The best take-away from this, for me, was your comment in the beginning, "gouache works best when it sits on top of other gouache." Couldn't agree more and when I used to airbrush gouache, the standard set up was always to spray down a full layer before going into the final piece. Airbrushing straight onto board usually resulted in beading. Great video, as always, my friend! :)
@@JaredCullum yeah, for most of my early career, I worked exclusively in ink and gouache with airbrush. It was fantastic for doing photo retouching (before Photoshop), because I could get really fine details with a Paasche Turbo brush using gouache, without the paint beading up with each layer. It was so awesome, but it was also a ton of work to clean those airbrushes and fight with air/liquid in the compressor lines. lol! Ah the memories! :)
I really recommend watching the full versions of Jared's videos on Patreon as well. The timelapse is a gem in itself, but to follow him painting in real-time offers another world of insight.
LOVE the painting and your extraordinary insights while commenting. Great thoughts on kind of painting to your personality. I’m so glad you are teaching and sharing your knowledge, my friend. “Wake me when you do a bacon demo.” Ha ha ha ha!!!!
Another great video! I love how you take the time to actually explain what you're doing instead of just speeding through the whole thing and saying "hmm yeah just play around until you get it".
Douglas Elliot thank you! I LOVE a large flat. :) I use it for watercolor a lot too although sometimes I don’t want that blocky look. Rounds are better suited for a flowing watercolor transition. Thanks for watching!
Hey Jared! I really love your videos, they are so interesting and a good tool to learn for me. Im a 17 yo artist and i just picked up gouache recently, with watercolor being my main medium i used before. Do you have any recommendations for beginners for what is important for gouache? Is it a good idea to start painting portraits? (Im so sorry for my english, im german lol)
that emo vampire kid hi! It’s so cool you’re getting started with gouache. I think the most important thing to focus on is increasing your drafting skills and learning to love painting with it. Don’t worry about how it looks. It will take some time to get used to the way gouache goes down. Since coming from watercolor- a good way to get into it is so 50% of a sketch with watercolor and paint gouache on top. I recommend still life’s of objects around your house and outside. Portraits are very difficult and can be tough but they will help you get better. If you do small still life sketches of objects- kitchen equipment, food, childhood toys, rooms, lamps- they help you to see and convey light and value which will translate to landscapes and portraiture in the long run. Good luck! I’m always here if you have questions! :)
Great video as always. I really look forward yours. Can you tell me the artists you mentioned for studying loose brush strokes? I caught James Fletcher Watson, but not the others.
Jennifer Ehalt I can’t remember who I said in the video but here are some I can think of: Teddi Parker Mike Hernandez Pixel P Chan Jesse Winchedter Schmidt Heather Martin Lena Rivo Hope those help! :)
Hey Jared, I was wondering if you have any suggestions for more gouache demos on UA-cam. I love watching yours, and James gurneys but I can’t find any other youtubers with similar gouache demos and content. Just wondering if you have any suggestions
Veasey Jackson hi Veasey! Absolutely! I also look for acrylic demos... so for gouache- Lena Rivo is one of my favorites. Of course gurney and then there is Peter Chan or pixelpchan. On Instagram, you can find heather Martin who does demos on there and mike Hernandez who is awesome. Tad Retz does gouache and you can pay some money for his acrylic and gouache demos he does. If I think of more I’ll come back here and post them.
Fantastic sketch, Jared! I related to what you said about the struggle to paint more loosely. I love that loose, chunky look you are getting with the gouache and the flat brush. Could you write somewhere the names of the artists you studied that have a more loose style? Thanks!
Hi! Thanks for watching! Absolutely. It's across medium- so some are gouache and others watercolor or oil but I learn lessons from them all and their approach to value and a scene: MODERN: Richard Schmid (oil) Mike Hernandez (gouache) Peter Chan (gouache) Heather Martin (Gouache) Lena Rivo (gouache) Jesse Winchester-Schmidt (gouache) Joseph Zbukvic (w) Alvaro Castagnet (w) David Bellamy (w) James Fletcher Watson (w) Andy Evanson (w) Ross Paterson Herman Pekel (w) Charles Reid (w) Ewa Ludwiczak (w) Nathan Fowkes (water/gouache) Tad Retz (acrylic/gouache/o) Greg Manchess HISTORIC: John Singer Sargents watercolors Andrew Wyeth's watercolor sketches Norwich School of Art (english watercolors) Some Barbizon painters Hudson River School painters sketches: Thomas Moran Sketches Bierstadt Sketches Impressionism 1800's: Monet, Manet, Pissaro, Cassatt, Morisot, Van Gogh, Sisley Degas Winslow Homer (w) There's a couple to start. If I think of more pressing I'll add in comment. :) Happy sketching!
