I am so grateful for your tutorials - I am a 75-year-old beginner 'MINDER' - Your teaching is secondary only to your obvious faith in our Lord. God's blessings ....

The way you approach this channel is perfect for me. I love the way you talk through your thought processes as you paint. That is what I so need. I would like more on drawing as I feel that is my weak link to art. Thank you so much for all your input and for being here to show us how to approach this art and give us inspiration.

I've just stumbled across your channel. As an absolute beginner I found you as I searched for information on what type of brushes to buy, and then, like the curious rabbit, I fell down your hole and haven't been seen since. I'm a quilter who has discovered Inktense pencils, permanent colour for fabrics, and want to add colour, texture, shading, and whatever else you can come up with for me, to add to the medium of fabric. Hopefully you've heard from other quilters and know this topic is something that is in demand. Your teaching style is so comfortable and gives me great courage to give it a go. I look forward to what 2020 brings for both of us.

I have so enjoyed watching you, Steve. I learn with every video you put out. Thank you so much for letting us watch over your shoulder. Thank you for your comments as you progress through your piece. The product reviews you do have been accurate. I have learned the hard way what a difference a good paper choice makes with watercolors. Unfortunately for me I'm afraid I have a lot of paper that is now worthless to me.

you are my absolute favorite watercolor tutorial man / channel! please just keep going with your helpful, instructive and inspiring tutorials. thank you for all the work you invest.

While I have been watching your channel for more than a year, I am an absolute newbie when it comes to watercolor, even art in general. I moved here from the adult coloring community. I find your videos very inspirational, and your reviews help me navigate the amazon minefield. I am disabled and very low income, and dont want to waste my money buying anything that isnt satisfactory, or i will outgrow...I am excited to see what you have for us in 2020!

You and James Gurney that have helped me the most when troubleshooting watercolor and mixed media methods. Your reviews of material also very very informative and I much appreciate.

Steve, thank you so much for your videos! I was almost an absolute beginner when I started watching your channel. I found you a couple of months after I started painting. You have taught me so much! I was new to watercolor and also new to painting. You’re one of my top two watercolor artists and teachers. Love your reviews of supplies too.

You run this any way you want to! Anyone who gives as much of your time FREELY as you do, your skill FREELY, as you do, should not be questioned, nor criticized. You are indeed aporeciated!

Either you got a new camera / lighting set-up, or you had an incredibly relaxing Christmas, 'cos I have to say you look 10 years younger than you did last year, Steve!

Steve, thank you for your ongoing commitment to sharing your art with so many people. I've learned so much from you! Hope you , your family, Reese and the "new addition" have a fantastic 2020! I'm particularly looking forward to combining colored pencils with watercolor. :-)

As a beginner with watercolor, I have found you videos very informative and beneficial. I am so glad to have found you channel.

I love how you explained your channel page and finding items on it! When I first started watching KZfaq I had no idea how to navigate on a channel! Your work is all wonderful to watch! Thank you so very much.

Have watched your channel for almost 3 years and learned such a lot. Still refer back to earlier videos to review technique, products etc when I need to solve an issue in my own artwork. Love your sense of humor, humility and non-judgmental attitude plus the dose of Scripture at the end of so many of your productions. My goals in 2020 are to develop a better sense of good composition and the dynamics of painting a landscape that will add movement and atmosphere to my images. I want to continue to work toward mastering transparent watercolor technique while exploring opaque gouache, pen and ink and other media. Sounds like your channel is going to be a great help! Thanks!

Thank you for your excellent channel. You are one of the first watercolorist that I started followings; I now follow many artists with diverse styles and have learned a lot good and bad. Your demonstrations and product reviews are all welcome. Thanks!

