26:34 this is soo true man, I used to paint tooo delicately and spend 2 or 3 days on one painting but when I first finish it I feel tired and like I hate it even though everyone tells me it’s realistic also never feel proud if it , but nowadays i am more of quick sketches and blocking colors with any medium really , I’ve never loved art more, it’s so relaxing this way and it feels amazing I am so happy to be doing this and my artistic skills are developing even better while I am relaxed!❤️

who elsed was hella impressed with his beard. dudes becoming an epic lumberjack artist

This video was EXCELLENT! I learned a lot just listening to Jeff Watts. This video was food for one's creative hunger for becoming a better artist. Thank you big time!!

Best art instruction video I have come across. Such detail lessons in straight forward language. Demystifying gouache. 10/10

I actually love just listening to you talk. Like, this could almost be a podcast. Have been watching this on and off during meals and before bed. Thank you for the time and effort to put this on the internet - it's really helping me.

love you, Jeff, all your videos are winners. and that hairstyle is awesome, bro.

stayed up till 3am to watch it, well worth the wait, thanks for your share

I'm glad I found this channel. I was fascinated with illustration and comic art as a kid. I copied hundreds of panels when I was in middle school from marvel and image comics. I had drive at that age and more so now. Nothing will stop me from making art. I then moved to fine art in my twenties and am a painter now. its nice to see someone who appreciates fine art and illustration like magic the gathering art. thanks!

holy...this is one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing this!!!!

I have learned so much from you both in listening and watching your process.

Need to put together a book of Jeff's sayings. Gives me inspiration every day!

The butcher tray is enameled metal. Plastic is more porous than enameled metal, so the paints catch and drag and start to set up in the pores. On the enameled metal they float above the surface on the less porous finish and don't set up, and thus are more available to mix. Plastic is also hydrophobic because of the oily nature of the surface and finish.

Guys like this motivate me to paint. Especially when I need to work on something and I’m just not in the mood🤣. LOVE the old man sketch!!!

One of the best Friday night lives yet. Have a great trip to Iceland !!

ive seen this multiple times all the way through and i watch it whenever a gouache painting or drawing in general doesnt go well and this sets me back on track

AWESOME SESSION! Learned so much :) Love your wisdom and motivation, Jeff!

Jeff this is so great! I went back and watched that first half hour that I missed during the live stream and Im glad I did. Those first 30 minutes are gold. Be productive and safe on your trip and come back to us well my friend. We're all counting on you!

Brilliant episode I really enjoyed this one, looking forward to next Friday.

Love this series soooooo much!!!!

I love Friday night live! :) so thrilled to see this post- missed it live but excited to watch it while I work today!

Really enjoyable video! If you have Dollar Tree stores near you, they sell thin flexible silicone cutting mats in the kitchen area that provide a great mixing surface for both gouache and oils and are easily cut to any size/shape. They need to rest on a firm surface. I use them in a few of my sketch kits and pochade boxes. They are kinda translucent grayish white but I usually paint the underside a neutral gray.

Thanks for the demo/video....enjoyed it and loved the gouache, and all of the comments and explanations.

I got a set from a junk sale , thought they were watercolours..when I got home they were gouache , reeves for a quid ..I love them .....someone said to use them like oil , a lightbulb went off in my head and I finally realised how to use them.

everytime I find this video I watch it twice. so great

That was not the last one i watched. Thank you so much! Hope I can joyn the next one life!

Treasure trove of information....thank you and appreciate your sharing, makes traveling more fun and watching you build up a painting very cool

Wonderful, informative video! Beautiful work. Thank you ❤

so beautiful! Such a great video, thank you.

This was great, thanks Jeff.

Wise words from Watts: "You can find water anywhere." 7:47

jeff! you're amazing! love watching you work! xo

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

Incredible information...Bravo!

You're not a slave to the reference material. Love it. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

Wonderful video and loved your gouache travel setup :)

Loving the beard! Great video as always Jeff

majestic beard. thanks for the demo.

This is very nice vid! Good points!

Very nice man, I learn a lot from these videos.

I use Dorland's Wax Medium over the gouache, hence no glass needed in framing. Dorland's Wax Medium will water-seal over gouache very nicely, leaving it polished and waterproof. I just started using Gouache he and love the freedom of correcting, changing or deleting what I am not happy with.

Great video, glad I caught this

Agradeço sua postagem, aproveitei bastante suas orientações, continue postando seus trabalhos.

Love this tutorial!

Gouache can have a lot less gum arabic in its formulation. If you make your washes too thin they'll end up weak and brittle, so you'll want to add a little gum arabic or use watercolor in those passages.

awesome advice much appreciated

Jeff made the last piece into an oil painting "Namaste"

I got some small uncoated aluminum baking pans and sprayed them with white glossy enamel. Makes a fantastic palette.

ps I m from italy, born i 1955, i love Frazetta fom seventy wen i was young, i grow up with Frazetta, Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane & co UAH it was a good time

Thanks you!!!!

Monet was known to say that he believed an artist should learn from what they see around them and not bend to formal rules 😉

I agree with Jeff I prefer not to varnish I like the matte look!

1:01:10 the lines on that monastery scetch are amazing.

