Want to Instantly Improve in Watercolor Painting? ▶︎ Stop doing these 3 things!
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2022
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Today I am focusing on three bad habits that are common in watercolor painting. If you can eliminate these three things from your painting process you will see instant improvements!
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So, painting watercolor it's an strategy game. A hunting for the right colors and shapes. I'm guilty for wanting to see the final product too quickly. Thank you Matt, these are priceless tips!
Point 2and 3 are me all over, especially including everything from the reference. Thanks Matthew. What I’d love to see is a photo reference of yours and how you decide what to include, leave out or modify. Perhaps you’ve already done a similar video. Another one with another photo would be so useful.
Two brushes! ready with different colours..and slow down!...and decide what is the essential essence of the scene. Thank you...needed these particular three today!
You are so welcome!
Great advice. I struggle to avoid copying reference photos, but now, thanks to you, I will focus on the essence, slow down and take a step back. The free video was spot on👍
Such wonderful advice for the newbie in watercolor. One of the hardest struggles for me is to “let the fear go”, so that I can actually begin the painting. For the longest time I would watch RUclips video, after video, and never pick up the brush. I am slowly learning to enjoy the process and not be so hung-up on the fear of not appreciating the final artwork. I am seeing little improvements with each attempt. 😁
Great advice! I know I am guilty of thinking I have to go fast (I am 77 yo, and if I don't move fast, the paint and paper dry out). So I will follow your advice: plan, plan, pan, wet paper on both sides, have paint on palette, use two brushes (who knew?)
It is SO true that it's hard to slow down, wanting the painting to look like something faster. But it definitely pays off pausing and allowing each step to happen naturally. All the difference in the world!
Started teaching myself how to WC paint, 4 years ago; mostly by watching tutorials such as this. I'm constantly learning new things and my paintings are improving. Thank you for this lesson, hope to see more of you!
Great tips. I always struggle with landscapes of mountains, the series of mountains from foreground to distant and all the tones and different greens! I would love a tutorial on that as it would be so useful for many paintings. Great video! I must stop copying photos so literally! Thanks 🙏
I have watched numerous tutorials of yours and you are the best teacher I have seen. You cover everything, explain options, and even show here how things can be achieved and do all of that with a calm voice. I am very grateful having come across your videos and can't thank you enough for sharing your knowledge. Sincerely, Fran
I love the idea of 'interpreting' a scene. You have helped me see the value of taking the essence of what speaks to us from a scene , then presenting it in such a way that maximizes this expression to our audience . At first I found it quite shocking to see how 'enhanced' some artist's works are from the original scene, yet they produce a beautiful vision to bring joy. Joyce Hicks is a master at this. Thank you Mathew . I love your teaching style that really drives home how to approach art, not just watercolour
Great advise! Thank you, Matt!
Your teaching style is as warm and generous as it is game-changing. Once again, thank you so much for teaching.
Wow that third tip really clarifies things and helped boost my confidence. I have a tendency to think I need to be too literal, when really I don't. Heck yeah artistic license!
Thank you for your great insight
Thank you - so hard to be patient - need to watch this video every week 🙏
Excellent points, Matt. Thank you !
Excellent reminders! Thanks so much, Matthew.
Thanks a lot for your lesson
Your videos are so great. Love that painting with the people in it. I am constantly chasing my tail either going too fast or the opposite! Thanks for the excellent advice.
As always thank you for your helpful videos Matthew. Great and simple explanations.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
You're an angel! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻
Excellent tips and tricks, as always. Thank you.
Thank you. This is some of the best watercolor advice 👏
Thank you so much for these tips! You were able to point out some of my biggest issues right now and I can’t wait to work on them.
Thank you Matthew! So helpful this. And encouraging
Really enjoyed that! Thanks!
Thank you! So glad to have found your channel!
Excellent advice. Should watch again and again as constant reminder :-) Thanks!
This is truly a great help!! Thank you, Matthew 💜
Very good tutorial! Thank you for these spot on advice!
Another great video! Looking forward to practice them
Inspiring! Thank you!
thank you! great advice! I am going to share it with my art students!
Superb advice.
Your videos are very inspiring!
Thank you for an excellent video, very well thought out and clearly described! 🙂
Love your tips. Mine paintings were in need of some more sophistication.I will try it on. Thanks Mathew.
Thank you for this video. Very helpful
Such good advice!
Just want to say that I fully agree with these really spot on tips, and also really well explained. I love these videos, keep them coming! I have my first exhibition now in a couple of weeks, and I really have found your videos useful in this journey, many thanks.
bom dia , Matt....perfeitos os conselhos, me identifico bastante neles....