Happy New Year Steve! I love how your videos are set up, always feels like I am just hanging out with a buddy in the studio :) Looking forward to all you have to share with us in 2020

I am still a beginner and I really enjoy your videos. Love your plans, they all sound great. I haven't had much luck with many WC paintings recently & have gotten myself frustrated with it so for now I'm going to take a little break from WC and focus on acrylic for a bit. Hopefully I can achieve a few successful acrylic paintings so when I try WC again might have better luck or at least not get so down. WC definitely has a mind of it's own and we are just not speaking well to each other right now. Lol. Have a great year everyone!!

I picked up painting from watching your videos I started from zero, and really learned the basics. It was easy to take those steps from how you spoke in your lessons. I dare say you being a Grandfather leant a hand in your patient calm demeanor. Either way, looking forward to 2020, your a star video creater. ⭐

Hi Steve ~ As someone who sat through countless hours of art classes taught mostly by uninspiring droners... your format is perfect! and bonus... free! You're generously allowing us to watch the magic over your shoulder, so many Thanks! oh and the skull looks like a mini terminator head to me :)

One of my favorite watercolor channels. I appreciate your style and “randomness”, as you refer to your content. I have learned so much from you and other KZfaq artists.

Your description of your approach to video making reads very well for viewers. Your narration is is thoughtful, well paced and instructive. Watching you talk through the steps you take to achieve something IS inspirational, because the end product is something to aspire to, and the narration makes you feel like it is something you could achieve. And the scale of the videos is also something achievable. I am so glad you are going to stay with this format. :)

Don’t change a thing, stay the course and keep it fresh. When you’re excited about something it comes through in the vids👍🏻

Thanks for giving us a peek into the mind of Steve as well as watercolor and its characteristics. I stumbled into drawing and painting as just a way to be more mindful or to focus my attention away from unfortunately some very tragic events that i could not escape from mentally, I found that when i get in the zone everything else in the world just fades away. i started to see very quick leaps in my skill level and ability I became hooked, i started with graphite, color pencil, watercolor pencil, which then naturally led me to why not just try watercolor. Well, let me say the first attempts i soon discovered watercolor is difficult and I wanted to throw lamps across the room. (no lamps were harmed) I bought cheap supplies and thought I would never be able to produce the results I wanted, until I began watching your videos. The single biggest change in my art and the giant step for my art was using quality paper. 100% cotton paper especially the tried and true Arches gave me a better chance to execute more effectively and could stand up to the abuse required. I have watched your videos for months and the content is all there for beginners and it was awesome not to have it delivered in a step by step structured course, It allowed me to stumble through my journey, keeping my interest and always intrigued to discover a new skill, approach or product. My work has improved enough that friends and family have started calling me an artist and actually paying me to produce commission work! I would paint even if everyone else didn't like my stuff, but i have made enough to provide my self with a studio and the best supplies money can buy! Thank you so much, i still am a novice, but I feel as i have successfully completed watercolor 101, and know that I will be painting for the rest of my life! Painting for me is like neosporin for my soul, it has allowed to find joy and bring the sunshine back into my life! I am grateful and thank you sir!

While I did look for a playlist for beginners or tips & tricks, I love that your channel is "random" --- I feel like I've learned more that way, just as if you invited your viewers into your studio, welcome to watch as you explore a colour or demonstrate a technique. I've come across tips that I wouldn't have known to search for; things that aren't included in "beginner" videos, or seem to be overlooked/taken for granted in advanced instruction. Just wanted to say, thanks!

That's why I don't get bored of watching your content! You are not repeatitive like other you tubers on the subject who are only geared toward the beginners. I am not a beginner and love your randomness and tips. Thank You!

Enjoying your channel. I'm a 64 year old beginner. Got to start sometime...

You have been come my constant companion for my watercolor journey. Your tone and approach are just the best, love the new level of quality of this video - you work hard at your craft(s)! I especially love your gentle humor and peek into your faith (hope to see that return to the end of your videos). My goal for 2020: more time with a brush on the paper!

Thank you for everything. I am so excited about the Indigraph, can't wait to try.

