How to POWER THROUGH THE MIDDLE STAGES quickly | Betty Franks

i recently did an exercise with my online workshop students that i applied to this painting stick around to find out what i did that pushed me through the middle stages okay let's get started [Music] hello and welcome this is betty with betty frank's art and today we are going to be working on 48 by 36 inches on canvas and i always like to get started with some mark making i've got a pencil sharpener electric pencil sharpener over in that corner that doesn't seem to always work so great i really should invest in another one it seems like the really old old pencil sharpeners electric pencil sharpeners work so much better than the newer ones this is the second one that i purchased and it doesn't work any better than the other one that i had so i've started with some mark making here this is all part of my process these marks will not show up in that final piece it is just my way of connecting to the canvas to loosen up to get my arms in motion and also to obliterate that white canvas i put down some marks with a water soluble i think it was a graphite crayon and i love that graphite crayon because um i can just come in with either a spray bottle or with my brush like i did right there and some water and just go over those lines and as i mentioned before again these aren't going to show up and to me it's just really cool and i just love this part of the process so i'm multitasking here i'm hitting it with my hairdryer to dry those wet areas but i'm also continuing with my bark making i am not a very patient person when it comes to painting and i am using acrylics today if you haven't followed me then you probably don't know that i love acrylics because they dry fast and i can move quickly from one layer to the next now another part of my process after i put down that mark making is i like to go right into adding some black now this black is actually a mix of several different colors although looking at it from this distance it just looks like black but it's it's got a little bit more depth to it i've added some i honestly don't remember which colors i want to say like some blue in it and some green in it just to add a little bit more depth to the carbon black that i'm using i am using nova color paints i've got a link down below if you want to check that uh check them out i've also got a link to the most common colors that i use from nova if you're if you're just getting started and you don't know which colors to try out i've got a list of the ones that i use most often and i recommend getting the four ounce jars those are a great way to sample if you you know sample a color for the color and the consistency and see if something that you like now here instead of washing my brush i like to go right into just cleaning off the brush a bit getting rid of as much black as possible and then go right into some white i tend to use gesso for my white and adding some gray right right from the start again multitasking drawing with one hand and painting with the other so i'm adding some circles here i don't really think about my composition at this point but i do think about adding different sizes and shapes of the mark making that i do so that later i can decide if i want to really use any one of these in that final piece or not and the more marks that i can put down at this stage the more options i'll have later here i just flip my brush around and i'm scratching into the wet paint and in that spray bottle was water so that was to get some drips going i love drips and trips this early on are not going to show up but again it's just part of my process it's for me painting is not about the outcome i'm not in my head thinking about what this is going to look like because i have no clue what it's going to look like i love the process of painting so every step of the process from this point where i'm making marks and here that black was pretty dry so i came back in with some mark making again right over those marks so going back to my love for this process it's every step of the way i love all of it and taking this whole journey is you know part of my my making of mark of mark my my process of making art is the journey is what i'm trying to say and that journey some days it's longer some days it's a little bit shorter and this one actually i think i shortened it a bit i'm going to show you in the middle section how i was able to shorten it a little bit and get through the painting a little bit quicker so i've got a spatula in my hand it's a just a regular betty crocker see they got my first name right it's a betty crocker spatula i got at the dollar store and love this one because it's super convenient and here i am adding i think i've got quinacridone red in that jar one of my favorite colors and then when you mix white with it it makes a delicious pink as you can see in that upper center area i like to go with either warm colors or cool colors so that i'm not cross mixing and creating mud unless mud is what i want and so it looks like i'm going with warm colors this time so my warm colors are my reds pinks oranges yellows yellow works with both my warm colors and my cool colors so i tend to use it for either one of those i'm not sure what color that is that i'm putting on there right now it must be something that i mixed on my palette it's uh not a super exciting color looking at it from here but that's all right we're just on the first stages here early on and anything goes it really doesn't look like anything at this point just