Thanks to TH-cam algorithms, I just "found" you and immediately subscribed. Water control is the most difficult part of watercolor to teach. Your stellar explanation (good on ya, mate!) of how to actually use the bottle properly is a prime example of excellent teaching. So many others just state. "Spray your paper to keep it wet" w/o explaining technique. Thanks ever so much for sharing your knowledge and talents with the world! BTW, we are in the US, but watch foreign content nearly exclusively. Loved the Aussie ones, "A Place to Call Home", "My Life is Murder", "Jack Irish" and many others.
Water, water everywhere but nary a lesson like this. Understanding how the water reacts is challenging, maybe because it's invisible. Using the tinted spray was invaluable. Thanks.
Thank you, Joe! Excellent way to illustrate where the water droplets go -- I'm excited to give the spray bottle a go again, after so many uneven attempts :)
This is the first time I’ve seen an explanation of how to use a spray bottle correctly. I’ve tried using a spray bottle and always got the big droplets in areas I didn’t want them. Thank you so much!
Another good tip I saw on TH-cam is to wet the back and front of your paper. It gives you much more time to work on background washes. (I saw it on Matthew White's YT channel).
Wetting the front has its application too, but I rarely do that as you then can't create the dry brush effects I use when painting my clouds as in this video: th-cam.com/video/ZEZJiGu4pZs/w-d-xo.html
Great lesson Joe, must admit I'm guilty of making all :( of the mistakes you mentioned, so I have lots to practice, but thanks so much for showing me ( and no doubt others as well) what I have been doing wrong. Cheers.
I watched a similar tutorial on another channel the other day, but this one was far more helpful in terms of technique, I have enough confidence in what I should be doing to give it a go now
Thanks for the very helpful video. 🙏 I too have made a lot of those mistakes.😊 I recently purchased a must spray bottle for the hairdresser store. It has a great mist. Now I know how to use it.👍
Brilliant technical video in layman's terms. I've seen an artist use a hairdressers misting bottle, a little more expensive but it holds more water and is easier to use especially if you have hand problems. Thanks for the vision of you in stockings 🤣 LOL
A hairdresser's misting bottle would be great. Glad you liked the video. Took me a while to figure out an easy to understand explaination without getting into the science of it all. Sorry about the stockings vision. :-)
Wonderful lesson again, Joe! You are an amazing teacher. I would have never thought to use the spray bottle perpendicular to the paper! At 11:48 did you mask the brown islands before painting the water or did you just paint around them?
Sir, You prewet the watercolor paper on the back and the front. Is there a difference in prewetting when using 300lb paper as compared to your prewetting 140lb papers in your videos? Thank you. Regards, Richard
I mostly just pre-wet the back. And yes, 300lb paper will take twice as much wetting at 140 lb paper. You wet till the paper sits very flat on your board, but is not wet on the front (except for special occassions). The demonstration in this video was done before I started wetting the back of my watercolor paper.
It has been very helpful. However, I have a question. Suppose the background painting is finished and you want to continue painting on the foreground, by keeping it wet using the spray bottle , would you not spoil the background?
If the background is dry, just cover it with a piece of paper while working on the foreground - if you will be working on the foreground for a long time. If the background is dry and you will only be working on the foreground for a little while then you may not even need to cover the background as the "totally" dry paint should not be affected. Try it out on an old failed painting first.
@@melbillmc Yes, I sell the pallete for $60 Australian dollars, plus postage. They take quite a bit of work, as the paint surface has to be specially sealed to minimize staining.
Love your videos. Very instructive and you cover subjects that are so important to success but that are seldom explained! Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Thanks to TH-cam algorithms, I just "found" you and immediately subscribed. Water control is the most difficult part of watercolor to teach. Your stellar explanation (good on ya, mate!) of how to actually use the bottle properly is a prime example of excellent teaching. So many others just state. "Spray your paper to keep it wet" w/o explaining technique. Thanks ever so much for sharing your knowledge and talents with the world! BTW, we are in the US, but watch foreign content nearly exclusively. Loved the Aussie ones, "A Place to Call Home", "My Life is Murder", "Jack Irish" and many others.
Hi Joy,
Glad you are enjoying my videos. Thank you for the feedback.
Water, water everywhere but nary a lesson like this. Understanding how the water reacts is challenging, maybe because it's invisible. Using the tinted spray was invaluable. Thanks.
Glad you found it helpful. Yes, it took me a while to think up the tinted spray. Glad it did the trick.
Thank you, Joe! Excellent way to illustrate where the water droplets go -- I'm excited to give the spray bottle a go again, after so many uneven attempts :)
Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your spray bottle when you try it again. :-)
@@JoeCartwright That's right -- "WHEN" and no longer "IF" !
@@snowytom Good to hear.
Best video on water for watercolorist !! Thanks Joe, you are always AMAZING !!
Thank you so much 😀
This is the first time I’ve seen an explanation of how to use a spray bottle correctly. I’ve tried using a spray bottle and always got the big droplets in areas I didn’t want them. Thank you so much!
