How your concept of loss affects your artwork 🌿🌸 paint with me + candle in a window 🕯

Hi everyone! Today’s video is just a simple paint with me along with my musings on the concept of loss and how it effects your artwork.
So today I’m going to be painting a simple painting of a candle in a window with greenery in the background. I've been recently inspired by nature scenes, probably because I've made improvements in my vision and the one thing I can see completely clear are trees :)

I’ve come to learn that mixing colors is not only a way to get the right color, but to explore new combinations. Sometimes I look at my palette paper and think about how beautiful it is because of all the color combinations and brush strokes. I think as I progress through my art journey, I'm simultaneously able to become more free in how I create. Its a fun and thrilling process.

I’ve also learned the importance of brush strokes in opposite directions. I’ve wondered for a while why my paintings are flat and untextured, but then I started becoming more free in the direction of my brush strokes and found out that creates a lot of texture and 3D in the painting especially when you are painting bushes and trees.

I wanted to make it look like the sun was shining on part of the bushes. This part was going to be right behind the candle so I wanted to add some dimension there. And actually I did this part with a sponge and that worked out really well. It created the soft, blurry edges that I wanted.

2:45 The sky was sort of challenging. When you look at trees, where the blue meets the green is obvious, but there are parts of the blue sky that shine through the trees. It was hard to depict this because it has to be random, but I’ve also noticed there is some sort of order to it. It is not a huge round spot of blue, but its also not tiny specs. It’s groupings of the sky color that ultimately meet the wide open sky. It’s really hard to explain and even harder still to create.

I wanted to make massive brown window pains made of wood, but I also wanted it to be at an angle. After that I wanted some rod iron window Paynes that resembled those at a church. Hey this could totally be a church with some sort of candlelight service!

Speaking of church, I wanted to talk about something I learned about my art from studying Job. The book of Job in the Old Testament is about a man who was seemingly caught in the crosshairs of God’s heavenly council and Satan. A cosmic bet takes place where Satan bets that if God allowed Job to lose everything, Job would curse God. And so Job loses his family, his livestock, and his health. The end of the story is that Job never curses God. God watches Job suffer with silent compassion and admiration until the time comes to give Job back everything he lost and more.

I’m reading a commentary on Job because the book is very complex and disturbing. One line that has imprinted in my mind is that “a man may stand before God, stripped of everything that life has given him, and still lack nothing.”

Whenever I am painting, there is a sense that the next brushstroke will end in disaster and ruin the whole painting. So each brushstroke is made in fear. This causes me to be conservative in my approach and timid in my ideas. The main issue is a fear of loss. The fear that I will lose everything and have to start over again. But even if I have to trash this painting, what have I lost? I never had the painting to begin with. So the idea that I can secure this painting by being timid and afraid is sort of foolish. I think instead, a healthier mindset is that I have been given a blank canvas and so if I have to go back to just having a blank canvas, I will have lost nothing. In fact, it is only by grace that I am given another blank canvas so that I can start over.

So slap paint on the canvas, mess up, enjoy life. You are no less of an artist because you have to go back to the blank canvas. The blank canvas is our hope. Because as artists, you can stand stripped of every piece of art you have created and still lack nothing.

I left this out of the video and I regret it. Jesus is the one that is kind enough to give us a new, blank canvas. All we have to do is receive it from Him.

Видео How your concept of loss affects your artwork 🌿🌸 paint with me + candle in a window 🕯 канала Kelsie Marie