Louise I love this so much. Our work is so deeply personal it’s difficult to explain it in terms of do this then do that. If we were to approach it that way we would be replicating other people’s work. I love how you get it. Our work as artists is to figure out what questions to ask and then answer them for ourselves. Problem solving is what we do. It’s very helpful to have you validate that! And even though you aren’t telling us what to do when, just hearing your process helps immensely. Bless you for sharing this wealth of wisdom!!
I'm in Find Your Joy right now, and am watching some of your old videos. I'm in "noticing mode" - and am noticing how I love these paintings full of energy and movement. There is also one you show at the end that is more calm, and I love the contrast between the two. So much learning and inspiration! Thank you, Louise!
Louise, you are a ray of sunshine for someone who's 'finding her feet' in painting's creativity. Back in 2019 when participating in an art class I said to the teacher (who I'd been told would allow me to explore) that I was more of an intuitive painter; she replied 'oh, so you like to fling paint at the canvas.' Thank you for being you.
Anyone thinking about joining the Art Tribe and not sure? I'm a member and can thoroughly recommend it, this is a common phrase but...I haven't looked back since joining, I'd been looking for years for the support and knowledge Louise shares. Everyone in the group is so supportive too :)
I could totally relate to this process and it makes so much sense, the way you have put this together with flow and it really makes sense, inspiring thank you so much for sharing.
So much truth in this video. No, you're not being glibb'ish. I love hearing that everything is a process from the inside out and I understand to not confuse simple with easy. I love your encouragement to explore and learn. Thank you so much for your honest guidance and direction.
Love you Louise. You speak to me. I’m an old artist who loves to paint and experiment and you totally inspire me to keep searching. Thank you. HELENE in Australia
"How do I abstract a landscape" is my current question, thanks to this video. How to do what YOU've done Without doing what you've done. Unburying what is inside me. There must be something there because I am attracted so much to these paintings you showed today. I adore landscapes in real life, but find painting them representationally is boring and tedious to me, and I get impatient and start using 'symbols' (really rather silly looking pine trees and rushed-over details.) You have set me off on another exploratory path, Louise! I really love you. :D
And now that I’ve watched it….. LOVE the new direction! Serendipity, I started a panel similarly this week, with a neutral collage layer, completely the opposite of how I would normally activate the canvas with a lot of dark bold line. I felt like switching it around, challenges like that are so good at kickstarting work in a new direction.
Louise, I just love how you describe what you are trying to achieve in your work, (not trying, you do acheive it!) you are a gem. And to share so freely with those of us struggling away alone in our studios is just generous and fantastic! I feel like part of the team when I hear you describe your own journey and I am truly grateful. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, dear Louise.
I love your words about finding your joy in finding your answers. Sometimes I struggle in a painting. Wanting to paint a certain structure for instance. And it is so much more fun, when there is a struggle at first. When it is there all of a sudden, after the struggling, it gives so much joy. Even when I look at a painting that is finished that are the feelings that emerge. Wow. That was hard at first, but then did this and that and look at it now!!! Thanks Louise for your video`s. Always a joy. And thank you for showing your process.
This video is brilliant, and so helpful Louise and spot on showing development of a painting through use of materials and experimentation to create a stunning image! Thank you
Hello Louise, Thank you. Watching your processes, listening to your perspective and viewing your work have helped me enormously. I am gradually defining my own style, abandoning fear and having a crack at all sorts! In my art 'infancy' but growing rapidly.
You are my inspiration at the moment. My work at present is about history, which I build with layers that I scrape back and I loved watching this because you were speaking to the heart of my current work... but I'm a bit stuck, and you've given me some spark back. Thank you 😊
Thoroughly amazing! I’m one of those people who want to know ‘how’ and now I know the answer. And by the way…you are right about the likes of us having a lack of confidence!
Liking your ideas and layering of collage . Your new work has great energy and life force! Especially the teal and green at the top of one... Thanks Louise! Thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing how your organize your daily studies. Organizing the pieces parts I have collected and created over time is a mess for me - pack rat style. After your video I can see how I can organize my thoughts into a coherent method, that is thoughtful and useful to me going forward. You are a gift to creatives. Thank you for sharing. HUGE THANK YOU!
Loving your new series with collage and limited palette with green! That tryptic is wonderful so far. thanks for sharing your thoughts behind it, from sketchbook to panel.
Thank you so much much sharing your process. By seeing your sketchbooks it gives me so much energy to go on working in my studio. So that's where I will go now...
These pieces are stunning! And I love what you said about, you want to know how to abstract a landscape, go find out! I'm starting on this journey and have a long way to go and it's exciting. I love watching your videos and hearing your great advice. Thank you!
