Surgery?? Art Haul, Making Changes, Packing Orders- Art Studio Vlog Art Chat!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ธ.ค. 2024
- Today's art chat isn't the one I wanted to be making. I will get through things, as I always, do, but it isn't what I wanted. It's a honest and truthful, if a little hard, art studio vlog today, or as I like to call them, art chats! But we will also have an art haul, work on a pastel piece, make some stickers, and pack orders! So, grab yourself something cozy to drink and come on in to my Northwoods studio for a chat!
My Patreon: / winterwoodsstudio
Societies mentioned:
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Videos mentioned:
My snow leopard video: • 7 Secret Tricks for Su...
My pan pastel video: • Livestream: How to use...
Liz Hayward Sullivan's pastel video: • Liz Haywood-Sullivan o...
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Art supplies I opened:
Uart 400 grit 18 x24": shrsl.com/4et7g
Rembrandt pastel sets: shrsl.com/4et7i
cool reds
deep violets
rose violets
Sofft tools: shrsl.com/4et7j
Pan Pastels in: shrsl.com/4et7n
Violet shade
Magenta Tint
violet extra dark
violet int
magenta shade
Book: Painting Brilliant skies and Water in Pastel by Liz Hayward Sullivan: amzn.to/3utkids
Pastel Pencils sets:
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Faber Castel Pitt Pastel Pencils: amzn.to/3uvN1yw
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My every day supplies:
Invisible Glove Barrier Cream (protect your hands from your supplies!): amzn.to/3Tl9JRC
Oil Painting:
Michael Harding oil paints (my favorite oil paints- the best of the best):
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Ten tube set: amzn.to/3lcjVz2
Gamblin oil paints (my runner up paint and a little cheaper):
Nine tube set: amzn.to/3wY67e8
Winsor and Newton Winton oil paint (Best inexpensive but good quality paint for beginners):
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Liquin (thinning medium and speeds drying):
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Liquin for fine details:
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Liquin Impasto medium (for thicker texture):
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Gamsol (oderless paint thinner and cleaner):
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Watercolor:
Daniel Smith Watercolors:
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Arches Hot Press Paper:
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Pastel:
My favorite pastel surface is ClaireFontaine PastelMat:
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Blick Art Materials: shrsl.com/3w5on
Stabilo CarbOthello Pastel Pencils:
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Blick Art Materials (sets and individual pencils): shrsl.com/3w5ph
Panpastels:
Amazon (the set of 20 that I own): amzn.to/3R1cYN1
Blick Art Materials (individual pans): shrsl.com/3w5p0
Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel pencils:
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Blick Art Materials (sets and individual pencils): shrsl.com/3w5pa
Stick pastels:
Prismacolor Nupastels (set of 36):
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Mungyo (good for beginners and cheap!):
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Pen and ink:
Favorite ink- Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bombay India ink:
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Favorite Dip Pen:
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Favorite fine liners- Sakura Pigma Microns:
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I’d love to watch you create something that brings you joy and peace and comfort. It’s a privilege for us to watch your artistry and a beautiful thing. I’m wishing you the best healing experience. ❤
I love the Mish mash videos. I'd love to see your journey to the Pastel Society of America application. I've never tried oil painting and would like to learn how to do it in a nontoxic way. Do what makes you happy and it makes me happy 😊 I like art journals too. Good luck for the surgery
Thank you for all the excellent feedback and the well wishes! I appreciate it all so much!
Hi Annie, I just wanted to let you know I had to have shoulder surgery after a car accident. It was months later and while it’s never fun to have surgery the first 2 to 4 weeks really suck but it was so worth it afterwards because I could do so much more, and there wasn’t the pain to deal with, I will be praying for you
My tip to help me remember easily with my pencils which aren't light fast is i wrap them with a single line of washi tape. Then i know by site and even feel if i don't notice by site if they somehow got mixed up in my lightfast pencils. I haven't figured out a way to do actual pastels though sadly. I think one of the thing that frustrates me about regular pastels is it's hard to figure out the color of them if i don't swatch right away. Also this video encouraged me to pull them out and jacksons pastels do have names on each so i edited that part out.
