Thank you for recording these videos for us. I’m am disabled and unable to attend classes so these videos allow me to learn to watercolor. In particular, the specific tips you give like anchor it in 3 corners are really helpful for advancing beyond the beginner level. I appreciate your generosity!
I feel like saying FINALLY! I have found a true Master of Watercolor Art. Thank you for sharing your skills, process and inner beauty with us. I hope to learn much from observing you. Peace.
I really enjoyed this video and I think I would like to have a try painting like this. It looks so free and relaxed and fun too. I do love watercolour and love to paint but sometimes I do not want to paint so precisely. Thankyou so much for sharing.
Im still learning about the negative painting techniques. You are right, im afraid to attempt this but as you said, i just need to be brave. I’ll try it soon. Thank you so much
Love this piece and your beautiful fluidity!! I am at a place in my work with watercolor after many years, knowing a change MUST come and I find myself leaning towards more fluid movement and sponteneity, seems that is what makes me happiest!! Will definitely be seeing you again!! My work has always been very splashy but finding myself wanting more:)
Denise ..Great that you got something out of this video and being able to paint in a more spontaneous way, I think, is a great thing to look forward too ...so have fun and I know your work is going to as you get used to all these new techniques.
Hi Karen thank you so much for your comment and I’m glad you found me ..these are very old videos though I’m very slack about getting some new ones on here
Thank you for your question Sarah, I do sometimes loosely plan my paintings however, I never stick completely to the original plans. I have used photographs as my initial reference for things sometimes two or three at times and other times I just get a thought in my head and think I want to paint ..oh, let’s say an orange flower. And I’ve done so many flowers that I can usually paint one out of my head and with the help of the watercolor properties, so it becomes less stilted and relaxed which I love. I very rarely do a complete preliminary drawing of what I’m going to paint. I mostly try to get a subject to come out of the paint and that keeps my work very unfocused and not so planned looking. But having said that, I go where the mood takes me ..
I love you painting style! I would love to learn to paint loosely like this since my style is so tight. I have sketch club app. Perhaps you would consider giving a tutorial on using sketch club as a composition tool?
I truly love how your work develops! You seem to have great intuition about your painting. Would you say that you have an overall plan or watch and take leads from your paint? It looks like you do the later, and have grown by doing. ❤️ Hope I can get that comfortable some day!
Hi Carol thank you for your inquiry on how I approach my work. Most of the time I would say I’m very intuitive and generally, I always have been. So many times I don’t plan at all.. I just let the paint play and then I find my subject in the paint later on. That’s not to say that I’ve never planned a painting because I do.. I look at photographs or I might look at a scene I’ve seen while I’ve been walking, and I do a mental note of it, That way I can generally have an impression of that particular scene in my mind.. Maybe the colors, maybe the values, or maybe shapes have attracted me, and that would be what I try to portray in my painting. I am publishing a book right now on watercolor techniques which will be available on Amazon when it’s released. That will be probably a couple more weeks you might be interested in getting it.
This is so inspiring Rae. I could watch you paint for hours!!! Where did you find the wonderful reference photograph and what is the flower called. Thank you for sharing. Sue
Susan ...So happy you like this one and thank you so much for your comment. I have no idea where I got the flower reference from and the backgrounds really made up. So I really have no clue as to what type of flower this is I just called Rae Andrews flower.. it could be magnolia? But who knows❤️
This is just wonderful Rae! Thank you so much for sharing this so generously! I really enjoyed watching you paint...so much to learn from you. Will need to give it a go!! Very inspiring. Could you tell me what brand and type of brush your 2" is that you used to add that lovely coral top right corner and other parts of the background.
Cynthia the SketchClub app is available to iPad users or Mac I believe ... I have used it for many years and I have taught students how to use it in their own art here in my studio.......there are many tutorials on RU-vid on how to use this app and I suggest if you’re interested , you perhaps should go there first.... it’s a little too complicated to explain it here. But it’s a photo altering app, if that’s the way you want to use it .....or you can use it from scratch and make your own images a lot like Photoshop... but not quite as sophisticated or complicated. It works in layers just like Photoshop but not as many layers as Photoshop allows. I think sketch club has probably up to 20 layers if the artist needs that. Are usually only use about four layers of fat. What I do is transport my original photograph into SketchClub and I use my stylus to drag some of the colors and put them in different areas and soften certain areas so that it looks a little like a watercolor. I also use the app to transport my painting into my iPad and try some different color combinations over my painting before I might put paint to paper ....that way I don’t want to make any mistakes on my originL painting and it’s a safer strategy. The app is only $2.99 to put on your iPad and there are tutorials in the SketchClub app as well but RU-vid is a good source for visuals if you need that. I hope that helps and thank you for your question
Thanks Rae. I struggle with buckling on the 140 lb so makes sense to use a block which will save lots of hassle. On your mailing list so hope to take a class from u in the future. Thanks again for sharing your technique.
I have been searching for someone who paints like you, and am so happy I found you. I am from South Africa, kzn. How long have you done waterpaint, painting. Love Susara
Thank you Susara.. I have been painting Watercolor for over 50 years, a long time and I’ve been teaching Watercolor for the same amount of time almost. It’s a wonderful medium.😊😊
