Lifting and Removing Watercolor Pigment - Tips and Techniques
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Lifting, removing or picking up watercolor pigment is an essential technique to learn for highlighting, light modeling, tonal adjustments and even corrections. I'll show you several ways to do it while painting wet and after the paint is dry.
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Super helpful!! I'm a beginner and found this video helpful in attempting to 'save' a project!
This is priceless! This info could have saved me several pieces of artwork that I messed up, so glad I found this page!!!
Excellent video, thank you! I'm a beginner and I needed this!
Scraping and sandpapering blew my mind. Never heard of using sandpaper before, and when I heard the term "scraping," I was under the impression it was using a palette knife to scrape wet paint down, not an actual knife to scrape dry paint completely off!
I've only ever blotted with paper towels, tissues, or dry brushes. I've always been irritated with how unrefined and large these methods made my finer details. Also, masking fluid ended up making highlights and water spatter look odd and unrealistic, so knowing that scraping and sandpapering is okay on paintings is like heaven to me!
Thanks for this! It’s been a while since I’ve painted, I tend to be heavy-handed with my pigments. This was super helpful, to know that I can make adjustments later thankfully, the painting I’m working on is with two colors that can lift very easily.
Thank you so much! Wished my college professor showed me what you did in 20 minutes. You're fantastic!
Thank you so much! I've recently discovered your channel and am learning so much!
Moving from Acrylic into watercolor...I am binge watching your videos!! Gosh you are very informative and have a lovely sense of humor....Thank you so much for your time and great content!!
+Victoria Snyder You're quite welcome, thanks for watching!
what kind of paper are you using? it's nice
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Thank you so much for posting these videos! They're so super helpful, I've been going through your beginner's playlist and I'm excited to try painting with watercolors using the techniques that you demonstrated.
This is so incredibly helpful and I'm going to try a few of these techniques today! Thanks so much for this- 5 years later and this video is still helping people out!
I SOOOOO needed this remedy today!! Thank you, Steve!!
This was the lesson I was yearning for. THANKS! Good episode.
Awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing.
It's such a pleasure to watch and learn from your fantastic videos and skill. Thank you!!!
Good one Steve. I have about 5 pages worth of tree studies you gave me cause to work on, thanks for that, I found some great color combos I would have never tried if I hadn't been painting in repetition. I don't have any of those scrubbers, but what I did was buy a pack of cheap loew cornell brushes in the craft dept at Walmart. They are bristle brushes, I just trimmed the bristles closer to the ferrule, making it even stiffer.
Beautiful paintings you have. Thank you so much for sharing your talent & techniques!
Ha! I guess Reese told you!!? I hope water is damp! 😂 This was extremely valuable! I’m starting to watercolor after years away (I never was very good) and I’m excited about getting better!! You are such a blessing!! 😊
Thank you for this well-demonstrated, very helpful, video! New subbie!
Thank you for making the basics so clear. Gives me hope
Thank you for sharing such wealth of information about watercolors in an amazing style.
I found that you can use a magic eraser to lift. Great video👍 I am a newby to your videos, I have been binge watching for a few weeks.I never cared much for watercolor until recently. I did oil or acrylic painting, because I liked the detail. Thanks to your videos I'm getting a New perspective on the media. I think I like😍
Great video, easily followed! Thanks!
This is really great. . ..I have some lessons (4) recently described as lessons for beginners, BUT they didn't do what you are doing. I'm learning from you what the others didn't get down to. It all begins to make good sense now, and I'm loving it! Thanks, Thanks, Thanks!
Great video. I really like the clouds you did, with feathering the paint back in, to make the shapes more cloud like and detailed! Cool trick!
You totally got me out of a jam! I remember watching this video once before. I was doing a painting of my friends dog in very muted colors then bam! right on the nose of the dog, the color dried really intense ...I thought it was ruined until..I remember watching this video once before. Thanks so much Steve!
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Thank you for a very helpful video! I’ve done a lot of trial and error as a newbie to watercolor. Just wish I had seen this and your series on washes sooner. You take a lot of the guesswork out of it. Thanks again!
I’ve been painting water color just because it’s the only medium that has come naturally to me! You’re video gives helpful technique to my amateur techniques! Thanks!
Extremely helpful video, thank you x
Fantastic! thanks for sharing! Keep up the amazing work!
Takes time and patience. Hmm, so that means don’t jump in with a scrubber to start with and scrub right through the finish of the paper and make little paper balls like I did the other day😂 All’s well that ends in a lesson well learned, I guess. Thanks for this video, Steve. I should have watched it last week but better late than never!
