Watercolor Galah. Creating a Focal Point. Composition Tips
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I paint a Galah in watercolor and I demonstrate a simple tip to help with your composition.
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The reference photo I used for this painting is my own.
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Love your humour Louise! It really makes me chuckle! But far more than that, I really appreciate the way that you share your expertise, Thanks so much for sharing with all your followers.
First of All thanks a lot for all our videos, you are great teacher...fortunate to came across this gigantic world of internet. It is in deed my pleasure to learn painting...water colour painting....pleasure....
Absolutely beautiful! I love love your techniques which I can easily follow. I have been watching your videos for the past 3 months and I have to say you have given me the confidence to continue painting. Thank you soo much.
This was exactly the topic I have needed to learn, without realising it beforehand. I find myself becoming intimidated by the detail, not knowing where to stop, so not actually beginning though feeling overwhelmed by it all. My greatest thanks for making this video Louise, I have actually broken through the resistance barrier for having seen it and started painting again. My kindest regards to you.
Breath Takingly Beautiful - Your painting of Birds is as beautiful as their Songs - Bless You Sweet Soul xx (bloopers at the end of video brightened my day & the little birdie on the window ledge)
What a beautiful bird! I love birds…all animals really and they are my favorite subject to paint verses florals or scenery. This is a lovely subject and I’m so impressed with your technique. I’m so glad I joined your Patreon. 🤗👍👍🎨
I love galahs, they're such characters. Beautiful painting Lousie, thank you for sharing your skills 💕
Yay it’s Friday! Sit back with a cuppa and enjoy Louise and a good giggle. Love just watching your paint and water and brush control. It’s like meditation. Beautiful bird. Wish we had some parrots and cockatoos here as normal residents. There is a flock of green parrots that appear now and then here in the area, ( Houston)but we think they are escapees and I never seem to have my camera...
Thanks Alison. I know it's not easy to get photos of birds. I have a huge lens that I use. I've always got my camera on it's monopod with the big lens attached ready to grab whenever I see birds in the garden. Sometimes I'll sit out on my hanging chair and wait for them. We have forest all around so it's usually just a matter of time before they show up. I hope you had a lovely weekend.
@@LouiseDeMasi my camera is in the kitchen, with good zoom capabilties, but not always attached to the tripod. I keep thinking monopod might have been a better way to go. Our kitchen and living room look out onto the backyard and the feeders so wild kingdom city style can happen frequently. We have Coopers and sharp shinned hawks that zoom through looking for lunch all the time..I must learn to appreciate the blue of the jays and the red of the cardinals...and go to the zoo for others... thanks for all you do.
A stunner! Thank you, Louise.
Lovely Galah. The outtakes made me smile too 😆🌺
Thank you! 😝💕
Absolutely gorgeous! Watercolor looks like so much fun! I paint in acrylics but am going to have to try this! Thank you for masterfully presenting this video!
WOW! I think I'm in love. With a painting of a bird. That is one of the most beautiful bird paintings I have ever seen and you can believe me when I say that I have seen a lot of bird paintings. One of my favorite subjects. Way to go Louise! You knocked this out of the park!
Beautiful gala bird Louise! I may have to paint this on your Patreon channel. I highly recommend your subscribers to consider taking out a membership at ~$9.00 a month. It is an amazing deal for your quality instructions to beautiful paintings! Thank you for all the time you put into your tutorials…. It is to appreciated..
Very good teaching real good methods, Brilliant painting. Enjoyed video.
I love the way you paint section by section ...slowly....with no stress....usually not seen with other watercolorists 👌👌
Exquisite work Louise .
Stunning!
You are an amazing artist.
Brilliant choice of colors. Learning so much from you. I'm going to try making grey....thank you.
Fantastic Tutorial!!! Thank You soooo much!!!
Such a great painting thankyou good to warch always teach
Beautiful!
Awesome details Louise. Thank you.
Thanks very much Bruce.
Great tips as usual. Many thanks. Keep safe.
What an awesome subject
Hermoso!!!! Una genia 🧞♀️ Me fascina
Lovely!
Magic painting thanks
Ps. I love the bloopers at the end , made me giggle
Fantastic job! Thanks for sharing these tips
great painting!
Your video is so amazing! 😍
Beautiful as always ❣️
Thanks Rupa.
It's look amazing, thank you 😊
Such a beautiful painting🥰
Beautiful.
Thanks Maria.
A gorgeous painting Louise, I love the grey that you mixed and the way the colours separate. Thank you for sharing. Love your funny bits at the end!
Thanks Susan.
I like your tutorials, they always have good content. Thank you ☺️
Beautiful as per usual, you're best teacher and love your artwork ❤
Great tutorial & gorgeous painting; thank Louise for sharing! Have a great week 😃
Beautiful! I should try this soon.
Thank you Cassandra. 💕
Your paintings are amazing, style is lovely and teaching is relaxing....love the bloopers -fun!
