I love your colours. I learned a lot again watching you put the paint onto the paper, especially where you wanted the black to run down. I very much like your style of painting, your delivery, and how we are learning without being “taught at” if that makes sense. Take care
Thank you, Sue! I’m so glad my delivery comes off as ‘showing what I do’ or ‘showing what I learned’ instead of ‘teaching at.’ I always like it better when I’m allowed to almost be a fly on the wall, seeing how someone makes something. Also, I find that people find different things to learn depending on where they are in their own creative process.
It’s always nice to meet someone new. Your voice and precise speech adds so much to your presentations. You have made me realize how lazy I’ve been these years doing watercolor, avoiding the demands of color selection, and the way it’s integral to your process. I will look up your Cornwall friends and look forward to meeting them too. It’s a part of the world we would love to visit. My first encounter with it was with the potter Simon Leach. His also famous family of potters is in St. Ives. I traded watercolor for pottery. Larry Misiak Houston TX.
I learnt more about valves watching this than I have in 2 years something you said made it all make Sense. Never quite got how to get valves in a painting. So thankyou x
Hi Virginia, wow! Thank you for your kind words. Oh my, I feel so good that something I said (or showed, more likely) connected with you about values in painting! Getting the full range of values makes all the difference! :-)
You connected all the dots. I've been able to collage value and sketch it but have never understood how to paint colour. I get it now probably sounds silly ey ? X
Not silly at all! I think it’s perhaps the biggest stumbling block creatives find when working with color. There’s an author - Charles Reid, I think, who drove the idea home for me when I saw paintings he did of faces that had purples and reds and he pointed out that the color doesn’t matter half as much as value. I’ll dig out his book from my collection and share it in a future video. You brought up a really important topic that I am SURE many, many artists find challenging.
The challenging part of our style, for me, is, what I’m just learning, to go slow, stop and start. Also, we all know watercolor bleeds. It is not clear to me how you control that. You are painting colors in multiple tiny areas, all over your work, almost, don’t be offended, like paint by numbers. I know you must have more than one kind of masking methods. I just have to watch more to see how you do that. I’m more used to a lose style, which in some ways, is more undisciplined.
Hi Larry! In this video, I think the Conte a’ Paris crayons acted as a bit of a resist as they are quite chalky. But of course, the nature of watercolor is to always be patiently waiting for paint to dry! I find that my current lifestyle of teaching my teens at home gives the paint a lot of natural breaks. I’m “coming back to my painting” all day, it seems. I don’t know that I’ve really landed on a “style” yet… I’m really still exploring materials and process with varying results. It’s such an engaging endeavor. :-)
You are fabulous! I enjoy watching, and listening to your method! Thank you
Thank you, Dana, for the kind words!
I love your colours. I learned a lot again watching you put the paint onto the paper, especially where you wanted the black to run down. I very much like your style of painting, your delivery, and how we are learning without being “taught at” if that makes sense. Take care
Thank you, Sue! I’m so glad my delivery comes off as ‘showing what I do’ or ‘showing what I learned’ instead of ‘teaching at.’ I always like it better when I’m allowed to almost be a fly on the wall, seeing how someone makes something. Also, I find that people find different things to learn depending on where they are in their own creative process.
It’s always nice to meet someone new. Your voice and precise speech adds so much to your presentations. You have made me realize how lazy I’ve been these years doing watercolor, avoiding the demands of color selection, and the way it’s integral to your process. I will look up your Cornwall friends and look forward to meeting them too. It’s a part of the world we would love to visit. My first encounter with it was with the potter Simon Leach. His also famous family of potters is in St. Ives. I traded watercolor for pottery. Larry Misiak Houston TX.
Thank you for your kind words and many comments this weekend, Larry! :-)
I learnt more about valves watching this than I have in 2 years something you said made it all make Sense. Never quite got how to get valves in a painting. So thankyou x
Hi Virginia, wow! Thank you for your kind words. Oh my, I feel so good that something I said (or showed, more likely) connected with you about values in painting! Getting the full range of values makes all the difference! :-)
You connected all the dots. I've been able to collage value and sketch it but have never understood how to paint colour. I get it now probably sounds silly ey ? X
Not silly at all! I think it’s perhaps the biggest stumbling block creatives find when working with color. There’s an author - Charles Reid, I think, who drove the idea home for me when I saw paintings he did of faces that had purples and reds and he pointed out that the color doesn’t matter half as much as value. I’ll dig out his book from my collection and share it in a future video. You brought up a really important topic that I am SURE many, many artists find challenging.
The original gamboge was an auto industry color that went out of favor, hence New Gamboge, it’s one of my favorites
Yes! It also comes from the Latin “gambogium,” meaning pigment. The color is such a delight.
The challenging part of our style, for me, is, what I’m just learning, to go slow, stop and start. Also, we all know watercolor bleeds. It is not clear to me how you control that. You are painting colors in multiple tiny areas, all over your work, almost, don’t be offended, like paint by numbers. I know you must have more than one kind of masking methods. I just have to watch more to see how you do that. I’m more used to a lose style, which in some ways, is more undisciplined.
Hi Larry! In this video, I think the Conte a’ Paris crayons acted as a bit of a resist as they are quite chalky. But of course, the nature of watercolor is to always be patiently waiting for paint to dry! I find that my current lifestyle of teaching my teens at home gives the paint a lot of natural breaks. I’m “coming back to my painting” all day, it seems. I don’t know that I’ve really landed on a “style” yet… I’m really still exploring materials and process with varying results. It’s such an engaging endeavor. :-)