Brilliant advice, great video. Thank you very much.
Thank you for the advice. I am new to watercolour and enjoying it so much. With every one of your video's I learn something new every time. I am encouraged to grow as a creator. So thank you again ☺️
Awesome lessons master. You are so good.
Matt, your tips are priceless. You are bringing up things many videos, books, and instructors ignore. Thank you!
I would wholly agree. The one class I took in person felt very rushed, often I was one of the last to finish each day. Others did two practice paintings in the time I had only done one half of one. But in the end, I came home and have finished them at my pace, to my liking.
Lol “Buy two of them”. Spot on. Thank you.
That was so helpful thank you.
Very instructive as always and great advices to follow (or die trying! LOL!). I'm still struggling with the first wash... if I'm too slow, it dries out (even if I'm now watering my paper both sides instead of taping it). On the other side, if I'm doing it once still watery my buildings are fading into the sky or whatever and it looks poorly without definite edges. Seems so easy when I watch you. I guess practive makes perfect!
Thanks, excellent
Thank you for your videos. You are of much help and how you teach can be understood and followed easily.
Thank you; such good advice. I'll try to do my best to follow it. I live in Australia & would like to know how to paint clumps of grasses that you get on the plains.
I love your explanation of watercolor as painting backwards- I never thought of it that way but it is! You start with your lightest values and layer darker values on top as opposed to other mediums like oil or acrylic where you do the opposite. This is going to change the game for me!
Great tips, thank you 😊
your artwork is lovely 💓, thank you for sharing
Thank you wise words ile take them on board.
Reference photos get WAY too much attention in the art world. I love photography. So much, that I went to a photography school. But I mainly use references for getting composition right, and for getting my tones right. It’s fun though, to take a really bad photo you’ve taken, and adding in light and shadows…and sometimes a bear! Lol! Your lessons are so great! I’m having to binge watch you again! - Messy Mendy 🖌🙏🏻👩🏻🎨
Thank you so much. I just found your channel. Great advice about how to work through a painting.
Thank you!
How blessing to encounter with your videos! Thank you 🙏
Glad you like them!
I am just starting out with water colour. I’ve always used acrylic before. I’ve subscribed because your voice is calming and your advice makes sense. You may now hear from me about any progress but I’ve bought most of my supplies and will forge ahead with small painting first and go from there. I’d like to leave something behind of me for my children, grand children and my three great grandchildren. My ggrandsons are 15 and 13 and my ggrand daughter is 19 days old. I usually paint my wood working like miniature rocking horses and Christmas ornaments that I draw and cut out and paint in acrylic with lots of blending and miniature decorations on them. The kind that require only a few hairs on the brush but my eye sight isn’t the greatest any more so I’m trying the watercolour on WC paper. God bless, here goes nothing! 🇨🇦🙏🏼😜👍🏻
Thank you for the encouragement. Helps a lot
You are so welcome!
Very interesting and useful. Thank you for your time. Regards from Buenos Aires.
As a whole I think painting is a game of strategies playing together and being chosen or ruled out. Even in oils, where you can make a jolly mud out of painting. I think drawing is a basic tool that really helps you out of a mess.
Wow, I am guilty of these aspects mentioned and pointed out by you ... 🤔 Thank you so much! Many greetings from Berlin Germany 👍🤗🇩🇪
Thank you for this terrific advice. Of all the wc YTs I watch this one really helps so much!
1. Painting a large section from one big puddle (no mixing of different colors)
2. Painting too fast (rushing to detail)
3. Literally copying your reference photo (make the composition yours, change things)
Some great advice, as always 👍 I particularly agree with interpreting a scene. Indeed, I always try to tell a story in some fashion, to lift an artwork from being merely a representational image.
Thanks very much Matthew for another great and inspiring video. Take care. David.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just pausing to say, this is the second vid of yours that Ive seen and Im so stoked! Great info! Also paused to say, the way you say "NO" then slightly smiled when talking about not trying to copy the reference photos about did me in. 😄 It was like a stern but loving "No" from a good friend or family member.
Just started watching. Looking forward to this video
Needed to hear this, thanks! :)
Glad it was helpful!
This is super helpful. And somehow listening to you calms my nerves and quiet my anxieties and leads me to think strategically. Thank you.
So glad to hear that!
Thank you for you great tips. I am struggling with painting the Sonoran desert, the cacti, the mountains etc. If you could do a demonstration of that it would be great. Thank you again.
Great vid!
Brilliant!
Thanks!
Grazie M. White!!! Sei davvero molto bravo nelle spiegazioni!!!!!
