I Paint an Old Schoolhouse in Watercolor

James Gurney paints a one-room schoolhouse in watercolor.

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James Gurney visits the Machado School in Morgan Hill, California, painting the back of the building. He shares some instructional tips for rendering architecture in transparent watercolor and recalls how he learned handwriting and drawing as an elementary school kid growing up in California.

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[quicktastic]

It's interesting how your paintings stay faithful to the original subject, but somehow the paintings look more romantic (for lack of a better word) than the actual scene. With photography, it's a struggle to get the photograph to look as good as what you saw with your eyes. Thanks for sharing your paintings.

[ngodin]

Dear James, your drawing at 15 years was my highlight of this video. Please post others!

[hamonaflowers]

I love your videos and drawings so much! They make me feel confident to make art. Thank you, James!

[kyletwebster]

The comment about how you would normally use some blue at the bottom of the cast shadow because it would be catching the blue of the sky was a great little gold nugget for me. Thank you! Great painting, as always. Thanks, James.

[viviondioline]

Old school house is my fav electronic sub genre

[vampazilla]

I love it when you've mentioned about how you've learned drawing and painting on your own and how old art books were your teachers. Priceless advice. Thank you always for sharing your fantastic art pieces. I am always in awe. Love all your videos.

[Mainlymoemonkey]

These videos are so relaxing- never stop!

[essietangle]

Great to see you paint in watercolor, amazing as always.

[thekendzoras]

Another watercolor video!!! Thanks James!

[justinfreake]

Looks like you’re keeping it old school 😎

[curiousorigins]

As someone who uses exclusively transparent watercolor, it was a joy to watch the Gouache man himself work almost entirely in it. Love the different browns and muddy colors. I’m just impressed by this work as your incredible gouache work.

It’s awesome. I also learned to draw from books, though I neglected to read the steps and the reasoning for making the shapes and just copied the steps however I wanted. 😂 Sometimes skipping to the finished line work in cartooning books and making it be my step one. 😂 Sometimes I’m really disappointed in younger me, if I had been a better self-student I wouldn’t have to be learning all that stuff now.

Thanks for sharing. Really enjoyed seeing your handwriting as a kid.

[nazekpurplesyou]

I love your videos and I'm learning so much from you! Yesterday I bought a pocket sized watercolor pallete and I am also going to buy some gouache tubes, then go out to my city and start drawing buildings and parks! You inspire me to try new things 😄 I enjoy your videos, keep up the good work 👍

[romigan]

I love that you did this on your lap, no excuses for not painting! I also liked how you shared about your drawing books, thanks.

[whimsicalwatercolors]

How could someone dislike this video? You are so very talented. Thanks for all your beautiful artwork James!

[kathleenmeow]

Thats so cool that you learned art from books

And another amazing painting as always, your paintings can never cease to amaze me💖

[cwbunny]

I started watching your videos a few months ago and I love them! I’m always excited to see a new video coming out and to watch them when I’m doing my own art-

[동주이모]

So wonderful
Thank you for sharing 👍👍

[wile]

Hi James. Great work as always! My wife and I love watching your videos together. We'd love to hear more about your progression as an artist and how you got started drawing and painting.

[MarcelHardingArt]

I love the perspective, tones and shadows complete it, awesome brother, James

[LI-kbjy]

Really appreciate determination to achieve a certain effect and having certain vision of the final piece, not just painting to see where it takes you. Always learning from Your videos