I’m so guilty of all of the “don’t do this” habits. I’m watching this at midnight and can’t wait to get up in the morning and follow your instructions! Thank you!
0:02 "let's jump straight into business", and he delivered that. No "please like and subscribe" or other BS. Instead, a great explanation on watercolour painting. You see, content creators, it's not that hard. That's how you make people like, subscribe and tell their friend about your channel.😃
Thank you so so much 😊🙏🏼🙏🏼 I sometimes do say it & don’t jump straight to business haha, but it’s been a gradual process to trim the fat & get to the value fast. So grateful for your kind comment & support ❤️🙏🏼
I never understood that this is what is meant by "overworking" a painting. I thought overworking just meant ruining the paper by going over one spot too much. This makes so much sense, though, and is exactly what I've been doing! Thank you! I expect to be much happier with my paintings now!
Same here. I thought overworking was some kind of extreme case but I just saw in this video that not only I do it all the time, I also thought it was a good habit to have lol
I Love this! We did something similar where we live out. This video actually gave us inspiration and hope that we can still become successful, thanks so much for this video.
I just started watercolor painting and I couldn’t figure out why my painting always looks uneven and blotchy, but now I completely understand! I do outline first, go back and fix things up and add more water and mix my paints part way through! THANK YOU!!! 🙏
As someone with literal actual OCD I now know why perfectionism has wrecked watercoloring for me in the past. From now on I’ll just repeat to myself, no one cares about that all they see is the shape. This is actually so helpful haha
One of my watercolor teachers told me you should make a habit of using a bigger brush than you think you need while painting , which inhibits you from overworking areas. This is something that ended up working quite well for me as a general rule , maybe it can help someone out there too.
Great advice, at the very least one should experiment with whatever may be a solution to their problem (: I find this works well for me at times (using a larger brush)
Thanks for this. It’s basic, but something I’m guilty of! I’m often unhappy with the lack of life in my colours, and yet on a gash piece of paper that I use to try colours out where I’ve just swiped a brush down, the colours look fresh and vibrant! I’ve often remarked on this, but you are the only person that’s explained why. 🙏
Thank you Alison 😊🙏🏼 Go ahead and apply it! You'll get those same results on a finished painting. One more thing to note is - perhaps it's a good idea to mix less (: Try using colors cleanly. The more you mix- the more likely you are to end up with "confused gray / brown colors"
Thank you so much. I’ve been painting watercolours for decades, but no one ever explained the REASONS for getting “muddy” pictures like you have. I think my future paintings will be greatly improved and “fresher” looking just because of this one video. Thanks again for this valuable insight.
That first example of trying to correct the shape is exactly one of the reasons I ended up quitting art after 10 years of never improving! It’s not a problem I ever saw many people talking about but it’s so common, it really should be one of the first things you learn-if for no other reason then as a warning to those just starting out. I have disabilities that prevent me from being able to control a brush (I’m an incomplete quadriplegic) or ‘see’/create shapes properly (spatial/motor dysgraphia, which is somewhat like dyslexia for motor skills, if that makes sense.) SO much advice I could have received from videos like this earlier on would have saved me a lot of wasted years and money. I’m still having a really hard time accepting that art can’t be in my life anymore, so I still find myself watching videos and guides and such even though it kinda leaves me feeling worse and worse about myself lol. I keep a folder of videos I like in case I ever have someone else to send them to so I’m def saving this to it. I love that you keep things so simple and direct! Really great work all around :)
I am a learner and was doing some swatching today. So I thought. 95% of what I was doing and have done, is exactly what you showed. It is thanks to so many of you professional artists spending so much of your time and effort in recording, editing, and uploading videos online, for everyone to see, that I am learning the tips and hints I need to know, so I can grow and learn properly. Thank you so so much. 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Great video for beginners and still helpful to remember. I take it with a grain of salt because all of these “bad habits” can be beautiful and useful tools if you practice them enough. Blooms (cauliflower), rivulettes, and lifting are all incorporated into my practice now and is what makes my paintings unique and personal. Hate to see them sold as all “bad” when they are actually useful in achieving unique variety of mark making.
Great GREAT point 😁 Keep up the awesome work. There's this super skilled artist who uses them to their advantage too (Bjorn Bernstrom): www.seamlessexpression.com/blog/2014/10/my-bjorn-bernstrom-watercolor-workshop.html So happy you found this vid useful!
Hard agree but I think the point here is to teach fundamentals first and foremost :) You know what they say: You need to know the rules before you can know how to break them!
Agree! I would, rather the. Say what not to do, if at all possible teach how to obtain an even, consistent wash using the techniques he speaks to. And then to demonstrate how to get other effects. One of my first classes is on how to obtain 12 different effects, using different techniques. I am glad though, that so many people are helped by this video!
Those that make these amazing videos to HELP people become better artists without expecting fees let’s me know they actually love what they do. Thank you for taking the time to have constructed this video 😢❤ 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Well I have to disagree with this perspective. Watercolour blooms or 'Cauliflowers' are what gives Watercolour painting it's charm. Those happy accidental blooms are so beautiful especially for sky and seascapes you cannot get this effect with any other paint which is why I love Watercolours.
