I really appreciate the slowed-down video in the middle of the video with the technical terms for the river. I also really enjoyed the comparison of the fast-shutter speed camera image of the river, the video recording and then your painting. The commentary on capturing what we see, through our eyes, is a great way to end. :)
I think the painting was awesome. I'm a few years into teaching myself, no formal art school. I have learned a lot watching you paint just a couple of times. Thanks.
You sneaky man you, your videos all ways has a adventurous feel to it and I love it I brought some gouache the other day because your videos and your way of painting has inspired me to try new things in art.
I also began on gouache because of Gourney's videos. So difficult a media at the start - wouldn't have thought I am beginning to love it. Can't wait for tomorrow to continue painting on an outdoor view from by bedroom window.
I'm a huge advocate of using white gouache to add highlights to watercolour sketches and paintings. It's amazing how much of a sense of depth and realism you can achieve with a few specks of opaque white on a watercolour painting.
@@KitKatToeBeans His color and light & imaginative realism books are a treasure. I refer to them all the time. So I definitely hope he makes another book
I love watching he's art slowly become the final painting, just watching blotches of color slowly turn into a masterpiece it's amazing.. it's like drugs for my eyes.
Thanks for the videos. They’re always very impressive but, added to that, I find that over the time they become more and more humanistic, either through humorous tricks or through your voice-over comments that are half philosophical half poetic like in this video. I’m beginning to look forward to these comments on art and the world even more than to the painting content in itself, though I still awe at the painting demos and immensely revere your talent. Thank you master ;-)
Love the painting. Love the mask and steam punk glasses! You make it look so easy. I figure binge watching you I will learn how to be a better artist. Thank you for posting!
I love the way this one came together. I just got a guache set. After watching your videos I think I'm going to like it a lot. Thank you for teaching us!
Great work mr Gurney! It is just impressive how you manage to get so much transparency with gouache, which is a quite flat paint. Added to the water transparency, and light fluidity, the stream feels like it is really moving in your painting. And it is nice to see dry brush on paintings as well, I'm used to dry brushing tecnique when building model kits. Regards.
I did a similar painting of a little waterfall in the Appalachian Piedmont in a watercolor class and I got to about your halfway point, James, and then I called it a day (due in part to time constraints). I now see what beauty can come from pushing further; my impression of watercolor has improved due to your work. Thanks for sharing.
I respectfully disagree James with your last statement about locking in the effects/ changing light and dancing water, is out of your reach. In my opinion, you handled it masterfully. I’m blown away by your skills, and humble demeanor about it all. You’re so good.
When started the video, I thought Smooth would really like this. Then you snuck him in for us, sorry the water was too cold. After finishing the video, I better understand why painting moving water is so hard. Thank you for the video..
Awesome tutorial on site. Thank you, James. Enjoy your videos. immensely! So much value in these short videos Appreciating your generosity. Wishing you joy. :)
It seems like you're almost a mite disappointed by the disfortune of the changing conditions, for the lighting and water; the resulting piece is quite lovely! And in any case, the as-always-envisioned 'purple-ness' adds a lot of interest, f'ya ask me. I dig the painting. EDIT: Also, bought two of your wonderful videos last week - absolutely fabulous, highly recommended to everyone else. A note to others, if you [like me] love the work Gurney's doing: Don't make the mistake of thinking, "hey, this great [free] channel is more than enough; I don't need to spring for the full video purchases." Just as impressively above-status-quo as James' RU-vid channel is, these instructional documentaries are equally above-status-quo, in my opinion. It's like the RU-vid channel, but more, and more in-depth, with wonderful effort for demonstrations and education. Great. Thanks again, Mr. Gurney.
