Love this. Added a black background and will post pix later. Water them only once a week or once every two weeks, and let them drain, and dry out between waterings. For a sturdy indoor plant, buy a small Ponytail palm, put it in a south or east window, and water it sparsely, maybe only once a month. You can let it grow to fill the pot, or if you want it to be a giant, you can transplant it yearly. I have one that is more than 50 years old, and survived a teething puppy!
Michael, I think your plant advice is spot on! And I could totally see Sarah killing plants out of love. I have decided that these layering projects are really hard for me. So I should probably do some more!
i love this channel so much, i learn so much everytime i watch one fo your videos and i love that theres barely any edit/cut parts so it feels liek a long session with a friend, and also all of those little unrealted info dumping moments make it so fun too!! love love this!!
I feel smarter on so many different levels after watching this tutorial. 😊. I also wanted to say, Sarah, your blouse matched the succulent perfectly! Very pretty!
i cannot even begin to describe how much i wanted to be part of this convo the whole time. i got so much out of this lesson, and the purple thing its truee! it was made out of a certain kind of snail,. but theyre so small that they had to get a lot to make just a bit of good purple. Thank u guys for all those technical tips, this is by far the lesson ive got the most out of.
I thought all people saw colors like I do. I wasn’t aware that how I see color was different. Thank you Michael for bring that up and discussing it with Sarah. I learned something new about myself.
Thank you - I think this is one of my favorite tutorials from you regarding color mixing (granted, I haven't seen them all). It's awesome to know how to mute/darken colors without mixing black. There are so many uses for this information. Thanks! :)
Gosh,, this is why I love painting along with let's make art! Not only are you guys artsy and fun but you're also really smart and I love that I can paint and learn all kinds of information all in one place! 🥰🥰🥰
I started this succulent a few months ago but did a dark wash. Felt so frustrated, and gave up. Returned last week to this same project with more confidence after practicing on other pictures and now felt so good about it. What I mean to say is that practice, practice, practice. There’s a lot of beautiful projects in this website so you can have a lot of inspiration. Keep on painting. 😍
Sarah, I have a Light Box for tracing and I use a watercolor pencil. It works great and once it’s wet, the lines just blend and disappear, so cool 👩🏼🎨
Side learning..,.Michael just helped me to understand what is going on with my avocado seed/tree. I pinch off the new growth when I want my tree branch out. Thank you Michael.
I learned so much watching this lesson! I almost didn’t watch it because my painting skills have advanced so I didn’t think I needed to. Thank you for the information and beautiful painting.
Thank you for this action packed tutorial - I mean in an artistic/fun facts kinda way. I lost count of the tips and color theory and perspective lessons in this video. As someone who learned to paint from Sarah, I suggest this be added to the beginner series. Thanks LMA for spreading joy!
29:02- SUCH a good tip, Sarah! I have found myself doing this. :) And yes- purple dye came from crushed seashells. The Tyre was renowned for purple dye from the shells off the coast of modern day Lebanon!
I have been painting with this style and I thought something was wrong with me because I see so many artists pushing the loose style. This is what I seem drawn to.. Thought it didnt look like watercolor.. I also love the Canson XL watercolor paper. I really enjoyed this tutorial.. you have a lovely family.
Great tutorial and I love the color perception and history talk! Two books I recommend: Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color by David Coles and The Colors of History: How Colors Shaped the World by Clive Gifford and Marc-Etienne Peintre (actually a children's book). Both beautiful and lots of fun and interesting color facts!
Thank you for this bonus project! I have found using a window to trace on TOP of the watercolor paper lets me trace much lighter and then slightly erase the lines with a kneaded eraser. The graphite paper always leaves extra black marks.
Are you using tracing paper or just graphite? Might be why your getting dark marks. Try a new package that comes in a variety of colours and see if it makes a difference. Mine did. No more random marks.
This is really good! I've had an epiphany! I finally realise that really good watercolour is about layer, after layer to achieve a good result. On a side note, I tried downloading the outline today and the website now asks me for my address (which I've inputted already) and now asks me for my credit card details...... I sent an email to your help desk so hopefully it will sort itself out.
This is been really fascinating. Not only because of the painting but of the botany. My background is in mathematics and physics, optics in particular. Pigments and light. behave so differently. But I find it extremely fascinating to learn more about plants. I particularly favor trees, and I’m fascinated by the diversity of trees. But isn’t all life awesome?
