Plein Air Watercolor Sketching With Minimal Gear
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Time to do a little plein air watercolor sketching and test out my compact travel kit. You don't need much to get outside and do some fun watercolor sketching.
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I would say.....wow 🤩
Always love when you paint the trees, this was no exception. I have sort of got the bug for doing trees thanks to you! All the best to you!
This is first watercolor i watched. Amazing! I realized that i have aquarelle pencils at home and bought cheap drawing notepad. I love the way you enjoy the process! I will give it a try.....
Another beautiful piece!
Great advice and tutorial, Steve.
Was looking for ideas on how and what to take, but you have it all covered!
Thanks.
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¡¡HERMOSO....Y MAS AÚN RETRATAR LA NATURALEZA......GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR SU TALENTO......MILLONES DE BENDICIONES!!
+Fanny Edith Leiva Palacios Thank you!
that is basically my exact kit other than brand of paint and sketchbook. Nice sketch.
If I could like this a second time I would. Nice video.
More like this please. Also some urban scenes would be fantastic.
I'm anxious to do some urban sketching. Stay tuned!
Another great vid Steve.....lol squirrel attack..oh Reece you're too much.
+Lyle Gillan 😃
Well Steve thanks for posting another great video. Due to you I bought a sketch book still too embarrassed but I painted a wc pencil postcard in the coffee shop, it was ok but people were kind so sketchbook next! I used Derwent aquatone and they were amazed the way my Pentel waterbrush activated it. Merry Christmas and seasons greetings to you and your family. Many thanks. Best Wishes Crawford
+Big C Sounds cool! Thanks!
Absolutely amazing!! If you can do this with the bare minimum then... Thank you for your always wonderful tutorials. Have a wonderful day.
+Sherron Robinson Thanks so much!
SUPERBE!!!!!
+William-Brian Forst 👍
Great video.
+zucozampa Thanks!
Love the music thank you
Makes my heart full
That was beautiful. I am really enjoying catching up with your older videos. Always wonderful. I love watching artist paint au plain air because I can no longer do it… I have a dog (he is almost five now) and he doesn’t like to stay still for more than three minutes. So I take pictures and then sketch them at home. Thank you for the inspiration.
Beutyfull sketch Steve....Big Hello from Italian Artist 😀😀😀
+Aury Artist Hello and thanks for watching!
7:58 Hello, bug!.. Thanks for the great video, very inspiring. :)
+Nina de Vrij LOL! Did't even notice until a couple people pointed it out!
Thanks for sharing another entertainingly informative video! Love how your tree came out.
I was wondering which size bag you bought? The shopping link defaults to the "large" but in your video it appears be the small one? Hard to tell. :) Thanks!
The large is what I have. The small is very small.
Hi Steve. Great video. Was that bag the small or large size? Thanks!
Large. Thanks!
Thanks for all the great videos! I've been watching a lot of your beginner videos since i'm just starting to get into drawing and watercolors. I've been using the sakura koi and derwent waterbrush, And i love how portable they are. But i can't seem to control the amount of water being released, any tips? And do you think it would be better to practice with normal watercolor brushes or a waterbrush? Thanks! 😄
The water flow is always present but you can blot it back to a dryer state for just a bit on paper towels. With practice the control becomes more comfortable. Squeezing of course gives you as much water as you want.
+The Mind of Watercolor thanks for replying! I was actually thinking of just buying a few short handled red sable brushes, bec. I just couldn't get a good color from waterbrushes (or maybe it's just my lack of skills) but i'll try to practice more with waterbrushes.
where did you get the portable chair with no arm rest ?
Not sure, I've had it for years. Just Walmart I think.
Hey, thanks for the link to the spring clamps; I have been unable to find a local source or the right size. Big bulldog clips are hard for my old hands to open.
I am enjoying all of your videos. My husband too, actually. We find your dry, off-beat humor delightful. And we always look to see what Ole' Reese is doing in the background. heh heh.Getting down to it, though, I haven't seen many art vloggers show their work at the palette. I could learn volumes from seeing you work the colors on the palette and explain why you do this or that thing you do. You know what I mean? I have made color charts with water color pencils and understand the basics of mixing colors to get different colors. My eight pencil set produced 36 colors and there could have been many more. What I miss is seeing Bob Ross show us his palette work. He worked in oil though. different set of rules. Anyway, I'm officially rambling now. Just a suggestion. I have already learned so much from you. Thanks for all you do! The gnarly tree is beautiful! Love those washed out grays in the shiny, old wood. You captured it well. Reminds me of the vines and column painting in a way.
Thanks and good suggestion I'll keep in mind.
In every way a successful and inspiring video. Even the chair remained concealed ( in which pocket?) until the moment it was needed. Great stuff! Thanks, I'm subscribed.
Excellent work. Sharing your experience was inspiring and inviting.
Funny thing....when I began painting in watercolor, somehow I thought painting en plein air was the only way to work, perhaps because I began painting during summers in Ireland and the classes were always outside on location. I did full finished paintings on 18x24 Arches blocks, quite detailed, in a couple of hours, and these are still some of my favorite paintings. Back in the States I wanted to take some workshops and classes, but became petrified when I realized I would have to paint from photographs! I just didn't think I could do it so I shied away from them. Gradually, I worked past my fears and dipped my toe in the water. Then I realized that I had a whole "visual language" I could bring to the static photograph because of all my intimacy with the natural world through painting outdoors. I could even "invent" scenes using my memories of all the places I had painted in Nature. I still prefer to work en plein air, but I can happily use photos too. Honestly, I cannot tell you how afraid I was of those first photographs! But all artists can also profit in so many ways from spending time outdoors eye to eye with Nature.
+TheEirenMist You are so right. Painting outdoors is always the best case scenario and most instructive. The more you do it the bigger your repertoire of nature will become. Photos are really less than ideal but sometimes necessary to paint things and places we cannot go to. Thanks!
Your positive videos keep me painting and trying new things. This year it's plein air & you've sold me on the minimalist approach. The water pens solve the last detail! Thanks. God bless.
Do you have a link to the chair you are using? My tripod chair sank and took me with it.
No, it's pretty old. Most like this come with arm rests now. I use an even smaller camp stool now that I got at Cabelas.
Another great video! Your videos always inspire me to try new things with Watercolour. 😊 Thanks, Steve.
Great, that's what I love to hear!
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I think you and your work are great. I come from china.
this is just a suggestion but I would love to see you draw a certain tree in different types of weather. that would be very interesting. and beautiful work. I feel like nature just gives us a bit of peace.
Hello. Thanks so much for a wonderful tute. Your tree is awesome ! I am loving your water brush. The tip is so fine. Is the link u have for this the same one? It says large. Thanks again
Yes, the one in the video is a large I believe. You'll see other sizes on Amazon if you prefer smaller. The best deal is probably the set. amzn.to/3KdZSXM
@@mindofwatercolor thanks so much!
Oh Steve you inspire me so! I bought two field sketchbooks this week, the weather is just starting to warm here, the trees are budding and the birds are singing. They call to me.......come out, come out and sketch me. 🌳🕊🌻🌾☀️🎨
i love water brushes the best . I have embraced it =) gosh darn the tree was nice , i was studying the shapes of the branches as you were drawing it , at one point it looked like arms and extremely long fingers lol
Puffy Jo At 04:38 it looks like a figure reclining on a branch, arms extended back round the trunk!
love the sepia pitt pen
not as harsh as black to blend with the colours of the tree. .thankyou Steve :)
if it stops raining here I have a beautiful bare chess nut tree in my yard I'll sketch! Have a great week
+Blissfulthings Sounds cool, thanks!
This aqua-brush must be very good tool, i dont know about larger paintings, im a beginer
I love sketching & painting small like this - beautiful! Thank you 🙏
Another inspirational video! Putting my kit together now and looking forward to getting outside for some sketching and painting! Thx Steve!
In the U.K. Those little clips are in Wilkinsons in the DIY dept.. small size are 79p each I think... I bought two: also excellent to hold paper on your easel.
I long to have a little of the amount of talent you have.
I love watercolor so much.
Wonderful video! It inspires me to get out there and paint!
Simplicity can be wonderful as you demonstrated doing that lovely painting of a tree. the complexity of nature illustrated with simple line and form. Thank you for your inspiration.
The pen details at the end bring the whole piece together. Beautiful!
i think you have no idea how inspiring you are! love these videos! :~)
Very kind, thank you!
Thank you for this demonstration. Tell Reese Hi. I'm sure he is happy to know that only the bare bones are needed for plein air sketching. Best wishes from Ohio.
Such fun watching you work, Steve! The last bit was especially fascinating, when you were adding the sepia pen work -- just little touches here and there, first left branches, then some jots in the branches at the right, a few on the tree trunk, then back to the left branches, just here and there with no apparent logic or structure (as opposed to going top to bottom, or first all the trunk, then the branches). Clearly just playing it all by eye, until it seemed to say "done"! Thanks as always for sharing so much of what you do in watercolor.
I have an art teacher to thank for that. He always used to repeat, almost daily, "the whole is more important than the parts."
Thanks Steve. As always I enjoy watching you paint. Could you perhaps put some more inking techniques in line for future videos? I was amazed at how good this looks with the ink and just where it "needed" it. I need help with that.
sreihart Check out this playlist if you haven't already. These are all the line and wash videos I've done thus far. th-cam.com/play/PLiMPR1KaCr-kWhvPYCWTycnEqXvVBNyDZ.html
I enjoyed that also. I love watching your technique and skill. Beautiful.
this is inspiring cause im starting with watercolor and this is like the beauty minimal amazing
Hey Steve, what is the virtue in choosing the Sepia pen over the micron? Is the ink actually warm brown? Or does it have a point that you favor?
It's a brown ink which is nice for landscape.
Maybe you said somewhere, Steve, but how do you wash off the brush? Or don't you?
Squeeze water through it or you can just dip it to rinse it out like a regular brush but usually on location you don't have that because it has its own water.
I read somewhere that not all tube watercolors can be used to fill a palette like the one you are using. That once they dry they do not activate as well as ones made in pans...opinion?
+Eileen Goldenberg It really just depends on the brand. I haven't tried a lot of the pan brands but tube brands vary. Sennelier pans do rewet much easier but so does M. Graham (from a tube) both due to a honey formulation which keeps them moist and sticky. M. Graham makes an excellent pan refill. I'm guessing the bigger issue with travel pans colors would be making them sticky enough to avoid becoming brittle, breaking into pieces and falling out of the pan when jostling around in a gear bag. Rewetting any colors that have hardened just takes some pre treating with an eye dropper or spray bottle before painting.
What do you use to get your pencils so sharp Name of pencil shapener please and thank you for your time
There are two in my Amazon Store (link below). The School Smart for standard pencils and the Xacto for large or odd size. You only really need the Xacto because you can sharpen all sizes but if you only need to sharpen standard size pencils I much prefer the School Smart. www.amazon.com/shop/mindofwatercolor?listId=ZYNDVS5IZ79J
🌹 so inspired... I love you're atr
Another great video! I enjoy watching you sketch and paint. I must say, I always pick up something new to try or learn a basic tip or technique that has really helped. I'm actually in the process of putting together a "field/go bag" and yours is perfect for what I need. Appreciate the links to your supplies- I'm going to try out a few items. Anyway, I'm so glad I stumbled across your channel a few months ago. Great find!!
+Alishia Johnson Awesome, glad this was a help!
Great. You have a lovely very garden too!
Really motivational. Thank you
You make painting outdoor so fun & easy. I thought I would just stick to photo reference when starting out w/ watercolor, but you inspired me to go outdoor. . . to my backyard first. It's not the beautiful open woods like yours, but I have fruit trees. I love trees and greenery. Funny I never thought of painting from my backyard until you said you were going outside in your property. I thought I had to go out to a park or some place and lug things w/ me.
Painting from live reference out in nature looked intimidating. Seems like there is too much to absorb in & capture and you are sitting out in the sun. But I'll take it easy and start w/ the yard, and small potted plants I can bring inside too.
Oh man I have been so intimidated about getting into watercoloring with all the equipment I have to get. This totally helps on going to the bare minimum and yet still get marvelous results. Subscribed and thumbs up!
Glad to hear it. You can definitely get into watercolor without much investment.
Oops, forgot the chair!
Where did the folding chair come from? Did not see it being carried with the shoulder chest bag.
I had it sitting around. This was in my yard as I mentioned.
Thank you. Do you have recommendations for a lightweight stool to carry when plein air painting afield?
Great little travel kit you put together...love that canvas bag. This sketch is so very, very lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Your video inspired me to go outside and DRAW! Nice video Steve..
+FaridChamp 👍
How are you film yourself outdoor
+soufiane amabraa Tripod :-)
Awesome
good work on that tree ! have no experience with waterbrush so happy to hear of that possibility . Thanks Brian !
great video! thanks
+jenny gort Thank you!
Very watercolour-y, the play of light and shadow on the trunk. Incidentally, "plein" actually means "full" (the same radix appears in English "plenary"). So "plein air" translates roughly as "fully exposed to the elements" (also, "en plein jour" means "in broad daylight").
Cool thanks!
Hi Steve, I noticed you have the stillman and birn beta sketchbook! Are you going to do a review? I am considering to buy one of those, and would love to hear your input. Thanks!
I am new to it myself, so yes I'll probably have some comments on it along the way.
nice
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You look like Robert de Niro sometimes! That's a compliment haha. I love watching you paint. I've been an artist for a long time but have only sporadically used watercolour over the years. I've been getting more into watercolour lately and I'm so happy to have discovered your channel for inspiration! Hope you're having a wonderful day.
+Stephanie Wafflart So I've been told. Hee! I wish I could collect his paycheck. 😉Thanks for watching!
Looking for a camping chair w/back. Is yours still around, You look real comfy.
oh yeah. I have a couple actually.
I love your works! it's just a tree but you make it looks so pretty and seems easy
thanks for sharing
if you have periscope account pls let me know I would follow you :D
Periscope is @smitchelldesign . Haven't done a broadcast yet but hopefully soon.
I love your videos! I am just a crafter but I do use the information you present especially the product reviews! I asked for some Arches watercolor paper for Christmas on your recommendation. Thanks for the info and light hearted way you have!
+Jennifer S My pleasure, thanks for watching!
I just really enjoy watching your videos! I've learnt some great techniques, thank you! I need to get out and do some sketching and thanks for the demo packing, made sense me and yeah love your humor and soft voice when teaching too. I'm not into loud voice teaching, if you know what I mean :-)
+Debra Rasmussen Thanks Debra, glad that you enjoy!
Love your work and videos! ! the kit is awesome and a great help. I always forget something! keep up the great work. I always learn something new from you!!!!!!!!
+Sarah Longshore Great to hear, thanks for watching!
Great, thank you!
Totally enjoy watching your videos. Great info about your mini kit. Thank you - you are so talented.
Thanks!
Hi Steve! Hope you and your family are doing well. Loved watching this video and loved the editing also. It's always a joy to watch you paint nature. Can't wait to see your next video!
Thanks for Checking in!
Simply Sublime!
+Sami Karam 😃
I just came across this video. It's really well done and a great inspiration.
+Rosemary Strube Thanks!
I can learn a lot of things from your video, thank you so much! I'll keep following you ^_^
+Vivian Li 👍
Watching you build a subject as you have the tree is magical. With each stroke made you seem to capture the very soul of your subject. I could watch you for hours. Seasons Greetings to you and yours
Very kind and encouraging thanks!
how paper use
Nice little kit you put together. I like urban sketching on location and would like to see you use this set with watercolor and ink to do a sketch in urban locale.
