I'm starting painting with gouache and just found your channel. I need to sleep, almost 5am, but I can't stop watching! great videos, thank you so much
Thank you. Your speach patterns are as clear and concise as your instruction method of teaching, making your videos the best ever to follow. The knowledge you are sharing is SOOOOO appreciated.
Thank you for the demo. I am the type of 'artist' who buys every art material available, but rarely uses them in the right way. This demo surely helps.
WOW!!!! Wow wow WOW!!! I had no idea that grisaille even EXISTED, and I am in love!! My jaw dropped open when I saw the effects! I've been using the mid-tone method because that's what I learned in high school art, but this brings a whole new dimension and realism and contrast that I am so excited about!!! Thank you so much for putting this up!
+Jenn Hoff You're very welcome, so happy to hear your reaction! Yes, I felt the same way when I learned about grisaille, there's a reason master painters have used it for centuries. Happy Painting!
awww, so wonderful to hear! I have been trying hard to manage my hypermobility disorder and it has prevented my posting anything for years. But each year, for the past 3+, I keep praying I will finally be well enough to paint again--I'm tentatively planning on resuming art and vids Fall of 2024. Let's hope!
This tutorial was really helpful! I've recently gotten back into art and there is much to learn as mediums have changed. There's such a wealth of instruction out there now and you're a gem for breaking techniques down like you do.
Thanks so much, and you're very welcome, Kimberly! This video is getting long in the tooth, but it's one of my more popular ones. I have had an account on Patreon for a year plus now where I post longer, private art videos and lots of art instruction posts for just $7 a month if that ever appeals to you.
Wow three very different results, the beauty was grisaille vivid and dramatic, the tiling was probably the most like the image. Great lesson. Subscribed so I can get back tomorrow. Like Greg gouache was a way to retrieve lost highlight. Thanks for your generosity in posting!
I never pondered grisaille and water-soluble media. I really like the grisaille idea with the leaf. Great idea to put the three techniques side by side!
I've had the Flu for the past week and I have been watching your videos on You Tube from the television. I went out and paid for the Speedball Elegant Writer and I am so thankful for you sharing your Art with us. This is my favorite video and I even dreamed about using that Grisaille technique while I slept. I really thank you for this one. I am a fan for sure. Oh that leaf looks so Beautiful. Oh yeah, I even made up some travel water color sets thanks to you and now I know what my Gouache watercolors are for and how to use them. WE love you. Not that you need anyone else to learn from but do see BobBlast videos on You Tube, he changed my whole style of painting. I love that man.
Oh, my goodness, what a very heartfelt and lovely thing to read in the morning! Thanks so very much, I am so touched, and it's people like you who keep me posting to my little channel. You have learned so much so fast from my videos, about gouache and grisaille and travel watercolor tins and runny elegant writer ink stuff--wow! You sure made your flu recovery time productive! I have subscribed to bobblast and will check him out as soon as I get the chance. thanks for appreciating my art and videos and wishing you epic art adventures and God bless.
yeah, value--light and dark--really works wonders on any drawing or painting, and all grisaille is separate attention to value. when i first found it, I felt the same way, it was like magic!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video... It was very helpful and informed me a lot about this medium. Recently, I started trying watercolor, but my impatience and coloring style deemed it more unfitting for me than the markers I usually use. Since then, I've been looking for something similar to the paint but have qualities of acrylic, without all the mess, and your videos are just right at the introduction. Something I noticed in this video is the similarity of the Grisaille method with the way I color( the undertones and whatnot ), so I'll definitely give gouache a try. Thank you again for the inspiration!
+KHGlass You're very welcome! And yes, I can why realistic coloring with markers has similarities to grisaille--illustrators like Adam Hughes (who is well known in the comics world) use copic markers to do a tonal painting with just grays and then color over the top later, which is just like using the grisaille process.
Thank you so much for putting the time and effort into making these videos. I'm starting to fall in love with gouache, especially the grisaille method! 😍 the contrast that comes with it is just so beautiful.
