HOPELESS at imagining your FLORALS?? Create a beautiful Modern Watercolor spread my EASY WAY!

[@lauried8685]

When I discovered the word, Aphantasia, just this year (!) I felt like everything in my life up to this point, suddenly made sense. My father, an extremely visual mechanical engineer, always became frustrated with my inability to visualize things, from the inner workings of simple machines, to math problems. I always joke that I'd be the worst crime witness, because I don't remember how people look. It was stunning to find out that I simply have a form of neurodivergence, just like someone with dyslexia. I can now give myself a bit of grace, instead of feeling 'less-than.' It is heartening to hear a successful artist as yourself discussing the topic. Thanks, Diane!

[@debcarroll8055]

One of my favorite things about your videos besides you lovely banter, is the joyful noise of you critters and creatures from your garden and studio.

[@squirrelychatter6045]

I love that aspect as well.

[@PaintChronicles]

I agree! I listen to her as I work from home all day. Between Diane and a few other KZbinrs who ask about working from home, I always feel supported. Love her really long videos!

[@susandonnelly9510]

I totally enjoy your calm narrative while creating art. I consider you the Julia Child of the art world and you, like she was, makes this a better, more beautiful and enjoyable existence.

[@marlbboro8091]

Thankfully sans the maniacal laugh. 🤦🏽‍♀️ calm soothing and beautiful Diane

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Julia Child was wonderful, wasn’t she! I did like that film they made, Julie and Julia was it? And I enjoyed her book about arriving in Paris. Thanks so much for the great compliment!! Don’t miss tonight’s video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4uwm6CHZZVgqJosi=JKh2S3Oxr3wRxqQf

[@impala1022]

I love the colors you used

[@PaintChronicles]

This is such a pretty pattern. I can see it on a living room pillow or quilt! I also received my Craftimo X brushes, and I love them. I needed some washbrushes and larger brushes for loose painting, which I have been trying to embrace lately. I used to sketch out my paintings before painting, and it got tiresome. I love how you start free and open-minded and end up with something amazing! - Kelli

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Wonderful! I was pleased with that design! On a different note Don’t miss tonight’s video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4uwm6CHZZVgqJosi=JKh2S3Oxr3wRxqQf

[@PaintChronicles]

@@DianeAntoneStudio I absolutely will catch it!

[@stefnash4730]

Diane I have your set of brushes, but they are so beautiful, I haven’t even taken them out the presentation box. I will one day. Love your work. Thank you. You inspire me. 🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼

[@terririggle6106]

Diane, I thoroughly enjoyed your chat and revealing something a little about yourself. Not so little for an artist, though! It appears you have overcome your inability to create beautiful art! I do admire your honesty. Not a lot of folks would admit such personal info. Thank you for sharing this with us. I do find this painting so charming! Love all the colors and patterns! It would make fabulous wallpaper!❤

[@Karenfree2202]

I’m in Florida

[@deirdrelewis1454]

I have a fairly limited imagination. I can sometimes visualise things but like you I generally have no idea where a drawing or painting is going. This is probably why I struggle with composition. I do love other people’s imaginative abilities, especially stories. Any stories…books, movies, TV series. Also adult colouring books,where all I have to do is add colour.

[@valeriecarter5475]

No matter what level of imagination you have, I enjoy your paintings 🙂The colors are so soft and calming too.

[@SMK7525]

I have just to watch you painting and listen to your talking, I begin painting too, but something else - thank you for giving me calmness and patience. Greetings from Germany.😊

[@muireannin09]

What you said about imagining and how to get started really resonated with me Diane. Made me feel so much better especially because I absolutely have to have something in front of me as a reference whether or not I use it or have one of your tutorials on inspiring me. I always wished I had one of those brains where I could really envision something and then recreate it from there. Ah well, I still LOVE putting pen and watercolor on paper as it is my THERAPY ❣️🧑‍🎨

[@Reeflections]

This is so pretty with all those delicate flowers and stem leaves Frame this Diane ❤️✝️🙏🏻

[@deborahrabine9956]

I really enjoyed this video and your various musings throughout. I was also a nerdy kid who formed a club with badges, etc. Also, I LOVE the fact that you quoted Mma Ramotswe from the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, one of my favorite book series! That was so random that I wasn't sure I heard you correctly and had to play it again to be sure. Thank you for "keeping me company" while I cleaned up my desk and did some sketching.

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Ah, you are my virtual twin! Did you have a cabin to hold your club meetings in? I persuaded (somehow) my dad to let us use his garden tool shed as our meeting place! We used to go exploring - me and my sister and the two boys who lived next door, looking for adventures! I have read most of Alexander McCall Smith’s books and am going round a second time at the moment! Lovely aren’t they!!!

