First Steps To Making Good Art
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- Take first steps to getting a good value plan for your painting. Things mentioned in video will be listed and linked below.
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I’ve noticed comments complaining about you swatching. The thing about these videos is we as viewers are very capable of fast forwarding the video if we really don’t want to watch the video in its entirety. These videos are valuable and it’s obvious you put a lot into them. The swatching and explanations are a part of your process and valuable if not upon first watching but is information we can always go back to later on. I appreciate that you put so much of yourself in these videos and that’s exactly why I tune in and I often times enjoy playing them in the background when I am doodling. Never compromise your expression and process within these videos no matter what anyone has to say. Your channel and you as a person, even as a virtual stranger, are such a blessing to my life 🤍 Thank you Sandi and God bless 🌼
People on TH-cam can be so unnecessarily mean. I get a few here and there on mine. It’s free content that’s just trying to be helpful!
Amen!
I love Sandi's process and methods of sharing, thank you for spreading good here!
Really appreciate that! It is disheartening when people leave rude comments- I do put a lot of time into these. When my husband watched this he said “people should be paying for this” 😂. I hope it’s helpful to most and I know it will be boring to some. Just don’t understand when people have to say ugly things. Thanks for your kind and encouraging comment!
Yesssss
God Bless you Sandi. I am 77 yrs old and you have brought such brightness into my life. The mix of of colors , freedom, playfulness and childlike joy makes your work pure magic to my eyes and inspires me to express these qualities in my own work. Not only is your artwork absolutely amazing but you yourself are totally precious. Keep your beautiful smile and down to earth sense of humor you are like a shining diamond in this world. Love from MomMom Eva in New Jersey😘🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️
Agreed, Sandi is amazing. U am so grateful for her.
I’m 77 too and I find Sandi so refreshing. And entertaining.
Amen to that!,she ALWAYS makes me happy in enything she dose AND loves doing.!❤
I never really got the swatching in your videos and I watch, watch again. rewatch, watch and paint, watch….Or listen and drive.… BUT this video was THE ONE that clicked in my brain why swatching is necessary to my artist development… Sandi thanks for another Art Aha in my journey. Please keep being the inspirational artist I love to watch on my sick days, my sad days, and my creative active days! Father keep and bless Sand!
So glad it made sense! 🙌
It’s just so much easier to stop watching and move onto the next video if you don’t like what the person is talking about, rather than taking the time to post a comment with what appears to be a selfish complaint. I *rarely* comment on threads like this, but it’s just so tiring to read critical comments, even the “subtle” critical ones, that people make just because they don’t personally like something, rather than you just move on quietly. We have enough negativity around us, but choosing to lift someone up instead of cutting down doesn’t just help them, it may just help the person making the comment not be so harsh. Thank you for all of these, Sandi. You are a light. ❤
I agree. If I don’t like something I would never leave a bad comment because I can go watch something else and I know a ton of work went into it.
Dear Sandi, just want to let you know that you are an huge inpiration to me, you changed my view and approch on my creative work. 'All the bad goes into the good' is the phrase that keeps me going, staying loose and having fun is what it's all about, thank you for that and for being you! Looking forward to your next video and the ones after that! So, please don't let the complaints ruin your mood or day or anything. Big virtual hug!
Absolutely agree Sandi. You have changed everything for me too.🎉
thank you so much for that! The complaints do get to me at times - makes it hard to do all the hard work but there's so many of you that appreciate what I do and all these kind comments really make a difference!
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Me too!!
That painting is easily my favorite of yours! Love the colors. Absolutely beautiful! ❤️
thank you!
Sandi, you are a dream. You are one of my favorite art teachers I’ve encountered on here!!
I look forward to your videos every two weeks! Swatching IS painting. What an odd thing to complain about! Thanks so much for all you do. ❤
so glad you look forward to them Alison!
This really shows the importance of getting to know your paints and how they mix. I often feel like I'm re-inventing the wheel every time I paint. This also shows how valuable it is to have a limited palette to mix with. Great video!
Thank you so much Sandy for missing colors for us!! It’s really helped me a lot!!!!! And just having fun and being loose in my work has made me to sell more work than ever before!!!
I have followed you for several years and love your videos. . It’s amazing to see the changes and progress you have made. I also really appreciate your positivity and how you always try and focus on the bits that you like. That’s an important lesson for us all.
Thank you!!
Hi Sandi, I’d love a video on composition to compliment this video on value. I’ve learnt so much from you. 🙏
Long time lurker here, but this may be my fave of all your videos so far. It can be tough to teach people how to go from a row of standard paints to a powerful range of custom colours and values but you demonstrate it BEAUTIFULLY here. Not just how you reach your preferred colours but your thought process so others can reach their own. And have fun in the process! I will be referring to and recommending this video from here on out, spot on.
