A demonstration of my Favorite urbansketching techniques. Pen and wash of an alley it Florence Italy
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- Although this was done from the comfort of home, it is a good example of my favorite techniques when out painting on location.
A line and wash painting of an alley in Florence Italy
Music by Jason Shaw, www.audionautix...
MATERIALS
PEN: A Pigma Micron pen, 005 nib. I'm using a rather worn out Pigma Micron 005 nib pen. It creates nice scratchy, sketchy lines.
PAPER:
Arches 1401b Hot Press Paper for this Video.
My papers of choice include Arches 140lb Hot press and Cold press paper and Strathmore 500 series Sketchbooks. All are 100% cotton rag.
For beginners, I recommend starting with a high quality paper and experimenting with different types. As your style develops, you'll get a feel for which type is best. Waiting to switch to a better quality paper later will be much like learning to paint all over again.
MY PALETTE: All tube paints!
Winsor newton- Yellow Ochre, Sepia, Burnt Sienna, Winsor Red, Davy's Gray, Ultramarine, Sap Green.
DaVinci - Phthalo Blue, Quinachridone Fuchsia, Cadmium Yellow Lemon, Cadmium Yellow Deep.
A note on Davy's Gray: I rarely use this pigment straight and when using it I usually mix it with each colour used.
PAINT PALETTE::
The palette is the mixing tray from a "Koi" Watercolour travel set. The colours are set up so the ones I mix together most often are close together.
The paints are poured onto slips of paper and then stuck to the palette.
BRUSH:
A Polar Flo 1/2 inch flat brush is my current favorite. The bristle were originally white but have become stained.
I often use inexpensive brushes because several of my techniques are quite abusive.
Whenever the brush disappears from the screen it is either being wiped off or rinsed.
REFERENCE IDEAS: come from my imagination/memory, my own photos or by painting on location.
Thank you for Watching!
I am a 90year old fan and still really enjoying my painting. My favourite medium is pen and wash and you are an inspiration to me. Jean.
Please do not ever stop making your art or your videos. They are a tremendous high spot in my life right now 💜💚💜💚💜
I hope I don't as well :) Thanks
It"s really great ! I love them too!!! Greeting from Japan!
Great I love this really well done🙋
Carole Young my favorite way of learning is by watching you at work! Thank you🤗🤗😘
I just looked back at the reference photo. This tutorial is proof that knowing what to leave out is as important as knowing what to put in. Peter you never cease to amaze me.
Very true Patrick :)
I am always fascinated by your line technique, Peter, and where you begin your sketch. As someone who continues to fight with perspective, it appears to me as though you use your pauses and smaller roof lines to keep perspective sorted, which is a cool way to monitor it.
Thanks Deborah. Good observation. Peter
I really like that you are so generous as to tell the details of your materials and methods. So helpful!😊
Thank you Peter! I, too, learn so much from your videos and appreciate the time it takes to post these!
Thanks Cathy. Appreciated for sure. Peter
Thank you. It is good to see the reference photo for learners like me. I have learned so much from you.
Great to hear Helen. Peter
I am amazed at the beauty you have produced using the most simple approach. Truly outstanding.
Thank you Joe . So glad you enjoyed this. Peter :)
thank you Peter, I enjoyed watching this painting. I will certainly check out your other demo paintings. So relaxing to watch.
Peter, your work is inspiring. I wish you’d posted your reference image so I could have followed your eye along. I love your line work.
For sure, this is my favorite technique, too.
This video is what I would like to be able to paint sooo much.
Looking at my own, poor, attempts., love to watch you sketching and - big sigh - knowing, I'll never get there. But playing with pen and brush is still so much fun
Thanks for sharing your talent 🙏
You are so talented! You have inspired me to start trying urban sketching. Thank you for showing us your talent :D
Thanks Anne. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Peter
Interesting that you have made the focal point in the distance 'dark'. It works well. I do love pen and wash so much and enjoyed this a lot. Thanks for sharing Peter.
Thanks Chammi. Can't tell you why I made it dark. These things just happen as I paint.
Somewhere in my past I was told in city-scapes buildings normally appear darker as one goes further away from the front of the sketch. This is used as a technique to enhance perspective. It sure appears to have worked here. I really enjoy watching, and learning, from your videos. Thank you.
