Underrated Watercolor Technique for Beginners!
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
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Hi there, Liron here! In this video I want to quickly demo a watercolor technique I believe is quite underrated, and great for beginners.
I’m talking about the ability to hold a smooth & flowing wash, while varying the values & colors.
Sketch & Reference Photo:
imgur.com/a/qq1H40x
The beautiful thing about this technique is that you have a lot of freedom when it comes to how much detail you want to include.
Sometimes it’ll be almost as loose as an underpainting.
Other times you can be quite detailed and finish a big portion of the painting in one go.
But no matter which way you go - I believe this technique will greatly help!
On a different note, I’m striving to greatly improve the contents of this channel.
This means a better view of my palette, water bucket & paper towels.
It means higher quality video.
It means showing my face too in the processes, if that helps 😁
And overall trimming the fat - shorter intros & outs etc…
I also consider changing the schedule, and perhaps reducing it to 2 main vids a week, and lots of INTERACTION with you in the comments, as well as posting SHORTS every day.
Let me know your thoughts on this, and I will see you in another vid soon 😊🙏🏼
- Liron
Specific Paints Used:
- Ultramarine Blue
- Cadmium Red Light (Orange)
- Indian Yellow
- Manganese Blue Hue
- Neutral Tint
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🎨 MATERIALS I OFTEN USE 🎨
Paints (all Daniel Smith)
Phthalo Blue (Red Shade) - amzn.to/2FCuEvA
Ultramarine Blue - amzn.to/2FCvicu
Nickel Azo Yellow - amzn.to/2HW5Ik3
Perylene Red - amzn.to/2HUc1Ve
Quinacridone Rose
Brushes
Tracy Lebenzon Brushes
www.lebenzon-paintbrushes.com/
Escoda Travel Sets:
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Silver Black Velvet - amzn.to/2JCnSJZ
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Princeton - amzn.to/2YoSHpa
Paper
Saunders Waterford / Arches, 300gsm, cold-press - amzn.to/2WrdTZU
Palette
Mijello Airtight 18 Wells - amzn.to/2IbhSoa
Plein-Air Easel
The BEST I've found so far for watercolor - amzn.to/2Ljyc6Q
White Pen
Uniball Signo White Gel Pen (easy to find on ebay!)
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Love your loose style…tired of teachers using watercolor like it was acrylic.
Glad to hear you will have focus on beginner techniques coming up. Even the more experienced can refresh their learning by revisiting beginner content.
Yes, more beginner videos, thank you!
The full view of your workspace including the blotting pad / mixing palette in your method of charging wet in wet is a helpful way to demo the nuanced water ratios of the brush and the paper of this complex wash technique.
Yes. Very helpful for me to learn when I can see pallet, mixing, everything and not just the painting. Thank you.
I really appreciate your technique suggestions for beginners. You are a great teacher and much appreciated by your devoted listeners like me. What is completely mystifying to me is looking at your palette which looks like every paint is black and every mixing space is black and yet you manage to find and mix the colors correctly and quickly in a very small area. I just have trouble with that process and need more area to mix or some kind of system that makes that process go smoothly and accurately without having my head blow up!😊
As always, great vid. Thanks Liron.
I truly just want to say thank you for the indepth quality. I very much appreciate it
So very happy I could help 😊🙏🏼 Thank you for the kind words ^_^
@@LironYan Of course, I really appreciate the response. But yea its hard to find someone who talks about the canvas and color like you do. It makes it much easier to understand than just these color blend and make it looked shadowed even though its bright colors. If that makes sense xD
This was fantastic as always! I love how much you delve into the basics, it's really helpful
It's such a great video... Thank you.
Thanks Liron. Us beginners need a lot of love. I appreciate you putting some focus on us!!! Keep it up. You’re a great teacher.
Wonderful the way you have shown this technique - I've seen many artists do this, but you have it spot on - especially is the context of this complicated and small building - thank you
Love this one! Great colors.
Thank you so much i Love Beginners Tipps Thank you
The colors are great! I love your work!
Great lesson, thank you Liron!
Excited for more beginner techniques!! Love learning with you!
Like your plan to include beginner topics❣️
Thank you Wendy 😊🙏🏼 More to come!
Love the beginner lessions!
It would be so helpful if you spoke of the colours as you use them
Nice effects mixing on paper!!!
I love how creative you are with color choices.
Very interesting. I'm looking forward to giving it a try.
Thanks for the lesson. Appreciate it.
Your talent and brush control are impressive!
These are the colors I meant ! Thank you! This was really helpful 🧡💛
Beautiful
Super. Beginner techniques are very helpful for me. Thanks!
Hello Liron, Im pleased to be back and really appreciated this as first refresher in your approach! Thank you.
Nice. Beautiful color combinations on paper.
Good, good stuff.
I would be fascinated to see this painting completed.
Loved this. Would have loved it more to get to see the finished piece.Thx.
Agree! Would be cool to see a picture of it done, even though the video isn't about that. Sometimes helps to see what the end product could be. But overall excellent and useful video, thanks!
Thank you! We’ll do it in today’s livestream 😊🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you most helpful
Its realy helpfull! Thanks a lot
Yep, that was very interesting!
Thank you!
thank you for refreshing some arguments. Very useful ;)
I learned sooo much! Thank you!
