This is the first time I have found a video on finding your artistic style that works! I forget about books. I just started following Dina Wakley and you are right she has a unique way of teaching without making you feel like it has to look like her style. Thank you so much sharing your process. I'm finally encouraged!
This was fun, Meg! Ironically, I've been recently going through my own library of books and many of these were in my stack. Well, maybe not ironic, lol. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and tips! 🙏🏻❤🥰
Such a wonderful share, Megan. Thanks for sharing your advice, books and sketchbooks! Very inspiring. Also very nice to see your face at the beginning of the video.
I enjoyed seeing your early journals. I have journal pages in the 1000 Journal Pages book, pages 246, 247, and 248. I sent her six photos taken with my son's digital camera. I didn't have one at the time. She used them all.
I love your art journals; I guess it's time for me to start art journal. I like your art journal with burlap 'pages', I have never seen this. A few years ago I joined a workshop creating/binding a book/journal with all kinds of different paper.
Thanks for the personal color pallet tip. I think I've naturally started limiting my colors, but I can also see how I've been frustrated by trying to include too many. Will give a try purposely seeing what my favorites are and keeping them as a "base". Simplifying. Thanks again.
I stumbled on this video because i recognized Dawn’s books- that’s my dog on the cover of A World of Artist Journals and I am in 1000 AJP as well, though I cannot remember what pages. You give great advice to people who are trying to find their style. Off to check out more of your videos. 😊 PS That Jason Thompson book kicked it all off for me back in the day! I used to go to Artfest.
This was really really inspiring, thank you for sharing your proces with us. I do like the first faces style you’ve drawn very much, like the one on 20:08 Loved it 😍😍😍
I thoroughly enjoyed your video. It's really well done. It is filled with your wealth of experience, advice, and talent. On our way toward artistic greatness 😉😁, it's definitely okay to trace and/or copy; it's one of the practices used by student artists for centuries. It's an effective learning tool, not to mention fun! Learning is not done in a vacuum. We just can't publicly claim the work as our own, as you explained well. (I did notice, in the second curated book, that an artist from outside the US presented her art as her own, but was so close an imitation that, at first, I thought they were by a Portland, Oregon artist (with whom I am familiar)-- right down to the use of his personal symbols.) Anyhoo... I'm sure that doesn't happen often. Journal books or similar sketchbooks are fun and intimate places to practice, and to find our own styles.
Thank you for this! I found a couple of the doodle book on a used website. I am really struggling to create my own palette. I have looked back thru my art journal and nothing is really standing out to me as a common thread…..I do know that I want to move a little away from my collage style into something different. Less collage style and more background with a focal point. BUT, I’m finding the color palette daunting and overwhelming.
Thanks for this! Some great ideas I can’t wait to try. But I’m not sure why you keep putting down your early faces! Aren’t they just a different expression of a face, rather than one being better or worse? I get that you like your later ones better, but I think your earlier ones have their own charm😊
Thanks for sharing. I’m taking one of your classes now and have been really frustrated with faces. It’s nice to see it was a lot of practice even for you. Great info in this video ❤
Thanks so muck for the video and peek into your transformation as an artist. You were extremely talented from the beginning and I completely adore the faces in your first book. They were so simple yet so expressive. I think they're charming. My family and friends are always complimenting me on my art but I'm quick to dismiss it because I'm not where I want to be artistically. They see the beauty of what I actually created while I see the deviations from what I intended to create. Maybe that's the artist curse.
It is so difficult to translate what we see in our heads to the page and be happy with the result, isn't it? I struggle with that every day. I agree that it's a type of curse and though I've seen many videos on how to break that cycle, I haven't found success so far.
Some really solid advice here - thanks for putting yourself out there as a mentor for others trying to find a way to express themselves through creative play. 💜
Thanks for the great video and tips! For sure i think i will make note of my 'preferred' colors and point myself in that direction. I am very drawn to the faces... and am hoping you might can advise me about the 'shadowy water color affect ' you pointed out which you want to do more of . I need to do more work with faces too, and would like to try that technique.
I use Pinterest for my inspiration, you have a much wider selection of styles and ai knows what sort of style you like and brings more of that sort of style. I’ve found many a favourite artist and art style this way, and I have really gained a good idea of what I like and what I can apply to my own art practice.
This is my second time watching this video, thank you so much for sharing. I really appreciate all the books you recommended. I am borrowing some of them from the library to take a look at before I buy the actual books. ❤ Oh yes, thank you for showing some of your early journals, I find doing faces … scary. But I would love to be able to do them well, seeing your progress is really inspiring.
This was a great idea. I have a couple of the books you showed. I recently went in the backyard with some watercolor pages (a full watercolor sheet divided and torn into 16 same sized pieces) and just sketched small vignettes that I saw; then, colored it in with a new travel watercolor pan set. It was fun and colorful and wonky but I like what I did. I found I was putting colors on a separate page; then, mixing them which led me to finding color combinations that I had a big reaction to. For instance, I loved burnt sienna and viridian mixed together. I'm going to do a series of small pages using just those two colors. It's a lot of fun. ❤
Thank you for all the info! I loved looking at all those books ❤ I am currently trying to find my style so I created a calendar with daily themes to get my wheels turning! I am loving it so far!
Thank you so much for all the great advise. As a beginner it is very overwhelming with so many videos and different styles out there. You’re right Art School is expensive and like a full time job itself. I am grateful for this inspiration and a little bit of direction 😊👩🎨🎨
Thank you for the inspiring lesson on getting started. I found that some of the books you recommend are available to read online through my public library.
