Friday Night Live: Sketching in Gouache with Jeffrey Watts

[@yumtaco7376]

26:34 this is soo true man, I used to paint tooo delicately and spend 2 or 3 days on one painting but when I first finish it I feel tired and like I hate it even though everyone tells me it’s realistic also never feel proud if it , but nowadays i am more of quick sketches and blocking colors with any medium really , I’ve never loved art more, it’s so relaxing this way and it feels amazing I am so happy to be doing this and my artistic skills are developing even better while I am relaxed!❤️

[@brendanomahony1936]

Best art instruction video I have come across. Such detail lessons in straight forward language. Demystifying gouache. 10/10

[@vampazilla2622]

This video was EXCELLENT! I learned a lot just listening to Jeff Watts. This video was food for one's creative hunger for becoming a better artist. Thank you big time!!

[@peter9164]

I actually love just listening to you talk. Like, this could almost be a podcast. Have been watching this on and off during meals and before bed. Thank you for the time and effort to put this on the internet - it's really helping me.

[@ninjaninja2159]

who elsed was hella impressed with his beard. dudes becoming an epic lumberjack artist

[@RoadToFuture007]

I thought he is/was a pirate ;)

[@dave5194]

Yeah, that is one badass beard

[@MontMarteArt]

True its fabulous!

[@kullenberg]

Agreed. God tier beard genetics.

[@milkbread5036]

MY FIRST THOUGHT XD Looks cool. So thick!

[@paulahaynes6131]

I have learned so much from you both in listening and watching your process.

[@rtwilson145]

Need to put together a book of Jeff's sayings. Gives me inspiration every day!

[@nickfanzo]

I'm glad I found this channel. I was fascinated with illustration and comic art as a kid. I copied hundreds of panels when I was in middle school from marvel and image comics. I had drive at that age and more so now. Nothing will stop me from making art. I then moved to fine art in my twenties and am a painter now. its nice to see someone who appreciates fine art and illustration like magic the gathering art. thanks!

[@WotanSkyFather]

The butcher tray is enameled metal. Plastic is more porous than enameled metal, so the paints catch and drag and start to set up in the pores. On the enameled metal they float above the surface on the less porous finish and don't set up, and thus are more available to mix. Plastic is also hydrophobic because of the oily nature of the surface and finish.

[@MarkusMihaly]

everytime I find this video I watch it twice. so great

[@karenspooner1492]

I got a set from a junk sale , thought they were watercolours..when I got home they were gouache , reeves for a quid ..I love them .....someone said to use them like oil , a lightbulb went off in my head and I finally realised how to use them.

[@HajraMeeks]

love you, Jeff, all your videos are winners. and that hairstyle is awesome, bro.

[@carolepivarnik9316]

Really enjoyable video! If you have Dollar Tree stores near you, they sell thin flexible silicone cutting mats in the kitchen area that provide a great mixing surface for both gouache and oils and are easily cut to any size/shape. They need to rest on a firm surface. I use them in a few of my sketch kits and pochade boxes. They are kinda translucent grayish white but I usually paint the underside a neutral gray.

[@JaredCullum]

I love Friday night live! :) so thrilled to see this post- missed it live but excited to watch it while I work today!

[@ianjackson5834]

stayed up till 3am to watch it, well worth the wait, thanks for your share

[@deerbard]

I watched it in small steps little by little almost every morning in two weeks :D Thanks Jeff!

[@annemarielucas5561]

Wonderful, informative video! Beautiful work. Thank you ❤

[@wastedpaint8281]

ive seen this multiple times all the way through and i watch it whenever a gouache painting or drawing in general doesnt go well and this sets me back on track

[@cindysheets1824]

Guys like this motivate me to paint. Especially when I need to work on something and I’m just not in the mood🤣. LOVE the old man sketch!!!

[@christopherdraper7131]

One of the best Friday night lives yet. Have a great trip to Iceland !!

[@yellowspider313]

Jeff this is so great! I went back and watched that first half hour that I missed during the live stream and Im glad I did. Those first 30 minutes are gold. Be productive and safe on your trip and come back to us well my friend. We're all counting on you!

[@Siltua]

Wise words from Watts: "You can find water anywhere." 7:47

[@reneellis7511]

I use Dorland's Wax Medium over the gouache, hence no glass needed in framing. Dorland's Wax Medium will water-seal over gouache very nicely, leaving it polished and waterproof. I just started using Gouache he and love the freedom of correcting, changing or deleting what I am not happy with.

