Top Tips for WATERCOLOUR Painting from 7 Artists
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- 7 fantastic artists share their knowledge, wisdom and inspiration on the medium of watercolour.
I'm really excited to share this with you all and I hope you get lots out of it.
So many great bits of advice, fascinating insights and top tips on painting with wwatercolour.
A huge thank you to all the artists for their wonderful contributions. Please see all of their links below.
Thanks for watching and catch you soon!
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Liron Yanconsky
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Julia Cassels
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Tori Ratcliffe
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Jake Bussell
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Karen Laurence-Rowe
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Paul Apps
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Jane Davies
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Tom Shepherd
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What was your favourite tip of the bunch?? Or favourite tips? :)
T
Each and every tip is useful, but I too struggle with the backgrounds so I loved the tips given by Karen! And I love how you paint birds Tom👍
The bit about putting the painting aside when you're not sure, instead of trying to work on half dry, is pure wisdom!
The Moleskine notebook one - impossible to get all the colour mixing swatches on one sheet with a bigger palette!
I loved when Tori said 'less can be more' and 'you don't need to be 100% perfect....85% will do' :)
Hearing Liron say it's OK to make crappy paintings. In fact, you need to make crappy paintings to improve.
Great tips from superb artists, all useful but I have to say the very first one speaks loudest to me - PAINT, PAINT, PAINT. I spend far too much time watching videos hoping to magically become an accomplished artist when, deep down, I know there are no short cuts - I would progress so much faster if I spent that time with brush in hand!
Thanks, Barbara! Oh, I totally agree...I know I’m guilty of that. Partly for me at least, because watching someone else do it and imagining myself doing it is a lot easier (and less frustrating) than doing it myself..ha!! But as you say, to really improve we need to explore, play and paint!
Awesome tips 😁Great work everyone!
And thank you Tom - for making this happen! 🎨👏👏
Cheers Liron!!!☺️🙌🏼 totally my pleasure...and thanks so much for the inspiration!!
Thanks for promoting it Liron. Would not have found it otherwise.
It's so nice to see you here, Liron. ❤️❤️
So much Thank you
Thank you! T
Tm, hank you for bringing these super powers together to I’ve us their information! I really enjoy the info brought from UK! U r the best!
Ahh, thanks so much! Really appreciate the support and kind words :) T
What a treasure of a video! I’ve been water coloring for only 1&1/2 yr and this is the best video I’ve discovered in my TH-cam art videos obsession. Thank you so much for the fabulous idea!
Thanks so much for such a lovely comment! So pleased it helps and you enjoyed it. Happy painting!!!:) T
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Great video as always Tom! Many thanks
Cheers John. Much appreciated! T
Amazing... Thank you for putting this together, I've learnt a few handy tips too :)
Thanks Jane☺️...me tooo!!!☺️🙌🏼
Wonderful video Tom. 🙏😃 Feeling rejuvenated and inspired by all these tips! Thanks for everything you do 🎨
Ah, that’s great to hear!! Thanks so much fir being part of it!!:)
Great video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 fantastic tips and artists 😃
Thank you so much! They were a great bunch hey? T
First Time VISITOR - Thank you FABULOUS ☮️❤️💪🏼🎨🎄
Thanks for joining!!!:) T
Wonderfully helpful,thank you ❤️❤️
So pleased. Thank you! T
Thanks for a fantastic video. So informative and inspiring.
Thank you so much!!:) T
This was so very insightful... Great to know each one's different approach.. Thanks a lot 😊
Great tips! It's so useful hearing that different artists have different opinions on their best tip, and all have struggled with different challenges along the way - it inspires confidence to know that there's no one 'right' way and everyone is different (& might even give another tip on a different day!). I think the one about not expecting perfection resonates most - I'm new to this and all my paintings are pretty basic, but I learn something from every one!
This is so great to hear!! I think knowing that you are free to explore and play is such a good attitude! And yes, imagine if we asked everyone again they’d come up with different answer!!....thanks so much fir the comment . T
So helpful! This is chock full of invaluable advice. Your tutorials are superb and these recommendations are greatly appreciated.
So pleased to hear this, and thank you:) T
One of the best watercolour youtube chanels I have seen!…thank you so much and congrats !!
Thank you for this selfless peek into your friends' insights. Liron was the only artist I knew. I'll refer back to this video for these names😊
Another great video from you, thank you
Thanks so much, Darren! T
Great tips.
Thank you!
Hi Tom, thank you so much for putting that video together and thanks to the other artists for sharing their tips, adms a beginner I found them helpful and inspiring. I will definitely look up their work too.
