Painting FLOWERS all week ✶ Week 02 of
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- For week two I decided to focus on drawing and painting flowers. I struggle to see subtle differences in reds and yellows so this was a real challenge! I focused on breaking down the forms into simple shapes to learn the structure of the flowers. #gouache
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I want to see what Phil has in his bags! 😂
If I could give multiple thumbs up 👍 and limes I would. Fantastic narrative
As always your paintings are so beautiful and inspiring!
Sarah, I enjoy watching your peaceful videos no matter the subject. You are so gracious. Today I have advice for you…. Take a nap! It’s spring and maybe you have Spring Fever? At any rate, just lay your head down and enjoy a nap. When you wake up I bet you’ll feel better. If not, take another nap. Maybe there will be a beautiful flower floating around in you head and you’ll know exactly how you want to paint it.
Hi Sarah....I find the sound of your cat purring to be very soothing...more of that please!😊❤
I couldn't hear Akira purring because my own cat was lying in my arms purring away 🥰. Phil's got it all worked out! All the drawings and paintings were lovely, but the dried thistle was particularly captivating. I like how even in a small sketch you will paint a cast shadow to give dimensionality and enliven the subject.
Your flowers are sooo beautiful!!! Please much more flower paintings ❤🎉
Love your channel, always inspires me 🎉🎉🎉
On that last study I love love love the mint green with the pops of pinkish purple and the blue green leaves. Just gorgeous. PS Phil is awesome!
Phil is the best 😁
Love this! Thank you.
I really like your video. I wish I had the motivation as you have
Beautiful flowers! I really enjoyed this. I enjoy watching your process. The flowers in your yard are just gorgeous .Akira seems to be a typical kitten. Exploring everything! Enjoy all of the curious kitten moments.
Thanks so much for sharing your process, I think your sketches are beautiful. I'm doing buildings in pen this april with no pencil at all and it's a significant challenge! I'm just so much better at organic shapes. Love Phil, I think everyone in the comments is also especially charmed by him. I can't believe you *apologized* for the delight of Akira purring - that's just an extra special treat
Yay Phil!🎉
Oh…the magical skill of drawing what I think I see vs. what is really there…I’ve got that mastered. Lol I so appreciate your transparency because what you say aloud is what literally goes thru my mind. I feel slightly better now on my art journey.
I love how you said you were obsessed with a tree. There’s a tree on my daily run and I keep taking pictures of the bark. I think the tree has alerted the police of my stalking. Lol Enjoy Scotland!
Flowers are much easier if you study a little basic botany. Learn the parts of a flower, the classes of petal arrangement, etc. That eliminates the overwhelm and gives you a solid place to begin. Notice how the leaves are arranged on the stem. Even the leaves have classes of shapes. Some plants have SQUARE stems! Etc. This plan of attack increases the speed at which you can draw. You already know how color is affected by the angle at which it strikes an object. This is where science and art intersect. It makes for a wonderful marriage of skills. I am not a botanist but as a scientific illustrator, I enjoy the curiosity and exploration of our natural world in the microcosm of our own natural space. The small is often more breath-taking than the grand. So happy to watch your journey. ☮️❤️🙏🏻
Your drawing skills have become outstanding. Beautiful, beautiful drawings. You inspire me.
Such a lovely video. Thank you for sharing your process, what inspires you and your beautiful art. 🧚
Love Phil’s amazing organisational skills, so neatly packed, how does he do it? More of Phil please :) Love your videos, just started using acrylic gouache with watercolours and learning :)
I have had some struggles too with the challenge. It's good to know I'm not alone! I am still persevering though because I am learning a lot.
Have a great trip to Isle of Skye!
Thank you for all of the encouragement ... and for sharing your experiences. It is all helpful to me!! The castle outing with your group looked lovely even if exhausting. I hope you and your visitors have good weather on Isle of Skye.
I'm the reverse. I struggle with landscapes, but find flowers to be easy.
