Watercolor Brushes for Beginners - Dagger Brush Drills
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2024
- Ever wonder how you can quickly level up your art making game? Finding watercolor brushes for beginners worthy of getting to know better can feel impossible. But let me introduce you to the dagger brush. Paint with me as we practice watercolor brush drills with what I call the Art for Joy's Sake brush!
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0:00 - Intro
1:55 - Supplies used
2:52 - Starting the watercolor brush drills
3:30 - Curved edge drills
9:40 - Brush point drills
14:10 - The entire point of this video
16:41 - Long edge drills
18:49 - Bring all the strokes together
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A very instrumental art tutor of mine once told me that our brush strokes should be as unique as our handwriting. I think artists often underestimate the importance of having an arsenal of brush strokes from which to draw from. Your “drill” just reiterates how important this is. Thanks again for sharing your talent and time. You are an absolute breath of fresh air! Blessings!
Ahhh I adore the way you said this!! Yes!! Our brushstroke is our signature!
Makes me want to paint again, to let go of my fear and become confident enough that I STOP calling myself a beginner. Of course that means I have to stick with it, I have to paint every day (or every other day, as time permits!). I have to put pigment to paper for the JOY of it! Kristy, you inspire me!
I’m so glad I’m inspiring you!! But I have some unsolicited words of advice for you: Pht that brush to paper absolutely but don’t feel like you have to paint a certain number of days a week. Sure in the beginning pushing past the fear of the blank page a bunch of times is a good idea but motivation begets momentum so let it happen when it happens and then you won’t even have to plan it eventually, you’ll just be drawn to the brush!!
This is fantastic. It should be the 1st session in every class. I'm new to watercolor and would have appreciated this a lot.
Well awesome!!
I am a musician by training and this video is the closet to scales and arpeggios I have seen for painting! I am a practice fan by nature, and have been playing with my dagger brush making strokes for the last few days before seeing this one. I like that you remind me to use the tip and the flat edge! I tend to just be using the curved edge. Love all of your videos, thank you! My OCD loves filling a page with nothing but strokes. You should see the number of pages of single stroke leaves I have done since I started using watercolor!
Ah this is so cool!!
You are the most enthusiastic and informative teacher! I have been painting for years with a constant need and enthusiasm for new strokes, new ideas.
I’m old. I am half blind. I have so many things wrong with me…I’m trying out things such as a bad stroke, rotator cuff problems (3 surges on them). A bulging disc. RA,OA, fibro myalgia. Compromised immune system, etc!! You see, I try out these conditions and then tell my friends which ones to be sure and avoid!!
When I found watercolor lessons on-line, I was so excited! I don’t see depths and can’t discern many colors…but I am trying and having so much JOY!
You are a PRECIOUS teacher and I look forward to seeing you each day!
Thank you for sharing your talent and making me continue to move my hand and arm!
I love you and your talent🥰
HOLY COW! As my dad used to say, the right tool for the right job. I had been frustrated following you with a 1/2 inch Dagger. I invested in a 1/4 in and right off the bat; I AM PAINTING LEAVES!! *lol*.
I can definitely see why this is your go-to brush. I think it is mine now too!
So happy to hear this :)
I greatly appreciate your focus on the joy of the activity, not the results or being perfect ❤
I appreciate that!
I can tell you right now you’ll never have it all figured out 😂 I’ve been painting for 30 years… and everyday I see something online that blows my mind and proves I have a lot to learn. Ah well! Learning is fun.
Nope never and it’s a good thing!!!
I can’t watch this until I have the brushes!
😉😉😉
Glad I rediscovered my dagger and found your drills. It’ll take time and develop my muscle memory so here goes!!! 😍…oh and I think the Canson XL has less or no cotton content. Arches is 100% cotton so it absorbs the water quickly. On Canson it sits on top because it’s pulp not cotton.
Thanks!
At 18 we all had it figured out, ALL of it. At 62, I am so aware that I don’t have ANYTHING “all figured out.” 😊
It’s quite freeing actually.
I'll be receiving my brushes from you soon...cant wait to do these brush exercises❤
You're an awesome artist and teacher ❤
Super helpful! Seeing a more focused view of how to hold the brush for different effects is golden for a beginner- thank you 😊
Glad this is helpful!!
Love this video. I got you "Art For Joy's Sake from the library (for the 2nd time, I may have to buy one) and I just wasn't understanding what you meant by the long edge of the brush. This video is so helpful. You make watercolor look super accessible. I just turned 61, I love learning new things, and I'm super excited about watercolor now! Thanks so much for sharing.