That’s so great to hear! Thank you for kind comment! T
Great video 👍👍👍
Thank you! ☺️🙌🏼
Thanks a lot ☺️
My pleasure! Thank you ☺️🙌🏼🙏
Amazing! Thank you for getting this together! Some incredibly beautiful and inspiring examples of work
Thanks Leigh Anne!☺️ I know right!?🙌🏼
This video was so informative thank you. Really great job👍
Thanks so much. Really appreciate it!!☺️🙌🏼
This is very nice. Thank you. I gained some good insights!
Such an interesting, helpful and inspiring video! Backgrounds are my nemesis too so I found the tip of preparing a background first and using salt and clingfilm really useful, thank you for getting all those amazing artists together! 😊
Thanks Sarah! So glad to got lots out of it....oh, backgrounds, tough...but loved Karen’s approach, makes them fun to do, but also so effective ! T
Some great advice in there. I struggle with some basic areas but these tips pretty much covered most of them. If I had to pick one out, Karens wildlife background tips are brilliant. Thanks for getting the artists together.
Thanks Ian. Weren’t they great! I loved Karen’s background tips too. Thanks for the support. T
Thank you so much for these wonderful videos!
...just playing around with your favourite colours - thats the best tip for me in this moment - doing this for 15 minutes made my day - thanks to all the artist in the video, thanks to you for this great idea! Greatings from Germany 😍😄
My pleasure! Thank you for a lovely comment:) That’s a great tip...the importance of little and often is huge!!!:) T
Thankyou Tom,what a brilliant idea! I loved meeting new(to me)watercolor artists. I love your paintings and all the introductions where so helpful.Maybe I won’t give up.hugs.Maddy
Thank you for such a lovely comment! And definitely don't give up!!:) T
Thanks Tom... that was really helpful! I
Thank you! T
Dear Tom: I have found your video very interesting and motivating. The tips and advice given by the artists are highly valuable and Will help me improve my art for sure. Thanks for taking the time to do it for US. Will put them in practice right away. Thank you aguan !
So pleased it helps!!! Thanks so much. T
Just found your TH-cam channel -- great stuff and new subscriber here!
Thanks so much Wayne. Much appreciated! T
Thank you so much for your great idea of inviting this artists!
Thank you for a lovely comment!
Amazingly generous in spotlighting other artists, noting their various internet activities, making it possible for watercolor novitiates to dive a little deeper. I've picked one or two additional artists to learn from. Thank-you
So glad you enjoyed it and it gave you some fantastic artists to follow :) T
Thank you.. question, do u paint on flat table or tilted easel!!
Do you ever paint with gouache paint? I like your teaching style enjoy it very much. Thank you
Thanks so much, Lily:) I’ve never painted with just gouache but is on my list, definitely! I do occasionally use white, sometimes coloured, gouache on watercolours in select places too..
I enjoyed this video which is filled with so many useful tips. Thanks for introducing me to these terrific artists.
My pleasure! So glad you enjoyed...good bunch hey? Thank you for your support. T
Tom!! Brilliant! Just loved the variety of atrists and third advice. The range of styles and expressions is eye opening and inspiring. Thank you 😊
Ah, thanks Chantel! ☺️ So pleased you got something out if it...I learnt a lot too! Thanks for your support as always :) T
Wow amazing advice from everyone. I can't pick a favorite. Thank you Tom!
Thanks Bess!!!☺️🙌🏼
Tom, I just found your channel! Some years ago I took a photography class, black and white, and I recently selected five of those photos that I just loved. I'm now planning to paint them in watercolor.
50 years ago I had a watercolor teacher named Win Jones... He was quite famous, but that was before the internet and when I look I don't ever find anything about him. I'm sure he's passed away by now. His classes were exciting and he really fired us up about watercolor! Don't know if you've ever heard of him... But I am wondering if you were a teacher at one time You have a terrific vocabulary and are so well organized in your presentations. Bravo! And THANK YOU!
Un gran vídeo, me quedo con todos los Tips aunque el más importante puede llegar a ser el de la planificación y también trabajo,trabajo y más trabajo.... Y todos. Jaja, graciasss ❤❤❤
Thanks for gathering all these different artists. The scope of perspectives is so great for all viewers
Thanks so much...glad you enjoyed it!!
Gréât vidéo ! Very very very useful !! Thanks so much !
I LOVE your tips from other artists! It's good to hear it's okay to make bad paintings because it's all part to the journey. Also, I have never really put thought into the part of the painting that has no paint, how it makes the painted part pop. Thanks for the fundamentals!!
Thank you for this video 😊 I’ve just discovered your channel and subscribed 😊I’m half way through one of Jane Davis’s tutorials on Skillshare and really enjoying it.
