Watercolor Tutorial How to Improve Light and Depth in Your Painting
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Hi Friends, in this tutorial I am explaining how to achieve light and depth in your painting. I share what is very important to do, but many ignore. I also talk about values vs color and how to interpret what you see in real life using visual language for the painting to tell a story.
Hope it is helpful, if so please like, subscribe and share.
Happy painting!
Nina
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Beautiful Scenery!
Very good lesson for every watercolorist
All I had to work with as a child growing up is graphite pencil and paper if I could find it. We were quite poor in fact. But I learned how to do all with the one color of graphite and going by values instead of color at a very young age. I later had crayons but as pretty as the colors were, none were dark enough to do the job. So out came my trusty pencils. I do best working without color actually. It can throw me off. It was years for me to get used to using color. I use one green (PG7) but only for mixing. One of the best mixers I have. My darkest value blacks come from PG7 and Perm Alizarin Crimson. I can warm it or cool it easily. I don't use the real Alizarin pigment.
Thank you for sharing Renee! I remember the feeling "doesn't get dark enough". When I studied at art school, I only had HB and could not understand why it's always pale grey no matter how much cross hatching I do. In my last year at school my mum got me a 4B, this was an eye opener! I still have my final piece of work from school that I did with that pencil ☺️ In regards to Alizarin, I use Perm. too, plain Alizarin is a fugitive, although gorgeous pigment! I never could believe how colour can just disappear until I saw a mostly grey watercolor painting 😭
Hiya Nina, Thanks very much for another great tutorial. The values were the hardest thing for me to understand and apply when I first started on my art journey, especially translating colour into value scales, as you mentioned with the Cadmium Yellow and Ultramarine Blue analogy. It's vitaly important as you pointed out and the only way to really understand it is by practicing. It's well worth the effort and a well drawn/painted value study can be a work of art I'm itself. Take care Nina, love from England.x
Thank you David! Yes you are so right, values and colour harmony either make or break your painting. You can argue many things but these two an absolute core...and you are right with "art on its own", Alvaro is a living proof to it 😉
Thank you so much... You are such an amazing teacher
.you articulate concepts and method so clearly. The way you simplify is exceptional.. The Ah Haa moments are many in your great teaching style.. as well as being an amazing painter.. I appreciate your tutorials very much.. much love.. all the best..
I'm so glad! Thank you!
Your videos are extremely helpful for me as a beginner.Thanks for devoting ur precious time for us.Im reading all ur tutorials everyday.Love from INDIA❤
I'm so glad! Thank you so much!
Hola Nina, soy Víctor de Buenos Aires. Me gustan tus videos y tus obras
Gracias!
Nina, this is the best tutorial of the years 2022/23! I'm awfully gratefulI'for your assistance.
Thank you so much!
You are an amazing teacher! Thank you so much!
I appreciate your explanation and demonstration! Thank you. 😊
Great Tutorial. Thank you so much.
You explain things so clearly and intuitively! Thank you, gorgeous painting. I’m a new fan and student 😅
Thank you so much! I'm so glad!
Excellent, as always!
Thank you Stephan!
Holy cow thanks! That is very helpful!
Thank you, I'm very glad!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🌹
Always a pleasure! Thank you Mirena!
Thank you, Nina 😊 so much to think about! I do appreciate your explanations 🙏
Thank you! I know it's only a 10m video, but every point is asking for "practice and thinking" pretty much on repeat :) sometimes I paint for weeks and then get a light bulb moment...it usually can be summarised in one word or sentence...at the same time so much practice and thinking went into it...I love these moments, they are very satisfying ☺️ but I do believe these things need to be remembered with "muscle memory" ...there is never enough time for analytics when paint
Great job yet again. Sending love from the US! Thanks Nina😃
Thank you Jason! 😊
Excellent video, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Love your teaching style❤
Thanks Monesha!
You were brilliant thanks
Thank you Tommy! It's a pleasure!
As beautiful as you!
Thank you Subhankar!
Very informative, thank you👍
Thank you Sam! I'm very glad!
The clarity of your information, and your thorough explanation were super helpful.
Saving this video for the next time I try scenery. Much appreciated!
I'm so glad! Thank you!
Very useful instructions clearly explained, thank you
I'm so glad! Thank you Janet!
I am happy I chanced upon your channel. Your channel is very informative. please continue sharing knowledge ❤️
Thank you for your comment Arvin! I'm so happy to hear that!
Bullseye! Thank you very much ..very precise demo.
Thank you Willie! Always a pleasure!
Very well explained, thank you! I'm going out painting today and will try to put your advice into what I will do. Much appreciated👍
This is awesome! I'm so glad it's helpful!
Amazing painting..Very nice shadows and high lights...Thanks for shring this wonderful vidéo and explanations..
Always a pleasure! Thank you!
💥 I had no idea that warm colors such as raw sienna etc… lightened their hue so much (when they dry.)
I’m most certainly going to buy a value chart…(grey scale). I can see that it’s going to help me a lot. 😊
💟 THANKYOU VERY MUCH !!
That's great! So happy it was helpful!
So good! You explain things so well! I'll have to check out your Patreon page
Thank you Constance! I would be very happy to see you there!
