Most IMPORTANT tip for WATERCOLOUR painting
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- The REAL SECRET to watercolour painting is explained and simplified in this easy to understand tutorial. The key is really focusing on paint consistency of the paint and the dryness of the paper.
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This watercolour painting technique is as accessible for beginners as it is to advanced painters.
If you're looking to advance your watercolor painting; or you find yourself asking the question, "How do I Improve my Watercolors?", my hope is this will really help you out!!:)
And I hope with the whiteboard approach, and examples, that this can be watercolour painting theory made SIMPLE.
So much of watercolour painting can be made easy when we really evaluate paint consistency and the stages of drying on our paper. This is where the Watercolour Clock comes in.
Created by Joseph Zbukvic:
www.josephzbukvic.com/
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This approach is a watercolour technique for beginners, right through to more advanced watercolourists. Constantly going back to this to relearn, and reapply will do nothing but good for my own watercolour painting.
I do honestly believe that if you can wrap your head around this single most important thing in watercolour (or as I say, the two most important things in watercolour), you will improve your own paintings very quickly!
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Previous Episodes:
1) Basic Terms - • IMPROVING with WATERCO...
2) Colour vs Tone - • Ep.2 WATERCOLOR Painti...
3) Tonal Values (Part 1) • Ep.3 WATERCOLOR painti...
4) Tonal Values (Part 2) • Ep. 4 Improve your Wat...
5) Tonal Values (Part 3) • Ep. 5 Improve your Wat...
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Previous Episodes:
1) Basic Terms - th-cam.com/video/4icHxwdzQYQ/w-d-xo.html
2) Colour vs Tone - th-cam.com/video/qnVjTLxivQI/w-d-xo.html
3) Tonal Values (Part 1) th-cam.com/video/OE6itosi2Hw/w-d-xo.html
4) Tonal Values (Part 2) th-cam.com/video/9A8s21LOpuA/w-d-xo.html
5) Tonal Values (Part 3) th-cam.com/video/y9h1qXH30Vs/w-d-xo.html
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Thank you so much, you really help me out :D
Best consistency video I have ever seen. And what a great painting.. so glad I found you
Ahhh, thank you!! So glad it helps!!:) T
I was about to write exactly that!
Very helpful!
Great. Thank you very much
Very good Tom
Muy buenos consejos , gracias. ❤❤❤
Really really insightful. Thank you! Beautiful art work too!
Very clear instruction! Much appreciated. I wish I had known this when I first started painting. What a gorgeous painting! I love your style!
Thank you so much!!!! My favorite watercolor video❤❤❤You have no idea how helpful this was to me.
Excellent!!! This made me subscribe. Thank you for this video.
Formidable - de très loin, la meilleure démonstration "aquarelliste" que j'aie pu visionner en ligne. Merci et bravo !
So incredibly helpful. Thank you!
Fantastic...thank you! T
Brilliant artist. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Thank you sir.
Very informative! Thank you!
So glad! Thank you :)
loved this thanks!
Thank you. Great to hear you enjoyed it! T
Thank you for sharing! Really helpful :)
My pleasure! So glad it helped!!:)
Wow!
Very helpful
Thanks for a very valuable video it’s packed with great advice presented in a very clear way.
Another magical piece!
Thanks so much!!!☺️🙌🏼
That was the best information I’ve heard as yet. Thankyou so much.
So pleased it was useful, thank you! T
Brilliant Tom, thank you very much!
My pleasure, thank you so much!:) T
Thank you Tom for this helpful advice, great video and lovely painting
So pleased it was helpful! Thank you for supportive comments :) T
Just perfect explanation about consistency! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much! So pleased it made sense!!
Really good stuff thank you.
Thank you!
Wow this is amazing. Thank u so much.
So pleased, thank you!!
Wow!!! Love this lesson on consistencies!!! The watercolour clock!!!❤️ fantastic
Thank you! So pleased you enjoyed and found it useful:) T
just a fab explanation, Tom.. I find you say. things in a way that's complete, some teachers forget, I think, what i's like to be a beginner, and you remember to address all the questions that might not even be articulated. :)
What an amazing explanation of applying watercolor. THANK YOU
Thanks so much, Barbara’s. Glad it made sense!! (I thought I’d replied to your comment all ready, but it seems to have disappeared!) T
This was awesome 🎉
Thank you!
