Absolutely love this video Gaynor, your wobbly car sketches ( I would be car sick trying to do this), the crows and trees the gorgeous cheese plant leaves, thankyou so much for your wonderful videos. I can't tell you how much I look forward to Thursday mornings although I am away on hols at the moment and had to wait until today (Friday), have a lovely week xx
Morning Anita, what a lovely comment to start my day, so a real heartfelt thank you. I hope you are having/had a lovely holiday and a great weekend to come 😍
Hello Gaynor, another treat. I want to be a stowaway please. You go to some lovely places that obviously inspire you. You then put your sketchbooks to such good use. Can’t wait for next week to have a more in-depth look. Have a lovely week developing your ideas, now you are back home. Thanks for sharing.💐
Fantastic video! Awesome work on your road trip. LOVE the tree with crow, love the crows, love the cheese plant etc., love love love! ❤️ I’ve just come back from France ( the south west) Now I want to go see the mountains because of your video. Spent my time photographing Chateaux and sketching and painting these Amazing buildings. Such fun! Love your videos ❤️
Great news Denise, you must be thrilled. I am going to trial the 'sketchbook pages' idea next week, so please let me know what you think. Have a fantastic weekend 🥰
@@gaynorpattle I’m looking forward to christening my journal although I did take your advice and make some marks on the first page which puzzled my 8 year old grandson
I just watched the trip to Spain from 9 months ago with using your sketchbook. Inspirational and spurning me on, I've been carrying my little sketching kit(a gift from my son), not so little 6x10 inches, to work with me with the intention of sketching when I take my lunch break. People do stop and chat and watch, like you I am kind of shy about that happening. I feel my sketching is a time for me to work out my developing sketching skills. LOL I'll continue to carry it with me and try to use it on the days I work, I'm not always diligent about drawing. I live in Saugatuck, Michigan, which is a Vacation destination on Lake Michigan, so we are very busy from the end of May until the Middle of August. Come visit sometime, we have visitors from all over the world and we have a very active Art Community- this area is called the Inland Artist Coast.
Thank you, Gaynor, I so loved the crow! Continue to value and look forward to these weekly creative offerings 🙏btw, Sandi Hester here on TH-cam also does some great, loose, birds in her sketchbooks 😊 all best wishes
Wonderful tour, thanks for that bit of filming! Don’t like crows, they are so loud and boss the other birds around…but you made them appealing for sketch book subjects! You’re amazingly creative!
Wow Gaynor! There was a LOT packed into this one - but somehow it made beautiful sense - as it always does. I so appreciate your enthusiasm and how you fully engage with your surroundings wherever you are. I'm still struggling with being disciplined with the sketchbook, yet I get motivated each week when you share your journey. Be well!
Hi D C, I hear what you are saying about sketchbook ! Thank you for taking time to leave such a great comment - these words really give me the encouragement to keep going 🥰 Have a great weekend
Love this! What an adventure to go on with you! I love Lord M’s thoughts on Rooks in Masterpiece Theater’s Victoria, and thought they are rooks! Your sketches with glazes are wonderful! Thx for the advice on pens and smaller sketchbooks!
Ah that was great! Thanks for sharing that with us it seemed so child out and really beautiful, it’s fun to see your excitement after your trip! You seem to have got loads from it! And yea it’s always lovely to get back home to the things you love with fresh eyes and new appreciation of the little things haha….. gosh I’m talking myself into needing a lil break myself lol….. love your vids and enthusiasm! Perfect! 👌
OMG LOVE your crow and/or raven, and/or rook! Such an honour to see inside the sketch book this week. My absolute favourite page was the tree + crow. I can see how you have been inspired from the (i forget the name!) artists you showed us last week.. absolutely love the blending of the intricate drawing with the bolder inky marks. Big big love 🧡🧡🧡
Hi Lauren, Isn't it funny.....I never knew how much I like the Crow....I love their boisterous manner and their walk.....the Snakes, the Swiss Cheese Plants and now Crows 😂😂😂😍😍😍
Once again, thanks for sharing your trip. Would love to get to England but it’s not in the stars so I’ll just go site seeing with you. I did a whole sketchbook on crows. I drew all of them with FW inks and used the dropper from the ink bottle to sketch with. Great fun. Try it.