Thanks very much for making these instructional videos available and informative. Like many, I suppose, I've only considered gouache for adding final highlights to watercolor and other media. I'm going to try playing around with mixing up as you discuss. It looks very interesting.
I went through four years of art college never knowing the potential of gouache. Just saw a different video yesterday show a person painting in this media, so I watched your video as well, to find out more. Wonderful video, I will watch many more of your painting videos. Thank you, this is so helpful.
I use the grisaille method when I oil paint. I just ordered some gouache and it will be here tomorrow. I never thought of using it in that way before! It looks beautiful!
I'm totally new to gouache. I've been wanting to work with a medium that dries faster than oil but is more opaque than watercolor and blends easier than acrylic (because of its resolubility), and that seems to be gouache. I like your explanation of different ways of blending and laying down tones with gouache. This is exactly the kind of demo I was looking for. So thank you, much appreciated. I feel I can now dive into using gouache with confidence, having gotten better acquainted with it through your demonstration.
Yay! You're very welcome and so lovely to hear that, that's exactly what I hope to hear when I post these videos! And I have a whole gouache playlist here if you want to see more of my gouache demos: ua-cam.com/play/PLAMQu8Nf_JPUHlwX2po2Tlg60-adaIUXe.html
This is very helpful. I really liked how you explained each technique as you went along. It is really important that creators are aware of what they are doing and how they are doing it to get the best outcome for the effects they are making
Good stuff! I work a lot with gouache on midtone paper, and as a result I'm finding it difficult to work on white paper without everything looking washed out! This is a helpful primer.
Wow! This was super helpful! I'm excited to try them out! Also, I just watched your video on the painting of the girl gouache vs. watercolor and it was amazing!! You are wildly talented!!!! Thank you for sharing your talents!
This is an excellent demonstration. I've just started learning to paint in gouache and have had a really hard time finding info and techniques, so this was really fantastic :)
I've been trying to decide on whether I wanted to try gouache for a while now, and this demo has totally convinced me that this medium is what I've been looking for! Thank you so much!
very confident teaching and really informative! you clearly know your stuff, i enjoyed the mentioning of painters who use these techniques, it really adds depth to what you are saying. Looking forward to watching your videos, thank you!
So helpful and it was good of you to mention which method is more suited to slower/larger pieces. The mid-tone method looks like it'd be perfect for working while on the go, doing environment studies and whatnot. The grisaille is my favourite one too though. That method is also *super* great for working digitally, coincidentally: do a tonal base, create a new layer, and start adding colour. Thanks for this tutorial, your other videos are also really concise and well-made. Subscribed! :)
+ReallyRedPanda Well, thanks! That's a super nice comment, and glad you are finding the videos useful. Expect on seeing a lot of the grisaille--you might even get sick of it! :p --as I really do feel it is very useful to simplify harder pieces. You are spot on about the digital applications of it as well--in fact, Adam Hughes, one of the best known comic book artists, often paints his sketches in warm and cool gray copic markers, then adds color after scanning via photoshop. :)
^ That's a really cool idea, using copics on the paper first. And Adam Hughes, oh wow, I'm looking at his work and I can totally see that in his sketches. Makes a lot of sense to do that on paper first, I'll try that too. Thanks again! :)
Just discovered your channel!I usually always use watercolor but i might have to start using gouache(I'm still learning art and I've never attempted using gouache).I love how it gives off a very watercolor feel or texture but the the thing about watercolor is that its not as opaque which i personally don't really like and also the fact that you can't really layer the colours unlike when using the gouache paints.Your videos have been very helpful and i look forward to seeing more!
Hajra wonderful demonstration of the grisaille method ,it’s like the new greyscale type colouring books that are about today but the method is not referred to in the correct manner ..👏👏
Thanks, Bev. :) I had no idea greyscale coloring books were even a thing! Seems like, to me at least, that would take all the fun out of coloring or painting if images already came in greyscale. :p And yeah, you're right, that's selling images with the grisaille value underpainting done already, but not labeling the technique formally.