Good presentation
Thank you!
Great
Thanks Ann!
I'm a big fan of your painting, ma'am.
Love from India ❤️
Thank you very much!
Thank you maam... Very nicely explained..
I'm glad it's helpful!
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Thank you!
Hi Nina the painting is amazing! So you do a value study for every painting? I'm not to the point of doing finish paintings yet (Hahahaha)!!! How do you know what to remove and what to put in??? Lastly, when you paint outside do you still do a value study? Thank you very much for your kindness!👍👍👍
Hi Marvin, re Value Study, not so much now, only if I'm unsure about the composition. With practice you strat seeing things in values and tones instead of colours. In re removing/adding things: I always try to simplify, if I squint my eyes and I don't see it... It's gone 😄 in terms of adding/removing big things...such as adding one more level to a building, I always do it for a better composition, just experience I suppose. In re outside: no, no time for this, things chang too fast, but in reality it would be even more beneficial 😊
Thank you very much for your timely information! 😊
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Kereen..!
Salam dari Indonesia. 😗
Terima kasih banyak Widi!
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Thank you!
Welcome my friend
Hi Nina. This is very informative and thoughtful.
I wonder why it is so important to “always connect your middle values”? Any insight you could share? Or a video where you explain why it is so important? Thank you. This is beautiful.
Glad it was helpful! And thank you for the suggestion, will definitely do. But in short: middle value shape is what MAKES your painting. It's is the geometry of composition. If you have a boat on the left, a person in the center, another boat on the right, etc., It will all read as separate pieces, very "bits and pieces", a gathering of small objects. But for a painting to work and read well from far away it needs to be unified, and you also need a "road" for the viewer eye to travel through.
Hi again Nina. Thank you for your kind answer. I think that what is confusing me is that when you start doing your middle values in this video, you start with the windows to the left which are all separate parts, it seems to me that these windows are part of the third wash (dark values). I heard you say that you don’t differentiate the 2D and 3D wash precisely as they often merge together, and I think that is why you can start with these windows. In a way it does not make any difference for you: you don’t feel you have to wait to paint them. But according to the explanation, am I wrong to consider that the real unifying part of this painting, the big connected middle-values-shape, the “real” 2d wash in a way, “appear” at 9:18? Or am I just confused? Haha
Yes, that's right: 9.18 - the big middle value shape starts from the top left shadow on the building, connected to the trees above the roof, then to the background and the shadows on the building on the right, through the trees on the right and finally the shadow on the ground - this is the geometry of the painting. The windows are "details", these little things can be connected or left alone. The reason I painted them first is to paint the shadows over them. It softened the edges a little. If you paint them wet on wet, the edges sometimes too blurry, and wet on dry obviously gives you sharp edges, which is not ideal for details in shadow.
Thank you very much for your generous answers Nina it is very appreciated. I tried to paint this image yesterday and it is essentially a fail. But at least I can point out some of my main mistakes. My first wash was too powerful. I use Schmincke paints and I feel it does not fade so much when it comes to dry, it is indeed very pigmented. I always fall in this trap. Because of this too intense wash I had a hard time with the contrasts and I ended up overworking some parts to get them darker. The result feel “gouachish”. And finally, and not the least, I have to admit I don’t know how to mix greys and neutral tints properly: they always end up to vibrant, too coloured. If you have any tutorial on it I definitely would be happy to look at it as greys ad neutral tints seem to be the key to a more realistic rendering. Is it a complete disaster? For some parts yes, but we still see what it is haha! I consider being part of your patreon but I honestly doubt to have the level yet: I still have a lot to learn from your free videos.
Hi Nina. Do you have any tutorial about mixing greys and neutral tints?
It seems to be the key to realism with the values.
I have seen you talking about it a bit in your tutorial about your palette but I,felt you had much more to say about it, where and how you use each nuance of grey and also where and how to use cooler and warmer tone.
This is a huge topic and I’m sure you could thoughtfully (and masterfully) discuss about it (or do you talk about it in depth in your Patreon?)
Hi Neorhim, thank you so much for the suggestion! I will definitely do it. And yes, I talk about it in my demos, but it's a great idea to do a separate tutorial. I'll try to fit it in next month.
@@nvfineartstudio7296 I would be so happy to hear you talk about it.
I'm pretty sure it is a very rich and underestimated topic.
Very few tutorials talk about it in depth on TH-cam.
When you did value study of middle values, did u also do darks at same time? Windows look dark to me. Thx
Hi Diana, When you do your middle value shape on the value study, it includes darks as well. You just paint them on top of the middle value. I have a tutorial showing this method, it's called "Watercolor City Tutorial - watercolor tips on values". In re to the windows, start at value 6 and vary to 9, so they are both middle and dark. Honestly, I don't like separating too much middle and dark wash, but it's just my style. I get a better variety of edges and cleaner darks this way. I would definitely recommend separating middle and dark wash, if you only recently started with watercolors. Hope this helps. 👍
All great, but since I don't speak English it would be very good if the whole thing could be subtitled.
Thank you! There is auto subtitles available. If you click on settings (bottom right corner "gear" icon), then: subtitles/CC, then: auto-translate, then choose your language