Hope you enjoy it!
58 here and just started ! It’s wonderful!
This is so. Worthwhile to get to know the dagger brush, thank you Kristy.
I have had 2 dagger brushes from Michael's that I will practice this with. When you sped up I slowed it down so I could really see your hand move the brush. Always love your vids. Biggest Fan!!!
Thank you!!
I just discovered this video & it was just in time too! I bought my first dagger brush this week & am SO EXCITED to dive into the paints with it! Thank you Kristy for your encouragement & JOY that you bring to me through your channel! 😍🎨
You’re welcome!
bought the brushes, waiting and waiting and waiting patiently…. Excited
😘😘😘
I did two great paintings with this one brush.
I just love you! Thank you for giving me some confidence !!
I'm loving it! Thank you Kristy ♡
Yay! You’re welcome!
Thank you. Have painted along today & thoroughly enjoying trying out a dagger brush for the first time. So versatile. I love it
Wonderful! So glad you like!!
This is fabulous and SOOOO clear and helpful!
Thank you so much for the video. I have found that it has helped. I think for me I need to loosen up, go with the flow and stop over thinking. Will definitely go through this again
Kristy I just love your paintbrush drills. I have ordered your set of brushes with the lovely canvas brush holder. I am sooo excited and I am soo looking froward to receiving my NEEEEEWWWWWW brushes and tapping into you or brush tutorials … yeehaa I want to know what these beautiful girls can do….practice practice Mary …cheers Kristy. you rock. love you from New Zealand ❤🦄✨💫💕🌸
Love your brush tutorials. They make learning and improving my brush stokes fun and painless
Oh I’m so glad to hear it!!
dynamic, love yor energy and enthusiasm
😘😘
I NEEDED this so much. Just playing with the brush! Oh thank you!
Wahooo!!
I am so happy I bought your brushes, love the Dagger and Cat’s Tongue brush. Love doing the drills with them. Thank you.
I so appreciate that!
Love it! Can’t wait to do these drills. Thank you!
You’re welcome!!
I loved this!. I have a hard time "letting go" and I was slopping paint everywhere! Thanks!
Just received your brush set. Love the dagger brush. These drills were so helpful, but when you demonstrated how to use strokes in a painting I got lost when you speeded the video up. Please do a really slow version of the painting part. Ty
Would you be willing to share the time stamp of the part you’d like to see slower?
Oh my, I'm having a rough day with this one but I refuse to give up! I think I'm too much in my head about mine not looking like yours... I've always been far too critical of myself. Maybe today is just a "have fun making marks with colors" kind of day. 😕
But I still absolutely love your teaching style and fun personality! 💖
You got this!
Thank you! 😊
Kristy, I love your videos, even though I am a beginner. They are highly motivated. I liked this one because it was so helpful with drills for using a dagger.
I'm so glad!
My dagger is my go to brush. Love the drills, I should do more of this in my watercolur, journey. Thanks for sharing.
Yay!! XO
This video was super helpful! Your brushes are on their way to me now, and I can't wait to practice using them! I love the idea of working intuitively as I can tend to over think everything-which takes alot of the fun out of painting.😊❤
Yes lean into that intuition more than anything! Nope you love the brushes!
I LOVE your brushes!
Ohhh thank you!!!
Surprising brush !
Lovin' it!
Thank you!!!! This was a great demo of a dagger brush. So many things to play with, I’m excited to get started
Me too!
Have fun!
Wish I would have had these videos when I started painting!!
That is a lovely compliment :)
Excited to order mine yesterday. Great video on how to use brush, so helpful. Thank you xoxo
Wahoo! And thank you!!!
So much great information! Thank you!
You’re welcome!
I love it that you teach technique. Good stuff.
Thank you!
Just ordered a dagger brush, can't wait to use it. Very new to Watercolor and loving your tutorials ❤️
Awesome! Thank you!
What fantastic timing, I just got my dagger today, I’m so glad you made this video. So excited
Awesome!! Let me know how it goes!!
Love this thank you, I'm excited just by your excitment. Best wishes from Ireland.
Thanks!
Can’t wait to try this out ,thanks for the lesson
You’re very welcome!!
Just what I needed with my new KRice dagger! Thank you!!!!
Glad to help!
Love this drill!!!😃
Wonderful!