Hajra Meeks yes I agree takes all the pleasure away I can’t really understand why they are popular , I would rather use the children’s colour books lol I like the adult colour books as a veg out way when I’ve lost my mojo . I also find I learn from them as you take my more risks when u have not invested a lot of time in a drawing.
+Frances B you're very welcome! you have good intuition--the foreground objects have the most contrast, thus the grisaille would certainly work best for them.
Thank you for the info. I did not know Grisaille had a name. I just thought it was called underpainting. I use it in my airbrushing. Normally start with burnt umber.
+Andre van Wyk You're welcome. Yes, plenty of people use it as a learned skill or just intuitively without knowing the formal name, but it works just as well either way! one of my favorite techniques.
I was taught by my high school art teacher to always do an underpainting, with burnt umber mixed with blue for the dark/cool colors, and yellow for the light
Do you teach painting for a living? You sound like a good instructor. You speak pretty quick with no pauses and it makes it obvious to me you know what you're doing. I appreciate that you get straight to the point without going off into a tangent. I'm not calling you a robot but some times its hard to learn with other people's videos when they tell me what they ate last night and how the feel vs your highly instructive videos.
Thank you. I was aware of the three methods, but not clearly defined as you've done. I like how subtle, controlled you are. I've experimented using tonal markers over watercolour, but the results have been mixed. Next, tonal with watercolour.
You're very welcome, Kim--these little maples leaves were a lot of fun. Apart from being instructive, they made a cute miniature Autumn piece once I plopped them onto a black frame background.
I'd like to thank you for introducing tonal under-paintings to me, it has helped me a ton with my watercolor paintings. I'm newer to gouache though. I always end up finding a beautiful gouache painting, trying it for myself and then tucking it away for months and going back to watercolor. I find that a big chunk of my problem is that I always accidentally reactivate the layer underneath, and I'm wondering how you managed to avoid that in the grisaille example??
You're very welcome! Well, with gouache, the trick is to just work thicker and not try to glaze, as gouache is not good for glazing. Essentially that means gouache is best for few layers or for tiling, but it works with grisaille if your paint gets thicker each layer. Check out this video comparing gouache and watercolor technique: ua-cam.com/video/AdmxaLjbqQk/v-deo.html as well as my gouache playlist for more info, and wishing you epic gouache adventures: ua-cam.com/play/PLAMQu8Nf_JPUHlwX2po2Tlg60-adaIUXe.html
Your explanations are very easy to understand, thank you for doing these videos! I wonder would it work if I make the under painting in gouache and then lay the lighter colors over with watercolor, finally finishing with gouache? Anyway, thanks again for these videos, you got a new subscriber ;)
+nokkahuilukostaja You're very welcome! Well, you can paint gouache layers over watercolor layers, but not really the other way around without smearing. This is because the watercolor is transparent so it sinks into the paper and lifts up less when it's dry allowing for many transparent layers. But gouache is thick and opaque and sits atop the paper and will lift up and smear more. So, you can add more gouache (with less water) over gouache, but if you add a transparent watercolor over gouache, it will usually smear or crack.
artists who share their techniques to help others should be rewarded
how very gracious of you, very much appreciated. wishing you epic painting adventures!
I like grisaille the best...thanks for explaining it so well.
+Pj Lewis you're welcome. yeah, i like grisaille the best, too. :)
I'm starting painting with gouache and just found your channel. I need to sleep, almost 5am, but I can't stop watching! great videos, thank you so much
+vlogprocrastinando fellow art-research insomniacs unite! :D
Thank you. Your speach patterns are as clear and concise as your instruction method of teaching, making your videos the best ever to follow. The knowledge you are sharing is SOOOOO appreciated.
Thank you for the demo. I am the type of 'artist' who buys every art material available, but rarely uses them in the right way. This demo surely helps.
you're very welcome, very kind of you.
