I've learned more about how watercolor works from watching your spontaneous paintings and trying it myself than from any formal technique video. You really showcase the importance of painting with value in these demos, as well as teaching us flexibility within the medium. Please keep making these.
I like that you keep painting and don't stop until you are truly sure you are done! All the extra little strokes of color enhance the atmosphere of this painting. Makes me want to be there! Thank you!
I am a retired HS art teacher from Missouri and I used to have the students splatter and lay down colors in class one day. Let it dry and come back the next several class periods and create a finished painting by using and manipulating the shapes. I just found your channel and subscribed immediately.
I re-watch this from time to time as a "refresher" in your spontaneous painting technique and never cease to be amazed at your ability to making a cohesive and beautiful composition "emerge" from somewhat random splashes of color, much like a sculptor freeing a form from a piece of stone. Very impressive work and you make it look easy. You know where to add and how far to go but also know when to stop; a very practiced eye and a great deal of talent. Thank you for sharing and inspiring. At this date, this video has 202k views - please do not ever take it down!
Amazing how you made the rocks appear out of nowhere! You say you stared at this painting for a few days; you have no idea (and neither have I) how many times I have watched this video! I think I"m in love with the song you are playing, also!
I never grow tired of these type paintings. I love what I see. I see a misty fairway under your tree canopy on the right. I am working my way to surprise my husband with some golf landscapes. I have to try this. Thank you Steve.
love your layout...kept looking into the trees for a deer or 2...as that is what I have seen on occasion...What I love is while they are not there one knows that somewhere in those woods are sets of eyes looking back...
It amazes me that you can see rocks out of no where and put them in. I would love to learn that and how you put the big trees in the background. This is gorgeous!
Thank you for this moving and inspiring tutorial. Being able to acquiesce to watercolour, rather than trying to force this fluidic medium, is so important. It also makes the journey much more fun!
Dear Mind... You said... "I make the rules"... that's true... I have only 2 rules... Rule #1 there are no rules... Rule #2 the work must be permanent, my materials must be as archival as possible, acid free papers, pigments that don't fade etc. Rule #3... Rule #1 could be Rule #2 and Rule #2 could be Rule #1 but that means I have 3 rules when I stated that I had only 2 rules which leads me to a dilemma that can only be solved by adding a "sanity clause" to these rules, but again this doesn't work because almost everyone knows there ain't no Sanity Claus.
Love, love, love this teaching. Being in southern Idaho there are so many scenes with dried grasses so learning to paint those effectively has been a challenge. This instruction and beautiful finished expression is SO helpful. Thank you!
Words fail to describe the beauty in this painting! I've saved and continually looking at it..colors, hard/soft edges, lifting, blending, glazing, frisket application, etc...I'll use white pen if I can achieve this masterpiece! Lol...You were blessed with God given talent with years of painting! Thank you for so kindly sharing. You are also gifted teacher!! I feel you started teaching on UA-cam & continue OUR benefit instead of being simply driven by ego, or other self-serving motives....May God Bless You as much as your have blessed me. Nancy p.s. I know it would be long video but I'd love to watch entire video. I believe it would help me with background trees & details.. I'm missing something
Excellent demonstration of the use of masking fluid. However, what I liked most was the way you did the background trees, so simple and so effective. Thank you
Thank you for his tutorial. I have loved weedy fields and woods ever since I was a little kid. But I can't capture the spontaneity of weeds with colored pencils which is what I have used for 25 years. This is my favorite tutorial and I am looking forward to trying weedy fields in watercolor, which is so conducive to nature pictures. This picture is a gem!
Don't laugh Steve, but I see animals in clouds all the time and I can see in the blue trees a little poodle on the left and a lion face on the right. I learned a lot watching this video, as I always do from you. Thanks again.
This was my favorite ! I watch alot of you tube and always come back to you. I relate to your voice. If I don't relate to the voice...I can't watch the video. Thanks ❤
Thank you for sharing your wonderful painting techniques. I love everything about this composition. The depth, the complimentary colors and the layering of colors are incredible.
Love your tutorials and all of your videos, Love your sense of humor, love the verse at the end. I learn soooo much from you. I thought I was the only one to let a painting sit for a little while to, as I say in my head, "let it cook for a while", then work on it some more with fresh eyes.