Hello Liron. This video is a real light bulb moment for me and I thank you so much. I’ve been copying what you did here and realised how I had been going wrong all along. Now I am sure my work will improve. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
You randomly popped up on my front page and I am glad I clicked, my medium is painting that I am the most comfortable I am with as an Artist and I realy struggle with water color. Thank you SO MUCH!
Fascinating parallel with playing music, especially improvisation. If you can't hear what you're going to play, don't play yet. Same here - if you don't know ahead what you're going to paint, don't paint yet.
I appreciate this! I think the first one is the most interesting to me personally, I love the inconsistency and the surprises, but if you’re going for a specific look or realism you definitely need to not overwork it and for it to be even. Thank you for explaining that so well!
Can you imagine someone doing all this things for years and then she became a mom who can't lose face in front her pretty little kids but she's still doing these until she finally met her lifesaver which is you and learnt her mistakes. That's me, and that's how much I'm grateful to your. Thanks a lot.
@@LironYan thanks. I really needed that. It was like this, now that I know what NOT to do, I seem to mess up thinking what I should do! So, I messed up a lot. And my naughtiest one was like, Mom you're the best when it comes to sketching but you really mess up when you use watercolor! And I was like, you're really becoming more and more fearless these days. I'm gonna get you for this, you just wait.
Just saw this video, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm going to start unlearning those bad habits and move forward. Finally, a teacher that teaches!
Great advice, Liron. Thought you were actually speaking directly to me. I always redo a line I don’t think is “perfect”. I’ll be working on this one! Thank you 🙏🏻
Oh gosh...I love how direct and blunt you are with this approach. So many teachers aren't able to share the facts / truth about placement, brush strokes, water to paint ratio this clearly. Thank you for that.
I'm about to start painting with watercolors (my first set is already on its way!) and I decided to start studying right now. This is really useful and I will definitely come back to your video when I can actually understand all of this and put it into practice. Thank you very much for your advice!
This is my first video in your channel and I have to say is a fantastic video. I love how you explained in detail but more importantly you showed us what to do and what NOT to do. I’m a visual person so this is going to help me learn how to do watercolor! I’m excited to learn
THANK YOU for showing this technique! I learned this years ago, but lately on every tutorial I see, they go over and over the shape! Looks so much better the way you're showing it! More transparent, clean and fresh! 🙏
Came back and watched again a month later. Since then I've read a great quote on this subject from Bruce on Handprint: "Watercolor begs for fussing." (He is urging you NOT to fuss with it, as Liron urges here.) On the other end of the spectrum, he discusses how if you layer enough (and in the right way) you end up burnishing the paper and getting a nice smooth result when doing realism. So I guess there's two kinds of watercolorists: either loose, or super controlled realists, and where we don't want to be is in the middle -- because that looks overworked and tight.
Got it! This is the best demonstration of A watercolour wash I have seen. And I’ve been painting watercolour for more than twenty years. Now I might get it right. Thank you
I have been inspired by you since I began painting 3 years ago. I have no natural talent but I believe I can get better as I enjoy the process. This video is exactly what I needed. A million thank you’s for addressing common beginner mistakes. I love your art and techniques as I have learned many things from you. You are an amazing artist and I am humbled to even grasp a few tips to improve.
Liron, I'm a beginner in water coloring and just in this video you did for us has really helped me to understand how to use your brush and loading your brush with color in a even way and not to double dip into you color the wrong way. You are really good in talking to us in a way that we can understand the correct way to learn to load your brush and how to apply it to your paper. I will continue to watch your videos. I just happen to run across your channel and glad I stopped to watch you. Great Job.
I appreciate the explanation with the demonstration of the beginners mistakes. I understand now why I’m having these issues, and can use these tips to help make washes for a collage project
During a course I had to create a visual representation of core values and I agonized for basically 4 weeks over how to represent them in a coherent picture and ended up with a theme. I did a quick sketch in half an hour and used the backside of a wall calender and some felt pens to draw it up in 3 hours. The calender is made from glossy paper and the colours are already fading, so I decided to create a watercolor version of it. I bought appropriate paper and I am *so scared* of messing this picture up. This was valuable advice that helped me not be so scared of tackling the project. Thank you for sharing. :)
That explains a lot of difficulty I've been having. Thanks for sharing! Also, thanks very much for telling everyone that "no one will care". That's what I tell folks all the time (I'm better in other medium). Fussy painting isn't organic in most cases and ruins the painting by highlighting the mistakes you're trying to fix. Kudos.
This was super helpful, thank you! I'm very much a perfectionist and used to working mainly with graphite, so I've been struggling not to go back and overcorrect things in watercolor. It's great to actually see things demonstrated so clearly.
I will follow your instructions that way I won’t throw away so many 8:54 of my attempts to paint. Thank God I can get free advice from your precious videos. Keep making more of them. They are so useful ! ❤❤❤❤😊
I just realized how many mistakes I've been making with my water coloring 😅 Your video did a perfect job pointing them out and explaining how I can do better : )Thanks !
Finally, some really intro-level tips, and a video that's direct and to the point! I'm just picking up a brush for the first time and no other tutorials have been so helpful in such short time.