WOW!!!! Wow wow WOW!!! I had no idea that grisaille even EXISTED, and I am in love!! My jaw dropped open when I saw the effects! I've been using the mid-tone method because that's what I learned in high school art, but this brings a whole new dimension and realism and contrast that I am so excited about!!! Thank you so much for putting this up!
+Jenn Hoff You're very welcome, so happy to hear your reaction! Yes, I felt the same way when I learned about grisaille, there's a reason master painters have used it for centuries. Happy Painting!
This is by far one of the best, most educational videos ever made. I appreciate the highly informative and incredible video! Thanks!
You're welcome and delighted to hear it!
After all these years, this is still my go to vid when I need a gouache refresher. Thank you!
awww, so wonderful to hear! I have been trying hard to manage my hypermobility disorder and it has prevented my posting anything for years. But each year, for the past 3+, I keep praying I will finally be well enough to paint again--I'm tentatively planning on resuming art and vids Fall of 2024. Let's hope!
This tutorial was really helpful! I've recently gotten back into art and there is much to learn as mediums have changed. There's such a wealth of instruction out there now and you're a gem for breaking techniques down like you do.
Thanks so much, and you're very welcome, Kimberly! This video is getting long in the tooth, but it's one of my more popular ones. I have had an account on Patreon for a year plus now where I post longer, private art videos and lots of art instruction posts for just $7 a month if that ever appeals to you.
Wow three very different results, the beauty was grisaille vivid and dramatic, the tiling was probably the most like the image. Great lesson. Subscribed so I can get back tomorrow. Like Greg gouache was a way to retrieve lost highlight. Thanks for your generosity in posting!
+Big C Thanks, in turn, for your generous comment! Happy to have you as a subscriber and hope you enjoy my other videos. :)
Wow! Thank for this! I read so many books giving vague advice and this video explains everything properly in under ten minutes :D .
You're so welcome, glad you found this so useful!
I never pondered grisaille and water-soluble media. I really like the grisaille idea with the leaf. Great idea to put the three techniques side by side!
Excellent lesson! Very clear step by step instructions, comments and comparisons. Thank you.
Alice Armstrong You're very welcome, and I hope you enjoy more of my videos!
Thank you so helpful :)
You're very welcome! :)
I've had the Flu for the past week and I have been watching your videos on You Tube from the television. I went out and paid for the Speedball Elegant Writer and I am so thankful for you sharing your Art with us. This is my favorite video and I even dreamed about using that Grisaille technique while I slept. I really thank you for this one. I am a fan for sure. Oh that leaf looks so Beautiful. Oh yeah, I even made up some travel water color sets thanks to you and now I know what my Gouache watercolors are for and how to use them. WE love you. Not that you need anyone else to learn from but do see BobBlast videos on You Tube, he changed my whole style of painting. I love that man.
Oh, my goodness, what a very heartfelt and lovely thing to read in the morning! Thanks so very much, I am so touched, and it's people like you who keep me posting to my little channel. You have learned so much so fast from my videos, about gouache and grisaille and travel watercolor tins and runny elegant writer ink stuff--wow! You sure made your flu recovery time productive! I have subscribed to bobblast and will check him out as soon as I get the chance. thanks for appreciating my art and videos and wishing you epic art adventures and God bless.
The grisaille made the leaf look so detailed!
yeah, value--light and dark--really works wonders on any drawing or painting, and all grisaille is separate attention to value. when i first found it, I felt the same way, it was like magic!
I really love the effectiveness of the underpainting in the Grisaille leaf - it looks gorgeous with a strong tonal range. Super demo. Many thanks!
+Jo Fox You're welcome! Yes, I'm obsessed with grisaille, it does make just about any piece better. :)
I really LOVE the grisaille technique and I'm going to try it out soon! 👍
Yeah, I love it, too--it's not commonly taught anymore, but it's super effective. Have fun trying it out!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video... It was very helpful and informed me a lot about this medium.