Thankyou for sharing your road trip and sketchbook ❤ I love those mistletoe ‘balls’ in the trees too, but yes, it is a shame that something so pleasant to look at is in fact a parasite 😱 They seem to grow back as fast as we can strip them of some trees in our garden. Loving the permanent marker and glazing! Thankyou for tip re Jim and Nancy Moir - will see if I can pick it up on ‘catch up’. Think Artgraf tailor shapes would be useful to travel with too - it looks like you can use the edges to draw with and use them as watercolours too - very intense and ‘tho not many colours, it looks like they do a lovey earth colour set - just have to find a way to justify spending yet more money on yet more art supplies 😉🙄😊
The saying to help know your crows from your rooks is If you see a crowd of crows they are rooks If you see a solitary rook it’s a crow. Also the numerous nests are rookeries because rooks like to live together. If you see a huge flapping black harbinger of doom it’s a raven. My great grandmother had a pet crow. Very clever birds. I watched a crow teach a young magpie how to angle itself just right to get at some fat balls I had hung out. End of ramble 😂
Interesting. I’m in the States, Oregon,and they tell us that if it id solitary, it’s a raven and if it is a crowd, it is a crow. We have crows - lots and lots of them here. A handful keep an eye on our yard since my husband drops off uneaten food for them on the way to the compost. And, @Gaynor, I as at our kitchen table the last snow and one of the crows posed for me for some time upon one of the bird feeder hooks. The only thing I had was my pen and sketchbook and I love the results. The scratchiness of the pen left a lot of white space, mimicking the shine of the feathers. Love it.
Thanks for sharing your road trip, it looked great fun and interesting. The buildings, scenery and shops looked lovely. The Jim Moir programme is really good, I loved his Curlew painting in the first programme. I have yet to watch the one with the Choughs but was lucky enough to watch a pair on the cliffs when visiting Cape Cornwall a few years ago. My painted covered sketchbook is continuing to grow with ideas and sketches. Thanks again for making Thursdays so inspiring. Enjoy the weekend. 😊🎨
Annie's song! I now have the track playing in my head! 😂Your trip looked wonderful. So much inspiration in the exhibition and great to see the cheese plant paintings there too. Hope you have a lovely week! ☺
Look at the watercolor painting by Bev Jozwiak. They are beautiful. I have four of them and taken her workshops five times she is incredible with watercolor. She is become very famous for her work.
Hiya Iv just stumbled across your channel… great video love the sketches . Iv subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos 😊 great stuff xx
I'm catching up on all the sketchbook videos and they have given me the courage to just go for it! Having so much fun. Thank you for sharing your trip, also. You've mentioned glazing a lot but I'm not exactly sure how to make the glaze. Is it watered down paint? Thank you!
Some colours are more transparent than others and make great glazes. I don't water the acrylics down, but use a palette knife to leave the thinnest layer of paint. Thank you for watching and keep having FUN !
@@gaynorpattle Thank you so much! I will definitely keep watching! I have watched hundreds of TH-cam videos trying to learn and find what feels good and right to me but yours have inspired me the most! I think I've watched almost every post you've made!
Love your videos, Gaynor! I have a question about the glaze that you mentioned in the sketchbook process. Can you tell me what do you use for that? Thanks💗
@@gaynorpattle I use collage, watercolor, acrylics and other mediums in my sketchbooks, but I never tried this process. I loved the effect and the layers you added on top of the glaze. Do you have a video demo for it? Thanks again. You’re such an inspiration for me ❤
That trip had me gripping my chair. Those wet roads look treacherous.
Wow! You visit some awesome places. Thanks for taking us along. Your enthusiasm is contagious!
