5. Painting a Watercolour Landscape - Demonstration
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Painting a Watercolour Landscape - An Introduction for Beginners
My apologies, there was a slight audio problem with the first and last stages of this demo (I forgot to plug the external mic into the camera!) but it's not too bad if you adjust the volume........anyway..........
In this video, I demonstrate how to paint a simple landscape in watercolour from start to finish. I have broken this down into 5 stages for you to follow and practice, giving you an insight into how to construct a successful painting and demonstrating my thought process as I work through the painting. I have painted the scene from memory, from my knowledge of Studland Bay - needless to say it is a place and subject that I have returned to time and again over the years.
Points to help you when you practice this:
1) This video focuses on the painting process, not the initial 'artistic' decisions that I make and consider before I start a painting. That’s because I want you to focus specifically on the stages, techniques and processes that I use; I deliberately haven’t included a reference photo, to remove any distractions relating to interpretation of the scene.
2) Don’t worry about copying every single brushstroke I make. The nature of watercolour is such that your washes and brushstrokes will make different shapes than mine, and you will need to respond to those. Allowing yourself some freedom will not only be a more satisfying experience but will inevitably lead to a better painting - you are expressing yourself!
The original painting is available for sale through my online shop - I like to make demo paintings and studio sketches available for less than my larger gallery paintings. Here's the link www.ourlandsca...
The equipment that I use to paint this scene is listed below:
Daler Rowney Aquafine Range - Jacksons Art Supplies geni.us/8bXMGe
Daler Rowney Aquafine Brushes - No. 6 & 12 round - Jacksons Art Supplies geni.us/oYL7Foy
Daler Rowney Langton - Jacksons Art Supplies geni.us/BT5u8S
Daler Rowney Table Easel - Amazon geni.us/qZICp4
Jacksons Goat Hair Hake Brush - Jacksons Art Supplies geni.us/i5sLoCs
THIS VIDEO CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS TO PRODUCTS, WHICH MEANS THAT I RECEIVE A SMALL COMMISSION ON A PURCHASE OF THOSE PRODUCTS WITHOUT ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU.
The purpose of this video is to share my knowledge and experience of landscape painting and watercolor with you and from time to time that may involve me recommending products that I use. I receive some of those products from manufacturers for free, but the products that I recommend are only products that I believe in, have used for many years and am comfortable to recommend to you. The products that I receive are not contingent on me making any video tutorial content, nor are they part of a legal sponsorship arrangement.
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I am an art teacher who has been teaching for many years and many of my students have gone on to do their own degrees and are art teachers in their own right. However, I do teach all mediums, but water colours have not been a favourite and this is why I looked at your painting and thought that is good. So you have a student here in me, now retired always keen to learn. Your demonstration is excellent and i hope you do get many more students ..good luck
I forgot to add I am a sculptor and printer too but again we cannot be good at everything so I am looking forward to learning a great deal from you and should you ever need any advice on any other subject in art I would always give any knowledge I had. I am now very old but never to old to learn
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Thank you for spending so much time with us beginners. Thank you also for treating us seriously. Many of us want to really learn to paint and not do “quick and easy”. You are a wonderful teacher and gifted artist. This was a beautiful luminous painting and I loved watching the scene come to life. Thank you again🇨🇦
Thanks Teresa - helping beginners is far more important to me than joining the self-congratulatory circles of the experienced artists and their mutual appreciation societies. All beginners should be taken seriously - it's a difficult medium and well done to anyone that prepares to take it on!
I agree!!
By far the best watercolor channel on RUclips. Every element, color, brushstroke is explained in detail and throughly. Beginners are treated neither patronizingly (and skipping over basic explanation) neither like children (with “quick and easy” projects).
Really appreciate the comment - thank you!
Besides your artistic talents (obviously).. you posses the "communication" gene. Excellent " mumblings" You convey your thoughts and process REAlly well. Very helpful! THX.
I love ❤️ the amount of information you give 💓 in this interesting💓💞 video thank you for the💞 beautiful💕 video💓 you shared 💗with all of us, a big hug and good luck in what you do. thanks for sharing stay tuned,,.,,
Wonderful careful result many thanks
I also started late in life 70. Painted a year knowing nothing. Then started watching Utube. One video actually recommended you to watch. I've been binge watching all day. You explain so well. Im going to try the mixing charts.
