I literally got teary-eyed when he described painting Pregnancy. So much respect for this man. I can feel his love for his wife. I've learned lot as well. Thank you!
It's such a beautiful stage of a women's life that I can never imagine or experience. Good luck with the painting, and I wish the person who is pregnant a wonderful pregnancy! :)
@@Cafewatercolor thank you! I agree completely, there is something divine about it. I started following you on Instagram, I'll try and message you the painting once I finish.
Eric, "Transparency is everything" I'm looking at my paintings and seeing where I have gone wrong. Pure gold, thank you. Brilliant video and thank you for sharing. Love to you and your family.
This tutorial was fabulous, however i was more inspired by how he described his wife and the beauty of pregnancy. I long to find someone who looks at me that way
I really enjoyed this video. Your wife is beautiful and you represented her special time so well. By this time your little one is 3 years old!! How time flies.
Outstanding! I thanked God i stumble to this video. I'm a beginner watercolor painter and I have always been wanting to learn portraits. Seeing this pregnacy photo makes me wanna paint my pregnant photo and gift it to my partner on Father's day as I knew he loves and looks at me and our pregnancy journey the way you do with your wife. Sending love to your art and your family.
I will never tire of thanking you. Your videos are more than watercolor classes, they are professional mentoring. Here in the city of Maracay, Venezuela where I live there is no place to learn to paint watercolor. That is the reason why I feel so pleased with you. I can only wish that everything you have taught to me becomes wealth, health and happiness for you.
@@Cafewatercolor I have several colors already. I would like to buy Carmine, Cadmium red hue, Cadmium orange hue but the names are different in Schmincke ! Is Permanent carmine the as Carmine ? I don't find the "hue" in cadmium orange and red ! Is it very important ? I have Cadmium free orange from W&N at home...is it ok ?
@@Maya.6868 Just give it a try. I've not used exactly the same colors neither and the results are good. I think the color tones and the technique is more important than the colors.
Superb teaching as usual. Please keep repeating ‘shadow is absence of light, no need to add dark, just more layers’ then it might sink in! Thank you yet again.
Oh my god this is making so much more sense now. I’ve been really heavy handed with my dark colors when I should have been more focused on opacity. This is brilliant thank you so much for this video!
Your way of teaching, explaining and demonstrating is over the top helpful. I have to take notes its so good. This hasn’t happened in a long time and I watch a lot of art RUclips videos. I am amazed. Your love and respect for your wife is also over the top refreshing, almost unheard of, really ever. In this way, you are making a huge difference in peoples lives. I am excited to learn this material.
Such good information, what a wonderful way to show your wife you treasure her💕 Pregnancy is a time when many women don’t feel beautiful but your painting truly captures that she is.
Fantastic demo! I enjoyed hearing your love for your wife and family as you described your perspective on pregnancy. And you helped demystify watercolor skin tones for me. Thank you.
When I click on YT vids that are around 30+ minutes long, I already expect myself to be skipping parts. Yet, I watched this whole video without even a single regard of how much time may or may not have passed. I'm glad I didn't. I learned so much! Thank you!
I was quite moved by the portrait of your wife ! I have been painting for decades and marvel that you have only been doing watercolor for only 5 years. Thank you for your excellent insight and instruction.
thank you! well, 5 years is the time I work with watercolor, but before that, I have been doing drawing and painting with other mediums. So I think that also helped me =)
I think this is the 4th or 5th time I look this tutorial. Each time I learn something new. And I guess if I keep watching it I'll keep learning. Thank you Eric.
I love watching someone like you who really knows what they are doing with watercolor, paint things like this. It is tricky to get these especially when you are pretty much just learning off of others and trial and error! Thank you for the mixes and instruction. I absolutely love watercolor.
Thank you very much! This was the most helpful video on skin tones and how to paint skin I have seen. Plus your commentary was awesome. I appreciate your comments on pregnancy paintings as well. Congratulations on a spectacular painting, teaching video and your little one.
Your painting is amazing I watch your video few times, your wife is beautiful and your painting show how much you love her, happy beautiful family 👪 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I have to say, your explanation was clearer than any of my art lecturers. I wish I found your channel years ago when I was still in art school; it would have made a world of a difference for me! Thank you for your videos!
Such a wonderful video,besides learning about mixing colours for skin tones have learnt that you are a wonderful person,talking so lovingly about your wife & pregnancy. God bless you and your family. Blessings to your kid.
