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Thank you so much for all that you have taught me. I hope you find what you are looking for. Take care, until we hear from you again (I hope).

Inspirational

This is so interesting. Please could you do the same demo in greys.

All art instructors need to go thru your courses. Hats off to you!

Always learning something new from you! You articulate simply and concisely your process. Digestible and memorable techniques that have strengthened my starting approach to writing mage making. Thank you.

I wish you did watercolours , you are so amazing at breaking things down this blew me away!!

I bought some gold leaf (the fake stuff) to add gold to my paintings. I like the paintings of Christ and the Saints in which they all have halos, and everything is lit up with gold leaf. Sometimes I forget that I'm painting, and I meditate or pray. I don't believe I can instill my paintings with miraculous powers. But I do like to think about the likelihood of miracles as I paint. I haven't yet applied the gold leaf, but I have drawn a design of a Nativity scene, and I'm hoping to send copies to family and friends as a Christmas card this year. Anyway, leaving my fears of having poor technique behind, it is sometimes nice to be quiet and to pray about things as I work. Thanks for the video. It just got me thinking.

I spent three days on a painting I thought was going very well. I was so excited about it, thrilled I was finally getting values down. Yesterday, it started to go in a direction I wasn't thrilled with, turned it upside down, started repainting something totally different, which got my spirit excited again. Today, that started to fall apart, and I covered it yet again. Its an experience many know. I felt like I went through an exciting, yet exhausting, journey. Ups, downs, insightful breakthrough, then hit problems I don't have solutions for yet. I believe this is so good for all kinds of growth. Its okay when things are not working so you work around and try some other approach. I appreciate what you shared, it was so confirming. I have grown as a human being through each painting I attempt. Lessons about life, loving and God. What a great opportunity to experience, try out , some problem solving strategies My brain is mapping new connections. That, regardless of the quality of my work, or my ability to sell my work, or whether I get regonized for it, is priceless gift enough! I am an art warrior. Such a intensely personal topic that I don't think enough people really embrace. I have chronic pain I have to work through also. My hands don't work the way I want them to and it's frustrating, but the act itself of creating is an overcoming and a victory to my soul. Thank- you for being an inspiration!

Amazing

Great video!

This came at a right time. Thank you ❤

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This is also why AI "art" would never replace real and human art.

좋은 작품 소개 영상 잘보았습니다. 감사합니다 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks Ian. It is indeed a worthwhile exercise to break away from what we see as 'normal'. I learned a lot following your thought process and suggestions. Barry

Fabulous info....thank you so much..👍👍💫💫💫

great video, very informative, straight and to the point, thank you ian

Very helpful and clear without going overboard. this demo was also a great lesson in maintaining a looseness.

Thankyou, that was brilliant.

I really get the mysticism part, and, as you said, “seeing the whole.” Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)

So true. It's that inner connection expressed in our outer world that contributes to the beauty of life. Whether it's via art, music gardening, literature etc, or simply just being.

Hi Ian, I've Liked (👍) every video I've watched by you and learned a metric ton from them (MANY thanks, btw!!), but at 1:30, I politely disagree about the Age of Reason. I adore the Enlightenment for taking some giant steps out of the muck of superstition and oppression of the past. If I was forced to choose only one, I will happily give up mysticism every time in favor of the Enlightenment (since it gives me a much better chance at an existence in which I have the freedom to shape my own life rather than having it strictly controlled by the nobility and/or religious factions as I toil away in some form of widespread poverty). And lest you think I disagree just to be disagreeable, I look forward to your next video as always! 🙂

Hi Ian! Beautiful message. I agree with nearly everything you state here. But, the left brain, right brain thinking seems of the same world right, wrong, this, that, etc. that you are speaking against having. I think we need to use our whole brain. Cheers-Greg

love this perspective thanks

I think leaving that little piece of light under the hedges would have maybe made it more interesting.

An Artist passed by three men in a quarry. He asked The first “what are you doing“ he replied, I’m cutting stones to use for building. He asked the second “What are you doing” and received a reply “I am cutting stones to build a great cathedral that will be built here”. He asked the same of the third, who replied.“I am bringing people closer to God“. Is this what we might be doing as artists?

Oof

this is a wonderful demo, thank you so much!

I am new to your videos and having just watched four of them, I can say that the way you explain and demonstrate your point has been most helpful to me. Your message is concise and to the point. I wish you the best and hope that you find what you are looking for. Thank you!

WOW! Thank you, I needed that.

Love this Ian, what an encouragement to continue articulating the culture in which we exist. Not so much about is what I produce good or not good, but it is. It is me.

This is fascinating. Thank you for sharing.

Great point you made about the left and right brain way of thinking! When I paint I use my spirit way of thinking often to help me make a great painting, and it works great for me!

Art is my way of slipping into the timelessness of eternity.

Thank you for a fascinating video, everything you said makes sense. Have a great day.

You are the best! The way you teach how to paint is amazing.

Wonderful ! I only don’t have knowledge about the lighter green . Mixed with yellow or is it a tube color ? Thanks for sharing your knowledge .

1) clear foundation 2) purposeful practice 3) challenge yourself; the struggle is good 4) face the resistance 5) helpful feedback/ self- evaluation ( thick skin)

You have answered my questions on tone and hue that art teachers have not been able to answer for me. They just gave me a puzzled look as though I were talking incoherently. Thank you so much for not only answering but beautifully demonstrating.

a grain of sand, a smear of mud, a drop of water. if you have eyes to see. i worked at an auto plant many years ago. attaching fenders, placing batteries, and screwing door knobs. the sacred is in the viewer not the object viewed. it's how our minds file, sort, and enumerate that some put in the sacred place. if you put an unwanted baby in a crib and only feed it when necessary, the baby will not develop a sacred. sacred is a place for the "feels". maybe an isolated tribe of hunter-gatherers in S.A. that has no concept of sacred has developed a mind where every thought thing is stored as part of the whole.

This reminder of how we can, as human beings, allow ourselves to envision our sense of being differently than through conflict, war and avarice, is timely and necessary. Thank you Ian, you are definitely contributing to greater wisdom. I hope your own journey is going fulfilling.

Thank you for this.

Very cool change of perspective from the technical to the spiritual. I don’t make art because I can but because I must to remain whole and healthy. I’m not an artist because I paint, I paint because I’m an artist. Art is my spiritual practice.

Ian, are you a freemason? In this episode you sound a lot like a Bro :) I joined freemasonry (partly) because of my interest in golden mean and sacred geometry. As an oil painter i have learned many things from masonry, which resonate philosophically with the practice of painting :) Thank you for this episode, pure chocolate for brain - a very good start for a day in studio :)

cher Ian, vos cours sont d une tres grande qualité, depuis que je suis votre méthode mes résultats sont infiniment meilleurs merci

Just looked up sacred and the Google definition says holy or connected with God. So can't agree with your thoughts on this - the last thing I want is for art to be thought to be connected with something I don't believe in!

Wonderful! ❤️🙏

Thank you so for sharing your wisdom. I get it, and it's so refreshing to hear this, relating to resonance and our unique expression and experience of it in our lives. 😊