Intuitive Painting: What does it mean? 

Miss Louise, darling…again; thank you so very, very much!

I couldn't agree more with your message. I'm so tired of people on you tube crowing about sales and marketing with virtually no thought as to the meaning of their art. I love love love collage and do lots. Only problem I have is affixing them to canvas. They warp.

I have been collecting our personal bits of travels since we married 9 years ago, all over the world. We married after 40 years married to other spouses who passed with cancer. We met in high school in 1969. This is my soul telling me this is why I saved all the pieces. I did do a large digital piece about my life journey. It is on my living room wall. My husband knew what it was about as soon as he saw it. To do this with our travels will be a wonderful journey. Thanks for inspiring me, Louise. I am sitting here in Florida on a beautiful balcony on a cloudy day. It is marvellous. I am waiting until the rain stops so I can paint the day and add my memory. I will share with you when I am done. Warm Regards, L😊

Anything goes with me!! What is in my way just might land on my canvas!! Great work great artwork thank you!

As a psychologist I always love the depth of your work. I think I tuition is something we can grasp when we understand that each day even a drawn circle will feel and look different. Thanks so much for your contribution - it’s funny that intuitive work ultimately becomes more cognitive than planned out work in the end.

Louise I thank you for your generous spirit and sincerity. I paint intuitively and question my arts relevance. I don’t know what’s directing me, but like you said, just keep on doing it. Thank you Louise!

This is exactly what I feel, thank you for expressing it so well. 😤

Beautiful.

And following this intuition leads to healing & wholeness in our souls.

Love it, that's me! Thank you for sharing.

Such beautiful textures it reminds me of peeled paint on old windows and furniture after years of more and more layers. Just like the one you were painting 😊

I love you Louise! So wise and so on point!

Thanks very much!!

This is so powerful!! Thank You for everything you do!! ❤

Beautiful thoughtful intuitive work. Thank you always for sharing your process 🧡

Gosh I miss you so much after FYJ and FYV. I will be going thru the lessions again after the winter holidays. Happy New year and Thanks again.

Love this, love you! A fabulous testimony to intuitive painting. Nike says it right when they say "Just do it"!

Hi Louise, how you discribe intuitive painting it makes sense to me. That urge to try something although it does'nt makes sence or has a special meaning yet...i try it and then i stop and don't really feel it anymore. Now i go try to listen a bit deeper and work until the END 😊...thanks for this inspiring video!❤

A great reminder Louise, thankyou. x

I used to get "a round tuit", now I really get "intuit" :). On another note, I really like your progressive art piece, inspires me to start another one myself. I once did a large, intuitive doodle drawing that took me 24 years to complete, working on it only when the magic happened between timing and inspiration in my early life. Looking at it now, the memories it evokes are more precious to me than anything I ever wrote in a journal. My words are hurried and jumbled and I can't even make sense of them now, but I can "see" my life in the drawing!

Thank you so much I need a push to go and you are a wonderful creative person. Yes al the famous letters and cards I made in my young years I can use. I promise I let you see the result when it is ready👍💐

Thank you Louise for your talk about intuitive painting. I have tried this and it is a real pleasure just to place things and not have to think about it. But yes I think leaving it and going back to it is the best way forward. It gives me a chance to see what the possibilities are for the next stage. I am new to this but am finding the process exhilarating. I always recieve your newsletter which is always so informative. I would highly recommend it to those who haven't signed up yet to do so.

Louise, I receive your Sunday newsletters and I value your ideas and encouragement. You have become a mentor and how magical it is that you can make a difference to a woman living in Oregon, United States! Thanks for doing “you”❣

Thank you this video and your advice came to me at right time. You have given me my light bulb moment 😀 Thank you

Hello Louise - greetings from Dublin. I love your video and you've really given me a lot to consider. I'm trying to move away from naturalistic art to something more intuitive (and have just taken up watercolours). Thank you for saying that intuition matters. And I love your collages 🙏

Thankyou again and again x

I love the history of the papers. I understand that we have to trust our inner self. Wonderful ❣️. Thank you for sharing ❤️

Thank you. Great video!

Thanks Louise. The more I dabble, the more I realise that my dabbles are linked to my thinking as I link to my connection with nature, place and landscape. I'm painting for me - not as therapy but as a major aspect of my life style. It has become my life. Again, thanks.

Hi Louise, thanks for your insights! I’m an English intuitive abstract artist, living in France. I’ve just started sharing my painting process on RU-vid & have 2 videos up, woohoo! I’m excited about it & I guess you popped up in my feed as we have the same interests. So from one artist to another, good luck with your journey! 😊

Loved this video... Quite inspiring! And made me realise that yes, sometimes I do what might be expected or what people will like but that is never my best work - in that not the work I am most satisfied with! Thank you

Love love it

Inspirational as always Louise. It is a good lesson to realise every work doesn’t have to be a masterpiece to be hung in a gallery, love your work as usual

Makes perfect sense

Ahhhh.....thank you so much!

That last minute of the slow, deep look on the canvas was sublime! This whole video lite me up and has given me much food for thought.

This is so trueeeee. Appreciate you so much!!

YES! love that you put this into words!

You t always inspiratioanal Louise. Thank you

Yes . Thanks.

Louise..I was listening..I really was...but I couldn't help looking over your shoulder at the messies, I am constantly trying to rid myself of the messies...I inherited my Mom's house, filled as she left it to hurriedly go off to the hospital, never to return. She kept her papers, and her mother's papers, and all her aunties papers..I have...ENDLESS past papers..thank your for opening the portal, messes as it is..