I look to your channel as I would seek instruction, inspiration and reviews from a Master Watercolorist. You offer immense knowledgeable advice with your amazing artwork. I look forward to more of the same from you, and...your venturing into gouache and colored pencil. The Mixed Media journey should prove to be very interesting. Happy Artful New Year, Steve! 🎨

Oh Steve, I LOVE your KZfaq channel and am a subscriber. I laugh out loud at how frequently I buy stuff that you use. Today, I watched and ordered my IndiPen. How cool that I can use acrylic inks in it too! Thanks for all you do for us aspiring artists

Such a coincidence! I have been searching for a great fountain pen for several months, with no luck. I have purchased several to try but none of the ones I bought were suitable. The fountain pen you reviewed in this video appears to be exactly what I've been searching for! Thank you very much. 😁👏

Great to see you back and I really enjoy the way your channel is. I always come in here and no matter what you are creating, its informative and love your reviews too ! Thanks for all you share !! 🎨💗

I love your channel! And found it and some other you tubers channels as a brand new watercolorist a year ago. All the knowledge, humor and inspiration from you really made the subjetct more accessible to me. Thank you for giving me courage! A very HAPPY NEW YEAR, I'm much looking forward to everything planned in 2020.

I love the randomness of your channel, I have been watching for about 2-3 years, it was part of the reason I changed mediums from acrylic to watercolor, it showed me the beauty in watercolor. I find your videos are like stepping in the studio with a friend seeing what they are up to... I love it!!!!

Hi Steve,your channel inspired me to drag out all my supplies after a long dry period! I think that you should name Reese's new little brother "Chip"!!! 💀

Cool music and intro! Like the hat. Been following you for years. Great video! My goal is to have my first watercolor gallery showing this year. You have been my main teacher since I began doing watercolors in 2018. Thank you!!!!

I love your tutorials on ink washes..I"m a beginner with pen and ink following all your tutorials. Thank You!!

I was a repaint doll artist until a became disabled and now I have picked up watercolors. I love this channel for inspiration and ideas. I just setup my pallet with DS paints, picked up several types of cotton papers, picked out some watercolor brushes, which seemed decadent because of all the brushes I currently have for acrylics and oils, and have started to play and learn my paints. I have been a mixed media artist and even taught it locally. I would like to see how the watercolors can fit into what I already have. Most of what you are talking about for 2020 will allow me to shop in my own studio. Thank you for all the content you put up, I know that it is an investment of your time and appreciate it.

Oil used to "build" on top of watercolor is really beautiful, if done right. I use it to extend the brightness of flowers in dark meadows and in the depth of sea life. It is a much easier transition with Daniel Smith's and Holbein's water soluble oil paint, but it is also doable with traditional oil paints. I look forward to seeing Your application of this medium as well as others in the coming Year.

I'm catching up on videos I missed and i just wanted to say you've taught me so much and inspired me even more. I adore the pen and wash style and since watching you, have improved considerably. All down to you, Mind of Watercolour! All down to you. 😊

I just want to say thumbs up for mixed media videos! It’s an area I don’t really know much about. Aside from ink and watercolor, or ink and markers. It would be nice to see the watercolor and gouache, or whatever else you have planned. Looking forward to that! ⭐️ Ps... I know for sure you have inspired some of the other youtubers, I have heard this channel mentioned.

Welcome back, Steve. Funny, I have been spending all my spare pennies on colored pencils lately, so will be looking forward to the mixed media stuff. I have found that working slowly with colored pencil layers has helped me with my watercolor. I think working out the lights and darks slowly with the pencils lets me do it more quickly when I get to the water media. Always look forward to your videos, you have such a wonderful channel.

I started watching some of your videos a year or more ago but they didn't worked for me, now as I am became better at watercolor I start really enjoy your content and looking forward for it.

love your channel. I trust your judgement and know it will remain invaluable. I started as a total beginner to any form of art-still a beginner but improving. I also love your introduction to wonderful watercolor artists who I would never have know of if you hadn't featured some of their art work, ie-Ray Hendershot. Thanks for all the inspiration and tips.

