How to paint a Christmas Scene in Watercolour - step by step
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- How to paint a Christmas Scene in Watercolour - step by step by professional artist Paul Clark
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I painted this 2 years ago when you first published. Did it again this weekend. There’s something about it I really like. Plus, they both were successful 😊 Thank you again.
Thanks! I’ve painted this 3 times now for gifts. Just love it.
You are so welcome! - hand thanks for the tip!
So well done... HAPPY JESUS BIRTHDAY TO YOU ALL..
Lovely. Magical. Love the dog. Glad the girl is facing away so we don’t have to try painting her face 😆
Just what I thought Sande!!!😆
@@ArtbyPaulClark OMG! I followed along and it turned out super nice (not perfect by any means). Almost threw it away after the first step - the trees in background. Glad I kept going. Thanks for the awesome lesson.
Iam watching Christmas in Spring! So Happy Spring! Thanks for another great video.
You are so welcome Margaret - Happy Springmas!
This is so pretty and relaxing to watch and the music is perfect! Love it all. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lala is just adorable. Your detail skill is impressive. I love all of your paintings. And your humour. Thank you Paul.
Thank you so much! 😀 🎄🎅🏼🌟 - I'll let Lala know!!
Hopefully your book arrives soon
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I somehow forgot my password. I would appreciate any tricks you can give me
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@Boone Jalen i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and im in the hacking process atm.
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Oh, my. this has just broken my heart. Hugs to both of you.
Thanks J - gals you enjoyed it!
Love this Mr Clark! I know it’s not a new piece but I am to your channel. I would like to thank you on the production and editing of your tutorials, someone who’s been blessed with ADD like myself needs visual assistance in learning. We’re not very academic. We learn better from seeing it and your videos are extremely helpful to me! 🍷
Delighted to help ... and agree with the not academic bit! lol!
Thank you, Pavle! It is rare that a truly professional artist shows the process of his work.
My pleasure!
I’ve just discovered your videos. Been painting 6 months and loving it but gosh so much to learn. Watching you is very inspiring. I’ll definitely be trying to follow your tutorials. Like so many others, I enjoy your humour and style of delivery. Thank you so much
Love this. I have it taped on my board to try tomorrow
Hope you enjoy Judy!!!
Amazing snow picture,
Thanks for visiting Christine!
I love your work and sense of humor, thanks!
I appreciate that Maria!
The power of the art 🖼 thanks 🙏 to share your amazing work, it’s really wonderful, and fact your paint behind you it’s amazing too .🥰
Thank you so much 😀
👏👏👏👏👏 I'm smiling 😊😊😊 the entire time! I will definitely work this one with you! Thank you!!!
You are so welcome! - thanks
Have been attempting to learn watercolor since last October. Wasn't getting very far until I discovered your channel and the drawings you so graciously supply along with your very clear instructions. I painted this scene yesterday following your instructions and it turned out better than I hoped it would. Thank you very much for all that you are doing. It is so very helpful for a senior like me who wants to learn new things.
Fantastic fun. Pleased with results. Dining room table took a pasting due over enthusiastic splattering 😊 Thanks Paul.
Glad you enjoyed it, lol!
Just completed this tutorial with a good measure of success. I'm getting the hang of how wet things have to be at different points in the process. I also went out to buy some good cadmium yellow and red. I'm so glad I did. The result would have been truly bad without them. And I saw the difference in the behavior of student grade cheap paint and pigments the level of Daniel Smith watercolors. Luckily, Paul uses a lot of cobalt blue, so my cheapo tube will run out fast and then I can justify buying a good one! LOL. Thanks you. This was fun to do and very accessible with your explanations.
Thanks Christiane - great comment!
it's so wonderful to watch you paint. I forgot how old I was. I was in the past while I watched you paint. I want to thank you for the detailed explanation of the watercolor mix. For someone like me who wants to learn as a hobby, it's so helpful. Thank you.
You are so welcome Jin!
Just painted this (most of the day) but I am beyond thrilled with the result. I learned sooo much. Thank you again Paul. My children are going to love this.
