I love your sketchbook tour Jackie, please show us more ❤ i don't focus on finding my art style because that blocks my creativity, i just try to go with the flow, keep learning and having fun!
I want to see ALL the sketch books! I use mine to journal thoughts with illustrations. I love your ink journal. I love line drawings. People in my life have told me I have a style…. I don’t feel like I do because I love to try all kinds of new techniques and mediums and have fun with the practice. See ya next week❤🌈
OOOOOOOoooooooo, I'll have to do another sketchbook tour. It's more fun than I thought it would be. And that ink journal is yummy, and now that I've reopened it, I want to get back to it. You do have a style in your drawing, but I wonder if that would be the same if you painted. Your photography also has a style, but again, that gets more fluid when you are doing film. It's such a juicy topic and I feel like I'm just now grasping with it.
On the one hand I like the idea of having a consistent style which I think I have for certain paintings I’ve done. However on the other hand I think it can be restrictive. It could hamper growth which only really happens through experimentation. Trying different media, tools and processes will alter style but it sparks creativity and excitement. Artists,myself included, get hung up on style because galleries want more of what was successful.
Ohhhhhh I totally forgot the gallery aspect. I think because artists are essentially disrupting that whole paradigm maybe style is less important. And I’ve absolutely had collectors ask me to recreate something I’ve done in the past and I’m just not interested in doing that (and therefore didn’t get the sale). So for me… it is all about following my curiosity and hoping people are into whatever I’m doing.
Loooooved taking a tour through your sketchbook! And of course I want to see more!😊 I love that it's a working sketchbook, so fun to see. I might get there someday, having the courage to show my scratches. We will see. Your sketchbook pages do look like finished works to me, but I do love the playfulness of the exploring. I was just talking to a local friend this week about sketchbooks, so many thoughts! I don't have a style of painting. Back when I was in my digital art phase, people said they loved my style. I didn't know what it was (and still don't).😂 Love the pop of blue!💙
Omg this was supposed to go out tomorrow. Oops!! 😂 Glad you liked it! I get nervous around sketchbooks because others really create finished work in them. They are like beautiful illustrated books and mine are just where I’m working things out and absolute play. I think we could have a whole artist round table on the topic of sketchbooks! That blue was so much better!
@JackieWolven Oh my gosh, hilarious! When you said "see you next Sunday," I just assumed today was Sunday! Now I'm so excited there's still another day left in the weekend! Not even kidding! 🤦♀️😂❤️
Yes to more sketchbooks! And wow, that blue did the trick! I think about style a lot. My personal need is to continually paint a lot to keep an ongoing conversation with myself going. This conversation leads to recurring features that I guess are "style" or Distinctive features, anyway, but long term they keep shifting.
I know that feeling... why in goodness name did I wait until I was 50... but that's ok. I'm painting up a storm and just encouraging myself (and hopefully others) to go for it!
Cool sketchbook and yes I’d love to see that other one too! I made a video about finding your style because there’s so much talk about that all the time… and well I have thoughts on the matter. Pretty similar as yours. (Spoiler alert: I think it’s more about recognising your style than “finding” it.) I must say, I think for illustrators it’s not so much about having your own style but being able to follow trends maybe. Because if you look at book covers for instance, there are very specific trends which are repeated for a while before there’s a new trend emerging. And I do think you have a style somewhere there. And I really like it! ❤️
Yes! It is recognizing it. Seeing our mark making as our own. And thank you - I do have a style... I just don't know what it might be called. Just mine. And YES to trends. I'm a graphic designer by education and so I follow those trends... and if illustrators do that they will be in demand. I will show more sketchbooks. Eventually, I'll even figure out how to center the camera. 🤣
Interesting points abut style... I am experimenting in my sketchbook to eventually get a style... and I even made a list of inspiration from artists that I admire, and went into the studio to merge those things I like... Nope, something completley different than my intention came out on the canvas. I love it though, it makes me happy. I should and want to paint from my bliss, but unfortunatley others critiqe and opponions effect me very much and they often do NOT like my stuff...pity but I am working on being proud to be True to ME! ❤
Who are those people who don't like your work? I want to punch them in the nose! Here's the thing about art. Some of it you will like, and some of it isn't your thing. it doesn't make it bad. It makes it not your thing. I want that to be the cultivated idea... it's just the same for TV, movies, music... none of it is bad - it just isn't your thing. (I feel a video coming up about this!) And the most important thing is to LOVE OUR OWN WORK. Yes. If your dream is to be rich and famous, you might be doing things that you know are commercially acceptable... and that's ok too, but I sure hope you love it because you will have to do it over and over and over. And for the rest of us... we get to just love it. Love our own work. Love it with our whole hearts. There is something magic that happens when an artist loves their own work. It's catching... it feels like they are in on something we aren't. So, LOVE YOUR WORK.
