@@PointebrushSpectacular work in so many ways. Great painting, great thinking, great humor. Great fun! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your experience with us.
You, Margot, are the consummate woman!!! 😍 Every video is brilliantly edited, packed with educational information, and full of laughter. 😂🤣😂 Keep up the awesome work. 😊 👏👏👏
I love your explanation of how to incorporate multiple styles and elements into a painting to make it your own original work. I’m working to discover my personal style. This helps a lot. ❤
One of your most clever videos yet. It was delightful! I like your idea to "steal" from the greatest, more than one if need be, to create your own masterpiece. Yours was stunning.
Beautiful!! And your video - wonderfully entertaining and educational. So helpful - I needed the visual to fully understand how to steal like an artist.
If that was your child, he appears to be a lot like his mother, precious! Drama, mystery, suspense, and comedy all accomplished in less than 12 minutes!!! Bundled into a great learning experience. 💕🖌x
Great topic Margo! 8:43 When we were lucky enough to visit Barcelona in 2010, we were also lucky enough to visit the Joan' Miro Museum located there. We loved it and enjoyed the many interactive exhibits. One of his more traditional works that caught my eye was his "Portrait of a Young Girl." and rendered so perfectly and just "cute." I bought a post card of it and have it tacked up on the wall in my stuffed to the gills walk-in closet. One of these days, I intend to do my own version of "Portrait of a Young Girl." As as art teacher once told me "just make it your own" 👍That's what I intend to do.
It's your artwork, you just used a bunch of inspirations to guide your painting, it's nothing like anything else, definitely your style, love your explanation and acting skills to tell the story!!! 💕😊
Margot -EVERY video I watch of yours I laugh, learn and become HOOKED on your content! I struggle with the finding my own ‘style’ of painting and/or jewelry design. This video is fantastic - and your end product is FABULOUS. thank you for the content!
I absolutely adore your videos and look forward to them. This one was especially fun. I have read the book still like an artist but you actually put it into practice. Great work.🎉
Hahaha - Love this wonderful video, Margot and Company!!!!! 🖤 Bravo to your co-star!!! 🤩 I think you look like the new Emma Peel!!! 😍 Excellent advice guaranteed to produce some very fun and surprising results!!! Can't wait to give it a try!!! 🥳 Thank you so much for the delightful, entertaining lessons in creativity!!! You're the best 🦸🖌️🎨🎭🖼️✨🌟✨💗
Your video editing skills are five star!!! But your painting is on another level altogether 😍 I'm so impressed with the outcome, it's stunning and so different yet it's definitely identifiable as your style!!! Amazing work as usual!! You definitely inspired me on this one 😉. I'm stealing this idea😮
Captivating video and a joyous painting!! I learned so much too, thank you for all the effort you put into everything you post. Such a delight to watch. ❤
Margot everytime you do a video it makes my day and makes me smile😊. You are the best of the best. I am so glad I found you. Your teaching is superior. I have learned so much from you. Thanks❤
Love the video!!!!! 🥰 Your finished artwork was beautiful. A wonderful merging with some of the greats! Your style in it was perfect and pulls you in to look at it some more.
YOOOO i absolutely adore this. Your funny, you lay it out in laymens terms, and you present your argument in a non argumentative way that like how can anyone disagree with you!? it brings to light things i like to do when I do digital art, i'll take multiple references. Sometimes, when I just cant get them to flow together correctly, i'll photobash and stitch them together in photoshop to create a frankenreference to use. I'll overlay colors, textures, patterns, ill swap hairstyles and hand poses, put it accessories I like.. And i have some semblemce of the final image in front of me before i laydown a sketch stroke. When i first started trying to develop my own style, my theory was I'll draw eyes like artist x, nose like y, and mouth like z. I had a fun way of drawing hard that was my own. But then i learned i dont have to be so rigid. You can do a littel bit of both, mix them up, or merge them together, and the possibilities are endless. And when you put the stroke down yourself, it has your own dna meshed into it as well. And the more you do this, the more unique your own dna becomes.
Ahh this is so much fun, I love the style and personality of this. It’s fun, educational, snappy, and the artwork is beautiful. That’s a cool wardrobe.
That painting came out beautiful Margot! I've really been loving this super playful direction you've been taking your videos, both entertaining but very educational. This one in particular is well timed since a week or 2 ago I went on a 'how to use reference' spree on youtube that talk about this same idea, and watching how everyone explains/approaches things differently has been great! I think yours is one of my favorites just because your particular style and subject is so far removed from what I draw that I pick up something new/unique for my own work. My other favorite video was from comic book artist David Finch, but rather than pull from wildly different sources/genres, he went the opposite route and showed how to successfully pull from what the industry he directly works in: comics. He had like 4 different graphic novels, and he step by step showed why and how he yanked from each. A pose from one book that he changes up, the anatomy/ muscles from a second book, the lighting from a third, and shadow/adding black marks from a fourth. And in the end his figure looked entirely unique and you'd never even think he was stealing from what are basically co-workers. In general, the fact there's more and more videos like this about how to reference or 'steal' from both photographs or life for reference, but artists as well online is awesome I think. Particularly artists imo because I remember in art school and even college my instructors were always like "NEVER REFERENCE ARTISTS. EVER." Also the 'you're not a REAL artist if you can't draw from imagination' is still very much something noobie artists struggle with (I was no exception).
