I’m very new to painting and trying to understand colour is a huge challenge. This video is an amazing help! I was having trouble seeing the blue in the shadows until you staring painting with a blue and then it just jumped out at me. So cool. Thank you 😊
There’s the added challenge of painting the effects of light/atmosphere - which throughout history was often represented by blue. Until the early impressionists started doing that, it wasn’t really common, and then suddenly, paintings look so atmospheric! Look at John Singer Sargent’s work…incredible understanding of light in the landscape
Once when I was in a field to paint a sunset (so very warm yellow light), I put my open white paper sketchbook on the ground next to me while I was getting my flask of tea, and noticed the cast shadows from taller blades of grass looked bright bluey-purple on the white paper. The colour was such a surprise I reached for a matching coloured pencil and just traced and coloured in the image. It’s one of my favourite pages and a really memorable colour lesson learned.
Thank you for this vid! Mixing color is so challenging for beginners like myself and this vid was very informative. Eventhough they were studies they look beautiful and the colors are so harmonious with each other!
I actually love how yellow the sand is in the first painting. You’ve most likely already realized this but beyond the context of being right there on the beach, it really is an appealing palette because of the relationship of the complimentary colors yellow and purple at a wide contrast in value. I celebrate your accomplish and appreciate your content!
Even though we paint different subjects, i find your information on water control and colours super informative and helpful. I still suck at gouache, im a much better watercolourist, but every time i watch these video's it inspires to pick up the palette and try again. I've even dabbled in some landscapes now, just to try something new! Point being, yes, this video was super helpful and i would love more on your colour noting process, including all the blunders.
When you said “it’s not about getting it right the first time.. that’s really rare “boy isn’t that the truth ha ha. I wanted to make this one of my first paintings with gouache. I finally bought some ShinHan Gouache, and it’s so much better to work with the other stuff that I’ve had …so I’m pleased …and I had fun …and that’s the main thing. Plus…I certainly learned a lot, I can tell you that…so thank you for doing these videos. They’re so very helpful.
I’ve just began watching your videos and I’m here to tell you that you have given me most useful and valuable information and insight into understanding how important it is to REALLY understand the colors and all that they do with the other colors on my palette!!! So many times it’s just been about lots and lots of beautiful paints…. I’ve been so confused and with quite a bit less money in my wallet 😂😂 I’m sick UA-cam doesn’t put everyone videos on a feed immediately and let US decide?!? Just extremely grateful for your help ❤
I love these color studies!! I tend to get too dull with my colors when I'm trying to "match" something. I love the way paintings look when I exaggerate the colors that I see! I love to see the varieties of colors you end up using!! Beautiful!
Sarah, This video is extremely informative. I appreciate your real time honesty regarding your process. This makes me feel like gathering up my paints and sunscreen and venturing out! Thank you very much.
Sarah Burns, thank you for sharing your process of learning. My teacher said gouache is difficult, and I see why. She also keeps telling me to do color studies like you did in this video. However, what resonates the most for me from this video is your advice to just try stuff out and see what works because that is the best advice to learn. :-)
Helpful tips, beautiful mini paintings Sarah! I am about to venture into the world of gouache… Thanks for sharing the issues of beach/dunes painting!! 🙏🏾😃👍🏾
Sarah Yellow ochre mixed with any purple makes sand I use French ultramarine and aliz crimson and yellow ochre.....this tip was from Roos Scherring awsom artist 🥰🥰🥰 thanks for sharing yes I found this helpful Sarah
Yes please! I have been inspired by you to not only paint with gouache, but to plein air as well. I am slowly gathering supplies to be able to accomplish this. You are a wonderful and talented teacher, in addition to being a very talented and skilled artist. I just happened to stumble upon your channel while I was looking for tips on painting with gouache, and there you were. Slowly getting caught up with your videos, primarily focusing on gouache but will watch your watercolor videos as well just because that is something too that I have just tried to get over the scary feeling and paint.
Hello and welcome! I kind of go through phases of working with different mediums 😄 I love pretty much all of them. But gouache seems the most versatile and I just cant get enough of it right now!
@@SarahBurnsStudio I forgot to ask you, but is this the palate you use when you plein air paint? Or does it depend on what subjects you are going to be painting? Thank you so much, you have been my inspiration to go outside once it stops raining and start painting.
@@Neelloc83 Yes, this little gouache palette is what I use for 90% of my gouache plein air. The rest of the time I use my slightly larger Guerilla Painter 6x8 Thumbox.
