Brush mileage is exactly what I need to get over my paralyzing hesitancy with watercolor. Thank you for sharing!

Such beautiful loose studies! 💚🤎🩵

Thank you Sarah for this inspiring video. I have watched it several times before and constantly need reminding that there is no shortcut to improving my art. As a runner I am familiar with the concept of getting the mileage in and having learnt a musical instrument the importance of practise! Why should painting be any different? Great that you find ways of enjoying the process. I have made a notebook to log my brush mileage and ideas so there's no excuse!!😄

Love your clouds in the last one.

Good to hear all of this! I’m just relearning my process after leaving artwork many years ago. Returning to it is a whole new process and I am needing to relearn many things. I really appreciate your input!

Great video, I loved how you did the sheep!

I love your loose watercolours. Always fascinated by John Singer Sargent's loose, yet so accurate watercolours.

I love seeing the imperfect edges in your sketchbook... I always have a fear of messing up a beautiful new sketchbook, so much so that I don't use it. Totally counter productive. I am going to have to remember to give myself permission to play. Thank you again for sharing your journey!

Wonderful your painting. Lovely

Painting from memory is totally a skill I need to work on. So cool to see you working here on these sketches! I really loved your skies here.

Brush mileage…love this idea! Thank you!

Love the loose stuff.... Also so inspiring to hear about your painting journey. I am a self-taught hobbiest painter so always curious to know how others learn and progress.

Your paintings are so pretty!

So goooooood!!!! Thank you!!!!

Thank you. 😊🥰

Sarah, just love that term, ‘brush mileage.’. Now I have learnt another way of viewing the process of painting and how you learn to ‘own’ your own process. Through constantly doing that technique over and over. So blessed by this video!

Thank you for this very constructive lesson. Brush mileage! Not everything has to be perfect. I teach my students this but forgot it myself. Thank you!

I enjoyed watching your loose, confident brush strokes. Thanks for sharing!

I really enjoy your channel! Beautiful countryside, and it is clear you love it, and love painting it! Learning gestural is what I am looking forward to.

I love your expressive landscapes! Seeing others’ artwork inspires me, as well as listening to music that paints a picture in its own way. Photos are also very inspiring, especially if you can’t be somewhere. I do have the fear of messing up/wasting supplies sometimes, but I logically know that I learn something from each piece and it’s therefore never a waste.

Thank you for another thought provoking video. I NEEDED this tonight. I'm struggling to make my brush and paint to what I see in my mind... but it does boil down to brush mileage. I just need to keep at it. Great video!

This is just great. I recently read that beginning artists need to repeat things over and over. And here is a professional artist doing the same thing. I guess not for nothing the refrain: practice makes perfect! Thank you so much.

you are living my dream life hahah living in Scotland and painting its beautiful landscapes - what can be more perfect... You're an amazing landscape artist!

Hi Sarah..im a huge fan of your artwork.. I am keen to follow your lead and create my own palette but I don't want to just copy yours. As I live in Australia, our colours in nature are quite different to yours ( for eg, our greens are more ochre, our skies are a different blue and our water is more aqua and bright) So I was wondering if you might ever consider doing a video explaining or teaching us how to customise our palette colours to our own surrounds..for eg, how to pick out which colours are in our own surrounds and match them in paint colours. I am sure many other people in the world would be interested too. Thank you for being such a great teacher 🙏❤

always love listening to you talk about your practice Sarah ! It really helps a tonne! :)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and techniques in this video, it’s very interesting and helpful. You create such beautiful and amazing landscapes.

Can't wait for your book!

Gorgeous!

Just found your channel recently and I love your art find myself keep coming back 🙏🏼💙

I really enjoyed seen this video,thank you for sharing …..I can’t wait to hear more…take care

Thank you for all your videos. You inspired me to try watercolor and I really love it! Your calm but playful style let me feel more relaxed about trying it. Looking forward to more of your videos. 😺

Very inspiring, thank you Sarah!

Sarah, you are totally awesome. Your work inspires me. TX

Thank you Sarah for this video, love your work. Great idea to practice painting the same scene over and over, I am definitely going to try this.