[@deborahrabine9956]

@@DianeAntoneStudio "The Friendship Club" hosted by my best friend Lynn and me, met in the basement of my house. It was a finished space but minimally furnished so there was room for games and crafts. I don't think we had very many meetings before we lost interest. I have read so many of the books and series by Alexander McCall Smith but it has been a while. I might revisit them too.

[@stefnash4730]

Morning is best. 🌸

[@Sundies_Art]

I used to have a fairly good imagination when I was young, but as I've gotten older, seems my imagination has gone by the wayside. I don't know that I ever imagined in detail though. I know I don't have a photographic memory for sure. Which would be real helpful in painting and art in general. I love this painting; the colors are so calming and my favorite.

[@wimjanssen2181]

My 339th. I am a few days on a short break and I am not sure about my number of viewed videos, my administration is at home. The first part of this video I watched at sunset and the rest at sunrise. So now I combined nature and culture. A very relaxing and useful way of discovering paint and developing brushstrokes. 😊wim

[@OpalInspired]

Beautiful painting and colour choice. Visual limitation, no problem, but even those of us that can readily imagine subjects still benefit from the use of references especially for finer the finer details.♥♥♥

[@chrisanndunn8814]

My passion is sewing. I cannot sew from a pattern to save my life, but if you were to ask me to sew a quilt, or a purse, or cushion cover… I can visualize it, sit at my sewing machine and finish it with no thought.

[@angelabohm4237]

Thank you Diane. Lovely painting and very interesting chat! I love how different all our brains are! I can visualise to a certain extent but do struggle with somethings. In comparison my partner can visualise in detail, problem solve etc and will change furniture round in the house saying this lay out will be better and I just can't visualise it until I can see the change in front of me and then I think oh yeah that looks good! Very interesting x

[@FrancoiseButler-vx1cs]

Bonjour Diane , ca ferai un joli motif pour une housse de couette de lit avec les oreillers assorties . C est interressant ce que tu dis pour visualer les choses , personnellement je ne visualise pas vraiment les details , mais dans ma tete c est en permanence des images qui defilent , et c est tres fatiguant . Pour le dessin c est pareil , je commence quelque chose , et j ai meme pas fini qu il y a plein d autres choses qui viennent dans ma tete et comme je suis plutot lente je n ai pas le temps de tout faire et les idees vont et viennent dans ma tete jusqu a ce que je les essayent . Voila , je sais pas si tu as tout compris ce que je veux dire , quand j etais au travail on me disait toujours que j avais des idees farfelues . Il faut essayer c est tout . C est peut etre parce que je suis seule et que je n ai que ca a faire , ici c est petit et le menage est vite fait . Le plus dur c est d aller aux commissions , je deteste sortir , je deteste ces magasins , et pourtant si je veux manger je suis bien obligee d y aller . C est 20mn a pied en descente , mai pour revenir c est une demi heure en montee et chargee de commissions . J ai la hantise du jour ou j arriverai plus a le faire . Voila mon amie bises a bientot .

[@sunnyscott4876]

I love your videos. Interesting. I can copy just about anything, but when it comes to creating something original on my own, I am lost...Watercolors seem so forgiving and fun.Your videos are lovely. Thank you again for sharing your wonderful talents. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@beejayem42]

Is that what it is? I’ve often wondered about my inability to imagine - just as you’ve described. Thankyou for introducing it. 🐨👍

[@shirleygreaves9650]

I also recently discovered that I have Aphantasia so I know how you feel. I also paint watercolour, (not to your standard) and I have to use references as I can’t imagine pictures in my mind, I imagine in words not pictures. When I first realised other people actually see pictures in their head it blew my mind, I didn’t realise I was different. I’m used to it now and I don’t see it has an handicap anymore, we are all different and no one knows what it’s like inside other people’s heads. I have 4 children and only one of them has aphantasia. Take care Diane and never change you’re perfect as you are. ❤️

[@dragonfly7335]

I suppose one advantage of having Aphantasia is that you never have to be concerned that your picture hasn’t turned out how you imagined it! 😂 I have clear images in my mind and have learned to live with disappointment! 😂😂😂

[@karenetaylor5758]

I have several frontal lobe difficulties. The imagination thing is just one of them. The rest of the people share some of them as well. I have noticed that everybody does better when the children are exposed to educational opportunities early. In special ed we would have kids usung their imagination as the read. They struggled so hard to read the words that they have no room for thinking. I have discovered that I continue to build on a new foundation I develop for myself.

