Speed Up Your Landscape Painting And Get A Lot More Accurate

Thanks. This is a great block in. I always have trouble with the next stage. Adding the thicker colors. I would love to see you go to the next step on this actual painting.

Actually I work in watercolor and I am using your instruction to improve my landscapes. Thank you!

That lesson was very helpful! Thank you so much for making this video!

Good morning Phil😊 always enjoy seeing what you have to share with us! Have a happy weekend

This is great! Demonstrations are so motivational and shows very clearly what you think while you paint. Thank you so much!

Thank you for sharing your processes I look forward to the next video.

I really like this idea of doing value mass sketch with washes. I usually do this in acrylic then paint oils. Thanks Phil.

painting behind you is fabulous

So nice and informative....

Always learning something new thanks for sharing. ❤

Great way to do a fast block in!

Only way I’ve found to handle large watercolours is to use good 200 lb paper and make it damp from the back. I cover the back with water, leave it 5 mins, and repeat this up to 4 times. With the paper being damp all the way through I can work on the first washes a lot longer. I struggled for years to work large until someone taught me this.

This should be required viewing for any aspiring artist. It will save them both time and paint. As always, thank you!

A nice Saturday de stressor😊 ! My favored painting mediums include acrylics, gouache, pastels. Your tips are just as important for those of us who use different paints! Thank you from the rainy Adirondacks!

Love it. I seem to be unable to draw with a pencil or chalk, but somehow it works for me with a paint brush. I will use this technique next time.

Will revisit and B prepared 2 have a workshop experience with this one😊.Ann

This is almost exactly how I start my acrylic paintings. It definitely helps to get rid of the white canvas so that I can see what I'm painting :)

Excellent!!🎉

Nice one Phil, as usual. Right, I don't see many good watercolors done now a days, but Sargent was a true master of them to be sure. I did do water media for a long time when I painted wildlife subjects, mainly gouache and acrylic, both good for detail work like fur and feathers, but I only use oils for landscapes now, especially here in the Sonoran Desert. Lots of watercolorists in our plein air painting club, mostly women, it seems, but it is a hard media to "master", and none have, so far. ;D Yes, "massing shapes", in oils, as you show here, was the technique my first workshop teacher, T.M. Nicholas, taught years ago, mid-90's, in the Lake Tahoe area where I lived then, and he would come to paint in the Sierra, from Rockport, Mass. Took me a while to get it, and away from drawing outlines which I did so much when drawing animals, which have to be 110% correct, as you know, you painting horses so much, ...and people too. ;D Now I go for the darkest big shapes first, in studio or plein air, and have the focal point established in 5 minutes, then everything else surrounding it is massed in lesser and muted values with the lightest being the sky, that 5% always done last, ..just in case something "interesting" happens there after two hours of painting outdoors. Then I can add it, clouds usually, or not, depending on if it competes too much with the already established focal point of the piece, which is about 95% completed then. : )

Great primary painting stage! But does he mention his essential materials? For example, what type of material he's painting on? It seems like a super smooth surface.