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Actually, I changed my style significantly in recent years. About 30 years I did what we call doodling nowadays, I think. In the beginning only with black ink and a quill, later on with colored pencils. I really thought my style was unique, but around 10 years ago I found that doodling (or Zen Tangle) was very common, some people even had some of their patterns patented. So I came to the conclusion that I just had met the spirit of the time - or the Zeitgeist how we call it in German. That was a grim perception for me so I decided to try something different and started to paint with acrylics on larger canvases. Bold gestures instead of tiny linework, mostly complementary colors instead of harmonizing colors. Something like reinventing myself new. Nowadays I try to combine my different styles and indeed, sometimes it works out quite well.

Mr. Huntley, your work has never ceased to amaze me. What you’re able to do with color is incredible.

I’m completely wowed-well done!😍😍😍

It looks so beautiful! Nice share 😊 👍 🌺

Love it, as always! 😊

It definitely takes away that hesitation of getting started with the dreaded "blank white" page. Thank you for sharing this I truly look forward to incorporating this technique into my own works. Currently I'm playing around with a lot of collage. I can't get enough of it! LOL

Art is freedom. Do not limit yourself by the limits you have. Create with what is at hand. Just express yourself 💙🔥💙

Gorgeous!

Thanks

Wow amazing

Loved the collaging part!

😮😮😮 I gotta try some of these techniques!!!! Thanks for sharing them!

Chipboard is a great substrate for drawings. It has a beautiful neutral grey color and works extremely well with ball point pens either black or blue...

Copy machine paper is very cheap and the quality is decent i think

Uuuuuhhh...

Have you tried homemade gesso on the cardboard first?

I love your work. It took me until I was 65 to get back into painting after a lot of work before I had time.

I agree with your perspective on the gallery’s. I have been showing my work in local libraries, and craft shows. The prices are lower, but don’t have to give half the money away. I’m 82 and this is an easier way for me. I have sold some, but nothing big.

Love it. The blue trees finished it

Thank you. I’m glad I found you . This will open up a new abstract phase in my painting that I’ve been looking for

As an Art researcher and Collector of 20+ years some of your views may be true but only in the lower band of artists and gallerys.

James, could you elaborate a bit more on how you incorporate your backgrounds into your paintings?

Thanks James. Your videos are always a bright spot in my day.💙

Very Effective

Wow! Thank you. I am readying my supplies.

Great advice… I definitely resonate with you…. Thank you for sharing!!!

Thank you so much! I enjoy making them...Most of my paintings begin like this clip. Once again, one can start...not completely like the marks...and paint over it. The more the marks and texture, the more the backgrounds and layers evolve.

I absolutey loved this video. It is so rewarding to se and hear the process! I am saving this video for future references :D

Wow! This is fantastic! Super cool style. I am looking forward to giving this a go. Thanks for sharing :)

I ❤ this. Liked and subbed. Thanks for showing this.

This truly speaks to me!! Thrift store books make for a great way to economically practice art and try out new mediums. A nice way to recycle too. It adds to my art, especially when i let pictures and/or text peek out from the page. I love collage, but some think it is not true to keeping your art original, but I find that it adds something I may not be able to reproduce by my own hand. Anyway, I digress. I really appreciate you sharing your book with us.

Nice topic…curious, how are you attaching tje tissue to the watercolor paper???

Very inspirational!

Hi James, thanks for posting. I can't figure out what you're doing off screen - I see you have a waterbrush, and it looks like you dipped in the ink to start, but then I see you moving farther off screen to the left (or so it looks) and to the upper right. Are you dipping the brush in water at some point? When you said that you "added water", was that by squeezing the water brush, or dipping in another container? And what's going on to the upper right? Are you removing some of the ink on another piece of paper or towel or something? No need to reply, I'll give it a try and figure it out, but just thought I'd give you some audience feedback.

Are soft pastels also water-soluable? Thanks!

Enjoyed the video. I do assemblage and oftentimes the objects dictate what I'll create just by playing with various stuff. The thinking comes with the engineering of how to put it together and finding the right title for a piece.

Beautiful paintings 🥰👍

Beautiful 🥰👍

One of my biggest challenges is knowing when a work is done( or leaving it alone). I’ve had some personal favorite works of mine around for decades and sometimes I go back to them and add more things or add extra detail. . I was thinking no one does that but then I saw you do it. I’m not so crazy after all?😅

I love the stories of your works... that, you incorporate America in them! I kind of having a "hemwee", like memories of my past, being a child in Texas, with my businessman dad, some kind of a "vision".... always wanting to go to US, but never happened....I buy books of americans doing watercolours, and watch lots of them doing mixed media!!! I love americans, and AMERICA!!!And love "native" or local artworks!!! ---- love Cleo

I have painted oil on canvas during the 90s, and kept all my "paintings" intact!!! I also have dry pastels and watercolours.....all "cosmic" and flowers!!!But, now, I'm lost!I wanted a new "hobby" and bought books about Jewellerys....i stopped!!!I need a new style, and I like your works....i've always been interested in "mixed media"; even my watercolours are not "classic"....my ghod! i need a new art hobby! tfs

I clicked because of the title and stayed because of your beautiful work. Your pieces are stunning and interesting. You art drew me in and made me wonder

am binged watching to ur art this early morning, and i really like ur works, looking for my watersolubles, which i can't find! so frustrating! haha

frogs symbolizes " FORTUNE"!!! I hope to have the angel's tongue to tell you this, so that, YOU may receive your "fortunes"!!! hehe ---with grace, Cleo

nice work, must be theraeutic, i want to make these, tew!!!----grace from Cleo!

some gallerys wud sell this!!! they even sell "strontwerken"!!!

Very beautiful 😍🥰✨

Thank you

This resonates with me. I find that since I started a channel the pressure of drawing requests makes me stress. My channel is just a vlog to show my progress. I don't have a style or body of work that correlates. I just "do." Learning from other artists is what my channel is about. I'm not an artist, but I have an affinity for making art. Basically, having fun, but I find that the viewer wants more. (chuckle) I can only do what strikes me at the time. Anyway, that was longwinded. Good advice. Thank you and glad to see you back on here!

Welcome back!