10 Things I WISH I Knew SOONER Before Starting Watercolor Painting
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In this video, I'll share 10 things I WISH I knew sooner before getting started with watercolor painting! When you start learning how to paint with watercolors, you don't really realize all these things. So it took me years to realize them! That's why I hope I can save you a lot of time and frustration! All these tips can also be used for other painting techniques! I really hope you'll find them helpful!
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"Being kind of bad at something is the first step to being kind of good at something."
Exactly!
Well make sense
makoccino love you video’s
@@Makoccino I tried a basic pumpkin(from shayda) ,its looking easy to paint ,ı tried all of them i spent 3 hours for them .sometimes ı dont wanna paint something.i feel 😡😥😖
I sure understand that feeling! Not giving up and know I’m my own worst critic!
These are great advice not just for painting but for anything in life. I am a struggling graduate student with so much anxiety and started watercolor painting recently to get away from the stress. I am so glad I found you
I really needed this. I'm truly horrible at painting and keep avoiding it even though I love it. I think it's time I acknowledge my lack of skills in painting and start to build them. Thank you so much for making this video because it really helps a beginner. I hope I can be good enough to post paintings videos on my channel one day. Take care. 😊
Hey I just looked at your channel and subscribed you are such a good artist please carry on!
@@lucyb6512 That is so nice of you...I don't know what to say. Thank you for the words of encouragement and support. 😭
I also just looked at your channel, I’d love to see more art from you! Keep it up! ^^
@@hi-jn9gc Thank you so much. Your encouragement really means a lot. 🤧
I feel the same way 🥺 I recently got some more expensive paints for my birthday and I'm excited to try them now
You don't have to match colors of your reference photo. The key is to understand Light and shadow and how you can use warm and cool colors to create the contrast. Don't go for details instead focus on depth and perspective. Try to use basic colors and try mixing them instead of using various options, this will improve your understanding of colors.
Thanks a lot for your advice! Before watching this video, I wanted my paintings absolutely 100% the same as yours and I felt stressed. Now I feel more relaxed because as you said. I don't need to use the same colors as yours to create my paintings. It makes me ill when it doesn't look like your paintings. Such useful advice!
I really appreciate your pep talks. Watercolour has absolutely helped me in my regular life to accept things for how they turn out rather than blaming myself for the results not being as I had imagined them.
Thank you for sharing the tips! I usually don't like my paintings immediately after I am "done". But somehow, as you said, they always look better the day after! I think stepping away and letting my paintings settle in make all the difference :)
Such fantastic advice to hesitant beginners like myself! I've begun doing art to relive my stress and anxiety and I'm really loving it. I create a lot of crap, but occasionally, I surprise myself by making something really delicate and pretty. I often ask myself who I'm kidding, taking up art out of nowhere and at my age. I often have to counsel myself and remind myself why I'm doing it and to please tap into some joy and not get competitive.
Your advice, to my ears, was so full of love and compassion. It has given me a shot of courage and convinced me to take more risks! I don't know where this path is taking me, but this video was a beautiful milestone and and it will stay with me for a long, long time...
Thank you!
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Hi... I wanted to ask you if water colour works on canvas' .
Who else is better to ask then the water color queen .am I right.
Can you pls post on art amino mako🤔☺
Hello Mako! Just wanna say you're doing such a helpful job. I love you and your videos. They're very helpful and you're very talented. Keep up this amazing job. And it makes me happy to see a notification from your channel.
❤💙💜💚💛
Btw, Mako, how do I know when I am ready to sell my artworks?
These were extremely useful, well-grounded advices. All beginners should see this:)
You are my inspiration for watercolours mako!
I really improved after watching your videos
One of your little fan from india
yes mine too
Me too from India 😅😅
Thanks a bunch!!! I worked mainly in Oils and Acrylics, but recently I started doing Watercolours too and I'm in love with this medium now!!! ❤️
Perfect timing!! I was just about to start a watercolor painting! 💖
Mako 😌 You are such a loving pure soul, It’s what I admire about you. All your videos contain such genuine love and advice, I feel the theme you give me is “ Never give up and to keep going “ Seriously it’s so spectacular..The advice is so similar to the things you can say to comfort people who are struggling in life or in whatever situation they’re in.. We’ve all been there 🥰😘 It’s just amazing, YOUR AMAZING 😁😄
Awww thank you so much for your sweet comment! It means a lot!
Yes to every single of your tips. I only paint digitally and as a hobby, but after being told in my childhood that I was not talented at all, about one year ago I took my ipad and start drawing and it seems I am not so bad after all...but it takes time and patience to develop your skills. Thanks for all your tips and advice. Take care!