Lovely video, truthful as always which is why we love you and your work! I adored meeting Phil. That’s how I would do Plein Air myself 😉. Hope you have a fantastic week with your friends
Getting lost in the flowers is something I struggle with also. I appreciate the advice to focus on each part, bud, leaves, flower, etc., drawing them first. Great advice. I will try that next time! Beautiful scenery! Loved this video.
Gotta love Phil!
You are brilliant Sarah, I am trying to paint every day but it’s not easy is it. Thank you for your inspiration - and I’m loving using gouache since getting my monthly boxes 😊 x
I love flowers too and they’re easier from far away but when you want to do a detailed flower, it’s just as hard as doing a portrait. Because if you get one little curve of a pedal wrong, the whole thing looks off. Just like if you get somebody’s nose off a little, the whole thing looks off. So it’s not a fun thing for me to do but I continue to try to learn both portraiture and flower painting. Because yes like you my first love is landscape. I don’t understand how people can think landscape is hard compared to the other two. But everybody has their forte.
Lovely and very inspiring. Thanks for introducing Phil 🌸
I’m in Phil’s camp 😂 although I have small art kits, I also have days where I just keep adding to my pile!
Phil seems like an awesome individual. 😊 He still has room for more bits of things though.
First of all i love your kitty. I appreciate your sharing of struggles. When we see videos we don't realize the years of work that was put in to obtain this level of painting. Thank you
I would love to come hang out with your group. Have to say Phil has got it going on. Very smart way to bring it all. Sarah I want to thank you for the soothing voice, calmness, never give up, don't stop learning, push that I need every single day. You are amazing.
Ohh gosh thanks for the wonderful idea of the carry all trolley for art supplies Phil!!! I have got one that I recently found in our storage/laundry room 😂that would work well for me hauling my Plein Air supplies!! 🥰💕Thanks so much for sharing your week of painting flowers for the second week of April Sarah. Gorgeous place for painting all sorts of flowers, birds, castles, & still life subjects. Enjoy your time with family & friends next week!
Thank you for sharing your process. I am trying to learn florals this year because I want to incorporate them with landscapes. I find flowers difficult because there so so many different ones and each one is a learning curve.
Let’s go! 🇺🇸
As always Sarah, you inspire me to continue to play and observe. You have no idea how much I look forward to watching your process. Thank you so much.
I am so glad!! Sometimes I forget my “normal” or “boring” might still be interesting to others
I’ve been painting flowers the last couple of days myself. But boy your spring comes early there. Everything is blooming. We just got our daffodils and forsythia blooming and my weeping dwarf cherry is blooming. The bees and butterflies are pollinating and it is so awesome.
Thanks so much for taking us along. I share the tiredness! The struggle is real.
Flowers are really tough to paint, especially if you're doing them from observation, instead of in a formulaic always-paint-roses-using-these-three-strokes kind of way, and that's why I think people like Fantin-Latour were so admired for their flower paintings. It was an entire genre and there were flower specialist painters in the 17th century, whose work is still appreciated as being masterful in conception and execution. You handled the second set of flowers on the shrub really well, I thought, because you found the perfect brushwork to use to express the light and shade play on them with a light and spontaneous touch. From trying to paint flowers myself sometimes I find that my intense focus can ruin the bloom, as surely as if I had physically crushed the flower, because the lines and colours in flowers need to look light and delicate. It's a very tiring activity painting, but so engaging, and I bet the group all enjoyed the day.
I hadn’t learned about this artist thank you so much for sharing - his work is amazing ❤
Sarah, have you ever considered entering Sky Arts TV, “Landscape Artist of the Year” competition? Anyone can enter, but it’s mostly entered by UK artists, of course, because of travel distances. They get many thousands of entries (and also produce the “Portrait Artist of the Year.”) But you have built of a very solid body of work and are a real PRO and could definitely compete with all the other talented artists. I love both programs, but the landscape show is def my fave ❤ I figure you’ve likely watched the shows? 😊 Various YT channels rebroadcast the shows for U.S. viewers. Thanks for all you do! #LAOTY
Your palette is not a mess as I see it - all of the colors look well blended and not muddy at all. It always alarms me when people are constantly cleaning beautiful paint out of their paint wells.