Chien Chung Wei (probably my favorite watercolorist) likes to use one palette for transparent paints and another palette for opaque colors. I've grown as a painter just by incorporating opaque colors. It's expanded my range so to speak. I guess that's my tip for other painters.
Oh yes...a wonderful artist! Certainly up there with my favourites. It’s a great tip. I think simply understanding that transparent and opaque have notably different qualities, and then understanding them both is a huge advantage. Thank you for an insightful comment! Kind Regards, T
I liked Tori's comment about being happy if you're only 85% thrilled with your work sometimes. Because that's what it is a lot of the time LOL! Watercolor definitely took the perfectionist out of me... And that was a good thing!
Video fantastico e stimolante!! Nn vedo l'ora di riprendere il pennello e tuffarmi con l'entusiasmo che ne ho ricavato! È stato bellissimo sentire questi grandi artisti parlare con semplicità! Grazie!
I think the first tip is the most important. You just have to paint, and if your painting doesn't meet your expectations, you keep painting. Then what will happen is you'll have one part of a sucky painting that doesn't suck quite as bad. And then you'll have a corner or a spot that is good and you'll be encouraged and you'll learn.
This is so so useful Tom, thank you, what a great idea. And thank you for your series on birds with the tips sections....I have recently discovered you and am learning so much from you. :)
Hi Claire! Thanks so much for a lovely comment. So glad you’re enjoying it and it’s helping!!:) T
I loved how each artist had a different approach. I am encouraged by the advice to embrace my own unique style. Than you Tom
A few months late watching this Tom, but this is fantastic advice from some fantastic artists. I think Liron's comment at the start of the video resonated most strongly for me. Paint, paint and keep painting...this is my biggest challenge, not painting enough or regularly enough and then getting frustrated when things don't go exactly how I wanted because it's not second nature to me. OK, off to paint!
So pleased you enjoyed it! And I agree, that single bit of advice is probably the key more than anything else! Little and often can work wonders for the feeling of second nature!!!:) Happy painting, and thanks for the comment :) T
One of the most helpful videos I've seen all year, thank yoiu!
Fantastic! Thank you :) T
I just recently found you here and I love your style of watercolor! ~ Not to mention your personal style in communicating verbally. I’m older in age and newer at art and I’m looking forward to following you to try to learn to produce something worth looking at. Thanks for what I’ve watched thus far.
Hi Sharon. Thank you so much for the kind words and support. SO pleased oyu are enjoying the videos. Th start of an exciting journey!! T
Great ideas from different artists. Have to watch this video again and again.
This was grand. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👩🏻🎨Liron is a favorite of mine. As well as you Tom. Now I have 6 new artists to check out. Favorite tip….hmmmm?? Too many to pick just one. Everybody gave such great tips. Thanks to all. One of my favorite watercolor artists is Bev Jozwiak. Your elephant reminds me of her style. Love it! Great idea Tom. Thanks.🙂
Liorn is great hey!? Such a generous sharer of info and soo enthusiastic! Great to hear you enjoyed the video so much, thank you. I will checkout Bev Jozwiak, thank you :) T
Great tips and most relative. Artists produce art, not photos.
An excellent video, great to listen to the professionals, even for a relative newbie like me. I have watched videos by Liron and Paul, but the others are new to me, including you. So I'll definitely be checking out the other channels. Mind you my Watercolour TH-cam folder already has in excess of 1,000 videos in it, not that I've watched them all!
I think Liron's advice of practice, practice, practice is the way to improve at anything, not just painting. However, on TH-cam it's too easy to watch way too much stuff and do far less practice. 😅
Hi ya Mark, so glad you enjoyed it! They are a good bunch hey. Haha sounds like my "to watch" list. I totally agree, no substitute for juts getting down to it. Easy to consume far more than we practice...all though a good bit of consumption has it's place!!:) T
Interesting. One says plan, one says play. At the beginning play gave me anxiety attacks and chest pain. I needed a plan. Now when I'm blocked I play and find it very relaxing. Oh how we change along the way! Btw I am still a planner .😉
Absolutely...interesting to hear! I am a partial planner, sometimes proper planner, I do find it actual gives me the feeling of being more freedom to play when i've planned, as long s I don't feel I have to rigidly stick to the plan..balance between the two:) Thanks for a great comment! T
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You're welcome!
Yes. I love meeting artist!
