Oh my goodness ... I can totally relate to your art path. I've always LOVED nature and creating art. But, it wasn't until a couple years ago that I discovered "Nature Journaling" and I'm 56! It seems so obvious now and it makes me a little sad that it took me so long to discover it. But, I'm grateful to have found it now. Thank you for sharing your story with us. I hope we can see some of your maps one day. They sound so interesting and your art is so beautiful. ❤
Mel your video was amazing. I love your illustration. I would love to see the books that inspire your beautiful artwork and talent. Thanks again for showing a glimpse of your artistic journey. I am a huge fan of your conversations with the artists in your lovely area of the world. ❤
Lovely video! Thank you so much for giving such thoughtful answers, and for giving us a peek at your art process! Your videos are always so calming to watch and listen to.
Thank you for this lovely video Mel, I'm so looking forward to doing your sketching course and new domestika course, thanks for the mention as well! xx
I really hope your cancelled Domestika course will be launched, I would love one with you on mix media. Domestika courses are usually very affordable (no offence to privately launched courses but they are often very expensive/way over my limit). Your voice is so soothing to listen too and your work is lovely! Thank you.
I'm not holding out much hope for it to be honest, so am focused on creating my own courses. I've just released my first course which I think has a lot of value with over 20 video lessons on sketching outdoors but I can't compete with the price point on Domestika, it has a massive platform and can afford to offer courses at lower prices. However, I think my course is value for money.
I am so inspired by the way you mix media to create depth and texture! I would love to take a mixed media landscape class from you via Skillshare, domestika or another platform. I live in the US in Oregon and think there are a lot of similarities between the Oregon coastal landscape and Cornwall. Lastly, I love your color coded tins for your neocolors. I need to find something similar for mine.
ART JOURNEY...THANK YOU...lovely glimpe into your art and practice...look forward to seeing more...and that "blacksmith" gal, sounds very interesting...take care, from Janis, in The Yukon Canada
Throughout most of history, the sciences and the arts have *always* been studied together. Side-by-side. And for a damn good reason: everything is connected in one way or another.
I really enjoyed the video, and I would be very interested in taking a course from you. I want to learn how to use mixed media more effectively. Thank you for being so generous with you knowledge and skill.
ART JOURNEY! This video has made me so very happy, and inspired about sketching. It’s absolutely mesmerizing to watch how your art develops on the page. While watching this, I would get so into what you were doing with the artwork that I would zone out on what you were saying, and then I’d be so interested in what you were saying I’d completely miss what you had done with your artwork 😂🤣. I needed to rewind several times, and I’m going to just rewatch this over and over (like pretty much all of your videos 😬) so I can absorb it all. You do such a great job with producing and editing your videos. You’ve got wonderful visual storytelling skills, both on paper and on the screen. 👍 I’m very excited that your developing your new Sketching Joy course. I definitely want to learn the ins and outs of layering mixed media in the manner you do, and in the mean time I’ll just be experimenting on my own 🤪. The blacksmith video sound fantastic and super interesting. I am very much looking forward to it! Questions: Does it ruin or clog your water based Ecoline Brush Pens or Tombow Dual Brush Pens to work over the Neocolor II??
Thanks, Wendi for your ongoing encouragement. To answer your question just have a piece of scrap paper to the side and dab the pen on that once used over the crayon.
Hi Mel, I subscribed to your channel yesterday and as soon as I have time I watch your wonderful videos. I love and enjoy watching your work. It's educational and relaxing:)). I left a message on an older video. I have been on holiday in my beloved Cornwall 24 times. Also often walking at Lizard Point. I come to Cornwall twice a year. The journey takes 17 hours by car but it is worth it:)). We are going again in September. I'll definitely look up your exhibition there and pop in. I've done a lot of paintings myself from our holidays in Cornwall. In pastels, acrylics and watercolours in my sketchbook. I've only really started doing that now and I think it's great to be able to flick through and remember. I love mixed media, and using Neocolor II with other colours. I love your work and the studies of all the wonderful plants and rocks you capture on paper. Cornwall is so colourful. A heaven for artists and the colours in your pocket:)) It was lovely to hear the story of how your journey to becoming an artist. And so wonderful to listen to you and watch your painting come to life. Thank you Mel for sharing your fantasic work:)). Happy painting from Germany
Hi! I absolutely love the way you sketch. The pictures that you create are stunning!! 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you for share with us your beatiful artwork and your experiences.
Art journey. Thanks for the creative boost. I am going to find my journal now. My sweet spot is faces at the moment. A quick with a pencil and perhaps some akvarell.
Beautiful! I'm enchanted with your work and am eager for your course. Meanwhile looking forward to a break in the heat so I can try sketching my town. Thanks, Mel!
A wonderful video, Melanie! I’d also love to take the sketchbook course when you decide on the details. The Conversations sound fantastic, and I’m really looking forward to hearing your chat with the blacksmith, 😊. I have a question - I’ve just started out sketching, and haven’t really found my style yet.. How do you get over the hump of hating what you create? Thank you! Best wishes from the West Midlands!
Thankyou! I haven't got any exciting tips other than keep going and try to view each sketch as an experiment, that way it takes the pressure off trying to create a masterpiece. You'll soon learn what works or doesn't but you have to be bold and not be afraid of making mistakes or marks.
