Creative mark-making with watercolors

Do you need to spice up your watercolour paintings? Are you looking for a fun and creative exercise to improve your mark-making? In this video I'll take you along as I experiment with unusual tools and watercolor.
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[@olwynm402]

If you drop some distilled water into the Potters Pink tube, close it up and then store the tube upside down, you might be able to recover a more usable form of the paint. I’ve done that with my Potters Pink with some success in the past. It takes a few days. Also, you can use a toothpick to help force the water down into the body of the paint. Thanks for your helpful videos.

[@jclosestudio]

Thanks for the tip, Olwyn! I’m going to try that.

[@polgara28]

Lovely explorations! Thank you for the inspiration. 🌻

[@jclosestudio]

Glad it’s inspired you, Christie!

[@steveorion6185]

Thank you dear Jeannine . I believe I will try using water colors and pencils a to experiment as well ! Have a wonderful week . Cheers !

[@jclosestudio]

Wonderful! Do give it a go!

[@CaspianHere]

I love ur channel
To me ur videos give off nostalgia vibes for some reason

[@jclosestudio]

Thank you Jazmin!

[@krudler406]

yay watercolor! ❤

[@jclosestudio]

Haha, every now and then 😉

[@ChantelleArts]

this is so stunning, might have to try this technique out myself 😊😊

[@jclosestudio]

Go for it! It really helps to loosen up and to find new marks

[@cindyfromsydney7693]

My habit is buying watercolour but never using them. I have an obscene amount of them 😂🙄 This is so lovely and loose❤

[@SketchesnScrubs]

Lovely video - re the potters pink / dried watercolours (you can cut the tube, mix the hard watercolour with gum arabic to reconstitute it to paint) messy but comes in handy with expensive paints x

[@jclosestudio]

Thanks for the tip! Will give it a try!

[@wonkybeautiful]

Thanks for this Jeannine, I feel like I’ve hit a bit of a dry spell with my watercolour practice. This was lovely to watch and has inspired me to give it another go with a fresh perspective.

[@jclosestudio]

Happy to hear it's inspired you! Sometimes we just need to try something a little different to get us out of a rut.