18 Style is not a choice. It's the result.
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This week I brought some watercolors to another gallery in South Holland and I started a new commissioned watercolour of Deventer, where I did the preparations in the previous video.
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The title says it all and I get tired of hearing artists (and wannabe artists) say- "I just need to find my style. I just need to find my voice." That's not how it works. Just do the work and it will define itself.
Smart answer Chris,I agree.
You can influence it by controlling what you practice.
"Style is not a choice. It's the result." Just this title shed light on being an artist. I'm lucky to have a wonderful, deep, inspiring coach as I learn to be creative on the piano in my old age. He often says, 'Don't listen to the result'. He's helped me access my inner rhythm, my dark feelings. He wants me to play 'for the feels', his greatest hope for me is that I'll be addicted to how good it feels. No teacher at art college ever said anything like that to me fifty years ago. All we had was a handful of security-loving instructors, no wise RUclips artists.
That's beautiful. You are blessed with this coach. Well said, thank you!
Thank you for letting us watch you at work. I consider it a privilege to watch your genius manifest❤
So Schoen ist Ihr Arbeitsplatz
Es macht man gute Laune immer!
When I feel lack of motivation, I watch your videos. It is like not being lonely with my endeavours, they open my eyes and thinking, and besides this, there is the great visual pleasure I enjoy with your paintings. Thank you!
"Open my eyes and thinking" exactly what I'm going through right now with these videos
Oh that’s great. Thank you!
@@TitusMeeuws ah I also feel this. I am in this moment starting a new portrait painting and I watched you to get in the mood. I have never done this before so lets see what comes! thanks*
Great, let me know if it helps! Good luck, best wishes from Holland 🙏
Titus Meeuws painter --, thanksyou, Very good , good!
Many thanks for confirming so many of my beliefs and practices and inspiring me. I've dug out several brushes I bought and never used much - some big mops and riggers and a reservoir brush- and am happily exploring them and revising some old work . From another solitary painter in their studio thank you for everything especially for making me feel less solitary and strange.
Thank you, that’s a lovely message. All the best from Holland
I too fall under the belief that my newest work is my best and yet time and time again I find myself pleasantly surprised by just how good some of my old work is and wonder why I didn’t think it was so good at the time I painted it… I then remind myself that time away from recent paintings is very valuable as I gain lots of insights into what works and what doesn’t. I rarely get a chance to talk about my art practice with anyone as the only other artist I know is my sister, who lives 130km away from me and we are lucky if we see each other once a year and so there is a lot to catch up on when we meet and it’s just heaven to be able to talk art with her - she paints only in acrylics and I paint only in watercolours. I live in Brisbane, Australia and there aren’t many painting groups here and what few there are, are very far from me but I’d love to attend a weekly art group and lately I’ve been seriously considering starting one up myself in my area to see if there is any interest… I very much look forward to watching your videos.
Oh, can you please tell me the brand, type and size of the rigger brush you were using to do your fine lines - it looked like a sable brush and it also looked like it had a bit of rigidity as well - I am yet to find a rigger that I’m happy with, everyone I’ve tried bends too easily. Thanks
Thank you Magdalena for your special comment. Good to have a sister who understands what your passion is!
That brush I used for the branches is a rare one. I don’t know its name now, but it is a De Vinci Casaneo brush. Casaneo is a very good quality vegan line of Da Vinci
Watching your videos is making me want to paint again… I think you’re one of the more interesting artists on RUclips.
I’m sure I speak for a lot of people who watch your videos: I look at the world differently after listening to you talk about your craft.
That’s very special to read, thank you!
Finding your account has been very inspiring. Thank you for the openness, insights. Its beautiful when you can put words on feelings, as well as paint or draw feelings.... In pottery it's the same, my hands create forms that have my imprints and movements, and that becomes my style.
