Great exercise: mix my 'own' pink-purple-blue-10% green from a limited palette of ultramarine blue, alizarin and cad yellow light. Plus white. Thank you, Ian, brilliant as always
It`s never too late to learn ! I`m 78 years old and have started a new life - with painting. It`s a grate adventure for me ! Thank you very much - I enjoy your videos more than any televisionpicture !
I discover my style erlier but it took me years to accept what I really become. Today, on the first day of 2022 you helped me assert my thought by sharing the truth about having my own Style. Thank you
Build the skills so we CAN see you... I'm sold! That's a pretty monumental video right there. I never thought of the style already existing being within like a signature. Great video :)
Finding your passion can be so cliche applied to creativity. There is this romantic societal notion that artists are long-suffering martyrs. Exhuberant expression of the self is beautiful and moves away from that self-destructive path. Thanks for this video!
the year 2023 has just begun and I enjoyed this video very much as it took away the pressure that I HAVE to find my own style! Thank you so much for your lovely explanations which help in many ways. Fabienne, Munich/Germany
I just started drawing again after 40 years of working. I had enjoyed drawing and print making for 15 years before that but stopped to pursue a career in Nursung. Heading into retirement I am crazy excited to pick it up again. You are amazing and I enjoy your style, color and presentations on the various aspects of painting that are bringing me back and up to date. Thank you so much for sharing your talent and knowledge. Best for health. Robin
I liked this content a lot. This is one of the videos that helped me the most in my life. I study at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Egypt, but when I asked the doctors about this topic, they did not give clear answers. I used to think that there are hidden steps that I must take, but now I discovered that the secret is within us. There is no hidden secret that it is only us
First of all, I must say that being a watercolourist I don't really watch videos about oil painting.... and here I am, having stumbled on one of your videos, then having a fast look into your channel and one hour later still watching your videos and just now subscribing.... you've drawn me into your painting sir and kept me "watching and watching" as you very well put it in one of your videos!Lol! I love the way you talk about it all! Thank you!
Very cool to stumble upon you. Explaining and articulating questions I have but I don’t always know what questions to ask or how to ask the questions. Sometimes I think that if I knew how to ask the question I would already know the answer. I’m self-teaching now that I have time in my life to focus on what I’ve always been interested in but never was lucky enough to explore. So, yes. I’m building my skills…thank you so much for all you’re sharing.
Your videos are so helpful. I watch these as often as I’m able, and I apply what I learn. My process makes more sense, it’s sustainable and repeatable, and I’m grateful to you for every lesson. Thank you, Doc.
I know it’s been ages, but can I just say that it’s precious that you darned your elbow? Appreciating the mending so much, as a knitter as well as a painter.
thank you. this enlightened me in finding my art style. it also gave me courage to express myself and flesh out who exactly i am as an artist and an individual.
4:00. I noticed this a an art class the library had. About 30 students. Not one painting was like the other. It was amazing. Every one of them had their own charm.
when you showed the 12 paintings, there was one that made me go "oh, I LOVE that!" I think that really drives home your point of being attracted to things out in the world and that style comes from within. thanks for your awesome videos
Boy oh boy! THAT was a game changer for me...thank you so much for breaking down the wall that has held me back. I have always struggled with self esteem, lacked the ability to believe that I'm actually an artist no matter how many times my husband and family and friends call me an artist, I could never say it, because I thought I had not developed my own artistic SIGNATURE! You have no idea what this little chat has done for me. You have single handedly wiped away years of self doubt and thoughts of failure. Thank you so very much. Recently, I slightly came out of my self-loathing (artistically speaking of course) when a very accomplished artist from India commented on my work in this way, "her work is very childlike." I went back and looked at my work and realized that it's true, I can see me, as a child, in my work and only then did I realize that I do actually have a touch of my own "style." But now, with what you said, I realize that my work is just that...it's mine and only mine no matter what I'm painting or how I'm painting...I'm me and no one can paint like me, and I can't paint like anyone else either. I can learn from their skills that I may not have yet, but we are always working on that, aren't we! Thank you again...I feel like a new person today, a new me! Muah!
This was eye opening for me, thanks. I am looking forward to learning more about why we desire to emulate the style of artists we are attracted to, which I find myself feeling much of the time. So glad I discovered you Ian, and looking forward to continuing to learn from you about composition and so much more. Thank you for your generosity and kindness. You are an amazing teacher.
