Let me know if you have more beach painting techniques to share, and if you enjoyed this tutorial, watch this video next for more texture techniques: Watercolor Pencils Tutorial (10 EASY Tricks!) th-cam.com/video/7yrAh6AiVKg/w-d-xo.html
I agree with you completely, DeeAnn! Michele has such a nice combination of getting to the point while still making me feel like we're sharing a cup of tea or something!
Thank you! What a fun way to get the texture! Yes, please on the waves and water demo you mentioned early on in this video. Thanks for making this fun, Michele!
Like Deb Snow, i too would like to see the overwash of sea onto a beach like this. It was a great tutorial Michelle. I live on the coast so i wil give it a go.. 👍x
I really enjoyed watching this video with the many different textures & techniques for producing a gorgeous sandy pebbly beach. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Thanks Michele. Dry brushing is also a good way to get texture on a sandy non pebble type beach. I don't use masking fluid very often. No wonder it lasts forever.😉💜 I'm in such a rush just to put paint to paper that I don't think of it. Hopefully the kids will get back to school in a month and I'll not be so rushed.thanks again.😁👍💜
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thanks for the heads up . I've seen the white mask fluid turn yellow but didn't know it actually goes bad. I think it smells funny to begin with. Lol. Also be careful if you have a bad latex allergy. My daughter goes into anaphylaxis with scant exposure.
I have been using this detergent fir almost 2 years and I love it. I find it works best if I put the sheet into a jar is warm water and shake it until desolved and it prevents a white coating on my dark clothes.
Michele, thank you so much for the tutorial on watercolor beaches and peebles. Will be so useful as I try to paint a more interesting and realistic beach scene. Would love to see you do tutorials on how to paint ocean waves and rock formations. Be safe.
Amazing how you get that textured look! If don’t have white water color paint can white gouache be used & finally colors can try that don’t have that unrealistic yellow colors. Ty.
Hello from Oregon! We call it The Coast in the Pacific NW and the further south you go it’s called beach. It may be the same on the east coast, but regardless it’s a great place to hang.🦜
Great, useful techniques! It is funny to me seeing you pick your beach color, as most of the beaches I am personally used to seeing are almost a perfect match to Daniel Smith's buff titanium. (And just a cool grayish brown when they are wet.) I may as well enjoy traveling vicariously this summer, so thanks for a trip to your beach! :)
Buff titanium is a great colour for more tropical sands, we don't get anything quite that lovely in England most of the time, although I have seen a few of those pale beaches in Cornwall and Wales :-)
The remark you make about you arent messy, I can relate to. Then immediately when I opened my masking jar it splattered and got on my black shorts. It looks like it bleached them. Darn.:)
Great techniques, thank you. Colours very different where we live in Australia, sand is quite different too although further north it changes again, so still very helpful. All a big learning curve for me. Left my email but wasn't able to download your pdfs.
You are welcome! After leaving the email you should receive an email with the download link. If it doesn't work email me via my website with your email address or message me via facebook and I will send you the PDF directly :-)
Hi Michele! Thank you so much for this video; it came at the perfect time. I am painting a beach scene on a card for a friend, and I am on my third try! (I've started three different cards.) I have the color for the sand right, but each try looks so flat and blah. I am definitely going to try these great techniques! And yes! More beach instruction please. Particularly where the water washes over the sand. And the waves. And how to get color variation (I'm going for that tropical turquoises water look,) a look of distance to the further away water and waves, and really just the whole scene! 😄 Yes, I need it all. So there are your lesson plans for weeks ahead! 😂👍 Whatever you can do to help is much appreciated. 💕💐💕
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Watching this again, 7 months later, because the quarantine has completely removed my memory retention abilities! And the card is still not done! Oh well, luckily he has a birthday every year! 😄
Hi, Chris here, new convert to your channel. I really like the way you teach and for me, you're the best around!! Could you please expand just two things. Splatter technique and painting greenery on sky ( mask or paint around?); these are two areas I'm still having problems with.
Hi Chris, I do show splatter technique in some other videos. There are a couple that show how to paint greenery on a sky. I did one recently called how to plan a watercolor painting (the one that's a woodland walk tutorial) and another on how to paint distant trees. The trick is to take the sky all the way to the horizon (but fairly light) and paint on top with the greens when dry.
