What image do you find most interesting? Mine I think, although it's a hard choice, is at 4:29. That page of child-like drawings was so much fun to do.
Really enjoyed the variety of subjects, approaches, colors, energy... It was obvious that you took the project seriously and in good faith. I absolutely loved the woman at 4:45 with handbag "thoughts" emerging. And so many thumbnails were engaging as well. Textiles and wrapping paper designs seemed to be on your mind from time to time. As I said, I enjoyed this thoroughly and found it inspirational. Amazed that you spent the time figuring out how to film the entries in sequence, too. Thank you!
This has proved to be wonderfully inspiring for me. I don't use the scroll method, but a flat art pad. I place each picture face down in a box and only look at the finished images at the end of the month. I then connect the images together in order with clear packing tape and can display the whole lot on the wall. Thank you for describing such a simple but productive exercise/discipline.
Wow! I JUST saw this now! Yay TH-cam! This is a great idea! Especially after being completely stuck for 2 years.Ok, maybe 3 Thank you for showing it to us too Ian, that helped a lot!
I’m in the middle of the 30 day challenge that comes at the end of Ian’s Mastering Composition class and I can confirm that this approach does truly inspire creativity. A benefit I didn’t expect was the mental shift in how I look at my own approach to making art. Not a chore but a vocation that benefits from “ doing the hard work”. As a friend once said when I made the excuse of not making art because I hadn’t “ been inspired lately.” - “Artists don’t work because they’re inspired, they’re inspired because the work.”
Wonderful, I have had a couple of canvas scrolls tucked away that now have some real purpose - thank you for inspiring me today - particularly like the structure plans and colour swatches at around 3:50 - Cheers - Jen
Just discovered your channel today. in 2013 I bought your book Mastering Composition and absolutely love it, so was very delighted to discover you are offering your knowledge on TH-cam. Watched several videos and they are all SO good. Thank you for sharing so generously. The idea of the month-long engagement with one long roll of paper is brilliant. Also enjoyed learning about Hilma Clint, the #1 Composition rule not to break, and watching you select what you are going to paint, draw it, block in the large shapes, and refine from there. All very useful and helpful!
Very cool ! What a good idea. My ceramic teacher, many years ago, suggested to me to keep an art journal for doodling in. Her reason was that when I ran out of inspiration occasionally, I could go back and be inspired by what I had done if I developed a creative block. One could become inspired by what one had doodled when one was inspired. It has done just that for me. So you have inspired me to try this month long doodling. I appreciate it. Thank you
I feel so sorry now that I didn't do this from the beginning of my artwork...because it was a long journey for me with many, many different styles, mediums, themes and strategies...a search. After 13 years of searching I know I am a portrait painter. My search has ended. But now I start to learn from you how to plan and paint landscapes. Portraits are my first obsession. I think with your help landscapes could be my second....🤩💝💝💝
What a wonderful project Ian! it really inspires me to do one. I keep in our journal but keeping a scroll is so much cooler and creative. I liked your variety of images very much.
Hi Loretta, I have this idea of the math that underlies all of life. I've never been able to really express it but that was maybe the closest I got to the idea. Glad you liked that particular piece.
Whau so much fun and great journaling of a creative experimentation/ Warming up imagination, creating, observing and remembering - all the very best keep creating
This is a really cool idea and I want to try it, although I think in my limited art space I will do it in a mixed media workbook, but I love the idea of really varying the art and including other mediums and media in our work. Thanks for the inspiration. I love what you did, so interesting.
i love the perspective change between the puppet? with the black background to a scene in venice. i love how art can lead you into so many dimensions. thanks ian!
What a fascinating project! It's like seeing a body of work together on a museum wall. I liked the two collections of faces: the childlike ones and the more traditional ones. I do something similar in a journal with tiny composition collections.
I did that project a long time ago but it still surprises me when I roll it out and see the variety. I wonder where did that idea come from? Glad you enjoyed it.
the scroll is such a wonderful tool. thank you for sharing it Ian. Your skills are wonderful also. I love the variety and shift of creative techniques and expression throughout it.
