Thanks Rick i saw so many tutorial but yours videos are out of world and different and a new challenge for us.. i m learning so much from ur tips .god bless you
Beautiful! I like to think of your style as "deliberately loose". Neither controlled, nor out of control. Instead, you work WITH the watercolor, allowing all its best qualities to shine through. Your website says you tried other mediums before settling on w/c. But really, I think watercolor is lucky to have found YOU!
I find it astonishing that you can hold this pattern in your mind. I can see the pattern that each color makes: the oranges, the purples, greens and blues. Delightful.
Thank you Rick, I could listen to you all day. Well actually I do..lol. I love the way you paint and I’m learning so much from you, you definitely have a teachers heart and I appreciate you so very much!
I just found your videos on RU-vid. I love your method. I'm getting back to watercolor after a few years away. You are a great teacher. Thank you so very much for posting these tutorials. I've taken several watercolor classes over the years and I've learned more from your videos than all of them put together. Thanks again.
Excellent tutorial! Beautiful painting! You shared so many techniques that were new to me. I wish I could eloquently put into words how fortunate I feel to sit in my own home and learn from an artist of your caliber. Thank you for sharing your gifts as an artist AND as an instructor.
I really enjoy your negative painting techniques! I have been working on a composition made up of 2 unframed but sealed 11x14 horizontally split watercolor paintings. I plan to use a little negative technique on the edges and foreground. I really paid attention to how you use this in your paintings. I hope that it doesn't look over processed because I admittedly love detail also. Thank you very much Rick.
I just found you on RU-vid, and what an inspiration you will be for me! I joined a college extension class at the senior center in watercolor, after oil painting for many years. This explanation video introduced me to new ways of working in the medium, and I want to thank you for sharing your ideas.
Thank you for your fantastic narrated videos....I loved your work but when it was just a musical background I wasn’t able to really understand what was going on as I am a beginner, so love these new videos, thank you, thank you ,thank you...Mo
I am becoming more interested in the end results of the beautiful finish one can achieve following your techniques whilst creating such beautiful loose watercolours I wish though that one could see more detail whilst you are creating those strokes that make the style what it is !
Thank you Yvonne ! I appreciate your comments and feedback. I continue to work on the publishing of my videos. I'd like to get more detail, however, to do that I'll need to upgrade the technology of my equipment.
I love all your videos Rick, and have learnt so much and am looking forward to trying out your techniques in my next painting. Thank you for taking the time to make and post your wonderful works of art.
Oh this is soo beautiful.. When you applied that orange glaze, i was just thinking of how great the transparency was and then you mentioned it yourself! 😁
Hi Doug, I have, but usually there are shapes I want to cut around and leave hard edges. Most often I start out wet on dry and transition into some wet on wet.
Sometimes I use masking, but not in this painting. When I put my initial wash on, I make sure to leave some larger areas of white. I start working dry on wet, so I have more control than if I was working wet into wet. I gradually build up layers of wash painting around those areas where I want pure white or even light areas.
I build this type of painting in three stages working from light values and large shapes to middle values and smaller shapes to darkest vales and detail.