Color matching in print is a nightmare. I've just learned to be OK with slight differences instead of printing the same thing 20 times trying to get it exactly right. I'm watching this after I started painting my own suculent, I got through the second wash and wanted to see what I should do for blending. I love your videos! I'm part way through the beginners series right now.
Hi Sarah. Really enjoy your art lessons. Hopefully the website will be "fixed" soon so I can order the outline without banking info. Looking forward to the upcoming lotus flower too.
As a child, I struggled with reading sometimes because my eyes would separate out the blue from the black ink in books, and it would overlap the letters and make my eyes hurt. I just went down the wormhole of learning about tetrachromacy thanks to y'all, and apparently unintentionally separating colors like that (and it being bad enough to actually bother your eyes) is one of the signs of tetrachromacy. I am definitely going to ask my eye doctor about it at my next exam.
Regular photosynthesis is C3 - C4 is the efficient CO2 usage photosynthesis you're talking about!! CAM photosynthesis is special because it decouples the CO2 part from the sunlight part, so that these plants can open their stomata - little leaf pores to let CO2 in - at night when it's cool, so that they minimise water loss. It's actually much LESS efficient, but in the desert, sunlight is plentiful so it's not a problem 😄. The grey-blue colour is also to minimise water loss because it's more reflective and less heat absorbent!!!
Hey awesome video! Can you please tell me what software you used to record? It looks really awesome how you can have two cameras like that, so we see you and see what you paint!
Your home printed succulent is a very true color also. Color or the hue to many succulents have everything to do with the condition they grow in. My name is Frieda and I’m a succulent junkie. I have both succulents plus a few. 🙄😉 or a bunch. Michael buy Sarah a String of Pearls To keep a watering schedule I find a pattern to help me remember. Wednesday = WATER …..and….. Thursday = Thirsty. I can remember and grace myself 2 days to remember to check to see if they need water and get it done. You learn to know which need it weekly or biweekly or monthly. It also depends whether it’s a growing season. I tend to err on less water than more. Some succulents (like Lithops) grow during winter. They’ll die if you overwater.
Don’t overwater your succulents, depending on the size they only need around half a cup for large or one or two tablespoons for small per month of water, I normally end up killing plants due to overwatering, so I’m trying to really be more drought like 😂
It really depends on where you live. If I watered my succulents that infrequently, they would probably die. Every two weeks at the most for me, and I have some that in the summer require once a week or they really start to show their distress.
Madonna's last name is pronounced Chick-Coney. Idk if her mother knew she was going places when she named her, but *she* sure did. My aunt went to high school with her in Rochester, Michigan. She's a hometown girl.
@@elisabruxvoort2190 I had to. I had to add the outline to my cart and it wouldn't let me check out without filling in my card info. Otherwise it would just give me an error message.
I didn’t have to give CC info on other free downloads that I did in May. But this one is also asking me for CC info and will not let me move forward without it.
I just downloaded this one the other day. You do have to enter your card info, but they do not charge you anything. This is a newer method for downloading from their store, but they never actually charge for the downloads.
I think it's also inconvenient because to download one outline, I have to go find my purse, dig out my wallet, grab my credit card, type it all in, then put it all away. Whereas before we could just go to the project page and download the outline directly without needing to go through the rigmarole of a checkout process. It just seems like they made it worse for some people in their attempt to make it better.
The reason most of the time you have different undertones in black is because black is not a real color . It is the absent of light. I hope that makes sense☺️
Weird color/brain thing...technically, magenta doesn’t exist. There’s no wavelength of light that corresponds to that particular color; our brain makes it up to logically connect the ends of the spectrum.
I love that we're getting an art lesson from Sarah and a science lesson from Michael!
Love this. Added a black background and will post pix later. Water them only once a week or once every two weeks, and let them drain, and dry out between waterings. For a sturdy indoor plant, buy a small Ponytail palm, put it in a south or east window, and water it sparsely, maybe only once a month. You can let it grow to fill the pot, or if you want it to be a giant, you can transplant it yearly. I have one that is more than 50 years old, and survived a teething puppy!
I am so all over this episode…geeking out with you over plants and color!
So happy you enjoy them as much as we do.