Thank you. We are attracted to other artists for the same reason we are attracted to anything. It resonates. And we take some of that with us when we paint. Other than a copy or two for the most part you just take what you need I think. Glad you are watching the videos. All the best.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I have been so fed up, confused, frustrated by that “follow your passion“ expression for so long. Thanks for the clarity, encouragement to be my own authentic self!
This really reframes the concept of style. Thank you! There absolutely is this concept of 'find your style' circulating in creative spheres, and you have put so well that you can't find your style, it just comes out of you. What I'm doing right now is not 'finding style' it is 'skill building'. Must let my style just come out of me and know its there, rather than worrying about how to find it. Thanks again!
Thank you, I am very happy and grateful. A few days ago, I remembered the painting classes that I received years ago, with the desire to advance on the path of practicing painting, which yearns for an experienced and sweet accompaniment, but also profound. Finding your channel has been a wish fulfilled.
All your videos are extremely educational and well presented and I love watching them! Thank you so much! I am finding the more I immerse myself in art, the more I am honing in on what really attracts me and gets my creative juices flowing! One of the things I like to do sometimes is take one subject or image and render it in different mediums like watercolor, oil, pastel and acrylic! I learned so much every time I do this.
Ian, I've been watching various videos of different painting masters. They're all excellent in highlighting various aspects about painting. They're all really wonderfully helpful. But when it comes to conceptualising aspects of art and providing the "Why" and not just the "How" you help in realising oneself as an artist. Your videos create amazing clarity. Thanks!
Wow, okay I’m thinking I get how I am painting now. Your showing me the original picture & then showing me the 12 results of the artists made sense. This video was a great way of explaining this concept to me. I have only been painting for almost 3 years, self-taught. Thanks for sharing this.
Exactly! This was one of many takeaways I got from reading your book, Creative Authenticity, the first time through it. One of, if not the most, important takeaways! It allowed me the freedom to relax into being me, expressing in my own way, and not searching for some magic thing 'out there somewhere'. That isn't to say that my expression, style, will remain static, any more than any other part of me needs to, as I develop my skills and explore life. Or at least I hope to hell not to get stuck in either sense!
Now I'm getting more understanding and I'm seeing some blind spots I've had, years of thinking of old truths/sayings now l question if it's true for me.
What a perspective! You just answered what I’ve wondered lately why I tend to go back to how I want to express my artwork. I’ve been searching for something that has been there all along, I just haven’t appreciated it. Another excellent video and food for thought, Ian. please keep it up!
Ian, thank you again. Watching your videos provides the confirmation I need. For years I've wondered what my style might ever be, I've tried painting landscapes, portraits, birds, abstract, flowers, figures, and even some pseudo master studies where I replace the subject of, say a Titian painting, with a cat (friend has an enormously fat cat that provides lots of material). I've come to realize that I can paint just about anything I want with all this practice. I kept looking for a style, and as you've covered here, I've been looking outside of myself for it when I really just need to keep painting anything and everything I feel is worth painting. Some day, I'll be able to look back and maybe others will also recognize my paintings as a coherent body of work, no matter how disparate the subjects. I wish I had found your series sooner, or that I could have attended one of your classes. Thank you for your work here!
Very insightful video! Thank you for sharing an example of each persons painting to prove the point that we all have are own unique style. Thank you! 🙏
Amazing video Ian, Thank you so much. I have had many people tell me that to be in a gallery I need to "find my style" and have each painting be recognizable with a signature color palette and subject matter. Needless to say, I have not taken this advice to heart at all. Your words have brought my feeling into material thoughts and helped me realize that my goals for skill building will lead me right where I want to go. Thanks again
This is an incredibly useful explanation of style, particularly the demystifying of the idea of finding your passion to focus on the artistic process. Thank you!
Whenever I think that I am developing a style, I switch media/mediums. I like to experiment as much as possible. Some of my greatest moments of joy from art have been trying something new, while thinking "This is not going to end well" And it usually doesn't, but when you get that one out of 20 that does, you sit back and think "I would not have thought it possible" and you can almost physically feel a cog somewhere in the back of your mind rotate one step. An awaking if you will. A 'Level Up' if you won't. Then run with that until you start thinking "Hey, I got this, time for something new" Is no style a style? I can 'suffer' a lot of 'failure' for that one moment when it clicks. Thanks Ian!