Thank you Sir! I'm an architecture student, and your tutorials have been helping my grades a lot lately! Sincere thanks from India!
That is great to hear. Hope you do well. Peter
Your videos are so helpful to me (a beginner), especially with regard to perspective. And I love the combo of micron pen with watercolor. Thank you.
Thank you Judy. So glad they're helping you. Peter
I just discovered your videos. I've been wanting to do Urban sketching for a travel journal for years! I've taken some Crafty classes, and watched other TH-cam videos but couldn't get the hang of it. Their camera angle isn't always right, the instructors have a hard time explaining and painting simultaneously (which I know it would be challenging to have to do both) it's edited so you don't see the entire process. The screen is crowded so you can't really see things. Your set up is PERFECT!
Thanks for showing the reference photo in the beginning so we can screen shot it. I use my phone to see it. I then watch and sketch/paint along side you on my iPad, I like you do not talk (it's not distracting), you tell us which colors you are using, you do it all in real time so we can do the project together!! So please do not change! I did two videos with you and then had the confidence to start on my own and did it!!! I posted them on my Instagram and tagged you yesterday. :).
Thanks Julia. Screenshot sounds like a great way to do it. Peter
For me the hardest part with any drawing/painting from real life or reference photo's is knowing what to leave out. Thanks for these demo's they are very useful - and brill! :)
That is one of the hardest thing to learn Doras. Peter
Great video! I love your line work. It has so much energy. I appreciate your use of watercolor as well. Very inspiring!
Thank you very much Mike
👋 Amazing with angles, broken lines and towers or farms the end result is beautiful. Really like urban sketching thank you 😀
Perfect tutorial. Thank you once again
Thanks Peter, an excellent tutorial, I've been watching all of the videos you posted, most of the time I watch them at my lunch break on my phone and didn't know how to comment until I found the way, anyways just to let you know that even when I don't comment, I do watch them, they all are excellent, I've tried a few of them and they look very nice, thanks for taking the time to show the whole process it really helps. You are a great artist.
Thank you as always. So glad my videos are helping
Simply beautiful. You have already taught me so much about drawing and loose watercolor. I cannot thank you enough.
Very nice to hear. Makes my posting all worthwhile. Peter
sono felice che ci sia nuovamente un paesaggio italiano un bello spunto per dipingere la mia terra grazie mille
Grazie mille. Tanto ispirazione nel vostro bel paese. Peter
You have a great eye for architectural compositions Peter. Great tonal contrast and good it use of palette colours hinting at old deteriorated buildings.
Great comments and observations Andrew. Thanks :)
I love how you keep things simple. I find that really hard to do. Great job
Thanks Kev. You'll develop it. Peter
At first, I was suspiciously watching your lines glide on the paper.
Later, I found myself all of those lines were meant to be.
Thank you for your sharing. :)
I've really learned a lot from your videos. I really admire your skills. Thank you for you're time.
Thank you very much Michelle. Hearing I've helped makes it all worthwhile for me :) Peter
Beautiful! ❤
My favorite part is where you put the focal point in shadow there in the back. It really defines the light and shadows. Always enjoy it Peter.
Thanks Adam. Glad to hear you liked it.
I LOVE your videos! They have helped me so much with my own paintings. Thank you!
Thank you very much Lisa. Peter
Thanks Peter - yes please whatever you do don't stop!
As long as the ideas are there ;)
Beautiful!!
Thank for sharing your beautiful art! Wonderful work!
You are most welcome. Thank you for watching :)
Thank you Peter. Maravilloso.
You're welcome Pablo :)
Love the sketching technique. 👍🏾😎
Thank you, that was a great demo, I loved watching it and love that you are sharing your wonderful techniques
como siempre,es un momento muy placentero ver su arte.excelente
muchas gracias. Me alegra que lo hayas disfrutado.
I took a tremendous amount from this demo Peter. Thanks!
That is really nice to hear William
Been addicted to your videos and art. I printed the photo and watch video while looking and comparing the photo while you paint. It helps me a lot see how you interpret things. Have you considered posting the subjects next to the paper? Thank you for keeping us sane.
Hi Ricardo. Can't do that with the system I use
Thank you Peter....again ..very nice work!
You're very welcome Rene Thank you :)
started following ur work recently....enjoying it..loving it.. learning from it... thank u and keep doing it...