Fantastic! Love it when people are pleased with their work!!!
Aww Paul la la is absolutely a beautiful fur baby.
Ah, thanks Michelle!
that sense of humour is just great....presume Rhudolf is now home and your other half liked the present.Its 2021 and lets hope its good for everyone..Keep those lessons coming....what an asset you are . Happy Painting and regards from Tasmania Australia (previously England)
Lol Denise! Happy painting to you too in Tasmania!
You are one of the best painters I have seen on youtube. Thank you for your teachings Paul, really enjoy them.
Merry Christmas Mr. Clark thank you for everything you have no idea you touch lives and souls and i thank you myfriend your friend Panda
Thanks so much Panda ... and same to you!
In addition to your watercolor skills, I like the way you give the recipe for your beverages while you wait for the wash to dry. I am going to try this to elevate my painting skills.
Thank you so much Carole 😃
Thank you, Paul!!! This is one of my favorites of yours!!! Many happy memories... the music making me tear up. Look forward to 2023 Christmas and your Wonderful Watercolor Wednesdays! Just lovely, from the O.C. Gramma ❤
Just noticed... 198K!!! Wow! I remember when you were at 100K and the plaque you received!!! Stay warm...
Cheers Ann - yes I remember when I got my first 100 sub! - celebrated with a glass of wine!
Glad you enjoyed it
I've only just started watching your videos, now I'm hooked...
Great to hear Michael many thanks
Good morning Paul, whereever you are. 🙂 Riet from the Netherlands here. Thank you very much for your excellent teachings on watercolor and for the possibillity of downloading your drawings. I am learning a lot about mixing colors and the several technics for painting. I'll keep on following you. Have a nice day.
Thank you Riet - you too!
You are in Norway. This is how I travel these days. Thank you, Paul.
My Pleasure Carole!!!
Paul, I have been so very fortunate to have enjoyed your tutorials now for 6 months and I have learned so much. I decided to send my loved ones hand painted Christmas cards this year and I remembered this painting as one of my favorites. This will be my very first card, please wish me luck!! 👩🦳🖌️🎄
I mustered the courage to do this painting. Only, I left Lala out since I was not confident of drawing her and I did not want to trace. I posted my finished work on some of the art groups on Facebook and what a tremendous response I received. I am so overwhelmed. This had definitely given me the confidence to go on....Thank you Paul!
Wonderful Ritu so pleased it helped - and I won't mention it to Lala you left her out!!!!
Love this one. Hoping to try this in the not too distant future. Thank you
Have fun Nancy!!
Your videos are great because I am learning the fine points about mixing paints.
Happy to hear that Carole!!
How beautiful! I love your paintings.
Many thanks 😊
What a beautiful winter scene! Magical!
Thanks Marianna!!!
Hi, I’m astonished with your beautiful work and attitude! Thank you!!!
My pleasure 👍
Such a beautiful painting! I've watched a handful of your videos now and am nearly ready to give one a go. I really appreciate your giving percentages for mixing pigment to pigmemt and pigment to water. That's a hard thing for me and I imagine other beginners to grasp. You give hope and encouragement to combat the frustration, thank you!!!
My pleasure Raina 😊
J’adore ! Je vais essayer de le faire ! Merci pour cette démo remarquable avec une mise en scène féerique !
Merci aussi Jocelyne!
I am a complete beginner at art and cant thank you enough for the absolutely fantastic tutorials you kindly share...so good that even I am pleased with the results of (most) of my feeble efforts. It’s all down to you, Paul, you are a born teacher, funny and talented! Thank you, thank you, thank you for making Lockdown a great experience 🤩
Happy to help Rebecca!!
It's like magic. You have shown and explained everything but the end result still amazed me. Thanks Paul.
Glad you enjoyed it
Love this painting. It adds full person. The shading on the clothing is great to learn from. Like to see more of this full person in paintings. Also, in the fall, some paintings that can be used for Christmas cards? We can all send out homemade cards! Maybe Santa could be one! Ho ho ho. Thank you for your teaching.
