Texture Experiments & Tips. Spontaneous Watercolor Landscape. Real Time Commentary and Tips.
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- I decided to play around with some watercolor textures. Maybe try a few new things. Join me as I do this spontaneous landscape painting, mostly in real time with a real time commentary (not a voice over). I've included lots of great tips too.
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When watching this I imagine the sounds of a crowd watching fireworks, going "ÖOooooh, Aaaaaahhhhhh"
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I’ve mostly just used a little granulating paint - Daniel Smith and love what salt will do. For rocks my best was wadding up plastic wrap and pressing into the already grey shaded paint and letting it dry. Pulling it off after really dry was really “rocklike”!
@@rosemarypetersen143 - Yes! I came here to add the plastic wrap texture comment!! 😄
I recently discovered this series and have fallen in love with this technique. I love how these paintings make your mind work and how no two people would see the same forms. To me..thats 'art'😊. I like to use salt water as a granulating medium..it gives some interesting effects. Hope to see more of your videos..very enjoyable.
Try using a small bit of webbing used in Halloween decor. Apply paint over it on paper, let it dry, then pull it off for some interesting texture.
Hi! I am a watercolor artist and have watched a few of your “spontaneous landscapes”and I finally tried it. Loved it. I used splatter masking as well. After posting my finished painting, which only took me around 3 hours, I had over 200 likes in less then a couple hours. Shocked! People loved it.
I think your inner child came out to play today! Your spontaneous paintings are so educational and entertaining. Always gives me more and different ways to play with watercolor. Thank you for sharing.
Try gauz or lace from your first aid kit. Use one layer and stretch it then laying on your paper and add paint. Let it dry. Most of the paint is absorbed by the fabric and stains the paper that way. Very interesting for landscapes.
COOL!
This is a fantastic piece, Steve. For texture, I like to add watercolor pencil shavings. I sharpen the pencil and remove the wood bits and sprinkle the pigment into a wet area. Interesting results, give it a go. 😃
My texture experiments:
- salt, both fine and coarse, various results depending on paper, water quantity, salt type and pigment type
- granulation, by selecting granulating pigments, and I actually prefer the effect it has on textured paper as it offers small pools for the pigments to settle into
- spatter: always a nice thing!
- plastic film: interesting, I only used it once to create a surreal tutu for a dancer illustration
- working into wet non stop from paper completelly soaked into water up until it dries, as you can get a nice gradient from very fuzzy to crisp
Thanks so much for your demonstration. I’ve used salt and stick work but never used a pipeette. I’m definitely going to try and will watch more of your tutorials.
Oh, yes!!! The sparkling path bekons me into the mysterious forest and I must go...
I'll put the kettle on, see you there. :)
Thank you for the demo with real time commentary. I am preparing to introduce creating texture effects to a watercolor painting class and this has been perfect. Very instructive and satisfying.
Ann Blockley has a splendid mind for rediscovering the wonders of watercolor.
I have used sea sponges to create texture including using a dry sponge to lift out foreground details.
I absolutely love your spontaneous videos.
Please make more.
I am definitely going to get white ink.
That just made the picture pop!
Thank you! Will do!
Wow! Thank you. Watched this over and over and wrote so many notes.
Now to experiment with granulation!
After searching on "extended point" I also found another similar brush to the Lebenzon brush. Rosemary & Co Series 336. Extended Needle Point Posara - the body of the brush is made from a squirrel/synthetic sable blend, while the needle point is synthetic - and a great price.
Then I realized I actually have one of these; so now I have to try it out like you have done here.
Love your spontaneous landscapes. I got brave enough to try it by following one of yours... turned out absolutely nothing like the model, but it was a good painting though.
I could watch you do these all day. Thank you.
I think I’ve watched this one three different times now. It’s one of my favorites. 😊
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Same!! just watched this 3-4 times in 2 days. Very instructive and satisfying.