This is SUCH a helpful video! Thank you so much for sharing this. It's invaluable to get to hear the thought process and reasoning behind artistic decisions. I also so appreciate how you put it together and layered images to illustrate what you were saying. 10/10! Chef's Koss! Can't wait to put these into practice :)
Dear Sarah, Quick little fact; We have yellow sunlight and purply blue shadows. If we had a red light source, we would have greenish shadows. It always is the complimentary! In kindred spirit, Eliza Australia Sat 4th of June 2022 10:55am
@@SarahBurnsStudio I was told it years ago, in colour classes by a lecturer. It is useful to know if you go to Mars, (my novel lol is set there,) orfor reflections and shadows of red light/green light intersections.....during a wet or dark evening perhaps?
Wow I have got to do some color studies now. I have been painting for almost 3 years and I have never really tried to do any color mixing before putting my paint on the paper. I definitely see by your study how painting in the sunlight or shadow makes a difference in what you are doing. So many details & lessons learned from this video. Thanks for sharing this wonderful informational video with us. Thanks for taking us to the beach/dunes as well.
So glad you found it helpful! It's a very relaxing activity as well. There's no pressure to paint a pretty picture. Just mix and learn! Great for days when you don't have as much time, or not feeling ultra inspired
This was so instructive! Now on the hunt for more color studies of yours like this in watercolor. I love the real-life sand, sun, glare issues you show, it's a true experience.
oh wow now i realize how wonderful gouache medium can be . and so lightweight .the blue in shadows matches perfectly with grass. great inspiring video .
I adore your videos! Thank you for this one particularly. As far as we painters are really on this road by self, it’s so nice to have this kind of connection and the experience sharing. Thank you so much for all that you do here on UA-cam really! ♥️
Thank you for your blog…I enjoy what you share. My other favorite thing about your channel is how you show your creative process…like how you take color notes. I need to use that strategy…your mellow and calm voice is a joy to listen to😊. Have a wonderful pleine air event.
Thank you for sharing the reality! I admit I paint mostly in my van with the doors open so my environment is quite controlled because of that. I struggle with wind it is my frenemy keeping me cool yet getting sand and dirt and leaves in my paint. I cringed in pain when I saw that sand on the top of your palate. All I could think after that was how is she going to clean that!? You inspire me ❤️💝
Sounds like you have a great setup being able to paint from the van! I would love to do that someday. With my palette, I ended up spraying it with water, then wiping as much off as possible with my paper towel, and it worked pretty well (admittedly there are still some grains in there and probably always will be!)
This is very helpful Sarah. I have a flu and feeling so miserable and this video/ vlog has been so calming and inspiring. I love your painting process and mixing. It’s just so cool. Thank you so much.
Very helpful tip on training the eye to see the colors and doing the color swatches. I don't think I've ever heard it put quite that way and it rings sooooo true!!
I love hearing about your process, it makes me feel like I am with you. I have been watching you since before your move to Scotland and I have learned so much from you. Your love of nature, rock, sand, water, life,etc, is filled with a poetic sense of freedom. Thank you for sharing all of your artistic talent and hard work, (and play); you give me a true sense of exploration and you challenge me to just try.
I loved this so much!! You are so talented with your art that it is nice to see your "practice" notes. When you see your art without these notes, etc., it seems as if you just painted it and it was perfect.
What a treat! Please continue sharing the joys of our work as artists - simply loved the conversational sharing of your thinking. The skies and colours of Morayshire and on the beach at Lossie are very special too! Thank you very much Sarah!
Such a useful, informative video. Thanks Sarah! This is going to help so many people. I love the colour studies you did and can see why you're drawn to dunes!
This was extremely helpfull for me! I would watch a ton of those tutorials from you, because it is exactly what I needed, right now, at this point of my painting journey. Thank you so much!
Thank you Sarah, another really helpful video! I was working on a small landscape in gouache last night, from a picture I took the same day. I had it on my laptop for reference. I find it so helpful to look at it first thing in the morning with fresh eyes, and natural light. Sometimes what I thought was a poor start is actually good, and I can see right away what needs to be darker or color changed. Your exercise is really good for someone starting in plein air because it can be overwhelming to step outside and try to capture a tiny peice of what you see. I'm still new to gouache so doing just color studies and small studies with no detail takes a lot of pressure off. I'm also testing new field setups so I just tell myself, just play with color!
