Painting a Main Street in Maine
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2018
- James Gurney paints a street scene in Damariscotta, Maine, using gouache transparently at first. The video combines time lapse, split screen, and real-time video.
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No matter how many times I see a really good artist create 'reality' out of blobs and lines of pigment, I'm always amazed. Mr Gurney is a master of illusion, I also love his dog.
I believe it's his son's dog ;)
Your paintings magically calm me down.
Me too. I love rewatching his videos over and over for their calming effect!♡ I regularly rewatch them to see if I've come far enough with my painting to pick up something new ^^
Welcome to Maine. Most people go to the Portland Lighthouse but miss the period buildings and ruins of the fortifications. They make great places to paint.
YAY! Welcome to Maine! Hope we all treated you kindly while you were here. Always amazed at your paintings. Thanks for sharing!
Fun to come across this video today. I live a couple hours north of Damariscotta and recently finished my own watercolor of their Main Street looking towards the church with the sun rising behind it. I've enjoyed several of your videos and am always amazed at the detail you create in such a small format. Thanks.
Always a pleasure to watch👍I love the term 'Fall leaf peepers' 😊
You draw so well and your paintings have such a feeling of light. It is so helpful and inspiring. Thank you.
I really enjoy watching these longer videos you‘re putting up lately James. Thanks for that, and of course for being who you are - a great person and role model and always a motivation with your art. Would love to shake your hand one day.
Hi James, I watch your videos over and over, I make no apologies for this, I find I am transfixed by how your paintings develop from nothing to creation. I tend to use pencil as my first choice and Acrylic for the more serious stuff. When I do intricate lettering etc I kinda follow your lead of nearly but not quite, it really doesn't matter if it is not perfect, it's an impression, and that's what matters. I love the distinction between the cool and warmer colours, how shadows are various colours that aren't exact copies but just look how they should feel. So just wanted to thank you for your uploads, I find these very inspiring and although as yet I haven't ventured into Water Colour the urge is there to make the jump. Have a Happy New Year and here's to all our fellow artists for a better, bolder and colourful 2021. Hi from the UK.
Not just that this guy paints such lovely pictures, but the layout is so good also. Fantastic quick work. (UK)
Looks like a nice peaceful town.
You are so talented! :) Apart from the painting you are such an incredibly good teacher and your videos are so helpful and enjoyable and cool! You are a master of so many things♡ I'm so in awe! And you seem to be so nice too. I wish there were more people like you :)
Thank you for the awesome sketch James! It's a challenge for me to interpret a scene through line and paint. Painting can be so frustrating when your skills are minimum. So my homework is to keep watching your videos as you go in stages and break down the puzzles. It really helps when you explain your reasoning behind a action, it reduces the stress from overwhelming tasks a painter is faced with and doing so gives confidence to press on. I'm grateful for today's lesson!
for today's lesson.
I just love it!!!!!!! thaks for sharing James! Flor
Thank you so much for putting in the shots of what you're actually painting!! It's really, really helpful to see how you interpret the colors in the piece. :)
I admire your layering and how you weave everything together. It must be difficult to describe in words a thought process. I will be trying gouache this winter. I was using soft pastels last winter and hope to still use them in lighting effects I’ve seen in some of your videos. Much appreciated!
Gorgeous, gorgeous! I love that you included some of the commentary by passerby too; it is always a strange sight for people to see painters out in the street!
....if you can imagine Gurney painting this 5x7 or 4x6, and how much work entails for the situation. THen you imagine the greats Sargent, Homer, Boldini, Twatchman..etc.
Painting the likes of 20 x 18 or even larger. Art experience and knowledge was on another level. ;)..
I see years of experience in your work. It's a pleasure to watch you paint.
I'd give anything to have this kind of talent. Such beautiful work and a wonderful style. One of the most creative people I have ever seen.
I really like the longer videos that show more of your process. Great job
Beautiful, another great video! Thank you!
I love the sounds of people talking and joking in the background! I've done a lot of plein air painting and have noticed the difference, from one place to another, of how I'm treated by the locals. Some are polite and silent, others come over and want to talk while sometimes there are folks who want to tell me what I'm doing wrong. Mostly I deal with them by using silence of my own. It's helpful that I've shown for many years and then had an artigallery of my own for 30 years - so I'm used to "unhelpful critiques" . . . . 😉
I love how you guys paint together
Love your work, James. It makes me keenly interested in trying gouache!
This guy's does wonderful watercolor paintings every time when he's visiting the town or city he is in.
Can't stop watching your videos one after one, love them all^^
What a charming little town! Great painting ☺️
I love your plein air videos, it's like the artist version of Jean Shepherd's America. Thanks for bringing us along.
Always a pleasure to watch and pick up some new tips with your Videos James! Thanks for sharing your world with us!
Hey, James! Always love your stuff. Thanks for putting it out there.
AWESOME!!!!
That was awesome! Great narration too. Very entertaining and educational.
Watched the whole thing. Amazing work
Absolutely love it! :D
love it!
You have a wonderful sense of color....
Just got some Gouache in the mail this weekend. I'm excited to try a new medium. Love this street scene and the way you handle cars. I'm going to copy that red chevy when I get some time!
Very beautiful!!!
Just wow! So inspiring, I just tried to do a scene in Kansas while I was there, it sure didn't come out as good as yours. Your videos just make me want to practice with gouache more! Thanks so much.
