Aww, thanks for the shout out Carrie! Very kind! You should go ahead and do that paper comparison content. I understand the courtesy you paid me and its appreciated. Its been a while and I've actually never done the other video I had planned to do comparing all the brands I could get my hands on. Besides, viewers love our different takes on things and getting more than one opinion. Anyway, thanks again.
The best advice I ever received was "Use the best paper you can afford", like makeup, the tools you use make all the difference, even with cheap and nasty paint. I found that when I use good paper, I am far more happy with my results than if I use cheaper stuff. This is a great video. :)
I can remember what an epiphany it was when I first heard someone talk about the 'ugly stages" of paintings. I used to panic when I was at this point in my work and instead of chilling out and proceeding with care I would over work the areas I thought were "ugly" and just lose my vision and patience. The painting wouldn't be as good as it could have been in the end. But now that I've become aware of the "ugly phase" Ive learned to push through, keep working and not to panic.
Yes, this is what I learned years ago when I was tole painting and guess what, it's the same for watercolor and acrylic! I have to remind myself. What bother me is I reach the ugly stage and it get uglier.........ha.... The thing is, to keep going forward........
I liked learning the differences in student and professional watercolor - paper weight and type - brushes - painting light, dark, medium and layering from light to dark of each. I was transitioning from oils to watercolor and after learning these topics, I could incorporate my knowledge and style that was already developed. And, as always, how to do color charts, washes, glazes, mediums and textures to keep developing. I always love to watch others paint and keeping an open mind to learning more and to just keep at it. Love the excursions and hints and nuggets of wisdom too. Tah Dah!
Best advice I ever got was not to stop when I made a mistake but keep going. It’s a great way to learn. Which brings me to ideas for future video from you, I love to see you make a video showing us common mistakes and ways to fix them or cover them up. I love your tutorials, thank you for sharing your talent.
Its so interesting that you talk about paper. In college, I had the opportunity to take a watercolor class and the one of many materials in that class included Arches cold press watercolor paper. I used it and it was amazing to me. Fast forward about 2 years after college, I decided to buy a brand of paper that was not only for watercolor but for other mediums too (mixed medium). Big mistake! 😢 The water didn’t “pool” as I wanted it too and as I put paint on the paper, it didn’t spread as usual. You are right when you say that the right watercolor paper is important. I think so too. I continued to use the paper but, the more water I would put on it, the more the paper would rip underneath giving me little balls of wet paper. I use that paper now for acrylic paint and I have to say that it works super great for that. Just yesterday, I bought Arches cold press watercolor paper and I can’t wait to start a few paintings on it. I have yet to try the ones you mentioned. Thanks a bunch for this video!!! P.s: I am sooo interested to know more about watercolor brushes. Ones that work and others that don’t (due to the material they are made with) My brushes are just basic brushes and I would like to switch them off to something a bit more specific to watercolor. What brushes do you use?? 😁😁 Hugs!
Arches is awesome :D Have fun painting and I'm glad you liked the video! :D I'll keep your idea of brushes in mind for the future. I have an old video - but it's pretty dated compared to what I use now :)
The best advice I ever got was 'let the color (water) go where it wants to go' don't fight it but be creative and work with it. The best paintings I make are the ones where I let go and accept what is happening on the paper. As soon as I want to control it too much I mess up. Now I am going to watch this video...
Would you do a semi tutorial about how to draw animals Iv never been able to draw woodland creatures and you do them beautifully. otters, red squirrels, hedgehogs all so cute !
Learn to control your amount of water...on your brush, on your paper, and on your palette...no matter what style you work in...so practice and learn control of water.
I love your videos, thanks so much for all inspiration and help! I’m a beginner in watercolor and my best advice for beginners is to watch your channel! All the best to you!
