Tree Shadows Study & ArtGraf Playtime
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- Spring is coming, so before the trees leaf out I'm taking more time to study the light and shadow pattern on tree trunks and tree limbs and the fascinating designs made by bare tree branches. In this video I also play with water-soluble pencil or graphite and a set of ArtGraf earth color pigment blocks to tint the graphite with.
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I use this as an underpainting for pastels. I love the way they burst when wet. ❤️🔥🙏🏻🥇👍🏻
I am inspired by this study, drawing and painting trees is not easy, but your study has helped. Thankyou
I don't think you could do too many tree videos. I love them!
“Steeeeeve... another tree?” said by nobody ever 🤣
lol I can never paint enough trees
geckonia 😂😂😂😂 so true
I take advantage of my near sightedness. I take the glasses off when studying color for landscapes. Good video. Thanks.
I do this also! No squinting required 😣... Lol😃😃😃🖌️🎨♥️♥️♥️
"Pretty good for a study" Oh, the humility of the ridiculously talented teacher. Beautiful tree. Thanks for these tree videos - I'm obsessed with trees but have an awful time drawing them, partly because of the complexity of them, partly because I'm not very good at determining proportion. I'll keep watching tree drawing videos as long as you keep making them.
I have that exact set and I love this set. So versatile and wets amazingly❤️🔥🥇🙏🏻
I love the look & packaging of these. They'd probably last a lifetime. They remind me of inktence. I love the way you sneak in so many good little hints and tricks while relaxing yet entertaining your viewers.
I LOVE YOUR TREES!💜
Love trees! My 10 acres is heavily wooded and I never tire of looking at the trees - winter is my favorite time to study them. We had a light dusting of snow yesterday and today is bright and sunny so there is a high contrast between the branches and the snow on them - really highlights the form. Thanks for the video Steve! Hank
Loved the study. You can never do too many trees...and light for us. Thank you.
Yeah thats how I feel myself. I know some people would like to see other stuff but these tree limb structures will be covered up soon.
You can't do enough trees for me! I love them and love to study them. Thank you so much.
You cannot do enough trees for me . It is one of my favorite subjects. I trying to emulate your touch . I think you have a fabulous way of expressing what you see .
For me too. Never enough trees.
I accidentally bought a set of these pencils now I have a idea what ranges I can do with these pencils...thanks for the video....✍🎨
Thanks for highlighting these. I had something like this years ago from a Russian outfit - they look like they are colored clays.
Hey, Steve...another chacteristic of trees is the old or abandon bird's nest. Just love that particular interest of added life.
Trees are a great subject to learn light and shadows. I really enjoy your tutorials,thanks for sharing them 🙏🏼
I’m Portuguese, so this was super exciting to watch for me! Thank you Steve!
Love this! Going to check he Art Graph products!
Yay! I'm one of your many tree fans. Lots of good information. Thank you for sharing. Wonderful tutorial.
Watching you do this tree helped me in my shadow study. Thank you. 😊 Of course I try to watch every video you make and thanks for the review, it helps.
Great and interesting video. I have sepia and brown and figured out a way to carry them. I cut each in half, then glued one half of each color into an old eye shadow compact. I also attached palette paper to the inside lid using Repositionable Glue tape. Now I can easily grab the compact and not get my fingers messy. I love the look they gave to your tree, Steve.
Steve, I watch your videos to inspire me to paint. Trees are intimidating, so I am very happy that you have done several. Watching you makes it seem more "doable." I wish I could snap my fingers and magically have your many years of experience. My husband is a painter, and when a client asks how long it took him to paint a painting, he always answers, "Forty years." Because that's how long it takes to have the EXPERIENCE to do it.
Blessings to you, and enjoy this beautiful Spring that is beginning all around us (here in Texas anyway).
"Forty Years" yes, great answer!
I swear. .no matter what media or subject matter you demonstrate..I become so inspired to try them. I wish I could improve more. I'll just keep trying .
Thank you again ..love following you .
I want the thank you package 👍😊👍 I really enjoy all of your video’s ... they are so informative and inspiring.
Thank you for the review and painting. I love trees, so I would watch it anytime.
Thank you the review.
I have been looking for earth tones and tried natural plant watercolors before.
ohh.Thank you for the review.It helped me a lot.
