Practicing Painting Ripples in Watercolor
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
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In today's video I'm sharing with you a practice session I did. I wanted to work on how I paint water and ripples, when they're the main subject, rather than a small abstract element.
Frankly, this was a huge challenge, and I love how it shows what authentic practice looks like - BAD 😂
I hope you enjoy this one and learn something new!
- Liron
Reference photo here:
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Time Stamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:44 - 1st Attempt - First Wash
02:47 - Improved 2nd Attempt - First Wash
04:22 - 1st Attempt - Reflections & Details
06:22 - 2nd Attempt - Reflections & Details
09:19 - Conclusion
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Thank you so much for making this video. Very few teachers on RUclips share their practices or exercises with their audience.
My pleasure! Thank you for watching 😊🙏🏼
I like this concept of focusing on a particular effect and observing, working on a specific element at a time. Thanks, Liron.
Thank you! This is a very useful approach indeed (:
Thank you Liron. I have never painted water so this first tutorial is a good way to start for me.
I like that You show how You that are agerad of many of us, needs practising those parts you wanna improve in the exact way that we all need to do, when we wanna master in a new area. Nothing is different when it comes to master a new area, practise, and more practice it’s the only thing.
That's exactly right 😊 Very happy you find this idea true and useful
I just came back across this... I think I'm ready to try it. Thanks again.
I deleted my last comment because I babble and it was enormous 😳🙄🤦♀️
But, I'm so happy to have found your channel! You're incredibly talented and humble and very good at teaching.
Due to my health i can't do anything art wise, or anything period, most of the time now, so I very much appreciate artists like you that go through SO much effort and take the time to share your work and tips and 'how to' type things here, because it helps SO much in keeping my mind focused forward, and staying excited and inspired for things to try when I do have small bits here and there when I can do a small bit of something. And watching beautiful art being created and learning.... it helps me more then I can express! Truly :)
I know, this one seems long, but trust me... nothing compared to what I deleted. I know I babble about things I'm excited about☺😳😬🤦♀️
Anyway.... this was such a great lesson and something I absolutely want to work on next.
I subscribed of course and already have at least 1 entire Playlist of lessons saved to watch and a bunch more :)
Thank you!!
Edit.... so, as I've been going through your videos, I realized I'm basically saving the majority of them to my lists to watch🤣 SO many great ones... super excited, thanks!
Wow thank you so much 😊😊🙏🏼🙏🏼
Will it be possible for you in the future to create on a more extended / regular basis? Crossing fingers 🙏🏼
I love reading comments so don’t feel like you have to keep them short.
As for the videos - I also add them to my own playlists, so if you check these out it’ll be easier for you to find cityscapes, seascapes, animals, plein-air and so on more easily 😁🎨
@@LironYan hi, thank you :)
Apparently when I thought I deleted my original long message, it seems to not have been deleted as I see it below.... so sorry! Now I've left several long messages 😳🤦♀️
As for your question of my being able to do more art more regularly in the future.... I am always always hoping that to be the case. But, my body tends to disagree.
I shattered my low back, completely pulverizing one vertebrae and breaking the rest of the lumbar portion of my spine, some damage to and displacement of others in the middle and top of my cervical spine, among many other injuries in a car accident at 16, where I was a passenger sitting behind my friend driving. I'm old, so back then there were only lap belts, so when our drivers side of the car hit head on into the drivers side of a truck at high rate of speed, basically the seat belt broke me in half and I held up my upper body with my arms, didn't know why at the time other then I was doing that when I began to wake up and feel my body. I lost my friend...we went to the same er room and could talk some before taking her to surgery, but her body was... um, badly damaged and they were so concerned about her legs, that nobody looked at her head and she went brain dead.