It was a breath of fresh air to find this video in my email box today. I have several paintings that need an injection of "something"-most likely just a bit of right brain loose-ness. I have started using collage elements, but very timidly, cause I didn't want it to look obvious, but seeing how bold you start out with it, and build it up/knock it back/I won't be so timid in the future. Looking forward to studio time tomorrow.....
I love this video Louise. I have just started Find Your Joy 2022. I have so many papers for collage!! I live in a beautiful area in Central Victoria, Australia with so much inspiration around me. I can't wait to get to work. It will be on a small scale initially as I don't have much space, but when the weather improves (it's winter here now) I'll be out there. Thank you for your generosity.
WOW Louise I like this last paintings very much, this layering to make it really intersting, a lot of work but a beautiful journey!!! It inspires me to start in a different way and do a lot of exploring. Thanks again.
So good to see you and your work again. Love what you say about answering our own questions. That's part of the fun. Its not about painting by numbers! Tem pted to join your tribe!
Hi Louise! I loved this video - it looks like you just really cut loose - even with not so good news! I always love what your honesty. A few weeks ago I bought a palm sander to exactly do this. We'll see how it turns out! Right now I'm still having fun with canvas! I'll get there and can't wait! You are fantastic! Thank you - Linda Herron
Hi again! Am I too late to purchase your book? I think that what you did with Ted Hugh's poetry is amazing. If not I'll wait till it's released! Thank you.
Thank you Louise for your wonderful explanation at the end of the video about finding my own voice or style as an artist. If you told me to do Step 1, then 2 then 3 and I followed that instruction I would be disappointed in the results. I will try to remember your instruction as I practice my art. Also, thank you for admitting that sometimes you create "rubbish" before you eventually get it right. - Kathleen Wetsel. Artbykathleen
Love the way you do your sketchbook with any feeling you have at the very moment and use it for a reference later. Invaluable tip. Aha moment here for me. Thanks Louise for your awesome video.
Louise you are an absolute inspiration- you’ve awakened something in me I didn’t even know was there and at 50 this is what I want to with my time….. find my own abstract expression style and be able to put it on paper - Thankyou so much 💕
Thanks Louise forthat video - hope that your talking about and through your process will help me to get the spontaneity of quick sketches into my 'proper'work which often has a lifeless look about it - the energy has left it!
A wonderful video -thank you! I especially love that you have stated in the past you hate green, but stuck through with it until you found YOUR way to use YOUR green! Very inspirational, especially in how to use a sketchbook to generate ideas.
Tonight I started a new, small-format Strathmore 300 pad, and made a diptych, as if I was using a Concertina book. I put into play what I've learned from you in the many videos I've watched so far -- did a collage layer and then ink and glazes, finally some paint straight from the tube, and after the first layer of collage and paint, I remembered what you said about 'don't try to make it look pretty' yet. I kept going with more paint layers and I'm quite pleased with what I achieved. I never did anything like that before, and I'm happy that it looks like me, not you, though the influence is there. The only thing I don't like is, my collage technique stinks. I flatten and smooth with a tool, but still get some bubbles. Sometimes the paper creases and I can't get it to smooth out. Both collage pieces I've made so far have had this issue. Any advice or suggestions about technique for getting everything proper, or is it just practice, and perhaps some sandpaper? 🙂 On the other hand, if by serendipity or Divine Plan, the creases make a texture in a perfect place in the composition, is it still always wrong? Thank you.
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Louise I love this so much. Our work is so deeply personal it’s difficult to explain it in terms of do this then do that. If we were to approach it that way we would be replicating other people’s work. I love how you get it. Our work as artists is to figure out what questions to ask and then answer them for ourselves. Problem solving is what we do. It’s very helpful to have you validate that! And even though you aren’t telling us what to do when, just hearing your process helps immensely. Bless you for sharing this wealth of wisdom!!
You are so welcome and I am glad you enjoyed it!
I'm in Find Your Joy right now, and am watching some of your old videos. I'm in "noticing mode" - and am noticing how I love these paintings full of energy and movement. There is also one you show at the end that is more calm, and I love the contrast between the two. So much learning and inspiration! Thank you, Louise!
So creative, These is when TH-cam takes over old broadcast TV for sure.
thanks!
Yes! Exactly! it is very important to experiment something to know how it works because that is the way we learn!
So true!
