Hello, my name is Steve Mitchell. Welcome to the Mind of Watercolor. I have been a professional designer and illustrator for 30+ years but on this channel I've returned to my fine art roots. This channel is for watercolor and mixed media enthusiasts. I share tips and techniques in a quick, easy to digest fashion. I'll also do product reviews, offer challenges, look at other great artists' work and perhaps even have a few giveaways. Take a break with me and step into the Mind of Watercolor.
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Have you been watching me paint? Yup. Me in a nutshell.
Thank you so much for this extremely inspiring video. I am very grateful
I think we need a palette tour next 😏😁
Awesome studio! Congratulations on your new space and to your daughter for her first published book!!
Awwwh. Can’t watch. I’m so envious of your space. I have one very messy desk
And that’s the cleanest my space will ever be.
I do that all the time, then I finish it and it's as Bob Ross would say a happy accident, I enjoy your work keep making videos
This video was extraordinarily helpful. It answered all my questions on how to mount watercolor without glass. Thank you so much for all the work you put into these videos.
Another great video for a beginner! Thank you!!
Excellent video, thank you! I'm a beginner and I needed this!
So many cool things going on for you! Your studio is awesome and seems like a great creative space. Congratulations to your daughter for her book - with an awesome illustration - and for her nursing degree! 💐 That is no small feat and we desperately need good people in healthcare. Looking forward to a video about your experience at PACE. Thanks for being such an inspiration 😘
This was EXACTLY the information I needed! Just starting out and my paint was always way too wet. Can’t wait to get practicing with this exercise. Thank you!
An yes it looks GREAT. GREAT JOB ❤
Beautiful!😊
The picture on the right looks like a stand of tamaracks as they are turning golden, my favorites.
I love to picture myself in the landscape so love what you did.
What a wonderful new room Steve! Fellow Sci-Fi / Fantasy fan. I too saw Star Wars in the theatre in '77 with my future hubby when I was just 16. It was life changing for me as I went on to sculpt and paint custom figures, create dioramas in my collection room and because of that was hired to work for an online Star Wars fan site. That led to my working and presenting at Star Wars Celebrations, meeting many of the actors (including Carrie Fisher), Lucasfilm staff and visiting Skywalker Ranch. If you ever want to see a bit of my geekdom, I have a Star Wars tour video on my KZread channel. Thanks for sharing Steve - always been a fan of your awesome art.
I am from Montana but got to sit up on the huge branch of an oak in Georgia. It had its own garden growing on it's branches, I will never forget them, I fell in love. Also loved this technique, it glowed.
If you had to choose Princeton Mottler or Sterling Edwards Glazing/Blender? Or both?
They are very different. The mottled is a better wash painting brush but won’t blend tike the Edward’s brush which is much stiffer. Both will apply water well.
So glad to be back for a bit, love watching.
Congratulations to your gifted daughter! That's so awesome! I also want to say that I visited the MGraham website today and your 10 custom color set is still available if anyone of your followers is interested.
Looks great, just wondering if the white pen is snow falling or highlights in the trees? My brain keeps going between the two😊
Both!
@@mindofwatercolor fair enough👍
The new studio looks great! Outstanding job of organizing. Looks like it can be a very relaxing place. Congratulations to Angel 👏🏽.
You and I have the same studio décor! I’m envious of Darth Tater and Spider Spud😂 My figurines include Padmé, Mr. Fantastic, and Mike, Sully & Boo from Monsters, Inc. Im also surrounded by comic art and greatly enamored of their styles. Congrats to your daughter! I’ll look for the book-how exciting! Your son-in-law’s Mandeloroan is fantastic, too. Your artwork is inspirational, Steve. Thank you for this tour. I am also in the process of a studio re-do. It’s a labor of love, that’s for certain. I enjoy your stories-we are both at the same phase in life and I, too, remember the wonder of seeing the original Star Wars in ‘77. At the moment Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker fought with light sabers, the audience was enraptured with the amazing technology on film before us. We had never seen anything like it at all-special effects like that just didn’t exist. At that moment, the film burned (another phenomenon younger generations may never have experienced) and the entire audience gasped! Then just as suddenly, we all collectively sighed, realizing the firey effects weren’t the work of George Lucas, but merely an overheating projector😂. PACE looked amazing-I’m hoping to attend the next one 🤞🏼 Thanks again!
