Your experiment with credit card oainting and water spraying really gave impressive abstract scene of a lake with land and trees / bushes. In fact glimpses of this on the video drew me to watch. Great.
Dear Jean, when we watch your beautiful videos we think it is not very complicated and when we try it is more difficult ! But what a pleasure to watch and try! Thank you very mutch...
Your warm-ups give me so much energy! Right now I'm working through your abstract landscape course and having lots of fun. A week ago I occupied only a very large coffee table. Now... pretty much every flat surface in my house is layered with papers, paints, inks, spices, fabrics, kitchen utensils etc. etc. and I've successfully ignored many other responsibilities, hahaha :) It's very addictive so I'm not seeing an ending soon. I marvel that your paper never seems to buckle. I've never used hot pressed until a week ago and I see that it doesn't warp nearly as much as cold press does, but it isn't exactly flat either. Thanks so much for sharing your talent and enthusiasm. You're a great teacher!
Wonderful! I absolutely enjoy watching you paint these loose watercolor pieces. It is exactly what I need to do more because I love to watch the color move and mingle. It's like going for a walk with the watercolor brush...maybe dancing. Thank you so much for your videos. Greetings from Sybille in Germany!
What a good idea. I've seen this done by a few people online. I loved your color combo. I will try this. Water color is such a beautiful medium. I've been trying my hand at it now for just a few months and I love it. I've learned a lot just online watching one's like you. So helpful. Thank you for sharing your talents. Karen from Canada.
Love the imagination priming that this exercise brings out. Don't piddle and play....... just play! Thank you for the help. As always your inspiration is greatly appreciated.
I watch and Love all of your videos, but this one really shows what I love about watching you paint. When you did the very last experiment, the joy, wonder, and excitement, that you were feeling was very evident in your voice. Your reaction when you sprayed the paper was priceless and inspiring! Thank you for sharing that with us. Much Love and Respect as Always from North Carolina, Stacy
Jean, I am so very happy that I stumbled on to your site. I am having so much fun learning from you. I am not a detail person so the free-flowing experience is what I love. I just came up with some beautiful colors and used the credit card technique! I can’t wait to do more! Thank you so much!
so very interesting and helpful, thank you very much ... this give me hope again, because I suffer from a long creative block now. But now I will play with my colours again. Thank you, Jean, for your great channel, it is so inspiring and helpful!
Hi, Mme, yes it seems cathartic, to see what happens without intention to do something precise, only for the pleasure to play with gems colors. Thanks you
Thank you so much. I seem to have lost my confidence recently as I find fault with everything I paint. I am trying so hard to correct my mistakes and have lost the spontaneity I had. I love your exercises as it will open up so many ideas for me to try without feeling I have to be "correct." I cannot wait to have a go. Thank you again.
I liked the last one....very nice. Overworked watercolored paintings don't appeal to me. I am more geared to minimalist painting and you have given me some great ideas. Thank you for sharing.
You give me inspiration. Trying so hard to be loose!! Loved the credit card application. I will try it very soon. My landscapes usually are so stilted and unimaginative.
This was so useful to me. For some reason i had forgotten about granulation medium 🤓! It’s an effect I really love having recently bought Daniel Smiths Green Apatite Genuine, sodalite Genuine, Lunar Blue and Quinacridone Gold, all terrific granulating colours, leaving me wanting more colours to do this. Your video gave me a real light bulb moment. Thank you for sharing this, so happy I watched! 🤩
Great stuff, i do a lot of experiments like this and actually i enjoy them more than anything i paint that is figurative (which is allegedly my goal). But anyways, by doing this kind of experiments i am able to transfer some of the things i see happening in the experiments to the figurative paintings so they end up looking less tied up. So thank you for the video, i never experimented with a plastic like you did at the end so thank you for a fresh new idea to play with. cheers!
Beautiful Jean. I was wondering, when you said you might use it for a card, how you do that. Do you cut out a certain size from bigger pieces of watercolour paper? Envelope size? Do you allow for a back on them or just single piece? Thank you. You are so inspiring. I share you with my friend. We live in Australia.
Thank you I have never watched someone paint with a credit card before. Being In broke maybe I can create some beauty with it. Hahaha! Thank you for that wonderful tutorial. I truly enjoyed it.