I love experimenting but don't always know how to experiment, so having someone suggest different approaches and techniques sounds great. I started with landscapes in oils because I loved the texture and the feel of the paint but then changed to acrylics and intuitive painting and it's so much more exciting in some ways. Not sure what my next steps will be but started looking to your work for inspiration and will try doing some landscapes with your approach as I love the simplicity. Although I love simplicity, often my work becomes more complex because I feel it looks better more complex. Still figuring all of this out. Thank you for sharing your beautiful art and your joy.
Hi Ian. The question at 5:25 struck me like a thunderbolt; such a universal, and very real, psychological opponent to the spiritual experience waiting for creative expression. Thank you for sharing so many topics and your wealth of learned insight. K
I saw some really exciting directions in your scroll. I love to do figure drawing so I was very attracted to the 3 female figures, and then there was a very soft abstract composition and well, I could go on. Thanks for sharing, it looks like a fun project.
Thank you so much for sharing this! I don’t know if I use a scroll or a sketchbook or whatever but it doesn’t matter… just keep going and add element from the previous day. Love this …can’t wait to get started!
I started a similar practice in larger mixed media and watercolour sketchbooks in March 2020 (the month that will live in infamy), and I'm still at it, although maybe only 5 days in 7 now. I have quite a stack - any and all media, except oil, of course. I still am enjoying the creative boost it gives me.
There is some really nice work in there! I think justaposition is an important aspect of art, as in a gallery show how one piece of art has juicy relationships with it's neighbors and all the other work in the show. There's a kind of chemistry there. I know I am discussing why your scroll works as a piece of exciting art and that's not your intention here, but I love the piece as a whole. As someone who is totally blocked right now, due to stress, I actually feel inspired and that is healing. Thank you so much for sharing your process and showing this work! I love that you built a special table for it so you could make a video!
It's like a game we used to play as children whereby each person would concertina a paper in portrait sith the number of segments corresponding to the number of ppl drawing, typically 3 to 5. On the top segment each person draws a head and trails the neck a little into the next segment and folds the paper back so it can't be seen. The next person draws the torso and arms, the next legs and the last feet. At the end you have the big reveal of whacky ppl drawings, or animals or whatever.
Hi Ian, I really enjoy your tutorials. You are able to impart relevant knowledge, skills and creativity. Most days when I'm working or not I watch your tutorials. They give me the motivation and courage to continue painting. Cheryl Wetsi. Sydney. Australia
This is wonderful, and inspiring. One of my favourites is at 3:43 - the painted faces in amongst the magazine faces. There is something humorous or witty about this. I always love your pencil work. The two views of the pine cone at 3:54 is interesting because of the view looking down on the top, when pine cones tend to be just drawn from the side. All the images with small squares have inspired me to try this with a page of colourful and abstract autumn leaves, to give a feel of autumn. I am learning how to be artistically creative and your videos are helping a lot. Thank you.
Hi Sandi, my wife loved that drawing of the pine cone too. And I liked that double page of faces. It was a fun and engaging project. Hope you enjoy trying it with the leaves. All the best, Ian.
What a wonderful idea! I loved it and I feel inspired to take it up. Thank you so much for sharing it and also ur work... Amazing to see the variety that came out.
That was fantastic! I am so glad you shared that and , of course , everything you share. I am going to do that! I can see how that daily art work would be inspiring!
Really fascinating idea, and what stood out to me is that you can't look back while working on it! This speaks to not looking back (too much) in life but "seizing the day".....and letting God bring creativity for that moment!
just ordered a roll of mixed media paper to try this out, decided that I probably would cheat about looking at previous day's work if I used loose sheets! However in the spirit of using what I have will be playing with watercolours, etc that haven't had much use. What I found interesting about Ian's scroll is that it seems more weighted to figurative than landscape. Just about every vid has something "head knocking", Thank you for putting the time and work into producing and publishing them.