You got it 😊🙏🏼
Hi Liron, It is a real pleasure to see you paint. I'm new to watercolors, watching your basic instruction videos (also on drawing), then practicing the exercises. I had some wrong ideas about "bright" colors. I look at your painting and there is plenty of color. It just doesn't scream at you. It's a balancing act. Thank you so much for the guidance.
I just found your channel and I'm so glad. Thank you for sharing the knowledge and helping us
Oh thank you 😊🙏🏼 And welcome aboard!
Love watching you paint - and hope I can emulate your techniques! You are GOOD - thank you for sharing 👍✌️
Thank you Linda 😊🙏🏼
Cool vid!
what you have done is something that is just amazing:) thank you for showing outstanding performance:)
Thank you Nika 😊🙏🏼
As always an excellent 👍👍👍 exercise …you’re so good at explaining and showing how to do it!!! Thank you this really helped me as I was struggling again with washes and being too tentative and nervous.
So happy this helped Joyce 😊🙏🏼
Finally got around to watching this one, and I wanted to say I really like being able to see how you use your pallet and your paper towel. Too many artists do how-to videos where we only see the painting itself, and that's only half (if that) of the technique. I'd love to see more videos where we get to watch your whole process.
Thank you Angie 😊🙏🏼
I've received so many questions about the mixing & water action, I vowed to better show these in the future (:
And now when I have a proper 4K camera I can film the entire desk from afar, and zoom in on the important parts individually!
Hope to see the rest of your process, and the finished piece.
We’ll do it on today’s livestream 😊🙏🏼
As someone who has juuuust started poking around with watercolor, this video is super helpful! I love the way you really go into detail about what you are doing and also explain WHY you are doing it that way. You make things make sense! Thank you!! 😊
Thank you so so much 😁🙏🏼🙏🏼
Be sure to check out Thursday’s livestream to, where we painted the rest of the scene 😉🎨
I guess experienced artists just use this technique without even thinking about it. Chien Chung Wei taught about this technique painting a beautiful vase/pot in his book and I’ve tried to do the same multiple times yet still not able to get the smooth blending of washes. My washes always dry before I can connect them so I ended up getting a lot of unwanted hard edges 😂 Thank you so much for making this video. You are such a wonderful teacher!
maybe it happened because you used little water (here Liron underlined the tip about using more water) and at the same time you were too slow..? Plus, consider that the water drying time also depends from your location. I mean, in different places of the world you can have different drying times.
You could try just working a section at a time. Or lay down a watery light wash first then drop in darker colours.
Very good
comment for the algorithm. This was really helpful!
Haha thank you 😂🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you so much! I’ve been trying to improve this technique on my own by watching others, so I truly appreciate how you chose to focus in on this and break it down clearly. I love your work and would love to see more on this first wash technique. Thank you again,
Jessica Lane Warren
Thank you Jessica! 😊🙏🏼🙏🏼 Hoping to do many more of these!
Hi Liron, I am trying to get through all of your videos! Very time consuming! You have taught me so much. Thank you. Can you please tell me which Lebenzon brush you are using there? I would love to have one like that. Thanks!
Liron, as always, your videos are the best. I'm going backwards in time, picking up new things. Right now, I'm focusing on learning differences in brushes--particularly those of similar size, appearance-wise, but not in practice. In this video, I'm wondering what the key difference between the goat hair brush you begin with, and the Escoda brush you end with, are. I have the budget to buy one of these--see them on your materials list (thx for posting that!). You likely don't have time to make specific recs, but on the chance you think it might be pertinent to more than just me--I'd love to hear the main difference in why you choose each one in what (to a newbie like me) looks like a place where they might be used interchangeably. Even if no answer (which is understandable!)--please know I am grateful for you, as are countless others.
Haifa
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How does Escoda works for you?? I ask, becouse after watching how Joseph Z praise them with words: "i'll be lost without them", i will probably order 2 of them for me. (not the mop but medium and small one) Anyway you improve your work evidently...Respect brother and hi from Slovenia.
Thank you! What is that pen @9:56? Paint pen? Looks cool.
Just as you say the word observe at 5.47 an eye appears in your mixing tray at top left. Cool eh.
😁😁 nice catch!
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Amazing painting, is it from Haifa? That is my home though I have never been able to go to Palestine. Are you Palestini or Israili?
I always start off with good intentions but at some point I lose the plot and then there goes all the light & shadow I created or do I just 'think' I created light & shadow?🙈
Hi, thanks for this important lesson. But I am very distressed watching your very messy palette. Do I have to have such a mess in my palette too to have this results or can I have my palette a bit cleaner, so I can recognise the colour in it?
It looks like you go from orange to blue to yellow with the same brush...no cleaning in between? Are we just not seeing you do this?
I tried showing the bucket & paper towel here so hopefully it did show whenever I cleaned the brush 😁
But - YES - it’s very possible I do all this without cleaning. It actually happens often! I clean when I really need to get a clear & accurate paint. But most of the time simply dipping into a new paint enough will overpower the previous color 🎨
Just seeing this years later...You emphasize using "lots of water" but I don't see you ever adding water to your brush, so I guess the idea is to use watery mixes and then never add any after that?
It doesn’t matter if the water is used purely, or as very watery mixes - as long as it’s there (:
Now, compared to how I see a lot of beginners mix - this IS a lot of water. Hope that makes sense 🙏🏼😊
Why can’t the Palestinian have their own state. They where there beforehand.