Still watching the video but I just wanted to comment here how much I enjoy listening you while you paint. 💜😍 Your videos are always a pleasure to watch! 👍👌
I too see things on my boards from ( casual or convenient strokes), I call them a stroke of luck. I really enjoy your humor and those memories you share. Most of all, I love your art. Live long and prosper.
Oh teacher, my teacher! Thank you for all you do! I just did a painting last evening, about six hours ago. It's 3:00 am here in New Mexico & I think I'm too excited to look at my painting again, (rather than sleep, lol). 😊 Now your video popped up so sleep is out of the question, hehehe. If I were to sum up what you have taught me about painting thus far, in three words, I'd say "fearless, dynamic attack!" - or - "just do it!" God bless you & heal you kind Sir.🙏
@@raccoonlittlebear6476 How close are you to the Arizona boarder- I enjoyed your sentiments (I am SE BOARDER with NM Be fun to know someone else locally who loves Stuart’s Drama, too
@@jinimurray4090 Hi! I'm in the middle of N.M. & often paint the Monzano & Sandia mountain ranges. The SW states have such a great variety of landscapes. Stuart is a very liberating & amazing teacher! Do you paint in oils or acrylics?
@@raccoonlittlebear6476 - oil is favorite Then watercolor then ink /doing Chinese bamboo. I live very close to Mount Graham. (View from house) Doesn’t seem like we are that far apart. I have a gallery in progress if you might be interested in that sort of thing - also I found a fantastic way to sell art! Are you ready to sell?
It's me again, Stuart...Di from the comment above. I also have the same health problems as you, though not quite so severe, by the sound of it. So I do appreciate how hard it is for you to function, some days are worse than others, thank you Stuart for your wonderful, wonderful videos.
This is a wonderful piece! Please do not stop talking and telling your stories while you paint! That is part of the magic of your videos…do take good care of yourself, my friend. Thank you for all you do for us!💕💕💕
I like the term meaningful messes to describe those accidental marks that work so well. Which reminds me of a saying I once heard: "out of the MESS comes a MESSage".
Wonderful yet again , please stay well just take care of yourself all the very best to you. I am in constant excruciating pain every day, your videos keep me going , thanks again.
Hello Stuart Davies, I so enjoyed your Sea Scape painting! Thank You FOR YOUR GIFT OF TEACHING! Thank You for sharing the gifts when people give so generously give to you.
Stuart thank you for sharing your creative process with all of us. Watching and listening to you has helped my painting immeasurably. Thank you. And I want to reassure you with respect to your health, to trust medical science. In 2016 I was told I only had a 10% chance of surviving surgery and I am still alive and painting 6 years later. So do not despair and keep painting.
I like the variety of subject matter and perspectives you paint: skyscapes, landscapes where you're grounded in it, landscapes where you're looking out over a large expanse, seascapes, closeups of trees, desert mountains, etc.
👋Good evening, Stuart. The painted structures of the chalk cliffs and the sea are very impressive and beautiful. They also go well with the truly spectacular sky, whose clouds you have created superbly. The waves crashing on the beach still have enough power to sweep you off your feet, although they are already shallower. True eye-catchers par excellence are the structures of the chalk cliffs, the sea and above all the sky. Next to them, the greenery on top of the cliffs pales a little, although also interestingly "designed". As always, a harmonious colour scheme throughout. All in all, another painting of yours that makes one wish one could paint so well oneself. Thank you, and have a good weekend. 💖- (Since you already ask, I prefer your landscape paintings, and clouds are most times included.)👍
Dear Stuart. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are my great role model. Your seascape is wonderful and there is something deeply symbolic about the cliff. Hugs from Michael/Spain
When I found you, I did not feel alone in just having fun and letting the brushes work for you. The fanciful imagination has a full canvas to play. You gave me strength to keep playing this way, it's been the best teaching I could imagine because I am curious, there is nothing I can do wrong and I can always fix everything. The greatest joy?> You said: "if you marry your painting, you will not be free" Totally!!! Do all your work FOR YOURSELF, your joy, your WHATEVERS! Be kind to yourself, meditate in the eve, and do breathing exercises. Envision your wellness, the Buddhist's knew one thing: OUR MINDS CAN HEAL OUR BODIES .....If we want it..... If we believe it..... YOU GOT This!!!!!
please Stuart say and do what ever you like :) you are great just as you are !!!! thank you for all your time and instructive lessons !!!!!!!!!!!!!! praying for you and yours
I like the way your composition develops apparently by magic. “Nice/interesting mistake” “Useful mistakes” “Artistic accident” “Accidental friend” THAT palette knife now on my subconscious list of must-haves!
Wow! Etched stone paper. This is intriguing! In the US they are marketing bath mats made of a stone material, which absorbs moisture better than fabric. I used to have some sandstone coasters at one time and used to sell them in a gift shop where I worked.
I'm not usually a big fan of seascapes but this is gorgeous and may be my favorite of all the paintings I've seen you do over all the years I've been watching!
