6. Creating Visual Interest with Watercolour - An Introduction for Beginners
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ค. 2022
- WANT TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR WATERCOLOUR WASHES?
We often reach a point in our progression as watercolour painters where our work seems flat and it fails to capture what we want to express about the landscape.There may be several reasons for this, but one of the most common reasons is that our watercolour washes are boring and lack interest. In this video I show you how to vary your brushstrokes and introduce you to a method of painting that I call 'Painting in Threes,' with exercises that will help to give your paintings strong visual interest.
This is the final video in a series of six for those beginning their watercolour journey. The other videos in the series are:
1) What is Watercolour
• 1. What is Watercolour...
2) Watercolour Equipment
• 2. Watercolour Equipme...
3) Watercolour Washes
• 3. Watercolour Washes ...
4) Mixing Your Watercolours
• 4. Mixing Your Waterco...
5) Painting a Watercolour Landscape
• 5. Painting a Watercol...
The equipment that I use in my watercolour videos is listed on my website:
www.ourlandscape.co.uk/kit-re...
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Thanks Oliver!, a confession has now been made, to myself, suddenly i realise i have been trying to paint a `masterpiece` every time from the start, without practising these essential techniques first.
Hi Oliver. I've wanted to watercolor for about 50 years. I'm 70 now and started a couple of months ago. Your painting is wonderful and I really appreciate this "Beginners" series. Thank you so much for taking the time to make and post these. I've learned a lot from your channel.
I have been watching the first six tutorials in your beginners list over and over again and finally I think something is sinking in. I’ve been attempting watercolours for about a year and have been pleased with only two paintings following various teachers. Your tuition is so superior and I feel a breakthrough. I’m attempting to paint the view of Old Harry and so far it’s not too bad. I agree that practice is the key and want to thank you for the time and patience to explain the process so minutely. This is by far the most difficult medium I have tried- a real challenge
Excellent "First Steps with Watercolour" series! I've been painting for almost 2 years and finally took an in-person Watercolour Landscape course over this winter that I had hoped would help me to improve. But it did not! I left each session mostly frustrated at my inability to grasp the concepts that the instructor attempted to teach. But after watching this wonderful series, I think I finally get it! Your style of teaching is superb! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
By far the best art teacher on TH-cam specially for beginners? He doesn’t assume we know some thing, and teaches so methodically and thoroughly. Thank you Oliver for your generosity and sharing your talent and teachings. 🙏🙏❤️
I watched many watercolor tutorials before I discovered yours. And what a discovery it is ! You explain things nobody else does, thorough and clear. Thank you so much !
Best watercolour tutorial series on here, great teaching Olly.
Wow! The most important lesson i think . The most difficult part for me was (and still is) is to stop replicating patterns while painting, to remember to leave some part of the paper alone, to use broken lines instead of complete ones.
"Well if you walk into this you're just going to get concussion". Love it very funny and love the tutorial. Thank you.
This is the most informative tutorial. Showing improvement on the barn image really makes it come home to make sense. Very good!!!
Exactly what I needed to see and hear! Thank you.
This is an absolutely wonderful tutorial, full of practical tips for creating spontaneity in watercolor paintings. I recommend this to all novice painters beginning their trip into the watercolor world.
Thank you for this excellent video, Olly. Over the last year or so, I have watched a few hundred art videos, and I think this may be the most immediately useful for me. You are a great artist, teacher and storyteller. May all your fenceposts continue to be interesting!
Thanks Jan!
Oh I do adore your humor Olie!
This is a game changer. In trying to 'add' interest to an ill considered wash it is so easy to overwork a section, so this 'rule of 3' really does help - it forces us to really consider what it is we are looking at and make decisions as to what to show and what to leave out before we even begin, as well as reminding us when we've done enough. My efforts are proving far less muddied following this simple rule.
Excellent Paul - glad it works for you.
Ooh, that's where I'm at. I've been painting for a few years, and I can't seem to make them wow me.
Oliver, your intimate knowledge and understanding of watercolour together with your superb teaching skills have given me the fresh impetus I needed to try, yet again, to master this challenging medium. I have made some progress over the years with pastel, acrylic and latterly, oils but my forays into watercolour have ever been disappointing for the most part. A lot of the material you have so generously posted has highlighted many of the areas where I am going awry. I am very much looking forward to putting your advice into practice. Sincere thanks for your generosity in sharing your many skills with us.
You're welcome Barry and thank you. Good luck with medium, it really is wonderful when you get to grips with it
Everything I also have experienced and also everything I would write about Oliver , one of the best 👏👏👏
Thank you so much! Just learning watercolor painting from Florida USA
Fantastic lesson! I’ve been struggling with this. It’s nice to have an explanation and a solution for why my paintings were looking so flat and why I could not stop adding detail and ruining them. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It is fact invaluable! I'm just starting out in watercolors and was frustrated and confused. Now I understand a lot more!
You are so right! I didnt get it right the first time.😂 But I will keep trying. Thank you for your great instruction!