Man, it is absolutely incredible how perfect these pieces end up looking by the end of the process. Every stroke is so satisfying, I love it.
that is what makes painting so much crative instead of a photo read
Mtro. Titus, this is my ever first video l watched of yours. When l started to listen and watching the beginning of your video l felt like l was there with you, but you were not Titus you were Da Vinci and l was there like a boy getting things for you to keep going with those ideas a d put there on the paper. Yes, l have a very imaginative brain, not for me those moments its are real you were once Da Vinci,. Anyway you kept talking and l kept listening, but then you started to paint and close up of your painting, l kept my eyes watching your hand and the strokes that were made by a d how this was following every cell of your mind, body and soul to make the one stroke that needs to be placed to stay there, to live there, to became alive with every piece of all the strokes and brush paint to create one all, and yes l started to cry, and cry and l could not stop, till you started to talk again and l listening, drinking, gobbling them, swallowing them perhaps later on l must sit to let them seat on my brain properly and let them someway somehow to show me again the light on these very dark moments l am in. I just want to say thank you for today's video. I could not watch the all video, it is to much for me in a very good way, l stopped my video when you started to paint Deventer, l will watch the rest of it later.
Looks incredible. What an wonderful landscape🍀🍀👍
Thanks for sharing your time and your knowledge.👏🤝
Watching you work in water color is soothing. It reminds me of my childhood watching mother paint portraits in oil. Observation is so instructive and prepares one for the work ahead. Many thanks for sharing your observational skills. You inspire me to paint again.
Thank you, that’s a lovely comment
Your comments on style were eye opening and when I realized the truth of this, I felt a great relief. Thank You.
I am grateful we can meet on the web and learn from each other!
Nice work.
First of all, I recently found your channel and love your videos. Your perspectives are always very thoughtful and your videos have a very high degree of quality. As far as style. I think this was a very interesting topic for you to cover as I think so many of us start out trying to find or create a style versus it occurring naturally through our work. I see style as more of the result of a process which I think is sort of what you are saying. Your paintings have a distinctive look to them as the result of the process in which you go about creating your work. A light wash followed by midtones and then your shadows that bring out the details and really make your paintings pop. Your focus on light as your subject and the way in which you go about creating your paintings, create this distinctive look to your work. Great stuff. I know you said you don't do tutorials but as a hobbyist that is more advanced than someone just starting out, I actually think you are creating tutorials naturally by your introspection and painting. For those of us that maybe aren't just starting out but also aren't professional artists, we can learn a lot from you and your thoughts. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you J J. You understood what I was thinking about, thanks!
Hallo Sir Titus.. video Anda sangat memotivasi👍🤝
As always an very interesting and useful video. Thank you for sharing!
your thoughts come from the long tradition of a skilled craftsman, who humbly creates beautiful art, without the ego invested in being an artist, like a Vermeer, or Rembrandt...your countrymen
Wow, I can live with that 🙂 Thanks
Such a generous peep into your process and such a gift to see it unfold. TY Titus.
My pleasure!
I love your videos. They're great. Thank you for sharing your beautiful work and your watercolor technique on RUclips.
My pleasure!
It’s only when you discover something really good that you realise how much utter rubbish there is on RUclips.
I can't agree more!!! It's so rich and interesting see art from the artist point of view...love how he plays with light..so beautiful!!!
Dit was weer prachtig. Hele fijne sfeer ook. Dank je!
It is indeed better to paint than to waste your time on websites that someone else can do better. When you can paint as you do, you owe us a lot of painting, such beautiful works.
Thank you!
My first time watching and I knew from the start I would like the show and that's because of the guys voice and the way he explains what he's doing or what he wants to achieve, there are some good shows on RUclips but without a interesting voice there dead in the water, well done
Thanks🙏
Thank you for your insight on style.
Titus, thank you. I have recently found your posts & look forward to following from New Zealand.
I totatally disagree with you - You have a very unique and fenomenal way/style of painting. I appreciate very much your work!
Greetings from Portugal
Dat was weer inzichtelijk en leerzaam!