Mr. Davies..I finally got a chance to watch you paint again and I'm loving it so much. You mentioned someone wanted you to stop talking. Well I'll tell you right now...please talk. I enjoy your commentary. I don't like watching silent painting videos..or videos with blaring music. Thank you for being you..and sharing your talent with us!!..And I'm glad you're feeling well😊
First hearing your voice and listening to your wisdom is part of the pleasure of watching your videos. I enjoyed this painting and particularly that you softened the background and sky which seemed to push it farther behind the cliff. Thank you for sharing. Please stay well. From America.🤗👍🙏
Thank you for spending time again sharing your talents as well as your thoughts and stories. They are always a highlight on an incredible painting. Thanks for sharing the ideas of how to do calm beaches. Your talents are a blessing.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Everything you do is very amazing! I have gained an incredible amount of knowledge and tricks from your videos, but above all more courage to experiment. No, no, please don't stop talking because it's always interesting to listen to and always informative. Thanks so much for all you do and for sharing this!!!
....one more thing, to answer your question...I love your landscapes with big bold skies, flowing land and trees...but I'll watch you paint anything 😊🎨😎
I have been traveling from Poland to UK multiple times I was always happy to see white cliffs of Dover when I was taking a ferry from Dunkirk. I miss living in UK. So many beautiful places. Especially Scotland I have to say I have seen the most beautiful skies, Once I have spent a night with few friends in Arish Mell it is a part of Jurassic Coast. Beautiful place!
If only the mass of the public artists knew that Stuart is literally one of the most successful and innovative artists living today. Years and years he has spent finding himself evolve and keeping simplicity in mind. He is the Michael Jordan of fine art.
I just found this video in my RUclips feed. I’m not much of an artist, I just enjoy painting on the weekends to relax. I really enjoy learning from expert artist and trying to improve. I really enjoyed this video. I’ll be looking for more videos to watch.
Brilliant, thank you Stuart for the close ups of the sky! That is going to help me judge my own attempts at smoothing (its my favourite bit of your videos and the results are so atmospheric). 😁 Thank you!
Thanks for another wonderful video, Stuart -- truly monumental in many ways. Also for sharing that interesting new product, etched stone paper. Be well and take care of yourself. Hugs and admiration from Salzburg...
Your white cliffs bring back wonderful memories of many holidays in Eastbourne with my late husband. Birling Gap was a favourite spot.Thank you so much. Stay well and keep talking.
I went on google earth this afternoon and was transported to the cliffs at Dover. I found the view of the cliffs from the perspective of your painting. Spot on. When you spoke of your memory, although I don’t review the daily visuals before I sleep, my memory does appear as a picture of that which I wish to recall. Even childhood memories appear in my mind in vivid color photos. I just thought this was normal. I also recall the texture of surfaces. I often feel compelled to touch things.
Another inspiring video to watch and listen to, please keep talking Stuart, hearing your thought processes as the painting progresses is one of the things that keeps me coming back.
Thanks so much Stuart for showing us all this amazingly effective, loose, tonal technique.. This is so liberating and encouraging to see. I have for years though that you can only be a 'great artist' if you can paint 'every leaf on every tree'. I've bought some oils and will begin painting again for the first time since leaving school 35 years ago. I struggled with gouache back then but always loved the art department. With you and our mutual love of Turner for inspiration, Im off to create some drama in my skyscapes! I'm a Sussex dweller too. Hope all the heart monitoring goes well.
Stewart. I have been painting for quite a few years more or less successfully . Mostly fairly realistic and no I don't paint each leaf but I do use a lot of colors. Still I have always felt somewhat restricted. Anxious that I would receive the comment " Are you going to finish it? Or "I never saw a tree that color".finally after watching your video's for the past few years I took the plunge. I cannot begin to tell you how grateful I am to you. I have heard you repeat the same mantra hundreds of times and finaly something clicked. I had feared that tonalism was taking the "easy way out". What I found was that when i concentrated less on the technical aspects of painting it allowed me to express myself more freely. The painting the became less about recreating it and more about letting something out. Sorry for the rambling Stay well and please keep teaching Eli a grateful student
I love the banter and I wouldn't change a thing about that and I for one love seascapes and have been trying to draw and paint in my opinion the 2 most difficult things and those are water of any sort and trees!
I love listening to you talk Stuart. So funny today, I was working on nearly the same painting... I took a break and this video popped up in my feed. We don't have those beautiful chalk cliffs but our shores across the pond are similar. We have sand dunes and sandy beaches as well as clay bluffs and rocky cliffs. Sorry to hear about your heart problem. Hope you get your energy back and feel better soon!
I like the texture that you pick up in the gesso's coats when you wipe back paint; with a paper towel. Interesting, how those thin washes, in the ground textues; help your overall paintings' details. Magical isn't it? I paint listening to you; your technical advice gives me great ideas, for my own work. You're an excellent professor.