Another wonderful video from you! I really enjoyed its flow and clarity. Your watercolor and video are both very beautiful to watch! Thank you for sharing your gift so generously. To me, the best watercolor advice I got was from Jean Haines, who I met in a workshop. From her I learned that painting watercolor is not just to create a beautiful end result, but more importantly to enjoy the very process. I love it and that's what I have been doing with my watercolor painting. :)
Thanks Carrie! It was great watching and learning from u again!! When I discovered Utube about 2 years ago ( yes a little “behind in the times” lol ) it was you, Steve “mind of watercolor, and Lindsey “the frugal crafter! All of u were great, the way you all explained things, and how easy u made to understand! Plus knowing that there’s always “an awkward stage” of every painting, Has really really helped! I had taken many acrylic painting classes 20 something years ago, but never thought I could watercolor!! Little did I know...u all were just a click away!! And have really inspired me, giving me the confidence I needed! I have been playing around with watercolor, enjoying every minute of it! Then I came across card making videos?! 😳💗😀 it’s not like it use to be with just stamps and ink pads!! They now use Zig Real Brush pens, water color paints and inks and many other mediums! Thanks to you guys, when these great gals started using watercolor, I was very comfortable with it! Maybe that’s something u can incorporate too?! I know for me, starting off with a small project/painting is so much easier to do than an actual painting! Thank you again, it was ur beautiful, friendly face, voice and personality that kept me coming back to utube! Ur great!! Liz E😊💗👍🏼
Hello Carie, great idea! This is an interesting way to interact and I like it. But one thing, I follow both you and Steve (Mind of watercolor) and you have different style of artwork so hearing your take on watercolor paper vs Steve could be interesting unless your point of views are identical . . .
This may be true but as a super beginner, I mean I never even really liked playing with paints as a kid it’s only now that I’m coming to really enjoy them at 50 years of age and I find I want some structure to my learning so I can have a sense of progress I don’t know. I love these beginner videos because they remind me of what not to do when I sit down to paint.
I saw his paper video and I would love to see yours especially if it has the Hannemuhle and Bee paper in it. For cotton paper I've only tried Arches and Fabriano and...I'm not crazy about how....I don't know...dry and scratchy they feel? (I want paper that feels like cellulose paper but performs like cotton paper lol.) I'm curious if there are other cotton papers out there I might like more. Everyone talks about Arches but I'd absolutely love more info about other brands!!
The best advice I got was about the TRUE color wheel with Cyan and Magenta, where you can create all the other colors, even Blue and Red (shock! they are not primary colors!). The second best advice was to look at the number of the color pigment and try to only buy paints that have one single pigment in it. If you mix colors that have two or more pigments, with another color that has two pigments, you are mixing at least 4 colors, so u likely will get a muddy color.
Red and Blue ARE primary colors, they're the classics. Cyan and Magenta are *modern* primary colors -- not "true" primaries. It's a mistake to think red and blue aren't primary, bc in order for a color to be designated as primary, it means it can't be mixed from other colors. There's no way to make the red or blue from scratch. Printers are different from paints. Printers layer dyes on top of each other to create colors (similar to glazing), whereas Paints mix/blend pigments together to create colors. So while CYM is important to the color wheel, so is ROB. Cyan, Magenta, and Lemon Yellow are *cool* primaries that when mixed together, create loud greens, pink violets, and bright oranges. Red, Blue, and Cadmium Yellow are *warm* primaries that when mixed together, create deep natural greens, earthy purples, and deep oranges. To get a true purple, you need to combine a warm blue with a cool red. So in reality, primary colors aren't just 3 hues. You need at least 6 primary colors (3 warm, 3 cool) for the best mixing palette.
Greetings from Upstate, SC! Would you mind providing the artists name mentioned who produced the paper comparison video? Couldn't quite understand. Love your work!
I think I did all the things I'm NOT suppose to do haha! I just today got out the paints I bought after 3 days of watching your videos and taking pages of notes. I thought I should get my paints out and see how they work. Now I'm not new at art but very new at watercolors. I bought artist's loft watercolors 12 pc. and brushes at Micheals…. That wasn't a good idea. haha! the hairs are coming out and some of the paints have specks in them. I REALLY WANT TO LEARN. but I feel like a baby deer trying to walk. And everything has a ring around it no matter how little water I use. Is it suppose to?
Umm This ain't related to the video at all... But Carrie is it ok to use a Chinese Calligraphy brush for watercolor? If so, what would be its best use or what capabilities does it have? 😅
What to do if I don’t consider myself an artist and if I don’t consider my drawings art? I’m just afraid of comparing my drawings to things like your art...
Hi! I don’t know if you’ve addressed this anywhere (please send links if you have - thank you!) but how do I avoid those hard drying outlines in watercolor? Even when I use very little water I get them especially on “good” paper like Arches. I hate those lines! 😫 Any advice? Thank you!
