Not a REAL watercolor LANDSCAPE (but full of techniques you’ll use again and again) 

I want to thank you for inspiring me to paint again. My Mother died a few weeks ago. I paint in acrylic but recently bought some WC paper along with paints and my brushes......your free and whimsical style I believe will help me immensely 🌼🌺🌷💕🌼🌺🌷💕🌼🌺🌷💕🌼🌺🌷💕

I know where your mind is. I've been there all week. Yesterday I decided to paint the hardest reference photo I could find and do it in my journal, thinking I wouldn't be able to do it and if I used my journal, it simply wouldn't matter if I screwed it up. The painting turned out to be the best I've ever done and there it was stuck in my journal. I wanted to kick myself. Lol. Thanks for doing what you didn't feel like doing. It's appreciated. I hope you have a good weekend and can recover from the builders. It is tiring having strangers in your home day after day.

Love that you think out loud as you paint. You make art develop and evolve with every stroke, and make it turn out wonderful even when you start out without a plan. You are such an inspiration.

“Sometimes you can and sometimes you can’t” but today you absolutely did! I love the freedom in this scene. And I think I need to find some natural sponges 🤔.... 😁🙏

Diane, Thank you for all of the skills you teach including color mixing, drawing, what brushes to use, and what paper to use. I have learned so much from you.

Nice little landscape…the background trees are lovely & contrast well with the foreground…agree with your approach to painting…planning versus “ flying by the seat of your pants”🙂hope your house issue is resolved

The white you have in this painting reminds me of Florida the white sands. Wisconsin has white sandy beaches too. ⛱️. Happy painting. JK FLORIDA USA 🇺🇸

It’s always a pleasure watching your tutorials ….i always enjoy your stories too. ❤️❤️

It’s lovely; I marveled at the wash, the two colors joined seamlessly. Thank you, I hadn’t thought to do it that way. I like the darks you introduced into the painting, nice drama.

You may not like it, but I think it turned out wonderfully! I like the technique, that everything doesn't have to be done with a plan nor a brush!

Glad to see u back!❤ I love this painting and your talking, very entertaining! Lol ❤️

Thankyou both for taking the time out to make this video for us. I am sure we all would have understood your absence and wouldn't have wanted you to add more unnecessary stress, but I really appreciate all the effort you put into this channel. You were the first person I came across when I first started using watercolors (advent 2023), and I can't say just how much you have helped me. I pray your troubles will soon be sorted, love from a snowy Yorkshire x

I love it! Washes, blobs, marks, lines. This newbie can do that....I think Lol. My colors won't come out the same but no reason that that can't make it less nice. Thanks much for sharing.

You can most always make me laugh, like today. You're under so much stress but still make time for us. Thank you! (Can't imagine speaking my terrible Spanish to workers without a brain explosion!)

Don’t worry about “what somebody out there“ says! You know, if you like it then it’s perfect!! Glad that you were even able to paint for a bit!!💕

Yay! I hope you're back full time and your situation has proved.

So good to see you!! Sending healing vibes your way!!❤

Those will be fun. Thank you.😊 we are our own worse critics honestly it was a good class it got me trying things I would not normally try loved the sponge. Thank you.❤❤😊

Hi Diane, good to see/hear you. Hoping the family are OK, & the builders have bucked their ideas up 😅. Many hugs 🫂 ❤xx

Добрый вечер, милая Диана. Спасибо заочередное ВДОХНОВЕНИЕ!!!!! МИЛО, КРАСИВО!!! ХОЧЕТСЯ ПОПРОБОВАТЬ НАРИСОВАТЬ!!!! МИРА И ЖОБРА ВАШЕЙ СЕМЬЕ!!!❤ СПАСИБО❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I could watch you all day! Love that you share your talent! Thank you❤️❤️

Hi Diane, great to have you back, I hope the building was successful. Watching your videos, give me great pleasure and help to get away from the tension and craziness in the US. Sending love and thanks.

Pretend you're in Maine. Amazing blue sky, no wind, very sunny & warming. Dogs on their beds in driveway enjoying it while it lasts.

Being bilingual has made me linguistically lazy because all my friends also speak both languages, whether they are francos or anglos. We weave in and out of both languages without thought until a unilingual yells at us to stop because it's tiring lol I'm enjoying this tutorial. Thank you!

Wonderful thanks so much involved in this. Know you're under so much pressure at present.

It looks lovely and now to paint!❤

I always wanted to try this forever!!!!! I think I can. THANK YOU. YOU ARE A GREAT TEACHER. I do appreciate how you explain clearly....