You guys are so respectful to eachother, it’s lovely 😊
Michael, I think your plant advice is spot on! And I could totally see Sarah killing plants out of love. I have decided that these layering projects are really hard for me. So I should probably do some more!
Just started watercolor...I love the way you teach...light and airy. Your interaction with your hubby is very cute.
Thank you so much!
i love this channel so much, i learn so much everytime i watch one fo your videos and i love that theres barely any edit/cut parts so it feels liek a long session with a friend, and also all of those little unrealted info dumping moments make it so fun too!! love love this!!
I feel smarter on so many different levels after watching this tutorial. 😊. I also wanted to say, Sarah, your blouse matched the succulent perfectly! Very pretty!
I just love how I can learn watercolor and biology at the same time. So much fun!!!!
i cannot even begin to describe how much i wanted to be part of this convo the whole time. i got so much out of this lesson, and the purple thing its truee! it was made out of a certain kind of snail,. but theyre so small that they had to get a lot to make just a bit of good purple.
Thank u guys for all those technical tips, this is by far the lesson ive got the most out of.
I thought all people saw colors like I do. I wasn’t aware that how I see color was different. Thank you Michael for bring that up and discussing it with Sarah. I learned something new about myself.
Great plant facts, Michael. I enjoyed the tutorial and am going to try it today.
We hope you have a great time creating this project. Happy painting!!
I had a lot of fun watching you paint and chat with your husband! The extra info and fun facts were awesome. Thanks.
I love succulents! 🌱❤️ Thank you for this bonus project!
P.s. Succulents are very hard to keep alive!
Thank you Sarah and Michael, for the art and science ❤️
The camera works on this tutorial is great! Thank you for the extra close close ups!
The camera work is awesome!
Thank you - I think this is one of my favorite tutorials from you regarding color mixing (granted, I haven't seen them all). It's awesome to know how to mute/darken colors without mixing black. There are so many uses for this information. Thanks! :)
Interesting plant facts!😊
I love your workshops. The succulent is beautiful !
Gosh,, this is why I love painting along with let's make art! Not only are you guys artsy and fun but you're also really smart and I love that I can paint and learn all kinds of information all in one place! 🥰🥰🥰
Oh thank you!
Very nicely done! Many thanks!
I started this succulent a few months ago but did a dark wash. Felt so frustrated, and gave up. Returned last week to this same project with more confidence after practicing on other pictures and now felt so good about it. What I mean to say is that practice, practice, practice. There’s a lot of beautiful projects in this website so you can have a lot of inspiration. Keep on painting. 😍
Sarah, I have a Light Box for tracing and I use a watercolor pencil. It works great and once it’s wet, the lines just blend and disappear, so cool 👩🏼🎨
I loved the botany information during the tutorial.
Me too!
Side learning..,.Michael just helped me to understand what is going on with my avocado seed/tree. I pinch off the new growth when I want my tree branch out. Thank you Michael.
I love this project. I also enjoyed the color theory info.
i am 100000% here for the science with a side of watercolor lol thanks michael!!!
Thank you! I loved you husband's plant lesson, it was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
That's gorgeous!!!! 🤗
Awesome! Thanks for all of the helpful tips!
I was SUPER impressed with myself! Mine actually turned out really good!
You've got this!
Oh how sweet the baby boys sounds ❤️
Wow. This was amazing. Painting lesson, kindness, and biology.
Thank you! Cheers!
The cooing was an added plus. 🥰
We particularly love that part too!
Love this! Cant wait to paint it tonight! Thank you Sarah! I will send this off to my daughter in Portland. She loves succulents!
My favorite part is where Michael admits he lies every time he says the oath. I compare my work to Sarah's every time. So funny and totally relatable!
Hahaha! We give him points for his honesty!
I love your oath! I need to do that before each painting
My gosh striking. Thank you
I just enjoy you so much! What a lovely painting,. And thank you for clear instruction.
I learned so much watching this lesson! I almost didn’t watch it because my painting skills have advanced so I didn’t think I needed to. Thank you for the information and beautiful painting.
Youre such a good teacher! Now I just need to dare and give it a try :)
Thank you for this action packed tutorial - I mean in an artistic/fun facts kinda way. I lost count of the tips and color theory and perspective lessons in this video. As someone who learned to paint from Sarah, I suggest this be added to the beginner series. Thanks LMA for spreading joy!
