I just love how casually you tell us stories about your life! It's weirdly relaxing and soothing to have a one way conversation like that

Can never get enough of your inspirational painting and instructions...thank you

I was struggling with trees for some time, then one night the cat walked all over a panel I had drying on the floor. Something about the cat's reckless inattention to detail and spontaneity sparked an epiphany for my tree painting style, and I've never looked back. Thanks Garfield and thanks Grandpa 👍😀

Wonderful advice - 'Start with a mess and unravel it' - so encouraging.

Your voice is so relaxing to listen too. I'm setting on the floor with my 6th month old grandson and he's watching you as well.

This one is a gem Stuart! Brings me back to my younger days when I was a little boy travelling across country with my family, I would just be looking at miles and miles of landscapes from the different states here in America. The dessert was so beautiful at different times of the day. I would stay awake while my siblings were sleeping and enjoy all the colors and even the rain clouds. 7 days in a car going coast to coast, I saw so much of your type of scenerys that you paint. Finding you on You Tube was meant to be, thank you for teaching all of us artists this style of oil painting! ALOHA!❤️🤙

Mr. Davies, I believe this is your best video ever! Your story-telling abilities match your amazing artistic abilities, and this video was totally charming as well as informative and inspiring. I wish you'd stop worrying about your shoulder, your demos are very well filmed, and I haven't seen any comments from anybody complaining about your shoulder. I've spent months at a time struggling to paint every little detail of landscapes from reference photos, and yesterday I got up the courage to try your method, and in under an hour came up with a lovely little landscape from imagination that looks very detailed indeed - I am thrilled about it, and thank you so much for sharing your methods with the tense and struggling of us. It will be great to have painting become fun again. Thanks again, from the southwestern U.S.

I attempted to perform Mr. Davies' technique with acrylic. I could not emulate the technique no matter how much I attempted to keep the paint moist. Of course, I do live in Arizona & the air is quite dry with low humidity. I think I will eventually surrender my acrylics and buy oils, following Mr. Davies' technique. How I wish I could attend classes in Bordeaux, but sadly due to Covid-19, there is no opportunity for me to travel & attend, at least for now. For all those who are subscribed to Stuart Davies KZfaq, consider yourselves lucky. Creativity will help us all to keep sane when confronted with a life-altering crisis. Cats also help! Ok, so do dogs! Thank goodness for our pets!! Thank you & God bless, Mr. Davies!

Breathtaking. That is my favourite kind of sky in a painting. Beautiful Stuart, thank you 💖

It's NOT rubbish.. I've MISSED my grampa since he passed onto the next dimension, so thank YOU for being my grampa ~ I love your videos and feel proud to say you are my mentor and greatest inspiration!! And, we haven't even MET, LoL (So silly, but it does mean ALOT to me inside emotionally)! You are wonderful.

I’m a teenager now and have never known my grandparents. Nice to have an art grandpa :)

Imagine ! No strict rules, breaking chains in our mind, As we witness, professional, experienced painter sharing his discovery of a beautiful illusion, happening in front of our own eyes, we develop a trust in our own power and slowly we become less stiff . We are given permission to find , in us a creator , a painter and permission to use any tool, which can help us, in that process ( ie.paper towel, plastic plate, hardware store brush, etc ) Amazing .Thank you Stuart ( Stu - ART)

The sky with the big dark cloud in this painting is amazing and very beautiful, I love it!!! There is more and more interesting information and the biggest thanks for publishing your stories and thoughts! I am also left-handed, but I write with my right hand, with my left I write exactly in the mirror image, and already in school I thought that if I were to break my wrist, I would write with my left hand from right to left and then I would be able to read through the glass. I can also write with two hands at the same time, but then the text runs from the middle in two different directions - with the right hand to the right, with the left hand to the left. I can draw and paint with two hands, but I cut bread with my left hand. The story about painting the portrait and how the cat played a part in it was pretty funny, but having a cat myself, I totally get it. Thank you a lot!!!

