Thank you for making it OK to struggle. Your approach has taken away so much of the fear and hesitation I used to have in painting. You have a very comforting approach that makes it easier to trust the process.
I swear the lessons you say you've learned are so philosophical to me lol like they can apply to every day life as well. Perfect ♡ "Imperfections are okay" will always be my favorite 😍
I actually love how the clouds turned out. And thank you for the powerful mindset lesson - sharing the finished work despite not being completely happy with it.
You are such an inspiration Kolbie, it is so brave to share such a personal experience where you were not happy with the finished product with such a big following. It could have been just as easy to do another video and pretend it never happened but modelling your reflective thinking is so helpful for myself as a new learner 💚
I really appreciate this! It's easy to let a disappointing result ruin the whole experience, but the process itself is where all the joy is (for me, at least). This looks like a fun one.
I really love the look though Kolbie. Even if you weren't thrilled with how it turned out, I love the peninsulas jutting out into the ocean. And your grey clouds are wonderful! I think they really make the picture moody, and feels misty and cold.
I really appreciate that you used this video despite not super loving the result. I can get so discouraged when something doesn’t turn out like I expect (like my sparkly sea!) but it’s good to remember that every painting is also an experience, not just a ‘product’.
Okay, sharing a piece you didn’t love and working us through it is EXACTLY the type of experience I need to work through with a group-thank you for being so vulnerable with us!💚
Thank you for sharing this! I so appreciate the process and you sharing that you didn't love the way yours turned out. It shows us that you are always learning too, even as the expert!
I love that you shared it anyway and gave reasons for your displeasure. Teaches so much! I actually love how moody thee sky is. I will try the cliffs with more progression of gradients, like when I do mountains. The perspective of the painting is wonderful! I think I will try making lots of foam as the waves are hitting the rocks! Thank you Kolbie!
Thank u for the joy in your paintings! U really support us beginners to believe it's ok2 just to try at putting the brush 2 the paper! I appreciate the sharing of your knowledge!😆
I appreciate the different point of views each painting this week. I noticed with my wet on wet dries out quickly by the time I am ready to add paint. I have adjusted timing and look at my paper at an angle to determine the dampness before adding paint. I have learned more technique with different clouds and I am glad you decided to add them and it adds character to the waves.
It's so inspiring to listen to you! 💜 Thank you for sharing this painting even though you weren't happy with it. I found this painting very challenging and the cliffs were so hard to paint! 😅
I've learned that I LOVE painting stormy clouds! I'm also gradually getting more confident with glazing. Still working not being so heavy handed with the gouache. I'm from the PNW and this definitely looks like home.
I loved this - can't wait to paint it myself. And as a seafarer, this kinda view is dear and familiar too. And, if I may add, you did the wave directions really well - you're so right the currents and the waves can be so erratic, especially along a complicated coastline (which those high rocky cliffs were). And there's little wrong with the stormy clouds in the sky - that can be sooo realistic. I know, you're not a realistic painter, but the scene in and of itself is quite realistic. I have a long list of your turorials to paint, but right now I'm watching as I pack, because they are calming too, when you're trying to figure out what to take in your cases and what you can and should leave behind... I'm also making space for watercolour supplies this time...
I love Kolbie’s consistent reminder about layers- it helps me feel encouraged to try my own painting from a reference photo, and makes it a little less daunting
The cliffs were really scary to paint! I thought I'd mess my background if I won't be able to do the cliffs right. But I kinda reminded myself that this is practice! And like you said, "you really can't go wrong here", I felt like I held onto that and kept going. And now I think I loved how my painting turned out! Thanks for the awesome tutorials as always!
Okey. So feel sick on day 3, but now I'm up and going again. And ready to keep on painting 😀 If I get a pretty endresult, that is a bonus. It's putting water and paint to the paper, that brings me joy. Thank you so much for making these videos to all of us 😁
thanks for pointing out you don't know what you're doing all the time and that you don't always like the end result. as a beginner who always feels like i have no idea what i'm doing - it was reassuring hearing that!
This was a challenge for me. I think it was the colors I did not have or maybe the shape of the cliffs...aat first I thought Cliffs of Moor and maybe that was my issue. I decided to go with what I had and just do it. I did learn a lot from this. Thank you for sharing all you do.
