Your sense of proportion, depth, and scale create a gobsmacking realism. You could have done this painting in neon and your sense of proportion, depth, and scale would give it a sense of total realism. What I'm saying is I love you, would you be my father?
“By hiding a vanishing point behind someone’s head, you attract attention to that spot” I have never thought of this but it makes so much sense, what a great tip
I can watch this guy for hours - watching that incredible level of detail emerge either inspires me or makes me want to throw my paints away - depends on the day! Fantastic
And having worked with Gouache for a few months now, I feel he makes it look so much easier than it actually is, that stuff wants to dry so fast and I find it difficult to get good colour gradients when working with it.
In my humble view, the only other artist I have seen operate as Mr.Gurney do is, artist the late, Me. Ken Auster. These two gentlemen, as I stated earlier, in my view, are two pillars that tower above most artists I've researched so far online and social media. God's blessed them tremendously.I.want to be blessed so too.
For a guy who doesnt paint like me its really like watching magic happening. How you give perspective and life with a few hits here and there. And the result is incredible everytime.
I don't know why, but American supermarkets are aesthetically pleasing, I just enjoy looking to see what types of colors they use while my mom goes to get cereal like brown, light brown, red, white (lots of it). I just really enjoy observing the things that almost no one realizes adds to the experience
nuts and bolts It seems like it was in the late ‘90s when they started trying out the whole “hey why don’t we make this place look nice” idea. Before that it was white or beige everywhere with maybe a “brand” color like red or blue. There’s a nostalgic feel to those beige and red stores, but I definitely go for the dark lighting, wood toned modern stores.
There are some neat articles you can Google that came out a few years ago about the research into the best color temperature lighting to show off produce and such. I remember a thing about different temps used in the meat department, which primarily had red merchandise, versus produce, which had a lot of green.
Love American grocery stores and health food stores (they are smaller and more old-timey than the slick, clean supermarkets). They also attract more interesting characters there, too!
So happy to find this. Several times I have taken pictures of little kids in the grocery store with the thought of them being a painting. I have the habit of trying to put you much detail. I hope to now give them a try. One is a little bit with a great hat, picking produce. The other is a delightful little girl walking away pushing her little grocery cart.
You are just delightful! I love watching you paint....bingeing several of your tutorials (almost all of which I’ve purchased) is one of the most enjoyable ways to spend a rainy day when I don’t really feel like painting. Every time I watch any of your videos, no matter how often I’ve seen it before, I learn something new or am reminded of something I had forgotten. Thanks for sharing your expertise so generously and so often amusingly!
Ridiculous.... what skill. It almost makes me want to give up painting myself seeing what's possible. LOVE the style of James' work but never had the opportunity to see it up close being in the UK. Its like watching someone knock out a symphony in real time.... appreciate the videos so much. ✌🏽
I ALWAYS learn something new from your painting videos, Mr. Gurney. Folks, if you dont own his book Color & Light, you NEED to pick it up. It's literally the best book on the subject. You will learn so much from it.
I like to watch your videos twice - once to see you paint the thing, and the other time to watch your palette (how much paint you use, hone in on your color mixes, etc). Such a valuable experience! Thank you
James , you are out of this world and such an inspiration. Thank you for the video and information. Blessings and be safe. An awesome idea much appreciated during this time.
there’s so much experience and instinct, it’s so cool how he knows what to do with every stroke, it feels very efficient, well planned out and spontaneous at the same time :0
An absolute master, in my top ten favourite modern day artists, Scott Robertson mentioned you in a video when he was using Gouache and I had seen your work briefly, I’m completely hooked, what a talent and inspiration you are, thank you for sharing your talent with us.
Yet again I watch one of your videos and I see you paint, I see you mix colours and yet by some kind of voodoo the scene magically appears in front of me and I'm at a loss to how you did it. I'm starting to think you are a wizard of some sort masquerading as a human. I'm on to you Gurney!
Stunning. I’m in awe of your relaxed approach, James. I paint tightly and methodically and, unsurprisingly, my work looks dead. Your paintings are alive. How can I relax and not be so afraid of making mistakes?
James, thank you and Jeanette for helping me become a painter. I may have a tip that keeps Casein "live" longer than it wants to: a drop or two of glycerin, a humectant, into each paint puddle. I've tested it for a week and with plastic wrap on top of the palette I'm stll able to add water and paint. It takes a bit longer to dry but when it does it is impermeable. Roberta
This is one of the best "watercolor tutorials court I've seen on the Internet. LOL not getting caught up in the details Capturing the big shapes awesome I really love your work.
