Thank you so much, Olly!!! I don't normally comment, but this time, I just had to say something!!!!!!!! This is what I need from a good teacher!!!! Fantastic solid direction on how to achieve a good painting!!! All the things you just explained in this video are what I have struggled with to the point of giving up!!!! I'm going to try again because of you!!! I'm 70 years old, and I think this series will help me tremendously!!! I will give this exercise some practice!!! Thank you so much!!! I can draw very well but I can't paint!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🇺🇸
This is why I mainly go to your channel for tips with watercolors. I noticed that most of the tutorials on TH-cam are specifically geared towards views and not for real artists trying to develop in this medium.
Your channel is basically a series of watercolor masterclasses at this point. Thank you so much, Olly, for making these incredibly helpful materials accessible for all of us! Really can’t appreciate that enough!
This is exactly what I've needed. I've taken quite a few classes, but never had these techniques shown so clearly or explained so completely. Demonstrating the less experienced approach first was absolutely relatable and foundational to understanding the more experienced approach. I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series. Thank you!
I loved your observation about watercolor entertainment vs. watercolor education. I recently taught a class with an educational approach (as I was taught in 1986), and several students seemed confused. "I've done a lot of classes on TH-cam," they said, "and here in-person I thought I'd have a finished painting by the end of 2 hours!" My response: "You can take an in-person color-by-number watercolor class, or you can learn how to peek behind the curtain to understand the actual magic. Unfortunately for you, I only teach magic." They stayed and by the end of class they said, "Wow, there is so much to learn...but I love it." Yes!
I recommend getting a cup of tea, sitting in a comfortable chair and casting the video onto a good size TV. Excellent lesson, very enjoyable viewing and entertaining. Oh! and then rush off to find those water colour paint!
I am so stoked for the rigorous, analytic approach you’re taking here! It’s really helpful for me to have a framework like the one you’re teaching in this series
Thank you so much, from a very analytical mind. It's easy to just say to "plan your washes " but seeing the comparison between methods is really teaching. ❤
So many videos on my feed are just based on what's satisfying to watch, marveling at talent and not explaining any of the techniques. When things are sped up you miss vital parts of the process. Thankyou so much for making content aimed at artists!
Thank you so much Ollie, because it’s so helpful to get a sound understanding of these different techniques. I am devoted to watercolor and truly appreciate getting the lessons and understanding of how to go about these issues.. It’s so imperative to have these lessons in order to become a better watercolorist. Again, thanks.
What I appreciate about your videos is not only your clear explanations, but above all your transparency about how you, as an established artist, still deal with some issues and how you tackle them. I find this transparency very motivating and I appreciate your honesty in this regard.
Thank you, THANK YOU for this video!!!! YES!! I find it next to impossible to find TH-cam creators who teach techniques, offer explanations about what processes they'll be using and planning in the context of taking a painting from start to finish... Really, REALLY appreciate what you are doing here on this platform.👏👏👏
Crikey.. So much fantastic information setting up this series. I'm excited to start learning from you. I can copy things, but struggle to make my own paintings any good.
You're right, there's a load of watercolor tutorials designed mainly to be entertaining... luckily I think yours are both highly instructional and also entertaining. I absolutely love your analytical and thorough approach to teaching, thank you so much!
As usual a wonderfully informative video..I so look forward to this new series as it will be fascinating to watch the painting unfold. I am sure I will learn so much from the process. Thanks..
Ooft. The Analyser's analytical analysis. In Scotland we often say - 'some things are better "felt" than "telt". which applies much more to music and literature, but in watercolour painting the 'enth degree of analysis REALLY really helps 🙏
Absolutely fantastic as ever Olly. Held my attention start to finish. Very excited to follow you through this series and fabulous to see you back again. I’ve learnt so much from you in the last few years. All the best till next time. 👋🏻
Managing edges what a great approach and negative painting just brings a subject to life. I have been watercolor painting for about a year and half and must say this instruction is unlike any other. I can’t wait for the day I have that internal artist dialog asking myself the right questions when taking on a subject. I am not there yet but enjoying the journey.