These are the best, most informational, educational, so easy to understand, art lessons I watched on TH-cam in the last 5 years as I started explore art. I also love the minimalistic approach in your art, but any artist can benefit from these lessons.
Style is a word use to label the complex manor in which one paints. It is the linguistic part of the brain saying: “this is way too complex visually to describe in words, so let’s just make up a word to describe it.” This was one of your best videos, not because I agree totally with your premise, but because of your conviction of presentation (and thanks for avoiding the cliche ‘passion’ )
HI Jim, well I gotta take a stand each week with some idea or another. I can of course waffle around with a ton of exceptions, but in the end I've got 5 minutes to make a point. I could poke my holes in the argument if we had more time. I do want to talk about passion another time because it is an almost useless experiential indicator of where one might go.
I just found your channel and I want to thank you for these concise, sincere, videos. I am an artist and art teacher and I have been searching for the way to express this idea to my students. Thank you.
Just seeing this one now. Was instructed to copy a masterpiece. I learned a great deal from ( trying to ) copy VVG bedroom at Arles. Did 3 versions one in watercolour one small acrylic and one full size . In fact v did 3 versions also. Thanks for the great teaching videos
Thank you so much for these videos. I've only just found them and I'm watching them all. These are some of the best artist videos on YT that I've come across.
I just found you, and thank you for sharing and teaching with sensitivity. I used to paint - had Art school training in the late 70’s. But only recently started committing serious thought and time to painting after 30 years in the fashion industry. And you have just unblocked something in me. Than you.
Very interesting and so completely natural. I've watched about 6 of your short videos recently, I'm relative beginner at watercolour painting (messing with it without any classes or instruction for about 2 years now) and art in general. I have to say that your experience and wisdom is providing me with some fresh insights into painting as not just a skill for artistic expression, but also a way of looking at the world. Subscribed!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just the right words for me this morning. Appreciate your videos and am learning a lot. I’m taking plein air watercolor and I’m struggling and feel I’m getting worse with each class. I’m attracted more to expressionism and find drawing “realistic” landscapes impossible. Anyway. I do enjoy your insights.
Wow! Thank you so much Sir. This has freed me from this thought that "I hope one day I'll be able to find my style". I ended up agreeing with everything you said because no matter how I change style, there is just this natural way of how I do it and it comes out really. It just always a matter of loving your style and enhancing your gift. Thank you so much! I am now appreciating my gift even more.
I just discovered your channel and would like to thank you for your work and communication skills. I will certainly enjoy and learn much from catching up with your videos. ❤🌈👍
Thanks Ian! Yes style is unique. Still struggling with skill building. I love, love, love these segments and wonderful information you share with us! Looking forward to them each week!
Makes me happy to hear it Joanne. The videos, not that you are struggling with skill building! But that is the long term reality of learning to paint. I'm still doing it too.
What you explained in this video is so very true. We do all have individual styles and we should all follow our passions. IE: A painting I did a few months ago was the first acrylic painting I had ever completed. I've been painting and drawing off and on for years but not too often because of time, money, and, other hindrances. Well, when I sent a picture of the finished acrylic painting to my sister, she said she fell in love with it. Now, I, myself, didn't really like it too much. But, weeks later, after I had given the painting to her, she sent me a picture of it on her phone. It was hanging on a wall in her house ... when I looked at it through her display of it, it looked so much better to me. I guess it goes to show how we are all our own worst critics, and, we needn't be so hard on ourselves. Our artistic individuality is probably something that other people will like or even love. 😉
Thank you for sharing your version of "finding your style". I am a self-taught artist, transitioning from watercolour to oil. In watercolour, my style is more towards realism but I somewhat fell in love with the brush strokes and the "body" that oil painting is able to provide. I am struggling to find my style in oil because of the watercolour experience that I have learnt prior. Trying to merge realism with visible brush strokes is a wee bit challenging at the moment. But thank you once again for this video!
Yes! Haha....it's true! Whenever I attend art society workshops and we compare our paintings at the end, they are all of the same subject, yet are all so completely different.
LOVE how you expressed this. So right on the money. I needed to hear it just like this. I am often wondering what my style is and my best friend rolls her eyes and says I already have one...so I will do what you said. Just keep doing it the way that I am comfortable and what attracts me. Of course I still need skills and practice and your guru composition teachings to get better. Love Tuesdays!!! I get a little happy dance inside with my cup of tea when I realize it is TUESDAY! IAN is on!!! Many thousand thanks for these gems. That colour course you taught looked awesome. Thank you for sharing their work too.