So enjoyed painting this particular scene Kolbie. It reminds me of my trips to Big Surr and all the happy memories those trips were. Definitely want to try to attempt painting my own photographs I took while there now that I understand a little on how to break a scene like this into simple layers. So pretty.
I ended up liking this one a lot more than I expected! I love the colors and the perspective. My clouds are a little large and dark and my cliffs are darker than ideal, but I still really like it.
Glad you didn’t redo it. Makes me feel a wee bit better about my attempts at the sparkling ocean waves. If you do it again though, would love to see them side by side. 🙌
I am so excited to practice this one - I had started a similar piece with a gradient from the sky to the water and was struggling knowing how to paint it, excited to practice with this!
Love how you created the background gradients. Mine turned out too vibrant (oops) but as usual, fun to learn new tricks - like the tips on rocks (keeping the base flat cos they're hidden under the water).
Eugh, I didn't like my end result either but am so pleased with how my breaking waves turned out! Am thoroughly enjoying paitning new things and stretching myself
My daughter just said "it's funny mommy, you're not like the other moms, you like to play and paint just like me" and somehow that just meant the world to me so thank you for these videos that makes my kids think I'm some super mom, which obviously I'm not :)
Well I sat down to give this painting a go, and wouldn't you know it, thirteen pounds of fluff decided he would settle himself right in the middle of my workspace. 🙀 I personally love the colors of the sky and clouds. Even if you would still do it differently I'm thankful you posted the original. Have you ever considered making a "part two" or "remix" of these ones that you didn't like, showing us how you make changes and improvements from your first tries?
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Thank you for sharing a video that you didn’t like. We need to learn that not every painting will be your favorite! Just like life, some things are great, some aren’t!
Thank you for making it OK to struggle. Your approach has taken away so much of the fear and hesitation I used to have in painting. You have a very comforting approach that makes it easier to trust the process.
Appreciated your humility and setting that acceptance of our work when it is not 'perfect'.
I respect you so much for sharing something you are less than thrilled with. It's right to your main lesson of embracing imperfection.
I swear the lessons you say you've learned are so philosophical to me lol like they can apply to every day life as well. Perfect ♡ "Imperfections are okay" will always be my favorite 😍
I love your honesty, it actually gives me more confidence to hear what you would change etc. Thank you!
I actually love how the clouds turned out. And thank you for the powerful mindset lesson - sharing the finished work despite not being completely happy with it.
You are such an inspiration Kolbie, it is so brave to share such a personal experience where you were not happy with the finished product with such a big following. It could have been just as easy to do another video and pretend it never happened but modelling your reflective thinking is so helpful for myself as a new learner 💚
I really appreciate this! It's easy to let a disappointing result ruin the whole experience, but the process itself is where all the joy is (for me, at least). This looks like a fun one.
I like the idea of posting something you're not competely happy with. Because doing it was fun! I love the clouds and the colors of the ocean!
I really love the look though Kolbie. Even if you weren't thrilled with how it turned out, I love the peninsulas jutting out into the ocean. And your grey clouds are wonderful! I think they really make the picture moody, and feels misty and cold.
Wow! I love how the sea spray looks against the dark rocks in the ocean! I never would have thought of that. Love the little touches.
I loved that you were honest and vulnerable! It helps me to be okay with my paintings I don’t love. Thank you!
I see the beautiful mountains of Hawaii meeting the sea in this piece. Lovely!
Kolbie Blume: “You really can’t go wrong here, adding rocky crags to a mountain.”
Me: “Hold my beer.”
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Thank you for another great tutorial! And the fact that no matter how your painting looks, there is always much to appreciate, learn and love!
I really appreciate that you used this video despite not super loving the result. I can get so discouraged when something doesn’t turn out like I expect (like my sparkly sea!) but it’s good to remember that every painting is also an experience, not just a ‘product’.
Appreciate your honest and transparency about the creative process, Kolbie! So helpful to hear for a beginning artist.
Okay, sharing a piece you didn’t love and working us through it is EXACTLY the type of experience I need to work through with a group-thank you for being so vulnerable with us!💚
My absolute fave so far. Love the colours, composition and techniques. Thanks.
