How to Paint a Spontaneous Watercolor Landscape - "Accidental Painting"
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2015
- Here's how I paint a completely spontaneous, impromptu painting - a random painting with no forethought or plan. Just splash down some paint and see what emerges. I call them accidental paintings. It works best with landscape forms and is a great way to practice various techniques when you don't know what to paint.
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Michael....I am 77 .have been doing watercolor(only) for over 50 years, am self taught..a loose term, there are so many good books....I am a loner so i just never could get much into the group thing...I don't think I have ever replied to someone.....so....I am compelled to tell you how much i appreciate you and your style.Being a christian I enjoy your easy ,non preachey, manner of sharing your faith..A good teacher inspires confidence and a sense of I can do this...you do this in aces...This little impromptu painting and encouraging others to do it, helps to overcome one of a painters biggest obstacles. Even before we start to school, we are taught to use symbols when we wright or draws opposed to what we see...stick figures.little christmas trees, block houses and so forth. The vast majority of children drawing books show how to make circles and squares into chickens and cows. I think this becomes so part of us that it takes effort to overcome...I have been very blessed to still ,after 57 years ,to be married to my high school sweat heart and we have home schooled 6. I have never stooped being amazed at just how creative kids can be.The bible tells us to become like little children....good advice ,I think for an aspiring artist.
Thanks for the kind words Hugh. We homeschooled our 5 too. Glad to have you aboard!
After having seen your spontaneous painting during these years I eventually gave it a try, and WOW triple WOW! it’s so freeing letting your imagination go following the colours and the shapes and doing splatters.
It’s a game changer for a self taught painter with no visual imagination like me. Thanks 🙏 😊
Absolutely beautiful!!! I’ll give it a try this is the second video of yours I’ve watched. I need to let go & dive in.. I have to believe I can still learn to do new things even at 73. Thank you i feel encouraged.
Thanks! Very enjoyable to watch and inspirational too. By the way... at the 3:47 time stamp, a dragon or lizard emerged from the trees! He hung out for a while, until 6:23ish when he started to grow branches and became one with the trees.
EMBRACE FAILURE....I am writing it on several sticky notes to place on the mirror, dashboard of my car, etc. Thank you for assisting me in snapping out of that "This is going to be hanging on a wall at the MOMA after I sell it for $Billions," which is why I have more unfinished paintings, than finished. GET OVER YOURSELF SUSAN AND EMBRACE FAILURE! Thank you so much!
I forgot how much I love these spontaneous paintings. They do help me tremendously start painting!
i love doing this at the start of many paints. it definitely loosens me up
Thank you so much for the message about allowing yourself to fail. I have just started to play around with watercolors at the age of 55 and I am trying to embrace their unpredictability. I think watercolors are a tremendous metaphor for life.
Very true!
Spontaneous Progress. 40 seconds in I could visualize your landscape. Thank you for demonstrating the process.
Susan Weekley You're welcome. Yes, halfway through or less I usually start to see ideas emerge and I start steering the painting in those directions.
Brilliant piece !! Loved the outcome . Its controlled chaos . When i try , its just chaos 😂
Love it thanks!
Reese really knows his stuff
It is absolutely beautiful.
I'm going to try this..
Amazing how the end results look so beautiful starting out with some loose splashes and marks.
Thanks so much for these awesome videos.
Brilliant!
ahhhh....watching you is generating much pleasure and love of watercolor painting....I am jus a beginner., 2 weeks now..but the more I'm watching you the more I am falling in love...with this way of painting! Some years ago, I was painting with oil, reproduction stuff, no creativity..But Watercolor?! omg...it will make my creativity alive! Thank you so much!
@ susan n. - Yep, failure is the best teacher I know. Most experienced artists just call them "studies" LOL!
Love. Love. Love the music!
Loved watching the brush work in this video!!
Love the music!! And my goodness that so pretty!!
Love this....I call the style intuitive painting...you are not thinking about it, just doing it!! You are the best!!
I've watched three of your videos, and I've already learned more from you than from my college art teacher in 5 months!!!!! I thank you kindly!!!! Keep 'em coming!!!!
+Michele Kiernan Very encouraging thanks!
Thank you for your encouragement to us newbies!
Wowzers
Beautiful.
I'm jumping in and trying it.
Thank you for the inspiration😊
Love the music!
You make this look soooo easy! I couldn't imagine what you were going to do with this when you had the first layer of paint down. WOW. It's magical! thanks for sharing your talents with us.
Oh. My. God. That's so very beautiful.
