EXTREME BEGINNERS - Painting a Seascape Painting Using a Recipe - with Chris Petri

[@maneeshgoswami-edm]

The best teacher on the entire planet.

[@michellemurdock6937]

I have found that I do my best work when I simply watch you first, then follow along during my second watch. Thank you for teaching us, Chris.

[@cpetri766]

Thanks Michelle, great way to get really good retention of the tutorials. I appreciate your feedback as many others will follow your lead! 👍😎

[@cindiwalsh2329]

I'm so happy I found these videos, they're really helping me. I love painting along with you. I'm learning a lot! My painting is slowly improving. Thank you so much.

[@hazelsmith9198]

I have taken at least four entry level college watercolor classes. I have never gotten 1/10 of the benefit of one of your videos.

[@Wildflowerafternoons]

I’m intrigued by the mixes of color everywhere. Thank you for sharing. This gives me a new direction.

[@priscillawarren9979]

It's a gorgeous, colorful, painting!

[@bpike5338]

Chris, I can't tell you how excited I am to have found you and your EXTREME beginner series! Feeling successful right out of the gate is so exciting and it encourages me to keep going. Thank you so much!!

[@cpetri766]

Excellent to hear that! Keep that pedal to the metal and shifting appropriately 👍😎

[@deborahjones1865]

Absolutely love your extreme beginner videos. I think I have been watching the wrong tutorials until now. They say get the best quality materials you can afford, use a bigger brush, if you mix all the colours you get mud etc. I have been frozen with fear and unable to get started. You just slap at all on and who cares if the result isn't perfect. I love the "recipe" too, draw a picture and then paint it- lol- great advice. I shall be working my way through your lessons.

[@cpetri766]

Thanks so much Deborah, it’s about having fun right….besides watercolor is a messy medium 👍😎

[@christshandmaiden]

I’m taking up watercolor again after 4 years . Excited to do this. It’s what makes my heart full, the colors and style. Thank you!

[@jpatricepsw]

I find your lessons so helpful and encouraging. Thanks so much for taking time for all of us and the extreme beginners. 🤗🇨🇦

[@Kwood10]

Love this❤ Im new to watercolor & this is amazing.

[@catherineadkins2774]

Love your Extreme Beginner Videos! Keep making them please!

[@cpetri766]

Thanks Catherine, will do!👍😎

[@watercolourkeyes]

Thank you for another great lesson. Don’t know how you do it but I am so grateful that you do. With everything around us so unpredictable it’s wonderful to have you and your consistently uplifting and inspiring lessons. I hope 2022 is your best year yet.

[@cpetri766]

Happy New Year, and thanks so much for watching! 👍😎

[@marinalatchis6410]

Thank you you are the best beginners instructor I have found. Keep on doing extreme beginners videos. Love your teaching method

[@cpetri766]

Thanks Marina, I’m excited your watching and I wish you all the best! 👍😎🍀

[@jacquelinemccully912]

So grateful for your channel, Chris. I've learned so much from your videos and have decided to take the leap and start painting. You're an incredible teacher, explain things clearly and your paintings are so very beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing your time and talent with all of us. New subscriber.😁

[@cpetri766]

Hi Jacqueline, welcome and great to know you’re joining along with us! Happy Painting. 👍😎🍀

[@america12u96]

Let's make it look like we know what we are doin! I love it!

[@MISMEEHAN]

I am so thankful I found your channel. The beginner's watercolors are a fantastic way to get started.

[@cpetri766]

Welcome and I’m excited your starting your watercolor journey 👍😎🍀

[@mooshibe]

One more great lesson. Thank you.

[@christinedrake1645]

its a very lovely painting!

[@PM-rl6vb]

Thank you again for your work, Chris, Peace and Joy in the new year.

[@nancyhorricks6168]

I love the help with colors. Most are not explaining as well. Very helpful video, thank you

[@parmindersinghgrewal6975]

Thanks. Quick n easy

[@notme3252]

THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN! My painting isn’t as perfect as yours, but it’s quite a bit better than what I’ve been doing on my own. The tip to keep using different colors makes the biggest difference. Thank you!

[@carolwohlwend3908]

I love your style and you help a beginner gain confidence. Thank you so much for teaching watercolors!

[@sueaberle935]

Thank you again, I love your 🎨

[@cilene2805]

Very good lesson for beginners feel more confident in painting and using colours. Thanks.

[@cpetri766]

Awesome Cilene, happy Painting 👍😎

[@mariannedoblesderuiter9285]

Thank you Chris fabulous painting and a very usefull tutorial

[@PrachiSharma-rf7hk]

Thank you for sharing.

[@marlenedaloia345]

thank you Chris for making watercolor painting so easy i love watching and learning your techniques,

[@cpetri766]

Awesome Marlene, very happy to be here teaching 👍😎many more videos on the way

[@christinedrake4984]

beautiful!

[@guiselamaldonado2402]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience!!! I wish you a wonderful 2022!!!

[@cpetri766]

Happy New Year in 2022!

[@cpetri766]

🎉👍😎

[@annhinson5670]

So very nice. You make it look so easy. I need to be reminded to more color. I tend to wind up with a dull palate on my paper.

[@deborahbelasco569]

Thank you so much for sharing your gift of water coloring! This painting is teaching me to not be afraid to mix colors. 1,001 Blessings to you my friend.