I'm used to Sumi brushes of all sizes and hairs, but after watching your channel i had to try these mysterious dagger brushes. I ripped them out their packages and started... Then got a wee frustrated that I couldn't make the flowers like you. Ah then found this video so there is hope again.
One of the best video you have made for us, Kristy! I just got your brushes and am so happy that you are giving us drills to learn how to use them. Cannot believe how loose I am painting so I want to thank you for giving us your experience and enthusiasm!
You’re welcome!!
Hi Kristy, This video was just what I needed, I spent my evening trying to get to know the quarter inch dagger and I was frustrated and really needed some instruction. Your video popped up this morning and gave me the motivation and interest to try again. I love the drills and how you ended with a composition. Thank you, last night I was ready to throw everything away, paint brushes paper and everything but I heard your voice in my head saying don’t do it just keep trying and I will try again ! Thank you!🌸☺️
Thank you. I will do this with all my brushes
Yes exactly! Wahoo!!
Just ordered the bushes can't wait For them to get to me in the UK. Fabulous videos Kristy
Yay!! Thank you!!!
Thank you!!!
Good tutorial. I’m going to practice today
Very helpful video! I love your brush set. I was using only rounds for so long, your dagger and cats tongue brushes are now my faves! 🌸🎨
Wonderful!!!
This is very helpful as I'm trying to learn to use my new dagger brush. Thank you for sharing.
Let me know how it goes!!
I am a committed round brush user but falling in love with these brushes in the very mad of you some and just filling up page after page of strokes and color and not too worried about the process thank you for your videos!
You’re welcome!
Great video Kristy!! Thanks a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
Love this and I needed it! THANK YOU, Kristie!
You are welcome!!
Oh lord I was freaking out when using my new brush set.
Good freaking out I hope??!
@@KristyRice yes it was a good freak out.
just ordered the brushes, can't wait to try them all out, especially the dagger....thank you for this tutorial, I think it will definitely help. I will let you know :)
Yes keep me posted!!!
really lovely tutorial- thank you!
Glad you like it! :)
I just recently bought your brushes so this was really helpful thank you.
Awesome!!
Thanks for showing us this. I ordered your brush.
Thank you :)
Yay!! This is exactly what I was looking for x 100!!
Glad I could help!
Thank you for this! ❤️
You’re very welcome!!!
Good exercises too learn about the brush
Heck yeah! I felt like I was in an aerobics workout class. I told you earlier today I was going out and buy a dagger, and I bought two! Just went through these drills and know these brushes will improve my art and help me develop the style I was looking for. Thanks so much!!! I plan to buy your brushes if they are still available.
Ahhh love that you tried them!! Brushes are sold out but more are on the way!
When you started the tutorial you said to use any quality watercolor and indicating in my opinion, that your own handmade watercolor paint wasn’t a good quality or the best. However, I have your Making Art for Joys Sake pallet of watercolor and I absolutely love them! I think that your paint is wonderful and I use it as my go to pallet for painting every day,( along with a few specialty colors by Daniel Smith )and couldn’t be happier.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just received this brush in the mail and had a bad painting session. This practice with the brush is exactly what I needed and what I should have done before attempting to dive right in and paint a floral page
. I love the way you explain what we should be doing and the reasons for each of the drills.
Excellent tutorial!!!
Very helpful. Thank you
Super helpful, I have a dagger brush arriving day after today and have never used one before
Oh what fun!!
Just bought your brushes and the Art of Joy book… excited to start my journey into watercolors !! Love your videos … Have them saved in my gmail … But now I will start learning technique with your book 😄❤️
A few years ago my bf gifted me 5 silver black velvet brushes after i had mentioned i was wanting a few. He had no idea what he was grabbing which ended up being a happy surprise because he got me their sword brush. I havent practiced withit as much as i should but i love it and my poor rigger brush hasnt been touched since lol. I dont know that it will ever replace my trusty #10 round as my workhorse, but it is such a wonderful multipurpose brush!
Had to get the mini Majestic and a Prin Select dagger to come back to this tutorial. Perfect sized.
My Prin Aqua 1/4 & BV Silv 1/4 are too soft & too long … no clue why they’re making them this way???
Now , to the practice with you … and some fun time.
Enlightening!
Ohh yay!
Another comment. I love seeing drills. It helps this beginner so much!
This is a first in a series so more to come!!
Love the video!
Thank you!!!!
