Awesome as always Sarah! It was great to watch and listen to you again while I inked a drawing myself... just as you talked about persevering through the "ugly stage", I was at that moment in mine so you helped me get over it too! Thanks so much!
As you were talking about struggles with tonal contrast Nathan Fowkes came to mind. He comes across as such an unafraid artist but his book has confessions of the terrors of doing live demos not working out, which was a bit of a revelation. No other artist I follow gives such life to trees and foliage as you. Your trees remind me of how I saw trees in childhood, trees with character and personality and that possibly chat to each other when people aren’t around ☺️
Thank you Hayley! I know that every artist has their struggles and fears. From the outside they might seem really confident, but if you get to know them you see they are only human! (though I still call Nathan my art god! lol)
Hullo Sarah, well you got me again! I saw the longer “canvas” and thought you might be working larger, nope. I have experienced that feeling of painting in some “other artists style” and will tell myself to relax and just keep working and I am most likely to emerge in the final painting. I most want to paint like my Gran, she was so responsible for my early development and I know that I never saw all of her paintings in progress,but I never saw her paintings go through that “ugly stage” I honestly thought I was just not good enough to keep painting. I did find others who were struggling with the ugly stage in their artworks and felt not so alone or horrible of a painter! I have created my own style and it does look similar to hers, yet her paintings have a delicacy that mine do not. Well not all of my work! Thank you for sharing another quite lovely painting experience with your viewers.
love the trees . kind of goth vibe trees,,, lol love the pic!! feel like the double page gives sort of panorama look. wish i loved the swatch thing,, the head 'gets' it , but the inner child screams NO!!
Thanks Sarah. This has definitely inspired me to look through my hundreds of woods/ forest photos to paint my own version. Loved the light/ shaded area contrasts
I appreciate how difficult it must be to paint and talk and film at the same time, thanks for a great video, I always enjoy watching your process! And the tape peel is so satisfying!😃
Thanks Sarah! I’ve seen so much growth in your landscape paintings over the past year. It was interesting to see how you handled the horizontal wide format, also achieving depth with value range and final details.
Wonderful video. I love it. This style is what I want to achieve and have chosen gouache with watercolor glazing. I’m experimenting with homemade gesso since I want to paint on stretched canvas and prepared wood panels. I love the velvety texture of gouache. I’m also experimenting with a base layer of soft chalk misted with alcohol.
Thank you for ALL you share with all the thousands of us !!! I truly enjoy it all as you are a truly gifted teacher artist. New to gouache, your help is AWESOME ! PLEASE keep up the great work, it truly HELPS alot!!
Looks amazing you should go paint the sheep 🐑 .I like and try to use James gurney technique wish I was a tenth as good as him n you as well thanks for sharing sis
I have been enjoying your videos so much. I am excited to take the insight and apply it to my art. I seem to shy away from scenes like this because it overwhelms my brain and I just can’t stop the crazy chaos in my brain (if that make sense) But seeing your approach and you talking through it,saying what I’m thinking,makes me feel a bit more confident that I can do this. Bit by bit😊 Thanks
I'm a late responder. if I had seen this nearly a year ago, I would have sooner. Your work is sooo beautiful! I'm a watercolorist portrait artist and just now getting interested in Gouache. I'm elderly now and think I could swing it since I used to do acrylics back in my 20s. I never heard of Gouache back then! I know what you mean about wondering how you will achieve what you are going for in the middle of a painting. I remember thinking, how can I make lambs wool look realistic in watercolor that the baby girl is laying on?! It worked out beautifully and I still cannot tell you how I did it!
Oh, I missed this sketch along. I hope you do one again soon. I'm off to watch & enjoy your video. 💕 Thanks for sharing your methods and thoughts. Love both channels.
.Love your art, very inspiring, thank you, I am or have never been a landscape artist, but I am trying to develop some skills that challenges me, to learn more and explore, so I am now deep into water colour/gouache, that I have not used for decades, and have discovered a whole new world of delicious textures and shades, so good to get a new perspective again asI have been feeling flat and lost in art
I just found you - I love this mix of mediums. It turned out beautiful! I also couldn't help noticing your beautiful artwork on your arms - your tattoos are so pretty - are they also your drawings?