Yes to a video about greens! Green is one of my favorite colors but it's a constant struggle. When you got sand in your paint I had to chuckle. I went on a camping trip recently and I thought it would be nice to brush my teeth on the beach in the sunset... You can imagine how that went.
Re: Thought process and virtual Sarah. I like the way you popped in a couple times to share your thought process and clarify and expand what you’re think or direction headed while painting. Keep it up!
Wow! I never realized how hard it is to gauge the colors in full sun while you are sweating it out. I'm building up my nerves to paint the lake nearby at the park on the park bench. It's 85-90F here just outside of Atlanta so I try to wait until late afternoon. I'm going to do it one day this summer. I just can't get over how hard it was for you to see it in full sun, but I get it now. I'm so used to observing from photos or a window. Thanks for this!
Wow! UA-cam recommended this video to me and I was so happy to see an artist paint the beach I grew up with. You must have been there very early, Lossie was the busiest I've ever seen it that weekend! It's so nice to be able to access the beach again, I've always loved those sand dunes ❤
Oh wow you live there? It’s a beautiful area. You may see me painting once in a while! Yes, I always try to go there early! Now with the bridge I imagine it will be full every weekend of the summer.
This is a super helpful video. It shows so clearly how human eyes adjust to working in really bright sunlight and how they see sunlit areas from a position of shade. I think the colours you chose were actually really close to the colours your were seeing. My experience of sand, when looking with my face in full sun, is that it is pink too. I suspect this is a natural optical effect which you picked up on. Great video - thanks!
Oh my! I just stumbled onto your channel Sarah, and just , wow! It is so informative. I live in Florida near the beach, and you have inspired me to pick up some travel art supplies and go put my toes in the sand! I need to get out of my comfort zone (my studio), and explore my surroundings more. I will definitely be binge-watching your channel for inspiration and advise.
Thanks for sharing your tips and process Sarah. And congratulations this is another awesome video even though you had some frustrating situation happened while filming and thought it was out of frame, you still managed to provide us another amazing video. Love your work! Thank you! Enjoy the sun and the beach!🤩🤗🌊
Hi Sarah, Thank you so much for sharing.....TIP: To dull a color off quickly and easily, just a a touch of it's complementary color (ie the color opposite to it on the color wheel.)
More than anything I really enjoy hearing about process, planning, colour choices and mixing.....so thanks Sarah. This is really interesting and insightful.
I am a good watercolor artist but I cannot get good at gouache! It is so frustrating. You make it look so fun and easy! You inspire me to keep on trying because I see how much you have progressed over time and it gives me hope that, with a lot of practice, I too could be good at it one day too!
Yes, I am working on one regarding greens but kinda fell down the rabbit hole and ended up making multiple mixing charts and creating a new custom palette 😂
I just discovered you few weeks ago and I'm so grateful! I love your vlogs and tutorials and everything, THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing and all the work you put into! It's so encouraging!
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I hope Scotland tourism is paying you for the videos. Videos like this really make me want to travel there.
I’m very new to painting and trying to understand colour is a huge challenge. This video is an amazing help! I was having trouble seeing the blue in the shadows until you staring painting with a blue and then it just jumped out at me. So cool. Thank you 😊
There’s the added challenge of painting the effects of light/atmosphere - which throughout history was often represented by blue. Until the early impressionists started doing that, it wasn’t really common, and then suddenly, paintings look so atmospheric! Look at John Singer Sargent’s work…incredible understanding of light in the landscape
Once when I was in a field to paint a sunset (so very warm yellow light), I put my open white paper sketchbook on the ground next to me while I was getting my flask of tea, and noticed the cast shadows from taller blades of grass looked bright bluey-purple on the white paper. The colour was such a surprise I reached for a matching coloured pencil and just traced and coloured in the image. It’s one of my favourite pages and a really memorable colour lesson learned.
Thank you for this vid! Mixing color is so challenging for beginners like myself and this vid was very informative. Eventhough they were studies they look beautiful and the colors are so harmonious with each other!
I actually love how yellow the sand is in the first painting. You’ve most likely already realized this but beyond the context of being right there on the beach, it really is an appealing palette because of the relationship of the complimentary colors yellow and purple at a wide contrast in value. I celebrate your accomplish and appreciate your content!
