Channel Title: Helen Wells Artist: Sketchbooks + Art Ideas Channel Description: Hello, hello! I'm a full time artist and educator who loves colour, pattern and abstract art. I'm also the author of the book 'Expressive Sketchbooks: Developing Creative Skills, Courage and Confidence, published by Quarry Books. In these videos I share what I'm up to in my aown art practice, art making wisdom, advice, techniques and ideas to help you make more art and fall in love with your sketchbook... <video> 12 June 2024 Description: </video> <video> Creative Adventures: Abstract And Inky Travel Sketchbook Description: FREE SKETCHBOOK CLASS: Fall in love with your sketchbook, loosen up and play with mixed media: https://helenwellsartist.com/signup In this video I share a holiday sketchbook, how I prepared it before I went away, the materials I took what I actually did within it. This sketchbook is perhaps not a traditional travel sketchbook. There is no one way to do anything. In our sketchbooks we get to decide what we do and how we do it. There is a freedom and an excitement in that. We get to curate and create in a way that is personal and unique to us and that is part of the joy… The sketchbook is from Stillman & Birn, from it its Zeta range. </video> <video> Create Your Own Art Making Manifesto: Here's mine... Description: In this video I chat developing your own art manifesto, defining what you believe and the power of following your own wisdom. FREE MIXED MEDIA ART CLASS, Fall in love with your sketchbook, loosen up and play with mixed media: https://helenwellsartist.com/signup </video> <video> Embracing The Beauty Of Patterns in Art... Description: In this video I share a little of my love for pattern in art. I take you inside my sketchbook and share a few artists who use pattern beautifully... If you'd a little something to kick start your creativity, check out this: FREE MIXED MEDIA ART CLASS, Fall in love with your sketchbook, loosen up and play with mixed media: https://helenwellsartist.com/signup </video> <video> Riding The Wave of Creativity: Insights on its Ebbs And Flows Description: Today I want to chat about the ebbs and flows of a creative life... If you'd a little something to kick start your creativity, check out this: FREE MIXED MEDIA ART CLASS, Fall in love with your sketchbook, loosen up and play with mixed media: https://helenwellsartist.com/signup </video> <video> Art making: These are the things I never want to forget.... Description: I'm an artist and in these videos I share what I'm up to in my own art practice in case it helps you in your art making. In this video I chat about the importance of reflection, risk and reward... and try and unpick some of the things I want to remember for myself in my own art practice. FREE MIXED MEDIA ART CLASS, Fall in love with your sketchbook, loosen up and play with mixed media: https://helenwellsartist.com/signup </video> <video> Art Vlog On Making Big Changes and Nurturing Creativity Description: This video is about nurturing our creative selves and ways to think about change. As Summer unfurls I can feel my creative energy shifting and changing. For me it feels like a time of year when I need to nourish and refill. A time to retreat into creativity, a time to replenish, a time to be more introspective... FREE MIXED MEDIA ART CLASS, Fall in love with your sketchbook, loosen up and play with mixed media: https://helenwellsartist.com/signup MUSIC CREDIT: Masterpiece of Mess by Ludlow via EpidemicSound </video> <video> Seeking Joy And Delight In Creating Our Own Art Description: In this video I take you on a tour of a full mixed media sketchbook and chat about mixing art supplies. The sketchbook is from a UK brand called Daler Rowney and is A3 with 160gsm paper... FREE MIXED MEDIA ART CLASS, Fall in love with your sketchbook, loosen up and play with mixed media: https://helenwellsartist.com/signup </video> <video> Nature inspired sketchbook, art books and new nature inspired abstract art class... Description: 🌿 👀 Check out my new nature inspired art class: https://helenwellsartist.com/nature-and-nurture-salespage Books mentioned in the video; The Alphabet of Plants, Karl Blossfeldt, Published by Schirmer Art Books Flower Power: The Magic of Nature's Healers by Christine Paxmann, illustrated by Olaf Hajek </video> <video> Exploring The Layers Of Meaning In an Abstract Painting Description: In this video I share some new paintings with you and chat a little about deciding when artworks are finished and about the layers of meaning behind a painting. Unpicking what a painting is about or why we create in the way we create is an interesting and sometimes complex tapestry. FREE MIXED MEDIA ART CLASS, Fall in love with your sketchbook, loosen up and play with mixed media: https://helenwellsartist.com/signup Original paintings available here: https://helenwellsartist.com/shop </video> <video> Abstract art: How do you want your art to feel? Description: In this video I share what I'm up to in my art practice, painting abstract acrylic paintings inspired by nature and how I make decisions about how to progress a painting... These paintings are not finished they are in the middle. I have spent a few days working on them, and will spend a few more.They are made with heavy body acrylic paint on 300gsm paper. 🌿 👀 Check out my new nature inspired art class: https://helenwellsartist.com/nature-and-nurture-salespage Music credit: Beauty in the Mundane by Bird of Figment via EpidemicSound </video> <video> Art Exercise: Let's Create Abstract Collages Together Description: Today’s video is all about abstract collages and small creative challenges. In a previous video, https://youtu.be/WEFfQRUGlac, I mentioned a new book called: Make Every Day Creative, Art Anyone Can Do by Marion Deuchars, published by Skittledog 2024. I said I would pick a project from within it to share with you…so in today’s video I share a collage exercise from the book. More info on the book can be found here on the author's website: https://www.mariondeuchars.com/books#/make-everyday-creative/ Or do check out my blog here: https://helenwellsartist.com/blogsandvideos/creating-compositions-from-offcuts Music Credit: Softly to Myself by Kylie Dailey via EpidemicSound </video> <video> Art books, searching for ideas and finding a starting point... Description: FREE MIXED MEDIA ART CLASS: Fall in love with your sketchbook, loosen up and play with mixed media: https://helenwellsartist.com/signup In this video I show you some of my recent art explorations which show an ‘eclectic’ selection of interests and approaches. 👀 Helen Wells’s art blog:https://helenwellsartist.com/blogsandvideos ❤️ Online classes: https://helenwellsartist.com/online-classes 🎨 Original painting https://helenwellsartist.com/shop </video> <video> Vibrant Art Books, Sketchbooks, And Paintings: A Kaleidoscope of Colour Description: This video is a love letter to colour. In it I share some new colourful abstract paintings with you, I review my year in sketchbook pages and show you a beautiful art book published in 2021 by Taschen which celebrates the art of Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes. https://www.taschen.com/en/books/art/04815/beatriz-milhazes Check out my blog here: https://helenwellsartist.com/blogsandvideos/escaping-into-colour </video> <video> Unexpected Twists In These Abstract Paintings! Description: Today I want to talk about how paintings can sometimes take a completely unexpected turn. How the art we’ve made previously can inform what we are making today and how sometimes our ideas just take time and many different iterations to get where they are going... FREE MIXED MEDIA ART CLASS, Fall in love with your sketchbook, loosen up and play with mixed media: https://helenwellsartist.com/signup </video>

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Hello, hello! I'm a full time artist and educator who loves colour, pattern and abstract art. I'm also the author of the book 'Expressive Sketchbooks: Developing Creative Skills, Courage and Confidence, published by Quarry Books.
In these videos I share what I'm up to in my aown art practice, art making wisdom, advice, techniques and ideas to help you make more art and fall in love with your sketchbook...

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