I was one of the people who was never encouraged to follow my artistic dream. I was pushed into a teaching career just because my sister was a teacher. It did not matter to my parents that I loved art and wanted to have a career in art. Now at age 57 I am finally coming back to art.
My dad suggested computers to me. But while buried in math and computer classes, I could feel like my brain wasn't balanced. I instinctively went to the bookstore, got a sketchbook, and spent all afternoon drawing in nature. Felt much better after.
Your story sounds so similar to mine! I finished high school and wanted to do a visual arts course, but my well-meaning mother told me there was no money in that you should be a teacher, like she and my aunt were. I’ve been teaching for over 30 years now and am just coming back to my art now! It’s such a good feeling - have fun and enjoy!
Janis your illustrated journals are gorgeous! Your watercolors of your trip to Israel and virtues series are impressive as are the spiritual sketchbooks. Thanks Sketchbook Skool for interviewing Janis!
I love seeing other people's sketchbooks. My mother's an artist so I basically grew up with a pencil in my hand. I drew on and off for years and it wasn't until highschool where we actually started to learn the fundamentals and basic techniques I started taking it seriously and started keeping a sketchbook. Now I've basically been drawing every day for the past 10 years and couldn't imagine living without it. Cause it's not just the drawing but it's genuinely changed the way I see things. like I used too look at things. But now I SEE things, and I think that's why I love this channel so much cause this is what it encourages
What a charming person Janis is ! Such beautiful sketchbooks ! Thank you Danny for this video ! Always appreciate these gems ! Warmest regards... Lorraine 🤗🎨
OMG, before Janice came on screen I imagined a hippie with long dark hair and lots of funky jewelry 😅 Only 7 min. In and I'm in awe of your Bible Journaling!
I’m going into my last year of my Bachelors of Fine Arts right now and this channel has helped me find the will to sketch again! It’s also is pushing me to go get my Masters so I can be a professor. So much love for this channel💕💕
Good luck! Just remember while you are working so hard to get those degrees never stop your own art practices. That is what will make you a magnificent teacher. Knowing and understanding the struggles and joys of expressing yourself through your art is the key to teaching others to make art and to live a life of creativity. Passion and excitement are contagious.
Back in my youth and traveling the hemisphere, I wish i had even thought about drawing the experience. Back in the day, I didn't have a camera, and was very lucky to have had a foster Dad who wanted me to see a little of the world. It was such an experience to learn about other cultures and bred a deeper, stronger love for America. Thanks to Google, I can get pics of some of the places, but not all. I had a written journal that burned in our house fire. Wish I had that, too. AMaking these pages that look like they are out of a magazine just totally flumuxes me.
I’ve always housed a creative soul but needed to support my kids so I trained in electro-mechanical drafting (1979 on the board). I’m now retired & enjoying drawing outside the lines🥰
I really look forward to joining Spark, hopefully soon and taking advantage of Janis's knowledge and inspiration. I love everything she said about watercolor and feel it has done so much for me, just as a person to play with it. So much about acceptance and self-forgiveness, the lack of which often holds us back in art . . . and in life.
Thank you Danny and Janis for this wonderful film about sketch book art. I learned a lot and came away inspired. Janis has the most fantastic sketch books - it was a privilege to see her work - and I just loved the book about Millie the corgi. It made me laugh out loud. Janis summed up the character of her delightful pet so accurately and lovingly it was a joy to see.
💖 I love your corgi art! 💖 It looks like your Millie and my corgi are about the same age. My guy turned one Nov of 21. He's such a joy! His BFF is my black tom cat. 😂 Thank you for sharing your sketch book art. I'm on page 3 of my 1st ever sketch book... lots of room for improvement! ☺ lol
Keep going! If you draw something every day, that book will be filled before you know it and your skills will improve. Have fun and don't sweat the mistakes and the wonkiness.
I absolutely love her work. I’m especially liking the recipes she does. I can’t wait to try this witH some of my moms old recipes. Just opened up so wonderful new inspiration and idea! Thanks for the great interview.
I just did my first water color and it turned out a mess, but I learned from it. The colors are so beautiful, and as I look at the piece the colors just pop. I want to learn more.