This has been the most wonderful painting lesson! Taking what looks like a most daunting and beautiful painting and breaking it down into stages that seem like manageable steps. I love that you talk us through all of your color choices and each technique and explain so well that it inspires confidence that this is doable. Thank you!
I love ❤️ the amount of information you give 💓 in this interesting💓💞 video thank you for the💞 beautiful💕 video💓 you shared 💗with all of us, a big hug and good luck in what you do. thanks for sharing stay tuned,,.,,
This was the best painting lesson I have ever had. Thankyou so much. The limited pallette, mixing the paints, testing the colours, application of water onto painted surfaces. Just wonderful!😊
Thank you so much Oliver. I’ve been hoping that would do exactly this type of tutorial and am so grateful for this. Within the first few minutes, I could see exactly where I’ve been going wrong with my skies (too much saturation, too much paint and too large a brush). As you said, consequently my skies are always too dark and the luminosity is lost. Thank you also for doing the demo with affordable products. Wonderful!
I could just listen to you talk all day, but amazing painter and tutorials. My favorite watercolor artist on youtube! ❤
Thank you so much Oliver. I’ve been hoping that would do exactly this type of tutorial and am so grateful for this. Within the first few minutes, I could see exactly where I’ve been going wrong with my skies (too much saturation, too much paint and too large a brush). As you said, consequently my skies are always too dark and the luminosity is lost. Thank you also for doing the demo with affordable products. Wonderful!
I am very hearing impaired. The CC did not work. Can. It be fixed?
Hello, was interrupted during an earlier video, to say: having seen you again after a long time - did happen at the perfect time for me ! You are an excellent teacher and I needed to hear all you have to tell in your wonderful series. I've been paining for years with soft pastels however due to a combination of arthritis issues now only able to hold my water color brush and no longer, pastels (lifting my hand/arm). Also never did have wc lessons. Just seemed to have come naturally to me many moons ago. Without further ado...thank you so much for your very fine teaching.
Thanks Oliver outstanding lecture. You are a natural teacher and it’s wonderful to see you demonstrate all the various aspects of the previous studies you did.
I have learnt more from you than any other teacher, thanks once again can’t wait for the next one.
Hey Mr. Oliver, I am watching this video for the third time whilst I’m painting some botanicals. At this moment I am working with watercolour and gouache. I’m enjoying your methodology so much! I’m learning so much! It is very inspiring! I hope one day I will actually have an opportunity painting with you on location. I’m 67 years old. I hadn’t painted for 20 years. This feels marvellous! So much so that I am working as part of a group of artists hosting my first second show in June. (The Apple Route Studio Tour is showing out in Trent Hills, Ontario, Canada.) All the best to you, Thank you.
You are an amazing teacher and I really want to thank you for these excellent tutorials. I have tried some other RUclips watercolour videos with fairly bleh results, but with yours I am seeing real improvements very quickly. I love your paintings and you are now on my bucket list to own one. In the meantime I'll keep on with your lessons, which have turned my new hobby into something quite magical. Thank you!
Thank you so much. I am learning a lot from you and learning to enjoy watercolours. You are such a good artist and teacher.
Oliver this is such a great tutorial. I so love people like yourself who are so generous with free tutorials. Painting is so rewarding & so learn about this wonderful medium because someone like you has been son kind and put this on u-tube, is a great gift. Thank you from me and so many others. I will let people know about you. Sue from Sydney
Thank you so very much for doing this series for beginners. It is the most helpful I have come across. I will definitely give this a try. I usually consider each painting to be a learning exercise and may do it 2 or 3 times. I date and number them and refer to them as my Bad Painting Series. With notes recorded on the back of each it is really helpful to look back through them-also encouraging when I see progress. As long as I learn something and gain experience I consider each to be successful-no matter how bad it is. 😁 By the time I have completed 999 I hope to produce a fairly good one! Thanks again for your excellent tutelage.
Thoroughly enjoyed your demonstration, pure magic! Thank you.
I so appreciate how you articulate watercolor techniques, very nuanced. Love watching your videos, almost ready to sit in front of a fresh sheet of paper.