I just imagine the white drops as a water lilies as they spread nicely around and you’ve smudge them. 😂😂 Steve, thank you for taking me out my comfort zone, even when watching. And perhaps I can finally write you one gratitude comment after all these years here. Thank you for sharing all your tips and techniques. It’s always my pleasure to learn with you and experiment. I wish you a beautiful day and I hope you are doing well 🤗💞 Thank you once again.
Thank you for introducing Ann Blockley to me I love looking at her photos of her work and wondering... how on earth? It was great watching you - fantastic!
I LOVE this painting. I have played around with a few texture techniques. One I have fun with is a straw to blow on puddles to create branches and such.
Just beautiful… love the white ink and the risk taking 💛
Love to watch Mr. Mitchell paint! It inspires and teaches at the same time.
I have most of Ann Blockley’s books. I was a huge fan of her late father, John Blockley, so I also have a number of his books, too.
Fabulous. Thanks for the tutorial, I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do too.
I could watch these videos all day long. I especially enjoy them when you get excited by something that happens you didn’t expect. Great way to show the fun of experimenting with watercolor. I have used salts and water spritz… timing is everything! I haven’t used the ink before but I will now. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
I prefer hearing your thought process as you go. After all, it is called The "Mind" of Watercolor. It started looking like a wooded island with reflection in the water. Final product is awesome!
As a devoted subscriber of your videos for years, your mastery of spontaneous landscapes is astounding!
I found myself so relaxed watching you paint. I am new to watercolor painting so I'll be trying these textures on my own masterpieces. Thank you for your instructions, well worth watching.
Granulation medium works great with FW Daler Rowney acrylic inks. Indigo and sepia granulate really well. Some colors don’t respond as well.
I have a couple of John Blockley books (her Dad) and I also love her techniques. He broke the rules to create dramatic watercolours with accurate buildings and contrasting, abstract landscape combined. A lovely technique I'll be exploring.
Love John's work yes. One of the first watercolor books I owned was by him.
You are having too much fun........in the past I have been a every feather type of artist , I love the loose and spontaneous art you show us........i remember in school we scribbled and then tried to pick out an object...... I lost that, I'm giving this a go! Thank you so much!
I so enjoyed the real time commentary in this video. I love doing spontaneous landscapes. I have used salt, spatters, saran wrap, tooth picks, garden sticks, store cards, water spatters and Dr. PH Martin Bleed-proof white for spattering….. In Landscapes and Florals and intuitive watercolor paintings. I like salt as backgrounds for birds and animals. Wherever I am guided, I add texture. I love texture! Steve, you are certainly a Master of the Spontaneous landscapes. I’ve learned so much from you. I just can’t get enough! Thank you so much.❤️
That was perfect! I was driving home just before sunset last week and the sky and trees had that exact quality! Brings back some great sense memories of a beautiful summer day.
Fabulous! Thank you
Really nice. I like to use salt and spattering, scrunched cling film is good too. I'm going to try this 👍
I like playing with texture. I do crazy things likemaprinkling sawdust or even wheat bran on parts then sweeping them off when it’s, dry. Baby powder does interesting things sprinkled on a dark spot. The gum Arabic can bind it to the surface or you can sweep it. I have used an underlayer of India ink...waterproof when dry, then some masking spatter then a watercolor over paint to create a kind of depth to a spot. Texture is a lot, of fun, but you have to be mentally prepared for it, not to work.
right. begginers mind every time!! :)
Wow that’s a great variety of techniques and textures you have used to achieve another beautiful spontaneous landscape. For my textures, I have used splattering, back runs/cauliflowers, scratching/embossing, white gel pens, oil pastel underneath watercolor, & white wax crayon. Have not try salt, ink, or gouache for texture yet. Thanks for sharing this wonderful video with us.
I do love Ann Blockley's work.
Interesting techniques that i would like to try.....enjoyed video.....im putting hot press paper on my xmas list...🎨👩🎨✍
Adding a wash over was crayon-always a thrill!