Glad it was helpful!
29:02- SUCH a good tip, Sarah! I have found myself doing this. :) And yes- purple dye came from crushed seashells. The Tyre was renowned for purple dye from the shells off the coast of modern day Lebanon!
I have been painting with this style and I thought something was wrong with me because I see so many artists pushing the loose style. This is what I seem drawn to.. Thought it didnt look like watercolor.. I also love the Canson XL watercolor paper. I really enjoyed this tutorial.. you have a lovely family.
There is nothing wrong with you. Preferring one style over another is never a problem, it shows your personal artistic style.
Happy Guru Purnima. It is a tradition dedicated to all the Gurus in India. I have learnt a lot from your video and improved a lot. Thanks
Thank you thank you for these amazing videos!
Great tutorial and I love the color perception and history talk! Two books I recommend: Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color by David Coles and The Colors of History: How Colors Shaped the World
by Clive Gifford and Marc-Etienne Peintre (actually a children's book). Both beautiful and lots of fun and interesting color facts!
Both great books. Thank you for mentioning them.
Love this!! I tried an Echeveria before and bombed. This time it was better! Thanks so much Sarah. And I loved learning about plants. Love plants.
Glad it was helpful!
Michael, you’re great with the camera !
Yayyyyy, i just wanted to draw a Succulent!
Thank you! I was wondering what the difference between hot press and cold press was! Can’t wait to try this succulent!
Great lesson and conversation!
I really like this one. Thank you.
I have been wanting to do a succulent or something. I will definitely do this project! :)
I am a happy subscriber and I'm so excited for this! And thanks for putting the times in the comments- super helpful.
yehey!! i was able to do it!! thank you Sarah!!
Love to hear baby Arlo so sweet ❤️
Lovely, thank you!
Our pleasure!
Michael Cray - Science Dude!
Thank you for this bonus project! I have found using a window to trace on TOP of the watercolor paper lets me trace much lighter and then slightly erase the lines with a kneaded eraser. The graphite paper always leaves extra black marks.
Are you using tracing paper or just graphite? Might be why your getting dark marks. Try a new package that comes in a variety of colours and see if it makes a difference. Mine did. No more random marks.
This is really good! I've had an epiphany! I finally realise that really good watercolour is about layer, after layer to achieve a good result.
On a side note, I tried downloading the outline today and the website now asks me for my address (which I've inputted already) and now asks me for my credit card details...... I sent an email to your help desk so hopefully it will sort itself out.
This is been really fascinating. Not only because of the painting but of the botany. My background is in mathematics and physics, optics in particular. Pigments and light. behave so differently. But I find it extremely fascinating to learn more about plants. I particularly favor trees, and I’m fascinated by the diversity of trees. But isn’t all life awesome?
We are lucky to live in a beautiful world!
I love the name Arlo! I was doing some name art a few weeks ago and just chose a random name to do and it was “Arlo”!
Lovely tutorial! Tfs, Laura x
Color matching in print is a nightmare. I've just learned to be OK with slight differences instead of printing the same thing 20 times trying to get it exactly right.
I'm watching this after I started painting my own suculent, I got through the second wash and wanted to see what I should do for blending. I love your videos! I'm part way through the beginners series right now.
Thank you for the kind feedback! We would love to see your project if you ever wanted to share.
Hi Sarah. Really enjoy your art lessons. Hopefully the website will be "fixed" soon so I can order the outline without banking info. Looking forward to the upcoming lotus flower too.
We are working on getting that fixed. The last month has had its share of technical difficulties. So sorry for that.
@@LetsMakeArt - No problem. I'll check back. Thanks for your reply.
As a child, I struggled with reading sometimes because my eyes would separate out the blue from the black ink in books, and it would overlap the letters and make my eyes hurt. I just went down the wormhole of learning about tetrachromacy thanks to y'all, and apparently unintentionally separating colors like that (and it being bad enough to actually bother your eyes) is one of the signs of tetrachromacy. I am definitely going to ask my eye doctor about it at my next exam.
Very cool.
