Liron! Thank you for this post. Every day I start my painting session vowing to paint loosely, following your suggestions of large brush, small paper, etc. and, I am progressing slowly. But most times I am disappointed, starting out good but then get tighter and tighter. I do want to let the watercolors celebrate what they’re good at, but . . . I hope I can absorb what I need from your post to make it happen! I’m frustrated and passionate about this, and this is truly my goal NOW. Thanks again, Liron, I didn’t mean to go on and on, just enthused about this lesson. You’re a great teacher, love your playfulness when teaching us. . . I’ve learned much from you!🤩
I'm glad I watched this video--it definitely helped me realize that it's a trap I fall into a lot. I love the loose look of watercolors like these but find myself trying to be a perfectionist about every little detail and get that 'paint by numbers' he talked about. Still...does his palette give anyone else anxiety? I'm always amazed that such a dirty/contaminated looking palette makes such vibrant and beautiful paintings!
Haha 😂😂😂 Take into consideration some of it is the video quality and TH-cam compression. It's very hard to capture the nuances of color. In real life it's quite easy to tell the colors apart. With that, here's the explanation why I never clean my palette, in case you missed it 😅 th-cam.com/users/shortsFok8lAJmvho
This is such a liberating method that fits my style. Now I want to revisit paintings I’ve done using that other approach that I found unsuccessful and see if this approach makes a difference for me. Great stuff!
This is great. Your videos are such a breath of fresh air and the energy is infectious. You are generous with your experience. Let's indeed break out of the lines occasionally and enjoy our painting so that it looks like watercolour made with real water. Thank you for another great video tutorial. 😊
I really appreciate your videos, I chose watercolour because I wanted to let go of my perfectionism because watercolour works best when you let loose. Plus I don't enjoy creativity when my perfectionism takes over. But it's hard to know how to. Thanks to your videos I got a feel of the spontaneity and enjoyment while painting, and my work improved drastically. ❤
Can totally relate! That dance of controlling some of it, but also letting it do its thing - is super satisfying and part of what kept pulling me back to paint and obsessively explore watercolor 😁
Another GREAT video Liron - makes sooooo much sense what you are saying/showing here - I too get very frustrated with not being able to express my vision for my paintings and become bored about half way through my painting when I see that it is heading away from the looseness I’m aiming for. Thanks 🙏
Half way through and this one's already inspiring changes. This might sound weird but a lot of this is about approaching the painting with a different mindset. Everything else is relatively easy after that.
Liron, you get me excited to paint. Thank you!!! You, my friend, know how to present watercolor in a way that is understandable. And, your personality shines through the whole process.
countless thanks for that eye opener video . thank you thank you. that 'good girl' style where you paint wet on wet a pale hue and then try to give it a life with limited numbers of layers ending mostly by overworking as you cannot feel the expected strong impact.
Haha happy I could help ☺️ Yes! And ultimately I could take the painting to its completion, but it’s such an uninspiring way for me to paint that I’d most likely never get there
The second attempt is like having a dream. You have a vague idea of what you're looking at. Points of interest get more shape one at a time, yet despite the world being only an idea, the feeling is transmited pretty realistically. The first attempt is like trying to remember and tell about that dream while making sense of everything to make it look perfectly square and logical. The other person might understand what you're trying to say, but they'll never feel the same way you did.
I love the way you have a your basic colors (omg I could not deal with them all run together like that) and a smaller pallet for specialized use. I am curious as to how you have, on the big pallet, swatches (which I find I need) under the small box, that seem to be covered by a waterproof material. Do you mind sharing how you did that? I love your videos and plan to take a course when my life is not so crazed. Thank you!
