Iain McCaig Painting in Watercolor at IMC 2013
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2013
- Re-uploaded with better music.
This is Iain McCaig painting a live portrait at the Illustration Master Class in June 2013.
It's at 2x speed and sorry for the wobbly camera.
I've just read a few of the comments below. There's just no pleasing some people! This content is great, to see a superb artist and story teller like Mr McCaig in action is special and inspirational. Thank you very much!
Wow, to have the skill and confidence just to throw colour on like that.
Ive watched this video severap times, have it saved to a playlist, so i can continue to reffer ro it as i teach myself watercolor painting. Been painting for about 4 years, and 2 years at learning portraits. Thr past month ive gone back to monochromatic painting, thinking of underpainting. . Guess now ive gotta take a shot at nickep azo yellow monochromatic painting. See where that take a me.
The video is treasure, many thanks for taking and uploading it for thr world. The model is inspiring in her beauty! Many thanks for everyone involved!
So gorgeous! Thank you for recording this, who cares about the shaky camera - we're just lucky to get to watch this. :)
It's crazy how much you can learn by watching him paint! Love this
What did you learn?
His first wash instantly brought out her features. So amazing
Thanks for uploading this video - what a privilege to be able to watch someone who really knows what they are doing. Wow! what a nice piece of work - I love how he captures the glow - very cool post for learning
Thank you so much for filming this. Magic.
Great to see the master Iain McCaig at work. Thank you!
Ian is freaking amazing with those skills
Pure visualized poetry. So amazing.
His method of establishing his lighting and contrast of the model, starting with one color tone, and the results help builds the lightest to darkest is amazing! I think its more difficult to to start with a blob of dark paint, then build your way to lightest.. In my figure drawings, guess I always been trying to find my own method in starting with watercolor paint (cause you're afraid to mess up and all) but THIS... THIS METHOD WILL DO :)
he lays in a darkish midtone shadow to give himself wiggle room on tones. what a stud
Is there any medium McCaig cannot achieve outstanding results with?...Gifted individual.
It's brilliant to see his process.
That was wonderful, Thank you for sharing your talent.
Thank you Michelle. This is so inspiring.
Beautiful! I was holding my breath when he applied the final darkest tone on chin/cheek area. Because it was already awesome the way I see it. *gasp* But it turned out much more awesome!
love the colours and tones
You are so awesome Michelle!!! This is incredible and so insightful! I already learned a couple of things :D
Mari Paiz amazing yes , pfff
That's wonderful, it's such a privilege to watch the master at work! Thank you very much for recording, oh and great choice for the music, one of my favorite OSTs :)
And dumb people, just stop complaining about the quality, shaking and music. She didn't have to record, and we can see very clearly what he is doing. And for lowering the shaking effect just slow down the video and turn off the sound. Just search for solutions before complaining.
Thanks again Michelle!
in a live session....woooo, amazing work
Thanks for sharing this video with us, very helpful.
Thank you Michelle! Love Iain.
Absolutely beautiful painti g but also a gorgeous model wow!
I got to learn so much with just this one video! I had recently learned about this method for digital art, but had no idea this was obviously done in traditional art first🥲😭. It really is now established for me to start by building up the values and then add the colour layers
I used to read the fighting fantasy books and the magic card series and Iain is the best fantasy artist I ever saw
Great video. Played it at half speed to see him in natural speed ;)
I thought the music sounded familiar, I had to double check in the description, Very good choice. I love the video even more now, ty.
Thanks for the post!
Ezio's Family
Great music and the video is awesome too!
Amazing, it's got more life than real life!!
Gorgeous
Watching this made me want to run on the rooftops of Venice whole painting while I parkour
a video of that would be the winner tho
nothing is true everything is permitted!
@@Gadget-Walkmen requiescat en pace
Magnificent.
Beautiful
Inspiring! Thank you so much for sharing!
This is pure treasure! :)
your skills are magnificent
It is really stunning how he made the portrait much more beautiful than the actual model, but retained the resemblance 100%
The model was a hottie, lovely mouth
@2:15 my mind is already blown
thanks for the post
loved the video 👌👌
That camera work was absolutely shocking!!
My pleasure. Ya, he's great!
Super DUPER!!!😘😘😘😘😘
Great painting!!!!😎😎😎😎😎
Just ♥️♥️♥️ it!!
Amazing....osm....SUPERB..!!!
We've got a mad lad here! I wish I could paint digital/traditional as fast and well as he does!
Very inspiring demo...
Amazing
esta super lindo!!
This painting at the 9:00 mark is one of the best I've ever seen
amazing
i'm in love
Hermoso! super teso :D
very unorthodox,....love it!!! :)
DOS SANTOS!!! Some excellent people in that room
Impresionante
Thx you so much :)
at some point it feels like magic.
If I was sitting behind him in this class... I don't know if I would just drop everything I was doing, and just stare at his work; or if I would just head to the trash can and dump all my art supplies, going "I'll never be that good!!", lol!
Amazing! I wish i knew what brush he was using.
Looked like a Windsor and Newton series 7 sable
Great post.
I can't believe it..OUTSTANDING !! he did that in one sitting ??
Yep, I believe it was a couple hours with a short break in between.
Wonder how many years it took to , reach that level of mastery ?
Kanzee
He's like a drawing machine and seems to do it non-stop! So a lot!
damn!
Incredible portraiture, camera man needs to cut down on the Red Bull. Almost threw up.