I so enjoy your tree videos. You make them come alive and give so many tips for us to use.
This tree really looks amazing in terms of convex shape and a value pattern. It was very interesting to watch, you gave a lot of useful tips. Thanks
Thank you for your time and discussion on this art supply. These have been in my blick cart for several weeks thanks to the lure of Instagram photos. I already own the derwent graphitint set and love them, but the earth tones of this set drew me in. Your video gave me much to think about. And im still undecided. Lovely tree study and i enjoyed your thoughtful discussion on dimensionality and shadows. As always an enjoyable and instructional video. Have a nice weekend!
Nice earth colors for sure, just wish they included pigment info.
Glad you showed these, I have looked at them a couple of times. I was concerned that the cost was more to cover the packaging and didn’t know about the product for the price. Oh well, I am sure there are many people that love them and they are perfect for what they use them for. It’s just like Cretacolor Aqua Brigue set. I love them and they cover paper so well. To me its just another form of gouache. The tree is beautiful and its always great when you go into detail on the shadows and how to handle the curves of a subject. Please don’t ever stop, we all need the lessons and the reminders. 👍🏻
Thanks Essie! These are more transparent though compared to to Aqua Briques or standard gouache. More like watercolor, although they do have a white I'm interested in trying, The rewet so very easily.
The Mind of Watercolor I did look at these on line, they do have a primary set for less than $20 on Amazon, I think I will give them a try. Thanks again for the demo!
Thank you, Steve, for sharing this tree demo. I need more patience when sketching trees....yours look so real.
Your tree looks amazing. Thankyou for your video, the earth colours are beautiful, but I want the full set of the brights and the graphite one too. So expensive for me but the quality is worth the price. I'll have to ask them for a violet, olive green and indigo.
Another very helpful teaching video about one of my favorite subjects. I always learn so much. Thanks, Steve!
Thanks Steve. Your study of the Tree/light has inspired me to do one of my apple tree with a limb that came down in our recent wind/ snow event here in Massachusetts.
Thanks, Steve. Unbiased review and excellent lesson.👍🖒
Thank you so much! I'm drawing (or painting) a tree a day in 2019 hoping, obviously, to get better. This video was incredibly helpful and I'm going to watch all your tree videos. Trees are such puzzles, especially this time of year in the north. I start out to really capture each nuance and by the skinny branches am exhausted. I draw from life (through my windows this time of year) or from photos I have taken. Once in awhile I break this rule - because they are my rules to break - but mostly not. Thanks again.
Good for you!
Thanks, you just saved me some money. They were in my wish list to purchase..like you I have plenty of watercolors. I love the trees, need to get out and take a few more pictures while the leaves aren’t on them.
Hi Steve. . always enjoy your lessons and studies. The color sepia is the he one right next to the black (left of the black)......then dark brown...then brown....then ochre.....then red oxide on the left.... these colors are wonderful for outside sketching.
Yep, I agree
Thanks for another wonderful video Steve !! Your videos are ALWAYS helpful. :)
Fantastic...love your tutorials especially the trees and landscapes, thankyou.
Thanks Steve very interesting 👍 it’s amazing how much less stress I feel when watching something like this. I guess it’s showing me how to see things less complicated. I think I need to do lots of studies in graphite etc. Recently our tutor gave us charcoal to use and I absolutely loved it 😃
I love using this graphite.. really interesting to learn how to get different values ... I have sepia, sanguine , and dark brown .. I really enjoy them , especially when outside urban sketching ...
I’m going to get out and do simply many gesture only drawings of the local tree types. I think that’s the best way to come to my interpretation of the general characteristics.
Thank you.
Thank you for your information and sharing! Blessings to you. I have actually used pastels with water.
Just lovely and something we can all take instruction from.
Great video, and just in time to start going out again (I live in Toronto) and take some photos and study the trees...
Another excellent tutorial!! Thank you.
Oh, oh, oh. I’ve been looking at this Artgraph set online. It looks so beautiful. So happy to watch you play with it because I don’t need it and can’t get it right now. 😍
Very enjoyable! Gotta get some water soluble graphite... Love, love, love your trees!
But this product is not graphite. It’s tailors chalk. First made for tailors to mark onto fabric. It washes out completely from the fabric. Anyways despite what you call it, it looks fabulous and fun to work with.
haha you are so perfect on describing how to paint shadows and leave light I was doing it without even watching . =) Thanks for all you do =)
Thanks Steve..great tutorial...I have two of these..and now won’t bother buying any others!