I love this so much! I'm just starting with watercolors and I seem to just fail fail fail fail....but if I try your last method on my ART channel - can I give you credit and show others? :)
Just found your you tube channel. Amazing, just started with watercolours two days ago, first time painting ever so absolutely loved your video. What is the bottle that just sprays dots on the paper, as most spray bottles spray out quite strong. Thank you
I have two water spray bottles. One that sprays a fine mist and one that is just an old spray bottle you can get at any drug store where you can adjust whether it's a stream of more of a droplet spray option. Hope thsi helps.
This looks fun! Thanks for the inspiration. I have been "playing" for an hour and I am already addicted. A question - what is the water spray that sprays droplets? The ones I have tend to spurt out a lot of water and make the whole paper wet... yours seem to be doing something different from that?
Great video, thanks. I always love seeing all of these techniques of yours to create texture. When you use the granite spray does it repel water where its put? I couldn't quite understand what it was doing.
@@JeanLurssen At 4:18 you are holding a green bottle with a white spray top that says "Method Daily Granite" on it. I guess this is just an old bottle that you had put water in.
I have to laugh at myself. I JUST finished watching your video on planning a format for a painting. I left a comment asking if you ever thought of working with some of the other DS Primatek paints (and Green Apatite Genuine was one of the ones I mentioned). Now I am watching this video and feel rather silly for thinking I would be telling you something you may not realize would be a great paint. Excuse me for my ignorance!
@@JeanLurssen Thank you. I recognized your accent. I was born in SA. Love your work, been doing watercolour for many years, but this is a fresh look at doing abstract. Im going to try my hand at it.
Your experiment with credit card oainting and water spraying really gave impressive abstract scene of a lake with land and trees / bushes. In fact glimpses of this on the video drew me to watch. Great.
Dear Jean, when we watch your beautiful videos we think it is not very complicated and when we try it is more difficult ! But what a pleasure to watch and try! Thank you very mutch...
Sally Everts.. Your Overcoming artist block was wonderful for me. Thank you so much for presenting yourself on UTube.
Your warm-ups give me so much energy! Right now I'm working through your abstract landscape course and having lots of fun. A week ago I occupied only a very large coffee table. Now... pretty much every flat surface in my house is layered with papers, paints, inks, spices, fabrics, kitchen utensils etc. etc. and I've successfully ignored many other responsibilities, hahaha :) It's very addictive so I'm not seeing an ending soon.
I marvel that your paper never seems to buckle. I've never used hot pressed until a week ago and I see that it doesn't warp nearly as much as cold press does, but it isn't exactly flat either. Thanks so much for sharing your talent and enthusiasm. You're a great teacher!
Thank you Debra for the great feedback. You seem to really be enjoying your watercolor journey. That's always my aim for my students. Have fun.
I love your style of creating texture in watercolour painting.
Such an inspiration. Thank you.
So many wonderful ideas! I might give hot pressed paper one more try. I haven't had much luck with it so far.
Thank you for sharing your talent with us!
I loved this demo series!
Totally inspiring 😍
Thank you for the encouragement: I have had painter’s block for literally years!
I have subscribed to your channel, hoping to see many more experiments like that. So helpful
Wonderful! I absolutely enjoy watching you paint these loose watercolor pieces. It is exactly what I need to do more because I love to watch the color move and mingle. It's like going for a walk with the watercolor brush...maybe dancing. Thank you so much for your videos. Greetings from Sybille in Germany!
What a good idea. I've seen this done by a few people online. I loved your color combo. I will try this. Water color is such a beautiful medium. I've been trying my hand at it now for just a few months and I love it. I've learned a lot just online watching one's like you. So helpful. Thank you for sharing your talents. Karen from Canada.
LOve this last demo especially and heard your excitement! So fun! Thank you for this playtime!
The last one just great💕🤷🏻♀️
Love the imagination priming that this exercise brings out. Don't piddle and play....... just play! Thank you for the help. As always your inspiration is greatly appreciated.
Loved the last one! A great little exercise, thanks!
Fantastic!
Great Demo Jean, thanks for sharing!
Great lesson! Thanks Jean!
I cannot thank you enough for your videos, they are always inspiring!
