How to Free Up and How to Loosen Up are questions often asked. This week I share my top tips on how to paint more freely. #loosepainting #howto #paintingart
Hi Gaynor. I just want to thank you for inviting us into your world, and your art journey and for the generous and honest sharing about all the challenges and joys of creating. It has been truly inspirational and motivating. Community is so important and you are building such a lovely one around yourself. Just awesome! I wish you the very best holiday season and look forward to tuning in each Thursday in 2024, from me here in sunny South Africa. Have a wonderful time with family and friends and thank you again!!🥰🎄🎨🖌☃🎅
Happy Christmas Greetings from Germany! Thank you Gaynor for all the fabulous videos throughout the year, I am a big fan of you and your colourful art. Let's all loosen up in 2024 - yes, we can! 🤸♀️🌟
It just occurred to me, thanks to you, that it hasn't been that I was afraid to wreck the pristine white of the paper or canvas, but that it offered me nothing by way of inspiration...nothing to react to as you say...and as regards that, it really doesnt matter what that first layer is, ive heard some artists call it energy...but mostly it becomes inspiration for the next layer and it for the next and so on...that...is liberating! and increases the fun element. THAT is the looseness you are speaking of. So excited to paint right now !!!
Eloquently said and exactly what I’ve been thinking but couldn’t find the words for! My other tightness is seeing the finish not the steps. Thank you for helping me find the words. Baby steps and education from Gaynor and the community here is so helpful!
Gaynor I don't think I can really add anything of value that hasn't been said in the other comments. I have such gratitude to be a virtual audience to the wonder that is you. Wishing you and Craig a wonderful holiday season and a new year filled with inspiration and joy! ♥🎄♥
Merry Christmas & Happy New Years!! Another fantastic video filled with heart felt helping information, motivation & fun. Excited to see you every Thursday in 2024!
You know when you wake up some mornings and you think it's Thursday, but it's only Wednesday? That was me yesterday. 😳All ready with my cup of coffee to watch Gaynor and get my art inspiration. I just decided to repeat videos I have already watched, and then I put them on PLAY ALL. I enjoyed that so much, and after my coffee break was over, I got to work making Christmas treats and all the while I had Gaynor videos playing. Thank you for keeping me company Gaynor, all the way over in Tucson, Arizona😃
Merry Christmas to you to lovely lady. Thanks for all the fun videos and wonderful inspiration and tips. Blessings to you and Craig for 2024. I like Thursdays 😊
As always, another great video full of inspiration for the rest of us. This week's video has really hit the spot, time to take flight. I saw a quote on one of the "journal" sites a fews months back and it goes "Your wings already exist, all you have to do is fly" Thank you again for all the work you put in for us viewers, have a wonderful Christmas and New Year; may you go from strength to strength.
🌟Joy to you Lovely Gaynor🌟 I hope you have a Wiz Bang, Sparkly, Spangled, Glorious, illuminating Christmas and I hope Santa takes you on a trip to the Stars and back…Whoo Hoo! 🤸♀️🤸♀️🤸♀️🌟. ❤️❤️❤️
Hello Gaynor, I've missed you, I still have 2 previous videos to catch up on. This video is a real stocking filler of wonderful content I don't know how you do it, thankyou thankyou for the tme and effort you put in for your viewers, have a wonderful Christmas and new year, looking forward to 2024.
Thank you ! thank you ! Do you realize how important you are for so many people. Your energy, your fantasy, sincerity without speaking of your talent ! are so precious ! You help to maintain my "joie de vivre" (i'm french, sorry for my english) in a difficult moment. And, last but not least, i really enjoy your way of working, counting on/with surprise to go on. Just enjoy. That is a pure lesson of living !!! Yeah 🤗
You say you are lucky to have so many lovely comments but we are the lucky ones, you are so generous with your time and showing us your work......every video I feel inspired to create so thank you ! Have a great Christmas ! 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Hello Gaynor---it is 3am here in Ohio & just watched your video. We had a dusting of snow on Monday but it quickly melted. On Christmas Day the temps are looking like 54F which is really warm for this time of year. I thought your ideas of one deciding or figuring out what loosening up means to each person was great advise. I'm looking forward to 2024 as a year of growth in my art. I just turned 65 this week & I can't wait to see what I discover in my art making this year. I usually do watercolor but have done some mixed media in the past. I have a set of acryllics & I just want to take a big sheet of paper & go for it!!! Your frames are so beautiful. He does a wonderful job. Sending Christmas wishes to you & looking forward to seeing you in the New Year.
Hello lovely Anita, HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎉 I am so excited for you as it sounds as though you have set the intention to grow - I love that XXX Christmas Joy and a Creative New Year XXX
Hi Gaynor, I haven't posted for a long time, but thanks to you I have been freeing up my art over the past year and turning that ship!! I'm actually liking some of it. I so look forward to Thursdays, you are such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your world. Have a wonderful Christmas 🎄. Really looking forward seeing you in the New Year ❤
Hello Jennifer, This is a wonderful comment to read and it makes me smile broadly to know that you "actually like some of it" ....Fantastic. Christmas Joy and a Creative New Year XXX
Hello Kate and a Big Welcome....so good to hear from new viewers and thank you for such a lovely comment. Have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year XX
Thank you for all your inspiring videos, Gaynor. Words of wisdom as ever, and exciting paintings that emerge from your observations and your heart. I love your 'just have a go' approach and advice. NOTHING VENTURED NOTHING GAINED 😮😊
Hi Gaynor - another really productive week 😊 Going to be repeating to myself - colour, line, shape, texture!😊 Thankyou so much for sharing your process, energy and positivity - hopefully it’s contagious. I’ve enjoyed watching your channel and seeing you develop as an artist! Have a great Christmas and looking forward to a New Year of possibilities!😘
Best seasons greetings, Gaynor. This was another lovely video. I am so thrilled with the larger boat painting you finished. Pure magic how you smack around the paint and ureka, out comes such beauty. Thanks for the year of great inspiration, and friendship. Here in the rocky mountains of Alberta, I am happily indoors, painting under your tutelage.
