Beginners #2: Daily quick warm ups - This will set you up for watercolor success!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 เม.ย. 2023
- In this video, I thought offering this quick little warm-up exercise you can practice before you paint might be helpful! I am a visual learner, so something like this for me to follow along with before I paint every day would have been helpful for me decades ago when I was learning brushstrokes and water control. I hope it is a useful warm-up exercise for you before you create your masterpieces.
Practicing these common brushstrokes daily for 15 minutes will develop your muscle memory, your confidence, and familiarity with how watercolors flow and behave. The more practice and understanding you gain, you will feel better and better sitting down to paint, and your results will begin reflecting even this 15-minute practice daily!
I thought it might be fun to offer a worksheet and practice painting available for you in my Etsy shop!
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What fun, right? Your purchase will help me and YOU! What's included?
* painting from tutorial signed dated and tutorial episode name
* my pre-recording swatch I created with colors for reference (all handwritten)
* more pre-work, showing brushstrokes, descriptions
Every painting is on different papers, depending on what I was teaching, different sizes, and meant for supporting you, although can be framed as well as a fun piece!
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For additional helpful instruction and tips related to this tutorial, checkout my next video in the series: • Beginners, # 3: This ...
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Wonderful Rachel, Im so happy to hear that and glad my teaching style is helpful~ I hope to continue sharing lots of fun tips and paintings with you. Have fun most of all :-)
What a super idea to practice before painting!!! I’ve never spent enough time developing muscle memory and can now clearly see where the frustration comes from.
I know it sounds so mundane and obvious. Practicing the thin/thick/compound strokes/ “C” strokes, daily and pages full is powerful practice
For muscle Memory! So glad you are practicing!
So very helpful. Those compound strokes remind me of learning how to drive a stick shift. Loll!😅
That’s a perfect analogy! Yes, so not intuitive right? Till you practice then it becomes a no thinker!
Thank you for this. Like you, I am also a visual learner, so this is very helpful.
My pleasure~ Yes, I learn very quickly when actually shown and I do..
This is so helpful, thank you. ❤ frim the netherlands.
My pleasure, I'm Glad it was helpful Marianne, I Hope i can continue to inspire you to paint with me. Once you get these techniques, and practice them, the muscle memory takes over and you will be amazed at how fast you grow and your paintings improve! Keep painting my artist friend!
Thanks for such a helpful video. I really enjoy painting leaves and I appreciate how your tutorial showed how to blend two colours into one leaf. I’m working on the ‘pushing-pulling’ technique and enjoying how it helps me to move the paint.
Im so glad that pushing and pulling technique makes sense. That is a technique I constantly use. As well as when you go from green to yellow, don't fully mix the two colors together, have some of the green on your brush tip and then go into the yellow (or whichever two colors your using at the time) and let them show up on the paper individually and partially mixed, this creates a beautiful result, vs completely mixing the two colors together. I'm so happy you are getting the hang of water control and moving the paint around intentionally!
Vielen Dank für dieses tolle Tutorial!!! Viele liebe Grüße aus Böblingen/Germany☘☘
Ich freue mich, Sie aus Deutschland hier zu haben! (Meine großartigen Eltern waren alle aus Deutschland) Was für ein wunderschöner Ort voller Blumen und Pflanzen!
You are great teacher! Thank you!
You're very welcome! My pleasure... I'm glad these tutorials are inspiring you to pick up your brushes and paint! Keep practicing, you will continue to develop the skills, confidence and muscle memory needed to really enjoy this beautiful medium! Happy painting my artist friend!
Thank you
My pleasure Isadorafree spirit (love your name)~ Practice these a much as you can and you will strengthen that muscle memory, and see a flower and how just how to paint it! Happy practice and painting Isadora~
Very helpful. Thanks
Wonderful, these daily warm ups will help you develop that muscle memory and next thing you know you will sit down to paint a flower and know exactly how. Happy painting friend!
Thanks!
Thank you much so much Sandy! Your SuperThanks that means a lot and helps me. I am Thrilled you are enjoying my videos. Happy painting friend.🎨🌸🖌️🍁
That was so helpful! Thanks 💕
Terrific. I promise you if you do this little warm-up daily before painting, you will be amazed at how much better you get, as the muscle memory improves, it becomes a no-thinker, you feel more confident, and your paintings get better and better! Happy painting!
