Today we're going to have fun with watercolour! In this calm 40-minute video, I'll take you step-by-step through my process, sharing the techniques and materials I use. This is a tutorial designed for everyone, and is suitable for complete beginners! If you're new to watercolour painting you'll be able to have a go at this, and if you're more experienced, it's a relaxing and inspiring exercise to get you out of a creative block or just to warm up - and you'll have a beautiful work of art when you've finished!
Honestly any manufacturer that does granulating colours should be paying you a commission. I’ve watched lots of artists swatching on youtube and not a single one of them gets close to bringing out the beauty of the pigment the way you do. Your version of the paint has 100% more glamour 😊
Never heard of this random grey before. Now I imagine the Schmincke cleaning staff sweeping through the workshop, collecting the pigment dust with their brush and shovel 😂
@@jmoss55ish It's available on Jackson's, Janice! There's a link to Jackson's if you open up the description section underneath the video, and then just type "Schmincke Random Grey" into their search bar. :)
I'm popping in to say that recently I come upon art swatching videos done with your technique, and every time I'm like - you're swatching in Natasha's pebble style! 🤭😁
I began pebbles swatching because of you Natasha and I love to add bits of gold watercolor wet onto wet and it just dries back beautifully! I am up early painting art for my son's room and you're keeping me company!
Gorgeous! I absolutely love your pebble paintings! It’s so interesting to see you create them, with some excellent tips along the way too! I was very pleased to see a lucky Hag Stone in there as well! Apparently only good luck & positive thoughts can pass through a Hag Stone, as bad luck and negative thoughts are larger, so they get stuck in the hole! They are also believed to ward off witches, and other rascals with ill intent, so I wonder if they’d work for trolls too? 😂🧌 Hag Stones have been found in ancient British burial mounds, and are still exchanged between friends to this day. This is an old British custom, but I wonder if there are any other similar beliefs in other parts of the world about stones with a hole in them? I’d love to know! Thank you for another quality video Natasha! 🤗💖😘 xxx
Thank you my darling! I didn't know all of this info about Hag Stones. I'm going to be looking for them when I'm next on the beach. I could decorate them and give them as gifts to friends! Interesting that they've been found in burial mounds too. 💖💖😘 xxx
@@NatashaNewtonArt Could you convince Dominic to start a UA-cam channel? His instagram is so aesthetic. I would definitely subscribe. House and garden renovation, antiques, collection stories, books Yes, please! Also I just wanted to say I really like your nail color 😊
@@whiteirisarchive4624 Thank you so much! 😊 That is so lovely to hear! It just so happens that I am thinking of starting a UA-cam channel, and you’ve pretty well described the content I’m planning to do exactly! 😃 Btw I agree Natasha’s nails are looking excellent!
@@NatashaNewtonArt I’ve only just scratched the surface of all there is to know about Hag Stones! There are so many beliefs tied up with them, sometimes literally! There do seem to be some differing schools of thought though; one thinks you have to be given them, another thinks you have to find them, but my favourite is that it’s more a case of the stones finding you! 😯😁💖😘 xxx
Love ❤️ the pebble idea, so many ways to enhance them. Darker lines, different coloured pebbles with contrasting or just Darker lines. I'm going to have fun tomorrow!!!! Thanks for all your inspiration and tips; I just LOVE ❤ the colours you swatch and the pebble idea is BRILLIANT, so much more interesting than the usual ones we see. Can't afford to get all the beautiful paints I see, but am doing a lot of mixing, fun and I've found some great colours.... and some really awful ones!!!!!
I sort of on the pebble swatching bandwagon as well. It’s very good for swatching granulating paints and it’s an excellent way of practising values and lifting.
