I think I said it in the last video, but watching you work is so worthwhile, but hearing the thoughts you share as you go along are just that much more of a treat! Thank you! The paintings are wonderful! Cheers! ;)

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. That's so kind of you to say and encouraging. :)

Great piece, Jared! I always marvel how artists like yourself can find beauty in the mundane neighborhood bar. Your painterly approach, excellent mentoring and just telling us how you go about telling a story in watercolor. Thank you.

These are *so* nice - thank you for sharing! I love the way they come together, especially the house and the park.

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Allan Engelhardt thank you! I appreciate that.

you dont know how much your videos help me, i recently bought my first gouache paints, and you are kind of like a mentor to me haha, keep up the great work!

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Pablo Andres Matias Barrios Vargas aww! Thank you! I’m glad! Congrats on your set and journey with gouache. There are lots of great resources online and I’m always here to help!

@pablobarrios7681

6 жыл бұрын

thanks for replying! , and hope you enjoy your new neighborhood!

Beautiful, beautiful work!! Man, I’m just in awe. 😳🙂 Do you paint at the steep angle it appears in the video?

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Ashmore Studio thank you! I do! I never thought of it as steep. I started working at an angle cause I saw Zbukvic and others working at an angle. I got used to guessing where the wash would fall with gravity and now that’s just how I paint everything.

A friend sent me over to this video, turns out you've just moved in to our city. Welcome! and wonderful work!

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, cool!! Your work is beautiful. I just subbed. It's nice to meet another painter here. I just moved here and it's pretty isolating. I have 2 young kids so I don't get out much. We'll have to catch up sometime and sketch or meet up at the Panza figure sessions. Looking forward to watching more of your videos. Thanks for commenting!

beautiful colors, love it.

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Ыжж Колючий thank you :) I appreciate you saying that.

Go gouache! My favorite quote from a book talks about the neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. I'm coming out from the highlands of Maryland for a visit soon. (and taking off the tape is an awesome part!)

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Jenna Caruthers awesome! Maryland has some really beautiful landscapes. :) hope you have fun!

Its not many channels out there specifically aimed towards gouache. But this one is amazing and timely. Keep up the good work sir.

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

donntae burt thank you. I ended up doing a lot of gouache by demand. Haha my main practice for work and love is watercolor but people on here and insta kept asking for gouache. I love gouache too but I had initially planned on only doing watercolor videos. Gouache is a little more of a playground for me because I can take it less seriously and have fun. I feel like, if I’m not razor sharp on watercolor I’ll get fired from my illustration work haha 😂 😳

Looks good Jared...I was reminded of the storyboard work I used to do years ago.

@JaredCullum

4 жыл бұрын

Cool! :) Thank you

Amazing work! You deserve many subscribers! Thanks for all the videos, they are very helpful and entertaining

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

beth.ayeee thank you! That’s very kind of you to say. :)

If you want to see some really beautiful animals Pittsburgh has a nice zoo and is home to the National Aviary. Plus the Carnegie museum of natural history has a huge hall of dinosaurs and some very old taxidermy mammals.

Great stuff!

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Path Less Pedaled thank you for watching! I love your videos.

I really enjoyed this video and seeing your process Jared! And also your thought process especially on the values, which I also think of when I paint and is most challenging (but fun). Your sketches are amazing as always. 😀

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Jacqueline Mendoza it still is for me. Cause it keeps changing when you adjust one thing if changes everything. It’s like a rubrix cube haha it helped me to do a bunch of just black and white for a while but it is still something I have to be conscious of. Thank you! :)

@jacquelinetan6699

6 жыл бұрын

That's so true! I like your analogy of the rubik's cube! Yes, I should definitely try painting using one color for value practice. :-)

Hello. I'm a new subscriber. I first saw your palette & color mixing video, then this one. You have done such a nice job. Your sketches are inviting, & I can really tell you love your new neighborhood.

@JaredCullum

5 жыл бұрын

Charlotte Williams thank you for watching! :) hope you find them informative!

Great technique!

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Douglas Elliot thank you! Thanks for watching.

Love the way you demo and explained your thought process. Like how you show the photo of the image you are painting. That helps to see how you interpret the colors and values of the scene. You mentioned the sketchbook you were using . What's it again?

@JaredCullum

5 жыл бұрын

Marlene Lee that one is a perfect sketchbook. They were a one-time fun on Kickstarter but were bought and are now produced by Etchr. It’s Fabriano artistico interior. :) thanks for watching!

nice💕👍

@JaredCullum

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Such beautiful work! And thank you for the brief background on the architecture and history of these houses. So is it true that a lot of them were owner built? I wish i could slow down the painting of the house though. 🏡

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Karin Lease thank you! I was so afraid I was rambling. I kept thinking “people are either closing the window or falling asleep.” I’m sure there were building crews and contractors then but I am sure more people built or worked on their own house back then. I think you can slow down the KZread player a bit. Cut the speed down that way. Eventually I am considering doing regular speed but always worry it’ll be too long. Also some websites let you download the KZread video. You could take the video and slow it down in iMovie- it just may be choppy. Feel free to ask anything about the process!

