I can't wait to see your Christmas cards I think you might be surprised and have some fun with the glitter 😊

Is the gloss medium for protection or just gloss?

Rocket is so beautiful ❤️ what breed is he? Another great idea and video ❤🙏🇨🇦😍👍

My story is so similar I stopped my art at 25 too many reasons I thought I had but mostly in my own head sadly I also started knitting and crochet lol now 3 months away from 68 I am starting again. You must get tired of me saying thank you so much for all your help and hard work but I am just so appreciative of your videos . The longer the better for me 👍😍❤️🙏🇨🇦

I just have to say hi again and thank you so much for all your help and hard work 👍 I just adore your paintings. Blessings to you and your family from Ontario ❤️ 👍 🙏🇨🇦

Love your art! Love your videos! Which I look forward to every Thursday here in Arizona? You are a lovely person. I feel like I have been with you on all your trips.Thanks for letting me tag along! ❤

What fun to discover you videos….thanks so much for sharing your techniques and enthusiasm. I love paint flinging too!

Though I am in love with your bright and colorful paintings, I find this current series you're working on with subtle colors so appealing. When this video opened, I was struck by the delicate beauty of the paperwork behind you and thought it was a finished piece. But the continuing work only improves the overall feeling and I like it even more. I was thinking why haven't I started a series myself? I am so inspired by yours that I do need to attempt a series myself. Have a lovely week.

I have been binge watching your videos. I enjoy each one for so many reasons! This was a good one~

Thank you Gaynor l so enjoy your videos and completely join you in artist mess 😅 l am working on a series idea of cards and trying myself not to bogged down in the what think so much and just allowing the paint to do its thing O the art of letting go 😅😅😅 17:09

Honestly, it gives me goosebumps the similarities I see between you and me every time I watch a video! I just looked up the word "abstruse" a week or two ago - you talk about looking it up in your beloved dictionary in this video. Is that bizarre, or what? (It has an "s" in the beginning, like abstract - yours was missing the first "s".) There are so many coincidences in each video that by the time I get to the end I've forgotten most of them, but just feel the connection. You talked about "play" in this video, and the need for it in our serious lives, and I couldn't agree more! If experiencing joy isn't the purpose of life, what is? You mentioned Marie Kondo in another video, and her concept of "sparking joy." Yahoo. Let's go for it! I love your joyful willingness to just go with the flow even when your collage is peeling off. What a process of discovering, that you would never have experienced if you got mad at it and tossed it aside or tossed it out! Happy painting, Gaynor. Have a lovely week. I hope it's a beautiful spring in England. We're about to enter a 3-day heatwave with temperatures in the high 30s. Good time to stay indoors and just paint!

Gaynor, you are a highlight in my week. Your work sings of joy and play and excitement. A simple pineapple becomes a thing worth studying under your brushstrokes! Thank you so much for your generous content. I appreciate you❣️

I'm so happy to see the paper bag alliums becoming a series -- what a privilege to see them come into being and start to carry on into other panels, paper, canvases . . .

Great thoughts on the negative comments! Thanks for getting it out there for us -- Your art is lovely, playful, positive and just so fun! TY for the lovely vids!

Thank you for all your lovely inspirational videos. I love how you are not daunted when things don't look the way you want them to and carry on applying more paint etc. It's all so encouraging.

Ive seen the mistletoe in the trees, it looks like pom poms

I love your work! Have you ever considered doing a live Zoom workshop? You have all the camera equipment already!

I like how your discuss your feelings a lot when you talk about your process. I paint very differently to you, however I go through all the same kinds of emotions when I create my paintings. So I totally understand all the ups and downs you openly discuss.

I don't know why you said you shouldn't paint with so much yellow, because I absolutely LOVE that painting that you show at the end, finished and framed, which has a lot of yellow. So much lovely in this video from over a year ago! Just to remind you, you show a lot of frames that you got at charity shops here. That reminds me of me, as I have quite a collection that I have gotten FREE at our local "Reuse" stores, located at our local dumps (tips), where we can drop off anything we no longer have use for, and pick up anything there that we would like. It is quite amazing, and it saves so much going into the landfill. Every video of yours I find so inspiring and I am every so grateful that my friend introduced me to you. She and I were on a bus tour today and were talking about you - she saying how vibrant and lively you were and how much she loves your work. Me again saying how much your are helping me discover my own art voice, and how inspired I am by all that you share in these videos. You are never too "talkey" for me. Wax on about anything... I am here listening!

