Amanda Hyatt - Watercolor Impressionism | Painting Masters 22

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Hi there, Liron here!
Today I want to share with you art by Amanda Hyatt.
Amanda defines herself as an A-la-prima painting, meaning she tries to capture everything - pretty much in one go.
The thing I love the most about her work is how simplified it is. She has a very keen eye, and knows how to get rid of every non-essential element in the scene.
She tells the full story with as few details as necessary.
She is highly renowned, and is also a part of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, alongside Greg Allen, Herman Pekel and Joseph Zbukvic!
I hope you enjoy this one! (:
You can check out more of her work here:
amandahyatt.com.au/
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[@termite7790]

I really like her work. thank you for this.

[@radiantatriatmadja9888]

The paintings are great. Your comment makes them even easier to digest. Great reviews and explanation. Thanks.

[@karenkrosnick8725]

Liron, thank you!. These constructive artistic critiques are so helpful to me. Understanding the theory behind loose painting is what I am trying to understand and achieve. Thank you again!

[@LironYan]

My pleasure 😊🙏🏼 Thank you for the kind words!

[@1985uber]

doing a plain air in Antarctica - now theres a challenge :D just keeping your water liquid it would need to be boiling in some heat preserving container

[@rashone2879]

Wonderful review of these paintings, especially the amazing way the artist creates a nearly realistic effect with very abstract shapes. I always like when you emphasize that not every detail needs to be shown. I think when all details are given equal emphasis the viewer doesn’t know what to focus on. Thanks for this in-depth, informative video.

[@LironYan]

Exactly! It's our job to turn something into more (or less) important (: Thank you 😊🙏🏼

[@robertmajewski4496]

Thanks for your dialog. Lots of insight in your commentary. Love this style of painting.

[@LironYan]

Thank you Robert, so happy to hear 😊🙏🏼

[@simosimo7560]

Hi Liron, I'm a new subscriber because I love this style of watercolor. I love strong contrast of light and shadow and the transparency of the colors. My favourite watercolor artist, very impressionist, is Jennifer Branch. The most amazing thing is her choice of colours, pure joy for my heart. At the moment, I'm more interested in natural subjects, landscapes, flowers, woods. But I love your style and how you make interesting an urban landscape. I think Amanda's composition very impactful, her style is wonderful. Thank you very much, You're very talented too!

[@LironYan]

Thank you so much 😊🙏🏼 I'm happy you enjoyed this one. And Jennifer Branch's work is excellent! Wasn't familiar with it. Thank you for helping me discover her (:

[@danthomas6587]

Simplification at its finest

[@LironYan]

Indeed 🎨😉

[@AlisaLaporteArt]

Her art is beautiful and I haven't heard of her befor. The painting you weren't sure where the location was reminds me of the backside of Notre Dame. Thank you so much!

[@LironYan]

So happy you enjoyed this one, thank you! ^_^

[@carlosdommar]

Great vid Liron, I love Amanda Hyatt's work too. However I do not think of her as an "impressionist" in the tradition of Monet and the other French gang (neither I think she considers herself as an impressionist but more as a tonalist, according her own instructional vids). I do think she's really great pulling out those values and simplifying to get this realistic reading of her images.

[@lindyashford7744]

The last painting is of Mont St Michel in northern France, I think. Could be its twin in the Uk but I think it looks more like the one in France. Clever how she gets so much information with so little painting of detail. The brain easily fills in what is not there. Can see why you like her. I think her choice of colour is quite specific too. She is not ever just painting the objects but the overall impression of the whole which includes a colour impression that sets the mood.

[@LironYan]

Thank you 😊🙏🏼 So happy you enjoyed this episode! Her color choice is indeed very specific. It's the one thing I don't connect with as much. But as color is secondary to value, it's not that big of a deal for me 😉

[@joesurfer9754]

I Looovve Amanda Wyatt. Great Critique!

[@hartmannvondunaburg6768]

Hyatt ? vimeo.com/ondemand/ah1

[@LironYan]

Thank you 😊🙏🏼

[@rachelm7525]

Another great review, thanks for sharing 🙂

[@LironYan]

Thank you 😊🙏🏼

[@larrymarshall9454]

Hee..hee. I laughed as you talked about the painting that had a boat in the foreground, a bridge in the middle ground, and the city in the background. You said you didn't understand what she was doing with the white areas under the bridge. I guess guys in Israel don't see a lot of snow but I'm in Quebec and so it's clear to me that this painting represents a winter, snow scene. Those white areas under the bridge are showing the base of the snow-covered hill that drops down to the water. If you look just above the bridge you'll see the snow-covered top of the hill. Also, the foreground is a snow-covered walkway. There's also snow on the tree on the right. I'm sure this is why she's kept all of the colors subdued.

