Hullo Emma, I have found paint is one of the more expensive options for covering up a page or even just a part of a painting that I feel has gone “off the rails” or messed up! I step back and coat the section or page with watercolor ground! I have enjoyed real success with QoR’s watercolor ground, I have even found recipes for watercolor grounds right here on TH-cam! Liz Chaderton’s channel has a couple of amazing ideas/recipes for watercolor ground. I have coated boards to allow me to use my watercolor paints there too! Yes, I have used ground for covering up pages in watercolor journals. You might find commercial ground to expensive, this is why I mentioned the DIY recipes! I have found paint is still the MOST EXPENSIVE solution for covering up a mistake in watercolor or even gouache! I hope you give this a try and let your viewers know if you can recommend this option as well. I have used gesso for acrylic painting goofs, I have never found a good permanent solution for oil paints. For oils you just need to start over with a new canvas or board. You can save your stretcher bars and get new canvas, just another reason oils are truly the most expensive medium to paint with!
I agree that it is expensive, but her final painting was lovely. My go-to for sketchbook errors is to simply glue new art over the unsatisfactory page, lol. Another idea is to write a page of journaling about all the art in that book, then glue that over. Sometimes you can even leave part of the art showing for a nice border.
Emma! I absolutely LOVED listening to the children playing outside your window. What a glorious sound! I think you saved your page beautifully. Thanks for sharing it.
You said you didn’t care to paint with gouache. Yet you just painted that piece like an acrylic/ gouache/ oil stroke work expert!! I’m a decorative/tole painter. Acrylic and gouache were my mediums. You just did a beautiful piece of decorative/tole painting! Bravo!
Yes....I worked with oils for 15 years, and the last thing done in a painting was highlights which just popped things out. Then I went to Decorative painting with acrylics and did that for a year. Now I am jumping into watercolor, and, as we know, we do what is necessary to save the white. I have used white gouache to pop things out.
@@user-tt6vx6gr9udo you use the Donna Dewberry style? I started out with "floating" to get the blend. I did this beautiful painting on a hexagon two-piece wood (had a lid) container where one can put jewelry in. It was 7 inches in diameter at the bottom, bellowed out in the middle all the way around, then curved in. It took a good while to paint it from preparing the wood, to painting basecoat, to tracing design onto container, painting, then spraying several coats of a semi-gloss finishing. My daughter loved it so I gave it to her. If I sold it, I had no idea what to charge, due to all the time in just painting in the decorative style.
@@ladyhecate9450 ….. I started painting in oil in 1977, it was called Tole Painting back then. Our teacher started learning how to paint in acrylics at a Jackie Shaw seminar and then we all gradually switched to acrylics. What you said is what I was taught too, I’m just starting to learn watercolors by watching TH-cam. It’s not easy for me!
Beautiful transformation! Thanks for always being willing to share your ideas and the fact that you don’t always like your end result either. That’s encouraging in itself!😊
Emma, mission accomplished, page saved and is gorgeous! I have been wondering how white goache would work mixed with watercolor for black paper, you illustrated (literally) it perfectly! Thank so much! I teach beginning watercolor workshops and have always relied on white gel pens for highlights, but they are often unreliable and disappointing. I am going to add white goache to the pallets going forward. You are one of the best teachers out there, I suggest your channel to my classes to keep on learning, just as I did🥰
Thanks so much Emma for the tips on saving booboos with gouache paint and using it to mix with watercolors. I always enjoy watching your tutorials when time allows me.
Ta da! Super cute save. I use gouache the same way you do. It's worth noting that gouache is also considered watercolor. I concur, it really is a great medium that is so useful! I got a chuckle with the failed painting in the sketchbook. My OCD could never lol. I sometimes use a mat black acrylic to paint over the ones I don't like and do collage, or I paint over with whatever acrylic necessary to cover it and just use acrylic to paint save the page with.