I'm just starting and on a whim decided to get the set. I like that the pouch and colors on the brushes are nice too. I will get the cheaper pad for drills. I will try out the drills. I will have to get more brushes but cant decide lol. I want to paint deep sea scenes eventually and cards combining stamps and watercolors and other mediums. Thanks for the video.
Hope you enjoy the brushes!!
Just bought my first dagger 1/4" brush. My bristles look longer than yours but did get a great beginners push and instruction on its multiple uses! Thanks
Very useful info, thanks
You’re welcome!!!
Always awesome videos!
Glad you like them!
beautiful
Thanks!!
Kirsty may I say you look 20 years young!!!! I love your enthusiasm and methods. Wish I discovered you earlier, but only found you last week, March 2022!! But rather late than never. I tought myself to paint, but your videos are soooo good and your paintings excellent. Learning a lot from you. Thank you for the joy you bring!! 🌺🌺🌺🌺
You may you may, lol!!!! So glad you’re here and thank you very much for the sweet words!!!
I just got a dagger brush and a sword brush(I got them from Princeton and Derwent). I think these drills are so useful to get to know all types of brushes. Thank you for these videos, you inspire us to create and practice.
You’re very welcome!
I could see a beach with a tropical forest at the edge with the first page of drills.
Indeed!!
I just recently found you. You're amazing! I can't wait to start using my watercolor supplies .. with better results, no doubt, because of you. 💕 Subscribed!
Well I’m honored you’re here!
A really cheap but still workable paper for drills…80-90 lb. sulphite paper. Learned this economical tip from Wendy at Willa wanders.
Thank you Kristy, just what I needed. Interesting to see what a HUGE difference the paper makes. I finished earlier today a practice page of circles on some Canson and was not happy with the way the paint went down, puddled a lot. I seemed to spend a lot of time scooping up! Good practice though, but will try it on Academy next
Our practice with less than ideal materials have do much to teach us though… so go you!!
Oh my goodness my brushes just arrived today and hen I see you are doing these awesome brush tutorials WHOOP WHOOP! I adore them Kristy! Thanks so much
So glad they arrived!! Hope you love them!!
@@KristyRice is so purely know I will because you put so much through and care into what you offer us ♥️
@@atwinkleintheireyes I try!!!
I’m having a love-fest with a squirrel hair quill… going to try this, thanks.
Ah, the eighteen and have it all figured out feeling. That was something, I can’t believe I thought that. But I did, too.
That was indeed something, lol!!
Je ne parvenais pas à utiliser corrctement ce pinceau alors que vous êtes si enthousiaste. Mais j’ai decouvert votre vidéo qui compare le pinceau rond et celui-ci, le verdict est sans appel😄. Donc je vais suivre vos précieux conseils. Le problème c’est que regarder vos vidéos est addictif😍 ....je n’ est pas assez de temps pour mettre en pratique......Un grand merci pour tous ces partages qui nous font passer de merveilleux moments
My quarter- and half-inch dagger just arrived today :0)
Let me know how you like them!!
Kristy! I have done this drill four times. My control and understanding of the dagger brush is so much better. I actually can make thin lines, beautiful swirly leaves, and passable (!) flowers. I'm using Ohuhu mix media paper. It's inexpensive so great for practice. I did not get the pretty bleeds that I love. But I know that is the paper. My sincere thanks! I was getting really down about my progress. Thanks again!
Ahhh yes!! YAY!! So so good to hear!!! Now treat yo’self and make some awesome on the “good” paper!!! XO
Definitely!
@@virginiabusch139 🙌🏻💪🏻👍🏻
YaaaaaY 🎉
I just got your 1/4 in dagger brush. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I can’t even make a one stroked lead much less a two stroked leaf. The petals look tadpoles.I want to like this brush so much. I know I’m just beginning but the round brush is easier for me to make leaves. You make it look so easy. I’m just really getting blobs. 😩
Okay we got this… press, drag, slowly for about 1/2 inch or a bit more and as you drag gradually lighten your pressure (lift). The slower your gradually lift, the more fine of a pointed leaf shape you’ll get. If you drag and lift quickly you’ll get a more blunt ended leaf :) Try that and let me know how it goes!
I saw you today for the first time and absolutely love the way you teach. So easy and informative. When will your watercolor brushes be back in stock - I am so anxious to purchase them!! Please let me know when they are available so that I can purchase before they sell out again. 🧑🎨🖌
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