I love when you play it by ear ~ fun and educational! Thank you, Steve💁🏼♀️👍
beautiful job. i am a sucker for black ink pen for highlights. i know i should not ......but i do.
It looks like sunrise over swampy waters. The white ink was a very nice surprise.
Howdy Steve,
I think I would have done a golden sienna glaze over the white ink
or mixed the ink with a warm colour first.
Here is a real tale of terror.
Two weeks ago in a workshop in Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, over 3 days , 8 class mates.
The course was "fungi botanical scientific"
(the week before, same place, two days, I did plein air workshop and ended up in large semi abstract watercolours..)
lol) I spoke to my teacher about having a dark background, and liking a style that was dark and botanical.
So just before lunch, 15 mins, I mixed about 7 darks together,
(DS dried tube on palette, Quin rose, phthalo green, for the dark black mix, then into it went undersea green, green apatite, undersea green, and perylene green, maybe a few more, and colour corrected to warm brown black with more rose.)
I made a lot of it, cream consistency.
I wanted a dark, warm, brown black with a huge amount of granulation.
I was scared, but I went for it, to put it all on in one go.
(If I had of brought my masking fluid it would have worked)
But no, I decided I would put all the dark background on all in one go, leaving the fungi drawing scaled at 5:1. My first problem was I had to use size 2 brush around the edges of the fungi, and was rushing and shaking so much, that I lost the thickness of the stipe (stem) which is thicker at the top, near the cap in this particular fungi.
I didn't dare try to lift it along a vertical line, and with the phthalo component in the mix, ....I buggered it properly with impatience.
I came into eat with my class mates, told them, and a woman said "if in doubt spray the edges". So I ran back to my work to spray it good and proper.
Heavily. It was so much fun. Then more spray. It ran the downward slope and it made "little finger shaped marks and took the granulation along with it" over the hot pressed Fabriano Artistico A3 paper block. ( A bit like your work Steve on bottom right)
I ate my lunch, dried my work with my heat tool, and "slopped on the yellow underside, vermillion orange cap and red to violet in shadows, on the fungi, very quickly" as the fungi looked.
My teacher came around and said "too much water." lol. I said looking up at her,
"Well I wrecked it, so I decided to wreck it properly" (really was to save face)
My palette full of dark thick high water, and her with tiny pea spot dry mixes with a gentle touch from nearly no pigment with small brushes.
My class mates commented on my lovely dark warm heavily granulating sprayed thing. I can barely look at the work, now, let alone fix it. A few women in our class said, "oh you can save these mushrooms!"
To me, loosing the critical thickness of the stipe with a shaky hand was enough for me. What came out of this serendipitous moment is this kind of immense learning factor!
1) One can mix many colours together, if most pigments are on one side of the colour wheel.
2) Hot pressed paper when sprayed, has the "miniature fingers and granulation channels" ,you also had Steve, on the lower bottom right of your picture, which in my case looked like it could have been painted as "lichen fungi which looked like I took hours to paint it, instead of seconds."
3) One can do a very dark, thick, high, creamy consistency layer all at once (with masking fluid)
4) I will make this mix again! (It separated better when sprayed, more than any other granulating pigment I have ever used)
5) Despite the name of a workshop class, and an extremely patient, scientific, professional tutor, who's demos "looked like a photography process where the paper is developed and the image is ghostly and comes up from the back slowly", with her 000 brushes no glasses no light, and me holding my breath, and looking at little red mushrooms that I could barely see with my glasses on, a light and a magnifying glass...."
and 6) sometimes we are adversely impatient at the wrong time, and it isn't because we deny the process...or hate the teacher's approach (but can appear that way)
7) My dad said "to embarrass yourself daily, as it was good for us". Dad, I made you proud this time round...I can hear him laughing and saying, "oh well...if you don't laugh, you cry." and "You can say anything you like as long as you are smiling......
In kindred spirit,
Eliza Most Beautiful Day is Today!