I just found that set as I was poking around on Jerry's artarama. So happy to see that you did a video on them.
I really Love your channel. I'm at the very beginning of my watercolor journey, and you are most definitely my favorite channel, and I love trees. 💖
Thank you, Steve. I really appreciate your professional take on this product, as I was considering buying them. Gives me valuable info to help me decide. Thanks again. BTW, I simply love your trees. Incredible. : )
These look lovely, the other sets as well 🥰 I love the cork packaging, infinitely better than any plastic tray they could have used for packing them! Haven't had much time for painting and drawing and I haven't really used the watercolours I last got yet - but these and Schmincke's liquid charcoal definitely are on my radar 😁
BTW, you can't really do wrong with tree tutorials, I'm all here for them 😊
so good videos
I saw Teoh Yi Chie's review & demo of these, and I find them really interesting. I especially want the white one, it was really opaque! I'm getting one with my next Jackson's order for sure.
Thank you again. I’m learning so much.
Very helpful! Thank you.
thanks for this video, Steve. I've been tempted to purchase the Art Graf squares from my local art store. Glad I did not.
Thank you for the review! I bought a single color once because I am curious and love to play and test new materials. But it was not working for me. After seeing your study, I may give it another try. I probably won't get more but at least I want to use the material I have.
Very cool, thanks
Have you seen Kuretake's graphite watercolor set? They might be exactly what you're looking for. I love them.
Yes! Very similar to Derwent's Graphitint set which I have and love. th-cam.com/video/y0kdjjEIBnw/w-d-xo.html
That was interesting. I've never used water soluble graphite before . Thanks for showing us. I'd also love to know where that palette came from. I've never seen one like that before. Thanks again. I appreciate you spending the time.
Steve... can you do a lesson on luminance? Like if light is shining through a flower petal or a thin fabric? You may already have a video on this but as I continue to struggle with color, this is something I also struggle with. Thanks.
Any video where I talk about glazing is usually for that purpose. Thats how luminosity is achieved in watercolor by layering thin transparent layers,
I’m not sure what it is about your videos but I find that I can totally relax while watching. Some videos I end up shouting at the screen, not good for my stress levels. I have used water soluble graphite and I purchased some liquid graphite and wondered if you have used it. I haven’t experimented with it yet. Thank you for your videos, I am learning heaps.
Bob Ross of watercolor.😉😁
Right! I agree. I have three noisy boys and when I can't handle it anymore, I put on head phones and watch Steve paint. It's like art therapy without even painting. Lol.
No, I haven't tried liquid form. Thanks for the kind comments Meryle!
Sarah Noda I’m guessing that you are sometimes needing peace and quiet when the boys are noisy. For clarity between you, your authenticity, and their consideration it would be healthy for you to verbalize this before retreating from them. That way they have a choice in the strategy for you to get piece and quiet which may be a different than the one of retreat from them. 🤷♀️
Helpful. Mahalo🌳 🌴Palm trees perhaps?
Steve, I purchased grafitint blocks with 6 colors. Blue green brown and greys. They are pure grafite. And I think you would love the texture they give. Check them out. Can get them on Amazon.
Might be interesting to do a Zorn-ish palette with the Sanguine, Ochre and Carbon (I think they also have a white available?)
I really like the black alone for quick sketches.
Thank you. You saved me about $100 (with shipping. ;) ) I had been looking after getting these because I, too, had thought that they would be similar to the Derwent Graphitint line. I have the XL blocks and there are no reds or similar colors like that and I had thought they would have the same muted look. They are pretty - but I have many watercolors that I can easily use, as you said. I received your beautiful M. Graham 10 tube set about a month ago and I am loving the versatility and using it for so many things. I also love your videos that show how you mix them and I can boast that my palette looks as 'messy' as yours - but I am using every bit and just having a ball extending the already-mixed colors. I have supplemented your 10 colors with just a couple of my favorites for when I am too lazy to mix them or run out of room.
