Thank you Gaynor, for yet another delightful and inspiring video! I love the evolution of your paintings, the shifts and changes, never knowing where they're going, and then their wonderful resolution! So great! And, a question: How do you manage to be dressed so beautifully and stylishly every day without getting paint on your clothes? 🤔
Thank you so much for a lovely comment and in answer to your question....I try everyday to put something on that makes me feel good and that I feel comfortable in. I am hopeless at changing throughout the day, so if I go dog walking I put on boots and dog coat, if I go to town I put on a jacket and if I paint I put on the trusty green overall or a big shirt 😂
Hi Gaynor,you are real and so honest no pretence Love your style of painting always a joy to watch. When i look back at yr very first videos uve reall come a long way in terms of confidence and being less self concious. It must be quite scary doing videos for the first few times. A huge THANKYOU for sharing your amazing paintings. ❤❤❤
Hi Andrea, I think my love and enthusiasm for art got me through those very scary first videos. SO outside of my comfort zone but I really wanted to try ! Thankfully lovely people like you watch and comment and spur me on ❤
I can wait .!! I love to watch the old ones again and again. So many things to learn, and feel. And my feelings watching them happen to be quite different, depending on my mood (the same while listening to music). You really bring me so much enthousiasm, I love your way of "driving" your art, always exciting ! Thank you so much !! See you soon !
Just discovered your channel Gaynor. I’m really enjoying your enthusiasm and style. Many thanks for generously sharing your work, tips and creativity. Your authentic approach is inspirational. A breath of fresh air! Thank you 🙏
Hi Gaynor It is so wonderful how many comments your videos get 😊 I had forgotten about those 2 little tree paintings, I just love them ❤ Brilliant colour swatching idea, they remind me of ceramic tile samples 😂 Definitely going to do this. Thank you xx
Hello Charlotte, I am overwhelmed by the kindness shown by viewers, lovely lovely people like yourself X I cut some more squares for swatching this evening - another excuse to get the paints out ! Have a great week XX
I have a sketchbook that I keep just for swatching. Whenever I get some new paint color, or other media I swatch it before I use it. I also try different blends in there as well. Thank you for being vulnerable and showing the work as it is developing. It is always great to know that other artists go through the same things!
I really liked this video. Iam in Texas in the USA. I was not bored with your blue squares. Thats a good idea to test the brands and values. An artist friend of mine is teaching me all about art and having fun. I really love using water color. I like that you are fun and very honesr and not stuffy.
It looks like more light is coming into your studio. That lifts my spirit. I am enjoying your chair series an Id the paint testing. It is still rainy season here in Salem Oregon, but there is hope......a few tulips are pushing up out of the soil. You could add some yellow tulips to your chair pictures for an accent.
Yes! Thank you! Writing today Mary, we have wonderful sunshine (at last) and the temperature is on the up ! I adore tulips over all other spring bulbs so I might well take your advice X
Hello from Montana U.S.A! I LOVE the card idea instead of swatching in a book ! I am going to buy a stack of precut papers. 1 color each. I can't wait to sit with all the cards, putting together color pallets! Well done!
Hello Michelle in Montana X I am pleased to have something workable with the cards and reading your message makes me want to get on with another batch !! XX
I think that just because it was, it doesn't necessarily predicate that it ever really was in the first place. It stands to reason in conventional circles of course.
I started an interior painting with chair and became fearful that I would make a mess of it (similar to what happened to you last week with your standing easel chair painting). So I will remember to just be brave as you were, have a go and give myself time for the painting to reveal itself. You have helped me so much. Great idea with your color swatches! I’ve only been using a limited palette so don’t think I need to catalog colors yet. Have a lovely week. It’s was quite cold here in upstate New York and now it’s just rain and gloomy days one after the other…..
Hello Patricia, As I write, we have beautiful sunshine at last and boy it makes such a difference ! I love reading about your painting and the only thing to do when stuck is to let it brew...keep having a look at it and ask 'what if' questions. It is usually when I am utterly frustrated that answers come ! Have a wonderful week and I hope the sun comes out in New York soon XX
Hey Gaynor! Another week and I love your videos so much! Hope you have a great weekend and I’m already counting the days until next Thursday ❤ all my best! Roxanne from Atlanta, GA USA 👋🏻👋🏻
Hello again Gaynor, from Tucson, Arizona. Chilly day here, at 62 degrees. It's always great to watch you work and become inspired from watching you. Now that you have made you baba ghanoush, I wonder if you could try a crisp apple, baked in your fireplace, to go with your morning porridge.😄
l love how brave you are, that's such a gift! I really like interiors so looking forward to seeing your series. Here in Sardinia we do a very similar dish with aubergines, baked, then garlic, parsley and oil added, yummy!
I too have that experience where I love something immediately after painting it and then the next day am disappointed by it. The opposite does happen too though.
it's always good to experiment with art, even if it doesn't work how you like 🥰 reminds me of how my partner was using acrylic paint recently, accidentally painted over lots of finished areas and had just accepted his fate waiting for it to dry. apparently he totally forgot that wiping it off with a damp cloth was an option 😂
My tube of Prussian Blue just didn’t find its way into my paintings until I started mixing it with Naples Yellow + white for some beautiful blue-greens. Your video blogs are wonderful!