Liese, have fun with it. It's hard sometimes not to go back and look as the days go by. But it is worth the rush when you unfurl the whole thing down the hall way at the end. Good luck. Ian
This is great! I was very delighted to see the vast range of style and mediums you explored -- many were a huge departure from the style and look you use for teaching and analysis on this channel. Have you ever tried a month long online drawing challenge like "Inktober"? I would love to see you do that and post the results. Many youtubers do daily sketchbook work and do sketchbook tour videos when the book gets filled up, and the results are similar to your scroll concept.
I enjoyed hearing about this. I sometimes take a watercolor journal and paint a picture a day to fill a book of memories from a special trip or time. That’s because I really need a prompt, otherwise I stare at the paper!
I'm imagining rigging up a roll of wallpaper and using it to do 'morning pages' but visual rather than writing. If I used Arches paper I would be inhibited! Thanks for great ideas, I really want to be more creative
It was years ago now that I did it but I do remember being excited about each day's expression because I was purposefully wanting to do something I would not normally do.
I found it refreshing that you had such a variety of thoughts and images on the paper. It worries me when we are meant to have such a definite style that what I want to draw/paint is too varied - although you can easily see your style on your painting videos you obviously explore other mediums and genre outside of that in order to inform your work.
Wow what a cool idea. Wonder if that roll of rice paper I had to have would work. As the king said to alice. Start at the beginning and stop when you get to the end. THANKS!
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition I know. I copied it down when watching you. For the beginning title page of my current sketchbook but so appropriate for a scroll.
Thanks for sharing Ian! I think this is a great exercise...my New Years resolution! I’m a beginner and love so many types of art and different mediums and I bounce around a lot! Do you think this is hampering my growth, perhaps it’s better just to try and be proficient at one before moving on? As always, thank you for your channel and sharing your knowledge!
Hi Ian, thank you for making this video, did you see Indian Scroll painting, here it is a folk art form. The artists create it and show it holding in their Hands (vertical) only along with the song created by them . Subject matter is mostly from Indian mythology.
Really interesting and fun to see. A neat project. I wished I was able to see it well enough to identify the medium of each section. You sure made each one unique.I was wondering what you felt like doing for a new artistic focus when you finished the scrolls.
Hi, I might be able to tell you what the medium was in each case. I pretty much emptied the media drawers and used everything. And when I was done I did a series of landscapes. Not necessarily something I wouldn't have done anyway, but I had a new perspective for experimenting.
Thanks, again lovely work but what did you find out about your work at the end of this project. Did it help you decide where your interests lie, your style etc. Such a broad scope of ideas , I’d love to know what you found out about yourself and where to go next.
Well Sue it wasn't a major breakthrough. I just meant I had planned a composition before, it seemed pretty obvious and clear where the attention would go once I was finished and then that shaft of green light on the canal forced me to change my mind. Wasn't a major revelation. I didn't see angels coming down from above or anything. Pretty modest. But you do bring up a good point about the changes over time of one's artistic practice. For another time. Best, Ian.
Wow v rey interesting, but how long did you spend every day for that? Some drawings seems to have a lot of details .Anyway congratulations and for your channel.
This was fascinating- so many different directions! My favourite bits were 4:16 and 4:29. At 4:13, was the Suzani textile part of a collage or a watercolour?
Hi Lyn, the textile was collage. There wasn't much of anything that I laboured (that spelling is for your benefit up there) over. And that group of little faces at 4:29 was ... I felt like Calvin (and Hobbes) for some reason.
What image do you find most interesting? Mine I think, although it's a hard choice, is at 4:29. That page of child-like drawings was so much fun to do.
I will look again. There were many.
I really loved the abstract at 4:16 and the circles at 4:41, though they are all fine as a personal journey. :D
4:55 the figure walking the dog. I am amazed that simple lines can tell the brain what to see and it fills in the rest.
Really enjoyed the variety of subjects, approaches, colors, energy... It was obvious that you took the project seriously and in good faith. I absolutely loved the woman at 4:45 with handbag "thoughts" emerging. And so many thumbnails were engaging as well. Textiles and wrapping paper designs seemed to be on your mind from time to time. As I said, I enjoyed this thoroughly and found it inspirational. Amazed that you spent the time figuring out how to film the entries in sequence, too. Thank you!