Well goodness - thank you and I'm so glad it was so helpful!
This whole subject is EXACTLY whay ive been searching for. Big thanks!!!!
Ohhh good 🙌❤️
I've been screenshotting your palette in other videos just to do exactly this. :)
I came here to say the EXACT same thing
Watching you swatch the paint colours was like watching you spill candies out onto a table. So joyful! I love taking photos of my work and then modifying the image to see the desaturated version. I’m sure I learned that from you at some point before. The painting at the end is absolutely gorgeous! Always a treat to see you and Grady laughing together. 🥰
IMO - I like seeing swatching. I see it as the ASMR part of the video and of my process. Thank you.
We LOVE the swatches! We could tell these were Sandi Hester swatches at a glance, the signature strokes and subtle mixtures! 🙂
I love that Blick! Thank you ❤️
Love seeing you guys laugh together! And what a union to have a color crazy person and a color blind 😂
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That painting was print worthy, Sandi. I hope you kept it. Gorgeous swatching today!! 🖌🎨
well goodness - thank you!
This video is AH-MA-ZING!
Sandi your videos helped me gain the confidence to go from a pre-packaged-48-colour-palette to a limited palette of warm/cool primaries. It has truly been life-changing, and I can't imagine ever going back! Now that I've become comfortable with that, I've been itching for a deeper dive into colour mixing and this video couldn't have come at a better time! Honestly, I'd pay good money for a long series of classes on colour mixing from you. (I know you have some in the acrylics class which I might take after I finish your Landscapes class, but GOL-LY do I adore seeing you swatch! There's just so much to glean from them, so many delicious tidbits and gems to pick up along the way.
You are a fountain of inspiration Sandi, thank you so much for sharing your light, kindness, creativity, knowledge, experience, and FUN with us! So so glad to have found your channel, it's truly been life-changing (:
I’m thrilled you enjoyed it ❤️
I just want to say THANK YOU for your videos that are both support and inspiration for me. 💚
Loved seeing the color mixing. I do enjoy watching you paint cause it helps me as a painter!!!🤗
I feel I could spend the next few months just learning to mix color. That alone would be so valuable!!
Thank you, Sandi!
I believe I will!
I feel like mixing color is a lifelong fun pursuit
Thank you so much Sandi for this wonderful and SOO helpful video!
Other artists wont ever give so much insights of color / value study for free!
This is such a great lesson! Tbh, i struggle so much with values, so this lesson comes at the right time!
Gonna swap my pallete and rearrange my colors ❤❤❤THANKS SANDI
So glad it was helpful!
Love, love, love the value video’s and mixing! Thank you Sandi Hester❤
I love, love, love that floral landscape!!! I really enjoy watching your process. Thank you!
I am one of those painters who never seems to mix on the fly. And watching this video, and really any Sandi-Swatch videos, it makes me realize what lovely colors are hiding from me. Thank you, Sandi! ❤🎉
Love seeing your process Sandi. Some things I've been thinking about lately regarding value. I think it's important to know your values and balance them to your liking. I'm no longer convinced we need a specific balance though. I was looking back at the work pre Caravaggio and Da Vinci and they had contrast in color but not much if any in value. So I started looking through works of the various eras and there are quite a few world famous artisits who use the same values for a whole painting; examples would be Monet, several Van Gogh and most of Matisse's work, Whistler (hit or mis with this one) and Gerhart Richter. Like you I am always assessting my work, colors, values and techniques. This is just something I have been thinking about and researching lately. I used to believe we had to have some good contrast and now I am seeing that if the color contrasts it can really do the work of a value contrast. I may change my mind about this in 7 min...lol...but just thought I would share.🤣
I love this palette. I love muted and limited . Thank you .. poor Grady, he is so funny and very patient !! I love you guys.
He’s a trooper!
I'm sorry if you had bad comments about your swatching, i find interesting to see all this colors, so don't worry it would please to many others. I'm deeply passionate with colors, so swatches are the best way to see great ranges of colors, and it could help and inspire to find some harmonious or original mix. Mostly that you post real original swatches that are so beautiful, so keep going. Beside, you make your best to make valuable videos, that are simple and authentic (while many others artists make sensationalist videos instead to make real art), so keep going on, you would always have people that would love what you do, including me. You put so much soul in your art, and it's all that matter to me. I understand how you could feel, i had similar feelings (as my channel did'nt worked, i stopped to post my art). It's sad to see people complaining on authentic videos like yours. because the day that someone like you would stop to post because of that, it would only stay sensationalist videos that wouldn't fill the soul. Yours fill the soul and inspiration, so i hope you would continue to share your art (as long as you want). thanks for the time and energy you take for US and for free. And people still find way to complaint, while you offer a real valuable content for free. They don't realize their chances.
