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Alison Watt
Canada
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2012
Demos and videos on learning to paint in watercolour, acrylic, and mixed media.
Post Card Pen Pals 2024
Enjoy this year's short slide show of work by students of my course Serious Fun and members of my Facebook Group Artwork Artplay; each year members create small works to send to a member pen pal. People love to both create these small works (this year's theme was "A Sense of Place" and to receive them in the mail, sometimes from across the globe!)
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Favourite Tools 3.
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I continue working on the seascape with layers of paint, applied with a brayer, and Pebeo drawing gum to protect layers of underpainting. I share my palette system: parchment paper over moist paper towel while I am painting and a wet palette to store wet paint.
My favourite tools 2 Pebeo Drawing Gum
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Check out how I use Drawing Gum as a resist as I work on a misty islands landscape
my favourite tools : 1. paint roller
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In this first of a series of videos on my favourite tools and materials I show you how I use cheap paint rollers to get paint down quickly for creating loose underpaintings and finding new ways into "stuck" paintings....
The Perfect Gift to Yourself-- Travel Journal in Cortona, Italy
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Join me for a workshop in Cortona Italy with Toscana Americana toscanaamericana.com/alisonwattenroll.html I talk about how we will be using different papers and drawing and painting materials to create lively, quick travel sketches and beautiful concertina sketch books.
Abstracting Botanicals Simplifying and Resolving
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I demonstrate how I simplify an active surface created by layering drawings, paint and collage, to resolve towards a more cohesive composition.
Workshop in Tuscany/making a concertina book
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Very excited to be teaching a sketching and painting workshop in Tuscany this fall, in the beautiful city of Cortona. In this video I'll show you how to make the kind of concertina sketchbooks we'll we working in. More info on workshop Toscana Americana toscanaamericana.com/alisonwattenroll.html You can download a PDF on making a concertina book on my website page: www.alisonwatt.ca/self-directed
Artists at Large -- Interview with Alison Watt
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In this Interview, Alison is interviewed by the Toronto artist and writer, Kelley Aitken. Here's what they talked about: 6:45 botanical paintings 15:11 writing and illustrating Alison’s book The Last Island 20:35 how Alison became a painting teacher 22:00 journalling practice/drawing nature 32:02 teaching travel journalling in France 35:52 transition to acrylic and mixed media from watercolour/...
Abstracting Botanicals- quick edits to make your paintings stronger
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In this fragment of a chat on Abstracting Botanicals from my recent Serious Fun Course, I talk about creating connection in areas we have painted out, negative painting, visual language, colour and value. Students tell me that these chats, which allow feedback and a deeper discussion of each week's material make Serious Fun an exceptional learning experience.
Art on the Salish Sea
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Let me introduce myself. I am a Canadian West Coast painter, with deep roots in painting place. This video will be part of a retrospective show with 7 other west coast naturalist/biologist artists, at the Centre for the Salish Sea, Sidney, British Columbia (opening Feb. 22.)
All That Glitters
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I talk about metallics, iridescents, and pearlescent media
preparing paper with gesso
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how to quickly prepare a piece of paper for mixed media with gesso on both sides
Art Supplies-Painting in France
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I talk about what I'm packing for my September workshops in France.
Go on a Palette Hunt!
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Colours are like people you have to spend time with them to get to know them. In this video, I show you a few of my tools and references on colour. Then I take you on a palette hunt and create a new studio palette from the colours of one of my Kilim carpets.
Artists at Large interview with Margret Petrie
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Artists at Large interview with Margret Petrie
A Sense of Place--new online course this spring!
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A Sense of Place new online course this spring!
Artists at Large- Interview with Doria Moodie
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Artists at Large- Interview with Doria Moodie
Serious Fun Online Course about to start
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Serious Fun Online Course about to start
Artists at Large-Interview with Kelley Aitken
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Artists at Large-Interview with Kelley Aitken
Yours are wonderful. Please watch the Danish painter as like you she has a lot of good tips.
@@marypartridge5154 thanks for the tip Mary! What is the painter’s name?
As always, Alison, you have great ideas. Your cards are works of the heart.
Thank you It’s very insightful and stirred my curiosity about intentional line making
@@susanbryan8453 glad you liked the video Susan! I hope you have some fun with mark making!
Very helpful- thanks ❤
Love this! Thanks for sharing. One of my challenges is that acrylic darkens as it dries and my paintings come out too dark!
Yes, that's a challenge of acrylics. Unfortunately there are no easy shortcuts to solve this problem--the more you paint, the better you'll be able to judge how the tone will change on drying.
