10 Tips for Large Watercolor Painting
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Hi there, Liron here!
In today’s vid, I’ll provide you with 10 useful tips for painting BETTER larger watercolors.
Often, the more you increase the size, the more complex the process turns.
There are some best practices & nuances, that by following - you’ll make the process WAY easier for yourself.
So here they are!
00:00 - Big Watercolor Painting & Challenges
01:07 - 1. Paint Easy Subjects
02:06 - 2. Drawing - Use a Structured Method
03:34 - 3. Supersize Everything
04:15 - 4. Mix a Lot in Advance
05:55 - 5. It’s ok to Work in Small Areas
06:32 - 6. Place the Paper at an Angle
06:58 - 7. Don’t Tape the Paper
08:14 - 8. Multiple Glazes over Thick Layers
09:12 - 9. Take a Break!
11:12 - 10. Trust the Process
13:41 - Check out my Courses 😊🙏🏼
- Liron
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Its great. The hand and forearm is especially fantastic to look at.
I love this large self portrait. It's very good. Good tips too.
You have given a lot of good advice. However there’s one personal observation on how to get the drawing on the large paper. I have devoted almost 30 decades to learn how to draw. Tracing a drawing has so little value to help develop our drawing skills. Knowing that I can do an 8”x10” (inches), or a 10’x20’(feet) drawing gives me a feeling of freedom and control and creativity seems to flow with ease, huge pluses. Drawing should be an essential skill to develop, at any scale or art size. I did only oils, now I’m devoted to only learning watercolors. Your videos have been of great help. Making this new journey much more enjoyable. Thank you and congratulations for the good job you do!
agreed, though tracing can still be very valuable. allow me to explain. when you sketch on canvas before painting in oils, you do not need to be super cautious or careful, as the paint will cover your sketch. with watercolor - unless you are a drawing savant, capable of sketching without having to do any corrections at all right away? you are going to adjust, erase, etc... and THAT both damages the watercolor paper and tends to show through transparent washes. and that is where tracing really comes in handy. I no longer sketch directly on watercolor paper when it comes to longer form paintings. (I still do direct practice sketches and plein air, but when drawing from photo reference? nope). I do a sketch on drawing or sketch paper the same size as my final drawing and once that sketch is nice and good to go, all of the placement and corrections done? I trace it via lightbox onto my actual watercolor paper. it helps soooooo much to preserve the paper sizing etc. and.. this also means you can do a digital sketch or scan a sketch in and trace it via Liron's methods.
@@Forgefaerie I always trace onto water color paper for the same reason. I will occasionally trace straight from my photo as well- which still carries a stigma, but catching a likeness in a portrait is almost impossible otherwise no matter how well I’ve learned to draw hands, fingers and faces…😅
Fantastic self portrait study. Really liked the atmosphere you created in the painting.
Thank you so much!! From the 💜
Excellent tips and a Fabulous painting Liron 🖼 🎨🙌👍👏🙋
Thank you!! You gave me all the answers I was looking for. My biggest takeaway is using a TV for tracing. It never occured to me. And I would love to add to your point 7. An inexpensive MDF Board of 9 mm or 11mm thickness can be used as a base to tape the paper. That way we have the flexibility to move around the painting, propping it up in angle. Its lightweigh. It can be put over a smaller work desk too. Thanks again!!
Great suggestion for the board!
I use these a lot for smaller works, but it may work well for large ones too 😁
Nice self portrait, well done :) One tip: using larger brushes for larger areas
Thanks for the advice Liron, you’ve confirmed some of the “mistakes” I made in my large paintings (same size arches paper). I’m keen to re-do them and see the results. Good stuff!
fabulous and extremely helpful. I am very appreciative for the time you spend sharing your experience. Thank you so much.
I’ve always dreamt about painting big watercolors! Thank you for all these great tips - definitely going to give it a try
Thought it was a photo. It's great. You should be very proud of your accomplishment. Your growing in leaps and bounds. Wow.
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Great idea about taping it to the TV!
I've painted a few large paintings of half sheet and one full sheet. The full sheet I clipped to a gatorboard and put on my large stand up easel. It was very exciting but ended up as a disaster. I know now what I did wrong after watching your video. Thanks for the advice......will be trying it again sometime.
I've been needing to try larger paintings
So Liron I am new to your channel and am so happy to follow you and subscribe. I plan on going thru most all of your videos. I like the absolute honesty you bring to your viewers and now myself. I need the pushing and prodding to be creative and not be fearful. I am not the greatest sketcher but I draw well, I am a decent artist but I just want to be better at watercolor. I want to create all the time. Your channel when I came upon it spoke directly to me. I am so happy to have found your channel and I feel like you are a real artist who is speaking to the common everyday person who just wants to create and have something to show for the effort. Thank you I am just grateful for finding you.
Great tips! I’m not yet ready for a large painting yet- but someday!!
Nice!
What a great self-study!! Excellent painting👌🏻.. thanks for the tips, someday I will tackle a large painting, and will keep all your advices in mind 😃.
Thank you, Liron! A friend challenged me to do a 22"x40" watercolor painting since I've been working with 9"x12" at the largest. I've been very hesitant to go large format because I just don't know how, but now I've got the general idea, and I'm ready to "waste" a full sheet that's been waiting for nearly a year.
Yesss 💪💪 Go for it!
The first one’s always going to be challenging (and very teaching too), so get it out of the way haha
Love your painting
Larger watercolor paintings have been discussed on some of your live feeds, and I am happy to see you doing one to share what you have learned and know with us! I really don't have plans to work that large, but there was enough information here to save the video for a future reference. Your passion for creating watercolor paintings is very inspiring!