Ian this lesson helped me so much. You did a great job of explaining how we already have our style. This talk helped me connect with myself and my attraction to color and lighting. Thank you,
Great comments Ian. I learned a while back that you never find your style, you develop your style. As your skills improve your style will develop from where it was, to were it is now, and will continue to develop to where it's going.
Hello🙋🏻♀️ from South Dakota! I would like to say that I just started watching your videos and not only are they very informative, but Ian, you are very easy to listen to. Thank you for putting these together and I’ll definitely be watching. 😀
Wonderful advice. My motto regarding drawing is to put the line where you think it goes. That "where you think it goes" is key. If you are really examining your own perception, that is "realism" but what you notice (and what you don't notice) are together aspects of the self. As one's skills develop there is still "what you notice" (and what you didn't notice) and more and more one describes something unique about inner workings of personality by examining perception. Marvelous exercise your gave your students. Great way to develop a subtle understanding of color. I see "English Usage" on your shelf. That's great too. All the English majors approve (that was my pre-art subject of study ....) Smiling.
Thank you Ian for your wonderful insight into painting and communicating art to the world. I really enjoy and look forward to your emails and tutorials in my email inbox. You make everything uncomplicated and you are a terrific communicator and teacher! Thank You so much for everything that you do for all of us! Wishing you all best for 2021!!!!!
Hi Ian, although I am watching this almost at the end of May, I hope you are having a good year so far. Thank you so much for your effort and the love that you share towards your craft. I am finally join the dots and try to paint on a daily basis after my day job and taking care of the family. I am indebted to you. Thank you.
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Great exercise: mix my 'own' pink-purple-blue-10% green from
a limited palette of ultramarine blue, alizarin and cad yellow light. Plus white.
Thank you, Ian, brilliant as always
It`s never too late to learn ! I`m 78 years old and have started a new life - with painting. It`s a grate adventure for me ! Thank you very much - I enjoy your videos more than any televisionpicture !
I am wishing you many happy hours of painting in the years ahead Peter.
Me too! 78 and just getting started.
Love bright colors.
Thank you!
So interesting to see those 12 different images! Great food for thought! Thanks, as always.
Well, it's 2022, but your wisdom is timeless. Appreciating you and grateful you are available on TH-cam. Thank you
I discover my style erlier but it took me years to accept what I really become. Today, on the first day of 2022 you helped me assert my thought by sharing the truth about having my own Style.
Thank you
Build the skills so we CAN see you... I'm sold! That's a pretty monumental video right there. I never thought of the style already existing being within like a signature. Great video :)
What a blissful discussion and eye-opening presentation of personal style.
Timely for me. And precise. Plenty to think about, but thanks for setting the direction. 🙏
when the 12 paintings came onto the screen I started to tear up and cry. art is so wonderful Praise the Lord
Finding your passion can be so cliche applied to creativity. There is this romantic societal notion that artists are long-suffering martyrs. Exhuberant expression of the self is beautiful and moves away from that self-destructive path. Thanks for this video!
the year 2023 has just begun and I enjoyed this video very much as it took away the pressure that I HAVE to find my own style! Thank you so much for your lovely explanations which help in many ways.
Fabienne, Munich/Germany
I just started drawing again after 40 years of working. I had enjoyed drawing and print making for 15 years before that but stopped to pursue a career in Nursung. Heading into retirement I am crazy excited to pick it up again. You are amazing and I enjoy your style, color and presentations on the various aspects of painting that are bringing me back and up to date. Thank you so much for sharing your talent and knowledge. Best for health. Robin
Thank you! This must hve been the most useful and clarifying art tutorial on style. Great!!!
I liked this content a lot. This is one of the videos that helped me the most in my life. I study at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Egypt, but when I asked the doctors about this topic, they did not give clear answers. I used to think that there are hidden steps that I must take, but now I discovered that the secret is within us. There is no hidden secret that it is only us
First of all, I must say that being a watercolourist I don't really watch videos about oil painting.... and here I am, having stumbled on one of your videos, then having a fast look into your channel and one hour later still watching your videos and just now subscribing.... you've drawn me into your painting sir and kept me "watching and watching" as you very well put it in one of your videos!Lol! I love the way you talk about it all! Thank you!