Such a beautiful painting of your wife. Thank you for the excellent way that you explain your painting process. I love your videos, your paintings are like a breath of fresh air!
Your delivery, and information has really been helpful in improving my watercolor work. These are wonderful lessons, and your tribute to your wife and children is terrific. Thank you, Eric.
This was so beautiful to watch. You are so sweet with your loving words of your wife while she was caring your child. Thank you for sharing this with us. Very special
This is hands down the most helpful video for painting watercolour portraits I've come across. Multiple astutely narrated examples, and then a complete start-to-finish demo. I have to see your other videos. You are *such* a good teacher! Thank you!
i really liked your tutorial for making realistic skin tones and was enthralled with the painting demonstration of your wife...it is a beautiful painting!
I am a painter and have been working lately with watercolor as my main medium. I struggled so much with skin tone. This Video helped me IMMENSELY and I can’t thank you enough for the tips. Love ur painting at the end! It turned out wonderful.
How long I heard, and sad to say, believed: "He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches." Happy to say that this has not been so in my experience. Even happier to say that: He who can and does, and masters his art/craft; and then chooses to be magnanimous in encouraging and supporting others who seek to learn (as you do so very often and so very thoroughly) exceeds the level of mastery. Having no idea what the name of that level might be, it is with great appreciation and honor that I learn from you. Thank you!
Thank you for such kind words! =) I am so touched and encouraged by them. It is a challenge at first to break down my thought process and the reason behind my actions. But it gets easier after I do it more. It also helps me as well because I started to make more and more conscious decisions when I paint. Again, thank you =)
You’ve no idea how much you’ve helped me! I’ve completed my first ever watercolour portrait after attempting for months!! But I found this video last night and it completely changed my work! Its by no means perfect but the lessons you taught in this video were so helpful and completely changed how I applied paint. I can’t thank you enough! This is honestly the only video on all of RUclips that’s helped me. You’re a star 💫
This painting is beautiful! I've been an artist for many years but have always shied away from watercolor. I took the leap to watercolor only a couple weeks ago and am quickly falling in love with it. I am now thinking of doing my first watercolor portrait and I'm so glad I watched your video first. Thank you for sharing your knowledge - you do wonderful work!
This was one of the best demonstrations I have seen on portrait paintings. Thank you so much! Also thank you for the kind words about pregnancy and women.
It is more enjoyable watching this video the second time. My understanding to painting in watercolour increases. Thank you also for sharing your views on pregnancy in this video. I ( a mother too) also find pregnancy a wonderful stage in a woman's life.
I learn so much from watching you paint and talk through your decisions. I have never really wanted to paint portraits until now...! I can't wait to try it and to practice. Thank you
I just recently started to paint portraits but was struggling with skin color. This video is SO helpful. And also watching it is so calming. I love what you say about pregnant women and their life cycle. So beautiful. Congratulations to you and your wife and family. I'm a subscriber now. :)
I am enjoying your videos very very much, and your comments are spot on and very practical. Your wife's pregnancy painting is just beautiful, what a blessing!
At 10:36 is where you teach us to not soften all the edges or else we will get “mush” and that’s why I keep watching your skin tone videos. Thank you so much.
You gave a lot of advices that I was looking for. I tend to put darker pigments in the second and third was and then I regret because the shadows are way too dark. Lovely painting thank you for the lesson
Hope this video is helpful for you! Is it easier than you think? ☺️
This helped so much I always struggled with skin tones, thank you!
I was actually just experimenting with skin tones, so this was very useful. Also, lovely portrait. :D
Great help, thank you. I just have to say how beautiful your beautiful your wife is. There’s nothing more beautiful than carrying a baby x
@@emmasheppard2639 aww thank you. I truly believe that. The mother's glow on a woman is incredibly beautiful
fantastic tutorial, thank you so much for sharing :)
I literally got teary-eyed when he described painting Pregnancy. So much respect for this man. I can feel his love for his wife. I've learned lot as well. Thank you!
Me too! I love how he describes the beauty a woman has when pregnant. 💕
You are an amazing artist, and your wife is a lucky woman to have such a loving father for her babies.
I am in the middle of a project right now for a pregnancy painting. This video was serendipity. Thank you!!!
It's such a beautiful stage of a women's life that I can never imagine or experience. Good luck with the painting, and I wish the person who is pregnant a wonderful pregnancy! :)
@@Cafewatercolor thank you!
I agree completely, there is something divine about it.