Hi from Australia! I think you're pretty awesome Steve ;) I am relatively new to watching your channel but loving it so much! Can't wait for all you have coming this year ;) I am an intermediate artist who uses many mediums so looking forward to seeing how you like to combine them with watercolour :) oh, and Proko is awesome too!!

Happy 2020! Looking very forward to your future videos Steve! This channel is relaxing, informative, and fun!

You keep doing you. I've learned more from you than any other channel. It took me a few videos to warm up to you, but I've grown you really appreciate your sense of humor as well as the way you present information.

Thank you for continuing to share your talent with us. I've learned a lot from you Steve, and know I will continue to do so. 😍

I watched this after seeing your "short" in the Indigraph pen. This also answered a question I had about why you have the (other) skull in many of your videos. I'm learning from you.

Yay! You're back! Of all my many KZfaq subscriptions, your channel is the one I look for first.

Super pumped for mixed media Steve....bring it on!

Steve, can’t thank you enough for all you do. I switched from acrylics to watercolor and you have been so helpful. Love your videos and watch and rewatch many of them!!

Just keep doing what you are doing. I have learned so much just listening and watching as you paint. You make it seem possible. Thanks so so much.

I am absolutely a beginner and your channel is my favorite. I have learned so much from you. I love how you share your insight from your experience. I'm really looking forward to seeing how you incorporate mixed media. I've been buying watercolor supplies like crazy for the last year and my husband gave me a set of Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils for Christmas. I can't wait to see how you pair them with watercolor!

Loved seeing those sketchbook pages! How about some sketchbook flip throughs? I would love to see some on your channel.

Mixed media ~ YES!👍🏼 Love ya!🙋🏼‍♀️🎨

Great pen! I look forward to getting updates. As someone who has reviewed a lot of art products, I appreciate the sweet spot created when you receive the product for the price of the time & labor to test and write/videotape/photograph results.

What's coming up for this year sounds like a lot of variety and fun!! I am excited!! Thank you!!

very excited for the acrylic and oil mixed media episodes!

The fountain pen looks interesting. I'd like to see you to a watercolor piece this year that is a larger physical scale, and/or takes weeks or longer to finish, so that you can discuss the process of that, including the business aspects if such a piece were being done on commission. Looking forward to some more great vids from you in 2020! :)

My goal is to paint every day and learn something NEW with each experience! I have eliminated all the distractions and have all the supplies necessary..... now, just DO IT! Looking forward to enjoying your videos through that process. ;-)

I really enjoy ripping off your techniques and ideas (let's call it "inspiration" for now). Like a lot of people I don't paint nearly as much as I'd like, but the videos keep me connected to the art when the rest of life is pulling me apart. I appreciate how much you share with us and hope you continue doing so for a long time to come.

My learning style is not linear - I tend to learn best when something sparks my interest rather than going 1..2..etc. so I find your channel really valuable. 😊 I'm really looking forward to what's in store on your channel. 😊 I hope the new skull doesn't put Reese's nose out of joint... or it might if he had one, anyway. 🤣 Seriously, though it's actually really cool. It would be interesting to know if it does come in male and female options. 😊

I am a beginner and I find your channel inspiring and very, very informative. Look forward to your 2020 content!!

Thank you for the great video. I am doing wedding invitations and all the stationary for my daughters wedding. I painted watercolor flowers and learned how to use Adobe photoshop and illustrator. It has been a great experience. Keep up the great work.

This was great. Looking so forward to the mixed media ideas. Tell Reese not to be jealous of Stan's skull as I love them both! THANK YOU for explaining to this 72-year young lady how to get to the playlist thing!!!!!