I watch and Love all of your videos, but this one really shows what I love about watching you paint. When you did the very last experiment, the joy, wonder, and excitement, that you were feeling was very evident in your voice. Your reaction when you sprayed the paper was priceless and inspiring! Thank you for sharing that with us. Much Love and Respect as Always from North Carolina, Stacy
Love your last CC result..yay those textures..looking forward to having a try later today
Love your work.
Jean, I am so very happy that I stumbled on to your site. I am having so much fun learning from you. I am not a detail person so the free-flowing experience is what I love. I just came up with some beautiful colors and used the credit card technique! I can’t wait to do more! Thank you so much!
I need to find some of the greens you mentioned. They are so vibrant!
Fantastic thank you very much
Love your experiments. We are currently doing something similar and these are great tips. Thanks.
so very interesting and helpful, thank you very much ... this give me hope again, because I suffer from a long creative block now. But now I will play with my colours again. Thank you, Jean, for your great channel, it is so inspiring and helpful!
Thanks
Jean, what can I say.........fantastic, again fantastic game of yours❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hi, Mme, yes it seems cathartic, to see what happens without intention to do something precise, only for the pleasure to play with gems colors. Thanks you
Thank you, Jean. These are great fun! 👍🎨🖌
Thank you so much. I seem to have lost my confidence recently as I find fault with everything I paint. I am trying so hard to correct my mistakes and have lost the spontaneity I had. I love your exercises as it will open up so many ideas for me to try without feeling I have to be "correct." I cannot wait to have a go. Thank you again.
thank you
Thank you for sharingn this . Nice texture💕
Interessanti i tuoi esperimenti pittorici, penso che ti prenderò alla lettera, ci proverò anch'io.
Lovely experiments! I'm inspired!
Jean .. just when I was wondering what to do next you came along with my next idea and now I can’t wait to go and try it
The last one one turned out super!
absolutely LOVE your style Thank You
I liked the last one....very nice. Overworked watercolored paintings don't appeal to me. I am more geared to minimalist painting and you have given me some great ideas. Thank you for sharing.
I’ve had painters block all week 😖. But now you’ve inspired me to try credit card painting! Getting excited!
I really needed this today. Thank you for your time, Jean. I've watched all of your videos- many times over!
So glad it helped. Thanks for the feedback.
You give me inspiration. Trying so hard to be loose!! Loved the credit card application. I will try it very soon. My landscapes usually are so stilted and unimaginative.
I will try these! :)
Your Landscape watercolor is very beautiful.
Thanks Jean. My family thinks I'm off my rocker when I experiment, but I love it and love some surprising results. It's refreshing. 👍😁
Oh I can't wait to try the credit card picture. Thank you Jean for your inspiration.
I am so glad I've found that channel :)
Very good😁
I love this last one!!!
Love it too Jean, I have been playing with the credit card painting - your trial is beautiful.
ALOHA~ LOVELY
Bravo Jean, what a great inspiring demonstration. Can’t wait to try the credit card. Thank you
Love your work so much! You are an amazing artist!
fantastic.....
I love this...I think I am stil afraid....this is good way to strugl with my fear
Thank you Jean!
This was so useful to me. For some reason i had forgotten about granulation medium 🤓! It’s an effect I really love having recently bought Daniel Smiths Green Apatite Genuine, sodalite Genuine, Lunar Blue and Quinacridone Gold, all terrific granulating colours, leaving me wanting more colours to do this. Your video gave me a real light bulb moment. Thank you for sharing this, so happy I watched! 🤩
I loved the last one the most and want to try it! By the way I use a credit card all the time and love it much better than a brush!
Great stuff, i do a lot of experiments like this and actually i enjoy them more than anything i paint that is figurative (which is allegedly my goal). But anyways, by doing this kind of experiments i am able to transfer some of the things i see happening in the experiments to the figurative paintings so they end up looking less tied up. So thank you for the video, i never experimented with a plastic like you did at the end so thank you for a fresh new idea to play with. cheers!
Thank you, super inspiring 😍😍😍
Jean, thanks!
Thank you! That was amazing and really takes the pressure off . I can’t wait to let loose with my paints and tools!
Been doing this for a few years, it's a lot of fun and sometimes it turns out to be a real painting instead of an exercise
I love these experiments!!!!! TU
PERFECT 💕
👌 Thank you.