Thanks so much. This is so exciting to learn.
This was wonderful and extremely helpful. Thanks for sharing this
I love making water droplets using the scrubbing technique. And clouds using the lifting one. Have never tried sandpaper, and wondering how that would work. Thanks so much!
wow, great one Steve! thanks this one will certainly be extremely useful. :)
Very helpful and comprehensive as to methods. Thank you.
Thanks so much! Your instruction has been very inciteful!
Thank you Steve, your tutorial is a real help for me everyday. :)~~
very helpful Steve, thank you
This just saved a portrait I was working on! Thank you!!!
Thanks STEVE YOUR ONE GREAT TEACHER HAPPY NEW YEAR TOYOU ALL
Fleckled ❤ good word
I love all your videos
What a great video, thank you!
I am loving your videos . I did a lot of acrylic painting just getting into watercolor I am learning a lot from you. I will be looking forward to a lot of your videos.
Excellent. Thank you so much!!!
You do such a good job - thanks
You are simply fantastic thank - you so much 😊
The book by Claudia Nice just arrived today in my mailbox and as I flipped through there I saw a painting of the seaside with the foaming waves. She used a razor blade to make tiny marks that indicated the splash drops from the water. There's another way to use 'lifting'.
Thank you so much. I have never used 100% cotton paper before. After your video i bought Arches hot press and it is much more absorbent then cheap paper. This video really helped.
You would make a wonderful Teacher. You helped me to understand the importance of doing studies , trying out techniques-which in themselves can produces instant gratification when practiced; gratification that you can paint something that looks realistic(such as highlighting rocks for example). As a beginner, it's nice to be able to paint something..anthing,lol Thank you.
You are a great teacher, thx
Hi Steve, This demonstration was excellent. You take such care with your examples and descriptions. I think that I shall watch this again at another time. These techniques are extremely valuable tools.
Thanks, glad to know they're a help.
It's quite different working with hot press vs. cold press. I'm so glad to see how to use these techniques with hot press.
Thank you for your work!
Thank you Steve, I'll definitely give the sandpaper one a try! You can also use a pallet knife or the corner of a credit/bank card
SO helpful! Thanks! Hi Reese!
Wonderful video, thank you! Not only informative, but essentials are covered clearly and succinctly and your demonstrations are simple and effectively powerful imho...in contrast to many others' videos which are clouded with extra and repetitive information and are painful and difficult for me to watch.
THANK YOU!!! This was so helpful!!!
Very helpful, thank you!
This helped me so much, thank u!
I've always wanted to learn how to lift watercolor! thank you so much for this!
coco You're welcome!
Great demonstration! Thank you!
artzology Thanks.
Thanks! This video saved one of my pieces😃💜
Thank you very much Sir, the scrubber is like magic :)
Big thanks that you showed us these techniques. Surely they will be very useful.
Mariusz Kuszaj Glad to hear it. Thanks for watching.
Great video!
Thank You
Thank you this is so helpful ♥
Nice scripture--thanks for that!
I really enjoy your lessons, thank you for sharing!
Butterinyourear You're welcome!
Another great lesson! For most of my life I treated watercolor as immovable, if it was down then it stayed that light. Your examples are perfect! Got scrubbers as a freebie with an art supply order ages ago and now really see how to use them more carefully.
Robert Sloan Thanks! My warning in the video, though, cannot be overstated. Its and easy technique to overdo.
This was so needed!!! Thank you so much. I was about ready to throw my Stonehenge Hp out the window!!! I’m still on the fence about this paper… too delicate for many techniques & absolutely unable to deal with masking, lifting is the only way and even that’s proving a tad difficult!
Thank you for the sandpaper tip.
Super great tutorial! Thank you for making this, and for sharing your knowledge! Now I do not have to be sad after all that I cannot attend art courses in the fall. I can learn from your channel! Yay! : )
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I love your channel, it's so helpful. Thank you.
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I can't tell you how much I'm learning from you. I love your lessons
+Dolly Dollop Thanks!
Important! Thank you!
Thanks, I will try.
Wow! This video is going to be a big help for me. I have been struggling with control, and these lifting techniques will help.
Thank you!
Scott Bryant Glad to hear its a help.
Thankyou yor videos. I would like to ad one more technik here for removing exat shape from dry paint.