Well done - you'll get there, and you're right that its a journey. Don't be distracted by all the 'paint like a pro in 6 months' advertisements - that's not how it works. Experimenting, practising etc will help you to develop the internal dialogue.
I love this concept of a TH-cam tutorial. The idea of learning techniques that will apply across several types of paintings and subject matter. I’m excited to see how this painting evolves and then apply these techniques to my own work.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and skills. It is very much appreciated! I am 70 years of age and only now starting to learn Watercolours. I am looking forward to your teachings. Be blessed.
Welcome back Oliver, I have truly missed you and your wonderful method of teaching. I am happy to say that I still remember quite a bit of what you taught us in the past. So, very much looking forward to your lessons, I will certainly be here.🙏🏼♥️
Oliver. This particular lesson has come at the most perfect time for me. I have not painted for a number of years believe it or not I’ve been setting up my space and organising my pallet replenishing my brushes etc. Incredibly I clicked into my subscriptions , Oliver there you were starting your new series ‘planning your washes “ perfect thank you Oliver it was meant to be .
Thank you so much for doing this series. Not all of us are able to attend actual live classes and are left to bouncing around in TH-cam in an effort to pick up elementary bits of information. What I have felt necessary for myself is a continuous and integrated approach from beginning to end rather than a "tip" or "hack" picked up here and there. I have found a few good instructors, but a complete course is not widely available. I cannot wait to get my hands on your book. I have checked both Amazon and Powell's Books (Portland, Oregon), which is my favorite bookstore. They both show a release date of 1/30/25 so I have pre-ordered. Once again, thank you so much for taking the time and trouble of making these videos and for producing the book which is eagerly awaited by many!
Thank you! I've seen that done many times but nobody had taken the trouble to explain it so well. You're a wonderful teacher and a great painter. ¡Muchas gracias, maestro!
What a wonderful lesson. Very well explained and demonstrated. I am looking forward to following along with these series. Thank you so much for being such a good and generous teacher.
Hi Oliver. I just wanted to thank you for your kind sharing of watercolour knowledge and to tell you that I really love watching your TH-cam videos. I watch them over and over again. They are the best out there. I am really going to enjoy this new series. It is just what I need to advance my watercolour painting. There is no one out there like you on TH-cam. Keep up the great work👍
I paid close attention to your words. This was key to what I struggled with. I needed to hear the problem defined. I'm going to get back to planning instead of fearing. Thank you so much!
No matter where you are with your painting it helps to be reminded of the basics, and there is always something new to learn. Looking forward to the the next episode!
Thank you! I have all but given up watercolour because I don’t fully understand the medium. I need to understand what to do and the order of when to do it and why. I need the analysis you so masterfully teach. I need to be educated which itself entertains me. Thank you again for taking the time to actually teach us🇨🇦
I am extremely grateful and happy to see you here again my friend. No one creates a more informative and professional tutorial like you Sir! My goal is to create landscapes of the same caliber as yours. Nick
If I could have ONLY ONE TH-cam video to see, this is it!!!! Stellar teaching Olly. Looking forward to opening your book too as soon as it gets out checking every day for it :)
You have got to be the BEST watercolor instructor of all! Your careful and thoughtful explanations and demos are sooooo helpful. I’ve been painting in Watercolor for 5 years and starting to exhibit a lot…..AND have found your videos to be so significant in my learning process. Always grateful and anxiously anticipating the rest of this series. You are the BOMB!
This is just what I need and has come at a very opportune time for me. I’ve been going to an in-person watercolour course which I’ve just pulled out of because it isn’t what I wanted. Just watching this video I can see this will be perfect. Can’t wait to practice this.
Oliver, I cannot thank you enough for this WONDERFUL art lesson! ~ You sir are an AMAZING art teacher! Everything flows so well, it all seems so well thought out ~ I thoroughly enjoyed each and every moment ~ You make art FUN! God bless ~
I have always appreciated your work and your insightful teaching. I’m delighted to see you undertake a ‘gallery piece’. So often, instructors approach demos and finished pieces quite differently, and something gets lost in that translation. Only as we get more experienced do we see those subtleties, so thanks so much for the undertaking. I’m excited to follow.