Very cool to stumble upon you. Explaining and articulating questions I have but I don’t always know what questions to ask or how to ask the questions. Sometimes I think that if I knew how to ask the question I would already know the answer. I’m self-teaching now that I have time in my life to focus on what I’ve always been interested in but never was lucky enough to explore. So, yes. I’m building my skills…thank you so much for all you’re sharing.
Your videos are so helpful. I watch these as often as I’m able, and I apply what I learn. My process makes more sense, it’s sustainable and repeatable, and I’m grateful to you for every lesson. Thank you, Doc.
I know it’s been ages, but can I just say that it’s precious that you darned your elbow? Appreciating the mending so much, as a knitter as well as a painter.
thank you. this enlightened me in finding my art style. it also gave me courage to express myself and flesh out who exactly i am as an artist and an individual.
Some things in life are self evident and our 'style' of painting is one of them and it comes from what's inside.
4:00. I noticed this a an art class the library had. About 30 students. Not one painting was like the other. It was amazing. Every one of them had their own charm.
Thank you! Now I can stop wondering about 'my style' and focus on skills. So glad I found your channel.
when you showed the 12 paintings, there was one that made me go "oh, I LOVE that!" I think that really drives home your point of being attracted to things out in the world and that style comes from within. thanks for your awesome videos
Boy oh boy! THAT was a game changer for me...thank you so much for breaking down the wall that has held me back. I have always struggled with self esteem, lacked the ability to believe that I'm actually an artist no matter how many times my husband and family and friends call me an artist, I could never say it, because I thought I had not developed my own artistic SIGNATURE! You have no idea what this little chat has done for me. You have single handedly wiped away years of self doubt and thoughts of failure. Thank you so very much.
Recently, I slightly came out of my self-loathing (artistically speaking of course) when a very accomplished artist from India commented on my work in this way, "her work is very childlike." I went back and looked at my work and realized that it's true, I can see me, as a child, in my work and only then did I realize that I do actually have a touch of my own "style." But now, with what you said, I realize that my work is just that...it's mine and only mine no matter what I'm painting or how I'm painting...I'm me and no one can paint like me, and I can't paint like anyone else either. I can learn from their skills that I may not have yet, but we are always working on that, aren't we! Thank you again...I feel like a new person today, a new me! Muah!
Well that made my day. Glad it helped. All the best Susie.
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition All the best to you too Ian. I look forward to watching many more of your tutorials. :)
This was eye opening for me, thanks. I am looking forward to learning more about why we desire to emulate the style of artists we are attracted to, which I find myself feeling much of the time. So glad I discovered you Ian, and looking forward to continuing to learn from you about composition and so much more. Thank you for your generosity and kindness. You are an amazing teacher.
Thank you. We are attracted to other artists for the same reason we are attracted to anything. It resonates. And we take some of that with us when we paint. Other than a copy or two for the most part you just take what you need I think. Glad you are watching the videos. All the best.
I feel the same way...
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I have been so fed up, confused, frustrated by that “follow your passion“ expression for so long. Thanks for the clarity, encouragement to be my own authentic self!
This really reframes the concept of style. Thank you! There absolutely is this concept of 'find your style' circulating in creative spheres, and you have put so well that you can't find your style, it just comes out of you. What I'm doing right now is not 'finding style' it is 'skill building'. Must let my style just come out of me and know its there, rather than worrying about how to find it. Thanks again!
Love everything you said and shared. I am so happy I found your video today. Thanks again
Thank you, I am very happy and grateful. A few days ago, I remembered the painting classes that I received years ago, with the desire to advance on the path of practicing painting, which yearns for an experienced and sweet accompaniment, but also profound. Finding your channel has been a wish fulfilled.
You are not only a terrific artist, you are a great teacher. Thanks for sharing this video.
Thanks Joe.
All your videos are extremely educational and well presented and I love watching them! Thank you so much! I am finding the more I immerse myself in art, the more I am honing in on what really attracts me and gets my creative juices flowing! One of the things I like to do sometimes is take one subject or image and render it in different mediums like watercolor, oil, pastel and acrylic! I learned so much every time I do this.
Hi Vivian, I'm delighted you are enjoying the videos. And each medium does force us to reconsider how we want to express the image. Good exercise.
Ian, I've been watching various videos of different painting masters. They're all excellent in highlighting various aspects about painting. They're all really wonderfully helpful.
But when it comes to conceptualising aspects of art and providing the "Why" and not just the "How" you help in realising oneself as an artist.
Your videos create amazing clarity.
