Next time, consider no back ground music. It was distracting and on a repetitive loop that was nauseating. I really enjoyed the information, but the over dub music was uncomfortable.
I've been painting exclusively in watercolor for 50 years and with painter friends have visited the Worcester museum and seen these master works, your comments, observations and criticisms are superb, to the point and offered to the viewer, layman or professional with knowledge, insight and respect! Very well done!
The Philly museum had a wonderful exhibit on watercolor over the centuries with many painters including Sargent and Homer in the same room. What stuck with me was their draftsmanship. They were skilled with drawing in a way that we lack today. Anyway, great talk, enjoyed it much.
Love this excerpt and GREAT detailed knowledge shared about the techniques. Please do more like these on artists! I am an Art Teacher in Wellfleet Mass originally from Worcester & used to teach at WAM!
Thanks for the feedback - we've upgraded all our equipment since shooting this video 🥰 new videos with Nancy are coming soon with the opening of our new exhibition next weekend!
Educational and enlightening. Homer and Sargent are masters of their medium. Both use watercolors to describe and unfix vision simultaneously. Human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.
Really wonderful to see these together in a video and wish I could visit. However, I'm wondering if I were to get there and sign up for a tour, would there be music playing at the same time as the guide gave their talk? I don't recall any museum ever having piped in music unless it was a critical part of the exhibition but in a video the practice persists unaccountably. Please consider the underlying music here to be as distracting as it'd be if played during real time. Especially for those with hard of hearing issues, any kind of music at any volume, even as low as you have it here, can be an issue. Here, it was more than obvious when it was paused (a relief!) and then started up again (curses!). Not only is it a fallacious myth that all videos made today require a soundtrack under speech, the reverse actually makes for a far better video when someone speaking makes up the majority of the overall sound track. A little music at the beginning and the end is like having matching bookends but you wouldn't place them in-between books, right? Thank you for your consideration on this, at least. Again, love seeing watercolor artwork finally coming into its rightful place in the art world, and thank you for helping toward that.
Homer is an interesting person to study ref watercolors. I read a book which even covered what specific paint types he used. He documented a lot. Windsor and Newton pans, mostly. I learned a lot reading that book, and learned to use opaque colors, and especially scraping by looking at Homer's watercolors. I like how you refer to it as "subtractive painting." This comment is too late, but if by chance you see it, any chance you know the weight of the paper Homer used? Must of been really heavy, given that massive amount of scraping he did on the Friends piece.
@7:29, It's not "aggressive removal of paint", but forceful and deep removal of paint. Subtractive methods in watercolours are always carefully measured and done by design.
Thanks for planning a visit! Unfortunately, this exhibition closed on September 10th. We will have a Faith Ringgold exhibition opening on October 7th, however, and our other works on display are always worth a view, of course.
