Paint with Me | Working on Consistency | abstract painting series
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- Hello & welcome! In this painting session I'm sharing the beginning of a new series of abstract paintings, inspired by a blend of words, places and experiences exploring what the Outdoors means to me.
Recently, I've been holding myself back with the need to re-invent the wheel all the time in my creative practice. I've made this video and project, structured to help a little with that. Stay tuned to see how it develops!
Follow along with my journey on instagram at: orlastevens
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00:00 Intro
01:06 Planning the new series
01:25 Problem solving
01:46 My new project structure
04:00 Underpainting
05:03 Paintings inspired by words
06:19 Sketchbooks
07:51 Making textures
08:24 Working on multiple paintings
09:00 Materials
10:04 Developing sketches
11:53 Developing story & narrative
14:21 Thank yous & future plans
15:40 Process to music
22:10 Tape Reveal
24:24 Final Paintings
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Orla, I find your works tremendously exciting, energy pours out. At the same time I feel happy and peaceful when I look at them. Small beginnings produced a lovely body of work.
That is so kind, thank you! I’m always looking that balance between excitement & calm in my work so it’s great it is translating 😊
This was wonderful to watch. Every piece of art filled me with curiosity and inspiration. Thank you for sharing with us!
thanks so much, that's lovely to hear! 💫
I don't often comment on youtube videos but I have to let you know how much your art moved me. It made me feel so so good, this whole video is so relaxing and soothing. Thank you for inspiring me to do more of this kind of art.
Amazing, that’s so great! Really happy it resonated with you 😊 have fun creating! 🎨
thank you for this lovely video
STELLAR!! ❤
This was wonderful to watch while I ponder what I will paint today in my studio. You paint with such freedom and fearlessness. I love your positive vibe and dedication to follow your dream. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for your lovely words, I hope you found your groove in your studio session! ✨there’s nothing more fun for me than painting loosely 😊
Every. Paintings. Result. Fantastic. 👍🏿...thanks. For. Sharing.
Thank you! ☺️
I was hesitant about the possibility of those bright pinks and yellows turning into something that looks like a feeling I have when I’m in nature but you absolutely captured those feelings in such an inviting way. I feel like I could look at these and meditate back on so many pleasant voyages.
I know what you mean - I was daunted by the neon pink when I first started, but can't get enough of it now! 🌞 thanks so much :)
J’apprécié beaucoup l’ensemble de votre œuvre, la recherche et la profondeur qui l’accompagne. C’est un réel plaisir de vous regarder.❤
Hello! Thanks so much for watching and commenting; I also appreciate it! I’m glad you enjoyed the video 😊
Oh my goodness, SO much inspiration here! Your process, your techniques, your layers and textures...loved it all, so juicy lol. Thank you for such a valuable video, it was a pleasure to watch and listen to you work. :)
Thanks so much, I’m glad you found some inspiration from it! It’s been a good exercise filming and watching back my own process too 😊
that's such a fun way of creating multiple pieces at once ❤
It’s lots of fun for sure!
You are absolutely adorable. Thank you for this video! 💖 It helped break up my creative block.
you're more than welcome, I'm so glad it helped! 🌸
Just found your channel and immediately subscribed!
Great to have you here! ☀️
Hey Orla, I just Found your channel! I love the bold colors and „seeing behind the scenes“ by you showing how much thought and structure goes into a project/art piece. Thank you for sharing.
Hello & Thank you, I appreciate it! It’s been really enjoyable to share my process & ideas 💡 😊
I loved hearing about how you structure your practice. Such intentionality!
Very inspiring
Really glad it helped! I’m always fascinated by how other artists work and structure their practice :)
left the deep white fringe at the bottom.Nice
Weird, I only got 10 seconds in and I already decided that I liked this video so gave it a thumbs up. It may have been the cat? Or it may have been the fact you were on the floor and seeing someone on the floor doing art makes it feel more accessible to me therefore I relate? I relate even though I don't do art, I want to, the joy of looking at art, watching videos or people doing art (here I am now) gives me joy and I want to be able to give myself that joy, that thing I can do on my own, at my home (which I pay ridiculous amount in rent) but no art studio. I think this video spoke to the anxious part of me who doesn't know how to do art but has some supplies. and for that I thank you. I didn't do any while watching this video but I imaged where I could do art while watching this video :D.
Haha the cats are pretty magic 🪄 if you have a corner you can make a mess in and just play, absolutely go for it! A wall, a kitchen table, a floor, doesn’t really matter :) it’s just about getting started, and that doesn’t need to look any certain way to get stuck in and have some fun! ☀️
How beautiful. I absolutely loved your process, I found it to be was so thoughtful and profound. Such perfect outcomes too, I love them all!!!!