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I don't paint anything like the people that were on here. The tips they gave were quick and some what helpful. The only person I already follow was Liron, he great and always bring a reason to keep at it. My only thought was that your diversity of younger/old, male female was great but they were all white. People of color paint in watercolor also. I bet in your friend group they know a few. That is all. Thanks for the heads about the podcast, it's great to listen to something interesting while you paint. Audiobooks old after a while. Cheers Thomas
Many thanks, Thomas. Yeah, love Liron and his videos. Always inspiring. Appreciate the input on more diversity. Will definitely take that onboard. Cheers, T
Thank you
Thank you !:)
Just got around to watching this video today. It’s so beautiful and inspirational, I actually wanted to cry! Haha! 🤭😅 This made me love watercolours even more! 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Wow. That’s awesome, so pleased you found it so inspiring. They are a great bunch! Thanks so much for the support ☺️🙌🏼🙏 T
This was very helpful. Each artist had a unique idea which was very beneficial. Thank you for the video.
Thanks so much...there were some great tips hey!?:) T
Loved this. It gave me direction!
Generous and inspiring sharing of tips. I loved the encouragement to ditch "rules" for the medium and play/experiment with techniques and tools.
Thanks so much, so glad you enjoyed it!
Great tips thank you 🌹
Wow thank you! Discovered a few artists that I didn’t know yet. Really inspirational. Great tips too. Going to watch this a few times over!
That’s great!! Thank you :)
I’ve only just found you and very pleased that I have Tom. Your clear style really speaks to me. I’m a lockdown learner and really grateful to all the generous artists and the wonderful tutorials on offer and have recently realised that my poorer efforts are for subjects that have no appeal for me, so Jane’s final tip is my favourite. Only paint what you are drawn to.
So pleased you are enjoying the videos! Thanks for joining the channel :) Great tip, absolutely! With so many artists and paintings to look at, I think we can all be pulled to painting what we feel we "should" and forgetting that actually we will have the most fun and success when we paint what we are most drawn to..absolutely!!:) T
Thank you, Tom, for the many helpful advice that these artists have shared. I especially thank you for your support while teaching on TH-cam to so many new artists like me. My favorite tip on this video is to know your materials and use professional grade when possible. I’ve accumulated so many things since I started painting, but have not experimented enough with them. I hope to do that now.
taking up watercolour was my covid self care fun. i have looked at a lot of beginner vids. this one is exceptional.
Oh, great choice of self care!! So glad it helps ☺️ T
What an incredibly inspiring video. All of these tips have their important place in watercolour. Thank you. Also, great choice to lead with Liron! He's a fabulous bundle of watercolour energy.
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Oh wow this was so much fun, especially since I am subscribed to 2 of these artists already. You have introduced me to many new ones. Great tips from everyone & it’s definitely interesting to hear that so many gave some of the same tips but with different takes & suggestions. Thanks for sharing this wonderful collaboration with us!
This was excellent! Glad i found your channel. Thanks
Thank you so much!!:)
Wow love this art tip show. Don’t stop, best tips I’ve ever seen. Thank you
So glad you enjoyed them!! Thank you :)
Wow, fantastic idea - I love when people realize that sharing makes you rich - and fantastic advice.👍
I just love your channel, Tom. You are a wonderful, magnanimous human and a great artist.
Thank you!
This is an awesome video. All the artists were experts and unique in their methods and outlook. The first artist is the one that set me on fire!! Get familiar with the medium!! Paint all the time! I’m in!!!
Excellent
What a great video. So nice to be introduced to other artists and hear their valuable tips. Thanks Tom😄
Thank you so much. So helpful and inspiring
So pleased to hear that...thank you:) T
Liron is a cool dude. A good man in addition to a good artist. That makes two of you Tom!
Ahh thank you!;) He is indeed. Doing amazing things for people on TH-cam. A generous sharer of good info!
So glad I found your channel! These are great tips!
What a fantastic video thank you so much!!!!
My pleasure..so glad you enjoyed it!! T
This was great..thanks to all. Their works are stunning!
Thank you so much!! Good bunch hey!?;) T
Thank you Tom for taking the time to do this. Really appreciate all the tips.
Oh this was so fun and informative! Thank you 😊
Thanks so much ☺️🙌🏼🙏
ThT was quite wonderful, thank you and those that shared their hints.
Love this. Great to find more artists and hear their tips and journeys. ❤
This is brilliant, thanks so much. 😊
Sio pleased you enjoyed it! Thank you :) T
Thank you for these great artists
My pleasure:)
This video was soooo helpful!!
Ahh I’m so pleased to hear this!!:) T
Great video thanks!
Thanks for the support ! T
Please do this again with more artists.
Thanks this was great!
Thank you :)
Precious video. ❤️
Great bunch hey! Thank you 🙌🏼🙏