do you have take a class? are books and videos enough?

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Excellent start to any medium! Thank you 😊

Very inspiring! I'm going to try this! Please continue to make these wonderful videos! 😊🖌️🎨🙏🏼

Great video and beautiful pages

Be half as confident you are while being twice as confident as you deserve! It's a tough line to walk, indeed.

I love the term 'artistic accomplices' 😁

I think I'm going to move this one up higher on the list for myself. 😊

I was just reviewing my notes on the JFJ presentation, and it had that quote on it. Great words to live by!

Getting started is the hardest part sometimes. Had to laugh about typing paper. We are of the same generation. 😁

Shutting down the inner critic is a constant battle.

I try to do something everyday. Recently, my makers space has been mobile as my studio is upstairs and my old dog can’t go up the stairs anymore so I bought an Art Bin and placed items in the bin and “get to work” anywhere my dog is located.

My inner critic likes to tell me I need to have just the right supplies, pencil cases, etc. and in just the right order. I literally have so many supplies. I’m officially telling myself to shut up!👍❤️ Thank you!

Love it! We all need these reminders from time to time.

Julia Cameron calls it avoidance. Part of being human, but it can be overcome!

Good advice!!! Thanks.

It's so nice to see you. I have missed your inspiration!!!

Love your little speech! Will show this to my students next week before they draw THEIR monsters (with a little help from yours, haha!)

Excellent work and presentation.

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I am an art therapist. You are right on. Love your explanation with your beautiful examples. Just found you❤️ thank you💕

Hi, Im a new subscriber. I really enjoyed this video, it would be a great mojo starter when you are feeling in a funk. As you were stenciling I was already filling with colour in my mind. Thank-you for sharing!

Thanks for sharing this! I love to watch you paint and get inspired.

These techniques are great. I use them with my students.

This is a nice, quick explanation and techniques. I am going to share with my students. thanks

I love the way you use watercolor pencils to give dimension to the pages you create.

I'm always very pleased to watch your videos. Very inspiring, thanks a lot!

I have always enjoyed looking at the different watercolor layers of your art. TFS!

This was a great video Eric! Have you moved to a more scripted format? Seems to be working. The video was paced well, and showed some classic tech's! Can't wait to see the next one.

Thank you Eric! I see some artists randomly pre-paint their pages with inks or acrylic gouache, but I didn’t think about simply using my watercolor 🤦‍♀️. Are there any issues with the watercolor reactivating and lifting, or am I just overthinking it? I primarily use watercolor pencils, and water-soluble media like neocolor 2. I used to have TONS of stencils when I was into scrapbooking, but never really knew what to do with them and ended up giving them away. Recently, I tried using a paper doily that I brought home from a cafe as a stencil and that was pretty fun. 👍

Missed you, tfs 😊

Can I ask what journal and size you're using here? It looks perfect for my style of note taking and I'm starting school again in the fall! Thanks for your time :)

I love doing tessellations, they're very satisfying. This is a great new approach to it. Thanks Eric!

Congrats! I haven’t been good at Art but my teachers were always very layback and helpful and those students are very lucky to have you as their teacher.

I love seeing the monsters. I get a great laugh every time I see the one I have. Great video!

Hi Eric! I'm new to your work. I really appreciate you sharing these journal reviews. It's informative to see the arc of your creative style. Your stream of consciousness laid out on the pages has grown with you in its depth and its evocative power. Such a wonderful inspiration! 🙏🏾💐

Fun!

thank you, these would be great for some home-made colouring pages!

I've used this technique when I was creating landscapes, but I did it blind. After, I'd make sense of what the lines represented. It was a great technique to break free from monotony. Defiantly a great technique, thanks for sharing Eric!

I tried this but when I journal I brain dump. Which means there's allot of writing. So I found that instead my art would occasionally creep into my written journal. Whereas I'd have a separate journal that began as a visual journal but landed up as more of an art journal.

I really enjoy making these little. It's easy to pick up and expand on a confined space like this. I use this to work through a scribble stage on a lot of materials or techniques.

How fun, I love collage and this looks like great exercise. Thanks!

I used to work in a mental health clinic and did this in my down time on colored post-its - neon were my favorite! I only had standard ball point pens, but the activity helped me keep my sanity honestly. I always figured it didn't really count as anything artsy, just something my anxious little mind did to keep me busy. Kinda forgot about those little things actually. Thanks for shining a new light on the activity! I just found your channel, and I'm looking forward to what comes next!

Nice to see you on You Tube, Eric! TFS! I will try this!

My journal has a multitude of SCW. It's a starting point for mining ideas you didn't know you had.

Love your background Eric, it’s so “you”

This is a great activity. Thanks.

Really enjoy these mini lessons! Thanks! 😊🎉

Thank you so much for this wonderful creative exercise ! I will definitely try it!