Always great to watch a boss painter at work. Very sorry to hear of your health problems Stuart, I hope the docs can get you sorted soon. Thanks for another terrific lesson.😎🇦🇺🦘
Hi Stuart, I read about the morning cloud just now. Put your video on pause for a minute. Obviously, that was quite the storm. Having been on sail boats a lot in years past, I can appreciate the difficulty you had, rescuing both the boat and the sleeper. My hat is off to you!
Thank you for another wonderful painting. I really enjoy your painting and conversation. You are an inspiration to this newbie to painting. You explain yours steps and it’s so helpful. I hope your feeling better. Please continue talking as you go.
I do love watching you paint. I am learning and do wish I could loosen up. I go in with the best of intentions and get tighter as I go along to the point where I have to make myself go and paint sometimes. I guess I'm scared of messing it all up. Here in Australia we have gorgeous beaches and sunsets. I wish I could paint them all.
I am happy to see you back on your feet. Was really worried when you didn't show up online. I so wish your health could improve. Take care please. Your paintings and your talking give me so much pleasure and I often have to lol about your remarks. The irony and the selfmocking are precious. About brushes: I clean mine with dishwasher soap and like you, only the ones that ik really want to keep. After having cleaned them on paper I put them in a jar with lukewarm water and soap and clean them as good as possible, then to the next jar with clean water and soap and rinse them on my hand and finally use jars with clean water to rinse the soap out. THe cheap brushes I clean when the used soap water is stille usable to clean them, if not I don't. Like you I think the costs are not worth it and it is bad for the environment. Thank you for all you share with us. I greatly appreciate it.
God guided you back to shore in the storm so you could teach us oil painting years later.....thank you Lord for watching over Stuart Davies 🙏🤙❤️ Amen..
I'm so happy to see a new video, Stuart! Please keep up the commentary, it's a delight--I feel like I'm in the same room with you as you paint. Wishing you all the best with your health issues.
I was scrolling through images of Turner paintings the other day and there it was - red ochre or similar in the sky. I liked your inclusion of the sea in today's vid, mostly I like skies but I am getting more interested in the landscapes too. Thank you!
I think you are a great teacher, raconteur, artisr and overall fascinating individual. I hope your health holds. (I have my own health dealio and am dealing with it daily with great doctors at The University of Washinton). Let's cheer on the Dylan Thomas 'rage against the dying of the light' and I recall Yeats' ideas about aging.
Just sent your video link to a budding artist friend of mine. You bring freedom of expression to the act of painting for all of us. Take care, our friend.
As far as the etchedstone paper is concerned, I wonder if they are making it in the form of big stretched canvasses. I use stretched canvass which is expensive but poor quality. Anything that will be better for the environment is a great idea, but I dont want to have to buy it in the form of a notepad and then need to frame it. Also which countries is it available in? Hopefully someone from the Etched stone company is reading these comments and can provide more info. Actually, I checked their website after my comment and the only products listed are their notebooks, so maybe they are still working on larger canvasses for artists.
Very sorry to hear you haven’t been well, I always enjoy your paintings but I was particularly interested in this one as I know the Birling Gap quite well , I love the end result, keep up the good work, and all the best to you, and hope you keep well.
It is such a joy seeing you paint. And talk. I would not wanna have it any other way. Just real time painting with narration. Don't mind you are sometimes in the way for a couple of seconds. That is normal. I'm happy to say you are not invisible :D Greetings,, Kitty.
I really enjoy watching your tonal techniques, or style. I have never seen anyone paint with that ability, and comfort. The ease of your technique amazes me. I want to try your process. I just haven't found the place to do it yet. space and place are lacking for me at the moment. I am doing watercolors. In a much more controlled and planed manner. I like my paintings as do others, but Im a little bored doing them. I'd like to try pushing paint around a little more freely. Until I have a place I can safely chance using oils etc, I will have to enjoy your videos.
Love your videos Stuart your content is so inspiring! Don’t stop chatting it’s good banter 😊 I love sea and sky paintings , I’m also on the mend so would love to come to France for a class next year , hope you recover well 😊take care
Another fabulous painting ❤ I live about 20 miles inland from Birling Gap, your painting is very evocative. Regarding your dulcet tones, don’t you dare stop talking! And as to what I’d like to see you paint, I wouldn’t mind a winter scene at some point before Christmas 😁❄️
Hi Stuart, I've just been watching this video over again, during the day, I might add, and I was very impressed by each phase of the process including the issues you faced in trying to get the paint to do what you want it to do. Yes, one can indeed really appreciate the fantasy and the magic that emerges as you blend the colours to great effect. Then I heard you ask the question as to what type of genre people like, e.g.: Landscape, Seascape, etc. So I thought I would share my preferences, which are Landscapes (my foremost preference), followed by the occasional Seascape, Cityscapes, animals, and the occasional attempt at portraits, which I am beginning to get better at, so I keep trying. Like you Stuart, I do not like using turps of any kind, I love using oil mediums and also Liquid fine detail, and oleogel which is a very thick paste like gel. I also like using paint strait from the tube and mixing on the Canvas. I use glazes on occasion too and especially love to oil in as the painting nears completion and has been allowed to dry between stages. Nevertheless, I am so impressed with the methodological style of your painting, many of which have that old masters feel about them, as I have mentioned before. You are certainly one artist worth following and I am so happy to watch, listen, and learn from your channel including the advice and talkover too. Hope you are continuing to keep well despite your condition and I continue to wish you well. Thanks for sharing everything. Take care now and waiting for your next enterprise.
