Looking Through John Harrison's New 'Pen and Wash' Watercolour Book + Trying Out A Painting From It

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  • Опубліковано 6 тра 2024
  • Taking a look at a lovely new watercolour book, and trying out a painting from it.
    John Harrison's UA-cam Channel:
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  • @JillKal893
    @JillKal893 22 дні тому

    Lovely! Thank you for sharing this🙏🏾

  • @carollegros8671
    @carollegros8671 Місяць тому

    Thank you for the flip through, please do more of these. Beautiful demo.

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому

      I definitely have quite a few art books, so will try and remember to show more!

  • @lisaharner3720
    @lisaharner3720 Місяць тому

    I love your pen and wash, Helen. It has a fresh and clean look. Thanks for sharing! ❤

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому

      Thanks to John Harrison for his style!

  • @katebagley8234
    @katebagley8234 Місяць тому

    Love #johnharrison work and your sketch looks amazing! 😮

  • @margaretpinsent6388
    @margaretpinsent6388 Місяць тому

    It turned out so beautifully! The book looks good.

  • @teekierudite5108
    @teekierudite5108 Місяць тому +7

    Every artist has their own style and preferences, there is no right or wrong. Personally I enjoy your light, loose style and I don't find it to be too detailed; your pieces have a nice cheery feeling to them that I find quite attractive.

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому +3

      Thanks ever so much! I just think it will be helpful to me to learn how to simplify more easily. It was fun and relaxing to switch off and copy, if nothing else!

  • @moonchaserstudio
    @moonchaserstudio Місяць тому

    Lovely painting Helen!

  • @krispaton8670
    @krispaton8670 Місяць тому

    Love watching you paint. Thanks for the look through the book. I have ordered it as a result of the peek inside. I think it will be helpful to me.

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому

      Thanks! Hope you enjoy it!

  • @PatriciaVoinescuArt
    @PatriciaVoinescuArt Місяць тому

    Thank you for another great video! I'm adding this book to my wishlist right now ❤

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому +1

      I'm glad you liked it!

  • @GuyArab
    @GuyArab Місяць тому

    I like John Harrison’s style. I first came across him on Channel 4’s “Watercolour Challenge” some years ago. Your copy of the work is a wonderfully accomplished piece: you do seem to be able to master all styles.

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому

      I used to love watching that programme!! I only came across him fairly recently on Instagram, and love his clean style. That's very kind - thank you!

  • @awatercolourist
    @awatercolourist Місяць тому

    Great painting you’ve done there 👍🏼.

  • @nottaholiday
    @nottaholiday Місяць тому

    Thank you for the flip through. I really enjoy his work. Looks like this might need to come to live at my house lol. Your painting is fabulous....well done.

  • @tammyoneill6128
    @tammyoneill6128 Місяць тому

    Great choice using super granulation paint for the sky….Love your work. Have to get this book suggestion too. Thanks 😊

  • @annejameson3425
    @annejameson3425 Місяць тому +1

    Yes I love John Harrison’s style too. Lovely painting!

  • @FaithAnnNB
    @FaithAnnNB Місяць тому

    Looks like such a fun study! I wish I could go in confidently with “ink first” and hope for the best, I rely on my eraser too much 😂.

  • @beejayem42
    @beejayem42 Місяць тому +1

    You’re so expert at your sketching to begin with Helen! Loved watching 🐨👍

  • @awatercolourist
    @awatercolourist Місяць тому +3

    3:45 Wow! Your drawing skills a very good! 4:17 That alone looks like a good painting/design/illustration 😊.

  • @snowpony001
    @snowpony001 Місяць тому +1

    Beautiful! I envy your ability to freehand draw such straight lines I really admire his style too and have this book in my wishlist. You have thoughtful in-laws! Thanks for another enjoyable video.

  • @paulavonbestenbostel7645
    @paulavonbestenbostel7645 Місяць тому

    Just come across your video. I have to say I really enjoyed watching along and learning. You make it look so easy, which I know it isnt! 😂 Thank you for sharing. ❤

  • @valeriegehling4358
    @valeriegehling4358 Місяць тому

    Hi, after watching your video with John Harrison book, found his utube (very funny), then saw Jason Skills’ video, & have tried his varying “ tree” styles, Thanks for introducing me to 2 interesting artists! Even if one was accidental.

  • @ChantelleArts
    @ChantelleArts Місяць тому +2

    this looks so gorgeous, please stop tempting me with more art books ☺☺

  • @selmag5819
    @selmag5819 Місяць тому +1

    oh, dear Helen, it makes me so happy that you like John Harrison, too! thank you for showing the book (in germany the english version of the book will be avaiable in oktober 2024. that's weird.) i love Harrison's work for all the reasons you mentioned, and yes, my number one reason is how he is able to create glistening light by adding the darkest shadows to the whitest buildings. it's the teaching of light and dark values incarnate.
    i bought something from his etsy shop and he was the kindest person.
    thank you so much for sharing and the beautiful recreation at the end. you are - in your quest for change and progress - truly an inspiration!

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому +1

      Thanks so much! Lovely to see so many people enjoying his work!

  • @TerriChannel
    @TerriChannel Місяць тому +2

    I love your painting! It turned out beautifully! That haze blue worked so well for the sky. I don’t have that color but I wonder if I can try to mix it myself? This looks like a wonderful book. It isn’t available on the U.S. Amazon site but I will order it through the UK Amazon link you provided. Thank you so much, Helen!

