I really beat myself up when my work goes wrong. Need to stop wasting energy and time and just keep going! Thank you for the much needed reminder Gaynor x ❤
Gaynor the goalkeeper.....Great saves....thank you you've encouraged me to keep going with paintings I thought were lost. The breathing space ie walking away is the best advice I'm amazed at how different things appear when you come back to them. Great video this week again 👍 ❤
The worst sentence ever…” think I’ll end here”, my insides are screaming no no no….thank you Gaynor for all of your hard work with these videos. I’m sorry I’m so selfish and want more. Ha
Love the basil pot plant...really cute and shabby chic looking with the raspberry and the writing. The way you use your brush now, is lovely to watch....you got to a point where I could see the small leaves coming from the lower stems, and thought it was looking so abstract but delicate too. I think you've painted more leaves instead. Sometimes less is more. Really enjoying your determination this week to not give up on something you don't really like and then coming back to see if something else might work.....and it usually does. That table easel you found is so precious. What a find!!!! Look forward to your next visit to you tube land.😊 Jo. You are such a great art teacher in the way you don't hold back and are so joyful and expressive. I think you are awesome Gaynor.
Hi Jo, when I edited, I did think " I could have, should have and would have stopped"......it is hard to see sometimes !!!But, I will have a few more attempts. Thank you for your kind support and another lovely comment XX
Hi Gaynor! Thanks so much for sharing your process - the ‘ugly phase’ and all! I’ve learned so much about taking risks and ‘giving it a go.’ A different question / request - one day, would you share your garden with us? It’s a wonderful background in all your videos and I’d love to see it properly and learn what those plants are that brighten your yard.
Hello Allysa, I am waiting for some warmer weather to go into the garden and paint plein air, hopefully it won't be too much longer !!! Thank you for watching and taking time to comment XX
Hi Gaynor, great topic this week, I have had paintings facing the wall for years that I might actually turn around with white paint at hand. Love your portrait and would love to see your process with portraits some time. Thank you again. Have a creative week.
Craig comes through again, you guys are a good team! Regarding color shapers- as a beginner they've been so helpful to me. I find it easier to not overpaint or overwork something when I use them and love the variety of shapes and marks they make. Love all your spring-fresh florals lately, they're so exceptionally lovely. Happy May to you!
SO excited to see the DRIPPING effect again with the basil plant.... Watching you is a moment of complete calm and joy in my day. Thank you for another lovely video, with so many ideas and food for thought 💛💛💛
Everybody needs a Craig. His frames are superb 👍👍 Overworking is the bane of my life, but I love your resolve. I so often just gesso over and start again. What we need is a safe that only our partners have the combination to, so when we're 'quite happy' with a piece it goes in the safe and can't be released for at least a week and, therefore, can't be fiddled with. Great vlog again Gaynor.♥
Hi Rich and Hi Fran XX Our main topic of conversation at the moment is "mitred corners" !!! It is so hard to step away....I think we just love paint 😂 I hope you guys had a great time at the boat show and I loved Fran's hat 🥰
Gaynor - It occurred to me - and maybe someone has already said this - that the floral you overworked would be lovely cropped down, like you do with your abstracts. That bottom right quadrant is a keeper! Thanks for your terrific videos - always so encouraging!
What’s going on Gaynor? First the geraniums and now the basil? Have you got a camera in my back garden? Truly I was watering my basil seedlings this morning and thinking about painting them. To save you the trouble of a camera on my front porch, I’ll tell you that there is a nice vase thing of three begonias that are on my list. So there you go 😂😂
I like how your discuss your feelings a lot when you talk about your process. I paint very differently to you, however I go through all the same kinds of emotions when I create my paintings. So I totally understand all the ups and downs you openly discuss.
You know the flowers that Craig framed for you is gold ohhhh my goodness Gaynor that artwork is absolutely beautiful just love your process thank you for sharing 💜 ❤️
So glad this week was about an overworked painting. I got a frame ready for a pastel painting I did a few weeks ago, got it out, and realized that I overworked it. Not happy at all… so I sympathize with you. Had a successful day with another painting - it’s almost done so I can be happy with that. Thanks Gaynor for always telling the truth. You’ve given me courage to go back and try to move forward with the overworked one. Fingers crossed!
