Watercolour Fundamentals - Guidance and Demonstration with Andrew Pitt
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A video for students preparing to go on residential painting courses, offering guidance and a full-length demonstration of how to paint in fresh, loose watercolour.
I knew this be a good video as soon as I heard the artist talk lol
Oh, really! Interesting.
Absolutely, very pleasant and relaxing voice. His voice has a very nice ASMR quality to it as well.
@@AndrewPittArtist Hi, watercolor is hard for a beginner like me, but It gives that beautiful, flowing, Storybook look in the Painting, and it's portable...thank you for the lessons on the video :)
Ikr! He reminds me of my poster color lecturer. Very soft and slow spoken yet, full of knowledge inside.
OH MY GOD YES!!!
I don’t know why youtube suggested this video. I don’t paint, can’t paint, but I still watched the entire video. Very nice!
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It would be great if it resulted in you thinking “I could paint and I will paint”.
This is one of the best watercolor demonstrations I have seen. You not only showed how you painted this specific scene, but more importantly you gave us an awful lot of more general information that we can put to use in our own painting. There was so much packed into this video that I took notes for future reference. I will be watching all of your videos now. The time and effort that you put into this is very much appreciated as I am a beginner and can use all the help I can get. Thank you very much.
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I don't even know what to say, I am so impressed. You are a great teacher. You know what to explain or describe, and what can be omitted. Your cast shadows on the two buildings make me shake my head in amazement. I'm going to watch this video over again. Many times until it has all sunk in. THANK YOU for posting this! I hope you continue to make videos!
That’s very kind. Thank you very much for taking the trouble to comment so positively. Much appreciated.
Well said Janet .
You read my mind ❤️ Thank you dear
Beautifull......Sir I need training. from you.....
After watching, practice. Overdo it, under do, make mistakes. That’s how you get the learning from your brain into your hands and eyes.
That murky water was giving me pause! But so many great tips, like only paint details in the light (as opposed to shadow), and making sure you connect the shadows to the figures, etc. Very brave in the sky, overall great instruction.
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Very generous of you to paint this masterpiece right in front of us. Thank you very much!
Thanks for your generous feedback.
I love watercolours... I've never been any _good_ at them, but I love looking at them. To me, they're far more interesting than other media. To me, a good watercolour seems to come to life in a way that no other painting does.
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I've started learning watercolour in the past 4 months and stumbled across this tutorial. This is the best one yet. Finally a tutor that explains all those rookie errors we make. And thankyou for actually showing us your water jar. Its so hard to judge how much water to use when you are a beginner and so many tutorials we cant see what is happening off screen with the water! I will be telling others about your videos for sure!
Glad it was helpful!
It is very generous natured of Andrew Pitt, to go to the trouble of setting up recording equipment and editing and then offering his time and expertise, skill and talent essentially for free. For the love of his subject and the benefit of the rest of us. Thank you Sir. Such actions are the stuff which demonstrates an aspect of human nature which shows that in all of the greed and madness there is still the quiet voice of sharing and sanity.
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I suffer from anxiety, and I'm also quite perfectionistic so I tend to be unaccepting of my flaws and shortcomings. I feel like watercolour has the potential to be somewhat of a therapy for me, and a lesson in acceptance and letting go - being able to work fast, accept the imperfections and see the beauty in them. Thank you for this tutorial!
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I can't believe how dangerous this artwork is.
I love this watercolor painting, especially what you're doing.
I am Ahlam from Syria and the meaning of my name is dreams in English
I congratulate you with all my heart. ❤️❤️❤️
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Very instructive, no nonsense tutorial without any awful music...
Much appreciated!
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What a real treasure. The sound of life experience & familiarity of using the materials. Thank you for sharing.
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I'm rekindling my artistic side at 26 years old. This guide is very helpful! Thank you so much!
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Many thanks. So much good advice and love your free style of painting.
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I am an absolute beginner and have watched just a few tutorials. This, sir, is the most informative and educational one I have yet to encounter. I will watch this over and over again. You are the first person who I feel has shown me how to use the water. Thank you!
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Those strokes are really amazing, this video deserves more appreciation!
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I love to watch you paint over and over for hours and love it. You are amazing and a good teacher. thank you
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You are such a good instructor! Your video has inspired me to try watercolours. Thank you so much.
