When you study the value, do you only observe the photo or view? For me, to catch the right value from a real view scene is a challenge. Sometimes I took a photo and then changed it into black and white.
hello, Eric... I'm Pedro, from Brazil... after 40 years away🤫🤫🤫 from tubes, brushes and canson, I'm coming back... I was very happy to find your teachings, mainly in these aspects of avoiding ready-made colors... and yes, mix in your own palette. It helped tremendously. I'm testing my 4 decade tubes, some were dry, a few were still creamy, mixing gum arabic and honey, with distilled water....I think the result is being enough to return...More ahead buy new tubes.
You have excelled yourself here, Eric. I have just shared this with my online art friends as “the most practical and informative RUclips lesson”. Not only does it guide us through some very important lessons, but it is beautifully presented. During lockdown it is so easy just to watch a whole bunch of ‘demos’ but many of them are little more than looking over someone’s shoulder as they put paint on paper. Very few actively encourage us to strive for improvement by putting great teaching into practice in the way you do. One suggestion - perhaps you could post the tonal value section as an additional lesson in it’s own right - unless someone is specifically looking for help with greens it would be easy to miss it and it is something we all need to know and very few teach. Well done - I am still saving for your course, anticipating it will be of the same quality of tuition and production as these very generous ‘freebies’.
Barbara, I couldn't have said it better. I echo your comment here. This video (and many of his other great "freebies") have only further affirmed my decision to take his online course despite the fact that I believe art can only be taught live. He is so far my favourite teacher. Too bad he doesn't live in Canada.
I like the approach using computer to explain color. It make sense to me for non-art major. I have better understanding when I mix various green. Thanks.
Eric you are an excellent analyst of values. You have inspired me to study this more. Beautiful painting. I am also from Washington and enjoyed much of the beauty there.
Hello Mr Lin it's Juliana from Melbourne Australia. I'm 72 and I'm just starting to learn watercolour. Thankyou for your segment on greens warm to cold and how to mix them. It is very difficult to get my heard around it I really listened to you. I was painting black out of a tube for shadows. Thankyou.🌹
Your delivery of "double hate so it hurts me more" is perfect. 😂 Thank you for your videos. I only discovered you a few days ago. I've had instruction in oil painting so I feel comfortable with that but I've only recently (this week) worked up the nerve to try watercolor. I worried it was too unforgiving, and I felt like the process of creating a watercolor painting was the exact opposite of oil. I'm glad I finally worked up the nerve and I'm glad I found your channel Your videos and the quality of your teaching are a huge help.
This is the third time I watch this video, still enjoy watching. More importantly, learn some more of your beautiful painting! Thanks for your sharing 👍！
I am so glad to meet you ,a friend sent me an email of your video on the variation of mixing green colors ,I am hooked ❣️I do oil paint and love pastel painting but water color intimidate me I am a control freak and very detail oriented ,I been struggling to get looser and less details in my work ,getting better . I love your calming voice and your way of explaining so clearly how to paint 🎨 thank you . (3 hours of watching your videos ) enjoyed them all
My god!!!! You are the god of color mix and speak so gentil and soft and so much knowledge and wisdom!!! What a sensitivity! I loved and who wise give you dislike have problem. Totally subscribed
Brilliant! I loved the analysis of the greens on Photo Shop. Your pallet is the key to the earth tones. I’ve overused Sap Green and been disappointed. This is the answer I’ve been looking for!
I wasn't inspired by the photo but you made a gorgeous painting from it. I liked the idea of using the computer to help distinguish color. Very well done!! Thank you.
Oh man! Using photoshop color picker to explain greens is GENIUS! Thanks for this, I love how you are able to explain these things so rational and logical.
I am a beginner, only started painting a month ago. Your videos have been helpful to me, but this is one that I didn't realize how much I needed. I have been struggling with the greens in the floral and landscapes I have attempted and now I understand why. Thank you so much for what you do. I appreciate your calm tone and peaceful demeanor
This is one of the best watercolour channels on RUclips. The quality of your tutorials is amazing. Very clearly explained and you Paint the Paint. Thank you so much! I am excited to try these techniques.
