Painting

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EXPRESSIVE PAINTING - How To Love The Accident and Still Maintain Control

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EXPRESSIVE PAINTING - How To Love The Accident and Still Maintain Control

The accidental marks and effects with paint can often be the most expressive. In this video I share with you how to allow the accidental to happen while still maintaining control of the media so that your work can have more energy, be more expressive and be rich in abstract detail.

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Finding Clarity In Collage & Paint

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Finding Clarity In Collage & Paint

This is part of my new exploration - botanicals, media, drawing...  It gets muddled in the middle but I find some clarity in the end - so stick around to the end to see where it ends up.  I like the possibilities it presents for building meaning and relevance into my work - it's a step forward I think. Watch the vlog.

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Reconstructing Your Painting: From Finished to New

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Reconstructing Your Painting: From Finished to New

A recent sketchbook exploration didn't fill me with unbridled joy - so I changed it. Working right over the top with collage and paint I came up with something new and much more exciting.

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Building Surface To Paint On

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Building Surface To Paint On

In this week's Vlog, I'm showing you how I prepared my paper for a couple of collages I did. The collages will come to you later but watch the Vlog to see what I did first.

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Simple Exercise for Abstract Design

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Simple Exercise for Abstract Design

The other day I took a break from my paintings and I did a little design exercise which was fun. It's a bit like practicing your scales when you play the piano - it limbers you up, tunes the eye for when you need to analyse your paintings and make design decisions. Have a look and then have a go. Watch the Vlog.

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Creating Your Best Art

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Creating Your Best Art

In this weeks Vlog I share with you two aspects of my process that I think make the biggest difference to creating my best work. Watch the Vlog.

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Sketchbook Painting Exploration

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Sketchbook Painting Exploration

This week's Vlog is another foray into the sketchbook. This time playing with colour, value, and collage. I talk you through the tools and materials, and the WHY I do the crazy stuff I do...

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Painting With Mixed Media

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Painting With Mixed Media

I made a Vlog where I played with paint and mixed media in my sketchbook. I didn't know what I was going to do, I was all out of ideas, so I just started (and filmed it on my camera, just in case). Fortunately, I liked the result, and so here it is.

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Your Shapes

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Your Shapes

This week in my Vlog I'm talking about digging into your past and finding things in your memories that can be included in your Art to make it more authentic. Finding SHAPES that you enjoy and that for some reason have some resonance for you, and how including these in your work can build connections with others. That's where the Witches Britches come in... Have a look!

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How To Use Glazing In Your Painting

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How To Use Glazing In Your Painting

Do you know one of the best things you can do in your painting is GLAZE? I've spent quite some time figuring out Glazing and I did use to skumble - I think... So how about I show you how I Glaze? It's a wonderful way of adding richness and harmonizing colour.

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Knowing Where You Are

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Knowing Where You Are

In this week’s Vlog, you'll see me start to find a direction and I talk about how I'm never lost even when I don't know where I'm going. It's all about knowing the stages of a painting and trusting your process. Knowing where you are in that process.

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Building The Surface

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Building The Surface

In this week's Vlog, I continue with the progress of the painting which I started last week. I'm adding the layers and building the surface using different tools to apply paint and get a range of effects. Watch as I share with you the process of building my current work as it's starting to get exciting.

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Preparing for Painting

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Preparing for Painting

In this vlog, I'll walk you through how I start a painting from the very beginning: preparing the canvas and the first layers, and what my focus is at this stage. Stay to the end to see how one painting evolved from beginning through to the final finished form.

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What's Your Hero?

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What's Your Hero?

Abstract painting can often look like 'wallpaper'. It has no focal point and the viewers eye is left to roam often unable to discern what the artist wants them to see, feel or gain from their painting. What these paintings need is a hero. Here I talk about deciding on a hero when developing an abstract painting.

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Is Your Painting WRONG?

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Is Your Painting WRONG?

A painting is created by a series of decisions. Some more successful than others. How we respond to these decisions, the good and the bad, ultimately results in the final painting. Watch as I talk about how to respond to the less successful decisions in the painting process.

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Taking A Painting Backwards

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Taking A Painting Backwards

We all want to finish our paintings, but sometimes we have to take them a few steps backward in order to finish them. This takes courage and big moves, but in my experience always results in a better outcome. In this short Vlog, I demonstrate the process of taking a painting backward to finish it.

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Choosing Colours

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Choosing Colours

When choosing the right colour in my paintings I use a simple process of asking questions to establish what type of colour will look best. Once I have established the colour type the options are narrowed and I know exactly what colour to mix in order to create harmony or contrast. This process takes away the guesswork when mixing colour.

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The Beauty of Multiples

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The Beauty of Multiples

Working in multiples is a game-changer in producing work of higher quality, reducing anxiety during the process and maintaining consistency throughout your artwork. Watch as I talk you through my most recent series of paintings and how working on one informs the decisions made in the others.

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Permission To Paint

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Permission To Paint

Do you give yourself permission to paint? When there are pressing demands on your time it’s worthwhile to evaluate the importance of the attention you give to your Art. What it means to you and why you want to spend time playing with paint.

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A Painting's Journey

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A Painting's Journey

Deciding to rework a painting can often be seen as taking a backward step. But following your intuition and listening to your guiding inner voice is essential. Until you LOVE your paintings - they are not finished.