I enjoy seeing the different medias. Hearing about your painting journey is nice as well. Please stop worrying about the complainers and the negative people, it tends to make the rest of us feel so less important. Go with your intuition and do what is best for yourself. You are an awesome person so let your light shine bright. ❤❤❤
Thank you for the advice! I appreciate it! It might be hard to believe but I've actually gotten a ton better at the whole "People pleaser' thing, although there is lots more work to do! I appreciate your thoughtful words and will continue to work on it! Thank you for watching!
Just take a deep breath. You don’t have to decide everything today. Just take one step at a time and make decisions based on you. Things will fall into place. You will make it work. I have faith in you.
I hope all goes well with your surgery. Shoulders are so complicated! At the moment I have been exploring soft pastels, I had gotten started with them a few years ago, then I stopped and now I am back working with them. Forty years ago I worked at a place that was a few blocks from the Utrecht Art place on 24th and 8th Ave. in Manhattan. I would walk there during lunch. The building I worked in is now a condominium. I watch videos ten minutes at a time. My challenging joint is my left hip. Got to get up and move around.
Hi Amy...I am so sorry you are going through such a rough time. I was a special ed teacher for 30 years and find that a consistent schedule or routine works best. So my suggestions are...Schedule your 4 videos per month on TH-cam so that one is a teaching video, one is a sponsored review, one is an art haul and one is mish mash/vlog. Of course there will be exceptions but if you stick to a rotation you don't have to think too much about what to do next. Kind of like Taco Tuesdays when you plan dinner. One of those 4 is bound to feed the algorithm and at least one of the 4 topics is bound to please your viewers who all want something different. Live Streams on Thursday could continue the way they are - chatty, simple stuff. And I think you should totally streamline and simplify Patreon. Also, once you decide what to do (whatever it is), go for it and don't worry about making everyone happy. Do what will make money and what you enjoy. Hopefully what you enjoy will make money! I hope I didn't ramble too long!
They always say to keep it simple. I think you are trying to make others happy while forgetting the reason you started a youtube channel. Maybe you should stop and ask yourself what you need and what you want to offer to others. Putting yourself first isn't a bad thing, if you are happy doing what you like it will all fall into place. I'm sorry I'm not much help. I just wanted to remind you to do what YOU like and others will watch what you have to offer. You will find your path. I understand it's overwhelming at the moment. Just put yourself first.
Yeah, you are right. I'm trying to keep the watchers happy and also the algorithm, and I'm starting to feel unhappy with it. I also haven't been doing the things I want to do in my own art journey. Like trying for the Pastel Society of America, because I've trying so hard to keep everyone else happy. I know I need to make a change but it's all so confusing! Thank you for the good advice! I really appreciate it!
Focus on what makes you happy. That translates through and people would love to follow along.
Hi Amy I am sorry to hear that you need the operation on your shoulder. I hope it goes well for you.
I think you would be better off keeping things simple and concentrate on what you want to achieve. What were your original goals for the channel? Are they still relevant? Pick the 3 mediums that you enjoy the most - oils and pastels were mentioned several times - and just work on those. Make some art for you. Put the sketch book activities and mish mash videos on hold, and reduce your Facebook activities.
Concentrate on your teaching. You have the knowledge, techniques, and excellent teaching skills that I’m sure attracted people to you in the first place. I used to be a teacher and recognise a good one when I see one.
For the next month, on TH-cam, make a series of short videos using your favourite mediums. E.g. graphite - what tools are required, basic mark making, the importance of values, composition, etc and do 3 simple drawings. That should give you maybe 8 lessons. Later, create more complex drawings and skills in this medium. Apply this approach to other mediums.
As Patreon is going well, keep this as is, but just simplify this for the next couple of months, and maybe have some bonuses for when you are well.
Most importantly, take care of yourself. All the best. Liz
P.S. This is in the wrong spot. It's directed to Amy. I don't know how to move it!
Amy, just found you yesterday, and have absolutely fallen in love with you and your art. Please please please be careful not to over extend. It will suck every drop your artistic joy. I am a quilter and a multimedia artist… and I’ve had to stop selling, even taking requests (for now)because it was taking my joy and my creativity away. I know I will get back to some of it, but not to the extreme I also want to thank you for being so transparent. Sharing what you’re experiencing emotionally is not an easy thing. Ignore the mean people there’s a lot more nice people out there ❤
What a sweet comment to read first thing on a Saturday morning! You definitely brightened my day. I will try to take your advice. I tend to push myself to hard, but I am getting better! Welcome to my channel! I hope you live it here!