Yes it is lovely to find a video of someone who is FUN ! I think you are fun! I have shared your videos with my artist friends after I was telling them about you they said Oh send it to me!!😁I thoroughly enjoy watching your light hearted interesting videos! God bless you and thank you for sharing!🖌️🎨🖍️I love ROCKET also! I saw him in a video and loved it. We are in TEXAS, USA
When I saw you at the wood burner I thought you were making charcoal. I’ve been experimenting by wrapping sticks, of various sizes, in tin foil and putting it in the fire at the edge away from the main heat. Leave all day and open in morning. Pretty good results and I’ve been grinding for charcoal powder. I’m going to get some acrylic binder to make paint too from the ashes. Another lovely vlog Gaynor ❤
Hi Rich, If I shut the burner down with quite a bit of wood in it, I can often sort through in the morning and find usable charcoal. But your technique sounds much more refined 😂 more stick than chunk !!! I had success with Sweet Potatoes and got very excited for a stuffed Bramley apple ....it disintegrated 🥲 Have a fantastic week XX
I love how many different things we saw this week!! Enjoyed the paint comparison…and the squares.. and LOVE the interior small. Hope we get to keep seeing interiors… 🙏❤️
Hi Lovely 🤩 Love your little interior ❤️…..before you painted over it 😄 it was SO cute! I am sure it will be lovely though by the time you are happy with it😊 I swatch all my paint supplies in an 8x8 watercolour sketch book, with details on each colour. It is very handy to see them all in one place. Golden paints are more lightfast …more archival, made to last as long as oils, if not longer. They are more pigment rich, so you don’t need as much. Far superior paints compared to most other acrylics ….top of their game in my opinion. They reflect light, almost make your painting glow….Absolutely beautiful paints! Their Prussian blue is delightful, awesome! Try printing with their liquid Prussian blue on the gelli plate and you’ll see what I mean about that colour! It’s gorgeous! One of my faves. Have a glorious week ….spring is on its way! Yay! I’m off to get a mullet haircut this morning, looks good on younger people 😳 might be a tad ridiculous on me 😄 (overweight 62 year old) but you don’t know unless you try. Better get the brown bag with eye holes out, just in case! 😄 🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️
Hello Teresa ❤ I'm going to wait for the sale and buy GOLDEN, your enthusiasm is too much to resist !!! Good luck with your haircut.....exciting times ❤
Hey! Loved my mullet hairstyle Yay! Whoo Hoo 🤸♂️ So easy to look after, just scrunch it and let it dry naturally, then tweak it a bit on the top for a bit of height….looks great! My hairdresser is Amazing! She really tunes into what you want intuitively ….sees the cut in her mind first and gives you a fantastic cut in about 15mins! Talent and speed, Love the way she cuts .😊 When you watch her cut she looks like Edward Scissor Hand, hands flying almost a blur and it looks like she’s making a complete hash of it. Then at the end of all that fervent activity….a masterpiece of a haircut! Every cut she has done for me, has been just what I wanted. 😃 Plus….. she is such a Lovely bubbly human, full of Joy! She’s got 4 young kids to look after…don’t know how she keeps up that level of enthusiasm? Angel qualifications me thinks. 😊 xxx
thanks so much for your videos you're such an inspiration for a new comer like me. I love to see the process and to know that it's really about experimenting over and over again.. it's very nice and warm here in Israel.. ❣
Hello from Vancouver Island Canada. I'm the type who never uses paint from the tube ...I'd be more likely to mix every colour of blue I have together...then mix in another colour to make it even more unique. I'm more like a mad scientist than artist.
Hello Gaynor, blimey you have been busy this week, do you ever stop being creative and productive? I wish I had half of your drive and enthusiasm. I think the trouble with me is I enjoy ‘watching’ almost as much as ‘doing’🤣🤣 Have a lovely week💐
Hi Fiona, I think I'm making up for lost time !! Not lost....but time spent doing so many other things that I could never fit the art in ! Have a lovely week too, whatever you do XX
Hello Gwen and Welcome 😊 Lovely to hear from new viewers and great to find you on the map ! Thank you for watching and taking time to leave a very kind comment XX
Your looseness and experimental spirit are an inspiration! Question: what are those thin wood frames you are using? I love how minimal they are ... the perfect complement to your style!
I love your videos, Gaynor! I have them in the background when I'm painting and I feel like you're working with me! It's so nice. I agree, I love an art delivery. Which sketchbooks do you use and may I ask where you buy them from. Happy painting!
Hello Christine and thank you so much for such a wonderful comment X If I can lay my hands on an A4 Canson hardback sketchbook, the bumper page version, then I'm very happy ! If I can't find them in the UK, international shipping is too expensive and I go for any A4 hardback with pages that will take mixed media. I like Seawhite and use A5 for out and about. I sometimes buy from my local art store or Amazon. Thank you for watching XX
Hello from North Carolina, USA. I have been watching you over the last year. Your artwork and personality make your channel fun to watch. Please continue to keep smiling and showing us your techniques. You inspire me weekly!
Always so delightful,! Loved seeing you cook the Aubergines; and potatoes, that was fun! I have never compared a color in different brands, what a great idea, will do that. Love the green chair painting, and seeing it develop 💖. Have you mixed yellow and black to make green? it makes some lovely greens. Have a great week, hugs from Northern Virginia!
Hi Kathy 🥰 I had success with Sweet Potatoes but a Bramley cooking apple (in foil) evaporated....I had to try 😂 I forgot all about mixing yellow and black.....thank you.....sending hugs to you in Northern Virginia XXX
So glad I found you yesterday. Binge watching today and you really have motivated me to jump start my sketchbooks and go back to my old inspiration, Matisse. Love everything about his quirky abstract furniture and his colors. Love watching your process and seeing your thought process put to use. Thank you for your for sharing your time and talent.
Love every Thursday morning, as I am inspired to get to my paint room, after watching you create. Love your videos and am thankful that you share so much of your artist life. Can't wait for next Thursday. See you then from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.
