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I have been taking a class that used carbon paper to draw what we were painting. How can I get back into sketching my ideas on my water color paper without it looking awful?

I just discovered your channel. A M A Z I N G ! Thank you for sharing your gift with the world!! 😊

🤣🤣🤣 Go to 20:18. I started working in TV & films in 1976. I'm somewhere in that picture. I'm 72 now. Wow that takes me back.

simply awesome!

Congratulation, I am trilled for you , havin mo space to work. That you my be blessed by The Above to use your new ,studio in Good Health. As a devote Minder, lts of succes, Enjoy.❤❤❤ All the best from Jerusalem , israel.

It was interesting to see how you used this one. I have the same size of Otto Stretcher and ran into two issues... One, the tightening on the frame leaves an imprint on the paper, so you have to either cut that part off or mat it. And two, I felt like the frame would get in the way of my hand. I guess I'm used to working with my hand on the same level as the paper and the frame would prevent that from happening. All that said, you made me wanna take my stretcher out again and give it another try XD

The new space looks amazing!! :D

Another thank you. Over the months of watching these videos I finally got the courage to get myself some dip pens and ink, sure I’d make a mess everywhere. To my surprise, thanks mostly to the instruction here and in past videos, I got the technique pretty quickly and really enjoy the pens. Of course I did tip over a bottle of Dr. Martins and lost half of it, but I see that as just the initiation phase!

Koo Schadler book on Egg Tempera is available on Kindle for 14.99. Definitely worth it if you have Kindle on an iPad or computer as you’ll get full benefit of pictures. Vickrey book only available in hardcover for $30.

That was great !

Two and a half years later, when I look at Hahnemuhle watercolor blocks, I see “Harmony” and “Expressions.” Do you know what those are compared to what you review here, Steve? If you’ve reviewed them, can you steer me towards the video. Just the date is enough. Thanks.

The south, at least in Tennessee, had incredible round barns, beautiful structures. I began to keep a photographic record in the early 1990’s of Tennessee barns and farmlands, and did drawings and paintings from the photographs. As I saw abandoned farmhouses, falling barns - dairy and tobacco - it was clear that these structures once fallen were going to be lost forever. Some farmers gave up and sold their land - where once a handsome red barn stood, today there is a bank and parking lot. Buildings became dilapidated because people hadn’t the money for upkeep and maintenance. Big agriculture broke the small farms. What I witnessed was tragic loss. I did my original paintings in acrylic. Now I am going through those 30 year old photographs and painting the barns again in watercolor with the knowledge that very few, if any, are still standing. Having grown up on a small New England dairy farm that our family lost, the importance of documenting and honoring that way of life cannot be understated.

Anchoring it made a huge difference to the painting. Glad you showed us doing that. A good lesson in looking critically at our own work.

Steve, two and a half years later, are you still loving those Lebenzon brushes? How have they held up?

Also I have a very hard time painting vignettes - I am always going out to the four edges of the paper. Using a letter - or even a number - as the basic design may help me with that.

I LOVE that the letter K was the inspiration. That is such a great idea, using a letter for a composition. That is an idea I am going to steal if you don’t mind, Steve. Don’t know WHICH letter - maybe the whole alphabet, one painting at a time! Really fun and such a different approach. It opens a thousand doors in my mind. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I have been using Afmat pencil sharpener for close to two years. I use it daily and have had no durability issues whatsoever. I have two different work stations and have an Afmat in each one. Since getting them, I have retired all my other pencil sharpeners. However, for a hand-held, out in the field pencil sharpener, I like Blackwing (LOVE their pencils). The Blackwing sharpener has one aperture for creating a long point, the second is for very sharp. Only for standard size pencils however.

Thank you for so many great, informative videos. I wonder if you might do one on single pigment vs multi-pigment paints.

It is so amazing to wach your process.....so,sooo fantastic!!! Your style and technics are so awesome!!....😊👍🍀🇨🇭🙏🙏🙏

I could only afford a 12 pan palette at the moment and I am still thrilled that 10 out of 12 are pure pigment. The 24+2 box of pure pigment is my dream set. oh my… yearning. I am a mixing geek and prefer a mix on the go a bit of this a bit of that organic mix. Or even the 17 tube pure pigment is good. But since these tubes are pasty, I wouldnt use a this flip over palette. I would get a palette with paint placement on one side only. That way, there’s no chance of flow/ drip top to bottom, as I live in a humid climate. Do you still love your mijello after all these years?

absolutely stunning!

Whats the oris avd cins if natural hair vs synthetic hair rigger brushes abd detail brushes??

I am constantly trying techniques I learn here as well as from books so thank you for this video on Discovery. I’ve been calling it Exploration which is probably what takes place before the discovery! It’s also a great way to find out what feels right - I’ve tried techniques that just don’t work for me at all - others that have been aligned with my vision. This video was especially encouraging, keeping me on the path I’m on. Thank you.

Nice painting Steve and a wonderful topic. We are all guilty of adding this color and that color to our pallets until we get ourselves thinking more about colors than values and composition. A great reminder that we all need to step it back on the colors sometimes and make things simple. It s amazing how much you can learn by limiting your colors. Hope you and your family had a great 4th!