Thank you! As a newbie watercolor painter here, playing with it for about a year and wanting to learn more, I am overwhelmed(!) with the number of artists and videos on TH-cam. Very few have really taught me anything. I‘be been looking for someone to follow who can really provide basic instruction and not just entertain with their talent. I know it is not just a color/paint in a picture, but what exactly do I DO to achieve all of it? I just watched this video and appreciated the illustration of “what not to do” first! I am excited to go and try this now and to learn from your other tutorials! So thankful that I found your channel. Thanks again for providing this.
Thanks Valerie. I agree - there is far too much available content and it can be very confusing as each painter will (and should!) have a different technique. The key is to just find a couple that help to explain techniques that you can use in your own paintings as your experience grows.
Being self taught I often feel like I'm feeling my way around in the dark. This is an invaluable lesson and I can't wait for the next! Thank you so much!!
Good morning Oliver ! I would just like to express serious appreciation of what you have just said about the practise of watercolour painting, and being given the tent poles as it were. I have also scoured the internet, and totally agree that there is a great deal of information but very little actual teaching......until I came across your videos. In calligraphy, for instance, learning to do all the various 'hands' as it were, starts with mastering straight lines and circles.... in music, one has to practise scales etc. in drawing the human body, one has to know and draw anatomy..... so to me it makes a great deal of sense that these tools are necessary in watercolour painting. I am sooo glad to have found you! I have already ordered your book. Thank you, and really looking forward to it. Lenore Bergstrom
I just found your page a day or two ago and I’m so grateful! I completely relate to the creative vs logical and analytical aspects as I’ve found that to be my biggest nemesis in watercolour painting, to find the balance as I overthink completely. Thank you for your teachings… this is definitely going to help develop and improve my skill and technique
I was very impressed with the information in the tutorial. Very clear explanations, and much more useful than most of the videos I've seen on TH-cam. I am concerned about my own perception though! Where it seems clear that most people responding to this video also appreciate the info very much, I don't see any comments saying which of the two sketches is preferred, so I assume most people like the second version better, as Olly has painted it with the 'improved' method. But when I look at the side to side (or top to bottom) comparison after the 44 minute mark, I actually like the first one better. True that some of the overlap doesn't look great, but my brain ignores most of it. Maybe it's just because the greens are brighter on the top picture, but I like the way the trees appear much more in the top picture than the bottom picture. Maybe one reason he's a good painter, and I'm not! Or maybe because he was just showing the process, without trying to make the bottom one look 'good'...Beats me, but the info was great and I'll remember the technique...
It is great that you mix your paints from primaries instead of having a plethora of pre-mixed colours. I'm working at learning this. Like the way you showed how to take paintings from beginner to better. The one thing is that the tree in front looked too pale to have been in front so would liked to have seen how to bring it forward and make it brighter. All the same, really enjoy your way of teaching and am very happy to learn how to improve my paintings. You explain things simply but so effective.
Can't wait for the remainder of this series. I learned more from this single episode than I have before while watching HOURS of other watercolor channels. As you said, yes, they are entertaining but do not actually teach. Thank you so much!
I'm going to more than just watch your new series, I'm going to paint along and see if I can get a bit of your masterful techniques into my paintings. I'm excited for what's next. Thanks
Thank you so much helping us with our tent poles. I've never been taught this way. Usually just follow tutorials without completely understanding why certain steps are performed and the logic behind them.
Utterly brilliant, bless you for sharing your reverence for the process of an unforgiving medium. Your perspective has given me a pathway to the level of sophistication I want to achieve. Thank you to the edges.
Brilliant lesson, thank you for this. I have been trying to learn watercolor painting, and have watched many different painters' tutorials. I have chosen you to be my teacher. I love your style, I love your content, and I believe I can learn the most - and the most important things - from you. Watercolor is not easy & I have walked away from it many times in frustration... but you always inspire me to try again. Thank you, sir. 🎨 🖌
Oh wow! You have just started this in the nick of time for me. This explains sooo much for me. I’m off to practice this over and over because you told us this before … and I completely forgot it. Thank you!!
