Revealing the truth Art YouTubers don’t tell you (until now)
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2023
- Full disclosure, there are many things that your favorite youtubers and content creators aren't telling you when it comes to creating art. Things aren't always what they seem and in this video I'm peeling back that varnished layer of perfection to tell you the real deal. So get comfy and let's get real.
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Margot
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Hi! My name is Margot and I am a professional artist and graphic designer. My parents like to joke that I was born with a paintbrush in hand. I started my career after graduating from the renown Parsons School of Design in New York City and spent over 15 years creating and designing for many of the world's top Fortune 500 brands and companies. My painting journey started as a side project and a creative outlet for me to step away from the computer, go back to my "roots" in fine art and to hone my skills as an illustrator and painter. I started posting some of my work on instagram and the rest is history. My work is inspired by all the things that I am passionate about. Ballet, travel, graphic design, color and finding a world of beauty in all facets of everyday life. I hope you'll join me in this RUclips journey as I take you through all the tips, tricks and trade secrets I've gathered throughout the years. I hope I can teach you some of what I know, help you discover your creative voice and I hope you enjoy this Channel!
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Stupid Algorithm. I don't come to RUclips for short form content, but they are like SHORTS! and I hate it so much. I come here to learn things and watch Let's Plays. I WANT longer videos. Maybe not a real time "wait for paint to dry" art tutorial, but not a >1 minute video either. Tho, if it's something I am really interested in, I will watch 30-60+ min long art videos too.
Yes! On every front they're force feeding us this TikTok length supershort content! Thank you for sticking with me! 💕
I'm always second guessing myself. I'm in art he'll but I can't stop
I so agree!!
I hate the shorts! I wish there was some way to choice not to get them but still get the real tutorials from artist!
The problem is that RUclips is here to make money. I miss the days when few videos were monetized, and people everywhere would post videos about their own unique skills and experiences.
I am a 77 year old woman and recently decided to take up watercolors. I just ordered my supplies so I have to wait to begin. Your videos are most helpful because I want to paint for MYSELF and my husband said, "what are you going to do with the paintings?" and I just want to do them. The act of creating something with colors is so exciting to me. Last year I took up making beaded jewelry and enjoyed putting colors together so much. I am so looking forward to painting with the watercolors and seeing what happens.
I just turned 47, and a friend of mine visited me last year, and brought with her a drawing I did when I was 7 years old colored with cheep markers, like your 1980's $3 for a 35-pack of water base markers. I had even signed and dated it. It was still bright and colorful. It had a few creases where it had been foldded once or twice, but she had flattened it and kept it in a 3 ring binder in a plastic sheet protector. She had a whole binder full of my drawings spanning my life time. From 7 years old on up to my 40's. Most in cheep markers, a few in pencil... A few in gel pens.....One in crayon using aquaphor.
I knew a lot of this but it's nice to hear it called out for those that aren't aware.
I personally enjoy 'art along with me' videos even if I'm not following along with the same artwork but doing my own thing. For me, it's like painting or crafting with a friend. I like longer videos, I like artists who show that they too can make mistakes and how they 'fix' them.
I'm not a fan of sped up videos or videos where the artists remains silent, I want to hear what they're thinking, why they are doing what they're doing, I find that sometimes helps me more than techniques videos.
Like you, I appreciate the live sessions and paint alongs for the learning and sharing time. If you follow the history of the old painters you will hear many stories about how their art changed or was influenced by another artist at some point in their journey. It is because they used to get together to paint and even socialize! Artists used to meet up on retreats and paint plein air together. Most often were the shorter visits where they painted in each others back yard or studio and just spent those hours talking.
This is a real kindness to all the artists engaged in self-directed education! Yes, there are such things as closed rehearsals, and yes, we are supposed make art in private that isn't perfect in pursuit of the artwork we consider presentable! Thanks for this, Margot!
I recently saw a video by an art content creator, who showed a dozen of water color paintings she had done in the previous night, which really were fails, I immediately subbed her channel. In this video she showed several different hacks on using the brush and differently saturated paint, which had different effects on the papers she demonstrated on. I actually learned from her failures, which she also explained, and from the correct use more than I would have learned from only the perfect use of brush and paint. I wish more art creators would be that authentic and truthful.
Thank you, Ms. Hallac. This is the most important video you have ever shared on RUclips. I am moved by your courage and honesty. I am heartend and motivated as well. If you decide to make some ‘paint along with me’ or longer format videos, i’ll be here for it. Funny how the longer (and older) paint alongs are the videos that I re-watch over and over. I return to them at each stage, to see what I missed on the previous viewing and how it’s applicable to my current art conundrum. I would love to see some longer ‘how tos’ or ‘paint alongs’ from you.
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@@Pointebrush I too would love, 'paint along with me!'
Edit to add: even if broken up into a size and title the algorithm enjoys, too.
