Finding the light in Watercolor - The way to light is with some DARK!

Are your paintings looking too dull? Finding the light is very important in watercolour to achieve atmosphere, a range of contrasting values and the feeling of a scene. Watch me paint this French street scene in a loose way and see how to achieve more light and atmosphere in your watercolour paintings.
At the start of this video, I show my source photograph for the painting. If you want to keep referring to this during the video, then copy the URL of the video into another browser Tab or Window on your device. Run the video again, but of course pause it at the start where I show the source photo. In Chrome, you can also right-click on the tab and select ‘Duplicate’.
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In this demo I will be covering...
1) Choice of Subject. What makes a good watercolor subject. How to simplify the scene.
2) Materials I use such as the paper. I will also cover the paints I use and the palette, plus how I hold the different brushes for different techniques.
3) Doing the outline sketch as the first step. Getting perspective right in a street scene. Where is the light coming from?
4) Doing the sky and the first wash of the background and then the foreground.
5) Shadows and details of the cars, and figures and windows.
6) The importance of values in a painting to achieve the feeling of light
Timeline:
0:02:16 - Start of the outline drawing
0:08:17 - Laying down the first wash
0:13:47 - Start of putting in the darker values
0:26:20 - Start of painting in details
More information on watercolour demos, painting workshops, lessons and recent paintings by Tim Wilmot can be found at:
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[@DiegoARojas2009]

exelente como siempre!! gracias Tim! saludos desde Buenos Aires! Siempre te sigo

[@TimWilmot]

Muchos gracias

[@lilianrokushima2272]

Love your painting. The color and light you read, and used, it’s fabulous .

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you so much!

[@juliehirsch1150]

Just wanted to let you know that I have learned more from your watercolor instruction than the entire time I have been painting with it. I switched from oil to watercolor, and seriously have been working to advance. Thank you!!

[@TimWilmot]

You are so welcome!

[@txemaprada]

Excellent, as always, Tim. Thank you very much!!

[@TimWilmot]

My pleasure!

[@gogokp9276]

Thanks for the video.I hope you are well and greetings from Slovenia.

[@TimWilmot]

Greetings to you too

[@barbaragemin5117]

Thank you Tim. As always, the photo takes me by surprise in its 'ordinariness ' but then you make it into a painting full of light and with a story to tell. A lesson to us all.

[@TimWilmot]

Yes, they usually come better in the end

[@kochamtrufle]

Amazing, amazing, thank you

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you too!

[@aruproychoudhury7589]

Thanks for a excellent demo

[@TimWilmot]

My pleasure!

[@YashwanthMayasandra]

Thanks Tim for the wonderful demonstration

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks again for all your comments

[@ArtsofPamatayHomesickV20]

hi! Tim thank you for sharing this.. nice demonstration of finding the light in watercolor.

[@TimWilmot]

My pleasure

[@sallybrowningpearson4739]

Missed your videos there for a while. Great to find you again. You are very inspiring and I share with all my students.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Sally and for sharing them!

[@nancybrink3701]

love the light and dark - thank you! beautiful

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Nancy

[@ginatexasgirl9438]

Thanks for the info. Love your paintings.

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you Gina

[@mominsart]

Great Watercolor Demo.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks for watching and your kind comments

[@StevieFlynn]

Some great insights and advice as always.

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you Stephen

[@marcello.mutti75]

Thanks for sharing, very helpful as always...

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Marcello

[@gildascorouge1278]

Hi, thanks a lot for sharing. As usual, your videos help me a lot to deal with my over detailed painting. never the less, I would have liked some colors in the market aeria.

[@TimWilmot]

Hmm yes, possible. Maybe next time.

[@MrMoykanal]

Beautiful work!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks very much momchil

[@elenakovaleva3551]

Good afternoon, Tim. I would be grateful if you answer me.
1. Do you use black paint?
2. Do you draw every day?
3. Brushes from what material you use?

[@TimWilmot]

No
No
Mainly Raphael mop brushes and Jackson squirrel mop

[@elenakovaleva3551]

@@TimWilmot Thanks, Tim!
Love your creativity. I am learning from you. You are my teacher...

[@ehsanna4237]

gooooood

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you Ehsan

[@83abhinavnigam]

You are going mare and more abstract in shapes and also in colours , do you admire Monet's "rouen cathedral " series ?

[@TimWilmot]

Wow. Just googles that and they're brilliant

[@83abhinavnigam]

Didn't upload the end result taken by still camera ?

[@TimWilmot]

Not on this one. Please join my Patreon club to get access to resource material

[@ginatexasgirl9438]

What did you use in the smallest brush number and maker, please, thanks.

[@TimWilmot]

It was a size 5 round

[@GaetanoPirulli]

I'm trying all your paintings but they all end in the trash bin :( I really struggle in the second step, that's where I mess up everything

[@TimWilmot]

Keep trying. i explain more on patreon

[@SuperReyand]

Skipping to 01:42 …

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you very much for pointing that out. I think I have trimmed that out now! Thanks

[@AnthonyCZeccaSr]

Tim Wilmot hi Tim - I went to your Patreon site to sign up per your video and found that it’s sold out. Can you let me know when you have an opening? Thanks much.

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you and it should be available now if you want to try again?

[@AnthonyCZeccaSr]

Tim Wilmot all signed up! Thanks Tim. Next steps for me are...?