How to Avoid Muddy Watercoloring 1. 1:07 Don't sketch harshly on your paper (avoid erasing) 2. 3:32 Limit your colors; use more water 3. 7:38 Let first layer dry. 4. 12:00. Don't overwork. Choose colors to emphasize wisely. 5. 17:02 Be happy with whatever level you are on and learn from it. Thanks Nitin
Mr. Singh...As I've commented before, You are a real teacher! You care that people Learn! It shows as the audience watch what you do! You TEACH, with the intent of explaining to the learner, which should be the purpose! Emphatically, I appreciate your guidance because w/c is difficult enough without some of those who really don't take time...if their intention is to teach which results in confusion. I personally thank and appreciate you more than words can say! May God continue to bless you! Jimi
Really a great lesson. The two color mix is going to help me get better results - it is exactly one of the things I am doing wrong. Too many colors, too much over working with the paint. I need to learn also when to stop. Thank you!
You are so, so encouraging, "Whatever you achieved so far, just be happy with that." :-) I do get discouraged but those few words perked me back up again, and I thank you for that! You are an excellent teacher and your explanations are so clear. Thanks, friend. I shall press on!
Thank you so much for your kind word Dee, i don't know if i am good teacher, i am just sharing what i know and whatever helped me. My best wishes for your next painting, keep going and enjoy them.
Try turning on the captions if you have trouble hearing. It will help, but keep in mind that it picks up the accent so that all the words may not be correct. I listened to this on my TV by using Chromecast and turned up the volume on my TV, which allowed my to hear it very well. Thank you for your lessons. I enjoy them so much! I'm trying to learn simplicity. You are very much a master at that!
I just can't even describe how useful and beautiful your work is! You give me so much confidence so now I'm looking at my paintings and see the difference between yours technic and mine. So thank you for everything you're doing. Btw you taught me one precious thing - you should have fun with water colour! Nitin you are so right!! Lots of love!
Love it. "Please, please and please...don't overwork!" Thank you for this insightful lesson, Mr. Singh. It's easy to get caught in that trap of painting too tightly, and too realistically. Your work is so loose and expressive. Much appreciate you taking the time to post this lesson.
Even the left side art( which looks odd in value scale) is looking glaring for me instead of muddy as said. Artist's hand!! Good suggestions. Thanks a lot.
Really enjoy your artwork and free and expressive style. Your encouragement, insights, tips and sincerity in the videos are very helpful as well! I do have a suggestion, though. If you can, please increase the volume of your "voice" when you record (I think you need to move your microphone closer to your mouth or increase the recording volume a bit). Your voice volume on your videos is, for me at least, very low, while the music overlays are at an adequate volume. Sadly, this affects my ability to understand what you are saying even when I have my volume at maximum on my speakers, my system, and TH-cam. Thanks again Nitin for your efforts! Most appreciated!
You are an amazing teacher. I like the harmony of using only two colors, but I like the "bad" painting example on the left, as well. Even when you try to paint a bad painting, you are good. Everything you do is good. I will go try your two-color painting technique. I think you have just given me the secret to happy, harmonious watercolor paintings. Thank you.
Thank you very much, Sir. This is a very valuable lesson. I tend to work directly without waiting for the paint to dry, and you are right: It creates all those muddy colors.
Hi Nitin, I'm glad that I found your videos. Your way of explaining makes it easier for beginners to understand the medium better. My heart felt gratitude to you 😊
Nitin THANK YOU for the video! So helpful and informative as I continue to practice and grow as a painter. Thank you also for mentioning "losing the motivation" factor. I feel it way too often when I brush on that horrible, mucky overworked color and then want to throw my painting away. Some of us, especially me need to learn to just say NO MORE! Like eating sugar, I just have a hard time saying no more. 😳
You are a great teacher first of all . The way you have explained about problems , I could relate it to me . It seemed i am telling to me not to do this . I think realizing by won self is the greatest teaching . Thank you sir.
Lovely!! And so helpful as I’m just starting out with my muddy painting. I’m so glad I listened to the very end, because I quite like the DONT DO THIS side as well😅(unlike me even when you try to mess up you make something beautiful!), though my goal is to paint lightly and freely. Thank you.
Wonderful video. I really appreciate your kind and gentle teaching style. It's not intimidating and it is relaxing to listen to your knowledge. Watercolor can be overwhelming at first!