Eric, this is brilliant! The use of the computer program really made this so easy to see the different tones of red, yellow, blue comprising the greens. So informative and concise. Your videos are always so relaxing and calming to watch and I always come away so much more informed. Thank you for sharing your gift of art with us! Stay sane, Stay safe and stay lovely!
Green is why I dread landscape. This video is like having a key to unlock the secret of green... and I am on my way to buy a tube of cobalt turquoise. AND practice, practice, practice! THANK YOU! Debs in Everett, WA
Hi Eric, I like your video a lot because as an engineer it cleverly explains the many different shades of green that exist from a photo using Photoshop which I never thought to do before. I am very new to watercolour painting and exploring so much on You Tube it is easy to get so confused with different advice. But I like your clear and calm style of presentation. I have made many messes from mixing paints wrongly to get new colours especially green! But now I understand how to get the the cool or the warm shades of green that exist in the photos, which our eyes just do not see! This is magic to me. However, when you speed up the painting at the end I got a little lost with what you were mixing together and why and your colour names are different to what paints I have already. But I think I can practise getting my greens a bit better now, which as someone who lives in, and is a photographer of nature, that is one colour I want to get right. Great job!! Thank you Sally
My mother taught me by having me look through a white cardboard square with a hole cut in it . That way I only saw the colors, not the subject. You would be surprised at how many colors are in a persons face.I know you are speaking of only greens but it works for every color doesn't it? I love watching you and listening to you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and feelings.
Hello there ERIC from deep down across the pond in sunny South Africa, DURBAN to be more precise Been avidly following Your lessons. Covered Clouds and Water. Absolute eye openers for a rookie like me. Most informative and definitely very well presented. Like the way U get profound with relevant and important Technical info so overlooked or disregarded by many of the other Artists. We must record our utmost sincere appreciation for Your taking time to make and share these Videos for the benefit of the rest of the World at large. Truly magnanimous on Your part. Sharing is indeed caring and we can't really thank You enough. Do keep up the good work. Hope we can afford Your lessons some day Once again, THANKS A ZILLION Kind regards ATB TC aRM
Excellent demo. RUclips suggested your channel to me and it turns out we probably don't live too far apart so your painting of Bloedel, beyond being a delightful a surprise, is especially helpful.
This is a truly eye opening look into the variety of hue, saturation and darkness of a single object (in this case, a tree). I’ve saved this as a reference for color evaluation. What a thorough study!!!
Love the final painting. I keep considering adding a green to my WC palette but just can’t bring myself to. I have two yellows, two blues and a red with a neutral tint and it seems to give me the ranges that I need. I always find it interesting to work with the one puddle/pile of green and just keep massaging it in the direction that I am looking for.
Hi Eric, it’s Pam from Bothell. I just discovered your channel last night and I think I’ve watched 10 of your videos so far. You are such a good teacher. I love how you get into the minutia of watercolor paintings. So many other channels just scratch the surface, I have learned so much from your channel just in the last day. I am a newbie to be sure, but I still feel like I’m not lost in the woods when it comes to watercolor painting, like I did before I found your channel.
Saw an interesting doc once about color perception. It was stated that humans are very good at seeing variations in green color, more than other colors. Would explain why green is more difficult to get right. Great tutorials btw!
Wow this really is super interesting and helpful. Never occured to me to look at the hues in photoshop fir this purpose. Using the same pile is also going to help improve my greens too. Thank you so much!
Eric, I started watercolor painting during the pandemic, and have taken some early classes. I had a little experience with acrilics and watercolor in my 20s, but now, as a retired teacher of 35 years, and mother of grown children, I find your stye of teaching quite engaging as well as consistent with the purpose of each lesson. Thank you so much! I am painting lakes and rivers so much better now. I'm looking forward to more!
What a fantastic lesson! I have never seen such an excellent discussion and demonstration of the different greens in nature. I “knew” landscape had different green hues, but your video has been so informative and clear. Thank you. I feel like I should be paying tuition.
I absolutely love this video. I do not have knowledge of using photoshop, but what a great tool to build up your colour palette. Wowsers. I love this video!