Sneha Kandoi sure! James Gurneys color and light, Charlie’s Reid, paint what you see and most importantly going to the library and getting the large print books of master painters like Andrew Wyeth, Sargent, Homer and others and doing small study-copies in a sketchbook. That helps a ton. I recommend focusing on value, though. If you get strong with value the color will come naturally. Value is what holds it together though.
@@JaredCullum yes, i forget about value, colours are so luch more attractive that I tend to overlook more important things. Thanks, I'll have a look at these sources 🌿
Jared, do you use the silver black velvet for backgrounds only or for more detail work? I asked because I feel gouache is a bit rough in natural hair. (silver black velvet being a mix) Edit: Btw do you recommend any book or tutorial to better understand values, light and shadows? I find it extremely challenging.
Caro S. Hi! I pretty much only use synthetic brushes. I really like the kaerrel brand from raphael. But you’re right. Gouache falls apart and does best, in my opinion, with synthetic brushes.
Caro S. Ooh- books! James gurneys color and light. Also Charles Reid paint what you see. Those were a huge help to me. If you just take some time or devote a specific sketchbook to working in black and white only for a bit it will click together for you fast. It just takes some time working in only black and white and you start to see it. If you have a smart phone- feel free to convert photos for a while for practice.
May sound a bit counter-intuitive but if you have photoshop or a similar digital paint program, I would recommend doing master studies using a hard round brush only so you're essentially forced to carve out shapes and carefully choose values (not colour picking from the original though). I'm currently subscribed to John Burton's course on schoolism and he demonstrates this but I'm sure someone somewhere on youtube does something similar. I guess what this does is create a sort of posterised version of the painting using a limited set of values (depending how long you want to spend on it) because there's no blending and you need to make the shapes in such a way so that the eye reads it as a cohesive image. Since I've done a bunch of these, I'm starting to see things more as a collection of abstract shapes of differing values/colours that fit together to form an image. Plus, there's no real stress doing them since it's all digital and you can paint over and revise as much as you like. In fairness, since I started this practice, I've only tried one watercolour/gouache plein-air in combat conditions but it worked out quite well (not quite to the standards of a pro like Jared mind you) but, IDK, the approach somehow took away that struggle of trying to paint specific objects and I enjoyed the process much more.
Artur Sixpence thanks for your input! That’s a great idea for an exercise. I will probably give it a shot myself sometime. Sounds like a great way to force limitations on edge and other means of control. Thank you! :)
@@JaredCullum I'm enjoying doing them because I'm something of a part-time painter and it's a low stress way of making myself practice without the self-inflicted pressure of putting a real brush to real paper and helps with the confidence levels when I do.
@@JaredCullum cool, How did you remove the wells? Does it still seal well when closed? I tried converting my mijello palette in to a stay wet palette and removing the wells but couldn’t figure it out.
Elizabeth Zelinka i am terribly sorry and appreciate your patience. I need to research how to do that but I’ve been exceptionally busy this past month with work and family stuff. I’ll look into trying to do it. I thought I had it on but I guess it didn’t work. Thanks for watching, anyhow.
Hi it’s me Nolan Ritz so glad you are doing this keep it up! Hey everyone it’s my Uncle!
Leah Ritz sweet of you to comment, :) keep up the drawing and reach out anytime with questions! :)
The best take-away from this, for me, was your comment in the beginning, "gouache works best when it sits on top of other gouache." Couldn't agree more and when I used to airbrush gouache, the standard set up was always to spray down a full layer before going into the final piece. Airbrushing straight onto board usually resulted in beading. Great video, as always, my friend! :)
M.D. Campbell thank you! I have never seen any spray gouache work. I need to look that up. Thanks for watching! :)
@@JaredCullum yeah, for most of my early career, I worked exclusively in ink and gouache with airbrush. It was fantastic for doing photo retouching (before Photoshop), because I could get really fine details with a Paasche Turbo brush using gouache, without the paint beading up with each layer. It was so awesome, but it was also a ton of work to clean those airbrushes and fight with air/liquid in the compressor lines. lol! Ah the memories! :)
I really recommend watching the full versions of Jared's videos on Patreon as well. The timelapse is a gem in itself, but to follow him painting in real-time offers another world of insight.
Marko Erdnuess ah man! Thank you, Marko! That really means a lot. That’s very encouraging and I appreciate it.
