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I really look forward to your videos, the lovely painting work coupled with your charming voice is calming and inspiring. The way you think out loud while you're working sounds similar to my own inner dialogue when I'm painting

The things you say are so cute and funny. Thanks for starting my morning off right. Now I head into the studio with a smile on my face.

Great one Jennifer! Yes, so attractive, the fall colors, but sooo hard to get right. Did many in the Lake Tahoe area (aspens) when I lived there, now my "trees" near me are tall columnar spikey things here in AZ, LOL. The thing is no matter how much orange and yellow you glob onto a painting it will not "read" unless there are darks next to it, to make it, as you say, "pop", just like corn kernels in a microwave. And you can almost hear it when it works well. LOL. Takes some time to figure out, as you say, but with time comes a most important "ingredient", especially for plein air painting, and that's bravado, or confidence. "I can do this, it's not rocket science, ...it's actually much harder"!! ;D Love your comments along the way, and, of course, the kitty at the end. We have a Maine Coon; she allows us to live here in this nice house of hers. Top tip folks, when taking a painting home to "Fix" it. Put the egg timer on for 5-10 minutes, and don't "cheat" after the bell, ...at least not too much!! LOL ;D

fall is in the air!!! nice painting

Show tunes and a yellow jacket the size of a wren. You captured the light beautifully. The colors of the painting feel warm and bright. Thanks so much for this lovely video and the flailing! It is nice to hear you reflecting on your own artistic progress and confidence.

Your brush strokes always empathise with your subject and additionally highlight the ambience of the surroundings. Some artists seek to impose their style on a painting but you seem to want to pay homage to what you are painting.

I don't remember if I told you, or another artist I follow in here, about a Turkish pianist named Elif Sa whose cat seems to have a lot to say about Elif's playing. From what Elif says about the cat, it seems like quite the contentious relationship. Really nice job with this painting, your cat's critiques not withstanding. Additionally, this time I found your process so meditative to watch, I actually figured out how to solve a seemingly insoluble Mensa math puzzle which had been dogging me all weekend while watching you paint!! If this results in some sort of puzzle-solving award, I'll definitely acknowledge you in my acceptance speech!

Beautiful! I love watching you paint!! How in the world do you hold your camera while you're painting?

A beautiful painting of autumn trees. Like the way the scene was backlit.

I enjoy your videos so much. You always manage to create something beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

So good.

Good to see you out there Jennifer. Way to stay loose. Good job!

Beautiful!

Good hand writing...colors are dancing!

I like this video so much!! First of all, I think you did a GREAT job on this painting, especially given your self-confessed insecurities and difficulties with the subject matter and the color scheme. When you were saying, "Hmm...I don't know..." at the end, I was saying, "That looks GREAT!!" Secondly, your plein air vlogs are always like dinner and a show. You confessed that you don't have that Bob Ross thing where you can just pop in a happy little mountain HERE, or a happy little cloud or tree THERE, which of course makes you instantly more relatable to me's of the world. Thirdly, you've given me an idea I've been looking for for years. I've been developing a "young relative novice art student" character with a name like "Sophie", who's unassuming, earnest, and talented, but who's so hypnotically beautiful and charismatic that nobody can quite think straight around her, and in one of my scenes, half the art class ends up ignoring the model and the teacher, and just painting versions of "Sophie". I figure when the class is over, all anybody can solidly remember of the experience is something offhand she has said in class, but I couldn't quite figure out what that quote might be. Then along come you, struggling with this painting, and you utter this marquee sound-bite: "Life's just a bunch of blobs and dots!" Hmm. My "Sophie" character could say something like that about the whole painting process, "...just...blobs and dots" and, given her unintentionally seismic effect on the class, her classmates would not only go home mostly with paintings and sketches of her, but with various attempts at semi-pointillist renderings of her, well outside of the teacher's syllabus for that day. Thanks for this idea. I'll keep you posted if anything comes of it. Meanwhile, great vlog as always!!

Very nice painting!

Great painting. I love watching you work and listening to you talk about it as you go. If you ever visit Melbourne, please come paint with me

I love watching you paint especially when you're discussing the dots and blobs philosophy of life!