I love Thursdays!!!!!! Thank you for the uplifting, encouraging videos! Wishing you and your loved ones a peaceful, happy holiday and a joyous new year!
Thank you for all your videos. I'm glad you say what time of the year it is. In Salt Lake City Utah U.S.A. we have no snow either. Rained yesterday. No white Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. Happy New year.🎉 Connie Smith. I love you direction your boat has turned.
I enjoy saving your videos as soon as I see them, then coming back to them at leisure. This was most enjoyable and informative, such a lot in it that I'll go back through it more than once I'm sure. You're very generous in what you show us and your suggestions are very helpful, thank you so much. I liked your idea of a painting warm-up sketchbook, and also a reminder about how daunting a pristine canvas can be. Hope your new year is going well 👍🌻
I have a block of polystyrene covered with random textured wallpaper samples. It’s great. You can stencil it and change the texture to another easily and also wash it off.
Oh Gaynor, this video was so lovely. I so enjoyed watching you create that piece that I had commented on IG reminded me of Cattails. So fun to watch how a painting comes to life for you. As always, you make it magically happen with a few strokes here and a few strokes there, some mark making that seems random but clearly is not and the perfect addition of dark and light tones. Pure joy to watch you create!!!! I am so thankful to have come across you a month or more back and look forward to every video, IG story and post, that you put out. You are so authentic, humble, kind and encouraging. I love that Craig supports your craft and helps with the frame making and I am sure many other aspects. May this Christmas season bring you both much happiness and the New Year hold many new adventures and bring great joy. Thanks for taking the time to film these lovely videos, cheers to you and Craig!!! XXOO
Such a lovely message X. Heartfelt thanks for watching and taking time to leave great comments. Wishing you a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XXX
Thank you Gaynor, wishing you a wonderful Christmas and New Year with your family. Thank you for inspiring us all in 2023 I will look forward to next year.
Hi Gaynor, what a wonderful video. Wanted to take a moment to thank you for everything you do to inspire so many of us. Watching every Thursday is such a joy, and I've learned so much from you. I know that I've become a better artist by giving myself permission to free up, experiment and play. Seeing the photos and hearing how Craig makes the frames was great, please thank Craig for this too. I wish for you and yours a beautiful and Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year. And, again, a big thanks from the bottom of my heart for all that you do.
Hi Kathy, for me it's like making a lovely new friend, I enjoy seeing your instagram posts, having a peek into your part of the world is fantastic. I am grateful for your generous comments and ideas and wish you and your family the best Christmas and Creative New Year XXXX
Hi Gaynor, Thank you, I feel the same way. Our Daughter is home for the holidays and I was talking about you and your work and told her that I felt like you're a friend! Hope to embark on some YT content for the first time in 2024, will be a bumpy ride, lots of learning and mishaps I'm sure. :-) I'm not the best at technology, but will strive to take a lesson from how you do your videos, as I love your style! Happy New Year! XXXX
Happy New Year Gaynor ! Thank you for all your inspiration through out 2023 I've so enjoyed your videos. I've learned alot and learned so much. Looking forward to our 2024 together !
Merry Christmas Gaynor, you are a blessing to this art community and we can ALL be encouraged and move forward with the uniqueness of your many gifts to us!! Have a blessed and healthy New Year!
Great analogy about the ship turning around Gaynor! I love watching your experimentation. Your new art spot is a lovely place to create especially with all your art displayed on the walls around it. Happy Christmas Gaynor. Wishing you a Happy, Healthy and Arty 2024! X
Merry Christmas 🎄 Gaynor and thank you for another wonderful inspirational arty treat 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I’m watching snuggled in bed with a lovely cup of tea 🫖 and a mince pie 🥧😋🥰👍xx
Hello Julie, I've just made my first batch of mincers as they are affectionately known in this house 😂 Have a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XXX
Hi Gaynor and thanks again for another fab video. Wishing you all the best for a peaceful Christmas and a super-creative new year. Enjoy your break love Rich and Fran. ❤
I am blessed by your work and your encouragements to keep on moving on and Creating more and more no matter how much of a mess it is! Namaste'! Happy Christmas and New Year wishes for prosperity and Peace!
Hello Julia, we ADORE the New Forest, I'm dreaming about a great veg curry in a pub called the Snake Catcher in Brockenhurst !!! Have a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XX
Thank you so much for your weekly videos Gaynor. I have said it before but your inspiration, ideas, support and advice, not forgetting your amazing enthusiasm and personality make Thursday the best day of the week. I have learnt so much from watching you and so have quite a few friends from my local Art Group. Best wishes to you and your family for a very Happy Christmas and another successful inspiring New Year. P.S. I missed seeing the fairy lights on in the Cabin. 😊🎨
Huge thanks for sharing Deborah. I'm a bit behind with Christmas ! Only just making a batch of mince pies. Have a Wonderful Christmas and let's have a Creative New Year XX
We e had a tough start to 2024 with a massive storm intense heat no power no phone and no internet for over a week followed by heavy heavy rain and localised flooding so a very belated Merry Christmas and a very creative New Year to you - I’m looking forward to viewing your videos to come - such a pleasure!!