Recently, I started trying watercolor, but my impatience and coloring style deemed it more unfitting for me than the markers I usually use. Since then, I've been looking for something similar to the paint but have qualities of acrylic, without all the mess, and your videos are just right at the introduction.
Something I noticed in this video is the similarity of the Grisaille method with the way I color( the undertones and whatnot ), so I'll definitely give gouache a try. Thank you again for the inspiration!
+KHGlass You're very welcome! And yes, I can why realistic coloring with markers has similarities to grisaille--illustrators like Adam Hughes (who is well known in the comics world) use copic markers to do a tonal painting with just grays and then color over the top later, which is just like using the grisaille process.
Thank you so much for putting the time and effort into making these videos. I'm starting to fall in love with gouache, especially the grisaille method! 😍 the contrast that comes with it is just so beautiful.
You're very welcome, and your acknowledging my time and effort is much appreciated! Yes, I agree grisaille is just super lovely for great contrast!
Thanks very much for making these instructional videos available and informative. Like many, I suppose, I've only considered gouache for adding final highlights to watercolor and other media. I'm going to try playing around with mixing up as you discuss. It looks very interesting.
+Greg Edmonds You're very welcome, Greg, so glad you learned something from one of my videos. Good luck with your gouache adventures!
I went through four years of art college never knowing the potential of gouache. Just saw a different video yesterday show a person painting in this media, so I watched your video as well, to find out more. Wonderful video, I will watch many more of your painting videos. Thank you, this is so helpful.
You're very welcome and best of luck on your art journey!
I use the grisaille method when I oil paint. I just ordered some gouache and it will be here tomorrow. I never thought of using it in that way before! It looks beautiful!
Thanks! Yes, I'm sure being an oil painter, you'll know exactly how to get great results with gouache and grisaille!
Love the last technique, it gives so much more dimension and texture to the painting. Thank you for sharing!
You're very welcome! Yes, I love how grisaille makes everything more realistic--it's because it pays close attention to values.
Thanks so much. Never received training in gouache but was expected to use it my first year of art school. This helps a lot.
windloaf Awesome, glad to hear it. Good luck in art school and in your painting endeavors!
I'm totally new to gouache. I've been wanting to work with a medium that dries faster than oil but is more opaque than watercolor and blends easier than acrylic (because of its resolubility), and that seems to be gouache. I like your explanation of different ways of blending and laying down tones with gouache. This is exactly the kind of demo I was looking for. So thank you, much appreciated. I feel I can now dive into using gouache with confidence, having gotten better acquainted with it through your demonstration.
Yay! You're very welcome and so lovely to hear that, that's exactly what I hope to hear when I post these videos! And I have a whole gouache playlist here if you want to see more of my gouache demos: ua-cam.com/play/PLAMQu8Nf_JPUHlwX2po2Tlg60-adaIUXe.html
Just want to say how appreciative I am for you to take the time to teach with these videos, you're very talented and thanks again
+Spencer Nunamaker You're very welcome, your kind thoughts are very much appreciated.
This is very helpful. I really liked how you explained each technique as you went along. It is really important that creators are aware of what they are doing and how they are doing it to get the best outcome for the effects they are making
Thanks so much for your kind comment, and you're very welcome. 😊
Good stuff! I work a lot with gouache on midtone paper, and as a result I'm finding it difficult to work on white paper without everything looking washed out! This is a helpful primer.
glad to help, grisaille definitely helps build bulk and layers.
The Grisaille method is beautiful!!
yeah, grisaille is totally awesome.
Wow! This was super helpful! I'm excited to try them out! Also, I just watched your video on the painting of the girl gouache vs. watercolor and it was amazing!! You are wildly talented!!!! Thank you for sharing your talents!
An outstanding demonstration, clear, concise and well-produced. Thank you for for posting it!
You're very welcome, and thanks for the thoughtful and kind comment! Epic painting adventures to you!
