I re-watch this from time to time as a "refresher" in your spontaneous painting technique and never cease to be amazed at your ability to making a cohesive and beautiful composition "emerge" from somewhat random splashes of color, much like a sculptor freeing a form from a piece of stone. Very impressive work and you make it look easy. You know where to add and how far to go but also know when to stop; a very practiced eye and a great deal of talent. Thank you for sharing and inspiring. At this date, this video has 202k views - please do not ever take it down!
I've learned more about how watercolor works from watching your spontaneous paintings and trying it myself than from any formal technique video. You really showcase the importance of painting with value in these demos, as well as teaching us flexibility within the medium. Please keep making these.
I like that you keep painting and don't stop until you are truly sure you are done! All the extra little strokes of color enhance the atmosphere of this painting. Makes me want to be there! Thank you!
Amazing how you made the rocks appear out of nowhere! You say you stared at this painting for a few days; you have no idea (and neither have I) how many times I have watched this video! I think I"m in love with the song you are playing, also!
I am a retired HS art teacher from Missouri and I used to have the students splatter and lay down colors in class one day. Let it dry and come back the next several class periods and create a finished painting by using and manipulating the shapes. I just found your channel and subscribed immediately.
love your layout...kept looking into the trees for a deer or 2...as that is what I have seen on occasion...What I love is while they are not there one knows that somewhere in those woods are sets of eyes looking back...
I never grow tired of these type paintings. I love what I see. I see a misty fairway under your tree canopy on the right. I am working my way to surprise my husband with some golf landscapes. I have to try this. Thank you Steve.
It amazes me that you can see rocks out of no where and put them in. I would love to learn that and how you put the big trees in the background. This is gorgeous!
This was my favorite ! I watch alot of you tube and always come back to you. I relate to your voice. If I don't relate to the voice...I can't watch the video. Thanks ❤
Dear Mind... You said... "I make the rules"... that's true... I have only 2 rules... Rule #1 there are no rules... Rule #2 the work must be permanent, my materials must be as archival as possible, acid free papers, pigments that don't fade etc. Rule #3... Rule #1 could be Rule #2 and Rule #2 could be Rule #1 but that means I have 3 rules when I stated that I had only 2 rules which leads me to a dilemma that can only be solved by adding a "sanity clause" to these rules, but again this doesn't work because almost everyone knows there ain't no Sanity Claus.
Don't laugh Steve, but I see animals in clouds all the time and I can see in the blue trees a little poodle on the left and a lion face on the right. I learned a lot watching this video, as I always do from you. Thanks again.
Thank you for this moving and inspiring tutorial. Being able to acquiesce to watercolour, rather than trying to force this fluidic medium, is so important. It also makes the journey much more fun!
I love drawing and watercolour especially for this reason, at about 8:30 I was looking at it abstractly then suddenly it became a bank with dirt and greenery and depth! I guess the colours settled around the mask about then.
Thank you for his tutorial. I have loved weedy fields and woods ever since I was a little kid. But I can't capture the spontaneity of weeds with colored pencils which is what I have used for 25 years. This is my favorite tutorial and I am looking forward to trying weedy fields in watercolor, which is so conducive to nature pictures. This picture is a gem!
Love, love, love this teaching. Being in southern Idaho there are so many scenes with dried grasses so learning to paint those effectively has been a challenge. This instruction and beautiful finished expression is SO helpful. Thank you!
Words fail to describe the beauty in this painting! I've saved and continually looking at it..colors, hard/soft edges, lifting, blending, glazing, frisket application, etc...I'll use white pen if I can achieve this masterpiece! Lol...You were blessed with God given talent with years of painting! Thank you for so kindly sharing. You are also gifted teacher!! I feel you started teaching on RUclips & continue OUR benefit instead of being simply driven by ego, or other self-serving motives....May God Bless You as much as your have blessed me. Nancy p.s. I know it would be long video but I'd love to watch entire video. I believe it would help me with background trees & details.. I'm missing something
I've been looking at your videos for the last couple of hours. Trying to get back into watercolor after 20 years. It has been more difficult than I expected. I love this one. The trees in the back are a fantastic color.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful painting techniques. I love everything about this composition. The depth, the complimentary colors and the layering of colors are incredible.
Love your tutorials and all of your videos, Love your sense of humor, love the verse at the end. I learn soooo much from you. I thought I was the only one to let a painting sit for a little while to, as I say in my head, "let it cook for a while", then work on it some more with fresh eyes.
