Sunlit Path Watercolor Demo; 30x30 Direct Watercolor Challenge
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- I'm excited to be participating in the 30x30 Direct Watercolor Challenge. I'll talk about it, the book from which the challenge derives its name and kick off my participation with a demo of my first sketch using a new palette of colors.
30x30 Direct Watercolor Challenge info
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Following the White Rabbit UA-cam Channel - / @followingthewhiterabbit
Colors on the Palette:
Moon Glow (Dan.Smith)
Anthraquinone Blue (M.Graham)
Cobalt Blue (Dan.Smith)
Turquoise (M.Graham)
Viridian (M.Graham)
Apatite Green Genuine (Dan.Smith)
Nickel Quinacridone Gold (M.Graham)
Quinacridone Rust (M.Graham)
Pyrol Scarlet (Dan.Smith)
Perylene Maroon (M.Graham)
Magenta (MaimeriBlu)
Permanent Violet Bluish (MaimeriBlu)
Jadeite Genuine (Dan.Smith)
Piemoninte Genuine (Dan.Smith)
Mayan Blue Genuine (Dan.Smith)
Amethyst Genuine (Dan.Smith)
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That’s a lovely little painting - really shimmers with light.
I love this UA-cam and the Bible text.
Good video. I like the more detailed look for the leaves. Very nice little sketch.
Incredible 45 minutes of genius!
I love the sound of the thunder in the background!
Absolutely GORGEOUS! This is one of my most favorites yet! I love the light and shadows! Best of all is the colors!
Breathtaking!!!
Love this! Reminds me of so many hikes I’ve done with my husband over the years. ❤️
I love it!!!! I really enjoy watching your process. I'm painting everyday for about an hour, but watching 2 or more hours of watercolor videos. Mostly yours and Anne-Laure's.
I love it when my work turns out as expected.., but I learn so much from my 'failures!"
Thanks again Steve & Reese, always wonderful to see your demonstrations
Watching you paint makes it look so easy. You are very relaxing to watch and learn from. Thank you.
Wow that’s a gorgeous sketch painting! I love how detailed you made it even though it wasn’t what you were wanting to achieve. Thanks for explaining this 30x30 Direct challenge.
Beautiful! Can’t wait to see more!
Beautiful quick drawing, especially the shadow work. I've got so much to learn, but you (and Reese) make it more fun.
Love the thunderstorm❣️ Thank you for the video....feeling inspired. Painting is wonderful, I am there.
Wow, when you put in the pathway everything just turned to 11. Absolutely awesome
Wow, I love your subject and how you rendered it so well! Such an inspiration. Can't wait to see more.
I love this. Thanks Steve for sharing this great little sketch, I really enjoyed watching you paint it. 💞💫
I don't know which I enjoyed the most - watching you paint or watching you smack yourself with the glove. Both were just so enlightening!
Lovely painting! And what a pleasure to watch you paint. Thank you.
Great video. I love how you lay in the light areas and then a few flicks of the brush, you have a woodland area! I can’t wait to see more of your “loose” painting. That’s the area I seem to understand!
Absolutely beautiful!!!
I am going to look forward to what you do for this challenge. This first painting was lovely. Also, thunder storms, I can see why you chose the studio. We are having a few of those here in the UK at the moment!
You know you're a professional UA-camr when you can slap yourself in the face with a gardening glove and call it work. ❤️ Alright, time to watch this video. :D
Bahahaha! What I work HARD at is not taking myself too seriously. 😄 Thanks Arleesha!
Wow! That is beautiful. I love the details.
Thanks, Steve, love how this came out. I live in Aiken, So. Carolina, and am met with the same kind of challenge...... trying to paint on my daily bike ride (3 wheels) before getting soaked by the rain. Think I'll follow your lead of painting smaller, and starting with the lighter shapes. I seem to always end up with my sketch on a large piece of paper. Thank you for sharing your talent.