Love it! So true. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎨

I totaly understand following your intuition. I'm happiest just exploring and playing with shapes, colors and Anything that I like. But here's the one issue I have. While "playing" I forget about composition. The finished piece has to be pleasant to look at even if I don't plan on selling it. How do you balance your enthusiasm for following your intuition with the necessity of composition. Or, as an artist, does the composition come naturally to you without much cognitive thought?

I absolutely love the 2 sanded collage pieces you are showing in the video and I would like to own the one or the other just as they are! They remind me of the old walls and advertising pillars ofmy childhood in Vienna, with posters and advertisements, , weathered ,then new ones sticked on and over, half removed again, and so it went on and on... I couldn't stop looking ! I don't use this really fascinating technique at the moment, although Iuse collage lately, but I could never stick a telegram with a message to join a funeral on one of my paintings, I hadn't the inner distance to not be sad and touched!

Ancient walls Topography of a landscape Grunge I love it. Thank you for the close ups at the end. Really special.

I am at a standstill, I took an art course from a totally different kind of artist than me. He sells his stuff I don't. I love my drawings I love doing my drawings but now after this class I feel like I should be doing something different and I am not happy about that. So I do nothing, I am very frustrated. I love listening to you and your positivity and your pod casts.

30 years ago I stopped painting, I lost my intuition. I started to worry about what people would think, if my paintings would sell, even though people would buy them before they were done. 10 years ago I started painting again, this time around I decided I wasn't going to sell my paintings or show them to anyone, before they were, at least, 3 years old. It have helped, maybe age have as well. I gotten over my "stage fright".

As always my favourite art buddy has inspired me to get going on my exploration of the new thing nudging at me without fear or giving in to tippytoeing. Great info and encouragement, Thank you Louise!

Love this piece, Louise!!!

Such wise words, Louise, thank you for your positivity.

Absolutely. 100%. 💜

Your comments are so insightful and inspiring Louise and I feel you share them so generously

thanks for the reminder and encouragement to follow our intuition, Louise. the trails can be so wispy and insubstantial in the beginning, like trying to hold onto fog...but usually something appears, given enough time and fortitude. Appreciate your teaching!

Wonderful art ❤

Thank you for this video. Love the sanded back collages papers…inspiring. Thank you also for your weekly newsletters which are always inspiring & helpful.

Oh Louise look at all those lovely papers, they would be great in my journals😁 I’m digging out some of my good ones to finish your journal. Take care Lesley xx

Started collaging after finding you on UTube. I can’t stop doing it. Love putting color combinations and lots of layering. Love the process and have no idea why just following intuition and play. Thank you for such wonderful inspiration

I have always loved and been intrigued by vintage ephemera...... the diaries, journals, business ledgers, handwritten letters, handwritten postcards, vintage photos of unknown people. And that's because.... like you..... I imagine their personal stories of life. I guess that is also why I do genealogy .... to find out the personal stories of my ancestors. And.... my favorite books to read are biographies. It is always about people's individual life stores that interest me in life. So what you are doing with your art at the moment really interests me. Question: How do you keep collaging, painting and sanding without losing all of the vintage ephemera..... i.e. that the viewer can no longer read even snippets of it? That has always been my problem when trying this....... I have always struggled with trying to figure out what kind of "painting/mixed media" that I want to do. Your video today resonates with me. Perhaps this is the clue to my art journey that I needed to hear. Thank you. I shall experiment and play with it.... Do you consider the painting at the end of this video to be finished? I love it just the way it is...... just wondering what this will look like when YOU consider it to be finished. I.e. how much of the ephemera will be readable?

Thanks Louise resonates with me what you have said😊

I love this! I was intrigued when you did the collage in the landscaping paintings that you mentioned. I love how you're following that impulse and how it's developing! It really grabs me. And I really enjoy the newsletter. I read it every Sunday morning in bed. Perfect!

This is pretty damn beautiful

Excellent message. Excellent video!

Excellent message with an inspiring explanation - as always. Thank you, Louise!

Thank you Louise as always, working in Water colour love concept of of layering and excavating so search how to with Wc lifting glazing so far any one with any more ideas also disruption

Very nice video about intuition - the guide of our soul.🦋

I was inspired to try this when you mentioned it before, bc I was always so close to learning the histories of my families. So I've been busy gathering my ephemera and adding collage to my paintings and sketches. It has been the thing I have been most drawn to, and felt the most right as well. That thought really resonated with me. I cannot thank you enough for the inspiration.

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Thank you Louise. I have had an inspiration about something for quite some time now, but have always "turned the page" on it because it seemed too sad. But your video made something click for me, so I have taken out my sketch book (which I drag around to so many places and never use) and have written down my idea as a way to give credence to an inspiration. I like to approach that utilizing the sketchbook doesn't have to involve anything fancy or involved. Less pressure! As an aside, is what you are doing with this method of all these layers, called "decollage"?

I loved this discussion about your use of ephemera collage intuitively within your work, especially the part when you said it doesn’t all have to come from you. The part I didn’t understand was when you said, you know it is commercial art. I’m wondering if you can touch on that somewhere within your newsletters or videos. Why did you consider the addition of ephemera as a commercial aspect? Or maybe I misinterpreted. Thank you so much!

Do you do these on board or canvas. I did something similar on canvas and had a bit of problem...should I try board

How do you glue down all these papers without warping your canvas?

do you use an art program, and if so, which one? thank you