This was brilliant and I thoroughly enjoyed the process. It’s helping me to have more confidence working with watercolours and not getting scared to just paint! Thank you again 😊
Followed along and loved it! Going through an intense physical and mental trauma right now and trying to occupy my mind. Thank you for this! Kept me from worrying for a few minutes. ❤️
Thankyou so much Natasha, this was a brilliant video of how to paint pebbles. I have the random grey watercolour paint and I absolutely love it. This was so informative. I shall keep looking back at this video. I love your colour palette they all go so well together xxx 💕
That’s really nice. I came across this tutorial just in time, because I already was planning on painting a particular stone soon. We re-did our front garden and I found a beautiful brown/reddish stone with white lines that I want to try to paint with watercolor. But I think I want to paint just that one particular, and a bit larger, and when it turned out nice, frame it.
I followed your tutorial the other day and turned my painting into a Father's Day card! It was a super relaxing session and I had fun mixing neutral colours and painting all the different pebble shapes. Thanks Natasha for making this video!
Lovely video and artwork. Love the pebbles idea. Have your thought of hens eggs as another idea? would be great for beautiful blues and browns. I’ve even heard of greenish tinged eggs too. Cheers 😊
So happy you shared this with us,pebble swatching/painting is the way to go,this was also a bit of an ASMR video too!. I deciced to paint along side you ths time, I didn't use earth tones,but did use five dark versions of colours I use a lot in my own work. and in place of white for the detail/veining I used my beloved metallics. I love how when you lift off some of the colour it creates a natural highlight but also helps create the form of the pebble,giving it more substance and realism too. And adding the lines also can help create the form too.. I love the Betty Hayways brushes too,they are a really versatile brush and the prolene brushes are a staple for me too. This was a really mindful thing to do as well. I may try other colours and see if I can create more crystal like forms. It sounds like you've begaun a new trend too,with other's pebble painting and swatching,you are a creative influencer!!. It's also a way to really use your brushes too to help create the forms of the pebbles by using diffrent strokes preasures too.. I love how these painted pebbles sort of echo the actual pebbles you paint on as well. A lovely gift of a video for sure. (matt)
I love your idea of using metallics for the lines, Matt! I'm going to give this a go in my next piece, if you don't mind! I can imagine it looks very effective on the dark pebbles. Thank you! (I will credit you with the initial idea if I share them online).
@@NatashaNewtonArt I used dark blues,purples.,reds etc as the colours of my pebbles then used either gold or silver or copper for the lines. I hope you do try this,it does look lovely against the dark colours and I think the metallics would look over your granulating colours too. I will photograpgh my pebbles and tag you on instagram. I loved this video,thank you for sharing it with us.(matt)
This pebble moment is so fun and relaxing to watch 😀 and your voice so calming that it enhances the effect 🥰. You make art seem intuitive and interesting without any stress or pressure to be perfect 😍. Watching you paint makes me want to run to my office a create until my heart’s content! And usually end up painting something after watching your painting videos. Today I’m going for … you guessed it 😂 … pebbles! I love the composition of your favorite colors painted as a pebble masterpiece 😍. Thank you for all these wonderful encouraging videos! You are just best ❤️
This is the most quiet and calm video I've seen for a while. I have to try this, if nothing else, for a form of meditation. I know you just call it a warmup, but I would frame that and put it on my wall 😂 I love it! 😍
@@NatashaNewtonArt Now I have watched this video 3 times. It's such perfect meditation 😊 And yes, I have painted stones as well. I have used this to test watercolour paper. I have shared the video with a friend, who occasionally has some mental difficulties, and sometimes just need to quietly sit and focus on something creative... It works perfectly ❤️
Such a wonderful tutorial! It's so soothing to listen to your voice and watch you paint (I totally forget to paint along myself ;o) ). I love your pebbles and I'm happy to see you doing a hag stone in this video. Did you know that they were called "chicken gods" in German?
@@NatashaNewtonArt I didn't know it myself so I looked it up. According to ancient belief, the stones shall protect poultry from the influence of an evil godess (some kind of potergeist) who prevents them from laying eggs (and does other evil things in the household). That's why they were always hung up next to henhouses.
Great video as always, oh and by the way I do watch your videos over and over again Sometimes 😅 Q: do you prefer using a tube color or a palette 🎨 color ?