Thank you for your various tutorials; I have watched several of them and have more on my list yet to watch. You are a good teacher. Your training must have been in the excellent range in my opinion.
Hi Eric, thank you so much for all the useful and clear explained video's you share with us. I am learning a lot and you stimulate to try all those things. Please let us enjoy more of these video's in the future !
I heard him mention that in another video recently and it stunned me. Never looked at it that way before. I've now watched HOURS of watercolor tutorials and no one ever says it so plainly!
This is the best explanation that I've seen yet of how to portray greens in a watercolor. You break it down beautifully and the way you address warm v. cool shades of green and finding the range makes it easy to understand. I am going to watch this several times as I try to master the representation of the greens in nature. Thank you!
Very informative, particularly swatching the colours on the computer. Always an eye opener to see what colour it really is! Greens are tricky and I will try to mix my own after your explanation!
First I love listening to you talk. Your voice so so calm & soothing in the middle of the chaos around us. The video-WOW. I can honestly say I learned more watching this than in the past 6 mos. I've with PS Elements since they first came out. I restore old & damaged photos. YOur use of it in this video finally made color and values something I can understand and use. Thank you so much.
Excellent tutorial Eric...many thanks. Brilliant idea to show the hues and saturation using photoshop....really clarified for me how many colours you can use to achieve the different greens...I am surprised and pleased...my understanding and appreciation stretches again ! :)... now to get it down on paper. Exciting. Thanks again.
Thank you for the detailed explanations. I really like your value study a lot. That really helps with the color painting. And the explain with a computer program, that too. It really helps. Thank you for sharing.
Any other question about watercolor? Let me know here! ☺️
What happened to the video you did right after this one? Step by step landscape??? I tried to open it but said not authenticated??
Lola’s Mom it should be up in my channel now
Can this be done in adobe elements??
When you study the value, do you only observe the photo or view? For me, to catch the right value from a real view scene is a challenge. Sometimes I took a photo and then changed it into black and white.
@@lavettelane should be no problem i never tried though
hello, Eric... I'm Pedro, from Brazil... after 40 years away🤫🤫🤫 from tubes, brushes and canson, I'm coming back... I was very happy to find your teachings, mainly in these aspects of avoiding ready-made colors... and yes, mix in your own palette. It helped tremendously. I'm testing my 4 decade tubes, some were dry, a few were still creamy, mixing gum arabic and honey, with distilled water....I think the result is being enough to return...More ahead buy new tubes.
You have excelled yourself here, Eric. I have just shared this with my online art friends as “the most practical and informative RUclips lesson”. Not only does it guide us through some very important lessons, but it is beautifully presented. During lockdown it is so easy just to watch a whole bunch of ‘demos’ but many of them are little more than looking over someone’s shoulder as they put paint on paper. Very few actively encourage us to strive for improvement by putting great teaching into practice in the way you do. One suggestion - perhaps you could post the tonal value section as an additional lesson in it’s own right - unless someone is specifically looking for help with greens it would be easy to miss it and it is something we all need to know and very few teach. Well done - I am still saving for your course, anticipating it will be of the same quality of tuition and production as these very generous ‘freebies’.
Barbara, I couldn't have said it better. I echo your comment here. This video (and many of his other great "freebies") have only further affirmed my decision to take his online course despite the fact that I believe art can only be taught live. He is so far my favourite teacher. Too bad he doesn't live in Canada.
Greetings from Provence…where there are 50 shades of green at any time! This is exactly what I needed tonight. Thank you!
Using photoshop to explain warm, cool and hue! This. Is. Brilliant! Thank you so much!
I like the approach using computer to explain color. It make sense to me for non-art major. I have better understanding when I mix various green. Thanks.
Thanks! I appreciate your time. Wish I could send more , your wisdom is priceless🧎🏼♀️
That's so kind of you, thank you 🥰
Eric you are an excellent analyst of values. You have inspired me to study this more. Beautiful painting. I am also from Washington and enjoyed much of the beauty there.
Hello Mr Lin it's Juliana from Melbourne Australia.
