Hi, I'm Jane Mason from Watching Paint Try, LLC. And in this little mini demo, we're going to talk about John Singer Sargent. Sargent is one of my favorite painters. Most people know him as an oil portraiture artist, but I love his watercolors. So of course, we're going to talk about his watercolors. One of the ways that you can train yourself to understand how another water colorist works is to mimic their painting just to try it out or to actually repaint some of their paintings. So you can see that one of the things I've done here, this is an example of a painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This is Sargent painting that I have downloaded online. It's one of their downloadable images, and I have had it mounted on a board. This is the Venetian Canal. And what I did was I looked at it and I thought, how can I interpret this Venetian canal? I wasn't as interested in worrying about the color, the hue of any individual element. I was more concerned about mimicking the energy. So for example, I tried to replicate his strokes here in the water that he used here in the water. In addition, I thought about he had this center of interest, and I wanted to replicate that center of interest. It was a lot of fun to repeat this painting to make the same decisions he was making to think about what was his sequencing, what decisions was he making. And I'll show you, too, how I do this a little bit. For example, when I was also practicing, this is a book on water color by Carl Little. It's one of my favorite books in terms of discussing sarchants, watercolors. This is a painting of his, some family members sitting in these beautiful white gowns on a hilltop. And as I was seeing, if I could replicate this painting, I actually just took a piece of torn paper and just started seeing. Do you see these blue stripes here? These are the same as her top. And I started thinking, can I make the same color, the same shading that he had here? Can I make this wet and wet background, the same that he had here? Or these wet and wet shapes here at the bottom? You can see that this shape somewhat mimics this shape, this shape mimics this one. So it was a test to see if I could tip in the same colors, approximately that he did to see if I could get the same effect. It's a great way for developing painting skills. I'll show you a few more so you get the idea. This is another painting from Venice, the one obviously on top. Out of the book is one that I did. I'm following the sarchant one. And I'll go to one of his fountains, too, because these are some of my favorites, to get a feeling of how he did statuary. Obviously the color is very different. Again, I'm not concerned about that. Part of the color difference, too, is because this is a photograph of a painting, as opposed to this as an actual painting. He painted on rough paper, 300-pound rough paper, and this is a hot press paper, so it's smooth. So part of the difference is the differences in surface two. But repainting this allowed me to think about how he solved problems in his ciprisis, how he looked at the sun coming across, and it gave me a sense of his energy as he was painting. So I'd recommend to you, as you're thinking about an artist that you really enjoy, a watercolor artist, whether it's sarchenter, hopper or Homer or George O'Keefe or many other artists that you may be interested in. It is very helpful to get a book on them and to practice repainting some of their paintings. So you get the feeling and the energy of how they solve the problem. Thank you for watching. I'm Jayden Mason, watching Paint Try LLC.