Very good description of consistency of water with paint. Thanks sharing!
Thanks so much!:) T
Best explanation ever!!! Subscribed thanks so much!
Thank you so much...very kind!!
Wow, what a great video. Such talent. Thanks for sharing. Can only help my beginnings with watercolour.
Thanks for such great information! You have identified so much in a very simple way that I have not understood previously. I sure appreciate your videos!!
This is so lovely to hear. I am so pleased it makes sense and helps. Thank you :) T
I never knew this and will be a total game changer for me!! Can't wait to give it a try. Thank you!!
Great! It’s such a useful way to think about things...and once it’s in there, you should find you naturally start to think about it all the time (in a good way!!;) T
Great explanation! 👍👍🥰
Thank you!!:) T
Fantastic thanks Tom . I’m really enjoying your style and the way you teach . 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Thank you so much! So glad you’re enjoying them :)
Amazing information and so very well explained. Wish someone had told me all this 4 months ago when I started painting in watercolour. Thank you Tom.
What a brilliant tutorial. Extremely useful
So pleased, thank you! T
Thank you for this very helpful video 🙏🏽
My pleasure...so glad it was useful! T
This is incredibly helpful and informative, thank you - just subscribed.
thanks so much Andrew. Really glad it helps and thank you for the support! T
I never see a vídeo like this. Excelente. Thanks
Thank you so much!:) T
Wow the clock theory is gold !
Glad you found it useful!!!:) T
This has to be one of my favorite paintings so far, absolutely 💯 lovely!!👍👍👏👋🤗
Ahhh thank you so much!!:) T
Awesome teaching
Thank you!:)
The single most helpful tutorial I've seen yet on how to develop a painting in this medium. As a newbie to this glorious paint, I cannot thank you more for your clearly articulated demonstration...From one thankful new subscriber in the U.S.
I love this! This will definitely help me with figuring out what consistency my paint needs to be at for the desired effect. Great video!
Thanks so much, hope it helps!!:)
Thanks for the advice, so it's like a seesaw, the dryer the surface the thinner the paint. Makes water colour much less of a mystery. ❤️🎨 Richard
Many useful informations in a video.
Great! Thank you :)
You make it sound like a juggling act, which it is, with time and consistency. That is both part of the skill and the pleasure of getting it right sometimes.
This is gold worth
Thank you so much. T
Great job!!!
Hope your channel grows :)
Thanks so much, really appreciate that!:) T
Thanks Tom...I've been following your bites series and have learned more from these that the rest of youtube put together. Keep up the amazing work.
Wow, thanks Steve. So pleased you are getting lots form the videos. So good to hear! T
This.video is so darn professional. Amazing ! Thank you!
Ahh, thank you so much! T
Don’t forget the Mott Mott bird tutorial, 😍🙏
excellent explanation
Thank you :) T
Such a great tutorial, thank you, glad I discovered you through Liron😎
Thanks so much! That’s great. Liron is a real inspiration...glad we could connect :)
love your style of painting💗... subscribed...
Thanks so much!!:) T
I've been painting in watercolour for a long time and this is the first time I've seen this - it is a real eye opener - thank you Tom!
Thanks Janet...it's such a useful thing (or two things) to constantly have in mind and I love this representation of it!:)...thank you...T
Wow, what an eye opener! This must be the best I have come across about wetness and paint consistency. Thank you, for newbies this is a very tricky path, but you have done a sterling job! Love, love, love your painting - absolutely gorgeous! Take care!
Thank you so much!! Really appreciate that. It is a tricky pursuit but I do believe that paint consistency is the big one to get your head around :)
At last a visual explanation of the clock! For a beginner so much easier to understand by seeing it. I have been searching for examples for quite a while, and yours is the first clear one I have found. Thank you for this useful, informative video!