Good morning, Gaynor! This is Paula from Boston, MA, USA currently spending January in Akumal, Mexico - you get two map pins for the price of one! I love Thursday mornings and seeing what you have been up to. I must admit I sometimes scream or moan when you start painting over something I love, but I'm also fascinated by how you reshape and reinvent the artworks so I'm learning to relax into your changes. I do however REALLY miss seeing the fun curvy legs of the chair now that they have disappeared into the dark rug. I loved their personality! Thank you again for loads of fun and inspiration and for throwing a bit of baba ganoush in for good measure! Stay warm. Paula
Hello Paula (two pins) 🥰 Thank you for watching and you won't be surprised to know that the painting has changed up already !!! I too, had a problem with the disappearing legs 😂 I have so wanted to give up on that painting But glad that I've stuck with it ! Have a wonderful week in Akumal XXX
Hello Gaynor,I’m late to the show this week!Im decorating..not the sort of painting I like at all!🤪😄..made time this morning to view your video and love the content as always!Great tip with the swatches,I’ve only ever seen watercolour swatches done before…chair painting is lovely,I’m liking the salmon tint,really sparks it off.Listening to journeys,just how long have you spent on one painting?I would be very interested to know lol!…Back to decorating I guess 👎🏻Have a great productive week…power to the paint brush!!❤
Hello Beverly, I like the sound of a bit of decorating 😊 The time spent with a painting varies so much.... In between other work and other life, I try to fit in a least a couple of hours a day. And some paintings come quickly and you've seen all my work that just wants time and a few changes 😂 I used to be fixed on the end result but feel much happier spending time with the process, knowing that at some stage I'll finish ! Have a wonderful week XXX
Awesome start to Thursday! I use blank flash cards (star right) u get 1000 blank flash cards that have hole for a rings included to put them on for colour swatching. I make them up for a painting series. Excited to see next week video!
Usually try to remember to swatch each new color in my sketchbook because I never remember shades and depth of color and all those very important issues! Again Gaynor, it’s been lovely spending some time with you today! Oh, and thank you for the frame info, my hubby is hard at it in his shop working for his dinner!!! Lol
One more comment and suggestion. How about What is Gaynor wearing today? " You always dress so beautifully and style your scarf, and jewelry so well. How about you do a quick minute and help those of us who need some styling tips? ☺
AHHH so so kind. Years ago I worked as a personal stylist and absolutely loved it ! The best advice is to dress for who you are and what you feel good in. XXX
Dear Gaynor - When I had a wood burner a bit like yours, following instructions I used to let the ash bed build up in the base of the stove. It acts as a heat store like the fire brick apparently. What does your stove manufacturer recommend? You might get more heat for less work. I emptied the ash about every two weeks. It used to turn into a kind of pale grey clinker. I love your videos and watch two or three at least every day - thank you!
Just love your channel so much🌷 Thank you for sharing your wonderful creativity with us. You keep me inspired. I live in South Florida and had to put the AC on last night to be able to sleep because it was too warm in the house. I’m amazed when I see you bundled up in your fabulous sweaters 😂✌🏼
Good morning from Hurricane UT, USA. I have a couple larger sketchbooks that I swatch in. One of them is watercolor and the other is acrylic. An artist friend told me to swatch when I first started learning to paint (I’m only 2 years into this). I now sometimes swatch colors before I start a painting just to be sure I like the combination. Thank you for sharing the reality of painting. It is very rewarding for a newer painter, like me, to see and be reminded that learning is ongoing. Wishing you a lovely week.
Thank you so much for another wonderful video, Gaynor 😊. I find I’m continually inspired to see how you approach your work and appreciate all that you share ❤. Only because you asked, I have a binder of swatches that I started which has gone through many transitions 🤷🏼♀️! I finally have settled on a page per colour, then a page per combinations of two colours plus black and white (seeing the different results), then three colours plus black and white. After each swatch I’ve created a little abstract sketch with the colours on my palette to see how they all look together. I haven’t gotten very far yet 😂. Have an awesome week (from cold, snowy Hamilton Ontario Canada 🇨🇦)
Hello Teresa, I like the sound of a page per colour - I am determined to get the swatches going but it might be a slow job for me too !! Have a fantastic week in snowy Hamilton XXX
I was thinking OMG, what did she do to that, more simple interior, and then I thought, well of course she Gaynorized it for experimentation! So brave all the time, with the “what if?” I NEED to do that much more often. Getting out of your comfort zone allows you to grow as an artist -but I’m such fraid-y cat!
Hi Sherrie, I really wanted to give up with that painting but I am so glad now that I kept moving it along - finally, I really like it !! Try some 'what if' on an old painting this week XX
Good morning from Manitoba, Canada! Always a pleasure to catch up on Thursdays. I have my studio class today, and I'm admittedly dreading it a little, because it's critique day. I also have to work on this big drawing I've been doing for the critique...it's not done yet, and I suspect it wont' be done for a few hours. But I gotta do my best.
Hi Gaynor. I mostly use daler rowney graduate and winsor newton galeria paints. It's funny how people do swatches with watercolours but less so with acrylic. In our The Range shop, they do 500ml daler rowney graduate tubs for just £7.99 I get the black and white in that size which is even better value than the 120ml which are cheap, other places sell the 500ml (if they do it) for £10 plus. I also have those daler rowney cheap small tubes. All the best, John
Hi John, We have The Range but the art section is always half empty !!!! I used to buy Winsor Newton prof acrylics in there but our branch has stopped all Winsor Newton products now, such a shame ! I will keep my eyes open for 500ml tubs at £7.99 - thank you. Have a great week X
I love how you show the struggle is real Gaynor! Your blacked out chair reminded me of a 'fussy' painting I have been working on for a week. Yesterday I covered large areas with black paint eliminating hours of work! I know it was the right decision though even though I don't know what direction to take it to next! May I ask how long you spend painting each week? I seem to have been painting for hours but not getting anywhere fast! Wishing you a creative week ahead Gaynor. I really like where your interiors painting is going. x
Hi Simone, Good question....on average probably 2 hours per day, but not everyday because of real work and life !! When you really don't know where to go, just let it BREW 🥰
How about a door instead of the cabinet and lamp? Isn't it easier to mix the paint on the painting itself? This way you can also determine how the color relates to the other color tones. That's how I always do it. Saves a lot of time and paint. nice video and good luck from Peter from Rotterdam.