A terrific vlog on colour study and I love the parrot cam footage 📸!!! Yes to more colour studies please. Thank you Sarah. 🌊✨ 😃😃😃
Parrot cam works great…when it works! 😂
Even though we paint different subjects, i find your information on water control and colours super informative and helpful. I still suck at gouache, im a much better watercolourist, but every time i watch these video's it inspires to pick up the palette and try again. I've even dabbled in some landscapes now, just to try something new!
Point being, yes, this video was super helpful and i would love more on your colour noting process, including all the blunders.
That’s great to hear! I think this method works great for any subject and any paint medium. I hope you stay inspired 😄
I love listening to you.... you have a lovely calming voice 💜
I so appreciate your effort to work in the sun like that. And with your hand creating the shadow,
This is a great lesson. I am a watercolor painter but can see that these tips will definitely help. Painting outside is a real challenge!
I loved this video. I learned so much. Thanks for being authentic and honest. So reassuring to see your strategies. More of these please.
When you said “it’s not about getting it right the first time.. that’s really rare “boy isn’t that the truth ha ha. I wanted to make this one of my first paintings with gouache. I finally bought some ShinHan Gouache, and it’s so much better to work with the other stuff that I’ve had …so I’m pleased …and I had fun …and that’s the main thing. Plus…I certainly learned a lot, I can tell you that…so thank you for doing these videos. They’re so very helpful.
I’ve just began watching your videos and I’m here to tell you that you have given me most useful and valuable information and insight into understanding how important it is to REALLY understand the colors and all that they do with the other colors on my palette!!! So many times it’s just been about lots and lots of beautiful paints….
I’ve been so confused and with quite a bit less money in my wallet 😂😂
I’m sick UA-cam doesn’t put everyone videos on a feed immediately and let US decide?!?
Just extremely grateful for your help ❤
Wow. Thanks so much - just a refreshing, calming video in itself, but also a wonderful art lesson and inspiration.
Sarah, Yes, the color notes are very helpful. I love that part of your outdoor experience.
I love these color studies!! I tend to get too dull with my colors when I'm trying to "match" something. I love the way paintings look when I exaggerate the colors that I see! I love to see the varieties of colors you end up using!! Beautiful!
Really helpful! I've used watercolor for years and am just starting to learn Gouache. Your videos are very helpful with that.
Sarah, This video is extremely informative. I appreciate your real time honesty regarding your process. This makes me feel like gathering up my paints and sunscreen and venturing out! Thank you very much.
If nothing else its a wonderfully relaxing way to spend an afternoon 😎🏖️
Nothing better than being out and painting what’s around you. Especially so if by the sea! 👨🏼🦰👌🎨🖌
Sarah Burns, thank you for sharing your process of learning. My teacher said gouache is difficult, and I see why. She also keeps telling me to do color studies like you did in this video. However, what resonates the most for me from this video is your advice to just try stuff out and see what works because that is the best advice to learn. :-)
That’s exactly how I learned (and still do!)
Your one of my fave art youtubers, love these art, plain air vlogs you due. Thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos.
I’m glad you enjoy them! I love making them
Helpful tips, beautiful mini paintings Sarah! I am about to venture into the world of gouache… Thanks for sharing the issues of beach/dunes painting!! 🙏🏾😃👍🏾
You can find the dune tutorial in the description if you want to start there 😃
Sarah Yellow ochre mixed with any purple makes sand I use French ultramarine and aliz crimson and yellow ochre.....this tip was from Roos Scherring awsom artist 🥰🥰🥰 thanks for sharing yes I found this helpful Sarah
Yes, I have lots of strategies to mix sand colors, but it is all relative to the lighting of the day and surrounding objects
@@SarahBurnsStudio exactly Sarah 💜
Yes please! I have been inspired by you to not only paint with gouache, but to plein air as well. I am slowly gathering supplies to be able to accomplish this. You are a wonderful and talented teacher, in addition to being a very talented and skilled artist. I just happened to stumble upon your channel while I was looking for tips on painting with gouache, and there you were. Slowly getting caught up with your videos, primarily focusing on gouache but will watch your watercolor videos as well just because that is something too that I have just tried to get over the scary feeling and paint.
Hello and welcome! I kind of go through phases of working with different mediums 😄 I love pretty much all of them. But gouache seems the most versatile and I just cant get enough of it right now!
@@SarahBurnsStudio I forgot to ask you, but is this the palate you use when you plein air paint? Or does it depend on what subjects you are going to be painting? Thank you so much, you have been my inspiration to go outside once it stops raining and start painting.