Delighted to see you work Live! 😍🎨🖌 Watching from Ashville, Alabama USA 🇺🇲❤️🏴❤️🇬🇧
I will do these - as you suggestion - love your humour as well. Thank you.
I am learning so much from you! Tomorrow is Sunday and I am going to try painting a barn landscape based on what you taught today. I'm so excited! You have helped me to see more clearly how to paint such scenes. Thank you so much!
This is one of the best watercolor techniques lessons I have seen. We can practice all other aspects of watercolor techniques but if you don't learn how to leave room for imagination then as you say you can strangle the life out of a painting. There is a reason why people tend to hang landscape paintings on the wall rather than landscape photographs. Landscape paintings executed well quickly emphasize the emotion of the scene without getting bogged down in detail. We have to practice this just like everything else.
This is exactly what I needed to see. Thank you so much, incredible teaching
Wonderful video with ideas I'll practice soon! Laughed out loud when you talked about getting concussion from trying to walk through that boring door....Thanks so much!
I am motivated to pick up my brushes and try again. Thanks
Wonderful insight into the fresh beauty of watercolor. No one teaches this, Ollie and I so appreciate it. Thank you!
I Love soo much this common sea side of the Manche. I do it one in France in the impressioniste sites. Your picture is a beautiful one
Thank you so much for this demonstration. I am a new beginner to water colour. Enjoy learning from your clear and detail explanation . Best Regards
I've been gifted watercolours, paper and brushes for Christmas this year. At 61 years old you have given me the confidence to at least try. Thank you 😊
Mr Oliver, wonderful presentation.
Could to see how the paint reacts in real time. Very helpful, thanks Oliver.
Thank you Olly ,what a fantastic artist and teacher you are.
Came across this today and I'm SO glad! I need this! Thank you, Oliver!
Thankyou so much for these tutorials. I love your teaching style . So inspiring and informative, but explained in an easy to understand way. Thankyou.
You have a pleasant and clear way of teaching. Thanks for another inspiring and informatieve lesson!
Yessss, best Friday this week (😁)!!!!
On a slightly more serious note, last week I saved this painting on a Pinterest board to study. It's absolutely gorgeous and I can't wait to hear all Oliver has to share with us!
thank you sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar!
Merci Oliver, je débute l'aquarelle et j'apprends beaucoup grâce à vos vidéo. Thank you to share with us, you are a good teacher it's easy to understand .
Thank you so much Oliver for this very useful video & exercises 😊
Thank you for another fantastic video Olly, and I really enjoyed your explanation of interesting washes v boring washes, and how to paint in threes. So good! I'm just starting to get more colour into my washes, and it really does bring the painting to life! I can't wait to see what the next vid will be "out on location" and with sketchbook too! Whoo-hoo! You mentioned a video about composition too - yes, please and thank you! Safe journeys, and thanks again x 👏😀
Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial. I have been attending a workshop with a woman who thinks landscape painting means taking a photograph, tracing it onto a piece of paper and colouring it in. It was appalling. I have learnt more here.
What? I'm not subscribed? No wonder I don't have enough of this on YT Recommendations! Gotta fix that right now. "Hmm Hmm .. Hmm .. Hmm" As put by Rigby and Mordecai 😄
I learn so much from your work, man.
God bless you
you are such a brilliant teacher. Thank you so much
A lovely illustration and greatpainting techniques, thank you
Love your art and sensibility. Your paintings are exquisite and so are your lessons
This is the best video I have seen on this topic!👍
Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🙏
Love everything watercolour, new to your channel, love love love but I have to mention your hair - it's amazing. Looks fantastic 👌
Thank you for such an informative video and sharing so many useful tips!
Your instruction with the barn was especially nice, and distinctive.
Learnt so much …please don’t stop teaching.
What a lovely experience! Have just discovered your water colour workshop and I love it. Find it very informative and can’t wait to try out all I have learnt. I started painting in 1995 but have not done a great deal since. Hope to change that now!
Incredibly instructive Oliver-thank you so much. I’m going to concentrate on these exercises until I feel confident.
I agree with all the other comments - you are the BEST teacher Ollie, I love your paintings and thank you for sharing all your knowledge
Thank you so much for this. I’m guilty of boring washes and too much fiddling to try to make things look better. I’m off to practice now.
Thanks Oliver. I love the colours and feel of your paintings, just beautiful. Cant wait to try these exercises and try not to get “concussion” in the process 😂
You are the best teacher I’ve found for watercolour, not only do you address all the problems but you explain everything so well and demonstrate each step. I’m really happy to have found you and my paintings are coming on in leaps and bounds 😊
Thank you so much for these tutorials. I am finding them so interesting and helpful. I love your style of painting something I hope to aspire too.
I really like the mix of color you are using. I will be trying to do the same ones since i really like them a lot.
