Sometimes it's OK to Paint Something Mind-Bogglingly Simple ✿ Plein Air Art Vlog

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Sometimes it's OK to Paint Something Mind-Bogglingly Simple ✿ Plein Air Art Vlog

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Жыл бұрын

In this week's art vlog, my friend Christine and I snag some coffee and sketch in Old Town Fort Collins. I also work with my studio assistant (ChatGPT), frame a watercolor painting and take it to 3 Square Gallery for an upcoming show.
THINGS MENTIONED/SHOWN
Personas:
-- Christine M. Torrez
-- Margueritte Meyer
-- Kumiko McKee (3 Square Gallery)
-- ChatGPT
Places:
-- Old Town Fort Collins, Colorado
-- My art studio in Fort Collins, Colorado
-- 3 Square Art Gallery in Fort Collins, Colorado
Art Supplies:
-- Uni-ball Signo DX .38 ink pen
- Escoda Reserva travel brush
-- Rosemary travel brush
- Pentalic watercolor journal (obsolete model)
-- vintage 1980s Winsor Newton watercolor mini palette
- watercolor paints by Winsor Newton and Daniel Smith
Camera/Microphone: an aging iPhone SE
Editing: iMovie
Music:
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Anything else you'd like to see? Let me know! I'm trying to post something every week, usually on Wednesdays but sometimes Thursdays.
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Laura G. Young
Bird & Nature Art
Fort Collins, Colorado
www.lauragyoung.com
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Twitter: @LauraGYoung
Instagram: @laura_g_young

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@user-zi8qi9ip2g Ай бұрын

I loved looking at some very beautiful and interesting places in Ft. Collins and I even recognized some…we have visited many times but haven’t in the last several years. I have always loved visiting your great city. You have put together a very real and so enjoyable video (day in the life…). Thank you. 😊 PS-You parrot is adorable…and has such expressive eyes.

@LauraGYoung Ай бұрын

FC is always changing -- even from a year ago! We're hoping to do another sketch session in Old Town soon. Stay tuned... P.S. Skeeter says, "Hi" (it's one of his fave words).❤ 🦜

@crystalromaine7281 Жыл бұрын

Yay! I like your happy face as much as I like your art and your videos. I bet you make people smile where ever you go.

@LauraGYoung Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: I won a children’s poetry award in grade-school. The topic of my poem? “When I Smile” 😊

@crystalromaine7281 Жыл бұрын

@@LauraGYoung that doesn't suprise me. Thank you for making these videos. :)

@LauraGYoung Жыл бұрын

@@crystalromaine7281-- Aw, and thanks again for watching. I'll try to keep filming and putting them together; I've been so grateful for the encouragement and tips I've gotten over the years, that it feels good to do the same for others.🥰

@jaimejaime1178 Жыл бұрын

Hi Laura. -.ZeS.- (Jim) from Madrid, Spain (a fellow artist and a New Yorker expat living abroad). Real nice video! First of all... I love your hat! Gotta get me one of those next time I'm back in the US. Second, the town looks beautiful! Real nice houses and streets, and I loved the coffee shop in that historical house. Just amazing house and overall historical feeling inside. Very US... (You can tell I do miss it, though Spain and Europe are also amazingly beautiful and full of very very old historical monuments, and full cities). Last, but not least, beautiful painting you chose for the exposition at the Art Gallery. It's a shame there are not many Galleries here in Madrid for unknown artists (such as myself). I returned to do Art a year ago after spending my life working professionally in the Biz World at Global level. Art has also helped me recover from a depression due to very serious health issues in the past years for which I was forced into early retirement and left me with mobility issues as well as living with chronic pain. My wife gave me a set of pencils and charcoal a year ago as a present to help me and now I draw in graphite, charcoal and coloured pencils, as well as painting in watercolor and gouache. I am building up a small portfolio during the rest of 2023 and all through 2024 so I can show some of my Art in the future. I don't do this professionally but I would love to have my Art seen and critiqued to help me learn and grow in my artistic journey as a wildlife and nature Artist (animals and nature have always been my passion). Thank you for sharing and for listening, and I will continue to watch your videos (they are different than others and very cool). Cheers from Sunny Spain! 😁👍😎

@LauraGYoung Жыл бұрын

Oh, hey again! :) Haha thanks for the hat compliment. That beat-up feather-duster has been though MANY interesting adventures over the last decade or so. I may have to do a video about it. And what a thoughtful gift that your wife gave you. Wow. Art is seriously underrated as a therapeutic outlet; I know it's gotten me through some of the roughest patches in my life, for sure. Even just doodling on napkins or keeping a sketchbook that no one else will ever see. And as to showing your work: yeah, I've had several European friends tell me this, which is shocking considering how richly steeped in art everything is over there. That being said, we live in an age of marvels and I've had some of the most useful feedback online via internet forums and social media. I've even taken a full Natural History illustration course this way, via the University at Newcastle in Australia. Nowadays the sky's the limit; the hardest part is just putting your art out there. I was terrified at first, but it does get easier! :) Bestest wishes from cloudy Colorado, L.