Its a pleasure listening to your explanations. Your voice is quite 'gentle'. I just turn the volume to max and only get a fright when the youtube adverts kick in. As soon as I'm able i'll support you on patron.
Dear Sir...truly we are blessed to have you on youtube..each lesson of urs is priceless..you are absolutely wonderful teacher. So so so much to learn frm u. My best wishes..
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Learnt a lot from you. Audio can be improved though, I have a 5 months old baby with me so I see your videos from other room at a very low volume, and cannot hear properly. Cannot risk increasing the volume as the advertisement pop up with very high volume. Great learning from you 😊
My biggest problem is knowing which colors to,use and or mix, and where to place them. I gave up oilpainting because of color confusion. I think I have a mind block for color or soemthing. (Also for tonal ranges, but not as bad as for co,or). Gonna try a canal painting, simple, two colors only, burnt sienna and cobalt and see how ti comes out. I just struggle with too many misplaced colors in paintings. The eye then tends to want to ping pong all over the painting in a kinda frantic manner. I bought rebelle 5 pro on-sale and can try different scenes with different co,or combos too, which will be good for practice as it has the undo button if something doesn't look right, but ultimately,wanna get to physical painting with confidence more.
Oh so you're using gouache? That makes more sense. I was wondering why I couldn't see much of your pencil work underneath sometimes. I will persist with my watercolour set but I might mix some gouache with it some day as well. :) your paintings are dreamy. Thank you!
Nitin - I am blown away! I really appreciate you sharing your considerable skill with us. I have learnt so much from your demonstrations . I feel my work had reached a plateau and having discovered you and observed your methods, I feel ready to tackle the next mountain! Thank you so much. Do you do painting seminars/classes? Where can I find out more details. Have paint brush - will travel! Chris
Hi Chris, I am glad you loved my effort. Going forward i have many plan for watercolor learners, right from online mentorship to workshop and many many more :)
Hi Nitin. It's always great to watch your videos. I always find you provide valuable lessons. However, I was just wondering if you could either place your mike closer or speak slightly louder because I always find it a challenge to hear your instructions. I think if you speak louder, your audience will grow even faster. Thanks so much!!!
Love, love, love your technique. wish i could hear better what you are saying. after raising the volume to full there still are some things you say that are in such low voice they are hard to make out and I,m sure they are important advice you are giving me.
Sir, however hard you tried you could not create "mud"! You can take tuitions from me for that LOL! Thanks for sharing all the wonderful videos, really helpful.
Thank you so much for your demonstration of water colour painting 🖌️🎨 and guidance for me to improve and achieve the goal 🥍🥅 of painting 🖌️🎨 🎿🎨🎿 skills I also want to know from you 🎁 that how to make water 🌊💦 colour painting 🖌️🎨 on 🧤 hand made paper 📜🗞️ because too much water and colour🌊💦 absorbed this paper 📜🗞️ So what methods about it and high quality products paper make a good result that is common things but artist can 🥫 be able to use every medium 🔉 and any material he must be knows and able get that skills, because of people don't know they said that if you are artist and why you are not able to do some kind of material used.? So generally customer and people satisfaction is our motto for our 🎿 skills as an artist.thank you so much for your help 🆘 and I am very appreciate with your 🎁 guidance and support in my work.
Hi, what pencil are you using for sketching? It looks like a black prismacolor. Also, your watercolor link leads to a gouache set on amazon...are you really painting with gouache or is this a mistaken link?? THANKS!!
I like your style of painting water color and it's great for landscapes. I usually paint very tight and I have observed that it doesn't works in landscapes. I'm trying to learn landscapes. I'm confused with your second point "not to use more than two colors". If I want to paint trees and bushes then I shouldn't be putting yellow,green,blue,brown on the first wash?
Is there any way that you can make your sound louder? I have mine turned all the way up but I still am having troubling hearing. I am enjoying this lesson.
what kind of painting style is this please ??? ... I want to learn this style bcoz I think this suit me .. please upload more tutorial videos ..thank you
How to Avoid Muddy Watercoloring
1. 1:07 Don't sketch harshly on your paper (avoid erasing)
2. 3:32 Limit your colors; use more water
3. 7:38 Let first layer dry.
4. 12:00. Don't overwork. Choose colors to emphasize wisely.
5. 17:02 Be happy with whatever level you are on and learn from it.
Thanks Nitin
:) thank you so much Joe, appreciated!