Great to hear my videos are helping. Thanks for following. Peter
peter you draw and colour very nicely
Very kind words. Thank you very much. Peter :)
I don't suppose you know what the music is at the beginning of this video..? It's gorgeous! As is the painting, of course!! :)
I am very happy to discover your page. Pen and wash sites are hard to find. Thank you, especially that you put the name of the paint when you put your brush in it.
Thanks so much. Glad you find them helpful. Peter :-)
Love your work and this one does not disappoint. Will be visiting Italy again next month. Not sure if Florence is on the list, but I hope so. Haven't been there yet.
Thank you very much. Enjoy your trip :)
Thank you for this great demostration !!!
You're welcome Massimo :)
Lovely ! Wonderful to observe and learn ! :)
Thank you very much. Peter
Interesting! Handsome! My compliments!😊👍👋👋👋
Thank you very much
Just so inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing...
You are most welcome. Thank you for watching :)
Thanks Peter :-) I love your style. Have taken a screenshot of your reference photo and your finished work ( hope you don't mind, it's only for myself learning) and will sit down and practice over and over again. I learn so much from your videos! Greetings from Genova, Italy. Lise
Sounds like a great way to do it :)
Perfection! Love your work 🌟🌟🌟
Thank you very much :)
I really love your work.
Thank you so much. Always nice to hear :)
I would love to see the reference photo at the same time you are painting so I can see where you are pulling your colors and contrast from.
Sorry bobby. Don't have the software ore the room on my close up videos.
If you take a screenshot at the beginning where Peter shows the finished painting, you can either print it off or have it as a window alongside the video window, I usually do this, it helps a lot.
Wonderful !!! Respect!
Thank you very much :)
Peter - a thousand thanks for this wonderful, inspiring video. You make pen and wash look so easy, but truly you have the hand and eye of a master! Great to see how you set out the pespectives before going back to fill in the details. Just wondering.... what size paper were you using?
maravilloso...es una gran inspiración!!!
Muchas gracias Carla :)
Ok, gracias, estoy pendiente de tus dibujos, son espléndidos.
De nada. Gracias por ver :)
Thank you, again, for sharing the reference photo. I think many as they draw and illustrate draw from reference and from our imagination.. When folks put me on the spot to draw something without a certain subject. You know the type. "Oh, I'd love anything you do..." I draw from a rusty imagination. Usually found from something real that has impressed or I have repeated. It's nice to watch someone else do the heavy lifting, (Paint and draw.) The music helps. Husband of profile lady.
You're so right. Glad to do the lifting. Peter
Impresionada !
muchas gracias Isabel. Peter
Hi Peter, u have always inspired me with ur city sketches with ink and wash...your drawings have always been beautiful..
I am just curious to know whether u pre wet ur sketch right before u apply the first layer of watercolor? Thanks in advance..
I really enjoy your channel, Peter. One suggestion/comment: is it possible to keep the reference photo within view as you sketch? It would be a great way to visually follow along.
Thanks Joanne. I am currently unable to overlay an image of the reference photo as I don't have the proper software. As well, I haven't room on my current set up to simply display a photo on the work surface. I do hope to remedy this in the future.
:) Lookong forward to your next demo regardless!
HI, I take a photo of the reference picture with my mobile phone and look at that when I watch Peter paint. Try it out.
I'm very grateful for your videos - I find your style very appealing and I watch them over and over again as my goal is to lighten up my own line work when sketching (Carnegie Hall, practice, practice, practice.....). I do have one favour to ask - is it at all possible, when you use reference photos, for the reference to stay on the screen as you sketch? I'm particularly interested in what you include, what you leave out, etc.
Thanks Barbara. Sorry, I don't have the software to do that.
I guess I was thinking even more simplistic than that - just placing the
photograph beside your paper - as you do with watercolour palette when you
get to that step, regardless, I look forward to new videos and I'll keep
watching the old ones (although at times I just need to turn away from the
computer and practice, practice, practice...sigh)
My current set up doesn't really allow room for a picture. I will get it set up someday.
Muy bien muy agradable
Очень красиво ❤
So good man so good
Thank you very much John. Peter
oohh! a micron! nice choice :o
Thanks! Love the Microns
The building in the very back is much lighter than the buildings closer, why did you do it much darker than them?
