Creating a focal point from your background (reductive painting)

[@persia888]

Your art is stunning. Im baffled that anyone doesnt get it. Keep going!!

[@laurienye7514]

I enjoyed your one legged men collage. It really is gorgeous and the colors are wonderful. Thanks and God Bless.

[@NiamhBaly]

Thank you so much!

[@stlounsbury]

Beautiful 🦋

[@9liveslisa]

Just found you today. I love your work! Very inspirational! Ignore the people who don't get your art. They are the ones missing out.

[@Hollywoodhat]

I LOVE THIS SPREAD! It's lovely and inspired.

[@swannwillow9476]

Stunning... Absolutely Stunning!!

[@sallyhoughton6061]

Love this one! Great technique & quote! 💕

[@TotowizardZ]

I so adore your creations!!!!

[@susanjones9475]

I saw your page awhile back on Pinterest, and saved it....when I saw your video today I was so excited.....love it! Thanks

[@saskiabongers6158]

Love your creation 💓💓💓

[@elfincrafter]

Beautiful spread.

[@Marjan-creative]

And again beautiful and inspiring! This reverse background is new to me (I am quite a newbee in art-journaling. 😄) but I surely will use it. I do understand ahoug people not exactly understanding what is happening. For me, cause I am new, they think it is a stage towards real painting.😂 Thank you for sharing this video! 🌷

[@Aeronwen813]

Great stencilling ideas, thank you for sharing! The 'world' that criticises is likely to be the world that can't enjoy paint and colour and freedom nor do this for themselves! Who doesn't understand being happy or making yourself happy? I don't have the equipment to share my messy, fun, 'arty' pages on KZbin but I love watching mixed media projects! :-))

[@tammyoneill6128]

I love color too, it’s what makes us happy... always have..... That’s why I love your channel. I’m also appreciating the frequency of your videos. 😍👍🏼❤️

[@NiamhBaly]

Tammy O'Neill thank you ☺️ I was preparing more videos last night and thought I had 11 to voice over- then I found another 10 I thought I had listed already. So 21 videos coming your way soon 🤣🤣🤣

[@marythomas5656]

I'm just seeing this in 2024 and as always your work is an inspiration to this Texas girl! People don't understand my work either but we should all do what makes us happy! ❤

[@annwieland1]

So pretty!!! Thanks for sharing. Also thanks to your encouragement and tips I’m starting to hand letter my pages…you were right about practice makes it so much better. Thank you.

[@nataliaferreyra8047]

Beautiful work, as always. I always look forward to the quotes at the end, these are so positive, always make me feel better, even when I am blue. God bless you ❤️

[@vickifallon9182]

You can only feel sad for those that don't get it. I'm sure they feel better about themselves as trolls.. You rock girl, thank you for inspiring an old artist of 64. cheers Vicki

[@trillianlocke1088]

Hi Niamh, love this spread, and glad I found you.🤗 cheers, Trills.

[@Cyrilmc222004]

Niamh, I really really love 💖 this double spread.....I really really think 💭 it’s a great 👍 technique, and you’ve really done it so well. You should have scanned in your background before you covered it, because it was really stunning. Don’t worry about the few who don’t understand, the majority of us do!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much xxx Mags

[@carolsamford]

Hello Niamh, I've really been enjoying and watching a lot of your videos and have a new appreciation for Dina Wakley. I've looked all over for that circles stencil. You said it was TCW but could you double check? I'd really like to buy it. Thank you!

[@NiamhBaly]

Here it is- tcw microbial www.tcwstencils.com/products/tcw359-microbial

[@laurak5196]

This is one of my favorites ever and I love the quote. I love everything about it, including the way you finished the figures at the bottom! I have people close to me who don't quite get it either but as you say, who cares? We are healthier people for doing this work and we have to honor it, and ourselves. Boo-yah! 💪🏻💚💪🏻 Thanks for sharing Niamh!

[@NiamhBaly]

Thank you. We we are healthier for it and as long as we love it - who cares xxx

[@myfairytreasures]

Absolutely love this, I'm so inspired. Awesome job!!!!

[@nancyfrustaci9721]

love the page and the quote,

[@ValerieFisk]

Already watched this twice with some mark making on tissue paper in between as I'm going to give reductive painting a go for the first time thanks to you inspiring my next journal page. I hope that just shows how much I appreciate (and get) what you do. 🖌️🎨👌

[@NiamhBaly]

Thank you- enjoy the process xxx

[@Mrs.DeeAnnNance]

Love your creations! I'm a new sub. Just wondering why you don't have subtitles? I want to inhale everything you've ever done! 😁 But, when I'm nursing the little human to sleep and have to turn on the sound machine I have to switch to something else. Figured I'd ask. Thanks for sharing all you do!!!

[@NiamhBaly]

Thanks:) to answer your question- I’m not sure. I assumed that KZbin did it automatically, will look into it:) congrats on the small human- they’re pretty great x

[@فاطمةعيجو]

👍🎨⁦🖌️⁩

[@ilonajeanpassino608]

Dear Niamh Baly....can you share where or how it would be possible to order these silhouettes stencils? I searched on line of several sites but could not find them. Also I did find the stencil by Maryilyn (flowers) but not the bubbles. Thank you for sharing.