I've been looking at your videos for the last couple of hours. Trying to get back into watercolor after 20 years. It has been more difficult than I expected. I love this one. The trees in the back are a fantastic color.
You are such a wonderful teacher. i've been painting in watercolor for almost a year....and just hit a wall of frustration. Watching this demo and trying to emulate your process has provided me a breakthrough, where I think all my learning so far is starting to come together. Thank you so much for your excellent commentary and spontaneous technique demos.
This piece makes me want to jump into the screen and walk through the woods! I'm sure I would come across a unicorn. I am a formally trained artist who has had my hands out of it for a while,and your videos have jumpstarted me. I know now that I haven't lost my "touch"!
I struggle so much with watercolor. I do a lot of detail painting and draw a lot, but they way you present this instruction has helped me so much. I manipulate the idea so much it causes the paper to pill and the paint becomes muddled. I'm slowly learning to subtract color and negative space is my friend. Thanks for simplifying ideas.
@ Sunshine... everyone struggles with watercolor when they 1st start out, it's not called "A Master's Medium" for nothing. The reason watercolor can be so tough in the beginning is there are so many variables to this medium, different papers ( which there is a such a large variety of) all have different aspects of how they accept water, absorption rates, drying time, sizing and the list goes on. Then there's the myriad of watercolor paint brands to choose from which can vary from brand to brand as much as the paper you're working on. On top of all this there are tons and tons of brushes, some hold lots of water some don't, some hold a crisp point others splay all over the place and believe it or not each has their place and uses. Then there's the fact that it's next to impossible to hide your mistakes in watercolor as opposed to all other mediums, charcoal and pencils have erasers, oil has gesso, acrylic... wait till it dries and paint over it. I remember years ago reading a book on watercolor painting where the author stated that it takes doing at least a hundred watercolor paintings before you even begin to understand the medium... I think she was about right. PS - having your colors turn to mud is a common problem for beginners... solution... go back to using a very limited palette, do a painting using only two colors, say blue and burnt umber, or blue and yellow ocher and check out all the grays you can get from mixing variable amounts of the two pigments. To avoid mud never mix more than 2 colors until you become more experienced. Check out Steve Cronin on you tube for watercolor painting using a limited palette... I think it's an excellent place for beginners to learn from.
Thank you Carl Pen for much needed info. I have watched Steve Cronin countless time because he details how much water to use, how much pigment used and all pertinent info for successful watercolor landscapes. I use quality watercolor paper and paint. Can't expect museum quality with novice materials. Practice, practice and then practice some more, lol.
Thank you! At first the tree back ground looked like a storm brewing, but I like the mystery of what is back there in the trees. Most of all thank you the information on making adjustments as the painting develops. I don't have any of the new canson paper but I have a small piece of the Stonehenge paper to try this on. Please keep sharing with us.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU... just started watching your videos as I am brand new in watercolors. I just love all your tutorials. Really the best out there, hands down! Loved this piece. Love watching you work. You are a gift!