Lori from Indiana
Thank you! Cheers! here is the link to my channel, lots of of your suggestions here: ruclips.net/channel/UCC2uMZ7qWrsCUorYdZbi8OA
I really enjoyed this. It doesn’t look exactly like yours but I’m pleased with the end result. I’ve learned so much. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
My pleasure Joan!
what a wonderful tutorial, Paul! and your sense of humour is great!
Thank you Kindly Irina 😀 🎄🎅🏼🌟
What a wonderful lesson!
Glad you think so!
Truly beautiful painting which gives one the spirit of Christmas and truly a quality educational tutorial that we all are blessed with . Thank You Truly
Thank you so much 😀
@@ArtbyPaulClark Paul you teach so well and are gifted with that talent which truly is a blessing to us cyber want to be artists... so grateful I found your site thank you for your thoughtful reply Happy New Year !
Your painting triggered memories of this haunting poem I had way back in school - "Lucy Gray" by William Wordsworth. A para from that
"To-night will be a stormy night,
You to the Town must go,
And take a lantern, Child, to light
Your Mother thro' the snow."
Loved your painting!
Love that thanks for sharing 👍
That just made me so happy.
Many thanks!
A wonderful creation, I'm glad, to have found you...💛🙏.
Thank you so much!
Paul. To say I really appreciate this painting would be a huge understatement. You captured the spirit of the season, the energy of youth and the happiness of having a dog as a companion on the adventure in the snow... Thank You for another outstanding tutorial! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family!
P. S. I think that sweater edged out the Beach shirt, Monk habit and a Werewolf to win the wardrobe Oscar😂🤣😂 Stay Frosty!
Cheers as ever - yup it's a good sweater - bought from the market!!! - Happy Christmas thingy to you too!!! 🌲😂
Always a JOY watching you create these fantastic paintings...!!
Thank you so much 😀
incredibly beautiful. I know immediately what I'll do tonight. Amazing
Great stuff Marco - go for it!!!
Outstanding Paul. Thank you for all your paintings through out this year, they have certainly made life easier during these horrible times. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Happy holidays! You too Allen - and thanks for your continuing support! - 🎄🎅🏼🌟
I love it. Thank you so much Paul and Layla. What a lovely card. I hope I can do it justice. Merry Christmasto you. I
I hope you enjoyed painting this as much as I enjoyed watching it. ;-)
You make the most beautiful of the paintings look ridiculously easy to paint.
Thank you so much 😀
Couldn't wait to try this. Did it as a Christmas card for me Mum! Turned out fairly successful for my skills. She loved it! Even more after I explained the brownish blob was a dog.... She does Love Dogs🤣Thanks again Paul!
Lol - you really make me laugh!!! - thanks again for all your support!! 🎄🎅🏼🌟
@@ArtbyPaulClark I'm glad. Cause there's this guy. Paints amazingly. Makes videos to share his talents..... And every video he makes us all laugh. He's a crack up. Dresses nice too
Did this one twice I liked it so much!
Delighted to hear!
Wow! Thanks so much. Your painting and music provided me with an incredible sense of peace! Thanks for the lesson!
So Glad to help Dorothy!!!
Love, love, love, this painting. Thank you Paul. Can’t wait to try it.
Hope you enjoy it!
Just painted this and am astounded how well it worked. Thank you!
Fantastic Fiona! so pleased you had a go!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this! We don't get much snow here in Alabama but there is something magical about it when it's first falling. The hush as it blankets the ground in white is a beautiful thing... Beautiful!!
You are so kind - thanks a bunch Shirley!!! 🌲❄️ - not too much snow here in Sussex either!!