Thank you Marian! This palette (Mijello 18 well airtight) comes with a piece of plastic that fits above a larger area underneat (: I simply cut a piece of watercolor paper to size, painted all the swatches, and then covered it with that plastic piece. You can see the exact palette here: amzn.to/42RqmLJ
Thank you! ☺️ When you actually enjoy the process - that’s the natural result (: I could have probably pushed that first one to completion as well, but because of how it was painted, I most likely would have lost motivation and quit 🤓
Love this! I’m struggling with a portrait, and even though I’ve traced it I can’t get a likeness. It’s so stiff. I need help! How do you get a likeness? I’m thinking it’s instinct, like you said😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I'm confused by this. I thought I was understanding that the key to watercolor -- i.e., being able to paint patches of paint next to each other without them blooming or fuzzing into each other too much -- is that the patches must be the same consistency. That's why, I've theorized, a common process is to paint in one value range at a time, i.e., first all the high value colors, then, after drying, the mid-values etc. So please explain how you can paint patches of different value next to each other without them fuzzying or blossoming, given that the darker value patches would presumably have to be a thicker consistency (unless you only choose pigments with a darker home value) than light patches.
Liron, I was trying to paint a Brazilian favela out of watercolor in the patterns you have said here, but the thing almost always turns into gouache. This image you're using is easier to get this effect, but try to paint a favela. They are a complexity of tiny squares and different colors, and it's very difficult to make sense out of it when you paint it loose. It would be interesting if you could paint one for us.
Send me a photo example via email and perhaps I'll give it a go (: If it's a picture you took, and you allow me to paint it - it would be perfect 🙏😊 (I've been to favelas before, so I know what they look like in general, but I'm curious to see the specific composition, from how far etc...)
@LironYan ok Liron, thanks for the reply! I'll send you the picture I used to reference my painting. It would be just great to see a favela painted by you. There isn't much of favela watercolors around, and this can certainly be a challenge. But It's not my own picture, though. I got it on Google. I'm far from Rio right now, so I can't take my own pictures of the places. E-mail is on your description, right? Hope you like it!
@@TheStugbit Yes - email is there! Send it and perhaps I'll try finding a similar to paint. Or link me the source where you got it, perhaps it'll be okay for use / if I credit
@@LironYan Liron, let me ask you, is it possible to use those Google paintings for watercolors and the like? Because, as I understand, watercolors aren't a realistic work, they aren't exactly a reproduction, you see? So they are quite a modification from the original. Aren't they ok to use? By the way, I wasn't able to find your e-mail in the links so I send it through Instagram chat.
i use cheap camilin or camel artist watercolors and i dont know why colors get muddy because of the palette.. is it the color is cheap and pigmentaion is not that great thts y its happening?
Hmmm, it could be it (: My advice for cheaper paints is to mix less. Meaning, always having one color be 80%-85% dominant in the mix. With higher quality you can mix more and capture the nuances better (at least in my experience). Also, it could be that you are generally "overmixing" - aka always mixing a gray. If that's the case - check out this video to help solve that: th-cam.com/video/W0bQwVm4fAE/w-d-xo.html
Not at all (: Listen to the disclaimer around 14:28 I have painted quite a few careful, slow, glaze by glaze paintings. I think it comes down to being true to yourself. Many paint this way (illustrative, flat) out of fear. But I'm all for painting this way out of PASSION! 🔥 (And it WILL show in the end result. You can simply tell when a piece of art was made with freedom and joy - regardless of the method and approach.)
@@LironYan Thank you! Whenever I try watercolor painting I tend to paint a bit tightly even though I try to be loose! A whole lot of watercolor painters on internet advocate loose style of painting. So I naturally felt that I a failing achieve the expected standard quality of watercolor painting. I also thought of leaving watercolor and attempt some other medium because of that!
@@pmnirmal6052 Oh not at all! Plenty of artists work in a more methodical and slow process. A good example is Thierry Duval. You're in good company! (:
Mistake??? They're folks go, making rules again do it like me or it's a. mistake? Moving on the a world whereartists free to create their own work, using their own techniques ideas and styles. Screw your rules! Arrrrrggggghhhhhh!
If you are trying to paint loose watercolor, and it’s your DREAM for your painting to feel alive flowing and free… But every time you sit down and paint, you find yourself frustrated because all you can do is paint areas like paint by numbers, and you never figure out how to break out of that, and every process ends up with quitting in the middle because it’s not satisfying to you… You’ve made some kind of a consistent mistake. The title is meant to get views, but the word mistake basically stands for repeatedly doing something that brings you no joy.
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Liron! Thank you for this post.
