Carly, greetings from the Adirondack Mountains. Your video -- your grace, commentary and supportive throughts -- have already helped with forward motion in my own work for the day. Morning has has broken here on Lake Pleasant, and while the day will soon transform into the bustle of birds and forest sounds, the quiet sweetness of your encouragement has already perfumed the environs. Thank you.

This was so beautiful to watch and listen to! Thank you 🙏🏾 for a wonderful 11:30 min therapy session ! I‘m an artist who stopped creating for a while and stuck in grief… your words reminded me of the medicine that is our own art! 👁️💗👁️

Surely I am not the first to say how grateful we all are to have you back. Your thoughts during the video are spot on and very encouraging. There is no such thing as bad art, only a restricted perspective in which it is viewed.

Carly your thoughts you shared were very helpful and reassuring. Your paintings are beautiful and it’s only been about a year since you transitioned into oils. There’s a lot to unpack and think about from this video, so I’ll watch it & listen to it many times in the days & months ahead. Don’t ever underestimate the importance and power of you. And thank you for allowing me into your mind and studio. Stay well! 🫶

This is why I love watching your creative artwork videos, they're very very relaxing to me. Thank you 🤗

I knew a while ago you would be a great painter, and I was right it took you no time at all to learn .once an artist, always a artist .but never let your talent interfere with reality,family, and friends ❤.use art as a vacation from reality once in a while.love you, Carly Rene .been a fan for a while. Keep up the great talent.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤

You do not know how much you have touched my heart. I've refrained from artistry to pursue funding in painting houses and cars. I'm 59 and have been diagnosed with an extreme case of CPTSD. Therapy is several times a week. I'm grief stricken. I also have a 8ft tall 25ft long roll of canvas I bought 10 years ago & never opened. Guess you've touched my senses to make some painting canvas and put my Kaos on it

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and artistic abilities. Drawing your truth is difficult yet you do so with a beautiful expressing. Have a blessed day ❤

You are so wonderful. For many beautiful reasons.... Thank you for existing. And the inspiration.

So good to have you back Carly...Beautiful work - Beautiful ideas - Beautiful person. Bella Bella Bella

You are such an inspiration for me, an artist trying to create new techniques. Your attitude and advice is inspiring and I appreciate your way of sharing your experience and GREAT talent! 11:30

I loved being in art class, I always did abstract trippy stuff. I started doing it again, because I was given a second chance at life, and tried to figure out how to do portraits, so subscribed. You're awesome.

A brilliant video, so glad I found it, I'm hoping to return to art and find some relief through it to life changing circumstances which have put me in a dark and emotionally painful place. Thank you for the hope and positive inspiration.

Lovely work of an inspired artist.

Amazing Carly, you are wonderful!!🎨🎨🎨👏👏👏🌹

Amazing painting! 100% agree with your message. I’ve been doing art (painting , jewelry making and beadwork) for over 40 years and you are so right about what it does for you mentally.

This was meant for me to see! I have been laid off from work, funds are really low, bills keep coming in, and yes I’m definitely experiencing sadness at the moment, but seeing this only pushes me more to create art to express from my inner being. I have paint, canvasses, new paintbrushes that I haven’t even used yet. Instead of watching movies all day, and consuming I will create art. Thanks Carly😊

Wonderful work and thank you for your insights and advice

Thank you for this... your words ring so loud and so so true

You sure know how to brighten up a Monday morning! What a great way to enjoy a cup of tea. Welcome back! Every artist has to find a way to navigate the demands of their art versus the requirements of commerce and the need to make a living. I believe that this is the reason why so many avoid art -- it doesn't seem practical. "How can I pay for a car, food, a family, on what I can make painting or writing or..." (The motto of the Mystery Writers of America is "Crime doesn't pay -- enough!", meaning that it's really tough to live on what a mystery writer makes.) We all know enough artists to understand that the "starving artist" meme is based on real experience. Your own comments on KZfaq's algorithms and the need to satisfy the computer's expectations is a modern world manifestation of this ancient conflict. I truly hope you manage to resolve this problem in a way that results in you creating art regularly. The temptation to "go corporate"; get a job and drudge through it for 40 or 50 years before retiring, and THEN you can be the artist you wanted to be. I'm dubious. I don't know anyone for whom that has worked. But I have faith in you. You're smart and tough and talented and you'll figure something out. We all look forward to watching, hopefully, occasionally.

You are Amazing ... dome very beautifully....

Watching you work is a meditation 😊 Thank you 🙏🏼

Love the message in this. Wholeheartedly agree.

Excellent piece of art as always. I like how you are getting better and better in this medium art every day. Your growth in art has been phenomenal. As one of the first subscribers I do miss your charcoal and graphite work. I like the portion where you showcased your mentor's artwork that was a treat to watch. I like the thoughts shared by you in this video it's very positive and I completely agree with you 💯. Honestly I really liked your mentor's work so if there's a website where we can see more of his work or get our hands on few would be really awesome. You're blessed to have a mentor like him and he's blessed to have an exceptional student like you. Keep up the good work Carly and God bless you :D

Looks like a self portrait ❤

You are quite the artistic muse, my friend. I appreciate being reminded about those things I've forgotten about, over the years. Keep up the good work, Carly.