Thank you Mr Clark. I really love this painting, and watching you doing these, are always meditative. I am not there yet, but perhaps I can paint something likely for Christmas. Your snow fall, was one of your better splats ever. I always laugh, when it comes to "splatting". As an old swede, this reminds me of Jenny Nyströms paintings, that we are so familiar with. They becomes popular every Christmas since many, many years. Now, I begin to know how she may have done them. I could have swore on that this was one of her's. I am so impressed of your skills, so hundreds of thanks for your tutorials. I miss alizarin crimson, but uses W&N permanent carmin, and orange, and sometimes yellow, and violet for mixing red. I also miss raw sienna, but uses ochre, and raw umber, burnt sienna, burnt umber for mixing such. It looses some transparency sometimes. Do you think I should get alizarin crimson? In swedish it was called "krapplack" and were made from bugs.
Many years ago, I painted furnitures and wood-crafts in home made "egg-oil temperas" by grinding pigments with either linseed oil, or tempera, and I did not see much difference by the "gold ochre" and the "raw sienna", though the sienna just was some slightly more brown, so I did not buy that anymore. A little hint of burnt ochre, and it was there anyway.
The raw umber then, was quite green, and very usable, but at W&N it is just medium brown. I happen to love the earth colours, and uses them as far they reach, before using the chemical made.
I miss "earth green", that is a subtile grey/green somewhat darker than olives, very burnt ochres like "english red", and "caput-mortum", that looks like ox-blood turning into violet.
All those pigments was sold for wall paints, outdoor/indoor many years ago, and was not of the finest milled, but it is doable, and I have tried them in oil, tempera, and acrylics, and they works.
The stay stable for light many years even outdoors. Watercolors uses gum-arabicum as a binder, and for me it sounds no worse than making an oilpaint, or tempera.. Have you ever tried such?
Sometimes granulating is preferable, also. Warm greetings.
Wow!!!! - warm greetings to you too Bjorn and thanks for sharing this great comment!
This scene reminds me very much of Carl Larsson's paintings. It was so wonderful to be able to see your work in progress! Thank you!
Thank you so much! - a huge compliment!!!
This is so fun. Just started and feeling confident! Thank you
You are so welcome!
Thank you very much Paul for giving your time to us. I have just bought your three brushes and look forward to using them soon. Keep up the good work and once again I am very grateful to you for all the help you have given me. Mary.
I'm really impressed with your painting. I'm from Malaysia.
Hiya from Malaysia!
This has to one one of my favorites!!!!! Merry Christmas from Michigan!
Amazing brush control! Thank you for all the details as to which colors you are using. ALSO thank you for remembering that some of us are total beginners.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this little walk in a fantasywinterworld
Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy,creative New Year to youPaul
Same to you!
Thanks a lot, Paul.
My pleasure Francisco!!!
Wow, absolutely charming and beautiful. I'm fairly new to watercolor but I would like to give this a go one day.
You should Pixie!!
Another great one! Can you do some more on adding people and doing their clothing please? Love the sweater and love Lala more! Whoever picks those shirts/sweaters for you are doing a good job too!!!!
Thanks Barbara - pick the shirts me self!
Paul I really love this one!!!!! Thank you for teaching us how to achieve snow. So pretty
Thanks so much 😊
Love LaLa. Thank you for this fabulous tutorial
Thanks so much 😊
I am trying this now....can/t wait!! Hopefully it turns out half as nice as yours!!
I hope so too! - go for it Susan!
I've looked at lots of videos for painting over the years, but never have I seen such a generous man as you Paul Clark. To allow people to trace your images and then paint along with you is truly mind blowing (for me in any event). I loved the girl and Lala and am setting up my kitchen bench to paint this scene right now. Thank you so much. May the blessings of Christmas be yours.
Wow, thank you Alain - delighted to hear you are having a go!!!
That’s so lovely…thank you
I love watching you paint! What a great Christmas scene! I’m going to try it.
Thanks so much Mary 😀 🎄🎅🏼🌟
Bravo!!!! 😊
it’s a lovely painting, i thought the. cobalt blue when it hit the yellow ochre green would come out....enjoy your painting so much, thank you ❤️
Thank you! Cheers Sharon!!
It seems so easy when you do it, but it is not. I am hypnotized!! The armosphere you create is so special. I love your paintings and Lala the dog!!