This is a fantastic demonstration and as usual I have picked up so many tips from you. I have really enjoyed this series and look forward to the next video…thanks so much!
These tutorials are incredibly valuable. I’ve focused on stylistic florals for so long, I needed a back to basics landscape tutorial. These will drastically expand my skill sets. Thank you so much!
Thanks for this video. Such a steady and clearly explained process. Your knowledge really comes through.
Thank you for your very easy to follow teaching - a great pace for learners & wow what a beautiful painting
Amazing and outstanding tutorial for beginners...
Your soft voice and detailed explanation are simply awesome.
Thank you very much Sir, for making it easy for the beginners like me. Please continue to post videos for beginners...
Thanks once again.
This was a superb demonstration tutorial that was just the right pace to follow along. Mind you, I had to use the drier to speed up the process.
I ended up struggling in some areas, which is normal for me, but the overall result was quite a lot of fun and it's a beautiful scene to paint. Thank you for your great explanations, tips and seeing how you mixed the paint too.
I'm so excited that I found you and your videos! I've been playing with watercolors for the past year and you are by far the best teacher I have found on you tube. Thank you.
I have just discovered your channel and I am gobsmacked at how well you paint and how mesmerising it is to watch. I will subscribe for sure.
I love your painting ,and the way you teach ,.having a go at watercolours,went to art school at age 15 .my course didn’t inc watercolour painting .did lots of drawing though and learnt to lay washes and stretch paper.your clear teaching is inspiring me ,I’m 76 so have lots
of time to enjoy the learning curve .thank you .
Just finished my first go at this painting, really enjoyed this tutorial. It was so helpful to paint along with you as I was able to clearly see where I can make improvements (colour saturation and just the right dampness of the paper for certain techniques). Thanks so much, this series has been so much fun!
I find it always extremely helpful when the reference photo is kept up next to your painting otherwise I have no idea what you’re trying to create or reflect. Thank you.
Best teaching painting yet. I am going to paint along with you.
Wow!!!! I learned so much about the whole process and it is so encouraging, especially for someone who is just learning at the ripe old age of 84!
Thank you for posting this detailed instructional video. It was very helpful to see your approach to the painting and to watch how you manage edges. Love the luminosity.
Absolutely fabulous to watch you paint again, and listen to your advice on breaking down a painting into smaller chunks. Thank you Olly, I always learn so much from you 👏
Wow. What (another) fabulous video that pulls together everything from your other ‘beginner’ series. I love hearing you share your thinking - especially why you do things, how you change your mind etc. Many thanks from NZ.
I really appreciate your organizational skills Olly.
You made a great point in 25.35, this makes a huge difference when watching a watercolor video! We want to learn and execute. Your videos are great!!
This was a really excellent exercise. Thanks so much Olly.
You are an amazing teacher and take the time to explain how and why you are doing each step of the painting! I am in awe of your creativity and wish I had an iota of your talent! Thanks Oliver!
Thank you so much for this wonderful lesson. You are such a gifted instructor! Now I don't feel that I have to struggle with the "all in one go" method. Options are liberating!
Vielen Dank für das interessante Tutorial. Ihre Farbmischung ist so weich und harmonisch das ich es sofort ausprobieren werde. Ich hoffe auf weitere Tutorial denn sie sind sehr lehrreich. Danke 💗
Thank you for this wonderful painting lessons. It was really a great time to paint along with you. Your step by step lesson helped a lot and your teaching is very clear. I tried it two times learning a bit more each time. But I'm very pleased with the fresh and soft colours in the result and the sense of depth in the landscape. Of course I'm looking forward to your next video.
Brilliant tutorial. Thank you so much. Really helpful. Please keep doing more!
Thank you so much. You have an amazing calming approach to teaching beginners, watercolour painting. You made me feel that I had achieved something and now I want to learn more from you and don't feel the failure I always have while using watercolours. People think they are the easiest medium to paint in, so not true, for me anyway. Thanks again.
I really hope you will do more step by step paintings like this one. So informative to know your thought process as you make a painting. I also noticed that you modified your palette paint pools as you went along. Taking the same mix from cool to warm and back again.
Great instruction, well done!