Lucky you to have these beautiful birds in your yard! Beautiful painting
Thanks Kelly. We are lucky. I never take it for granted. 💕
Such a beautiful piece of work…can’t wait to have this on Patreon. Thanks so much for this Louise 😍😍🙏🏼
Thanks Siddharth.
C'est magnifique! Merci
Merci. 💜
It's realy cool , thanks teaching 💜😘
Thanks so much Louise! I always learn so much from you and really enjoyed your discussion of focal point and also the color separation effect 😊
You are welcome Wendy. Thank you!
Beautiful painting 🎨
Thanks Sherry.
Such a good, detailed lesson. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful. Thanks Barbara.
Such a joy....and your teaching as well.Thank-you Louise,All the best to you and yours!!!
Thanks very much Grace.
you are a wonderful artist. thanks for the lessons. always very clean and neat work.it's priceless
Thanks Helena.
Simply beautiful!
A wonderful example of importance of a focal point, thank you 😊
Thanks very much Amanda.
So beautiful and well explained. Always a pleasure to watch your videos ❤️
Thanks Sarah.
Great tutorial Louise, I think we all tend to get caught up in the details. I ordered some new paints and hopee to 'cieve them soon! ;)
Thanks Don. It's hard not to. We can never have enough art supplies 😝! I hope you had a great weekend.
Excellent as always. I learned a lot during this video. So pleased I found you
Thanks Jennifer. 💜
The painting is magnificent , it was a very helpful , informative tutorial, I was fascinated watching your process. The galahs are such beautiful birds
The sure are. Thank you Jen. 💕
Brilliant. I always get motivated when I watch these videos. Great explanation.
Great to hear! Thank you JH.
Suuuuper nice! I like a lot when the Subject is so big.
Thanks Barbara.
Excellent video, thank you. You are incredibly talented Louise. I look forward to your video each week, they are inspiring. Thank you from Ireland x 🖌🎨
I'm glad. Thank you!
Beautiful Galah! Actually I love your detailled paintings a lot. This combination focussed with detaille and out of focus with less detaille works well. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
beautiful work. thank you very much
Thank you Marques.
Masterful exposition of focal point . The art of the expertise following the " keep it simple " universal rule ! Thank you Loise for such a clear explanation!
Thanks Nydia.
Amazing 😊🌹
Thank you Erkin.
Thank you so so so much for this tutorial. I've always painted my birds very very loosely because I had no idea how to do the feathers and ive been so intimated for so long. I now feel so confident to go in on the detail . So glad I found your channel. Thank you 💚 xxxx
Nice nice nice! :D And your bloopers always make me giggle
Thanks Chiara. 💕
Lovely🌹
Thank you!
Louise , thank you so much for these tips, as a beginner I tend to put so much detail, and at the end you don't know where to watch in my paintings, some times less y more and this is a perfect example.
Thanks very much David.
Oh Louise you had me laughing my head off with those bloopers (and my hubby tells me I dont have a sense of humour!)...you better watch out they might overtake the actual painting!!🤭🤭🤭
Seriously though, that gallah was stunning (as I might add were all the others you did), they are characters arent they as are the noisy minors tapping at your window. How goes your studio is it finished yet? You wont know yourself. Have a happy day and cheers from WA🤗🥰🤗💜
Belíssimo 👍🏻
Thanks Thereza.
Beautiful as always Thank you Louise I think I might just paint feathers to see if I can get the effect you do
Thanks Amanda.
Hi there, I love Galahs, I saw them while in Australia, such a beautiful bird, and yes noisy. Lol. I just joined your patreon, I don’t do as much watercolors than some other mediums, so I’m excited to learn more from you
Thank you Laura.
Beautiful Louise - I love watching you use only 3 colours, it gives amazing cohesion to the painting. I have started to be a bit irritated with some works where heaps of colours are listed! I know in some styles of painting it works . . but. I have ordered a Quiller book - not the same one as yours - and hope to learn more techniques. Take care and enjoy your weekend!
Thanks Nettie! I avoided mixing in the past but I'm excited about it now. I'm so happy we can all learn and grow together. You have a fabulous weekend too.
Wonderful tutorial! Due to surgery I can't paint well and at that only backgrounds but I look forward to following all the patreon tutorials I missed.
Thanks Renee. I hope you are on the mend soon. 💜
Oh my goodness, love the bloopers. I too flub yo when doing my videos, I’m a bit camera shy.
Thanks Laura. Me too. It's not easy.
Great info as always. Really like to see animals that I’ve never heard of. Assume they are Aussie animals.
Just lovely 💗 I always look forward to the bloopers. As another of my favourite youtubers says - I can speak fine until I turn the camera on 😀
Thanks Peggy. Yes- that's me. Once that camera goes on a lot of gobbledegook comes out 🥴.