Kia Ora from New Zealand. I so enjoy your videos and appreciate your sharing the tips from your extensive experience and expertise. I also enjoy your dry asides. As always you have inspired me and given me increased confidence. Thank you
Wow! This is the second time I've heard you say to add some texture first as an underpainting and then go back over it with a glaze. I have similar types of cliffs in my area and the texure I add onto the cliffs always looks separate from the rest of the painting...this is so much nicer! Thank you for the insight!!!
Brilliant again and so useful, thank you. I’m heading off in a camper-van for a couple of weeks, I will definitely make room for a travel kit, get practicing these exercises, and try to overcome my fear of painting outdoors at the same time!
That was brilliant, thanks so much.
Thanks Ollie,very helpful.
Thank you Olly! I found your videos yesterday, Watched your 6 beginner series.
Awesome tutorials. I'm hooked.
I did tried the mini-landscape this afternoon (with the cliffs). Your technique made a huge difference. I will keep working it. Thank you
Thank you so much! You included so many good tips in this video.
Thank you Oliver for your tutorials!!!! You are still the best source of knowledge and inspiration to me!!!
This is amazing! I followed all the videos and I improved so much! I feel way more confident, thank you
I haven’t been able to resist trying your exercises most days while we’ve been on holiday (we’re at Stoke Fleming at the moment). I’ve managed a fairly decent barn roof but struggle with consistency. My results aren’t reproducible but I’m learning what works and what doesn’t when varying the wash. Hopefully, in my (very) late 40s, I haven’t left it too late to fall in love with watercolour! Thanks again for your excellent tutorials, they’re so inspiring.
You are such a wonderful teacher. I took up painting just prior to the pandemic and as I was getting to the point where I needed hands on help, I couldn't take in person classes; most of the online tutorials just don't explain enough about how much paint to use, or break down how to know when your paint is wet or dry enough to get the desired effects. It's one thing to be told what to do and another to be shown. Thank you so much for these.
Another really great video Oliver - thank you so much. Your videos are informative, interesting and beautifully narrated. I love the little exercises here how you have broken things down. I really enjoy watching and your teaching.
Such wonderful advice and demonstration ! I like your painting style very much, thank you for sharing !
Dear Teacher, this lesson helped me so much. It was also enjoyable and hilarious at some points. Humor during classes give the lesson memorable dimensions. Will practice fences, for sure! Thank You!
One of the most helpful tutorials I've watched! Thank you!
Great input on the washes.. Thanks..I really wanted to know how you achieved such sheer and light and fresh colours in your paintings....
Another brilliant tutorial Oliver.......especially enjoyed the fencepost tribute!!! .......many thanks!
Ty for Sharing your experience and knowledge
Having just discovered your channel I am now bingeing one video after the other. I am learning so much and am grateful to you.
very good lesson, many thanks oliver
Thanks I will try the exercise myself.
These series has taken away the utter fear that watercolour painting has always inspired in me because it always seemed very complex. Your explanations, your philosophy while approaching this activity and your carefully analyzed steps have motivated me to give a try. Thank you for your generosity Mr Pyle. The videos are so well made i won't have any trouble revisit them. Thank you.
You're very welcome - thank you!
one of the most impactful videos you have done!
I learned a lot from this great video…..thank you so much!
Thanks for that, Oliver. I mainly paint animals and birds because I find landscapes daunting. I'm definitely going to give this technique a go soon ☺️
Olli, I choose WC for plein air and if you could, please do it more. It's difficult to do better than atelier but working outside is gratifiant ( french word). Thanks again
Спасибо за видео!
Смотрю с большим удовольствием Ваши уроки.
Thank you again Oliver. You are a wonderful teacher that makes me look at things I paint so differently now.
Hello Oliver,
Many thanks to you!
BRILLIANT CONTENT! CHEERS!
BRAVO! WELL DONE, SIR!
Thank you for another interesting and informative video. I really enjoyed it and learnt a lot about how to vary my washes. Your explanation that fiddling around afterwards is due to boring initial washes, makes a lot of sense to me. I really appreciate the time you take to make theses videos. (And I love those fence posts too!)
What a fabulous tutorial! I am NOT a beginner water color artist yet....I learned a lot in this lesson. Thank you!!!!!
Just finished watching the complete series of 6 videos. I have seen many TH-cam lessons on watercolour but there is nothing like this series. It is the best that I have seen so far. Thank you so much for bringing these to us. There is so much to learn from you Oliver.
Very kind of you Shailesh - thank you
Can’t wait to try this! Thank you for sharing
une merveille! Merci!
The best explanation of underpainting and glazes I have ever heard. Your rule of 3’s makes so much sense. I learned so much. I see I need to spend a lot more time playing with these techniques. Thanks!
Lovely painting right ?
Good lock on yours Sara 😍👍
What's absolutely brilliant is Mr Pyle's ability to teach concepts that can be used in any watercolor painting regardless of the subject once the point he's getting across is assimilated. I'd gladly pay for more tutorials from him without hesitation. Thank you sir.1
Very kind of you - thank you.
Excellent tutorial!! Wonderful teaching points well presented. Looking forward to putting these ideas into my paintings.