Making a Painting: Part 2 - Nicholas Wilton - The Art2Life Podcast Episode 111

[@rhondadore2686]

This painting, and these videos of you making it and explaining your thoughts, are just going to mean the world to your daughter for the rest of her life. What a wonderful gift to give her. What a loving dad. And thanks for sharing it with us, too.

[@bettylanghorne431]

Love using the different tools

[@bettylanghorne431]

Thank you for sharing

[@marypartridge5154]

Yes you are like me as I create a disaster in the beginning and I dont stop until I turn it around. Art is about solving problems that present to you. Sometimes I cant turn it around but not that often.

[@marypartridge5154]

Thankyou so much for being so generous and laying your soul bare to us. It helps us painters especially us who have backouts when we cant paint.

[@cathydale104]

Hearing your thoughts, as you go through your process is most helpful. Thank you. Very excited to see where it takes you with this piece Nick. 🙂

[@shellienoyes100]

I love the marks from that paint roller!

[@michelenishikatsu4273]

I agree with that, Nicholas…”using tools that we have no control of”! I have found that, as well!

[@gazzasoloman2562]

Use our soul - our intuition and not think so much. Great advice, thank you !

[@CarolAnnThibodeau]

Painting gifts for your children and others is so precious

[@Katharine-000]

I’m binge watching this so hard, i just had a mini heart attack thinking there was no next part, but i found it. Nicholas i could watch you paint and talk about what and why for at least another century !!

[@Happy2bwoman906]

Wonderful to watch you work and listen- I love how settled you feel in the midst of it all - you’re a good teacher Nick!

[@perlagaffney4776]

I can only believe that your daughter will feel love, your energy and soul, when she is blessed and receives this creation from her father. Love your sharing.

[@gillyslikejillysart7458]

The rambling is very helpful! Thank you Nick! Hearing your process is a tremendous help.

[@jojazowski1609]

Just love your energy!

[@janelledouglasART]

This is a great episode. Can't wait to see how this painting turns out. Thank you for sharing!

[@rikyvandeursen4911]

Great video, love watching you paint ❤

[@davide9427]

Thanks for being so generous with sharing your process. Very helpful and inspiring!

[@sunshinenorain]

I found myself smiling through this whole video☀️

[@kristinrichards283]

Wow just found you through Louise Fletcher art. I've hit a brick wall with art, self taught in moving into abstract it's not easy so interesting watching your work thank you 🙏

[@kathhicks6439]

Thank you!!! Such great inspiration!!! Can’t wait to continue on… ❤

[@liliasmith1052]

Maravilloso trabajo. Love it

[@Johnbartheart]

Nick, please go over, in detail, how you attach a canvas to a wood board then remove it. Is that right???.. Mucho Thanks!!

[@danihart3515]

I think he said on the first part of this video that he is going to show the whole process, including taking it off the stretcher at the end and shipping it

[@nicskoko]

interesting that people are liking the roller effect - it's not for me, not into the mechanical repetition of it, but i generally love the way you work and have learned a lot - it's the freedom/non-attachment particularly. Obviously you also have great sense of colour combining! thanks a lot - I don't know how many of your videos i watched but probably most of them!

[@sherrismith4754]

Wow. It’s changed so much. Love to watch your process. Helps me in my art.

[@bettiesullivan2334]

I like the “freedom” in creating. I usually try to stay in “control”. This helps.

[@KatieBarkley-d6o]

That roller is so cool

[@nancyfern8044]

It was such a Thrill to watch you play & create & hear your thoughts en route! I admire your 'casual' relaxed attitude as you go about expressing yourself. Who knew art making could be so doggone much fun?

[@donrogers776]

Great video and lessons - I realize I like to create patterns of dark or light that moves the eye around the canvas!

[@themischeinquer2634]

Just arriving to your channel, I like to see the way you find it and destroy it immediately after...interesting to be able to see the layers of the process. Thank you!

[@poppopopp-k3j]

Thank you for part 2!

[@catherinetaaffe8733]

Great to see the process and hear your thoughts too . Thank you for sharing!

[@daveannisart6220]

It's so important to assess your feelings as we work because we must enjoy the process & it's a way to ensure that that love or other energy is going into the works - like baking a cake with love it will taste better

[@maggiesmith6519]

Hey Nick, I’m loving this series of two videos - so helpful and inspiring! Can you talk a little bit about how on the one hand you say that it’s important to like what you’re doing and to be doing things that you like. On the other hand, you say that often you Don’t like what you’re doing, and that that’s a good thing. Thank you!!!!!!!❤

[@BarbaraEMarshallCampbell]

I'd like to understand that as well since it seems to be contradictory but know that he can help us understand.

[@leslieharris9088]

I love watching you paint and then I think about how I can or cannot apply some of these techniques to soft pastels. Thank You. You really are a brilliant teacher.

