Hi Emma, thank you for your videos. A little suggestion for those on a really tight budget. When I practice brushstrokes and do not want to use my “cheap” watercolor paper I use poster paper. 1 Sheet at the $ store can be cut into 8x10” pieces. I then use just my brush and water. I can practice as much as I want and when it dries I can reuse that piece again and again. I have found that the blue colour poster paper gives the best contrast while practicing. I often do this as a stress reliever or doodling while on the phone.
Thanks to you. I now have dozens of pages of light pressure, heavy pressure, light pressure going in every imaginable direction. You’re teaching is invaluable!
Thank you Emma. I am over 70 and been trying to paint in watercolour for years. Watching you paint these leaves has helped me to now practice my leaves in a more relaxed way. God Bless
I enjoyed not only the techniques, but the reminder of just how endless the shades of greens there are. Just step outside and see how many you see....there are so so many!!!
I am a total barney newby at this, only did one day, went to Blick to get paint and brushes and paper and now am watching you! This is just what I needed, thank you, thank you, thank you!
I love the way u explain and teach!!!!! I am 70 and year old, but my dear thank u so much for such honest Water Colour Strokes!!!!!! U inspire me sooo much Today I am going to paint!!!!! Please teach More!!!! 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 Uma Agnihotri
Thank you soo much Emma! I don't know if you realise just how much you've helped me! For years I've been wanting to give watercolor a try. I've been watching you for almost 2 months. I know with all of my heart I can do this. Just as a young girl I learned how to sew and I became very good at it making my three daughters and even a son their clothing, not to mention clothing for myself and friends. It was never about money. I am not a business woman. The same will be for this art. I will do it for the pure joy of creating beauty. I'm still saving for all the supplies. My Amazon list is ready as soon as my pocketbook is.
This is probably the most worthwhile video I have ever done. Learned a lot and I’m beginning to see what I have been doing incorrectly and why my results don’t always look so good!
Went back and am repeating your drills and strokes series. It makes more sense to me now than first time you are a great teacher please stay on you tube
I would love a drill for roses and peonies I can practice every day! I struggle so much with them. Also a video on composition of florals and leaves! Thank you for being such a fabulous teacher!
I love that you share your talent with us!! I have never had a desire to paint since I only do stick figures, but I believe that I'm going to the strokes. I've been following your videos and have decided to at least give it a try. Thanks!
LOVE your drills. More of these types of videos please! I feel like there are a ton of drills for hand lettering and it's hard to find with watercolor. My leaves already look a ton better after doing these drills. Thanks so much. Your videos bring so much joy into my life!!
Thank you for such a great tutorial, you cover the really important things that many others haven't, it has really made me enjoy painting for the first time in my life, at the age of 41 😊
Thank you, thank you Emma! Your practice drills teaching are so well detailed and taught. I do have difficulty with water control and I know that takes a lot of practice. But you seem like a very patient and kind teacher. I do rewatch your videos over and over, so very helpful 👏❣️
Thank u Emma for this informative watercolour video. Its given me confidence to play around with shapes and sizes. Your absolutely correct, there is no such thing as a perfect leaf. Organic shapes are perfect too 🙏
I have always painted precise lines in my acrylic art. I’m finding so much freedom in my acrylic painting by learning watercolor techniques!!! Love your videos. Have gone back and watched many of your previous videos as well!
I like how you bring your brush back down to the stem as this keeps the puddle in a more natural spot. Thank so much, my practice leaves looked way better. I even got out a real photo I took of one of my plants and tried replicating the leaves, very fun and relaxing..
Wow Just stumbled on your drill tutorials I was struggling with watercolours and controlling the brush after following a few other artists on you tube, I couldn’t mimick the brush strokes and was getting disillusioned, doesn’t take a lot for that to happen Now you’ve explained the physical technique simple it’s clicked well starting too Excited now thank you
Thank you so much for these wonderful drills! It is taking me a very long time to pick up the basic hand/brush control, and these drills are helping me so much.