As to the recycling question you asked us, I don't know how it works in Europe, but in the states 75% of what we put in the recycling bin ends up in the landfill anyway. I would suggest the best thing to do if you have the time and want to go to the trouble is to take the metal part off the paintbrush and put it in the recycling bin. We can't recycle wood where I live that I know of, it would probably be best to burn it in the fireplace. The bristles of course cannot be repurposed for anything unless somebody wants to use them in some sort of 3D art and crafts type of thing. Any object that is comprised of more than one type of material poses a lot more work to be recycled or repurposed.
One would hope that you have tried or will try a stool to slide around on a bit, so you will not have to stand. That is what i do, it makes it easier to bear the long hours, also I stand on a padded floor mat that works wonders. They are well worth the spend.
I studied Mezzotint engraving in Nantes, and my teacher would say absolutely nothing. I would stand behind him while he scraped & burnished his rocked plate. He didn't like questions either. I learned a heck of a lot... but I felt I could have learned more if we had had some verbal exchanges! Keep talking, Stuart!
Hi Stuart, funny thing is that I had the same thing done recently - sleep study and Holter/EEG monitoring. Very uncomfortable and couldn't sleep at all with 3-4 dozens of wires hooked on me and a huge plastic/metal box on my chest. Can only 'sleep' in one position, like a mummy. :) Good you made it through and happy to see you again.
Thank you Maestro for another great work of Art,and for the lesson..since you ask,i'd love to see your take on a "nightscape"..your drama "au claire de lune"... dealing with dark tones and romantic suggestions,what do you think?
Once again stunning ! Stuart, quick question, do you varnish or seal your oil paintings? Thank you for all the wonderful techniques. You are me feel like I can do this!
Hi Stuart. Hope your health improves. Have been looking forward to your next painting. Your painting is lovely as always.I did a similar sort of painting looking down on the white cliffs of Dover and sent it to you for your fan club more than 4 months ago.Basically just my own amalgamation/fantasy of various photos I looked at. I never received a comment or reply and there has been no change or movement on your fan club paintings for ages. Are you still active there ?
@@StuartDavies I understand. Take it easy. I am in the same boat but no matter how awful I feel I manage to forget it all while I am painting. 😆😅🤣 i even forget to eat and drink. I can't leave my painting until I am done.
Watching you painting is a treat. Thank you for being so selfless. Your conversation and your painting, most enjoyable.
Still watching the video but I just wanted to comment here how much I enjoy listening you while you paint. 💜😍 Your videos are always a pleasure to watch! 👍👌
Stuart, you are one of the most influential artists I've ever seen and also your tone is so soothing. I wish you safe health, we all do ❤️
Yes we do!:)
Yes yes yes!
I too see things on my boards from ( casual or convenient strokes), I call them a stroke of luck. I really enjoy your humor and those memories you share. Most of all, I love your art. Live long and prosper.
I learn heaps from watching your videos and enjoy listening to your encouraging down to earth commentary. Thank you so much and please stay well.
Oh teacher, my teacher! Thank you for all you do! I just did a painting last evening, about six hours ago. It's 3:00 am here in New Mexico & I think I'm too excited to look at my painting again, (rather than sleep, lol). 😊 Now your video popped up so sleep is out of the question, hehehe.
If I were to sum up what you have taught me about painting thus far, in three words, I'd say "fearless, dynamic attack!" - or - "just do it!"
God bless you & heal you kind Sir.🙏
Thank you! Comments like yours keep me going, but please try to get some sleep! :-)
@@StuartDavies
Hehehe, good advice.😊😴
@@raccoonlittlebear6476 How close are you to the Arizona boarder-
I enjoyed your sentiments
(I am SE BOARDER with NM
Be fun to know someone else locally who loves Stuart’s Drama, too
@@jinimurray4090
Hi! I'm in the middle of N.M. & often paint the Monzano & Sandia mountain ranges. The SW states have such a great variety of landscapes. Stuart is a very liberating & amazing teacher! Do you paint in oils or acrylics?
@@raccoonlittlebear6476 - oil is favorite
Then watercolor then ink /doing Chinese bamboo. I live very close to Mount Graham. (View from house)
Doesn’t seem like we are that far apart. I have a gallery in progress if you might be interested in that sort of thing - also I found a fantastic way to sell art! Are you ready to sell?
