Thank you, Louise. This is great information for this scared beginner. I'm going to practice, practice, practice!! Wonderful advice. By the way, I absolutely adore the giraffe painting in the background. It's beautiful! 💕
thank you so,so much for showing this flat wash technique and walk it through.i'm just a beginner.i got inspired after seeing your videos.the way you speak and paint is so relaxing.makes me think i can learn to water color paint too.i'm looking forward to the next step in watercolor painting.i really didn't know where to start.love you. thank you
I love this helpful and informative video. And I love you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. You are so clear and concise. And you show examples of what the wet paper should look like as well as what happens as watercolor dries! These things are so hard to understand when you are learning this tricky and beautiful medium. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your high quality videos. 💖
I’m enjoying your basic tutorials. I started watercolour a year ago, feel I’m growing (slowly) and find your instruction so very useful! Many thanks indeed! Warm wishes, Barbara, Gold Coast
Thanks Louise, I have just discovered your videos. I love your teaching style and I’m learning so much every time I watch. I’m so excited and want to paint all the time! 🤗🤗
Thank u so much louise .You explain water color techniques so well. It shows your passion towards water colors. I really love your videos. Just a question if u feel like please answer it. Otherwise no worries.how to draw on paper before water color painting without harming paper ? Should I trace them to avoid mistakes and paper rubbing or there are any other ways? Thank u.
I cannot tell you how delighted I am to have found you! Dozens of those flat washes videos on TH-cam, but yours is the most clear, comprehensive, full of unique tips and explanations. Thank you for showing what not to do either, the mistakes. I already subscribed, watched a few of your other videos and definitely will catch up with your lessons and tutorials! Also, your eye for animals and nature is fascinating, that less detailed style you've been recently exploring is breathtaking. P.S. Like many of your viewers, I loved the bloopers in "quarantine" video. Please add more of those! :)
I agree 100%. Sometimes it’s more about showing us what can go wrong and why. I’ve had those blooms but did not understand why I had them. I know space is limited with the camera but thank you for showing us how you load your brush when you reload - this is so important for beginners to see. Once one becomes an expert on things it’s hard to recall what beginners struggle with. So glad I finally found your videos. I find a lot of the time the bead of water on the paper stays at the end of the stroke and doesn’t come back down to the bottom. I’m thinking maybe my brush is still too dry or maybe I don’t have enough of an angle. More practice and time will tell.
Great tutorial as always Louise! I was wondering..Have you ever painted any animals under the sea- like a turtle for example? I ve found it really hard to paint a large area of dark sea evenly and to add layers on top without disturbing the ones underneath.. do you have any tips? 😊
Thank you Sarah. I would always paint something like that on damp paper. Make sure it thoroughly dries between layers (use a hair dryer to set it). Re wet it for each new layer. Something that might help you I learnt from Susan Harrison Tustain - wet your paper and let it soak in until it's almost dry (but not completely), then re-wet it again and wait until the dampness of the paper is how you want it before you put the paint on. 2 coats of water allows the paint to penetrate deeper into the paper and hopefully that will stop it from lifting with subsequent washes. Try it and see if it helps.
My favorite part is sometimes the bloopers. I just love how you burst your ego bubble and give us an insight into the real you. Now off to do some wash!
Thank you, my art teacher watched this video and all the other videos that you made she loved it and the hole class watched your video too and we tried it to
I love watching your videos, you are such a natural at teaching. I was so excited to find you skill share classes so I could follow along with you. I have just started to use watercolors and I feel I have leaned the best skills from you. You make using watercolors look so effortless but they are a tricky medium.
Thanks very much Elizabeth. That's really good to know. It is a difficult medium to use but it's lots of fun. I'd rather use watercolour than any other medium. 💕
Thank you madam for your generosity to share what you know.... I admire your works you have an extra ordinary talent to make your subject standout among the rest and make them even extra ordinary beautiful....🤓👍
Well I finally was able to become a patron. Unfortunately because I am not good at using TH-cam I was unable to get the full benefit of the beginner be tutorial. I followed along on the TH-cam tutorial but I never was able to connect with the full lesson. This of course is not your fault I’m still enjoying the tutorials but I’ve got to figure out how to get to the full length lesson. And I will. I’m glad to be a member
Hi Jayne, The full length bee tutorial is on Patreon. There is an index here on my website: www.louisedemasi.com/new-index Scroll down and you'll see all the tutorials. If you click on the bee painting - that will take you to the tutorial on Patreon.