I've just started to try to learn watercolor a bit ago. Thanks for your demos and giving me hope that I might get the hang of this! This leaves and your petals one have been excellent and encouraging.
THANK YOU. This is A TEACHING VIDEO, the best so far. I saw plenty but non did the first part you did, they directly start painting with words "light, press"!!! I really appreciate your effort and time. Best wishes.
I want to thank you so much I just tried doing some of these and the flowers from other videos too and I'm so shocked I managed to do something that actually resembles a flower with leaves using old very basic watercolors I had forgotten in a drawer! thank you 🌻
This was super useful, thank you Emma. At first when the music kicked in I was like 'oh no, she's not going to tell us exactly what to do!'... but I really enjoyed the chill music and just seeing what happened on my page. Good idea. Very relaxing too!
I’m with you Shirley, I’ve been using watercolors for a couple of months. I wanted to be perfect from day one, just who I am, but quickly realized that that’s not how it works. Since I found Emma, I have learned that I need to start at the beginning. Emma is so good about making the beginning fun. Thank you Emma!.❤
Hi Emma, I really enjoy your videos and I'm learning A LOT with them! Love them all! Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledgement with us. One thing that I would like to ask you is How do you balance a composition? I mean, after choosing your palette, how do you balance the flower composition with big flowers, small flowers, greens, etc to get a dinamic composition? Maybe you could talk about it in a video...
LOVE these abcdefg …..videos as I am such a newbie at watercolor. My friend and I have been trying to learn and going to our local art studio to paint with others of various levels of skill. Your instruction is really helping me understand the dynamics of this medium. Your attitude of just go for it……if at first you don’t succeed…..is priceless 💕
Ty for actually showing how to make leaves as truly can’t draw. Now that using 100% cotton paper can see how much better it works compared to the Canson XL & the water does sit on top of the paper (once took 45 minutes for water droplets to just evaporate w air) but for practice must use up the Canson & it’s about learning muscle memory by practicing & if “cauliflower” places no big deal. Going to practice C curves as so far my roses don’t look like them but this helped so much!!!
Very well explained and real time demonstration is great. Not many people do this, all I found is speed up videos that really do not show anything. Thank you.
Fantastic video! Thanks for creating this step by step drill tutorial. It's very helpful as it demystifies leaves and flowers, something that appears effortless but can be frustrating without proper technique. My ability transformed thanks to your guidance and I feel more confident already, after only a few attempts at watercolour. By the way, I am actually using the ink from inside my Ecoline watercolour brush pens which I scribble onto a plastic pallet and then use a watercolour brush to apply the ink to paper. It's an effective substitute for watercolour paint for those who don't yet have a set. Thanks again!
Today water Colours Levo, with Breas help of Stroke Light to Darksid . Preacatical painting 🖌️🎨 Neutral and working painting -*- Strokes & Readmi Round fold ing.Nuter Drawing Sketches, practical experience.** Emma very Nice and Interesting Vizlistion process.Thanks you.❤
Hi Emma, thank you for your videos. A little suggestion for those on a really tight budget. When I practice brushstrokes and do not want to use my “cheap” watercolor paper I use poster paper. 1 Sheet at the $ store can be cut into 8x10” pieces. I then use just my brush and water. I can practice as much as I want and when it dries I can reuse that piece again and again. I have found that the blue colour poster paper gives the best contrast while practicing. I often do this as a stress reliever or doodling while on the phone.
Thanks to you. I now have dozens of pages of light pressure, heavy pressure, light pressure going in every imaginable direction. You’re teaching is invaluable!
Thank you Emma.
I am over 70 and been trying to paint
in watercolour for years.
Watching you paint these leaves
has helped me to now practice my
leaves in a more relaxed way.
God Bless
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Me too! We’re never too old to learn a new skill! 😊
Me too! Over 73 and will keep working at it! Thank you!
