What I enjoy about watching you Gaynor is that you push an idea further and further. The repetition of the geranium painting produced lots of interesting ideas for you. I am so pleased that you discovered the delights of contouring with a paintbrush! There are no right or wrong ways to start a painting are there? Have a great week - after watching you, I am now psyched up to do a bit of painting. X

Hello Gaynor, I want to thank you properly for the joy and enthusiasm you bring to all of us...for art and for life! It is a weekly reminder that it is truly the simple things that bring so much richness and interest to our lives. The little things really are the big things! The terracotta pots are one of my favorites. -your friend across the pond, S.❤

Thank you Gaynor for brightening up my day with loads of inspiration to absorb, each Thursday is eagerly looked forward to.

There is no such thing as being bored watching you work!

And there it was, the pot of geraniums I’ve been working on this past week. How did you know? Your idea of taking mono prints and pressing them back into the painting is just what I needed as mine looked too blobby. Thank you once again for such great inspiration, we never leave your videos without lots to think about. Edit. By the way, the real leaves are lovely to use for printing. I spread paint in a bit of thin sponge, press the leaf in and then press on the paper

No "aha"s in the last week! Just a lot of rest. Hoping to get back to it this week, though I may have to find an option for working that doesn't put me on my feet - recovering from an osteoarthritis flare. Still, I'm not going to let this stop me for long.

Wonderful watching you free flow with a paint brush and you were really feeling it. It was an aha moment because you don't usually approach your paintings that way. You will never forget how geraniums (not even in flower) set you on a new course. Loving the joy you bring to art every week. Thanks, Jo😊

Haha! I too, have the two color shapers still in the packaging! I've been procrastinating to open them, but now, after watching you have fun with them, I will break them out of the packaging! Thanks, Gaynor!😉

❤ from Arizona 🎨🎉 Another great session, thank you. 🙏🏼 Definitely a go to place environment when the world is misbehaving 😂 Thanks again for your diplomacy in art creation. 💖

Ooo good morning Gaynor, just having my morning coffee, and there you are, a treat with my breakfast. I know I'm going to enjoy your video ........Alioban ❤ ps potted up my geraniums yesterday 😊

You are a wonderful teacher Gaynor, just by doing. You give me energy and inspiration and courage to make marks and have a go. I’m often pleasantly surprised by what appears in front of me on paper or canvas. Many thanks for your bright cheerful and fun weekly videos.

You are the most explorative painter out there, Gaynor. I always feel enthused by what you share. I have not invested in colour shapers, thinking 'oh, this old spatula will do fine and the credit card works well'. Seeing you use them and saying that they clean up well, has me sold - I need these. Loving the faithful old geraniums. I'm remembering the cyclamen? you painted which felt overwhelming. They are a tribal plan, all crowded in a mob, no room to breath. Faithful geraniums seem to love living on paper/canvas. Your style showed them in a modern take on something old and comfortable. Thanks again for a lovely visit.

Comment #2 I had an AHA moment thinking of all your videos and how you start with a drawing. I always dread the drawing start of a painting because my drawing is so bad and much practice is avoided but needed. However, you make the drawing start quick, loose and free and what are you actually doing you are honing your drawing skill everyday. So, I’m on a mission now to improve my drawing by doing what you do everyday. THANK YOU!

Gaynor, thanks again for your enthusiasm and inspiration! So look forward to your posts.

Good morning. I really like playing with my silicone scrapers and actually like them better than the credit card. I’ve found I use the 3” and 1 1/2” the most. I like the lines I can “cut” in through thick paint, so do give a try only using the thin edge or the corner. I like the geraniums and look forward to you exploring and experimenting more. I must say there are many descriptive words we could use for your art but boring would never be one of them! We all enjoy anything you share. 😁 Wishing you a happy week. TFS

Your geraniums potted up with such love and artworked after that beautiful artwork i love them Gaynor ❤thanks for sharing your beautiful artwork ❤

As always, thank you Gaynor, I find your videos so inspirational. Can’t wait to get painting!

You are always joy to watch! I will give" drawing with paint" a try. The geranium paintings are terrific!

Hello Gaynor..wonderful Geraniums!My favourite summer plant,they take care of themselves apart from a little dead heading!They remind me of Greece,where you see them growing out of every vessel imaginable from painted olive oil cans to lovely terracotta urns!❤My Sister,before she passed away used to paint Geraniums,so it’s lovely to see you painting them!You really have a lovely style and capturing them wonderfully and even though it’s early stages yet..I know your end result will be perfect!!Will you be adding flowers,I wonder?The ivy leafed geraniums look lovely in hanging baskets or trailing down walls..would be lovely to see where you display yours!Thanks so much for sharing and have a fab week!❤

Morning!,, getting my coffee and seen your wonderful video , that a good day!, take care and thanks for all the good information

Love what you are doing with the geraniums! Looking forward to seeing where/how they evolve! M xx

Thank-you Gaynor! What fun!! ❤

Great video Gaynor. I love 'going for it' with paint straight away... sometimes as a quick underpainting to place things, then splash/scrape/print it on!! Doing a big garden tub of tulips at the moment 😅

Wonderful as always! Thanks for adding such fun and inspiration to my Thursday mornings!

I really loved watching you and being there for your 'aha' moment in real life, but I got a really good kick watching it online too 😍 Thank you, as ever, for the lovely, interdisciplinary advice about creativity. Look forward to seeing develops in the studio next week. 💚

I look at your studio and I think, what a beautiful abstract painting. The colors, shapes, textures and white negative spaces are just so lovely. "Get yourself a side line" is a great quote and very good advice. Your clay jars are a good example and show how valuable it is to have a subject to jump to when creativity is flowing. Love the geraniums even without blooms❤

Lovely session in the studio with you and the geraniums. Loved the blue accent next to that fabulous flower pot.