+chiparooo Yes, I plan to do that very thing.
How do you clean the tip of Your waterbrush?
Just squeeze water through it and wipe until its clean.
your videos are incredible, thanks for sharing!
+Dabe Condori Glad you like them. Thanks!
So simple and beautiful, you made me wanna go out side and try this :)
+Fernanda Gajardo Azagra you should 😊!
thanks once again for a great video! Such inspiration !
+Cheryl Herbert My pleasure, thanks for watching!
can you please do a review of the Sakura koi watercolor set
+William Tse Possibly at some point. Its a decent student grade set. The pan set is nice for location sketching due to its portability. I wouldn't be afraid of it.
I would love to live in such a beautiful wooded area! I love the art of nature, but sadly there is not a lot of nature here to experience.
Maybe try some urban sketching? 😀
I was wondering about the point in doing this sketch? Truly interested in knowing is if you do this for practice and fun or instruction for us? I certainly enjoy it but seems like you couldn't sell such a sketch as it's small and in your personal sketchbook. Wouldn't the time spent doing this be better spent on a larger picture with the point of selling it? I guess I'm asking what is the point of doing these little sketches versus working in the studio on something to sell? Is it for practice?
Thanks and love all your videos!!
+Matt Ide (Motivation in Motions) practice and for my journal. Same reason people put photos in an album.
The Mind of Watercolor thank you the very timely response. Much appreciated!
This is really motivating me to paint. I'm going travelling next month, i'll be sure to do alot of sketching. :D
It always makes for a better trip IMO!
True. Greetings from Malaysia, keep up the good work!
ya thank you this was another amazing and inspiring video,I am so glad to learn from u though indirectly, I wanna share my some water colour work should I mail it to you....
Are you on Facebook or Twitter? You can share it with me there. Or yes email is ok.
+The Mind of Watercolor email id
Love watching your videos. Always get so excited when I see a new one in my subscriptions.
+ThatMangaGirl Thank you!
+The Mind of Watercolor You're welcome, sir!
Hey thanks for the video! I like the idea of packing light. I think sometimes (at least me) take waaaay too much stuff out into the field to use and only end up using 3 or 4 tools anyway. I have recently gotten back into watercolors and your channel certainly helps in my journey. Thank you sir.
I totally agree. I always seem to take more than I really need. Still working on that balance. Thanks!
btw: it might say on your website but where do you hale from?
Upstate South Carolina area. Its mentioned in a few videos but not many. 🙂
dang it bug, stay off the Masters thumb!! You are AMAZING! I love your pieces. I have a strange request of you, however. A long time ago, I did something really odd, and was wondering if you can/will do it as well. I did a drawing ONLY looking at the item, not my paper..some really odd and amazing things occurred, can you do a demonstration, please?? Thank you, Marty :)
+Rhonda Magee Hahaha! Funny. I'm still waiting for our first hard freeze. Its way over due here in SC and helps kill off some of those pesky bugs. You're referring to contour drawing. Sure I've done it before. Its not really all that odd. Its actually a classic art class exercise taught in many drawing classes. Improves hand eye coordination. There is nothing more complicated than what you described. Look at and concentrate only on your subject without looking at the paper or your hand. Sometimes drawing teachers will even hold a card over your hands to keep you from looking. As you said, it will produces some interesting results.
I didn't realize anyone else had done this with the hand/eye projects. Dang it, thought that I was the only one that had done it. Hehe :( I still would like to see you do this. How's about it??
+Rhonda Magee Yeah maybe. If I can figure out where and how to fit it in.
thank you :)
great video as always :)
Thanks!
when you detail with the pen, dose your watercolor need to be dry or can it be used whilst wet??
+Edie Bluntzer Best if its dry. The pen will bleed otherwise.
+The Mind of Watercolor When you drive your car, do you stear the wheel? jk
+Tigger & Roo nope I use my third foot!!! bwahahahahahahaha jk :)
I loved the sketch.
+cynda99 Thanks!