😅great advice. First time I heard of you, but very informative. Thank you, gracias
Only just found you Matthew in the last few months and so pleased I have. What’s neutral tint please?
I would like more on how to know when to have or have no hard edges. Thank you.
Your so helpful and so additive to watch and so relaxing , you make me want to paint more 😃 thank you ❤️
Thank you! So glad to hear that. Happy painting!
Trovo questo suo video meraviglioso,onesto ed altruista o,istruttivo e dettato dal cuore.complimenti,grazie..
you are amazing!
👍very good tips
Thanks a lot
Please do a video on painting skies
Thanks for the video. As to suggestions for further material, how do you go from ‘chocolate box’ style painting to a grittier, urban or industrial style? Thanks again.
Thanks the beautiful presentation of such great fruitful painting tips. Greetings from Egypt
You are so welcome!
I'm about to paint my ducks in a pond, using 4-5 reference photos. I have some close ups that capture the birds flapping wings, preening, or digging bugs from the water. Other refs have bigger scene context or show water better. I want to put all this activity in while not skewing my angle of vision or making goofs in the lighting. One photo captures golden light just before sunset. I want to be consistent. A tutorial on this would be wonderful. Meanwhile I plan to write myself notes on this, how to blend or maintain lighting, which ref photo will be my light direction and time of day. Love your suggestions of writing it down ahead of time.
Watching your video a 3rd time to "Ravele's Bolero", it works! I just discovered your video's, very structured, and helpful, thanks.
Just signed up; I really appreciate the help and encouragement.
So glad to hear that!
Can these tips be applied to tighter paintings? I do let paints mix on the paper, but only when I'm doing a wash, and for distant objects. I like painting in a more detailed way than most watercolorists I've known.
Matthew - great video - I am especially guilty of number 2 LOL
I'm just starting watercolor and I can see the hard-won wisdom of your advise and how powerful it can be. I will try to avoid these pitfalls from the beginning. Maybe I'll be more encouraged by the results and keep going. Thank you.
Curious…if I get the darkest dark in first wouldn’t that help judge values?
شكراً كثيراً لك….انت ملهم بحق…اود سؤالك اذا كان هناك عائد مادي من الرسم بالالوان المائيه….أعني هل يمكن بيعها مثل لوحات الاكريلك والزيت ام هي فقط للمتعه؟
Matthew - could you please address an issue I have. I was a scenic painter for years, painting for 60' stages, backdrops and props. My most successful scenes were done very free and stylistically with many colors. I like color, not Payne's Gray and Raw Sienna mixes. My problem? I'm now wheel chair bound, necessarily having to paint "small". I've discovered that it's really hard for me to scale down, but I have to, no choice. Please address scale and how not to overpower the paper with concentrated coloring in too small of a space. I took Evansen's course and really liked a lot of what I learned. But I find many of the techniques rather dull, I'm more of a Schaller or Lawrence fan. Any suggestions you have would be much appreciated 👍🏼!
Try referencing a scenic postcard. It will help you scale down the reference or use it as it is.
@@KomalNirwan Thanks, but one of the problems is not making the actual image smaller it's painting it with bright washes that do not overpower the composition itself. In scenic stage painting, I had several feet to work color and I mostly used water based paints. Using the brilliant coloring in very small spaces, I find it difficult to manage the washes and introduce additional colorings without making saturated color and meanwhile usually losing the transparent quality. It's the transparency and wistful characteristics of watercolor that I lose on such small surfaces. I appreciate your suggestion. 😊
@@purity2706 I get your point. Trying to get the same effect on smaller scale is tiresome. But I would suggest that you have to leave a little behind in terms of getting the exact washes as you get on a large scale. So when you paint with watercolours try painting a smaller thumbnail with watercolours once or twice before even starting the actual painting. It will help you achieve the desired results. As in thumbnails we paint the general outline of our painting, when we do it on a larger scale compared to the thumbnail we get what we need; the details. And learn to not overdo a painting. In watercolours it is the most difficult thing I had to learn and I still quite not so often but make this mistake.
This is coming from a person with limited experience. I don't have the experience that you have but may be a different perspective.
If Matthew doesn't respond to you here, you can email him and most likely get an answer to your question. I'm taking his bronze course currently and he is a very, very nice person. Not at all intimidating and so helpful. Best wishes...
@@d.martinez-rodriguez333 Thank you for the heads up!! ❤️
I am learning watercolor and I will make career as independent artist.
I would love to hear how you became artist And learn from your story
Really feel encouraged to improve my newly acquired hobby BUT, I'm still looking out for that elusive tutorial video on how
to be less CLUMSY in general, I'm lol-ing now but it's quite frustrating