You are totally right ! Love this thinking
Steve! I have been away from watercolor for the reasons you mentioned in this video. Mine excuse specifically being a perfectionist My classes have been cancelled at the college due to the covid so I do not have immediate feedback. I did take 2 levels of water classes for FREE here in the city college and received A's in both.....but I have not abandoned my artwork focusing on clayboard art with micro pens. In other words little hand movement and little FEAR. (smile). I will try and revive my talent thanks to your knowledge and teaching me that I do not have to succeed in successful results every time. 70 year old retired school teacher here.
fantastic ... what fun!
Love how you just do it. Not too much talky talky. Thanks. Great!
+Beatrix Potter 😀
Wow, seven years ago? Watching in 2022. Was awesome, still awesome. TFS.❤
Absolutely fabulous!!!! When I do my own 'spontaneous' paintings, I call them 'Splash and Splatter' --- and do a lot of negative painting to turn them into flowers --- great fun, imaginative, a good way to stretch ...... Love how you turned this one into a fabulous work!
linfrye Great idea and thanks!
Beautiful surprise!
This was so much fun!
This is by far the most wonderful exercise to create the beauty of watercoloring. I watch it often to get inspired and admire your gift.
Absolutely beautiful
Fabulous technique! And great choice of music!!
Permission to fail is such an important concept! Thanks for sharing that.
Excellent video as always Steve. Looking forward to the studio tour. Keep the great vids coming. I hope you're making Reece pull his weight and not goof off too much.
Lyle Gillan Yeah, he's good to have around if for no other reason than to keep me from taking myself too seriously. :-)
SO BEAUTIFUL
Love your creativity! Love your permission to be free & let the water paint it. Love your humor!!
WOW! Just amazing!
Thank you for sharing the fact that you may not end up with a complete picture but we will have learned..
You inspired me to get over my fear of failure. A fun exercise and a great way to practice different techniques. Perfect way to spend a morning inside when it's 10 degrees outside!
+PL Cole Haha! Yeah I bet. I'm sitting by the wood stove myself even though its only 34º in SC.
Fan and rigger brushes are unique in their character, a must have ace under a watercolorist sleeve indeed!
-A
@ Michael - Oh sure you do! You have nothing to loose. Thats what I mean by giving yourself permission to fail. If you must come away with a great painting then you'll generate fear and frustration. If your goal is to learn how a technique works, you'll be successful. Eventually those learned techniques WILL turn out paintings you're proud of.
The Mind of Watercolor Thanks Steve, that's a great way to look at it. I will give this a try.
That's always been my fear, and the reason why I--and most other people, I'm sure--stop making art altogether. When I was a kid, I made these 4 "life-size" drawings of the Beatles and stuck them on my wall, and I thought they were the neatest things ever. I tried to do it again just a few years later, and was so self-conscious about how bad my drawing was that I just gave up. It's hard to keep in mind that practice is the only way to get better (which is strange to me, because the same goes for writing, and I've never had problems cranking out stories for myself!).
Anyway, my point in all this is to say thank you for the video AND the advice! My unofficial resolution for the year is to practice, and I will be repeating this lime a mantra every time my brain says "Oh no, you're terrible at this, you'd better just stick to what you're good at."
Maybe if you need help...take a class. You don't have to go it alone, when you are learning. There are many avenues to try - find a social group that does painting, your local library may offer classes, or go to an Artist themselves...instead of UA-cam - who can work with you One on One. Painting may not be your forte' like your writing, but you may have to sacrifice Ego to learn. We can't all be an Artist, or writer, or whatever...without some kind of Teaching and Learning. You will waste a lot of time doing Nothing...for what - Fear? Consider this - What you do TODAY is important - because you are exchanging a Day of Life for IT...whatever that might be. Don't waste your precious Life worrying about What IF's.
facebook has a closed water color group where if asked, other artists help beginning artists
The Mind of Watercolor ii
Beautiful. Inspirational.
So much fun!
Perfection has a name. I don't need to tell you... Those branches are great.
Thanks so much!
You are immensely talented.
Love your channel 💜
So this is how my daughter and I have been approaching watercolor. I just recently realized I should be starting with a plan, a sketch, or anything at all. 😳 It helps that I just view it as paper, paint and a relaxing project. Thank you for your educational and humorous videos.
Magical fingers!
The maximum. It is magic.
Oh! I love it so much.
Isn't this just magnificent. The whole process.
+Mario Addis Thanks!
Stunning!!
I absolutely adore your sense of humour. As well as your videos and artwork of course ;)
This was so inspiring! Great painting
Really love it. Thank you for posting!