Hello Susan, thank you for watching and taking time to leave such kind words 🥰Have a great week
I loved seeing all the rain! I live in Southern California. You inspired me to have a go with my vegetable garden. Thanks for beautiful things ❤
Hello Ana in Southern California, great to hear from you. Have fun with your veggies and thank you for taking time to watch and comment 🥰
Absolutely love this video Gaynor, your wobbly car sketches ( I would be car sick trying to do this), the crows and trees the gorgeous cheese plant leaves, thankyou so much for your wonderful videos. I can't tell you how much I look forward to Thursday mornings although I am away on hols at the moment and had to wait until today (Friday), have a lovely week xx
Morning Anita, what a lovely comment to start my day, so a real heartfelt thank you. I hope you are having/had a lovely holiday and a great weekend to come 😍
Hello Gaynor, another treat. I want to be a stowaway please. You go to some lovely places that obviously inspire you. You then put your sketchbooks to such good use. Can’t wait for next week to have a more in-depth look. Have a lovely week developing your ideas, now you are back home. Thanks for sharing.💐
Hi Fiona, wouldn't that be fun ..... a real sketchbook Buddy !! Have a great weekend
Fantastic video! Awesome work on your road trip. LOVE the tree with crow, love the crows, love the cheese plant etc., love love love! ❤️ I’ve just come back from France ( the south west) Now I want to go see the mountains because of your video. Spent my time photographing Chateaux and sketching and painting these Amazing buildings. Such fun! Love your videos ❤️
Hello Teresa, So So Kind....such a lovely comment....Thank You. Ahh the South West is also beautiful !
Lovely to tag along on your trip. The crows were great! What fun! Thanks
Hi Kathy, glad you enjoyed it 🥰
Thank you so much Gaynor for sharing your trip with us,, fantastic love all the paintings especially the birds.
Hello June, Thank you for a lovely comment, I am hooked on the Crow 😂🥰
So much fun to see your footage with your art 😃-- I love the crow with the blue in the background!
Thank you and I'm really glad you enjoyed it - I think there will be more Crows to come 😀
Brilliant idea for starting sketchbook pages. I hope you go with it. And thanks to your inspiration I finished making my art journal. So satisfying.
Great news Denise, you must be thrilled. I am going to trial the 'sketchbook pages' idea next week, so please let me know what you think. Have a fantastic weekend 🥰
@@gaynorpattle I’m looking forward to christening my journal although I did take your advice and make some marks on the first page which puzzled my 8 year old grandson
@@guitardee1 Denise, it MUST be good 😂😍
Thank you so much for taking us along on your trips. I love how you do your sketchbooks. You are my inspiration!
Hi Lori, very very kind and lovely of you to say, thank you 🥰
I just watched the trip to Spain from 9 months ago with using your sketchbook. Inspirational and spurning me on, I've been carrying my little sketching kit(a gift from my son), not so little 6x10 inches, to work with me with the intention of sketching when I take my lunch break. People do stop and chat and watch, like you I am kind of shy about that happening. I feel my sketching is a time for me to work out my developing sketching skills. LOL I'll continue to carry it with me and try to use it on the days I work, I'm not always diligent about drawing. I live in Saugatuck, Michigan, which is a Vacation destination on Lake Michigan, so we are very busy from the end of May until the Middle of August. Come visit sometime, we have visitors from all over the world and we have a very active Art Community- this area is called the Inland Artist Coast.
Hello Becky, I have to constantly remind myself not to be put off by being watched ! Your Inland Artist Coast sounds wonderful 🥰
Thank you, Gaynor, I so loved the crow! Continue to value and look forward to these weekly creative offerings 🙏btw, Sandi Hester here on TH-cam also does some great, loose, birds in her sketchbooks 😊 all best wishes
Hello Donna, THANK YOU 🥰 I will take a look at Sandi Hester. Have a lovely week 😊
Wonderful tour, thanks for that bit of filming! Don’t like crows, they are so loud and boss the other birds around…but you made them appealing for sketch book subjects! You’re amazingly creative!