I missed you Stuart. I truly hope you're feeling better. I love to watch you paint and tell stories. I've learned so much. Thank You ♡
Always love how you teach to paint with your imagination. It is amazing seeing how much detail you can make with low priced hardware store brushes!
No, Stuart...keep talking, we learn so much from you when you keep talking. Listening to you and watching you paint is a privilege, thank you Stuart.
It's me again, Stuart...Di from the comment above. I also have the same health problems as you, though not quite so severe, by the sound of it. So I do appreciate how hard it is for you to function, some days are worse than others, thank you Stuart for your wonderful, wonderful videos.
This is a wonderful piece! Please do not stop talking and telling your stories while you paint! That is part of the magic of your videos…do take good care of yourself, my friend. Thank you for all you do for us!💕💕💕
So sorry your heart is being a rascal. Thank you for sharing with us. Sending you and yours warm healing thoughts.
I like the term meaningful messes to describe those accidental marks that work so well.
Which reminds me of a saying I once heard: "out of the MESS comes a MESSage".
Stuart, I really enjoy listening to you talk while painting. Hope your health improves.
Wonderful yet again , please stay well just take care of yourself all the very best to you.
I am in constant excruciating pain every day, your videos keep me going , thanks again.
Sorry to hear that and I hope things improve for you.
Hello Stuart Davies, I so enjoyed your Sea Scape painting! Thank You FOR YOUR GIFT OF TEACHING! Thank You for sharing the gifts when people give so generously give to you.
Stuart thank you for sharing your creative process with all of us. Watching and listening to you has helped my painting immeasurably. Thank you.
And I want to reassure you with respect to your health, to trust medical science. In 2016 I was told I only had a 10% chance of surviving surgery and I am still alive and painting 6 years later. So do not despair and keep painting.
I like the variety of subject matter and perspectives you paint: skyscapes, landscapes where you're grounded in it, landscapes where you're looking out over a large expanse, seascapes, closeups of trees, desert mountains, etc.
👋Good evening, Stuart. The painted structures of the chalk cliffs and the sea are very impressive and beautiful. They also go well with the truly spectacular sky, whose clouds you have created superbly. The waves crashing on the beach still have enough power to sweep you off your feet, although they are already shallower. True eye-catchers par excellence are the structures of the chalk cliffs, the sea and above all the sky. Next to them, the greenery on top of the cliffs pales a little, although also interestingly "designed". As always, a harmonious colour scheme throughout. All in all, another painting of yours that makes one wish one could paint so well oneself. Thank you, and have a good weekend. 💖- (Since you already ask, I prefer your landscape paintings, and clouds are most times included.)👍
Dear Stuart. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are my great role model. Your seascape is wonderful and there is something deeply symbolic about the cliff. Hugs from Michael/Spain
I really like the extra information about the cliff eroding or a storm coming to explain the details
When I found you, I did not feel alone in just having fun and letting the brushes work for you. The fanciful imagination has a full canvas to play. You gave me strength to keep playing this way, it's been the best teaching I could imagine because I am curious, there is nothing I can do wrong and I can always fix everything.
The greatest joy?> You said: "if you marry your painting, you will not be free" Totally!!! Do all your work FOR YOURSELF, your joy, your WHATEVERS!
Be kind to yourself, meditate in the eve, and do breathing exercises. Envision your wellness, the Buddhist's knew one thing:
OUR MINDS CAN HEAL OUR BODIES
.....If we want it.....
If we believe it.....
YOU GOT This!!!!!
please Stuart say and do what ever you like :) you are great just as you are !!!! thank you for all your time and instructive lessons !!!!!!!!!!!!!! praying for you and yours
What do I like? I like all of it. Landscapes, seascapes. Skies, and portraits.
With this, you turned around my sorrowful day. Thank you for being here. Keep painting and keep talking Stuart. Blessings.
I like the way your composition develops apparently by magic.
“Nice/interesting mistake”
“Useful mistakes”
“Artistic accident”
“Accidental friend”
THAT palette knife now on my subconscious list of must-haves!
Wow! Etched stone paper. This is intriguing!
In the US they are marketing bath mats made of a stone material, which absorbs moisture better than fabric.
I used to have some sandstone coasters at one time and used to sell them in a gift shop where I worked.
I'm not usually a big fan of seascapes but this is gorgeous and may be my favorite of all the paintings I've seen you do over all the years I've been watching!
Oh my! I’m so glad you’re back and wishing you all the best of health and happiness, now and forever! Love your painting tutorials!!
Mr. Davies..I finally got a chance to watch you paint again and I'm loving it so much. You mentioned someone wanted you to stop talking. Well I'll tell you right now...please talk. I enjoy your commentary. I don't like watching silent painting videos..or videos with blaring music. Thank you for being you..and sharing your talent with us!!..And I'm glad you're feeling well😊
Stuart..thank you so much 💓
First hearing your voice and listening to your wisdom is part of the pleasure of watching your videos. I enjoyed this painting and particularly that you softened the background and sky which seemed to push it farther behind the cliff. Thank you for sharing. Please stay well. From America.🤗👍🙏
Thank you so much!