I am more of an arts & crafts dabbler. I don't have a style but I appreciate it in others. I tend to take an interest in a craft for a while then switch to something new. My interests usually lasts a year or so. Currently dabbling in watercolor & gouache while following tutorials in books. I am more a craft hobbyist that appreciates artistic styles in others. I am enjoying watching you create the bear paintings throughout your videos.
That's an interesting distinction... a dabbler. I love dabblers who are like crows flitting to every shiny thing. It's a fun way to live. And isn't it fun to admire others' creativity? Such richness we get to be exposed to!
I feel like I am torn with finding a style. I like to work with many different mediums. Not only in a mixed media way but individually as well. So I feel like I might want to have a different style for each medium I work in. My watercolor work looks completely different from my mixed media paintings same for my oil pastel work and my colored pencil work. I keeping battling myself on if I should narrow down to 1 or 2 mediums so i can focus on a style. But I just can’t seem to hold myself back from everything. And maybe that’s the whole point, I shouldn’t. But the art world tells me I should especially when it comes to social media. My work doesn’t get seen cuz it’s all over the place…
I wonder if different mediums would always have a distinct style... when I draw, it's very tight or a full-on mess. When I paint, I explore texture that are different from and colors, which is drawing. And I get it... the world says do it this way. Social media says that even louder, but why are we listening... when our true happiness lies in listening to our hearts? Plus... it's just too fun to work with all the options. It's a glorious thing to have so much richness!
Me too lol.😍 I am just starting out at 68 and I got so excited I have every possible medium going Amazon and Temu oh my I will never be able to use it all. 😝😍❤️🙏🇨🇦👍
Jackie, you make me want to do art more. There's still something that holds me back- I think it's the way I think I'll feel when I don't like the outcome of my art. I'm still working on learning how not to be hard on myself with art. But I have a daughter at home who likes to watercolor & I've been thinking of suggesting we sit down together to paint. Maybe making it about time together will help distract my brain from worrying about the quality of my painting. :)
When I started my art practice five years ago, the thing that really made the difference was looking at all the art on Instagram and realizing that "perfect art" wasn't the thing. I had grown up in a time where if it wasn't photo-realistic, it wasn't good. Or if it wasn't like a Master Painter (think Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh) it wasn't good enough. And yet, sometime between my formative art years and the new world we live in... not perfect became cool. Not perfect became valued. And so... I say to you... It is about spending time with your daughter. Its' about exploration. It doesn't matter if it doesn't look like you thought it was supposed to. What matters is that it came from your own hand. You have your own language of art marks; finding out what those are is exciting. I hope you will make time for it with your child because that time is so beautiful... for both of you, alone and together.