Wow! I took some of these tips and it was a must to comment because of how useful they were to me. Instant upgrade of my pictures. The subtle comment that the paint must be mixed fully and that the brush needs to be soaked with that particular mixture made a huge impact.
This is really very helpful… I did all those things wrong 😂… Especially going back for a detail that wasn’t perfect… But now I see it, I totally see where I go wrong… Thank you 😁
You’re the BEST Liron. I love short videos. I learn better with short videos since I have the attention span of a gnat. I so appreciate your help. I’m guilty of fiddling and I know that if I’d just lay a wash down and move on things would come out better. I’m working on it. Blessings to you!
This is just what I needed! Thanks so much! I do a lot of tutorials and paint with reference photo's but the result is messy and I didn't understand why! Know I do! Thanks for sharing :)
“Have a plan” - THIS is the thing I suck at 😂 As someone who has only ever worked in charcoal and pencil, which are ridiculously forgiving… Watercolour is kicking my ass in this respect 😅
This all clicked for me why this happens when you said you’re lifting paint, which makes sense since you already lifted the brush off the paper and you’re not actually applying more of the paint like you’d think you were, but lifting it off instead. When I first started watercolors, I thought it would be so easy compared to other paint mediums…how hard is pushing water and pigments around, right?! but I couldn’t have been more wrong because it has its own learning curve all together!
Thanks Liron. I'm pretty sure you covered these points in another video some time ago but it is so helpful to be reminded again - it's so easy to forget some of the "basics" as we become focused on learning new techniques etc.
One of the best watercolor tutorials. 🔥 Really communicates the physicality of the process better than most tutorials. I appreciate how close you got the camera to your palette, brush, & paper, but you also just explain aspects that make a lot of sense to me on a visceral level now that I’ve spent a lot of hours practicing watercolor & gouache, but tips which are still very relevant to my intermediate level.
i havent touched watercolor in a long time because i found it frustrating (moved to gouache in the meantime) but i decided to try and give it another go for a couple more times. This video pretty much pointed out the majority of the reasons why my watercolor pieces dont come out the way i want them to and im stoked to try and apply what i learned here on my next piece!
Liron, this video is absolute gold. Thank you. I took from this to, first and foremost, plan ahead, but if one makes mistakes during first wash, to let them go, because trying to fix them during the same first wash creates new problems. Question: should one try and even out uneven first wash with a second wash once first one has dried? I ask, because I think you've said that it's best to try and get everything in in one go, so maybe a second wash is overkill? thanks
I say, try the methods you mentioned on a test scrap, see what and how it feels, how it looks etc. Personally I think the inital wash has to be rather smooth in order for a new layer to really make impact, my suspcion would be if the wash initially wasn't smooth and had blooming etc, a second wash may intensify that bloom, I imagine it might sit darker in places on top of an unsmooth wash, but trial and error! Give it a lil try and see how it works for you :)
Great advice by Jade! I'll add that I actually show this in the Blue Portrait demo in the Watercolor Realism course. The first wash is quite patchy as I missed the right timing. But as it was still quite light, I could still glaze over it, and it somewhat alleviated the initial layers unevenness (: But it will vary on a case by case basis. Sometimes it's best to let it go. And sometimes I'll try really hard to fix unevenness EVEN in the initial wash, EVEN if it's close to starting to dry to much haha.
You are excellent teacher of watercolor painting!!! I learned so much from this video! I'm learning to let the paint do it's work rather than me pushing it to happen. I will be watching more of your videos. You are amazing!!😊
Hi Liron, thanks for the tips. I have a question, if you put your color in and its not dark enough, is the best to wait for it to dry and go over it again?
The best answer for me is to do wet-in-wet as soon as possible (: But - you have to make sure what you have on the brush isn’t wetter than what’s on paper- or you’ll create cauliflowers of course. And, usually it’ll have to be quite darker than what’s on paper, for it to properly darken it (: And if it’s too late - I wait 😉 Hope that helps!
I'm brand new to watercolors, just started earlier this month, and this quick and simple video is IMMENSLY HELPFUL. Thank you so much, this helps explain some of the problems I've been encountering, but didn't know what was happening.
It might be really great if you make a video where you recreate one of your recent pictures, but using only student-grade materials. So "good" (not better or best) paper, a 12 color pan set, and "good" synthetic brushes. ALSO, if it looks as good as the first painting, then I promise to "like and comment" on EVERY one of your previous videos, because I would be VERY impressed by your skills.
You are exclusive ❤️ Those instructions are very helpful This is the first time that shows exactly why an overflow happens and how to achieve the perfection 👍👍👍 🇨🇦 Thanks for the video
What a great way to explain this! So straightforward and to the point! I like to make blooms on purpose for vegetation and skies, but not on buildings, streets and still water!!
These tips are incredible. It‘s unique in how you tell us, things we could all easily see us doing but should try to avoid, perhaps because we don’t have enough patience… Thank you so much for showing us.
Dude... Scary. I literally talked about this today with someone. (We didn't talk in English, so how did YT--?) I've NEVER been able to fill the space out like. I always did these things you said not to do. Especially the first one. I never understood why it happened. But you described it perfectly. I finally understood. I'm so excited to try it tomorrow now. Thank you so much.