I'm *still* polishing off my foreground beach. I feel I should give you some credit (I'm working up a database now. I'm sorta a computer wonk, so you're actually already there). Can I ask you (most painters around me are oil or acrylic only, and I can't do FB or I might try that): my paintings tend to take WEEKS because I don't use heat tools, or I look for techniques to get a desired effect. Is that abnormal in wc? I have about 5 finished and they're hanging, but more in various states of "working on", and a sketchbook of ideas. I can't believe how great this beach is coming along: I was at a full stop until this video (so I have to credit you in some way). I see acrylic painters (local) who polish off paintings in no time _(often of copyrighted subjects like, real actors in costume from a Hollywood franchise)_ and I fear maybe I'm too slow. I do a lot of research to see how animals move, bone structure... probably overdoing it. My pro artist sister is pushing me to finish up, sell, and hurry along with building a 'portfolio'. Is there a "normal" time to get paintings finished? (9x12" or so, not the huge canvases measured in feet or anything). I love how my beach is coming along, but it's a sunset beach that looks purple and isn't, and I'm being careful. It's been a rough go (labor of love ❤️️) and I might make it a print instead of selling the original. I'm quite fond of the original. Thank you for any guidance on time to finish artworks. (Again: NO watercolourists near my area unless they're hobbyists who aren't selling, or I'd consult them.)
There is absolutely no 'right' amount of time to take to complete your work. I frequently take upwards of 20 hours or as much as 40 hours. Take as long as you need. Professionals take longer, we take more breaks, we look more and we try out colours, we stop, we think. Of course some artists may take a lot less time, but I think they may well be working to a formula and not pushing boundaries. It doesn't matter how long you take, if you are worried about earning potential, then one good painting can become prints, calendars, anything. I am actually planning a video on this subject soon, after an interesting discussion on a facebook group. Glad it helped!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thanks. I have several "brewing" paintings and I'm careful to remove masking fluids within 24 hours if I'm needing a new skill to continue. I'm slow, but it's better I think to let a work sit (protected) and know the right pigments or techniques, than to err and end up scrubbing and using wc ground. I use that stuff at times, but I'm learning how to _avoid_ using it. I think letting the paper be seen seems important. If I'm "lovingly bullied" again, I have this response. Thank you so much. When my covid-unemployment affairs are in order, you should be the first I try to enroll with! Btw, I went to "your website" with 2 Ls... and screamed 😅 I thought, that's not Michele! It almost had me fooled until that (surely nice) lady popped up, and I saw 'psychotherapistc -WHEW! I'd run back to YT to get your correct website. Truly I needed a stiff drink 🤣 though I don't drink often. Please visit your site name with 2 L's in Michele! Try to be sitting down. It *does* look like an artist site at first. She has a different dressing style than you... 😨😅
@@MelanCholy2001 Really! Oh wow, I think I am too scared l :-) There's a lady with my exact name teaches dance in the north of England she always comes up on google. No one should ever take psychotherapy advice from me ha ha
I can't recall such a thing but you can try the step by step playlist for sparkle on water or the tips and techniques. If you want actual reflective sparkle then powder eyeshadow is a thing, as is iridescent medium for watercolours.
Wish camera angle was different Di page looked flat instead of tilted. I feel like I need to hang on or I’ll fall off bottom of page. It makes me nauseous. Love your teaching style!!!!
Loved this! Now going to incorporate with your sunset video. Q: At what stage in this beach process would you be adding the ocean water? Do you complete this first?
Unlikely to be hot press. I often use cheaper practice papers on TH-cam, some of them are slightly less textured, but generally they are still a cold pressed surface.
Hi Michele, i wondered if you had considered offering some of your more ‘ in depth’ tutorials on a pay per view basis? I’d be prepared to engage with this and would expect of course that this would be more expensive than the packages that you offer. The reason being that i signed up with Anna Mason school for 6 months but i just couldn’t get on with it for some reason, even though i admired the style etc. I think the tutorials were just too long at times and i did lose interest. I did about a couple of them i think. Sometimes though i do want more painstaking instruction. So, if you think you might have time to offer a one off workshop tutorial on that basis, keep me on the e mail list thanks. 👍
Hi Isabel, I currently have tutorials on Thinkific, some mixed media ones. I will be adding some more, and am planning some watercolor techniques courses, as well as more individual projects. If you just want more in-depth videos then Patreon may suit, you can get extra videos for $15 a month and I take a much slower more relaxed approach, you get to see almost every stage when I am working on my own projects. There are links to Thinkific and also to Patreon in the video description if you click you can see the options. :-)
My husband and I visited Antigua/ Barbuda last year, with it's 360 plus beaches, pink sand beautiful cliffs and Negril, Jamaica. We just returned from Negril, our second trip. Point is: I have a ton of inspirational photos. I have tried to paint these and they always turn out looking cartoons, overworked? Frustrating!
