If I were To START PAINTING All Over Again, This Is What I Would Do... (5 Steps)

[@FlorentFargesarts]

What would be the message you'd send to the artist you'll be in the future ?

[@whenmushroomsattack3303]

Please stop jumping headfirst into things. I beg you.

[@schwanenkind]

Keep working...never ever give up!

[@La-chose-en-soi]

Don't blame me, cause I'm you !

[@tymer9]

"The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best" - Henry Van Dyke

[@irissands6063]

I'm doing this because I must, for myself.

[@ladygwarth]

You are not just a great artist, your empathy to fellow artists and your desire to help them, is wonderful. Thank you. Merci.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

👐😊thank you so much Lesley ☺

[@DCweldingAndArt]

@@FlorentFargesarts yes brother! This is what draws me back to you, not just art alone, not just the AWESOME production in your videos, but the way you try to dive DEEP into the point and purpose of not only the art, bit the artist. God bless my friend, and happy painting! 😀

[@HassibNooriArt]

He really dose have a way to connecting with his followers!

[@forthosewhoiswithGod]

This brought me to tears. I haven't painted in 25 years and just recently began painting to deal with grief. Although my loved ones are saying that I'm doing an amazing job, I feel like on the beginner level all over again. So climbing that mountain , just hit me 100 miles an hour

[@annamariavonschalien9346]

Empathy and altruism are the words that this video gives and I cryed because this was so warming and it applies not only to art but to life that we live. Thank you for these lovely words that inspires to not give up ♥

[@sussu3213]

I'm saving this one. I already know I will rewacth it many times. So much value in just 11 minutes. Every step was a lesson, great food for thought and a guide in the right direction. Thank you so much for sharing such valuable and unique content Florent! I needed this! I will write down these five steps for sure this weekend. This was so useful ❤️

[@SpencerBRandall]

Beautifully made. Emotional, moving and informative. What a piece of art.

[@karri4135]

This post is so beautiful in so many ways, it just brings tears-of what has been lost, of what could still be, of hoping to find enough direction, clarity and courage to get there. I guess it boils down to hope and courage… and a plan. Thank you for sharing Florent.

[@terrierose5917]

You create the most wonderful videos; the music, the lighting, and most importantly the knowledge, and philosophy of art and life you so generously share. Thank you.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thank you so much 😊🙏

[@kevinnoel9024]

Florent, greetings and salutations from the Twin Isle Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, Caribbean. I am truly grateful for these videos where it deals with core issues artist face each day. Decisions they make aren't as easy as it appears. My issues with painting often is not for a lack of ideas 💡 or material but, balancing taking care of a family does frustrate me from time to time. Almost always seems to escape me-TIME to focus,maintain and practice my craft so, yes,thanks for high lighting these issues because it's real. I am not a quitter , thank God. I am putting on foot in front of the other. It's more realistic and I can accepting of what is happening around me. God bless you Florent

[@charlievankesteren8756]

Thank-you and God bless you brother. You're a balm to the weary artist's spirit

[@andrewcarr9024]

One of the best videos i've seen about painting in many years. Thank you.

[@bernadinebritto]

You work so hard to talk abt everything. It’s a lot of work. Incredible!! You are so systematic 🙏

[@elshatilaon3102]

The universe is so magical. Today, I decided to do my hobbies again. Then I saw this video. Everything has a reason.

[@merjauotila1162]

My message to myself in past: You don't need a permission from anyone And to future: , I love to paint and so I do ❤️ / I love to practice, so I'm keep on doing 🎨

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Awesome 👍😊

[@LeeAllen337]

You're an inspiration Florent. I also just started painting again at the start of the year. Been a long time. Came across your channel not long ago and love your work. Thank you for sharing all that you do.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thank you so much ✨🙏

[@cherylnicholson5643]

Message to myself: Always look at how far you've come. And creating is self-care. Thank you for sharing such a genuine and heartfelt video!

[@SunTurtle]

I've watched this twice and cried both times. Your words always strike right to my heart and soul. Thank you.

[@gretaivers8474]

One of your best videos!! I haven’t painted in years. Thank you for this inspiring message. God bless.