Hello Kerry, I can't imagine the misery from storm damage and hope that normality comes soon. Wishing you only good things for the rest of the year XXX
Hi Gaynor thank you for your words of wisdom & great encouragement to us / me on your channel. This year of watching you has definitely given me more energy to get cracking & painting more in 2024.wishing you & your family the best Christmas & safe & joyful New Year 🎄🎅🏻🙏💕
Oh I say it every time but I just look so forward to your videos each week. I’ve rewatched a few to try some things as well. I do want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! All my best wishes! Roxanne from Atlanta, GA 👋🏻
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Gaynor! Many, many thanks to you for all of the invaluable insights into your art journey, it has been very inspiring to follow you!
Hello Gaynor, another lovely video this week. I especially liked the florals on the abstract backgrounds. There wasn’t anything I didn’t like though to be fair. A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family. I hope Santa has been visiting some art material shops 😂 Thank you for the inspiration and pleasure you have brought to us this last year. Have a fabulous time🎄
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year. thanks for all you wonderful videos. I love experimenting and try not to be concerned with the out come. I can always go back to it as you do. love you channel xxx
Happy Christmas Gaynor and thanks for all your help , advice and fun throughout the year. Please consider advice on palettes next year! Have a great time!
Hi Gaynor,I really enjoyed your video..Like so many I’m sure,I have the fear of the white canvas and sketchbook page!I have a stack of canvases and have painted something on one,not liked it and out comes the gesso and bam! I’m back to the white again lol!Did you ever go through a stage like that?Anyway you have given me the encouragement to have another go and I will hide the gesso lol!Thank you for sharing wonderful artwork a “Christmas” gift for all!❤Looking forward to seeing more!! Hope you and your Family have a lovely Christmas lots of Love especially to little Rocket!!🥰
Hello Beverly, YES, YES, YES.....then I calmed down with the gesso and maybe covered only the bits I didn't like...now I go in with a different colour and shape to get things moving. As I type, Rocket is in place by the fire ! He loves it when the children come home. Very best wishes to you and your Family for Christmas and the New Year X
Hello Gaynor, i am very happy to have found your Channel. Super inspiring, I wonder though how you manage to always stay clean. I always get paint on me😂. Love your Art and Choice of Color. Stay Creative Irina
Hello and Welcome. I love to hear from new viewers and thank you for taking time to leave a lovely message. A question I'm often asked !! And I don't know...my cuffs quite often get mucky and every now and then I have an accident but mostly the paint stays on the canvas ! Have a wonderful week XX
Merry Christmas! Thanks for always inspiring me with your videos! I’ve had a piece of really nice quality watercolor paper just sitting off to the side ( being “saved” for who knows what, ha!) and I’m excited to get going on using it to play with textures using various inks& paints. This is thanks to you! All the best in the New Year to you and your family.
More pondering this lesson: googled process and procedures. Then, method and technique. Looking forward to watching U express your talent, 2024 ??Q's...do U title each art project? & best way to reach a title for the project at hand...before or after? Ann
Hi Ann, If I'm lucky a title will present itself while I'm in the process of making. Sometimes, from out of the blue, I think of something that would be a good name for a painting and jot it down. How about you ?
@gaynorpattle it's things like concentration on color, composition that hinders a decision post . Thinking of title pre does get an idea started, but then the gaynor thing happens. 🤔 Started crocheting an afgan... all the while looking over at an unfinished canvas on the easle ... hoping things will reveal by not painting and seeking what's there? A title pre may lead ? Wonder how song writers work lyrics and melodies ... Ann
Hi Gaynor don’t know how I got along before I found you. Don’t ever stop you bring so much joy to everyone who sees you. I’m in Salt Lake City Utah you have freed me from being in a rut with my art I’ve been feeling the same way you described you felt before you started doing what you do now. I did watercolour for years in frustration now I know mixed media is what I really should have been doing. Have you sold that painting of the boat on the wall behind you in the beginning of this video, is it for sale? If it is for sale can you tell me the price? 😊 Thanks
Hello Carol, Heartfelt thanks for such a wonderful comment. The boat painting is in the cabin, waiting for a cradle frame and a bit of a tidy up around the edges! Let me think on it and check with the post office re shipping, it is larger than anything I have in the webshop !! Many thanks XX
@@gaynorpattle thanks for replying so speedily. My zip code is 84108 if that helps finding out shipping. I’ve been to England many times and have shipped items home to myself and it was a terrible price so I know it isn’t cheap. If you are going to sell the painting I hope 🤞 I can have first option to buy. I hope I can afford it lol. The only place I can get the Snowden cartridge paper like yours is Jackson’s it’s $65.00 for 50 sheets which I think is cheap but I know the shipping will double that which is still cheaper than watercolor paper. I lived for 3 months in Castle Combe a few years ago, one of the best experiences of my life. Your boat painting reminds me of another place I love dearly.