Me too
What really grinds my gears is performative sketchbooking, when artists show off a whole sketchbook full of perfectly finished paintings which was clearly only made to be shown on social media. It sets an impossible standard and totally misrepresents what a sketchbook actually is for.
Omg thank you for saying this!! I just got the courage last month to start an instagram and RUclips channel but still feel like I'm not good enough or creative enough even tho I've done art for 13 years, sold at art exhibitions and worked as a tattoo artist for years. I'm not sure if my confidence is down because I've changed mediums and my watercolour art isn't up to my usual standard like my graphite art is, or if it's coz I'm comparing myself too much to social media artist and thinking I'm not creative enough. Thanks for the boost of encouragement and I love the band of pirates reference😂🏴☠
Haha! Nailed it. Well-said. I need to find one of those wonderful Art-hell parties tho!
You’re welcome to mine 🎉 You can bring the booze 😝
Dear Margot, your videos came up in my recommendations - and I couldn't be more grateful for your video. I'm just starting out with my paint journey, and I was never taught to paint, so basically taking this up as a hobby and a variation of art therapy. And honestly, following all those 'beginner' level tutorials that take the RUclipsr 15 minutes to go through but in actuality took me hours to do, finishing with a crappy result couldn't have been more frustrating. So it is very encouraging to hear someone utter the words: they were not always perfect in one go, from 15 minutes etc. And for that: thank you.
I’m so glad this video was motivating and helpful. I sometimes lose sight of it too so a little reminder always helps. Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write 💕
Your timing with the GIFs, your humor, your wit, the drama and how you tell the truth is just on....point 😂 but seriously! Your videos are so unique. I love them! Also, I'd watch you paint an entire masterpiece. I watch a lot of creators paint pictures. No, they don't include the research and whatnot, but they do show and explain what they are doing. It's actually something I enjoy watching after my 9 year old...who is on the spectrum and that I homeschool...is FINALLY in bed and my husband is still at work 😂 I usually am painting as well. Just things I enjoy lol
Side note: I love using house paint to paint pictures. I use house paint on some of my acrylic paintings. It's actually super fun.
One the best when it comes to all these paint Gods and their 10 commandments...don't use white or black and don't use them ESPECIALLY OUT OF THE TUBE. Nay, nay, nay... 😂 Not at all...even for mixtures...🤦♀️
I think we need to put up a wall of shame with all the taboos listed. That way we can all get it out of our systems and move on with our lives 😂
@@Pointebrush There are so many, it'd make a never-ending list!
There’s nothing wrong with using black and white. I use both all the time. Black mixed with yellow makes a great green. White makes lovely pastels. I hate rules. You will only hear one rule on my channel - there are no rules.
Absolutely true it does take a lot of time. Through the many years I have learned that art is exposing yourself to criticism. Especially if you share it, to grow you have to learn to except that there will always be critics and we must either use their information or ignore it. Bottom line…as an artist you must stay true to your own art, because you are the artist creating it and it is your vision, unless of course if it is for a specific client😂. You always share great art wisdom Margo❤!
You're right on point. Do's and Don'ts are more about what's more interesting and entertaining in most circumstances. They are not absolutes.
Dear Margot, I love your content. I don’t like short videos very much, because I am here to learn something… I love to recreate what my most loved artists are doing (well, I try to). For this I need longer videos, with step by step introduction. This is my approach to all of this. I love calm videos, without music layers…. Because I relaxe more with them. Watercolour is my hobby. I LOVE it. And I love to paint along with my art teachers. This is me. Thank you very much for this. I laughed a lot😂 because of your sense of Humor. Have a nice weekend.
I hate hearing every artist telling me things like the paper is the most important thing and to only use Arches, nothing will ever look good if you don’t use professional paint and Arches paper…etc… I’m sorry, but I’m NOT spending over $100 on ONE pad of 5 or even only 12 pieces of freaking paper or $60 on one tube of Daniel Smith (Yeah, NZ is expensive!)!! Especially when I’m just trying to learn… I just want to use the Cotman I’ve already spent a couple hundred dollars on anyways….and the *gasp* plain non-cotton w/c paper that the ‘art’ shops sold me saying that it was freaking paper to watercolour on! … Art tool snobs are so annoying… but so are art shops that hock crap for overinflated prices 😂
Arches - oh dear - dont get me started on this one!!! 1million times with you on this one!!!!
Daniel Smith? Nearly as bad!!!! It's had such a bad press and yet is still being hyped as the very best of the best, and is expensive in the US, and as with most US based companies, is mega expensive here in Europe!
It seems to me that art has become more and more elitist and for the first time in my (very long) life, I've found myself absolutely raging at rather a lot of ArtTube channels recommending these brands and Schmincke as above and beyond long tried and tested brands which cost a lot less and, where paper is concerned, are actually more suited to the average artist who actually does more than the very limited subjects such as are now seen on many ArtTube channels. Artists who paint a large variety of landscapes, seascapes, people, places, and many other everyday things from around the house, etc. and rarely from online reference photos
Yes, I tried Arches, alongside several other papers, and of them all, it was the one which was least suited to the many variations of my art work!
