Hi Donna, thanks so much for your kind and thoughtful message! I appreciate everything you say and I know you often comment, which is great ! It’s true that career options were very limited for us in our generation. As a youngster I wanted to be a veterinarian, but the number of women who managed to get into university to train as vets was minuscule - same for doctors - and sadly there was a big class divide, where your best chances were very much linked to who your parents were. I was the first in our family to make it to university so we had no family connections. Makes it much harder to make your way. However, that was then and this is now and looking back there’s not much I would change about my life. Thanks again and be sure that we are not planning to stop any time soon - this channel is a god-given gift for sure and reaching so many people who need something our channel can give, so as long as we can, we will xxxxx

Thank you so much!

So sorry you’re not well Gemma, I hope you get better soon, and thanks so much for your kind support and donation. Much appreciated xxx

That is awesome! Please do!!❤️👍❤️

Wonderful! You’re so welcome ❤️

Thanks so much Jo, so kind, I‘m really glad you enjoy the videos!

Hi Shari and thanks very much for your interesting message. I’m so glad you enjoy the channel and my videos and I appreciate your kind comments! It’s very interesting what you say about vaccine caused illnesses and it’s quite likely that was my problem too - thanks so much for the references to those doctors, I have now subscribed to them and will be looking at their content, there are lots of interesting bits of information there which might help me and my husband. We all have things wrong with us these days, even my daughter who is only 43 has lots of health issues. Thanks again, so glad you’ve improved your quality of life, you’re the same age as me give or take a few months, so that’s very encouraging for me! Take care and happy painting!

@@DianeAntoneStudio You are very welcome!

That’s very sweet Deanna❤️ thanks so much 😀

Thanks Angela!

That’s so lovely to hear, so glad I was not alone in that wish!

Hi Carolyn, great to hear from you, I hadn’t noticed any comments from you for a while and I was a little bit concerned - have you been very busy? Thanks for your thoughts about the birds, I’m glad you liked it and yes, it would be great done on some of that old music, good idea! Hope you have a chance to play with this idea sometime! Take care xxx

@@DianeAntoneStudio Thank you for your reply Diane. Yes, busy is an understatement :) Spending a lot of time with family things, including my lovely (almost 90 year old) mom. Still substituting here and there and working on my garden. But today is my Diane Antone catch up day and there's no better way to recharge my battery than that! xo

Eenie Meanie, Miney Mo, Catch a Tiger by the toe, if it hollers let it go, eenie meanie miney Mo - you are OUT! It’s a “counting out” rhyme for children’s playground games and that’s the version we used to say at school except we didn’t say tiger but our word is not politically correct now - in 1950 it was ok - there are lots of versions round the world!

Thanks so much, yes, it was quite hard getting going this morning!!!

I heard it is finally raining in Alberta, hopefully you’re getting some of it? I remember the air in Calgary as being hard to deal with (asthma problems) due to the altitude, so that together with smoke would be a real nightmare. Wishing you much better times x

@@DianeAntoneStudio yes it started raining last night! Finally some moisture 😀

Yes, it’s my best memory of him!!! Thanks xxx

@@DianeAntoneStudio ❤️❤️

I’m not sure things have changed for the better!!!! My parents were divided on what me and my sister should do - my mum just wanted us to get married and have kids, but my dad wanted us to become educated and contribute to the world. In the end I did both, it just took a while for me to get round to the artistic streak I should have followed had I been born into a wealthy family instead of abject poverty!!!!!!!

@@DianeAntoneStudio Me too I always think I should have been rich lol..I only seem to like expensive things lol,and have to make do with cheaper stuff ,how we suffer lol!!..I was a Navy kid so traveled a lot ,loved school ,but got moved to NZ a few months before my main exams and I was top stream.They put me in a low stream class?..But was bumped back up in a few weeks.Headmaster did not like it or me.Said their education was better.Hmmm!.Not interested in exams after that so only got two ,failed English?.Top two all the way through School,but ..Well redid them here in my 40’s to show my daughter I could do it too lol.! And did.Aced my Biology and even got top of year in mocks.Without revision .And not being there the full course.Teacher would ask me questions.?..But the best education came from life,from people And now being on my own looking after myself and feeling free for the first time in my life .Just can’t go out often as I am disabled and in pain a lot.But I still learn new things every day .Just wish sometimes I did not ,or had the funding to leave the U.K.!but hey ho .Could be worse.I enjoy your natter and paintings.My painting is way too perfect ,intense I guess .I wish I could go looser ,I must have a go ,watched so many of yours now..Love n Light 🥰

Hi Susan and thanks so much for your lovely message ❤️ sorry you had similar problems to me when you were young - but at least we had our art! I do have an Etsy store, but I don’t keep it up-to-date! I should try a bit harder! I do like to share my work! Thanks again for your kind words, sending you hugs ❤️

Yay, and did you make your swatch to remind you of the names of the paints!?