@@JackieWolven Thank you for your kind reply, Jackie! I have thought about "not perfect" being a good thing (I've been caught in the desire for realism in the past). So far, I'm never too pleased with my personal "not perfect" haha. Maybe that's why I love photography so much- I can capture beauty the way that it is, and hopefully enhance it with my photos. Anyway, yes, I am setting a goal to spend time painting with my daughter. She also tends toward perfectionism, but we are pretty good at pep-talking each other, & giving the advice that we need to hear. ;) I bought a watercolor "coloring book" recently, to try to help myself get paint to paper, without the stress of what to paint, so maybe that will help too!
I love it! I paint in my studio every Sunday and share it here! I'm so happy that I got to speak to your folks - they really are the most important people in our state. Hugs to you!
I was 45 when I quit my job and went to Italy to study classical portraiture. I was watching yt of course. Let me tell you one thing about art school or actually about yt art community: style is an issue here but not at art schools, at least the one I attended. In fact, painting in a contrived style makes you a studio assistant, not an artist. And that’s got nothing to do with gatekeeping; but it’s got everything to do with building all the skill set you need to be able to translate any commission to a tangible artwork. Customers can commission you to do anything so if you’re not, dare I say it, talented, creative and highly skilled, you may not be able to deliver and that shows clearly that you’re NOT an artist. If you know how to do one thing well, that qualifies you as an assistant as I mentioned earlier. And like I said, art style seems to be a creation of the art community here on yt and not really a thing outside it.
Well that is the MOST interesting perspective I've had in a LONG time. I'm also super jealous that you got to go to portrait school How cool is that? I watch the BBC show Portrait Artist of the Year and I just swoon with all the talent. I think this STYLE thing is about commercialism... if you paint a certain way you will sell be able to be a commodity. Which is FINE... just not my particular art practice. I'm an explorer!
Oh, I love sketchbook tours! 🤍🤍🥰
Ohhhh I saw YOU were going to do one soon. I'm excited!
@@JackieWolven me too this is first Inktober which I actually managed to finish! 😅
I love your sketchbook tour Jackie, please show us more ❤ i don't focus on finding my art style because that blocks my creativity, i just try to go with the flow, keep learning and having fun!
Yay! Another one without caring about STYLE! And I will share more. I didn't know how fun that would be and I was REALLY nervous about doing it.
I want to see ALL the sketch books! I use mine to journal thoughts with illustrations.
I love your ink journal. I love line drawings.
People in my life have told me I have a style…. I don’t feel like I do because I love to try all kinds of new techniques and mediums and have fun with the practice.
See ya next week❤🌈
OOOOOOOoooooooo, I'll have to do another sketchbook tour. It's more fun than I thought it would be.
And that ink journal is yummy, and now that I've reopened it, I want to get back to it.
You do have a style in your drawing, but I wonder if that would be the same if you painted. Your photography also has a style, but again, that gets more fluid when you are doing film. It's such a juicy topic and I feel like I'm just now grasping with it.
On the one hand I like the idea of having a consistent style which I think I have for certain paintings I’ve done. However on the other hand I think it can be restrictive. It could hamper growth which only really happens through experimentation.
Trying different media, tools and processes will alter style but it sparks creativity and excitement.
Artists,myself included, get hung up on style because galleries want more of what was successful.
Ohhhhhh I totally forgot the gallery aspect. I think because artists are essentially disrupting that whole paradigm maybe style is less important. And I’ve absolutely had collectors ask me to recreate something I’ve done in the past and I’m just not interested in doing that (and therefore didn’t get the sale). So for me… it is all about following my curiosity and hoping people are into whatever I’m doing.
@@JackieWolven me too
Loooooved taking a tour through your sketchbook! And of course I want to see more!😊 I love that it's a working sketchbook, so fun to see. I might get there someday, having the courage to show my scratches. We will see. Your sketchbook pages do look like finished works to me, but I do love the playfulness of the exploring. I was just talking to a local friend this week about sketchbooks, so many thoughts!
I don't have a style of painting. Back when I was in my digital art phase, people said they loved my style. I didn't know what it was (and still don't).😂
Love the pop of blue!💙
Omg this was supposed to go out tomorrow. Oops!! 😂
Glad you liked it! I get nervous around sketchbooks because others really create finished work in them. They are like beautiful illustrated books and mine are just where I’m working things out and absolute play.