And although I strongly advocate Artist quality materials from the beginning, I also teach how to use those materials, not using a huge palette of colours, masses of brushes, and the most expensive paper, but just 12 colours, three brushes (sizes 6, 10 and a flat) and two very beginner-budget friendly 100% cotton papers. Cost less than a set of Cotman 48 watercolours! Gosh, they are soo expensive where you are!!!!
Sorry - I'm ranting again. It's jut that it makes me soooo angry!!!!! (An extremely unusual state for me to be in!!!)
Where are you buying your paint and paper? Daniel Smith, 15mls usually cost between 12-16 dls. In US through Amazon . I believe Jackson’s is about the same. There are lots of other nice less expensive products which are really great. But please don’t mis quote prices. ❤
@@Angie-pl3uw The US has a Jackson's warehouse, which is why the prices are reasonable (as does Australia, though it doesn't stock all Jackson's lines, but I don't think that's the case in NZ). Caz said that she is in New Zealand, and I know from other Antipodean art tubers that import duties are seriously heavy, making the prices very expensive. To find out, you'd need to put in a New Zealand address and go to check out - where Jackson's calculate the duties and taxes for you.
Meanwhile, unless you'[re in New Zealand and have actually tried buying these products there, perhaps you'd do well to edit or delete your comment (it will also delete mine)? 😊
Margot has a content that is different from other youtubers of the same style of channel. And that's why I watch more of her videos. Thank you Margot for the efforts you make for bringing new informations. 👌💮
Thank you for speaking up about this. I try to stay away from the shorts, except as a preview of longer videos. Anyone can find those on other social media platforms. I come here for deeper explorations. I would definitely like to see an in depth series about an artist’s full creative process. However, I do understand that even that would require being broken into a sequence of videos that would in turn each need editing.
I will always come to your channel!!! I need the motivation, the validation, your understanding of well, everything in art. Comparing is the worst but most common downfall I have. I seriously appreciate your encouragement. Thank you so much!
This is so needed! I had someone tell me they couldn't paint because they couldn't go fast like on RUclips. Sigh. I explained that she was watching sped up video! I don't know if she came back to read it, but I had to say it.
I think we all have reasons why we do or do not listen to others' ideas of what every REAL artist should do. We often get to the place where we do what makes us happy! I find it interesting that so many watercolors are now sold with black or white pigments added, but the idea of having those same blacks and whites on our palettes seems a bit naughty! Maybe that's the draw....
It feels good to hear someone else talk about things that I have (slowly) discovered over the last 4 years of using YT to learn painting. You've done many potential creatives a great service with this video, I can only hope it reaches a large number of them! Thanks for your content.
Thanks for always supporting Art and Artists! I learn something every time I see another Artists work! Thanks, Karen Dirmish, learner
Margot: I thoroughly enjoy your videos. You personally are beautiful and articulate, so it's pleasant to see and hear you on any topic.
These are good points you make here. It's true though that shorter-is-better with videos. If I see one that runs an hour or more, I don't always HAVE (or want to spend) an hour--but I often have 10-15 minutes to learn and be inspired.
I have a suggestion for a future video (if you haven't already covered this): I think one of the elements in painting that somehow isn't mentioned enough is that often it is best to WAIT before proceeding--whether that is to wait until what you've just done is totally dry, or to wait until it reaches a specific stage. I LOVE the "loose look", so of course you can keep going if you want or don't mind the pigments mixing. But adding more pigment too soon, even in those cases, can result in the dreaded mud. (Ask me how I know.)
Thanks for the time and effort you put into these videos. I don't know how you (or any others) do it!
I just found you this week, Margot, binge-watched your YT videos the past 2 days. I love what you say, what you paint. All original. After painting for a few years, I've only recently realized there are NO rules. I painted with reckless abandon my first year, then was told by many, many pro's, that I was doing it all wrong. Trying to paint by the rules (not the numbers), I froze and stopped painting altogether. Months later, I missed it so badly, that I said to heck with everyone, and I paint daily now! It occupies my spirit 24/7, and only now do I actually love my wc work, and kicked that imposter out of my art house! Thank you for your pearls of wisdom, Margot. I love what you have to say, and adore your ballerina style. :)
🙌 Love your humor and honesty. As a new watercolor RUclipsr, I really appreciate your comic relief on reality! Can't wait to dive more into your channel.
Thank you for pointing out the need to allow ourselves to create our art without the feeling that it isn’t worthy unless we follow a set of rules laid down by other artists. At 72, I had never painted in my life, By chance I met some friends doing rock painting with acrylics and it looked like such fun. They invited me to join in, sharing their paints and brushes. It was fun. I had always admired watercolor painting so decided to give that a try. I have to thank the many creators on RUclips for the sharing of their knowledge with me, as I have seen a great improvement in my work since I began. However, I do acknowledge some paint a picture of absolutes that I have come to realize aren’t necessarily written in stone. So I take a bit from this one and a bit from that one and throw a bit of what I really like and it all seems to come out fine. Thank you for affirming that the creative process is open to the creator.