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I know I'm learning a lot when I'm constantly saying to myself ... 'No! What are you doing? You're ruining ... Oh. Okay, I see.' 😂
I had the same thoughts. What??! Ahhh I see. Such a good teacher and pleasant to watch.
I was enchanted by the thumbnail, but didn't expect this to be so educational. Beautifully done and explained, thank you so much for the thorough demonstration and showing every single step, that was a real gift!
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Love your practical and clean approach to use of your pigments.
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Masterful instruction. So many techniques illustrated and explained. Favorite quote, "... make friends with the underpainting so it looks like it belongs."
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'Bit heavy-handed' - bless you. Brilliant work, thoroughly enjoyed watching it and loved listening to the good old English accent. Fantastic video and thank you for sharing.
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Great teacher! I'm a self-taught watercolor painter, which means I learn from mistakes. This 48 minute guide to watercolor painting would've saved me hundreds of hours only if we had internet in the 70's.
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You just popped up on my feed out of nowhere! Seriously!
You need to keep doing more of these they are really good!
Thanks. I’ll see what I can do.
wow.Its really a masterpiece.The way you suggested is invaluable for novices like me.thank you
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Loved watching you work and your commentary was so insightful. I learnt so much from this video, thank you very much.
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This is a great lessen for beginners in water colours, your way of illustration and explaining the colour mix, brush strokes are very helpful , I would like to thank you thousands times.
Thank you very much indeed for taking the trouble to write. Much appreciated.
I love your style of painting and very much appreciate your talking us through and explaining what you were doing. I got a lot out of this that will be helpful, thank you so much.
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andrew, you are a master! i looked through watercolour thumbnails and as soon as i spotted this gorgeous english seaside painting i knew this video would be the best. thank you so much for your tutorials!
Wow, thank you. There are more videos on my website, www.andrewpitt.co.uk
Great lesseon. Was a pleasure to paint along with you. Took the advice to heart to really use the full belly of the brush and I already see a great improvement. Thank you very much.
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Thank you so much for some fabulous tutorials!!! It's very generous of you. This was brilliant and extremely helpful. Your painting style is amazing!
Thank you. it was nice of you to get in touch.
"You're not writing a letter home, you're painting." Love it! Such wisdom contained in this video. Thank you very much for sharing. I echo the other comments about being able to see the mixing area and water - invaluable to see how that 'behind the scenes' process is done.
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It's remarkable to see the scene come to life under your brushes. Thank you!
Many thanks.
Very helpful and lots of information. I am an experienced watercolorist and I'm always learning. Thank you!
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Thank you Sir, this is the most complete and accurate watercolor lesson I’ve seen, so rich of suggestion about color mixing, brush strokes and in real time! A very precious gift 👍🏼☺️
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I love your commentary; very educational and your work is inspiring.
Thank you very much for your kind comment.
I love your work, Andrew! Thank you so much for sharing your amazing talent!
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Wow! Thank you for such a lovely lesson. I found the recommendations and techniques on shadowing and the use of light very helpful.
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This was awesome! Watching and listening to you work (thanks for the switching back and forth from your canvas to your palette each time you mixed and grabbed paint), was better than any "therapy" session I've ever had. Seriously, I recommend anyone dealing with stress to watch this and do more art! New sub for you sir!
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This showed up today and I am so impressed with your painting and teaching skills! Thank you for telling how to use the brush on the paper and keeping up with all the colors! I hope you will do more of these. Thank you so much!
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Thank you for generously sharing this demo, you are a fearless wizard and I learned a lot. Favourite sentiment was painting for your own pleasure, a reminder I needed
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I love the way you cut between mixing your paints and painting - it really shows just how much more time often goes into mixing!!
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I'm also a cartoonist published in major magazines but my true love is painting with watercolors
Frank Clark horse
You are a gift to new and experienced artists - thank you!
Thanks very kind.
Wow! Thank you for the teaching and explanation. Simple, yet so complex!
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This is the first time I've watched a full painting done in watercolor. I have a good set of watercolors, but haven't really used them yet. I'm would be a beginner, but have done some Bob Ross oil painting. Loved the painting!
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Thank you, Andrew. What a great lesson for me, watching you work loosely and being braver with colors. I never would have entered a 2nd or 3rd color into the cast shadow of the eaves, but it is positively yummy in your work. LOVE!