What a great idea! Thank you!
Hi Cordula! I'm so happy, I hope this helps and is a video you can come to and rewatch before you get ready to paint. I do this before every painting. It is such a good warm up, and way to practice and create muscle memory! As well practicing the laying down of paint, no puddles is a skill that will definitely pay off when you master it! and you will!
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Thank you Libby! Happy to see you here
This is awesome, so helpful! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! I Do these daily, It is surprising how much it helps, and reinforces these brushstrokes, and muscle memory. Them ore you practice these simple techniques, it just becomes natural, and intuitive. Happy painting so happy your here with me!
I have been doing the practice work from your tutorials...I'm finding to be a great help. Oh...by the way, the tutorial of the florals that you painted which you saw while driving past, but didn't get to stop and get a closer look at, and wasn't sure what kind of flowers they were, I THINK might be larkspur???
You know, I’m not sure either. Possibly Larkspur, I have an app that identifies all the flowers I take pictures of.. Injope with anyone who gets in the car with me, “I stop for flowers”! I’m seeing lots of Lipine, Lavendar, Snapdragons and I believe yes, Larkspur! I’m
So happy the tutorials are helping. The warm ups daily you will Definately notice a difference, and after a week you will see
How much better you get, the muscle memory kicks in and these brushstrokes become a no thinker! Somhappybyounare building your muscle memory, practicing and enjoying!
@@DebbieWalkerArtmadeeasy I actually made daisies that look like daisies...finally. lol.
@@marybarton5651 How wonderful! Doesn’t it feel great when it all comes together?!
What a wonderful tutorial Debbie. I felt like I was in your classroom having a one-on-one lesson with you. I know now why I’m not succeeding in watercolour, I don’t practice enough to establish that muscle memory. I will practice this video everyday now before I attempt a painting. Thank you so much.😊
Yes, I'm so happy you identified where you could improve. When that muscle memory kicks in, you don't even have to think about it. You just get used to how the brushstroke feels, and using the water/paint proficiently will, I promise, be huge for your paintings. Once you feel it, get it a few times, and you can repeat it! I do these little practices daily, over and over; it can be relaxing too if you put on some nice music, cup of tea, and relax and have fun with it! The good thing about painting flowers is nature has no rules! You can use any color you like, play with your petal shapes, and relax and enjoy the practice. Happy painting Paulene, Let me know how it goes!
Hi from the Netherlands. I am a total beginner and I love your teaching method. I only have pans, not tubes. How can I control the value with pans? Just a lot of practice? 😊
Pans are fantastic. I use tubes, although, I fill mypalett with the color so in essence, it is like pans. Its important before you start painting each time, to take a spray bottle of water, spray your paints, (I do the same) to activate them. give them about 2-3 minutes, then they will be ready. To control the value, play with creating squares on a sheet of paper, start on the left with a lot of pigment, the gradually add water and pull out towards the right. This will give you an idea of going from dark value, to light. Here is a tutorial that may help. th-cam.com/video/k5cMnXKr_AU/w-d-xo.html Practice this over and over, play with it. This will familiarize you with the water/paint ratio to achieve the darker and lighter values. I also have this warm up you can do daily or before you sit down to paint, to warm up your hands, develope muscle memory. th-cam.com/video/nL70DG_huCM/w-d-xo.html
Doing this daily will make you so much better with this medium, and gain confidence so when you sit down to paint, you will say, "Oh, I know how to create that shape, color and look"! I promise! I still practice daily. constantly. sheets and sheets Its very relaxing for me too! Happy painting so happy to have you here.
So happy to have you here from the Netherlands, what a beautiful area! You must have gorgeous flowers.
Hi from Australia Debbie great video. I am having trouble d/loading your e book can you help.The link doesn’t work for me
Hi Barb uh oh... You can email me as well at Debbiewalkerart@gmail.com. Try this link... tr.ee/b5mjIs9fyF Let me know I hope this helps! Happy painting
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Hi, I would like to see your free ebook. can you direct me to it? thank you.
Indeed , email me at DebbieWalkerArt@gmail.com and I will send to you :) meanwhile, Happy painting Friend
Very helpful. Thank you
My pleasure im so happy this helps, This is a practice I always went through before actually sitting down to paint something, now I do it without thinking. Really important to warm up your fingers, and feel the brushstrokes!