This is very beautiful ! I love your new palette. Just finished Marc Taro Holmes’s book last week. I learned a lot on direct watercolor, but not ready for a 30 days challenge yet 😉. Good luck to you, Steve, I will follow paint, everyday 😊
Great painting 👍. I love it. Myself I do a lot of little paintings, I love um. There so cute and small and takes no time to do them. I'm to the point of painting as good as you are but just practicing, it's fun. I love watching you paint it helps me when I paint. I remember a tree or background you did so that helps me to get an idea of how I should put it down on paper. Like leaving space's in the tree. I never did that before and it makes it look much better. Anyway happy painting. Thanks 😎!
Awesome! I’m taking on this challenge because I know lots of practice will help me learn and improve. I look forward to seeing your work.
A great challenge it is, Steve. It looks so simple but.......thank you for sharing your experience. Only 29 to go. I can't wait to see and everyone's pogress after this month. You did already a great sketch.
Excellent, beautiful painting. A million likes. I’ve been watching your teaching videos for the whole day so it was great to see a painting. I’ve also been watching your channel for months now. I need to keep practicing prospective and what I’ve heard is called the vanishing point so I will try to emulate your basic design here to see if it helps me advance. Thank you for all of your teaching!
Oh my God, this is another inspiring vid and alway l learned tons! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for sharing more about this challenge. I can't wait to see more from you! I'll be doing WWM with Charlie this year so it should be a jam packed summer overall!
I know right? WWM will be fun too. Glad you’ll be participating. Thanks for your comments Denise!
I love the way you paint. I also understand the need to challenge and push oneself into unfamiliar territory to grow and expand skills.
Exactly. I will always be who I am. Not planning on changing but pushing our skills into new styles almost always reaps benefits.
Oh this would be great for me. I do most of my WC paintings with no prior sketch. I love that it has a name! lol
That is a really satisfying result! Thank you for sharing
Hey Steve, thanks so much for all the content you create! It's been super helpful. I'm a new subscriber and I love your videos already, but I decided to comment because I just noticed the Bible verses you've been putting at the end. Now I love them so much more! Thank you!
Oh yeah, the old I-forget-where-it-was hike. I've been on that trail! Looks just like that, too.
Great video, Steve! I had already given myself a digital art challenge for the month of June, but will definitely have to do a challenge next month for watercolor month. Thanks for all of the great content.
Watched your interview with Liron and immediately watched this video and subscribed to your channel. Thanks for sharing the 30x30 challenge. I joined the group the 12th and am 3 paintings in. Fantastic! Love your work and am looking forward to watching your videos - past and present. Thanks so much❣
Loved this video. Very inspiring.
You are such inspiration for me to get off my butt and paint more. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing. I always enjoy your videos. Really like this landscape one.
I'm doing this and I didn't even know it was a thing :) Glad I looked up videos for inspiration today. I'll have to work on getting some video, but I"m just posting to Instagram. I love how you do the tape on the edges-I think I'm going to try that. Your quick painting is beautiful!
Arggg! I signed up for the challenge a month ago and did the first day also. I tackled my most frustrating subject and posted to my blog. I hope to see vast improvement in 30 straight days. Watercolor has not been my medium of choice because I do not feel comfortable with it. Totally freaked out about this challenge and thrilled to be apart of it. Thanks for sharing.
Good for you! Your comfort level should definitely improve by the end.
45min? Love it!
Love it!!!
This is beautiful!!
Gorgeous, Beautiful 😙😙😙
Awesome. I love it.
Love this painting and love the sound of the thunder. For some reason it is comforting ..
I know ..weird.
Those shadows in the color you used is great.
Yep, love thunder too as long as its not right overhead. 😆
I never do challenges but decided to do this one. Onto #3 tomorrow. Good luck.
super!! grand merci!!
Great video Steve! 😁 I can't wait to see what all you create for the 30x30 & world watercolor month. I love how this one came out. I'm also glad you used the Albrecht Dürers a few weeks ago. That really inspired me to try them for the cherry blossoms. That was all your fault... lol 😉 They are actually my favorite from the flower series. I got an idea that I wanted to run by you, but we can talk later. I'm always happy when you upload a video. I hope you are doing well my friend. 🤗
Hey thanksVal! I was really glad to see you using the ADs. That piece turned out so nice, as did the whole series. I’ll try to catch up with you later. I’ll be outside a good bit today doing yard work then another challenge painting.
Beautiful!