My favorite times in high school was during art class and the after school hours they allowed me to spend in that room with keys to the art supply cabinet, all alone to do as I pleased. That teacher arranged to skip an English Poetry class where I'd written tons of book reports in advance to do this and one of the things that stood out was when she told me to use any and everything at my disposal to create art. I loved her attitudes and everything about her, even when she dug out one of my pieces from the trash and sold it to teach a hard lesson. It was a piece where she attempted to teach the use of primary and secondary colors, the color wheel and said we were to choose three colors. What she failed to point out was that I could use those colors in any degree of value and so I hated that one piece of work enough to throw it out in disgust. After that she never again made me follow along class projects and said to do whatever my heart fancied. It was like being let out of a cage! At the time the song that was quite popular was White Bird by It's a Beautiful Day which inspired to paint my first rather large work of an albino red tail hawk flying toward a branch with the sun behind while preparing to land. Deep inside there was a muralist trying to get out. I used browns and oranges and white only and it was symbolic of how I felt... free. The teacher liked it enough to call in other art teachers to view and offer tips on how to improve upon the work I did outside the classroom project bubble from a 2X2" black and white photo found in some library book. The original paper was much too small and had extensions on each side for wing tips, but that was the template used for the actual painting. When you said on this video I make the rules it brought me right back to that moment when she said to use anything and everything at my disposal, and that's how I am to this day. Not a purist who feels I have a right to impose on others how they create, and we need to do this for ourselves first because it brings us personal joy, and forgo criticisms. The first thing I tell someone when I show my work is ... don't say if you like it or not, keep that to yourself because it's so much easier to believe when someone doesn't like what they see than when they do. I'm my own worst critic and don't need help. It's when I look at something finished and say YES! that's what I wanted it to look like that I'm completely happy and I won't let anybody take that away. Thanks for sharing your process, I learn a good deal from you and the videos you've shared. I'm seriously grateful as after high school I could never afford art classes or materials. Later on, after working part time and taking classes as a computer science major, still the goal was art... for me, and after getting enough gathered to buy a Wacom tablet turned to digital compositing with Photoshop and Painter. More recently I decided to get back into physical art, but not acrylics like before. This time I wanted to learn watercolor as it touches me in a visceral manner. There are many talented watercolor artists and it's hard to stop looking at it all long enough to make my own! I appreciate your works, they are among my favorites and tell me that this is a media that can become whatever a person dreams given correct techniques, but clearly, it's not for the faint of heart! I'm ready to take those risks, but unlike you... my color values and drawing skills still need work.
I'm getting ready to try watercolor and am so grateful I found your videos. Your paintings are so beautiful and your presentation and instruction so very helpful.
A very interesting painting i liked your masking fluid technique on that. The colors were bright and stood out. I will definitely try this painting. Dana
Steve, I really enjoyed watching this video. I learned so many tips and I have been painting for years! This painting turned out absolutely beautiful! I appreciated how you explained your thought process of drawing the viewers eye to the focal point!
Thank you for creating this tutorial on a loose painting landscape. Lots of good information on blending and using masking fluid with rubber shaper and old brush. It has been very helpful and I will give it a try. I like all of your tutorials, you encourage us and make it fun to try. Thanks again for making this one, my favorite.
Steve, this is awesome as usual! A suggestion: you can also use masking fluid to mask out areas that you have already painted. Sometimes there are very light areas or reflections you want to preserve, so put your mask onto that area, then paint on with confidence that you're not going to lose them. I've tried it, and it works. Hope you find this useful. I love your videos, and have learned so much - thank you!
I love drawing and watercolour especially for this reason, at about 8:30 I was looking at it abstractly then suddenly it became a bank with dirt and greenery and depth! I guess the colours settled around the mask about then.
Stunning! I mean... just off the scale !!..... and yes.. yes I did learn something........... and it is this: I have a LONG way to go! .............. :)
Does anyone else see the two birds in the painting? A huge fuzzy bird with a lighter beak over the right side and a small one facing to the right on top of the clump of trees. Brilliant !!
@@mindofwatercolor lol. Got lo love the way watercolour designs some of it's own nuances!! Should be called spiritcolour !! You're brilliant and inspiring and talk in layman's terms. I have learned amazing things watching you paint and people have started paying me well for custom paintings God bless you richly
My sincerest thanks for this tutorial ... just what I was needing with a painting I’m battling with! Love watching you, you make all things possible with practice. (Love your humour, you’re a hoot!)
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and skills with the world. I'm just starting out and get so much inspiration and motivation from your videos!!
Another outstanding instructional video. Thanks so much. Your videos always are the best as far as explaining the techniques you employ. Thanks again and keep them coming :-)
I've learned more about how watercolor works from watching your spontaneous paintings and trying it myself than from any formal technique video. You really showcase the importance of painting with value in these demos, as well as teaching us flexibility within the medium. Please keep making these.
You are my best internet teacher and this painting of you is my favorite. Please keep making your tutorials.
Thank you, I will
I like that you keep painting and don't stop until you are truly sure you are done! All the extra little strokes of color enhance the atmosphere of this painting. Makes me want to be there! Thank you!
I must be careful. Watching your videos are becoming an addiction! 😄. I’m learning so much... thank you.
MARY ALTABEV indeed.