5:12, wounded bull and red carpet stained with his blood( in my opinion).
This has proved to be wonderfully inspiring for me. I don't use the scroll method, but a flat art pad. I place each picture face down in a box and only look at the finished images at the end of the month. I then connect the images together in order with clear packing tape and can display the whole lot on the wall. Thank you for describing such a simple but productive exercise/discipline.
Oooo, LOVED(!!) this! Inside you is s vrery. busy place. Thank you for giving us a glimpse.
Wow! I JUST saw this now! Yay TH-cam! This is a great idea! Especially after being completely stuck for 2 years.Ok, maybe 3
Thank you for showing it to us too Ian, that helped a lot!
What an amazing diverse creative work of art. Kudos to you Ian for embracing this amazing challenge. Thanks for sharing.
Very beautiful and a wide variety of ideas for you to work with.
I’m in the middle of the 30 day challenge that comes at the end of Ian’s Mastering Composition class and I can confirm that this approach does truly inspire creativity. A benefit I didn’t expect was the mental shift in how I look at my own approach to making art. Not a chore but a vocation that benefits from “ doing the hard work”. As a friend once said when I made the excuse of not making art because I hadn’t “ been inspired lately.” - “Artists don’t work because they’re inspired, they’re inspired because the work.”
How did you create the scroll? I love the scroll idea and i'm used to journals. But scroll seems more fun!
Wow. Love the idea and images. Thanks for sharing.
What a great project / excercise. Will give it a try. 👍👍👍
So glad you found it helpful
Wonderful, I have had a couple of canvas scrolls tucked away that now have some real purpose - thank you for inspiring me today - particularly like the structure plans and colour swatches at around 3:50 - Cheers - Jen
I think that scroll was very inspiring. I am going to try it. Thank you for sharing your idea
Thar was wonderful Ian. I've been following but haven't commented, I just love your instruction, thank you so much!!! Barb Boyer
Just discovered your channel today. in 2013 I bought your book Mastering Composition and absolutely love it, so was very delighted to discover you are offering your knowledge on TH-cam. Watched several videos and they are all SO good. Thank you for sharing so generously. The idea of the month-long engagement with one long roll of paper is brilliant. Also enjoyed learning about Hilma Clint, the #1 Composition rule not to break, and watching you select what you are going to paint, draw it, block in the large shapes, and refine from there. All very useful and helpful!
Very cool ! What a good idea. My ceramic teacher, many years ago, suggested to me to keep an art journal for doodling in. Her reason was that when I ran out of inspiration occasionally, I could go back and be inspired by what I had done if I developed a creative block. One could become inspired by what one had doodled when one was inspired. It has done just that for me. So you have inspired me to try this month long doodling. I appreciate it. Thank you
I'm amazed by your passion I am getting a lot of helf Thank you for the good information and teaching
Exciting! it engages for sure..Thankyou
I feel so sorry now that I didn't do this from the beginning of my artwork...because it was a long journey for me with many, many different styles, mediums, themes and strategies...a search. After 13 years of searching I know I am a portrait painter. My search has ended. But now I start to learn from you how to plan and paint landscapes. Portraits are my first obsession. I think with your help landscapes could be my second....🤩💝💝💝
What a wonderful project Ian! it really inspires me to do one. I keep in our journal but keeping a scroll is so much cooler and creative. I liked your variety of images very much.
I like the images with the arcs and the multi coloured squares best. at 4:42 Thank you for the idea and for sharing something so personal.
Hi Loretta, I have this idea of the math that underlies all of life. I've never been able to really express it but that was maybe the closest I got to the idea. Glad you liked that particular piece.
I am so grateful for your ideas, instruction and generosity in sharing . Thank you, thank you.
Delicious madness. Many very interesting things.
