A demonstration of my Favorite urbansketching techniques. Pen and wash of an alley it Florence Italy
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2016
- Although this was done from the comfort of home, it is a good example of my favorite techniques when out painting on location.
A line and wash painting of an alley in Florence Italy
Music by Jason Shaw, www.audionautix.com
MATERIALS
PEN: A Pigma Micron pen, 005 nib. I'm using a rather worn out Pigma Micron 005 nib pen. It creates nice scratchy, sketchy lines.
PAPER:
Arches 1401b Hot Press Paper for this Video.
My papers of choice include Arches 140lb Hot press and Cold press paper and Strathmore 500 series Sketchbooks. All are 100% cotton rag.
For beginners, I recommend starting with a high quality paper and experimenting with different types. As your style develops, you'll get a feel for which type is best. Waiting to switch to a better quality paper later will be much like learning to paint all over again.
MY PALETTE: All tube paints!
Winsor newton- Yellow Ochre, Sepia, Burnt Sienna, Winsor Red, Davy's Gray, Ultramarine, Sap Green.
DaVinci - Phthalo Blue, Quinachridone Fuchsia, Cadmium Yellow Lemon, Cadmium Yellow Deep.
A note on Davy's Gray: I rarely use this pigment straight and when using it I usually mix it with each colour used.
PAINT PALETTE::
The palette is the mixing tray from a "Koi" Watercolour travel set. The colours are set up so the ones I mix together most often are close together.
The paints are poured onto slips of paper and then stuck to the palette.
BRUSH:
A Polar Flo 1/2 inch flat brush is my current favorite. The bristle were originally white but have become stained.
I often use inexpensive brushes because several of my techniques are quite abusive.
Whenever the brush disappears from the screen it is either being wiped off or rinsed.
REFERENCE IDEAS: come from my imagination/memory, my own photos or by painting on location.
Thank you for Watching! - Навчання та стиль
I am a 90year old fan and still really enjoying my painting. My favourite medium is pen and wash and you are an inspiration to me. Jean.
I just looked back at the reference photo. This tutorial is proof that knowing what to leave out is as important as knowing what to put in. Peter you never cease to amaze me.
Very true Patrick :)
Thank you, that was a great demo, I loved watching it and love that you are sharing your wonderful techniques
Please do not ever stop making your art or your videos. They are a tremendous high spot in my life right now 💜💚💜💚💜
I hope I don't as well :) Thanks
It"s really great ! I love them too!!! Greeting from Japan!
Great I love this really well done🙋
Carole Young my favorite way of learning is by watching you at work! Thank you🤗🤗😘
I really like that you are so generous as to tell the details of your materials and methods. So helpful!😊
thank you again Peter. wonderful demo.
Thank you. It is good to see the reference photo for learners like me. I have learned so much from you.
Great to hear Helen. Peter
Thank you Peter! I, too, learn so much from your videos and appreciate the time it takes to post these!
Thanks Cathy. Appreciated for sure. Peter
Perfect tutorial. Thank you once again
I never get tired of watching these.
👋 Amazing with angles, broken lines and towers or farms the end result is beautiful. Really like urban sketching thank you 😀
thank you Peter, I enjoyed watching this painting. I will certainly check out your other demo paintings. So relaxing to watch.
Thank you for the tutorials, Peter! That's just what I've been looking for. I've just started learning and it's quite difficult for me to draw and paint something of my own. But your tutorials made me believe in myself and that I'm capable of drawing beautifully. Thank you very much for what you do!
I am always fascinated by your line technique, Peter, and where you begin your sketch. As someone who continues to fight with perspective, it appears to me as though you use your pauses and smaller roof lines to keep perspective sorted, which is a cool way to monitor it.
Thanks Deborah. Good observation. Peter
Thank you Peter. Maravilloso.
You're welcome Pablo :)
For sure, this is my favorite technique, too.
This video is what I would like to be able to paint sooo much.
Looking at my own, poor, attempts., love to watch you sketching and - big sigh - knowing, I'll never get there. But playing with pen and brush is still so much fun
Thanks for sharing your talent 🙏
A great example! Thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Hope to be this good one day.
I love watching these kinds of videos - its so easy to get caught in the details that simplicity really does look just as good if not better than an actual picture! Thank you! :)
Great comments and observation Sarah. Thanks :)
Really enjoy your work, thank you for taking the time to do them.
You are very welcome. Appreciate you're watching :)
I LOVE your videos! They have helped me so much with my own paintings. Thank you!
Thank you very much Lisa. Peter
Great video! I love your line work. It has so much energy. I appreciate your use of watercolor as well. Very inspiring!
Thank you very much Mike
Beautiful! ❤
Your videos are so helpful to me (a beginner), especially with regard to perspective. And I love the combo of micron pen with watercolor. Thank you.
Thank you Judy. So glad they're helping you. Peter
Peter, you are a genius. Looking forward to your live demos...
Beautiful!!
Simply beautiful. You have already taught me so much about drawing and loose watercolor. I cannot thank you enough.