I honestly enjoy all your videos. I joined your patreon and really enjoy it too. Do what you love. You will never be able to please all the people all the time. So please yourself. Good luck with the surgery and i hope you heal quickly.
I feel ya Amy sometimes it really is the little things that affects us. I’m sorry you’re having a difficult time. I agree with a lot of the comments in that you should do what makes you happy. People enjoy watching you for you and your art. Good luck with the surgery
Just keep remembering your own art goals and dreams, people are following and supporting because they want to see that succeed. Sending positive vibes for both you and your son. As a mum of a child who is immunocompromised, I understand the journey of managing a health condition in your child and it's tough! And then to have something requiring surgery yourself is understandably a huge worry. But we'll still be here watching and supporting your videos, even if they're not 100% what you'd planned to share. Take care, and as you say ot us all, happy creating!
So sorry to hear about your upcoming surgery! 😢 I broke my wrist in May and needed surgery. Best advice I can give you is to keep ahead of the pain. You'll probably need your first pain pill about 12 hours after surgery. Take it round the clock, and elevate as much as possible. I hope you have a speedy recovery! I like watching you do pastel paintings sped up. Maybe add soothing music and captions explaining what you're doing? Do you do watercolors, too? I would like to learn about the art programs you use for your computer and the other machines you use to print your stickers, etc. Were those cardinal stickers you printed in this video?
Thank you so much for recommending Liz Haywood. I had no idea you could blend soft pastels with alcahol for your underpainting. What a great idea. It will save on fixative for first layer. Shes an amazing artist and explains things so well with a calm voice.
Regards to the lightfastness of pastel pencils i would look at jason morgan for recs he uses derwent, carbathello, some carandache, pitt, and conte( he doesnt enjoy carandache very much as he finds them gritty and scratchy to use). He lists the pencils that he independently tested in one of his blogs for bad ratings and the alternatives that worked for him out of all his sets. That might help you with your gaps.
Wow that's great!I will have to check him out! Thanks for the recommendation!
Hi Amy! I'm a visual artist and small business! I recently bought oil pastels because I love the way they look when blended! I'd love an oil pastels for beginners video!
Yes tutorial in place of the prompts would be great
It would be a big change! Maybe we could try it one month and see. I might run a poll on that as well over on Patreon, so keep an eye out for it!
will do!
@@winterwoodsstudio
I'd love to see a mixed media do's and don'ts series and examples.
I've had some successes... and I'm trying to follow mixed media rules and I thought I was... only to have a beautiful face peel up... layers go wrong and fight each other.
Also, please do a series on establishing perspective and composition in floral, landscape portraiture etc.
I love seeing beginning to end videos.
Those are some great ides, Pamela! Thank you! And OH NO! To the mixed media piece! I could help more if I knew what materials you were suing and in what order? Specifically, what was under the layer that peeled up and what were you using in the layer that peeled up? Let me know and I maybe I can help you figure out what went wrong! Thanks for watching, as always! I appreciate it so much!
@@winterwoodsstudio watercolors were the 1st layer. Then colored pencils and white acrylic within the eyes. Then sealed in with modge podge (following Karen Campbell cheeseburger/hot dog layering formula. It all went wrong when I applied liquitex professional clear gesso to add grit and get away from the slickness of the modge podge... that's when the peeling occurred. I fortunately was able to save the practice/concept piece and recover. Thought her face to me just wasn't as amazing as the original.
I was happy to find out I could recover.
@@winterwoodsstudio oh and can you please demonstrate slowly, step by step exactly how to use the artist scale divider?
@@pamelawoods7185 I bet it was the layer of acrylic gesso over the modge podge. Modge podge dries very very smooth, and it is very hard to get stuff to stick to it. In general, I would use either matte medium to seal, or if I was worried about a water based medium reactivating, I would use a workable fixative, like the krylon brand. Both of those are meant to have more layers on top of them, whereas modge podge isn't. I am sorry the project went sideways, but so glad you were able to recover!
