Poured Watercolours with Catherine Martha Holmes
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Join Catherine Martha Holmes as she walks you through the process behind her most recent poured watercolour - 'My Dear Old Friend.' A portrait of her Husky/Shepherd.
A step by step approach to poured watercolour. Update: Please note I will soon be adding a transcript of the captions no longer showing when this video is viewed on external devices. Sorry for the inconvenience. (Glove tip - Rob Howard - The Illustrator's Bible).
To view more of my poured watercolour paintings please visit:
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A lot of work and it's stunning.
Wow! This is cool…..rainbow dog! Love it❤️
Beautiful! And what a beautiful dog!!!
Thank you kindly!
I love this painting. I've watched the video several times and would love to see more videos by you.
Thank you Heather, I hope you have been inspired to pour some of your own watercolour paintings!
Wow!!! This is amazing. The title that you gave the painting brings tears to my eyes. Just lovely. You are a wonderful teacher as well.
Thank you for your kind words Pam! I am so glad you enjoyed this video and title of my painting! He truly was the dearest dog! I am so glad I did this painting of him. I did two in fact. You can see that painting and others on my wordpress site: catherinemarthaholmes.wordpress.com/illustrations/
I very much enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you kindly!
I am a water colour beginner and this is way beyond me but I love your work and find it so inspiring. Please make many more wonderful videos.
Thank you for your kind words Victoria - try your hand at a small poured watercolour - 4" X 4" - you will quickly get the hang of it I'm sure! The step by step process can be found on my blog! Just have fun with it - begin by preserving your lightest values first and work from there...let me know how it goes!
You have inspired my inner artist . . .thank you!💕
That is super to hear! You are most welcome and thank you!!! Let me know how your pouring goes! :)
Wow, very clever and beautiful.
Thank you Fran!
Love it! Great upload Catherine. So glad I found your channel. Big thumbs up from one creator to another :)Jen
Thank you kindly Jen, I look forward to watching your videos - Amazing Soaps! Wow! Big thumbs up to you as well! :)
Excellent instruction and demonstration. Thank you.
You are most welcome Joycelin, I'm so glad it was helpful. Thank you for your kind words!
I'm a traditional watercolorist looking for new ideas, so I'm glad I get to try yours. :)
Super Joycelin - it is a mighty fun process! Let me know how it goes! A wonderful book on this technique is called 'Pouring Light' by Jean Grastorf - I found out about it after I learned the process through trial and error - her book is lovely, a must have for your library!
Oh nice! Thank you. I will look for the book. I just tried setting up a piece of my own which I will attempt your tools to. :)
You have incredible patience.
Thanks Elizabeth, it is the sort of process you can really take your time with!
great work. great talent.
Thank you kindly Twils!
THAT WAS EXCELLENT LOVED IT THANKS
Thank you Doreen. It is a very fun way to paint/pour!
Lovely video, thanks for sharing. There is a lot of skill in choosing which areas to mask when. Any tips? Do you hide the highlight first and then go on to hide medium light areas, and then at the end the darker areas. There by building your darkest values in the darkest part of the panting. If this makes sense.
Hi Music Music, yes you have it exactly right. Preserve your highlights, your lightest values first(then pour colour) then preserve your light to middle values(then pour colour), then preserve middle to dark values(then pour colour) then usually your final pour of colour creates your darkest value, for there is not much paper exposed by this point. That said I have done four pours of colour. Keep in mind that if your final colour is very dark you must be careful removing the drawing gum as there are many layers of paint that might be dragged into your lighter areas when using your crepe eraser when removing the drawing gum. Remember to experiment with this there are no hard and fast rules, you will find your own style. Have fun!
Very beautiful. Are you still painting this style? How many layers of masking fluid was this? This is just amazing. Thank you so much for sharing!!!
Hi Judith, thank you for your kind words about my painting - I still paint in this style whenever I can and hold workshops to share what I have learned along the way. I believe I applied four layers of masking fluid to complete this painting. I always use Pébéo Masking fluid. Cheers!
Beautifull!
Thank you kindly Belinda!
Belinda Fraser
Amazing I really want to learn this technique from you kindly advise me links
this is great you have a lot of patience!!!!
Thank you Kathleen - it really is a fun process!
Awesome!!
Cheers, thanks SuperXrunner!
Is drawing gum different than frisket? What is it applied with?