Once again, you've encapsulated and distilled, techniques and skills that other teachers never quite break down as you do. Thank you so much for your generosity and effort you put into making these videos.
Thank you so much for this. THIS is what I’m looking for so that I can improve and actually know how to plan it all out with confidence. Thank you so much.
Thank you for addressing this issue. Entertainment vs. Skills for painting. Your videos have opened my mind to what I can and should learn about watercolor painting.
Much appreciated. Thank you for creating these videos. Your genuine personality and clear explanations are true gems along this process of my watercolor journey
Thanks so much Oliver - your are very generous with your painting knowledge but what I appreciate the most is you advise which colors you have mixed as you use them - color harmony in paintings is to me one of the most important and pleasing aspects - I look forward to more of these videos in this series 😊
Honestly the best video I’ve ever seen or heard on watercolor. 7 techniques to master. That’s it! Very thought provoking, holistic. Really though. Expert level teaching.
So excited for this series! I’m a realist watercolor painter & there are not a lot of videos on realistic landscapes, so I’m interested in learning your skills & techniques.
After ages, Oyli ! Seeing you and hearing your psychological counselling (every time I paint, I am a beginner and lost), I kept listening and relating and postponed my first-hour office work 😊 to another hour. This is much more fulfilling than
Thank you for a very useful tutorial. I have never tried to blend the foreground with broken brush strokes before I will get my sketchbook out and practice this.
Thank you Oliver, I’m so glad you’re back making tutorials, I’ve tried this one several times already, and it’s harder than it looks. The sky to hill top edge is ok but the next section I just can’t keep everything wet enough long enough. I might go off piste and try a little wet in wet for the second section with the trees, just to buy a little extra time but still paint the hill edge crisply. I’m really looking forward to this series. Thank you again. 😊
Working that area wet-on-wet is a good solution, but if not, it relies on using a lot of wet paint, a large brush and working quickly - all important watercolour skills.
Thanks for sharing Olly. Gives me a different approach to try out. Really appreciate you taking the time to describe the definition of edges in practical terms of colour flows and contrasts and how to construct those. Looking forward to the follow up videos.
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You set THE GOLD STANDARD for watercolour tutorials on TH-cam.
@@gautambarua8260 thank you!
The return of the king 👑
Well said! 😊
YES!!! Let the learning recommence!! ❤🎉
This is so brilliant! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Can’t stop….off to experiment….🙏🏻
Best watercolor tutorials on TH-cam! Thank you!
Thank you so much, Olly!!! I don't normally comment, but this time, I just had to say something!!!!!!!! This is what I need from a good teacher!!!! Fantastic solid direction on how to achieve a good painting!!! All the things you just explained in this video are what I have struggled with to the point of giving up!!!! I'm going to try again because of you!!! I'm 70 years old, and I think this series will help me tremendously!!! I will give this exercise some practice!!! Thank you so much!!! I can draw very well but I can't paint!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🇺🇸
Really appreciate the comment Marvin. Being able to draw is a huge help, keep up the practice and the painting will start to come together.
Oliver, you are a true teacher of watercolor
This is why I mainly go to your channel for tips with watercolors. I noticed that most of the tutorials on TH-cam are specifically geared towards views and not for real artists trying to develop in this medium.
Yes, many are.
Your channel is basically a series of watercolor masterclasses at this point. Thank you so much, Olly, for making these incredibly helpful materials accessible for all of us! Really can’t appreciate that enough!
Thank you Julie - you're very welcome
This is exactly what I've needed. I've taken quite a few classes, but never had these techniques shown so clearly or explained so completely. Demonstrating the less experienced approach first was absolutely relatable and foundational to understanding the more experienced approach. I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series. Thank you!
I loved your observation about watercolor entertainment vs. watercolor education. I recently taught a class with an educational approach (as I was taught in 1986), and several students seemed confused. "I've done a lot of classes on TH-cam," they said, "and here in-person I thought I'd have a finished painting by the end of 2 hours!" My response: "You can take an in-person color-by-number watercolor class, or you can learn how to peek behind the curtain to understand the actual magic. Unfortunately for you, I only teach magic." They stayed and by the end of class they said, "Wow, there is so much to learn...but I love it." Yes!