This was a good watch because I'm very bad about feeling like things have to be perfect before I move on. I'm realizing with watercolors that if you just take your time and do it in proper stages, you can usually either work things out the way you wanted as you keep going or sometimes the mistakes end up just becoming a part of the painting.
Doing painting seriously and sincerely for the last four years. Love to do water colours most of all. Didn’t ever think about the grammar of it. Was only trying to do my best. Thanks so much. 🙏😍
Thank you for showing this I’m a beginner knows nothing but you just showed me just what I do wrong now I hope I can get better and enjoy my water colors because you showed me the right way Thank you again
I have been doing watercolor painting for about a month, this is really good learning, even my course teacher did not cover this or I missed it. Thank you
I was looking for beginner techniques and how to use the brush, everyone told a lot of things to do. But no one told what not to do. And I did exactly what not to do. WOW! It felt like you are my actual teacher and actually saw my painting and pointed it out lol! Thanks sir!
I definitely needed to hear this. I didn’t quite realize that I was overworking but knew that my brush strokes seem choppy and sometimes my colors are muddy. I will try to keep this as my focus as I paint next, thank you!
Good to see this, Liron - I have come across these issues as I started painting recently, and wondered why nobody talks about these important points. They may be covered in classes learnt in-person but great to see them explained online here. Thank you, I hope to keep these tips in mind as I paint now on
I’m so guilty of all of the “don’t do this” habits. I’m watching this at midnight and can’t wait to get up in the morning and follow your instructions! Thank you!
Haha YES! 😁 Happy for you, let me know how it went!
why is this also literally me
me tooo!!
me too 🥴
me tooooo!
This is amazing! Nobody tells us noobs how to literally /physically paint. Thank you
Haha - it's very important 😁
Happy this helps, thank you for watching 🙏🏼🙏🏼
exactly I need more of this!
I may have at last found a teacher
Thanks for great tips
Exactly. I want a video showing us literally 😆
0:02 "let's jump straight into business", and he delivered that. No "please like and subscribe" or other BS. Instead, a great explanation on watercolour painting. You see, content creators, it's not that hard. That's how you make people like, subscribe and tell their friend about your channel.😃
Thank you so so much 😊🙏🏼🙏🏼
I sometimes do say it & don’t jump straight to business haha, but it’s been a gradual process to trim the fat & get to the value fast.
So grateful for your kind comment & support ❤️🙏🏼
Agreed!! I learned that I was doing this EXACTLY…and ended up subscribing anyway! 💜🎨
I never understood that this is what is meant by "overworking" a painting. I thought overworking just meant ruining the paper by going over one spot too much. This makes so much sense, though, and is exactly what I've been doing! Thank you! I expect to be much happier with my paintings now!
Same here. I thought overworking was some kind of extreme case but I just saw in this video that not only I do it all the time, I also thought it was a good habit to have lol
@@danielchequer5842 Hahahahaha!!! Yes!!! I think I was even kind of proud of myself!
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I Love this! We did something similar where we live out. This video actually gave us inspiration and hope that we can still become successful, thanks so much for this video.
Brilliant instruction. No one is covering the intricacies of painting problems like you are. Thank you! So helpful.
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Agreed!
@@LironYan pp
I just started watercolor painting and I couldn’t figure out why my painting always looks uneven and blotchy, but now I completely understand! I do outline first, go back and fix things up and add more water and mix my paints part way through! THANK YOU!!! 🙏
Lol 😂
Use tissues and hairdriers , see what they do fo you.
@@Morgan-yl3ou
As someone with literal actual OCD I now know why perfectionism has wrecked watercoloring for me in the past. From now on I’ll just repeat to myself, no one cares about that all they see is the shape. This is actually so helpful haha
One of my watercolor teachers told me you should make a habit of using a bigger brush than you think you need while painting , which inhibits you from overworking areas. This is something that ended up working quite well for me as a general rule , maybe it can help someone out there too.
Great advice, at the very least one should experiment with whatever may be a solution to their problem (:
I find this works well for me at times (using a larger brush)
Thanks for this. It’s basic, but something I’m guilty of! I’m often unhappy with the lack of life in my colours, and yet on a gash piece of paper that I use to try colours out where I’ve just swiped a brush down, the colours look fresh and vibrant! I’ve often remarked on this, but you are the only person that’s explained why. 🙏
Thank you Alison 😊🙏🏼 Go ahead and apply it! You'll get those same results on a finished painting.
One more thing to note is - perhaps it's a good idea to mix less (:
Try using colors cleanly. The more you mix- the more likely you are to end up with "confused gray / brown colors"
Hi 👋
Thank you so much. I’ve been painting watercolours for decades, but no one ever explained the REASONS for getting “muddy” pictures like you have. I think my future paintings will be greatly improved and “fresher” looking just because of this one video. Thanks again for this valuable insight.
I’m so guilty I’m scared a lawyer will sue me
I've never seen anyone on TH-cam explaining all those mistakes and showing ways on how to avoid them! Thank you so much for this video!
Thank you 😊🙏🏼 So happy I could help!
Love these short ones! I would rather watch 20 shorts than one long one. Thank you. So much good info.
