Painting Boats at Low Tide in Watercolour at Elie, Scotland
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- čas přidán 16. 09. 2023
- A beautiful day in Elie, one of Fife's many pretty fishing harbours.
A perfect subject for a plein air watercolour painting.
This is the first of a series of paintings along the Fife coast finishing in St Andrews.
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Great work! Amazing how easy you make it look.
Hi Jacob,
Glad you enjoyed the painting. It probably looks easy on the outside, but on the inside it might be a bit of a different story.😀
Best wishes, James
Lovely
Hi Jackie,
Thanks again, James
REALLY NICE
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment. James
I like how you are taking us with you on an adventure around Fife and then topping it off with us watching you paint a scene. Its lovely!
Hi. Glad you’re enjoying our adventures. Lots of autumn and winter trips to come 😊
Thanks James
Love watching you paint! Keep going! Scotland is the best!
Thanks so much, Kathy. 😊 You’re right, there is so much wonderful landscape in Scotland. Lots more to come!
Love your fresh style!
Thank you Philip 😊
I love watching you paint. It’s a really beautiful setting today!
Thank you very much!
The next video is in the same place. I hope you enjoy it.
James.
Amazing work James!
Thanks very much! 😊
Great one today. Love your explanations during the painting, so helpful
Thanks very much. I hope your painting is going well 😊
Very inspirational. Thank you!
Hi Kevin,
Glad you enjoyed it and got some inspiration from it. When the weather warms up, hopefully you’ll be able to get out and paint.
Best wishes, James
Really enjoyed this! Thank you. Beautiful painting!
Thanks Mary, glad you enjoyed it. Lots more to come 😊
Fresh air and painting nice work James
Thanks, Anthony. The benefits of getting away from the studio 😊
Another spectacular day in Scotland 😊
It sure was Lyn😊 that really was the last of the summer here in Scotland, raining today. Thanks, James
Love it. I'm so impressed that you don't put any pencil lines down first, straight in with the paint. Thanks for posting, I love watching you work.
Thanks Claire. I do do a simple sketch, but the video didn’t pick it up because the sun was so bright on the white paper. My sketching for a painting is incredibly simple, no detail just depicting the masses. Then I go into painting where the real accuracy begins.
Thanks James 😊
Lovely scene.
Elie is a beautiful place. There are lots of great harbours all along the Fife coast.
Thanks James
Your coloration is perfect!
Thanks very much, always a challenge in such bright situations😊
Having just come back from Brancaster Norfolk and made a pigs ear of a boating scene I have found this painting most helpful the clarity of your guidance and the simplicity in giving a demo is good.
Hi Robert. We were in Brancaster and around the Norfolk coast at the end of March; Norfolk is a wonderful county 😊 Great that you get out to paint and very glad that my video was a help for you.. My next video is also about painting a boat. Hope you enjoy it.
Thanks James
Really helpful to see you tackle a complicated scene and talk through your decision making process. Thanks for the fun content. :)
Thanks Jenny, glad it was helpful! I always try to simplify the painting, even if the scene is complicated.
Thanks James 😊
I really enjoy your paintings and look forward to them. Your partner does an excellent job filming them - very smooth movements and good compositions.
Glad you enjoy watching.
Tanya does a great job behind the camera. Hopefully more in front of the camera soon 😊
Many thanks James
I find it fascinating that you put “marks” on the paper which look like a jumble, when, suddenly, my brain snaps to and I see the illusion and the picture suddenly looks real.
Hi Lena,
I think that’s one of the pleasures of having an impressionistic style, when you look closely at the marks, there’s nothing there and then you move back and the picture appears.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Best wishes, James
I’ve never seen a painter put pencil marks in at the end… That is very very interesting and I like it, and I’m shocked that I do! Lol! You’re a great fun to watch, and I learn a lot! I’m glad I found you!
Thanks Patsy, so pleased that you found my channel.
I really enjoy my pencil work, for me it marks the end of the painting and a finishing off 😊
Love it! Thank you James and Tanya from Sandra in Australia
Hi Sandra,
Good to hear from down under. Would love to be in Australia now with all that summer sun!
Glad you like the painting.
Best wishes, James.
lovely picture
Thanks very much 😊
These Scotland episodes are really 1st rate. thought it was a travel TV series. Would enjoy to see a few still pictures of the scene from different angles. Wish you both grand fulfillment and adventure.
Hi Rich, Glad you enjoyed my TV series!!!
It’s amazing how much adventure there is in painting.
Thanks James
Yay! I love watching you paint😊 its so nice that its filmed in a way that you're constantly showing the scenery, reference, palette and the painting. It truly feels like im there. Im sure its difficult for the videographer. Also nice that you began by showing across the bay to show the spot you chose from that vantage point👌
Hi Mell
Many thanks for your comment. Tanya’s very happy that her video skills are being appreciated, she really does a great job 😊
Awesome, I find it to very similar and lively as the John singer Sargent watercolor paintings. Good luck with your channel, I subscribed
Thank you very much. Sargent was a magnificent painter, any comparison to him is most welcome.😊
Well done Tanya for managing to make us feel like we are there trying to look at the view and the paper and the paint all at the same time. It was really effective. With static set ups we often get a good view of one thing but when the painter is talking about the house over there or this manky bit here, we can’t really see what is going on. This was very helpful. Including close ups on the pallet as well, which are really helpful to see as a fellow (aspiring) artist.
