Let me know which one of these tips you found the most useful, and try this video next for faster improvement: How to Get Better at Art (FAST!) th-cam.com/video/uX64yGMfOY0/w-d-xo.html
I have never painted or drawn anything other than stick figures and kiddie cats, so at 73 I decided I want to learn how. I purchased more supplies than I need and decided to check out youtube instruction videos. Big mistake! I found your channel and now I'm worried that I will now spend all my time watching your videos rather than trying to paint. Your talking and teaching style is wonderfully friendly supportive and encouraging and your natural psychological approach could/should be applied to teaching absolutely anything. 💕 So now I'm worried that I will never be able to stop watching and jump in 🙄
Oh my goodness..I finally found my person😊 my teacher! 😊 Over a year ago, I decided to start a new hobby, watercoloring. I’ve watched so many videos, and what I realized after watching yours, others would be painting a whole picture, but they weren’t thorough enough for me. You sit and speak to all of us. You show examples of what you’re teaching us, but you aren’t painting something we have to follow. Almost everything you said, I have been doing. To small of a brush, not allowing the paper to fully dry and so much more. I’m sure I was so in-tuned with what they were saying and doing, like grabbing the correct amount of paint, water, things like that , it was hard to focus. I absolutely love your style. Michelle, yours is the correct way of teaching. I do remember someone mentioned to never touch the paper and about erasing pencil lines. Forever instilled in my mind 😊 It’s the “finish” topic you mentioned at the end. I’m a perfectionist, and I’ve painted (I think) 4 paintings in a year. Yes it’s true. I never would finish them because in my mind they weren’t good enough and they were completely ruined. What I did do is, I didn’t throw anything out, I put all unfinished pieces in a folder for a year. Just last week I pulled it out to have a look. They were quite good actually. So please if anyone reads this comment, I hope that you will take with you, my suggestion, to put your paintings up, and have a look at them later. You will definitely be surprised. My motto Patience, Patience, Patience. That motto took awhile to accept but I finally did💕😊 Happy painting family. 🎨🖌 Blessings from “across the pond” x
Thanks so much Janis! I have been teaching for many years and try to (mostly) do techniques so people can find their own style. I do have a few step by steps but I never insist people paint the same as me :-)
Finish the painting tomorrow. All paintings have a hot mess stage . Walking away and coming back later or the next day. Love your videos please keep it up. Stay safe ❤️.
Learning a lot from your tutorials and from all the mistakes I make. But, in the following painting, I see to it that the same mistake is not repeated. Thanks a lot for sharing such invaluable knowledge with us.
I stop myself from overworking my paintings by having at least 2 - 3 pieces at different stages. So, I walk away easily from each one to let drying take place.
I love all the tips especially the drying one! One thing I have learnt is to have a small watercolour sketch book and practice all tips in that I.e trees, lots of different ones. Not actually making a painting but just practicing so when I need trees in a proper painting I can draw on the examples (and mistakes) in the sketchbook- helps me anyway! Keep up the good work Michele.
I still forget to work from light to dark sometimes and then to let my work dry completely between doing a painting. Theses are some great tips for me to remember. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I found the 'finish your painting' and 'allow yourself to make mistakes' tips most useful. As a beginner I often feel despair at how my paintings are turning out! I still (struggle to) continue them and at that point I begin to paint looser because I want to move on to a new painting. That looseness has added to how my paintings have turned out in the end and I end up liking them more than I thought I would, even with mistakes :D Your tips are really helpful, thank you!
Thank you Michelle, I was just going to ditch a painting half done, but after watching this video and your 10 mistakes video I have learnt such a lot that I'm going to try and rectify my mistakes. Even if its still not very good, what I've learnt from these 2 videos is instilled in my brain.
Letting you know that you are in my thoughts & prayers Michele❣ I wish you all the best my Dear. As I've said, I appreciate your videos SO very much! You are part of what helps make my terminal cancer bearable. Really. GOD bless & love to yo❣ 😁 ~Kathie from Lebanon,Tennessee
Big thanks from Istanbul,Turkey... You know what..you're great . To be honest started watercolor painting 5 months ago..watched dozens of videos..I ve learned lots of things but your tips .. now every mistake I make.... have sense..thank you again
A kneaded eraser is a valuable tool. It's less damaging to the sizing of the paper than regular erasers. You can shape it to a teardrop shape for different sized erasing areas. You can shape it like a cylinder and roll it across the drawing to remove excess pencil so it shows through less under the painting and colours don't mix with the graphite. To clean it, it just needs to be kneaded.