@@bobbieherron6972 Quite right Bobbie
The best tutor on watercolor medium on youtube . Thank you from Serbia :)
I recommend getting a cup of tea, sitting in a comfortable chair and casting the video onto a good size TV. Excellent lesson, very enjoyable viewing and entertaining. Oh! and then rush off to find those water colour paint!
Very good tutorial! Among best on TH-cam re watercolor! Thank you
I am so stoked for the rigorous, analytic approach you’re taking here! It’s really helpful for me to have a framework like the one you’re teaching in this series
One of the best lessons on youtube
Thank you so much, from a very analytical mind. It's easy to just say to "plan your washes " but seeing the comparison between methods is really teaching. ❤
So many videos on my feed are just based on what's satisfying to watch, marveling at talent and not explaining any of the techniques.
When things are sped up you miss vital parts of the process.
Thankyou so much for making content aimed at artists!
Thank you so much Ollie, because it’s so helpful to get a sound understanding of these different techniques. I am devoted to watercolor and truly appreciate getting the lessons and understanding of how to go about these issues.. It’s so imperative to have these lessons in order to become a better watercolorist. Again, thanks.
I appreciate how you also show the “inexperienced” version, it shows the attention area extra well! You got me as a subscriber!
What I appreciate about your videos is not only your clear explanations, but above all your transparency about how you, as an established artist, still deal with some issues and how you tackle them. I find this transparency very motivating and I appreciate your honesty in this regard.
Thank you - it's important to give an insight into the reality of being a painter. It's a constant - but hugely enjoyable - challenge.
That may have been the most useful and helpful watercolor lesson I have ever seen. Thank you for sharing Olly. You have made a huge difference for me.
Pleased that it's helped Ross - thank you
Thank you, THANK YOU for this video!!!! YES!! I find it next to impossible to find TH-cam creators who teach techniques, offer explanations about what processes they'll be using and planning in the context of taking a painting from start to finish... Really, REALLY appreciate what you are doing here on this platform.👏👏👏
Crikey.. So much fantastic information setting up this series. I'm excited to start learning from you. I can copy things, but struggle to make my own paintings any good.
I’ve missed you! I’m so looking forward to this series. Thank you for caring about my watercolor journey.
You're right, there's a load of watercolor tutorials designed mainly to be entertaining... luckily I think yours are both highly instructional and also entertaining. I absolutely love your analytical and thorough approach to teaching, thank you so much!
OMG YES. Learn how to paint, not how to perpetrate one painting. VERY pumped for this series, much appreciated Oli and much appreciated, Oli.
As usual a wonderfully informative video..I so look forward to this new series as it will be fascinating to watch the painting unfold. I am sure I will learn so much from the process. Thanks..
Ooft. The Analyser's analytical analysis. In Scotland we often say - 'some things are better "felt" than "telt". which applies much more to music and literature, but in watercolour painting the 'enth degree of analysis REALLY really helps 🙏
It's a good saying Joseph - and much truth in it.
So exited …..jumping up and down this is exactly what I struggle with really appreciate this Thankyou
Absolutely fantastic as ever Olly. Held my attention start to finish. Very excited to follow you through this series and fabulous to see you back again. I’ve learnt so much from you in the last few years. All the best till next time. 👋🏻
Thanks Steven
Managing edges what a great approach and negative painting just brings a subject to life. I have been watercolor painting for about a year and half and must say this instruction is unlike any other. I can’t wait for the day I have that internal artist dialog asking myself the right questions when taking on a subject. I am not there yet but enjoying the journey.
Well done - you'll get there, and you're right that its a journey. Don't be distracted by all the 'paint like a pro in 6 months' advertisements - that's not how it works. Experimenting, practising etc will help you to develop the internal dialogue.
I love this concept of a TH-cam tutorial. The idea of learning techniques that will apply across several types of paintings and subject matter. I’m excited to see how this painting evolves and then apply these techniques to my own work.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and skills. It is very much appreciated! I am 70 years of age and only now starting to learn Watercolours. I am looking forward to your teachings.
Be blessed.
