Fantastic! Very Inspiring. Thank you Lewis✨

Lewis can you tell me what king of paper you use to paint outside please ?

I tried to enrol for your art group giving the firstmonthfree Discount, but it doesn't seem to have been accepted. Did I have to input my bank details in first?

Thank you! Do you dilute the oil paint with anything?

Hi Lewis, I'm truly liking your tutorials. It's the actual painting that you do that inspires, coaches and teaches. I would love to see more of your process and less of the talking. What you share is helpful, but just as making marks rather than looking at the canvas and contemplating, so is seeing the process similarly. Please do more videos showing your process, perhaps in length to some degree. I would absolutley love that. I am a self-taught artist and enjoy seeing other artist's processes and gleanimg form that. Thanks for all your sharing, Carole G.

Love these two paintings and the process! Thank you for sharing.

Very inspirational, Lewis...thank you!

Hi Lewis, I hope you and your family are well. Can you tell me which book you are showing in this latest vides and if I can purchase a copy. All the best, Julia (Stubbs).

Just found this….awesome!

I love how textured and worked this beautiful painting is. And thank you for the demo of varnishing while the painting is on the wall. I have my own large paintings that I have no where to lay it flat, and have been afraid to do that.

Really great inspiring and informational mark making videos..thanks for sharing, can I ask when using water soluble media like pencils and stabilo woodies, which i use alot after seeong you use them..how do you seal with medium or varnish without smudging these great marks?

Love the advice thank you ❤

Fabulous thank you 😅

I absolutely love your painting. Speaks to me.

Great video. I have a question, if you get to read this comment: do you prefer working on primed or unprimed canvases? In your previous video, the one about stretching you used an unprimed canvas. What is the benefit/advantage for using unprimed versus primed? Is it the soft beige look, instead of the starch white surface or just the cost?

Hi just enrolled in your online class June 24, 2024. Could you tell me what king of crayon you use? Thanks

I love the simplicity of the composition. Is it done in oils or acrylics?

As a lovely contrast to the vigour of your mark-making, Lewis, I really like the blotted marks offset on the opposite page of the first sketch.

Wonderful, Lewis ! I love the idea that what we put in our notebooks can be just…. Ideas , notes -to-self ! A shape , an interesting line that we really like for some reason even though it is “not “a painting “

I have a thought often you will use inks for their transparent quality. I love using water color with acrylics!! I have never used quawash, or what ever! xoxox Kat from the Pacific Northwest....hmmm.

Very helpful video thank you!

I can feel watching you work your emotions - you get quite out of breathe.

one of the best courses I've taken, Paint it Big, is brilliant!

Always inspiring! Thanks for sharing!

Very pretty work 👏

Great on location sketches… sumptuous mark making. Super exciting to see your process. Thanks so very much for sharing in this way!

Love this video - very helpful to hear what types of materials and brands that you use (I am a beginner painting in acrylics) 😇

Sehr schön, vielen Dank ❤

Inspiring! It is a treat to watch you work-somehow gives me “permission” to break loose and take some risks! Thank you for your generosity in sharing. It is so helpful.

Lewis the music that you are using in the video its yours?

wow, great energy going on here, looking good. When you have paint "thinned down" are you adding water to heavy body acrylic or are you using a thinner glazing fluid type medium ?

You look like you are having so much fun, Lewis. Very inspiring--thank you!

Very nice, thanks.

Thank you,I have been stuck in my head, afraid to start a new painting, to make a mark on the blank canvas….i will save your presentation as reminder…

Thank you. What size canvas and what collage paper are you using?

I completely agree that just looking won't change anything - but Lewis - looking/reflecting/observing opens me to possibility - to imagine "what" the painting might want. I find it quite useful to just be quiet with the work. Then, yes, pick up something and make a mark. That is essential.

Thank you so much for sharing your process. I love your work Lewis!

100% agree with you .. just starting making some marks on the surface really really give a HUGE DIFFERENCE 😊😅

Thanks Lewis, I’ve wondered about the different glues on offer and which to buy. It’s interesting you say after research you found PVA is generally PH neutral, so no need to worry about that. I would definitely buy the big tub as it does the job at the best price.

your paintings are always so visually THRILLING!!!

Could you please comment on how surfaces closse up can take you away from distances depiction? Especially when doing landscapes. Working on small images become just many on a huge surface. Thank you.

Great advice, I spend far too much time "painting in my head" instead of just getting on with it! Re living far away from the sea, I live on the North East coast and the first place my Derbyshire cousins head for when they visit is the beach 😊

Abstract art is the snapshot of whats going on in the brain of the artist. Like a brain pic ..

Depends on your style… Abstract Expressionism, yes, just make a mark. But if your piece has a bit of ideological substance to it, then stare and make mental visualisation marks where you can sort out the effects it is going to make beforehand.

In response to your question about doing a video about different papers, yes please!

I like your music, too.

Acrylic medium is multipurpose. The reason mediums work with mixing in your paint is the same reason it’s an excellent glue. It loaded with the chemical elements that hold together acrylic paint and makes it stick to the painted surface. Plus you have a choice of viscosity ( liquid or heavy paste, gel) AND a choice of matte, satin or glossy finish.

Do they use the painting medium because it's archival?

Thanks for sharing insight in your work and how you go about developing wonderful paintings