Every day I start my painting session vowing to paint loosely, following your suggestions of large brush, small paper, etc. and, I am progressing slowly. But most times I am disappointed, starting out good but then get tighter and tighter. I do want to let the watercolors celebrate what they’re good at, but . . . I hope I can absorb what I need from your post to make it happen! I’m frustrated and passionate about this, and this is truly my goal NOW.
Thanks again, Liron, I didn’t mean to go on and on, just enthused about this lesson. You’re a great teacher, love your playfulness when teaching us. . . I’ve learned much from you!🤩
You are truly a boon for the self taught artist... Understanding the concepts of watercolor are equally important to knowing how to do them. ❤
Thank you so much ☺
You have an uncanny knack for addressing the issues I'm confronting. Great lesson!
I'm glad I watched this video--it definitely helped me realize that it's a trap I fall into a lot. I love the loose look of watercolors like these but find myself trying to be a perfectionist about every little detail and get that 'paint by numbers' he talked about. Still...does his palette give anyone else anxiety? I'm always amazed that such a dirty/contaminated looking palette makes such vibrant and beautiful paintings!
Doesn't give me anxiety at all. I'm just puzzled why Liron uses 13 different shades of black 😉
Haha 😂😂😂
Take into consideration some of it is the video quality and TH-cam compression.
It's very hard to capture the nuances of color. In real life it's quite easy to tell the colors apart.
With that, here's the explanation why I never clean my palette, in case you missed it 😅
th-cam.com/users/shortsFok8lAJmvho
This is such a liberating method that fits my style. Now I want to revisit paintings I’ve done using that other approach that I found unsuccessful and see if this approach makes a difference for me. Great stuff!
Great idea! Let me know if it ended up leading to a more pleasing result!
And thank you so much for watching 🙏😊
Liron you are such a great instructer, thank you for the wonderful videos.
Thank you so much Anna 🙏😊
Always makes my day to hear this
This is great. Your videos are such a breath of fresh air and the energy is infectious. You are generous with your experience. Let's indeed break out of the lines occasionally and enjoy our painting so that it looks like watercolour made with real water. Thank you for another great video tutorial. 😊
Yes! Having it look like WATER is so exciting! 😁
Thank you for watching & for the kind comment 🙏😊
I really appreciate your videos, I chose watercolour because I wanted to let go of my perfectionism because watercolour works best when you let loose. Plus I don't enjoy creativity when my perfectionism takes over. But it's hard to know how to. Thanks to your videos I got a feel of the spontaneity and enjoyment while painting, and my work improved drastically. ❤
Can totally relate! That dance of controlling some of it, but also letting it do its thing - is super satisfying and part of what kept pulling me back to paint and obsessively explore watercolor 😁
@@LironYan can't wait to get better and play more!
I feel your pain! It seems I have little imagination, and just copy a reference.
Another GREAT video Liron - makes sooooo much sense what you are saying/showing here - I too get very frustrated with not being able to express my vision for my paintings and become bored about half way through my painting when I see that it is heading away from the looseness I’m aiming for. Thanks 🙏
Thank you 🙏😊 Sometimes a small remind can be enough to lead to a change!
Half way through and this one's already inspiring changes. This might sound weird but a lot of this is about approaching the painting with a different mindset. Everything else is relatively easy after that.
Exactly! The intention / mindset is the SOURCE from which every physical action arises (:
A loose mind paints loose watercolors with 0 effort!
Liron, you get me excited to paint. Thank you!!! You, my friend, know how to present watercolor in a way that is understandable. And, your personality shines through the whole process.
Haha thank you so much! 😁
If I can get you excited to paint - then I've successfully done my job! 🙏🙏
countless thanks for that eye opener video . thank you thank you. that 'good girl' style where you paint wet on wet a pale hue and then try to give it a life with limited numbers of layers ending mostly by overworking as you cannot feel the expected strong impact.
Haha happy I could help ☺️
Yes! And ultimately I could take the painting to its completion, but it’s such an uninspiring way for me to paint that I’d most likely never get there
Very liberating tutorial; a weight has been lifted off my mind. Many thanks Liron.
