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June & July poll

  • coastal- lighthouses, towns, animals? write in comments! 172
  • landscape- summer fields etc 89
  • lake/ mountain landscape 134
  • summer flowers- write in comments which type 48
  • animals- which kind please NO dogs or cats 35
  • still life- what types of items write in comments 24
  • urban sketching- with people 125
  • 2024-06-03
  • 627 votes
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Content

Hello my lovely patreons I am doing another Poll for June & July!

please pick from the options below.

Comments

Marijke

All your paintings are so much appreciated and love the landscapes 100%

Martie

Really want a lesson on urban sketching! Or how to sketch/paint at the beach!

Jody Bogues

Still life - a pair of rollerskates

Lezlie

Poppies. Lighthouses. People on the beach.

Wiccat.ch

ppl or animal at the lake in the mountains. oh, I'd love that.

Rosemary Petersen

lighthouses, coastal,mountains, summer fields, lake, little villages

Margaret M Sanders

Mountains and Lake in the same landscape would be great.

Carolyn Weir

I am thrilled with whatever you are willing to share o’ talented one

Basia

Serene mountain/lake landscapes. Ethereal views.

Lisa Carnevale

still life or urban sketching! I am so over painting flowers!

Linda Patterson

Porches with flower pots, farmers market stands☺️

Stephanie House

Bourbon and cigar, amusement park ferrous wheel, fire, sun through Forrest/trees, person in mirror reflection, chipmunk, sloth ( not cartoon), emotions on peoples faces

DENISE RAINSBERRY

Reflection paintings, love your nautical paintings.,

Sandy Marr

I am willing to try anything! I would love a lesson on using black watercolor paper.

Joe Coley

I love your ink and washes.

Diana

Definitely coastal for summer! 🌊 🏝️ waves (they’re hard!), lighthouses, rocks, beach, with people strolling

Marta Vinzant

Coastal definitely. Love ink and washes.

Michele Barnard

I’m looking for anything tropical since I moved to Florida. Thank you

SHERYL M. Campbell-Bennett

Pine trees and mountain meadows please. We have a cabin in the mountains and would love to learn how to paint pine trees that look like a pine tree rather than a ick.

Nancy Bratton

Coastal scenes with waves and rocks. Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia?

Suzie Truffles

I like Diana’s idea, beach, waves, and people! I miss the ocean

GG

Do love ink and wash!

Merri-Lee Stine

Rocky shorelines with lighthouse. I struggle with those rocks and could use the practice

Sally goessel

Coastal scenes using urban sketches with people

Susie Wall

Would love to learn to paint horses if you have an interest.

Darlene McGrady

I live in the Cascade Mountain Range in Oregon. Would love to learn how to paint pine and fir trees!

Connie Bell

The perspective for mountains has been a problem for me. Would love to do a scene with mountains, evergreeens, and lake.

BSchuman0212

Roses , lavender, butterfly bush, poppies

Cherry Hall

Large, full pine trees in a mountain landscape

Ellen

Coastal lighthouses any from Oregon Coast would be great 👍

Marsha

I live in Alaska and painting a bear would be nice, a moose or eagle….etc

Maria TeSelle

I am interested in flowers that are native to North America. Coneflowers black eyed Susans Bee Balm Milkweed

Seema Jejurikar

Urban sketches like you did of London bridge would be great!

Nan Phillips

Still life - wine bottles, wine glass, cheese, fruit

althea washington

I'd love to learn how to simply paint people so I can add them to scenes. Thanks for asking!

Barbara-Ann Horne

Urban no people, cute illustrations ink and watercolor is my favorite.

Carolyn Quilici

I would love more tutorials featuring line and wash of urban settings that people may see during summer travels - street scenes from europe come to mind

Debbie Winston

Summer flowers: zinnias, dahlias, hydrangeas, black eyed Susan’s, lavender.

Kathleen Klein

Sea turtles, flamingos, parrots, fish - perhaps saltwater fish?

Kathleen E. Conlon

I'd love a coastal lighthouse scene with a stormy sea and gulls

Carol

Summer flowers/wild flowers/impatiens

Krisa Gorsuch

would love a quilt section, brilliant reds, deep blues… or rust & olive greens

HeyKat

Florals, landscapes with water, clouds, skies.

Susan Bricker

I would love a lake scene with mountains and Adirondack chairs on a dock. Lake scenes and mountain landscapes is my vote please!! Thanks so much Ellen!

Jennifer Morrison

ROCKS! Rocky cliffs with lighthouse like Bass Harbor Head Maine

Linda Bauer

I’m still trying to master a flower so I will love anything you want to give us!

Paula St. James

Would love a coastal scene with a light house.

Gloria Loeser

Summer beach with umbrellas and people

Paula St. James

Maybe Monhegan harbor or Monhegan light house?