I've learnt more from this one video than I have from dozens of lesser ones. Thank you
Welcome back Oliver, I have truly missed you and your wonderful method of teaching. I am happy to say that I still remember quite a bit of what you taught us in the past. So, very much looking forward to your lessons, I will certainly be here.🙏🏼♥️
Oliver. This particular lesson has come at the most perfect time for me. I have not painted for a number of years believe it or not I’ve been setting up my space and organising my pallet replenishing my brushes etc. Incredibly I clicked into my subscriptions , Oliver there you were starting your new series ‘planning your washes “ perfect thank you Oliver it was meant to be .
Thank you so much for doing this series. Not all of us are able to attend actual live classes and are left to bouncing around in TH-cam in an effort to pick up elementary bits of information. What I have felt necessary for myself is a continuous and integrated approach from beginning to end rather than a "tip" or "hack" picked up here and there. I have found a few good instructors, but a complete course is not widely available.
I cannot wait to get my hands on your book. I have checked both Amazon and Powell's Books (Portland, Oregon), which is my favorite bookstore. They both show a release date of 1/30/25 so I have pre-ordered. Once again, thank you so much for taking the time and trouble of making these videos and for producing the book which is eagerly awaited by many!
So very informative. Sometimes I want a hard edge or two, but Now I know how to avoid them. Another big technical revelation. Thank you.
Thank you! I've seen that done many times but nobody had taken the trouble to explain it so well. You're a wonderful teacher and a great painter. ¡Muchas gracias, maestro!
What a wonderful lesson. Very well explained and demonstrated. I am looking forward to following along with these series. Thank you so much for being such a good and generous teacher.
Hi Oliver. I just wanted to thank you for your kind sharing of watercolour knowledge and to tell you that I really love watching your TH-cam videos. I watch them over and over again. They are the best out there. I am really going to enjoy this new series. It is just what I need to advance my watercolour painting. There is no one out there like you on TH-cam. Keep up the great work👍
Very kind of you Gordon - thank you
I paid close attention to your words. This was key to what I struggled with. I needed to hear the problem defined. I'm going to get back to planning instead of fearing. Thank you so much!
No matter where you are with your painting it helps to be reminded of the basics, and there is always something new to learn. Looking forward to the the next episode!
Thank you! I have all but given up watercolour because I don’t fully understand the medium. I need to understand what to do and the order of when to do it and why. I need the analysis you so masterfully teach. I need to be educated which itself entertains me. Thank you again for taking the time to actually teach us🇨🇦
I’ve seen this technique dozens and dozens of times but didn’t totally understand what I was watching until this video. Thank you very much.
I value your painting approach …THANK YOU
I am extremely grateful and happy to see you here again my friend. No one creates a more informative and professional tutorial like you Sir! My goal is to create landscapes of the same caliber as yours.
Nick
If I could have ONLY ONE TH-cam video to see, this is it!!!! Stellar teaching Olly. Looking forward to opening your book too as soon as it gets out checking every day for it :)
You have got to be the BEST watercolor instructor of all! Your careful and thoughtful explanations and demos are sooooo helpful. I’ve been painting in Watercolor for 5 years and starting to exhibit a lot…..AND have found your videos to be so significant in my learning process. Always grateful and anxiously anticipating the rest of this series. You are the BOMB!
This is just what I need and has come at a very opportune time for me. I’ve been going to an in-person watercolour course which I’ve just pulled out of because it isn’t what I wanted. Just watching this video I can see this will be perfect. Can’t wait to practice this.
Oliver, I cannot thank you enough for this WONDERFUL art lesson! ~ You sir are an AMAZING art teacher!
Everything flows so well, it all seems so well thought out ~ I thoroughly enjoyed each and every moment ~ You make art FUN!
God bless ~
So helpful. Even your inexperienced demo is better than my efforts so far. I will continue practicing thoughtfully.
I have always appreciated your work and your insightful teaching. I’m delighted to see you undertake a ‘gallery piece’. So often, instructors approach demos and finished pieces quite differently, and something gets lost in that translation. Only as we get more experienced do we see those subtleties, so thanks so much for the undertaking. I’m excited to follow.