Hello sir can not hear properly .sir do you teach?sir where are you placed?would like to join u
Nicely done, thanks
One of your most sensible videos. Like what you said about being happy with your work... That's true. Every effort is a stepping stone to success
Nitin Singh
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You are the most HELPFUL and BRILLIANT tutor on the internet.
Mr. Singh...As I've commented before, You are a real teacher! You care that people Learn! It shows as the audience watch what you do! You TEACH, with the intent of explaining to the learner, which should be the purpose! Emphatically, I appreciate your guidance because w/c is difficult enough without some of those who really don't take time...if their intention is to teach which results in confusion. I personally thank and appreciate you more than words can say! May God continue to bless you! Jimi
Thank you Mr. Jimi, i have big dream to learn together and share what i know.
Love how you show us what not to do and it's still kind of pretty.
Really a great lesson. The two color mix is going to help me get better results - it is exactly one of the things I am doing wrong. Too many colors, too much over working with the paint. I need to learn also when to stop. Thank you!
You are so, so encouraging, "Whatever you achieved so far, just be happy with that." :-) I do get discouraged but those few words perked me back up again, and I thank you for that! You are an excellent teacher and your explanations are so clear. Thanks, friend. I shall press on!
Thank you so much for your kind word Dee, i don't know if i am good teacher, i am just sharing what i know and whatever helped me. My best wishes for your next painting, keep going and enjoy them.
Try turning on the captions if you have trouble hearing. It will help, but keep in mind that it picks up the accent so that all the words may not be correct. I listened to this on my TV by using Chromecast and turned up the volume on my TV, which allowed my to hear it very well.
Thank you for your lessons. I enjoy them so much! I'm trying to learn simplicity. You are very much a master at that!
This is great Bonnie, please let me know your progress. best wishes.
wow, amazing!
please, do some more tutorials like this, with side by side do's and dont's
powerful method, thank you
Thank you.
Yes, I agree completely. This video has been so helpful and more do's/don't lessons would be so great.
I just can't even describe how useful and beautiful your work is! You give me so much confidence so now I'm looking at my paintings and see the difference between yours technic and mine. So thank you for everything you're doing. Btw you taught me one precious thing - you should have fun with water colour! Nitin you are so right!! Lots of love!
Love it. "Please, please and please...don't overwork!" Thank you for this insightful lesson, Mr. Singh. It's easy to get caught in that trap of painting too tightly, and too realistically. Your work is so loose and expressive. Much appreciate you taking the time to post this lesson.
Thank you so much.
Even the left side art( which looks odd in value scale) is looking glaring for me instead of muddy as said. Artist's hand!! Good suggestions. Thanks a lot.
Really enjoy your artwork and free and expressive style. Your encouragement, insights, tips and sincerity in the videos are very helpful as well! I do have a suggestion, though. If you can, please increase the volume of your "voice" when you record (I think you need to move your microphone closer to your mouth or increase the recording volume a bit). Your voice volume on your videos is, for me at least, very low, while the music overlays are at an adequate volume. Sadly, this affects my ability to understand what you are saying even when I have my volume at maximum on my speakers, my system, and TH-cam. Thanks again Nitin for your efforts! Most appreciated!
Thank you Neil, ya i believe the same. There were some technical glitch i face while recording, thanks for bringing this.
Thank you so much! This is what’s lacking in most classes then I wonder why my stuff isn’t good.
Great do's and don't tips. The best tip was at the end to not get discouraged and like the art you create as you are learning. Keep the passion!!!!
Thanks Lance.
Thank you! I drew my first painting by virtue of that tutorial!
You are an amazing teacher. I like the harmony of using only two colors, but I like the "bad" painting example on the left, as well. Even when you try to paint a bad painting, you are good. Everything you do is good.
I will go try your two-color painting technique. I think you have just given me the secret to happy, harmonious watercolor paintings. Thank you.
U restored my passion to paint…you are a prodigy
I love the way you teach.
Thank you Nitin. I have such difficulty with overworking and using too many colors. This has been so helpful for me.
Thank you very much, Sir. This is a very valuable lesson. I tend to work directly without waiting for the paint to dry, and you are right: It creates all those muddy colors.
One of the best tutorials!Such clarity and colour !
lucky to have found a teacher like you!
beautifully done! and we'll explained.
such a lovely combination Burnt sienna and Cobalt blue!
Thank you Gary.
