Get Better with Loose Watercolors - Sketching Figures | Watercoor Drawing | Watercolor Painting

Sketching figures are extremely important in loose Watercolor streetscapes. While Loose watercolours are challenging, loose figures make it even more challenging.
Loosening up of your sketching & colouring approach should start from your mind. We have to loosen up our thought process. We have quickly respond to our thoughts or ideas and paint without much of self doubting or evaluation . I would just trust and wouldn’t worry if I am thinking in the right way or not while practicing to loosen up. I would paint impulsively or instinctively.
This video is for you if you are looking for to loosen up your watercolors, get into more free, impressionistic way of expressing your subject in watercolors. Being loose is not something you can achieve overnight - you may have to deliberately practice for some time.
So the question is - how do we practice? There could be infinite ways. Here I am following one approach that I think could help.. It helped me and I thought I would share it with you.
I am elaborating and demonstrating a process that I believe could loosen up my watercolour painting approach. This is just a beginning, we need to do more practice with this and other approaches.
Materials used:
Cold Pressed Watercolour Paper, around 300 GSM
Waterproof pen Sailor fude fountain pen with Carbon Ink. You can use any waterproof pen or graphite pencil
Camel Artist Watercolors: Cerulean Blue, Payne's Grey, Olive Green, Red, Orange, Chinese White. Additionally I have used Cobalt Green from Aquatone brand.
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Get Better with Loose Watercolors - Sketching Figures | Watercoor Drawing | Watercolor Painting
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I strongly believe that there is a child in each of us, who would love playing with colours.
I am a self taught watercolor artist , teaching watercolour painting to watercolour aspirants. I prefer preparing tutorial videos showing the process of simplification for photographs and painting from imagination so that we end up doing representation the subject in my own way.
As I learnt lot from RUclips, its my target to share my knowledge back on youtube by creating watercolors step by step, to encourage, inspire and guide viewers interested in learning watercolour.
Vanidas Mangathil

[@vicval001]

Greetings from Australia. Just wanted to say how instructional and inspirational your videos are. Great voice over, and editing skills. Not to mention how skilful your approach to making watercolour so approachable is. Many thanks.

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

I'm so happy to hear that you found my videos informative and helpful. Thank you very much 🙏 Please continue to support 😊

[@govinda7592]

Nice and simple, beautiful painting as always😊
Thank you for sharing

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

You are so welcome 😊 Thank you very much 🙏

[@debadarshinee_art]

Another amazing demonstration 👏👏 Thank you for sharing 😇

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

You are most welcome 😊🙏

[@ummmmma1]

Very easy for beginners... please mention the colour you are working to be in subtitles

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

Thank you very much 🙏 I have seen in the past that lots of text on the video is distracting. The same was shared as feedback by some followers. Hence I have decided to voice over mentioning the colours as well. Hope that is ok with you 😊

[@komalabbasi5740]

Sir can we use calligraphy inks as a substitute for watercolor ?

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

I'm sorry, I haven't used calligraphy ink. I am not able to answer your question. Best would be to try and see if you have calligraphy ink with you.🙏

[@MonieFoster]

Fabulous! I struggle with shadows, how big, what color…

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

Thank you very much! Technically, the colour of shadows may be affected by many factors. However, I usually go for a grey version of the local colour of the surface on which shadows are falling..

[@humi002]

Beautiful painting ❤

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

Thank you very much 🙏

[@mitadartwork]

Hi, really enjoy watching you Sir... I love watercolor too, it's become my favorite paint medium...just my small thought, perhaps the foliage shadow on the umbrella top would be interesting and create some contrast there.

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

So happy to hear that you liked this video and Watercolors have become your favourite medium 😊
I think I have already added some shadows and mentioned about that in the video. I will double check that.

[@mitadartwork]

@@VanidasMangathilArt thank you for your reply 🙏

[@atheransari8038]

Love ur art.Thank u.

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

Thank you very much 🙏😊

[@kalavathymoses1028]

Very valuable

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

Thank you so much 😊

[@blackmamba3427]

Beautiful ❤😊

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

Thank you very much 🙏

[@Diego_SanCA]

Great

[@VanidasMangathilArt]

Thanks a lot 😊🙏