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It’s Christmas Eve here in Australia. I'm out in the studio this morning doing a few things and then I have to go and do some cooking in preparation for tomorrow.

Thank you very much for your support and what a busy year it's been. I appreciate all of you in so many ways. You motivate me to continue to learn and improve my skills which is invaluable. I hope I have inspired and motivated you this year to keep learning and growing. We all need something in our lives to help us relax and unwind and painting certainly helps me cope with the stresses of life. I hope it helps you too.

If you celebrate Christmas, have a wonderful day and I wish all of you a very happy and safe New Year. If the weather is nice, Dom and I have plans to spend Christmas morning at the beach with his parents and extended family. In the afternoon we’ll head home because our daughter and older son and their partners are headed to our place for Christmas dinner. We look forward to spending our grandson’s second Christmas with him. Our younger son, Carl, who helps me with the YouTube videos is spending Christmas in Sydney with his girlfriend’s parents. He’s heading home on New Year’s Eve to see us. We have a family day planned at a beach reserve where we can kayak on New Year’s day. That should be fun.

Sending you lots of love, stay safe and I look forward to painting with you next year. Let me know how you will be spending Christmas. 

Louise

❤️🎄💚

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Suzan Atkinson

Happy holidays to you and yours. So happy to be part of your Patreon group. Best wishes for a great new year too.

Annina Spoerry

All the best for a beautiful holiday season a very happy new year

Peggy Ulm

Merry Christmas Louise thank you for your wonderful videos and calm and relaxing voice. I am new to your Patreon group and hope to spend many hours with you in this new year. God Bless you and your family.

Darlene B

Louise, have a beautiful holiday with your family

Jane_B

It’s been wonderful being part of your patreon family. I’ve not had a great deal of time to paint this year but I wait eagerly each month to see the next video. Have a lovely holiday with your family and I’m so jealous of your kayaking trip. Weather in the UK is a bit miserable till springtime ⛄️🥃🎄🥳🏄‍♀️

Kati Graue Wildlife Art

Thank you so much for all you do in teaching watercolor skills and for sharing moments of your life with us. I do appreciate your tutorials but have not had too much opportunity to paint and grow in my watercolor journey but am aiming to schedule I more time to develop as I do so much enjoy to paint . Wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas and holiday season. Here’s to the new year and all the successes yet to achieve. Cheers!

Ellie

Happy Holidays and lots of great time with your family ❤️

Jamie Balmelli

Merry Christmas! Thank you for all you do 💜

Diane Hicks

Merry Christmas Louise, and thank you for all your guidance. Hope you have a wonderful break, and look forward to another year learning from you!

Kim Buck

Happy Holidays! Loved the look back at 2022. Thank you!

Jean Covelli

Merry Christmas! And thank you for sharing your plans with us - I’m new to your Patreon and I’m loving the journey of learning watercolor with you via your excellent tutorials. We are looking forward to celebrating Christmas here in Long Island NY with our family especially after Covid shut us down last year. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent with us, Louise. Have a wonderful Christmas and a blessed New Year 🎄🎉❤️

June Lawniczak

Your kitten is so adorable! I am still loving to paint some of your painting by watching the tuts. But lately I have gone a bit on my own just to see if I can remember what you have taught me. I recently have done about 5 or 6 small Christmas projects. I will have to get busy and watch some more of the videos as I know there will be more things for me to learn. Merry Christmas. Your plans sound amazing. My husband and I will be going to our daughter's home and all 3 of their "kids" will be there, which is always nice considering they are grown adults with busy lives. But still our grandkids.

Wendy Hitchings

Merry Christmas Louise! All the best for 2023! Looking forward to what you have in store for us next year!

Patrica Clarke

Joining your Patreon group has been the most wonderful experience. You are a brilliant, generous and talented teacher. I eagerly await your 2023 tutorials. Wishing you and the family a very happy and restful Christmas.

Daurel Carhart

Thank you, Louise. You have helped me on my learning journey so much. Best wishes to you and your family in 2023.