[@janicegame2372]

You could give a picture you were not pleased with a wash down even leave drips running down, when dry make your shapes with extra large pastels,this works well but you do need good quality paper. Chansons is fairly heavy duty I hope you have fun!😊

[@janicegame2372]

Chansons.

[@janicegame2372]

Canson

[@eugeniambt]

Oh my! What a wonderful Dad! Besides a great artist...

[@constance9789]

Checking out part 2 now

[@ablewod]

Anthony Bourdain + Bob Ross = Nicholas Wilton

[@lauramarycann9590]

You make so much artistic sense, thank you for sharing 👏👏👏🥂

[@rcosel]

The surface interest you are creating is fascinating and so informative for my own process. Thank you

[@davecameron5355]

So pleased that I came across your videos. The emphasis on play, on avoiding becoming too attached to marks you have made previously, is such an important part of this type of art, don't you think? Thank you for sharing your knowledge and showing how you create your wonderful work.

[@chrismichell4070]

It's all great fashioning starting from a negative to go positive brilliant finding positive flows well done Nicholas great podcasts

[@annevanwagener6268]

So helpful and inspiring. Thanks for sharing your process!

[@catdavisphoto5319]

Fantastic. Will you show a part 3?

[@mardakeen6605]

Thanks Nick! It's great to watch your process!

[@phyllisgoodrich590]

What a Pro................and Generous too!!

[@athorne13]

This is SO inspiring and helpful to watch. Thank you very much for sharing your process!! It’s helpful bc I’m learning how to be non-judgmental and keep going though the “ugly” stages I create. Your patience and curiosity is so inspiring. ✨

[@marthakey50]

I can’t way for part 3 . I love see your work

[@LisaMishler]

Wonderful, loved it!

[@Gabby-ey9br]

Thank god you are covering that brown up..!!!❤ Gabby M

[@geridegruy6070]

Thanks for sharing your process Nick. Very cool!

[@alexandraherzog7655]

I am also anxious to see part 3 of this work.

[@otis-bradley]

Good stuff - can't wait to see where it goes ...

[@wooddomi]

Thanks for this video. I have really enjoyed seeing your process. Do you have a recommendation for those starting, who would like to try doing larger paintings but may not be able to afford / want to buy gigantic canvas’?

[@datadata7144]

I get some good shaping by not mixing my acrylic colors properly. You did that with the burgundy on the first layer. With acrylics, you have to minutely blend a lot to make it interesting. The oils seem to just smear better.

[@EleanorDuda]

I wish my dad would have done something just for me. I love the kind of person you are. I also love red clashing with black, grey pls rose touch of,lemon. My eyes dont like orange being dominate. Love watching you work. Ellie

[@lulabelle33]

Love what happened with the empty paint roller.

[@lucyroderick405]

I know you said that you’re painting on canvas but when you’re scratching back in it sounds like it’s a wood panel. Is it definitely a canvas? I can’t scratch back so well on my canvasses.

[@Happy2bwoman906]

@lucyroderick405 The canvas is wrapped on a panel so he can push and scrape. He’ll take it off and stretch it when it’s finished - or roll it to mail,

[@RaAy5555]

@@Happy2bwoman906do you know if he cleans the tubs that he uses for mixing paint in? If yes any idea how? Thanks in advance 🙏

[@lucyroderick405]

@@Happy2bwoman906 thanks, I buy cheap canvasses so I think I’d end up ripping them!

[@Happy2bwoman906]

@@RaAy5555somehow I doubt that he cleans them. Once the acrylic paint is used, it dries and in my experience I can use the container again without a problem. (and he does use what he mixes or a lid can be used to save a larger amount) ❤

[@RaAy5555]

@@Happy2bwoman906I think I have OCD as I find it hard not to clean the tubs 😅 Thank you so much for your reply 🙏🌹

[@J0hnC0ltrane]

Watching this video a second time through. Not being familiar with your podcasts and approach to abstract painting, I did find it enlightening and engaging. There were areas that I was liking very much which you obliterated and I'm glad I hung in to see your whole process and the creation of space and textures. A bit like Rauschenberg but the "collage" sense is pure paint.

[@archman1965]

I’m curious if every painting you start you like eventually or do you sometimes have to scrap it and start over?

[@OlhaZhukova-i1x]

Thank you!❤❤

[@donniebobb74]

this helped me juice up my second and usually succeeding layers, depending...thank you! it's odd the way we can quickly fall back into habits we know don't work. :)

[@okankulga8631]

For me: abstract painting is like a trip that you dont know where to go...and ends by the last brush stroke of the painter willing not to add any more...I am wondering your attitute during the process...especially when you are not happy with the stroke and stain that you put on? Prefer to end the painting or find a solution that balances the comp?

[@raziabengurion4717]

dear nicholas, thank you very much, can you refer to you not using water in mixing your colors, how is it possible?