I love how you've taught me so many important little things over the years I've been following you Steve. Things that I've approached as obstacles to overcome and be frustrated by, you've helped me understand and look at as learning experiences to enjoy and study. Your ability to take joy from these kinds of normally daunting tasks(and for me, avoided!) and even learn from them, has helped me fill pages and sketchbooks and grow so much as an artist! I wanted to take a moment to thank you for all that you've done for me and the art community. You're an ever-growing wealth of knowledge and one of my favorite artists! Thank you Steve, you never cease to amaze and impress!!🙏

steve I would like to know which brushes you recomend to mantain the tip of the brush pointed. I appreciate your answer

WOW!!! JUST WOW!!!! 😘😘😘😘😘

I really love these videos! I cannot begin to tell you how often I come back to watch them over and over again, each time learning something new to take away from them and try in my effort to improve my own work Thank you!

I really enjoyed your video. I don't usually see instructive videos with artwork that i really like, and i found yours very impressive.

LOL, ‘water control’ just makes me think-‘BLADDER’!!!

I finally tried doing this painting style you showed and have something pretty interesting. I had to trust the process and keep going!

I couldn’t agree more with what you said about spontaneous watercolor painting being your best teacher. I too have learned more from your examples of this than any class I’ve taken. Every painting I do in this technique teaches me something new. Thank you SO much, Steve, for leading us on this amazing journey. It’s bliss!

Toted a small Arttoolkit with Pentel Aquash across Italy 2022 and this Spring. Effective, compact and convenient for on the go, simple, urban and landscape sketching. Love Pentel Aquash brushes for this purpose.

Im soo glad,i found your Channel, and your Style...😅 You are such a amazing personality.... The Lord bless you,and your family!!!👍🍀🙏🇨🇭🤗

After watching your spontaneous landscape tutorials I've begun to experiment with doing them myself. Really enjoying it and learning new techniques. Thank you.

Great explanation. So soothing watching a painting appear to your mellow voice accompaniment.

I confess, I bought one of those giant 100 watercolor sets for using in coloring books. We were traveling a lot & I though a multi-colored set to take with me in the car would be easier to use than colored pencils. When my hands get tired, a brush is so much easier than a pencil. The paint is nasty, but it fills in the spaces easier than pencils. I haven't touched the paint again.

I love your videos! Thank you for all the tips and information!

Steve, The video was/is very informative and helped me because I always wonder what color to use then get too many colors going on in a painting. Thank you so much for the instruction. Also, why do I never see you sign any paintings?

This is a beautiful painting. Love that you did it was just 6 colors. Thank you for sharing.

Love watching you paint...Don't think I could ever paint like you do... But I can take notice of your video and use a smaller pallet. Thanks for the video, it made a lot of sense 👍

What a great idea to use the toned paper for the second, snow in the canyon scene.

Hi, Steve. I'm really happy that you've done this video on limited colour choices, and explained it so succintly. Thank you! I've always appreciated the fact that you usually use just a few, and that has made me feel less isolated in an ArtTube world where for the majority, it seems, convenience colours are an absolute necessity because "I don't have time to mess about mixing colours." and huge palettes with 48 or more colours is a norm. I'm really sad, because I feel that they are missing out on so much fun, so much excitement so much satifaction, from playing the "What if..." game, and so much they could then pass on with enthusiasm and knowledge, to help others.... (especially if they played the 'What if...' game on camera!) Since my beginning with focussing on watercolour, (that's 28 years ago), I've only had 12 colours in my box, all used, but rarely more than six at most at any one time. I've never needed anything else. I've painted landscape, seascape, people, places, still life... in the UK and many places overseas, all with just 12 colours. I've taught students with the same set of 12, who've looked at me as though I were crazy at first, but as soon as they began to mix, they almost all got really excited! A minimum number of colours with 12, mixed one by one of the others, is 144, and in truth, the possibilities are infinite. Entered in medieval French architecture! When I moved here, with landscape painting at quite a distance and a vastly decreased budget for things like fuel for the car, plein air was limited to drawing random people from life (free, unsuspecting life models!) and urban sketching. Lots of variety there, from medieval to modern, and I'd done quite a bit in the Uk, obviously, but suddenly I came unstuck, colour-wise, and lost confidence. It was very disconcerting! But eventually, I discovered (thanks to an ArtTube friend!) that Titanium Buff, in very small (pinhead) amounts can work really well. (I'd broken the habit of a painting lifetime and tried Titanium White in various mixes, but still couldn't quite get what I needed). On its own, Tianium Buff works where that colour's needed, but normally, it's to mix with one or another colour to get the oddly-tinted and very opaque pastel shades of the architecture. I'm still learning to use it, still not really understanding why I can't get 'it' with the colours I already have, but I believe that we never finish learning - there's always something new to surprise me, even after mixing colours for years! I am getting the hang of it - slowly, but getting there. I have a play palette of all sorts of oddments (30 in total) which I've picked up across those years, mostly as freebies / free samples, which have languished in the paint storage box till I moved here. Being confined to home at times due to health issues influenced getting them out to play (though I had to buy a larger paint box...), and I'm glad that I did. I have a great deal of fun 'just playing' (eg blobs are fun - blobs of paint allowed to run and mix on the paper, blobs of colour to see what I can 'see' in them and drawing that into them - the 'What if...' game again!) But in the end, my 'workhorse' paint box is still 12 colours + Titanium Buff. 😄

And now we have beautiful color harmony! Very inspiring! Thank you Steve.

Nice landscape painting , thanks for sharing

Great video, thank you. Can you tell us if you use single pigments or does it not influence you with your color mixing?

I think it's not necessarily a problem to have a palette of 24 or 48 colors. The important thing is to select a limited number of colors according to the subject of the moment. Thank you for this video and for the sublime landscape!

Great video as always, Thank you for your amazing videos. How do you treat your watercolour paintings if you frame them without glass? Take you :)

Marvelous. Challenging.

I’m the queen of mud lol 😅