Beautiful job explaining the most obvious, but least practiced to expect to make mistakes and learn from them. Half the fun of learning something new and challenging is the practicing. If it’s not then why do it?
I love your channel! I am a beginner and I’m learning so much. Watching your tutorials/tips over and over and taking notes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
The most useful point I found in this video was to use a large enough brush. I’ve found since watching that I can use some bigger brushes even for my little Christmas card scenes. I was wondering if you have heard of people using bookbinders glue, or even white PVA to coat the edges of watercolour pads and so turn them into blocks? The edges have to be tightly clamped so that no glue gets onto any of the surfaces. I’ve seen videos of this and it seems to work well. Now that I have my gummed kraft tape on the way, I will be mostly stretching my paper but it might be of interest to others. The point about reds, purples and pinks possibly running even after being completely dry was particularly interesting. After I saw this video the first time I watched another TH-cam artist run into this problem!
Great video and wonderful tips. It's so difficult to fight through that awkward stage of my paintings. I tend to get overwhelmed and not trust my own ability to pull it together, but I know that the smart thing in SO many ways is to see the project through, so I work hard on that. I have found out about myself that with my unfinished stuff I only focus on the flaws and problem areas, and it's a failure on top because it's not finished, while if I finish, even if I didn't manage to salvage it, I have a much easier time identifying details and areas where I did well. I still see the flaws, but they are no longer 100% of my experience, and even if it didn't turn out the way I wanted, the act of finishing something has a calming effect on its own. Sorry, that was a bit long, but I hope this insight may help others than me. Thank you again for a great list!
I've been doing photography for 10 years now and realised a few years ago not to bin my failures ... I've discovered what I perceived as my rubbish shots actually lead me in new inventive directions and the final image often receives more praise than my normal shots. I've decided to try watercolours after doing a lot of simulations on my computer but I think the real thing will be much tougher. I liked your comments about always finishing your 'failures' ... we all learn from our mistakes.
Hiya Michele! Hope you are doing all right! Thank you for the tips. I first tried watercolor in 7th grade, and there we mostly did wet in wet horizon painting, with lots of water and paint flowing everywhere!! 😓 I have had trouble with watercolors for many years, because I was kinda "taught" that a painting is done very fast!🤔 I am glad to find out it is not so, because I felt so unsecure about my ability to paint! I thought for years that "I cant paint at all".😫😫 I now know that patience is the name when aquarelle is the game! I am working on a painting of a stone bridge over some body of water, loosely based on such a bridge where I grew up. 🥴I am experimenting! ☺It gives me joy !🥳🥳 I have decided that in 2022 I am diving into it,🤓 and will hold a brush everyday. 🤓What I do with it will very much depend on which videos I watch and want to try out, techniques and tricks.😎 I have a goal: Make a lot of mistakes (allowing myself to), and play a lot, just to try stuff out.🤪 I hope my painting will evolve! If it does, I have many thanks to you for it! I love to create, and my hands itch when I watch videos about paint and drawing. Colors are the closest I get to p0rn 🤣🤣🤣! (Artist joke!!!! ) But again, THANK you for sharing your vast experience and for teaching me how to think when I paint or draw. You are so good explaining it all! 🥲 Lots of hugs 🤗from Norway, Katla Dragon 🐉
Hi Katla, well watercolours can be fast, but also they can be slow, it depends on your style! A lot of people who teach them have no idea how to control them. So glad you are finding my videos useful, take care X
Loved this! I particularly like the "Finish it" and the "Let it dry". I often lack the patience with the process or myself to do either. The entire video was very helpful. Thank you.
thank you so much Michele, I think Ill get thru as many of your videos as I can and try and glean as much info as I can and then actually start something. there is so much to know!!!
Thanks so much for all this wonderful information!!! My favorite was the bonus, being a perfectionist, I struggle with getting things done a certain way, that’s both good & bad. I do allow myself to make mistakes without feeling like a failure, finally! I enjoy coloring & painting, it’s so relaxing. Stay well, blessings!!!
Top notch video for a complete newbie to painting. I wish you'd been my art teacher at school ... I might have become a famous artist instead of a Mathematician! Getting a small easel for my 67th birthday next week.