Same, I love watching sketchbook videos 😁 I find them comforting. You should check out Audra Auclair if you don't already know her, she did beautiful and relaxing sketchbook sessions
You can try doing a few studies where you copy an artist’s work as closely as possible for the first 2 or 3, then do a few more where you let yourself deviate - that might help you retain the bits that you like and work them into your own style. I think all artists copy bits and pieces from other artists :)
Love these sketch-a-longs! So yes, I absolutely "see" in Gordon Mackenzie and try to use his techniques without copying the style. Have you ever done a challenge where you limited the number of brushstrokes you allowed yourself?
Is your paper like hot press or cold press? I really enjoy watching you. I want to try using gouache in my watercolor paintings. Thanks for sharing this.
Merci pour la video. Utilisez-vous les mêmes pinceaux pour la gouache et l'aquarelle ? ---- Thanks for the video. Do you use the same brushes for gouache and watercolour ?
Heavens, that IS the Fangorn forest, moss and lichens (sp?) and everything! Our local forest park is too manicured for my liking, but then again, you don't want to venture into huorns...😃 I liked that you specified in the beginning of the episode that it is not a tutorial and therefore should not be copied, sometimes it's hard to understand whether one can try and chug along in the back sit ( aka copy) or not. So ,greatly appreciated! 👍 Interesting choice of composition- so the viewer has to decide, which path to take? Sunny one or dark and mysterious? And that backlit trunk of a tree!!! 😍 I am in the middle earth 😂, second week now, but when I return, I have an unfinished business with one of my gouache sketches, I didn't have time to finish it at the time and now I see that it has some.. inaccuracies, shall we say, also, so if you still reading this 🤣, would you suggest to try and finish it and correct mistakes or just start anew? A bit worried, that the previous layer will get reactivated...or it would look like I pasted something on top. Thank you for a most interesting video and have a great day!🍀
@@SarahBurnsStudio I know that you do, and I am very grateful for that! I am sorry if my comment offended you, I was just trying to make a joke, because my comment was quite long and I felt embarrassed because of it.
It goes the same asking permission to paint pictures taken from others something that I do all the time , I ordered a watercolour set still waiting to get.
Tenuous but its a play on words saying tonightious because that ringing in your ears after leaving loud gigs , concerts or nightclubs , well anything that coukd have been that bit to loud that you may have done some damage to your hearing . Hence the "tonightious" as it should not last in to the next day . If you are getting tenuous just randomly, might be a idea to chat to your doctor about having your hearing tested and check that you have no damage to your ear drums or any infections on its way . If you have been exposed to loud noises regularly currently or even in the past like been a musiso or DJ and regularly had to be right next to amps ,fold backs and drummers or even worked with industrial machinery .. yeah get that looked into. Got to look after your hearing but lol , the music in your background at times just sounds like high pitched diffent squeals . I have stupidly sensitive hearing and some notes just plain out just hurt me and i thought i had some sort of hearing damage, turns out i nothing wrong with my ears . Its more the case the sound getting to my brain was the problem.. Get you ears looked in too.
Wait... Wait, wait wait wait! Can I ask you something? If not, then fine, I'm just asking. I'm making a video about my characters on my channel and I think your voice is suitable for one of my characters. Could we cooperate in some way?
@Horami Gaun Oh, I've never done that before. Also I'm at my limit for how much I can take on at the moment. Maybe someday? Also if you ever need a male Scottish voice, my husband is really good at it 😀
@@SarahBurnsStudio Thank you! I don't think it's a lot of work, only several phrases to say. I don't make full cartoons, I make shorts about my characters, so all you need to say is for example: Hey! I'm happy to see you today! What are you doing...? And can I hear your husband's voice? It would be really nice
Why put artwork online ? If You are offended by people copying your artwork. There are many artists online who copy Other people's artwork and tag them. Who are not offended by people coping their art work.For example draw this in your style or draw this another artist style videos.. If someone is copying artwork just for practice and not for profit and they give in the artist recognition why is this offensive
I’m not offended. I’m protecting myself. I offer tons of tutorials but there’s a difference between copying a tutorial to learn and copying someone’s art and selling prints and claiming it as their own.
![[ How to Use Gouache ] What is an Underpainting? -- Gouache Tutorial for Beginners](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xNpVAGuw6Oo/mqdefault.jpg)
Awesome as always Sarah! It was great to watch and listen to you again while I inked a drawing myself... just as you talked about persevering through the "ugly stage", I was at that moment in mine so you helped me get over it too! Thanks so much!
