Beginner Watercolour Techniques YOU NEED TO KNOW! Episode 1
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i am starting to get back in to watercolours after removing from a coma and i forgot my skills these are easy videos to follow along with to regain my skill set i look forward to developing my skills again
I'm so glad I found you! Learned more from you in five minutes than in a week of in person class
I dabbled with watercolor about four years ago. Now at age of 70 I really, really want to learn and grow in skill set. I watched the Christmas tutorials of yours and the designs turned out pleasingly surprised. Attached to Christmas gifts of my sister and family. They were impressed! LOL. But of course they are a tad biased. Thank you, Emma, for reaching out to all the beginners. ❤ I subscribed to your Craftamo plan. My very first subscription box is on its way!!!
Wow! That's amazing. Keep going, all the best. ✨💯
Hi. I am 70 also. Never done painting. Failure. This is fun.
I am a beginner. I’ve watched a number of other artist’s videos but I find your’s really helpful. You explain how to correct basic beginner errors easily. Thank you!
I have been painting with watercolors for awhile now but continue to struggle with blending. Your explanation was wonderful...I think I finally got it. Sounds like the key is to be gentle when blending out a color. I have always struggled with lifting the color instead of blending...now I got it...mostly dry brush with a soft touch!!! Thanks again Emma.
FINALLY, a video with the information I need. Thank you so much.
Good morning. I’m a senior and started my watercolor painting a couple of years ago but haven’t been painting in quite some time. I subscribed to your painting boxes and watching your videos as a beginner again since I really hadn’t moved along in experience. I look forward now to learning with your videos and my new supplies. Excited! Thank you ❤
Your such a great teacher... im definitely going to try those out.
Great tutorial Emma! My watercolor journey started in november 2021. I learned so much from you, you were my very first teacher I found on youtube! But this is really what I needed to know right from the start... also the names of the techniques. Every teacher talks about blending, and gradients and lifting and so on. But if you don´t know what it stands for, you just do something... with this video you will help a lot of beginning watercolorartists! ❤❤❤
A few days ago I purchased your watercolor book and expect it to arrive on Feb.10. Today I joined your Patron channel! You are
a wonderful teacher. Thank you for going over these valuable techniques! So helpful!!!
Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing this
I’m still in the two wine gradiantwash but I *had* to comment! I’ve watched SOOOO MANY TUTORIALS for beginners!! I’ve watched at least 20 different people try to teach this exact same concept but this is the first time anyone explained to dry the brush, and why. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! These are the kind of instructions a that neurodivergent folx need! We like more details and explanations for the “why”. We have to understand to make it work for us. I truly appreciate you!🎉🎉❤❤😊
Edit: the blending…OMG!!! The way yo did the flower, the explanation for that last shadow blew my mind. It finally made sense. Thank you! I’m in tears bc I’m 39 and never thought I could. I’ve been more confident recently, but still feeling discouraged. This explanation just made such. Huge difference and I can’t wait to try it out tomorrow! 🥲🥰🥰
Agree with you! I watched the others and couldn't understand why i can't make same way, now I understood, parer towel! Thank you!
Your comments gives me hope and the motivation to try again, so thank you so much! I just turned 39 too, and also have the need to understand how something works before I can do it, so glad I'm not alone in this 😊
Saved this video and will give it ago! 💪
Emma, I’ve been playing at watercolor for two years now and this ONE video helped me tremendously with getting water control improvement! All the tips you gave here along with fun demonstration has helped me hugely to really understand the way water and pigment behave! Thank you so much!
I completely agree! 🙏🏼
Great lesson that was enhanced by your demonstrations. Thank you for going slowly while you are explaining the techniques. Looking forward to the next lesson.
I’m 67 and just starting out with watercolours. Learnt a lot from this, thanks very much, you are a very good teacher.
Thank you for explaining the reasons why watercolours move in different ways for each technique. It helps me to understand why I can get unexpected results (and how to reproduce/avoid those results in the future).
Been painting for a while and started off with watching you but have never had these techniques properly explained. I struggle putting shadows on things I would love to see you apply these techniques in a painting explaining what you’re doing as you go. Thankyou ❤
Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I’am a beginner and am eager to learn. I love watching you paint, I think your work is absolutely beautiful.❤
This is the first tutorial I've watched that actually tells me when, how and why I have to control the water! Everyone else tells me that the amount of water in my brush or on the paper matters. They don't explain the details. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you Emma for these wonderful videos for all of us that are beginning or have been painting for a couple of years. I needed these lessons!!! Huge, Huge thank you!!!!!