I am a retired HS art teacher from Missouri and I used to have the students splatter and lay down colors in class one day. Let it dry and come back the next several class periods and create a finished painting by using and manipulating the shapes. I just found your channel and subscribed immediately.
I could watch this about a zillion times and still keep learning! Thank you!!
I re-watch this from time to time as a "refresher" in your spontaneous painting technique and never cease to be amazed at your ability to making a cohesive and beautiful composition "emerge" from somewhat random splashes of color, much like a sculptor freeing a form from a piece of stone. Very impressive work and you make it look easy. You know where to add and how far to go but also know when to stop; a very practiced eye and a great deal of talent. Thank you for sharing and inspiring. At this date, this video has 202k views - please do not ever take it down!
You are the most talented watercolor artist I’ve seen in my life. Thank you!
Amazing how you made the rocks appear out of nowhere! You say you stared at this painting for a few days; you have no idea (and neither have I) how many times I have watched this video! I think I"m in love with the song you are playing, also!
What a beautiful painting. Starting off with just a few broad washes, I never thought you’d get a result like this from it.
I never grow tired of these type paintings. I love what I see. I see a misty fairway under your tree canopy on the right. I am working my way to surprise my husband with some golf landscapes. I have to try this. Thank you Steve.
Love watching you. You’re an inspiration.
Love the background music as well.
love your layout...kept looking into the trees for a deer or 2...as that is what I have seen on occasion...What I love is while they are not there one knows that somewhere in those woods are sets of eyes looking back...
I am just beginning to paint, and cannot tell you how inspirational I find your tutorials. Thanks!
I love the way the ochre colored mound almost looks like photo-realism juxtaposed against that dreamy looking background!
It amazes me that you can see rocks out of no where and put them in. I would love to learn that and how you put the big trees in the background. This is gorgeous!
Those ‘last minute’ rocks you added made my day! I love me some rocks. Terrific painting.
So amazing! Love the dreamy background so much!
I love the music you put in around 14:09. It's really enjoyable to listen to while you make this.
Thank you for this moving and inspiring tutorial. Being able to acquiesce to watercolour, rather than trying to force this fluidic medium, is so important. It also makes the journey much more fun!
This is my favorite of your tutorials so far. Thank you! I learned so much.
Thanks Michelle. Glad it was a help!
Dear Mind... You said... "I make the rules"... that's true... I have only 2 rules... Rule #1 there are no rules... Rule #2 the work must be permanent, my materials must be as archival as possible, acid free papers, pigments that don't fade etc.
Rule #3... Rule #1 could be Rule #2 and Rule #2 could be Rule #1 but that means I have 3 rules when I stated that I had only 2 rules which leads me to a dilemma that can only be solved by adding a "sanity clause" to these rules, but again this doesn't work because almost everyone knows there ain't no Sanity Claus.
Love, love, love this teaching. Being in southern Idaho there are so many scenes with dried grasses so learning to paint those effectively has been a challenge. This instruction and beautiful finished expression is SO helpful. Thank you!
Words fail to describe the beauty in this painting! I've saved and continually looking at it..colors, hard/soft edges, lifting, blending, glazing, frisket application, etc...I'll use white pen if I can achieve this masterpiece! Lol...You were blessed with God given talent with years of painting! Thank you for so kindly sharing. You are also gifted teacher!! I feel you started teaching on UA-cam & continue OUR benefit instead of being simply driven by ego, or other self-serving motives....May God Bless You as much as your have blessed me. Nancy
p.s. I know it would be long video but I'd love to watch entire video. I believe it would help me with background trees & details.. I'm missing something
Loved the music that began somewhere around 14:14! Good choice for mellowing and watching you paint. Thanks.
Oh, how beautiful and ethereal those background trees are!
Excellent demonstration of the use of masking fluid. However, what I liked most was the way you did the background trees, so simple and so effective. Thank you
This one is my absolute favourite! It could not be better, now I know what can be done with masking fluid.
thanks for sharing these secrets with us.
Thank you for his tutorial. I have loved weedy fields and woods ever since I was a little kid. But I can't capture the spontaneity of weeds with colored pencils which is what I have used for 25 years. This is my favorite tutorial and I am looking forward to trying weedy fields in watercolor, which is so conducive to nature pictures. This picture is a gem!
