soft pastels by working small! 6x8 inches is a “big” picture! But by working small like 6x8 gives me less to worry about! I use less paper less of my sticks are used up and I create more ideas for time spent as well! This can translate to gouache and watercolor too! You are truly amazing and I am thankful for your kindness and inspiration.
Love the idea of this sketchbook!
they are so beautiful! I instantly wanted to watch the video again right after I finished watching the first time! the way you made the water looks like they're splattering and running in the waterfall piece is so awesome 👏👏👏
Love the idea of having some small printed photos ready to go! I find photo organization on my phone is frustrating (at best), so I’ll get distracted just looking for my painting photos. Great tips and helpful to watch you paint a variety of small paintings!
Ohh, this morning I am just envious of those of you who simply lack inspiration.
I have plenty of time and inspiration but have a vision disorder that makes painting more than 1 hr per day extremely painful. This hit me 25 years ago at age 47. And so, dear friends, enjoy your physical abilities while you can❤️
It all sounds all too familiar!!! I never knew it was called decision fatigue. I love your tips and suggestions for getting out of this mode that always leaves me so exhausted that I din’t end up painting anything. I will be printing and organizing my photos all in one place to choose.
this is a good idea to print stuff out, never thought of that!
what a great idea. Thank you so much.
Great information. Something I needed now. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing I like to paint on the small side especially when I was ill it made me feel connected with my art and still doing it lots of great ideas thank you ❤
Excellent inspiration!!🎉
Same problem!!!! I created a file last year called "paintworthy". I have a lot of both printed and digital photos scanned to my tablet. I like being able to zoom in and have a bigger reference to look at. I learn how to paint kinds of landscapes to be able to paint my mind's eye ideal painting.
The third painting is actually so magical looking 🤩 it also gives me ghibli vibes but I love the part where you highlighted the glass.
Oh my, I feel so understood. Decision paralysis... Big time! And I so want to get out, paint on location, but I have Raynauds, and it's really not possible when it's cold.
I planned a few big paintings, but the perfectionism is keeping me from beginning 😮💨
Oh, and my lighting is so bad. I need more light
super enjoyed this video! I needed this!
Fabulous,love the inspiration!!
Great ideas, thanks ❤
Yes ! That’s me . Let’s hold hands. 🙌
Awesome tips and inspiration! Thank you!
Really useful tips, inspiring paintings and sage advice. Thank you for sharing your skills and experience. I am looking for a new printer, the images you printed out look crisp. What printer do you use please?🙏🏾
Hi Sarah, seeing you printing and adding the prints to your sketchbook, what do you think of a sprocket portable printer?
Do they print color?
@SarahBurnsStudio yes, the sprocket one I have does colour prints
Very good. A good idea.
6:40 Yeah, I’m one of those people who can’t visualize (aphantasia). I’m currently working on what you talked about, changing certain things instead of just automatically representing exactly what I see, and then also trying to build a sort of “semantic visual library” in my mind. I can’t picture how that animal’s jaw goes, but I can store it semantically “okay it has an angle like this going that way, and wraps around there like this,” etc.
I like to separate my reference hunting from my painting time. Scroll in bed saving a bunch of refs, then quickly pick one at semi-random from that pool when I want to paint.
Hi Sarah! Great ideas! What printer and paper are you using to print those cute little pics? They are lovely ❤
😍omg you are so awesome!
Thanks, Sarah. I have a lot of photos but haven't used them so maybe printing them off will do the trick. Will give it a try. :)
I almost picked up a mini zink printer for printing reference pictures, but skipped it. Maybe I should reconsider it! The tracing paper tip is great one!
6:40 Yeah, I’m one of those people who can’t visualize (aphantasia). I’m currently working on what you talked about, changing certain things instead of just automatically representing exactly what I see, and the. also trying to build a sort of “semantic visual library” in my mind. I can’t picture how that animal’s jaw goes, but I can store it semantically “okay it has an angle like this going that way, and wraps around there like this,” etc.
Loved these ideas, Sarah. One thing I want to work on is coming up with a couple of goals to focus on so I’m not so all over the place. Any good suggestions? One I’ve thought of is to practice more with gouache (instead of watercolor) and am thinking of a weekly goal of painting 1 painting a week.