You answered one of my prayers!!! I have a Rose Breasted Cockatoo, and want to paint him in watercolors!! Thank you! Do you ever paint Amazon’s? I just lost my Nikki, yesterday, I’m heartbroken. She was an amazing girl! I also have an African Grey, and 2 MaCaws. A B&G and a Catalina. Thank you!
Superb! Thank you for your lovely tutorial! You are not just an artist, but a magician!
I love this and how the colors separated so beautifully. Gorgeous!! Can you share those books again?? I couldn't read the second one
Thanks Cori. It's 'Painting portraits and figures in watercolour' by Mary Whyte.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. 🤗
Thank you for this very lovely, well-explained tutorial, I enjoyed every minute of it. Would you be able to do a video that shows how you stretch your paper before you paint on them? Thank you.
I'm glad. Thank you very much. My paper stretching video is here: th-cam.com/video/eGi9HkEijtU/w-d-xo.html
@@LouiseDeMasi Thanks Louise, much appreciated.
I would absolutely looooove to be able to paint as beautifully as you do! Also your bloopers, crack me up!😆 You seem sooo serious all throughout the bloopers! How does one become a patreon?
Thanks Danita. You can join here: www.patreon.com/louisedemasi
Thanks Charlotte. 💕
Thanks so much! I will check it out. Sorry that I am so late responding, I have been unwell. Blessings!
Love this painting. I have done an Eagle like this for my hubby a few years back doing the same blurring of feathers lower down. He loves it. Back then I used so much more paint.. i love yr feather technique . have to try it!! Thanku Louise again. Love when you post yr tutorials. What time do you actually post them...?
Thank you Jennifer. I try to post every Saturday morning at 1.30am Sydney time.
@@LouiseDeMasi thats early. I assume its automatic. Im on Gold Coast and of course people have sern it already overseas 😃
@@jenniferforeman8007 Yes it is. Most of my viewers are in the US so I schedule it for their Friday morning. It's difficult sticking to a schedule but I think it's important to do that.
Of course, It makes sense Louise, and being consistent is very important 😀
I love your visitor at the window at the end! What kind of bird was that!?
The little bird at the end was a Noisy Miner. They are honey eaters. They're bossy little birds and they can be noisy. If there is a predator in the garden they all chirp excitedly at the same time. We have a python in our garden and they always alert me to its position. 😝
@@LouiseDeMasi A python is not a snake I'd like to see. Happy you have a natural alarm system in the Noisy Miner. Thx for answering my question and for your amazing videos.
Love your videos Louise!
How do you pick your complementary colours? I have been hoping to find a list of W&N complementary paint colours but haven’t been able to find anything so far! I’ve got a colour wheel but it’s not quite doing it for me. Any help would be much appreciated!
Omg , I adore your color pallet, how you chose it?
Thanks Georgina. I mention in the video - I knew I wanted Quin Red for the pink feathers. I needed a grey for the wings so I chose Cobalt Turquoise as the complimentary to Quin red and that made a beautiful grey.
What a beautiful painting indeed :) I also use Arches 640gsm cold pressed watercolor paper. What I noticed is that this beautiful thick paper stays wet for a real long time which makes my painting wet on wet all the time for me. How do you suggest to handle this issue when you want to get hard edges like you did before you blew dry the picture? Thank you :)
What kind of bird was that at the very end? It was quite beautiful!
You are an incredible artist, so magnific, I love your style and thank you very much for rhe vídeo and for the lesson.
I try to pay Patreon, but my visa is not autorizada and I don't know why, In other pages I not have a problems for pay, but in Patreon no, Sorry my english is not good, I am study english, I hope talk very good in a short time for talk to you.
Thanks for this wonderfull class, I love so much ❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻😊😊
Thank you very much! 💕
Louise, I love your videos! Do you happen to know anything concerning the fact that Arches, using animal byproduct in theirs sizing, supposedly contributes to that sizing possibly "spoiling"? I've heard that this is why we get those random, funny spotting and odd areas with the Arches paper that refuse to absorb paint. I am unaware of the validity of this information, but I am very curious! Xoxo
Pls make a cockatiel bird too
Do you tend to tilt your work surface or usually work level?
I ususally work flat on the table Bell.
Hi Louise, I would like to paint this. Is there more detail in your patreon version please? I have not painted before. Thanks
Hi, yes most definitely. The videos I put here are just teasers. The videos on Patreon take you step by step through the entire painting.
@@LouiseDeMasi Thank you. Probably very ambitious for a first painting, but I absolutely love it!
@UCskLBSynyJbW7RAkNx8hx4w I've made two indexes. One on my website where you can see the paintings of each tutorial: www.louisedemasi.com/new-index and another word index on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/34865676
Is a “nice neutral gray color” about the same as Neutral Tint… except you get that nice separation of colors in this case? (Sorry about the edits)
I don’t think I got the first month free, but that’s ok, I like supporting other artists
Beautiful!
Thank you!