I'm in love with watercolours

Thanks Stefan!!! 2 videos in one week is a great delight. I always learn new things from your videos, but nothing matches your coaching. With coaching, you identify what I need to correct and you are the first person I ever met who challenged me more than I challenge myself. On a few occasions, I even surprised you. End result, after 2 years of painting on my own using a variety of videos including yours, I made more progress in the first few months working with you than I made in the 2 previous years. That said, I am definitely struggling with my current works. But they are far above and beyond what I thought I could do, and you always know exactly where I am running amok and point me in the right direction. I can't thank you enough. Keep up the great work, it is deeply appreciated.

I'm was so happy when u said u would help me w the phone/text coaching, and gave me such a positive, excitement and a furture I couldnt believeit. It feels like I'm reborn with painting again. Thank u.

Thank you Stephan Baumann May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back, and may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Watercolors are a beautiful medium, tricky to manage at first, but well worth the effort! I've seen some gorgeous watercolors that were absolutely mesmerizing! And yes, very exciting! In the end, the medium doesn't matter, it's the master utilizing it, expressing his/her vision to their grandest version of their most amazing vision. Thank you for your inspiration and guidance. Hugs!

Great video's . I went to a Bateman show, several years ago and experienced exactly what you are talking about. Most his paintings were Acrylic, but there were about 3 or 4 oils. Man they popped with colour. Such a big difference. For some topics (dull/muted landscapes) it doesn't matter, but some topics with vibrant colour - big difference.

Hey Stefan I got my hands on a copy of Joseph Shappards "How to paint like the old masters" & omg it's everything & details everything ur taking about making all ur stuff from glues to resins to gesso. Then the techniques of the masters what they used and how they did it. As a ranked Noob even known about it and heard talks like urs but even for me it's a handful. I know I'll definitely get there but the technique I don't really know how to why just the masters did it that way. U changed my view insanely and turned me into a decent paint in 3months I can't imagine what 6 month's will be like, I feel the book will help then. 👍

Funny thing about "acrylics"... acrylics was my medium for 20+ years... and one of the big things I learned was about what house paint "is", latex is not anything other than acrylic. The term "latex" refers to the 20s and 30s when rubbers were combined into pigment and used as coatings, however, this was short lived and changed when acrylics came onto the scene in the 40's and were labeled as "latex" brand as marketing of the previous house paints. The fundamental difference between latex and oil paints is the use of different carriers and binders. The carrier is the liquid that evaporates, leaving behind a layer of binder and pigment. In latex paint the carrier is typically water with glycols or glycol ethers as a solvent. This is what most modern acrylics evolved from. The main difference between a typical house paint and an artist brand paint is the base, house paint is made by adding pigment dye to one of three bases, (deepbase, a dark grey, midtone or middle grey, and a white base) these three bases combined with various pigment dyes give all the colors anyone could desire. However, none of these will thin or spread the same as an artist acrylic, because of the base. They need an acrylic medium to thin them, so the white base will not wash out the colors. Knowing that, anyone can use "latex house paint" to create wonderful paintings for less than half the cost of what artists acrylics do. I switched to oils because of the reasons mentioned here by Stefan, pigments carried in oils are suspended, and pigments in acrylics lay flat, causing the light to bounce differently inside each layer of paint. This is a fundamental difference of the two mediums and can be a flaw of oils when the attempt to replicate a paintings effect when it comes to print making. A photo take only the color and flat value of the light leaving the surface of the painting, where as the painting itself will have a glow that cannot translate into the flatness of the print, and often falls dull as a result. With acrylics, pretty much what you see is what you get, and this, while being more true to form when copying, there are effects of light which are not present and many say leave the acrylics less impactful to the viewer.

Always a pleasure to watch your videos, there’s so much to learn

It's been wild to watch this channel grow slowly but surely. Keep up the amazing work man :V

What an excellent video, these are coming out great. Keep it up!

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Manganese blue plus Hansa yellow makes Yowsa green, which if painted on a piece of wood with fishhooks in it is guaranteed to catch bass!

Thanks 🙏

Always great to watch your videos and learn. I wish your student in the background would stop commenting over your lecture every three seconds though

I have never heard about cool and warm version of primary colors

Thanks Stefan, how do you feel about Payne's grey? I have "mixed" feelings myself, pardon the pun!

Where do I find the Student Paintings on the website?

Czechoslovakia?

If you're not interested in watercolour skip forward 17 minutes

Stefan, you've aged like a fine wine, js