Thankyou!

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Victor Sales thanks for watching!

Hey Jared, it's such a joy to watch you work! And, of course, listen to your thoughts on what you're thinking along the way, not only about painting, but also about your new hometown. Happy painting! Is the tape you use the white artist tape or some kind of painters tape?

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Draw Paint Repeat thank you so much! :) I appreciate you watching. The move has been adventure although I hope to not do it again any time soon haha I use “artists” tape from blick. I’ve had the best luck with that peeling off.

@SteveAtkinsonFineArt

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Excellent video Jared, so glad I found your channel, I also love to paint outdoors. Can you tell me what kind of brush your round one is that you used for the second and last painting?

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Mary McAndrew thank you for watching! It’s a “silver black velvet.” Size 8. They’re an inexpensive synthetic brand but they have surprisingly good bounce and hold.

♥️♥️♥️

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

QueenVictoria Arts thank you! :)

Beautiful work as always! Is there a reason you don't paint your greens as green? it defiantly gives a lovely result, I'm always fighting with my greens! :'D Also my partner always laughs at me when I watch your videos, since I sit pulling a Popeye face.

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Lauren's Lines hahaha yay!! Popeye face! It works! Hmmm... do you mean that I don’t use green? I guess I don’t think about it. Green is a difficult color that is infuriatingly diverse. When I committed to learning to paint I restricted my palette to only a primary set for the first year or more. 1 red, 1 yelllow, 1 blue to force myself to learn to mix. It forced me to think differently so even now I usually forget I have a green or orange if I do. I only use those if I’m doing a super quick sketch. That’s probably why I don’t really use any green. I also tend to focus on value and temperature and forget color all together.

@pixiespages5679

6 жыл бұрын

That's really interesting, I think I need to do some exercises on ignoring colour, Tend to find looking at temperature leads me right but to colour. hahaha all in practise though!

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

haha I know what you mean :)

What have you found to be the most helpful/useful resource to build your foundation for drawing i.e., book, certain artists, video etc to help with perspective like when you’re drawing these four squares? Do you have plans to draw anymore ‘four squares’?! Thanks!

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Tami Jacque I do plan to at some point! I’d like to do them from life but it’s so hard with kids to time it. Drawing- no particular book. On the advice of an illustrator I got a secret sketchbook (as in, nobody, not even spouse could see it to free me of self consciousness) moleskine.. has to be decent so you learn to get past fixating on a drawing or it looking good. And drew everything I saw. Everything. With only fountain pen. No erasing and must keep moving. It’s really hard but teaches you to find contours, roll with a sketch mistake and see clearer. Perspective- books are good but the above mentioned exercise really helped. The method of finding common points described in this Gurney video helped a TON kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWV629Csm7Hamqw.html basically the practice of drawing invisible horizontal lines or vertical lines that say.. “okay- the bottom of the window here goes straight to the car top here. And build your points that way. That helped me with figure too. Drawing invisible “plum lines” that show “the nose goes straight down to the toe or the right eye is directly above the button” Hope that helps! Obviously- practice. I work in entertainment art so backgrounds are a big part of my time. Just putting in the hours doing those helped me. :)

You've probably answered this already but what palette is that? I want to get a palette that isn't plastic and I'm not a huge fan of the metal ones with pans, just curious. And of course that's some amazing work great job, as always.

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Simon Reese this one is a bit of a commitment.. it’s a Craig Young palette box. There is actually one on eBay right now but they’re pretty expensive. If you don’t want a brass box (they don’t rust) I highly recommend a Holbein box. Blick carries them now. Brian Ashmore did a review of both the Holbein boxes (250/1000) and a brass box. Those have a lot of info on the box and what they look like.

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

ewok jedi yes- that’s true. Brass palette India has considerably less wait time and his craftsmanship is great. La petite palette also makes a good box. The wait time counter balances the expense haha it’s kinda like a payment plan. There is a CY palette like this one on eBay- I don’t know for how long but he’s selling it under value.

I noticed you used a one inch brush for the top painting, and then a round for the other two. Any particular reason for the switch?

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Tim Hodge haha hmmm not really. I switched to do detail in the top and just kinda kept going with the round. Sometimes it’s easier to cheat organic texture like trees/foliage by using dryer paint with the round brush on its side. Flats chisel architecture better but I use both. I like that flats cover more.

