Love the simplicity in your painting style. Nothing too fussy (I truly dislike fussy) and I know some artists can be too detailed and particular in their paintings. You're a great teacher and I've come away with knowing it's typically best to keep it simple. Thank you for sharing your wonderful style and artwork!
Oh it feels so great to have you back after a long time. Nowadays most of RU-vid is full of wannabe artists trying out some cheap tricks. But you are different. You are one of the few real stalwarts of watercolor painting on RU-vid. Thanks for this video. And believe me, there are many more of your admirers awaiting for more of such excellent videos. Once again, I thank you for reaching out to us.
This is the first of your videos I've the pleasure of watching and you are one of the best instructors out there (and I've seen and watched a lot on you tube as well as purchased). I love to see you actually mix your paints on the palettes as well as how you perform your brush strokes. I also like when you explain why it is what you're doing so that I will remember to do it on my own (e.g., when doing waves, how you wait till the paint gets dryer then you move toward the back to make smaller waves, or turning your pater upside down, or even the advice about ironing the paper if it cockles, which I've never heard before). I will be looking for more of them in the future.
OMG I can't tell you how happy I am to see a new video!! I love your style and how well you teach, you are amazing. Please continue with new videos. I really appreciate that you are willing to share your genius talent with us!!!!
I'm glad you're back! Love this painting. Don't you just love Maine? I've been there 3 times and I just can't get enough of it. Hope to go back soon. There's really a lot of gorgeous scenery there to paint. I'll wait to see more from you. Thanks!
Glad to see that you have a new tutorial. Have missed these. This is beautiful and looks easy to do. I think I'll give it a try. It would make a nice greeting card scene. Can't wait for the next one.
Hi Keith Thank you for your demos, very inspiring and helpful. I just visited Point Arena lighthouse in Mendocino, California. I got a picture of it and now back to your tutorial to help me create my lill masterpiece on postcard size. Thank you Mart
Love ❤️ the painting .just picked my paints up again and doing a painting of a light house . For my daughter. She loves it so far . I've done an exam in water colours and love the medium But the painting that I started is in acrilic loving useing them nice to work with
Great to see you again, I've painted all your previous tutorials, and needed some more!! Thanks for taking the time, looking forward to future lessons. I'd love to see another skipjack, maybe a more detailed version? Thanks again, Eric
When I saw this in my subscription list I thought you beauty, Thank you for sharing. I agree with other comments that it would be choice to see more uploads from yourself. Too many wannabes and not enough greats like yourself.
It is wonderful to see the great techniques you use, Keith, even though when we try it, it doesn't quite turn out the same... Nevertheless, this is what makes you a masterful painter and with many hours of practice, those of us who are prepared to put in the patience, sweat and tears, might achieve something. So thank you very much Keith, for giving us that chance. Bless you!
i guess im randomly asking but does anyone know of a method to log back into an Instagram account? I somehow lost my account password. I appreciate any help you can give me.
@Axl Fabian thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and im waiting for the hacking stuff now. I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
Hmmm, I could, but these shows are aired locally on a public access channel & as a "real" TV show, I need an intro & theme song (tune) to maintain the resemblance of normal TV shows. Sorry it's not your taste...if only I can get the rights for Tommy Emmanuel's "Timberlake Road" I'll change it!
What a happy surprise to find this video at the end of Crab Shack. Glad your back. I got a print of yours on ebay ( Turkey Point ). There's one of Montauk point I'm trying to find. Where can I find your Prints for sale. Also do you have any books for sale? Love your work. I hope you don't mind me copying your pictures. I don't sell any. If I post it, I put inspired by.
I'm always flattered for others to do versions of my works...it is a time honored practice for learning what another painter is doing. Sorry, I have no books (yet!)...I do have some prints on my personal web site, but the lighthouse collection was owned and distributed by a publisher in Easton Md. He still has inventory and my be contacted by checking in with SharperGraphics of Easton MD.
Great Work Keith. What type of brush were the blue ones. Like the one you initially wet the paper with ? And how do you flatten your painting after it's done ?
The blue ones are Robert Simmons Sapphire series...I also use the White Sable ones too, but Robert Simmons is owned by Daler-Rowney and I think they changing lines of brand names. I flatten smaller works with a common household iron on a hot setting...use a cover sheet on both sides and a firm, flat heat tolerant base. Bigger works need a frame-shop press. Oh, just as I remove the iron, I plop a stack of bib, heavy books on top...a few minutes later, it is usually nice and flat!
