Your enthusiasm is contagious!!

What a pleasure to watch you. The gesso info was really appreciated. The end result was fabulous! Thanks for sharing!

Great video from a wonderful channel. Art books have provided me a much-needed escape from real life. I have my easy chair set up with a desk, a lamp, a blanket and a cup of coffee. I spent many hours with dragons, unicorns, space battles, pixies, knights, and now with my National Geographic books, the vast undersea world of the coral reefs. My art books are the best investments I ever made. My 3 favorite books are: - Wonderworks by Michael Whelan - Infinite Worlds by Vincent DiFate - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson

Thank you Karen for sharing. You are so talented. Love your different videos. Have a wonderful and blessed day.

Thank you so much for sharing the techniques used in rendering this beautiful painting!

I just love your work. You sure are a great teacher, i'm so glad to have found your videos. I'm getting better because of you. thank you Karen.

Thank you so much Karen . Your explanation on the amazing effects you can achieve by just using the different gessos with the Stabilo , is both extremely helpful and inspiring . I really enjoyed watching her come to life . Kind regards - Judi - Australia

This is so amazing!!! I could watch all the day and every day I learn a lot!!! Thank you so much for sharing this gift you have and inspire me and making me feel more comfortable to try something new!

Really loved watching this! I will have to try the 3 gessos, looks like fun!!

You are a fountain of knowledge and your passion for art is sooooo infectious. Love it.

I love GESSO!! Thanks for the lesson!

Absolutely beautiful Karen. Just magical to watch the lady come to life on the canvas. It was like she was looking out at us into to our souls. I was mesmerised. Thankyou so much for sharing your incredible art work. hugs Glenne

A classical, musical , artistic performance, you brought happiness, sadness, excitement...bravo on making me feel happy!! 📝🎢🎻🎷🎨🎨🎶☺️ Oh my ,your artistic ability is entertaining and enjoyable..This piece included the words and the music!! Often need just one but this included both!♥️

This is really helpful, I appreciate you taking the time to make this.

I was mesmerized watching you bring this canvas to life... I would love to have your talent. Thank you for sharing this video and your amazing creativity. 😊

WOW Amazing as always!! Thanks for sharing Deanna

Wow!!! Beautifully done. Thank you for sharing!!!

I absolutely love this one. Now that I've done your mixed media challenge I think I'm going to jump in and give it a try. You have such amazing imagination and talent, Karen.

Omg!! She is beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Getting so much information out of this one. I also love the stabilo pencil but I make a mess with it. But now I’m gonna know how to tone it down.

I am in awh watching you.paint. I think a person could learn much watching your videos. Glad I found your videos. Thank you so much, Peggy

This is fabulous Karen 😍😘

so beautiful. love it too bits. just love watching the process thanks for sharing. greatly appreciated. : )

Omgosh your sharing is a beauty to behold! Watching the nose materialize was amazing! (I can't do noses no matter how much I try). She's beautiful

Loved the video. So talented. Very informative. Thanks!

Thank you for using you tube videos as your art videos has captions so I can follow along as a deaf artist.. many artists still do not caption everything so I miss out.. I have one of your early books.. followed some of your tutorials thank you.. I love your enthusiasm and that you share so freely many tips and helps too..

I just can’t tell you how happy I am to have found your videos. And you are a great teacher. Once again beautiful work and thank you for sharing

Wow! You are incredible!

I have used Gesso for years, decades, but never the way you do with the Stabilo, can't wait to try! I am new to your channel and could kick myself for not finding you sooner! I LOVE your style! Thanks Ms Karen!!

Stunning; loved the whole process. You are amazingly talented:) WOW!

So beautiful. Very informative. Thanks for sharing.

You make it look so easy. Beautiful

where have I been all these years? I just found you a few days ago and I am ever so pleased. you are so talented and so informative, explain everything so well. So much to learn, thank you. and the girl looks just like you :) New sub.

I am looking for an answer on whether or not I need gesso, but totally sidetracked by how gorgeous your painting is!!! So, here I am, and you answered my exact questions! Thank you!

You are absolutely amazing. She is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Absolutely beautiful!

You are amazing. I just watched your video about how to do eyes. I really thought you just went all over your drawings until you said you went from one eye to the other. I was watching this and saw how you did that during your drawing. Thank you for sharing. I love your videos.

Karen, this drawing/painting was so inspiring...I hope to be able to draw a girl like this one day..she is just beautiful. Thanks so much for all the videos you do. :)

So incredible!

Love this!!! You're great -thanks for sharing!

Beautiful Karen.

Beautiful shading. So talented!

AWESOME - a master crafter at work :) Incredible that is actually only takes 3 - and oh well a load of other little things :) BUt what you did with just these 3 gessos - RESPECT! Loved it loved it loved it :)

Great job really Beautiful!

Just discovered your channel and so glad I have. Just Wow incredible piece of artwork.xx

You are so inspiring! I am collecting all the tools -found cool eraser today - or yesterday its 3h47 in the morning in South Africa - cant sleep so I decided to watch your stuff and get happy and inspired! I will I hope have the courage to send you pics next year of how I have progressed! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

Complimenti è stato bellissimo vederti all'opera 💖

You’re simply amazing!

