How to create a series of exciting art works (from just one sheet of paper!) Step by Step 

I’m 52 and have just started creating. I get stuck and I love this idea so much. Thank you so much

Thank you Cate. I do something like this for our Church Craft Show. I cut up my pages and mount them on Note cards with a coordinating envelope. I package them in a a set of two and sell them for very cheep next to my Granddaughters Lemonade stand. The next morning we put our proceeds into the Church offering plate. I made $67 the cute little girls made over a $100.

So today I have cut up my small paintings and now, the finishing touches. Thank you for your teachings.

I am so glad I found you on RU-vid. I'm 57 years old and I'm just getting started making art. Your instruction is so helpful and fun to watch. Thank you.

I said I would be back, here I am. Great tips. Merci 😊

Really enjoyed this video.. very inspiring and such fun! You have a lovely way of teaching.

Hi Cate, love your energy. From Cape Town, South Africa.

Hi Cate, I really love your channel. Your teaching style is perfect for me, having spent months creating Art journal pages which I love from vintage to modern and everything in between. Yet feeling each page should have a set theme or be a certain way, when in all honesty my mind wants to do all you are teaching. I am happily ‘binge watching’ your videos and have resisted commenting as wanted to get further up to date on them, but wow I have had to stop to say a huge ‘Thank you’ for being you, for the way you teach and how we need to just escape and ‘play’. I am 62 and wanted to let you know that you have helped me to realise ‘Art’ can be creatively free! So happy to have found your channel, you are helping me to become un stuck, if that is even a correct phrase. Appreciate and connect with your methods and all that you say, thank you so much, Jan in Wales 😊❤xxx

This all looks so much fun, thank you for sharing ☺️ ❤️

Fabulous.

I had a lot of fun doing this one! I used to do something similar to this with my crayons as a child. Who knew? I identified with it immediately but you took it to a whole new level that I just love. Thank you so much for your wonderful lessons!

I have discovered your channel today and I'm so excited to be a new subscriber 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for a vibrant and exciting video. Looking forward to spend a lot of time on your channel😊 lots of love from South Africa 🇿🇦 ❤️

Bonjour madame cate c'est la première fois que je vois votre travail c'est vraiment beau et coloré jaime beaucoup et je vous félicite et remercie de partager votre savoir-faire 👍🌈🦋🥰👌👌👌

Thank you for sharing your artistic creativity! I look so forward to watching you! ❤

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Care this was a fantastic video into making an abstract series. Sometimes I get caught up in trying to do them individually that they turn out not cohesive at all. Thank you❤

Love your exuberance. Made me feel like having a go. Shall need some neon paints I can see!

Wow I love your art it really inspired me thank you

This was a great video! Thank you so much. I have become obsessed with abstract art, but am still learning. I found myself painting and getting messy right along with you on a scrap paper from my sketchbook. I haven't even finished all the layers yet, but I am honestly shocked at how cool my little art series is looking already!!! Thank you again 😊

Hi Cate! WOW! I'm just amazed at these gorgeous small pieces of art. When you were doing parts of them I was going OHH NOO what is she doing!!??😂😂 But the end was just gorgeous. I learned how to just let go and have fun and not to over think the process. I'm going to be trying this very soon. Thanks so much for your teaching and time to make videos! I'm going to send your link to my daughter who home schools her 9 yr old who happens to love art. Hugs Susan from AZ🥰🏜️❤️

It's a balmy 52° NE Winds 18 Feels like 42 with 1 hr to sundown and getting colder. It's to late for painting but my supplies are out and ready to go! Teachers are hero's. Subscribed

Hello from Sunny South Australia. Enjoying your videos 😁

Wonderful lesson! I would love to see hoe you frame them if that would be possible! thank you!

H i Cate! Luv your videos! When I was in grammar school (small kid time) one of my teachers would tell us to make a scribble and then paint in the spaces like you did today! I'd forgotten about it completely even though it was so much fun! Thanks for bringing that back into my painting! Time to go have fun and make a big colorful mess! I can't paint any other way! 😄

New subscriber here. I really enjoyed watching this video. I work with a group of seniors and I think they will enjoy this. Thank you!