Love love love your spontaneous painting. In awe of your talent. Keep them coming. Love how you are spreading the gospel also! Maranatha!!
Great, now I am addicted to this "playing". I think it is a great way to loosen up and get more interesting color for novices like me. thanks
Denni Jones Play = fun! Thanks for watching!
Just beautiful!
This makes me happy ... even when I’m a super grouch. Thx ☺️
Sweet painting. I really like the way you made it look 3d by adding the first few branches. Kind of blew my mind.
Love watching you develop these spontaneous paintings!
Thank you so much for sharing your talents. You have a wonderful manner in your presentations that makes it easy and fun to watch. David
Absolutely beautiful!!!
You are a magician!
You do a great job of saving those wonderful serendipities! I call what you are doing serendipitous paintingj!! Love it!
Love the music and the encouragement about giving yourself permission to fail and make a mess while learning to get techniques that will sometimes and more often as you practice produce amazing accidents like God painted through my hands!
+Rhythm Withinhim thanks! Welcome to the liberated 😃!
Thanks so much for this wonderful idea! The end result was beautiful. I love the colors! I'll be doing this for sure!
The finished piece is stunning! Love all your techniques. I have tried them all...with mixed success and failure. LOL! Your tutorials are inspiring. Thanks!
+B Cohen 👍
that was amazing. I thought surely I would not like the final result when I saw the first 5 minutes of the video but you finished it off so well!
Brilliant as usual.
This is helping me a lot! A newer watercolor person - this exercise is getting me out of "my head" and allowing me to / forcing me to just try stuff. Great tip.
Glad it was help!
Wow this is such an inspiring video. So fun. Thanks for making this
thank you so much for those words man 😃 it's all about practice and patience. art is fun !
👍
I have watch this a couple of times and thank you for giving us an exercise to freeing up.
I keep coming back to your spontaneous pictures, they really are lovely
Love it, can't wait to try.
Lots of fun and also lots of technic, I enjoyed this very much tank you.
So encouraging and I love the bit about not being afraid of failure. Thanks for all your brilliant teaching and your informal fun manner.
So sad I have only found this channel yesterday... amazing!!!! Your encouraging words changed my mind!
+Orlando Miranda Thanks!
Absolutely beautiful...I can only aspire.....
The mind of watercolor, now I do not feel so bad. I have done so many bad painting. Been doing it for aboutthree months. I love color and your art work came out beautiful. So I will kerp it up. I like the splatter, the spray, the straw, all if it. Fun, fun. Thanks
Mary Soto
Mary Soto Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
ABSOLUTE Awesomness!!!!!
Debi Minter Very kind thank you!
This is certainly one of my favorite tutorials. Love this!
This is a fantastic way to learn how to loosen up in my paintings! Thank you!
love this, what a lot of fun with various effects and textures!
Hajra Meeks Thanks so much Hajra, pleased you think so!
Congratulations!! Happy anniversary!! When I see your videos on my sub feed I watch yours first! Such inspiration!! Thanks!!
nancymaewi Awww! Thats so nice, thank you!
Wow, I love to work from what I see, this is so inspiring, thank you. 💖
I love stopping the video at, lets say, 3:00. Then I ask myself, "If I was painting this, how would I feel?" Would I feel like it is going south very quickly and discard it, or would I pursue further...We are our own worst critics. I did a drawing the other day and almost threw it away if it were not for my son convincing me to save it...I looked at it 2 days later and am so glad I didn't throw it away. It is one of my more expressive sketches....This is one reason why I love that you produce these videos, it gives credence to the pursuit!!!
Thanks and yes, sleep on it and take another look. Good input!
This turned out to be a little treasure!
LOVE THAT~~~I’m going to do that tomorrow while watching you in slow speed. Thanks!!
I do know that practice & experience play a big part in the "success" of paintings as well!
OMG! Watching that was amazing. About halfway through i was like "wait...this is just a wet piece of paper with random colors." And then BAM as soon as you started putting in the branches i saw where you were going with it. Great job!
Thanks!
LOVE this! I come back to this video again & again!!
I love this and have always wanted to paint this way. Watching this has helped me. I just need to try. Thank you!
Wonderful!! This is what I want to be able to accomplish when I finally get back to watercolor painting. I want to go with the flow and let the painting take me where it wants to go. Thank you!
This is excellent. And exactly what I need to do to build confidence. Very excited to try this out!
Wow! Wasn't expecting that outcome!! I guess that is the fun part about this technique. Gotta give it a try.
Bia Makani Neither was I. You're right, that is the fun part. You just don't know what you have until you're done. It develops like a Polaroid and calls for certain things to be defined as you paint.