I could watch & listen to you for hours your relaxed style really encourages me to try paint like you.I think I can do it when I start but then some of it goes wrong, I don't give up but pause your tutorial to try again.Great tip on cleaning oil brushes it definitely works Thanks for that. Start with a mess I love it....

Thank you for your videos...I have tried to incorporate your method into my paintings. You are correct sir, it frees me up and I feel less constricted to a stressful process, it is more fun, and less frustrating. An American in Mexico loves your videos. Good day sir.

I use the trays from the meat we buy. I wash them and when I use them to mix my paints. when I finish, I throw it away. Love those.

Every video is as inspiring as the previous, Stuart. I love your style of presentation; it's both soothing and informative. Great work, as always!

Wonderful again! I painted some landscapes trying to follow your advices and improved a lot! They don't look so stiff and boring anymore, at least some of them. 😅 The whole thing is a bravery test sometimes. I have to deal with high levels of anxiety and this method is like a therapy! 🙌🏻 Thank You!

I'm glad that I found this man on KZfaq. Hes a great artist and very relaxing to watch

Taking notes tonight and taking in as much as I can. Perspective is what I struggle with and I’m glad you showed that. Always a pleasure Stuart!

Thank you Stuart very much I'm so grateful I found Channel The paintings that I've done with this style of painting are some of my favorite paintings. And that is because they came from nowhere and they were very freeing.

Your skies are sublime Stuart. I hope we get to see the final product.

I have learned more from you than any other teacher in 60 years of painting. Thank you so much.

"I'm happy to be your grandpa, if you don't have one." Bless your soul. I miss my grandfather so much, and that sentiment brought tears to my eyes. 💚💚

Stuart! I love your paintings! So much depth!! So much beauty and drama!

Great painting. At the middle, I sawed you painted mass clouds and very nervous, worried you may failed this painting. Finally I saw you changed everything and learned loosely not stick painting, not repeat brush too much, et al. So good, thx.

Thank you. I really look forward to your videos. You make all things appear possible, and I have started to paint for the joy of painting. Really look forward to the next video, in the meantime I will be watching your others.

Thanks Stuart again for another painting lesson. I will watch them again and again. As you said repetition is how we learn.

Made my day to see your video. Always inspiring and I love your stories.

Thanks Stuart, another great video. The more l look at your work, the more l see a Constable cross Dutch old master style.

Sublime as usual, Stuart(by the way I follow you on FB as Wullie Hosie).You are an inspiration, Stuart. I love your Jeffrey story and I particularly loved your music at the end. Your videos are a joy. Keep it up Gramps.

I paint with acrylic, but I keep seeing your videos, and keep getting a lot of inspiration from them. Both from what you do, but also from your comments, while painting. Not to mention your extraordinary, calming voice and your sense of humor. It is therapeutic. So, I will keep seeing your videos, and look forward for the next one. Thank you for sharing!

Stunning. I could listen to you and watch all day.

How pleasing it is to watch and listen to your videos and as an upcoming artist myself, I find solace in your words and sentiments amidst the frustration of trying to do something worth the time I have. So, thank you.

I have been watching seriously long videos you have been posting. I learn loads. But you are so funny and make me giggle even during the 55th minute of hour long videos. Brilliantly holding attention. And love how my skies are beginning to look. Thanks.

So thrilled to get the notification bell for your newest upload. Thank you for sharing your talent and your stories.

Yes I agree your story telling ability is wonderful. You make me chuckle especially watching the cats tail wipe off the face of your portrait

Great video, as usual!!! Thanks for showing us your tools and, especially, how you prepare the plywood to be the perfect surfaces of your beautiful paintings. Grazie Maestro. Ciao from Italy 🎨👍😉

Thank you for sharing your awesome skill and interesting and humorous chatter. When I was much younger, I always started randomly and discovered my painting as I went. That was pushed away in art lessons, but you brought it back to my memory and I am very appreciative. I can’t wait until I start a new painting with your method and remember how much fun it was to create that way. So glad I found your channel!