Wonderful idea,spotted the sewing patterns along the way,so cool!❤️👍👍👍
Very Very interresting !!! Excellent work ! Really inspiring ! Thank you for sharing
Whau so much fun and great journaling of a creative experimentation/ Warming up imagination, creating, observing and remembering - all the very best keep creating
This is a really cool idea and I want to try it, although I think in my limited art space I will do it in a mixed media workbook, but I love the idea of really varying the art and including other mediums and media in our work. Thanks for the inspiration. I love what you did, so interesting.
i love the perspective change between the puppet? with the black background to a scene in venice. i love how art can lead you into so many dimensions. thanks ian!
What a fascinating project! It's like seeing a body of work together on a museum wall. I liked the two collections of faces: the childlike ones and the more traditional ones. I do something similar in a journal with tiny composition collections.
What a great project! I love the variety and Your different choices of media. I loved the simple, soft pastel (?) at 6:25. Thank you!
I did that project a long time ago but it still surprises me when I roll it out and see the variety. I wonder where did that idea come from? Glad you enjoyed it.
That would look nice around the room as a freeze, Very cool
Very cool! Thanks for sharing
It was definitely engaging. Thank you.
Wonderful Ian, thank you.
the scroll is such a wonderful tool. thank you for sharing it Ian. Your skills are wonderful also. I love the variety and shift of creative techniques and expression throughout it.
wow! just wow! these images are so inspiring as well as how you made a device to put them through to show what you created. Thank you for sharing.
I love experimenting but don't always know how to experiment, so having someone suggest different approaches and techniques sounds great. I started with landscapes in oils because I loved the texture and the feel of the paint but then changed to acrylics and intuitive painting and it's so much more exciting in some ways. Not sure what my next steps will be but started looking to your work for inspiration and will try doing some landscapes with your approach as I love the simplicity. Although I love simplicity, often my work becomes more complex because I feel it looks better more complex. Still figuring all of this out. Thank you for sharing your beautiful art and your joy.
Very interesting and a very creative process.
Hi Ian. The question at 5:25 struck me like a thunderbolt; such a universal, and very real, psychological opponent to the spiritual experience waiting for creative expression. Thank you for sharing so many topics and your wealth of learned insight. K
Looks like a lot of work and on target! Congratulations! Thanks for the video. Blessings and be safe.
You are welcome. Best wishes.
I saw some really exciting directions in your scroll. I love to do figure drawing so I was very attracted to the 3 female figures, and then there was a very soft abstract composition and well, I could go on. Thanks for sharing, it looks like a fun project.
Thank you so much 😀
Thank you so much for sharing this! I don’t know if I use a scroll or a sketchbook or whatever but it doesn’t matter… just keep going and add element from the previous day. Love this …can’t wait to get started!
Inspiring ! I’m going to do this. Thx🧡
I started a similar practice in larger mixed media and watercolour sketchbooks in March 2020 (the month that will live in infamy), and I'm still at it, although maybe only 5 days in 7 now. I have quite a stack - any and all media, except oil, of course. I still am enjoying the creative boost it gives me.
sounds like a great practice Ceci.
There is some really nice work in there! I think justaposition is an important aspect of art, as in a gallery show how one piece of art has juicy relationships with it's neighbors and all the other work in the show. There's a kind of chemistry there. I know I am discussing why your scroll works as a piece of exciting art and that's not your intention here, but I love the piece as a whole. As someone who is totally blocked right now, due to stress, I actually feel inspired and that is healing. Thank you so much for sharing your process and showing this work! I love that you built a special table for it so you could make a video!
Thank you Ian. Always great videos that provoke thought in my art practice.
It's like a game we used to play as children whereby each person would concertina a paper in portrait sith the number of segments corresponding to the number of ppl drawing, typically 3 to 5. On the top segment each person draws a head and trails the neck a little into the next segment and folds the paper back so it can't be seen. The next person draws the torso and arms, the next legs and the last feet. At the end you have the big reveal of whacky ppl drawings, or animals or whatever.
What a wonderful and engaging way to release creativity. Hat’s off to you!!
It really was fun. I"d say total 9 weeks. But then I'd had enough. Needed to focus on one piece for a while
Scroll is really great idea to practice i do plan to do same and further i really liked the painting on 4:46.