Thanks for this video! I love watercolors and I wanna try this tomorrow. I have a question, what colours you think are good to use? I don't have, for now, Schmincke Super granulated or something like this...
Hi Natasha! Tell me, what paper do you use for your paintings? Do you use rough paper because when I see you paint I notice quite a texture on the paper. I love the look of it 😍!! The paintings you make with Acryla Gouache are so nice!!! I love the way you make the moon! These pebbles are awesome!! I swatch them all the time. I'm disabled though and my left hand can't do really detailed work, and my right arm is injured and I can't use it. It's permanent, and I really miss drawing with my right hand...Well, have a great day dear. Take care and thank you!!
Hi Michelle! I'm sorry that you have issues with your arms, that must be very difficult, and frustrating too. The paper I used in this video was the Aquarella paper from Choosing Keeping in London, but I often use a cold pressed (sometimes called a 'NOT' surface) paper such as Bockingford (cheaper!) or 640gsm Canson Heritage and Fabriano Artistico (more expensive!). I hope that helps! :)
Loving your calmness! Can't wait to have a go at my own pebbles. Any chance you can do a similar video for your pebble painting? (Where you paint on pebbles)
@@lozza1874 Thanks Lozza, I hope you do have a go! :) I actually filmed a short "painting on stones" tutorial two years ago! You can find it here: ua-cam.com/video/tBkKeZ5_K2A/v-deo.html
Lovely, lovely video! I'm definitely going to have a go at this.🖌️🪨 Thanks so much for this tutorial! Such simple techniques yield such beautiful results ☺️🤗
Today we're going to have fun with watercolour! In this calm 40-minute video, I'll take you step-by-step through my process, sharing the techniques and materials I use. This is a tutorial designed for everyone, and is suitable for complete beginners! If you're new to watercolour painting you'll be able to have a go at this, and if you're more experienced, it's a relaxing and inspiring exercise to get you out of a creative block or just to warm up - and you'll have a beautiful work of art when you've finished!
Thank you ❤️! (I've been experiencing an art block for more than I want to admit lol)
Honestly any manufacturer that does granulating colours should be paying you a commission. I’ve watched lots of artists swatching on youtube and not a single one of them gets close to bringing out the beauty of the pigment the way you do. Your version of the paint has 100% more glamour 😊
Thank you so much for your lovely comment - I really appreciate it!
Never heard of this random grey before. Now I imagine the Schmincke cleaning staff sweeping through the workshop, collecting the pigment dust with their brush and shovel 😂
Ha ha, that might be what happens! ;)
I searched and searched for that Special Edition Random Grey and I came up with nothing! How did you get that tube of paint Natasha?
@@jmoss55ish Jackson’s sells it. 😊
I think they‘ve been producing it in oil for awhile. This is perhaps the first one for watercolour. 😊
@@jmoss55ish It's available on Jackson's, Janice! There's a link to Jackson's if you open up the description section underneath the video, and then just type "Schmincke Random Grey" into their search bar. :)
Oh wow those granulating paints look amazing swatched out into pebbles 🤩💙🙌🏼🩶
I like that you paint on rocks and you paint rocks that you paint on! Rock on!! 😄💜
Haha, I love that!
I'm popping in to say that recently I come upon art swatching videos done with your technique, and every time I'm like - you're swatching in Natasha's pebble style! 🤭😁
I began pebbles swatching because of you Natasha and I love to add bits of gold watercolor wet onto wet and it just dries back beautifully! I am up early painting art for my son's room and you're keeping me company!
I need to try wet into wet with gold - that sounds amazing! I hope that your art session went well. :)
Gorgeous! I absolutely love your pebble paintings! It’s so interesting to see you create them, with some excellent tips along the way too!
I was very pleased to see a lucky Hag Stone in there as well!
Apparently only good luck & positive thoughts can pass through a Hag Stone, as bad luck and negative thoughts are larger, so they get stuck in the hole! They are also believed to ward off witches, and other rascals with ill intent, so I wonder if they’d work for trolls too? 😂🧌
Hag Stones have been found in ancient British burial mounds, and are still exchanged between friends to this day. This is an old British custom, but I wonder if there are any other similar beliefs in other parts of the world about stones with a hole in them? I’d love to know!