@@pamelawoods7185 I'm not sure if you saw it, but I do show how to use the proportional scale here: th-cam.com/video/27Yw_nNempI/w-d-xo.html I demonstrate it at about 7:10 into the video. Although maybe you meant you wanted something more in depth?
I would love to learn about gold leaf and how it works. I am a fan of the mish mash too.
Thank you for reminding me, GailMarie! I started a gold leaf video and then didn't finish it. That's something I could do!
I'm bummed to hear about the lightfastness of the Carbothello and Faber-Castell. Carbothello is actually my favorite with the Faber-Castell a close 2nd.
Do what you enjoy! I enjoy that you have skills and passions for many mediums.
Thank you so much! I. Glad so.eone else likes it besides me!😉
I would love to see tutorials on using Sennelier oil pastels, please
Noted!
hi, i love you mix mash videos but i would also love to see short form tips and tricks kinda videos like top tips for under painting or detail fur but only one aspect of a painting/drawing so it is shorter and easier to edit/film and definitely interested in your process for applying to the different societies. they can be shorted videos with “updates” so easier to edit. Also top supplies for different media like favorite paper for pastels. Really hope and pray you feel better and your surgery is successful. Take care of yourself!
i love that you do many different media... this how I work too... and using new products is great because I then find out if it is something that I would want to try too... you could post doing your own art in real time so we can chat while we also do our own work... I like putting on someone for hours while I do my own work... even digital artists...(angrymikko for example) ....tiers and patreon are great but atm too broke to even consider...also loved the book reviews
Best wishes for good health for you and your family. Thank you for sharing your art journey--the struggles, aspirations, and triumphs.
I started watching your videos because I’m broke and really enjoy living vicariously through the art hauls, lol. But your personality and the honest way you approach your videos has kept me coming back, plus your talent in so many mediums is amazing. If you are able to pre-record some teaching videos, I would love to see some beginner pastel tutorials. I’ve been working in watercolor for years, I have no experience with pastels but am drawn to the medium. The work you’re doing is very advanced and hard for me to understand how to get from a to b. If that makes sense. If you did some shorter videos in a series for one beginner piece, that would be incredible. I know you have to be concerned about the algorithm so maybe that’s not feasible. Whatever you do, we’ll support you and I wish you only the best with your surgery and recovery.
Personally I love your mish-mash videos. And I love how you move from medium to medium. I like to do that & I value your tips & tricks. I also love watching you create your art. Your art speaks to me & inspires me.
How do YOU want the channel to go???
Art hauls are fun, but I wonder if they are stressful?
Hey, I'm not going anywhere whatever you decide to do! 🎨
I honestly don't know. I do know I'd like to find a way to teach more. But I don't know if that will be on here or on my patreon or somewhere else. I. Worries about prefilming enough content for the 6 to 8 weeks when I won't be able film anything. Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate it!
Sorry about the surgery news and I wish you all the best with that...wondered where that pastel demonstration went...that you mentioned you would be doing ...near the beginning of this video? I waited for it...never saw it....did you change your mind?
If you meant me working with soft pastels, with me working towards entering the pastelsicirty of America, it was in there...if you meant the livestream where I showed using pan pastels that up too. Livestreams are separate than the saturday videos. They are under the livestream tab in my channels home page.
I love your videos, hope everything goes well☺☺☺
Thank you so much!!
Best of luck with your surgery Amy. Love your videos, all of them tutorials and mish mash. How about short 15 minute tutorials in all mediums teaching the basics for when you are recovering? Like a mini series of paintings in 4 x 6 inches. You could also do some basic sketches with just pen and ink. Your detailed work is amazing but must take hours on end. I assume some of your followers are like me and have full time jobs that are not art related. In order to improve I am trying to do something every day which means quick Monday to Friday and more detailed at the weekend. I am also easily lead 😂 and have most mediums, who doesn’t love art supplies 😊 would love to learn more about all of them.