Beautiful work. Really stands out. 😊
thanks!
The big dark shape looks like Bass Rock North Berwick Scotland 😍
@@wonkywhisker1036 I can see the similarity to some Scottish landscapes I have travelled through!
Thank you, Alison, that was so informative and inspiring.
Love these colors! Thank you for so generously sharing all of your abstract painting discoveries. I have dry erase tape and it never occurred to me to use it for masking. I’m genuinely inspired now, so again, thank you!
Ypu are amazing and so generous with your skills, thank u from the bottom of my heart ❤
This is so beautiful. And a very interesting technique I need to try out. Tfs Alison 💗💗💗🙏🙏🙏
Glorious
Absolutely love your work Alison ! Thanks so much for sharing , i so appreciate it! My favourite artist on youtube 😍
Thank you so much! You are such a fantastic teacher, I am glad I found you on here!
glad you found your way here Jamie!
Just gorgeous !!!!! Thank you for sharing!
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I appreciate how you share your amazing techniques. Your explanations/demos are clear and direct. I've learned many great techniques from you. ❤
Thanks!
You're fabulous!
Wow! Such fun and a beautiful outcome.
She isn’t in a hurry=takes her time= finds “uniforming elements or creates them=like curving elements=find more tissue paper…she comes with her pre made collected toys to play with, all black or white and she can “ push things back” too. She simplifies but retains interesting light and darker but interesting few patterns…
Thank you so much for this video.. you explained glazing so clearly for me and it’s inspired me to do a lot more
that is great to hear Sue!
Really fabulous tutorial, i love each process. THANK you 💐💐💐💐💐🤣
thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video
Great distinguishing!
I call random events happy accidents.
Excellent tutorial
awesome!
Really loved this video and learning about your process. Do you have anything that goes into how you came up with the original drawing/ painting that you began this video with? Would love to try something along these lines.
I don't have a video on how I began this drawing. I started with blind contour drawings to loosen up, then kept this loose approach in building up layers of line, not worrying too much about making them very accurate.
I really love this. Would have liked to see how you finished the painting, the difference between the end of the video and the finished work is big.
thanks -- unfortunately, I didn't film the resolution of this but there is another short video abstracting landscape 2 in which I explain some of my decisions as I finished it.
Hi Alison….I realize this video is 3 yrs old…But there is no age to art and learning. I love your videos….you take time…explain and your work is beautiful. This video has shown me so many techniques…….some I already knew but seeing how YOU use them makes a huge difference. The masking product used with glazing is wonderful. So helpful!! Paint transfer…I know….but as it was presented here it came across knew to me. I love it all…you video…your help has given me new feeling to my art. Thank you so much. Now I’ll watch your other videos and be inspired!!❤❤🤗🤗 Charlotte
So much great information. Thankyou
Okay… I just learned more than my previous three live workshops in the East. Thank you!
I love how you accomplished this effect! I learned a lot from this video. Thank you!
Anyone else notice the puppy on right side at 27:00 minutes in?
Beautiful Alison ❤
It will be very nice to see the next steps you take with this piece. After your last video, I purchased Pebeo and cannot wait to try it soon. Thank you.
Really enjoying this series. Thank you.
Your instruction is fabulous! Thank you😍
Thanks Marilyn!
Thanks for sharing this. Can’t wait to see your other videos. This was so helpful. I struggle with water and I can’t wait to try your techniques.
Thanks Phyllis- I hope these ideas help you in your water paintings
Merci beaucoup 🌸🌸🌸
i won't to glaze over water to make it look real.
I liked the red! You aren't finished yet so I don't know what you'll do, but I kept thinking of Iron oxide. I love earthy rusts, reds and blacks w/ off whites, greys, etc. Yes! That is gorgeous!! Love the finished piece!
Such a great video…. Learning thru what we consider failure…. I love the nerrative!
So helpful, thank you!
fist time viewing and really enjoyed the tutorial and presentation.will continue to follow look and learn
I have recently ‘discovered’ you and am enjoying watching your videos. I really like both your style of painting and how you teach. Have you made another video showing the next steps in these sunflower paintings? Or maybe you’ve got a photo of the finished paintings…? Thanks in advance for any info you can give me.
Thanks so much for sharing Alison! Looking forward to the follow-up video on this painting!
Love the start of your new oceanscape and I love the alteration you made to the older painting you weren’t happy with! The 2 examples you showed were gorgeous, so moody! Looking forward to the next video!💕🇨🇦