Painting a Dramatic Townscape in Watercolor

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2 жыл бұрын

James Gurney paints a row of townhouses in Hudson, New York, emphasizing contrasts between light vs. dark, warm vs. cool, wet vs. dry, large vs. small, Georgian vs. Gothic.
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Пікірлер: 56

@younno4910 2 жыл бұрын

hi James, please keep making content. your work has inspired me so much. I'm a corporate 9-5 worker and i'm deeply stressed out over the lack of feeling of control in my life. I have a passion for art but my busy schedule keeps me from doing studies, i want to do art and i desperately wanted to learn, but i am not able to right now because i need to do corporate jobs to live (plus, whenever i do have time, i always feel like i need to rest my body and ended up not doing anything on the weekends/after work). every time i tuned in to your video i feel like i have regained some sense of control over what i do with my time, and it has helped me when i try to focus on painting. thank you for your work

@michaeljap 2 жыл бұрын

Mr. Gurney was here: 411+Union+St,+Hudson,+NY+12534. 360° view via streetmap. Just beside the telephone pole. 😃

@julielevasseur7391 2 жыл бұрын

Love your work. Everything you do seems magical. I'm drawn to your style and the process seems to click with me. Always glad when another video comes out.

@LoveBystroem 2 жыл бұрын

First, yay I love this Ps: just have to say how big of an influence you are to me at this point in my life. Two years ago I was dabbeling with japanese markers every now and then and this summer I might go train hopping with my plein-air kit just drinking in the visual of the world.

@thuggy1 2 жыл бұрын

When I click on a new video of yours, it is like opening a treasure!

@jeofthevirtuoussand Жыл бұрын

I love the settle exaggeration of the color

@estreptover 2 жыл бұрын

watercolors are incredible...it seems like magic the way you put those colors and then...suddenly you have an incredible scene

@nerfherder4284 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy the environmental noise of traffic and birds while you paint.

@Brionkendo 2 жыл бұрын

Yay more watercolor videos please! I love watercolor in the wild. Thanks for this one. Your videos inspire me to get back at it. I'd love a watercolor video where you have every painted detail on film and maybe speedit up a little? I like to see how you get to the finished product.

@steamedhamlet 2 жыл бұрын

I always keep an eye out for Mr. Gurney when I'm out and about. And keep missing him! I was in Hudson not long ago. Same with when he came to the city a couple of times... I still have high hopes though! Hopefully I'll be able to contain my excitement and not freak him out!

@twycross3 2 жыл бұрын

I would love to be on site with him and chat over a painting!! WOW what a privilege!!

@kishascape Жыл бұрын

@@twycross3 That would be annoying asf to be honest. You see someone doing plein air leave them the heck alone and don't act like an annoyting autist.

@davidhornbeck2970 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the inspiration, I’m trying to paint smaller. It’s not as easy as you make it look,

@valerieannshort7109 2 жыл бұрын

This painting is so beautiful!!!

@DannySabraArt 2 жыл бұрын

really beautiful sketch. cool to see the juxtaposition of shapes, values and temperatures and how those all build a great scene! I really enjoyed when the ink lines came in at the end.

@Suzq21678 2 жыл бұрын

You are so amazing!

@elizavetafedotova755 2 жыл бұрын

This is magic

@SC4RArt 2 жыл бұрын

Your artwork is so good!!! Amazing Work, Thumbs up! 👏👏👏

@gourishankarsubramanian9677 Жыл бұрын

Nice and simple. Well executed

@mustardsauce5201 2 жыл бұрын

u know, i read about you in school? last year,, there was testing and it was about Kinkade and it mentioned u and i thought, oh yeah his paleoart is great. i was so exited!

@JiveDadson 2 жыл бұрын

Why were you learning about Kinkade? Was it a business school?

@R_H21 2 жыл бұрын

I always love the colors that you use. I think learning technical skills are much easier than learning to choose the right colors….. it’s more intuition, I guess? I can see light and shadows but there’s something about knowing the right color combinations that I can’t explain.

@misa_marcus1953 2 жыл бұрын

You are my favorite artist of all time.

@Zanddhor 2 жыл бұрын

Oh I really like that! Thanks James! A great example of warm & cool for your next book 😊

@artgeometrix6346 2 жыл бұрын

This is a truly fantastic painting here. Awesome.

@yunzers 2 жыл бұрын

Really great. Thanks

@ravengreen6926 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible how the atmosphere of it came together at the end! I've only worked with watercolor once or twice but I like how surprisingly "bright" it can make a painting feel.

@marwingilboy2930 2 жыл бұрын

wow beautiful love the color

@catherinecervas3726 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you James!

@hildegardkhelfa5358 2 жыл бұрын

So very beautiful and well done! Thank you for sharing your art.

@kanukkarhu 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing talent. Amazing channel. 👍🏻🇨🇦

@ruthwilliams9882 2 жыл бұрын

I wish you'd do more with watercolor! What you do is beautiful!

@sid5255 2 жыл бұрын

Need a painting done at night. I love all of your paintings and have watched most of your videos. There are videos where you paint at dawn and at dusk, rain and a clear day but a there is no painting you did in the night time. I would love to see how artificial lights, street lamps have their effects on the painting. And what kind of tones and colours would be used in that case.

@Imagina1mundo 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@saduikis 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@Tat2TankT 2 жыл бұрын

Great as always bro thanks for sharing

@MrSERENA1984 2 жыл бұрын

Magnifico.. Maestro I suoi dipinti sono emozionanti.. Saluti dall'Italia..

@nataindigo7007 2 жыл бұрын

Hai james. Nice to see you again here. Regard from Jakarta, Indonesie

@user-xj1ql3up2x 2 жыл бұрын

Спасибо большое 💯👍

@pidipietro 2 жыл бұрын

Hello! I love your drawings! ... today I was with my family in Venice .. sooner or later we would like to see your drawing of Venice! Hello from Italy

@dgib1694 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this nice video. I wonder what motivates your choice of watercolor or gouache on a specific day? Is it the time you have at hand?

@sugaryxegnirys 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely video! The composition is a fun choice. I don’t think I’ve seen you use the fountain pen with brown ink before and that’s a curious choice that I’d like to try out soon!

@h.orrore 2 жыл бұрын

I know exactly where this is, I live near Hudson. You're sitting right by the post office haha. Great work as always.

@JamesGurney 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you got it. Looking down E. Court St. next to Washington Park.

@CharleneTaylor-kz8lz 3 ай бұрын

Hi they nice

@hahasounds 6 ай бұрын

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

@omegasalmonfish 2 жыл бұрын

That’s a beautiful subject. Too bad you had to rush but still a great result

@socratesthecabdriver 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🌊🔱🌪️🌪️🌪️

@R_H21 2 жыл бұрын

I noticed you painted the windows after you painted the dark wall in shadow….. how did you get the blue to show, did you use white guouache or some opaique blue?