Great Content! My name is Jarrad and I love to draw as well.. hah!

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

The Sketch Adventure cool! I can’t wait to dig into your videos! :) thanks for watching!

@TheSketchAdventure

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm already a big fan of what you're doing here and I think i'll learn a lot :). I do have a gouache related question: In your box setup do you let the gouache dry and re wet it? I know that's a common practice with watercolour but I've never tried it with my gouache. Thanks again!

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

The Sketch Adventure I do! It works best to put fresh paint in but if I know I’m going to sketch I’ll pour water in and stir with a tooth pick. I’ve heard from people that’s a bad idea for the paint quality but it’s never caused any issues for me. You have to be careful of the palette you let it dry in. This box seals and I can’t tilt it or it’ll pour out. Gouache turns into a chalky mess when it dries so if you use a palette that it can fall out of it will in chalky chunks.

@TheSketchAdventure

6 жыл бұрын

Jared Loves to Draw Thanks so much Jared! :) I currently use bakers parchment wrapped over a wet microfibre cloth which creates a semi moist surface that keeps the paint workable for a long time. The whole thing is housed inside a metal pencil box! I had also heard that one shouldn't re wet gouache but I never knew why! Thanks!! :)

I have a question. First off, great videos, some of these have hit home for me as I work my way through watercolor. I to like to have some white gouache handy, but I put mine in a pan in my little kit. Would you actually recommend just squeezing it out of the tube as apposed to having some dried up in a pan? Is there an advantage?

@JaredCullum

5 жыл бұрын

Levi Simpson hi Levi! Happy to hear you’re learning. I’m always here to talk shop :) I do both! I have a dried portion where I’ve put it directly in my palette. Sometimes when I’m out and about I will literally hold the tube in my hand and poke directly out of it. No specific benefit other than you can get thick impasto quicker. You don’t have to wait a second for it to wet up. If you want a really strong spot you can put it out fresh and thick. No real profound benefit though.

@levisimpson516

5 жыл бұрын

@@JaredCullum Okay, that's good to know, I was wondering how much of a difference it made coming out of the tube vs dried in a pan. Your video about drawing / painting at the zoo was a real help to me, but after the fact. I had just gone to the zoo with my girlfriend to draw and fell down the path of having my expectations to high and becoming a bit frustrated with my lack of results. It's a death spiral from there haha. But I regrouped later and your video was one that got me thinking and excited to go give it another crack. Looking forward to watching more of your channel and asking questions. Thanks.

@JaredCullum

5 жыл бұрын

Levi Simpson oh yea- that happens! I find you get more out of focusing on drawing instead of painting unless you haven time. It’s not cheating to snap a photo, also. ;) It doesn’t matter how good you get it is still largely luck of the animal. I try to go into it thinking of it like fishing. I try.. but I’m just tossing a line. Sometimes you catch a “big one” but mostly just get little “okay” kinda meh sketches :) haha

@levisimpson516

5 жыл бұрын

​@@JaredCullum I really like the fishing analogy, it makes a lot of sense. Me and my girlfriend got annual passes this year to the zoo so we should have many more opportunities to catch a big one. haha. Been going through more of your past videos, inspiring stuff man. Think I even spotted Gurney in the background of one of the videos. Nice to see you're open to questions. I may have more in time. haha.

@JaredCullum

5 жыл бұрын

Levi Simpson always here to talk shop :)

Would you ever do a Sketchbook tour please?

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

Chelli Reyes yea! That could be fun. The hard part is I sell pages directly and cut them out and usually when I’m done with a sketchbook I let my 3 year old paint over my paintings and drawings if he wants to. I also keep 1 burner for studies and every thought I have and then I have nicer ones for just watercolor. Most of my old ones are thrown away after a couple months of sitting on a shelf.

Nice great work ❤ i am watercolour artist

@JaredCullum

6 жыл бұрын

atul jadhav thank you for watching!

hi jared, I cant find your website,

@JaredCullum

5 жыл бұрын

Hi! Thanks for looking for it.www.jaredlovestodraw.com/

@wongchoonyen2691

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the swift reply:) I just found out your channel and I love them. I am new to sketching and watercolour, may I know which brand watercolour are you using? And I thought it will be useful to add in information of the color that you use in the description link

@JaredCullum

5 жыл бұрын

​@@wongchoonyen2691 Very smart idea, Wong. I'm still fairly new to youtube so I forget doing that sort of thing often. I use Daniel Smith prominently and the same colors everytime. Sometimes I use Schmincke but still use the same colors. If you check out the "New Roberson Paintbox and Mixing Solutions" video you will see me lay out the specific colors I use on a color wheel and explain why. Thanks for watching. I'm always here to answer questions or give some inspiration. :)