Oh, that sounds wonderful! I can't tell where your problems lie, pop over to my facebook group and post some pictures, we have lots of talented artists, I will probably see your post myself but if I don't someone will help you :-)
Let me know if you have more beach painting techniques to share, and if you enjoyed this tutorial, watch this video next for more texture techniques: Watercolor Pencils Tutorial (10 EASY Tricks!) th-cam.com/video/7yrAh6AiVKg/w-d-xo.html
This was very helpful. I’d like to see also the actual overwash of sea along this beach.
I will do that in another video Deb, thanks for watching and glad it was helpful!
Very helpful. You're fast becoming my favorite! You teach and don't waste time. Thanks so much.
Happy to hear that!
I agree with you completely, DeeAnn! Michele has such a nice combination of getting to the point while still making me feel like we're sharing a cup of tea or something!
@@jennifermayer5092 happy to share tea with both of you lovely ladies 😘
Great tutorial. I struggle with the sand/sea overlap so this is very helpful. Thanks Michelle.
Thanks Christina!
Thank you! What a fun way to get the texture! Yes, please on the waves and water demo you mentioned early on in this video. Thanks for making this fun, Michele!
You are very welcome! Request noted :-)
Thanks. This was great. I’m feeling more confident and willing to give it a go with every tutorial of yours.
Great to hear!
I really enjoyed watching this fantastic watercolor painting.
Thank you very much!
Michele this is absolutely the best looking beach I have seen in all my you to be lessons!
Like Deb Snow, i too would like to see the overwash of sea onto a beach like this. It was a great tutorial Michelle. I live on the coast so i wil give it a go.. 👍x
Great suggestion! I will add it to the list, thank you!
Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really enjoyed watching this video with the many different textures & techniques for producing a gorgeous sandy pebbly beach. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Thanks for making this!
No problem!
A video of waves would be awesome!
This is unbelievably helpful. Great teaching
Glad it was helpful!
Superb video and technique - thank you so much, Michelle! ⚘
Glad it was helpful Anette!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber ⚘❤🖌
Another interesting and instructive tutorial Michele. Fantastic textures.
Thank you 😊
Very helpful. Thank you so much.
You're very welcome!
You make it look so easy, I must say I've definitely improved since I've been watching your videos 🙂
You're so delightful too, thankyou sooo much 🥰
Thanks, Michele, i enjoy your lessons very much, as always.
Most welcome!
Love your teaching style and also the timestamps. Thank you!
No problem Carolyn ☺️
Excellent instructions ❣️
So fun! Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love this, love the texture.
Thank you 🙏
Thanks Michele. Dry brushing is also a good way to get texture on a sandy non pebble type beach. I don't use masking fluid very often. No wonder it lasts forever.😉💜 I'm in such a rush just to put paint to paper that I don't think of it. Hopefully the kids will get back to school in a month and I'll not be so rushed.thanks again.😁👍💜
Great tip! People use too much of the stuff anyhow I find, it does go off mind you and then it gets really smelly!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thanks for the heads up . I've seen the white mask fluid turn yellow but didn't know it actually goes bad. I think it smells funny to begin with. Lol. Also be careful if you have a bad latex allergy. My daughter goes into anaphylaxis with scant exposure.
This is very helpful! Learn so much from you! Thank you so much!! 💐
You are very welcome!
tutorial is awesome and great upload, very useful
Thanks for watching
I am new to painting, just used your technique and the results were amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your knowlege.
That's so rewarding to hear, thanks for watching!
I have been using this detergent fir almost 2 years and I love it. I find it works best if I put the sheet into a jar is warm water and shake it until desolved and it prevents a white coating on my dark clothes.
Thanks for sharing!
Love it! Thanks so much Michelle 👍🏽
Any time Nathalie!
Michele, thank you so much for the tutorial on watercolor beaches and peebles. Will be so useful as I try to paint a more interesting and realistic beach scene. Would love to see you do tutorials on how to paint ocean waves and rock formations. Be safe.
Thanks Marilyn, I will try to do some of those subjects soon!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I am an oil painter, but watercolor beaches are awkward. Lots of helpful hints here, so thank you x
You’re welcome 😊
Great video
Thanks!
Amazing how you get that textured look! If don’t have white water color paint can white gouache be used & finally colors can try that don’t have that unrealistic yellow colors. Ty.
Glad to help your channel.
Thank you!
Hello from Oregon! We call it The Coast in the Pacific NW and the further south you go it’s called beach. It may be the same on the east coast, but regardless it’s a great place to hang.🦜
Nice!
Thanks!
Another excellent tutorial. Did you happen to make one regarding painting oceans with foamy waves cresting and breaking on a shoreline? I’d love that!