Thank you for another quality video Natasha! 🤗💖😘 xxx
Thank you my darling! I didn't know all of this info about Hag Stones. I'm going to be looking for them when I'm next on the beach. I could decorate them and give them as gifts to friends! Interesting that they've been found in burial mounds too. 💖💖😘 xxx
@@NatashaNewtonArt Could you convince Dominic to start a UA-cam channel? His instagram is so aesthetic. I would definitely subscribe. House and garden renovation, antiques, collection stories, books Yes, please! Also I just wanted to say I really like your nail color 😊
@@whiteirisarchive4624 Thank you so much! 😊 That is so lovely to hear! It just so happens that I am thinking of starting a UA-cam channel, and you’ve pretty well described the content I’m planning to do exactly! 😃 Btw I agree Natasha’s nails are looking excellent!
@@NatashaNewtonArt I’ve only just scratched the surface of all there is to know about Hag Stones! There are so many beliefs tied up with them, sometimes literally!
There do seem to be some differing schools of thought though; one thinks you have to be given them, another thinks you have to find them, but my favourite is that it’s more a case of the stones finding you! 😯😁💖😘 xxx
And another pebble swatch convert!!!
I am now swatching pebbles - ❤ - thank you, Natasha!
Nevermind your watercolour skills...... your print handwriting is #goals too 🤘🤩🤘
Thank you so much! 😀
Love ❤️ the pebble idea, so many ways to enhance them. Darker lines, different coloured pebbles with contrasting or just Darker lines. I'm going to have fun tomorrow!!!! Thanks for all your inspiration and tips; I just LOVE ❤ the colours you swatch and the pebble idea is BRILLIANT, so much more interesting than the usual ones we see. Can't afford to get all the beautiful paints I see, but am doing a lot of mixing, fun and I've found some great colours.... and some really awful ones!!!!!
Thank you, Jill! So glad that it inspired you. :)
Love painting pebbles!! These are wonderful!
Thanks so much, Monique! 😊
I sort of on the pebble swatching bandwagon as well. It’s very good for swatching granulating paints and it’s an excellent way of practising values and lifting.
This was brilliant and I thoroughly enjoyed the process. It’s helping me to have more confidence working with watercolours and not getting scared to just paint! Thank you again 😊
Brilliant!
I love your rocks very beautiful 🐬
Followed along and loved it! Going through an intense physical and mental trauma right now and trying to occupy my mind. Thank you for this! Kept me from worrying for a few minutes. ❤️
I'm so sorry to hear this, Michelle. I'm sending love and best wishes your way. I hope that things improve for you soon. x
These are so pretty, and this makes me want to try the granulating watercolors! I'm going to try this out!
Thanks Camilla - have fun! :)
Supergranulation baby ! This is so relaxing
Thankyou so much Natasha, this was a brilliant video of how to paint pebbles. I have the random grey watercolour paint and I absolutely love it. This was so informative. I shall keep looking back at this video. I love your colour palette they all go so well together xxx 💕
Ah, thanks Louise! I feel like the Random Grey could be used for so many things. I'm glad that you love it too! xxx
Loves this!
I really need to sit down and pebble swatch my watercolors. It's such a beautiful way to play with the paint.
Thanks! I find it so relaxing, and it's a great way to experiment with the colours. :)
Oh now I need a random grey!
That’s really nice. I came across this tutorial just in time, because I already was planning on painting a particular stone soon. We re-did our front garden and I found a beautiful brown/reddish stone with white lines that I want to try to paint with watercolor. But I think I want to paint just that one particular, and a bit larger, and when it turned out nice, frame it.
One of the best videos from you in 2022!!! Thank you so much for tutorial of your pebbles!
Wow, thank you Emily!
Beautiful ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
I love this tutorial!!! Thank you so much.