Thank you! I’m really happy with this set ☺️🌻
The colors, the compositions, the textures...everything is so beautiful. This really inspired me tonight to draw as well, thank you! ✨ (and shoutout to the cats I couldn't resist to look at, when the videos started)
thank you so much - & that's so good to hear! 🖍️ I hope you had a fun session :) hehe you can't keep them away, they love being in front of the camera
Hey Orla,
Thank you so much.
I am struggling with my creativity for years now due to the overthinking and expectations in my head.
Yesterday have tried to create based on process similar to yours, and it gave me such relief. It was as if I finally listened to myself. Magic.
I really appreciate you sharing your ways.
Wonderful work ❤
Yaaaaaay that’s so exciting, I’m glad it helped something click for you! 😊 ✨
Loved watching your process. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! So helpful. I’m going to look you up on IG. Hi from Germany.
Hey! 👋 thanks so much 💙
Aaawwww, your art is SO vibrant!🌞 really love the blend of colors and how you mix all technics!👌Thanks for sharing your process🧡
No worries, I’m glad you enjoyed watching! 💙
Another beautiful collection.
Such a wonderful, relaxing video. Thank you so much for sharing your talent!
thank you, I appreciate it! 🍃
These are so beautiful.. Wasn't too big a fan of abstract bot now I'm hookedv👌🌼
Incredible!!! There’s so many ways of approaching it, and so many different results to find 😊 thanks for watching ✨
Hi there! Just discovered your youtube channel. Such lovely wholesome content that makes me feel creative! 😊✨️
Hello 👋 thanks so much, that’s lovely! ✨
Your vlog feels soothing to watch!❤️
i´m loving watching your process, i also enjoy those relaxing moments playing with paint.
There’s nothing much better than those moments eh! ☀️
Beautiful! I’m glad I just found your channel! :-)
Hello! Thanks so much 😊
Hi Orla, I have never seen anyone paint on the floor, it must give you a different perspective, I'm going to give it a try for sure. It was so interesting and inspiring to hear about your thought processes, and I love the alphabet exercise you've used, I'm definitely going to try that too. Thanks for sharing so much background information and for taking the time to make the video. Oh and I love your cats got a bit of air time! 😅
I love it ☀️ Mostly because it lets me move around when I’m working, and it’s great for pouring paint, and shifting the papers or canvases. Helen Frankenthaler inspired the floor working!
Thank you; the alphabet idea has come from a great teacher Tom Froese, it’s a really great way to guide a project. Haha its impossible to keep the cats out of the frame, so they get their moment to shine 🐈🐈⬛
There seriously beautiful!
Thank you! ☀️
so inspiring! thanks you for sharing your thinking and process. beautiful work!
Thanks for watching! I’m glad it’s resonated with you ☀️
I’m from Ireland and our accents sound similar!
Orla! New* subscriber here. I stumbled upon this video and got inspired trying out new things and materials on my paintings to create textures. I often get frustrated whenever I paint something and it always feels flat. This made me realize that I should be more explorative and use anything I have on hand, so thank you. Excited to see more of your work.
Hello! Lovely to have you here :) no worries at all, and good luck with the texture building! It's so fun once you start using anything as a paintbrush! I'm actually releasing a free tutorial all about texture this week on my Patreon, which might be up your street :)
I'll definitely check it out! Thank you
they turned out great! nice to see the process too
Thank you ☀️☀️ always fun to have a play!
I enjoyed watching your process. 🖌
Thanks so much! 😊
Lovely process!
I’m a new subscriber and I’m so glad I found your art video’s ❤ So cozy and calm.
😊love your cat so cute love your art❤oh you have 2 cats😊
Thank you! They love to get involved in the painting process 🩵🐈⬛🐈
Love this.
Thank you! ✨
Hi Orla, fellow Scot here🌈 how do you know what to set yourself in terms of projects, I am trying to get more into my abstract art and I find myself just faffing around and not having structure to my sessions, which are very short as I have two kids and work also. Your videos are great and nice to see your process.❤
Hello hello! ☀️ Thanks so much :) I usually try keep lists in my phone or notebook of things I'd like to try out - I'll keep one for materials/processes experiments, and another for more concept/ideas, so that I can easily pull one idea out for a session. Even if that's just prep for it! I also love using timers on my phone when I'm short on time - great for exercises / just getting started / when I'm in a muddle and just need to do something 🌿
@@OrlaStevens aww thanks Orla, this will be very helpful ☺️ binge watching your videos so inspiring 💖
Beautiful! Thank you for this video, it really inspires me to reconnect with painting and to play and try. i´m happy i have found this channel and i am curious to discover more of your art work and showing your processes:)
Thanks for watching 😊 oh amazing, happy playing! 🎨
Those turned out really lovely. I love your process!