Hello Peter, I feel happy mixing on larger paintings probably because I like to see a large amount of the mix ! The rough paper will be torn up for collage material. Thank you for watching and thank you for suggestions, keep them coming 🥰
Of course another great video Gaynor ❤ I am watching for a second time because 5am when I first watched my eyes were not even open yet 😂 but my border terrier thinks that is a great time to get up 😂 I think you didn’t like the chest you added in the interior painting because it was to far from the green chair 🪑 there was no relation to it. I like to make sure things are touching or over lapping. I don’t know 🤷♀️ I hope that makes sense
Just discovered your videos and have been inspired to take my paintings in new directions. Thank you. BTW, I'm in Meridian, Idaho, USA, in case you want to drop a pin in your map. lol
I've always swatched new paints in the back of sketchbooks - it doesn't work at all as I can never find the right book for the paint details I'm looking for! Will be trying the veg in woodburner trick, many thanks🎨
Try having a paint trials book. I’ve done that. It’s just a small sketchbook like the type you might take outside with you. When I buy new paints I trial run them in there. When I want to do a test run of a colour theme I trial that in there too. That way you can keep all your colour experiments together. I don’t do it as much now, I’m too impatient and I use pen much more, but it is helpful.
I love your videos. My gallery In New Mexico closed and I just received back what was not sold. I am at a loss as to what to do now. Any suggestions ? This is so bitter sweet. Love to have received everything back in good condition but saddened by the closing of the lovely gallery.
Hello Lori, such a shame. Have you approached other Galleries ? Is there Exhibition space in your area - perhaps you could share with other artists in the area ? XXX
I am so sorry to hear that. Do you have other creative paths....the desire to paint can ebb and flow. Sometimes a break and taking a rest can be a positive thing. Thinking of you🥰
Enjoyed your process as usual. I've debated about asking you this because I don't want to hurt your feelings or question your artistic vision. But, shouldn't there be some hint as to back legs on your chair? Is this a creative choice or is my perception off? It's probably just me. 😂 Anyway, keep the videos coming! I love them!
Hello Susan, From where I stood with the easel sketching the first chair, I couldn't see the back legs !!! I wondered about putting them in ..... I've recently sketched from another angle and can only see three which looks really odd. I will have another look and contemplate more legs 😊 I like questions so always feel free to ask 🥰
Thank you Gaynor, for yet another delightful and inspiring video! I love the evolution of your paintings, the shifts and changes, never knowing where they're going, and then their wonderful resolution! So great! And, a question: How do you manage to be dressed so beautifully and stylishly every day without getting paint on your clothes? 🤔
Thank you so much for a lovely comment and in answer to your question....I try everyday to put something on that makes me feel good and that I feel comfortable in. I am hopeless at changing throughout the day, so if I go dog walking I put on boots and dog coat, if I go to town I put on a jacket and if I paint I put on the trusty green overall or a big shirt 😂
Hi Gaynor,you are real and so honest no pretence Love your style of painting always a joy to watch. When i look back at yr very first videos uve reall come a long way in terms of confidence and being less self concious. It must be quite scary doing videos for the first few times. A huge THANKYOU for sharing your amazing paintings. ❤❤❤
Hi Andrea, I think my love and enthusiasm for art got me through those very scary first videos. SO outside of my comfort zone but I really wanted to try ! Thankfully lovely people like you watch and comment and spur me on ❤
Your attitude toward life in general is a good reminder that creativity is all around us!!
Thank you Sanka X
Why did I watch immediately?! Now I’ve a whole week to wait til the next one ❤
I feel the same !! 😀
Very Very Kind ❤
I saved some for when I got home from work.
@@Cathy7816-u4v wise lady 😃
I can wait .!! I love to watch the old ones again and again. So many things to learn, and feel.
And my feelings watching them
happen to be quite different, depending on my mood
(the same while listening to music). You really bring me so much enthousiasm, I love your way of "driving" your art, always exciting ! Thank you so much !! See you soon !
Just discovered your channel Gaynor. I’m really enjoying your enthusiasm and style. Many thanks for generously sharing your work, tips and creativity. Your authentic approach is inspirational. A breath of fresh air! Thank you 🙏
Hello and Welcome Alice X Heartfelt thanks for such kind words, I really appreciate it XX
It was a lovely surprise to see it was Thursday again. I enjoyed spending time with you as always!
Hello Angelina and thank you for spending time 🥰
Hi Gaynor It is so wonderful how many comments your videos get 😊 I had forgotten about those 2 little tree paintings, I just love them ❤ Brilliant colour swatching idea, they remind me of ceramic tile samples 😂 Definitely going to do this. Thank you xx
Hello Charlotte, I am overwhelmed by the kindness shown by viewers, lovely lovely people like yourself X I cut some more squares for swatching this evening - another excuse to get the paints out ! Have a great week XX
Awesome idea with the swatches on nice big squares thank Gaynor
You are so welcome....have fun X
Its really nice to have loose swatches because you can match them with each other
Hello Alison, you have hit the nail on the head 😍 Thank you X
I love the photo. The light is beautiful.
Thank you Susan X
I have a sketchbook that I keep just for swatching. Whenever I get some new paint color, or other media I swatch it before I use it. I also try different blends in there as well. Thank you for being vulnerable and showing the work as it is developing. It is always great to know that other artists go through the same things!
Hello Clare, Thank you for watching and taking time to leave a lovely comment. Swatching is on the top of my agenda now !
❤from Ireland ,your a great motivator .Gets me painting when I’m a bit sluggish . Love your videos.
Thanks so much 😊
I really liked this video. Iam in Texas in the USA. I was not bored with your blue squares. Thats a good idea to test the brands and values. An artist friend of mine is teaching me all about art and having fun. I really love using water color. I like that you are fun and very honesr and not stuffy.