That video deserves an Oscar Nomination for original content, lifetime achievement award, leading actress in an original educational series, editing, set design and wardrobe. You are very talented.
I love your videos they are so creative and made well. They are always funny or silly yet with an educational twist. You really learn a lot from your videos, and you know so much. Your videos will never bore that’s for sure.
Kleon was the first artist I heard say that there's no such thing as an original idea. "There's no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope." That's attributed to Mark Twain. Words to live by, as long as we give credit where credit is due. This was a great post, Ms. Hallac. I love it.
I echo all the sentiments praising the incredible quality of your videos! Your skills as both an artist and educator shine through in your clear, engaging, and to-the-point explanations. Please continue creating these videos; I thoroughly enjoy each and every one, and they only seem to be improving. Thank you sincerely for generously sharing such valuable information with all of us. Your hard work in producing these wonderful videos is truly appreciated - they're absolutely addictive!
What a top-notch video, Margot! Well done ⭐ Somehow, you've managed to be funny, educational and inspiring *and* delivered a master class in under 12 minutes! Thanks for producing such wonderful content. I loved how you showed your inspiration sources and the overhead shot of some of your art books 🧡🩷
I’m a new “sub” and I have found myself watching your videos more often than not. I love the splashes of humor you pepper throughout, along with a good helping of solid information one can build on with their own work. You my friend are very accomplished as witnessed by your previous paintings. Keep up the great work, and thanks for taking us along.😊
😂 Ohhh Margot that’s so humorous & fun! I love 💕 your accomplice at the beginning leading to this wonderful journey of art stealing that I have been hearing about lately. Yes 🙌🏻 you got away with it, and your explanation of this concept is much easier to understand completely. You have definitely given me something to think 🤔 about & inspire to. Thanks for sharing this wonderful video. It really made my evening enjoyable.
Margot this took me back to the days I was at FIT designing a line gathering inspiration from many different places. I loved the addictive flow that I achieved immersing myself in the task of going to our library. Thank you! Great video.
And the coolest thing ever is that, while you were doing your heist, I was thinking how I would use the same sources of inspiration for a piece. And the painting I envisioned was completely different because I would take other components of the patterns or Picasso’s work. Brilliant video, very playful and inspirational. Thank you!
You got away with it for sure!! It is an original Margo creation. Your creativity knows no limits. A sheer joy to watch. Thank you for the hours of work you put into these videos. ❤❤❤
I am brand new to painting so tell me if I'm wrong, but it seems that you took inspiration from all these places but the painting is your own. Nic work!
You're painting is beautiful, the videography is mind-blowing, you're acting is wonderful, the editing is amazing, and your explanation of how to use other artists and things as inspiration was so clear and understandable... I'm mindblown. I honestly forgot I was looking at someone making videos on RU-vid because it seemed like those funny educational videos professional studios put out. When you said you wanted to be more creative in your videography, I had no idea this is what you meant. You are an amazing artist in film and watercolor. And you're acting is A+ also. Great job!
This is the best explanation on how to integrate the styles and concepts of artists we love into our own art. Brilliant video! And also, the painting you did is incredible!!
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. And so much fun. I was smiling (and occasionally laughing) the entire time. And I love the final piece. (Is it okay to like it more than Picasso's?) 😆
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. You are so talented not only as an artist but also as an artist, but your videos are so interesting and informative, I found this very entertaining. Well done Margot you have excelled with this one, definitely a 10 ❤❤❤
This is amazing; and I love the creativity in your finished piece! What a fun way to stretch our artistic muscles and visual vocabulary. 💖 "Steal Like An Artist" was one of the first books that freed me to really explore art again.
I simply adore your storytelling. From the art to the story and passing through the creativity you simply create masterpiece after masterpiece. Thank you
Margo you are a unique talent, you educate with wit and panache and you do it with such kindness and grace that your videos are simply a joy to watch. The final painting is just superb!
Thank you for this education artistic heist video! The reason you are such a great artist is because not only do you have a great eye, you put your heart and soul into your art.
Margot, thank you so much for your explanation of stealing like an artist! Up to this point, I didn’t fully grasp exactly what that meant. I really enjoy your videos! They are so entertaining and filled with information 😊
Oh this painting is beautiful! I'm not normally a fan of the style, but thanks to your content, I'm learning to appreciate it. I do think it looks much better in watercolor. Great video, a TON of work went into it, and you can tell. Thanks! 🌻
Thanks Margot for another brilliant video. I’ve just had a bit of a lightbulb moment! For the last 3 years I have been trying to develop my style and have done many tutorials from artists I admire. However, this last year, I have been doing more and more of my own paintings and have realised that my style revolves around the artists I admire and are in fact a combination plus some of my own touches, but I’ve only just realised that haha 😅
Loved this! I admire Picasso, but I have never liked his paintings. I love your paintings, and liked your “Picasso inspired” painting much more than I have ever liked his.
