Watercolour painting of a pomegranate by Lucy T Smith | V&A
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Sit back and relax as award winning botanical artist Lucy T Smith paints a watercolour of a pomegranate using traditional techniques.
www.lucytsmith.com
@palmsmithy
This film was produced as part of the Renaissance Watercolours display on until April 2021.
Find out more: vam.ac.uk/renaissance-watercolours
This was not only relaxing to watch, but as an artist who has not worked much with watercolor, I was able to see useful tips/techniques. I always enjoy seeing a lefty at work...feels more natural as that is my dominant hand also🖌️♥️.
I didn't even notice it - and I'm a lefty too! Maybe that's why.
@@stellaz2595 Well, I’m a righty and I didn’t notice it either until I read Momo’s comment ;)
@@stellaz2595 I was about to say the same!
LEFTIES UNITE ! 😝😂✨
I use my right hand often but I can use my left too when my right is tired
She was using the watercolor brush like a color pencil! It’s amazing. I watched the one on how water colors were used in medieval times at it was also amazing!!
which one is it. thanks
@@gardenglory6624 can't find what medieval watercolor was mentioned but I remember watching both of these watercolor vids. ruclips.net/video/o2Td21fgMvc/видео.html ruclips.net/video/ZyBuMRWjBow/видео.html
*watercolour
@@zafferung4440 That's not the only spelling, friend, and "watercolor" IS still a correct spelling.
@@zafferung4440 the spelling depends on where you are from they are both right. I’m pretty sure color is the us and colour is Europe.
Fantastic work. Her hand moves confidently and gracefully. It was a pleasure to watch, thank you for sharing, V&A.
I am new and wow enjoy a lot ... patience, effort goes to this!!!!!
A piece of paper feeling itself being painted upon must be a state of perfect bliss.
Such gentle strokes of the brush, such care and attention to detail...
If you are not a writer you could totally become one. That was a beautiful notion.
@@Adri-Prado i absolutely concur
Get you a man that watercolors pomegranates on you like this woman does to her paper.
I could watch a lot more of this - art being created, the actual process as it happens, and not just drawing/watercolour. This was fascinating and very peaceful and interesting to watch. I loved it.
Its like the feeling of color just flows out.
@Lucysmom26 I loved this as well and also appreciate seeing the creative process unfolding. I am a classical music composer and recently uploaded a time-lapse video of my composing of a new art song titles 'A Chime of Wrens' that you might enjoy. You can find it on my channel if you feel inclined to see it
The person below said what I was thinking, that was mesmerizing. The artist was brilliant in her skill. Please have more videos like this. It was a pleasure to watch.
you should start doing art!
I love how much time she takes to actually observe and map out the subject and then create depth with shadow and light before laying down colours. I love the tranquility of her process.
who ever said watching paint dry is boring has clearing never watched this. So relaxing to see a master at work
Wonderful to watch. Demos are a brilliant way of teaching. No chatting just relaxing music. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video. I loved watching her creative process play out. So often the artist's actual hand in making a piece of art is unseen, so that the time and talent put into the "creating" is not always evident to the viewer. Artists can become disassociated from their work. The general public sees a beautiful watercolor but not always the artistic talent behind it. I hope I'm making sense. Please, please show more!
my god the contrl she has with the pencil and the brush is just mesmerizing
Thank you so much for sharing this. This was magic! Can't thank you enough for letting it be silent and unhurried.
Yeah, rare and refreshing.
The depth of color from so many faint layers applied in tiny brush strokes is amazing
The fact that she’s able to get that much accuracy using watercolor is just next level stuff. Amazing!!!
Watching this brilliant piece reminded me of a wonderful quote by Winston Churchill from his book 'Painting as a Pastime' that goes, "Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end, or almost to the end, of the day."
2 years ago…and im just finding this now, perhaps as it is the right time for me to watch this wonderful botanical artist show us how she has mastered her craft. So much to learn here by watching from measuring the subject to be documented to the layering of watercolour washes. I have gained so much just by watching. Thank you V&A museum for posting. Regards from West Australia 🇦🇺
PLEASE more videos like this! It is amazing!