As a complete beginner to painting with watercolors I have watched about 20 UA-cam tutorials on subject and this was by far the most helpful because of the level of detail you went into specifically on how to mix the paint
How exciting!!! I finally had the courage to open my watercolour pan set and to tape down my first sheet of paper. Thank you for breaking down these 2 techniques. I love it! I just have to remember to breathe normally with a paint brush in my hand. Thank you so much. I look forward to the next video tomorrow
Thank you for these demonstrations. I am just starting out and after practicing these techniques, I’m proud of what I pulled off following your advent tutorials without having these beginner tips!
Merci beaucoup !! Watching you from France 😊 I've been searching lessons for beginners explaining the bases and it is very difficult to find . I love how you explain. It is clear and understundable for a beginner. Thank you a lot for your help in discovering this wonderful but not so simple painting 😊
Thank you ! You are such a great teacher and you make it look fun to do even for beginners like me ! Happy painting !
Thank you Emma for these beginner friendly videos. Can’t wait for your new brushes to come out so excited 🎉
Thanks!
This may be the best blending and gradient video I have ever seen. Awesome!
Teacher,teacher, teacher, you are the best! I’m always looking for ways to practice what I think I learned! Repeat and repeat again, helps me! Thanks for being a gentle teacher! Karen Dirmish , learner
Emma you are a natural artist
Thanks Emma! I did the Christmas advent with you and ran into the problems you are describing. Some of it I realized part way through was due to cheaper watercolor paper but my water control was all over the place too.
Thank you for this great video and putting so much effort into creating such valuable content all artists can benefit from. Wishing you a wonderful day!
Blending tips very helpful! I find that to be the most difficult part of painting, especially when I’m doing it in dry. I think the “gentle” part is what I need to work on 😂
Yes that 'gentle' part....to me a missing link revealed! LOL
Great tutorial ‼️👏🖼🎨🖌️. I like how you showed the technique then incorporated it into an actual item (leaf, flower pedal). Thx for sharing ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Very helpful...esp drying the brush or adding water. Thank you!
Emma I think you or so good to take your time. An yes I think this is a very smart thing you or doing for beginners even though iam not a beginner i still learn from you.Iam 78 an painted all my life .AGAIN THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME ❤
I have painted a few years and settled into how I like to paint which is line and wash; I'm going to teach a brief intro to watercolor and find I am struggling with these exact things, so now I will try again, and believe I will get it! thank you!!!
Emma, ladybelle, I have waded through many 'beginner' tutorials that really weren't. THIS right here is THE info I was after, and beautifully demonstrated and explained. I especially loved how you hammered home the 'wash your brush/dry it' mantra. Gotcha! Thank you so much. Now. On to part 2: yippeeeee! xx
Excellent Tutorial! I started trying to teach myself watercolour in November 2023. I have been struggling with blending and your teaching have really made blending much more simplified. Can’t wait to paint and try them. Thanks for sharing your teaching skills
I found this really helpful. I’m not new to watercolor but I still consider myself a beginner because I continue to make the mistakes you’ve mentioned. I look forward to your next two videos.
thank you for this tutorial. I have only been doing watercolor since November and this was very helpful. I want to do every one of videos but there is only so much time in the day. Thanks for helping us newbies.
Thank you so much for doing this tutorial. I am new at water coloring and feel sooooooo lucky to have found you on here.
Thank you! That was a fabulous first lesson. I am looking forward to the rest of the series!
This is great. I've been sidetracked from practicing watercolor to doing various jobs around the house. So I need to go back to basics and tap into tutorials specifically for beginners but I just did not know where to start and then you were in my feed with these marvelous lessons for beginners which you will be teaching. This lesson was great to which I will save it to a file entitled Beginner Lessons. As usual, you explain everything so wonderfully as well as hitting on important info where other lessons from various teachers neglect to explain! Thank you so much. You are a great teacher!
Thank you for your tutorials! I started watercolor in 2020 and found your drills videos. I still love doing them now!
Emma, the first video I watched of yours was early in the "heights of the pandemic" and it was a "Can I duplicate Bob Ross?" video, and I thought "I LIKE THIS GAL!!" 😂 I pop in every so often to check out your videos and it is really cool to see how you have evolved in your painting, and YT presence, so that you've moved on up to ceramic palettes and fancy paints. 😊
Thank you for all the videos and technique videos. I seem to be a perpetual beginner in that in attempting to swatch out my fancy dot card last night (A Gallo 😍), I apparently forgot how to do a proper gradient. 🙄Lo, your video appeared this morning and now I'll have to try again. It's also clear that my first (and last) cheapish watercolour book for swatches needs to be shelved once I finish it because it definitely is not as responsive, and I need to just use my Hahnemuhle journals rather than admiring it on the shelf.
Happy 2024 to many, more good days of painting and other things!