There will be more to come in due course Sherry. The beauty of a limited palette is the ability to simply adjust that mixes this way.......makes things very easy and flexible once you get the hang of it, but it takes practice!
Thank you so much for this lovely demo! As I was a bit late, I am delighted that it will be here to watch over and over! This is almost as good as having you here in person - thank you again for this beautiful tutorial, Olly!
What a wonderful tutorial, thank you for explaining everything so clearly, I can see where I've been making so many mistakes, can't wait to have a go at this and thanks to your colour mixing tutorial I feel so much more confident to have a go. Once again thank you, brilliant tutorials.
Beautiful! I can't wait to give it a go and see how it turns out. Thank you!
Beautiful. I love the sheerness and purity of colour in all your paintings 😀
You are like a magician bringing things from the white paper, such a pleasure to watch. I appreciate how much you loved the scene you were working on. I am painting the mountains in the North Island of New Zealand where I live. To paint them is an such a joy. I progress very slowly but sometimes something wonderful happens- a cloud looks delicious or a shadow looks very inviting. I make beautiful puddles of colour on the pallet too beautiful to use! Thank you for your wonderful teaching.
Excellent tutorial for this type of a seascape scene. I’ve tried to move away from too realistic paintings to a looser style for cityscape painting. The subject matter for this type of scene lends itself to a more “realistic” painting and your process was well explained and executed. Might pull out some of my smaller brushes which I have tried to move away from and give it a go. Thanks for the great demonstration.
Thank you so much for your teaching! I’m ready to give it a try ❤
Oliver, thank you so much for your gift to us. I had a wonderful time creating my masterpiece based on yours!
Thank you fro saying "this is difficult". It gives me hope.
Watching your watercolor demonstrations truly makes a huge difference for me. Thanks so much for all the effort you put in your content!
Fabulous tutorial. So grateful to you for giving your time to educate and entice us beginners into this great medium. The way you have planned the painting has taught me not to rush into things and attempt to get a painting done in one sitting. Thank you
You're ability to articulate your process is very helpful. Ditto the previous comment. I am still concerned that my lack of drawing and shading skills will be a major problem. Not unexpected. I may find a way around this or I may not. Never the less, I absolutely love watching the experts at work!
The good news is that drawing can be practised - and yes, it is an important aspect of watercolour painting.
Very enjoyable to watch and observe your techniques and style…..beautiful painting too….thanks for sharing it with us…..inspirational too!!
I admire your skill even more than I already did having tried to follow along! Thank you for your generous teaching it’s wonderful. Back to the washes tutorial for me, to try and make friends with blending, currently outwitting me nearly every time! I’ve tried a small number of follow alongs and my paper never stays damp as long as tutors. Maybe paper type having an influence? Definitely a lack of skill having a bigger impact though!
The most common reason that paper appears to dry quicker is that not enough wet paint is applied initially; when painting larger areas, you need to feel that the paint is almost at the point of running out of control (without it actually doing so.)
Hi Olly, Greetings from Downunder where we tend to be informal and shorten names. Besides, you feel like a friend who shares the same sentiments about landscape painting! I’m so glad I came across your channel and can now enjoy the wonderful teaching and presentations. I’m retired now and started painting recently knowing full well that this medium won’t be easy but with your help I really look forward to making progress. This video has been especially helpful in the way you breakdown your work into steps so it’s not so overwhelming and I really like your running commentary. It is so helpful! A big thank you for all you put into your videos - thought, time, effort, content. 🌅😁
You're welcome - keep practising and the progress will follow!
This is such a fascinating process! I try it and they don’t turn out quite as good as yours but it is so relaxing and therapeutic. Thanks for sharing with fellow artists!!
More like this please! I’ve been struggling so much getting all the lights down in the first wet pass, felt like rush hour in midtown manhattan! Now I’m back on Maine time painting in patches!
Mr. Pyle, I love this video. I realize I mixed you up with someone else who had an insipid style and, subsequently missed out on your beautiful videos. Learned so much from this video and I will stick with you and the many videos I have missed. Thank you.
I have been in a "dry" stage nut you have inspired me to paint again! Thank You!
Thank you very much for this beautiful landscape.
Grâce à vos explications détaillées, j’ai réussi un beau tableau.