Thank you so much XX
I made a concertina!!! And painted a cover. What fun I haven’t been so inspired in forever or had so much fun watching you. So wish you could see. 🥰
Reading this message has absolutely made my day 😍
It looks like more light is coming into your studio. That lifts my spirit. I am enjoying your chair series an Id the paint testing. It is still rainy season here in Salem Oregon, but there is hope......a few tulips are pushing up out of the soil. You could add some yellow tulips to your chair pictures for an accent.
Yes! Thank you! Writing today Mary, we have wonderful sunshine (at last) and the temperature is on the up ! I adore tulips over all other spring bulbs so I might well take your advice X
Hello from Montana U.S.A! I LOVE the card idea instead of swatching in a book ! I am going to buy a stack of precut papers. 1 color each. I can't wait to sit with all the cards, putting together color pallets! Well done!
Hello Michelle in Montana X I am pleased to have something workable with the cards and reading your message makes me want to get on with another batch !! XX
Loved all the paintings especially the chair ones also aubergine potatoes and sweed? Soooooo funny 😁 😂 ❤❤
Hello Deborah, Thank you for loving the chairs 🥰 I tried a Bramley Apple....it evaporated 😂 BUT Sweet Potatoes worked XX
I swatch my paints but only a nail size, I like the look of your big ones that makes more sense thanks Gaynor for another great tip.
Hi June, I really don't know why I didn't do big ones sooner ! XXX
Just love your channel Gaynor ...such an inspiration with integrity ✨️
So So kind and I'm very grateful 🥰
@@gaynorpattleI'm grateful I found your channel 😊
I think that just because it was, it doesn't necessarily predicate that it ever really was in the first place. It stands to reason in conventional circles of course.
Thank you so much for sharing your process, and stuff you ‘hate’! I find it so helpful.
Thank you for watching XX
I started an interior painting with chair and became fearful that I would make a mess of it (similar to what happened to you last week with your standing easel chair painting). So I will remember to just be brave as you were, have a go and give myself time for the painting to reveal itself. You have helped me so much. Great idea with your color swatches! I’ve only been using a limited palette so don’t think I need to catalog colors yet. Have a lovely week. It’s was quite cold here in upstate New York and now it’s just rain and gloomy days one after the other…..
Hello Patricia, As I write, we have beautiful sunshine at last and boy it makes such a difference ! I love reading about your painting and the only thing to do when stuck is to let it brew...keep having a look at it and ask 'what if' questions. It is usually when I am utterly frustrated that answers come ! Have a wonderful week and I hope the sun comes out in New York soon XX
Hey Gaynor! Another week and I love your videos so much! Hope you have a great weekend and I’m already counting the days until next Thursday ❤ all my best! Roxanne from Atlanta, GA USA 👋🏻👋🏻
Hello Roxanne in Atlanta X Where does the time go !!! Thank you for watching and making me smile XX
Hello again Gaynor, from Tucson, Arizona. Chilly day here, at 62 degrees. It's always great to watch you work and become inspired from watching you. Now that you have made you baba ghanoush, I wonder if you could try a crisp apple, baked in your fireplace, to go with your morning porridge.😄
I put a filled Bramley apple in the oven but it evaporated !! Sweet potatoes worked though !!!
l love how brave you are, that's such a gift! I really like interiors so looking forward to seeing your series. Here in Sardinia we do a very similar dish with aubergines, baked, then garlic, parsley and oil added, yummy!
Hello Frankie, Thank you for watching and commenting 🥰 Your recipe sound very delicious X
On the down side of that I'd never know how I came up with that colour gain!
Fun with eggplant!! Dunedin FL here.❤
Hi there ! I’m in Wellington Fl ✌🏼
Hi Andrea in Dunedin, have a great week X
I too have that experience where I love something immediately after painting it and then the next day am disappointed by it. The opposite does happen too though.
I'm in good company XX
it's always good to experiment with art, even if it doesn't work how you like 🥰 reminds me of how my partner was using acrylic paint recently, accidentally painted over lots of finished areas and had just accepted his fate waiting for it to dry. apparently he totally forgot that wiping it off with a damp cloth was an option 😂
OH NO !!!! I hope he was able to work over. Have a lovely week Chantelle X
Hi from Norwich UK.shivering along with you!
A lovely place to be 🥰
My tube of Prussian Blue just didn’t find its way into my paintings until I started mixing it with Naples Yellow + white for some beautiful blue-greens. Your video blogs are wonderful!
I'm going to dash off to mix your recipe XX Thank you for watching and taking time to leave a lovely comment XX
Yes it is lovely to find a video of someone who is FUN ! I think you are fun! I have shared your videos with my artist friends after I was telling them about you they said Oh send it to me!!😁I thoroughly enjoy watching your light hearted interesting videos! God bless you and thank you for sharing!🖌️🎨🖍️I love ROCKET also! I saw him in a video and loved it. We are in TEXAS, USA
Thank you for watching and sending such a lovely message XX
@@gaynorpattle🙂You are very welcome!
Fabulous! I can’t wait for winter so I can cook babaganoush in my fireplace!
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When I saw you at the wood burner I thought you were making charcoal. I’ve been experimenting by wrapping sticks, of various sizes, in tin foil and putting it in the fire at the edge away from the main heat. Leave all day and open in morning. Pretty good results and I’ve been grinding for charcoal powder. I’m going to get some acrylic binder to make paint too from the ashes.
Another lovely vlog Gaynor ❤
Hi Rich, If I shut the burner down with quite a bit of wood in it, I can often sort through in the morning and find usable charcoal. But your technique sounds much more refined 😂 more stick than chunk !!! I had success with Sweet Potatoes and got very excited for a stuffed Bramley apple ....it disintegrated 🥲 Have a fantastic week XX
@@gaynorpattle we used to do baked potatoes in foil in the fire. But we have an oven above the fire now….. so good. You have a fab week too xx
Hei from Norway! I found your inspiring videos some weeks ago. I really like them and your personality. Thank you for sharing your prosess with us!🥰🤩
Hello and Welcome 😊 Lovely to see you here, thank you for watching and leaving such a kind comment XX
I love how many different things we saw this week!! Enjoyed the paint comparison…and the squares.. and LOVE the interior small. Hope we get to keep seeing interiors… 🙏❤️
Hello Best Girl ❤❤❤ safe to say I'm having a chair moment 😂😂😂
From Florida. Love watching your videos. Great idea with the cards!