[@haleyriffe8131]

Appreciate all you do for viewers of this channel and for creating a wonderful community in the Facebook group. Love the daily prompts, theyre a great source of daily inspiration! Thanks so much Diane🥰

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Our pleasure Haley and thanks so much for supporting us! Don’t miss tonight’s video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4uwm6CHZZVgqJosi=JKh2S3Oxr3wRxqQf

[@donnacarraway9182]

Thank you Diane! Have you ever used the Inktense crayons? I’m excited to see you use the pencils, which I have, but would be interested in seeing what you think of the crayons because I’ve seen them used and they really do seem somewhat like gouache. I can’t decide if I need them!!😉I think that’s really good advice about having something in front of you! I must be in the middle of the range of imagining but I was taught to have a reference to paint from. Isn’t it interesting about how our childhood affects us? I did love dolls some because I thought that I would be a fashion designer but then got a degree in math and worked in unmanned space flight for NASA but now in old age I’m pursuing my artistic side again! (With your help!) Super fun, I think!! I like this painting! You could copy it and make wrapping paper or a design pattern for fabric! Oh my, I’m having a modern style shower door put in soon. Did your shower door have the metal around it? My new one will be without the metal. Scary really! I’m glad you weren’t hurt!!💕

[@stefnash4730]

Love Gabriel. 🌸

[@stefnash4730]

So beautiful Diane. 🌸

[@karencarlson1693]

You may not visualize how a painting is going to look before you start, but your talent for composition makes it come out great.

[@darcypalmer7783]

Love this piece. Love these colors. My brain is full of words, lots of words, all the time. I think our brains, the similarities and the differences are so interesting.

[@JsbB-q6p]

My imagination seems to come to a halt when it comes to thinking I could do a little of this and a little of that and end up with something this beautiful! You are in my opinion amazing! Thanks for sharing.

[@blueviolets2022]

Everyone has always told me I'm so creative. No, I can just copy very well. It's always something I've seen before. I learned to oil paint, acrylic, now watercolor, but I'm lost, I can't come up with my own paintings, or anything, that is unless I'm in the hypomanic stage of bipolar. 😵‍💫😑 Thank you for your videos, the chat and painting. It's wonderful. ❤ I have a very visual mind, for instance. Unless I've seen a word. I can't spell it. Lol imagination, I can't do much, but if someone is describing details of an operation, or bodily injury that is far too graphic. But, "imagine you're at the beach" nope. Can't. Lol 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@azadehshalgooni8919]

Very Beautiful and Fantastic Art , Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏼🙏🏼👌👌🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@dpashaian8272]

Only watched today - imagined what I could do & your stories add to my imagination! btw, Baba Ganoush (the feline that I reside with) knows your voice, we both ❤ your show! 😂🎉

[@karenirving7088]

I love it without a background. I’m going to steal the idea to make lovely wrapping paper for very special gifts. There was a whole spate of exploding oven doors here in Australia.

[@Karenfree2202]

You are such a talent!

[@ladonnakooyman-stitchesbre3474]

I love the idea of making this as a surface design. Printed fabric for a cute sundress or some pajamas!

[@BarBaraWhorleyCrawfordESS]

I love your videos. Thank you❤

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Thanks Barbara!

[@jennymathers3264]

Hi Diane. The weather here in scottish borders has been cold until yesterday .love the lovely pinks and mauve u used in your floral just watching this morning . Jenny

[@dreamalamb4259]

Lovely ❤❤❤

[@marielouisedavidson4834]

Yes, I find this difficult too so rely on something in front of me. I love your channel and videos. Many, many thanks!

[@stefnash4730]

Love this painting. 🌸

[@Karenfree2202]

Hi, i always wondered why my girlfriends played with dolls and made up all these characters. I gave up and became a tomboy. Married 42 years now and that makes total sense.

[@lindametcalfe9549]

Diane I’m so excited after ordering and paying for my drawell brushes,he’s going to post when ready😀 I have also ordered some SP878 ones too, only 4 of those. But 18 all together, I’m buying for the future to save on postage. Thank you

[@tynaheadrick-phipps6768]

I truly enjoyed this video🥰

[@brigittecourtey3364]

Merci beaucoup pour votre vidéo, un vrai bonheur et moment de détente. Cela m a fait vraiment plaisir. Douce soirée à vous.💜🐓

[@michellekrantz888]

My daughter has the same challenge of visualizing things. I think it's commendable that you are such a talented artist in spite of that. This painting is so lovely! Thank you!

[@kclark651]

This was very relaxing and turned out so lovely!

[@juditszepessy8936]

Such beautiful colours!

[@deborahrabine9956]

From the internet: Aphantasia is a characteristic that prevents the brain from forming or using mental images in imagination or thought. It's often described as a visual condition, but it can also affect other senses, such as sound, smell, taste, touch, and movement. I have this but did not know it had a name (and that other people also have it) until now. I always say that if I had to describe my husband to a sketch artist, I would be hard pressed to even come close to what he really looks like.