[@robdog114]

Florent is my fav artist. His ideas and philosophy around art is true art

[@lemmyjoker3678]

Thank you:) I’m experiencing this for a long time and just bought some supplies. This video was exactly the kind of conversation I was looking for. Genuine and helpful

[@gingerfreak01]

I love your videos anyway, but this is something else. As someone who totally empathises with your emailer your reply here is fantastic. I cried because it felt so personal. That philosophy degree was a winner! And I'll be writing my 5. Thanks, many many thanks.

[@anitajonsson4379]

You are a wonderful painter but you are also a very eloquent speaker. Your message was given so beautifully. I plan to listen to it again tomorrow, make notes this time, and put into practice the 5 steps. Thank you sharing your gifts.

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

SCREAMING WHAT CANNOT BE SAID , PAINTING WHAT CANNOT BE SEEN ITS ALL PART OF BEING A ARTIST IS ALL ABOUT! ITS ALL ABOUT COURAGE!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@joangoldsmith3999]

I just started with oils today after mainly using acrylics. It terrified me and excited me at the same time. I almost put it off again but your words made me start. I absolutely love it. Being able to go back change the tone slightly without any horrible hard edges is freeing. Thank you. 😊

[@jakobgjertsen2801]

I love how you look directly at the camera! It speaks to me like you are genuinely talking to me. As a passionate teacher

[@panamafred1]

Brilliant Florent. Thank you! My message to my future self? I know that if I break it down into small enough pieces that I will succeed. See? I told myself so and it was true.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Awesome, I really like this strategy 😀 👍

[@panamafred1]

@@FlorentFargesarts Thanks Florent. As for one of the not-so-small pieces, COLOR. Your color course was a game changer for me. I've made significant progress! Thanks!

[@doreenjodhan9160]

Thank you! Amazing, thought provoking words that I find inspiring and hope reviving. This can be applied to different disciplines. I am currently trying to write my thesis on children and nature and getting so angry and frustrated with myself. I have all these ideas but cannot seem to express them. I am left thinking something must be wrong with me that I would come this far and not finish. I have renewed determination

[@451Laurie]

Wow. Incredibly thoughtful, insightful, and helpful to anyone taking the time to watch. Thank you.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thank you ✨🙏

[@lisadillard2345]

I came across this video . and I could have swore you were talking directly to me . thank you i needed to hear this .

[@kerryallen6476]

You never fail to inspire me with your wisdom and insight! Thank you, Florent!

[@HassibNooriArt]

Thank you for the motivation! I know for a fact that some are really in need of this kind of talk as they are struggling doubting theirselves.

[@joycesmith5786]

You have no idea how much I needed to hear this at this time. Thank you!

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Glad it helped 🙏✨😊

[@josebazocosta9341]

Thanks Florent; for me, you just painted a beautiful artistic and deeply humane moment... Gracias totales..!!

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thank you so much 🙏😊

[@irissands6063]

Thank you for that wonderful wisdom and kindness!✌️🌈

[@hectorherrera8316]

I am speechless... Thank you very much!

[@crisalidathomassie1811]

Great points, great advice. After recovering from covid, I had no goals. I felt it was taken all away until a week ago, I decided to start all over. I’m working on values and beginning to paint in black and white. I did an attempt on a portrait but I need to go back and redo it to study more where things went wrong. But what is most important is I’m trying and I want to keep going. Oil painting is my life. Thanks so much for your dedication and great videos. Blessings, take care and be safe.

[@TheDarkArtist66]

Ive been watching your channel on and off for a while but you have definitely got a new sub after this video. I like your style, your skill and you're awesome attitude. Thanks man. Keep doing you

[@brucerobertson7457]

Oh wow! So beautiful. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@marin9444]

I needed this today. Thank you!

[@FlorentFargesarts]

You're welcome 😊

[@reneeferguson2986]

🙏🏻Thank you for this reflection on the obstacles we sometimes face to take that next step in making art.

[@jumanas4012]

Beautifully said .. i would say to my self ..never give up .

[@mariannazaitseva8381]

"The Artist's Way- A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity" by Julia Cameron is a weekly recovery practice to follow, I recommend.

[@stephaniebelenets2666]

The idea of having regular "Artist's dates" with myself is a simple concept that has big benefits! I have been doing her "morning pages" for years and really helps to work things out and encourage creative ideas.