Thank you for posting this, I love the idea of unofficially trying to do this. I have just under 2 hours to get my first one done. ;) I wish i saw your video earlier. :)
Wow...amazing to watch
Beautifully executed painting. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽Even the yellow painter’s tape looks nice as a frame 😂. You’ve given me the courage to try to do a landscape painting without pencil sketching first.
Lovely!!
gorgeous work! I wish I can do something like that too in less than an hour.
I'm planning to make my mini paintings 4 X 6 and get 9 out of one 12 X 18 sheet of watercolour paper. Always trying to save on supplies. : ) Gotta give this challenge a good try. Thanks for your videos. Very inspiring.
Beautiful.
I just bought "Direct Watercolor" a couple days ago. Nice!
Love it! Doing a challenge like this would be so good for me to push myself. I'm a very lazy student. And this medium, she is challenging. Nice work, though. Beautiful scene beautifully rendered.
Very nicely done!
You're soooo good, I love it
This is great. 👍
Beautiful result! I would give the method a try... just to challenge myself ;)
Another great video! I think this has just the right amount of looseness. It looks really nice and it really is fun to see those shadows across the path pull it all together. 29 to go. This is feeling a little daunting after mine today (for tomorrow) didn’t turn out like I wanted it, to. Ha ha.
Thanks for watching! When does anything ever turn out like we want. 😒Your bison was great. I liked how you pulled off those deep lively shadows. It’s so easy for those to turn out looking dead and flat.
Beautiful
I'm joining the challenge too. Got the tip from Anne Laure (Following the White Rabbit ). I don't know if I'll paint every day, but at least had a good start yesterday !
I enjoyed this. Nice
Nice one Steve.
Good luck! 3030 is tough. Great sketch but it really changed and jumped out with the tape off. Thanks
Beautiful pic!!
The learning part is great and important but I don’t want to post daily. The one I did and posted did teach me things. So for me, I’ll work on it and post a few and have a good time. While I am still able I want to work on inking and a variety of things. So thanks to you and so many for wonderful videos full of info. I did order some new paint colors. Okay what’s a thunder storm, we all will settle down when out drought is over. The high for today was supposed to be 106. Again this was very nice..good to see the new colors. PS not saying you said anything about posting every day, just wishing there was a challenge where you could post a couple times a week.
Any amount of participation is fine. The challenge is for your own development. There are no enforced rules. Any work you do is better than none. Just have fun with it. I’ve never done more than seven drawings for Inktober. This will be the first challenge where I’ll try to do them all.
The Mind of Watercolor good points, thank you
i took the challenge thanks Steve
Super!
Awesome 👏
thanks for sharing .... beautiful piece. I'm also doing the challenge and have never done the direct style before, I realized after two direct color paintings ... I LOVE AND WANT MY FINELINERS and/or Pencil in my art lol. I'm figuring another way to do this direct watercolor ;)
Pencil totally allowed. There are no actual enforced rules. The challenge is for you. Set your own parameters of what you want to learn.
very nice!
Awesome! I wish I could participate but it’s too hard with an infant and a 3 year old and illustration work. Maybe next year :)
Absolutely beautiful. I have the tools but I am so intimidated to do something wrong. Now I know that’s silly and it’s purely in my head because it’s my paper and my paint but I am having difficulty starting. I’m not giving up though. Thank you for sharing!!!!
Nanette McCall forget about wrong. Put the paint on the paper!
Do painting and sketching for you and you alone. If you challenge yourself to let go and paint you will gain confidence in what you do. Go for it, Nanette! Have fun and put that brush to paper!
Pat Hayes thank you 💜
Nanette McCall i used to feel that way. Now i just jump in and have fun
LOVE the path scripture for this delightful little painting! I appreciate your teaching so much.
Request: how to find my “style”? What is the process to honing my personal style? Is there exercises?
I do greeting cards just to send to people by mail (creative hobby). That said, I do scan my finished projects thinking that 1) I hope to see improvement 2) I could possibly print in the future for sale. By nature I’m pretty much “variety within structure” and I’m searching for what that looks like in my work. Thanks for all you share!!!
