Hi folks, I am amazed and humbled by how many views this video has now and how much it has inspired and helped others. I was only painting for about a year when I made it but it seems to be one of the most popular among my videos. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this technic with us. I like scraping it's fun and you do get great looks with scraping, especially with rocks and trees. Thanks again and happy painting 😊😎 FL.
Thank you for sharing these techniques. I live in Colorado and love trying to capture mountain scenes so I' really appreciate your instruction. Awesome video!
Absolutely a great job. Love the medium and techniques used. I'm grateful for the contemporary techniques that sort of steer away from sooo much of the brush and water techniques, and find it somewhat freeing - and fun. Using the plastic (credit) card, painting knife, tip of the brush handle, sponge, torn pieces of napkin, fingertips, aluminum foil, seran wrap, and so much more, is revolutionary and exciting. Please keep the eye-opening innovations coming for more adventurous enlightenment in the art craft. Thank you. ❤️❤️❤️🎨
Just beautiful! I’m amazed that you did most of the painting with a BIG brush, and your scraping technique makes a stunning landscape. I can’t wait to try this.Thank you so much for sharing your style and techniques
I was watching another video when this just happened to pop up. I am so glad it did! Wonderful demonstration, especially the close ups! I can't wait to try this.
Wander full technique, very nice the way you demonstrated this scraping and the high skill you had painted a natural scene, thank you for making me knew a new technique.
Truly amazing! Have watched a few of these USA artists dappin' and scrapin' their artistic stuff and producing in a jiffy or two astonishing realistic artwork. These guys are magicians that magician Merlin would surely give his eyeteeth to emulate such magical skill? Thank you Joe for your wonderful magical tutorial. Think I'll build a homely cabin right there by your lakeside tree where I'll happily hunt and fish and laze all summer long. Greetings from the UK.
Thank you so much for this video! I've, seen videos of painters "scraping" before but it was never clear what they used and when they scraped--wet or dry. You have a new fan!
Great tutorial Joe! Gotta add that this technique works wonders on miniature paintings too. I do mostly bookmarks and have had great success using this scratching and scraping to get trees on a small scale. Now I’m gonna go try adding some rocks from what I’ve learned here today. Thanks so much. Blessings to you!
thanks, Joe....I really like your approach and your relaxed attitude....one I work on in my own w/color work....again, I appreciate you and your videos...thanks
Great video! Amazing that you produced something like this in such a short period of time. It taught me something new, too, adding some paint around the scraped section to make it more realistic. Thanks so much!
This painting is done to look real with fun trick of trade.. I what’s it so many times. You are an incredible artist with the beautiful gift of painting but teaching as well. Thank you s much.
Nice job! I always save those small, key chain cards. I cut one edge to create a sharp corner for tree trunks, grasses, etc. You can also scrap into the paper to leave streaks and movement on the surface of water.
I love the way you did this,actually the watercolors will do the painting for you,love the way you followed the flow of the watercolors along with what you did and made a excellent landscape,I love to do spontaneous painting,thank you for this excellent demonstration of the way you paint and thank you for an excellent presentation. 👍😀😊❤ "For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif." William-adolphe Bouguereau
I learned about the scraping rocks from Dave Usher, also warming up the foreground. But the scraping on the tree trunk is new to me. I may try that. Thanks.
This was mostly intended for the scraping, someone in our Ron Ranson group asked me to make. Thank you for your comment. I too learned a lot from Dave.
If you want a variety in your scraper, make a tool from a credit card by cutting 3 of the 4 corners into different lengths. You then have a variety to use, which helps avoid repetitive marks.
This is excellent. I use oils, never watercolour, but I'm guessing this scraping technique will work just as well with wet-in-wet oil. I'm going to try now. Thanks Joe.
Great demo! This has always been a technique I've had trouble with. Not sure why. But your demo makes me want to try again. I just don't think my timing is ever quite right for it as you mentioned. Need to experiment a bit more.
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Love this! Cant wait to try it. I went to your ebay store but didnt see supplies. I would like to know what paper holds up under all the scraping. Also, what brand of paint. Thanks!
I used to have more in supplies but I haven’t been focused on that so much. Cotman by winsor and newton is a good all around paint for the money and I prefer fabriano for the economical papers and any good 100 percent cotton for the better paper
I am really new to watercolor and happened upon one of your videos. It appears that you are using watercolor paint somewhat like you were using acrylics with very little watercolor. Can you tell me the consistency of your paint when you are using the scraping method. I like this a lot. Thank you so much for your videos. Barbara