New sub here. I am going to be spending the rest of my day today, Friday December 12th, binging your channel. Today is not Netflix and Chill, today is Webber and Barbeque some knowledge into my head.
You made such an important point a out that middle stage when most watercolours look pretty pants, and beginners can get disillusioned. But this is normal - actually my paintings look pretty vague most of the way through, until I start pulling it together near the end. This is part of my process and I only start defining edges and detai very late into the painting. I think there is an expectation and comparison with other media that we should have some exquisitely completed section of our painting that demonstrates our skill as the painting develops. It's that fear of someone looking over your shoulder and saying "what is that?" And even if we do mess up and it's not going quite to plan (which is pretty normal for me)... it can still be brought together and turned into something pleasing. Sometimes we just need to wait a day or so and come back to it with fresh eyes and see what it needs.
I was wondering why I kept getting brush strokes when swatching paints and now I know because not enough water because the brush is too small? I’m using size 2 Princeton Snap as the swatches are small.
Thank you so much for this clear and oh so useful video! I’ve been dabbling with watercolours for a while and often want to give up, but you’ve inspired me to carry on. I think your most valuable tip ( for me, anyway) is about paper stretching. I can rarely afford good quality paper, so my paper is very prone to curling and buckling. I’ve recently been trying to do expressive, semi abstract landscapes, largely wet in wet ( a la the wonderful Karen Rice) but ended up with very bendy paper and a drippy table! Actually, every tip was really helpful! I felt as if you were speaking to me personally! Don’t give up your paintings half way through??! Do people really do that....? 😊 You’ve obviously seen my waste paper bin. Seriously though, thank you again for your clear, sensible and inspirational video. Onwards and upwards!
I believe that your last 2 points are related and the most important in effective learning of watercolors. Many times in the middle of painting i felt that the painting is ruined and I cant get the result I wanted. At those times I mentally prepare myself for failure , I take a day break from painting, and then think about how to salvage and get the best possible result under given circumstance. Allmost every time I was surprised by end result and when people appreciate I realize the importance of staying till end. Every time some learning that has come out of experience ( especially failure) sits in brain and these becomes our skills for future works. Thank you.
Thank you Michele for sharing! Very informative especially for a beginner as me. Your tutorial definitely will give me a lot knowledge and tips for starting watercolor painting and shape good habits Thank you very much!
Wonderful video. You are so encouraging and at the same time teaching your students and viewers to be realistic and PATIENT with themselves and their progress, and to finish their painting. I found this message to be the best tip. I have taken calligraphy classes for 5 years, and I did not find this quality in my teachers. It really helps with frustration to hear this now and again. THANKS!!!
Thanks Michele. Great tips! I also will use binder clips to secure the paper down. When the fibers start to expand I can release a clip and stretch the paper flat all around. Sometimes I tape ,sometimes I clip. But you need boards where your clips can meet the paper. I use foam core boards. 22inch by 30 inch board for just a dollar at the dollar store. 😉 Last tip awesome! I would eye roll when people would take three riding lessons then quit. Really!? It takes years not days.🙄
THANK YOU so very, very much for these these tutorials! Im coming from a background in oils & I've struggled so much learning to paint with watercolours. And YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!! 🎨💜
Lots of reasons, I tend to work too tightly in oils, also I just like the feeling of 'wet' paint, plus I hate painting on Canvas so even when using acrylics I paint on paper. I don't rule out using oils in the future, I just don't feel I know much about them.
Question, what are those tiny containers full of is that guach paint? I noticed the pigments were strong, and u used a light color over dark. Not real familiar with gauche.
They are more likely watercolours. The company I work with sells pots as well as pans and tubes. Plus I am often trialling pigments and samples so they may have been manufacturers samples. The company is Jackmans Art Materials UK (different to Jacksons, note the spelling). Hope that helps.
They are manufacturer samples. Basically tube paint squeezed into a pot. I work with the company developing colours and it's an easy way for them to send me some paint. I really like them actually, nice to hold and don't dry out. Some of the shimmer colours are sold to the public in pots.
Thank you for your fabulous tips! I am learning now. I figured out on my own to tape down the paper, makes sense! I loved all your tips. I will now have two cups of water by my side and empty often. I will allow the paint to dry. I am presently water coloring tiny stamps by Art Impressions so I can create a scene. I have subscribed so I never miss a video!