putting down marks different sizes and shapes and again flipping over my brush so i can scratch into that wet surface as usual i did speed up this video i think it's going at two and a half times the speed so that i could i like to keep my videos at about an hour or under an hour if possible i know it's um it's a huge commitment on your part to sit through an entire painting with me so if i was doing this in real time i think i'd probably put you to sleep but with it sped up you can still see what i'm working on there and get you through this painting hopefully in under an hour i don't remember how long this one was i think it was around an hour or so so still working with my warm colors here and i'm gonna just fill in as much as much as i want i don't always fill in everywhere because i'm going to come back in with some cool colors i think i dipped into some black there that was still wet so i've created a definitely created a gray there if you are on social media you can follow me on instagram and facebook also pinterest you can find me there in addition to here on youtube my favorite place to hang out is instagram just because there's so much to do there and so much to see if you're watching this you are most likely a visual artist and you'd love to see stuff as opposed to read about it and i'm very much that way i'd love to see things and i like to listen to audiobooks so i don't know if you can catch i guess i'm trying to move you guys in here i do have an air pod in one of my ears there i guess we can see it there on my in my left ear i tend to listen to audio books when i am creating i find that listening to the spoken word whether it's an audiobook podcast whatever i don't spend as much time criticizing what i'm working on and what i'm doing and why i'm doing it but rather i just focus on the painting itself and just going through the emotion um the motions of painting here i grabbed a really large um chip brush and it's so funny because this was this painting i did maybe a month ago or more and i had this chip brush sitting in i actually forgot to wash it right away so i had it sitting in murphy's oil soap if you're in the u.s we have a product called murphy's oil soap that is great for wood cleaning wood and let me tell you it's great for cleaning out your brushes so i had the soaking in some murphy's oil soap along with some water with it and then yesterday maybe i had it soaking for way too long because yesterday when i was at the studio i finally decided that i would wash the brush out and the bristles all came apart i ended up throwing the whole thing away but the great thing about chip brushes is they tend to be only a buck or two so it's not that i wasted a whole lot of money on you know a real expensive brush but it was interesting that it fell apart and it could be because i had it soaking for far too long so going back to i was talking about wanting to or i love listening to the spoken word as opposed to music when i'm creating it's just it's something that's really worked for me and and i'm sticking to it and it's funny because i was looking back at one of my videos from 2018 i think it was 2018 and i was set up in my my dining room because it was really hot um i'm in california it's the middle of summer it was really hot and when i was creating my dining room i've got the tv right there too not far from me um it's kind of family room dining room in one room one space and so i connected to the internet and i was see i love the wide brush for filling in quickly i don't always like to fill in quick quickly but i really like that yellow there so going back to so i was listening to youtube and i was just watching really not watching but more listening because i was creating paying attention to what was in front of me but i was listening to youtube about different artists um history of artists things like that and that was when i realized actually it was a bit later but i realized that i was creating my best work when i was listening to somebody else talking so if you haven't tried that yet and i've talked about this in some of my other videos as well but if you haven't tried that yet and you are finding that you've got that little devil sitting on your shoulder questioning everything that you're doing when you're creating give that a try and if you have tried it leave me a comment below let me know has that helped has it helped you do you like that or do you still prefer to listen to music or maybe you prefer to listen to nothing at all either you know either one of those will work everyone needs to figure out what works best for them so leave me a comment below and also folks read comments so if you share your experience other folks are going to read that and they're going to learn from your experience as well here i've got a scraper that's not the official name of it i'm trying to remember what it's called but it's a rubber like scraper tool and i love it for spreading paint like this i can spread it very quickly i'm having trouble with getting that thing to stay in place now i do have the i guess i can't really notice it here i noticed on one of my other painting videos i've got a fan blowing directly onto my artwork and sometimes my canvas will bounce back and forth because it kind of goes right underneath it so this isn't my typical start i'm kind of spreading more paint around than i am making marks and that's okay sometimes i just veer off and try something different thinking that this is something that i like and i do like it when i'm creating it but then when