[@rashone2879]

Larry Marshall I don’t see that as snow given the position under the arches. Doesn’t read as snow. Also, there appears to be green foliage at the right.

[@rachelm7525]

Yeah, I'm not seeing snow, either. I think the colors suggest winter, for sure, but I think the white under the bridge is strong sunlight on the water, which is consistent with the rest of the painting 🙂

[@larrymarshall9454]

We see different things. The pale sky doesn't suggest "strong sunlight' to me but the white on the edges of the water do suggest ice to me.

[@hartmannvondunaburg6768]

@@rachelm7525 Yes, you are right....

[@hartmannvondunaburg6768]

She made wonderful "shots" of the french coast...

[@LironYan]

Yes, very impressive, and such a beautiful and inspiring view 😊

[@KathyBath]

Great review Liron. Last painting is Mont St Michel in Normany on the French north coast. She has captured it beautifully as you say. My favourite though is the one at 5:53. The colours are just lovely. I wonder what the creamy colour is.

[@LironYan]

Thank you for pointing that out 😊🙏🏼 Her work is indeed spectacular. It's interesting, that creamy color to me looks like some kind of Ochre / Raw Sienna, mixed with white. It also reminds me a bit of Buff Titanium (Daniel Smith) that starts gaining popularity too.

[@jillkama7614]

I appreciate what you have to say

[@LironYan]

Thank you 😊🙏🏼

[@kookatsoonjan]

THANKS LIRON FOR DOING THIS SERIES...AMAZING WHAT SHE GETS WITH SO MUCH SIMPLICITY...REALY ENJOYED...QUESTION....Are you ever gonna be into abstract painting...and show examples of artists, like this video, or are you more into realism/impressionism, as opposed to abstract painting...Thank you for all you do...love to catch you in my inbox with a new video....Janis

[@LironYan]

Thank you so much Janis 😊🙏🏼 I love all the spectrum of impressionism. So that means these types of abstractions, and the more realistic ones. I want to cover Manel Plana in the future - he REALLY simplifies stuff. There's barely any details, but his work reads really well and impresses me a lot! I hope you'll enjoy future episodes!

[@em_m5989]

The thing I value the most in watercolour is transparency, which, for obvious reasons, many of these works lack. It's not necessarily a bad thing, it just rubs me the wrong way. Otherwise they are very skillful, yeah. Handling of the values is particularly impressing.

[@LironYan]

I can really understand what you mean. Her paintings do feel very opaque and “closed off” to me on the one hand. Then on the other - I really like the result haha. I think I almost don’t treat them as watercolors at times (:

[@trisht5064]

Thanks liron i personally got a bit see sick with just a bit too many zooms 😄 you normally use your cursor a bit more between zooming in and out 👍 i personally didnt get excited over this artist but i still gathered useful information and really liked her compositions!! Interesting use of opaque and i did love the clever dark trees....how they don't need to be green at all 👍

[@LironYan]

Thank you so much 😊🙏🏼 Very happy you enjoyed this one! And sorry about the excessive zoom-ins and zoom-outs, will do less of it next time (:

[@simosimo7560]

20,28 is Mont Saint Michel, France, I'd like to go there...a beautiful view, like a dream

[@LironYan]

Such a beautiful place 🤩 Would love to visit there as well. I visited Paris several times, would be very interesting seeing different parts of France.

[@dawncfoster7698]

Thank you very interesting

[@LironYan]

She is an incredible abstractionist, happy you enjoyed ^_^

[@horaciorodriguez1412]

buenos videos mi estimado amigo

[@ItSeemsDark]

20:30 : should be Venice if i'm not mistaken .... you can see what should be the "leone di San Marco" which is the emblem of the city

[@LironYan]

Great observation! 😊🙏🏼 Thank you I have been to Rome and Florence, but not Venice (yet). Italy is such an amazing place for art!

[@ItSeemsDark]

​@@LironYan Yeap , one of the last remaining benefits of being Italian :D :D

[@simosimo7560]

And at about 20,20 it's a non common view of Venice: on the left Palazzo Ducale, San Marco's lion and San Marco's bell tower.

[@LironYan]

Great catch ^_^ Another comment here also pointed that out for me 😊🙏🏼

[@tucsontom7244]

You should teach art at a school. Doing a great job as an online instructor.

[@LironYan]

Thank you so much, my friend 😊🙏🏼 Perhaps in the future!

[@northernbirder7351]

Enjoyed this presentation but could not watch it carefully because there is too much zooming in and out. That is hard on the eyes!

[@LironYan]

Will try and do less of that next time, sorry about that 😊

[@UncleTerry]

the constant resizing of the images drove me nuts. Other wise great video.

[@LironYan]

Haha sorry about that, will do less of it in future episodes 😅

[@TTomJohn]

@@LironYan I enjoy the stepping in and stepping out to view the painting.