Hi Gaynor, there’s always someone who needs to be mean. You’re so right, do what makes you happy. By the looks of many of your followers you are making them happy too. Your work is amazing.

😊 I’m in Bexhill now and am feeling a real urge to pop along to Hastings! My first job was in Hastings and I think it has changed somewhat since then! I didn’t know the art gallery was there.The fishing huts are great, aren’t they?

I personally feel that criticism is a very bad thing. However, critique can be a very good thing. For me personally those beautiful little landscapes I think that rather than diving right onto them I would recreate one of them and then work on that for detail to see if there needed to be changes to those or I could just be adding to that series. However, that is just me.

I just love hearing you verbalize what’s going on with you internally. Please continue making videos. I very much enjoy watching you work. You inspire me to put my self-critic away and be uniquely me. You help me to not be afraid. Thank you.

Monet didnt do perspective either ...... you are fabulous and you need to just be you. ❤

Cara Gaynor, ti seguo da qualche mese e sono contenta di averti trovato perchè il tuo entusiasmo e la tua vivacità mi hanno fatto ritrovare la pittura che non praticavo più. Sei stata contagiosa, divertente e mi piace molto quello che fai, ed esorti i tuoi iscritti a sperimentare senza paura. E' quello che ho fatto e tutti i giorni faccio esercizio, grazie Gaynor ogni settimana una ventata di allegria ne avevo bisogno , ciao

I have so enjoyed discovering and following you for a while now! Watching this latest installment tonight, I was reminded of the first art/artist I ever knew. He lived up the road from us and moved away by the mid 1950s, probably before I was 8 or 9. He had converted one of the huge chicken coops his parents had into a very modern home. He was a police photographer but he was also a mosaic artist and, I believe, a painter, and had made several small mosaic pools on the property. Back in the 1950s, we kids in the neighborhood would wander from house to house, not necessarily to play with kids, since he had none, but also to investigate what was happening and to chat with the adults. He was a bit odd - afraid that kids would fall into his pools - but he fascinated me, and drove an old green Land Rover with the spare tire clamped to the top of the hood/bonnet. Who knows what things draw us into a life of creativity! Keep on trying new things! I love it!

Dear Gaynor, oh please please don’t touch your bird painting! When I just heard you say you had to deal with the bottom left side, sort of bluish, I was aghast! To me this painting is charming, simple, perfect, finished! Why do you see these areas as imperfections? So often I see the ‘modernity’ of your work in its simplistic somewhat unfinished state. This is what you seem to strive for, the modernity, but then you wipe it all away and start something else when the very beginning was so cool! Let me encourage you! You are on the right path and I salute your fresh modern style! Bravo and thankyou for these great videos! Be blessed, Mary in Arizona, USA

Enjoyable to watch you as always. Thankyou.

I think you are very brave. I always get to a certain point where I freeze up and am afraid to continue. You just take that brush and slap some paint onto the page. Tickles me every time. I will try to be brave like you and keep going too. 😉

At 22:00 minutes, roughly, I love the view to the right outside of your window. I'm going to use it to inspire me.

Lovely video Gaynor, im always amazed how much work goes into making a video. Thank you for sharing your your knowledge and inspiration........Alioban ❤😊xx

Hello Gaynor, yes I asked about all your paint, so thanks for the mention. You still haven’t shown us how you store it all, or your brushes, inks or sketchbooks etc. I’m still curious. 🤔 Regarding unhelpful or negative nasty comments, you do have to have a thicker skin, but I share your sensitivity. Just remember that if you’ve sold work then someone loves it enough to purchase it. The people that make the horrible comments are most probably actually jealous of you, and they make these comments to make themselves feel better. It’s about them, not you! I absolutely love the canvas with the pink. Don’t overwork it please😂😂😂 Have a good week. 💐