Lucy is my teacher on Kew Gardens and I can’t explain how much she is talented. She’s amazing!
Along with the calming, meditative aspects of her painting; I found myself learning so much from the graphite value study and the values and tones of her working with her color choices and showing how she goes about finding how the transparency of the colors would work together. Absolutely amazing work!!
*colour
@@zafferung4440 no
Wow! her skill with a brush is amazing!
I have seen it several times, it is beautiful, a lot of patience, congratulations Mrs Lucy.
This made my heart fuller.
Her technique is impeccable.
With water-colour, you have to be precise and have a lot of patience, bravo! I can't even dream of being this good.
Delightful! Thanks a lot for sharing, V&A.
Thank you so much for this video! It's not only relaxing - but also so inspiring and educational to watch the painting develop, the mixture of the colours and the techniques. I could spend hours watching her paint... I'm sure I'll watch it several more times.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching her work !
Maravilloso, aunado a la música generan un ambiente exquisito y me hace rememorar vivencias del taller de pintura universitario. Hermoso, te envuelve en un aura mágica de luz y sombras., color y texturas. Fantástico. Mil gracia V&A.
This was so calming and peaceful to watch her beautifully paint the pomegranates, Thank you to the V&A and the artist. ✨😌
So amazing to watch. She is so skilled, the end result is wonderful. I love the relaxing music as well.
Really wonderful to see the precise work done here! Beautiful!
Really wonderful! Watching her layer on the colors so artfully was really helpful and inspiring! Thank you.
That is so beautiful. Such patience and an eye for detail. Wow.
Excellent videography also!
what precision and skill to capture an object so lifelike. Wonderful!
So beautiful to see this artist work ! thanks 🙏 for the relaxing and enjoyable video!
This channel really makes me feel so peacful and relaxed😊
Damn that was mesmerising
It was. I saw the running time and thought I'd never make it, then before I knew it it was over!
I loved absolutely everything about this!
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing her amazing work. It's great to see her process. I definitely learned something new, myself.
this artist has been amazing to watch!
mesmerising, such skill, so much beauty captured in watercolours. well done, Lucy. Nancy Purser
It is amazing for me to see artists' works. Thank you so much.
Utterly mesmerising. Wow!
Amazing and thoroughly relaxing. Thanks for the video.
WOW! She sure is Talented.
That Pomegranate looks like a Photograph.
Beautiful.
Jeff
How very peaceful, thank you!
Beautiful. Inspiring. So relaxing.
This is sooo amazing! Beautiful artwork, I Absolutely love it!!! 👍👍👍
Amazing! Love this video. It makes me has a deeper appreciation for this realistic art style
amazing. this is pure art 🌷
Its worthy of note that this sort of botanical painting is highly technical work, to record the precise details of specimens of different species, for the purpose of scientific understanding. It is not generally expressive or interpretative. If it is beautiful it is because it is an accurate representation of nature, which is beautiful to us. Historically there have been numbers of reknowned female practitioners: perhaps partly as it is a form of painting that didn't require an apprenticeship in dtawing nude bodies and possibly also some kind of self identification women may have with fruit and flowers - the latter reason being pure speculation on my part.
I suppose it's also cheaper to practice on still life than hiring models to do nudes. Since for a long time women don't have jobs, they also don't have much disposable income to hire models. And even if they do (like from a well-off family), it would have probably been considered scandalous for a lady to be looking at them junks and clams. Fruits and flowers are just easier to explain and others would have seen these subjects as feminine anyway.
As an artist, I must completely disagree with you!
This type of work is highly technical, for the purpose of scientific understanding,
but to say, "It is not generally expressive or interpretive.", is a great depreciation of her artistic sensability!
To do any real artistic work and continue to stick with it requires a true passion for your art.
It goes way beyond mere acquired skills.
The pursuit of the required skills to do this quality of work does demand a great love or "passion" for your art, otherwise, it's just a job.