I like this video it provides a sense of relaxation that I find wanting this afternoon. Thank you and I would like to see you paint more water features
Everytime you upload a video you help me calm down after a rough workday. All the stress and whatnots just, melts away. Perhaps you surface the inner painter in me, as some of my late heritage were painters. The most famous was Helmer Osslund who captured the Swedish northern and was/is referred to as the ‘Lapland’s Gauguin’. How awesome wouldn’t it be if you interpret his style in your own way? Cheers and thanks ❤️
Hi James, I’ve been so inspired by you that I bought some casein paint and a nice set of gouache paints. I have to tell you that I have had so much fun painting with them! Thank you for sharing your wonderful and inspiring work. Julie 😊
I'm always so happy when I get a notification about a new James Gurney vid! I love the chroma in the whites and the transparent water looks like a jewel! 💓 The initial palette reminds me of a modified Zorn palette.. which I use too but with Payne's grey for the black (purple in this case). Anyway, love it and thank you!
Reminds me of one of my favorite Wyeth paintings, called 'The Carry'! I'm still fumbling with color, but find your videos calming and remind me to carry on :)
I was just there two weeks ago! That area is so beautiful! I wanted to paint but there were people there while I was there did not have time to do so I used to live super close to where you are!
Ofcourse I love the painting, anyone watching will, but the way you explained the perception of time, from our perspective, compared to the «description» of a fast shutter camera was inspiering! Thank you!
Thank you sir for another wonderful, insightful video. You’re the best! Also, thanks to you & your wife for the great video of painting your son’s girlfriend making masks. It was that video, and that mask pattern, that finally got my butt in gear to make them, correctly.
I've noticed when i see these types of paintings I tell myself "I'll just use photography for now, as a crutch for my lacking technical skill" because I feel terrified of capturing what I perceive as beautiful in an inaccurate manner. I'd like to be able to stop that and depend solely on my painting skills to capture a scene but realistically I think I'm a long way from being able to paint in that manner. Thank you for sharing your process.
I just can't agree with this feeling... honestly I feel opposite. And yes, it's true that the adding of the brown one at the end does reflect the atmosphere when the sun was shining for a moment - but disturbed the coherence of the painting color tones that was painted in a blanked palette when the sun was not present . - When you paint the image, it's not the best sometime to suddenly add a new colors tones, for e.g. because the sun start to shine for a moment - because it changes the whole palette of colors, shades and tones - and this is a big risk, and even the J.G. own objectively comment that he felt that it is risky and difficult sometimes to decide which moment to capture in the frame of this variability in nature. - And until the addition of brown, the painting was simply brilliant reflection of this reality :) - but after adding this brown, we lost that feeling... *edit: and we lost some details. Because actually the most what I felt sorry for - was the painting-over of this perfectly captured water current and its transparency that we can see in the movie just before adding those flat brown stains.
@@kakitakenzo5013 Well, i didn't say it was pivotal for better or worse, just that it was pivotal. So i feel we're agreeing on that basic point. For me, art and painting is wild and sometimes you're operating on a knife edge. This makes me want to paint, which was the thrust of my comment. I want to be creative and i'm happy to take on all the risk that goes with it, especially with a medium like this as demonstrated by an expert in this video.
@@paolovf Well ok, I now understand hat you feel and meant:) From your previous statement it appeared that the addition of this brown was "the most pivotal thing in this painting" - but not in the sense of the better or worse for the painting - but about the decision of the artist who sometimes faced these challenges and dilemmas - as J.G. emphasized in his own commentary about this at the end of the video. And I fully agree with his comment as well as yours that this is an exciting part of the work of a aritist - and sometimes a big challenge - to decide in the fraction of a second e.g. when lighting and shadows are changes, shades of colors - and whether to capture them or not?... And sometimes it will work great, sometimes won't. J.G. of course, perfectly reflected the colors of the scene when the sun came out by adding this brown - I do not dispute that of course. But even the best artist sometimes gets a slight touch, and it is not even a question of making a decision to change the color from subdued, darkened to vivid colors when the sun is shining - but maybe the execution itself - through strong flat, uniform brown stains with a brush. - If you rewind the movie a bit before he did it, you can see how great J.G. captured the flow of water and its transparency in his painting. I just felt sorry that it was painted over with this uniform brown stains - because we lost these precious, well-captured details and when I saw it, I just felt - "Oh, what a loss to paint them over! because I just love his attention to those details, and how well he can capture them in his paintings :
