That's a zorn palette - yellow, red, black and white. It is a classic!

Thank you 😊

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Guess its time to buy one! I've been wanting to explore what I can create with one

I used to absolutely hate abstract paintings but for some reason I recently felt super strong urges to do abstract paintings 🤷‍♀️

so lively and energetic. Thank you.

Interestingly this can be done by men equally well - besides what this feminist propaganda would have you believe.

Agreed. Abstract is very tricky. You have to learn the rules of color theory, line, space, form, etc., and then you have to know how to break the rules in such a specific way that makes it look like there were no rules to begin with. It's a weird type of inverted logic that works against itself just enough to captivate.

Thank you for these encouraging lessons!

thanks Louise, such good advice

Just to say a big thank you for posting this. It means a lot to me.

The pulls around the 8:27 mark look like prosciutto.

Love your journal's

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing Louise.

Is it acrylics ? So Wonderful

Please do a sketchbook course - That would be so fun - also what is the pencil/pen that made the marks on the page - thank you if you have time to respond!

Thank you!!!!♥️

Thanks Louise. Great demo 👍

I think a sketchbook course sounds great!!

These sketches are wonderful!!

Well, of course. But I know when my work is successful or not and trust my own judgement.

I like them all!

I am blown away by the glazing technique you demonstrated! You have answered the questions I had in my head for years! Thank you!

Marvellous …. A sketchbook course would be fun, I love a sketchbook !

So glad I watched this today… I’ve just got halfway through assignment 10 and I realise I need to push through and paint another layer!! Phew…

I am entirely enamoured of the effect this creates and can't wait to try it myself!

I love your artwork and I have bought a few of your lessons, as well as your beautiful book Life Force. Unfortunately I am unable to join Art Tribe. I'm a retired art teacher focusing on Textile art. I now produce Abstract paintings and I find your videos very helpful and interesting. Thank you. Gillian

I love watching your creative process & recently got a sketchbook. You sprayed something over the pages, is it varnish? Wondering if I need to varnish the pages once done?

Love your fierceness - knowing what you want, and using the fingernails. I also use board books and took note of your techniques. Thanks

What kind of ink are you using? Acrylic, alcohol or?

Always love watching you playing around.

Really love these colors! I have a mountain scape commission to do and kind of struggling with making it too realistic, this is just what i needed to see today thank you!!!

Love that you give us permission and encourage us to break rules! ❤

❤❤good morning. Beautiful idea. Thank you🎉

Love watching you paint. You make it look so easy

Pinturas maravillosas. Me da lástima que se queden dentro de un cuaderno. Yo las pondría un marco para contemplarlas todo el día.

Thank you, Louise! 😃This inspires me to be more free in my sketchbook, rather than 'editing' it (i.e. pulling out pages🙄 for reusing as collage or scrap paper), as I sometimes do when I really dislike what I've done. I like using acrylic paint straight out of the tube - cool to see you do it with watercolour! Thanks again!x❤d

Love it! Can’t wait to have more time to play!

💗💗💗always grateful for your thoughts!

I hadn't thought of watercolour and gesso, though I've tried it with gouache before. Another artist I came across sometimes mixes white acrylic ink with watercolour to achieve another kind of opaque result. I still have to try that one myself. Thanks for the talk-through of your processes.

I'd be interested in a sketchbook course with you. Enjoyed this video especially as you were including watercolour with the other media.

love your work Louise

I think a Sketchbook course would be great, and help me develop the habit of using one (or many !) on a regular basis. Watching you work is so inspiring. I’m on your mailing list, Art-tribe & FYJ2024 . Thanks for all you do Louise x Celia

Great video on sketchbooks! I'd love to do the Sketchbook Course. I love the videos because I can see how you hold your brush, make the marks, decide to add highlight here and there. As I can be heavy handed and wreck what I've done, this is very valuable. Thanks Louise. You're a great teacher!

Sounds very interesting and would be amazing 🙏🏻👍🏻💕

I really like this! I'd love a sketchbook course! I'm on the mailing list.

Thanks Louise. I began my own sketchbook in September and love working in it. It is so freeing to just let go and play. Love it. I usually tape off the edges of the paper…like those clean edges.

I've always wanted to keep an art journal, but it's never happened, for reasons I can't identify. That is, I've never done it until taking the current FYJ course! Keeping track of my progress, taking notes, trying things out, and having a record of my journey...yes, please!

Hi, Louise! Just dropping in to say that if I had not developed a habit of having a sketchbook at my elbow for the past 3 years, I would not be where I am today in my painting journey. I cannot think I would have learned the freedom FYJ encourages without them. I am now able to approach good paper and canvases with the same initial freedom, AND make it appear as though that freedom is carried right through to the finish, even though I am making much more deliberate moves by then. I have a small stack of my booky-books (as I call them😊) that I constantly refer to for inspiration, color schemes, mark-making ideas, and sometimes (on those bad-thought days) just to remind myself that yes, I. Am. An. Artist!

Love watching over your shoulder as you ‘mess around’ and talk at the same time. Definitely would love to see more!