Wow! Beautiful and inspiring. 🙏

Never seen spontaneous painting I absolutely enjoyed your tutorial and you are an excellent teacher you also make it interesting throughout your class thank you so very much for sharing your expertise ❤️

Love this technique! I’m hooked. Gets me going fast with not having to procrastinate with thinking too hard and just letting go of the control!

What a wonderful series, learning so much!! Thank you, Steve!! And Strathmore!

It’s a bit of magic to inspire me on this Sunday morning! Thank you…again..Steve! You are a clear and patient instructor and a wonderful artist.

Oh my goodness! When you laid down the first wash, I couldn't imagine what would appear as you progressed. This is fantastic! It makes me think of forests, canyons, and water. I realize that it's best to relax, take your time and let it flow!

I have watched all of you spontaneous videos and STILL, every time , I learn something new!! You have helped me advance in watercolor SO MUCH over the last 4 years Steve, thank you from the bottom of my heart! Through painting I've been able to get over some very difficult times and you’ve been there at every point, like a guiding light, encouraging and helping me overcome! You’re an amazing person, an inspirational and talented artist, and i hope you know you’re not just helping people paint, you’re doing much more! Thanks and never stop!

Thank you for detailed explanation of this amazing technique

You are a great teacher 💞

Love to see what your mind has created using these beautiful colours! Just awesome ❤

This is stunning . I saw a castle on a hill then a thicket of trees in a forest . Your painting is ethereal I love this technique .

Thanks so much! I learnt a lot from this video.

Early on, I was seeing a St. Bernard face. I absolutely love the trees and the contrast and the softness. Nice work, sir.

Just lovely.

I so enjoyed this video! Thank you so much!

I'm just loving this technique! Thank you!

Yippee I found you teaching!

Simply stunning piece Steve! It’s completely inspiring!

These lessons have been so cool to watch ☺☺

I really loved the outcome. It's amazing how a few marks can show a whole new light to an area. I was thinking where would I mark - I had the waterfall and a mountain behind those fir trees. Can't wait to play and see if I can get something on my paper

Thanks! Can't wait to try spontaneous. New subscriber here.

Just wonderful! You are a great teacher- thank you 🎉

Hello Steve, My name is Christine I just wanted to introduce myself to you and more than likely write you a short novel.😅 I want to thank you so much for sharing your spontaneous watercolor landscaping artwork with us. I absolutely love watching your videos! I love working with wet on wet or dry paper with wet, wet paint (carefully)😅 I do use Strathmore watercolor paper I would like to start using 100% cotton paper also, I would like to start using the Princeton brushes or whatever good brushes I can afford. I’m 62, I think I can re-up my game with finer paper and brushes. I know I’ll become more free and more creative. A lil info about me🙃😉At one time in my life, at a a very young age, I worked as a baker. I would work overnights at my Dad’s bakery. (A small fun fact.) My father would pick up my brothers and I at 11p.m. after an awesome concert and then go straight to work at the bakery.😎 I also was a graphic designer a screen printer and a phlebotomist. Point being, production is my middle name.😉 So, all of my work had to be fined detailed. I certainly didn’t mind that. Then I discovered abstract 😮 colors too??? The joke that goes around is “What is an abstract?”😂 whatever you want it to be. Just thinking out of the box, being creative and most of all happy. So, I was used to angles and rulers. I also said often “ I feel like I’m cheating .” But soon discovered that my abstract painting was literally detailed 😅 I can be a stickler when it comes to artwork. As some artists are. It took yrs. before I allowed myself some freedom. Watercolor isn’t easy. But I do love painting the feathers on a bird, or paint a rock or brick. I absolutely love trees.I can draw or paint trees in detail or abstracty. Seascapes, birds and so much more - not so much. I’d like to have more freedom. I know that my creativity is within. And so lots of practice is about to happen with me with the help of you and others.😊 I do use acrylics on lrg canvases with lots of water. Hahaha I never squeezed the bottom of the bristle of the brush so the paint can drop paint blobs 😉What a fun idea! I just got back into painting. I am truly looking forward in working with you☀️🎉 I told you this was going to be a short novel😅 God Bless and Thank you Steve My son’s name is Steve-okay! Enough already!😅

Wow I love this!! Thank you for a lovely Mother’s Day painting ❤. I know this wasn’t put out today but this is when I had a chance to watch and it’s magical❤❤❤. Happy Mother’s Day to your wife!!