Wow- great painting!!! I always do a grid on drawing paper and then trace the the finished drawing onto the watercolor paper- less erasing. I also trace from my screen sometimes- no good drawing can make a good painting and no good painting can come from a bad drawing😇. Thanks for all your teaching!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I still messing up “happy painting 🤣” washes on a 9x12 , hopefully with practice and time I will improve 🤭
I appreciated the tips. I am painting one that is a 14 x 18 a lots of detail. We will see what happens. Hey I didn’t know that you had a twin!
Your videos are so good! Your tips and demos are so helpful! And watching your videos has helped me to not be as tense when I’m painting! Thank you!
So glad I can help that way! 😊🙏🏼
Wow Liron! You really captured your likeness! I especially like how your use of edges prevents the dark areas from looking homogeneous (something I struggle with). Great work!
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I’m actually working on a large painting for the 1st time and intuitively dis a lot of the things you mentioned. Wish I had seen this before. I’m half way through and will integrate these ideas into my work. I may try to send it to you, if that’s ok? ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ your work!!!!!!
My watercolor teacher wants me to paint a2 watercolors with complex subjects (like David head on a chair, with a glass of wine, torn grapefruit and a vase of dry roses standing on the floor). No watercolor paper could stand so much drawing, so I had to invent a process. Thank you, I used some of your tips. I print black and white photo of the still life in a5. I separate it in 4 parts with lines to understand what and how is positioned to the center and then I draw it all on full size drawing paper. When I am happy with it, I trace it to the watercolor paper. Quite a process, but I enjoy the ride.
Amazing! Now that’s creative 😁Finding out and developing your own process always pays off
wow. but what is a2 and a5?
@@happyfarmer979 paper sizes standard in Europe. A2 is 16.5 x 23.4 inches, a5 5.8 x 8.3 inches
Thank you, Liron! Your advices are always useful and wise, who knows what's in the future {my biggest painting is about a4 now)
Thanks for helpful tips. Good you weren’t limited by board size & the paper turned out pretty flat. As usual you inspire me!
I’ve never done larger than half sheet. Usually florals so not as demanding in terms of accuracy & realism. When I think I’ll need to do a lot of trial & error I’ll draw on a sheet of drawing paper same size as my watercolour paper; once I am satisfied I use graphite transfer paper to transfer my own drawing to watercolour paper…but those graphite lines are very unforgiving even when I’ve already reused it multiple times. I guess I don’t have a light enough touch but I’ve heard there is a brand that lifts out better but not carried by my preferred local store, yet, but I’d love to know the name of the manufacturer of this product.
I place or tape my paper on a sheet of White Correx Plastic Polypropylene Fluted Display Board. It's lightweight and non-porous (wetting the board will keep your paper wet for longer), sizes A4-A1 (plus I think some suppliers cut to order), you can get away with using thinner paper too. If you want white borders just tape the paper edges.
Nice! Now I only have to figure out how to get one of these 😁😅
@@LironYan I got mine from Amazon, but stationers, craft stores and display companies probably supply them. Hope this helps.
That is a nice painting. Thank you for the tips. I have tried a couple, half of that size, and do not look too good.
Hey, what a nice self portrait! I just bought a board for painting on full imperial sheets last week. I have been having a lot of fun painting on half sheets and wanted to double down :)
That’s awesome 😁😁
Thank you Liron , I love the painting , your advice is so true and one day I hope to try larger paper , still working on 5x8 lol
Amazing tips and tricks. I already use a few of these but now I have a few more to try out.. one love
Hi Lion. To save countless hours of free drawing (and unfortunately erasing on delicate watercolor paper) take your reference photo to a copy store and have it enlarged to desired size in black and white. Place the xerox over the watercolor paper and use graphite paper between the xerox and the paper. Using a ballpoint pen that has run out of ink GENTLY trace the large shapes and general details. One now has a great initial drawing that needs only some minor corrections and final details drawn in. The graphite will easily erase so only faint reference lines will remain so they won’t be seen in the finished painting.
Great suggestions! May consider it for a future process (:
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have you ever done a Gaouche demonstration?
Not yet, I don’t know how to use gouache 😅
@@LironYan Just look at the TH-cam videos.
Really wonderful selfie. How long would your painting have taken you? Also thanks again. I Value your tips and wish I’d seen this yesterday before trying my first largish painting. 14” x 11” . However happy with my subject a sun-drenched, white wash Turkish building with lots of blue sky. I certainly should have mixed up more blue and grey paint prior. I agonised over the drawing to get the architecture angles right and think I got them and the aspect, so that time paid off. Stepping back always helps me. I’ve previously made use of graphite paper I made myself out of necessity with nothing available in the little village. Made it larger than what I’ve seen for larger duplications of my own drawings. Transferring well to my watercolour paper using a tiny little ball point tracing tool from the craft store. I agree grid can get tedious.
Da Vinci eye app…. For creating bigger artwork? iPhone 8 or higher.
I have a lot of trouble with that app. I’ve used it for smaller bits inside of a half sheet painting but never figured out how to use it for bigger areas.
@@happyfarmer979 I searched “Da Vinci Eye App” on TH-cam. There’s a video about a mural maker…..I’ve not got an upgrade to iPhone 8 or better, so I’ve not tried it at all yet….link a iPhone to an iPad…
Yeah I also never got it to work for me 😅😅 I have an iphone 12 I believe, and for some reason it’s really hard to upscale things. But I didn’t yet watch any guide / tutorial, so I’m probably missing something (: