Hi Gaynor. I just want to thank you for inviting us into your world, and your art journey and for the generous and honest sharing about all the challenges and joys of creating. It has been truly inspirational and motivating. Community is so important and you are building such a lovely one around yourself. Just awesome! I wish you the very best holiday season and look forward to tuning in each Thursday in 2024, from me here in sunny South Africa. Have a wonderful time with family and friends and thank you again!!🥰🎄🎨🖌☃🎅
Happy Christmas Greetings from Germany! Thank you Gaynor for all the fabulous videos throughout the year, I am a big fan of you and your colourful art. Let's all loosen up in 2024 - yes, we can! 🤸♀️🌟
It just occurred to me, thanks to you, that it hasn't been that I was afraid to wreck the pristine white of the paper or canvas, but that it offered me nothing by way of inspiration...nothing to react to as you say...and as regards that, it really doesnt matter what that first layer is, ive heard some artists call it energy...but mostly it becomes inspiration for the next layer and it for the next and so on...that...is liberating! and increases the fun element. THAT is the looseness you are speaking of. So excited to paint right now !!!
Eloquently said and exactly what I’ve been thinking but couldn’t find the words for! My other tightness is seeing the finish not the steps. Thank you for helping me find the words. Baby steps and education from Gaynor and the community here is so helpful!
🌟Joy to you Lovely Gaynor🌟 I hope you have a Wiz Bang, Sparkly, Spangled, Glorious, illuminating Christmas and I hope Santa takes you on a trip to the Stars and back…Whoo Hoo! 🤸♀️🤸♀️🤸♀️🌟. ❤️❤️❤️
Hello Kate and a Big Welcome....so good to hear from new viewers and thank you for such a lovely comment. Have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year XX
Merry Christmas & Happy New Years!! Another fantastic video filled with heart felt helping information, motivation & fun. Excited to see you every Thursday in 2024!
As always, another great video full of inspiration for the rest of us. This week's video has really hit the spot, time to take flight. I saw a quote on one of the "journal" sites a fews months back and it goes "Your wings already exist, all you have to do is fly" Thank you again for all the work you put in for us viewers, have a wonderful Christmas and New Year; may you go from strength to strength.
Hi Gaynor - another really productive week 😊 Going to be repeating to myself - colour, line, shape, texture!😊 Thankyou so much for sharing your process, energy and positivity - hopefully it’s contagious. I’ve enjoyed watching your channel and seeing you develop as an artist! Have a great Christmas and looking forward to a New Year of possibilities!😘
Hello Gaynor---it is 3am here in Ohio & just watched your video. We had a dusting of snow on Monday but it quickly melted. On Christmas Day the temps are looking like 54F which is really warm for this time of year. I thought your ideas of one deciding or figuring out what loosening up means to each person was great advise. I'm looking forward to 2024 as a year of growth in my art. I just turned 65 this week & I can't wait to see what I discover in my art making this year. I usually do watercolor but have done some mixed media in the past. I have a set of acryllics & I just want to take a big sheet of paper & go for it!!! Your frames are so beautiful. He does a wonderful job. Sending Christmas wishes to you & looking forward to seeing you in the New Year.
Hello lovely Anita, HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎉 I am so excited for you as it sounds as though you have set the intention to grow - I love that XXX Christmas Joy and a Creative New Year XXX
Thank you ! thank you ! Do you realize how important you are for so many people. Your energy, your fantasy, sincerity without speaking of your talent ! are so precious ! You help to maintain my "joie de vivre" (i'm french, sorry for my english) in a difficult moment. And, last but not least, i really enjoy your way of working, counting on/with surprise to go on. Just enjoy. That is a pure lesson of living !!! Yeah 🤗
Hello Gaynor, I've missed you, I still have 2 previous videos to catch up on. This video is a real stocking filler of wonderful content I don't know how you do it, thankyou thankyou for the tme and effort you put in for your viewers, have a wonderful Christmas and new year, looking forward to 2024.
Best seasons greetings, Gaynor. This was another lovely video. I am so thrilled with the larger boat painting you finished. Pure magic how you smack around the paint and ureka, out comes such beauty. Thanks for the year of great inspiration, and friendship. Here in the rocky mountains of Alberta, I am happily indoors, painting under your tutelage.
You say you are lucky to have so many lovely comments but we are the lucky ones, you are so generous with your time and showing us your work......every video I feel inspired to create so thank you ! Have a great Christmas ! 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Gaynor I don't think I can really add anything of value that hasn't been said in the other comments. I have such gratitude to be a virtual audience to the wonder that is you. Wishing you and Craig a wonderful holiday season and a new year filled with inspiration and joy! ♥🎄♥
Hi Gaynor, I haven't posted for a long time, but thanks to you I have been freeing up my art over the past year and turning that ship!! I'm actually liking some of it. I so look forward to Thursdays, you are such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your world. Have a wonderful Christmas 🎄. Really looking forward seeing you in the New Year ❤
Hello Jennifer, This is a wonderful comment to read and it makes me smile broadly to know that you "actually like some of it" ....Fantastic. Christmas Joy and a Creative New Year XXX
Merry Christmas to you to lovely lady. Thanks for all the fun videos and wonderful inspiration and tips. Blessings to you and Craig for 2024. I like Thursdays 😊
I love Thursdays!!!!!! Thank you for the uplifting, encouraging videos! Wishing you and your loved ones a peaceful, happy holiday and a joyous new year!
Thank you for all your inspiring videos, Gaynor. Words of wisdom as ever, and exciting paintings that emerge from your observations and your heart. I love your 'just have a go' approach and advice. NOTHING VENTURED NOTHING GAINED 😮😊
I have a block of polystyrene covered with random textured wallpaper samples. It’s great. You can stencil it and change the texture to another easily and also wash it off.
Loved this session ….love these paintings and I’m going to try to play more! Thankyou for all your sessions - I just love listening and learning from you!
I am blessed by your work and your encouragements to keep on moving on and Creating more and more no matter how much of a mess it is! Namaste'! Happy Christmas and New Year wishes for prosperity and Peace!
I have been distracted throughout this video watching more streaks of paint appearing on the big yellow art behind you.... couldn't quite believe it and had to go back and check 😂 you are amazing! Bursting with new ideas. It is definitely infectious. Thanks for another arty gift in the form of this week's video ❤
Thank you for all your videos. I'm glad you say what time of the year it is. In Salt Lake City Utah U.S.A. we have no snow either. Rained yesterday. No white Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. Happy New year.🎉 Connie Smith. I love you direction your boat has turned.
I enjoy saving your videos as soon as I see them, then coming back to them at leisure. This was most enjoyable and informative, such a lot in it that I'll go back through it more than once I'm sure. You're very generous in what you show us and your suggestions are very helpful, thank you so much. I liked your idea of a painting warm-up sketchbook, and also a reminder about how daunting a pristine canvas can be. Hope your new year is going well 👍🌻
Merry Christmas Gaynor, you are a blessing to this art community and we can ALL be encouraged and move forward with the uniqueness of your many gifts to us!! Have a blessed and healthy New Year!
Oh Gaynor, this video was so lovely. I so enjoyed watching you create that piece that I had commented on IG reminded me of Cattails. So fun to watch how a painting comes to life for you. As always, you make it magically happen with a few strokes here and a few strokes there, some mark making that seems random but clearly is not and the perfect addition of dark and light tones. Pure joy to watch you create!!!! I am so thankful to have come across you a month or more back and look forward to every video, IG story and post, that you put out. You are so authentic, humble, kind and encouraging. I love that Craig supports your craft and helps with the frame making and I am sure many other aspects. May this Christmas season bring you both much happiness and the New Year hold many new adventures and bring great joy. Thanks for taking the time to film these lovely videos, cheers to you and Craig!!! XXOO
Such a lovely message X. Heartfelt thanks for watching and taking time to leave great comments. Wishing you a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XXX
Merry Christmas 🎄 Gaynor and thank you for another wonderful inspirational arty treat 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I’m watching snuggled in bed with a lovely cup of tea 🫖 and a mince pie 🥧😋🥰👍xx
Hello Julie, I've just made my first batch of mincers as they are affectionately known in this house 😂 Have a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XXX
You are helping me alot. I am fighting time as I am older. The time factor plagues me, reason is I am a slow painter, but your continual working on work "done" but then you see where it needs to go. I am the same. I have to frame, box things....as they begin to hold me back. Thank you
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Gaynor! Many, many thanks to you for all of the invaluable insights into your art journey, it has been very inspiring to follow you!
Thank you Gaynor, wishing you a wonderful Christmas and New Year with your family. Thank you for inspiring us all in 2023 I will look forward to next year.
Hello Julia, we ADORE the New Forest, I'm dreaming about a great veg curry in a pub called the Snake Catcher in Brockenhurst !!! Have a Wonderful Christmas and Creative New Year XX
Happy New Year Gaynor ! Thank you for all your inspiration through out 2023 I've so enjoyed your videos. I've learned alot and learned so much. Looking forward to our 2024 together !
Hi Gaynor, what a wonderful video. Wanted to take a moment to thank you for everything you do to inspire so many of us. Watching every Thursday is such a joy, and I've learned so much from you. I know that I've become a better artist by giving myself permission to free up, experiment and play. Seeing the photos and hearing how Craig makes the frames was great, please thank Craig for this too. I wish for you and yours a beautiful and Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year. And, again, a big thanks from the bottom of my heart for all that you do.
Hi Kathy, for me it's like making a lovely new friend, I enjoy seeing your instagram posts, having a peek into your part of the world is fantastic. I am grateful for your generous comments and ideas and wish you and your family the best Christmas and Creative New Year XXXX
Hi Gaynor, Thank you, I feel the same way. Our Daughter is home for the holidays and I was talking about you and your work and told her that I felt like you're a friend! Hope to embark on some YT content for the first time in 2024, will be a bumpy ride, lots of learning and mishaps I'm sure. :-) I'm not the best at technology, but will strive to take a lesson from how you do your videos, as I love your style! Happy New Year! XXXX
Thank you so much for your weekly videos Gaynor. I have said it before but your inspiration, ideas, support and advice, not forgetting your amazing enthusiasm and personality make Thursday the best day of the week. I have learnt so much from watching you and so have quite a few friends from my local Art Group. Best wishes to you and your family for a very Happy Christmas and another successful inspiring New Year. P.S. I missed seeing the fairy lights on in the Cabin. 😊🎨
Huge thanks for sharing Deborah. I'm a bit behind with Christmas ! Only just making a batch of mince pies. Have a Wonderful Christmas and let's have a Creative New Year XX
We e had a tough start to 2024 with a massive storm intense heat no power no phone and no internet for over a week followed by heavy heavy rain and localised flooding so a very belated Merry Christmas and a very creative New Year to you - I’m looking forward to viewing your videos to come - such a pleasure!!
Hello Kerry, I can't imagine the misery from storm damage and hope that normality comes soon. Wishing you only good things for the rest of the year XXX
Great analogy about the ship turning around Gaynor! I love watching your experimentation. Your new art spot is a lovely place to create especially with all your art displayed on the walls around it. Happy Christmas Gaynor. Wishing you a Happy, Healthy and Arty 2024! X
Hi Gaynor thank you for your words of wisdom & great encouragement to us / me on your channel. This year of watching you has definitely given me more energy to get cracking & painting more in 2024.wishing you & your family the best Christmas & safe & joyful New Year 🎄🎅🏻🙏💕
Can I just say that - besides being informative and insightful and inviting - a lot of what you say concerning freeing up in your paintings, can be transferred to other areas of life? Thanks ever so much for sharing your thoughts with us. I appreciate that.
Oh I say it every time but I just look so forward to your videos each week. I’ve rewatched a few to try some things as well. I do want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! All my best wishes! Roxanne from Atlanta, GA 👋🏻
Hi Gaynor and thanks again for another fab video. Wishing you all the best for a peaceful Christmas and a super-creative new year. Enjoy your break love Rich and Fran. ❤
Hello Gaynor, another lovely video this week. I especially liked the florals on the abstract backgrounds. There wasn’t anything I didn’t like though to be fair. A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family. I hope Santa has been visiting some art material shops 😂 Thank you for the inspiration and pleasure you have brought to us this last year. Have a fabulous time🎄
Hi Gaynor,I really enjoyed your video..Like so many I’m sure,I have the fear of the white canvas and sketchbook page!I have a stack of canvases and have painted something on one,not liked it and out comes the gesso and bam! I’m back to the white again lol!Did you ever go through a stage like that?Anyway you have given me the encouragement to have another go and I will hide the gesso lol!Thank you for sharing wonderful artwork a “Christmas” gift for all!❤Looking forward to seeing more!! Hope you and your Family have a lovely Christmas lots of Love especially to little Rocket!!🥰
Hello Beverly, YES, YES, YES.....then I calmed down with the gesso and maybe covered only the bits I didn't like...now I go in with a different colour and shape to get things moving. As I type, Rocket is in place by the fire ! He loves it when the children come home. Very best wishes to you and your Family for Christmas and the New Year X
Happy Christmas Gaynor and thanks for all your help , advice and fun throughout the year. Please consider advice on palettes next year! Have a great time!
