Certainly One of my favorite, really gorgeous sweet picture of woman, looking so peaceful and natural and a beautiful style.

I don't know if you would see this comment? I appreciate your effort on trying to re-do Steve Hanks 's master piece!

Wow wonderful Artistik looks

So sad to learn Steve Hanks passed. Rest In Peace, Maestro of the light!

Henry, you are a fantastic artist!!! I’ve always loved Steve Hanks work. You are second to none!!! Tim

Wonderful demonstration Thanks

Such a gift. Such beauty. Rest In Peace. I’ll continue to treasure my beautiful work I’ve had in my bedroom over 30 years.

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

Wonderful vid. Master Hanks used burnt sienna and ultramarine blue a lot, the technique he achieved was with granulating pigments and often used washes up to 10 layers he was a master and his was amazingly beautiful. No stippling was used just mixed washes and let the colors granulate, he did try different boards but primarily used rough paper 425 gsm if I remember correctly.

I, too, have tried to repaint and learn Steve Hanks paintings. They are quite a challenge and tend to require enormous attention to detail. I have not tried the paintings on cold press paper. My attempts were all on hot press paper, working some wet on wet for skin tones. (I worked a lot wetter for the skin tones than you did, then added a little dryer layers. I might even try a stencil brush. I absolutely love his paintings and the transparency of his colors! For the background I wonder if he poured it to make the transitions smoother. I’d like to know how and where he uses masking fluid because I cannot work with it well for the whites in the hair.

Wonderful. अद्भुत कला.

Love it so much 💖

really enjoyed this video, you are very talented to. cant wait for the next video.

Amazing

Thank you for this video. Its so hard to find any information about how Steve hanks did such wonderful work with watercolour. Thanks for taking he time and effort to show your ideas on this. I'v become near on obsessed with finding out this is done lol

It´s amazing your video tutorial about Steve´s techinque. I wonder, if you find in the future, the more accurate aproach to Steve´s watercolor technique, please let us appreciate in another tutorial of yours. Thankyou.

In my opinion one of the best artists ever. From what I can gather he didn't use paper at all. He used a product called Ampersand Aquaboard or similar

Never heard of Steve Hanks before. OMG, what amazing work! I don't work in WC but his paintings are so inspiring! What book(s) do you have about him? BTW, your version is lovely, too! :-)

I have heard artists mention using just a dab of white gouache paint mixed in water color to gain more control & tighter borders.....Considering the skin tones & values, this could b a possibility.

what about my boy Andrew M. Kish for watercolor realism?

I think Steve was inspired by Hugh Hefner publications. No wonder he died from heart failure! You might be interested in an American artist named Bricher whose watercolours are outstanding.

Hummm.....