😁😁 Will do more!
Thank you Debbie. I’m the same. I learn better with short videos, and the information sticks. Awesome comment!
That first example of trying to correct the shape is exactly one of the reasons I ended up quitting art after 10 years of never improving! It’s not a problem I ever saw many people talking about but it’s so common, it really should be one of the first things you learn-if for no other reason then as a warning to those just starting out. I have disabilities that prevent me from being able to control a brush (I’m an incomplete quadriplegic) or ‘see’/create shapes properly (spatial/motor dysgraphia, which is somewhat like dyslexia for motor skills, if that makes sense.) SO much advice I could have received from videos like this earlier on would have saved me a lot of wasted years and money.
I’m still having a really hard time accepting that art can’t be in my life anymore, so I still find myself watching videos and guides and such even though it kinda leaves me feeling worse and worse about myself lol. I keep a folder of videos I like in case I ever have someone else to send them to so I’m def saving this to it. I love that you keep things so simple and direct! Really great work all around :)
I am a learner and was doing some swatching today.
So I thought.
95% of what I was doing and have done, is exactly what you showed.
It is thanks to so many of you professional artists spending so much of your time and effort in recording, editing, and uploading videos online, for everyone to see, that I am learning the tips and hints I need to know, so I can grow and learn properly.
Thank you so so much. 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Thank YOU for watching! 🙏😊
It's thanks to you and others that this channel exists!
Very happy this is useful, keep up the great work ♥
Great video for beginners and still helpful to remember. I take it with a grain of salt because all of these “bad habits” can be beautiful and useful tools if you practice them enough. Blooms (cauliflower), rivulettes, and lifting are all incorporated into my practice now and is what makes my paintings unique and personal. Hate to see them sold as all “bad” when they are actually useful in achieving unique variety of mark making.
Great GREAT point 😁
Keep up the awesome work.
There's this super skilled artist who uses them to their advantage too (Bjorn Bernstrom):
www.seamlessexpression.com/blog/2014/10/my-bjorn-bernstrom-watercolor-workshop.html
So happy you found this vid useful!
Hard agree but I think the point here is to teach fundamentals first and foremost :) You know what they say: You need to know the rules before you can know how to break them!
I agree, but if you are wanting the perfect wash then this vid is excellent advice.
Agree! I would, rather the. Say what not to do, if at all possible teach how to obtain an even, consistent wash using the techniques he speaks to. And then to demonstrate how to get other effects. One of my first classes is on how to obtain 12 different effects, using different techniques. I am glad though, that so many people are helped by this video!
It’s definitely a case of knowing the rules before you break them
Those that make these amazing videos to HELP people become better artists without expecting fees let’s me know they actually love what they do.
Thank you for taking the time to have constructed this video 😢❤ 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Oh thank you Samantha 😊🙏🏼
Well I have to disagree with this perspective. Watercolour blooms or 'Cauliflowers' are what gives Watercolour painting it's charm. Those happy accidental blooms are so beautiful especially for sky and seascapes you cannot get this effect with any other paint which is why I love Watercolours.
Hello Liron. This video is a real light bulb moment for me and I thank you so much. I’ve been copying what you did here and realised how I had been going wrong all along. Now I am sure my work will improve. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you James! Keep it up 😁 Let me know how it goes!
It’s like you’ve been watching me! I do all of those “don’ts”….and will try your processes going forward! Love your tutorials! Thanks!
Haha I'm in everyone's head! 😂🎨✏
You randomly popped up on my front page and I am glad I clicked, my medium is painting that I am the most comfortable I am with as an Artist and I realy struggle with water color. Thank you SO MUCH!
Fascinating parallel with playing music, especially improvisation. If you can't hear what you're going to play, don't play yet. Same here - if you don't know ahead what you're going to paint, don't paint yet.
Finally. A watercolor channel that isn't desperate to be my friend and make me "feel good". I appreciate your no-bullshit style.
I appreciate this! I think the first one is the most interesting to me personally, I love the inconsistency and the surprises, but if you’re going for a specific look or realism you definitely need to not overwork it and for it to be even. Thank you for explaining that so well!
Thank you for watching 😊🙏🏼 Yes - that's a great distinction!
Can you imagine someone doing all this things for years and then she became a mom who can't lose face in front her pretty little kids but she's still doing these until she finally met her lifesaver which is you and learnt her mistakes.
That's me, and that's how much I'm grateful to your. Thanks a lot.
Haha wow thank you so much 🙏😊
Very happy to hear this helps!!
And don't stress over it - some messy freedom is great too!
@@LironYan thanks. I really needed that.
It was like this, now that I know what NOT to do, I seem to mess up thinking what I should do! So, I messed up a lot. And my naughtiest one was like, Mom you're the best when it comes to sketching but you really mess up when you use watercolor! And I was like, you're really becoming more and more fearless these days. I'm gonna get you for this, you just wait.
I never knew what I was doing wrong because no one ever adressed this. My mind is blown, my artwork looks so much better instantly! Thank you SO much!
Just saw this video, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm going to start unlearning those bad habits and move forward. Finally, a teacher that teaches!
So simple and ...so complicated for my obsesiive mind 😆. Thank you very much for your help. Super useful!