I think that’s the best instruction I’ve ever watched. Am going to practice, practice.
Thank you! As a newbie watercolor painter here, playing with it for about a year and wanting to learn more, I am overwhelmed(!) with the number of artists and videos on TH-cam. Very few have really taught me anything. I‘be been looking for someone to follow who can really provide basic instruction and not just entertain with their talent. I know it is not just a color/paint in a picture, but what exactly do I DO to achieve all of it? I just watched this video and appreciated the illustration of “what not to do” first! I am excited to go and try this now and to learn from your other tutorials! So thankful that I found your channel. Thanks again for providing this.
Thanks Valerie. I agree - there is far too much available content and it can be very confusing as each painter will (and should!) have a different technique. The key is to just find a couple that help to explain techniques that you can use in your own paintings as your experience grows.
thanks ollie, you owe us nothing, yet continue to give
So grateful thank you for making this world just a bit more paintable!
Being self taught I often feel like I'm feeling my way around in the dark. This is an invaluable lesson and I can't wait for the next! Thank you so much!!
Thank you! Amazing as always😊
Hi, what a great tutorial, 😂, can,t wait to see more.
Julie enjoyed all four videos. Thank you for sharing them. Your paintings are amazing.
Good morning Oliver ! I would just like to express serious appreciation of what you have just said about the practise of watercolour painting, and being given the tent poles as it were. I have also scoured the internet, and totally agree that there is a great deal of information but very little actual teaching......until I came across your videos. In calligraphy, for instance, learning to do all the various 'hands' as it were, starts with mastering straight lines and circles.... in music, one has to practise scales etc. in drawing the human body, one has to know and draw anatomy..... so to me it makes a great deal of sense that these tools are necessary in watercolour painting. I am sooo glad to have found you! I have already ordered your book. Thank you, and really looking forward to it.
Lenore Bergstrom
I just found your page a day or two ago and I’m so grateful! I completely relate to the creative vs logical and analytical aspects as I’ve found that to be my biggest nemesis in watercolour painting, to find the balance as I overthink completely. Thank you for your teachings… this is definitely going to help develop and improve my skill and technique
I was very impressed with the information in the tutorial. Very clear explanations, and much more useful than most of the videos I've seen on TH-cam. I am concerned about my own perception though! Where it seems clear that most people responding to this video also appreciate the info very much, I don't see any comments saying which of the two sketches is preferred, so I assume most people like the second version better, as Olly has painted it with the 'improved' method. But when I look at the side to side (or top to bottom) comparison after the 44 minute mark, I actually like the first one better. True that some of the overlap doesn't look great, but my brain ignores most of it. Maybe it's just because the greens are brighter on the top picture, but I like the way the trees appear much more in the top picture than the bottom picture. Maybe one reason he's a good painter, and I'm not! Or maybe because he was just showing the process, without trying to make the bottom one look 'good'...Beats me, but the info was great and I'll remember the technique...
EXACTLY what I needed! Thanks, Olly.
It is great that you mix your paints from primaries instead of having a plethora of pre-mixed colours. I'm working at learning this. Like the way you showed how to take paintings from beginner to better. The one thing is that the tree in front looked too pale to have been in front so would liked to have seen how to bring it forward and make it brighter. All the same, really enjoy your way of teaching and am very happy to learn how to improve my paintings. You explain things simply but so effective.
Can't wait for the remainder of this series. I learned more from this single episode than I have before while watching HOURS of other watercolor channels. As you said, yes, they are entertaining but do not actually teach. Thank you so much!
so glad this popped up in my feed! i am a beginner and this is exactly the problem I am having. thank you so much!
I'm going to more than just watch your new series, I'm going to paint along and see if I can get a bit of your masterful techniques into my paintings. I'm excited for what's next. Thanks
Thank you! Clearly explained, I have so much more to learn on my watercolour journey. I am very grateful for the opportunity to learn from you.
Thank you so much helping us with our tent poles. I've never been taught this way. Usually just follow tutorials without completely understanding why certain steps are performed and the logic behind them.
Utterly brilliant, bless you for sharing your reverence for the process of an unforgiving medium. Your perspective has given me a pathway to the level of sophistication I want to achieve. Thank you to the edges.