Lovely little landscape with lots of techniques. Thankyou

Always learn so much! Thank you

The color is so nice👍🏻👍🏻 Thank you for watching the video😊

Thanks Diane, I always enjoy watching you paint.

As you painted I had the most distinct sense memory of the smell of wild chicory on a warm day in the Fall.

You are painting those colors because they are your favorite!!

My rules are that there are no rules 😂 Just brilliant Diane 🙏 Thank you for sharing your arty wisdom. 💕

I just love watching your creative process!! Loved all the colors in this painting! Thank you!

"There are no rules"...love that Diane! I also love the landscape, I'm trying to loosen up my style, and this will help. Thanks

It’s miserable n gray here in the pacific nw . Except yesterday we had sun 🌞. Grateful for that .

You must have mixed that sky blue with the Creator of the sky, because it’s a perfect match!

Great video and painting with lots of good tips. Thank you!

So many amazing tips, I love your videos Diane ☺☺☺

I don't follow rules either....so enjoyed how you cleaned up left over blues to begin your sky wash...I always try to use up whatever is left on.my palette plates and in my little dishes...also fun to watch you use sponges and scraping tools. So glad I dropped in...you always make me smile. Hugs from Montana. ❤

This is a fun one, I'll try it now. I love how it came together, and with the challenge of different techniques. And ... "c'est la vie" is one of the few phrases I recall from my high school French classes. (wish I spoke a second language fluently!) ... sending prayers that your builder situation gets taken care of!

This is beautiful! Thank you for taking the time out of your hectic schedule to share. I hope things get better soon! 😘

Lovely techniques. Im always so inspired by your work. It keeps me painting when i don't know what to do. ❤

I really love this. 👍🏻👍🏻

Cheers and thank you Diane……deep breaths girl

Lovely landscape. The way you painted the grass was so clever. I hope the building work is going ok. Must be so stressful for you all.

As you suggest, this painting is filled with multiple techniques that can be employed by those using their imagination. Thank you!

Such a beautiful little painting. Loads to look at and am sure there is a place like this somewhere. Reminds me of the beginning of a desert perhaps. Thank you for sharing these great techniques. Take care Diane. 🥰💖

Bonjour Diane , tres jolie ce paysage , avec l eponge ca rend bien , tes ouvriers ont fini le chantier chez toi , tu vas un peu decompresse . Pour ton anglais ne t inquiete pas , on oublie jamais sa langue maternelle . Quand j etais encore avec mes parents je faisais des phrases avec des mots melanges anglais et francais , le premier qui me venait a l esprit , c etait marrant , et maintenant que je suis vieille et seule , je parle aux chats moitie anglais moitie francais et crois moi ils comprennent tout !!!!! Rigolo non ? Bises mon amie , a bientot et merci pour ta video

Thank you! I can't wait to use that scratching technique on some trees!

Love your style of painting. X

Great ideas to work with. It will be fun to try the different tech.

Looks like fun. Inspiring for us newbies. Thank you!

Very nice fall colors. Do you ever do little people in your paintings? I don't remember seeing any, you do a lot with animals which I love! ❤

Hi Diane from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia…. We in the Top End are in our Wet Season as it’s a tropical climate. It’s about 34-37 degrees celsius with humidity of around 80% 🥵 thank goodness for air con. I recently found your channel. I haven’t started painting yet, but I am really excited to start as soon as I get a few supplies. I used to do alcohol ink painting…. So this will be a challenge.

This is great!

This landscape looks quite Australian. Cheers Alison

I painted along with you and enjoyed this so much and as always learn tons from you. Sending prayers for better days ahead and hugs.

My 290th. Although you where not pleased with this one you gave us an example how to use mild judgement. We are human so we judge and have thoughts about everything. I red someone who compared thoughts with farts. They are a bit stinky and when you allow them to stay in your head your brain gets stale. So open our " windows" for fresh air. Trying not to judge is almost impossible but when we see them as farths it becomes easier😂😂😂 😊wim

Hi Diane, I watch other watercolour artists too, as well as yourself and I have noticed the word value creeping into everyone’s language all of a sudden and I think it means colour, so have you idea why they are using value instead of colour all of a sudden, many thanks, I know I will get a straight answer from you x. Of course you. Have the Breton to speak too and understand I must say I really liked the piece x

I put a comment that I couldn’t correct. I tried but it corrected then if I did it a second time it came up duff again. Anyway thanks for sharing. ;))

Thanks…..looks a bit like an Australian landscape.