Very nice to hear. Makes my posting all worthwhile. Peter
Love the sketching technique. 👍🏾😎
You are so talented! You have inspired me to start trying urban sketching. Thank you for showing us your talent :D
Thanks Anne. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Peter
Perfection! Love your work 🌟🌟🌟
Thank you very much :)
Peter, your work is inspiring. I wish you’d posted your reference image so I could have followed your eye along. I love your line work.
I love how you keep things simple. I find that really hard to do. Great job
Thanks Kev. You'll develop it. Peter
Thank for sharing your beautiful art! Wonderful work!
You are most welcome. Thank you for watching :)
Thank you for this great demostration !!!
You're welcome Massimo :)
Thank you! Your demos inspire me.
Thank you very much Janet. Always nice to hear I've inspired :)
I am amazed at the beauty you have produced using the most simple approach. Truly outstanding.
Thank you Joe . So glad you enjoyed this. Peter :)
Thanks Peter, an excellent tutorial, I've been watching all of the videos you posted, most of the time I watch them at my lunch break on my phone and didn't know how to comment until I found the way, anyways just to let you know that even when I don't comment, I do watch them, they all are excellent, I've tried a few of them and they look very nice, thanks for taking the time to show the whole process it really helps. You are a great artist.
Thank you as always. So glad my videos are helping
Thanks for posting this, really inspirational to me.
Thank you very much. So nice to hear I've inspired you :)
Thank you Peter....again ..very nice work!
You're very welcome Rene Thank you :)
Great work.
Not just a helpful tutorial, but very therapeutic to watch as well. I appreciate that you label the colors with text boxes -- the way you've labeled them is very helpful.
Thanks so much. So glad you enjoyed it and find them helpful. Peter :-)
sono felice che ci sia nuovamente un paesaggio italiano un bello spunto per dipingere la mia terra grazie mille
Grazie mille. Tanto ispirazione nel vostro bel paese. Peter
Just so inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing...
You are most welcome. Thank you for watching :)
At first, I was suspiciously watching your lines glide on the paper.
Later, I found myself all of those lines were meant to be.
Thank you for your sharing. :)
Thank you Sir! I'm an architecture student, and your tutorials have been helping my grades a lot lately! Sincere thanks from India!
That is great to hear. Hope you do well. Peter
Thank you Peter, once again you inspired me to try sketching,
Hope you do Isa. It is fun. Peter
como siempre,es un momento muy placentero ver su arte.excelente
muchas gracias. Me alegra que lo hayas disfrutado.
Lovely ! Wonderful to observe and learn ! :)
Thank you very much. Peter
I took a tremendous amount from this demo Peter. Thanks!
That is really nice to hear William
Another lesson for me. Thank you.
For me the hardest part with any drawing/painting from real life or reference photo's is knowing what to leave out. Thanks for these demo's they are very useful - and brill! :)
That is one of the hardest thing to learn Doras. Peter
I really love your work.
Thank you so much. Always nice to hear :)
started following ur work recently....enjoying it..loving it.. learning from it... thank u and keep doing it...
Great to hear my videos are helping. Thanks for following. Peter
maravilloso...es una gran inspiración!!!
Muchas gracias Carla :)
Interesting that you have made the focal point in the distance 'dark'. It works well. I do love pen and wash so much and enjoyed this a lot. Thanks for sharing Peter.
Thanks Chammi. Can't tell you why I made it dark. These things just happen as I paint.
Somewhere in my past I was told in city-scapes buildings normally appear darker as one goes further away from the front of the sketch. This is used as a technique to enhance perspective. It sure appears to have worked here. I really enjoy watching, and learning, from your videos. Thank you.
You have a great eye for architectural compositions Peter. Great tonal contrast and good it use of palette colours hinting at old deteriorated buildings.
Great comments and observations Andrew. Thanks :)
I just discovered your videos. I've been wanting to do Urban sketching for a travel journal for years! I've taken some Crafty classes, and watched other UA-cam videos but couldn't get the hang of it. Their camera angle isn't always right, the instructors have a hard time explaining and painting simultaneously (which I know it would be challenging to have to do both) it's edited so you don't see the entire process. The screen is crowded so you can't really see things. Your set up is PERFECT!
Thanks for showing the reference photo in the beginning so we can screen shot it. I use my phone to see it. I then watch and sketch/paint along side you on my iPad, I like you do not talk (it's not distracting), you tell us which colors you are using, you do it all in real time so we can do the project together!! So please do not change! I did two videos with you and then had the confidence to start on my own and did it!!! I posted them on my Instagram and tagged you yesterday. :).
Thanks Julia. Screenshot sounds like a great way to do it. Peter
Thanks Peter - yes please whatever you do don't stop!
As long as the ideas are there ;)
Fantastic! How the hell it could look so easy? LOVE IT!
Lol. Thank you.
Wonderful !!! Respect!
Thank you very much :)
Your work is so inspiring. This looks easy but to paint like that You have to spent some time. Anyway when I'm watching your videos it makes me wanna paint.