You are very welcome, Claudia!
A great way to relax, test new colours or devise a colour palette. Very calming to watch,
Thank you, Michelle!
I followed your tutorial the other day and turned my painting into a Father's Day card! It was a super relaxing session and I had fun mixing neutral colours and painting all the different pebble shapes. Thanks Natasha for making this video!
That's wonderful, Maureen! I love that it turned into a Father's Day card. I'm so glad that you enjoyed the video. :)
This came out so pretty. Thank you.
Thank you for this 😍
Oh thank you so much for this Natasha. I love a tutorial and this is perfect to painting along to. Please do more tutorials 🙏 😁
looks so good and was very relaxing ^_^
Lovely!! So very relaxing!
Lovely as always… 💕
Thank you! I always appreciate your lovely comments. :)
I don't own any granulating paints but they are beautiful. I watched them granulate on the pallets and was mesmerized.
They're like magic to me!
Lovely video and artwork. Love the pebbles idea. Have your thought of hens eggs as another idea? would be great for beautiful blues and browns. I’ve even heard of greenish tinged eggs too. Cheers 😊
That's a lovely idea! Thank you.
Lovely as always Natasha. Such a great way to start my day before getting into painting. Thanks.
You're very welcome, Penny! Thank you for watching. :)
So happy you shared this with us,pebble swatching/painting is the way to go,this was also a bit of an ASMR video too!. I deciced to paint along side you ths time, I didn't use earth tones,but did use five dark versions of colours I use a lot in my own work. and in place of white for the detail/veining I used my beloved metallics. I love how when you lift off some of the colour it creates a natural highlight but also helps create the form of the pebble,giving it more substance and realism too. And adding the lines also can help create the form too.. I love the Betty Hayways brushes too,they are a really versatile brush and the prolene brushes are a staple for me too. This was a really mindful thing to do as well. I may try other colours and see if I can create more crystal like forms. It sounds like you've begaun a new trend too,with other's pebble painting and swatching,you are a creative influencer!!. It's also a way to really use your brushes too to help create the forms of the pebbles by using diffrent strokes preasures too.. I love how these painted pebbles sort of echo the actual pebbles you paint on as well. A lovely gift of a video for sure. (matt)
I love your idea of using metallics for the lines, Matt! I'm going to give this a go in my next piece, if you don't mind! I can imagine it looks very effective on the dark pebbles. Thank you! (I will credit you with the initial idea if I share them online).
@@NatashaNewtonArt I used dark blues,purples.,reds etc as the colours of my pebbles then used either gold or silver or copper for the lines. I hope you do try this,it does look lovely against the dark colours and I think the metallics would look over your granulating colours too. I will photograpgh my pebbles and tag you on instagram. I loved this video,thank you for sharing it with us.(matt)
This pebble moment is so fun and relaxing to watch 😀 and your voice so calming that it enhances the effect 🥰. You make art seem intuitive and interesting without any stress or pressure to be perfect 😍. Watching you paint makes me want to run to my office a create until my heart’s content! And usually end up painting something after watching your painting videos. Today I’m going for … you guessed it 😂 … pebbles! I love the composition of your favorite colors painted as a pebble masterpiece 😍.
Thank you for all these wonderful encouraging videos! You are just best ❤️
What a lovely comment! Thank you so much, Katja. It really makes me happy to read this!
Love this so much
So glad you like it! Thanks Sasha. :)
Lovely video as always, beautiful colour palette! x
Thank you so much, Sarah! x
I really enjoy your videos, very relaxing and love your pebbles, tried some tonight. At minute 23 what is that music?
It's a track I bought from Bensound called Window on the World (I think!).
This is the most quiet and calm video I've seen for a while. I have to try this, if nothing else, for a form of meditation. I know you just call it a warmup, but I would frame that and put it on my wall 😂 I love it! 😍
Well, it warms me up but it's also a finished work of art! ;) The pebbles are so relaxing to paint - I hope you try it!