[@digitalsketchguy]

You're not a slave to the reference material. Love it. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

[@JeffLafferty]

Great video, glad I caught this

[@philwilletts6859]

Jeff Laffert

[@delacroix2007]

jeff! you're amazing! love watching you work! xo

[@markr.katzman3743]

Thanks for the demo/video....enjoyed it and loved the gouache, and all of the comments and explanations.

[@MichelleDavies86]

Love this series soooooo much!!!!

[@jwoodsteve]

Treasure trove of information....thank you and appreciate your sharing, makes traveling more fun and watching you build up a painting very cool

[@silkesauritz7690]

That was not the last one i watched. Thank you so much! Hope I can joyn the next one life!

[@martinpaint]

holy...this is one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing this!!!!

[@lachepa2206]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

[@PauloFerreira-dm6cv]

Agradeço sua postagem, aproveitei bastante suas orientações, continue postando seus trabalhos.

[@milkbread5036]

AWESOME SESSION! Learned so much :) Love your wisdom and motivation, Jeff!

[@TayTayJelly]

Thanks you!!!!

[@shelbyc3758]

majestic beard. thanks for the demo.

[@raeandrews1925]

This was great, thanks Jeff.

[@bulanhu]

This is very nice vid! Good points!

[@vannigio6234]

ps I m from italy, born i 1955, i love Frazetta fom seventy wen i was young, i grow up with Frazetta, Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane & co UAH it was a good time

[@UNKUHNOODLES]

Incredible information...Bravo!

[@eugenevarbanets3898]

1:01:10 the lines on that monastery scetch are amazing.

[@joshglover6560]

Brilliant episode I really enjoyed this one, looking forward to next Friday.

[@dillardparker7546]

Butcher trays are enameled--A process which a ceramic coat is applied to a metal base which is then placed in a kiln and bond with the metal base. Sort of like a china dish.

[@dwintster]

awesome advice much appreciated

[@MrHugogeerts]

Very nice man, I learn a lot from these videos.

[@MCFreshT]

Loving the beard! Great video as always Jeff

[@thisone9]

Ever try Casein? I'm liking it more than Gouache, these days. I actually like the smell, how it works like oils in terms of mixing on the panel and you don't need to frame it under glass.

[@dandykaufman2]

Jeff made the last piece into an oil painting "Namaste"

[@aqylaartchannel6939]

so beautiful! Such a great video, thank you.

[@SebastianTinajero]

I agree with Jeff I prefer not to varnish I like the matte look!

[@humanityisfamily7581]

Wonderful video and loved your gouache travel setup :)

[@geezeressa]

Very informative and fun to watch! could you please explain water glazing?

[@hancholo5897]

I think the "beading (beating)" up you're talking about is from the plastic being porous & when you mix it together the tiny holes create tiny bubbles that spirals into a domino affect of osmosis causing the "beading". but I'm no physicist

[@swarner3470]

To solve the beading up problem just buy some enamel paint (4 dollars on ebay) and pour it into your mixing area. After a few coats and drying it should be ready to paint on it with no beading and it wont stain!

[@didierleprince6106]

Merci

[@yeprighto]

use a pencil tin to mix on. I use one from a pastel pencil box but got a coating on it that makes it awesome to mix in. doesn't absorb like plastic

[@thepochade5992]

Monet was known to say that he believed an artist should learn from what they see around them and not bend to formal rules 😉

[@Kira-1418]

Love this tutorial!

[@nedavalval1468]

I wish you had uploaded the outline for us lazy people

[@leamubiu]

40:00 I used to only draw, but starting to paint (digitally) forced me to improve my drawings. Now I also to the back-and-forth thing, but I'm not very methodical nor disciplined about it, so improvement is slow ^^'

[@anng.r.687]

I am new to your channel, and am lured into watching you paint. It is interesting to see you work from dark on up. What would be really helpful, is for you to LIST THE REFERENCES you mention in your discussion. You've mentioned dozens of artists, some of those I didn't get the complete names. It'd be helpful to see a list of artists and spelling of their names. Thank you.