I'm 72 and I'm just starting to learn watercolour. Thankyou for your segment on greens warm to cold and how to mix them. It is very difficult to get my heard around it I really listened to you. I was painting black out of a tube for shadows. Thankyou.🌹
Your delivery of "double hate so it hurts me more" is perfect. 😂
Thank you for your videos. I only discovered you a few days ago. I've had instruction in oil painting so I feel comfortable with that but I've only recently (this week) worked up the nerve to try watercolor. I worried it was too unforgiving, and I felt like the process of creating a watercolor painting was the exact opposite of oil. I'm glad I finally worked up the nerve and I'm glad I found your channel Your videos and the quality of your teaching are a huge help.
Loved it.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Woww woww.... very nice n interesting Sir👍👍, full success
Thank you this was the most helpful, brilliant tutorial on green watercolor mixes that I have ever seen. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
This is the third time I watch this video, still enjoy watching. More importantly, learn some more of your beautiful painting! Thanks for your sharing 👍！
Thanks, Eric! Just found your channel! Loving your instruction and style…..
I am so glad to meet you ,a friend sent me an email of your video on the variation of mixing green colors ,I am hooked ❣️I do oil paint and love pastel painting but water color intimidate me I am a control freak and very detail oriented ,I been struggling to get looser and less details in my work ,getting better . I love your calming voice and your way of explaining so clearly how to paint 🎨 thank you . (3 hours of watching your videos ) enjoyed them all
My god!!!! You are the god of color mix and speak so gentil and soft and so much knowledge and wisdom!!! What a sensitivity! I loved and who wise give you dislike have problem. Totally subscribed
Thank you so much for such kind words 😊
thoroughly enjoying your content. Great delivery of the subject matter. Thank you.
Top teacher ! Thanks Eric. You made me laugh as well about the "double hate " . XX
Thats a great idea to use photoshop to analyze the colors!! Makes the whole process less daunting Thanks for the tutorial.
Brilliant! I loved the analysis of the greens on Photo Shop. Your pallet is the key to the earth tones. I’ve overused Sap Green and been disappointed. This is the answer I’ve been looking for!
I love this video. Despite the thousands of photos I've taken I never thought to apply this to my painting.
I wasn't inspired by the photo but you made a gorgeous painting from it. I liked the idea of using the computer to help distinguish color. Very well done!! Thank you.
Oh man! Using photoshop color picker to explain greens is GENIUS! Thanks for this, I love how you are able to explain these things so rational and logical.
I am a beginner, only started painting a month ago. Your videos have been helpful to me, but this is one that I didn't realize how much I needed. I have been struggling with the greens in the floral and landscapes I have attempted and now I understand why. Thank you so much for what you do. I appreciate your calm tone and peaceful demeanor
This is one of the best watercolour channels on RUclips. The quality of your tutorials is amazing. Very clearly explained and you Paint the Paint. Thank you so much! I am excited to try these techniques.
It sure is! The 25 people who disliked it don't know what they are missing.
Eric, this is brilliant! The use of the computer program really made this so easy to see the different tones of red, yellow, blue comprising the greens. So informative and concise. Your videos are always so relaxing and calming to watch and I always come away so much more informed. Thank you for sharing your gift of art with us! Stay sane, Stay safe and stay lovely!
Art School quality of instruction! so happy to find this on RUclips! Greens are easy to understand now. Thank you, Eric!
Green is why I dread landscape. This video is like having a key to unlock the secret of green... and I am on my way to buy a tube of cobalt turquoise. AND practice, practice, practice! THANK YOU! Debs in Everett, WA
One of the most informative videos available in net. Thanks a lot Sir 🙏🙏🌹🌹
Beautiful. Just beginning and I am very old. Anyway, I will just have fun.
Hi Eric,
I like your video a lot because as an engineer it cleverly explains the many different shades of green that exist from a photo using Photoshop which I never thought to do before. I am very new to watercolour painting and exploring so much on You Tube it is easy to get so confused with different advice. But I like your clear and calm style of presentation. I have made many messes from mixing paints wrongly to get new colours especially green! But now I understand how to get the the cool or the warm shades of green that exist in the photos, which our eyes just do not see! This is magic to me. However, when you speed up the painting at the end I got a little lost with what you were mixing together and why and your colour names are different to what paints I have already. But I think I can practise getting my greens a bit better now, which as someone who lives in, and is a photographer of nature, that is one colour I want to get right. Great job!! Thank you Sally
I have always struggeled with the colour green. Thank you Eric showing how to work with the colour green so it can be exciting and not boring!