Your mish-mash are my faves! I am sure though that there is a lot of editing involved in those tho. I also really love the tips and tricks. Girl, you are making me cry! Suggestions: Post fewer times a month. Do what is the easiest for you. Have you reached out to other TH-camrs who have had some medical time off and how they manage? You will need a plan for when you return as well because the recovery is a long one. Take note of everything you can do one armed (you have had lots of practice on that note) and do more of that. You will have lots of PT on your plate and that is something you do not want to skip as tempting as it may be. Also, I notice on your pastel piece you didn't have it taped to anything and had to keep using your injured arm to stabilize. At the very least clip it to a board if you are unable to tape it to keep from using your arm. I stuck to journals when I first returned to making art after my surgery. One clip to keep it open when necessary - easy peasy!
Good luck with your operation. Stop worrying about everything else. Easier said than done but do YOU! It will all fall into place. You are overthinking it, understandably of course. If people see your processes and enthusiasm for your work, they will follow/watch/subscribe or whatever. The joy of what you do will pave the way ahead. Take care. 💐
Thank you for the good advice. And yes, I probably am over thinking it. I do that way too much. I've tried to get better at it but sometimes I back slide. Thanks for pointing it out! It's hard to just let go and roll with the punches but I will try.
Wishing you all the best with the surgery, fingers crossed the healing time isn't too bad
I think the pastels is good and some guash I don't know much about colored pencil either so any of those some tips and tricks would be good.
1. Personal health - physical & mental 2. Your own individual artistic journey 3. Those transitory numbers next to the 'views' and 'subscribers' headings.
In my view, ordering your priorities in this order is the only long-term strategy for success for any Y/Tube art channel to guarantee enriching both the artist and their viewers. Continually and endlessly chasing number 3 is often a sure way to deny any chance of success to the first two priorities. I know you've had some problems recently with the 'dropped' subscribers that Y/Tube seems unable to sort out - but in a little over a year you've grown your channel from just about zero (I think in one of your earliest videos you mentioned that it was just family and friends initially) to now being well over half way to 10,000 subscribers. I think this is a phenomenal success and suggests very strongly that you don't need to plough extra energies into trying to think up ways to accelerate even more the growth of your viewership - it's already happening with what you've been doing for the last 12 months 🙂
I think many (probably most) of us enjoy the wide range of mediums that you cover - even if they're not mediums that we personally intend to use. But if you feel that, as an artist, you'd prefer to spend more time with some mediums than with others, then I'd say "Go for it". If you feel that the sponsored videos are eating into your time and are leaving you unfulfilled, then listen to your instinct and do fewer of them. If you get a rewarding sense of community from the feedback and involvement that is generated by the more general chit-chat, mish-mash types of videos, then stick with them.
Overall, I guess I'd mostly just say that we're all here, enjoying the ride, because we believe in you - so this old man's advice, for what it's worth, is to make sure that you too 'believe in you' and let all your decisions and plans flow from that. Kind regards, Brian.
I would love to hear about the pastel society, what you would get out of it, what it means for an artist. I love mish mash-great for my ADD. Keep with your honest reviews, sharing art supplies and your process.
I hope you surgery goes well and you have an easy recovery 💖 I don't really have any advices but I do love that you don't focus on one medium your channel is so fun!
Thank you for the feedback! I really appreciate it! Every now and then, I wonder if I should focus on one medium, but I know I would get bored really fast! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
❤ You are doing a wonderful job. This is your channel and you need to please yourself first. 😊 Everyone will enjoy anything you feel inspired to put out there. Your artwork was looking very impressive from the photo you took. You can teach, do some plein air when you get healed, etc. Whatever moves you!!! Also I am sorry for the news of the surgery. Everything will get better in time. Try not to worry about trying to please everyone. Women do it the best. It took me along time to get through that myself. You have a great personality and the talent you have is amazing. Good luck on the pastel society. I really hope you get it. Take care and try not to worry and stress out so much. I know life is hard. ❤🙏🎨
Sponsored videos are fine as long as you truly believe the product is good and your reviews point out the good, the bad and the ugly. Intermediate short tutorials in different media would be great…each with a different focus like water (still and moving) or rocks or clouds or wood or eyes or hands etc. etc. I hope you get better fast!