Backruns aka the cauliflower effect happens when there's an uneven amount of water on the paper surface. Let's say you put down your 1st wash, but by the time you are ready to put down a 2nd wash, the 1st wash is becoming almost dry. Even if you didn't load the brush heavily with water, you're still likely going to have more water on your brush than what's on the paper. You need to rewet the 1st wash that had dried, so that it's evenly wet when you lay down your 2nd wash. Paint flows where the water sits, so always make sure that water is evenly dispersed throughout the paper so that the paint doesn't get drawn into the fresher layer of wet paint & bloom everywhere. TL;DR: Either wait til everything is completely evenly dry before adding a 2nd layer, or if you're too impatient then rewet the semi-dry layer before adding a 2nd layer near it. You can also leave space between them so that they're not touching. Try working on a different aree in the meantime while waiting for the 1st wash to dry or use a heat gun/blow dryer.
The best advice I ever got was to learn how to draw and to master the basics of that. Shading, proportion, all of it.
True :)
Aww, thanks for the shout out Carrie! Very kind! You should go ahead and do that paper comparison content. I understand the courtesy you paid me and its appreciated. Its been a while and I've actually never done the other video I had planned to do comparing all the brands I could get my hands on. Besides, viewers love our different takes on things and getting more than one opinion. Anyway, thanks again.
The best advice I ever received was "Use the best paper you can afford", like makeup, the tools you use make all the difference, even with cheap and nasty paint. I found that when I use good paper, I am far more happy with my results than if I use cheaper stuff. This is a great video. :)
I can remember what an epiphany it was when I first heard someone talk about the 'ugly stages" of paintings. I used to panic when I was at this point in my work and instead of chilling out and proceeding with care I would over work the areas I thought were "ugly" and just lose my vision and patience. The painting wouldn't be as good as it could have been in the end. But now that I've become aware of the "ugly phase" Ive learned to push through, keep working and not to panic.
Yes, this is what I learned years ago when I was tole painting and guess what, it's the same for watercolor and acrylic! I have to remind myself. What bother me is I reach the ugly stage and it get uglier.........ha.... The thing is, to keep going forward........
Paper, paper, paper....if you don’t have the right paper it doesn’t matter how good your brushes of paint are
TRUTH! 🙌
I completely agree!!
Well! True😊👍
And the recommended affordable paper is Bee Paper from 7:44
I liked learning the differences in student and professional watercolor - paper weight and type - brushes - painting light, dark, medium and layering from light to dark of each. I was transitioning from oils to watercolor and after learning these topics, I could incorporate my knowledge and style that was already developed. And, as always, how to do color charts, washes, glazes, mediums and textures to keep developing. I always love to watch others paint and keeping an open mind to learning more and to just keep at it. Love the excursions and hints and nuggets of wisdom too. Tah Dah!
Lilia Webb glad you liked sand such good points! 😊
Best advice I ever got was not to stop when I made a mistake but keep going. It’s a great way to learn. Which brings me to ideas for future video from you, I love to see you make a video showing us common mistakes and ways to fix them or cover them up.
I love your tutorials, thank you for sharing your talent.
Its so interesting that you talk about paper. In college, I had the opportunity to take a watercolor class and the one of many materials in that class included Arches cold press watercolor paper. I used it and it was amazing to me. Fast forward about 2 years after college, I decided to buy a brand of paper that was not only for watercolor but for other mediums too (mixed medium). Big mistake! 😢 The water didn’t “pool” as I wanted it too and as I put paint on the paper, it didn’t spread as usual.
You are right when you say that the right watercolor paper is important. I think so too. I continued to use the paper but, the more water I would put on it, the more the paper would rip underneath giving me little balls of wet paper. I use that paper now for acrylic paint and I have to say that it works super great for that.
Just yesterday, I bought Arches cold press watercolor paper and I can’t wait to start a few paintings on it. I have yet to try the ones you mentioned. Thanks a bunch for this video!!!
P.s: I am sooo interested to know more about watercolor brushes. Ones that work and others that don’t (due to the material they are made with) My brushes are just basic brushes and I would like to switch them off to something a bit more specific to watercolor. What brushes do you use?? 😁😁
Hugs!
Arches is awesome :D Have fun painting and I'm glad you liked the video! :D I'll keep your idea of brushes in mind for the future. I have an old video - but it's pretty dated compared to what I use now :)
The best advice I ever got was 'let the color (water) go where it wants to go' don't fight it but be creative and work with it. The best paintings I make are the ones where I let go and accept what is happening on the paper. As soon as I want to control it too much I mess up. Now I am going to watch this video...
Would you do a semi tutorial about how to draw animals Iv never been able to draw woodland creatures and you do them beautifully. otters, red squirrels, hedgehogs all so cute !