Love watching you paint in real time no skipping any step
Thank you so much 😀
Thank you for spending time again sharing your talents as well as your thoughts and stories. They are always a highlight on an incredible painting. Thanks for sharing the ideas of how to do calm beaches. Your talents are a blessing.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Everything you do is very amazing! I have gained an incredible amount of knowledge and tricks from your videos, but above all more courage to experiment. No, no, please don't stop talking because it's always interesting to listen to and always informative. Thanks so much for all you do and for sharing this!!!
Это великолепно! Не могу оторвать глаз от пейзажа! Спасибо большое!❤
....one more thing, to answer your question...I love your landscapes with big bold skies, flowing land and trees...but I'll watch you paint anything 😊🎨😎
I have been traveling from Poland to UK multiple times I was always happy to see white cliffs of Dover when I was taking a ferry from Dunkirk. I miss living in UK. So many beautiful places. Especially Scotland I have to say I have seen the most beautiful skies, Once I have spent a night with few friends in Arish Mell it is a part of Jurassic Coast. Beautiful place!
If only the mass of the public artists knew that Stuart is literally one of the most successful and innovative artists living today. Years and years he has spent finding himself evolve and keeping simplicity in mind. He is the Michael Jordan of fine art.
You are amazing!
I just found this video in my RUclips feed. I’m not much of an artist, I just enjoy painting on the weekends to relax. I really enjoy learning from expert artist and trying to improve. I really enjoyed this video. I’ll be looking for more videos to watch.
Brilliant, thank you Stuart for the close ups of the sky! That is going to help me judge my own attempts at smoothing (its my favourite bit of your videos and the results are so atmospheric). 😁 Thank you!
Thanks for another wonderful video, Stuart -- truly monumental in many ways. Also for sharing that interesting new product, etched stone paper. Be well and take care of yourself. Hugs and admiration from Salzburg...
Your white cliffs bring back wonderful memories of many holidays in Eastbourne with my late husband. Birling Gap was a favourite spot.Thank you so much. Stay well and keep talking.
I went on google earth this afternoon and was transported to the cliffs at Dover. I found the view of the cliffs from the perspective of your painting. Spot on. When you spoke of your memory, although I don’t review the daily visuals before I sleep, my memory does appear as a picture of that which I wish to recall. Even childhood memories appear in my mind in vivid color photos. I just thought this was normal. I also recall the texture of surfaces. I often feel compelled to touch things.
Another inspiring video to watch and listen to, please keep talking Stuart, hearing your thought processes as the painting progresses is one of the things that keeps me coming back.
Beautiful sea scape Stuart..I love sea scape ..water is so peaceful to look at
Thanks so much Stuart for showing us all this amazingly effective, loose, tonal technique.. This is so liberating and encouraging to see. I have for years though that you can only be a 'great artist' if you can paint 'every leaf on every tree'.
I've bought some oils and will begin painting again for the first time since leaving school 35 years ago. I struggled with gouache back then but always loved the art department.
With you and our mutual love of Turner for inspiration, Im off to create some drama in my skyscapes!
I'm a Sussex dweller too.
Hope all the heart monitoring goes well.
Stewart. I have been painting for quite a few years more or less successfully . Mostly fairly realistic and no I don't paint each leaf but I do use a lot of colors. Still I have always felt somewhat restricted. Anxious that I would receive the comment " Are you going to finish it? Or "I never saw a tree that color".finally after watching your video's for the past few years I took the plunge. I cannot begin to tell you how grateful I am to you. I have heard you repeat the same mantra hundreds of times and finaly something clicked. I had feared that tonalism was taking the "easy way out". What I found was that when i concentrated less on the technical aspects of painting it allowed me to express myself more freely. The painting the became less about recreating it and more about letting something out. Sorry for the rambling Stay well and please keep teaching
Eli a grateful student
thanks Stuart and I am happy you re keeping it up all the best 🙏
I love the banter and I wouldn't change a thing about that and I for one love seascapes and have been trying to draw and paint in my opinion the 2 most difficult things and those are water of any sort and trees!
I love listening to you talk Stuart. So funny today, I was working on nearly the same painting... I took a break and this video popped up in my feed. We don't have those beautiful chalk cliffs but our shores across the pond are similar. We have sand dunes and sandy beaches as well as clay bluffs and rocky cliffs. Sorry to hear about your heart problem. Hope you get your energy back and feel better soon!
I like the texture that you pick up in the gesso's coats when you wipe back paint; with a paper towel. Interesting, how those thin washes, in the ground textues; help your overall paintings' details. Magical isn't it? I paint listening to you; your technical advice gives me great ideas, for my own work. You're an excellent professor.