Thank you Michele, another great video. BTW, for some reason, TH-cam is no longer sending me notifications of your uploads, even though I still have that turned on. Anyway, thanks again
Oh no! It's a funny thing the YT algorithm. Make sure you haven't turned phone notifications off. You can always join my Facebook group, I always put the video links up there straight away.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thanks Michele, I use a laptop and used to get notifications by email for them, however, lately nothing ... no idea why as I still have the "notifiction" icon turned on. I am a member of your FB Group and love it. Thanks again
I'm starting to run low on the Daniel Smith Hansa Yellow Light in my palette I bought. I was wondering if you know if the Rembrandt Permanent Lemon Yellow is close to the same yellow?
Hi Marlene, I have videos on flat washes, wet on wet and also blooms. These will help you to understand what causes drying lines and how to avoid them. It's all about water control. If you leave puddles or have wet areas next to damp areas then the work dries unevenly and drying lines are formed.
Let me know which one of these tips you found the most useful, and try this video next for faster improvement: How to Get Better at Art (FAST!) th-cam.com/video/uX64yGMfOY0/w-d-xo.html
Not touch the paper. Keep it flat.
The very last one, about mistakes and expectations. 💚
I have never painted or drawn anything other than stick figures and kiddie cats, so at 73 I decided I want to learn how. I purchased more supplies than I need and decided to check out youtube instruction videos. Big mistake! I found your channel and now I'm worried that I will now spend all my time watching your videos rather than trying to paint.
Your talking and teaching style is wonderfully friendly supportive and encouraging and your natural psychological approach could/should be applied to teaching absolutely anything. 💕
So now I'm worried that I will never be able to stop watching and jump in 🙄
Thanks Robyn, I guarantee you can watch the videos faster than I can make them!
Oh my goodness..I finally found my person😊 my teacher! 😊
Over a year ago, I decided to start a new hobby, watercoloring. I’ve watched so many videos, and what I realized after watching yours, others would be painting a whole picture, but they weren’t thorough enough for me. You sit and speak to all of us. You show examples of what you’re teaching us, but you aren’t painting something we have to follow. Almost everything you said, I have been doing. To small of a brush, not allowing the paper to fully dry and so much more. I’m sure I was so in-tuned with what they were saying and doing, like grabbing the correct amount of paint, water, things like that , it was hard to focus. I absolutely love your style. Michelle, yours is the correct way of teaching. I do remember someone mentioned to never touch the paper and about erasing pencil lines. Forever instilled in my mind 😊 It’s the “finish” topic you mentioned at the end. I’m a perfectionist, and I’ve painted (I think) 4 paintings in a year. Yes it’s true. I never would finish them because in my mind they weren’t good enough and they were completely ruined.
What I did do is, I didn’t throw anything out, I put all unfinished pieces in a folder for a year. Just last week I pulled it out to have a look. They were quite good actually. So please if anyone reads this comment, I hope that you will take with you, my suggestion, to put your paintings up, and have a look at them later. You will definitely be surprised. My motto
Patience, Patience, Patience. That motto took awhile to accept but I finally did💕😊
Happy painting family. 🎨🖌
Blessings from “across the pond” x
Thanks so much Janis! I have been teaching for many years and try to (mostly) do techniques so people can find their own style. I do have a few step by steps but I never insist people paint the same as me :-)
I splurged on a paint bucket w/2 dividers - 3 containers in 1 bucket! I love it!
Finish the painting tomorrow. All paintings have a hot mess stage . Walking away and coming back later or the next day. Love your videos please keep it up. Stay safe ❤️.
Thanks Marilyn, you too!
Learning a lot from your tutorials and from all the mistakes I make. But, in the following painting, I see to it that the same mistake is not repeated. Thanks a lot for sharing such invaluable knowledge with us.
Wonderful!
The tip I found the most useful was "finish it", even if I feel it's a lost cause, because then I shall learn some of the finishing techniques.
Glad it was helpful!
Great tips! To your bonus tip: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett
Good one!
I stop myself from overworking my paintings by having at least 2 - 3 pieces at different stages. So, I walk away easily from each one to let drying take place.
I needed to hear about letting things dry completely before going on, and finishing paintings instead of tossing them away when disappointed with them
Excellent, good luck with your paintings Jan :-)
Thanks for all your wonderful and useful. Straight and to the point.