Great advice, Liron. Thought you were actually speaking directly to me. I always redo a line I don’t think is “perfect”. I’ll be working on this one! Thank you 🙏🏻
Haha I've seen it SO MUCH my friend, so had to address it 😁 Thank you 🙏🏼
Oh gosh...I love how direct and blunt you are with this approach. So many teachers aren't able to share the facts / truth about placement, brush strokes, water to paint ratio this clearly. Thank you for that.
as a person who pays too much attention to details, this literally opened my eyes and my mind
Its actually mindblowing how good of a teacher you are
Wow, thank you!! 😊🙏🏼❤️
I'm about to start painting with watercolors (my first set is already on its way!) and I decided to start studying right now. This is really useful and I will definitely come back to your video when I can actually understand all of this and put it into practice. Thank you very much for your advice!
“Have a plan.” I’ve saved this. And will watch it for a third time when i need to. Thank you.
No wonder my water color attempts are so horrible. Thank you for this video!!!!
I really appreciate how you say things in a very understandable way with examples , by illustrations etc.
Simplicity is the simplest way haha 😁 Thank you
This is my first video in your channel and I have to say is a fantastic video. I love how you explained in detail but more importantly you showed us what to do and what NOT to do. I’m a visual person so this is going to help me learn how to do watercolor! I’m excited to learn
Wow thank you! So happy this was helpful 😁
I’m super visual as well haha, I’m trying to create the lessons I was missing when starting out!
@@LironYan I appreciate your videos. Keep them coming
THANK YOU for showing this technique! I learned this years ago, but lately on every tutorial I see, they go over and over the shape!
Looks so much better the way you're showing it! More transparent, clean and fresh! 🙏
Came back and watched again a month later. Since then I've read a great quote on this subject from Bruce on Handprint: "Watercolor begs for fussing." (He is urging you NOT to fuss with it, as Liron urges here.) On the other end of the spectrum, he discusses how if you layer enough (and in the right way) you end up burnishing the paper and getting a nice smooth result when doing realism. So I guess there's two kinds of watercolorists: either loose, or super controlled realists, and where we don't want to be is in the middle -- because that looks overworked and tight.
I love love love that you just got to the point instead of just talking our ears out with things that we don't care about. Subscribed ❤
Haha thank you! 🙏♥
Doing my best to get straight to the point, though I don't always succeed 😛
Looks like you have a great collection of different types of grey paint in that palette! 😂 Thanks for the great video.
Got it!
This is the best demonstration of
A watercolour wash I have seen. And
I’ve been painting watercolour for more
than twenty years. Now I might get it
right.
Thank you
Perfect 😁
So happy to hear, thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼
I have been inspired by you since I began painting 3 years ago. I have no natural talent but I believe I can get better as I enjoy the process. This video is exactly what I needed. A million thank you’s for addressing common beginner mistakes. I love your art and techniques as I have learned many things from you. You are an amazing artist and I am humbled to even grasp a few tips to improve.
Liron, I'm a beginner in water coloring and just in this video you did for us has really helped me to understand how to use your brush and loading your brush with color in a even way and not to double dip into you color the wrong way. You are really good in talking to us in a way that we can understand the correct way to learn to load your brush and how to apply it to your paper.
I will continue to watch your videos. I just happen to run across your channel and glad I stopped to watch you. Great Job.
I appreciate the explanation with the demonstration of the beginners mistakes. I understand now why I’m having these issues, and can use these tips to help make washes for a collage project
Awesome! Keep me posted on how it goes 🙏🏼👍🎨
thanks God I haven't started to spoil my first sketch with all the disastrous technique and watched your video before!
the rock'n'roll watercolourist - love your energy, man
I been looking for so many tutorials for total beginners and is so hard to find someone that actually tells you the things you did, thank you so much!
Thank you so much! 🙏😊
I hope to do another beginner / basics one soon, not enough info on this out there (:
During a course I had to create a visual representation of core values and I agonized for basically 4 weeks over how to represent them in a coherent picture and ended up with a theme. I did a quick sketch in half an hour and used the backside of a wall calender and some felt pens to draw it up in 3 hours. The calender is made from glossy paper and the colours are already fading, so I decided to create a watercolor version of it. I bought appropriate paper and I am *so scared* of messing this picture up. This was valuable advice that helped me not be so scared of tackling the project. Thank you for sharing. :)
That explains a lot of difficulty I've been having. Thanks for sharing! Also, thanks very much for telling everyone that "no one will care". That's what I tell folks all the time (I'm better in other medium). Fussy painting isn't organic in most cases and ruins the painting by highlighting the mistakes you're trying to fix. Kudos.
This was super helpful, thank you! I'm very much a perfectionist and used to working mainly with graphite, so I've been struggling not to go back and overcorrect things in watercolor. It's great to actually see things demonstrated so clearly.
Thank you 😊🙏🏼 Watercolor is so different from dry media, takes a bit of a mindset shift.
But once it clicks - it's so fun
I will follow your instructions that way I won’t throw away so many 8:54 of my attempts to paint. Thank God I can get free advice from your precious videos. Keep making more of them. They are so useful ! ❤❤❤❤😊
I just realized how many mistakes I've been making with my water coloring 😅 Your video did a perfect job pointing them out and explaining how I can do better : )Thanks !