Daniel Brylka there's no such a thing as talent. talent = hard work, so there's nothing impossible for you. i believe you are going to be a good artist ♡
beya sunderland thank you so much for your kind words. They mean a lot to me!
i don't know if you'll notice this, but I'm eager to know how to stay positive and all to reach this part of a journey especially if you' have just started now. and Tysm for your tips
To be positive is matter to habit and practice. Once it's become your nature you won't go back.
One way to overcome issues is to imagine life after 5 years and know that that time today will be faint memory and what is happening today won't matter.
Showing you that things change and there is no point worrying about today.
Second thing about being positive in mind set is to be happy with whatever you have.
There are many more things. Personally last time I was worried was 2017 when I lost my wife. Before it 1992 was last time I was ever worried or sad.
recently got an artist grade colour pan (windsor violet) from Winsor & Newton. The difference is incredible, when uses in wet on wet the colour literally explodes, and is so much more pigmented that you can really get a lot out of little pigment.
I have been painting for years and am about to teach my first adult class and am a little anxious because I paint abstract pieces and my technique is very unique to me. Your videos are brilliant, informative and sensible and make so much sense. Quite inspirational. Thank you Mako🌹🌹🌹
Hey Mako, just wanted to tell you that your videos have made me have so much more progress in painting with watercolors, thank you for everything!💜💜💜
Yayy!
Thank you for your gentile words of encouragement and fun videos. I can't wait to see the next video.
I love making art when I was just a kid but when I entered high school I stopped making an art because I compared myself to my classmate who seem doing his art perfectly only from his imagination. So I tell myself "ah okay, I'm not really a good artist because I can't even create without using references" so I hold this mindset inside me for almost 8 years. Now in the middle of pandemic, I gave myself a chance to try and create again. I'm so glad I am finally starting to free myself from the guilt everytime I will use references 🥺 thank you for mentioning that, I really appreciate this video ♥️🥺
I'm just getting started with watercolor, I found you at the right time. Thank you so much! 🥰
O MY GOSH! I LOVE YOU! YOU'RE AMAZING! Insanely amazing and at the same time simple ideas!
You are so beautiful soul. Love the way you inspired .
Can’t wait to learn from you
God bless you
Extremely useful tips makoccino . I watch your videos and I paint .
Thank u 😀😃☺️
I’m new to watercolour and I totally agree about leaving some time and look at it again at a later date! For me, with any kind of creative work, it’s because it doesn’t match the image in my mind. After time has passed, the image in my mind fades and I can more clearly see the artwork for what it really is, not in comparison to my imagination!
Great Topic! I have had problems breaking out the supplies without expecting something I like. Stefan Baumann talks about how when you practice painting you should not expect a masterpiece every time, you should think of it like learning to play an instrument, you never want to hear your 'learning' practice, you work towards getting better, falling in love with the process. Practice makes perfect is what my music teachers said. Plus, on an instrument, you play the hard measures and 'wood shed' them down to tiny bits don't play the music from top to bottom wrong notes and then stop over and over. Play only the difficult measures at first. Break them down, slow the tempo, change the rhythm, speed it up faster than you can play it, sing it, dissect note for note until it is under your fingers and a song in your heart. Then work it into the whole piece. I think sketch books are made for 'awful noses, ears, hands, feet' the little difficult pieces to paint. The pressure to make a good sketch book is ridiculous, sure get good practice, but keep trying new difficult pictures. Thank you for being so inspiring!
Thank you, I am loving your channel and I feel inspired to paint!
Thank you so much ❤🌸
I ♥️ ur vids, they are so informative and makes my art life easier
Thanks for the 💓 makoccino
Hi mako
The thing which I like about you the most is your positiveness .
Love the way you inspired me .
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Awww
I can't imagine that you like my comment
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Thank you for the tips!👏👏👍👍 I will start with watercolors soon 🤗🤗🌈🖌️🎨
Hiii I’m new to water painting but because of your help I’m becoming better day by day .thanks😄
Your videos have a lot of detailed information that is very useful for beginners....
Infact you are my inspiration to start watercolor painting 🎨
All credits for my improvement in watercolor painting goes to you
thank you so much!! this really helped me
Thank you very much for this information. I stopped painting even before I started. I was swatching my paint. I went to make purple and I couldn't do it. The color was all wrong. I know I tried to make a couple other colors and that didn't work either, so I quit. I'm frustrated. I watch you and others make beautiful paintings and I cannot get paint to mix. I really do love watching you paint. I remember when you were doing the acrylic pours, those were fun. Thank you for sharing ♥♥♥
Thank you for all the advices you give, I would love if you post or just try to post on - how to make hydrangea flowers or some card ideas please🥰
I love your watercolor videos! 💕 thanks!!!
You are my inspiration
Your videos are great
Finally U R back Mako. The previous and this video, both were very useful. Thanks lovely and creative Mako...