I love all the tips especially the drying one! One thing I have learnt is to have a small watercolour sketch book and practice all tips in that I.e trees, lots of different ones. Not actually making a painting but just practicing so when I need trees in a proper painting I can draw on the examples (and mistakes) in the sketchbook- helps me anyway! Keep up the good work Michele.
Thanks for sharing!!
You are a good teacher things and tips you makes me think about
You are a Wonderful Teacher. I love your TH-cam videos.
Thank you so much!
I still forget to work from light to dark sometimes and then to let my work dry completely between doing a painting. Theses are some great tips for me to remember. Thanks for sharing this with us.
"Let your work dry at intervals" is something that I still struggle to do... Thank you for the list :)
No worries!
Oh man I am horrible at that too horrible so impatient
I found the 'finish your painting' and 'allow yourself to make mistakes' tips most useful. As a beginner I often feel despair at how my paintings are turning out! I still (struggle to) continue them and at that point I begin to paint looser because I want to move on to a new painting. That looseness has added to how my paintings have turned out in the end and I end up liking them more than I thought I would, even with mistakes :D Your tips are really helpful, thank you!
Thanks Chrissie, good luck with your paintings, keep going!
Thank you Michelle, I was just going to ditch a painting half done, but after watching this video and your 10 mistakes video I have learnt such a lot that I'm going to try and rectify my mistakes. Even if its still not very good, what I've learnt from these 2 videos is instilled in my brain.
Wonderful!
Completely & understood ‘Hoovering’ but had not heard that expression before 😃 fun
I'm actually watching your "50k Subscribers!..." video on my TV. 💜 ~Kathie from Lebanon,Tennessee
Oh wow!
Letting you know that you are in my thoughts & prayers Michele❣ I wish you all the best my Dear. As I've said, I appreciate your videos SO very much! You are part of what helps make my terminal cancer bearable. Really.
GOD bless & love to yo❣ 😁 ~Kathie from Lebanon,Tennessee
Thank you Kathie, may you stay healthy for as long as possible, and happy always.
Big thanks from Istanbul,Turkey... You know what..you're great . To be honest started watercolor painting 5 months ago..watched dozens of videos..I ve learned lots of things but your tips .. now every mistake I make.... have sense..thank you again
My pleasure 😊
A kneaded eraser is a valuable tool. It's less damaging to the sizing of the paper than regular erasers. You can shape it to a teardrop shape for different sized erasing areas. You can shape it like a cylinder and roll it across the drawing to remove excess pencil so it shows through less under the painting and colours don't mix with the graphite. To clean it, it just needs to be kneaded.
I am sure you are right Sharon, I don't get on with the kneaded ones. I have always wanted to try one of those electric ones though!
Love your positive attitude, especially about finishing the painting even if you’ve made mistakes-we learn best by making those mistakes!
Thank you so much!
Beautiful job explaining the most obvious, but least practiced to expect to make mistakes and learn from them. Half the fun of learning something new and challenging is the practicing. If it’s not then why do it?
Thank you so much. All of these tips...very helpful.
So glad!
Just found you. Can't wait to watch more.
I love your channel! I am a beginner and I’m learning so much. Watching your tutorials/tips over and over and taking notes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
You are so welcome!
Great tips. I really needed to hear to use enough water, and don’t paste it on like acrylic 🙂
Glad it was helpful!
The most useful point I found in this video was to use a large enough brush. I’ve found since watching that I can use some bigger brushes even for my little Christmas card scenes.
I was wondering if you have heard of people using bookbinders glue, or even white PVA to coat the edges of watercolour pads and so turn them into blocks? The edges have to be tightly clamped so that no glue gets onto any of the surfaces. I’ve seen videos of this and it seems to work well. Now that I have my gummed kraft tape on the way, I will be mostly stretching my paper but it might be of interest to others.
The point about reds, purples and pinks possibly running even after being completely dry was particularly interesting. After I saw this video the first time I watched another TH-cam artist run into this problem!
Yes, I know there are tutorials on making your own blocks, I am sure it's cheaper, although I haven't tried it!
Your advise to tell yourself make mistakes it just what I needed to hear!
Glad you found it helpful 🙂
Great video and wonderful tips.