I love your videos, Steve and have recommended it to some of my friends. I started art on paper with colored pencils just last year and I’m very new to watercolor. I’ve found your videos very inspiring, informative and so helpful in deciding what to buy and how to go about different processes. I’m excited to see how you combine watercolor and colored pencils. Thanks for doing what you do!

Fantastic that you’re going to show us mixed media, I’m very keen to try watercolours with coloured pencils, please guide, as I feel rather overwhelmed!! Thank you for your channel too, I’ve learnt so much 🎀

Great to hear your plans for 2020! You inspire me to continue studying watercolour! Thank you so much!

I wish you a good 2020!! I love your studio space, it's so nice :)

I started this channel as a beginner and it was so helpful but it is still relevant as I progress and that is what I love and that is rare. Thanks

As a beginner I watch it not so much as a 'how to paint' but more of a what to aspire to. What is possible with watercolor.

I am excited for the watercolor and color pencil videos. Yea! Pen and ink too!

So glad you're back, sounds like you've been very busy. While you're making plans for this year would you make a video about how to store your paintings? I'm getting quite a large collection that I would like to store safely, but I can't spend a fortune on a storage solution. Plus my work space is very limited so that's an issue also. Any suggestions, or product reviews would be appreciated. Thanks for all you do and for the many skills and tips you've taught me. You're the best!

Great to see this video and look forward to another great year of content from you. I was hoping to hear that you might spend more time on the figure this year as you did say last year that you would like to.

Hi Steve! Thank you for all you do! I have learned so much from you! I would love to see more Steve and Marty shows! Any plans for more in 2020? Best wishes to you and your family.

I love your program and all the information, thank you so much. 2020 is the year to learn watercolor!

Oils and Watercolour... 😍😍😍 The oil painter in me is super excited. Totally looking forward to the coloured pencils and soft pastels with watercolour as well. I tried soft pastel over gouache once and absolutley loved it.

Got the Proko skull last year. I'm super impressed with the quality, it feels really well made, he's done an excellent job with it.

I have been watching you for a few months now and really enjoy your videos. I've learned alot from the way you teach. I've worked with acrylic alot but this year I want to practice with watercolor. Keep doing what you do! Your videos are great!

I'm looking forward to your content in 2020! I'm mostly a watercolor artist and come for that content, but open to seeing you expand your horizons. Couldn't help but think of Toy Story when Reese's li'l brother was on the tripod.

I’ve been watercoloring for 1 year and most of what I learned I got from this channel. I’m very interested in drawing, fountain pens, pencil work, portraits, & landscapes, (trees too.) I’ve done a ton of your tutorials & have loved the portraits. Here is what I wrote about you today, “he does explain things well. He has the perfect balance of great teacher verbally and he is a great artist too. Lots of variety. Very humble too, which I like.” I tried to find a skull to practice with and I didn’t like the gross & spooky stuff I found, so I gave up and went just for the flesh faces. “Little Ree” comes to mind for a name for Reese’s little brother. Thank you for the GREAT channel.

One of my goals is to try to find more time to paint! Your videos are very inspirational! Thank you i have learned a lot from you!!

Welcome to the new year Steve! The minute I get notification of a new "Mind of Watercolor" video - I jump to it. As you mentioned, your channel provides my watercolor inspiration. Seeing your India ink spill reminds me of my adventures in high school using the old Shaeffer ink cartridge pens. Usually ended up with an inky mess :-) Looking forward to this year's videos.

Hello. Nice to be connected to your channel. What is strange is, I’m a subscriber from more three years yet it’s the first time I have the honour to view the sire. I was very please with you and the content for today and the pace and tone of your voice witch are conducive to learning. I will to search you to connect again from now on. See soon

I am very excited to hear you may talk about watercolor ground that is on my to learn list! As always love your teaching

I appreciate your format, Steve...I stumbled across it as a complete beginner. The "stream-of-consciousness" narration that you give as you paint is tremendously valuable (and especially comforting when your watercolour makes its mind up to do something you hadn't planned). It's helpful to hear your decision-making process, and I find myself going back to older videos ("...hmmm...didn't Steve say something about that a while back?") The mixture of techniques and thought processes make it useful for folks at a number of levels, and even at a number of levels in their career.