I liked your video so much! Especially the insights into your studio. Such an inspiring atmosphere
nice work! I'm trying hard to get re-inspired to resume painting! Keep up the good work
Enjoyed thanks for sharing 😊
In my opinion (I’m not a painter, a learner) you must feel what you will paint, it’s easier to do so if the feeling is there, liking a thing to paint is very different from a thing you’re feeling to paint (in my part). Thanks for sharing your Golden work. God bless
Greetings from New Mexico. I'm a 68 year old that is addicted to art and your videos. I have collected art for years and have upwards of 3-400 pieces of architectural and structural art. Its sort of a joke that the art collect is Junk Art, although many (most) of the pieces are very well done as I try to limit my purchases to $20, however I have to splurge sometimes. Most of this art is somewhat discarded in garage sales and estate sales and antique stores. Because of this addiction of collecting, and my knowledge of perspective from working in construction trades most of my life, I now have now collected much paint of all types, brushes and equipment from prominent artists in my area of the USA. Each piece of equipment has a deep story of each of these artists and I wish I could have known them but obtained through estate sales.
I now am addicted to the process of art especially water color and am studying and taking on line courses. I'm getting ready to pick up the brushes as I build my space in my home to perform these wonderful things you all do. I wanted you to know that I'm fascinated with your art, your videos and your style. Its my big pleasure to look forward to spending an hour of two on line watching your videos. Thank you for sharing and inspiring many of us.
I know that it is terrific that you don't talk during your videos and I agree that it makes it a nice relaxing watch, but If I could ask, on some of your videos, you modify, change, revise some of your art and if you could explain when you wash a area with water after its been done for some time, hearing from you why you are doing what you are doing would be GREATLY appreciated as we could learn and see why you are revising and what your process is to do such. Thanks again for sharing your life of art, its truly wonderful and I look forward to visiting your part of the world someday. Come visit us in NM, we have an abundance of South West style building and structures. See ya!
Thank you so much and nice to meet you here. It feels good to read you appreciate these thoughts and you know what I am talking about
Washing away some parts in a watercolorpainting happens regularly because there is so much to see and explore but it doesn’t make sense to put as much on the paper as you could do. So quite often there is to much disturbing and I wash it away
Love your videos, Titus. They are truly a meditation. I was also thinking about exactly this. However, my personality is so American, so it sounded more like, "What's your style, you may ask? It's AMATEUR! Keep working!!" All the best ❤
Thank you!
Great video. Love your thoughts about style. You do not learn it, you develop as you go. It is unique once you continue painting. I comes naturally and with time. Thanks so much for the videos. ❤
Wow, this could be a excellent title for the youtubechannel!! Not learning, but developing! Very well said
Another great video, Titus! I was fascinated by your explanations, especially about your working relationships.
I'm really looking forward to seeing the finished commission next week. I love the play of the light in it so far. Well done 👏
Thank you!
I love everything about this video. I am having a stressful week, but somehow being able to watch you work , see your process and the wonderful scenery brought me calmness. Thank you.
Lora
That's great Lora. Thank you
Many thanks Titus for the stimulating content . Best wishes and happy painting 🙏
Thank you!
Just title already very inspired, no one such precisely as you talked about it to me. Thank you so much! ❤
My pleasure Kendall
First, I just want to say your videos by themselves are very well done, almost like an absorbing mini-documentary. The timing, editing and conversation are all excellent. Secondly, I really enjoy your art, and appreciate you inviting us into your world, and studio. I am always fascinated with how other artists work, especially when I am drawn to their style. Very inspiring high-quality art. I'm wondering though, is the time spent on each painting always in the back of your mind (time is money), or is it done when it's done? I'm looking forward to watching more of your work. Greetings from the States. Todd
Thank you Todd. Good question; we are all imprisoned in time. I did speed up my process and trained my focus. With pleasure. The reason for doing this is maybe what you just said; time is money. But now I am able to work faster I must admit that focus is stronger when I work faster. No time to think..
Lovely video, I loved your studio as well... very rustic and cozy. Lot of warm wishes from India.
I always thought that trying to "find" your style made no sense. I totally agree style is defined by your results and if those results have common attributes between works then style becomes apparent. By the way your work is lovely.