Thank You...I usually sign on the back of work, if I remember !! I am happy to sign. They are beautiful creatures....I can watch quietly for ages but the minute I go to film, they're off !! Have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year XX
Gaynor! Thank you so much for showing me the framing!! Tell your other half I’m so very grateful for the images! Thank you so much. It was such a help to see the wood with its angle and not just flat pieces! This explains so much. I’m off to the lumber store! And Merry Christmas to you and your family. ps…the deer at the end were precious
Thank you so much X One of my big challenges for 2024 is to get a website off the ground. Out of my comfort zone but I'll give it my best !!! Have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year X
Hi Gaynor. I just want to thank you for inviting us into your world, and your art journey and for the generous and honest sharing about all the challenges and joys of creating. It has been truly inspirational and motivating. Community is so important and you are building such a lovely one around yourself. Just awesome! I wish you the very best holiday season and look forward to tuning in each Thursday in 2024, from me here in sunny South Africa. Have a wonderful time with family and friends and thank you again!!🥰🎄🎨🖌☃🎅
Hi Beverley, a chance to thank you for all your generous, kind support throughout the year. Wishing you a lovely Christmas and Creative New Year XXX
Joy is what yr channel should be called. It is pure fun. Thx to u and to Craig for all this. Have the best Xmas and ny. R
Thank you Robert, you are very kind X Have a wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year X
I get lost in pleasure whenever I watch you vids. Thankyou so much for sharing with the world !!!!!
So So kind, thank you Angelina, Happy Holidays and a Creative New Year X
Thank you, Gaynor. You always make my Thursday mornings here in a Boston a little more special than the other mornings. Have a lovely holiday!
Paula
Hello Paula, Heartfelt thanks for such kindness X Wishing you a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New year XX
Happy Christmas Greetings from Germany! Thank you Gaynor for all the fabulous videos throughout the year, I am a big fan of you and your colourful art. Let's all loosen up in 2024 - yes, we can! 🤸♀️🌟
Hello Koko....I can feel such a great vibe for 2024....thank you for your support and have a wonderful Christmas XX
@@gaynorpattleDankeschön, thank you!
Yes!! Loosing up in 2024. Merry Christmas ⛄❤
It just occurred to me, thanks to you, that it hasn't been that I was afraid to wreck the pristine white of the paper or canvas, but that it offered me nothing by way of inspiration...nothing to react to as you say...and as regards that, it really doesnt matter what that first layer is, ive heard some artists call it energy...but mostly it becomes inspiration for the next layer and it for the next and so on...that...is liberating! and increases the fun element. THAT is the looseness you are speaking of.
So excited to paint right now !!!
Eloquently said and exactly what I’ve been thinking but couldn’t find the words for! My other tightness is seeing the finish not the steps. Thank you for helping me find the words. Baby steps and education from Gaynor and the community here is so helpful!
MUSIC TO MY EARS ....thank you for a wonderful comment XXX
Gaynor I don't think I can really add anything of value that hasn't been said in the other comments. I have such gratitude to be a virtual audience to the wonder that is you. Wishing you and Craig a wonderful holiday season and a new year filled with inspiration and joy! ♥🎄♥
SO SO KIND .... Have a Wonderful Holiday too XX
Merry Christmas & Happy New Years!! Another fantastic video filled with heart felt helping information, motivation & fun. Excited to see you every Thursday in 2024!
Thank you so much Daphne, all Christmas Joy to you and a very Creative New Year XX
You know when you wake up some mornings and you think it's Thursday, but it's only Wednesday? That was me yesterday. 😳All ready with my cup of coffee to watch Gaynor and get my art inspiration. I just decided to repeat videos I have already watched, and then I put them on PLAY ALL. I enjoyed that so much, and after my coffee break was over, I got to work making Christmas treats and all the while I had Gaynor videos playing. Thank you for keeping me company Gaynor, all the way over in Tucson, Arizona😃
Ahhh .... this makes me smile .... how lovely ..... sending Christmas Joy to you in Tucson and here's to a Creative New Year XXX
@@gaynorpattle Have a wonderful Christmas Gaynor. Much love, Molly xxx ( boondoggy)
Merry Christmas to you to lovely lady. Thanks for all the fun videos and wonderful inspiration and tips. Blessings to you and Craig for 2024. I like Thursdays 😊
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As always, another great video full of inspiration for the rest of us. This week's video has really hit the spot, time to take flight. I saw a quote on one of the "journal" sites a fews months back and it goes "Your wings already exist, all you have to do is fly" Thank you again for all the work you put in for us viewers, have a wonderful Christmas and New Year; may you go from strength to strength.
Hello Lovely Dee, Wishing you and your family a lovely Christmas and Creative, Musical New Year XX
🌟Joy to you Lovely Gaynor🌟 I hope you have a Wiz Bang, Sparkly, Spangled, Glorious, illuminating Christmas and I hope Santa takes you on a trip to the Stars and back…Whoo Hoo! 🤸♀️🤸♀️🤸♀️🌟. ❤️❤️❤️
AHHHH Hello Lovely Teresa, I can only wish the same Wiz Bang, Sparkler of a Christmas to you too. Let's have a fantastic 2024 XXX
Hello Gaynor, I've missed you, I still have 2 previous videos to catch up on. This video is a real stocking filler of wonderful content I don't know how you do it, thankyou thankyou for the tme and effort you put in for your viewers, have a wonderful Christmas and new year, looking forward to 2024.