Ever try Casein? I'm liking it more than Gouache, these days. I actually like the smell, how it works like oils in terms of mixing on the panel and you don't need to frame it under glass.

Very informative and fun to watch! could you please explain water glazing?

Odin is also a painter. Nice.

use a pencil tin to mix on. I use one from a pastel pencil box but got a coating on it that makes it awesome to mix in. doesn't absorb like plastic

Butcher trays are enameled--A process which a ceramic coat is applied to a metal base which is then placed in a kiln and bond with the metal base. Sort of like a china dish.

Sally like your box design I'm part wa thought doing the same thing

Hello, can you tell me why did you choose the green color as first layer?

You mentioned all the wall hangers that can't fit on the wall, and that you would put them up on instagram or something. It would be great to have a book with all those wall hangers made that people could purchase. Just an idea to add to your list of things to do ;)

How do you handle the palette-rag after you're done while you're on the trail? I'm a hiker and am intrigued by your gear.

I think the word you're looking for is enamel. It's a melted glass surface they put on metal.

Merci

How to keep the gouache palette from drying?

Doing portraits in not that hard if one follows the principles....i got around to a few self portraits and a few simple ones....having the patience to follow the course of progress is the biggest thing....and the best advice i saw was that you need to do about 70. Long before that you should be pleased with your progress. I

yes! tu dipingi a ritmo be bop!

can you show us your palet . i want to understand the way you mix the color

A s a gouache lover, i think you would like to know the work of Benicio, (José Luiz Benicio), a brazilian illustrator that did thousands of pulp book covers and movie posters from the 60's into the 90's...all in gouache. There are two volumes collecting some of his work published by refecence press in the last decade, and i think it is the only compendium that ever existed of his work, since most of it got lost over the years. One thing of note is that since the covers were printed small, he didn't paint them big...so, almost all the pages in the collection are the real size of the originals. I'm in no way associated with any of the parties...it's just one of those artists that more people should get to know.

I am new to your channel, and am lured into watching you paint. It is interesting to see you work from dark on up. What would be really helpful, is for you to LIST THE REFERENCES you mention in your discussion. You've mentioned dozens of artists, some of those I didn't get the complete names. It'd be helpful to see a list of artists and spelling of their names. Thank you.

At the end Jeff is talking about some Paul guy and his watercolors/gouache paintings. Anyone knows the name of the artist?

I think the "beading (beating)" up you're talking about is from the plastic being porous & when you mix it together the tiny holes create tiny bubbles that spirals into a domino affect of osmosis causing the "beading". but I'm no physicist

I wish you had uploaded the outline for us lazy people

You certainly can alter edges in acrylic, watercolor and oils. You just do it differently. And many many tiny crisp miniatures were made in oil paints, they were the photo portraits of their time. Students shouldn’t be afraid to keep trying new techniques and materials. Failure of a piece is not a failure of an artist. We learn much more info from the failures, anyway.

He sounds like the Jason Dill of painting

Nice painting...wonder what the criteria is for having a question chosen and answered, submited a few but none got addressed..maybe got overlooked.

Awesome beard

is gouache like watercolor? is the way to approach the painting process is the same?

40:00 I used to only draw, but starting to paint (digitally) forced me to improve my drawings. Now I also to the back-and-forth thing, but I'm not very methodical nor disciplined about it, so improvement is slow ^^'

Jeff reason why but your butcher plates work and don't beat up is because of the porcelain finish it's a very fine but yet scratchy finish, if you want a plastic pallet to behave the same clean it with comet and scrub it quite hard rinse it many times and you'll be good to go

Hey guys! Question about gouache paints. Anyone have an alternative to Cad red or Vermillion for the Zorn palette? Cad red is $30 for a 14 mL tube which a lot for me right now, and I can't find vermillion in the W&N Designers gouache. There's the Pebeo brand which sells 100 mL tubes, but I can't find anyone who thinks Pebeo gouache is good.

Jeff I am in love with Alex Ross do you know anything within his own techniques?

what is he painting on?

I wish the same could be communicated with fewer words!

have to draw you with that beard;-)

grande saggio, grande artigiano, grande pittore, ottimo, ottimo cervello! uah... video anche molto utile per imparare a capire l'angloamericano ... man! you talk like a machine gun! ta ta ta ta ta ta! rata trata ta ta ta ta ta ta ta tump ta ta tump tatatatratatatrak!! uah like rock musica or be bop... uah uah! 👍😉👍😉👍

Wow painting goachd is so complicated

why do so many gouache painters use paper towels? even when damped in water- don't they soak up the paint?

Investing in good education is good idea but not always available.

He's looking like a bearded mel gibson

Who is this

I know you have to sell your school, but nothing is wrong with being self taught

im self taught and since watching this i cant draw anything. i no longer trust my eye for what looks good, i cant seem to create any form, and my anatomy has been brutally beaten into a childish state. I realize this is most likely a case of bad artists block, but its been the most frustrating i have experienced. this video has single handidly ruined any shred of confidence i ever had for my work. on top of this i have no access to formal education, physical or not. if anyone has experience this kind of "entrapment" before id like to hear your stories.

pirate jeff

I don't get it. Painting is easy. It's drawing that is difficult yet all these youtubers want money to show you how to paint lol