[@KimCyunHi]

It's been a while since you posted this, but here's a shot at a list of artists that Jeff always mentions: John Singer Sargent, Ilya Repin, Sorolla, Fechin, Richard Schmid, Morgan Weistling, Leyendecker, Frank Frazetta, Dean Cornwell, Howard Pyle... I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.

[@jm_draws7253]

A s a gouache lover, i think you would like to know the work of Benicio, (José Luiz Benicio), a brazilian illustrator that did thousands of pulp book covers and movie posters from the 60's into the 90's...all in gouache. There are two volumes collecting some of his work published by refecence press in the last decade, and i think it is the only compendium that ever existed of his work, since most of it got lost over the years. One thing of note is that since the covers were printed small, he didn't paint them big...so, almost all the pages in the collection are the real size of the originals. I'm in no way associated with any of the parties...it's just one of those artists that more people should get to know.

[@whiteknight7wayne493]

Doing portraits in not that hard if one follows the principles....i got around to a few self portraits and a few simple ones....having the patience to follow the course of progress is the biggest thing....and the best advice i saw was that you need to do about 70. Long before that you should be pleased with your progress. I

[@whenanthonydraws]

You mentioned all the wall hangers that can't fit on the wall, and that you would put them up on instagram or something. It would be great to have a book with all those wall hangers made that people could purchase. Just an idea to add to your list of things to do ;)

[@astrostar49]

Odin is also a painter. Nice.

[@Zekla]

I think the word you're looking for is enamel. It's a melted glass surface they put on metal.

[@michaeltalbot8242]

Sally like your box design I'm part wa thought doing the same thing

[@kyststudio-epicartadventure]

You certainly can alter edges in acrylic, watercolor and oils. You just do it differently. And many many tiny crisp miniatures were made in oil paints, they were the photo portraits of their time. Students shouldn’t be afraid to keep trying new techniques and materials. Failure of a piece is not a failure of an artist. We learn much more info from the failures, anyway.

[@vannigio6234]

yes! tu dipingi a ritmo be bop!

[@randym1317]

Jeff reason why but your butcher plates work and don't beat up is because of the porcelain finish it's a very fine but yet scratchy finish, if you want a plastic pallet to behave the same clean it with comet and scrub it quite hard rinse it many times and you'll be good to go

[@Roottech25]

is gouache like watercolor? is the way to approach the painting process is the same?

[@alejandrouscategui3879]

can you show us your palet . i want to understand the way you mix the color

[@CercoUnCentro]

Jeff I am in love with Alex Ross do you know anything within his own techniques?

[@bentinho]

I like Alex Ross too. There are two books, Mythology and Rough Sketch. Mythology has a small section on his process. Rough Sketch is mostly black and white drawings. They could be helpful.

[@CercoUnCentro]

I have both. I miss a lot the stepbystep spawn on old site. do you have it saved?

[@giakoner]

At the end Jeff is talking about some Paul guy and his watercolors/gouache paintings. Anyone knows the name of the artist?

[@todd.mitchell]

How do you handle the palette-rag after you're done while you're on the trail? I'm a hiker and am intrigued by your gear.

[@michaelelijah7298]

He sounds like the Jason Dill of painting

[@wcgreenefineart]

I wish the same could be communicated with fewer words!

[@DavidWoodArtist]

Nice painting...wonder what the criteria is for having a question chosen and answered, submited a few but none got addressed..maybe got overlooked.

[@wattsatelier1391]

Hi David, There's not much of a criteria, per say. We simply balance questions in with breaks in Jeff's talk. With the amount that come through, the limited time we have between Jeff's answers and tutorial insights, and with just how quickly the chat/questions progress, we have to pick what we can that fits into the right breaks organically. Sorry to hear yours didn't get answered! Please join us next time and ask again, or drop us a line through the contact page on our site; www.wattsatelier.com

[@geno86jo]

Awesome beard

[@sarabenaaa]

Hello, can you tell me why did you choose the green color as first layer?

[@LauraDkechan]

How to keep the gouache palette from drying?

[@NikeshJaggan]

Hey guys! Question about gouache paints. Anyone have an alternative to Cad red or Vermillion for the Zorn palette? Cad red is $30 for a 14 mL tube which a lot for me right now, and I can't find vermillion in the W&N Designers gouache. There's the Pebeo brand which sells 100 mL tubes, but I can't find anyone who thinks Pebeo gouache is good.