LOVE the painting and your extraordinary insights while commenting. Great thoughts on kind of painting to your personality. I’m so glad you are teaching and sharing your knowledge, my friend. “Wake me when you do a bacon demo.” Ha ha ha ha!!!!
Brian Ashmore Studio haha :) thanks for watching it! #brotherhoodofthefiestaware
Jared Loves to Draw 😂👍
Another great video! I love how you take the time to actually explain what you're doing instead of just speeding through the whole thing and saying "hmm yeah just play around until you get it".
Elsa Wahlstrom haha I know what you mean. It actually helps me to learn better when I have to put it into words. :)
@@JaredCullum I totally agree. Sometimes I pretend I'm making a tutorial or something in order to learn a concept.
You can really handle that flat Jared.
Douglas Elliot thank you! I LOVE a large flat. :) I use it for watercolor a lot too although sometimes I don’t want that blocky look. Rounds are better suited for a flowing watercolor transition. Thanks for watching!
Yr such good teacher! Enjoy yr video
andrea torraca thank you :)
Hey Jared! I really love your videos, they are so interesting and a good tool to learn for me. Im a 17 yo artist and i just picked up gouache recently, with watercolor being my main medium i used before. Do you have any recommendations for beginners for what is important for gouache? Is it a good idea to start painting portraits? (Im so sorry for my english, im german lol)
that emo vampire kid hi! It’s so cool you’re getting started with gouache. I think the most important thing to focus on is increasing your drafting skills and learning to love painting with it. Don’t worry about how it looks. It will take some time to get used to the way gouache goes down. Since coming from watercolor- a good way to get into it is so 50% of a sketch with watercolor and paint gouache on top. I recommend still life’s of objects around your house and outside. Portraits are very difficult and can be tough but they will help you get better. If you do small still life sketches of objects- kitchen equipment, food, childhood toys, rooms, lamps- they help you to see and convey light and value which will translate to landscapes and portraiture in the long run. Good luck! I’m always here if you have questions! :)
Great video as always. I really look forward yours. Can you tell me the artists you mentioned for studying loose brush strokes? I caught James Fletcher Watson, but not the others.
Jennifer Ehalt I can’t remember who I said in the video but here are some I can think of:
Teddi Parker
Mike Hernandez
Pixel P Chan
Jesse Winchedter Schmidt
Heather Martin
Lena Rivo
Hope those help! :)
A Two For One video,!!! Food and art
Imelda Fagin haha Thanks for watching!! :)
Hey Jared, I was wondering if you have any suggestions for more gouache demos on UA-cam. I love watching yours, and James gurneys but I can’t find any other youtubers with similar gouache demos and content. Just wondering if you have any suggestions
Veasey Jackson hi Veasey! Absolutely! I also look for acrylic demos... so for gouache- Lena Rivo is one of my favorites. Of course gurney and then there is Peter Chan or pixelpchan. On Instagram, you can find heather Martin who does demos on there and mike Hernandez who is awesome. Tad Retz does gouache and you can pay some money for his acrylic and gouache demos he does. If I think of more I’ll come back here and post them.
Jared Loves to Draw thank you so much this is very helpful!
Love your work and your videos. How much drying time between layers is included in a piece like this? Thanks
The gouache dries rapidly. It only takes a minute or so to dry. It dries as you go.
@@JaredCullum Thank you Jared, you're an inspiration.
Thanks! I have gouache I should use it!!
Charm Crumrine go for it! I love it. There’s a bit of a learning curve but once you get the handle of it it is a great and fast medium to sketch with.
Fantastic sketch, Jared! I related to what you said about the struggle to paint more loosely. I love that loose, chunky look you are getting with the gouache and the flat brush. Could you write somewhere the names of the artists you studied that have a more loose style? Thanks!
Hi! Thanks for watching! Absolutely. It's across medium- so some are gouache and others watercolor or oil but I learn lessons from them all and their approach to value and a scene:
MODERN:
Richard Schmid (oil)
Mike Hernandez (gouache)
Peter Chan (gouache)
Heather Martin (Gouache)
Lena Rivo (gouache)
Jesse Winchester-Schmidt (gouache)
Joseph Zbukvic (w)
Alvaro Castagnet (w)
David Bellamy (w)
James Fletcher Watson (w)
Andy Evanson (w)
Ross Paterson
Herman Pekel (w)
Charles Reid (w)
Ewa Ludwiczak (w)
Nathan Fowkes (water/gouache)
Tad Retz (acrylic/gouache/o)
Greg Manchess
HISTORIC:
John Singer Sargents watercolors
Andrew Wyeth's watercolor sketches
Norwich School of Art (english watercolors)
Some Barbizon painters
Hudson River School painters sketches:
Thomas Moran Sketches
Bierstadt Sketches
Impressionism 1800's:
Monet, Manet, Pissaro, Cassatt, Morisot, Van Gogh, Sisley
Degas
Winslow Homer (w)
There's a couple to start. If I think of more pressing I'll add in comment. :) Happy sketching!