i step back and look at it's like uh this is really not me it's not really my style it's not my true expression of how i'm feeling but it works really great for a foundation is what i'm finding and i did the same thing the other day on on a 48 by 48 painting that i was working on and i love the way that one turned out too that's a video coming a bit later so here i came back in with some red marks again these are representing more of my love for flowers and fields of flowers so although i did this background that is very subdued and blended now i'm coming back in with creating more obvious marks i guess i would say i've got a little tupperware container there where i'm mixing my colors because sometimes my palette is too filled with colors and obviously if you look at my table two filled with jars of paints as well i feel like i need to move them all out of the way and each time i move them out of the way the next time i start using paints they start get inching closer and closer and kind of crowding my palette area so i have switched over to using these tupperware containers or plastic containers that i've been saving and that's worked out really well because then i just mix the color directly into that little container i don't have a whole lot of marks going on yet so definitely need more now this is another way to create drips is just put some water on your brush and then press down with your brush onto the canvas and that'll create some nice drips for you and there i kind of threw the paint on there i don't know why i cleaned it up because and then here and then i throw some more on so i'm not sure what i was thinking at that point but i know that these are my early stages so i'm just throwing some on i know i'm gonna have to wait to dry a lot of this with this orange i'm kind of working around some of those drips that i already did so if you're fairly new to painting i'm sure that you go through this process of not knowing what you're doing and kind of questioning you know what am i doing where should i go what should i do next and i'm here to tell you that i've been painting this style since 2018 it's now 2021 september 2021 at the time of this recording and i can tell in this particular painting just by my body language i have no clue what i'm doing i'm like i don't know where i'm going i don't know what i'm doing but i'm just gonna keep going i'm just gonna keep doing and see where it takes me but i can tell by this by my body language and the way i'm looking at it is i'm just not sure you know which way i'm i'm headed and i held my hand up there because i was trying to figure out if i should block out something so this painting is nothing like my other ones so far and i believe that again i i recorded this it's been well over a month so i don't know my entire thought process at the time but i know i believe that i was trying to do something a little bit different similar but but a little bit different and it just wasn't really working i can tell looking at it here it just wasn't working it's a nice green and blending it right in i don't know i'm just kind of in love with that scraper for some reason i usually tend to make very obvious marks that are clearly noticeable as marks and this is a lot of blending going on for me okay still can't remember the name of that tool if anyone can remember leave a comment down below it's a rubbery tool with a straight edge on one side actually mine is curved just a tiny bit but it's fairly straight on one side i need to write down the names of these tools so that when i get on here to start recording that i can easily share with you what they're called i always think i'm going to remember i like that lighter area up in the corner working on my values which is something i typically don't always do until maybe closer to the end and wet paint if you are a working artist then i've got a number of different videos that you can check out if you go to my home page and scroll down a little bit there's a section called art business or art marketing something to that effect i've got like four videos there that you may be interested in okay so it was dry and i think this is the same day and i was probably sitting there staring at it for a while sometimes i'll do that i've come back in and i'm treating this like i'm starting all over i've started with mark making all over again and if you're interested in what mark making tools i like to use the link down below and also in the first comment underneath this video i'll have a link to my favorite art supplies and it's got a list of all the ones that i use so definitely treating this like i'm starting all over i'm adding my black did my mark making and adding lots of black again so something some folks would say okay so those first layers i did were a total waste and i love when i drop my brush and what i would say to that is no they weren't they were me experimenting and trying something and at the same time creating this one creating this wonderful texture that i wouldn't or depth that i wouldn't have otherwise so to me it's not a waste whatsoever i enjoyed that whole process and i'm just going to continue on now i seem to be looking for something that i lost i'm not sure or maybe i'm looking for colors that i can't find in front of me it would be nice if i actually grouped them with cool colors and warm colors and maybe yellows in the middle so it's easier to find but i am not an organized painter i'm very intuitive and i don't like to stop and clean up and get organized like i did before i just