Spice Up Your Line in Line and Wash Watercolor Paintings! Two Demos.

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6 ай бұрын

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Line and wash watercolor can be such a great staple in your tool box. It's fun to explore how that line can be expressed and made more organic which is exactly what we'll do in this video.
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@janebexton1180 6 ай бұрын

Hi Steve. I'm an old retired commercial artist who worked primarily in black and white, thus the world of color is like a foreign country with a new language. I can't tell you how much I enjoy and appreciate your generousity with all your knowledge. I am also so pleased with your bible verses. God Bless. Jane

@valeriemckay7064 2 ай бұрын

The picture on the right looks like a stand of tamaracks as they are turning golden, my favorites.

@bleuvertetforetdepin7308 6 ай бұрын

that little peak through in your sketchbook is a real treat .

@davidlavelle70 6 ай бұрын

I love how you revealed those joyful studies in your sketchbook, a quick peek into hidden treasures. Wonderful.

@ju2425 Ай бұрын

Thanks for showing us how you do these spontaneous watercolor works! Love them!!

@mendyhand3895 6 ай бұрын

And this is why we don’t need a thousand little half pans of water color lying around. Simplicity with ink and a stick! Thx Steve! 👍🙏🏻🎨🖌

@katemcallister2403 6 ай бұрын

Steve, I have followed your MOW channel for a while. I love how you teach and talk about what you are doing, what not to do, when to allow things to dry, techniques you are using, etc. You don’t assume the listener has a ton of prior knowledge to draw from. I particularly love the spontaneous/organic landscapes. I also enjoy your sense of humor, the speech bubbles that pop up during a video, and Mr. Skull 😁

@meryle.hawkins880 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this extremely inspiring video. I am very grateful

@barbaraklein4958 Күн бұрын

I love this. Thank you for sharing.

@WandaMartingaga 3 ай бұрын

I liked everything.. my sketchbook bleeds through page:( I’m a newby at 83 and blind in one eye 😱😂

@ridingmom700 5 ай бұрын

Hey Steve, during Watercolor Live Joe Miller’s granddaughter did a really nice presentation about some of Joes favorite things. She shared about how he would put Velcro on the back of a palette knife for foliage. They even sold them in the store for a time. I just tried it and it’s brilliant! Amazing textures. The fuzzy side. I thought of you and your wonderful demo. Thanks again!

@calayajwilliams6567 6 ай бұрын

as yr come & go, Steve never fails to keep all things watercolor fresh & fun, not just spontaneous, which I am still practicing. It is NOT funny how old fingers keep changing.

@santanainspirartes 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@melodycrites3145 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful! Enjoyed watching this. But I am not at this level!

@Nathalieroy2624 6 ай бұрын

Wow that sketchbook is full of treasures!

@kathysampson826 5 ай бұрын

Hi, Steve your video is great! Just must try your idea asap. Thank you so much!

@deborahcorreale352 6 ай бұрын

Liked that small peek into your sketch book all the small thumbnails!! This was really interesting to see you experiment with different supplies and you explaining as you painted.

@janicerobinson5286 6 ай бұрын

Hi Steve, I’m your neighbor down the hill from you in G’ville.😊 This video opened some doors for me, too. I’d forgotten about my non-soluble media. 🤓 And I’ve loved neutral colors for a long time. Really appreciate you showing the paper(?) tool to make marks…I’ve not done that. Thank you!! 👏👏

@mindofwatercolor 6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@carolhestand2561 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, different tools, lines, like the one on left best, the stopped brush stroke unique. Liked the music reminds of the tv show kung fu

@catherinelevison3310 6 ай бұрын

I see what you did there with that verse. You’re the king of spontaneity and yet your style keeps coming through.

@user-gt8oj1bc2z 4 ай бұрын

Wow! I'm impressed by your sketchbook alone! Wow! I love how you create such beauty with so much less "work" to it. There's something "simplistic" (in a great way) to this technique.

@dianeknott3655 6 ай бұрын

Thanks, Steve, for the stick idea! These two paintings are sheer magic. Loved watching the entire process, as always!

