Partly-Sunny Roses ✿ Plein Air Painting Vlog #61
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- In this week's vlog, I attempt to paint some roses in watercolor without drawing them beforehand. Eeep!
#FortCollins #pleinair #roses #floralpainting #artvlog
Places:
The Gardens On Spring Creek in Fort Collins, Colorado
Art Supplies:
-- Escoda travel brush
- Arches 140lb cold press paper
-- Mjello palette
-- En Plein Air Pro watercolor easel
- watercolor paints by Winsor Newton and Daniel Smith
Cameras: Insta360 Go 3 and an aging iPhone SE
Editing: iMovie
Anything else you'd like to see? Let me know! I'm trying to post something every week, usually on Wednesdays but sometimes Thursdays.
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Laura G. Young
Bird & Nature Art
Fort Collins, Colorado
www.lauragyoung.com
Blog: lauragyoung.blogspot.com
Facebook: / laura.g.young
Twitter: @LauraGYoung
Instagram: @laura_g_young
Earlier garden painting adventures: czcams.com/video/j2bxq7eBo9Q/video.html (tulips) 🌷🌷🌷and czcams.com/video/kmolY8ZYbT8/video.htmlsi=SznPY0R6Arb4Uctj (gardeners)🥬👩🌾🥬
I'm starting to appreciate your low humidity watercolor challenges. Wish we could split the difference between our humidity and your arid climate. Ah, well. Your roses turned out nicely, but for my money, the background really shined. Backgrounds are my weakness, but I'm working on it!
Thanks, Terri! 🥰Yeah, there's gotta be a place that's got ideal outdoor watercolor painting conditions. It's going to be 103F / less than 10 percent humidity this weekend here in Colorado. Ooof.
Lovely.
Lovely!
Beautiful Laura! I love hearing all the sounds when you’re painting!
Thanks, MC! Glad you liked the sound. I'm looking into a better setup for recording it for the vlog. Nine times out of ten, if there's a long stretch of music in the edit that means there was wind interfering with the microphone -- which happens a lot. (In the studio, it's because I have a parrot who is VERY loud for his size. He's squawking for attention even as I am typing this lol). 🔊🦜
Lovely. What a nice place to paint in.
It's the best! All it needs is a little more mature tree shade, but that takes time. 🌳🌳🌳
I love how this turned out! Wow. Just lovely. I'm a newer subscriber, and love your plein air and love of nature that you share. Towards the end, did you add any white paint, or did you just pull color out to get the leaf veining and rose petal details? Thank you for sharing some of the names of the wildlife you are hearing too. The architecture and city paintings bring great joy too. I love all the variety! Paula
Eeep, thanks so very much Paula! :) :) Nope, I didn't add any white paint, but lifted out some outer sections of the petals with a stiff scrubber brush, using masking tape to give a clean edge.
As for the leaf veining, that was all done with "negative" painting. (I might do a video on this technique sometime, as it's super useful when working with transparent watercolor.)
I've got a lot going on over the next couple of weeks, but hope to share more adventures soon.
Bestest wishes,
L.