Excellent demonstration of the use of masking fluid. However, what I liked most was the way you did the background trees, so simple and so effective. Thank you
A very interesting painting i liked your masking fluid technique on that. The colors were bright and stood out. I will definitely try this painting. Dana
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and skills with the world. I'm just starting out and get so much inspiration and motivation from your videos!!
My sincerest thanks for this tutorial ... just what I was needing with a painting I’m battling with! Love watching you, you make all things possible with practice. (Love your humour, you’re a hoot!)
Thank you for creating this tutorial on a loose painting landscape. Lots of good information on blending and using masking fluid with rubber shaper and old brush. It has been very helpful and I will give it a try. I like all of your tutorials, you encourage us and make it fun to try. Thanks again for making this one, my favorite.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU... just started watching your videos as I am brand new in watercolors. I just love all your tutorials. Really the best out there, hands down! Loved this piece. Love watching you work. You are a gift!
Thank you! At first the tree back ground looked like a storm brewing, but I like the mystery of what is back there in the trees. Most of all thank you the information on making adjustments as the painting develops. I don't have any of the new canson paper but I have a small piece of the Stonehenge paper to try this on. Please keep sharing with us.
Stunning! I mean... just off the scale !!..... and yes.. yes I did learn something........... and it is this: I have a LONG way to go! .............. :)
Steve, I really enjoyed watching this video. I learned so many tips and I have been painting for years! This painting turned out absolutely beautiful! I appreciated how you explained your thought process of drawing the viewers eye to the focal point!
You are such a wonderful teacher. i've been painting in watercolor for almost a year....and just hit a wall of frustration. Watching this demo and trying to emulate your process has provided me a breakthrough, where I think all my learning so far is starting to come together. Thank you so much for your excellent commentary and spontaneous technique demos.
I'm getting ready to try watercolor and am so grateful I found your videos. Your paintings are so beautiful and your presentation and instruction so very helpful.
I re-watch this from time to time as a "refresher" in your spontaneous painting technique and never cease to be amazed at your ability to making a cohesive and beautiful composition "emerge" from somewhat random splashes of color, much like a sculptor freeing a form from a piece of stone. Very impressive work and you make it look easy. You know where to add and how far to go but also know when to stop; a very practiced eye and a great deal of talent. Thank you for sharing and inspiring. At this date, this video has 202k views - please do not ever take it down!
I've learned more about how watercolor works from watching your spontaneous paintings and trying it myself than from any formal technique video. You really showcase the importance of painting with value in these demos, as well as teaching us flexibility within the medium. Please keep making these.
Love watching you. You’re an inspiration.
Love the background music as well.
You are my best internet teacher and this painting of you is my favorite. Please keep making your tutorials.
Thank you, I will
Your artwork is so outstanding and i have anxiety so bad and you Artwork relaxes me an ipaint a long with you every time ❤
Iam so absented with your painting an Demos . That went i go to fix Dinner i take my IPad in the kitchen with me and watch you there❤
I like that you keep painting and don't stop until you are truly sure you are done! All the extra little strokes of color enhance the atmosphere of this painting. Makes me want to be there! Thank you!
Its the only way to paint it makes ARTWORK SO MUCH EACHER❤
I could watch this about a zillion times and still keep learning! Thank you!!
Amazing how you made the rocks appear out of nowhere! You say you stared at this painting for a few days; you have no idea (and neither have I) how many times I have watched this video! I think I"m in love with the song you are playing, also!
I am a retired HS art teacher from Missouri and I used to have the students splatter and lay down colors in class one day. Let it dry and come back the next several class periods and create a finished painting by using and manipulating the shapes. I just found your channel and subscribed immediately.
You are the most talented watercolor artist I’ve seen in my life. Thank you!
What a beautiful painting. Starting off with just a few broad washes, I never thought you’d get a result like this from it.
I must be careful. Watching your videos are becoming an addiction! 😄. I’m learning so much... thank you.
MARY ALTABEV indeed.
love your layout...kept looking into the trees for a deer or 2...as that is what I have seen on occasion...What I love is while they are not there one knows that somewhere in those woods are sets of eyes looking back...
I never grow tired of these type paintings. I love what I see. I see a misty fairway under your tree canopy on the right. I am working my way to surprise my husband with some golf landscapes. I have to try this. Thank you Steve.
Oh, how beautiful and ethereal those background trees are!
It amazes me that you can see rocks out of no where and put them in. I would love to learn that and how you put the big trees in the background. This is gorgeous!
I love the music you put in around 14:09. It's really enjoyable to listen to while you make this.
So amazing! Love the dreamy background so much!