Just watch it slower
@@olatejuakinbobola6408 just follow the camera shake Br0
First time I ever saw an artist uses the watercolor brush like a pastel stick to build the forms!
she's beatiful
true
Inspiring! Thanks..
Can you tell me what colours he used at the start.. the neutrals? Thanks
Looked like raw sienna or yellow ochre
nice work
Sigh. Iain makes it look so easy. Damn fine artist.
Sea sick!
Whoah, he has so much control over the medium... everytime I touch watercolor the water just does whatever it wants-
Use less water
Amazing. Love to watch artists do their thing almost as much as I like to make art. Thanks for posting this. Did he use the same brush throughout?
Ed E No prob! Just wish I had a tripod. I believe he used the same brush throughout. I don't remember him switching.
Thanks for sharing Michelle!
Any chance you could upload the real time video as well? Never mind if the sound isn't too great but I'd love to see it at a slower pace, and maybe people wouldn't complain as much about the wobbling (not that I'm complaining, I understand it's not easy, I've been there).
Anyway, thanks a lot for the upload!
If you watch it at .5 speed playback, you will get something close to real time though some quality is lost. I don't mind the shaking at all at this speed as it feels like how painting feels (jerking around to get a diff brush, new towel, at the palette, etc) and focusing on the painting feels pretty natural. Hopefully I can trick my mind into thinking this is how I can paint this way for the next time I do a portrait : D
Papa..Papado.. Papadopo~ulos. *Papadopoulos!* There, I said it! That's quite a name there.
Anyway, that was interesting. Thanks for uploading, Mrs. Snuffleupagus.
John NoNameGibbon Hahaha! I am now officially changing my name to Michelle Snuffleupagus.
Are you implying I was joking!?
Well, I'm gonna call my lawyer.
No prob! It's from the Assassin's Creed 2 soundtrack.
wow O: he did tat in like wut 20 mins or so? amazing
great
You use the AC2 OST for the background music!!!!
So was that just one color with different values? To tell the shadows and everything else apart?
Great video thx for upload !
What's the music ?
UA-cam/Google has a way of "re-rendering this" to remove the camera shake. (You can revert it if it's not to your liking). It does usually crop in, but it might help. To get to it, choose to edit this video and look for the "stabilization" tool.
ive never done traditional painting and this video makes me want to!!
nice choice of music by the way!
so if this is 2x speed that means it was a 30 min session?
I hear ya! I became a lot more interested in traditional painting during this workshop. The session was about 2 hours if I remember correctly. There was a 15 min break half way through.
I gotta ask, maybe someone knows the answer - when I try to paint with watercolors in this way going over the same area with brush strokes over and over in order to create smooth edges etc, I usually end up with shredded paper pulp, even with quality watercolor paper. I wonder what he uses. I know that tools don't make the artist but I think paper is quite important with watercolors.
+Jan La
Only thing I can think of is that you use too much water. Though I'm no expert.
All artists I like use 100% cotton. Most use coldpressed because it's very smooth. at least 300grams. they all seem to use arches paper. very expensive.
Try to paint in as few strokes as possible. If you need to correct, wait for it to dry first.
You might be scrubbing it too much or are pushing down too hard. Maybe your brushes are too coarse too.
@@Astharia it's hot press for smooth paper. Cold pressed for grainy paper. Portraits are usually on hot pressed 100 percent cotton paper, if you dry between washes the paper wont peel , and not to scrub the paper but blot and dab to pull up pigments.
Do you still have the non sped up version of this video? I'd love to see that.
allluckyseven I probably do but it was close to 2 hours worth of video, so that's why I sped it up. It would probably take days to upload that much based on how long it took to upload even this one.
id like to learn,..and be a
good watercolourist like you sir:)
τέλειο, ευχαριστω πολύ
παρακαλώ :)
καποτε ήθελα πολύ να ασχοληθώ , αλλά με τις σπουδες άφησα την ζωγραφική και με άφησε και αυτη.. αλλά χάρη στην δουλειά σου νομίζω ότι ανάβει πάλι η σπίθα.. ευχαριστώ και παλι
Lol music from 'Assassin's creed'. I like it
do you suggest doing a portrait in one color to get the values? first
Very skilled artist. Fascinating approach! I found his foundational colour choice interesting and surprisingly effective. The wobbly camera implies the photographer wasn't watching what her subject was doing.
Iain will be teaching a course online at schoolism(dot)com - if you're interested. He's creating the course at the moment but will be online (I think) later in the year.
I would have loved to have been able to hear what he was saying to people as he painted...
He wasn't talking a ton during it because there were about 3 other demos happening at the same time. :)
he is fairly proficient in watercolor im so jealous of talented people who get to this all week as a job. snif
may I ask what is the name of this music :o
It's from the Assassin's Creed 2 soundtrack :)
Lol nvm read the comments
Just beautiful! Except, the camera was moving way too much.
I hink it is gouache actually? How come it doesn`t drip
Was he looking at a Model? or was it from his imagination? he is my favorite artist
He was painting a model. You can see her for a sec at the beginning of the vid. :)
Michelle Papadopoulos
What kind of watercolor notebook is he using? its sheets doesnt bend like the ones in mine do
Alejandro Villada Its probably a thicker weight paper. they dont bend when wet.
Alejandro Villada
He was using an Acquarello Watercolor pad which is bound on 2 sides to it doesn't bend. I tried it out and it is some great watercolor paper!
Nice
Assassin's creed music 😋
What the name of this song?
Jesper Kyd - Ezio's family (Assassin's Creed 2 OST)
Anyone else feel like it's coffe?