Really enjoying your videos Cate.

New to you today… and immediate fan! I liked and subbed! 🫶🏼Your love of teaching really comes right off the screen! 👏🏼 Keep shining your light! 💫 I’m off now to watch my fifth of your videos. 💙💙💙

I could listen to you all day. Thank you for sharing your expertise 😊

Loved watching this for the first time on your channel. You created some exciting pieces. I wanted to ask you if you frame them for sale and if so would it be possible to see the completely finished product. Thanks for sharing all those bits that you do. I’m a card maker and sometimes do this technique with paper scraps making a collage which then gets cut up. I’m always amazed by how good they can look when cut up and embellished. I’m on the east coast of Australia and I’m sorry to say we have beautiful sunshine ☀️. I’m going to watch another video.

Just found you! I enjoy your teaching and your art 🎨

Oooo love it! The colours are so excitng. We matched today, I've been covered in orange paint for a week as I'm painting the stairs😂

New to art at the age of 63. You lessons are so inspiring.

FABULOUS ! I’m thrilled you popped up on my feed😁(subscribed) I enjoyed the simplified products that make a huge impact. Curious as to how you display these, in a black frame or mounted on a particular substrate? Or both?

Hi Cate, pouring rain here in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I’m new to your channel and enjoying it very much. Thanks for your fearless energy!😊

Great video - playful, fun art. I've done exercises like this before and really enjoyed it - I have a charity event coming up so think I'll get going with another few sheets of cartridge paper and paint!

I have a series of 4 that I did before I found your video. I like 2 of them but the other 2, not so much. I might add some metallic paint and see what happens....or I could cut them for other projects.

🎉Hi Cate, I've loved watching your creative endeavours, thank you so very much! I was wondering if you'd be kind enough to let me know the make of your copper pen? No problem of course if you can't, I totally understand! All the best from a chilly night in Manchester!

Glad I found you Cate, your energy is contagious! I will apply this technique, maybe have a painting night with my friends. What’s the best way to flatten the paper quickly?

I’m loving all of your ideas and thinking about other things I could use to embellish these such as fabric and beads. I was wondering though how you would present these since they are not framed. It seems like a little frame would be great but then you’ve got expense with that.

This was really amazing. Loved this video. Really need to try this. Have done something similar with watercolour paints. I am in South Africa and we have a really beautiful sunny and warm day today.

This is amazing, i love your art would like to have a collab one day ❤

I love this! What a great idea! How did you flatten them once they dried? How did you frame or mount them?

I have just started watching your videos. I love your energy. As a teacher myself I am interested in your videos you share on Mondays. Are they through this channel as I tried looking for them?

Hi Cate, have just watched this video and loved it. Do you worry about putting your work in a mount and then a cello bag before selling it ? I bet you are an amazing teacher for your students wherever they are ! 😊

Thank you cate from n.s.w. Australia.

Thank you for the inspiration. I painted on a big sheet and I was wondering what to do with it. I think I will now cut it up and retouch the pieces and see what happens. You can get such joy from the smaller pieces. Happy rainy day from Cork Ireland. Don't know when the weather will let up here but I can always paint can't I?

Thank you for sharing this tutorial 😊 I do the same and use my artwork on greetings cards and on my business cards.

I’ve really enjoyed your video (and more of your videos) it would be really helpful to see how you displayed these pieces when finished at the charity exhibition. Do you have photos? Sending love to you, and waving from London U.K. Helen x

Fun ty. You say you will straighten them out at the end any secrets as to how please?

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Thank you Cate! I enjoyed this video and I am going to try this project this weekend. I feel the same way about signing my work. I find it distracting and try to incorporate into the design, if I can. One question, what is your method for flattening the pieces?

Sorry. Cate, second comment😊 how would you go about framing those?

Do you mount them with a matt and frame under glass? If you do how does anyone see the back where your stickers are? Maybe a floating frame, no matt where you can see both sides?

I truly enjoy your videos and enthusiasm. I would like to subscribe but, I am not seeing a place to subscribe.

this is what ART has been reduced too? Seriously?

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