@@Neelloc83 Yes, this little gouache palette is what I use for 90% of my gouache plein air. The rest of the time I use my slightly larger Guerilla Painter 6x8 Thumbox.
@@SarahBurnsStudio Thank you
I live by the Washington coast and I agree on the dunes! They are fascinating! And they change all day long!
Thank you for actually explaining colour notes. I’ve seen artists do this before but never really understood what they were doing.
You talking through what you’re thinking is extremely helpful to this newby. Thank you!
This is SUCH a helpful video! Thank you so much for sharing this. It's invaluable to get to hear the thought process and reasoning behind artistic decisions. I also so appreciate how you put it together and layered images to illustrate what you were saying. 10/10! Chef's Koss!
Can't wait to put these into practice :)
You're so welcome!
Wow, I learned so much about mixing, adjusting, experimenting, and how to hold the brush to fan out the bristles - thanks so much!
I learn more watching you paint than listening to how it's done. It gives me hope that one day my landscape studies will actually make me happy.
Keep at it! Every artist started at the same point and had to work hard to learn
Dear Sarah,
Quick little fact;
We have yellow sunlight and purply blue shadows. If we had a red light source, we would have greenish shadows. It always is the complimentary!
In kindred spirit,
Eliza
Australia
Sat 4th of June 2022
10:55am
Fascinating! Where did you hear that?
@@SarahBurnsStudio I was told it years ago, in colour classes by a lecturer.
It is useful to know if you go to Mars, (my novel lol is set there,) orfor reflections and shadows of red light/green light intersections.....during a wet or dark evening perhaps?
I loved this so much! Really felt like I was just chilling with you at a beach watching you paint, so inspiring and calming!
I absolutely love sand dunes , it’s grasses and colors . Please do paint them as much as you can . 👏👌
Thank you! This was so great to watch. You are one of my primary inspirations to go sit outside with my tiny sketchbook and watercolors and paint.
Loved watching you in action! Mom watched with me and loved your painting! I knew she would! 😁
I loved seeing and hearing the thought process in action. Great video! Hope you make more like it. ☺️
Tku Sarah to show us the difference when we paint out of sun and on the sun, the search of the hue is a really lesson of observation.
You are Fabulous, honest, and open - Which helps me understand myself in my paintings! To - Look, See, Observe, Feel and Be "Just go for it"
Wow I have got to do some color studies now. I have been painting for almost 3 years and I have never really tried to do any color mixing before putting my paint on the paper. I definitely see by your study how painting in the sunlight or shadow makes a difference in what you are doing. So many details & lessons learned from this video. Thanks for sharing this wonderful informational video with us. Thanks for taking us to the beach/dunes as well.
So glad you found it helpful! It's a very relaxing activity as well. There's no pressure to paint a pretty picture. Just mix and learn! Great for days when you don't have as much time, or not feeling ultra inspired
@@SarahBurnsStudio Thanks for the inspiration & encouragement. 😀💕
This was very helpful and so soothing with the waves sound in the background! 🌞🌊
This was so instructive! Now on the hunt for more color studies of yours like this in watercolor. I love the real-life sand, sun, glare issues you show, it's a true experience.
oh wow now i realize how wonderful gouache medium can be . and so lightweight .the blue in shadows matches perfectly with grass. great inspiring video .
I love this. I'm a new learner and I finally know what those little swatches are for. Thank you so much
I adore your videos! Thank you for this one particularly. As far as we painters are really on this road by self, it’s so nice to have this kind of connection and the experience sharing. Thank you so much for all that you do here on UA-cam really! ♥️
Thank you for your blog…I enjoy what you share. My other favorite thing about your channel is how you show your creative process…like how you take color notes. I need to use that strategy…your mellow and calm voice is a joy to listen to😊. Have a wonderful pleine air event.
Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing the reality! I admit I paint mostly in my van with the doors open so my environment is quite controlled because of that. I struggle with wind it is my frenemy keeping me cool yet getting sand and dirt and leaves in my paint. I cringed in pain when I saw that sand on the top of your palate. All I could think after that was how is she going to clean that!? You inspire me ❤️💝
Sounds like you have a great setup being able to paint from the van! I would love to do that someday. With my palette, I ended up spraying it with water, then wiping as much off as possible with my paper towel, and it worked pretty well (admittedly there are still some grains in there and probably always will be!)
