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My favourite books for learning watercolour painting | Sneak preview of my sketchbooks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2024
- A chronological introduction to the art books that have guided me on my watercolour journey, from absolute beginner to more advanced:
0:00:00 - Intro with dose of doggy cuteness
0:01:29 - Watercolor Lessons by Emma Lefebvre
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0:04:54 - Watercolor Workbook by Sarah Simon
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0:08:55 - Urban Watercolor Sketching by Felix Scheinberger
0:14:31 - How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself by Nita Engle
0:20:31 - Painting Calm by Inga Buividavice
0:28:14 - Sneak peek at my sketchbook
0:32:27 - Wild Watercolour by Inga Buividavice
0:36:55 - Learn to Watercolor by Sarah Van Der Linden
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0:40:00 - Aquarelle d'un jardin a l'autre by Sarah Van Der Linden
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0:45:03 - Jardins Fleuris a l'Aquarelle by Blanche Tristant
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0:49:45 - Go with the Flow Painting by Ohn Mar Win
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0:53:04 - Peindre les Secrets de la Foret a l'Aquarelle by Jennifer Lefevre
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1:01:33 - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
1:03:17 - The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Here in the video I’m holding the workbook that accompanies the actual book - I use it in conjunction with the actual book which I have in audio version.
1:07:56 - The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
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Thanks for watching :)
Creative!!!! This is one of the best videos I have watched. I am a retiring math teacher hunting for a way to spend my days. Watercolors, particularly loose watercolors, fascinate me. You have inspired me to try and, most importantly, give me a direction to pursue. I love this video. I have saved it to watch again. Thank you for your "research," and for sharing your knowledge and experience. Wonderful! Every beginner should watch this!
Thank you so much for your kind comment, I really appreciate your feedback! I love hearing that you are on a similar journey, and the pursuit of loose watercolors has slowly started a change in my whole life too. I hope this brings you some inspiration and ideas to pursue 😉❤️
Thank you for showing us all of these wonderful books by so many CREATIVE artists. Some of these are on my list now as well.❤
Thank you for your CREATIVE comment, much appreciated! And I hope you find joy and inspiration in your next project, be it from of these books or not :)
I enjoyed this video very much, thank you so much. I watched it to the end in another browser but have signed in again so I can leave comments, which is not something I normally do on TH-cam. I loved seeing those glimpses of your sketchbooks and would love to see more of them in future videos if possible. Thanks!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, thank you for letting me know! PS. I’m currently filming a sketchbook tour for my next video 😉🫶
Creative. Wonderful video. Your approach is different and refreshing. Thank you!
Thank you very much for your kind comment 💙🫶
Creative!
Oh thank you! This is the kindest comment ever, you’ve really made my day 🥰 and encouraged me to film my next video this week! 💙🫶
@@TheCherrypipangel I can't wait to watch!
Creative! Such wonderful, thoughtful, incisive reviews. I added several to purchase now and others on a future purchase list. Thank you.
Awesome! Thank you! 💙🫶
Steve Mitchell from The Mind of Watercolor TH-cam channel recommends Nita’s book. He also teaches that watercolor paints itself. He succeeds at “spontaneous” watercolor which is always a fail for me. I love his channel though and he does do a lot of other methods and knows watercolor thoroughly.
I love his channel too and have been watching a lot of him for a year or two, and actually that may be where I hear the recommendation for Nita’s book. So nice to meet a fellow MoW fan 😉🫶
CREATIVE ...I really enjoyed your thorough presentation of the books you've been using. I haven't heard of or considered many of them. I'd be really interested in seeing what you've done with your Daniel Smith dot card colours!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you found the video useful - and I look forward to filming a dedicated video to show the full range of 238 Daniel Smith watercolors that I tested. It’s a whole sketchbook so it definitely needs its own video 😂🫶
Creative! Thank you for your very informative reviews, so helpful to see books I don’t already own (but now want!) and your sketchbook work is lovely!
