Painting Holywood in Watercolour by Grahame Booth www.grahamebooth.com
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2012
- One of the resources for watercolour painters at www.grahamebooth.com. A watercolour demonstration painting sketch of Holywood, Co Down, N. Ireland. See how a complex landscape/seascape can be simplifed to a few blocks of colour. This video is subtitled in English. Click CC to see the subtitles.
Master watercolorist are always so carefree with their work. I hope someday i can have such loose and free lines. I care so much about control and exacting details, this really opens my eyes up to seeing things differently. I never would have imagined working from just my sketches. Thank you for your fresh and experienced perspective, this helps me out.
Sir..I just can't express that how I feel to see your work...Its hypnotizing...and I love the way you leave small dots and pores of whiteness of papers just so simply.Great Great Great
Simplicity. My hat's off to you (if I had one) to the simple beauty of your watercolor sketch.
Nice work Grahame..came by your work the other day. Especially i like your viridian mix, never thought about the mix..thanks
Lovely. I like your simple palette and your use of blue(if that makes sense). Nice simple sky! Nice work.
Nice one Grahame 👍🏻 I enjoyed that.
Thank you for the tutorial! It's very intructive to "hear your thoughs" while painting.
I love your videos! Please post more!
bravo! i liked your lesson very much!
Great instruction! Thank you!
Love it
beautiful
Second the Yardley comment. Also I. Appreciate the conversation you have with us as you paint.
One question: your metal palette...what brand? Where did you buy it! Same for brush. Many Thks.
Lovely picture, and I real like the simplicity of your style. Very motivational to see how you work - it gives me hope! Sadly I'll have to stick to cheaper palettes than your Craig Young, though. It looks gorgeous!
Thank you for the comment. There is a really well designed plastic palette called the Liz Deakin palette by Frank Herring. This is the palette I used before the Craig Young and it's less than £15.00.
I'll have a look at that. I confess, I'm rather sold on the Cloverleaf by Barry Herniman, because of the good, deep mixing wells, but I prefer the price you mention for Liz Deakin's! Thanks again.
thank you grazie
Thank you for sharing you make life more beautiful. I would like to know what is this set that you use. I want to get one exactly like this. I like the rich pallet on all sides. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed the video. My palette is made by Craig Young but other people make similar palettes. A very good round up of what is available can be found here channeling-winslow-homer.com/2013/05/02/brass-watercolor-palettes-3-craftsmen-now-making-them/
Beautiful work, I love the simple palette you use (: My question is - how were the trees still wet?! (10:18)
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you Liron. I always paint very wet, even in small areas and this will give me a few minutes before the wash dries. Painting too dry results in too fast drying times. Paint with a full brush and dip in to your paint frequently - after every stroke if necessary. Don't wait until your brush is "empty". This will mean that you will need to dry little blobs of paint after painting a wash. This is a sign you are painting wet enough. On hot days I spray the paper with a mist of water before starting - not enough to produce a wet in wet effect but enough to cool and slightly dampen the paper.
Grahame Booth thank you for the advice! I agree and also try to paint as wet as possible. I find I need to be careful though, because it does lead to some loss of control for finer details (which I will mostly do a little drier).
You are quite right Liron. I also like to do smaller drier marks but then I often immediately drop in more paint. It immediately blends with the drier mark but keeps to the boundaries of the drier mark. Using this method I can even make a drybrush stroke wetter and more interesting.
Grahame Booth super! I also love to drop some water on drier paint, blends it in and allows for some foggy effect if glazed over several times. Thank you for the great advice and beautiful videos (:
Thank you
Most enjoyable :) & useful. I agree about viridian being "horrible" :D. Did you just use the one brush - the large #12 brush - for the entire picture? W&N sable?
Where could I get pallet like you are using? BTW great work!
In case you haven't found out by now, his palette is from the Watercolor Paintbox Company.
Hallo Grahame, dein Video ist sehr schön dargestellt.
Hi Brigitte. Danke. Es wird mehr Videos bald sein.
Grahame Booth
I have discovered you only during these days. And I am inspired. First I saw the video about the Belfast building what has impressed me very much. I like this style. It is a pity that there are to see so few films of you.
Many thanks with greetings from Germany.
Which are the colors on your palette?
Hi Miquel. My personal setup can be found at grahamebooth.com/mysetup.html
Thank you, Grahame!
I'm watching Pen and Wash DVD this afternoon. ;)
Cheers!
Its probably not easy to answer but what delineates a sketch from a more finished painting? Is it the amount of details, great contrast i.e. from lightest lights to darkest darks? Or something else?
It isn't easy to answer Allan but in general most people would agree that it would be to do with the amount of detail, concentrating instead on larger shapes and not worrying too much if the lines go a bit wonky. Of course there are many artists who paint in exactly this way so this is why it's difficult to be precise about the definition. For me, a sketch is a painting that I do not intend to frame or exhibit, mostly painted in my sketchbook whereas a painting is something that is perhaps more carefully conceived. But of course very often my sketches can be better "paintings" than my paintings!!
The humidity was very low and it was hot. The heat was on and blowing in my work area, it was too windy, my grandkids kept interrupting me, the dog needed to go out. I didn't realize the paint was dirty. I sneezed. Oh look, a squirrel. Ha! My excuses.👍😉
I agree about painting from a photograph. Not good.
Sorry Graham but I have seen better paint by numbers efforts. Try using small pieces of tissue rolled up and dab at the wet blue areas of sky to emulate the white clouds. It works a treat.
very unmipressive