Chin up!...I want to learn how to properly scan resize and reproduce small art projects as gifts, cards..etc. also think about starting a TH-cam but overwhelmed at that thought. Those are some of my wishes.i have an epson ecotank printer. Im kinda technology stunted. ❤😢😂
Oooh! Lucky duck! I keep going back and forth about buying the eco tank! I just had to buy more ink cartridges for my sticker printer and they were 71 dollars! It seems I go through a set every six weeks or so. Do you like the eco tank? And the idea for scanning and making products from your art is a great one! I wrote it down on my list! Thank you! And thanks for watching!
can you do a video on landscape composition tutorial xx
I like the mosh mash videos and hauls. I LOVE your artwork but I don’t watch the art tutorials because I don’t create realistic detailed art. If sponsors help, definitely do them! I really like your artist tips as well.
Thanks for the feedback, Sue! I think there are a variety of valid reasons people don't watch them, but as far as You Tube is concerned, the reasons don't matter, you know? And the hard reality is, I AM trying to make this my job. But I also want to be true to myself, and my journey if that makes sense? Anyway, thank you for continuing to watch and support my channel! I appreciate it!
I have a set of carbothellos....barely used and not sure where to start and what they can do. But I want to use them. Help!...😂❤..give yourself some grace...make a list and prioritize.....one thing at a time...I often find myself feeling your stress and i wish you well.
This video I have up: th-cam.com/video/gHO94kPIGnU/w-d-xo.html is a full realtime tutorial using only the Stabillo CarbOthello pastel pencils! This on: th-cam.com/video/F2jOKaI__hU/w-d-xo.html is the CarbOthellos over an underpainting of PanPastels! Hope that helps!
I’d love to see anything with the neocolor 2s or ohuhu markers while I’m trying to figure out those myself. Honestly it’s your channel though and your subscribers are here for you no matter what kinds of artsy things you want to do. I’m hoping your surgery goes well and you have a speedy recovery ❤
Please get a second opinion, my husband and friend had the same injury from a vaccine and avoided surgery, sime Drs jump to fast, intense PT and everyday home PT. Love you’re videos, please ignore anything negative, do what you want!
I've been doing intense PT for months now, twice a week in the doctors office with the PT and every day at home as well, and it hasn't helped. The range of motion I lost isn't back and I'm still in a lot of pain...Oh well. I guess that's just the luck of the draw sometimes. I'm glad your husband and friend had good luck!
I’m here for it all, even the oils, which I don’t do. There’s always something we can learn and incorporate into our own practices, or not. I am first and foremost a colored pencil artist. But I dabble (and sometimes incorporate) in other mediums such as pan pastels, watercolor and/or gouache. I get that this is your income, but you need to be an artist to yourself first and foremost for your happiness!😊 Maybe do at least one video that’s just for you and your art, and let the others be for worrying about the algorithms?! Just a thought… I enjoy them all
I think the algorithm is crazy anyway, lol! I'd say, do what makes you happy. Art is about inspiration. Do what inspires you.
More realism, watercolor, and chalk pastel
Thanks for the feedback, Stephanie! I appreciate it!
I like that you skip around. I like your content.
Could you do a weekly mish mash video updating on your progress and what art/shop work etc that you are able to do after the surgery. Before surgery could you start recording a video step by step of a easy soft pastel painting. Of all the art media that is the most scary for people i think. I personally dont know how to start. Could you break it down by steps and post the steps over weeks. Make it approachable for people. Just a idea for art after surgery i use to teach card making to elderly ladies and one of them had limited arm movement she used a metal sheet and very strong magnets. She was able to move it around, lean it against things to get the right angles. Fingers crossed it 4 weeks recovery. Take care
I have subscribed to your channel multiple times in the past couple of weeks, and today I had to subscribe again. It’s not just your channel I’m having trouble staying subscribed to, it seems like it’s a bigger issue, but it’s frustrating for creators, no doubt! I’ll keep subscribing until it sticks, lol
Yeah. It's still going on every day. I've tried to stop watching the subscriber count because it is so disheartening when it happens. I am so sorry for the trouble you have to go through, repeatedly re-subscribing. I wish there was a way to fix it. Thank you so much for taking the time to resubscribe and for watching my video!
Im new to you and I like this video, I think you will create some good videos, those of us subscribed will find you what ever you do. To heck with algorithms. Many mediums! and if you have to pivot nothing is set in stone.