I love you and your work. I love your ideas. This is a great way to do watercolor with a background in place! I'm inspired to test this out. Thank you. ❤️
Just discovered your channel, I have to say you have inspired me to have another go at painting, I packed my brushes books and paints away some time ago. Perhaps I should be a bit more patient with myself. Wish me luck.
Thank you for sharing this tool and how to use it well!!! I really hadn't thought about using quash as a high light over the flower peddles & stem. By the way, enjoy the sounds of the children playing in the park! It's good to hear their joy's!! Keep creating & Sharing!!
Great video and hearing the kids playing in the background was anything but disruptive. It was a pleasure and you could barely hear them anyway Emma. 😊. I’m new to watercolors and I know I could paint this after watching you. I want that dark green background, so I try it out on a scrap first. Thank you, this was really a wonderful video.
Loved this, great idea to 'save' a previously spoilt/unliked page in our sketchbooks. I have already covered one page in Nickel Titanate, as a base lol. Hadn't occurred to me that I could cover 'ugly' pages. 🙏💖
Beautifully creative & a great save!! I own 1 white gouache & its because i watched you use it last year for details. I've mixed it with watercolor & love how it turned out. You're an extremely talented artist. Loved how this turned out! Thanks for all you do!😊❤
Emma, your gumdrop shaped flowers could be Billy Button flowers, a toothache plant or red clover blossoms. :-) Love the way this turned out. The dark background does a lot of nice things here.
Thank you for sharing this entertaining video! Another way of covering up an existing painting so you can paint over it is to use acrylic gesso, which will create a white surface. However I agree with your point that having a tube of white gouache in your paint box is a good idea because it has many uses.
Thanks, Emma You’ve given me some really good ideas to fix some paintings of mine. Also, thanks for making this tutorial a bit shorter. Hard for me to fit a long one in.
Unfortunately watercolour won’t work well on gesso. It’s need the cotton of the paper to soak in. There is actually a product called watercolour ground that you can cover the page with and it turns it into a watercolour surface! I have a video on it! Just look up my name and watercolor ground!
Emma~ I hope you're happy with the final result - it is beautiful! I'm a firm believer in understanding the rules so you can break them at will and as liberally as you choose (in various areas of living; not just in art!) 😊 There's a comment here about using watercolor ground. I think your solution here was just fine, but the suggestion of using ground raises an interesting subject that might make for a great video! ❤
could you make a video on how you painted that lake with rocks and mountains? I love it. is right next to the Pinterest inspiration sunset water tree tutorial
Globe Amaranth is the name of that pretty gumdrop shaped flower. In case no one has mentioned it yet. It dries beautifully and is an everlasting flower. This is my second comment so I won’t repeat everything I said before other that I loved ❤your video!
Or, you could gesso over it and once that's dry, you could paint bright watercolor over it and not have to be concerned about picking up an underlying layer of gouache which can happen.
I'm really struggling,and I'm trying to find a tute on how to direction flowerheads ... turn them in all directions,and same for leaves ... folded,turned,etc. I just want to see it done as I'm taking up so much time with it. A tute of drills would be great. Anyone know of a tutorial on this? Em, do you have one? ❤
I have this one you can check out. th-cam.com/video/xbn4XQNOkxc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=WnEKLNmF5WbUV13u It’s on different flower perspectives. I don’t have one on leaves but that may be something I can work on!
Agh, putting gouache in your watercolor palette! Doesn’t that contaminate the entire mixing area? I’m coming from a transparent WC background. On the other hand, nice save of the page
Brilliant tutorial. I love bright flowers on a dark background, but I don't like how it looks when I paint the background on last. This is the answer😊 I must find some gouache 🤍 thankyou
Hullo Emma, I have found paint is one of the more expensive options for covering up a page or even just a part of a painting that I feel has gone “off the rails” or messed up! I step back and coat the section or page with watercolor ground! I have enjoyed real success with QoR’s watercolor ground, I have even found recipes for watercolor grounds right here on TH-cam! Liz Chaderton’s channel has a couple of amazing ideas/recipes for watercolor ground. I have coated boards to allow me to use my watercolor paints there too! Yes, I have used ground for covering up pages in watercolor journals. You might find commercial ground to expensive, this is why I mentioned the DIY recipes! I have found paint is still the MOST EXPENSIVE solution for covering up a mistake in watercolor or even gouache!