I enjoyed not only the techniques, but the reminder of just how endless the shades of greens there are. Just step outside and see how many you see....there are so so many!!!
The easy going tempo of you painting makes it so relaxing & enjoyable....thank you!!!
I am a total barney newby at this, only did one day, went to Blick to get paint and brushes and paper and now am watching you!
This is just what I needed, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Love this, Emma! Practice is my downfall - I want things to look good the first time I do them and yet I know how important practice is.
This is me as well 🙈🤣I expect to be perfect immediately and get frustrated when it's not, but I've learned to practice and I'm enjoying practicing xx
I can so relate Diana!! I'm starting to do more practicing!
This is good not only for beginners, it's a good way to warm up your hand for the day. 👍
Yes! You are so right!!
I want to tell you how enjoyable it was to paint along with you and learn so much! Thank you
I love the way u explain and teach!!!!! I am 70 and year old, but my dear thank u so much for such honest Water Colour Strokes!!!!!! U inspire me sooo much Today I am going to paint!!!!! Please teach More!!!! 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 Uma Agnihotri
Thank you soo much Emma! I don't know if you realise just how much you've helped me! For years I've been wanting to give watercolor a try. I've been watching you for almost 2 months. I know with all of my heart I can do this. Just as a young girl I learned how to sew and I became very good at it making my three daughters and even a son their clothing, not to mention clothing for myself and friends. It was never about money. I am not a business woman. The same will be for this art. I will do it for the pure joy of creating beauty. I'm still saving for all the supplies. My Amazon list is ready as soon as my pocketbook is.
This is probably the most worthwhile video I have ever done. Learned a lot and I’m beginning to see what I have been doing incorrectly and why my results don’t always look so good!
It’s also good to tap that first drip on a paper towel, this is very watery. A lot of fun, but flow back is messy.
Went back and am repeating your drills and strokes series. It makes more sense to me now than first time you are a great teacher please stay on you tube
Omg! I’ve made a “break through “ on leaves thanks to this video! Thank you!
I would love a drill for roses and peonies I can practice every day! I struggle so much with them. Also a video on composition of florals and leaves! Thank you for being such a fabulous teacher!
I love that you share your talent with us!! I have never had a desire to paint since I only do stick figures, but I believe that I'm going to the strokes. I've been following your videos and have decided to at least give it a try. Thanks!
Yay. Turn those sticks into strokes!
LOVE your drills. More of these types of videos please! I feel like there are a ton of drills for hand lettering and it's hard to find with watercolor. My leaves already look a ton better after doing these drills. Thanks so much. Your videos bring so much joy into my life!!
actually useful watercolour video among the countless "beginner tutorials" ive seen here. pressure and water control is so important
By far the best ever beginner’s tutorial thank you for breaking it down and growing nice and slow 🙏🌸
Thank you for such a great tutorial, you cover the really important things that many others haven't, it has really made me enjoy painting for the first time in my life, at the age of 41 😊
thank you! so many people teaching beginners forget these topics and this is so important.😊
Loved every aspect of this video! A great combination of practice strokes and simply a fun, relaxing creative paint session.
Oh my! I love that you are using a baby food jar !!! That is the best thing ever !!!
So love these leases and colors . So blessed thank you Emma
Thank you, thank you Emma! Your practice drills teaching are so well detailed and taught. I do have difficulty with water control and I know that takes a lot of practice. But you seem like a very patient and kind teacher. I do rewatch your videos over and over, so very helpful 👏❣️
I never see this type of video .....
Tank you very much......
Really an excellent.....
I believed I just meditated. That was amazing just to watch you paint. Please do more real time videos of just you painting. It’s beautiful
So much information in this, there are so many ways these strokes can be used. One of the most helpful watercolor videos I've watched. THANK you.