[@cpetri766]

Thanks Deborah, thanks for watching 👍😎

[@vigdisbullingkristiansen2587]

I love your channel❤

[@myherbsbythesea2240]

Thanks, Chris. I like the way this was presented----as a recipe! I'll definitely remember this method.--Cheers, Ann

[@cpetri766]

Awesome Ann, hope your paintings keep improving 👍😎

[@annawallner8462]

Dear Chris.I was not able for a half an year to paint anything.I love tvis one and will try it.Thanks for sharing.Take care and happy new year

[@cpetri766]

Happy New Year in 2022! 👍😎🎉

[@charlesmckinney]

Yowzah! May be around awhile longer my friend. Finished chemo and radiation treatments. May get to enjoy the painting I bought from you.

[@cpetri766]

Hi Charles, stay strong my friend! Better days are ahead in 2022! You’ve come this far,…. You will make it! 👍😎

[@tomhohn5234]

Congrats on finishing chemo! Best wishes for 2022! Yowsah,yowsah, yowsah!

[@tarotbysemaj2424]

KUDOS On being a SUPER Hero, and making it through. I look forward to what 2022 has in store for you. Keep the FAITH!!!! 3x Survivor wishing you all the very best!!!!

[@tarotbysemaj2424]

Another great video. Granted my end result looked NOTHING like yours, the fact that I did it, makes me happy. You have a way of making it all look so easy and that is what I appreciate. No stress, just adding paint to paper. It's fun, relaxing and mesmerizing to see the results the next day. Images really do continue to change as they dry. I am looking forward to trying the still life tomorrow. I really liked seeing the visual of painting the negative space to accentuate the pitcher with the white of the paper. I enjoyed learning today, and look forward to learning more along the way. I am doing these in a Watercolour journal, so it's been fun to see the progression of work. Thanks for making it FUN!!!

[@cpetri766]

Great work Tarot, you are in a perfect place just drilling down on the basics and solid techniques 😎👍

[@marytesta3003]

This is a great tutorial. I forwarded it to my friend to try as well. Thank you! I really had fun and pleased with my finished painting.

[@cpetri766]

Awesome Mary! That is a fun & straight forward painting 👍😎

[@BirdSong_01]

Thank you so much Chris. I have been struggling where to start with watercolor. I love it so much and want to keep practicing! You make that easy for me! Best wishes for the New Year!

[@cpetri766]

Thanks and you’re very welcome! I’m hoping you make consistent progress in this new year! 👍😎

[@kayseals692]

Beautiful ♥️

[@cpetri766]

Thanks Kay! 👍😎

[@silvievartan3733]

My colors are so bright! I went crazy. Used every color in my prang kit, lol.

[@salauddeensyed5295]

Happy New Year and Best wishes Sir...

[@missm.847]

Thanks a lot for your kindness, your communicative enthusiasm and very good advice. I did this landscape and i'm very proud of me, which is very rare. Sorry for my poor english, i'm french. I wish you all the best for 2022, take care of you. Best regards. Miss M.

[@cpetri766]

Thanks Miss M, and great work! 👍😎

[@MARKSMITH-jy2yh]

Hi Chris - really enjoy your videos. Had never painted before but for Christmas I decided I wanted to try and rally enjoy it. Question; curious to why you did the sky wash last versus first? I don't think I heard you address that in the video. Take care and keep the extreme beginner videos coming!

[@cpetri766]

Hi Mark, sky washes are fine to do at the beginning or end of painting! Thanks for watching! 👍😎

[@maneeshgoswami-edm]

Chris how about a retreat for beginners ?

[@cpetri766]

Hi Maneesh, thanks for watching and the kind compliments! I am so busy lately however it would be something I’m definitely interested in in the near future! 👍😎

[@AngelaKent-gj4kk]

Chris what size paper are you using I have attempted this painting my house is a lot bigger my paper is A4 I have had fun today thank you

[@cpetri766]

Hi, I think it was about 8x10 Angela 👍😎🍀

[@america12u96]

@Chris Petri .. needle point brush.. brand please?

[@cpetri766]

Alvaro Castagnet needle point #8 or #6 buy at his website. His name and add dot.net 👍😎

[@Fonkemman]

Surprised that this is "easy". But my result is not even half as good as yours. I hope I can be this quick too! My paint dried as I was slow and I ruined some parts because of that.

[@cpetri766]

Hi Emmanuel, your quickness will come in time…. It’s a key part of watercolor but takes time and perseverance to get there. 👍😎

[@marctestarossa]

From my experience you should stay away from extremely cheap water colour paper. I bought the water colour paper at Action for 1,89 € for 20 sheets A4 and it was awful, even worse than "normal" 120 - 150 gsm paper. Then I found a water colour pad at "Rossmann" and it was 3,99 € for 20 sheets A4 and it's absolutely decent. I struggled so hard with the first paper I got and thought I was doing something completely wrong. So I gave it to my girlfriend who has some years of experience in water colours and she confirmed that this paper was straight rubbish. So you don't have to spend a fortune but you can get decent watercolour or mixed media paper for 20 cents per A4 sheet and for a lot of brush exercises or when I try to learn to mix colours I simply use both sides of the paper.

[@psyflyhunter8543]

found the colours went muddy.

[@karenknecht5217]

This is the first time I’ve been to your channel and I find it really intriguing, but the problem I have is that your volume is too low I’ve got it up as high as I can on my phone and it’s still not a high enough to hear you very well and I am downloading it which means at some point if I get near an exterior microphone I mean speaker then I can attach to that so that I can hear you better but I think you need to be speaking into a microphone a little louder than what you are. Thank you for your channel I just found you I’ve never seen you before but so far I like what I hear so thank you

[@cpetri766]

Hi Karen, I monitor my sound very carefully on a consistent basis. I have no one saying it’s not loud enough. I think your phone may be the issue? They have Bluetooth speakers or plug in speakers too. You would have to do research before you invest in something like these additional d as speakers and such. If you’re not great with phone gadgets etc… a local cell phone store can help you find something. 👍😎