Hello Anita, always so so kind 🥰 Have a fantastic Christmas and Creative New Year X
Thank you ! thank you ! Do you realize how important you are for so many people. Your energy, your fantasy, sincerity without speaking of your talent ! are so precious ! You help to maintain my "joie de vivre" (i'm french, sorry for my english) in a difficult moment. And, last but not least, i really enjoy your way of working, counting on/with surprise to go on. Just enjoy. That is a pure lesson of living !!! Yeah 🤗
Heartfelt thanks for such kindness 🥰 Have a fabulous Holiday and Creative New Year XXX
Merry Christmas from Manitoulin Island, Canada. Wishing you the best in 2024, thank you so much.
Hello Sharon....I'm going to find you on the map 😊 Thank you for watching and have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year XX
You say you are lucky to have so many lovely comments but we are the lucky ones, you are so generous with your time and showing us your work......every video I feel inspired to create so thank you ! Have a great Christmas ! 🎄🎄🎄🎄
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Hello Gaynor---it is 3am here in Ohio & just watched your video. We had a dusting of snow on Monday but it quickly melted. On Christmas Day the temps are looking like 54F which is really warm for this time of year. I thought your ideas of one deciding or figuring out what loosening up means to each person was great advise. I'm looking forward to 2024 as a year of growth in my art. I just turned 65 this week & I can't wait to see what I discover in my art making this year. I usually do watercolor but have done some mixed media in the past. I have a set of acryllics & I just want to take a big sheet of paper & go for it!!! Your frames are so beautiful. He does a wonderful job. Sending Christmas wishes to you & looking forward to seeing you in the New Year.
Hello lovely Anita, HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎉 I am so excited for you as it sounds as though you have set the intention to grow - I love that XXX Christmas Joy and a Creative New Year XXX
I’m so glad I found your channel this year, thank you for your generosity of time in sharing your process.
@@SewArtyAnna Thank you so much for watching Anna, wishing you a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year X
Hi Gaynor, I haven't posted for a long time, but thanks to you I have been freeing up my art over the past year and turning that ship!! I'm actually liking some of it. I so look forward to Thursdays, you are such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your world. Have a wonderful Christmas 🎄. Really looking forward seeing you in the New Year ❤
Hello Jennifer, This is a wonderful comment to read and it makes me smile broadly to know that you "actually like some of it" ....Fantastic. Christmas Joy and a Creative New Year XXX
Stupendous, Gaynor! Thank you and all the very best for Christmas and New Year.
Happy holidays! XX
Merry Christmas Gaynor, Ive just recently found you and can't get enough.Big fan here, really enjoy all you share.
Hello Kate and a Big Welcome....so good to hear from new viewers and thank you for such a lovely comment. Have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year XX
Thank you for all your inspiring videos, Gaynor. Words of wisdom as ever, and exciting paintings that emerge from your observations and your heart. I love your 'just have a go' approach and advice.
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Wonderful Message Jane, heartfelt thanks and best wishes for a Wonderful Christmas and Exciting New Year XX
Thank you Gaynor for a great video.Really enjoyed it and I so love your colour palette .☘️
Hello Rosemary, thank you for watching and leaving a lovely comment. Have a wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XX
Hi Gaynor - another really productive week 😊 Going to be repeating to myself - colour, line, shape, texture!😊 Thankyou so much for sharing your process, energy and positivity - hopefully it’s contagious. I’ve enjoyed watching your channel and seeing you develop as an artist! Have a great Christmas and looking forward to a New Year of possibilities!😘
Thank you so much for your kind support Tricia, wishing you Christmas Joy and a Creative New Year XX
Merry Christmas and a happy new year Gaynor thanks for sharing beautiful artwork idea's and inspirations love and big hug 🫂
Ahhhh Love and Hugs to you Deborah, have a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year X
Best seasons greetings, Gaynor. This was another lovely video. I am so thrilled with the larger boat painting you finished. Pure magic how you smack around the paint and ureka, out comes such beauty. Thanks for the year of great inspiration, and friendship. Here in the rocky mountains of Alberta, I am happily indoors, painting under your tutelage.
Hello Ann, What a wonderful message X I will think of you in Alberta, having a Lovely Christmas and lets do lots of painting in the New Year XXX
Thank you for your lovely, instructive, fearless approach to sharing painting and discovery with us. Happy Holidays to you and yours! Peace.
Thank you Laura, Peace and Blessings to you XXX
I love Thursdays!!!!!! Thank you for the uplifting, encouraging videos! Wishing you and your loved ones a peaceful, happy holiday and a joyous new year!
Hello Deborah, I love that you love Thursdays X Happy Holiday to your and a very Creative New Year XXX
Thank you for all your videos. I'm glad you say what time of the year it is. In Salt Lake City Utah U.S.A. we have no snow either. Rained yesterday. No white Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. Happy New year.🎉 Connie Smith. I love you direction your boat has turned.
Hello Connie, thank you for watching and leaving a lovely comment, you are very kind X. Have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year X
We're the lucky ones Gaynor!! Thank you so much for bringing us with you into the studio..Happy Holidays!!
Thank you so much XX Happy Holidays to you and yours and let's have a great Creative New Year XX
Merry Christmas from Utah USA. Thank you for spreading the Joy of creativity. I look forward to each post and watch them several times. ❤
Hello Sherrie in Utah X. Thank you so much for watching and taking time to leave a lovely comment. Have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year X
I enjoy saving your videos as soon as I see them, then coming back to them at leisure. This was most enjoyable and informative, such a lot in it that I'll go back through it more than once I'm sure. You're very generous in what you show us and your suggestions are very helpful, thank you so much. I liked your idea of a painting warm-up sketchbook, and also a reminder about how daunting a pristine canvas can be. Hope your new year is going well 👍🌻
Hello Sheryl, Thank you so much for watching and leaving such a kind comment X.