Tonna McGuinn

Merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy new year to you and your family. Thank you so much for all of the time and hard work you put into guiding us on our learning journey. Have a wonderful holiday!

Barbara MacLeod

Merry Christmas from Nova Scotia, Canada! I’ve learned so much from you over the past couple of months and I look forward to the journey ahead. Happy holidays to you and your family!

Adriana Mendez

Merry Christmas to you and your family Louise and hope 2023 brings you everything you wish for. Joining your Patreon has been invaluable, I learn new tricks and feel my watercolour journey is improving and that is thanks to your teaching techniques. Looking forward another year of learning. Feliz Navidad!

jk.art.studio

Merry Christmas to you Louise and God’s blessings to you and your family. Thank you for taking my art skills to a higher level this year. I have a long way to go but I truly appreciate your help. I work in retail so I only get Christmas Day off but looking forward to spending the day with my twin daughters families and Granddaughter! Peace and Love be with you! 💕

Diane Hansen

Merry Christmas to you and your family, Louise. My hope for all is a prosperous new year, but I will settle for uneventful. Thank you so much for your tutorials, I’ve learned so much.

Leslie Rinaldi

Louise. Thank YOU for all the hard work and great instruction!!!

paula blomfield

Merry Christmas Louise, both my daughters and grandkid’s are in your neck of the woods (beaches) for Xmas. Funny if you end up on the same beach. enjoy. Thank you for tutorials.

Sandra Domitrovich

Merry Christmas from Spokane Washington. Thank you for your wonderful tutorials

Renee Howard Cassese

A very Merry Christmas to you. And a Happy, Healthy New Year. Your tutorials are my go to when I want to learn more about watercolor. I always know your instruction will be easy to follow. All the best to you and your family.

Janet

Thanks so very much for everything this year, dear Louise. You'll never know how much painting and learning with you has meant to me. I feel like it's Christmas every time you post a new video. My husband Carl and I are having the family over here in frigid New Jersey; they want to see all the paintings I've done recently, thanks to you. I have about 20 to show them! Thanks again and have a wonderful holiday with your family. P.S. Your decompression paintings are to die for! Probably shouldn't show us...you know we'll want them!

susan roll

Hi Louise! Hope you and your family have the best of Holidays. As for us, we live in Buffalo, NY. We have a full blown blizzard outside. We're all safe and warm and happy for that. I have completed so many of your tutorials successfully. I have grown as an artist and a person because of you. Thank you so very much for giving so much of yourself to your students. You are very much loved and appreciated. Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year

Elise Morley

Merry Christmas to you and your family from not so warm Florida! Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year. Thank you for your wonderful tutorials. Following them has taught me so much and I’m looking forward to learning even more about watercolor.

Margaret Roberts

Hi Louise, wow, beaches and kayaks, oh my! Here in beautiful British Columbia we’re hoping enough snow and ice will melt to let our family make it to Christmas dinner. We’re optimists, the turkey is thawing! Thanks for everything you do for us. I appreciate you sharing your talents, artistic growth, and enthusiasm with us, and I loo, forward to the coming year. Happy Christmas to you and Dom and your family and all the best for the New Year 🌲🥰 🎉

Wendy Kelly

Happy Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family! A day at the beach sounds lovely, but we'll be having a white Christmas, dreaming of the beach! Thank you for the last year of lessons, and sharing your amazing talent with all of us.

Monalisa Mackey

Merry Christmas, Louise 😊🎄. Thank you for the lovely Christmas message and all your wonderful tutorials. Like you I will be having a sunny Christmas over here in The Bahamas. I plan to celebrate with family and do lots of painting while I am on vacation for the next 10 days including some plein air painting by the seaside ⛱🏝. Wishing you and your family a safe, fun and blessed Christmas🙏🏻🙏🏻

Laura Etheridge

Hi Louise, Merry Christmas to you and your family from Arizona, US. I truly appreciate your tutorials, they have been a great help and had given me encouragement when I sometimes get frustrated at not getting the right results in my learning journey. I’m looking forward to all that you’ll be teaching us in 2023. Many blessings. 🍾🎉

Yvonne Walton

Louise I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year. I am hoping you will do a painting of your lovely wee kitty, he looks like so much fun. Stay safe and have a awesome time.