Glad to hear validation about just doing short sessions. Also i am glad to know I am not the only one who gets overwhelmed by colors and shape.
I don't know what it is about flowers but I struggle immensly too 😮💨 my brain just get overwhelmed I think, and I'm never satisfied with the final result, but I stubbornly keep trying 😅
a cat stream would B a good channel 2 start.
Like the tours.seein' the world from USA... with so many you tubers. Liz Artworks also vacas around Europe.?do U use collage?
The color swatches on the side really help, thanks.
A universe in a tiny atom with Phil...😂 When doing flowers and budding trees I single out one branch or stem and draw that.I also take a lot of photos. It makes things go a lot easier. 😊
When I am having a rough time with flowers, it helps me to choose just one flower and paint it, so that even if I later do a landscape I know what I’m painting.
Hi, Sarah! _"I'm obsessed wit this tree!"_
Silver birch trees do that to me!!!
_"As artists, we are life-long students."_
Yes. after 27 years, I still have sooo much to learn!
The man with the trolley? It's reassuring to see someone else use one! Mine has been a genuine game -changer since circumstances have kept me to urban sketching instead of wide-open landscapes. All my kit (even large parasol / umbrella) goes inside, though, except for the messenger bag. That has the (slightly larger than bum-bag) grab-and-go bag, A5 sketch book (those in the grab-and-go are A6) small drawing board, and various brush pens. That bag goes pretty much everywhere with me, and has all I really need for working small (up to A4) The other kit is my full-size kit, with bigger brushes, paper, drawing board, full-pan paint box, etc. plus lunch, flasks, water. The chair fastens on the back.
Akiva purring? Definitely fine with me! 🤗
Japanese quince? ! 😄 It is stunning!!!!
And last, but should be first: your beautiful drawings, especially those with the grey and white on the toned paper.
I hope you're going to have glorious weather and a very happy time with your friends on Skye!!!!
your philosophy is so wonderful, how does one find a therapist who understands artists
I can relate to Phil so much. Lovely video 😊
REI coop hat lol!!!! Do they have REI in Scotland Sarah?? Love to see your progress drawing And painting.
Really enjoyed meeting Phil.
Thank you once again Sarah, inspired me to be more disciplined with my sketchbook routine. Loved the section at the end, it shows there are ways to take absolutely everything you may need when outdoors. Have a fabulous time on the Isle of Skye with your friends.
You motivated me to go outside to paint, and I want to thank you, because it's so great to see videos that encourage you to do something! And this is why I'm follow you, because it's very exquisite to see those beautiful painting and beautiful scenes of Scotland! And you are a awesome Artist and Teacher, so, I'm very thankful for this! And I'm in love of gouche because of you 😊❤❤❤
Flowers are difficult for me too. I only paint them from my photos.
Joyful spring. Thank you for producing and sharing your journey. I travel a little bit like your friend who you video'd at the end. Glad I'm not alone with my rolly contraptions!
Thanks so much for sharing how you're working thru the learning process, it is so helpful and encouraging. I really loved seeing the different color combinations for the tree.
I’m doing my own little flower challenge this month as I’m really not good at identifying many of our wild flowers. I signed up with Sussex Wildlife Trust’s 7 day flower course to learn a new one every few days by drawing them in a sketchbook and some of them are really hard! 😂 They’re so intricate. Thank you for this video and I think we all need a Phil in our lives!
When I saw that tree in your video, I just knew you would be painting it 😂. Such gorgeous grounds around the castle and you’re so lucky to have a group of lovely people to meet up and paint together. Love Phil’s method for taking everything, why not?