This is an excellent demonstration. I've just started learning to paint in gouache and have had a really hard time finding info and techniques, so this was really fantastic :)
wonderful, so happy to be useful--Good luck on your awesome art adventures!
I've been trying to decide on whether I wanted to try gouache for a while now, and this demo has totally convinced me that this medium is what I've been looking for! Thank you so much!
+Em D. You're very welcome--hope you have a blast with your new gouache!
Your video is so informative. I've learned a lot. Thank you :)
You're very welcome, glad to help!
very confident teaching and really informative! you clearly know your stuff, i enjoyed the mentioning of painters who use these techniques, it really adds depth to what you are saying. Looking forward to watching your videos, thank you!
You're very welcome, glad you found this useful, and hope you enjoy some of my other vids, too! :D
Never heard of grisaille before! I recognize the concept from digital art, but this is new to me, so thank you very much!
you're very welcome! yeah, I found grisaille to be awesome and too yummy and helpful a concept not to share once I found out about it. :)
Lovely. thank you for explaining and demonstrating everything so clearly.
+dgbx6 You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed the video!
Grisaille is the best.... great informative video!
+ArtEWorld thanks! yes, grisaille rocks!
I'm trying to start out using gouache and this video has been the most helpful so far. Thanks!
you're welcome! Epic gouache adventures to you!
Practical and easy to follow. Thank you Hajra.
You're very welcome!
VERY helpful breakdown. Thank you, Hajra.
you're very welcome, kenn. :)
Very good and concise demo, appreciated.
Thanks so much, glad you found it useful.
Thank you for the valuable demo. You have provided me a way to salvage a recent watercolour still-life that went awry.
you're very welcome, so happy you were able to save your painting!
I've taken soooo many art classes and never heard of grisalle and I love it I have to try it now
funkygirlkathryn Yeah, grisaille is awesome!
My thought exactly :)
I am so grateful for this video!
+cathy montag thanks, how sweet you are!
Excellent tutorial. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
You are an excellent teacher!!!
thanks so much, you're very sweet!
This is tremendously helpful. Thanks, Hajra!
Daniel Thompson You're very welcome, Daniel. :)
Super helpful, thank you! Really love your style of teaching and I look forward to seeing more videos from you!
Butterinyourear Yay! Thanks for your energizing comment. I look forward to sharing more videos with nice people like you! :)
Thank you you are an amazing painter and help me learn new ways to paint.
+Shannon White you're ver welcome! Happy Painting!
So helpful and it was good of you to mention which method is more suited to slower/larger pieces. The mid-tone method looks like it'd be perfect for working while on the go, doing environment studies and whatnot. The grisaille is my favourite one too though. That method is also *super* great for working digitally, coincidentally: do a tonal base, create a new layer, and start adding colour. Thanks for this tutorial, your other videos are also really concise and well-made. Subscribed! :)
+ReallyRedPanda Well, thanks! That's a super nice comment, and glad you are finding the videos useful. Expect on seeing a lot of the grisaille--you might even get sick of it! :p --as I really do feel it is very useful to simplify harder pieces. You are spot on about the digital applications of it as well--in fact, Adam Hughes, one of the best known comic book artists, often paints his sketches in warm and cool gray copic markers, then adds color after scanning via photoshop. :)
^ That's a really cool idea, using copics on the paper first. And Adam Hughes, oh wow, I'm looking at his work and I can totally see that in his sketches. Makes a lot of sense to do that on paper first, I'll try that too. Thanks again! :)
Just discovered your channel!I usually always use watercolor but i might have to start using gouache(I'm still learning art and I've never attempted using gouache).I love how it gives off a very watercolor feel or texture but the the thing about watercolor is that its not as opaque which i personally don't really like and also the fact that you can't really layer the colours unlike when using the gouache paints.Your videos have been very helpful and i look forward to seeing more!
+aseeloso yay! good luck on your painting adventures!
I love how you explain all the techniques! thank you so much!
+Ella Macaraig you're very welcome, appreciate the kind comments!