Hello Patricia, I'm thinking about writing out some "Overworked" rules for my wall.....1. It might look different tomorrow. 2. Take a new direction 3. If all fails, put it away and work on something else !! Have a lovely week XX
Gaynor you are so inspiring! Loved your rework of Geranium! The pink chair is wonderful. Seeing you fix things always hits home with me. "Keep going" Love that. What a great find in the charity shop of your desk easel. Yay! I have to tell you the Highwood painting is amazing, something very compelling to me - it's wonderful! Have a great week, and Thanks!
It’s amazing how you are able to bring a painting back to life after overworking it. I’m encouraged to forge ahead with my own overworked messes! Thanks !
I have taken a left turn on some of my own paintings but continued to adjust and adapt them and they seem to morph into something quite unexpected. Please keep sharing your videos, have a good week! Thank you!
Thank goodness for Art Weekly. Home life in a pickle. But doing lots of drawing. Put Gaynor on the screen to ramp up the colour and I’m getting inspired again to load up onto Instagram. Thanks x
Lovely floral in the new frame! Especially like your droopy white leaves on the large easel, which haven’t had a mention - yet!! Thanks for sharing the good and the bad 😂 We’re all human after all! Jill R
It’s so good to hear that even Gaynor struggles with a failed painting. My problem, I thought, was that I hang on tooth and nails to try to save them…how can I fix what has gone terribly wrong, while others just put it in the trash and don’t feel like there’s anything wrong with destroying it or throwing it away. Glad to find that you keep trying to do a Lazarus on a failed work and it made me feel better. By the way, here in the US hardly anyone knows about St Ives frames and I’ve tried to buy them but they aren’t available!! I would have to order the moulding (and try and make it myself), or pay a huge amount of money to get one shipped from the UK (found someone in Ireland who makes them but he refuses to ship, no matter the cost). Craig is so amazing-you LUCKY girl/artist-he can make them for you! I am so green with envy. ❤
That table easel was a wonderful find! I use my son's childhood table top easel that has a storage compartment and a drawer and is fantastic to use! I like watching your contour painting - I like the immediacy of it. Have a nice week ahead Gaynor. X
I admire your energy and creativity. Love the colors that you work with. Matisse is one of my favorite artists, also. He is able to capture a setting with few strokes and strong colors.
Your videos are always a treat to watch, and you’ve inspired me to look at painting herbs! Peony season here has been glorious but is ending. Herbs it is! Thank you!!
Herbs! Yes yes. That would be lovely to see you work a series of those. They could be cards even! Hope you have a wonderful weekend! No Rocket cameo this week. Haha! Love your video as always. I can't wait for Thursday to arrive! Love from Atlanta, Roxanne 👋
Hello Roxanne, I can see the Herb cards.....I've just got to get on and paint them !! Thank you for your lovely kindness and have a great week in Atlanta XX
So excited to wake up and grab my coffee to see Gaynor’s Thursday video, it’s pouring rain today here in Oklahoma and I’m celebrating 33 yrs of marriage. Best thing of all…morning coffee with a new Gaynor video!!
I think a herb series is a great idea. Might make cute cards too. Have you ever thought of painting the stack of books the pot is sitting on? I really liked the painting with the books stacked next to the chair. Before you painted over it. 😂
Hello Gaynor, I love the pot in the geranium picture. I was really hoping that wasn’t going to get obliterated. Phew, it didn’t. Framing or editing the size or shape when a piece of work needs ‘something’ but you aren’t sure what, can transform a picture can’t it. Keep going. Have a lovely week. 💐
When U can spend time in ur yard....plein air some flowers? 😊 The window is lighting from the back...on to the subject. To get to a focal point is maybe having the subject eye level and not so close up. When is cabin #3 happening ? Turning one of the bedrooms into a studio😅...for the cold months? and more walls for displaying the works of art. Ann
Your enthusiasm is contagious Gaynor. So many lovely pieces surround you. I admire your tenacity in pushing on, moving from piece to piece as each gains your attention. As for the frustration in the opening, certainly we have those moments but we must remember it's just paint (things can be painted over or somewhat recreated), or we can simply consider it a learning experience which will impact our approach in the future. ❤❤❤
The florals are outstanding in the new frames. Great choice! I intend to take part in the Cheryl Taves 30 Day Sketchbook Challenge Course. Thank you for mentioning it. 😃
Always a delight for Thursdays. I seem to watch your videos around 3am when I wake up. I think that is my be my bewitching time as they say. You bring such good advise. I love to visit Thrift shops too & what a great find. It is finally warming up here in Ohio & I have Lilliacs blooming on both sides of my front door & the smell is just wonderful. I can open my windows & gentle breezes just sends the scent inside. It's pure heaven. Your Craig is a gem & his frame making skills are fantastic.