I was wondering . . . (always dangerous!) I have the ArtGraf small tin of graphite (which I made a beautiful flamingo painting with greyscale following a class from Maria Raczynska) and I thought if I wanted brighter or 'different' colors I would be able to mix the graphite with regular watercolors. (?) Have you ever tried that? I guess the best teacher is experience, but I thought I would throw it out there, as the small tin is inexpensive and there may be some others who follow you who may want to try it. Or you could do so and show us your thoughts on it.
Anyway - thanks, as always for the great information.
Yes, you can. You might want to keep the graphite out of your watercolor palette and mix them on a separate surface. Styrofoam plate or small plastic palette for example. Just to keep your regular watercolors clean.
@@mindofwatercolor Thank you. Good point. I have plenty of palettes, so that will be just what I will do. :) Thank you again for your time.
If you want some nice coloured graphite, try Derivans Liquid grapithe.
I want to get these.
Great video, @The Mind of Watercolor! Have you seen the graphite "putty"? I've gotten some but have yet to play with it!
Seen it, not tried it.
Not what I would have expected either, but a great study anyway. Will be using the hints on light and form. I think I stop working on drawings too early and miss out on subtle details that could really add so much to the final work. Just saw your channel mentioned in an Amazon comment for black velvet brushes. 🙂
On a side note: I just remembered, about a year ago I sat down to watch your latest video before heading to the hospital where my grandson would soon be born. He's a year old now. Where did the time go?!
Thanks for the heads cup Evangeline. And thanks for sticking with me.
I just checked it on-line. You got the names of the colors right, Steve.
The brush you used has a great point. Can you tell me please the brand and size? Many thanks! Love your videos!!
It's a beautiful color selection..too bad no pigment info. Maybe it's like the pigment powders for sale in some art stores for those who make their own paint. Maybe you add your own ox gall and gum arabic if you want it to flow more?
These would be great for figure studies?
Theses are tailors chalk ⬆️ straight up. I didn’t buy them because I have water colors in the same colors. It would be fun to sketch a large piece with them and then activate it as an experiment. But not right now. I’m staying on track with drawing and watercolor.
Steve, take a look at Caran D'Ache's new product 'Graphite line' water soluble set ref: 779.313
I think it's lovely, and in a sweet tin, too. It contains water soluble pencils of superb quality (technalo RGB) and three grafcubes (GRAFCUBE RGB) plus rubber, sharpener and water brush. It costs around £40
Really enjoyed your presentation.
Will do, thanks!
What are you using to “activate”?
Thx!
I too love trees but I have a question. I don’t think I have ever fully understood the squinting thing. Does it have to do with leaving out details or seeing certain colors. I heard its benefits described in so many ways and never really understood or been able to achieve what the “teacher” is describing. Maybe you can help me further my watercolor Sensei. Again, yet another great and informative video!
Reducing detail mainly and seeing major areas of contrast.
@ mind of watercolor... are the water soluble graphite pencils erasable after they dry ?
Not well erasable after drying - once wetted, the graphite ends up binding to the paper, rather than just being layered on the paper as with left-dry graphite -
no, no more than regular watercolor. It erases well while its dry before activation. The pigment gets into the paper once activated. Some lifting with a wet brush is possible but just like watercolor the amount depends on paper and color.
Is there a different place to locate videos available for patrons?
Patreon.com/mindofwatercolor. click on the posts tab under the main banner.
I am Portuguese and I have nerve seen these
I'm rather surprised that there was no blue. Other than that, they seem nice.
Artbum Jodi Mahaffey Artist there is a primary set with a cyan type blue, heh heh, 😁 $$
You can use the black as a "blue" because of the cool tones in it! Not the same like a primary blue, but eh, it works! ✨
I was trying to sketch some trees from life, but kept getting overwhelmed by all the branches. I felt like I kept getting lost in my drawing. Any tips on how not to get overwhelmed by all the branches when drawing trees?
Squint a lot! It really works. Draw the largest branches first. Add in only enough fine branches to make the tree feel convincing.
@@mindofwatercolor, thanks! I'll give that a try!
Looks like quality watercolors but the form factor doesn't make much sense, maybe for sketching on very large paper, and then spray it with a plant moisturizer?
I kind of agree. Don't like the tailor's chalk hand held form for the way I paint. Messy too.
Darkvine that’s how I would like to try them. Sketching on a large paper like 18x24 and then activating with brush or spray. I think it would render unique results. Impressionistic and expressive of course. Ahhh, but I have to stay on track. This is off my path for now.