Thanks so much 😊
Beautiful work! ❤
Thank you! Having lots of fun with it 🎨
This is so inspiring, especially the theme/ title idea. Haven’t heard of this before, but you really made me want to try this for a series.
Also love your work and your process! I’m so glad I found your channel 😄
Hello! Jeannine, I love your channel too: I've been a quiet admirer of both your art and presentation of work and words. Go for it, it'd be so interesting to see how you translate it in your style! 😊
@@OrlaStevens Aww thank you! So we can admire each other from now on 😄
Forgot to mention I also love the way you film and edit your videos!
Super ❤
💙 thank you!
You have such creativity. Im trying and im not doing that good with it. I just started to get into my art for approximately 3 yrs now. I wasted many years not using my gift. But i never could draw off the too of my head. I have to be copying a picture. So the same goes for now. I dont know how to get into my right side of brain and i cant come up with any creativity of my own. But anyways you are a true artist.
Hello 👋 that’s great to hear you’ve been practicing, and thank you for the kind words 😊 I’m sorry to hear your struggling to find your feet - something I like to try when I’m feeling stuck is to start with copying a picture, or working from a reference photo. Then I’ll hide the original reference photo and use my own drawing or painting I just made as a reference to make a new work, and then I’ll use that new one as a reference to paint a new one again - sometimes that step by step away from the original can help ease me into something that’s more my own, and is a great practice exercise x
The paintings came out lovely. Can you do a video about writing your briefs. I like to try this as sometimes when I make art I get lost in the middle or I lack direction.
Congratulations on reaching 1000 subscribers, that’s fantastic 🎊 🎉
Good idea! Maybe a separate video on that mid point structure would be good as well? For me I find the getting back on track at the mid point is a different process to the original project brief. I’ll get something planned 😊
@@OrlaStevens Thanks Orla, That is something I will keep in mind. I think because I work full-time, there can be long periods between painting points and then it can be hard to know where it is going. Thank you again for responding and that tip is something I will consider. Thanks again.
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Thank you ☀️
Hi I am new here. This is my second video of yours that am watching. Lovely! Seeing your style I felt that if you use your paintings for dress designs it will be splendid. Just a suggestion that came to my mind. Maybe tote bags as well.
Hello, and welcome! Thanks for watching 😊 funny you say that; I actually trained in textiles & surface design - creating patterns for fabrics has been right on my mind when making these paintings. Who knows, maybe I’ll get round to translating them over to fabrics one day! ☀️
@@OrlaStevens best wishes. Hope you get to it
Your art work very interesting
Thank you! ✨
Inspiring - your process. Wondering what kind of pastels you're using? Chalk? Dipped in water?
Thank you! Yes, they’re soft pastels - these ones are Windsor and newton and make a rich almost painterly mark when you dip them in water first :)
Lovely work! What is the rug you’re painting on?
thank you! It's one I picked up from Ikea last year :)
What is the title of the first song? Thank you! Love your channel.
Please could you tell me what the liquid is that you are dipping your pastels in? Thank you! xx
Of course! It’s just my paint water (which I probably should have changed quicker…)
Thank you so much, Orla. I would absolutely love to know which other artists (if any) have inspired your work or your approach, and also any books on art, process, technique, or creativity you might recommend (again, if any), please. I would have loved to join your patreon, but can’t afford to as a solo mum. I’m just getting back into art after a 14-year break, and I love your work and these videos. Thank you so much! Cheers from rural Australia. (PS - my g grandparents came from the Isle of Skye; it looks sooo beautiful there! So much natural inspiration in such a dramatic landscape! You’re so lucky to live near such a special part of the world!) Thanks again, Orla xx
Hi! Can I ask what brand is your sweater?
of course, it's a collab between satu maaranen & petit bateau🌊
Hi Orla, i love your work.. You might like Barbara Rae's art
Hey! Thank you - I love her work; she was one of my big inspirations when I first started painting 💫
@@OrlaStevens wow that is great😁👍
Hi Orla. This is a random question but how do you get the cats not to go on your beautiful paintings?
Hey! haha great question; 99% of the time they just know not to - plus keeping a cardboard box or cushion close, as it seems to be their preference anyways :)