Happy Christmas and a fabulous New Year, thank you for the gift of your enthusiasm in your art practice!
Thank you Angie and Christmas wishes to you and yours and here's to a Creative 2024 XX
I have finally began making art now after 5 year break, I shall fit all my material into my new art studio.
FANTASTIC ..... exciting times. Have a great Holiday and Creative New Year X
I have a block of polystyrene covered with random textured wallpaper samples. It’s great. You can stencil it and change the texture to another easily and also wash it off.
Hi Judy, liking the sounds of that.... thank you X. Have a wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XX
Absolutely fascinating. Best exciting art I’ve seen in a long time
Thank you so much !! X
Oh Gaynor, this video was so lovely. I so enjoyed watching you create that piece that I had commented on IG reminded me of Cattails. So fun to watch how a painting comes to life for you. As always, you make it magically happen with a few strokes here and a few strokes there, some mark making that seems random but clearly is not and the perfect addition of dark and light tones. Pure joy to watch you create!!!! I am so thankful to have come across you a month or more back and look forward to every video, IG story and post, that you put out. You are so authentic, humble, kind and encouraging. I love that Craig supports your craft and helps with the frame making and I am sure many other aspects. May this Christmas season bring you both much happiness and the New Year hold many new adventures and bring great joy. Thanks for taking the time to film these lovely videos, cheers to you and Craig!!! XXOO
Such a lovely message X. Heartfelt thanks for watching and taking time to leave great comments. Wishing you a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XXX
Thank you Gaynor, wishing you a wonderful Christmas and New Year with your family. Thank you for inspiring us all in 2023 I will look forward to next year.
Thank you June, wishing you a Wonderful Christmas too. Let's have a great Creative New year XX
Hi Gaynor, what a wonderful video. Wanted to take a moment to thank you for everything you do to inspire so many of us. Watching every Thursday is such a joy, and I've learned so much from you. I know that I've become a better artist by giving myself permission to free up, experiment and play. Seeing the photos and hearing how Craig makes the frames was great, please thank Craig for this too. I wish for you and yours a beautiful and Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year. And, again, a big thanks from the bottom of my heart for all that you do.
Hi Kathy, for me it's like making a lovely new friend, I enjoy seeing your instagram posts, having a peek into your part of the world is fantastic. I am grateful for your generous comments and ideas and wish you and your family the best Christmas and Creative New Year XXXX
Hi Gaynor, Thank you, I feel the same way. Our Daughter is home for the holidays and I was talking about you and your work and told her that I felt like you're a friend! Hope to embark on some YT content for the first time in 2024, will be a bumpy ride, lots of learning and mishaps I'm sure. :-) I'm not the best at technology, but will strive to take a lesson from how you do your videos, as I love your style! Happy New Year! XXXX
I had all those worries about the tech stuff and I'm still learning but it is really worthwhile....just go for it XX
I’m loving the water on the boat picture
Thank You Lori X Happy Holidays X
Happy New Year Gaynor ! Thank you for all your inspiration through out 2023 I've so enjoyed your videos. I've learned alot and learned so much. Looking forward to our 2024 together !
Hello Christie, Such a lovely message, thank you so much and yes let's have a great 2024 XX
Merry Christmas Gaynor, you are a blessing to this art community and we can ALL be encouraged and move forward with the uniqueness of your many gifts to us!! Have a blessed and healthy New Year!
Hello Denise, Bless you for such kindness X Have a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XXX
Great analogy about the ship turning around Gaynor! I love watching your experimentation. Your new art spot is a lovely place to create especially with all your art displayed on the walls around it. Happy Christmas Gaynor. Wishing you a Happy, Healthy and Arty 2024! X
Thank you Simone, have a Wonderful Christmas and a great Creative New Year XX
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Merry Christmas 🎄 Gaynor and thank you for another wonderful inspirational arty treat 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I’m watching snuggled in bed with a lovely cup of tea 🫖 and a mince pie 🥧😋🥰👍xx
Hello Julie, I've just made my first batch of mincers as they are affectionately known in this house 😂 Have a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XXX
Hi Gaynor and thanks again for another fab video. Wishing you all the best for a peaceful Christmas and a super-creative new year. Enjoy your break love Rich and Fran. ❤
Hi Rich and Fran, loved your latest video....so pleased I found your Channel. Keep warm and cosy onboard and have the best Christmas and New Year XXX
I am blessed by your work and your encouragements to keep on moving on and Creating more and more no matter how much of a mess it is! Namaste'! Happy Christmas and New Year wishes for prosperity and Peace!
Hello Becky, your kindness is wonderful....let's keep moving in 2024 !! Namaste ❤❤❤
Thank you for your inspiring videos which I really enjoy. Wishing you a Happy Christmas from New Forest Southern England.
