No formula for making art. Lewis Noble working with charcoal & collage

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In this one I'm working on a collage from some compressed charcoal drawings made outside.
I don't stick to any hard rules when taking these back to the studio to work on, preferring to take each one as it comes and do only what that particular drawing needs.
This way I don't have any pre conceived idea of what I think I should have, I work with what I've got and the visual ideas are fresher.
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Working with mixed media using a variety of different paints. I work rapidly but build up the paintings in layers to make sketches that can be referenced in studio paintings.
Lewis Noble has lived and worked in Derbyshire since 1996. His focus lies in the physical and emotional impact of the landscape on the senses and the effect this experience has on us.
His paintings are not snapshots or photographic frozen moments but through repeated layering and eroding of the painted surface, they contain all of the time it takes to make them.
The result is a body of work that speaks to the heart of what it means to be part of the environment.
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[@kennaeg9229]

IT'S WONDERFUL HOW THIS PIECE CAME ALIVE IN BLACK AND WHITE ! BY CROPPING IT, THE PIECE SEEM TO DICTATE ITSELF! OF COURSE, IT TAKES A KEEN EYE TO SEE IT AND QUICK MARKS TO MAKE IT MOVE🙄 LOVE YOUR WORK AND THANKS FOR SHARING!

[@emmanuelpower2439]

Very helpful and interesting thought processes. Thank you😊

[@John-rb3yv]

Always makes me want to paint or rip and tear and glue!!

[@lauracoelhodesigns]

Gorgeous marks! Love them! So inspiring! 💜

[@dario1965]

These are excellent drawings! What you explain here is very important, the ambiguity between positive and negative space can not be overstated.

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Thanks!

[@brandybobo2980]

Love it, Thank You for taking the time to share your art & advice about it with us.

[@LewisNobleArtist]

You are welcome!

[@imnedmonton]

I see a playful intelligence. Oddly satisfying and inspiring. Thank you. Stay safe, sir. ♥♥♥

[@joanodea4183]

Joan A great video love your definitions, and reasons thank you

[@NadEllis]

King of mark making...luv it all Lewis...Thanks

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Too kind, thanks!

[@OrtoInScatola]

The large piece of paper is also another analogy with having more megapixels in a camera. The more you have the larger you can photograph and still crop as much as you want in post to create the right composition once back in the studio

[@MixedMediaArtByTrina]

Love your mark making! You have inspired me to start making collages again. Thanks! 🤩

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Thanks!

[@jacqueevelyn6411]

I like how you talk through what your thinking and how you make your decisions it helps to understand a process that I couldn't quiet get Thanks :)

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Excellent, pleased to hear it!

[@annearrowsmith3556]

Thanks Lewis. Really interesting and inspiring video.

[@carolejones6484]

This is gorgeous - its great to get a glimpse of your process

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Thanks for watching!

[@AquaLumenStudio]

Fantastic idea to put the best parts in a sketch book... love your work 🎉🙏💙

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Thanks!

[@leilaskye8143]

I'm beginning to understand why and how to respond to my environment. Very informative video Lewis. Thank you

[@LewisNobleArtist]

My pleasure!

[@lefthandstory1280]

Beautifullll...love it ,great job.👌👍...

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Thank you!

[@creativesolutions902]

Nice gentle feelings of freedom, helping me see where I’ve Been restricting myself. :-) Thank you

[@LewisNobleArtist]

You're welcome!

[@johnjack5417]

beautiful black and white

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Thanks!

[@bronwynlowe5230]

Another great explanation of cropping to make a far more interesting piece of work. Thanks again Lewis. Bron

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Thanks Bron!

[@susanvanduijkeren200]

Thanks for shearing the nice drawings!

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Glad you like them!

[@abstractpaintingwithmattha9262]

Thank you!!!

[@LewisNobleArtist]

You're welcome!

[@elizabethbouvret3250]

Excellent ☺️👍🏾

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Thank you! Did you get my email regarding your delivery?

[@sherylwhite2201]

Nice little work. I wanted the top crop to be just a bit lower. I was calling out at the tv to tell you but you didn’t take any notice 😆 But the result was good, and it didn’t need collage.

[@LewisNobleArtist]

I have an idea about this so keep your eyes on the channel...

[@sharonmaxwell6350]

Just a quick question Lewis if you have a spare moment. What's your take on prepping one's water colour/cartridge paper before heading out on a drawing/painting exercise with graphite, charcoals, acrylics and pencils? I know some artists I follow on KZbin always gesso up but without explaining why. Are there any pros to prepping your paper this way or is the end result better without it for some reason? Kia ora!

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Priming will make the paper less absorbent and help it to take some punishment. I would only do this on heavy paper like watercolour or it'll crinkle up and be annoying to work on. I don't prime cartridge paper, I find it takes the paint well. You can get paper in pads for mixed media work too which is good. I have primed water colour paper before if I'm going to use it for finished work but I'm not using it at the moment. Thanks for watching!

[@sumacstudio]

What type of paper do you use for your painted and compressed charcoal sketches?

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Hi, watch this one, same paper kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_WiKGuls98Y6M

[@imnedmonton]

Thanks for the video. How does one stop oneself from falling in love with one's own mark? Stay safe.

[@LewisNobleArtist]

Good question! Just do lots of it and then each piece feels less precious.

[@imnedmonton]

@@LewisNobleArtist Thank you. That makes perfect sense. Stay safe, sir. ♥

[@nicoleboudreau7680]

What spray do you put on your charcoal painting

[@LewisNobleArtist]

I don't.

[@j.watson9060]

Charcoal is notorious for smudging, do you fix your work in some way or just leave it as is?

[@LewisNobleArtist]

I usually don't as I keep them in a book.

[@j.watson9060]

@@LewisNobleArtist thanks Lewis

[@JoJoAcrylicArtwork]

Thank you for sharing! I always found some rapid sketches helped my creative juices flow, I loved my art teacher for showing me it as a habit. I don't do it often enough, you've reminded me how much it helps though, thank you! @trinityjmg

[@Kyriehubbard]

Loved the 3rd one. I'd hang it on my walls. These may be your warm up, but I love this type of art actually. Just a little advice about the videos, try to watch the um and uh. Its quite distracting because they're at almost every other word.

[@boweryboy07]

Not cool to criticize how someone speaks. That's not advice.

[@Kyriehubbard]

@@boweryboy07 It is advice. Friendly advice at that. I'm a teacher and if I said "um" after every word, it would be a very difficult and boring lecture every time.