Abstract Realism// How to be Creative with Texture// Portrait Painting 

So stunning and inspiring❤

Love it. So cool

Bloody amazing

Amazing as always

Very beautiful ❤

You are such an amazing artist 🤩

Wow I love it! is's stunning

Your work is amazing!

Love it 😊

Oh My Gorgeousness!!!!!

Lovely

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😍

Jeetje prachtig ❤👏👏👌👍💐🇱🇺

Happy birthday to an amazing artist!

Absolutely beautiful. ❤

Such fantastic & fun work...again!

Another great painting and video! Love the color scheme and, of course, the 43. Obviously you ARE the best thing I ever brought to light! Keep astounding me (and your supporters) with your skill and talent.

Amazing

Beautiful !!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Hello from Canada Lydia just came back from a vaca and was missing my paint room and of course your funny, fantastic videos. So amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Hi, thanks for painting beautifully and sharing with us. Can you please tell me what did you use for creating these textures. Thanks

I love everything, but the flowing hair is mesmerizing to me. I think, perhaps, because the textured wall seems so solid, her hair makes her feel more ethereal. Having her skin so pale against the other colors makes it glow and adds to the effect.

😍Wow! Love how her face is emerging from the hole you created! Stunning! Have a happy birthday! I have a birthday this week and have been reflecting on that age number.🤔

Beautiful painting!!😊

OMG!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for sharing your wonderful painting art with nice edditing 🎶 🎵 ❤ 👌

Your ideas and talent are AMAZING!!!! Hope i don’t run out of your videos

The richness of the oil paints is undeniable. And so is your talent ! 😉🤩

Excellent work! I am very impressed by this demonstration!!!!! And, inspired!

I really love texture on a painting! This is beautiful!

Gorgeous, you have inspired me to use texture and be more experimental. Thank you 🥰

What an awesome demo! I have learned some very lovely techniques from you. Heartfelt thanks.

LOVE and am so inspired by your creative eye and how you use different mediums in your work!

Très belle oeuvre. Je suis admirative devant votre créativité et la facilité avec laquelle vous arrivez à la sublimer sur la toile. 👏 Merci de continuer à nous enchanter🙏

l love your artwork, I love your presentations and I love how short they are! Very inspiring!

You are so inspiring! Absolutely gorgeous 😍❤️

I love this!!!❤ beautiful work

You are incredibly talented!! Another stunning piece! ❤

This ia,awesome!! And very inspiring!! ❤❤❤

I’m amazed by your process. I’m gonna have to try this out Thank You for sharing 🙏🏾

Love your creative flow, fantastic!!

Gorgeous!!! Thank you so much for your explanations. You are so far above me, but I've still taken notes on what you're doing so I can refer to them again.

Ooooooh, I love this, awesome work Lydia! You make this look so easy and I know it’s extremely difficult, which just shows how talented you are. Well done lovely lady. 👌

I totally resonate with the look you created (and I suppose what I would call "Fractured Elegance"), absolutely love it! Hope you've been enjoying your 43rd year! Cheers, Cat 😻

Omg Lydia this is so magical and creative you constantly blow my mind. Incredibly beautiful

Lovely. You are amazing ❤

I've just discovered your channel, and I'm blown away. Been binge watching your videos instead of working, but wth, it's soul food. You're an astounding artist and your work is fabulous. Thank you for sharing

I love your videos so much! They're so inspiring

Love this ... absolutely stunning ... good tip about the flowers too 🧡🖤🌺

I love your process and ultimately you create a tremendous mood.. What a lovely face, such a feeling of joie de vivre❣️👌🏻💖😍

You’re amazing. I always look forward to your videos!

Fabulous ! What a beautiful talent you have ..thanks for sharing !

I really love this !! ❤

2:27 i have watching most of your videos. Your work is crazy wonderful and your teaching skills are top notch. I have learned so…..much

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Stunning ❤

Again ... Lydia, you are so talented and a made very beautiful, colourful painting together with your friend Spongebob 🤪 Have a lovely 🐦day

Oh wow this has the vibe of "Ophelia" I LOVE it. It looks like it came from John Everett Millais's collection. You created an awesome painting!

Great video & painting! When I saw the cover shot I thought the woman was under water like those faces in the water on Lord of the Ring. I’m a nerd and morbid to go there, right? 😂 Happy almost Bday! 🎉From your humor i knew you were a cool age but look so young! 🤘🥳

Love these textures you're creating! I remember reading books as a youngster with those textured covers, I really liked running my hands over them 🙂. (Side-note: probably a faux-pas to do it with a painting, or at a gallery...maybe). My friend the sponge would be a killer painter-song! I bet you'd get some interesting sonic palettes to work with (maybe nautical-themed, maybe not...😅). Happy pre- birthday! Hope you're having fun ❤.

Could you do a video on how to do flowers.

43? You're still a young chickie! And an amazingly talented woman!

Me again :) ... how to "seal" protect afterwards if using an acrylic & oil mix painting? I'm assuming without it, the acrylic parts will be more flat and matt, while oil would be more deep and shiney ...?

So, this is basically kick ass, am I allowed to say that 👀 😬 😂. I adore textures, always manage to find a way to incorporate them but this is just amazing work!! Love it. Side note also turning 43 this year. This video was 7 months ago so that makes you a Pisces or Aquarius. 🤔 Why I felt the need to even point that out I have no idea 🤣😂 now that astrology is suddenly main stream and cool I feel the need to just bring it up everywhere since it’s no longer loser status like my childhood days 🤣 ugh might delete this. Anyway your work freaking rocks!!

Hi, I'm trying to paint in this new process to me where I've always painted in a realistic fashion. Meaning what I see is what I paint, the light and shadows are already there. Now I'm blocking in colors and using images from different sources that all have different lighting. So my question is how do you consider the light source when painting abstract portraits? and is the lighting consistent throughout the painting?

Is it necessary to gesso after you use modelling paste to create texture everytime

This is a stupid question...but I know not how else to get an answer. I don't believe I have ever heard you say (shame on me) why you use oils over acrylic when creating faces...why?

Very beautiful❤