I’ve been painting abstracts over a year and LOVED this video! It helped me find the holes in my training. I needed the reminder to look for other ways to mix a color. All the classes I’m taking recommended a limited palette for harmony, but my paintings are very dull, bc I mix with white so much. And your painting is so inspiring. Thanks for leaving in so much of the vid. Let the haters ff and dig for their manners. ❤
I just love your beautiful wildflower painting. So many fun details to pick out and focus on. Put them all together and it’s a masterpiece.
That painting is GORGEOUS!!! Great info, Sandi! Loved the long video!
Thank you!!
oh Sandi, I think you could teach me anything, there is something in the way you do it ,I don't know. Now I have to watch the lesson on acrylics to see how you store them in those tubs without drying out. Thank you for everything you do, you have changed my practice so much for the better.
Such an encouraging comment to get - thank you ❤️❤️❤️
Your landscape with the daisies is gorgeous! I am not much of a landscape person, but this one is off the charts beautiful in every way. I can really tell that your art has changed from your older videos. I am learning a lot about color from you swatching and mixing. Thank you for the information.
Woweee! Your growth over the past year has been tremendous!!! It’s like you’ve found a groove and I’m really loving what you are putting out. Thank you for sharing your process! There is so much helpful information in this video. Personally, I want more of Sandi!!! I know making these videos is so time consuming, but if these haters ever start making you doubt yourself, I hope you will remember that there are people out here who need your helpful teachings. 💛
It does make it hard at times and makes me want to quit doing this but there's so many of you that leave such kind comments that really outweigh the bad - that's why I keep going. Thank you for your kindness!
It's sad to hear that negative comments make you want to quit. I bet you can hack your brain and flop that thought and feeling on its head. What if you think 'this is a safe place for that negativity, I can pop it in the bin and it won't do any harm?' the value (pun intended) of your work is so evident. ❤❤❤❤❤@@sandihester
I'm new to your channel. I have been watching and re-watching your videos. I'm in awe at the amount of truly useful information you freely give. It is my hearts desire to paint loosely with bright cheerful colors. I count you as a blessing on my path to my happy place. Now I'm off to color swatch, eeek!
Please don't stop color switching, seeing your practice helps me to develope mine.
I am the type of painter who buys a tube in every color because mixing seems so tedious and 'risky.' But watching you swatch is absolutely magical. Thank you, Sandi!
Fantastic video, thank you Sandi. It's made me realise that I'm only using about 3 keys and I've been scared of the rest of the piano🤣😂!!! Looking forward to swatching to find better harmony and tone in my work. This was so helpful, thank you for sharing your process with us🥰♥️🎉xxx
This made me laugh so hard!!! Great way to put it!
This was such a great lesson. I think I will spend some time doing this. I have struggled with colors, and if I make them out of each other everything will come together much better. I love your instructional videos so much. Keep it coming.
I think you’ll find it makes a huge difference
Sandi! I was just reading a new book I got in today on Bonnard. In it he says”Every morning, I go to the mountains, I do sketches, studies. I look at what is growing.” This so reminded me of you outside of your house and your pond. You have always said for us to look at what is growing…. I just thought of you and wanted you to know.
Ohhh I love that! Thanks for sharing!
Your color swatching is my favorite part of all your videos. This lesson will be one I come back to again and again. :). I'd pay for it.
Well I’m so glad to hear that! Thank you!
I didn’t see the comment in question, but I will say that sometimes it’s easy to write off someone’s knowledge and skill if you’re say, comparing their work to Rembrandt’s, but I’ve watched enough of your videos to know you know what you’re talking about when it comes to the fundamentals of painting and you explain it in a way that’s engaging. By now everybody knows that if you’ve got a troll or hater you’re doing something right 😉
As an artist who dreads painting because of color mixing, I found this so helpful. One of the reasons I lean on oil pastels is because the mixing is already done. Just grab and paint. But this video made me want to get out paints. I always enjoy the color swatching!! Thank you😊
So glad it inspired you to get to swatching 🙌
The painting is BEAUTIFUL! I’m in the process of learning to paint and I really enjoy your videos! I’m learning that swatching and color mixing are both important parts of the process. Thank you for all the information you share and your positive energy. ❤️❤️❤️
Loooove your painting Sandi!