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому +2

      Thanks! I just had a quick play, and I managed to make quite a close approximation of the Haze Blue, with Schmincke French Ultramarine (I used that one because it's my most heavily granulating Ultramarine), Roman Szmal's Transparent Gold Ochre (my only PY43) and a tiny bit of Daniel Smith Burnt Umber (you could play around with different PBr7's)
      That's very kind of you to use my link, thanks!

    • @TerriChannel
      @TerriChannel Місяць тому +1

      @@helencryerthanks so much!I have those paints on hand so I’ll give it a try! 😊

  • @katherinenoggle6407
    @katherinenoggle6407 Місяць тому

    When I saw the video on making your palette in the Derwent pencil tin, I had to laugh because I did the exact same thing! Unfortunately, this was too awkward for the amount of desk space I have. I did finally find my "holy grail" palette tho. Several years back the French toy company Vilac sold some huge (9" x 12", 22cm x 30cm) tin watercolor paint sets for children, with lid illustrations by Nathalie Lete. The one with the deer painting (Mon coeur fait boum boum) even has 9 wells impressed into the top for paint mixing. I used appliance spray to paint the uncoated tin white. Right now I have 150+ whole and half pans in there, with room for at least 16 more. I simply adore it.

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому

      Ha! That's great! Yes - they're quite big - I'm OK on my dining table though.

  • @janemcgrath9615
    @janemcgrath9615 Місяць тому

    What a lovely book….another one for the list! The part where I mess things up…..trying to add the shadow! More practice needed 😅

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому

      It's definitely easier when I'm copying!!

  • @SewArtyAnna
    @SewArtyAnna Місяць тому

    Absolutely beautiful once again ❤

  • @Samantha_tookey197
    @Samantha_tookey197 Місяць тому

    What a beautiful painting. You really did his work justice. X

  • @darksquall
    @darksquall Місяць тому

    Thank you for flicking through the book, I'd added it to my basket before you even finished flicking through because it looks exactly like what I'm looking for. And adding that granulating blue onto my wishlist for a future treat, it made such a gorgeous sky, proper British "It's gonna drizzle" looking sky.

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому

      Thanks!
      After the video, I had a go at making a mix of the Haze Blue, with Schmincke French Ultramarine, Transparent Yellow Ochre and a PBr7, and it worked really well.

  • @WolfmanWoody
    @WolfmanWoody Місяць тому

    I remember you watching one of Toby's video and not liking the bleeding of colours and splashing. Can't say I do either, they look like major accidents. This is very neat and unlike your normal work, very good though. Finding your own style is like Glen Miller trying to find that sound that made him famous. It will happen one day, even for me. 🤔

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому +1

      I think I actually didn't mind the splashes! I know I've done them since!
      This isn't likely to become my style, but there're definitely things to learn by trying out different techniques.

  • @zenlife1200
    @zenlife1200 Місяць тому

    I rather like the style you have but I can understand wanting to simplify your work. I thought I'd test out my watercolor pencils in small 5x3.5 cm rectangles (8 to an A5 page) I thought I could do little very basic landscapes in them. I used the Pleinairpril random generator for reference images. The first one that popped up was an island in the fog with a dock and a small boat in the foreground. I'd promised myself that I would do any landscape that came up, no cheating for easier ones lol. My bad. I had no idea you could fit so much detail into such a small space 😂 Anyway it looks like a great book. I've added it to my growing wish list of art books. There are a couple of Terry Harrisons books already in my list. Maybe I could paint better if I changed my surname to Harrison 😛 I did learn my lesson from moving to this house in 2014, and lugging box after box after box of books upstairs though. I had purged a lot before we moved but wow a lot more went to local bookfairs in the years since. Now I mostly buy kindle or ebooks and only buy the physical book if it's one I return to again and again. I quite enjoy reading magazines and art books on my ipad. Fiction lives in my kindle. The library is also my second home.

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому

      I believe you about fitting lots of detail in a small space!
      Funnily enough, we had to come up with a new surname for ourselves for something once, and I picked Helen Harrison! 😂
      I know what you mean about books - we got rid of so many when we moved. It's mainly just art books I buy now, and I listen to a lot of audio books.

  • @awatercolourist
    @awatercolourist Місяць тому +3

    I came across his channel a while ago. I do recommend people to stop by and check it out.

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому +2

      I haven't actually seen it - thanks for the recommendation!
      I've added links now in the description box.

    • @awatercolourist
      @awatercolourist Місяць тому +1

      Welcome!

  • @awatercolourist
    @awatercolourist Місяць тому

    1:36 Nice painting!

  • @JillKal893
    @JillKal893 22 дні тому

    Why is this the “new” book ?

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  22 дні тому

      Because it has fairly recently been released by John Harrison, and it's new to me also.

  • @awatercolourist
    @awatercolourist Місяць тому +1

    First! 🥱 💤

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому +2

      Sorry my videos are boring you again!

    • @awatercolourist
      @awatercolourist Місяць тому +1

      I’m 🥱 getting sleepy 🥱

    • @awatercolourist
      @awatercolourist Місяць тому +1

      @@helencryer😂😂😂. Never say that!

    • @helencryer
      @helencryer  Місяць тому +2

      Sweet dreams!

    • @awatercolourist
      @awatercolourist Місяць тому +1

      @@helencryer Thanks! I’m actually reading your replies today as I’m getting ready for bed 😂.