What a wonderful time, riding my bike and listening to you talk really makes me feel greatful. I don’t have any real human friend interested in this at the moment, I really enjoy getting lost in the thread. Thank you again and keep on your great work !!!
I am really grateful we can connect on the web. Knowing these videos make you feel good makes me happy!
@@TitusMeeuws you really are elite. Keep on doing the good job and enjoying yourself my friend
Thank you!
Your work is incredible-so detailed and each a striking mood.
Thank you Susan!
c est magnifique bravo
Titus ! Thanksyou 🎉🎉🎉🎉
My pleasure Marildete
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@@TitusMeeuws Adonai Shalom Art 😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
Very true about working with clients…style as well as your own perceptions. I personally found after a collection of bits of info and sketches the absolute reward in providing the client with more than ‘he could imagine’ the ultimate accomplishment while exercising total freedom in my expression of the project!
I just stumbled across your video this morning while preparing to erase as your did in your water color example…only my situation is cutting away layers of acrylic pigment, built over three years of putting it away and returning? Now I’m a few days from a major exhibition and I discovered the initial flaw in the landscape architecture…! It’s already framed from planning years ago, working with my framer …. So if I change this small portion of the ongoing work I will have constructed the personal truth in the documentation of a fragment of our (my?) small north coast community. This is the relentless seeking of the singularity ….is it not, a composite of the ‘sub atomic particle level of awareness’ than the cutting edge of artwork provides society? Is this the Holy Grail of the living arts? You are truthful, thank you, satchitananda…Being Knowledge Bliss.
And it’s only 8:42 am in the morning on the coast in Point Arena, California ! Isn’t technology a killer!
Please continue to share I’m listening….and at nearly 77 years and counting I’m malleable still?
Sending these remarks from Gualala, CA, 95445 you can spot this location on any world globe.
Thank you Dustin! How was your exhibition?
I have an issue where every time I finish a new drawing, I feel extremely excited and adore it. However, the more I look at it, the more issues I can find in the drawing. Especially, on the next day. I love your work, it is an inspiration.
You are not the only one I guess. We will never never make the perfect artwork. And that keeps us going !
@@TitusMeeuws I am an engineer, not an artist. I am essentially self-taught and began exploring watercolor painting more formally during the COVID lockdown. I have watched numerous videos on watercolor techniques and have extensively studied oil and watercolor painting albums. The people around me have limited knowledge about watercolor, so their feedback has mostly been limited to expressions like "beautiful" and "amazing." I am aware that my current work is not flawless, as there are still many mistakes and challenges in accurately conveying the emotions I feel about the scenes I depict. However, I want to express my deep gratitude as your videos have been tremendously helpful in my artistic journey. It eased my confusion and anxiety about my current artwork. Thank you very much.
Es un cuadro maravilloso
I very much enjoyed your video. Your studio, the small sounds, and you painting. I’m a new subscriber👩🎨👩🌾🐴. Greeting from USA, Idaho
Thank you Lisa! Welcome to my channel!
“…starting…creating…finishing…reflecting”…[12:15]…beautiful, crisp summation…
Hi Titus - could you talk about your routine? I was surprised when you listed just how much you had planned for the day ("fix two watercolours ... calls ... maybe start another one if there is enough time"). Interested to learn: what is a productive day for you? Do you keep to a schedule? How important is schedule to you (can you work if other things in life start intruding)? And how did you settle on the work patterns you now have? I'd be so interested to learn your thoughts on this. Best wishes
Hi Jackson Taylor. Interesting questions. Thank you. I will answer them in the videos ok? See you soon!
« Se peut-il qu’il y ait une page fragile »
dans cet inconscient.. ( magnifique.. )
A friend's video has been watched I wish the people who watch this video good luck
Dear Titus, please forgive an elderly albeit young at heart admirer of your channel should I repeat anything I might have mentioned in previous comments.
I couldn't agree with your interpretation of style any more than if I had said it myself. Having seen many of your videos since first being so fortunate to have found them, I believe that I could easily recognize your style should someone set me about a gallery of random paintings. Much as our signature or our handwriting that makes us unique unto ourselves.