So glad it makes sense and you found it useful! Thank you
Demonstration was SO helpful! Love to see a whole “don’t” video with exaggerated outcomes and bad results, how you got there and lessons learned
Thanks so much. Great idea for a video! T
Darned good instruction.
Thanks so much!! T
Thankyou for this invaluable info.You never stop learning in this this medium .Just when you think you’ve cracked it someone else shows there technique and your blown away it’s so frustrating but magical too. Your painting was beautiful.Keep em coming .🙂
Absolutely...”frustrating but magical”, so Ed up watercolour painting perfectly 😅...thanks so much for support. T
Beast video I have seen about this topic 🙏🏼🎨👌❣️
Thank you!!!!☺️🙌🏼
Ok, that was really clear and fun. Wow! Well done. Not the easiest subject when it comes to watercolor, but you explained it marvelously well! Thanks! Now I am going to binge watch the rest of your video’s. Love the way you use intense and saturated colors. I want to learn how to do that!
Thank you so much. So pleased it helped and made sense. Thank you for the support (sorry for slow response, I did reply on phone months ago but it seems not to have resistered) T
hi tom i love your work this is awesome bro ❤️
Thanks so much!! Really appreciate it ☺️🙌🏼🙏
Just found you and I am thrilled. You did such a great job explaining and demonstrating the clock. The painting: she is lovely! I desire to paint in the same style that you use. Artists with that style are difficult to find. Will be watching more videos. Thanks so much. Cheers!
Hi ya Sue, thank you so much. So glad you found the channel...and thank you so much for all your support and kind words on the other videos. Much appreciated. T
Beautiful piece Tom! As a fellow watercolourist it's always interesting to see another artist's process! Our styles are quite different but I love how you capture the sense of motion with your loose brushwork!
Hiya Nathan, really appreciate the comment. Thank you. I am fascinated by the massively different approaches we all take as artists even though we’re essentially all using the same basic tools!! T
Brillliant video! I'm just starting with watercolor and this is by far the best explanation and demonstration I've seen. I think I finally understand what to look for in my painting. Thank you!
Hi ya Scott...so pleased to hear this!!! Often just need to hear/see these things n a way which makes sense to us and that can be a lightbulb moment!! Good luck!!:)
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial, have never seen such full explanation on this topic. Hello from Ukraine!)
Hi there...thanks so much for the support. So glad it’s helpful :) T
This one is stunning very nice how you work the light and the paint
Thanks, Ruth!:)
Really nice! Best demo of this idea I've ever seen! So, this looks to me that best efforts maybe be rewarded by using tube paint (& abandon the dried out halfpan sets!)
Thank you! So pleased it helps. Pans are great, and some people seem to work fine with them. But for me I really struggle with them and it’s gives all the way!!:)...I certainly find it much easier to get the creamier and thicker consistencies with tube paint:) T
Remember you from art tutor great to have found you again excellent explaining thank you yvonne
Thanks so much Yvonne, glad you found me on here! T
Really helpful! I started watercolour a couple of years ago .I seem to have steered to line and wash .I think maybe scared of loose watercolours!
But watching this video and beautiful painting I think I may try loose painting.
So helpfull
Thank you! So pleased to hear :) T
Finally! Thank you for explaining this. I could never get my head around the the ratio of paint consistencies to how wet/dry the paper is.
So pleased that this helped!!:)
BRILLIANT! I really enjoyed the clock theory. Is it possible to see your palette of colours in future videos? I would have loved to have seen it for the portrait. Thank you. I'll definitely be tuning in for more. About the best demonstration I've ever seen and your teaching graphics are A1. Good luck.
Nice. Just watched the podcast about setting up a channel, came to the channel, subscribed. It worked! Thanks for the great video.
Haha thanks, Paul! Thanks for the support. T
The best video to understand watercolor wet on wet in the TH-cam .. thank you very much!
Wow...thank you so much for the kind words! T
@@tomshepherdartist you are welcome :))
Your explanation is great. You are a good teacher. Of course, your paintings are also very good. I can paint, but I am not a good teacher. Therefore, I mainly paint outdoors.
thanks so much!:)...i've done a lot of teaching over the years, it too takes practice :)
Absolutely Incredible, I am a real beginner, but work gives me the incentive to ‘try everything and practice’ !