I believe it to be the same, if you are speaking about liquid frisket, it is applied with a thin paintbrush that is coated with liquid hand soap first (or else the brush will be ruined, check the brush as you work with the gum or frisket - clean and re-coat with liquid dish soap should the gum start to dry or ball-up and continue on). Please read some of my other replies to earlier questions as there is some more info. in there also, hope that helps! Thank you!
I have had one student apply it with a diamond palette knife with great success, no liquid hand soap needed.
Lovely painting ! I have a small query though,at some point towards the end , you mentioned drawing gum, is that different from masking fluid ?
Thank you Monishikha, great question - yes drawing gum is the same as masking fluid or liquid frisket, they all work in the same way. I have used many types but personally prefer Pébéo drawing gum. I have found though, that it is hard to remove from a painting after 6 months if the painting has sat around in a hot room or hot studio.
Wonderful photo and painting....Dr. Ph's is often not permanent...but oh, so lovely....I believe it was originally created for illustrators whose work was created for reproduction and not as permanent artwork. Great technique....I'm not a fan of watercolor because of the look of the finished surface of the painted paper--sort of flat and dry...Dr. Ph's doesn't look the same to me as traditional watercolor. Love the dog. Thank you.
Hi BetsyBlue10 Thanks for your kind comments. Happy to report Dr. Ph. Martin's Hydrus Concentrated Fine Art Watercolours have proven very lightfast(as stated on their website for this product) - a truly lovely pigment based paint, a little goes a very long way. They have a wide variety of inks and paints as you know - their website offers a good bit of info. on each product. www.docmartins.com
This is certainly a fun technique if you really want to splash some paint around. Maybe grab some good textured watercolour paper and give it a try. I have found this technique to be quite liberating and the colours are spectacular. Cheers!
Music by Dano Songs - "En la Brisa"
What paper r u using? and did u mount it on a board before starting or is it available like that ...ready to go?
Hi Fiona, sorry for the late reply - in this video I am using an Arches 300 lb, bright white, cold pressed watercolour block - it is a block of many sheets of watercolour paper attached/glued together on all four sides except for a small area where you can insert a dull knife to remove/detach each finished painting. I make sure to cover this small unglued area with drawing gum to keep paint from bleeding through to the papers below. Here is a link to many types of Arches blocks, different surfaces to choose from: www.jerrysartarama.com/arches-watercolor-blocks
Cheers! Catherine
Beautiful - but the beginning was missing with how to use the masking fluid 🤔
Hi Monika, oh I'm sorry I did not show that in the video - I describe it only in a text box at 23 - 35 seconds running time in the video. I hope that helps, please email me through my wordpress site or Facebook page with any questions about drawing gum I can help you with. Or I can post an answer to a question here. Thank you for viewing my video. I hope you will try this technique for yourself!:)
Hi Monika just to add - I use Pébéo Drawing gum. Before dipping your brush into the gum - coat your brush with a clear hand soap, it takes very little soap, then dip it into the drawing gum and apply it to the dry paper between pours. The soap protects your brush. If the gum starts to dry, carefully remove as much as you can gently with your fingers then clean your brush and begin again. I think I read somewhere that the text on older videos may not be showing up on newer phones, tablets etc. Sorry about that if you have not been able to read any of the text.
How did you do the quilt ?
Hi Tooba, thank you for you interest in this process, so glad you enjoy the video. The quilt is worked on throughout the entire painting. I first lightly sketch or transfer the drawing onto the paper. I have at this point roughly drawn the quilt design, saving(with drawing gum) some white areas at the very beginning, then I do a pour of three of four colours, then I save some more areas of colour creating a square pattern in some areas leaving other areas more abstract, then I do another pour, again save different areas, creating flower shapes(shapes/patterns are created/repeated throughout for continuity really Tooba anything goes. As you build up the layers, you create the exact shape you want. I would recommend just working on a simple quilt design of your own for fun. I highly recommend Jean H. Grastorf's 'Pouring Light - Layering Transparent Watercolour.' Her book is wonderful. Ms. Grastorf uses tube watercolour for her process, super if you already have some. Or you can substitute tube paint with Dr. Ph. Martin's Hydrus Watercolours. Hope that helps, please let me know if I can answer anymore questions. Cheers! Catherine
Tooba Tariq v
I wonder, would rubber cement work as a “gum”? Lol