[@deannastomer7145]

Oh Florent, thank you for your gentle encouragement. I hope to meet a man like you one day. My problem is my mind is blank. I’m on heavy medication and have had chemotherapy and radiotherapy in the past and more recently. So my memory and attention span is a problem.I am a very good sketch artist and I made a surprisingly good portrait in oils with no experience! My family are artists and musicians so it’s in me already. I have nervous issues so do feel panic from childhood. My time is 100% mine, a very rare situation indeed. Your list has really helped, thanks again gentle soul.

[@Shovadude]

Thank you, this is just everything I needed to hear. Thank you.

[@nikkiswenson54]

Thank you for creating this lovely inspirational video! 💖

[@patrickedwards1378]

Thanks so much for sharing. Wonderful encouragement!!

[@heidekrause469]

Wow! Thank you for the inspiration. Time is not really on my side because I started with art at quite a mature age, but this gives me more hope to proceed and not to give up. Thank you very much.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Don't give up ✨

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

Florent charges...your amalgamation of life and art....yet..watching .....art & life far from horizon is amazing....

[@lisengel2498]

Oh yes indeed this is one of the really hard questions, because its about human consciousness - about deep experience of the creator and the one that receives - and experience can be very automatic, habituel and it can be very radical deep and limitless - and every experience is woven together with time in very finetuned ways - and expression of significance - its both perceptuel and lived in the now - but also related to emotions, dreams, Imagination and much more - its woven deeply into the mystery of life - its our symphonies of life to whisper and stream what its all about - and yes it requires courage 🎶🙃🌷❤️

[@pamelatudor8708]

Thank you for this! It really hits home!

[@Amateur_Hour_Pod]

Thanks for this video Florent, I always leave your channel feeling a renewed inspiration 🙏

[@melodyhawtin6476]

Thank You so much Florent…. What an Art Father you are ’ … You have a wonderful gift in your art and in your gift of communication….. Have you studied Turner? He was a gifted teacher like yourself.. God bless.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thanks, I am honored of the comparison. I didn't study him as a teacher but I love his paintings.

[@frednitchie7499]

I love these insights into the why’s of things. I can barely get paint onto paper as I just started, I’ve just gotten back into things, drawing etc., after 30:years away from it and even then don’t really know what I’m doing. The only standard I hold myself to is to see progress in everything I do. These insights make it all the easier. Thank you for them.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

That's a great standard 👍🎨

[@andriusbalukas207]

Beautiful. Thanks for reminding me.

[@bumblebeeamos5584]

Great words of wisdom... 🙏🏿 Keep up the positive vibes as you always do 👍🏿

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Will do 🙏😊

[@Otacon_]

This is beautiful.

[@artisticdoodoo6519]

GREAT VID... AS USUAL. THANKS. ALL THE BEST

[@rainerburmeister5758]

Thanks for another great video!

[@gilbosh1]

This was beautiful. thank you.

[@fhaquuu]

I’m a guitar player. I can play for hours and there is usually a small timeframe that I’m truly creative and in the zone. I want to paint. I need to express something (don’t know what yet) but I’m afraid how long I’ll need to be in that place mentally to be meaningful. I use psilocybin and it’s going to be part of the process. Thank you

[@elizabethvhwong]

Your message is so inspiring . Thank you.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thanks, happy to inspire ✨

[@ladyx9630]

Omg.. Just needed this!! You are AMAZING!!! Thank you so much!!!!! 😭♥️

[@mads_]

Beautiful and inspiring work, as always 🖤

[@jacobniivanderpuye7869]

This was most helpful. Thank you. As artist I feel this might help me grow.

[@christelalcalaart]

Je me dirais à moi-même : c'est parfois une succession d'échecs qui donne naissance à une grande réussite. C'est une phrase de Van Gogh qui me parle tellement... Merci Florent pour ta générosité et ton humanité qui m'apporte un grand soutien dans ma volonté de devenir artiste.

[@forgottenfurbabies3315]

Have you painted any self portraits? You have amazing eyes that should be painted. Love your videos and paintings. You have inspired me to take up oil painting again as well. I haven’t painted in years but I truly love painting with oils!

[@NK-pb3ti]

I feel like you recorded this video for me personally, right down to the name. 😭 Thank you, you have no idea how badly I need to hear all of this right now. 💚

[@dreamingghost306]

Ma chaîne KZbin préférée

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Merci beaucoup 😄 🙏

[@jaceklazuka]

Well Done, Good Sir.