My goal for this year and the last few months is to get myself back into the love of creating. My biggest goal is to keep learning by as much daily practice as I can fit in. Also to not get to discouraged and push through the learning stage even if my work does not always turn out the way I would like, but rather to work on improving through training my brain and just being tenacious and realizing that if I keep going, that I will get better and better. I super appreciate when you remind us that you have thrown lots of your work in the garbage and that it doesn't come easy without putting in the effort. It makes me work harder and not give up with frustration when I hear that you also have had to keep working towards improve your artistic skills. I hope this year brings you lots of happy days and that you have fun creating projects for us all. I am very thankful that I have found your you-tube channel! I have really been learning a lot from you. You have inspired me! :) I am especially enjoying the ink and wash. I really like the look of it and its just fun to do so I hope to see more of that from your channel.

Thanks for the video. Your plans for 2020 sound great! I hope your wife and son are feeling better and wish you and your family the best in 2020. My goals for 2020: Get my mom home from the nursing home where she is doing rehab for a broken leg. More mixed media watercolor. I have done line and wash and combined watercolor with pan pastels and water soluble pastel crayons. I will do more of that! I am taking a class on how to paint with acrylics at the local parks and rec. I would also like to combine some writing with watercolor. Here's to a great new year full of painting adventures!

the reason i really love your channel is because the tips and advice you give for me is much more useful for me than long form tutorials especially the colour mixing and colour theory videos i dont really have goals more like things i want to do i plan to do quite abit of plan air painting and take a ton of references i do alot of floral art so its season specific i want ot generally improve my watercolour skills better water control try to be a bit more careful and improve my values

Watching this in Aug. 2020, thinking you couldn't have known what unfortunate events 2020 would hold. I'm thankful to have your videos to cheer us up & let our minds have a nice diversion to ponder for a while.

Yes! Mixed media would be so awesome! 😊 Love your channel ❤

Like the new glasses!🤓❤️ yasss! Gouache

Can't wait for your new instructions/examples with mixed media! I've been wanting to add pencil to my art and your aspirations for the new year sound great!

Oh that's a cool new skull. I hadn't seen the unboxing yet here. As a kid I got a plastic, Glow In the Dark skull based on a real human skull. Had to put it together. The teeth kept falling out. But i found in my marble collection a couple of larger Shooter marbles, one was white with brown and the other white with red. Each of them had a side that "almost" looked like an iris of an eye. So I used to put the marbles into the eye sockets and I put a beanie on him. It freaked out my friends because of the marble eyes. haha, good memories. He's in storage somewhere. But yes, he would be great for drawing.

Enjoy your channel so much, glad that you won't change entirely, but excited to see the additional mediums used. Thank you for all that you do. I also am inspired by your scripture verses at the end of your programing. Thank you!

Please don’t change a thing. MoW is my favorite channel on KZfaq and I look forward to each new video that comes out. Usually, after watching one of your videos, my first thought is to stop watching KZfaq and start a new painting.

I started watercolor in March 2019...you're one of the first channels I found and I've binge watched. repeated watched, and stayed up on every new video since 🤗 Your videos really helped me to appreciate the intricacies of watercolor, to not get frustrated, and to look more closely and to be more observant of nature and how that connects to my paintings.. you were also my main guide for choosing colors and mixing colors I loved the video editing in the intro of this video 🤗and i think this was a helpful video! I'd love to see more videos about using dip pen or fountain pens techniques with paintings... excited for another year of watercolor!🤗

Your expanded directions sound really exciting! I'm looking forward to the mixed media adventures. Happy 2020!

Love the idea of mixed media with watercolour remaining the emphasis!