I do enjoy the mish-mash videos (they feel realistic in a way where people can see how many other things are required in an artist's daily life), but if they're too much during your recovery, definitely take a break to rest. It feels hard now, but the more you allow yourself to rest, the faster you can get back to art making! As for content, perhaps you can do more livestreaming? I love catching the lives and often watch the replays if I miss them. But maybe you can try a co-working/sprint style of streaming, where you set up your art space and set a timer for 30 minutes (or however long you want) and you and the audience do work for that long, then another timer for 5 or 10 minutes where you check the chat, take a break, drink water, etc., then start another sprint. Many co-working streamers play lofi or soothing music during the sprints. This way, you have scheduled time for work while also posting and having engagement through the chat. At the end of the day, I agree with many others about staying true to what YOU want to do. Most of us are here because we like you as a person (and the art of course) and are just along for the ride. 🙂
I like your mishmash videos but didn’t realize they were so laborious to produce. With everything you have going on (TH-cam. Patreon. Socials. Personal art. Kids. Pets. Injury and autoimmune disease.), I’d be interested to know what kind of video content is the LEAST taxing and build from there.
Regarding media, I dabble in watercolor, gouache and acrylic, but am pastel-curious. Would love some kind of “tour” of the different kinds and how they work.
The mishmash videos are some of my favorite to make, but they take a LOT of editing (which is a two handed job), and also setting up and taking down the camera and moving it to other places, etc, which I won't be able to do with one arm after the surgery for a while, unless I happen to have on of my kids or my husband home with me at the time. So I don't know how that will work. I might be able to make something like them still with the camera in just one or two places, with a minimal level of editing? I guess it really is all up in the air right now. The Pastel "Tour" is an absolutely awesome idea! Thank you for that! I'm going to go write in down right now! Thank you for taking the time to watch my video today and leave me a comment! I appreciate it!
1) I like the mish-mash vids as well, how about filming them per usual but dividing them in shorter part 1 part 2 ...
2) You're an artist, I'm sure you practice everyday... why not do what you normally would do, record over your shoulder everything... add a voice over, or music (perhaps divide those into 20-30 minute parts as well)...
3) Encore presentations. Rerelease most popular tutorials, call them "Take Two" or something.
Spread things out over shorter videos until you're fighting fit again.
You’re such a beautiful soul. You deserve happiness. You will get through this bump in the road stronger than ever. Your videos are like therapy for me. Hope that’s not weird for me to say, but even if it is, I’m a weirdo. What can I say? 😂 Do you have a P.O. Box to receive gifts?
I wish you could have free Michael’s zoom classes using alcohol markers or pastels. Hopefully that would be an income stream for you.
I would also say that doing sponsorships is great but if its a dedicated art piece that is needed, do a smaller piece that is not so time consuming. So you free up time to do what you want
I don’t understand algorithms but I do know that you did have an influx of people popping over here because you were singled out as a teacher we should check out. I think doing even smaller practice pages in a sketchbook would be a good idea. I know this is really frustrating for you. I hope the surgery helps.
It was SO awesome Jenna did that! I am so grateful for it! But it also came immediately after the two tendons in my rotator cuff being torn, which kind of sucks because I've really been struggling to put out the content I normally would have. So that's definitely part of the problem! But it's also the whole youtube ranking videos and what not, you know? I'm trying to make a living from this, so the more views the better, but at the same time, I still do want to teach. I am not sure how many of the new people have gone back and watched the 33 tutorials I already have up.. but I know the whole youtube game is about putting up new content. It's a hard balancing act, you know? I DO know for sure I want to teach more. It's just going to be trying to figure out a way to do it! Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to give me some feedback. I really appreciate it!
I'm late to the party. What else us new?😂 You have so much going on and that's why you're having trouble finding what to focus on with your channel. The stress is overwhelming you. Take a breath, and go back to the beginning. What was your reason for starting a channel? Trying to please others won't make you happy, and it'll burn you out. If I were back home, I'd run over to help you out. Sending you big hugs.❤
I like the mish mash videos.
Thank you for letting me know!
The Art Gear Guide has a new video out. It's called this could be the paper. For me, paper determines what type or brand of pencil I'll use. I think your channel is the best.