Thank u Emma for this informative watercolour video. Its given me confidence to play around with shapes and sizes. Your absolutely correct, there is no such thing as a perfect leaf. Organic shapes are perfect too 🙏
I have always painted precise lines in my acrylic art. I’m finding so much freedom in my acrylic painting by learning watercolor techniques!!! Love your videos. Have gone back and watched many of your previous videos as well!
I like how you bring your brush back down to the stem as this keeps the puddle in a more natural spot. Thank so much, my practice leaves looked way better. I even got out a real photo I took of one of my plants and tried replicating the leaves, very fun and relaxing..
Awesome tutorial Emma. Thank you. 🌸🌿🌱🍃🌸🍃🌱🌿🌸
I cannot say enough about these drill videos. They are so incredibly helpful!!!! I hope you do more 👏🏼👏🏼 Thanks for all the content!
Wow
Just stumbled on your drill tutorials I was struggling with watercolours and controlling the brush after following a few other artists on you tube, I couldn’t mimick the brush strokes and was getting disillusioned, doesn’t take a lot for that to happen
Now you’ve explained the physical technique simple it’s clicked well starting too
Excited now thank you
Omg I’ve just figured out how to slow your video down now I can follow it much more confidently yay 😊
This was my favourite tutorial ever! I can’t wait to try this, thank you so much. 👏🏻💐
Great tutorials!
This was the most relaxed I have been painting! Thank you Emma
Thank you so much! My leaves and floral are finally looking more natural.
Thank you so much
Thank you so much for these wonderful drills! It is taking me a very long time to pick up the basic hand/brush control, and these drills are helping me so much.
I've just started to try to learn watercolor a bit ago. Thanks for your demos and giving me hope that I might get the hang of this! This leaves and your petals one have been excellent and encouraging.
THANK YOU.
This is A TEACHING VIDEO, the best so far.
I saw plenty but non did the first part you did, they directly start painting with words "light, press"!!!
I really appreciate your effort and time.
Best wishes.
This tutorial is just what I needed. I’m going to finally not just watch, but now try to do this! I like how you are helping beginners. Thank you.
You are hands down the best teacher!!! I just love these drills, perfect for a beginner and I'm getting it!!! Thank you for sharing, just so great!
Your such a great teacher. And I love that you give even what colors to mix
100% agree with Harriet H. Most enjoyable. As a rank beginner I like your teaching style.. 😃
Thank u Emma .. I really loved this video
This is very helpful, thanks
Another fantastic video taking the mystery outta leaves and flowers - thank you Emma Jane
Thanks for another brill tutorial Emma
I want to thank you so much I just tried doing some of these and the flowers from other videos too and I'm so shocked I managed to do something that actually resembles a flower with leaves using old very basic watercolors I had forgotten in a drawer! thank you 🌻
Just brilliant
I love looking at your work, this is almost a year ago and its still great to learn from today. thank you
Technique very nice to Learn. Thank you
Thank you!! I could sit and do this for hours. Your craft amo brush collab really helps with easy floral shapes! 💖
wow❤thanksthis is wonderful
I’m going to use this to start my watercolor journey. I’m a total newbie.
Very nice
all the besttt🍀
Emma this is soooo pretty! I love it!
This was so incredibly helpful! The drills definitely helped me understand how to have more control over the brush. Thank you so much, Emma!
This was super useful, thank you Emma. At first when the music kicked in I was like 'oh no, she's not going to tell us exactly what to do!'... but I really enjoyed the chill music and just seeing what happened on my page. Good idea. Very relaxing too!
Just followed along with your tutorial as a beginner and I had so much fun! Super informative and also very relaxed. Thanks 😊
Thank you and appreciated!
Fabulous!
Just what I needed thank you, love your channel, I’ve learnt sooooo much watching and listening to you x
Such beautiful leaves 😍 I love leaves 🤗 Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful talent 🙏
That was so relaxing. Thank you Emma. I’ve only been painting for 6 weeks, but your videos have helped me a lot.