I think we could have a whole artist round table on the topic of sketchbooks!
That blue was so much better!
@JackieWolven Oh my gosh, hilarious! When you said "see you next Sunday," I just assumed today was Sunday! Now I'm so excited there's still another day left in the weekend! Not even kidding! 🤦♀️😂❤️
@@WatercolorKariwell then it was perfect timing! And it’s probably Sunday somewhere. 😂
Yes to more sketchbooks! And wow, that blue did the trick! I think about style a lot. My personal need is to continually paint a lot to keep an ongoing conversation with myself going. This conversation leads to recurring features that I guess are "style" or Distinctive features, anyway, but long term they keep shifting.
Love the sketch books. I am not particularly talented but always wanted to do art mad at myself for wasting so much time. Jen from Ontario 🇨🇦 🙏 👍 ❤️
I know that feeling... why in goodness name did I wait until I was 50... but that's ok. I'm painting up a storm and just encouraging myself (and hopefully others) to go for it!
Cool sketchbook and yes I’d love to see that other one too!
I made a video about finding your style because there’s so much talk about that all the time… and well I have thoughts on the matter. Pretty similar as yours. (Spoiler alert: I think it’s more about recognising your style than “finding” it.)
I must say, I think for illustrators it’s not so much about having your own style but being able to follow trends maybe. Because if you look at book covers for instance, there are very specific trends which are repeated for a while before there’s a new trend emerging.
And I do think you have a style somewhere there. And I really like it! ❤️
Yes! It is recognizing it. Seeing our mark making as our own. And thank you - I do have a style... I just don't know what it might be called. Just mine.
And YES to trends. I'm a graphic designer by education and so I follow those trends... and if illustrators do that they will be in demand.
I will show more sketchbooks. Eventually, I'll even figure out how to center the camera. 🤣
Interesting points abut style... I am experimenting in my sketchbook to eventually get a style... and I even made a list of inspiration from artists that I admire, and went into the studio to merge those things I like... Nope, something completley different than my intention came out on the canvas. I love it though, it makes me happy. I should and want to paint from my bliss, but unfortunatley others critiqe and opponions effect me very much and they often do NOT like my stuff...pity but I am working on being proud to be True to ME! ❤
Who are those people who don't like your work? I want to punch them in the nose!
Here's the thing about art. Some of it you will like, and some of it isn't your thing. it doesn't make it bad. It makes it not your thing. I want that to be the cultivated idea... it's just the same for TV, movies, music... none of it is bad - it just isn't your thing. (I feel a video coming up about this!)
And the most important thing is to LOVE OUR OWN WORK. Yes. If your dream is to be rich and famous, you might be doing things that you know are commercially acceptable... and that's ok too, but I sure hope you love it because you will have to do it over and over and over.
And for the rest of us... we get to just love it. Love our own work. Love it with our whole hearts. There is something magic that happens when an artist loves their own work. It's catching... it feels like they are in on something we aren't. So, LOVE YOUR WORK.
@@JackieWolven Absolutley! I will put moss in my ears and do what I love :D
I am more of an arts & crafts dabbler. I don't have a style but I appreciate it in others. I tend to take an interest in a craft for a while then switch to something new. My interests usually lasts a year or so. Currently dabbling in watercolor & gouache while following tutorials in books. I am more a craft hobbyist that appreciates artistic styles in others. I am enjoying watching you create the bear paintings throughout your videos.
That's an interesting distinction... a dabbler. I love dabblers who are like crows flitting to every shiny thing. It's a fun way to live. And isn't it fun to admire others' creativity? Such richness we get to be exposed to!