Hi again Amy. I belong to your sketchbook club. I like the photo promps but sometimes it's too many and i get overwhelmed and do nothing. I did buy the book and was excited to do that but got sick but i am going to continue now i'm feeling better. I like following a book. A short video would be nice and less photo promps maybe 2. Then i only have to choose between 2😂😂😂. I don't chat much but that is how i am by nature not because i'm not interested. I like your patreon and wouldn't really change much.
be good to see a review of glue guns! hope ya surgery goes good,uv a great channel its very honest
I'd love to help you with that, but I know next to nothing about glue guns! :) I'm still using the same one I got in the late 90's when I was in high school! Lol! Thank you for watching!
/its lasted well,show it sometime, in a vid @@winterwoodsstudio
I like anything you post on here. Good luck on your surgery. Are you willing to give away your art supply net is not light fast?
You should talk to Lindsay the Frugal Crafter about your channel. I heard she would welcome you. She is alot like you in that she is a teacher and can do art in many different mediums. She does pastels, acrylics, watercolors and even oils. From what I have seen on youtube and Instagram some artists are quitting social media because it takes the joy out of their art. I think you need to find a balance where you are doing the art that want to do.
That is exactly how I feel! I was just thinking about that! How last spring evey time I got to start a new project I was so excited and now it just feels like work. It is like you read my mind! Also, what does from what you hear she would welcome talking to me? I'd live yo talk to her but I don't want to be a bother either. Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment!
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Hi Amy, did you have a second opinion regarding your surgery? It seems like you are going through a lot. Maybe you are to take a brake from it all. Also i would not reveal so much personal info about myself. Somethings are just for you to know.
Woah, what did I say that was too personal? Did I miss something? Let me know!
Focus on soft pastel art and all things soft pastel discussions when you are immersed in that medium..when you turn to another medium, dive deep into that. There are enough (in my opinion) people who focus on comparing and opening various new products. Can collect indefinitely but actual using and creating with what we already own is the end goal of art… again, in my opinion.
Can you just film literally everything you work on from now till then and do voice overs when you're in the brace? Or will you not be able to edit at all during that time either? Some of my favorite acrylic videos are just people who video their studio time and then add commentary after.
At least for a while I won't be able to edit at all... editing is a two handed job, where someti.es you have to click and hold the mouse with one hand and press keys with the other. If it's the easy surgery, I might be back at it sooner, but if it's the harder one, it's going to take longer.. I really wish things had gone differently. Oh well. That's life I guess.
Maybe just film everything now anyway so you have content to edit when you're better?
Or can you post things with commentary and just don't edit? Like put a disclaimer that you're posting it unedited? I've watched TH-camrs who just stop the filming then come back and are like I'm back here's what I was doing then go back to. Lily Moon does that a lot with her longer Patreon videos and I don't find it's that distracting to me.
I would probably watch anything you do, but for me, oil and acrylic painting are of the least interest. I draw and do watercolor, and I am interested in learning pastels and charcoals. I do not care for livestreams in general (anyone’s) because they tend to be quite long; I really prefer videos no more than 15-20 minutes in length, focusing on specific skills and tips. I rarely have the time or patience to sit through a full-length tutorial. I would say focus on what YOU really love and want to do, and your audience will find you.
I think one of the biggest problems with your channel is that you jump around too much. You have a lot of different art mediums that you work with and never focus on just one. I know that I primarily love watercolor and am really not interested in oils, acrylics, graphite, pastels, markers, and so on. You are always doing art hauls that I am not much interested in either unless you are showcasing items that are in my preferred medium. I am sure you have other subscribers like me that are not interested in so many different mediums and art hauls also. I watch always for anything related to watercolor and I just don’t see it very often. Sometimes I just don’t want to watch a long video in hopes of seeing anything I like. I do like you as a person and would love to watch your channel more if you would have videos that I enjoy watching. I would love to see more videos of more intermediate or advanced painting and techniques. I would watch every one of them. The mish mash videos just seem kind of helter skelter. I hope that anything I’ve said might be helpful to you. It seems your algorithms are all over the place because your content is too. I would try to focus on less.
I wish you had some help. The next few months depend on how your shoulder heals. You can't predict that now. It will be a day by day thing and you must take it easy on yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally. You will get back to full steam. One day at a time. ❣❤🩹