New subscriber! I've began dabbling with watercolours and your videos are such a help! Thank you! x
I really love all of your videos because your videos have been helping me a lot when ever i do watercolour painting i really got inspired by you love you ♥️🥰 stay blessed and stay happy keep smiling hope you are staying safe and healthy lots of love ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
this video is so accurate!!!
wow thank you for the watercolor course ❤️
Thanks it is really very helpful
Thank you for the information 💖 this will help me a lot
I love her approach to art in general. I dont even water paint. It's one of my least favorite mediums but alot of what she says can help with other forms of art. Plus shes very encouraging and inclusive.
Hi! I’m new one watching your videos and I really want to start painting with watercolor. I just don’t know how to started 😩. But you inspire me and I decided to get some lessons from you. Thank you 😊
Thank you!!! You are so sweet 😊
Thank you dear, its really good experience to listen to you...
"Paint what brings you joy." Best advice ever :)
Wow Beautiful scenery
needed this... thank you mako... always love your motivational videos. sending love. stay safe!
Wow great video
Great tips! Thank you.
So true, every single thing you say on here. It took me years as well to figure a lot of this out.
I just love to see your videos on RUclips, you are so simple and your words makes me happy. The words encourages me a lot. Thank you so much 💜💜
Aww thank you so much for the encouragement!
yes, so right ☺️
Thank you! This helped!
So informative and lovely video excellent 👍👍👏👏
Extremely helpful...thank you.
These art talk vids are really motivating, it makes me think of how I can be better in my art and relate to them in a healthier way. Thx Mako for all of these and others, all are really helpful and amazing! :)
Thank you! I can wait for your class. I preordered your book also. Thanks for the encouraging basic lessons. I need them!
I just love ya❤️❤️😍😍... Your paintings give me so much inspiration and ideas for drawings as I really sometimes get blunt but watching you helps me to clear that block... Thanks for posting these vdos of art❤️❤️
So happy to hear that! :)
@@Makoccino Hey do you sale your all paintings.
You are absolutely beautiful! I've just found you and your voice is so calm and bright! Thank you for the info and good luck with everything! 🙏🏻🤗
Yay. Today my 2 fav youtubers uploaded video at same time.
For the beginner like me, you inspired me lot. I really love all your painting. Thank you for your useful tips.
thank you makoccino!!!
this really help me like a loooot, thank you for this video, love it! 💗
This video is very helpful I like your videos and paintings and I also try to paint like you 😍😍
I am the beginner .Thank you for the tips.
Thank you so much for this video. I really needed this because I'd put off using watercolours for a while due to most of these reasons and had been wanting to get back to it but still a bit hesitant.
Glad it was helpful!
@@Makoccino I joined your free course. So excited!! You always make watercolors seem so fun and less stressful.
Everything you shared in this video is relatable. I myself faced these issues specially judging the work at ts ugly stage and freak out that it won't turn out the way I wanted
ive joined the wait list :-) Love your work
Love your hair mako! ❤️❤️
Thnq💓😍 Helpful one!😃
I really appreciate the way you talk, it's so comfy, sweet and clever. Thank you for being such an inspiration 🤩
this was so encouraging , you are an inspiration
Thank you so much . that was so helpful for me.
Much needed advice for both beginners and experienced watercolorists
Thank you for the video and the great advice!🙏
You are awesome and your idea's are perfect. I love your work di😊 thank you
I love it thx such beautiful art
Uber helpfull, great advice.
Great video, it really helped remind me of some things and it gave me a push to just start painting in my sketchbook again 😆😆
I love drawing and painting but I always end up messing up my painting I am always inspired by other artists paints which probably inspires me to keep trying
Finallly, i miss you mako !
could you do a painting tutorial for the painting at 4:47 please :)) great video as always
Thanks for sharing ☺
Really helpful .... thank you 🤗♥️
You are really inspiring.
Thank you! I’m so new to this and really get frustrated. I really appreciate your perspective and positivity. I hope your course opens up soon. Would love to take it!
you are a perfect teacher.. love from India 💜
"don't judge your painting too early" - omg this is so true! I myself have the disgusting habit of looking at an unfinished piece and thinking, wtf am I doing 😅
Yes ! This is the second time , this day getting this wonderful advice . The ebb & flow of one's creative juices , and i love it ! The Universe has spoken * so to speak * Smiling and Thank you for everything you do .
Your tips are so inspirational💖 I am really grateful that I have encountered your videos! Thank you very much! 💓
This is really really helpful ✨
thank you so much mako
Thank you soooo much ;* I almost quit on painting because I feel like I don't have any progress and my paintings are ugly. But then I watched this video and finally I feel encouraged.
Thank u so much for sharing us ur knowledge,beautiful lady😇🙏🇳🇵.