Haha we all do this! Keep practicing and you’ll make it 💪💪
Finally, some really intro-level tips, and a video that's direct and to the point! I'm just picking up a brush for the first time and no other tutorials have been so helpful in such short time.
That painting you showed was awesome. You could clearly tell the wind was blowing….
Thank you so much 😊🙏🏼 Lucky there was long hair to paint! 😁
Wow! I took some of these tips and it was a must to comment because of how useful they were to me.
Instant upgrade of my pictures. The subtle comment that the paint must be mixed fully and that the brush needs to be soaked with that particular mixture made a huge impact.
Amazing to hear 😁🙏🏼🙏🏼
This is really very helpful… I did all those things wrong 😂… Especially going back for a detail that wasn’t perfect… But now I see it, I totally see where I go wrong… Thank you 😁
You’re the BEST Liron. I love short videos. I learn better with short videos since I have the attention span of a gnat. I so appreciate your help. I’m guilty of fiddling and I know that if I’d just lay a wash down and move on things would come out better. I’m working on it. Blessings to you!
This is just what I needed! Thanks so much! I do a lot of tutorials and paint with reference photo's but the result is messy and I didn't understand why! Know I do! Thanks for sharing :)
This is hands down the best video at explaining watercolor that I’ve ever seen!
Yep! I do all those things. Thank you very much, for your great instructions. 😄
“Have a plan” - THIS is the thing I suck at 😂 As someone who has only ever worked in charcoal and pencil, which are ridiculously forgiving… Watercolour is kicking my ass in this respect 😅
This all clicked for me why this happens when you said you’re lifting paint, which makes sense since you already lifted the brush off the paper and you’re not actually applying more of the paint like you’d think you were, but lifting it off instead.
When I first started watercolors, I thought it would be so easy compared to other paint mediums…how hard is pushing water and pigments around, right?! but I couldn’t have been more wrong because it has its own learning curve all together!
Haha that’s the crazy world of watercolor 😂😁 But once you get the control down - it’s almost nothing but fun!
This could make the biggest improvement in my painting so far. I’m going to implement these tips now
lol Liron seems genuinely annoyed by bad painting habits, I can imagine him watching me then screaming!
😂😂😂 Not annoyed, just passionate!
I thought so too 😂 it felt like he was about to explode 😅
Ya. I got stressed by this video
I've been doing all these mistakes and I would have never noticed these points if not for your video. Thanks a lot for your content.
Thanks Liron. I'm pretty sure you covered these points in another video some time ago but it is so helpful to be reminded again - it's so easy to forget some of the "basics" as we become focused on learning new techniques etc.
Yes! It always surprises me how much is forgotten, and how fast 😂
I also need constant reminders on my weak points
One of the best watercolor tutorials. 🔥 Really communicates the physicality of the process better than most tutorials. I appreciate how close you got the camera to your palette, brush, & paper, but you also just explain aspects that make a lot of sense to me on a visceral level now that I’ve spent a lot of hours practicing watercolor & gouache, but tips which are still very relevant to my intermediate level.
I’m guilty of making ALL of these mistakes, thank you - extremely helpful 😅
Haha that's a common theme! I made all the possible mistakes at some point 😁
Small steps for the win! 🏆
i havent touched watercolor in a long time because i found it frustrating (moved to gouache in the meantime) but i decided to try and give it another go for a couple more times.
This video pretty much pointed out the majority of the reasons why my watercolor pieces dont come out the way i want them to and im stoked to try and apply what i learned here on my next piece!
Liron, this video is absolute gold. Thank you. I took from this to, first and foremost, plan ahead, but if one makes mistakes during first wash, to let them go, because trying to fix them during the same first wash creates new problems. Question: should one try and even out uneven first wash with a second wash once first one has dried? I ask, because I think you've said that it's best to try and get everything in in one go, so maybe a second wash is overkill? thanks
I say, try the methods you mentioned on a test scrap, see what and how it feels, how it looks etc. Personally I think the inital wash has to be rather smooth in order for a new layer to really make impact, my suspcion would be if the wash initially wasn't smooth and had blooming etc, a second wash may intensify that bloom, I imagine it might sit darker in places on top of an unsmooth wash, but trial and error! Give it a lil try and see how it works for you :)
Great advice by Jade! I'll add that I actually show this in the Blue Portrait demo in the Watercolor Realism course.
The first wash is quite patchy as I missed the right timing.
But as it was still quite light, I could still glaze over it, and it somewhat alleviated the initial layers unevenness (:
But it will vary on a case by case basis. Sometimes it's best to let it go. And sometimes I'll try really hard to fix unevenness EVEN in the initial wash, EVEN if it's close to starting to dry to much haha.
@@justifyingjade great advice, Jade. Thanks! 🙏
@@LironYan i always feel it’s worth a shot. A case by case basis, indeed!
You are excellent teacher of watercolor painting!!! I learned so much from this video! I'm learning to let the paint do it's work rather than me pushing it to happen. I will be watching more of your videos. You are amazing!!😊
Hi Liron, thanks for the tips. I have a question, if you put your color in and its not dark enough, is the best to wait for it to dry and go over it again?