Thank you so much for your encouraging comment, I appreciate it 💙🫶
Thank you for sharing such a great video with helpful insights in your painting journey! I too find the urban sketching intimidating and uncomfortable. I like the ideas others gave below which I will try as well. I wanted to recommend artist Karen Rice to you for inspirational videos. You mentioned the book you like that the artist did messy but beautiful work. This lady makes beautiful and exciting work approachable. She breaks the work done to start it with using thicker paint, water and even an old credit card. What I love to see is her nature scenes! She beginner friendly watercolor and also very experienced artist! I just found the urban sketcher in Ireland Roisin Cure who also has TH-cam videos and is so very lovely and charming and sketches and paints her life! I wish I could hand out with her because she absolutely engaging and her talent and passion is amazing! 😉
Meant it to say hang out, but was auto corrected hand out! Ugh 😳🤯
I loved reading your comment, thank you so much for taking the time to write it! I’ve been following both Karen and Roisin for 2-3 years and really enjoy their work. Roisin’s style actually particularly inspired me to start watercolours and sketchbooking, I am in awe of all her sketchbooks. I’d also love to hang out with her! We can start a Roisin Cure fan club 😂❤️🫶
For sure! 🥳
Thank you for sharing your book collection. 😊 It’s very helpful to know what books would be useful.
You are so welcome! I’m glad you found the video helpful and I appreciate your comment 🫶
Creative……I thoroughly enjoyed your review. Thank you💕
Thanks for watching, you are so welcome! 🫶
Great video! I am new to urban sketching, and I have found that going with other people like the local urban sketchers group really helped me to not be so uncomfortable. They were all very welcoming and being part of the group took the “stress” out of it!
Great tip! 🫶 This is something I have to try and I am currently looking into urban sketching chapters in central Switzerland… I hope there is no minimum skill requirement to join 😅
@@TheCherrypipangel that’s a good plan and definitely should be no minimum skill requirement or I would not be in the group 😂
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Your sketchbook is absolutely beautiful ❤
Thank you so much 😀
Merci beaucoup. J adore les livres de Sarah, Jenny et Blanche. Je les aient et ils sont extraordinaires. Belle soirée de la France. 💜
Merci de ton message, je suis ravie de voir des francophones parmi nous 🇫🇷💙 et oui, les 3 artistes en question sont vraiment très talentueuse!
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My tip for sketching/painting in public would be to start in quiet places , I used to go to the natural history museum here in Ireland for example because I knew that other people would be preoccupied with looking at the displays rather than what I was doing , not all museums allow artists to sit and draw though and if you choose the natural history.. you are surrounded by the many bones of animals and I’m not sure if you would enjoy that much :/ but libraries are usually good to dip your toe rather than the coffee shop and places like churches and church grounds , people come and go but they generally keep to themselves ❤ hope this helps x
Ps I will be investing in some of these books because they look absolutely fantastic!
Thank you for your comment and your tip! I love the natural history museum idea because it is such a beautiful and quiet place - and also because I actually love dinosaurs and fossils. The shapes of the bones and fossils are so beautiful and this is a great idea actually that I would love to sketch!
And I’m so glad to hear you found the video useful, thank you for your support! ❤️
You’re very welcome ❤ yes the natural history museums are interesting in so many ways especially with sketching studies, I’m glad you don’t find them creepy 😂 some people do. I also remembered one more thing that helped me a lot back then getting used to people being around- timed thumbnail quick sketching , can be as short or as long as you want .. and it’s enjoyable having a sketchbook of loads of little squares of 30 seconds, 1minute , 2 minute etc .. can be any medium too , I liked using willow charcoal for example x x enjoy your sketching and arty adventures , I hope you will let us know how you get on with them x ❤
@@MB-hc9tkI’m loving all this advice, thank you! 👌
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Creative indeed! Thank you so much. I have a couple of the books discussed, and you have now introduced me to many more (unfortunately 😁) that I would like to add to my collection. Wonderful video. Did you tell us what your sketchbooks are?
Thank you for your comment and your support! Art book collecting is indeed an easy trap to fall into hehe.
The sketchbooks I showed in this video are the Hahnmuhle 100% cotton 250gsm square watercolour sketchbooks. I am planning my next video on filming some reviews of different sketchbooks, so stay tuned if that interests you ;)
@@TheCherrypipangel Thank you for the sketchbook details, yes the Hahnemuhle 100% cotton books are really wonderful. Yes please, a video on sketchbooks would be very interesting - let's face it, we all get obsessed with finding our favourite sketchbooks!