After thoroughly enjoying today's video, I felt compelled to tell you how much I admire your commitment to your art. Yes, some may say that this is your job. But, to be a successful artist requires so much more than most.
Today, you took us through many of the facets required of your field of endeavor and it is a pleasure to follow you along through a typical day.
But, the part I most enjoyed was watching you as you began your new commission. From the initial sketching and on to your initial wash. You had me thoroughly entranced with your sense of purposefulness motivated by your very specific vision that you had from the very beginning. It is almost as if your brushwork cannot keep up with your mind. As if an author has a story to tell and his pen cannot put the words to paper swiftly enough to tell the story.
Your brushwork is so deliberate, sure and confident yet delicate as need be. In this painting, as always, your use of color, light, shadow and layers produced such a magnificent effect that I can sense the warmth of the stone walls as they are bathed in the waning light.
I am always tickled to see you stand back in retrospection and see that you are quite satisfied with today's work knowing that there is much more yet to be done. And to hear your excitement to return to your favorite part, the details. The streetlights, the cars, the people that will bring your vision to life.
Your passion for your art, your self motivation, your dedication to planning and your goal oriented commitment will bring you nothing less than great success. And it will have been very, very well earned.
Thank you for so generously sharing your most genuine reflections and your blessed talent. You are truly inspirational. 👩🦳🖌️
Oh yes, lest I forget, I will definitely be in touch on your website with regards as to how to purchase one of your books.😊
Thank you so much Deborah. I read your special comment with a big smile. I am grateful you enjoy these videos!
« Méditer c’est renaître avec son art »
Et. Cette ( adéquation ) ( signer son style )
Ça prend sens pour moi.
he paints well
Maravilloso!, subtítulos en español por favor, gracias!
C’est beau de s’investir tout autour d’une
( nature artistique.. )
J’aime beaucoup « 🌷 »
( mon chéri. )
I’ve often wondered if I have a ‘distintive’ style. Is it obvious to a person looking at the painting and ‘knowing’ it is mine without really knowing who painted it? I suspect that, among my artistic circle, my subject matter is more of a giveaway (I only do portraits) than a distinctive, recognizable style…e.g. Charles Reid. I agree with you in that style seems to emerge as a consequence of all the images and experiences (emotional and otherwise) and results in a painting that seems recognizable…However, I prefer to think of style as my temperament…how I react to an image and the possibilities of bringing it to life. My temperament always channels me in a direction and effort that might seem recognizable, but I would avoid calling it a style….A wonderful and thoughtful moment you have given us today…
Hi John. Thanks for your interesting comment. I definitely recognize someone’s paintings without reading any name under painting. It’s the same as handwriting, someone’s voice, and so on. So you have a point. Should we call that ‘style’ as long as this is a naturally thing
Thank you Titus…I can live with that!😊
Hi..New to your channel .very interesting thought process 😊
Thank you!
Every time your phone rings I think it’s my phone ringing … 😂
You have the same duck ringtone?
I really like your work, and you inspire me a lot to start painting again. do you intend to do an exhibition in spain in the future?
Sure, that would be great. And making some watercolorpaintings there
@@TitusMeeuws I live in the region of the Basque country, there are magnificent landscapes of mountains, sea and old village, it is a good place to paint and of course the other regions of Spain
interesting perspective. thank you for sharing.
..I have only just recently made my two first illustration commissions and to me, it feels a bit like writing portraits about people - for me, to write good portraits, is to have different styles. cause the writing, the tone of voice, the atmosphere, the words used... all of it should represent the person, I am writing a portrait about. I guess, you painting for somebody, is kinda like the same - you try to "get" and understand the person and the house the painting should hang in and create for this specific circumstance.
right?
Est-ce que l’utilité d’un cadre est une priorité.
« J’aime ce principe (sublimer son œuvre) »
( un geste léger comme une plume )
C’est délicat l’alphabet..
Mai(s) ça nous permet de nous rapprocher
une intimité ( réelle ) d’où ( cette fragilité. )
The difference is U create your own world and nit assist the endorsement of anothers world
Hello Titus! I appreciate your videos, they are very inspiring. How did you get into painting? How long have you been painting? Have a lovely day!