I started following you on Instagram, I'll try and message you the painting once I finish.
Eric,
"Transparency is everything" I'm looking at my paintings and seeing where I have gone wrong. Pure gold, thank you.
Brilliant video and thank you for sharing. Love to you and your family.
Thank you ☺️
This tutorial was fabulous, however i was more inspired by how he described his wife and the beauty of pregnancy. I long to find someone who looks at me that way
I really enjoyed this video. Your wife is beautiful and you represented her special time so well. By this time your little one is 3 years old!! How time flies.
Such a beautiful painting of your wife! I love how you showed the shape and light reflections.
Beautiful painting. Thank you
Outstanding! I thanked God i stumble to this video. I'm a beginner watercolor painter and I have always been wanting to learn portraits. Seeing this pregnacy photo makes me wanna paint my pregnant photo and gift it to my partner on Father's day as I knew he loves and looks at me and our pregnancy journey the way you do with your wife. Sending love to your art and your family.
I will never tire of thanking you. Your videos are more than watercolor classes, they are professional mentoring. Here in the city of Maracay, Venezuela where I live there is no place to learn to paint watercolor. That is the reason why I feel so pleased with you. I can only wish that everything you have taught to me becomes wealth, health and happiness for you.
I am so glad I can help in a small way... I have a friend who's from Venezuela. I hope things will get better for you soon!
@@Cafewatercolor Yes it will be. Thank you. See you next class. Many blessings.
Eric’s Palette colors:
Carmine
Cadmium Red Hue
Cadmium orange hue
Cadmium yellow medium hue
Cerulean blue
Cobalt turquoise
Yellow ochre
Burnt Sienna
Burt umber
Alizarin crimson
Cobalt blue
Ultramarine blue
Neutral tint
wow, thanks for the notes! :)
@@Cafewatercolor I have several colors already. I would like to buy Carmine, Cadmium red hue, Cadmium orange hue but the names are different in Schmincke ! Is Permanent carmine the as Carmine ? I don't find the "hue" in cadmium orange and red ! Is it very important ? I have Cadmium free orange from W&N at home...is it ok ?
@@Maya.6868 Just give it a try. I've not used exactly the same colors neither and the results are good. I think the color tones and the technique is more important than the colors.
@@Maya.6868 Schmincke uses real cadmium pigments. Not hue.
Superb teaching as usual. Please keep repeating ‘shadow is absence of light, no need to add dark, just more layers’ then it might sink in! Thank you yet again.
I love your term "mush". It describes over mixing better than "mud". Thank you so much for sharing your talent.
Oh my god this is making so much more sense now. I’ve been really heavy handed with my dark colors when I should have been more focused on opacity. This is brilliant thank you so much for this video!
Glad it was helpful for you! ☺️
Your way of teaching, explaining and demonstrating is over the top helpful. I have to take notes its so good. This hasn’t happened in a long time and I watch a lot of art RUclips videos. I am amazed.
Your love and respect for your wife is also over the top refreshing, almost unheard of, really ever. In this way, you are making a huge difference in peoples lives.
I am excited to learn this material.
That's such a high compliment. Thank you so much 🥰
Transparency is everything. 🥰Not easy. Practice,practice,practice🤗
What a beautiful painting and your description of each brushstroke was superb. Thank you for sharing it.
Beautiful painting of Auntie, you are a great artist!
I just discovered misulbi's youtube channel of absolutely amazing watercolor portraits. Stunning brush and water control.
Final portrait is exquisite. Love it.
Such good information, what a wonderful way to show your wife you treasure her💕 Pregnancy is a time when many women don’t feel beautiful but your painting truly captures that she is.
Wow, this is the most helpful video I have found on this subject. Thank you. Gorgeous photo, sketch, and painting of your beautiful wife also❤️
Only those who don't appreciate what they are watching could be bored. Thank you for sharing.
What a beautiful and dear painting of your wife. Thank you for a clear and concise tutorial.
Such a wonderfully beautiful painting of your wife!!! Thank you!
This portrait is so charming. The skin glows with the transparency of color. Beautifully done.
Fantastic demo! I enjoyed hearing your love for your wife and family as you described your perspective on pregnancy. And you helped demystify watercolor skin tones for me. Thank you.
When I click on YT vids that are around 30+ minutes long, I already expect myself to be skipping parts. Yet, I watched this whole video without even a single regard of how much time may or may not have passed. I'm glad I didn't. I learned so much! Thank you!
