Ron Ranson: The Components of Landscapes

Here's a clip from Ron's DVD, The Components of Landscapes
These are trees you see and they are done with a rigger and they're spreading and that's what I want them to do. It's all about a sort of vagueness. I might want a few silver birches in here like that. You see, nothing much but it should work.
You do it quickly and it gives it that nice frothiness. It's got to look like it's really raging. Put a little tiny touch of green in it. Say 1,2,3, go. It's all starting to work now. And here's the edge of that water coming over here. It's got to come roaring over the top.
I'm going to put some rocks in there while I get my towel back. This towel is very vital, it's like a brake on a car, if I feel it's getting to wet on here, I just dab it on and it gets rid of the wet. I want to have some little darks here, this is the corner of the water.
It's more or less finished down to there now. I'm going to put some rocks in it. Get some browns and blue and I get a credit card. See here's a bit of a rock. And it's starting to sparkle. See how soft these trees look. I put them in with a rigger but I knew as soon as I'd done it on the wet they would become to blur. So you've got the hard sharp trees here and it's beginning to come forward now.

[@susann.291]

I was fortunate to have experienced a few spontaneous watercolor "painting parties" with RR and a mutual friend in my friends' backyard studio. We had fun, and I learned so much from RR. Intermittently he would kindly verbalize input regarding what I was working on....I am grateful that I had NO CLUE of the Ron Ranson legacy, the books, the videos, etc. when we first met. I was very lucky to have met and painted with this very talented man.

[@MY-ce2qt]

Thank you for upload this video. I took workshop from Ron and he was truly a great artist and teacher.

[@TxonPomes]

Thank you a lot. I studied with him three times. It was a master for me.

[@markdonovan1540]

A master at work

[@br.talsania]

So nice

[@LeonaFraser1]

Enjoyed this immensley such simple strokes that perform majic. Billiant. Why have I not found you earlier. Thanks.

[@ifv77]

extraordinario vídeo ,muy didáctico de los pinceles de un artista.
Gracias.

[@carolbiggs722]

Great artist

[@grantcheadle4688]

this man is my grandfather

[@joygill7494]

then you have had the pleasure of having known such an artist personally and lovingly

[@mariachiaraferretto6449]

Grant Cheadle you are very luky..!

[@classicartfoundation639]

He was my auntie

[@1Watercolors]

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[@ChickenHenry8619]

What size brush is he using?