Good place to get some painting in!! Love this video Sarah. again! your work is so beautiful! 💚
Thank you so much! I love that whole area!
This is very helpful Sarah. I have a flu and feeling so miserable and this video/ vlog has been so calming and inspiring. I love your painting process and mixing. It’s just so cool. Thank you so much.
Aww sorry to hear that!! I hope you feel better soon
@@SarahBurnsStudio Getting there. All good.😊
Very helpful tip on training the eye to see the colors and doing the color swatches. I don't think I've ever heard it put quite that way and it rings sooooo true!!
I love hearing about your process, it makes me feel like I am with you. I have been watching you since before your move to Scotland and I have learned so much from you. Your love of nature, rock, sand, water, life,etc, is filled with a poetic sense of freedom. Thank you for sharing all of your artistic talent and hard work, (and play); you give me a true sense of exploration and you challenge me to just try.
I loved this so much!! You are so talented with your art that it is nice to see your "practice" notes. When you see your art without these notes, etc., it seems as if you just painted it and it was perfect.
What a treat! Please continue sharing the joys of our work as artists - simply loved the conversational sharing of your thinking. The skies and colours of Morayshire and on the beach at Lossie are very special too! Thank you very much Sarah!
Thank you!
Such a useful, informative video. Thanks Sarah! This is going to help so many people. I love the colour studies you did and can see why you're drawn to dunes!
Thank you! It’s one of those “try this” things that helps me along my journey. :)
This was extremely helpfull for me! I would watch a ton of those tutorials from you, because it is exactly what I needed, right now, at this point of my painting journey. Thank you so much!
What a beautiful place to paint! Love your process and color study!
Thank you!
Wonderful. I get so impatient! I know I need to slow down too. Thanks for that.
Thank you Sarah, another really helpful video! I was working on a small landscape in gouache last night, from a picture I took the same day. I had it on my laptop for reference. I find it so helpful to look at it first thing in the morning with fresh eyes, and natural light. Sometimes what I thought was a poor start is actually good, and I can see right away what needs to be darker or color changed. Your exercise is really good for someone starting in plein air because it can be overwhelming to step outside and try to capture a tiny peice of what you see. I'm still new to gouache so doing just color studies and small studies with no detail takes a lot of pressure off. I'm also testing new field setups so I just tell myself, just play with color!
More please. This was facinating to watch. I saw what you did to get fine strands of grasses with the big flat brush. Brilliant!
I am so glad I found you! Great lessons. I’m going to have to learn to be more patient and take more time to observe and practice.
I am starting a 1 month 1 palette to really understand my Himi gouache 18 pan palette . A beginner here, so appreciate this insight into the ‘work’
I get what you're saying about painting in full sun. Truly enjoyed and learned from this video.
Yes to a video about greens! Green is one of my favorite colors but it's a constant struggle.
When you got sand in your paint I had to chuckle. I went on a camping trip recently and I thought it would be nice to brush my teeth on the beach in the sunset... You can imagine how that went.
Haha oh no 🙈
This sort of thing is extreemly helpful. Thank you so much.
This is so lovely Sarah. Beautiful view and beautiful painting. This is one of mg bucketlist, to travel and paint nature .
You can start local and paint whatever nature you can find, even if it’s a tree or a park :)
@@SarahBurnsStudio oh yeah. Thank you ☺️
Re: Thought process and virtual Sarah. I like the way you popped in a couple times to share your thought process and clarify and expand what you’re think or direction headed while painting. Keep it up!
Glad you enjoy that! It is needed sometimes
Very very helpful, thank you!! I love seeing the direct insight and thought processes. ❤️
Excellent advice and so fun to watch and see the beach too,
Wow! I never realized how hard it is to gauge the colors in full sun while you are sweating it out. I'm building up my nerves to paint the lake nearby at the park on the park bench. It's 85-90F here just outside of Atlanta so I try to wait until late afternoon. I'm going to do it one day this summer. I just can't get over how hard it was for you to see it in full sun, but I get it now. I'm so used to observing from photos or a window. Thanks for this!
I hope you give it a try, even just for the experience! But hopefully a cooler day so you don’t overheat 😅
Yes to more colour study please! Very interesting! Thank you and 👏👏. 🎨🇫🇷👍
Colour study in watercolour would also be wonderful, loved this video, thanks ❤
Wow! UA-cam recommended this video to me and I was so happy to see an artist paint the beach I grew up with. You must have been there very early, Lossie was the busiest I've ever seen it that weekend! It's so nice to be able to access the beach again, I've always loved those sand dunes ❤
Oh wow you live there? It’s a beautiful area. You may see me painting once in a while! Yes, I always try to go there early! Now with the bridge I imagine it will be full every weekend of the summer.