I’m intrigued by the paper. I look forward to seeing the results of your sketches and paintings on it.
Always great to watch a boss painter at work. Very sorry to hear of your health problems Stuart, I hope the docs can get you sorted soon.
Thanks for another terrific lesson.😎🇦🇺🦘
Hi Stuart, I read about the morning cloud just now. Put your video on pause for a minute. Obviously, that was quite the storm. Having been on sail boats a lot in years past, I can appreciate the difficulty you had, rescuing both the boat and the sleeper. My hat is off to you!
Thank you for another wonderful painting. I really enjoy your painting and conversation. You are an inspiration to this newbie to painting. You explain yours steps and it’s so helpful. I hope your feeling better. Please continue talking as you go.
I love this painting - fantasy ✅ magic ✅ - as always I learn so much - and please don't ever stop talking to us Stuart 😊
Wonderful thanks Stuart😊
Hello, thank you for this video. Very grateful you are in the land of the living. Love William Turner--he was a very prolific artist.
Loved the story about your 12 hour ordeal at sea! Now we know why you prefer calm seas😁
So glad to see you back painting and presenting videos. Continued prayers for your health as well. ❤️🙏🏻
We are sorry to hear you havn’t been well. Love all your painting “ scapes “, love Turner , love your interesting talks !
I do love watching you paint. I am learning and do wish I could loosen up. I go in with the best of intentions and get tighter as I go along to the point where I have to make myself go and paint sometimes. I guess I'm scared of messing it all up. Here in Australia we have gorgeous beaches and sunsets. I wish I could paint them all.
I am happy to see you back on your feet. Was really worried when you didn't show up online. I so wish your health could improve. Take care please. Your paintings and your talking give me so much pleasure and I often have to lol about your remarks. The irony and the selfmocking are precious. About brushes: I clean mine with dishwasher soap and like you, only the ones that ik really want to keep. After having cleaned them on paper I put them in a jar with lukewarm water and soap and clean them as good as possible, then to the next jar with clean water and soap and rinse them on my hand and finally use jars with clean water to rinse the soap out. THe cheap brushes I clean when the used soap water is stille usable to clean them, if not I don't. Like you I think the costs are not worth it and it is bad for the environment. Thank you for all you share with us. I greatly appreciate it.
Another satisfying upload! Thank you so much. 🙏💕
God guided you back to shore in the storm so you could teach us oil painting years later.....thank you Lord for watching over Stuart Davies 🙏🤙❤️ Amen..
#phantasy& magic - i love to paint from that deep experience - and I love your very related way of w’et in w’et Oil painting - its true magic 🎶💜🎵🦄
Beautiful work, Sir. Get well soon.
glad your back and hope health improve's in short time as Im sure it will so hang in there and keep creating beautiful painting's....
Amazing work love watching you .
I'm so happy to see a new video, Stuart! Please keep up the commentary, it's a delight--I feel like I'm in the same room with you as you paint. Wishing you all the best with your health issues.
Love this one Stuart!
I was scrolling through images of Turner paintings the other day and there it was - red ochre or similar in the sky. I liked your inclusion of the sea in today's vid, mostly I like skies but I am getting more interested in the landscapes too. Thank you!
I think you are a great teacher, raconteur, artisr and overall fascinating individual. I hope your health holds. (I have my own health dealio and am dealing with it daily with great doctors at The University of Washinton). Let's cheer on the Dylan Thomas 'rage against the dying of the light' and I recall Yeats' ideas about aging.
Just sent your video link to a budding artist friend of mine. You bring freedom of expression to the act of painting for all of us. Take care, our friend.
Amazing as always a true joy to watch and learn.
As far as the etchedstone paper is concerned, I wonder if they are making it in the form of big stretched canvasses. I use stretched canvass which is expensive but poor quality. Anything that will be better for the environment is a great idea, but I dont want to have to buy it in the form of a notepad and then need to frame it. Also which countries is it available in? Hopefully someone from the Etched stone company is reading these comments and can provide more info.
Actually, I checked their website after my comment and the only products listed are their notebooks, so maybe they are still working on larger canvasses for artists.
Very sorry to hear you haven’t been well, I always enjoy your paintings but I was particularly interested in this one as I know the Birling Gap quite well , I love the end result, keep up the good work, and all the best to you, and hope you keep well.
So love watching… it’s amazing how you bring* it al together , to me so easy 👍
I mean you make it look so easy and seems to flow on to the canvas
It is such a joy seeing you paint. And talk. I would not wanna have it any other way. Just real time painting with narration. Don't mind you are sometimes in the way for a couple of seconds. That is normal. I'm happy to say you are not invisible :D Greetings,, Kitty.
I really enjoy watching your tonal techniques, or style. I have never seen anyone paint with that ability, and comfort. The ease of your technique amazes me. I want to try your process. I just haven't found the place to do it yet. space and place are lacking for me at the moment. I am doing watercolors. In a much more controlled and planed manner. I like my paintings as do others, but Im a little bored doing them. I'd like to try pushing paint around a little more freely. Until I have a place I can safely chance using oils etc, I will have to enjoy your videos.