So happy to hear, this is the best result I could ask for the video.
Thank you 🙏😊
Dude!!!! I love it!!!❤❤❤❤
Happy to hear! Thank you 😁
I love how excited you get when you have something so awesome to share with us.😊
Haha I indeed felt excited filming this! 😁😁
Always a pleasure to watch your tutorials. They are so encouraging.
Great stuff Liron
Thank you for watching 🙏☺
You have been very good at honing in on particular issues in painting lately! Good focus!
Thank you 🙏😊
Have been devoting a lot more thought and planning to my recent videos.
Happy it's reflected in the end result
The second attempt is like having a dream. You have a vague idea of what you're looking at. Points of interest get more shape one at a time, yet despite the world being only an idea, the feeling is transmited pretty realistically.
The first attempt is like trying to remember and tell about that dream while making sense of everything to make it look perfectly square and logical. The other person might understand what you're trying to say, but they'll never feel the same way you did.
Great way to describe it 😁👍
Definitely resonates with me
Liron, you're probably the nicest guy I've never met.
Haha thank you so much 😊 Big compliment!!
I love the way you have a your basic colors (omg I could not deal with them all run together like that) and a smaller pallet for specialized use. I am curious as to how you have, on the big pallet, swatches (which I find I need) under the small box, that seem to be covered by a waterproof material. Do you mind sharing how you did that? I love your videos and plan to take a course when my life is not so crazed. Thank you!
Thank you Marian! This palette (Mijello 18 well airtight) comes with a piece of plastic that fits above a larger area underneat (:
I simply cut a piece of watercolor paper to size, painted all the swatches, and then covered it with that plastic piece.
You can see the exact palette here:
amzn.to/42RqmLJ
Thank you Liron. Great tutorial.
So happy it was useful, thank you so much! 🙏😊
Thank you, Liron .
Thank you for watching my friend ☺ Much appreciated
@ my pleasure you always teach me so well.
You made the second painting a lot more “wholesome” if I could use that word. It pops out from the paper which is appealing.
Thank you! ☺️ When you actually enjoy the process - that’s the natural result (:
I could have probably pushed that first one to completion as well, but because of how it was painted, I most likely would have lost motivation and quit 🤓
Thank you, you are the great teacher.
Thank you so much 🙏🏼🙏🏼
In a time where I tend to forget to have fun with painting, thank you for reminding me. Not all paintings have to be a masterpiece.
Happy I could do that! 😁🙏🏼
Fantastic, thank you sir.
Thank you so much! (:
i just plain love you at this point
Love this! I’m struggling with a portrait, and even though I’ve traced it I can’t get a likeness. It’s so stiff. I need help! How do you get a likeness? I’m thinking it’s instinct, like you said😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Very helpful video ❤
So happy to hear, thank you! 🙏😊
Excellent video. Please make a follow up video where you add the detail to this painting to finish it off.
I really love your style so loose, btw what brush did you use for the sky and larger areas?
Thank you! It’s a brush that is part of Michael Solovyev’s set! If you google it you’ll find the exact one ☺️
"...No one really need..no one asked for.." 🤣
😛
One of your best .
Thank you so much 🙏😊
Great advice, another area I find myself falling into.
Same here
Good morning, sharing my coffee with you this morning. ❤
How fun! ☕😊
I used to drink cold coffee all the time, but now I'm back to hot coffee with fun foamy milk!
It's my morning treat
@ hug your sweet baby for me. ❤️
Good video, bro. I'll take a bit of that.
Awesome 😁 Thank you for watching
That’s why we often say, watercolor paints itself.
awesome
Hey Liron! Hope you are well, my friend!
Doing well my friend 🙏😊 Thank you so much!
I'm confused by this. I thought I was understanding that the key to watercolor -- i.e., being able to paint patches of paint next to each other without them blooming or fuzzing into each other too much -- is that the patches must be the same consistency. That's why, I've theorized, a common process is to paint in one value range at a time, i.e., first all the high value colors, then, after drying, the mid-values etc.
So please explain how you can paint patches of different value next to each other without them fuzzying or blossoming, given that the darker value patches would presumably have to be a thicker consistency (unless you only choose pigments with a darker home value) than light patches.