It's so difficult to fight through that awkward stage of my paintings. I tend to get overwhelmed and not trust my own ability to pull it together, but I know that the smart thing in SO many ways is to see the project through, so I work hard on that.
I have found out about myself that with my unfinished stuff I only focus on the flaws and problem areas, and it's a failure on top because it's not finished, while if I finish, even if I didn't manage to salvage it, I have a much easier time identifying details and areas where I did well. I still see the flaws, but they are no longer 100% of my experience, and even if it didn't turn out the way I wanted, the act of finishing something has a calming effect on its own.
Sorry, that was a bit long, but I hope this insight may help others than me.
Thank you again for a great list!
Very wise! So glad you liked the video, thanks for watching!
I used to teach students learning English, hence I loved the explanation of "hovering". You are a wonderful teacher. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! 😃
Thank you so much for all these tips.
Glad you like them!
I think kneaded erasers are optimum for clean erasing. I have used a 2" house painting brush to clean away other erasings.
I've been doing photography for 10 years now and realised a few years ago not to bin my failures ... I've discovered what I perceived as my rubbish shots actually lead me in new inventive directions and the final image often receives more praise than my normal shots. I've decided to try watercolours after doing a lot of simulations on my computer but I think the real thing will be much tougher.
I liked your comments about always finishing your 'failures' ... we all learn from our mistakes.
Thanks Rob!
My paper always curled when I applied water. A tiny brush is for detail or things in the distance.
Yes, exactly right!
Hiya Michele! Hope you are doing all right! Thank you for the tips. I first tried watercolor in 7th grade, and there we mostly did wet in wet horizon painting, with lots of water and paint flowing everywhere!! 😓 I have had trouble with watercolors for many years, because I was kinda "taught" that a painting is done very fast!🤔
I am glad to find out it is not so, because I felt so unsecure about my ability to paint! I thought for years that "I cant paint at all".😫😫
I now know that patience is the name when aquarelle is the game! I am working on a painting of a stone bridge over some body of water, loosely based on such a bridge where I grew up. 🥴I am experimenting! ☺It gives me joy !🥳🥳
I have decided that in 2022 I am diving into it,🤓 and will hold a brush everyday. 🤓What I do with it will very much depend on which videos I watch and want to try out, techniques and tricks.😎
I have a goal: Make a lot of mistakes (allowing myself to), and play a lot, just to try stuff out.🤪 I hope my painting will evolve!
If it does, I have many thanks to you for it! I love to create, and my hands itch when I watch videos about paint and drawing.
Colors are the closest I get to p0rn 🤣🤣🤣! (Artist joke!!!! )
But again, THANK you for sharing your vast experience and for teaching me how to think when I paint or draw. You are so good explaining it all! 🥲 Lots of hugs 🤗from Norway, Katla Dragon 🐉
Hi Katla, well watercolours can be fast, but also they can be slow, it depends on your style! A lot of people who teach them have no idea how to control them. So glad you are finding my videos useful, take care X
Loved this! I particularly like the "Finish it" and the "Let it dry". I often lack the patience with the process or myself to do either. The entire video was very helpful. Thank you.
You are very welcome!
Love your tutorials Michele
Thanks so much 😊
I like the tip that we should let the paint glow through the paper!
Excellent, glad you liked it!
Another great video....mikelle newyork mom😷🎨✌
Thank you so much 😀
thank you so much Michele, I think Ill get thru as many of your videos as I can and try and glean as much info as I can and then actually start something. there is so much to know!!!
We are all still learning!
This video was very useful, thank you for sharing.
Very good tips! Thank you, Michele! I just discoverer your channel and am catching up on old ones. Learning a lot.
Welcome!
👌 bonus tip
So helpful 😊🌻🍏🖼️🐦
So nice of you
Thanks so much for all this wonderful information!!! My favorite was the bonus, being a perfectionist, I struggle with getting things done a certain way, that’s both good & bad. I do allow myself to make mistakes without feeling like a failure, finally! I enjoy coloring & painting, it’s so relaxing. Stay well, blessings!!!
You are very welcome, you stay well too!
Top notch video for a complete newbie to painting. I wish you'd been my art teacher at school ... I might have become a famous artist instead of a Mathematician! Getting a small easel for my 67th birthday next week.
Happy Birthday Rob, I gave up painting for over a decade after listening to people, it's never too late!