[@TheYoghurt42]

I don't know heaps about different paint pigments so I don't know if it'd work as a substitutefor your purposes, but in the video he mentions using flame red as a cheaper substitute for cadmium red.

[@KimCyunHi]

Any red that leans towards orange is a decent substitute, although Cad and Vermillion are very opaque and lots of modern substitutes are transparent, but they'll be good enough if you pick a reliable brand.

[@tomminisokwakus]

what is he painting on?

[@RedtreeJoe]

why do so many gouache painters use paper towels? even when damped in water- don't they soak up the paint?

[@unihope]

Just a little bit but the bulk of the thick gouache paint will sit on the surface and stay wet for longer because it's on damp surface. It's harder to work with Gouache that is dried out since you will never get the same consistency or vibrancy as fresh paint.

[@vannigio6234]

grande saggio, grande artigiano, grande pittore, ottimo, ottimo cervello! uah... video anche molto utile per imparare a capire l'angloamericano ... man! you talk like a machine gun! ta ta ta ta ta ta! rata trata ta ta ta ta ta ta ta tump ta ta tump tatatatratatatrak!! uah like rock musica or be bop... uah uah! 👍😉👍😉👍

[@riccia888]

Wow painting goachd is so complicated

[@damn7208]

Who is this

[@SuperXrunner]

I know you have to sell your school, but nothing is wrong with being self taught

[@Thleta]

After you've found a mentor, sure. There are many things that can go wrong with being self taught. Being self taught is not a badge of honor, it's an unfortunate predicament.

[@Thesamurai1999]

@@Thleta However, a self taught artist being capable of reaching the levels of someone who has had a master is far more impressive. Wasn’t Caravaggio self taught?

[@Thleta]

@@Thesamurai1999Indeed, I would agree! If you can make it to a masterful level through self teaching than you have all my respect and praise, its just that an artist must not kid himself about his unfortunate circumstance. I may have sounded cynical but it is absolutely possible to succeed through a self taught route, don't be discouraged!

[@itsmeagain7246]

have to draw you with that beard;-)

[@ernestvenn8291]

Investing in good education is good idea but not always available.

[@samr6939]

im self taught and since watching this i cant draw anything. i no longer trust my eye for what looks good, i cant seem to create any form, and my anatomy has been brutally beaten into a childish state. I realize this is most likely a case of bad artists block, but its been the most frustrating i have experienced. this video has single handidly ruined any shred of confidence i ever had for my work. on top of this i have no access to formal education, physical or not. if anyone has experience this kind of "entrapment" before id like to hear your stories.

[@whenanthonydraws]

My advice is that if you don't trust your eye, but you trust the opinion of those in this video, then you should emulate the artists that Jeff says he approves of: Frazetta, Howard Pyle, Morgan Wesling - to name a few. Or sign up for the online school if you think it'll help.

[@CorpsmanPrivateer]

There's absolutely zero shame in taking a drawing or painting course in person, and many advantages. Receiving feedback from instructors and fellow classmates who know your process can be invaluable.

[@KimCyunHi]

I am and have always been self-taught. Keep working, keep drawing daily, get good books on drawing, copy the masters, don't stop to think about whether your work is good or not, just keep piling on the practice.

[@wellington66440]

He's looking like a bearded mel gibson

[@archadeinteriors]

for a guy that's such a big talker you can sure tell he has zero university art theory, it's almost like " small man syndrome ", oh the irony when a big "JOCK" has small man syndrome about ART, don't be afraid of intellect, spirituality in art people, i went to a university that cost less than 10 grand for a full 4 year degree program, but some people just hate university, they think it's like grade school but worse, in fact it's real knowledge and real fun for mature thinkers and creative people, i thank god for university, i was always interested in art, but high school art classes was not for me, so i was shocked when university treated me like a mature adult who could deal with very complex or interesting subjects, opening my world to understand "ideas, " the spirituality in art, and maybe a little bit of humor and whimsy . .to wit the difference between ART and craft.. in the world now that is obsessed with craft as something noble it was rare to get an education in the "spirituality of art" . . i appreciate that this instructor is a consummate draftsman but he offers no MEAT for intellectual minds, open your mind to the great big universe of university people, leave pricey colleges and ateliers far away from you . .

[@user-wd2ts3uc8x]

pirate jeff

[@phillipstroll7385]

I don't get it. Painting is easy. It's drawing that is difficult yet all these youtubers want money to show you how to paint lol