I love this so much!!!
I love your studio. What a beautiful place to work! Congratulations. Thanks for the memories.
FYI, the link to the photo reference gives an error.
You mentioned ironing the painting to get it more flat, do you have a link to demonstrating that? Congrats to your daughter!
Not yet! But check out this video from Emily Olson kzread.info/dash/bejne/dmigttt8c6W0nbg.htmlsi=4GFNOvRoJVacDhZM
Wow!
Hello again Steve! Love the new studio! Your memorabilia shelves must have been very satisfying to put together. Its nice to meet a fellow geek pop culture fan. I also am a huge fan of all those things....Tron, LOTR, SW, Dune. Do you like any of the Miyazaki films? They are great inspiration for paintings. You also look like you enjoy reading......if you are looking for a book recommendation, I am currently reading the Senlin Ascends books by Josiah Bancroft. Kinda of steampunky with fantasy elements. Im not really a steampunk person but I am loving this story. The writing style is exceptional. As always, thanks for your videos, they've been a tremendous help with my painting skills. Cheers, Justin
Yes, Miyazaki is pretty cool.
Great ideas…I make a lot of cards..thanks
Thank you so very much
I purchased one of these stretchers over a year ago. I havent used it yet. I definately need to give it a go. I teach watercolor and I usually have 2 different types of students - the open learner and the idealist/perfectionist. Even if they've had zero experience with art, the idealist expects the outcome that they set forth in thier mind and have difficulty letting go of it. It usually leads to self judgment in thier abilities and frankly can have a negative atmosphere within the group. Watercolor has a way of teaching those students, whose boss, if you will. Evenually they begin to let go and respect what watercolor wants to be vs what they want to force it to be. Thanks for the inspiration
Congratulations Steve on the illustration and the new studio.
Such a great studio. And I loved the chat about pop culture and your inspirations!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You always give me gifts of knowledge
Love your new studio especially all the awesome decor! The original Star Wars is one of my favorites as well. Thank you so much for inviting us for a tour.
It only takes one piece to unintentionally start a collection LOL. Then everyone just gives the rest to you as gifts! Great to see your new studio.
1 16 dollar brush with 10 shipping or crappy 20 dollar Chinese brushes. You're better off using a wet paper towel at these prices!
Stephen Scott Young and Dean Mitchell!!!! I bow before them both. They are AMAZING!!!!!
I love your art studio, it’s magnificent 👌 I do art as well for 30 years and I gotta say, I’ve never seen an art studio like that before, it’s really neat 👌
Really love how you paint.Im a new subscriber and already you gave blown my mind on 3 videos I have watched 👍
fabulous
Huge help. I am a chronic overworker in watercolor in part because I started painting with acrylic which is a completely different form of watermedia.
I'm eating my heart out, Steve. But for you it is well-deserved.
Thanks so much Vaughn! Good to hear from you.
Thank you for sharing frustrations, sense of getting it wrong, and pushing through anyway. Great lesson. And when watercolor is totally dry, if I don’t want to throw away the work, I can gesso over the whole thing and create a new painting. Which amazes me frankly. Yay for gesso.
Congratulations on the new space and daughter’s achievements. Would love to know more about the Otto stretcher. Looked at the link but not much info.
Did an episode on them a few weeks ago. Check it out.
This is so friggin cool! I’m so happy for you, your daughter, and your family! Congrats! Totally gonna check out the book!
Another thank you. Started using Silver Brush Black Velvets and like them a lot. In the video about caring for and cleaning brushes, you had as an option for shaping/reshaping a CVS hair product. I realized I had this big tube of stuff for holding hair that I never use, a gel. I tried it on a few of my older brushes. Works great. Brilliant tip. The videos I’m watching may be six and seven years old - going through them all in order - but the information does get old.