You make it look so easy! the photoshop demo was a game changer in my understanding of color! thank you!
My mother taught me by having me look through a white cardboard square with a hole cut in it . That way I only saw the colors, not the subject. You would be surprised at how many colors are in a persons face.I know you are speaking of only greens but it works for every color doesn't it? I love watching you and listening to you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and feelings.
Tha's a really good idea.
Over all this has been the most helpful of all videos I have watched,I am a beginner so I still struggle with minxing
colors but will not give up.
Hello there ERIC from deep down across the pond in sunny South Africa, DURBAN to be more precise
Been avidly following Your lessons. Covered Clouds and Water. Absolute eye openers for a rookie like me. Most informative and definitely very well presented.
Like the way U get profound with relevant and important Technical info so overlooked or disregarded by many of the other Artists.
We must record our utmost sincere appreciation for Your taking time to make and share these Videos for the benefit of the rest of the World at large.
Truly magnanimous on Your part.
Sharing is indeed caring and we can't really thank You enough.
Do keep up the good work. Hope we can afford Your lessons some day
Once again, THANKS A ZILLION
Kind regards
ATB
TC
aRM
one of the best tutorials for greens. Great information and painting. Thank You for the demo
Thanks for great education, even sap green from different companies is so variable!
This gives me confidence to not be too fussy. I can see things in the picture that you didn't seem to paint! The wonder of watercolour.
Excellent demo. RUclips suggested your channel to me and it turns out we probably don't live too far apart so your painting of Bloedel, beyond being a delightful a surprise, is especially helpful.
This is a truly eye opening look into the variety of hue, saturation and darkness of a single object (in this case, a tree). I’ve saved this as a reference for color evaluation. What a thorough study!!!
I love how you get me thinking about assumptions I make that are affecting how I use color. You’re a gifted teacher!
Once again I’ve learned a lot… Where would we be without green in our lives. Thank you
Your videos have taught me, a newby, so much. Thank you. I always watch to the very end.
This was very helpful for me. I have been guilty of using only greens from my pallets and not understanding why they didn’t look good. Thanks
I've stayed in Washington State twice very nice there amazing Nature views. Thanks again for another amazing video!
Waw wonderfull knowledge about mixing of green...thank u Eric
Love the final painting. I keep considering adding a green to my WC palette but just can’t bring myself to. I have two yellows, two blues and a red with a neutral tint and it seems to give me the ranges that I need. I always find it interesting to work with the one puddle/pile of green and just keep massaging it in the direction that I am looking for.
Eric, you create wonderful content. You also seem very kind and generous with your teaching. Keep up the great work!
Very informative,, I usually use yellow and blue for my greens.. Acrylics paint
Super super super goed...heel leerrijk, dankjewel
I love watercolours now thanks to your videos and great teaching method and skills. Thankyou!
Hi Eric, it’s Pam from Bothell. I just discovered your channel last night and I think I’ve watched 10 of your videos so far. You are such a good teacher. I love how you get into the minutia of watercolor paintings. So many other channels just scratch the surface, I have learned so much from your channel just in the last day. I am a newbie to be sure, but I still feel like I’m not lost in the woods when it comes to watercolor painting, like I did before I found your channel.
Saw an interesting doc once about color perception. It was stated that humans are very good at seeing variations in green color, more than other colors. Would explain why green is more difficult to get right. Great tutorials btw!
Wow this really is super interesting and helpful. Never occured to me to look at the hues in photoshop fir this purpose. Using the same pile is also going to help improve my greens too. Thank you so much!
Brilliant video! Using Photoshop makes it all make sense to me - thank you so much Eric.
Excellent. So interesting!
Thank you so much for this video about green hues.
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Excellent, excellent, excellent!! Thank you. 🇨🇦
This video deserves millions of likes ❤️
This was wonderfully helpful. Thankyou so much for sharing this!