That's a big reason I like watching art videos while I paint too, so encouraging :D
As you were talking about struggles with tonal contrast Nathan Fowkes came to mind. He comes across as such an unafraid artist but his book has confessions of the terrors of doing live demos not working out, which was a bit of a revelation. No other artist I follow gives such life to trees and foliage as you. Your trees remind me of how I saw trees in childhood, trees with character and personality and that possibly chat to each other when people aren’t around ☺️
Thank you Hayley! I know that every artist has their struggles and fears. From the outside they might seem really confident, but if you get to know them you see they are only human! (though I still call Nathan my art god! lol)
@@SarahBurnsStudio He’s wonderful indeed but there’s a reason we all follow a variety of artists and not just the one (god though he may be)!!
Hullo Sarah, well you got me again! I saw the longer “canvas” and thought you might be working larger, nope. I have experienced that feeling of painting in some “other artists style” and will tell myself to relax and just keep working and I am most likely to emerge in the final painting. I most want to paint like my Gran, she was so responsible for my early development and I know that I never saw all of her paintings in progress,but I never saw her paintings go through that “ugly stage” I honestly thought I was just not good enough to keep painting. I did find others who were struggling with the ugly stage in their artworks and felt not so alone or horrible of a painter! I have created my own style and it does look similar to hers, yet her paintings have a delicacy that mine do not. Well not all of my work! Thank you for sharing another quite lovely painting experience with your viewers.
Just here to say you are kick ass and I love your videos. Thank you so much for sharing what you do.
It is a dreamy fairytale Forrest. Lovely! You are a wizard🧙🏻🧚🏽🧚🏽♀️
Thank you 🌹😘
Trees are my favorite!
love the trees . kind of goth vibe trees,,, lol love the pic!! feel like the double page gives sort of panorama look. wish i loved the swatch thing,, the head 'gets' it , but the inner child screams NO!!
Thanks Sarah. This has definitely inspired me to look through my hundreds of woods/ forest photos to paint my own version. Loved the light/ shaded area contrasts
Sounds like so much fun!
I appreciate how difficult it must be to paint and talk and film at the same time, thanks for a great video, I always enjoy watching your process! And the tape peel is so satisfying!😃
Thank you! Yea, it is a challenge! That was always the thing I struggled with the most for live streams too.
Wow, stunning! Wish you do more of these videos again. Specially like the use of the color purple, it`s so unique to your style ❤
This is so beautiful! I want to be there in that forest!
Thanks Sarah! I’ve seen so much growth in your landscape paintings over the past year. It was interesting to see how you handled the horizontal wide format, also achieving depth with value range and final details.
Wonderful video. I love it. This style is what I want to achieve and have chosen gouache with watercolor glazing. I’m experimenting with homemade gesso since I want to paint on stretched canvas and prepared wood panels. I love the velvety texture of gouache. I’m also experimenting with a base layer of soft chalk misted with alcohol.
I love spending time with you, lovely painting 😍. See you next Saturday
I just recently discovered your channel and it's like a big gem! How come I didn't come across earlier. Love them and your painting style ❤
I just want to thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us!!! I am learning so much from you. Thanks!!!!!!!
I'm so glad!
like your trees I always wondered how to do the bark
Fabulous painting. Love the light you have captured👌🤗
Awe soooooo beautiful thank you for sharing Sarah 🌺
Thank you for ALL you share with all the thousands of us !!! I truly enjoy it all as you are a truly gifted teacher artist. New to gouache, your help is AWESOME ! PLEASE keep up the great work, it truly HELPS alot!!
Thank you so much!!
Inspirational!! Thank you Sarah
Turned out beautiful
thank you!
Awesome!!!🎨👍🏻🥰
Your painting is gorgeous, just gorgeous….I really like the angle of the two paths!
Thank you so much!
beautiful
Love this ,love this thank you 💐💖
Ohhhh… Beautiful work on the process. The progress was so wonderful to watch unfold across the pages. Thank you so for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
That's beautiful! I wanna be there😍
My perfect subject ❤
What a great tip about how to create shadow highlights! Thanks for a great video
You are so welcome!