Hi Diane! I know it’s been awhile & I had to unjoin…know anyone with a sale on semi-operable bodies for a boomer? 😁. Yea, LOTS going on and unfortunately, not much painting because sitting up for more than 5 minutes, tortures me. My 1 kidney has decided it’s too tired to carry on…and, unfortunately, kidney failure has a bit of a domino effect on everything else-the worst of which…I had been diagnosed with severe osteoporosis in my 30’s bc of my genetic disorder. I made lifestyle changes….and somehow, after about 5 years, I had regained some bone density. Still at risk, but out of the danger zone. The past 6 months has dragged me backwards 30yrs. In the past 2 months, I’ve had 4 stress fractures and 2 more serious fractures-including another compression fracture in my spine. I’m kind of a mess..but Liz & her wonderful hubby are coming over this weekend-I cook them a Chinese New Years feast and they’re going to help me re-arrange furniture, take some things to store at their house until I can move…and HOPEFULLY get a little painting done! Anyways-a question: that plastic palette (or is it ceramic?). That fits your Kuretake pans..I searched through hundreds of pages on Jeff Bezo’s site… (and checked all your affiliate pages for the US); can’t find it. I’ve got 2 palettes that others said they had used for them-but can only fit maybe 12 pans in because of strange shaped wells. (Meeden & Meijer) Just TRYING to get more organized..every month I’ve budgeted money to get more storage solutions. When I was in the hospital a few months ago, Liz and A came over, put all my Western & Eastern painting supplies in plastic crates…and most of my electronics, Dr Kitty Leela…I had a break-in the time I was hospitalized before that…things just walked out of the house. Luckily, they either didn’t see, didn’t want or had NO idea what some of my pricy Chinese antiques were. I had my most used paints with me at the hospital…but my Rosa’s mono-pigment set disappeared. (At least they have good taste in paints 🤷🏼‍♀️😂). Liz got me a new one before I even knew they were gone for sure. While I do have a small security system now…this is a 200yr old house. If someone wants to get in, they will. Anyways, still sorting the crates out, got some new shelves they’re going to put together for me this weekend…since I seem to be a bit accident prone. But back to the original question..would love to have all my Kuretake pans in one palette rather than 3 boxes. I hope you and yours are doing well! Dr Leela sends paw pats and purrs to your fur-children! She’s taking VERY good care of me…although she FaceTimed with my eldest last night and argued with her about something for 30 minutes. Daughter said SHE understood…and she’ll be here next month for a few days to help out. 😹🤷🏼‍♀️. Which reminds me…my neighbors have me writing daily updates for “The turbulent romance of Romeo & Leela”-kind of a modern day feline Romeo & Juliette. He sneaks out of his people’s house, comes down here and flings himself at my windows at 2 am. Both have been fixed…and Leela’s a bit of a cougar considering Romeo is just 3, but 🤷🏼‍♀️. It’s been going on since about September and they are absolutely smitten with each other. I put some treats on the porch and half the neighborhood was in an uproar…Romeo, although very active, seems to have a bit of a weight issue. I just let him come in now…and don’t mention how he raids Leela’s cookie dishes online. A funny thing? We always thought Leela was strange because she LOVES Brussels sprouts and asparagus..cut up, of course, steamed in butter. Just out of curiosity…my younger daughter had sent me a heart shaped food dish last week. So, last night, I warmed up our leftovers, put a little of both in the dish-enough for both of them..OMG, they were in heaven! 😂❤. I had to sit down and rest a minute, they lapped up the last bit and I had 2 large felines in my lap…purring & healing. 🥰 I told Liz and my girls…but some folks on our community bulletin board…everyone has an opinion and some seem to be there just so they can start something. Z🤷🏼‍♀️🤫 Xin nian kuaile! 新年快乐！ （Happy New Year!). A CNY wish I thought you’d enjoy! (I did this on a calligraphy scroll for Liz & Alexei…although my dragon needs a bit of work 😂) May you have the spirit of the dragon and horse; aged yet full of vitality. 龙马精神 lóng mǎ jīng shén 🐉🧧🏮 ❤☮️

Hi Diane! Recently you showed the front of a new sketchbook you fashioned yourself with one of your paintings of chickadees on the front of it. Is there a sketch of that I could download? After 30 years of ignoring my paints, you’ve said pick them back up so I have with your encouragement! I’m 80, my husband of 56 years has passed on. So this has brought joy again! Thank you!! ♥️

I 15:27 can tell you are not in a good mood. Hope things get betyer

I put a comment that I couldn’t correct. I tried but it corrected then if I did it a second time it came up duff again. Anyway thanks for sharing. ;))