Another enthralling edition, Stuart, thank you. Can you imagine, however, my frustration at the realisation of what I've done wrong with my own latest painting? In this case the 'flatness' you referred to. I have a large board on my easel, almost finished thought I. It is now fully dry, the skyscape, I think, rescuable - but the landscape will see my large brushes again and, maybe, again. It does, however, give me the opportunity to experiment again!

Love the way you scrape on clouds just at random I am learning such a lot & I can see great success in my painting. Thank you very much.Mr.Davis.

I'm an acrylic painter so I can't even do your technique...but I adore you and your paintings with your calming voice. You are simply mesmerizing! I look forward to your new videos. Thank you for sharing. ❤️

am 87 & have started to learn painting. what a great way to learn.Excellent lessons, techniques & stories Mr. Davies! I will be watching and HOPEFULLY send you my painting for comments.

This is great..im watching so many of your posts i don’t have any time leftover to paint.

Enjoyable video as always Stuart! Love watching you! God bless!

Your paintings are so gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your formula for a successful, lovely, piece of work!

Always glad to see a new one from you. I have clicked the bell to be sure I catch them all. Your main message is what I need most "Loosen up".

Now that was so informative. I paint as much as i can and your videos have been such a great help. Thanks. Looking foreward to the finished painting.

I absolutely love your paintings and your style, I'm inspired to paint now. Your art is very powerful, thank you.

I start with an idea and then paint. I do not sketch a painting I just start and fill it in. Your painting is wonderful. Thank you.

Absolutely amazing work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊I love it 😍

So many great advices! Love it and will plan to try it all.

Love your painting and the cat story, lol beautiful as always.

Stuart. Your painting techniques are awesome I am going to try this style of painting . Thank you again for sharing your great talent . love that music you are laying at the end. Also I love the cat!!!!

You make me wanna take the brushes ! I am gonna do it when I am in holidays in less than a month ! Thank you for your videos !

I am really enjoying your sense of humor. I’m 2:24 min in, & I absolutely love the finished painting w/ the reds in your trees, & the sunlight hitting the distant background. The colors in this one make this painting incredibly interesting to me.

I completely agree about your comment on the idea of painting in loose style. I think some of my best works were started and completed in one sitting. In fact some of them were finished in under 30 minutes.

I love your work , the explanation, your voice so relaxing is like you take us to the beautiful place that you are painting, thanks so much and God bless you :)

Even stormy clouds are made relaxing with our artist extraordinare.

Thank you so much for sharing your expertise! I always learn so much just from watching. I finally tried this style of painting this weekend. Can you do a video or give any tips on achieving perspective and depth? Especially in the sky. It’s difficult to make the sky look like it’s not flat behind the landscape if that makes sense.

Oh so beautiful already! Love your videos!

Hi I’m so glad to have watched you paint for the first time love your style and love your voice 🌺🌺🌺

I enjoy your videos so much!! Look forward to the next one!!!

Stunning! This painting method reminds me so much of one of my favourite painters of all time: - Joseph Mallord - William Turner I hope I did not offend you with that in any way... if so, my deepest apology. It´s just...that I´d recently visited a WilliamTurner exhibition here in germany, a week ago. It was a dream come true for me, as I wanted to see his paintings for so many years now. And be able to see 90 original paintings of him ( oil, watercolours and some sketchy ) was a rather impressive experience for me. Some of your paintings do remind me so much of him. You have a godsend talent and the ability to encourage others to start painting aswell. Thank you. Sincerely all the way from germany

I am new to painting with no training. I always drew. with pencil but wanted to paint.So now I am painting but I get frustrated with a section of the painting sometimes and the first time I just took paper towels and wiped that section off I thought I had made a mess of it but when I went on with painting over it ,it all turned out fine and I breathed a little easier and smiled and went on painting. I was afraid to admit that I had done this. But "no harm done , ahhh" now I know. Thanks.

great Stuart the master at work again

Rumour has it that Jeffery ended up as a set of "natural" brushes! Recycling at it's best. Great piece of work yet again. Thanks for sharing your process. Always appreciated, Stuart.