You are so welcome!
Brilliant, that’s why I’ve been getting cauliflowers. I’ve not seen or noticed the technique before. Thanks v much👏.
You’re welcome 😊Glad it helped clarify things.
An extremely well explained, useful tip. Thank you!
You're very welcome!It took me a while to work out just how to demonstrate the various effects. Glad you liked it.
Another good tip I saw on TH-cam is to wet the back and front of your paper. It gives you much more time to work on background washes. (I saw it on Matthew White's YT channel).
Wetting the front has its application too, but I rarely do that as you then can't create the dry brush effects I use when painting my clouds as in this video: th-cam.com/video/ZEZJiGu4pZs/w-d-xo.html
@@JoeCartwright OK, thanks for the info. I'll try the spray bottle.
@@jameswburke Good luck. It takes a little practice but once you get the hang of it, it will be a very useful tool in your watercolor arsenal.
@@JoeCartwright Thanks Joe
very nice tip, i havn't seen it talked about by anyone. Thank you very much for the lesson!
Glad it was helpful!
Great lesson Joe, must admit I'm guilty of making all :( of the mistakes you mentioned, so I have lots to practice, but thanks so much for showing me ( and no doubt others as well) what I have been doing wrong. Cheers.
Glad it was helpful!
This was a revelation!
Glad it was of help!
You are an excellent teacher. Thankyou.
Thank you! 😃
Thank you again for such a generous sharing of your experience, very much appreciated, sir!
My pleasure!
Thank you Joe for explaining this , now I know where I have been going wrong for so long. Love how you explain things so well on your videos.
You are so welcome, glad it was of hellp!
Very helpful! Thanks so much! My colors look much better now.
You are so welcome! Very happy to hear it was of help!
I’m learning a lot from your channel! Thank you !
Happy to hear that!
I watched a similar tutorial on another channel the other day, but this one was far more helpful in terms of technique, I have enough confidence in what I should be doing to give it a go now
Glad it was helpful!
You always have such informative and very helpful tutorials. Love this one. I learned a lot
.thanks joe
Glad you are enjoying them Kathryn. Thanks for watching.
Wow, this was truly a wondrous thing... Very interesting
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent scientific art lesson.Thanks
Thank you, it was an interesting challenge explaining the science in a non-scientific way! :-)
Thank you for showing how to spray bottle
Appreciated
My pleasure 😊
Thanks for the very helpful video. 🙏 I too have made a lot of those mistakes.😊 I recently purchased a must spray bottle for the hairdresser store. It has a great mist. Now I know how to use it.👍
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you much needed practice this skill
Good to hear.
Great work. Regards✨
Many thanks!
Brilliant technical video in layman's terms. I've seen an artist use a hairdressers misting bottle, a little more expensive but it holds more water and is easier to use especially if you have hand problems. Thanks for the vision of you in stockings 🤣 LOL
A hairdresser's misting bottle would be great. Glad you liked the video. Took me a while to figure out an easy to understand explaination without getting into the science of it all. Sorry about the stockings vision. :-)
Thank you
Welcome!
감사합니다 많은 도움이됩니다 from Seoul ^^
You are very welcome.
Thank you .
You are welcome!
Wonderful lesson again, Joe! You are an amazing teacher. I would have never thought to use the spray bottle perpendicular to the paper! At 11:48 did you mask the brown islands before painting the water or did you just paint around them?
Glad it was helpful! I painted around the islands. Though now I would probably mask them to make my job a lot easier! 😊
Really difficult to just mist
It just takes practice and observation.
Sir,
You prewet the watercolor paper on the back and the front. Is there a difference in prewetting when using 300lb paper as compared to your prewetting 140lb papers in your videos?
Thank you.
Regards,
Richard
I mostly just pre-wet the back. And yes, 300lb paper will take twice as much wetting at 140 lb paper. You wet till the paper sits very flat on your board, but is not wet on the front (except for special occassions). The demonstration in this video was done before I started wetting the back of my watercolor paper.
It has been very helpful. However, I have a question. Suppose the background painting is finished and you want to continue painting on the foreground, by keeping it wet using the spray bottle , would you not spoil the background?
If the background is dry, just cover it with a piece of paper while working on the foreground - if you will be working on the foreground for a long time. If the background is dry and you will only be working on the foreground for a little while then you may not even need to cover the background as the "totally" dry paint should not be affected. Try it out on an old failed painting first.
@@JoeCartwright Thank you so much for the advice. All the more, it was so prompt.
I like that palette. Do you recall the brand?
I designed it myself and printed it on a 3D printer. :-)
@@JoeCartwright wow! I love it so much!
@@JoeCartwright do you sell them at all?
@@melbillmc Yes, I sell the pallete for $60 Australian dollars, plus postage. They take quite a bit of work, as the paint surface has to be specially sealed to minimize staining.
@@JoeCartwright how do I order?