I feel like I am torn with finding a style. I like to work with many different mediums. Not only in a mixed media way but individually as well. So I feel like I might want to have a different style for each medium I work in. My watercolor work looks completely different from my mixed media paintings same for my oil pastel work and my colored pencil work. I keeping battling myself on if I should narrow down to 1 or 2 mediums so i can focus on a style. But I just can’t seem to hold myself back from everything. And maybe that’s the whole point, I shouldn’t. But the art world tells me I should especially when it comes to social media. My work doesn’t get seen cuz it’s all over the place…
I wonder if different mediums would always have a distinct style... when I draw, it's very tight or a full-on mess. When I paint, I explore texture that are different from and colors, which is drawing.
And I get it... the world says do it this way. Social media says that even louder, but why are we listening... when our true happiness lies in listening to our hearts?
Plus... it's just too fun to work with all the options. It's a glorious thing to have so much richness!
Me too lol.😍 I am just starting out at 68 and I got so excited I have every possible medium going Amazon and Temu oh my I will never be able to use it all. 😝😍❤️🙏🇨🇦👍
Jackie, you make me want to do art more. There's still something that holds me back- I think it's the way I think I'll feel when I don't like the outcome of my art. I'm still working on learning how not to be hard on myself with art. But I have a daughter at home who likes to watercolor & I've been thinking of suggesting we sit down together to paint. Maybe making it about time together will help distract my brain from worrying about the quality of my painting. :)
When I started my art practice five years ago, the thing that really made the difference was looking at all the art on Instagram and realizing that "perfect art" wasn't the thing. I had grown up in a time where if it wasn't photo-realistic, it wasn't good. Or if it wasn't like a Master Painter (think Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh) it wasn't good enough. And yet, sometime between my formative art years and the new world we live in... not perfect became cool. Not perfect became valued.
And so... I say to you... It is about spending time with your daughter. Its' about exploration. It doesn't matter if it doesn't look like you thought it was supposed to. What matters is that it came from your own hand. You have your own language of art marks; finding out what those are is exciting.
I hope you will make time for it with your child because that time is so beautiful... for both of you, alone and together.
@@JackieWolven Thank you for your kind reply, Jackie! I have thought about "not perfect" being a good thing (I've been caught in the desire for realism in the past). So far, I'm never too pleased with my personal "not perfect" haha. Maybe that's why I love photography so much- I can capture beauty the way that it is, and hopefully enhance it with my photos.
Anyway, yes, I am setting a goal to spend time painting with my daughter. She also tends toward perfectionism, but we are pretty good at pep-talking each other, & giving the advice that we need to hear. ;)
I bought a watercolor "coloring book" recently, to try to help myself get paint to paper, without the stress of what to paint, so maybe that will help too!
I just listened to you at a conference today! I paint on my channel, too. Im excited to view your art.
I love it! I paint in my studio every Sunday and share it here! I'm so happy that I got to speak to your folks - they really are the most important people in our state. Hugs to you!
I was 45 when I quit my job and went to Italy to study classical portraiture. I was watching yt of course. Let me tell you one thing about art school or actually about yt art community: style is an issue here but not at art schools, at least the one I attended. In fact, painting in a contrived style makes you a studio assistant, not an artist. And that’s got nothing to do with gatekeeping; but it’s got everything to do with building all the skill set you need to be able to translate any commission to a tangible artwork. Customers can commission you to do anything so if you’re not, dare I say it, talented, creative and highly skilled, you may not be able to deliver and that shows clearly that you’re NOT an artist. If you know how to do one thing well, that qualifies you as an assistant as I mentioned earlier. And like I said, art style seems to be a creation of the art community here on yt and not really a thing outside it.
Well that is the MOST interesting perspective I've had in a LONG time. I'm also super jealous that you got to go to portrait school How cool is that? I watch the BBC show Portrait Artist of the Year and I just swoon with all the talent.
I think this STYLE thing is about commercialism... if you paint a certain way you will sell be able to be a commodity. Which is FINE... just not my particular art practice. I'm an explorer!