Ahh! So nice of you to say!
Thanks greatly Paul for sharing your talent in painting of a girl and your faithful friend, enjoyed the video and hopefully one day I can send my impression. Greatly appreciated stay safe and healthy
You too Philip - and thanks for your continuing support! - 🎄🎅🏼🌟
The magic of Christmas perfectly captured, Paul! Merry Christmas to you and yours and to Lala! Thank you for all the hard work you do to create these very helpful and beautiful tutorials. 🎄🎅🏼🌟❄
Happy holidays! You too Gina - and thanks for your continuing support! - 🎄🎅🏼🌟❄
Incredible , amazing seems like I have hooked on to your paintings as if I am watching some series on Netflix.. Haha .. very beautiful paintings ..
Thank you so much Vivek - Netflix coming soon!!! 😀
@@ArtbyPaulClark haha I am looking forward to it ..
cannot thank you enough.. tried few of your paintings turned out quiet good , with practice I think I will improve .. really appreciate you efforts and techniques🙏🏻🙏🏻
Beautiful! Personally I prefer the muted shadows and suggested details to the darker additions but that’s just me. And probably because I couldn’t do it anywhere as good as you! 😁
Oh thank you!
Wonderful painting and clear explanation......everything is there😊. Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much 😀
What a delightful scene! Thank you for a well paced, clear tutorial!
Glad it was helpful Niranjana!!!
Ohhhhhh! The light effect is so good! Now I understand what I was doing wrong when painting similar situations (candles, lanterns, etc.). Thank you!
You are so welcome!
That is incredible! Wow!
Cheers!
Simply amazing🌺, I loved this painting, uplifting and warm, extraordinary yet simple and it gives a learner much inspiration to try it , ... nice instructions step by step again informative and succinct..... I loved the greeting at the start🌼👍🏼welcoming the season’s brightness and cheer🙏🏼loved the doggy, I too have a Jack Russel called Milly ( 8 months old), thank you for sharing Paul🌸
Thank you so much Jeannette - fantastic comment - cheers!!! 😀
You inspire me! Thank you so much for sharing your talent!
You are so welcome Kathy!
Very lovely! Thank you Paul. Just like Christmas,magical!
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Paul I know this was at Christmas but I love it so much I am going to do it again, I love it, thanks so much for all you share, ☀☀☀
You are so welcome
You are a wonderful teacher
Thank you Heena!😃
This is an utterly charming painting. Thank you, Paul, for sharing your skills and technique with us. Margaret, Devon.
You are very welcome
This is what I have painted for my Christmas card this year (I have credited you on the back of the cards for the original). Thank you so much for the pdf and the very clear demonstration, it's why I love your channel so much.
You are so welcome! - thanks!
I love your art and very much appreciate the templates you provide. Thank you.
Glad you like them Lori - cheers!!
I am so grateful to have found your videos. I have learned so much from you, and your sense of humour is so refreshing, as so many other watercolour tutorials get a bit dull.
If I could ask Santa for one thing, it would be a video on painting different types and textures of fur. I could really use some guidance for my pet portraits!
You are so welcome Ashley and welcome - yup got some animals coming soon!!! !
@@ArtbyPaulClark How exciting!
Чудесно, сказочно красиво! Ваше творчество подарило праздник и сказку. Вы не только великолепный художник, но и классный актер! А собачка- просто прелесть!!!
Большое спасибо и счастлив, что я дам знать собаке!
@@ArtbyPaulClark )) and, of course, Lala will be happy to star in your new video tutorials and serve as a model for your new masterpieces more than once !!!
That was wonderful, Thanks Paul .
Cheers Ravi!
Thank you very much for your time, art, passion and love. I’m very new to watercolor and painting in general. I started after thanksgiving and you inspire me so much. I’ve tried to paint some of your paintings and I love them all❤️
You are so welcome! - glad to be of help!
Lola , i'm fall in love 😍
Your painting, what to say? absolutely gorgeous
Thank you! Cheers Barbara! 🎄🎅🏼🌟!