The Felix Scheinberger is one of my all time favourites.,…very informative about watercolour and the different properties as well as being very attractive
Thanks for your feedback, and yes Felix Scheinberger’s book is very informative and has lots to teach 💙
Thank you for the reviews - very informative! I'll order a few of them.
Thank you for your feedback, I'm happy this video was useful. And I hope you find joy and inspiration in the books :)
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I believe things you bought should be used. My mom have precious book thing too, and she won't let us use anything as intended if it "destroys" the item. Then the things just sit and deteriorated, and get thrown away.
I know right! I also grew up with beautiful things that were all packed away and that we could never touch… and then one day everything had to be thrown away because decades had passed and no one had ever used it and it had disintegrated! I also really believe in using your nice stuff now and not waiting for “one day” that never comes! 💙🫶
This was super. Thank you! I have the Felix Scheinburger book, which I love, but I've not seen many of the others. I almost picked up Wild Watercolour last week, so may go back and get it. As a Canadian, I also speak/read/write French, so it was a joy to see a few French books as well. Thanks again! 🎨
You're so welcome! I’m really glad it was helpful and that the French books were also welcome 🥰 I really loved Wild Watercolour even if it is less advanced and less technical than the Felix Scheinberger book - and I hope you will enjoy it too 🫶💙
Loving your going through these books and your exceptions, etc... (I get that!). Would love to hear about what prompted you to begin watercolor two (ish) years ago.
Thank you for your kind words and your interest!
My motivations behind starting watercolor were quite an evolution and this is something I will talk about when I do my sketchbook tours of my first sketchbooks since it really goes hand in hand with my work. And I look forward to sharing it with you in the near future :)
@@TheCherrypipangel awesome! I’m here for it! Are you on instagram? Would love to see the big picture. X
@@context_curatedYes I’m on instagram as art_at_dom 🥰
Creative! Your guide was superb! I also like books! I own Inga Buividavice‘s 1st. book & like it. The others look good too, I‘ve various on famous artists & a few basic books my last purchase that I‘m working through is „Farben“by Christin Stapff. I relish turning the colourful pages as you seem to do! The wonder of arts. Now I’ll see if I can purchase another to inspire me. Thanks.
🫶 I’m so glad to hear you enjoyed it! And how exciting to meet another art book nerd! 🥰💙
Creative! Hehe 🎉
Thanks for the support, you're brilliant! 😄
Creative 👨🎨
Yes you are!
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I love the lamp! It would be nice if you turned the music down several decibels because it drowns out your voice when you're creating, so I didn't hear 65% of your words.
Thanks for letting me know, and I’m so sorry about that! I haven’t actually put music into the video but it may be the music from the neighbours while I was filming… I will be more mindful of the environnement next time! 💙🫶
PS I used to guide architecture students through Europe graphically documenting the built environment. None of us were ever ‘cool girl’ urban sketchers. We very thoughtfully, mindfully, connecting and learning. Thete are many ways to be! 😂😊😘
Thanks for sharing! And actually, mindful, thoughtful and connected people sound VERY cool to me! ❤️🫶
Thank you for this video. Hearing your preference i would recomment Hariet De Winton. She paints a lot of plants, house, garden. Always with showing the drawing. I love her. Love the painting calm book (i own), will look for the second one! And what was the name of the sketchbook you mentioned?
Thank you for your comment and for recommend Harriet de Winton. I do follow her on TH-cam and enjoy her new-style botanicals in particular - very good recommendation and I will have a look for her books then 🫶
The sketchbook I showed was the Hahnmuhle 250gsm 100% cotton square sketchbook in 21x21cm.
Creative!
Thank you! 🫶
This is a lovely video, thank you for sharing these books with us. I would love the books by Jennifer and Blanche in English. Would you know if there is any chance of that happening?
Thank you for the kind comment! And I hope they will be released in English, but I have no info on this. Since the books are both recent publications it may be a while… 🤷♀️ sorry I have no definite answer!
Creative 😊
Thank you! 🥰
Thank you so much for sharing these books, I’ve gone and bought some of these now to help me with my watercolour journey. What square sketch books did you use? As I would like a square one for practising in.
You are so welcome, I’m glad you found the video helpful! I use the square 100% cotton 250gsm sketchbooks from Hahnmuhle, and I also love square sketchbooks 🫶💙