Method 3 blew my mind. You are my guache god now.
lol, Grisaille IS pretty awesome! :) And I have lots of other grisaille and gouache videos, in case you want to see more.
Hajra wonderful demonstration of the grisaille method ,it’s like the new greyscale type colouring books that are about today but the method is not referred to in the correct manner ..👏👏
Thanks, Bev. :) I had no idea greyscale coloring books were even a thing! Seems like, to me at least, that would take all the fun out of coloring or painting if images already came in greyscale. :p And yeah, you're right, that's selling images with the grisaille value underpainting done already, but not labeling the technique formally.
Hajra Meeks yes I agree takes all the pleasure away I can’t really understand why they are popular , I would rather use the children’s colour books lol I like the adult colour books as a veg out way when I’ve lost my mojo . I also find I learn from them as you take my more risks when u have not invested a lot of time in a drawing.
Been painting in gouache for about a year, never tried to use grisaille! totally trying it ASAP thx...
+Sherif Emad you're welcome, have fun!
Very good instructional comparison. Thank you.
+Jamie Peter you're very welcome!
thanks for this video! love your comparisons, your technique is great! good job! recommending to others to watch.
thanks a lot, much appreciated! Epic painting adventures to you! :)
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Thank you very much for sharing these techniques! I think the Grisaille method would be most useful for objects in the closest foreground detail.
+Frances B you're very welcome! you have good intuition--the foreground objects have the most contrast, thus the grisaille would certainly work best for them.
Thank you for the info. I did not know Grisaille had a name. I just thought it was called underpainting. I use it in my airbrushing. Normally start with burnt umber.
+Andre van Wyk You're welcome. Yes, plenty of people use it as a learned skill or just intuitively without knowing the formal name, but it works just as well either way! one of my favorite techniques.
I was taught by my high school art teacher to always do an underpainting, with burnt umber mixed with blue for the dark/cool colors, and yellow for the light
Do you teach painting for a living? You sound like a good instructor. You speak pretty quick with no pauses and it makes it obvious to me you know what you're doing. I appreciate that you get straight to the point without going off into a tangent. I'm not calling you a robot but some times its hard to learn with other people's videos when they tell me what they ate last night and how the feel vs your highly instructive videos.
Glad you like my video style, very sweet of you! Yeah, I used to teach at a university, and that included Art History.
Very interesting. I had never really thought about using grisaille for water based media.
thanks! Yeah, incorporating grisaille really opens up watercolor to more realistic styles. :D
Beautiful work and very helpful. Thank you again!
Thank you. I was aware of the three methods, but not clearly defined as you've done. I like how subtle, controlled you are. I've experimented using tonal markers over watercolour, but the results have been mixed. Next, tonal with watercolour.
You're very welcome, glad I was a bit helpful, and wishing you epic art adventures!
Thanks for this your videos have helped me alot in my classes with trying to pick up guache
+Sawyer Hewitt awesome, so glad to help! good luck with your classes. :)
you are really great at what you do!!!! :) Thanks for the uploads, really does open up a whole world of art for me, much love ~
+Vkee :) thanks a lot, you're very sweet! good luck on your art journey!
That was very helpful, thank you!
You're very welcome!
Great video! I can't wait to get started practicing these techniques.
+Ashley H Thanks, and hope you have fun practicing!
Great video, very helpful. I'm going to try out the grisaille technique next. 😊
thanks! Yes, do, grisaille is a lot of fun as the results are so impressive!
this is by far the best video tutorial on gouache thank you very much!!!!
great to hear, and you're very welcome! Epic painting adventures to you. :D
Yes your video was very helpful. I now feel a tad bit more confident to open up, and use my gouache paints!! Thank you!! 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🎈😀
You're very welcome, Gwenneth, and wishing you epic gouache adventures!
Thank you for referencing this video for me Hajra - really informative! 👏🏻❣️
You're very welcome, glad to help!
this was so helpful!!! thank you so much
you're very welcome, glad to help!
Very nice demo...