Anna Woods

People & silhouettes, oceans & sketching

Sue

Coastal towns

Barbara Brown

More wild game birds than mammals. Pheasants, grouse, geese, ducks, chukars, quai, etc.

Helen K

Animals - birds, in flight and still, in natural settings

MarLa

Motif #1 ?

Robert Shoofey

The hardest thing for me is drawing/painting faces whether human or animal it’s a challenge.

Kathy

Would like to do urban sketching with and without oeople

Shelly Beranek

Birds, lighthouses, whales, turtles, fish of all types

Susan Hines

Coastal beach with children at play, umbrellas, chairs. Love your Mini Mondays!!

Terri

Lighthouses, cape houses with gardens, birds and Motif #1.

Jan

Coastal towns sounds good…thanks

Vicki L

I voted for still life. Fruits, vegetables, flowers, table settings etc.

Carole Edain Brulé

Coastal - waves, wet sand reflections, seaside towns - thanks Ellen!

Linda Piotrowski

Summer flowers something like an English garden bursting with blooms and gentle colors as well as coastal towns with weathered houses and seaside roses.

Kristi Steinmetz

Beaches with children playing, adirondack chairs with mountain or lake view, sea turtles and tropical fish, wine bottle with cheese and grapes….

Joan moser

Urban sketching with people, coastal scenes with sand waves Thanks!

Tricia Sabatini

I love it all and am learning so much from you!!!! THANK YOU!!!

Mary Fikes

Loved the birch tree landscape. Maybe a country road that has a tunnel of trees over it!!

Ricki

Love abstract flowers

Karen Allen

Still life please to improve drawing skills by looking more at the subject.

Linda Healey

Urban or country sketching with people, distant people. Incorporating people into landscapes

Lineta

Lighthouses, rocky Oregon coast. Beach cabins. Kites. Cannon Beach, Oregon

Carol Campanelli

I would love to learn how to paint cows grazing in the field. I love their faces

Mary Diebold

Love ⛱️ beach scenes, cabins, fishing nets, wooden buoys

Anita

Urban sketching with people

Susanne Bergesen

Raptors - thinking a Bald Eagle with a flag would be pretty awesome for the 4th of July. Also anything with water - streams, rivers, waterfalls, oceans- etc

Deb

Rugged coastal landscapes, beach scenes, how to paint open water

B J Taylor

I would like to know how to do a vase or bowl that looks like cut glass

Angela D’Antonio

I voted for lake/mountains because I just came back from Scotland and the Highlands have inspired me!!

Catherine Patel

I like all of them but it is fun to paint animals and people

Kearie

I really love everything. But I chose lighthouses, towns ect. Really like Canada 🇨🇦 Newfoundland St Johns maybe. Puffins

Olga Milonas

I would love some seascapes with the colours of dawn please :) Although having said that, I really enjoy having a go at everything … I love your content, Ellen …. thank you.

PAULA SPANN

Any beach scene is wonderful. I am also thinking boardwalk stands and/or rides (ferris wheel, merry-go-round or horse with lots of color. Maybe circus tents. Beach umbrellas maybe with some simple kids on beach. Sea Shells. And any scenes with the flag for 4th of July. Paula Spann

Janelle Sundeen

Animals of any kind.. also sketching with people would be nice!

Vicki

Buildings are not my forte’ Any and all landscaping would be wonderful…grew up on the water, (Oyster Bay,LI) and now live in the mountains, WNC. I am enjoying your posts! I love your “playfulness!”

Susie Putnam

Coastal, light house, towns.

Jessica Belyea Steblyk

night skies, sunset/sunrise reflecting on water. Pacific coastal scenes, town squares.

Lauren H Hudson

Love the beach and coastal town houses you do now. More of those house sketches.

Jane

Still life: room interiors, pottery, fruit , veg

Judypag

Beach and waves

Susan

Beaches, dunes, beach houses, waves, beach umbrellas, people at the beach, boats, beach towns!

Sarah Vogus

Boats, boathouse, lake scenes, pen and ink

Christine Garner

Trees, flowers, land and seascapes. Abstract.

Linda Waters

Butterflies, beetles, horses

Emilie Aeyelts

I would love to learn how to draw and paint all ocean life , including and especially whales and seabirds! Love your tutorials Ellen. Mille Grazie from Canada! 🥰🙏👍

Flavia Rizental

Hi Ellen! Coastal seascapes for me, cliffs, sand dunes.

Nancy Walton

🐝 Bees are so popular right now. Maybe sunflowers and bees 🐝 🌻

Peggy Baker

It is tuff choice but if I must choose the coastal seascapes are near and dear to my heart.

ines

Hi Ellen Pen and Ink Urban Sketching (without people)

vyenglish

Hi Ellen, I would love to see butterfly 🩷

Helen Fisher

Frescia are my favourite flowers

Pat B.