Thanks!
Many thanks Anthony.
Thank you for your generous and insightful videos. Don’t ever stop! They are vitamins for the creative soul.
As I work on a piece, I'm always asking myself, "Is it beautiful?" I learned that from the architect Christopher Alexander. .
I love Pattern Language.
I have been painting for over 50 years, yet I learn a lot from you!! Thank you!!!
You are so welcome!
Thank you Ian. You have a gift of explaining things so clearly and I appreciate you so much.
Hi Bev, I am so glad you enjoy the videos. And thank you for letting me know. I appreciate it.
Wow, okay I’m thinking I get how I am painting now. Your showing me the original picture & then showing me the 12 results of the artists made sense. This video was a great way of explaining this concept to me. I have only been painting for almost 3 years, self-taught. Thanks for sharing this.
Exactly!
This was one of many takeaways I got from reading your book, Creative Authenticity, the first time through it. One of, if not the most, important takeaways! It allowed me the freedom to relax into being me, expressing in my own way, and not searching for some magic thing 'out there somewhere'.
That isn't to say that my expression, style, will remain static, any more than any other part of me needs to, as I develop my skills and explore life. Or at least I hope to hell not to get stuck in either sense!
Hi Brenda, that is the point of this whole art exercise really isn't it. With best wishes.
Now I'm getting more understanding and I'm seeing some blind spots I've had, years of thinking of old truths/sayings now l question if it's true for me.
Thank you. Exactly my thoughts. Build on the style , image etc you are attracted to. 👍🏻
What a perspective! You just answered what I’ve wondered lately why I tend to go back to how I want to express my artwork. I’ve been searching for something that has been there all along, I just haven’t appreciated it. Another excellent video and food for thought, Ian. please keep it up!
Ian, thank you again. Watching your videos provides the confirmation I need. For years I've wondered what my style might ever be, I've tried painting landscapes, portraits, birds, abstract, flowers, figures, and even some pseudo master studies where I replace the subject of, say a Titian painting, with a cat (friend has an enormously fat cat that provides lots of material). I've come to realize that I can paint just about anything I want with all this practice. I kept looking for a style, and as you've covered here, I've been looking outside of myself for it when I really just need to keep painting anything and everything I feel is worth painting. Some day, I'll be able to look back and maybe others will also recognize my paintings as a coherent body of work, no matter how disparate the subjects. I wish I had found your series sooner, or that I could have attended one of your classes. Thank you for your work here!
Very insightful video! Thank you for sharing an example of each persons painting to prove the point that we all have are own unique style. Thank you! 🙏
I was searching for a repeatable process to translate, through art, the images in my head. So glad I found your channel.
Amazing video Ian, Thank you so much. I have had many people tell me that to be in a gallery I need to "find my style" and have each painting be recognizable with a signature color palette and subject matter. Needless to say, I have not taken this advice to heart at all. Your words have brought my feeling into material thoughts and helped me realize that my goals for skill building will lead me right where I want to go. Thanks again
Thank you Ian. Very encouraging. I remember someone telling me that "you don't find your style, your style finds you.
That sort of says it doesn't it. Good line. It's the skill thing that we need to focus on.
This is an incredibly useful explanation of style, particularly the demystifying of the idea of finding your passion to focus on the artistic process. Thank you!
Whenever I think that I am developing a style, I switch media/mediums. I like to experiment as much as possible. Some of my greatest moments of joy from art have been trying something new, while thinking "This is not going to end well" And it usually doesn't, but when you get that one out of 20 that does, you sit back and think "I would not have thought it possible" and you can almost physically feel a cog somewhere in the back of your mind rotate one step. An awaking if you will. A 'Level Up' if you won't. Then run with that until you start thinking "Hey, I got this, time for something new" Is no style a style? I can 'suffer' a lot of 'failure' for that one moment when it clicks. Thanks Ian!
this was an excellent explanation - one to watch and review more than once - thank you!
Hi Evelyn. I recognize you from Angela’s class.
Glad you liked it Evelyn. Best wishes.
Yeah Angela!
These are the best, most informational, educational, so easy to understand, art lessons I watched on TH-cam in the last 5 years as I started explore art. I also love the minimalistic approach in your art, but any artist can benefit from these lessons.
Another great video, thank you Ian. I'm slowly working my way through all your videos and learning so much. DEEPLY appreciated!!
Thank you for this insightful video. One I’ll hold close as I venture forward. Thanks for sharing your talent so freely!
