Rock & Woods Light Study in Watercolor and Gouache

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4 жыл бұрын

Studying how pools of light fall on objects, such as in a forest clearing, really captures my imagination. I touched on that effect in my fantasy painting video a couple weeks ago but now I'm yearning to do more. Join me as I do another study of this specific effect.
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@maryanharrell561 Жыл бұрын

I don't think I have ever told you how much I appreciate the scripture verses that you post with many of your videos, Steve. They mean so much to me. Thank you for everything you do!

@Soniru_ 2 жыл бұрын

uh, i found your channel waaaay too late (today). But I'm happy to have a million videos to watch now. I think I want to pick up watercolor again now, after kicking it to the curb furiously. Love your videos!

@maryanharrell5642 4 жыл бұрын

I want to go sit on that rock and listen to the birds and noises of the forest. What a great video, Steve! Happy Father's Day on Sunday, dear friend.

@denisec3131 3 ай бұрын

Stunning

@tessa6307 4 жыл бұрын

I hope you keep making these “fantasy” videos. They are so inspiring!

@daveaquilante4158 4 жыл бұрын

Your mastery of watercolor and gouache is excellent as are your understanding of light and darkness and the way you convey the direction of the lookers eye. Once again very well done Steve. Thank you.

@channelAkmal 4 жыл бұрын

That depth of highlight and shadow play, not in transparent and opaque medium is so engaging. The way you put them together is 😍😍😍😍

@raed3063 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial. You make the highlighting look so easy. Nicely done painting without a lot of effort.

@nickelazoyellow7360 4 жыл бұрын

It's fairly easy to make your own sketchbook with Artistico or Arches. I enjoy that as much as painting in them. This is a great series, thank you.

@Triples1480 4 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed the combinations of different mediums and also how the shadows came together.

@jodihigginsjh 4 жыл бұрын

You never disappoint! What a simple subject - yet you elevated it to a wonderful study of light. You kept taking it up a level. Adding the darks was great, then making the negative space lighter was amazing. Sometimes I think we can worry so much about overworking that there is a danger of being finished before it is done! Bravo.

@LanaGoesArt 4 жыл бұрын

I love to see how the fantasy pieces come together and the little adjustments in light at the end. Very inspiring. Thank you!

@cassiescreations9828 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, excellent light study! Honestly, at first, I didn't understand what you were after and I was a bit scared when you added the green all around the painting with the wide brush. The end result, however, is absolutely beautiful. Adding the light in between the trees in the center portion really helped round the piece out and it truly looks as if a ray of sunshine is focused directly upon that center area. Thanks, I learned a bunch. PS I hope your Father's Day is good!

@wizkidsvideos 4 жыл бұрын

Love the colors you used. Beautifully painted. I could watch and listen to you all day. ❤️❤️❤️

@donnalieblick8478 4 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous and fabulous. Always so generous of your time and talent. Thank you.

@purity2706 4 жыл бұрын

Just got my Steve Mitchell - Daniel Smith WC palette, so excited, thank you Steve for putting that together, I love the color choices!!

@ljc.youtube 4 жыл бұрын

love this series, thanks

@eileengoldenberg270 4 жыл бұрын

Great effect there! Thanks for showing this..

@christinegelormino5594 4 жыл бұрын

I love to watch how you build layers So much to be learned from this.

@AB-ye7bw 4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a background for an animated film. The old school hand painted type. Beautiful !

@twodogstudiomt 4 жыл бұрын

Love this! And really enjoy your work and your videos. Thank you!

@pinkflamingo5628 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice 🌺

@dkstudioart 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting blend of transparent and opaque, I might have to give gouache a try.

@melinapaints 4 жыл бұрын

I love this, it looks beautiful! I'd love to be able to combine watercolor and gouache this well, love the effect of the two of them together!

@lindacarroll4217 3 жыл бұрын

I can see Bambi walking out of there!

@admadmsuluboya4983 4 жыл бұрын

l love this painting 💗

@heidicook2395 4 жыл бұрын

To me this looks like forrest scenes i"be seen in Washington state. It is very beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

@maryf.1956 4 жыл бұрын

I’m gonna get me some gouache.

@susanbanks1234 4 жыл бұрын

Just watched a Roger Dean 2002 documentary on KZfaq, really interesting seeing his work on Yes and other LP covers. Love his work, and your work goes without saying. Thank you for these videos.