[@NiamhBaly]

ILona Jean Passino hi. The bubbles is by tcw stencils and is called microbiobial. The abstract figures masks are from Dina wakley for ranger, but I know Donna Downey has a set of abstract masks as well.

[@CorinneXoXoX]

Love this page, N i love all your work!!! Thank you soo much for sharing!!

[@NiamhBaly]

You are so welcome!

[@marycminton8842]

This is my second time to watch this video,😊 I love it! Are your stencils from Stencil Girl?

[@NiamhBaly]

Thank you. Not in this video- Dina wakley and the crafters workshop stencils here

[@prympammi]

Love!

[@ireneynes7478]

Love it😍

[@SAVED55S]

NICE

[@AngelDebstar316]

Dina who? can you provide links?

[@NiamhBaly]

Debora Kemp Dina wakley- she’s one of the ranger signature designers . You should be able to find her products anywhere that stocks ranger products

[@zusterglimlach]

Here's another color lover 😀 I love this page. Greetings from Belgium from Lizzy.

[@joancross5361]

Thank you! I’ve been struggling with this mask/ stencil.

[@azpam16]

I don’t see mess. I see stunning work! Well done! Thanks for sharing your useful tips and tricks. I’ll be using this technique in my next project.

[@nicolebaker7771]

I LOVE this page. The quote is absolutely perfect.

[@amandafarris3565]

Is that a spatula you are using for a brush??

[@NiamhBaly]

Thank you. I am using a silicon spatula from nuvo (a part of tonic). It works well for spreading glue and gel medium.

[@ArtsyRadish]

Love, love, love your work! You're a fabulous inspiration and I can't wait to try this technique. Thank you! ❤️

[@kimdaniel4539]

Love the page. The quote and your thoughts behind it is wonderful. I also have loved ones who dont quite understand why I like making so called messes. They are used to my cardmaking and scrapbooking which is very precise. But it makes me happy.

[@yvonnethistle-brewster2734]

OMG. I must lean how to do this, such fun! what were you using with the stencils please?

[@NiamhBaly]

Yvonne Thistle-Brewster thank you 🙏 I’m just using a wet wipe to wipe away the excess paint.

[@ajarofpotential]

I really like that you took us on the whole journey. The end is such a great result. I've been reluctant to cover or hide the work in my backgrounds but here you've transformed a busy background into the focal point. A great technique for when I get carried away on my backgrounds. Fantastic!

[@janicem4382]

I don’t understand what you do but I find your work to be incredibly beautiful and unique. I find you bypass the pretty but banal and pull a masterpiece from that. I am intimidated and awed by the process but I will keep watching. Thank goodness you pay no attention to the anyone who doesn’t see the beauty in your work.

[@jasann100]

Love it ,thanks from Australia 🇦🇺

[@gbear768]

love your page and your quote. Always a pleasure stopping by your channel

[@tinawebb3338]

I love your page!! Thanks for the video!

[@Annetmoestuinintwente]

Great artwork, makes me happy

[@NiamhBaly]

Thank you x

[@cindylabare960]

Love the standing people and the the background!

[@marjieiversen5175]

I love it! Thank you so much for all your truly inspiring videos. Bless you.

[@dannilockley3648]

Oh my goodness I just love this - thank you for sharing. Can't wait to watch some more of your videos!

[@Scrapbookingncraft]

Love the colours, i cant wait to art journal again, too busy with life and work at the moment, lol.

[@maryellencookmeynig9034]

Love this page! Thank you for sharing!

[@susanferris]

I love this! Your work is so inspiring.

[@plan4life]

I love and appreciate your artwork! I guess there will always be people who don’t get it. I do lots of arty / crafty things that my husband doesn’t understand or value in the slightest, but it makes me happy so that is all that matters. I really enjoy watching your process and it gives me lots of inspiration, so I hope you continue to make more of these videos. I am so glad I found your channel 😊

[@NiamhBaly]

Thank you so much and welcome x

[@cindybell3227]

Love this page so much and you have the perfect attitude about your art!

[@cherylhudson5080]

Your work is amazing really love how you pull it all together TFS. can you tell me what is Scrapbook Lisa's name. TIA

[@NiamhBaly]

Thank you. Her KZbin name is Lisa Oxley or scrapwitch Lisa on Instagram 😊

[@rubbishtorubies952]

I absolutely love this piece! 💜💜💜

[@ilonajeanpassino608]

Love this and would love to try this in my journal some day.

[@melindagoodermote4305]

I love this, thank you!!

[@Plumsilly82]

Brilliant!

[@craftygrannyt]

Love your pages. Where do you buy the plastic brush you used with the gel medium. They look s great idea

[@NiamhBaly]

Thank you. I got the spatula from a local craft shop, but they are by nuvo which is a brand of tonic, do you should be able to find them in most pkaces

[@susanjones9475]

Amazon...just bought one...

[@marie-lauredechauton6756]

Magnifique!!!!

[@LisaMannFineArt]

where are the masks from? Thank you

[@NiamhBaly]

They are a stencil/mask set from Dina wakley through ranger. But you could cut figures out if a magazine too

[@doggydoc4uinnc]

This video made me break out my canvas/burlap journal which is brand new annnnnd is pushing me to do layers and new to me techniques. I just love you!

[@NiamhBaly]

Yay- I’m so glad you’re breaking into your journal- have so much fun xxx

[@WildIrishToes]

I am in love with this page!!!