OMG this may be the BEST info on finding personal style I have run into. Brilliant explanation!
Your video on finding my style is so freeing, inspiring to discover it is within!!
Well spoken! You are so generous with your wisdom.
Thanks Robin, appreciate your letting me know. All the best.
Thank you! That makes a lot of sense. Loved the twelve different paintings!
Style is a word use to label the complex manor in which one paints. It is the linguistic part of the brain saying: “this is way too complex visually to describe in words, so let’s just make up a word to describe it.”
This was one of your best videos, not because I agree totally with your premise, but because of your conviction of presentation (and thanks for avoiding the cliche ‘passion’ )
HI Jim, well I gotta take a stand each week with some idea or another. I can of course waffle around with a ton of exceptions, but in the end I've got 5 minutes to make a point. I could poke my holes in the argument if we had more time. I do want to talk about passion another time because it is an almost useless experiential indicator of where one might go.
All the best Jim to you and Rosie and the kids (except they aren't kids any more) for 2021. See you on the river!
I just found your channel and I want to thank you for these concise, sincere, videos. I am an artist and art teacher and I have been searching for the way to express this idea to my students. Thank you.
Your YT videos are the most precious minutes that I spend on internet.
Thank you so much.
Wow, thank you!
Just seeing this one now. Was instructed to copy a masterpiece. I learned a great deal from ( trying to ) copy VVG bedroom at Arles. Did 3 versions one in watercolour one small acrylic and one full size . In fact v did 3 versions also. Thanks for the great teaching videos
I only just found your videos, but I have found them really useful. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, and views.
Thank you so much for these videos. I've only just found them and I'm watching them all. These are some of the best artist videos on YT that I've come across.
K Wilts....you just said the EXACT thing I was going to say!! Thanks so much Ian for these incredibly helpful videos!
...just subscribed! :)
I'm so happy to hear that you are enjoying them. And happy you found them. All the best.
I just found you, and thank you for sharing and teaching with sensitivity. I used to paint - had Art school training in the late 70’s. But only recently started committing serious thought and time to painting after 30 years in the fashion industry. And you have just unblocked something in me. Than you.
Wonderful!
Your inner voice is infectious..., I thank you for helping us to see the most obvious, for some reason it was so unreachable...🙏🙌
Love your wisdom❤️ It is fascinating to see all your students different paintings of the same photograph. Thank you for sharing.
Very interesting and so completely natural. I've watched about 6 of your short videos recently, I'm relative beginner at watercolour painting (messing with it without any classes or instruction for about 2 years now) and art in general. I have to say that your experience and wisdom is providing me with some fresh insights into painting as not just a skill for artistic expression, but also a way of looking at the world. Subscribed!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just the right words for me this morning. Appreciate your videos and am learning a lot. I’m taking plein air watercolor and I’m struggling and feel I’m getting worse with each class. I’m attracted more to expressionism and find drawing “realistic” landscapes impossible. Anyway. I do enjoy your insights.
WOW sooo true! Eye opener thanks for that!
Wow! Thank you so much Sir. This has freed me from this thought that "I hope one day I'll be able to find my style". I ended up agreeing with everything you said because no matter how I change style, there is just this natural way of how I do it and it comes out really. It just always a matter of loving your style and enhancing your gift. Thank you so much! I am now appreciating my gift even more.
Great help in understanding your on style of painting. Have a Great Year.
Thank you...You exude wonderful style in your presentation
What a great teacher. Thanks for your videos.
I just discovered your channel and would like to thank you for your work and communication skills. I will certainly enjoy and learn much from catching up with your videos.
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Thanks Ian! Yes style is unique. Still struggling with skill building. I love, love, love these segments and wonderful information you share with us! Looking forward to them each week!
Makes me happy to hear it Joanne. The videos, not that you are struggling with skill building! But that is the long term reality of learning to paint. I'm still doing it too.