Libby Padovan

Merry Christmas to you and allyour family. Sounds like a wonderful day you've planned. Enjoy and blessings to all. Thank you for a wonderful year of inspiration and tutorials. Have a safe,happy and wonderful New Year.

Kelly Hoche

Merry Christmas to you and your family, Louise! Have a wonderful holiday and a Happy New Year! Thank-you for all the time you put into teaching us. 🎄✨💜

Jankowski

hello Louise Merry Christmas to you and tour family thanks for your wonderfull tutorials that inspiré me so much

DARIA ZEMELEAGA

Marry Christmas and a happy New Year Louise! ( "La multi ani"!) Thank you for your wonderful inspired tutorials! Best wishes to you and your family from Romania!

Marion Preston

Merry Christmas Louise to you and your extended family. You are such an inspiration for all of us. Stay safe and well over the Christmas - New Year period!

Carmen

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, dear Louise!! 🎄Being able to learn from you is one of the best things this year has given to me! 😊💕

Dian

Merry Christmas Louise, thank you for al the wonderful tutorials. I’ve learnt a lot. All the best for 2023. x

candy vanstaveren

Merry Christmas Louise, I hope this year has been kind to you and wish you the best for the new year. I love your videos and I can tell that you are and were a teacher. Your outline drawings and the step by step instructions that you provide make it so easy to learn. Thank you

Cindy Roberts

Merry Christmas, Louise. Thanks for all you do and for helping us along our watercolor journal. I can say that you have been the biggest influence on me as an artist. Your ability to break steps down into simple terms and to explain why you do what you do has been a Godsend for me. Much love to you and yours in Australia all the way from Texas.

Mercedes Sánchez Arauzo

Thank you very much Louise for one year full of new experiences in the watercolor world. When I began my learning process fifteen months ago I did not know anything about and everything looked almost impossible.

Mercedes Sánchez Arauzo

Thanks to your tutorials I got more and more confidence and nowadays I have improved my way of working in such a way that I am more and more able to use also my own photos to make watercolors.

Mercedes Sánchez Arauzo

I wish you Merry Christmas with your whole family and I hope to have de chance to enjoy the new tutorials in 2023

Jennifer Abbott

Thanks so much for all your hard work, Louise. It is sincerely appreciated! Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and happiest of New Years'!!

Rebecca Aponte

Thank you Louise and Merry Christmas!

Thea Roest

Thank you Louise! Merry Christmas for you and your family ❤️

ANNICK HARRINGTON

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, and thank you, in return for a wonderful year! I have learn't so much and with each challenge can see improvements in my work, but it's the 'Happy Place' I go to that is

Jenelle

Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I know you will enjoy the fun filled holiday you have planned. Looking forward to another wonderful year of painting with you at the helm.

Anne Springman

Merry Christmas Louise and I look forward to your paintings and tutorials in 2023. I follow other artists and learn and appreciate their work, but I find I always get a tinge of delight when I see you have posted a new tutorial. Sounds like you will have a nice family holiday planned at the beach and kayaking. Here is Ohio, USA, it is currently 13 F, (or -10C). I might just have to paint on Christmas Day. Nothing better!

Jean Gursoy

Dear Louise, thanks for this interesting video; so nice to see what you are doing and hear your news. Such a lot of hard work for your husband though but he looks as if he is fit enough to cope with it all. Leo is adorable 🥰, hope you get to paint him at some point, he will make a fantastic subject from a life drawing. Thanks again and have a great holiday. 😘

Susan Marziani

Thank you Louise for the year-end good wishes video. It's been a pleasure learning from you this past year and I am looking forward to 2023. Merry Christmas to you and yours. By the way - LOVE Leo the new kitten!