Thank you for that calm and colorful insight into your work. It was so interesting and inspiring, I soaked everything up like a sponge 😂 Love to see your calendar 😍
Lovely, thoughtful video Melanie. So interesting to see your work develop from start to finish- looking forward to the calendar too! I would be so interested in the books that have inspired you, always so inspiring💕
I really enjoyed this video I enjoyed watching you create this piece with all of your different materials and I would love to take a course to learn how to do a mixed media piece like this
I Love your work! The depth and richness of the colors. I've been trying to find the right sketchbook for days! A regular sketchbook or a watercolor sketchbook. I have most of the items you used in this video too!! What a relief! You just put my overthinking to REST! Subscribed!
Your voice is so calming and so is your process. Lovely video. Um currently super poorly in bed ( 4th day in), and I'm so happy I've found your channel.
I started keeping a sketchbook about 5 years after I graduated from art school. I loved the concept of it and I loved seeing other people's sketchbook, but when I started having to keep one for school it was a chore. Not till I loosened up and saw it for what it COULD be did I enjoy it. I now LOVE sketching in my sketchbook. It really does help your creativity cook up new ideas. My favorite things to sketch? I LOVE the outdoors and architecture. When I want to spark up some new ideas I simply sketch textures and interesting color combos. These really help me get better in these areas and they help inspire my next piece.
Yes totally agree with you on doing it out of a love rather than a chore, that's how I came back to it and love keeping sketchbooks! Outdoors is also a favourite, boats, interesting structures, old buildings, cliffs and sea.
Hi Melanie! I love this video! You say it so well. I loved hearing about your art journey! You've come quite a way. You said you did installation art, well I'm interested in this...It's about the concept, if I understand it correctly. I'm a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist, and I'm disabled and bedbound and chronically ill too. Some days are good but some aren't and I'm doing what I can to make the quality of my life better. I'm not able to walk, so I'm limited in that. I'm not knowing what to draw. The things in my room are far from me and I have low vision. I have depression too. I have an injured right arm and I can't draw anymore. Too many problems...it's hard to overcome them 😪. Sorry, I don't know what to say. Thanks!
Such a lovely video! Your art is so amazing! It’s hard to explain but this spread is just so beautiful, I wish I could be there 😂 Also your voice is so soothing and calming ✨🧚🏼 I’d love to see more behind the scenes of your process and just everything 💕
That was so lovely Mel! Fascinating to see a picture through from beginning to end. Looking forward to next years calendar. I would be interested in your sketch book course. Another question I meant to ask you-do you ever feel sad that when you design packaging it is ultimately going to be thrown away? Sometimes I see really amazing artwork on things and think it’s such a shame it won’t be kept! Or maybe you just think that if it ends up in the bin it’s obviously done it’s job because it made someone buy the product in the first place? Very interested to see your book video in due course. Thank you Mel
Hi, I may be late, but I would love an into depth course on have you use materials as in this video ❤ not to copy you but to be educated in using mixed media this way. 🙏
What a lovely film. You are so talented at making these films, you could be a professional filmmaker as well! I wanted to ask you where you got your beautiful artists roll from? It’s really lovely and roomy as well with a little zip pocket. I would definitely be very grateful indeed if you could let me know where you got it from and what type it is? Thank you so much. These videos are beautiful! 😊 xx
Thanks so much. Yes it's from Peg and Awl you can get it from Jacksons www.jacksonsart.com/?acc=5cce8dede893813f879b873962fb669f&___store=jacksonsart_en or direct from them.
Beautiful video. In your sketching course, I’d be interested about any tips of how not to be afraid of the multi-layering and details. I’m hesitant to create multi-layered sketches because it may look busy, or loose color and contrast… Thank you!
You have mentioned an art book by Lorette Roberts that you are fond of...I ordered a used copy and just received it and looking forward to enjoying it.. Thanks so much for the recommendation...it looks wonderful..
Hi Melanie. Just had some spare time to watch a few of your videos. I Loved watching you work and seeing your sketchbook video and what you take with you. Can you tell me what tape you are using in this one? I am having a reall battle with masking tape tearing my paper. Thanks.
Hi Colette thankyou! yes it's washi tape in this one and you could also try the blue painters tape too. Blowing a hair dryer on top of tape before peeling may also help.
I would be interested in taking your course. What a beautiful drawing. I’m curious why you refer to your drawings as sketches. I always think of sketches as notational. On the other hand, the work I’ve seen you do seem like completed drawings (which I love!)
Hi Melanie! :) I’m loving your work! I wanted to ask you if you use a fixative spray with your neocolour II’s (water soluble ones)? :) if so, which one do you use? I’m working on a giant piece using neocolours and I’m sketching with the crayons over the top of watercolour and leaving them neat but I’m afraid they may smudge and are delicate 💫👋 Thanks so much
Hi Amy sorry haven't got back sooner. To be honest I don't use a fixative but have heard some who use sennelier's pastel fixative. Maybe test an small area before using.
@@MelanieChadwick thanks so much for coming back on this and no worries at all! It’s a busy time for sure 🌟 Hope you’re well! 😀 In the end, I bought Marabu fixative but still need to test 🌞 Thanks so much!