I so appreciate your passion and honesty here. As a beginning watercolorist, I have sensed exactly many of the things you've mentioned. I'm taking your advice and encouragement personally, just as you seem to have intended it. Thank you. You're fantastic!
I love the way you present, your humour and cut scenes are great. Thanks for being so down to earth 😊
You’re so very welcome Bianca and thank you for watching!
Thank you for this video!!! I needed to hear this!! I found your channel recently and I am grateful for your content! Thank you for all your inspiration and information!
Aww thank you so much for coming and for joining me! The pleasure is all mine!
Oh, honey, you are wise beyond your years!! I’m so much older and you understand that anyone who is creating and sharing your art with the public will have a few people attempting to instill doubts or play on the fears/doubts they know everyone has….THEREFORE, creatives and those who are working in public have to find a place where they know they are being true to themselves and the journey and learning and improving will continue until the paintbrush is put down for the final time…(usually when this life is ending)…
You probably have no idea how many people you have encouraged, inspired and helped start sharing what they create at the level they are at…with this video.
You are honest and open and vulnerable yet exude a certain level of inner strength and compassion.
You have just become one of my top creators!
Thank you for your video. I’m here taking care of my 90 year old mother who is recovering from a critical bout with RSV and pneumonia.
You, doing this, with the heart to help others just brought joy to my spirit on the one of the most difficult days I’ve had since end of April..
You have a gift with helping others as well as your talent as an artist. You ARE extremely talented in painting and teaching others about it…
You are a very special young lady!!
Sending you many blessings,
NancyRolfe
Being the daughter of an elderly parent is taxing indeed. However, I can promise you from personal experience, that in the future you will have no regrets and you will be happy you shared these difficult moments with your mother. God bless, and paint whenever you are able to as you must also take care of yourself.
You are an inspiration,Margot. Perhaps much of what we see on RUclips is simply a mirage and behind the seamless video is a series of difficulties. Thanks for reminding me that my artist heroes end up with work that goes into the trash can. It is a comforting thought considering the trash can and I have become fast friends.
Thankyou so much for your honesty ..I think you have made me love my art more 💗
You make me laugh so much Margot! Love how funny you are and how you construct your very fabulous videos❣️
I resonate with your video a lot. There's a quote that comes to my mind "A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don’t see what it takes to get there.”
It reminds me of when I go to the gym and people see my work on my gym t-shirts, hoodies and really on everything I wear. I don't buy brand stuff and just create my own prints on my clothes with my own logo/brand. When I tell people it took me 6 years to be able to draw and illustrate like this in the style, with ease and even from memory, adnd I even go further in telling them the process it took BEFORE doing these prints on my clothing attire, their jaws drop.
They get to know before this, there was a journey of looking at body building magazines, then hitting the gym, from scouring for knowledge, getting rid of misinformation online, to testing out different approaches, to curbing my habits with eating and sleeping which was a battle of it's own, to finding a gym that had all I needed, to having to find new gyms because one I went to got shut down, to find what worked for my body by experimenting with different types of training method/diets, from understanding difference with body building and powerlifting, and to now focus on which one I want by making sure what my goal really is.
The ongoing consistent training while people come into gym to disappear weeks later, whatever the reason. To then taking all that with fascination and passion about how the body works, anatomy and draw it all to create my own products by first having to fill endless sketch pads, just sketching, then sketching with knowing how to practice, to learning new techniques to how to do it digitally with learning different softwares, and then figuring which softwares to stick to, to be able to do my first body building art painting. If I put all that in videos, it be very long and RUclips will not reward me for doing it and kick me out of their algorithm because it's not short like tick tock style videos or hyper drama and dramatic animated video scenes.
So needed this! Thank you!! 💖
Thank you for this...I recognize that many artist I watch have YEARS of experience..but I always feel deflated after I watch these PERFECT videos and want to give up...thanks for reminding me that there is no such thing as perfection...
Very well said!! But to be honest, i follow lots of crafters, artists that do NOT make it seem that everything goes perfect all the time, if i get that feeling, i unsubscribe, but i found lots of them that also show how they are struggling, and show their mistakes and show a realistic timeline, but thx 4 pointing that out, you can never point that out too much, thank you!!