Wishing you and your family a happy New Year 2024.
I found overall it has given me a lot of useful information and your approach to the techniques used is very easy to understand.Thankyou.
Love it…you’re a very good teacher….thank you so much for your knowledge and your talent ❤️🙏🏻❤️👩🎨
I love love love that you have the finished painting visible in the upper left corner of the video. In these tutorials it is SO HELPFUL to see that when following along because we are not mind-readers, and sometimes when some brushstrokes are made we wonder, "what the heck is that for?" or "where is he going with that?" Thank you!
An outstanding teaching video! Thank you for breaking the painting down into steps. Very helpful. J. Collins. Georgia -USA.
This is so incredibly helpful. Watching you paint answered so many of my questions and showed me how to fix real problems I have when I paint. For example, it was a huge "aha" moment for me when you explained, at 16:40, how you avoid those nasty overlapping edges when two shapes have a crisp border. That's something I notice in my paintings all the time, and thought that I just needed to be more careful. But no! There's a better way.
Thank you!
Lovely demonstration! Can't wait to try it. I really enjoy your teaching style...It gives me confidence to keep giving watercolor another try!
This was so helpful, I have learned so much from your demonstration. I appreciate it so much. Thank you
Just loved this . Will definitely try this. Thank you for sharing . Your style is so wonderful.
Thank you so much. I’ve learned tons about process and technique!
Amazing chance to learn from an obvious master! Very hard to find this amount of instruction!
Oh my!!! I had a great start with the sky and then it all went downhill from there. I'll keep practicing....
Oliver, thank you so much for your videos. I have watched them all and have learned so much. Thank you, thank you.
Oliver, you explain with a lot of patience. Learnt much. Jhimly from India
Hi Olly, I have watched this video all the way through…I intend to try painting this scene soon. Thank you for making it easy for us to try. You make it achievable which is needed for us beginners.
What a beautiful demonstration for beginners! The lovely calm voice! is well explained, loved the captions! (adding humour ;) ) Well try it myself hopefully soon. Really enjoy watching it and thank you for sharing your art and your knowledge.
I'm not a beginner but as an intermediate painter I was feeling like I needed a bit more discussion, I've felt like I was missing a few nuances or needed some of my assumptions validated. This was EXCELLENT. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much to make and upload this tutorial! This is what I'm looking for, so useful！！
Absolutely fantastic tutorial! Thank you! It gave me really important insights into painting light and making the landscape balanced and harmonious I thoroughly enjoyed the tutorial!
Thank you so much for a truly wonderful demonstration, and a really lovely painting. I am a new recruit to your fan base, but already I love your style (and your compositions). For me this is how watercolour should be. Transparent! And with so much subtle colour variation. I just love the transparency! From Peter at St Leonards on the south coast.
Excellently executed and explained, as always. Thank you 👌
Wow! The colors just vibrate…. Love your videos!
Thanks Ollie! I live on the Puget Sound so I try to follow you but adapt to here. We don’t have white cliffs, we have lots of tall green fir trees and tugboats. 😁
What a wonderfully calming painting!
Beautiful painting, this is a great tutorial for revision as I haven’t done any painting for many years. So now I shall have a go. Thank you.
Thank you for doing this!
For some reason I didn’t see the painting it was supposed to become, so I just followed your instructions as good as I could. Now that I see your painting, I can see mine is nothing like it at all. But I still learned a lot. And I like my sky
Beautiful painting and teaching techniques thanks a lot 🙏
This is the most helpful video I have ever come across,thank you so much to share your precious knowledge,it is inspiring me to try. I have learned so much from this video.
This was so good Oliver, thank you so much!😊
Absolutely gorgeous
Thank you Oliver. I am going to try this soon!
Outstanding! I was just wondering today if you were going to post a video soon. I am having troubles visualizing how you are getting those creamy "inline" gradients through out the entire painting(s). Good artists study Master's brush strokes up close...
Detailed work! ❤🧡💛💚💙
I’m going to attempt this painting today. But… I’m sure mine won’t be even nearly as good as yours! I’ve learned a lot from watching this tutorial, though! THANK YOU! 🙏
What a joy to see an excellent demo using students materials. Thanks for another good video.
You are a great teacher - thanks