Sunday 5th of June 2022; 12:27pm
Sydney Australia
xx
PS I challenge you Steve, 😂😊, to make" a live stream, seemingly crazy, many pigment, dark granulating, staining mix background, put it on all at once, spray heavily" with masking fluid as the block, and heat tool dry it!
How marvelous! I would have thoroughly enjoyed painting along side you. The spirit of Mozart is still alive!
Wow, that is cool. Beautiful
I love your work it's absolutely mesmerizing, I'm still trying to work up the courage to try something myself.
Another magical opportunity to watch you create your spontaneous art. I am always amazed at the beauty you bring out. I haven't tried salt yet, but I will. I have used white gouache and white ink pens with good results. Being a birch trees lover, white comes in handy in a distant forest. Love you. ❤️
The first three minutes I was like, “Oh that looks doable”! 😂 Getting that water control is the big rub. I got a sense of a medieval forest as you progressed. Very nice!!
Love the effects when the paint works itself !
This is one of my favorite spontaneous paintings I've watched you do! I've never heard of granulating liquid and I'm inspired to try it! Thank you.
A watercolor technique I've used from another TH-camr Michelle Krill is a water-downed spritzer bottle of bleach and water instead of alcohol that makes for great texture.
I love textures so this was great. I’ve tried salt with some interesting results but only after I had stepped away for a coffee break and came back to some interesting texture. A favourite of mine is doing smooth rocks with cellophane crumpled up and placed over the first wash and go for another coffee and really let it dry. The next day I’ll build up a few washes to create shadow allowing the texture from the cellophane to show through. I’m going to try the same effect on creating the look of water. It should be amazing or terrible but that’s the fun part.
Triangles are sacred and very appealing in my opinion . I love your spontaneous compositions and have learned so much watching you paint
Loved this video Steve, I would love to see more based off of Ann's books ,it's fun seeing you surprised while you paint....
This is SO helpful for me! thank you for letting me watch your process! I have used ink - but have been a bit timid. I want to try the granulation medium next, and to get one of those brushes! ☺
I LOVE SOOO MUCH YOUR WORK AND LESSONS. IT IS THE BEST TIME FOR ME TO WATCH YOU.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
I don't usually like these spontaneous paintings but you got me on this one it is lovely and I even think it was just as lovely half way through.
I needed help today, something to distract me from a distressing situation, I often turn to you. Thank-you for the scripture verses also, I love and count on that. Will drag out my paints later when I can settle, you have inspired and encouraged me. Thanks again Steve.
Thanks for introducing me to Ann’s book. Her style is one that I wish were mine. I do try to create textures a lot, using salt, water droplets and spattering opaque paints like jaune brilliant or lavender into a dark wet area and letting that run. I have white ink, walnut ink and granulation fluid but I haven’t played with them enough. Your process and the finished painting were fun and a huge success.😊
What you called a "tree" was to me water like a creek with rocks. I love seeing art in progress in real time. Thankyou for sharing, I am going to my desk right now and try it! I like salt water (mixtur 2:1 or 3:1; makes a crusti edge litle bit shiny) to creat texture but I also work with wachs and I tapp a lot (foil, paper, cardstock, yarn).
I really enjoy doing your technique of spraying droplets on the paper then painting in small washes and letting the paint do it's thing, especially for foliage. I've used the salt technique as well. That works well for rock textures for me along with spatter from a brush or tooth brush. Using plastic wrap and cheese cloth is fun. I've laid string down in wet paint. I am going to have to try a spontaneous landscape!
After watching your video I experimented with gouache and watercolour. I think I’ll try aging to do it and see if I could add granulated watercolour tint to it. Thank you for sharing your beautiful process.
I love this, so gorgeous!!!!
Just goes to show the importance of strong composition, which gives you the space for your texture experiments where us mere mortals would get a messy blob. I was particularly enthusiastic about the white and gold vertical lines of spatter, they made for a very dynamic picture.