+Sandy Combs Thanks, Sandy, glad you liked it!
nice job and great explanations, thank you!
you're very welcome, I try my best. :D
Thank you so much!!! Very informational and this helps so much!!!
Thank You!! I can't wait to try myself
you're very welcome, and wishing you epic gouache adventures!
Thanks Hajra, I enjoyed the video. 💞💫
You're very welcome, Kim--these little maples leaves were a lot of fun. Apart from being instructive, they made a cute miniature Autumn piece once I plopped them onto a black frame background.
Very good video. Thank you for the information.
you're very welcome, glad you found it useful! :)
Awesome video!
+sekretsurfer thanks!
Wonderful video! Thank you!
you're very welcome, thanks for appreciating my efforts. :D
Youre awesome! Thankyou 🎨
+Sonya Gold you're very welcome and thanks for such a sweet comment! :)
Thank you so much for this.
You're so very welcome! :D
Thank you! This is a really informative lesson.
You're very welcome, Diane. :)
Thanks, I ran across the term "tiling" recently and thought I understood the concept. Your demo helped.
+Charles Post Yay! Glad to help. :)
Thank you, very nice, great explanation.
+Lydia Hidalgo you're very welcome, I'm glad you found it useful. :)
So helpful, thanks!
you're welcome, glad to help! :D
You are so helpful! Thank you :)
You are very kind! You're very welcome. :D
great video, Thanks for sharing.
+win naing you're very welcome!
Brilliant! Thanks for this, love gouache, but don't know the techniques very well, so this is fabulous! :)
ArtOfBh1 You're very welcome! I love using both watercolor and opaque watercolor (gouache), and I'm glad you liked my techniques video. :)
Nice, thank you for your efforts, much appreciated.
+Ann Smith you're very welcome, your comment is much appreciated as well.
Thank you for the informative video! Subscribed :)
+onemig00 thanks and welcome to my channel!
Thank you for sharing this! :D It's super helpful and informative. Cheers!
you're very welcome, so glad to be of some help!
Helpfull, thanks
I'd like to thank you for introducing tonal under-paintings to me, it has helped me a ton with my watercolor paintings.
I'm newer to gouache though. I always end up finding a beautiful gouache painting, trying it for myself and then tucking it away for months and going back to watercolor. I find that a big chunk of my problem is that I always accidentally reactivate the layer underneath, and I'm wondering how you managed to avoid that in the grisaille example??
You're very welcome! Well, with gouache, the trick is to just work thicker and not try to glaze, as gouache is not good for glazing. Essentially that means gouache is best for few layers or for tiling, but it works with grisaille if your paint gets thicker each layer. Check out this video comparing gouache and watercolor technique: ua-cam.com/video/AdmxaLjbqQk/v-deo.html as well as my gouache playlist for more info, and wishing you epic gouache adventures: ua-cam.com/play/PLAMQu8Nf_JPUHlwX2po2Tlg60-adaIUXe.html
Your explanations are very easy to understand, thank you for doing these videos! I wonder would it work if I make the under painting in gouache and then lay the lighter colors over with watercolor, finally finishing with gouache? Anyway, thanks again for these videos, you got a new subscriber ;)
+nokkahuilukostaja You're very welcome! Well, you can paint gouache layers over watercolor layers, but not really the other way around without smearing. This is because the watercolor is transparent so it sinks into the paper and lifts up less when it's dry allowing for many transparent layers. But gouache is thick and opaque and sits atop the paper and will lift up and smear more. So, you can add more gouache (with less water) over gouache, but if you add a transparent watercolor over gouache, it will usually smear or crack.
Thank you a lot! You explain it beautifully, really really thank you, finally found someone to learn from :D
+Leia Mist you're so welcome! Wonderful to hear you enjoy my videos! Best wishes with your art adventures!
Thnx . .. really helpful . ..
+Houssam Moughrabi you're welcome, glad you liked it. :)
great information.
+Maria Kellner thanks, Maria!