@MDCampbell 6 ай бұрын

I'm curious if you've seen, yourself, how dramatic your style has shifted over time? You seem to be on an expressive journey and using your brush as a machete to forge yourself a path that is truly unique to you. It's wild to have seen this "you" emerge over the past few years and really explore the medium with your passion to test and play, always in a forward direction. Congratulations on your journey, Steve. It's inspiring as both an artist and a friend. Thanks for both of those! Cheers and a great video! Love this one! ~ Mark

@mindofwatercolor 6 ай бұрын

I have actually. Thanks for noticing. I think the best characterization for me is that I like adding new tools to my toolbox and sometimes that results in expressive almost abstract exploratory work. My love for realism has not diminished but I've just been on a path to explore how to integrate the two. Thanks for the look and comments Mark!

@biancathomas7934 4 ай бұрын

These are amazing. You reminded me of the sort of play I used to do as a teenager using paper to pull out the marks and seeing what image I could make from line. It's very inspiring to me to have a go at things I've stopped doing. Beautiful pictures, Steve 😊

@berolinastrassmann 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for these wonderful paintings. Simplicity really brings the composition forward.

@carolatchley3797 6 ай бұрын

Your comment about leaving things vague to act as a suggestion was timely for me. Shortly before that (at 12:13) my mind had filled in the second line painting and I was already seeing a sand dune with sea grasses and vines. I know ocean scenes are not your focus, but for a moment there... Anyway, loved this. Thanks again.

@mindofwatercolor 6 ай бұрын

You bet! Thanks Carol.

@michellebryant5577 5 ай бұрын

Steve thank you for sharing your videos! I must take the opportunity to tell you, the are the best watercolor artist I've ever seen! Your work is the best of the best. No matter what you paint it looks like I've walked outside and seen the trees in your paintings!!! YOU ARE THE BEST!!!! ❤

@mindofwatercolor 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

@rachelkimball312 5 ай бұрын

I love them both but the one on the right is especially pleasing to me. Love your channel.

@delicatesseract 6 ай бұрын

Still watching but I had to pause to tell you that I love how the first two are meant to roughly suggest forest scenes but they also make me think of far-off castles looming in the distance. Fantasy landscapes are my favorite, thank you. 🥳☺

@mchris1020 6 ай бұрын

I appreciate the variety of painting products you introduce on your videos. Always a beautiful result. Thank you

@carolhestand2561 5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@mindofwatercolor 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the support! And for watching.

@HeroicLeigh 5 ай бұрын

I wonder if you could do a deeper dive into how to do the initial splash of colors without them muddying? That seems to be my biggest struggle: keeping the colors their own while still getting interesting shapes.

@richardsemione7012 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your channel. You are sparking a lot of creative ideas and inspiring future artwork. Thanks for showing your techniques and the hands-on methods for progression in skills. The Scriptures you show at the end, show your appreciation of the eternal values of truth and creativeness which is also seen in your art expressions stemming from of the beauty of the Creator's hand. Your use of the skull, Reese, shows the existential contrast of life and death without the spark of life that proceeds from God without saying a word about it. It's a great use of irony.

@felicagriswold7276 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. I’m new to watercolor and need all the education I can get! Your sketchbook holds a lot of treasures, like looking in the window of a candy store.

@nancymckay7691 6 ай бұрын

Perfect timing as I have started exploring line and wash in my own art. I would like to see one of your line and wash pieces in a larger format to see how this type of work holds up at a larger scale - 1/4 or 1/2 sheet perhaps.

@bluebiegrace1828 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your talent, Steve. I enjoy your process. Hopefully, I can gingerly apply them onto my work too. Happy painting!!

@kmeyersvt 6 ай бұрын

I adore those artgraf cubes, such yummy texture and fun effects when you wet it.

@HB-ir5ov 3 ай бұрын

PI know this bit weird but sees a hippo on the right side of the painting on the left. I think it's super cute especially because it's unintended or perhaps I am just a little weird.😵‍💫

@gaylecewpie5012 5 ай бұрын

Hello Steve, Just gorgeous on the right you did such an awesome job with that paint that so easily wets up and smears. I'm amazed! The other one is also beautiful thank you for share your expertise with all of us.