wiped down my brush a little bit got rid of some of that black and then added some white okay so what we're going to do here this is what i talked about before i am setting my timer i'm going to set it for 30 minutes i already had it at 31 seconds no big deal but anyway basically 30 minutes and i am going to push myself to move quickly through this process and this is an exercise that i like to do with my workshops too is to and it's less than 30 minutes when i do it in the workshops but it's basically not thinking and just doing and i felt that in that beginning process that i was spending way too much time thinking and of course i was probably doing that because it was trying some i was trying something a little bit different that i normally don't do and so that's going to slow you down and make you think more but after considering what i did and where i wanted it to go i decided that setting a timer is going to help propel me forward and push me to get this done quickly so that's why i set the 30 minutes and let's see how much i can get done in 30 minutes now 30 minutes seems like a long time but when you're working this large it's um [Music] you know you don't get a ton done in 30 minutes so but i was quite pleased and you'll see as we get there that that i did get more done than i thought i would be getting done so i was very happy about that now you might notice me looking up on the wall and what i ended up doing was i posted up there one of my 18 by 24 pieces that i recently created as my inspiration piece now is it going to look just like that there's just no way it will and i'm going to show you at the very end that inspiration piece but i'm glancing up there just to get some ideas of of where i should get going on this particular piece and so i'm adding some elements that i can see that i did in that previous 18 by 24 piece so i am working quicker i know i've got a timer going so i'm trying to move through and do less thinking and more doing clearly here you can also tell that i am adding elements that are larger and smaller and definitely a lot of color so we've switched to those cool colors i think i'm trying to find another color to introduce there we go i guess i switched back over to the pinks and that will happen to me if i'm using an inspiration piece of mine that has got a mix of colors then i start going back and forth now i'll have to be careful not to get my cool colors and warm colors mixed otherwise i'm going to create a muddy color which of course is okay neutrals are great when you're working with bright colors but not when you don't intend to want them to you don't want them to be neutral then it gets a bit frustrating if you're enjoying this video i would so appreciate a thumbs up from you and if you haven't subscribed go ahead and hit that subscribe button in the lower right hand corner is a round icon with my logo in it it's a teal color because that's my favorite color and if you hover above that you'll get a little thing that says subscribe so you can subscribe there and then hit the bell youtube has you do multi-steps here so hit the thumbs up subscribe and then if you hit the bell you'll be notified when i have another video coming out and when you hit the thumbs up and you subscribe it's really helping not just me but it's helping fellow artists out there who are looking for videos like this because what that does is it tells youtube to play this video for more folks because you're enjoying it so therefore they should you know send it out to more people especially if you comment that helps a lot as well so if you leave a comment below you know let me know if you're enjoying this so far if there's anything in here that you've enjoyed or or feel free to ask me questions i respond usually within 48 hours sometimes a little bit longer sometimes even shorter i try to get in there on a regular basis to respond to everybody i'm using that fluorescent pink that you see in that big jar there really fun color and really adds a lot of pop and punch now you can tone that down a bit with some white seems like that's what i did in that lower corner there so i like having inspiration pieces but sometimes it's a little frustrating because then i'm relying on it too much and i keep looking at it and then i don't feel like i'm working quite as intuitively but you'll see this one looks nothing nothing nothing like the inspiration piece it was just a good piece to kind of motivate me and push me into a certain direction so and that's why you see some of them up on the wall over on the left those are just prints of not even good prints these are costco prints of my artwork that i just put up as inspiration sometimes when i get stuck i'll look at them and say okay well what was working in this one and what should i do in the current piece that i'm working on that that i haven't considered i have more prints over off to the [Music] oh i think i said left side those are on the right and then i've got more on the left side so i think with my timer running i'm really pushing myself even working with the warm and cool colors and trying not to get them to create mud and as i mentioned before this i i did create this in the month of august guaranteed month of august it is hot in california i've got the fan blowing there are there is no air conditioning at our studios so the fan is the only thing that helps circulate air and somewhat cool me off so this is already coming together fairly quickly i'm already loving all these different colors i've got going and the composition the