You are absolutely THE cutest thing Margot! Found you thru Jenna Rainey’s list. I’ve had exactly 2 art teachers in my life and both should never have been teaching. I allowed their discouraging negative opinions to impact my hand painting for decades and turned to digital art instead. While it can be satisfying, I discovered after years of doing digital art and wrestling with algorithms, when I retired I was done with it. I picked up my pencils and brushes again and vowed never to take another art course. Now, thanks to the good folks like you on RUclips, I can learn all I need to know without judgement. It’s very freeing. Plus, I’ve decided to keep watercolor and drawing as a hobby. I worked enough in my life. The last thing I need is to start an art business 😂. Blessings to you and thanks for this informative video. Oh, and the second I hear an artist telling me how to hold my brush or any other noise in a commanding voice, I click off and say bub-bye😂
I suspected this not long ago, so I'm glad you're making a video about it 🙏🏾
Such a great and fun video! I really enjoy your humor 😂😂 and honestly about video editing and time spent creating them. I’ve been an architect and painter for 30 years and still have these insecurities even though I’ve worked on many high profile projects. Must be from all of the crazy jury reviews in art/architecture school 😵💫. Anyway I still love your sense of humor and awesome video editing by the way 😀😂. Keep it up Margot! 🎨🖌️☀️🌙⭐️🌎
Thank you so much! So happy you’re enjoying my videos. They’re a labor of love. And yes! Like with so many other pros that I know, the inner critic’s voice always has a way of whispering in your ear and making you doubt yourself. As we grow we get more comfortable with ignoring it 😉
I do love the short videos because time is flying and so much to do! Your videos are great; short semi short and lengthy! Your a great teacher!
I know what you mean when it appears as through the artist painted a perfect fast detailed picture only to know how many times, who knows, they edit the picture beforehand! I caught this on some of my favorite artists and you can see the real, real light lines of the project! Yea every one does this at one time or another in subtle ways ... lol
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you for this insight. Although I was quite aware of how long it must take to do a video it was very informative to hear you describe the process more clearly. I, too, love longer sessions as I am a beginner and need as much instruction as I can get. I need to say that I so enjoy your humor and your personality is a hoot! 💕🧚♀️
Such great advice ❤ Plus your inserts were hilarious, had a good laugh tonight. Thanks
The only thing that matters is that you enjoy your art and maybe a few more other people as well. No one else can produce the at that you produce and that makes it more special for some and not for others.
I loved it ALL! The best of artists use what's at hand. If it's cheap and multifunctional, too? SCORE! I, too, am a great fan of tossing out the rule books on how your art must be made! But, side-note. SAFETY RULES MUST BE FOLLOWED. That's the only hard 'n' fast rule we have in our studio, which really means apt because art is life. 😂
You read my mind! Yes!! Safety first always! Looks like you have a good head on your shoulders Krystal 👍🔥
My son has started his job a few months ago at a rest home and sometimes sit with very poorly and old , he is loving it, and sits with residents listening to stories and has seen 3 people die and get them ready for the relations coming to home , he loves even though there is other bad days , love your channel and love your openness ❤️
Wowser…from a complete newbie…thanks from my whole heart ❤. Very freeing. I am learning so much with my creative journey. So grateful for every painting I do. They are something I am called to do. You are a blessing.
This video could not have shown up in my feed at a better time. I have been doing art for over 30 years. I'm not "successful" in the traditional sense of the word but I have definitely created some beautiful work and done lots of commissions. It is true though, with each new piece I do always question "is this good enough?" But by WHAT standard am I asking that question! Art HAS no standards, by its very nature. THAT is the answer. If I enjoyed making it, and I like the result it is GOOD ART! Period. What happens with it after that is beside the point.
Thank you for this reminder!
This is such an interesting video! Also…the flowers around 2:40 that you painted are BEAUTIFUL!
Thank you so much for this video! I play around with watercolors and occasionally create a painting that really speaks to people but it is one out of a hundred. At times it gets discouraging. I am now trying junk journaling including my watercolors and neurographic art. And none of it looks as good as the RUclipsrs. I needed a reminder art is a journey, a path that will bring me joyfully through life.
This was a great video! Thank you for making this. It was really humorous but super helpful and encouraging.
Absolutely enjoyed this video. It is difficult when you see what is being used how wonderful all the work you watching and thinking mine isn't that good because I don't have that paint or brush or paper or technique or....and these or don't finish, not good enough, not talented all these questions sometimes do stop a person but just enjoying the process and not copy but learning and taking time to create one step at a time definitely helps. Thank you for this video. Sometimes when though we know it, we need to hear it from another person for sure
Yes!! I completely agree. When you really sit down to think about it, it would be absurd for everybody's process to be perfection every time. We're used to filtered selfies and butt pictures 🤣 but the art community has it's own version of it too! We're not immune to the lacquer of perfection!
You summarise and share your points so well. I have to admit I m guilty of also emphasising to people to invest in better materials to improve their success and your reminder is also gd to hear that really art is up to the individual ❤
I adore your edits!!! You seriously crack me up. Band of prates indeed 🏴☠️ 😂
I would watch a long form video of yours. That villa with the ballerina in the doorway and the candy like colors, I would watch that for 100 hours.
