Hi Dan. I really felt the need to tell you this. As you know, I'm in slow recovery mode from an unpleasant illness. I've started to mute the sound on my PC and lay back to watch the magic happen before my eyes. For whatever reason, during this one, I began to slide back into my chair and become incredibly relaxed. It had a far better effect upon me than the medication does. Thank you so much.
I'm wondering how fireproof these tiles would be--if they were hung/displayed over a gas fireplace that tends to heat up the drywall above it? Any risk of being flammable? Or is the issue that it would degrade the tiles?
Great work master Dan ! Please, allow me to pose a question : in the beginning, using gesso instead of spray-paint, will the result be the same ? Many thanks, if … ✋🤠
@@julieduncan1996 Thank you. Thought so, but it's surprising how resilient it is. Seems like it would tear more from all the use. I'll have to try it out.
Thanks, my advice is to just use a few colours at first and go for a good quality paint, you don't need much so go for smaller tubes. Hope the technique works for you.
Beautiful Dan! Love the soft, subtle color palette ❤ When using the Q-tip is there a fluid solution on it to spread the color? I enjoy, every day, looking at your monotype print I purchased several years ago - always makes me smile 😊 Have a wonderful week!
Thanks very much, I'm really pleased to know that you have one of my original artworks and that it's still looked at everyday. When I film the monoprinting process I keep the paint as dry as possible, use very little and never use any kind of thinner especially when working on paper or card. Hope this helps.
Another exceptionally satisfying video of your monotyping process. I'm not quite certain why I find this technique so pleasing, but it persists through both doing and observing. The possibilities are endless in this messy, chaotic search of order. The process is so beautifully accessible, but mastery is difficult - though you make it look easy. Thank you for another inspirational video!
Thank you very much! I think you described it perfectly, it's a technique that doesn't seek perfection, allow the process to create the work, it takes practice to let go and relax but it can be very rewarding.
Sending blessings of compassion kindness empathy to you dan and your family may your art help in your grieving process. Thank you so much for your videos as theyve helped me learn how to expand my art journey, i like the art piece you created.🙏💙🎨🇨🇦🇺🇲
Thank you very much, creative activity is very rewarding and I do feel that it helps in any situation that you find difficult, a sort of escape from reality if you like. I hope the videos and techniques that I demonstrate encourage others to do the same.
Wonderful to see a new stream by you using templates and your innate ability to develop such stunning graphic images. Thank you for sharing your art experience. Hope you are creating what you need to explore and grow.
Enjoyed video ,i found your creative process very interesting, were your templates made out of cardboard? I like how youve reused your marking making paper to get diferent marks within your sized boxes.thank you very much for video.🎨🇨🇦🇺🇲
Thanks very much for your kind comments and feedback, good to know that you enjoyed this video. The templates are made from thin card (cerial boxes are ideal, I always like to use recycled card for this) I will be filming more of these type of videos and I will also show the process of making the templates.
Quite subtle colours with this one. The images don't leap out from the paper,. It' s an interesting change ,compared to some of your other work. Having said that, they remain graphic, the overall effect is striking. They would benefit from closer study if, say, it was on a wall. Very nice Dan.
Thank you, I find with this process that it can be very easy to overwork the composition and apply too much paint which obviously cannot be removed, the technique works best with very thin layers and I think this demo helps to show this, working with the stencils gives you some guidance and helps with the control of the paint, slowing things down a little.
It is the contrasts in these pictures that make you look. Contrasts in the production: perfect and minimalistic stencils create clear edges and surfaces, randomly created shapes through random adhesion of the paint, the shapes are very loosely emphasized with strokes afterwards, reduced color palette but basic shades and slight variations of them, a somewhat "dirty process" but very clean, defined edges of the picture. I can't help but admire and really enjoy the production and the result!
Wow, thank you! I try to make the techniques look simple although I always know that it can take time to achieve the results that you are happy with. I hope the videos help to demonstrate how you can improve and produce really creative artwork.