Robyn Chambers

Merry Christmas Louise. I can’t wait to paint with you again in 2023. We missed our Lenny this Christmas but I had so much joy watching your little Leo. He is adorable. Wishing all your patreons a happy festive season. Happy painting to all.

Mary-Beth

Merry Christmas to your entire family!

Linda

Merry Christmas to you and your family, Louise. Just having a few quiet days of relaxation and some painting. Happy New Year for 2023🎄🤗.

Kathy Wilden

Spent Christmas with our children and grandchildren, my brothers and sister and her husband

Robyn Mills

Merry Christmas to you and your family . Christmas Day at our place which is on the beach front in Sydney with the family all the best for the coming year. 🥂🌟🎄

Helene

Happy new year, I hope for you health, happiness and more inspiration for your art (which I love). Thank you for sharing your gift with all of us.

Isa Lawton

Thank you so much for your art that inspired me this year to be creative and daring, also to tackle harder projects. Your videos are the best.

Pam Stewart

Happy New Year, Louise! It’s been something of a breakthrough year for me, and I credit what I’ve learned from you in an enormous improvement in my watercolor skills! You are an amazing teacher! Happy New Year! I can’t wait to see what you have in store for us! All the best!

Susan Raskin

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent. I'm learning so much.

Rita Flannery

Thank you for sharing your love of watercolor painting with all of us ❤️Happy New Year to you all ❤️

Cathy Bowden

Thankyou so much Louise for you dedication and love for art. You have helped me so much on my journey. May your 2023 be filled with much love, health and happiness, oh and lots of art xx Happy New Year

Lisa A

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year❣️ Thanks for helping me reach my goals this year! I look forward to working your tutorials for another year and always refer to them when getting any complements on my work. May this year be filled with health and happiness for you and you family.

Sharon Howard Gerrard

Happy New Years everyone...we're spending the evening with family and cheering for Canada in he World Juniors Hockey. Go Canada!

Janicce Chin

Happy new year to you and your family Louise. I’m happy for you that you will soon have your family living close to home. Thank you for your tutorials. You are a great teacher and your explanations have cleared up a lot of the little difficulties I was having with technique. I love Leo. There’s nothing like a kitten to bring smiles to life.

MARIANNE DANHOF

Happy New Year Louise! Keep up the good work, in good health and spirit. My husband and I are spending about three months in the south of Spain, thus escaping from the darkness, rain and cold in Europe (and the enormous prices for energy….). May the war in Ukraine end soon!

Deborah Russell

Happy belated Christmas and a blessed New Year! Thank you Louise for your generous nature and the beautiful skills you share. Thanks to all the students for your inspiration on Facebook! I haven't been painting since Thanksgiving and hope to jump back in soon. Thanks for the end-of-the-year video as well. Happy painting!

Maria Catelli

Grazie per i suoi auguri e grazie per il tempo e la pazienza che dedica ai suoi lavori e alle sue lezioni. Per me sono state un modo per crescere con l'acquarello. Buon 2023!

Kate

Wishing you a very happy 2023, Louise 🤩 Thank you for sharing your beautiful art with us, I know I'm a better watercolourist for it and I'm very grateful ❤ My family's Christmas was spent packing up our house, what a job 🤯 In late January we move from North East Vic to South Gippsland. Hopefully my painting gear will have a lovely new space 🤞

Kathy Wilden

Have a very happy new year Louise and I look forward to painting with you and improving as I go. Thank you for sharing your knowledge of painting 🖼 I do appreciate it.

Blanca Bowman

I have always envied those with talent such as yours. NEVER in my wildest dreams did I think I would be capable of painting ANYTHING that was not just color pencils. I am so happy that I found you online and that I have a new hobby. I look at things so differently now than I did before I started painting. Instead of thinking, "Oh that is so beautiful" I now think, "That would be a great subject to paint." Thank you Louise for inspiring so many of us. I can't wait to see what you have in store for us next. Happy New Year!