Now I see/understand exactly what value means and the harmony created by the colors you mixed and used. Good job! I'm very amateur, but guess what I am going to do this weekend?!?
Sooooo glad it was helpful and that it inspired you to work on it this weekend 🙌
Poor Grady! He could totally get those “colour blind glasses” so he can see the beauty of your colours! I love swatching and mixing especially when changing palettes seasonally.
Thank you Sandi!! I am so thankful to get to see and hear your process, the wisdom and experience and joy you share is such a light in my life, I love your videos and really want to go paint now! I really want to try this swatching exercise too!
🥰❤️❤️❤️ thank you!
Very good lesson & strangely relaxing too ! ☺️
Oh good!
This was such a useful and insightful video,a great look into how you create the palette of colours you use i your amazing paintings and the different tones and values within those colours. Colour mixing is something I feel we are constantly learning and re-learning through out our lives as artists. I agree with the idea of always having go to colours in a palette and going beyond these,and things like warm and cool. this is something that once you have in laerned in the best way for you as an artist you can apply it into all the differernt mediums you work in as well. You gave this lesoon a fun angle and perspective and how learning this under pins all the art you create from it..Thank you Sandi for sharing this with us. (matt)
So glad it was useful Matt!!! Thank you for the kind comment!
I need to watch this again and again. Thank you for sharing your process for color mixing and harmonizing. This is the golden egg! ❤❤❤
Yayyyyy new VIDEOO🎉🎉🎉
I just got done subbing at my kiddos school and am looking forward to watching one of my absolute favorite artists and content creators on saturday over coffee and to get so much inspiration! Sandy, you are literally the best. I am asking my family for one of your classes for my Mothers Day gifts this year!!
Ohhhhh ❤️ just love that you’re asking for a class for Mother’s Day !!!
Sandi, that was so incredibly satisfying! There is so much more to making a beautiful painting than throwing paint on a canvas, Willy-Nilly.
Thank you very much for taking so much time to film, plan and upload for us! You are a true gem!🌸
What a fascinating video! Thank you for this share which is incredibly generous. My gosh I think I'll watch it again this weekend. With warm appreciation.
Edit to add; In reading some comments I note that some indicated you have received some unkind feedback. What a shame. It thrills me that I can come on TH-cam and find, free to me, amazing content. It seems however that some are compelled to share what I suppose represents some kind of pain they carry and feel compelled to share. But you are SO appreciated, Sandi. I can't tell you how often I would simply lay on my couch and watch your comforting videos. Thank you for you.
goodness Deborah - thank you for that!
Such a helpful video in helping us make palette choices and making cohesive work. It is beautifully exemplified in the painting, which I love!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, so many enlightening moments on the craft of mixing!!!! Loved your painting at the end
So glad it was enlightening!
Such a wonderful video Sandi and timely for me as I begin to try to make sense of value and adjust the colors I use when I paint. I am working through your Bird class, and I am at the lesson on your limited palette for the owl lesson. This helps me immensely to gain a greater understanding of value. Thank you for all your hard work in sharing your expertise. Of course Grady and your laughter is such a treat too and brings such joy as we all are able to share a glimpse into your supportive partnership. Looking forward to revisiting this video often.
I'm so glad this video and the painting birds class has been helpful!
Love that landscape painting, Sandi. Swatching is such an integral part of understanding and appreciating the value (no pun intended) of our different pigments. This palette you have created has legs - happy painting.
Love “palette has legs”!
Thank you Sandi for the helpful colour mixing and the beautiful painting I love the textures in the wild flowers you captured too with your beautiful colour pallet you used for them. Thanks for sharing this useful helpful video I will look to again for sure. 💜
I am sooooo grateful for your videos. Thank you 🥰
I loved watching you mix and try colors.
LOL! II forgot Grady was colourblind 😝 you need to get him a pair of those fancy glasses that help a bit🙃🙃LOVE that landscape painting!! so many great different textures and shapes 🥰
30 seconds in and I'm soooo excited! Yes value yes ❤ I need this
Has Grady ever tried the glass’s that you can see colors with? That would be so wonderful if he could see all the colors outside in your Art. If you ever do buy them show us Gradys reaction to all the beautiful brilliance of colors all around him i hope you can purchase those glasses one day soon for Grady🥰👏👏😊👍
He’s not! That would be a good birthday gift!
Great video Sandi! I found your channel recently and became obsessed! Currently luxuriating in your old videos full of inspiration with my old sketchbook by my side! I cannot wait to do some swatching tomorrow to test my palette for values! Thank you for showing up 😊
So glad it made you excited to swatch!