Love the Geranium paintings 😊 such fun watching! My Aha! moment has been painting a sky with 100s & 100s of dots....... it's fab.

You are lovely and so generous and inspiring. Thank you. 🌸🌸🌸

Thanks for the inspiration. I always sketch with my paint brush. Drawing with pen or pencil seems so laborious to me.

Loving the Geraniums Gaynor! I have been on an eco printing workshop today and used some perennial Geranium leaves. Great fun! ❤

Hello Gaynor. I loved the terracotta pots you painted, as much as the actual geraniums themselves. I look forward to seeing how they develop. Note to self, get my silicon colour shapers out and use them. Like you I have hardly touched them since I bought them. You were obviously impressed. Have a lovely week. 💐

Hello Gaynor, more inspirational ideas, love your geraniums, fabulous, xx

Those paint Shapers are a blast to paint 🖌️with. And of course cutting up (or cropping) my art is always so satisfying 😅 Thanks Gaynor for another art filled video ✨✌️

Hi Gaynor, loved seeing the trailing geranium paintings! Your creative spirit and flow are contagious and so inspirational. Have a great weekend and week ahead.

I love colour shapers. Try a sort of dry brush, when you're pulling it and nearly out of paint, it starts to drag and you can get a kind of draggy bubble effect.

Whether I get inspired or not is not the point; I just really enjoy watching you work.

Absolutely love all the color filling your studio, I love your work!

This is so good, wonderful video, stayed till the end ☺☺

Dear Gaynor, your channel is the best, so very inspiring and full of life, as many others have already mentioned as well. It's so true!! You've also inspired me to make my own frames and I have been looking for the video where you show them (the one where Craig didn't want to be in 😊) but I can't seem to find it. If you (or anyone else reading this) happen(s) to know which one I mean, I'd be so happy to find out. Lots and lots of creative sparkles to everyone 🎉

Love your process, your thinking behind each piece, that you explain as you go. also the geraniums are beautiful!

One viewer wrote that they love your taking a subject and experimenting with it in so many ways-thoroughly agree you delight us with those journeys. You are such an inspiration! The geraniums you drew with paint showed us the power of your observation. You found the glooby leaves and those delicate curly edges so quickly and it just screams, “ I am a geranium!” The taking off with paper and printing on with paint on a paper captured the terra cotta texture so beautifully! “What fun,” you said so often throughout this video and that is sometimes what we start missing with our paintings when we get so serious, thinking every painting has to be a masterpiece! One of the many little ‘joys’ you painted could turn out to be a masterpiece❤️

I love love love the geraniums! I feel they are a star in their right without the flowers. Onwards and upwards Gaynor.

I love the way you crack yourself up! I got some posta pens for my birthday so I will experiment with those, but now I want to draw with paint. Thanks for your aha moment!

Well, that was fun! I could watch you on Thursday mornings for an hour (hint, hint!). It's the first thing I do once I've poured my coffee. I recently got that same set of silicone spreaders and find them a really fun tool. And so easy to clean! Thanks, Gaynor. Have a great week. Paula

Always so inspiring! Tfs 🪴

Sooo good watching this, your aha moment - can’t wait to have a go!

Always a pleasure gaynor ....had an aha moment myself with drippy art this last week lol and it turned into something i love ....loved the wood frame with the pot painting ❤ have the best weekend

Love those geraniums in the terracotta pots. You are always inspirational for us viewers so a huge THANKYOU. .❤

Starting my early morning with you and coffee! Beautiful fun

Amazing that I have never tried drawing with paint. You have encouraged me to try. I'll be brave 😊

Inspiring as always and with such energy. Thank you Gaynor.

I don’t know I’ve missed this video! So I got a new video here in August! I so loved watching this with the geraniums!

I love your work, your enthusiasm is so infectious I want to go to my garden art room and paint. I love how you float from subject to subject whether it's making scones, walking the dog or planting up plants you are a joy to watch!

Thanks for sharing!

OH my favorite Summer flower. I can't wait to pot some up but here in Ohio we just had a freeze & frost warning last night. I spotted some of the silicone brushes at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago & on my next trip I intend to pick them up. Great idea of cropping up the daylilly painting. What a great frame for the vessels. See you next week!!!!

Lovely as always 😊🥰

Congratulations on 6K subscribers!! And thank you, Gaynor! I am a recent subscriber and have just finished watching all of your videos. You have an easygoing warm manner that is encouraging and you have inspired me to "give it a go" by asking myself a lot of, "What ifs?" What if I add black? What if I scrape this paint off? And now, what if I use a paint spreader? 😃

Aha!! It’s Thursday morning…….my Gaynor fix!! And, yes…..I’m trying some free and expressive portraits this week……pure joy

And again when the plants bloom... Ann😊

Lovely to watch you Gaynor with your geranium inspiration. So motivating which I need & will watch this process again. The color is just great, very Matisse! Wishing you much success. Where can we buy your work? God bless you fellow artist! ❣️

Awsome fun

I really enjoy how your brain works. You are so creative. What kind of paper do you use because they really hold-up to your creative process.

I also use silicone pot scrapers from the kitchen store

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More paint! I thought you would do what I have seen you do before and rescue the phthalo green leaves with a whole covering of a cool lemon yellow . . .do you think it would work?

How did you find your texture wallpaper? So fun when you add the wallpaper to your paintings.

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Hello! Hey what kind of paper do you paint on? I primarily do watercolor so I am curious what you like to use for the heavier paints. Thank you!