The painting was ok too I suppose…….
Hi Dee!
Well, that’s made Tanya‘s day! They’ll be no stopping her now!
I always love The comments, that praise Tanya, it does her the world of good. 😊
Much appreciated, James
I live in Fife so it was nice to watch you painting, and staying, at Elie. I was using it as one of the locations for recent painting holidays. Looking forward to seeing where you paint next. Not sure when you were there but you picked a good day weather wise.
Hi Colin
Elie is great. We were there a couple of weeks ago, amazing weather. It’s all over now!! 😂
The next video is also in Elie.
Thanks James
Very nice 🙂 and your wife does a lovely job filming also. 🖌️⛵
Thanks Kiki. Glad you liked this painting. Tanya is always very happy to read comments about her videography. She’s getting really good 😊
@@JamesPotterAboutArt You're welcome, yes she's very good. I don't know if people realize how difficult it is to get good video in the sunshine. Her video is so clear and amazingly didn't have glare on the paper. She should be very proud of her work. It's also inspiring seeing a couple combine talents to spend time together. Happy painting 🖌️🎥
Just recently found your channel and love your enthusiasm and style! Much success with building a following…subscribed! From my lovely coastal town of Duxbury, Massachusetts USA (near Plymouth and part of the Pilgrim’s early colony and Mayflower landing) 🛳️⚓️🎨💙
Hi. Glad you found the channel, lots more videos to come!
I would love to visit Massachusetts one day, especially Plymouth. My great, great etc uncle, John Carver, was on the Mayflower (my mum was a Carver)and was the first governor of Plymouth colony.
Thanks for your kind wishes, James 😊
I am a direct descendant of Richard Hicks who came over on the Fortune (the 2nd ship) closely following the Mayflower….these new pilgrims helped re establish the Plymouth colony as they had lost nearly 1/2 of the original settlers. They married and expanded the settlement over the next several years into Duxbury and surrounding land. We have a town close to Duxbury called Carver, likely your ancestor’s land when divided. We have a street in Duxbury on the water named for my ancestor’s land grant….Hicks Point Road….about a mile from where I live. We may be related no doubt. What a marvelous discovery! This made my day….💙
Very nice to have such a common interest with you.
The connections between USA an England are so strong.
James
Just found your channel and really enjoyed watching you create such a lovely scene. I tend to go into more detail but would really like to make a more impressionistic painting. I'll keep watching !!
Hi, glad you enjoyed the video. It’s a really interesting challenge painting more loosely. It’s really the art of simplifying, to paint the minimum but getting the maximum out of it.
Keep working on it!
Thanks James
Following on from my comment yesterday having watched your
your part 1 video "most important to learn about mixing watercolour paints", the apple. As a total beginner I wanted to jump to watch you paint a complicated picture, just to watch how the style and way you did it. I really enjoyed it, I love the impressionis style. Quick, effective,fresh and stunning. I'm hooked.
So now I need to buy some paper,type?,
Ive a watercolour starter kit bought by my wife years ago!
So armed with knowledge from your apple video I have started my watercolour journey...too dramatic? Maybe but that's how I feel.
Thank you for sharing your painting, did you mention doing a weekend painting slot?
Steve
Hi Stephen,
I’m so pleased you enjoy my video so much and that it’s giving you inspiration
The most important part at the beginning of your Watercolour journey is enthusiasm and passion, and you seem to have that in spades!
For practice, you should use Boxkingford paper because it’s a decent quality and comparatively inexpensive, so you can afford to make mistakes.
When you feel confident move onto Fabriano Artistico 140lb paper.
I’m relatively new to CZcams so haven’t organised any weekend sessions yet.
Not sure how that works.
Good luck
Best wishes, James
Hello James--I’ve been watching your videos and loving and learning a lot! I just wondered if you were going to do a video about your van? I have wanted something exactly like this for my rretirement years which are hopefully just around the corner! Any chance of it?
Gloria
Hi Gloria,
Glad that you’ve been enjoying my videos. I’ve lots planned for the year ahead. Travels in our camper van will be front and centre of our adventures, so I will be showing and giving tours of our campervan.
I hope you enjoy them.
You must be very excited about getting your own van, it’s a wonderful thing to do!!
Best wishes James
Very interesting - would rather not have the cuts in it if possible
Thanks Mike.
The sun was so bright and reflecting off the paper that it made the photography challenging. Less cuts in the next one 😊
Like the comedian who crafts humor from tragedy you have made compelling art from a subject i have no interest in.
Hi,
That’s interesting comment!
To enjoy a subject, that you have no interest in is always a good sign from my point of view!😊
Thanks for watching,
Best wishes, James