Thank you Louise for the great tutorial. I follow you on IG and it’s my first time watching your tutorial on YT. I am picking up water color again after leaving school more than 2 decades. Will restart with flat wash practice.
Yes! Something to practice. Thank you. I paint in my kitchen with a fluorescent overhead light. Should I get a table light to see where I put my water on my paper for WoW? Is there a problem with having your paper on an angle? I am thinking that an angle will help me see the water? Sorry I'm all over the place, I'm thinking while I'm typing. On having enough paint, I am making a bunch of paint shades and put them in little trays. While this is good, I end up with 10 different palettes on the table or I have dinner plates with single colors on them. Thank you again ♥♥♥
Thank you so much, Louise, for your begginers' tutorials! 💕 I appreciate you show not only how to work and what material or technique to use, but you explain what happens and why when you show us a mistake, which really helps me to understand the watercolour basics. I love your paintings and watch your videos till the end 😍
Thank you for your kind explanation. I need to know how I could do a flat wash on a larger dry paper without it drying out too early, without it being patchy.
Thank you Louise for doing these videos, I have only been subscribed for a couple of months now to your channel but feel I have learnt so much more about watercolour techniques you explain very well all aspects, paper, brushes and the way to apply paint is fantastic for the beginner to follow. I just need to get on down and practice practice practice but when you get great quality videos like you do its a bit hypnotic and end up watching a lot longer than planned and then not have time to practice haha …. I will though, but in the meantime a big thumbs up and many thanks from all the way back here in the UK. Love your beautiful paintings of wildlife which is what I aim to do along with flowers etc sometimes too many options to choose and I get overwhelmed and end up just watching videos :) Must try harder ! :) x
Thanks Louise - another great tutorial and thank you for the instructional practice ideas - very helpful. Sometimes its the where to start that baffles me. Great to have some quick practice ideas for the 10 mins i sometimes find in the early mornings x
You are without a doubt the best watercolor instructor i've found on youtube!
Thank you very much KJ. 💕
Nice art. I learned very much. Thanks for sharing. I'm happy to see your video. 🎨✨✨✨
Thank you never new about washes am a beginner have been watching lots of your videos xx
Thank you, Louise. This is great information for this scared beginner. I'm going to practice, practice, practice!! Wonderful advice. By the way, I absolutely adore the giraffe painting in the background. It's beautiful! 💕
My pleasure and thanks very much Sheryl!
thank you so,so much for showing this flat wash technique and walk it through.i'm just a beginner.i got inspired after seeing your videos.the way you speak and paint is so relaxing.makes me think i can learn to water color paint too.i'm looking forward to the next step in watercolor painting.i really didn't know where to start.love you.
thank you
I love this helpful and informative video. And I love you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. You are so clear and concise. And you show examples of what the wet paper should look like as well as what happens as watercolor dries! These things are so hard to understand when you are learning this tricky and beautiful medium. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your high quality videos. 💖
How useful! Thank you for always keeping us beginners in your thoughts and for sharing with us these valuable tips 😊
Thank you so much. I am from Brazil and I love yours tutorial!!! I am practicing alot
I’m enjoying your basic tutorials. I started watercolour a year ago, feel I’m growing (slowly) and find your instruction so very useful!
Many thanks indeed! Warm wishes, Barbara, Gold Coast
That's great! Thank you Barbara. 💕
I'm terible at washes, thankyou so much for this.
Excellent for beginner like me
Thank you Louise for these precious advises, I keep practice, practice, practice... 🙏🏻 🕊 😇 💕
Thank you, Louise.
Great tip! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Louise, I have just discovered your videos. I love your teaching style and I’m learning so much every time I watch. I’m so excited and want to paint all the time! 🤗🤗
Very useful, Thank you.
Thank you for the tips. Now I know what I should practice first. :)
Thank you so much Louise! Such basic advise but something I keep forgetting.
Thanks for your information ❤️
Excelente vídeo! 🇧🇷🎖👏🏼
WONDERFUL TUTORIAL...TFS....:)
Thank you Ann.