Thank you very much. Sounds like you're ready to start :)
Lovely.
So simple, yet highly effective, redolent of Quentin Blake.
Impresionada !
muchas gracias Isabel. Peter
Like it so much!
Thank you Pedro. Nice to hear :)
Interesting! Handsome! My compliments!😊👍👋👋👋
Thank you very much
Love your work and this one does not disappoint. Will be visiting Italy again next month. Not sure if Florence is on the list, but I hope so. Haven't been there yet.
Thank you very much. Enjoy your trip :)
So good man so good
Thank you very much John. Peter
My favorite part is where you put the focal point in shadow there in the back. It really defines the light and shadows. Always enjoy it Peter.
Thanks Adam. Glad to hear you liked it.
more of these please! Basic pen and wash! Thanks :)
Alright, alright :)
peter you draw and colour very nicely
Very kind words. Thank you very much. Peter :)
Lindo. Parabens
amazing!!!
Thank you very much :)
Очень красиво ❤
excelente vídeo.............. você é perfeita........:)
I don't suppose you know what the music is at the beginning of this video..? It's gorgeous! As is the painting, of course!! :)
I am very happy to discover your page. Pen and wash sites are hard to find. Thank you, especially that you put the name of the paint when you put your brush in it.
Thanks so much. Glad you find them helpful. Peter :-)
oohh! a micron! nice choice :o
Thanks! Love the Microns
genial!!!!!....saludos amigo!!!!!
Hola a mi amigo Gracias
Peter - a thousand thanks for this wonderful, inspiring video. You make pen and wash look so easy, but truly you have the hand and eye of a master! Great to see how you set out the pespectives before going back to fill in the details. Just wondering.... what size paper were you using?
Thank you, again, for sharing the reference photo. I think many as they draw and illustrate draw from reference and from our imagination.. When folks put me on the spot to draw something without a certain subject. You know the type. "Oh, I'd love anything you do..." I draw from a rusty imagination. Usually found from something real that has impressed or I have repeated. It's nice to watch someone else do the heavy lifting, (Paint and draw.) The music helps. Husband of profile lady.
You're so right. Glad to do the lifting. Peter
Thanks Peter :-) I love your style. Have taken a screenshot of your reference photo and your finished work ( hope you don't mind, it's only for myself learning) and will sit down and practice over and over again. I learn so much from your videos! Greetings from Genova, Italy. Lise
Sounds like a great way to do it :)
Ok, gracias, estoy pendiente de tus dibujos, son espléndidos.
De nada. Gracias por ver :)
정말 마음에 들어요. 아름다운 그림입니다.
정말 감사합니다 Peter
Muy bien muy agradable
It would be good to have the photo in view (inset) as well.
Been addicted to your videos and art. I printed the photo and watch video while looking and comparing the photo while you paint. It helps me a lot see how you interpret things. Have you considered posting the subjects next to the paper? Thank you for keeping us sane.
Hi Ricardo. Can't do that with the system I use
Really nice
Thank you very much :)
very nice ... thank you for your tutorial^_^ ...
You are very welcome. Appreciate you're watching :)
I watched this yesterday. Truly enjoyed seeing this one and how you sketched the steeple in the background. I'd go nuts sketching in Italy
Hi Louise. You get used to it. Surrounded in inspiration.
Hi Peter, u have always inspired me with ur city sketches with ink and wash...your drawings have always been beautiful..
I am just curious to know whether u pre wet ur sketch right before u apply the first layer of watercolor? Thanks in advance..
Cool
Thanks wonderful
Thank you Dennis. Peter
Thank you
You're welcome. Peter
Hi - Really nice demonstration. Thank you. Can you tell me something? At 14:21 or so, when you add the darker colour over the wet yellow ochre ... why doesn't the dark colour bleed into the lighter yellow ochre on its left? That's what happens if I try it!
Thanks! Your paint is still too wet. You'll learn to recognize this with time and practice.
Hello Peter - I have come to line and wash recently - have to say i really love your videos and doing them over and over makes a good way to practice. I like they present a simple focussed idea. Peter I wonder if you could recommend 2-3 books that will help me in making line and wash paintings. Thank you,sir.
Glad to hear I've been of help. Sorry, I can't suggest a book as I've never used an art tutorial book.
Thank you for your demos, they are so informative.
Why do you prefer pouring colours on the bits of paper than into pans, is it so you can arrange them accordingly to your choice of color s?
Thank you. The paints are squeezed onto slips of paper and then stuck to the palette with two sided tape. This makes replacing or changing colours quick and easy. This practice has damaged my palette so I have discontinued using it.
Thank you～❤️
You're very welcome. Thank you :)
👍👍
I would love to see the reference photo at the same time you are painting so I can see where you are pulling your colors and contrast from.
Sorry bobby. Don't have the software ore the room on my close up videos.
If you take a screenshot at the beginning where Peter shows the finished painting, you can either print it off or have it as a window alongside the video window, I usually do this, it helps a lot.
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