Yes!!!! I needed that 😁
Regular photosynthesis is C3 - C4 is the efficient CO2 usage photosynthesis you're talking about!! CAM photosynthesis is special because it decouples the CO2 part from the sunlight part, so that these plants can open their stomata - little leaf pores to let CO2 in - at night when it's cool, so that they minimise water loss. It's actually much LESS efficient, but in the desert, sunlight is plentiful so it's not a problem 😄. The grey-blue colour is also to minimise water loss because it's more reflective and less heat absorbent!!!
Lovely
Bonus!!! 😍😍😍😍
Lots and lots of screaming going on in my house as you drank from the same awesome llama mug that my 9 year old daughter has :)
That is awesome!
Hey awesome video! Can you please tell me what software you used to record? It looks really awesome how you can have two cameras like that, so we see you and see what you paint!
Hi Madhavi! We have a video editor who splices both recordings together into our tutorials.
I like your drinking cup, where can I get one like it ?
could you possibly use rose red or pink instead magenta?just asking please reply
Shout out to Radiolab! That is one of my favorite episodes! I still talk about that episode, so freaking good
did you guys get a new table? or has it always been gray?
So if plants aren’t growing and making new mari ? Stems then that sugar is stored, so do plants get fat?
Your home printed succulent is a very true color also. Color or the hue to many succulents have everything to do with the condition they grow in.
My name is Frieda and I’m a succulent junkie. I have both succulents plus a few. 🙄😉 or a bunch. Michael buy Sarah a String of Pearls
To keep a watering schedule I find a pattern to help me remember. Wednesday = WATER …..and….. Thursday = Thirsty. I can remember and grace myself 2 days to remember to check to see if they need water and get it done. You learn to know which need it weekly or biweekly or monthly. It also depends whether it’s a growing season. I tend to err on less water than more. Some succulents (like Lithops) grow during winter. They’ll die if you overwater.
That watering tip is life. Thank you for sharing.
Don’t overwater your succulents, depending on the size they only need around half a cup for large or one or two tablespoons for small per month of water, I normally end up killing plants due to overwatering, so I’m trying to really be more drought like 😂
It really depends on where you live. If I watered my succulents that infrequently, they would probably die. Every two weeks at the most for me, and I have some that in the summer require once a week or they really start to show their distress.
Just a heads up, the website isnt letting me get the template despite the fact that Im a subscriber.
Mikki Paradis Me too!
💗👍👀 2/10/22
Madonna's last name is pronounced Chick-Coney. Idk if her mother knew she was going places when she named her, but *she* sure did. My aunt went to high school with her in Rochester, Michigan. She's a hometown girl.
We have to enter credit card info to download the outline?
No you don't.
@@elisabruxvoort2190 I had to. I had to add the outline to my cart and it wouldn't let me check out without filling in my card info. Otherwise it would just give me an error message.
I didn’t have to give CC info on other free downloads that I did in May. But this one is also asking me for CC info and will not let me move forward without it.
I just downloaded this one the other day. You do have to enter your card info, but they do not charge you anything. This is a newer method for downloading from their store, but they never actually charge for the downloads.
I think it's also inconvenient because to download one outline, I have to go find my purse, dig out my wallet, grab my credit card, type it all in, then put it all away. Whereas before we could just go to the project page and download the outline directly without needing to go through the rigmarole of a checkout process. It just seems like they made it worse for some people in their attempt to make it better.
What can I use instead of bleed proof white?
Hi Margriet you can use layers of white gouache as well.
@@LetsMakeArt'Thank you!
The reason most of the time you have different undertones in black is because black is not a real color . It is the absent of light. I hope that makes sense☺️
Weird color/brain thing...technically, magenta doesn’t exist. There’s no wavelength of light that corresponds to that particular color; our brain makes it up to logically connect the ends of the spectrum.
Has anyone else had issues with the download for outline? Will not allow check out even though I've got green checks in required fields.
debrianna9791 Me too!
debrianna9791 The dame thing happened to me.
Agree - succulents are terribly hard to grow. I’ve killed sooooo many!
can I sell art that's on youtube like this art for example?
they sky is blue because of the suns Ray's reflecting off the sea? I think
I think the ocean is blue because it reflects the sky :) - the sky is blue because red light gets filtered out in our atmosphere, leaving blue behind!
I can’t grow succulents,either. 🥴
How is your baby doing Sarah?
I have also never been able to keep a succulent alive. I have lovingly killed two myself.
How is arlo doing 🥺🥺🥺
Only touch each leaf exactly three times....LOLOLOL.