Don't laugh Steve, but I see animals in clouds all the time and I can see in the blue trees a little poodle on the left and a lion face on the right. I learned a lot watching this video, as I always do from you. Thanks again.
This was my favorite ! I watch alot of you tube and always come back to you. I relate to your voice. If I don't relate to the voice...I can't watch the video. Thanks ❤
Wow, thank you! Very encouraging.
I've been practicing my landscapes and they are improving Steve ,I really like how you do the background trees ,so thankyou!
Heather
Thank you, I have learnt more about watercolour with yours, than any of the other videos I have found on UA-cam. 😊
Loved the demonstration on how wonderful it is to use masking fluid in situations as this. Thank you
Thank you for sharing your wonderful painting techniques. I love everything about this composition. The depth, the complimentary colors and the layering of colors are incredible.
Love your tutorials and all of your videos, Love your sense of humor, love the verse at the end. I learn soooo much from you. I thought I was the only one to let a painting sit for a little while to, as I say in my head, "let it cook for a while", then work on it some more with fresh eyes.
I've been looking at your videos for the last couple of hours. Trying to get back into watercolor after 20 years. It has been more difficult than I expected. I love this one. The trees in the back are a fantastic color.
Wow! So beautiful! Love the colors and the muted fantasy of the woods as well as the detail of the wildflowers.
Beautiful! Love the colours in this one. Thanks so much for sharing your talent through these videos. You're one of my favourites.
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You are such a wonderful teacher. i've been painting in watercolor for almost a year....and just hit a wall of frustration. Watching this demo and trying to emulate your process has provided me a breakthrough, where I think all my learning so far is starting to come together. Thank you so much for your excellent commentary and spontaneous technique demos.
Thanks. I am pretty sick right now. Your painting was very inspirational and brought me some much needed joy.
Another amazing painting and great tutorial. Thanks so much for all of your tutorials.
Always love and am amazed at the beautiful pictures you create. Your videos have helped me greatly improve my technique so thank you!
I've been wondering how to paint the beauty of dry summer grass. Thanks for this tool. Also the size creating distance perspective is a gem.
I fell in love with the painting!! The movement of the watercolours is truly magical
This piece makes me want to jump into the screen and walk through the woods! I'm sure I would come across a unicorn. I am a formally trained artist who has had my hands out of it for a while,and your videos have jumpstarted me. I know now that I haven't lost my "touch"!
I struggle so much with watercolor. I do a lot of detail painting and draw a lot, but they way you present this instruction has helped me so much. I manipulate the idea so much it causes the paper to pill and the paint becomes muddled. I'm slowly learning to subtract color and negative space is my friend. Thanks for simplifying ideas.
@ Sunshine... everyone struggles with watercolor when they 1st start out, it's not called "A Master's Medium" for nothing. The reason watercolor can be so tough in the beginning is there are so many variables to this medium, different papers ( which there is a such a large variety of) all have different aspects of how they accept water, absorption rates, drying time, sizing and the list goes on. Then there's the myriad of watercolor paint brands to choose from which can vary from brand to brand as much as the paper you're working on.
On top of all this there are tons and tons of brushes, some hold lots of water some don't, some hold a crisp point others splay all over the place and believe it or not each has their place and uses.
Then there's the fact that it's next to impossible to hide your mistakes in watercolor as opposed to all other mediums, charcoal and pencils have erasers, oil has gesso, acrylic... wait till it dries and paint over it.
I remember years ago reading a book on watercolor painting where the author stated that it takes doing at least a hundred watercolor paintings before you even begin to understand the medium... I think she was about right.
PS - having your colors turn to mud is a common problem for beginners... solution... go back to using a very limited palette, do a painting using only two colors, say blue and burnt umber, or blue and yellow ocher and check out all the grays you can get from mixing variable amounts of the two pigments.
To avoid mud never mix more than 2 colors until you become more experienced.
Check out Steve Cronin on you tube for watercolor painting using a limited palette... I think it's an excellent place for beginners to learn from.
