Of course, you should talk about things like your eyesight. That's why people connect with you. You are authentic and approachable. People feel like they are visiting with a friend.
I also agree. Whenever I go to RU-vid to choose something to watch, I say to myself...”I think I will watch my friend Diane”. I love your candid and natural talks.
I love when you share personal information with us. You are more like a friend. Also I love watching you and seeing and hearing your creative thoughts. Thank you
I know you posted this 8 moths ago, but I still return to it and am working on my own versions because I love the colors. I call these Organic Abstracts. I'm an amateur photographer and I often create organic abstracts with my lens as well. I'm learning watercolor, just as I"m learning photography (still after 12 years - I will never stop learning) - and just as I return to the same or similar subjects with a different lens and different light, I find myself returning to some of your paintings. When I'm out for a camera walk, I see "weeds" as a painting now, in addition to a photo. You helped get me through last winter and will with this one as well. Once a long time ago I worked as a secretary to a group of professionals studying patients in a mental hospital - one was an art therapist. I understand her profession so much better now!
You’re absolutely right...we do this to enable our own soul to grow...and you help us with that with your glorious paintings, ideas, “ ramblings” and calm. I love how this painting has turned out and it shows your inner peace to perfection. Thank you for all you do. 😁🙏
Expression through art is a wonderful meaningful way to share yourself, using any kind of media, be it paint, clay or material such as cloth for most of us, finding inspiration is the hard part, but like you, once we get started, things will progress, I love the calmness of your tutorials and your finished art piece, it’s always a lovely feeling seeing the end result! Thank you Diane for all you share with us! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I have always painted and sketched but have never been inspired to paint abstract until now. Thankyou Diane I’m hooked and love doing it and watching your videos .
Love this one too. Funny that you brought up vision. I can see better if I take off my glasses, and I’m doing that a lot more lately. I think I have cataracts creeping in. Thanks for your words of support and to remind us what brings fun! So important.
I loved this one! It ended up quite beautiful. I like to seethat I’m not the only one struggling with myart. You make it real. Don’t stop sharing your day to day thoughts,itmakes you more real! Sometimes when i watch other artists and it all goes so smoothly and quickly every time i get discouraged and stop watching because it makes me feel inadequate. You are doing greatin your videos 👍 thankyou
Hi Ann-Ingrid, thanks so much for you kind comments. I have to say, I prefer to make my videos “live” with a commentary as I go along, and I include all the footage, unlike many RU-vidrs who edit their videos and cut out all the mistakes and hesitations. I prefer to be “real” including all the hiccups, rather than simply to show off. Glad you enjoy this style! Happy painting!
I was so glad you blotted out that flower. 😅 I’ve been bit afraid of trying abstract, but watching your process and now knowing I can blot out something I don’t like it, is enlightening. I am definitely going to give this a go. Thank you.
I'm so glad! No need to be afraid of paint, it will disappear with a stroke of your brush - IF your paper is good enough. This is the only time I emphasise the need for quality paper. If the paper is very absorbent it might not come out completely. Then the best option is to paint OVER it with gouache and then add a different feature. Keep at it, it’s really liberating!
What glorious fun! I must try this one soon! BTW, we love that you talk of random things! We feel like we are having a fun paint around your kitchen table! Which is very nice indeed! ❤️❤️❤️
This painting turned out so beautiful. I am still learning so loose compositions are what I’m most comfortable with at this staged and abstracts are so freeing. No expectations, no plan, just playing with colors. Thank you so much Diane for sharing your work and time.
My pleasure 😊 and I’m so glad you are finding the videos helpful, you have the right idea, no expectations or plan. Intuitive painting I think they call it now!
Truly beautiful. I liked the flower you scrubbed! Not easy to imagine what to put where, but it doesn’t matter, if you don’t like it . . Just scrub it! Amazing painting, I will try to paint it .. relax, paint, scrub and enjoy the journey. Your commentary puts me at ease. Janis
Made my way here from your short. I really enjoyed your process, which reminded me not to be impatient but to wait for each step to cure and dry before proceeding. Thank you! 💜
Diane, you make me so comfortable with my art knowledge (or lack there of) when you say you don’t know the names of things, for instance, the pen nibs…I only know what I learn as I go along and I’m ok with that. It’s an ever evolving part of life and it’s what keeps me at it!
Another beautiful painting. Absolutely love the colours used. I was so so glad when you took to that red flower lol. I was watching thinking my eye is just drawn to that red, I’m not taking in the full painting, then next thing you just “took it out”. Please don’t stop your chatter about you etc, that’s what is really endearing , to hear you chat like we are in the same room. Thank you for your time. I always check your channel first for any new videos.
Thank you so much 😊 Sharon! Sometimes it actually helps to have a big mistake in a painting that you allow to dominate while you continue elsewhere in the painting. Then you can see whether it has been absorbed or needs to go! That one definitely needed to GO! I really like the white spiral I put in its place though. Thanks so much for your support and comments xxxxx
I've enjoyed catching up with this video Diane.. i missed this one somehow.. I'm not an abstract person... But you've pulled it back from abstract just enough that i love it.. I must remember to just play more often.. learn what my paints and brushes can do.. Just beautiful Diane! Hugs! deb
You really are quite amazing Diane! Putting something out every day is something that I can’t imagine but when I watch your brush strokes it becomes so clear that you have been doing this for quite a while and it seems ingrained in your very being! What a run on sentence that was! But so true! That’s a great thing btw!! 💕
Thanks so much 😊 Donna, that’s very kind - there are days that don’t go so well but usually the end is better than the beginning!!! Thanks so much for your support and your comments, much appreciated xxx
I was satisfied with each step of this project. Then you added to it and again I was satisfied. Then you continued to add. This was a great adventure. Showing how to change your mind is helpful. We can forgive ourselves 😃
I really enjoyed watching you paint this! You paint so smoothly and make it look so easy, and I really love "those lambs were shaking a lot of tails" :) As everyone has mentioned, I love listening to you talk about your life, and it makes me feel like I have known you all my life and you are my good friend!