Thanks for the names! I recognize a few of them, but the other ones will give me some new artists to study. Really appreciate your channel!
Arts & Sciences I appreciate you watching! :) anytime!
Can you recommend books on identifying colour, or just great books which talk about colours in general, in the context of painting?
Sneha Kandoi sure! James Gurneys color and light, Charlie’s Reid, paint what you see and most importantly going to the library and getting the large print books of master painters like Andrew Wyeth, Sargent, Homer and others and doing small study-copies in a sketchbook. That helps a ton. I recommend focusing on value, though. If you get strong with value the color will come naturally. Value is what holds it together though.
@@JaredCullum yes, i forget about value, colours are so luch more attractive that I tend to overlook more important things. Thanks, I'll have a look at these sources 🌿
I love u really...I wish I could draw like u some day💙🧡💙🧡
SHUGARRT you totally can if you really want to :)
Jared, do you use the silver black velvet for backgrounds only or for more detail work? I asked because I feel gouache is a bit rough in natural hair. (silver black velvet being a mix)
Edit:
Btw do you recommend any book or tutorial to better understand values, light and shadows? I find it extremely challenging.
Caro S. Hi! I pretty much only use synthetic brushes. I really like the kaerrel brand from raphael. But you’re right. Gouache falls apart and does best, in my opinion, with synthetic brushes.
Caro S. Ooh- books! James gurneys color and light. Also Charles Reid paint what you see. Those were a huge help to me. If you just take some time or devote a specific sketchbook to working in black and white only for a bit it will click together for you fast. It just takes some time working in only black and white and you start to see it. If you have a smart phone- feel free to convert photos for a while for practice.
May sound a bit counter-intuitive but if you have photoshop or a similar digital paint program, I would recommend doing master studies using a hard round brush only so you're essentially forced to carve out shapes and carefully choose values (not colour picking from the original though).
I'm currently subscribed to John Burton's course on schoolism and he demonstrates this but I'm sure someone somewhere on youtube does something similar.
I guess what this does is create a sort of posterised version of the painting using a limited set of values (depending how long you want to spend on it) because there's no blending and you need to make the shapes in such a way so that the eye reads it as a cohesive image.
Since I've done a bunch of these, I'm starting to see things more as a collection of abstract shapes of differing values/colours that fit together to form an image.
Plus, there's no real stress doing them since it's all digital and you can paint over and revise as much as you like.
In fairness, since I started this practice, I've only tried one watercolour/gouache plein-air in combat conditions but it worked out quite well (not quite to the standards of a pro like Jared mind you) but, IDK, the approach somehow took away that struggle of trying to paint specific objects and I enjoyed the process much more.
Artur Sixpence thanks for your input! That’s a great idea for an exercise. I will probably give it a shot myself sometime. Sounds like a great way to force limitations on edge and other means of control. Thank you! :)
@@JaredCullum I'm enjoying doing them because I'm something of a part-time painter and it's a low stress way of making myself practice without the self-inflicted pressure of putting a real brush to real paper and helps with the confidence levels when I do.
What palette did you use?
It’s a mijelo palette with the paint wells removed so it’s just a big mixing space.
@@JaredCullum cool, How did you remove the wells? Does it still seal well when closed? I tried converting my mijello palette in to a stay wet palette and removing the wells but couldn’t figure it out.
@@nopal_y_frijol This particular one just popped out. It was the larger one with like 33 wells and they were just removable.
Your videos look interesting, but I can't hear. I'll stay subscribed for awhile and hope you start adding captions.
Elizabeth Zelinka i am terribly sorry and appreciate your patience. I need to research how to do that but I’ve been exceptionally busy this past month with work and family stuff. I’ll look into trying to do it. I thought I had it on but I guess it didn’t work. Thanks for watching, anyhow.
You sound a lit like Peter Chan.
I love Peter Chan. I talk about him in some of my videos. He’s awesome. So brilliant with color. I love his work.
I do too, his understanding of colour and temperature is incredible 🍒