I should probably address it in a video but I'm more a proponent of learning and stretching your skills as a focus and just letting your style find you. Style is like a brand. It becomes an amalgamation of all your skills and art experiences and how you apply them. Its very difficult to "create" or "craft" a style thats genuine. Gravitate to styles of art because you are passionate about that process and want to push your development that way but don't try to craft who you are. That should emerge naturally because it will be the best most authentic artistic version of you. When you consciously adapt a look or a style as your identity it often times stunts and squelches your development for what might be something really sensational, something you couldn't have imagined. But when you continually learn and develop your skills and experiment by pushing your artistic boundaries in ways that you love, interesting things start to happen and a style starts to adopt you rather than visa versa. Thats my philosophy on it anyway.
Beautiful sketch! I love the challenge but I’m working on an acrylic series of a seasonal view of a mountain landscape. Small canvas winter, spring, summer and fall. I’ve been lucky enough to be busy selling some paintings lately. So better work on that but I am going to attempt some of the challenge as a break. Be good to change my brain for a bit. Really love your new pallets! Can’t wait for the next video!
Good for you on the sales Richard!
The Mind of Watercolor Thank you! I’m lucky! And blessed! It comes at a time when needed. Never discount prayer... Anyway the rain has kept me in for days, no weeks and I can’t wait to get out and paint! Thanks for your inspiration and your instruction. You are indeed a wonderful teacher!
I am in this challenge too! My first painting has been posted to Instagram!
Yay!
I saw this challenge on following the white rabbit’s channel and thought about participating on purpose, but I’ve got so many videos to record already that I chickened out and decided not to do it. Well, not do it on purpose anyway. My “diner doodles” are things that I do to relax and they’d fit within this challenge, but I don’t want to take them from being a relaxing spur of the moment thing to something I’m doing with the intent to share on UA-cam, you know? I want to protect my “me time,” I guess is what I’m saying.
The way you captured those bright yellowish green leaves in the beginning? I know we missed HOW it happened, but to can kind of almost imagine it. Starting off with those and putting them in loosely and with plenty of texture is really
What makes this whole thing. I think, anyway. I’m looking forward to seeing what else you do during this challenge and seeing if you find ways to get even looser and even quicker!
Hey thanks Kat! I totally understand on the challenge. I love Inktober each year but can't seem to manage more than 6 or 7 due to other stuff. I think this challenge is the first one I've ever undertaken where I'm seriously trying to do them ALL. We'll see. Thanks for comments on the piece!
The Mind of Watercolor you can do it!!! I’m sure you can!!! And a piece of advice from a survivor of inktober? Skip days when you’re just really not feelin’ it. Give yourself time, and maybe double up on days when you’re feeling extra feisty. I was completely burnt out for like six months after inktober because I put far too much pressure on myself. Don’t make my mistake-let this be fun!
Jaiks. I cant do anything without sketching first,lol this would raise my anxiety to level through the roof,wahaha. but damn steve,this is awesome
Btw why dont you do more on what you love though? Make it a combo like thing. If you feel an art need commingup dont worry about having a video upload ( Unless it is sponsored ofcourse) but if you feel you need it,do it, that is what got us into art to begin with,isnt it? Follow your heart. We will love you and mr skully eitherway ♥️ ♥️ the moment you lose focus on where your heart is,that is when our danger zone kicks in. So dont feel guilty for needing more variation. We all need it from time to time. Keeps us going.
Following my heart is exactly what I'm doing. I absolutely love this challenge and the idea of it. I'm beyond excited about what I might learn through it. Its a way I've been wanting to exercise my painting for a long while. I love learning and pushing my comfort zone or I wouldn't be doing it. What success I had as an illustrator and designer came partly because I learned early on that your comfort zone will kill you. I've done well enough on this channel being myself and this is just more of it.
I watched enough lessons on yt to head that warning as well. When it Lurks I hop over to gouache or watercolor pencils, anythingelse waterbased would do then, though not tried yet. I will check that book out, eventough my skill level is not at that point yet :) you make it look so easy and I always messup either the light value or the dark,making it look like a toddler with a paint brush :P
Thank you for walking us viewers through the process...its very hard to water color loosely...any suggestions?
Well, yes, lots of suggestions but few I can share in a simple comment. Just keep drawing, painting and learning. Ways to simplify and be loosely expressive come with time. The more you know your mediums and your subjects the easier it is to become looser with them.