Thank you so much 🥰 I try my best not to have fillers in my videos! Really appreciate it!
Usually I always fast forward this kind of video but I don't know why hearing you speak is so soothing and clear ❤️
Your wife's portrait was beautiful and i really enjoyed watching you paint this...Thank you!
I was in tears by the end of this video. All the love and attention and talent put into this BEAUTIFUL portrait! Bravo, proud father!
Love everything' about this video!
I was quite moved by the portrait of your wife ! I have been painting for decades and marvel that you have only been doing watercolor for only 5 years. Thank you for your excellent insight and instruction.
thank you! well, 5 years is the time I work with watercolor, but before that, I have been doing drawing and painting with other mediums. So I think that also helped me =)
Fabulous painting technique, learned so much from this video, thank you Eric for sharing this, I guess the unborn baby is now a toddler.
I think this is the 4th or 5th time I look this tutorial. Each time I learn something new. And I guess if I keep watching it I'll keep learning. Thank you Eric.
I can see that you REALY Love this Woman. She is the Madonna for sure. She is absolutely stunning.
I love watching someone like you who really knows what they are doing with watercolor, paint things like this. It is tricky to get these especially when you are pretty much just learning off of others and trial and error! Thank you for the mixes and instruction. I absolutely love watercolor.
Your portrait of your beautiful wife is amazing!! What a thoughtful gift! I love it.🌻
Thank you very much! This was the most helpful video on skin tones and how to paint skin I have seen. Plus your commentary was awesome. I appreciate your comments on pregnancy paintings as well. Congratulations on a spectacular painting, teaching video and your little one.
Your painting is amazing I watch your video few times, your wife is beautiful and your painting show how much you love her, happy beautiful family 👪 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Your love for your wife comes through in your painting ! Beautiful !
I have to say, your explanation was clearer than any of my art lecturers. I wish I found your channel years ago when I was still in art school; it would have made a world of a difference for me! Thank you for your videos!
Beautiful painting of your wife, it’s wonderful how you cherished her transformation!
The painting of your wife is beautiful!! Thank you very much for the color mixing for skin tones!!
Such a beautiful portrait of your wonderful wife! And such a rich content of instructions! Thank you, Eric!!!❤
Such a wonderful video,besides learning about mixing colours for skin tones have learnt that you are a wonderful person,talking so lovingly about your wife & pregnancy. God bless you and your family. Blessings to your kid.
Your rough sketches are beautiful. I never draw sketches from my mind that looks this real!
Again iam so proud to see this DEMO. I ENJOY YOU SO MUCH there is never a bad DEMO ❤😊
I keep watching this video of yours for understanding the skin tone painting 🙏🏼
I love the way you tell your colors and how to mix them ❤
Awww you made me cry...Thanks for sharing your beautiful thoughts about your wife’s pregnancy 🤰🏻💕🙏🏻. So right so precious 😘💕
I really enjoyed your video. Your comment about the darker part of the face is more opaque, not darker, was very valuable to me. Thanks so much.
Thank you, great video!
Congratulations on a wonderful portrait and on your new baby.
So beautiful, the love for your wife shines through every brushstroke. Amazing.
Such a beautiful painting of your wife. Thank you for the excellent way that you explain your painting process. I love your videos, your paintings are like a breath of fresh air!
Eric! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOUUUUUU!!!!!! Perfect! I am soooo grateful to YOU!
Your delivery, and information has really been helpful in improving my watercolor work. These are wonderful lessons, and your tribute to your wife and children is terrific. Thank you, Eric.
I am beyond impressed with your art, speechless!
This was so beautiful to watch. You are so sweet with your loving words of your wife while she was caring your child. Thank you for sharing this with us. Very special
This is hands down the most helpful video for painting watercolour portraits I've come across. Multiple astutely narrated examples, and then a complete start-to-finish demo. I have to see your other videos. You are *such* a good teacher! Thank you!
Great skin tone tutorial, Eric! The pregnant woman came out gorgeous. Beautiful way to remember such a precious time.
Thank you! It was such a joy to paint my wife at her special moment 🥰
i really liked your tutorial for making realistic skin tones and was enthralled with the painting demonstration of your wife...it is a beautiful painting!
Beautiful drawing and beautiful painting. I love it.
Wonderful! You are the best teacher ever
I am a painter and have been working lately with watercolor as my main medium. I struggled so much with skin tone. This Video helped me IMMENSELY and I can’t thank you enough for the tips. Love ur painting at the end! It turned out wonderful.