I must have been living under a rock to have never heard of casein paint! I had to look them up, and now I might need to find some to try out. Your painting skills are pure mastery, this is a lovely picture! 💜
Thank you for posting this, love watching you paint, the sound of the brush on the board, love the way you make your videos. I highly recommend the flower video, the rose at NYBG.
As a somewhat chaotic painter myself, I appreciate the way you mix your colors. You just know what you want on the paper and mix it automatically without much thought. I hope I’m that skilled one day. Edit: my drawing professor said a very similar thing about complex drawings and/or paintings, and it seems fitting that I’m hearing it from my favorite painter on RUclips
You are an amazing artist! At first I thought you were painting with watercolor then I saw your palette and I thought it was acrylic. I have never heard of casein paint before. I loved this painting!
I've just recently discovered your videos. I've been drawing for years with pencil and ink. I've used Japanese brush pens in monochrome. I'm pretty good, too, if I do say so myself. I've always wanted to do watercolor and your videos have given me an understanding of the framework to build a painting. Thank you this is very helpful.
I fell in love with painting in college, but then fell out of practice after I graduated, switching to digital art since I no longer had a studio to work in. I really enjoy the way you walked us through your process; it felt comfortable and familiar, similar the way I used to work through mine. I'm remembering techniques I left behind when I no longer knew how to achieve them in digital, and now with more experience in that, I wonder if I can bring those into the work I do now. Lovely video, and lovely painting! I'll be sticking around to watch more for sure. :)
Really liked the way you filled in the Artichoke sign, not done anything like that before. I do most lettering in my own work freehand like that, not as well but then that comes with practice.
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I swear he's one of the best painters on RUclips.
He for sure is
He's one of the greatest painters of our age. While his claim to fame is his work as an illustrator for Dinotopia, he's still criminally underrated.
Matekya. He indeed is. Remember, he’s also the author :)
He's a living legend
But underrated :/
It speaks volumes that even in the thumbnail sketch there's a certain photographic effect to his tones and values.
Yeah it's called rhythm. And it's mathematical. Bridgman's much?
tones are values - same
Your sense of proportion, depth, and scale create a gobsmacking realism. You could have done this painting in neon and your sense of proportion, depth, and scale would give it a sense of total realism. What I'm saying is I love you, would you be my father?
Ha, thank you. Someone called me "America's Art Dad." Now do your homework and take out the garbage!
@@JamesGurney I SO did not expected the "homework and take out the garbage" part! This is a punch line! 🤣
Lol
If I knew it was that easy to get an art Dad it have asked years ago
@@JamesGurney Now, would you be my grandad?
“By hiding a vanishing point behind someone’s head, you attract attention to that spot”
I have never thought of this but it makes so much sense, what a great tip
I can watch this guy for hours - watching that incredible level of detail emerge either inspires me or makes me want to throw my paints away - depends on the day! Fantastic
One of the few artists who can paint ANYTHING, literally.
And having worked with Gouache for a few months now, I feel he makes it look so much easier than it actually is, that stuff wants to dry so fast and I find it difficult to get good colour gradients when working with it.
In my humble view, the only other artist I have seen operate as Mr.Gurney do is, artist the late, Me. Ken Auster. These two gentlemen, as I stated earlier, in my view, are two pillars that tower above most artists I've researched so far online and social media. God's blessed them tremendously.I.want to be blessed so too.
@@kevinnoel9024 hard work will do you well
You must see kim Jung GI then!
For a guy who doesnt paint like me its really like watching magic happening. How you give perspective and life with a few hits here and there. And the result is incredible everytime.
It's crazy
I've been drawing since little and i'm absolutely astonished by his skill.
I don't know why, but American supermarkets are aesthetically pleasing, I just enjoy looking to see what types of colors they use while my mom goes to get cereal like brown, light brown, red, white (lots of it). I just really enjoy observing the things that almost no one realizes adds to the experience
nuts and bolts It seems like it was in the late ‘90s when they started trying out the whole “hey why don’t we make this place look nice” idea. Before that it was white or beige everywhere with maybe a “brand” color like red or blue. There’s a nostalgic feel to those beige and red stores, but I definitely go for the dark lighting, wood toned modern stores.
@@DisgruntledPigumon you're spot on with that!
There are some neat articles you can Google that came out a few years ago about the research into the best color temperature lighting to show off produce and such. I remember a thing about different temps used in the meat department, which primarily had red merchandise, versus produce, which had a lot of green.
Love American grocery stores and health food stores (they are smaller and more old-timey than the slick, clean supermarkets). They also attract more interesting characters there, too!
Wish you were my neighbor. You like markets, I don't. I'd beg you to go pick up a few things today.
From today, you are my teacher.🙋♀️
I'm lucky to find this channel.