@catherinelevison3310 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice. I’ve been in the forests observing the light through the tall trees as the sun goes lower in the sky toward evening and wondering how to capture that. I also seek out teaching on Gouache often. Thank you!

@sphilbrick8867 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Steve, My Steve Mitchell palette arrived today. I are very excited. We also purchased the Wet Palette paper sampler. Can you consider doing a video testing the various papers and their strengths and weaknesses. It is a fascinating assortment of papers including yupo, 300, 200 and 140lb papers, black and tinted paper... I would love to know more about how to use each of them so we could order more in time. Thank you.

@lvmylord54 4 жыл бұрын

Don't know how you got 2 thumbs down. I'd like to be able to paint even a third of how well you do.

@lynnfargo4094 4 жыл бұрын

The eBay guy that makes the sketchbooks is ran2424. He makes them with Arches or Fabriano 140 pound. I love these sketchbooks!

@judithf9297 4 жыл бұрын

Another great tutorial and video,Steve! I finally got your Daniel Smith palette from the second round. They are beautiful. I want to complete the set and I hope you don’t mind, can ask with the existing set what colors would you recommend in your opinion. This is my first Daniel Smith, I have Roman Szmal,they are very nice, I have a complete palette, they come in full pan. I actually do coloring existing line art. Mostly botanical, flowers also some animals and portraits. Right now I am looking only for half pans, I noticed DS doesn’t have a big selection in that,mostly tubes and sticks. But if not DS I would use Schminke, I just don’t know if their half pans would fit in the DS palette? Would app your input. Thanks!

@jillbartos8893 3 жыл бұрын

This was really helpful Steve, watching how you use both watercolor and gouache in a painting. I've recently starting playing with gouache and after seeing your palette, I like the idea of watercolors on one side and gouache on the other. Does the M Graham gouache crack less than others and/or do you have to spray it periodically to keep it from cracking and falling out of the pans?

@mindofwatercolor 3 жыл бұрын

It does tend to keep from cracking as much. It still cracks though.

@pattycyr8662 4 жыл бұрын

It's interesting to watch how you go about painting this. I like the uniqueness of color and values. I'm curious what colors are on the top rock. I am guessing various tones of sepia, burnt umber???

@mindofwatercolor 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, some sepia, venetian red and even blues and greens in places.

@tarakate4925 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video! I am learning so much from these little studies. Regarding the gouache palette, are the colors listed in the half-pan set on Amazon the ones you’re using? And special thanks for the verse at the end. ✨

@mindofwatercolor 4 жыл бұрын

Some. Those are the transparent watercolor ones.

@larrygrenier621 Жыл бұрын

Loved this, thanks. If I may ask; I own a bunch of acrylic paints, can I use acrylics in the same way as you're using gouache?

@mindofwatercolor Жыл бұрын

Yes. They don't rewet of course but otherwise they would work fine.

@larrygrenier621 Жыл бұрын

@@mindofwatercolor Thanks

@maryellendwyer3099 4 жыл бұрын

Which brush is that round?

@megperry5586 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for another great lesson. Would mixing white guache to watercolors give a similar effect?

@mindofwatercolor 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, absolutely. Thats what I'm doing in some of this too.

@megperry5586 4 жыл бұрын

@@mindofwatercolor thank you!

@Engelhafen 4 жыл бұрын

Should the rock shadows be darker than the background tree shadows?

@loiscox2754 4 жыл бұрын

What colors did you use for this?

@silvertales 4 жыл бұрын

You put your gouache in pans... how do you keep them from cracking and the paint popping out?

@sujanithtottempudi2991 4 жыл бұрын

Same painting....how would one do without gouache?

@akshayasiddavatam1544 3 жыл бұрын

Could you also teach us to draw this

@plove523 4 жыл бұрын

It looks like I could just go sit on that rock and rest a bit.

@widishaagarwalla2193 4 жыл бұрын

Can we have live sessions with you?

@mindofwatercolor 4 жыл бұрын

No, sorry. Not something I’m doing right now.

@oiram42 4 жыл бұрын

hi steve i like your work i have a question i see on your videos you use daniel smith and you like them te most i wonder if you ever used isaro watercoller paint this is the link www.isaro.be/shop/gb/ kind regards

@mindofwatercolor 4 жыл бұрын

No, not familiar.

@oiram42 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Steve I Wil send them the link to your Chanel of you tube so they can see what a good artist you are and ask them to send you som samples they are a Belgium smal compani artisonal I bouth the brushes you testet on your you tube page the black velvets and like you said there are very good kind regards mario