I loved this tutorial! I really appreciate that you are sharing a piece you didn't love. Being real and vulnerable is so important to me :)
Thank you for sharing this! I so appreciate the process and you sharing that you didn't love the way yours turned out. It shows us that you are always learning too, even as the expert!
I am really delighted with this challenge, each watercolor is a significant learning! thank you
Such a great lesson in sharing even when we aren't 100% happy with the outcome - we are all human right!
I love your paintings they're so beautiful and complicate and simple at the same time, tutorials are fantastic 😍😍😎
I love that you shared it anyway and gave reasons for your displeasure. Teaches so much! I actually love how moody thee sky is. I will try the cliffs with more progression of gradients, like when I do mountains. The perspective of the painting is wonderful! I think I will try making lots of foam as the waves are hitting the rocks! Thank you Kolbie!
Thank u for the joy in your paintings! U really support us beginners to believe it's ok2 just to try at putting the brush 2 the paper! I appreciate the sharing of your knowledge!😆
I appreciate the different point of views each painting this week. I noticed with my wet on wet dries out quickly by the time I am ready to add paint. I have adjusted timing and look at my paper at an angle to determine the dampness before adding paint. I have learned more technique with different clouds and I am glad you decided to add them and it adds character to the waves.
The cliffs are gorgeous!! 😍
It's so inspiring to listen to you! 💜 Thank you for sharing this painting even though you weren't happy with it. I found this painting very challenging and the cliffs were so hard to paint! 😅
Thank you. I have as yet to start the challenge, but will do so today. Lovely scene. Different, no trees, grass, just sky, water and cliffs.
I've learned that I LOVE painting stormy clouds! I'm also gradually getting more confident with glazing. Still working not being so heavy handed with the gouache. I'm from the PNW and this definitely looks like home.
That violet with the turquoise, such a great color combination!
I loved this - can't wait to paint it myself. And as a seafarer, this kinda view is dear and familiar too. And, if I may add, you did the wave directions really well - you're so right the currents and the waves can be so erratic, especially along a complicated coastline (which those high rocky cliffs were). And there's little wrong with the stormy clouds in the sky - that can be sooo realistic. I know, you're not a realistic painter, but the scene in and of itself is quite realistic.
I have a long list of your turorials to paint, but right now I'm watching as I pack, because they are calming too, when you're trying to figure out what to take in your cases and what you can and should leave behind... I'm also making space for watercolour supplies this time...
Thank you for sharing pieces and processes that don't go exactly the way you planned. That's so affirming for a beginner like me!
Thank you Kolbie. Everyday I'm learning something new.
I love Kolbie’s consistent reminder about layers- it helps me feel encouraged to try my own painting from a reference photo, and makes it a little less daunting
Great instruction by you, loved learning how to paint rocks into the water. Learned that I need more practice painting cliffs!
Another lovely lesson, in many ways, thank you so much.
I’m loving the colorful sky so far 🥰
The cliffs were really scary to paint! I thought I'd mess my background if I won't be able to do the cliffs right. But I kinda reminded myself that this is practice! And like you said, "you really can't go wrong here", I felt like I held onto that and kept going. And now I think I loved how my painting turned out! Thanks for the awesome tutorials as always!
Okey. So feel sick on day 3, but now I'm up and going again. And ready to keep on painting 😀
If I get a pretty endresult, that is a bonus. It's putting water and paint to the paper, that brings me joy.
Thank you so much for making these videos to all of us 😁
thanks for pointing out you don't know what you're doing all the time and that you don't always like the end result. as a beginner who always feels like i have no idea what i'm doing - it was reassuring hearing that!
Yippee! Now I can paint the Oregon Coast cliffs from my recent trip. Exactly what I needed to learn. Many thanks.
Thank you for sharing a piece you weren’t totally happy with- exactly the mindset I am trying to get into myself.
This was a challenge for me. I think it was the colors I did not have or maybe the shape of the cliffs...aat first I thought Cliffs of Moor and maybe that was my issue. I decided to go with what I had and just do it. I did learn a lot from this. Thank you for sharing all you do.
👏👏 Another great tutorial! I love the your little touches
DANKESCHÖÖÖÖN...thank you for your fantastic tutorials. I started painzing again and it makes so much fun!