Coastal sea - such as Sorrento, positano, Cinque Terra, Peggys Cove, fishing villages

Patricia Ann Soik

Would love to know how to plan a flower arrangement in a vase with no photo to look at

Ruby Sugar

Urban with people, with a moody vibe like walking in the rain or London in fog but with US background and more greeting card ideas

Susan MacEwen

Coastal marshes are my favorite and I always need to practice painting grass and long, wispy things. Oh, and something for Father's Day - farm field with old tractor, cows in a pasture or even a horse grazing.

Marilyn

Love urban sketching but I need to perfect my skills… With or without people. I’ve never painted people, so probably should learn. I also love florals.

Susan Thompson

I like lighthouses and mountains, but I'd like to learn to paint birds too.

Heidi Martin

I love the coastal scenes and small cottages. Basically anything you paint is welcomed. Most of all, I really miss mini madness. That is how I learned the most from your videos. So much fun to do.

Monica

Urban sketching

Kristine Echigo

Big summer flowers like bee balm, sunflowers, clematis, gladiolus, passionflowers

Jean Olsen

Vase of Hydrangeas from your garden so I can learn how to paint mine

Jan

Light houses and cottages are my favorites. I love painting with you!! 😊

Danielle Hanisch

Flowers broken down in like a drills video stem shapes, petal shapes, one brush stroke petal and two strokes, rose petal shapes etc etc

Trina Laing

Wolves. Not sure if this too close to a dog.

Dianne Chambers

I love your still life paintings. The fruit, the bowls, the bicycle was pretty cool too. Actually working on that one today! I can see we can only choose one when voting, but I also love your scenic pictures, flowers too. Last years colorful summer picture with the buoys, another favorite, and I didn't have to use my little brushes!

PaulaA

Zinnia, sweet pea, larkspur, coneflower. Also, fruit plants would be different and nice, oranges, blueberries, raspberries, cherries. Thanks, Ellen!

Mary H, TN

Still life--with a few droplets of water, like on grapes

DEb

Abstracts please

RITA RICCI-FOWLER

I want them all but if had to choose coastal...interested in how to paint fog in watercolor.

Karen Allison

I love your compositions of things - the stacked books, the recent bicycle, the stacked teacups. So I’d vote for summer themed things - picnics, lemonade, boats, swings, beach pail and shovel.

Jayne Wilson

Coastal with lighthouses and perhaps some cute little brightly colored beach huts :-)

Roxie

Costal with sail boats, boathouses and charming docks.💕

Ann DeHoff

waterfalls Two kinds, gentle stream with rocks and shrubs. And / or a mist producing waterfall in the Appalachians.

Melinda

I love birds, so I thought of sparrows, jay and the smart crows. Somehow challenging because their colors are less varied. Also, I like the semi-abstract style, I don't know how it feels for others, but with me it gives a kind of peace. So very much like more of that. Summer landscape with flowers and cows/ horses/ goats/ chickens? Still life of house plants, Flowers with fruit basket, carafe of wine with bread and cheese,.... Probably this list will be like a bit too long, they are just ideas. I am usually very grateful for your wonderful guided lessons. So much fun. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Melinda

feel the same about mini mondau madness

Jayne Nye

More coastal, beach. Sea turtles in the ocean, under water.

Vikki Gherzi

Coastal scenes with a pop of color in the houses or in botanicals. Thank you, Ellen!

Elizabeth Baxt

I want skills in all areas, but water and mountains sounds lovely.

Yasmin

More urban sketching. Loved the one you did earlier this year. Cafes, street scenes, cities, towns, village scenes. These skills can be applied in travel and at home, and they include buildings, plants, people & more.. .. a variety.

Donna Bishop

i would love to paint bird in a tree, with landscape surrounding. Serene and inspirational.

Julie

Key west homes

Gwen Marriott

Would love to paint a Kingfisher. Thank you Ellen. Love the variety of your projects!

Cher

Coastal seaside scenes with people boats and birds

Liz Hall

Lighthouses, towns, and "beach" scenes with rocks. Love the beach roses and grasses!

Barb

Still life with apples in blue and white bowl

Barbara Chapman

Villages and houses. I love the look of those. Thanks for letting us take part in what you choose to teach.

Mary Susan Gipson

Great Smoky Mountains, flowers like foxglove, larkspur, delphinium…on a spike … in a garden or an arrangement. Truly, I love all your tutorials.

Deborah Eichel

I love the coastal Carolina area. The pink houses of Charleston would be fun.

Jaye Persian

Would like coaching for roosters, donkeys, friends that are unexpected like ducks and hens, horse and hen

E Stuck

Great Lakes lighthouses (Charlevoix, Mi) or sailboats

Diane Voss

Love flowers any kind, but up close with what detail to include vs what to exclude is helpful.

Lynnelle Clark

Masculine things. I turn most of my painting into cards. I have used your outdoorsy paintings for this.

Aquarelle

All type of flowers