Thanks so much! Great attitude...keep painting and it will all come!!!:)
This is a really great visual to see the paint consistency. Thank you!
Can you do a tip on how to relax enough to get into that creative side of the brain? and overcome blank paper paralysis, please.
Thank you!!! Absolutely...great topic!!!!:)
Then I just watched this. The clock is a really good way of showing all the stages. You said something that really speaks to me: you still have to have a feel for it, and after 18 months I know that I don’t have that feel at all. BUT, you also said to practice, a lot, and even though I’ve done over 400(!) paintings in those 18 months, and pleased with maybe 50 of them. Still a good number I know, but to me it seems more good luck than management if you know what I mean. I don’t mean I want to manage the magic of watercolour - but I don’t create the environment for that to happen. Anyway, I’m all fired up and enthusiastic, so I’ll keep trying. Thanks for the videos. I’m loving them.
Superb
Thanks so much!! T
Really nice video. I first heard the tea/coffee/milk analogy from the very talented artist Marc Taro Holmes. I've not seen the full clock though. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you...it’s such a great to explain it, at least to my mind! T
So well explained, I have intuitively learned some of this the hard way but it is nice to see it all put together concisely. If there was one video I would recommend to a relatively new watercolourist it would be this.
One thing I really struggle with is the transition in values between layers.
thank you so much...so glad it was useful!! Do you mean the way the tone changes upon drying, or layering colours and teh change in tones?? :) T
And, just seen the question about future topics, you may have covered this in the ensuing years, but I struggle MOST OF ALL with landscapes. I would love to do one for my husband whose favourite paintings are landscapes. He’s very generously complimentary when I present him with one, but it would be nice if I could do one we both like. I really love your loose style, but don’t paint a bit loose however hard I try. That’s because I don’t have the consistencies right. Thanks anyway. Take care, have a great day 👍🏼
Oh and, beautiful painting of the young woman.
I love your tipps and tricks. Thanks for sharing! I love the video too. With which software did you make it?
I would like to see a painting done in sections, as you were explaining to Donna C. and linking the washes to two areas... I think if I do smaller bits, it won't be so over whelming to me, and then i can advance to a whole wash to a paper>. Your genius! thanks for the video!
Thanks Anne. It’s funny you mention that. I set out to tackle this one in sections so I’d be less overwhelmed but then got carried away and was committed! (Ha) I will definitely show one where I work in section at some point! Many thanks, T
OMG! So useful! Please cover Splatter composition.
Thank you!! Good subject!!:)
@@tomshepherdartist Also a year long development plan. I tend to jump from one subject or technique to another with no sense of one thing building on another, other than the fact that I learn random lessons.
God Tom you have a lovely home yes very good vids try copy a turner too see how it turns out be cool out
Hi Tom
Luv this tutorial.
My problem is knowing when to go wet on dry or wet on wet etc.
A lot of videos never show the switch. i.e. as a whole or just part of the painting
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Hi Robert. Thanks for a great comment, so glad it helps. I really think paint consistency and wetness of page is a great thing to wrap your head around in watercolour as a medium...any variation of wet into wet, damp into damp etc will always give lovely soft edges for shadows or to create atmosphere and depth...wet over dry is great for slightly sharper details or more sharp cast shadows (all though you can of course soften edges as well as do big wet into wet washes over dry ones, but hopefully this video gave some good examples of the interaction :) T
Very helpful explanation. I am not familiar with "marmaid". Is this the paint right out of the tube also known as mass tone? It looks in the video that "marmaid" it is still being mixed on the pallette.
I live in an arid climate and paper goes from wet to damp very quickly. So this will be helpful while painting. So many things to pay attention to! Thanks!
Thanks Debrah, so glad it was useful! “Marmite” is basically neat paint, straight out the tube, or maybe a bit of moisture but kind of sticky / buttery in feel.