Looks amazing you should go paint the sheep 🐑 .I like and try to use James gurney technique wish I was a tenth as good as him n you as well thanks for sharing sis
I have been enjoying your videos so much. I am excited to take the insight and apply it to my art. I seem to shy away from scenes like this because it overwhelms my brain and I just can’t stop the crazy chaos in my brain (if that make sense)
But seeing your approach and you talking through it,saying what I’m thinking,makes me feel a bit more confident that I can do this. Bit by bit😊
Thanks
This is so beautiful! I want to go to there lol
Beautiful xx
Beautiful ^-^ I love the mysterious atmosphere
I'm a late responder. if I had seen this nearly a year ago, I would have sooner. Your work is sooo beautiful! I'm a watercolorist portrait artist and just now getting interested in Gouache. I'm elderly now and think I could swing it since I used to do acrylics back in my 20s. I never heard of Gouache back then! I know what you mean about wondering how you will achieve what you are going for in the middle of a painting. I remember thinking, how can I make lambs wool look realistic in watercolor that the baby girl is laying on?! It worked out beautifully and I still cannot tell you how I did it!
Oh, I missed this sketch along. I hope you do one again soon. I'm off to watch & enjoy your video. 💕 Thanks for sharing your methods and thoughts. Love both channels.
I hope its inspiring 😊
Thank you for letting us participate in your thought process. That is very illuminating. And I love your wonderful painting!
Thank you Anja :D
Thank you :)
Wonderful Sarah, i love it so much!!!!
This is so beautiful, thank you for sharing. I love your landscapes! 👍😁🇩🇪
Thank you so much!
it's so lovely Sarah :) i haven't tried Gouache but I've been enjoy water color medium lately, your painting looks so amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
Enchantment
Evocative!
.Love your art, very inspiring, thank you, I am or have never been a landscape artist, but I am trying to develop some skills that challenges me, to learn more and explore, so I am now deep into water colour/gouache, that I have not used for decades, and have discovered a whole new world of delicious textures and shades, so good to get a new perspective again asI have been feeling flat and lost in art
I agree - gouache has such a magical feel to it!
This painting shows how good you are at exploring environment .. Thank you for another beautiful demonstration ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! Cheers!
Love the painting….wonderful
I just found you - I love this mix of mediums. It turned out beautiful! I also couldn't help noticing your beautiful artwork on your arms - your tattoos are so pretty - are they also your drawings?
Nice forest painting!
Quick question. What brand is the rounded corner sketchbook you are using if you don't mind sharing please? Thanks
Strathmore, love it!
@@SarahBurnsStudio Do you remember which one in specific? I am looking for a nice sketchbook that handles water well
@@loati94 It should be listed in my supplies link under Watercolor
@@SarahBurnsStudio Thanks!
I love this type of video! I'm painting along with you (working on small bird paintings in gouache). :)
Same, I love watching sketchbook videos 😁 I find them comforting. You should check out Audra Auclair if you don't already know her, she did beautiful and relaxing sketchbook sessions
@@SarahBurnsStudio They are comforting, I agree! I will definitely check out Audra. Thanks for the recommendation!
You are amazing!
sealing acrylic with a clear sealer works ,as for oils I still can't paint with it for some reason.
i really love your Videos ^_^ especially the Plein Air ^_^
This piece turned out so good 👌👌
Thank you!
Very Beautiful!!!! 💚
Thank you! 😊
yep
I have so many disasters with masking tape ,can you please recommend one .
You can try doing a few studies where you copy an artist’s work as closely as possible for the first 2 or 3, then do a few more where you let yourself deviate - that might help you retain the bits that you like and work them into your own style. I think all artists copy bits and pieces from other artists :)
Master studies are very informative. I did some of those when I took Nathan's class. Great learning tools!
Oh my God I love Tyler and Todd ❤️❤️❤️
YAAASSSS
I have a question that I’d like your opinion on. Mixing undiluted watercolor into gouache (probably white). Have you tried it, how did it work out?
You mean mixing them straight out of the tube? I haven't done that
@@SarahBurnsStudio I think I’m going to experiment with it, seems like it could work.🤓
Love these sketch-a-longs! So yes, I absolutely "see" in Gordon Mackenzie and try to use his techniques without copying the style. Have you ever done a challenge where you limited the number of brushstrokes you allowed yourself?
Yes I've done that! It's so hard at first..but boy does it help understand which information is important!
Is your paper like hot press or cold press? I really enjoy watching you. I want to try using gouache in my watercolor paintings. Thanks for sharing this.
This sketchbook is hot pressed, very smooth and 100% cotton. (Etchr brand)
Merci pour la video.
Utilisez-vous les mêmes pinceaux pour la gouache et l'aquarelle ?
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Thanks for the video.
Do you use the same brushes for gouache and watercolour ?
Yes I do, though I prefer flat brushes for gouache and round brushes for watercolor.