Such a beautiful cliff and love the color combinations dear kolbie.Thank u so much for another wonderful tutorial.:-)
So enjoyed painting this particular scene Kolbie. It reminds me of my trips to Big Surr and all the happy memories those trips were. Definitely want to try to attempt painting my own photographs I took while there now that I understand a little on how to break a scene like this into simple layers. So pretty.
I ended up liking this one a lot more than I expected! I love the colors and the perspective. My clouds are a little large and dark and my cliffs are darker than ideal, but I still really like it.
Thank you so much for being vulnerable and sharing a painting that you weren't happy with! It's so encouraging!
Quotable quotes I'm glad you're here no matter what your clouds look like i'm proud of you😅😅😅😅😊
When I learned that every painting is a stepping stone to the next one, my painting journey changed. Thanks for reinforcing that!
Thank you for all the lovely tutorials. You are a great teacher!!
This is such a great quick way to learn new techniques thank you
Thanks for showing an imperfect piece. It resonates with me.
I appreciate your introspection so very much!
I loved to learn your way to paint beautiful skies !
Thank you for showing the ‘imperfection’ and what the alternate might have been….very helpful!
Your clouds are totally awesome! ☁️😊
Thanks for being so vulnerable here!
Glad you didn’t redo it. Makes me feel a wee bit better about my attempts at the sparkling ocean waves. If you do it again though, would love to see them side by side. 🙌
Loved how quick this painting went together with just a few layers. Imperfections make it just like nature intended!
I am so excited to practice this one - I had started a similar piece with a gradient from the sky to the water and was struggling knowing how to paint it, excited to practice with this!
It takes a lot of courage to upload you yourself don’t love but still you did this brave thing and I learned so much from it :)
Loving this series!
Love this course, thank you Kolbie, learning a lot
Love how you created the background gradients. Mine turned out too vibrant (oops) but as usual, fun to learn new tricks - like the tips on rocks (keeping the base flat cos they're hidden under the water).
Thank you for making painting accessible and less intimidating.
That cliff is so intimidating to me, but also thank you for sharing a version you didn't really love! (Since I'm sure I'll feel similar about a few)
Perfectly imperfect!
I love all the community posts on this one.
Thank you for sharing … making my struggles more manageable!
Thanks for sharing your oops’. It wasn’t my favourite either but I tried something different in the water and I liked it in the end. 💕
I have so many photos of scenes like this, can't wait to try it out
I loved this project. The gouache was hard for me in this application. Practice, practice right? The clouds were fun.
I am learning so much! Thanks!
I loved this painting. Might have gone a bit over board with foam on waves, but 👍❣️
Eugh, I didn't like my end result either but am so pleased with how my breaking waves turned out! Am thoroughly enjoying paitning new things and stretching myself
Omg. This is perfect.
Getting at this one today. Will be focusing on getting the perspective down.
My daughter just said "it's funny mommy, you're not like the other moms, you like to play and paint just like me" and somehow that just meant the world to me so thank you for these videos that makes my kids think I'm some super mom, which obviously I'm not :)
I had trouble with the dark cliff in front...it looks very flat. Might have to try this one again!!!
Looks like NEW ZEALAND🏞🏞🏞🏞🏞
I struggle with crags in mountains, but starting to get the hand of waves with gouache.
Wonderful!❤
Can't wait to try this myself :)
Day 4! I didn’t imagine I could do it 4 days in a row 😅
But thanks to you I’m creating my first watercolor journal!
I loved the process
I just discovered your channel. Its great! I would love to have a copy of your book.
I like this! It's a unique viewpoint :)
It's always good to know that even accomplished artists can be unhappy with the result.
This was fun, thanks!
trying to catch up today loving this challenge!
Well I sat down to give this painting a go, and wouldn't you know it, thirteen pounds of fluff decided he would settle himself right in the middle of my workspace. 🙀 I personally love the colors of the sky and clouds. Even if you would still do it differently I'm thankful you posted the original. Have you ever considered making a "part two" or "remix" of these ones that you didn't like, showing us how you make changes and improvements from your first tries?
Thanks for doing these!
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Reminds me of cliffs in Scotland.
Thank you for sharing a video that you didn’t like. We need to learn that not every painting will be your favorite! Just like life, some things are great, some aren’t!
I loved it
thanks for modeling courage to share something you didn't end up loving.
Thank you for your vulnerability