Geniooo!!! felicitaciones.
Hi james, thanks for your beautiful art....I bought your book on colour and light....I'm thoroughly enjoying every page of it.....excellent art read
Very great artist
I wish I could paint like you, you’re really an inspiration to me
Amazing work. Thanks for sharing
Wonderful video!
I liked how it was longer and how it focused some more on real time painting, rather than the whole thing being fastforwarded.
Seeing your videos always makes me happy!
Seu trabalho é incrivel!!
Fantastic work
greetings from Maine. love your work as always
so so good..
In the title, I can see you have my kind if humor. Brilliant, just like your always beautiful and inspiring paintings :)
You deserve so many more subscribers, absolutely brilliant content, great job mate keep it up
more videos.more views?
I knew I was using the Gouache wrong. This was helpful. Nice painting.
I love your videos.
Can't wait to replay this at a slow speed! 😁
Great video James
Very Nice!
This is sick mane
Really enjoyed that thanks :)
I wish I had the audacious confidence to lay the paint on like you do, but I guess Ctrl Z has made me soft. Masterful work sir.
Спасибо большое дай бог вам здоровья и счастья и удачи
Ang galing niyo po ☺️
Very nice
so sorry we missed you, mainer from cape elizabeth
Kind of valuable 6:33 out of my 24hr..good job
excellent👌
It's pronounced DAM-ris-SCOTTA. So glad you were able to visit our beautiful state. Live in Pemaquid... where you visited the lighthouse.
Bravo ! Your are really tuf.
Congratulation.
a master
Lit area 👌👌🤙🤙🤙💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥
I love to hear people trippin on the art. That’s what it’s all about
You're so good. Just wanted to ask, do you have plans for a new book? I already own two of them and they are hugely informative.
Nothing in production yet, but I've laid out plans for a series.
Great video James, quick question: Which state is Maine is located in?
@@josephlowry4320 It's in Damariscotta, it's a new state. Haven't you heard of it?
Thanks a lot James! Great and very instructive as usual. Would you please explain the decision-making process that led you to go warm with the sky? On the video footage, the sky looks more cool to me and I think I would have headed that way myself but maybe I should make myself go warm with the sky once and decide the rest accordingly...
The warm sky was more accident than intention. I put the warm color down as an underpainting, thinking I'd come back over it with a semi-opaque cool wash, but ended up leaving it.
Thanks! Happy accident! It works well :-)
فناااااااااان احسنت.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Another marvelous painting my question is how do you get your vehicles to look so real my issue is trying to decide the size of the vehicles that needs to be painting thanks for sharing!!!
When are you coming to Portugal to paint in the city of Porto?
I grew up in Maine 😊
I wanna do watercolor now
Great stuff!! But why show the finished painting right at the beginning? It's kind of a spoiler for me...
6:00 Gesundheit
Erstmal ordentlich auf den sidewalk niesen.
XD
Hello, James. Fantastic work. I did not see how long you completed the job.
This one took about an hour and a half from start to finish.
Is Rowney blue closer to Ultramarine, or Prussian? Is it more warm or cool. You have used it several times and with out buying it myself I can't tell which of my colors is closest.
It's closer to Prussian blue, but not as intense as Phthalo.
Thanks
Does anyone know why he hangs a watch ? Please help thanks
Fullers photography studio anywhere?
As brilliant as it was 40 years ago.
Do you use the Golden Line
I'm really good at drawing but I spent too long time to make a simple drawing and I'm afraid to use colours. I'd like be faster and colour like you buddy.
How come your papers stay so flat an nice even though you treat them wuite liberally with water? I'm using Fabriano Acquarello, cold press 25% cotton 200g. and they will buckle and bubble if I did what you do!?
The built-in elastic and a couple of spring clamps counteract the curl.
@@JamesGurney The ones I use are glued all the way around the pad to hinder the curling and bubble. Seems they are just prone to that. I will try some other kinds. Thatnk you for your prompt and informative answers and fantastic paintings, videos and learning. Inspiring!
😀👏🎨👍🇧🇷
Здорово!!! Супер!!! Это акварель или акрил?
Hi James, I have recently discovered gouache and like the process of thick over thin. Some gouache artists warn of “dusting off” when gouache is used thinly. Do you have that problem ? and if so how do you avoid it. I have not noticed it occurring so far. Thanks in advance.
Roy, I've had that problem only a couple times. For me it happened when I used gouache thinly over a casein underpainting where the underpainting was too thick and had a smooth surface. Apparently there just wasn't enough roughness for the thin film of gouache to adhere to. Gouache it just pigment loosely held together with a binder. The glue-like binder is gum arabic, which has a much weaker emulsion than acrylic or oil. Even if you use gouache in the normal way the surface is fragile and doesn't stand up to much abrasion. So I try not to handle my sketchbooks too roughly.
@@JamesGurney James thank you for your thoughts. I will carry on experimenting.
Think Camera-Scotta.
Why doesn’t your paper buckle?
The instagram link in the description doesn't seem like it's yours mr. Gurney. Nice hat btw.
Thanks! I think I fixed it now.
You are my Bob Ross
very hard looking.
I guess you could say he painted the "maine" street hehe
Love James work, just wish he'd work larger
This has inspired me. Thank you, You have more than earned a like and subscribe from me good Sir. Im off to check your website. Thanks :D
Painting a Maine street.