I bought paint a few days ago.
I will study while watching this video. Thank you~
How’s your progress?
So happy to find this. Several times I have taken pictures of little kids in the grocery store with the thought of them being a painting. I have the habit of trying to put you much detail. I hope to now give them a try. One is a little bit with a great hat, picking produce. The other is a delightful little girl walking away pushing her little grocery cart.
This dude is on another level. Casually doing stuff that seems impossible.
I like when you amplify value in your paintings. Your interpreted reasoning in doing so is very helpful
Thank you.
You are just delightful! I love watching you paint....bingeing several of your tutorials (almost all of which I’ve purchased) is one of the most enjoyable ways to spend a rainy day when I don’t really feel like painting. Every time I watch any of your videos, no matter how often I’ve seen it before, I learn something new or am reminded of something I had forgotten. Thanks for sharing your expertise so generously and so often amusingly!
You are so welcome, Carole, and thanks for your comments on the blog and elsewhere.
Your lettering alone makes me run into a wall.
You are quite literally a magician with a brush. The atmosphere of that painting is absolutely incredible!
Love how simply you captured your wife's glasses, genius!
My day instantly gets better whenever there is a new James Gurney video on my feed. Thank You!
Oh YEAH. Me, too.
Full control of proportions and space.
The gesture safe, precise and fast. The mastery is total.
Ohhh.. my.. !!! what a talent
Ridiculous.... what skill. It almost makes me want to give up painting myself seeing what's possible. LOVE the style of James' work but never had the opportunity to see it up close being in the UK.
Its like watching someone knock out a symphony in real time.... appreciate the videos so much.
✌🏽
You definitely love impressionism :)
You're definitely an expert!!
Painters paint walls. You are a true master artist.
It suddenly went super realistic and hit me really hard! I love it!
I really appreciated you doing that breakdown of the thumbnail and sharing how you altered the photo to make improvements on the composition.
I ALWAYS learn something new from your painting videos, Mr. Gurney. Folks, if you dont own his book Color & Light, you NEED to pick it up. It's literally the best book on the subject. You will learn so much from it.
YOU RULE THE UNIVERSE CASEIN MASTER
I like to watch your videos twice - once to see you paint the thing, and the other time to watch your palette (how much paint you use, hone in on your color mixes, etc). Such a valuable experience! Thank you
i love watching u paint
Absolutely lovely 💜 Look at those artichokes!
The extremely vibrant gamut of colors really gives it a photographic affect
It amazes me how your able to form an actual picture with just some sketching
James , you are out of this world and such an inspiration. Thank you for the video and information. Blessings and be safe. An awesome idea much appreciated during this time.
I love you and your wife, y'all are so cute!
there’s so much experience and instinct, it’s so cool how he knows what to do with every stroke, it feels very efficient, well planned out and spontaneous at the same time :0
Unreal. How do you not feel overwhelmed? Terrific
Always that I see these amazing RUclips channels like this, I feel very pleased to have born in this age
I literally come to tears every time I watch you paint, sir. Thank you for being a great part of our artist mind! All love from Lebanon 🇱🇧
A true artist doesn't let anything stop them, not the absence of paint, canvas, or a pandemic!😎👍👏
An absolute master, in my top ten favourite modern day artists, Scott Robertson mentioned you in a video when he was using Gouache and I had seen your work briefly, I’m completely hooked, what a talent and inspiration you are, thank you for sharing your talent with us.
I love your painting James! It’s all fantastic but I particularly admire the way the shirt is done. Thanks for sharing. Jill, UK,
Wow! Another wonderful video packed with wisdom.
Wow the amount of detail. It came out so beautiful and I like how it shows today's life with having to wear a mask all the time.
Yet again I watch one of your videos and I see you paint, I see you mix colours and yet by some kind of voodoo the scene magically appears in front of me and I'm at a loss to how you did it.
I'm starting to think you are a wizard of some sort masquerading as a human.
I'm on to you Gurney!
Stunning. I’m in awe of your relaxed approach, James. I paint tightly and methodically and, unsurprisingly, my work looks dead. Your paintings are alive. How can I relax and not be so afraid of making mistakes?
So wonderful thank you
He is great. The very best ive seen. Great great great we are lucky to have him on youtube.
I love seeing ordinary moments through your eyes.
Sir, you’re amazing. I’m stoked 🤭😧😧 just wow!
What an interesting portrait. Definitely a portrait that resonates all over the world right now
I'm reading Imaginative Realism and I just found this gem of a channel. Great!
I’m always in awe of his talent.
Que gran maestro! Me encantan sus pinturas y técnicas. Yo aprendo de usted. Gracias por compartir.
i love how the artichokes turned out. super beautiful
Tutorials???? From the artist that inpsires my painting the most??? Oh hell yes please!!!