Not yet! But it's on my list :-)
Great, useful techniques! It is funny to me seeing you pick your beach color, as most of the beaches I am personally used to seeing are almost a perfect match to Daniel Smith's buff titanium. (And just a cool grayish brown when they are wet.) I may as well enjoy traveling vicariously this summer, so thanks for a trip to your beach! :)
Buff titanium is a great colour for more tropical sands, we don't get anything quite that lovely in England most of the time, although I have seen a few of those pale beaches in Cornwall and Wales :-)
The remark you make about you arent messy, I can relate to. Then immediately when I opened my masking jar it splattered and got on my black shorts. It looks like it bleached them. Darn.:)
Great techniques, thank you. Colours very different where we live in Australia, sand is quite different too although further north it changes again, so still very helpful. All a big learning curve for me. Left my email but wasn't able to download your pdfs.
You are welcome! After leaving the email you should receive an email with the download link. If it doesn't work email me via my website with your email address or message me via facebook and I will send you the PDF directly :-)
Really useful tutorial.. especially The masking fluid trick thank you... And you look gorgeous as well.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Michele! Thank you so much for this video; it came at the perfect time. I am painting a beach scene on a card for a friend, and I am on my third try! (I've started three different cards.) I have the color for the sand right, but each try looks so flat and blah. I am definitely going to try these great techniques! And yes! More beach instruction please. Particularly where the water washes over the sand. And the waves. And how to get color variation (I'm going for that tropical turquoises water look,) a look of distance to the further away water and waves, and really just the whole scene! 😄 Yes, I need it all. So there are your lesson plans for weeks ahead! 😂👍 Whatever you can do to help is much appreciated. 💕💐💕
Brilliant, I have a very long list but keeps me out of mischief! x
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber 😊♥️👏😻👍
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Watching this again, 7 months later, because the quarantine has completely removed my memory retention abilities! And the card is still not done! Oh well, luckily he has a birthday every year! 😄
Terriffic tutorial as usual! Thanks!
My pleasure!
Great tutorial! Can we use white Acrylic for sand instead of masking fluid?
Yes, I'd advise mixing a little watercolor into it :)
Great enjoyed this - have you got a sea video?
I have a sea sunset tutorial, try the step by step playlist :-)
I would like to see ocean coming on to beach
Hi, Chris here, new convert to your channel. I really like the way you teach and for me, you're the best around!! Could you please expand just two things. Splatter technique and painting greenery on sky ( mask or paint around?); these are two areas I'm still having problems with.
Hi Chris, I do show splatter technique in some other videos. There are a couple that show how to paint greenery on a sky. I did one recently called how to plan a watercolor painting (the one that's a woodland walk tutorial) and another on how to paint distant trees. The trick is to take the sky all the way to the horizon (but fairly light) and paint on top with the greens when dry.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thank you!!
@@chrishill9153 k
Kept waiting for you to paint the water, too.
There's a recent water painting video Bonnie if you take a look :-)
Here in Australia, our beaches are more white to very pale yellow.
Daniel Smith Titanium Buff is a great colour for that sort of beach, or you can use a little white gouache with the mixes I have given you.
I'm *still* polishing off my foreground beach. I feel I should give you some credit (I'm working up a database now. I'm sorta a computer wonk, so you're actually already there). Can I ask you (most painters around me are oil or acrylic only, and I can't do FB or I might try that): my paintings tend to take WEEKS because I don't use heat tools, or I look for techniques to get a desired effect. Is that abnormal in wc? I have about 5 finished and they're hanging, but more in various states of "working on", and a sketchbook of ideas. I can't believe how great this beach is coming along: I was at a full stop until this video (so I have to credit you in some way).
I see acrylic painters (local) who polish off paintings in no time _(often of copyrighted subjects like, real actors in costume from a Hollywood franchise)_ and I fear maybe I'm too slow. I do a lot of research to see how animals move, bone structure... probably overdoing it. My pro artist sister is pushing me to finish up, sell, and hurry along with building a 'portfolio'. Is there a "normal" time to get paintings finished? (9x12" or so, not the huge canvases measured in feet or anything). I love how my beach is coming along, but it's a sunset beach that looks purple and isn't, and I'm being careful. It's been a rough go (labor of love ❤️️) and I might make it a print instead of selling the original. I'm quite fond of the original. Thank you for any guidance on time to finish artworks. (Again: NO watercolourists near my area unless they're hobbyists who aren't selling, or I'd consult them.)
