Hello everyone! I wanted to share my best tips for a more loose and expressive painting style and I hope you find them useful. Please feel free to share your best tip with everyone here if you like. Thanks for watching and have a lovely creative week :)

That was great! I did a painting today and stayed loose for a while and then I tensed up and got aggravated because I didn’t have a small up brush to make tree limbs, lol. Thank you for the video.

Thank you for sharing your tips. My tip is to know your colors before you start.

Your work is so inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing.

We’ll done as always. Thanks for your advice and suggestions!

You make it look easy, but your advice is also really practical. I learn something every time I watch you paint!

Stunning! Such skill and talent!

Beautiful work! Thank you again.

Thank you!

I have been struggling for a long time finding my style and color mixing, but have always been drawn to this technique. I want you to know, your videos were my breakthrough. I feel freer and am enjoying the process once again. Thank you! Thank you!

Thank you so much for sharing your tips.

Wow, I just saw a fab tip of using palette knife to protect an area when painting. Very cool.

Love this style of painting. Thanks for the advice, and I'll definitely be giving it a shot

Great Video.. thank you.

Love your advice, 😊 Thank you. Trying out 2 paintings at one and give myself permission ❤️ wish I’d found you when I started in 2021

I just discovered your channel last night and love it. Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing your process. I recently began to paint again after a decades long hiatus, and have really been struggling with how to achieve depth and luminosity in my work. Your videos have helped me so much already. Thank you again.

You have taken me on a new direction which I am so grateful for’ I watch your videos every night trying to absorb your teachings Thank you so much !

Great tips and and a very helpful demonstration. Thank you

I’m really enjoying your videos, I need to loosen up my paintings thanks for the tips.

So herrlich klar und erfrischend wie gemalt und erklärt wird! Grossartig! Bitte weiter so, bin sehr froh, diesen channel entdeckt zu haben! Bitte nie mehr aufhören... :-) Liebe Grüße Peer

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Thank you l cannot wait to try out your tips to become looser l am subscribed now ❤️

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Nice. Thanks.

Really helpful; thank you. Please could you advise/recommend as to the best sketch book for acrylics. Thank you.

Thank you - that was so helpful. My husband once suggested that I paint two canvases at a time, but I said no way! Now I'm going to try it after all!

I love all of your advice in this one :) giving yourself permission...so important and yet SO difficult, though I don't know why....and its me, not others. My husband is always thrilled when I want to paint because he knows that my pain levels are not as bad as normal if I'm up to trying to paint and even when we have no money, like now, he wants me to paint and says he'll figure out how to get me supplies, so he's great about it...though I feel guilty using money we need for food or mortgage of course so I don't use much, but enough to make us both happy. But it's still very hard for me to allow myself to just do something I enjoy without thinking of all the things I should be doing. Like if my pain levels are down that afternoon then I should be cleaning or whatever so I never allow myself time to paint. So, working on that. As I said in other comments, I have loads to learn :) also how to be loose...I want SO badly to be loose, its what I picture in my head...but some how as I paint i become so overly detailed. Working on several paintings is a super good idea! Although I can only fit so much on my dining table ;) but I'll definitely look for a notebook like yours...I'm just amazed at how well your sketch book takes all that watery acrylic paint!! It does beautifully! And then I could try lots of things without the stress of "ruining" a canvas, because that also stops me from painting :) sorry for the babbling 😳 but I truly appreciate your work and the effort you put in to these videos! I love them :) thank you again!!

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I dont think watercolours are my forte, I'm going to try acrylic and use them like water colours.....you have inspired me!

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Your advise is excellent, but for someone who has just started painting (15 months ago) the name of the colours would help as well. I can’t tell you enough how I enjoy just looking and admiring your work. Once again thank you so much.

I jist had to rematch this as my sketchbook came in a few days ago and I'm hoping to sit down and play with it tomorrow! Though I've been hoping to use it for several days but something unavoidable has come up each day🙄 but while waiting on dinner one night I did take the time to tape off my paper...just into 2 rectangle shapes. I have a photograph I took years ago that I want to paint, I've done the black and white thing to it as you suggested so we'll see. But even though it's jist paper that I bought jist to try things out on, I'm still nervous, so figured I'd rematch this one to remind myself to relax and loosen up. Another thing I have to remember is my color layering... recently I've made a bunch of simple thanks you cards in watercolor, which means the lights to darks are opposite, so that in this sketchbook I'm using for acrylic I can get real dark as you've suggested and always add more light or whatever over in more layers, so hopefully that will help me relax too. I use both my hands for most everything, art included, but thought I might do one with only using my left (bit more dominant) hand on one and only my right on the other since I usually bounce back n forth...though a lot of that is due to pain so when one hand or arm is too painful I switch and I think loads of artists do this too, so I'm doing nothing new. But it might be a challenge to only use the one, so might be fun. And they're small and I'll take a break if I need a layer to dry so shouldn't be too hard on the joints. Anyway...excited, and nervous, but more excited, to try this out and get some of these ideas I have in my head out onto paper, even if not good, and not hold back for fear of messing up a canvas. So, thanks again!

Can you please tell me the type of brush and the size you are using?

Hi! Love these! Thanks for sharing! May I ask what type of acrylic paint you use? Thanks a million

Do you feel the yellow tape influences your color choices as opposed to say blue or white masking tape?