Love how explain the use and mixtures of color
what an interesting tutorial easu to understandYou are the best teacher around
Eric, I started watercolor painting during the pandemic, and have taken some early classes. I had a little experience with acrilics and watercolor in my 20s, but now, as a retired teacher of 35 years, and mother of grown children, I find your stye of teaching quite engaging as well as consistent with the purpose of each lesson. Thank you so much! I am painting lakes and rivers so much better now. I'm looking forward to more!
Extremely helpful! Thank you, Eric!!
What a fantastic lesson! I have never seen such an excellent discussion and demonstration of the different greens in nature. I “knew” landscape had different green hues, but your video has been so informative and clear. Thank you. I feel like I should be paying tuition.
Interesting variations in green tones
Superb tutorial on greens. Your analysis with Photoshop really did it for me. I must put turquoise on my palette!!
Wow.. It turned out very beautiful painting. Thank you so much.
So informative. Love mixing all the colors in a spot puddle, warming, cooling, and only adding water when it gets too dry.
I thought that was Bloedel Reserve! I have only been there once but very memorable. Gorgeous place.
I miss it so much ☺️
I absolutely love this video. I do not have knowledge of using photoshop, but what a great tool to build up your colour palette. Wowsers. I love this video!
Lovely. Thank you for explaining how to mix greens and showing us how you do value studies.
My name is Edson, from Brazil, yours videos are great incentive!
Thank you for your various tutorials; I have watched several of them and have more on my list yet to watch. You are a good teacher. Your training must have been in the excellent range in my opinion.
In one word beautiful
Hi Eric, thank you so much for all the useful and clear explained video's you share with us. I am learning a lot and you stimulate to try all those things. Please let us enjoy more of these video's in the future !
Thank you Eric! Love your tutorials🙂
Eric very informative and helpful! Thank you greatly
Thanks for giving this color education
I really like your comments about: "Paint the Color of the Light." A very important concept. Thanks.
I heard him mention that in another video recently and it stunned me. Never looked at it that way before. I've now watched HOURS of watercolor tutorials and no one ever says it so plainly!
I am so mesmerized by the reflections and the lilypads. It's like organized chaos. Absolutely beautiful.
Thanks for sharing Eric
Wow, I loved this video, Eric! I have to go practice now.
I found this very useful. Thank you Eric.
Very well thought out and put.
This is the best explanation that I've seen yet of how to portray greens in a watercolor. You break it down beautifully and the way you address warm v. cool shades of green and finding the range makes it easy to understand. I am going to watch this several times as I try to master the representation of the greens in nature. Thank you!
Excellent tutorial, very informative, Thankyou.
Very useful. Tks a lot. Greens are actually hard to paint..
Very helpful Eric, thank you
Great video Eric. So helpful. Thank you.
Very informative, particularly swatching the colours on the computer. Always an eye opener to see what colour it really is! Greens are tricky and I will try to mix my own after your explanation!
Thank you, your demonstration is quite informative.
Thank you for your careful explanation.
Eric you are an excellent teacher I am learning so much thank you for sharing.
First I love listening to you talk. Your voice so so calm & soothing in the middle of the chaos around us. The video-WOW. I can honestly say I learned more watching this than in the past 6 mos. I've with PS Elements since they first came out. I restore old & damaged photos. YOur use of it in this video finally made color and values something I can understand and use. Thank you so much.
Excellent tutorial Eric...many thanks. Brilliant idea to show the hues and saturation using photoshop....really clarified for me how many colours you can use to achieve the different greens...I am surprised and pleased...my understanding and appreciation stretches again ! :)... now to get it down on paper. Exciting. Thanks again.
Thank you very much. Really useful! Teach us please how to paint tree trunks and forest with different trees!
Thank you for the detailed explanations. I really like your value study a lot. That really helps with the color painting. And the explain with a computer program, that too. It really helps. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful painting. Thank you for illustrating your green mixtures. Very helpful.
Thank you for all that you say you have helped me in a lot of ways to see things easier and can not what to get out and Strat panting ❤️😁