I hope you give this a try and let your viewers know if you can recommend this option as well. I have used gesso for acrylic painting goofs, I have never found a good permanent solution for oil paints. For oils you just need to start over with a new canvas or board. You can save your stretcher bars and get new canvas, just another reason oils are truly the most expensive medium to paint with!
I agree that it is expensive, but her final painting was lovely. My go-to for sketchbook errors is to simply glue new art over the unsatisfactory page, lol. Another idea is to write a page of journaling about all the art in that book, then glue that over. Sometimes you can even leave part of the art showing for a nice border.
Emma! I absolutely LOVED listening to the children playing outside your window. What a glorious sound! I think you saved your page beautifully. Thanks for sharing it.
Nice save! It feels like a walk in the garden at dusk. Beautiful!
You said you didn’t care to paint with gouache. Yet you just painted that piece like an acrylic/ gouache/ oil stroke work expert!!
I’m a decorative/tole painter. Acrylic and gouache were my mediums. You just did a beautiful piece of decorative/tole painting! Bravo!
Me too! I’ve been painting and teaching decorative painting for about 40 years now and I was thinking the same as you!! Well said to Emma 👍🏻
Yes....I worked with oils for 15 years, and the last thing done in a painting was highlights which just popped things out. Then I went to Decorative painting with acrylics and did that for a year. Now I am jumping into watercolor, and, as we know, we do what is necessary to save the white. I have used white gouache to pop things out.
@@user-tt6vx6gr9udo you use the Donna Dewberry style? I started out with "floating" to get the blend. I did this beautiful painting on a hexagon two-piece wood (had a lid) container where one can put jewelry in. It was 7 inches in diameter at the bottom, bellowed out in the middle all the way around, then curved in. It took a good while to paint it from preparing the wood, to painting basecoat, to tracing design onto container, painting, then spraying several coats of a semi-gloss finishing. My daughter loved it so I gave it to her. If I sold it, I had no idea what to charge, due to all the time in just painting in the decorative style.
@@ladyhecate9450 I’m a DD certified Teacher! Love One Stroke. But I love the detail of regular deco painting and watercolor, more!
@@ladyhecate9450 ….. I started painting in oil in 1977, it was called Tole Painting back then. Our teacher started learning how to paint in acrylics at a Jackie Shaw seminar and then we all gradually switched to acrylics. What you said is what I was taught too, I’m just starting to learn watercolors by watching TH-cam. It’s not easy for me!
❤you gave me a great idea to fix a ton of my failed paintings!! Thank you. As always you create amazing art! So fun to watch and learn a lot too!
Beautiful transformation! Thanks for always being willing to share your ideas and the fact that you don’t always like your end result either. That’s encouraging in itself!😊
The dark lines at the end really popped everything. Came out beautifully. Great tip Emma, thanks for doing it ❤
Emma, mission accomplished, page saved and is gorgeous! I have been wondering how white goache would work mixed with watercolor for black paper, you illustrated (literally) it perfectly! Thank so much! I teach beginning watercolor workshops and have always relied on white gel pens for highlights, but they are often unreliable and disappointing. I am going to add white goache to the pallets going forward. You are one of the best teachers out there, I suggest your channel to my classes to keep on learning, just as I did🥰
Thanks so much Emma for the tips on saving booboos with gouache paint and using it to mix with watercolors. I always enjoy watching your tutorials when time allows me.
I love this effect, it makes its own shadows and gives it a beautiful patina. 🥰
Ta da! Super cute save. I use gouache the same way you do. It's worth noting that gouache is also considered watercolor. I concur, it really is a great medium that is so useful! I got a chuckle with the failed painting in the sketchbook. My OCD could never lol. I sometimes use a mat black acrylic to paint over the ones I don't like and do collage, or I paint over with whatever acrylic necessary to cover it and just use acrylic to paint save the page with.