Hello Julia, we ADORE the New Forest, I'm dreaming about a great veg curry in a pub called the Snake Catcher in Brockenhurst !!! Have a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XX
I adore every bit of your artwork.😁🇬🇧
So So Kind, Thank You XX
Thank you so much for your weekly videos Gaynor. I have said it before but your inspiration, ideas, support and advice, not forgetting your amazing enthusiasm and personality make Thursday the best day of the week. I have learnt so much from watching you and so have quite a few friends from my local Art Group. Best wishes to you and your family for a very Happy Christmas and another successful inspiring New Year. P.S. I missed seeing the fairy lights on in the Cabin. 😊🎨
Huge thanks for sharing Deborah. I'm a bit behind with Christmas ! Only just making a batch of mince pies. Have a Wonderful Christmas and let's have a Creative New Year XX
Thanks Gaynor for all your inspiration and fearlessness! I so enjoy seeing your creative journey. Merriest of Christmases to you from Canada!
Hello Stacey in Canada, thank you for watching and leaving this lovely message. Have a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year X
Have a wonderful christmas and thankyou again for a great video. Your videos and art work are fab. ❤❤❤
Hello Andrea, thank you for such kindness ❤❤❤ Happy Holidays X
Happiness for 2024.
Appreciate all the efforts U share on the artsy ideas ... Einstein: Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Ann, Florida fan
And Happiness to you Ann XXX
Have a lovely Christmas! Looking forward to watching you next year. Thank you for your wonderful videos 😊 Jill R
Thank you so much Jill, Wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas & Creative New Year X
We e had a tough start to 2024 with a massive storm intense heat no power no phone and no internet for over a week followed by heavy heavy rain and localised flooding so a very belated Merry Christmas and a very creative New Year to you - I’m looking forward to viewing your videos to come - such a pleasure!!
Hello Kerry, I can't imagine the misery from storm damage and hope that normality comes soon. Wishing you only good things for the rest of the year XXX
Hi Gaynor thank you for your words of wisdom & great encouragement to us / me on your channel. This year of watching you has definitely given me more energy to get cracking & painting more in 2024.wishing you & your family the best Christmas & safe & joyful New Year 🎄🎅🏻🙏💕
Hello Cheryl, thank you for a wonderful comment and I wish you a lovely Christmas and painty New Year XXX
Oh I say it every time but I just look so forward to your videos each week. I’ve rewatched a few to try some things as well. I do want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! All my best wishes! Roxanne from Atlanta, GA 👋🏻
And I am so grateful 🥰 Have a fab Christmas in Atlanta and a Creative New Year XX
It is our luck to find you! You are just so fxxxing talented!!
Thank you SO SO much X
Thank you for sharing your talent, creativity, excitement and enthusiasm. I wish you and yours a very happy, healthy Holiday season.
So So Kind Mary, thank you and I hope you too have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year XX
How strange. I’ve only just come across this. For a moment there I thought I had lost a couple of months 🤪😂
Inspiring as ever. X
This makes me smile XX
thank you for your videos...I look forward to them every week…greetings Riekje
Hello Riekje, Wishing you a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year X
Thanks for all your input on creating loose works
Thank you XX
Merry Christmas , you brighten the winter wet weather here in the OK! 😊
Happy Holidays Angie and a Creative New Year XX
Fabulous xoxoxox
Thank You Andrea XX
Thank you Gaynor for your motivating enthusiasm and inspiring ideas. Wish you Merry Chrismas and a happy and peaceful New Year.
Hello Karin, Thank you...wishing you a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year X
Thank you so much I have enjoyed all your videos and look forward to seeing you again in the new year. Wishing you a very happy Christmas , Mary.
Hello Mary, Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave a lovely comment. Have a wonderful Christmas and a Creative New Year XX
Happy Holidays! Thank you for all the on going inspiration!
Hello Jodi, thank you for all your support XX
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Gaynor! Many, many thanks to you for all of the invaluable insights into your art journey, it has been very inspiring to follow you!
Thank you so much Kate X Wishing you and yours a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year X
Hello Gaynor, another lovely video this week. I especially liked the florals on the abstract backgrounds. There wasn’t anything I didn’t like though to be fair. A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family. I hope Santa has been visiting some art material shops 😂 Thank you for the inspiration and pleasure you have brought to us this last year. Have a fabulous time🎄
All the Seasons Greetings Fiona, to you and yours.... let's have a Creative New Year XX
Thank you so much for your generosity and support, Gaynor! Wishing you and your family a beautiful Christmas ❤️💚🤍🎄
And a Wonderful Christmas to you and yours Teresa...lets have a great Creative New Year XX
I’m so glad I stumbled upon your channel. I’ve really been enjoying everything you share. Thanks so much. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Hello Leslie, Thank you for watching and taking time to leave a lovely comment. Happy Holidays and lets have a Creative New Year XX
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Happy Holidays X
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year. thanks for all you wonderful videos. I love experimenting and try not to be concerned with the out come. I can always go back to it as you do. love you channel xxx
A lovely message Janet, thank you. Have a wonderful Christmas and Creative New year X
Happy Christmas Gaynor and thanks for all your help , advice and fun throughout the year.
Please consider advice on palettes next year!
Have a great time!
Hello Carys, Thank you for watching and leaving this very kind message. I will definitely consider palettes next year XX
Love every video! Merry Christmas!
Happy holidays! Thank You XX
Blessings to you for a wonderful Holiday…………
And to you too 🥰
Thank you!
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beautiful and fun as always!! Merry Christmas!! : D
Thank you! You too! X
Hi Gaynor,I really enjoyed your video..Like so many I’m sure,I have the fear of the white canvas and sketchbook page!I have a stack of canvases and have painted something on one,not liked it and out comes the gesso and bam! I’m back to the white again lol!Did you ever go through a stage like that?Anyway you have given me the encouragement to have another go and I will hide the gesso lol!Thank you for sharing wonderful artwork a “Christmas” gift for all!❤Looking forward to seeing more!!