New sub here. I am going to be spending the rest of my day today, Friday December 12th, binging your channel. Today is not Netflix and Chill, today is Webber and Barbeque some knowledge into my head.
Oh, thanks so much for subscribing!
Thank you. Nice compendium of water coloring points to remember
Thank you! Cheers!
Such a great point about finishing the pieces with mistakes so we'll remember!!
Great Video as always...❤
I've only begun painting and started with WC, I find that I overwork things often. I'm enjoying your videos. Thank you!
Glad you like them!
Another fabulous video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
So happy I found your videos. These tips are great for a beginner like me.
I'm so glad!
Such good basic information. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for a very useful segment!
You're very welcome!
Excellent and informative advice!! Happy to subscribe.
Many thanks Andrew!
Very good tips and very helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
You made such an important point a out that middle stage when most watercolours look pretty pants, and beginners can get disillusioned. But this is normal - actually my paintings look pretty vague most of the way through, until I start pulling it together near the end. This is part of my process and I only start defining edges and detai very late into the painting. I think there is an expectation and comparison with other media that we should have some exquisitely completed section of our painting that demonstrates our skill as the painting develops. It's that fear of someone looking over your shoulder and saying "what is that?" And even if we do mess up and it's not going quite to plan (which is pretty normal for me)... it can still be brought together and turned into something pleasing. Sometimes we just need to wait a day or so and come back to it with fresh eyes and see what it needs.
Exactly, one of my students told me she had 'ruined' her work this week near the start, by the end it was very nice indeed!
I was wondering why I kept getting brush strokes when swatching paints and now I know because not enough water because the brush is too small? I’m using size 2 Princeton Snap as the swatches are small.
More water, slightly bigger brush, work fast, no puddles and you will get improved results :-)
Thank you so much for this clear and oh so useful video! I’ve been dabbling with watercolours for a while and often want to give up, but you’ve inspired me to carry on. I think your most valuable tip ( for me, anyway) is about paper stretching. I can rarely afford good quality paper, so my paper is very prone to curling and buckling. I’ve recently been trying to do expressive, semi abstract landscapes, largely wet in wet ( a la the wonderful Karen Rice) but ended up with very bendy paper and a drippy table! Actually, every tip was really helpful! I felt as if you were speaking to me personally! Don’t give up your paintings half way through??! Do people really do that....? 😊 You’ve obviously seen my waste paper bin. Seriously though, thank you again for your clear, sensible and inspirational video. Onwards and upwards!
So glad you are carrying on Deborah, I can confirm I haven't been in your bin :-) :-)
You are so right! I started with acrylics and went to watercolor and used way too much paint!
Everybody does :-)
I believe that your last 2 points are related and the most important in effective learning of watercolors. Many times in the middle of painting i felt that the painting is ruined and I cant get the result I wanted. At those times I mentally prepare myself for failure , I take a day break from painting, and then think about how to salvage and get the best possible result under given circumstance. Allmost every time I was surprised by end result and when people appreciate I realize the importance of staying till end. Every time some learning that has come out of experience ( especially failure) sits in brain and these becomes our skills for future works.
Thank you.
You are very welcome, a 'hopeless@ painting is often perfectly fine by the end!
Very important and useful Video.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent tips!
Glad it was helpful!
You have been so helpful
No problem Barbara!
Hello! Just discovered you via this video on my recommendations. Lovely to find a UK water-colourist, I have subscribed!
Awesome! Thank you Harriet!
Thank you Michele for sharing! Very informative especially for a beginner as me. Your tutorial definitely will give me a lot knowledge and tips for starting watercolor painting and shape good habits Thank you very much!
You are most welcome!
Wonderful video. You are so encouraging and at the same time teaching your students and viewers to be realistic and PATIENT with themselves and their progress, and to finish their painting. I found this message to be the best tip. I have taken calligraphy classes for 5 years, and I did not find this quality in my teachers. It really helps with frustration to hear this now and again. THANKS!!!
Ah, no problem at all Gale, so glad you liked it!
Thanks Michele. Great tips! I also will use binder clips to secure the paper down. When the fibers start to expand I can release a clip and stretch the paper flat all around. Sometimes I tape ,sometimes I clip. But you need boards where your clips can meet the paper. I use foam core boards. 22inch by 30 inch board for just a dollar at the dollar store. 😉 Last tip awesome! I would eye roll when people would take three riding lessons then quit. Really!? It takes years not days.🙄
Exactly! We don't have the dollar store, we have the pound shop, there isn't a lot worth having in there though...