Love the colors in this and loved watching you change the parts you didn't like. I need to do that more often! Also, please don't stop talking about things "not painting". That is especially why I tune in.
Ok thanks I will keep on rambling on! If you use good paper there’s never a problem with just washing something out, and I really liked the white spiral I put in place of that ugly flower! Glad you enjoyed!
Was having trouble getting my mind around this one but you made it interesting. I'm my worst critic; if it's not great then I hate it. My children like what I do so that's something. Coming from a long line of professional artists, you'd think it would come easily...nope!
Hello Diane. I love your work. It is always a pleasure to see you paint and you are a great source of inscriptions for me. The abstract is just great. Thank you so much for your tutorials. Sincerely 😀 Katy
Diane I love the colors in this painting! And it reinforces to me that I shouldn't give up on a painting when just starting it because it can turn out beautifully! Please don't take me wrong! Quite often I don't like something I've started and I keep going and end up loving it. And your art ALWAYS is beautiful when finished even tho sometime I go hummm🤔when you first start out. Ok I feel I'm digging myself into a hole. Thank you so much for another fabulous video! Appreciate you so much for teaching us and sharing your art with us! ❤️🤗❤️🥰
I totally agree with you Susan. I think the best thing I have read recently was an artist who said if you don’t like what you’ve done, it isn’t finished. So true. And we mustn’t be afraid to wash things out! Plus you’re right about the start of a painting often being underwhelming! I watch other people’s videos too and feel the same way, yet they usually pull it out of the bag in the end! I appreciate you commenting and your support is very important to me, happy painting xxx
Hi Diane, you know, for some reason I love leaf’s & leaf shaped home decor. I really liked all the leafs, especially the dark ones at the center of the art work; they look beautiful with the dots on one side & the leaf veins on the other side💗
❤ I love this incredible painting…it’s totally stunning…a real framer! And I SO enjoy you chatting while you draw and paint…even that you shared about your eyes…❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have yet to do an abstract, because I do have a hard time letting go. What you spoke about made sense to me, I might give it a try. I am about your age and have trouble sometimes when trying to look more closely. It's glasses on, glasses off! 😄 Growing old is not for the weak, as my ma always said.
Thank you for sharing this one. I haven't painted in a while, had eye surgery a few months ago (detached retina) and my vision is way out of wack still. But been trying to craft and do more each day. Want to paint and this one looks like something I could do for sure. ❤
Oh yes Sundie, you’ll be able to do this as there’s no precision needed at all. Hope your eyes get better soon, I feel for you. My other neighbour had a detached retina last year and I believe his sight is fine now. But it was slow going. All the best xxxx
My eyes also go out of focus! They swell when my allergies are bad and dry eyes, due to age, cause problems as well. I sometimes see lines that aren’t there or 2 lines instead of 1. Your tutorials are more like chats and that’s why we love you!
Oh, thanks so much Deirdre, I’m so glad you enjoy listening to my ramblings, it’s like having friends for me too! Sorry your eyes give you trouble, I know what you mean about allergies and I do suffer from dry eye syndrome too although not too badly yet. Hope you like this video and wishing you happy painting xxx
Is your dip pen a ruling nib? The one I have is modern and looks different, but it is a double nib. I wasn’t sure about that first flower either. The white and dark ink really brought it together. Great job!
Great painting. I love that you explain your thoughts as you paint. Question - Did you buy your palate as is or did you build it yourself? I'm looking for a large set and wondered if yours was a set or something you did yourself.
Hi and thanks for your comments and question! If you mean the Kuretake paints I used in this video, they come as sets. This is the one I bought. Kuretake Gainsai Tambi 48 Color Set amzn.to/3zZX8Kn
Catching up on your videos…your circles caught my eye. One of my Chinese tutors was trying to explain a newer, “modern” method of doing peonies. You put either a darker or lighter, circle down., add a faint, multi-green blue loose background in. Let it dry thoroughly. Then, go back and paint the petals, on top of the circles, darker shades on top of lighter circles, lighter shades on top of the darker circles, using traditional strokes. Well, I’m unsure what I painted..but my frankenflowers in NO WAY resemble peonies..I just stopped….too embarrassed to show prof Chen..or anyone else 😂. I haven’t thrown it away, thinking one of these days I’ll try my 2 unfinished round blobs. If nothing else, I’ll just add them to my frankenflower collection…and call them abstract 😁
I’ve found the same as mine on Amazon for 13.49. Here’s a link:www.amazon.com/dp/B000BYQLT4?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzdianeant-20&creativeASIN=B000BYQLT4&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.N9J8DZRLFNEN&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_m_asin
Speaking of eyesight, I have two cornea transplants. They came from two different donors. If you are a organ donor, we receivers appreciate organ donor! “ I’m a painter”
PS I’m legally blind. To be honest, I prefer my paintings done the past few years as my vision worsened. Liz and my daughter offered to contribute to the minimum $1200 for glasses. I politely declined. I prefer my world a bit blurry. 😂. Also, if I haven’t mentioned; I was upset last year after my last eye appt. Liz showed up with a large print (and picture) book about Monet and his failing vision in his last 10-15 years. I guess that’s what best friends are for 😂