Louise, you are a ray of sunshine for someone who's 'finding her feet' in painting's creativity. Back in 2019 when participating in an art class I said to the teacher (who I'd been told would allow me to explore) that I was more of an intuitive painter; she replied 'oh, so you like to fling paint at the canvas.' Thank you for being you.
haha - what a great teacher! (not)
Great video
Good
Gosh, that can dampen someone's creative spirit. 😞
Anyone thinking about joining the Art Tribe and not sure? I'm a member and can thoroughly recommend it, this is a common phrase but...I haven't looked back since joining, I'd been looking for years for the support and knowledge Louise shares. Everyone in the group is so supportive too :)
Thanks Lou :)
Hooray! Great message. Going to begin a new sketchbook NOW.
Wonderful!
I could totally relate to this process and it makes so much sense, the way you have put this together with flow and it really makes sense, inspiring thank you so much for sharing.
So much truth in this video. No, you're not being glibb'ish. I love hearing that everything is a process from the inside out and I understand to not confuse simple with easy. I love your encouragement to explore and learn. Thank you so much for your honest guidance and direction.
Love you Louise. You speak to me. I’m an old artist who loves to paint and experiment and you totally inspire me to keep searching. Thank you. HELENE in Australia
You can do it!
I love belonging to Art Tribe. Thank you Louise you are amazing!!!
Thank you!
Best video yet!!! Thank you.
Thank you!
So many good ideas and tips here. You give permission to play , explore and mess up on the way and I love that.Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
you just hit the nail on the head so well, you are an inspiration...thank you so much.
Thank you!
Your new body of work is absolutely beautiful!
Wow, thank you!
"How do I abstract a landscape" is my current question, thanks to this video. How to do what YOU've done Without doing what you've done. Unburying what is inside me. There must be something there because I am attracted so much to these paintings you showed today. I adore landscapes in real life, but find painting them representationally is boring and tedious to me, and I get impatient and start using 'symbols' (really rather silly looking pine trees and rushed-over details.) You have set me off on another exploratory path, Louise! I really love you. :D
This is the heart of an artist - so beautifully expressed. Thank you, Louise.
They’re beautiful! You are the reason I fell in love with using an orbital sander to peal back the layers in my painting.❤
Glad you like them!
How interesting when you mentioned about not getting disappointed when one gets close to the painting. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Leila!
thank you thank you....you are a gem.....inspiring.
thanks for watching x
I learn something from every single posts you make. Large and so mall but all of them are interesting and fun!
Awww that is so sweet of you to say. Thank you Sharon!
Fascinating methods! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for making the video!
My pleasure!
Thanks so much for sharing, you are terrific!
Thank you Jacki!
Hiya, you are total inspiration, I really appreciate the way you reason and talk through your way of working. Refreshing. Thank you.
Thanks Julie
Exciting and inspiring!
thank you xx
Louise, you are the best mentor and teacher. Thank you for inspiring us to find our own way!
Wow, thank you!
@@ThisPaintingLife Well deserved!
Just love watching your informative videos learn lots
So glad!
I love that abstract landscape 💖
Thanks Julie x
Louise I love your mind and process. 👍🏼
I appreciate that
A new Louise video always makes my day! Thank you, Louise, for your generosity in letting us into your painting life. Can’t wait for your book.
And now that I’ve watched it….. LOVE the new direction! Serendipity, I started a panel similarly this week, with a neutral collage layer, completely the opposite of how I would normally activate the canvas with a lot of dark bold line. I felt like switching it around, challenges like that are so good at kickstarting work in a new direction.
Thank you!
How interesting that we started the same way!
@@ThisPaintingLife It makes me wonder if Elizabeth Gilbert was onto something with Big Magic 😉
Louise, I just love how you describe what you are trying to achieve in your work, (not trying, you do acheive it!) you are a gem. And to share so freely with those of us struggling away alone in our studios is just generous and fantastic! I feel like part of the team when I hear you describe your own journey and I am truly grateful. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, dear Louise.
You are so welcome!
Things you don't learn in any art school. Absolutely breathtaking.
Wow, thank you!
Amazing advice! We have to set out and answer the question which no one else could do.
So true!
Louise, seeing your process is so very helpful. Thank you for your generosity and commitment to helping fellow artists.
You are so welcome!
Wonderful video again, thank you Louise!
So many beautiful organic forms in all your art!!!!! Thank you for sharing the process ❤
Thanks so much for your kind words! 😊
and also the words and thoughts after going through the paintings are just so true.
Fabulous process video, thank you!!! Can t wait to get back to the studio. If this is what s in Art Tribe, count me in! 👏👏🙆♀️🎨🎨🎨💓
You're in!