The best answer for me is to do wet-in-wet as soon as possible (:
But - you have to make sure what you have on the brush isn’t wetter than what’s on paper- or you’ll create cauliflowers of course. And, usually it’ll have to be quite darker than what’s on paper, for it to properly darken it (:
And if it’s too late - I wait 😉
Hope that helps!
@@LironYan thanks Liron that's great 👍
I'm brand new to watercolors, just started earlier this month, and this quick and simple video is IMMENSLY HELPFUL. Thank you so much, this helps explain some of the problems I've been encountering, but didn't know what was happening.
Happy I could help! 🙏😊 Thank you so much for watching
It might be really great if you make a video where you recreate one of your recent pictures, but using only student-grade materials. So "good" (not better or best) paper, a 12 color pan set, and "good" synthetic brushes. ALSO, if it looks as good as the first painting, then I promise to "like and comment" on EVERY one of your previous videos, because I would be VERY impressed by your skills.
Haha that's a neat idea! May do that 😁
You are exclusive ❤️ Those instructions are very helpful This is the first time that shows exactly why an overflow happens and how to achieve the perfection 👍👍👍 🇨🇦 Thanks for the video
Wow thank you ☺️ So happy this helps!
I literally do ALL of this today 💀💀
Anyway, thank you for this,it's really helpful!
What a great way to explain this! So straightforward and to the point! I like to make blooms on purpose for vegetation and skies, but not on buildings, streets and still water!!
Awesome! So happy you do use blooms for some subjects / parts of the painting 😁
Bruh this is the biggest problem of painting especially in wet on wet
Thanks for this tutorial
Also 5:37 brought me physical pain
Haha 😂 I totally get the physical pain
Means your senses are sharp!
Great tips, Liron!
Have you been watching me?? That’s me making everyone of these mistakes!!😮
Haha myself too, that's how I know!
These tips are incredible. It‘s unique in how you tell us, things we could all easily see us doing but should try to avoid, perhaps because we don’t have enough patience… Thank you so much for showing us.
Thank you for watching 😊🙏🏼
Nothing's obvious in watercolor haha, so happy I could help (:
Dude... Scary. I literally talked about this today with someone. (We didn't talk in English, so how did YT--?) I've NEVER been able to fill the space out like. I always did these things you said not to do. Especially the first one. I never understood why it happened. But you described it perfectly. I finally understood. I'm so excited to try it tomorrow now. Thank you so much.
Happy I could help 😁
I’ve been seeing many people run into this issue! (:
very (brutally) honest and to the point instructions! really made me realize my mistakes
Nice video🌹
I suppose it's not easy to be a professional and act like an amateur! 😉😊
😛😛 I try hard!
This was a good watch because I'm very bad about feeling like things have to be perfect before I move on. I'm realizing with watercolors that if you just take your time and do it in proper stages, you can usually either work things out the way you wanted as you keep going or sometimes the mistakes end up just becoming a part of the painting.
The only thing I can paint with watercolour is sunsets 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for teaching these golden tips! not only I was already removing paint by overworking but also ruining the texture of the paper!
Doing painting seriously and sincerely for the last four years. Love to do water colours most of all. Didn’t ever think about the grammar of it. Was only trying to do my best. Thanks so much. 🙏😍
Thank you for showing this I’m a beginner knows nothing but you just showed me just what I do wrong now I hope I can get better and enjoy my water colors because you showed me the right way Thank you again
I have been doing watercolor painting for about a month, this is really good learning, even my course teacher did not cover this or I missed it. Thank you
Thank you! 😊
This kind of explanation is extremely important to give our painting a real upgrade, thank you tons
I was looking for beginner techniques and how to use the brush, everyone told a lot of things to do. But no one told what not to do. And I did exactly what not to do. WOW! It felt like you are my actual teacher and actually saw my painting and pointed it out lol! Thanks sir!
One of the best and most practical videos on watercolour, he answered all the questions in my head like he knew what I was thinking already. love it!
Thank you 😁🙏🏼
I definitely needed to hear this. I didn’t quite realize that I was overworking but knew that my brush strokes seem choppy and sometimes my colors are muddy. I will try to keep this as my focus as I paint next, thank you!
Let me know how it goes 😊
Cheers! Thank you Liron. I'm sure I did that just yesterday (my 3rd or so watercolor). I'll fix that now :)
Dear Mr.Yanconsky! Thats exactly what i need! You explain the whole thing very good. Thank you so much, it helps a lot.☘️💚☘️
Thank you for watching and for the kind words 😊🙏🏼
Good to see this, Liron - I have come across these issues as I started painting recently, and wondered why nobody talks about these important points. They may be covered in classes learnt in-person but great to see them explained online here. Thank you, I hope to keep these tips in mind as I paint now on
Thank you for watching 🙏😊 Very happy this video is useful
Thank you very much for all the efforts you take to teach others. Your dedication to watercolor technique and teaching it selflessly is commendable.
Thank you so much 😊🙏🏼
Thanks, Liron, You provide such useful, clear instruction in a short video. These short specific tips are easy to remember.