Thank you for your kind comments.
Andrew, you explain everything simply and clearly, but best of all you show us your palette and water pot in action. THANK YOU! To see all that water and pigment happily sloshing around and then this glorious painting appear is invaluable, and so often left out of other demonstrations. Watercolour is challenging enough without not being able to grasp the essentials right at the start. I think most beginners would probably not have imagined so much water being used. It’s a very generous thing you’re doing with these videos, sharing your decades of learning here. Your DVD was one of the very first teaching videos I bought on my art learning journey and is still my favourite for how much information you share in it so clearly.
Thanks very much Caroline. Very kind. To make the videos we fix two cameras - one above the painting, one above my palette - and Rachel moves about with a hand-held camera. Our son is the secret, magic ingredient. Simon, edits the films to produce a coherent video. Quite a time consuming task. He quickly decided the most useful approach would be to, as he puts it, “follow the brush”.
Masterful, sir. Well done with clear commentary.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for that tuto! Just love the sound of birds behind. Nice background!
Thank you!
Just started using water colours in the art group I go to - looked for a video to help learn about it and out of all of them watched this one first - very glad I did and I've learnt a lot from it - it was good to see the colours being mixed as well as the picture appearing bit by bit - really enjoyed it and was mesmerized from beginning to end :) - thank you very much -
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Amazing outcome when different mixes of color are splashed around specifically and uniquely . Beautiful work. Thank you Mr. Pitt for sharing your talent.
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Wonderful, loose style demonstration. Love it!
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Thank you very much. Your decades of experience give us all delight
Thank you very much for your kind comment.
Great video and beautiful painting! I really appreciate all decisions in colours are shown , the colour palette and how they are mixed. Thanks very much! Wish someday I’ll be capable of painting like you.
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You just popped up on my feed too! Love the painting and appreciate your teaching, very fun and easy to watch and listen to, now I want to try that sky!! Thanks for the inspiration, I've subscribed and will be binging your videos this week. Cheers from Canada.
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A lovely painting of Heybridge Basin - beautiful.
I look forward to seeing more of your work here Andrew.
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Quite a treat watching this painting come to life!
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Thank you, Andrew, for your reassuring and beautiful teaching. I'm just beginning with watercolors and you've made me feel much more at ease. Take good care.
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It was amazing to me how much difference the last few additions made in the painting, namely the shadow on the barge, the little flag, the wires. Lovely work!
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One of the best watercolor videos I’ve ever seen. I love how you show the mixing of the colors and explain it. Thank you!
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Thank you for sharing this video. It's been very inspiring and abundant in useful advice.
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Thank you so much for sharing your skills in this video 🙏
Think, I learned more the last hour than I did in countless other tutorials!,
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this is one great tutorial. the switching from the paper to the palette is awesome and what we beginners need. thanks you so much!
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Thanks for your generous tutorial...a great way to gain confidence. Can't wait to view your other posts.
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Thank you for making this video! I believe that I could watch you paint all day. I have also learned quite a lot and will be watching this again to pick up more.
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I really enjoy your demos Andrew. Your skill is effortless and your matter-of-fact commentary sweeps us alone into the journey. Please keep it up!
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really amazing tutorial! Love the way you explain the process!
Glad you liked it. Thanks.
Thank you, Andrew. I'm an Acrylic Artist but starting off with water colours. This was great for beginners like me.
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@@AndrewPittArtist Hey thank you so much, Andrew. Yes I've gone through it now. This helps ❤️❤️❤️ Have an awesome day ahead.
I just watched the entire video then put it on the TV and watched it again with my husband. We are amazed and I learned so much. Thank you so much!!
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I like the freshness and direct handling of the paint.
Its always amazing how the application of a few colours and tones create the essence of a scene.
Thanks for the demo, very informative.
Thank you very much!
I have recently got into watercolour painting (bought my first paints and brushes this week - I am still yet to buy a "large brush," though :) ) and I watched some tutorials, did some painting with rather unsatisfactory results and TH-cam suggested me this video. Extremely educational! I learned a great deal about colour mixing from this. Thank you so much, Sir, for your videos! You're an amazing artist and a great teacher :)
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Absolutely beautiful Water color painting .