Art is a expression of your life what you want to create in your mind and imagination, that goes deep in your heart, and imagination ♥️. That goes way beyond reality.❤😊.but in your heart its the world that you want to create. Without sorrow or remorse. A world of your personality 😂❤.

W hat a great video, such a gift you have. Thanks

Thanks for the inspirational words. Always appreciate these videos.

You Rock. Love your insights on Art and your ideas about life and happiness

beautiful Carly

Such beautiful work love the colours

☺️🤗👍❤️💐. Wish you a Beautiful Day and Love 😇🙃. Love your Videos 🌸🌹

you really inspire me ❤ 11:30

Beautiful.

Always glad to see you. 😊

Wow 🤩 ❤

Omg 😮 what an amazing video!!! Makes me feel so uplifted and ready to create!!!

Un délicieux merci and big love from Québec 💜

Love it

Wowwww, that piece is so stirring so gotta luv your skills which are top!

Your insights are really thought provoking, indeed art is in us all. This certainly gives me the momentum I currently needed to continue with my -very humble- work on portraits. Thank you!

You are simply great!!!

woooo oowww 😍😍😍😍😍 goood workkk derr.r.r.r.rr..r.r.r 😘😘

Carly, I'm shocked to hear you have problems with sadness and suffering, that comes as a surprise!

great work great vibe

Waw ,beautiful

It is a big achieviment in your live I believe, you start to use another tools to make your artwork,I am really elared to see your another vídeos with these breathtaking masterpieces that you are making...Congratulations.

Amazing work

very beautiful

Magnífica pintura, muy bella.

Beautiful words Carly

You're simply amazing 😍

fantastic

Wow, just found you this past weekend; You're amazing great videos, am hooked ! I've used to do calligraphy was the closest coming to doing art, Along time time ago

Niña genial Artista ❤

Thank you

Hello, Carly I found your outlook interesting about artist. You have a telnet very beautiful painting. I'm self taught still learning my craft & style you did strike a nerve within me. I've been in battling spiritually with my art. I've been a stranger in a strange world. Thank you for your insightful thoughts. Have a blessed journey. You did touch my heart being a artist myself.

Your videos are meditative. Beautiful and motivating video ❤❤

Wow 👍🥰😍👏

Hey the mirror in the studio and reflections of the studio and outside would make an interesting motif to look at.😊 Nice work

Hiiiiiii 🙂😊 miss ya..! I have alot of talk.. but I'll see the paint.. how are ya, and your dog/ wolf?! After i see this painting: waaaaw it's more beautiful!!!! Maybe because she look down/her eyes,, great Great 💯

Merci du partage! Stéph.

انت مبدعة ببث روح الجمال لتقليص مساحة القبح والبشاعة في هذا العالم. شكرا لانامل تلك الأيدي ❤

Thank you❤

It's amanzing sensibilidad and work Divine, succes .... girl.

Being an #ARTIST is a fundamentally and deeply FEELINGSey thing indeed! It's why the tagline I take with regard to it is "express thy*SELF*"!

champion of humanity

You need to find your comfort zone in oil painting. It takes a lot of patience and learning, and practice, and many mistakes WHEN you Transform from Charcoal to oil, there is a huge difference You are a talented artist don't over due yourself considerate on what you already know and expand on it ❤

Well said ur words

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Thank you for your words that ring so true and inspired me to better understand my own pain and how i remedy it through my crafts,I see a-lot of spirituality in your work that connects you to your ancestral ways and the way you channel it into your CRAFT you truly are a sister of the moonlight and your paintings are your sisters your old soul misses, bee well JAY 🌠MAGIC HAPPENS🌠)O(

Dear Carly, it's wonderful! Could you tell please if you fix the canvas on the wall or is it a different ground? Thanks!

A world of are fantasy, that makes US HAPPY .😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊😊😊.

Saw an older video 8 months ago burning my oil paintings. If oil is to hard then use acrylic much more easy.and when painting is done use clear gloss to make it look like oil.oil painting is hard were not all Bob Ross.

Guay,Guay…❤❤❤.

Pleasant n calmness in mind is what s seen in you n yours. N damn your a grt artist, I wish myself as a 10 second cartoonist , 📌😎I enjoy your minds eye of vision in voice n shades of tint which brings us n yourself pleasure in Time of these the artist Den or Clutch of Companions you believe upon ,Thanks for you

Hello Carly; what an inspiratonal piece of art! Can I ask, if you transferred a sketch of the main character, before or after the toning of the canvas?

What do you do, launder your cloths in Gamsol? 😅

learning to develop skills in shade and depth and form is the initial struggle finding a context to subject within the composition is the greater challenge - do you agree?

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Your beatiful women

You are very beautiful, why don't you paint a self-portrait?

si paling nyeni

I love your channel ❤️ I absolutely love your paintings and would like to acquire one........ I find you to be very beautiful and sweet and nice 🙂 and I love the way you dress.... I like the pants and your taste..... Perhaps we should talk about it 🌹🌼💙🙏✌️🌩️🌩️🌩️

Porque pintas solo a mujeres ?

As long as we depend on our physical nature to feel good not drugs.Wonder why some artist need drugs to create?

this is not art this is speculation fartings,

The quote you shared is awful advice. Surely you are important. Not only your creations.

Thank you