"Art talk" I love it. In teacher speak we call this metacognition. This makes me want to take the drawing FUNdamentals class. Lovely interview Janice and Danny!
Love the idea of spiritual journaling. I started doing that. However, it's a bit chaotic. I need to keep it in one centralized book 📖 not single sheets everywhere in the house.😂😅
Wow. This is the most beautiful and informative interview I've ever seen. I particularly loved all the wonderful drawings of Israel, the depictions of the life there seen through the eyes of an artist who truly understands the significance of Israel in God's story.
Thanks so much. I wanted to get the wonderful insights I gained on the trip to Israel on paper so I would never forget. It was an amazing trip. I would love to go back.
Wow that's an inspiring sketch book Janis! Thanks for sharing 🙏 Danny, also check out Teoh Yi Chie's channel. He's another awesome sketch book artist!👍
Sketchbooks is nice, but I want to learn and practise paintingfull pictures. And learn making backgrounds and frames. As ewll as birnging out my dormant, suppressed self- confidence and self-esteem, sense of worth..
What is frustrating about online courses is that they are so expensive. Spark is $130 a month, probably in U.S. dollars. That is a huge chunk of change and WAY beyond my means. I was part of another group that I loved last year that I loved and was considerably less than this, but I had to leave after a few months because it was getting so expensive. I was heartbroken.
@@bjgoels Hey Brenda, just looking back at some of the recent replies to this interview. I am so sorry that SBS doesn't fit into your budget right now. But please don't get discouraged. I want to encourage you to make art every day even if you can't take a class. Play with your art materials. Sketch and doodle and draw and paint very simple things at first. Paint the same thing over and over, and you will see your improvement. Sometimes it's 2 steps forward and one step backward. Don't worry about your mistakes or if you think it looks bad. Don't throw anything away. Over time you will see your artwork is improving and you are growing on your own. You can be self-taught. It may take longer but you will grow and learn. Keep going. As we say at SBS, "It's all about the journey." Have fun. (Take a look at Van Gogh's early paintings.)
I was one of the people who was never encouraged to follow my artistic dream. I was pushed into a teaching career just because my sister was a teacher. It did not matter to my parents that I loved art and wanted to have a career in art. Now at age 57 I am finally coming back to art.
Glad you are getting back to art...make art for you !
My dad suggested computers to me. But while buried in math and computer classes, I could feel like my brain wasn't balanced. I instinctively went to the bookstore, got a sketchbook, and spent all afternoon drawing in nature. Felt much better after.
Your story sounds so similar to mine! I finished high school and wanted to do a visual arts course, but my well-meaning mother told me there was no money in that you should be a teacher, like she and my aunt were. I’ve been teaching for over 30 years now and am just coming back to my art now! It’s such a good feeling - have fun and enjoy!
Hey me too. Fifty eight here and took my drawing course this spring.
Yes I'm 54 and just starting art again😃xxx
Janis your illustrated journals are gorgeous! Your watercolors of your trip to Israel and virtues series are impressive as are the spiritual sketchbooks. Thanks Sketchbook Skool for interviewing Janis!
Thanks so much,
You both have such a calm energy. It’s a pleasure to be able to watch this conversation. Thank you.
So glad you enjoyed
I love seeing other people's sketchbooks. My mother's an artist so I basically grew up with a pencil in my hand. I drew on and off for years and it wasn't until highschool where we actually started to learn the fundamentals and basic techniques I started taking it seriously and started keeping a sketchbook. Now I've basically been drawing every day for the past 10 years and couldn't imagine living without it. Cause it's not just the drawing but it's genuinely changed the way I see things. like I used too look at things. But now I SEE things, and I think that's why I love this channel so much cause this is what it encourages
What a charming person Janis is ! Such beautiful sketchbooks ! Thank you Danny for this video ! Always appreciate these gems ! Warmest regards... Lorraine 🤗🎨
Great story! Making everyday objects beautiful. Love urban sketching and travel journaling so much
Sooo! Beautiful!! Thank you for interviewing this awesome woman!!!
