“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” ― Salvador Dali

It’s amazing how much I focus on my own mistakes, while not even noticing the ones that others make. Interesting video.

If you want to see what was important to the artist, look and enjoy the painting. If you want 100% realism take a picture.

Every art student should watch this video! This is so darn comforting to me as a student!

I loved learning about the great master’s mistakes because you showed them more human, more like us all.

I remember visiting the Egyptology section of Bristol museum (UK). I was looking at a funereal canoe decorated with hieroglyphics. I noticed a section where the horizontal line had gone off course. The painter had presumably licked his thumb to wipe off the wayward section and picked the line up. The previous line had not been completely obliterated and even left a thumb print where he had lifted his thumb after the erasure. I suddenly felt a connection with the artist who had painted it 4000 years previously. It's something I have done many times. We had something in common. We shared what we had intended to be a secret. I was young and more inclined to embarrassment than I would be today as I tried to hide the flood of tears I couldn't understand. I understand now, of course.

One of the more beautiful and inspiring videos on KZfaq.

Who would ever think the masters overlooked their mistakes and kept painting. This is a great video and learning presentation. Thank you for sharing.

You have no idea how much better this video has made me feel about my own paintings. I cannot possibly thank you enough!

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” - Bob Ross

This was so very helpful. It reminded me to be patient, stop before I REALLY lose focus , leave the painting and come back in awhile, maybe days and take a new look. I also refer to my original thumbnail or notan and find clues to a clean finish. What fun we have figuring this out. B

This is so great! Thank you Jill!

There's a quote attributed to DaVinci, which I find somewhat comforting: "Art is never finished, only abandoned." We do the very best job that we can, with the knowledge, skills, and materials we have, in the time that we have. Then we let go of the piece, so it stands on its own, with whatever strengths and flaws. It's fortunate when the imperfections make the art even more intriguing and relatable.

Master Painters! Thank for sharing 👍👍

Thank you very much Jill for sharing with us this special documentary. It brings so much encouragement to us as humans who strive to be perfect, excellent and many times trying to win recognition. It encourages me to be just as I am as fallible as I am as a human in my work and passion but not letting down to always be better in whatever I am learning & doing. Thank you once again.

Great Video. Thanks Jill!

Thanks goodness for all the masters, the greatest, the great and the not so much. I feel relieved and thankful. Let's keep the good intentions going on.

Thank you so much for your videos. You inspired me to pick up my brushes again and get back to work on a painting I've been working on for 20 years, and it's now turning out to be beautiful. Thank you. :D

Another fascinating production, Jill! Worth waiting for!

Your videos are gold. Thank you

Your return is appreciated. It’s a pleasure to watch your great videos generous in terms of interesting facts and beautiful images. Thanks.

You always speak with such a calm maternal voice, wisely explaining things from a perspective of love for your subject. Thank you. I learn a lot from you.

That was great !! Thank you Jill

I just discovered your channel recently and it's amazing! It may be the best channel about art on KZfaq, but I can't understand why it's not more popular? You definitely deserve more views!

This is a profoundly useful and therapeutic video for creatives. Thank you!

Hey Jill! I’m going through all the people I subscribe to and saw you.. stopping in just to say how much I love you and your work. Listening is a meditation. There’s so many things that I don’t know I don’t have access to. The brushstrokes of masters was one. It’s helped me and honestly I’m so grateful that a shmuck like me somehow received such gold. I can’t Thankyou enough.

What a wonderful lecture! Thank you so much for sharing with us!!

Every time I hear your voice explaining details, it is so soothing. It is quite meditative and your ability to teach is quite evident. Years of teaching experience is visible and we are lucky to be able to listen to you for free. Thank you so much.

thank you for continuing making videos! yours are one of the finest art videos!

Thank you so much! love your videos!!!

I love your videos. Thank you!!

Fascinating, excellent narration .

Absolutely wonderful and powerful video, thank you so much for this, Jill! I've missed your videos! As artists we're always striving for perfection. When I look to the masters, I always assume that every inch of every piece was perfected and intentional. This will help me embrace the mistakes I make and focus on the piece as a whole, rather than perfection.

I love this! really need to hear this before doing a piece !

This was wonderful. Thank you. I have two paintings that I now have the courage to continue working on! 👍🏻👏

Great video - every artist should watch it.

oh thank you for this!! I feel much better knowing all artist are human even the masters! Happy painting!

While I agree with all that you stated, most don’t see these “ mistakes” or changes. Sadly, the average person has little experience viewing these works, and would never even look for them. I love your videos. Keep it up and thank you. Being an artist and art history appreciator, while in museums, I too, look for these ‘ changes’. The pentimento as it were.

This was so inspiring.Thank you!

Your voice could calm a thunderstorm. It also makes absorbing the message very fluid. So glad to have found your site.

Jill, everything you do with Art is beautiful, including yourself . . .