Someone hurt your feelings criticizing your work?? We Ride At Dawn!!!! People can be real you know whats sometimes. I’m sorry that happened. Love this week’s video as always!! I love the palette of the cornflower blue pink and black! I will come to one of your shows one day!! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!! Much Love from Atlanta 👋🏻 Roxanne

You seemed so down! Do you know about the negativity bias? It’s where our minds will focus and center on the negative feedback rather than the positive. It’s evolutionary… so we wouldn’t die from eating poison and such. But our minds aren’t really capable of handling the negativity on the internet. It’s too fast, to frequent and we have trouble discerning that the people giving us that feedback have no place to do so. All that to say - keep going. I love your channel and your work and your spirit. I’m also a painter and your work inspires me to keep going.

Wow Gaynor! Thank you so much for so generously sharing your thought process! You are an amazing artist and you inspire! Can’t thank you enough for your weeklies❤

Thank you for yet another video full of inspiration! I’m quickly running out of all your previous videos! 🤦‍♀️I’m on my way to Bexhill tomorrow. I never give myself enough time on the seafront but, like you, also have a penchant for boats, so, weather permitting, I feel an early morning walk coming on! Beautiful painting in memory of your Dad. ❤ No doubt it was quick to sell.

Love,Love,Love all the paintings you’re currently working on! Also agree with you about not letting negative comments derail you! As artists, we are sensitive to begin with, so it’s easy to feel things deeply and personally. The negativity says more about the other person than it can ever say about you or me. You are a light! Keep shining!😊

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I really hope that nobody can stop you❤ Be you …and many of us love you🌞🍃🍀🎨✨ I have just finished cvp with Nicklas Wilton and you are exactly what he teaching. Be free and stay to your rules 🫶🏼

I love your determination to keep going and not let a negative comment get you down. It’s so easy to let one negative infect all the good. Your work just gets better and better which happens when one keeps practicing. I just want to come sit in your corner and soak up the joy you find in your work.

Gaynor, for all the wonderful things the internet/social media allows they also give a voice to people who are keen on sharing misery...it bums me out sometimes. A long time ago someone told me. "If you care too much what they think, you will never be able to do what you love". When I watch you I see someone who refuses to allow anyone to take you from what YOU love! You're a joy-bringer, a brilliant artist and a seeker of beauty! I'm so glad you share so much with us! I always carry those words with me, they're my teflon❤❤❤ Your friend across the pond:) Samahra

Gaynor, first I have absolutely LOVED watching all of your videos. The green painting on the easel is so interesting! If you leave it just like it is, to me it’s perfect as it looks like two little broom stick head figures, a male and female having a really animated interesting conversation. Then you have it next to angel and it’s a whole conversation going on! LOVE IT!! Oh and the new flower painting, my heart be still ❤ LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Great idea using the gelli plate for your paint! When I do play with acrylics I use my gelli plate as my paint palette! ❤ Courtney

Enjoyed your video so much! I painted this morning, didn’t like the result so I put it aside. Tried a stamping in my sketchbook that I thought I’d use as a background - didn’t like that either! Thanks to you, I know I can just keep experimenting, ‘have a go’ because I can always get out the white paint and start over. Glad you were having so much success this week!

I wish you published a video EVERYDAY! Having surgery next week that will keep me out of my studio for a couple weeks…..hoping I can get a fix from YOU! ❤️❤️

That pineapple angel theme is just wonderful. I love Modigliani . Always reminds me of my mum (that and magnolia trees) and the shape of your long skinny landscape pictures reminds me of a picture of Guinea Fowl I used to have. I’m taking note of your colour palettes. Beautiful.

Merci Gaynor… You are inspiring!… you have a positive attitude… and I will try to push « my boundaries »

Your critics are jealous because they are losing their audience to your artistic world. I have seen it several times to other new artist. Hold a small stone in your hand and wish them the best and pitch that stone into deep waters. Center your energies and awesomeness, the other 99.9999% of us need you!

“You can’t please everyone “, ain’t that the truth! Negativity does not deserve any of our energy! You are a delight and an inspiration to so many!!

If you have nasty comments, immediately block that person. You don't need that sort of cr*p spoiling your life. They are usually written by jealous inadequate people who really should be pitied.