Thank you Sarah ! As usual, it’s really instructive and inspiring.👏🎨🇫🇷
😄💙
Heavens, that IS the Fangorn forest, moss and lichens (sp?) and everything! Our local forest park is too manicured for my liking, but then again, you don't want to venture into huorns...😃
I liked that you specified in the beginning of the episode that it is not a tutorial and therefore should not be copied, sometimes it's hard to understand whether one can try and chug along in the back sit ( aka copy) or not. So ,greatly appreciated! 👍
Interesting choice of composition- so the viewer has to decide, which path to take? Sunny one or dark and mysterious? And that backlit trunk of a tree!!! 😍
I am in the middle earth 😂, second week now, but when I return, I have an unfinished business with one of my gouache sketches, I didn't have time to finish it at the time and now I see that it has some.. inaccuracies, shall we say, also, so if you still reading this 🤣, would you suggest to try and finish it and correct mistakes or just start anew?
A bit worried, that the previous layer will get reactivated...or it would look like I pasted something on top.
Thank you for a most interesting video and have a great day!🍀
Glad you enjoyed it!
As for your painting..when I'm in that situation, I would just use it as a learning experience and do another one, but that's me!
@@SarahBurnsStudio
Makes sense, I'll take your advice!
Thank you!
Oh, and thank you for reading that long comment of mine. 🐱
@@ellenp7455 I read every comment (and try to respond!)
@@SarahBurnsStudio
I know that you do, and I am very grateful for that!
I am sorry if my comment offended you, I was just trying to make a joke, because my comment was quite long and I felt embarrassed because of it.
@@ellenp7455 Oh not at all! Don't worry. I just want you to know I do :) and whoever else reading this
Ciao Sarah, non capisco nulla di ciò che dici, ma ti seguo con molto interesse. Un abbraccio da un ex iconografo 😘
ciao grazie per seguirmi!
@@SarahBurnsStudio è un vero piacere. 😉
It goes the same asking permission to paint pictures taken from others something that I do all the time , I ordered a watercolour set still waiting to get.
Love to see the Kitties….
lol, well the next VLOG has tons of kitties
@@SarahBurnsStudio Crazy Cat lady here….my boy..Picasso is like yr little one
Tenuous but its a play on words saying tonightious because that ringing in your ears after leaving loud gigs , concerts or nightclubs , well anything that coukd have been that bit to loud that you may have done some damage to your hearing .
Hence the "tonightious" as it should not last in to the next day .
If you are getting tenuous just randomly, might be a idea to chat to your doctor about having your hearing tested and check that you have no damage to your ear drums or any infections on its way .
If you have been exposed to loud noises regularly currently or even in the past like been a musiso or DJ and regularly had to be right next to amps ,fold backs and drummers or even worked with industrial machinery .. yeah get that looked into.
Got to look after your hearing but lol , the music in your background at times just sounds like high pitched diffent squeals .
I have stupidly sensitive hearing and some notes just plain out just hurt me and i thought i had some sort of hearing damage, turns out i nothing wrong with my ears .
Its more the case the sound getting to my brain was the problem..
Get you ears looked in too.
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Wait... Wait, wait wait wait! Can I ask you something? If not, then fine, I'm just asking. I'm making a video about my characters on my channel and I think your voice is suitable for one of my characters. Could we cooperate in some way?
You mean like voice acting?
@@SarahBurnsStudio yes
@Horami Gaun Oh, I've never done that before. Also I'm at my limit for how much I can take on at the moment. Maybe someday? Also if you ever need a male Scottish voice, my husband is really good at it 😀
@@SarahBurnsStudio Thank you! I don't think it's a lot of work, only several phrases to say. I don't make full cartoons, I make shorts about my characters, so all you need to say is for example: Hey! I'm happy to see you today! What are you doing...?
And can I hear your husband's voice? It would be really nice
Instead of being angry that someone copies, maybe feel honored. Ever heard of a master’s study
Who’s angry?
Why put artwork online ? If You are offended by people copying your artwork. There are many artists online who copy Other people's artwork and tag them. Who are not offended by people coping their art work.For example draw this in your style or draw this another artist style videos.. If someone is copying artwork just for practice and not for profit and they give in the artist recognition why is this offensive
I’m not offended. I’m protecting myself. I offer tons of tutorials but there’s a difference between copying a tutorial to learn and copying someone’s art and selling prints and claiming it as their own.