Brilliant lesson, thank you for this. I have been trying to learn watercolor painting, and have watched many different painters' tutorials. I have chosen you to be my teacher. I love your style, I love your content, and I believe I can learn the most - and the most important things - from you. Watercolor is not easy & I have walked away from it many times in frustration... but you always inspire me to try again. Thank you, sir. 🎨 🖌
Very kind, thank you. Yes, it can be frustrating, but keep at it!
What a wonderful and valuable lesson! Thanks Olly!
Oh wow! You have just started this in the nick of time for me. This explains sooo much for me. I’m off to practice this over and over because you told us this before … and I completely forgot it. Thank you!!
How very much FUN! Thank you. 🤗
Whoa! Look who is back. Awesome!
Once again, you've encapsulated and distilled, techniques and skills that other teachers never quite break down as you do. Thank you so much for your generosity and effort you put into making these videos.
Ollie I just have to thank you !!! Your generosity of teaching from your heart !! Awesome!!!!
What a great lesson I learned, thank you so much🙏 not many artists teach this, really appreciate ❤
Thank you so much for this. THIS is what I’m looking for so that I can improve and actually know how to plan it all out with confidence. Thank you so much.
Thank you for addressing this issue. Entertainment vs. Skills for painting. Your videos have opened my mind to what I can and should learn about watercolor painting.
Legend, you are a legend
Hi Olly, love your lessons and this is why I watch your TH-cam channel.
Best watercolor tutorials on TH-cam! Thank you!
Much appreciated. Thank you for creating these videos. Your genuine personality and clear explanations are true gems along this process of my watercolor journey
Thanks so much Oliver - your are very generous with your painting knowledge but what I appreciate the most is you advise which colors you have mixed as you use them - color harmony in paintings is to me one of the most important and pleasing aspects - I look forward to more of these videos in this series 😊
Honestly the best video I’ve ever seen or heard on watercolor. 7 techniques to master. That’s it!
Very thought provoking, holistic. Really though. Expert level teaching.
So excited for this series! I’m a realist watercolor painter & there are not a lot of videos on realistic landscapes, so I’m interested in learning your skills & techniques.
Great tips regarding edges! Thanks Ollie!
Thanks Olly. You’re always so thoughtful and thorough. I appreciate your efforts.
Thanks for this. Incredibly helpful
Fantastic! Finally I figured out how it is done, thank you so much!
Excelente explanação sobre técnicas de aquarelas. Linguagem simples, comunicativa e sempre atenciosa. Sou grato pela sua dedicação. Obrigado, Olly.
So excited for this series Olly! Really looking forward to your book coming out also!!
After ages, Oyli ! Seeing you and hearing your psychological counselling (every time I paint, I am a beginner and lost), I kept listening and relating and postponed my first-hour office work 😊 to another hour. This is much more fulfilling than
Thank you for a very useful tutorial. I have never tried to blend the foreground with broken brush strokes before I will get my sketchbook out and practice this.
Thanks a lot! I can’t wait for the next video. ❤ I learned a lot with this video. So excited for the next one!! 😊
So excited for this series Oliver! I always learn so much from you. Thank you😊
Thank you Oliver, I’m so glad you’re back making tutorials, I’ve tried this one several times already, and it’s harder than it looks. The sky to hill top edge is ok but the next section I just can’t keep everything wet enough long enough. I might go off piste and try a little wet in wet for the second section with the trees, just to buy a little extra time but still paint the hill edge crisply. I’m really looking forward to this series. Thank you again. 😊
Working that area wet-on-wet is a good solution, but if not, it relies on using a lot of wet paint, a large brush and working quickly - all important watercolour skills.
@@oliverpyle-ourlandscape4442 thank you for the feedback, I’m trying to use a mop and just go for it with mixed results but I’ll keep practicing.
Thanks for sharing Olly. Gives me a different approach to try out. Really appreciate you taking the time to describe the definition of edges in practical terms of colour flows and contrasts and how to construct those. Looking forward to the follow up videos.
This was such a great demonstration and much needed by serious students. Thank you. I look forward to the future videos.