I really like the contrast of color and light and dark. Very well done! I have a hard time bringing the light into the dark or the dark into the light without having it look unnatural as you have done again. Also love the green in the sky, it looks so real.

What a lovely human you seem to be ❤️ an excellent artist as well!

Love it-very peaceful

Birthday and Christmas presents for grandpa love your sense of humour you'd need an extra large warehouse to store them keep up the good work and keep safe Stuart one of these days I will pluck up the courage to try this style of painting thank you again for your time and effort

I learned very much. Thanks for sharing. I'm happy to see your video. Today was a good day.

Wondeful picture & an amazing sky & lots more painting ideas from you. I've 2 cats and they always seem to want to gravitate towards my pallet 😀. That's such sound advice about starting with a mess, I do this all the time and it seems to produce some great brush strokes and colour combinations to get those ideas flowing. I'd love to see you paint some woodland & garden scenes sometime 🐈🌲🌱🌼

Beautiful video of a beautiful painting!

Find a painter that doesn't stand in front of their painting. You do a great job of teaching us online and I have no problem with anything you have done so far. Thank you.

I absolutely love the drama of this painting! I’m hoping you don’t take it too far! I have only just found you, so I’m not familiar yet with your completed work, but I’ll now be following with interest!

Inspiring as always. Always love the commentary. From a great grandma (but not finished yet!!!)

Saw your FB post today, & I was easily convinced I should watch this again. Should’ve been painting, so I told myself this was research 🧐

I love your amazing landscape paintings

Thanks so much for these fabulous video tutorials, I'm learning a lot!...

Thank you so much, Stuart!! There is so much valuable information here, that, yes, this will bear watching many times! It is wonderful that you are a grandpa figure to many. As I am your age, I will consider you an inspiring friend!😀😀😀

Fabulous work I love it all

Great advice on starting with a mess. Now I need to get brave and try it myself lol.

Fantastic!!!!

Lol :-) cat paw tracks on the painting - love it!!!

Splendid!!

Normally a portrait painter I find this so very helpful

I don't need a grandpa but you sure have a soothing and calm voice that makes me feel comfort... like being surrounded with a big hug. I love to paint! I am not good at it but I don't care it makes me feel good, I start with a mess and usually end with one too. No big deal just pull out an old canvas and start over again. It's not the end result that counts it's the doing. IMO

I SIMPLY LOVE YOUR VIDEOS..THANK YOU SO MUCH..LOVE FROM NEW ZEALAND.

Though your finished paintings are always stunning, I find myself really liking them at about 1/3 or halfway through, or even close to the beginning, when they are very monochromatic!

I’m really enjoying your process! Thank you for sharing your wisdom gained. Being a cat person, I could totally imagine your Geoffrey experience!

Superb Stuart, That was most enjoyable. Thank you.

Your work is inspirational!

I'm learning so much ❤️

game changer, ty for sharing

I do watch your vids over and over.😊

Wonderful work! I don't let my dog or cat in the studio anymore. They've never damaged a work, but fighting brush hairs is bad enough without having to deal with their fur!

Great sense of humour , paw prints with oil paint and gender confused cat ! Yes the most satisfying paintings are the ones done quickly ! Love the little stories just as much as the actual painting which has a fantastic sky , often it's the sky which holds the most interest ! So much good advice !

I just sit back and watch and learn. I am just amazed at how u go from a few large strokes and then paper towels , u finish with a beautiful painting. Thank you so much...I wish a had the money to come...and health...gotta a bad heart ❤️ cancer in the wings. But I can see u from here correct? Thank you sir for the lessons. I would love to sit, drink wine, and have some gr8 Brie, crackers and baguette 🥖mmmmm! That’s good for the heart...

Just brilliant skills .