Hope you and your Family have a lovely Christmas lots of Love especially to little Rocket!!🥰
Hello Beverly, YES, YES, YES.....then I calmed down with the gesso and maybe covered only the bits I didn't like...now I go in with a different colour and shape to get things moving. As I type, Rocket is in place by the fire ! He loves it when the children come home. Very best wishes to you and your Family for Christmas and the New Year X
Happy Holidays from AZ.
Happy Holidays to you Lori XX
Thankyou and Happy Christmas x
Happy Holidays XXX
Hello Gaynor, i am very happy to have found your Channel. Super inspiring, I wonder though how you manage to always stay clean. I always get paint on me😂. Love your Art and Choice of Color. Stay Creative Irina
Hello and Welcome. I love to hear from new viewers and thank you for taking time to leave a lovely message. A question I'm often asked !! And I don't know...my cuffs quite often get mucky and every now and then I have an accident but mostly the paint stays on the canvas ! Have a wonderful week XX
Merry Christmas! Thanks for always inspiring me with your videos! I’ve had a piece of really nice quality watercolor paper just sitting off to the side ( being “saved” for who knows what, ha!) and I’m excited to get going on using it to play with textures using various inks& paints. This is thanks to you! All the best in the New Year to you and your family.
Hello Cheryl, Very best wishes for a Wonderful Christmas and as much play as possible in the New Year ! XXX
Merry Christmas to you too …best wishes for 2024 😊❤🎉
Happy holidays!
Happy Christmas Gaynor🎄 I'm hoping to inspire my husband into making frames🙏Im going to start him slowly with cutting mats😉✌️
Happy Holidays to you Autumn XX
More pondering this lesson: googled process and procedures.
Then, method and technique.
Looking forward to watching U express your talent, 2024
??Q's...do U title each art project? &
best way to reach a title for the project at hand...before or after? Ann
Hi Ann, If I'm lucky a title will present itself while I'm in the process of making. Sometimes, from out of the blue, I think of something that would be a good name for a painting and jot it down. How about you ?
@gaynorpattle it's things like concentration on color, composition that hinders a decision post .
Thinking of title pre does get an idea started, but then the gaynor thing happens. 🤔
Started crocheting an afgan... all the while looking over at an unfinished canvas on the easle ... hoping things will reveal by not painting and seeking what's there?
A title pre may lead ? Wonder how song writers work lyrics and melodies ... Ann
Try wearing some cotton gloves underneath to help your skin breathe and keep warm. Boots used to sell them.
Thanks Judy, another great idea XX
Hi Gaynor don’t know how I got along before I found you. Don’t ever stop you bring so much joy to everyone who sees you. I’m in Salt Lake City Utah you have freed me from being in a rut with my art I’ve been feeling the same way you described you felt before you started doing what you do now. I did watercolour for years in frustration now I know mixed media is what I really should have been doing. Have you sold that painting of the boat on the wall behind you in the beginning of this video, is it for sale? If it is for sale can you tell me the price? 😊 Thanks
Hello Carol, Heartfelt thanks for such a wonderful comment. The boat painting is in the cabin, waiting for a cradle frame and a bit of a tidy up around the edges! Let me think on it and check with the post office re shipping, it is larger than anything I have in the webshop !! Many thanks XX
@@gaynorpattle thanks for replying so speedily. My zip code is 84108 if that helps finding out shipping. I’ve been to England many times and have shipped items home to myself and it was a terrible price so I know it isn’t cheap. If you are going to sell the painting I hope 🤞 I can have first option to buy. I hope I can afford it lol. The only place I can get the Snowden cartridge paper like yours is Jackson’s it’s $65.00 for 50 sheets which I think is cheap but I know the shipping will double that which is still cheaper than watercolor paper. I lived for 3 months in Castle Combe a few years ago, one of the best experiences of my life. Your boat painting reminds me of another place I love dearly.
Lovely stuff! Do you usually sign your work? How do you feel about it? Thank you for the sugar plum deer. Seasons Greetings
Thank You...I usually sign on the back of work, if I remember !! I am happy to sign. They are beautiful creatures....I can watch quietly for ages but the minute I go to film, they're off !! Have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year XX
Merry Christmas
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Wow…can we borrow Craig??? What beautiful woodwork. Aren’t you lucky! Is that his profession or hobby? (His ‘art’ work!)😀❤️
A long career with wood !!
Gaynor! Thank you so much for showing me the framing!! Tell your other half I’m so very grateful for the images! Thank you so much. It was such a help to see the wood with its angle and not just flat pieces! This explains so much. I’m off to the lumber store! And Merry Christmas to you and your family. ps…the deer at the end were precious
When we are lucky enough to see the deer, they make my heart sing !! Have a wonderful Holiday XXX
Loveley video , where do you sale your artwork, do you have a website ?
Thank you so much X One of my big challenges for 2024 is to get a website off the ground. Out of my comfort zone but I'll give it my best !!! Have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year X
Hi Gaynor, have you ever considered adding silica/sand to your paint for texture?
Hi Lori, I haven't....something for the New Year...thank you X. Have a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year
Ask What If. Less pressure for me than: what next. 😊
Write it on your wall 😊