I think I’m going to start making wearable pins for my pirate artists with the Jolly Roger on them 🏴☠️
You’re in luck! Next week I’m doing something that uses that same technique. Not that exact painting but the same colors and idea 😝
@@PointebrushI would wear that pin daily! I would. Like, right under my jaw line so everyone would be compelled to ask me about it and I would say, darkly gleefully, “well, let me tell you…”
I do love luck. I can’t wait to watch!!! My beginner’s skill is scratching its way out of the gate so I’ll be there with notepad, open heart and gratitude! Hoooraaay, aaaarghhh 🏴☠️
Thank you for your video. Perfect timing for me and perfect discussion about being true to ourselves and our own processes. Bravo to you and with much gratitude 🙏 😊
You always make me laugh!! No it wasn't dramatic enough, YES Art Hell has Great parties! Oh and can we just talk about putting a kneaded eraser on the end of a pencil....GENIUS!!!!
Thanks for always bringing the TRUTH in ART. What seems easy and an overnight sensation....well we know the real work that it took to get there. Appreciate you talking to the imposter syndrome, I think it often keeps folks from moving forward out of comparison. We know that is the KILLER of creativity!
Keep up the great work, you really deliver a poignant narrative.
Thank you for the truth! I am encouraged to to continue practicing my watercolor painting.
I've come to admire Pollock more and more. Abstract art is not my thing but their artists are my inspiration.
Amen! I do believe we forget this. Thanks for reminding us of all the great information. 🙌🏻
Thank you Margot, I trow away lots of bad art, work on my skills no stop, all that to give art classes to seniors here in Florida. It can be very frustrating and we can easy give up, I tell the students that, but, if your persistent you will find a great joy in learning art
LOVE THIS! Much needed video. THANK YOU SO MUCH 💓 😊
Pollock even left screws, nails, cigarette butts, you name it on the canvas - was it Blue Poles he did that with? I tried to paint like Pollock in a MOMA online course, yeah, not my artists lol now Yayoi Kusama YES! although that net painting I totally admire her for after working on a very tiny piece compared to her was it 1 metre in length and probably three times her height?
She also was one to throw all convention out the studio window in her works, and still does today.
Thank you for this video Margot, I really needed to hear this 💖
Now to go and create MY way and to heck with the inner art critic and others 😅😅
New subbie also.
Well said! thank you for the encouragement!
I knew most of this, but the Jackson Pollock story kind of gave me the oomph I needed to list some of my paintings in my store. Thank you!
Thank you for your honesty and encouragement!
You are so welcome!
Hi Margot. Jim from Madrid, Spain (a New Yorker expat living abroad).
Great video! Honest, sincere and truthful.
Nobody is perfect and nobody was born knowing it all. And RUclips is a business and a means to receive an income.
I have been learning all of my life and will continue to learn until the day I die, it's one if the most important things I believe that makes us feel alive (besides others, yeah - love, family, etc.).
What is more difficult is the process and the struggles during such process, but this happens all the time in our lives. What's important is how we deal with the struggle and fear and how we overcome it to push forward and improve.
I am still finding out things about myself everyday and, of course, in my artistic process, but I love it! It makes me feel alive and happy every day. Again, great video! THANK you for sharing! Cheers from Sunny Spain!😁👍😎
The third secret is very precious, I will remember it💝
Thank you! Your video are so liberating from perfectionism guilt.❤
I love this video! ❤ Thank you!!!!
Margot, you touched very good points. As a professional violinist, working in orchestras for many years, I can tell you, the imposter syndrome is real. Art doesn’t come over night.
Also, this is maybe your funniest video. You made me laugh very much.
I love your videos and even recommended you in my own latest artvlog. Keep on going Margot💪💪👍
Love this message. Thank you, Margot.
The editing bit is something I know and I agree, it’s annoying because we judge ourselves against it. I really wish art folk would say exactly how long a piece took from start to finish if only to give us beginners some idea.
It’s a lime. I’m agonizing over a line. Hahahaha! 😂😜
Brilliant, Margot !!
Well said !!!
🥳🥳🤗🤗🎉🎉💕💕
Brutally honest assessment here, thank you!
I had a career in a totally different area. Art and craft kept me sane throughout that career. I'm now retired and make art for art sake, to please me and not as a career, for sale or for competition. I do have a YT channel but it's not something I ever want to grow. It's something where I (infrequently) post ideas and things I've found helpful that might be useful to someone some time. I've had years of working for others. Now I want to do what I enjoy. If it doesn't work out, yes I get frustrated, but if I try to strive for perfection it results either in creative paralysis or me being so stressed that I end up hating the entire process.
I've just spent the last hour trying to machine quilt. My eyesight is not good enough to use a quilting frame and machine so I use a good quality domestic machine and hand guide my quilting. Do I go over lines? Yes. Do I have uneven stitches? Yes. Do I care? A bit, but not to the point where I'm going to unpick it. It's not for competition, show or sale, so who really cares, other than perhaps me? Everyone else seems to like what I do. They know nothing about quilting, so they don't go looking for the imperfections. They just see the finished result and overall impression.