Do you make a decision at the beginning of pleinairpril to go with watercolour or gouache for the entire month? Safe travels, have a great week!
Hi Sarah, waited happily for your weekly update. Love Phills set up, and also yours. Trying to get outside to look, but like in Scotland Denmarks weather is not exactly encouraging. I'm weak, ill stay inside. But now i listen to your video (2nd time) and found a reference photo and set a goal for sketching for 13 minutes 50 seconds ;-) Love the castle tour, (and i only need like 15 min on a bike to get to something like that, why cant I kick myself out the door and GO. Also 10 min bike ride and then i reach the forest. Maybe it will be my spring goal, exercise and plein air.
Time to restart the video and start sketching ;-)
Thank you, Sarah! Loving your videos! Appreciate the encouraging words. And also wonderful Spring! We're month+ behind in "New Scotland"
Aye it has been lovely aside from the torrential rains 😅
That's great Sarah that you have such lovely spring weather and spring flowers! Here in the central part of Ontario, Canada, the weather still threatens us with snow! I have 1 brave daffodil. So I'm content to paint my new art studio instead. Enjoy!
We aren’t out of the woods yet, last year it snowed late April 🤪
Lovely! What a nice visit!
You have such a beautiful voice..I just love listening to your voiceovers. I bought gouache, have yet to give it a good try. I’m a watercolorist, so I feel out of my comfort zone with gouache, but you keep inspiring me. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Tnks for share!!!!! Love it!🎉
This looks so good ☺☺
Colorful Collage is interesting, on RUclips...Why it took me 40 years....
"Brush Mileage:" Nice term.
I struggle with flowers too!! On your sketchbook with the dark grey square are you using gouache paints instead of watercolor?
Are you using watercolor or gouache in your sketchbook when painting the quinces and dried flowers? Wondering if there are any special issues when sketching in that big sketchbook with pilling at all? Love your videos
Hi Sarah, can you please tell us more about your blue sketching pen and leads and why you use blue and is the lead water soluble? Is it a crayon type lead? And exactly where to buy them in the uk? Thank you
Ha ha, super... I think we all know a Phil... I know I do 😄. Your flower studies are gorgeous. May I ask what is the blue mechanical pencil? I've seen you and John Muir Laws use it to good effect with beige tinted paper and I would like to try it with white gel pen like yourself 😊
Do you know where Phil got the chair cart setup?
I love your style and the way you break down your subjects first. I’m learning a lot from you. Can I ask why you draw with a blue pencil? 😊🇦🇺
I just love blue! I find it really aesthetically pleasing
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I think the flowers are absolutely beautiful. My white dogwood that blossomed “lime green” is just now turning white …and it’s so beautiful. … but my only problem …is that the Stillman Birn nova series with the beige color paper seems to warp and buckle ..with gouache at full strength, or , with my watercolors. I’m sure it has a direct correlation with the amount of water I’m using, but even at full undiluted strength gouache .. I’m still getting buckling and warping. I believe the gsm is 150 on these sketchbooks.. I’m wondering if they sell a higher gsm sketchbook with the beige paper? I’ve not been able to find one. Thoughts or tips are greatly appreciated.
Hmm I haven’t noticed that much buckling on mine. It does slightly but that’s to be expected
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Flower’s really frustrate me 😳 can’t seem to get the colours to look bright enough 🙃🌳🌱
Oh my goodness!
I’m curious what kind of pencil you’re using
Relax on ur vaca?...Ann Florida fan
My palette is the same way though I use watercolors. Will you be visiting with Sarah at Living The Skye Life RUclips channel?
Weird? The rhodos there bloom w daffodils? Even my early blooming azeleas dont do this in Maryland.
Im such an anglophile. Who knew?
I like messy palettes, they are much more interesting in my head, I make up stories about people who have messy palettes, rooms, etc.