Cool
Hi - Really nice demonstration. Thank you. Can you tell me something? At 14:21 or so, when you add the darker colour over the wet yellow ochre ... why doesn't the dark colour bleed into the lighter yellow ochre on its left? That's what happens if I try it!
Thanks! Your paint is still too wet. You'll learn to recognize this with time and practice.
Really nice
Thank you very much :)
Peter, you may have answered this question before, but, what kind of paper are you using. Thanks for the video.
Hi Arti. this was Arches Hot press 140lb. Check the video write-up section. Click on "show more" below the video screen. This information plus much more is available there.
Love your work! But how do you keep your paints in nice little piles in the corners? My paints quickly get spread out and all over the palette. Keep the muse going!
Thanks Cici. You should see my palette for large paintings. This one stays neater because I use so little paint with these.
Thanks wonderful
Thank you Dennis. Peter
hi peter, you're work is amazing. i was wondering, its common in urban sketching to draw freely, i know. we are not committed to any line what so ever. but, when you're drawing lines you usually draw little lines makes a tiny scrible / "ties" and contionue the line. it almost look like your'e doing it in purpose to make some interest instead of just drawing a line. is this the case? (i like it a little. just wondered if its a technique or a style....)
Thank you very much :)
It's my current style and I really enjoy it. I used to paint in high detail and realism.
genial!!!!!....saludos amigo!!!!!
Hola a mi amigo Gracias
Lindo
Hi Peter, About the Strathmore 500 series sketchbook; what size do you recommend and do you prefer the hard or soft cover?
Hi Francine. I like the softcover that is around 8x10 in size. Peter
Thank you～❤️
You're very welcome. Thank you :)
How come if i was to put ublue on the y ochre it would turn green
If you're using cheaper paints, they don't always have pure pigments. Artist quality should not make green
Weird.. I know my paint isnt the best but i didnt think it was that bad.. Winsor and newton professional paints
Winsor and Newton should not make green. A very slight green tint can happen.
You start with such small shapes. Seems odd to me, like starting a portrait with an eyelash. Can’t quarrel with the results, though. Nice video.
👍👍
Seria posible ver la fotografia, en un lateral, a la vez que dibujas, me encantan tus dibujos.
Lo siento. Simplemente no hay espacio en mi configuración. Y mi configuración es aún más pequeña cuando viajo, ya que necesito algo más portátil. Yo tampoco tengo el software para hacer eso. ¿Puedo sugerirle que tome una captura de pantalla de la referencia.
For curiosity, do you paint with the paper flat of with some angle. Thank you!
Hi Miquel. I keep it fairly flat, but work with it in my lap often.
It would be good to have the photo in view (inset) as well.
Hello, I want to know what brand you are using a palette?Thank you
It is the mixing palette from a koi travel set.
СУПЕР!
mui bueno tu vídeo
Muchas gracias. Es agradable escuchar eso :)
0 dislikes! That's what you deserve! 😃
Very Kind. I never quite understand dislikes. Peter
I have a question, Why did you use a hot pressed paper for watercoloring? Because you mostly use a cold pressed paper in every urban sketch video ^^
I've only recently started to use cold press. Always had used Hot and will again.
seriously peter thank you so much for these super inspiring videos. after watching them for days i got excited and bought good quality paper and colors. i drew 2 of ur drawings today and one of them was so nice ! cant wait to try this also! i am using daler rowny travel set 18 colors. and cold press paper.
thank you again Peter. wonderful demo.
So simple, yet highly effective, redolent of Quentin Blake.
where do you get your pens
Thank you for the tutorials, Peter! That's just what I've been looking for. I've just started learning and it's quite difficult for me to draw and paint something of my own. But your tutorials made me believe in myself and that I'm capable of drawing beautifully. Thank you very much for what you do!
Lindo. Parabens
A great example! Thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Hope to be this good one day.
Great work.
Lovely.
I love watching these kinds of videos - its so easy to get caught in the details that simplicity really does look just as good if not better than an actual picture! Thank you! :)
Great comments and observation Sarah. Thanks :)
Peter, you are a genius. Looking forward to your live demos...
Nil Rocha Art.
Your work is so inspiring. This looks easy but to paint like that You have to spent some time. Anyway when I'm watching your videos it makes me wanna paint.
Thank you very much. Sounds like you're ready to start :)