Yes I might still mix it in palette but simply baking sure there’s very little water in it :)
Yes, a lot to think about at once. Especially when it’s warm and/or dry we have even less time...:)
Excellent but Too Much Info in one go. Could you please do another in this lesson but in Parts 😊👏 Thank you great channel. ✏️🎨🖍 much appreciated. Hello again…Have Just Joined Your Patreon 👏 Can’t wait to start today.
Ahh thanks so much for joining me. I will definitely do one that is a simpler or slower breakdown...next couple of months or so..great idea!! Thank you for the feedback and the support! Much appreciated :)
I am about to start. What do I do ?
Tom, what has always been a mystery to me is how the artist can look at a photograph (realistic) and sort of translate it into a painting (abstract). What are you doing during this transition? Is it separation of tonal values, combined with color harmony? Do you always have a plan before touching brush to paper? Please elaborate on this. It may get some of us over the hump of overworking things when being tempted to make our painting look realistic enough but still painterly. Thanks!
A great question!!! With a very long answer,...I’ll try my best quickly here but it is a great topic for a video, so I will do a video tutorial in exactly that!!:)....tonal values are a huge one. Squinting and simplifying them. Working out the important ones that need to be accurately shaped and which ones can be much free ....I have a rough destination in mind and a rough route...but both the destination and route can change as we go....
The biggest problem I see amongst students is giving everything the same level of importance and feeling like they have to put everything in just because it’s in the subject, and make it exactly like the subject.
For me though, the biggest question to ask is..
“What attracted me to this subject? What am I trying to achieve?” When you come up with an answer you can instantly simplify or leave out all together, anything that isn’t in alignment with that. You can pick a focal point to make a little more realistic a and simplify everything else ...
For example, if you look at a bird and decide you love the pose and the light. That’s the thing to always refer back to. If you come to paint an area and ask you self, is what I’m doing, or about to do going to enhance either the pose or the feeling of light? If the answer is no...then leave it alone, keep it very simple....
Of course it is easier said than done, and there are other considerations. But that question underpins everything else and if you have it in my mind, you may find yourself starting to make interesting decisions about what to leave out:)....definitely a video to come on this!!:)
T
@@tomshepherdartist Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this and I look forward to your tutorial.
Now that you mention it, I really do find myself trying to capture every detail just because it is in the subject. I think that is because I struggle with determining which details are the important ones and which ones can be left out. My paintings most often look overworked for this reason.
Another question that occurred to me while watching your videos was, how much should we be concentrating on conveying form (sphere, cylinder, etc) in a painting? (I find myself forgetting about that and concentrating instead on trying to accurately reproduce the colors in my reference photo.) Is it that lighter tonal values of your colors are those closest to the light source, a concept you would use in a still life, or is it more often the shapes that convey form? I have a feeling that you will say that it is both. :)
Thanks for the suggestion to ask "what am I trying to convey in the painting?" I think this will help a lot to keep my mind on this concept instead of trying to get every element of the subject "just right".
Be well. -Valerie
@@tomshepherdartist this is such helpful info. TY. S😊👩🏻🎨
Thank you Tom! Great video! I am 70, have essential tremor, and live in super dry Colorado. Nevertheless, I took up watercolor painting about a year ago! I realize that I will never be what one might call great but I am determined to do the best that I can. I think that I am finally “getting “ the concept of the painting wetness however because of my tremor mostly, I find that I have to work slowly which as you would know can cause problems with this very subject. Might you have any ideas that could help me?? Thank you so much for your teaching!
Hi Donna....thanks for the comment! Determination and simply enjoying the process will get you a long long way!!!:)...you find trying the break the painting up into smaller areas could help. Then you can tackle this smaller area wet into wet but you dint have to be as fast as if you trying to work wet into wet over a much larger area. It buys you a lot of time...the trick is working out where you can stop a wash, so the area next to it will still look fine even if I initial one has dried....for example, I tackled large areas at once in this one...but...I could have tackled just the nose, mouth and eye areas all separately but linked them together later with a similar colour or tone wash.....I could have broken the area into different sections, easily linked together because they are all dark. This may help with a bit of practice !!:) T
I am Japanese.
I want to be able to draw pictures like you.
Thank you!! Lots of practice!!;)