I'm learning lots of issues of watercolour
Louise Can you paint a cactus with a flower on it? Id love to see that
Thank u so much louise .You explain water color techniques so well. It shows your passion towards water colors. I really love your videos. Just a question if u feel like please answer it. Otherwise no worries.how to draw on paper before water color painting without harming paper ? Should I trace them to avoid mistakes and paper rubbing or there are any other ways? Thank u.
My pleasure! Yes that is what I usually do.
I cannot tell you how delighted I am to have found you! Dozens of those flat washes videos on TH-cam, but yours is the most clear, comprehensive, full of unique tips and explanations. Thank you for showing what not to do either, the mistakes. I already subscribed, watched a few of your other videos and definitely will catch up with your lessons and tutorials! Also, your eye for animals and nature is fascinating, that less detailed style you've been recently exploring is breathtaking. P.S. Like many of your viewers, I loved the bloopers in "quarantine" video. Please add more of those! :)
I agree 100%. Sometimes it’s more about showing us what can go wrong and why. I’ve had those blooms but did not understand why I had them. I know space is limited with the camera but thank you for showing us how you load your brush when you reload - this is so important for beginners to see. Once one becomes an expert on things it’s hard to recall what beginners struggle with. So glad I finally found your videos. I find a lot of the time the bead of water on the paper stays at the end of the stroke and doesn’t come back down to the bottom. I’m thinking maybe my brush is still too dry or maybe I don’t have enough of an angle. More practice and time will tell.
Great tutorial as always Louise! I was wondering..Have you ever painted any animals under the sea- like a turtle for example? I ve found it really hard to paint a large area of dark sea evenly and to add layers on top without disturbing the ones underneath.. do you have any tips? 😊
Thank you Sarah. I would always paint something like that on damp paper. Make sure it thoroughly dries between layers (use a hair dryer to set it). Re wet it for each new layer. Something that might help you I learnt from Susan Harrison Tustain - wet your paper and let it soak in until it's almost dry (but not completely), then re-wet it again and wait until the dampness of the paper is how you want it before you put the paint on. 2 coats of water allows the paint to penetrate deeper into the paper and hopefully that will stop it from lifting with subsequent washes. Try it and see if it helps.
I’ll give it a try, thank you! Have a nice day 😊
Which brush you use in all panting plz tell me brush name
I do mine on drawing
Paper and smooth
Paper
Just Subscribe, love your video keep it I'm new to watercolour and illustrations I have a TH-cam channel any advice
very helpful video..........thank you so much for sharing and demonstrating these tips
My favorite part is sometimes the bloopers. I just love how you burst your ego bubble and give us an insight into the real you. Now off to do some wash!
Lol....thank you Suzanne. I'm never comfortable in front of the camera. 💕
@@LouiseDeMasi I'd never know without the bloopers. Thanks for all the hard work you put in to encourage us with your tutorials.
Thank you, my art teacher watched this video and all the other videos that you made she loved it and the hole class watched your video too and we tried it to
I like use this
To understand useing
Graphite water soluble
I use color pencil and
Graphite and water
Color also
Practicing with these things
Is there a difference between an outline with a regular pencil and a watercolor pencil?
Do you have a list or suggestion of order to watch your tutorials ( for complete beginners )?
You explained very well.... thanks
Thank you!
Thank you Louise. All of your videos are very usefull for me. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Superb video and instructions. I know what I'll do tomorrow now :)
Thank you Mary! Have fun. 💕
Thank you. This is so clear and helpful. Page T
Thanks alot.
Looking forward to seeing your landscape paintings. Thank you for this video!
Thank you Patricia.....so am I 🥴! 💕
Thank you for explaining the different washes. I will be watching the different styles and will practice !
I love watching your videos, you are such a natural at teaching. I was so excited to find you skill share classes so I could follow along with you. I have just started to use watercolors and I feel I have leaned the best skills from you. You make using watercolors look so effortless but they are a tricky medium.
Thanks very much Elizabeth. That's really good to know. It is a difficult medium to use but it's lots of fun. I'd rather use watercolour than any other medium. 💕
Excellent demonstration!
Louise , could do a video on how to preserve your watercolour painting
Thank you madam for your generosity to share what you know.... I admire your works you have an extra ordinary talent to make your subject standout among the rest and make them even extra ordinary beautiful....🤓👍
Thanks very much Kris. 💕
I love all your blooming videos!