You are a fabulous artist, I know you know but had to tell you anyway. Love your work !!!

Love seizing the sketch first instead of the background, sometimes I like to start subject first, so it really got me thinking about what to do next

This is amazing. I'm sitting here actually thinking this would be a very helpful exercise to get use to light and shadow placement. Just a black and white portrait. How clever and perfect for a beginner like me

I love black gesso for as a base for oil painting, a black canvass is far more approach-able than scary white😃

Good lesson (thanks) and great painting! Marina

Beautiful work!! Liked and Subscribed💜

i love your channel thank you for your beautiful personality you cheer me up

Stunning. ❤

Semplicemente meraviglioso🤩🤩🤩 tanti saluti Karen😘

So beautiful 😍

Clear gesso is perfect for preparing coloring books to accept watercolors. Great video, Thank you 🙏

LOVE THIS!

Thanks for the helpful info and you're so right about the black gesso. I used it for first time today in my altered book journal as the background for a Halloween piece. It's amazing! Could you maybe do a talk through video on how you make the eyes so beautiful on your faces?

Love your art

From a beginner's point of view that was very helpful information & inspiring at the same time. Thank you!

Just WOW! As always... Hugs, Lin

With a hint of humor! Gorgeous! 👊🤟

Amazing!

I just found your channel a few weeks ago and LOVE your videos. Watching this girl come to life was just amazing . I am a want to be artist .... no skills .... I just got your first book and have been practicing faces.... Which one of your courses do you think would be most beneficial for me ?..... I do love mixed media... watercolor... attempting to draw faces :). Thank you for time and your videos ... Love each and every one of them!

I,m allways scared ti try mixed media ,you make it look so easy ,its beautiful Karen

this is amazing!

Wow! Gorgeous!! 😍USA

i like all types, depends what I am doing. Thank you x

She is gorgeous!

Incredible

I love your painting thanks

Your amazing, I wish I could do that I tried but not quite there yet!

Awesome

Amazing

I love clear gesso but like you said it has its place - I like using it when I am doing a more abstract fun style art page that’s more texture based then shape based - I would hate it for more face / subject matter style pages. I am not going to lie I never thought to mix it for skin tones ... it should be common sense but never thought of it! So thanks for that lol!

Omg perfect fingers

Oh and I bought clear gesso too!!!!

Good addiction. I wonder if all these materials are available in India. Never done craft work but would love to give it a try. Simply beautiful

thanks for this video ;) great info .... btw I like your neaklace, where did you find it, or how did you make? ;)

Oh my goodness!!! Thank you for explaining all this…I was so confused!! And yes! I don’t like the clear gritty Gesso either….so, did I hear you say I don’t need to prime my canvas? They already come primed?

Stunningly beautiful. I never thought to use gesso, clever. I’ll have to give it a try..😊 Someone else asked if the stabilo will run if you try to seal the artwork.....have you had any experience, good or bad with this?

Lovely and helpful. As a raw beginner I have to ask what part water plays in the application of the gessos.

She looks like you Karen. Great job Thanks!

I was afraid to use gesso on the top of the face I am paiting. Thank you for your video!

WOW WOW WOWZA!

Oh Karen.....(HUGE Sigghhh) Has anyone recently told you how exceptionally talented YOU ARE??? The explanation of gesso was fab. However, I became totally.... (Golly, can't think of the right word) ~ entranced, lost, mesmerized (& other appropriations) by you, painting. Along with the piano music & your brush strokes, I was totally gone. The world & almost all worries were swept up in the utter beauty of her & your effortless creativity. Her eyes?!!!! So, I have no idea if I've just written a whole load of blah. I blame you, of course, lol. I told you a little while ago, I'm watching every video but am struggling to interact, on any level. Still the case but I felt compelled to at least try. The result is probably a "Hot Mess" but I am "Not Sorry!" I also appreciate that I'm not actually creating anything myself so am a bad student. If I could paint a portrait as exquisitely..... ugh, I'm stopping now, getting on my own nerves, goodness knows what you must think. There. I tried. You ARE AWSOME. Tyfs. Squidges as always for Rosie and Zoe. Byeeee. Crazy Caroline. 😳😽🎨✅

I love you painting

I love

What type of stabilo pencil did you use please so I can give this a try. Also what type of brushes did you use with the gesso to do the face? Thanks so much 🙏

loved your video, what did you use ti glue the printed paper and flower, clear gesso? how long does it take for that gesso to dry so you can paint over it ? thank you.

Beautiful! What is your substrate?

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Karen could you please tell me which Stabilo black pencil you use please?

Hi Karen! How are you? Thank you for the video. Please, let me know the name of your book. Thank you again,

I got some whit gesso in a jar, and it's pretty thick and opaque (compared to what I've seen you use). Am I using too much? Can it be watered down?

Love it....🙋you can make a video painting with color prism Berol pencils? Please please please 🙏

Which best gesso color for black and white portrait on canvas ?

When mixing skintones use zinc white, not titanium white. Zinc white rules. I like clear gesso when I want to use coloured or pastel pencils on top of acrylics.