So nice of you X
I love watching your videos. You always brighten my day!
Such a lovely comment, heartfelt thanks XX
Wow Gaynor! There was a LOT packed into this one - but somehow it made beautiful sense - as it always does. I so appreciate your enthusiasm and how you fully engage with your surroundings wherever you are. I'm still struggling with being disciplined with the sketchbook, yet I get motivated each week when you share your journey. Be well!
Hi D C, I hear what you are saying about sketchbook ! Thank you for taking time to leave such a great comment - these words really give me the encouragement to keep going 🥰 Have a great weekend
I love your road trips. So inspiring. I’m a raven, crow black bird person., thanks for the info on Jim and Nancy Moir!
It's so good to hear the birds chirping up after the long winter !! More trips soon I hope 🥰
Love this! What an adventure to go on with you! I love Lord M’s thoughts on Rooks in Masterpiece Theater’s Victoria, and thought they are rooks! Your sketches with glazes are wonderful! Thx for the advice on pens and smaller sketchbooks!
Loved Victoria ! Thank you for such a great comment 🥰
Yes, thanks for the info on the pens. I am having such trouble finding pens that don’t clog up when used over acrylics. Thanks😊
Ah that was great! Thanks for sharing that with us it seemed so child out and really beautiful, it’s fun to see your excitement after your trip! You seem to have got loads from it! And yea it’s always lovely to get back home to the things you love with fresh eyes and new appreciation of the little things haha….. gosh I’m talking myself into needing a lil break myself lol….. love your vids and enthusiasm! Perfect! 👌
Hi Alicecile, lovely comment, thank you and I hope you do have a break 🥰
OMG LOVE your crow and/or raven, and/or rook! Such an honour to see inside the sketch book this week. My absolute favourite page was the tree + crow. I can see how you have been inspired from the (i forget the name!) artists you showed us last week.. absolutely love the blending of the intricate drawing with the bolder inky marks. Big big love 🧡🧡🧡
Hi Lauren, Isn't it funny.....I never knew how much I like the Crow....I love their boisterous manner and their walk.....the Snakes, the Swiss Cheese Plants and now Crows 😂😂😂😍😍😍
I absolutely LOVE the fast sketches of the cars in the first spread. LOVE them!
Hello Trine, It was a lot of fast fun......speed drawing took on a whole new dimension !!! 🥰
Once again, thanks for sharing your trip. Would love to get to England but it’s not in the stars so I’ll just go site seeing with you.
I did a whole sketchbook on crows. I drew all of them with FW inks and used the dropper from the ink bottle to sketch with. Great fun. Try it.
Hello Johnel, I will definitely be having a go with the inks to draw Crow Birds !! THANK YOU X
Thankyou for sharing your road trip and sketchbook ❤ I love those mistletoe ‘balls’ in the trees too, but yes, it is a shame that something so pleasant to look at is in fact a parasite 😱 They seem to grow back as fast as we can strip them of some trees in our garden. Loving the permanent marker and glazing! Thankyou for tip re Jim and Nancy Moir - will see if I can pick it up on ‘catch up’. Think Artgraf tailor shapes would be useful to travel with too - it looks like you can use the edges to draw with and use them as watercolours too - very intense and ‘tho not many colours, it looks like they do a lovey earth colour set - just have to find a way to justify spending yet more money on yet more art supplies 😉🙄😊
Hello Tricia, I will get and google Artgraf shapes now - I have a charcoal artgraf but watercolour sounds great..Thank you and have a lovely week 🥰
@@triciabennetts6578 In my Cart 😂😂 thank you Tricia 🥰
The saying to help know your crows from your rooks is
If you see a crowd of crows they are rooks
If you see a solitary rook it’s a crow.
Also the numerous nests are rookeries because rooks like to live together.
If you see a huge flapping black harbinger of doom it’s a raven.