[@jnhallum2775]

A job well done 👍

[@donrogers776]

I wonder what Nicholas means really when he says he wants to add energy to the painting? Loose, scribbles, quick scratchy marks?

[@Happy2bwoman906]

That’s my understanding of energy- you can feel the difference yourself between carefully placed marks and the more uncontrolled wandering or splash gestural marking.

[@marypartridge5154]

Yes you are most generous.

[@marypartridge5154]

How can I send my art to you as I would like your opinion???

[@Artonwings423]

😂scary. I like the bright colors.

[@Jeannine754]

Hi Nick! I’m new to your channel, and it came at a good time. I have an important question, but you need a bit of back story first. Long story super short: art all through my school years, chose cosmetology as my career for 38 hrs. Had to give it up due to lyme disease and environmental toxicity illness. Through treatment, clean diet, supplements, exercise, and finding art again, I had much of my former self back. Yay! I want to make a new career with art, and have signed up for a one year art mastery program. Another yay! Except…it seems oil paint and mediums are setting me back big time. Down hard all this week. During the first video of your daughters birthday painting, you mentioned wearing masks with oils, and that toxicity was behind that. Is that in general, or do you also have a sensitivity? Did you use just paper masks, N95, or respirator? I’ve invested a lot in the course and supplies, and I’d like to finish what I’ve started. Also, wished I’d found you first! :)

[@lesliecarrere2977]

So delightful adnd inspiring. Getting back into doing art again after a long sabatical, so thank you for a powerful jumpstart.

[@marypartridge5154]

You are way more calm than I am

[@aleksandrabergmann7551]

My family friend was Zoran Nastic, he recommended acrylic longtime ago. He finished Art History and took his PhD in painting in England .Anyway I work in acrylic considering that I have a small studio in the house .My only tip for Art is I am doing it beer feet , I don’t know if that makes any sense but I think that has something to do with grounding, it woks for me 👋 Curious what will happen with the painting considering you destroyed my favorite segment of the 🖼 😮🤦‍♀️

[@jdmosaics]

There is no painting to destroy yet… he is only in the play stage… …. Bare feet sounds fun, watch out for the Beer though…as too much can make one paint wobbly… 😂😂😂

[@Squiffy1313]

I agree- there were parts that I really liked that got painted over. I’ve had this experience with various videos of abstract painting process. I guess it is a matter of individual vision/aesthetic.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

I am legit curious ... a podcast = no visuals, so how is this one of those? :D Had to ask.

[@PetervanderPalm]

It's always a wonder how an abstract painting is created. It's always about feeling, balance and form. Coincidence is also an important factor. Everyone has their own opinion, I personally think that the black/gray areas appear a bit too strong in this painting. A big danger is that you go too far and then completely ruin your painting. I have that very often. I When it is finished you should be able to say this is a real...... Recognizable who made it.

[@pamelabrowne3684]

❤

[@BarbaraEMarshallCampbell]

You inspiref me but there is no way to show what I've done so far with what I have.

[@jayclapper3173]

What parts of paintings do you feel makes them “powerful”?

[@Squiffy1313]

Relevant question for those of us trying to learn.

[@cherylerome-beatty4677]

Its difficult for me to give a "fresh" look at a work in progress.

[@miriamtait8854]

Values...good thing I have a phone. You disappeared on my apple. I joined again. Hope hopa hope.

[@reuvenyehoudian6753]

You should think and stop before too late.

[@hokuspokus11111]

the biggest problem of an artist in abstract painting is to slow himself down the motto is less is more in my opinion you went too far from 10:39 you should have stopped yourself, I don't mean that subjectively but it is a fact I often make this mistake myself, even when turning you should only turn it a quarter turn and look at it but you turned it 180 degrees straight away

[@marypartridge5154]

I loved that painting with the orange and pink but then as you went it lost its vibe.

[@tendr247]

I’m new

[@marypartridge5154]

Yes I like the bottom left

[@cliffdariff74]

Really glad you are not playing too much music in tbe background or between clips... Music-as-you-paint is not for me... music is extremely distracting,,, its very emotional. Imagine you are in an upbeat mood, energetic. Looking at your art.... and someone starts playing some loud, whiny love song, or angry punk music, or slow heart break pop crap whilst you are making art... music is a form of emotional propaganda, especially if its forced on you. Anything but inspiring while concentrating..😊.

[@matthiasbargholz5126]

Deco, no Content

[@gabrielepreu6958]

Schade um die viele Farbe

[@reuvenyehoudian6753]

Dude you need to get some help

[@kevinjohnson3982]

Why do you say that

[@hokuspokus11111]

wtf is wrong with you u must be fun at parties oh i forgot no one invites you hahahaah

[@AliBaba-ke5jn]

You ruined it with dark grey.

[@ahmadidrus3760]

Talk Too much

[@leninha-carioca]

Is this an oil painting? Very beautiful process.