Being an artist uses hands, head AND heart.
Otherwise you have just an empty shell of work, and may have well just used a photographic filter in imaging software.
Choosing how to represent the subject matter and display it in it's best light, then paint or draw in whatever the chosen art medium is, rerquires a keen eye for observation AND is very much interpretive and how it is expressed is singular to the individual artist.
If what you suggest is the case, then any botanical artist would have the exact same outcome as this one, and I have to say that would not be the case.
From choosing the pomegranates, the placement and the lighting, and interpreting what is seen by her eyes into the artist's own personal stylized form, is what makes her vision unique and the end result, the botanical painting, more than just an artist's skillset applied to a fruit!
If a number of botanical artists were each given pomegranates, and told to paint a whole one and a cut one showing the seeds, the paintings would each be different enough that you could tell they were done by different artists.
Pure magic!
Wow Lucy, that was amazing. Great idea to film your work.
Gorgeous work. I also do scientific illustrations (but of minerals, rather than botanicals) and I took away a lot of technique tips from this video. Would love to see more!
Calming and very beautiful.
Beautiful
Bravi!
It was both relaxing and interesting.
Thank you for this video.
Incredible artist and fantastic ASMR in this. 👌🏻🥰
Great.... I like when there's no talk.... Beautiful music talks much much more❤️
Such beautiful video! Thank you very much
This is so relaxing
The music choice was excellent. Really added to the meditative, trance-inducing quality of the work. Thanks for this. I'd like to know where the music was from.
She is an amazing artist congratulations on your talent.
Я завидую белой завистью. Какая она молодец. Прекрасный художник.
I don't need to meditate if I just watch these videos every day, damn.
Beautiful!!!!!
Loved it, more please
So delicate ♥️
This was so good for my soul Thank you.
Just Love it❤️❤️😫
Keep making such videos it helps us art students alot!! Also pls make water painting cloth texture ,drapery.
Splendid 💙
She a watercolor bender. That's extremely precise
Beautiful.
Beautiful work! And, a fellow left-hander.
The left handed representation I always wanted
Beautiful 👌🥰
wow gorgeous! i pome-stan it
It was a pleasure
Beautiful
Que bonito dibujo❤️❤️❤️
A MASTER tutorial!!! Thank you so much!!
I’m gonna try…I said try…😂
Masterful skill.
Please can you let us know what equipment she used and paper? Looks great and like a lot of fun! Thank you
less than a minute in and i'm already learning things. nobody in my drawing classes ever told me i could just measure the thing i'm drawing and transfer it to the paper, i had to eyeball it and hope for the best (in my defense i draw mostly human sized things in a4 paper)
Measure with pencil or even with ruler. If the object you are drawing is in distance,stretch your arm straight so measure stays same. You can also use plumb bob to check if the angles of lines are ok. I have just a nut (like nuts and bolts, not from plant) in the end of an thread.
Wow this was amazing! So patient and meticulous. Btw I’ve never seen a pencil like that before? Does anyone know what it’s called?
Mechanical pencil
Lovely
Virtuosic.
Спасибо, было интересно. Я рисую акварелью в технике, похожей на Вашу... 🤗
I would have liked to see the finished work and the pomegranate from the artists eye angle to fully appreciate her work.
Incredible that humans can do this sort of thing. Question: Was the drawing a separate piece? She didn't paint on it, right? Can someone who knows more about art tell me why she drew it first before painting it separately?
Most likely she was doing a value study to get an idea of where the lights and shadows are. Either that or she does it as a warm-up, getting to know her subject before diving in with color.
Genius.....
Very nice art,thanks.
beautiful
She achieved a look similar to colored pencils with a brush. Very neat
that's amazing.
Mechanical pencil bedt tool to draw with .
Beautiful!!!!
💐💐💐💐Спасибо
That's great. Is that hot pressed watercolour paper?
Very soothing to watch a patient expert painter work. Such a zen feeling. What is that "X" metal tool she uses to measure with, starting at .08sec into the video? I need to know what it's called to get one.