I cannot get enough of your tutorials. I am learning so much and am adding to my own work as part of the learning process. I look forward to each and every one of your videos. Thank you so much for your generous shares and knowledge. You have a lifelong fan in me! Blessing from Arizona!
Kudos to your camera person - some particularly great angles where I could see the depth of the layers/paint. Also, at the end as you are leaning across, removing the tape, your own skin tones and hair colouring and clothing and even the black on your watch seemed to blend with the painting!
Thanks for noticing the camera angles. My husband is the camera guy. We both have studied how to not only keep the viewer interested throughout the video, but how to show different angles to keep it interesting. We have three different video cameras going with each video. 🌸
I am so excited, I found you! I really love your way of teaching. The language and techniques you use perfectly resonate with me. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise 🙏🏻
I am enrolled in your Academy, but I love to come back and watch your RU-vid videos. You have just given me inspiration for what to do with some fluid art canvases that I'm not crazy about - to tape off a space and paint over the canvas, leaving the original work as a border. I can't tell you how valuable I find your teaching and how inspiring. You teach us the "how" and the "why," while giving encouragement for the "what" that each artist will bring to the canvas. Thank you so much!
Oh I love adding dimensional pieces to art. I’ve used vegemite, turmeric, sand, toilet paper, cat hair(fluffy down) bark n twigs, baking paper/glad wrap, newspaper and old antique book pages especially make things cool. This is making feel I wanna dabble again. I’m going thru anxiety and ptsd atm and my old friend depression is here n there, I need to find something I will enjoy and keep my mind busy from negative n stressful thoughts. It’s been a long while since I’ve done art and the last thing I did was start up resin art/creations and acrylic pouring 5 years ago but I’ve not done that for 2 years either. Thankyou for showing the process, alot of artists just won’t share as they want the awesomeness all for themselves. But sometimes it’s not about the secret techniques…..it’s about helping people find a special place and guiding them in something they “may just be kinda good at in the end” 💙
Love your videos Adele! In this one it was so special that you spoke out the whole process for us. You are such an inspiration! Good vibes, positive energy, thank you!
Greetings from Sunny South Africa. What a pleasure it has been for me to have discovered you a few weeks ago. I am so excited. Adele, you have inspired me to paint again. What I love most about your tutorials is that you are able to articulate the innermost thought patterns of an artist's mind, while displaying the confidence of a truly talented individual who is willing to share her ideas with others. Thank you for your videos. I love every one of them. Your work is phenomenal.
How kind of you to say. To know I am teaching you in South Africa makes it all worthwhile. I have never come across another artist teaching how they work in combination to what they were thinking. And I believe hearing that could be very useful for other artists, so that is what I decided I wanted to teach. Thanks for watching. 🌸
I have been following you for a few months. I am grateful for the generous sharing you kindly offer in your tutorials. I enjoy neutral abstract paintings and i am learning thanks to you.
Thanks so much Adele. I haven't painted for such a long time but watching you is inspiring me to not only pick up the brush again but to let loose in a way I never thought I could. The language of Art is so universal it seems and you're a wonderful teacher. I'm in Melbourne Australia.
You are so easy to watch and listen to! I just found your channel today and have watched most of your videos already I am so absorbed and just loved what you do! May have to take a course or two or 10 from you...kudos!!
I’ve started painting a few days ago and just came across your videos after looking up a few tutorials, i LOVE your videos. It’s beautiful seeing you put your energy onto the canvas and also seeing how you utilise so many different mediums. Can’t wait to start exploring! Thanks all the way from Australia.
A clever way Howard Hodgkin would frame his paintings (when he wasn't actually just framing them) was to simply paint a border around the edge of the canvas.
What a generous teacher you are. Thank you Adele, I have learnt a lot from you and really enjoy your videos. You cover everything, even FFFFF failures :). Cheers from New Zealand.
You're my hero Adele. I can watch you, and I am every day. Your work is an inspiration and I hope one day I can create a piece as beautiful as this one. Somehow after I start my paintings seem to get too busy with stuff. They turn out cool in it's on way cause I keep on trying new things but I would love to create a more subtle pieces such as this one but yet put my own mark on it. Thank you once again! I am a new artist when it comes to painting only three weeks old so still have a lot to learn about how to even work the paint and the tools. But I'm really loving it. Your videos are a great guideline and I love hear you talk about it.
This has been a privilege just watching and learning .......Your work is exquisite , your work makes me feel at peace soooo beautiful . I am watching again tomorrow so that I can learn thank you so very much . Wow 🤩
This is great. You explain your thought processes so well. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us so that we may become the artist we desire to be.....and enjoy it besides! From Arizona too!
Hearing that you enjoy the process is the best. Really. If you don’t enjoy the process you won’t continue creating. So it really is one of the most important parts. 🌸
Your work is very relaxing and inspiring to me. I love all the bits and pieces you add to your paintings. I save every thing when I paint. No scrap left behind.
Love this painting, Adele. My work is filled with color and boldness rather than subtlety, but you're really inspiring me to take a different tack for a bit. I'm curious to see how my style will be affected. I've learned a lot in the past from painting in black and white; no color, but typically bold. I have a hunch that doing some studies in subtlety will expand my range in unexpected ways. Thank you so much for sharing your work and your experience with us.