Drop of water on surface on dot draw lines or on other smal shapes whit clear water(or on those mistakes that we don't do), let shape wet for a second or two, take dry brush, rub out colour from wet area water and carefully with paper push surface lift up and tadaa you have a white dot, line or exact shape in picture, whiteout any damage on surrounding dry colour. Stars, sun strays, light spotshapes in eyes, or those highlights.
Thank you, I will be trying to fix a 5head I gave myself in a self-portrait by painting dark hair too big with different brushes now.
This is going to be really handy where I've put a little too much pigment on a sunset. Tell Reese I said he looks really cool in those shades.
As you can see from all my comments I am watching all your videos. I can't thank you enough😀 I used to paint with acrylics and now only want to work with coloured pencil and watercolour. Your videos are helping me so much.
+Carla A. Awesome! Thanks for watching.
Thank you so much for making videos! I really want to illustrate my own children's books and these videos are really helping me a lot! :)
Cool! Glad to hear it!
Fabulous,thankyou
Cool never thought about sandpaper. Thanks
Paint lifting - Magic eraser sponges, when wet can be used to remove paint. I tried and it worked just fine. The society for all artists in the UK sells 4 for £6, with Watercolor inserted in the label. You can find them in dollar stores too $1 for 2.
Hope the tip helps!
Andrea Motta Thanks for the input.
THANK YOU SO MUCHHH, U SAVED MY PAINTING😭😭
I love the silly little intros and your humor. It makes the videos more interesting and fun to watch. Also, thank you for making these instructional videos, I'm a beginner at watercolor painting and these videos are really helping me along the road. :)
+Fluffy Toast 52 So glad, thanks for watching!
Hi Steve, I’m a new subbie... enjoying your videos/tutorials very much! Thanks!
PS please don’t stop adding scriptures to the end of your videos!
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Marsha
Muy buenos Tips. Es realmente muy útil ver cómo trabajas. GRACIAS.
Nélida Felizia You're welcome.
love your tutorials!
Thanks!
Hey I was amazed, see how extraordinary shibasaki does it, never seen anybody do it, once I saw, I needed to try but I failed, he's white are so much bright.
Take a took at watercolor rose bt shibasaki
Very helpful. I’ve had a terrible time doing this in the past.
Thank you so much for that.i am doing water colour painting and just started maybe 2 month ago.i have in my videos few of my first paintings. I hope I can do a masterpiece..
Awesome thank you 👍
Thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!! Very good video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ Prabha - Lessons are not numbered. This is a random tip and technique show. Order isn't important. Occasionally I will make a multi-part lesson on different aspects of the same subject and those might be numbered. Thanks!
@ Adam - Great idea!. Probably the way most scrubbers are created anyway.
I have had good luck with those sponge brushes as well, the ones like you would stain wood with. Those things are super absorbent. In one of the cheapjoes videos that wes waugh did on brushes, he talks of placing a wet brush on the paper and letting it sit there for a little bit before you start scrubbing. It helps to loosen it up and there isn't so much grinding. I bet you are a cheapjoe subscriber Steve :). Wes did a great 3 or 4 part series on brushes. Not taking anything away from you of course. In future videos I would love to see what your 8-12 essential pigments are. I never cared for prussian blue, but you made me rethink that one and I reach for it more and more now.
Adam Wallen Yes, I am a Cheap Joes subscriber. The Wes Waugh videos are good stuff.
Adam Wallen I'm not a big believer in a set of the same "essential pigments" for everyone. Its going to be different for each artist especially depending on what subjects you paint. Also there are opaque, semi-opaque and transparent colors. Some painters like the chalkier look of the more opaque varieties. My palettes are almost completely transparent pigments because I do so much glazing.
I am the same way. I like to glaze to build up depth. I enjoy watching others, though it seems like some that I really like, such as Zbukvic and others, paint so densely it is nearly like gouache at times. Of course I am not critiquing his process because I love his work. I love watercolors because of their transparency and like seeing either the white, the pencil lines, or surface color show through. I do run into problems though at times with my paintings looking washed out because I didn't build up enough.
+The Mind of Watercolor What do you mean by glazing? Is that an additive you put in the paint like acrylic paint?
Thank you for a very clear presentation and demonstration! Thanks for the reminder about the staining paints/pigments being a little tougher. I discovered that the hard way: "Why is there a hole in my paper?!" ;) Cheers!
Mary Vivit I know right? lifting is one of those techniques that can foster over reliance. Easily over done. Staining paints will definitely frustrate too.
Thanks again.
Cool! Thanx