structure of it i really like i've got some large elements and some smaller elements i've got some quiet space and areas that are crazy and chaotic so there's a balance of that happening already i try to use a variety of different brushes as well and i've got brushes in my link for my favorite art supplies but in addition to those i just pick up brushes whenever wherever like if i'm at michael's i'm in the states so michael's is very popular here and i've got one not too far away and i'll pop in there when i'm getting other stuff and if there's a sale on brushes i'll just pick up a couple of brushes and yes there is such thing as having way too many brushes and as you can see over on the far right you know i've got a container full of brushes i don't know if i'll ever get through all of those some of them are brand new some of them are a lot older that i'm just not ready to throw out although they can be thrown out because i don't use them so and i like using a variety so i like using the flat ones i like using round the filbert different sizes you know everything from you know my script brush that i love using even on large canvases like this to you know a size 14 brush or even like i did in the beginning there i think that was like a two inch brush that was the chip brush this is a really nice blue i don't recall what blue that is but it looks really cool definitely nice next to that yellow so coming in with an even darker value there i think that was just black out of the jar the black that i had used earlier this is typical of me i'll put down a color and even when it's still wet i'll might go right back over it so i'm always looking to balance out my colors and see how one works next to the other there's my favorite teal-ish color and that one's a little bit more blue than teal if you're enjoying this style of painting i do have an online workshop that you may be interested in it's a recording from the live session i did last year and it's been really popular folks have been really enjoying watching it it's over two hours of me walking you through the process from start to finish i also include some exercises in there that one of those exercises is harmonizing your colors so that your painting comes together so if you're interested in that there is a link down below and you can check that out it's got a little bit more description in it when you click the link and that one is you know go at your own pace like i said it's two hours and you don't need any special software for that or special program it is on youtube so the link will take you to youtube it's a private link to youtube and you'll have easy access to it that way i'm definitely coming in with some lighter values here and it's starting to come together it's not quite there yet but it's slowly coming together wow now that's really white i think i'm using i don't think i'm using just so uh i'll have to look to see i've got a jar yeah i can see it back further i've got a jar of titanium white and it's a little bit brighter than just so and that really shows here as i mentioned i've been creating this style since 2018 and have had lots of practice and it took me a while to be able to there we go the timer went off so i turned that off and i got quite a bit done so 30 minutes you really can get a lot done if you push yourself so if you haven't done that type of exercise before give that a try you know you can do 30 minutes you can do 15 minutes you know sometimes i'll shorten it because i'm working smaller and i don't have a whole lot of time so i'll you know 10 minutes 15 minutes and see how much i can get done in that short period of time so i'm going to continue working on this even though my timer went off but it was it really pushed me through those middle stages and i am so much closer to the end uh because i really um you know use that exercise to to get me through that so going back to i was talking about you know i've been painting in this style since 2018 in the beginning i was doing a lot more of this type of painting on paper sitting down relaxed listening to something whether youtube or whatever and i got a lot of practice doing this on a smaller scale so like 9 by 12 11 by 14 paper i've got 14 by 17 that i do sometimes as well and what happened was i got really good at doing this style of painting on a small scale and then when i tried to super size it like here where we're working on 48 by 36 i was struggling i was just having such a hard time the whole concept of trying to take it from this smaller piece and and go a whole lot larger and it took me months and i remember just really being frustrated with myself and struggling with that but it was just it was a matter of practicing and i just needed to practice practice practice until i became more and more comfortable and it was you know learning to use larger brushes and learning to supersize my marks because you know i was so used to making them smaller on paper and it was that whole you know that memory of trying to um learn muscle memory is the word i'm trying to put together but it was the getting a new muscle memory that was a larger scale as opposed to the muscle memory that i had established already working on a smaller scale if that makes sense so now you know years later it's much easier for me to work large scale but sometimes i still get stuck i still get frustrated and still trying to figure things out and one thing that i talk about often in my workshops is this that painting is not just you know putting colors out there and putting it all