My great grandmother had a pet crow. Very clever birds.
I watched a crow teach a young magpie how to angle itself just right to get at some fat balls I had hung out.
End of ramble 😂
I love this Judy, Thank You XX
Interesting. I’m in the States, Oregon,and they tell us that if it id solitary, it’s a raven and if it is a crowd, it is a crow. We have crows - lots and lots of them here. A handful keep an eye on our yard since my husband drops off uneaten food for them on the way to the compost. And, @Gaynor, I as at our kitchen table the last snow and one of the crows posed for me for some time upon one of the bird feeder hooks. The only thing I had was my pen and sketchbook and I love the results. The scratchiness of the pen left a lot of white space, mimicking the shine of the feathers. Love it.
Thanks for sharing your road trip, it looked great fun and interesting. The buildings, scenery and shops looked lovely. The Jim Moir programme is really good, I loved his Curlew painting in the first programme. I have yet to watch the one with the Choughs but was lucky enough to watch a pair on the cliffs when visiting Cape Cornwall a few years ago. My painted covered sketchbook is continuing to grow with ideas and sketches. Thanks again for making Thursdays so inspiring. Enjoy the weekend. 😊🎨
Hello Deborah, so glad to read that your sketchbook is growing. I'm currently working on some more Crow ideas !! Have a lovely week 🥰
Thank you Gaynor for taking us on your trip.. wonderful glimpses of the exhibitions...did feel sick driving down the mountain!! You are lucky 😊
Linda, they're a couple of places that make me feel sick in real time !! Tight hairpin bends !! Have a great week 🥰
Annie's song! I now have the track playing in my head! 😂Your trip looked wonderful. So much inspiration in the exhibition and great to see the cheese plant paintings there too. Hope you have a lovely week! ☺
Ahh, glad you enjoyed it. Have a great week too 🥰
lovely to see you had a fun trip!! the Corvid family of birds is my fave, especially ravens!!
Hi Judith, For some reason I've always assumed that I don't 'do' birds. The Corvids have so much personality - I've been missing out ! 🥰
I love your crow.
Thank you Sharon .... I think there will more ! Have a great week🥰
❤💚💛💜💙🧡
THANK YOU X
Big osprey nests here…wild
Look at the watercolor painting by Bev Jozwiak. They are beautiful. I have four of them and taken her workshops five times she is incredible with watercolor. She is become very famous for her work.
Oh wow! Amazing work X
Everything in France is always closed! 😂😂🇬🇧
Hiya Iv just stumbled across your channel… great video love the sketches . Iv subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos 😊 great stuff xx
Hello, Welcome and Thank You for a lovely comment 😊
@@gaynorpattle your so very welcome 🤗
I'm catching up on all the sketchbook videos and they have given me the courage to just go for it! Having so much fun. Thank you for sharing your trip, also. You've mentioned glazing a lot but I'm not exactly sure how to make the glaze. Is it watered down paint? Thank you!
Some colours are more transparent than others and make great glazes. I don't water the acrylics down, but use a palette knife to leave the thinnest layer of paint. Thank you for watching and keep having FUN !
@@gaynorpattle Thank you so much! I will definitely keep watching! I have watched hundreds of TH-cam videos trying to learn and find what feels good and right to me but yours have inspired me the most! I think I've watched almost every post you've made!
@@jodirankin5901 Such a lovely comment, you have made my week !!
Love your videos, Gaynor! I have a question about the glaze that you mentioned in the sketchbook process. Can you tell me what do you use for that? Thanks💗
Hello Galia, Sometimes I use watercolour and sometimes acrylic paint. Happy Glazing ! 🥰
@@gaynorpattle I use collage, watercolor, acrylics and other mediums in my sketchbooks, but I never tried this process. I loved the effect and the layers you added on top of the glaze. Do you have a video demo for it? Thanks again. You’re such an inspiration for me ❤
Galia, have a look at this week's video, I demo the glazing technique again 😊