Just for the heck of I would love to know the colors on your palette. I like how you name the color as you use it. Sometimes I see a color that makes me want to try it myself. I can't buy them all. Mores the pity. 😟
I use a John Pike palette...it has wells around three sides for colors. Mine has the following colors arranged on it in this order: Davie's Gray, Paynes Gray, Alizarin Crimson, Vermilion, Winsor Violet, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Yellow Light, Gamboge, Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Neutral Tint, Raw Umber, Sepia, Burnt Umber, Thalo Green, Cerulean Blue, Thalo Blue(Grumbacher), French Ultramarine Blue, Winsor Blue(Red Shade), Antwerp Blue. Also a blob of Chinese White and Winsor Red. I don't need all these colors...Grays are easy to mix as are greens. I good violet is essential because of the original pigments...most "purple" you can mix from blue and red combos come out very "dirty" and dull looking. To get vibrant colors for flowers, one should select as close a tubed color as one can get...almost any three watercolors mixed together result in the same muddy looking wash. After all, one is "staining" the paper rather than "painting" it as with oil. Thalo colors are very strong stains rather than finely ground pigments...a tiny bit goes a long way, and does not lift well after application. I use tubed colors and they do dry to a cake-like state. They may be re-wetted and used happily until they are gone, or start acting all crumbly and grainy...that means the original glue binder has pretty much leached away and the "cake" is not fun to work with any longer. Time to wash it out and replace that one!
@@KeithWhitelock Thank you for all this information. It helps to know the reasoning behind choices. I understand what you mean about mud. I like Alizarin Crimson and Thalo Blue but I have to be careful with it. Ultramarine Violet and Thalo Violet work for me too but I'm a beginner so I dont know much...not nearly enough. Reasons why I deeply appreciate artists like yourself and Chris Petri. You gentlemen are not only artists but are willing to teach us. Thank you.
@@KeithWhitelock What you said about purple was recently driven home. I tried to match a shade of purple but could not get a true clean purple. I matched the color but it just didn't look pure. The tube purple I use was nowhere near the color I needed.
should your videos be done as exercises following a sequence? first, the first one, then, the second one and so on? Thank you for this beautiful course...
No, not really. I never structured them for that type of progression. They were first intended for broadcast on local public access in my area and as such, are somewhat similar in style, methods, etc. If I ever get time, I want to add some "shorts" dealing with specific topics of interest to other painters. Thanks!
Mostly Arches 140 or 300lb paper, cold press. Paints are mostly Winsor Newton & Grumbacher's Finest in tubes...I just put out dabs I need and add more when the old clump gets low. That said, there are many other great brands out there...
Hi, I usually scale the brush to the paper...that said, for a 8x10 size paper, I will use flats no larger than 3/4 inch wide, and my most useful round is a 6. If that points well, it can do rather tiny things & slender grass, ropes etc. I will often scale down to a 4 or 2 round for little things. While I do use a 1 or 0 size, it is for really little objects or lettering. An old size 8 that has had it's point worn away is good one to smash around for foliage! * Note* Brushes from different companies that are the same number size are not always the same size!!
Well, if I paddle them around too much with the brush, it will go green...what happens is that the water in the blue wash happily displaces the water in the yellow wash and if it all goes well, these separate colors agree to co-exist in the same sky....the devil is in the details...if one wash is very much wetter, or if the paper is too dry, or you scrub them together...then, odd things happen. I try to get these washes in fast & usually it works out well. I often pre-mix these in separate puddles on the palette so that I don't have things drying up while I mix...
My website only has prints for sale, except for the Watercolor Workshop page...that has material lists and some of the sketches I use in the series in a pdf form.
No, I don't actually use Cobalt Blue....I use washes of Thalo or Thalo with a little Ultramarine to get the "right" shade. Nothing wrong with Cobalt, I just never used it in my palette.
Here is wrong product. I am Pakistani. But can not suggest getting meterial. Please confirm good meterial canvas and sheet. P take a my mass give me a.
Not sure where your best source of materials is...I order many of my paints and brushes from an online company...the best paper in my opinion, is the French Arches...140 or 300 lb cold press. It is not cheap, but gives great results. Some papers just will not allow certain techniques to work.