Hi Ian, I really enjoy your tutorials. You are able to impart relevant knowledge, skills and creativity. Most days when I'm working or not I watch your tutorials. They give me the motivation and courage to continue painting. Cheryl Wetsi. Sydney. Australia
Makes me happy to hear it Cheryl.
This is the coolest thing EVER!!!! I must try it. Thank you, so, so much for sharing!!!!
What a remarkable group of images. You have inspired me to do one. Thank you, Ian.
Have fun then Gayle.
I’m sooo impressed. I’m soooo not an artist! Wow. It’s wonderful snd such a great tool. Thank you for sharing.
Phenomenal Artistry!!
Thank You MUCH for Sharing Your Amazing Gifts.
Oh wow, the scroll was so interesting to look at: lots of good art work, Ian Roberts.
Thanks Sara. Glad you found it interesting.
This is wonderful, and inspiring. One of my favourites is at 3:43 - the painted faces in amongst the magazine faces. There is something humorous or witty about this. I always love your pencil work. The two views of the pine cone at 3:54 is interesting because of the view looking down on the top, when pine cones tend to be just drawn from the side. All the images with small squares have inspired me to try this with a page of colourful and abstract autumn leaves, to give a feel of autumn. I am learning how to be artistically creative and your videos are helping a lot. Thank you.
Hi Sandi, my wife loved that drawing of the pine cone too. And I liked that double page of faces. It was a fun and engaging project. Hope you enjoy trying it with the leaves. All the best, Ian.
Wow! This was thrilling. Can’t imagine doing it but it has gotten me thinking. Thank you.
What a wonderful idea! I loved it and I feel inspired to take it up. Thank you so much for sharing it and also ur work... Amazing to see the variety that came out.
That was fantastic! I am so glad you shared that and , of course , everything you share. I am going to do that! I can see how that daily art work would be inspiring!
This is amazing to share! Thanks so much for the inspiration
Really fascinating idea, and what stood out to me is that you can't look back while working on it! This speaks to not looking back (too much) in life but "seizing the day".....and letting God bring creativity for that moment!
What a great idea ! tks
I enjoyed the freedom of this big challenge ! I liked the 4:30 and 4:15 . Félicitations Ian
Hi Christine, that was the thing, the chance to be more free. Try anything. As I said above those little faces at 4:30 were so fun. Felt like I was 5.
just ordered a roll of mixed media paper to try this out, decided that I probably would cheat about looking at previous day's work if I used loose sheets! However in the spirit of using what I have will be playing with watercolours, etc that haven't had much use.
What I found interesting about Ian's scroll is that it seems more weighted to figurative than landscape. Just about every vid has something "head knocking", Thank you for putting the time and work into producing and publishing them.
Liese, have fun with it. It's hard sometimes not to go back and look as the days go by. But it is worth the rush when you unfurl the whole thing down the hall way at the end. Good luck. Ian
This is great! I was very delighted to see the vast range of style and mediums you explored -- many were a huge departure from the style and look you use for teaching and analysis on this channel. Have you ever tried a month long online drawing challenge like "Inktober"? I would love to see you do that and post the results. Many youtubers do daily sketchbook work and do sketchbook tour videos when the book gets filled up, and the results are similar to your scroll concept.
Very interesting and I can see why it would spark creativity. You have to come up with something new each day.
That's the idea. Sort of trying to mix things up on yourself.
Very cool idea...think I’ll start mine tomorrow with the excess drawing pads I have .. thx.
How did you get on?
Very Cool Idea! Love that it's a bit of a surprise as you unfold it at the end of the process. Thanks for this suggestion.
That was sort of the payoff. That grand unfurling at the end.
What a splendid idea. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you liked it!
hmmm, very interesting idea!
Beautifull Rolls - like creating a visual stream of consciousness -
Quite amazing. I have some rolled arches around. Must try this. Thanks
Go for it Denny. That's what I used.
Ok! This is great! I’m totally inspired! What a great project! Hmmmmm...
It's pretty engaging. I gotta say.