Very interesting! You are right! Painting directly on the sun, can be disturbing the colors! OMG! That's why you love to paint on toned paper....
Very much find this helpful and looking forward to learning the greens with you
One of the greatest pleasure of gouache or wc is to paint outside. Tku to realize a plein air vid.
Thank you Sarah. It was so helpful to see and hear your thought process, and the groundwork you lay in approaching a plein air scene.
You are so welcome!
This is a super helpful video. It shows so clearly how human eyes adjust to working in really bright sunlight and how they see sunlit areas from a position of shade. I think the colours you chose were actually really close to the colours your were seeing. My experience of sand, when looking with my face in full sun, is that it is pink too. I suspect this is a natural optical effect which you picked up on.
Great video - thanks!
It’s very fascinating!
Hi Sarah, This video was very helpful! I would love more of this type of video in your various settings 😊👍🏻
Thanks for this. Now, i reason to go out ❤️ but this really inspire me to draw nature and see things in a different perspective
Thanks very helpful. The mixing is very tricky when the colours dry noticeably darker than when painted wet.
That is such a generous process share! Thank you so much!
This is such a wonderful process to watch and learn from.
Consider getting a white umbrella to sit under for better color control? The masters used them outdoors, a lot.
Yes I have one, but there was nothing to attach it to there, I didn't want to bring my entire setup this time
Ahhh! You're on it! Thanks for the explanation!
This is incredibly helpful! Swatching and looking intently at colours, thumbnail studies… ughhhhh it’s so aesthetically pleasing.
Glad it was enjoyable!
This was a great video. I would love to see more videos like these on how you test your colors.
I'm working on a "greens" video - but had to take a break due to wrist injury. But it's coming!
Oh my! I just stumbled onto your channel Sarah, and just , wow! It is so informative. I live in Florida near the beach, and you have inspired me to pick up some travel art supplies and go put my toes in the sand! I need to get out of my comfort zone (my studio), and explore my surroundings more. I will definitely be binge-watching your channel for inspiration and advise.
Thank you! Welcome :)
Thanks for sharing your tips and process Sarah. And congratulations this is another awesome video even though you had some frustrating situation happened while filming and thought it was out of frame, you still managed to provide us another amazing video. Love your work! Thank you! Enjoy the sun and the beach!🤩🤗🌊
You are so welcome!
Lovely. I love dunes and moving grasses and fronds.
I see you have a watercolor playlist. I will be checking that out!
I hope you enjoy! :)
Loved watching this process!
Thank you for these videos. I really love your advice with gouache! It’s helped considerably.
Your videos are really helpful for us beginners. Thank you!
That's great to hear!
Hi Sarah, Thank you so much for sharing.....TIP: To dull a color off quickly and easily, just a a touch of it's complementary color (ie the color opposite to it on the color wheel.)
More than anything I really enjoy hearing about process, planning, colour choices and mixing.....so thanks Sarah. This is really interesting and insightful.
Thanks Sarah, such a beautiful setting and dune grasses and plants are great to paint, the colours are so beautiful.
I love seeing this process .
Thank you! I’m new to art and color theory. This was so helpful.
I am a good watercolor artist but I cannot get good at gouache! It is so frustrating. You make it look so fun and easy! You inspire me to keep on trying because I see how much you have progressed over time and it gives me hope that, with a lot of practice, I too could be good at it one day too!
Yes! Just think of how you got to your current skill with watercolor. Time and repetition.
For some reason gouache is much easier for me than watercolors. Could it be due to my longtime use of acrylics in painting?
Very interresting video. It's nice to understand the painting process. Thanks :)
Hi Sarah, thank you for your video, I really like your talk and painting at the same time.
I love your colour studies, please do more 😊❤
This was very interesting to follow! Thank you so much. I hope you do more of these.
Yes, I am working on one regarding greens but kinda fell down the rabbit hole and ended up making multiple mixing charts and creating a new custom palette 😂
I just discovered you few weeks ago and I'm so grateful! I love your vlogs and tutorials and everything, THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing and all the work you put into! It's so encouraging!
You are so welcome!