Hey you lot welcome back to my channel.
Today’s video is gonna be just a normal speed-painting video, showing you the process
of this spread in my sketchbook where I was continuing to experiment and practice with
simplifying my landscapes and just being more expressive with my painting in general.
If you’ve seen my recent sketchbook tour or a few of my most recent painting process
videos, you’ll know that this is something I’ve been wanting to improve on, being able
to put together a scene with a few strokes, suggesting things well enough to not have
to paint them in detail, it’s just style that I like and it’s been fun to try different
things, I’ve also had a lot of different suggestions from you guys of different ways
to try simplifying my paintings.
Things like giving myself a time limit, I’ve also come up with a little challenge for myself
to draw in as few strokes as possible or a certain number of strokes or lines either
with a pen or a paintbrush.
Blocking things out into geometric shapes and areas.
On top of that, I’ve even taken a few lessons on Skillshare, taught by Robert Joyner, in
a series called ‘Draw Loose, Paint Loose’ where he talks about expressive brushwork
and maximising your colours.
As I’ve said before, Skillshare have been a great learning resource for me in the past,
I was actually quite surprised after my last video about them that people hadn’t heard
me mention the site before that, but yeah they have such a wide range of lessons on
there, everything that I’ve ever looked for, I’ve found; different aspects of art
stuff but also social media, writing, all sorts.
I still have a code by the way, if you didn’t see my last video, for 2 months of free premium
access to as many classes as you like so I’ll have that linked below.
But basically, I wanted to try and bring together today, all the different things I’ve been
learning and experimenting with.
And I’m still definitely learning and experimenting.
I wanted to see if I could just sit down and paint without overthinking it.
So I taped off the page like always, when I am doing more of a scruffy painting, I think
a crisp edge kind of brings it back together and makes it look more intentional, I used
quite a large, I think half or 3/4 inch paintbrush.
And I jumped from acrylic paint to gouache.
I wanted to use acrylics because I feel like they're more…
they’re easier to move around on a page and also they work better for layering.
But it’s been so long since I used acrylics like this, it wasn’t really working, so
that’s why I switched to gouache and that actually worked a lot better than I expected
anyway.
I searched up some screen caps from films on pinterest, looking for ones with interesting
and challenging colour schemes.
In the end I went for Ex Machina for the first one, which I saw for the first time the other
day, Moonlight which I also saw for the first time really recently, and while I was watching
that there was so much of it that had me thinking ‘I want to paint this’, The Revenant which
looks great in terms of imagery, I need to see that soon, and a film called Into the
Wild, which I haven’t seen but from the looks of the screen caps it looks like it’s
based on the story of the guy who had a really successful, wealthy life, that like packed
up all of a sudden to go live off the grid in a little van in the wilderness... and it
didn’t have the happiest ending.
I could be completely wrong though, it could be about something else.
Am I wrong in thinking that’s a true story?
I’d like to watch it anyway.
Umm it was all a bit difficult, painting-wise.
I think because this time I was filming it, I kept getting distracted from the fact that
I wasn’t supposed to be thinking about it too much, making it look good.
When I’ve done this without filming it, it’s a lot easier for me to just make a
mess and it’s when I make a mess that, for me anyway, it looks the best.
Next time I’ll have to do something to distract myself from the fact that I’m filming.
Let me know if you wanna see any more of these, this journey of mine to simple landscapes.
I know it might be a bit boring to some, bit repetitive, so yeah I’d love to know if
anyones actually finding it…
I dunno interesting?
Ummm when this video goes up, I will actually be away.
I’m gonna be away for a little bit, til like mid-June.
I’m going to a wedding in Mexico with a couple of friends and we’re gonna spend
a bit of time out there travelling as well.
I’m hoping to somehow incorporate the trip into the travel journalling series so stay
tuned for that.
But yeah, I’ve been working hard in the lead up to make sure there will still be videos
going up for you guys while I’m gone, it just means that I won’t be able to chat
with you all in the comments or on instagram or anything.
So I hope you’re all doing well, I hope you enjoyed today’s video.
Thanks so much for watching, I’ll see you in the next one, bye!