@pjlewisful 6 ай бұрын

I love how you come in during the painting to explain little art tips. That Irish sounding music is nice.

@bythesea760 6 ай бұрын

Sooo awesome, Steve! TY for sharing your successful experiments. Well done!😊

@user-tg8wh7uz3j 6 ай бұрын

So glad, always, to watch and study Steve's KZfaqs. Steve, your talent, humor, voiceovers as you work, each and all are inordinately enlightening and encouraging. When you work in time lapse with music though, I find that I'd much prefer hearing the sound of brush, of ink, of pencil, of whatever tool you are using, along with the sound of the movement of brush or pencil or other tool as each is moved from palette or drawing table to work in progress and back, and even of the removal of tape from around a journal or larger piece. Such would illuminate much and deepen insight into the process. For thence, when I am alone working on a piece....I feel connected more with the artistic process - technically and spontaneity-wise. Thank you, Steve.

@lola71125 6 ай бұрын

Love to watch you paint 👍👏

@ChericeByler 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely loved this!!

@Nathalieroy2624 6 ай бұрын

Really cool! ❤

@user-sd2jb1gg4w 6 ай бұрын

I really like your approach to line and wash. Thank you for the instruction!

@chiarasola826 6 ай бұрын

Gorgeous ✨

@ChantelleArts 6 ай бұрын

I'd love to try that heavy arches paper one day, it's just so expensive unfortunately

@followyourbrush 6 ай бұрын

BYW - What a brilliant idea to cover the other areas from splatter etc. Oh how I "miss" the most obvious solutions! LOL. Great video, third time watching.

@mindofwatercolor 6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@BornAgainFarmGirl 6 ай бұрын

Wonderful inspiration Steve !

@karenturner-cf7vq 6 ай бұрын

I am going to have a go at similar pictures, on that scale, learning from your demonstration is quite good. Thankyou

@patsymccown2766 6 ай бұрын

Great tutorial!!

@petesuchon7340 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video.

@eldridschafer7155 6 ай бұрын

Love these I’m moving but as soon as I can I’m going to work on new inks thanks

@OmegaRainbow 6 ай бұрын

❤

@bxmarz8748 6 ай бұрын

Much coolness😂 I love my artgraf but I use them like a pan not as a sketching tool, I didn’t like the texture pickup on the paper because if you try doing a wash after that it never blends out. I think the artgrafs have an oil binder as if you layer it enough it becomes hard to put anything else over the top as it has an oily finish in thick layers. The brights are beautiful and rich, especially the red.

@moonchaserstudio 5 ай бұрын

Do you ever do live art programs in the USA? I’d love to attend a class of yours. I would love to watch you work and learn from you.

@tinakoyama8258 6 ай бұрын

These are fascinating explorations! I have those ArtGraf "tailor shape" blocks, but I've only used them like pan watercolors. I will get them out to try some line drawing with them!

@7409gigi 5 ай бұрын

Forgive me for the random question 🤪 What is the title of the music you were playing? You have the best background music and through you I have discovered some new to listen to while painting! TIA

@bethjames1088 4 ай бұрын

Hello Steve, I enjoy all of your art lessons. Would you take a quick look at a piece I'm working on?

@VictorianStudio 6 ай бұрын

Love all that you do, thank you Steve - but especially loved that card technique. Will be adding that to my tools...

@eileengoldenberg270 6 ай бұрын

Great demo , Steve!

@annnoyez 6 ай бұрын

That is fantastic... thank you for your explanation... gonna try to make some watercolorpaintings starting with these lines... love it... it sounds like fun... QUESTION: it has nothing to do with your painting 😊... the last piece of music, a kind of traditional Japanese/Chinese music. It moved me for some reason. I looked up the link you gave, but couldn't find that last piece you use. Is it possible to give a title, composer, or something that I can find it? Thank you I very much... ❤❤❤