I am glad I came across this channel a while ago, thanks for all your advices tips and tricks :) You give me hope that I can improve with practices 💞
Learn to control your amount of water...on your brush, on your paper, and on your palette...no matter what style you work in...so practice and learn control of water.
sharon deyoung yes yes yes! 😍
:) lol I see that you AGREE with this advice strongly. :)
lol ...I see that you AGREE!
sharon deyoung amen!! I tend to use too much water!!
I love your videos, thanks so much for all inspiration and help! I’m a beginner in watercolor and my best advice for beginners is to watch your channel! All the best to you!
Notifications squaddddd where you attttttttt! 🧡🦊 liked before watching ! Love youuuu ⚡️❤️⚡️
leila matani hahahaah here here!! 😃😃😃😁😁
AWESOME 😎
My best is using the colour wheel.
Another wonderful video from you! I really enjoyed its flow and clarity. Your watercolor and video are both very beautiful to watch! Thank you for sharing your gift so generously. To me, the best watercolor advice I got was from Jean Haines, who I met in a workshop. From her I learned that painting watercolor is not just to create a beautiful end result, but more importantly to enjoy the very process. I love it and that's what I have been doing with my watercolor painting. :)
I like the idea of you asking a question tu us and those were some great advice. Thanks for the video 😀
You are welcome :D
Yay! I ended up on the scroll through at the end!! Great video as usual
Yep! Thanks for the advice! :D
Thanks Carrie! It was great watching and learning from u again!! When I discovered Utube about 2 years ago ( yes a little “behind in the times” lol ) it was you, Steve “mind of watercolor, and Lindsey “the frugal crafter! All of u were great, the way you all explained things, and how easy u made to understand! Plus knowing that there’s always “an awkward stage” of every painting, Has really really helped! I had taken many acrylic painting classes 20 something years ago, but never thought I could watercolor!! Little did I know...u all were just a click away!! And have really inspired me, giving me the confidence I needed! I have been playing around with watercolor, enjoying every minute of it! Then I came across card making videos?! 😳💗😀 it’s not like it use to be with just stamps and ink pads!! They now use Zig Real Brush pens, water color paints and inks and many other mediums! Thanks to you guys, when these great gals started using watercolor, I was very comfortable with it! Maybe that’s something u can incorporate too?! I know for me, starting off with a small project/painting is so much easier to do than an actual painting! Thank you again, it was ur beautiful, friendly face, voice and personality that kept me coming back to utube! Ur great!! Liz E😊💗👍🏼
You are welcome :D And so true! Starting small and building up is so important! :D
The best advice I’ve received is do it - just do it. Paint more, procrastinate less. Learn from your mistakes.
TRUTH! 👍🏻
Pay attention to darks and lights
So excited to see my comment from Instagram here in your video! Thanks!! Keep up the great content.
love all this advise, awesome ;) I'm sharing the video in my facebook group 'happiness is watercolor' .. thanks again!
awesome thanks :)
Hello Carie, great idea! This is an interesting way to interact and I like it. But one thing, I follow both you and Steve (Mind of watercolor) and you have different style of artwork so hearing your take on watercolor paper vs Steve could be interesting unless your point of views are identical . . .
My best advice I guess was that watercolour is a trial and error, you have to mainly learn on your own :)
So true! :D
This may be true but as a super beginner, I mean I never even really liked playing with paints as a kid it’s only now that I’m coming to really enjoy them at 50 years of age and I find I want some structure to my learning so I can have a sense of progress I don’t know. I love these beginner videos because they remind me of what not to do when I sit down to paint.
I saw his paper video and I would love to see yours especially if it has the Hannemuhle and Bee paper in it. For cotton paper I've only tried Arches and Fabriano and...I'm not crazy about how....I don't know...dry and scratchy they feel? (I want paper that feels like cellulose paper but performs like cotton paper lol.) I'm curious if there are other cotton papers out there I might like more. Everyone talks about Arches but I'd absolutely love more info about other brands!!
Thank you so much. This really helped
You are welcome :D
my assure is "go outdoors and paint" thanks for video
:D I love the outdoors! :D
The best advice I got was about the TRUE color wheel with Cyan and Magenta, where you can create all the other colors, even Blue and Red (shock! they are not primary colors!). The second best advice was to look at the number of the color pigment and try to only buy paints that have one single pigment in it. If you mix colors that have two or more pigments, with another color that has two pigments, you are mixing at least 4 colors, so u likely will get a muddy color.
