What I have found is that you can use staining and non staining paints to your advantage. For example, if you use a graded wash with staining colors like a warm yellow on the background and wait for it to dry, then you can re-wet the page without reactivating the stained color. Then you can incorporate more wet onto wet clouds etc over the initial wash.
I found your channel this week and I am so grateful!!! Thank you so much for offering these lessons online. Your teaching is so clear, I love your tips as you are so specific, it makes total sense to me. I'm following along your tutorials step by step and I'm learning so much! You are a fantastic teacher!
Matt, can you take your viewers step by step through a series of a few videos of creating a painting using your 5 ways? It would be so super to start with you from the beginning and learning to mix a couple of basic colors all the way to the finished painting.
Since this is my first time here, hello from Canada 🇨🇦. I like using wet-on-wet on backgrounds. I only wet one side of the paper, and will use masking tape on the sides to prevent buckling. I've used watercolors for the past 4 years or so. I still have to think about paint-to-water ratios before I start painting. PS I also have a problem with overworking my paintings. Will watch the video you linked to.
Excellent tips here. Someone else asked this question but it wasn't answered, so if possible could you tell us if you re-wet or spritzed the paper more than once here? I'm guessing so, as it dried pretty quickly at the beginning. This is an important issue, especially for beginners who live in very arid climates. It's another aspect of water management, and so frustrating to see tutorialists (from rainy England) leisurely painting on the same water wash after almost five minutes. How is this even possible??? Ty!
In order to get the thickness of paint you are showing, are you using wet paint fresh out of the tube? As opposed to paint dried in the palette and re-wetted, …I find that is much harder to achieve a buttery consistency.
Matthew, I have not been able to find the link to get/buy your Watercolor Course. I am an amateur in need for guidance, love your style, so pls help me. Thanks, Pilar
Great video again Matt - came into your channel recently and learned a lot. I’m pretty new to watercolor within the last year and have been trying to soak in as much as I can How long have you been a watercolor artist ?
That's a nice video and recommendations.Thank you. But it would me much more useful and aesthetically pleasing if you didn't use sped up recording. Unnatural jerky brush movements just defeat your good point about learning to control brush strokes.
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Thank you for sharing this video, I've watched loads of sky's being painted in watercolour yours is by far the best yet. 👍😷👍
What I have found is that you can use staining and non staining paints to your advantage. For example, if you use a graded wash with staining colors like a warm yellow on the background and wait for it to dry, then you can re-wet the page without reactivating the stained color. Then you can incorporate more wet onto wet clouds etc over the initial wash.
I found your channel this week and I am so grateful!!! Thank you so much for offering these lessons online. Your teaching is so clear, I love your tips as you are so specific, it makes total sense to me. I'm following along your tutorials step by step and I'm learning so much! You are a fantastic teacher!
Matthew , dziękuję bardzo, Twoje filmy są bardzo pomocne👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you, Matthew, for being so generous with your knowledge.
You're very welcome!
I'm watching this again. Lovely cloud, and gentle music. Thanks!
Thank you, Mathew, for another great instructional video. The best educational TH-cam channel on watercolor painting.
Yes, lately I think often I need practice of handling a brush. Quite essential.
I like your explanations while you teach. Also, you have a pleasant voice.
Thank you! I appreciate that.
Wow!!! You are a natural teacher!! New subscriber…very happy I found your channel!!
Love watching your tutorials. So easy to follow and I’ve learned so much!
Matt, can you take your viewers step by step through a series of a few videos of creating a painting using your 5 ways? It would be so super to start with you from the beginning and learning to mix a couple of basic colors all the way to the finished painting.
It's so useful, thanks ❤
Thanks Matthew! Great clouds 😊
Glad you liked it!
Such a lovely video, almost meditative!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks so much for your lessons they a a really pleasure
Super helpful and a great exercise for beginners (like me!)
Glad you are showing how to hold your brush: not near the ferule for a nice and loose line.
Loves It!
Glad to hear it!
Thank you for your teachings. I learn so much from you.
You are terrific, Matt. Looking forward to my lessons with you tomorrow as I didn't have time today.
Thank you for the kind words!
I’ve learnt so much in your free video! I was about to give up on a painting, but after watching the video I went back in and improved the painting!
Cool exercises this is really helping beginners a lot!
Excellent
Wow! Such sense! I am having a great time focusing on the basics!
You will improve dramatically if you enjoy the fundamentals!
Thanks Matthew. I am new to watercolor, and struggling. I will do this cloud!
Best of luck!
thank you, i will try this practice.
This was a great tutorial thank you Matt
You're very welcome!
Matthew I'm learning so much from you. Thank you!
I'm so glad to hear that!
Thanks! Just what I needed. I tried using wet into wet sky using blue, red and yellow. Not that successful. I'll try this monochromatic sky next.
This is great, Matt! I have been looking for ways to practice and I'm going to give this a try.
Glad to hear it!
Thanks Matt another video of yours that I learned from :-)
Thanks Steve!
Since this is my first time here, hello from Canada 🇨🇦.
I like using wet-on-wet on backgrounds. I only wet one side of the paper, and will use masking tape on the sides to prevent buckling.
I've used watercolors for the past 4 years or so. I still have to think about paint-to-water ratios before I start painting.
PS I also have a problem with overworking my paintings. Will watch the video you linked to.
very nice ❤❤❤❤❤
Excellent video
Glad you liked it!
a great tutorial!
Thank you!
Thanks man
Excellent tips here. Someone else asked this question but it wasn't answered, so if possible could you tell us if you re-wet or spritzed the paper more than once here? I'm guessing so, as it dried pretty quickly at the beginning. This is an important issue, especially for beginners who live in very arid climates. It's another aspect of water management, and so frustrating to see tutorialists (from rainy England) leisurely painting on the same water wash after almost five minutes. How is this even possible??? Ty!
I see your drawing board behind you. Where do you put your pallet?
Excellent ! You really help a lot, thank you
In order to get the thickness of paint you are showing, are you using wet paint fresh out of the tube? As opposed to paint dried in the palette and re-wetted, …I find that is much harder to achieve a buttery consistency.
Did you not have to keep spraying your paper as you worked in your values?
Matthew,
I have not been able to find the link to get/buy your Watercolor Course.
I am an amateur in need for guidance, love your style, so pls help me.
Thanks,
Pilar
Great video again Matt - came into your channel recently and learned a lot. I’m pretty new to watercolor within the last year and have been trying to soak in as much as I can
How long have you been a watercolor artist ?
Hi Matt. Thanks for the video. If I don't finish the painting, can the paper be pre wet again the next day?
Yes, just be very gentle so you don't lift any paint off.
"so this is fairly small" lmao right
Who else's heart seized when he got the wood table wet? My mom freaked out when we wouldn't use coasters... lol
haha!
I need a “real” workshop, is there such thing?!?!
yes, there are some good digital ones as well if I do say so. www.learntopaintwatercolor.com/watercolor-essentials
Check your local colleges for classes also.
Do you have a watercolor society nearby that you can join? They offer workshops and classes and you can meet other artists. Artists are very generous.
Was bedeutet Malerei........................?
That's a nice video and recommendations.Thank you.
But it would me much more useful and aesthetically pleasing if you didn't use sped up recording. Unnatural jerky brush movements just defeat your good point about learning to control brush strokes.