Thank You X
Thank you Gaynor for your honesty! Love your videos! Your house is beautiful!
Hello Patricia, Thank you for watching and leaving a very kind message 😍 Have a wonderful week XX
Sending you warm hugs from Guadalajara, Mexico
WOW, found you on the map, Guadalajara looks beautiful and warm ! 🥰
Hi Lovely 🤩
Love your little interior ❤️…..before you painted over it 😄 it was SO cute! I am sure it will be lovely though by the time you are happy with it😊
I swatch all my paint supplies in an 8x8 watercolour sketch book, with details on each colour. It is very handy to see them all in one place.
Golden paints are more lightfast …more archival, made to last as long as oils, if not longer. They are more pigment rich, so you don’t need as much. Far superior paints compared to most other acrylics ….top of their game in my opinion. They reflect light, almost make your painting glow….Absolutely beautiful paints! Their Prussian blue is delightful, awesome! Try printing with their liquid Prussian blue on the gelli plate and you’ll see what I mean about that colour! It’s gorgeous! One of my faves.
Have a glorious week ….spring is on its way! Yay!
I’m off to get a mullet haircut this morning, looks good on younger people 😳 might be a tad ridiculous on me 😄 (overweight 62 year old) but you don’t know unless you try. Better get the brown bag with eye holes out, just in case! 😄 🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️
Hello Teresa ❤ I'm going to wait for the sale and buy GOLDEN, your enthusiasm is too much to resist !!! Good luck with your haircut.....exciting times ❤
Hey! Loved my mullet hairstyle Yay! Whoo Hoo 🤸♂️ So easy to look after, just scrunch it and let it dry naturally, then tweak it a bit on the top for a bit of height….looks great! My hairdresser is Amazing! She really tunes into what you want intuitively ….sees the cut in her mind first and gives you a fantastic cut in about 15mins! Talent and speed, Love the way she cuts .😊 When you watch her cut she looks like Edward Scissor Hand, hands flying almost a blur and it looks like she’s making a complete hash of it. Then at the end of all that fervent activity….a masterpiece of a haircut! Every cut she has done for me, has been just what I wanted. 😃
Plus….. she is such a Lovely bubbly human, full of Joy! She’s got 4 young kids to look after…don’t know how she keeps up that level of enthusiasm? Angel qualifications me thinks. 😊 xxx
Fantastic News 🤩Your hairdresser is a Keeper, very rare and hard to find in these parts ! Thinking of you enjoying your new look XX
thanks so much for your videos you're such an inspiration for a new comer like me. I love to see the process and to know that it's really about experimenting over and over again.. it's very nice and warm here in Israel.. ❣
Always lovely to hear from new viewers and a chance to thank you for watching and leaving such a lovely comment X
Absolutely love the chair painting!!! Actually ALL of them. Another exciting segment for me. I can watch them all over and over again
Thank You
Hello from Vancouver Island Canada. I'm the type who never uses paint from the tube ...I'd be more likely to mix every colour of blue I have together...then mix in another colour to make it even more unique. I'm more like a mad scientist than artist.
I love this approach too but as you say, it is so frustrating when you can't make a repeat. KEEP being unique XXX
Hello Gaynor, blimey you have been busy this week, do you ever stop being creative and productive? I wish I had half of your drive and enthusiasm. I think the trouble with me is I enjoy ‘watching’ almost as much as ‘doing’🤣🤣 Have a lovely week💐
Hi Fiona, I think I'm making up for lost time !! Not lost....but time spent doing so many other things that I could never fit the art in ! Have a lovely week too, whatever you do XX
Newbie to your channel! Love the inspiration. I’m a Canadian in the very hot tropics of southern PANAMA 🇵🇦.
Hello Gwen and Welcome 😊 Lovely to hear from new viewers and great to find you on the map ! Thank you for watching and taking time to leave a very kind comment XX
Your looseness and experimental spirit are an inspiration! Question: what are those thin wood frames you are using? I love how minimal they are ... the perfect complement to your style!
Hello Leslie, Craig buys lengths of timber and makes up the frames. We go through phases...some things work better than others !!! X
Yet another WONDERFUL Thursday visit to brighten the day! ♥
Thank you ❤
Hello from Sweden🇸🇪. Love your work
Hello and Welcome, thank you for watching and leaving a lovely comment XX
I love your videos, Gaynor! I have them in the background when I'm painting and I feel like you're working with me! It's so nice. I agree, I love an art delivery. Which sketchbooks do you use and may I ask where you buy them from. Happy painting!
Hello Christine and thank you so much for such a wonderful comment X If I can lay my hands on an A4 Canson hardback sketchbook, the bumper page version, then I'm very happy ! If I can't find them in the UK, international shipping is too expensive and I go for any A4 hardback with pages that will take mixed media. I like Seawhite and use A5 for out and about. I sometimes buy from my local art store or Amazon. Thank you for watching XX
Hello from North Carolina, USA. I have been watching you over the last year. Your artwork and personality make your channel fun to watch. Please continue to keep smiling and showing us your techniques. You inspire me weekly!
Hello Susan in North Carolina 🥰 Thank you for such a wonderful comment 😍
Always so delightful,! Loved seeing you cook the Aubergines; and potatoes, that was fun! I have never compared a color in different brands, what a great idea, will do that. Love the green chair painting, and seeing it develop 💖. Have you mixed yellow and black to make green? it makes some lovely greens. Have a great week, hugs from Northern Virginia!