Red and Blue ARE primary colors, they're the classics. Cyan and Magenta are *modern* primary colors -- not "true" primaries. It's a mistake to think red and blue aren't primary, bc in order for a color to be designated as primary, it means it can't be mixed from other colors. There's no way to make the red or blue from scratch. Printers are different from paints. Printers layer dyes on top of each other to create colors (similar to glazing), whereas Paints mix/blend pigments together to create colors. So while CYM is important to the color wheel, so is ROB. Cyan, Magenta, and Lemon Yellow are *cool* primaries that when mixed together, create loud greens, pink violets, and bright oranges. Red, Blue, and Cadmium Yellow are *warm* primaries that when mixed together, create deep natural greens, earthy purples, and deep oranges. To get a true purple, you need to combine a warm blue with a cool red. So in reality, primary colors aren't just 3 hues. You need at least 6 primary colors (3 warm, 3 cool) for the best mixing palette.
Greetings from Upstate, SC! Would you mind providing the artists name mentioned who produced the paper comparison video? Couldn't quite understand. Love your work!
Rebecca Eddy mind of watercolor 😄
Great topic and video Carrie!!!
Thanks Tracy!! 😊
Your whole channel is such an aesthetic 💓💓
YEAH! I try! 😊
using a blank piece of paper under my hand, to keep skin oils off of my paper
Brilliant work! 😊👍
THanks so much 😊
OMG IM IN THE THE VIDEO OMGG....BTW ITS PRONOUNCED RI-ZAL-DY RES-GUAR-DO
2nd notif squad 👍😱💞💞💞💞
AWESOME 😎
Hahnemuhle is pronounced Han-a-mu-lay.
Could you please tell me where the correct link is to the free digital watercolor brush you made? Thanks!
This is random but, I LOVE your room divider in the background! Where did you find it? ÷)
World Market :D Wait for it to go on sale - they usually have a 50% off coupon around now 👍🏻
Practice, practice, practice
True :D
The best advice was that we can fix mistakes i.e. lift color after it has already been applied.
Love lifting :D
I think I did all the things I'm NOT suppose to do haha! I just today got out the paints I bought after 3 days of watching your videos and taking pages of notes. I thought I should get my paints out and see how they work. Now I'm not new at art but very new at watercolors. I bought artist's loft watercolors 12 pc. and brushes at Micheals…. That wasn't a good idea. haha! the hairs are coming out and some of the paints have specks in them. I REALLY WANT TO LEARN. but I feel like a baby deer trying to walk. And everything has a ring around it no matter how little water I use. Is it suppose to?
Dont be afraid to try it.
let it dry completely before adding another layer
Umm This ain't related to the video at all... But Carrie is it ok to use a Chinese Calligraphy brush for watercolor? If so, what would be its best use or what capabilities does it have? 😅
Awesome 👏
Buy what you can afford in paints, don't go in debt buying the best. Use what you have. But, buy the best paper, always.
What to do if I don’t consider myself an artist and if I don’t consider my drawings art? I’m just afraid of comparing my drawings to things like your art...
You're wonderful
Amber Mihalski thanks 😊
Hi! I don’t know if you’ve addressed this anywhere (please send links if you have - thank you!) but how do I avoid those hard drying outlines in watercolor? Even when I use very little water I get them especially on “good” paper like Arches. I hate those lines! 😫 Any advice? Thank you!
Backruns aka the cauliflower effect happens when there's an uneven amount of water on the paper surface. Let's say you put down your 1st wash, but by the time you are ready to put down a 2nd wash, the 1st wash is becoming almost dry. Even if you didn't load the brush heavily with water, you're still likely going to have more water on your brush than what's on the paper. You need to rewet the 1st wash that had dried, so that it's evenly wet when you lay down your 2nd wash. Paint flows where the water sits, so always make sure that water is evenly dispersed throughout the paper so that the paint doesn't get drawn into the fresher layer of wet paint & bloom everywhere.
TL;DR: Either wait til everything is completely evenly dry before adding a 2nd layer, or if you're too impatient then rewet the semi-dry layer before adding a 2nd layer near it. You can also leave space between them so that they're not touching. Try working on a different aree in the meantime while waiting for the 1st wash to dry or use a heat gun/blow dryer.
No links to the videos you mentioned. ☹️
Ugh cannot get bee paper in the UK 😣
AND for Arches they use gelatine ... so ground up bones and tissue from animals :'-(
Loosen up and allow the paint to flow
layering
gms9810 so true! 👍🏻
Paper
Have fun,paint to release stress not cause it😀
True😁👍
True :D
Ha-ne-mu-le ^^
Where are you?