This was just amazing Sandi. Thank you. ❤
I found this video relaxing & interesting at the same time. Seeing how you swatch was useful to me. I have a swatch book with all the swatches in boxes with labels but I might try laying it out on a blank watercolour sketchbook like yours with the premade colours then the mixes while checking the value range. Inspirational!
I love love love all of your videos and I could watch you swatching for hours. Thank you so much for all the inspiration, Sandi!!😍
I love the break down of the behind the scenes of a piece. Sometimes us artist forget/or want to skip this process, but it’s soooo important. Thanks for the reminder 💕
Oh I love your videos. Your new painting with the flowers is GORGEOUS! Grady is adorable, I love seeing you two together.
This is one of the most valuable videos ever! Thank you!
Poor Grady having to watch a colour mixing video 😂. My favourite art meme is one with an anguished cartoon face that says: blue + green = bleen. When my husband sees me watching a video like this he says: ahh, you're watching someone making bleen. 🤣🤣🤣. PS, love the Learn to Paint interview.
Grady’s just the best! So glad you enjoyed the podcast!
Sandi this was brilliant and so helpful! I so love your painting outcome with this palette too. You are so generous, thank you!
Thanks Sandi! As always informative and entertaining and you are such a joy. I have my training wheels on in art but this video REALLY helped me to get one step closer to get them off. Champion! Look forward your next one . Stay awesome ❤
The new painting is so gorgeous. Very fun to see the swatching and how it led to the new painting. Thank you!
I really enjoyed watching you mix your palette. The painting you did with the palette was so awesome! I understand Values more now. Thank you.
My favourite piece of artwork of yours so far. And I’ve loved your past pieces! But wow all that colour and value work definitely paid off for you! 😊
Thank you for your color swatching examples, Sandi. I made notes for my future endeavors. ❤
I LOVED THIS VIDEO! as I do all of your videos :) You are so refreshing and I learn so much each time I watch one of your videos. Grady doesn't know what he's missing being colorblind. (or maybe he does know what he's missing) Your paintings are so beautiful. Your style is amazing. You've helped me more than you'll ever know. Keep doing what you are doing. I'm so encouraged! Blessings to you and Grady. You are my favorite artist.
I would hate to be color blind!!! thank you for your kind words!
Absolutely gorgeous painting!!! 🙌🙌🙌 And I love your swatching and learning more about your process ❤
Thank you Sandi - I learnt so much about colour harmony, and value! Thank you yet again for your generosity it was great watching how you mix the colours ❤
Beautiful,I love this colour palette, you always inspire me to do more painting and playing around with colours, love all your videos, I can't wait for your videos to come out
thanks again for making my Friday so much more colorful and fun Sandi !!
You are so welcome!
You really are a wizard when it comes to mixing colours. I loved this video. It shows me I have a lot to learn. 😉🙂 I think I just really need to spend time swatching and mixing with my favourite colours to see what I come up with. Thanks. I loved the painting at the end too. Just gorgeous.
This is beyond stunning, I love your process so much ☺☺☺
This is most likely one of your top videos. I love it. You are great. 🎉
I feel for you Grady! I’m colorblind too. But it was fascinating to hear what colors combine to make other colors even if I couldn’t really see them
ohhhh no! Grady has trouble mainly with browns and greens
Same, red green colorblind. My kids too. My poor husband isn't sure what to do with us sometimes 😂
Beautiful painting, Sandi! 😍I can see how your focus on the full range of values has really paid off!
Wonderful, helpful video! I love all of your videos! Thank you so much for sharing❤
LOVE watching your process of swatching and selecting your colours. Super helpful, i never added black to any colours but will start doing this.
Thank you for your videos that are always packed full of information and inspiration. Also thank you for reminding us to experiment and get to know our colors and what we can create with them. Awesome! 😊
How fun was that?! ❤I was right there with ya Sandi! So helpful being able to see your process and outcomes ….I’m encouraged to trust my choices and play. It’s helpful to me seeing the way you organize and focus in….Your painting is gorgeous! Thank you so much this video is one of my Faves! You are thee coolest😚🥰😉
You are a great teacher! Thanks for taking the time to demonstrate your process, I learned so much from this video.
So good….thank you. You are a teacher!!!
Thank you for reminding me about using the whole range of the values I tend to find myself often in the middle range with occasional spots of high or low and I know you're right about how important the whole spectrum of value is.
That painting!🔥
Love a good in depth switching video. Ty! Interesting new painting style you are trying out. Will be interested in where it goes.
thank you so much for taking the time to teach the basics. 💌
Sooo much good info. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. I watch a lot of art youtube videos. You are an amazing well of inspiration and technique tips. Love your value videos