Extremely useful. Thank you.
Well I finally was able to become a patron. Unfortunately because I am not good at using TH-cam I was unable to get the full benefit of the beginner be tutorial. I followed along on the TH-cam tutorial but I never was able to connect with the full lesson. This of course is not your fault I’m still enjoying the tutorials but I’ve got to figure out how to get to the full length lesson. And I will. I’m glad to be a member
Hi Jayne, The full length bee tutorial is on Patreon. There is an index here on my website: www.louisedemasi.com/new-index Scroll down and you'll see all the tutorials. If you click on the bee painting - that will take you to the tutorial on Patreon.
Thank you Louise for the great tutorial. I follow you on IG and it’s my first time watching your tutorial on YT. I am picking up water color again after leaving school more than 2 decades. Will restart with flat wash practice.
Yes! Something to practice. Thank you. I paint in my kitchen with a fluorescent overhead light. Should I get a table light to see where I put my water on my paper for WoW? Is there a problem with having your paper on an angle? I am thinking that an angle will help me see the water? Sorry I'm all over the place, I'm thinking while I'm typing. On having enough paint, I am making a bunch of paint shades and put them in little trays. While this is good, I end up with 10 different palettes on the table or I have dinner plates with single colors on them. Thank you again ♥♥♥
Thank you...now I'm off to practice
Good luck! Thanks.
Wish I'd have watched this video 2 hours ago, wet paper works far better around a shape. You learn by your mistakes :)
Yes most of us do. I always prefer to work washes onto damp paper. Thanks John. Good luck with it.
I tried keeping a bead of water but still wasn't wet enough......dosen't help being in Perth WA 30 degs plus :)
I m really very happy to see your water color technique that u have shown. It is really very helpfull.Pl.make more videos like this.Thank u.❤
Thank you so much for this great information!! Cant wait to practice!
Thank you so much, Louise, for your begginers' tutorials! 💕 I appreciate you show not only how to work and what material or technique to use, but you explain what happens and why when you show us a mistake, which really helps me to understand the watercolour basics. I love your paintings and watch your videos till the end 😍
Thank you for your kind explanation. I need to know how I could do a flat wash on a larger dry paper without it drying out too early, without it being patchy.
Thank you Louise. Very helpful for me as a beginner.
Ohhh yes please do Same landscapes 🙏🏻
Some
Thank you I really like your painting.
Very, very helpful! Thank you.
Thank you Louise for doing these videos, I have only been subscribed for a couple of months now to your channel but feel I have learnt so much more about watercolour techniques you explain very well all aspects, paper, brushes and the way to apply paint is fantastic for the beginner to follow. I just need to get on down and practice practice practice but when you get great quality videos like you do its a bit hypnotic and end up watching a lot longer than planned and then not have time to practice haha …. I will though, but in the meantime a big thumbs up and many thanks from all the way back here in the UK. Love your beautiful paintings of wildlife which is what I aim to do along with flowers etc sometimes too many options to choose and I get overwhelmed and end up just watching videos :) Must try harder ! :) x
Thank you very much for your beautiful message Sharon. Reading this was a lovely way to start my day. 💕
Thank you for sharing!! This is very helpful! Love your videos ❤️
Thank you Cori! 💕
You are a great artist and a great teacher
Thank you so much!!!🥰
very thanks for your help. I love how you explain
My pleasure. Thank you Immaculada.
Watching Louise has without any doubt is helping me become a better painter!
Thanks very much Don.
Thank you Louise for this fabulous video. You are such a excellent teacher. I so love watching your videos:)💞
Thank you very much Carla. 💕
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Thank you for this basic level of instruction! Very helpful.
My pleasure Alison. Thank you.
Thanks Louise - another great tutorial and thank you for the instructional practice ideas - very helpful. Sometimes its the where to start that baffles me. Great to have some quick practice ideas for the 10 mins i sometimes find in the early mornings x
Thanks Carolyn. 💕
I love the beautiful work that you do Louise. Thank you. I appreciate you and will invest my time any money into joining your classes!
Thank you very much Lynn. I will look forward to it. 💕
Excellent instructions and demonstration-thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
Superbe! Merci pour ces explications !