together making it look good but it's all about troubleshooting and problem solving and that's how i approach all of my paintings and especially when i'm stepping back like this and i'm looking at it i am problem solving i'm looking at it and i'm saying okay you know where does my eye go what's not working about this what areas are working are these colors working are these shapes working are the size of these shapes working so it's all about troubleshooting and solving problems and you know that really plays a lot into just the way i am about life in general you know when things go wrong i just see it as an opportunity to solve it you know how do i troubleshoot this how do i solve it and i took that energy and that um that way of thinking into my artwork and worked on figuring things out in terms of you know what's working what's not working but that also takes some practice and some time when you're just getting started just like when i was just getting started i didn't know you know what was working what wasn't working it was just through practice and failing and having things not work and being able to look at that and say well this this isn't working because of this or it's not working because of that and avoiding doing those things on my next piece and learning from that so that you know and then something else comes up and then you learn okay well that doesn't work either but this does work so i should do more of this you know a good example of that is the black that i use in the very beginning i once didn't put enough black at the beginning or i covered up almost all of it and then i added it at kind of like at the very end and i hated it it was just floating on top and i just it wasn't creating the depth that i wanted so that was a learning experience for me so now i have learned that you know that black i need to put majority of it on early in the process or midway through the process so that i can create that depth that that i'm looking for so this is really coming together now we're getting there i like the dark area over on the right and then over on the left as well the right one is more of a blue the left one more black okay so i put this on my phone i've done this in my other videos i have this basic tool on my phone that lets me edit so it lets me pick colors that are already in the painting and then oops i'm trying to cover up that pink with white there we go so i was trying to show you and then maybe add some marks and then maybe add some dots there so that's an example i'm going back and forth where what it looks like now and what it possibly can look like so that pink circle at the top i didn't like it really my eye kept going there first and i really look at things where my eye goes first when let's say i turn around and i walk away from painting when i turn back around and look at it where does my eye go first and it's not always a good thing it's usually a an area that needs work so i covered that up with more of a gray it's the shape is still there it's just not in your face anymore it's not and plus it was smack in the middle of the top so really stood out so here i'm looking at okay i wanted to add some marks some long skinny marks because i've got the green ones that are a lot thicker and wider up above i don't want to replicate those i want to add a variety so i came in with this lighter gray and then i'm coming back in with a little bit of a darker gray and now i'm looking at where to put those dots and i really like doing this on my phone especially when i'm kind of towards the end and i'm trying to figure out what else can i be doing or what areas need fixing and it's just a great way for me to be able to do that without getting the paints out so here i'm just using a small brush and i'm just turning it around to make these circles twisting it so i like that okay so i hit those three areas that that i wanted to do i think i'm going to be doing something else here too here i've got my rigor out so i've got that nice quiet area of that kind of a really light gray that was super white at one time but now it's kind of more of a light gray i like quiet areas but yet i don't like them to be too quiet so if i do something that's a bit more subtle more tone on tone i like that better and that's what i did there so it's not super obvious up close you're going to be able to see see it much more all right and i'm smiling i don't know why let's see i think i'm going to show you okay all right so here i'm going to show you back to okay showing you what i did so what i did on my phone versus what you see on the wall and that was the before and now the after so very happy with that and oh lord i don't even know what color that is i want to say i think i just went with a red yeah i think that's my i think parole red maybe decided to darken up those areas a bit okay now we've got the thumbs up so nope we're back i think this is my no i got paint out again just when i thought i was done there's something else i want to do oh you know what i end up doing here i end up spraying this and up close this is really cool so again that bottom area and i set this down because i didn't want all of them to drip all the way to the bottom and i know you can't see me here i'm hitting it with the dryer so that bottom area that was white or kind of a really light grayish color it was too simple for me too quiet and so coming in with this yellow which is very subtle more noticeable up close than it is further away and you'll see in my detail shots coming up so that's what i ended up