This was one of my most favorite videos. You are so good at talking on camera. And the pattern ideas were innovative. I will be trying some out in my sketchbooks. Thank you
I love your work. So free, colourful and loose. Thanks for sharing. I've been trying to teach myself for years and it's slow going but I've wanted to paint people forever and felt so intimidated. Your videos are appreciated so much. ❤️
Sandi, I'm slowly getting caught up on a lot of your videos after just recently discovering your channel. I, too, love to paint and I appreciate you so much as you keep my fire lit and get me excited to get home from work and get my paints, pencils, crayons, etc. out. I so much love these paintings you've shown in this clip. The people/the way you have created them...and, Frida Kahlo!? What?! LOVE! Thanks! Jen from Georgia :)
I didn’t think it was too busy because there is a certain symmetry to it. But then I also loved it after you painted in the grass. I love both!!! Too bad you couldn’t keep both.
Would definitely LOVE to purchase these sketchbook ideas for patterns as a Class!! maybe pair up with JO?? mesmerized by the techniques you used, and they would lend so well to curriculum (just sayin! :)
Thank you for sharing the good and the bad, the finished and unfinished. It reminds me to stop being so critical and hard on myself. I need to be more kind to myself. But most importantly to have fun and enjoy the process.
Hey I just found your videos about a week or so ago and I love them all ❤️ this one especially. I love patterns in my work and I'm trying to work a little more loosely, so this video was very inspiring. Thank you for your videos and I hope to see many more.
Awe!!!! THANK YOU so much!!!!!! Patterns are hard -at least for me - especially in my oil paintings so I always admire someone who does it well. Thank you so much for watching and for taking time to leave me such a nice comment!
Wow wow wow...how fun was this!!! Super inspiring. Yesterday I started a series of loose watered down gouache figures. Switch to Sandi’s magnificent patterns. Next for me: magnificent patterns on my loose gouache characters~ Thanks Sandi! I’m such a big fan!
Having such a slow day loved this video you always make me feel better thank you so much, I’m getting scared I’m nearly caught up on all your video so love watching them. You have so much energy love it xx
I am an ESL teacher and one of my students is from Senegal. I just finished doing a lesson on batique from Senegal. What you did makes me think of their batique clothing.
Oh how I lobe your people in your sketch journal and the patterns are wonderful. I do a lot of patterns in my backgrounds but lose a lot of it when I get my pieces I. And start working on getting them painted in. I think I need to loosen up more and let those patterns be more a part of the piece instead of just the backgrounds. ❤️❤️❤️
Sandi...Thanks for all your videos here...I am inspired by your process and have to pull myself away from watching so I can "take care of business" in the rest of my life! Keep them coming!! (Frida Kahlo is one of my favorites...)
Just discovered your channel and I love this approach. This would really push those creative muscles. Those dresses and your sketches and paintings of them were so beautiful.
I DID not know it. And I’m not sure if it’s true. It looks true when you go from one to the next, but I too learned that the larger hole is for larger pencils and crayons/pastels. HOWEVER, there is a sharpener that looks like the one you have (but that may not be the same one), which is used to sharpen into that way that is usually done by paring away with a knife. I saw a pencil sharpened like that in one of your videos. When done that way, about a half inch or an inch of the core is bare, and the wood begins after that. Nonetheless, you may be completely correct about the regular two holed sharpener and I was oblivious! Haha Also, just a quick aside, in case others may not have learned these two things: 1. Be careful not to drop a pencil, because even if it looks okay it gets weakened and sometimes the core breaks; 2. I learned from a professor who was an old school super-draftsman that I should never use an electric pencil sharpener (at least on good drawing pencils), because the core gets twisted loose from the casing. Food for thought.
Really really really wonderful! I love Frida-inspired anything! Have you watched Selma Hyack’s movie Frida …. You would love it! Watch it on iPad etc to take screen shots for inspiration later.
This video was wonderful! I loved watching how you created the pattern and then created the finidhed works from that. All the sketches in this video are more like finished works. Gorgeous and sooo inspiring. I want to try this. Ive been interested in doing a kimono series of works using this technique you showed or collage from some of my gel prints. I get very motivated watching your video. Please keep them coming. ❤❤
This is fabulous and you are right, doing patterns before the background gives better results. I would recommend that you check the artwork by Isabelle de Borchgrave, she is a Belgian artist who created antique inspired costumes made of paper and she exhibited all over the world, including in USA. If you could find images of her work online, I’m sure that you are going to love it because your sketches here, I don’t know why, vaguely remind me of her paintings. Maybe because she is very into patterns, for a good reason: she reproduced antique patterns, also worldwide patterns. Her exhibitions were around the costumes history.
Loved this video, especially the third sketch and Frida's wardrobe! Can't wait to try this out! Did you do the same technique of pattern first then carving out the negative space for her dresses? It looked like you had the black background down first, but I couldn't tell. Thanks!
Good question - I did have a 'ground' layer of a black more transparent background for the entire page, then painted the patterns and then carved back in with darker more opaque black so it would stand out from the background.
Wow. Super cool. I have always enjoyed Freda‘s clothing and colorful surroundings but I never enjoy looking at her face because it’s so overdone. She had books and books and books about her face. I love your faces that you’ve done in here and I wish I could paint that freely.
PS Oh, my gosh, I’m sorry. That comment was meant to go with your short about observation where at the end you talk about using a two holed sharpener! Oooooops!!!!