There is absolutely no 'right' amount of time to take to complete your work. I frequently take upwards of 20 hours or as much as 40 hours. Take as long as you need. Professionals take longer, we take more breaks, we look more and we try out colours, we stop, we think. Of course some artists may take a lot less time, but I think they may well be working to a formula and not pushing boundaries. It doesn't matter how long you take, if you are worried about earning potential, then one good painting can become prints, calendars, anything. I am actually planning a video on this subject soon, after an interesting discussion on a facebook group. Glad it helped!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thanks. I have several "brewing" paintings and I'm careful to remove masking fluids within 24 hours if I'm needing a new skill to continue. I'm slow, but it's better I think to let a work sit (protected) and know the right pigments or techniques, than to err and end up scrubbing and using wc ground. I use that stuff at times, but I'm learning how to _avoid_ using it. I think letting the paper be seen seems important.
If I'm "lovingly bullied" again, I have this response. Thank you so much. When my covid-unemployment affairs are in order, you should be the first I try to enroll with!
Btw, I went to "your website" with 2 Ls... and screamed 😅 I thought, that's not Michele! It almost had me fooled until that (surely nice) lady popped up, and I saw 'psychotherapistc -WHEW! I'd run back to YT to get your correct website. Truly I needed a stiff drink 🤣 though I don't drink often. Please visit your site name with 2 L's in Michele! Try to be sitting down. It *does* look like an artist site at first. She has a different dressing style than you... 😨😅
@@MelanCholy2001 Really! Oh wow, I think I am too scared l :-) There's a lady with my exact name teaches dance in the north of England she always comes up on google. No one should ever take psychotherapy advice from me ha ha
MICHELE, DIDN'T YOU HAVE A VIDEO ON HOW TO ADD SPARKLE TO BEACH SAND? I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND IT.
I can't recall such a thing but you can try the step by step playlist for sparkle on water or the tips and techniques. If you want actual reflective sparkle then powder eyeshadow is a thing, as is iridescent medium for watercolours.
Wish camera angle was different Di page looked flat instead of tilted. I feel like I need to hang on or I’ll fall off bottom of page. It makes me nauseous.
Love your teaching style!!!!
Sorry! It's really hard to film flat and if I do it's hard not to lean across the paper and block the camera :-)
I agree! The angle is nauseating, but the content is great though
Loved this! Now going to incorporate with your sunset video. Q: At what stage in this beach process would you be adding the ocean water? Do you complete this first?
I would generally do the water first, and fade it out, then fade out the beach over the top so you get an overlap at the waterline.
Sand can be many different colours. It all depends on the chemical composition of sand. It could be yellow, gray, or even red.
Very true!
I didn't catch what type of paper. It looks hot press
Unlikely to be hot press. I often use cheaper practice papers on TH-cam, some of them are slightly less textured, but generally they are still a cold pressed surface.
I wonder if you mean Haphazard rather than Random, Michele.
Who can say, it's an old video :-)
Hi Michele, i wondered if you had considered offering some of your more ‘ in depth’ tutorials on a pay per view basis? I’d be prepared to engage with this and would expect of course that this would be more expensive than the packages that you offer. The reason being that i signed up with Anna Mason school for 6 months but i just couldn’t get on with it for some reason, even though i admired the style etc. I think the tutorials were just too long at times and i did lose interest. I did about a couple of them i think. Sometimes though i do want more painstaking instruction. So, if you think you might have time to offer a one off workshop tutorial on that basis, keep me on the e mail list thanks. 👍
Hi Isabel, I currently have tutorials on Thinkific, some mixed media ones. I will be adding some more, and am planning some watercolor techniques courses, as well as more individual projects. If you just want more in-depth videos then Patreon may suit, you can get extra videos for $15 a month and I take a much slower more relaxed approach, you get to see almost every stage when I am working on my own projects. There are links to Thinkific and also to Patreon in the video description if you click you can see the options. :-)
I always try to add seashells, but they look horrible and I end up turning them into rocks
Seashells tutorial is one of the biggest requests on this channel so I should have one coming up soon :-)
My husband and I visited Antigua/ Barbuda last year, with it's 360 plus beaches, pink sand beautiful cliffs and Negril, Jamaica. We just returned from Negril, our second trip. Point is: I have a ton of inspirational photos. I have tried to paint these and they always turn out looking cartoons, overworked? Frustrating!
Oh, that sounds wonderful! I can't tell where your problems lie, pop over to my facebook group and post some pictures, we have lots of talented artists, I will probably see your post myself but if I don't someone will help you :-)
too fast too many ads
Too short, not enough punctuation.
Too hard to understand too English.😊
I have always been too English :-)
Find an artist who speaks the language you prefer?