I just bought a primary gouache set for my watercolors this week. Specifically to have the option for making colors opaque when needed.
As usual, a great video with worthwhile information. Thank you!
I love you and your work. I love your ideas. This is a great way to do watercolor with a background in place! I'm inspired to test this out. Thank you. ❤️
Just discovered your channel, I have to say you have inspired me to have another go at painting, I packed my brushes books and paints away some time ago. Perhaps I should be a bit more patient with myself. Wish me luck.
Love this. Well I actually enjoy all your videos and tutorials. Thank you for sharing failures- "happy accidents" as well as success
Thank you for sharing this tool and how to use it well!!! I really hadn't thought about using quash as a high light over the flower peddles & stem. By the way, enjoy the sounds of the children playing in the park! It's good to hear their joy's!! Keep creating & Sharing!!
Looks like one of my favorite wild flowers Chicory”😊.
Great video and hearing the kids playing in the background was anything but disruptive. It was a pleasure and you could barely hear them anyway Emma. 😊. I’m new to watercolors and I know I could paint this after watching you. I want that dark green background, so I try it out on a scrap first. Thank you, this was really a wonderful video.
What a fantastic tip. I didn't know about the mixing technique with gouache. Love the result you created. Blown away by it. Well done.
Loved this painting. Gave me ideas to paint something different. Thanks❤
Lovely! I would say that page is definitely saved.
Loved this, great idea to 'save' a previously spoilt/unliked page in our sketchbooks. I have already covered one page in Nickel Titanate, as a base lol. Hadn't occurred to me that I could cover 'ugly' pages. 🙏💖
Lovely! Also, like the various flower perspectives.
Beautifully creative & a great save!! I own 1 white gouache & its because i watched you use it last year for details. I've mixed it with watercolor & love how it turned out. You're an extremely talented artist. Loved how this turned out! Thanks for all you do!😊❤
Emma, your gumdrop shaped flowers could be Billy Button flowers, a toothache plant or red clover blossoms. :-) Love the way this turned out. The dark background does a lot of nice things here.
Thank you for sharing this entertaining video! Another way of covering up an existing painting so you can paint over it is to use acrylic gesso, which will create a white surface. However I agree with your point that having a tube of white gouache in your paint box is a good idea because it has many uses.
Beautiful recovery!
Wow, thank you. This is beautyful and inspiring! 😊
I didn't know you could mix gouache with watercolour. I've had a tube of white for 12 months now and never used it but now I have some ideas.
Oh this is so so pretty! And so different! Thank you for this great tip!
Wow! That is an amazing transformation!
🌹well done. I have taped pages I don’t like together if all else fails. I loved your save!
Loved this tutorial/saving a page as I was never sure what gouache was and how to use it ! Love the painting
Thanks, Emma
You’ve given me some really good ideas to fix some paintings of mine.
Also, thanks for making this tutorial a bit shorter.
Hard for me to fit a long one in.
Perfect timing. I considered trying whiteout, but will use my gouache. Thank you.
Question- could you cover the green page with gesso? And then watercolor over the gesso? I'm new to the watercolor world 😊
Unfortunately watercolour won’t work well on gesso. It’s need the cotton of the paper to soak in. There is actually a product called watercolour ground that you can cover the page with and it turns it into a watercolour surface! I have a video on it! Just look up my name and watercolor ground!
I suggested the same thing before I saw your suggestion. 😃
Love this! Never thought of it as a mistake...Gorgeous!