Hi Nitin, I'm glad that I found your videos. Your way of explaining makes it easier for beginners to understand the medium better. My heart felt gratitude to you 😊
Excellent advice. I am following it and it is working!!🇨🇦
Nitin THANK YOU for the video! So helpful and informative as I continue to practice and grow as a painter. Thank you also for mentioning "losing the motivation" factor. I feel it way too often when I brush on that horrible, mucky overworked color and then want to throw my painting away. Some of us, especially me need to learn to just say NO MORE! Like eating sugar, I just have a hard time saying no more. 😳
:) i agree, ya it happen with many of us, we just want more and more perfection.
You are a great teacher first of all . The way you have explained about problems , I could relate it to me . It seemed i am telling to me not to do this . I think realizing by won self is the greatest teaching . Thank you sir.
Bravo ! C'est un très bon exercice d'avoir comparé la mauvaise technique et la bonne ! Merci pour vos tutos !
Merci beaucoup Michelle.
Volume issue aside your red light green light teaching method is excellent.
Thank you.
Thank you, brilliant lesson with the two examples side by side.
Lovely!! And so helpful as I’m just starting out with my muddy painting. I’m so glad I listened to the very end, because I quite like the DONT DO THIS side as well😅(unlike me even when you try to mess up you make something beautiful!), though my goal is to paint lightly and freely. Thank you.
Wonderful video. I really appreciate your kind and gentle teaching style. It's not intimidating and it is relaxing to listen to your knowledge. Watercolor can be overwhelming at first!
Really enjoyed your helpful video. Great teaching technique of red/green side by side. I hope more instructors will adopt this technique.
Thank you a lot!!! Love to watch you painting. Always learning with your words.
Thank you for sharing this. watching your videos improved my watercolourskills a lot!
Congratulation, happy to know that.
U r really a good teacher
I Liked your 3 Simple Step of Watercolour.. I enjoyed this tutorial. Post more videos. Thanks.
Thank you mr. Paul.
You are great sir. So much control over watercolour. Thank you sir.
Mr.Singh, You are so deserving, Thank You!
Thank you so much Jimmie.
This is very important tutorial. Dear Nitin. Thank you.
My Pleasure.
Its a pleasure listening to your explanations. Your voice is quite 'gentle'. I just turn the volume to max and only get a fright when the youtube adverts kick in. As soon as I'm able i'll support you on patron.
Thanks Steve.
I agree this was very helpful, I love your technique
Dear Sir...truly we are blessed to have you on youtube..each lesson of urs is priceless..you are absolutely wonderful teacher. So so so much to learn frm u. My best wishes..
U are the perfect teacher 🤩
Very useful demonstration. Thank you very much!! :)
You welcome.
This was helping me so much! Thank you for sharing!
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If you buy product from below link, i get little amount from affiliate site.
1. Watercolor brush: amzn.to/2niKzTK
2. Watercolor:
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Mission Gold - amzn.to/2lQf47h
3. Watercolor Paper: amzn.to/2mKvygE
gracias por todos los tutoriales que haces, eres un verdadero maestro.
un fuerte abrazo.
Ricardo Vergara.
santiago-chile
Muchas gracias
thanku very much for your lesson and motivating me to work in watercolor medium
I really enjoyed this demonstration. Very helpful.
Thankyou! Wonderfully helpful! I WILL persevere!!!
Haha so true. I do those mistakes everytime. Thank you sir for your kind instructions. It was very educational.
wow.. love that brush! gonna have to try one of those.
Thank you Nitinji, it was very practical and helpful.
Thank you
thanks for the wonderful videos. you are the best in the world :)
:)
Thank you. Your lessons help me a lot.
Feeling great knowing that, keep going.
Wow it's wonderful ❤❤❤
Learnt a lot from you. Audio can be improved though, I have a 5 months old baby with me so I see your videos from other room at a very low volume, and cannot hear properly. Cannot risk increasing the volume as the advertisement pop up with very high volume. Great learning from you 😊
I really appreciate these videos. Thank you very much.
Excelent!! Thank you for sharing great work.
My biggest problem is knowing which colors to,use and or mix, and where to place them. I gave up oilpainting because of color confusion. I think I have a mind block for color or soemthing. (Also for tonal ranges, but not as bad as for co,or). Gonna try a canal painting, simple, two colors only, burnt sienna and cobalt and see how ti comes out. I just struggle with too many misplaced colors in paintings. The eye then tends to want to ping pong all over the painting in a kinda frantic manner. I bought rebelle 5 pro on-sale and can try different scenes with different co,or combos too, which will be good for practice as it has the undo button if something doesn't look right, but ultimately,wanna get to physical painting with confidence more.