I love sketch books, my favourite art form
I stopped doing art for 18 years while I raised my son. I have been doing art now for six years and love it so much.
Beautifully done interview - Janis' work is so detailed, and rich with colour!
Thanks so much, Catherine!!!
Wow. Those pages with the Candy/wrappers are just amazing. They look like they were just taped on the pages. Detail is awesome
I think so too details are great
Thanks so much. I was eating candy as I painted making the experience more meaningful.
OMG, before Janice came on screen I imagined a hippie with long dark hair and lots of funky jewelry 😅
Only 7 min. In and I'm in awe of your Bible Journaling!
Janis' Israel sketchbook is absolutely beautiful!
I’m going into my last year of my Bachelors of Fine Arts right now and this channel has helped me find the will to sketch again! It’s also is pushing me to go get my Masters so I can be a professor. So much love for this channel💕💕
Post your art?
Good luck! Just remember while you are working so hard to get those degrees never stop your own art practices. That is what will make you a magnificent teacher. Knowing and understanding the struggles and joys of expressing yourself through your art is the key to teaching others to make art and to live a life of creativity. Passion and excitement are contagious.
It was a pleasure looking through her sketchbook. 4:10 drawing tip was helpful.
Back in my youth and traveling the hemisphere, I wish i had even thought about drawing the experience. Back in the day, I didn't have a camera, and was very lucky to have had a foster Dad who wanted me to see a little of the world. It was such an experience to learn about other cultures and bred a deeper, stronger love for America. Thanks to Google, I can get pics of some of the places, but not all. I had a written journal that burned in our house fire. Wish I had that, too. AMaking these pages that look like they are out of a magazine just totally flumuxes me.
I’ve always housed a creative soul but needed to support my kids so I trained in electro-mechanical drafting (1979 on the board). I’m now retired & enjoying drawing outside the lines🥰
I really look forward to joining Spark, hopefully soon and taking advantage of Janis's knowledge and inspiration. I love everything she said about watercolor and feel it has done so much for me, just as a person to play with it. So much about acceptance and self-forgiveness, the lack of which often holds us back in art . . . and in life.
I like her different things she teaches, like letter art, water color, art, and art talk. Janus.
Thanks for this interview Danny ....Janis ' work is amazing 😍
Thank you Danny and Janis for this wonderful film about sketch book art. I learned a lot and came away inspired. Janis has the most fantastic sketch books - it was a privilege to see her work - and I just loved the book about Millie the corgi. It made me laugh out loud. Janis summed up the character of her delightful pet so accurately and lovingly it was a joy to see.
Thanks so much. Millie is always an inspritation.
Beautiful sketchbooks! I love the sketches of the adorable Millie!
💖 I love your corgi art! 💖 It looks like your Millie and my corgi are about the same age. My guy turned one Nov of 21. He's such a joy! His BFF is my black tom cat. 😂 Thank you for sharing your sketch book art. I'm on page 3 of my 1st ever sketch book... lots of room for improvement! ☺ lol
Your corgi is Sagittarius like me 😍 I'm November 27! Happy sketcbooking! Xx
Keep going! If you draw something every day, that book will be filled before you know it and your skills will improve. Have fun and don't sweat the mistakes and the wonkiness.
Always reminds me to do the work! I’ve watched this video many times to help me move foreword! Thanks, Karen Dirmish learner 14:55
I want to take all of these classes!
The sketchbooks are beautiful and amazing, so creatively wonderful to look at. Thank you for sharing it.
I wished that Spark would offer all classes for individual purchase.
I absolutely love her work. I’m especially liking the recipes she does. I can’t wait to try this witH some of my moms old recipes. Just opened up so wonderful new inspiration and idea! Thanks for the great interview.
Watercolor has interested me for awhile and I am thinking about just diving right in and exploring.
I am now teaching an independent online class. If you are interested let me know here and I will send you information.
SO INSPIRING - SO ENCOURAGING. I wish she could have turned those pages more slowly. Thank you 🙏
You can alter the speed , just tip on the three dots in the upper right corner
Down to even those adorable pugs, she captured the way they sit, their little muscled legs and the adorable bulging wall eyes
Corgis!