Thank you so much for this lesson, I needed those extra steps of when to wash and dry the brush. This is perfect. I can't wait for the next one.
Emma, thank you for this lesson. Have been painting for a while, but it is always good to go back to basics and practice. I always get a good tip or a reminder of some thing I should know when I watch you.
Thank you Emma you are doing such a great work my watercolor journey started with the first video I watched in your channel you made me love watercolors . Soooooo grateful ❤
I bought your brushes last year... now I'll actually use them.. Great tip . Thank you❤
This was *so* helpful! I was trying to follow another tutorial, but all she did was demonstrate her technique without any explanation of how she achieved the end results. All she said was, "Don't tell me you can't do this. It's simple!"
Emma you are a natural artist ❤❤
I learned so much from you, you were my best teacher. Milon's thanks, Emma!
It was very helpful and fun to watch. I watched all three episodes and really enjoyed them.
Your instruction is very clear and easy to understand. I just started and didn’t know how to control my water.
Thanks so much Emma. This was a great video. I really appreciate all your tips and tutorials they are so helpful to a newbie like me. 😊
Such a great explanation for beginners. I just started before Xmas. I spent last week doing overlapping circles and blending colours in them . Then I did patterns in them. Put flowers in them, made birds out of them. You’ve just explained what I have been trying to do. I live in Australia and have ordered your 12 month subscription boxes. The first one has arrived in the country and I can’t wait till it’s delivered, only a few days now hopefully. You are such a great and patient teacher, I’m really looking forward to using your brushes too, they look amazing. Thanks for this video and I’m looking forward to the next one. 💕💕💕
i am not a beginner but love your videos ,i watched your video with the aregylle kitty not sur how to spell that word ,i drew my own and it did not turn out but i enjoyed it so much,wow your channel has grown alot good for you ,i hope all your dreams come true,thank you
Nice water colour painting technique easy to understand and practice, good teachings there.
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Thank you for encouraging me 🎄
Thank you, Emma!! I'm a beginner and learn so much from you.
amazing tips, I cannot wait for the rest of the series ☺☺☺
Thanks so much Emma! This is very helpful and I know I will watch it more than once! ❤
İlk defa izledim artık aboneyim , videoları hangi sıra ile izlemeliyim, teşekkürler
Very helpful. One of the best on watercolor for beginners. Well done.
Great tutorial, Emma!
Thank you! Great tutorial ♥♥♥
Wow....thank you for sharing your talent....still learning from you and looking forward to your next tutorial!!!
Thank you so so much for these videos. I really needed this. Have a great week.😊
My mother is making us all do a watercolor project all separately & we all show up with whatever we did. I'm determined to NOT come in last place this year. So, TY FOR THE HELP!!! I'm in my 50's so it's been since elementary school since i saw a paint brush
Very appreciated your video. Its very clear and easy to understand. ❤
So helpful. Can't wait for your next video!!! 💓
Very helpful video! Thank you!
You are a great teacher!!!
Thank you, definitely getting frustrated with the cheap paper. Awesome tips.
This is a great tutorial! I'll be watching any others you have also.
Thanks, Emma! So very helpful. I've been painting for some time but definitely need blending refresher. Also I know you've mentioned this before, but I'd love to know again where you got the beautiful ceramic paint palette
Thank you ! I’m a very beginner so this was fascinating.
Omg! Such a valuable lesson ❤️ Thank you
Excellent. Sending this on to my painting buddy❤️
Thanks for the video, enjoy watching and learning new techniques from you❤
Thank you for this wonderful video tutorial ❤
Thank you Emma for this lesson!🥰
Love the going back to basics thanks Emma
very informative regarding using less or more water....could see the effects clearly !
Emma, I have been following your channel for years and have learned so much from you. Absolutely love your teaching style. I just want to say one thing, when recommending colors, can you suggest an alternative of cadmiums and cobalts. Its just because some people (even beginners) would prefer using non-toxic colors
Excellent tutorial! I learned so much! Thankyou!
I appreciated this video and shared it with my sister, thank you
Great tutorial! Maybe continue to name the colors you choose. That was very helpful to be able to identify the colors and what they look like.
Thank you so much for this video Emma!!! I've learned a lot from you.
Love your videos. Thank you so much for sharing your talent. ❤️
Thanks Emma! Well done!😍
Great teaching, thanks 😁👍
Great tips thanks
I love your videos. Can you teach me how to paint veins in the leaves? Thank you so much for teaching how to blend. I've learned so much from your 1st 3 videos! Thank you so much!
Awesome tutorial💞
❤I love how u explain things. I am a beginner.
Very helpful information
Emma you are a natural artist
thank you for doing these videos! Very helpful!