Hi Kathy 🥰 I had success with Sweet Potatoes but a Bramley cooking apple (in foil) evaporated....I had to try 😂 I forgot all about mixing yellow and black.....thank you.....sending hugs to you in Northern Virginia XXX
That is amazing
Thank you Patricia X
So glad I found you yesterday. Binge watching today and you really have motivated me to jump start my sketchbooks and go back to my old inspiration, Matisse. Love everything about his quirky abstract furniture and his colors.
Love watching your process and seeing your thought process put to use. Thank you for your for sharing your time and talent.
A warm welcome and heartfelt thanks for a lovely comment. Always great to hear from a Matisse fan XX
Love every Thursday morning, as I am inspired to get to my paint room, after watching you create. Love your videos and am thankful that you share so much of your artist life. Can't wait for next Thursday. See you then from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.
Thank you for leaving such a lovely comment 😊I hope you have a wonderful week X
I love love love your work. You are a genuine pleasure to watch.😊🇬🇧
Thank you so much! XXX
Good morning, Gaynor! This is Paula from Boston, MA, USA currently spending January in Akumal, Mexico - you get two map pins for the price of one! I love Thursday mornings and seeing what you have been up to. I must admit I sometimes scream or moan when you start painting over something I love, but I'm also fascinated by how you reshape and reinvent the artworks so I'm learning to relax into your changes. I do however REALLY miss seeing the fun curvy legs of the chair now that they have disappeared into the dark rug. I loved their personality! Thank you again for loads of fun and inspiration and for throwing a bit of baba ganoush in for good measure! Stay warm.
Paula
Hello Paula (two pins) 🥰 Thank you for watching and you won't be surprised to know that the painting has changed up already !!! I too, had a problem with the disappearing legs 😂 I have so wanted to give up on that painting But glad that I've stuck with it ! Have a wonderful week in Akumal XXX
Hello Gaynor,I’m late to the show this week!Im decorating..not the sort of painting I like at all!🤪😄..made time this morning to view your video and love the content as always!Great tip with the swatches,I’ve only ever seen watercolour swatches done before…chair painting is lovely,I’m liking the salmon tint,really sparks it off.Listening to journeys,just how long have you spent on one painting?I would be very interested to know lol!…Back to decorating I guess 👎🏻Have a great productive week…power to the paint brush!!❤
Hello Beverly, I like the sound of a bit of decorating 😊 The time spent with a painting varies so much.... In between other work and other life, I try to fit in a least a couple of hours a day. And some paintings come quickly and you've seen all my work that just wants time and a few changes 😂 I used to be fixed on the end result but feel much happier spending time with the process, knowing that at some stage I'll finish ! Have a wonderful week XXX
Awesome start to Thursday! I use blank flash cards (star right) u get 1000 blank flash cards that have hole for a rings included to put them on for colour swatching. I make them up for a painting series. Excited to see next week video!
Wonderful to watch you create. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Melinda ❤
Usually try to remember to swatch each new color in my sketchbook because I never remember shades and depth of color and all those very important issues! Again Gaynor, it’s been lovely spending some time with you today! Oh, and thank you for the frame info, my hubby is hard at it in his shop working for his dinner!!! Lol
Hi Denise, this makes me smile....working for his dinner ! Craig is on the Golf Course today having a rest XX
One more comment and suggestion. How about What is Gaynor wearing today? " You always dress so beautifully and style your scarf, and jewelry so well. How about you do a quick minute and help those of us who need some styling tips? ☺
AHHH so so kind. Years ago I worked as a personal stylist and absolutely loved it ! The best advice is to dress for who you are and what you feel good in. XXX
Dear Gaynor - When I had a wood burner a bit like yours, following instructions I used to let the ash bed build up in the base of the stove. It acts as a heat store like the fire brick apparently. What does your stove manufacturer recommend? You might get more heat for less work. I emptied the ash about every two weeks. It used to turn into a kind of pale grey clinker. I love your videos and watch two or three at least every day - thank you!
This makes me smile.....we were told to leave the ashes but I have a housework habit !!!!!! I will try leaving it XX
Just love your channel so much🌷 Thank you for sharing your wonderful creativity with us. You keep me inspired. I live in South Florida and had to put the AC on last night to be able to sleep because it was too warm in the house. I’m amazed when I see you bundled up in your fabulous sweaters 😂✌🏼
Hello Diane, Today we had a rise in the temperature !!! Thank you so much for watching and leaving a great comment 🥰
Good morning from Hurricane UT, USA. I have a couple larger sketchbooks that I swatch in. One of them is watercolor and the other is acrylic. An artist friend told me to swatch when I first started learning to paint (I’m only 2 years into this). I now sometimes swatch colors before I start a painting just to be sure I like the combination. Thank you for sharing the reality of painting. It is very rewarding for a newer painter, like me, to see and be reminded that learning is ongoing. Wishing you a lovely week.
Hello Felica, found you on the map 🥰 Two sketch books for swatching - a great idea X Have a wonderful week ❤
Thank you so much for another wonderful video, Gaynor 😊. I find I’m continually inspired to see how you approach your work and appreciate all that you share ❤. Only because you asked, I have a binder of swatches that I started which has gone through many transitions 🤷🏼♀️! I finally have settled on a page per colour, then a page per combinations of two colours plus black and white (seeing the different results), then three colours plus black and white. After each swatch I’ve created a little abstract sketch with the colours on my palette to see how they all look together. I haven’t gotten very far yet 😂. Have an awesome week (from cold, snowy Hamilton Ontario Canada 🇨🇦)
Hello Teresa, I like the sound of a page per colour - I am determined to get the swatches going but it might be a slow job for me too !! Have a fantastic week in snowy Hamilton XXX
I was thinking OMG, what did she do to that, more simple interior, and then I thought, well of course she Gaynorized it for experimentation! So brave all the time, with the “what if?” I NEED to do that much more often. Getting out of your comfort zone allows you to grow as an artist -but I’m such fraid-y cat!