Thank you Carl Pen for much needed info. I have watched Steve Cronin countless time because he details how much water to use, how much pigment used and all pertinent info for successful watercolor landscapes. I use quality watercolor paper and paint. Can't expect museum quality with novice materials. Practice, practice and then practice some more, lol.
Thank you! At first the tree back ground looked like a storm brewing, but I like the mystery of what is back there in the trees. Most of all thank you the information on making adjustments as the painting develops. I don't have any of the new canson paper but I have a small piece of the Stonehenge paper to try this on. Please keep sharing with us.
So much about this composition that I love! I learned a thing or two also. Thanks, Mr. Mitchell!
absolutely my favorite watercolor I have seen. You are so talented. Thank you so much.
Really loved this tutorial. I tell everyone I am going to UA-cam university to learn to paint. Thank you so much for all your help.
Oh my word, you are a genius, this is absolutely stunning.
You are such a skilled painter and teacher. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Wow...I just found this one! Its the cover photo in the course! I love the trees!
I'm sure I'll watch this video again and again. This was wonderful and your painting is beautiful. Thank you.
One of the best tutorials, so much to learn from, please please more of this. Thanks plenty.
Wow wow wow!!!
i just love your more detailed tutorials. i always learn so much from you. ty for all your sharing :)
Wow. Just wow.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU... just started watching your videos as I am brand new in watercolors. I just love all your tutorials. Really the best out there, hands down! Loved this piece. Love watching you work. You are a gift!
I love everything!(the music is just so good too!) The painting is beautiful, "joyeuse innocence et rêverie" are the feelings suggested to me.
My favorite times in high school was during art class and the after school hours they allowed me to spend in that room with keys to the art supply cabinet, all alone to do as I pleased. That teacher arranged to skip an English Poetry class where I'd written tons of book reports in advance to do this and one of the things that stood out was when she told me to use any and everything at my disposal to create art. I loved her attitudes and everything about her, even when she dug out one of my pieces from the trash and sold it to teach a hard lesson. It was a piece where she attempted to teach the use of primary and secondary colors, the color wheel and said we were to choose three colors. What she failed to point out was that I could use those colors in any degree of value and so I hated that one piece of work enough to throw it out in disgust. After that she never again made me follow along class projects and said to do whatever my heart fancied. It was like being let out of a cage! At the time the song that was quite popular was White Bird by It's a Beautiful Day which inspired to paint my first rather large work of an albino red tail hawk flying toward a branch with the sun behind while preparing to land. Deep inside there was a muralist trying to get out. I used browns and oranges and white only and it was symbolic of how I felt... free.
The teacher liked it enough to call in other art teachers to view and offer tips on how to improve upon the work I did outside the classroom project bubble from a 2X2" black and white photo found in some library book. The original paper was much too small and had extensions on each side for wing tips, but that was the template used for the actual painting.
When you said on this video I make the rules it brought me right back to that moment when she said to use anything and everything at my disposal, and that's how I am to this day. Not a purist who feels I have a right to impose on others how they create, and we need to do this for ourselves first because it brings us personal joy, and forgo criticisms. The first thing I tell someone when I show my work is ... don't say if you like it or not, keep that to yourself because it's so much easier to believe when someone doesn't like what they see than when they do. I'm my own worst critic and don't need help. It's when I look at something finished and say YES! that's what I wanted it to look like that I'm completely happy and I won't let anybody take that away.
Thanks for sharing your process, I learn a good deal from you and the videos you've shared. I'm seriously grateful as after high school I could never afford art classes or materials. Later on, after working part time and taking classes as a computer science major, still the goal was art... for me, and after getting enough gathered to buy a Wacom tablet turned to digital compositing with Photoshop and Painter. More recently I decided to get back into physical art, but not acrylics like before. This time I wanted to learn watercolor as it touches me in a visceral manner. There are many talented watercolor artists and it's hard to stop looking at it all long enough to make my own! I appreciate your works, they are among my favorites and tell me that this is a media that can become whatever a person dreams given correct techniques, but clearly, it's not for the faint of heart! I'm ready to take those risks, but unlike you... my color values and drawing skills still need work.
Thanks! Great story!
Simply amazing. I know there is nothing simple about it. Spectacular.