Love your videos Stuart your content is so inspiring! Don’t stop chatting it’s good banter 😊 I love sea and sky paintings , I’m also on the mend so would love to come to France for a class next year , hope you recover well 😊take care
Thanks so much 😊 And I hope you recover too!
Another fabulous painting ❤ I live about 20 miles inland from Birling Gap, your painting is very evocative. Regarding your dulcet tones, don’t you dare stop talking! And as to what I’d like to see you paint, I wouldn’t mind a winter scene at some point before Christmas 😁❄️
Your sky is beautiful as it is
Keep well🌺. Love your paintings👏👏
Another welcoming watch thanks sir
PLEASE keep taking!
Hi Stuart, I've just been watching this video over again, during the day, I might add, and I was very impressed by each phase of the process including the issues you faced in trying to get the paint to do what you want it to do. Yes, one can indeed really appreciate the fantasy and the magic that emerges as you blend the colours to great effect.
Then I heard you ask the question as to what type of genre people like, e.g.: Landscape, Seascape, etc.
So I thought I would share my preferences, which are Landscapes (my foremost preference), followed by the occasional Seascape, Cityscapes, animals, and the occasional attempt at portraits, which I am beginning to get better at, so I keep trying.
Like you Stuart, I do not like using turps of any kind, I love using oil mediums and also Liquid fine detail, and oleogel which is a very thick paste like gel. I also like using paint strait from the tube and mixing on the Canvas. I use glazes on occasion too and especially love to oil in as the painting nears completion and has been allowed to dry between stages.
Nevertheless, I am so impressed with the methodological style of your painting, many of which have that old masters feel about them, as I have mentioned before. You are certainly one artist worth following and I am so happy to watch, listen, and learn from your channel including the advice and talkover too. Hope you are continuing to keep well despite your condition and I continue to wish you well. Thanks for sharing everything. Take care now and waiting for your next enterprise.
I suggest the phrase "random effects" to describe the variations in the painting.
Welcome back!!😊
As to the recycling question you asked us, I don't know how it works in Europe, but in the states 75% of what we put in the recycling bin ends up in the landfill anyway.
I would suggest the best thing to do if you have the time and want to go to the trouble is to take the metal part off the paintbrush and put it in the recycling bin.
We can't recycle wood where I live that I know of, it would probably be best to burn it in the fireplace.
The bristles of course cannot be repurposed for anything unless somebody wants to use them in some sort of 3D art and crafts type of thing.
Any object that is comprised of more than one type of material poses a lot more work to be recycled or repurposed.
One would hope that you have tried or will try a stool to slide around on a bit, so you will not have to stand. That is what i do, it makes it easier to bear the long hours, also I stand on a padded floor mat that works wonders. They are well worth the spend.
I studied Mezzotint engraving in Nantes, and my teacher would say absolutely nothing. I would stand behind him while he scraped & burnished his rocked plate. He didn't like questions either. I learned a heck of a lot... but I felt I could have learned more if we had had some verbal exchanges! Keep talking, Stuart!
Stuart!☺️
😩Aw...my husband is going to wear a heart monitor for 2 days. 😒 I hope and pray you get good news, Stuart.💕
Hi Stuart, funny thing is that I had the same thing done recently - sleep study and Holter/EEG monitoring. Very uncomfortable and couldn't sleep at all with 3-4 dozens of wires hooked on me and a huge plastic/metal box on my chest. Can only 'sleep' in one position, like a mummy. :) Good you made it through and happy to see you again.
Thanks for sharing! It isn't a lot of fun. Let me know how it goes.
Thank you Maestro for another great work of Art,and for the lesson..since you ask,i'd love to see your take on a "nightscape"..your drama "au claire de lune"... dealing with dark tones and romantic suggestions,what do you think?
Once again stunning ! Stuart, quick question, do you varnish or seal your oil paintings? Thank you for all the wonderful techniques. You are me feel like I can do this!
Yes, I do... eventually!
Do you put a covering,or see through finish to your paintings when you are done.Thanks Jack😊
Yes I do!
Very nice thank you ❤😊
Excellent work mate from perth
Hi Stuart. Hope your health improves. Have been looking forward to your next painting. Your painting is lovely as always.I did a similar sort of painting looking down on the white cliffs of Dover and sent it to you for your fan club more than 4 months ago.Basically just my own amalgamation/fantasy of various photos I looked at. I never received a comment or reply and there has been no change or movement on your fan club paintings for ages. Are you still active there ?
Thanks, Carol. I got a bit side-tracked when my health took a dive, but I'll get back to it as soon as I can.
@@StuartDavies I understand. Take it easy. I am in the same boat but no matter how awful I feel I manage to forget it all while I am painting. 😆😅🤣 i even forget to eat and drink. I can't leave my painting until I am done.