Watercolor Tutorial, "First Light" 

Wonderful explanation! It all made so much sense. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

Another gem, Rick. Using a spray is a great method for rays of sunshine. Your dark values look black when first applied but then the variety of colours shines through. Your layering method is something I'm practicing and have discovered what you mean by planning. If you don't, layers become muddy. Thank you again for the patient teaching.

Thank you! I especially love the way you made the light beam move across the painting. Beautiful painting.

I love to hear about your suggestion to plan ahead by sketching the scene in a sketchbook. Great advice. You don’t know what works until you struggle with it.

Thank you for your generosity in sharing your skill and techniques. Your mastery of them and the medium is awesome!

Outstanding Rick! I did enjoy as you wished. Your commentary draws attention to hardly noticeable detail that really add to the composition. You are a skilled instructor. Robt

Love the technique to used to create the streaking sunlight and the variation of colors you use to demonstrate warm and darker areas. Beautiful painting!

Thank you Rick for another inspiring video.

The morning light atmosphere has certainly been captured in this composition...it is not an easy one to paint with so much variety of darks to portray...wonderful

As always, great teaching and informative. Beautiful contrast.

Great explanation and demo on handling light and bringing unity throughout. Really enjoyed this one , thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Thank you for sharing your talent! Your tutorials are greatly appreciated!

Very valuable and generous teaching here, Rick! Thank you! I love everything about this painting. And your style is so easy to watch and listen to. You get right to business and are a master with simplifying the scene so that it is well planned and unified. I covet this skill so may have to watch this over and over again to cement these concepts into my brain. Thank you again!

Wonderful - I love how well u describe ur process. Many thanks!

So inspirational Rick, I enjoyed watching this piece evolve through shapes and values which make sense to me. A brilliant painting displaying the magic of watercolour. Thank you for sharing your talent with me and I am sure thousands of other who learn from you.

Anyone other artists feeling inspired and yet wanting to cry a bit at the same time? Just me? Ok.

Love the scene and how you brought it to life with the lighting / atmosphere. I believe you take a lot of your own reference photos. Can you (or perhaps you have in the past) recommend what features to look for in a camera for this purpose.

Very very helpful,Thanks a lot.

Love how you achieved the old, weathered look to the building's. You've produced some lovely texture and fine details throughout your painting. You never disappoint and I always manage to pick up a trick or two while watching you handle the watercolors. If you have the time, I'd like to ask a question about Rose Madder Quinacridone Can you please suggest a substitute color that will come close to the same hue and work as well in mixes? My Quin Rose seems too bright, but maybe Perm. Alizarin Crimson would work?There's a good chance I already have a similar replacement as far as pigments go. I always buy my paints according to their pigment number's. Thank you!

Rick, Where did you get the rice paper tape? I haven't had any luck finding it. Loved the demo. Lou

Excellent buildings....but....the focal point i suppose are the beams of light.....i wish that was more bright? i s it ok to use masking fluid there?

Thanks a lot for good tutorial. I want ask you the roof of big building of the painting has specific angle . How to draw that? Many times I tried but I couldn't get.

Slow and steady! Love and enjoy watching your strokes, way of explaining, sharing your tips! A good artist may not be a good teacher, however your are good artist and great teacher! Thanks for everything you do and you teach! Please share more especially at this time of lockdown!

Thanks for this perfectly described tutorial Rick. Beautiful painting. Thoroughly enjoyed watching. You are an outstanding teacher and wonderful artist.

Excellent video, and very beautiful 😍

Great job, excellent painting!

Fantastic video on light effects. Thank you Rick. Most helpful.

I was trying to find a downloadable sketch of your farm and barns paintings. I cannot find the link anymore. Can you tell me where to find these?

As always awesome

What a wonderful video. So interesting and informative. It's tricky recreating light beams. If not handled carefully, It can be "corny." But if done carefully it can be beautiful. You nailed it and I'm going to have to watch the video a couple of times to see how you managed it.

Amazing drawing, thank you.