I know how you felt in this video when you said it was hideous and scraped the rock away...when I am doing a plein air video I can get SO frustrated before the painting is finished and doubt comes creeping in🙂🙃. I have to say though, you came out with a great one, and I always love your paintings! Great job Jennifer 👍👍👍

Beautiful spot! You did a great job with this piece! 🌸

Hi Jennifer. I see you are switching between the Winsor Newton synthetic hog brushes and the Utrecht 206F Tuscan series, both flats. Could you tell me what you like about each of these two brands and the differences between them? I need a few new brushes so your insights could be helpful. Many thanks.

Beautiful work Jennifer👍

Thank you for this!!

Very well done, jennifer, like a lot.

Wonderful piece of art. Just like a Monet painting....abstract blobs of shape and colour close up but stand back and it magically transforms itself. Like Oregon artist E John Robinson used to say...walk a mile for every painting, ie stand back from it regularly to truly see it. Thanks for sharing.

Jennifer, great one! A master class and demo into the beauty of the abstract nature of nature. Lots of folks try to make some weird stuff up in the studio, as abstractions, when just outside, at a little creek, is all that you really need! You said it, don't try to figure it out, just squint and paint what you see as blobs of color and shapes. Love the 8x10, I even been doing lots of 6x8, beauty is it's not a big investment of time and material but can always be blown up (one way or another, lol) into a bigger studio piece, if it works out. This one certainly would be a nice, say, 12x16 or 16x20!! Cheers! :D

It is going great, and you should love it! Watching you work is such an amazing experience. To see how the painting emerges from the preliminary shapes and colors is amazing. One day, you might want to read Maurice Merleau-Ponty's essay on Cezanne, if you haven't done so yet. The lesson is: You don't need the sun. You make your own sun!

C'est toujours un bonheur de vous regarder peindre. Merci pour ça Jennifer !

Oh great job! I don’t make up things either, I joke there’s nothing in my head! Lol

Excellent work Jennifer…..beautiful site…I have hiked to the top of Castle Rock twice at Blue Mountain Lake and you have captured it perfectly.

Wonderful!

Excellent!!

I wanna talk to Sampson!!

Always look forward to your videos..ty

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Love your work.

Lovely per usually. You're getting even better with expression in brushstroke. Love how things on top of the hill are just dabbled in here and there but, it reads perfect. Keep up the good work. It's a good feeling when you're done and you feel positive. lol

Sooooo good.

Nice one Jennifer, from a guy who does not do many urban or town scenes, preferring the pure landscape like some of your others, in nature. Here in southern AZ, most of the town scenes suck anyway, old adobes, Yuck!! That's sooooo been done!! I like the grittiness of the rusty decadent east coast like the one you did here, I assume that is where it is. A bunch of junky buildings and trash heaps to make a beautiful painting of. Coal becomes a diamond that way, I understand the attraction but don't want to do it. Takes me back to when I first entered college decades ago, enrolled in architecture program, and quickly got out of it and eventually went for environmental ecology/biology (was a big deal "calling" in those days, but with real science, and not politics like now) hence my love of the natural landscape without the "mark of man" on it which always/usually messes it up, IMO. Love your snow scenes too, was living in Tahoe for a while and did that often, since there was No Shortage of snow in winter, so if you want to paint outside............. And it "separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls" so to speak when it comes to plein air painting. No place for sisses, but the thoughts of a few whiskeys at a bar, later, after painting, to warm up, helped you, me, actually, get through it I rationalized. LOL ;D

Good work!

...so the glimpses of your face were a nice surprise! I guess there's a conscious choice in there not to show it much, which of course I respect, but you could say, every so often, "Hey, look! This is me!" I think when you were adding the sludge and imagining it was lily pads, I might have been tempted to "re-write" them and make them a little fairytale-like departure from reality. Such a cool scene. You were surrounded by beauty, and you had a little fish visitor. Panning back from that water, to your depiction of the water gave a sense of how real yours looked, and it did! Any chance you filmed (or will film) the "lots of remaining work to be done" on this painting in your studio?

Despite your commentary you did a fabulous job. and I hope you don't do any more when you get home. It;s really great!

Another fabulous painting! I need a rear view mirror.

Watching and listening to you as you work is such a gift. People want pretty pictures? I'm partial to Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud. Hope you are doing well!

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Mille mercis pour cette jolie peinture et pour votre bonne humeur ! ❤

I look forward to your new videos and love the impossible landscapes you choose! Your paintings are always fabulous and unique.

What a beautiful painting!! I always want to go painting when I see your videos.

Awesome job! Love your loose style and especially love your commentary! 🌸

Beautiful painting...I really enjoyed watching it all come together. Love those loose edges!