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This was absolutely fantasticand an enormous fun to watch. Your relaxed style is exactly to my liking. The result looks great. What is great with this illustrational (urban sketching) kind of art making that it is inherently abstract still figurative looking easy unlike a heavy colorful realistic oil painting which people admire and stand behind 3 meters respecting it.

Regular masonite is just wood chips treated with high temperature, high pressure steam, then moulded into panels. So there shouldn't be any noxious chemicals in it, unlike MDF. It's the lignin in the wood chips that bonds it together.

Bravo.

Looks like a dental floss box. That was a neat little painting you did of the falls at yellowstone, great use of color.

So beautiful.

Thanks so much. Painting the canyon is on my schedule but it is daunting! This was helpful to remember not to put in every little detail!

prog rock really motivates my senses. especially Kansas

Wow, this is really nice! I have lot's of fountainpens and even more inks, so I think I'm gonna try this next weekend. I'm really hard to myself, everything I made should at least be perfect, maybe this helps me to let that go a bit.

Poor Traeger ,like so many other horses that are contain 24 hours a day, it's like we would be in a situation of incarceration.. their naturalness is to graze all day nice tender green grass .... well so much for that I love the the work in the painting and your color choices. Show me the character of the smart animals. Thank you for letting us watch yout work.. .❤ keep them coming❤

Oh my word, he is absolutely gorgeous! LOL.... I'm so thankful I found your Channel love your paintings love the color of his face , love the colors you used ..thank you, for letting us come along, really enjoyable. Keep them coming !!!!!❤

Congratulations for both of you for you that sold the painting thanks for the couple that bought it I'm sure they will enjoy it throughout the ages and their children will enjoy the heirloom it is a very beautiful painting just breathtaking

So beautiful! I do wish we could have watched the whole thing original speed. LOL thank you so much for the adventure, very enjoyable!...❤. I love it from the beginning knowing what you're going to paint ,how many artists keep sending mystery until the end which I don't care for at all.!

Hi Steve, nice piece.😊 Okay, I did post this comment while I was watching your process and I'll have to say, Steve Atkinson is my favorite western landscape painter!

Incredibly well-made tutorial, you really covered everything important. Thank you very much!

Sargent

A beautiful picture Steve... as you say nature gives us all we need. I love Lassen for his sheer exuberance.

albert bierstadt....Rembrandt...sorry that's 2 😅

Oh good.. you’re alive!! Was literally worried

Thank you Steve! I love to watch your videos, so right now my favorite artist is you. I have several other favorites too that paint representational scenery.

Sargent

I've been painting for a decade, and I never knew the term Contre-jour until now!

Hopper, especially Nighthawks; because that's what I am😅😅😅

I always enjoy your relaxed way of instructing. Thank you Steve😊

Thomas Cole - for landscapes (at the moment).

Wonderful, no, enlightening! I use acrylic, watercolor, soft pastels and Bierstadt

Lucian Freud. I really like your painting Steve, but I would drop the insipid music.

Great work, thanks for sharing your process! Also great to see you on the tubes again. Fave living artist: Whelan. Dead: Van Gogh.

I'm a watercolor artist, but I appreciate all your general painting tips. Thank you. No favorite artist. I'm just here for the humor ;)

Beautiful painting! My favorite artist is Ivan Shishkin.

Wow! That’s beautiful and inspiring.

Monet

SOROLLA❤

Gorgeous painting and fantastic demo!!

Peder Mork Monsted, favorite painter.

No fav artist

Fav artist is God!

Steve So happy to see your video. Love the painting. So much more lively than the photo. Thanks.

Beautiful:)

Great video Steve. In reply to your comment, I have many favorite artists, but James Bama is high on my list.

beautiful

Miro - enjoyed the video, thankyou Steve

woah I like the sound of the coffee 😁

Thank you for doing a full demonstration with the palette! And the tip with sodalite for graphite sketches is certainly interesting!

I've noticed that some inks exhibit unpredictable color separation when water is applied. Could you recommend inks that provide more consistent results?

Thank you for the close-ups ❤love it .

Perfect about the hardware wearing and turning into a Warren outlook. My grandfather asked her a few uses would always wax them with some kind of waxy head he really took care of his Hardware an animals❤

And I don't want to fail to thank you for measuring the helpfulness about making small painting pools. I've never done that before and wondered why people did that I thought it was a great waste of paint. Why can't you explained it I so appreciate it I really understand the necessity and the helpfulness that that would do.... I'm definitely going to use your advice in the future❤❤ty

Yes sir I so appreciate that you were talking about painting what you're familiar with it was just the other day when I watched somebody painting and they painted goats and called them sheep I nearly fell out of the chair with laughter you are absolutely right about all that you have said thank you for addressing that problem that's so many of us make❤ when I was very young I adored my grandfather and followed him everywhere she went. They lived on a small farm and he still used horses plows, wagons ,buggies , Sledge which at about the age of five I knew how to Hitch and harness ,Bridal and saddle all by myself❤ of course that's been quite a few years ago and I forgot most about it today😢 lol.... really appreciate your teaching easy to understand ty may the Lord bless you and yours and your career❤n

I love your work and your subjects how do you decide on the color and particularly in the clothing? Love the strongbox. So real looking as of course the rest of your paintings...ty..... really appreciate your teaching technique very helpful.. so thankful I stumbled across your Channel I hope I don't lose you. God bless you yours and your career as an artist❤❤❤❤

Birch panels? Are you talking about 4x8, 4x4 and sometime 2x4 cut pieces? Birch plywood today? You mean that cheap stuff that warps, that you can hardly cut without major tearout, that has veneer to layer that’s so thin it sometimes buckles? Oh, that stuff.