I love your words about finding your joy in finding your answers. Sometimes I struggle in a painting. Wanting to paint a certain structure for instance. And it is so much more fun, when there is a struggle at first. When it is there all of a sudden, after the struggling, it gives so much joy. Even when I look at a painting that is finished that are the feelings that emerge. Wow. That was hard at first, but then did this and that and look at it now!!! Thanks Louise for your video`s. Always a joy. And thank you for showing your process.
Glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for sharing YOU! Every video leaves me motivated and inspired and teaches me to be me!
That is awesome!
This video is brilliant, and so helpful Louise and spot on showing development of a painting through use of materials and experimentation to create a stunning image! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hello Louise,
Thank you. Watching your processes, listening to your perspective and viewing your work have helped me enormously. I am gradually defining my own style, abandoning fear and having a crack at all sorts! In my art 'infancy' but growing rapidly.
Awww that's wonderful because that's what art is all about. Happy painting!
You are my inspiration at the moment. My work at present is about history, which I build with layers that I scrape back and I loved watching this because you were speaking to the heart of my current work... but I'm a bit stuck, and you've given me some spark back. Thank you 😊
Ohhh my god ..thank you. Just what i needed. You are the best.take care.hugs from sweden.🥰
You’re welcome 😊
Thoroughly amazing! I’m one of those people who want to know ‘how’ and now I know the answer. And by the way…you are right about the likes of us having a lack of confidence!
Confidence comes through simply doing it
As always, thank you for sharing your knowledge.
My pleasure!
I so get excited when a visit of yours comes on x
Aww thank you!
Wow. Absolutely Stunning work. So much to look at. Just FABULOUS 💜💜💜👍🥰
Thank you so much!
Wow. You ARE a texture girl, Louise! Just great, and thanks so much for sharing! 💖
You are welcome :)
I love your work and your gift for explaining your process. Very inspiring. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
Love your process. I can watch this video over and over. Really inspiring. Thank you, love it.
Glad you enjoyed it! ♥
Thank you thank you thank you for sharing your deepest insights.
You are so welcome Rhonda. Thanks for watching! ♥
Wonderful 👌🏻 Greetings from Scotland 😊 Have a lovely day everyone 🌻
Thank you! You too!
Liking your ideas and layering of collage .
Your new work has great energy and life force! Especially the teal and green at the top of one...
Thanks Louise!
Thank you for sharing
Thanks Jane!
Loved this - thanks!
So glad!
Thank you for sharing how your organize your daily studies. Organizing the pieces parts I have collected and created over time is a mess for me - pack rat style. After your video I can see how I can organize my thoughts into a coherent method, that is thoughtful and useful to me going forward.
You are a gift to creatives. Thank you for sharing. HUGE THANK YOU!
You are so welcome!
Loving your new series with collage and limited palette with green! That tryptic is wonderful so far. thanks for sharing your thoughts behind it, from sketchbook to panel.
Thanks so much!
New to channel look forward to creative art
Good job, you're on Creators on the Rise!
Thank you!
Thank you so much much sharing your process. By seeing your sketchbooks it gives me so much energy to go on working in my studio. So that's where I will go now...
You can do it!
I just want to get going now! Thankyou Louise that was so helpful.
So glad!
Just watched some of your videos for the first time. Thoroughly enjoyed your ink and collages
Thanks so much!
Beautiful work Louise. Thankyou for sharing your process.
These pieces are stunning! And I love what you said about, you want to know how to abstract a landscape, go find out! I'm starting on this journey and have a long way to go and it's exciting. I love watching your videos and hearing your great advice. Thank you!
Wonderful!
thank you Louise, for your authenticity in you and in your art. i love what you have been sharing. 🙏 ❤️
You are so welcome
Your videos are amazing. I love them , you express the things I don't have the words to say. Thanks 🙏
So nice of you
‘How do I become an abstract artist’ is very like asking ‘how do I become enlightened’.
So true!
Always an inspiration. Love the look of the new work.
Thank you! Cheers!
It was a breath of fresh air to find this video in my email box today. I have several paintings that need an injection of "something"-most likely just a bit of right brain loose-ness. I have started using collage elements, but very timidly, cause I didn't want it to look obvious, but seeing how bold you start out with it, and build it up/knock it back/I won't be so timid in the future. Looking forward to studio time tomorrow.....
Thanks!
Lovely! Lovely! Lovely!
You now have a new subscriber.
Welcome aboard!
Thank you for showing us your process
My pleasure 😊
Wonder wonder wonderfull , love it! ❤
Thank you! Cheers!
I love this video Louise. I have just started Find Your Joy 2022. I have so many papers for collage!! I live in a beautiful area in Central Victoria, Australia with so much inspiration around me. I can't wait to get to work. It will be on a small scale initially as I don't have much space, but when the weather improves (it's winter here now) I'll be out there. Thank you for your generosity.