I’m with you Shirley, I’ve been using watercolors for a couple of months. I wanted to be perfect from day one, just who I am, but quickly realized that that’s not how it works. Since I found Emma, I have learned that I need to start at the beginning. Emma is so good about making the beginning fun. Thank you Emma!.❤
Simply, AMAZING.
Love this, thank you Emma! Can’t wait for another video like this, focused on florals like you mention, instead of leaves!
Yes, some people seem to do strokes and a flowers petals are made, or they lift, and a highlighted petal appears.
I used oil before and am trying watercolir. I have looked at other videos but enjoy yours best. I am retired and from Pennsylvania
I'm kinda shocked I could do any of this! (because you make it so clear and relaxing) Thank you!
Thank you for thoroughly explaining and giving us these drills to practice. You're a good teacher
Hi Emma, I really enjoy your videos and I'm learning A LOT with them! Love them all! Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledgement with us. One thing that I would like to ask you is How do you balance a composition? I mean, after choosing your palette, how do you balance the flower composition with big flowers, small flowers, greens, etc to get a dinamic composition? Maybe you could talk about it in a video...
This is exactly what I need. Thanks for the great drills, Emma!
Great, slow paced, very detailed tutorial! Thank you. I went to train)))
Muchas Gracias!
LOVE these abcdefg …..videos as I am such a newbie at watercolor. My friend and I have been trying to learn and going to our local art studio to paint with others of various levels of skill. Your instruction is really helping me understand the dynamics of this medium. Your attitude of just go for it……if at first you don’t succeed…..is priceless 💕
Thank you very much Emma. This help me alot. I appliciated the way you teach.
Such a great teacher
Beautiful 😍
This is going to be handy. Been looking for a tutorial like this, drills! Thank you again for another wonderful tutorial.
What a wonderful video!! Thank you so much! This is a wonderful resource for watercolorists! You are SO talented!! Thank you again!!
Ty for actually showing how to make leaves as truly can’t draw.
Now that using 100% cotton paper can see how much better it works compared to the Canson XL & the water does sit on top of the paper (once took 45 minutes for water droplets to just evaporate w air) but for practice must use up the Canson & it’s about learning muscle memory by practicing & if “cauliflower” places no big deal. Going to practice C curves as so far my roses don’t look like them but this helped so much!!!
Super.... Merci pour toutes les explications....🍀🍀🍀
thank you Emma
Very well explained and real time demonstration is great. Not many people do this, all I found is speed up videos that really do not show anything. Thank you.
Emma I had such fun. Thank you. You are such a good teacher.🥰
Sweet.. exactly what I need to refresh skills I had years ago .. just purr fect😻
I really like this tutorial and how you explain the techniques. Thank you so much for taking the time to make your videos.
Awesome !!
Thank you Emma! What a great video... so much info and it is so fun to watch you paint...
Good tech for fish
Fantastic video! Thanks for creating this step by step drill tutorial. It's very helpful as it demystifies leaves and flowers, something that appears effortless but can be frustrating without proper technique. My ability transformed thanks to your guidance and I feel more confident already, after only a few attempts at watercolour. By the way, I am actually using the ink from inside my Ecoline watercolour brush pens which I scribble onto a plastic pallet and then use a watercolour brush to apply the ink to paper. It's an effective substitute for watercolour paint for those who don't yet have a set. Thanks again!
Good art,👏👏👏
really enjoy this vedio, thanks a lot
I watched your water colour series .. IT WAS A BLAST. LOVE IT.
All the best for your art journey..
Today water Colours Levo, with Breas help
of Stroke Light to Darksid . Preacatical painting 🖌️🎨 Neutral and working painting -*- Strokes & Readmi Round fold ing.Nuter Drawing Sketches, practical experience.** Emma very Nice and Interesting Vizlistion process.Thanks you.❤
Those are just beautiful. Thanks!
Very helpful
This was so helpful. A very good pace. Thank you