Loved the music that began somewhere around 14:14! Good choice for mellowing and watching you paint. Thanks.
Those ‘last minute’ rocks you added made my day! I love me some rocks. Terrific painting.
I am just beginning to paint, and cannot tell you how inspirational I find your tutorials. Thanks!
This was my favorite ! I watch alot of you tube and always come back to you. I relate to your voice. If I don't relate to the voice...I can't watch the video. Thanks ❤
Wow, thank you! Very encouraging.
This is my favorite of your tutorials so far. Thank you! I learned so much.
Thanks Michelle. Glad it was a help!
Dear Mind... You said... "I make the rules"... that's true... I have only 2 rules... Rule #1 there are no rules... Rule #2 the work must be permanent, my materials must be as archival as possible, acid free papers, pigments that don't fade etc.
Rule #3... Rule #1 could be Rule #2 and Rule #2 could be Rule #1 but that means I have 3 rules when I stated that I had only 2 rules which leads me to a dilemma that can only be solved by adding a "sanity clause" to these rules, but again this doesn't work because almost everyone knows there ain't no Sanity Claus.
Loved the demonstration on how wonderful it is to use masking fluid in situations as this. Thank you
Don't laugh Steve, but I see animals in clouds all the time and I can see in the blue trees a little poodle on the left and a lion face on the right. I learned a lot watching this video, as I always do from you. Thanks again.
STUNNING. Im so jealous.
Thank you for this moving and inspiring tutorial. Being able to acquiesce to watercolour, rather than trying to force this fluidic medium, is so important. It also makes the journey much more fun!
I love drawing and watercolour especially for this reason, at about 8:30 I was looking at it abstractly then suddenly it became a bank with dirt and greenery and depth! I guess the colours settled around the mask about then.
This one is my absolute favourite! It could not be better, now I know what can be done with masking fluid.
thanks for sharing these secrets with us.
Thank you for his tutorial. I have loved weedy fields and woods ever since I was a little kid. But I can't capture the spontaneity of weeds with colored pencils which is what I have used for 25 years. This is my favorite tutorial and I am looking forward to trying weedy fields in watercolor, which is so conducive to nature pictures. This picture is a gem!
Love, love, love this teaching. Being in southern Idaho there are so many scenes with dried grasses so learning to paint those effectively has been a challenge. This instruction and beautiful finished expression is SO helpful. Thank you!
OMG.. this is just beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
I've been practicing my landscapes and they are improving Steve ,I really like how you do the background trees ,so thankyou!
Heather
Thank you, I have learnt more about watercolour with yours, than any of the other videos I have found on RUclips. 😊
I love the way the ochre colored mound almost looks like photo-realism juxtaposed against that dreamy looking background!
It's a beautiful painting and thank you for all you're wisdom
You are such a skilled painter and teacher. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Words fail to describe the beauty in this painting! I've saved and continually looking at it..colors, hard/soft edges, lifting, blending, glazing, frisket application, etc...I'll use white pen if I can achieve this masterpiece! Lol...You were blessed with God given talent with years of painting! Thank you for so kindly sharing. You are also gifted teacher!! I feel you started teaching on RUclips & continue OUR benefit instead of being simply driven by ego, or other self-serving motives....May God Bless You as much as your have blessed me. Nancy
p.s. I know it would be long video but I'd love to watch entire video. I believe it would help me with background trees & details.. I'm missing something
I've been looking at your videos for the last couple of hours. Trying to get back into watercolor after 20 years. It has been more difficult than I expected. I love this one. The trees in the back are a fantastic color.
Absolutely stunningly breathtakingly beautiful. Your style is so unique and dreamy....I looooove it!!! 💯🙏🏻😍
Wow...I just found this one! Its the cover photo in the course! I love the trees!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful painting techniques. I love everything about this composition. The depth, the complimentary colors and the layering of colors are incredible.
It is wow! Very informative video and amazing lightfull, emotional and beautifull picture as a result! Bravo!
Another amazing painting and great tutorial. Thanks so much for all of your tutorials.
This is the most enjoyable painting video that I think I have ever seen. It gives me all kinds of ideas. Thank you very much sir.
Great painting and I needed that refresher course!!!!!!!!!!!
Love your tutorials and all of your videos, Love your sense of humor, love the verse at the end. I learn soooo much from you. I thought I was the only one to let a painting sit for a little while to, as I say in my head, "let it cook for a while", then work on it some more with fresh eyes.
Mesmerising to watch... Beautiful
I've been wondering how to paint the beauty of dry summer grass. Thanks for this tool. Also the size creating distance perspective is a gem.