I'm learning so much from you but also from the *Qs&As* here in the comment section. Thanks fellow Saturday morning watchers 😊. I hope you all have a creative weekend 👋🎨
Indeed, I hope you all have a great weekend. I love that people are commenting so I can answer each and every question. If one person asks something, I figure others might want to know too. 🌸
Your work is so amazing, and your teaching even more so! Thank you for your kindness, and you have really helped this older one to get through this quarantine so much easier. I’m sorry about Round Top for you, but praying by fall this will be over. You are such a bright light for me, I’m learning so much❤️❤️❤️👍✝️
This is my favorite video so far. I’ll probably watch it over and over, wishing you would teach a class on how to! Many thanks for sharing your talents with us.
I love the painting! And as someone in the replies wrote, I learn from your videos and from the responses to your questions. I love the color and patterns of magazine collage bits but they not only fade but buckle from getting wet from the medium. I keep trying to work out a better way using various glues but none seem to work ver well. I think I may just have to paint my own on good paper as you wrote you have. My biggest learning curve now is to get “empty” spaces in my works and watching your work helps a great deal. Thank you!
Yes, painting your own papers is the way to go. Or you can collect papers as well. Soon you will see a video with me showing all the collage papers I have, if I painted them, what I painted them on, and also papers I don’t paint but that I find or purchase. Stay tuned! The empty spaces in a painting are extremely important. But they don’t have to be “empty”, they can have subtle areas in there that won’t stand out but will be really interesting when you view the painting closely. Good luck. 🌸
I just found your tutorials Adele u have shown so many variations on making abstract painting so much fun and easy to follow 😊I like watching different artists looking forward to your tutorials so many to watch and learn from thanks from Cyprus 😀
This worked out great . It’s a joy and informative to watch you work . I’m definitely going to try this , as an experiment, step by step and see how I might individualise parts to make mine unique. Thankyou so much
This was so interesting, as are all your videos. But, I think neutral must not be my thing, since I kept really wanting you to add color! 😁 I did learn quite a few things, however, as I always do. I will use them in the altered book I’m working on, my first. It’s a training ground for a lot of things I am trying. The book is ending up with quite a mish mash of techniques, but I don’t mind, I’m learning, and having a grand time! Thank you, again, for sharing yourself so generously!
I am always looking forward to receive your video on Saturdays! You can communicate your creative process so well and there is always something new for me to learn so thank you so much from Stockholm!
That was simply brilliant Adele. At first I did not think I liked it but I stayed until the end and absolutely love it and I am going to try to do the same thing with a failed canvas I have upstairs. I love your tutorials and find I am learning so much each Saturday. So many thanks
Thanks for sticking around till the end. While paintings are in process it’s impossible to know how they will eventually end up. I hope you have fun and enjoy doing this same thing on the pieces you have that you don’t like. It will be a new adventure. 🌸
Every art of yours is very inspiring. Surely going to try the techniques you have done in this brilliant piece. This is definitely my favourite one so far. Looking forward for more!
I was just carrying two different sized art works of mine and stacked them and thought, hmm. Then watched your video. It's a great idea. Besides making my own painted papers I also recycled my daughter's and other kids art into mine. Color book pages make great paper also, used or not.
Thank you so much your tutorials are superb and lovely to have on in the background while I’m working! Like we’re creating together . I’ve not painted abstract for a long time so revisiting ! Xxx
Thanks Adele. I’ve painted over a canvas and used it for beginnings of more texture. I’ll give your suggestion a try, with a smaller painting framed. Great idea. When I use tape, I really like crisp lines so I use a light coat do GAC 500 to seal that edge. Just me, but it works. I try to incorporate some aspect of your lessons when it suits my situation or your inspiration switch comes on in my head. I watch all your offerings and thank you for them. Regards
Great idea about the GAC 500. Many times I go over the edges of the tape with acrylic medium first and let that dry. I suspect the results are the same, it seals the edge. I am honored to hear that you try incorporate some aspects of the lessons into your work. You are kind to watch. Thanks so much for your support. 🌸
I love the idea of using a larger canvas so as to make a frame around the painting. Also, thank you for sharing your thought processes along the way. One of my favorite current pieces was completed by painting over a purple textured mess I had made and I really want to try the idea of using a dark undercoat--it makes for such a wonderful depth of color.
Absolutely. A dark undertone or first layer gives so much depth to the layers that go on top. Some of my favorite pieces are ones that I painted over an earlier work. 🌸
Enjoyed this demonstration very much, lots of very interesting ideas! AND love the finished product. Definitely going to try this tomorrow. I have quite a few turkeys, “failed” messes, so this approach is a great way to not waste canvases, and possibly come up with a new painting I like !! Thank you most sincerely for giving so generously to us newbies. Am teaching myself and you are a major source of inspiration and know-how. Thank You!
Good idea to cover up an old painting. I have inherited a painting about 45"x45" and was wondering what do do with it. Maybe this will e the answer. Around the edge of the painting I do will have a pattern from the old painting and that should work out well, because I actually like the color pallet they used; subtle.
Adele, I just found you and I’m thrilled!! Question for you. I am currently working on a huge old painting. I have sanded it many times, covered it with Gesso Blanc (for acrylic and oil) and after 4 coats, I still have some of the old red flowers popping through. Of course, they look orangey. They don’t want to leave this painting!! Lol. I will be working on my first ever abstract painting so I am thinking to just make sure I use a dark color in there unless, you can think of a better solution? Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge with us noobs!!
At the very end of the video, it looked like the "marks outside the taped frame" had been painted over. However, in the beginning of the video, when looking at the finished piece, those marks look like they are still on the "frame". Wondering if you left them or if you covered them up. Thank you for a great demo!