Wow definitely one of the best those flowers look so real 😊
That was incredible! Makes me excited to try this technique! TY for sharing your knowledge with us! 🌟
Thanks for the fantastic tutorials Emma. I’m learning so much & appreciate the links you include. I just purchased my 1st tube of gouache! 🙌
Thank you for this video. I always use dr ph Martins bleedproof white for highlights, but this use of gouache was a very useful adition❤
Emma~ I hope you're happy with the final result - it is beautiful! I'm a firm believer in understanding the rules so you can break them at will and as liberally as you choose (in various areas of living; not just in art!) 😊
There's a comment here about using watercolor ground. I think your solution here was just fine, but the suggestion of using ground raises an interesting subject that might make for a great video! ❤
Thanks for sharing the insights. Soothing to watch and feels pretty lovely 🥰😊🎨
I just bought some gouache to try. I think I will try your way first.
Love my white gouache ❤!
This is fabulous. You’re amazing Emma. 🎨🖌️🌸
That's exactly how I describe gouache when students ask!
That was a very interesting and useful video! Thank you, Emma!
Woow..that turned out soo pretty..I bought a tube but have not used it yet..ill give it a try
Great save on a painting gone bad! I have a few to try to salvage 😅!
Super helpful and informative, thank you 😊
Great idea to make the red plants a focal point too.. :) and the burgundy behind the blue flowers make them pop!
Beautiful! Wonderful tips
WOW....This is great!! Thank you❤
I love your new page! Personally I prefer the dark green background to the all white of the opposite page. Beautiful!!! Thank you so much.
If anyone has the store 5 Below, they have a very nice gouache 12 piece set
Very helpful ❤
I like the darker background, makes flowers pop!
absolutely lovely...thanks for sharing these tips...
Loved this! What paint did you use to cover 1st painting? Just an amazing transformation. Thank you!
I haven't followed in a long time. It's wonderful to see how far your channel has come. Congratulations!
How simple and pretty! Your strokes are so light and lovely!
I've been wanting to buy at least the Primary colors of gouache paints to have on hand...🎨
could you make a video on how you painted that lake with rocks and mountains? I love it. is right next to the Pinterest inspiration sunset water tree tutorial
Globe Amaranth is the name of that pretty gumdrop shaped flower. In case no one has mentioned it yet. It dries beautifully and is an everlasting flower. This is my second comment so I won’t repeat everything I said before other that I loved ❤your video!
I love 💗 Martins White that what I use
You've convinced me to get a tube! I've been using Dr Martin's Bleed Proof White but never liked the consistency.
Excellent idea!!!
So this would be great if doing galaxy colors for background and use white as stars?
Great tips, thank you! 💫
Very clever
Or, you could gesso over it and once that's dry, you could paint bright watercolor over it and not have to be concerned about picking up an underlying layer of gouache which can happen.
I'm really struggling,and I'm trying to find a tute on how to direction flowerheads ... turn them in all directions,and same for leaves ... folded,turned,etc. I just want to see it done as I'm taking up so much time with it. A tute of drills would be great. Anyone know of a tutorial on this? Em, do you have one? ❤
I have this one you can check out. th-cam.com/video/xbn4XQNOkxc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=WnEKLNmF5WbUV13u It’s on different flower perspectives. I don’t have one on leaves but that may be something I can work on!
Hi Emma sending lv 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️
I use white gouache all the time.😅
Purple flowers might be thistle
That turned out really beautiful thank-you so very much..do you ever use masking fluid..
Beautiful as always! Very useful, too! Emma, do you know when is your brush collection going to be available?
Not sure yet, sorry!
So if I wanted to paint on black paper I would use gouache and watercolors?
Agh, putting gouache in your watercolor palette! Doesn’t that contaminate the entire mixing area? I’m coming from a transparent WC background.
On the other hand, nice save of the page
I would think: only if you let it. You can remove the gouache from the mixing well after use.
They are thistles, I thought you were drawing strawberries at first, then you put the long stem
Banksia?
Brilliant tutorial. I love bright flowers on a dark background, but I don't like how it looks when I paint the background on last. This is the answer😊 I must find some gouache 🤍 thankyou
Thanks for sharing the insights. Soothing to watch and feels pretty lovely 🥰😊🎨