You're a treasure, James. Thank you for this.
James, thank you and Jeanette for helping me become a painter. I may have a tip that keeps Casein "live" longer than it wants to: a drop or two of glycerin, a humectant, into each paint puddle. I've tested it for a week and with plastic wrap on top of the palette I'm stll able to add water and paint. It takes a bit longer to dry but when it does it is impermeable.
Roberta
That's a great idea! Thanks, Roberta.
Every stroke creates some form and light. Amazing work as always.
Absolutely amazing talent - I so enjoy watching your videos and the tutorial info that you provide along the way - 👍🏻👊🏻👏👏👏👏
It's always magical watching you paint. It never ceases to amaze me how all those blotches of paint transform into a very realistic image.
I love watching your videos and I always learn a lot, but it was so exciting to see you guys at Adam's! One of my favorite stores!
That's an incredible amount of experience, put together, right there.
Wow, so realistic! Amazing painting!
Quite brilliant - thank you!
Amazing. 👌😀
I learn soo much! Wow! Thank you!
You are amazing, sir!
The final painting is amazing...
This is one of the best "watercolor tutorials court I've seen on the Internet. LOL not getting caught up in the details Capturing the big shapes awesome I really love your work.
It looks soooooooooo real
I need to start doing real life in watercolor! This is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
This will be in museums. Mark my words!
Wow, thank you so much for sharing! Greetings from Finland 🌞🌞
I must have been living under a rock to have never heard of casein paint! I had to look them up, and now I might need to find some to try out. Your painting skills are pure mastery, this is a lovely picture! 💜
There’s no word to describe how amazing this is! Everything you paint turns out incredible! Wow!
Really beautifull portrait painting...very much worth your lesson s👍
The respect I have for you is.. Well I can't say it in words, but ALOT!! Thank you so much men, bless you!
Stunning work! Thanks for sharing your expertise, talent, skill, and process!
Cool! Thanks
Thank you for posting this, love watching you paint, the sound of the brush on the board, love the way you make your videos. I highly recommend the flower video, the rose at NYBG.
As a somewhat chaotic painter myself, I appreciate the way you mix your colors. You just know what you want on the paper and mix it automatically without much thought. I hope I’m that skilled one day.
Edit: my drawing professor said a very similar thing about complex drawings and/or paintings, and it seems fitting that I’m hearing it from my favorite painter on RUclips
Many thanks for your brilliant tips and support, with relaxed kind to show your amazing and beautiful art. I wish you the best! 🎨💙
Your videos always kick my butt I gear and make me draw! I always look forward to your posts ❤️
Wow! Would love to see all your paintings in a gallery or museum as they are beautiful and a record of our times.
Masterfully done, as always!
you are a savant i cant even begin to understand how you achieve such photorealistic values
You are an amazing artist! At first I thought you were painting with watercolor then I saw your palette and I thought it was acrylic. I have never heard of casein paint before. I loved this painting!
Beautiful as always, James!
I've just recently discovered your videos. I've been drawing for years with pencil and ink. I've used Japanese brush pens in monochrome. I'm pretty good, too, if I do say so myself. I've always wanted to do watercolor and your videos have given me an understanding of the framework to build a painting. Thank you this is very helpful.
Thanks for sharing!!
The likeness is beautiful, wonderful painting, texture of the ground is very interesting. Thank you for sharing. Congratulations!
wow, your painting is jusf super inspiring! i love super markets.
I fell in love with painting in college, but then fell out of practice after I graduated, switching to digital art since I no longer had a studio to work in. I really enjoy the way you walked us through your process; it felt comfortable and familiar, similar the way I used to work through mine. I'm remembering techniques I left behind when I no longer knew how to achieve them in digital, and now with more experience in that, I wonder if I can bring those into the work I do now.
Lovely video, and lovely painting! I'll be sticking around to watch more for sure. :)
Really liked the way you filled in the Artichoke sign, not done anything like that before. I do most lettering in my own work freehand like that, not as well but then that comes with practice.
Mr. Gurney your paintings and videos are top notch! Love the content, Sir. Fantastic.
Mask on will be the Sign of this unusual year in Art history. and James, you played a role in it ~
Fantastic! You're an inspiration. Constantly reminding me of the bar.
you are always the best to watch and learn from ! thank you! your videos are amaizing and relaxing!
Your Thumbnail itself is mind-blowing Sir. Beautiful and thank you.
This one is brilliant. Mr. Gurney, thank you.
been enjoying the process! still can't get it right on my own. hope I can do it right next time
You’re such an amazing person