Thankyou going to make it a priority for today’s painting session
great
Thank you so much for the video, it will really help me.
I really needed this. I've been trying some landscape painting and they all come out so stiff!
Meda Halmaciu Same here. In my head I’m going to produce a beautiful loose painting. Everything is perfect, until I put paint to paper. 😳
Really nice! I appreciate..... need to unblock!
I like very much!!
Beautiful Jean. I was wondering, when you said you might use it for a card, how you do that. Do you cut out a certain size from bigger pieces of watercolour paper? Envelope size? Do you allow for a back on them or just single piece? Thank you. You are so inspiring. I share you with my friend. We live in Australia.
Thank you I have never watched someone paint with a credit card before. Being In broke maybe I can create some beauty with it. Hahaha! Thank you for that wonderful tutorial. I truly enjoyed it.
Es acuarela?? Un saludo gracias
Love love the credit card experiment❣️
I love this so much! I'm just starting with watercolors and I seem to just fail fail fail fail....but if I try your last method on my ART channel - can I give you credit and show others? :)
Hi Jean...
Lovely experiments.
In your third experiment, couldn't one use cold press instead of hot press paper?
Of course you can. It's jut that I prefer using hot pressed paper. Everything I demonstrate can also be done on cold pressed watercolor paper.
Where did you get that lovely pipette? So nice
You will find them in my amazon store at www.amazon.com/shop/jeanlurssen I will also add a link under the video.
which acrilic ink is sepia ?
I use the Daler Rowney acrylic inks Silvia.
@@JeanLurssen thank you
@@silvialuridiana8147 Here is a link amzn.to/3okAh6J
Just found your you tube channel. Amazing, just started with watercolours two days ago, first time painting ever so absolutely loved your video. What is the bottle that just sprays dots on the paper, as most spray bottles spray out quite strong. Thank you
I have two water spray bottles. One that sprays a fine mist and one that is just an old spray bottle you can get at any drug store where you can adjust whether it's a stream of more of a droplet spray option. Hope thsi helps.
@@JeanLurssen Thank you for answering my question
Credit card demo was my favorite!
Your last experiment was the best. Looks like a distant landscape of some sort.
This looks fun! Thanks for the inspiration. I have been "playing" for an hour and I am already addicted. A question - what is the water spray that sprays droplets? The ones I have tend to spurt out a lot of water and make the whole paper wet... yours seem to be doing something different from that?
Hello. Thank you very much. What water colour paper do you use? :)
For this video I used Arches 140lb hot pressed paper. Sometimes I also use Saunders Waterford cold pressed paper.
Great video, thanks. I always love seeing all of these techniques of yours to create texture. When you use the granite spray does it repel water where its put? I couldn't quite understand what it was doing.
Not sure what you mean by "granite" spray. I used water spray in one of the demonstrations and granulation medium in another.
@@JeanLurssen At 4:18 you are holding a green bottle with a white spray top that says "Method Daily Granite" on it. I guess this is just an old bottle that you had put water in.
@@kirbythompson8032 Yes, that's right. I recycled that bottle for water.
What paper do you use Jean. If not cold pressed usually.
I mostly paint on Arches hot pressed paper but for the first two demonstrations here I used Saunders Waterford cold pressed paper.
Thank you so much. You are very generous and talented. So helpful.x
Wow. the last one looks like a floating island :)
I love credit card paint! Great!
Sometimes you just need permission to play, thank you Jean
I have to laugh at myself. I JUST finished watching your video on planning a format for a painting. I left a comment asking if you ever thought of working with some of the other DS Primatek paints (and Green Apatite Genuine was one of the ones I mentioned). Now I am watching this video and feel rather silly for thinking I would be telling you something you may not realize would be a great paint. Excuse me for my ignorance!
That was very nice. Love it. Are you from South Africa?
Hi Lynn. I spent many years living in South Africa but was born in England.
@@JeanLurssen Thank you. I recognized your accent. I was born in SA. Love your work, been doing watercolour for many years, but this is a fresh look at doing abstract. Im going to try my hand at it.
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I tried using my credit card but it was rejected, insufficient funds haha. Love this video, thank you
Thank you