Absolutely stunningly breathtakingly beautiful. Your style is so unique and dreamy....I looooove it!!! 💯🙏🏻😍
I'm getting ready to try watercolor and am so grateful I found your videos. Your paintings are so beautiful and your presentation and instruction so very helpful.
A very interesting painting
i liked your masking fluid technique on that. The colors were bright and stood out. I will definitely try this painting. Dana
Steve, I really enjoyed watching this video. I learned so many tips and I have been painting for years! This painting turned out absolutely beautiful! I appreciated how you explained your thought process of drawing the viewers eye to the focal point!
the result is breathtaking. thanks for showing us how to do it.
So exciting to watch this painting evolve. Thanks again for a great learning experience Steve.
Thank you for creating this tutorial on a loose painting landscape. Lots of good information on blending and using masking fluid with rubber shaper and old brush. It has been very helpful and I will give it a try. I like all of your tutorials, you encourage us and make it fun to try. Thanks again for making this one, my favorite.
Simply gorgeous. I especially love the look of those background trees (the part you didn't video while you were doing).
Steve, this is awesome as usual! A suggestion: you can also use masking fluid to mask out areas that you have already painted. Sometimes there are very light areas or reflections you want to preserve, so put your mask onto that area, then paint on with confidence that you're not going to lose them. I've tried it, and it works. Hope you find this useful. I love your videos, and have learned so much - thank you!
Thanks! Yes, I'm aware you can do that. Not necessary in this case because painting around those established highlights is easier.
I love drawing and watercolour especially for this reason, at about 8:30 I was looking at it abstractly then suddenly it became a bank with dirt and greenery and depth! I guess the colours settled around the mask about then.
It's a beautiful painting and thank you for all you're wisdom
Stunning! I mean... just off the scale !!..... and yes.. yes I did learn something........... and it is this: I have a LONG way to go! .............. :)
Thanks!
Truly inspirational. I was having thoughts of giving up before I saw this.
Thank you
Wow! I love this painting. Thanks, Steve.
Beautiful work and great demo (on a much needed topic!).
I love the music during the time-lapse too! (:
It is wow! Very informative video and amazing lightfull, emotional and beautifull picture as a result! Bravo!
Mesmerising to watch... Beautiful
Love the purples you dropped in.
This is the most enjoyable painting video that I think I have ever seen. It gives me all kinds of ideas. Thank you very much sir.
Does anyone else see the two birds in the painting? A huge fuzzy bird with a lighter beak over the right side and a small one facing to the right on top of the clump of trees. Brilliant !!
Yeah that was planned...ok... no it wasn't!
@@mindofwatercolor lol. Got lo love the way watercolour designs some of it's own nuances!!
Should be called spiritcolour !!
You're brilliant and inspiring and talk in layman's terms.
I have learned amazing things watching you paint and people have started paying me well for custom paintings God bless you richly
Wow!!! Beautiful!!!
Be brave....this is so true, best mode of discovery!
My sincerest thanks for this tutorial ... just what I was needing with a painting I’m battling with!
Love watching you, you make all things possible with practice. (Love your humour, you’re a hoot!)
What a lovely video to watch. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and showing us some of your techniques. lt has been very useful
What a gorgeous painting! Fascinating to watch, too. Thanks!
Only one word, wonderful. thank you
Such a gorgeous painting!!!!!
Thank you for sharing this video more, I learn a lot watching!!!👍👏🙏
Stunning painting💜🌈 thank you.
Simply magically exquisite Steve. Love, love, love the colours.
Thanks again for all you do Steve! Your videos are all excellent and you are helping me take my paintings to the next level! 😎
Thanks steve. Enjoyed that.
Love your paintbrush with the blue handle
I love this painting, it's a beautiful piece of art! It's so fun to see art from other another person's talent!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and skills with the world. I'm just starting out and get so much inspiration and motivation from your videos!!
Inspiring to watch. Breathtaking results. I do believe this is your best tutorial to date, Steve -- thank you! Heading back to watch it again ...
Thank you for sharing this.. I’ve been experimenting & practicing using masking fluid & glazing.. Tremendously helpful!!!
Another outstanding instructional video. Thanks so much. Your videos always are the best as far as explaining the techniques you employ. Thanks again and keep them coming :-)
I love watching you work your magic.