Excellent demonstration of the use of masking fluid. However, what I liked most was the way you did the background trees, so simple and so effective. Thank you
Always love and am amazed at the beautiful pictures you create. Your videos have helped me greatly improve my technique so thank you!
Great Technique and beautiful analogous color!
Love the purples you dropped in.
Stunning painting💜🌈 thank you.
amazingly learning and a delight to watch
i just love your more detailed tutorials. i always learn so much from you. ty for all your sharing :)
Wonderful!!!! Inspired me to try it! Kathleen
Thanks. I am pretty sick right now. Your painting was very inspirational and brought me some much needed joy.
One of the best tutorials, so much to learn from, please please more of this. Thanks plenty.
Beautiful, inspiring and a wonderful teaching?
Wow!!! Beautiful!!!
I love everything!(the music is just so good too!) The painting is beautiful, "joyeuse innocence et rêverie" are the feelings suggested to me.
the result is breathtaking. thanks for showing us how to do it.
So much about this composition that I love! I learned a thing or two also. Thanks, Mr. Mitchell!
What a lovely video to watch. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and showing us some of your techniques. lt has been very useful
Wow! I love this painting. Thanks, Steve.
Wow! So beautiful! Love the colors and the muted fantasy of the woods as well as the detail of the wildflowers.
Gorgeous artwork.
I'm sure I'll watch this video again and again. This was wonderful and your painting is beautiful. Thank you.
Oh my word, you are a genius, this is absolutely stunning.
Beautiful! Love the colours in this one. Thanks so much for sharing your talent through these videos. You're one of my favourites.
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absolutely my favorite watercolor I have seen. You are so talented. Thank you so much.
Such a gorgeous painting!!!!!
That is so pretty
Love your wayercolor paintings.
A very interesting painting
i liked your masking fluid technique on that. The colors were bright and stood out. I will definitely try this painting. Dana
I fell in love with the painting!! The movement of the watercolours is truly magical
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and skills with the world. I'm just starting out and get so much inspiration and motivation from your videos!!
Love your talent and personality steve. Will be watching more and more.
My sincerest thanks for this tutorial ... just what I was needing with a painting I’m battling with!
Love watching you, you make all things possible with practice. (Love your humour, you’re a hoot!)
Thank you for creating this tutorial on a loose painting landscape. Lots of good information on blending and using masking fluid with rubber shaper and old brush. It has been very helpful and I will give it a try. I like all of your tutorials, you encourage us and make it fun to try. Thanks again for making this one, my favorite.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU... just started watching your videos as I am brand new in watercolors. I just love all your tutorials. Really the best out there, hands down! Loved this piece. Love watching you work. You are a gift!
What a gorgeous painting! Fascinating to watch, too. Thanks!
Thank you! At first the tree back ground looked like a storm brewing, but I like the mystery of what is back there in the trees. Most of all thank you the information on making adjustments as the painting develops. I don't have any of the new canson paper but I have a small piece of the Stonehenge paper to try this on. Please keep sharing with us.
Thanks steve. Enjoyed that.
Love your paintbrush with the blue handle
Oh my goodness! Gorgeous! Thank you!
Thanks. Enjoy your tutorials.
Love it as always. Love the little touches you add to make something out of nothing
Stunning! I mean... just off the scale !!..... and yes.. yes I did learn something........... and it is this: I have a LONG way to go! .............. :)
Thanks!
I love this painting, it's a beautiful piece of art! It's so fun to see art from other another person's talent!
I love watching you work your magic.
Steve, I really enjoyed watching this video. I learned so many tips and I have been painting for years! This painting turned out absolutely beautiful! I appreciated how you explained your thought process of drawing the viewers eye to the focal point!
So exciting to watch this painting evolve. Thanks again for a great learning experience Steve.
You are such a wonderful teacher. i've been painting in watercolor for almost a year....and just hit a wall of frustration. Watching this demo and trying to emulate your process has provided me a breakthrough, where I think all my learning so far is starting to come together. Thank you so much for your excellent commentary and spontaneous technique demos.
Simply amazing. I know there is nothing simple about it. Spectacular.
Only one word, wonderful. thank you
Such a great video and learning process... Time to go practice again...
I'm getting ready to try watercolor and am so grateful I found your videos. Your paintings are so beautiful and your presentation and instruction so very helpful.
Wow. Loved watching the process of making this scene. You’re an excellent teacher. Jeanne
very nice..love the subtle details in the background trees.
Inspiring to watch. Breathtaking results. I do believe this is your best tutorial to date, Steve -- thank you! Heading back to watch it again ...