Thats a great idea. Thanks a lot
Such a good idea and so interesting it’s now a cherished piece of work ,you must feel very proud of the achievement .
I loved it. And I will have a go!
I enjoyed hearing about this. I sometimes take a watercolor journal and paint a picture a day to fill a book of memories from a special trip or time. That’s because I really need a prompt, otherwise I stare at the paper!
well this scroll was a bit like that. The prompt I suppose was a blank sheet of paper but it had a growing narrative that kept drawing me in.
Love the idea!
the images started developing better and stronger as time went by
I'm imagining rigging up a roll of wallpaper and using it to do 'morning pages' but visual rather than writing. If I used Arches paper I would be inhibited! Thanks for great ideas, I really want to be more creative
Hi Kari, that's a great idea using wallpaper. Strong enough to take a variety of mediums and as you say no precious. Visual morning pages .Exactly
or a roll of newsprint from your local paper.......often they give them away.
That's beautiful.
A wonderful Idea!
I like this idea; at least, it gets you to creating something every day. Thank you. --KateColors
It was years ago now that I did it but I do remember being excited about each day's expression because I was purposefully wanting to do something I would not normally do.
Very interesting! Thx!
I love this idea. Thank you. I'm going to give it a go.
I found it refreshing that you had such a variety of thoughts and images on the paper. It worries me when we are meant to have such a definite style that what I want to draw/paint is too varied - although you can easily see your style on your painting videos you obviously explore other mediums and genre outside of that in order to inform your work.
it looks like a dream.
Wow what a cool idea. Wonder if that roll of rice paper I had to have would work. As the king said to alice. Start at the beginning and stop when you get to the end. THANKS!
I have that quote up on my wall. Love it.
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition I know. I copied it down when watching you. For the beginning title page of my current sketchbook but so appropriate for a scroll.
i love your work
Thanks for sharing Ian! I think this is a great exercise...my New Years resolution! I’m a beginner and love so many types of art and different mediums and I bounce around a lot! Do you think this is hampering my growth, perhaps it’s better just to try and be proficient at one before moving on? As always, thank you for your channel and sharing your knowledge!
Great idea and very inspiring! I think I am going to start one
Have fun with it Abeer. Best wishes, Ian.
Thank you
Wow, love it
Wonderfull
This is very inspiring!
Hi Ian, thank you for making this video, did you see Indian Scroll painting, here it is a folk art form. The artists create it and show it holding in their Hands (vertical) only along with the song created by them . Subject matter is mostly from Indian mythology.
Really interesting and fun to see. A neat project. I wished I was able to see it well enough to identify the medium of each section. You sure made each one unique.I was wondering what you felt like doing for a new artistic focus when you finished the scrolls.
Hi, I might be able to tell you what the medium was in each case. I pretty much emptied the media drawers and used everything. And when I was done I did a series of landscapes. Not necessarily something I wouldn't have done anyway, but I had a new perspective for experimenting.
Thanks, again lovely work but what did you find out about your work at the end of this project. Did it help you decide where your interests lie, your style etc. Such a broad scope of ideas , I’d love to know what you found out about yourself and where to go next.
Well Sue it wasn't a major breakthrough. I just meant I had planned a composition before, it seemed pretty obvious and clear where the attention would go once I was finished and then that shaft of green light on the canal forced me to change my mind. Wasn't a major revelation. I didn't see angels coming down from above or anything. Pretty modest. But you do bring up a good point about the changes over time of one's artistic practice. For another time. Best, Ian.
Wow v rey interesting, but how long did you spend every day for that? Some drawings seems to have a lot of details .Anyway congratulations and for your channel.
Inspirational
Thanks
Interesting! Thank you…
This was fascinating- so many different directions! My favourite bits were 4:16 and 4:29. At 4:13, was the Suzani textile part of a collage or a watercolour?
Hi Lyn, the textile was collage. There wasn't much of anything that I laboured (that spelling is for your benefit up there) over. And that group of little faces at 4:29 was ... I felt like Calvin (and Hobbes) for some reason.