Ok.... I said that to explain some of my issues. I didn't lose my legs, not fully, because of how hard we hit. But, doctors, through the years have felt that the accident sort of triggered any and all issues I may have had later in life, possibly, but right then. On the outside I seemed normal...ish :) but once any doctor, every one of them get the same look in their face as they look inside and all thats wrong and already in my 20's I was told I looked young, but had the insides of a 100yr old that had so many big issues. So, at 50, those things have only grown into very significant health issues like rheumatoid arthritis, OA, new knees years ago...the list goes on further then even I can imagine. I'm always embarrassed filling out paperwork for a new doctor because there's never enough space🤦♀️ so back in March I had a surgery, on my right side for thoracic outlet syndrome. Its on both left and right sides, but the right was by far worse, so we started there and was SUPPOSED to be a pretty quick recovery and less pain, have my strength back and be able to lift my arms up above my head, like to wash my hair. But, instead I woke up to find I could only move my fingers on that right arm and my chest was that fire numb from exactly center of my chest across to my arm, but the worst was I couldn't get more then a gulp of air...as if a board had been put at the top of my lungs just not allowing air in. My doc at the time... made it all my fault. I almost died because he decided I didn't need supplemental oxygen, but happily my awesome night nurse got to me and his panic helped wake me up because my o² was 74. So, 8 day later home...without o². So recent tests by a better doctor show my phrenic nerve that controls the diaphragm which is the muscle that pulls your lungs open to allow air to fill them up, and also pushes the air out. So the right side is paralyzed and has crushed my lung. Need special bedding to sit up in bed instead of sitting up in a chair in the living room because laying down feels like an elephant on my chest and it all presses on the left lung as well, which is the smaller lung too. They hoped it was stunned and would wake up and hopefully all the massive pain, new and much worse pain, along with not fixing the original issues, in my neck, chest, shoulder and arm would be fixed too. But, we've found out that it is permanent. And I need another surgery to try and hold down the diaphragm to hopefully release a bit of pressure. His main hope is to let me lay down in my normal bed and sleep, but it may not, and he knows it won't help me in daily life. He said I will be on oxygen for the rest of my life. So, thats been a big blow. I've worked hard to relearn how to use my right arm, but whatever he messed up makes me not be able to use the muscles that let you lift up and out. So, now they both shake a ton and I have really bad grip strength. And obviously I won't even try with my left. So, this is it. Carry oxygen tubing and bottles all the time at home or out. I already had bad fatigue and brain fog from RA and things, but I have a lot of trouble keeping good o²levels, and that has made me more tired then I knew was possible, and I feel like my brain is melting away. I forgot how to use a water bottle the other day. Remembered later, but its with everything. My poor husband was out of work through most of early covid, a couple years, trying to find work isn't as easy as people try to say, especially being older. But he's working so hard but it isn't even close to enough and cards are maxed and my medical insurance is as much as out house payment, and new deductible and out of pocket, plus paying monthly, begin Jan 1st, with no clue how. But he's also had to take over all the cooking, dishes, laundry and help me with literally everything and loses time at work because of all my doc appts.
So, mentally and physically we're spent...
So, no, my body won't be getting better, only worse, and I'm struggling with that. Usually a new thing in my breaks and I'm frustrated and sad, but can wrap my head around it and move forward. Pain is bad, but I've loved with such bad pain for more of my life then not, so I can take that. Not being able to breathe and when I get energy and crank music and try some art or am able to do some dishes to help, very quickly I have trouble breathing and feel exhausted. Plus, being such a burden, a very expensive one at that, well, I hate it. I had wanted to make and maybe sell cards with my watercolors... but I couldn't keep up now. I can't plan anything because my body makes the choices.
But, I'm working hard to exercise as much as I can and get my left lung as strong as possible and the rest of me. And I'm not hopeless, just taking some time to deal with having all the plans we had being over now...and its hard to see my husband try so hard at work and home and still not be enough to pay for everything. You know how it is...things tend to pile on at certain times, like our 1 car breaking and being unable to fix it.
It just becomes something you have to laugh about so you don't cry. But I still cry a lot. But, we also laugh a ton, so that feels good. We're working through the emotional and how to deal with the o² and just the logistics of things now. Itll be ok, what else can you do but find ways to deal and just keep moving forward, even if some days its a crawl...as slooooooooow crawl, still moving forward. And it just takes time to learn an entirely new way of life, with still dealing with all the health issues already there.
But, I always keep some pencils and pen(the heavy-ish metal fountain pens are nice because I don't have to use any pressure which my hands need) and some paper with me at all times at home or when out, in case I get some time where my hands and brain work together to let me just do little dumb sketching.
If I've had bad days for too long and I'm going crazy, I've even just put some acrylic paint on my fingers and spread it on a canvas I keep out just for that. Then I just wipe and wash my hands, don't even have to sleep a brush :)
So I try to do whatever I can whenever... :) but, as I said before, being able to see all of you amazing artists on here and watch such cool and beautiful things being made, it help me a ton to stay excited and inspired and gathering ideas of different things I'm excited to try the next time I can!!! And I know its a lot of work to do these... but it is very very much appreciated. I can't explain how much it helps and what it means to me.