Hi Pedro! I think at school drawing was the only thing I did very well. Later I discovered the freedom, peace and independence in working as a painter. I love being on my own in my paintingstudio and sharing the process with you is special!
CASTLES U R PAINTING ❤❤❤ i
Geweldig om je video's en mooie werken te zien! Wat ik me afvraag is naar wat luister je met je headphone?
Dankje Petra. Wat ik luister is divers, maar in november ontvang altijd van spotify de playlist met meestgeluisterde tracks: Meer dan de helft is natuurgeluiden, en verder heel veel muziek!
@@TitusMeeuws 😃 ik was net nr 15 van je aan het kijken en daar had je het over Kate Bush volgend op je beslissing om vogels te schilderen en ik dacht daar is mijn antwoord, niet wetende dat je al geantwoord had!
I enjoyed this. Are your opaques gouache or opaque watercolor?
Hi Maria. It’s gouche
Who produces your videos? They are so well done mate. Excellent stuff.
Thank you! I produce these all by myself
@@TitusMeeuws very nice camera angles and creative production. Maybe if you get time in future you can do a video about making and editing a video - your process :)
Peut-on parler d’une recherche de perfection.
« au centre d’un art ( féminin ) »
Où l’homme serait un inventaire du langage.
2:41 Hi I love your videos and would like to buy a copy of your book Playing Outside. As you said it’s impossible to get your book outside of Holland. If possible could you tell me how much the book costs and shipping cost to Adelaide, South Australia? Regards Bazza.
Hi Barry. I can send you the book. Please send me a message through my website, here you go: www.titusmeeuws.com/contact/
Thank you!
Je dissocie le fait de poser à celui de recevoir ( une réponse )
Peut-être qu’une peinture sait reconnaître
un trait de caractère. « 🌷 »
My work explores the relationship between consumerist fetishism and counter-terrorism. With influences as diverse as Nietzsche and Frida Kahlo, new variations are generated from both orderly and random narratives.
Ever since I was a student I have been fascinated by the essential unreality of the human condition. What starts out as triumph soon becomes manipulated into a tragedy of greed, leaving only a sense of failing and the dawn of a new reality.
As spatial derivatives become frozen through boundaries and critical practice, the viewer is left with a clue to the inaccuracies of our condition.
Titus, i just discovered you on You Tube to my delight. How do you get your commissions? I have always stayed away from commissions. Thank you Patsy in Florida
Hi Patsy, welcome to this channel! How to find commissions? That's a long story. I will tell a bit about that in the next video
I’m just curious… do you paint at night at all? Do you have a natural rhythm for the working day? Times you can almost predict that inspiration will flow, or is your routine mostly deliberate? Love your paintings… are you an introvert?
Hi Christina, since I have a family I work from 9 till 6pm. I had to train this, and it works well. When I was in France for a commissioned painting 2 weeks ago I was able to start working whenever I liked. But I got used to that alarm clock at 7 pm I started as usual
Could you please tell me what thickness of the paper you are using thanks Pam
Hi here in Europe it's in grams; I prefer the thickest. 840 gms
Do you always paint in a quite space? No music. Or just for the video.
Hi, I use headphones as well for listening music
Have you also printed your books in english? Thx
Sure! The book is in Dutch and English, both in the same book
Move on to another painting...no one but you thinks the blue water is off color.
groot
1:51 Try thinking the blue is working but the beyond isnt working with the blue. Essentially the opposite of what youre saying
That’s a good idea. But it will be more work to change everything in stead of the water 🤣
Thank God for ff button
the artist get mix-up with contemplation and the imagination to illustrate in sequential of them ANY how 18 style gets worse in lieu by SOME objectivity or obligatory.
The stupid elongated figures ruin some otherwise excellent painting. Do wish artists wouldn't fall into this cheap style trick.
please stop talking into your hand
Can this guy paint PLEIN AIR ?or is he a PHOTO copying painter ?