Would appreciate any ideas or thoughts you might have.
More drawing. It’s less reliant on materials and you can do it literally anywhere. I find drawing often leads to my most creative ideas. As for theme you could pick one per week (like one week forests, then boats, cats, cathedrals, whatever)
I find it very difficult to paint indoors, because no photo model vibrates like nature does when I paint outdoors. But thanks to your excellent suggestions, I think it will be much easier and more pleasant to paint indoors more regularly.
Many thanks to you
I agree! I definitely prefer to paint outside. But we have too many months of cold, wet, awful winter 😆 gotta do what I can on days I can’t stand to be outside
Great video. Small helps me also.
Happy Holidays,Blessings
Quick question: how are you keeping your paints wet for so long? Are you always adding water?
I wonder if you can see your own progress? All of your consistent practice is definitely showing your progress to me.
I’m still learning how to use my guache. I noticed you seem to always start from the top down. Would suggest this a a better technique to practice? 😊🇦🇺
I paint from the background forward. Sky is farthest away, typically at the top.
What size is this sketchbook?
So as someone that has aphantasia i can say i NEED references 😂 annoys the crap outta me when ppl say draw from your imagination. There's nothing wrong with my imagination, i can think it i just cant see it to even try drawing it
It really fascinates me how different we all are!! There is not one right way of doing things. We each have to find ways to make it work.
❤
thx for the video , sarah .. Nora 😊
I can’t visualize in my head. I think of concepts, the way I draw is very methodical and I need multiple layers of sketching, otherwise I can’t tell what I’m doing or it’s wonky, I need to build that structure to make a successful drawing
Like idea small area large brush. 😢Would you suffer less pain in your shoulders and back using desk easel, tfs sylvi🎉🎉🎉
Yes, and I’ve been using it more often, just not when I record 😊
Oh no, an AI speaks for you…it s horrible !! I m from France and i love your voice !!
I don’t speak French 😂😱 It must be a new TH-cam feature. There should be settings you can change - click the cog wheel on the video and look
@@SarahBurnsStudioyes it works 😊
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆
I hope I don't come across as a negative person, but I've tried doing all this stuff many times, and it made me absolutely hate painting. I even stopped painting for years because my throught was "well, I can't do all those quick little intuitive sketches, I can't force myself to use big brushes for everything, I don't like the impressionistic don't worry about the details look, so I am not an artist, because I hate every second of it, and you are supposed to enjoy it." Everything they tell you not to do is the only way I found any kind of freedom, liberation, and enjoyment in art. Unfortunately, it makes it hard to connect to other artists, who all seem to benefit from everything you're saying in this video. I am glad it helps you work through it to create art though, I will never say it's a bad thing, just doesn't seem to work with my annoying brain.
Like I said, we are all different! And each of us has to try something to find out if it works for us ☺️ I’m glad you found something that works for you!
You are not alone. I feel the same, and it frustrates me over and over again. If I could live again from start, I would educate myself to restoration of paintings. I enjoy immensely when I sometimes have to repair or patch some picture or object: To carefully choose the right colors and work painstakingly slowly point by point. I'm euphoric and zen and forget everything else. And I'm quite skillful and patient doing that, I think.
I admire all the artists so much but I just don't have the courage or frenzy that is needed. It's my eternal dilemma. I would need therapy first to be able to go to art therapy.
@@atalantamountainthe world needs every type of artist ❤
Nice to see the LGBTQ flag❤❤❤
Welcome to ADHD…
What on Earth was that awful AI-Translation-Audio? It was terrible and kinda scary.
What?
For some reason, the audio setting was automatically ai translated… but I paused the video and adjusted it back to original, without further issue. Really weirded out though 😅 what the heck, TH-cam? 🫠
@@mariacamilagarcia9654in a different language?? I saw a notification from TH-cam recently saying “coming soon- AI translation dubbing in multiple languages” and was like 😱 that’s crazy 😝
@sarahinscotland exactly! In my case it was in Spanish 🤭
German mans voice here. Awful! After fiddeling some i could turn it off in the cogwheelsettings. But your videodiscription stays translatet. They basically take your work, fake a voice and a text, and send it out worldwide as yours. TH-cam lies on us! and they steal your original content.