Don't let the title stop U from reading Kevin Macpherson, Fill your oil painting with light &color. There's a plethora of info. He teaches from experience. It's an amazing buffet of the wonders of color, value, harmony, & techniques. ANN
Hello Gaynor,I did feel for you for overworking but it was a good lesson for us(sorry at your expense!!🤭)If a professional like yourself can overcome that situation..there is hope for us all!!Once you had added the white around the pot ,boom it was back!Think less is definitely more around terracotta ,it is the King of pottery after all!!The Saint Ives frame is really nice,tell Craig well done!!You make a great team…Rocket too of course!!😁Good luck with splitting the Basil but I don’t think you will need it,they are so robust,I split a couple of the supermarket pots every year and they go wild lol!Im very excited to see you paint a set of herbs,I hope you do chives,mine are just budding now,the mauve flowers are beautiful!!I know you would depict them perfectly!Have a great productive week!!❤
Hello Beverly, I will pass on your kind comment XX Chives are a great choice....last year they didn't survive in the garden and we sowed seeds but nothing !!!! A trip to the garden centre I think 😂 Have a wonderful week XX
@@gaynorpattle I’ve never done chive seeds..bought a plant from the supermarket and it’s been in a pot in the garden for about four years right through winters, split it a couple of times ,no problem…so plant form probably the best way to go..happy shopping!xx
Watching you paint the basil and having trouble with the plastic wrap around it. Why not try using plastic itself to extract the effect instead of over painting ..plastic used like stencil effect. Hope you can understand. Love
You mentioned having "strung" the St Ives frame. Do you use string, not wire? Why? (Not judging, just curious.) Appreciate your open sharing. After a somewhat "dry" period I followed your prompt & painted two sketchbook covers. Whoo hoo & thank you!
Hello Yvonne, for sometime now I've been involved with "hanging" for local exhibitions. Cord on 'D' rings, tied with a reef knot allows for flexibility when hanging a lot of work !! Professionally framed work usually comes with wire and is impossible to adjust. Frustrating if you want frames to line up and you aren't allowed to put fixings into walls ! I am delighted to read that you have painted two sketchbook covers....you've made my week 🥰
Hi Gaynor, Thursdays don’t come fast enough for me. I am so glad I found you,you’ve helped my own art so much. Like I finally have permission to enjoy my art. Don’t ever stop. Did you ever decide on the price of the boat picture. I still really want it.
Hi Carol, Apologies for the delay in coming back to you....the boat painting in a wooden cradle frame (finished in antique white chalk paint) measures 25 1/2" x 25 1/2 " . Postage to the USA is approximately £80.00 and the cost of the painting is £185.00, so a total of £265.00. We can organise shipment at the end of May. Please let me know your thoughts and in the meantime thank you so much for watching and your very kind comment XX
@@gaynorpattle hi Gaynor sorry I was out of town and didn’t see this reply. That shipping is a killer and I knew it would be because I’ve mailed things home to myself when I’ve been in England. Yes I want it. Just want to be sure there is no confusion it’s the black and white boat with the dark rectangle in the distance. It was behind you in the cabin in the video how to boost your creativity. It seemed to look bigger than 25 inches so I just want to make sure. Let me know what to do to purchase it. Thank you so much. Carol
@@carollutton3340 Hi Carol, I'm heading for Portugal !! When we return I will send you photographs of the painting in the frame, just to be sure you are happy to go ahead. And I will double check my measurements !!! Gaynor X
0:00 I made it to the end of this video finally, but the timestamp is broken now :/ Cancer sucks! Such a great video! Love how you fix the way of all of your approach processes. 💖