I enjoy to watch and thank you for sharing this techniques.
My pleasure
Excellent lessons. Just so exciting to hear your teaching. Thank you so much. Please more of your work.
Thank you.
Brilliant! The two fixed camera positions are inspired, showing every mix on the palette, and every brush stroke to paper.
Thank you for taking the trouble to comment so positively. Much appreciated. Glad you found the demonstration useful. I have recently filmed a second demonstration. When it’s ready there will be a link on the Home page of my website www.andrewpitt.co.uk
I agree one of the best camera works
Very often the pallet in some painting tuition is off set limiting the color mixing .I appreciate your color blends .
Yes all that Janet said! What a learning experience. You are so interesting to listen to and I appreciated your explanation of the paint colors as you mixed them and so much more! Thank you!
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I love the commentary. All these bits and pieces of advice that give a painting nuance and heart. Thank you so much. Also, you have a lovely voice to listen to.
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Your work is fantastic! My dream is to one day paint my watercolors with your style! Looking forward to more of your wonderful lessons!
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I am a beginner art student and I'm having a tough time colouring my sketches, I'd rather put a lot of effort in shading and texturing black and white, but this man's elegance and the fluidity of his gestures really make me want to get more into color. Thank you sir.
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I love spending time watching instructional watercolour videos and I feel I found treasure here! you're the best I've seen hands down! greetings from Brazil!
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I learned so much in a short time. Please publish more.
Many thanks.
Just watched this again for the 3rd time - great - can't get enough of watching you paint.
Oh, really. You’ll have to your own paints out. Thanks for your encouragement.
I can not express how helpful this is for me. I'm not able to afford a tutoring, or to attend art school again so having this channel full of interest, tips, advice and guidance is so very amazing for me. Thank you
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This video is amazing! I am intrigued by the natural flow of colors without overworking. So glad this video happened to pop-up. Will follow A Pitt for more inspiring ideas!
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Great tips! And beautiful painting! Thanks Andrew.
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Superbly painted, superbly explained. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to post!
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Thank you so much Andrew! There are more pearls of wisdom in your 4 tutorials (which I've watched over and again) than in any other I've seen.
Many thanks for taking the trouble to comment so generously. I’m glad you found the videos helpful. Happy painting.
More than I learned in university courses all together, here an artist getting strait to it; this is a wholly inspiring demonstration. Thank you for sharing!!!
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Thank you so much. Grateful you've taken the time to tell us the colors you used throughout. I found that particularly helpful and educational. Again, thanks a lot!
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I was absolutely glued to the screen, thank you very much for an immensely helpful video.
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This is a wonderful tutorial! I loved watching the sky come together under your skilled hands. I will have to grow my fingernail for the tree branch/sun-kissed technique. But don’t worry, I won’t use it too much !!! Thanks you for sharing your wonderful talent!
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Thank you so much. I love the scene. Hope I can get to somewhere near that stage one day.
Best of luck!
Your voice is very soothing! Thanks for sharing a 360 degree view on your process, it helps a lot!
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Well done , thanks. I have been going about it in the overdrive mode. You make it look natural. Thanks again.
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Genius. Watercolor artists are to be respected and I hope I can study with you through your courses. Painting with watercolor, one needs to have great skill, because there is no blending, as in oil painting. You, basically, need to get it right the first time. That's how I see it. "Every artist was first an amateur" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many thanks for your kind remarks. I like the Emerson quote - so true.
True. One mistake and everything may be gone! You can't cover up any mistake by painting another layer over it. It also requires great planning because you have to start with light colours first and then slowly build up the dark areas. This is where we may make a mistake.
To me it's very difficult to let go the perfectionism of shapes and details, seeing you paint so freely but still not losing sight of where things are, impresses me and truly speaks to me of your artistry and mastery. I will try to 'let go' a bit more, maybe I can start evolving and finding a new voice like that.
Thanks for getting in touch. It’s difficult for me as well. I think the ‘trick’, if that is the right word, is to forget things and paint shapes of tone, with a variety of edges and with credible, attractive colour. There are more videos and workshop films at www.andrewpitt.co.uk which might help.
Thank you for explaining about negative space! You're an incredible teacher.
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Really wonderful to see how a watercolour is painted from beginning to end, thank you, you have inspired me!
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