I've tried granulation medium, salt, painting with sea water, scrubbing with a bristle brush or credit card. My favourite technique is spattering with clean water, it's softer than salt. I use white ink for highlights but now will try spattering it. Thank you for this!
Kate29, Hi, what, if any effect, did the seawater give you and how did you use it? I have often thought about using seawater as I have the pacific ocean at the bottom of my street but as a beginner in ill-health, I haven't yet been able to carry out many of my ideas. I have the notion that condensed seawater may leave a nice crusty hard edge to a stroke that could be attractive when used in landscapes and florals.
@@moochymooo To tell you the truth it was a once-off experiment because I was on the beach and had run off freshwater. I was pretty disappointed with the outcome: it gives you some granulation but very little. I haven't noticed that the edge was different. I tried mostly light staining pigments though, but maybe you could get more interesting results with heavier ones like earth pigments or naturally granulating blues. You made me think I should try again!
Thank you very much! I've done some experimenting, it's fun.
Great painting.
This turned out amazing Steve ! I was in a hypnotic state watching it take shape. Your work is beautiful ! Thank you for sharing it.
Yes I'm watching this Spontaneous painting again something about this I like lot. Thank you!!!!!
pretty cool
Wow, learned so much in this video….off to make tea and play. Thank you very much
It looks like water and rocks flowing down! Just beautiful!
Salt, credit card, splatter, soft rub outs, metallics, rice. 😊
Wonderfull !!!
You are the best!
I really like the real time paintings
Love it !
I like the white paint look. Definitely gonna use that one.
This is an interesting and fun demo. I've never thought of hot press as being able to give such granulation since the paper is so smooth - amazing how the pigments reveal that on the hot press. Thanks
I love these spontaneous paintings, thank you so much.
I really want to do some norther light landscape and terrestrial scenes. I do crazy flowers,both clay and watercolor. Thank you
Beautiful painting. I have tried salt which works well.
I have so enjoyed you spontaneous painting and I find it is almost meditative. I have used sea salt, candlewax, plastic wrap , inks and alcohol. Many thanks for your putting me onto this type of painting you never know what the final outcome will be. That is the exciting part.
You're an excellent teacher, sir. Thank you for sharing your time, expertise, & talent.
Steve, try using the white webbing used at Halloween. Spread it thin and apply washes or ink on top. Let it dry or half dry and pull it off. Lovely spider web effect.
Wow! this is my fav style of painting but I also love everything else you kindly share with us. Many thanks for your time & knowledge. 💫
Lovely!
Love this! These spontaneous watercolors you do always have such an ethereal dream-like quality about them. I really like using the spray bottle as I have been learning how to do some of these. Salt has been fun too when I use it sparingly.
It is a pleasure watching you create. Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant. So thought provoking. Thank you so much
Magnificent demonstration. I've hoped to learn this from you someday. You have such a gift for teaching. Thank you so much. I'm going to watch this and practice often. I am new to all the techniques here. I would consider this style of layout....a Vignette.
I love watching your process.The finished painting is really soft and peaceful .I really love this one 🥰
I love this, ordering some supplies will try them as soon as they get here. Thanks so much
Love the different textures!!!! I will try some of them!!!! Thanks sooo much !!
The granulation fluid is an awesome medium for me when added to acrylic ink on a watercolor painting. It never occurred to me to use it to dilute watercolor pigment (instead of water). Cant wait to try that. Thanks for that tip
This was so fun to watch!
This was a great treat. Thank you for sharing your experiments. It was so fun to watch.
I loved watching this and will definitely e watching more of your vids as I am reacquainting myself with watercolor paintings . It’s been many years since I’ve painted anything let alone with watercolor paints . I’m feeling excited to paint again !
Great tips on different watercolour techniques. Thank you for sharing
Beautiful.
Love watching your spontaneous landscapes evolve! I have tried Splattering in Dr PH Martins bleed proof white and white acrylic ink before. I think 🤔 I liked the effect of the bleed proof white better!