I really like how you put it - something you can’t help from coming out. It’s so positive! :)
Thank you for sharing your painting knowledge
What you explained in this video is so very true. We do all have individual styles and we should all follow our passions. IE: A painting I did a few months ago was the first acrylic painting I had ever completed. I've been painting and drawing off and on for years but not too often because of time, money, and, other hindrances. Well, when I sent a picture of the finished acrylic painting to my sister, she said she fell in love with it. Now, I, myself, didn't really like it too much. But, weeks later, after I had given the painting to her, she sent me a picture of it on her phone. It was hanging on a wall in her house ... when I looked at it through her display of it, it looked so much better to me. I guess it goes to show how we are all our own worst critics, and, we needn't be so hard on ourselves. Our artistic individuality is probably something that other people will like or even love. 😉
Thank you for sharing your version of "finding your style". I am a self-taught artist, transitioning from watercolour to oil. In watercolour, my style is more towards realism but I somewhat fell in love with the brush strokes and the "body" that oil painting is able to provide. I am struggling to find my style in oil because of the watercolour experience that I have learnt prior. Trying to merge realism with visible brush strokes is a wee bit challenging at the moment. But thank you once again for this video!
Yes! Haha....it's true! Whenever I attend art society workshops and we compare our paintings at the end, they are all of the same subject, yet are all so completely different.
LOVE how you expressed this. So right on the money. I needed to hear it just like this. I am often wondering what my style is and my best friend rolls her eyes and says I already have one...so I will do what you said. Just keep doing it the way that I am comfortable and what attracts me. Of course I still need skills and practice and your guru composition teachings to get better. Love Tuesdays!!! I get a little happy dance inside with my cup of tea when I realize it is TUESDAY! IAN is on!!! Many thousand thanks for these gems. That colour course you taught looked awesome. Thank you for sharing their work too.
Alison, you've made my day. Thanks so much. My own happy dance! Best wishes.
This is the most exciting video I have seen and I tend to be to literal, great inspiration and hope.......Thank you.
Ian this lesson helped me so much. You did a great job of explaining how we already have our style. This talk helped me connect with myself and my attraction to color and lighting. Thank you,
Great comments Ian. I learned a while back that you never find your style, you develop your style. As your skills improve your style will develop from where it was, to were it is now, and will continue to develop to where it's going.
I like your gentle, laid back approach!
Brilliant and thoughtful.. great length too 🤗 thanks from Stockholm Sweden
Hello🙋🏻♀️ from South Dakota! I would like to say that I just started watching your videos and not only are they very informative, but Ian, you are very easy to listen to. Thank you for putting these together and I’ll definitely be watching. 😀
Ian, I love your video's, you lift the fog like the morning sun, a clear, crisp vision
I enjoy your talks so much! Concise, to the point and very very informative. Worth watching more than once. Thank you.
Thank you for what you do. I am learning so much. You are very dear to do this i look so forward to your next video. I am a beginner. Thank you
Wonderful advice. My motto regarding drawing is to put the line where you think it goes. That "where you think it goes" is key. If you are really examining your own perception, that is "realism" but what you notice (and what you don't notice) are together aspects of the self. As one's skills develop there is still "what you notice" (and what you didn't notice) and more and more one describes something unique about inner workings of personality by examining perception. Marvelous exercise your gave your students. Great way to develop a subtle understanding of color. I see "English Usage" on your shelf. That's great too. All the English majors approve (that was my pre-art subject of study ....) Smiling.
I got that recommendation from Geoff Dyer whose Out of Sheer Rage is one of my favourite books.
Thanks Ian! Great stuff... I'm now subscribed to your videos. I've been painting for 40 years+ and still excited about it. :)
Well done Ian. Turning up and giving another excellent demonstration on New Year Day.
This explanation brought tears .... Thank you
Than u for sharing.U are a true teacher.
Thank you! Sent it to my friends!,
Thank you for your videos - they keep me centered and focused on what I love to do and what I want to do.
What could be better than All the best Ellen.
I love this video! Thanks for helping us!!
Thank you Ian for your wonderful insight into painting and communicating art to the world. I really enjoy and look forward to your emails and tutorials in my email inbox. You make everything uncomplicated and you are a terrific communicator and teacher! Thank You so much for everything that you do for all of us! Wishing you all best for 2021!!!!!
Debra, thank you so much for your kind note. I really appreciate it. And wishing you all the best for 2021 as well.
Boom! This is my favorite of all your super informative videos so far 💥 thank you for taking the time to create them 🙏🏻
I have learned more with Ian then anyone else he knows what he's talking about great painter and teacher god bless
Loved this. So helpful and makes sense!
Hi Ian, although I am watching this almost at the end of May, I hope you are having a good year so far. Thank you so much for your effort and the love that you share towards your craft. I am finally join the dots and try to paint on a daily basis after my day job and taking care of the family. I am indebted to you. Thank you.