How to Paint Flowers in Watercolour from Life in an Impressionistic Style
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- I show you how to paint a flower arrangement and set it in a background.
Here's a link to a couple of videos I did on painting a single flower
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Your teachings are simple, but rich, dense and quite deep. Every time I watch at your videos I find new important and useful insights .Thank you !
Hi Valeria,
I’m so pleased you’re enjoying my teaching and videos
I hope your paintings are coming on as well!
Best wishes, James
I learn so much from each of your videos. I like that you keep reminding us to keep it simple and to really look at something and not use our memory. I find that very helpful. Thanks again.
Hi Lori,
It’s good to keep on learning. I think memory is a problem in painting it makes us forget to look.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Best wishes, James
I love impressionist paintings. Thank you for this wonderful demo and the good advice on how to handle painting flowers in watercolor.
Hi,
Glad you enjoyed the flowers. I think impressionist flower painting is by far the most interesting way to paint them. I enjoy the interpretation of the flower rather than just copying it.
I hope it helps your painting.
Best wishes, James
Like many of your tutorial videos, which I have watched multiple times over again, this was my third watching of the vase of flowers painting. I find your descriptions of the process so very valuable and rewarding. Thank you James for all your effort and advice.
Gerald,
Hampshire UK
Hi Gerald,
I’m so pleased you’re getting so much out of the videos! I think there’s a sort of knack with Watercolour. once you’ve got it, you’ll be okay.
Keep painting.
Best wishes, James
@@JamesPotterAboutArt Hello James and thank you for your encouragement. I have heard you refer many times in your videos to John Singer Sargent. I have just watched this one that I found - ruclips.net/video/TplC9GF-DQY/видео.html - and I have to agree that his watercolours in particular, are something to behold. Best wishes Gerald
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Thanks for the link, Gerald,
I really enjoyed it.
James
Just lovely, James. I’m trying to let go and learn to paint loosely; watching you is revelatory. Sadly I’m quite good at making a rod for my back, as you say! Letting go and painting in your fashion looks so much more FUN!
The way you bring colours together is always beautiful. Thank you - and cheers from British Columbia, Canada.
Hi Carol,
Glad you enjoyed that painting.
There’s something magical about painting simply and removing detail.
When I look at flowers, my first impression is being overwhelmed by the complexity of it and the endless detail.
I find squinting my eyes helpful just to try to simplify things and only paint what is needed
What I find really interesting is that a very detail painting which took 10 hours isn’t any better than something that took an hour.
I look forward to hearing how your painting goes.
Best wishes, James
Beautiful, my kind of subject. Interesting negative painting, I love your commentary. Thanks. Jo in France 🇫🇷
Hi Libellula
Flowers are great for Watercolour.
The negative space in this painting was particularly effective.
Glad you liked my chat as well!
Best wishes, James
Absolutely beautiful!
Hi Dori,
Complicated things, flowers.
I was very pleased this one turned out okay and I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Best wishes, James
Beautiful - enjoyed your process & learned 🙏
Hi Linda,
Glad you enjoyed the painting and the process. I do enjoy the picture as well, it’s in my lounge lent up against the wall and I do find myself looking at it quite often.
Thanks for watching,
Best wishes, James
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Hi Toni
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Best wishes, James
Very nice. 🙂 Thanks for sharing your beautiful artistry
Hi Anne-Marie,
Thank you, glad you liked it.
Hope your painting is going well.
Best wishes, James
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Thank you very much!
I must admit, I do enjoy looking at it as it rested on the floor in my lounge.
Glad you like the painting.
Best wishes, James
Thank you so much for this! I have a cutting garden and try so hard to capture some of the flowers. I did my own painting after watching yours and it turned out pretty good!
My pleasure. One of the interesting things about painting flowers is that when you look at them they are incredibly complicated. For me trying to paint simply an interpret the flowers is the trick.
Glad you had a go at it and I’m pleased that it came out well.
Best wishes, James
You are incredible!
Hi Rachel,
That’s very kind of you to say.
Hope your painting is going well.
Best wishes, James
It’s a wonderful painting!
Hi Laura,
How do you enjoy the painting, it was fun and very intense to do.
Thanks for watching,
Best wishes, James
I love the manner in which you paint. I am finding it inspiring and liberating, paintings look fluid, with beautiful strokes that suggest the various elements in it. This way, you allow the viewer to interact with your paintings, rather than over feeding them. P.S. I love Scotland too 👍
Beautiful!
Hi Volia,
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
Best wishes, James
Thank you so much for allowing me to watch you create this delightful painting. What a lovely painting of a small bouquet that seems fresh from a garden. Again, thank you.
Hi Angie,
Glad you like the painting. They really were a beautiful collection of flowers. Nice and simple!
Thanks for watching.
Best wishes, James
Beautiful! I especially like how you painted the white of the daisies.
Hi Bailey,
Glad you like the painting. I really enjoyed the white daisies as well. It’s an interesting technique.
Best wishes, James
precision. and again, the importance of values. i see myself holding my breath when i try this out. much thanks for this.
Hi Bing,
That’s a really great that you’re giving it a go! You can tell it’s a very exciting way to paint.