I love these 😍 I need to give this a try, I love loose paintings but tend to overwork the painting when I’m working from reference

I tend to switch back and forth between landscapes and abstracts. Usually, the landscapes are more controlled and the abstracts more free. But my latest major abstract series involved painting different colors within small areas marked by black marker. The paintings turned out interesting and sometimes weird. It's not the first time I've gotten pretty OCD about a series. It seems to be a way I can work for a while, keeping focused on one concept to carry me through days of work. I've just decided to go with it, letting my process sort of determine itself, if that makes sense.

So nice to hear and see you! Great advice …. I do not paint in sequence enough. What keep u motivated if you are not concentrating on one large painting for final results! Thanks 😊

What do you do with the gestural practices? Keep? Sell? Put on a shelf and forget? I often think about waste when I am doing practices and worry about costs and time wasted away from other 'finished' pieces.

are the white dots sheep!?! Love it! I frequently paint the same loose landscapes over and over again either because I like the composition or love the color combinations. Glad to know it has some purpose!

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Great sharing, Thank you. Saw you painted Blåvandshuk lighthouse. Have you traveled in Denmark, Jutland?

Your videos inspires me to persue progress in my methods and techniques. Thanks to you very much.

This is great info! Love your ‘brush mileage’ term!

Maybe I missed it, but which blue are you using for your skies? Maybe sapphire blue or ultramarine? 😁💖

Thanks for sharing Sarah I love your loose trusting to the process attitude which turns out beautiful and energetic. What inspires me is connecting with artist like you and others following your journey love and light 🌺

Those landscapes are gorgeous! Also the size of the white Posca is the PC 3M?

Thanks for this, Sarah (BTW, are you Sairah, as in Stare, or Sarha - as in Star?). I spent a lot of time doing the same drawings over and again in different media and on different papers 'just for fun', because "What if I do this ... or this ..." is a key part of who I am and how I enjoy and develop the things I do. I learned a lot about techniques, colour, etc and those 'studies' are now a specific section in my teaching folder. After watching this video, I'm thinking that maybe it'd be helpful for me to do this again, after the five years of 'almost nothing' art-wise (because of a *very* busy five years otherwise!) and now teaching art again, plus the current lack of freedom to go out in the car to explore en plein air. It'd be good to do, just to be free to be 'me' with different tools in my hand and different media to paint with. Thank you. The 'me' does pop up at unexpected moments, such as last week. Having done some random colour mixes (ie not in neat boxes) on scrap paper, I saw faces in each one, and now have a series of people wearing hats instead of paint blobs on the paper which *isn't* going into the recycled paper bin! Incidentally, there was a beautiful seal pup on the ice at 4 mins 27. I'd just spotted it when you swiped across it with your brush.

Hey Sarah, do you happen to have any advice or tips for people that associate art with stress so they avoid painting because it stresses them out. I unfortunately had college made me associate it with stress so I tend to avoid it which is really sad and I don't know how to fix that.

Gurl, I just wanted to let you know, when I first subscribed to your channel I was like “she’s not too bad , let’s just keep a book mark on her channel just in case if I find something useful.” And after this video, I started watching a lot your vids when I was relaxing and your vids are these rare blends of relaxing yet info packed discourses and I’m here for it. Please, please do make more videos and especially on glazing. I am a fan of that technique just because of you. ✌️

Love your gestural sketches, they feel free, unforced ...but why only 10%?! Do you mean to say, that the rest 90% are never shared? That would be terrible... I feel inspired when I see or feel something that cannot be captured by a camera. The feeling of being on the river bank, with lots and lots of blue damselflies fluttering about, (recent one)for example. Or, years ago, me and my older daughter went to the zoo and sketched animals, very quickly, literally couple of seconds for each. Now she is all grown up, graduating from uni, and recently I found this sketchbook with our sketches and the feeling of this connection to the past is something, that cannot be produced by anything else, only our pencils at that time...no camera could do that for me. That's why I love sketches even more than finished paintings, they are unabridged version of your personal view in the fleeting moment when they were being made. Cannot wait for your book, sounds very appealing! 👍

Very beautiful and also inspiring words:)

Sarah, I loved your sky on your last painting! Those clouds were awesome! Have you shared or will you be sharing the paint colors on your palette?