doing down there and you can see a little bit of it here but not not a whole lot i think i just wiped away some of it entirely i don't know what i'm doing well whatever i did i liked and i still like so i don't i just don't remember doing all of that wiping okay so i believe this is another day i think i let this dry entirely i always run my hands over it to see if there's anything that's sticking out a bit too much in this case i grabbed a sanding sponge it's kind of a coarser one so i can get rid of some of those nibs nubs that stick out a little too much and i'm coming in with usually i start with a pencil i've got a really tiny pencil in my hand there and now my final mark making is much more intentional i'm looking for ways to enhance the painting to what i call you know add the icing on the cake here i'm doing scribbles i like doing scribbles and then i erase part of it so that it's not one continuous line of scribbles i like using prismacolor pencils regular pencil i'll probably not sure if i switch to my neo color crayons i like adding those sometimes as well so a variety of different marks i've got china markers black white yellow that i like to use and again these marks you're not going to see from a distance it's more of something that you're going to see up close i like it when people can enjoy my painting from a distance and they're drawn to it and then when they walk up closer to it that they really you know are rewarded with with more interesting marks now the beauty of all of these tools that i use is that you can erase them if you don't like them even the crayon marks the neocolor 2 crayons that i use if i don't like them i just get my regular eraser out it's my daughter's old eraser from grade school and i just use that to erase marks and sometimes they don't erase entirely sometimes a little bit is left behind and then i end up finding out that well i love that a little bit was left behind so after i go through this process of doing my mark making and really nothing needs to dry at that point it would be ready for me to do a spray fixative either spray spray varnish or a spray fixative either one will work i will include a link here so that you can check that out and the link will take you to a video that i created a couple of years ago and back then i was using a spray um a spray varnish to secure my marks and then i go over it with liquitex varnish two coats so here we go we're gonna come up close now and you can see the sides of it i'm moving it away so that you can see where that where it ends see very subtle marks there some of them are subtle some of them are much more noticeable that's those are my pencil marks i did at the very beginning there and there the marks are a bit more subtle here's my scribbling did that with a pinkish color again if you enjoyed this video i really appreciate a thumbs up from you and having you subscribe to my channel i send out videos or upload videos on a regular basis there's another side view there so if you hit that bell you'll be notified when i've got another video coming out i appreciate you know if you stuck this out to the very end here i really appreciate that very much and remember i'm happy to answer your questions so feel free to leave one below or share experiences using different products oh and there's the yellow see the drips that i did i love that part so here i will show you quick view of my workspace and then there's the inspiration piece back there there was one to the left of that that fell off the tape is still up there but that was the inspiration piece just wanted something to help push me propel me forward and sometimes i like to do that there's my fan that i use my seating area where i get to stare at my artwork i've got so those two pieces there right now are in santa cruz at a gallery called curated by the sea this one here has sold and it's gone to teresa thank you again and there's some of my there's the varnish i like to use now these pieces down here those three in a row are also at curated by the sea in santa cruz these three are available on my website this one is available and there's a quick view of some of my canvas that i've got stashed and swing you around front door and my painting wall there okay loving the piece and this one has sold it's called garden patch and it went to lori and i just i'm in love with it and and she is in love with it as well which is super important to me so here are some pictures up close i would love to create another one like this so much fun so that means i have to start like not knowing what i'm doing in the beginning all over again and then maybe set a timer use an inspiration piece but you know no two never turn out the same so there's me very happy that it is done thank you again for watching i appreciate you being here and you can watch more here subscribe here and wishing you a super wonderful and creative day take care

Channel: Betty Franks Art

Views: 30,389

Keywords: abstract art, acrylic painting, process video, art, intuitive, canvas, painting, mark making, mixed media, betty franks, expressionism, paint brush, Robert Burridge, art2life, nicholas wilton, nancy hillis, jane davies, SurajFineArts, Louise Fletcher, lori mirabelli, Dan Tirels, monoprinting, Tracy Verdugo, donna downey, art with adele, Flora Bowley, Michael Lang, Art & Success - Pamela Caughey, Ivy Newport, Amanda Gorman, Künstlerstreich, cheap joe's, homedecor, diy, joan mitchell

Id: Sex4udxnC0A

Length: 52min 27sec (3147 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 08 2021