Max Romey is an Award-winning Alaskan painter, filmmaker, educator and dyslexic known for connecting people to the planet through his visually creative films and artwork. Based in Anchorage, AK, Romey uses his unique blend of watercolors and videography to highlight complex environmental problems affecting his Alaskan and global communities. His visual style blends hand-painted watercolors, animation with cinematic videography to create films that help make environmental challenges more relatable.
Hey, Max, I can't believe this is 10 years old. With this video you set new conditions for competition and love for this race. Thanks for putting this together.
Wow, so much inspiration! Love it! Please do a book, or several. I would love to see something like this in a book full of the art and amazing stories. I came here from the Kickstarter campaign, which I backed and will be grabbing some of your prints. You have inspired me to start painting again and I will gladly support you any way I can. Thanks for the Inspiration Max, and keep up the great work!
Wow! So many amazing nice things in this comment! Yay for painting and thank you so much for supporting the USA Tutorial Series Kickstarter! A book... maybe one day! Thank you for being here and keep sketching!
Amazing! I just found your channel 2 days ago and am enjoying immensely. Your paintings, layered with your filmmaking and storytelling are so enjoyable. Can't wait to see what is next!!!!
Max, WOW, water color below freezing AND above the tide! I can see you heading out into the vastness of Australia with your all encompassing perspective! Keep it up!
Just a black waterproof ink pen. Often just a waterproof sharpie or even just ball pens, too. Her supplies we rather humble. Even using colored pencils and crayons. Thank you so much for watching!
Max, this is beautiful. Your narrative in connection with the paintings is terrific. Drawing and painting create a universal language that all mankind will understand today and tomorrow.
Max - thanks for sharing this exciting adventure with us. I loved seeing your ArtToolkit in action, as well as your process of following your grandmother’s clues in her sketchbook. Well done. Can’t wait to see where your journey takes you.
I am so happy you enjoyed the post. Art Toolkit makes it all a lot easier! I can't wait to see where my grandmothers sketchbooks take me, too! Thank you for following along!
I really like you journeying in your own paintings. I haven’t noticed this but have you combined film shots where you are in Lu’s sketch 🤯. I am enjoying your journey. It’s meaningful to me too.
Love your videos, you always have such great nuggets of wisdom about your process. In this one I loved your thought of a quick outline sketch being like a bookmark for your memory. Yes, yes they are!
Max. again, a fantasticly interesting video. In 2000 I sea kayaked solo up to the receded snout of the Muir Glacier from the Glacier Bay Centre with a boat drop off further up the arm. In John Muir's day, the glacier extended way down to today's Glacier Bay township. Also, it was the first time i saw how the land had risen with the glacier weight removed. Steve, Hobart Tasmania.
Thank you Steve for watching, and wow, what a wild adventure to experience. It's amazing the impact of a receding glacier. I have so much more to learn as I sketch these changing landscapes.
I think it’s amazing that (1) you have all of these amazing sketches of your Grandmothers and (2) that you are following her to where she made them. Amazing adventures are ahead for you! I’m sure she’d be honored and surprised by the changes.
@@MaxRomey it’s also a great environmental resource. While her sketches look like they are mostly pen and ink (?) they still capture a human impression of what they are seeing in a way that most documentary photographs cannot. Is the air cold or warm? Is the sensation one of bleak remoteness or enduring timelessness. Have the places changed and how? Enjoy the journey!
What an amazingly cool idea for the video! I love your footage too -- that tunnel shot 😍. "also it's warm" <-- ha ha, the only time I willingly enter a clothing store is too get out of the cold or the heat
Max, this is beautiful and what a privilege it feels like for you to share Lu’s and your story with us! So excited to see where Lu’s sketchbook takes you (and us 🤗) next!!
Love this. What a treasure you found in all your grandmother's sketchbooks. Makes me hopeful that someday all my sketchbooks might make it into some enthusiast's hands and pique their curiosity. I don't have kids, so not really an inheritance kind of situation, but, yeah, who knows. This reminds me of something I saw several months ago about a man who's going around either Ireland or Scotland maybe and he's finding exact viewpoints of photographs from a very old book of the region and then illustrating them. I'm so mad I can't find his name or details. It was really interesting, too. But this means so much more since it was your grandmother. 💗
Wow, that sounds like an exciting story, too! It's overwhelming and exciting. She left me a lifetime of treasures to discover. It might take me awhile!
The ending of this video makes my heart 💗🥹. What a special experience and the start of an incredible adventure! I am so excited you are bringing us along with you! Thank you! 🙏🏻
Oh my goodness! What a treasure❤ My grandmother and I exchanged journals for several years before she passed. They are my most treasured possessions loaded with memories her and I wrote to each other.
@@MaxRomey Absolutely! I hope you plan on documenting and sharing some of this journey with us. 💞 Maybe even do a few sketchbook tours along the way? I know I would sure love to dive into the pages of Lu's sketchbooks. 💗 How special. 🤗
Thank you for sharing. I'm always so paranoid about using a sketchbook. What if that one drawing in the middle is bad...like...really bad. It's there for-ev-er!