How long has it taken me to come to this point? More than 60 years. I don't know if it is something that comes to most people around that age, that they stop caring about what other people think about them in general, the result of retirement and the feeling of freedom from having to please a boss all the time, or ..I don't know what really, but whatever it is, it's very liberating once you choose to accept it.
I love you for your talent, I love you for your humor, but most of all for your honesty and (transparency) 🫥
That was a Water Color joke, transparency. Ha ha ha.
I seriously needed to hear this. Thank you.
Bonjour Margot. J’adore votre humour 😂, vos vidéos, votre vision de l’art et de l’expliquer et, bien sûr, j’adore vos aquarelles!! ❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing this information and the pep talk. I needed it, as I've really been having a hard time making myself get to painting lately. Almostvlike I'm afraid of being Good at it. Lol 😆
Exactly!!!!! Thank you!!
Thank you. I really needed to hear every single bit of this. ❤
Love your honesty. Thank you💙X
Always a pleasure Penny ❤️
While I agree with the points you've made here and as an artist of a great many years myself, I would like to just add the importance of learning the rules first before deciding which to break.
Learning the rules to begin with I feel is fundamental in the learning process.
If you don't learn then then you can begin with a great many bad habits that not only make the learning and study much more difficult but can cause the artwork you create to look unprofessional and unskilled.
Art, like anything is a skill and rules are part of understanding that skill.
As a simple example, I still see people do what I and other artists call furring.
That where you're drawing a shape of some kind in small strokes that make a drawing look strangely fluffy rather than confident strokes.
It also shows lack of skill and knowledge in your understanding.
Of course, that is just a simple example, there are many more.
Knowledge is important with any skill and art is no different.
Practice and study bring other important skills to being an artist.
Your technique will most likely change over time as you learn new ways of doing things but needs to begin from a solid foundation.
I agree with you! I think it was Picasso who once said “learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist” 👍
And now… I’m going to go and paint a 20x30 using only a 0 😝
@Pointebrush Ahhahaha! 😂😂
A wonderful reply, especially the last part, lol! 😂😂
Are you painting anything interesting at the moment?
Yes! When my students begin the course with me, I explain that part of the course will be the 'rules', because they need to know the reasons for what they're doing, but once they understand and can work _with_ them, it's over to them to experiment and see what, which or how they want to _use_ or _not_ use them.
It's always interesting to see how the same brief produces totally different end paintings from each one - and for me, that's the joy of teaching. Show them the right path so that they understand the 'basics' and can use their tools. At the same time, make sure they know that each one will ultimately paint in their own way, and that they understand that this is perfectly normal and valid. Among those who stay on with me afterwards, some will go on following the rules, others will break them, and each knows that it's ok.
@@Pointebrush _I’m going to go and paint a 20x30 using only a 0_
Of course! And you will be making a RealTime. full length video of this for us, Margot? 😄
I really find all your work beautiful and etherial!
Hello! New subscriber here. I’m enjoying wandering around your library and especially love this video. Really resonates with me! You are a very engaging, enthusiastic and encouraging teacher. Thank you ❤ PS, I purchased The Secret Lives of Color on your recommendation. Fascinating book!
Great example of Michaelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. It must have taken hours each day just for the turtle to climb the scaffold! 😂
More Margot A and Margot B conversations please 🤣 also a pre-emptive congrats on being nearly at 10k subs! It's pants that the youtube algorithm works against smaller channels that do longer (more than 10s 🙄) form content, but it seems the community you've gathered here is really engaged and passionate about what you bring to this platform. Your comment and like ratio to subscriptions is actually really good for youtube these days, where many creators aren't getting a 10th of the interaction they once were.
I’m glad RUclips recommended this video for me. I look forward to learning from you
That means so much Amanda! Thank you and welcome!!
Thank you sooo much!!! 👍🤗😘
Almost all my life, starting with grade 10 until about my 40th birthday, I thought I wouldn't be able to be creative with my hands. I had great teachers in English, who supported my writing skills. Until 9th grade, I also had a wonderful art teacher, who even supported me to enter my paintings, photographs, ceramics, woven and batiked art for art contests in school and otherwise. Then I had to leave the school overseas and moved to Austria with my family. After that I changed schools three more times and finally had a teacher in German (like English in an American school), who was also supportive with my writing skills. But sadly, I didn't have an art teacher with a truly creative approach when teaching. So I settled in with writing, while first learning two professions of the rational kind.
I then was freelancer journalist, writing in German language, also PR, for more than 2 decades. When I was thrown fully out of my daily life routines by an aggravated assault from a Salafist youth gang, who practically preyed on German women, which made me completely forget two languages, and made me mix up English and German, and made me be lost in time and space, and so much more, I had to relearn many things all over again. It took me 8 months to even start with learning due to anxiety, depression, and all the other symptoms of cPTSD. After 8 months I started regaining my mind by practicing every single day with the help of my youngest son. When I was done with doing that regularly, I started out with crochet, then went on to knitting and embroidery, and learned almost all the crafts I knew prior to this assault in Germany, that had left me with severe brain injuries. During the first 10 months, I had gained lots of weight and so I started with swimming twice a day, while learning and practicing all day, although I was hardly able to sleep more than about 4 hours every week. I partly recovered and my youngest son moved out for his three years training to be a professional farmer and later study agriculture at university.
