You are my JOY! Thankful you came into my life at this point, I have had a block for the past 50 years. I Ended up putting my creativity into food, now as I am getting older with aches and pains Surgeries behind me it seemed fitting that I do less strenuous activities. Life has been very hard these past couple of years for me but am so glad that I took this journey and came out the other end. I wouldn’t change any thing that has happened to me they were all amazing life lessons and you me dear we’re the cherry on top! Thank you
I have just finished the free FYJ course and stayed up painting til 3 am finally finding it! I really love your generosity and kindness Louise , thank you
I absolutely love your videos!! LOVE your work too!! ❤ S You are obviously talented, generous, articulate and easy on my ears. Lol thanks a bunch for sharing. So glad I found you. Hope to join 2021 Art2Life 😁
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Really interesting, I've been using sanding and glazing too. The sanding is very similar to the way you do it. The glazing I've not got very far with and haven't been using paper towel, which seems to work really well. Thanks for showing us your process.
Your video has completely transformed a canvas I have on the easel right now. This is at least the third painting on this canvas, so there are lots of layers underneath. I sanded carefully by hand, and right away it was more interesting. But then came the glazes! My beginning in painting was with egg tempera, so I knew about glazes, but I never would have imagined using paper towel to glaze whole areas. Suddenly my painting has depth and interest it didn’t have before. Oh, thank you, thank you! (Quinacridone Magenta is my absolutely favourite colour!) But really, the best part of the whole video was hearing you say, “It’s all just good fun and experimenting.” May I take that so deeply to heart that I never forget it!
Is it possible to do many many layers of paint /collage alternating with sanding on canvas instead of on wood panel, as you do? I am hungry to do heavy duty layering and sanding!
Hey Louise, you can use rubbing alcohol to loosen up and remove dried acrylic paint. Also, if you mix in a glazing medium with the opaque colors, it will add transparency to them. The more you add the more transparent they become. It will dull the color a bit but not a lot.
This just popped up in my feed for you... how ironic. In preparing mentally for the free course (I can’t wait for 06/03/2021)...I’ve been checking in with myself what it is about abstract art that so grabs me...and this is IT!!! Layers and layers and glazes! I love translucent yellow to draw me in. Ah this is starting to click. I’ve wanted for years to be able to paint abstracts. My watercolor teacher who did gorgeous abstracts said she couldn’t teach abstract she just did them. Another friend with a fine arts degree and a wonderful painter and works in encaustic just rolled her eyes when I talked with her about raking me on as a student. So Louise it is all up to you to make me an abstract painter for my own happiness! No pressure here...lol
Thank you for all your wonderful you tube videos. I'm doing your free course at the moment and it is great! I am learning such a lot about how I can free up and paint with joy.
@@ThisPaintingLife Hi Louise. Do you use wood panels because of the sanding technique? Also, where would you normally get them from? Love the information about glazing. It took me a year of frustration to realise that acrylic paint came in opaque, transparent, semi transparent and semi opaque! Wish I had found you sooner :)
He,low Louise - I’ve been wanting to learn these techniques for so, so long, and here you are for me!!! I have so many questions for you but I’ll only ask a few if you don’t mind. Do you use the glazing technique with impasto painting as well as flat? What is the name and brand sander that you use (would like to do sanding techniques with collage layers). Wish you would give a tutorial on these techniques from beginning to end 👍. Thank you so very much 🌻
Really really helpful thank you. And no I couldn't hear any tractors. I'm wondering how I do the glazing when I want the top layer to be white with the other colours beneath. Is there a different type of white thats more transparent?
I’ve been struggling with my ‘voice’ and this really helped give me permission to chuck away the thoughts of perfectly blended backgrounds in favor of these wonderfully rich multilayered ones. I’m new to abstract art having been a 3D tactile artist in clay and glass mosaics, usually more organic work rather than perfectionist. I’m unable to do those mediums anymore b/c of hand related issues but have discovered painting. Now I can relax and have FUN, incorporating an organic style backgrounds with my fascination with palette knife work. THANK YOU!
Hello Louise, I’ve just started using collage in my paintings and was wondering if you ever sand your paint after you have applied collage, or is it only at the beginning of preparing a base layer that you sand. Thank you for the videos, fantastic.
Thank you for sharing your glazing technique. I really enjoyed the way you explained all the different ways you use it and showed the colors that are transparent. So happy you came up on my feed. Love your work!
Louise, your glazing process is such a joy to watch as you explain it! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and technique. I've used the glazing process before. Your process is so much better! The Q colors are the best!!
Oh wow Louise thank you so much for your videos they are so informative and inspirational, you explain your tecniques and processes so well by taking the time to show how its done - I will certainly try using what I have just learnt thank you so much 💖
He descubierto tu canal me parece muy interesante y me gusta tu forma de trabajar si es posible poner subtítulos es importante entender lo que dices thanks desde España 👏👏🎨
Thank you so much. I really loved this and I enjoy watching you paint. Just one question? Can you actually sand with a sander on a stretched canvas or are you using a canvas board or something else? I see this question below, also. I think you are awesome.
Thank you for sharing. Your paintings are beautiful. I bought a glazing medium some time ago, but don't really know how to use it, lol. Are you not using any mediums, only colours and water?
I put a board behind the canvas and hold it (a bit awkward!) and I use fairly fine sandpaper but I do use an orbital sander. There have been accidents!! Lol
@@ThisPaintingLife I recently discovered your tutorials and I'm binge watching! Do you find that using an orbital sander is actually better or just quicker? I'm just wondering whether, particularly when I'm starting out, it might be safer to use old fashioned sandpaper. Also quicker to change between different grades of sandpaper - or do you always use the same grade? Finally, I did not see you wearing a face mask. Is this not potentially dangerous, particularly with paints that contain metals, such as cadmium? Thanks again!
I sand canvases too - I used to put something solid underneath - now I often paint on unstretched canvas, which can take quite a bit of sanding - and then I stretch it when the painting is finished.
Wow, I only recently discovered you and I am so grateful! I love how free and loose you are and experimental in your work, it does me good to watch you.
I think Henry may have meant it kindly. There is an idiom, “stop the music,” meaning: “stop everything! I just learned something completely amazing! “ I would have to echo those feelings, too. I know a little bit about glazing, but this sanding and glazing technique is opening up fresh opportunities to help the colors and painting to sing! Thank for everything you do!
Did exercise 1 on the free course. Loved the results. Lots of white space/bare paper. Went back and watched you...oh no! Louise covers the whole space. So I went back and layered on more paint. And! You guessed it - a Dog's Dinner. YUK. I was doing Louise, NOT Christine. Lesson 1