@@NatashaNewtonArt Now I have watched this video 3 times. It's such perfect meditation 😊 And yes, I have painted stones as well. I have used this to test watercolour paper.
I have shared the video with a friend, who occasionally has some mental difficulties, and sometimes just need to quietly sit and focus on something creative... It works perfectly ❤️
Thanks!
That's very kind of you, thank you! I really appreciate it. :)
I am going to try this project with my Graphitint. I will let you know how it goes.
Beautiful! Have you thought of decorating them to look like shells?
Such a wonderful tutorial! It's so soothing to listen to your voice and watch you paint (I totally forget to paint along myself ;o) ). I love your pebbles and I'm happy to see you doing a hag stone in this video. Did you know that they were called "chicken gods" in German?
Ah, thanks Sonja! I didn't know that - I'll have to tell Dominic this. :) Why are they called chicken gods, I wonder?
@@NatashaNewtonArt I didn't know it myself so I looked it up. According to ancient belief, the stones shall protect poultry from the influence of an evil godess (some kind of potergeist) who prevents them from laying eggs (and does other evil things in the household). That's why they were always hung up next to henhouses.
@@sonja__k That's so interesting, Sonja!
I feel inspired. So often I want to paint and cannot come up with an idea. So what is wrong to fill a scetchbook with pebbles ? Thank you Natasha !
I'm so glad that it has inspired you! x
@@NatashaNewtonArt The stone in the upper right looks like marble, a bit transparent. Lovely.
Great video as always, oh and by the way I do watch your videos over and over again
Sometimes 😅
Q: do you prefer using a tube color or a palette 🎨 color ?
I love both and can honestly say that I don't have a favourite!
@@NatashaNewtonArt 🥰 yes, that’s exactly how I feel, 👍🏻
yey a tutorial !
Thanks for this video! I love watercolors and I wanna try this tomorrow. I have a question, what colours you think are good to use? I don't have, for now, Schmincke Super granulated or something like this...
Anything earthy or slightly colour separating would be good, but really you can use anything you love and make the pebbles your own! :)
Hi Natasha! Tell me, what paper do you use for your paintings? Do you use rough paper because when I see you paint I notice quite a texture on the paper. I love the look of it 😍!! The paintings you make with Acryla Gouache are so nice!!! I love the way you make the moon! These pebbles are awesome!! I swatch them all the time. I'm disabled though and my left hand can't do really detailed work, and my right arm is injured and I can't use it. It's permanent, and I really miss drawing with my right hand...Well, have a great day dear. Take care and thank you!!
Hi Michelle! I'm sorry that you have issues with your arms, that must be very difficult, and frustrating too. The paper I used in this video was the Aquarella paper from Choosing Keeping in London, but I often use a cold pressed (sometimes called a 'NOT' surface) paper such as Bockingford (cheaper!) or 640gsm Canson Heritage and Fabriano Artistico (more expensive!). I hope that helps! :)
Wonderful! What do you do with your leftover paint?
Rewet it and use it at a later date! :)
Che meraviglia questi colori e tu sei bravissima. Spero di arrivare anche io e il mio canale ai tuoi livelli
Thank you so much!
I've only found one hag stone or witch stone, lost it sadly years ago
I want a tube of randome grey now
What white ink are you using? Thanks.
Daler Rowney FW acrylic ink!
second is better 😛
;)
Loving your calmness! Can't wait to have a go at my own pebbles. Any chance you can do a similar video for your pebble painting? (Where you paint on pebbles)
@@lozza1874 Thanks Lozza, I hope you do have a go! :) I actually filmed a short "painting on stones" tutorial two years ago! You can find it here: ua-cam.com/video/tBkKeZ5_K2A/v-deo.html
Ah of course you did. That's where i got the list of what you used 🤦♀️
Whatever makes you sleep at night 😂😂😂
First!
Hope you enjoy the video. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt I always do :)
Lovely, lovely video! I'm definitely going to have a go at this.🖌️🪨 Thanks so much for this tutorial! Such simple techniques yield such beautiful results ☺️🤗