Liron, I was trying to paint a Brazilian favela out of watercolor in the patterns you have said here, but the thing almost always turns into gouache. This image you're using is easier to get this effect, but try to paint a favela. They are a complexity of tiny squares and different colors, and it's very difficult to make sense out of it when you paint it loose. It would be interesting if you could paint one for us.
Send me a photo example via email and perhaps I'll give it a go (:
If it's a picture you took, and you allow me to paint it - it would be perfect 🙏😊
(I've been to favelas before, so I know what they look like in general, but I'm curious to see the specific composition, from how far etc...)
@LironYan ok Liron, thanks for the reply! I'll send you the picture I used to reference my painting. It would be just great to see a favela painted by you. There isn't much of favela watercolors around, and this can certainly be a challenge. But It's not my own picture, though. I got it on Google. I'm far from Rio right now, so I can't take my own pictures of the places. E-mail is on your description, right? Hope you like it!
@@LironYan Liron. I sent you two pictures I find very challenging to get good results in the Instagram chat!
@@TheStugbit Yes - email is there! Send it and perhaps I'll try finding a similar to paint. Or link me the source where you got it, perhaps it'll be okay for use / if I credit
@@LironYan Liron, let me ask you, is it possible to use those Google paintings for watercolors and the like? Because, as I understand, watercolors aren't a realistic work, they aren't exactly a reproduction, you see? So they are quite a modification from the original. Aren't they ok to use? By the way, I wasn't able to find your e-mail in the links so I send it through Instagram chat.
💕👏👏👏
I bought a expensive paper but I ended painting by numbers, and really is quite boring for watercolor. Thanks for the tip.
i use cheap camilin or camel artist watercolors and i dont know why colors get muddy because of the palette.. is it the color is cheap and pigmentaion is not that great thts y its happening?
Hmmm, it could be it (:
My advice for cheaper paints is to mix less.
Meaning, always having one color be 80%-85% dominant in the mix.
With higher quality you can mix more and capture the nuances better (at least in my experience).
Also, it could be that you are generally "overmixing" - aka always mixing a gray.
If that's the case - check out this video to help solve that:
th-cam.com/video/W0bQwVm4fAE/w-d-xo.html
I love minute 8-9...that's where the painting 'clicks' together.
I know what you mean!
For me the blues & yellows (plus the paper white I left) really started working at that point.
Thank you so much 🙏😊
@@LironYan 'Have flow, will travel.'
@ 😂
Is that black? Hurts like so.
Is painting loose the only way one should paint in watercolor?
Not at all (:
Listen to the disclaimer around 14:28
I have painted quite a few careful, slow, glaze by glaze paintings.
I think it comes down to being true to yourself.
Many paint this way (illustrative, flat) out of fear.
But I'm all for painting this way out of PASSION! 🔥
(And it WILL show in the end result. You can simply tell when a piece of art was made with freedom and joy - regardless of the method and approach.)
@@LironYan Thank you! Whenever I try watercolor painting I tend to paint a bit tightly even though I try to be loose! A whole lot of watercolor painters on internet advocate loose style of painting. So I naturally felt that I a failing achieve the expected standard quality of watercolor painting. I also thought of leaving watercolor and attempt some other medium because of that!
@@pmnirmal6052 Oh not at all! Plenty of artists work in a more methodical and slow process. A good example is Thierry Duval.
You're in good company! (:
@ Ok! Thank you!
Mistake??? They're folks go, making rules again do it like me or it's a. mistake? Moving on the a world whereartists free to create their own work, using their own techniques ideas and styles. Screw your rules! Arrrrrggggghhhhhh!
If you are trying to paint loose watercolor, and it’s your DREAM for your painting to feel alive flowing and free…
But every time you sit down and paint, you find yourself frustrated because all you can do is paint areas like paint by numbers, and you never figure out how to break out of that, and every process ends up with quitting in the middle because it’s not satisfying to you…
You’ve made some kind of a consistent mistake. The title is meant to get views, but the word mistake basically stands for repeatedly doing something that brings you no joy.