THANK YOU so very, very much for these these tutorials! Im coming from a background in oils & I've struggled so much learning to paint with watercolours. And YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!! 🎨💜
Very welcome Adrienne, big change from oils!
Great tips. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Good advice!
Thanks!
Your stuff really helped! I wish you were my teacher! Thank you! 😁
No problem Sonja, I am your online teacher!
Great information thank you
You are welcome!
Why do you like watercolour more than oils? Is it turpentines? Or the vibrancy of watercolour?
Lots of reasons, I tend to work too tightly in oils, also I just like the feeling of 'wet' paint, plus I hate painting on Canvas so even when using acrylics I paint on paper. I don't rule out using oils in the future, I just don't feel I know much about them.
Helpful, thanks
No worries!
great tips
Glad it was helpful!
Wonderful videos
Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much for sharing. I love how you explain it is so helpful for a newbie like myself. Lots of encouragement.
Glad it was helpful Annette!
Question, what are those tiny containers full of is that guach paint? I noticed the pigments were strong, and u used a light color over dark. Not real familiar with gauche.
They are more likely watercolours. The company I work with sells pots as well as pans and tubes. Plus I am often trialling pigments and samples so they may have been manufacturers samples. The company is Jackmans Art Materials UK (different to Jacksons, note the spelling). Hope that helps.
What are the little pots of paint please? Are they ore-watered watercolours?
They are manufacturer samples. Basically tube paint squeezed into a pot. I work with the company developing colours and it's an easy way for them to send me some paint. I really like them actually, nice to hold and don't dry out. Some of the shimmer colours are sold to the public in pots.
All of your videos are brilliant
Glad you like them!
Great DOS and DONTS learned a lot.
Thanks for watching Andrea!
I just joined. Very good information. Thank you. I look forward to learning more.
Awesome! Thank you!
What do you think about water brushes
You mean the ones with the reservoir? Haven't used them but some of my students love them. Must give them a go!
Nice video! My particular favorite is the water on the brush.
Thank you ☺️
Thank you and God bless.Olga
Thank you too!
Thank you for your fabulous tips! I am learning now. I figured out on my own to tape down the paper, makes sense! I loved all your tips. I will now have two cups of water by my side and empty often. I will allow the paint to dry. I am presently water coloring tiny stamps by Art Impressions so I can create a scene. I have subscribed so I never miss a video!
Thanks so much Stephanie!
very informative. thank you so much for making this video 😊
My pleasure 😊
Thank you Michele, another great video. BTW, for some reason, TH-cam is no longer sending me notifications of your uploads, even though I still have that turned on. Anyway, thanks again
Oh no! It's a funny thing the YT algorithm. Make sure you haven't turned phone notifications off. You can always join my Facebook group, I always put the video links up there straight away.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thanks Michele, I use a laptop and used to get notifications by email for them, however, lately nothing ... no idea why as I still have the "notifiction" icon turned on. I am a member of your FB Group and love it. Thanks again
I'm starting to run low on the Daniel Smith Hansa Yellow Light in my palette I bought. I was wondering if you know if the Rembrandt Permanent Lemon Yellow is close to the same yellow?
Ah, I can't tell you Carole, as I don't have the DS Hansa. I do have a Hansa in my own range by Jackman's.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thanks anyway
What size brush was the bigger brush you used? I'm a beginner and just started going to school.
Thank you for this information learned a lot from this video!
Hi Lisa, the brush is a size 10 synthetic available here www.jackmansartmaterials.co.uk use my discount code MICHELE10 to get 10 percent off :-)
In the Studio with Michele Webber Thank you so much ❤️
Always great information
Thanks for watching Dave!
Thank you!
Welcome!
Thank you for these excellent tips!
Glad you like them!
Thanks for sharing your talent and with informative videos, greatly appreciated
So nice of you, thanks Philip!
Hello Michelle thank you for you tips , what need to know is how do I stop water marks . I am 75 4 months something I have always wanted to do .
Hi Marlene, I have videos on flat washes, wet on wet and also blooms. These will help you to understand what causes drying lines and how to avoid them. It's all about water control. If you leave puddles or have wet areas next to damp areas then the work dries unevenly and drying lines are formed.