@@DianeAntoneStudio, yes, I did, first time in my life!! Tonight I will paint the birds and the twigs. I made two sketches. Thank you so much Diane!! ❤️

Yes, I’m not quite sure what that’s all about, but we have to remember that colors can be adjusted on camera and what you see is not always true!!! I think though that for a peach color it’s best to use a pink rather than red - Permanent Rose or Opera Pink - together with a warm yellow like Cadmium Yellow - I always forget this when I’m mixing!

LOL!!!

Hi Anne, interesting that Lindsay said that - I have been experimenting with them and I love them for making backgrounds with my gelli plate as well as lots of other things where you want to be liberal with paint and not worry about cost! Glad you enjoy the videos and the reviews, they are fun to do!

Thanks Linda!

Hi Kathy, so glad you’re enjoying painting and adjusting to the ways you have to do things, and I doubt whether Andy Capp still exists, he would be over 100 by now!

Thanks so much , much appreciated xxx

You’re very welcome, so glad you are enjoying the videos xxx

Hi Amanda and thank you so much for your kind message. I’m grateful for your support and affirmation. I want to tell you that for a very long time I used to say the same thing as you. “I can copy anything but I don’t have any original ideas 😩”. Eventually I slowly stopped copying and began to create my own style. After having almost given it all up. So maybe it will work like that for you! Thanks again ❤️

@@DianeAntoneStudio thank you so much for saying that. I really needed to hear that

It was just a bit of fun Debbie! I was still feeling a bit stuck this morning and my fingers were sooooo cold I couldn’t concentrate… so I went for something undemanding and lighthearted! I had intended to do a lot more embellishment on the dark colors of the birds’ backs, but in the end I didn’t feel it!! It’s always a process of feeling things out each day, according to mood and the weather! I think it would make a nice gift for someone to cheer them up, but it’s not serious Art (as if mine ever is!!)

Sorry to hear about your asthma Fanna, I have it too but at the moment it is under control with an inhaler. But I know what it feels like, awful. One of these days I’ll get something printed by Spoonflower to make a cushion from !!

Hi Jane, thanks very much for your kind comments! I recommend this white pen Pentel White Hybrid Gel Grip DX Gel pen amzn.to/435GarU. The other one I use is this one amzn.to/3NPTqJd

You can find them at spoonflower.com !!

@@DianeAntoneStudio Thank you, Diane.

Hi Judit, not an ignorant question at all! I don’t know what kind of palette you have, but if there isn’t enough room to write the initials of the color behind the paint in each section, then you could draw out a swatch card to match your palette layout and label that instead. It’s a bit more awkward but it works. I use both methods, as I still sometimes need to check what color is what. But you will get to know them eventually, if you don’t have TOOOO many colors!

@@DianeAntoneStudio, thank you so much! I don't have a lot of space on my palette so I will swatch, I think.

Thank you so much for your lovely comments Taven ❤️ please never imagine that you have overstepped any kind of boundary. It’s wonderful that people listen to my stories and point things out that for decades have gone unnoticed by me! It’s funny how when you’re very young you don’t see what later seems so obvious - like somebody else’s jealousy, or one of the kind acts that are done quietly for you. I’m so glad you also enjoy the videos and watching the paintings. It’s certainly has brought a lot of joy into my life. At this stage. I only regret is that I didn’t find KZfaq 10 years earlier! But never mind! We’re all having fun together now, aren’t we?❤️❤️❤️

@@DianeAntoneStudio THANKYOU for returning such an understanding comment. I was slightly worried. :) - It never ceases to amaze me, how so many likeminded people come together via - the internet. More than not, they inspire me, surprise me, enlighten me and make me laugh. I too, am thankful to have this platform. ✔️🎯