How To Boost Creative Freedom In Your Work

[@nikitasharda6421]

There are so many things I love about you. First is your voice, its very soothing. Second, is that you speak out loud about your journey, doubts and learnings unlike other artists who majorly focus on painting techniques and hardly every show their vulnerability. You have no idea how much it is helpful for others, who are constantly asking the same questions and in the end getting lost feeling like they are not good enough and judging themselves too harshly. Your videos help understand the psychology of an artist. It is super interesting to see how many choices an artist has to make spontaneously at every second of the painting. This brain training also helps in solving real life problems. Your lessons go far beyond the canvases and sheets.

[@marabethquinart]

I’m so happy you have found this to be helpful, Nikita! And I talk about these things because I hardly ever heard any other artists talk about it, but when I found just a couple, it changed my whole practice. I realized that it was normal to have these thoughts, and that insecurities as well as the ability to find your way through them were actually universal and part of the job of an artist. It changed everything for me! Glad you are finding that too. 😊

[@kimritner1605]

I am so enjoying your videos. I find them very meditative. Your voice is so soothing.i intend to take some classes from you this year. I've already gained so much from watching your online videos. Thank you!

[@marabethquinart]

Wonderful! I look forward to seeing you in class, Kim 😊

[@pgrace2555]

Oh I can relate to all you are saying.

[@marabethquinart]

So glad-that always helps I think.

[@susanmiller6107]

Love the way you started this. I have taken two of your classes and am having so much fun learning and experimenting. I will have to start a new painting with leaves, branches and flowers and see were that takes me. Thank you so much for your videos and classes.

[@marabethquinart]

That happens to be the subject of my next class, Susan 🥳

[@angiewillsonarte]

It’s hat painting weather!!! Love these so much! I’m doing your 60 paintings challenge! It’s fantastic and perfect for a time in my life when I am doing a lot of caretaking. I will definitely do this exercise next! U have helped me so much as I break away from very tight watercolor/ illustrative work into mixed media exploration . You’re so gifted in all u do! Thank u and hope u have a great weekend😍

[@marabethquinart]

Bless you with the caretaking. It’s a blessing and also very hard. I’m happy you have art to help give you something back. And I think breaking away from really descriptive work is challenging, so these exercises help so much because you just do them and do them and eventually sort of desensitize that part of your brain that keeps objecting. I’m excited about what you will definitely find to open up, although it doesn’t all at once, it does happen progressively over time.

[@angiewillsonarte]

So grateful for your reply -yes - this new way of thinking creatively is happening in stages for me. I love how you connect art to being human - and I suppose the age/life stage are meaningful to me - but your advice is useful to any artist of any age! Much love to your family and I'm so proud of how you have taken this channel and made it a breath of fresh air on youtube! It takes courage and you've got it! Bravo and looking forward to more videos (no pressure!) lol @@marabethquinart

[@marabethquinart]

Thank you Angie. That’s so encouraging.❤️ And the way art functions in my life makes it impossible not to talk about the human experience and how they point to one another-I’ve never had a creative experience where, if I was paying attention, I didn’t see that happening. Comfort and strength to you.xoxo

[@susanmcd1458]

Love your videos, thanks! I use a similar style but not yet with your great technique and success. I requested your supplies list but cannot find the item I’m curious about. That is, the fairly transparent greenish, blueish or grayish tissue papers, where you place fairly large pieces to veil some lower layers? Are they a special kind of tissue? Thanks again!

[@marabethquinart]

Thank you Susan 😊. I tint all of my own tissue papers, so that was simple tissue paper that I tinted those particular colors. Does that answer your question?

[@susanmcd1458]

@@marabethquinart Yes, thank you!

[@marabethquinart]

My pleasure Susan!

[@kathiebraun2011]

Thank you! What is the first product you used? Are they some sort of soft pastel?

[@marabethquinart]

Those are tempera paint sticks. There are several brands, but I’ve only tried the Shuttle Art brand, which I like.👍

[@kathiebraun2011]

Thank you!@@marabethquinart

[@marabethquinart]

My pleasure

[@maureenknight3863]

ty good info, fabulous! what glue do you use btw?

[@marabethquinart]

I use Golden Glazing Liquid, it’s an acrylic medium that works well with delicate papers and it also thins my paint to make glazes with, so it’s pretty handy in that way.

[@maureenknight3863]

ty so much. I bought modge podge?@@marabethquinart

[@susanmcd1458]

⁠@@marabethquinartmy understanding is that Glazing medium dries much more slowly than, say, matte medium. Is that ever an issue?

[@marabethquinart]

I honestly haven’t used matte medium but I know a lot of people do, so if you want a quicker drying time, definitely use the matte medium. Both are fabulous working with the fragile papers. I just use the glaze because I make lots of paint glazes to use with my collage so it’s handy

[@marabethquinart]

The modge podge seems to be thicker and I like the thinner acrylic mediums because they do well with the thin fragile papers.

[@Wayne-sn8jo]

Watching the fast filming was hard on my ADD.

[@marabethquinart]

I totally understand--it’s not worth it then, don’t watch. 😊 I speed up my KZbin videos so people can see the whole process and it’s not too long. Sort of the unfortunate reality or limitation of free videos.