It is extremely helpful for me - trying to go into the drawing uni in Ukraine. Thank you so much for this video and sharing your knowledge.
Your wife is very beautiful. Skin tones make more sense to me now. Thank you.
What a beautiful painting of your wife. You have really honoured her.
How long I heard, and sad to say, believed: "He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches."
Happy to say that this has not been so in my experience.
Even happier to say that:
He who can and does, and masters his art/craft; and then chooses to be magnanimous in encouraging and supporting others who seek to learn (as you do so very often and so very thoroughly) exceeds the level of mastery.
Having no idea what the name of that level might be, it is with great appreciation and honor that I learn from you.
Thank you!
Thank you for such kind words! =)
I am so touched and encouraged by them.
It is a challenge at first to break down my thought process and the reason behind my actions. But it gets easier after I do it more. It also helps me as well because I started to make more and more conscious decisions when I paint. Again, thank you =)
You’ve no idea how much you’ve helped me! I’ve completed my first ever watercolour portrait after attempting for months!! But I found this video last night and it completely changed my work! Its by no means perfect but the lessons you taught in this video were so helpful and completely changed how I applied paint. I can’t thank you enough! This is honestly the only video on all of RUclips that’s helped me. You’re a star 💫
Hello.. dark color is just reducing light … this statement helped me solve the problem of muddy colors for me.. thank you! Subbed!
This painting is beautiful! I've been an artist for many years but have always shied away from watercolor. I took the leap to watercolor only a couple weeks ago and am quickly falling in love with it. I am now thinking of doing my first watercolor portrait and I'm so glad I watched your video first. Thank you for sharing your knowledge - you do wonderful work!
This was one of the best demonstrations I have seen on portrait paintings. Thank you so much! Also thank you for the kind words about pregnancy and women.
Thank you! ☺️
His rough draw is the best of mine I- omg
wow, Eric, you're so great at explaining - thank you !
Very nice work Eric, a great example of clean, light watercolour washes at its best. I have no doubt that your beautiful wife loved the portrait.
It is more enjoyable watching this video the second time. My understanding to painting in watercolour increases. Thank you also for sharing your views on pregnancy in this video. I ( a mother too) also find pregnancy a wonderful stage in a woman's life.
Beautiful! Congratulations to you and your wife as well!
This is an excellent series. Very basic and surprisingly powerful.
Thank you for sharing your technique here. So often I heard the other style that you mention. This is new for me, thank you once again 🙏🥰
I love the way you teach!!! Thank you Sir!!
I learn so much from watching you paint and talk through your decisions. I have never really wanted to paint portraits until now...! I can't wait to try it and to practice. Thank you
I just love the useful information for using watercolors with the inspiration to see things in a different light. Thank you.
Thank you Eric, an excellent video and I've learnt a lot about transparency painting of your skin tones. It's a lovely painting of your wife.
I just recently started to paint portraits but was struggling with skin color. This video is SO helpful. And also watching it is so calming. I love what you say about pregnant women and their life cycle. So beautiful. Congratulations to you and your wife and family. I'm a subscriber now. :)
What a beautiful painting
Such a thorough and enlightening tutorial showing the complete painting - thank you so much! Congrats on your new family member.
I am enjoying your videos very very much, and your comments are spot on and very practical. Your wife's pregnancy painting is just beautiful, what a blessing!
Thank you 🥰 I am indeed bless to witness this beautiful transformation in a personal and intimate way
Amazingly beautiful. You paint her with love. She is stunning and the painting was absolutely spectacular!
Beautiful portrait of your wife, Congratulations!!
loved watching you paint
Wow. So much information, lovely painting. Thank you!
Realy great watercolor paintig.thaks u so much for shaing👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Completely mesmerized watching this...Just lovely!!!
Great demo video, especially how you explained what you were doing as you were doing it! Bravo
Tour tips on transparency will help me a lot. Thank you.
At 10:36 is where you teach us to not soften all the edges or else we will get “mush” and that’s why I keep watching your skin tone videos. Thank you so much.
Thank You Eric for this very helpful tutorial.
You gave a lot of advices that I was looking for. I tend to put darker pigments in the second and third was and then I regret because the shadows are way too dark. Lovely painting thank you for the lesson
Sehr schön, danke für die hilfreichen Erklärungen!👏🏻👏🏻👌👌☺️☺️