Hi Sherrie, I really wanted to give up with that painting but I am so glad now that I kept moving it along - finally, I really like it !! Try some 'what if' on an old painting this week XX
I love Prussian blue. It makes wonderful mixes, a grown up blue.
Where have I been....it's gorgeous XX
I love baba ganoush and cooked for free is a win win😋 take a look at Raoul Duffy, his interiors might give you fresh inspiration.
Yes.....love his work XXX
And does he pull a wagon with a horse?😂 aluminum a big 😮no no. Ann, from hot land Florida 😊
Hi Ann, no but he does have a camper van XX
Good morning from Manitoba, Canada! Always a pleasure to catch up on Thursdays. I have my studio class today, and I'm admittedly dreading it a little, because it's critique day. I also have to work on this big drawing I've been doing for the critique...it's not done yet, and I suspect it wont' be done for a few hours. But I gotta do my best.
GOOD LUCK and remember that if you love it, that is the most important thing XXX
Hi Gaynor, love your channel!! Watching from very muggy Cairns in North Queensland 24:32
Thank you so much....I didn't know where Cairns was but I do now XX
Hi Gaynor. I mostly use daler rowney graduate and winsor newton galeria paints. It's funny how people do swatches with watercolours but less so with acrylic. In our The Range shop, they do 500ml daler rowney graduate tubs for just £7.99 I get the black and white in that size which is even better value than the 120ml which are cheap, other places sell the 500ml (if they do it) for £10 plus. I also have those daler rowney cheap small tubes. All the best, John
Hi John, We have The Range but the art section is always half empty !!!! I used to buy Winsor Newton prof acrylics in there but our branch has stopped all Winsor Newton products now, such a shame ! I will keep my eyes open for 500ml tubs at £7.99 - thank you. Have a great week X
I love how you show the struggle is real Gaynor! Your blacked out chair reminded me of a 'fussy' painting I have been working on for a week. Yesterday I covered large areas with black paint eliminating hours of work! I know it was the right decision though even though I don't know what direction to take it to next! May I ask how long you spend painting each week? I seem to have been painting for hours but not getting anywhere fast!
Wishing you a creative week ahead Gaynor. I really like where your interiors painting is going. x
Hi Simone, Good question....on average probably 2 hours per day, but not everyday because of real work and life !! When you really don't know where to go, just let it BREW 🥰
@@gaynorpattle Thanks Gaynor. Good advice to let it brew. I think I should start another one whilst the brewing is doing! 😂
How about a door instead of the cabinet and lamp? Isn't it easier to mix the paint on the painting itself? This way you can also determine how the color relates to the other color tones. That's how I always do it. Saves a lot of time and paint. nice video and good luck from Peter from Rotterdam.
Hello Peter, I feel happy mixing on larger paintings probably because I like to see a large amount of the mix ! The rough paper will be torn up for collage material. Thank you for watching and thank you for suggestions, keep them coming 🥰
Of course another great video Gaynor ❤ I am watching for a second time because 5am when I first watched my eyes were not even open yet 😂 but my border terrier thinks that is a great time to get up 😂 I think you didn’t like the chest you added in the interior painting because it was to far from the green chair 🪑 there was no relation to it. I like to make sure things are touching or over lapping. I don’t know 🤷♀️ I hope that makes sense
It makes perfect sense...thank you 😊 Our terrier relaxes until 6am 😂 Have a lovely week XX
Just discovered your videos and have been inspired to take my paintings in new directions. Thank you. BTW, I'm in Meridian, Idaho, USA, in case you want to drop a pin in your map. lol
Hello and Welcome David in Meridian, Great to hear from new viewers and thank you for taking the time to leave a great message X
I've always swatched new paints in the back of sketchbooks - it doesn't work at all as I can never find the right book for the paint details I'm looking for! Will be trying the veg in woodburner trick, many thanks🎨
Try having a paint trials book. I’ve done that. It’s just a small sketchbook like the type you might take outside with you. When I buy new paints I trial run them in there. When I want to do a test run of a colour theme I trial that in there too. That way you can keep all your colour experiments together. I don’t do it as much now, I’m too impatient and I use pen much more, but it is helpful.
Ich grüsse dich aus Mallorka,wo heute 20 Grad ist.ich da danke dir fur deine küstliche zusätzliche Wärme.
Hello Eva...20 degrees !!! How wonderful 🥰
I love your videos. My gallery In New Mexico closed and I just received back what was not sold. I am at a loss as to what to do now. Any suggestions ? This is so bitter sweet. Love to have received everything back in good condition but saddened by the closing of the lovely gallery.
Hello Lori, such a shame. Have you approached other Galleries ? Is there Exhibition space in your area - perhaps you could share with other artists in the area ? XXX
I'm very unhappy. I am losing the desire to paint. 😢
I am in Adelaide South Australia, Australia. 💗
I am so sorry to hear that. Do you have other creative paths....the desire to paint can ebb and flow. Sometimes a break and taking a rest can be a positive thing. Thinking of you🥰
Enjoyed your process as usual. I've debated about asking you this because I don't want to hurt your feelings or question your artistic vision. But, shouldn't there be some hint as to back legs on your chair? Is this a creative choice or is my perception off? It's probably just me. 😂 Anyway, keep the videos coming! I love them!
Hello Susan, From where I stood with the easel sketching the first chair, I couldn't see the back legs !!! I wondered about putting them in ..... I've recently sketched from another angle and can only see three which looks really odd. I will have another look and contemplate more legs 😊 I like questions so always feel free to ask 🥰
@@gaynorpattleI figured it must be me 😂 Thanks for answering!
Hi lovely as always. What was the name again on the recipe on Ganouse on RUclips?
Baba Ganoush from a recipe by George Egg, spelt georgeegg on instagram ! XX
@@gaynorpattle thank you ❤
Morning Gaynor.
Hello Catherine 😊