A few years later, I was about 50, and single, living together with my PTSD service dog LODUR, who was a Rottweiler, I started to discover RUclips art channels. Until then, I had only watched lectures from universities and documentaries online, to keep my brain busy in an attempt to prevent personal thoughts and brooding. So RUclips art channels opened a whole new world for me. I had found yet another way to prevent brooding, which would always end up spiraling me into anxiety and dissociative episodes, which is typical for PTSD / cPTSD.
I at first bought myself cheap colored pencils, acrylic paint, and drawing paper in a Euro store.
But as soon as I watched artists painting with water color, I knew I had to buy better paper and at least middle class watercolors. I was sooo eager to get into learning this, also because I had never done watercolor before, except for art classes in Austrian schools, which actually had destroyed my creative visual expression. Due to my self-imposed social withdrawel, I now had the time to deep dive into watercolor art. And so I did.
I got better and better at it, also started drawing with pencils, which I had NEVER done before in my life, to improve my skills on light and shading. But I must admit, I have had so many failures, and I still paint and draw fails, which I always throw away immediately. Every time I try out another technique, my paper bin is full within hours, and then I am always close to giving up.
People like my drawings and paintings, at least those I don't throw away, and even buy them, but watching so many RUclips creators painting so easy and fast and at the same time so perfectly, makes me feel so unable as artist. And that's when imposter syndrome kicks in.
So I am so very thankful to you for bringing up this topic in this video. I immediately subbed you for this very video. 😊 Thank you sooooo much!!!!! ❤❤❤
I also turned to art on my healing journey from PTSD and brain injury from assault --- music & writing & handcrafts were my joy before; but I've had to relearn each skill. And I'm surprised I can now begin drawing and watercolor ✨️💛 Here's best wishes to your healing, and all the new neural pathways ahead! 💖
Ty, for verbalising 😅what I finally figured out about w/c tutorials. I now watch people who show their sketch (not angle the lens so you can't see it) and who say "I left this to dry" or "this has been layered with multiple drying times"
Now that's the best "pep talk." Thanks a bunch. Cheers
I agree with some of the commenters that SHORTS by RUclips is the worst of it’s features they have introduced!! I started deleting it at first and then couldn’t keep up with it that i don’t even watch it anymore!
Such a great video on the honest process of creating.❤
I do love longer, well detailed, and funny instructional videos. If you produced one, I would definitely enjoy, learn, and share.
Blessings 🙏
Thanks so much for this video, I am doubting my ability all the time ever since I started to post my work and videos on social media. X
Thank you so much Margot. I am so thankful for finding you. 🤗😃
You’re so very welcome Tammy and the feeling is mutual 💕
I love your honesty
Thank you for your truth and information you share with us. It is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!!! Art makes you a better person because it makes you persevere. As long as you keep going you will improve. The thing is to allow yourself to be bad and never stop. I have impostor syndrome, and art has helped me to lessen it by the simple act of not stopping. I hear that little voice and I now am better able to tell it to shut up. 😉
Nicely said and encouraging.
I am a very new subscriber, and not a real artist, but I am a real gymnastics fan!
Did you know that Simone Biles is going to start competing again? The news came out yesterday!
What I think you meant was that in order for Simone to qualify for the Olympics, she had to compete and succeed at the American Olympic trials. This success was the culmination of 18-20 years of training.
Every single skill has taken hundreds of hours for each gymnast to learn.
I believe you are a ballet fan, which is why I suspect RUclips recommended one of your videos to me. Thank you, RUclips!
How many hours has each professional dancer needed to attain and maintain the level of skill that they have?
Btw, there is an excellent new video by ballerina Joy Womack explaining 21 levels of ballet on the channel "WIRED."
The message of your video is very inspirational and can be applied to other types of creativity as well.
Do you think imposter syndrome always stays only with a person who is an artist (or writer, etc), or that this applies to all people who experience imposter syndrome, regardless of their career or hobby eg. truck driver, lab analyst, first responder, lawyer?
I would guess, since workers in these examples practice all the time, that they would become more comfortable when they have proven to themselves that they can consistently perform their job under all kinds of pressure.
I don't know, but I'd love to know your and your viewers' thoughts on that.
Thank you very much for the video! ❤
I think of Henri Rousseau for a similar reason. He might not have been the most realistic painter but by Jingo he was enthusiastic about being an artist and very imaginative.
I heard about a work called "portrait of a woman" which was a dining table upon which the curator had to arrange a kebab and two freshly fried eggs every morning. Another conservation nightmare, coincidentally also called "portrait of a woman" involved a perspex box containing a year's worth of rubbish from a woman's bathroom waste basket.