I just did my first water color and it turned out a mess, but I learned from it. The colors are so beautiful, and as I look at the piece the colors just pop. I want to learn more.
"Art talk" I love it. In teacher speak we call this metacognition. This makes me want to take the drawing FUNdamentals class. Lovely interview Janice and Danny!
Thanks so much.
Love the idea of spiritual journaling. I started doing that. However, it's a bit chaotic. I need to keep it in one centralized book 📖 not single sheets everywhere in the house.😂😅
Thank you for the beautiful interview. As you said, she is an excellent teacher and the word art and spiritual one got me immediately.
Wow. This is the most beautiful and informative interview I've ever seen. I particularly loved all the wonderful drawings of Israel, the depictions of the life there seen through the eyes of an artist who truly understands the significance of Israel in God's story.
Thanks so much. I wanted to get the wonderful insights I gained on the trip to Israel on paper so I would never forget. It was an amazing trip. I would love to go back.
Ur sketches are phenomenal!
Thanks so much.
Really lovely interview and artwork. Thank you!
Talented, kind, generous Janis.
Thank you so very much!
I think I missed the word art. Maybe it can go up in Spark again for a while? In the bonus content folder?
Lovely work. Thank you.
Such a beautiful person.
Love the work this lady does, does she have anything on UA-cam or is she only to be found in sketchschool.
Not really, but I am on Instagram.
@@janngogh tried to find you on Instagram but nothing came up.
Great warm interview. Informative and inspirational. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely lovely
Where can l buy one of Janis's books? Thanks
She hasn't published one...yet
Love this…..JANIS IS WONDERFUL
Thanks so much.
I'm confused, is the online course called spark or sketchbook skool?
The course is Sparks. Which is through our company Sketchbook skool
Beautiful video, thank you! :)
Thank you
You're welcome
My 'problem' is that there is too much to fill my sketchbook...
Hey ...try with small sketchbooks first...i had the same struggle too...now i use A6 sketchbooks
You mentioned Spark. Just what is Spark? Another offering by SBS?
Spark is the Sketchbook Skool membership program. Try a 2-week free trial at sketchbookskool.com/spark
Interested in Janice watercolor.
Wow that's an inspiring sketch book Janis! Thanks for sharing 🙏 Danny, also check out
Teoh Yi Chie's channel. He's another awesome sketch book artist!👍
omg my dogs name is Tater Tot too!
Sketchbooks is nice, but I want to learn and practise paintingfull pictures. And learn making backgrounds and frames. As ewll as birnging out my dormant, suppressed self- confidence and self-esteem, sense of worth..
Really inspiring. 👍🏻
Glad you think so!
Thanks so much.
Woooooooooooow
What is frustrating about online courses is that they are so expensive. Spark is $130 a month, probably in U.S. dollars. That is a huge chunk of change and WAY beyond my means. I was part of another group that I loved last year that I loved and was considerably less than this, but I had to leave after a few months because it was getting so expensive. I was heartbroken.
We charge about a dollar an hour for intimate art classes. I’m sorry that is frustrating.
@@SketchBookSkool I know. Limited income just makes it so difficult to take part in stuff like this.
@@bjgoels Hey Brenda, just looking back at some of the recent replies to this interview. I am so sorry that SBS doesn't fit into your budget right now. But please don't get discouraged. I want to encourage you to make art every day even if you can't take a class. Play with your art materials. Sketch and doodle and draw and paint very simple things at first. Paint the same thing over and over, and you will see your improvement. Sometimes it's 2 steps forward and one step backward. Don't worry about your mistakes or if you think it looks bad. Don't throw anything away. Over time you will see your artwork is improving and you are growing on your own. You can be self-taught. It may take longer but you will grow and learn. Keep going. As we say at SBS, "It's all about the journey." Have fun. (Take a look at Van Gogh's early paintings.)
@@janngogh Thank you for your encouragement.
Una crítica no artistica:
En ese mapa se asume como terrtorio israelí toda palestina. Ni siquiera aparece Cisjordinia.