So, thank you so much!
Oh, and yes, I've got your play list saved so I can go right to them and all your great videos!!
Thanks again!!
Sorry again for so long... I have a horrible case of overthinking over-explainer syndrome as well, in case you couldn't tell😬🙄😁
Great tips. I’ve been practicing techniques and color mixing in my sketchbook.
Very helpfull. Thank you Liron and stay safe.
I'm so glad I found my way to your channel :) the way you paint, especially the way you teach is so kind and humble. You're just SO talented!!! This video especially is a good one for me... I love water and sky, but then rush to do a whole scene because I suddenly want to make a card for someone and I rush🤦♀️ I only began teaching myself drawing, painting etc... in my mid 40's at a rough time needing an outlet that did not involve more meds☺ grew up "knowing" i couldn't possibly make beautiful things like others in my family or artists I loved. But, my choices were limited and I had to try...started with pencil and a VERY simple poppy... but when you explain looking for shapes, I realize that's what I did. I knew I couldn't draw the beautiful flower, so I just sketched out a petal, but it was more like drawing that shape, then another shape and another until I stopped and cried, NOT AT ALL because it looked good, but I looked like a kinda looked, like a flower. But if I think "i want to draw some flowers, or this photo i took of whatever" then I feel overwhelmed and couldn't. But taking it shape by shape helped me get some muscle memory. I'm disabled, so I can't always use my hands or walk, so I can't practice as much as I want, so I'm still not good.... especially recently when a surgery went very wrong and I've had to relearn to use my arm and the right side of my diaphragm was paralyzed crushing my lung, and recently found out its a permanent thing. So I've not done watercolor since March and had a great therapist and wanted to paint her favorite flower🙄 i hated both of the ones I made...my husband disagreed, but he's sweet :) it's funny because ill look back at things I've drawn and painted these last years and literally think "i did that?" only because I think there's no way I can do it, like it wasn't my hands.
But, my pain gets in the way... so I set things up in stages knowing I'll have to do things in stages... but, this body has other plans. Then I rush, and blah.
But I REALLY want to get better at water... not like realistic water, looser then that, but better then whatever it is I'm doing🤦♀️ so I loved seeing how you went about that and what you're looking at... the shapes. I try to be relaxed and loose, but always end up super tense and messing everything up trying to add too much.
Gosh.... sorry for this comment 😳🤦♀️ I've been in the middle of a significant RA flare for a while now, making, most anything impossible. So I love watching awesome artists like yourself make art and being able to learn and keep...or try to keep...my head focused forward and on these beautiful things... to stay excited and inspired. So I talk to much then :/ so sorry! I can't seem to stop it.
But thank you very much! I can't wait to go through the rest. I already added 1 entire Playlist of your teaching videos and a bunch more to watch when I can! Obviously I subscribed as well! :)
But, I'm very thankful for all your hard work! I know it's so much more involved them it seems, but it is most definitely appreciated!!!
Thank you for making this great video. I always wanted to try this and this video just kick in just nice👏
Love this!
Beautiful work!
Oh that was really helpful! I always hated painting water because I was so bad at it lol, but this really helps:)
Thank you so much! 😊🙏🏼 Happy this helps!
I have a live vid upcoming today, in which I'll share another fuller version of this scene, where I feel like I got the water right!
That is very true, as you said, "practicing one thing at a time makes faster improvement." In my case, I did the same with trees, and rocks, etc. Great advice, thanks -
this is why i like watercolor, it looks very good, IM a Watercolor artist too!!!
Thank you 😁 I love watercolor so much!
An excellent exercise with the ripples... it helps with my fear of tackling watercolour painting... breaking it all down into sections will be helpful, ty for this video
Fantastic job on a really challenging topic. I really feel doing a re-do right after a first attempt is a really smart move, especially for someone like myself, a beginner. I love hearing your thoughts and reaction as you are developing your paintings - so helpful. Stay safe.
Thank you Sally 😊🙏🏼
More of these vids to come
Great video, thank you! :)
Thank you.
I saw a distinct light at the end of the tunnel.
Thank you.
Thank you 😊🙏🏼
Que lastima que no entiendo el ingles.
saludos maestro.
Is this a practice for day 7
Haha, though unplanned - it indeed ended up being just that 😉
It all connects!