Best wishes, James
Just lovely! That first orange poppy is gorgeous...and the background is perfect.
Thank you, Sandy
Hi Sandy
Thank you. The orange flower was tricky, but I’m glad it came out okay.
Glad you liked the painting.
Best wishes, James
Watching you paint the background literally had me on the edge of my seat. So challenging to keep from creating hard edges while preserving the shapes of the flowers. Beautiful painting!
Hi Mary,
I’m glad you appreciated the background. It really was an intense moment in the painting.
Thanks for watching
Best wishes, James
Fresh that’s an interesting word for a painting keep it fresh. The variety of your yellows is fascinating it’s amazing how the background throws everything into relief. Nice to see you use plenty of water not easy to get that right all the time. A very attractive bunch of flowers - thank you James.
Hi Robert,
There were a lot of yellows in that flower. I was interested to see how it took up my whole Palette.
I do like using a lot of water in my mixes. I think it flows better than thicker paint.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Best wishes, James
Beautiful bouquet! The background is perfect for the flowers, especially after you darkened the side. Thank you for all your thoughts and insights about painting!
My pleasure, Carol, that that you enjoyed the painting. The change to the background was a good decision.
Thanks for watching,
Best wishes, James
Incredible to watch you painting and discussing as you unfolded your wisdom and brush and colour skills. I will have a go but as you suggested, maybe one flower.
Hi Noel,
Glad you enjoyed the chat.
I hope you enjoy painting your flower. If you can keep it simple and not paint with too much detail, that will make a good start.
Thanks, James
Thank you James. I like to paint flowers but will have a go at the more impressionistic style.
Hi Stella,
My pleasure. Flowers are quite an intense thing to paint, but I think the impressionistic way makes it a little bit more fun and a lot quicker without losing quality.
Good luck with the Imp expressionistic way I look forward to hearing how it goes.
Wishes James
Thats a lovely painting the white daisies stand out
And it looks beautiful framed
I've been trying to paint sweet peas this afternoon
Thank you James for your tips and demos
Hi Alison,
Glad you like the painting, the daisies are my favourite part of it.
It’s always fun to frame a picture as it just makes it so much better!
I hope your sweet peas are going well, they’re very colourful.
Best wishes, James
Lovely fresh outcome ! Fascinating process. Thankyou
Hi Veronica,
Glad you liked it. Keeping it simple and doing the minimum is how I enjoy painting. I hope you can give it a go.
Best wishes, James
Beautiful. And very useful comments. Thanks James.
Hi Claire,
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the chat as well.
Best wishes, James
This is stunning! Love the background.
Hi Sylvia
Glad you enjoyed the bouquet the background for me was the most intense part of it.
Thanks for watching,
Best wishes, James
Lovely bouquet! I could feel your tension for a moment. I don't have the patience to accomplish such a beauty!
Hi Melinda,
Glad you liked the bouquet. The background was very intense, there was so much going on!
Thanks for watching,
Best wishes, James
Thank you , James. Lovely painting.....I have had a book of watercolor flowers for years from Charles Reid and I love the impressionistic flowers. I gave it a go while watching you just to see what happened....too overworked but now I will try again on good paper😊 and think more carefully
Hi Kalaysia,
My pleasure glad you like the painting.
Charles Reid was really great at flowers. He was really good at the single layer of paint.
It’s very easy to overwork flowers as there is an overwhelming amount of detail. If you can just try and keep it simple and that would help.
Good people make difference as well.
Best wishes, James
Thanks James. So helpful to,have you talk through your process!
My pleasure. I hope you can have a go at some flowers!
Best wishes, James
I was so nervous for you when you started the dark background…. but it’s wonderful! I’m still working on my judgment of values which is improving my attempts. Thank you for that 💐
Hi Wendy,
I found the background really intense!
Glad you’re working on your values, it’s well worth the effort. Also try to work on simplifying as well if you can.
Best wishes, James
0:04 That painting is so beautiful!
Glad you like it.
It’s of Iona, looking towards Mull.
I will be returning back there this year hopefully you can watch those videos. I think it’s the most beautiful place in Scotland.
By the way, it’s oil on board 36 x 28“
Thanks, James
@@JamesPotterAboutArt Ooo, looking forward to the videos 🙂.
6:23 Try W&N’s Transparent Orange, it’s not opaque and rather rich. I think it’s lightfast, but I’m not sure. It’s a pyrrol pigment.
Transparent orange by schmincke is very beautiful and , as the name says, transparent as well. I absolutely love it, it’s crucial in my palette. 💕 thank you for painting flowers and gardens lately, James, it’s my favourite subject to paint.
Thanks for that.
It does look that I’m going to have to do something about the orange.
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Hi Pippyi ,
Many thanks for your suggestion. It looks like I’m going to buy another colour.!
I’m so pleased that you enjoyed the garden and flower painting videos. I am quite excited by it at the moment so I’m sure I will be doing more!
Best wishes, James
Transparent orange is a game changer, for mixing and using alone. It’s really transparent and doesn’t make mud. WN and DSmith versions are exactly the same pigment. It is lightfast.
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Thanks for that! I’m definitely going to buy some.