Beautiful Steve! Thanks ! 👍🙂

Thank you for these lessons! They are excellent for helping me as a new watercolorist! I really appreciate the time you are taking to explain in detail each step. ❤

Love this ideals of water colours. Wonderful

Beautiful!! Thanks for the class!

Love it. Thanks.

this is breathtaking as usual. Thank you so much , we are lucky to learn from you✨

Steve, you are an excellent teacher! Like your stating that you don’t really know will develop, I have a great imagination so I will put it to work when I try this piece on my own. Thank you.

Thats beautiful

I was happy when you decided on the waterfall. I love how you detailed it out. I would have struggled with that. Fun to watch and I’d love to try it. I don’t feel like I could muster enough creativity to be able to finish.

That is beautiful.

Steve you are amazing! Absolutely beautiful!

Beautiful painting, thank you 😊

I love your spontaneous paintings. I’m so happy you saw a waterfall too and how you brought it together. Thank you ♥️

I'm speechless!!! ❤

Thank you.

Excellent! I have watched you some time back for awhile. You are such a good teacher.

Absolutely beautiful!

Would love to see what you didn’t think turned out.

Awersome!

Thanks for the video, Steve.

Absolutely love your finished painting, simply beautiful. Painted along and loved every second of it! Thank you.

WONDERFUL!😀

I am a beginner with water colour and I cant wait to try this style!

Gorgeous 😍

This was awesome! I love doing these!

Thank you for sharing your skills. I love the way this turned out. It is so nice to learn in a relaxing atmosphere. I'm happy that I found you today.

Excelente gracias 🙋‍♂️🇦🇷

Love it soooo much!!!! ❤ Thanks a lot!

❤ beautiful painting and makes us feel to have a try ... thank you so much for sharing this with us 😊

I have been thinking painting for many years and lost my Inspiration. No matter what I did I couldn’t produce a good painting. I caught your video of n Pinterest and found new stuff inspiration. Thank you!

I love that so much. I can't wait to experiment.

The white space in the very middle looks like a small waterfall to me.😊Edit…..Just read earlier comments……others see it too!

I have been wanting to do something like this on a daily basis. Thanks for the video. It gave me a good start. I see a clear path of dark color, a clear path of light color and pattern before you started. Great painting!

That's OK. I will try it. Thankyou

I'm really enjoying this series. Watercolor is so intimidating for me, but this style seems to be much less so. I've got to give this technique a try. Thank you for sharing your time and talent! :)

Such an opportunity to see this. I wish you had shared just which colors were mixed to do the trees that were added on after you did the initial ‘free’ background.

I like your subscribe pillow its effective but not agressive

awesome

Im new to watercolor. Your works wows and inspires me. I even tried a couple spontaneous paintings. I don't know if I can post them here. Fun though. And I'll be doing more for sure. Thanks for you guidance.

Hullo Steve I do enjoy watching you do this creation of this spontaneous paintings. Now I have tried this a time or six, buy I just never get as good of results as you get time after time! Now I suppose that you would not post results that are a total flop, would you? Now I do not have MaimeriBlu paints, but I have QoR to DaVinci paints and even a few oddball brands in between! So I do not believe it is my paint choices. Yes my paper is 100% cotton and I even purchased a few sheets of Strathmore just in case that was my problem. I just need to relax and accept what comes. I hope I will get a few better results as I go forward and I have tried this technique several times over the last 10 years, so it is not something I have tried once and given up on, :::::sigh:::: Thanks Steve I will try to relax and just watch you work and try another attempt maybe later this month! Thanks. Please keep them coming, well I guess we got 2 more in this series coming, right? Right! See ya down the line.

Before you started the dark area looked like a castle.

That is so vool

Hi, I just tried working the spontaneous painting, i was hoping to be able to send you the photo of my spontaneous painting, but I can’t figure it out. Sorry! But I want to Thank you so much for your teachings 💝🎨

Seems like the first method (wet-on-wet) can end up being lighter because it uses more water and would be good as a first layer. The second method can be more intense because it can use less water and could also work as a second layer.

Beautiful first layer. I would have messed up the rest…

What size is oval wash brush?

Watercolor painting and "spontaneous" painting has shown me how anal I really am. Lol