[@anitago]

Great video, very much needed 💚

[@ronntelli6240]

your videos are so inspiring

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thank you so much ☺ 🙏

[@katygutierrez9492]

Wow!!!! Thank you!!!

[@JCarrera_ll]

👏 amazing

[@raygyanyumnam9002]

And yet again another helpful video Seriously you need to write a book

[@andreasmith2673]

Wonderful!!

[@lovelyuntitled9502]

We as artists with depth feel eachother

[@grendizer6139]

Wonderful video thatnk you

[@silviach6407]

Exactly, realistic paintings are hard. It gave me a solid headache that I had to repaint a simple white rose six times, a tulip four times, and it is still impossible for me to copy a baroque leaf from Rachel Ruysch. She was a master, Im a beginner...all is well.

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

Just look down at comments....this heart touching video...gave birth to so many poets in us😅☺️😉🎈

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Indeed, inspiring ✨🙏

[@cynthiamarston2208]

Yesterday I was going to do ink on a new paper. I shook the bottle and then decided to shake it longer because I wanted everything to be “perfect” on this new paper. The cap came off and ink flew all over! I was so shocked and i was in a hurry to get it up before stains and the nib handle was next and rinsing it in the sink I stabbed my finger and bled. Inertia! This kind of thing happens rather regularly you know? But when it comes to doing something important to you. When it’s important to do well. Im not too emotional about cooking. But art I start out with a strong desire to be better or do a really great one. Even if I know its practice I start out on an emotional level. I did a straight charcoal instead yesterday. No ink again today. Kinda like getting burned! Avoid that thing. Ha ha. It will do ME well to remember this idea of inertia and that its not a thing that happens only to me and that its not “out to get me”…..which was exactly the first thought I had. Oh my. That would be a persecution complex! No, Cynthia….this happens all the time in all different aspects….getting a piece of lint in my eye after applying the perfect eyemake up and tearing up and rubbing to clear it is not happening to test my patience determination and resolve….it just happens! ill be re watching this video. Its a little deep for me. I started a list of 5 but kinda couldnt get past number one which was “likeness” and with energy and emotion….drama….Thanks for this because I I often struggle with …..is creating art worthwhile! When you say it takes courage that really turns the light up!! I am courageous. Get used to the mountain ahead because what you said is so true….a different or more mountain always appears

[@melissamelissa2603]

I’m trying to learn about ventilation because it’s hard to paint in the area I’m in because of the strong terpentine smell. I use odorless mineral spirits but I’m very sensitive to the smells that are there. It’s something that makes me feel very sick. Do you have any videos for setting up a work area out of doors?

[@levelsbeatbox8975]

I came here for painting tips, and left with a life lesson.

[@maggs131]

What if the thing I like drawing and painting most is something nobody cares about or wants to see?

[@bgastein]

Thank you

[@miminyc8093]

Thank you!

[@manicangel7796]

Yes. You said it: "I've practiced a lot. Some of it was useful and some of it was just a waste of time." Sighs. I'm not inherently talented. I was not the 6 yr old child with crayons always in my hand which went on to the tween who constantly doodled on her notebooks. I'm just a person with a lot of emotion and strong desires who cannot seem to grasp the point of painting a freakin still-life onion.... I just want to paint. I just want to let go. But I can't. And it's dumb. I need to just lay it out on the canvasses and when it doesn't work for me, toss it and move onto the next one. I hate getting lost in theory and light and shadow and values and hues and AHHH. Yeah, I totally feel for the person whom sent the email. I want to scream but cannot. Much Respect if anyone read this to the end.

[@bryanmartin9420]

Thanks

[@tymer9]

Thankyou

[@DavidAngelo1]

Yes man, I stopped painting two years ago, and now I am afraid to enter my studio, I feel like there is a ghost or something that scares me.. When I decide to start painting I feel sleepy. I fall asleep. I don't know What should I do to avoid this hurdle?

[@wolfgangtoeglhofer1710]

encouraging

[@stephent2700]

Florent, great content. Your videos are getting quite cinematic. Be careful you do not turn into a filmmaker!

[@willmostert857]

I wish I have the courage to paint the colors I see. I'm color blind. Just maybe my paintings will be unique.

[@jaquiholdsworth6881]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@AA-69]

AT LAST A CURE FOR INSOMNIA !!!