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Yup, me too. Is it a feature of all nerds?

[@StemwinderBand]

This makes me feel not s alone 😊

[@karenetaylor5758]

Went todollar store to pick up liter for cat and saw crayons called frienship colors that look a lot like those. I do paper bag decorating, and they are real satisfying too.

[@jessicarabbit1164]

A BookTuber I follow just recently talked about this. I have a very vivid imagination, I see things in in my mind in detail. Lovely painting. As someone who loves to sew, this makes me think of fabric. It would make a lovely dress 😍

[@heatherlundquist-buffalo]

I love your video today; it’s exactly what I needed after coming off a vacation with hubby. Was kinda blue and I think I need to mindlessly paint flowers 💐 x

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

I'm so glad! I’m doing the same!!!

[@KathyTincler]

That is soo pretty! Love those 'art nouveau' colors. Would love a summer dress out of the pattern you just created. Thanks for sharing this lovely piece.

[@LulybelleLullaby]

This is lovely and it wouldn’t be enhanced with a pen. .. says the expert!

[@peggymann925]

These colors are fantastic! I will try this one!

[@alexandradebeurgh]

I simply love it!!!!❤❤❤

[@LindaKing-nq6ut]

Pretty colour palette…love a page of florals etc..

[@patriciahorelick6450]

Yes the blue-green has a great effect with the pinker colours!

[@stefnash4730]

Hahaha you make me laugh with the shower. I have a curtain that goes in the washing machine. 😂 Christmas in July is celebrated in South Africa where I’m from. 🌸

[@marielouisedavidson4834]

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you!

[@tamaraleonard2882]

Love the colors. Thank You for this teaching moment.

[@RoseKeesing-tw3cm]

Love the soft colours and patterns, v soothing❤

[@gloriamoline678]

Reaching 100° in southern Maine today. In the 90s Tuesday/Wednesday. Weird for June. Be careful what you wish for LOL ! Last year it rained mostly. BTW..can imagine in detail but can't transfer it to painting.

[@joycesnodgrass7068]

I don't enjoy make-believe or fantasy. 🤪I enjoy puzzles & Sudoku,

[@janiceheger291]

Thanks for explaining why we can paint what we see, but not imagine or reproduce if not using a model or picture reference. Explains why I cannot anime nor cartoon!!! Frustrating!

[@antoniahicks320]

Okay, I tried this watercolor a bit ago. It didn't turn out as nicely as I would have liked, so I sprayed water all over it and now it doesn't look too bad, but I think I'm going to take some pens to it when it's totally dried. And I used hot press too! I didn't realize it when I started! Hmm. It is differnt.

[@jeansteele6586]

Hi Dianne, I don’t remember which tutorial I watched recently, talking about a black ,non spiral ring binder, that you recommended . I am so sad as it wasn’t cheap, I ordered it with some other art supplies, a box arrived, with frames I had ordered in but it had been ripped down the side. It appeared that another packaged had been attached to the side and ripped off. Wouldn’t you know the most expensive thing I ordered had been removed, very hard to take as no one will take responsibility for it. I am very nervous to order it again, just wanted to tell someone who would understand as a 75 yr old 🇨🇦 Thanks for your wonderful tutorials ❤ Jean

[@marijohansson5521]

Thank you so much. I love your videos.

[@borleyboo5613]

When I am reading, I can visualise rooms, areas and where the action is taking place. But I cannot, for the life of me, ‘see’ the characters faces. Even with my own characters in stories I have written, I cannot see their faces at all. They are just ‘shadowy’ people to me. When I am trying to draw and I try to draw what I see, I see it, clear as day, but it WILL NOT transfer from eyes, to brain, to hand. As for angles and perspective, forget it. I know what it is, but again, I cannot transfer the knowing to paper. 😮 I am ‘neurodivergent’ so I guess that could be why. Very interesting and informative video. I enjoyed it, and the chat. Thank you. 👍😃

[@margotcrabtree3223]

Mme. Ramotswe!

[@tinaoreilly5973]

Queens is in London

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Oh well, the weather was still very good today!

[@janc6495]

Hi Diane, Is the brush you switch over to the #9 in your set? (that I bought and love)Thank you, Jan

[@Karenfree2202]

Don’t think I could ever get used to the rooster!

[@karenirving7088]

I visualise way too much detail 😳 I freeze up and can’t think where to start. No way can I get it down on paper. Have no idea how to start.

[@stefnash4730]

You just doing because you love I.

[@ritasmith2536]

I agree you aren't very original. Or very challenging. Just a lot of little simply shapes that change colors often. I like the silly birds the best.

[@karenetaylor5758]

You are very careful to follow the rules of composition. What you create is very satisfying.