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year. thanks for all you wonderful videos. I love experimenting and try not to be concerned with the out come. I can always go back to it as you do. love you channel xxx
You know when you wake up some mornings and you think it's Thursday, but it's only Wednesday? That was me yesterday. 😳All ready with my cup of coffee to watch Gaynor and get my art inspiration. I just decided to repeat videos I have already watched, and then I put them on PLAY ALL. I enjoyed that so much, and after my coffee break was over, I got to work making Christmas treats and all the while I had Gaynor videos playing. Thank you for keeping me company Gaynor, all the way over in Tucson, Arizona😃
Gaynor! Thank you so much for showing me the framing!! Tell your other half I’m so very grateful for the images! Thank you so much. It was such a help to see the wood with its angle and not just flat pieces! This explains so much. I’m off to the lumber store! And Merry Christmas to you and your family. ps…the deer at the end were precious
Hello Gaynor, i am very happy to have found your Channel. Super inspiring, I wonder though how you manage to always stay clean. I always get paint on me😂. Love your Art and Choice of Color. Stay Creative Irina
Hello and Welcome. I love to hear from new viewers and thank you for taking time to leave a lovely message. A question I'm often asked !! And I don't know...my cuffs quite often get mucky and every now and then I have an accident but mostly the paint stays on the canvas ! Have a wonderful week XX
Merry Christmas! Thanks for always inspiring me with your videos! I’ve had a piece of really nice quality watercolor paper just sitting off to the side ( being “saved” for who knows what, ha!) and I’m excited to get going on using it to play with textures using various inks& paints. This is thanks to you! All the best in the New Year to you and your family.
More pondering this lesson: googled process and procedures. Then, method and technique. Looking forward to watching U express your talent, 2024 ??Q's...do U title each art project? & best way to reach a title for the project at hand...before or after? Ann
Hi Ann, If I'm lucky a title will present itself while I'm in the process of making. Sometimes, from out of the blue, I think of something that would be a good name for a painting and jot it down. How about you ?
@gaynorpattle it's things like concentration on color, composition that hinders a decision post . Thinking of title pre does get an idea started, but then the gaynor thing happens. 🤔 Started crocheting an afgan... all the while looking over at an unfinished canvas on the easle ... hoping things will reveal by not painting and seeking what's there? A title pre may lead ? Wonder how song writers work lyrics and melodies ... Ann
Hi Gaynor don’t know how I got along before I found you. Don’t ever stop you bring so much joy to everyone who sees you. I’m in Salt Lake City Utah you have freed me from being in a rut with my art I’ve been feeling the same way you described you felt before you started doing what you do now. I did watercolour for years in frustration now I know mixed media is what I really should have been doing. Have you sold that painting of the boat on the wall behind you in the beginning of this video, is it for sale? If it is for sale can you tell me the price? 😊 Thanks
Hello Carol, Heartfelt thanks for such a wonderful comment. The boat painting is in the cabin, waiting for a cradle frame and a bit of a tidy up around the edges! Let me think on it and check with the post office re shipping, it is larger than anything I have in the webshop !! Many thanks XX
@@gaynorpattle thanks for replying so speedily. My zip code is 84108 if that helps finding out shipping. I’ve been to England many times and have shipped items home to myself and it was a terrible price so I know it isn’t cheap. If you are going to sell the painting I hope 🤞 I can have first option to buy. I hope I can afford it lol. The only place I can get the Snowden cartridge paper like yours is Jackson’s it’s $65.00 for 50 sheets which I think is cheap but I know the shipping will double that which is still cheaper than watercolor paper. I lived for 3 months in Castle Combe a few years ago, one of the best experiences of my life. Your boat painting reminds me of another place I love dearly.
Thank You...I usually sign on the back of work, if I remember !! I am happy to sign. They are beautiful creatures....I can watch quietly for ages but the minute I go to film, they're off !! Have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year XX
Thank you so much X One of my big challenges for 2024 is to get a website off the ground. Out of my comfort zone but I'll give it my best !!! Have a Wonderful Holiday and Creative New Year X
Hello Nancy, Chalk Paint is a decorative paint known for its matte, chalky appearance, chalk paint is a popular choice for giving furniture and home decor a rustic, vintage, or shabby-chic style. We like the look of it on our frames ! X