Lovely piece! I find that to keep myself from getting too detailed I have to set myself a time limit. Maybe something like 20 minutes would work for this. Trying to decide if I should give it a go.... I never seem to be able to keep up with these challenges.
It’s not easy for sure. I’m sure I’ll end up doing some super quick ones before it’s over.
Amy Giglio my plan B is to paint a big smiley face if I can’t complete a day with something more detailed. Keep it fun. Don’t threaten yourself. Who taught you such things?
I like the idea of a smiley face! lol! And no threatenings, just a busy schedule! :)
So beautiful! You capture light so well, I really admire that! What social media are you most active on, so I can follow you there, too?
Instagram (mindofwatercolor) and Facebook page (Steve Mitchell Studios).
Sooo awesome! Wish I had half your skill and talent. I think the amt of looseness is perfect for a sketch. Much looser, and it would just look kind of blobby and uninteresting, IMHO. (Although I don't have any doubt you could make it work!) I love everything ive seen you create. I have to admit, I'm confused by this whole focus on looseness I hear from everyone on youtube (all of whom are better artists than myself). I love details. (I also love impressionism, even abstracts, though, so it's not that I have a strong affinity for realism.) But what, for you, is the benefit of this looseness thing? I clearly need to understand this more 😎. Thanks for your videos! learned SO much.
Thanks! Primarily, the benefit is for quick sketching out and about. I love detail too and I won't change in that. I don't like being loose just for the sake of being loose, but I want to increase my rendering speed, get better as simplification where possible and the ability to capture the essence of a scene quickly and with impact without spending two hours at one location. Good urban sketchers can move around and capture several scenes in a day. Just a creative muscle I want to exercise not a new style I'm trying to adopt.
Dude! Awesome as usual. But what’s with the water Brush? I didn’t think you liked them. You seemed to make it work just fine!
Never said I didn't like water brushes. I use them on location for plein air but we had rain so here I was simulating being in the field. The water management is quite different so I was practicing that aspect.
Very nice. Needs someone walking down the path. That was in my imaginings. I can also hear birds singing.
Virtual hikes. How cool! Never heard of those until now. Are we allowed to paint a scene from those hikes and sell the painting?
As long as its not a precise identifiable copy. Copyright law refers to it as needing to be a transformative work. You should be fine unless you're attempting photo realism copying of the scene.
Is this not the same thing you do with your spontaneous watercolors (which I love!)?
No not really. This challenge will involve some plein air and always painting from a reference. The focus is on capturing the scene quickly, freshly and with minimal pre drawing. My spontaneous paintings use no reference. True I don't draw first but in spontaneous painting I'm trying to find a picture in a collection of random washes. 😃
While it indeed is laudable to stretch oneself and learn new skills, it's also a truism that people overlook and downplay the value of their own 'signature style ' and personal 'shorthand' in their work. One's signature style is as unique as a fingerprint, and sometimes it's better to embrace than fight against. While it's natural to question one's gifts, it's unnatural and counterproductive to deny them. So while stretching to enlarge one's talents it's also important to embrace and honor one's gifts. The world has been given Ingres, but it also has been given Van Gogh. I know you already understand this, Steve. But it makes me a bit sad, to hear you belittle your admirable personal style. Your numerous followers are testament to that. Thanks for the fun vid!
I do understand. I don't belittle my style. If I gave that impression its the wrong impression. Our style is the sum total of all that we learn and I love to stretch myself. I have no desire to "change" myself into something else. I will always be who I am. Thanks for the positive thoughts.
I would've loved to participate, but currently packing to move to north carolina and all of my stuff is scattered or packed.
Does purple grey always make a great shadow color? I never know what to use for shadow colors for realism without them looking too heavy. Could you do a topic on this?
No not at all. Shadow color is always the objects actual color but darker and more neutral. It may be influenced by other factors such as reflected light. Outdoor shadows are often bluish or purpleish because of the reflected light from the sky. But when a shadow falls on grass for example, the grass is still green, just darker, more neutral and probably cooler (bluer).
Where can I find one of those clips what are they called. Plz and thank you