What a fabulous video - seriously enjoyable 💝

This is art therapy. Thank you. 🙂

Jill, nice explanation. 👍

Well done, Some how funny to see that masters made those mistakes. Love your work and your relaxing calm voice👍

As always, such a good video. Thank you.

thank you for another outstanding video. Everything you do is inspiring. thanks for sharing your spirit

I love the voice. Every time I do my arts, I love to listen her voice

Great video. Thank you!

Loved this

Superb video!

Very nice! Thank you!

You are a true art lover.. Thank you for your effort and dedication..

Thank you for this beautiful and educational video! Good to see that also highly admired masters sometimes had some flaws in their work. Indeed, as you said in the last sentence of the video, it makes them more human again, ... and it helps allow many of us to accept the imperfections of our own rather humble artistic attemps in paintings, drawings, wood cut prints, photography, etc. :-)

Really interesting! Thank you so much for putting it together.

so nice work.

Very reassuring. Informative. Thank you for this. Have a great New Year!

Thank You! I learn so much from your videos!

Thanks. Great video!

Thank you for yet another wonderful video, love your channel, thank you :)

Just on time for me...thanks

Definitely an eye opener. I try to SEE by walking away, but sometimes I have to wait a few days to have something jump out at me as a problem. Thanks for this!

It would definitily help me to concentrate on my paintings rather than getting worried about lill mistakes sometimes I made..thanks for sharing...with such a positive attitude ...

I enjoyed this video. It was very interesting.

Very difficult and touchy subjet handled amazingly. great work.

I have thoroughly enjoyed every single one of your videos. This one in particular. I'm a painter and I understand each artist has their A, B, and trash work. I rarely show anyone my paintings because I can spot all the areas that I consider mistakes. Many of the mistakes you've pointed out... are the same mistakes I wrestle with each time I want to call a painting Finished.

Excellent video. Thanks so much for this.

Thank you for sharing. This topic is a little heavier than those before. Mistakes in Master's hands tell us that they can be like ordinaries, only not easy to approach as the ordinaries. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, and art is knowing which ones to keep." Wonderful quote.

I am an artist, and have struggled with "mistakes" of many years. Some of the accidents are problems, but some turn out to look good, so I leave them in. Thanks for your good video, Jill. Appreciated.

Thanks for creating this. I think it’s inspired! 😊

Beautiful sharing. Thank you so much.

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing.❤

Thanks for the presentation. Im glad I found this channel. I really like it.

thank you for this video!!

Wonderful Job you've done in the Channel, very wise and useful coments on the pictures, thank you a Lot.

thank you so very much for sharing your passion. you are a good friend to art and artist .

Your beautiful voice is so soothing to hear. And choosing topics also rare!

Hiya Jill, I love watching your videos, they are so informative and interesting, thanks very much, David.

I just did a bad drawing today and now I feel better. Thank you Jill for all your fine videos. And thank you Diane Mize for referring me to this video.

Thank you for this informative note 📝 ❤

loved this one!

Thank you very much!

Very interesting! Thank you!

You just remembered me about my still not destroyed Artwork

This presentation is a masterpiece. A beautiful piece of real constructive criticism. I feel sure, most of these artists would really appreciate. I thank you.

Jill, as always, you are a very special child of God who can fill the minds with so much great information on the Arts. Thank you so much for creating this. Now I can go back and erase all those wrong pencil marks and not feel bad.

Very enjoyable and educational. I've seen that Ingres painting at the Frick and been so impressed with the overall effect that I did not notice the right arm. Thanks Jill, that was fun.

Another treasure of art and learning beautifully composed. Kintsugi means a lot to my partner and I, we say we are each other's kintsugi. We have had a lot of trauma healed by being together. At the bottom of the beautiful garden he created is a little Summrhouse he built for me, a peaceful, accessible haven (I am now disabled), over the door he put a little brass plaque 'Kintsugi'.

very inspired by this realism, thank you.

This is a wonderful channel! I feel better about my paintings now.

Thank you for this. It made a difference for me. I often doubt my abilities after one simple mistake.

I love your work!

Really great video, I didn’t anticipate the ending! 👍

I told one of my "critics" (a person with zero knowledge in art) that art isn't perfect, it has never been and never will

Really great video, thanks 👍♥️

Lovely soothing voice. ❤🌄

Excellent video Jill. I've been learning watercolor lately - aided in part by your courses in Udemy - and I am learning to embrace my mistakes (which in watercolor can mean disaster), by changing my inner dialog when a "mistake" happens, from "On no, those paints will run together!" to "It's ok if they run together, they will blend together nicely." It really helps with not being frustrated and makes the painting experience much less stressful

Thanks Jill for your work on this wonderful series. Subscribed.

My dear you are so right! Many times we miss those mistakes because we take for granted that they were "the Masters" therefore we don't look closely at these paintings when we go to the museums. Thanks for opening our eyes.

You have a very soothing voice and your content is excellent. Glad I found your channel and many thanks for making all these great videos!