Oh so you're using gouache? That makes more sense. I was wondering why I couldn't see much of your pencil work underneath sometimes. I will persist with my watercolour set but I might mix some gouache with it some day as well. :) your paintings are dreamy. Thank you!
...this was great! ...just needs to be louder...thank you!
Thank you.
I agree. Your instruction and examples are wonderful, but I often cannot hear you.
Thank you for your help, sir. Much appreciated.
Fabulous lesson❤❤❤❤
a million of thanks
Nitin - I am blown away! I really appreciate you sharing your considerable skill with us. I have learnt so much from your demonstrations . I feel my work had reached a plateau and having discovered you and observed your methods, I feel ready to tackle the next mountain! Thank you so much. Do you do painting seminars/classes? Where can I find out more details. Have paint brush - will travel! Chris
Hi Chris, I am glad you loved my effort. Going forward i have many plan for watercolor learners, right from online mentorship to workshop and many many more :)
looking forward to this...
I just want to be like you, you're amazing!
fantastic tutorial
Superb video!!! Well done nithin..
Great lesson!! Thanks Nitin
God bless you Sir
thank u for the inspiration
excellent work
Hi Nitin. It's always great to watch your videos. I always find you provide valuable lessons. However, I was just wondering if you could either place your mike closer or speak slightly louder because I always find it a challenge to hear your instructions. I think if you speak louder, your audience will grow even faster. Thanks so much!!!
Love, love, love your technique. wish i could hear better what you are saying. after raising the volume to full there still are some things you say that are in such low voice they are hard to make out and I,m sure they are important advice you are giving me.
wonderful lesson thanks a ton
My pleasure Mr. Sekhar.
Thank you very much
My pleasure.
Sir, however hard you tried you could not create "mud"! You can take tuitions from me for that LOL! Thanks for sharing all the wonderful videos, really helpful.
:) this video might be helpful
I took almost 5 seconds to understand why is coloring of red wrong and green right 😂
Akansha Yadav what?
Same here. But it took me more than 30 secs .
Thank you so much for your demonstration of water colour painting 🖌️🎨 and guidance for me to improve and achieve the goal 🥍🥅 of painting 🖌️🎨 🎿🎨🎿 skills I also want to know from you 🎁 that how to make water 🌊💦 colour painting 🖌️🎨 on 🧤 hand made paper 📜🗞️ because too much water and colour🌊💦 absorbed this paper 📜🗞️ So what methods about it and high quality products paper make a good result that is common things but artist can 🥫 be able to use every medium 🔉 and any material he must be knows and able get that skills, because of people don't know they said that if you are artist and why you are not able to do some kind of material used.?
So generally customer and people satisfaction is our motto for our 🎿 skills as an artist.thank you so much for your help 🆘 and I am very appreciate with your 🎁 guidance and support in my work.
Thank you!
Really good lesson for me.
Hi, what pencil are you using for sketching? It looks like a black prismacolor. Also, your watercolor link leads to a gouache set on amazon...are you really painting with gouache or is this a mistaken link?? THANKS!!
Thanks for sharing...🤗
I like your style of painting water color and it's great for landscapes. I usually paint very tight and I have observed that it doesn't works in landscapes. I'm trying to learn landscapes.
I'm confused with your second point "not to use more than two colors".
If I want to paint trees and bushes then I shouldn't be putting yellow,green,blue,brown on the first wash?
Thanks a lot for this tutorial, learnt a lot.
Thank you Ranjan.
love your work! you are very talented and thank you for sharing your knowledge. your volume is very low though. a mic. might help. thanks again!
Thanks Christian, recently i bought mic :)
Are you painting using a photograph? I love your art and teaching but cannot get started without a reference. Thanks
soo cool
Great video.
Is there any way that you can make your sound louder? I have mine turned all the way up but I still am having troubling hearing. I am enjoying this lesson.
More tutorialslike this!!!!!thank you
Thank you Nitin!
Love the tips.... Please check your volume levels though.... I had to turn my speakers all the way up and I still couldn't hear everything you said.
very helpful , Thank you sir !
Wish the volume was louder. It was difficult to hear, however, it was a good demonstration.
Thankyou so much sir🙏
Really good! More like this!
Thanks Ove, definitely you will get to see lot many of this.
what kind of painting style is this please ??? ... I want to learn this style bcoz I think this suit me .. please upload more tutorial videos ..thank you