Have fun when you can get out again!
Great insight. That's your job as an artist!
It really is!
Thank you for this video and sharing your thoughts
My pleasure!
Thank you Louise!
You're so welcome!
Thanks for giving us a peek into your creative process!
You are most welcome!
I love your work thank you for sharing
This was a GREAT video. Thank you so much.
I love your work, and I love how you approach it. Thank you for the spark that I need :)
Glad you enjoy it!
WOW Louise I like this last paintings very much, this layering to make it really intersting, a lot of work but a beautiful journey!!! It inspires me to start in a different way and do a lot of exploring. Thanks again.
Have fun exploring!
Another great video Louise - thank you. So much to think about and be inspired by.
I am glad you enjoyed it x
Me gustan, sus trabajos, mucho 👏👏👏👏🤗
So good to see you and your work again. Love what you say about answering our own questions. That's part of the fun. Its not about painting by numbers! Tem pted to join your tribe!
I hope you give us a try - it's free for 30 days so as long as you mark your calendar, you can leave if it's not for you xx
I watched this yesterday and tried two of my own collages. Really liked the way they turned out. THANK YOU for the inspiration!!
Wonderful!
Oh Louise I've missed you. Your new work is amazing as always. 🤗💕
Thank you! 😊
Hi Louise! I loved this video - it looks like you just really cut loose - even with not so good news! I always love what your honesty. A few weeks ago I bought a palm sander to exactly do this. We'll see how it turns out! Right now I'm still having fun with canvas! I'll get there and can't wait! You are fantastic!
Thank you -
Linda Herron
Hi again! Am I too late to purchase your book? I think that what you did with Ted Hugh's poetry is amazing. If not I'll wait till it's released! Thank you.
Hi, too late for pre-orders but there will be plenty of opportunity when it coms out xx
@@ThisPaintingLife okay, thanks!
Thank you Louise for your wonderful explanation at the end of the video about finding my own voice or style as an artist.
If you told me to do Step 1, then 2 then 3 and I followed that instruction I would be disappointed in the results. I will try to remember your instruction as I practice my art. Also, thank you for admitting that sometimes you create "rubbish" before you eventually get it right. - Kathleen Wetsel. Artbykathleen
I OFTEN create rubbish!!
Love the work and also the sketchbooks😃
Thank you so much 😀
Great video.. thank you, thank you Louise. Your videos always get my creative juices going! This was so interesting 🎶💕😃
So glad!
Love the way you do your sketchbook with any feeling you have at the very moment and use it for a reference later. Invaluable tip. Aha moment here for me. Thanks Louise for your awesome video.
Louise you are an absolute inspiration- you’ve awakened something in me I didn’t even know was there and at 50 this is what I want to with my time….. find my own abstract expression style and be able to put it on paper - Thankyou so much 💕
You are so welcome and happy painting!
Thanks Louise forthat video - hope that your talking about and through your process will help me to get the spontaneity of quick sketches into my 'proper'work which often has a lifeless look about it - the energy has left it!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
A wonderful video -thank you! I especially love that you have stated in the past you hate green, but stuck through with it until you found YOUR way to use YOUR green! Very inspirational, especially in how to use a sketchbook to generate ideas.
Thank you!
Tonight I started a new, small-format Strathmore 300 pad, and made a diptych, as if I was using a Concertina book. I put into play what I've learned from you in the many videos I've watched so far -- did a collage layer and then ink and glazes, finally some paint straight from the tube, and after the first layer of collage and paint, I remembered what you said about 'don't try to make it look pretty' yet. I kept going with more paint layers and I'm quite pleased with what I achieved. I never did anything like that before, and I'm happy that it looks like me, not you, though the influence is there. The only thing I don't like is, my collage technique stinks. I flatten and smooth with a tool, but still get some bubbles. Sometimes the paper creases and I can't get it to smooth out. Both collage pieces I've made so far have had this issue. Any advice or suggestions about technique for getting everything proper, or is it just practice, and perhaps some sandpaper? 🙂 On the other hand, if by serendipity or Divine Plan, the creases make a texture in a perfect place in the composition, is it still always wrong? Thank you.
Fabulous video! Gorgeous colors and marks! Thank you for sharing your amazing creativity!
You are so welcome!
Helpful and inspirational. I'm loving the energy and colors and layering in these paintings!
Thank you very much!
wow...stunning
Thank you, Louise! You are such an inspiration. I look forward to your new book in October, and more books to come.
Thank you!
Thank you!!!❤️🤗
You are so welcome
Thank you, so real, SO helpful
You're so welcome!